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ATEHbfi MESSENGER, Published Every Tuesday by CHAS. W. BIRCH MORE, Prop. ?'?' ? _ Subscription $1.50 A Year in Advance Entered as Second Class Matter at the Postoffice at Camden. 3. C. Tuesday, April 24, 1928 SOUTH CAROLINA WEEKLY IN DUSTRIAL REVIEW AMERICAN Prosperity Is Ri-al ar ! So Widespread That It Permeates Every Walk Of Life. Lyman ? Pacific Mills of this place purchase approximately 500 acres on Middle Tyger River for water stor age project. Fort Mill ? Fort Mill Manufactur ing Company resumes full-time oper ations here. Conway ? Largo addition will be built to Freeman and Wooten Ware house h?re. Bamberg ? Two cars of poultry wer<. loaded in Bamberg County during re cent week. Georgetown ? Route 40 from this place to Lower Santee bridges will be surfaced. Richland ? New filling station being erected by W. Lumpkin nears com pletion. Carlot shipments of asparagus from South Carolina started about April 1st. Gaffney ? Work of rebuilding wrec ked addition of Derry Damask mill in progress. Greenville ? State teachers meeting held here recently. Greenville ? Grading of Greenville County section of Easley ? Greenville road will start at once. . Dillon ? Dillon County's first ship ment of hogs went out on recent day. Gaffney ? Pouring of concrete on Chesnee Highway begun recently. ?? Pickens ? Danziger's Department Department Store moves into build ing formerly occupied by Gantt Fur niture Company. Hardeeville ? Plans makinp for con struction of consolidated school build ing here. Georgetown ? Roads in this county reported in excellent condition. Georgetown ? Lower Santee bridge will be completed and opened to traf fic about August 1. Walhalla ? Piedmont Motor Comp any, building addition to plant here. Walhalla ? New cream plant and drug store will open here in near fu ture. Columbia ? New woman's building at South Carolina penitentiary com pleted. Kingstree ? 126 hogs shipped from , here to Richmond. Survey completed for new Walter boro-Cottageville-Summerville high way. Ridgeland ? Contract awarded at $14,214.00 for grading and surfacing 4 miles of Route 36 in Colleton coun ty. i Spartanburg ? Survey will be made of Spartanburg County school system to settle financial problem. Sumter ? Pocalla Airport opened for commercial use. Denmark ? First crate of radishes shipped from this point on recent day Denmark ? Approximately 1000 ac res will be planted to cucumbers in iliis vicinity this year. i Denmark? Effort being made by local city officials and business men to secure mail airport for this place. Denmark ? Denmark Manufacturing Company will install new electric drive outfit in their gin here. Hardeeville ? Section of Coastal Highway between this place and Sa vannah Rjver causeway opened ito traffic. Gaffney ? Sparks & McKee, Inc., of Union, will open Hudson and Essex automobile agency in this place. Sumter ? Building permits issued ( here this March totaled $29,995, com pared to $17,750 for March, 1927. Asheville ? Local physicians will sponsor big sanitarium at Hillcrest y Manor. Sumter Farmer Sells Carload Hogs Sumter, April 18.- Special: The !v eleventh carload of hogs shipped from Sumter county this year went forward yesterday and the entire, car was shipped by J. Ryan White. The load consisted of ninety-five i demonstration fed hogs, all of de< i fy sirable sites and In fine condition. The shipment was made to Rich ?: :)? tnond and was made under super-! Vision of J. M. Eleazer, county |j| agent. It is the first solid carload || ey er shipped from Sumter by one farmer, and was prA^ably the best \ lot ever shipped frotn the county. I?; Tta weights averaged about 175 i pounds, Mr. Eleazer stated. One more carload, the twelfth, will h forward next week, making thej shipment for the year of dem otion fed hogs, although Mr lleaxer states that probably at least m cooperative carlot of hogs will shipped each month, THK $l)NDAY SCHOOL LESSON I April 29, 1928. The* Cost of Discipleship TEXT: Mark ^ltfl7-27; 12:41-44 The story of the rifch young ruler is given the same connection in each of ?the Gospels. The Lore! had started on His journey to death. He had called upon His disciples for self l denial. He had shown them that to! ( enter His kingdom one must become ! as a Jittle child. This gives greater ^emphasis to his demand from the rich young man that he should relinquish ? his grasp upon riches and