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MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR A WORM
CITIZEN OF NEW BERN
By
Hattie E. Martin
On Sunday afternoon, Octo
ber 26, at five o’clock, impten
sive memorial services were
held at Ebenezer church for
Mrs. Catherine P. Scott, i^ho
passed away August 14, Ifl&O,
at Ta~boro. N. C.
r. JU
Mr's. Scott was the widow of
the late Dr. Allen A. Scbtt,
founder of Ebenezer Presbyte
rian church, New Bern. She did
a work for the young peopli rrf
the church and community that
will ever abide in their live*.
The program was as folloivB:
. itev. M. S. Branch, presiding.
Music* Favorite hymns of
Mrs. Scott,
Prayer, Rev. R. Sawyer.!
Chant, “The Lord’s Prayer.
A tribute to Mrs. Scott, Rev.
M. S. Branch.
Mrs. Scott—As a Gitiaen,
Rev. R. Sawyer. | >
Mrs. Scott—As a Ghurch
Member, Mr. J. C. Bryan,
Mrs. Scott—As a Missior&ry
Worker, Mrs. G. P. Dudley! !
Music, “Stand Up, Stand Up
for Jesus.”
Mrs. Scott—As a Sunday
School Teacher, Mrs. Mary, R.
Bryan.
A tribute to Mrs. Scott,; by
Rev. H. C. Miller, read by Miss
Willie G. Blackledge.
A tribute to Mrs. Scott from
Rev. 0. E. Sanders, read by
Mrs. S. B. Alston.
Resolutions—Miss Allie G.
Sutton.
Music,‘‘Abide With Me.” | J
Benediction, *L
\ Resolutions ; ' >
% I can stop one heart frcm*
•breaking*
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the ach
ing,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.” ,
On the evening of August 14,
death quietly took our dearly
beloved Mrs. Scott to her re
ward. Hers had been a long and
wearing sickness, but she bore
it all with Christian fortitude.
Not at any time did she fail to
think of her church and its wel
fare, and even though sick add
suffering, she always wanted
to share in its financial efforts
at least. Since she was. unable
to attend church, she desired it
to come to her, and, according
ly, the missionary society and
prayer meeting were held with'
her several times.
Whereas, God in His allwise
providence saw fit to take her
-. from labor to reward; and
r Whereas, Mrs. Scott was a
devout Christian woman and
church worker; and
Whereas, she labored for
> . years as President of the Mis
.... sionary Society, as a Sabbath
achool teacher and parochial
school teacher ; and
Whereas, she was untinng in
her efforts in every phase of
church' work;
Be it resolved, First, that we
submit to the divine .will of
God, knowing that He doeth all
things welt
Second, that we emulate her
example as a devout Christian
woman.
Third, that a class in the Sab
bath school he named for her.
Be it further resolved that we
Cherish her memory and foster
the work for which she so zeal
ously labored, and that a copy
of these resolutions be sent to
the Africo-American Presby
terian for publication.
“There is no death! What seems
so is transition; .
Thin life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life Bly
sian, | !
Whose portals we call death.’’ -
Respectfully submitted,
W. G. BLACKLEDGE, !
W. R. BRYAN,
a. g. smrm,
H. E. MARTIN.
A Tribute to Mrs. Scott by Jtywr.
0. E. Sanders, a Former Pastor
Charlotte, N. C.
To the Ladies’ Missionary {so
ciety of Ebenezer Presbyterian
church, New Bern, N. G. * | *{
I am very much pleased! to
have a part in the- memorial
services of Mrs. C. P. Scott. $he
was indeed a very worthy char
acter. She was for many yeats a
faithful and loyal member! of
Ebenezer chureh, and a mojdel
citizen of New Bern.
She was faithful-to her chtiich ,
in every way. She was faithiful
to the ditine sendees, to the
Sunday school, to the Mission
ary Society, and to the praker .
meeting. She did not only give
of her time, ibut she also gave
of her means. She even mad«f
sacrifices in giving to her
church and-to help suffering hu
manity.
Paul tells us in his writings
that “The just shall live by
faith,” and James says, “Fafildi
without works is dead.” . Mrs.;
Scott had a living and a wc
ing faith. If. one possesses
faith in Christ, that faith I
going to produce works, j
Christ. Paul; said to the jai
at Philippi, ; “Bel;“”- 4
.Lord Jesus Chn
read it as if he had shid, *'
lieve about the Lord J^efeus
Ibp'
Christ ahd1 thou shalt
saved.*’ To ‘believe about Christ
is easy. Any one can do thiat.
But belief is not only intellect
ual absent to certain beliefs
concerning Cod and Christ jj it
is the surrendering of one’s
life to those (beliefs and that is
what Mrs. Scott did.. Her’s
was a surrendered life to Christ
and His cause.
Her life Was a cheerful one.
She was always endeavoring to
scatter sunshine and joy. That
should be one of the principal
marks of a Christian. Christi
anity is a religion of happiness
and sunshine. Christians are
followers and believers of
Christ, and' He was the greatest
seatterer of joy and sunshine
the world has ever known. 1
Mrs. Scott was also a woman
of strong convictions. And she
was insistent and persevering
in endeavoting to carry out her
convictions. Others often disa
greed with her in some of her
convictions and plans, but that
did not chill her enthusiasm nor
weaken her endeavor., The
world has made progress,
Christianity- has been advanced
and humanity helped by men
and women of strong beliefs,
and we feel that mueh good has
been accomplished on account
of Mrs. Scott's convictions.
This sainted sister of ours
was a great- lover of children,
*nd a firm beheverf in: Christian
education. For a long number
of years she ‘ was a faithful
teacher in the Presbyterian pa
rochial school of New Bern.
During that time a very large
numfber of children came under
her pure, wholesome and noble
Christian influence, and many a
child has found his or her Way
not only to day school, but also
to Sunday school and church
services through her efforts;
for Mrs. Scott not only invited
and urged' children to come to
Sunday school and chureh ser
vices, but in rnahy cases she
would go by their names and ac
aboutthejg
man, blit tin
She was fail
sense of the
She was big
a woman of 1
of Christ and
wae always
thirsting af1
She was pom
knew how. Sh%l
sacrifices for Hi
soul who coitt
aged* sheltered
and fed ntftQiM
constantly point
ChHht as the
world. Surely th
en her a crown
A Tribute hy D
To the Misalj^r SwIgty ^
Ebenezer Pres^HMi church,
New Bern*- N* ^ ... r
/ Permit me to ill i«th $&*'.
in ybur memorial! services jfor
MrSJC. P. Scot*,#* to add toy
word* of apf*«#ie*l» the
pfiselfish life she hved end the
splendid services l*h ifiUdWed,
Having
ehiirch for 13
the opportunity,
church and in
to know her. at
t She was always
church workar in
ous activi
_iiiiii u 4-jShw
,---— —
'for the promotion of the wdrl.
—the acid test of Christianity.
During my long pastorate there,
I failed to note a single instance
where she refused or shirked
duty imposed upon her.
Mrs. Scott was apromoter of
peace. Many are the instances
known to me where she has
gone out of her way to foster
the peace and harmony of the
church and to cheek the rise of
dissension.
Mrs. Scott was truly a mis-*
sionary. In going over the rec
ord of a large number of chil
dren baptized during my work
in New Bern, so many of the
children were brought in by her
efforts.
I also had the privilege of
working with her in the church
day school for more than ten
years. There, too, she showed
the same spirit of her Master,
the spirit to serve others.
Iii her passing Ehenezer has
lost one of her most faithful;
loving and loyal members, and
New Bern one of her sttbstan*
tial citizens. Though death
she yet speaketh. She shaft -
speak in the lives of the boys
and girls, men and women;
brought into the kingdom by
her persistent effort*; she shah
speak in the noble work she
did, in the splendid Christian
life she lived:
“0, though oft depressed and1
lonely,
All my feats are laid aside, /
If I but rerteiriber only
Such «s these have lived and
died.”
NOTICE
A meeting of District No*. 2,
of Catawba Presbyteriai, Mrs.
M. J. Alexander, Leader, WiM be
held at Cedar Grove chufeh,
Saturday, November 22, at It
o’clock. AH women’s missionary
and young peopteV societies ifi
the district are asked to send
representatives with their full
benevolence apportionment.
STATES
HONS fro
T v/*—;«»i
afeout eighteen million families
ini this Country living in rented
quarters, and the building and
lean associations are going to
try tb.fnjt st least a half mil
lion of them into owned homes
during the ne*t year, saidj R.
Holtby Myers, President of'the
U. S. Building and Loan ▼ i—
speaking here today lx
Meeting
Of th^se eighteen million fam
ilies, there are probably 8 mil
lion whose occupations and em
ployment preclude hame own
ing, and this leaves ten million
hotis^ields for PresM^tHoo
ver’S committee and others in
terested in home owning j to
Wm-k on, said the League Pres
ident. Mr. Berets is a member
of the Hotfver Committee jap
iMhted two months ago to stu-'
djr^ays and means of encdur
aging home ownership.
A. budget for half million
homes win be spread over the
Country where the League has
Somber associations, and Mr.
yers, on a three months’ tour
out of his home in Los Angeles,
wlH give regular “quotas”! to
the various cities and Stated.
The League, through jite
member associations, also Will
urge the modernization of
§0fr#9O old homes and the
bringing up to date Of 286,)00
kitchens and bath rooms, s aid
thb speaker. He dre# a picti ire
tof constftfdtibn and impro ve
nt activity to be spurred bfc
organizations that lend
run into a billion dollars before
next summer.
Hd declared that the econdm
fc and moral need for mjore
homes is so great at thia tiine
that the building and loan asso
ciations or any other organiza
tion interested in this question
should riot wait for people to
make up their minds to under
take home buying or building,
but should ferret out the ten
ant iii his rented quarters and
sell him the home idea, “if
needs be by force.” He said that
there are more than ten Mi*'
lion people able financially to
buy or build a home today.
“Overhaul thfe safe deposit
boxes of this country and turn
their contents into more homes,’’
M*. M^ers told his audienci of
Ibuilding and loan offfcieflS. ”All
businesses need more homes
because more homed mead tre
mendous sales of materials and
furnishings and equipment;
[more homes mean more employ
fment and the lessening of the
dire effects of unemployment.
The building and loan associa
tions need more homes sonhiey
can continue their phenomenal
growth and assemble more
fnnds to lend'for more home
owning enterprises.
*T' wattt our' associations to
take at half million renters
from their uncertain moded of
ime am pmoe? them in bright
littte cottages of thein own be
fore the end of the Ifefcal yen^
June 30,1931.1 want our asso
ciations to thing about the mod
ernization of 100,000 hemes at
an average cost of $1,000 eadh;
so that this part of the pro
gram alone will not only, im
prove the appearance of our
communities,- and improve the
Uving standerds of the people
living ni these homes, but will
circulate $100,000,000 to mate
rial manufacturers andto labor.
‘T want our associations to
see that! at least 200,000 old
kifidfcSns an# bathrooms are
£{ >750 each, w)
labor another *1
make the h6tao tM
people more com
at present.
Dotn tell me
haven't the mom
build or modern!
the^unahployed
those who have 1
lit people
to buy or
Hitoreily
laven’t, or
n hit Very
ve fftipthg,
1 people in
brd to un
owning^TO|
y«rj they are living m rented
quarters and paying the rent
atpfreaent. '
TWfc quotas to oe given sec
tions by Mr. Myers wiH classify
the httneeut coot., Costs will
average |2^W.OO.
Building and, loan associations
finance home buying and build
ing up to sixty-Ilye per cent of
saved iby making regular
monthly payments into a bui.d
ing and loan association and
the-foanfe are paid off in the
same manner mb the initial
amount r& saved, only over a
long periOd of years. The build
ing and |om associations are
und# state supervision in most
states and lately have bedh
lending f<* modernization pur
poses. Tti&* losses have been
negUgfbtt during the recent
Whjlfa tfidy haVe husband
ed over eight billion dollars in
savings. |
Wfcsf father ur
appeared in this paper concern
ing the Sunday school member
ship drive' by the Board of
Christian Education. This drive
should awaken our interest
everywhere and every individ
ual Who lords Christ and the
Preshytertan Church of which
we are a part should enlist to
lriake this a real harvest sea
son.
