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f POLK COUNTY, NEWS, TRYQN, NOBTff CAROLINA mnfcVED UNI70KH mTERIf ATIGNAl liiiMiwJUiirui; CBy lihiV. p. b. FITZ WATER, - D. D Teacher f English Bible In the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) (Copyright 1919. hy Western Xewpapcr Cnion. .1 LESSON FOR JUNE 29 mm - r TMOMK! JOHN ADAMt JOHN HANCOCK BB4JAMW HARRISON J iHOMAS JEFFERSON wrote the Declaration of Independ I ence. And congress signed I it. And the Liberty Bell rang forth the glad tidings, pro- Ij claiming liberty in the4' land. H" J And George Washington be-. i to fight the British "his is about the way the average oolboy not to say some' older ericans thinks the Declaration 9f ependence came into existence,, the ependence of the United States of erica was secured and the Fourth July became a national holiday. . pile some of the details concern- the Declaration of Independence always be a matter of argument kg historians, the sequence of jnts is dear and runs like this : 'ighting between the Americans and British began April 19, 1775, at tington. Even after the fighting on it was some time before the ement for independence gained 'h Jieadway in the public mind. niary 13, 1776, a committee an ted to prepare an address to the itry presented its report to con Is. This report reads in part : Fe have been accused of carrying !the war for the nnrnnsw nf estflh- ing an empire. We disavow the in- ion. We (ierlnrp thnt what uaa- BSM WW IT V at and what we are entrusted ou to pursue is the defense and stablishment of "the constitutional ts of the colonies." was not until -June 7, 1776, that iard Henry Lee of Virginia Intro a resolution which was to be e only less familiar than the Dec tion itself. This resolution con 8 the famous sentence : "That United States are and of risht 1 to be free and IndeDendent N; that they are absolved from ai egiance to the British crown, "iat all political connection ho- fa them and the state of Great Pn IS and OUeht tn ha rilsesilirort m . a --w w x v kj kj j a w vv f s resolution was debated many w congress. The chief speak er separation were John Adams, cousin, Samuel Adams; Roger ttan, Qliver Olcott. Kichard Henry and George Wytfie. John Dick- of Pennsylvania (led the opposi ior delay, prominent among his s being John Jay, James Wil des Duane, Edward Rutledge K bert R- Livingston, but it was I rom the beginning that they m the minority. ) gave time a committee was ap l on juneuto frame the Dec- R chl u Pendence' Stran to e aJ Henry Lee, who was the. entl 6 'J!8011, and by par .right should have had the ? ntofThhe committ ee' was iSion . masons for this nave been variously ex- hen US a fact that he ws ab nehl Committee was named, fswiS Clk'd hom the illness 'nfi0f mbm were Thomas Jef-sachusett-ria'- John Adams of isviv,' 7 Lnjamin Franklin of L,. nia Rser Sherman nf W York ihT'11- LivIngston of rconx: T were Prominent r Sherman i auixs. h as Unique In American Im SI?ner of the fmir rnts: tKA . ... VVii 6cai therw : AnicIes o' Associa- ,U ui independence, ""DREADED SPRING DOSE He se Fi-get8 the. Brim- u 'cle of His Youth- fli K on t! , . nf ..... uu' K-tchen mnhAQt. mass ?ttery containing" a N fami io same calor and K " he lur and m.r ,,lluIoa? it was I ,rlanr ',rtes! And the mid. lTZeditfor.herl YoMake iM; lfte New York ake three days running, . .. . , vv SIGNING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SSON ROBERT UVfrJGSTON KHJAMN FRANKUN . . ROOEK SHERMAN JOS1AH RARTLETT PHLT the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution all of which he was in strumental in preparing. The committee elected Jefferson chairman and instructed him to make a draft of a declaration. The com mittee submitted its first draft June 28. July 2 the congress adopted the res olution presented by Lee and resolved to take further consideration on the morrow. On the third the committee had not finished its labors, but on July 4 It presented a completed draft to the body, and after a long debate, -which continued until the night, the con gress adopted the Declaration of In dependence.. After the committee of the whole 'had debated the paper for hours Benjamin Harrison reported to congress that the Declaration of Inde pendence had been agreed to by the committee of the whole. The paper was again read and ordered printed. The Declaration was committed to the printer, Dunlap, immediately, and the broadside was ready on the fol lowing day, July 5, when It received the signatures of John Hancock and of Charles Thomson,' president and secretary of congress, respectively, au thenticating the copy to be forwarded to the; governments of the thirteen