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f WESTMINSTER ABBEY PALUXti
INTO. DECAY.
Westminster Abbey Is In danger, la
England rises the cry to save the fanious
structure from a condition described
as "a desperate state of
things," and the plea is made to the
10^ English speaking world for funds for
the repair and maintenance of this
shrine of which it stands in utmost
need. A sum of $1,260,000 Is set as
the minimum amount required to
check the ravages of time and preserve
the historic abbey frym further
decay, to restore. In so far as in jy?s?lblc
the enduring glory that is peculiarly
its own.
That the condition of the abbey merits
serious attention is indicated by
the appearance of a special Westminster
Abbey appeal number of the London
Times, in which the needs of the
abbey are set forth.
"Westminster is the history of our
race set in stone," says The Times.
"It Is the symbol of our beliefs and
our hopes. It bears the impress of
all our varying moods, seen through
the shifting lights and shadows of a
thousand crowded years. There are
garnered all the fruits of our great
past; there the causes of the present
anil the seeds of the future. To meditate
that marvelous story Is overwhelming;
each mind will find in it
what that mind brings to It, but none
can consider It there, compassed
round by the appeals through sight
and touch of that grand silent chronicle
without a deepening feeling of
awe. a keener perception of possibilities.
an outlook wider and more enlarged.
a quickened consciousness of
duty, un awe-stricken sense of how
unsearchable are the ways of God to
mnn.
"The abbey has an authentic history
of wcllnlgh a thousand years.
What mind at the beginning of any
one of these ten centuries could have
Imagined the changes that were to
come before Its close? To us who
look back It seems almost Inconceivable
how somoof them have happened.
Beneath this roof the story Is around
us which tells how the distracted
kingdom, weakly ruled hy the saint
who reared his church In the swamps
of Thorney island, a kingdom which
bad Just thrown off the yoke of one
foreign conqueror and was about to
fall under the sway of another, grew
to be the fruitful mother of mighty
peoples beyond unlmaglned seas, and
to carry to the remotest regions of
the old world and of the new the religion
and the laws, the manners, the
habits, the letters and the arts, the
Ideals and the aspirations she herself
developed under the gunrdian shadow
of these walls.
"There is no work of human hands
with a story which can compare with
this in the richness of its variety. In
the sweep of Its grandeur. In the he
role splendor of Its chief actors. In Its
tragedies nnd Its glories. In its admixture
of public virtue with human
frailties, follies nnd weaknesses. In It*;
astonishing vicissitudes and In its continuity.
more wondrous still. It is no
history of a dynasty or of a kingdom
that speaks here. It Is the history of
a race In every branch of human ac
t:\lty, told generation after generatlon
by the hands that, through Rood
days and through evil, carried and
handed down the torch.
"There is scarce a tlehl of thought
or of action, scarce a department of
science or a branch of art. which is
hot represented, and gloriously represented
In these bounds. It ig this
largeness and universality which are
unique in the abbey. In other lnnds
splendid sepulchres have been set
apart as the Inst resting places of
emperors and kings. Famous states
have gathered beneath one roof all
that was most renowned for valor
and for public service, for learning
and for genius among their cltiaens.
Hut the glories and the deaths of
princes, fortunate and trngic. who lie
In 'this acre sown with royal seed.'
are but a thread?albeit a thread of
gold?running through the web of
endless memories and endless hopes
. that a high Providence and many
years hnd woven, and are still weaving.
nhout this center of all that is
spiritual and all that is immortal in
our national life.
"The story is all-embracing, unbroken.
widening down from Hastings
to the Oreat war. from the Saxon
Witan and the king's council to the
parliaments of the empire and. not
less truly if less directly, to the Congress
of the United States.
"The choice made by William the
f nquernr of the abbey as the place
i.t his cpronatkon was decisive of its
destiny. From that Christmas day
lOfif, until now everv crowned klnir
and every queen regnant in the long
line of English sovereigns has been
nnointed and acclaimed on the same
spot. Since Edward I brought the
mystic stone of Scone from Scotland
each of them has sat in the oaken
chair in which the great Plantagenet
encased it. Cromwell himself did not
choose wholly to hreak with that august
tradition. He could not venture
to be crowned In the abbey, but. wltb
that true instinct for some of the
drepest feelings of English hearts
thnt wns his. 'his highness the Eord
Protector' ordained that in the scarce
less venerable hall he should be installed
in the appointed seat of kings.
