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The ClwtokM Scout 9 R1CSABD OOL?t. carl CARROLL, JR _______ SATES Cornty One Year. ?2.?; Six Mouth* Cherokee County: One Year 93.M ?LIS Claaa Poslagl \ Pa U Al 117 Hickory St.. Marpby, N. C. Words of Life I "HEAVEN" If we want lo know about Heaven, we must listen to someone who has been there. But the best person that we can call upon to find out about Heaven, one who has more knowledge than all others, is Jesus Himself. And Jesus, who has gone to prepare a place for us (Jn. 14: 2), has told us about Heaven. Jesus still speaks to us in the pages of Holy Scripture about Heaven. He tells us that in Heaven we will have perfect happiness and there will be no fear that it will cease, as we read in the Book of Revelations '21:4), "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and dea'h shall be no more, nor mourn in?. nor crying, nor sorrow shall oc any more, for the former things have passed away", and as we read in Isaias <3S:10>, "The re deemed of the Lord shall return and shall come into Sion with praise, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain jjoy and gladness: and sorrow and mourning shall flee away." The happiness of heaven is no capable of being described nor cai we begin to imagine the joys tha God has prepared for those tha love Him. "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man, what things God has prepared for them that love Him (1 Cor. 2:9) Picture yourself having the joy troop all your past Christmases, Easters, birthday par ties, ... in short, having all the joys of your past life all at one time. Wouldn't that be a tremen dous joy? Now think of the largest number that you can imagine, take that number and multiply it by all of the joy that you have had in your entire life. What an indescrib eable joy that would be if you had such a joy. But such a joy would hardly be the beginning of the joy that will be yours in Heaven, 0 Child of God! St. Paul tells us that, "we now see through a glass in a dark man ner. But then face to face." (1 Cor 13:12) We experience a great hap piness when we meet a friend after years of separation. If human meet ings can give such joy, how much more joy will we have when we behold God face to face. In this world, we receive great delight ' by looking at a picturesque sunset or by listening to beautiful music: Yet no one can go on for ever looking at the same sunset: and an endless repetition of the same piece of. music might very easily lead to madness. But when we see God face to face, there will be no tiring of this beauty because He Is the Author and Source of all beauty. . And whereas we become weary of-theauaset? which is- only a created reflection of God.? .we will never grow weary of His own infinite beauty and goodness. Now is the time to prepare for Heaven. The precious value of time can never be exaggerated. An hour, minute or even a second wasted is gone forever. Time lost can never be regained. If you regard the time you spend on earth as the stepping stone to eternity, you will automatically want to be a "go-giver" instead of merely a "go-getter". You won't forget for one moment that eternity depends on your faith in Jesus and on bow you play your role on the stag* of life. Yon will resize that the longest We la too abort to ful fill the special mission assigned to you by Almighty God Himself? the mission of being an instrument in bringing His divine love to a world very much in need o i it. MAYER Instill la each of us, O Divine Oavtar, such a yearning for heaven that we will ?m every moment on earth to total Ytar tore to otben. TRIBUTE TO A I (ED. NOTE: Following is a tribute | to Nora Cobb White Spencer, writ ten by Joseph F. Baliew. a former student of Mrs. Spencer. Mrs. Spen cer died recently in a Murphy hos 1 pital.) I thank God that He appointed my lot to be born and grow to man hood is the community where Nora Cobb White Spencer lived. Without the stimulaion of tver brilliant intel lect and the inspiration of her radiant spirit, my boyhood among these hills would have been poor indeed. But no community can rig idly be called a poor place in which to grow up so long as it can count among its citizens a teacher so j abundar.Lly equipped to serve the needs of youth as was she whose loss we now lament. Soon after I learned to read, and my* childish mind began to peer wonderingly out into the great world beyond i the guiding star of my life. Her benign spirit beckons me onward and upward still, never more than these narrow valleys, she became the great world beyond these narro valleys, she became the guiding at this sad moment. Long and distinguished as was her teaching career in the public schools of Cherokee County, I was privileg ed to know ljer in the formal rel- , ationship of teacher for only one | brief school term; yet all my life she has been my teacher. It was she who first made me genuinely aware of the riches to be found In the realm books and kindled wiihin me tlic desire to "know the best 'nat