We have taken much pains to give to our readers full State Electon News as soon as the returns were ,eceive THE PICKENS SENINEL UBLISHED WEEKLY E At3 atP(ckens. an mccond claxu ru.&IT mauer. uUdBAr March $14YR Established 1871-Volume 42 PICKENS, S. C.. AUGUST 29, 1912 -NUMBER 18. TRACE SHOT WITH CERTAINTY System of Negatives Devised by French Scientist Should Aid in Detecting Crime. Dr. Balthazard at the recent con gress of legal medicine in Paris de scribed his experiments on the iden tificattion of revolver bullets. lie hW formulated a system for i'lefying them very like that of iDr. Bertillon for identifying human being. He showed by greatly enlarged photographs that every gun barrei leaves marks on a bullet and that the marks are always the same for the sane barrel, but never identical fo. two different barrels. He show_, too, that the hammer of a gun or re volver strikes the cartridge at a point which is never the exact center of the cartridge, but, is always the same for the same weapon. Dr. Balthazard has succeeded in making negatives of bullets nearly a foot wide. Every detail naturally appears very distinctly and it can be decided with absolute certainly whether a certain bullet was fired from a certain revolver. OPPOSES THE DIVORCE RING Boston Woman Lawyer Makes Some Sarcastic Comment on Morals of the Present Day. Miss Amy Acton, a prominent lawyer of Boston, said recently, at a fashionable club luncheon, that the divorce ring. which western women have inaugurated, is vulgar. "It is vulgar," she said, "because it is an advertisement of the fact that the wearer is a divorced wom an." Sipping her black demi-tasse, Mi Acton added reflectively: "I may be wrong, though, in con demning the divorce ring-it per haps serves some very good purpose. The number of our divorces is really alarming. We seem to be approach ing that state which prevailed in old Roman times when divorce ws s frequent that on the tomb of an un divorced woman was inscribed: "'Here lies a good wife who had but one husband.'" HORRIBLE. "I had a horrible dreaih last night." "Well, you had probably eaern something vou should have left for others to eat." "I don't know whether that was the cause of it or not. I can't re member that I ate anything which I ought not to have eaten. But I1 dreamed that I had made $250, "~You don't call that a horrible dream, do you? If I could have dream of that kind I'd never want to wake up." "But wait. I dreafrned that I had made it out of a popular song which I had written." COULDN'T LET THAT GO. Loud voiced and much excited, a native of Butte, Mont., sent up a cry for a bellboy at a hotel in C'hi cago the other day. lie explained that he had just lost a valuable~ar tiele and was sure it had gone out with his laundry. He handed the re sponding bellboy a dollar to get the package back at once, if possible. The bellboy "beat it," as he said, to the laundry and found that the west erner's linen had just been dumped into a tub. The lad pawed around in the tub, found a crumpled hand kerchief and drew forth the lost ar tiele. It was a glass eye. A GREAT FEAT. "Some people have marvelous memories." "For instance?" "There is a hook reviewer in this town who has been known to remnem ber the names of the principal char acters in. a 'best seller' for as long as two weeks." IMPRAGTICAL IDEA. "I think each delegate should vote at the outset for the man he thinks would mjake the best nominee." "My dear sir," replied Senator Sorghum, "'with every delegate yot ing for himself, we should never get anywvhere." SENSITIVE MAN. "You know," he was saying, "I couldn't see a woman stand uip whik I was sitting." "So you gave her your seat ? "No: I closed nmy eyes and pr tended to be asleep."-Judge's Li. Also Rad The MAKES NO FORCEFUL APPEAL Republican Platform, Made Up of Sophistries, Will Be Condemned by the Voters. . The Republican platform raises but one issue between the Republican party and the Democratic party. It raises another between the followers of Mr. Taft and those of Mr. Roose velt. The really national issue is, of course, the tariff. On this the Repub lican platform is timid, shifty, and in definite. It declares the party's con tinued belief in protection, "based on the American standard of wages;" flings a sop to agriculture and mining by advocating protective duties for their products; it puts forward the long-exploded notion about the need of defense against the cheap-labor prod ucts of foreign lands. Then, having committed the party to the underlying fallacies of protection, it admits that some duties are too high, and that they should be reduced in accordance with the conclusions of an expert board. With the committal to the broad principle and the broad sophis tries of protection, the Democratic par ty takes