rhe State Dispatch. srsrr Breif News Items • ■ ^^' I Cfeurch Directory. J '‘V Athaflaans Episccpal Church Rev. Edward L. OgUby, Rector. Mr, Erwin A. Holt, Mr. S. A. Steele, Senior Warden. Junior Warden. Vestry: Messrs. Eugene Holt, James N. Williani- son, Jr. Lawrence S Holt, Jr., Jiolej L. Williauison. Jxjlius C. Squires, L.CAVis J. Carter, Williani A. Hall. Services: Sunday, 11.00 A. M.— ^.30 P. M. Wednesday, 8.00 P. yunday School, 9.4:5 A. M. ^.,,-.,1 3olv Coramuniou., First Sunday, 11.OU k. M." Third Sunday, f^-00 A. M. Chriistian Chm’ch. Corner Church end Davis Streets. Rev. P. H. Flcmtag, Pa*tor. Services; Preaching every Sunday, 11.00 A. M. and S.oO F. M. Sunday School, 1).45 A. M. John B. Foster, Supt. Christian Endeavor Services, Sunday avenings at 8.(10. Mid-week Prayer Service, every Wect- aeeday at 8.00 P. M. . Ladies Aid and Missionary bocicty meets on Monday after Second Sun- iaj in each mon th. A cordial invitfition extended to all. A Church Hc>Bie for Visitors and Strangers. Buriington Reformed Church. SDorner Front and Anderson Streets. Rev. J. D. Andrew, Paitor. Stinday School ev*ry Sabbath. 9.-SO A. M. Preaching every i?nd and 4rth Sabbath, 1 A. M. and 8.00 P. M. \Iid-week Service eveiy Thursday, 7.4.5 M. A cordial weleooie to all. Parsonage 2nd door east of church. Preshytenan Church. Rev. Donald McJver, Pa*tor. Service? every Sunday at 11.00 A. M. «®d 8 00 P. M. Sunday School at 9.4-5 A. M. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday at 8.00 M. The public is cordially invited to all services. front Street M. E. Church, South. Rev. J. A. Honiaday, Pa»tor. Preaching every Sunday, morning and rrening. Sonday School, 9.30 A. M. Prayer Service, Wednesd.iy evening. Macedonia Lutheran Church. Front Street. Rev. C. Brown Cox, Pa*tor. (Besidence next door to Church.) Morning Service at 11.00 A. M. Vtspers at K.OO P. M. (No services on third Sundays.) Sunday School, 9.45 A. M., every Sunday ^•achers Meeting, Wednesday, 8.00 P. M. (.\t Parsonage.) ' Woman's Missionary Society (after rooming service on fourth Sundays.) iv. C. Bs., Saturday before third Sun- day.s, ;5.00 p. m. L. L. L., third Sundays at 3.00 P. M. Baptist Church. . Rev. S. L, Morgan, Pastor. Morning Services, 11.00 A. M. Evangelistic Services. 7.80 p. m. Wednesday night prayer meeting ser- 'rJees, 8.00 p m. Bnsiness meeting, first Wednesday irrening of the month at 8.1 P. M. Sunday School. 9.‘50 A. M. J. L. Seott, Supt. Methodist Protestant Church, Rey. J. D. Williams, Pastor. Sunday Services, 11 a.m. and 8.00p.m. jSkinday School, 9:45 a. m. J. Q. Rogers, jSTOt. (Saristian Endeavor, Wednesday 8 pm. L. W. Holt. Pres, Webb Avenue M. E. Churchy Rev. T. G. Viclier* Pattor. Preaching every first Sunday at 11 a. TE. and every second Sunday at 11 a. m. ’fcad 8 p. m. Sunday-school every Sun- 3ay at 10 a. ir. . John F.'Idol, Supt. Everybody welcome. THEWORLDS eSEATEST SEWING MACHIIIE HT RUNNING Pithera Vibrflfing.ShuttSe, Rotary fanui,Ueor a Hiusjle Thread [Chain htilchX .Sewing Machine m’fUo lo f»l mw HOfVlE SEWIMO MACHINE COMPANY Orange, Mass. Many sewing: rnachincs are irvade to sell regardless o? blit tlie made lo wcaT Our guaranty never runs out, authoriz>d denier^ ouljTr. FOR SALS BV £!lis Machine & A negro was killed with a base ball bat by another negro follow ing an altercation of_ a baseball game at Colonial, Heights, a su burb of Columbia, S. C., Monday afternoon of last week. A rigid inspection of all food stuffs is to be taken up by Mis sissippi as a result of the discov ery that many cases of pellagi’a in small interior towns were due directly to sour corn meal im ported from the west. The government has establish ed at Columbia, Missouri, a laboratory for the testing of farm and garden seeds for Missouri farmers. This movement is rapid ly putting the dishonest seed dealers out of business. A dispatch from Georgetown, Ark., last week reports the kill ing at that place of A. F. John son, a hotel proprietor, by a negro. The negro was after wards run dowrf by a sheriff’s and ^hot to death when he resist ed arrest. At the annual meeting at Dan" ville, Va., last week of the Bright Tobacco Growers* Association of Virginia and North Carolina favorable consideration was given to a proposal to unite with the Farmers’ Co-operate Educational Union of