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Thursday, August 30, 192^ McCORMICK MESSENGER, MeCORMJCK, SouiR CaroTin*. Page Number Six J. S. STROM FUNERAL DIRECTOR, * * V EXPERIENCED EMBALMER IN CHARGE McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA. FURNITURE AND STOVES Night Phone, 55 — — — Day Phone, 76. V Uncle Dili’s Faith and Trust By REV. WM. M. RUNYAN Associate Editor, Moody Bible Institute, Chicago. “I •> . If..- 1 ’ V u OWN VIIUK M AND THEN EACH YEAR YOU’LL RATE” A REAL VACATION Perhaps that’s a new way of looking at it, but it stands to reason that after your home is paid for that you will be more care-free and have more money to useTor the pleasures of life. The matter of monthly rent can be saved and accumulated if you have your own home, which, alone, would be enough for a real vacation each year. START SAVING FOR A HOME * V Now is the time to start saving so that your dream of a home of your own will come true, with the independence that it will bring. If you will deposit your surplus funds regularly at this home bank, the total will soon grow to surprising pro portions. You will find every feature of c-operation and safety at this bank. IF FARMS IHNlT McCormick, S. C. NEATS-EVERt OCCASION No matter what meal or what the occassion, you ecu get something good and something suitable -here. Picnic or party dinner it makes no difference— you can depend on this shop. You will not be dis appointed. We have a most pleasing line of cold meats for sandwiches and cold meals. Everything is first class quality, no second rate unpalatable stuff. Delicious steaks and roasts that will form the nucleus for a meal that will be the talk of the guests and family. Your dinner will be a success from the start if you get the meat here. Augusta Street McCormick, S. C. IKY IE DRUG STORE The modern drupr alore has developed into a store of service and convenience for most every small need that arises. Drugs and medical articles are orly a part of the vast stock that every drug store carries. The chances are, too, that it will be of a higher quality and of easier use *if you get it at the drug store. WE HAVE KEPT PACE with this modern conception of the drug store and are here to serve you with every article of merchandise and feature of service that you expect from the drug store of today. Yon will find that every article in our large stock is the best qual ity obtainable. Make it a habit to try this drug store first when you are In need of some article of genera! nature. PIPKIN’S DRUG STO We Serve To Serve Again W. S. PIPKIN, Proprietor ^ ’Phone No. 42 McCormick, S. C. A GREAT HELP SUPPOSE you do your own washing, ma’am?” inquired the seedy stranger. “Yes, I do, although I don’t see that it’s any of your business,” re plied Mrs. Curfew, with some warmth. “I suppose you’ll be telling me that you’re collecting statistics for a government bu reau, or maybe for the state board of health. It seems that the authorities are greatly inter ested in family mat ters that don’t concern them nowadays, and every day or two somebody! ; comes along asking impertinent ques tions as to how many children I have, and my maiden name before I was married, and whether there’s insanity in the family. “I’m sick and tired of answering such questions. If my old friends want to dig into my family history. I’ll give them all the information they want, although I may consider their TEXT—For I know whom 1 liavo believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have com mitted unto Hon against that day.—II Tim. 1:12. The oratorio of the apostle’s life was culminating in a “Hallelujah Chorus.” Though P a u i’s second epistle to Timothy embodied his last written message before his martyr dom, it voiced only victory and assurance. No pinnacle of thought therein is more exalted than the text heading this column. We here find the great affirmation; the supreme object of our faith; assur ance; security; and. what now wo purpose to emphasize, faith and trust —“I have believed. . , . I have committed.” Tiie beauty of faith is most engag ing. On every hand is to be seen the Sunday 5cho< * Lesson ’ (By REV. P. H. F1TZWATER, D.D.. Dea Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) (©. 1928. Western Newspaper Ttnlon.) Lesson for September 2 PAUL PREACHING IN THESSAL ICA AND BEREA tr- r LESSON TEXT—Acts 17I Thess, 5:12-23: Romans 15:18-20. GOLDEN TEXT—The entrance of thy words piiveth light. PRIMARY TOPIC—Paul Finds New Friends and Foes. JUNIOR TOPIC—Paul Finds New Friends and Foes. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC—PauTs Use of the Scriptures. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP IC:—Paul. Organizer of Churches. Rev. W.M. Runyan. exhibition of faith. Fledgling birds that open wide their mouths for the morsel of food that will come to them reveal an instinctive faith. Child life is ever rebuking our doubt hy its beautiful confidence. Parents are sponsors for this faith and to be true to a sacred trust must direct it tn- conundrums in bad taste, but when a I W:,I(1 God ^ ntl rl,e divine ,ife - Tlmo ‘ perfect stranger comes along and asks me if I do my own washing, I feel that the line must he drawn somewhere. Every jack in office asks questions. It used to be tlvat the assessor would come to the door politely, and inquire how many dogs we kept, and take our estimate of the value of our prop erty without looking as though he knew we ought to be prosecuted for perjury. But now he must know the* color of your grandfather’s side whis kers, itnd if you tell him that you keep no dogs he goes out and looks under the house, and in the barn, and when , he conies back he warns you that the J penalties for giving false information ire