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gSTafiT.TSgWI ftf IBM :::: : r ' : - . : 1 . '.' . ' HILLSBORQ, N. p.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 20, 1906. NEW SERIES-VOL. XXV. NO. 44. -Boy. Girl 3F lO Xhe iriiJ wriHncr T& cowiuon most art tekan?' "I EDHATI0N wOl'givo WidO ta.ukd.. - ' -' J. . r : " last birthday, bo ot sign name to bottom ofcompoE l!S?'?nd ?US'1have Plede.at botto yig that writer has received no aid, and was not ahty. Tbprize winmng domposiUons wiU SSSSSi tTHE SSKlSt which will remove All papers must reach Us by October 1, 1906. COUNTY . OBSEBVIMand the Chapel Hill News, over the signature of the Ja s- V QRQtt, pesires an account FOUR PER CENT. , . . THE PULPIT. AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY 'THE REV. EARL E. CLEELAND. Subject: Christ in Getliscmanc. in0yn' N- Y--snday morning, m the Classon Avenue Presbyterian virCat th stant pastor, ; .ev. 'rli- , . CIesland. preached on nrist in Gethsemane." Anions Ctaer things he said: The text to which I ask your atten tion is found in the twenty-sixth chapter of Matthew, at the thirty iimth verse: "My Father, If it be possible, let this cup pass awav from nevertheless' not as I will, but us Thou wilt," which are the words, s Matthew has recorded them, of the thrice repeated prayer of our Lord in the place called Gethsemane. ;ou recall the account of the Last Supper of the Lord with His disci ples, and the dark, rcene in Geth semane which immediately followed. Telling the disciples to "sit ve here while I go yonder and pray," Jesus took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee" (James and John), "and began to be sorrowful and sore troubled. Then saith He unto taem, 'My soul Is exceeding sorrowful, even unto d?ath; abide ye here and watch with Me.' And He. went forward a little and fell on His face and prayed, saying: 'My Father, if it be possible let this cup pas3 away from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou wilt." The gospel according to Luke goes on to tell us that then "there appeared unto Him an angel from heaven, strengthening Him, and being in an agony He pra3red more earnestly, and His sweat became as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground." I choose this text to-day aa the result of a conversation some ten days ago, with one.of ths members of this church, and at the outset I want to acknowledge ray indebtedness to him for the. suggestion of this ser pen. Hany passages, in Ecripture, are variously interpreted and differently understood by Christian people, and students of the Bible especially, and often one w! ! find that the great comnentators themselves are almost diametrically opposed to each other in the interpretations which they make. I find that our text to-day is one of those disputed passages. Sev eral of the authorities which I have consulted in the study of this prayer of Christ in Gethsemine took the view that Jesus feared and recoiled at the thought of Kls approaching death on the cross, and thus prayed to God, Hia Father, trying, if it were possible, to bend His will, and have the end accomplished by some other way than the cross. Only one commentator, as I recall now, took the view that our Lord's agonized prayer was instigated by the over whelming thought that He feared His lifo would be crushed out under neath the strain of mental suffering He was undsrgoing, before x He. reached the cross, and thus He prayed that this cup pass away from Him. ' The majority of Christian people, I believe, and as I find, more of the commentators do, attribute Christ's suffering in Gethsemane to the weak ness of His flesh, or humanity, to face the death that was before Him, and they interpret our text ip this light. I am inclined, however, to cast my lot with the minority, and interpret Christ's prayer as a plea to God for strength, that His life wduld not be crushed out underneath His terrible agony before -the time appointed through all the ages of jirophecy be fore Him that of His atonement on the cros3 for the sins of men. And in treating this passage let it be un derstood that anything I may say has doubtless been said hundreds of times before. I only wish to try to show, from Scripture, my -position, and therefore make no claims. ' I see no necessity of exercising our imaginations -in endeavoring to show mysterious causes for our Lord's state of mind in this, prayer, when the reason for His agitation is plainly given in the Scriptural account itself. But now about this prayer of our Lord In the garden of ; Gethsemane, It seems incredible almost to think that Christian people will attribute less courage to the Son of God than they have eeen in hundreds of exam ples of fe&rl8&fes through all the tcnturka