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InternatiAal Sunday School Lesson for January 3
TOE SON OF GOD BECOMES MAN
1:|-18 Rev. Samuel D. Price, D. D.
Another five-year cycle of study begins with this lesson. During
1932 we have three months with the Life of Christ, based on John’s
Gospel, six months with Genesis and the Era of Moses, and a closing
quarter on “Christian Standards of Life.” Especially helpful volumes
for the year are “Peloubet’s Select Notes,” Tarbell’s “Teachers Guide,”
and Snowden’s “Sunday School Lessons.” Vest pocket compendiums
are “Gist of the Lesson,” Wells, and “Points for Emphasis,” Moore.
You will wish to read the complete record as found in the four gos
pels. A “Harmony of the Gospels” is especially useful throughout the
course. MatUiew and Luke give the details that are related to the
hirth of Jesus in Bethlehem. But John goes still further back in time
when he says “In the beginning was the Word.” Here is a direct ref
erence to the eternal existence of the Second Person in the Trinity, the
Son-Christ (Messiah).
John is then introduced. This is the son of Zacharias and Elizabeth.
He is known as John the Baptist and is not to be confused with John
the beloved disciple who wrote the Gospel we are now studying. In
Luke 1 you will find fascinating details that are related to the birth
: of this really Old Testament character, who is styled the Forerunner
of the Messiah. •
Sublime activities are attributed to this Son of God. He had His ma.ior
part in creation'during the long ago. The purpose of His earthly min
istry was to providfe a way of salvation for sintul man: “But as many
as received EQln, to them gave He the right to become children of God,?
John 1:12.'
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D OCTOR
JOHN JOSEPH GAINES. M,D,
THE NEW YEAR
Greetings to all! And, adieu to 1931. You and I, dear reader, have
marked another t mile-post on our trip. With the increase in speed
they seem tp show up so much faster—these mile-posts. And yet,
there are precisely as many hours in this year as there were in the
year of our Lord, number one. It’s just busier that we are, that’s all.
So busy we don’t notice the passing of time.
' Every department of science has made strides during the past year:
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eaner than I have ever done before. Just put my pati-
for QNE DAY, and give him a tablet every hour until pers-
ijrts freely. That’s all there is to it. And, he might get
with a tumblerful of hot water every hour, instead of the
"let. But then, the patient wouldn’t feel like he was being
*rly unless he had a little medicine, now, would he?
learned to be skeptical about GERMS hammering down
)f teeth—the hardest substance in the human structure,
me takes place when nutrition is cut off by violence,
and other causes. Chances are, germs have nothing
-with destruction of the enamel of teeth. Let’s be sensi-
Juning year. Your family doctor is able to tell you when
[fight germs.
fear resolves are embodied in the simple determination to
>r BETTER SERVICE in the taking care of my fellow-man
during the coming year. I will be alert for the right, as
fives me to see the right. God bless you all!
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Trouble
Last spring, when the gloom was thickest, t used to drop in at the
end of the day to see the only optimist in New York.
He & a big man physically, a former college football player, a suc-
~ ' executive. Two years ago he was put through a series of major
operations. For twenty-two months he has been strapped to a board,
flat oh his back in bed.
Most nien who are out of the game so long are forgotten. Friends
’visit them for the first few weeks, buUthe atmbsphere of 'the sick room
wessive. The effort to provide' artificial cheer is too much,
they cease to come.
Span’s case is different. Whenever I called I found two or
, visitors, important New York men. They were full of worries.
Their businesses were bad; their stocks had declined; they were on
ly fear. It was interesting and amusing to leave them in the
parlor, talking about their problems, and go up to the bedroom where
our big friend was making the walls shake with his laughter.
>w old are you?” he asked me one day.
len I told him; he said: “You have still some time to go before
you make the most important discovery in life. I made it at the age
of forty :-five, and it changed my whole perspective.
“The discovery is simply this—^trouble is chronic. Most people get
"iged because they proceed on the false assumption that life is
Jy joyous, that its problems and difficulties are exceptional
blemishes on an otherwise delightful experience.
is not the fact. Man is born with no’guarantee that happi-
f to be his daily portion. Pleasure is no part of the life contract.
i$ work and worry and difficulty, with occasional moments of de-
Trouble is not acute: it is chronic,
in you once get that idea it gives you a whole new outlook. You
longer surprised and discouraged to find worry in the morn-
lil. You expect it. You say to your secretary: ‘Give me the
juota of grief at once; let me wade into it first.’ ” \
one of the bravest speeches I had ever heard. I pass it on
encouragement of others.
___ long period of prosperity following the war tended to soften our
.8pirE|8 and destroy our perspective. We began to assume that things
Iways be easy. We were unaccustomed to difficulties, and
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; of us’nave borne them none too well.
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should all do better if we could acquire my big friend’s philoso-
rto expect less from life and therefore enjoy more whatever good
It gives.
regard our blessings as a gracious reward for whatever courage we
ie to exhibit in the face of trouble which, as he says, is chronic.
