The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, September 11, 1903, Image 4
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UNION, 8. C., SEPTEMBER. 11, 1903. '
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A certain paper published the
statement that nil the pastors in its
town had left, and called attention
to the fact that tho devil never took
a vacation. Lot us remind thi3 solicitous
Individual that tho devil is
not inado of llesh and blood?another
point of difference betweeu the pastors
and tho devil.
The outlook for Union county
farmers, and In consequence, for
those of all other occupations, is exceedingly
promising this year. A
good crop, a fair prico, for produce,
good prospect for ten-ccnt cotton?
these things are helping to make the
outlook hopefuL Let the farmers
continue to live economically, as
much so as If there was the prospect
of a "hard" year. Let every one of
them make the effort to put by some
money, and try to run upon a cash
' basig another year. With the eman *.#
tK A fanner 3 AAinna f |>f? (
UipUblUU yjl IIJU VV..IW V..V
* surest guarantee of safety and stability
in matters social and political.
A man who thinks before lie speaks
was heard to say that many men who
reach a fine old age, do so because
of the fact that in oarly life or in
young manhood there was a breaking
down in health and the self-control
aud care exercised in rcgaiuing health
became the habitual state of mind,
leading to sound health in old age.
The writer knowfc for a fact that several
yoars ago an aged preacher,
ninety-four years old, died. Sixtyfive
j'ears before his death he left
college for home, having lost his
health and having given up to die
His subsequent, care of the body not
only restored him to health, but he
was able to live to be an extraordinarily
old man.
A gentleman who has passed the
seventieth year of his age was heard
recently to remark that he attributed
his long life und robust health in old
age to the fact that ho hud made it a
rule of his life to esshew "dainties"
and to partake'Of the simplest of v
diets. He said: "A good piece of '
coru bread and a glass of buttermilk 1
is good enough for any inan to make
a meal on." The words of this man '
are worth reflecting upon. It is the
plain, wholesome diet, not the rich
pastry and sweets that we need.
This does not mean that we are to be
careless in the preparation of the
plain diet; but rather that it should
have the most careful preparation.
Rev. T. M. Raile}', D. I)., the Sec- c
retary of State Missions for the Rap- '
tists of South Carolina, tells a story c
which he heard somewhere. The t
story is as follows: A Dutchman t
got on a train. He was smoking his '
pipe, and it was "strong." A woman >
sitting on a sent opposite got up, 1
came over to where the Dutchman '
sat, seized his pipe and threw it out *
the window, remarking that people 1
should be ashamed to annoy others (
with the fumes of a filthy pipe. 2,'J'he 1
Dutchman sat still, but continued to '
keep his eye on the woman. Soon 1
ho saw something move in a bundle '
of shawls. It proved to bo a "pug *
dog." TRe Dutchman got up, went c
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, f threw it out the window, remarking t
at the same thne that it was a shame I
for a woman to annoy others witli c
an ugly lap dog. This story serves !
to point a moral: We often eon- s
demn in others something that finds I
its twin fault in ourselves. More- 1"
over, the people that aro most grievously
ofTonded with some fault on (I
the part of others are not infrequent- '
tly as grave sinners in soino otlier di- g
rection as is the man so readily con- h
demned. The man that constantly 0
harps on the dishonesty of others e
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A few centuries ago men wore
turned at the stake because they
lilTered from others in their religious
beliefs. It seems hard to believe
I hut, even in tlic brief history of this
:ouutry of ours, there should liave
been the burning of witches or tlie
prosecution for conscience sake. It
seems also strange that there should
oino about so complete a revolution
in so brief a time. The spirit of tolerance,
arul the right to worship God
lecording to the dictates of a man's
3\vn conscience, have come to be
principles in the hearts of men as
well as in the constitutions of governments.
What forces have conspired
to bring about this happy
resolution?
One of the chief forces in bringing
about this condition is the wide
spread education of the masses. The
dissemination of knowledge, and the
widening of the intellectual horiwn
result in giving men broader sympathies
and stronger self-control. The
multiplication of comrnoA scixwli la
n-_ . a * ?
i'U! ungiuiesc ioe Known among men,
For opposing intolerance. Every institution
or agent whoso mission is
the training of minds helps, on the
work of education. Rapid means of
communication and travel, interchange
of thought through tho newspapers,
the multiplication of books
and the accumulation of wealth have
bended to help on this work of enlightenment.
Men are not less loyal
to religious convictions than formerly.
but has in it less of bitter resentments.
Men are coi^eut to enforce
their religious convictions upon others
by an appeal to logic and not by
an appeal to bodily force. Nor has
this movement towards tolerance
seased.
The next one hundred years will
witness a marvelous progress towards
x complete annihilation of bitterness
and strife among religious opponents.
