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THE PIEDMONT, GREENVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1917.

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[half page ad for Robert M. Varnon Co.]

Robert M. Varnon Co`s
Great Forward Sale
Opened With a Whirlewind of Selling Thursday

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SILKS
$1.50 Value, 72 Inches [illegible] Silks.
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59c.

$1.50, 40 Inch Crepe de Chine
Forward Sale Price . . . . . 98c.

The color assortment includes,
Pink, Lavender, Bolling Green, Co-
penhagen, Ceil, Belgian, Joffre
Blue, Sky Blue, Navy Maise and
Black,

$1.75, 40 Inch Crepe de Chine
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.29c.

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Heavy firmly woven Boxicom
Crepe de Chine in the following
colors: Belgian Blue, Marine, Navy,
Havanna Brown, African Brown,
White and Black.

$2.00 Value, 40 inch Crepe Taffetas
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.39c.
Wellknown Pussywillow weave in
Sky Blue and Ivory only.

$1.00 Value, 40 inch Chiffon,
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79c.

75c Value, 38 inch Japanese
Habutai,
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49c.

$1.50 Value, Pure Dye Chiffon,
Taffetas.
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98c.

A full color assortment and with
plenty Black and Navy.

The wellknown Pussywillow
weave. Colored stripes, woven into
white grounds.

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$1.25 Yard Wide Chiffon Taffetas,
Forward Sale.
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75c.
In broken color assortments in-
cluding mostly light colors.

$2.00 Value, 36 Inch Japanese
Habutai
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69c.

$1.50 Value, 36 Inch Black Messa-
line,
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86c.

$1.50 Value, 36 Inch Satin Roman,
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98c.

Heavy firmly woven pure silk
with heavy satin face. The color
assortment includes Bolling Green,
Myrtle, Belgian, Copenhagen, Navy,
African Brown, Dove Gray, White,
Pink and Light Blue.

$1.50 Value, 36 Inch Woven Striped
Crepe Taffetas
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98c.

$1.00 Value, 34 Inch Silk Poplins,
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49c.
Full 36 inches wide.

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$1.50 Value, 32 Inch Satin Striped
Crepe de Chine,
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98c.
Colored Stripes, woven into heavy
white Crepe de Chine,

$1.25 Value Tub Silks,
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79c.

$2.25 Value 40 Inch Satin Char-
meuse,
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.63

Heavy, firmly woven, Charmeuse
with Satin surface that will not slip.
The color assortment includes Bel-
gian Blue, Print, Navy, Myrtle
Green and Black.

$1.75 Value, 36 Inch Satin Striped
Taffetas,
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.29
Heavy Satin stripes on contrast-
ing colors woven into pure dye
Chiffon Taffetas.

$2.00 Value, 36 Inch Silks Striped
Taffetas,
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.39
A nice assortment of the new
color combinations.

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A great assortment of patterns.
Colored satin stripes woven into
white grounds.

$2.25 Value, 36 Inch Woven Strip-
ed Chiffon Taffetas,
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.49

$2.50 Value, 36 Inch Woven, Striped
Chiffon Taffetas.
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.63

$2.00 Value, 36 Inch Black and
White Striped Taffeta.
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.49

$1.50 Value Fancy Taffetas,
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98c.

$1.75 Value, Fancy Taffetas,
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.39

$1.25 Value, 36 Inch Satin Linings,
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89c.

One Special Lot Silks
Forward Sale
Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59c.

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Short pieces and broken color as-
sortments in various weaves. The
lot includes yard wide messalines,
yard wide taffetas and other desir-
able fabrics.

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SKIRTS

$5.00 Skirts,
Forward Sale Price . . . . $3.95

$5.75 Value Skirts,
Forward Sale Price . . . . . 4.39

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$7.50 Skirts,
Forward Sale Price . . . . . 4.98

$9.50 Skirts,
Forward Sale Price . . . . . 6.35

$14.50 value Skirts,
Forward Sale Price . . . . . 8.45

$13.50 Value Skirts,
Forward Sale Price . . . . . 8.95

$15.50 Value, Skirts
Forward Sale Price . . . . . 9.65

LONG CLOTHS AND
NAINSOOKS.

