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•y FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1948 THE NEWBERRY SUN acz UJL 'notice of public sale OF WILBUR LANDS <cScvtta... We hasten to beat the old gent to your house to wish you enjoy ment to the fullest for this seeson. Firestone Home and Auto Supply Our personal thanks to each of you for the fine trade given us in the past. We hope to be serving you just as often in the future. John W. Swittenburg, Jr. Doug Hornsby The Prince of Peace By Harold Heifer Seven hundred years before the first Christmas, the prophet Isaiah said that the troubles of the world never could be alleviated until the world was led by a just ruler whom he called “The Prince of Peace." For seven hundred years no such man appeared, but the world lived in hope. When Christ did come it was easy to believe that He was The Sav ior. Thousands who walked the streets of Israel saw Him, recognized miracles as His and put their faith in the hands whose existence and power they could not doubt because they saw Him and His works with their own eyes. But because mankind did not universally accept Him, He left this earth, to remain here only in spirit and only for those who had, faith in His omnipo tence. And now, almost two thou sand years later, mankind still lives in hope—hope that He will continue to perform His miracles for mankind even if He does not return in body. In the two thousand years since the first Christmas, man’s concept of God has changed from that of a man walking among them to a spirit that moves them. But God Himself has not changed. Today, just as when He walked the streets of Bethlehem, God means Hope. God is hope. Let me tell you what I mean. Recentlly the doctors gave up a dear friend of mine. She has been the world to me, the reason for my existence. And now these men of medicine, all properly accredited and highly reputed, tell me that I am toi lose her. I am myself a strong follow er of science. I hold to the practical explanation and in terpretation of phenomena. But now, when science gives up hope, I still hold hope. I be lieve, I know with certainty, that despite, all this profession al judgment there is still a chance for recovery. Even the professional men admit as such. “Yes,” they say, “of course, there is always a chance any thing might happen.” This “chance” the speak of this “anything”—that is God. I do not know just who God is and what His purpose might be. I only know that there is something beyond the confine ments of scientific verdict and assessment. For while exper ience and study may tell you that this thing or that is most likely, in the pinch, deep-root ed instinct tells you that any thing is possible. In the middle of the dark night there may be no scienti fic or practical reason to ex pect any sudden breaking through of light, but the hope that this might come about even so and the certain know ledge that it can—that is God. Although it took the illness of someone beloved to bring this home to me, I first had an inkling of this some time ago, once when I was very sick myself. They thought I had TB. I was in a ward with TB pa tients, and they were getting ready to take me to a sani tarium. In those days there wasn’t any talk of a perma nent cure—the best you could hope for was an “arested de velopment.” If you took it easy, you might be able to last a few more years. It was a black future for a perSon used to the active life of a newspaperman. Yet some how I neyer despaired. With the cold impersonal detachment of a journalist I could not help being fully aware that logically the odds were against me, yet I kept telling myself, “Even so, I am going to get well, completely well. So what if no on e else ever has? There always can be a first time.” I didn’t know it, but I was turning to God. As it developed, the trouble with my lung wasn’t TB. So you might say that I was sav ed bpr a quirk of luck. But I’ve seen men picked up from the battlefield for whom all hope had been abandoned, defy all the laws of medicine and surgery' and remain among the living. I’ll admit that waiting for tragedy to strike is finding God the hard way and that the finding may have been prompt ed by desperation. But when you find this blessed solace, which surpassed all under standing, then it become a sol id, serene thing. It is wonderful to know that no matter how terribly dreary and hopeless the outlook may be, all things are. possible. It is blessed to be told that some thing tragic is bound to happen and yet to be able to hold out hope that it /night not be. It isn’t a question of kidding yourself. You might lose the first round and the second and the third, you might even lose a few full-scale battles—and yet, against all odds and disap pointments, still have that flame of hope burning surely and steadily inside of you. I haven’t come to grips with death, but I know now that there can be hope and solace even when it shows up. There is always the vision, regardless of what science has or hasn’t proved, of another world, an other time in space. Science has to rely on its substance for algebraic figures and sym bols, but it is enough if only the hope in you, the God in you, tells you something. I know this is odd talk from a devout follower of science, a man who believes in the con cepts and theories of logically worked-out formulas. I am still a man of science. Only wiser. And like the Three Wise Men from the East, when Christmas comes this year I wilt follow the sound of the church bells, just as they followed the light of the Star of Bethlehem, never relaxing my hope that some day all people will welcome the Prince of Peace as the ab solute ruler of mankind. Immediately after the public sales on Salesday in January, 1949, the undersigned will offer for sale, to the highest bidder, at public outcry, that certain tract of land in Newberry County, State of South Caro lina, about two and one-half miles Northwest of the Town of Newberry, near the Oakland Cotton Mill, containing one hundred fifty acres, according to plat prepared by O. B. Can non, Surveyor, from survey of January 27, 1934, and bounded by lands now or formerly of W. W. Bullock, J. S. Bickley, William Shealy, the roadbed of the old Laurens Railroad which separates it from lands of Welch Wilbur, the younger, the Newberry Country Club, and by the road leading from the Town of Newberry to the Coun try Club which separates it from lands now or foimerly at E. H. Cousins; my deed for which is recorded in Deed Book 39, at page 134. There is approximately forty acres of the said lands in pasture, fenc ed, and traversed by Ready Branch; twenty acres of open lands; ninety acres of young growing timber; eighty-five pe can trees in the pasture; one tenant house, barn outbuildings, well of good water, large con crete water 'tank, pipes laid for sewage, place excellent for dairying. TERMS OF SALE: CASH. Th e purchaser to pay for revenue stamps and draw ing of deed. Ten per cent. (10%) of the purchase-money to be paid down on day deed will be delivered and posses sion given. Failure of the pur chaser to comply with fore going stated terms of sale, without a legal cause, will for feit the cash payment to the seller as liquidated damages. Taxes will be paid to January 1, 1949. For fuller information confer with myself or H. C. Holloway, Attorney. (Miss) Grace Wilbur, Anderson, S. C. 12-101410, PECANS!! PECANS!! We are buying PECANS again this year . . . Highest market prices . . . get our prices before you sell ... we buy any amount . . . any size . . . any kind . . . any time, R. Derrill Smith & Son, Inc. 910 MAIN STREET NEWBERRY, S. C. O WISH YOU PGAC^JOYAND HAPP1N€SS FOR CHRISTMAS AND TH€ NCW YCAR. Fennell s Jewelry Store Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S Day Phone 719 — Night 6212 za THE BEST PLACE FOR Buick & Chevrolet Service IS Davis Motor Company 1515-1517 Main Street It’s Here! 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