The Mohammedans converted a
continent at the point of the sword,
autthis feat was accomplished in
lie middle ages. Such a thing can
lever again be done in the history of
,!iis world. The average intelligence
las reached so high a degree that
luch an event , is excluded from tbe
ange of human possibility. By this
t is meant that sporadic sects,
preaching false doctrine, will not
irise, aud for a time prosper; but
hey are doomed to ultimate failure,
t is just this movement along eduational
lines that lias caused the
ihcological unrest and fhe remolding
?f religious creeds witnessed in rcent
years. Men must promulgate
heir theologies under tho searchI..1,1
n,l<,arw.A.v,?..4 1., ~ 11 1!.
i^u v v/& iui? ?i?jv.v;nniu III <111 I1IJCO U1
bought. Thero is little danger o[
oss cf truth. The husks will fall
iwav. The false will eotno to deitruction.
If in the storm of mental
ip-heaval in religious truth theto
ihould come the sinking of a theooglcal
ship liere and there, no groat
lurm will rosult to the cause of true
e'.igion. If creeds have to be re-adusted,
it is no sign that the cause
)f religion is sulTering. It may be
>ut the sifting out of the false and
he strengthening of the true.
1 Rli MISSIONARIES
RHSPONSIBLH?
Chekob Hey, the Turkish minister,
barges that our American missioniries
have incited the Americans to
ebel against the Sultan. This same
ihnrge was brought against the misilonaries
in China, and while the
sharge is utterly false in so far as the
motives of the missionaries are conlorncd,
it is nevertheless true that
,he gospel produces just this elTect.
Christ said on one occasion, I caine
lot to send peace, but a sword. lie
s yet the I'rince of peace and the
bought involved in the statement
s that the principles of the gospel
irouse the hatred and opposition of
hose who oppose the kingdom of
Christ. The missionary goes into
he land of oppression and crime if
le is true, ho preaches principles
irhicli lead to liberty and inculcate
ightcousness. As lio teaches, his
,caching draws out. the antagonism
>f all those whoso principles of life
ire contrary to the gospel, not that
he missionary makes people worse,
iut his teaching simply affords that
ipportunity which warms sin into
ife. The tyrant is never so oppreaivcly
active as when principles of
ibort.y are beginning to take root in
lis domain. The abominable Boxers
,nd the intolerable Turk are, no
loubt, both incited to deeds of viocnco
by the sublime teaching and
eiit.le life of the missionary. This.
lowever, should hut urge ull lovers
f truth to encourage inure than they
ver huve the heroic work of mislona.
nam iia i m ?a. IX I. k . i ??i?
Do nob parade your itla before (
others. An Invalid that persistently
and complalniDgly keeps reminding |
people of every ache and pain may ;
come to tho tiino that even the best
of friends and sympathizers will grow
weary. Besides, to keep your sickness
constantly in tnind, to "harp i
on it," brood over it?such n course I
hinders and almost makes impossible \
tilo desired restoration. Strangers \
an I mere acquaintances most as- J
suredly should be spared the having (
to listen to a recital of your misery, j
Some time ago the writer sat uowu
to dinner at a hotel. Onq of the i
guests whom lie had never Jeen he- i
fore began with a history bodily
ills that reached twenty back
and wound up with tc-rnent
that the doctors had used
pump 011 him for mouths. 1 he |
reader may well unoMfcUmd how )
hard it was to keep fcom^Soslng the )
appetite for food-while^99!k u pour- J
log out oi woe was }
it helped the !.? j
wpll enough. But 8WJi",iflPj^''.ly retime
hurts the felloMRjtho ha- t>>
listen, it becomes an itn ve dutyj j
that afflicted people shoin^. unfile the j
best of things and, cease the perpetual
complaining. Occasionally one
meets an invalid that soems "real )
proud" of being one. Such a woe- I
bogone, nevcr-get-weil expression is J
upon these unfortunatos th%t one
shivers upon the sight of them.
The school commissioners i Char- i
lotte, N. 0,, recently passed'a rul f
that the daily reading of tl^e Bible
in the graded schools of the city he
compulsory. Rev. Father Frkncis, a ;
CathoMc priest at the head Sf Peter's
church, that city, took stand i
a ;ainst tho regulation. He took (lie |
view that it was unjust to support J
those schools b> public taxation and
th^n compel the children of Oat ho- f
liol to listen to the reading of the }(
Protestant version of fcheBiblfc, "It i
is a poor rule that will not wor.^>both ;
ways." How about those cowtries f|
and communities in whlcti C?|^Jle!ics
predominate? The rule of th^pfiest
would have to be worked the Other (
way in all communities where'^.Oatholios
are in the rnajorit/i We believe
the priest is right. It if very
likely that he would, howeverjfrcfose
to be governed by the result!?' eon- <c
dition when Catholics are in tjl^ijr.d.
Vet, to be consistent; that is just vj
what he would have to do.
