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price slaughtering movement-not a single dollars worth will be held.
MEN’S FURNISHINGS.
Men’s Good Socks 4 c
Men’s 10c Socks good value -T n
Men’s 15c Socks O n
“ 20c Fancy Half Hose 13c
< t Good Suspenders 8 c
i t 25c Suspenders k—*.
4 ( 50c Suspenders OT
“ 25c Neckwear i—i
< ( 50c Neckwear Q
< I 75c Dress Shirts o
( ( $1.00 Dress Shirts o
< i Good Winter Underw’r 44c
“ heavy “ «< 48c
“ hemstitched h&ndkerc’fs 4c
( i 15c Handkerchiefs 8 c
SPECIALS.
Ladies Nic° Handbags 23
Ladies 75c Handbags 43c
Children’s Caps from 42c to 23c
CASH COVINGTON, GEORGIA
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What It Is to be a Christian.
By Bishop Warren A. Candler.
Because Christianity has render
ed peculiarly lustrous certain mor
nl qualities in the type of life j
which it creates superficial observ. 'j
ers often mistake these qualities
in their isolated and inferior form
for the whole of the Christian life,
just as the untrained eye fri quent
ly mistakes certaiu forms of quartz
for diamonds and pyrites for gold,
Diviuinely inspired love, being
the very crowning grace of the
Christian life, is thus falsely idem
tified with a mere natural amiabil
ity, and men are called Christians
when they are only courteous. Oc
casional acts of earth-born charity
are mistaken for heaven born be¬
nevolence.
To many the word "Christian”
conveys no very definite meaning;
they gather from it only a vague
impression of ea9y-going good¬
ness and decorous decency, This
conception they associate with cer
tain persons of their acquaintance,
and d the appropriateness of the
application is questioned, because
such persons are wanting in faith
or are worldly m l.fe, the question
is resented with great warmth.
But nothing is gained by delud¬
ing ourselves by the misuse of
words. We may degrade ideas by
degrading the words which are the
signs of those ideas. It is fre¬
quently very useful, therefore, to
return to the original use of words,
and to correct vagrant thought by
requiring accuracy of speech.
What was meant by the word
Christian when it was coined? To
what form of faith and to what
tyue of fife was it at first applied?
Why was a new word coined to
describe a sect which could not be
indicated by any word previously
in use?
We know that the followers of
J<sus were first called "Christians’.
Wednesday Morning* November 25* 1908
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$1.50 Parasols and Unbrellas 89c
2.CO 4 ( t < < ( $1.89
75c Lace Cmttins 48c
15c Curtain Goods 8 c
25c Fancy Curtain Goods 19c
BARGAINS.
50 Pairs 10-4 B'ankets 89c
Yard wide Yellow Homespun 4 1-2
Best 10c Apron Checks 8 c
12 l-5c Dress Ginghams 9c
10c Drilling 8 l- 2 c
10 c Checked Homespun 6 c
50 Pieces Cheviot light colors 9c
10c yd wide Bleaching 7c
12c Bleaching 10 c
10c yd wide Sea Island 7c
Good White Table Cloth 23c
72 iu 75c PureTable Linen 53c
85c Fine Table Linen 62c
72 in 1 25 Pure Table Linen 9So
Antioch, and the record of the
in the Acts of the Apostles j
it perfectly clear why a new j
term was invented to designate
them. At first the outside world
looked on the followers ol Jesus ae
a sect of Jew's who accepted the
tenets of a Jewish teacher named
Jesus. They were not supposed tc
differ from other Jews except in
the matter of ihe human teacher
to whom he was attached. To the
Roman outsider all Jews looked
alike whoever might bo the head
of the sect to which they belonged;
Pharisees and Sadducees were a ll
one to him. The springing up of
another sect around the teacher
from Nazareth simply added
another name to the list of parties
within the nation; but it, with all
the rest, might be included under
the general name of "Jew”, with¬
out misleading inaccuracy, smee
all the followers of the new school
were Jews like the rest.
But after a time it was seen that
the ordinary Jews persecuted these
followers of Jesus because they
claimed that He was "the Christ”,
or, as the word was in the Hebrew
of the Jews, because they claimed
He was the "Messian.” This was
the head and front of Stephen’s
offending, aud his offense was re¬
garded as blasphemy deserving of
death by stoning. F t this offense
James, the brother of Jjhn, was
beheaded, and for it John uud P e -
ter were repeatedly imprisoned.
