The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, December 01, 1907, Image 2
THE GAFFNEY LEDGER,
Tuesday and Friday.
Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher
THE CALL TO PREACH-
HEARD THE CALL-
Rev. H- T. Harmon, who preacnrd
the Thiinbsglving sermon at Hufonl
Street church, told ti> s audience that
the message had ‘come to him four
days before to preach to the confer
ence, as he had tried to do, and that
he had asked no one about preaching,
the committee having selected him, as
he sees it, by the direction of Him
who called him to preach.
NOTES AND COMMENTS-
He Gave t 0 the World Hi* Time, His
Talent, Hi* Life*
From “The Circuit Rider's Sketch
Boob,” by E- Alston Wilkes;
Sunday School Lesson.
(Continued from page one.)
more. This blindness of his soul led
at last to the blindness of his body.
VT . .. , . . . „ „ 4. While Qod cannot approve im-
N„t as the angels do but as many fectlons the moral nature
mortals here below look upon i . tne can and Imperfect men in
termination of the average circuit 1
rider’s faithful itineracy in death has
accomplishing the ends of His king-
s i«iiiii.in iiiui-ietcy m uao |(j in the earth He lled c
m it a peculiar pathos, not so com | to serve tbe interests of Israel(
spmuous in the closing scenes of « t > ; r though he was a heathen. (Isa. xliv
t aithlj careers, often theic is noth . i v 4 - . nf nian m iirht sa\
The meeting of conference in our
city has had one good result, it has
caused three of our most disreputa
ble looking—mind you, we said dis
reputable “looking”—citizens to dress
up.
* * *
In view of the fact that Hon. O. B.
Martin's boomlet for the I’nited States
senateship has proven to he a busted
bubble, The Lodger nominates him
for the position Gigadter Brindle.
Other State papers please copy.
• • •
"The Circuit Rider's Sketch Book”
is the title of a ‘JSO page book by Rev.
E. Alston Wilkes, of the South Caro
lina conference, it is truly a looking
glass of the circuit rider, full of^,,.
mg in his exit from the stage of ac- ]
tion to attract attention of the world
of business around him, or disturb in
the least the ceaseless hum of trade.
The bulletins of his dying moments |
are not wired over the land to he
eagerly read by anxious and surging
crowds. The world's tramp doesn't
stop to take notice of an humble;
preacher passing away, and few only
are fop a moment arrested by the sad
notes of his funeral hell. The banks
have lost no depositor, the lawyer no
client. The State lias lost no impor
tant taxpayer, politics no partisan.!
There is no large estate for the ad
ministrator to settle, no claims of
la irs to adjudicate. | have seen on a
table in a rear room at conference
most of his earthly possessions: a
few hooks—the dead preacher’s li
brary left to be sold at about half-
price for the benefit of the widow and
orphan child. I have seen his grave |
away back amidst the wild wood in
a quiet country churchyard. A sim
ple marble slab, worn and weather
beaten, shows where the hero lies in
terred. He at last found a resting!
place in a strange ground whose me
”8; xlv. 45.) Of many he might say
as he said of Cyrus: "I girded thee,
though thou hast not known me.”
(Isa. xlv. 5.) He might have said the
same tiling of Napoleon even, tne
worst sinner who has entered perdi
tion in twenty centuries. But while
God may use a man for good, it
does not follow that He approves the
evil in him. The Lord may use manly
muscle that acts without moral mo
tive; but lie does not thereby approve
immorality. It is the marvel of His
wondrous power that He can make
even so refractory and reprehensible
a thing a.s the wrath of man to praise
Him. (Ps. Ixxvi. 10.)
5. Even though God uses a man
and turns to good account the re
sults of his life, the operation of the
law that "whatsoever a man soweth
that shall he also reap” is not there
by set aside. Samson's work prepar
ed the way for that of Eli and Samuel,
and began that deliverance of Israel
from the oppression of the Philistines
which reached its culmination in the
days of David; nevertheless he was
taken captive, his eyes were bored I
i out, and he was forced to ‘grind in
THE SINGER SKYSCRAPER.
