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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.
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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. While Israel did
not long remember the lesson
learned here, the story has contin
ued as a testimony that will
strengthen the people of God as long
as time continues.
In God’s Treasury
Treat the weakest and the worst
with reverence, for, like yourself,
they are the temples of the living
God.
Abides Forever
The world passes away and the
lust of it, but he that doeth the will
of God abides forever.—I John 2, 17.
Attractive Holiness
The holiness of Christ did not awe
men away from Him, nor repel
them. It inspired them with hope.
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Circumstances are the rulers of
the weak; they are the instru
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