states. The signatures were followed by the words: "By i Order and in Be half of ihe Congress." ? Copies of the broadside were sent to the various states and to the com manding officers of the continental troops. It is not certain that each of these bore the signatures of the pres ident and the secretary. On July 19 it was ordered that the Declaration "passed on the fourth, should be fairly engrossed on parch ment with the title and style of The Unanimous Declaration of the Thir teen Unitel States of America,' and that the same, when engrossed, be signed by every member of congress." On August 2 the journal records that "The Declaration of Independ ence, being engrossed, rfnd compared at the table, was signed by the mem bers." . As to the signatures to the Decla ration, a volume might be written. The common understanding Is that the fifty-five men whose names are ap pended were present in congress on July 4, 1776, and assenting to the Declaration. This , understanding is far from the truth. I . s Signatures appear on the document of men. who were not members of the congress at the time the Declaration was agreed on. It has been suggested that the proper interpretation of the orders of congress to have the docu ment signed by . every member, was in tended to Include those who became members about this time. But Henry. Wisner of New York, who voted for independence, did not sign, and Robert Morris, who did not cast his vote for the Declaration, did: Wisner was absent in New , York on August 2 to attend the provincial con gress, to. which he had been elected, and evidently never had an opportu nity to affix his signature to, the doc ument. - .. ' ' There was a reason for the delay In appending the signatures apart from the time necessary to have the docu ment engrossed. It - as Intended to have the Declaration go out to the world as the unanimous declaration of all the colonies, and on July Fdurth, a tablespoonf ul before breakfast, and then omit it for three days, then take it again, and so on until you have re peated this three times.; the creator of the .dose explained. "No needto tell me ; I was brought up on It, . the visitor said. f'Without It I should neverjiave been able to understand the feeling of the poor wretches of Dothe boys Hall when Mrs. Squeers fed them brimstone and treacre. Our wasmUed in the same -sort of bowl ?nd moUier always set U on the sideboard, lest we forget. SAMUB. ADAMS LEWS MORRIS - RICHARD HENRY LEE LMNCJTON 3 1776, the delegates from 'New York felt some diffidence In voting, as they had no Instructions. ' Wisner, however," did cast a vote in favor of independ ence, and before August 2 New York had instructed her delegation to agree to the Declaration. ' , There was a hearty response when It became known that signatures were to be appended to the document. Sam uel Chase of Maryland was absent from congress on July 4 and the next day he wrote from Annapolis to John Adams, "How shall J transmit to pos terity that I gave my assent?".. On the ninth Adams replied, "As soon as an American seal is prepared I con jecture the Declaration will be sub scribed to by all the members, which will give you the opportunity you wish for of transmitting your name .among the votaries of Independence." " Elbridge Gerry of New York had to leave Philadelphia two weeks after the Declaration had been adopted, and he wrote to John and to Samuel Ad ams, "Pray subscribe for me ye Dec laration of Independence If ye same is to be signed as proposed. I think we ought to have ye privilege when neces sarily absent of voting and signing by proxy." Of the signers who did not vote for the Declaration because they were not members at that time William Wil liams of Connecticut was not elected until July 11 ; Rush, Clymer, Smith, Taylof and Ross of Pensylvanla were ndt elected until July 20. Charles Car roll of Carrollton, as well as Chase, was attending a. meeting of the Mary land convention on July 4. George Wythe of Virginia on the same day was chairman of the committee of the whole of the Virginia convention, and Richard Henry Lee was in the coaven tlon, having been compelled to return from Philadelphia on account of sick ness In his family, having left on June 13. William " Hooper of North Caro Una was absent from Philadelphia at least as late as July 8. Yet all of these members signed the Declaration, al though some of them, it has been shown, were not even members at that time, and four members were absent Thomas McLean of Delaware: was the last to sign and did not do so:until five years after the adoption of the Declaration and at a time when - the war virtually was at an end. It was through no fault of McLean. His name was omitted from the printed copy In the journal. The popular, traditional idea of the signing of the Declaration of Inde pendence presents it as a graceful and formal function taking place July 4, 1776, in a large, handsomely furnished chamber in Independence hall, Phila delphia. To give the necessary touch Of vivacity to the picture there is the scene of the small boy darting from the door as the last signer sets his autogfaph to the parchment and dash ing down the street, calling to his grandfather to "Ring ! 