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THE WATEKKE MKSSKN<<EI<, 'ublished Every Tuenday by ' I'll AS. W. BIRCHMORE, Prop. Subscription $1.50 A Year in Advance Entered as Second Class Matter at th?; Post off ice at Camden. S. C. Tuesday, May 8. 11*28 SOl'TH CAROLINA WEEKLY IN I DL'STRI A L REVIEW I Local Self Government Is One O1' Our Most Precious Possessions; It 1 The Greatest Contributing Factor T The Stability, Strength. Liberty An ' , , : >>!??.? ()f \ Nation. H::l Ireland ? 6- mile stretch of Coast Ml Highway from Great Swamp bridp. to this place will be paved soon. I oncastiT ? $.10,000 bond issue vol fd for additional street paving it H <it.v. Spartanburg Contract awn He <or construction of first unit of Yarn Corporation of America's toxtil plant here. .-f^.ter ? Lank clearings here t'o month of March were $ 1 .208, 77" compared to $1,000,851 for Februar> Sumter 9th carload of hops since Jaunary 1st shipped from here to Richmond recently. Walterboro ? Hardsurfacing of Coastal Highway throuph Colleton County progressing rapidly. Southeastern Power & Lipht Com pany purchases Edisto Public Service Company, of New York city. Beaufort? Western Union Tele graph Co. will occupy new quarters in Junker buildinp by May 1. Georgetown ? Prospects bripht for strawberry industry in Georgetown County this season. Andrews - ? Georgetown County Poultry Association held meeting here recently. Georgetown ? Ferryboat '<Corn wallis" apnin in service after thor ouph overhaulinp. Denmark? Plans makinp for estab lishing of mail airport here. 24 Cherokee County farmers hav? already entered South Carolina State R-Acre Cotton Contest. Florence? New Colonial Theater here opened recently. Sumter Burned Banner warehouse will be rebuilt. 20 cars of fertilizer purchased for J. A. W. Moore plantation in Marl boro County. Central ? Remodeling of front of Evans Cafe completed. Union? New bridpe across Broad River at Fish Dam Ferry nearinp completion. Orangeburg- -Construction of new county courthouse here nears com pletion. Columbia ? Bids opened recently for road and bridp? construcstion projects in 10 counties of stnte. Lexinpton? Road leading from Lexington to dam site on Saludn River is in excellent condition. Construction of Chesnee-Gaffne* hiphway makinp fine progress. Denmark ? Shipping season for as paragus and radishes now at its peak Newberry County will build 8-mile highway on route of old Columbia read. Hartsville - 7.500.000-canrflepower electric air beacon installed. Spartanburg ? $100,000 Masoni. Temple completed. Charlotte ? Duko Power Co. plan* $10,000,000 power plant on Catawba River, South Carolina cotton mills; ho| i first place in American production. Would Cost Lots of Money to Form New County. Asking the attitude of Chester county citizens relative to the forma tion of the proposed new county of Catawba, to be made up of portion.* of Chester, Kershaw, Fairfield and Lancaster counties with Great Falls a* the county seat, Hon. David Ham ilton, one of the lending attorneys and politicians of Chester, who is in York vi lie t.hi3 week as a special judge oxer the court of general sessions, ,e plied: "Why, to be frank about it. our people do not think there is any probability of a new county being ' vanned and from what I ean gather the great majority of the people of Great Falls are content to remain where they are jn Chester. "Chester now has a bonded indeht (< edness of more than a million dollars . for roads, new court house, county s . home ami other purposes and should people living in th? Great Falls area decide to leave, why they would still VC to pay in Chester county their proportionate part of this indebted fe ne88, rU know- Am(I conditions fi nancial, hke those in York, are not ? SO prosperous in Chester county right L , now and the outlook Is not ?<> bright. mtu r,srht h*' No- 1 (,on,t think ?