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WINTER AT HARBIN Russian Armies Have Been Working Toward Winter Quarters ALLEGED PLANS ARE MADE PLBLIC There Yet Remains, Howev*; Two Months Before Extreme Cold Weather Sets in and Thooe May Be Changed. Inactivity of the opposing armies of Rus*ia and Japan continues and no lighting of a general character is reported". Information coming from an authoritative source in St. Petersburg is- that the Russians will winter at HaTbin, but the fact that there will probably be two months of good weather for military operations before extreme cold weather sets in, leaves 100m for a revision of this purpose 'o the light of events that may trans plre. Tiie Japanese are reported tc be collecting taxes and otherwise administering affairs in Manchuriia, as though that country were conquered territory. The publication of General Kuropatkin's report of the fighting of August 26, until the retreat upon Mukden, has created a better feeiing in St. Petersburg. The report distinctly - places upon General Orloff the reepon* sibility for the failure to hold the heights in the vicinity of Svkawantun and Sb check the Japanese advance. General Stoessel reports repulses of the Japanese at Port Arthur. St. Petersburg, By Cable.?The Emperor has received the following dispatch from General Stoessel (com mandor of the Russian military forces at Port Arthur) dated August 28: "I am happy to report to your majesty that at three o'clock in the morning of August 27, during a violent rair. and thunder storm, the Japanese again attempted to capture oar left flank positions, near Fort No. 1, and Udan Mountain. Their attack was everywhere repulsed. Our losses were small?three men killed and two officers and 98 men wounded. The wounded were brought in and are befng carefully attended. A number of Japanese corpses would have been picked up by us, but the enemy prevented us from so doing by opening fire on the hospital attendants who had been sent out under the Red Cross flag." Another dispatch from General j Btoesso! to the Emperor, dated September 2, says: "On the night of September 2, the mcmy attacked Visokaya and Dlinnaya Mountains and the neighboring fortifications, opening simultaneously j an artillery fire on the forts and mountains. The leading files of the j tneiay with the Japanese columns following were found In good time and our batteries opened on them .The leading flies fortunately encountered some automatic mines and many of the enemy were blown in the air. The attack was repulsed in an hour. Our losses were Inconsiderable?one officer 8frd seven men wounded. t' No More Fighting. There has been no renewal of fight- j ing on a large scale between the Rus- I aian and Japanese armies in the Far j East. At St. Petersburg, the people are | harassed by rumors of impending disaster to General Kuropatkin which find ready credence because of the lack of official information and for the moment the popularity of the head of the Russian armies in the field is in eclipse, j ,In that capital, too, there is much uneasiness felt lest the Japanese advance in Maachuria should afford occasion for the growth of an anti-Russian spirit in China and the ultimate projection of that power Into the conflict. Norfolk Storm-Swept. Norfolk, Special.?This entire section was swept by a wind storm Wednesday the velocity of the blow reaching 52 " 'TVA oATTorn. i miles &a nour in nunum. mc 6v?v..-. ment wires along the coast went down and Information from that section is meagre. No marine disasters have been reported. The blow caused many steamers to leave after schedule time and Hampton Roads shelters many storm- i bound craft. Telephone and telegraph service is being badly crippled and tbe river has flooded many low streets, in-1 terfering with the trolley system. A great amount of minor damage is reported. but no fatalities have occurred so far as can be learned. Dsrr.age at Newport News. Newport News, Va., Special.?During a terrtflc wind and rain storm, which raged here Wednesday night, the Chesapeake & Ohio steamer Louise, broke from her mooring at the ship-yard and was blown several miles out into Jamea riter. Two tugs recovered the vessel. Wires "^ere prostrated, fences leveled, telegraph and electric light poles upV rooted or felled in several parts of the city. No serious damage to shipping in the "hartv' is reported. j Bankers Choose Officers. New York, Special?The trust company section of the American Bankers' Association elected E. A. Potter, of Chicago, chairman. Among tbe vicepresidents are T. R. President, of Chattanooga; J. T. Main, of Radcliffe; Va. and W. E. Allen, of Greensboro, N. C. F. H. Fries, of Winston-Salem, N. C., was elected a member of the ex _ ecutive committee. THE STATE FARM A SUCCESS Borne of the Directors State That There Are 30 Mule Colts Which Will Be Exhibited at the State Fair. Dr. M. O. Rowland, Mr. D.B. Peurifov and Mr. J. O Wingo, of the bor.rd of directors of the State penitentiary, have returned from a trip to the I)eSaussure and Reed farms in Sunder and Kershaw counties. Mr. A. K. Saunders, another director, has a plantation