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This woman says Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound saved her life. Read her letter. Mrs. T. C. Willarlsen, of Maiming, Iowa, writes to Mrs. Pinkham: “ I can truly say that Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound saved my life, and 1 cannot express my gratitude to you in words. ' For years I suffered with the worst forms of female com plaints, continually doctoring and spending lots of money for medicine without help. I wrote you for advice, followed it as directed, and took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Calmagc Sermon By Rev. Frank De Witt Talmitfe, D. D. Los Angeles, Cal.. March 15.—From an Incident in the early history of the Christian church the preacher in this sermon draws the lesson that an apoeal to God in prayer should be made in every case of doubt and difficulty. The text is Acts 1, 24, “And they prayed. Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, show whether of these two men thou hast chosen.” The- crucifixion was over. The little scattered band of disciples had been brought together by the second and third appearances of Jesus. The ascen sion also was over. Now the disciples were abiding at Jerusalem awaiting the day of Pentecost The time seemed to the disciples appropriate for com pleting the organization of the infant church. The defection of Judas had it has restored me to perfect health, i left only eleven apostles. Should not Had it not been for you I should have been in my grave to-day. I wish every suffering woman would try it.” FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills and has positively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bear ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges tion,dizziness,or nervous prostration. | turn their meeting into a political cau Why don’t you try it ? Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. the mystical number corresponding to the twelve tribes of Israel be made up? The disciples appear to have thought so. One reason was that the number of authorized witnesses to the life, work and resurrection of Jesus should not be diminished. They would choose from among them one who. having been with them from the beginning, was competent to give such testimony. There were two such men, Joseph and Matthias. Either of these was eligible, and a choice must be made. What did the disciples do? Did they 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 OeWitt s Kidney and Bladder Pills - Sure and Safe For Mia by Oaffnay Drub C* FINAL DISCHARGE. Notice la hereby given that I will apply to Hon. J. E. Webster, Probate Judge for Cherokee county, S. C., on Tuesday, March 24th, next at 10 o’clocb a. m., for Anal settlement and discharge as Administrator of the es tate of Grover C. Dover, deceased. All persons holding claims against said estate will present the same, duly proven, to the undersigned on or before March 24th next at 10 a. m., or be forever barred. J. C. Dover, Admr. estate Grover C- Dover. Pub. Feb. 28, Mch. 6, 13, 20, 1908. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. cus, as so many of our religious meet- ‘ ings become when a new elder or a new pastor or a new bishop is to be ! chosen? Did one of the disciples say. 1 “Select Barsabas because he is my sis- ; ter’s husband?” Did another disciple ! say, “Oh, elect Matthias because he has lent me money, and as he has help- | ed me I want to do him a favor?” Do j you suppose another said, “We will j elect Luke or Mark because we want to have our friends on the apostolate?” Do yon suppose G<><1 would have sent a day of Pentecost if such a selfish spirit had moved those disciples? No, no! That was not the way the place of Judas was filled. These disciples said: “We will make no mistake. We will throw the whole responsibility upon God." Thus they went to their knees. ‘O Lord.” they cried, “make this selection for thy honor and glory.” Were they right? Ought not we to make every important move of our life a matter of earnest, intense prayer? Should we not learn to trust God and follow his leadings? “And they pray ed. Thou. Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, show whether of these two thou hast chosen.” They were wise and pious men. I commend their example to every one of you. There couje times when you must stand at the parting of life’s ways. You hesitate which way you will take be cause your whole future seems to hang on your decision. Then do as the dis ciples did—turn to God, who knows all things, and ask him to direct you. Ask him which of the two ways he chooses for you. An Important Decision. In the first place. I would turn the attention of young people to the mes sage <?f my text. I would first speak to those who have not yet decided what is to be their occupation in life. I am not now addressing those who are coming to the close of their studies In medicine or the law or theology. They are like the sea captain who has already set his compass and has left harbor and is sailing for a chosen port Notice Is hereby given that on Sat- talk m n?! urday, March 21st next, I will ap- knuv ' " hdt ,h<> ' ® 10 ) n llfe ply to the Hon. J. E. Webster, Pro- or what '’ovation they should follow, bate Judge, at his office at the court 1 ain speaking to those just about to house In Gaffney, 8. C., at 10 o'clock, graduate from our grammar schools a. m., for a final settlement and dls- who have not yet decided what line charge as administrator of the estate of work or of studies thev will follow. of Mrs. D- N. Beard, deceased. All persons having claims against said estate or interested therein, are re quired to present the same at or be fore said time, or be forever barred. Mrs. Mary M. Harvey, ' i Admx. Pub. Feb. 28, March 6, 13, 20, 1908.' NOTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE. That