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OUR PEOPLE M Dr. ftroughton's Striki With the Greed the Liquoi h At the Bnpti&t tabernacle Rev. L G. Brooghtcn spcke y sterday from the text, "I am Jehovah thy God. Thou ehalthavo no other gcds before me." ?Kx., 20: 2, ?. The pastor said: Going back some thirty-three centuries we find ourselves standing wii *ancient Israel at tho foot of Mt. Sinai, a rugged, picturesque mountain It :? iL:? ?ii?a. t \ - ? 13 IIUII1 I 11 13 |)l)lllt llllll I 11U UlVlIlf code is ushered forth. which we are to begin to study tonight. We shall study it, not so much in the light of ancient Israel, as in the light of the present day, These commandments have never been abrogated. The grace of the New Testament incorporates the law, and holds it before us with as much force as it was intended for Israel.' They are a wonderful setting forth of Diviue requirements, and so comprehensive that their scope has never been fully determined. THE COMMANDMENTS ANALYZED. Rev. G. Campbell Morgan, in speaking of these commandments, divides them as follows: "Of the ten words of Sinai the lirst fouftdoal with man's relation to God. Of these the firs' brings us face to face with the object of worship: 'Thou shalt have none other gods before Me.' The second reveals the true mode of worship: Thon shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor the likeness of any form that is in heaven above.' The order of the ] worship is to be spiritual, not ma-; terial. The third states that this re-; lation of man to God?that of wor-1 ship?is to be a perpetual one, gov- J aani nrv oil V* i n I i fa 'TUah aUnlt ??Ai I vtuiu^ an uic iuo , jLiivsu an a i v nut j take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.' The fourth provides that a specific seventh of man's time is to be set apart for the express and sole purpose of worshipping God: 'Re-j member the Sabbath day to keep it holy.' Having laid the basis of life and i character the Decalogue proceeds to deal with the relations of man to his * fallows. First comes the family relation : 'Honor thy father and thy mother;' second, 'Thou shalt not kill;' third, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery;' fourth, 'Thou shalt not steal P and fifth, 'Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.' The remaining one is also of a moral nature, but shows that the heart of men is to be jealously guarded against wrong desire : 'Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house,' and so forth." THE HKST COMMANDMENT. "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." You will observe that this commandment is introduced by the celebration : "I am Jehovah thy God." It is well to study for a moment this declaration. The word "Jehovah" is made up of three Hebrew words, which, when put together forming the one word, means, "He that will be, He that is, He that was"?a trinity of existence. So that if the mind stretches itself out into the unseeablo and unthinkable future. He is there. If the mind dwells upon the present with its marvellous manifestations. He is there. And if the mind is carried back even berore the beginning, He is there. "He that will be, He that is, and He that was." This is Jehovah. The word "God" used here is also of deep interest. It is the Hebrew word "Elchim," meaning "the supreme object of worship." Let us now look afresh at tho introduction to our commandment: "I am Jehovah t.hy God"?"I am Ho that will be, He that is, and He that was; the supreme object of worship." "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." ANCIENT IDOLATRY. The idols of ancient Israel wore of ' three kinds?Moloch, Baal and Mammon. "The worship of Moloch was the descent of man into the realm of awful cruelty, that of Baal took men through the depths of bestiality and impurity, and that of Mammon debased its devotees to the lust which dreams that power lurks in possession." These gods are still worshipped in all lands and among all peoples. They may go by other numes, but they are the same in force. Indeed, I doubt pot but that their power is more m Qi*lrnrl f a/^ o tr Ikon a?a?i * 1* " UV/UU-J Vtinil WY Oi UCIU1U 1 U tuc history of the world. The iron hand of Moloch is felt in every great center of population. Cruelty! Who is it that does not