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Read below, this week‘s exceptional Bargains, they will not be repeated. Save your dollars and come Tuesday. Fine Dark ground wash Prints, worth 8¢, going now at 5¢ yd. Best adamantine Pins, reg 5¢, Tuesâ€" day 2¢ paper. Crash Toweling, very cheap, worth 10c for 5¢ yd. Best Hair Pins, 2 bunches for Special Bargain Day Price. A Tremendous shipment ot New Woollen underwear just arrived, all must fall into line at Bargain Day Dark Blue (stripe) Dress Ducking, Reg. 124 Tuesday 9c yd. Same, white ground, blue stripe. a yard wide, we paid 10%¢ a yd. for it, special price for Tuesday 9%c. Dollar and a quarter American Fall Sleeves shirt waists going at the ridieuâ€" lous price of 69¢ each. Delicious Imported, of 12 cts. 1b. National Picklil;spice Kolona Cey lon Tea, reg. J. A. HUNTER House Slippers at 15 and 20c 25¢ 1b,. > 5c pkg. . SOcfor 28e 1b Sugar Cured Wilson‘s XXXX White Wine Vineâ€" gar 8c quart. Carpenter‘s steel squares, reg. $1.CO for 30¢ each. 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Silver Gloss Starch, 7¢ lb. valises etc. very cheap. always in stock, at Bargain day Price reg. 20¢, go Tuesday special Bargain ba I would begin by say ing, that these are truths which we as an order hold and acknowledge, but why do we acâ€" knowledge such? And from whence have we received them? Are they truths of reason ? I answer no. They are truths of revelation and therefore above and beyond reason. I grant you they are truths of reason now, but that is because the human mind has been edâ€" ucated up to it, but when first admitted they were simply truths of revelation. Now there are but two great sources from which all our knowledge of God is, and has been derived, and when we have exhausted these we have no other source to fall back upon so as to learn of Him. The first is the Book of Nature, the second is the Book of God‘s Revelaâ€" tion, in a word the Bible. In the first we see God‘s hand,.> David says "the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth His handiwork." But the heavens do not declare what God is in Himself nor do they reveal what He is to us. _ Neither do they deâ€" clare the universal brotherhood of man. In Nature we see a hand, a strange mysterious hand ; like that which king Belshazzar saw writing mysteriously on the wall, The king could not read the handâ€"writing to his satisfaction, he can behold with wonder he can also read but he cannot interpret. Just so with us we can behold God‘s hand, writâ€" ing mysteriously on the walls of Nature but we need an interpreter, hence we must turn our attention to the Bible. Daniel was Belshazzar‘s interpreter, the Bible, especially Christ is ours. Moses, Samuel, David’,, and especially Christ, These bave Eroclnimed to us tie unity. and Fatherhood of God. _ Also the Brotherhood of man. In Nature then we see but God‘s hand. In Judaism we see His back. In Christianitw «w‘ "° 1. The Fatherhood of God 2. The Brotherhood of Man. my subject this morning. We live deâ€" cidedly in an age of learning and of great intellectual attainments, an age when goody goody talk will no longer suffice. Men nowâ€"aâ€"days tell us Minisâ€" ters of the Gospel, that they want facts something â€" demonstrativye, we . may walk by faith, but they are going to walk by sight, not by Revelation, but by Reason. For my part dear brethren, I am not sorry that this is so, I am glad in fact that men are beginning to reason and think for themselves. No Christian Minister ought to be afraid to reason or to argue his point logically. (Great men tell us that the ground work of philosoâ€" phy consists in reasoning. Formy part I believe that the ground work of religâ€" ion consists not only in reasoning, but faith as well. |Why this Book of God‘s revelation lying open before us tells us Christians, always to be ready to give to those that ask us, a reason for the hope that is in us," and * to proye all things" and having done so to * hold fast that which is good." Take the apostle St. Paul, where will you get so great a reaâ€" soner or one more argumentative? For example take his Epistle to the Galaâ€" tions, how he reasons with those that would go back to Judaism, which he calls the weak and beggarly elements of the world, or behold that great Apostle