adjoining the State farms and he visits the State property quite often. Mr. Peurifoy, who is a good farmer himself over in the Saluda valley of Saluda county, declared this to be the finest crop ever grown upon the State farms. The most satisfactory exhibit of all was a drove of 30 mule colts. These will be brought to the State fair with the hope that farmers In South Carolina will take up the breeding of mules in view of the fact that the building of the Panama canal will require the use of thousands of mules and the market will offer good prices. The farms are also stocked with hogs, sheep and goats and other farm animals, in raising which there is found to be a profit. The field crops are magnificent, notwithstanding the continued damp spell in August Mr. Peurifoy states that 500 bales of cotton will be marketed and that there are 500 acres in corn with the finest yield the farms have ever known. I * Surrender Themaelves. Greenville. Special.?Closely following the announcement of Will Sloan's death at the county jail Wednesday, William Putnam and Rube Sudduth, charged with the ehooting. came in and surrendered to the ofiicers. They are now held at the county jail pending a preliminary hearing. Sloan's dying statement was taken by Notary John T. Gilreath and reads: "I know I cannot live, and I would like to say that William Putnam or Rube Sudduth shot me on Sunday evening. Me and Stark Cooley went to the woods to get some whiskey. We had the can when they run up and struck a match. I turned to run. William Putnam said, "Shoot, and shoot to kill,' and at that time I was shot. There was two or three more shots after I was shot. I had no pistol. If Cooley had one I never saw It. I was not selling whiskey nor never did. I had not violated the law and did not resist arrest." Considerable interest has been awakened in the case on account of its upusual features. Why did Putnam r>v?cirton on/i Kv nrhot ftnthnritv? OUUUlf KJ i UCUi uuy KfJ > UMV . is the question oftenest asked. South Carolina Items. The Bank of North was given a charter Friday. The capital stock is |15.000. Coporators, J. C. Witt, J. M. Davis, J. L. Reeves, E. C. Johnson and W. G. Wolfe of Orangeburg. The Bank of Anderson, the Bank of McCormick and the Merchants' and Farmers' Bank of Cheraw are the only banks in the State which have net complied with the request of the comptroller general for statements as to their condition Mr. W. K. Townsend, assistant attorney general, has returned from Aiken, where he had a conference with j other attorneys engaged in the suit to j test the validity of the act permitting I the merger of several railroads into the | possession of the Southern. The suit will come up in Kershaw county at the next term of the court of common pleas. The railroad commission is in receipt of a petition from Laurens asking for the depot to be removed to another spot nearby. The station was built ! just about four years ago, and the railj roads will protest against the proposed removal. The directors of the State dispensary held a meeting last week, deferred from Tuesday, which was election day. The St. John hotel of Charleston was granted a tourists' hotel privilege. This was about the only business transacted. Gov. Heyward last week received a I telegram from Mr. R. H. Edmonds, edij tor of the Manufacturers' Record, aski ing for an expression of opinion as to ; the desirability of having the proposed International Cotton Spinners' association meet in the South. Gov. Heyward being absent, Mr. Norment. the private secretary, replied accordingly. Gov. | Heyward was expected to return Friday night. Bennett Again Arrested. Savannah. Special.?James B. Bennett was arrested here Sunday, and unless he can defeat requisition proceedings, will be taken to Brinson, S. C.., where he is charged with having murdered his wife. Several weeks ago tho coroner's jury discharged him, the killing of Mrs. Bennett having been thought an accident. Now further proceedings have been instituted against him. Bennett, some years ago, was given a life sentence, but was pardoned conditionally. He was not to return to South Carolina. Bennett had enlisted in the army here. Fighting at Mukden. London, By Cable.?It is asserted in a dispatch from Tokio to the Express that the Japanese are vigorously shelling the Russian possition at Mukden, A- ~ 1 onrl preparatory 10 a gwiciai auiuUv.v, ~ endeavoring, by a wide turning movement, to cut off General Kuropatkin's retreat. The Japanese armies, the dispatch adds, are disposed to the same relative positions as in the fighting before Liao Yang. Activity at Mukden. Mukden, By Cable.?The armies having recovered from the effects of the recent fighting before Liao Yang, an early development of the situation may be expected. A mysterious movement is on foot oh the part of the bands of young Chinese suitable for military service./'All the leading Chinese who have added the Russians are leaving Mukdeir STATE PARAGRAPHS Many Matters of Interest to South Caroii "ians. An Unusual Incident. An unusual incident transpired in the Spartanburg sessions court Wednesday which will afford a