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Paul Crosses Into Europe.
Lesson for May 7: Acts 15:36,
1£:40; Epistle to the Phillippians. |
Golden Text: Phillippians 3:7-
14. ’
After disagreeing with Barna
bas, Paul chose Silas to accom-!
jpany him on his second mission- |
ary journey. “Confirming the
.churches” in Syria and Cilicia
and reaching Derbe and Lystra,
Paul made a convert he was to
call his ‘‘son in the gospel.”
Timothy’s mother being Jewish,
Paul circumcised him.
The “spirit suffered them not”
to go into Bithynia; Paul and
Silas went on to Troas on the
Aegean Sea. There the vision of
a man of Macedonia led Paul to
cross into Europe. At this point
In the narrative of Acts the word,
‘“we” indicates fhat Luke, the au
thor, had joined Paul. Nearly 500
years before, 2,000,000 Persians
bad crossed the Hellespont but
bad not conquered the Greeks.
Paul began a different and vaster
conquest than Xerxes had dream
ed.
The name of Philippi suggests
another name, Lydia, convert of
ibe riverside who took the dis
ciples into her home. The stay
in Philippi was marred by the in
cident of the damsel, the trouble
tier owners roused, the beating
and jailing of Paul and Silas.
After they had been delivered
from their stocks by the mid-
earthquake, the terrified jailer
was converted. The magistrates
were alarmed when they learned
they had beaten and imprisoned
Homan citizens and they released
Paul and Silas and besought
them to leave the city. After
visiting the home of Lydia, the
disciples departed for Thessaloni-
ca.
Limited space does not pern^it
extended comment on the Epistle
to the Philippians, included in the
lesson text. Written from Rome,
It declares Paul’s love for the
Philippians, his own purpose to
fcnow Christ, and includes an
exhortation, and a concluding
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.testimony.
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Conservation News
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(By Benj. W\ Crouch)
Before the Allies drove the
enemy out of North Africa and
took Sicily and southern Italy,
shipment of war material through
the Mediterranean was frought
with such dangers from enemy
submarines, warships and land-
based planes, that traffic had to
be routed all the way around the
C&pe of Good Hope at the south
ern tip of Africa. This entailed
such vast distances as to make a
British naval attack-in-force up
on the Japanese positions in Bur
ma or in the East Indies, next to
impossible.
When the Italian campaign—so
often now-a-days called a “fail
ure”—caused the surrender of the
Italian fleet and opened the
Mediterranean to Allied traffic, it
made it possible for the British
to concentrate large naval forces
in the Bay of Bengal with which
to whittle at the Japanese posi-
tions in Burma, Malaya* and the
Dutch East Indies. The attack of
a few days ago on the western
tip of Sumatra would appear to
be the opening of such a cam
paign.
Most of the supplies for Japan’s
forces in Burma go by ship a-
round Singapore, through the
Straits of Mallaca and north a-
long the coast of the Malay Pe
ninsula to Rangoon in southern
Burma. If the Allies can retake
Singapore and the island of Sur
matra—or, at least, blockade the
Straits of Mallaca—this traffic
will be stopped and the Japanese
forces in northern and western
Burma will be hopelessly strand
ed. ■
It is the present position of the
Japanese in north Burma which
is holding up the construction of
a road from India to a junction
with the old Burma Road and on
into China; and it would seem
obvious that the struggle being
LYTLE HULL
waged around Imphal and Ko-
hima—so much in the news to
day—is to make possible the con
struction of this road by the Al
lies—or prevent its construction
by the enemy.
The situation in China today is
not very cheerful, and if our Far
Eastern ally should be driven out
of the war, or should have to
quit for lack of material with
which to fight—it might mean
that we could never drive our
enemies out of China and so be
able to attack Japan from the
mainland. It isn’t a situation
which can be permitted to lie
dormant pending the termination
of the German phase of this war.
China has Been fighting against
frightful edds for too long a
time. It is not getting any strong
cr, it can’t fight with bare
hands, and the present state of
inflation there is helping to
break the camel’s back.