respond to the cry of the suffering and the needy? It is the devotee of Moloch. The Ood of Baal 1 Who does not see his slimy hand as the thousands and millions of fallen characters parado the streets and inhabit the alleys of darkness in tho great cities of the world? Who keeps them going? It is the worshippers of Baal, the god of bestiality. THE G0l> OK OUIC PKOPf.K. ( But it is not so much our purpose, at this time, to consider the gods of < Israel, or tho gods of our people, as | the god of our people. There is one i God over all othors who dominates i the afTections of tho race today. It i is the god of Mammon There is no j ((uostion about this. We are today a set of Mammon i worshippers. It is as true of Ameri- i can as any part of the world; indeed, i % 4D THEIR GODS 4 ng Sermon, Dealing for Gold and * Traffic. I believe iliHt America is tho leading nation of 1 ho uurth in the worship of Mammon. Wby do I say this? I say it because of the enormous and unparalleled grotd to get it. 1 road the other day of a heathen who, ir. order to appease the wrath .f bis god, cot arid gashed himself nd ?pi!I his heart's blood upon the ^rai d When found there was by his side a note which said, "I have done this to appease tho wrath of tny God." We look in pity upqn him because of lirs ignorance, lie knew nothing of the nature of true worship or the means hy which he might reach the e.ir and heart of his God. But how is this at home? Here we kn*<w better; bore, from our earliest recollection, we have been tnught, of God, we know of His ways, we are acouninted with the means of noness to Him, an.l yet many of us, instead of bowing the knee of humble submission to Him and giving Him the right of way in our hearts, are doing worse than the poor heathen?we are bowing to the god of wealth Some of us, perhaps, while not so rapidly Committing suicide in order to appease him, are as a matter of fact, step by step, taking our own lives in order that we may bring to ourselves wealth. Many a man is working late at night, losing his needed sleep, In order^hat he may lay up for himself treasures upon earth: many a housekeeper is straining her every nerve, overtaxing her physical strength, in ord^r that she may help lay up treasures upon earth. Sooner or later these will find that they have brought on thempelves misery and death. Ah, the god of Mammon ! How men will toil to get it! "Gold, gold, gold, gold,? Bright and yellow, hard und cold ; Hardened, graven, hammered and rolled, Heavy to get and light to hold. Scattired, bartered, bought and sold? Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled. Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old, To the very verge of the churchyard mold. The price of many a crime untold,? Gold, gold, g''d, gold." INSTANCES or MAMMON WHR8HIP. Now, it is ray intention to show you some instances of Mammon worship, so that we may be able to understand the extent and power of this, the God of our people. frirst. Let us look at the whiskey traffic. We have here in the United States over J100,?Xk? persons engaged in its ipanufacture and sale?more than twice as many people as nre engaged in preaching the word of God. We have about $2.0(X>.000.000 in vested in the traffic; we spend over $0.000,000,000 annually for it. A large per cent of the crime of our day is caused by it; almost all of our paupers are made by it. Think of the widows, the orphans, the starving in our land today as a result of this terrible work ! Why all this? Is it not because there is money in it? Dealers are growing rich upon the hard earnings of the laborer. Children are screaming for bread, and mothers are suiTering and dying from broken hearts. Ah, the misery, the misery, all because there is money in it! Only the other day, a brother came to me in agony of soul. His son, a bright youDgman, with ? lovely wife and a little family of children about him, had come off Saturday night to the city, and hero had fallen in with one of our so-called "social clubs," and, with bis month's earnings in his pocket, ho was led to remain uuder the influence of whiskey all night, drinking and gambling and reveling in sin. Not only all night, but all day Sunday, and all night Suuday night, until Monday morning, when he was found with not a cent in his pocket and his