break from the dull monotony of sitting under the stern dignity of his honor and hearing the endless talks of the lawyers, the hesitating, stammering statements of witnesses and the sonorous voice of the court crier. Arthur Salter, colored, was arraigned for stealing live stock. That is. Salter was brought into the oourt room. Just after he had been placed In the criminal docket he fell down and gave vent to a number of gutteral, groaning sounds, at the same time twisting and writhing his long, lank body. Judge Gary had a physician summoned, who, after a careful examination, pronounced the negro to be perfectly healthy. Salter refused to go by his diagnosis, however, and continued In a prostrate condition in the docket, at times groaning and howling. As the negro kept up his game, the judge selected the jury and the case was tried. In the meanwhllo Salter was removed from the docket to a bench, where he lay flat on his back, feigning sickness. He was found guilty. When the court asked him to stand up he could not be moved by the officers and Judgr Gary pronounced sentence on the man as he lay on the bench. "Your sentence Is IS months at hard labor on the roads of Spartanburg county?this is six months additional, 9alter, for your exhibition this morning," remarked his honor. Court officers had to catch the negro by the arm and forcibly carry him from the court room.?Gaffney Ledger. To Restore Citizenship. Mr. J. A. McDonald, district attorney of the 3rd district of the State of Texas, has asked the governor to pardon Adam Martin, a negro residing in that State, The negro was sent to the penitentiary for cattle-stealing in 1889, and served his term of one year. He was then a boy of 17 and lived In Newberry county. His pardon is asked for on the ground that it would restore his citizenship and would permit him to testify in a burglary case in Texas. Gov. S. W. T. Lanham of Texas, a native of this State, recommends the granting of the pardon. Governor Invited. Gov. Hevward has been invited to McColl to attend the laying of the corner stone of the new school building, which is to cost $10,000. The ceremonies will be held on the 23rd. The dedication of the new building at Newberry college will be held on the 31st of October and Gov. Heyward has bees asked to deliver the principal address on that occasion. Minor Palmetto Matters. The Winnsboro Granite company has finished the new monument to take the place of the bronze palmetto tree at the Chickamauga battlefield. Gen. C. I. Walker has gone on to see that the ehaft is erected properly. Capt. E. EL Betts is the chief engineer of the park. The old bronze tree will be sold* for junk, although it was the unexpressed wish of the legislators that it be brought to Columbia and placed in the capitol unless it had been damaged too badly. The new shaft cost $1,850. The railroad commission has received from the Southern Express Company a notice of the closing of the office at Pineland. in Clarendon county. - ? * ?? * U r* Via Anlvr I n(? company siatcs iuol iu& uui; available white man there who has acted as agent has resigned and that it is Impossible to get another. If the present ratio of Increase keeps up in fertilizer tax returns, Clemson College will get not far from $120,000 this year. Up to September 10th the State treasurer has received from this source $102,336.70, against $91,229.05 for the same date last year. The income for the entire fiscal year of 1903 was $9S.909.80, which shows that the Increase in the last three months of the year was about $7,000, most of the fertilizer having been purchased. The worst siorm since Oct 20th, 1903 passed over Georgetown Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. Prom a normal reading of 30.01 the barometer dropped Tuesday night to 28.95. The wind began to rise afSabout 9 o'clock, coming from the northeast in gusts that increased in violence each hour accompanied by heavy showers of rain and attained a maximum velocity of about 80 miles an hour near midnight. Towards morning the wind changed completely around, blowing strongly from the southwest. The storm came without warning from the weather bureau and the rioe planters have suffered severely. A large part of the crop being cut down and lying in the fields. The damage to property in town will foot up fully $10,000. Many fine shade trees nave Been stripped ana upruotcu. A terrible accident occurred at the Olympla mill. Columbia, at 1 o'clock Tuesday, due to a rupture of a tube Id one of the upright boilers. One of the firemen was fatally burned and scalded and another may not recover. The steam, forced with great pressure straight downward, drove live coals out upon Wesley Adams and Shelton Johnson. The two negroes were stampeded with fright and ran several yards to the Episcopal mission house, a sort of sanitarium. where they were stopped and their wounds dressed. Adams will die. and th? other negro is *n a dangerous stato, I SOUTH CAROLINA CROP BULLETIN Progress of Cotton Picking?Early Crops Matured. Thf wf-ek ending 8 a. m. September 12, had a mean temperature of 74 degrees which is 3 below normal, due to