Facts About the Tallest Building In
the World.
The new Singer building in lower
New York will !m* tin* tallest hullding
In tin* world—forty-seven stories in
height, rising t!l« feet above tin* street.
When completed this olliee building
will have a lloor space equivalent to a
one stoi'.i building covering twenty
city blocks To concentrate such an
immense space upon a total area of
but ‘Jti.iHib square feet presents at once
tin* siAo'is question of siiflieient light
and air. I'stially a high building is de
signed to cover as uiiicli area of the
lot as possible, therebj cutting off tin*
light of MUTisiinding buildings. For
this reason dark otfices •ire mu'tiply-
ing in the largest Ai .eriean cities, and
many buildings that are now well
lighted must soon depend wholly or In
part upon .artificial light as adjacent
buildings are extended upward. Ail
the otlices of tin* Singer building will
be well lighted, but tin* building ad
joining it will not sulTer. Tin* part of
the building that will In* carried up
fort) seven stories will occupy but one-
sixth of ‘In* lot. The remainder will
be only fourteen stories in height
This high portion will also In* in np
proximate!)' tin* center of tin* new
building. i’lius every olliee will be
well lighted without a sacrifice of real
estate value- that won 1 tie rominor-
eiall.v impraetienbU* The location of
tile high tower near tin; center of the
i tlie prison house.”' And observe with i lot
‘vvTfHn Ar* .fareful
morial stones around him bear no what particularit of fulfillment he i ortiees
jvmdrcinanH*. He gave to the world, ‘ „ harve £ t he , } r >wn . ..... I .
^dl heliai iu .. talent, his life,
in a commercial sens?. Etc'fy-^ r
thiii}. lost, and nothing gained. No
^ f,? 'ding by preacher and layman. Mr.
ulkes has a number of these books
with him and they have been going
like hot cakes. Anyone who fails to
secure a copy ig missing a real treat.
• 4 *
We are sorry that the bishop mis
interpreted the spirit in which the!
remark* was made in yesterday’s is
sue, concerning the passes between
himself and the presiding elders. The
remark referred To the pleasant re
partee between the bishop and
presiding elders that has been indulg
ed in during all the > sessions of the
conference, and the reporter did not
intend that these pleasantries were j
indicative of any ill feeling between
either preachers and bishop or presid
ing elders and bishop.
• • •
We believe that one good result of
the meeting of the annual Methodist
conference in our town will be. that
we will take a broader and more
liberal view of life. Some of us are |
much too pron** to look- no further
than our own limited horizon. We
are in such harmonious correspond
ence with our own environment that
we do not extend to others what is
their due. Now of course, there are i
narrow Methodist just as there are
narrow people in other denomina
tions; but we have had with us during
the session of conference, the best |
that the Methodist church lias and
the very narrowest among us must
admit that they have some aide men.
some big men. some men who take
ran]., with Hie very ablest of other de
nominations. and we think our con
tact with these men. although brief,
will at least have a tendency to cause
us to realize and to realize verv for-
landed estate does he own, no place
on earth could bo called his home.
Perhaps his plans and purposes dur
ing life have often been thwarted, the
fruition of the heart's longings, de
nied him. but sore and weary he
toiled on from year to year because
lie felt that God hast called him and
bade him 8"- His struggles against
want and chill penury have been the
most trying and severe from early
manhood to tin* very last hour of
earth's existence. His troubles and
burdens have often been the most try
ing. his silent tears the saddest. But
at bis post lie fell; all hardships and
trials are over, and he has found a
place at. last, i recall the end of one
whose career was a brief one in our
conference, whose name doubtless by
many lias been forgotten, but who had
that sublime courage and Christian
zeal so clearly marked in the charac
ter of the martyred heroes or old I
refe r to Lucius Bellinger, whom, per
sonally. I did not know. He was
moved by the conference during a
bleak season in midwinter from Or
angeburg county to Sanipit, in George
town. He was taken ill upon his ar
rival to his Hi*w field of labor, and
after a short, painful illness, the brave
itinerant preacher was called up high
er. A Hebrew physician, Dr. M. S.
