Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-02-26
WITHIN THE TOWN.

- Walter Robinson. who lives on
Milt Jackson's place brought a bale
of cotton TO Yorkville one day last
week, had II ginned by the iorkville
Cotton Oil Company and offered II
on the market. He was offered Is
cents for H.: but refused the offer
and took the cotton to Filbcrt. where
he received 81 IL cents. There was
little dog-tail cotton in the bale;
hut most OF il was good. The bale
weighed over 500 pounds.
The farmers OF the country sur
rounding brought in more cane heads
to he threshed last week than Mr..
L. W. Loves thrcShcr was able TO
take care Of Mr. Love thrcshcs cane
seed for tenth and sets apart one.
two or three days Of each spring i'll
which to do the work. Heretofore
about one days thrcshng was all he
could get: hut last week he had more
than he could manage. Some tw"n-
ty-tivc or more farmers came in from
all parts of the country surrounding,
some OF them as far as ter miles.
They had varying quantities OF cane
hcads-some enough to thresh out a
bushel and some as much AZ twenty
five bushels. Mr.. Love said that nc
would have to thrcsh still another
day.
- Rev. A. }. Ransom. Associate Re-
formed missionary in India, at home
on his first vacation after an absence
Of eight years. occupied the pulpit NJ
n union service in the Associate Re
formed church last Sunday night.
There was large congregation. rep
rcsenting all the churches. present,
and Rev. Mr.. Ransom made it worth
while. He made an interesting and
instructive talk. II was not exactly
q sermon. Ii was more in tine nature
OF testimony. His subject was
Christ" and he told OF things in In
dia and in the world. He did not
want to be understood as minimizing
the cause of the Allies in the war:
but he wanted all Christians to un-
derstand that the one thing OF i'm
portance Is the progress OF the king
dom of Christ, and no matter how
this war goes, he declared that king
dom is going to be established. But
the most striking part OF his testi-
mony Voc tho spread of Christte.s y
ty in India and the manner OF Its
spread. He named three native
preachers who had come from the
very lowest caste Of Indian society.
They were sweepers. The sweepers
in India. he explained. performed the
same service that sewers perform In
towns and cities OF this country. These
sweepers had been taken into the
schools of the missionaries and they
had become preachers OF power. He
described one OF these men as preach
ing TO an audience OF several thous-
and people. Hugging the book with
his arm, he would follow the text Of
verse with his finger. and then
straighten up and explain the mean
ir of that verse, while college men.
ID. D.'s and others would eagerly take
notes on all he said. Another one OF
these men had been summoned TO tes-
tify in law case. and so clear.
truthful and convincing was his testi
IHOHy lHdt upOl lile duJoui uiuihchl VI
the court high caste Hindoo lawyer
invited him home. The man declin-
ed the invitation and finally had 10
give as n reason the defiling caste TO
which he belonged. In India, that
would have ordinarily been enough
to make the high caste Hindoo shun
him as the plague: but instead this
Hindoo actually made the man accept
his invitation. Mr.. Ransom said that
India had furnished more than 200.-
900 men for the war. In 1914 and
1915 the call was only for Mohamme-
dams and Sykhs: but In 1916 they
commenced calling Christians. The
Christians answered promptly. Then
he described the departure OF tle dif-
ferent kinds Of troops. the Mohamme-
dams and Sykhs singing vibuld and
lewd songs. and the Christians pull
ing ont singing the twenty-fourth
Psalm. extolling the Lord as king OF
all glory. Mr.. Ransom told n little
of what Is being done in India; but
a striking statement TO the congre-
cation was that protesting Christians
here had as much work 10 be done all
around them az there was to he done
in India.