follow Him. ! This young man comes running to Jesus and, kneeling down, he ask ? j P'Good Master, what shall I do th::t ' 'I may inherit eternal life?" (v. 17). Let us give him credit for being sin cere and for living up to . the light j he had. However, he needed/ more" .light, for, with all his righteousness, he Avas apparently not conscious of .possessing eternal life. ''What shall I DO to INHERIT?" wae*' ever the question of the natural man. It is the very path on which the heathen are still toiling. The Saviour seeks to get at this young man's motive. "Why callest thou me good ? There is none good hut one, that is, God" (v. 18). Some (have sought to use these words as I .a proof-text against the divinity of ?Christ. They miss the point alto I gether. In no recorded instance in | Jewish literature was a rabhi address- | ed as ''good." It was an adjective reserved for God alone. This young man used the word as a- title of Christ, without apprehend- j ing the implication if he saw no more I in him than a teacher. This young j pnan needed a divine Saviour. Either j Jesus is here repudiating His own ! ' yinlessness, or else He is claiming to | ; be God. Which is it? Let the con- j text decide! Jesus next sends this proud relig- j ionist to the law (v. 19). He recites ? some of the commandments to him. | You think salvation is by DOING, j How far has your DOING progress- : ed ? Is eternal life in sight? The' young man answers: "All these have I observed" (v. 20). There was no1 doubt sincerity in his answer, yet, 1 like many another good and amiable j citizen, brought up in favorable sur- j 1 roundings, he was doceived. "All have sinned and come short, of the | glory of God" (Rom. 3:23). !, "Jesus beholding him, loved him"j (v. 21). That is an interesting side- j light. Here was a man of influence I (and means. Some would have jollied j ihim along and secured his backing.! He loved him ? therefore He dealt j plainly with him. Jesus recognized , his sincerity and his good moral qual- ! ities. He never cast a chilling look j on anything worthy in human nature, I yet He would never allow that there | was any degree of natural goodness 1 .that could merit eternal life. "One thing thou laekest." There's many a lovable man, clenn and up right ? yet with an irreparable blank in hit life. An old man was once asked if a certain relative of his had been converted. lie replied: ''No, he is not a saint yet, but he is a very sweet sinner." The words describe i many a man. ''Go thy way," said Jesus, ''self whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor" (v. 21). Jesus knows where the shoe pinches. A little surgerj was needed in this case. This young man evidently was *iot easily separ ated from his cash. The law was 1 given to teach men their true condi tion. It had failed to teach this , youth that money was his idol. Will he come, take up the cross and follow Jesus? Alas ? "he was sr.d at that saying, and went away I grieved: for ho had great possessions" j(v. 22). Tn plain words--money HAD j IT I M. Our Lord's words in v. 24 de scribe his case. He ''trusted in rich j,es." "How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom ofi God!" (v. 23). There is no merit in | I poverty and no evil in money itself. I .It all depends upon whether or not' a man's TRUST is 1n money. Even i'a poor man may be caught im the toils of the love of money, making jthe getting of it. his first thought. : "It. is easier for a camel to go through the rye of a needle' than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God" (v. 2r>). How few rich men accept Christ! The same may be j [said of the would-be rich. When I j one's chief thought is the attainment or financial success ,he hns little time j [for spiritual things. | Our Lord's statement has been ex- | (plained as a reference to the gate I | of a city called "needle's eye gate", i through which a camel could not pass, i 'I ho idea of such a gate, however, (seems to lack confirmation. It is at j least striking to note that the Greek [words for "camel" and ''rope" are | very similar, and there is a possibilit y [of n copyist's error (camel? ''kamel Rop*v -''kamilos"). ^Whetiher the figure is that of a camel or that of a rope passing through the eye of a needle, the thought is of the (humanly impossible. "They were astonished" (v. 20). .Such a remark was nough to astonish Shortcake Like Ma Made Strawberry shortcake