McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, May 16, 1940, Image 3

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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1940 “The Name Is F amiliar— BY FELIX B. STREYCKMANS and ELMO SCOTT WATSON Lutheran IT’S a common thing today to say a person is a Lutheran, referring to one’s religion. But when Martin Luther, more than four centuries ago, began to disagree with just a few of the beliefs of the established church, no one thought—especially Luther himself—that he was start ing a new faith that millions would follow and call Lutheranism. Martin Luther was born in Sax ony in 1483 and given a very strict religious training. He / became a priest when he was 25. Ten years later he chal lenged some of the teachings of his church. He had no intention of starting the Reformation or even of denying j ,„ the supremacy of Martin Luther c h a i r 0 f gt. Peter. But the church made such an issue of his heresy—and he fought back so zealously—that finally, in 1520, Luther was excommunicated and his writings were burned at Rome, Cologne and Louvain. His answer was to bum the papal bull which excommunicated him and he was hailed as the champion of re ligious liberty. From 1526 to 1529 he prepared a new church service, corresponding to his ideas of the doctrines of the gospel. The Reformation spread rapidly. Wedgwood Ware F YOU are the owner of a prized piece of Wedgwood ware, you probably know that it’s named for Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795), the fa mous English pottery maker. But do you know that, as an American, 'you have an even better reason for holding his name in grateful remem brance? For Wedgwood was a lead er among the Englishmen who not only sympathized with the Ameri can colonies dur ing the Revolu tion but did more than that. He dis- tributed pro- American litera ture among his countrymen and helped build up such a strong sen timent against the war that, the king and his ministers were willing to stop it after the capture of Corn wallis. Wedgwood also contributed heavi ly to a fund which was raised in England to make easier the unhappy lot of Americans imprisoned there during the war and in a short time this amounted to nearly $500 per prisoner. We should also remember him gratefully because his portrait medallions of hundreds of impor tant personages of his time (similar to the one illustrating this article) give us an idea, which we would not otherwise have, of the appear ance of those notables. Such were the services of this man who, despite the handicap of illness and a lack of education, not only “placed the hitherto undevel oped pottery industry of England on the pinnacle upon which it now stands’’ but was also a very great artist who belongs to all mankind. • • • Titian-Haired f F ALL the authors who have de scribed their pretty heroines as having titian hair were placed end to end and then asked to describe what they meant by titian, most of them would be out of luck. Titian hair — or titian anything else, for that matter—is a color that characterizes many of the paintings of one of the world’s greatest art ists whose name was Titian. His full name was Ti- ziano Vecelli and he was born in the Venetian Alps in 1477. The color which he was the first to put upon can vas and for which present authors take his name in vain, is a reddish- yellow and very vivid. The yellow is so prominent and the mixture so dazzling that girls who had that kind of hair would scare the heroes away. Titian painted thousands of pic tures and became very wealthy. He was more than 95 years old when he died. (Released by Western Newspaper Union) Real Mythical Birds Great mythical birds which once flew over Mt. Tamalpais near the Golden Gate at San Francisco, ac cording to well-established Indian legends, have become a reality as giant “war birds’’ of the U. S. army .air base at Hamilton field nearby maneuver around the mountain which stands as a sentinel over the southern gateway of the Redwood Empire. . i SOMETHING NEW AND DIFFERENT (See Recipes Below) New Recipes for Your File “Something old and something new” is just as important in menus as it is in a bride’s costume. It’s a good idea, when you plan to experiment with something en tirely new, to in clude in that meal one • dish you know the family is really keen about. For instance, if the dessert is some