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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Five
SIX-INCH SERMON
By Rev. Robert H. Harper
captivity—the dew upon the earth
would refresh his people with good
things, and bless them in many ways.
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HOSEA REVEALS GOD’S
FORGIVING LOVE
Lesson: Hosea 11:1-4, 8-11; 14:4-9.
Memory Selection: Hosea 14:4.
In the childhood of the race, God
had called the Israelites out of Egypt,
and his treatment of them had ever
been loving and merciful, even when
they went after strange gods.
The heart of God yearned over
the sinful people the time ot Hos
ea wheh their destruction by the
Assyrians was imminent. The wret
ched people were scattered through
out the provinces of the Assyrian em
pire and the Ten Tribes of Israel
disappeared from history. Some sup
pose they were swallowed up by
other races. *
If the Ten Tribes did disappear
from history, the words of God
through Hosea were not dlscfeted
For the blessings promised to the
people in the future were condition
al—they were dependent upon the
people returning to God. They did
not return to him and they did not
return to their home land.
Hosea draws a picture of Israel
blessed of God in the days of their
if we go back a few generations, ex
cept for the Indians. So far as I re
fers and by their resourceful minds bright minds of today; today those
and unresting toil became notable men would change everything and
Call our great industries were not examples of American success, a ma ke the Government the source
And it is interesting to suppose that built or planned by the Indians, Not success not only in material wealth 0 f Capital. That, you know, is So-
some families never let the fire of even the hustle and bustle of Rock but in citizenship. 'cialism. The word ‘‘Socialism” need
true religion die so that on the day t Hill, South Carolina, nor the wealth, But the America which produced not sca^e us so much as the fact of
of Pentecost were present Jews of in her banks, can be credited to the such men and offered such oppor- Socialism, the actual Socialism in
the Dispersion, from different coun- Catawba Indians who live on a res
ides of the East. iervation nearby. So America is the
The lesson teaches God’s love to-,land of immigrants, even mor£ than
ward his people as strongly as does ( the “Land of the Pilgrims’ pride”,
the story of the Prodigal Son. God, Why did the immigrants do so well
ever waits to receive the children here? Could they not have done as
who return unto him. well in England, Ireland, Scotland,
~ I Sweden, Germany, France, Poland,
Italy, Russia and the other countries?
Aren’t they the same people whether
in Europe or America?
What about resources? Is tms a
mere fertile soil than Mexico, Central
The “under-dog" h.s become e < T U ^’
roarin* lion. Durin* all the «mc, 't ou . r , superlorlt) ' based enUrelJ on
COMMENTS ON
MEN AND THINGS
By Spectator
climate?
I think my ten years in South Am
erica will permit me to guess that if
George Washington, Thomas Jeffer-
;son, Benjamin Franklin and all those
since Adam’s tragic faU there have
been some men who ‘‘got ahead” ad
vanced more rapidly than their bro
thers. Sometimes the prosperity of
the fortunate was based in part on rr.nnom
scheming, chicanery or open, arro- ,ot ^ er stalwart earl y Americans had
gant rascality. But men of all ages
have had ambition to- climb the lad
der; and sometimes the new climb
ers were the worst of all. They for
got all their scruples and complaints
been transplanted to Cuba or Mex
ico or Venezuela the bounty of na
ture would have been equal to that
enjoyed here.
Well, if America is not due to su-
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of alLtime? It isn’t our pre-eminent
rose from poverty and obscurity to
genius, because we are the same blood
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however! At no time have we been
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makes one man prosperous in busi
ness and another man a failure isn’t
always easy to point out. Some bus
iness failures are diligent, hard
working men, careful, thrifty, frugal
and possessed of all the virtues. Life's
reward to them must be in spiritual
values; and who can say that in the
final account before the Great Jud^e
they may not have the lasting crown
the imperishable rewards?
Life among men is a slow process
of improvement; in America, for ex
ample, the standard of living has
moved upward steadily and today
we live so well that the remark of
the Scotch lady to me is increasingly
true; ‘‘Oh, you Americans have so
much”! So we have, but how did we
get it?
Our great factories: were they giv
en to us by the Government, or by
any other nation? Is our soil richer
than that of other lands? Are our
people stronger^ more intelligent,
more diligent than the people of other
nations?
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for about a million who came over
on the Mayflower and landed at Ply
mouth Rock in 1620, counting all
j those who proudly claim that noble
ancestry. So we are all immigrants
being their flesh and blood. Certain
ly the conditions of living have been
fruitful in a flowering genius. Men
have had a chance here.
The greatest Corporation in the
world publishes-with pride that all
its top-executives rose from the ranks
they are salaried men, employees,
even though of top rank. But look
around you: we have many success
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fortunes. The man who owns his
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many others, in positions of trust, are
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I know some South Carolina bank
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pharmacists and others, who have
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For fear that not all my friends are
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