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. ' THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1965 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance :Six Months $1.25. Elder writes to minister (The following Letter from an Eider to a Minister is reprinted with permission from The Presby terian Joyrnal of April 21, 1965. The author is Woodbury S. Ober, businessman and elder in the Orange, Va. Presbyterian church. The first letter appears this week; the second will be published in next week’s issue.—Ed.) March 1965 Dear Sandy: You and ; I have been intimate friends for so long that neither of us care to add up the years! I write this letter, which you prob ably won’t like in the least, in the hope our friendship will bear up under your displeasure. As a highly respected pastor of one of our largest city churches, who has labored in the Lord’s vineyard successfully for almost 40 years y,ou now find yourself among the leaders of those clergy men who feel they must devote their and their churches’ efforts toward bettering the lot of man kind through direct social effort and through efforts ecumenical. You must be having second thoughts—for you ar*' asking me, an unimportant elder in a rural church, what I think of all this. My answer is I’m afraid you’ve gone off the deep end. I suggest you start paddling for shore and firmer foundations before it’s too late and you find yourself drown ing in a sea of self-righteous pride. I don’t think it’s necessary to labor the point that we Presbyter ians, through our churches, pres byteries and assemblies both of ficially and as individuals have become active in the political are na for the purpose om imposing our will on the electorate. Most of the time it has been for the highest of moral reasons! But I should differentiate be tween you or me acting in our in dividual capacities and acting of ficially as a teaching elder and a ruling elder or as commissioners to an Assembly. Scripture encour ages all Christians to mix in the world and ease its ills with their healing faith. But Scripture does not admonish the Church to take on its shoulders the government of the world. Quite the contrary. The difficulty you and I have is disassociating before the eyes of others our individual from our official acts. You, as an ordained minister, have a greater problem than I; for when you speak from the pulpit your congregation would be less than human if it didn’t consider you were speaking on behalf of the Church, too. When a moderator of an As sembly, or some other high of ficer, gives an interview to the press he finds it next to impossible to make the newspaper reader or the TV listeners think he is not speaking on behalf of the highest court of the Church—even if he does want to make that distinction which is not always the case. The Church, our Church, is more and more active in the social and political arena. In fact, it seems to me that men of your persuasion must be spending more of their time trying to pressure legisla tures than they do in bringing their flock to a knowledge of the saving power of our Lord Jesus Christ. Unless, of course, they believe that opposition to right-to-work laws and condemnation of preside ential candidates help to develop the marvelous Good News sum marized in I John 5:11-12. You personally, I know, do not; and I hasten to say so. Many of your fellow clergymen, though, do seem to think so. The moral climate of this pres ent age is, to say the least, grim. Every headline tells us so. I doubt, though, if we today live in a more depraved atmosphere then did our ancestors when Christ had His ministry on earth. Persons then suffered from actual slavery (not just segregation), poverty was vicious and widespread (and not measured in mimimum living conditions in Appalachia or what May 10th thru 15th THE KENDALL CO. IS PROUD TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CELEBRATION OF NATIONAL COTTON WEEK The Kendall Company is proud of its roots in cotton Textiles. Its growth in volume and diversity of market suggest that its long range objectives have been sound. Competition