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. CHAKLOTTII PAILYOBSEUXIv, rtCLUBEIt -5T1C01. ' .r.A.CONVmiOXOVER preach th Goeprt to the wuolc wide j wort 0. W wiust, Ixs jul miw ore - - . " Irenerou. We Have so room 10 ao 1VD.W WAS TIIK IAsX D-T. lhomv we ar business men. men of sound, practical Jdoa, una IMS ming does pot appeal to ti. JV er willing and ready o do anything that Is rea sonable, but I command transcends reason it is fjuuiticai und unreusoii able,' "Ths eleven might have reasoned In thUi way. Perhaps. Home of them did.' But. If so. they reasoned still a Utile further. Ab they began in thorn quiet day f waltinx that followed, the - , it. 8eerer lrcchc Two Able ..((( on Ttw l4tHt Worrts f and u ws l Yienilshlu'' s ijl of Srrriions -KcNolMthMJS .1 iy ir 'Oman, or wwr cTi,rt: f HeolwUn bet t riiwl McMhkia of ttm tVeat Ct. i u Iwt v for ; tite CmUnai-Iiarxe . untb Mornliiff ihI night. r. J. JL B. Scherer, ; president of berry, fV)eiriS prfch two blellnartore of the Ird fwia among them '! to' the T. W '.C- At convention aa tbev begun, even ss m love to do Trytui Street Baptist inure yeter-;.,th ur owt reliearse alt this life i. So larfr r thft crowds tht;tvork uml Hls vvnr,ls nmoiiR them, it ,i a had to be placed along the a',le !,p,jv .luwned upon their now llluui- ...eornmodaie them. Or. Srhertr If ,.(l understmtdiiiRS that if this last , engaging speaker atid his erinnns;(,(lnnlimJ or Jesus won Impossible mid de i dots impression. unreasonable, then this whole Unsiwl U SCUEREIVS MOKNINO SKR- us 'possible and' unreasonable -they , k MON. -oust renoun. e it nil. Peter and An-L On the text, "Jesus came and upake.drew looked back to titxt day when 1 , nto them." Matthew xxviii. M. he Jesus saw them at tlw ir hard tank of!( Id til part: ,UshlnK. ami said. I win miiKe. ou; Onay tor to and far. far away.; fishers of nu n.' John recalled that I i little 'group of men were gathered In 'Wonderful spring niRlit when the ruler ' wooded gloom Of a secluded upland,: ha, 1 come secret ly to Jesus, and how earby a country village. They werejJcsrs had caught up and condemied i a eWHlUw of Kl I amed excitement,! His whole iowpsM Into one marvelous tetisa suspense, of troubled but alert golden vera.' (John Hi. Matthew i vraxfanrv. . Thev were about to list- reinemlwreil that glorious day of para- leu io th parting words of their very; blew, when Jesus had npoken IiIh wven I ! t ' friend. Iplcture-aerrnotis there by the Iike of1 "How touch heed we Rive to the luHlMjalihf. and n mwl'lenly .i.uvneiw upon words of a dying friend: We iH-ndj Matthew, that evt ry "if f those seven iver him B he fight his final battle, parables men tit the world-uidc m opc Mud neek' ever o eagerly thai his last.t'f the i;opl. Vft, and they thought word may not mUw us. And if thoseiton or those otln r iMirables. which wnrda hniire to take the form of all. like eventually gathered and bound in iufpt. how anxious wo are to see;tliv veiy heart of his beautiful iJonprll I that the' request shall be fullllled! "Hut thla was ttot a death-bed scene. U W out ill the orpen nlr under the ir.eB that hud been kind to him among: the flower and bird-soiiRS of t!ie Spring, our Master gathered His faithful eleven for the very parting ojda.. Me waa in the possession of all ilia faculties- He realized fully that lie Wan about to leave them, and that He had aa opportunity to Impress them in a very unusual and rmphatit way; for thuy understood, as well as He, that lie wa about to go, and they hung uimn Hi every word. They plied Hlni uith eager questions, that thronged for answer, now that they knew He would so soon be out of their hcnrlng. Hut Ht put everything gently, yet firmly, aside that interfered with the direct simplicity of His final Important re o.uest At length He spoke it, with the utmost intensity of emphasis, so that trailed by the nkeptli- Itinaii. the most beautiful hook in lite wotli), because I .like was a fieiittlc himself, ii itl Hi likeil to lii-ar of the vrodigal son. and the lost coin, and the ninety jukI nine. Then they thought. I dare say, of those solemn last days before tne . t tit ttixlon, when Jesus had pictured the Mum I Jtifig meiit 'liefure Him snail be gathered nil the nations.' And then it dashed on fhetii, too. that this last command of Jesus was really His first command ment, and the only commandment lie hud given that was !tw. .Moses had given ten commandments -Jesus, only one. 