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IM ^ mw^M?E I THEY HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE. Matthew 12:22-32; 33-42?-May 15. "Be that in firtt irith me i* ayain*t mr; und he that gathcrcth not with me scattcreth qUi-whI."- y. 30. 80METIM*"*S on a battle Held It would appear as thougb each man uerc ti.htlne for himself. All battle lines seem lost in the confusion; Pfjj In the end the flflnfj wi'I show the some clear-cut distinctions ns prevailed In the beginning of the battle. According to the Great Teacher the entire human family Is either on one side or on the other side of a great battle between right and wrong, truth and error, God and Satan. There In no doubt whatever as to how the battle will end?God will have the victory Indeed the Hlble assures us that at any time he could quickly put an end to the conflict, deliver his saltit*. overthrow Satan and his empire, etc. The Divine promise is that this will be done in God s "due time"?when the Church will be completed and changed by the power of the First Itesur ) rectlon. and the time shall come for tho establishment of Messiah's Millennial Kingdom for the blessing of all the nations of the earth. Is It asked why the long delay of now six thousand years that sin has triumphed, two thousand of this since Messiah died for the redemption of sinners and their release from the death sentence? The answer Is that dur? ing these nineteen centuries those whom he hss favored with some knowledge of his will?testing their loyalty to him. to his Law, to bis representatives? ha Is testing bees use he scekffSto find, amongst those professing loyalty, such as have the principle* of righteousness at heart. Our present Study shows how some at thgr'ptrst Advent ware thus tested and we know that through eat these ^frfneteen centuries the exT*1*100^* of the footstep followers of the Nasarebe have been similar to his own. Frequently they have been hated JVlttoQt cause?maligned, misunderstood, slandered?sometimes by fellow-re? ligionists of honorable standing. In every sdf.q. Instante we are to remember that there are bat two sides to the conflict?the side of God, truth, righteous aess. and the side of error, falsehood. Satan. As we ese bow blindly scribes and Pharisees and Doctors of the Law bated Jeans and said all manner of evtl against htm. we perceive that "tally they were on Satan's tide. As we sec 8aul of Tarsus stoning Stephen to death and others persecuting followers of Jesus, we see clearly that they were m Satan's service, deluded by htm and. In some Instances, we are as? sured that these servants of Satan and unrighteousness verily thought that they did God service. Let us therefore be on guard along these lines, re? membering the words of the Great Teacher, "Ye cannot serve God and mam* moo." "He that Is not for me Is against me.** "He that gathereth not with me scsttereth abroad." Alas, how many noble people have unwittingly been am the wrong aide of the great controversy?fighting against God and the Truth, tgnorsntly deluded by the Adversary. By permitting this conflict aud the measure of darkness, God Is the more effectively trying, testing, those whom he has called to be his people. Not only are we tried directly as to the aide we will take, but. In a secondary sense, we arc tried as respects our humility. Those who are honest of heart and who make the mistake of fighting against God, when their eyes are opened, have a great test of humili? ty In the matter of confession of their error and becoming zealous for the Truth. Those who are on the tight side have also a test of humility that they be not puffed up by their victory, but humble themselves under the mighty hand of God. that be may ?xalt them In due time. Satan, because created on a higher plane. Is styled the Prince of demons In his relationship to the fallen angels. Judge of the delusion in the hearts of the Pharisee* which prompted them to charge tho Master with being Satan himself and. on this score, accounted for bis power to cast out demons'. The Master took the time to philosophize with thorn on this subject and to show that if the time had come wh.cn Satan would work against his own as? sociates and servant* It would imply the speedy fall of his empire. He also pointed out that demons had been cast out by some whom they acknowledged and honored Tf he must be Beelzebub to cast out the demons, w'uat would tbelr logic be In respect to their nc,ghbors and friends who at tl'nes had ex? ercised this power? On the other hand. If he. by God's power, cast out demons. It was an evidence that God'* Kingdom was oigh. Just as be had proclaimed Having thus answered their objection, be showed that they were against him and opposing his Word snd that this meant that If be were God's rep rt,,"-f>it"v thaay^r^t nnrr?dng^c,d Then he called thefr attention to the fsrt that their words were blasphein?iusrP^Tiat they attrmnted God's Spirit, God's power In him. to Satan's power Since they did thai without any real provocstl^n and In opposition to every evidence, it implied that they were Wicked at heart. Ordinary sins resulting from the fall. Ig.iorance. supersti tton. etc. would all. In God's providence, be ultimately forgivable, but