pm, T&mx ol the thou- tha r ... ' -I-W' . f3fc President. with every man, Woman and child in on.. iNTcprcr o a i i i i tw vin i ii sands of people who have unfiinon ingly faced death and died a martyr's death with scarcely a quiver. And it would be almost irreverent in us at such a time as this to think of the numerous cases of criminals who walk with unfaltering steps to tho electric chair or ascend the gallows with all appearance of calmness. Some commentators, as has al ready been said, interpret this prayer as a revolting or halting of Christ at the thought of the approaching crucifixion, and the horrors which, preceded it, and attendant to it; the betrayal of Judas; Peter's denial, and the desertion of His disciples and all His followers; the humiliating trial, and insults of the rabble, and the lingering death on the cross. That it was because of the horrors of all these things that Christ here meant to . ask God if there wrrs not some other way of atoning for the sins.of men, and that Christ only yielded to the cross to fulfill His Fatherfs will. Those who advocate this view would thus make it out that our Lordjfor got for the moment, by reason of) His suffering, the prophecies, and the plan of God in His redemption of the world, throughout the history of Israel; or if Christ did ,not forget that He tried to bend His Father's will to an atonement by some 'other way, and that Christ finsilly. after three unsuccessful, attempts to 'bend God's will, yielded to thecross. ' Why Christian people try to, ex plain away this prayecr dn any such a weak way is difficult to-understand. What doe3 Christianity want with a weak Christ who feared a martyr's death? Our Lord was "a bnan of sor rows and acquainted withsrief," and had been for three yeani preparing for the cross, and had on pveral oc casions before this told Hs disciples of the manner of His deat i, and they could not understand at ihe time. To my mind, this praysr of Jesv.a snows, on the contrary, the bravery of our Lord, and does not show any weakness. I am inclined to think that Christ had ,no thoujght of the cross during the . time inf which He made this prayer, .save in His remote consciousness; bait He vks, just at that moment, featf ul that; His mortal body would succumb to me terrible strain He was passing irough, dur ing this awful hour in teathsemane. He felt that His life would -be crushed out by this terrible lagaaxy, (before He reached the cross- lor . doeh not one of the accounts te(Jl us Christ's own words, "My soul is lexceedin g sorrow ful, even unto death," anil another that, "being in agoxry Ere prayed more earnestly;- and His sweat be came as it were! great Vircrps of blood falling down upon the grojund." And God heard and answered His prayer by sending an ,angel frojm heaven, strengthening Hfm. Jesus was not, here.i seeking to bend His Father's will J but asking God for strength to rfch, the cross, and God sent an angel ,in answer to that prayer. This is'tfce scriptural account of why our- Lord was :n agon . This cup, whiefc. Christ was drinking to the dregs, was the cup of God's wrath upon the (sins of men. Christ was drinking tae bitterness of the cup in our stead. His bloody sweat was a snrinkling, an antici pated atonement, upon the very ground which hadvjbeen f '.cursed be cause of man's sin No;jl imagination; can feel, no words can wflescrlbe the agony that Christ haato bear in. Gethsemane. So why need we search our imagi nations and try to manufacture mys terious explanations why Christ made this prayer when the answer and reason for, the prayer, is given in the very account itself, in the necessity of the angel's appearance?, When Jesus said, "not My will, but Thine, be done,'" He resigned Himself to God's will. If He should die of agony, it was God's wilU but prayed that this cup should pass from j '.m. But His atoning death was not to be there in Gethsemane, in the night, but He was to be lifted nrion the cress of Calvary in order that all men would be drawn unto Him. ' We know that Christ s was a sensi tive nature but this is, not saying that He was not brave. And there is no reason to believe that He, in anti cipation of His death, would yield to the thought any more than an ordinary-man. So, therefore, because He suffered "even unto death, as He did, in the Garden of Gethsem ane, is in itself an argument that He was bearing more than the antici pation, . . So, therefore, let us not confound Chrtot'n jBuffpR la Getbflemaw to nr, vne nar, ail 10 D0 SeleCtoa (?.