"A wise policy, doubtless, led the
conqueror to assume the crown of
Kngland In the church and before the
tomb of her last Saxon king, and the
same consideration weighed with his
first successor.
"There Flliznheth and Mary rest in
the same tomh, There are the graves
o' Mary Queen of Scots, of the statesmen
who determined her death and
of the judge who spoke her doom.
And there, more eloquent than any
monument, a plain slab marks the
vault from which the moldering remains
of tho great Oliver were torn.
t<i be gibbeted and to be buried at the
gallows foot.
"Westminster is no Valhalla established
by ordinance and decree. The
shrine of the royal saint predetermined
It to be the burial place of
kings: the companions and the servants
of kings were laid near the
graves of their royal masters: greatness
in the stute drew to Itself greutncss
in the other walks of life.
"We must pass from the wonderful
church, feebly and slightly as we
have outlined a few of its principal
features, to the monastery Inseparably
interwoven with Its foundation and Ita
growth. Here we must be briefer
still, for In the amplitude of its associations
the history of the monastery
exceeds that of the abbey. What a
place in the life of the race is Ailed
by the Jerusalem chamber ? the
chamber where Henry IV died. Here
tat the assembly of divines. From
the Jerusalem chamber Issued the
confession of faith and the longei* and
shorter catechisms, which still hold
the minds of millions on both sides of
the Atlantic. Thither was summoneo
the convocation which revised the
prayer book of 1661.
"The Jerusalem chamber was the
tcene of these great events for the
most prosaic of reasons. The king
was taken to die there, and the divines
and prelates! sat there, because
it was the only convenient room
which had a fireplace. The incomparable
chapter house, as the chronicler
justly calls It, nobler and more
impressive in its austere and simple
beauty than all the carved and fretted
loveliness of the Tudor chapel,
was the Arst place in which the commons
of England met as a separate
body.
"In the Gatehouse, where Raleigh
lasseil with a marvelous cheerfulness
the night before his execution, Eliot
irwf 1-Vttmtirlon vvor ?? tn o v til n tn tVioir
vindication of the privileges of the
commons and the rights of the subject.
Lovelace wrote his manly and
beautiful 'Stone walls do not a prison
make' while confined there, and
Pepyg and the stout non-Juror Collier
were detained'In the same place of
captivity.
"More traffic are the memories of
the sanctuary where Edward V was
born, and where the Duke of York
was torn from his weeping mother's
arms to he murdered with him in the
Tower.
"We have tried no more than to
trace some of the chief figures and to
Indicate faintly the general coloring
of the Immense tapestry of which the
uhhey haa been for n thousand years,
and Is today the center and the life,
a living tapestry, whose warp and
woof are the minds and the souls of
men. To one feature In the whole
vast design the abbey is In n special
manner consecrated. Alone of all the
ruces of Christendom, the peoples of
ltrltish blood have constantly preserved
and publicly confessed the feeling
that civil society is something more
than human; that every commonwealth
of men is In very truth also
civltag del. In thin empire, and under
forms less precise in the United
States, it is still a living and quickening:
force. With us. the abbey has ever
been its center; the coronation rite
Its symbol, its profession nnd its seal.
"The abbey is in danger; that
should be enough."
NKWK ANI> V1KW8
Interesting Otmmciit and Current
Notes (Vtrfibuled to The Times
Hailes hiidge over Sugrar creek has
at last been repaired and is in fine
shape; In fact It is n splendid hridKC
now. It will be remembered that
this bridge and Its approach had been
in dangerous condition for some time.
Several accidents, some that proved
futal and others costly nnd painful,
have occurred there. The word
"tragedies" would be a better term
than "accident" in this case. The approach
is now safe and If anything
happens there now It will be an accident
and not a tragedy. It was for
lack of a little attention on the part
of some one, that caused the tragic
death of Mr. Anderson and the McNeely
youth there. Frank Shah's mule
iuickpo me uiikkv <>rr tne approach
with his mother, wife and several
children In the htiRRy. The mule ulso
fell with the 1?urr>' hut did not happen
to fall on the occupants of the
buggy. Several were hurt but none
seriously. The huRRy was a wreck.
