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’Tiiursday, May 17, 1928 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMWK, SoulH Carolina Page Number Six feSKiagi&i 16 • is VESTEHDAVS PLANS PUT INTO ACTION The Three Unwise Men Cy REV. WM. Associate Efiito Institute, Cnicago. M. RUNYAN Moody Bible It is not often that success in life just happens. There are always careful ly laid plans, that have been made and put into action. There must be a definite goal set and a constant striving toward that ob jective but the first plan of action is iieceusarily a A Live Growing Bank Account For your bank account—the ready money that you have is the deciding factor in nearly every success. The bank acc6unt you start today will determine tomorrow’s success. Service blends into helpful co-op- .eration at this home bank. We wel come your account. THE PEOPLES McCormick, S. C. 11 We have a complete line of useful and valuable drug sundries at moderate prices. Our aim in this line, as in all others, is to give you the best goods obtainable at the lowest prices. Come in and look over our line and be convinced that it is to your advantage to trade with us. * We also have the agency for Steelcote paint. PIPKIN'S DRUG STOHE W. S. PIPKIN, Proprietor “Phone No. 42 McCormick, S. C. BET THE IN WHAT YOU EAT There are many grades of foodstuffs just the same as there are different grades of everything else you buy and use. Many folks know the difference at sight and al ways insist on the best, while others buy just because it’s “cheap ,,, and they get only that for which they pay. You’ll take a new interest jn your meals, for you will relish what you eat. Everyone will be enjoy able and satisfying. T. CAMN FAULKNER McCORMICK, S. C. f n I ! I 1 if < J. S. STROM FUN ER A I, DIR ECTOR. EXPERIENCED EM HALM KK IN Cl I ARC I McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA. FURNITURE AND STOVES Night Phone, 55 — — --- Day Plione, 76. (Copyright, 1920, Western Newspaper Union) *Tiu all up in the air!” muttered Hiram Scripps in a dazed way. “Don’t say that, neighbor,” urged his friend, Robert Wade. “Think, man. think I You had it once. It’s got to come back to you again.” “Think?” repeated Hiram gladly. “I’ve done nothing else but think ever since that happened,” and he pointed sorrowfully toward the charred ruins of a burned down shed at the rear of the lot. “To have the model of my great invention working like a charm, to have a big capitalist offer me a for tune for it, and now—ashes!” “Cheer up, old friend,” consoled Wade. “You needn’t tell me that a man of your genius and ability won’t be able to make over what you once made.” “I can, all but the little jigger that was the soul of the whole device,” re plied Hiram. “It simply won’t come to me. and without it the new model is simply kindling wood. Oh! I’m not mourning the loss of a fortune. It’s Miss Tibetts I’m fretting about.” “That’s bad, Hiram,” observed Wade. “No, it’s good,” dissented Hiram with emotion. “It’s good because I’ve found >ut how much I love her, dear, sweet angel that she is! Wade, when I had spent the last cent of the money I got from mortgaging my place here and didn’t know where to turn to get enough to finish my model, that lovely, unselfish being drew her savings out of bank, five hundred dollars, and forced it on me to help me out. Oh! the shame of not being able to pay her back will crush me. What will she say of think?” “Say? That you could have more if she had it. Think? More of you than ever. It’s the way of women—love, v pity, sacrifice. Don’t fret on that score. Get your mind on something else for a while, and before you know it the little jigger you can’t remember will pop into your mind. I say. there’s a circus in town. Let’s stroll down to it and take a look at things.” “It won’t interest me one bit,” de clared Hiram... The two friends reached the vacant lot where the big white tents invited, bnt Hiram was in an abstracted mood and th£ glowing canvas daubs held no attraction for the unhappy inventor. "Let her go!” came the order, and the guy ropes of a show balloon were ‘released and the distended monster sagged and swayed. “Hi! out of the way there,” . The yell was directed at Hiram. It startled him out of his preoccupation, but he did not move quickly enough to evade a bunch of trailing ropes. One of them whipped about him, tugged, tightened, and he was lifted from his feet. He grasped at the rope to steady himself. Then aloft he went. Wade was awed, horrified. The crowd