01, ring for liberty !" 'x - As a matter of fact the Declaration of Independence was sighed behind locked doors. The city was not breath lessly awaiting the event ; outside, . nor did -the Liberty Bell peal forth on that day the triumphal note of freedom. Frfim these facts It appears that the "Fourth of July" might with good rea son have fallen upon either July 2 or August 2 Instead of upon July 4. And she shuddered as she spoke. But even at that she knew that the shudder was for effect. So strong is the force of, tradition that she went home; that very, day and mixed herself the child-' hood dose, deciding that If ; there were any virtue in ? the ;' combination - of spring and a blood purifier she might as well benefit by It. At all events it could, not hurt her; f - -r V y. : : . f :.; The middleman' should not be ielt centered and content to db middling well. . ' - - REVIEW: RESPONSE TO GOD'S ' love.: :. v,-. y SELECTION FOR READING Phil. 1: GOLDEN TEXT I will praise thee, O Lord my Ood, with my whole heart. Ps. .86:12. " ' . PRIMARY TOPIC Showing Our Love tp Our Heavenly Father. John 14:15. ... JUNIOR TOPIC-Some Things W Have Learned About God. John 3:16. INTERMEDIATE TOPIC The Marks of a Christian. ', SENIOR AND ADULT TOPIC Some Fundamentals of Faith' and Practice. ; : The method of review will largely be determined by the grade of the school. The, primary teacher can use the ma terial which shows love to the Heav enly Father; the Junior teacher, that which teaches about God; the inter mediate teacher, the marks of a Chris tian ; the senior and adult teacher, the fundamentals of faith and practice. As Illustrative of the method for the senior and adult, note the following: Lesson I. God who. was before all things is the cause of air things, j The universe came into being by, the! will and act of the divine personality. Man himself Is a creation of God..1 nqt an evolution. All things continue to be by the preserving power of God. (This great being Is the Father of all who be lieve on Jesus Christ. We should, edve him our undivided 'affection and trust him for food and raiment. . Lesson II. Jesus,' the Son of God and Israel's Messiah, Is the lamb who bore, our sins. Out" of God's love he was ' given, and "whosoever belleveth on him shall not perish, but have ever lasting lifev Lesson III. Jesus Christ rose from the dead. His resurrection guarantees : 1. The integrity of the Scriptures I Cor. 15:20). 2. The reality of the divine person (Rom. 1:4). 3. The sufficiency of Christ's aton ing sacrifice (Rom. 4:25). . 4. Life and immortality of the .be liever (I Cor. 15:20). . Lesson IV. On the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the, disciples, baptizing them into the one body of which Christ Is the head. The gift of the Spirit peculiarly qual ified the disciples to be his witnesses. Lesson V. God created man In his likeness and Image and placed him at the head of creation. Lesson VI. Through the fafi of Adam sin has passed upon all men, bringing death, physical and spiritual, and sorrow. In Its train Lesson VII. Lost men are saved ab solutely by God's grace. His grace means his kindness toward men through Jesus Christ Lesson VII I. At the preaching of Jonah the people of Nineveh repented. Because of their repentance God's wrath was turned aside. Those who repent of their sins and cry to. God for mercy through Jesus Christ shall be saved. ' Lesson IX. It Is only through faith that man can please God. Through faith the mightiest victories have been wrought The grand exemplar upon whom faith can rest Is Jesus Christ Lesson X. The grand Incentive to obedience is love to God. Calling Christ Lord will not answer for disobedience to his will; Hearing and doing his teachings Is building upon the solid rock. Such building can never'be de stroyed by flood or storm. ' Lesson XI. The right motive in pray ing Is not to attract man's attention, but to have fellowship with God. God Is pleased with persistency In prayer. Lesson XII. The greatest of the Holy Spirit's gifts Is love the. love of God Shed abroad In our heart Love is not a mere