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McCORAii^j\ M &* >&/>>/GER, McCOh&J jss.. South UTi*. Page Number Six OUTLOOK ON LIFE A bank account is a staunch and true friend that is ever ready to help you over the rough spots of life and give you moral courage when advers ity knocks at your door. 'And when things are progressing smoothly it furnishes a brighter out look on life, promising the opening of new opportunities. HERE IS A BANK THAT IS CAP ABLE AND WILLING TO SERVE YOU It extends a welcome hand to those that want to start on the road of saving and economy and offers a helpful serv ice to its customers. . You will feel at home here and be in the hands of friends who are anxious to help you in every wav possible. IDE PEOPLES BANK McCormick, S. C. / Good Meat Is Making Of A Good Meal No matter how good the rest of any meal may be, if the meat is tough and flavorless, it is riot enjoy able. , Good meat makes a good meal. The big problem, however, is where to get good meat for so much of it is second grade. WE ALWAYS HAVE CHOICE CUTS, full flavored, tender and juicy, the really good kind that the whole family will enjoy. Order your next meat from our shop and let us prove it to you. The prices will appeal, too, for they are always very seasonable. We deliver, just call us. J, PRESS BLACKWELL I • • Augusta Street McCormick, S. C. Things can happen so quickly. A cut finger, a bad bruise, a strained muscle or a burn, any of these are every day occurrences and can be treated effici ently and quickly at home, if you have the necessary supplies. Serious accidents can also be treated until further aid comes if you are prepared. BE PREPARED—Don t delay, come in at once and get a supply of the necessary first aid and home doctoring supplies that you need. An emergency may arise at any moment and you won't have the things you need, if you don't. We handle only the highest grade and purest of drugs and supplies. RUG STORE We Serve To Serve Again W. S. PIPKIN, Proprietor ’Phone No. 42 McCormick. S. C. Great Desert Belt in Africa and Asia Grows Larger * Geographers assert that there is every evidence that the great desert belt that extends across Africa and Asia at or a little above the tropic of Cancer is growing larger and drier. The Syrian desert, which is now an utter waste, was crowded with cities and full of cultivated fields only two or three thousand years ago. Mesopo tamia and Persia, ancient seats of civ ilization, could scarcely have risen so high if their climate then had been what it is now. There are plenty of evidences that the Sahara and the Libyan deserts hare encroached on the fertile lands of North Africa and of the Sudan. The old “granary' of Rome” in Tunis is now largely an arid waste. It Is not surpris ing if the Nile draws less water than it used to from its tributaries In the Su dan, and loses more than it used to by evaporation. Most geographers agree that the deserts are growing at pres ent. Some believe that it is only an inevitable step in the drying up of the earth, and expect the process to go on forever, though perhaps with occasion al remissions. Other scholars say that there Is evi dence of an extraordinary amount of fluctuation in the climate of the world ; that there have been much drier peri ods than ours, as well as much rainier ones, and that the widening of the Northern desert band Is only a phase in a long time movement of climate from wet to dry and back again. But ar. these secular movements are ex tremely slow, often taking many thou sands of years to complete their swing, none of us now living will be here long enough to know which theory is the right one.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. :r » I • i f I Sh The Forgiveness of Sins By REV. JOHN C. PAGE Extension Department, Moody Bible Institute, Chicago. TEXT—Having forgiven you all trespasses.—Col. 2:13. Rev. John C. Page. HISTORY OF THE UMBRELLA Came Originally From the East Where it Was Considered an Emblem of Royalty. The umbrella came to us from the East, where it has been in use from remote times, and where it was con sidered an 'emblem of royalty and dignity. Among the Greeks and Ro mans umbrellas were carried solely by women, and it was regarded as a sign of effeminacy for a man to carry one. It is not likely that the- mate rials used were of any use against a rainstorm, and they were designed solely as a protection against the sun. | The use of umbrellas became very general in Italy and France in the Six teenth century, and they soon became an article of luxury and fashion. Dray ton, an English poet of the Seven teenth century, writes: And like umbrellas with their feathers Shield you in all sorts of weather. From this we must conclude that feathers and ribbons ornamented the article. Early in the Eighteenth cen tury it was the practice In England to keep umbrellas In the coffee-houses as a sort of protection to guests who were caught in an unexpected shower, but the use of individual umbrellas in the home was still to come. In 1752, Colonel Wolf, an English soldier, wrote from Paris: “The ease-loving French carry umbrellas with them wherever they go, and in color, mate rial and ornamentniion, they are indic ative of the rank and wealth of their owners. They are used as a protec tion from both sun and rain. I marvel that they have not yet been made pop ular in England.” Shortly after this they came into general use in Eng land. Why Rice Paper Is Weak. The use of rice straw is quite wide spread In the Far East, but when used alone it makes poor paper. In order to ascertain the cause of its weakness and find a remedy, tests were made at the University of Grenoble on some rice straw from Indo-China. The straw was cut, washed and cleaned for one hour. Then It was cooked five hours with 13 per cent caustic soda at 5 degrees Baume concentration. The material was then defibered and washed and bleached. The yield of bleached pulp was 30 per cent. Next the pulp thus obtained was beaten carefully, sized and loaded with starch. Considerable trouble on the machine was experi enced owing to the weakness of the pa per. The paper is, however, soft and agreable to the touch and is of satis factory whiteness. Rice straw pulp is extremely fine—the finest fiber used in paper making. The fibers are short, fine and delicate and there are no large fibers to form a solid framework. The weakness of the fibers is due to the thinness of their walls and the large number of breaks in them is due to heating. Owing to its weakness, rica fgraw' is hardly suitable for wrapping papers, hut it could be used for fine writing and printing papers.