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BEGINS QUESTIONS ON BIBLE STUDY Questions on Each Sun day's Lessons. PRIZES OFFERED FOR CONTESTANTS These Questions aro Based on the In teruatloual Sunday School Lessons and have been Found of tho Great* est Benefit to Sunday School Teach ers and Scholars. We commence today the publica tion of a sorlos of suggestive questions on the International Sunday School Lessons. For somo tiuio past theso weekly questions have been stlrrlqg a great deal of national Interest. They are published in nearly a thousand newspaper towns and are studied by millions of leaders. Thoy aro re ceived warmly by the public and en thusiastically eudorsed by clergymen of all tho churches. Sunday school superintendents, teachers, and adult Bible class scholurs use them in every town where they aro published, and the general public aro much lntereet ed. Contracting for this unique Bible study question servlco forms tho Ad vertiser and Its readers into a local club of one of tho classes of tho In ternational Press Biblo Question Club, and glvoa the right for all our readers to compete for somo very valuable prizes. There are four classes organ ized each year composed of the news papers which tako up tho publication of these questions at four different periods, viz: Thoso that commenco April-June aro Class A; July-Septem ber are Class B; October-December aro Class C, and January-March aro Class D. Hence the Advertiser local club belongs to Class C. There aro fifty valuablo prizes to bo given to our Class; Five solid gold medals, live sterling silver medals, five teachors' Bibles, price $5.50 each, aud thlrtyilvo copies of tho book "Tho Heart of Christianity,' price $1.50 each. Tho medals are specially designed and en graved and each will bo inscribed with the name of the winner. Tho condi tions of the conte.t aro so simple that any person can comply with them. The contest will not commence until the queutlons havo boon published thirteen weeks, In ordor to give every body a chance to become familiar with them. One condition la that the ques tions must be read each woek and as The Advortiser will bo necessary for this, you had bettor send In your sub scription on tho attached coupon, get ing the advantago of our special price for now subscribers. Bond to. from now to Dec. 10, 1912, tho close of the Hildo Question Club Contest, for the price of $1.00 en closed. Count mo a member of tho Local Club. Name *7. Address. (Copyright, 1910, by Rev. T. S. Lln ucott, D. D.) Danlol and His Companions; a Temperance Lesson. Dan. i;8-20. Goldon Text?It Is good neithor to eat flesh, nor to drink wlno, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth. Rom,xIv:21. (1) . Verso 8?Who was Daniel, and bow did he got to Baylon? (2) What did Daniel propose for his food? (3) What aro tho advantages and disadvantages (1) of a meat diet, (2) of a vegetable diet? (4) Is there any reasou to bellovo that God orlgiually meant man to bo a meat eater? (5* if meat Is necessary for strength how do you account for the strength of the horso and the elephant, as both are vegertarlans? (?) Is there any reason to think that the craving, or desiro for meat la an artificial appetlto? (7) What evldenco Is thoro that a purely vegetable- diot would Increaso the health aud the longevity of tho people? (8) Verse 9?Did God in some su pernatural way cause tho prince of the eunuchs to lovo Daniel, or in any other way than through Daniel's lov able manner? (9) Does God turn tho hoarts of people to lovo or favor good Chrls kv tlana wholly apart from their actual f attractions'.' / (10) Verse 10?Which people aro the healthier, thoso who have ubund ance of rich food and who eat all they can or those who- have plain food and eat only enough to give them suffi cient strength for their work? (11) Verses 11-13?What should be our rule as to tho kind nnd quan tlly of food we eat? ^ (12) Which class In tho community Is generally tho healthier, tho rich or those respectable people who have to struggle "to make ends meet?" (13) Take one hundred persons who drink nothing but water and an other hundred persons who drink in toxicating liquor and compare tbelr probable condition as to (a) health, (b) wealth, (c) happiness. (14) Who were Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah? (15) Verses 14-15?What was the result of the test made upon these three Hebrew young men, in eating a strictly vegetable diet, and drink, >g nothing stronger than water? (1C) Should thi'? test from experi ence bind our