thrilled, the’balloon men on the ground shouted wildly to the operator, but up like an arrow, fairly one hun dred feet, shot Hiram. Later, when questioned as to his unique experience, Hiram Scripps avowed that such a thing as fear nev er occurred to him. He declared that the sensation was one of exhilarating iVioyaney. His mentality seemed re leased from all natural bonds. In a Hash there came to him, clear, per fect, remembrance of the part of his machine that he had so vainly sought to grasp. v The startled balloonist turned a valve and began to descend. As Hiram’s feet struck the top of a roof the rope slacked and he let go of it. ^ The balloon swayed free of him, hut Hiram, left without support, rolled down the roof and struck the ground with a shock. “Oh, he’s killed!” groaned Wade, as Hiram lay insensible. “Get a doctor, quick!” A physician happened to be on the ! grounds. Ho hurried to the spot. “A had hump on his head, but no bones broken,” he reported. \ Just then Hiram opened his eyes. A glorious smile illuminated his face. In another moment he relapsed into unconsciousness, but not until he had shouted out rapturously: “A concentric shaft and two ratch ets—hurrah!” “Mind gone—concussion of the brain,” pronounced the physician dole fully. “Get him home quick.” It was several hours later when Hiram opened his eyes. Beside his couch were two willing nurses—Miss Miranda Tibetts and her married sis ter. “And oh, Janet!” the former vas j sobbing, "what if h*e brilliant mind never recovers! And oh! I love him so. and if he was a mere beggar I would work and die for him, if nec essary.” “Ymi say that, you loving sweetest of all womankind !” cried out Hiram, startling the Indies by bolting upright. “Then life is indeed worth living. Oh, Miranda! the golden luck. A concen tric bar and two ratchets—Hurrah I" “Oh, my dear!—my dear!” pleaded Miranda, breaking down utterly, “for got sucii wretched ravings!" “Ravings?” fairly shouted Hiram “Why, that means that I remembo! the important mechanism that had es caped rfiy memory. Up in the air nr longer, my darling! I can finish th» model now. We’re rich, my sweet, am yours jjhr.d be the fortune that is nov surely ours, and myself in the bargaiL if vou will have me.” thine ease.—I.ulce ri:XTS—Soul, take 12:19. He went,away sorrowful.—Mark 10: 22 Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world.—II Tim. 4:10 In the story of Christ’s nativity, the journey and gifts of the Wise Mon are accorded en during honor. These men hailed His sign, followed *Iis star, found His abode, wor shiped Him and laid rai’o trophies at Mis feet. W li o e v e r of any age or clime does .likewise is a wise man. But hud you taken note of the three u n wise men? Our texts reading of the as- will justify the Improved Uniform International ; chool Lesson T (By KEV. H li K.'TZWATER. D.D.. Dean Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) i'c'. 192S Wesleto Newspaper Union.) Lesson for May 20 JESUS TEACHING IN THE TEMPLE LESSON TEXT—Mark 12:13-44. GOLDEN TEXT—He taught them as one having authority. PRIMARY TOPIC—Jesus Answers Some Hard Questions. JUNIOR TOPIC — Jesus Teaches Great Duties. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC—Jesus Answers His Critics. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP IC—Love, lhe Law of the Kingdom. Rev. W. M. Runyan. introduce them. A sociated scriptures : charge placed against thorn. Tiie respective deeds of these men : were as though one of the Mon of the ■ East had not st* much as seen rlie 1 Star; sis though another had come to i the Child, hut withheld his gift; and I as though the third had laid down his i gift at tiie feet of the Holy One. and I of a sudden had snatched it up and borne it away. Of the three unwise men, tiie first j reckoned without Christ; the second ; rejected Christ; and tiie third re- ; nounced Christ. He who reckoned without Christ found ins barns bursting with the j abundance of his harvest. He said, j “Soul, take thine ease.” Christ’s re ' / biike cuts. “Thou fool; this night , shall thy soul he required of thee, j Then whose shall these things toe?” | The rich foo! was a crass material- j 1st. presuming to satisfy tiie soul with ( things; inviting meal decay by sloth and indulgence. What hud made him | what he was, we cannot know. Per- 1 haps he was the product of material- ! istie education while a youth. Ma terialists and sensualists are tiie out- ‘ put of God-forgetting, Bihle-denying. ! Christ-rejecting institutions of