-Cj COLLI MS, 2i9fe Cou"ty. vie utLrtoITo lack of fortitude or braverv. Our I Jord was no stoic. He here felt that His physical body was giving way under an agony which no language can describe. Throughout the whole Old Testa ment period Gfod, under the Levitical code o laws, educated His chosen people to the fact that without the shedding of blood there was no re mission of sins. All these forms of sacri ficial atonement of the sins of Israel wire typical of Christ, the Lamb of God. And can it be supposed for one moment that our Lord did not fully realize this in Gethsemane? And throughout the whole New Tes tament gospel, it is plainly stated everywhere that our peace is through the blood of the cross. Surely then that great Paschal Lamb of God that was to take away the sins of the world did not hesitate nor falter at the approoach of the atonement by the shedding of His blood upon Ue cross. It was for the 'joy that .. as set before Him that He endured the cross and despised shame, and He won thereby His seat at the right hand of the throne of God. The staggering of Christ's physical body underneath this tremendous burden -lust not be mistaken faltering of His will. or a The Bible. This Book unfolds Jehovah's mind. This- Voice.Galutes-tn accents kind. This Fountain has its source on" high. This Friend will all you need sup Ply. This Mine affords us boundless wealth. , This Good Physician gives us health. , . This Sun renews and warms the soul. This Sword both wounds and makes us whole. This Letter shows our sins for given. This Guide conducts us safe to heaven. .This Charter has been sealed witl blood. This Volume is the Word of God, God's Best, It is impossible to rush into God's presence, catch up anything we fancy, and run off with it. To attempt this will end in mere delusion and disap pointment. Nature will not unveil her rarest beauty to the chance tour ist. Pictures which are the result of a life work do not disclose their se cret loveliness to the saunterer down a gallery. No character can be read at a glance. And God's best cannot be ours apart from patient waiting in His holy presence, writes the Rev. F. B. Meyer." The superficial may be put off with a parable, a pretty story, but it is not given to such to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven. -Ram's Horn. Work on Your Knees. A clergyman, walking on the pub lic: highway, observed a poor man breakinc stones, and kneeling the while so that he might be able to do it. more effectually. Passing him and saluting him, he remarked: "Ah, John, I wish I could break the - stony hearts of my hearers as easily as you are breaking those stones." "Perhaps, master," he said, "you do not work pn your knees." Prayer brings down the power that can break 'the flintiest heartChris tian Commonwealth. Revealed by Love Alone. Intellect may give keenness of dis cernment. Love alone gives large ness to the nature, some share in the comprehensiveness of God. John Hamilton Thom. Stand On One Leg. There appears to be no end to the variety of health exercises, and the latest is the most novel of them all. "Standing on one leg," asserts Stylites, "is the finest exercise in the world." He devotes a quarter cf an ihour by the clock to it every day, and on one misguided occasion he ac tually kept his balance for twenty-five minutes at a stretch, "it exercises every muscle in the body," he de clares, "and keeps me in tip-top con dition. I should advise your readers to begin with a minute at a time. They will find -it' quite enough." Ttt-BHa. A. JOT WU1 KWe a bV the Winner frnm nur anUm Cashier. OF and will gladly furnish information. Spraying the Orchard. This is an important operation. Ev ery fruit-grower should have his sta tion reports and bulletins handy for consultation, so that he may make no mistakes in this important matter. Spraying has been condemned , by some because t they did not know when to spray, what to spray with, ;nor what they were spraying for. Good Green Forage. Wheat is an excellent green forage, and ordinarily its use will immediate ly follow that of rye. It contains on the average a little more water than the rye, though its dry matter is richer in nitrogen. The seeding and treatment may be the same as for rye, though on the same character of soil larger yields of rye than of wheat may be obtained because of the greater foraging power of the rye. ? Dr. E. B. Voorhees, New Jersey. , -. Ptenty f.