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T m • / ■ • ^ 1 Y. ■ r J: The Chronide Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Volume im Income Tax Returns! State and Federal Carefully Prepared Joe P. Terry 105 Jefferson Street Phone 843 Opposite Clinton Mill Ball Park give the World’s Bost Loved Box* The famous rWiTMJUTS SAMPLER o e j Special ftearf-Boxes • and other Whitman's Assortments ) attractively wrapped. V fOi-Yaientine's Day •hr r 5% McGEE’S DRUG STORE PHONE NO. EM • SL o Also Film Comedies and Features Naco’s 5th Annual FAMILY PARTY ENTERTAINMENT — REFRESHMENTS — DOOR PRIZES FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY BE SURE AND BRING THE CHILDREN No Charge — No Advertising JUST A LOT OF FUN FOR EVERYONE THURSDAY, FEERUARY 14 7:30 P. M. Laurens Armory NACO Farm Supply Store Laurens, S.C. *7— x S t If Yon Don't Read The Chronicle ...t Clinton. S. C., Thursday. February 14. 1952 You Don't Get the News Number 7 A Regular Chronicle Feature GREAT WORLD TRUCE BASED ON MISSION PRORAM SEEN By ROGER W. BAB SON Bafbson Park, Fla., Feb. 8. I am writing this column after return ing from a Foreign Missions’ meetr ing. It has reminded me of the great missionary 1 movements of my youth, which older readers will re member. Unfortunately, our chil dren never experienced and hence will not be interested in what I am about to writ. Songs We Used To Sing Those were great days! The country was then stirred up about foreign missions as it is now ex cited over infla tion. We wanted to “save” the heathen of China, India and Africa. Great mass meetings were held when many of ' my friends dedicated themselves to go to foreign lands to tell of the “Love of Jesus.” My Father and Mother were very ac tive in raising funds to support the missionary cause. ‘ Picking up an old hymn book of my boyhood, I note the songs which we all enthusiastically sang: “From Greenland’s Icy Mountains to Indian’s Coraid Strand.” Another was “Rescue the Perishing, Care for the Dying.” Another “Arise, Ye Soldiers of the Cross.” Another “Christ for the World We Sing ” Then we all would repeat: “Take my life and let it be consecrated. Lord, to Thee; take my hands and let them move,—take my lips and let them be filled with messages from Thee,—take my silver and my gold ” What We Now Do I do not question the present military policy of President Tru man. I am not a pacifist—if a mad dog should come into my house, I would shoot it. Probably the world is not yet ready for peace. Per haps the Korean-Chinese cam paign is sound. It, however, certainly does not make sense to have been teaching the “heathen Chinese” of the Love of God in my youth and then now shooting and bombing these same people, many of whom are grad uates of our missionary schools. They certainly must think we Christians are a nation of hypo crites. What About Point Four? —- It is popular for some conserva tive church people to wildly crit icize President Truman. Probably he has been misled and has made many mistakes. His desire, how to help backward nations surely accords with Bible teachings. All serious church members who believe in foreign missions should endorse Point Four. We Americans cannot indefinite ly “live the life of Riley”' with our reckless waste and pleasures while so many of the world’s people are starving. Ultimately, either our liv ing standards will be lowered or else we must help other nations raise their living standards. Per haps the first persecuted race we should help is the displaced Jews of Israel; but first we need a World Truce. Known By Our Fruils A professor under whom I once studied at the Massachusetts In stitute of Technology would prove that God has giveif the world new discoveries "only ai soon as the people were ready for them. This was his interpretation of the old saying, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” May this now bring us a World Truce. I wish that preachers, instead of praying for peace, would pray that we be worthy of peace and be will ing fo make the necessary sacri- ces therfor. Then peace will come naturally, as have other great bless ings. The Apostle Paul must have had this in mind when he said: “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God j hath prepared for them that love him ” (1st Cor, 2:9) A Final Thought It certainly seem* as if some uation makes me feel that there has been a mistake somewhere.. Let us remember Edison and see that it will be corrected, if we hope to have further prosperity and avoid unemployment. We now need a World Truce,—not simply a Korean Truce. Six-Inch Sermon THE DECISION OF TWO RICH MEN Leoson for February 17: Luke II: Golden Text: Matthew 7: 13-14; 11-23; 19: 1-10. The present lesson contrasts two rich men and reveals the difference between them. One was the rich young ruler who asked how to in herit eternal life; the other was the publican who climbed into a syca more tree to see Jesus, v As the yoong ruler had doubtless inherited his riches,.he seemed to feel that eternal life should be due him because of his keeping the Ten Commandments. But the se quel shows that he had not truly kept the commandments. He was not willing to give up his wealth for Jesus and to share with the poor. v Zaochaeus, the rich publican, was a small man in more ways than in stature. The day he saw Jesus he was "up a tree” literally and fiff- | uratively.-He was so poor in repu- * tation that his people despised him as a renegade Jew. He had become a tax collector under the Romans and had used the opportunity to extort heavy amounts from the people. As he had probably bought the privilege of collecting taxes over a wide area, with no limita tion set upon the amounts that he would collect, he had ample oppor tunity to collect large sums above the amount he had to pay to the Roman government So he was rich, but he was not satisfied. The young ruler allowed money to use him; Zaochaeus, upon com ing to know Jesus, learned to use money by restoring, ill-gotten gam* and by sharing with the poor. ^ DR. L B. MARION NATUROPATH Rch. Phone 339 500 South Broad St. Dr. Felder SmHh Optometrist Laurens, S. C. 124 EAST MAIN STREET Sooth SMo PobHo Seaaro ■PPM TO* EYE - EXAMINATIONS: 9 M to 3:34 t:M to ll-M 794 Say M l Saw It In Tha — Thank Yw! mistake has been made. Either the leaders of our mission schools did; not properly teach the right Gos pel, or else we in this country have set such a poor example as to un do all their efforts. Jesus said: “By their fruits ye shall know them.”! Did He expect this would be ap-i plied to our foreign missionaries or to us churchmen here at home whoj are urging Truman to bomb China? J The eleventh of February is the birthday of Thomas A. Edison for whom I once had the honor of working.; When anything which he dia failed to give the desired re sults, he always blamed it on him-, self, — never on the chemicals or other materials with which he wasj experimenting. He would then tryi to iind the mistake which he had made. I believe in foreign missions end in present day churches, but certainly this Korean-Chinese sit- Hamilton’s BARGAIN TABLE! Save up to 50% on Articles —--in This Group r* Sterling Baby Spoons 1.27 Sterling Juice Cups 3.25 2-pc. 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