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Thursday, September 22, 1932 McCOhidICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER SEVEN Lindy and Ann in Pure Silver yV-y. 'W:v Him m These new portraits busts in pure silver, of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh have been added to the Lindbergh Collection at the Jefferson Memorial Building in St. Louis. They are by the Japanese sculptor, Shinzo Fukunara, and awarded in commemoration of their flight to the Orient fiftUCf BARTON ♦ ♦ -a)rites of “THE^MASTER EXECUTIVE” Supplying a week-to-week inspiration for the heavy* burdened who will find .^every hiunaa tnal^)arajleled irrthe experiences of "The Man Nobody Knows,* S ri Brace A LEADER OF MEN In any crowd and under any circumstances the leader stands out. By the power of his faith in himself he commands, and men instinctive ly obey. This blazing conviction was the first and greatest element in the success of Jesus. The second was his wonderful power to pick men, and to recognize hidden capacities in them. It must have amazed Nicodemus when he learned the names of the twelve whom the young teacher had chosen to be his associates. What a list! Not a single well-known person on it. Nobody who had ever made a success of anything. A haphazard collection of fishermen and smalltown busi ness men and one tax collector—a member of the most hated element in the community. What a crowd!. Nowhere is there such a startling example of executive success as the way in-which that organization was brought together . Take the Elector, Matthew, as the most striking instance. His occupation carried a heavy weight of social ostracism, but it was profitable. He was probably well-to-do according to the simple standards of the neigh borhood; certainly he was a busy man and not subject to impulsive ac tion. His addition to the group of disciples is told in a single sen tence “And as Jesus passed by, he called Matthew.” Amazing. No argument; no pleading. A smaller leader would have been compelled to set up the advantages of the opportunity. “Of course you are doing well where you are and making money,” he irfight have said. “I can’t offer you as much as you are getting; in fact you may have some difficulty in making ends meet. But I think we are going to have an interesting time and shall probably accomplish a big work.” Such a conversation would have been met with Matthew’s re ply that he would “have to think it over,” and the world would never have heard his name. Jesus had the bom leader’s gift for seeing powers in men of which they themselves were often almost unconscious. One day as he was coming into a certain town a tremendous crowd pressed around him. There was a rich man named Zacchaeus in town; small in stature, but with such keen business ability that he had got himself generally dis liked. Being curious to see the distinguished visitor he had climbed up into a tree. Imagine his surprise when Jesus stopped under the tree and commanded him to come down saying, “Today I intend to eat at your house.” * The crowd was stunned. Some of the bolder spirits took it upon themselves to tell Jesus of his social blunder. He couldn’t afford to make the mistake of visiting Zacchaeus, they said. Their protests were without avail. They saw in Zacchaeus merely a dishonest Jew; Jesus saw in him a man of unusual generosity and a fine sense of justice, who needed only to have those qualities reveled by some one who understood. So with Matthew—the crowd saw only a despised tax-gatherer. Jesus saw the potential writer of a book which will live forever. Next Week: Third Secret of Success Copyright, Bobbs-Merrill Co. Experience Service Facilities . Those are the important things in measuring the worth of a funeral director, and should be borne in mind when you have occasion to choose one DISTANCE IS NO HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICE and there is no additional charge for service out of town J. S. STROM Main Street McCormick, S. C. THE FAMILY DOCTOR JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M.D. WARNINGS AGAINST I heard a blithering charlatan the other night, hawking a well- known nostrum, and for every imaginable, trumped-up reason, urging the simple listener to buy it. You have heard this ballyhoo many times, delivered in a solemn, almost ministerial voice. I imagine they sell millions of bottles of the stuff—nothing certain about it but the pay for it. This nostrum, you are assured, is good for everything from snake bite to gangrene! It was being exploited as a cure for ivy poisoning, common at this season. Somebody in despair had “swabbed the in fected area—it acted like magic.” The exploiting dramatist said the victim had accidentally touched “poison oak.” That name is as ancient as the nostrum racket. Poison oak indeed! Absolute ignorance was shown in the reference to “the infected” area. Ivy poisoning is not an “infection.” No more than a burn by fire is an infection. It is simply an intense acid irritation—no infec tion-germs involved in the process. I have an idea that ivy acid would destroy many infecting micro-organisms. There is no “infected ^rea” in rhus poisoning. Carbolic acid is one of the deadliest poisons on earth; it needs no “germs” to aid it in killing folks. The commercialized huckster that tells you his stuff will make wholesale slaughter of ‘‘germs” in so many seconds—is good to be wary of; he probably never saw a germ in his life; he is simply out to do a million dollars worth of business, and, you pay the freight, dear reader. Ask your family physician, who has been trained by the best methods known. Ly IW CLarles E. Dutm, ^ 1 ✓ Rev Chas, £ Dvnn Lesson For September 25th. REVIEW: MOSES HONORED IN JUS DEATH Deuteronomy 32:48-52; 34:5-8 Golden Text: Psalm 116:15 The lessons for the last quarter have dealt with the career of Moses. The narrative for this Sunday describes his death at Mount Nebo, and his burial in an^unknown tomb. It affords a fit opportunity to pause and meditate upon the significance of this massive . soul, the founder of the Hebrew religion. He it was who definitely made Jeho vah the national God of the Israelites, and established the initial stages of their religious and political organization. Truly he was God’s man of destiny. Let us glance at his spectacular biography. We note that he was fortunate, as a child, to fall under the protection of Pharaoh’s daughter, who nurtured him as her own son. Thus he was a highly favored lad, reared in an environment of luxury and learning. But happily these privileges did not blind him to the sad plight of his brethren. The curtain rises again and we find our hero brooding, in the des ert of Midian. Here an imperative divine call to leadership is sound ed from a burning bush. Moses hesitates and objects. # But he fin ally obeys, and the rest of his life is a revelation of the magnificance of his response. . > rr Some one has said that nothing is wasted in human life when once a great idea takes hold of it. The idea of liberty, with justice, under God, took possession of the conscience and will of Moses with compell-, ing power, so that all he had done in his long days of preparation came to his aid. and he became one of the greatest organizing geniuses in history, exhibiting a practical and powerful executive ability. We see him stedfast and intrepid through the stormy vicissitudes of plague, passover, crossing of the sea, and wilderness wandering. He emerges as a world figure whose Ten Commandments are the Magna Charta cf humanity. I The great man, Carlyle reminds us, is “the living light-fountain.” Such was Moses. But let us remember that the secret of his greatness lies in the directing providence of God who always remains with the man He chooses to serve Him. A Sure American Sign of Autumn mi V* m w ftj. CAS. On athletic fields of schools and colleges throughout the United States, thousands of young Americans arc giving close attention to the words of, trainers and coaches, each with high hope that his will be the name to thrilj the crowds in our great national school game of football. . . . 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