Leman, whose name should be held
in grateful remembrance, attended the
His u
eyes betrayed liijy. ini 0 lust, and his t i,| s
ere? w" 1 —
hanged
d out, as Absalom was
by the beautiful hair which |
gave charju to the personal beauty
which brought him the popularity
that ilkew him into rebellion.
He found both his temptation and his
prison in Gaza. He was led astray
by the devices of a woman, and he
was set to do a woman's work in the
prison. He misused freedom and died!
in bondage by the strength of his own
hand that was given him for Israel s
) deliverance. “The wages of sin is
death." (R'mi. vi. J.'J.t "Samson,
the tool of women all his life, set. in
his blindness to do a woman slave’s
work in turning the handmill as lie
sat on the lloor, was the very superla
tive of humiliation.” (Geikie.)
fi. However wretched and irrepar
able may be life's failure, if one turn
again to God. he may lie us**d for the
advancement of that which is good
and fli f ' overthrow of that which is
e\il in the earth. "Clearly the!
growth of his hair coincided with the
truning of the fallen champion's
heart to God; and it is very likely |
that its with a blind man's keen
sense of touch his fingers day by day j
traced the gradual growth of the sym
bolic locks the memories of his youth
r< vived. the vows of uis consecra
tion were renewed, and thus God act
ually used the natural lengthening of
the hair as a means for restoring his
i wandering sheep.” (E. Stock.) His
, , . , . calling iinon the Ixn*d shows that he
preacher during his dying moments | , k ? ani ' d lu whom and in what was
•ds tbe incident and the “ source of his strenKt h. Matthew
Henry truly says; “The strength
I saw my patient for thi* first time . whicl he bad lost b s j n he recovers,
prone upon ids bed tossing a t p eni t e nt, in prayer.” The I
delirium; neither suff
:,akes it possible for nearby
share tbe sunlight.
ii:.ed that tin* safest parts of
building in time of earthquake
will lie the highest stories. i'hi* les
son of Hu* San Francisco earthquake
Is Hint "tin* steel frame structure is
the best earthquake resister.'' The
steel frame building is constructed
very much like a bird cage, while an
ordinal) bui' ihig of brick is a house
of cards in < imparison. Tin* only pos
sibility of danger to the tenants in this
high building wii! lie tin* (lislodgmeut
of tni oni, . This, of course, would
affect oni) the ower doors.
The danger of tire has been eliminat
ed, for inti.animable material lots been
entirely omitted Even so called “fire
proof" wood ha
ing but lae'al.
enters int i its ci
small plug-- of
Into the wail to
hanging picture;
The fires in l!ai
cisco proved tl
proof" bin'.ding
wooden doors,
trimmings of *-
to millions of f<
M Ripley in 'Vi
- been barred. Noth-
stone and baked clay
mst met ion. Even the
wood usually inserted
receive nails used in
■■ have been excluded
limore and San Fran
i.at the alleged "fire-
i* not fireproof, for
v indnw frames and
h a building amount
et of lumber. Charles
ii’ld's Work
Gilbert P-.rker ar.d John of Gaunt.
The lion * .if Sir Gilbert Parker,
e horse of commons, man
I of affairs, of clubs and
member of
of weal'll :
i n
and thus ree
closing seen*
ith pain and
strength he thus recovered he put
ering nor the ravages of a mortal dis- fort^o,, the accomplishment in his
case could mar the benign exptess- deatb tb( , mission he had failed to
n.n of striking dignity of a lace cast . , , .
cib!\ that “there
others.
