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_ J FORQIVINO AND BEING FORGIVEN. Matthew 18:21-35.?-July 31. ?// ff tofQivt men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you." ? Matthew tf./j. 8T. PETER'S query. "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and 1 forgive hlra. until seven times?" is a query that comes to many. It is a question that at some time and Id some manner or form is quite sure to come to all the followers of Christ Imperfect ourselves and surrounded by others who are Imperfect, we continually have need to exercise merry, benevolence, forgiveness. There Is something iu the human mind watch naturally appreciates justice and takes special note of injustice done towsrd us. It Is also remarkable how many people take a delight in meting out Justice to an offender against the law. It is this spirit which has been noted In mobs Men and women and children work themselves into a very frensy, ss sdvocstes of Justice, In expressions against a guilty wretch who escapee the clutches of the lsw and a just penalty, aud insist upon taking ranges nee Into their own hands. It would appear that many of those who participate In mobs have at times been guilty of nearly or quite as great crimes as those which they reprehend in another and would punish. It would appear thct there Is a craving to the fallen flesh to do violence to another, or to see violence done. If only there could be an excuse for it on the score of justice. Alas, poor creatures, bow wrong such a condition of heart, how1 rep rehenalble In the sight of God! And yet those who thus wrongfully give loose rern to their passions, quiet their own consciences, at least, by concluding that they axe viewing the matter like God. lovlug justice and bating iniquity It Is true that Justice Is the foundation of Divine Government?tbnt God la Just; but It Is also true that God is loving and kind, and thnt be accepts to himself tbe very name of love, for "God Is love." Such should learn that to be In the Divine likeness Is to govern one's self and one's course by the rules of Justice, bat to measure the course of others by the rule of love and sym? pathy, generosity and forgiveness. In anawer to 8t Peter'a question, our Lord said that we should forgive a brother not only seven times, but seventy times seven. What a breadth of geoeroslt) is here suggested! How it tells us of the loving mercy and for gtvenees of him with whom we have to do! Bat let us remember another statement of this same matter, where It Is Implied that before the forgiveness li granted. It Is to be st least desired. If uot sought. "If thy brother trespass against thee aeveo times In a day and seven times in a day shall say. 'I repeat;' thou ehalt forgive him"?or to tbe extent of seventy times seven. We must even assume that the Lord meant that lo our hearts we should already forgive the brother his fvespssses. even though we might wisely wait to express our forgiveness u'jtll als attitude manifested some desire for it The disciples of Christ are to be continually In tbe attitude of generosity and filled with the npttlt &X forgiveness as la the besvenly Father?ready and waiting to be grn dona, snd ander proper conditions, to manifest that readiness. To Illustrate tola matter the Master spoke a parable. He said, "The king? dom of heaven Is like unto a certain King which would take account of his servants'' (vs. 28). But ss ws understand him, he meant that tbe church at the present time is the embryotlc Kingdom and la being dealt with by the Lord after the manner of the Illustration In this parable. It Is not therefore an 11 In*tration of Ood's dealing with the world. He Is not dealing with the world at all He Is not calling them his servants In sny sense of the word only believers, consecrated ones, occupy this favorable position of Divine rela? tionship snd only these are meant lo the parable Furthermore, the parable does not even consider the church on the score of original sin. It Is not the thought that original sin may be cancelled on account of prayer. The penalty foe original sin needed to be paid, oot by the prayer of the sinners, but by the precious blood of Christ Bat after having our sins forgiven through turning from sin snd faith In Christ, and through consecration to the Lord and begetting of the holy spirit then we are bis servants, and the parable re? lates to these only. Tbe first servant mentioned In the parable had been very derelict as a I servant of God. As a follower of Christ he had come far short The time of reckoning csme. He realised it and besought Divine favor and mercy, prom? ising to do sll he could to msks up for the deficiencies. He was heard; the sentence upon him wss stayed. But when be went forth to find a fellow serv? ant who owed him a trifling anm. and would have no mercy upon him, bis Blaster was very angry and declared that he. teo, must be harshly dealt with and receive oo mercy, because he had showr. none to his fellow-servant His lord's words were. "8houldeet oot thou also nave had compassion (mercy) upon thy fellow servant sveo ss 1 had mercy on thee?" And bis lord "delivered him to the tormentors