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Want* flowers And Mimic CHBOWICLEi CAMBEM, : - Kershaw Baptist Pastor Tells How He Wants His Funeral To Be Conducted Although disclaiming any premonition of impending death. Rev. L. W. Edwards, pastor of the First Baptist church of Kershaw, told in an article in the Baptist Cour ier last week how he wished his funeral conducted when he does pass from this sphere. His article which is a most interesting one follows: “I have no premonition of irn- ageless, comforting hymns g;— - - pending death, nor do I have morbid reasons for writing beauty and would choose leth Me Confident • that the menu- you select here sof the finest quality fiite, simple de- 'tf* 7 r -'' ' " i fi, low price. Kornegay funeral home ■ Nr SL Phone 193 have cor hundreds' meaning in my own ife; My Task as an ex- I have quietly come, casket after ve of of the ser- around of babies be- and with t all this it to feel is going er morbid Rock of Ages, Co Thee, and oth- article. But after 20 years m the cause of its ministry, during which time I ministerial life conducted and observed j pression of the * tipwndfc some de- tried to perform; and An Even- and disturbing to my mg Prayer as the expression of and some beau-!my own plea to God. But there in their expression of true are many good hymns suitable for th, I simply want to use, which will comfort, such as pm on ray observations and Abide With Me, ~ views in a statement of what I Nearer My God T want my service to be. Not that ers. the service said over my dead! “Please, no eulogy! If body will do me either good or is to be said, let it be includ harm, but my family will be pres- in the prayer, not in a harrow- ent, and others wUl be affected ing, tear-jerking recountal of my by the manner in which it is con- virtues. My life has been lived be- ducted. j fore men, and has spoken for it- , “In the first my service less it is necessary. is u«en me j 0 nnt i- 1 r , rr . rV , __ case that funerals are held at such nn n vft, n a time as to conflict with the ftmeral ser worship service for many of our | H have th«r services on Sunday aft ernoon. Why should a service for the dead be of more importance Ulan the worship service of the living, with its possibility of sav ing souls? And why should my service be held on Sunday in or der that a larger crowd, who do not think enough of me to come on a week-day, might attend? And why should my service dis tract the mind and energies of the minister who has the heavy task of preaching on that day to lost souls? 'Again, I want only one min ister to conduct my service, un less some imperative reason should make two necessary. And that one minister is to be my pas tor, should I be retired and a member of a church at that time. How often have I tried to fit three, or four ministers into a service,! and tried in spite of it to kee^ main closed. If it be necessary to idace my body on view, let it lie in state before the funeral service whore friends but do not the service the beauty and vice is tha the congregation, ing lifted up to the family sitting confusion. I do not that this body of to be an object of curiosity or “Make the service at the ceme tery brief. Please omit the old committal ‘earth to aath,’ etc., and committal ‘earth to earth,’ etc., pronounce the benediction. Then quietly leave and let the under taker finish his work. For truly I shall not be there; 1 shall be in the realm of joy where death is not to.be found, reunited with those loved ones who have gone before me into that celestial realm of eternal day. “And, please, let no sign of grief mark this service marking my personal triumph. For it win but mean that I have triumphed over death, and, far from being dead, have just begun truly to live. •- DANGEROUS Who Can Remember Way Back When —? Camden residents who can re member way back when Clifton McKain captivated audiences around town when he tang “Carolina Moon” will be pleased to hear that Gus Ward now has a delightful rendition of the same song on his new 100-play Select- o-Matic Seeburg—which he, Gus, tries to keep all to hmiself. Gus has the record cleverly con cealed under another title in his new record player—and only Gus knows what number it is. Conse quently, he is also the only' one who ever gets to play it—which se he plays it is all right, all the rime nflict with the of some church, 1 Drancr^HT^t mir x rural churches Eon^and let these two items speak for themselves and compose the ser vice, with the hymns. “Let the casket be closed be fore the service begins and re- An Ohioan was mistaken in the dark for a burglar by his wife and she shot jum, which shows the folly of men going home be fore daylight — Dayton News. Daily ALCOHOLISM Treated Effectively la Hundreds of Cases TELEPHONE^PAYgR NIGHT ALCQ-HAVEN SANITARIUM f 60$ t N6kTH STREET IfiHEENVIUI, SO. CAROLINA/ When Your Back Hurts * because anyway To many others in this section, this time, which lends such a nostalgic note, could never be enough. They only wish (hat, somehow, Mr. McKain might be induced to again sing for. them, in person, this number which so carried them away more than 20 years ago. 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He that believeth on me shall never die, and that body that is being committed to the ground is but the early house which I have vacated—it is not I! I know that undertakers have to live, but I decidedly do not want an expensive vault and casket in the mistaken idea of protecting me from the elements. Fm not t is just the day shell that inhabited during my brief | earth. And flowers ex press by their fragrance and) beauty the hope of that is ours. 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