thing very new and different, be sure that the main dish of your meal is one that’s familiar and well-liked. And, it’s an excellent idea, when most of a meal is composed of fam ily favorites, to include one new dish for a touch of variety. It may be a cut of meat that you haven’t used before, prepared in an unusual manner; or perhaps it will be a vegetable that’s new and strange to you; or it might be just an out-of- the-ordinary conserve or relish to supplement last summer’s supply, which, by this'time is probably run ning very low. You’ll find, here, an assortment of recipes for foods that are unusual and delicious. There’s a new way of preparing shoulder of beef—in one of those easy casserole dishes you like to serve, where you don’t want to spend too much time in the kitchen; serve the Baked Shoulder Steak with baked or scalloped pota toes, buttered green beans and rhu barb pie, and watch your family beam! “Pork chop treat” served with a crisp, chilled salad of lettuce, ap ples, and dates, needs only a bev erage, bread and a favorite dessert to make a completely satisfying meal; and if you want to please the man of the family in any kind of weather, serve “pork chops deli cious” with cheese biscuits, a sim ple green salad, lemon meringue pie and coffee. Pork Chops Delicious. (Serves 4) 5 pork.chops (rib or loin) 2 medium size onions % cup rice (uncooked) 1 teaspoon salt % teaspoon pepper 1 cup hot water 1 cup tomato puree 1 green pepper (minced) 1 clove garlic (grated) Brown chops and on each chop place one slice of onion, then a ta blespoon of rice (uncooked). Sea son with salt and pepper. Add wa ter, cover and steam for % hour. Then top with tomato pu ree, mixed with the green pepper and garlic. Return to steamer and cook until rice is tender (about 30 minutes longer). Baked Shoulder Steak With Apricots and Mushrooms. (Serves 6) 1% inch slice shoulder of beef (about 4 pounds) 4 tablespoons flour 2 teaspoons salt % teaspoon curry powder % cup tomato pulp 1 small 4-oz. can button mush rooms, or, % pound fresh mushrooms, cut in quarters 1 tablespoon butter 12 halves canned apricots, (about half of a No. 2^ can) Wipe meat with damp cloth and sprinkle with mixture of flour, salt and curry powder. Brown one side in a well-greased frying pan and place brown side up in a 2-quart glass casserole. Sift remaining flour mixture over the top of the meat. Spread the top of the meat with tomato pulp. Cover the dish. Bake in a moderate oven, allowing about 30 minutes to each pound. Slightly brown mushrooms in butter over low heat. Place on top of roast when it is removed from the oven. Garnish with canned apricots and serve from the baking dish, which keeps the meat hot throughout the meal. Cherry Roll. Biscuit dough (2 cups flour recipe) 1 No. 2 can cherries % cup light brown sugar % teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon lemon rind (grated) Roll baking powder biscuit dough % inch thick. Drain cherries. Cov er dough with cherries and sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon. Roll like a jelly roll and place in buttered loaf baking pan. Bake ap proximately 30 minutes in a moder ately hot oven (375 degrees). Baste with cherry juice while baking. Serve with whipped cream or with hard sauce. Pork Chop Treat. Place seasoned pork chops, 1 inch thick, at one end of a large roasting pan. In the center, place a mound of good bread dressing seasoned with sage or poultry seasoning. At the other end put thinly sliced po tatoes and thinly sliced onions, sea soned with salt and pepper. Dot with butter. Bake for 15 minutes in a hot oven (450 degrees) and then reduce heat to a moderate oven (350 degrees) and bake about 45 minutes longer. Rhubarb Conserve. (Makes 12 glasses) 1% quarts rhubarb (diced) 8 cups sugar % cup seeded raisins % cup cold water % cup orange juice % cup orange rind (ground) 1 cup pecans (cut fine) Place rhubarb, sugar, raisins, wa ter and orange juice in kettle. Re move white mem brane from the orange peel, and put peel through the food chopper, using tHe fine blade. Add to conserve, and bring mixture to a boil. Boil gently for 20 minutes. Add nut meats and cook 5 minutes longer. Pour into sterilized glasses and seal. Lemon Meringue Pie. 1 cup sugar % cup cornstarch % teaspoon salt % cup cold water % cup boiling water 3 egg yolks 1 tablespoon butter Vi cup lemon juice 1 teaspoon lemon rind (grated) Combine sugar, cornstarch and salt. Add cold water; stir until smooth. Add boiling water and cook, stirring constantly, until mix ture is clear and thick. Cook 3 minutes longer. Beat egg yolks; stir cooked mixture into them. Add remaining ingredients, return to flame and cook 1 minute. Pour im mediately into baked pie shell. Top with meringue. Meringue. 