The field. (Conway, S.C.) 1903-1958, April 08, 1926, Image 2

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L ''v.' * ' t I I ,i' ' j in " 4 U SUNDAY SCHOOL tE .. j - i i * *f. '; 4 , HlW Story of Creation."? -.1 1 . v" (?en^iia 1:1-2:25. wi ? *' ^ ' ' ..?ap TEy TTcunOUl coincidence, 1 find ^ on t ha, shortTof the Ke<f *?a. gij Of a point alniost central to the old? |r '4'* t scene* of human tyistory, when the qu .-.?""time comes around ior writing this m( first of a new series of nine months ^J| of Sunday school lessons in Old Teefc: amentShiatory, I *m in the geography T" ' of Oehesis. - . p\na - ' These satvdy muufltauis of North ^ /? Africa, and the brown wastesv of-^J ry Sinai, with?the mountains in?tha ^ . ^ 3" haze beyond, have looked upon more . history than the hand of man - has ^ --j?7 ,^ew pahned? It saemi tasy ju^ Jural, on this spot, to muse upon ' the cy ,' primal . things. Nobody hereabouts ( < ever heard of "fundamentalism" or ^ . t. "modernism"; and it never occurs to ^ anybody in these lonely regions not ^ Jo reveasnce and worship G^d. '*. *' Ifjj -As I reread, in /this appropriate sy ' . setting, the majestic opening:, fhap- 're ' tern of the Book of Genesis?so much ^ ' ' more sublime than anything that" has 1 ?vm* down to us from^a con tempos- |^ J~ -? -aneous period in Egypt or Babylonia,'^ that onlythe hand of inspiration cajt^j .??i?:?.. exnlaln'i^Ili- find rojrseif Jmpt^ssed ^, anew with the restfaint^of the Scripw. tural namtiiverlftells simply the.ee- 10f . * sentiaJ fdCtl.'AIT Other creation starice are diffuse and disorderly and.-y, * puerile. Within the ordered lines' of J' the first two chaptejdr .. of Genesis , .n. * there is simple room for all that . th? j mind of man has since _ discovered < about the ways of God. jgj j- This restraint of Genesis contracts q x strikingly with the noisy and need- t | " less clash of churchmen and scientists */.t in America. Genesis has had to take!y? nothing back, while theories ^|f ^ of space and theories of tjme have ^ ' .turned out to be wrong guesses. Only - , the past week-L heard from one of the ^ ^ .biggest of the archasologists now in ?,1?- ^gvpt that recent finds have made w iw^Murv the entire, revision of ac- n ceptfcd ^JSgyptian chronology. It , is ol *mall wonder that the presitTefit of pj y.>]. the American Society of Chemists, ^ v himself, a Nobel Prize winner, should ^ t caution his fellow scientists against ? the present habit of scien^fic dog- H} matism which exceeds that "of the H, 'theologians. ./j Tot's CoassNbfe Widow-^_(_ j r '^!l i L B" D*W"> - ?b HORRY COUNTY TRUST Ca jj L. D. Mtfrttb, Mgr. [ n, Real Estate Loans, _ Bonds. c> *, c Keai Estate. ? insurance, ed DR. J T. Rutledfe w i (Dentist) p? ? ^ -X-Ray Equipment. " , . Office over Gonway Hardware ?tore. Office formally^ occupied by rDr W.. E. McCord. ' - ' . . i MX W. M. GOLDFINCH [3 J J Licensed Embalmer and ,f / . ' *?. ?TUNERAL DIRECTOR; ; ? . s :Hearse and A abidance service onUf r rw-T -?u>rt notice. j /? Miipton. t^iutvn Co. ?.? -r-5?h???- 4?Rewjdcoce Phone 85. - - ^ f ^ &*y Phone 86. i, aii DR. CARL. L 0USBEE ti. ^ "v (Dentist) - ' ?d X-Ray Equipment. Offices over Conway Na- JJ1. 4 :< ^ . fional RariK. Telephone 140. H, DR. A. M. WlI.LCpX ' j?j Physician md Sarreoii Offices Oiejr Piatt's Pharmacy CONWAY. S. C. ? * pt 11 21 24 . ' _ I; - \ . / ; ; . |W ^ ^ - m Jlkl v', . ^ 'ndi I . MARION A WRIGHT ?* f Attorney-^Liiw* " * - ? . 'i SpWey BuTIr' t "h f ' CONWAY. S. C. - >?fton?ejr *TI<I Coan??lor-?t-L?i?,* Vr t ^4Mem in -X?jr|<ri- Buildin* ,?? Conway. S. C. Jjj! * >. I ^ \l Attorney and at Law Offices iff 8carbMdath Bldg, ^ H,-v " - . c. DR. J. K/fh-ALVEY, ? Physicia/*nd Surgeon s H&Z: T Office* Oftlr Piatt's Pharmacy tsr CONWAY. > C # , fcf ' .v - . . ' ? it. ,.4 v; * '. ~-i . *-r <-/ Aj SSON FOR APR. 4.! 