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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18. 1937 Patriotic Service There is a debt of service due from every maft to his country, proportioned to the bounties which Nature and Fortune have meas ured to him.—Jefferson. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are an effective laxative. Sugar coated. Children like them. Buy now!—Adv. Late Remembrances Statues are r^tred to men at a time when they ,, jlon’t care. I ftexei |0HHH *PlulUp/W<M| To Alkalize Stomach Quickly On all sides, people are learning that the way to gain almost incredibly quick relief, from stomach condition arising from overacidity, is to alka lize the stomach quickly with Phil lips' Milk of Magnesia. You take either two teaspoons of the liquid Phillips' after meals; or two Phillips* Milk of Magnesia Tab lets. Almost instantly “acid indiges tion” goes, gas from hyperacidity, “add - headaches*' — from over-in dulgence in food or smoking — and nausea are relieved. 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He’s reached the age of discretion now, and he doesn’t go whooping around in the country on rocks anymore, but when he was sixteen years old—well—it seems he didn't much care what he traveled on. In those days be lived in the little town of Vinalhaven, Maine, and had a job working for a fellow named Coombs who ran a small boat building establishment down by the water front. Blasting Solid Rock to Make a Cellar. Coombs was just building his shop at the time this all happened. He had the foundation laid and was nailing down the floor. Just across the street, a fellow named Carnes was conducting some building operations too. Carnes was digging a cellar—blasting it out of solid rock. And Ernie and Coombs, plugging away on their own carpenter job, worked to the tune of intermittent thunder as Carnes set off one blast after another. Carnes set off several blasts without giving them a word of fore warning, but one fine summer day he yelled across the street: “Hey, you boys better get out of the way. I’ve got a little more powder in here this time.” So Ernie and Coombs lay down their tools and began taking around for a place where they would be under cover. The water front at Vinalhayen started with a high sandbank. Below that was a narrow beach, and beyond the beach, mud flats stretched far out into the water. Took Shelter in a Little Shack. It was low tide and the mud flats were almost bare. At the edge of the bank was a fish house—a .flimsy little shack ten feet long by eight feet wide—and a few feet away from that was a big, solid wood pile 20 or 30 feet long and Well over six feet high. « Coombs and Ernie ^lectecl to stand in the shelter of the fish house. There, they thought, they wtnlld 'be out of the way of flying stones and bits of rubble that Carries’ blast might kick up. They gave Carnes the signal that they were under cover. Coombs was sitting behiricl the little shed, but Ernie, who wanted to see the fire^ftSHS; was stahding at the corner, where he could get a full view PYpincmn ^ Carnes lit the fuse and ducked for cover himself. ^ aited * Then, suddenly,' the air was shat tered with a terrj^jrbjjgj- , “I was wijgbptli eyes,” says Ernie, “and I thought the heavensilktr^klfln jw The very air itself seemed to rock back and IocUumSOP was filled with stones—millions of them, of all sizes and shapes. ’ But what struck terror into my heart was a great boulder that had shot up out of that pit and was coming str'diglR for our shelter!” Carried on a Huge Boulder. That rock was a monster. When they measured it later they found it was four feet long two feet wide and more than two feet thick. But Ernie didn’t need any measurements to see it was big—didn’t need any one to tell him that if it ever struck that flimsy shed behind which he and Coombs were standing it would splinter it to matchwood and knock the very tar out of the man and the boy behind it. Ernie let out a cry and started to move. A few steps away was the woodpile, high and solid, and he started to run for that. “But I never made it,” he says. “Instead, the rock made me. It landed on a stone ledge beside our half completed boat shop, bounced off at an angle and came rocketing straight at me.” The next thing Ernie knew the rock was landing for its second bounce RIGHT AT HIS FEET. Ernie had presence of mind enough to jump, but the jump did him no good. Suddenly he felt the rock come up under him and he was being carried through the air. After that, Ernie couldn’t tell you exactly what happened. And small blame to Ernie for that. Coombs was standing behind the fish shed watching the whole business. He had his eyes glued on Ernie all the time, and he couldn’t tell you exactly what happened either. All he knows is that he saw Ernie carried for THIRTY-TWO FEET out into the mud flats—they measured the distance afterward—and then the rock went on over the flats leaving Ernie behind flat on his back in the muck. When Ernie got his bearings again he was in the mud. The rock was still rolling, twenty or thirty feet farther out. He saw it stop, and then le heard somebody on the bank cry out, “Carnes has killed the Smith boy!” Not Dead “By a Darn Sight.” f “But I lay there in the mud,” says Ernie, “saying, ’Not by a darn sight be hasn’t.’ It took me a* few moments to work my feet and hands clear of the mud, and then, to the surprise of a dyzen people I got up and walked over the flats toward the sand liU i r . “Not a man offered me a hand as I started to climb the bank. They just stood there petrified, looking as if a ghost was coming f at them.;-. But when I did get up they asked me what happened. No one seemed to know except Mr. Coombs, who had been watching me, and he wasn’t any too sure himself.” Two doctors had just landed from a boat at a wharf close by, and they looked Ernie over. Except that his clothes were practically torn to ribbons and his right side had a few black and blue spots, they couldn’t find anything the matter at all. The next day Ernie went back to work again, and his first job was juggling ROCKS—clearing away about two tons of them that had come out of Carnes’ excavation and showered all over Coombs’ half-laid boat-shop floor. . . ©—WNU Service. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAYI chool Lesson By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. Dean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. v •, v« * •* . Lesson for February 21 THE POWER OF JESUS OVER DEATH LESSON TEXT — John 11:23-28. 