For this cause Saul of Tarsus
with others, persecuted the adher
cuts of t he now s^ct even to s* rangp
cities. The issue wascleailv oue
which neither party was disposed
to compromise. For the faith that
Jesus was the Messiah, the Son of
God, His followers were ready to
die; they would surreuder life be
ore they wo uld surrender that le
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EXTRA.
Ladies 1 25 Long Glove 89c
One Lot Ladies Heavy Shoes 1.00
Bleached Towels, each 4c
Bleached Towels 9c
Childrens Hose 8c
"Buster Brown” Misses Shoes
All Styles, 1.69 down to 1.29
Boys and Misses Shoes, 1.75
and 1 50 Values for 1.29
LADIES CLOAKS.
Ladies $ 8 00 Cloaks $5 50
t 4 12 50 “ 9 98
4 4 13.50 " 10.99
44 10 00 “ 7 15
Misses 8.00 “ 5 50
It 6 00 “ 4.49
Childs 4.00 “ 3.49
11 3 00 4 • V 2.49
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lief. They proclaimed it at their
peii!, but proclaim it they would. !
On the other hand, the Jews were 1
as intolerant ot it as the followers
of Jesus were devoted to it; they
would u '/j endure ll for one mo j
A '* * a 1( '“ or ^ a ‘ j
hereey worth . y death, , and t^be j
stam P-^ Cllt ull cost. Neither j
i,art v to the controversv claimed
or m 'smiderstandiug sri gg’ ;Ste d that °l there l ^ e issue was any be-j J
Uvef>n lljLm ’ and conc S r ned noth- j
’"j’ ei ” e ' ut l jeIS0n Ttsns
^ as ^ eot "' IS be not divine? - Did
| or not rise from the d^ad?
The followers of Jesus had no
worldly force upon which to de
pend in the contest with theii op
P oue nts, and, therefore, they were I
scattered by the persecution which i
fell tert 'd ©n they them. were But nob silenced, though seat- and | j
! wherever they preached "Jesus
ai ‘ d tbe resurrection, t J When cer
{tair» of them came to Antioch they
preached this doctrine among the
Gentiles as well as to the Jews
dwelling there, and made Gentile
converts to their faith. This was
wholly unjf-wisb. It was thus
manifest that the new sect had two
great characteristics which differ- j
entiftted it from every other sect
1 the world, and removed it ut
terly from any connection with the
other Jewish sects. (1) It held
that Jesus was the Christ. (2) It
held that the religion of the Christ
was not restricted to any race or
nation, but was for all men of er
ery race and any nation. A sect
proposing such unheard ot tenete,
and living up to the creed which it
thus professed, must have a new
name all its own. Hence the dis¬
ciples were called "Christians”,
perhaps in derision at first; for
the claim that the crucified man,
Je 9 iis, was in truth the divine
Messiah of Jewish prophecy and
that He had risen from the dead,
was regarded by most of their con¬
temporaries as preposterous.
it they had made no claim that
LADIES SKAIRTS.
Ladies $12.50 Skirts $10 00
• i 10 00 “ 8 89
i i 5.50 “ 4.59
4 4 0 00 “ 4.98
LADIES SHOES.
Ladies $2.00 Shoes $1.89
44 2.50 “ 2.19
( « 3 25 “ 2 89
3.50 “ 2.39
I % 1.50 “ Etigh Top
Shoes all sizes 1.23
4 ( 2 00 Highj Top Shoes 1.89
( I 2.50 Dress Shoes 2.19
HEN’S $HOES.
One lot of Mens regular
1.75 Brogans — GC
Mens 2.25 Shoes Q» C5
!Jesus was the ’‘Christ”, they
would have beeu called "Jesuits”,
if indeed any new name had been
thougnt necessary for them at all.
But they were not Jesusites; they
were most emphatically Christites.
l 1 roui this review of the history
of the name "Christian,” it is ;
clear that no man who rejects the ;
Messianic character of Jesus, and
sees in Him only a man, although
the wisest and best of men, can be
called justly a Chustian. He may
be a Jesusite, or to use the better
form of the word ut with no ref
erence to the society of Loyola, he
may be a Jesuit; but a Christian
surely he can not be. ..