■w that the financial flurry is
r uv c|* and the Methodist confer-
is about to adjourn, let us all
|v»* that from this time forth we
t o bette,. titan we have been be-
fulflll in his life; he laid it out in
destroying the enemies oflsrael and
Israel's God. “The dead which he slew
at death were more than they which i
he slew in his life.” In this act of
self-immolation he did much to lift
from his people the oppression of the
Philistines. The fact that his kin-1
dred could come unhindered and bear
his body away for burial in “the bury
ing place of Manoah, his father," shows
what consternation seized his ene
mies by reason of his deed. They
^ . ... saw a divine tiower in his dying
telligently, never failing as oft as he s .* struck te to th ei r|
recognized me to inquire after his old 1
friend and companion. Brother Stokes.
m such kingly mould.
At brief intervals a gleam of re
turning consciousness would enable
him to recognize those at his bedside.
Even at this moment I can recall the
smile, the charming manners, and,
above all, the cheerful play of sun
light illuming his features during
those flitting moments of lucidity.
He would open those large, bright
blue eyes of bis—a soft, melting blue
—beaming with kindness and bound
less love, answer a few questions in-
of sod
a 1 i:
is a * piendh
1 h
nuse lu
Carlton !!■ '.
e terrace, the I
! U *>
t ex<• Iu-
she si
i*t■ i 1<: 1 i
<>f I'a-liiona ill
(•
1 .otidoli.
But foi
I* tlllVI
• day*-- of e cry
\\ (
ek for
Friday
. Ka:
urda) and S
unr
lay the
home '
• f Gil’
1 arker. autli<
u*. is in
one of
the i.
' diarniMig •
• f :
ill Eng
lish CO
unity
!i »r.**e ■. ifl .sir
■ lent stone
eottilg*
"Hided wiHi tl
low
ers and
shrubs
■ >i
trees, and. alii
|« tl 1
gii only
an h uir's :
d.* from [...ml
on.
having
all the
eft'**.
t of isolation.
S * i
bidden
away
it i-
even from t
111*
nearest
houses.
it i.
i at Honiestall.
no;
ir Grln-
stead.
iii Sa
• **; |» y
But
it L
m.t only that
lid
s house
of acet
•ssilde
s.-i lusioii is line
in itself
and its
: surf
r ing-. but that
there is
also tlie iii.
g. !,.irm of .
a ssi
. iation.
for it
was
built l>.. John
of
Gaunt,
whom ho knew lay ill at Georgetown.
All through his brief illness, he was
still the watchman on the heights,
the shepherd calling to his flock: as
be lived so would h<* die. with the
r
for*
Let t
is not w
ait until tin
* first
name
and battle
cry
of
his M
astei
of Ho
• year
to turn
over a new
leaf.
upon
his lips.
> t's
!,oa':n r
iglit now
today.
"Al
las. the tr;
ins
it ion w it
s rapid
Tin
dav
before he
p
asse
ri H'
way |
kn*' •
We
ill hit'
re* our
faults. None ot
the
fair-haired
L
,evit
e Ilf
id sum
- 11
Us at
*• perl
f'oel hut
it i- om* s
ineere
last
canticle 1
i* • f
ore
his
altar.
!. •
belief
■ that
in the mi
ijority <•! th
e peo-
W hell
next he wo
tld i
in
g the g
oldi !
; tins
world t
■domi
ceil - <
*r it won
Id
he
in
that t>
•mpli
id*- ii
lie* good pn
A her
e the 1 ri
and
Tit
uinmiiii
, 1 j -
nates
. If w
e did not
believe that
t lien
not i
ipon the b
n ;
1st pi
late
Of Hie
was t
note g
ood than
evil in the
world
llli| the !i
T J ji
U IIS
iietu.■>
. fll
we v
could
llilV*- tlo
1 desire to
live
then
in. 1.
et u- a(b
ipt for our
motto
1 i 1
»■ i ii! ’
• ■ M ic!;i v
.ti. H i i.
