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i PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8. 1940 H-D COLUMN 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. 0. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year One Dollar Published every Friday Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. LET’S CALM DOWN When sorely burdened with anx iety which you cannot seem to help, a friend offers the advice, “Don’t worry, that won’t help.” Few of us are able to shake off our worry forth with. The chap who Insists upon worrying about everything is in for a lot of grief, for seeking trouble he finds it and he also forms a bad hab it that is not only annoying to him self but makes him a bother to his friends. There is worry that is akin to fear and it comes occasionally and naturally to any man who is capable of deep feeling. A friend has wor ried himself into a frenzy over the European situation but he still per sists in dialing the radio to every and all news broadcasts he reads every distressing item published on war conditions. He seems to seek his worry in large quantities. We may not be able to “forget it” and it wouldn’t be wise for us to do so, but we must not constantly brood over present w r orries, we must not be car ried along by the inner turmoil but be sane and patient, practical and of good faith.—Pee Dee Advocate. Those Youngsters An organ of the trade lists 158 ice cream flavors. We trust this is kept from the younger clintele, that asks for a scoop of everything on its nickel cone. NOTiCE OF JURY DRAWING We the undersigned Jury Commis sioners of Newberry County, shall on the 14th day of November 1940, publicly and openly, in the Clerk of Court’s office, at 9 o’clock, A. M., draw thirty-six names to set /e - as Petit Jurors, for the Court of Com mon Pleas, which' convenes in New berry County Court on November the 1940, at 10 o’clock A. M. H. K, BOYD, Clerk of Court, P. N. ABRAMS, Auditor, R. B. BLACK, Treasurer. November 2, 1940. SHOULD GIVE HIS NAME Preachers and ministerial students are exempt from military training under the draft program. That very fact makes the followdng communica tion to the Cincinnati Post all the more timely. Writes a man study ing for the ministry: “I don’t want to be exempted. Not that I relish being trained to shoot people. I despise it. But my conscience isn’t more privileged than that of any other young man, merely because I hope to be a minister some day. Few young men’s consciences like the idea of being trained to shoot people. “In fact, since I will be a minis ter some day I think I will make a better minister if I am made to share the common burden with other young men of my generation. I shall be more respected by the men of my congregation if they know that I went along with them and took my por tion. “A hard job has to be done anff I don’t feel complimented by a Ian that exempts me from doing it. I’ll take no exemption.” That is taking a decent stand.— Anderson Independent. MRS. NANNIE OXNER BROCK Mrs. Nannie Oxner Brock, 75, died Friday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Paul H. Haile on Nance street, following a brief ill ness. Mrs. Brock was a life-long resi dent of the Beth-Eden community. Funeral services for Mrs. Brock were held Sunday- alternon at 2:30 at the- Haile home with the Rev. J. A. MoKittrick in charge. Burial followed in King’s Creek cemetery. Surviving sons are Eugene Brock of this city and Bennie Brock of Fair- field county. Two daughters, Mrs. Belle Felker, and Mrs. Paul H. Haile, also survive. More distant survivors include 18 grandchildren and a great grandchild. By MISS ETHEL L. COUNTS Read and ponder on these short, snappy, and significant sayings: An egg in November is worth two in May. If it won’t hold water, it isn’t very good dirt. Do you sell graded eggs for a pro fit, or do you sell eggs? In the book of Successful Farming there are many clover leaves. In the faces of men, women, and children we see good or bad land. As plant good goes, so goes your profit. Pity the farmer who has to buy potatoes this winter. Worry is the rent you pay on the crops you do not produce. Lime the farms, and grass won’t grow in the city streets. Let us endeavor so to farm »hat when we come to die even the soil will be sorry. It takes 12 months and sometimes longer to correct a mistake on the farm. Be careful. MISS HOLLINGSWORTH WINNER Miss Mary Frances Hollingsworth of Chappells is to receive a gold med al as county winner in the national 4-H rural electrification program con ducted for the fifth season by the ex tension service. The presentation will be made by Ethel L. Counts. The medal is one half by three fourths inches and bears design of a highline and 4-H clover. It is one of several awards provided in the program sup ported by Westinghouse Electric and Mfg. Co., for the fifth year to aid in disseminating knowledge on uses of electricity in rural areas. Harriet Gandy of Society Hill was named state winner and awarded a trip to' the National 4-H Club Con gress in Chicago, Nov. 29- Dec. 7, where six scholarships of 8200 each will be awarded to a selected group. Seven countier participated in the state. EIGHT NEWBERRY SENIORS MAKE “WHO’S WHO” Eight seniors in Newberry college have been nominated by the faculty for “Who’s Who in American colleges and Universities.” They are: Mary Dodgen, Granitville; Mary Katherine Reiser, Augusta, Ga.; Frances Hen derson, Washington, D. C.; Lloyd Kimmell, Atlanta; A. J. Hood, Gad sden, Ala.; Dominic Oolangelo, Youngstown, Ohio; Conrad Park, Bir mingham, Ala.; and Virgil Kester Newberry. Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Galloway of Columbia, spent Sunday with Mrs. Galloway’s sister, Mrs. W. P. Long and Mr. Long. British Tommies and Child Evacuees . Smile Their Thanks for U. S. Clothes The war-wounded British Tommy and the young evac uees who have fled to the safety of the English country side are well cared for by American Bed Cross volun teers. These unusual pictures sent to this country by Lady Stella Reading, prominent In British relief work, show (top) a group of convalescing British soldiers wearing hospital robes made by Red Cross volunteers In the Cnlted States. I.eft, a young English girl, garbed in an American Red Cross dress, makes a minor adjustment on another Red Cross garment. More than 600,000 articles of clothing, Including babies’ lay ettes, have been shipped to England by the Red Cross. “Sinners In The Hands of An Angry God” By JOHNATHAN EDWARDS PART II (Continued from last week) The wrath of God is like great wat ers that are restrained for the pres ent; but they increase more and more, and rise higher and higher, till an outlet is given; and the longer the stream is stopped, the more rapid and mighty is its course when once it is let loose. It is true, that judge ment against your evil works has not been executed hitherto; the floods of God’s vengeance have been withheld; but your guilt in the meantime is constantly increasing, and you are every day treasuring up more wrath; the waters are constantly rising, and waxing more and more mighty; and there is nothing but the mere pleas ure of God that holds the waters back, that are unwilling to be stopped, and press hard to go forward. If God should only withdraw his hand from the flood gate it would immediately fly open, and the fiery floods of the fierceness and wrath of God, would rush forth with inconceivable fury, and would come upon you with om nipotent power; and if your strength were ten thousand times greater than it is, yea, ten thousand' times greater than the strength of the stoutest, sturdiest devil in hell, it would be nothing to withstand or endure it. The bow of God’s wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice directs the arrow to your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleas ure of God, and that of an angry God without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood. Thus all you that never passed un der a great change of heart, by the mighty power of the Spirit of God upon your souls; all you that were never born again, and made new crea tures, and raised from being dead in sin, to a state of new, and before al together unexperienced light and life, are in the hands of an angry God. However you may have reformed your life in many things and may have had religious affections, and may keep up a form of religion in your lamij- ies and closets, and in the house of God, it is nothing but his mere pleas ure that keeps you from being this moment swallowed up in everlasting destruction. However unconvinced you may now be of the truth of what you hear, by and by you will be fully convinced of it. Those that are gone from being in the like circumstances with you, see that it was so with them; for destruc tion came suddenly upon most of them; when they expected nothing of it, and while they were saying, peace and safety. Now they see that those things on which they depended for peace and safety, were nothing but thin air and empty shadows. The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much in the same way as one holds a spider, or some loathsome in sect, over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; his wrath to wards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to cast into the fire; he is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes than the most hateful venomous ser pent is in yours. You have offended him infinitely more than ever a stub born rebel did his prince; and vet it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every mo ment. It is to be ascribed to nothing else, that you did not go to hell the last night; that you were suffered to awake again in this world, after you closed your eyes to sleep; and there is no other reason to be given, why you have not dropped into hell since you arose in the morning, but that God’s hand has held you up. There is no other reason to be given, while you have been reading this address, but his mercy; yea, no other reason can be given why you do not this very moment drop down into hell. O sinner, consider the fearful dam- geT you are in! It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God whose wrath is provoked and incens ed as much against you as against many of