"Murder in this State is increasing 1
at such an alarming extent that 11
judges, In their charge to the grand jj
juries, are calling special attention
to it. Judge Bryan is quoted ns say- t
ing at Fayettville: d
"1 have it on tho host authority
that in North and South Carolina for
the past few years, there were more 8
murders in proportion to population
than elsewhere in tho United States, u
and that if tho same average were
maintained all over the United States
the number of murders for tho oast 0
year in this country, would have
been lo.UOO, more people than were
killed in the Philippines and Cuba
during the late war." ?
Judge Brown, in his charge to the 11
Durham grand jury, stated "there *
were -So homicides in this State last
year."?Monroe (N\ C.) Enquirer.
JONRSVITI J\ JOTTINGS. tt
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Several Handsome Residences Go- ''
ing up in This Hustling IJttle 0
Town?Memorial Services to he
Held Next Sunday?Other News. J
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J on ics villi:, Sept. 7.?Today is
quite pleasant and has some uppear- 1
ances of the September gales being S
near at hand. Since the hot wave
passed elf the weather has been very
pleasent and our people are unusual'
ly healthy. j
No special event has occurred in
our town since my last writing, but 9
news reaches the Telephone this 1
mornin" of a "gretna green" mar- 8
riage near Bonham yesterday; the t
contracting parties being Mr. Claud a
Bates and Miss Gallman. I have a
been expecting for lo these many
days to be able to report two or three
fashionable weddings in our community,
but these have not materialized 1
and I just have to withhold my pen, J
but I believe I will get her olT along 6
that lino some time in the near ^
future.
The late rains and lower temperature
has been favorable for sowing 1
and getting stands of turnips; while a
I ill II i fiiw niwii; III/ill IMglll/JT |JUr
cent. water, yot they are good food v
for people and for milch cows and
are a cheap and easy crop to make
Messrs. 8. <>. farmer, John M. u
Oault and John T. Scott are all n
building handsome residences in our w
town. Miss Sibby Spears is also o
building a nice cottage in town, and ^
many other residences are in con- ^
templaiioo. The Jonesville Manufacturing
Company is finishing up "
twenty operatives houses, and then w
the big brick store of tho J. J. Little- fi
john Co. is looming up on Main
street, which will have a front of t|
plate glass that cost .$2o(? and lias
already arrived, .
Memorial servico will he held in ')
tho Methodist church iiore next Sun- '
day and a murble tablet uuveiLd iu a,
honor of Mr. T. L. Jlauaes, deceased,
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'ho services will begin at 11 o'clock
, in. Bishop Duncan will deliver
n address and perhaps other adresses
will be made.
A protracted meeting will begin in
he Mothodist church here next Sunny
night. The public uro invited
o attend these scrvicen.
Six candidates for church meinberhip
were baptised at the pool here
esterday; they go to the Gilead
hurch.
Mr. J). Bothwcll Fant. County
uperintendent of Kducntioa, was in
ur town last week on business.
Mrs. G. B. Fowler has returned
rom Baltimore, whore she bought a
me and handsome lot of millinery
oods for the fall trade. Ali our
nerchants are receiving fall goods
nd they are expecting a large trade
his fall and winter.
Mr. T. T. Williams, who has had a
pell of fever, is convalescing now
nd will soon bo able to bo at bis
dace of business if he has no reupso.
There is but little fever in
ur community.
Mrs. Sallie Wellesford and Mr.
im Ray, of Tylersville, have been
isiting at Mr. W T. Littlejohn's.
Miss Dora Whitlock visited Mr.
dttlejohn's family Saturduy and
unday. Telephone,
News From GrimlalV
Kind l\e:idr>ra- it ir i-r\r\atmil T/.o.l
ng of Satan is a sure sign of him
laying among a people. He is at
he base of all lynching and shooting
tealing and gambling and all such
hings. Christians, move out from
mong you, those that buy and sell
t your church on the Sabbath day
or it is a day in which \vc should
praise God from whom all ble&nngs
low." At a negro meeting on
Vugu>t at Kelton there were two
pecial handholds for the devil and
lis angels which were lighting in the
oad near the church and selling at
he spring. Christians, if there he
ny, why stand ye all the day idle.
lGo and work in my vineyard and 1
lill give thee wages ere long."
In my community one can see numerous
dead pines, the cause I have
lot heard yet. Cotton is watched
nth eager eyes as you can sec lots
f it opening. We arc afraid to
icntiou the price "yet. Fodder is
eing stripped oft' the stalk, hay beag
cut, work on the river still fresh
fhile visiting is fast going out of
ushion among farmers.
The poets have got it scattered
bat "we arc living in a bicycld age" |
ml as a bicyle is a fast traveling
bing some people think they must |
ve accordingly ju Igjng from the
ge so many begin a married life.
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