a wil? ful sin against light, against knowledge, would be n sin aga.iist God's Spirit. And for that sin there would be no forgiveness, either In this Age. or in the coming Ag*? - neither during this Gospel Age nor In the Millennial Age if the slu were committed against full light. Its merit or punishment would be destruction. See..ml Doath Hut verv evidently it would be such a sin to only a few. With the majority there would be a mixture of wilfulness with lg e}rance. snd, If so. the proportion of wrong repre- :?nted by the ignorauce could be forgiven; but the proportion represented bv the wilfulness would need the extreme penalty, because unforgivable The scribe* and Pharisees, envious of his popularity, asked for a sign, a proof of his Messlahship-not recognizing his teachings and his miracles as proofs sufficient Fie then told then) of one sign which would come to them too late?bis atay In the tomb would correspond to Jonah's stay in tbe hfU.f of the great fish. The people of heathen Nineveh in the .lodgment Age. in the Millennial Age. he assured them, would rank Mgher than they, for the Nine* Tltes did repent at the preaching of Jonah, while these repented not at the preaching of a greater than Jonah. The Queen of Hhcha had Journeyed alar to hear Solomon's wisdom; yet these were In the presence of a greater Ulttn Solomon and realised It not and heeded not his luewswue I et, in ????? ne tint* blinded, but. with our ??/hole hearts, ?crept sod Ml. ?'??. *? ? -. Two Negroes Win Hero Medals. A U id.'si r . dispatch to the Char? lotte Observer tells the interesting story of the awarding of Carnegie hero medals to two colored men of that community. Harley Tomlinson and Frank Forest were the negroes ? hu risked their lives to save others. Tomlinson gave his. it *as last August that they thus distinguished themselves. The Pee I?ee Klver was in flood. Tomlinson and Forest wore on the bank. Two white men traveling through the country by buggy, sought to cross the river. Three colored, men, Frank Hnuggs. Jule Snuggs and Oscnr Col son undertook to ferry them across. !n the middle of the stream an acci? dent occurred, the ferry boat 'vas ov? erturned and sank and all of the oc? cupants except Colson were swept from the boat. As speedily as possible Tomlln n sntl Forrest took a small boat, and went to tic- res? uc of the party. ('..' son was still clinging to the overturn cd I...at. and < HiniiiK lirst |q him they *ndci\..red to rescue hin?. Instead, both h.? and Tomlinson were drown? ed .HCl FoTK ^t W IS su. pt out of hi boat and far down the stream. F.e r? -?fs son had PMM hed the gCOttf hi tic- meantime and managed t<? save his father and he and hl> father tic m r t ine ?I and brought all of the ? tV r to land Th- two v. bite ne u ;u\d tic other two f?-rrv hands suffered' no in? jury. The matter was brought to the at? tention of the Carnegie hero fund commissi?.n by a minist? ?- of Wad.fW boro, the Uev. Mr. Chambllss, who has now been notified that bronz. medals have been awarded Frank Forrest and the widow of Harley Tomlinson. who Is also granted a pen SjL H 5 the month during her life time. Frank Forrest In addition to the medal is Riven the lump sum of 1500. The example of these two North Carolina colored men ought to be an inspiration to their entire race. One <>f the great handicaps under which the MffQ has labored is the fact that he boasts no past and has been with? out hen-ii exemplars in courageous deeds and right living. The unselfish l-rivery of Harley Tomlinson and ?k Foir.st deserves applause.? News and Courier. I'ourte.ii candidates for member? ship to the church were baptised at the First Uaptist church last Sunday night. Th? StOCl Of Mr. Alnutt in the das Company was bought by Mesrs. R, O. PUfdy and & J. Fdand. The HocM ! was Mold by the administrators of the 1 estate. At the meeting of Came Cork Lodge. Knights ol Pythlai Monday night. Mr. labile Pitts took his third degree. Mr. a. a. Btrauss, one <.t' the charter members of this |odC6 was ' pis letl! and made the member! a talk. Mr .1 II. l..\y is another charter I ro< mber of Game Cock lodge. The superintendent of the water works Is bus\ making hit list of the delinquent! who win have their water cut off for non-payment of the water r- tit. It is embarrassing to the super? intendent to have to cut anyone oil, but he has no option in the matter; he has Instruction! to do as he is do? ing and he must follow Instructions. It would be far otter for the users of the water tO go up and pay UP, but they overlook It. and there |<j no oth? er recourse. RAILROAD BILL SAFE. HOUSE passes TAFTS FAVORITE measure. After Many Changes and Chances Republicans Finally Unite and Pass Bill. Washington. May 10.?Without a single dissenting Republican vote, the house today passed the railroad bill, one of the chief measures that Presi? dent Taft wished enacted at the pres? ent session of congress. Not only did every Republican place himself on the side of the meas? ure, either by his vote or by being paired In its favor, but 14 Democrats Joined the majority to make the total vote in favor of the measure 200 to 214. President Taft tonight said he was deeply gratified over the passage of the measure. He was especially