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If it fails to satisfy you return the bottle conmniuc o::e-third of the medicine to the dealer from whom you bought I it and we will refund your money. : owe. State Sign here. - 4 u< I'hl. Util . Digests What You Eat And Makes the Stomach Sweet E. C. D«WITT Ac CO., Chlc&sn. III. Fo P sal* by Qaffnty Omg C*> FINAL DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given that on Saturday, April 23th, next, I will ap ply to Hon. J. B. Webster, Probate Judge, at his office at the court boose In Oaffney, S. C.. at id a. m. for a final settlement and discharge as Bxecutor of the estate of Alfred R. Turner, de ceased. All persons holding claims against said estate must appear and present the same at or before that time or be forever barred. And all persons indebted to said estate will please come forward and settle same at once. D. L. Allison, Executor. Pub. April 3. 10, 17 and 24, 1908. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. All persons are hereby notified not to throw any brush, trasb, or other obstructions Into drains, ditches, cul verts. etc., of the public highways and ’oadg of Cherokee county. Parties throwing trash, or obstruct ions in such ditches and culverts will be required to remove them at their own expense, and will be prosecuted as provided by the criminal law of the State, and subject to a penalty of not more than six months, or a fine not exceeding $500 or both, at the discre tion of the courts, as provided for a wilful obstruction of ditches, drains and culverts. E. F. Lipscomb, County Supervisor. April 17, 20, 24. FERRY TO LET- ( will be at the mouth of King's Creek on Broad river on Wednesday, May 6th, at 11 o’clock a. m. to let the contract for the building of a ferry boat. I reserve the right to reject any and all bids. E. F. Lipscomb, County Supervisor. April 17 to May 5. NOTICE. The County Commissioners are hereby notified to meet me at the new bridge at Stacy’s Ferry on Broad river, on Monday, April 27th, to In-! spec* and receive the work. B. F. Lipscomb, County Supervisor. Apdl 2L 24. New York, April 19.—In this sermon, appropriate to spring, the preacher speaks encouragement to those who are now dropping into the soil the seed that will yet bear fruit In good deeds, gospel teaching and noble sacrifice for others. The text Is John Iv, 35: “Say not ye there are yet four months and then cometh harvest? Behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes and look upon the fields, for they are white al ready to harvest.” If these words were true when Jesus uttered them to his disciples nearly 2,000 years ago, how much more true are they when spoken to the men and women of the present generation! These nineteen centuries of gospel preaching and gospel sacrifices have not gone for naught. The preaching and the life labors of the twelve apos tles, followed by those of Polycarp and Athanasius and Augustine and Luther and Calvin and Wycllffe and Wesley aud Whitefiold and Savonarola and John Kno: and David Livingstone, were not all useless. Uave no harvests come from the myriads of gospel sow ers who have been scattering their seeds everywhere in every generation? Have wo no harvests from the self sacrifice of our modern missionaries as well as from the patient labors of the hundreds and thousands of Christian ministers scattered all over the whole worldT What would we think of a man who, having endless life and un limited wealth, devoted years of labor and millions of dollars to a work that after 2.000 years showed no signs of completion? We should say that man was in a fools’ business. Well, my brother, do you suppose God Is en gaged in any such business as that? Do you suppose all these labors for nineteen centuries have gone for naught? Nay, nay! In every genera tion the toilers have been cheered and encouraged by seeing the results of their labors. The word has never re turned void. Wherever and whenever it has been sown men have listened and have turned from the husks of the world to seek eternal life. Sowing and reaping have gone on simultaneously. The work is still ready for the worker, and we in our day have the additional stimulus of seeing what our predeces sors have accomplished by the very means we have at command. Let us consider this morning what those means are that have been effective In the past and will prove effective In the future. The Meaning of the Sacrifice. First there are the facts of the gos pel. Christ himself was born in a man ger. lie suffered and died and rose again and ascended from kbnmt Olivet for our atonement, our redemption and our coronation. By his shed blood he has paid all the price for our emanci pation from sin. By his shed blood be has made it possible for us to be pure as he is pure, perfect as he is perfect, and to sit upon a throne at the right hand of God. Ills redeemed saints are at this hour singing his praises in never ending hosannas amid the eter nal joys of heavenly reunion, where there is no sickness, no pain, no part ings, no sin, no death. Though we should have the silver tongue of the most eloquent preacher that ever lived and all the mental grasp of a Paul himself, yet today we would give the chief praise for this glorious expecta tion to the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ. It is the blood—the divine blood—of our Saviour shed for the re mission of sins that has made all this harvest of the gospel fields possible. And this truth is the more