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^ IMPROVED*^"^ UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sunday i chool Lesson ?m *?d by Wnt.ni Now?p?p?r Union.) Lesson for February 28 lesson subject* ?nd Scripture texta *ii.. icd ?">d copyrighted by International Council of KelVglou. Education; peed by permission. ., JESUS RESTORES LAZARUS TO LIFE LESSON TEXT?John 11:32 33 , 38-44. GOLDEN TEXT?"I am the resurrection, and the llfe."-John 11:23. Suffering, sorrow and bereavement are so common in our day that this lesson is peculiarly appropriate. Life, even to the Christian, finds its full 'measure of things which hurt and grieve. Many ask: "Why must I, a follower of Christ, bear such burdens?" The answer is, that while the believer is not "of the world," he is "in the world," and here he must meet the problems of life, including the evils to which the flesh is heir because of sin. The fact that Jesus, is our Friend and our Saviour does not exempt us from human sorrow, but it does assure us of the needed grace to bear the trial and makes us ready to trust Him even in life's darkes^ hour. . Lazarus, the friend of Jesus, was sick. The home in which Jesus had I found rest and fellowship was in deep trouble. Jesus was no longer in I Judea. In ftaste, word was sent to Him of His friend's illness. But He did not come. Why does He delay? Such is the I heart-cry of thousand* .today who I call on Him in their hour^f trouble. I The purposes of God we cannot fully understand. We need only to trust Him and abide His time. Notice that His failure to respond at once to the message of Lazarus' sisters did not mean that He had deserted them (John 11:4-8). Nor did it mean that He had denied them I His help (v. 7). Above all, note that He came. He I always does. Jesus has never failed I any child of His. The time and the manner of His answer to our prayers I may not conform to our opinion of what should have been done; but I let us remember that we Know only I' in part. He knows all. Let us trust I Him. Job, in his darkest hour, said: I "Though he slay me, yet will I trust I in him" (Job 13:15). | The steps from sorrow to vietori ous joy in this story are three in number. I. Death and Tears (vv. 32-25). By the time Jesus came, Lazarus V was dead and his family and friends I could only weep as they said: "If I thou hadst been here?" Try as we may to temper Us cruel blow, the I fact remains that death is the enemy I of man. It came into the world as I the result of sin (Rom. 5:12), and I only in Christ is it "swallowed up I in victory" (I Cor/- 15:54). Until I the glorious day of Christ's returning. when the redemption of the | body will be complete (Rom. 8:23), I death will continue to bring sorrow I to the heart and tears to the eyes. I But let us not fail to notice that I as the friends of Jesus, we do not I sorrow alone. "Jesus wept" (v. 35) I with Martha and Mary. We know I that He weeps with us in our trying I hour. He is the "friend that stickI eth closer than a brother." He is I the one who gives grace to meet I the deepest sorrow, and to bear it I with grace because of His tender I fellowship. II. Faith and Hope (w. 38-40). "If thou wouldest believe, thou I shouldest see the glory of God," I said Jesus to Martha. She must look beyond the evident fact of the K deadness of her brother and see I God's glory in his resurrection. I Thus faith assures us that those who I believe in Christ have more than the comfort of His sympathising presence?they have a sure hope (read I Thess. 4:14-18). Sorrow and unbelief would becloud I our faith and thus rob i^s of our hope. Martha needed to have her I faith stimulated by the gracious I words of - the -Lord; and then I she triumphantly put her hope in I Him, the Christ of God. Once we I recognize Him as God, we have no hesitation in believing in His mirac ulous power. ^ III. Christ and Resurrection (vv. I 41-44). Majestic and authoritative are the I words of Christ, "I am the resurI rection and the life" (v. 25). He it I was who gave life, for was He not in the beginning with God"? And I is it not said of Him, that "all things I were made by him" (John 1:2, 3)? j I Paul tells us that "by him all things consist" (Col. 1:17). He is the only one who could say: "I lay down I my life ... I have power to lay I it down, and I have power to take it up again" (John 10:17, 18). So it can rightly be said that if we have Christ we have everything ? both in this world and in the world I to come. But if we do not have Christ, we have nothing; we are I without God and without hope. "He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live" (v. 25) If. the promise of Christ to us. Let us believe It. The resurrection power of Christ is at work in the world