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The fleeting at Tirzah.
Rock Hill. Special.?Three thousand
people is the estimated made in numbering
the crowd at the big educational
rally at Tirzah Wednesday. This
has been one of the largest and most
intelligent, gatherings ever known to
assemble at this celebrated encampment
ground where have been heard
the leaders of the political thought of
South Carolina. Mr. Henry Massey,
one of the prominent men of the Tirzah
community, says that in one year
only has the attendance been so good.
For years these people have looked
forward to these annual gatherings,
and with the years has come experience
in planning and managing everything
that makes the occasion a source
of real enjoyment and benefit. Every
detail was carried out smoothly, the
Immense crowd was good humored and
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and 'tis not saying too much when it
is stated that the speeches were inspiring.
With such an audience it was
impossible for the speakers to be heard
by every one. but there were many
attentive listeners.
'Superintendent of Education John E.
.. Carroll was master of ceremonies and
presided in the most creditable manner.
His Introductory remarks were
brief but pointed and suggestive.
Many prominent speakers were present
and the attention was good.
Palmetto News.
Son Williams, a Southern Railway
colored ex-switchman, narrowly escaped
being crushed to death under
the wheels of engine No. 829 in Columbia
Tuesday at noon at the union
station. As the engine pulled out
from the shed at a brisk pace Williams.
in attempting to blythely hop up
on the pilot in the presence of the
on-lookers, caught his coat pocket in
a projecting bolt, causing him to loose
his footing. Suspended by his coat
with his feet bobbing along in front
of the wheels, the later gradually gaining
ground as bis coat began to give
way under the strain, the fellow was
dragged about 30 feet, when the engine
was stopped just in time to save
his life.
Mrs. Susanna Benton, living four
miles from Columbia. Tuesday insti
tuted claim and aenvery proceedings
before Magistrate Moorman of that
city against Constable Osborne for
recovery of her horse and wagon,
which were seized and confiscated in
Hurleyville on Saturday with three
gallons of liquor aboard. Mrs. Benton
claims that she loaned the team out
on Friday and is in no way responsible
for the presence of the liquor.
Governor Vleyward has refused to
remove Squire W. O. Bailes of Fort
Mill township against whom a petition
was presented some time ago.
Bailes is a notary public and hS? residence
has long been the assembling
. place of eloping lovers from his section.
both from North and South Carow
lina. Some of the neighbors objected
to this and presented a petition for
his removal. Bailes presented a ccun/
ter one for his retention.
The Cheraw and Bennettsvllle railroad
is nearing completion, the trestles
over Beaver Dam and Phill's
creek have been put in. and a large '
force cf hands are now at work in
Crooked creek, near 3ennettsville.
The locomotive is running to within
.mrtDe of PnnticttcvillA and hv
August 20th it is predicted the train
will be making daily trips between
the two Pee Dee towns.
Governor Heyward ha3 received a
letter from an attorney in Vienna.
Austria, requesting him to look up the
relatives and descendants of Johann
Probst, who came over htre in 1763
and settled in this State. The letter
is written in English, but was evidently
literally translated, as the wording
is so > ague that it is not exactly
clear what is wanted with Probst's decendants.
A reward of $100 was offered for
the apprehension of the parties who
burned Hollis Springs Baptist church
near Walhalla in May. This was one
of the oldest churches in the State.
The magazine rifles for the State
militia have arrfved in Columbia. A
whole car load of armament came to
that city Wednesday from the arsenal
at Augusta and the adjutant general
office will soon begin to send the rifles
to the several companies in the State.
Lightning struck the Warn of R. A.
Hudson, a farmer of the Longtown
section of Ridgeway county, Saturday
afternoon, killing one mule and
setting fire to the barn, which with
200 bushels of corn. 15 tons of hay,
a wagcn and a buggy were burned.
The loss is at least $750. There was
no insurance.
Governor Heyward has offered a reward
of $150 for the arrest of Lee
Green, white, who along with Toole
and others, murdered a Jewish peddler
named Abram Suresky in Aiken
county last week.
s, Mrs. Nance, of Rock Hill, the aged
mother of President Johnson, of Winthrop
College, and who has been in
Shelby. N. C.. for two months, died
at that place Sunday afternoon.