sentiment or emo tion, but a mighty dynamic which' transforms the life,' expressing Itself In practical service to men. It abides forever. . . Staying Away From Church. The habit of absenting one's1 sell from the Sunday services of the church Is one that some seem to acquire! very easily. Tt Is a habit to be shunned. Sometlmea it Is occasioned by sick, ness ; often some small excuse, some grudge against a member, some re sentment at a fellow-member's fault, Is the occasion. Jesus will be there, even If an unworthy' member Is pres. ent Jesus may be present especially, to meet and forgive that unworthy member ; and who are . we that we should judge a .brother, or a sister?. W Charity and Denial. Brother men, one act of charity will teoch us more of the. love, of God than a thousand sermons one denial, than whole volumes of , the wisest writers on theology. F. 'W. Robertson..-.. Grandest Thing on Earth."; There is not a man or womanhow ever poor, they may; 6e. but have It. in their power, by the, grace, of . God. to leave - behind-them the grandest thing' on earth., character; and their children might rise up after them and tha uk God, that th elf mother was a pious' womanr or their ' father "a " pfouV. man. N. .Macleod. ' " " " Transcends , AM 8uDstance.' . t God's will In the present t moment Is the dally bread which transcends all aibstance. Madame Swetchlna. lteil - 4 : mvd 1 ' ' 9 Geneva and LL roads henceforth lead to Geneva. , The Rome of the. Caesars and of the Popes, which held pre-eminence In this respect for many ages, now yields to Geneva, which, since John Calvinjs time, has been call ed, "the Protestant Rome,", writes Irv ing R. Bacon, in the Detroit Free Press. Geneva isto be the capital of the league of nations, which Is but another way of saying the capital of the world: Thus the peace conference at Paris has decided. " In the middle of the nineteenth cen tury, when, under, the quasl-dlctator-ship of James Fazy, ? the radicals of the Swiss canton Geneva spent money with almost reckless extravagance to develop and modernize the city, de la Rive, a conservative, exclaimed: . They want to make Geneva the smallest of the great cities; oh, that they would only allow her to remain the greatest of the. small cities!!. And now, seventy years after he expressed this wish, it is about to be realized; for from now on it Is there that the parliament of nations will hold Its sessions and . the roads from all ends of earth will focus there. The census of 1911' gave Geneva In the neighborhood of 150,000 inhabi tants, divided almost evenly between ProtestantsfJand Catholics.. In point of languages the French preponderated nearly seven to one as compared with German. , On Beautiful Lake Leman. ' The city is i the southwesternmost point of Switzerland. It is on the pic turesque Lake Leman (called also Lake Geneva), and is divided intp halves, the old and the new towns, by the River Rhone." The number seven fig ures geographically in Geneva as It does in Rome. The latter city hai seven "hills; Geneva, seven bridges." Geneva, however, Is of ' but recent date compared with Rome. It was lit tle more than a village of the Allo broges, a Gallic tribe, when Rome was mistress of the world. Julius Caesar took his stand there when he heard that the Helvetians (the Swiss of to day) had decided to emigrate-from their own country, which they had come to consider as too cramping for their national growth. They shajl not pass," was Caesar's watchword. And two-thirds of the Helvetian people perished in a futile attempt to force their passage through the Roman provinces. It was the be ginning of the Gallic war, which lasted nine years and became the fulcrum by which Caesar raised himself to the po sition of dictator of virtually the whole civilized world. Birthplace of Rousseau. ' Few cities have produced so many illustrious sons or been the arena for the activity ;df so many great men as I Geneva. Jean Jacques Rousseau was born there. And it is no small coin cidence that the city of his birth should have been chosen as the capital of a league of nations of a democratized world. For to no other one man does democracy owe- a greater debt than tp Rousseau. His pen was the flail which first set ' thrones , .a-tottering. Kingcraft began to decay beneath the corroding assaults of reason which he leveled at the "divine rights" upon which royal prerogatives were' based. Lord Byron's noble tribute to both Geneva and Rousseau constitutes al most the entire theme of r the third canto of his magnificent "Childe Harold." . v y .. The same great poet has also cele brated the misfortunes of another Gen evan in the well-known