But it 18 to be lamented that
we must be' offered prizes in
order to make us save our boys
andgifls. Have we not love
enot&h to arise and shoulder
the respotisSWHty without being
offered 1 fcrtee? I am not criti
dftfig Iff. McCdy nor the Board.
HWgm with them, for if it takes
pri&s tb make our people arise
to a seiifcfe df duty, give them to
them. I stand ready to offer a
fourth prize, ffut when we think
of the* numbOr of oiir children
that are being lost because of
negiigerice and apathy it is
enOUgii to make the heart of
any Christian bleed.
A few days age a friend asked
me if I thought that so much
criticism, publicity and debate
concerning he slow growth of
our constituency was doing any
good. Sfy reply was, it was the
tyest thing that could happen.
The facts presented Hay the
“Point of I>w”mam“Layman,M
and our energetic Elder, Bro.
Evans, serve, as good food to
make us thank, and lire us with
new determination. We need to
ber tokf about our faults, to be
made angry add ashamed and
then wewiftarise and do some
!thing£ constructive. {Ephesians
4:2^ “Be ye' angry and s'n
not,’’ is what is necessary to
bShg real aetftm.
An xMy can’t do its best
fighting until the soldiers see
red and foebbthe' angry. Neither
can the Church wage her great
est battle against sin and the
devil until the members become
. ashy and red-eyedr and arise
with a determination to win
(Continued bn page 4)
Mr. Editor: Perhaps it is not
known by the many acquain
tances of Rev. E. M. Clark, who
labored in the State of Alaba
ma for a number of years, that
he is dead.
I received a letter from him in
Redding, California, last Janu
ary, which I answered last Au
gust, but when my letter ar
rived it was too late for him to
answer. He died in July.
He was to visit me the past
summer, which would have been
his second visit to me since he
had been living in the great
State of California. •
His daughter, Mrs. Delia F.
Jackson, of Monrovia, Calif.,
3ent me this week the following
account of his death, taken from
a California paper. Please pub
lish it for the benefit of Ke,v.
Clark's o’d acquaintances and
friends:
i _ W. L. METZ.
Edisto Island, S. C.
hey. E. M. CLARK PASSES
. AWAY x . h.
^ Rev. E. M. Clarkwas bom >n
Dillon, S. C., November 1,1862.
He was 87 years, 8 months ard
to days old. Fdr many years he
labored in- the' Presbyterian
Church, both North and South.
He was educated at Stillman In
stitute, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
After being licensed and or
famed minister he preached
for 47 years in succession,
r- He was married to Miss Fan
nie Parker ©LAlabanwb
Mesdames Maud F. Bedney,
Delia F. Jackson and Mary H.
Adams, all of Monrovia. There
are ten grandchildren; one sis
ter; a niece; a host of other rel
atives and friends. He joined
the A. M. E. Zion Conference
which met in Monrovia, Califor
nia, in 1918, Bishop L. W. Kyles
presiding. Rev. Clark served the
church in San Francisco one
year, then came to the local
church of Monrovia. After serv
ing here one and one half years
he was made Presiding Elder
of the District, aiid' for a time
was Presiding Elder of the
(whole Pacific Coast of the A. M.
E. Zion Church. His present
pastorate was at Redding,
IShasta County, Northern Cali
fornia.
In company with Presiding
vBlder T. Allen Harvey, of Sac
ramento, Calif., he visited the
Michigan and Missouri Confer
ence at Chicago and St. Louis,
presided over by Bishop J. W.
Martin. While returning ter his
post on the Santa Pe train,
Thursday, he was suddenly
stricken with illness. His Condi
tion grew worse until he
reached his daughters at Mon
rovia where medical aid was
summoned. Rev. Clark seemed
to improve in that he had no
pain.
Oh the fourth of July he was
removed to the hospital where
he underwent an operation, Sat
urday, July 12th. He. seemed
very sick until Thursday eve
ning when it was believed that
the was on the road to recovery.
He was able to talk quite a bit
When on Saturday night he was
even more improved — appar
ently—said he had no pain and
felt pretty good. He never did
lose consciousness and talked to
the last minute. He kept telling
this daughters not to worry.
When asked if he was worrying
he said, “No, daughter, I am not
Worrying; worrying will do no
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