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'E'liursday, March 15, 1928 McCOKMICK MESSENGER, McGORMICR, SoufB Carotin*. *11 SEi.^ n ■ ~o- -0‘ LH B HELP m -o- -o- • sr This is a hard season to find a variety of food for the table; and this is a very perplexing problem to the housewife, but it is one which we take pleasure in helping her solve. Call and let us help you plan your meals. Many fresh vegetables and other country produce can be found at our store just a bit ahead of the season. Our groceries are fresh, pure and reason ably priced.^ ’ T, MU FAULKNER McCORMICK, S. C. 3E 3E >'■ V v. • • • HARDWARE • • • ♦ • • L* m e3Sei V ' n SAVE M DOLLARS A DOLLAR IN HAND is soon frit- .j t 'j' -1 -,. - ' . . ' • t tered away. / Put it in this bank and it won’t frit ter. A DOLLAR SAVED is worth a doz en' that slip through your fingers. Open an account at this bank and let us do your saving for you. It will be ready whenever you want it—and with interest, too. THE PEOPLES BANK McCormick, S. C. «= J. S. STROM FUNERAL DIRECTOR, EXPERIENCED EMBALMER IN CHARGE McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA. FURNITURE AND STOVES Night Phone, 55 Day Phone, 76. The Living God and Dead Gods By REV. H. OSTROM, D. D. Kxtenslon Department, Moody Bible Institute, Chicago. TEXT—My heart and my flesh crletb out for the living' God.—Ps. 84:2. Rev. H .Ostrom, D. D. Exclusive agent in Town for Genuine Oliver Plows and Repairs. .i ? . / Gold Seal Corfgoleum Rugs at a bargain. Sherwin Williams Paint, Saw Mill Supplies, Buck eye Brooders, Farm Implements and Mule Gear. Your patronage appreciated. WHITE HARDWARE CO. MAIN STREET McCORMICK, S. C. : The dead gods of our times show plainly how the god of this age, Satan, has blinded the eyes of those who believe not the gospel. They are so many that their very multiplicity is confusing to the • busy, pleas ure-surfeited and money- seeking throng. Every one of them is a direct result of the cold, dead, materialistic philosophy of the day, accepted by so many people as the truth. Men seek to clothe them with beautiful phrases about getting one’s self in hand and becoming efficient and ap propriating one's resources; even de claring that all that one needs is wit h in himself. But they are none the less dead, however beautiful their shrouds. To classify them as only numb would be to camouflage their real condition. They are without a single exception dead gods. Now and again you hear it advocated that they are to he deprived of a name. Why not? How could such dead things be properly accorded names? But harken to the cry from Israel— “My heart and niy flesh crieth out for the living God.” Who would arise in a moment of calm deliberate thinking and discount a cry like that if all that it implied were that man wanted to find the God who lives? I take It that these words mean that the seat of motives and the senses of man are swept by one great current of effort, to find the living God. The cry was given centuries before our day, but it is an ancient protest against all the modern deadness. It is a protest ut tered and enacted first under the old covenant, before Christ, the one re- vealer of God among men, had come. I It was a protest against all idolatry, whether of wood and stone garnished j,. j with smooth sayings, or of imaginary ! character garnished with brilliant theories, however they may glitter and __ I dazzle.” We can hope for little from the physical, but this cry must have an answer, so let my flesh find the liv ing God. Ah, there is a truth in the Holy Scriptures never silenced from the very start with the words “In the be ginning God.” TJiat living, transcend ent personality gloHfles every page of the precious Bible. Behold how this truth concerning the living God ap pears in our Lord Jesus Christ! See it in the advent. From outside and above this death-smitten region called earth, He comes down. “The words that I speak unto you are not Mine but the Father that sent Me He doeth the works.” “I have given them Thy word.” “Thou lovedst Me before the foundation of the world.” How the truth appears in the death of Christ on the cross! There, saith He, “My God. My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” “Into Thy hands I commend My spirit.” Behold it in His resurrection. He saith, “I have not yet ascended unto My father,” “I am alive forevermore.” It is not strange that the early church turned from idols to serve the living God. And in the kingdom to come His will is to be done. A hungry babe cast upon the breast of a mother cold in death would but faintly suggest the loss and agony which must ultimately result from the acceptance of man’s dead gods. But let