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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS MARCH 13. 19C8. ,c of Charlottes . n,i you say the folding bod shut iM yiMi last night?" asked the j "ivi;tir-hc'.:so lady. -j re i did," replied the now V.'.! in 1 1 st. have experienced great; w; a i all. ma'ni. Yoa see, I used t , , ; imlieeman, and I'm used to standing up!" " ONE OF CHARLOTTE'S FINEST jr... ..:.. oiiiees is at "Insurance fiORE WATER the name is to be" asked the minute as lie approached the v.iiii the precious armful of fat iui.stiis Phillip Ferdinand Cod-,.- Chesterfield Livingston -ivar me." Turning to the sexton: i;ule nunc water, llr. Hawkins, if MORE WATER c ...-cdeii in Dilworth and then the f -- will get better rates which v,n :-e good news at "Insurance jl. ; garters." 0. ft. 0 Btiti 8, CO (INCORPORATED.) Insurance Headquarters. I THE ,4 - j , j Workmanship. I The Lids, Centres and Anchor ' 1 'lat os are arched and ribbed to .. vent warping. A "Guarantee !'"iid." the strongest ever effcr- . .!. with each Range. The prin- l . liae dii.'erence between the I "Matchless" and other high 5 crude Ranges, is the PRICE. 1 J.N.MGGaiisiaRd&Go 221 South Tryon St. ft a mOO Deposit, Balance Monthly. GAS' CO The Only Eyes ou'll Ever Have ! aie the ones you've got now. If you 5;c:I them, you can't have them re F'acel. If they give you any trouble, 'a :;e it in time. Call at my office, and let r.e see whether proper glasses will net give you comfort. If you don't need them, I'll say so. Bring your optical work to me. CR. SAM LEVY, Eye Sight Specialist, 6 E. Trade St. '.VE ARE A BLUE RIBBON VINNER when it comes to supplying every tuine yo.;r horse wears. You certainly ouzht to see how thoroughly we are 'iii.;.' d to supply your horse with KEW IIARNESfj FOR THE NEW YEAR Everything for his toilet, too. Cury bhh tjr".shes' harness dressing, -itiKets. When you come to examine To;n! probably be surprised at the jni.orai good quality of everything we Of'toie. You'll be still more surprised . xno extreme moderation of our Vices. 4RK0LD M. SHAW No. 32 East Trads St. 7i n ot. Sc. coule in Effect January 12, 1908. Liily r.harlMr. te and Roanoke, Va. r r nr:or.c, so Ky Ar 6:00 jua :;v. , 1 i-v- Winsioii, N & W Ar 2:00 pm ;.. 1 -i a- .wartv- nc N ft W Ar 11 M0 pm rX',''Ar. l'-'r'-u-' N&W Lv. 9:20am i-n T if ri . . . V i I J t i for !l,,r.t,. ..11 J.,.V,,S m 1f:ri.sylva.rna and N R;y 1:1 El,'eIJOr lioanoke to ew York, Philadel- lr.; onal trains leave Winston-Sa- Jf V-f ,1:iilv except Sunday. Y01 tl'i"kir)g of taking a trip -11a iv, . - -1 i.tiuuiia, uneapes l lares, rouiv t J!let'T inrormation. as to fortv i, ' Sf heules, the most corn thf V, u -.an luk'kest wav- Write and lr:L- ':,-)T'n:it,ori is yours for the ask- an' " Ufie or our complete Map w, Bev!!, n 1 aa. Asrt. Trav. Pass. AKt i OSS i diss! fipofis 9 IP iff QC? ttoauok-, Va. Sunday School Lesson Young Peop HELPING THE WORLD TO SEE The International Suiidav School L. son For March 15 is, "Jesus Heals a Man Bern Blind." John 9:1-41. By WILLIAM T. ELLIS. The head of one of the greatest corporations in the world told his di rectors, a few days ago, that his own eyes had been opened, and his sense of moral responsibility to the mihhV i to the stockholders and to the em j j loves had been quickened by Presi jdent Roosevelt's reiterated "preach- ments upon commercial venality. That unexpected testimony to the influence of the recent moral awakening in this western world could be duplicated in many other equally unlikely quarters. The simple truth is, many blind eyes have lately been opened by the ex tended inliuence of the same Power that healed the blind man in old Jeru salem. Evidence of this modern miracle is all about us. Railroads and corpora tions which a decade ago gave and re ceived rebates without a qualm or a question now perceive the immorality, as well as the illegality, of the prac tice. Until recently, trust funds were freely used for speculative purposes, and no voice was raised in protest. "Corruption funds," more euphemisti cally titled, were part of the normal expenses of most great corporations: and the unholy alliance between busi ness and politics was accepted as natu ral and inevitable by even good men. The sale of lienor was regarded as an unavoidable factor in modern life; and the slogan, "The saloon must go," was looked upon as the cry of fanatics. Now, behold, how all these things have changed! The eyes of the blind have been opened, and they have seen ' ments, and against it they were pewer a great light. The Power " responsible less, was, "One thing I know, that, fcr these present-day wonders is the j whereas I was blind, now I see." For same as the Power which sent the j that testimony he was willing