pleased with the comfortable margin by which the commerce court feature was kept in the bill, for he regards this court as probably the most im? portant forward step in the proposed law. As to the amendments and addi? tional provisions added in the house, the president said he did not feel that this was the time to discuss them, nor that he was fully enough acquainted with the changes to discuss them. Referring to the clause providing for the physics1, valuation of railroads, Mr. Taft pointed out that that power now practically rests with the inter? state commerce commssion and that the dlfflcculty in carrying out such a plan always has been found in the enormous cost of the undertaking. When all the amendments adopted by the house while in committee of the whole had been agreed to, Mr. Adamson, (Ga.), senior Democratic member of the minority of the com? mittee, moved to recommit it to the committee, with instructions that it be reported back with the commerce court clause stricken out. This was defeated, 157 to 176. The bill makes many changes In existing laws, that, if accepted by the senate, will greatly affect the inter? state commerce commission. As amended the bill proposes to bring the telephone and telegraph companies under the control of the interstate commerce commission. It providos for the valuation of railroad property as an aid to the commission in the consideration of railroad rates. The bill gives the commission au? thority over classifications, regula? tions and practices of railroads, its authority at the present time being limited to rates and matters' agjecttng rates. Champ Clark, leader of the Demo? cratic minority, explaining the Demo? cratic course in opposing the bill on final vote, said: "The Democrats who voted against the bill did so because they consider? ed that there were more bad features in the bill than there were good ones. When it was first brought into the house, It was a railroad bill, pure and simple. It was drawn in their in? terest. Not a railroad lobbyist ap? peared around the halls of congress In opposition to this bill, which spoke more eloquently than many volumes could do that the railroads were in favor of this legislation. "Every amendment that was adopt? ed in the house helped the bill, but *here were not enough of them. Had the court of commerce feature and pome parts of sections 13, 14 and 15 been stricken out I for one would have voted for the bill." KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Will Have a Special Tialn to Rennetts vllle, S. C. The Atlantic Coast Line will ope? rate a special train to Bennettsville for the Knights of Pythias on the oc oaslon of their Grand Lodge, which convenes there May 24th. The train which will carry three sleeping cars, coming through from Bpartanburg, Greenville and Anderson, will have an ample number of coaches and will leave Columbia Thursday, May 24th at "? a. m., Bumter 6:46 a. m. and ar? rive Bennettsville a. m. Extra i oachea will be operated on train leaving Charleston 8:08 a. m. same das- and If necessary from other points. Round trip tickets will be sohl by the Atlantic Coast Line t<? Bennettsville from all points in South Carolina, Hay 22nd, and 24th, limit? ed to leavi Bennettsville, May 28th. The rates being as follows from p< Ints named: Charleston $5.50, Co? lumbia $5.30, Florence $1.50, Marlon $2.30, Orangeburg $4.30, Bumter $2. 70 and proportionate rates from oth er points In the state. Further Information will be cheer fully furnished by Agents of the At lantlc Cast Line or by T. C. White 'bneral I'assetiKcr Atfont. Wllmlng Ion, X. C/ B*10-to-24th. Everything that is exquisite hide Itself.? Joseph Roux. The cautious seldom err.?Confu clus. MEMORILA DAY EXERCISES. Mr. S. II. Edmunds Delivers a Notable Address. The Memorial Day exercises, which were held at the cemetery Tuesday afternoon at 5 o'clock, were attended by at least one thousand persons, the usual large number of people from other sections of the county having come to unite with the residents of this city in paying honor to the mem? ory of the soldiers of the Confeder? acy. The programme as arranged by the Daughters of the Confederacy was carried out as follows: PROGRAM. The following is the order of march from the cemetery gate: The Sumter, Veterans, the Mayor and Speaker. U. D. C, Flower Girls, S. L. I., Battalion of City Schools. The Daughters of the Confederacy have arranged the programme given below: Selection by Band. (During the playing of this selec? tion the flower girls will decorate the graves.) Prayer?The Rev. Mr. Kohn. Selection by Band. Introduction of the speaker by the Mayor, Hon. L. D. Jennings. The Speaker, Mr. S. H. Edmunds. Selection by Band. The feature of the occasion war the address by Mr. S. H. Edmunds. It was one of those rare and exceptional public speeches that seemed to those who heard It all too brief, yet omitted nothing that should have been said. In thought, diction and eloquence of delivery It was a worthy and inspir? ing contribution to the great sympos? ium of patriotic orations which have been delivered over graves of soldiers of Lee and Jackson by the South's most gifted statesmen and scholars on recurring Memorial Days from he gloom shadowed