emphatic because It is Just here at the atoning cross that the orthodox gospel minister and all other teachers separate. The crucial question is not. as some sup pose. as to the garden of Eden or the book of Job or ti e experience of Jonah. The one great issue which every Chris tian has to decide is not whether Moses wrote the Pentateuch. It Is not who was the author of the Psalms or of t{ie book of Ecclesiastes. It is not whether the Bible ib-elf Is verbally Inspired. It is not as to the meaning of the Mes sianic prophecies. It Is not whether God create'* the world in six days or In G.fXX) years. The great question at issue Is still that which was put to the apostles, “What think ye of Christ?” Do you believe that he died to save men from their sins? Do you believe that he is able to give eternal life to those who put their trust in him? Are you willing to make him the guide of your life, your king who shall control your thoughts and actions? That la the main point at issue, and that alone, for If you can believe, and do believe that and put your trust iu him you have the e<sentials of Christi&i faith, and the other questions are of minor Importance. s , The Essentials of Faith. Do you 1 relieve that Jesus was In very truth the only begotten Son of God and that he came into this world to save us by his life and shameful death from our sins? This is the vital place where all true Christians and false believers separate. I am not to day asking you one of the interesting but unessential questions I might ask. I am trying to find out where yon are In the great foundation truths. Tba center right, the circumference of yonr •plritual faith, will be right What la yonr answer In reference to the blood— tha divine hlootl—shi d for tbe remlMlon of tins? Can you f ot perceive that It D this doctrine of the cross that has been the bas is of tlie triumphs of Chris- tianity? Tbe harvest of souls that has come ii, tv,, generati'>n as a reward to the faithful pieachcr has been won 1 ,v i .t doctrine and no other, and we .heretore gi-forth to preach the same do< trine, assured that we shall have the same sucres. But there is another cause which has been the means of making the spiritual harvests white for the reapers, and that is separation of the church from the state. There has been ever since Jesus came to the earth an incurable tendency to build up an earthly king dom on his divine name rather than a spiritual one. They attempted it even in ids life, trying to take him by force and make him a king. Time and again in succeeding ages the attempt to unite the power of the state with that of the church was renewed. Constantine and other potentates sought to make the church a civil power. But Chrst’s wffds proved true, “My kingdom Is not of this world.” Whenever the church has accepted alliance with the state It has become feeble and corrupt and has failed of its spiritual purpose. Her strength now. as In former ages, conies, as God declared, “not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord.” The Crusaders. Take, for iqstance, the movement of the crusades. Do you believe that the men who followed Godfrey of Bouillon oi" Frederick Barbarossa or Richard the Lion Hearted or Count Baldwin of Fianders cared a picayune about Christ? Do you believe they were sin cere, earnest, noble, self sacrificing Christians, or do you believe that for the most the crusaders of old were freebooters and renegades and children of the fortunes of war who cared not whom they were fighting as long as they could live by couquest and fatten upon the spoils of their swords? When the pope sent forth his emissaries to peddle around his “Indulgences.” do you think that he cared anything about the sins of the people? Was It not rather that he adopted this means to levy a tax upon the whole world to support the outrageous extravagances of his ecclesiastical hierarchy? Do you believe Henry VIII. was concerned about the purity of the church when he separated from the pope and estab lished the Church of England? He, like the potentates that had gone be fore him. sought from the church the help and strength it might afford. It was a selfish design, out of which God has brought good to the world. Wher ever you see the church in olden times grow powerful in a temporal sense, then it became tyrannical and oppress ive. and if any man refused to join it he was looked upon as an enemy to his country. In olden times the question of a man’s membership in the church did not turn upon whether he loved Christ and had his spirit, but whether he believed in the technicalities of a sectarian creed which had been the product of human ingenuity and had little to do with the great purpose of Christ’s gospel. But there is another fact which has split up the hard, rocky soil of the earth for the gospel harvests—that is, some of the ablest men of this century have come out unequivocally In their testimony to the truth of the Bible and the immortality of the soul. The more fully science has gone on in its in vestigations the more the Bible is ac cepted In its simplicity, the more the greatest men of light and learning are ready to accept it. This fact is not a matter of doubt; it is susceptible of proof. About a year ago the editor of a popular magazine published the an swers to a series of questions which he had sent out to a thousand members of the nedical profession. One of the questions he asked was, “Do you be lieve in immortality?” There were 60o answers to that Inquiry, and