brain stupefied by the abominable stuff. Tell me, if we are not a set of Mammon worshipers, how can we account for such places among intelligent people? Why are such institutions allowed? Whv don't good men rise up and put down such things? It is because of the money represented by the men engaged in such places of destruction. This is the reason. It is always the reason when any dirty devilment is to be done. CHURCH MEMKSK9 AND WHI8KKY. And, again, if wo are not a set of Mammon worshipers, why is it that when an opportunity is presented to us as a people, so-called Christians, to wipe, by the power of our vote, this awful disgrace from the face of the land, we walk boldly up and cast our vote and influence on the side of retaining it? We say, it is because we do not believe in the destruction of personal liberty. But let us be honest. It is because we are afraid thut its abolishment will, to a certain extent, damage our business. And, coming nearer home to the church ll iL I. 1 I- li 4L - i injtii una, wny is it irittL some of our churches, yea, churches of our own name, churches in our own city, keep on their church books men who deal In this awful traffic? Or, why is it that prominent church members are allowed to rent their property for its sale? The church that does it might just as well acknowledge its idolatry. \nd the membors that are in loague with it have no claim upon the common respect of the cross-bearing jalnta who make up the church. ; PKETENDK1) ARISTOCRAT V, j Second. We also see the power of < money In the pretended r.riol,?cracy 1 oftheday. Say what we will, Atner- i lea has fostered an aristocracy more { damnable than the aristocracy *..f | Europe. Not u blooded aristocracy. We do not believe in that, or, at ] least we say so. Not an intellectual . aristocracy, because we know from 1 actual experience that some of these, \ ore the most complete ignoramuses J in the world. ! For irstance, I heard of o man | some time ago who had hy chance i fallen in with good luck and had ob- * tuined very rapidly a sriug fortune. J He desired that his daughter should ( be educated at one of the vrry best , musical conservatories. He sent her 1 there and the remained for two or three yeajs, but finally \ he president, of the school, being sn honest mm, man, wrote to her father, asking him to come and take her away, sajing that it must, be done immediately. J The father, incensed, came on the next train and demanded a reason. The president preceded to give him the exact reason for the treatment. Said he, "If you mn^t know the f*.c:s, she has not the capacity." "The capacity!" replied the man. ! Vhs, the capacity." "Well, why In the name of the earth, did you not say so? Don't you know that I am rich ?have plenty of money? What will the thing cost? I am able and ready to buy it." This but gives us nn illustration of what we find making up our modern aristocracy. S-? I say it is not basid on intellectuality, but it Is an aristocracy of money, to the total disregard of merit or worth. The man today who robs a railroad, or gets the agency of some corporation and steals $200,(MK) or $400.(KX), and comes home, bui'd* him a handsome residence. buys a handsome turnout and very fine clothes, though he may previously have been obscure and unknown, yet immediately he and his family are ushered into the very highest circles of so-called aociety. Again, it is also seen in the young man whose fat her may, perhaps, have a few extra thousand dollars, lie can wallow in the gutters of the streets Saturday night and all day Sunday, and Sunda\ night he will spend in h-Mises of ill-fume or some other den of infamy, and then goes out the next week, sobered up and accompanying the best girl in the city, and her father and mother think she is fortunate. Yes, we are a set of Mammon worshippers. A man. for instance, who by some means cheats his neighbor out of a fortune is honored, white the man living in the bark alley, his wife and children starving for something to eat, slips out in tne dark* at midnight, enters tny smokehouse, steals a side of meat and Is placed behind prison bars. Yes, and more still, if we are not worshipping today the moneyed aristocracy to the disregard ? of merit, why is it ttvit a man can serve for a brief length of time in the Q1 southern army, win for himself the title of general, come home and ac- w cept service in the Louisiana state si lotterv and f.Kpn (r#mh!o orirI fltfrciii/1 ir ? , O -his fellowroen out of handsome for- ?' live in open adultery and shame, nc and then when he does have the sc whole South pay him honor? A. MONEY AK1> POLITICS. ?' 