Early Tuesday morning State Constable
Eubanks and another officer
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capturea oo gauuiis ui nuui twu
whiskey, a double-barreled shotgun,
two men and a mule and wagon near
Duncans, in the Glassy Mountain section
cf Greenville county. The men
were tried and sent up for thirty days
each.
Gov. Heyward announced Tuesday
that he had appointed W. H. Stallworth.
of Greenwood, to be district
chief constable to succeed Howie, resigned.
Stallworth will have charge
of the Beaufort squad.
SOl'TU CAROLINA CROPS
Scattered Showers and Very Warm
Weather the Pest Week.
The week ending 8 a. m. Monday,
August 10th. had a mean temperature
cf 80 degrees, which is also the normal
for the week. There was no extreme
of temperature, cither of high
during the days, or low at night. The
sunshine was also about normal. Light
winds prevailed generally, but local
high and somewhat damaging wind
storms orcuried in Pic-kens, Greenville.
Greenwood and Sumter counties.
PVpniif-nr showers occurred, esnecic.1
ly in the central, with weekly
amounts, ranging from nearly three
inches to trace in a few places. In
York county and parts of adjoining
ones the need of rain is seriously felt,
and rain Is also needed in parts of
Orangeburg. Berkeley. Williamsburg.
Colleton and Hampton counties, and in
parts of the extreme western ones. In
pans of Greenville, Saluda and Fairfield
counties there were heavy
local rains that washed lands
badly, and flooded bottom lands. With
the exceptions just noted the moisture
conditions were favorable.
There was a marked improvement in
ell crops where sufficient rain fell. '
The exceptions include but a comparatively
small part of the State where it
has been too dry for the best development
of crops, and even there all ,
but the staple crops show some
ment of crops, and even there all but
improvement Cultivation of field
crops Is not yet finished in the western
counties, but will be in a shoit
time.
The weather conditions were favorable
for the development of cotton, except
that on sandy lands it made little
ni nn imnrovement. In a few places
cotton has grown too much to weed,
and is not well fruited, but generally
It has fruited nicely, with comparatively
little shedding, except on sandy
lands where cotton Is ehedding both
leaves and forms. Rust has appeared
in a number of widely separated counties,
and is spreading rapidly. Open
bolls have been noted in Beaufort and
Georgetown counties, with indications
of early opening of bolls over the
southeastern counties generally. Sea
Island cotton has improved and is
blooming profusely.
Tobacco curing continues in the central
and western districts, but may be
said to be practically finished. Rice is
ripening in the coast districts.
Murder flost Foul,
Walterboro, Special?Saturday between
12 and 1 o'clock one of the most
bnital crimes ever known in this
county was committed at Church Flat,
about two miles from Rantowles station,
on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.
Lizzie Aiken, a negro woman
about 10 years old. killed two of her
children by cutting their heads off
with an axe. One of the children was
5 years old and the other 3. It is
said their heads was severed completely
from the body, not a nerve or vein
or anything left to connect them.
The body of the older child was cut
in other places, showing that the crazed
mother met with some resistance
tr. vinin? this one. Both children
were girls. It seems that an effort
was made to burn them after the
bloody work of the axe. for a Are had
been kindled around the body of the
younger child. The woman was com.
mitted to jail by Thos. Fields, constable
for Magistrate Behling, and from
what he says the woman must have
been crazy. He says she claimed that
a dog came along and told her that the
world would be destroyed unless she
killed them in order to save the world.
She admitted the killing to Magistrate
Behling, but now denies It most strenuously.
An Important Case.
An important ruling has been handed
down regarding collection of excess
fare on railroads in South Carolina.
Formerly a passenger boarding a train
without a ticket was charged 25 cents
additional, which, however, was refunded
to him on presentation of the
cash fare receipt at the point of destination.
The railroad commission
claims this amount brings the fare
above the rate allowed by the State,
and conseoucntlv its collection is in
violation of the law. regardless of the
refunding of it. The outcome of the
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matter win De waiuucu ?nu mitmn.
Pa'metto Briefs.
Thursday afternoon a bolt of lightning
struck the barn of Mrs. L. I).
