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CHATHAM RECORD
* o. J. PETERSON
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1929
about the sabbath
There is no question about
the consistency or the consci
entiousness of our Brown s j
Chapel correspondent in op- ;
posing the delivery and sale of:
milk on Sundays, but the trou-l
ble lies in the Sunday-keepmg j
tradition handed down from j
Puritan times. When the re
form came four centuries ago,!
the Puritanic element felt
bound to follow the Scriptures
to the letter. They did not
realize that Sunday was not
the Sabbath and that if they
kept Sunday in the Mosaic way
thev were as far from keeping
the Sabbath as a boy would be
from obeying his father who,
told by his father to thin the
corn to hills three feet apart,
should go and thin the cotton
patch to that distance, or from
obeying the third command
ment, if he changed the com
mandment, Honor thy father
and mother, into honor thy un
cle and aunt.
It was a difficult matter in
the early days of Christianity
to wean the Jewish Christians
from the Mosaic observances
and temple worship. Accord
ingly, the apostles, after seeing
clearly the beginning of a new
dispensation, killed two birds
with one stone. They decided
to make the first day of the
week their worship day in
honor of the resurrection of
Jesus and thereby, ait the same
time, wean Jewish Christians
from the temple service and de
pendance upon observance of
the Mosaic ordinances.
For several centuries the
Jews, as now, maintained their
Sabbath observances, on Sat
urday#, and the Christians held
their church meetings on Sun
days. The great heathen world
observed no day in the ssvsn.
Finally Constantine the Great
beca™a * convert to Chrl^lan
and when fie sa'*> cnat Sun
day was observed by Chris
tians, in the overzealousness
which practically compelled
the heathen to profess Chris
tianity, he made a law that
Sunday must be observed by all
the people. But he did not pre
scribe a Puritan regime for
Sunday, nor did the church
leaders. The latter insisted
upon attendance at worship on
Sundays, but, as clearly shown
by the^European Sunday which
came down from those early
days, the strictness of the Mo
saic observance of the Sabbath
(Saturday) was not demanded.
When the Puritans set in to
reform the church, they failed
to realize that there is not a
command in the whole Bible
directed at the observance, in
the Mosaic way, of Sunday,
and set in to apply the Mosaic
regime to an altogether differ
ent day from that originally
kept.
Constantine, himself, as
pointed out some time ago, did
not forbid farmers attending to
the needs of their crops on
Sunday. If it had been rainy
they could plough ; if the wheat
crop needed cutting and might
be otherwise lost, they could
cut their wheat, etc. Before
Constantine made this law for
the Roman Empire, probably
no Christian, unless a Jewish
one, felt under any obligation
to refrain from needed work
on Sundays. It was worship
day, but what time was not put
in worship might be spent,
doubtless, as they saw fit. Con
stantine is, then, the first real
authority to make the observ
ance of Sunday compulsory,
and his Christianity was of a
mighty shabby sort, judged by
his actual life.
If there was any mistake*
made in setting aside the ob
servance of the Sabbath, that
is Saturday, il*was malde by the
7 early church. If the mistake
was rnade, it can not be recti
fied by applying the Mosaic
code to Sunday, but Christians
must go back to the observance
of Saturdays, as the Seventh
Day Baptists and Seventh Day
Adventists have. If atry day is
to be observed in the Mosaic
way, it is the day Moses nam
ed, Saturdav. If no day is tc
be so observed since the Chris
tian dispensation began, as no
bloody sacrifices are to be
.made, then our correspondent
I need not worry about the de
! livery of milk on Sundays, noi
! need a man let his meat spoil
over Sunday, or his wheat get
destroyed by a storm predicted
for Monday.
j But our correspondent has
! failed to see the impracticality
®f his proposition. For the
cities to receive no regular milk
supply on Sunday would mean
that they must do without milk
that day, or that means must
be maintanied to keep every
j day’s supply a day longer, or
! a part of the Monday’s supply
| —two days—till the next Sun
! day. Producers, dealers, and
j.the consumers would have to
! be prepared to keep unspoiled
! a double supply, the producers
! and consumers on Saturdays
and the dealers every day in
the week. Figure that out.
Many practices and beliefs
have just about as slim founda
tions as the Mosaical observ
ance of Sundays. Christianity
is a reasonable religion. Jesus
Christ was a most reasonable
man, and in speaking of the ac
tual sabbath — Saturday—- to
the Jews themselves he chided
them for picayunishness, and
stated clearly that even the old
sabbath was made for man and
not man for it.
So, Brother Durham, it is up
to you to decide whether a mis
take has been made in doing
away with the Mosaic sabbath,
and, if you so decide, to ob
serve Saturday henceforth.
