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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,
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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. The objectionable
things are the flowers of rhetoric, of
fulsome eulogy, of spangles, of stars
and harps and angels, that make a
travesty of the most affecting in Its
own eloquent hush of silence of all
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