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Thursday, June 30, 1932 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER TWO Smtdty Scfmtlesso# CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION OF MOSES Lesson for July 3 Exodus 2:1-10; Acts 7:20-22 Golden Text: Proverbs 22:6 Rev. Samuel D. Price, D. D. The birth of Moses marks an epoch in human history. In strange ways does God call men and women to places of leadership and great responsibility. With this child of slave parents floating among the reeds in the little basket there was little to suggest the great leader of Israel and lawgiver of all generations. How vain was Pharoah’s strat egy! Like the Herod of a later day all his planning went for naught. He thought by his cruel edict to blot out a generation of Hebrew chil dren, yet the choicest flower of them all is preserved; he thought by the use of Egypt’s mighty power to destroy all aspiration and hope, but his own daughter becomes the instrument of defeating his plans. What then were the forces through which the plans of one o{*the most powerful monarchs of ancient history were overthrown? (1) Moses had a Godly inheritance. His mother, Jochabel (Exodus 6:20) was a woman of faith and, perhaps influenced by the story of God’s deliver ance of Noah, prepared the miniature ark to protect her own boy. In the midst of many dangers she took such precautions as she knew, then committed her child to God’s care. Moses’ parents refused to yield to fear either of the heartless Pharoah (Heb. 11:23) or the lurking perils of the Nile, but rested calmly in the faith that God would deliver. (2) Moses in a marvelously Providential way received his early training from his mother, being restored to her care for a time by the daughter of Pharoah. (3) Moses had in early life come into a vital religious ex perience of his own and he could clearly see that no amount of learning or no crude superstitions such as the Egyptians believed could satisfy the soul or afford a substitute for God’s constant presence and guid ing land. FASTER THAN RADIO An unpleasant rumor began to circulate about a certain man. Such stories are an unsolved mystery. How do they start? What is the magic which spreads them, magic more deadly than lightning, faster than radio. You hear the tale in New York; you climb into an airplane and as you climb down in San Francisco you hear a voice exclaim: “What do you know about So and So?” If the victim is famous and of enviable reputation, the broadcasting is twice as rapid. In the instance referred to this was the case. Here are the comments of the first three men who hastened to teH me the story: ( Number One: “It just shows that you never can'tell. Who’d think that old X would be up to such tricks?” Number Two: “I was terribly shocked. What in the world could he have been thinking about?” . Both these broadcasters, you see, assumed at once that the man was guilty. Number Three spoke with honest indignation. “I’ve known X for years. You can’t make me believe that he ever did anything crooked. I don’t care what the story is. I simply will not believe it.” The full facts came out a few weeks later and proved X an inno cent victim. But the damage had been done. There was a wise preacher in my boyhood who would say to the Sunday school: “Never believe what you hear and only half of what you see.” Much of what cur eyes tell us is untrue. I see the sun move every day around the earth but, it does not move. I see that my cane, when I thrust it into the water, is crooked. But it is not crooked. Eyes are notorious deceivers. And as for the ears, they need to be policed every minute by tolerance and sympathy and common sense. Mr. X, of whom I have spoken, had lived an upright life for forty years. Surely,'this should have counted in his favor. Surely, the an swer of all his acquaintances should have been: “He’s all right. He cannot have done it. We deny this libel.” The discouraging thing was that two out of three seemed to be secretly pleased that another good man had gone wrong. COMMODITIES— A hundred and fifty years ago a store in Albany advertised that it had for sale, “Tammies, half-thicks, Persians and pelongs, blue sagatha and red bunts, ticklenburghs and black everlastings, and handker chiefs known under the names of bandanoe, lungee, romals, culgee, puttical and silk setetersoy.” Who today knows what any of these commodities was? I wonder if historians 150 years from now, looking over such of our newspaper files as have not been destroyed by time, will wonder what sort of things Americans of 1932 wore, which we advertised as step- ins, three-in-ones, celanese, panties, and woolies. Those are just a few words I happened to catch in look ing over advertisements in today’s paper. SALARIES— Senators and members ef Con gress who have been making a gal lant fight against government sal ary reductions which would re duce their own $10,000-a-year stip ends, might be interested in reading the newspapers of the year 1789, the year when our present form of government began > and George Washington was first inaugurated President. A Boston newspaper started a loud cry of protest against the sal aries paid to members of Congress. They received the enormous stip- ; end of $6 a day, and the Speaker j of the House got $12. That, ac- j cording to the public opinion of the time, was twice as much as they were worth. Comparing . anybody’s expendi tures today with -those of even forty years ago, they seem wildly ex travagant, but that