of these every physician but twelve answered in the affirmative. Think of that! Some of us have supposed that the medical profession was made up of materialists. Five hundred and eighty- eight physicians out of GOO confessed that they believed in the Immortality of tile soul. And without any doubt the larger proportion of those men also believed in the divinity of Jesus Christ. What is true of the medical profes sion is true of the law. And what is true of the law Is also true to a large extent in reference to students of pbys leal science. Said a prominent college president to me some time ago, “My ambition Is to give my college the best course of. science it is possible for it to have, for f believe the more we un derstand the sciences the more we will believe In the Holy Bible.” The mighti est re-enforcement today we have for Bible truth Is the archaeologist’s ham mer and the geologist’s crowbar—New ton aud Faraday and Agassiz and Jo seph Henry and Sir William Dawson and Professor Sayre, the‘leaders of scientific thought, all firm believers in God aud bis book. Science on Side of Religion. I want to read the powerful testl mony Sir William Dawson, one of the greatest geologists of our time, gave jtonje time ago before a body of stu dents: “I have read recently—and, I confess, with feelings of contempt- discussions respecting the supposed limitations of the knowledge of Jesus. Did he know the data of modern criti cism? Was he acquainted with the dis coveries of modem science? The fly alighting ou my hand might as well attempt to understand tbe thoughts passing through my brain as criticism to gauge in this way tbe mind of Je sus. To me as n student of fifty years of nature, of man and of the Bible such discussions seem most frivolous since our Lord’s knowledge as we have It In bis discourses Is altogether above and beyond our science and phlloso-^ pby, transcending them as much as the" vision of an astronomer armed with one of the great telescopes of our time transcends the unaided vision. Christ viewed things from a standpoint of his own am through a different medium from that of the atmosphere of this world. His difficulty appear%to be to convey heavenly thoughts to ns through tbe imperfect language In which we speak of heavenly thoughts.” Oh, my brother, Is It not a tremendous fact that some of the greatest leaders of modem scientific thought are the firmest believers in the doctrine of the divioe incarnation of Jesus -Christ? If men like Sir William Dawson speak words like these, is It too much to say that we, the rank and file of the hu man race, are as a great white harvest field ready for the gospel sickle? And this white harvest is not confin ed simply to our own land or to what we call civilized countries. The forest lands and the most remote people are rapidly being brought into touch with our nation. We are not independent of other countries; neither are other countries independent of us. What we think they must think, or, rather, what they think we must think, for more and more the people of this world are going to become one In religion and one In sentiment. Work In Foreign Lands. Today I thank God for all the great missionary movements which have tak en place In foreign lands. I thank God that today, as we are sending forth our ships laden down with goods, so we are sending forth ships with Christian missionaries treading the decks. I thank God for the noble seed planters of the gospel who have been for years and years laboring in these foreign lands. Does It not send a thrill of Joy through you to read the wonderful missionary statistics? Are you not more and more ready to pour your money into the great foreign mission ary societies which are capturing for God China and Japan and Korea and Africa and South America? Look about you. Take a worldwide sweep. Can you not see that everywhere the gospel fields are white with ripening harvest? But I feel that a sermonic theme like this sometimes loses its force because we take too great a perspective. When we stand upon the mount of inspira tion and look off upon distant conti nents we are apt to forget the divine mercies and the gospel opportunities which are at our very door. And thus as Jesus Christ leads us up In sermon ic theme and bids us look at the white gospel harvests which are stretching away over the five continents and over the islands of the sea I think I bear my Lord say: “Yes, child, the harvest is white everywhere—over in India and Siam, over in Samoa and Tahiti, over In Kongo and In the swaying forests of Brazil—but these harvests do not con cern you so much as those by your side. Even the men and the women and the children by your side whom you think do not love me and will nev er care for me can be saved If you will reach forth your hand to them.” There are capacities in every breast Jyst ready to receive the gospel If you will preach it to them. And, my brother, the more you look for the Christ love in the hearts of men and women at your side the more you will be aston ished to find it planted there even In the most unexpected places. Near to the Kingdom. Some time ago I was camping away back in the mountains. While there I was thrown iu touch with a rough looking man who was brusque of speech and crude in action. He had for years been a cattleman. I never knew a man so profane and blasphe mous of speech. His words made me shudder. Finally he found out that I was a clergyman. Then he came to^Ane and apologized. Then he began