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XYhG Pui/o/t | J [PL\ > v//l£NDE!J3 o^X^^'^ Subject: Receiving the Spirit. Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church, Hamburg avenue and Weirfield street, on the above theme, the pas tor, Rev. I. W. Henderson, took as his text Jno. 20:22, “Receive ye the Holy Spirit.” He said: The reception of the Holy Spirt in the inner sanctuary of the human heart is the condition of en trance into the kingdom of God. The possibility of the immediate and pres ent incoming and welcoming of the Spirit is reason enough for us to be lieve that the kingdom begins in this life and at once, if youqvill The fact that the coming of the Spirit into the heart is contemporaneous with the entrance of the individual into the privileges of divine citizenship is suf ficient demonstration that spiritual ity is the key to, and the essence of. and the first requirement of admis sion to the kingdom. The one and only way to participate in the joys and blessings of the Spirit filled life is to cease from hardness of heart, and from intellectual self-glorification and self-trust, and to become as lit tle children in humility and receptiv ity to truth. Spirituality and divine citizenship are one and the same thing. Growth in spirituality is the ■ test of efficient citizenship. The man who has stopped depending upon his cwn strength, his own wisdom, and has opened his heart and eyes and ears and mind to the influences and manifestations of the Spirit in his life is ready to receive, and in all conscience will get, the papers and rights of a citizen of the kingdom of the God of Jesus Christ. And that soul only is being sanctified unto God likeness and fashioned into the im age of Jesus Christ who is growing daily, hourly, momently, in the gifts and graces of the spiritual life. To be spiritual is to become child like. To attain spiritual develop ment is the aim and the calling of those who are Christ’s. The Holy Spirit, the personal, pu rifying, propelling presence of God in the life of man, is the means unto the spiritualizing of human natures according to the divine decrees. The entrance of the Spirit snells death to sin. The yielding of self to the gen tle ministrations of the Holy Ghost is the first step toward individual trans formation. The communion of the spirit of man with the Spirit of God brings peace, contentment, rest and a wisdom and energy which are more than sufficient to meet the demands and the opposition of the world. No mere impersonal, unreal, unattain ble something is this Spirit which Christ bade His disciples receive, and ef which at a later time they received a fuller measure. It is the real, help ful, personal presence of God in the life. The spirit of man is a prey to all sin save the Spirit of God as a constructive, controlling force comes in. The transfusion of the soul with the vitality of the Spirit fills the dy ing heart of man with life. There are three characteristics of the Holy Spirit to which I wish to di rect your thought. The Holy Spirit is a constant presence in the life of the world, a controlling energy, a soul satisfying comforter. The Holy Spirit is a constant pres ence and factor in the life of the world. The entire list of graces and gifts and blessings which are ours at the hands of our heavenly Father are constant. The gift of the Spirit is no exception to the rule. When God promises to men the presence and uplift of the Holy Spirit upon the fulfilment of certain conditions upon their part He means just what He says. Our Father is not fickle or changeable or inconstant. He is the same to-day, yesterday and forever. And His Spirit, which is His own real, personal presence in the hearts of men, is as constant as is all else with which He has anything to do. When we were far away from duty and were serving sin the Spirit of the living God was knocking ever at our hearts. And though we hated our selves and the depth of our own in iquity, though the world may have despised us and forsaken us, though everything in life may have held us as ’ unclean” with the leprosy of sin. still the Spirit of the living, loving Father of us all stood waiting to re veal to us the wealth and beauty of the love of God and to revfve our dying souls with the fullness of power unto eternal life. * The constancy of the Spirit as a factor in life is nowhere better illus trated than in the experience of Christian men who have given them selves up, in less or greater measure, to His dominion. What a joy, what a comfort, what a stay it is to know that w’henever and wheresoever we may turn to the Spirit for the portion cf refreshment that our souls so sorely need we shall a ways find Him ready to supply our wants. There is no sense and no reason in much of our constant petitions to God to infill us with His Spirit. Tha influences of types of thought aud of prayer are hardly escapable. We have grown so accustomed to ask God to fill us with His Spirit of power. But I submit, would we not pray better and more to the point if we thanked our Father for the favors of His love and acknowledge to Him in person, what He already knows, our shortcomings and ouj lack of appropriation of the gift of 1 His Spirit. The showers of spiritual blessings are forever falling free, full ana sumcient upon human souls everywhere. Our prayers should be not of petition that God may give us showers, but rather of thanksgiving for past, present and future blessings and of dedication of self, through the riches of His grace and pow-ers to a finer and more fruitful life for Him. The presence and influence of the Holy Spirit in the life of the world is a constant gratuity. If