Chilcls, Just below Columbia, and
within an hour, so goes the report,
the big building was level with the i
ground and all of its contents was consumed
by the raging fire. In the barn,
besides a greet lot of com and fodder,
were 3,000 bales of hay. The loss is
estimated at about $2,000.
The first installment of the Improved
rifles received by General Frost included
2,528 magazine rifles, with calibre
of .303. model of 1898 and model
1891 sight; an equal number of bayonets,
scabbards, cartridges, belts
and gun slings; 624 maga7ine cavalry
carbines, calibre .303, model of 1899.
with model 1301 sights sights, with a
complement of cavalry cartridge belts
and sight covers.
Nancy Smith, colored, was killed
Friday by a negro of the same name
at the navy yard at Charleston where
he was engaged at work. The woman
had just carried him his dinner when
they had a quarrel and he pulled his
pistol and shot her in the stomach,
causing death almost immediately.
F*urman Mayor, the young mill hand
of Columbia, who was charged with
striking Bessie Booker with a bobbin
such as is used in the mills, was fined
$10 Thursday by Magistrate Holloway
of that city. The case is an unusual
one.
James Mascn. a mulatto, shot a negro
woman named Lizzie Crosby last
Sunday a week ago at Yorkville. The
shooting took place in the public road
ir. Bethel townshio. about alght miles
north of town. The ball entered the
si?.*>ll of the back. Mason claims that
rS?oting was accidental.
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A MOB CONFERENCE
Unique Gathering Discusses a Live
Question of the Day
DEFENCE OF LYNCHING FOR RAPE
Jolm Temple Graves Speaks on "The
nob Spirit In the South" and Defends
His Section.
Chautauqua, N. Y., Special.?Unique
among all summer gatherings is the
"mob conference" now in progress
here. The increase of mob spirit shown
Ly feuds, lynchings, riots, assassinations
and other lawless happenings
gives great importance to this conference.
Among Tuesday's speakers was
John Temple Graves, of Atlanta. Ga.
Mr. Graves spoke on "The Mob Spirit
of the South." He defended lynch law
as a remedy for the crime of rape,
holding that though lynching is a
crime, it is justified by the crime which
provokes it and will never be discontinued
until that crome is eliminated.
The remedy for lyinching must be the
elimination of the crime of rape and
this, he maintains, could be done only
by the separation of the two races in
the United States.
"The problem of the hour is not how
to prevent lynching in the South, but
the larger question. 'How shall we destroy
the crime which always has and
always will provoke lynching?' The answer
which the mob returns to this vital
question Is already known. The
moL answers it with the rope, the bullet
and Sometimes, God save us, with
the torch. And the mob is practical; Its
theory Is effective to a large degree;
the mob la today the sternest, the
strongest and the most effective re
stralnt that the age holds Tor tae control
of rape."
The lyncher docs not exterminate
the rapist. Mr. Graves contended, but
he holds him mightily In check. As a
sheer, cold, patent fact, he said, the
mob stands today as the most potential
bulwark between the women of the
South and such & carnival of crime
as would infuriate the world and precipitate
the annihilation of the negro
race. The masses of the negro, he held,
are not afraid of death coming in a
regular way. They love display and the
spectacular element of a trial and execution
appeal to their imaginations.
Expediting the processes of the lawwould
not be adequate to eliminate
lynching. The repeal of the amendments
and the establishment of the negroes'
inferiority in society, declared
Mr. Graves, though desirable, are not
sufficient, "for the negro," he added,
"is a thing of ?he senses, and with this
race and with s.11 similar races the desire
of the senses must be restrained
by the terror of ,je senses, if possible,
under tho law."
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mighty and effective could be brought
to bear as a law making amputation
the penalty for the crime of rape. But
this, like curfew edicts, separate laws
for white and black, or the treatment
of the crime of rape as separate and
outside of all other codes are but expedients,
he maintained; there is no
real remedy but one. No statute will
permanently solve this problem. Religion
does not solve it. Education
complicates it. Politics complicates it.
"The truth which lies beyond and
above all those temporizing expedients,"
he concluded, "is that separation
Is the logical, the inevitable, the
only solution of this great problem of
tne races.