3 egg whites 6 tablespoons sugar Va teaspoon salt Beat egg whites partially; then add sugar slowly, beating until mix ture is stiff. Bake in slow oven, (300 degrees) for 18 minutes. Have You Ordered Your Copy of Household Hints’? Eleanor Howe’s booklet “House hold Hints” is one you can’t afford to be without—especially now that house cleaning time is here. It’s a handy reference book that supplies the answers to so many puzzling questions—how to renew worn lino leum; what to do to keep wool from shrinking when it’s washed; how to remove stains from porcelain sinks and tubs; and how to clean rugs with dry soap suds. You’ll find hints on cooking and sewing, too—over 300 practical, tested household hints —for 10 cents! To get your copy of this booklet now, send 10 cents in coin to “Household Hints,” care El eanor Howe, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) ^,. u ««w |Mf)ROVED — 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 May 19 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. JEREMIAH DENOUNCES FALSE PROPHETS LESSON TEXT—Jeremiah 23:21-3*. GOLDEN TEXT—Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.—I Thessalonlans 6:21. Tickling the vanity and pleasing the ears of ungodly people with words of flattery and false comfort, giving them the assurance of peace and prosperity in the very pursuit of their sin, did not begin with the false prophets of the twentieth cen tury. Six hundred years before Christ, Jeremiah the prophet had to contend with such false teachers. His manner of dealing with them Is of great interest to us, for essen tially the false prophets of that day used the same methods and had the same false message that char acterize their descendants of today, the so-called modernistic religious liberals who Sre busy everywhere attempting to undermine the faith of God’s children in His Word. They are revealed as being destitute of divine authority, without a real mes sage, and under the disfavor and subject to the judgment of God. They are I. Without Divine Commission (w. 21-22). “I have not sent these prophets”—- that should have been sufficient for the people of Judah. A man who Is not sent by God has no word from heaven, no help for needy humanity. He is worse than an admittedly secular teacher or philosopher, for he claims to speak with divine au thority and yet has only the disap pointing impotence of a liar and a fraud. The reason Judah listened to them was because they so eloquently hushed the condemning voice of their own consciences, assuring them that all was well, when, as a matter of fact, everything was wrong. Men listen to the same kind of teaching today for the very same reason. n. Without a Divine Message (w. 23-29). These false prophets may delude men, but they have not fooled God. He is not a finite being, limited to this earth (v. 23). He looks on men from the far off viewpoint of heaven and judges by His own high and holy standards. Nor can they hide from Him (v. 24). God hears the word spoken in the academic shelter of a college classroom, secretly poisoning the young person’s heart against the faith of his father and mother. A day of judgment also awaits those who in their public utterances use the phraseology of orthodoxy, while in private they undermine and de stroy Christian faith. If a man is foolish enough to sup pose that the dreamings of his own mind and heart will help anyone, let him be honest enough to call them just that; namely, dreams (w. 25-28). But God will assuredly not hold those men guiltless who try to pass off their own philosophies as bearing the approval of God; who would have people honor their assemblies as Christian churches, when they are at best only social or intellectual gatherings designed to magnify man rather than Christ. Note in verse 29 that the Word of God is like the fire that consumes and purifies, and also like the ham mer, that breaks up the rocky heart of man. III. Without Divine Favor and Blessing (w. 30-32). God is against every false proph et. Small wonder that there