years when the oouth was filled with newly made graves, with the wounds inflicted by the war yet unhealed and the rancor and bitterness of newly ended ocnflct unassaged by time's benefi? cent touch, until this day of peace and happiness, when the war and its heart-breaking penalties are but memories of glorious heroism and un? selfish patriotism. The theme of the speaker's address was "Patriotism" and its exemplification In the highest and truest type by the soldiers of the South on a hundred battle fields and by the people of the South during the war and throughout their forty and more years of labor to rebuild and restore a devasted and War scarred la_nd^ _ M^JCh mjpje Qftuld be said in appreciation of -this address, but to those who were not present further attempt to record in words the im? pressions made upon those who were so fortunate as to hear it would seem like over-praise, while those who fell under the spell of the spoken word and felt the force of the thought-weighted sentences, are se? cure in the knowledge that neither praise nor criticism can add to nor detract from the rare pleasure they experienced in hearing a truly elo? quent and patriotic presentation of an old, old story that can never grow old to a son of the South. OLLIS McKAGKN ARRESTED. Ollie McKagen went to Florence or Timmonsville and brought back two suit cases full of whiskey Wednes? day. When he reached the station he asked Mr. C. M. Huggins, of Mayes ville, who happened to be on the train, to take the suit cases in a hack and leave them at the Star restaurant for him, that he would not be sus? pected. There he was wrong, for Of? ficer Owens did suspect Mr. Huggins when came out with the two heavy suit cases. Mr. Huggins was arrested, and did not hestiate to tell who the whiskey belonged to. Ollie was arrested and carried be? fore Mayor Jennings, where he said that he brought It In for some other parties. Mayor Jennings bound him over for trial in the sum of $200 H. T. Bdens was his bondsman. Secretary Reardon has requested the Coast Line to put on a chair car on the Charleston to Greenville train, lie has also, as health officer, asked this same company for a few other things In the shape of Improvements at the passenger station. lias anybody here sein the Nick Longworth's boom 7?New York Mall. It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of US. - I .ow ell. Honesty is not greater where ele? gance is less.?Johnson. Democrats the country over will feel encouraged because the result at Indianapolis was no worse. At least Toni was beaten; and Mr. Kern is re? spectable, ?Springfield Republican, Considerable has been said and written first and last in disparage? ment of our Idle rich, but apparently most of the real trouble is caused b> our busy rich.?Providence Tribune Rafting Creek Continued. Let us all thank God that the great drouth is broken. Ought we not also to thank Him for the drought? Often er than otherwise perhaps, the things we esteem as afflictions, misfortunes, etc., are our richest benefits. How de? pendent we are is brought home to those open to truth in maniford ?vays, but the many consider it not till some epochal disaster overwhelms them. We begun to say some things about upper Rafting Creek, a part of Din kins* peninsular, in a recent article. With your permission we continue our remarks. Not more than a mile per? haps from Borden is Marion Cato, son of one of the best men ever reared in that community, a hard-working, industrious and successful farmer, who is enlarging his borders. I hope he will pay attention to education. Let me here remark aside that any one can see that, as a rule, the ignor? amuses are working for the educated. You know there are some who had no school advantages that are self educated. Tom Brown owns the old Bash Brown place and is bringing things to pass. He is an intelligent, agreeable man with abundance of push and Is bound to succeed. Hastings Freeman, a man well and favorably known to Sumter people, Is coming to the front notwithstanding some serious reverses. He had a beautiful start at Borden, when some miscreant, a murderer at heart, set flre to his place and burnt him out. He is a great church man, the effic? ient and faithful superintendent of the Sunday school at McLeod's chapel. Mr. Freeman lives at the W. R. Brown place. Some years ago a young man not far above here, at a picnic on the peninsular, (he lives in the peninsu? lar, the upper part), the lower and significant part, met one of our fine girls, (they are all fine), and being a man of excellent taste and good sense, falling in love with her, he sought and obtained her hand in marriage. They are nicely fixed, Mr. and Mrs. C. Se? bastian James with plenty, plenty around them. Sebastian is a fine far? mer, who raises his own hog and hominy with some to spare. A small farmer, he sold last year more than two hundred bushels of corn and a quantity of oats. He is a success. May his tribe increase. Just a little side talk and this ar? ticle closes. When Columbus set the egg on its end the other felows said, "That ain't nothin'." When E. Mc Iver Williamson published to the world a plan to raise corn with profit and demonstrated it beyond perJaJL venture me same