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Q / i k t phe Gaffney w x A NEWSPAPER IN ALL THAT THE WORD IMPLIES, AND DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY, S. C., SUNDAY. DECEMBER 1, 1907 $1.00 A YEAR. SATURDAY'S CONFfR- ENGE PROCEEDINGS THE APPOINTMENTS AT VARIOUS CHURCHES TODAY. Bishop Morrison Addresses the Young Men Received Into the Ministry— Prof. Gilbert Makes a Hit. Buford Street Methodist church, 9:30 a. m., conference love feast, led by W- \Y. Williams. 11 a. in., Bishop H- C. Morrison, fol lowed by ordination of deacons. 4 p. m-, memorial services. mutual esteem till Interferrod with by outside influence.” ‘ No race lias ever accomplished much unless it preserved Its racial In tegrity.” He told of the troubles of the other churches that still tried to retain | both white an,i colored members. A Catholic church in one of the large Southern cities found that the white members objected to mass in which both races participated, so the priest ha,| two masses, a black mass and a white mass. “Over in Georgia there was, last year, only one negro representative, and when the legislature adjourned he resigned out of self respect." *1 have no prejudice. I take off my hat to those old Confederate vet erans who fought and suffered for the cause they believed to be right.” “Of the five hundred graduates who have gone out from Paine, not SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. ' Misused Abilities,” by Bishop W- A. Candler. (From the Sunday School Magazine.i BOiRDGF EDUCA TION MAKES KFORf AM v* ‘••Vv REV. R. HER BERT JONES. 7:30 p. m., Dr. W. W. Bays, follow ed by ordination of elders. Limestone Street Methodist church, 11 a. m., T. G. Herbert. 7:30 p. na.. S. T. Creech. First Baptist church. 9:45 a. m., address before Sunday school, by Dr. L. F. Beaty. 11 a. m-, P. F. Kilgo. 7:30 p. m-, W. M. Duncan. Cherokee Avenue Baptist church, 11 a. m., B. R. Turnipseed. 3 p. m., B. Y. P. U., A. E. Driggers. 7:30 p. m., R. A. Younge. Midway Baptist church, 11 a. m. C. D- Mann. Presbyterian church, li a. m.. C. B. Smith. 7:30 p. ra., R. S. Tmesdale. Dunton Chapel (colored), 11 a .m., J. L. Harley. 7:30 p. m.. W. B. Baker. Central church, Spartanburg, 11 a. m., M- L. Carlisle. Providence, ll a. m., D. M. Mc Leod. Dr. J. M. Moore, of Nashville, Tenn., on Friday night addressed one of the largest congregations ever as Si mbled In the Buford Street church on the subject of the Sunday school It was a brilliant effort, full of inter esting .and instructive information and was most favorably received b> one has ever been convicted of any crime.’’ “They told us that politics would solve the negro problem. I hope T can live in heaven as long as that promise remained unfulfilled.” “I come as your Christian brother. It makes no difference if I was born on the dark of the moon. I am your brother.” After this address, which was most cordially received, a collection of $380 was taken for the work of the Wo man’s Home Mission Board at Paine College. Dr. J. L. Cunningham, who Is in charge of the correspondence school, addressed the conference in regard to his work. W. S. Stobes requested that his name he referred to the committee on conference relations for the super annuated relation. Under the 20th question the follow ing reported: J. C. Counts, H. L. Singleton, M. L. Bunks. A. E. Holler, E. M. McKissick, R. E. Turnipseed, W. C. Winn, W. A. Fairy, W. B. Dun can, W. H. Araial, R. E. Sharpe, Hen ry Stokes, H. J. Cauthen. The following large class was re ceived into full connection: C- W. Burgess. W. T. Bedenbaugh, J. R. T. Major, W. A. Beckham, R. R. Doyle, W. C. Owens, D. I). Jones, C. M. Pee ler. W. M. Owens, C. S. Felder, G. I*. Penny, Z. B. Owens. The receiving of this class Is al ways tiie occasion of a splendid talk by the bishop. Bishop Morrison measured up to expectation of the whole conference. The report of the hoard of educa- - '&■ I : > -• REV. JAS. W. KILGO. the congregation. Dr. Moore is man aging editor of the Christian Advo cate, published at Nashville. The conference prayer meeting was conducted yesterday morning by Rev. Comann. of the Western North Caro lina conference. After the reading of the minutes, Dr. J. I) Hammond, secretary of the board of education, addressed the con ference on the educational interests of the church. Prof. J. W. Gilbert, of Paine college, was introduced and made a very in teresting talk in regard to the work of the Institution and the attitude it held to the Southern Methodist treh. Among some of the good i this educated colored man said -N fallowing; *> *' tlons have been that of Lesson for December 1, 1907.