today raising the spiritually dead to newness of Iff* in Him. May we see many such a Lazarbs gaffed forth?loosed from the grava clothes of ain and aat Urea. I fl?urclj A nnouncements Lyttlcton Street Methodist Church The following Bervlces are annunced for Sunday, February 28, lu the Uyttloton Street Methodist church, by the pastor, llev. Henry Colllus: Church school at 10 a. in.; morning worship at 11:15 a. m. The pastor will deliver the sermon using as his subject: "A Sinner's Prayer." Special music will be provided by the regular church choir uuder the direction of Mrs. J. M. Gaudy, and by the Junior choir under the direction of Mrs. E. R. Partridge. Yquth Feflowship meets-at 6 p. m. The public is cordially invited to all these services. The Flrat Baptist Church The First Baptist church. Rev. J. Barnwell CaSton, pastor, and Rev. B. Wallace Edwards, associate pastor, announce the following services for Sunday, February 28: Sunday school at 10 a. m.; morning worship at 11:15, with the subject of the sermon, "Vanguard and Rearguard;" Baptist Training Union at 6:45 p. m.; evening worship at 8 with the subject, "The Conflict of the New With the Old." The associate pastor will conduct both worship services. Prayer service will be held in the former parsonage on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. The public is cordially Invited to attend *11 of our services. Grace Episcopal Church Sunday, February 28, is fhe day set by the Rt. Rev. J. J. Gravatt, D.D., for hiq/annual visitation to Grace Church Parish. The sermons will be as follows: Holy communion at 9 a. m., church school at 9:45 a. m., confirmation service and sermon by the Bishop of the Diocese at 11:15 a. m. Special music by the choir. The public is invited. Young people's meeting at 7 p. m. Week day services: Junior confirmation class Monday at 3 p. m.; Wednesday service of intercession at 6 p. m.; senioi' choir practice at 7:30 p. m.; Thursday, junior choir practice at 3 p. m.; rector's bible class on "How to Read and Enjoy the Bible," 8 p. m. DeKalb Baptist Church DeKalb Baptist church, DeKalb, 8. C., Rev. B. Wallace.. Edwards, pastor, will have the regular worship service on Sunday afternoon^ at 3:30. The pastor will conduct the service and will preach on the topic: "Ye Are Christ's." Sunday school will pre. cede the worship service at 2:45. All residents of DeKalb and others are cordially Invited to attend these services. Parents Are Happy, Outwits The Censor There is one family w*ho is smiling happily since they found where their brother la, in the armed service. The manner in which the sister outwitted the official censor is a story with a chuckle. The soldier in one of his letters toj his people told them to get a Camden Chronicle of Oct. 30 and to look at the Camden theatre advertisement therein. His sister, puzzled at the request, called at The Chronicle office and checking back in the files found that on Oct. 30, Sonia Henie was appearing in the Iceland picture. "I'm glad brother is in Iceland and not in Africa," was the only comment of the sister. Smart Alex Aviator Arouses Indignation City-wide indignation has been expressed over the dare-devil antics of some smart alex flyer who flew close over Camden chiigney ,tops Sunday. The plane, not from the Southern Aviation school' here or from Shaw field, is believed to be from the bomber base at Columbia. It is not the first time that this flyer or someone flying a plane of a similar type has stunted over Camden. A hamster is a small rodent of northern Europe. "Slut HID TOKHENS At the very first sniffle, sneeze, or any Itan of ??0d Jttrttry ? vfcka Va-tro-nol up each nostril. II used ln ttoe. Va-tro-nol'a quick action helps prevent many c?lds mnn dev?oplrjg.. ? Xnd tSui Methodist Observe Week of Dedication Methodists of Camden will Join In u country-wide observance of a Week J of Dedication, beginning nuxt Suuduy. I February 28, in which nearly 8,000,000 members of the denomination will be nuked to pledge a "new dedication of self, service and substance" in meeting the challenges and needs of a war-torn world. l'astors of the local Methodist churches are issuing a call for all members to attend services on the next two Sundays in order to make personal commitments. Culmination of next week's special services, home prayer meetings and discussion groups and of two mdnths of preparations will come on Sunday, March 7, when personal commitments will be made and a voluntary, sacrificial offering will be taken to uld in meeting war-time emergency needs of the church. The Methodist Council of Bishops and the,General Commission on World Service and Finance, in joint session last August, approved plans for the Week of Dedication, and expressed the hope that - more than