The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, May 26, 1955, Image 7
Thursday, May 26, 1955
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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WHO SR? ME SIR?
Baccalaureate Sermon Before Clinton High School
Graduating Class Sunday Evening By
Rev. J. E. Merchant
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day I mnst abide at thy hense.”
My young friends, as you come
to this, one of the great occasions
of your life let me read to you a
poem. If you can remember it you
will find a sermon in it I am sor
ry that I do not know the author.
It is called—
Ito Better Way
“It is better to lose with a con
science clean
Than win with a trick unfair;
It is better to fall and to know
you’ve been.
Whatever the prize was square,
Than to claim the Joy of a faroff
goal
And the cheers of the standers-
by,
And to know deep in your inmost
soul
“Who wins by tricks may take the
prize,
A cheat you must live and die
And at firet he may think it
sweet,
But manor a day in the future lies
When he'll wish he had met
defeat
For the man who lost shall be glad
at heart
And walk with his head up high
While his conqueror knows he must
play the part
Of a cheat and a living lie
“The prize seems fair when the
fight is on
But save it is truly won
You’ll hate the thing when the
crowds are gone
For it stands for a false deed
done.
And it’s better you should never
reach your goal
Than ever success to buy
At the price of knowing deep down
in your soul
That your glory is all a lie.”
Two years ago when the Metho
dist preachers were in North Car
olina preaching to be followed la
ter by the North Carolina preach
ers going to South Carolina; on
that Sunday I had a retired preach
er to preach for me. Mr. Massee,
my charge lay leader, was on the
rostrum with the visiting minis
ter and had charge of all the ser
vice but the preaching. The min
ister had told hbn before the ser
vice thet he did not have his
watch. “Sometimes,” he said, "I
am tempted to preach too long- If
I should do so today you raise your
hand and 1 shall know it is time
to quit.”
He had taken the text we have
tonight and had preached for
about 15 minutes and had gotten
Zaoceaus up the tree. He turned
toward Mr. Masses as he brought
out a point and said: “Isn’t that
r ight?” Mr. Massee nodded his
head and raised his hand in agree
ment. The minister took this as a
sign he had preached long enough
and soon closed his sermon. He
said to some of the folks after
words: “I thought Mr. Massee
meant I had preached my time. I
only got Zacchaeus up the tree.
Please let me come back some time
and get him down.”
Our young people sometimes
play a game we call “Who Sir?
Me Sir?” The game is begun by a
circle of young people seated and
numbered. One who is “It” is in
the center and begins by saying:
“The Prince of Paris lost his hat
and number-m found it!” He will
then add: Number foot to
foot.” Before he has said that if
it were for instance number 2;
then number 2 would say: “No
sir. Not I sir.” He would not have
to go foot but “It” would then
•ay: “If not you sir, Who sir.
Number 2 would answer some
number and the game would con
tinue. The object is to try to get
to the first chair.
Now can we not see Zaccaeus
up a tree because he was a little
man. There might be other rea
sons. Besides being short of sta
tue another reason was the Jews
hated the Publicans. Thus, in the
jostling of the crowd, he could
easily have been injured.
Jesus knew where he was and
came to that tree and said Zac
chaeus, Make haste and come
down for today I must abide at
thy house.” I tan think of Zac
chaeus as looking around to see
if there were some one else with
the same name. I can hear him
say: “No sir, Not I sir." I am a
despised man. Surely, not I sir.
,But he came down and received
him gladly into his house. Some
thing happened to a Publican that
day. And, young people, some
thing happens to all of us when
Jesus comes into our house. This
was not the only Piiblican that
Jesus called. Witness? Matthew or
Levi as he is sometimes called.
Jesus came by and said: “Follow
Me.” And he arose and followed
Him.
(Let us notice another* who it
seems was surprised at his call.
He was bom of slaves. His moth
er thought he was s goodly child.
Your mother looked on you once
and, believe it or not, she thought
you were a goodly child- This
baby was hidden in the bullrush-
es, found by Fharoah’s daughter;
raised as her own sop and might
have some day become a Pharoah
for adopted sons could do so. But
he killed a man and had to flee.
He dwelt in a foreign land. When
tending sheep he noticed a bush
that burned and yet was not con
sumed. He turned aside to see. He
was of an enquiring mind. What if
he had not turned aside to see? He
was here called to go to Pharoah
end teU him to “let my people
go.” Can you not hear Moses say:
“Who sir. Me sir.” And God ans
wering “Yes sir. You sir.” “I can’t
talk.” God said: “Who made man’s
mouth?—Have not I the Lord?”
But Aaron was to be Moses’
spokesman. Possibly if Moses had
not objected so vigorously the
priesthood may have descended
through him. But it descended
through Aaron. They went and
were used in marvelous way by
God. Whenever God calls anyone
He provides the way.