time of life is the most critical of all, because a mistake now <n all prob ability will mean a mistake irrepara ble. Some of you have no doubt what you are to do. Some time ago I addressed the graduating class of one of our grammar schools. The chief attrac tion of the exercises was the wonder ful playing of a famous musician of _ . , ... our city. When he ran his fingers over * hereby given to all con- t |, e j. evs j 1( , coU ] ( j uiake that piano cemed that I shall apply to Hon. J. , , • i E. Webster, Probate Judge for Chero- talk / >r / ,r lau f'‘ or ur daQce 0 kee county, S. C., at his office Gaff- march or thunder or sigh. We encored ney, 8. C.. on Monday, April 6th, ,liin a Si>i» sl! *d again. After the meet- next at 1 o’clock a. m., for final set^ log over his daughter told a mem Gement and discharge as guardian of: ber of my iamily that her father was the estate of Frank Northy, minor,, but now of age. J. A. Gaffney, Guardian. Pub Mar. 13, 20, 27 Apr. 3, 1908. 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When we were in our teens we were entire ly In the dark about what God wanted ns to do. “What would you do with your sou if he came to fifteen years of age and did not know what he wanted to be?” a lady of mv church said to me some time ago. “My son is a bright boy, but be has no overpowering desire for any one line of work.” There is a fine, good boy who is just as much in the dark about the future as you and 1 were when we were in our teens. And yet a mistake now might ruin his whole future life. If you get wrong upon the first part of your Journey of life, you are apt to follow the wrong path clear to tbe end. What bad that young boy letter do? What had that father and mother !>etter do? They had all better get down on their knees and pray. They had better lift up an earnest petition to God that he will direct that young boy to choose the vo cation which he should follow, for God had a purpose for him when he was born. And the whole happiness of that boy. as well as his usefulness, de pends upon his making no mistake in following the line of work God in tended him to do. The Right Line of Work. But, fathers and mothers, before you start in this prayerful selection of the line of work your boy or girl will fol low through life I want you to thor oughly consecrate yourselves to the Master, for if you do not you may receive a jolt that you will never get over. What God wants that boy to do and what you want him to do may. be as far apart as the North star is dis tant from the equator. God may want that boy to enter the ministry. God may want that girl to go to foreign lands as a missionary. God may want your son to be a reformer with his pen. What God wants and you. the parent, wants may bitterly clash unless you are ready to surrender your will to his will. The story is told that when James Russell Lowell was class poet a friend sent his father, Dr. Lowell, an ac count of the commencement at Har vard at which the son had achieved such a brilliant success. The old gen tleman at the time was staying in Rome. When he received the account, instead of being pleased, he was verv angry and said: “Well, well! Look at this. I am very sorry and disappoint ed. James promise*! me when I left home that he would give up poetry and stick to his books. I hoped lie had become less flighty.” Yet it was as a poet that Lowell was destined to achieve fame. Thus what God wants your boy to do and what you would like to have him do may be entirely different. And yet, my brother, all the happiness and the usefulness of your son are to be decided within the next few months. Better pray, and pray earnestly, that God wUl help him to choose aright in the selection of his life vocation. Better not let your will run counter to God’s will. But after we have asked God to se lect our children’s work in life we must not stop here iu our divine plead ings. The school or the college in which our children prepare for their life’s work is important. Now you had better make a prayerful selection of the institutions to which you send your children during the critical formative periods of their lives. You need God’s help h&re as you need him in other vital matters. You need to plead to him for guidance just as much as the disciples needed to pray for wisdom to make a right selection for the vacancy in the apostolate. Going to College. The older I grow the more I am amazed to see how blindly and in what a don’t care spirit most parents allow their children to select the school or college at which they are to be edu cated. Very slight aud trivial reasons weigh with the boy. Do you want to knew how I went to a certain military school? There was a boy who lived on our block who went there. He came home for his vacations dressed in a beautiful uniform. That uniform, with •ts silver buttons and shining chevrons, was the envy of all the neighborhood. Like most of the boys on our street, I wanted to go to a school which would let boys dress up in a uniform like that. And, though that school at the time was not what it ought to be in many respects, yet the infinitesimal thing of a little silver button took me to that school, w here I passed four long years of the most important part of my edu cational life. Hundreds and thousands of young folks go to a school because a friend goes there or because that col lege lias a fine football team or because that institution is the largest university in the state or because that college Is situated in the east. And the great es sentials of the moral and spiritual characteristics of that educational In stitution are passed over "as thougli they did not amount to anything. Did you ever realize that a univer sity or a college has an atmosphere or a soul? Are you not aware that Just as you have certain special character istics that in your life stand for some thing so an educational institution has its distinct personality and stands for something and that something Is f or the benefit or injury of the students who live within its walls? I received some time ago a letter from an old and very dear classmate. He was writing about some of the weaknesses of the college we both love. Then he wrote tlds sentence, which 1 have often pon dered over, because it presented, a truth In a way that I had never had it driven into my mind before: “Idu- cationa! institutions are controlled by individuals who are merely human, and human actions are vital there, as elsewhere.” Do you grasp that tre mendous fact? Who are the men at the head of those institutions to which you intend to send your boys? What is the moral aud spiritual status of the members of those faculties? Are they noted for their Christian principles? Are they professors who will instill reverent ideas of God and of the high er life? These are questions which you should ponder well before you let that boy leave your fireside for scho lastic halls. Better pray over that fact earnestly and long. God alone can di rect you so that you will make no mistake. May Make or Break. But we cannot always remain at school. We cannot always be prepar ing for the battle of life After awhile we must do something besides talking about what we intend to do. So from scholastic walls we step forth into the struggle of life. Then we must enter Into certain business partnerships an i professional affiliations. Whom shall We trust? With whom shall we go? Who shall we allow to enter the holy of holies of our hearts? These are weighty questions which I am putting to you today, for a man’s success Is not more due to whut he himself does than to what his business associates do. To a great extend they make him or break him. What a lot of trouble you would have saved if you had only known what a rascal you*’ partner was before you hitched up >vith him in business! Do you suppose your mother and father would have let you enter into that business partnership if they had known what kind of a man he was? “Oh. no." you reply. “My parents love me too much to let me get into such quick sands of trouble as that.” Yes, you are right! But tell me, friend, does not God love you as much as your fa ther or your mother? Would he not have guarded you from that trouble if you had only asked him? Did you ask God’s advice when you entered Into that business arrangement? Am I making too literal interpretation of the gospel? What do you mean by that sign which is tacked over your of fice door, “Business During Business Hours?” Does that mean that God has no part in your business? No! Then, if that is not so, why do you not ask God to help you select your partners and guide you in your great financial deals? Is that sentence of the Lord’s prayer a mockery, “Give us this day our daily bread?” Ah, my brother, as a business man you had better get down on your knees and pray for wis dom. God will guide you. Yes, he will. He will answer your prayers in the store just the same as he helped the disciples to choose Matthias for the vacancy in the apostolate. God hears his children pray by the store counter on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday just as much as he hears his ministers pray on Sunday In the church pulpit. But, though our partnership papers at the store are important, there are closer and more important human re lationships than even this. And this other partnership has as much to do with what we financially make as It has to do with the home and with the happiness of domestic life. I am al luding to the partnership of the mar riage altar. 8ome people look upon marriage as a joke, but it is far from being a joke. The marriage altar should be the most solemn place this side of heaven, for if it Is no* tbe joy ful enslavement of love it is the most awful tragedy of life, and it is in too many cases the merciless rock upon which the craft of earthly happiness ts shipwrecked. The Marriage Contract. But, though marriage is one of the vital pivots upon which usefulness as well as happiness turns, yet how blind ly and ignorantly most people enter sacred wedlock! Too often it seems to be the blind leading the blind. And 1 am not alluding simply to the young when they get married, but to the mid dle aged and to tbe old who get mar ried as well. Indeed, I sometimes think it is far easier for a young man to pick out a good wife than it is for a middle aged man to make a happy se lection. The older people grow the more expert they become In the abil ity to deceive if they are naturally mean and contemptible in disposition. And some of the meanest people on earth can make the most pleasant, fascinat ing impressions if you do not see them too often. Ami surely a woman has to be a very repellent specimen of n sloven if she cannot dress up and make herself attractive for a couple of hours a week during the time her lover is with ber. And yet it is upon this .slight and meager acquaintance that some of the momentous partnerships of marriage are entered into for better or for worse. Do you wonder that so many of the marriages are failures and are truly made for the worse? Do you wonder that so many people look upon marriage as a lottery where a man does not know whether he will draw as a prize a bee that will gather honey or a wasp that finds her chief delight in thrusting a merciless sting? And. if it is difficult for a man to se lect the right kind of a wife, how much more difficult for a w’oman to make the right choice of a husband! A woman seems to be entirely helpless. Her danger is greater, and the results to her at least may be even more tragic. A man may make a success In spite of an unhappy marriage, but when a wo man marries a man beneath her she Inevitably drops to her husband’s level, and there is hardly an exception to the role. Now, when men and women go courting, what should they do? The most Important act is to go to God In prayer. God would select for Isaac a Rebecca and for Jacob a Rachel. Sure ly he will select for you a marital com panion and make no mistake. Philip Henry used to say to his children “Please God and you will please me." Then at the wedding he would say: •Others wish you all happiness. I wish yon all holiness; then there Is no doubt that you will have all happi ness.” Was it a foolish caution? If we please God. are we not sure to make the right move when we plight our troth under the orange blossoms? We have often beard ministers plead with wives to pray for their erring hus bands. If some ministers would teach their people to oray l>efore they, en tered the marital yoke, there would not be so many erring husbands to pray for nor so many broken hearted wives. But where should we make pray erful selections more earnest and in tense than in our church work? If there is any one place set apart for the purpose of prayer and for the demon- strtiMons of the power of prayer, that place should l>e the church of God, and yet I am amazed to find how often a church in the crisis of its history neg lects prayer, and this fact is never more demonstrated than in the way the av erage .hurch goes about to select a pastor. Selecting a Pastor. Now, how does the average church select a new pastor? First the congre gation chooses a committee to look out for a suitable candidate. This commit tee sends its Invitations to different ministers to ask them to supply the nulpit. The candidates come before the congregation and preach their trial sermons. The congregation is divided Into factions or cliques. One faction likes one candidate because he has curly hair and creases in his trousers and has a winning smile aud is good looking Another faction favors an other man because lie is endowed with a fine voice and has perfect elocution. Another candidate is rejected because he is past fifty and the church wants a young man. Aud so the seesawing goes on until at last a man comes along who sweeps everything by storm. He has a genius for getting calls. He has four or five good sermons. He has spent weeks and mouths upon them. Like the mosaics of the Alhambra, those sermons are a patchwork of many different sermons. It would not be so had if that minister had made them a mosaic of his own discourses, but sometimes they are taken from the sermons of Beecher, Brooks or Parker. “We must have this minister and have him right away!” cries the congrega tion. “Wait,” says some old conserva tive elder. “You do not know yet who this man is. Let us investiga 4 '' a little further. It is not the first sermon or the tenth, but what kind of a sermon a man can preach after he has been in the pulpit for five years, that decides whether lie is a good preacher or not. Then let us find out what kind of a Christian leader this man Is. Will he be a true guide? Is he right upon tin* doctrine of the atonement? Does he gamble at progressive euchre parties? Docs he drink aud dance and go to tin* theater? If lie does we do not want him even though he has the golden lips of a Chrysostom. Let us pray over this matter a little while. If we ask God to lead us be will not let us make a mistake.” Is the old elder right’ Shall we not ask God to lead us when we are about to choose a new pastor? Ask God’s Aid. But if we are to lead the right Chris tian life we must ask God what we shall do for others as well as what others shall do for us. “Oh, I cannot do anything to help a person or to lead a troubled soul to him!’’ Is that so. my brother? Are you not doing your self an injustice? The reason most of us have never done anything for Christ Is because most of have never tried. We have not the desire: therefore we have done nothing for him. We do not strive; therefore we do not achieve. What have you ever t^d to do for God? Whom have you ever, tried to lead to the Master? What aching heart have you tried to heal? Have you ever gone to God in prayer and asked him to guide you on a gospel mission and show you where you ought to work in his name? It was very Important for the disciples to ask whom they should select for* the vacant position in the apostolate, but it was Just as important for each one of those disciples to make the prayer like that Paul offered on the Damascus road, “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” If you get down on your knees and earnestly pray to God for a position in his army on the battle line, there is no doubt he will detail you for active work. Pray earnestly that God will open to you unlimited fields of gospel usefulness. “And they prayed aud said. Thou. Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men. show whether of these two thou hast cho sen.” We are gospel soldiers, and we must go to our Divine Commander for marching orders. When you once swear your allegiance to him you are never to make a move In life, no mat ter what it may be, unless you firs: kneel down and implore the blessim: and guidance of God. In your dally communication with God are you will Ing to do as did Matthew Henry’s fa ther? The boy was very sick. The father said. “If the Lord will be pleased to grant me this request I will not say. as do the beggars at my door, T will never ask anything of God again,’ but. on the contrary, he shall bear me often- er than ever, and I will love God bet ter as long as I live.” Are you will ing from now on to walk In such close communion with God that you will never cease to ask him what be wants you to do and that your chief pleasure in life will be to find out bis will and to accept aud obey It cheerfully? [Copyriirht, 1908, by Louis Klopsch.] What Do They Cure? 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