prompt and complete Issue. On the admission that duties are too high, the Democrats take much more definite and practical ground than the bewildered Republicans have dared to take. In substance the declaration of the Republicans is a promise to the favored interests that the party will do as little as possible to reduce their ill-gotten profits, and will take as long as possible in doing it. The position of the party is one of sullen obstruc tion modified by fear of popular disap proval. None but hidebound protec tionists and the pampered benefi ciaries of the oppressive tariff will support the Republican candidate sole ly because of this part of his platform. What a High Tariff Wall Does. Ten per cent of the annual expendi tures of the American people repre sents the burden of indirect taxation through import duties. The Republican protective tariff has been responsible for at least one-tenth i of the increased cost of living since 1896. The tariff tax per family averages $120 a year. Cf this $120, $16 reaches the United States treasury and about $104 goes zo the beneficiaries of the tariff-the manufacturers largely, whose profits the Republican party undertakes to in sure by preventing competition from abroad. The Democratic tariff bills passed by the house would have saved the con s.umer $740,000,000 in a year, and the saving would be $1,900,000,000 if all the tariT sched-ules were written "for I revenue only," instead of for the "pro Lection" of the favored few. Here are presented concrete exam ples of the higher cost of living due to the tariff, which was written so high in the Payne-Aldrich law that competi tion from abroad is unprofitable and impossible. The American manufac turer, therefore, is permitted to boost Uis prices up to what his goods could be imported for, plus the American -uty. Finish WIll Come In November. Among the Republicans who called at the White House to congratulate r. Taft on his renomination was ex Speaker Cannon. Messages were rg ceived from ox-Representative Taw ney, ex-Representative Bede, ex-Sena. tor Aldrie, ex-Senator Hale and sev eral others who have retired. It real ly was a great occasion for the down-~ and-out club. Why, Honri! George W. Perkins says that nobody dare steal a red-hot stove under the eyes of 90,900,000 Americans. Maybe not. But if the harvestcr trust would not it would not because o' any well. grounded fear that its reputation would be injured.-Louisville Courier Journal. The Democracy is a party which has kept faith. Aud a patrty which promises certain l~h'ie -ervies anid then performs t ., .. -~ kin:1 e party 1t i.: -- - Feminine Philosophy. Lady lMary Wortley Montair Wit om Vanice at the age of sixty-eigit: "tj4 is eleven years since I have seen tny figure In a glass; the last reflec tion I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such morti fication for the future, and shall con tinue this resolutIon to my life's end. To indulge all pleasing amusements and avoid all images that give dis gust is, in my opinion, the best meth od to attain or confirm health." Majesty of Time. That great mystery of Time, were there no ether; the illimitable, silent. neri resting thing called Time, roll Ing, rushing on. swft silent. like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhala tions, like apparitions which are, and then are not; this is forever very lit erally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it.-Carlyle. Mystery of the Pyramids. One of the mysteries of the great pyramids in Egypt is how they were built in the sand. How did the slaves lift these gigantic boulders into place, especially since that was in the days when machines were unknown. Sa vants and historians believe sloping ways were built leading to the pyra mids and the great stones hauled into You wa END' TARIFF PLUNDER PLAIN DUTY THAT IS BEFORE THE \DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Foundation Stone of the Predatory Trusts Must Be Removed-Repub lIcans Are Sponsors for Pres ent Iniquitous Lws. Mr. Bryan says, in effect, that the Issue Is the people against the or ganized forces of plunder. So it is, but the fact does not take us far. How are these forces organized, and how must they be met? The citadel of organized plunder is legislation for the benefit of special interests. Behind the trusts, the money power, the buyers of legisla tures and the corrupters of govern ment are bad laws. The forces of or ganized plunder will continue organ ized and keep on plundering until riven from the strongholds which the laws have reared for them. The chief of these bad laws is the protective tariff, making it possible to tax everybody for the sake of some body. The tariff is the mother of the trusts. Its exactions are the founda tion of those great fortunes