unusually cool nights. The temperatude deficiency was greatest in the interior. The extremes were a minimum of 57 at Florence on the 9th, and a maximum of 90 at Yemassee on the 6th. The precipitation was excessive over most, of the southern and eastern portions. and it was deficient in the northern and. western ones. The rainfall was confined to the early part of the week, the latter part having been gen erally clear and dry. In the parts that had excessive rains the amounts rang* ed from about an Inch to 4 inches; the other parts from less than an inch to no rain, the latter in Greenville county. Farmwork was delayed, early in the week by cloudy and rainy weather over a large part of the State, hut it progressed rapidly during the latter portion throughout the entire State. As the season advances, It is seen that the condition of early corn is better than heretofore reported, while late corn was slightly damaged by exoesslve rains in the extreme northeast; the crop as a whole is the best in many years. Fodder pulling is practically finished except from very late corn. There are numerous reports of deterioration of cotton due to continued rust and shedding, and, in the eastern counties from the ravages of caterpillars which have recently increased in numbers to a damaging extent. On clay lands, cotton has attained a too rank growth causing some rotting of the lower bolls. Cotton is opening fast In the eastern and central counties j where picking has made good progress while in the extreme northwest there are but few bolls open and picking has only begun. Sea Island cotton is in excellent condition and is heavily fruited. Weather was favorable for haying during the latter part of the week and much grass was cut, and cured in fine condition. The forage crops are uniformly good. Sweet potatoes are poor in places, but generally very promising. Rice harvest was interrupted by rain, but latterly made rapid progress the late rice crop is well headed. Minor crops are, as a rule, very promising. Successful Summer Schools. Columbia, Special.?The last of the summer schools for teachers for this year closed Friday and the office or tne State Superintendent of Education has tabulated the returns and Is preparing them for the annual report. It was found that there had been 2,629 teachers enrolled In the various State, district and county summer schools during tho summer. ThlB does not include the boys' Industrial summer school In Fairfield county, which closed Friday after a very successful session of two months, in which 105 boys were enrolled between the ages of 14 and 21 years of age. The enrollment last year in the State and county schools was 2,398, so there has been an increase this year of 231 teachers. The average In 1903 was 1.698. The average attendance this year is 2,029. About 100teachers attended the summer school at Knoxville and other places outside of the State, so It will be seen that a large percentage of the teachers in South Carolina spent a month in studying during the summer and "they will return to their various school rooms with increased zeal and improved methods and added wisdom," said Mr. Martin. The summer schools are supported by legislative appropriation from dispensary funds, by State board appropriations, from income of permanent school fund and by appropriation by Peabody trustees. The total amount used this year was about $9,000. Special Fund Exhausted. It was mentioned in The Columbia State a few days ago that the pay of judges of special courts?and of special judges to act for circuit judges who are sick?had about exhausted the special appropriation for that purpose. The governor is given a special contingent fund of $2,500 with which to meet this, expense, and the following are the calls which have been made upon it already: G. E. Prince, Saluda and Barnwell, $239.34; J. A. McCullough. Union. 13 days, $154.01; L. F. Youmans, Greenwood, 15 days, $235; J. E. McDonald, Yorkville, 23 days, $324.92; W. H. Hunt, Spartanburg, $308.54; G. E. Prince, Barnwell. $327.23; F. B. Gary, Lexington, $193.16; J. Y. Culbreath, Newberry, $120.00; L. F. Youmans, Greenwood, $200.00; total, $2,102.20. Two-Dollar Wheat Predicted. Chicago, Special.?"Wheat at $2 a bushel before next May," was roared by the bulls on the board of trade. At the opening there was an excited demand for wheat and few traders venturing to sell. Those who wished to buy shouted bids of 2 cents a bushel above the prices prevailing at the close of the market Saturday and the quantity that any order would sell even at such a tempting advance was extremely limited. Of winter and spring wheat produced this year in the United States it was contended there is barely enough for bread and seed if every bushel of it was available which is not possible, Bold Burglary at Rock Hill. Rick Hill, Special.?Burglars entering the rear door wrecked the sare in McFadden's meat and ice market with sledge hammers and glycerine some time early Sunday morning and secured between $500 and $600, leaving no clues. The tools used were left scattered about. The robbers also entered the wholesale groceries of J. W. O'Neal