1 " ' > * Frankly, the public needs to be I trned seriously against tta prcaeit ' tit ode for accepQki tb? latest tit- j ranee* of archaeologists, geolo ^ its and anthropologists as of high- ( aiMhoritativenes* than the Bible. A , ick cure for this habit would be a *, ?re intimatu acquaintance, at first nd, \vith the work and ways of af-Vj aeplogists, such as 1 am experienc- ( I this winter. The reckless guesses j d claims made concerning the im- , rtance of tljprr?"own finds; .their ( ildish jealousy and disparagement one another; their-t tendency tp rm general conclusions upon wholly tdequate datai-^rtKeM cause hard-* * aded men to display' u viborous and:, nical skepticism. The over-press-agented ; Tut-Ankh-' men is a case in point. The -disrery -of his tomb was explohe<f roughout th> world as the greatest id in the history of archealogy; yet e -voung man in his lifetime was wily nothing but the ornamental boy isbtfnd of a qu^> n; and the^lavtslf ibellishroents ofhis^btfrTal (which ally are^>orCffseeiqg) express ej3dyfHe vanity of his widow? ho was busy ^ at _thc time these unpens memorialr*^ werft lin pre? ration. corresponding with the\king ' the Hittites concerning a second laband from among his sons! Yet {sophisticated people swallow Tutnkh-Amen publicity as of mdfe im>rtance than-the Genesis narrative! One other -important point should > borne in mind as we approach the ible story of first j. thing*. Early, sues is give* no dates. Bishop- lister's chronology, printed^ on margin J most editions of the Authorized srsion, has wrought confusion and irp. There Is ample space within ie Bible's record of creation forfait ie raillenniums^that archaeology may nrmise. But what shall we. say of tat Toronto scientist. who contends tat flint instruments were fabricat-1 i by mcf*thirty-million years ago? i ne of the daring - characterizations | ' the Deity by Scripture if that with im "a thousand years are as a day." fith a certain type of modern dentist,1 whose words are as much of rief to his sqber associates as theyw Xfto the preachers, a million* yCars re. a* an hour. Grave Generalizations ~ As f loob-ottfrflHV thyse hlna water* this old, old BtbteTSea it comes to iFttwi, despite our intellectual ' mikn as mansmd throughout tne tat three thousand years has been ] ile to grasp. And it is in no respect i consistent with what . men have see clearly read in God's Book of sturc. If for these later times the eator has reserved supplemental lltron* oj Hts Autobiography, it Is r man to accept them with reverice and gratitude; and without disiragingthe first, and atill _rture, Ition. V, Four words, which began the whole ble,.contain the substance of all at has since been written anywhere: n the beginitingf God". The booken's indispensable "First Cause" is e Christiap> consaiotis CrestmN end er-livlng God. Because God was, UUungs else aiy There i? T? ttfne^ far back in eternity that the Spirit God was not brooding over chaos. >for?* the awesome sublimity of the ntenaplatiow.. of the ever-existent H infinite Creator the human spirit nply falls prone in^adoratton. He whd created the world still conlues to govern ytnHf * our tfitftl-"" ousness Uf^ihe Yastness of the iverse has immeasurably expanded, ' . algo has our reverence toward < m who made and rates all things. 1 k primal "Let there be tight!" is 1 II the ftat holding'most of hope for . man progress. * , i How Old la Man? J rhe 'antiquity and origin of man I a perplexing problem. Recently I ! inuned the fragment of petrified 1 01 unearthed last year near the rtlfern kRotp of t^ie Lake of Galilee j called the "^aUlee. Man.