a million dollars would be contributed for the various causes which demand immediate financial aid. Bishop Ernest Lynn Waldorf of Chicago, chairmau of a special committee, enumerated the emergency ne#ds to benefit from tl^J offriug as follows: spiritual srvices for men in the armed services; religious work among families In industrial defense areas; relief for war refugees; aid to chaplains in the Army, Navy and Marine corps; expansion of missionary work in Latin America; evacuating and re-establishing foreign missionaries; building churches In defense areas, and aid to Methodist schools. "To challenge present-day threats of barbarism, paganism and materialism," declared Mr. Collins, Pastor, of the Lyttleton Street Methodist church, "we must have a new spiritual power of Christian faith and Idealisju. It is our hope that this will be sought by Methodists during the Week of Dedication. "Every member of our church can Join in this vast effort?strong laymen, humble people, shut-ins, youth, little children, aged folks?all those who wish to help build a better world." A feature of the national Week of Dedication climax on Sunday, March 7, will be the holding of services in every one of the 42,000 Methodist churches in America?the first time has ever happened on one day. On circuits where the pastors are unable to conduct services in all churches, laymen will occupy the pulpits of some churches. BUNDRICK TO AIR CORPS Maxwell Field, Ala., Feb. 21.?James Sanford Bundrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Detreville, of 203 Laurens street, Camden, South Carolina, 'is now enrolled as an aviation cadet in the Army Air Forces Pre-Flight School for Pilots at Maxwell Field, located on the outskirts of Montgomery, the capital of Alabama. Here the new class of cadets is receiving nine weeks of intensive military, physical and academic training preparatory to beginning their actual flight instruction at one of the many primary flying schools in the Army Air Forces Southeast Training Center. Cadet Bundrick is a graduate of Camden High school and attended Clemson* Collep^? He was accepted as ail aviation cadet in the Army Air Forces and began his pre-flight course at Maxwell Field, Alabama, on January 31. 1943. His father served 18 months in France in the last World War and was awarded the Croli de Guerre Silver Star. I Given under my hand this,, 18th day of February, Anno Domini, 1943. N. C. ARNETT, I Judge of Probate for Kershaw county I _ . 49-60 Community Mourns Mrs. Trotter's Death All Camden mourned the untimely passing of Mrs. Paulina Snowden Trotter, whose death oocurod last Friday morning after an Illness of but a few days duration. Mrs. Trotter was a woman of outstanding character and personality ami an ideal mother in iter home. Her sudden illness followed by her death Friday was a shock to tlie entire community. Hundreds gathered at (irace church Saturday afternoon to pay a last tribute of love and respect to the deceased. The burial ritual of the Episcopal church was performed by Dr. Maurice Clarke, rectoi\ assisted by Itev. A. Douglas McAm of the Bethesda Presbyterian church. A choir representative of Grace church", the Lyttleton Street M. E. church and the Presbyterian church sang hymns beloved by Mrs. Trotter. Mrs. Trotter was born in Charleston, a daughter of the late Kobert L. and Pauline Warley Snowden of that city. She came to Camden as the bride of Kirkland Trotter 23 years ago. Mr. Trotter proceeded hor in death several years ago. I Mrs. Trotter leaves to mourn her 1 passing a son. Ensign Augustus Massenberg Trotter, USNK, a daughter, Miss Pauline. S. Trotter, two brothers, J. Warley Sflowden and Charles J. 8nowden, both of Charleston and an 'aunt, Lucy L. Snowden, Charleston. I Burial took place in the family lot , at Quaker cemetery. ! Former Resident Dies At Sumter Miss Llla Fore Davis, youngest daughter of the late James M. Davis and Mrs. Louisa DeSaussure Davis of this city, didd Sunday morning at 10 o'clock at Tuomey hospital In Sumter, after a few days illness. She is Survived by the following sisters: Mrs. J. T. Porcher, Cannello, Texas; Mrs. Huger Manigualt, Austin, Texas; Mrs. George E. Dargan, Darlington; Mrs. C. H. Duls and Miss Sallie A. Davis, Charlotte, N. C., and the following double first cousins, Mrs. F, H. Edmunds, Sumter, and Mrs. L. A. McGraw, Springfield, 111. Miss Davis went to Sumter in 1396 and has been connected with the Tuomey hospital since that time. At the time of her death she was serving in the capacity of supervisor of the operating room, a position she has held for a number of years. Miss Davis was held with the highest esteem by the doctors and nurses of her profession, and her passing i will be a great Iobs to her many asso| elates with whom she was connected i during her lifetime. She was loved 'and respected by the community and all who knew her. ] Services were held at the residence of Mrs. Louise H. Edmons, 9 West Calhoun street, Sumter, at 3:30 Monday afternoon and interment took place in the Quaker cemetery here at 5 o'clock. SPRING CLEANING... OR RE-DECORATING? Make Your Home Cheerful the Thrifty Way! WITH COLUMBIA WINDOW SHADES | * jf-' '9 ON SALE THIS WEEK! Cheerful Colors ARROW Machine Oil Long-Lasting Quality Cleanable Finish Nationally Advertised ?OUR PRICES? 