has been an ever-present stimulation to research, in dustry and ingenuity. The Kendall Company will continue to strive for prog ress on the basis of sound objectives and principles. Kendall Co. Products KENDALL Dish Towels - Sheets & Pillow Cases - Interlinings - Napkin Gauze & Cotton Curtains - Polishing Cloth and Seed Bed Covers — CURITY — Surgical Dressings - Curads - Adhesive Tape - Nursery Products - Diapers Cheese Wrapping BAUER AND BLACK First Aid Kits - Absorbent Cotton - Tensor Tape - Elastic Stockings - Anklets Sutures - Disposable Catheter Sets - Industrial Tapes the KENDALL co. Newberry, South Carolina OAKLAND COTTON BUYING OFFICE MOLLOHON ever the politicians dream up to snag votes) and there was no stabilizing middle class as we know it today—only the very rich and the very poor. Ths Roman rule was a crushing dictatorship (with no regard for minorities— except when Pontius Pilate bowed to a well organized mob), and there were sensual orgies that make our own delinquencies seem pale by comparison. I think you’ll agree with me that there was plenty of room for moral improvement in the days of Christ. To gain that improvement did Christ suggest sit-ins in Pilate’s palace? Did His disciples petition Caesar to order a tax cut? Did they ask him to stop laborers from the East coming to Palestine and competing with carpenters there? Or to forbid bankers lending mon ey to slave owners? Or to nego tiate a peace pact with the Gauls? Or to scrap his legions, his gal leys, and throw his armed chariots into Mare Nostrum? Or to require the Senate to provide a mid-wife for expectant mothers? He did not, nor did they. Christ came to change the hearts of men. His disciples went out to do the same. There have been social by-products of the primary mission, but the social objectives have seldom (until late ly) been made the primary mis sion. Deciding—in the name of God— how other men shall cope with matters mundane is dangerous business and leads to Pharisaism. You are well aware of what our Lord had to say to the Pharisee! Preaching the word and allow ing Him to change natural man into a spiritual person is quite another matter. That was Christ’s method. Do we think we are smarter than He? Do we, His creatures, feel ourselves superior to our Creator? The end result of this meddling in politics by the Church i,f suc cessfully continued, unhappily is crystal clear—a theocracy, or some type of theocratic state will follow. Do you, my dear Sandy, want THAT? It has great appeal to power-hungry clergy and lay men, • especially when they can clothes their policies in a seem ingly respectable moral garb. You are not one of these, I know. But what you’re doing helps that kind of person attain his goal. This meddling also leads to schism and more splintering am ongst our Protestant brethren. De cent, self-respecting and even god ly Presbyterian laymen will not be told how to vote by their church courts. They’ll worship God else where. Is this potential schism de sirable? Idoubt you think so. I shall take the liberty of writ ing you further about this matter. Always affectionately yours, Ron Participate in army exercise Three Newberry servicemen are participating in Exercise Silver Hand, a majorx field training ex ercise conducted by the U. S. Strike Command at Fort Hood, Texas., May 1-15. They are taking part in various tactical maneuvers designed to develop techniques to insure that Army and Air Force units can deal decisively as a team with any type of emergerifey. Those participating include: Army 2nd Lt. William O. Mar tin. 28, son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Martin, 1919 McHardy St., Lt. Martin, liasion officer of Head quarters, 1st Battalion of the 1st Divisions 13th Armor at Fort Hood, entered the army in Octo ber 1963. A 1959 graduate of New berry high school, Lt. Martin is % 1963 graduate of Clemson Uni versity. Before entering the army, he was employed by the Highland County Board of Commissioners, Sebring, Florida. His wife, Dianne, is with him at the fort. PFC Harry L. Amick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper C. Amick, Route 1, Prosperity. PFC Amick is a driver in Troop A, 2d Squad ron of the 2d Armored Division’s 1st Cavalry at Fort Hood. He ent ered the army in March 1964 and completed basic training at Fort Gordon, Ga. He was graduated from Mid-Carolina high school in 1961 and before entering the army was employed by Old School Manu facturing Co. PFC Homer R. Garnett, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Garnett, Route 3. The 21-year-old soldier, a dri ver in Battery B, 1st Battalion, 6th Artillery at Fort Hood enter ed the army in September 1963 and completed traning at Fort| Gordon, G a.He attended Newber ry HighSchool. BIRTH OF A DAUGHTER Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Brow der of Petersburg, Va., announce the birth of a daughter, Susan Lynne, on May 10. The little girl weighed 8 and one-half pounds. Mrs. Browder is the former Susan Ann Mayfield of Newberry. PROPERTY TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 Troy W. Cotney and Katie D. Cotney to Mrs. Jessie B. Phillips, one lot and one building on Clyde Avenue $5. J. Dave Caldwell to Clyde Earl Hembree, one lot $5. Mrs. Jim E. Denny to Michael C. Chappell and Brenda G. Chap pell, one lot on McDowell street $5.00. Burke M. Wise, Clerk of Court to Maggie Lee Rayfield, one lot and one building, 61 Glenn St., $4,500 Alice J: Wicker to Edward O. Cannon, one lot and one building on Fair street $5. Newberry No. 1 Outside J. F. Hawkins to Sumpter Cure- ton, one lot and one building $5. Silverstreet No. 2 Elsie Boyd to Delton Boyd, 24 acres, $5 love and affection Johnie H. Bundrick and Rebecca J. Bundrick to William O. Pitts and Juanita D. Pitts, 145.8 acres, $5.00. David Marion Walton to Judy W. Werts, 34.5 acres, $1687.50. Billy E. Walton to Judy W. Werts, 34.5 acres $1687.50. Bush River No. 3 W. H. Sterling, Executor, to Furman Sterling, 102 acres, $17. Whitmire No. 4 Ethel H. Ginn and Lon Wylie Ginn to William C. Owens, two lots and one building $2000. Tennyson Watkins to Estha W. Ktel, one lot and one building, 82 Lowery street $10 love and af fection. J. T. Nelson to Toy Nelson Cou sins, one lot $5. Whitmire No. 4 Outside Samuel M. Gary to Lucile S. Gary, 188.2 acres and five acres, $10 love and affection. John B. Epps to Marie Epps two lots, $5 love and affection. Pomaria No. 5 Hillard C. Werts arid Helen Kinard Werts to Melvin L. Black- well, 25 acres $5. Frank H. Ward, Probate Judge to I Frank Allen, 31 acres $2350. J. Alvin Kinard to S. Virgil Williamson and Fay Williamson, 56-100 of an acre $5. W. Ray Graham to W. Ray Graham Jr. and Linda C. Graham, 2-10 acres $5 love and affection. J. K. Shell to Lester J. Burns 58-100 of an acre $5. Little Mountain No. 6 Frank H. Ward, Probate Judge, to William B. Caughman, 89.23 acres $11,150.75. PATIENTS IN THE HOSPITAL Homer Addy, City Mrs. Edith Boland, City Melvin Bradley, Saluda Mrs. Sallie Brown, City Miss Annie Bynum, City Mrs. Velma Chappell, City Miss Fannie Mae Carwile, City Mrs. Marie Crook, City Mrs. Norma Coates, City Mrs. Nora Lee Dawkins, City Mrs. Toby Dominick, Prosperity Mrs. Cora Gilliam, Whitmire Master Harold Hendrix Jr., City Mrs. Levie Hill, City Mrs. Gussie B. Miller, City Baby Girl Morris, City Mrs. Florence Nobles, City Thomas B. Perry, City Mrs. Gladys Puckett, City Mrs. Florence Puckett, City Wilbur J. Ringer, Pomaria Holland Ruff, City Grady Boyd Rose, Jr., Pomaria Mrs. Docia Rankin and Baby Boy, Prosperity Miss Carrie E. Shirey, Whitmire Mrs. Martha Sligh, Prosperity Mrs. Mary E. Shealy, City Mrs. Reba Scott, Whitmire Mrs. Pearl Shealy, City Mrs. Mary K. Stockman, City James Masters, City Mrs. Henretta Beatties, City K. C. Dorley, Little Mountain Mrs. Marie Jones, City Andrew Maybin, City Mrs. Jessie Suber, City Mrs. Laura Suber, City Anderson Tobe, City Mrs. Laura Wheeler, City Fred Gallman, City Stephen Lake, Little Mountain John Kunkle, Silverstreet Miss Evangeline Frick, Chapin Harry Wicker, City Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Korsch- gen have moved to 1220 Kinard St. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Simmons are now making their home at 1515 Harrington St.