men realize that their Maker lives, that a living, struggling creature has a living holy Creator, then out and up their cry may go not to be mocked by a rebounding echo, but to be heard in mercy and heeded in lov ing kindness by a holy God. Let men realize that the sweet love known by mother or martyr is but a hint of the holy love of God, living love by which provision has been made for the cleansing away of our sins, the What Children Should Know Wonder Windows In the early days of merchandising the boy who did the odd jobs about the general store used to wash the windows and then pile up goods and boxes to attract the passersby. But that is all changed and the window splays of industr'al products and merchandise havD become a matte- tor expert knowledge and handling. A score or more of the Nation’s leading industries ma ntain all-the- year-round exhibits of their products at Atlantic C.ty, because more than 12 000,000 visitors hit the trail along IhBoa.d Walk annually. In one of these w'ndows there is a product that is made from the spruce wood of American forests that has ‘bee.! created with a gas or carbon bisulfite, and put through mechan’cal processes to create what is known as chemical viscose. So much for the Improved Uniform TnlernWonal | Sunday School ' Lesson'! (By REV. P. B. FITZWATER, D.D.. Dean Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) ((c). 1028. Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for March 18 JESUS TEACHES SINCERITY LESSON TEXT—Mark 7:1-23. GOLDEN TEXT—Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life. PRIMARY TOPIC—Obeying God and Our Parents. JUNIOR TOPIC—Honoring God and Our Parents. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC—Sincerity in Religion. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP IC—Jesus Denounces Formalism. I. The Emptiness of Formal Wor ship (vv. 1-7). The tendency of the human heart is . , to depart from the life and to choose background of industiy and chemical jj, e mer e form which is calculated to science. \ ou have seen the product, ! express the life. The traditions and known as cellophane. customs adopted by men for the tem- It is used as a super-wrap because porary help of the spiritual life fre- it is transparent and beautifies the fluently are crystallized into laws and finest grades of merchandise. IncluJ- 1 ma,le to supersede the laws and insti- ed ’n the articles on dress parade :n ^ rations of God. 1. The charge against Christ (v. 2). the window, all dolled-up :n their was tliat Christ’s disciples ate beautiful wrappers, a:e perfume bot tles, hosiery and gloves. This trans- | parent wrapper is shown encasing i the products of the Continental Bak- j ing Corporation; and their fruit cakes, bread and cokies are icsplend- ent in these coverings. Colgate lo tion, talcum and face powder are attractively done up in it anj a num ber of candy manufacturers includ ing Amend’s, show the arts in lith ographing and embossing on beauti ful boxes of candies enriched in ap pearance and protected by the trans parent coverings. These candy boxes are f.lled with toothsome delicious- 4. Christ’s answer (vv. G, 7). He declared that worship which centered in forms was as empty and meaning less ns was lip service where the their innate appreciation of cleanli ness, sanitation and attractiveness. X Self-Fed Sows And Litters Better Than Those Hand-Fed M r fed lot was more thrifty than the abolishment of our orphanhood in this hand-fod lot; a total of 441 pound:; of feed was requ ; red for 100 pounds 1 • world of death, and at length the com- ’( plete abolishment of our sorrows and humiliations and deaths. Let men really grasp this guarantee In the words, “Because I live ye shall live also,” and the answer to the cry is miracle. Let men see that over the grave is life. Let them see that beyond the palsy Is a strength forevermore, that the mute lips cannot declare the death of the song of the triumphant. Let men really believe the gospel. “Neith er shall they die any more.” Let men say, “This God is our God forever and ever.” Then gold shall be no longer their god. Then pleasure shall no longer claim their devotion only to ap pear in due time dead in their arms. Then fame shall no longer weight them down until its deadness becomes manifest In its very noisomeness. And then, “When Christ, who is our life shall appear,” then -we may also ap pear with Him in glory. Indeed, Ills own shall then appear with Him. Sightless Eyes When absorbed in thought we do not, even though we are fully con- ! scions, notice tin* fragrance of flow ers, the charm of music or the beauty ; of nature. They seem to have no ex | Istence for us. .lust so, to people ab sorbed in worldly things spiritual re alities do not seem to exist. Seeing they see not, hearing they hear not. (Matt. 13:12.) bread with unwashed hands. The charge was not on the basis of physi cal uncleanness, but their disregard of custom which was to engage in the thorough washing of the hands before eating, as well as washing the pots and vessels, 2. Examples of empty forms (vv. 2-4). (1) Washing of the hands before eating (v. 3). They not only washed their hands often but diligently and intensely. (2) Washing of cups, tables, pots and brazen vessels. The ceremonial washing applied to the vessels as well as the hands. 