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Thursday, June 30, 1932
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
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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
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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?
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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.
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