32-44. GOLDEN TEXT—I am the resurrec tion, and the life. John 11:25. PRIMARY TOPIC — When Jesus' Friends Stopped Crying. JUNIOR TOPIC — With Jesus at Lazarus’ Tomb. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— The Power of Jesus *over Death. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADUI.T TOPI r *— The Power of Jesus over Death. Hands Reveal Character Anyone who sits with hands loosely clasped in the lap is of a quiet, well-balanced mind, while the nervous person tries to control nerv ousness by tightly gripping the hands together, states a writer in Pearson’s London Weekly. One who has a habit of clasping hands with fingers entwined is not keeping strictly to the truth, while one who partially covers the mouth with a hand while talking has certain knowl edge, but is trying desperately not to reveal it. A person who remains seated while conversing with an other who is standing finds it very difficult to tell an untruth and apy attempt to do so is easily detected by the person standing. Lavender Favorite Perfume Lavender is one of the favorite perfumes the world over and enor mous quantities of the dried flowers are used annually to make the per fume and other lavender products. The yield of oil varies from year to year depending on the weather arid the age of the bushes. The plants are very tender to any frost. The oil has to be stored from three to five years before it is sufficiently matured for use in tjie perfumery and other trades. Saint Bernard of Mastiff Family Unlike many other breeds, the origin of the Saint Bernard is a bit hazy, but early historians have agreed this type of dog belongs to the Mastiff family. The ancient rec ords produce evidence that Mastiff dogs were brought from Asia, and used by the Romans as herders of sheep, besides being kept as watch dogs at army outposts. It has also been established that Roman sol diers used large dogs to guide sheep over the mountain passes, one of which was called the Saint Bernard Pass, no more than a pack mule path. A hostile tribe destroyed this, path and cut off travel over the mountains around 950 A. D. Life, even to the follower of Jesus Christ, has its hours of sorrow, suf fering, and bereavement. While the Christian is not “of the world,” he is “in the world,” and here he must meet the problems of life, including the evils to which the flesh is heir because of sin. The fact that Jesus is our friend and our Saviour does not exempt us from human sorrow, but it does assure us of the needed grace to bear the trial and to trust Him even in life’s darkest hour. Lazarus, the friend of Jesus, was sick. The home in which Jesus had found rest and fellowship was in deep trouble. Jesus was no longer in Judea. In haste word is sent to him of his friend’s illness. But he does not come. • ’ Why does he delay? Such is the heart-cry of thousands today who call on him in their hour of trouble. The purposes of God are beyond our ability fully ta-understand. We need but to trust him and abide his time. Notice ^that his failure to re spond at once to the message, of Lazarus’ sisters did not mean that he had deserted them (11:4-6). Nor did it mean that Jie had denied them his help (11:7). Lazarus may have been dead before the word reached him. He may also have delayed in order that there might be no question about the resurrec tion miracle. And he may have tarried in order that their * faith might be strengthened. Above aHv do nqt fail to notice that he came. He always does. Jesus has never failed any child of his. The time and the mariner of his, answer to our prayers may not con form to our opinion of what should have been done, but let us‘rerriehv- ber that we know only in part, he knows ah> .Let us trust him. Jpb in his darkest hour said, “Though he slay nje, yet will I trust in him.” (Job 13:15). It is suggested that the lesson for today be studied and- taught by considering three pairs of words giving cause and effect. I. Death—Sorrow (vv. 32-35; also vy. 19-21). Try as we may to temper its cruel blow, the fact remains that death is the enemy of man. It came into the world as the result of sin (Rom. 5:12), and only in Christ is it “swallowed up in victory” (I Cor. 15:54). Until the glorious day of Christ’s returning when the redemp tion of the body yrill be complete (Rom. 8:23), death will still be the enemy which brings sorrow to the heart and tears to the eyes. But let us not fail to notice that as the friends of Jesus we do not sorrow alone. He is with us. “Jesus wept” (v. 35) with Martha and Mary. He weeps with us in our trying hour. He is the “friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” j; IL -Faith—Hope (vv. 23-28). * Tliose who believe in Christ have more than the comfort of his sym pathizing presence—they have a sure hope. -Read I Thessalonians 4:14-18. 1 Sorrow and unbelief would becloud our faith and thus rob us of our hope. Martha needed to have her faith stimulated by the gracious wordsr of the Lord, and then she triumphantly puts her hope in him as “the Christ of God.” Once we recognize him as God, we have no hesitation in believing in his mi raculous power. III. Christ—Resurrection (vv. 25, 26, 38-44). Majestic and authoritative are the words of Christ, “I am the resur rection and the life.” He it was who gave life, for was he not “in the beginning with God”? And is it not said of him that “all things were made by him”? And Paul tells us that “by him all things consist.” He is the only one who could say, “I lay down my life. I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it up again.” (John 10:17, 18.) So it can rightly be said that if we have Christ we have everything— both in this world and in the world to come. But if we do not have Christ we have nothing. We are without God and without hope. * One can sense the urgency of the soul-winner’s task, when this truth is known and realized. Fen Eagles Fen eagles were famous in the Eighteenth century for the quanti ties of fish they devoured off the Norfolk coast. One of them, shot down in Suffolk in 1810, measured nine feet across the wings. The high rewards given for their cap ture played a great part in their extermination. One hundred years ago, says the Montreal Herald, any body who destroyed an eagle in the Orkneys was entitled to the gift of a hen from every household in the nearest village. Happiness and Love Happiness is the legitimate fruit age of love and service. 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