as he stands before the Athenian philosâ€" opher on Mars Hill. Here the Apostle deliyered a discourse on philosophy beâ€" fore philosophers. I readily admit that Paul was not successful in the way of making converts on this occasion. Dionysius, Damaris, fand a few others believed, but not enough to constitute a chnrch,. Why ? Simply because great intellectualZattainments, mental ability and reasoning powers is not the means which God has appointed to convert men to christianity, but rather, the love of God, as seen in the uplifted Christ on the cross at Calyary,‘ and St. Paul deâ€". termined afterwards, "not to know any thing among them, but Jesus Uhrist and Him crucified." _ Nevertbeless St. Paul‘s example, and Scripture generalâ€" ly justifies our actions in appealing to reason so as to be ready when asked, to give a reason for holding and believing such important truths as we are considâ€" ering this morning, which are as follows: Sermon by Rev,. W. J. Connor, Rece tor of Trinity Church, delivered to the Durham Court of Independent Foresters, Sunday, July 26th, 1896. Subject :â€"THE FATHERHOOD or Gop AXD THE BrROTHERHOOD OF Max. Text:â€"*"SiR8 YE ARE BRETHREN." (Acts VII, 26. ‘ L DE M uvav mUc®e WB RRRRCEC SE AEEAD®N® Brethren of the I. O. F. on behalf of myself and this congregation, I bid you welcome to our Church this morning. I do so, not only because I have read, and I trust understand your consti tution but also, because I know your principles, your aims and objects : you aim at the uplifting and elevation of humanity, morally and socially, and I might add financially, but still further and above all, you acknowledge the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man, and not only the Fatherhood, but the unâ€" iversal Fatherhood, and not only his Brotherhood, but universal Brotherhood and these two great truths, 1 take for °_ AJS glory in the face of ‘He that hath seen me ‘ather." _ And, "" We beâ€" the glory as of the only £ L4 â€"..)@ °J hfirein time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in the last days spoken unto us by His Son," 4 003 Â¥1C°°> Mare Iowol out of place to look up to God an my father. _ But Redemfition sooner completed than we hear th "our father which art in heaven," "God who at sundry times and . Inanners, spake in time hbast unt CC uP prandCytiat Contat vie® + id theF s\ l the most devotional part of koly Scriptâ€" ures, God is not once addressed as father, we do find the figure, Like as a father pitieth his children, etc. The fact is notwithstanding all the revelations which God had made to them, they felt chemselves to be in God‘s signt more in the position of slaves than children, and we know that it is not natural for the slave to look ug to his master and say, my father. Just so God‘s people before the great Redem tion was comâ€" pleted on Calvary, felt tgar, it would be out Af nla mu ts Lasipe ooo Cb t 4 Now it is here that man is taught that Adam is not our first nor best parent but God, that our ancestry has its roots in the Godhead, we see our relationship to God, our affinity, yes Divine affinity Is there then anything Divine in me? Believe me, there is more of the divine in me, more of the divine in you than in the whole universe of God‘s Creation put together; but, you say, is it not hard to belieye this as we realize our weakness, not to menâ€" tion our sinfulness? I answer yes if you allow reason to be your guide, but i;wt now we are learning from God‘s ook of revealed truth, let us keep to it and it will set us right, because it is our only true source of knowledge, and whilst it telis us that man was imade to have dominion it also tells us, man has fallen, and not only this, it tells how this fall was brought abcut. "God saw everything that He had made and beâ€" hold it was very good" until Satan the chief of the fallen angels of whom we read in St. Jude‘s Epistle, "which kept not their first estate," came to our first erents in the garden with a lie upon Lis lips, saying *ye shall not surely aie," now we know the result, God did not force men auny more than angels to remain in His service and His holy sphere against his wi‘ll, he can please himself and abide by the consequence, but why not annilhilate fallon angels and fallen men? Reverently speaking there are many