|<.thero is much to this talk 0f a new VSf,nty of ('at.awha with Great Falls Roat nn(l th,,r" if,n>t much about it. Yorkville Enquirer. t Advertise with us. KSSSStc*'' ? V THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON May 13, 1928. Jeaus Enters Jerusalem TEXT: Mark 11:1-18. In this chapter we find the ao ' count of how our Lord planned the lowliest of1 all memorable parades ? a procession which has been com memorated the world around. It was :he fulfilment of an ancient prophecy: ? Thy King cometh unto thee; He is just and HAVING SALVATION" (Zach. 0:9). As you look upon this parade, you will see no swords gleaming around he Hero of the occasion, and no fore es with intent to overturn the exist ing ,;ovi rnment. Those who would rt> low this King, must forget their *':u\hly ambitions, and awake to the truth He taught, that the Kingdom He was then preparing was a spiritual < i'c. and its treasures are in heaven I for all who will believe upon Him. As tin y came sigh to Jerusalem, Je>ti< "sent forth two of His disciples, : n l saith unto them, Go your way into the village over yonder against | \ <m and as soon as ye be entered into I ; . vc shall find a colt tied, whereon ] j n ver man sat"; loose him and hriiv* j I ! :ni." Tertullian records the fact I ."t the Gentiles ridiculed Christians j because they believed in a Christ who i redo an as:;, the beast of burden. : is indeed an indication that Tie had no j^ingly pretentions at that time. While it is rccurded in the Old Tes tament that royal personages rode upon asses, it will be noticed ihat it was only when coming peaceably The i horse was the beast of war. Hiding a mule, therefore, suggests no special ' aggressiveness. The very style in i which .Tesus made Lis entrance to [ Jerusalem should haw proved lo cv- i ery reflective spectator that He had n?. intention, at that time, of acting the part of an earthly monarch. With Him was but .i small company of un anned peasants. j If any mar. objected to the borrow- I ing of the colt, the disciples were di rected to say: "The Lord hath ne< d of him" (v. :?). Here is Jesus taking the title of Jehovah and saying that He is in need. It is the only time the Lord is said to have been in need of any creature. It is rather humb ling to us that it is said of a creature ?mimonly despised. On the other hand, the incident ex jits the dignity of creature instru mentality, for there are those who think themselves too insignificant to i h -? of any use. An ass bore the Sav iour to Jerusalem, but a man took up his cross and carried it for Him to Calvary. We read in the Old Testament that the Lord spake through Balaam's ass. Could He not speak through you? PerhapR this very moment He lias something for you to do that no one else could per form (1 Cor. 1:20-28). The disciples found the colt as He had said. Their right to take it was challenged, and they gave the reply they had been instructed to give. The opposition ceased. When we use the word of Jesus upon men, we are using the "Sword of the Spirit." They brought the colt and cast their gar ments on him" (v. 7). Mark alone adds the detail that "many spread ? heir garments in the way" and that "others cut down branches off the trees and strewed them in the way" (v. K). John's account informs us that spine coming from Jerusalem met him bearing palm branches (Jn. 12:13.) The people who went before Jesus and those who followed, acclaimed Him in almost the words of phophecy written nearly .">00 years before: "Ho ? annn; Blessed is He that cometh ir. the name of the Lord : Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that cometh in the name of the Lord." They had, however, misunderstood /eehariah's prophecy, for it had been distinctly stated that when their king came unto them riding upon an ass. He was coming in lowliness and hav ing salvation (Zech. 0:0). Isaiah al so had said : "Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, His reward is with Him in His work before Him" (Isa. IV? *11) In spite of the nature of this dem onstration, let it be noted that Jesus dropped no hint of any purpose to s.ni.ioodXq snoitftpri .up |[i? t|p,s\ 'pj.io.w set up the throne of David; n 1 1 His c aching suggests a kingdom of a dif ferent nature. To the very last, the populace, and ev< n His disciples, boil ed that it should be He who would re - lease them from the Roman yoke (Acts 1:0-7). Having enter* d Jerusalem and viewed the temple, at eventide Jesus "went- out into Bethany with the twelve" (v. II). Ke.turning from Bethany the next day, ''He was hunt/ ry, and seeing a fig I rep afiir off hav ing h aves, he came, if haply he might find anything thereon." He found nothing but leaves, "for the time of figs was not yet" (v. 13). So full and green was this tree that it could be s< en a? great distance. The very sight of such a luxuriant tree would whet one's appetite for fruit, for it is the nature of this fig j to produce fruit before foliage. If leaves were there, fruit certainly must be ..here. The p culiar thing about it, how ever, was that it wasn't even time for fij,,. It was a freak tree, yet the ! that it hud leaves would in die:. t that f:gs should be there. What a type of 1 reak Christians who make a great reiigioiM profession ''in sea son and cu. of y?