which, through groups of federated banks and inder our imperfect currency laws, old the credit of the country by the throat-the money power. The con aection between the tariff and the purchase of senatorial seats by mil lionaires is as clear as the relation )f the commodity and the price. And t is the tariff which has so swollen he revenues of government as to )reed a thousand extravagances. It makes no difference who is presi tent of the United States unless the egal standing-room of organized plun ler Is destroyed. The tariff magnates will snap their fingers In the face of the best of presidents so long as the protective tariff stands. The Republican party stansd spon ;r for the present tariff. The Roose elt party, according to one Qf Roose relt's closest advisers, will likewise e a party of protection. The Demo .racy is the party of tariff reduction. rhe greatest chapter in the recent his ,ory of political prcgress!veness con :ains the text of t-e tariff lls passed by the present congress and vetoed )y a Republican president. This Is no time for Democracy to o to war with itself or to look for ces within its own household. Let he fearful Democrat hurt up the rol :alls on the tariff bills passed nt Washington since Champ Clark lifted .he gavel and scrutinize them. They ive us the measure of present-day Democracy, for they show how Demo racy's representatives bore themn selves when the Democracy charg'ed he citadel of organized plunder.- St. Louis Republic. Like an Obituary. The official address issued to the ~ountry by the Republican convention -eads more like an obituary notice han like a party platform, and that, ndeed, Is what the most intelligent itizens believe it to be. Trhe platform i-eviews the life of he party, recalling its ,virtues and orgetting its sins, just as it is cus omary for most persons to do in ~ommening upon their deceased riends, and in perusing it one can Lmost hear the sighs and the sobs of he men who penned the document. aide from its evasion of emphatic leclarations pa Important questions, t contains nothing-San Antonio Ez. >ress. Raise the Shout of "Treason." "It afflicts us beyond measure to see :hat Mr. La Follette is unreconciled. le Is saying extremely implite and mparliamentary things concerning the ,olonel," says the Chicago Tribune, dltra Roosevelt organ. And, of course, o say "extremely impolite and unpar amentary things" violates our ex :lulve privileges and Is tantamount to "treason." In the minds of his ad rnirers it would seem that the Colonel Is the only man who should be allow d to utter those harsh and unparlia entary things. pn of the Largest Elephants, A cent writer in the Field rnows payer give~s the dimensions of an old Idian elephant, which would scarcely bae been much inferior in size to a ~inestodon. AccordIng to his account the animal measured 11% feet in heigit at the shoulders, 25 feet 5 Inches from the tip of the trunk to the end of the tail. The distance from the tip of the trunk to one eye was 7 feet; from one eye to the tail nearly 13% feet, and the ;ail was 4%A feet n length. The tudks were 5 feet 2 incher, long.-iar~per's Monthly agazine. Freaks of Nature. Somne naturalists who have been to Ie antgrotic and the higher regions e the Alps. have noticed flies with out wings-flies that look more like an~ts. Wondering whether cold had anything to do with this wingless con dition, they took wasps. just hatched, and kept them in an icebox for 48 hours. Result: Wingless wasps. They tried the same experiment with several other kinds of insects and always with the same result. THE REGULAR THING. "What does Tanks want to do with that thirst of his?" "I rather think he wants to be treated for It." tionery th aNE Vloham medanism By Edward A. Marshall, Dretor of Misionary Course of Moo!y E110 lnsmte Chiag TEXT--B-ware of false prophebts. which come to you In sheep's clothing. but in wardly they au ravening wolves.-Matt. 7:15. The study of comparative religions is becoming more and more popular. it is an execIlent thing for Chris tian people to vweigh the relig ions of the world and for the non Christilans to real :f ize the power of Christianity. One Of the :yrtems t at is heirtg stud ied is Muihamme da-nism. and It is held by some to be stepping stone to Christianity. .In exan ing the various sys tems of religion. great care must be exercised in searching for the points of contact less we strive to make them points tor the amaugmation of Christianity with the nn-Christian system. Mio hammed is considered the last of the great prophets who inaugurated these great religious systems. Ile was born In Mecca about 500 years after Christ. At the age of twenty-five he married a wealthy widow for whom he had car ried on business..by caravan. bctween. Mecca and Damascus. Laier he be gan to have relgious a rirations and on various occasions while in seclu on in a cave experienced strange hailleinations that lie attributed to the influence of angels. He consid ered himself constituted a prophet by Gabriel and ok up the work of re formation. Ie became bitter against idolatry and opposed sone of the in consistencies of his time. However. as years went on. he became graspiig. Which cau-ed L m to break hiB oV.n laws and do incoasistent things. To justify hniself in this, he claimed he had receivel revelations granting him special permission to do them. I le soon took up the sv.