* III
Ii .\d\
1 lit 1 11
()f.i 1
tbe -
• ntellc
e uttered
Dr 8n;
dcr in
.^11* 'I < 1
I . .
W i f e
plelldi,
,| addles.
- the etlier
ni-lii
inn<‘
i i* nt p, < ac
In
“H**
works
be.-T 1
!'or hi to sell
f wlio
vi irk
s mos
1 fo; oth
ers." \Y<* :
•
tre all
A p
lace of rn,
le -tre«e
. j
' 1 1 ;
liis
w I ■. i ; m •
limbs in 11
is •! *
mem
tiers o
f on»- gn
cat family
and it
itlg bed
is on
r tint)
to help
each oth*'"
h n
'!* In
1) his smil
e i
-!‘\N
sir;
angel)
- w« •
over
and
wherever
we can. i
ind if
and brig
lit.
ill not
Am
1 : is eye
lit
up
will
i a hen
V < • 111
wo s
hott id
do tin- f
he world w
light.
onlv
be nifide bright
and better 1
for our
fellnwmu n
hut it will be bright
r*r and
•.Ins
t a little |
ilai
ix f*
et b ’
1 W u
ourselve
Is ;
all that 1
to
‘(»(i
with
my ti
ii \‘ f * I
bette
r fer
s. So ‘let
us re-
througr;
solve
now
that for
twelve moti’
t Ii s we
To
the work
1 ill)
gra v
<• in 11
will
let no
opportunitv pa s- f"
r h Ip-
will smile
ing
any d
eserving
member 1
if Hie
As
my dust
w 1 1 i 1 A •
P ‘
t urn
s id
utii d.r-
t ll,
great hum?
m family
. and if we i
|" -ills
>» 11 1 1 * •
for twelve
months.
it will ha
v* be-
"Body and Giii
ii
1 an
| j r« ■:
111 ell t
come
* such
a fixed
principle
ith us
Tii*
* wily now
i
llilie
s \\ 1
ier»* m\
Mil
to do
I**r \V4‘in
that
we w
ill have
no desire
Ha
rdships fo
i i ■ <
P * !*
>11
e wBl
i tl
othei
•wise.
past.
—
A <
itv apiadntni
.•in
i 1 * H I ^
;n" at
|;! > t :
hearts. In this way the destruction
of the leaders of Philistia, by his
hand, prepared the way for the great!
victory of Samuel gained over these’
powerful enemies of Israel a few
years later. \t tbe moment of Sam
son's dying triumph began tin* deca
dency
i; it
the Philistine power which
,1 m the conquest of Phil-
i-H
to save
I’bili-1 in.
!te|
Rich Children.
"ii of woullhy Pittsburg
iv o h: * i* a playground, just
as tli i'-e provided for poor
-ays the New York Tribune.
Johnston, superintendent of
.'u"g Playground association,
appealed to and has agreed
Playcround
; *n
families are o I
tin* same as t|
e|illdn*li. says f
George .1
the Pit i ’
has been
to put the playground In working order.
A large and expensive plot of ground
has been obtained in the fashionable
Squirrel Hill district and will b« fitted
up ip exactly the same manner as are
the public playgrounds.
■'iiodists believe in singing,
•w Methodist hymnal is said by
to know, to be be
e best collection of
in the world. The
iio* w Barringer Company are
iwitig it here in till editions, from
•se K)|- the pew at fiti cents to fine
itk.ns suitable for Christmas gifts.
lie n
o.-e who ought
md quest ion t h
■ viis published
he who was immortalized by that
sonorous line in King Richard II;
“Old John of Gaunt, time honored
Lancaster.”
John of Gaunt built tills stone cot
tage for use as a hunting lodge and
country !i«.h-o. The staircases art* the
original om s, and so are the fine old
muilieiM .! v. i.iduws, and the iron backs
behiM'l 'be ,wpiaces bear the ancient
Lanea o-r arms.