Discussing: the subject of "Mental
and Moral Contagion," Dr. J. M. Buckley,
of New York, after shaking at
some length of the various transient
and permanent changes that take place
under different physical and mental
influences, in human personality, took
up the question of crime and argued
that all crime implied the existence of
society and its attritions, that sin and
vice could be eemmitted by a person
alone in the world, but not so crime.
He showed the operation of this and
how far through their natural causes
epidemics might spread.
In conclusion, he declared that as
laws of association bring on such general
and feverish criminal tendencies,
so the laws of association must be employed
to antagonize them.
Will J3s Convicted.
Wilmington, Special.?Testimony in
the Register murder trial was completed
Tuesday and argument by
counsel to the jury ha3 commenced.
The general opinion prevails that a
verdict of murder in the first degree
will be returned as to the younger
Register, and that his father will be
convicted of accessory before the
fact
One Hundred Killed.
Paris. By Cable.?Eighty-four bodies
have been recovered and the death
list probably will exceed 100, in the
underground railway disaster which
occurred here Monday night. The accident.
which occurred on the Metropolitan
Electric Railway, assumed the
proportions of an avful catastrophe
during the early hours when more
than four-score bodies of the burned
and suffocated victims were removed
from the subterranean passage. The
work continues and indications are
that the death list will perhaps exceed
five-scores.
Child Killed By Train.
Newbern, N. C., Special.?News
reaches here Tuesday night of the
killing of a small white child at Tuscarora
by a mail train on the Atlantic
and North Carolina Railroad. It is
said that the cars passed over the
legs of the little one and both were
severed from its body. Owing to a
I severe electric storm it was impossible
to ascertain how the accident
I happened, as there is only telephone
'connection with the place.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.
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YTerr Kultelik, the Tioliuist, reached
his twenty-third year a few* days ago.
Senator Cockrell possesses a remarkable
memory. He never forgets a face.
President Roosevelt has declined an
invitation to attend the Frontier Asso
eiation reunion at Cheyenne, Wyo.
Venetian friends of Tone Pius X.
said that he looks ten years older than
he did before his election to the Pont ideate.
Andrew* Carnegie has offered the city
of Dublin. Ireland, the sum of Sl40,0tX)
tho n*?A/.tl/vn o f t*AA niihH/?
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library.
Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford. President
of the university, has sailed from
San Francisco, Cnl., for a two-year lour
of the world.
"Kid** Lavigne is teaching Frenchmen
how to box. He lias many pupils
at his school in Paris. Billy Lavigne,
his brother, is running a club in Seattle.
Probably the oldest public officer in
the Nation is Judge John Slaughter,
assistant to the State librarian of Wyoming,
who has just passed his ninetyfourth
birthday.
King Charles I. of Roumania, who recently
celebrated the thirty-seventh anniversary
of his coronation, is described
as "one of the wisest and most beloved
monarc-hs of the time."
Charles Stevens, Secretary of the
Anti-Vaccination League of Minneapolis,
Minn., died from smallpox. He
had frequently denounced vaccination
as inefficacious and a barbarous practice.
Joseph Wingatc Folk, who has been
mentioned as a Presidential possibility
on the Democratic ticket, is the
young Circuit Attorney of St. Louis
who successfully pushed the recent
"boodle trials" of that city.
Mary E. Wilklns. (Freeman) made at
one time the curious discovery that in
writing to her intimate friends she
uucoqscknisly imitated the handwriting
of the person ahe addressed. This is
an unusual form of plagiarism.
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tA&JR WOhLD.
A general strike aoemed imminent
imong the Ccrniau coal miners.
The Bricklayers' International Union
has a membership of over 80.000.
Philadelphia textile works employ
0608 children under sixteen years of
age.
Applications for three charters in
Porto Rico have been received by the
National Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners.
Striking shoe operatives at Montreal,
Can., have returned to work, their
strike resulting in an ignominious defeat
for the organization.
It is reported that the Western Union
contemplates an advance to its operators
which will average ?."? a month.
Altout 5000 men Will be affected.
A number of firms in Wheeling, W.
Ya., have refused to concede the demands
of the union tinners. The hitter's
strike has been dragging on in
consequence since April 1.
