Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-01-12


OF money, z but Naboth refused to
give up the vineyard, and Ahab
went home and laid his face
against the wall and would eat
nothing. Jezebel, his wife, per-
ceiYing that the king was troubled,
asked him, ''Why is thy spirit
sad2n and he told her that Naboth
had refused TO give him the vine-
yard, and Jezebel then said, "Dost
thou govern Israel and thy spirit
isad2 Arise, and make thy heart
merry; I will get the vineyard for
you.,' She then wrote letters in
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Ahab's name, and sent them to the
mobiles and elders who were in.ths
city, dwelling with Naboth, and
had a feast proclaimed, and set
two men to watch Naboth and to
bear witness that he had bias
phomed God and tile king, which
order they executed, and after
wards stoned Naboth till he died.
Then Jezebel said to Ahab, go.
possess thyself of the vineyard, for
Naboth is Dead" and he went to
the vineyard. Now the word of
the Lord came to Elijah the Tish-
bite, and said, "Go down to meet
Ahab, who is in the vineyard of
Naboth the Jezreelite, and say unto
him, Hast thou killed and also
taken possession2 In the place
where the dogs licked the blood of
Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood,
even thou" If God broughtisuch
Judgment on sin then, will he not
also do it now? Now Ahab most
probably did not know by what
means he had come into possession
of the vineyard, but he knew it
was his now. and the method Of
getting it was no consideration.
Now the maxim of modern
finance Is the maxim of the devil.
Get money in your pocket, honest
ly if you can, but get it. The
principles of sin are always the
same. The methods of concealing.
sin have been changed, it is true,
but the real principles have re-
NAMED unaltered. Gods word
says, Thou shalt not steal, and
stealing means possessing wrong
fully. Ionce heard of two boys
who were classmates at college.
After they had been separated for
a number of years, one of them
was walking through peniten-
tiary when he recognized his old
friend among the convicts, and he
said to him, "Why, my friend, how
is this?" and his friend replied,
sI have been rather unfortunate.
1 wanted to 60 somewhere and
didn't have a horse, SO L stole one..
His more fortunate friend replied,
"Why didn't you take the more
honorable way of going about it
as I dld7" sWell, how's that?'' 1
bought q horse on a credit and
didn'. pay for.it." The principle
is the same wheE man hires q
horse for a number of months and
works him till you can see sun
Light through him, returns him
home and never pays for thesuse of
BIN On every hand injustice
tsiumphs over justice, wrong over
right, and the rich over: The poor.
Mr. PloWden said however, that.
he was thankful for the men of
finance who could keep their Bible
on their desk and at the end of the
day can pray truthfully, Forgive
us our trespasses as we forgive
those who trespass against u.s."
Mr.. Plowden believes that if he
lives out his allotted time of three
score and ten years that he will
see great changes in the times and
for the better. He thinks the
church is waking out of her leth-
argy, and will, with the other in
stitutions which God has blessed,
do her part in the work of reforma-
tion.
At the close of the sermon Mr..
Booth prayed that Mr. Plowden
might have great SUCCESS in his
new field of labor and that we
might hear from him glad tidings
of prosperity.
Emerson on Immortality.
We once heard Ralph Waldo
Emerson lecture on Immortality.
The lecture was a summing up of
the results Of human wisdom on
the great problem Of haman des-
tiny. He quoted ancient and
modern authors from Plato to
Goethe. The ancient Egyptians,
ho aaid lived coneta nt1v with tha