Some of you may be saying as
Moses: “I am not eloquent” Some
talk too much. You remember the
story of the boy and girl in the
‘iHug Me Tight” buggy. Only two
people could get into one. There
was not apace between or beyond
you. There was no blank space on
the right of the couple as so often
we see today in our automobiles.
I saw a picture of one of the bug
gies this past week. One of our
business men had it. Well this
stammering boy and his girl were
riding in one. Looking at her he
•aid: "Ma-a-a-ma-Mary. Will,
will, will, will you mar-mar-mar
ry me?” She answered: “Yes,
John.” They rode in silence for
some time. Only the sound of the
horses hooves and the wheels in
the sand were to be heard. Mary
turned to John and said: “John
why don’t you say something?”
“Done-done-done said too much
now.” Another is surprised at his
call. He said “I am a man of un
clean lips and I swell among a
people of unclean lips. Can you not
see Isaiah looking around and say
ing: ‘Not I sir.” But God said
“Yes sir. You sir.” A live coal was
taken off the altar and placed on
Isaiah's lips and he was told: “Lo
this hath touched thy lips; and
thine iniquity is taken away and
thy sin purged.” Then he heard
the call: “Whom shall I send and
who will go for us.” Then Isaiah
answered: “Here am I. Send, me.”
Let us look ind America. We
see a boy sudying by a fire. We
see him as he failed in business.
We see him after his sweetheart
died nearly loosing his mind. We
see him as he was defeated for the
United States Senate. Surely God
does not want him. But God called
him and he became President of
the United States. "Yes sir,” said
God to Abraham Lincoln.
Here next is a farmer in a poor
country. To increase his income he
seenjs also to be dresser of syca
more trees. When the call comes
can you not see and hear Amos.
‘1 am not a prophet nor the son
of a prophet.” Yet God said “Yes,
sir. You sir” to Amos and what
a prophet for the common man he
became.
Here come forty business men.
They seem to have a partnership
with the father of two of them al
so with them. They not only work
themselves but they have hired
servants. Can you not hear them
saying: “He will not call us. There
are too many people looking to
us.” But when Jesus said “Yes,
sir. You, sir” to these: James and
John and Andrew and Peter we
see them leaving their business
with their father and the hired
servants and going with Jesus.
And business men lire hearing
God’s call today and working for
Him.
Does God ever call a sinner.
Not for him to stay in his sin. But
God does call some away from
their sin. A young man in Carth
age; a debauched libertine we
find God calling. His mother
continued to pray for him. One
day God spoke to him. He said
“No, sir. Not 1 sir.” Yet God call
ed from his sin this wicked man
and he became Augustine one of
the greatest theologians the world
has ever known.
We see another young man,
trained of intellect but primarily
a scholar. You look to him as a
college president. Surely I am not
to leave these questered halls.
Surely I am not to enter politics.
“Yes, sir. You sir.” And Woodrow
Wilson became president of the
United States.
Let us next look at a young
man who has come into the south
to teach. He is aim oat an atheist.
Surely God cannot use an atheist.
This young man was asked by the
trustees to begin his school with
prayer. He had to be honest with
himself. He thought the whole
thing through. “Yes, sir. -You,
sir.” Said God to Horace Bushnell.
He' became one of the greatest
men of the past century.
Baseball in the early days of
the leagues was a h^rd game. We
are told that only the catcher had
any glove and often he did not
have. It made hard men. Some
times they became hard of soul.
A group of baseball players were
on the street in s large city.
While there a group of mission
workers came and sang, played
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their instruments, testified and
then asked this young man if he
would not go down to the mission.
Can you not hear Billy saying:
“No, sir. Not I, sir.” Yes, sir. You,
sir.” Down at the mission he was
converted and became the greatest
evangelist of the early 20th cen
tury. Billy Sunday.
Yes, sir. You, sir.
Whatever line of work God
calls you to do, do it with all your
might if you would be happy. Re
member the lines that go some
thing like this:
‘“One day de Lord had a Job
fer me.
But I hab so much to do
I said: Lord, you grt somebody
else
Or wait till 1 gets through
“I don’t know how de Lord came
out
But He seemed to git along
But way down in my accusin’
heart
I knowed I’d done God wrong.
“One day I need de Lord
Needed him right away
But he seemed to be away.
‘iDown in my accusin’ heart I
heard de Good Lord say
Child I’s got so much to do
You git somebody'else
Or wait till I gits through.
‘Wow when de Lord, He hab a
job fer me
I nebber tries to shirk
I goes and does de Good Lord’s
work
Cause, nobody can do the work
God’s marked out for you.
O my friends, find the work God
has planned for you and follow
that plan. Again I say to you that
He will help you when you follow
God’s plan for your life.
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W. C. Young and Karl E.
Graetz, Plant Materials Specia
list, and W. A. Mason, Jr., Man
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servation* Service, visited the
Laurens Work Unit on Thursday
of last week to observe agrono
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new grasses on different soil |
types in the Laurens District.
Some of the crops observed
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Bahia grass, Paraguay 22 Bahia
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