3. Explanation demanded by the ness—from gum drops to chocolates Pharisees (v. 5). They asked Christ and bon-bons. The products of great to explain why Mis disciples ignored packing houses, which ’’nclude baeor., 1 M,p tradition of the elders with ref- w:eners and other meats, look lusci-' prence to cpnemonial cleansing, cus in th?ir chemically made cover-' lets. Here you have a Wonder Window: because it stands for more than heart was away from God. This lie merchandise. It illustrates how the calls hypocrisy, even such as foretold American people are able to express by Isaiah, the prophet. Men of his themselves in a way that brings out' da - v made rnuch of external observ ance and of religious rites, while their hearts remained unchanged. II. Making the Word of God of None Effect (vv. 8-13). 1. How it may be done (v. 8). It was done by punctiliously observing the precepts of man, such as washing of the hands, pots, etc., while ignoring the commandments of God. This is being done by those who make much of the externalities of religion but at ! the same time are Indifferent to tin* moral requirements. 2. An instance cited (vv. 9-13). The law of God as given by Moses said, “Honor thy father and thy moth er, and whoso curseth father or moth er. let him die the death: but ye say. if a man shall say to his father or mother, it is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest he profited by me, he shall be free, and ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother.” The law of God demands of children that they care and provide for parents in their need. According to an accepted tradi tion among the Jews, if a man should consecrate his goods or possessions to the Lord’s service by pronouncing over them the word “Corban,” which means “the gift,” his goods would be thus dedicated to God, and would not be available for help to his parents. It was possible, therefore, for a man to he enjoying wealth while his parents were in destitution. III. The Real Source of Defilement and Ifnpurity (vv. 14-23). 1. Sin is moral and spiritual. Un- eleanness l»efore God is not of the body save as the body is directed by the soul. A man is not defiled by that which enters his mouth hut by that which springs out of his soul. 2. That which springs out of the heart—the deliberate choice of the will—is the source of defilement (v.20). 3. A list of evils springing out of the heart (vv. 21, 22). The awful list is as follows: Evil thoughts, adulteries, fornica tions, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness, which all come from within. This catalogue includes every possible form of evil. Every one of them originate in the heart and when they become acts of the will and life they defile the man. It is only when temptations and solicitations lead to Indulgence by the deliberate act of the will that they corrupt a man. Page Number Six chicFcaIs Plum Branch M. E. Charge Beginning first Sunday in Febru ary, the Plum Branch M. E. charge schedule will be: ASBURY — Sunday School at 10:30 a. m.; preaching eve:y first Sunday at 11:30 a. m., and third Sun day at 7:45 p. m. BORDEAUX—Sunday School at 10:00 a. m.; preaching every first Sunday 3:30 p. m., and third Sunday at 11:00 a. m. PARKSVILLE — Union Sunday School at 10:00 a. m.; preaching every second Sunday at 7:00 p. m., and fourth Sunday at 11:00 a. m.; prayer services. Thursday nights at 7:00 o’clock. ST. PAUL—Sunday School at 10:30 a. m.; preaching every second Sunday at 11:30 a. m., and fourth Sunday 7:30 p. m-; prayer services, Wednesdays 7:30 p. m.; Epworth League, 7:30 p. m. every Sunday. BARS CHAPEL—Sunday School at 10:30 a. m,.; preaching every sec ond and fourth Sunday at 3:30 p. m. E. A. WILKES, Pastor. Once in a great while the easy way of doing a thing proves to be the b?st way also. An instance of such | a happy combination of “easy way i —-best way” conditions which should appeal to all hog raisers ; s the meth od adopted by the United States De partment of Agiiculture in feeding and handling sows and litters dur ing