you are not the deeply grounded spiritual man that you should be the fault lies not with the Spirit, of whom there is abundance unto all men’s necessity, but with you who have refused that wealth of spiritual power which, mil der God, might be yours if you would. Everywhere and continually the Spirit of the Lord is active. He knocks ever at the door of the sinner’s heart. He is forever pouring out the inex haustible waters of spiritual life upon the parched souls of men. But neither God nor His Spirit can fill an inverted cup. The showers of blessing can not flood a closed heart. Then, too, the Holy Spirit is a con trolling energy in the life of the man who is susceptible to His influence. Christ tells us that His Spirit shall lead us into all truth; that He shall be our Guide, our Teacher and our Helper. The catalog of the activities of the Spirit hi the life of man is strengthening and sustaining. By Him we are led into the entirety of divine self-revelation and of eternal truth. Under the guidance of the Spirit of the living God we may progress from truth to truth as the wonders of God’s universe are re vealed to us and the application of everlasting verities brought home to our hearts. May no man flinch to follow the Spirit withersoever He may direct. As Dante went through hell and heaven and the intermediate regions of the world beyond, and told in allegory and song the wonders that he witnessed and the sights he saw, so may we, with the Spirit as our guide, be given grace to look truth squarely in the face and portray it faithfully to the world. And if we as Dante, or beyond him Christ, shall be hounded by those who fear the light of truth we shall yet be certain that the truth, the truth alone, is worth men’s fealty and shall make them free. The Spirit as the Comforter ap peals to the heart of every Christian. Who of us does not joy in the fact that above ns and within us is this comforting Spirit of the Lord our God? The human heart cries out for comfort when distress and dan ger and destruction come upon it. When our hearts are bowed in an guish and our souls are crushed with grief, wht-i every human tie is sev ered and no mortal hand may avail to dispel our utter darkness, then the spirit of the loving God strengthens, sustains, sanctifies the soul. "Save me, O God, for the waters are come into my soul,” we cry out with the Psalmist. In the Judah wilderness of the world our souls thirst for Him, our flesh longs tor Him as in a dry I and thirsty land, where no water is. Then the Spirit comes, and with His entrance the live springs of refresh ! ment minister to our couls’ deep need. The Spirit as the Comforter is God in His presence ministering to the humanest of mortal needs. No man can live happily without Him. No man can weather the trials of tribulation and the temptations of prosperity without Him. Lending the sorrowing light hearts He keeps the successful level headed. The sense of the constant presence of the Spirit of God in the individual i and world life is the certain indica tion of a true religious experience. No man who lives near to God is without it. It is elemental in Chris tian experience. And this conscious ness of God’s abiding and guiding is the mainstay of the soul. Without it progress is impossible in the truest sense. With it we may fight with fearlessness, with hope unquench able, against principalities and pow ers, against the wickedness of high places and the sins of mighty : ;en. For file abiding Spirit of the living God is the controlling energy in the life of humanity. P.ad men may de feat Him temporarily; evil polici s may i-ustrate His purposes and*hurl themselves against His plans; but the Spirit of God is unconquerable. He is the controlling, the overruling en ergy in the worll. In this Spirit we should find our strength. From Him we should derive the comfort of our souls. Let not your heart be troubled. Come what may. be the storms of life what they will, God will not leave us comfortless. He will not leave us orphans. He is with us. He will abide with every soul who bids Him enter. He will constantly refresh us all. He will give us courage and be our strength. He will suffuse us. He will comfort us. And He does. The Great Lesson of Life. What a vast proportion of our lives is spent in anxio is and useless fore bodings concerning the future—eith er our own or those of our dear ones. Present joys, present bless ings slip by and we miss half their favor, and adl for want of faith in Him who provides for the tiniest sunbeam. • Oh, when shall we learn the sweet trust in God that nur little children show us every day by their confiding faith in us? We. who are so muta ble, so faulty, so irritable, so unjust; and He who is so watchful, so piti ful, so loving, so forgiving? Why can not we. slipping our hand into His every day, walk trustingly over that day’s appointed path, thorny or flowery, crooked or straight, know ing that evening will bring us sleep, peace and home? —Phillips Brooks. Pawnbrokers are able to see the s’.l er lining of your c ouds. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR AUG. 11 BY THE REV. I. W. HENDERSON. Subject: The Sin of Nadab and Abihu, Lev. 10:1-11 —Golden Text, Prov. -0: 1 Memory Verse, 8. Nadab and Abihu furnish the groundwork for the temperance les son of the day. Evidently they were drunk when they went to perform their usual duties before the altar. At least it would so appear since immediately following the recital of their foolish actions and grievous dis obedience to the commands of God we have the record that the Lord specifically commanded Aaron and his other sons that they should re frain from following after strong drink. What God expected of Aaron as a priest He etpects of every one of us as His children, especially of those of us who are sealed to Him in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. For. as the Proverb says, “wine is a mocker.” It is a sign not of a man’s sense but of his lack of it when he fools with liquor. It not only makes fools of men but it makes beasts of them. It not only makes monkeys of them, but it also makes raging, vicious brutes of them. It is a delusion and a snare. If it was a good thing for Aaron and his sons to let the sort of wine they used in their day alone, it is certainly wise that we should let the stuff that is sold to-day alone. If the wine of Israel could make idiots of the priests of the tabernacle no man can accurately predict what the alcoholic drinks of to-day will do with men. For the likelihood is that the wine of that primitive time as used by the priesthood was as good as can be procured. But the vile stuff that is sold to-day is generally as had as can he procured. The aver age man to-day when he does buy wine, or beer, or liquors of any sort cannot even he certain that he is purchasing what he wants. Much of the alcoholic drinks that are served to the public to-day is poison flaunt ing itself under the black flag of sub terfuge. But whether they be pure or pois onous alcoholic beverages had best be left alone. No man can afford to fool with them. We see daily in stances of the folly of even strong, intelligent, moral men tampering with liquor. It is as sensible to tam per with liquor as it is to tease a rat tlesnake. Statistics wi’l never record the number of the bright, indus trious, brainy, useful men who tam pered with liquor and met defeat. God alone knows the awful list cf those who have gone down into the drunkard’s grave because they felt, competent to curb and control about as fierce a monster as ever mastered man. Alcohol as a beverage is a fraud. It is even questionable whether it is useful as a medicine. For its chief medicinal value is as a preservative and solvent. Its nutri tive value is so negligible as to be easily dispensed with, and as easily replaced. As a stimulant it is a sham. For its retroactive properties are too thoroughly pronounced. There is nothing whatever to be gained by the use cf alcohol as a beverage. First of all it i 3 an un natural acquirement. Water is the natural beverage. W’ater slakes and satisfies the thirst. Alcohol in tensifies and excites the thirst. It creates an abnormal desire. It is un satisfying. Secondly, alcohol is ex pensive. None of us though he have the riches of Rockefeller is rich enough to spend a dollar on alcohol ic drinks. And the poorer we are the more we need the money for valid necessities. The man who has money to spend on drinks had better spend the money on his family, charity, or himself. For practically ail the money spent on liquor is an econom ic loss. Alcohol as a beverage takes the money of the drinker without af fording society commensurate re turn. In the measure that its return is incommensurate it is an economic loss. Thirdly, alcohol as a beverage is dangerous. It is the hand maiden of hell. It is the devil’s hangman. The strange thing is that, while the Church of Jesus Christ and the courts of the land recognize that the beverage liquor traffic is at the source of the vilest and most hope less miseries of this country tc-day, the church takes no more decided and defiant and aggressive attitude against it than she does and the courts of the land permit it to exist in open defiance of the unconstitu tional guarantees to the public at large of undisturbed and equal op portunity to pursue a peaceful exis tence in liberty and happiness before the law. The strange thing is that it is so unpopular even in the church to arraign the citizenship that pal liates and endorses and permits the saloon to exist for a consideration — even the Christian citizenship of America. The strange thing is that the courts permit such a business to exist. For every child of a drunken father is denied the elemental oppor tunity for wholesome life, liberty and happiness that makes us equal be fore the law. Every child born cut of drunken wedlock is handicapped inevitably in the race of life. Every weak willed sot is aided on towards misery and sorrow by the consent of the State. Every mother in a half furnished home, deprived of the nec essaries of life, is a standing argu ment for the intervention of the church and State. You can’t make men moral by law, to be sure. But you can remove the legalized invita tion and suggestion to immorality by law. That is a duty of the church and of the State. HORROR IN GOTHAM Over Mysterious Murder of Two Young Women and Little Girl By Un known “Strangler." The “Graveyard,” as the foreign pop ulated neighborhood on First avenue between Thirteenth aud Fourteenth stretts, is known in New York, gave up Thursday a fresh crime, rivaling the notorious and mysterious butcher ies of last week. The latest discov ered victim, Katie Pritchler, eight year-old girl, and, like the two young women, she had been shockingly mis treated before death and badly muti lated when life was extinct. The *hrfe murders are strikingly similar. Thurdsay night a week ago, a woman was -strangled in a boarding house; the next morning the body of another unidentified woman who had been choked to death, was found in an ariaway. Katie Pritchler, daughter of a restaurant waiter, was killed that night. A nbbon placed about the throat and drawn so tightly that it cut the flesh, shows how she died. Tbe girl lef; home at 340 East Thir teenth street Thursday night