conscience, and cause us to eat and drink as they did? Why or why not? (17) Verse 16?What in our day are the chief evils of gluttony, and what are the chief evils of drunken ness? (18) To what extent would the world ho better if the use of :ntoxI cating liquor as a bevorage could be stopped? (This is one of the ques tions that may be answered in writing by members of the club.) (19) Verses 17-21?To what extent may all men develop their ability by' increasing their knowledge? (20) Why is it not possible for all persons with sufficient study to be come first rank artists, orators, poets, and scientists, or to attain to super natural powers like Daniel and his companions? (21) Were the learning and wis dom of these four young men ac quired, or the gifts of God? (22) Where do you draw the line as to the possibilities or present spirit ual or supernatural powers? Lesson for Sunday, Sept. 17th, 1911. Daniel's Companion in the Fiery Fur nace. Dan.iii. "I have a world of confidence in Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for I have used it with perfect success," writes Mrs. M. I. Ilasford, Poolesville, Md., For sale hy all dealers. * THE TIMES CONTRASTED. * Rlchland and Alken keep, up their crime reocrd. Surely what is going on in these two counties will attract the attention of thoughtful, reading people and arouse them to a keon sense of the vast difference in the matter of law and order In these and in those counties that now forbid the sale of liquor. It Is true there is some liquor sold on the sly hero, but with the active and cffcient sheriff and deputies With a splendid rural police, hacked with a wholesome public sen timent, the occupation of the blind tiger in Laurens is almost gone. Yes, there's a littlo liquor selling, as there is some gambling, some theft, and other violation of law, but fair minded persons, after having three years' experience of the closed saloon, will undertake to say that there has not been an improvement beyond com parison or expectation. The last year of Its existence the dispensary sold $1:18,000 worth of liquor. That much money, a thous and times worse than if it had been cast into the midst of the soa. The liquor advocates took fits over the questicfi of revenue, said schools would go down. llehold, the new school houses and school work pros pering as never beforo. $1118,000! ten times more than all that Is expressed here. Hundreds have deposits now in our banks where it went to the dls pensnry before. But the money part of it is the least part. When you stop the salo of ono quart, or one gallon, you may save ono boy, ono home, ono mother, of ono night's agony?save oh?-plaintive"heartrending cry "Oh! Where's my boy tonight?" The man that has seen the chang ed conditions from November 1908 to September, 1911, no longer has any excuse, should the question ever come up again, that he does not know which is best. The person that has any part of his eye sight left can always tell the difference betwixt day and night ?darkness and light. In desperate straits the liquor ad vocate talks about sumptuary laws. Why, poor fellow, nobody wants to prescribe what you shall eat or drink, or how you shall be clothed." It is your privelege to drink liquor. If you are drinking to excess good men and wom en would like to persuade you to stop, but not force you. But you must not forget that your right to drink never carries with it the right to put up a saloon and thereby set a snare or net. in which the feet of tho boy In kneo breeches, or the man full grown In years but irresponsible, may become entangled forever. A place where ten thousand negroes may get their sup plies of drink to inflame the bad pas sions of a race that because of en vironment for hundreds of years, to gether with peculiar social character istics are sorely deficient in moral self-restraint. There has been a net saving of many thousands in enforc ing the law since the dispensary was closed ,but if it had cost thous ands to enforce it, it would have been well spent If only on account of this race. In regard to enforcing the law here In our county, did you know my read er, that for every blind tiger in Lau rens there is five to ten in Hichland or Alken? How do I know? I know by tho records of their courts. We know of their crimes and disorder by these records and by newspaper re ports notwithstanding the fact of the papers (In their intense anxiety for revenue from liquor) suppressing re ports of many of these liquor disor ders. 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