'This new commandment I give unto you, thai ye love one another.' They saw that His lust command was but a consummation and summary of His whole Gospel. "And ho they went preaching the word. Ami ble became possible, for '4 1 i ; i . 1 1 - J jV. . UA'-- Flavor all its Ou i At First Class Grocers 4 ' r v' J- .;,.; t rif 0M m iJVR ' the stocks of apparel bo lafislih pWini&d ioi A (SnAPcQ? - men. ThcrcJs a wide Vange pf sVtcsTwl' EOTHESiLi ii ' V i he message burned itself hot forever! bloodiest tipposition the in their eager, tumultuous hearts. 'I heni- as, with outstretched hands, He Messed them there, suddenly the elev en ' found themselves alone, for Jesus IuhI spoken His final earthly words, and had gone back to His home. In heaven.-' "They stood for ,a while dumb and i umb vttb a sense of utter irreparable lossJust n some of you have felt wiieii you knew the very last words hud been sjioken, ami 'your friend was gone. But then they came to them-wlves.-i these eleven Judean peasants, and found burning In their feverish, restless . hearts their Master's lust request. I think they realixed then that they still hud something to live for. lilt.' Is a Very sad satisfaction, and yet it fa, after all. a satisfaction, to realise that though we misunderstood our friend when living, md often pain ed him, yet now that he ts gone, here it? his parting request for us to see to. There was John, the loving. He saw that there, was something left for him to do .' for his Master, and that he might seek to drown his sorrowful sense of loss amid the waves of a world-Wide work. There was Philip, tlio' mutter of fact, the, pmcUcal how this; last request must navo appealed to hlni! '. There was Thomas, sore from the, memory of his stupid skepticism: now ho could do out and prove by actions, Which speak louder than words, that Jesus waa In truth his Ird ami his God. And there was l'etcr, smart ing with a recollection of vain boast -fulness? that bad resulted In a treach erous dental oh. how glad he was that the liord had given him this final, but continuous, opportunity to alone by a, types. China Is whole life of faithful M-rvlee for his, very eyes, and hour of faithless weakness. And so the,t eleven returned Into the city from the woodland near Jtethany. a relent lest, purpose inspiring them, filled with an indomitable will to do their Master's final bidding. ' ;'But He had set them an Impossible taskiwjla had assigned tnem an utterly unfeasible and Impracticable command -r'QO 5" Into all the World and pre:iehJ risen to every creature.' Eleven Judean peasants. Ignorant poor, utterl with out social ssltion or political iuilu cnce,sent out Into the great ltoman world of conquerors with its golden milestone iu the. center of the lloinan Forum,,' and its roads stretching from ihe Euphrates In the east to the Pillars of HeretJles in the west, from the Dan 'i be. -on?, ..the. north to Ethiopia on the south, thus covering an area of S.OOO.OUU fquttrfc; jtnlles. over this immense sur face,?. Images of gods and goddesses. everywhere, the iinpossl desnite the Ki.un.iu woil'l could devise, yet by the end of the first Christian century, those eleven Judean peasants had so obeyed that Impossible commandment that the Gospel had bei n preached from Baby lon to Spain, from Alexandria to Itome. und In the year 32", thl' whole Roman world became Christian by imperial decree. Not only so, the unreasonable hud 'proved to be reason-nli1.-'J'liveiti-strlcken when they began, now in (he time of Constantine. the home church finds its coffers overllowlug; unlearned men, now n is noteo ior us wisuom.i despised then, now lift' Christians are' the honored olttcers of Hiale...Ah. with men It is impossible, but not with Cod. With men 'God's reason.1' may' seem un reasonable, but that is lw.