^ and I f a carefully examined the cava ii? i icfi it was found. The XurtfiUe is I* it this skull is frotoi < twenty to ' :y thousand years old; ^ s French j entist whom I' Chanced to :efieet on i spot told me he thought the a^e a nearer fifty thssiMd llkah. ti^Hthousand v*ars?l>ut, with Gallic pticis.m, h^mits tbat it is all pise. * * Nv interest in the "Galilee Man" rthe relation of this wm ofne^in irsoon, iw in xmm j it that, up tetho preeent hour,j nee . Km ho tmr of itth ?)m? |m other than man. , .Whenever rn4 Motoric skull ku bMN found it been that of la reasoning mortal, firm hold of that, ft la central to 'Wftftleiiiirent dlaehasion. ' bten to the words of Sir Arthur ^NLV ' j ' / ?' i ' * ,?i ?-1 . , 4 ? . . ' N*.. a~??. ?- * ?. ' 1 ? . * i?fr ** v* '* i W ' ' ? ' ' ' :w rm' ' ' ' f . ' >~V " \ 'N - i *: Keith. th. Uttmtrt iWfce Mti*' wthnpoiofial, to wktMi this Qalik?~ lagtueat *m offldtll^ ind ir winker 1m mm mo "eeart" paragraphs, poking f?a Me fellow countrymen; (k'lHMMiaa u poet of Mo carefully ^ritUo dictum u? probably hot jot pcacUilcd hit >wn stall. 8i|fc. 8tr Arthur Keith, j Eoncvrmnc -^thio prehktorto nue, I whoso tfe ho pots down mo at kut twenty thousand yoafs. ?His brain capacity was that of the aver?ge BiMflishman of today." The diftin^ guished British scientist was not indicating his countrymen as having only the brains of cave men; he was testifying that twenty thousand years ago, as he spremised, the men who dwelt in the *eeves of Wad! Amud, in Galilee, had as much brainTT ; _ ? _ ? 77 ^ jJ ll'Jte boasted model us I (V " - -Staggering, isn't it?. And for the practical purposes of the every day person^__Lam not now dealing wj^the vjist and meaaurelepa^rdb^es of time in^lved^i?--*?Tentif?c bypothesi.^tbii^iill^means, as I have tried to shaw in the Bible Lands hook that I am over here to write, that there is no K6pe foir humanitw in the theory of evolution'. As far l^ck as can be measured, the human brain has not "evolved'* in its potentiality ona iota in twenty thousand years. Most of u? have scarcely the patience to wait innv for the amelioration of the race. ~ y- . Religion is more scientific than evolution; for its power bos been proved, whereas the process of evolu.tion ts conjectured. There is not space here to go into the statements of scientific men, sufeh as I.have, had at first hand, to the effect that r?r ligion has more than once completely transforpyed the characteristics o( .a people amT~ developed new powers in them,-Actually* regeneration to mor*demonstrably scientific than evolution. Professor William James* fereaf book leaves no-doubt upon that point. Since inner character Is more 1mportant in life than outward form, the question of "whither** is of great er moment than "whence." The Bible is only incidentallybook of origins; primarily it deals with <jd*tiny. What a man is? and wjjkfh way he ia going, are the real facts of importance about him- - . ' . ?v , . _ . s-^*V:; " v SPY EX. SENTENCE SERMONS Thr nffonrrti nf, MhiihTfrgirt ernment^ | One on. God's side is. a m^joiityv__ ] Wendell Philips. ^ t- _ * ' (jod is the perfect poet. Who in his person acts his own cfe-tions Bybcrt Drowning'. - &y - * . i>" ' . I]very man feols instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. Junies Russell Lowell 5 * >)jm V. 0 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in time^o/,trouble. Psalms 40:1. ' ^ A cbargf to keep I have v^j, A God to glorify; -T*~ -flTTwver dying soul-to wviir -r- ^Arid fit it for th* sky. * 'fj ?Chair les Wesfafc "V The greatest fault, l' should say. || to be conscious of none' but other people's?i-Thomas Qgrfyle. ^ V'' ; v..?^?: Combine 'Two Materials ' . . the.latest style combinations is the printe<i,a41k blouse with a ktain skirt. It is an overblouse, of course, and just how is made with long-slaevex that tie at the wrist*,. Later It may have very short sleeve*^ just capping the.'shoulders and very, lose fitting. One such costume con-' listed of a black satin szirt and the rayest of printed silk blouses/ made, from two dresses that had seen muchvear/in another forth. 1 O ' '1 "Soils are tyke individuals_i_:they iav*-?