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Thursday, August 18,1932 McCOhMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER SEVEN hy K^v. Ckarles E. Dwtin, ^ 1 V Rev Omm. X D«a« / THE TENT OF MEETING Lesson for August 21—EJxodus 33:7-16 Goldent Text: Exodus 33:11 The Tabernacle of the congregation, as the Authorized Version calls 1 of the hole. SILVER . . . watch developments— As I have been predicting in this column, the remonetization of sil ver has become a topic of world wide discussion by governments and economists. The proposal to put the Indian rupee back on a silv3r basis and to restore the silver con tent of the subsidiary coinage of the British Empire is being hotly debated at the conference in Otta wa. At the International Economic Conference called by the League o' Nations for October, the United States has insisted that the posi- FAITH . . . buys farm land— tkm of silver as money be given a One of my farmer neighbors call- place on the program, ed on me the other day. He want- i think it is quite probable that ed to buy forty acres of my land to we shall eventually see a small psr- add to his hundred and sixty. centage of silver added to the gold “How do you expect to pay for reserves of the world and used as didn’ It, or the tent of meeting, as the Revised Version more correctly names it? ” 3 asked him. “1 didn’t know an additional basis for money any of you dairymen were making money, with milk down to four cents a gallon.” it, was a portable sanctuary constructed by the Hebrews, in their wild erness pilgrimage, to serve as the earthly dwelling of God. Its furn ishings were very costly and elaborate, directly foreshadowing the famous Temple of Solomon, its counterpart and successor. While called a tent, the Tabernacle was in reality a house, with up right walls of thick boards on three sides, and a curtain at the fourth. There was a large, outer apartment for priests only, known as the Holy Place, containing the table of shewbread, the golden candlestick, and more head of cows in the spring, the altar of incense. A smaller, inner apartment, entered only once a and I’ll need more pasture. A lot year by the high priest, and containing the Ark of the Covenant, was of the folks around here are selling which will be acceptable every where. If that is done, the effect will be to increase the volume of “We’re not,” replied my neighbor, money and so increase the value of “but things can’t get any worse, so i commodities. This will help every they are bound to get better. I figure on buying twelve or fifteen, off their cows and throwing up their hands, but I’ve been farming forty years and I’ve never seen the time when the fellow that sticks to it and does the best he can didn’t come out all right in the end.” I told John he could have the land, and I complimented him on the Holy of Holies. There are two fundamental truths heralded by this ancient struc ture. First of all, the tent of meeting teaches the holiness of God. It was ever, whether at rest or in motion, an outward and visible sign of the beauty of holiness. “The Lord our God is holy” said the Psalmist. Now holiness signifies that God is apart from us, that we must bow in awe before Him. It further teaches that God is unlike men, with no trace of the evil that so mars human nature. ' Secondly the Tabernacle proclaims the necessity of the Church. It uiis faith in the future. It has al- was a center of worship, a meeting place where the people could as- j ways seemed to me that uhe real semble for the social and sacred celebration. backbone of America is that qual- Now the Church today has ceased to be a major interest of the ma- ity of confidence. Our recent jority. Yet few would deny that we need an organized form of religion.: troubles have largely been due to All right thinking persons agree that the Church as a beloved “Com- loss of faith in the realities of life, munity of Memory and Hope,” to quote Professor Rqyce, is indispen- Too many people are too far re sable to tke health of society 1 . There alone can men, cursed with triv- moved from the soil, but the man iality and secularism, catch an adequate vision of God, and speak unto with his feet on the ground and Him as did Moses who, our Golden Text assures us, addressed his Mak- the courage and ability to work is er “face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.” the one who is going to pull us out They Spell Something By Albert T. Reid ff i'A 'frlMje wiU debtor, who must pay his debts either in labor or commodities pro duced by labor, and it will not in jure any creditors except those who are trying to take advantage of present low commodity prices to grind their debtors. CAMERA ... to doctor’s aid— I was in the office of a medical friend the other day and noticed for the first time a hole in the wall, almost concealed by the pattern of the wall paper, i asked the doctor what that was for. He took out of the file on his desk several cards, on each of which was a photograph of myself. “That’s the latest idea for a busy specialist,” he said. “I don’t see my patients every few days, but only once a year or so as I do you. I cannot remember what each one of them looks like, and, besides, it is of importance in my specialty to have a record of any change in a patient’s posture or appearance from year to year., So I have a camera rigged up behind that par tition, and every time you have been in here for the last five years you have been photographed. Take a look at the pictures. Don’t you think you look better than you did)” TAXES . . . the Beloit way— There are seventy cities in the United States which pay all of their municipal running expenses out of the profit from operation of municipally-owned public utilities. Beloit, Wisoonsin, nearly 25,000 in habitants, is the latest and largest city to take taxes off real estate. The city of Jacksonville, Florida, owns the community’s electric light and power system, and also owns the toll bridge across the St. Johns river. Both of these investments have been paid for, and now the Commissioner of Publip Utilities has proposed to the city council that if they will scale the budget down 25 I^r cent he will provide income from the operation of these utili ties to run the city without any taxes on real property. If this plan is adopted in this city of 140,000 in habitants, I expect hundreds of other large municipalities to follow Jacksonville’s example. POMERENE . . . his appointment— I used to know Atlee Pomerene years ago out in Ohio, when he was Lieutenant-Governor, and active in Democratic politics. Even then he had the reputation of being one of the ablest minds in the state. A lot of people didn’t like him, but even his Republican opponents respected him. Pdbple said that Pomerene was one of the few men in politics whose word could be .ab- jsolutely relied upon. The comment has been made that in appointing ex-Senator Pom erene as chairman of the Recon struction Finance Corporation, President Hoover has placed at the head of the greatest banking insti tution in the a man who 35 riot a banker.. But I remember that long before he had risen to political heights, Atlee Pomerene, although a lawyer by profession, had organized what turned out to be one of the soundest small banks in the state, in his home city of Canton. 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