and 3. N. Craig. Doors were found broken open but nothing missing except a few boxes of sardines at O'Neal's. f \ !A SERMON FOR SUNDAY AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY THE REV. C CAMPBELL MORGAN, D. D. Subject: The Attractiveness and Ezclaslveness of Jesus?Listen to the Call of Christ?He Will Brook Su Division ol Your IiuytKj* LoNDOir, fttai.AWD. ? The following sermon, entitled "The Attractiveness ana Exclusiveness of Jesus/' was preached here on a recent Sunday by the Rev. T. Campbell Morgan, D. D. He took for his text: Then said Jesus unto His disciples, if any man will come after Me let him deny hinjself and take up his cross and follow Me.?St. Matthew 10:24. There were two facts about Jesus Christ which no one can read the Gospel records without recognizing; facts which appear to be contradictory, but which, as a matter of fact, are complementary, and the understanding of which reveals for all time tfte metnoa 01 ine master in dealing with men. I refer to facts of the attractiveness and exclusiveness of Jesus. There can be no question about the former; there can equally be no question about the latter to those who have carefully read the records and have seen the methods of Jesus while He was here among men. He was constantly drawing people to H m, and He was perpetually nolaing them aloof. By the very winsomeness of His person. He was drawing men and women of all sorts and conditions, at all times and in all places to Himself, and yet by the uttering of words so severe, so searching, so drastic, making us tremble even to-day, He held men back from Him. I venture to say that the words I read to you this morning from the Gospel of Luke come to those who are most familiar with them bringing a sense of surprise. We never read tnem without feeling more or less startled by them ? "Unless you hate father and mother, husband and wife, parent and child, you cannot be My disciple." We have attempted to account for these words, but I do not hesitate to say that in some senses they have staggered the faith of many, and yet there they stand. And not there only, but through all His teaching there is evident the same method of Christ, that of holding men ba9k just as they were approaching Him; drawing them to Himself by multitudes and tnen holding the crowd as they pressed upon Him, and sifting them with such surprising words as these. Now there must be a reason for this, and it is for that reason that I want to look, with you, a little this morning. But first allow me to say a few words on this facta of the attractiveness of Jesus. because t&e more cieariy we recognize ana understand that, the more clearly shall we understand, as I think, the other truth of His perpetual method of holding men back and excluding certain persons from close companionship with Himself. Take first, then, this great fact of His | attractiveness, the rtost fascinating subject on which to speak. Remember, I prav you, that if the Gospel records reveal one thing more clearly than another they reveal that Jesus was, somehow or other, a Person that drew men to Him irresistibly. I go back to those silent years at Nazareth concerning which we know so very little. You will remember that on those days Luke opens for us just a little wondo^ through which we look when he says, I "He was subject to His parents, and grew in favor with God and with man." I do not stop one moment to dwell on the statement that He grew in favor with I God, although it is a very interesting statement, but just for a moment, for the sake of our argument, listen to tne other !art of it: "He grew in favor with man." ake that as it is simply stated, and you j at once see a picture of the boy growing up to be a youth, and passing from youth into young manhood until He became the Carpenter of Nazereth, known to all the little town that nestled among the hills, just removed from the highways of life. This is all the truth that is revealed. If I may reverently put it, Jesus was a favorite in Nazareth. I am not sure that that doesn't almost startle you, because somehow or other we have come to think that holiness is almost always accompanied by angularity, and there is a popular idea that if a man is good he never can be a favorite. It is a great mistake. It is by the measure in which a man lacks holiness that a man is not in favor. Here is a man living in Nazereth, and He is a favorite. I do not want to lift that into a super-spiritual realm, but if you have no imagination you can just go to sleep for two minutes while I imagine I look into that window and I see the Carpenter at His work, and I tell you what I see. He is a favorite. I see children taking their toys to Him to be mended, and I am quite sure He mended them. I see young men going at eventide to take their Sroblems with them because they know le is sane, honest and pure. I think I see old men, upon whose brow already "'sat light that never was on land or sea," talking to Him because He has such a wonderful way of talking about "My Father's house" and "the many mansions;" a favorite, sane and strong, and pure, and attract ive as to personality. I