—Judges xvi. 21-31. Studying today the death of Sam son, we gather lessons at the grave of the “Hebrew Hercules." The study of his death constrains the considera tion of his life; for the culmination of his career was exactly in keeping with its course; no man ever had a more natural death. His life was a strange mingling of good qualities and bad, and mixed in his death we find faith and faithlessness, power and weakness, success and failure, tri umph and defeat, hope and despair. It would not be just to judge him by the standards of our Christian age, nor would it be proper to hold him up as a model of faith. Yet three chap ters of the Bible are devoted to the record of his life, Eind in the eleventh chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews his name appears on the muster roll of the heroes of faith. His importance is derived from his providential rela tion to God s cause as involved in Is rael’s history and the supernatural strength given him for the work he was called to do. in his day the fierc est and most powerful foes of Israel were the phillistines, and under their oppressions the chosen people had lost all spirit and all power of resist ance. His people wanted to maintain with the Phillistines a servile peace— “peace at any cost.” In this state of depression and dishonor, the nation was in danger of extinction. In such a time he was called to “begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Phillis tines.” (Judges xiii. 5). To this mis sion he wag set apart from his birth. “He was to be an awakening con science, breaking peace between God's people and their enslavers, sowing seeds of oncoming strife for freedom, pricking Israel into preparedness for the way of the Lord.” 1. Samson’s life reveals how weak a man is who is strong on one side only. He was physically a giant, but morally a pygmy. He could over come a lion in the way, slay his ene mies with their crudest instruments of attack-, break the colds and THE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ARE ALL PROSPEROUS. Wofford. Columbia College. Lander College, and Carlisle Fittin a School Share in the Praises. In planning its educational work, the church should face the fact that i the day will probably never come when it can retire from the field and leave this work entirely to State and 1 private enterprise. At a conserva tive estimate there must he more ‘ than forty thousand young men Find women, of the white race of collece i age in South Carolina at this time, while as yet State, church and indi vidual e*fort provide room for only about one in twenty-five of this mini- ’ bt*r in institutions doing real college work. This number taxing the pres- i ent capacity of all. Apart from all i other considerations this fact is proof that no on* 1 of the agencies now en- listed in the hiittle ; fi gainst igno ranee can tie spared. But sup posing that c ither in tin near or r< unote future college roon could he i provided for ; ill our > i int! withoi .it th e help of the church . con siderations growing out of* the ver\ iiiitim > Of t’ne work 'L* 'If will niak* * DR- JAS- H- CARLISLE. president emeritus of Wofford College. Spartanburg, S. Q- tion was then read after which Dr. H. M. Snyd<T and Dr. J. W. Wilson spoke with sp>-cial reference to the insti'ution they represent. The hoard of education has elected Mr. P. A Hodge!- as finance agent of Columbia College. Mr. Hodges is a we!l-i.nown business man from Greenwood and the college Is fortu nate in . .-curing his services. Rev. Ell. Wiitson, chairman of the hoard >f Columbia College tristees. represented the Institution. Yesterday afternoon Rev. J. W. Walling, missionary to Brazil, ad dressed the conference on missions. The occasion was a kind of love feast. List night ilev. J. W. Daniels, pas tor of the First church at Sumter, preached to a large and appreciat ive audience. The sermon was one of the gems of the conference. withes with which his foes bound him, with scarcely an effort, carry away the gates cf their city and the pillars of their temple with the utmost ease; but could not resist the wiles of a wicked and deceitful woman. How strong and yet how weak are some men! How often in the same man are found the fool and the philoso pher. the hero and the coward, the saint and the sinner, because of an irregularly and unevenly formed chur- a'tcr! Such men are the sport of circumstances, alternately disappoint ing the hopes and the fears of their contemporaries. 2. The strength of any life is found in its faith in God, and its weakness is found in its faithlessness. Sam- son’s power was not lodged in his locks, but was laid in his God. His hair, untouched by shears or razor, was but the outward and visible sign of the inward and invisible faith of the Nazarite vow which hound him to God. Not until lie began to break with tin source of his strength did he triile with its symbol. His shaven hair revealed his shorn heart. Alas! he missed his locks more than he did his Lend! “And he awoke out of his sleep, anu said, l will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord had departed from him." (Verse 20.) 