Tt is expected that it will be but a
few mouths when a sufficient number
of schoolteachers are organized in various
parts of the country to warrant
the formation of a inltional organization.
Carpenters at Toledo. Ohio, who were
holding out for thirty-seven and onehalf
cents an hour, have compromised
on thirty-five cents. This agreement
lasts for a certain period, when the
advanced scale goes into efTeet.
Under agreements signed by the
Hotelkeepors' Association and the
Waiters' Union at Chicago, GOOD emr^iyes
receive a ten per cent, advance
in wages and improved working con
among. ine agreements ruu uum August
1, 1905.
During 1002 labor disputes in the
I'nlted Kingdom were fewer than in
the preceding year, but they affected I
a greater nunil>er of workpeople than
in the preceding five years. The time
lost, however, was less than in 1001.
and was below the average of the last
five years.
Give No Quarter.
Solonica, Special.?It Is reported that
the Turkish troops on Monday bombarded
and destroyed the village of
Ekshisu, 28 miles south of Monastir.
According to another rumore the insurer
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ter repulsing two assaults by the Turkish
trcops, offered a conditional surrender.
Instructions were asked from
Constantinople and in reply the Turkish
commander received orders to give
no quarter.
Killed By Boiler f-ixplosion.
Tuscalosa. Ala., Special.?The boiler
* )f Tuscaloosa Light and Power Com>any
exploded Wednesday evening, intently
killing Adolph Johnston and N.
'ohnston. negroes, severely bruising
Manager McGhee and Engineer Craword
and wrecking the plant. The city
"s in darkness. The boiler was carried
wo blocks, on its way passing through
.tree brick walls and landing in a department
store 590 fcer away. Several
tores were badly damaged. Loss. $50,00;
partial insurance.
Two Frieghts CoJl'de.
Charlotte, N. C., Special.?A collision
between two freight trains on
Southern and the Carolina & Northwestern
Railwiyg. at Gastonia, Saturday
night at 12:15 o'clock resulted
in the serious injury of Fireman Sam
Grier, of the Carolina & Northwest- I
em. and painful injury of Engineer
Walker, of the Southern. Half a
dozen Southern freight cars are torn
up. the engine is damaged and off the
track and traffic will be blocked for
several hours. The train of the smaller
road also sustained material damage
to the engine and several cars,
John Elit's Indian Bible, of 1G63,
was on exhibition at the Woman's
Board meeting, in Boston, having been
loaned by the town of Nantick, by
which it is owned. The book is an excellent
state of preservation. Two
other copies of this Bible are in existence,
one in Connecticut, the other
in Europe. J
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The Church Has Forgotten Her
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Touching Appeal. je
\ew York City.?The Rev. Charles R. ?
MeXally. the pastor of the Sixth Avenue
Baptist Church, preached his first sermon
in his new pulpit Sunday morning. His n'
subject was "Presen. Day Incarnation."
He took his text from First Corinthians
xii:27: "We are the body of Christ and "
severally members thereof." Mr. McXally (''
said:
Throuehout the land, wita somewhat of j
a wail, the question is being asked. "What jn
ails the church? "That she is sick seems nj
to be a foregone conclusion. The religious p(
periodicals and some others are quick to
give a diagnosis of the case. It is because c[
the pew has been elevated educationally. {c
It is because the ministry has lost self-re- ai
spect and prestige. It is because men
everywhere are too busy to attend to the
concerns of the soul, or because Christian- j,,
ity is so "other worldly" it is not sufficient- j
lv practical for the practical life of to-day. j.,
Many other reasons are given for why the
church lacks power. ti
Is this charge against the church just? },,
If statistics may be trusted, it is. The last a,
religious returns for the nation disclose the
lamentable fact that Christianity has made c\
no gain that even her warmest friends Iran
call proportionate to the increase of population
and the mighty development of com- jt
mercial interests. In the city as well as in w
the rural districts, the preachers of the gos- jj|
pel are finding it hard to get enough peo- w
pic to take a hold of church affairs to make g
the church live with a commanding influ- tr
ence in the community. The land is full 8j
of reports of man's greed, his tricks of c:
trade and other disregard of sacred obligations.