learn- i ing. Perhaps he was a fool because • lie was rich. Wealth wrecks Its Ic- | gions. Tiie second unwise man rajectcd \ Christ. He was young, rich, a ruler; ! upstanding and well-favored. “Jesus ’ beholding him lowi him.” He was of the lovable sort. Rm out of di vine love Jesus said, “One tiling thou laekest.” v The young awn's interest In the new religion was limited to the desir ability of adding It to sucii tilings as lie already possessed. Disciplesldp at a considerable cost was not his purpose. He sought a “bargain-counter” reli gion. But when one patronizes Hie bargain counter for a Christian ex perience. it will at best be tawdry and disappointing. Tliis man prized property beyond ideals. Me chose tiie pleasures .of plenty for a season rather than the spiritual opulence that Moses gained when he had come to years, by refus ing to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, accepting affliction with the respect unto of the reward. (Heb. people of God^ bavin; the recompense 11:24. 2.t.) But alas for the third unwise man. Demas. the deserter! He renounced high and holy associations and fellow ships. He was blinded by tiie glamour of the present. Hinging away tin* glory that excelletii. He was traitor i«» Christ and to his former comrades in holy service. How is the word “traitor” loathed! Tiie stories of fine and heroic loyalties thrill our hearts alike in times of peace and war. Little it becomes us to pass on tiie odium of disloyalty to Peter, Judas ani Demas, if we, too, are untrue. No finer trait is known to humanity than loyalty, fidelity. Linked to Christ and all holy tilings, it Is sanctified indeed. The Bible narratr*es that have most endeared theniselves to the heart of tiie church are built around this no bleness. The windows Hung open to ward Jerusalem by faithful Daniel, who was given to the lions; tiie un yielding Hebrew children who trod tiie fiery furnace, have supplied new courage to many a youth. Faithful Stephen, stoned to the death, seeing tiie heavens open and Jesus standing at Hie rigid hand of God; Paul who in much tribulation declared, “Norm of these tilings move me, neither count l ray life dear unto myself, that I may finish my course with joy !” are New Testament exemplars of fidelity. Hie records of whose stead fastness have blessed Hie centuries. For each of us, tiie common task and the daily deed afford the arena for tiie exalted victories of fidelity Here is Hie poet'~, thought: Oh, that my tongue might so possess The accent of His tenderness, That every word I breathe should bless! For those who mourn, a word of cheer. A word of trope for those who fear; And love to all men far and near. Oh, that it might be said of me, “Surely thy speech bewrnyeth thee As friend to Christ of Galilee.” I. The Parable of the Husbandmen (vv. 1-12). Having put Hie scribes, chief priests and eiders to confusion by a skilful counter question when they demanded to know His authority, Jesus by means of a story lays before them His claim of divine authority, and charges them with betrayal of trust and with plot- ring to murder Hie very Son of God. His teaching cut them to the quick, and they sought to lay hands upon Him. but desisted for fear of the poo pie. 1. The vineyard (v. 1), represented Israel (See Ps. SO and Isa. 5). 2. The husbandmen (v. 1) repre sented i lie rulers who were charged v.iili responsibility for the spiritual in- lercsis of Hie people. :i. Messengers (vv. 2-5) represented the prophets whom God sent to Israel, even including John the Baptist. 4. Tiie Son (vv. G-S) represented Jesu-: Himself. :*i. The judgment of the Lord ol rhe vineyard (v. (♦). This represented the ;Ime when Hie Jews shall he brought to account for their treat- inem of Hie servants of God and of Jesus Himself. II. The Tribute Money (vv. 13-17). They already would have gladly mken Him by violence and killed Him. inn they feared the people, in order to destroy Him they seek to discredit Him among tiie people (v. 13). 1. Their question (v. 14). “is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?” The Pharisees con tended that since God was the real King of Israel, it was not obligatory, yea, it was even sinful to give tribute (taxes) to a heathen king. Tiie He- rodinns were supporters of Herod; with liattery on their lips, they put this subtle question. For Hiin ( to an swer “Yes” would have discredited Him with tiie people, and to hhve said “No” would have made Him liable to arrest ns an enemy of tiie government. 