is the savour of death in their speaking and their works. There is no divine power in their message and no holy dynamic to enable people to respond to their admonitions. Prominent modernists are decrying in our day the fact that their cultured essays and polished philosophies are not reaching the hearts of men and are failing to transform lives. At the same time, humble preachers and teachers of God’s Word, sometimes in hidden and remote places, are re joicing as they see the transforming grace of God come upon lives as a result of their simple proclamation of the gospel of grace. Keep on,, brethren; God is with you. Observe what God calls the false prophets—thieves (v. 30) and liars (v. 32). Hard words, but they come from One who is all-knowing, who judges rightly and in love. Like the Shadow I am gone like the shadow when It declineth; I am tossed up and down as the locust. My knees are weak through fasting; my flesh fail- eth of fatness; I became also a re proach unto them; when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.— Psalm 109:23-25. It Doth Not Yet Appear You are not what you ought to be, and you are not what you can be. You may rise yet, and fight a good fight yet, and be a good man once more, after the likeness of God who made you, and Christ who died [or you!—Charles Kingsley. HCWPq. SEW 4'"“ Ruth Wyeth Spears IN THIS column we have shown 1 how to make useful, attractive things out of everything most from spools to tin cans, but sev eral readers have reminded me lately that I have neglected or ange crates. Here is a pair of tables to match a smart new bed spread. The spread is made of green and white checked gingham trimmed in bands, monogram and frills of white muslin. ■ The bed is an old 'iron one that has been cut down and then padded and covered with the gingham (de tailed directions are in Book 3). The orange crates for the tables are lined with green oil cloth and each wears a green and white checked skirt; and a top cover frilled in white. • * • NOTE: Directions for making lamp shades and bedspread are in Book No. 1; complete alphabet for monograms in Book 2; streamlin ing old style bed in Book 3; and Book 4 contains 32 pages of origi nal homemaking ideas. Books are 10 cents each. With each order for four books will be sent FREE a set of three Early American Quilt Block patterns, including the Ann Rutledge, which Mrs. Spears sketched from the original in the Rutledge Tavern at New Salem, Illinois. Send order to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York Drawer 10 Enclose 10 cents for one book, or 40 cents for books 1, 2, 3 and 4 and set of quilt block patterns. Name Address Modest Applicant Was Not a Bit Superstitious The smiling, confident young man stepped up to the bank man ager’s desk. “Good day, sir,” he said. “Have you any need for a highly intelli gent and trained man just out of college?” \ “Well,” said the manager, “what kind of a position are you seeking?” “I want something in the execu tive line,” replied the young] man. “Say a vice presidency.”; “I’m really sorry,” said the* manager sarcastically, “but we have twelve vice presidents.” “Oh, that’s all right,” came the: eager response. “I’m not afraid of thirteen.” i Immortal Thoughts Memories, images and precious thoughts that shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.—Wadsworth. Zeal First Rather have zeal without knowl edge than knowledge without zeal. —Moody. you CAN TELL CAMEL. CIGARETTES , ARE SLOWER- BURNING. THEY'RE MILDER AND COOLER THAT SLOWER WAY OF BURNING MEANS EXTRA SMOKING, TOO. CAMELS ARE THE BEST. BUY W, m mm ■ mi 8Ssj& - ^ •.v.-.-.-.v. M S CIENTIFIC tests have confirmed it, but you can tell just by smoking Camels that they are slower-burning. You’ll find Camels free from the ex cess heat and irritating qualities of too-fast burning...extra mild and ex tra cooL You’ll find a full, rich flavor that only Camel’s matchless blend and slower way of burning can give. And on top of the extra pleasure, you’ll find Camels also give extra smoking (see right). FOR EXTRA MILDNESS, EXTRA COOLNESS, EXTRA FLAVOR* CAMELS SLOW-BURNING COSTLIER TOBACCOS In recent laboratory tests, CAMELS burned 25% slower than the average off the 15 other off the largest-selling brands tested — slower than any off them. That means, on the average, a smoking plus equal to EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK!