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BROTHERHOOD ~j
Below appears a sermon prepared by Rev. C. Aylett Ashby, rec
tor of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and read at a service recently
during his absence by J. A. Moore. Many of St. Paul’s members
since have commented upon this particular sermon, with a number
of requests having been made to be published in The Herald.
“Ye are all brethren.” —Matt. 23:8.
The New Testament asserts that
Jesus came into our world just as
soon as He could do so. “In the full
ness of time” is the way it is spoken
of. As it was, He was crucified by
Gentile and Jew after about two
years and a half of labor. He would
not have been spared this long by
any other people except the Jews.
Some one has said that He would be
crucified or disposed of within six
months in any of our cities. I do
not know whether this is true or not.
Certainly, the Gentiles cannot throw
any stones at the Jews in this mat
ter. Jesus said, “Salvation is of the
Jews.” Why was Christ unpopular
with the leaders of His day? Was
it not due very largely to His insis
tence upon the thought expressed in
our text, “Ye are all brethren?”
Christ asserted of all people on this
globe, there is a race connection—a
unity of the race.
The violation of this assertion has
brought untold misery to us. We
continue to violate it. We are not
ready to adopt it—by how many cen
turies we cannot say. But what
Lord Grey said of a League of Na
tions, is true of this matter of race
unity, “We must learn or perish.”
We have passed through war and
pestilence. The earth has been red
with the blood of the slain in battle
and receives into its gentle bosom
the bodies of those borne away by
disease. War is not good in itself.
Mankind never will believe that it is,
in spite of its many champions. It
indicates that some one has blunder
ed, and may, at tremendous cost,
lead to greater concern.
But let us look at this pestilence
for a few moments. It may serve to
bring out what Jesus meant in this
text. A pestilence is not good in it
self. But it bares to us certain facts.
Ask any sensible physician how any
plague came about. He will tell you
that somewhere on the face of the
earth there are people who are living
in filth, rags and exhaustion, and
that from them has come this thing, j
He will tell you that the wretched- j
ness of the wretched is speaking to:
you. That a blind giant has been
raised up by foul conditions. By con- '
ditions we permit to exist.
We ask how can there be a God
and He permit such things to come
upon us? Let us look at it. Christ
said, “Ye are all brethren.” Those j
emaciated fellows over in China; the
pariahs over in Japan; the peons
down in Mexico; the beggars over in
India and Italy and Spain; the out-.
casts and poor in England, and 1
America, and your county—wherever j
living conditions cause men’s vitality j
to run low—you are tied to them.
And listen, these same people are go
ing to kill your wife and your child
and your friend, until you see that
they have a wholesome, healthy, self- :
respecting manner of life. You may j
rail against it. You may charge God
with unfairness just as much as you ;
please, but He is going to work the i
thing that way, as I understand it.
It may seem to us that we could 1
run the earth very’ much better; that
we would not permit the foul and |
sunken condition of one people to
reach another people, or the poverty |
of one part of a city to smite the
other part of it. But God cares for
the backward, the weak and the poor,
and has decreed that they shall not
be mistreated- A blasting reminder
comes along and teaches us some
thing about it,
As long as the sensibilities of a 1
people prefer sickness and dissipation !
and luxuries sod self to that which!
accompanies an extended good will j
towards all mankind, men, women, I
and children must suffer—and, I be-1
lieve, ought to suffer. As long as we
seek to make charity a permanent'
remedy for these conditions we can
never bestow a hearty nature upon
its recipients. At times it is the only
way out, and then it should be real
self-sacrifice. Not that self-indulgent
spirit satirized by Horace: "Take
these things home to your Children,
and if you do not, I shall give them
to the pigs.”
A pestilence is not good in itself,
but it makes plain the cancer of sel
fishness. We complacent people who
rail at God, and especially those of
us who never gave a day or a dime
to make this a better world; We, who
grind the faces of the poor; we, who
take in most imperfectly the words
of President Wilson, “The interest of
the weakest is as sacred as the in
terest of the strongest,”—God it
seems is not going to put up with us.
He is going to make us care whether
the people, in Hie Near East, China,
any backward folks, starve. He de
mands that we clean up this old ship
earth. “Ye are all brethren.”