-Water. , A farm that is supplied with plenty of water both at the house and at the barns and pastures, is generally apt to be a valuable one. With good management whatever is needed for the stock, with the exception of water, can generally be produced, but secur ing water is altogether another propo sition, unless nature has kindly lent her assistance in this matter. Where there is a lack of water there is noth ing else that can supply the want. The farmer whose place is possessed of, or near, living springs so that he can secure the water by means of gravitation, can indeed consider him self even more than fortunate. How He Does It. In an address before the Minnesota Dairy Association, I, A. Sweet gave his methods of making his dairy cow,s average him $68 per head per year. Some of the points he mentioned were as follows: Breed or buy a good class of dairy cows. Provide good, warm, well-ventilated stables for winter, with plenty of the right kind of feed. Feed regularly, and abundantly, but not more than necessary. Milk speedily, but gently, never maltreating or ex citing the cow in any way. Make pets of your cows, and treat them gently and kindly at all times. Never ex pose them to cold in winter don't let them run in the yard any day that is so cold you cannot work out with bare hands. Warm their water in winter, Provide plenty of good bedding, with' a drop behind the cows to hold 'the animal refuse, so the cow will be kept absolutely -( clean at all times; Never let the . cow out around the straw stack and in the cornfield to fill up on an article of food that will not pro duce milk. Let the dry cow and the young cattle pick on this. Give her uniform feed and care don't turn out one day, keep in the next, turn into the field the next. That will make her uneasy, and will dry her off she dislikes changes. , Butter Making. According to Guy Mitchell one of the most valuable of recent bulletins from the department of Agriculture press is that recently issued (No. 241) treating on "Butter-making on the Farm." Written in the non-technical manner that characterizes the bulle tins promulgated by Professor Web sterit at once appeals to the average farmer, and treats. of matters of vital importance to him In his business. It recommends- cleanliness above all else in milking, care of the cow, stable, utensils, surroundings and so on. The I presence of bact ria in the milk or its products has a tendency to cause fer mentation and a consequent spoiling of the milk or butter. Milk is often spoiled by allowing it to stand in the stand too long after it has been drawn, for it absorbs odor of the air, and odors of the b&nf are therefore, .very C0Mte utflt o Wtofr Clothing, include one Suit of - & 1 Wl C H AS. A SCOTT, DEPOSITS FROM much In evidence. . For this reason the milk should be removed to a place free from odors. The bulletin de scribes in detail the rroper method of constructing a suitable room in which to store the milk and means of keeping it cooL The cream separator and methods of Its operation are fully described in this work. After sepa ration it is necessary that the cream should be ripened before mailing it in to butter. . Cottage Cheese. Many housewives who have skimmed milk to spare make it into those pal atable little luxuries, cottage cheeses. It will interest them and others as well to 'learn that at the Minnesota Station they have been experimenting as to their food value as compared with beef and other meats, using working men as subjects for the tests. Pound for pound, the report states, cottage cheese prepared with cream compares in composition and digesti bility with the meats. Where skim med milk can be procured at a low cost, x cottage cheese . is one of the most economical foods that can be used. The addition of cream to it fa vorably influences both its nutritive value and its palatability without in creasing the .cost above, that of other meats. Upon the farm where milk is produced, cottage' cheese is one of the cheapest foods that can be used. It is worth mentioning that the ex periment demonstrated that lean ba con contained as much protein and about twice as much digestible fat as other meats, making it at the same time, even at a higher price per pound, a cheaper food than other meats. Ba can fat is easily digested, and when combined ,with other foods, it appears to exert a favorable mechanical action upon digestion. Farm Notes. There, should be better live stock on. the farm, more soil improvemeiit, better seed and better tillage. Charcoal fed poultry while fatten ing i3 apt to whiten the skin. Buck wheat has a like tendency. Sheep, should always be fat when marketed. Fat is produced cheaper than lean, hence there is more profit. Nothing pays better in the manage ment of a herd of dairy cows tfcan regularity in feeding and caring for them. The Wisconsin Station has found that cows fed soiling crops without pasture consumed from 75 to 100 pounds of forage daily. A lousy hog will eat as much, if not more, than an animal not . troubled with these pests, and still make slow progress in growth and fat formation. A large proportion of the substance of an egg is water. Hens should have a liberal supply of water from some source. Eggs cannot be made out of dry grain. Only a rich man can afford to keep poor