If the fighting admiral—Lord
Louis Mountbatten—is getting the
ships, men and weapons which he
requires, we will probably begin
to “go places” in this theatre of
warfare before it is too late. The
British navy has doubtless had
some tough obstacles to overcome
to place itself in a position where
it can really force an issue in the
Bay of Bengal; but it is the same
old powerful British navy, and
when it does get its teeth into
something it seldom lets go.
All this has been made possible
by the Allies present position in
and around the Mediterranean;
so what particular advantage
would there be in driving the
Germans—at great sacrifice—all
the way to the mountains, and
we would simply shorten the
German lines, lengthen cur own,
and release a number of their di
visions to operate elsewhere. It
seems to this rocking-chair mili
tary analyst that the criticism of
the Italian campaign may be a
bit premature.
A Mother’s Prayer on Mother’s Day
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y New Life Raft That Doesn't Sink
Unproductive lowland areas on
farms can often be developed into
excellent pasture, if cleared of
brush, fertilized and limed, and
then seeded to adapted pasture
grasses and legumes.
Since moisture is one of the
principal limiting factors in the
development cf good pastures in
fhe South, lowland areas where
moisture conditions are favorable
generally pro’/ide the best loca
tion on the farm for pastures.
In many cases, because these
areas have been found too wet
for production of row crops, they
have been allowed to grow up in
willows, alders, and other worth
less growth, while the use for
which they are best adapted has
been entirely overlooked.
Work done in clearing and de
veloping such areas for pasture
during the spring months, when
other farm .work is slack, will pay
good dividends later in the pro
duction of more milk, meat, and
other livestock products which
are vitally needed in the war pro
gram.
This new nnslnkable life raft, ma»5e of 16-gauge cold rc!led siccl,
is 15 feet 2 Inches long with an 8 foot beam, and has a tow to aid
sa.Tug or rowing. No matter how the ra't hi'.s the water, it always
floats topside ur, for both si2e^ are exactly alike. This welder is assem
bling completed sections of the new raii.
Ward Seizure Aired in Court
DOUBLE DUTY
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WANT ADV.
Sweet Potato Plants for sale,
Strain 24, Louisiana Improved, at
$3.50 per 1,000 at my home. Am
now taking orders and have some
slants ready. C. E. Wilkie, Plum
Branch, S. C.
Attorney General Francis Biddle, nearest door, with paper in hand,
is shown at the court cf Federal Judge Holly, where the momentous
battle over seizure of the Montgomery Ward and company plant in
Chicago has been raging. Biddle told the court that the President car
ried out hij duty to order seizure of the plant, with ample constitutional
and statutory authority for his action. - .
LOST—My No. 3 ration book.
Jimmie Jackson, Mt. Carmel, S. C.
LOST—Our No. 4 ration books.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Mann, McCor
mick, S. C.
Rawleigh Route available at
once. Good opportunity. Write
at once. Rawleigh’s. Dept. SCE-
211-105, Richmond, Va.
FOR SALE—Cne Jersey Milch
Cow, now has second calf. Also
one 1S38 V-8 motor, in good con
dition. J. W. Loveless, R. 3, Mc
Cormick, S. C.
FOR SALE—On good plug mule.
Cheap. For immediate sale. C.
K. Epting, McCormick, S. C.
Training Our Chinese Allies
ncse
Capt. Joseph Naviochick, U.S.A., of Cleveland, Ohio, instructs Chi-
; students in the art of machine gunnery at a target range of the
LOST—My NO. 4 ration book.
Rosa Tutt. P. O. Box 203, McCor
mick, S. C.
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Call 113R for your Mother’s
Day Corsage, Pot Plants and Cut
Flowers at reasonable prices.
Deason’s Flower Shop, McCor
mick. S. C.
“Read ’Em and
:Reap”..ouR ads
5,315th infantry training center in Kwangsi, China. Here Chinese troops
arc trained in the use of modern weapons by American oflicers.
Instructions are usually given through interpreters.
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