Men are looking to the church to t;
stem the tide of moral recklessness. It p
must be frankly conceded that the church p,
has seemed to be powerless to arrest the
drift. The masses of the people pass heit
doors or rarely enter. Her hold upon pub- ?
lie morals aoes noi seem io ne very strung, ^i
Her ability to mold the ethical life of the tl
world does not seem to be adequate to the
needs. If the conditions are what tiny
seem to be. if the church is really failing to Sf
enlighten the world by the ethical stand- n(
ards of Jesus Christ, something is surely ^
wrong, and the church should quickJv p,
awaken to a realization of her real condi- CJ
tion, and take measures to strengthen her c|
hold upon the life of the nation. hi
Where does the difficulty lie? I believe j
in this: The church has too much forgotten b1
[ what her real status in the world is. She tl
has in her effort to solve the mighty prob- rj
lems that the last few generations have in
presented to her, gone away from the sim- tl
pie teaching and simple method of Christ, b<
I her founder. The ministry has too much tr
given itself to the work of education, of a]
culture, of reform. The pew has too much fe
demanded these things. The result is the b<
hearts of men have been spiritually starved. TO
Many who would have waited on the min- tc
istrations of the church have forsaken her |?
| because their spiritual natures were not
satisfied and developed. Education, esthet- h,
ics and reform they could obtain from the jj
schools and the papers of the day. ei
It must be remembered that Christ. H
while incarnate, gave Himself to none of ti
these things. He devoted His entire min- ca
istry to lodging in the minds of His disci- m
pies the fact that He was in the world for
one purpose and that to save men from sin. C
To the end that He might save the sinner fp
from his sin He devoted all His time, He R
gave all His energy, and sacrificed His life. m
The mission of Christ was primarily not a b<
nlission of education or reform, it was a tl
mission of salvation. "J come?to call sin- tl
ners to repentance." "The Son of Man is m
come to seek and to save that which was sj
lost." "This is a faithful saying and wor- ni
thy of all acceptation, Christ Jesus came
into the world to save sinners." When the di
church will concentrate her efforts upon tl
this one thing?the saving of sinful men hi
and women from the power ot sin?tne
questions of education and reform will take I
care of themselves. c<
The status of the church in the world is tl
pointed out by Paul in the words of ouf tt
text. '"Ye are the body of Christ." and sev- e*
erally members thereof. If Christ gave C
Himself while in the flesh to saving men cl
from sin by manifesting to them the life of ai
God. can that'body?the church?in which m
He is willing to incarnate-Himself, do hel w
ter that to devote its undivided attention tc
and energies to the salvation of men. by vi
the manifestation of the life and will of
God? The church is the body of Christ. P
In it He has incarnated Himself. What
Christ was in the world while in the flesh Oj
that the church must be in the world to- tl
day. What Christ did for the world while
in the flesh that the church must do for b
the world to-day. "Ye," as a church and b
as individual members of the church, "are
tlie body of Christ." Ye must be Christ ir
to t.he world. Except the citurcn as a nouy y
and the several members thereof as inmviduals
live as Christ in the world, the ?
world will never know Christ. P(
Paul, the master njind. could use such a
figure with such potent power. Of all his O
figures there is peruana no other more elab- w
orately worked out or more carefully ap- T1
plied. The body is not one member, but 81
many, and the man- members only one \
body. So is it with the church, and the 81
church is the body of Christ.
Observe that this figure permits of a de- 111
tailed analysis. While the church is the ni
body of Christ, it is only the body, that in SJ
which Christ has incarnated Himself. e!
I. Christ is the life of the church. He 81
is the inner vitalizing spirit which ani- c<
mab?3 and directs. The church which rec*
ogniz.es this has by this very recognition ct
nnrvelously vitalized itself.
Therp are two kinds of churches?the 11
man-led and the Christ-led. The man-led C'
church gives itself to hero worship and '?
leans on the arm of flesh. The Christ-led
church gives itself to the worshin of Christ 01
and leans hard on the arm of God. You P1
may be able from the history of your city ?<
to supply an illustration of the fact that
there have been churches where the preachcr
has been the church. When the preach- ni
er has gone the church has gone. Mark T1
such a church as one that has been man- a
led. The church ban looked to its pastor
for vitality and to lead it. What the heart
is to the body that is Jesus Christ to His I'
church. From Him through the agency of 01
the Holy Snirit it receives the impulse of ?(
its life. The quickening, vitalizing power ir,
can no more be imparted to the heart of j?
man by the visiting physician. Christ is "
that inner muscle at whose every pulsation
the life blood of spiritual power is made e'
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to surge inrougn ine oouy. ao ia vmioi. t
and Christ only can give life, color r.nd n
bcnuty. This should he a self-evident fact. TJj
The fact is. ho- ever, that it is not so self- .
evident as it ought to be. J?
