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AS TO SANTA CLAUS. A Reply by North Carolina Minister To The Idler's Christmas Dis sertation in Herald and News. Editor The Herald and News: So' the "Idler" has been carrying in. his conscience all these twelve months. something the "North Carolina Preacher' said. Well, we preach-! ers, like the editors, keep on preach ing, and it often seems the words are just sounds in the air. The ed itors preaeh through the columns of 46e papers /and, the preachers in the pulpit. They vannot tell what ef feet their words may have for good or eviL Now hr is Idler, and I have of ten wo04iFed who he is. He 'still remekerg- a little sermon in Ile Herald and News of last year's Christmas. Idler writes some good things, and they come up here into North Carolina.. He generally says about what he thinks in a lively spicy way. I dare say he is helping his town. He may find some critics, but that is all the better. That makes men think. Idler likes to criticize the "North Caro lina Preacher." Men often object to what they know is right because tey do not like to aedept it. Now Idler agrees with the North -Carolina Preacher about Christmas celebration. He sa:7s,. "It is the birth of a babe we celebrate-the babe who waxed strong and went about His Father's business of sav ing the world, passing through Geth semane's agony and giving His life a wiRing saerifice that His blood might wash out the dark stains of sin." Idler is right. We are eelebrating at least we ught to be-the birth of that wondeVul Babe. His theolo gY is good, too, in this age when- we hve a preident who openly de es the power of that atoning blo,!. But I do confess "Idler" is like certain people who lived some ages ago of whom a prophet said,"How long halt ye between two opinionsf if the I.rd be God follow Him, but iffBail then follow him." If old -Santa is the Lord then belebrate fin* but if the Lord then eelebrate Him. No that precher has not leirn-1 edany better. He still is on the side of the God who answers (by fire) .not always down the smoke stack. 'Now this preacher did not say parents should teseh 'their children -Saita 'Claus doc.s not come but t;hat She is "nil: A thing that is not does nemove.- He did-' not say . they shoad teach them "the gifts are in commemoration of' the birth of the ChrOlmist-ehild.." 'Wiatche tried to say is they are the gifts of the Christ ehild. -Substitute "Christ-child," Idler, where you want to put Santa Claus and your 'theology and ethies maRI be alright. Is not that a sim ple process? "Honor to whom hon or,g "tribuite 'to whom tribut4 is due." Why steal from the Babe to honor Sqnta Claus? "Every good gifti and every perfect gift cometh d4lvn from above." Is not that. sim-' pleiitheology f Aid Idler says Santa Claus "has brought more happiness to more lit *tie children, than any body else in .13 the wold." The , more's the pity The old imposter. Dr. Cook. hiad a big fame too but he look,s like aten een* piece since those Dane ot through with'-him. Now he wants gp oft ad hide. Perhaps he kept inpany up around the pole with didSanta-and you know about "evil1 wulmunieations." .~win fact, Idler, don't you think ye hoe]hd celebrate the coming of the Babe of Bethlehem rather than the i,aming of old Santa? Suppose you give him a birthday 4RI his 'very own and see how much honor he will get and whether people :will think "he has brought more hap piness to more children~ tham anybody else in all the wdrld." "North Carolina Preacher." A SUNSHINE WOBmRR Ia The 'Shadow of a Great Sorrow .He Sends Greetings of Good Cheer. T~o the South -Carolina Sunshine Miends and workers' and Miss Shelor, *ur loved leader, greeting: Again the spirit of the Yuletime eames over all the earth-the spmrt yt Christmas, and gladness and good cheer. The sun of another year is ere set, and what .has, the 2;eaping en9' To some of you the sun of kappinesa. has shone -on undimmed iiough all the days of this year; fihers have striven against .defeat and disappointment and trial. -Yet ot*hers still in loss, and pain have1 drunk deep of the bitter cup of sor sew. I bring you gtings of glad tidings, in the spirit of this season, 1 ef faith and peace and joy-a merry, inerry Christmas! Dng the year that is past the I shadow of a deep sorrow has come to my life, that, wreathe and strug gle and strive I yet seem powerless to shake off the burden of it. On some of you sorrow -has lain a hand burdens grievous to be borne; but oh can you then know the terrible power of this blow when we must know that "Hugh," our