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NOAHS LINIMENT Jk. FOR ALL _ CREATION •Most effective economical Cdean-fouse 'remedy tor 'at/aches \ and pains Jn man andheast A Greiit Home K**mcdy. For Mlt by nil dru-^iila and dealer®, 2,'m!. Money refunded it il fail* to do all claimed. NoahRp.MRUY Co , Boatoo, Mam. ,C. S.A. Calm age Sermon By Rev. Frank De Witt Talmatfe. D. D. spr r^* W-; ■mtm’wmjemm i Halt! 1 Just stop and think one moment about your printed stationery. “A firm or individual’s printed stationery is an index to li i s business judgement.” If you want something that vou can be sure will make a good impression where- ever seen bring your job printing of every des cription to us. We guarantee satisfac tion and can do work in a “hurry.” Ihe Ledger, Gaffney, S. C. A^F Mail orders receive prompt attention. Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 2.—In this sermon the preacher describes the no blest of passions, the pursuit of which he assures us will bring to us more satisfaction and enduring happiness than anything else on earth. The text is Proverbs xi, 30, “He that winneth souls is wise.” Every man wants to make the most out of his life. As the blossom changes to the bud and the bud opens into the flower, so man wants the latest buds of bis better life to mature and ripen and then spread their leaves far and wide that he may scatter their fra grance everywhere. The heart is not a silent tomb filled only with the de composing corpses of dead memo r les. It is a great hall In which myriads of voices are chanting in chorus. And all these voices are sounding a clarion call to the higher life, which God bids all his children live. Of course man does not always obey these calls to the higher life. The spirit may be willing, but the flesh is very weak. This means in plain Eng lish that our good intentions are often like the seed Christ described in the gospel of Mark: “And some fell by the wayside, and the fowls came and de voured It up. And some fell ou stony ground, where it had not much earth, and immediately it sprang up, because it had uo depth of earth, but when the sun was up it was scorched, and be cause it had no root it withered away. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it.” In other words, our good iutentions, like the good seed in the hand of the sower, are in our hearts, but no sooner are they planted than tl»e thorns of temp tation rise up and choke them, and in stead of our lives becoming a flower garden they are nothing but a barren waste. Put that does not disprove the fact which 1 have already asserted— namely, that our hearts are great mu sic halls in which myriads of voices united in chorus are sounding forth the clarion calls for us to load the bet ter life. Soul Winning Versus Gold. King Solomon in my text tells us how we can make good use of our lives. He says: “Soul winning is the greatest of all work open to us on earth. It is hetti r than seeking gold. It is better thau seeking fame. It is when we realize that the sacred dost of onr parents Is sleeping In God’s acre.” “Oh, no,” answered my friend, “that should not be. If I injure my leg and have it cut off, 1 do not want to preserve my leg because it is part of me. When my leg is cut off it ceases to lie me. It is then only a dead piece of flesh. And when the soul of my loved one leaves the body all that I loved and clung to is gone. It makes very little difference then what we do with that body. The soul is the vital and the beloved part—the soul and not the body.” I could understand my friend’s atti tude. It is not the body of my dear mother whose memory I cherish. I love that soul which to^k wings and flew away from her poor suffering body on Aug. 5. 1S95. It is that soul, which for years impelled that poor suf fering pain racked body against its will to labor for me, that I venerate and love. When her body In suffering was crying: “Let me lie down! Let me sleep! Let me rest!” her soul re minded her of her children. When at last my mother’s body cried in sheer weariness, “Come, let me die!” the soul answered: “Nay. nay! You may die, but I shall live! I shall live and continue to live and never die!” Now', if the body is so frail, so evanescent, so transitory, so short lived, do you not think It foolish to waste so much time in trying to gratify it? What is the good of a Michelangelo trying : to duplicate ins statue of a David or ! a Moses out of a snow bank? What | is the good of a jeweler trying to make ; diamond rings out of a dewdrop? What is the good of trying to build a forti- I fleation upon the shifting sands? “Is j not the life more than meat and the : body than raiment?” Is not the soul 1 more important than the body, which will be dead in a few years at the i most? Of Infinite Importance. Oh, the infinite importance of the im mortal soul! Oh, the never ending ex istence which is stretching out before all of us