Now let us look at this. In our
time a great nation is paying the
penalty of national ignorance. We
thought the ignorance was all right,
or, at least, we acted as if we did.
What difference could it make? A
few over there fenced off what they
called the “vulgar herd”, and let this
herd seek pasture in poverty and ig
norance. “Why, this vulgar herd
would spoil our refinements if we let
them in. And they have spoiled “our
refinements.” But not exactly as the
selfish and seclusive contemplated.
They have spoiled things by anarchy,
by disease, by deadly passion and
hatred against all society by the na
tural and inevitable rebound, against
selfishness.
And selfishness has failed. Our
present state proves that to any one
who will see. We must try to get
out of it. Edith Cavell, that brave
English nurse, killed by brutish men,
said that she saw that patriotism was
not enough. This greater thing, is
race unity. With all of the woes
that such a unity brings to us as the
penalty of our selfishness, it is still
a blessed fact. It is a stimulus to
public andeprivate virtue. It gives
significance to society. To learn that
common joys, common sorrows, com
mon tribulations, common progress,
must be our lot “No man liveth to
himself.” “Ye are all brethren.”
Every advance we have made has
been rooted in faith and hope and
love. Every pestilence, every vice,
every war, is rooted in their oppo
sites.
It seems a pity that so many of
the brave and good have gone in dis
tressing times. They laid down their
lives as a protest against the society,
the world, we condemn them to be
born intb. This is a world of infinite
complication and involvement. No
one can extricate himself from the
common lot or shake off its burdens.
No one would believe that I charge
these fie souls with selfishness. I
know better. But I do say, that the
common will of mankind, has been
unconvinced by Christ that “ye are
all brethren”, in spite of the terrible
retribution which the violation of that
principle has brought. God, as I
understand it, is not going to put up
with any super-men or super-nations.
“One is your Master, even Christ.”
You may say that this is nothing
but missions. I will not object. It
is very largely what I understand :
missions to be. It has been a ten
cent affair. We said we were too
poor ourselves for extended good.
The war has proven that we did not
speak the truth. We had the money.
All we need is the inclination and
wise guidance. We can make this “a
new earth.” 1
If you object to the name “mis
sions,” why call it something else.
How about “Panhumanism??” This
is what a distinguished writer called ;
it. Romain Rolland, the author of
Jean Christophe,” in an article which
I recently saw, translated from a ]
French paper, puts it in this fashion,
“The dike is shaken. The boundary ,
lines of a privileged civilization are
henceforth broken down. Today we
must accept humanism in its full
meaning, embracing all the spiritual
forces of the entire world. ‘Panhu
manism’.”
But the name is immaterial—the
substance is the thing. Let us take
to ourselves this statement of
Christ’s, “Ye are all brethren.”
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MACEDONIA
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Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Pearce spent
; the week-end near Elizabeth City as
guests of Rev. and Mrs. Johnny
Pearce.
Misses Elizabeth and Evelyn Dail
spent Sunday with Miss Sadie White.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hassell and
family, Mrs. C. P. Hughes, James
and Evelyn Hughes, Mr. and Mrs.
Les Layton, Mr. and Mrs. Sanford
Bass, G. E. Hassell, Elsie and James ‘
Hassell called on Mr. and Mrs. Hor
ace Hassell Sunday evening,
i Mrs. B. H. Hassell is visiting her
' daughter, Mrs. M. W. Hardison, near
i Ahoskie. •
Mrs. H. G. Goodwin was the guest
| of Mrs. Bill Goodwin Saturday after
| noon.
Mrs. J. H. Smith, Mrs. G. E. Has
: sell and James Hassell visited A. B.
' Griffin Saturday afternoon. Mr.
Griffin continues quite ill.
Misses Minnie Bass, Pattie Sitter
son and Christine Hassell, Woodrow
Harris, Lin wood Hoggard and G. C.
Austin, of Ahoskie, were guests of
Miss Edith Bass in Rocky Hock on
Sunday evening.