the damned in hell. You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it and every moment to singe it, and bum it asunder; and you have no interest in any Mediator, and nothing to lay hold -of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing that you have done, nothing that you can do, to in duce God to spare you one moment. And consider here more particular ly: 1. Whose wrath it is. It is the wrath of the infinite God. If it were only the wrath of man, though it were of the most potent prince, it would be comparatively little to be regarded!, The wrath of kings is very much dreaded, especially of ab solute monarchs, who have the poss essions and lives of their subjects wholly in their power, to be disposed of at their mere will. Prov. xx. 2— “The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion; whoso provoketh him in anger, sinneth against his own soul.” The subject who very much enrages an arbitrary prince, is liable to suffer the most extreme torments that hu man art can invent, or human power can inflict. But the greatest earthly potentates, in their greatest majesty and strength and when clothed in their greatest terrors are but feeble, des picable worms of the dust, in com parison with the great and almighty Creator and King of heaven and earth. It is but little that they can do, when most enraged, and when they have exerted the utmost of their fury. All the kings of the earth, be fore God, are as grasshoppers; they are nothing, and less than nothing; both their love and their hatred are to be despised. The wrath of the great King of kings, is as much more terrible than theirs, as his majesty is greater. “And I say unto you, my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that, have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear; Fear him, which after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.” 1 —Luke xxi. 4, 5. 2. It is the fierceness of his wrath that you are exposed to. We often read of the fury of God; as in Isaiah lix. 18—“According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries.” So Isaiah Ixvi. 15— “For, behold, the Lord will render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.” And so also in many other places. Thus we read of “the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God”—Rev. xix. 15. The words are exceedingly ter rible. If it had only been said, “the wrath of God,” the words would have implied that which is unspeakably dreadful; but it is said, “the fierceness and wrath of God.” the fury of God! the fierceness of Jehovah! O how dreadful must that be! Who can ut ter or conceive what such expressions carry in them? But it is also, "the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.” As though there would be a very great manifestation of his al mighty power in what the fierceness Of his wrath should inflict; as though Omnipotence should be, as it were, enraged, and exerted, as men are wont to exert their strength in the fierceness of their wrath. O! then, what will be the consequence? what will become of the poor worm that shall suffer it? whose hands can be strong; and whose heart can enoore? To what a dreadful, inexpressible, in conceivable depth of misery must the poor creature be sunk, Who shall be the subject of this! Consider this, you that yet remain in an unregenerate state. That God will execute the fierceness of his an ger, implies, that he will inflict wrath without any pity. When God beholds the ineffable extremity of your case, and sees your torment to be so vastly disproportioned to your strength, and sees how your poor soul is crushed, and sinks dwn, as it were, into an in finite gloom; he will have no compas sion upon you, he will not forbear the execution of his wrath, or in the least lighten his hand; there shall be no moderation or mercy, nor will God then at all stay his rough wind: he will have no regard to your welfare, nor be at all careful lest you should suffer too much in any other sense, than only that you shall not suffer be. yond what strict justice requires; nothing shall be withheld, because it is so hard for you to bear. “There fore will I also deal in fury; mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.” Ezek. viii. 18. Now, God stands ready to pity you: this re a day of mercy; you may cry now with some ensouragement of obtaining mer. cy. But when once the day of mercy is passed, your most lamentable and dol orous shrieks will be in vain; you will be wholly lost and thrown away of God, as to any regard to your welfare. God will have no other use to put you to, but to suffer misery; you may be continued in being to no other end! for you will be a vessel of wrath fitted to destruction; and there will be no other use of this vessel, but only to be filled full of wrath. God will be so far from pitying you when you cry to him, that it is said he will only “laugh and mock:” “Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof; I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh. When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirl wind; when distress and anguish com eth upon you; then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me; for that they hated know ledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord; they would none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof; therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled -with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall de stroy them.”