to play in the street. When she failed to re-’ turn the father notified the police and a general alarm was sent out. The body was discovered just a week later within a block of her home and scarce 1y a hundred yards from the location of a placard, placed by her father calling attention to the fact that the child was lost. How the body could have remained undiscovered for a week is not txplained. The girl’s body was stumbled upon by a woman who vigi ed the base ment of the house at 203 First ave nue. It lay upon a berry crate, with seemingly no effort at concealment. If the brutalities of the murders can be qualified, that of the Pritchler girl ranks first. She was assault'd, mur dered and her lifeless form was hor ribly mutilated. LODZ AGAIN IN TURMOIL Bloodshed, Violence and Disorder Rampant in Russian Poland City. Lodz, Russ.an Poland, is again thv> scene of a strike movement, accompa nied by violence, disorder and death. The troops encountered the strikers in the c ( nUr of the town Thursday night and thirty men were killed or wounded. Business is a: a standstill. Tbe strike would appear to be the beginning of a big labor war, and the workmen’s unions are prepared for a long straggle. The immediate cause of Thursday’s outbreak was the course pursued by the police during the last eight days in making a large number of arrests in attempts to break up the unions. The principal socialist leaders have been thrown Into jail. A general strike has been dec’ared, and the social democrats and the Po lish socialists ha\e called out 22,000 men. JOHNSTON NAMED IN CAUCUS. Alabama Legislature Will Elect Him as Successor to Senator Pettus. For the second time dining the 1907 session the Alabama legislature nom inated for eleciion to the Uni:ed States senate, Thursday, a man to succeed a dead senator, that honor falling to Joseph F. Johns.on, who will follow for the long and short terms of Senator Peitus, covering the time to 1915. Though the nomination was by democratic caucus it amounts lo elec tion, as there are only two o her than democrats in the entire ass mbly. Governor Johnston made a speech, in which be poiniej out that he is in liDe with Governor Glenn of North Carolina and Governor Comer of Ala bama, in the belief that the s ates should control without regard to the federal courts. WAITING FOR AN ARREST. Case of Revocation of Southern’s License in Alabama at Standstill. Things are in sla u quo so far as the situation between Alabama and tbe Soutebrn railway is concern d. Tbe railway is doing business in tbe state withoiK license, arid th 9 state is quietly waling for some of ficer of the law, as he has a right tc> do under the act, to efltct an ar rest This may happen at ary time, as tbe violation lock place on July 30. R. O. JACKSON, Attorney-at-Law, mcdoxough, ga. Office over Star Store. E. M. S/lITH, Attorney at Law, Me Donottgh, Ga. Office over Star Store, south side square. All work carefully and promptly attended to. Am premared to negotiate loans on real estate. Terms easy. HELP IS OFFERED TO WORTHY YOUNG PEOPLE Wo earnest ly request all younc pemons, no matt** how limited their mean* or education, who wish t* obtain a thorouKh business trainin* and good posi tion, to write by first mail for our great half-rat* offer. Success, independence and probable fortun* are guaranteed. Don’t delay. Write today. Th* Gau-Al*. Business College, Macon, G*. ißedevE TOBACCO IS a delicious chew, made from the best I North Carolina leaf;, I a leaf that has a spec- j I ial texture, a special I flavor and wnich I [makes RED EYE ai | specially fine and satis | fyingchewingtobacco. | Most people prefer it I to tobacco costing one I dollar per pound. j I Ask your dealer for it and I insist on him keeping it. MERCHANTS Write for Special Prices. Wjtjros WINSTON NO . :• t '. "> J JAMESTOWN Ter-Csntennial Exposition April t November, ISO 7. Exceedingly low rates have hee’t authorized by the Southern Railway to Norfolk, Va., and return, account Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposi tion. Stopovers will be allowed on se*- son, sixty day and fifteen day tickets, same as granted on summer tourist tickets. Tickets will be sold daily commencing April 19th, to and incut ding November 30th, 1907. The Southern Railway is taking a very great interest, in this exposition and doing everything within their power to promote its welfare for the reason that It is located on historic and southern grounds, and has evi dence of being one of the most import ant and attractive affairs of this kind that has ever been held. Through train service and sleeping err service to Norfolk during the ex position has not yet been announced, but it is expected that most excel lent schedules will be put in effect 30 as to make the trip comfortable and satisfactory in every way. Fuil and complete information will bo cheerfully furnished upon applica tion to any ticket agent of the South ern Railway company. if SCHEMING FOR A DISPENSARY. Whisky People of Augusta, Ga., Plaa Booze Joint Across the River. It is generally reported In Augusta, Ga., that secret arraneexen s are be ing mad* 1 to estab ish a in North Augusta, just acios sthe river, in South Carolina, from the city of Augus.a. which will be '‘dry” when prohibition goes into effect on Jan. 1. ARKANSAS THROTTLED BY JUDGE. State is Restrained From Forfeiting Li cense of Rock It.aod Road. Judge Vandeventer, in the federal circ.-it court, at St. Paul Monday, is sue* a temporary r s .al .ing order prohibiting the secret ry ot state of Arkansas from forfeiting the light of ! the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific j railroad to do busings in the state.