-ord and became a leader of a band of brigands. After his death, Abu Bohr took up the wo-k and began the conquest of Palestine and SyrIa. It w L;S carried on by his successors until Asia Miinor and North Africa. were conquered. They then attempted to get into Europe through ConstanL*nople on the east and Gaul on the west. They were driven bac:h. which delivered Europe from the yoke of M!ohammedanism. The connuest then went to the east toward India, and southward into the Sudan in Africa. * Mohammedanism is a mixture of Paganism and Judaism. It is strong ly 3Monetheistic; teaches absoluite pre destination and that only Mioslems are saved. Its spirit is "rule or ruin;" peaceably if there is no opposition, but with the iron heel. If' necessary. Mio hammed got his idea of God from Ju daism. He took oniy the attrib~ute of justice and made a god of law to whom he gave absolute sovereignty, but attributed to him little inte-rest fi' the weal or woe of the human race. Since he considered God to be but one erson, heC became very bitter against Christianity on the ground that he con sidered It polythtistic because of the three perscons in the Godhead. In or der to account for- Christ, the lohamn medans teach that just before C'hrist was crucified, the arngol Gaie! ar ranged for somne one else, who look:ed like Christ, to be crucified in his pla a. Mohammed In order to secure for him self divine aut hority asserted that he was the paalt who eu a promiwd. e considered4 Jerus mere prophet and inferior to hin~elf. Ile himself being the hest of the prophets of God. The MIohammedan view of crention is very much similar to that found in the Bible. However. the creation of man differed in that it Is said that Goad took a lump of clay and broke it into two pieces. ceating rnankind from them both. C-f the one he said, "These to heaven and I care not." and of those made from the oth er lump he said. "These to hell and I care not. Sin to the Miohammedan is far dif ferent f:-om sin to the Christian. in the first piace. sin has nothing to do v~ithI our :-.::t or i f m a in -te none of tite sinful rna urc- of APht.. erondl. sins of igno:-ane(- avm not coumted as w'rong doing. Thld - 1: the wiiful vome fI~-n1:: consi:a:v:i sin Thi' rb- ' r' inaticon. andtali ni~aterl ture fixeds ta alaei rw a:onemnt is oncsay 't ha;e they an:poiin from 'e in'( cnt power of Ji.~ To .at.. h tr-o~c, t-ne-'in g r a-C -n MToammedc"s have~ n-'- "ed e nttended by ce'lestial oeng .r.d .1 The treatment ac ordeiame - e::rr' ur.ebualpgn . A entinel RIGHT MAN FOR THE PLACI Surely No One More Fitting Thaj George W. Perkins toaBe Treasur or of Roosevelt Party. It is eminently proper that Georg; W. Perkins should be named as treas urer of the Bull Moose party. As j friend of the plain people Mr. Perkinj has succeeded In amassing a huge for tune. Incidentally, and only inciden tally, he profited quite handsomely iz the division of the $69,000,000 which was the financial result of the forma tion of the steel trust. This gigantic monopoly has nothini to hope for In the election of Presi dent Taft, because It was under Mr Taft's administration that suit was Instituted against it. Likewise Mr, Wilson's election would be disastrous But Mr. Roosevelt declined, while president, to prosecute the steel trust and he allowed the trust to gather im Its great southern rival, the Tennee see Coal and Iron company. Mor than this, during his seven years' oo cupation of the White House, Mr. Roosevelt took no action which looked toward a genuine revision of the tariff. No wonder that Mr. Perkins Is to be the treasurer of the new party. He has already contributed handsomely, and the barrel is still open. It Is, however, an imposition upon human credulity to believe that his generos ity has no selfish end In view. Roosevelt's Real Position. "And oh! my friends! for one thing at least we should be profoundly grate ful. "We are more fortunate than our fathers In that there is not the slight est tinge of sectionalism in the fight we are now waging. The principles for which we stand are as vital for the south as for the north, for the east as for the west."