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''What The Church is For"
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(A sermon by A. Douglas McArn at Hctheadn Presbyterian church,
Camden, S* C., February 23, 1934. Published by courtesy of a member of
tho congregation.)
"That wo may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus." Col. 1:28.
"VVo train everyone and wo teach everyone in order to set everyone
before Clod mature m Christ.*' Col. 1:28 (MolTatt).
At the beginning of this month 1 asked epeh of you to retledicttio
youVseJvea to this church and to all that it represents. And 1 am sure
sortie Vf you did that in earnest. Just a few minutes ago a young man
and three children, having confessed their faith in Christ, declared in
your presence theiradesire to unite with this church.
To be -a member of or to join any organization and not know definitely
r. what that organization hopes to accomplish or what it demands of a
i person can mean only one thing. It means that the people in that organization
will have no one great qojppolling motive in common to push them
fplward, that they will have no one definite goal to roach which their
{jlppklffb and efforts arc combine:!, it means that they will present no
iinited,.front, no concerted activity. It means they will have before them
ifo one great task, tb achieve which they all pull together, work together
and sacrifice together. For this church or for any church to prosper, for
it tp fulfill its responsibility to God, for it to be a blessing to tho people
of this community it is necessary that those of us who are members of it
and those of us who join it know definitely what the church is for, what
it proposes to accomplish in our midst.
?Ono answer so often given is that this is what the church is for in
a community. To Teach Men About God. To gather men, women and children
on the Sabbath day and from His word teach them what God is, where
God is and what God is likov. To teach men what God's laws are, what his
commandments are, what his promises are. To teach all men what God
requires of every man, what he wishes us to become, what he wants us to
do witty our lives. Ami how terrible is the failure of any, church''That does
not do its best to teach men all that can be known about God our maker
and Defender.
Another answer often given is this, To Save All Men From Sin and
Death and -Hell and to- Prepare them for Life Everlasting in Heaven.
The church has not neglected this duty. .It has gone forth boldly in*o
the dens and dives ami haunts of sin in this world in all ages. It i t s
pleaded with the wicked to to forsake their ways and with the unrighteous
to forsake their evil thoughts and deeds. The. church has pleaded with
men in the name of the Lamb of God to repent of their sins, to be saved
from the power of sin and to accept God's gift of life everlasting. The
church has poured out its very life's -blood' in the effort to save men from
unrighteousness, to prepare them for death, to prepare them for certain
entrance into the Fahtor's house of many mansions in heaven when death
ends their sojourn in this world.
Still another answer often given is this, To Help the Poor, the Sick and
the Needy. And it is. '?By this shall all men know that ye are my
disciples if ye have love one for another." Ami again, "If a man lov? not
his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not
seen?" And again-, "But he that hath of this world's goods, and seeth thai
his brother hath need, and shutteth up *his bowels of compassion from him,
how dwel'leth the love of God j# that man?" Shame on this church or
on any church if it does nothing to provide homes for the orphans, food
for tho hungry, clothing for the naked, shelter for the homeless, healing
for the sick or relief for thea destitute. That we "bear one another's
burdens" is one of the duties, in which we must not fail as, a church, for
in the last days when many shall fall down and call him Lord, Lord, then
will he say unto many of them, "Depart from me, 1 know you not, for
inasmuch as ye did it not unto one of the least of these my. brothren ye
did it not unto me."
Another answer often given is this, To Raise Money For the Evangelization/
of the Heathen of the World. To bring knowledge of the living God
and of the Saviour to millions and millions of heathen, who have no
better idea of God than is reflected in their veneration of a cow, an insect
or a toad, who have no better idea of a saviour than a blpoming idol
made of mud. Oh, to send doctors and nurses carrying with them the
benefits of modern medicine and surgery to million? upon millions of
heathen whose only hope of healing and health, whose only hope of
escape from disease, sicknes?, filth and death is placed in superstition,
in magic and in witchcraft. To provide schools, churches and hospitals
for milliofis of folk, who have never heard of such and know nothing of
their benefits. To raise funds from its members for carrying the gospel
of 'Christ and all its benefits to the multitudes of lost souls in heathen
lands is surely one great thing the church is for. And our own southern
Presbyterian church has pledged itself to take all these benefits to thirtysix
million such people groping in the darkness of ignorance, disease, sin
and fear.