12-1-2c value, 36 inch English
Long Cloth,
Forward Sale Price . . . . . 9c

15c value, 36 inch English Long
Cloth,
Forward Sale Price . . . . 10c

25c value, 36 inch English Long
Cloth,
Forward Sale Price . . . . 14c

35c value, 36 inch English Long
Cloth,
Forward Sale Price . . . . 18c

WIDE SHEETINGS

35c value, 72 inch Unbleached
Sheetings,
Forward Sale Price . . . . 26c

45c value, 84 inch Unbleached
Sheetings,
Forward Sale Price . . . . 33c

40c value, 72 inch Unbleached Sheet-
ings,
Forward Sale Price . . . . 29c

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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
and YOUNG PEOPLES TOPIC
By WILLIAM ELLIS

LESSON 1.—JANUARY 7, 1917.
Jesus the Life and Light of Men.
John 1:1-[18?]. Memory Verses, 11 12.

1 In the beginning was the Word
and the word was with God, and the
Word was God.

2 The same was in the beginning
with God.

3 All things were made by him; and
without him was not anything made
that was made.

4 In him was life; and the life was
the light of man.

5 And the light shineth in dark-
ness; and the darkness comprehended
it not.

6 There was a man sent from God,
whose name was John,

7 The same came for a witness, to
hear witness of the Light, that all
men through him might believe.

8 He was not that Light, but was
sent to be a witness of that Light.

9 That was the true Light, which
lighteth every man that cometh into
the world.

10 He was in the world, and the
world was made by him and the world
knew him not.

11 He came unto his own, and his
own received him not.

12 But as many as received him, to
them gave he power to become the
sons of God, even to them that be-
lieve on his name:

13 Which were born not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the
will of man, but of God.

14 And the Word was made flesh,
and dwelt among us, (and we beheld
his glory, the glory as of the only be-
gotten of the Father,) full of grace
and truth.

Golden Text.—"In Him was life,
and the life was the light of men."
(John i. 4.)
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Eighteen Million at One Man`s Feet,
The International Sunday School
for January 7 is "Jesus, the Life
and the Light of Men."—John 1:1-11

Eighteen million persons, in North
America alone, begin this week a six
months' course of study in John's
Biography of Jesus. This is an edu-
cational project of immense propor-
tions and importance, and yet, be-
cause it is not new, it excites little
remark. Doubtless, the Sunday
school is a more potent force in
shaping a people's ideals than all the
universities in the land. With char-
acteristic [routeness?] of judgment,
President Wilson once wrote, "The
Sunday school of today is the code
of morals of tomorrow."

One day I stood amid the ruins of
ancient Ephesus, in the very theatre
where Paul was mobbed, and con-
templated the many claims to dis-
tinction of that great city and its
glories. First among these—despite
the tumult about "Diana of the
Ephesians"—is the fact that out of
Ephesus came four of the five books
writted by the aged Joh, the best
friend that Jesus had on earth.

Just as, all unnoted by Broadway,
there are streams of light and beau-
ty and helpfulness going forth from
New York City to the remotest parts
of the north, so from this sensual,
pleasure-loving, materialistic and
decadent old city of Epesus there

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issued these inspired words concern-
ing life's greatest realities and life's
greatest Person. The little company
of devout disciples, whom even the
corruption laden air of a great
heathen capital could not enervate,
little dreamed, when they besought
their aged pastor and spiritual fa-
ther to write down his personal
memories and interpretation of Jesus
Christ, that the Biography penned
by John would one day be studied in
five hundred languages, or all the
tongues spoken by mankind, and
that it would become the text of spe-
cial study for millions of persons in
continents then undreamed of.

Every book partakes of the char-
acter of its author, John's emblem,
in ancient ecclesiastical heraldry, is
the eagle, because of his soaring and
penetrating vision. He was the sort
of friend who understands. When
they companied together for three
years in Palestine, it was John who
walked closest to Jesus, and who
seemed to give Him the greatest
comfort. He was a comprehending
comrade. Like all fine and sensi-
tive spirits, he had a high quality
of courage, and he was the most
steadfast of the disciples at the
Crucifixion. Naturally, it was to
John, standing by the cross, that the
dying Friend committed his moth-
er, Mary, for protection and comfort.
And it was this same seer of the
eagle perception that peered farth-
est into the mysteries of the hereaf-
ter and wrote them down in the
Book of Revelation. The Fourth
Gospel differs from the three earlier
lives of Christ in that it is primarily
a spiritual interpretation of the di-
vine nature of Jesus.