—Prov. i. 24-32. How awful are those words of the great God, “I will tread them in mine anger, and will trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkl ed upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.”—Isaiah Ixiii. 3. It is, perhaps, impossible to conceive of words that carry in them greater manifestations of these three things, namely, contempt, hatred, and fierce* ness of indignation. If you cry to God i» pity you, he will be so far from pitying you in your doleful case, or showing you the least regard or fa vor, that instead of that, he will only tread you under foot: and though he will know that you cannot bear the weight of Omnipotence treading upon you, yet he will not regard that, but he will crush you under his feet with out mercy; he will crush out your blood, and make it fly, and it shall be sprinkled on his garments, so as to stain all has raiment. He will not only hate you, but he -will have you in the utmost contempt; no place shall be thought fit for you, but under his feet, to be trodden down as the mire of the streets. 3. The misery you are exposed to is that which God will inflict, to the end that he might show what that wrath of Jehovah is. God hath had it on his heart to show to angels and men, both how excellent his love is. and also how terrible his wrath is. Sometimes earth ly kings have a mind to show how ter rible their wrath is, by the extreme punishments they would execute on those that provoke them. Nebuchadn ezzar, that mighty and haughty mon arch of the Chaldean emnire was will ing to Show his wrath, when enraged with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed- nego; and accordingly gave order that the burning, fiery furnace should be heated seven times hotter than it was before; doubtless, it was raised to the utmost degree of fierceness that hu man art could raise it. But the great God is also willing to Show his wrath, and magnify his awful majesty and mdghty power in the extreme suffer ings of his enemies. “What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction?”—Rom. ix. 22. And seeing this is his design, and what he has determined, even to show how terrible the unmixed, unre strained wrath, the fury and fierce ness of Jehovah is, he will do it to effect. There will be something ac complished and brought to pass that will be dreadful to witness. When the great and angry God hath risen up and executed his awful vengeance on the poor sinner, and the wretch is ac tually suffering the infinite weight and power of his indignation, then will God call upon the whole universe to behold the awful majesty and mighty power that is to be seen in it, “And the people shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut up shall they be burnt in the fire. Hear ye that are afar off, what I have done; and ye that are near, acknowledge my might. The siners of Zion are afraid; fearful ness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among os shall dwell with everlasting burnings”— Isaiah xxxiii. 12-14. Thus it will be with you that are in an unconverted state if you continue in it; the infinite might, and majestv and terribleness, of the omnipotent God shall be magnified upon you in the ineffable strength of your tor ments. You shall be toimented in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb; and when you shall be in this state of suffering, the glorious inhabitants of heaven .slhall go forth and look on the awful spec tacle, that they may see what the wrath and fierceness of the Almighty is; and when they have seen it, they will fall down and adore that great power and majesty. “And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to an other, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord. And they .‘dial! go forth and look upon the car casses of the men that have trans gressed against me; for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an ab horring unto all flesh.”—Isaiah Ixvi. 23,24. 4. It is everlasting wrath. It would be dreadful to suffer this fierceness and wrath of Almighty God one mo ment; but you must suffer it to all eternity. There will be no end to this exquisite horrible misery. When you look forward, you shall see a long for ever, a boundless duration, before you, which will swallow up your thoughts, and amaze your souls; and you will absolutely despair of ever having any deliverance, any end, any mitigation, any rest at all; you will know certain ly that you must wear out long ages, millions of millions of ages, in wrest ling and conflicting with this almighty merciless vengeance; and when you have so done, when so many ages have gradually been spent by you in this manner, you will know that all is but a point to what remains. So that your punishment will indeed be infinite. O, who can express what the state of a soul in such circumstances