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4 # 7,1955 ». : ' t /. t. t i % % THE CLINTON CHRONICLE ^A Hymit 3s Sura ^»Y CLINTijONNSk ^ n Christ, The Lord, Is Risen A great Easter hymn was forgotten tor SO years Chafta Wttkjr vroto ao many hymns that be ealtad Tha Swm( Bard ci Methodism ’ John toweled 2SH0M mllee and preached 40.000 sermoos Jdt 80 pears the Wesley brothers worked tofether Neither wasted a minute. John turned In at 10 ajdodt and wae on the fo at 4 In the morning He buOt a bookcase and work table In his buggy “•d wrote 2SS books on the road. No wonder The lj *<S “ow sermons than any aun who evei IweA Charles wrote hymns morning, noon. and night One day his horse fell on him and near!' but Ms greatest concent was that * XoUecUon" John Wesley pleaded that editors not linker” with his brother’s poems as they would not ba able to “mend either the eense or the verse.” In appraising the voluminous works of his brother, John Wesley threw out s hymn that Charles wrote in 17». It was “Christ, the Lord, Is risen today.” He also threw out "Jesus, Lover of My Soul”) When Charles Weslej^lay on his desth bed at ana caused him to miss on* day of hymn writ to* jrbtm he courted at 4b he wrote love letters to the fotth of hymds. When the wedding hymns. N he weal heme and wrote more hymna. No wondet he wrote CM . In 1M the Wesleys were past three score and ten. Charles was TS. John was 77. John Wesley held Ids brother’s hymns In the highest ssteem and publtohed them In kytnn books snd pamphlets. But ttte founders of Methodism were getting old and John wanted to collect the best of Charles’ hymns into one great book. In the preface of his famous # * Christ, the Lord, is risen today; Sons oi men and angels soy; Roil* your joys ond triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, ond, earth, reply Sing, ye heovene. ond, earth,, reply. Love's redeeming work is done, Fought the fight, the bottle won; to, our Sun's eclipse is o'er; lo. He sets In blood no more, to. He sets in blood no more. he age of M. in 1718, he was too weak to write, tut he whispered s hymn while his wife wrote It town. At IS John Wesley complained that IS hours * day of writing hurt his eyes. At 18 he said two ermons a day tired him and he cut down to seven i week. He was lust short of 90 when he died In i79L No disease killed him Doctors said he lust rore out la 1890 a hymn book editor came across a copy jf “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today* and put It back In the Wesleyan Hymn Book. Charles Wesley did not write the Greek word “Alleluia” at the end of each line. The “tinkering” editor did that to make the words fit an old Easter tupe. But maybe John Wesley wouldn't mind because otherwise the world would have been denied one of his brother’s great set hymna Vein the stops, the wotch, the seol; Christ both buret the gates of hell; Death in vain forbids His rise; Christ hath opened Paradise, Christ both opened Paradise. Lives ogom our glorious King; "Where, O Death, is now thy sting?* Once He died our souls to save; "Where’s thy victory, boating Grave?” 'Where’s thy victory, boosting Grove?' Saving-Time ’ Taking Over More Of Year Washington. — Daylight sav ing time is about to take over— not only almost half of the na tion, but a larger share of the year. New York City has voted to join hrast of New England in 1955 in extending summer’s hour-ahead ending in on the last Sunday in September. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, time through October, instead of Maine and New Hampshire, plus a few communities in Vermont, tried carrying daylight time over into fall last year and liked it All of Connecticut as wall as parts of New Jersey are expected to follow New York City’s shift this year. 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March rather than April (April 24 this yearL Shift of Sunlight That hour of daylight shifted from morning to evening gives pleasure to millions, haves sub stantial amounts of power in lighting streets and homes, and cuts dusk traffic accidents, pro ponents argue. Daylight saving is still less than 40 years old, a recent de velopment in world timekeeping, the National Geographic Society says. Like any new idea, it has stirred storms of sound and fury. But it has also been adopted from Newfoundland to British Borneo. Ben Franklin reputedly first thought of moving the clocks of Paris ahead to save wax candles. Paris laughed him down. Not un til 1907 was the idea revived by an Englishman, William Willett. A decade later it found an Amer ican champion in a businessman named Roebrt Garland. ..Willett was a builder of fash ionable London houses. He was also a stubborn man with an idea. He wrote a pamphlet entitled “The Waste of Daylight,” advo cating that clocks be advanced 80 minutes in summer in four shifts of 20 minutes each. “Sham time!” ridiculed farm ers and factory owners. “The on ly people who have shifty time are savages,” wrote a noted as tronomer. “It is now suggested that we should join their ranks.” In return Willett argued, “While daylight surrounds us, cheerfulness reigns, anxieties press less heavily, and courage is bred for the struggle of life.” He introduced acts into Parlia ment, but they were defeated. He himself paid for 19'editions of his pamphlet in various languag es. But he died in 1915 thinking that he had failed. Germany's Efficiency It remained for the Germans to convince the English. World War I then was at its height To save power and fuel, Germany moved its clocks ahead an hour. British ministers began to see the light: sunlight was free. In 1916 England finally adopted fast time, and it soon became so pop ular that it was reenacted an nually until 1925, when it be came a year-round, permanent part of British life. In the United States, Robert Garland fought much the same battle from Pittsburgh. Of all liv ing things on earth, he argued, “only man is so stupid as to de prive himself of an extra hour of sun by sticking to a rigid system of time.” Congress passed