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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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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
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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.
The mayor of Philadelphia
would like to see “fast time” be
gin a month early as well, in late
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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
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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.
Total wages of approximately
1245,441,000 were paid covered
workers in South Carolina dur
ing the third quarter 1954. This
amount was some feTQMOO, er
17 per cent, lesa in wsgss then
was paid covered workers ia toe
second quarter ISHL TMe decline
from the second to the filial
quarter 1954 was due primarily
to the fact that the second quar
ter 1954 wage figures contains!
a large amount of advance va
cation payment* made by the
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