-temperament. Every farmer nust give his best thought if he'Is to, ceiep. his. soil vpifrirg nt fnp rffiiHrn ry-"?IMUton Whitney. IwHYWCWRYwrfi When You C Have your eye* fitted can see with. We do it l\ . u: OPIOMt -''. '-t ^ ^ ' v -Vv * ' *"'' v ... ' < - ' -V* **: l"*z . thump at. iwa. 4 u? Object of The Cotton Contest '; TV pnpefO # <* ***** and the ? Kxtension Service ?re trying to to ( everything thnt Xhej'mM in hm*m tb i cotton produced a* economically na \ possible, and' to plant a Maple that , can find a ready market. The state- , wide cotton contest mill determine to L * great extent the best means of producing cotton. The prim money 5 totaling 99000 has been provided by generous - action of "The \ State", i through hCir. Ambrose E. - Gonzales. ' 1st prixe^llOOO 2nd priSi=9600; trd prize -$200; 4th# 5th, and <th prizes $100 each. * . ' To those entering ^-th'e five-aCre. "C(jnteat one reliable seed ronegxet ItsT offered pny seed Jh^-thayhave at half price aoi^tMl the farmers may secuj^-gbocf^seed at a very' reason"TiSle-price. ] , .* Application " blanks -may be had from .the county fgent, also any fcdditlonal information that you may desire concerning this contest. Even if you don't win one of the cuh prixes, the experience* tiiat you may get from keeping a record will not have caused you " to have Jjoat anything; but go into the contest with the"determination of winding.? 4 - - T. M. EVANS, Co. Agent,. _ ?- * The -object of the contest '.is to .demonstrate the profitable produc tjon of cotton through larger yields per acre qf better cotton. , RULES FOR COTTON CONTEST 1. The acreage shall consist of one .rbodjtxrf five acres of land. . Calculations are to be made from outside Measurements. 2. No applications will * be considered that are received by the Ext?n?inn service of Clemson College tlgter than May I. Enfolfaaenfrblanks ] | will be furnished upon application to the Extension Serviee, Clerason College, or to a county agent. 3. Each contestant .shall keep a record on. forms furnished of operations and expenses in connection with ithe five-acre field. This record .is to be kept throughout the year, and at the end of the season it is to .be tiirnj ed over to the Extension Service regardless of yield abtained. These records will constitute a valuable fund of information . based on actual ex,perience. All rpcords must be rect iv ad Jay the Fixtenninit JS+rvjrf afr Jihe needs of the mills of South Caro Jlina. Each contestant is therefore re quired to state in his application the .variety, strain and source^of the seed to be used in the contest. Seed^of varities and strain that are "known not to produce staple of one. inch _ length or. better will not be approved. Each contestant wiil be notified of 1 this approval or disapproval shortly , rM0 J ML .* V'h WRIGLEYS W^WJF * Ih# b?i| Ptpptrmiat J !V ; ; - . mrnmmmmmmmammmam w You Do Not Have ,7 " ;- r / '-i'" * wdh tdtmcS that you- * . . * I AWSEY * - 3~rth c^h.|: ; *:>* . , ; . . f'Y- "*>. - . ' % "A'.^'V* ' ;X ' . -v~ V-; **4C ,f- . v.- --r-V-i 5.S ' ' - " ' v ** +f .., . f T ,; ifter receipt of the application. ? i. li order to put tkm rules Into r rffset equitably amonf jSn^ttUaU It hers shall v bo appointed for* oecb 11 MtMtaot a committee of three, (wo a if wh<gm shall be nearby neighbors ' oho ara-?oi cont extents aa? the! >tber shall Jbo-tbq county demonstra- j Bon agent ~TMs toumktoo dial! I kave charge of aorvaying the five* 'a rots field, estimating probable yield j at proper^ times, collecting samples, t checking the work of the contestant t in any way deemed necessary or ad- l ?isaM*-end shall finally place its 'j approval upon the report ^of ther eon- | testant. The committee may render Ji other setVices in connection whh the 11 contest not herein mentioned but ,| which seem advisable as the contest f BESEaSgS committee on jt aWards shall be charged with the i lliu-l J-? responsiDiiuy ui juu^vmv..