until he should pay all that was due." The amount due would oot Include any part of the penalty of original sin, but merely tbe penalty for tbe abort comings of the transgressor as respects his Covenant relationship, as a servaot who was also a debtor from tbe time be became a servaot. Tbe Lord's words concluding tbe parable are. "So shall also my heavenly Father do uoto you. If ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother his trespasses'' lo another text oar Lord Inculcates the same thought In different wonK saying "If ye forgive men their trespasses your heavenly Father will also forgive you." The purpose and object of our henveoly Father in thus dealing with us seema not (dear to all It is not that he wishes to retaliate. It Is net that he would say to us. "If you sre mean towards others I will be mean towards you." Rather tbe lesson is this. "I am kind to the unthankful; I have been vary gracious to you In the forgiveness of your original sin aud In accepting your consecration to be my servant and in bringing you into my family, but 1 hare veiled you Into this position for a special purpose aod you will not be fit nor be prepiired for he service I desire for you unless you learn the lesson of forgiveness and generosity: heuce. for your sake 1 make the rule that 1 will be uo more generous to you and your Imperfections than you are gener? ous toward your brethren lu their imperfections. I do this in order to teach you s great lesson which canuot be so well learned In any other way. What I am seeking in you as my servant Is perfection in my character-likeness. Yon are gsetlsed to look at the Justice of my character and to copy it and to deel severely with others who are your debtors. 1 wish to make clear to you tliat the grandest elements of my character are Illustrated from the standpoint of my love and sympathy, my kindness and forbearance. Because l desire you to progress In this character-likeness and so come to the position where 1 can nee you in my service more abundantly, therefore 1 rule that you must be forgiving and grscious oue toward another even as I have already been gra? cious toward you. and eveo aa 1 propose yet farther to be gracious to you. If you will abide In harmony with my spirit of love and seek to walk In my way. I am rendy to forgive the loving and generous who are seeking to copy my character. I am rendy lo be kind snd generous snd forgiving to the great? est degree." "The I'.ndest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear. And something every day they live To pity, snd perhaps forgive." STKALIN . GOLD FROM COINS. S*vrr4 SenrK-e AcriKs Work To Trace Indk'rs. New York July i5.?Secret Service agents have heen working for sev? eral days in Mahlen I?ane in an ef? fort to trace swindlers who have de vleed a new f.-rm of coin stripping. Oold coins are put in a burlap hag and shaken for an hour or so. The result is that tiny pieces of the met? al are knockt??! off the surfaces and edges and cling to the bag. The coins are then passed into <ir culation. apparently no more worn n >r battered than most money that has been In circulation for a year or two. The bag Is burned, and this leaves the gold dust, which Is gath? ered up. melted and sohl to refiners and Jewelry manufacturers.^ The circumstances, point to Jewel? ers or Jewelry workmen as the only claas of men who have the technical knowledge which would enable them oll??'t the g'?M dust ami sell It The sale of th? melte 1 gold tMUl no suspicion, as gold eefaps and dust sr- regularly sold to refiners who make a business of extracting the metal from the s.v..pings of the s 10 pa. The sub-treasury and the treasury department at Washington have been getting back of late large quantities of gold colr.s, many of them not long out of the mint, which were short in weight from 5 to 15 per cent., and which, to experienced eyes, seemed more cut up, scratched and battered than are coins when subjected to or? dinary wear and tear. Under the microscope it became evident that these coins had been handled with strange violence and the large num bet of them aroused suspicions that their condition was not accidental. Special agents were sent here to investigate and they got clues to the Industry of shaking the coins in bur? lap bags. Jeweled lace effects are now very Popular In the Bufopean capitals, along with wonderful bows and plaques: of precious stones mounted upon gun-metal net or diamond net, Jewel tracery in so difficult and tedi? ous that four beautiful specimen ne< kiaees, composed of oitionK pieces of diamond traeerv, measuring only throe-quarters of an Iroli In length, were recently sold for $1,004 each, The latest plaques take th. form n>| wreaths, sprays and little baskets filled with diamonds and pearls, leaves and flowers. THE OFFIGE SEEKERS. STATU CAMPAIGN MEETING AT MOXCK'S CORNER. Fcathorstono Carriers Off Honors in Applause? Duncan Deals in Per? sonalities After Resolution is Pass? ed by Candidates Condemning It? Scarborough Lambasts Cansler? Three Hundred Hear Speeches. Moneks Corner, July 26.?The Hon. C. C. Featherstone, candidate for Governor on the State-wide prohibi? tion