is because the value of the dollar has changed SCHOLARSHIP AND ENTRANCE EXAMINATION THE MESSENGER DOES HIGH GRADE COMMERCIAL PRINTING i AT REASONABLE PRICES. SEND US YOUR NEXT ORDER. The examination for the award of vacant scholarships in Winthrop College will be held at every Coun ty Courthouse in the State on Wed nesday, June 29th at 9 a. m. This examination will be held whether there are vacant scholarships or not, as vacancies may occur after the examination. Applicants for scholarship should write to Presi dent Kinard before the examina tion for blanks. Scholarships are worth $100.00 and free tuition. Applicants for admission to Win throp College, who do not hold State High School diplomas, may stand entrance examination at ev ery County Courthouse in the State on Wednesday, June 29th and Thursday, June 30th at 9 a. m. Applicants for both examinations must be not less than sixteen years of age. For further information and cat alog, also for information concern ing Summer School, address Presi dent James P. Kinard, Rock Hill, S. C. materially in forty years, with the enormous additions to the world’s gold supply that have been made in that time. GOLD— Just as news comes that the gold deposits in the Witwatersrand in South Africa, which in recent years has produced more than half of the world’s annual supply of yellow metal, are beginning to “peter out,” as miners picturesquely express it, comes the news of the discovery of what may turn out to be the world’s greatest bonanza district in north ern Manchuria. O. L. Cranfelt, a mining en gineer, reports that he found an area 350 miles long and nearly as wide in which all the indications are that there is more gold readily and cheaply obtainable than in any mining district that has ever been developed in the world’s history. If this proves true and it is found feasible for foreigners to develop this new gold field, the inevitable result will be a great enlargement of the world’s money supply with consequent increase of commodity prices and a new spurt of prosper ity. That is exactly what has fol lowed every great gold strike in the oast. One of the important underlying causes of the present world-wide economics distress is the failure of the gold supply to keep pace with the increasing demand for money and credits based upon gold. HORSES— Horses are coming back into u$e mere rapidly than at any time since the war. Farmers are not return ing to the old horse and buggy, or using horses to haul commodities to distant markets, but they are finding, this year, that the good old reliable horse is a more eco nomical sotirce of power for plow ing and general farm work than the motorized tractor. It takes money to buy gasoline and almost any farm can raise enough fodder for the necessary horses. Up in my country where a great many of my farmer neighbors have not owned a horse for years, there is an active horse market. Horses which could have been bought for $100 or less a couple of years ago now sell from $150 to $200 each. FLAG— Historians have finally decided that Betsy Ross did not design the flag of the United States. The thir teen horizontal stripes, according to the latest researches, was designed by Washington himself, when he took command of the Colonial troops at Cambridge in July, 1775, although it was not raised over his headquarters until January 3, 1776. It was called the “Grand Union” and was the English flag with the crosses of St. George and St. An drew, and thirteen stripes repre senting the thirteen colonies. That flag was used a good deal in the Revolution, and there was another flag that had no stripes at all but thirteen red stars in a circle on a white field. Historians are casting doubt up on the supposed resolution of the Continental Congress of June 14, 1777 adoptnig the Stars and Stripes, because they cannot find any rec ords of the Stars and Stripes in use before May 1, 1795. If history is so confused about things that hap pened in our own nation’s early days, how much reliance can we place on the recorded details of the history of ancient Greece and Rome? txt Rotary Hand-Shaker Succeeds McGraw Below—“Memphis Bill” Terry, brilliant first baseman who now man ages the Nj Y. Giants. He was named by John J. McGraw (above), who lead the Giants for 30 years. j Lead G.O.P. Campaign R. L. (Bob) Hill, Columbia, Mo., 1 Chsirman of the 1932 Rotary j International Convention at: Seattle, Wash., just closed. He • claims a “hand-shaking acquaint ance” with 70.000 people. Lverett Sanders, Indiana*.former- '•rcrclary to Calvin Coolidge, will) cr-ct the Hoover-Curtis campaigm lie was etected Chairman, Repub lican National Committee at Chicago- T he D em ocrats .Move In In the same quarters that housed the Republicans at Chicago in mid-June, the Democratic National Con- ventiop got under way as pictured in scenes above. Upper left, interior of Stadium as the convention came to order. Upper right. Senator Cordell Hull, Tennessee, chairman of the important Platform Com mittee. Lower right, scene on Madison Street, show ing delegates milling around the convention hall entrance. j Hoover and Curtis in First Official 1932 Pose Republican nominees, Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis, strolled r ^ cn the White House lawn for the first official 1932 pose, the day ;,Cs;er being nominated for President and Vice-President at the Chi ta gc G.O.P. convention. PLAY AS YOU LIKE Our good beauty aids will protect your skin. 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