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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 194*
THE NEWBERKx sun
FAITH FOR SUCH A TIME
AS THIS
By PAUL STEWART
Pastor First Baptist Church
Pelzer, S C.
We are living in an age of trouble
and uncertainty. These are the times
that try men’s souls. The situation
in which the world finds itself gives
much grave concern to those who are
vitally interested in the welfare of
the human race. The hearts of many
are failing them for fear. It seems
to them that all is chaotic disorder;
they wonder whether God has any
plan, and whether He really cares.
“Why doesn’t God do something?”
is the question on many lips.
Habakkuk 1:12-2:4 ought to give
us some light on the above question.
Israel, because of her sinful disbe
lief and disobedience to God, came to
a place of judgement. God was about
to use the Chaleans to punish, or
chastize, His own faithless people.
The prophet was perplexed God al
lowed such cruel ,a “bitter and hasty
nation” as His instrument of chas
tisement. He did not quetsion that
his people had not sinned but he
could not understand why God allow
ed the wicked Chaldeans to commit
such awful atrocities on His people.
In addressing God, Habakkuk reaf-
fiimed his faith in God. However,
there was something that he could
not reconcile with what he knew of
God. To Habakkuk, God was the
Holy One, the Everlasting. He also
knew the wicked would eventually
receive correction and judgment. He
need to turn aside from them and
let God speak His message to us.
Let us climb up that we may see
and hear. Doubt becomes a start
ing place of faith when we see things
from God’s viewy*oim. Hava you
some problem, physical or spiritual
difficulty? If so, take it to the
“Tower of Prayer.” Take every
thing to God in prayer.
Many years ago I read in a paper
George Adams’ story how Larry
Lauder turned to God, like Habak
kuk. Many sorrowed with him when
his only son died upon the field, of
honor, leaving him childless. The
Sunday after the announcement of
the tragedy Dr. Adams was preach
ing in the city Temple, London, and
Mr. and Mrs. Lauder were in the
congregation. After the services
they went to speak to the minister,
whose heart went out for both. Their
courage conquered the sympathetic
feeling on. the minister ,and words of
admiration rose from his lips instead.
He said, “Harry, we are proud of the
wonderful way you have born this
blow.” The answer came back
quickly. “When a man has been hit
as I have been, there are only three
ways open to him—drink, dispair, or
God; and I am looking to God for
the consolation and courage I now
need.’’
We need leaders today who will
not permit themselves to be lulled
to aflse security or into deadening
discouragement. Let us go upon the
tower and watch. As God answered
Habakkuk, He will answer us if we
are ready to listen and abide His
time. Habakkuk received a vision of
DR. WILLIAMS’ WORK
knew that God would not look upon j God’s truth which he was to write
so plainly that everyone who read it
would understand it and, in turn, run
to others with the message. Let us
make the message clear and plain.
We should spread encouragement.
There are so many gloom srpeaders.
We find them in the church ,in the
school on the street, and everywhere.
Discouragement is very contagious.
If allowed to start in the church, it
will dishearten the members and
paralyze the spirit of aggressive
ness. But encouragement is also con
tagious. Holy optimism will kindle
a fire of enthusiam for God’s work.
Faith in God who is greater than
cijiumstanceS will generate hope and
courage.
God explained to Habakkuk that
the wicked would eventually be pun
ished and the righteous would even
tually triumph. His answer to the
prophet for his day—“The just shall
live by faith.” (See Rom. 1-17,
Gal. 2:11 and Heb. 10:38. These
are the words that stirred Martin
sin with pleasure. We must remem-
eer that God does not make plans
just for the moment, or just a day.
His eternal plans are conceived and
executed in. holiness and power.
Habakkuk could not understand
why God would use the wicked
Chaldeans to punish His own peo
ple, Judah, when Judah was better
than the Chaldeans. God’s people
through the years have had this same
problem. Why should Christians
suffer at the hands of unbelievers?
Why should preachers suffer at the
hands of sinning, critical, and faith
less church members? Another
question: Why does God allow evil
to prosper at all? God will make
bare His arm at the right time.
Right must arise and truth prevail.
The good will be rewarded-and the
evil punished. There is a pay day
someday.
Livingstone, the great missionary
who suffered hardships in dark Af
rica said, “I do not call my priva
tions ‘sacrifices,’ for I think the Luther and his followers to bring
word ought never be applied to any
thing we can do for Him who came
down from Heaven and died for us.”
Habakkuk did not give up in dis
about the Reformation. It is the
message for our day. We are saved
by grace through faith. We are to
live a life of faith. Trust God for
pair. He took his doubts and ques-, everything! If this faith is real,
tions to God. He said, “I will stand there will be beautiful living. Mr.
upon my watch, and set me a tower. { Moody used to say, “A Christian
and will watch to see what He will ought to wear the kind of face that
say to me, and what I shall answer
when I am reproved.” The prophet
found the answer to his ouestions
when he get above his immediate en
vironment. We live so close to our
circumstances that it is hard to
keep things in their true relation
ships. In our troubles today we
it would be worth going two blocks
to see.’’
In the last chapter we see Hab-
akkuk’s response to the enlightening
answer of God was immediate and
clear. Nearly all this third chapter
is given to the expression of praise,
thanksgiving testimony, and worship
(From The Columbia Recrod)
The service of Dr. C. Fred Wil
liams to South Carolina over the last
three decades has been notable, and
the marks of it will be seen and felt
for many years to come.
Although Dr. Williams, on his own
motion, is soon to give up his respon-
aibility—and it has beer a very large
one—as superintendent of the State
Hospital, he will continue to serve
the state in an endeavor to create at
the hospital an important center of
research in the field of phychiatry.
By achievement and by length of
service he is entitled to retirement,
but he is a devoted servant of his
life work, and it is the state’s good
fortune that he will labor to endow
the hospital’s research foundation
with the means of expansion and
greater service. It is a cause that
should bring a generous response to
the appeals Dr. Williams will make
for it.
It is doubtful if South Carolina
could have found a man anywhere,
so peculiarly, fitted for the task that
has been Dr. Williams’ for 30 years.
He is not only an eminent psychia
trist; he has proved himself an able
administrator, a builder, a sympathe
tic physician to thousands of men-
tally-sick persons and their families,
and his warm and endearing person
ality has been a tremendous asset to
an essential institution and its mis
sion.
One of the best evidences of the
widely-recognized success of Dr. Wil
liams is not positive or visible. It is
the fact that over his many years a
complex and exacting task has been
performed with a minimum of diffi
culties. But on the positive side are
the enlarged facilities, the advances
in the treatment of the mentally sick,
the strong administration and Dr.
Williams’ continuous emphasis on
research.
It is fortunate that the hospital
has in Dr. Coyt Ham one of its own
physicians to assume the functions of
superintendent as successor to Dr.
Williams. Dr. Ham has been with
the hospital only six years less than
Dr. Williams. He knows it well and
is calculated to be a worthy succes
sor.
Mr.Farmer
We Have On Hand Now A
Large Stock Of
Nitrate of Soda
and can let you have any amount you
want. We shall keep a good stock on
hand all during the season for your needs.
We Shall Also Have That Good
Scoco Fertilizer
for you but would advise your coming
around and discussing your fertilizer busi
ness as to prices and analysis you will
want for the coming season.
The Southern
Cotton Oil Co.
R. A. FEAGLE, Cashier
R. C. FLOYD, Manager
of God. He humbled himself and
prayed for a revival of himself and
of God’s work. The ode in th elast
chapter is considered one of the fin
est of all literature. We are fold
that Webster regarded 3:17, 18 as '
one of the sublimest passages of in- !
spire dliterature. J
IBenjamin Franklin was present at
an evening gathering when some of
the guests asserted very strongly
that the Bible was a book of decep
tion and wholly lacking in literary
merit. Being asked his opinion,
Franklin told them he had with him
an ancient book of rare excellence
and, perhaps they would like to com
pare its literary value with that of
the Bible. They begged him to read
it. After reading the poem they
said, “It is wonderful.” “It is sub
lime.’’ Then they wanted to know if
the book had any other such pas
sages. Smilingly, triumphantly,
Franklin replied: “This book is full
of such passages. It is no other that
your good-for-nothing Bible. I mere
ly read to you the prayer of the
prophet Habakkuk.”
The design of the prophecy of Hab
akkuk is to confirm the servants’ of
God in their belief in His power and
his provisions as Ruler and disposer
of all things. Faith brings us into
union with the SOURCE of all life.
Let us learn a lesson from this
prophecy, for the story of Habakkuk
is a story of religious faith sur
mounting trouble and doubt. May we
go singing, “Simply trusting every
day.”
WE WILL BUY—Your burlap sacks
or any kind of old rags, also scrap
iron and other metals. See W. H.
STERLING.
AUDITOR VTAX NOTICE
Returns of personal property, new
buildings, transfer of real estate,
poll and road' tax, are to be made at
the County Auditor’s office beginn
ing:
JANUARY 1, 1945
THROUGH
FEBRUARY 28, 1945
All able-bodied male citizens be
tween the ages of twenty-one and
sixty are liable to $1 poll tax; all
persons between the ages of twenty-
one and fifty outside of incorporated
towns are liable to pay commutation
tax of $1. All dogs are to be as
sessed at $1 each.
All returns are to be made by
School Districts. Your failure to
make a return calls for penalty as
prescribed by law.
PINCKNEY N. ABIAMS,
County Auditor
LOANS
ON
REAL ESTATE
AUTOMOBILES
AND
PERSONAL PROPERTY
NEWBERRY INSURANCE
AND REALTY CO.
NED PURCELL, Manager
TELEPHONE 197
Exchange Bank Building
By SPECTATOR
Shall the Federal Government have
a right to impose unlimited taxes?
Everyone concedes that the National
Government has the full right to
take anything, or, virtually every
thing, in- order, to save the Nation
from invasion and conquest. It be
comes a matter of self-preservation
then. But in time of peace we have
city, county and State Governments
to provide for as well as schools. It
is apparent that the Federal Govern
ment has encroached on local gov
ernments for sometime. Today the
Federal Government is. assuming, or
plans for many local functions.
There is now before the Nation a
proposal that the Legislatures shall
memorealize Congress to submit as
an amendment to the Constitution a
provision that in time of peace the
National Government may not im
pose taxes to exceed 25 per cent of
over nicome. The same limit of 25
.per cent would also be applied to
taxes on gifts.
In the early days of our National
life it was thought proper to keep
the nation out of the local taxing
field. The nation could not tax the
individual; it did tax certain things
like whiskey an tobacco; but there
was no tax on the individual’s in
come. The 16th .Amendment was
proposed in 1909 with a limit of 10
per cent. That is the Amendment
which permits Congress to impose
an income tax. Only 2 per cent was
contemplated at the time. The idea
of 10 per cent was regarded as ri
diculous, for no one exipeeted the
Federal Government to take as much
as 10 per cent! It is now 95 per ct.
in some cases!!
The idea of a limitation on the
power to spend is not new in South
Carolina, for in out State Constitu
tion twe read: “The bonded deb
of any County, township, school dis
trict, municipal corporation or poli
tical division or subdivision of this
State shall never exceed eight per
centum of the assessed value of all
the taxable property therein. (Last
part of Section 5 Article 10,) But
the Constitution of the State says
more on the general subject or con
trol over the power of tax. Section
3 of Article 8 says: “The General
Assembly shall restrict the powers
of cities and towns to levy taxes and
assessments, to borrow money and
to contract debts . . .” Again we
find in Section 7 of Article 8 the
following: “No city or town in this
State shall hereafter incur any .bond
ed debt which, including existing
bonded indebtedness, shall exceed
eight per centum of the assessed
value of the property therein.” So
the idea of controlling the taxing
power is one which this State has
approved and adopted since 1895.
Capital is timid; but Capital doesn’t
imply only men of swollen fortunes;
some of the greatest corporations of
America count their stockholders
among the hundreds of thousands
of men and women of small means,
who own ten to d hundred shares.
Capital comes from everywhere. It
would surprise you to know that
Columbians hold thousands of shares
in Corporation.
KOHN-HICKS
Mr. and Mrs. Hal Kohn
announce the marriage of their
• daughter
Mary Birge
to
John Wilbur Hicks, Jr.
Ensign, United States Naval Reserve
Saturday, Feb. 10th, 1945
‘ Boston, Mass.
LOST—War Rationing Book No. 3
issued to C. A. Force. Finder
please return to the War Rationing
Board or C. A. Force at R. M.
Lominack Hardware on Main St.
TRESSPASS NOTICE—All hunting
or otherwise trespassing on the
lands of Mrs. Pat Mitchell or Mrs.
Claude Summer is expressly for
bidden and will be prosecute under
the law. 31-3t
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Cold Preparations as directed
“T4Z rnnstWer ?t a good reminder.
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This might be an excellent use for some of the
barbed wire left over from the beachheads and
barricades.
Placed between a man and the War Bonds he s
safely tucked away, it would give him pause . . .
in case he was tempted to cash in a single Bond.
It would make him stop and think . . .
Step and think that those Bonds will mean in-
Stop and think that holding War Bonds is as
vital to Victory as buying them . . . and as vital
to a secure future for the individual, a secure
future for his country.
Put your War Bonds in a safe place. And keep
them there.. . . as you keep on buying more.
Ten years from now, you’ll thank your lucky
stars you did.
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