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The 172 yard number 4, par 3; the 314 yard No. 8, par 4; the 374 yard No. 12, par 4; the 168 yard No. 14. par 3; and the 407 yard 16th, par 4, all went on Murray's line In par figures. Flight Instructor Watt posted a birdie 4 on the 13th hole, a 643 yard, par 6, heart breaker. He scored per figures on the 814 yard No. 8, the 412 yard No. lO fcnd the 374 yard No. 12. Flight Commander Ward sports a birdie 2 on the 172 yard No. 4. His score also shows a par on No. 1. a par on No. 4 and a birdie 2 on No. 18. Flight Commander H. A. Moore has 5 par figures on his ringer Bcore to dnte. These par marks were made on the 3rd, 4th, 11th, 12th and 11th. FMight Instructor Chichester has four pare to date, they being on the 10th, 13th, 16th and 18th holes. Flight Instructor Partridge has par figures on the 1st and 18th holes. Additional ringer scores are anticipated over the week-end. Pro Peter Casella sallied forth Friday morning for a before-breakfast warmup and proceeded to dazzle the eyes of the other members in his foursome with grabbing an eagle, a birdie and a p^r in his attack on a three-hole jaunt. Hole No. 1, 499 yards was negotiated in an eagle 3, hole fro. 2, 396 yards, was chalked up with a birdie 3. Crossing over to the 161 yard No. 18, Peter, strolled In with a par 3. when exorcised on a leash or kept otherwise under the Immediate control of the owner or keeper. Anyone permitting a dog to run on the City stroetH without leash, or other eftcctive immediate control, ahull be punished by a fine not exceeding one ($1.00) dollar. Section 2. It shall be the duty of the City police, or any peraon appointed by the Mayor therefor, as far as practical, to capture and impound ail dogs which may be found running at large within the corporate limits of the City of Camden; and on the capture and Impounding of same, it shall be the duty of the City Police to notify the owners thereof, when they are known; and when they are not known, then to post a notice on the door of the City Court House. Thp owiypr shall pay for the keep of the dog in the City pound at the rate twenty-five (25c> cents per day, and in addition the #lno stipulated in Section One above, whereupon the said dog shall he released, otherwise, within ten days after such notice the same shall he disposed of by sale or he destroyed. Section 3.v For the purposes or tlJhi ordinance a City pound shiUl ho estdV lished on the City lot for the impounding of dogs taken under tills ordinance, or under any other ordinance relating to dogs not of necessity repealed by this ordinance, the^enme to bo under the direction, supervision and control of the Chief of Police; and this pound shall he Inspected . twice monthly by the City Commissioner of Police, who shall duly report to City Council on the maintenance of said City Pound and the condition and treatment of the dogs impounded therein. e. Section 4. That all . ordinances or parts of ordinances conflicting with this ordinance he and the same are hereby revoked and this ordinance shall take effect on the 27th day of February, 1943. Ratified in Council assembled this 25th day of January, 1943. F. N. McCORKLE. Mayor City of Camden, S. C. Attest: Louise W. Boy kin. Clerk City of Camden, S. 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Aik your neighbort IITIFV 1 FW A I I K W I A / II i B m 1 i M AN ORDINANCE An Ordinance to prohibit doge running at large within the City Limits; and to provide for the disposal of dogs so ranging at large. Be It ordained by the City Council of Camden, 8. C., In due sessiori assembled the 26th day of January, 1943. Section 1. No dog shall be allowed to range at large within the City limits; and all dogs within the City limits of Camden shall be kept upon the premises of the owner except! I I ' ? "V" For Victory . . GARDENS .. Come In Today and See Our New Variety of Seed Field Seed, Corn, Beans, Beets, Peas, Onions, Lettuce and all other varieties. Maybank Fertilizers and Cottoh Seed. i - <r / Wayne Chicken and Stock Feed, Dairy j Feed, Starter Mash, Broiler Mash, Egc Mash, General Stock, Cattle and Hog Feed. Sparrow & Davis S E E D S Q Rutledge St. Camden S. C. jj v'