dayight sav ing in March, 1918. It lasted only two years. Then the violent pro tests of farmers, who «id their cows were giving milk an hour after the milk trains had left, brought repeal of the measure over President Wilson’s veto. As a national measure, it did not return again until 1942, in a sec ond war. Between World Wan, how ever, many cities and a number of States voluntarily adopted daylight saving time. Gradually it spread. After “war time” ex pired in 1945, even more areas retained the summer switch. Three Americans out of eight will use daylight time in 1955. Farmers still tend to be against it “We get up early enough as it is,” they say. “Man 'shouldn’t tamper with Nature.” But even some farm regions now change their clocks. For a few industries, it pro duces massive headaches. Rail roads, bus and air lines must re vamp their schedules twice a year, to serve cities using differ ent time systems. Radio and tele vision programs are upset. Grand Central Station in New York adds a third hand to all Ms clocks to show daylight time, which one of ita railroads vm and the other doesn’t. Western Union calculated last year that it reset 63,384 docks. Alcohofism Todav By Maslo & CeU Fairview Alcoholic Han Center, lldgewey. B. C. Letter To An Alcoholic: Deer Bill- Yesterday you asked a siginifcant question. A* I it was, “If prayer is so pa why do we not use it to Change the jrhole woridT” Mayhe you thought that you had asked in impossible question. However, the answer is simple. During World War II many of my church members asked me, “Why does God let Hitler live?” I was a child during World War I, but I remembered many ask ing why God let the Kaiser live. By now thinking men and wom en recognize that Hitler or the Kaiser, alive or dead, have little to do with the kind of world in which we live. Both were symp toms of a deep-seated human ill ness of the soul. As a deep in fection always produces pus and. corruption so human spiritual sickness produces the Hitlers of this world. Hitler is long dead, but today we tremble with fear at prospects of a war more hor rible than anything Hitler ever imagined. What I am trying to get across is the fact that God made man in his image, with power to make a choice. God limited his own power where man is concerned. Man can deliberately say NO to God. Therefore, prayer will change the world, but can do so only as each individual agrees to let God have control of his or her life. We can use prayer to change our own lives, and bring them into harmony with God’s great, eternal laws. We are getting into deep wa ter, as I well know. But your honest question deserves an hon est answer. Therefore I will not evade or confuse the issue. Right now my answer may not satisfy you at all. You naturally won der why, if prayer is so powerful, it cannot be used to change all alcoholics. Well, Bill, it can. But do you remember telling me how one night years ago you walked into your mother’s room and found her on her knees praying for you? That was five years ago—«nd you went right out and got drunk again. You kept on drinking for years. God could not answer your mother’s pray ers for you until you yourself became willing to let God have His way with your life. When God gave man the pow er to make a decision—to choose between right and wrong—he made him forever more than an animal. God will not violate this principle. I may pray for a lost soul, but God cannot save that soul until the soul itself willing ly accepts the love of God. This is not so limiting a prin ciple as it may seem. For al ready your sobriety is causing your old drinking buddies to think. Because you are trying to do something about your own life others will be influenced and inspired to try to do something about their lives. As you live closer and closer to God your life will wield greater and great- Indignani Uproar In zoos, return of standard time in the fall usually is attend ed by general bedlam. Monkeys chatter, bears growl, and the big cats roar when their meal comes an hour late. Yet in spring, zoo keepers note, there is nary a hiss, bark, or howl when feeding time arrives, an hour early. On the last Sunday in April, more than 60,000,000 people in this country will set their clocks ahead. Repeat: Ahead. Shifting time twice a year normally pro duced more confusion than the Federal income tax. Even before the changeover, there is a huge national argu ment: Do the clocks get reset on Saturday evening, does everyone wait up until the official 2 a. m., or should the change be put off until morning, just in time for churchgoers to be an hour late? FOIE FURNITURE Down Through the Years I. E. Jones & Sons The Best tor Over Fifty CUNTON, S.C. Plu ThtrtMB (HI Stores in Sostli CnraHns er influence in leading others to the peace you yourself have found in God. This is how we will change the world. S. C. Employment Showed (sain In Last Quarter ■ */! Columbia. — South Carolina’s average employment covered by the state’s unemployment com pensation law rose from 349,885 in the second quarter of 1954 to 350,547 in the third quarter. The manufacturing division showed a gain of seven-tenths of one per cent between the second and third quarters, despite a 1.1 per cent decline in textile mill products average employment as a result of vacation shutdowns and layoffs, etc. The trade divi sion increased 1.6 per cent and the transportation, communica tion and public utilities division showed a minor gain over the perod. The rest of he industry divisions showed minor losses. An over-the-year comparison shows that average covered em ployment in the third quarter 1954 was 6.3 per cent below that of the third quarter of 1953. Con tract construction was down 29.6 per cent from the third quarter 1953, due mainly to less defense construction. Small kisses were also evident in all of the rest of the industry divisions, except the finance, insurance, and real es tate division, which showed an over the year gan of 3.4 per cent. 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