* , AN EAST! There Is a quit# common opinion t that Mary \ Magdalene was "the wo- ! man who was-a sinner", mentioned in [i St Luke 7:36-50. That-Wotaan was evi- '; dentiy notorious for her sinful life, I abd on account of; that opinion the ! ; Magdalene has come to be considered J kind of patron saint of depraved 1 Womanhood. Even the clergy som-!! times use her as an example, of. the j possibility of repentance bringing the vilest of the vile into'the company of i the bleaaed. .. f ji For this opinion there js not a m- 1 tige of proof in the scriptures, nor does the most ancient tradition support it." We have not th# faintest rea- ( son'for thinking that Mary Magdalene was ever an abandoned woman! To every careful reader of the .New Testament it must be a matter to regret that the'hottrable name of the thankful, good woman,, who was the first witness of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, should have bee/^ besmirched carelessly. . No doubt the mention 9/ Mary Magdalene in the chapter next to the one that tells j>s of,the sinful woman at the house -of Simon the Leper (Luke 8). hto had something to dowith the forming of this^ wrong opinion. Certain authorities were in some cases inclined to identify that woman with Mary the sister of Lasarus, but,, that is not a popular opinion now with TlafTda la, iMHSf el-Mejdel, on the wesTt side of the Sea of Galilee. It may be that, as a lady of means, the title showed her local importance. When encountered by our Lord, Mary was one of those afflicted with 1 that awful and horrible Complaint known aa "possessed by the devil."-Exactly what that was we do not < know, for the disease is no longer in 1 existenoe, but it was probably some- ' thing resembling epilepsy, caused by < a devilish, assumption of power* over I humanity by Satan, at that time I | when the. great conflict for the mas- 1 tery of the word was at its extreme heights -"-7" ~ 1 Mary?Magtlata 'was a sufferer | fiV/iii mch possession to an unusual 1 degree. "Seven devils," were cast out \ of her bv J esus Christ, either siv/elyor'at once, and her relief must ' have been excessive when ' Satan's I power over her suffering, body was 1 broken, and she was a normally * healthy Woman again. That she became from henceforth V i disciple or follower of her Savior; f along -with some, other women, not td wondered at, nor was if t strange that in thankfulness, "she v ministered to hi>Ar^ her substance." I Whether she proclaimed the < good t news of the Savior's presence to the t mothers of Salem we are slot inform-, c ed, but so devoted - a disciple, and * thankful a believer, could hardly be c expected to keep silence about Him 1 lit general conversation. ^ At fcny rate' die followed after Jefufe with faithless, %nd if pn that dark t betrayal night she-was unaware of n the treachery; against Him, she fok p lowed am&ng the why of sorrows to S Caivray withHHts mother, and stood in anguish her" beside the cross d >f .suffering. , f< When Joseph of Arimathea had res, ft ruedthe saeaed "body from tgn^mlny. E tnd with Nicpdemua laid" it decently . n Ids newr, rbek-hewn + toqab, the T rvangelist* especially telt us Majy of w dsgdala wjs there, and Witnessed the ht n*. ?douniing wtmfton will, until the 181 utUfc'of that last pf the old Sabbaths I LttjiSl/ al> aMaw * attfO:.rawaway. --r.. . . llwjr hhd~*ade their plana. lknr- | J rdryland as soon aa the Sabbath had J! M "it m-al hytshed tb hay, j lix and prepare a great amount of JJ pices, and nodoubt more fine linen, .>$ ? preserve, attire and do all'honor'fjf ' . ' ' V V'- ' * . A ll-l.;. v : - / : / - rs / . ' : . ' ' i ? * #** ''' v .!" . i ? - . j.-'f" sfei ' *> * ' . 