You Can't B
Real Til
?seems to be the agi
Chevrolet and Maxwel
who have the new C
Clincher Tire on their ri
The I?c?k of Tube Perfect t<
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Some time xo two other mules fell
off at the same place and were killed.
We need a road to the bridge now |
almost as much as wo needed the
bridge. I think Is the want road
In the county to be a main road. I
am sure that the business men of Fort
Mill cannot afford to let this road
remain aa It Is, for most od the business
from the Pleasant Valley section
comes over this road, and from another
county at that. These people
want to come to Fort Mill to do their
business and we ought to appreciate
their business and friendship the more
for coming over from Lancaster county.
The Pleasant Valley folk are anxious
to help build this road from
Bp lies' bridge to Fort Mill. Why not
get a movement on foot to build the
road and meet these people In their
willingness to help build up the town
I and community?
We hnve often heard that old proverb
"Kverv day will be Sunday by
and by." Well. It seems that it has
about come true, or Is coming true.
The Jew and Adventlst take Saturday,
the Protestants Sundnv some nier
chants Monday, as Sundav is a "very
busy day," Monday is their day of
rest. We only need others to observe
the other four days and every day
will he Sunday. Why not have the
police put up a sign to let the people
know whnt day in America is supposed
to be observed. You can't tell
every time by the dress and looks of
the people on the streets.
The choir of St. John's Methodist
| church is expected to meet at the
church this evening at R o'clock.
St. John's Sundav school and the
Massey Sunday school came together
Ir T ee Armstrong's grove Tuesday
evening and en .loved a picnic. Dinner
wns served Just before sunset and
the table wns well fitted with good
things to ent. After dinner 20 largo
watermelon" were cut. There wns
lemonade for nil. The two Sundav
schools have nn enrollment of a little
o* er 4 00. The picnic was arranged bv
the entertainment committee of the
Men's Rlhle class of St. John's, of
uhlch T. F. I?ytlo is chairman, and
the work wns well done.
A protracted riveting will hegtn nt
Philadelphia Methndtot church next
Sunday night nt ?:4R o'clock and
...me uiruuiin int- miiowing WMK.
The Rev. Ft. F. Morris of Columbia
will assist the pastor and do the
preaching during the meeting. The
pphhc Ik l"vl*ed to ell the isprvlPM,
which wIM he held nt 5 and 9 p. m.
Ml?-s John Crook spent last week
?*l?h her sister, Mrs. Oarrison. In
Pleevllle. N. C.
The congregation of Philadelphia
church has purchased new windows
for the church and will add another
cent of paint to the building as soon
no some one can he found to do the
work. Philadelnhia church ban taken
on new life within the last year.
W. Ft. B.
Club Enrollment short.
When the enrollment books of the
Fort Mill F")emocratlc olub were
closed Tuesday evening In compliance
with the law .160 citizens of the town
and township had qualified to vote
p the August primary for State and
county officers. The figures show a
slight gain over the enrollment of
two years ago, hut there are about
150 men in the community who have
allowed the time to slip by since the
hooks wore opened revernl weeks ago
without registering and who will
consequently have no voice In the
s? lection of the officials who are to
make and enforce the laws under
which they munt live for the next
two years.
There hns been general apathy In
politics this year in York county and
It Is estimated that the total enrollment
for the various cluhs of the
county will not greatly exceed 3.000.
Some years ago York county polled
rearly 4,500 votes In the Democratic
primary.
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y certainly must mean It better
they've bought one of
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until they've haek tor more
tame for their other wheels.
ew Goodyear Clincher
( r, better and stronger
Ice to start one of your oar.
ilea Motor Co.
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SCHOLARSHIP AND ENTRANCE .
EXAMINATION
[ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
The examination for the award of
i vacant scholarahips in the Univeraity
of South Carolina and for admission of
new students will be held at the County
Courthouse on Friday, July 9, at 9 a m.
Applicants must not be less than sixteen
years of age. When scholarships
are vacant after July 9, they will be
awarded to those making the highest
average at examination, provided they
meet the conditions governing the
award.
Applicants for scholarships should
write tp President Currell for scholarship
examination blanks. These blanks,
properly filled out by the applicant, I
should be filed with President Currell'
by July 2.
Scholarships are worth $100. free J
tuition ana tees, total J168. The next!
session will open September 15, 1920.
For further information and catalogue,
address
President W. S. CURRELL,
Columbia. S. C.
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