The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, September 29, 1905, Image 8
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Dr. ftroughton's Striki
With the Greed
the Liquoi
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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
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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* "
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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
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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
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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. ?'
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! 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
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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.
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One Pound
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for
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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.
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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."
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Has 44 inch Prunella at #1.00
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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
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in the latest and most up-todate
styles. Come and get
first choice.
MRS. D. N. WILBURN.
Prescriptions
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There is just this much
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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.
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WE DELIVER GOODS
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