to be blind beggar of old on his way, confi- cast cut of the synagogue: he would dent and rejoicing. We do not study ! not deny his Healer. i ne see noient miracle aright except, we ' anaiogy ar.a continuance in our own land and time. The mighty Lord Jesus is still helping the world to ee. "The Lic;ht of the World." The occasion of this lesson is the healing of the man born blind: butkov. There is where you find made its theme is the declaration of the J over men, snatched from the gutter Healer, "I am the Light of the world." ! and the prison gate, telling of the This brings its consideration down to ; Power that redeemed them. Their wit onr present-day life, where we may feel ' ness wins converts. The man whose the inspiration cf the irradiating pres- i Christianity has run too much to head once of the contemporaneous Christ, ! would do well to spend a few nights shedding His beneficent light into i in a rescue mission. Between times earth's dark and needy places. Over 1 Iet nim ponder the story of the blind the hospitals, asvlums and schools. , wliicli are the footprints of Christian ity's progress, may be inscribed, "I am the Light of the world' There is nothing small about that assertion of Jesus. He was not "The Light of Asia" or "the Light of the .lews," but the Light of the whole world. Today we see Korea achieving a new national consciousness as she enters into a knowledge of Christ, and we see the applicableness of the truth, and China, baffled in her endeavor to find light from a neighboring pagan nation, turns, in her eager quest for knowledge, to America and England, where she may find the Light that il lumines nations. Japan has found, and is now confessing, that the light of purely secular education is proving only darkness; her deepest present, need is for the true Light. Just now, as probably never before, a survey of the whole earth reveals that. "The morning Light is breaking." The method of light transmission is akin to that of a certain style of glass, which, its owners claim, "projects day light into dark interiors." The light is received by prisms and broken up and carried in any direction desired. So the Light of the world is received into individual lives as in the case of the blind man and by them trans mitted. Men and women are the medi ums upon which the Lord now depends for extending His influence and in creasing His discipleship. Quibling Instead of Helping. There are some people who are in terested in sociology as a science, but who have no time to help individuals. They had prototypes in the disciples who saw in a blind beggar only a fine theological point for discussion: "Teacher, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" The reply forever put a check upon hasty and censorious judgments, for neither of the dread alternatives which the disciples had considered the only pos sible explanations was true. The man represented not sin, but opportunity. Instead cf saying, "Serves him right," of the needy one, we do more wisely to say, "Let me serve him aright." It is not criticism and counsel that the world's suffering ones need, but com fort and service. A tendency of good people is to quibble in the presence of a need, in stead of attempting the most direct means of remedying it. While various forms of temperance organizations squabbling as to which was the better the liquor traffic growing apace all the while the Anti-Saloon League came along and said, as it bared its fighting arm, "This one thing I do. And I'll work with anybody who will help drive out the saloon, regardless of his creed color politics or position." The result is the astonisliing anu-saioon victories of the past two years. Righteousness Raises a Row. There are always vested interests, prejudices, positions or reputations to be disturbed by every big good deed. The healing of the blind man it vas on the Sabbath brought the ecclesi astics out from their seclusion, hum ming like a swarm of angry bees. The healing had created a sensation. There were plenty of people in Jerusalem who would have preferred to see the man remain blind, rather than to have him healed on that day, or in this heterodox way. 9 To tc A sad fact (to which Father Tyrrel, in London, and Abbe Loisy, in Paris, can bear present and personal testi mony) is that most reforms have had to overcome the opposition of the Church, at least as represented by its "leaders." The intolerance, bigotry and arrogance of entrenched religicus officialdom, in all branches and names of Christianity, is one of the grevious spectacles of history. There are in New York today officials of a certain denomination who recently made a: great bluster and pretence over some criticisms of one of their subordinates, flinging mud at the