-ause Ills rea son is the infinite reason, which we cannot comprehend. Ttie- fear of the t.oril is th- beginning of wisdom, and to keep iUIs t iimmandmeiils, untllnch Ing and uiKiiiesqtionlng, Is Miv reason able course. "Their successors carried ' t he Gospel story successively to the Unths. the Irish, the Scotch, the English, and the Germans, until to-day the whole west ern world is blessed with the radiance of the sun of righteousness. "Ittit bow with the flistant Kasf. l-et me say to you. 1 believe the Church to-day has richer opport trfttt y" to fulfil the hist command of Jesus than in itnv age since apostolic days. China is awakening a nation that comprises a third of the population or the 'globe- a nation that has ahow'ir 'ITs " woudrmis strength In days gone by in the Inven tion of gunpowder, the mariners' com pass mid printing press wit ti movable jwakenlug b-'fore out Japan will be h-r at Iter. The little island eninirc is the strategic center for ihu operations of the i( mies of th- lo'd of (lusts. As Japan lends, so the East will fol low - lie sure of that. j;t us obey the bust command of Jesus, ami go to the. 'Sunrise l.amr with the rlifging mes sage 'Aline, shine, for II, j light s conic, an. I i he glorv of the l.,.r,l u upon thee.- So shall the king of this world become ihe kiny of our j,r, ;l!ld IlliCCiiilst. and r and e SEP VICES. oojns doms II shall lolgn fotcvi 'I'll K X'GHT At t ion the follow ing resulut,,i "We desire thanks for u, log this, the Ih. . i.,s-ing services ,,f the .-olivf-ll-last lutein. I't. Isabel I'.man, of 'oliVet-'e I'nlleue fail!t. .'cl.l 111, repot t for ihe . omuiit or to extend nur.t lH,,rl courtesies ft (. ci etl ilur tlrst. a una 1 1 c, .,, v . ,,, sacred groves, altars, temples ami, of the Young Woman's ChriMtan . sllHnni betokened n world given nverj s.iclatlon of the I'arolln.is. Kirs; M 'o idolatry. '. Kteven jssir. unlearned I he world s lommittrc fr s, o,lii,K ud desplm-d Jews, sent out to preach ; Gi.ulding. .uel t the Am. rj, an' ...in 'if Gospel' to 'WH'ry creututv' of the; initio for sen. hug Misses H.,s aia! i.iudied inillimi of this vast and mightyj Hridges, and to the stud, tits' ilunt,. ojil . flllightened world-empire! Pis-, movement for s. tiditii Mis. Thurston irlebitig? IiHhearteuliig js not the to be with and help us. Se.oud. (.. the he ..ills down fire uyon the Samari tans, bin it Is the lite id the Holy Ghost. lie Is the same vehement man, but the course of his life is changed. Throughout Revelation, which he wrote w hen he u :;s a young man, reverbe rates the 1 ole of thunder. Spc iking Irt the yetting women, espe cially, on personal work, ht1 said, "He is wise that wiuncth souls '' Look out ward and lot inward, as did John, whom Jesus love I, " not John w h loved Jesus. I.eain Jesus, and soul-w inning follows inevitably. The happy lotidi liou of our womanhood, the purity f our homes, is due to our knowledge of. ami friendship with. Christ. lie' im pressed the beauty of the ttti""Hihiiess which holds tlial "To endure and to pardon is the wisdom of life," It is a mystery, but it Is lute that Jesus yet reaches down 'roni heaven and Im parts to us His friendship, the life uf Ills life. After the sermon the congregation was dismissed and only Y. W. C. A. members remained for the finalities of Ihe convention. Air. rioyil (.icsliaiii's Accident. Mr. Kioyd Gresham was out on crutches veslerday and Inld his I'rirtitls of how he had a collision the night before when running to the stable lire, lie was passing Hrannoti ti drug store when his foot caught against lhat of a negro woman who was corning up the vide street. Mr. Cresham was thrown violently In the pa v cni.nl . smashing his knee very badly and susi.iini:i. severe bruises. He was taken in Hie Presbyterian Hospital and Ins wounds were dressed, so that he was able to get abotl. yesterday. i;e gi'icK. Not a nilntite should he lust w l-.