the suckling period. Sows and litters are now self-fed in preference to being hand-fed at the Government farm as a result of conclusions formed from a three- year study of the two methods. Tlr' general plan of the test was to place the same kinds of feeds in separate compartments of a self-feeder for sows and Ptters being self-fed as were given to t he hand-fed group. The hand-fed sows and litters were fed all they would read : ly clean up twice daily while the self-fed sows and litters had free access to the self-feeder at all times. The lesults of the three-year test indicate that: Self-feeding sows and litters during the suckling period raves both labor and feed; the self- of grain in the self-fed lots, wh'le the hand-fed lots required 603 pounds; the- pigs from the self-fed lots made greater daily gains from farrowing to weaning and also dur ing the various tests in which they were subsequently used. It was noted,also that no over crowding of sows and pigs occurred at the self-feeders even where there was r. large number of sows with Piters :n one lot. There is also less danger of over-eating when feed is available at all timos as is the case with self-feeding. Sows and litters may be put on the self-feeder as soon as the sow is on full feed after farrowing. The trials Pentecostal Holiness Church Schedule Sunday school every Sunday morn ing at 10:30, at McCormick. Preaching every 3rd Sunday at 11:00 o’clock a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Public cordially invited to all our services. W. RAY ANDERSON, Pastor. ( Plum Branch Baptist Schedule Plum Branch — Sunday School every Sunday at 10:30. Preaching every first and third Sunday at 11:30 a. m. B. Y. P. U. every Sunday at 7:30 p. m. Parksville — Sunday School every Sunday at 10:00. Preaching every second and fourth Sundays at 11:00. B. Y. P. U. every Sunday at 7:30. RED OAK GROVE — Sunday School every 1st and 2nd Sunday morn ; ng at 10:30; 4th Sunday p. m. at 2:30. Preaching every 4th Sunday at 3:30 p. m. Clarks Hill — Sunday School ev ery Sunday at 2:00 p, m. Preaching every first Sunday at 3:00 p. m. Modoc — Sunday School every Sunday at 10:30. Preaching every third Sunday at 3:00 p. nt. H. M. HODGENS, Pastor. McCormick Methodist Church Schedule McCormick — Sunday school every Sunday at 10:15 a. m.; Preaching at 11:15 a. m. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Sun days, and at 7 : 30 p. m. on fourth Sundays. / Prayer meeting Wednesday even ing at 7:30 o’clock. Board of Stewards meets Monday night following 1st Sundays. REPUBLICAN Sunday School at 11 a. m. on 2nd and 4th Sundays. 1st and 3rd Sun days at 2:30 p. m. Preaching on 1st and 3rd Sundays at 3 p. m. Troy — Sunday school at 10:00 a. m. 1st, 3rd and 4th Sundays; 2nd Sundays at 3 p. m.; preaching 2nd Sundays 3:30 p. m.; 4th Sundays 11 &• in. Beulah — Preaching every 4tb Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. J. A. BLEDSOE, Pastor. Children's Needs Children have more need of models thaq of critics.—Joubert. A - R. Presbyterian Schedule Preaching at Mt. Carmel. S. C., on he first and third Sabbaths at 11 i. m. Preaching at McCormick, S. C., on the second and fourth Sabbaths at 11:30 a. m. Sabbath school at both churches jivery Sabbath day throughout ths ’ear. Leon T. Pressly, Pastor. also irdicated that 81 per cent of rows from self-fed lots when bred; Christian Giving settled at the first service, as j Qur Father has so much confidence aga'nst 47 per cent for the hand-fed { in us that Me makes no hard, arbi sows. j trary rule for Christian Riving, bin jXI | left ves ^ to the filial love and loyalty of His children to determine how much of their possessions they will offer to relieve the pains and sorrows of the world.—J. II. Jowett. Jam or jelly tarts, made of left over pie dough and left-over preserv es. will solve the question what to have for dessert, with very little rouble. Pie trimmings can also be cut into cookie shapes, brushed with j egg-yolk, sugar and cinnamon, used for cookies. Faith in God A little faith in a gieat God 1b bet I!{ter than a great faith in mortal men j —Methodist Protestant McCormick Baptist Church Schedule Rev. W. W. Sisk. Pastor McCormick Sunday school ev ery Sunday at 10:30 a. m., J. A. Tal bert, superintendent; prayer servic es every Tuesday at 7:30 p. m., Preaching every Sunday as follows: 1st and 3rd Sunday at 7:30 p. m., 2nd and 4th Sundays at 11:80 a. m. Buffalo—Sunday school every Sunday at 10:30 a. m., J. C. Talbert, Superintendent; preaching Ist and 3rd Sundays at 11:30 a. m. Willington — Preaching on 2nd and 4th Sundays at 4:00 p. m. Troy—Sunday School at 2:00 p. m.; 1'’roaching on 1st and 3rd Sundays at 3:00 p. m.