nas been thought and said in the world." It was she, more than any other of my teahers, who taught me, by direct instruction ard far more by superb example, to speak and write the English lang guage. Nor was she without the crowning roll in my religious edu cation, for it was through her tl^at I came to know and love the great hymns of the church and through her that I fisrst learned to appre ciate merely the supreme lterary quality but ,-i K/ve all the matchless spiritual mini and beauty of the look of ooc+.t.. Many a gem of di vine wisdom out of its pages have I heard fall from her eliqueot lips: 1'each us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His com the meditations of my heart be ac duty of man. What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love j mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Let the words of my mouth, and themeditations of my heart, be ac ceptable to Thy sight, O Lord, my Strength and my 'Redeemer. I could repeat scores of them. I have long been humbly consc- 1 ious of the immense personal debt I owe to Mrs. Spencer, and I have the sweet memory of having more ttjan once acknowledged it to her with gratitude while her ears could' , yet hear my words. Nor have I been wanting in a keen awareness of her immeasurable Influence oil the lives of others, both near and f&r, through her long and untiring service in this church and commun ity. and in the schools of Cherokee i County and of ottjer counties be yond the borders of tills state. But only when we stand aghast in the aching vodd that is left after the final exit of a superior spirit do we become fully aware of Its potency. The passing of Mrs. Spencer marks the end of an era in the history of this church and this community. When an ordinary man or woman passes out of the life of a community, another steps into the breach. and the life of the community continues with little change. But the one who has so recently departed from among us was a woman of such extraordi ?arjr statan that there is mm to *? -HI record ? M million tooa to t*K year ended June I*. 1(H. TWi u , about I per ceM more than .the W*-\ vious year. One in 1C persons employed In the U.S. works either directly or indirectly with the dairy industry. Probably the moat serious threat to the life of shade trees are wood rota. Many shade trees diseasa* are caused by parasitic fungi and bac teria. It's soil testing time. TEACHER take her place. Such powers of in i tellect, such wealth of personality ! such quality aU range of talent, : such tireless energy a tenacity of purpose? rarely is any community enriched by an individual possessed of all these. Far more rarely is a rural community such as ours so favored as to retain an individual so abundantly endowed by God and nature after that individual has acquired education and culture, she followed (thank God that she did not) tue usual course of per sons of her superior talent and training and sought some center of weatlh and culture, the younger daughter of John and Sarah Eliza beth might liable won there far higher recogntion in the teach ing profession, or she might well have had a distingusihed? even famous ? career in any one or more of several other fields: creative writing, journalism, drama, music, , or politics. Moreover, she could | have enjoyed there those things for which l^er artistic soul most hungered here among these hills; great music, painting, and drama. Instead, she elected to devote her life to the education and improve ment of the children and youth of her native mountains And so deep and strong was her love of hcman ity and her devotion to duty that even in the most trying times she ever regretted her choice, or lost her dream, or faltered in her task | Into her work, year after year and decade after decade, she poured ' all her splendid and varied learning and talent? literary, histrionic, and i musical; and all that she did was vitalized a?d illumined by a per sonalty that she like the Evening ! Star. Nor was her work confined to the ' secular sphere ? indeed, she drew I no sharp distinction between tth* j secular and the sacred, for to her, 1 as to another noble woman of lit 1 erary bent, every realm of life was sacred, -And every common bush afire with God." To this hallowed hill she came to worship Him. But her active soul corid not rest con tent with passive worship; she must prove her faith by her works. Accordingly, she laid on tihis altar all the talents that so distinguished her in the teaching profession, and did with her might what her hands found to do; we are all witnesses that it was much? how much and farreaching, God alone can judge. She was not, to be sure, the first in this region .to serve God and humanity with full energy and de votion in both shoolroom and the church? the two are, in fact, so exceedingly well suited to oord mat ed serivce that many have endeav ored to do so But who else of all those known to us has served in both so long ^nd ap well? It has been said of both women and