Never has there been a time when the '] '
churches set so much store by the man. j
their leader, as to-day. Hero worship ?'
runs rampant. The church when it seeks
a leader searches ior the orator, the schol- '
ar, the man of executive parts, and upon '
the man they depend. Many a church yets
all these, but does not get any regeneratic
of its life. The reason is clear. They have
looked to the wrong source for life-giving a;
power. Christ aione can give it. L'pon fc
Christ, church and minister alike are de- ll
pendent for their gniritual vitality. It is tl
only as tney are together animated by the si
warm impulse of Hi; life that t live at p'
all. When the church will look to the >t
Lord of Life for its life. then, ar.d rot un- V
til then, will it throb from head to foot pi
jvith real life and power. F
Not only is Christ the heart of the
church. He is ;:s head. We read that He
was given to be head over all things to His
church, lie is the head of the spiritual cl
body?the head is the governing or organ- ci
izing power oi the body. From the head ri
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)mes the purposes that giro direction t9
le life. The will sways and (..recta all.
he government and organization of a
lurch are only the ex?ession of the will
i Him who leans and directs it. This sug?sts
a criterion by which we may judge
le church. Jesus Christ has made His
ill concerning the bodv of disciples very,
ear. The sole object for its existence is
jat through it His kingdom may be adineed;
i. c., that through it men may be
d to abandon lac life of sin and cleave to
ic promise of salvation in and through
hrist the Saviour. Y'hen this result i*
;ing accomplished here Christ has been
irecting the work and the members karoniously
doing His bidding.
This test must be applied to every orinization
connected with the church. Doe*
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uirect.y ac-cuiupiisii mm ?u. .?
lalifv men and women in brin" ng to pas#
lis desired result? If so it is of Christ
id has a legitimate place in the church,
he thing the church should do at all time*
i all its parts is to discover tlic thought I
: the head. That is the most perfect
jdy which most perfectly responds to the
irection of the rain. That is the best
lurch which sets its If most assiduously
i know the thought and purpose Christ,
id which most promptl" responds to that
lought and purpose. No man,'minister,
?acon or any other has any authority to
: head of the church. Christ is the head,
he chief business o? the church is to
aow the mind of the Master.
Let a church recognize its vital connec-.
on with .Testis Christ as its heart, it?
end. its life giving and directing powers,
id its success as an agency in extending .
le kingdom is already assured. Such a
lurch will be found much in prayer seekig
to know the will of its Lord at every
iint. It will not he conteftt with seating
self in softlv cushioned pews once a week \ '
ith the feeling that it has fulfilled its rezious
obligations. On the contrary, yon
ill find it seven days in every week 9ut
(arching the highways and hedges trying
i inoculate the life of the Lord into a sinck
world. As the growing lad cannot hot
cpress the superabounding life leaping
iroiigh his veins, no more can a church,
ogling with the superabounding spiritual
ie of Christ fail to give expression to it?
>wers.
But that church has recognized only half
ie truth when it has come to know that
hrist is the life of the church. The other
alf is that while Christ is the heart and
ie head we are the body.
II. The church is the body of Christ.
Thy the Creator saw fit to confine these
>irit8 of ours in a material body we eanjt
know The fact remains that the tool
ust work through the body to find ejeression.
