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IN THEIR LAST HOUR. The following “last words,” culled from widely different sources, furnish a striking com mentary on the many strange variations in human nature and human character. But when we have pondered them well we find one outstanding fact that is very significant: in nearly every case the farewell words are consistent ly in keeping with the life and of the speaker. In the final hour the ruling passion still rules. The French Revolutionist Des moulins halted on the scaffold to proclaim himself once again. “Be hold,” lie said, ‘the recompense reserved for the first apostle of liberty!” Cavour, the Italian patriot exclaimed, “Brothers, brothers, the free church and the free state!” Said Thomas a Beck et as he fell, slain, at the altar of Canterbury Cathedral, - “For the defense of the church I am willing to die.” William Henry Harrison, president <if the United States, said:: “I wish you to un derstand and true principles of government. 1 wish them carried out. 1 ask no more.” John C. Cal houn cried, “The South, the South! God knows what will be come of her!” Poor Mary of Eng land-—Bloody Mary—at the very end knew no remorse for her atro cious record. Instead, she wept bitterly over the loss of England’s great fortress: “When I am dead you will find Calais written on my heart.” eßethoven, the great musician, voiced, in his last mo ments, the particular longing of his life. He said, “I shall hear in Heaven.” Occasionally the list of last shows strange contracts. Oliver Cromwell said to those about bim, “1 desire to make what haste I may to be gone,” Queen Elizabeth cried with her last breath, “All my possessions for one moment of time!” Here and we find a bitten soul falling back on irony at the last: “You can show my head to the people,” Dan+on laughed, to bis execution er. 1 “It will be well worth the dis play.” Often the dying man or w'fjjman, though ready to go, clings with one hand, as it were, to some beloved thing of life. Queen Vic toria died during the Boer War; with which s|:e was never in sympathy, and her expiring prayk er Was, “0, that peace may cornel} Margaret of Valois breathed, “ijarewell and remember me. ” Jafie Taylor, the beloved writer fort young people, questioned wist fully at-the end, “Are we not hhlldreii, all of us?” Thomas Jeff erson! said, “I commend my soul to God and my daughter to my country.” On the other hand, fre quently there is merely the stark expression of perfect submission. Geprge Washington said, “It is' *7l]/’ Alice Cary, “l want to go Imay. ” John Adams’ final words were, “It is the last Of earth. 1 am content.” The contract between the dying words of Christians and those of unbelievers can need no comment. It bears silent and irrefutable wit ness \o tlie power of the faitli of Cod. “O' my poor soul, whither art' thou, going?” exclaimed Em peror Hadrian, when lie faced the last eneniy. Mary, the wife of Wil liam 111 bf. England, remonstrated wifh the weeping bishop who read the: church’s prayers-at her side: “My I jord, why do you not go on? ] rgn not afraid to die.” Albert; prince consort, said: “1 have bad weklth, rank, power, but if these wejv all Ihow wretched 1 should be.r Thomas Paine, dying; replied to |he question, Do‘ you wifeh to believe that Jesus is the Soii ''■of ()ofl. “I have no wish to believe on theis.sub.ject.” Another famous atiieist, shrinking at tlie last from' hist own terrible creed, groaned, “1 jam taking a fearful leap in tiny darjjc. “ Vram-ts Willard said, “flow beaut mil to be with Cod . ijfow and then we catch in deathbed utterances a meaning we jflre not deny. An ecstatic word, a single simple phrase shows us that the passing soul sees and hears things hid from our mortal sense. Elizabeth Barfett Brow-ning cried as her spirit took flight, “It is beautiful!” Felicia Hemans said, “I feel as if I were sitting with Mary at the feet of my Re deemer.” Hannah Moore uttered one glad monosyllable. “Joy.” Another woman author told her mourning friends, “I hear beauti ful voices, and the children’s are the loudest.” An aged believer, passing away on a dark midnight in a room from which he had ban ished the lamp, pointed suddenly to the black east: “See,” he cried, “Dawn!’ Two passages—for they may so be called —written centuries apart but, each representative of its au thor, set forth strikingly mai’s different attitude toward death and immortality. One is the work of a pagan soul hesitating and fumbling before the great mys tery : Soul of me, floating and Hit ting and fond, Thou and this body were iiome niates together: Wilt thou be gone, now and whither? Palid and naked and cold. Not to laugh, not to be glad as of old. The other is Benjamin Frank lin’s epitaph, written by himself. It has a whimsical touch that ap pears to border on levity until one reads between the lines its golden faith and assurance: The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer (like the (-over on an old book, its contents torn,( lies here, food for vforms. Yet the work it self shall not he lost, for it will, as he believed, appear once more, in anew and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by The Author—Thg Southern Church man. ' Land For Sale 160 acres, 4% miles south of Daeula, Ga., 4-room houSe, 3-horse farm- barn, good pastuk 25 acres of original forest, plenty of wood, public road divides it. Selling for .only $40.00- per acre. 40 acres red land, good house and outbuildings; 4 miles east of Winder, at $90.00 per acre. 330 acres,Hancock Cos., Ga. 4-horse 3-horse farm, barn, good pasture. acres-of original forest, houses. Thousands of feet of second-growth pine and hard wood timber - 90• acres in bottoms, at .$25.00 per acre. Easy Terms. 785 acres in Hancock county; 6-room dwelling; 7 ten ant houses, large barn. 3 miles hog wire fence, on public road and mail route; phone line. In iy 2 miles of schools, churches and stores. 'Gin and corn mill with 30-horse pow er engine and boiler goes with this. 10-horse farm open, and over a million feet of saw timber. Sold together at $25.00 per acre, or will cut and give choice at $30.00. Other farms at attractive prices. See me before you buy City property for sale and rent. Loans made.- , '• W. H. QUARTERMAN, Atty. STOMACH TROUBLE Mr. Marion Holcomb, of Nancy, Ky., says: “For quite a long while I suffered with stomach trouble. 1 would have pains and a heavy feeling after my meals, a most disagreeable taste in my mouth. If 1 ate anything with butter, oil or grease, I would spit it up. I began to have regular sick headache. I had used pills and tablets, but after a course of these, I would be constipated. It just seemed to tear my stomach all up. I found they were no good at all for my trouble. I heard THEDFORD’S 1 recommended very highly, so began to use it. It cured me. I keep it in the house all the time. It is the best liver medicine made. Ido not have sick headache or stomach trouble any more.” Black-Draught acts on the jaded liver and helps it to do its important work of throwing out waste materials and poisohs from fhe sys tem. This medicine should be in every household for , use in time of . need. Get a package today. If you feel sluggish, take a dose tonight You will feel fresh to morrow. Price 25c a package. All druggists. ONE CENT A DOS! <, THE MULBERRY ASSOCIA TIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION AT CEDAR CREEK CHURCH JUNE 29, 1919. 10:00 to 10:30 Song Service and Devotional. 10:30 to 10:45 Necessary Equip ment for a good Sunday School. By Rev. J. B. Brookshire. 10:45 to 11 :00 Grading and Or ganizing Classes. By J. P. Wil liams. 11:00 to 11:15 Bible Authority for Sunday. By Rev. W. 11. Faust. 11:15 to 11:30 Qualifications and Duty of a Superintendant. By Rev. J. W. Maltbie. 11 :30 to 11 :45 Planting the Truth. By Rev. W. T. Evans. 11:45 to 12:00 The Teacher and his Message. By Prof. J. P.,,Cash. DINNER. Bethabara Class. 1:30 to 1:50 Song Service by Bethabara ('lass. 1 :50 to 2:20 How to put Life in a Sunday School. By Revs. J. T. Grizzle and Bunyon Collins. 2:20 to 2:40 Singing by Walnut Class. 2:40 to 2:55 Soul Winning. By Mrs. W. P. DeLaPerriere. ANNOUNCEMENTS AND SONG BY CONVENTION. ADJOURN AT WILL. J. W. MALTBIE, Chairman. Where Thin Men Have Advantage. A thin innn has a better chance than i fat one. Women gunning for men iceasionally puncture a fat one, but ew of them shoot well enough to hit o bin one. —Topeka Capital. Old Familiar Discovery. 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