platform, had the crowd at the State campaign meeting at Moncks Corner today, receiving, not at the beginning of his speech, but at its conclusion, round after round of hearty applause and ringing cheers. Mr. Featherstone's speech was far above the usual In excellence, of fore and eloquence and delivery; he was particularly defiant and flung it into the teeth of the voters that he was advocating what he believed to be right, and If they did not like it he didn't care, and they needn't vote for him. He was frequently inter? rupted with applau and there were evidently some ardent State-widers in the audience, for there were many "That's rights" and "We'll do it" from the crowd. The manner In which Col. O. C. Scarborough "lit into" Cansler, of Tirzah, for his repeated charges as to negligence of duty while In the General Assembly and that he had to he arrested "In order to get a quo? rum" was possibly a feature of the morning meeting. Mr. Scarborough is evidently getting tired of the rep? etition of these charges, when, as he says, "I have proved them false on two occasions." Mr. Scarborough re? ferred to his opponent as "disting? uished," but declined, before such an audience, to say "distinguished for what." At a meeting of the campaign par? ty this afternoon, the following reso? lution was offered by Mr. E. W. Du vall and unanimously adopted: "Be it resolved by the campaign paftjr, That we are unalterably op? posed to the use while on this cam? paign by any candidate of unparlia? mentary language or the Indulgence in personalities which would be cal? culated to cause a personal difficulty. We urge that each of our party use his influence in carrying out the ob? ject of the above resoltuion." The newspapers were requested to publish this resolution and the coun? ty chairmen are to be notified with the request to enforce it if possible. Evidently John T. Duncan does not view this action favorably or It does not meet his approval, for his "per? sonalities" were today even more vig? orous and denunciatory than ever be? fore and certainly "calculated to cause a personal difficulty." Mr. Dun? can was "fired up" by some stiff questioning and rejoinders from the audience, led by Mr. T. W. WTilliams, clerk of court of Berkeley. In the course of his attack upon Wille Jones, chairman of the State Democratic Committee, Mr. Duncan said the will of the people had been thwarted by | the action of a committee on the, night before the convention met and that Jones' election had been rail? roaded through. Mr. Williams, who Is executive committeeman from Ber? keley, asked: "Didn't the convention have a chance to vote on it?" "The convention was handicapped by their action," replied Mr. Duncan. i Mr. Williams seemed to resent the insinuations of the speaker and made several other rejoinders to his charges, which colloquy had the au? dience on the qul vlve for several I moments. A voice In the audience called out, "Let him speak!" and Mr. Duncan proceeded, begging the peo? ple to "hear me for my cause." Several of the candidates gave Berkeley the go-by today. Neither Lyon nor Evans was present; Blease was in Philadelphia; Hyatt was not here, and Mahon and Richardson were absent. The day was one of the hottest of the year, and the sand and dust were fearful. They were brave souls who traveled, some of them thirty miles on mule-back, to hear the office-seekers present their claims, while the candidates evidenc? ed a good stock of patriotism in Jour? neying to this meeting place and ex? citing themselves in oratorical effort. About three hundred was the aver? age crowd, although at times there were ladies. County Chairman W. P, Russell presided and the Rev. J. E. Edwards offered prayer. The crowd were the most patient listen? ers and apparently the most interest? ed of any audience met with thus far; a noticeable feature was the manner in which they received the jokes, yarns and aneedotes handed out by the sp? akers. They did not mere'y laugh; they yelled and they applauded, and then some more. The majority of the candidates did not arrive until 1L' o'clock, but Chair? man Russell called the meeting at If o'clock and Messrs. Newnham, Moore Cansler, Hampton and Scarborough spoke, after which adjournment was taken for dinner, the county execu? tive committee acting as host to the i tndldatcs at the Rlgby Hotel, in \ lew of this courtesy, the secretary of the campaign party was instruct ed to draw up resolutions of thanks and mail to the committee, at the same time thanking the people of Aiken and Edgefleld for a similar kindness. Messrs. McLeod and Richards made strong speeches today, the for? mer presenting his local option argu? ment in the most forceful manner thus far employed. He said that it is incumbent upon the State-widers to show the people where their plan would be more effective in behalf of prohibition than the present system; this they have not done, b2 contends. Mr. McLeod declares that the issue is not between whiskey selling and prohibition, as some of his opponents would make it appear. Mr. Richards says that the poor people are bearing the tax burden in this State and that the rich bondholders are