poem of 'The Prisoner of Chillon." ' , Chlllon is castle on top of a crag which rises: perpendicularly, nearly 1 000 feet above Lake Leman. Here, early in th fifteenth century, Francois de Bonn! vard, prior of St Victor,; was imprisoned. - ' . " 'Where Calvin Ruled. In 1532 William Favell, a Protest tant preacher from Dauphlne, who, had jqst: won Vaud, a Swiss canton, to Protestantism, made his appearance at Geneva. . His success was so consider able that he established his home there and; In the following year-Oeneva en tered into . closer religious - relations with . the Swiss city ot Berne," which had embraced Protestantism. Frlbourg, vhich remained loyal to its old faith,' withdrew from the alliance with & I the New Brjdge. Geneva. On August 10, 1535, Geneva formally adopted Protestanisnu A year later, John Calvin, a refugee I from France, stopped at Geneva, in tending to remain there only one night. Favel induced him to protract hisvf visit In 1538 the opposition succeeded in having Favel and Calvin expelled ; but although Favel never returned, Calvin went back In .1541, and gained such an ascendancy that he was soon enabled to set up a theocratic form of govern ment, with himself at the head. He was, at that time, in his thirty-second year. The site of Calvin's house, at Ge neva, Is at No.. 13 Grand Rue. That of Rousseau, which still, stands, is at No.' 40, the same street After the French revolution the city was the capital of a French depart ment, but in 1814 it became the twenty second canton of the Swiss confedera tion. Since that time : the history of Genevans regards, its foreign policy, has been ; Identical with , that of - the confederation. . r v PROTECT THE MIAMI VALLEY Work of Protecting .Immense' Reser- voire One of the Greatest Projects of the Kind. Were It not for the fact that the TJnlted States has been engaged- In the greatest of world wars, the build ings of the five dry reservoirs as part of a flood-prevention plan Ja the Mi ami valley would arrest the attention of the nation, says Howard Egbert in Popular Mechanics Magazine. . Further than , tfcat International construction experts would be watching the work with considerable Interest because the project is byvfar, the greatest of its kind ever attempted - In this country. The plan, of course, is to insure per manent protection to the more than 700,000 inhabitants living to. the Miami conservancy district a regipn follow ing closely, the Miami river, an im portant but not navigable waterway which threads its way through south ern Ohio counties. The cost is esti-. mated at $20,000,000. More than 2,000 men are required to complete the con struction work, and three years as a minimum isthe length of time esti mated as necessary to carry out the designs of the district Five huge re- , tentlon basins, or dry reservoirs, are being constructed, all of them now welL under way. To construct any one of these dams means the: digging, trans--portlng, depositing and compacting of from 850,000 to 4,000,000 cubic yards of earth. For the Miami river chan nel the estimate Is .4,000,000 cubic yard. Dams and river together will mean the excavation ' and transporta tion In all of some 13,000,000 cubic yards of earth. The flood-conservancy project con sists of the dry-reservoir ' system, which, once constructed, will occupy five different tracts of land In the dis trict At unusual periods, of high wa ter it is . designed to permit all over- : flow v water to run Into these basins. Tljey will , be so stoutly constructed that they cannot break under pressure of millions of gallons of water. The ' river channel, thus relieved of the ad ditional burden of high water, will not ' be threatened, and the customary dan ger of banks breaking or overflowing is entirely eliminated. Best Way to Stain Floor. To stain your floor a dark walnut haveVthe floor perfectly clean, then take, a pound of burnt umber ground In oil; paint stores sell this prepara tion. Next take boiled linseed oil and mix enough of the umber with it to. color the oil, but not thicken it Try on a small piece of board and add um ber until you have the required shade." Rub this into the floor until the stain ceases to : come off and the wood is of a rich walnut brown; Some of the color -may dry out in which case an other coat should be applied. . - Least She Could Do. "Cholly tried to kiss me, upset the canoe, fell out ruined his new suit and 'was' nearly drowned. He's in the hos pital now. --' " -:"Welir ' s 4 : -i "What should X dor "I think you ought to go round and give him hat kiss." Louisville Coupler-Journal. 1 -
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