-t a child shows symptoms of croup Cha in lierla ill's Cough lienie.ly. giT as .soon as ih.. child becomes hoarse or even after the rroiipy cough ap pears, will prevent the attack. never fails, and Is pleasant and safe to lake. 1'ot sale by K. II. Jordan & Co. word; it was Impossible "And-, It was also an unreasonable i ommand. There are those millions of i I'ghleijed Romans with their vast not Id-power In their hands Is it not unreasonable to think toat their relig ion Is not of ns much value to them as curs IS to u'- Will they not think us picsyaiipiunus-uiiu r)git:y tvi - if vve go to them Jind try i foist upon them a new religion, of which they have never heard? ?Vhy. It will eeu rntlse fevolu ttoos among then., because Jesus llini ' if has said Unit you tannnt put new utue Itilo old IsitHes without an ex- !' Mini. Jiesples, -leMUK wiiH a man of! generous Helps, and lastly, to ih. .ne. bhall vte. Ills flisclples, go out ,d sow discord and conteiitioit among e u.lUotis who fefiottld not learn war unv.mor? Nor 4s ihul ail. What is ? i e use Of Our gomg? Jesus has shown that-God in love. He also has : Might US that God is the father of i mankind, and that Ife is ifil power I 1o work His wgi where and when pleases.'. Js this loving God going -c.owfcinw , toj pumshin.'iJt all these! inons iJt Jutflllgent 3oman cltir.cns' op'y i)ecaP8i they have never heard) lo,""! 'Or. if He wjv.rs them to bp I "1. at He not save them, in His v ii-ft' way? All power is given ' m-then surely He will use it ' ve and save His children with o fiehlt aid.' c - t . onlsr.-HO.' Ihey flight have jir , -out this commandment is tmi-ea-. mo n1so ns It applies to ns ami: to own imniedJate meeds, . iok at ti'tW-chiHvh here In Jer ttsalem! y P' tiiefnhers, an tM. No bunding; ' i oi-ut'fienoain ior' ua ptae oc i on the charity of such of Jtg is as iMtn furnish a'.rtNim large t io Hfit";JhP jrlttlc jpongregatianj n ljr,t said loneglrt at Jeru ,nd io tarry here ten dais tons-1 but it wilt take years and years ' ' r church here Is strong enough . it twcii, UiUtU lewt v UUti illv eiiy association of ( harlot:, for ti, hearty co-operation and siii,ort. Till to the Presbyterian and I'.lizabci a c leges for their enjoyable nu'si, a the hospitalities shown us. Fourth. Ihe pastors of tin Htv for lli-ir , operation and support, and esp.., j t the pastor and people of Trvou Street paptist church tor Me ,ne of their hiir.li building Fifth. :., M,s Rollins. f,,r reporting, and to the pr.-s. for daily noting tb,. pro. e. dings of the convent Inn. Sixth. .. the speakers Whose addresses have been so helpful Seventh, to the W oman's Club for their Ileo. pie ot natiotte for their i.irdlal wel come ami Ktudly hospitality, and for an me ma ny al teiitions shown us. that nave niaoo of first annual conventlan a success. !-!. M'lII.RERS NIGHT SERMON. The subject of Dr. S. her. i s sermon i.ihl night wis "The Friendship Jesus. Ihe ch.i meter which lie .hose for illiiMration was John, ih., n.-i,,,...i aiscipie. Jesus c:ilie, .hn a sui nt thunder, the term denoting u hment nature As electricity gathers iu the cloud until It becomes over-charged and vents itself as lightning and thunder, so John's vehemence would burst forth under stress of strong feeling. He wait ambitious. Intolerant, vengeful. Of the f-ainniit.iris who hud amused his in diiiation. ho said, "Master, let us call down fire from heaven ami destroy the village."'' "You know not," Jesus re-; Plied, -"what, -spirit you are. of," Thej puiuiers nave not tru e i.ivonu.i Johrv AS 9., itian of rfXeminate ffu'.ures pwt dovo eyes; the scuPdorS have" had . urri.ee conception ot mm ns a, soar ing wngie. such a man na he Is tt-emen-dously for good of (or evil. Hut John lost himself when he found Jesus, ln his Oosoel he never call himself by name ho refers to himself as one who loves Jesus, but ns "the tia. ciple wham Jtsus lvve'i,! Now, iiideed.1 If You Are Going to the Theatre don't for get your Opera Glasses. If ou haven't a pair we can suppl) your wants in thisdirection. We have only the bet qualities, but at prices that will suit you. We can sho yon ihe largest selection in the city. No trouble to show them. 4 Wouldn't ane of i our HEATERS make your room feel more com' 1 fortable thfs 2 morning 1 9 1 J.N. McCausIand & Co SOimi TRYON STREET LIBRARY VOTING TICKETS. 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