-Theodore Roosevelt at Chicago. Mr. Pecksniff never approached this. Where did the money come from which paid the heavy expense of Mr. Roose velt's praconvention campaign? What considerations moved Mr. Perkins, i, nprilest of big business; Jan ljanna, the son of his father; the McCormicks, who represent the Harvester truat as gr. Perkins represents the steel trust; Boss Flinn, rich through the oontrql Of city contracts, to take chief roles in the movement to bring him back to power? As the Roosevelt managera held out crisp new bills before dele, gates from the Black Belt, how im pressive is the proof of the death of sectionalism and the beneficent reign of "the principles for which we stand" over south and north aliket Day of Reckoning Will Come. Surely there must be a day of rock oning coming for the Anthracite Coal trust, and It Is astonishing that men so intelligent as President Baer and his colleagues do not seem to see that they are hastening this day by their exactions from the public in forcing up the price of coal at this time. The addition of a quarter of a dollar to the price of anthracite Is not Such a trifling matter that It will go gnresent ed. Who would 'have thought a few years ago that the Standard 0.11 cpm pany, the American Tobayeco epmpany and other great corporations would eirbe brought to terms a~i4 foreed tp dissolve pi' change their methods? Some day a way will be found by eih er state or federal authority to bring the anthracite combinato to Its knees, and for suich drastic actiop It may thank the public sentiment proused by the imposition of seot far from $20,000,000 as an extra tax to make up for the increased wages, whioh oannot aggregate over T7,00, 000 or $8,000,000 at the most. given to the miners under pressure. Wilson's Quialities. There Is no doubt of the progress Iveness of Wilson. He Is * man of unquestionable ability, wide study and scholarship, and a talent for admin istration. He Is an uncommonly per suasive speaker and writer, and comes as near being a practical states. man as almost any man who co~uld, be mentioned now In public life,. Wg have no reason to doubt his integrIty of character and purpgsp, an4 he Is above suspcn of tolerating any thing crpoked or corrupt-New York 3ornal of Conumeroe. BRIDGET IS NONPLS~i Mrs. Jenkins had retired to her room~ to try to sleep off a headacehe. She had a particularly devoted In~id, Bridget. B,ridget now anaoyed Mvrs, Jenkins greatly by tiptoeing to hei door every little while and peeping i~ at her. Finally Mrs, Jenkina ealled to Bridget and asked her not to do it, as it was disturbing her, to which Bridget replied: "Sure, Mrs, Jenkins, phat am I to do? When yez makes a noise I thinks yez wants me, an' when yez is quiet I gits to thinkin' maybe yea is dead." DEPARTMENT STORE EPISODE. "Mr. Wombat, I have been with you a long time, but by eyesigh~t is failing now. I have been in several departments of the store, laces, silks and lost goods through i.he shoplit' ers. I guess I'd better resigi," 9Not at all, my boiy,"~ said the head of the department store. "You have bee~n with me for years and you shall remain as long2 as you like. I'll put you in the grindstone depart. ment.. I ont thinkh you'll lose many gods there,". Box is E IT. CLE HAD TO BE MANUFACTURED Professional Humorist Could Not See Anything Funny About Politi cal Convention Crowd. "Sam" Blythe, whose josh stories about politicians and things politi cal are well known, arrived in Chi cago to "do" the Republican conven tion. Immaculately clad in a light gray suit, with a hat and cane to match, the gray-haired young man made an interesting figure in the lobby of the Congress hotel. And he seemed to know everybody on the floor. He was approached by a younger newspaper man, who stood somewhat In awe of the older man's promi nence, and addressed as follows: "How are you, Mr. Blythe?" "Hello," said Blythe. "You are Mr. Blythe, aren't you ?" "I sure are 1" "Well, I'm Blank of the Yankee Doodle and I've got a columnn of: funny stuff to write and I want you to tell me a funny story about some of this gang." "Son," quoth Blythe seriously, "if you can find anything funny in this sad outfit you're pretty good!"