not carrying proportionate share. TO BOOM SPECULATION. According to Bristow Aldrich In? creased Cotton Duties for Stock Market Benefit. Topeka, Kan., July 25.?In an ad? dress here tonight United States Sen? ator Jos. L. Bristow declared that United States Senator Aldrich forced an increase in the cotton tariff sched? ules when the cotton manufacturers in this country were not asking for it. Senator Bristow charged that the increases were made for the purpose of booming the stock market. "It is interesting to know," he de? clared, "why Mr. Aldrich insisted up? on increased cotton duties when the mill owners and manufacturers testi? fied in the hearings before the ways and means committee that they were noi needed. But an examination of the stock issues of the mills of the United States for the year 1909 fur? nishes the reason. The increases were not made for protection of any legiti? mate manufacturers In the United States, but to boom the stock market. Last year there were Issued $90,000, 000 additional cotton and woolen stocks, $64,000,000 more had been previously authorized, but not Issued, and $26,000,000 of new stocks. "How much of this stock repre? sented actual investment I am not advised, but under the impression that these increased duties on cotton goods and the maintenance of the ex? cessive duty on woolens, would give at least a temporary Impetus to the business, those stocks found a mar? ket. So the increases, therefore, driven through by Aldrich, were in the interest of stock gamblers and speculators, and not in the legitimate manufacturing enterprises." IMMIGRATION FALLS OFF. Figures Show a Decrease of 289,781 From Last Fiscal Year. Washington, July 26.?A total of 223,453 Italians and of 128,348 Poles, the two countries furnishing the high est number of arrivals, and of only 19 Koreans, constituting the coun? try least represented, are among the factors in the grand total of 1,041,570 Immigrants admitted into this coun i try during the past fiscal year. This is 289,784 less than the previous year. The final figures were made public by Commissioner-General Keefe today. Besides this grand total, 156,467 non-immigrant aliens were admitted, 24,270 aliens were debarred and 243, | 191 United States citizens arrived The grand total of all this Inward immigration movement during June only was 137,092. During the fiscal year the Chinese immigrants number? ed 1,779, Japanese 2,798, Englsh 53, 498, Irish 38,382, Hebrews 84,260 and Germans 71,380. There were 27,302 Magyars, 61 Pacific Islanders, 4,966 black Africans and 1,782 East In? dians. Over the Candian border in the pe? riod between July, 1909, and April, j 1910, inclusive, 47,888 immigrant aliens were admitted against 29, 680 emigrants departed, and 8.468 non-immigrant aliens were admitted, against 22,799 non-emigrant aliens departed. During the same period 113 poly gam ists, 2 anarchists, 156 idiots, im? beciles and feeble-minded, 160 insane, 9 professional beggars, 11 paupers, 2,471 with loathsome diseases, 12,632 persons likely to become a public eharse and 1,365 contract laborers were debarred from all parts. Stimtcr Midshipman 111. Washington, July 25.?Midshipman William Harrison Saunders, of Sum tor, S. C? was taken ill with pneu? monia while the practice squadron of 50 mishlpmen was at Gibraltar, and was removed to the Royal Na? val Hospital there before the ships (deared for Maderia yesterday. Saun? ders was appointed to the Naval Ac ademy in 1909. The fleet is now homeward bound. After putting In at the Azores the fleet, made Up of the battleships Io? wa. Indiana and Massachusetts, will turn on the last leg ol Its ten-thou? sand-mile cruise, and is due at Hampton Roads about August 22. Thank heaven and there's an end of Wellman.?New York Evening Sun. BRYAN LOST OUT. OPPONENTS OF COUNTY OPTION WIN IN NEBRASKA. Bryan Made Impassioned Speech, Which Falls on D?*af Ears of Dele? gates Pledged to Liquor. Grand Island, Neb., July 26.?Ne? braska Democrats tonight took the leadership of their State organization from William J. Bryan on the issue of county option. By decisive votes they registered their unbelief in his present policies after listening to an impassioned appeal from Mr. Bryan, who declared the liquor interests were in an organized attempt to secure po? litical control of the State. The min? ority plank submitted by Mr. Bryan was brief and his opponents declared it was an effort to recede from his former radical attitude. But the workers against the county optien plank were unappeased and stood firmly against It. The attitude of many of Mr. Bry? an's former lieutenants toward him was evinced in the speeches of sev? eral who addressed the convention after him. His reference to "assas? sins" in the party was frequently re? ferred to and as each speaker de? nounced his present position, the cheers of the delegates showed that the appeals of Mr. Bryan had been ineffectual. The vote by which his county option plank was rejected was not taken until after midnight. It was decisively against the acceptance of the measure. Mr. Bryan made no comment after the vote, and in an? swer to questions, referred to his speech in