critic, when all the while they had personal knowl2dge that the essential criticism was true. They had to save the denomination's good name, even if they did chuck truth and honor overboard. Jewish officialdom cast out the en lightened man for insisting on the simplest and greatest truth of his ex perience. Goaded by his insistence upon the obvious, they snarled (for the name-calling fashion is modern), "Thou wast altogether born in sins." Theologians do not resort to that stylo of "argument" as much as they use! to do; although the reras ch urcli quarrel produces more venomous charges and countercharges than a ward political fight. Standing by What One Knows. The centre of all this disputation held to one clear course: he could not fellow the professional debaters, but he had too much hard sense to let them argue him out of a realized ex perience. His is the program for faith. He had obeyed Christ, and thus found a great deliverance. Thenceforth ho kept the straight path of witness-bear ing, ms single answer lor all argu-j That is the sort cf testimony that breaks hearts in rescue meetings ancl!has overtaken Ihem, wish earnestly wins men from sodden sin to shining saintuness. uo doAvn to Hater street Mission in New York or to the Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago, or to the Salvation Army barracks anywhere, and you will hear no eloquent ser mons, but men and women saying 'T man wnose retrain was, "One thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see." This note of certitude and vitality is forever one of the greatest needs . of the Church, with her constant tempta tion to formality. A congregation of men and women who have been saved from spiritual blindness, and saved to a new and beautiful life, and who know they have been saved and are ready to say so, is bound to be a transforming force in any neighbor hood. They, like Him who saved them, are lights of the world. NEWS AND NOTES. General Bccth, of the Salvation Army is growing blind. Cannibals recently devoured Rev Alexander McLoughlin, on one of the Solomon Islands in the South Seas. Sir Oliver Lodge, the eminent Eng lish scientist, whose defense of the claims of Christianity has given him distinction, claims to have received messages from the members of the Phychical Society. Thirty representatives of American Foreign Mission Boards recently met i in New York and took further stens looking toward complete Christian ccmitv and federation in non-Christian lands. Russia, as a mission field, in pursuance of this policy, was left to one Beard. It was agreed that there are 500,000,000 persons in non-Christian lands who are America's share of the mission field. On a single Sunday last month 319 persons were received into the mem bership of Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, New York. In many of the Sunday-schools in France a week-day session is held on Thursday, which is the day-school holi day. Needlework and other manual occupations, singing and games are part of the program. Tod Hall, the Baltimore detective who became celebrated as an evange list, is dead. A Y. M. C. A. car, equipped as a reading and recreation room, is kept side-tracked in the construction camp at Mobridge, S. D., where it is visited by thre hundred men daily. President Roosevelt, his wife and daughter recently attended a "circus" in the Junior Department of the Wash ington Y. M. C. A., where his son Quentin was one of the clowns. . Quen tin led a cadaverous elephant labelled "G. O. P." His thinness was explained by the fact that he subsisted on dates candi-dates! A stubborn "Teddy bear," that would move only when called "Theodore" amused the Presi dent. Two of the Roosevelt boys have belonged to the Washington Associa tion. , More than 00,000 is now in the hands of the citizens' committee at Geneva, Switzerland, with which to erect in his own city a monument to John Calvin. It is intended to rear a memorial which shall commemorate both the man and the cause he repre sented. Around the figure of Calvin will be grouped all the famous ecclesi astics of early Protestantism, while upon the pedestal will he arranged fig- Tires of the soldiers of the Reforma tion Coligny, William of Orange, Cromwell and others. It was original ly intended that the memorial should he ready for dedication on the four hundredth anniversary of Calvin's birth, a year from next July. It seems doubtful now whether it can be com pleted. : WHAT !S THE USE CF MONEY? Terce Comment? cm the Uniform Pray er Meeting Tcpio cf the Your.g Peo ple's Societies Christ inn Ertcaavor, Baptist Ycung People's Union, Ep worth League, etc. For March 15 is, "The Wice Uve of Money," Tim. 6:17-19. Bv WILLIAM T. ELLIS. Recent months have been prolific of spoken and