-Chi cago News. TRUE LOVE .1I "Does your doggie love you?" "Betcher life he does! I'd kick the stuffin' out of him if he didn't." UNNEEDED NERVOUSNESS. The customs officials at Leith, Ire land, seized, several weeks ago, sev eral cases of rifles shipped from Ger many, scenting insurrection in the threats of some men in Ulster to, re sist h.P Tule by force of arms, if they couldn't defeat it any other way. Things looked ominous from ano.ther dieto for the peace of, the Bitish empire. After several weeks oft sevousness, during which the rifles Teposed peacefully in the customs storehouse, it developed that they had been shipped to a theatrib eal company, which intended to send itruotions as to their destination, but which, like many another theat decal company, had ceased to tour after being on the move for some weeks. Then everybody breathed easier, and perhaps smiled when no body was looking. CAT COMMITS SUICIDE. Despondent because her four chik dren were taken away from her, "Spots," the pet mascot and station house cat at the Penn avenue police statienl, c nitted suicide yesterday by leaping in front of a street car, The kittens had been taken away one~ by o~ne, and the old cat wandered abo~ut day and night in a melancholy mgo4. Yesterday she ran to the street ea treek. A car was approach ing, but the motorman stopped in' ime to avoid killing "Spots." The eat was chased back, but later jumped under the wheels of a car. Philadelphia Record, M. A, iN EiTHER CASE. Elsie Janis, the talented young ac tress, was urging a friend, one eve ning at a roof-garden supper in New York, to remain another year at cob lege before marrying the young man to whom she was engaged. "You will always regret," urged Miss Janis, "that you left college before getting your degree." "Oh, well," her friend answered mischievously, "maybe TIl soon be a Mf.A anyhow." PAYS TRIBU!TE TO VETERANS. Mrs, Carrie Feldkcamp is an old lady at Corryville, a suburb of Cin einnati, who makes it a point to place a flag upon the breast of every veteran who dies. Her husband and two brothers were in the war, and she says they told her of so many kindnesses done to them that she tries to repay the obligation with this little tribute to the dead. mnpty. I IN JOB READS LESSON TO MOTHER, Decision Made by Supreme Ccurt Jus tice in Brooklyn Something of a Warning. Supreme Court Justice Marean ii Brooklyn awarded a decree of di vorce to Mary S. Sidway from Har old S. Sidway. son of frs. Franklir Sidway of Buffalo, N. Y., $350 f month alimony and the custody o: their two sons. The defendant did not contest the action, but when th( question of alimony was brought up he said he was in the real estate business and was earning $-200 a month. Sidwav's mother, according to his wife, is worth $5,000,000. Sidway told the court that he didn't think his mother was worth more than $1,000,000 and that he was one of five children. In fixing the alimony at $350 a month Justice Marean remarked: "If a woman brings up her son in idleness with the idea that he is to inherit something, what the moth er is worth is clearly admissible in determining what alimony the son shall pay." SIMPLY DON'T MAKE IT PUBLIC Most Men Travel Under Their Wives' Management, but the Fact is Kept Concealed. Dr. Thomas W. Brophy of Chica go, who claims that Aierican moth erhood is the highest type in the world, was askod if this was not partly due to the unusual amount of responsibility the American husband allows his wife in family affairs. "Quite true," Dr. Brophy replied. "The confidence her husband places in her makes the American mother capable and self-reliant. The moth er's share in a family's success or failure is a large one-much larger, indeed, than most men will acknowl edge. "'I see by the papers,' a friend once said to me, 'that Footlights is traveling under his wife's manage ment.' "'So do most men,' I replied, 'but they don't advertise it.'" DANGEROUS BARGAIN DAYS. I think that bargain days are be coming more and more dangerous, writes a New York city woman. I went to a hat sale recently. There were moments when I thought I had broken my neck, not to mention an arm and a leg or two. At last I es caped with a hat and struggled through to a clerk. I asked her to give me a nurror. "Mrirror, madam ?" said she. "We never have mirrors on sale days. We let them break the furniture, but we draw the line at the mirrors. We're superstitious about broken mirrors." ADVANTAGE OF LIBRARIES. 3Mia Caroline Hiewins, librarian of the Hartford public library, says that there are only fifteen states ~ in the Union that have no library comn missions~ She cites the state of North Carolina as an illurtration of tho advantage of libraries. Eighty two per cent. of the population is in the count ry. Seventy-seven federat ed women's clubs in the state assist with funds ::d there are eighty study lib:r-1<: the largest, at Ra leigh, has 11,.000 volumes and an in come of $3,A00. SIMPLE, ONCE YOU KNOW. "How do you manage to keep your cook, Mfrs. Enfield? You have had the present one several years, haven't vou?" "Yes, Mfary has been with us ever since we began housekeeping. I find it easy enough to kee'p her. When ever any of our n1eighbors offers her a dollar a week more than I'm pay ing her I give her a raise of a dollar and a half. It's very simple." RECENT ACQUISITION. "What is that awful knob on you forehead ?" "That is