pride and joy is gone up from us just in the first flush of manhood and prime of young life. L..e a thunder elap was the news of his death in an aceident at the works where the had gone, but a few short weeks before. We re-i member his ,bright smile, happy face and hearty handclasp as he left us and our hearts are bowed in deep mourning. But we have a blessed hope. He was a good boy and loved -to be in his church, about his Lord's work. Many have been the tributes to his life and worth and promise, until those of us who -were heser to him may.rel now at the wide sweep and breadth -of the young life that is re vealed to us. A nature of peculiar gentleness and grace, yet bold and firm as -the rock if it was a thing of honor and principle the stake. How baffling to out shortened. vis ion the workings of Providenice ap pear to us now! Oftentimes we can only stand in chastened faith 'And humility and awe. We question not the right" or wisdom n:mor love if Him -wholoeth all 'thibgs well; for, does not that great' tender 4hrobbing. Heart weigh all and suffers efen when otrs do. And one day, yes soon, we -will know.and u7nderstand "the happy young life.had its mission," and God needed him in His-fold for wider fields of usefulness. "We shall meet but we shall miss him, ^ There will be one vacant chair, We will linger to caress'him When we breathe our evening pray er.s A year ago we gathered, Joy was in his mild blue eye, But a golden chord is severed, And our hopes ia ruin die. We shall meet, but we shall miss There will be one vacant chair, We i*ill Jinger to caress him When we breathe our evening pray :Onthe. eye of a'new year I waft greetings of good will, and faith, ope 'and- -courage. Let us look -up ma strive on in the work we .are in. A bright New Yeart G. Carter Riser. Chrittmas, 1903. AST TRAIN PLUNGES. - OVEE FIVEFOTBN Three- Persons .Perfah in Wreck on Rock Tsaki--Forty-fivel Sustain Trenton, Mo., Dec. 31.-Three sper ons. were killed and 45 injired to ay by the derailing and partial uming of a,westbound R.oek'-Island assenger train southi of KTrenton which probably was caused biy spread ~ng rails. While the train was'run ing at a high rate of'spee4fthe lo pmotive and tender plunged over a. ie-foot embankmn:t, draggiiig two aggage -cars, a mail car, a,.tourist ar, and a standard sleeping car with hem. * - While pssengers in. the wrecked ars were struggliig to escape from he debris Are started from the fire ox. .The splintered cars burned rap aly and the three slain passengers were partly burned.' Scores of per - sns -were, rescued as the flames were morhing their clothing, 01' burning heir flesh. bavid Siegel, 'of Cleveland, Ohio, was -held by the wreckage for an, iour while the fire burned within a' ew f.et of ,him, but was eventually eseued, although he may lose an arm.U Heroic Teseues were numerous. Meo ed women who egaped ~unharmed -shed into the burning wreekage to ecue the less fortunate passengets. The ground was covered with sno'w td g raw wind was. blowing. The en collected coats and protected the omn, and women tore strips from ~heir linen to make bandages for the rounded. IN "T3E DARK CORNER." )fficers Have Cut to Pieces Some :'.) flliciV Stills 'This Year-Lot of Likuor Seized. Greenville, Dec. 30.-A bout 306 licit whiskey distilleries have bezn t to pieces in the "dark corner' f Greenville eoutny this year. Thir -y-one were destroyed this month. wo hunndred thousand gallons of eer aed hundreds of gallons of ~vhiskey have -been taken by . the aiders. The increase in whiskey usiness in the mountains is causing larm in the government eireles. Ths ficers here attribute it to the prohi )itanf wave. There i to a Fe than At The mere materials to o: sis requires knowledge. 'I of. a fertilizer I source from plant food is < Each ingi Royster goods with a view of the plant fron until harvest. is not overfe time an ,taa other. w e years experien( every bag. EGISTE Sold by reliable de the Soi F. S. Royster NORFOL ASSIGN~ KL GiOODS ON liAN To lPay Wha WE MUST HA Goods Must b4 into C "Your Money \V Service HE Anywhen4 0. KLEJ Our Loss is Balanced i (Your passbook-bring it in today (LChecks listed and the book accur Burroughs Adding Machine-a guara (We give you prompt, accurate ment by use of time-saving busin s more rtlizer alyses Mixing of !tan analy no special 'he value 1ies in the which the )btained. edient i n is selected supplying isprouting The plant d at one eved at an n ty-five :egoeswith |KR lers throughout ith. Guano Co. ,VA. 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