printed counsel upon the use and abuse of money, and the short comings of the custodians cf the same. A better Lit of advice than any of these preachments which have chanced to come under my eye is a paragraph in a letter written some two thousand years ago by a wise man of the world to a young friend who had been called to a position cf responsibility. Here it is. a single compact sentence: "Charge them that are rich in this present wcrld. that they be not high minded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who giveth us richly all things to en joy; that' they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, leady to sympathize; laying up in store for themselves a gced foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold cf the life which is life indeed." The writer of that sentence was the Apostle Paul, and its recipient his be loved Timothy. The present timeli ness of the counsel is almost start ling. "Charge them that are rich that they be not high-minded." Why, that is the very thing that has brought about the present business cal amities. Tiie rich have been "high minded," arrogant, disdainful of the public, thinking only cf themselves and apparently caring not for either God or man. Now their high-minded ness has been brought low. Many of them, in the vn'n and shanio which that their eyes had not been so clo;;e., by their own fatne:-:s that they could act perceive that nobody ever gets above the need and obligation to be brotherly and considerate. He who will not think of the poor in his pride must think of them in his humiliation. Money is something useful, when possessed for a season, to show men what fools they may become by its abuse. -- . :r: The one thing 'certain aboutv riches is their uncertainty. There are plenty cf living commentaries on that text to be found haunting the offices of Wall street brokers, sitting in corridors of the big hotels, pouring out their tales of weic into the ears of whomsoever they can buttonhole. There are men without a penny today who six months ago were envied for their opulence. A gentleman was telling mo last week of the scandalous behavior of a cer tain gioup of persons who fondly be lieve that they are "Society." He pointed out that in the next genera tion all the wealth that gilds their vice will have passed into other hands. The proverbial saying declares that there are "only three generations from shirt-sleeves to shirt-sleeves." Riches do not la.st. nor can they buy any of the better things that do last. Life's choicest possessions health, love, honor, usefulness may belong to the poorest man When a man becomes rich enough to own an automobile he is likelier to ride away from church than toward it. That is to say, "wealth leads men to set their hope cn "the uncertainty of riches" rather than upon God. Prosperity is seldom conducive to spir ituality. It is when we are down that we look up. The bulwark of religion has ever been the poor people. And poverty, along with peace with God, is more to be coveted than all the wealth ot a Rockefeller There is one kind of riches which money can buy, and that is good works. Undoubtedly the possession of wealth increases a person's possibili ties of service. There are many noble, helpful deeds that money can do ranging fom the purchase of a wheel chair for a cripple to the erection of great hospitals and colleges. Therefore Timothy was to exhort the rich to be "rich in good works," "ready to distribute," "ready to sympathize." The modern view of wealth is that its possession can be justified only by a proportionate service to society. S: ft Money is a talent to be stewarded, regardless of its amount. There are probably more poor persons misusing their income than there are rich. Shiftlessness, waste, extravagance, selfishness, is as possible on a fifteen-dollar-a-week income as on a hundred times that amount. Many of us are excusing our neglect of the needy, our marks about what we would do if only we were rich. Whereas the only true test cf what we would do if we were ' rich is what we are doing now. Of all things unlovely the least lov able should be money. For it, above all other objects of human affection has the quality of dwarfing and dis torting and making hideous the souls cf those who love it. The Book of su preme wisdom does not hesitate to deciare.