6( ! Third. It dominates and controls the political world of day. We want no better illustration of Mammon in fc the United States than when we look q at what i9 termed politics. See it first showing its dirty hand in the primaries and conventions. The w man who puts up the most boodle is ^ the man who gets the plum. Rut, perhaps its dirtiest work is after the ^ politician has secured his right of election, for even then the standard h, of justice is entirely measured by the w money that is behind him. q Some years ago, when the Mormon 8( question was being considered in y Congress, New York, which [is the w head center of Mammonism in Amer- ffi lea, telegraphed to Congress, "New i.. York sold $151,000,000 in Utah last te year. Hands off." It is needless to say that hands were otT, and were off to stay. Another example : A few years ago jn those of us who remember anything w at all with reference to the campaign tt will recall how Robber Tariff and g( Free Silver was preached from every jq Democratic platform; but silver has j,, been adversely decided. Tariff is vnt. undecided. Why is this? It is simply because the goldbugs and Mam- tf. nuonites of the North have come down to the capital of our government and ? placed their dirty^hands upon the very throat of Jh'e administration from the President down, and dare them to move. We are a set of money worshippers. We are not the broad republic of which poets have run and statesmen have spoken, but we are a monarchy, whose monarch is the mighty dollar, whose power is not limited, bnt the point of whose sceptre touches the lakes In the north, the gulf in the south and the oceans east and west. The center of our government is not, as we have been taught from our earliest days, at Washington, D. C., but is in Wall j street, New York. * S<<UKEZIN<J THE DOI.LAK. Fourth?Again, it is seen also in the reluctance with which our people give it up. We have often heard the expression, "Squeeze the dollar until the eacrle hollers." This old *<!??<? << ot true, for if it were so there would be tonight such a squalling of eagles in the city of Atlanta as has never been heard in all the ages past. Money, my friends, is a good thing and no man has a right to object to it, provided it is obtained upon right Ij principles and expended in proper ways. Money is dependent for its power on the manner in whloh yon Ue 05BEBBBEBH ? dST* V I THE qj Our buyer has M Markets, and [a! brings us tons Ssj dise. Never b have we been m ful bargains a | LI ST E To the music c Us Itna on/1 2^2 ? -4 rj-i uuv ailU JU111 I rtj their way to 1 Pi the State. pK Red Wool Flannel 10 Ida Handkerchiefs two 1 LJ4 Dress Ginghams 5c ; Lot Remnant Calico oj Special Barg jlj Dres wj Just as good goods a ti{ cheaper, "that's all. EU your money back if ; $ The Rat f8 se it. A man in Winston, some years ago, hile playing with his little child, vallowed a silver dollar. It lodged i the oesphagus, just above the ;omach. Of course, he was very luch frightened, and immediately night the counsel of a physician, fter a great effort they succeeded in btaining it, when the man exclaim1: "Boys. I tell you, money is a ood thing, but not in a man's goozle." And so it is, money is dependent >r its power upon the way it is used. uu given men money in order tnat iey may glorify his name. What, len, today is the best method in hich to glorify God? Is it not by le building up of his Kingdom, by \e establishment of churches, by le education of the people, and by ie spread of the gospel to those who ave it not? Let us not think that e have fulfilled our obligations to od in this respect, for, while it may tern that we htive accomplished great lings along this line in the past, yet hen we take into consideration this ict>, that America is valued at near' $10,000,000,000, and only one-sixsenth per cent, is U9ed for the evanilization of the world, we will cerdnly change our minds. Oh, may the thunders of Sinai roar i our ears today and