America. Gov. B. B. Comer, of Alabama, was slightly injured last week in a runaway in Abbeville, Ala., be ing thrown violently against the front seat of a carriage. He again hurt the leg which has been troubling him as the result of a horses’ kick several weeks ago. The interstate commerce com mission last week ordered a re duction in through freight rates to Winston-Salem and Durham, N. C., from Roanoke and Lynch burg, Va. It amounts to about 9 cents a hundred pounds on hay, grain and packing house pro ducts. Thomas Kincaid, a well known automobile driver, was killed at the Indianapolis motor speedway | last Wednesday afternoon. He | was on the track in trial practice I when the car, a National, ran off | the high embankment at the | southeast corner of the course. I He was caught beneath the! wreck. | Three white militiamen f^om i Mississippi, charged with at-1 tempting to incite a riot with j negroes following the Jeffries-; Johnson fight, were turned over ■ to an officer of their regiment in ' the police court at Chattanooga, | Tenn., last week. The military! authorities promised to punish! them. I In the circuit court, at Martins-! ville, Va., last week A. F. Bous-! man, mayor of Ridgeway, Henry county, and Ben Jones, Reginald Jones and Henry Pearson, were indicted by the grand jnry for the murder of David Wade. The man was killed at Ridgeway several weeks ago at the Norfolk and Western railway station. Robert G. Nelson, a petty officer on the United States steam ship Yankton, will receive $500 as a reward for finding the body of Charles H. Davenport, w4io disappeared from a local hotel in New York, February 14. This reward had been offered by Davenport’s family for his dis covery, dead or alive. The will of Nicholas Dale, a former newspaper man, of Pitts burg, Pa., who had lived for years a hermit-like life on 65 cents a week, as he boasted, was filed last week, directing that $1,350, which he had saved, be fowarded to the Holy Land to the “Sorrowful Mother and Blessed Virgin Church, erected 1,500 years ago in the path of the eross.” Lying in plain sight of stable boys and hostlers with three months accumulation of dirt and rust, a tin can was picked up at a livery stable in Washington a few days ago, containing $20,000 worth of jewehy stolen last March from, the home of Mrs. Isham, Hornsby. Not a piece was missing. A detective found it and has arrested a negro named Scott Wimbush, who confessed. W. J. Johnson, of Nashville, Tenn., one of the assistant fore men of the American Bridge company, now putting up the new steel bridge over Dan and Staunton rivers at Clarksville, Va.,^ v/as accidently killed Wed nesday of last week. He stepp ed to one side of the old bridge out of the way of a train that )vas passing, when a piece of iron fell from the top of the ijride striking him on the head, causing instant death. Smooth Thsngs , Speak unto us, ^ smocjdh things (Isa. 33:10.) , :V It is unaccountable tlssil, intelli gent beings should be i?o;snfatua- ted as to prepare deceit id sin cerity, falsehood to rmth and that too in reference to most important of all _,subj4iGt^, the Salvation of their soius;:; first what is it tospeak smooth fhings? Second, why do people desire it? Third, tt’s final results 1speak er and hearers. (A) Not to ccmfoingl with kindness Kor affectionat^f^ly. (B) Nor a prudent prr-sSenting truth to avoid offense. ; ■ (C) Nor an appeal t.o .candor and generosity, as St. Paul to Agripa, (acts 26.1) to ;Mose of chapter. , (D) To speak smoot h h l^^ings is so to present the trut:i io as to not offend any one or toeGiiymce them of sin, or to caust; fhem to think that they are the oties that are ment or concerned fcJ:idat the truth spoken, it is to ;a;irt>id to seaching a process of cc*beience, is not necessary to preach error, nor yet to mistake or tea?:b; adu- terated truth may be ta#ht or preached in such a way tliat a soul could not be saved by it. and to keep back everythit% that would be disagreeable oi\ that would press or bear too Maird on The Cheapest and Best Family paper Published. Prepaid. 