-sweepingly and unqualifiedly. "The love of money is the root of all evil." The possession of money is of ten dangerous; the love of money is always deadly. Money is not to be dispised: it is one of the most useful tools of civili zation. But it must be kept in its place as a took and never be allowed to become a master. We wisely speak of money as' means: that is all it is, a mea-ns to an end; not an end in itself. We should seek to earn money not for what it is. but for what it will buy. The man who owns money is often fortunate; but the man who is owned l)V Hidnpv is-. filwHVSj iiiti:lllo lA1 Many of . life's debts may be paid with money: but the greatest can be: paid only with life. Every body- who has any money has enough to share with a needier than himself. It may be written down un qualifiedly that the claims of charity ; 1 and religion upon one's purse, in this day of brotherhood are as veal and urgent as the claims cf the grocer and the landlord. Not spasmodically, but systematically and proportionately, every man should lav aside a share of his income, for the world's needy, thus ; proving himself to be a citizen cf the i - - . . . . . . . . . . it t. , i. ii' : i . . i una chronism. Money that is transmitted into char actor becomes eternal riches. All money takes to itself wings: it for the possessor to teach it which way i to fly. SEVEN SENTENCE SERIViONS. God is whatever ou need him to be.- McNeill. I have a fit of sensitiveness upon me which is but egotism and mental idleness. George Eliot. The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. J. M. Barrie. Look up and not down; Look forward and. not back; Look out and not in; j And lend a hand. i Edward Everett Hale. ! We may always be sure, whatever we are doing, that we cannot be pleas ing God if we are not happy our selves. Raskin. If aught of good thou canst not say Of thy brother., foe or friend. Take thou, then, the silent way, Lest in word thou shoaldst offend. Anon. We forfeit the chief source of dig nity and sweetness in life, next to the direct communion with God, if we do net seek converse with the great minds that have left their vestiges cf the world. Martine. His Pieady Answer. "Alert?" said Senator Hopkins of a colleague the other day. according to: 1 1 iit : . : i . c- " i,rt ; i . M int, vv cismiigisjii otcn. vnj, 11 u 10 as alert and clever as the Aurora bridegroom. 1 011 know how bridegrooms, set-:; ting off on the honeymoon, forgot their brides anj buy tickets only forf themselves? Well, that is what thisj bridegroom did in Aurora, and when a his wife said to him, 'Why, you only v bought one ticket, dear!' he answer- ed, 'By Jove! myself.' " I never thought of;i WE HAVE 150 GOOD HORSES AND MULES TO SELL Prices right and terms right. This is the best and largest shipment we have made this year. Each Horse or Mule must bo just as represented j. W. Wsihtoilti's Srns' Co "VEHiCLES AND HARNESS" If you have property to sell, list 5 in this office. If your have houses or store3 rent, let me do your collecting anO save trouble and worry. The place to insure your property Is in this agency. R. L COCfll INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE AGENT. Main Office 18 West 5th St., Charlotte. N. C. Brancher 11 Church St., Asheville, N. C. 214 West Market St., Greensboro. N. C ueen Oily and 01 'Established 189S French Cleaners, Steam Cleaners, and Dyers of Ladies' and Men's Gar ments of Every Description. MRS. J. M. HESTER, Manager. Mall Orders Receive Propt Attention. Phone 246. Dyeing sailing Works 'S m wf i V W ' I S j: 3 t: r i j an? a i 9 fM III isim v m m mm. ffi I! m w & i Ml Hi w UW 1 11 n W m 1 liftnur mnnth in plain English is a hireling. He blows for some one else, this store wo don't have to cry aloud to sell our fliiW The goods we offer v what's standard and choc, on I f The bes.t products of Stetson and others Leading Hat Makers in Popular SpringlShapeand Shades. The Presbyterian College For Women CHARLOTTE, N. C. SECOND TERM BEGINS JANUARY 9, 190a Special Rates to New Pupils. J. R. BRIDGES, D. D-, President. Spring m m m The minute you are ready, your Spring Suit is ready, Sir. The first picking is the best picking. Our Clothing always pays the buyer a good dividend in satisfaction. Note the fol lowing points: The fine selection of fabric. The high character of the Tailoring. The certainty of the cor rect style. These facts, together with many other features, should iifduce you to make your Spring Suit selection here. 4? At ifi 02 m a 6 . m 'r e w? am. :ak for themselves. When you want full of style and reliability, just call Co ctmg 0 3d rccsn here is not an easy task. There arc so many good things to eat that you feel like trying them all. But it is easy to select groceries of good qual ity however. In fact you cannot choose any other kind hero for wo haven't any. So come and get your groceries here. If you are tempted to buy more than you need they'll keep any way. ! I, liJITS For Men Youths BS t' It. m If Bt in 'I !v It m "ii! i it. ii! m sti S3- m 1 i m u. -J .r i t m m Ms' 13 'it: I -mi t h Ml sh. if 11 I li 11 If Ml A i r ft! VI i
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