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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1948
THE NEWBERRY SUN
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OF WILBUR LANDS
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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,
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