after our bodies are dead! Can you not catch a faint glimpse of that apocalypse? In one of our groat educational institutions some years ago there was a student noted for his mathematical genius. He loved to challenge his fellow students to a friendly trial of skill in figures. But one day a Christian student entered his room and said, “Tom, here is a problem I wish you would try to solve for mo.” The mathematician took it and looked at it and then read the i words, “What shall it profit a man if | ho shall gain the whole world and lose j his own soul?” In anger he tore the paper up and f row it upon the Upor. But after his Christian friend had left he proceeded to study the problem. He began to compute the value of money and fame and position and worldly success. Then he commenced to weigh j the value of his soul. “What shall it The New Shoe St: re. better than having high political posi tions. Its returns overtop those of all p roflt a in . lu jf i ie s jj a n pn i n t he whole other nientai ami physical and spirit-. am ] jjj s own soul?” At ual endea\ors. No mattei v.hat youi j as j. a reve | a f| on (J f the soul’s value braiu or wor dily opportunities may ^ e - j above the combined value of all other the Braude i e !» i and the happiest^ things came to him. Then he dropped upon, the floor and cried out, “God be work of bringing 1 the cross.” “He wise,” or. to put I am receiving New Shoes nearly every week and will give you new, fresh stock at the very lowest prices. Try my and be convinced. Yours to plea«e, I. M. Peeler. TRESPASS NOTICE. All persons are hereby forbidden to trespass on my lands for the purpose of hunting, fishing, cutting timber, etc., under penalty of the law. Harriett D. Wilkins. Jan. 31 Feb. 7, 14, 21. THE CHILDREN LIKE IT KENNEDY’S LAXATIVE’ COUCH SYRUP Hodol Fcr Indigestion. * Relieves sour stomach, palpitation of the heart. Digests what you eat PARKER’S HAIR CALSAM end >/e«iitife» tli* h«jT. Hronot** u hiiurmrit growth. JJwror P«il» to fleotore Oray Ifair to i: tLful Color. Cura va.p u - .i u hair faUhiz. yjc,» id j • 1 iniEfdit' fOLETSHOKETHCAR cough atxd FOimHONEMAR Bur— Oetdsi Prevents Pneumonia LECTRIC .BITTERS THK BUST FOB BILIOUSNESS AND KIDNEta Biickfen’s Arnica Salve The Best Salve la Tke WarM. work on earth is th men and women to that winneth >u! - i this truism hi say be accomplishing, if he is not a soul winner for < hrist he is missing the, greatest opportunity of his life.” And this as erti n is the more amaz- ! ing because wo tiud it in the book of Proverbs. Of all the writers of the two Testament.- here is not one who represents worldly wisdom In its clear-1 est type ns did King Solomon. A man may not believe in the rest of the Bi-; hie. hut he must believe in the truth of most of these proverbs. Indeed, it has been asserted that Solomon could not have written the book of Proverbs, but must have collected the proverbs of many lauds and combined them In one; book. And yet right la the midst of | those invalualde nuggets of worldly advice he wrote these words of my" 1 text: “He that winneth souls is wise." ; | Let us study for a little while why the ! occupation of soul winning is the , greatest and the most important ami I the happiest business in which any | man can engage. In the first place, when a Christian wins a soul for Christ he deals with i the only part of a man that is immor- 1 tal. lie deals with the only part of a man that will ne\er die. The soul is jthat unweighnble, unanalysable some-; thing in the human body which dwells I in the flesh, but which springs out of , the flesh when that flcsli dies. And then,* taking upon Itself the pinions of, immortality, it flies away to another j realm, another world, another place of | existence to live after the worlds themselves shall be no more. The soul will never die. The Soul the Vital Part. Now, if the soul is ilie only part of man that Is going to live on through the coming age^ the wisest act of our lives must l*’ to put the chief empha sis of our work upon that part of man which alone has Immortal life. You surely are not going to expend all your energies of mind upon the phys ical body, which at most can live only a few year--, while the soul is going to live forever. You may say you love the body, and so you do. But you merely love the body because the soul is In it. When the soul Is gone, then that body wld soon become a mass of decomposition. I was talking about this matter the other <lay to a friend of mine wb# h:.d lately lost his moth er. Her body, according to her ex pressed wNh, was cremated. Her ash es only a few days lief ore had been brought home and deposited In a bronze urn ou the parlor table. “That Is uncanny,” I said, “that a fine, strong woman like jour mother should be brought home a little handful of ash es. For my own part. I believe there lr merciful to me and save my soul!” So I put the question to you, Do you de- s truism in another way. Solomon is' slre to make tlie rnost out of your life? ,-ing. No nmt’er :iat a man may <-) mai)i is to he your life’s work? How shall you get the maximum of return for your labors? Do you not see how this text rises and spreads un til at last it girdles the earth and gir dles the heavens and girdles the eterni ties? “He that winneth souls is wise.” But these words of my text are sig nificant for another reason. Soul win ning is not only the greatest of all work, but it is also the most rational. Our Lord God is not unreasonable uor docs he n ■;;•<.