cows. The poor man must keep only the best he can get until they bring him enough wealth to enable him to raise or use scrubs. Make arrangements to have s;ome good covering material handy so that all half-hardy plants and the strawberry bed can be given proper protection through the winter. Marsh hJ.y or clean straw. Keep a close watch for poultry lice and mites these days. It does not take a very high temperature . t o set these pests at work at a lively rate. Lice-killers are cheap, numerous and effective. It pays to use them. "A brood sow should never be too fat, but bear in mind that it is next to impossible to make her so by feeding; the sow should have an abundance of exercise, and with that there is no danger of too much fat being accumu lated. While the quality of the' feed given to hogs has much to do with the quali ty of the pork, the surroundings must also have careful attention. A clean and healthy ration will lose much of its desired effect, if the surroundings are filthy. A pig pen should jbe kept clean and free from dirt. , ,tr over H years of age at any possMif writer. V ice-Prooident. SLOO UP TAKEN. Timely Recipes. Strawberry Jelly Have ready one pint of strawberry juice and puh Which has been passed through a fine lre in order to remove the seeds. Dissolve one-third of a two-ounce package of gelatine in one-third of a fttp of water, add two-thirds of a cip of sugar and when cool stir in the strawberry juice and the juic of one lemon. Mold in a ring mold and serve with the centre filled with whipped cream: Molasses Cake Take two cupfuls v of molasses, two of brown sugar, one of sour milk, one teaspoonful of soda, one-half cup of butter, two beaten eggs, five and one-fourth cups of flour. Beat all together, line a drip: ping pan with buttered paper and put in the dough. Sift white sugar over the top before baking, and bake in a slow oven.. This is excellent and will keep for week3. Codfish and Hominy For one-half pound of salt fish flaked allow one pound white hominy cooked, one tea Bpoonful salt, half a teaspoonful pep per, one quart milk, with a slice of onion boiled in the milk, two table spoonfuls dripping or butter and two tablespoonfuls flour. Make the cream sauce first with the flour and butter ; cooked .together, then adding tha milk seasoning and" lastly flshnTr' hominy. This makes enough for J large family. Macaroni To prepare macaroni properly, boil it rapidly for thirty, minutes In boiling salted water. Drain and let it lie in cold water for another thirty minutes. A second draining and it is ready for use. ' Pineapple Sherbet Take one quart of grated pineapple, two heaping .tablespoonfuls pf gelatin, soak in suf ficient water to cover it and then add the remainder of a quart of boiling -water. Stir in the pineapple and two -pounds of granulated sugar. Stjr over . the fire until well blended, adding thq juice of one lemon. When it ha cooled somewhat, but has not set, stir in lightly the beaten whites of tvQ ; eggs and set in a cool place ta tif fen. One-half of this quantity 4i uf . ficient for a small family. On the beach at Norwich, England, the children enjoy one of the finest sports possible tobogganing down a stee? sand hill. The sand bluff Mi 130 feet high, of soft sand, and the coasters slide down by hundreds. HOW MANY OP US? Fail to Select Food Nature Demands to Ward Off Ailments. A Ky. lady, speaking about food, says: "I was accustomed to eating all kinds of ordinary food until, for some reason, indigestion and nervous prostration set in. "After I had run down seriously ' my attention was called to the neces sity of lome change In my diet, and I discontinued my ordinary breakfaet and began .using Grape-Nuts witL a good quantity of rich cream. "In a few days my condition changed in a remarkable way, and I began to have a strength that I had never been possessed of before, a vigor of body and a poise of mind ', that amazed me. It was entirely new ; in my experience. "My former attacks of indigestion had been accompanied by heat flashee; : and many times my condition was . distressing with blind spells of dizzi ness, rush of blood to the head and neuralgic pains in the chest. "8nce using Grape-Nuts alone for. breakfast I have been free from theae troubles, except at times when I have indulged in rich, greasy foods in quantity, then I would be warned by a pain under the left shoulder blade, and unless I heeded the warning the old trouble would come back, but when I finally got to know where thew troubles originated I returned to y Grape-Nuts and cream andne pain and disturbance left very quick ly. ' ' "I am now in prime health as a result of my use of Grape-NuU." Name given py rwv Crttt, urn - v
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