3. The strongest of men are in danger when they triile with tempta tion and dissipate God-given powers in frivilous efforts and lleshly grati fications. From toying with the temp tations of Delilah, Samson was be trayed li i st into the fatal presump tion that perhaps his strength might survive the loss of his Nazarite locks even. Thrice he suffered him self to be hound with green withes with new ropes, and by weaving tin seven locks of his hair to the beam of a loom; and each time h*‘ delivered himself with the utmost ease. From thus venturing to play with folly became blind to his peril find dared to dally with the sorceress one time (Continued on page two.) • .owments. and in short, provide ’■duc.'itional equipment competent to lead the greatest of all the forces at work for the perfecting of the race, ; ! That not for a day. or a decade, or a century, but until “the time of the estitution of fill things.” \Ye arc pleased to report that all "ii r schools are enjoying unprece- dented prosperity. Wofford college. Wofford College and Fitting School have matriculated 1X<; students, a -ain of G over last year. This eii- Jhnent represents every section of "i- own State the neighboring 0 |- Georgia and North Carolina in,i far-away Japan. It is wormy or r-ma;k that five counties of our State, besides Spartanburg, furnish the hul|< of these students, and this :.::s> s the (piestion whether concert 'd • fort in behalf of the college in "the.-.sections might not swell the en rolment to goo in the near future. reports that lie has been unable to upply the demand for its graduates as teachers fi r the school of the State. The music department has become one of the strongest find most efficient among our Southern colleges. One hundred and eighty-four students have matriculated in this department. In the literary classes, there are two hundred and seventy student*. \s a mle these students are dllligent, applying themselves, and are proe^ cutiiig their studies in a most com mendable way. The rhristian influences in the col!- ge are most gratifying. All of the boarding students, except two, a - members of tbe Young Woman's rhristian Association; and all mem- bt i s of the church except ten. Mr. }’. A Hodges, of Bennettsville, lias been elected financial agent of the college and we commend him to - u "--opte and confidently hope that —— mm it impossible for the church to abdi cate its place in the field even then. The limits of this report preclude a.- gument. hut this position could hi sustained In the following consider; tions; 1. It was from the church th came the original impulse to educs tion and it was the church alone thaf kept learning alive through ages of darkness. Four-fifths of the present colleges and universities of America aVe creations of the churches, nine- tenths of the college patronage of the country comes from the homes of church-going people, and the pres- * * .. \ V RE' E- P- TAYLOR. F:' r un the standpoint of health, con- duet and the work of the student body, ny year in the history of the college has opened more auspiciously. If .-hould lie known that by way of meeting its obligation a s a Christian college, the Young Men's Christian AsMiciation holds two well attended meetings each week, besides conduct ing special classes in bible and mis sion study. Dr. Carlisle meets each college class one hour a week with a bible lesson; the president of the college offers a course in the English bible as literature; two of the pro fessors are directing groupes of stu dents in bible and mission investiga tion, and there is not a member of the faculty who is not doing active Christian work, or will do so if called on. In striving to meet the growing de mands made on it, some of the col leges needs are becoming very ur gent. There is needed: 1. a professorship of psychology and ethics, which will offer systematic courses In the study of tne rntgusn bible. open to all classes. 2. A professorship of applied math ematics. Many young men annually go elsewhere for instruction in civil and electric engineering, who would go to Wofford if it was in position to offer such courses. 3. Enough assistants in each de partment to give the individual stu dent close personal attention. 