cause us to see hither we are drifting, that we may irn and worship only Jehovah, God. ime day we will wish we had. onoy is going to perish. Fame and mor will fade. The things we now ill pleasure will serve us no more, od help us to have something then tat will not fail. Get One Pound of BEST 50RRTED TALCUM for 25 CENTS at >UKE DRUG CO. ider Hotel Onion. | Onion, S. C. ] ' ./ cr *' 'ax:J- ' , - -12.? IV ATCI BATI ; just returned fron nearly every freigl i and tons of desir efore in the history in position to offer s we are now offer : N! LI! vf I All/ ? w a L4V/ 1 IVC5, ?111 he mighty host thi he Battery, the ch >c per yard; Men's Sox 2\ for 5c; Solid Mottled Out yard; Men's Elastic Susp< 4c per yard; One Lot 5c PI ains in Shoes, CI ;s Goods and Nol t The Battery as any othe " Our Motto: "Underbir you want it." VISIT THE lift Dry G< PROPRIETORS. Letter to Bailey-Copeland Co., Union, S. C. Dear Sirs: Clothing is just like naint. It iits or it don't: it wears or it uon't; turns weather and water or not; and goes out of fashion. What do we wear clothes for? Did you ever think of it? Different persons have different reasons, no doubt, but one paints Devoe for beauty, to be in the fashion, and keep-out water. Fashion says paint; we all paint. There is beauty in paint; we paint a good deal for that. And buildings are costly and fashionable ; put 011 a waterproof, two or three coats of paint, and your buildings last as long as you keep them dry. It costs nothing to paint, it costs your buildings not to. Devoe is the paint that lasts; disappointing paints are the paints that cost. Yours truly. 28 F. \V. Dkvoe Co. P. S. Ilnilev 1 r? n~ ~ iui^, vui su1i3 our paint. Citation to Kindred and Creditors. State of South Carolina, ) County of Union. jBy Jason M. Greer, Es(p, Probate Judge. Whereas, J. T. Jeter has made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administration on the estate of and effects of J. Woods Jeter, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said J. Woods Jeter, deceased, that they be and appear, before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Union C. H., South Carolina, on the 9th day of October, next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not he granted. Given under my hand and seal this 5th day of September Anno Domini, 1905. Jason M. Gkkkk, Probate Judge. Published on the 29th day of October, 1905, in Tub Union Timks. 39-2t Final Discharge. Notice is hereby given that H. C. Little, Guardian of tne Estate of Bessie Hemes, now Brown, has applied to Jason M. Greer, Judge of Probate, in and for the County of Union, for a final | ,i :??i... > " uiauiaivv us smell V i llfini lill). It Is Ordered, That the 30th day of October, A. D. 1905, be fixed for hearing of Petition, and a final settlement of said Kstatc. J a son M. Grkkr, Probate Judge Union County, S. C. Published in Tiie Union Times, September 20th, 1905. 30-4t When He Got Mad. The argument bo fllmBy, So trifling, did appear. He hadn't a log to atand on, And bo ho Htood on hla car. Hacks Away. "Jones shaves himself." "Trying to cheat the barber?" "No, the butcher I should Judge to look at him." ? ^.v.- ./M'ilfii'itMia^lhM 1 "?d! 17DV 8 MU I i the Northern qj ht that arrives M able Merchan= ? of The Battery ?s such wonder= ? nig. W v 3 T E N! | d then fall in j *a it are wenamg M leapest store in ? m m ' a pair; Men's 5c ings 5c; 1,000 Yards jnders 5c a pair; One jr! aids, 4c. fcH ===== lothing, Hats, fij ions. ? - ? r place; just a little WS y and Undersell, and Ms BATTERY. CD )ods Co., ? gggggggggj T H E Cash Bargain Store Has 44 inch Prunella at #1.00 per yard. 44 inch Prunella at 75c per yard. Figured Mohairs at 50c per yard. Embroidery Cloth at 25c per yard. 56 inch Repellant at 50c per yard. Silks from 25c to #1.00 per \ yard. Knitted corset covers only 25c each. We have just received a new line of ladies Neckwear in the latest and most up-todate styles. Come and get first choice. MRS. D. N. WILBURN. Prescriptions '7 There is just this much about it: If your prescription is filled by us, it is filled just exactly as the doctor intended that jit should be. It should afford you a good deal of satisfaction to know that. i WE DELIVER GOODS to any part of the city at ! any time. * \ ij fw Palmetto Drug Co., Huiot & Eeuwick, Owners.