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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.
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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.?
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