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THE EVILS yF (UUIIJLIXG.
Iter. W.oII. Miller Plcadl
With
the
Ypung 1 gainst Its Destrnctlte Jjp
fluences. Rev. W H Hillertook for his
subject on Sunday the incident
of the soldier's casting "lots in
the division of Jesus' clothiug
and directed his rem arises against
gambling.
It was nat a tirade, but a rea-
soning, pleading exortation
against' the business and soul
destroying evil. He plead to the
young men .especially to keep
from, to shun all games of chance
He set forth that gambling en
genders idleness, depreciates
the value of all things properly
prized as dear, makes money
cheap, undervalues life and de
stroys the sacredness of trust,
sears the conscience and. dries
up spiritualty,
He maintained, as is plainly vis
ible in every day life, that the
man who gambles will not apply
himself assiduously to labor,
which is. the divine law by which
man eats bread. He will be idle
while others apply themselves
to legitimate labor, and idleness
fills the mind with that which de
stroys the soul. The idle mind
is soon unfit for legitimate busi
ness. Idleness is an evil and
gambling which begets it is
wrong, wrong, ruinously wrong.
Gambling, he said, makes one
wrecklessin the use of money
and property his legitimate
means of usefulness in life. "'It
makes money cheap in the esti
mate of the devote.
It cheapens the value of life,
diyerting it from its great ends
and possibilities, while for the
most trivial causes murders fre
quent these haunts.
It sears the conscience, leav
ing it incapable of appreciating
grave considerations as in the
case of the text, when near the
cross, with all its pathetic scenes
and the cp.nvulsion, of Nature,
with blood and death in their
very presence, these men en
gaged in this getting oy a game
of chance.
It dries up the spirituality,
leaving the soul unfit to enter
into the worship or -the service
of Him in whose image man is
made.
It brings untold grief in the
house-hold all too often.
The speaker drew a picture
with a well-known reality as a
basis, showing the low sense of
a sacred trust by one who had
fallen into tbg snare. Itwas a
guardian, wrho used the fupds of
orphans in cotton futures and
losing all, had to flee frames
family to escape the clUtches of
the law and thereby turn Ms
family and the orphans out to
the cold charities of the crld
The speaker dilfcot designate
the furious schemes which
;ONCOIU
might be ranked as gambling,
bjit warned again stall games of
chance and of getting something
for nothing or by 'means other
than through the law, "In the
sweat ol thy "face shalt thou eat
bread."
. He was encouraged to present
the subject from an incident
under his ministry. A young
man, with a family, came for
ward after the services and yeri
fied all that he said.' The young
husband and father had followed
the dangerous course till only
by the aid of sympathizing
friends was he saved from the
terrible, consequences.
DISCOURSE TO THE GRADUATES.
Rei. 0. JI. t'omelson UcHyers Special
Sermon to Those Finishing Graded
School CV&TOgt
The commencement of the
Concord graded school will take
place next Friday evenng. There
are 17 interesting girls and boys
who complete the course this
session.
Rev. G H Cornelson waschosen
to preach a special sermon to
the class at Sunday evening's
services.
He took his text from John
6:38, "For I came down from
heaven not to do mine own will,
but the will of him that sent me."
He noted the life of the Sa
viour as the one and only perfect
life, the one that challenges the
admiration of even skeptics and
agnostics, the one ideal perfect
life.
In the study of great men we
always search for the key or
underlying principle that is the
secret of their greatness. In the
text we have the secret of per
fection in the Saviour's life. '
There can be no true great
ness, said the speaker, no true
and wall formed character based
on principles other than to do
the will of God.
He noted three classifications
of men suggested by an eminent
author which seemed to embrace
the human family. They are as
follows : Those who do their
own will, those who do the will of
their fellow men, and those who
do the will of God.
The first is a knave, the sec;
ond a slave. -The third only is
truly free.
He portrayed the man who is
chained down to infamy and
degradation by evil habits as the
most miserable of abject ser
vants to evil passions and ap
petites. The servant of his fellow man
U nat free but nfost do the bid
, ding of his imperfect pattern.
He has no conviction of his own.
The servant of G$d is the real
free man. A life of purity, up
rightness and faithfulness is the
highest degree of freedom for
man, and vice versa, th slave to
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yassion thea worst type of ser
vitude. "
.The Savigur's own definition
of serving is to believe on Him
wThom God hath sfiflt. This be
lief on Him leads to consecration
to .the service of Hhn who sent
the Saviour and is the basis of
all true character.
He referred to H,avelock,
Chinese Gordon and Stonewall
Jackson , as the three peerless
commanders in point of courage
and aggressive and brilliant
achievement, the basis of whose
greatness was not glory of self
but to do the will of God and
bles3 humanity.
In closing his discourse ho
urged the young graduates- to
consecrated lives that shall seek
out and bless others, leading and
aiding them in lives of devotion
to God, who has made and sent
into the world every soul to be
saved to life eternal.
That A mm Ini: Error.
We are sorry that in putting
down in detail the substance dic
tated by Rov. C B Miller, as
president of the North Carolina
Synod, we got dates wrong and
said Synod would meet Wednes
day, May 7th, when wo should
h a ve said Wed nesday, A pr il 30 th .
The fault is purely our own.
An Attempted Assault.
A 'phone message from Rock
Hill, S. C, last night stated that
yesterday aftornoon a negro at
tempted to assault the six-year-old
daughter of Mr. Nolan Clin
ton, who lives near Edgemoor,
in Chester county. A number of
children who saw the negro seize
the child screamed for help and
the negro ran. The entire neigh
borhood was aroused, and a large
posse? was formed to hunt for
the negro. Charlotte Observer
of 14th.
Strawberry Outlook.
"Because of the backward
Spring strawberries will be
somewhat later than usual this
season. It will probably be
during the first week in May
when shipping will begin. The
weather has been so severe that
the growth of the plants has
been very much retarded, and it
is not probable that the plants
will be as large as usual, and
therefore the yield will hardly
be as heavy. During the few
days of favorable weather that
we have had, the berries have
improved grealty, and we look
for hem to be finer in "quality
thai usual' Sampson Demo
crat. - To Accommodate those wh are partial
to the use of atomizers in applying liq
uids into the nasapassaees for catarrhal
trouble, the p"l'ietors prepare Ely's
Liquid Crt am balm: Frie including
the craying tube " cenlt Trugeist r
hv mail. The 'tinuid. embodies the
medicinal properties of the solid
pfpration. Cream -ilm is quickly
..t.tfvrhrfl Ijt fhe meramaiicyanii doe
not dry up the Becrelft-ns but ohangea J
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Has paid $54,000 in dividends
since it opened doors in July,
1B88. Its surplus and undivided
fund is $127,000.
The losses from bad Joans in
its entire history are $35.00, It
has never tued uy out) Oi OMm
sufd.
Its o llicer ar : J M Old),
president; JDB Coltranefc v Icr;
L D Coltraue, assistant cashier;
J M Hendrix, brink keeper.
Board of Directors W IT Lilly,
VV Ii Odoll, Jco. P Allison, J S
Harris, Elam King J M OdeH
pinr1 D P Colti ant)
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