To marry the young, to -bury the dead, to comfort the bereaved, the
church is in our community for that. But there is a greater something
than any of these for which a church should stapd in any community.
Among the many' churches which St. Paul organized was the one
at Colossae, near Bphesus, in Asia Minor. ..'Soon after organizing this
church iSt. Paul went on to other places andpleft this church in the care
of- n small group of Colossian Christians. But those few Christians
did not know exactly what their chuVch was for in their 'little city. Of
course they knew they were supposed to help the poor, to warn the sinners,
to comfort the sorrowing and tne like. But they did not know what the
one great embracing purpose was for their church in their community.
And so they wrote St. Paul a letter, asking him that very question.
And from a prison in Rome Paul wrote a letter to his Colossian friends
and thirds the answer we find in the lettdr, the first chapter tho 28th
verse: "W? train everyone and we teach everyone that we may present
every man perfect in Christ JesuS."
If you belong to the American Legion you are a member of an
organization which is seeking to present every wounded, disabled, American
soldier before our President and before our congress in their need and
disability. That is what the Legion is for, to present every wounded
soldier before our congees? for the help he and his dependents deserve.
If you 'belong to the faculty of the city schools you are a member of
an organization which is seeking to. present every cnild in this city before
th? doors of life's responsibilties with the capacity to lead, to write, to
figure and to reason lully developed. But in belonging to the church we
are members of an organization, whose supreme and a-li embracing purpose
is "to teach everyone and to train everyone in order to set every man
before God perfect in Christ."
That word "perfect" is another of those words so often misunderstood.
If perfect means without one single blemish, fault or defect, then it is
impossible that there should ever a person who is perfect in Christ.
But the true meaning of "perfect" is rather this: finished, complete, fully
developed, full grown, mature. It isn't possible that any man be flawless
in Christ. It is possible that any man be complete, fully developed or
mature in Christ.
Having sparched the New Testament through, I have concluded that |
St. Paul has given us the most comprehensive conception of the purpose |
of a church in any community. To train everyone and to teach everyone,
in order to set every man, woman and child in their daily lives, here,
today, before God, perfect, fully developed, mature in Christ. To set |
every person within our congregation before God, mature in Christ, in j
their everyday lives. These boys and girls. These young men and young i
women. These fathers and mothers. These teachers of your children in j
the city schools. These people who provide us with the movies and j
other entertainment and recreation. These men who run our banks, who j
interpret our laws and administer our courts. Theso mqn in places of I
public trust and authority. To present every person in our congregation
and in our community before God, today, in his daily life,- mature in j
Christ's own spirit and character. To set every person young and old j
before God, mature in Christ's own purity, mature in his unselfishness !
of spirit, mature in his devotion to truth, honesty and goodness. Mature !
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of which you are a member. That through the ministry of this church
and your devotion to it all of you and all of your children may be set before
God each day thnt you live mature in the spirit and character and devotion
of our Lord Je-sus.
Would you like to see this church prosper in this its supreme task .
Then there are two things that each of us must do. The first is, We
Must Refrain Fjrom Anything That Puts a Stumbling Block in the Way
of Any Man, Woman or Child Becoming Mature in Chrict. In Philadelphia
it was recently discovered ^that candy Vendors have been selling school
children 'chocolates that were loaded with liquor. Under chemical anav.sis
it was revealed that twelve pieces of those chocolates contained enough
alcohol to make a good stiff drink for auy nian. Now that is being a
stumbling block to children whom the church is seeking in their daily
liver to set before God mature in Christ.