like mother used to make has staged a return to popular favor. It's back on the dinner table again In Its old-fashioned splendor, whipped cream and all, back uftcr biscuits and cake dough have begun to pall on the whimsical American palate. And Is It a toothsome dainty, that shortcake of mother's? Try the appended recipe tn your oven and let the mouth-watering Je suit speak for Itself. Old-Faehloried Shortcake. Ingredients: Two cupfuls of Ann four teaspo\?nfuls of baking |iowd< r. one-half teaspoonl'ul <>( *:-.!t >?!?. t ? Bpoonfulsof mnrgarlueor butler, tlmv quarters of a cupful of milk, nlso two -tublespoonfuls oif sugar, If slightly sweetened dough is preferred. Sift the dry Ingredients together, cut ar rub In margarine or butter un til mealy looking, and add milk to make soft dough. Flour hoard well, toss dough onto It. sprinkle Hour over dough, and roll the mass out one-half inch thick. Cut with a large biscuit cutter for Individual shortcnkcs. while for one shortcake, divide dough into two equal parts, rolling each one Just to lit u deep cake pan. Place one on top of the other, set in ungreased bak lug pans and bake lit 4."K) Fahrenheit for about twelve minutes. When done, slit In two crosswise spread one-half generously with mar garlne or butter, then with berrie." pluclng the other half on top mu cover this with whipped creum ant' more berries. Seaboard Air Line Railway Announc es Improved Spring Schedules Further characterizing the Sea board's sincere desire to please the traveling public, better train service for the spring and summer months i* announced by its local passenger representatives. ''The Southerner" ? an overnight limited between New York, Washing ton and Florida's West Coast cities, tnrough Virginia, both Carolinas and Georgia, resumed service April 11th, and will have, until May 4th south bound and May 5th northbound, an excellent connection to and from Mi ami which will be made at Wildwood, Fla. "The Southerner," a remarkably populnr train since its establishment, is this season on an unusually good schedule, carrying modern all-^teel equipment, observation car, section, compartment and drawing room sleep ing cars^ now Seaboard steel dining cars with unrivaled dining car service and coaches between all points. Much importance is attached to the fact that it will operate through union passenger stations at Raleigh, Sav annah and Jacksonbille. "The New York-Florida Limited," similarly popular, between New York, Washington and both coasts of Flor ida through Virginia, both Carolinas and Georgia, resumes service on Ap ril 13th with through section, com partment and drawing room sleeping cars to Jacksonville, West Palm Bench, Miami, Tampa, St. Peters burg, etc., Seaboard new dining cars and coaches all points. This train will also operate through union sta tions at Raleigh, Savannah and Jack sonville. Certain changes will also be made in other main line and local trains and in local train service in Florida all of which are considered in the nature of improvemenas. NOTICE My son, Lonney Clavorn, left my home without my permission. He is a minor ami I hereby forbid any one from hiring or sheltering him, or aid' ing him in any way. Any one disre garding this notice will be deatl with according to law. BEN CLAVORN. 4t any Jew. They had always regarded temporal prosperity as a special token of divine favor. ''With men it is .impossible," replied Jesus, "but not with God" (v. 27). The impossible thing wns not so much in saving n .rich man as in making him "poor ,in spirit" so he could desire to be saved. That is a miracle of grace. In contrast with the case of this xrich youth is that of the widow who ?gave her all (12:41-44). Jesus sat I hatching the people as they cast theiir gifts into the temple treasury. He saw the rich cast In much He navr 'the poor give their pennies. But He ,was always remarkable for seeing much in little, the sublime in the j?im pie. A poor widow drops in her two mites. "This poor widow hath cast more in than nil they which have cast into the treasury," said the Master. She had given gloriously. The tink ling of her two coins has reverber at<*l through the universe. Unaware ,that any eye had seen hef, she had been made famous. To all time, the incense of her sacrifice has remained in the church, like tho perfume of Marv's alabaster box, which filled the house. 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