A Great Book for the Times.

Every writer's real reward is in
the influence of his words. Even
these sessions, which penetrate into
all the remote and unexpected places
which a daily newspaper reaches,
have brought me letters from men
and women in asylums for the le-
ssons; from remote mountain cabins
and prairie sod houses; from famous
business men and public officials;
from alert teachers and from mod-
est, house-keeping mothers. If such
is the outreach and effect of one
series of simple present-day articles
what is the power of a masterpiece
like John's Gospel, when university
translated and distributed? All the
pralates and potentates of the earth
combined have less influence than
this one book.

There chances to lie on my desk
at the moment a small, brown-bound
copy of this Gospel, distributed by
the million to British soldiers in ac-
tive service by the Scripture Gift
Mission, of London. Thousands of
men in the trenches have gone forth
to death with the words penned in
old Ephesus on their lips.

Peep into any mature Christian's
copy of the Bible and it will be
found to open most naturally at the
fourteenth chapter of John's Gospel,
where the best thumbed passages
will be seen to be those beginning,
"Let not your heart be troubled."
Beyond a doubt, this old book, which
springs like a white lily of spirit-
uality out of the black mud of Ephe-
sian hearthandom, is the most popu-
lar and the most helpful bit of writ-
ing to be found in all the world.
Myriads and millions of persons, of
all sorts and conditions, have found

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it is a veritable book of life. So the
six months of study upon which the
Sunday schools of this world are now
entering is no experiment.

Kipling's wolf-child, Mowgli, had
to learn the master words of the
Jungle. Now that the overturning of
a thousand stabilities by the world,
what has made life more of a tangled
jungle than war, we are all seeking
for master words. Night and day
countless men and women, most of
them entirely unsuspected by their
closest neighbors, are pondering,
puzzling and suffering over the pres-
ent plight of civilization. More per-
sons are interested in these essen-
tially spritual questionings than in
the latest plays or books or news or
fashions or food-prices. The strug-
gle to find God, and to know His
will, is still—yes, even more than
over the supreme interest of all
people. The world is hungry for a
clear word about God. And that is
the fundamental need of our time
which the Book speaks. It speaks
the master words.

A Famous Fragment

As the rare air and sublime view
on a mountain top freshen the spirit
so the majestic opening of John's
Gospel lifts one's spirit above petti-
ness and trivility, into a contem-
plation of the supreme concerns that
the mind of mortal may grasp. Start-
ing, like the book of Genesis, with
the words "In the beginning," it
projects the readers into the far
reaches of eternity. Here is no soci-
ety chapter, no sporting page gossip,
no comic strip triviality. Challenged
by the very first words, the faculties
that he possesses to grasp at all this
teaching.

Merely to add the interest of vari-
ety, and to throw new light upon the
familiar phraseology of the King
James Version, I quote the frag-
ment of the Book that is today's
Lesson from Dr. Moffatt's "New
Translation of the New Testament."
His use of Greek "Logos" for the
English "Word" will be especially
remarked.

The Logos existed in the very be-
ginning.

The Logos was with God,

The Logos was divine,

He was with God in the very be-
ginning.

Through Him all existence came in-
to being.

No existence came into being apart
from Him.

In Him lay life.

And this life was the Light for
men;

Amid the darkness a Light shone,

But the darkness did not master it.
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A man appeared, sent by God,
whose name was John; he came
for the purpose of witnessing, to
bear testimony to the Light, so
that all men might believe by
means of him. He was not the
Light; it was to bear testimony to
the Light that he appeared. The
real Light, which enlightens ev-
ery man coming then into the
world;
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He entered the world—

The world did not recognize Him;
He came to what was his own, yet
His own folk did not welcome
him.