teacher* that their work is never done. Of ordinary women ad ordinary teachers this of course is not true. But she was neither an ordinary woman nor an ordinary teacher, and, so long as God gave her strength, her work was never done. Throughout th half a century of her creative life, die not only her appointed runds of dcty both at school and at church in every kind of weather with a constancy that shamed us all; she also gave most generously of her unscheduled time at all seasons to a multitude of worthy tasks. She thought not in terms of hours per working week, but rather in terms of human need, and went far beyond the call at common duty k> the service o f hu man ty. Her home was ever open to any and all the youth ot this who would go tbefe to ledge anc or relgious. Into pecially welcomed group* of peple for the purpose ff and rehearsing programs IM presented on all occasions bare is church. A very large percent age of you whose face# I see now before me have participated hi of these programs under Mr The wmfcer of OB ?ta*C* ' ? God has given for the earthly Will Wit of HU children. She looked far the beautiful to life, and responded to it with keenest appreciation wherever the found it ?in nature, in art, and especially to the human soul. Shf enjoyed a rich and varied social life, not without a goodly measure of wholesome recreation? on plane above the a? tons games of idle ness and the ways of dissipation. Her friends and acquaintances in cluded people on every rung of the social and economic ladder, from hovel to mansion. Site passed from one to another as gracefully? in deed. as artistically? as she moved her fingers in striking music from the piano strings: and from the heartstrings of those among wuom se moved, she evoked music of a home* ot seme She was a weic learned and mighty 1b the land, and could cover* 011 eqoal terms with deans and United States heglected to bestow a . smile of loving kind ness and a word of'encouragement on the poorest chQd tbat waQiedt unkempt and taicred. along tia-sc country road. Throughout her many active years, and indeed until within a few years of the ebd. her presence was seen, and her influence felt, everywhere and in every place of the life of this community. Hers was not the life of the common mortal who in his time plays many parts in sequence as described by the post: she played many parts simultaneously, and sh? played all of them well. As occasion required, she could and did. with equal poise propriety, dis u^s classical music til th a touring artis's, or the cur rent potato crop wi ii her tenant) play a simple game with a six year-old child, o a fugue of Barh; '? *<? * or from Europe, or via* ai tered mountain woman In cabin; direct a children'* en program Sunday sdttoot. ; The loving heart of a mother, j the inquiring mind of a scholar. .the' aspiring sujil of a poet? ail of these I had her abode in the" body we are now met to lay in Its final rasing place, It is alogetber fitting that we should assemble for her obse quies here within these stately Malls, which she, more than any o:her individual, was instrumental in erecting as an enduring temple toward which all our souls might mm, in life and in death. She has indeed wrought among us I (my and faithfully and well. Only a few now present knew her in the morniac of her life; many more of us knew her at noontide; nearly all ol us knew her in the afternoon, and all in the evening. At sunset she s:ill labored faiiiruliy in the Mas-| icr's vineyard. When twilight camel her unci re?|Jef <ient oamp pie of devoted servlre to God ai all who are made it His iouige. TIMELY HINTS FAMILY-STYLE RECREATION ?id moving out of town many fam ilies are no longer In a position to stroll over to the park, just a coup le <ot blocks away. However, that problem is solved by packing aj picnic lunch and heading for the ifearest superhighway, wttch leads to swimming or boating at a lake or beach, or to a state recreation few separated by They want their families to gether as much as partic ularly when there's family fua in volved. Take some food books aloof an vacation (read them together or not); everyone will enjoy fame*, and even the smallest can enjoy food food to cook, or supervise the cooking. Take your bobbies If the recreation spot lends Itself to what you do. If you can't leave home, have picnic parties in your own back yard. THURSDAY a 1MB KG. U.S. PAT. OFF. QUALITY COMPARE PRICE COMPARE AMOUNT NOW KING SIZE COKE COSTS NO MORE v * ' AFTER YOU POUR THERE'S STILL LOTS MORE ?Wttad?md?e authority of Tho Coca-Cola Company by _ Why settle for less when ce Now enjoy world-famous Coca-Cola ... inoig King Size ... at new lov^ prices! You pay no more to enjoy the cold crisp taste . ? . the cheerful lift of Coke ... in King Size! Bring home thrifty cartons of Coke in big King Size, today! , ~ - t _ _? .. ???? ? "?-* ? *.?V, ? ?? Hi . Coca Cola Bottling Co. Of Asheville ? ? ' ? ? V Bryson City Warehouse - Murphy Warehouse
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