which he proclaimed his fealty to the Democratic party and Its platform. The test vote came on a motion made by Congressman G. M. Hitch? cock, a candidate for the senatorial nomination, which in effect was to eliminate the introduction of plat? form planks with accompanying speeches unless submitted as a sec? tion of the majority or minority re? port of the committee on resolutions. Mr. Bryan, seated as a member of the Lancaster county delgation, was on his feet Immediately with a pro 1 test and offered an amendment that ! would modify the intent of the orig | lnal motion. The Bryan adherents denounced I the Hitchcock motion as "gag rule," and their opponent declared that "in? dividual rule" must not prevail. A roll call was ordered. When two thirds had been called opponents of Mr. Bryan realized that he wras de? feated and a wave of cheers that drowned the roll call began. As Chairman Smyth read the re? sult, 436 against Mr. Bryan's amend? ment to 394 in favor of it, the dele? gates sounded a fresh volume of cheers that seemed to Indicate their relief from the uncertainty that had existed as to the strength which Mr. Bryan might develop in the conven? tion. The original motion of Mr. Hitch? cock hen was adopted. The action of the convention prac? tically prohibited any speech from Mr. Bryan unless, as a member of the resolutions committee, he should speak on one of the planks offered by the committee to the convention. Gov. Shallenberger and Mayor Dahl man of Omaha, rivals for nomina? tion for governor, addressed the con? vention and hurled verbal shafts at each other. Gov. Shallenberger promised the delegates that if re-lected with a Democratic legislature he would give them opportunity, through legislative action, to settle the saloon question definitely. The Charleston Consolidated Rail? way and Light Company has begun work on a new $200,000 power house at the foot of Charlotte street. A barn in which were an automo? bile and buggy belonging to P. Z. Holmes of Gaffney was burned. call and have our optician examine your eyes if they are troubling you; by having this done you may not have to woar them long. But to continue straining them may necessitate you wearing them your lifetime. Our optical parlor is fitted with every device for thoroughly examin? ing the eye. We have installed a lense grinding plant and do our own lense grinding and driling; carry a stock of compound lense frame mountings and optical goods. We can fill your prescriptions ,at once properly; all work guaranteed. Graduate optician In charge. W. A. Thompson, Jeweler and Optician. Phone 333. - - No. 6 S. Main St. BROKE INTO RESIDENCE. Negro Enters Dr. Baker's Residence But Is Caught Before He Can Make a Get-Away. From The Daily Item, July 26. About 7:30 o'clock, this morning, Willie Johnson, a negro boy, who claims that his home is at Bishop ville, was arrested in Dr. Baker's res? idence on Hampton avenue, by Offi? cer Owens and lodged in the guard house. Dr. Baker's family are all away from home, the house therefore be? ing vacant, and early this morning Rufus Washington, Dr. Baker's ne? gro porter, who was cleaning up the yard, heard a noise in the house, and phoned for the police. Officer Owens immediately went around to the residence, and after searching around for some time, found the negro, Willie Johnson, un? der a bed, in a trunk and store-room. The negro had taken off his shoes, and was evidently making himself at home. Another negro boy, Sam Nathan? iel was implicated by Johnson, and fs under arrest, also. Johnson's story is that he was told by Nathaniel that Dr. Baker's family were all away from home and that Nathaniel then proposed to him that they go there this morning, and get some money. { It seems that they agreed to do this, and Johnson says that he met Nathaniel up town early this morn? ing, and they both went on around to Dr. Baker's. According to Johnson's story, they sat on the back steps and talked awhile, when Nathaniel said be had to go back to DeLorme's Pharmacy where he worked, and clean up, but to wait for him until he could return, and they would enter the house to? gether. Johnson, however, says that he did not wait, but opened a window, and went on into the bouse, and was only there a short time before Officer Owens came and arrested him. Nathaniel claims that he did not even know Johnson, until he saw him in the lock-up this morning, and It turned out that he really works at O'Donnell and Company's store In? stead of at DeLorme's Pharmacy, ?s the negro Johnsen stated that Na? thaniel had told him. A preliminary was given them this morning, before Recorder Raffleld. Willie Johnson was sent up to the higher court, and Nathaniel was turn? ed loose. Mrs. Thomas Howie, of Darlington county, was run over and killed Tues? day by a train on the Massey Lumber Company tram-road. Mr. Manuel Marco, formerly of Ly? dia, Darlington county and one of the wealthiest men of that section, died in New York Monday, aged 66. Rock Hill is considering the pur? chase of the city water and electric light plant, which is now owned by Philadelphia capitalists. 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