know full well that a little later on these same men took Him to a hill and tried to murder Him, but that was the result of something else to be discovered later. The pure, human, simple life of Jesus was, in itself, attractive, and Luke savs, "He grew in favor." Leave those hidden years and look at Him just for one rapid moment as He treads the pathway upon which a fiercer light falls than ever lell upon a throne? the pathway of the public teacher, and if you read these Gospel stories the one thing that strikes you is the fact of the multitudes around about Jesus Christ. Wherever He went they followed Him. If He went out into the city the country people crowded the streets to be near Him; if He went out into the country place the city men and women flocked after Him, following Him so far that at times there was no chance for them to provide themselves with food, and He had to feed them; for in their eagerness to follow they had forgotten food and had forgotten distance. And wherever He went tney came after Him. I am not saying that these multitudes crowned Him;"that is not my point, but He drew the people after Him. The one thing they could not do with Jesus was to let Him alone; they came, whether to criticise Him or crown Him is not now the question; the point is, that He drew men and women after Him in all those days of His earthly life, 'l'hey came after Him, all sorts and "conditions of men, the scholars and the illiterate, the learned and the ignorant, the debased, the depraved, they all came. Of course, there were more poor people came than rich because there always were more poor people than there are rich, and, of course, there were more of the illiterate than of the learned for the self-same reason, but I protest against this idea that Christ only attracted a class. There is something about Him that attracts all kinds of men, and it is true in those old days. Coine, if you will, outside the Bible, and from the day that this Man walked among men in Judea until now there has never been so attractive a personality in human history as Jesus. And I want to say this superlative thing about Christ. No century, whatever its peculiarity, or quality, or quantity, has produced any person who was so popular as Jesus Christ. He has always towered above His fellows, above thoss historical personages that the centuries look back to. or to those imaginative personages that the centuries give to us in ~ 1 <"'* literature. Jesus baa been the most af?' tractive personage always. I come to thia very hour. Who is the most attractive personality in the world at this hour? Let rae take a narrower circle. v Who is the most attractive pwjooality In . England at this hour? I answer without fear of contradiction?.Tests Ohrim I am not saying that the majMatf of people have yet crowned Hiaa. Ok cm take my illustration to the lowed; level, Can you think of any person hi history, 1 dead or alive, or any person in imaginative literature, that will be talked ef, and thought of, cad sung of, and discussed, and criticised, and abused and crowned at Jesus Christ? There is not a single theatre in Manchester or London that can ran Shakespeare's plays continually. I am glad you look ignorant, and cau assure von T don't speak from any inside dcaewleage, hut every one knows it to be tree. There is not a single theatre that can ?dat without variety. There must be chaage; some other genius than Shakespeare must ho (/i.tUnmin. Anil \*pt With OUf WSll ' about the decadence of the chuttA and the failure of Christianity, every Sandav in Manchester more people are gathered together to sing the old hymns and hear the old sermons?I beg your pardoi, to hear sermons on the old text*?and listen to the old. old story of the cross Mian for any i other purpose. Let us begin with the last. When Christ was as fond of a phrase as He evidently was of that phrase "Follow Me." there must be some deep signification in it. I ? have been going through my New Testament during the last few months, tracing that phrase. It has been a very interesting study to see how constantly Christ used it. It was the almost perpetual for- * mula of His call to individual seul?"Follow Me!" ..'J Now what is it to follow? Two things are involved. Neither of them eovers all the ground, taken alone. Both are required. First, to follow, I must trust, I shall ; never follow any one I haven't confidence in. I may trust and yet not follow. Secondly, not only is trust necess^jy. bat obedience is necessary. Christ confronts the individual soul, bringing that soul out from the crowd, as He is calling some man here this morning. He sars, "Would yoa trust Me? Then obey Me." How am I going to do it? What does it mean, this trusting and obeying? "Deny yourself, take up the cross " It seems to me that is the point which must be ob- ' served first, that to deny self is the only way in which you can follow Christ. Hoir shall I follbw Him? Deny thyself The two things are intimately related, and it seems to me that everything is said when "Follow Me" is said, and yet it is neces ??? - sary to say the otner in oraer %m uucrstand what He means