The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, December 18, 1969, Image 2
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2 — The Newberry Sun, Newberry,
S. C., Thursday, Dec. 18, 1969
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"Whatsoever Things
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COMMENT
on
Men & Things
By J. K. BREED!N
The greatest occasion in ttu
history of the world will he cele
brated soon. Now what was the
greatest occasion'.'
We have studied about great
men of all the world. Near us
we had George Washington, a
remarkable man. a man of rare
judgment and control of him
self. We of the South revere
the memory of Kobert K bee
Our british friends hold m
reverence the 1 Hike of Welling
ton. the Prench still bow to the
memor\ of the great Napoleon,
but there came one man wito
surpassed all others. It was of
that man whom .Napoleon re
ferred to m these words “Alex
ander. Charlemagne, and my
self built great Empires, b u t
they were built on force and
fell. There was one Empire built
on love and each year that
Empire grows larger and lar
ger and stronger. That was the
Empire founded by .Jesus; I tell
you He was not a man; He
was God"
We are about to celebrate the
birth of that great figure; who
was He'' He was the Son of
God
Does your mind grasp that'.'
The Son of (iod coming into the
world to mingle with men and
teach them the way of Salva
tion. I must repeat that for em
phasis; the Creator of the Uni
verse sending His son to live
with us for more than thirty
years so that we may in some
measure understand the Creat
or of the Universe.
The coming of the Son of God
was not a matter to be cele
brated with picture cards or
small Christmas gifts: w h i c h
should bring to us some idea
of the love and power of Jeho
vah.
The birth of Jesus is the great
est event m all the history of
the world; The Son of God com
ing to the earth to tell us of
the Eather and the way of sal
vation.
'Die worship of Jesus is more
than a matter of temples and
churches; it is the transforma
tion of th(' heart and soul of
the individual
We are living in an age of
specialization. For e x a m p 1 e
there was a tune when chem
istry embraced so much that
today may embrace fifty sub
jects. In other words in almost
everything the subject is broken
down and examined minutely
in every phase. We go to a spec
ialist in everything. In medi
cine, for example, we may be
gin with the doctor's visit to
the patient: the symptoms may
be very clear; but the physi
cian may call in a specialist;
and. in some cases the call may
be for several specialists, all
experts in different phases.
Now another profession which
has a practice is the legal pro-
Baker’s Dozen
On Service
But that's what you can
expect when you do bust
ness with a local, mdepen
dent insurance agent.
“YOUR PRIVATE BANKERS”
14IS Main Street
Phone 276-1422
I met an old friend the other day.
When he asked me to have coffee with
him, I took him up on the offer. Pm
glad I did. For my visit with him did
much to restore my faith in mankind.
During the conversation with him,
it happened to turn toward two
friends of ours that we knew from our
high school days. My friend told me
about the two, how good the jobs they
had, how much money they were mak
ing, and the way they lived. “They
have got their own business now,” he
said, “and evidently are making a kill
ing. But you know what? They haven’t
changed a bit. They are the same as
always. Life to them is one big party
after another. They make big money,
dress sharp to impress their business
associates, drive expensive automo-
biles, and drink their high-price booze
while chasing their women.”
Living Fast
My friend went on to tell me that
one of the two had recently gotten a
divorce. “He’s dating plenty of sharp
chicks now,” he said. “They live in
fast company.” Then my friend kinda
shocked me by what he said. “That’s
a heck of a way to live,” he said. “To
know you have got to do that day
after day. To go to bed drunk and
get up with a hangover and then to
know that you have to go through it
again that night would be a heck of
a way to live.”
My friend continued: “You know,
that’s a carefree way of living. I
wouldn’t know what to do if I didn’t
have something to concern me. I want
something out in front of me to work
toward, some goal to reach, some pur
pose in life. I wouldn’t trade places
with them for three times the money,”
he said.
You know, I got to thinking about
that. Here was a friend of mine, a
traveling salesman, who gets his kicks
from making a good home for a wife
and son, saying that if there was no
purpose any higher in life than living
it up and having a ball, then he would
find it extremely difficult to find life
worth living. For him there had to be
some nurpose behind it all.
A Goal
Isn’t this precisely the feeling that
we are created with? To have some
goal in life, some purpose, something
to work toward ? Here is another Man,
walking along the shores of the Sea
of Galilee, teaching, preaching, heal
ing, saying that “for this purpose I
hav*e come.” The purpose gave so
much meaning to His life that he
gave His life for that purpose.
In a classroom behind the Iron Cur
tain some years ago the professor was
without an answer for a question posed
by one of the pupils. “Prof,” the pupil
asked, “what’s the purpose of life?”
A Galilean had an answer to the ques
tion. He said the purpose of life is to
serve, both God and fellowman.
Maybe we should, instead of com
plaining about all our concerns, re
joice that we have something to be
concerned about. For no one is to be
pitied more in life than the person
whose major goal is to make more
money and whose greatest joy comes
from carelessness.
“Thank you, Lord, for values great
er than money and goals higher than
pleasure.” —Five Star
lessioii. You talk to your law
yer and he may find a hundred
court decisions ail at variance,
although it would appear that
the condition and the facts were
exactly the same in many of
those cases; so your lawyer
goes into court confident, but
may find his case knocked into
a “cocked hat” by the judge.
Funeral service
for Dr. Suber
held Sunday
Dr Thomas E Suber, form
er superintendent of the South
Carolina Synod, died Friday at
a Columbia hospital.
Dr. Suber was born Novem
ber 24, 1890 near Pomaria. He
received the A B degree from
Newberry College in 1915. He
was school principal at Waiter-
boro one year and entered the
Southern Seminary m 1916. He
received the B. I), degree from
the Seminary in May 1919, was
ordained November 1919 and he
served as pastor of the Silver-
street mission from that time
until 1924.
In 1924 Mr Suber became pas
tor of the Uutheran Church of
the Incarnation, Columbia and
remained there until 1939. Dur
ing this time he rendered many
services to the Synod, and in
1939 became Superintendent of
the S C. Synod.
In 1942, he resigned the of
fice of Superintendent to become
pastor of a parish in Uexington
County. He was elected a mem
ber of the Board of Trustees
of Newberry College, which, ir
1947, conferred upon him the
I). I). degree.
In 1951 Dr. Suber became pas
tor of St. Uuke’s Lutheran
Church in Prosperity, which he of Abbeville; one sister, Mrs.
served until his retirement in Laura Parrott of Newberry;
1962. one brother, W. J. Suber, Sr.
On November 2, 1969 the St. of Pomaria; and four grand-
Luke’s congregation recognized chldren.
the 50th anniversary of Dr. Sub- Funeral services were con-
er’s ordination. ducted Sunday at St. Luke’s Lu-
He was married in 1919 to theran Church by the Rev. J.
Miss Julia Shroeder Lake, who Hilton Roof and Dr. Karl W.
survives along with one daugh- Kinard. Interment was in the
ter, Mrs. Fletcher W. Ferguson church cemetery.
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