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Pftfe Poor THE CUNTON CHRONICLE Thursday, April 8, 1954 Dr. Herbert Spaugh Everyday Counselor When you think everything is going against you, that everyone persecutes you, that you have no friends, that everything is wrong, then it’s high time that you take self-examination. So often we re ceive letters from correspondents which indicate this state of mind. Some need to go to lawyers, some to psychitrists, sonr§? to fhinisters, some need to have their lives turned around. No intelligent man or woman who is in his right mind and in good health will admit that everything is wrong in this world and around him. The trouble with these unfortunates who think that everything and everybody are against them is that they have built a prison of their own troublea They refuse to climb up and look over the walls or out the window. Briton Riviere painted two magnificent pictures of Daniel in the den of lions. In both pictures Dan iel appears with his hands tied, surrounded by sev en lions. In one, Daniel faces the lions which the other, Daniel' has turned his back on the lions and has lifted his face up toward the window' in prayer artist has portrayed as vicious and snarling. In the and supplication. The lions in this picture are docile and peaceful I have copies bT these pictures on the walls of my conference room. I use them in my work, as they are highly symbolic and filled with psychological and spiritual truth. Daniel is a type of "every man” surrounded by fear and trouble. His helplessness is indicated by his tied hands, and by the seven lions. Seven is the number of completion in the symbolism of num bers. So they indicate that he is in complete trouble. In the first picture he looks the lions over carefully, calmly. The artist repre sents his as being perfectly calm. In the second picture, he turns his back and lays his case before his Lord. Here is the teachnig of the psychologists who tell us that continuously reviewing our troubles exaggerates them out of all proportion. The spiritual therapist says we must go further than that and commit our case to God. So if vou think that everything and everybody is against you, that you are in a den of trouble where there is no help, then heed th lesson of Riviere's pictures. Stop looking at your troubls, going over them, magnifying them, pitying your self. Turn around. Look at some of the good things m iife. Abve all, look to your God, commit your case to Him. Jesus Christ said, “Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Read the 27th Psalm where the writel tells us that we find freedom as we learn to dwell “in the house (pre^nce) of the Lord." St. Paul w^rote truthfully. “Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound." Surely no matter how great the trouble, the power and love of God is greater. Calvary Baptist Church Expands Plant And Prouram Calvary Baptist church of this city, headed for the past six years by the Rev. J W. Spillers as pastor, has received state and south-wide recognition in The Baptist Courier, religious paper for the Baptists of South Caro lina, and the literature of the Southern Baptist convention, which serves twenty-two states, which recently carried an article by the pastor on the growth and work of the church. Thea rticle follows: For the past six years the pro- grain of Calvary Baptist church, Clinton, lias expanded until we have grown beyond the space to accommodate the Sunday school. We have grown from a class Sunday school of 144 average at tendance with 283 enrolled to a departmental Sunday school of 350 average attendance with 672 enrolled. The church offerings have grown from $7,000.00 per year to more than $23,000.00 per year. A 35-pasenger bus has been pur chased to go out in the outlying districts to bring the people to church where they have neither church nor transportation. Two years ago the church added an educational unit of 6,- 500 square feet of floor space and now to make room for the additional people who are being enlisted, the church is building an additional unit of 2,400 square feet of floor space. In cooperation with the South ern Baptist Convention to enrolf a million more in 1054, we have reached 93 per cent of our goal in the first six months. We have found here at Calvary Baptist church that if you build to ac commodate the people they will come; also if you visit, the peo ple will oome. The undersigned has been pas tor of this church since Novem ber, 1947, but he odes not take credit for the growth and devel opment which has been attained, although he has added a touch of leadership and encouragement to the program. The cooperation of. the people with their desire to go forward and a consistent program of visitation has been the primary factor in the devel opment ^of this church and in reaching the number of people who have been enlisted. The people at Calvary have just finished studying together the book titled, "The Ministry of Visitation.” The information gained from the study of this book, if put into practice will produce a growth and fellowship beyond ' the expectation of any church. The pastor would rec-! ommgnd that every church study j this book. —J. W. SPILLERS, Pastor. "Your Family Paper" THE CHRONICLE J. R. CRAWFORD SURVEYING CLINTON, S. C. Phone S4tS la Wofford Glee Club To Present Fre Concert April 13 —♦— Spartanburg, S. C.—The Wof ford college Glee dub, having recently returned from a tour of the state of South Carolina, will present its 100th Anniversary Home Concert in the Spartan burg Memorial Auditorium at 8 o’clock, April 13. The W r offord singers will present a two-hour concert of varied sacred and sec ular musical ' renditions with background music for several numbers provided by two instru mental groups composed of Wof ford students. The "Tennessee Dewdrops”, a hillbilly band of Wofford men will provide enter tainment during the inte/mission period. Presenting numbers of their own as well as providing background atmosphere for sev eral choral numbers will be the ‘Terrier Aristocrats", a 15-piece dance band at W r offbrd Prior to their annual Spring Tour, the club had performed be fore some 40,000 people and add ed 20,000 more music enthusiasts on their ten-day tour The Club has performed in several radio and television programs this year. Recently, the club prepared an album of six recocds in connec tion with their observance of Wofford college's Centennial. Directing the club for the sev enth consecutive consecutive year will be Professor Samuel R. Moyer, Wofford music and art appreciation professor. Professor Moyer has taken a leading role in the musical life of the Pied mont during his years in this sec tion. Latest of his civic accomp lishments was his direction of the Christmas Music Festival at the Spartanburg Memorial Audi torium The Wofford Glee club lias participated in the past two Christmas programs held hem The Christmas Music Festival program last December attracted more than 7,500 from the Pied mont area with about 2,500 turn ed away for lack of seating facil ities. • - Each year the Wofford singers the club in solo positions. This year the featured soloists are j a > % 0 v# •% a it % > < # v # ^ FINE FURNITURE . Down Through the Years The Best for Over Fifty Years CLINTON, S.C. Pins Thirteen Other Stores in Sooth Carolina present several voices of merit in four men who have participated j widely in civic musical produc tions in the Spartanburg area. They are: L. H. Buff of Lexing ton S. C.; A1 Wilson of Orange burg. S C.; Talmadge Skinner of Anderson. S C.: and Fred Morey of Sandwich, Mass. The two-hour program prom ises for those in attendance two hours of musical enjoyment. Ad mission for the concert is free. Reese A. Holland Observes 84th Birthday With Family The friends and relatives of Reese L. Holland gathered at his home near Clinton to help him celebrate his eighty-fourth birth day Sunday. April the fourth. Mr. Holland has lived in the same house fifty-two years of his fifty three years o^f married life. He married Miss Janie Clark who spent most of her childhood in her present home. Mr. Holland is the father of 2 children, Miss T. Holland and John Beufdrd Hol land. He has four grandchildren also. Mr. Holland’s parents were Margaret Adair Holland and Blu- ford Holland. The following helped him cele brate his birthday: Mrs. James .*i. N'inch and children from 1 aureps, E. Erskine Blakely noan Washington, D. C., Mrs. Edgar M. -Murphy, Sr., and Mr. E. M. Murphy, Jr., from Easley, and Mrs. J. B. Holland, Laurens. 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