Miss Eunice Nixon spent Sunday
with Misses Elsie and Christine Has
sell.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Halsey and
daughter, from near Elizabeth City,
visited in the community Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Hughes and
family, and C. H. Cayton spent Sun
day near Colerain with relatives and
friends.
WIGFIELDS RETURN AFTER
TOUR OF SEVERAL MONTHS
Rev. and Mrs. Kelly Wigfield re
turned the latter part of last week
from a few months’ tour through
Ohio and Pennsylvania in which
states Mr. Wigfield conducted revival
meetings. While away a son was
bom to the couple, the birth taking
place in Flintstone, Md., on Wednes
day, September 14.
Mr. Wigfield announces that regu
lar services will again be held at the
Assembly of God, of which he is
pastor, with services each Sunday at
II a. m., and 7:30 p. m., and prayer
meeting Thursday night at 7:80
o’clock.
THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON. N. C., THURSDAY. CC xOgER 22, 1936
SENSE AND
NONSENSE
By Wilborne Harrell
GHOST—ES
All Hallow’s Eve is the carnival of
juvenile ghosts and witches and gob
lins, and all the netherfolk. So on
Hallowe’en night be careful that the
devil or some of his minions don’t fly
away with you.—
Ifn you go past a cemetery at night,
be careful;
Cause they ain’t nuthin’ wusser or
scareful . . .
Than a ghost!
These ghost-es and these here ha’nts,
Pa says, don’t give a body a chance.
They just creep up behind and say
who-o-o-
Then afore you know it, they got
you.
They make your teeth chatter and
your hair stand on end,
And cold shivers run up and down
your spine;
And they make you just wanter get
away from there,
With your coat-tails sticking way
out behind
There ain’t nuthin’ I’m scare’der of
the most,
Cause they ain’t nuthin’ more scare
ful than a ghost!
HALLOWE’EN DREAM
The moon swings low
And beckons me come for a ride.
I hold on tight, away we go
O’er the countryside.
High we sail
Like a witch on a broom,
Up among the stars
Where there’s lost of room.
| CENTER HILL |
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Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Boyce
spent the week-end in Raleigh, and
atended State Fair Saturday.
Mrs. Bernice Smith, of Ports
mouth, Va., spent last week with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Good
win.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Byrum, Miss
Anne Elizabeth Byrum, and William
Belch attended the Fair in Raleigh
on Thursday.
Ray and Bill Carter and Mrs. Lil
lian Baker, of Richmond, Va., spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. R. O.
Furry. They were accompanied home
by Mrs. Carter and baby, and Miss
Irene Furry, who had spent the week
here.
Miss Freda Hobbs entertained com
pany from Gatesville last week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Boyce and Miss
Myra Boyce visited Mrs. J. M.
Boyce Sunday evening.
James Cale and Hallett Perry, of
Newport News, Va., spent the week
end at home.
Rev. B. B. Slaughter, of Elizabeth
City, Rev. and Mrs. R. E. Walston
were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
E. B. White Sunday.
The Young People’s Division of
the Elizabeth City District of the M.
E. Church, South, met with the Cen
ter Hill Church Tuesday evening.
The fourth Quarterly Conference
of the M. E. Church, South, met with
the Center Hill Church Saturday,
with the Rev. B. B. Slaughter, Pre
siding Elder, preaching the sermon
in the morning. Conference was held
after lunch. Every church in the
charge was well represented.
J RYLAND |
Dr. and Mrs. I. A. Ward and Miss
Ruth Alice Ward, of Hertford, were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Ward
Sunday afternoon.
Misses Grace, Bessie Lee and Pau
line Hollowell and Evelyn Jordan
were in Hertford Saturday afternoon
Roy Parks returned Sunday from
a week’s visit in New York and
Washington, D. C.
Mrs. R. S. Ward and her daughter,
Lelia Faye, spent Wednesday with
Mrs. N. Q. Ward, near Belvidere.
Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Copeland and
children, from near Selwin, visited
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Copeland Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. Harriett Parks visited her
daughter, Mrs. J. T. Byrum, near
Cannon’s Ferry last week.
Miss Grace Hollowell spent Sunday
afternoon with Miss Evelyn Jordan.