A Christian is a man who act
cepts Christ as his divine Savioinj,
and who finds in Him salvation for
all the world, without regard
race or nation. With St. Peter he
believes that there is none other
namo given nnder heaven whereby
men must be saved. He is benev¬
olent towards all men, and just
because he is thus benevolent and
believes that the ,
salvation which j
is in Christ is the supreme need of j
men in all lands, he would go
to prison cr die frr his faith. He
ean not accept exemption from suf
fering by compromising in any
wise the high claims of his Lord,
nor will he rest contented to hold
his faith in silence. He must
press it upon all men, or he feels
himself unfaithful towards his
Lord and inhuman towards men
who stand in need of the salvation
which He alone supplies,
It iB quite evident that there are
a good many very amiable agroeu
ble, courteous men among us, who
whatever their excellencies may be,
can not be called Christians with¬
out an utter perversion of the term.
Men who affirm that Jesus was the
wisest of teachers, the noblest of
men, or the truest of martyrs, but
not divine, may be very courteous
and very amiable, but they are not
Christians, and nothing but a con
fusion of ideas is the result of
One lot Mens gooe heavy
shoes best marie for tL C5 O
Mens 3 50 Shoes for rL O CO
DRESS GOODS.
Good Brilliantine 44c
1.00 Dress Goods 89c
50 inch Brilliantine 53o
15c Liunette I3c
SILKS.
36 inch 1.00 Black Pongee Silk 89c
1.00 Taffeta, all colors 89c
36 in. Bl. and Cream 60c Silk 43c
1 35 Black Silk 1.19
1 75 “Peau de Soi” Silk 1.39
HOSIERY.
Lad»es Black and Tan Hose GO u
Ladies Fancy 15c Hose W o
Ladies 25c Fancy Hose a * O a
Cal ling them Christians. They
themselves ought to be the first to
repudiate the application of the
term to them. It misrepresents ;
their position, and, hence, is an :
injustice to them. |
I Rejecting the Messiahship of
J esus they reject His Miraculous
pirtli jrankly of course, and they should
charge the Christians with
adoring an apotheosized bastard,
and cease all their
Compromises with a creed which if
they are honest men they must
abhor. The issue between them
and the Ohristiai.s is too vast for
compromise. If Jesus is not God
(Christianity is idolatry; if He is
God rejection ot Him is rebellion
against the government of heaven,
To use the name “ o tiristian” as
-fO o the
gq to .
name
points is to use the livery of Christ
for carrying on warfare against
f im. We hear much of what our "age
demands”; may we not hope it
yvill begin down right honesty in
the use of words by religious
teachers? If a man believes that
Jesus wa 9 the Christ let hitn
claim the name of Christian and
(theother jlive up to its significance If on
hand a man does not be
lievo that Jesus was divine, but
only clings to him as a meremnn
of unfortunate birth although of
excellent sentiments let him an
nounce himself a Jesusite and stick
to it. And if soon choose to
shorten the wo:d and call him a
Jesuit,’ no one but the followers
of Loyola, who cling to the divini¬
ty of Christ tennciously can have
any just ground to complain of the
use of the word.
In the first century if oue pro
fessed to believe that Jesus was
the Christ he was called a Christian
and the profession exposed him to
obl< quy and persecution. If the
men who now deny His divinity
had lived then they would have
resented being called "Christians.”
But in the course ol the centum
what was a term of reproach in J
first century lias become a baa
of honour in the twentieth cental
Will men who would have scorn!
the reproach of Christ then t
now to decorate themselves, wi
laureia filched from Ho broij
Will they seek to be calle M v E
kingly title while engag’ d in
effort to take the crown iff t
head? Will they place themself
in the apostolic succession of ti
treacherous Apostle who betray
his Lord with a kiss? Shall ra
who would have repelled «'
indignation being called “Cl' r!
iaus” in the days of Pauls
Peter whine and complain n
when the name * i Christian”
denied to them?
It is idle for them to plead th<
viitues, and it is worse than fol
for their friends to talk of "tb
charming personality ”. Cd
fucious had virtues and Marc
Aurelius had "a charming pi
sonality, I J but neither was
"Christian.”
To Correspondents
The Enterprise desires that
old correspondents should the contiiij P*Pj
their contributions to tb
each week. It is hoped that
will all be heard from next
The Enterprise also desires]
correspondent at everv place in t
county and will be glad nection to vr" ^
from some one in con
this service
For Rent.
One three room house ans! ol
four-room house, both well
ed, and located in vety * a
a
part of town, just oil of ,
Apply to J. M .KAVEfi
Star Lodge No. 164 I 0.0- q
Meets every Thursday
at 7.30. Visiting brethren
dially invited to meet with us. j j
A. H. Milner, N. G.
J. W. Peek, Fee.