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Not to offe;r?a the! worldly minded ojr cautiousV by taking of usuary graft or taking advantage of a customers rigno' ranee on the price of gooisj; by the pleasurer taker by no: Speak ing of going to dances, Jiiirch socials, theaters and by im- compatibility with holy and rich- eous things. Not to offend the formalist by urging him tG;prac- tice a pure and undefiled reigion. Not to offend latitudinariak;,, by ! declaring the woes against those | that preach something else.&r or; another gospel, which ik not; another, but a pervertiori ;-ef the j gospel of Christ. Not to Mfend | or mortify the pride of the baugh-1 ty, and humble the self richeous, ' not to arouse the carelesl and indifferent nor to assail the atentacious bigot, nor tei de nounce hipracy and intepgience i nor the heartlessness of the selfish. But to speak smooth thiiiiirs "is ' to speak the truth in such a: way; that no one will think that, you mean them or that they ate the I ones spoken of, but to 6:r,for: someone else or to think ^, condemned by it. j j (3) By refusing to speak: of ■ the denunciating terms which God threatens on the unjust 4nd the wicked who turn a deaf ear and will not obey the go."pel of! the son of God and by diveliing | on pleasant things. ; (A) Balack wanted ju&t tjuch i a prophet to gratify his ttesire i against those who oposed his i wickedness. | (B) Ahab wanted just such a | prophet after mui’dering K afedth, 1 and his unlawful wife wanted a preacher who would sanction their act in beheading Joaa : the Baptist. The Jews never would have rejected Christ if he; had only preached what they wsiiited to^hear, and if Stephen had;dnly spoken smooth things the l^ws would not have been beat^iu and] cast into prison at Philip!>f had ’ they just spoken smooth tiiings j nor St John cast on a iiaren; Island had he also spoken not | but smooth things. (Q) Why do people desii%;only the preaching of smooth thltigs? (A) Because it suits their corrupt heart and life. ; (B) Because they like e|; |nd is a compromise between tiheir sins and a kind a religion- that does condem them befois the world; and they can glide; on smoothly through time get to Heaven any way. (3) What is the resiilt’- of preaching smooth things. ; (1) It grieVes the Holj spirit of God and Christ. (2) It is opposed to tlte %ue , gospel and the conduct of |gwd j people in all ages, cond;lians| Moses for his reproof of Pliataoh i Nathan for reproving i!^j=j,yid., : Samuel for reproving Saui; ^ by i which he lost his Kingdom^;; the | course of John the Baptist td^^ard i Herod, Nowah for warrafi^r a | a guilty world, and Paul far '^his faithful preaching to Felix. ;• (3) It sets aside the miaaion of Christ Defeats the p:.an: of | God to restore mankind i;,u; his i original State, the image oii his i creator, the death and blodd of! Christ, the resurrection frora^ej dead;. Christs second com'mii in I power and great glory, anii, the | judgment to come, and Icings; condemnation and eternal ’ituin | to the preacher and people,, j^ind j give us our one to ten thccis&id i dollar popular preachers of tdday.! Extracts from and comeikSs oh I sermon by N. Shaw. By J. :li, T. ' CHAS. C. FULTON & Co. 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Beal, at KaleiL trate's cattle quj driving ^ the piiblij coW beir territory. Aft«r months adjustmc conimitw jn RaleiJ Hill and of the gr to a hall ville and] . The slj I tiered tc during total of 8j about tw shipped li reason isj law addin to the ta^ I effect. Govern] [ ward of I the persoi fire to thr E. Wilkin He declar an end, ii I ings that quent in| [state for The i ground fc i boiler sho| way com! gun activj mation wj ! the conti I join the cj Va., will 1 the grounj On Moi |Winston-£ ers, a thil boy emplo| Railway, went to slj the car w^il two miles body sm( found in tl |BGovemo| la special I court for t| in Anson Wadesborc [8, andcont jj. CrawfoJ [The crowdj Icounty ci^ special ter^ Iboro. On last jCongressi ■of Farrini;, [dropped d( I his farm. |69 years oi jto Congreg [good man I [friends. _ [dren survii [a prominei II fJohn Bal ISummerset, lin the Yadl ■Thursday: [while attei- jthe stream. Imiing aero: [bring a boa [carrying a ■across. W jthe stream [a very swif [stantly. H [the road [the Winsto: I Phillip Sc ■county’s ol Icitizens, wa ll^nknown in |ais home ne ■day afterno J'^owers ws ■stranger er f'oom. A. |when Mr. o l^ wasin th |tne intrudei escape, ■tneories to t |i^elieved to robbery or r [ ** jiiwrt WAa r V'.. .1. . V. '