2. Jesus’ reply (vv. 15-17). He asks that a coin be brought and inquires whose image and superscrip tion It bears, declaring that those who accept the coin of Caesar should pay iaxes to Caesar. In this reply the Lord escapes their trap and enunciates a principle which applies to-all time and conditions as to the Christian’s responsibility to civil government. III. The Resurrection of the Dead (vv. 18-27). The Pharisees and Herodians being .silenced. Hie Sadducees came with a question which involved not only im mortality hut tiie resurrection of the body. They denied the reality of the resurrection, and believed not in angel nor spirit (Acts 23:8). 1. The ciise [imposed (vV. TJ-23). The law of Moses made it not only legal hut morally binding in the case of a man dying without children for his brother to take his wife (Deut. 22:5). They [impose the case of a woman married successively to seven 11rot hers. They ask whose wife she will he in tiie resurrection. 2. Jesus’ reply (vv. 24-20). By a quotation from the Mosaic law (Ex. :>:G) He proves Hie resurrection of tiie dead, and their continued ex istence after death as glorified beings. He shows that marriage is for this present life. He points out that their great error was due to two things. (1) Ignorance nt Hie Scriptures (v. 24). in the very Scriptures which they professed to believe was positive proof of the resurrection (Ex. 3:6). (2) Ignorance of the power of God (v. 24). God is able to provide a life where there is no death, no births or marriages. IV. The Great Commandment of the Law (vv. 28-34). Christ’s answer shows marvelous insight. He sums up man’s whole duty in one word—love. The first and great commandment is supreme and undivided love of God. Tiie second is like unto it in that love is its center, but love for our neighbor in the meas ure that we love ourselves. Having put His questioners to silence, Jesus now puts to them a question involves tiie central doctrine Christian faith—tiie person of (vv. 35-40). Is He human or or both? Episcopal Services At Willington There will be service ct St. Steph- ns’ Church, Willington, on the first md third Sundays cf each month. Who:' there are five Sundays in the r.onth there will also be service on the fifth Sunday. The hour of the service at St. Stephens’ is four o’clock in the after noon. A good program of music is provided under the direction of Mrs. James Hester of Calhoun Falls with Mrs. James Hemminger of Willington acting as assistant. The services are in charge of the Rev. R. C. Topping of Anderson who promises a short sermon upon an in teresting and vital topic with each service. x Plum Branch M. E. Charge Beginning first Sunday ; n Febru- ary, the Plum Branch M. E. charge schedule will be:, ASBURY — Sunday School at 10:30 a. m.; preaching every 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. which of the Cl) ris* divine. at ev- If You Repent God tells you, if you repent yon shall find mercy; and you will not he lieve Him. Because thou hast teen a Some Good Advice There is nothing more that 1 can say. Christ is before you to take free ly; accept Him'; trust Him; believe what He says; aeeume that you are His and behave as if you were.—Alex ander Whyte. Without Love Without hist love we may retain ceaseless activity, immaculate purity, severest orthodoxy, but there will lie sinner, wilt thou make God a liar?— J no light shining in a dark place.—G. John Mason. j Campbell Morgan. Pentecostal Holiness Cfiiitch 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 oar services. W. RAY ANDERSON, Pastor. txt 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 morning at 10:30; 4th Sunday p. m. at 2:30. Preaching every 4th Sunday 3:30 p. m. Clarks Hill — Sunday School 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. m. H. M. HODGENS, Pastor. X McCormick Methodist Church Schedule McCormick — Sunday school every Sunday at 10:15 a at 11:15 a days, and 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. T r0 y 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 a. m. Beulah — Preaching every 4th Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o clock. J. A. BLEDSOE, Pastor. txi A. R. Presbyterian Preaching at Mt. Carmel. S. C., on he first and third Sabbaths at 11 l tn. Preaching at McCormick, S. C., on the second and fourth Sabbaths at 11:30 a. m. Sabbath school at both churchst every Sabbath day throughout the 'ear. Leon T. Pressly, Pastor. mj; Preaching m. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Sun- 7:30 p. m. on fourth at