Wilbur, young son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ollie Jordan, was carried to Albe
marle Hospital, Elizabeth City, last
week and operated on for appendici
tis. The little boy has been very ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Jordan visited him on
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. W. H. Boyce fell several
days ago and painfully injured her
self. Her condition is much improv
ed now.
Eugene Jordan has whooping
cough.
Mrs. Harriet Parks spent Sunday
with her daughter, Mrs. T. W. Davis,
and Mr. Davis, near Sign Pine.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Henigar and
children were in Edenton shopping
Saturday evening.
Mrs. T. L. Ward has been substi
tuting at Chowan High School for
I Miss Lois Savage, who was away for
several days.
j AT NORFOLK j
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FRANK BEEDER
Frank Reeder, of St. Louis, is
favored to win the inaugural
events of Three-A sanctooned
auto racing at the new Norfolk
Speedway, Sunday, October 25.
Beeder will drive John Bagley’s
Cragar, the same car George
“Doc” Mackenzie marshaled to
the 1935 Eastern dirt track
championship.
Edenton Ice Company
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Edenton Ice Company has been ap
pointed Iron Fireman dealer in this
territory according to word received
by W. P. Jones of the company, from
the Iron Fireman Manufacturing
Company.
“An aggressive sales promotion
campaign will be undertaken imme
diately, coinciding with the fall peak
selling season,” he said.
“The automatic coal industry is
one of the fastest growing indus
tries in the United States, with 1936
sales running approximately 100
per cent above last year’s record
breaking volume.
“Th demand for automatic coal fir
ing is expanding constantly. The
Iron Foreman Manufacturing Com
pany has just doubled the production
of its Cleveland plant, and is operat
ing all its plants night and day.
“Automatic coal heat is becoming
increasingly popular both because of
its economy and because of its unex
celled smoothness. It costs less be
cause economical slack sizes of coal
are used. It is smoother because
the glowing fuel bed, never complete
ly out, prevents sharp changes in
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YEOPIM
Earl Outlaw and Miss Elizabeth
Jethro spent the week-end in Wash
ington County visiting Miss Vida
Swain and other friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Reed Taylor and
children of Kinston, spent last Sat
urday and Sunday with Mrs. Tay
lor’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A.
Beasley.
Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis Skinner spent
Saturday night with Mrs. Skinner’s
sister, Mrs. Arthur Jordan, and Mr.
Jordan, near Bethel.
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Barrington
spent the week-end in Raleigh 'with
her mother.
Miss Eunice Jordan spent Wed
nesday night with Miss Elizabeth
Jethro.
Mr. and Mrs. Colon Jackson and
Ervin Baker attended the State Fair
in Raleigh Tuesday.
Miss Mary Harrell, of Hamlet,
spent the week-end with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Harrell.
Mrs. John Baker spent from Thurs
day until Saturday in Edenton with
her daughters, Mrs. Arthur Hollo
well and Mrs. Antone Davenport.
Mary Annette Cannon, of Hertford,
spent last week with her aunt, Mrs.
L. E. Barrington, and Mr. Barring
ton.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harrell
spent the week-end with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Stanton, near WinfalU
Mr. and Mrs. Rondell Barrington
and baby spent the week-end in
Kinston with Mrs. Barrington’s sis
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ter, Mrs. Ralph Taylor, and Mr.. Tay
lor.
Mrs. L. E. Barrington spent Mon
day night in Hertford with her sis
ter Mrs. Carlton Cannon.
Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis Skinner were
guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
R. A. Beasley, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Barrington
spent Saturday night and Sunday as
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Good
man.
Fred Davenport spent Saturday'
night with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gray.
Mrs. Tom "Williford, of Merry Hill,
spent several days with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Gray, near
Hayes.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Webb, Sr., and
Mrs. Erie Umphlett attended the
State fair in Raleigh Thursday.
J. N. Barrington and Luther Bar
rington spent Monday and Tuesday
in Greenville on business.
Billie White, of Edenton, is visit
ing his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Will Overton.
Miss Lucille Overton spent the
week-end in Edenton. with her sister,
Mrs. Willie White, and Mr. White.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Mason, of Har
rellsrille spent Sunday afternoon as
guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Has
sell.
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