set "oY their cmid ren, I don't think I am mistaken, cried out with a whoop, "That ain't nothing." Out country is entering an era of prosperity unprecedented in its history largely through the efforts of Mr. Williamson and his like. As the preachers say, "Thus readeth the lesson." "HAGOOD." Rembert, S. C, May 9, 1910. GRASS. John J. Ingall's eulogy on grass has probably been copied more times in the columns of the daily press than any other similar selection, with the excptlon of Senator's Vest's tribute to dogs. It it is worth at least one appearance each year in every news? paper, and this seems to be a parti? cularly auspicious season for its use, so here goes. "Grass is the forgiveness of na? ture?her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battles, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass, and carnage is forgotten. Streets aban? doned by traffic become grass-grown like rural lanes, and obliterated. For? ests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal. Beleag ured by the seven hosts of winter, it withdraws into the impregnable fortresses of its subterreaneaii vital? ity and emerges upon the first solici? tation of spring. Sown by the winds, by the wandering birds, propagated by the subtle horticulture of the ele? ments which are the ministers and servants. It softens the nude outline of the world. Its tenacious fibres hold the earth in its place and pre? vent the soluable components from washing into the wasting sea. It in? vades the solitudes of the deserts, climbs the Inaccesible slopes and for? bidding pinnacles of mountains, modifies climate and determines the history, character and destiny of na? tions. ITnobstructlve and patient, it has Immortal vigor and aggression. Banished from tin- thoroughfare and the field, it bides its time to return, and when vigilance is relaxed, or the dynasty has perished, it silently re? sumes the throne from which it has been expelled/ but which it never ab? dicates. It bears no blazonry of bloom to charm the senses with fragrance or splendor, but Its homely line is more enchanting than the lily or the rose, it yields no fruit in earth or air, and yet. should its harvest fail for a single year, famine would depopulate the world." Lying rides upon Debt's back.? Franklin. Friendship is the marriage of the soul.?Voltaire. MONUMENT TO RICHARD KIRK LAN I >. His Undying Deed of Bravery is Com? memorated in Stone That All May Emulute His Example. Camden, May 10.?Marked by the unveiling of the monument erected to Richard Kirkland by the local chap? ter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the memorial exercises held here this afternoon were un? usually beautiful and impressive. The Rev. John Kershaw, of Charleston, was orator of the day and during the course of his eloquent speech paid many a slow ng tribute to the mem? ory of Richard Kirkland, the lad who so daringly crossed over the walls at Fredericksburg and administered wa? ter to his wounded and? dying ene? mies parching with thirst on the oth? er side, and to whom now the United Daughters of the Confedracy are paying ? just tribute by erecting a monument to his memory. The orator described graphically how Kirkland went first to his cap? tain, then to his colonel, and finally to his general, Gen. Kershaw, where he at last gained permission to go on his errand of mercy. He told of how the young man fearlessly mounted the wall, exposed himself as a target to the enemy, carried water to the wounded, with bullets whizzing on ev? ery side, until finally, seeing his mo? tive, the enemy ceasing firing and cheered him. All present at the memorial exer? cises conceded that Dr. Kershaw's ad? dress was one of the finest ever giv? en in Camden, and if never before, the Richard Kirkland story is indeli? bly impressed on the minds of those who heard him. Upon the conclusion of Mr. Ker? shaw's speech the monument was un? veiled by Master Richard Kirkland, grand nephew of the soldier. He was assisted in the unveiling by Masters DeLoach and DuBose, grandsons of Gens. Kershaw and Kennedy, respect? ively. Following the unveiling, Mrs. Douglas Boykin, president of the lo? cal chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, very gracefully present? ed the crosses of honor to those who had as yet not received them. More than 90 veterans of Kershaw county attended the dinner earlier in the day given them by the Daughters in the Kershaw Guards* armory. The ar? mory was appropriately decorated in Confederate flags and colors, and the Daughters turned out in full to serve the veterans. After the blessing by the Rev. Mr. Gordan, three cheers and the rebel yell were given to the Daughters by ington, gave the "welcoming address. Col. Hough of Kershaw responded. The report that Tom Davis.'s wife, colored, committed suicide was a mistake. She died of natural causes, so stated her attending physician. The superintendent of the Water Works has been busy all day making settlements with delinquent users of water. He had rather have a settle? ment than to cut off the water. | Caesar Meyers, the negro with the string of aliases, was given 30 days for stealing chickens. He was not satisfied. 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