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Six Inch Sermon
BY REV. ROBERT H. HARPER
Bible Teaching on the Cost of
Drinking.
Lesson for July 25: Deuterono
my 21:18-21; Proverbs 23:20, 21; I
Corinthians 6:9-11.
Golden Text: I Corinthians 6:9.
The direction in Deuteronomy
that parents should deliver a
stubborn and rebellious son, “a
glutton and a drunkard,” to the
elders of the city to be stoned to
death shows how utterly the sin
of drunkenness was abhorred, but
we shrink from the thought of
executing a drunkard and from
the thought of solving social evils
by killing off the offenders. Why
should the drunkard alone be
punished in any way, when so
many contribute to his woes? Let
brewers, distillers, whisky dealers,
voters and lax officers of the law
give us the answer.
The book of Proverbs sounds a
warning' concerning the poverty
a man may bring upon himself
through drunkenness. It is easy
to find sad examples of the tem
poral ruin brought upon a man
by indulgence in strong drink.
But always one feels that only
minor arguments are made in
warning men against the tempor
al ills of drinking. About a thou
sand years after the book of
Proverbs was written, the Chris
tian apostle was concerned first
for the souls of men as he wrote
of several kinds of great sinners,
including drunkards, .who would
not enter the kingdom of God.
Some of the Corinthian Chris
tians had been such sinners, but
they had regained their lost in
heritance and had been cleansed
and saved in the name of Jesus.
Let our people everywhere unite
in the purpose to put down a
traffic that brings its worst dam
age to the morals and souls of
men.
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PICKLES
Another of our Food Conserva
tion Methods is pickling—and no
cellar or pantry is complete with
out some of these pickles and
relishes on its shelves. They are
wholesome food only when prop
erly made and have a place in
the diet. They stimulate the ap
petite and give zest to many a
meal that might otherwise be
commonplace. Here’s the caution
though, adults should use them
in limited amounts and they
should not be served at all to
children.
Perhaps the most popular pickle
is the “Bread and Butter”. It
used to be eaten between butter
ed slices of bread, hence its name.
It is made from the once “lowly”,
but, now the wartime “expen
sive” cucumber. You may have
many of them and you’d like to
make some kind of pickle. Well,
we recommend the “bread and
butter” and green cucumber
pickle to you and here’s how to
make it; V
Take 5 medium cucumbers, 3
medium onions, 1-4 cup salt, 1
cup vinegar, 1-2 teaspoon celery
seed, 1 cup water, 1-2 teaspoon
mustard seed, ginger, 1-4 tea
spoonful tumeric and 1-2 cup
white or brown sugar.
You will wash the “cukes”,
slice them in thin slices, peel
and slice onions. Combine “cukes”
and onions, add Salt and let them
stand for two hours. Rinse well.
Then heat the vinegar, water, all
spices, and sugar to the boiling
point. Add onions and cucum
bers and stir and let simmer for
about 5 minutes. Pack into steri
lized jars, seal and process 15
miuutes.
GREEN CUCUMBER PICKLE
Gather cucumbers while crisp
with dew, wash, being careful not
to break the little black thorns.
Soak in brine until next morning,
using 1 C. salt to 1 gallon of
water. Drain, rinse. Soak in
fresh water 1 hour. Drain, soa^
in lime water 39 minutes, using
/l tb lime to 1 quart of water.
Drain, rinse well. Cover with
boiling water and let them stand
5 minutes. Drain, wipe dry.
pack in jars, fill half full of
vinegar and finish filling with
water. Close jar and let them
stand until next morning. Re
move a measuring cup of the
liquid and replace it with a
measuring cup of vinegar.
Drain off all vinegar from the
cucumbers, measure and to each
quart add 2 C. of sugar, stir until
dissolved, add a spice bag con
taining 1 tb each of whole
cloves, allspice, cinnamon bark
and tsp. each of ground ginger
and grated nutmeg. Boil five
minutes, remove spice bag, pour
in jars of cucumbers, process
each jar 15 minutes. Seal.
Matilda Bell,
Co. Home Dem. Agent.
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SOUTH CAROLiH
A strange place it would be — this State
of ours—if our splendid 11,975-mile net
work of improved highways suddenly
ceased to exist.
A great many communities would be
isolated. Others would find it infinitely
more difficult to carry on even the most
ordinary daily activities—with no trucks
on the move, no cars or buses taking
workers to war plants and farms, soldiers
to camp and home on furlough, business
travelers to nearby communities, chil
dren to school.
We South Carolinians are apt to take for
granted the convenience of our excellent
roads — but these highways didn’t just
grow. Building and maintaining them is
a tremendous job and for achieving this
successfully we can thank past and pres
ent administrations and particularly the
South Carolina Highway Department.
That isn’t the whole story, however.
Transforming these lifeless ribbons of
concrete and macadam into live, active
arteries of public transportation has
been the accomplishment of the South
Carolina Public Service Commission.
They’ve labored hard and long to give
our State a transportation system that
compares favorably with any other in
the country.
All of us who Ih'c and work and pay taxes
in South Carolina can take pride in our
share of this highway system. .
As fellow citizens, the Greyhound Lines
have made a very large contribution in
the form of license, fuel and operating
taxes — but we feel that our greatest
service is in putting the highways to
work for the benefit of all who must
travel, making near neighbors and good
neighbors of all the communities we
serve throughout the State. -
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A little over two years ago, on
June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler de
clared war upon Russia and to
this day no one outside of Ger
many—and maybe Russia—seems
v o know why. Of all the reasons
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necessary to the German strategy.
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conquered by the Nazis, and that
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policies in Europe and elsewhere.
Ribbentrop went into long detail
of Soviet plotting against the
Reich in Rumania.- Jugoslavia.
Hungary, France. Belgium, Hol
land, Greece and even in Ger
many itself. Both men stated that
Russia was massing vast numbers
'f men and armaments along
the German frontier but denied
that Germany was doing the
same thing. The terrific power
of the initial German thrust a-
gainst Russia proved conclusively
however that she w'as doing so.
Any layman knows today that an
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tion.
If all the Nazi claims were true
they still constituted insufficient
reason for the tremendous hazard
which the move involved.
The excuses are not good e-
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rant man, but the men who com
pose the German general staff
are not. These men certainly
realized the pitfalls of such a
venture. They knew the Russian
soldier was a fighter and they
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the qualifications of the Soviets’
best military leaders. They should
have been aware of Russia’s man
ufacturing potential and the ex
tent of her actual armaments.
They should have known that the
Russian army was sufficiently
“elastic” to be able to fall back
almost indefinitely—oi’ at least
until the German communication
lines were so extended as to be
come untenable. They should
have remembered that the great
est military genius of the last 20
centuries had tried it before and
failed. The military leaders of a
nation like Germany are educated
upon just such matters.
There are a thousand opinions
and speculations upon the real
reason for the move which will
without doubt cost Germany the
conquest of Europe. Some people
think the general staff was op
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and his over-confident and inex
perienced satellites. Some be
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were going to attack him and
that he was beating them to the
punch. Some think he realized
that he had a long war in pros
pect and was not materially pre
pared and had to acquire the Rus
sian resources or fate ultimate
defeat.
But whatever the causes—real
or fancied—Hitler’s declaration of
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practically all of Europe and her
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self sufficiently felt.
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