to open his heart to me. He said: “I had one of the best mothers that ever lived. She was a sincere Christian. She lived for us children. And I know for her sake as well as my own I ought to be come a Christian too.” And as be talk ed the tears just welled up out of his eyes and trickled down his cheeks. “Oh,” I said as I watched him, “who would have thought that such a man as you would be so near the kingdom of God?” And, believe me, there Is hardly a man, woman or child near us without such memories. Away back in the old homestead the gospel plowing and seed planting have gone on. Those men and women near to you may be tired of sin. Believe me, you can bring them to Christ if you will only stretch forth the fiand to lead them. The pre paratory work for Christ has all been done. “Say ye not there are yet four months and then cometh harvest? Be hold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes and look upon the fields, for they are white already to the harvest.” And this thought suggests a gospel fact which is even more personal than any I have yet mentioned. As those who are nearest to us are like white harvests ready for the gospel reapers, so we onrselves are also ready to be garnered for the divine granaries. Oh, yes; as with our neighbors, so there have i>een many gospel seed plantings within us. We have tried to smother them and pull them out, but Id spite of ourselves they have been steadily growing. And tbe spiritual longings which we had years ago seem to be tugging at our hearts with In creased vigor every year. Are you not ready now to gather the whitened har vest of your own heatf and bring It Into the gospel granary? All the pre paratory work has been done In your life. Will you Just give yourself up to him now? [Copyright. 1908, by Louis Klopsch.] Longevity In Turkey. According to the Medical Record. Turkey’s climate Is productive of great longevity, or at least has that reputa tion. In Kent Bagbtcha (presumably In Turkey) there Is said to be now living at the advanced age of 134 years a government bookbinder whose father was 142 years old when be died. YOUR OWN FUNERAL Do You Ever Think About How It Should Be Conducted? Every man is bound to have his own personal funeral some day. In which, however silent, he will play the part of chief actor. But how many ever seek to call up before the mind's eye the whole visible scene—the neighbors thronging quietly in and taking their seats, the casket with its silent tenant inside, the characteristics, agreeable or obnoiious, of the undertaker who Is to supervise the more ^rictly business functions of the occasion and, above all. those of the minister—sympathetic or perfunctory—who is to take charge of the spiritually edifying portion? Indeed, poor Robert Burns is his torically one of the exceptional few to be recalled, as, with his dying breath, he took matters into his own hands and pathetically cried to those about his deathbed. “Don’t let the awkward squad Are over my grave!” Though nothing but a poet, still how strictly practical a man of affairs he proved himself to be in thus providing against the marring effect that would surely have been exerted on the impressive ness of his own funeral by the ragged and sputtering volleys of the awkward squad had he not given explicit orders beforehand. Men and women never act in so belter skelter a way about their wed dings as they do about their funerals. When they are to be married, how carefully the groom chooses his best man and selects the right kind of a flower for his buttonhole; how careful ly the bride her bridesmaids, with a charming little girl of six to go in front and scatter roses and lilies along the aisle as she paces up to the altar. John Wesley, the great founder of Methodism, probably knew more about funerals than any man of his time. As he had a parish of at least 500,000 souls, scattered over all England, it is safe to assume that he bad conducted at a small estimate a thousand burials and found many of them shockingly distressing affairs. So. lik'e the sensible man he was, lie determined to take time by the forelock and arrange for his own while still alive. In drawing up his will he therefore explicitly di rected that six poor men should have 20 shillings each for carrying his bodj to the grave, “for I particularly de sire,” he said, "that there may be no hearse, no coach, no escutcheon, no pomp, except the tears of them that loved me and are following me to Abraham’s bosom.” In tbe selection, too, of the ministei who was to officiate he was equally happy, for when his lifelong friend. Brother Richardson, came to the part of the service, "Forasmuch as it has pleased Almighty God to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother.” his voice broke, and he substituted the word father with such feeling that the assemblage, which had been shedding silent tears, burst out into loud weep ing. Now. If more of sensible as well as devout and humble men and women would only manifest before they die the sound judgment as well as tender human feeling of Robert Burns and John Wesley by taking part, so to speak, in their own funeral services It would prove a blessed gain. No service is so impressive as a solemn, reveren tial, tender aud uplifting funeral serv ice and none so offensive as a perfunc tory, ostentatious or trivial one. Often, Indeed, the request goes out, “No flow ers.” But these are not the flowers that work the evil. 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