And in almost any community-, if one were to seek out those men
and women responsible for the stumbling blocks to decency, to sobriety,
to godliness ana to the development of Christian character, one would be
hurt to realize that these stumbling blocks are ir? many cases permitted |
to exist and permitted to hinder the whole purpose of the church by men
and women who are themselves church members. Oh, my friend*, if we I
would see the church prosper in its supreme task of setting every person
within ouf group before God, mature in Christ, in our daily lives, then we
must begin just here. We must search our hearts and our lives and our
businesses and our jobs to ace that we are not stumbling blocks, to see
that we are not either by the way we are living or by the way we are ]
making a living canceling the efforts of the very church to which we belong. |
And then if we would see the church prosper in thia its supreme task,
here is the second thing we must do. We must Get in Line with the
Whole Program of thia church, we mamt truly dedicate ourselves to the
service of thi? thurch and thua present a strong, united devotion to all
thpse Christian activities, by which many men nave been and by which
all men can be set before God mature in Christ. Under the influence of j
the sun and rain we have seen buds open into beautiful flowers, and we
have seen the florist take these flowers and set them before the sick
and before loved ones, perfect in their loveliness and charm. Under the
influence of the same suni and rain we have seen green fruit of all kinds
ripen, mellow and mature. And we have seen the gardener take these
fruits and set tfcem before the customer, perfect in flavor and in Bbdy.
But under the influence of habitual divine worship, under the influence
of constant daily prayer, under the influence of God's word read and
pondered over each day of our lives, under the influence of giving liberally
and regularly of our material substance to the ongoing of God's kingdom
of righteousness, under the influence of definite tasks performed for the
glory of God at the cost of much self sacrifice, under the influence of an
earnest effort to sei;ve our creator, to help our fellow men and to walk
in the footsteps of our Master we have seen the greatest transformation
at all in this life. Under these holy influences presented us by the
church we have seen the lives of men, women and little children and
sinners too, open up, expand and mature in Christian character and
goodness. Wherever and whenever there has been real dedication and
steadfast devotion to all. the spiritual exercises and discipline of the
church, we have seen the church^set such ftien in their daily lives before
God, mature in the spirit of Christ, in the character of Christ and in all
that Christ was. r
Nothing in the Whole range of our interests should be thought more
important than the task of setting all men before God mature in Christ.
And just this the church is able to do for all folk, when they get utterly
in line with its program, when they truly dedicate themselves to Its.
service, when they earnestly participate in all its spiritual activities and
discipline.
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News of Interest
From Mt. Pisgah
Kei'siuiw, S. sinivh 2*1.?Tha
farmers of Mt, Pisgah community
have been attending the weekly even
inyr class meetings in vocational ag'
ricultnre. The meetings were held at
Savannah grammar school on Tuesday
nights and at Buffalo grammar
i school on Wednesday nights. Tito
i following topics have been discussed
by the farmers and the agricultural
teacher: "The making and saving of
farm manures," "What the Federal
Land Bank and the Production Credit
j Corporation offers the farmers,"
j "The 103-1-PJ35 cotton reduction J
[ plan," "The establishment of a permanent
pasture," "Culling Poultry,"
"Pruning the homo orchard," and
"Fertilizer mixtures."
Six farmers purchased carpet grass
seed for thei,r permanent pastures
ami two purchased lespedeza.
The high school boys studying vocational
agriculture, better known as
The Future Farmers of America,
have been busy for some time preparing
themselves for the district judging
contest to be held at Heath !
Springs early in April. Three boys
will be selected from the class to rep-'
resent the school. The following will
he judged at the district contest:
Seed corn, seed potatoes, seed sweet
potatoes, peach trees, seed oats,!
mules, dairy cows and hogs. The .in-'
formation learned during the contest
will be of value to the bdys in later
life when they have to select good
seed, a dairy cow or mule for their
farm.
The annual Junior-Senior reception
will he held on Friday night, March |
! 30, at the high school building. The
Juniors have an interesting program 1
planned Tor the occasion.