is! All that we can possibly say about it, gives but a very feeble, faint repre sentation of it; it is inexpressible and inconceivable: for, “Who knoweth the power of God’s anger?” How dreadful is the state of those who are daily and hourly in danger of this great wrath and infinite miseryl But this is the dismal case of every soul that has not been bom again, however moral and strict, sober and religious, they may otherwise be. O! that you would consider it, whether you be young or old! There is reason to fear that there are many who will read this book, or who have heard the gospel, who will actually be the sub jects of this very misery to all eter nity. We know not who they are, or what thoughts they now have. It may be they are now at ease, and hear all these things without much disturb ance, and are now flattering them selves that they are not the persons, promising themselves that they shall escape. If we knew that there was one person and but one, of those that we know, that was to be the subject of this misery, what an awful thing would it be to think of! If we knew who it was, what an awful sight would it be to see such a person! How might every Christian lift up a lam entable and bitter cry over him! But, alas, instead of one, how many s it likely will remember these solemn reflections in hell: And some may be in hell in a very short time, be fore this year is out. And it would be no wonder if some readers, who are now in health, and quiet and se cure, may be there before to-morrow morning. Those of you who finally continue in a normal condition, who may keep out of hell longest, will be there in a little time! Your damna tion does not slumber; it will come swiftly, and in all probability, very suddenly, upon many of you. You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell. It is doubtless the case of some whom you have seen and known, that never deserved hell more than you, and that heretofore appeared as likely to have been now alive as you. Their case is past all hope. They are crying in extreme misery and perfect despair; but here you are in the land of the living, bles sed with Bibles and sabbaths, and ministers, and have an opportunity to obtain salvation. What would not those poor damned, hopeless souls give for one day’s opportunity such as you now enjoy! And now you have an extraordinary A opportunity, a day wherein Chris* has thrown the door of mercy wide open, and stands calling, and crying with a loud voice to poor sinners; a Jay wherein many are flocking to him, and pressing into the kingdom of God; many are daily coming from the east, west, north, and south; many that were very lately in the same miserable condition that you are in, are now in a happy state with their hearts filled with love to Him who has loved them, and washed them from their sins in his own blood, and rejoicing in hope Of the glory of God. How awful is it to be left behind at such a day! to see so many othefs feasting, while you are pining and perishing! To see so many rejoicing and sing ing for joy of heart, while you have cause to mourn for sorrow of heart, and to howl for vexation of spirit! How can you rest one moment in such a condition ? Are not your souls as precious as the souls of those who are flocking from day to day to Christ? Are there not many who have lived long in the world, who are * not to this day born again, and so are aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, hnd have done nothing ever since they have lived, but treasure up wrath against the day of wrath? O sirs! your case, in an especial manner, is extremely dangerous. Your guilt and hardness of heart are extremely great. Do not you see how generally persons of your years are passed over and left, in the dispensations of God’s mercy? You had need to consider yourselves, and wake thoroughly out of sleep; you cannot bear the fierce ness and wrath of the infinite God. And you, young men, and women, will you neglect this precious sea son which you now enjoy, when so many others of your age are renounc ing all youthful vanities, and flock ing to Christ? You especially nave now an opportunity, but if you neg lect it, it will soon be with you as it is with those persons who spent all the precious days of youth in sin, and are now come to such a dreadful pass in blindness and hardness. And you children, who are uncon verted, do not you know that you are going down to hell, to bear the dread ful wrath of that God, who is now angry with you every day and every night? Will you be content to be the children of the devil, when so many of the children of the land are converted, and are become the holy and happy children of the King of kings? And let every one that is yet out of Christ, and hanging over the pit of hell, whether they be old men and women, or middle aged, or young people, or little children, now heark en to the loud call of God’s word and providence. This acceptable year of the Lord, a day of great mercy to some, will doubtless be a day of as remarkable vengeance to others. Men’s hearts harden, and their gruilt increases apace at such a day as this, (Continued on page five)