On those who have accepted

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Him, however. He has conferred
the right of being children of God,
that is, of those who believe in His
Name, who owe this birth of theirs
to God, not to human blood, nor to
any impulse of the flesh or of man.
So the Logo became flesh and bur-
ried among men; we have seen his
glory—glory such as to only man
enjoys from his father—even if to
be full of grace and reality.

Making Over the World.

God's method of making over the
world is to send a man. Truth tri-
umphs when incarnated in a life
"So the Logos became flesh." Only
when the divine Word, the expres-
sion of the character of the Father,
becomes incorporated in a man or
woman does it begin to change soci-
ety. Reverently we say that seems
is it the only truth that God can
supply for His consequences is that
which has been made a part of the
character of His servants. A man
may be message, a "word" of God,
ever as Jesus was. As voice is the
most distinctive expression of per-
sonality, surviving the mutations of
the years, so Jesus was uniquely the
Word of God, the very incorporation
of the Supreme Will and Character.

For verse-by-verse exogesis of the
lesson pasage there is not space
here. There are seven cardinal points
however, in the text that may be
tersely related with simplica-
tion.

1. It is a far-founded faith that
John propounds. Overlapping all
barriers of time it goes back to the
ultimate beginning, when the Word
was present in the [co uncils] of the
Creator, before over time began.
(v. 1, 2.)

2. As an essential agent and ex-
pression of God as a co-worker with
the Father, Christ was present and
participating in creation. John
does not leave standing room for
those who see in Jesus only a beauti-
ful character and sublime teacher.
(v. 3.)

3. Life, with all that it means of
largeness and prayer and joy and
serenty, is "In Him." This auda-
cious chronicler affirms that there is
no real life, except spiritual life, and
that is derived from Christ. It's
Sources, (v. 4. 1.) as Tennyson de-
clared:

"Our Bible appears to have their day.
They have their day and cease to be.
They are but broken lights of Thee,
and Thou, O Lord, art more than
they."

4. That Life is Light. Wherever
Christ goes light accompanies; so
think a Myriad treasties have shown
Him to be "The Light of the World."
In our own dark time Christ is our
only light; and there is no hope for
a readjustment of civilization, ex-
cept as we see things in the light of
Jesus. Wrapped up in the truth of
any experience of the church. For
however great the darkness, it has
no mastered the Light. (v. 4, 5, 8, 9.)

5. Saddest of all the words of
human speech is the sentence "He
came unto His own, and His own re-
ceived Him not." Because He was
"despised and rejected of man," the
suffering Savior is the sympathetic
comforter of all who walk a solitary
way, and drink life's bitter cup. Had
he come in pride and power and
prosperity, Jesus would not have
been able to meet most of us on our
own level. (v. 10, 11.)

6. The first Son of God became
the best Brother of man. He opened
the way into worship for all the rest
of us. We have our place in God's
household of faith because our
Brother sought us wandering and
brought us home. We may recognize
all sons of God by the family like-
ness (x. 12, 13.)

7. Here is a man telling what he

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knows. This is the testimony of an
eye-witness for John wrote," so up-
hold the glory." All three majestic
declarations of the Prologue of
John's Gospel are the testimony of
his subject. Back of all our creeds,
lies the simple fact of the historical
Christ. (v. 14.)
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Facing the Big Faces—Terse Com-
ments on the Uniform Prayer
Meeting Topic of the Young Peo-

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ple`s Societies—Christian Endeav-
ors, etc.—For January, "Are You
Evading Moral Issues," Matt. 12
22-30."

Present day history has humanity
in its grip holding us relentlessly
face to face over with supreme issues.
Was there over before to all the
world such a facing time? Nobody
can claim moral manliness, or ma-
turity of character at all and still
evade the day's great questions. Out
of the battlefields of Europe, and

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out of our own plethoric market
place, emerge such queerless as
these. "Is there in our hearts any
conviction for whom we would die?
Has patriotism any purely spiritual
character? Is righteousness worth
fighting for? Need the world's
civilization concern us to be as we
personally are prosperous? Is there
any moral obligation higher than
personal safety, or personal com-
fort? After the battle, what next for
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