severe. “Mr. Curfew? says that the next ' time the assessor comes, he is going : to throw him over the back fence and ; kick him down the alley for a dis- ; tance of seven blocks, and I hope he’ll keep his word.” “I didn’t mean to offend you.” said : the stranger. “I’m introducing a wash- I Ing powder that saves half the labor, j and dispenses with soap altogether. | With this marvelous^powder a woman can do the week’s washing and have her clothes hung on the line, inside of two hours.” '‘Well, mister, you take a package of your marvelous powder down to the creek, and give yourself a good t scrubbing, for you look as though you had been fishing out of somebody’s dustbin. Your whiskers are full of i Hut Elizabeth Barrett Browning hold • ' '■* concerning her thy, to whom Paul addressed this radi ant epistle, had been so nurtured, as note chapter one, verse five: “I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy moth er Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.” Of course, in him also! It could hardly be otherwise. His antecedents assured faitli for the child, the growing boy. Paul’s “son in the Gospel.” Homes without par ental faitli are not likely to send forth the believing Timothys to hies man kind. Nor are schools and colleges with unbelieving faculties likely to send forth modern apostles, ready for all manner of hardships for Christ’s dear sake. The meaning cf faith, as exhibited by Paul, is clear and definite. His faith was nor a mere acceptance of a theory, the holding of a doctrine, be lief in a proposition. Christ was its supreme objective—“1 know' whom I have believed.” It has been said. “Men do not lay down their lives for abstract ideas, any more than they would suffer martyrdom, ns Chester ton remarked, for the Meridian of Greenwich.” How different the faith of Paul. Christ being its adorable object! One might theoretically believe in matri mony—that a man should he the is- band of one wife, and he devoted to Iter. This might be called doctrine. a different faith knightly Robert . What 1 do And what 1 dream include thee, a? the wine Must taste of its own grapes. Out of the faitli that w'orketh by love Paul cried. “1 am crucified with sawdust, and your face is covered with grime. If you were introducing bituminous coal, there might be some excuse for your appearance, but a man wdio is selling washing powder ought to be like the driven snow, or nobody will have confidence In him. “And I w'ouldn’t have anything to do with your washing powder if you | nevertheless I live, yet not I. offered to bring me a wagonload for ; huf Chri ^ x |j vf!th \ n , nc tw r enty cents. I make my ow*n soap of lye and grease, and although it Isn’t, indorsed by the crowned heads of Europe, or by prelates or vice pres idents, it’s the best soap ever made, and I know the ingredients are whole- some, even if they 7 don’t comprise barks and buds and healing herbs. “When I use my own soap, I know 7 the things I wash'W 7 on’t be any the worso for it, hut the washing pow 7 dcrs sold hy agents are made of dynamite and lunar caustic, and a garment ©nee washed with them will never be fit to use again. “Last spring I was feeling too poor ly to make the usual hatch of soap, so I bought a package of washing powder from an agent who fiad his pockets full of testimonials showing that he was a man of high moral char- xt happened that week thal all of Mr. Curfew’s white shirts were in the' wash. Mr. Curfew is very par ticular about his shirts. They must he as white as arctic snow, or the way ho raves around the house is a dis grace. Well, I wish you could have seen those shirts after they were washed. They had an old gold color, and have been getting yellower ever since, and Mr. Curfew never sits down hut ho speaks about it and makes things uncomfortable. “So you had better toddle almip and sell your washing powder to some woman who doesn’t know 7 how to make good soap.” World’s Supply of Nitrates. The world’s visible supply of ni trates is estimated at 2,102,000 tons. The Type. “I heard Mabel said when she mar rled that she had selected the very flower of her admirers. To what par ticular bloom did she liken him?” “At first she thought he was th« pink of perfection, but when the baby came to claim her attention, he was just a mere i>oppy.” And what is trust? To believe is faitli; to commit one self unreservedly and happily to the consequence of one's faith is trust. Trust is acting upon faith. The blind babe crowding closely to its mother's heart, when the jostle of the street car was disturbing, exhib ited trust. So. toa. did the blind Scotch minister, the sainted Matheson when be wrote: O Love that wilt not let me go. I rest my weary soul on Thee. Christian trust is To he di* tinguished from a certain fatalistic stoicism that has characterized every age. Perhaps it is not amiss to in dicate that the eminent naturalist. John Burroughs, was an example of this type of confidence. His besi known poem. “Wailing.” reads: Serene I fold my arms and wait. Nor care for wind, or tide,, or sea: I rave no more 'gainst time and fate. For, lo, my own shall come to me Roosevelt said of this great man that he was so intent upon the beauty of the garden, he never became ac quainted witli th<* Gardener. But Whittier, the gentle Quaker, sang in Christian trust: I know not what the future hath Of marvel or surprise. Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies. And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar. No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. The man who is not a Christian may come far with us along the path of abstract faith. But with the Chris tian, faitli lias become trust. The language'ot trust glorifies the Scrip Hires. Said David. “My heart hath trusted in Him, and 1 am helped.” “Tin* Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.” Christ spoke from the cross, "Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit.” Share in Paul’s assurance, Neptune's Laundry. “i know whom I have believed and am “I woul.l to see the w® 8 * 1 Of'** 1 ' persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day.” I have believed, be when you are crossing the llnfc r * therefore, I have committed. 1. Preaching in Thessalonica (Acts 17:1-10). His method (vv. 1, 2). He observed the divine order, “to the Jew first,” but whenever they proved themselves unworthy he turned to the Gentiles. He went out on the Sabbath day so as to find them as sembled together. 2. His message (v. 3). It was that Jesus is the Christ In order to prove that Jesus is the Christ, lie expounded unto them the Scrip tures. Concerning Christ he set forth three propositions: (1) “That Christ must needs have suffered” (v. 3). The suffering Christ was not wel comed by the Jews (Isa. 53). They were looking for a Messiah of a dif ferent type. (2) “Risen from the dead” (v. 8). This He proved by the Scriptures. The resurrection of Christ and the bodily resurrection of believers need sound and practical exposition today. (3) “That this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.” He declared that the historic Jesus whom he had proclaimed had suf fered and risen from the dead, there fore He is the predicted Messiah. 3. The attitude of the Jews toward ids preaching (vv. 4-10). While some Jews believed and many Greeks, the envy of certain Jews was so aroused at Paul’s success that the.\ gathered together the worthless fel lows of the town and created a riot They turned the preaching of Paul into a specious lie. He preached the king- ship of Jesus (v. 7). Jesus-is most as suredly coming to reij. 7 n on this earth II. What He Preached at Thsssa lonica (I Thess. 5:13-20). He corrected certain doctrinal er rors which had crept into the church 1. They were not to sorrow unduly (v. 13). Because they failed to understand the meaning of Paul's preaching con cerning the coming of the Lord they were indulging in excessive sorrow They seemed to think that their loved ones who had died would miss the blessings and glory connected wRh the return of the Lord. 2. The events associated with the Lord’s coming (vv. 13-1S). In this section he gives the reasons why they were not to allow them selves to he overwhelmed with grief. (1) The departed saints will come back when Jesus comes (v. 14). Immediately following the death ol believers their spirits go to be with the Lord where they remain in the state of blessedness until the Lord shall return to this earth, bringing them witli Him. (2) The bodies of the dead in Christ shall come from the grave (v. 1C). Wlsen the Lord comes there will be a real resurrection of the dead in Christ, before the change of the bodies of living believers. (,") Living believers will he caught up together with those who have been resurrected (v. 17). 3. The time of the Lord’s coming is unknown (5:1-11). We are commanded to lie ready, to watch. i« III. Paul Preaching in Berea (Acts i 17:10-15). 1. His method (v. 10). He entered the Jewish synagogue and preached Oirist. 2. Tiie reception of the Gospel by the Berea ns (vv. 11. 12). (1) They received the message gladly. (2) They searched the Scriptures daily for the truthfulness of the mes sage which they had heard. 3. The wicked action of the Jews (vv. 13-15). Wicked Jews from Thessalonica fol lowed the missionaries and stirred up the people against them, making it necessary for them again to flee. IV. Paul's Manner of Preaching (Rom. 15:18-20). Wherever lie went in the Gentile world he preached salvation through faith hi Christ. God accompanied his ministry with mighty signs and won ders, with tiie object of making the Gentiles obedient to the Gospel. Paul's aim was to preach in new fields so Episcopal Services At Willington There will be service at St. Steph ens’ Church,-Willington, on the first and third Sundays cf each month. When there are five Sundays in the month 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 cf 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 in Fobru- 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. . X— 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. 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 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. m. H. M. HODGENS, Pastor. _X > . \I<'Gormick Methodist Chureh Schedule ^ McCormick — Sunday school every Sunday at 10:15 a. m.; Preaching „t 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. T r0 y — Sunday school at 10:00 a. m . 1st, 3rd and 4th Sundays; 2nd Sundavs at 3 p. m.; preaching 2nd ti***. ««.*. iw ijicuuu m new neius so * „ 11 ns not to build on the foundation of I Sundays 3:30 p. m., 4tu another. | *. m. — Beulah — Preaching every 4tb Jesus and Preaching ' Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. J. A. BLEDSOE, Pastor. txs A. R. Presbyterian sea: “The best time to do that ouglrf. , lion vnn nre crossing the line. 1 Jesus chose preaching as the meth od of extending the knowledge of Himself throughout the world. He taught His truth to a few men, and j then He said, “Now go and tell that I p r e ac hine at Mt. Carmel. S. C.. o* truth to other men.”—Phillips Brooks, j he first and third Sabbaths at 11 At the Door ^ Preaching at McCormick, S. C., oi “Behold, I stand at the door, and the second and fourth Sabbaths at knock; If any man hear My voice. 11 j^bfith* school at both churehas and open the door, I will come In to Sabbath day throughout tha ihlm, and wNl sup with him, and he ! #ith Me.”—Rev. 3:20. ! Laos T. Prsaaly, Pastof.