Ti e Bishop's Move.
p. shop T!ioi*i i .,f England used to
la!,i.i - in Australia. He tells litis on
hitnvif:
tine dark, -tonn\ night lie struck a
lniie ii'p .itii! made his way to
I he i 1 i' dim tint was illuminated,
the e " the local newspaper. The
I.!>i.■.; k . . hcil at the door, and in re
j.niise 1 was protruded from an
upper *•. iia.o In reply to the ehal-
enge AYiciA then*’:” he answered: “I
if Ballarat. Would you
e to the nearest hotel?"
unexpected midnight
tbe bead was abruptly
withdrawn. Th<*n there was a burst of
ribald lauglder from tbe composing
room. Presently the head reappeared
at the window, and the "father of tbe
I'bapel,” is ’he* typesetters call their
chief, gave Ha* prelate this parting lilt
of advice: ’'l ook here, old man, you’ve
had quite enough hotel for one night.
Go home ami go to lied or you’ll be run
in as sure as eggs."
dire I
am lb
kind A
At this w hoi
aiinoiinecmeiit
.nii
$r..n(i, and even as high as
—The modern Sutida.) school is
quite a different institution from the
Sunday school of our fathers, but
there is one thing Methodi.-t Sunday
schools were always noted for. and
that is good singing. The Southern
Methodists publishing house has re
cently published two new song
hooks. “Young Peoples Hymnal No.
J.” and “Revival Praises." popularly
known as “George Stuart’s Song
Book. ’ The Stone Ban ingi i Com
pany, in the conference book room,
have a suppl) of both books. Mali)
of the preachers and lay delegates
will take home with them copies of
these books, a- well as Sunday school
i •ford books to help in the work of
their home Sundae schools.
The coni, i
open until
noon. All the
tie). regard b*
should inspect
books shown
Barringei- t'om
•|l(*e l|Oo|. I'O
t in
mu wii' be
ilida) after-
ers of Gaff-
•nomination.
-e of
such
in
iiid Modern Missions,” “Ev-
f tin* Japanese.'’ "China and
missions
as “The
China,"
pan
The Met lu
ids, joke and
rioUB times a
shown by tile
'inger Compaii
'American P<
!t is to laugh
•nt ,] “Th<
t
even at m b s« -
>11 f e I'eUce. This is
He Stone c Har
in'. Old here tor
ty of wit and Humor."
the\ have sold entirely
Foolish Itietionary."
inter.--t iii t)ie cam
> very real and books
( oiiquest of tin* Cross
Pa stop
olution
Vmerica of Today,’’ are shown hero
by tlie Stone tV Barringe.- Company,
n>d iv. as much attention as do
• . .. ii - i n those problems that tire at
our floor*?.
LOST Between the Gaffney Mill
and Limestone Mills, a lady’s gold
watch, with photo of young man in
back Reward if returned to thi*
office. Nov. 30-tf.
Subset be for The Ledger; |1 a year. Subscribe for The Ledger; ft a year.
Thfl Bishop’s Advice.
A correspondent sends me Uie fol
low ing story about tlie bishop of Chi
Chester The bishop had his full share
of that reatly humor which character
ized all the Wii her force family from
Hie days ..f tiw» great emancipator.
Two or three years ago an agitated
ehtircliuiaii wrote to all the bishops
stating that "Ids family doctor had
told him that none of the bishop* be
lieved in Hie Christian revelation."
Mm b horrified, be begged each bishop
in turn to sc.el him an answer which
he might publish Koine wrote Indig
nant proles]s, some elaborate theolog
lea! statements and others weighty re
plies The bishop of Chichester wrote,
"Dear - r, I should recommend you to
change your family doctor as soon aa
possible ”•• Maiichestcr Guardian.
I
DELEGATES
WELCOME!
While in the city
and not otherwise
engaged dele
gates are invited
to make
their home. Here
you will find writ
ing material, desk
room, water and
tooth picks and a
warm welcome.
COME IN AND CHAT
WITH US
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