things which God canâ€" not do, for instance, He cannot lie,| cannot cease to exist etc., and because { he cannot cease to exist neither can those beings to whom God seems to have communicated a part of his own mysterious life, God is the maker of nature but He is the father of man, He is the Creator of the brute, but He is the begetter of Spirits, to me it seems }scrlptural to say, that souls are not _ only made but begotten of God. " He breathed into man‘s nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul". The white man carries about with him God‘s rmage in iyory,and the colored man as one has hcautit’u{ly said, His image in ebony, but none the :ess an image for that, thus the Bible traces back the human race to its fountain head in the Divine nature, How striking his genâ€" ealogy in St. Luke HIIL. The son of David, theson of Abraham, the son of Noah, the son of Adam, the son of God, Adam as we have already seen is not our fl_rst parent, but God. God‘s Kingâ€" shin is a figure, His fatherhood is a reahtii. "Sirs ye are brethien," God sent Moses to convince lsrae! (':f this truth,.“lsmel thou art my first born," what is that but I am thy father again "*wilt thou not from this time forth cry unto me, my father? but do w flry Israel nding? N nd' them a.l;esal.)l? ‘I;pg do veme h ud father? No not even (he poop of God as the most desgtig;f\[ll thetbo? kho P“l!m' ures. God is not anna P::_‘?___?{y_ .Scl:'pt’- ‘ EEEC CE & To o BBL SS Em truth of i{evelation far in advance of reason. _ But then is it never to hecome a truth of reason? _ I believe it is. If it ‘is truth it will sooner or later enter reasonâ€"all truth must in the course of time go through reason, but as yet we cannot understand these great truths of New Testament Scriptures. _ Nevertheâ€" less we are to believe it,. and also to pray as taught in our ever matchless Litany, " By the mystery of Thy Holy Incarnaâ€" tion, good Lordâ€"deliver us." This truth of New Testament Scripture is as yet a truth of Revelation (m‘ly and is there fore mysterious to us, yet we believe it and shall we for one moment doubt those truths which we have been enâ€" abled to see in the light of reason, which once were truths of Revelation alone and when first propounded were more than the huoman mind could compreâ€" hend. Let us notice then how God edâ€" ucated and instructed his people with regards to the first truth namely, His fatherhood. Having called Israel and fi{iven them a leader in the person of oses, his command is, "Hear 0 Isreal the Lord our God is one Lord," _ This was a new truth and was far in advance of human reason. Isreal and their heathen neighbors around them had learned to believe the very opposite: namely, that there were gods many. We have only to read mythology, or religion of the pagans ; their religion consisted in the worship of false gods, whom their poets and painters imagined and to whom they gave different atâ€" tributes. Now Israel when brought out of FEgypt was not a whit better, and even after they had gained the Land of Promiseâ€"not to speak of their great sin in the wilderness, they oftea fell inâ€" to this errot, _ Think how surprisin this declaration must have been at .‘:ucfi a time in their history. * Hear O Isâ€" real the Lord our God is one Lord." This was contrary to their reason and certarinly to what they had learned from Nature, whore they notro}? light with its opposite darkness, Wrong with its opposite right, good with its opposite evil. â€" Was the author of light the authâ€" or of darkness? The author of good the author of evil? We now turn to the inspired word, and especially to the portion which gives us the account and only source of information which we have of the creation of this world, of which account this Moses who taught the Unity of God, is the inspired writer, "In the beginning God created the heaven and earth," etc. _** He made the cattle after their kind ; fowls of the air and creeping things after their kind," And man after his kind? No, God said, "*Let us make man in our image, after our likeness," _ "8So God made man in His own image and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man beâ€" came a living soul." Brotherhood of man, are truths of Re velation which have become truths of reason, and that because He