* of us more thau we can do, hut h<* says: “Go forth in this mighty work of soul saving, and I will lie with thee. I will give thee divine power, and i will work through thee as I worked through the great soul winners of olden times.” Paul express es uij meaning in words more power ful than any living man could frame. He maps out a great evangelistic cam paign for Christ. Tie maps out a great j religious campaign that from a human standpoint appears that of a crank or a fool. From the human standpoint Paul seems to be the wildest of fanatics hut for one reason. He says: “In my own power 1 can do nothing, hut in the diviue power 1 can Uo everything. 1 can do all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me.” In other words, he believed that God would re-enforce him. as he will us, with divine power In the great work of saving a sonl. In tho Spirit of Paul. All, this is a blessed, a mighty en- whore it lives and continues courageraent! I do not feel we have a right to speak the words of my text unless at the same time we do It In the spirit and confidence of Paul. Con- j sider what it is that we have to do. We have to wrestle with Satan for his prey. I do not care whether you call the evil spirit sin or Satan or the devil; it Is all one and the same. No sooner is a child horn than the evil Spirit goes to that cradle and says: “I will hover over this child. I will fol low him f tep by step. I will study his ancestors to find out their moral weak nesses. I will offer him the form of temptation which is best pelted to his taste. Then I will say: ‘Drink, friend. Drink. Drink until your temporal life is imbittered and your soul is poi- soned.’ ” Have you ever had an enemy on your trail? Have you ever had a man or a woman with hitter malice follow you step by -tep. undermining your life’s work? ITnvo yon had a foe mis representing you and thwarting your efforts while you kept silence for the sake of the work which you were try ing to do? Or, what L> infinitely worse, have jou ever bad a friend whom yon loved ns u brother a; e. loved as yom own child—whom yen I ave lived with and treacherously drive It into yonr back? Ob, yes, we have all had these troubles! But I want to tell you that no human enemy, no modern Brutus, is ever so sly, so stealthy, so malignant, so cruel, as is the spjrit of evil. He will follow you. He will flatter you and throw you off your guard. But when the time comes he will drive Into your heart the poisonous fang, and then, from a human standpoint, there will be no hope. Do you not realize that today over every Immortal soul are fiends innumerable—fiends strug gling, fighting and battling? From a human standpoint every soul is a lost soul unless it is saved by divine grace. God Is Stronger. But, thank God, divine power can save the soul. Though temptation has an arm of iron, yet God, who made the iron. Is stronger. Thougli the serpent of sin has a fang charged with deadly poison, yet one drop of Christ's shed blood is an antidote for that poison. “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” There is the keynote of the whole text. God is not asking you to accomplish the impossible. Ho says, “With my help you can win souls for Christ.” Will you today seek that help? Will you today con quer Id that divine work? “He that winneth souls is w ise.” But I want to draw your attention to this text for another reason. Why is the word “soul” WTitten in the plu ral form? Why did not King Solomon say. “He that winneth a soul is wise?'’ Because he knew how much was in volved in winning a single soul. For each life is like the link of a chaiu. Each one grips on to other links. When you save one soul, you roach out to save many souls w-hich are directly nr indirectly connected with that life. And how far the Influence of that life extends uo one knows, and no one can ever estimate this side Oi heaven. But there is another truth connected with this subject. Who are to be ray companions in heaven? There is a per sistent voice within me assuring mo (!jat I am Immortal. I know it. I feel it. I also feel and know that I am to he a conscious individual, with the same identity as I have now, when 1 shall enter that other world. I am uol lo be a living creature, like the lily or the rose, which lias no thinking power. In that other world I rhall live a\ l breathe and talk and