'O ' m i r 111 r i ii . jbc wertt of Mch contestant and MUMf' ?hd awards to the winner* ? ied<f s|aad i wtri Tha personnel ot his statewide committee shall be anwawced ^rior W Um bartjssUnf 7. These rule* wUI apply for tha. near IW< jsnd^whUo^ k to^pacted . m~ iloni tba sama general Unee from war to year and Ha saopa probably' >roadened to Include - other crops, ha rales may be amended^ so as to ettcr meat tha needs for succeeding rears. Such amendments applying to uture "years will be announced early ?nough to permit. all Interested to ' ake amendments lhta account in >lanning Hj^alllir dtcTsiiiJ ho winner who after complying with v he foregoing produces tha largest 7 dumber of pounds of lint cotton on r? he five acft field. " 7. ' : '-1 BR STORY ^ to their Master's body. \ . * C Morning iouna incm sun .?wt task, and very early, before it wnA yet light, they stole out with their. '. ?L " burdens to Joseph's garden in which r , was the pepulcher. * - , That the Roman governor's seal had been impressed upon wax over the , sTaes arid lintel of the Uuuiwaj, a aeal - rj not to be broken-with impunity, they , would not knowT Nor could they be ' awaTe of the guard of soldiers, Pilate, at the solicitations "of the sanhedrin, had placed about the >epalch?rl To their horror and surprise they . t found the stone rolled away,- the" \ sepulcher wide open, and timidly peeping in they saw no sigh of the sacred body of their ^Lond! Fearful that still further indignity had been offered Him, they hurried ' back, fast as their feet would carry them, to the house,"where Peter and John Were lodging/ breathlessly announcing "They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulcherl". ' 1 * With headlong haste the two_ran . through.the streets in the early dawn, dashed through the garden, and, P? ter now in the: lead, entered the tomb to find grave clothes and head wrap all neatly folded, as though there had been no untimely haste about that departure from the grieve. To the de?ciples canu- remembrances of Hid talk??? " and they hasten^ back to. ?mnwii lad followed ffie two ^ out of the seDulcher. If thou <&gst pained them back to the city. But not Mary Magdalene! \Vordering, fear- . ing, weeping, she stood in Joseph's " * garden, not ^mowing which way to turn in her grief. . . ' A voice inquiring "Why weepest . * thou, Whom seekest?thou ? " only aroused a trifling interest. /Without * raising her head she made answer, , , . They "have-taken away my Master out of the sepulchver. If thou hast borne Him hence, tell me where thou . hast laid Him, that T may take away "* that sacred.Jbody!" "Mary!" came the- reply. The. ftld^ familiar accent of tender care, of gentle sympathy, of command, which ~ ? | she had such good reason to rememoer, was in ihe word! .In ; Vv'yyy v . igony of ?jy and amasement the - woman was prostrate at His feet in : idoratiom while all she could make' jer lips to utter was the one word! . J 'Rabboni;" My Master; "My lifter! . Jesus in actual verity, back from , h^, dead! The* marks of .detith itttl in tide, hands and feet, but the sjune! rhe glory of the risen life, of the rbsjrrectiop, of the world of heavfen to ' c ? vhi^Ji the way was wide open, now hone in His face. He was clad in ) he resurrection body, able to Ipeathe he air of hea^fefo or the" atmosphere ?f earth, to eat earthy food or exist rithout it, to move allI independently f mundane liws so as to pass where Je would/ But the same Jesus of faxarefh still! ?!. And Mary of Magdala was the ffarat' /? mj > . ? * ? o see tUJMie the physical shipwreck, > . fiiraculoualy salvaged by His diVihe r 1 ower from the sevenfold bonds of atanVrUin! Seldom has aortal experienced seper,>urer joy thai : that ' wrfcft ?and Mary in devotion al her rat. in Joseph** oiJlh*Tir>t aster morniftg! f '' . ' Wonderful are the ways irf " , be fkat apoetlee of the Savior'a im and btrth ware a few poof shopMs of Bethlehem; tlra first apostle \ the tiososl of li>s has a i esrteh wee " woman, om wl?o had bain ?? tbf? 'I imhoM of boll, faM bound by;2 < ' ,. , ,V" , . ?? -T. 7* *. l/t.. , , : . : !;$ . V- .7 4% ' .V-W.