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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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of the
Cl) ris*
divine.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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