4 A dormitory with a central din ing hall, that would cheapen the cost of board; private hoard being now so expensive ag to cut off many who sufficient funds may speedily he se- cured for the liquidation of the In- dehti'dness. Lancter College. Landt-r college, ownership of which was taki-n over by the last confer- enc", makes a most gratifying show ing for the year. The trustees elect- "1 by tin- conference have assumed "litire control of the college, readjust- • •d flu* debt on tie property by issuing seven pO]- cent. t<-n year bonds, and authorized the president of the col- lege to solicit help toward the liqui dation of the debt, as his other du ties permitted. We are pleased to re port that though able to give but lit tle time to this work, he has met with gratifying success. The acquisition tty the college of four acres of ground just in front of it has greatly added to the appearance and value of the property. An im portant action of the board of trus tees was the decision to change the conduct of the institution from the “Consecrated Study Plan” to the class system in general use. The enroll ment of both hoarding and day pupils this year is slightly in advance of last year, and the house is now prac tically full. The students of this institution are under the purest and most home-like religious influence, and the school is in every way worthy of the popular ity it enjoys. Carlisle pitting School. The Carlisle Fitting school has during the past year introduced the miltary feature into the school, and the popularity of this change is evl- idents and professors in even State Institutions are almost without ex ception guided in their work by Chris tian ideals. It lias moreover been pointed out that the public school '.'■stem has had its best development in communities where the influence of rli" church is most dominant. 2. This proves that the real crea tive motives of educational achive- :aem have been and must continue to he altruistic and religious, rather than political or industrial—that religion has and must continue to furnish the id< al s and the inspiration for the whole field of education; yet under the separation of all ideals and in spiration and creative motives in th< fe !d of i dm.-ation can he operative only through church Institutions. 3. Religion is an essential element 'n human nature that must he pro- vided f"r in any system of normal development, ft’has hem said that the end of true education is “com plete living" and certainly the aim of religion Is to develop man into per fection The goal of religion and ed ucation is one and the same For a long time to come the masses of our people must acquire what education they get in the public school. Ex cept within very narrow limits, how ever. the bible is under our system of government ruled out of the public school. Find the only way religion can he brought to heap on school work at all Is through the personality of the teacher The church’s presence in the field ' f education is the guarantee that care will continue to he taken as to the character of the thousands of teachers, who through the public school sit at the potter’s wheel to shape the character of youth and childhood ap they please, in any in ventor;, of the church’s contributions to the cause of education, this is an asset that has never been properly ap praised, but it Is a contribution that the world can never spare. In planning the church’d work in this field, therefore, vve muff plan for centuries to come. We must provide foundations, erect buildings, broaden curricula, project new chairs, gather * rt ^ - rf ■ t 'r * REV. R. A. CHILD. D- D- would otherwise go to Wofford. The work of the financi;il agent, Dr. If A Child, has fully met the most anguine expectations of the friends of the college and entitles him to the thanks of the Methodist constituency throughout the State. But it will take even more than the amount he un dertook to raise on the endowment to make possible the development just outlined. Columbia college. This institution is steadily advanc ing in all departments. The work being done i s of high order, and under the guidance of well equipped teach ers, all of whom have had university training. This college never had and never deserved, a larger place in the "thought and sentiment” of the Meth odists of the State than now enjoys. As an evidence of the thoroughness of the work done here, the pre idi.-t deuced by the fact that both dormito ries are full. The course of study here has been raise,| one year, thus better fitting for life those who cannot go to college, and keeping pace with the general educational advance. The religious atmosphere pervad ing the plan may he inferred from the fact that during the past year every student not already a member united with some branch of the church. \W direct special Fittention to the fact that the State Is now engaged in establishing public high schools In almost every county in the State. These schools are to be closely ar ticulated with the State colleges, and will as far as possible turn college (Continued on Page Four.)