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CHURCH NOTICES
erection and support should be the con
cern of all who have the W^fare of the
community at heart.
T. G. Tate
Church and Community
No man lives or dies to himself. We
are members of the community in which
we live, and as such it is our duty to
work for the improvement of that com
munity. We should take a pride m our
home town, and feel that we are “citizens
of no mean city.” There are many forces
and factors which contribute to make a
town a good place in which to live. The
home is the first and most
factor in community betterment. Better
homes make a better town. A stream
rises no higher than its source. No com
munity is any better than the average
level of its homes. In order to have a
progressive, enlightened, and Christian
community, we must have progressive,
enlightened, and Christian homes.
The school also has a great oppor
tunity for uplift. Education is not a
narrow process of training the mind
merely, but should include the bodies and
souls of the children as well. The grea
need today is an all-’round education.
The school, too, thru sympathetic co
operation with the parents of the com
munity, can do much toward the devdop-
ment of this community spirit. Hos
pitals, good roads, parks, and play
grounds, beside many other factors too
numerous to mention, do a great
toward the making of a town. But cer
tainly the church should be placed along
side of the home and the school as the
three great forces of community uplift.
The more thoroly churched and Chris
tianized a community is, the better place
it is in every way. Decent places of
worship, from an economic standpoint
pay. More substantial sort of people
dwell and remain contented in their
environment. Less of moving and un
rest will be found. It enhances the prop
erty value of the town, being a good
recommendation to visitors and prospec
tive residents. Socially, the church has
a value which must not be overlooked.
It should be the center of wholesome
entertainment and social life for the
congregation and community. Moving
pictures of the right sort might be prop
erly shown on week nights, especially
when there are so many which are not
the best. The members, thru leagues,
societies, and socials, come in contact
with one another under the best auspices.
The church, in an indirect way, and
often directly, uplifts morals, preserves
order and good government, and improves
the tone of the town. One of the prin
ciples of Bolshevism is the destruction
of all churches and religion. It seems
to me that one of the most effective ways
to fight this evil is thru the church.
Lawlessness and crime do not find favor
able soil in a community of God-fearing,
churchgoing people. The mission of the
church is spiritual, however; and the
good it does cannot be estimated in dol
lars and cents.
The church should be the center of
the life and activities of the congrega
tion, and provide not only worship on
Sunday, but entertainment, social life,
and instruction during the week. Any
town, therefore, is the better which has
comfortable houses for worship, whose
Presbyterian Church .Notes
The following is the order for services
during the hot months; Preaching on
Sunday at 11.00 a. m. and 8.30 p. m-
Sunday School at 10.00 a. m. Union
Prayer meeting at 8.30 p. m. Wednesda>
Choir Rehearsal every Friday evening-
at 8.30. j
The Ladies’ Aid Society has elec
Mrs. W. S. Spencer, president, at t
last meeting, held at the home of
J. A. Ritchie, in North Badin. Un
the leadership of Mrs. Spencer, they l
forward to a year of renewed usefulne
The next meeting will be held with •
D. Clark, on Tallassee Avenue.
Sunday School Picnic ^
On Tuesday afternoon, June 1-
Presbyterian Sunday School enjo>e
annual outing and picnic. The ,.5
tee in charge secured two large
from the Tallassee Power Company,^
loading up young and old earned
to Palmer Mountain, several miles
where much to the delight of the ,
wnere mucn w
dren they were ferried acro^ " ^.^100^
and picniced on the green hills p
ing the lake. Various romping P ,
were played until lunch time.
bountiful dinner was
pines, crowning in all with c
ice cream. We were then ferried
the canal, and loaded in the big
and carried home, a tired and
crowd. . , of
We wish to thank the official
Company for the use of the
hay which made the riding so P
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