who reveal ed these truths, enabled the human mind to grasp them, «o that they are clearly seen in the light of the fundaâ€" mental principles of the mind, just like the great truths of the New Testament Seripturesâ€"for instance, the incarnaâ€" tion of Jesus Christ, the Bible calis it the "mystery of godliness ";'it, is a " 2 27 Gou and say, Redemgtion is no ‘an we hear the cry, rt in heaven," why? e rapir cce _ w â€"%i C tpy. tee o0 Bm times and divers wh i.3 , ____ 3 *_ 89 on in the noble path which you have marked out for your selves, and may God Almighty bless you and may your order long continue to be a blessing and comfort to the widow and orphan, and when our work on earth is doue, may we each and all l e admitted into the High Courts above for Christ‘s sake. Amen. I would say then in econclusion my brethren, go on in the nob] which you have marked out fo selves, and may God Almight you and may your order long c ds o o e t n C had 2 ,, *) , 23 , [AE It these inslatutions had been established before Christianity we would bave said, Christianity had borrotved much from them, but knowing as we do that christianity was establish ed first we mg that these have bortow much from C ristianity, n _ " _6 ~arse, 1 believe it is getting better, look at the strength and numâ€" ber of the Church of Christ toâ€"day, our many charitable institutions and brothâ€" erhoods, all banded together for the elevating and well being of humanity, morally, socially and in many instances religicusly, so that if these inslututions had been established before Christianit & uP Weiited Wrmiits~ * shult 7 + : Srlhric ies s wA fiesh, is FM ing by. He did not wait for the blind man, the blind man waited for Him. He did not wait on Zaccheus, Zaccheus waited on Him. He did not invite Himself to the marriage feast, the couple invited Him. â€"So in like manâ€" ner the Gospel is Bbeing preached to all and passed on, but aln y .. 2 3. " [ 5) 4 .n , of o3 shtil t the cmatrriage feast, the couple invited Him. â€" So in like manâ€" ner the Gospel is Bbeing preached to all and passed on, but all are not benefited, because all do not wait on Christ. Still nouwithstanding that some great man would have us belieye, that the world is Retting worse., * T balinva it Lo o 150C uxL L 0 Lo 00 COne h k OeE uO OO P Do we live up to our privileges? No, this brotherly love, this brotherly feel ing, all do not possess, but this gospel must not wait the messengers of the cross ; nmaust not tarry for any, but pass on from sea to sea. â€" This Gospvf of t(;ht'-ist.like !{imae:lf in the days of His nul‘le namiduls 4.0_ Â¥+ TE bones, imaaiter so doing tell us that this tribe and that people are very low down in the seale of humanity, and that educate and train them as you may they will always remain so, but time which proves ulf things has proven this to be false, and the word of God to be true, namely, "Sips ye are brethren," for the red man, and the black man, are comâ€" peting favorably with the white man, in every d(:ipartment of learning, both secular and religious, and especially this last which alone can exalt any peoâ€" ple or nation, and we know that it 1s not our great intellectual attainments that has placed the white man above others but rather the knowledge that we have of the revealed word of truth. The secret of Britain‘s greatness is the Bible ;»‘ut ave we all wfiut we ought to be ? m Sm PTi e n â€" E LOud "Birs ye are brethren." Butit remainâ€" ed for one of whom Moses wrote and spoke, to convince the world, that all _ mankind, black or white, of whatsoâ€" eyer tribe or nation, are brethren, â€" He showed in all its beauty of depth and character this great irath as wrapped up in the promises to Atbrah«m, hu}(n'e‘he time of Moses, _ "In thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed." Not the Jew only, but the Gentile as well. hence He taught tais truth. * Al ye are brethren," * Loye as brethrea," "Go ye into all the world and preach| the gospel to every créature," _ "Sirs, e are brethbren," is a truth which the i;ihlo has taught us, a truth which Moses, David, Samuel and all the propheis were inspired to reveal to us, and is a truth which Christ our elder brother has made clear and placed beâ€" yond a doubt. _ HReason would never| have taught us this truih, but the very i opposite,. _ We with ali our enlightenâ€". ment, and Christian training, when we look at our poor ignorant brother, black or red sometimes fiad it hard to admit ‘ this truth, until we turn to the Book of | the revealed word of God, and read "these are the three sons of Noah, and of them was the whole earth overspread. Scientists may weigh sculls and measure bones, and after so doing tell us that this tribe and that people are very low down in the seale of humanity, an({thnt educate and train Lhanmt e strins inncusy blk ne, and Gods command is "Hear him." â€"Hear him as he proclaiins the universal fatherhood of tGod. "If ye then being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly father givc his hol;y e(;pirit to. theim them that ask him." lonsider the fowls of the air which have neither storehouse nor barn and yet your neayenly father feedeth them, we are to emphasize, not the fowls, or barn, but, *Your heavenly Father." Again Ohrist by his example forced home this truth in every prayer of his. as offered in the presence of his disciples, "Father glorify thy son," Father I will that those whom thou hast given me be with me where I am," until at last his disciples exclaimed **Lord teach us to to pray, and he said, when ye pray say, "Our ~ Father which art;â€" in heaven,." Thus he finve them, and in doiag so, gave us this great privilege namely, to address God as father, not my father, but our father, thus setting forthâ€"a a catholic or universal re(:};iri(, when we pray. Then in the wo of my text, " Sirs, ye are brethren." li they first fell. Moses as I have afi:ad hinted used them in a very limiteX sense as yet he had not been inspired, having been miraclously presâ€" erved by God and up to this time learnâ€" ed ‘n all the learning of the Egyp bonor and the office awaiting hin, yet having learned from his mother that the Hebrews, not the Egyptians accordâ€" ing to the flesh were his brethren it came into his mind to _ visit them, anpd on doing so found an Egyrt,i:m smiting one of his brethren, he slew him and saved his brothet but on a second visit bhe found his Hebrew brethren quarre}â€" ling among themselves, and said, Sirs Ee are brethren. He might kill an gy ptian in order to have peace, but with regard to his own people he must rather piead and teach them this uruth, "Sirs ye are brethrien,." Butit remainâ€" ed for one of whom Moses wrote and II. The universal brotherhood of man like that of the fatherhood of God which we have been so far considering is also a truth of Revelation. Moses when he uttered the words of the text did not understand this truth, as he did forty years afterward when sod calied him‘to be the leader of his people Israel, and it 1s doubtful if eyer he understood it as did St. Stephen the Protoâ€"Martyr who quotes the passage when making his apology or defense on behalf of the Christian religion _ St. Ste;izlen has learned the truth which St, Peter had revealed to him, when *he saw heaven open and a certain vessel descending unto him as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners ans let down to the earth." The Fren.t truth revealed and the lesson to learn, was that all nations were to be gathered within the pale of Christ‘s Church, The size of sheet was to impress upon the mind the universality of the Christian rehgion. Judaism was only a small sheet just big enough to cover Palestine, whilst the great world was lying outside in wickedâ€" ness, but Christianity is a ‘"great sheet." A clear hint of its universal character. Hence St. Stephen understood the words "Sirs ye are brethren," in a far wider sense, than did Moses from whosa nade clear and placed beâ€" ht. _ Reason would never us this truih, but the very Ve with alil our enlightenâ€" ristian training, when we , to you BUCKWHEAT. RAPE. Hungarian 1 and Millet Grass Seed. AT MacFARLANE & 0 OWER TOWM. pURBANâ€" Strictly Pure Paris Greon. Church‘s Bug Finish. Slugshot and Other Insecticidesâ€" The undersigned offers for sifteh farim of 150 acres being composed of k 20 on the 2nd and lots 22 and 3 on 6 ELC cges C 0 °CC Hesee l * the Durham Pharmacy Calie, Bjyock. Residence first door west of t P ost Office, Durham. Will be in Priceville the first W«ln‘ day in each month. 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