Keeping a day the Bible did
not appoint is not fulfilling the
law. But the Christian dispen
sation is one of grace and not
of law. However, the weight
ier things of the law, to dfi
charity, to visit the orphans
and widows in their affliction,
to love one’s neighbor as him
self, these are the very essence
of Christian character, the"
fruits of the spirit. But this is
enough for a long time.
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We didn’t accuse our Brown’s
Chapel correspondent of hay
ing little commonsense, and if
we had we should take it
back in view of his ability to
see the incongruity of vio
lators of the hunting law im
porting a Still Qli
upon they had n( >t
got permission to hunt, even if
they had not been violating the
State law against hinting out
of season. It is just such in
consistencies as this that en
courage the general violation
of the prohibition law. When
people who feel that they are
good citizens can choose the
laws that they consider it un
important to observe, it is no
wonder that the tougher ele
ment choose to disregard the
law they do not like. Mr. Dur
ham is right when he says that
the hunters were as real law
violators as the moonshiners.
They should be fed out of the
same legal spoon. As for our
correspondent’s practice of
tail-splitting and horn-boring,”
the celebrated remark to Hora
tio is timely. But some of “Dr.”
Rufe Clark’s remedies surprass
our correspondent’s in novelty,
and “Rufe” is shore one horse
and cow doctor. But don’t any
of you newspaper folk think
we are referring to Dr. Rufe
Clark of the Greensboro News
staff; Pittsboro has her own
Dr. Clark.
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Since mentioning Dr. R. R.
Clark, of newspaper fame, in
another paragraph, we are
minded to come to his support
in a matter of words. He used
“plead” as the past tense of
“plead.” Pronounce the former
“plea.” The Raleigh Times
hooted at the use of the form.
But plead-plead-plead corre
sponds exactly to read-read
read, and until recently prac
tically every administrator’s
notice published in our knowl
edge carried the phrase “plead
in bar of their recovery.” In
fact, we noticed that so long
ago that we did not know what
“in bar es their recovery”
meant, away back in Caucasian
days. Louis Graves hops in
with the statement that he is
sometimes laughed at say
ing “eat” (et) instead of “ate,”
but it is clear that he is justi
fied by the analogy of eat-eat
eat with read-read-read. The
tendency has long existed to
change the irregular, or strong
Anglo-Saxon verbs to the reg
ular form, and it is a pity. How
ever, this writer has adopted
‘‘pleaded” and “ate” and “eat
en. ’ Read. e*.t, and other forms
”°u!d doubt 1 ess have corre
sponded before now to the
THE CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBORO, N. C.
form of “lead-led-led if “red”
and “et” had not been readily
confused with the adjective red
and the Latin et, meaning and,
and in old English appearing
much oftener than in modern.
One of those up-to-date
American footpads went over
to London and robbed a man
of SIOO. He was surprised to
find himself convicted and sen
tenced to receive 15 strokes
with a cat-o’nine tails and to
serve two years in prison. It
is a pity that the lash can not
be used in this country to pun
ish such fellows.
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Two or three weeks ago the
editor of The Hamlet News-
Messenger was married and
now of the young publishers,
Mr. Neal Cadieu, has taken
unto himself a wife, a Miss
Williams. The youngsters are
showing good sense, and espe
cially the latter if his Williams
turns out as well as the one
this editor got.
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Chatham had little over half
a crop of cotton last year; yet
the ginning up to November 14
are only a little more than half
what they were in 1928, 2326
bales against 4088 laflst year.
Mr. C. J. Morris rented a field
of two or three acres of good
cotton land and got his part
of the money from the crop
Monday, amounting to $2.10
after the fertilizer was paid
for. The tenant got $4.20, or
thereabouts, which would
scarcely pay for picking the
crop.
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Senator Warren, father-in
law of General Pershing, the
oldest man in the United States
senate, died Sunday. He was
the lone Federal veteran in
Congress. Major Stedman still
survives as the lone Confed
erate veteran in Congress, but
he is to retire, even if he lives
so long, at the end of the next
session. The old soldiers long
had the inside track in politics,
but their day and themselves
have passed.
But Pittsboro holds a unique
position in the nation, in that
her native son is the only sur
vivor of the V/
in Congress. |
Mr. C. J. _ T> -1
carrier from B ~ Mon
day, said he counted 976 cars
in two hours while they were
returning from a game earlier
in the fall at Chapel Hill. Prob
ably the same kind of thing
will be seen today, and it looks
like the height of folly. There
will be enough money spent on
the game today, and by people
who know precious little about
football, to pay all the deficits
of the orphanages in the State
and give them a big start to
ward next year’s expenses.
Some folk seem to think they
are proving hemselves sports
by driving a hundred miles or
so to see a game of football,
when they could hardly tell a
touch down from a tumble.
