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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, February 6, I959
Article Written for Mirror
Pays Trihute to Sidney Lanier
i\Irs, Thomas S. Sharp of Black
Mountain organized the New Bern
Branch of the National League of
American Pen Women, and is a
member of the branch.
She is a member of the North
Carolina U.D.C. committee to make
Sidney Lanier better known in
North Carolina, and is New York
sponsor for “Lanier for the Hall of
Fame.”
Here, for the Mirror, Mrs. Sharp
gives us a better glimpse of him:
SIDNEY CLOPTON LANIER
Born Feb. 3, 1842
Lanier placed Christ above all
otlier personalities in history, and
the Bible before all other books.
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To him Christ was Creator.
In his poem, ‘The Crystal
Christ” he contrasted Christ with
all the great and good of history.
In Shakespeare, there is much to
forgive as in Dante, Milton, Lucre
tius, Kempie, Epictetus, Emerson,
Keats and Tennyson, but in Christ
he sees nothing to forgive.
“But Thee, but Thee, O Sove
reign Seer of Time. But Thee, 0
poet’s poet, wisdom’s tongue. But
Thee, O man’s best man, 0 love’s
best love. 0 perfect life in perfect
labor writ. O all men’s comrade,
servant, king or priest—^What “if”
or “yet”, what mole, what flaw,
what lapse, what real defect, or
shadow of defect. What rumor tat
tled by an enemy of inference
loose, what lack of grace, even in
torture’s grasp or sleep’s or
death’s. Oh, what amiss may I for
give in Thee. Jesus, Thou, good
Paragon, Thou Crystal Christ?”
During the War Between the
States, Lanier was captured and
spent four months in Look-Out
Prison. Then, on his steamboat
voyage to Fortress Monroe, he was
in the hold of the boat, almost
dead. An old friend and her little
daughter from Montgomery, Ala.,
were on the boat. They were led
to the crude stalls provided for
cattle, but now crowded with poor,
human wretches.
The colonel assisted them in get
ting Lanier to their cabin. Fellow
prisoners passed him along over
their heads, for there was no room
to carry him through.
After medication, he revived,
asked for his flute and began play
ing. After a few notes, a yell of
joy came up from the shivering
wretches below, who knew now
that their comrade was alive.
This Cup of Coffee
Was Not for HIM
One of New Bern’s churches was
having a coffee hour recently, be
fore Sunday school took in.
A man who happened to be a
member of an adult class arrived
late, but was offered a cup so he
could catch up with everybody
“I don’t believe I want it,” he
said after some hesitation. “The
last time we bad a coffee hour
it kept me awake during the morn
ing sermon.”
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Sorley, one of New Bern’s retired
postal employees, can bake a pie
that will literally melt in your
mouth. His specialty is lemon (his
own favorite too) but if you like
mince, that’s extra special too.
Charlie didn’t start out to be a
genius in the kitchen, although he
is happy now when he is puttering
around with pots and pans. The
stroke put him up to it, and after
that he found himself in something
of a rut.
The trend got underway when
the first of six little MeSorleys was
born, to bring joy supreme to
Charlie’s Irish heart. He had ar
ranged in advance to take his an
nual two-weeks vacation from the
postoffice the moment the brat
arrived.
Hiring a practical nurse to tend
his wife and youngun, MeSorley
tackled the cooking chores himself.
Each time a new baby arrived^ he
followed the same pattern. By the
time the sixth one showed up, he
was a full-fledged chef, and could
stir up a meal fit for a king — or
better still, fit for an Irishman.
“I could always tell, back in the
bedroom, when things were going
right in the kitchen,”’ says Mrs.
MeSorley. “He whistled while he
worked, just like Walt Disney’s
dwarfs in Snow White. When he
stopped whistling, I knew he had
come up with a failure.”
Charlie’s wife was too smart,
and too grateful, to get nosey. “He
would never mention the failures
to me,” she recalls, “and I didn’t
mention them either. I still don’t
know what flopped.”
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finer points of culihary art. But
the MeSorleys like kids as well as
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