Why Cod was pleased to give
cpression to His spirit through the
lurch or His body we cannot say. He
is done it. We arc the body of Christ,
hat organism through which He works.
r means of which He finds expression tot
ie world Christ exalted is seated at the
ght hand of God, but Christ incarnate if
i the world to-day. He lives in and work*
irough His body the church. This should
; a deeply solemn and imnressive thought
? every church of the Redeemer. God
so manifested Himself in Christ, is maniist
to-day only through the church Hie
idv. This is why the church fails in her
ission and lacks power. She has failed |
? realized her status in the world. She
is rot sufficiently appreciated ber responhilitv
and the divine dignity which ie /$
prs. Think of it! You are a hand to do
is bidding, feet to fulfill His mission*,
es to look to His interests, ears to hear* -rS
is truth, tongues to soufid forth that
uth and utter His praise. Christ has in- ,
irnated Himself in you. Through yo*
en must come to know Him. , ; '
Except the church manifests the life of . 4
lirist it is no true church, except it pei*irms
His mission it is not a church of the
edeemer. As the body is one and hath
any members, and all the member* of the
)dy. being many, are one bodv, so also is
le church. The body of Christ ? one
louzh many, unity in diversity. All the
embers are necessary in order that the I
mmetry may be complete, and its useful- "
sss unimpaired.
Independence is the cry of our t;me?in- ''3
spendcrce of the nation, independence of
le individual. This snirit seen everywhere ..
is found a large place in the church.
'ithin limits this is well. Within limits, ,
say, for just as soon as individuality be>mes
obtrusive or obstinate, it has passed
le limit where if can be of the most use
> the world. Within the church this ia
specially true. Tt is one body?it
hrist in the world, each nart mnst be in
psest union with even' other part. More
.id more the church must work together,
iore and more the denominations mnst
ork as one in manifesting the life of God ,
> the world in the transformation and sal?Hon
of men.
You have before now seen n couple of
una jet a hold of an old rope and then,
3 though life depended on the process*
ne pull one way while the other tugged
le other. I have seen churches whoso
mdition would not he unaptly illustrated
v the dogs. Lack of unity in aim and efsrt
is a treat source of weakness to the
torch. The spirit of independence, good
i itself, runs riot, until concerted action
> a definite end is impossible. When inependence
thus errs against unitv it is a
irse rather than a b'essing. All the mem?r?
of the body must work together, vitaled
bv the heart, directed by the head,
ne of the most beautiful sights in the
orld is a symmetrical and responsive boan
body. Ore of the most beautifn!
ghts to the spiritual eye is the body of
hrist? the church?harmoniously responve
to His thought and purpose. In the
c,ht of Christ's mission while incarnate
i the flesh the church can make
a mistake as to her mission. She must
ive souls. In the light of this purpose
rery petty difference s.iould drop out of
ght and the whole Christian body beimc
one mind in regard to the chief aim
F their existence. The educator will take
ire of the education of the community,
ic aesthetic will look after the culture,
le reformer will lead reforms, but the
lurch must save men from sin and manist
the life of Cod to the world.
I have seen in one of the great mills of
ir country two great wheels. Note one
Dint, they fit each other. Moving in
laseles;: unison. If a single point be bro
en off the machinery grates, if a number
e broken the whee: siins and the whole
etwork of machinery is helpless. Each
lemhers of the church has his place. If he
lils the body is hampered in its efficiency.
But while there is to he union in divertv.
there is also to be diversity in unity,
idividualitv is not effaced bv the Go*Dei
t Christ. This gives the widest possible
one to the churches' ties which may be
icluded within the church. There is %
luce of usefulness for all. Each one is to
nd his or her place and then in union
ith the whole body work for its highest
ficiency.
When the church of Christ awakens to a
ill consciousness of its status in the
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Arid, no Jonger win men ner m?.
fithin her borders there will be cries of
>y over many sinners that have repented
id tested the power of Christ to save,
his ehurch will realize her highest usefuless
when she writes over her activities,
We are the body oi Christ?Christ incarite
in the present day?and severally we
re members thereof."
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Weakness and Strength.
It becomes us to know our weakness
i well as our strength. The man who
iels that he can do more than he ha*
ic strength to do often fails. So we see
le necessity of preparing ourselves in our
>ecinl weaknesses. Jn order to accomlish
anything in life we must exert our
rength, but we must not overestimate it.
k'e must be true to ourselves to accomlish
all the tasks before us.?The Rev. G.
. Miller.
rarental Love.
God loves you not because you arw
ever, not because you arc good,* but heiuse
He is your father.?Andrew Aiur*y?
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