my hump of adversity." "Dup of adversity? That's a new one on me. "It's a new one on me, too. I got it this afternoon when my head came in contact with a beam in the eel lar." INSiDIOUS SCORN. "Arc you really looking for an honest man ?" asked the suspicious citizen. "No," replied Diogenes. "Confi dlentially, I am mierely taking this Bet I I' For Co The Denial of Christ'sResurrectioa and Its Results By Rev. Wiiam Evan, D.D 4 Dreco Bibl CoMe of Moo* LL1 TEXT-I Ce' 15:14-18, 29-32-"And It Christ be nor risen, then Is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of Go1; because we have testified of God that raised up Christ; whom he raised not If so bethat' the dead rise not. Pi: the dead rise. not, then is not raised: And If Christ be not raised, faith Is vain; ye are yet in -your z In the last address on this on we saw that the denial of Christ's urrection made preaching 'va our faith vain. left us stil:in sins. We now - ceed to set far' some further e suits of SOch di4 x nial. - IV. If Christ bt not risen from - the'dead the we are found'. false witnse es. The vor "found" means be det covered in the prepetration- of a fraud. It is a word used for judgr ments regarding moral character ani conduct, and conveys the Idea of dis covering and.detecting forgery Znt falsity. In using this word, the apost would say that in proclaiming to th Corinthians the doctrine of the resPs rection of Christ, he and the othel I apostles had been guilty of perpetd ing fraud upon them. . If Christ be not risen, then th apostles are false witnesses; not Wic nesses deluded, mistaken, deceV the victims of an hallucination, was the result r-wro brain and imagination, but false wit. nesses. Deluded! say the apostle, we - cannot be; victims of an over-wrought imagination, Innocent but deceived e thusiasts-all this im impossible, we are down-right deceivers; we have willingly, knowingly perpetrated a fraud upon the church in claiming that Christ rose from the dead; we are down-right deceivers. The strange thing about the apostle's statement it - that the idea of delusion or halucina' tion is wholly absent from his arg ment. It does not seem to have 00-C curred to him to mention It. Even the possibility of it is too remote to be spoken of. To the apostle, the resurrection ot. Christ is a truth or a falsehood,. a reality of a fraud, a thing of sincerity - or of deceit, a fact or a mistake. There is no loophole of escape-the reisi' rection is either a faat or a falsehood, - a reality or a sham, and such persoas as the apostles were guilty of xserpe trating it. Paul feels that the stigma of tip. hood has been put upon him. He feels that he has been stung by an insuL Somebody has not believed him-has made him out to be a lar. His testi mony in effect is this: I have seem the risen Christ; I have talked with~ him; I have received my commission from him. To challenge my statement is to challenge my character, my veracity, my understanding, my rea son. V. If Christ be not risen from the dead then we hola worthy of our trust. To attribute to a person a good of9 glorious act, which it Is wellkn that he never performed, Is to cause that person to be suspected of ha!'% ing prompted the false assertion. b: the testimony of the apostle - wouUM. lead men to think that God had 13. spired men to tell lies about hiuC Many think that they can stiB~T faith in God, that they still have a God whom they can trust whom they can repose their - even though they do not acpt resurrection of Jesus Christ. apostle says plainly, This is not 0 we have no risen Christ, neither we a God in whom we can trust. - the serious point here. "Paul ed God, he commended God, and justice of God as shown in asu holy son from the dead. But if - Christ is not risen fropm thede then we have no such God. If one Jesus Christ is still left dead, If be so good as Jesus was and sii deprived of life, what kind ofa have we? We have noGodif-i we can trust; it is no use tryIDg be good. The end Is a skull and afei ashes. 'We have testified of. d, says Paul, 'we have justified God. bt we are found false witnesses of ha if Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead. Have you consider~ed what that point means? The modern man often. assumes that he Is already In possU. slon of a God with a reliable chan ter, whatever you make of JestS Christ. But there is something In career and in the issue of the of Jesus Christ that makes a God in this tragic world incredibe less Christ be risen from the Jesus went through the worst ings that any man ever suffered - sounded the depths of the wor~'. tragedy. Now if he has been from the dead we may believe In, God; but if there be no resurrection of the spotless Christ, then God As - either dead or mad. We have no rea'C conable God left." eple'nf