Preparations are being held in the ;
high and gramnuir.-sehool for the'
county field day to be held at Camdeiv
on April 6.
Honor Roll
Grade 1.?Harold Byrd, Louise
Boone, Ralph Catoe, Lola Mae Moseley,
Orie Moseley, Munroe Sullivan,
Clarence Dorman.
Grade Paulino Byrd, Albertinc!
Or toe, Lee Onto, Wade O. llolley, ?1 1
Hoylo Lee, Oletta Raley, Roy Sowell,
Jr., Polly Sowell, " Mindal Sullivan, i
Earlo Bradley, C, F. Faile, Louise i
Roberts.
Grade JL-?Bob Lee Horton, Yir-1
ginia Ixe, Harry Haley, Lueile Deese.Grade
4. ?Junior Brown, Etta I
Faile, Reruieo Roberts, Ben'nie Joyce j
Threatt. \?llie Deese, Ruby Loo Ca-{
toe, I.illie Mae Gardner, Ray llolley,
Lucille Mungo, Margie Raley, Audree i
Alice Redic.
Grade 5.?John W. Mangum, Nannie
Ix>e Baker, Catherine Boone, Edward
Bradley, Dorothy Byrd, Benito
Johnson, Hattie Scott, Emma Dine
Sullivan, Jacquilin Welsh, Meta Mun- j
SO.
Grade 0.?Vallerie Brown, John >
Dormai, Charlie Munn, Margaret
Raley, Dewitt Robinson, Agnes Robrts,
Alone Sowell, Gary Sowell, Garness
Sullivan, Marie Threatt, Thelma
Seegars, Ethel Raley, Coley Carnes,
Miles Clark Byrd, Lulu Grace Byrd.
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Grade Myrtis , Catoe, Clyburn >
Catoe, Myrtle Gardner, Clary Holley,
Margaret lb-own, (.lotin Roberts, Elihu
Rediok.
Grade S,*-.?Robert Fletcher,- Cleo
Elliott, Mat tie Mungo, Virginia Richardson,
Eva Hasty, Jessie Gandy,
Fred Horton.
Grade 9.? Virginia Catoe., Sara Lee
Holley, Pote Mnngum, Robert llolley,
( leo EubanksVuy...>, ,
Grade ID.- James Holley, Kermit
Taylor, Masj,o Gandy, Hazel O'Neal,
Gertrude Catoe.
Gra<U? 11.?Ituth ltaley, Ethel Faile.
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Chief Two-Guns,White-Calf, Black!
foot Indian, known to many visitors
j at Glacier Park, Mont., is dead- It ts
his likeness that appears on the Buffalo
nickel.
_ TAX NOTICE
The Legislative action on tax extension
has l^c<)n finally agreed upon
apd prov ides -khat only. tw<^ (2 % ) per
cent /ijerfalfy bhnll be added do 1933
taxes up to April first, and from April
first to May first a total penalty of
three (3%) per cent. Thereafter,'
the books ore . Closed with full penalty
added ast provided by law. Whdn
inquiring aboU^ Aixes please state
school district iifcwhich you live or
own property. V. ^
Yours respectfully,
S. W. HOGUE,
Treasurer Kershaw County.
SPECIAL TAX NOTICE
An Act was passed at last session
of Legislature allowing taxpayers in
this county ten (10) years to pay
their 1932 and back taxes in installments
of one-tenth each year provided
they pay current year's taxes
each year before^ books close. This
applies to real estate and personal
property only when listed with real
estate. Personal property taxes are
in hands of Sheriff for collection as
heretofore.
Yours respectfully,
S. W. HOGUE,
Treasurer Kershaw County
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Due April 1 j
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Notice is hereby given that
all 1934 paving assessments |
and interest will be due and j
payable April 1, 1934. Please ?
attend to this at once and save i
added cost. ~
J. C. BOYK1N,
City Clerk and Treasurer. |
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