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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1939 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON EW YORK.—One day, a long time ago, a 17-year-old girl, Janet Lord, was walking along Han over street in Boston, a place where , you meet sea- Mother Roper* faring men To Sailors of from all ports The Seven Seae of c iy‘ li2e , d world. Attract ed by a hymn tune, she stopped before a building, listened to the music of a melodeon, the lusty (chorus of men’s voices, and, at length, drawn by a power greater than her girlish timidity, she mount ed the steps and so entered the headquarters of the Boston Sea men’s Friends society. Thus des tiny took hold of Janet’s life and showed her the way to go. Now Janet Roper, house mother of the Seamen’s Church institute on South street, New York, is observing the fiftieth anniversary of her work among sailors, and there is hardly a forecastle from the Cape of Good Hope to Cairo, from John O’Groats to the Ambrose Light which does not contain at least one shellback beholden to her in any one of an infinite variety of ways. She is slender, almost frail of physique. There are only a few traces of gray in her hair for all her GS 1 years, and her eyes snap with intelligence, vitality and kindly humor. r Several years ago Mother Roper devised the idea of publishing lists of missing seamen, copies being sent to seamen’s homes throughout the world for display upon bulletin boards. The service has obtained extraordinary results. Sailors out of touch with their families for years have been located and con tacts restored, brothers have been reunited in far-flung ports; all sorts of happy things have been effected. In all, to date, 5,327 sailormen sup posedly swallowed in the sea or for ever merged in the melting pots of alien ports, have been recovered from oblivion. / While in Boston, Mother Ro per met and subsequently mar ried a Congregational clergy man, engaged in similar serv ice. They worked together in Gloucester, in Canada and in Oregon until her husband’s death in 1915, when she came to the Seamen’s institute on South street. She has no illu sions about sailormen, holding them to be no better and no worse than other mep. Her work, and her three daughters, living with her in Brooklyn, comprise her enthusiasms. JUDGE MANLEY O. HUDSON of the Permanent Court of Interna tional Peace at The Hague, recently arrived here, is, characteristically, spending his Sees the World In Terms of Human Species vacation at Cambridge, Mass., looking into things of international juridical import. He was once Bemis professor of inter national law at Harvard, a post he took, somewhat in discouragement, when his career was diverted by the refusal in 1928 of the United States to join the League of Nations. The world’s leading authority on all questions pertaining to comity among nations, this world to him is no abstract thing, no matter of geographical division. Human affairs and re lationships are his passion. A Missourian—he was born in St. Peters in 1886—he reverses an attributed reaction of citizens of his commonwealth in that far from asking to be shown, he is at all times willing, nay eager, to demonstrate. Genial, incurably optimistic, men tally brilliant, he enjoys nothing so much as to stand at bay in intellec tual combat, indulging with D’Ar- tagnan’s ardor in sword-play, in thrust and riposte, until his oppo nents are either convinced or, at any rate, silenced. He will plunge into contest, or, if no struggle is waging, he is very likely to start one. Now 52 years old, Judge Hud-< son entered the League of Na tions secretariat with its origin in 1919, and ever since he has been attached to it. Two years earlier, he was with the inquiry and peace terms commission established by the state depart ment and later, in Paris, was a member of the international law division of the committee to ne gotiate peace. Work then begun led directly to the World court bench when the league assem bly gave him the second highest vote—48 out of 50—ever re ceived by a candidate. William Sewell college. Liberty, Mo., is his alma mater and Har vard, where-he took post-graduate courses, his alter mater. (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) Twins—Five Sets of ’Em—Amaze New Yorkers * Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fifield of East Thompson, Conn., shown with 11 of their 13 children, including five sets of twins, as they lunched in a New York restaurant. New Yorkers were as much amazed at the sheer num ber of the children as the children were of the city’s skyscrapers. The youngest set of twins, Franklin Del ano and Eleanor Roosevelt, are only two years old, The oldest child, Marguerite, 13, is seated next to her mother at the head of the table. Two of the children including an infant son, are not shown. ‘Heaven’ Can Wait—If Newport Has Its Way Mrs. Angela C. Kaufman, widow of the multi-millionaire Joseph Kaufman, was recently refused a liquor license by Newport, R. I., officials when she planned on converting her mansion into an exclusive dinner and cocktail place. Then the fireworks started. Mrs. Kaufman created a furore in the ultra-fashionable resort by offering the mansion to “Father” Divine, Negro cult leader, as a “heaven” for his followers. The Negro evangelist accepted the offer, and is completing plans for establishing the new “heaven.” Left: The Kaufman mansion which will house the Divine flock. Right: The bar for which Mrs. Kaufman was refused a liquor license. One-Man Submarine Tested in