by following Him. What is it Christ calls me to? To.deny myself! Not to practice self-denial; that is a very cheap business, but ta deny self? a very costly matter. He sayB, "Deny yourself. Listen no longer ta the call of your self, but listen to My call. Daa't consider any more whether this thing will minister to your pleasure or ta yaar aggrandizement, or answer the ery a! your ambition. But Me first." Ohrist says, "Deny yourself and follow Me. Put Me on the throne and dethrone yourself. Don't let the question ol the morning be. What shall I like to do. but What will Christ have me do; not Will this pay m^ but will /} it hasten the coming of the kingdom of God. Don't let the underlying, mastering passion of your life be your awn selfish desire; crown Me, follow Me." It is a superlative call, and &e csl of Jesus is always imperial. He will bfpok no division of your loyalty, and that is what He means. "You must hate father, mother, wife, child. That means that when the soul comes into contact with Me I must be absolutely first." Let me stop here to say that whenever a soul does that he gets back a hundredfold lands and fields and mother and father and children. Jeans Christ said He must be first, and He has never lowered that standard, and the religion that is simply an addendum is worth nothing to Him. Jesus Christ comes and says, "Deny yourself," but there is the atner word. "Take up the cross." Well, what is it? Christ's cross? No. No man can carry Christ's cross. What then? Your awn. What is this cross? I don't think that it ' is ever the same in two persons. Tha cross is that in your life which immediately costs you something if you crown Christ. There is a business man here this morning who is saying in his heart, "Well, if that is Christianity, I will hare to go home and change my method of business." That is your cross. There is a young man I here says that, ''If that is Christianity, if it means putting Christ tirst, men i wiu have to go home and give up that companionship." That is your cross. Some ons here says, "It that is what Christ means, that I am not to listen to the call of my own life, I shall have to go home and say I was wrong and confess my wrong to those to whom it is so hard to confess it." That is your cross. And somebody els# says, "If that is Christianity I shall hsvo to go back on my history, throw up everything I am doing and go into the ministry. That is your cross. ^ You know what your cross it. Don't let any one come and ask me. You know that thing which right in front of yon this morning challenges your allegiance to Jesus Christ. You cannot play tricks with God. You cannot deceive your own conscience when you stand in the clear light of the call of Christ. He says, "Deng yourself; take up that cross (anil you know what it is) and follow Me." But why are Christ's terms so drastic? For two reasons. First, no man ever gets to Christ but by the way of the enthronement of Jesus Christ. It is possible to admire and cheer Him, possible to patronize Him and never to know Him, it is not the crowd that gets to Him, but the crossbearing soul. And if you read On you will say, "Whosoever would save his life shall lost it; whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it." Christ confronts the soul and says virtually this: "You don't understand your own life, dear heart. You cannot realize your own kingdom. You cannot build your own character and carve out your own destiny, but I can do it, though I can only do it when you have put Me absolutely on the throne for your own life's life. For its founding and ennobling and developing you must come to Me, and by the way oil a whole-hearted surrender." But there is another reason why Christ ?? ??*? Mia toi-ms drastic. He wants men liiarwwo ui? ?v> and women upon whom He can depend in the day of battle. I am quite mire there is nothing Jesus Christ wants at this moment so much as men and women who will go through darkness and death for Him. You remember that picture of Jairus beseeching Jesus to save his Child whs wan dying, and how, with the people thronging about Him, the Master suddenly exclaimed, "Who touched Me?" Now don't let us be angry with the disciples. We should have said the same thing. "A hundred people have touched you in the last five minutes. The multitude throng Thee and press Thee, and sayest Thou, who touched Me?" But Jesus Christ always knows the difference between the crush of a curious mob and the touch of a needy soul that has come near Him. And this morning as this service closes I hear His voice speaking once again?the attractive Christ that has drawn this crowd ? this 'exclusive Christ?and He says: "Who touched Me?" W"e have all jostled Him this morning. We have all looked into His face again. We have all had a new consciousness of the infinite music of His voice. Hare yo^ got anything out of Him? Has any virtu? healed you this morning? If not, even now stretch out your hand and touch Him. And to do that you must deny yourself, crucify your pride. Having done that^ listen to the cry of your own life, and listen to His imperial call and crown Him Lord of all.