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A VISIT TO MT. VERNON
STARTS ON PAGE ONE
as are many in this section, two story
houses and fine old oaks and a gray
soil that is fine for almost any crop,
and particularly for tobacco. For in
stance, a little later we are told by
Mr. J. L. Dorsett that he has re
ceived checks for SI6OO for tobacco
grswn this very year on seven and
a half acres. With a good home,
plenty of wood all about him, and
home-grown hog and hominy, a man
with SI6OO this year ought to feel
mighty good. At the first good Welch
home the owner was gone, but a lit
tle further on we find Mr. W. D.
Welch, a fine fellow who would have
us warm and who along with the
most of the folk named in this article
will read The Record from now on.
A visit to the Bray estate, a real
model farm, convinced us of the ne
cessity to make a special visit to it
and to note the developments and
the modern methods. The farm is a
little village in itself. Mr. Bray, the
owner lives in Greenbsoro, but in Mr.
H. J. Barker, the manager, the place
real farmer in charge.
fting a little southward, we
found an old renovated home into
which Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Andrews
have just moved. Mr. Andrews was
away, but Mrs. Andrews went into
her own purse and got the money
for a subscription. But the weather
said get back home and we nustled
back to the depot, stopping near the
Springs at Mr. Kirkman’s and run
ning in a minute to say howdy to
eur good friend Mr. R. L. Edwards,
and there meeting his charming
.daughter Miss Irene. Back at the
depot, Mr. E. A. Foust told us about
his monkey-faced owl and up the hill
to the Houston place Clarence whirl
ed us to see a real curiosity. But we c
are going to give a special pragraph ,
elsewhere to that cwl.
It is evident that all The Record
lacks covering the county is a visit 1
to ail the homes of the county, and
more money among the people. The
oeople are becoming confident that
Thp Record is no pussy-footer and ;
that while it v/ill not raise a , :
ance just for the sake of a disturb
ance, it does have *s own opinions
and does not hestiate to express
them. That is the point we have
wished to reach in the county, in
Robeson and Sampson we early
reached it, the point where an editor
can express an unpopular view and
yet not be hurt by it simply because
the people realize that he is sincere
and unafraid.
THE BEST ITEM
When we had finished the story
as above, we found that we had
omitted at the proper place the best
item of all. Writing without notes,
we were thinking the first stop was
at Mr. Foust’s at the Springs, and
following the itinerary through the
omission occurred. And that was a
visit to the home of our good friend
Mr. R. M. Gorrell. It had never oc
curred to us to ask whom he had
married, and a brief visit to the home
to say howdy introduced us not only
to Mrs. Gorrell, a daughter of the
heroic Col. Lane, but also to the
widow of the famous Confederate
Colonel herself. Such an occurrence
as this is what makes a trip worth
while. »
Mrs. Lane is about 85 years ot
age, but is surprisingly well pre
served. One could hardly think now
of Col. Lane without thinking of him
as a middle-aged man during the
war. And there is his portrait, show
ing a stalwart soldier in gray with
heavy beard, which might confirm the
thought. But he was a mere boy
when he led his matchless company
at Gettysburg—scarcely thirty. He
looks as old with his beard as Gen
eral Jackson; but General Jackson
was only 35, we believe. Whiskers
used to make it almost impossible to
judge age, and now lack of beard
makes seeming youths of men above
fifty.
Have you ever noticed that all the
presidents before Lincoln were clean
shaved, not even a moustache, we
believe, and that from Lincoln to
Harrison, with the exception of
Cleveland all were well whiskered?
Andy Johnson, we believe, was an
other exception. Yet the average
countryman grown before the war
wore beard from his youth up. But
few of those who were 15 or under
in 1860 ever wore a full beard.
But we are leaving the Gorrells.
Mr. Gorrell himself had been sick
for several weeks, confined to the
home but not to his bed. They have
a lovely old homestead and we only
regretted not being able to tarry
longer.
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|3| VOLUME 1 NOVEMBER 28, 1929 NUMBER 16
I Published in the interest of the
people of Pittsboro and vicinity by
Weeks Motor Co.
J. C. Weeks, Editor
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forget about these hard freezes
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“Why did you jump out of that
car last night and start running
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She —“I was being CHASTfa.
Have the chassis of your car
Alemited. The chasis needs grease
as well as the transmission and
rear end. Bring your car in for ,
a thorough Alemiting before you
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“A little bird told me what kind
of a lawyer your father was.”
“What did he say?”
"•Cheep-cheep.”
“Well, a little duck told me the
kind of a doctor your father was.”
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28 192 q
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Rastus—“No sah; he let de
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That isn’t the gearship, it’s my
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