>*. b..;.- n .? I real fruit! What the fruitles- trve was to Je sus, Judaism had become to the people i? their sou! huii^er. They went to the prie: t?e with th burden of their sins and .< orrows, only to get ieav.'s. Kven Fundamentalism may becoi ie barren of fruit. That whi.h doc3 not fulfil ho divine purpos is doom ed to wither away. Let us take warning. Dr. K. M. Poteat, in a N'orthf 1 address, 'ecently said: ?'I t Lord on His way to the capital citv of the kingdom of God, and 1 se? Him passing nation after nation. He is approaehinig now a fig tree, beautiful in proportion, luxuriant and strong. That is cur nntion. and our nation mu.it feed tho h -hn"^' r "f fir ris-n Lord, or stand withered in the toad of p> ogress- to the eternal city." Jesus ?Ci id unto the tree: "No man shall eat ?"ruit of thee hereafti r for ever" (v. 1 I ? . What i <\: -, ? s. men have made about our Lord curs ing an innocent fig tie rr; 1> . fsuitK-.-., when it wasn't lim? ' r fruit! Remember that His many miracles of mercy were al! oert'oi .... id upon men. His one miracle of judgment was upon a worthless iive. He simply condemned this tree to be it. appearance vt it it actuallv was I. "net- 1'SKl.KS.rv What a lesson it Iia.1* been to men! The curse vva> not .mi much f o :? r.->. ing no fruit, as for professing to have what it did not have. That is dan gerous business. The Jews who made such hud professions of reli gion, w< re only blown up with spirit ual pride, while they were barren. The gentiles who had no reilgion, am didn't pretend to have, w, i\ ;t. no greater need. What Jesus did with that usecless tree, He will do with t\cry hypocrite, for usefulness is the grand end of all created existences. \ erses 15-18 record the last cleans ing of the temple. Jesus "began to cast them out that bought and sold ir. the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and II,. seats of them that sold doves" (v. !'?>. Booths were erected in the convenience of those wishing to sac rifice. Foul abuses had grown out of these practices. The temple was filhd with the noise of huckstering and competition. If Jesus ever came near being "hot," it was on this occasion. He would not' so much as suffer them to carry their wares through the temple (v. 16), to say nothing of hiwing and selling there. He looked upon God's house as "the house of prayer." That means that all busi ness must be marked off from wor ship with a very definite line. What would He do with churches today where even prayer meetings have given way to lectures, movies, socials, suppers and bazaars? Some church officials become very indignant at the suggestion that bus iness should not be done in God's house. The scribes and chief priests felt likewise "and sought how they might destroy Him" (v. 18). The people were getting their eyes open. This would never do. "Destroy Christ!" How astounding these words sound to us as we sur vey the world after 2,000 years! He is indestructible! The bandinig to gether of all the atheists of the overturn the existing government and and followers of false religions, could not stay His march across the cen turies. Total of 120 Now Some one has kept tab on the exact number of persons, who have crossed the Atlantic "by air" and states that the total has now reached 120 men. Disputed at first, a check up reveals this is correct. It includes, of course, ?he crews of airships as well as air planes. A summary of the record is given as follows: Alcoek and Brown, in 1010; the British dirigible 11-34, with a crew of Ml, to the United States and back the (Jerman ZIl-4, now the Los An geles, carrying 33 from Friedrich shafen to Lakewood in 1022; then ( Lindh'rgh, Chambe.-Hn and Irvine | and Byrd, Balehen, Acosta nnd No ville and Brock and Schlee; six south | Atlantic flyers'; the crew of the NC-4, | which landed in the Azores, and the I American 'roUnd the world flyers. Of the 120 no less than 24 have made the trip from land to land by airplane. Considering that, Alcoek and Brown made it first nine years ago, it seems rathtr surprising that 1 by far the 1 ulk of the transatlantic flying did not take place till tho past two or ttiree years. But the exploit will now rapidly lose the thrilling |nov<lty of the pioneer voyages and I sink into sccond place as news.? Spartanburg Herald. C. P. DuBose & Co. 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