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H. L. RUSSELL
THE MACHINE AGE
SPOIIS A PROPHECY
Dy H. L. RUSSELL
Advisory Council, Agricultural Commis
sion, American Bankers Association.
A NOTED British scientist forecart
thirty years ago that by 1931 all
available wheat land in the world
would be under
cultivation, and if
the yields per
acre could not be
increased beyond
tnat which then
prevailed there
would be a world
shortage. The av
erage yield then
was 12.7 bushels
per acre. During
the past seven
years, the world
over, it has been
14.1. On the 320,-
000,000 acres in cultivation this in
crease would amount to almost a half
billion bushels more production than
the world standards of thirty years
ago. In place of dire distress due to
shortage, we have had dire distress
due to surplus.
Wheat farmers have shown no great
inclination to curtail materially their
output; perhaps a 10% decline com
pared with 70% reduction in steel.
This unwillingness, or perhaps inabil
ity, to adjust production to current
needs makes the problem all the hard
er to solve.
Not only are we now growing more
wheat per unit of land, but acreage
has been very greatly extended. In
twenty years Canada has increased
acreage 250%. Australia almost as
much. Another significant fact is the
materially lessened use of wheat. A
much more diversified diet has devel
oped. More vegetables and fruits are
used than formerly. The reduction of
1.2 bushel* consumed per person per
annum since the last generation neces
sitates nearly 150,000,000 bushels less
wheat than was formerly required.
Machines Increase Supply
The factor that has exerted the most
potent influence in this rising world
flood of grain has been the rapid de
velopment of the machine. The old
days of the cradle required from thirty
to forty hours of hand labor to harvest
an acre of grain. Then came the bind
er, which reduced the process to four
or five hours per acre. Now the com
bine does the work in forty-five min-/
utes per acre.
Where it used to cost ten cents a
bushfel merely to thresh the grain, the
modern combine cuts and threshes at
a cost ranging from 3 to 5 cents a
bushel. With this reduced cost of pro
duction, the possibility of acreage ex
pansion is tremendous. Lands here
tofore regarded, as worthless except
for grazing have recently come into
competition with the older wheat belts.
The Russian Effort
Within the past two or three years
another disturbing element has come
into the picture. Soviet Russia' is at
tempting a comeback fraught with
possibility that cannot yet be fully
evaluated. Russia is eagerly utilizing
the very latest of scientific knbwledge
to enlarge her agri^Mltural possibili
ties. With feverish anxiety she is
literally pouring Millions into the ex
pansion of her university research in
stitutes, experimental stations and
breeding farms. Her scientists are
combing the earth for new crops and
new methods. No country in Europe
is manifesting more interest and activ
ity in laying hold of the best science,
wherever it may be found.
It is of more than passing interest
that the wheat yields reported on the
huge trust farm known as the “Giant”
ran last j*ear as much as 18 bushels to
the acre. On this single farm the crop
harvested is reported to have been
3,865,000 bushels. A single farm cf
427,000 acres under government con
trol and mechanized as fast as human
energy can be applied is a new factor
iff the world’s picture.
There can be but little doubt that
the Russian situation may yet^assume
quite a different attitude from what
obtained even in pre-war*days.
Intelligent Planning
Improves Hope
CLEMSON COLLEGE, Dec. 19.—
“There is more difference between
the good farmer and the poor far
mer in times like these than ever
before,” said C. R. Arnold, senior
economist of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture, speaking at the Ex
tension Service annual meeting
December 17 on the need for great
er efficiency in farming and the
value of business-like farm record
keeping towards ' this efficiency.
Speaking later on economics Mr.
Arnold said that farmers can no
longer succeed blindly without
pitching farm enterprises by the
outlook on world economic condit
ions. He thought that it may be
best eventually for farming that
| the depression run long enough to
bring dov/n other commodities
comparably with farm product
i prices.
Livestock received prominent at
tention on Thursday’s program
and specialists reported notewor-
j thy increase in interest in hogs,
dairying, cattle, poultry. J. R.
Hawkins, livestock specials!, point
ed out that a little money for fenc
ing for hogs and cattle is a profit
able investment; that we have no
business selling hay which should
be fed to our own cattle; and pres
cribed cow manure poultices on
poor soils as one remedy for our
sick agriculture.
“So long as 87 per cent of our
farms are without dairy cows and
so long as we can produce dairy
products cheaper than in other
areas, there is no danger of farm
dairying being overemphasized in
South Carolina,” said C. G. Cush
man, extension dairy specialist,
pointing out that our advantages
lie in cheap land, mild climate, long
growing season, wide variety of
grazing crops, and cheap roughage.
Ralph Coarsey and R. D. Steer,
dairy specialists, told of progress in
introducing better cows, improved
feeding methods, establishing
creajn stations and routes.
P. H. Gooding, extension poul-
tryman, told of the increase in
South Carolina’s chick hatchery
capacity from 400,000 in 1928 to 1,-
143,000 in 1931 and said, “We have
not yet scratched the surface in
the sale of baby chicks in South
Carolina.” Stating that records
show feed cost to be 80 per cent of
the total cost of egg production,
Mr. Gooding added that feeding
formulas are now simpler and that
home-grown feeds help lower the
cost. He urged early pullets to
beat the midwest producers to the
spring egg market.