Hudson Masquerade Revealed Barney Connett of Chicago, master and crew of an 11-foot submarine, previous to making a successful test dive in the salt water of the Hudson river in Yonkers, N. Y. Connett, in his homemade sub, has made ap proximately 400 dives, once crossing Lake Michigan under water from Chicago to Michigan City, Ind., a distance of 37 miles. The sub is pow- tred by two sets of batteries and has all the usual submarine equipment. Police Close ‘Human Slave Market’ Photographers had to be alert to get this view of America’s most novel matchmaking establishment, “The Human Slave Market,” for immediately after bids got under way, Palisades, N. J., police stepped in and sent six people to jail on the charge of maintaining a nuisance. Here the auctioneer is asking for bids on a young man, an elderly gentleman and a young girl. The idea of the “market” was to offer marriageable subjects on the block. Involved in a minor traffic mixup, James W. Phipps was taken to a Pasadena, Calif., police station. There a sergeant penetrated the dis guise and revealed “him” as a woman. Twice married, Phipps is the present “husband” of Mrs. Ma bel Phipps, 50. For 23 years Miner va Phipps masqueraded as a man, “His” first wife died in 1928. Caribbean War Chief In San Juan, Puerto Rico, Brig. Gen. Edmund L. Daley steps from the amphibian plane provided him by the war department to cover his vast insular territory. Daley is com manding officer of the recently cre ated department of the Caribbean, which includes Puerto Rico, the Vir gin islands and all intervening keys. "IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for August 6 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. ELIJAH: A LIFE OF COURAGE LESSON TEXT—I Kings 18:30-39. GOLDEN TEXT—The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.—Proverbs 15:29. “Let courage rise with danger.” Such is the plea of Webb’s great hymn, “Stand Up for Jesus.” Chris tianity in our day calls for cou rageous men and women. Courage should be distinguished from such related things as bravery, valor, or bravado. Bravado is an affectation of a reckless bravery which surely has no place in Chris tian life and activity. Valor is associated with daring and vigorous action, for example, in battle. To be brave means to meet a challenge with confidence and resolution. To be courageous means to steadily meet perils of which one is deeply conscious, doing so because of the call of duty. Courage holds a deep er and nobler meaning than the other words, carrying with it the idea of moral strength and, in the case of the Christian, faith in God as one devoted to His cause. Elijah was courageous, and he stands before our Christian youth to day as an example of that godly courage which I. Works in the Open (v. 30). Men whose deeds are evil love the darkness rather than the light. God does not work in the dark. All of His workings are in the open sun light. Every one is welcome to “come near” and see what is done. Elijah knew God and he acted like God’s man. What a tragedy it is that not all of God’s servants have followed his example. If we had the open and above-board dealings of Elijah in the affairs of our churches, we might see more of the fire and power of his ministry. Certain it is that the administra tion of church affairs which has to be carried out in hidden corners by whispered conversations and by secret manipulations behind the scenes, is not God’s work at all, it is the work of man. II. Asks No Favors (w. 33-35). Elijah rebuilt the altar himself. He asked no help of the unbelieving prophets of Baal or of apostate Is rael. How old-fashioned he seems in this day when so much stress is laid on a false unity of the faiths, and there is so much solicitation and acceptance by the Church of the help of unbelievers in financing the Supposed work of God. Note also that Elijah invited his enemies to make the answer to his prayer more difficult by pouring water on the sacrifice. This was not an act of bravado, it was for the purpose of demonstrating that there was no fraud. He was willing that the enemies of the truth should make the demonstration more dif ficult if that would be to God’s glory. There is a delightful old-fashioned flavor about that act, too, in these days when men are frequently will ing to compromise with unbelief and even with sin in order that the work of the Church may be carried on without too much difficulty. Here again we have an explanation of the lack of spiritual power in our times. III. Honors God, Not Man (w. 30-32, 36-37). A man of bravery wants recogni tion for himself, while the coura geous man asks only that the cause for which he fights shall be success ful. Elijah had long since demon strated that he was absolutely fear less, and sought no favor or glory (read the entire story). Now in the tenseness of this moment, he care fully rebuilds the altar of the true God (v. 30), makes it a testimony of unity to a divided Israel (v. 31), and he does it aB in the name of the Lord (v. 32). His prayer (vv. 36, 37) is a pro foundly simple expression of a com plete faith in the true God and His power on the part of a man who recognized himself as being only the divine servant. He made no plea that God would vindicate him or his ministry, but he did plead that the name of the Lord should be honored in the midst of an unbelieving people. IV. Brings Eternal Results (vv. 38 39) “The fire of the Lord fell.” The lying prophets of heathendom were routed. Many recognized Jehovah as the true God. 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