associate with other Immortals just as I am associat ing with men and women on earth. I am to be myself, glorified in heaven. I am to have all my faculties, all the loving capabilities of my heart. But in that other world I shall be emanci pated from all weaknesses and mean nesses and sin. In other words, I shall be, as Paul expressed it, changed iuto the divine image. I shall be clothed with purity and truth aud love and gentleness, perfect as God is perfect. Souls Won to Christ. Now, if I am to be my glorified seif in heaven the question that interests me is this: Who tire to be my companions in that eternal world? Who are to live with me lu heaven as my dear ones live with me on earth? We are to have our loved ones and our neighbors and our friends. We are to associate with certain Immortal spirits who will be our companions. Who are those spir its who will live closest to us? Why, for the most part they are to be the immortal souls we have won to Christ. They are to bo the souls for whom we have prayed and agonized and with tears of joy led l^> the mercy scat. There is no doubt about that. It Is the most rational thought. Can a mother forget her own child of the flesh? Can a disciple of Jesus Christ forget his own child of the spirit? This suggests another overwhelming thought. If we are going to associate through all eternity with those who have saved us and with those whom we have saved, some of us may have awful regrets if we And some places there not filled by those dear ones whom we could have brought to Christ if we had only tried. We are in closest louch with husband, brother, sister, wife, child, father and friend. We love them, and they love us. But somehow we have not a holy, absorbing passion to bring them to the cross and bind them there. We may go to church once in awhile with them. We may even say a few good moral things to them. But have we ever gone to them and said, “Brother, sister,' loved one. will you not surrender your heart to Christ?” What are ydu going to do when you reach heaven if that boy, that husband, that sister, never comes to live with you? You can take them there if you will. O Christ, shall then- be any vacant places in my mansion of heaven? Am I wise? Am I (Tin ning souls for thee? Am I pleading with my dear ones of»earth so that they will live with me in heaven? Remember the words of the prophet who had so clear a vision of the fu ture, “They that in? wise shall sh’lne as the brightuess of the firmament and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.” [Copyright. 1908, by Lculs Klopsch.] The Tarmer’e Wife b wry careful about her churn. She scalds It thoroughly after using, and give* It a sun bath to sweeten it. She knows that If her churn Is sour it will taint the butter that is made in it. The stomach is a churn. In the stomach and digestive and nutritive tracts are performed pro cesses which are almost exactly like the churning of butter. Is it not apparent then that if this stomach-churn is foul it makes foul all which is put into it? The evil of a foul stomach is not alone the bad taste in tho mouth and the foul breath caused by it, but the corruption of the pure current of blood and the d}ssem- ination of disease throughout the body. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery makes the sour and foul stomach sweet. It does for the stomach what the washing and sun bath do for the churn—absolutely removes every tainting or corrupting ele ment. In this way it cures blotches, pimples, eruptions, scrofulous swellings, sores, or open eating ulcers and all humors or diseases arising from bad blood. If you have bitter, nasty, foul taste in your mouth, coated tongue, foul breath, are weak and easily tired, feel depressed and despondent, have frequent headaches, dizzy attacks, gnawing or distress in stom ach, constipated or irregular bowels, soiqj or bitter risings after eating and poor appetite, these symptoms, or any consider able number of tiiem, indicate that you are suffering from biliousness, torpid or lazy liver with the usual accompanying incii- S estion, or dyspepsia and their attendant erangements. ta knnftn to medical «r»i. TTbove symptoma AUDITOR’S NOmCS. Th* Ootmty auditor's opened o i Till on January 1st and wm ha ft-ggg ainTcotumkins. ps atCesleCM th^wrTtTii^ of leadinp TeaT-liers~a.id uractiiinners or the several schools ol medical practice. ye heen skinfullsi and: harmpninnsh? JI1 T)rTPien Thatthi )r. nTxIdi.n a s is absolutely true will be readily proven to your satisfaction if you will but mail a postal card request to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo. N. Y.. for a free copy of his booklet of extracts from the standard medical authorities, giving the names of all the ingredients entering into his world-famed medicines and show ing what the. most eminent medicajfacn of the age say of them. V Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup Relieves Colds by working them out of the system through a copious and healthy action of the bowels. Relieves coughs by cleansing the mucous membranes of the throat, chest and bronchial tubes. "As pleasant to the taste as Maple Sugar" Children Like It* For BACKACHE-WEAK KIDNEYS Try QaWitts Kidney and Bladder Pills - Sure and Safe Fo r sale by Gaffney Drug Co- open 'till February Mth for the pm* poee of receiving tax retona for 1908. After February 20th the pear ally will be added to all who have not returned. All personal property, moneys, notes, mortgagee, life laeur- ance, any and all hinds of property, is liable to taxation. It land haa been, bought or sold, buildings built or torn down, since last year, the tax* payer will say so when he makes his return. All farm products on haai August 1st must be returned. Bach person must give the number of school district In which he Uvea la order that the school may get the poll tax. Returns mast be made for all property In different townships, or In school districts which have ex* tra levies, on separate return blanks. At the office in Gaffney until the 10th of February. After February the 20th the SO per cent will be added. All persons are required to return all real estate, and If bought say who from: if sold who to.* Also any new buildings erected since last return, and fix a value on same. Any per* sons owning property in two differ ent school districts must make re turns for each district Also persons owning property In and out of the town limits must make two returns, stating the amount in town and the amount out of town. AH persons commencing any new business after February 20th must make a return within 30 days after commencing, or are liable to a fine of |100. Touts very truly, W. D. Camp. Auditor. NOTICE OF FINAL DI8CHARGR. Notice Is hereby given to all oonr cerned that I shall apply to Hon. J. B. Webster, Probate Judge for Chero* kee county, S. C-, at his office Gaff ney, S- C., on Saturday, February 8th, | next at 10 o’clock a. m., for final setr : tlement and discharge as Guardian of the estate of Mrs. Ila WHght, minor, but now of age. Jesse G. Wright Pub. Jan. 17, 24, 31 and Feb. 7, 'Of. il’or chlldret.t ..a/ j. *j>lai90 tha mo51 heslinq sr.lvs in tha world* fOlEYSKlDNEYCDRB Makes Kidneys and Bladder Right Dewitt’s 82*» Salvo For Piles, Burns, Sores* Dr. King's New Life Pills The best In the worlde a sacrednefts In the use of a family plot A holy reverence comes over os and helped and encouraged and aided In his work, suddenly draw a knife The Surgeon’* Feet. On each of the eighty-four times that he has crossed the Atlantic Lord Dnnmore has been the center of a group of tra\elcrs who enjoyed his ready wit. During his last trip he and voyagers were amused by the conspicuous and odd figure of the ship’s surgeon, Especially by the lat ter’s ample feet, rendered striking by white tennis shoes and by the very wide angle they formed at the heels. “Do you know,” asked his lordship ns the surgeon passed his group one day, “what the doctor’s feet make me think of?*’ “What?" Inquired the ehorus. “Of a quarter to 3.” Zy/4. tyy o' - " r,£US rom • 'Ta iv f-iC/ZnV r /~>/ ' ' M7V JEA/r * 1 f * - 'a/u Jpfr/WA*' ' ' ^ &£• sks r - -gr-j. “ Kick the Printer In the city of Brook lyn, N. Y., there has been for many years a con spicuous signboard out side an office which reads, “KICK THE PRINTER” Bibulous persons sometimes go inside to carry out the apparent request, but they dis cover that the printer is a gentleman by the nave of Kick. In every town there are persons who, if they do not actually feel like kicking the printer—the newspaper man—at any rate do a lot of kick ing at the way he con ducts his paper. Please DON’T kick the printer; he is doing the best he can. And what he does for l ie town aud community, despite his occasional mis takes, may be a great deal more than the kickers themselves are <1 »ing. Did THAT ever occur to you? V e are all neighbors in this town. What helps one helps the others. What hurts one hurts the others. Every community is a mutual benefit association, whether organ ized < r just running wild. The printer is a charter member. Il you had no printer—no newspaper—how would yon like that? Do you know what happens to towns that don’t support a newspaper? Nothing happens. Nothing ever happ' ns in a town like that As soon as things begin to bap;> n in a town the newspaper comes along and tells about them. The newspaper boosts the town. It records progress and offers suggestions, by the editor or the readers, as to further progress. Every copy of every issue advertises the town. This is all free advertisement It costs the town not’.ii- g. It.costs the people nothing. It is a part of the bus in -s. 4 In view of this fact, which nobody can dispute, it is much better to pat the printer on the shoulder now and then or to speak kindly of him than to kick him. ><>; DON’T KICK THE PRINTER.