—Paper Trade Journal. Why Pipe Is Called Meerschaum. Meerschaum Is a German Word desig nating a soft white mineral found floating on the surface of the Black sea. In appearance it is rather sug gestive of sea foam, whence arose the French name for the same substance, ecume de mer, and the popular suppo sition that It is sea foam. Most meer schaum is obtained from Asia Minor, chiefly from the plain of Eski-Shakr. where it occurs in irregular nodulav masses In alluvial deposits. It occurs also loss plentifully in Greece, Euboea and Samos, and also exists in chemical combination as serpentine in Utah South Carolina, Pennsylvania in thr United States. The principal use r. which it Is applied is th'- nenufaetr of a rare kind of p As a picture appears to better ad vantage in a suitable frame, so does ttiis text appear when viewed in the suitable set ting of its context. “Dead in your sins,” is the de scriptive word inl ine d i a t e 1 y pre ceding it. This is spiritual death, the death of sep aration from the life and fellow ship of God. Im mediately follow ing tiie text we read about “The handwriting of ordi nances that was against us.” This >s the sentence of judgment and condem nation pronounced upon our sins. A sheriff who knew his Bible rath er well, being asked by what author ity he held a certain prisoner, replied. “By the handwriting of ordinances against him.” Even so. we are held by the law and the power of death. “The sting of death is sin.” And the strength of sin is the law which when broken stings us with its requirement and demand for the infliction of its righteous penalty. From all that is Involved in this adverse handwriting, we are delivered by the denih ot Christ, so that as Christian believers we can say, “Thanks be to God. which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.*’ Sin may he regarded as a debt or trespass requiring settlement. It is alfo a departure from God necessi tating reconciliation and recovery. Furthermore, it may he considered as a spiritual disease needing healing power to combat it. And again, it may he regarded as spiritual death necessitating a new life. All of these requirements and necessities are met in the redemptive work of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to Romans 4:23, He was delivered over to deatn for our offenses; thereby meeting tlu* righteous requirement of the law an.I removing forever the handwriting that was against us because of our trans gressions. As a consequence we un reconciled to God by the death of His Son; healed of all spiritual diseases by the power of the Great Physician, and also quickened into newness ot life by our spiritual union with Him. Multitudes of people on the Lord’s day repeat the words of the Apostles' Creed, “I believe in the forgiveness of sins.” Such an affirmation of faith must he made on the basis' of God * own Word as found in I John 2:12. “Your sins are forgiven you for His name's sake.” There is in the death of Christ that which makes it pos sible for God righteously to forgive us all our trespasses. It is through Christ that “Grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life.” “Wo art?’ justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.” On such a basis as this, the forgiveness of sins becomes real. The good news of a full. free, and sufficient pardon for sin is just the news that the world needs to hear. Other blessings would not avail apart from this gracious provision for the putting away of sin. A fellow worker put it in this way: “Look at a poor man condemned to die. Suppose a messenger comes io him and says. ‘The governor lias tak on your case into consideration, and sends you tide check of one-thousand dollars.’ The man would doubtless reply. ‘What good will that do me? I am a condemned man and sentenced to die within the next two weeks.’ “On the following day the visitor again appears and says to the con demned man: ‘I have another mes sage for you. The governor has been considering your case, and sends yon this deed to a million-dollai estate The condemn:*^ man shakes his head a* he says: 'What can I do with that? I am to die soon for my tratis gressions.’ “A few hours later the messenger again appears with another propnsi tion. ‘I have come,’ he says, to tlr^ condemned man, ‘bringing these spe cial garments and this tine robe a- an expression of the governor’s inter tM't in your cuse.’ Then the man hursts into tears, and says’: ‘Whv <|. you mock me? I cannot wear tins up parel. 1 cannot pm on this robe, i am condemned and soon must die T have one more message, - replies tin messenger: ‘The governor has ghe^ your case special consideration, ami ha? sent you a full and free pardon What do you say to that?’ The pom man looks at him and says. ‘I can scarcely believe it.’ But the niessen ger hands him the pardon signed to. the governor and with the otlichn stamp upon it. Then the man sho;:'- for joy, while tears of relief mid grm itude run down Iris cheeks. ‘Nova says he, ‘I can use the check and Hi deed to the estate. I can wear tin garments, and put on the robe.’ “ This is the message of the Gosp:“ This is what is meant by the forgive ness of sins. This is what enables lie forgiven one to say with the propirc. of old: “I will greatly rejoice in tie Lord, my soul shall he joyful in mv God, for He hath clothed me with Hr- garments of salvation. He hath cov ered me with tire robe of riglitcun- ness. SundaySchool ' Lesson ’ (By REV. B. F1TZWATHJR, D.D., Dean Moody Bible institute of Chicago.) ((c). 1928. Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for September 16 PAUL WRITES TO HIS FRIENDS IN CORINTH LESSON TEXT—I Cor. 1:10-13:3:5-11, 21-23. GOLDEN TEXT—Behold how ffood and how .pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. PRIMARY TOPIC—Paul Writes a Letter to His Friends. JUNIOR TOPIC—Paul Writes a Good Letter to His Friends. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC—Paul Urges Team Work. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP IC—Paul Pleads for Christian Unity. Concerning Contention in the Church (1:10-13). 1. Exhortation (v. 10). “That ye all speak the same thing.” In view of the fact that he besought them in the umne of Jesus Christ, the one tiring which he desired them to speak was the Lord’s name. The name of the Lord stands for all that tire Lord is and does. “That there be no divisions among you,” that is, no fac tions, no alienation of affection. “That ye he perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judg ment.’* 2. The reason for this exhortation, (v. 11). Word had been brought to Paul by members of the household of Chloe that wrangling was going on among tire members of the Corinthian church. He assured them that he had suffi cient evidence of the strife which was going on- among them. 3. Nature of the contentions (v. 12). Their disputes were about their teachers. Their interests were cen tering in their favorite ministers. Some were for Paul, perhaps attract- ed by Iris logic; some were fo^ Apoi- los, doubtless mo\ id by h ; s stirring eloquem-e; others were for Peter. Doubtless these were Jewish converts who looked to Peter as their author ity. There were still others who had as their cry “back to Christ,” repudi ating all human teachers. 4. The grounds of allegiance to Christ (v. 13). (1) lie is Head of the whole church. Tire unifying (rower of the body is the head. He raised the question, “Is Christ divided?” Tire mere raising of tire question gave the answer. (2) Redemption accomplished. By Iris atoning death He has su preme Lordship over all. (3) Allegiance to Christ acknowl edged in baptism. By one Spirit are we all baptized irfio one body (I Cor. 12:13). It. Concerning Christian Ministers (3:1-4:.')). Since the dissensions In the church gathered around tire ministers, Paul proceeded to cure the evil by exhibit ing tiro ministerial office in its true light. To conceive of ministers as party leaders or teachers of philoso phy tends to divisions. Divisions in tire church occur when men are oc cupied with tire messenger rather than with the message. The cure in such a case is to get a right conception and proper estimate of human teachers. Ministers really are: 1. Servants ot God (vv. 5, 6. They are instruments in His hands for tire execution of His will. They are men sent to deliver a message, to do a definite work. 2. Ministers are equal in rank (vv. S, s»). They are called by the same spirit to teach the same truth, and there fore stand in the same relationship Official hierarchy in tire church has no foundation in the Scriptures. 3 Every minister must give an ac count to God for h’ work (vv. 10-21) If Ire lay other foundation than Christ he is not a Christian ‘ minister at all. If he build sound doctrine on the foundation he will receive a re ward. It he build false doctrine on a true foundation he will suffer loss and receive punishment. Sorrow and an gttish will ho to him who builds good material upon a wrong foundation, and likewise to him who builds poor material upon a right foundation. Human wisdom has no place in the solemn work of building the church of God. 4. Ministers are the property of the church (vv. 22. 23). Frequently the assumption is that the church is owned by the ministers. Ministers should he followed only as far as they follow Christ. 5. Ministers are God’s stewards (4:1-5). Their business is to dispense His truth. They do not originate the mes sage, God demands fidelity on their part and He will enter into judgment with them as to their faithfulness. Proof of a Divine Reality CHURCHCARDS 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 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. 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 evety 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 at\d 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 6of 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 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 •tight following 1st Sundays. REPUBLICAN Sunday School at 11 a. m. on 2nd md 4th Sundays. 1st and 3rd Sun- y vs » at 2:30 p. m. Preaching on and 3rd Sundays at 3 p. m. Troy — Sunday school at 10:00 a. n. 1st, 3rd and 4th Sundays; 2nd Sundays at 3 p. m.; preaching 2nd Sundays 3:30 p. m.; 4th Sundays 11 *• m * Beulah — Preaching every 4tn Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. J. A. BLEDSOE, Pastor. The best proof of a divine reality at the heart of tilings is the passion for growth, the desire for perfection, that makes itself felt in all who are sen sitive to the possibilities of spiritual attainment Being Content We have been content with a slight elevation above the evils of our time, and not intent on the inward search ing, purifying and consuming of the Holy Spirit—F. B. Meyer. JXJ — ^ A. R. Presbyterian Preaching at Mt. Carmel. S. C* oj he first and third Sabbaths at 11 Preaching at McCormick, S. C., og the second and fourth Sabbaths at 11:80 a. m. . Sabbath school at both churchei iivery Sabbath day throughout the *ear. *1 1