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Keating-Blackwell
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Blackwell, of
Laurens, S. C., announce the mar
riage of their daughter, Emmie, to
Mr. John W. Keating of Augusta.
The marriage took place on Christ
mas morning at the parsonage of
the First Christian church, Rev.
Edgar C. Lucas officiating. Though
originally from McCormick, Mrs.
Keating has been living in Augusta
for some years. Mr. and Mrs.
Keating will make their home in
Augusta.—Augusta Chronicle.
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Redmen To Meet
On January 7th
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All members of Shewano Tribe,
No. 112, Improved Order of Red-
men, are urged to attend the meet
ing to be held in the hall over Tne
Peoples Bank of McCormick on
Thursday night, January 7, 1932, at
7:30 o’clock. This is the time for
electing new officers for the next
six months’ term, and there are
other important matters to be at
tended to.
E. J. McCRACKEN,
Sachem.
A. J. HENDRIX,
C. of W.
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Death Of A
Colored Woman
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New Head of Rutgers
Robert G Clothier, dean of the
University of Pittsburgh, has been
elected president of Rutgers Umver-
sity in New Jersey, one of the old-
1 est colleges in America.
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Bankers Hold Farm Conference
A “feeders’ conference” was held
in a state bank at Presho, South Da
kota, attended by fifty farmers.’ The
conference stressed the feeding ot low
price wheat and barley, and marketing
it through livestock. Later, booklets
on the feeding of wheat were distrib
uted among the farmers, and a feeders
column was carried in the local paper
each week.
"We have had more success with
the conference and with the feeders
column in the local paper, than with
any other undertaking we have tried,’’
the bankers said. “As a result there
Is about three times as much livestock
being fed out in our territory than
ever before. We plan to hold other
similar conferences the coming year."
Portrait of Dr. Charles rf. Farjc-
tarrst, painted by PaulKingrccently,
hangs m the nooms $>f ffve
Association of Ncw ..
Farkhurst gained world-wide fame
^ foSTStacte on political partner
ship with vice.
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Eyes examin
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DR. HENjflM- GOjDIN
Optometrist!
>66 Broad Street .— Augusta, Gu.
The benefits of civilization exist be
cause of The capital accumulated by
those who have gone before. Through
accumulation of capital our great rail
roads have been constructed, our pub
lie utilities have been built and our
mills, office buildings and homes have
arisen. I
Buy fertilizers according to the
analysis on the bag and not the
trade name, says the U, S. Depart
ment of Agriculture. Trade names
on fertilizers are often confusing.
The composition of a mixture put
out under ^ certain trade name
may vary tfoailjBeason to season,
and som^d&fi^ertilizers with dif-
ferent x ^^Kttvulappear under the
same ti
Sallie Yeldell, wife of George
Yeldeil. died at their home here
early Sunday morning, following a
long illness. She was 68 years of
age and had lived in and near Mc
Cormick all her life.
Funeral services were conducted
at 11 o’clock Tuesday morning at
Bethany Church, McCormick, .of
which she had been a faithful
member for 50 years, and interment
made in McCain cemetery. J. S.
Strom’s Service in charge. She is
survived by her husband.
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“O LITTLE TOWN OF
BETHLEHEM”
(By Phillips Brooks)
O little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie! :
Above thy deep and dreamless
sleep
The silent stars go by;
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light;
The hopes and fears of all the
years
Are met in thee to-night.
For Christ is born of Mary,
And, gathered all above,
.While mortals sleep, the angelg
keep
Their watch of wonderful love.
O morning stars, together
Proclaim the holy birth!
And praises sing to God the King,
And peace to men on earth.
How silently, how silently,
The wonderous gift is given!
So God imparts to human hearts
The blessings of His heaven.
No ear may hear His coming.
But in this world of sin.
Where‘meek souls will receive Him
still, ’ v
The dear Christ enters in.
O holy Child of Bethlehem.
Descend to us, we pray;
Cast out our sin, and enter in.
Be bom in us today.
We hear the Christmas angels
The great glad tidings tell;
Oh come to us, abide with us,
Our Lord Emmanuel!
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DIRGE FOR THE YEAR
(By Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Orphan hours, the year is dead,
Come and sigh, come and weep?
Merry hours, smile instead,
For the year is but asleep.
See, it smiles as it is sleeping,
Mocking your untimely weeping.
As an earthquake rocks a corpse
In its coffin in the clay,
So white Winter, that rough nurse.
Rocks the dead-cold year today;
Solemn hours! wail aloud
For your mother in her shroud.
As the wild air stirs and sways
The tree-swung cradle of a child,
So the breath of these rude days
Rocks the year:—be calnr and 1
mild,
Trembling hours; she will arise'
With new love within her eyes.
Jar- ary gray is here,
I’ke a sexton by her grave;
Feh uary bears the bier;
march with grief doth howl and'
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And April weeps—but, O’ ye hours,.
Follow with May’s fairest flowers.
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