McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, August 18, 1932, Image 7
Thursday, August 18,1932
McCOhMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
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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
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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. And the fundamentals of
banking are no different, whether
one is running the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation or a small
town savings bank.
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