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? SERMON TOPICS * ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH < (Br Rt?. Frank K. Pulley) The Lore of the Impoaalble. Text: "And Caleb (tilled the peo ple before Hoees, and* said, Let u go up at once and possess It; for we are well able to overcome It." Numbers IS: 30. This la the familiar Bible story of the settling of the land of Ca naan. The Israelites are encamp ed nearby, while twelve spies are sent to see what chance -they have of taking Canaan. They re turn In forty days, two bearing between them a large cluster of grapes, as a sample of the vine yards of the new country. Ten spies are against going any fur ther, for they say that although the land is "flowing with milk and honey", the people are so large the Israelites are like graas hoppers In comparison. Caleb speaks up at this point and aays "Let us go up at once and possess it; for we are well able to overcome It." Whatever la ImposaiDie possew es an almost Irresistible attrac tion (or many men. Most people really prefer the hard task. I have Just been reading of a trip , made by Father Hubbard, the "Glacier Priest", In Alaska. He and a companion flew an air plane into the great Aniakchak Crater, to explore it. Their fuel gave out and their only chance of escape was through the vol canie air-currents. Fortunately these were forceful enough to lift the plane skyward and to safety, over the crater's mouth. This true story illustrates how man lores to dare the seemingly im possible. Think of any man wanting to explore the insid^ 'of a steaming volcano, and in an airplane at that. The lure of the impossible is found especially strong in child ren and geniuses. Children love' fairy-tales of seven league boots, and the woman whose home was in a shoe. Stephenson was laugh ed at as an unbalanced dreamer when he said he would run a 1 train at thirty or forty miles an hour. Every train, every conti nent that has been discovered, every telegraph syatem, every air machine waa once pronounced im possible. Yet posterity may fly to Mara- for the week-end. Jesus uses the lure of the Im possible In treating the man with the withered hand, in St. Mat thew's Gospel. We can well imagine that a man with such a hand would try hard to stretch it out straight. And if he whs' married his wife would probably tell him to try it again ' today, since you're looking better." And always he failed. Jesus comes up and tells him to "Stretch forth thine hand." Although he knew only too well of his many failures before, when Jesus tells him to do it. enough faith is kindled, and lo, the thing is done. What was impossible yesterday is now per fectly possible. It is like the verae: 'To every man there* openeth A Way, and Ways, and the Way. j And the High Soul climbs the High Way, And the Low Soul gropes the Low, And in between, on the misty flats. The rest drift to and fro. But lo every man there openeth A High Way, and a Low. And every man decideth The Way his soul shall go." And so in our story of the twelve ancient spies. Ten saw the seemingly-impossible and we??. afraid of It.. Two. Caleb and Joshua, were willing to be unpop ular and laughed at for their courage. Today In our troubled waters of labor do not we need that ringing message of Caleb's* Let us go up at once and posse<u this problem, on our knees- for through the Father, we are well able to overcome it." Prayer for all concerned will dissolve the tangle of any problem, personal or national. Which camp shall we Join? The ten, who wanted to wait, and be led back Into Egypt and slavery; or the two having Caleb for spokesman, who chose the "High Way." "For to every man. There openeth a High JT'm'., ,nd ? Low-" ?t doing ev erything there is in life to do Let us go up at once and pos i r1 IiOtJISBCRG METHODIST CHURCH Br O. P. FltxOerald D. D. "The Freedom of Restraint" "If you want to get into Life, keep the commands " (MofTatt's) Matthew 19:17 was the Scripture for the above sermon. LiUHmukt be lived In an order ed liWversp The gospel of the Bon of Man Is an eternal gospel, Qod's overture to men. Written In the Ink of Jesus' blood, it Is "the same yesterday, today, and forever" so said a great good man. This Immutable gospel may wear liome B6w time-aspect thru the passing jtmis. Isaiah delivered his pleadings and warnings be fore a pagan statecraft. Eieklel labored to rebuild a broken altar. Jesus came preaching a gospel of love to stoops to share the bur den* of any age. Troth does not change, It grows. Tbe law of right and wrong antedated father Ume. Few men obey willingly tbe law of Jaaus' self-denial. We want po blood-stain rules regulating our Uvea. That law had little appeal far Jesus In the beginning. Be prayed that the "cup" might pass from him. Was he afraid Ood might ' prove An Immense ?othlnf dwelling la nowhere? Old he lack the courage to fsco the stern realities of life? He ?ought the freedom of restraint and said "Thy will be done." Can ws expect this freedom without paying the price? What value the sanctions and sanctities wov en from the pains of a thousand years. If we want them changed? What value the hard-won moral verdicts of the ages. If we do not want to keep them? Yet, can we, | by worry, add an Inch to onr statue? Can we by protest change i our earthly parentage? Any man is tree to leap from a towering : sky-scraper, but no mnn can can eel the law of gravitation. Hen < may close their eyes permanently against all light, but they cannot j escape the atrophy of the optic , nerve, blindness will be their end. ( Hen msy violate the laws of sane]! living, bat they eauotj escape the head-ache or rising { blood pressure. If we would live ( the Christian life, we most keep the rules. No man breaks the j law, he tries, but the law breaka him. , Han cannot escape God for i long. Something wants as. Ah fiction of oar own creation can-1; not want us. Something great land good wants us. Religion is' not merely whistling In the dnrk to keep up one's courage. Nor is Ood Just s shadow flung across an unfeeling sky. Both are quite real, we cannot survive without them. We need not argue over who did the swallowing, Jonah or the whale, both no doubt had In digestion after the great ordeal. We cannot continue our sleep walking for long. Some day ev ery man bumps Into the sharp corner of reality, braised, bat, awake. There is something go ing oo in this world which de mands our allegience. Jesus Is > striving to bring the races of men into the famllhood of God..; He cannot win without our sup port. He is laboring to set the I bounds of humsn conduct inside l< the sacred walls of righteousness. : But he will never achieve this' fsct unless we keep the com mands. rne law or rignt never cnanges. Two kinds of people rebel against, man-made rules. Some rebel be-1 cause they are unworthy of the rules, others rebel because the. rules are unworthy of them. Antigone, in that drama which time cannot dim. is shown in re bellion against the rules of the state. Her brother had been traitor to his city, and lost his , lite for his treacherous act. By ? order of the clty'a governor his < body was left to rot unburied for his baseness. But Antigone re- ' solved to give her brother decent burial, for there Is a law deeper than the shame of treachery, and higher than imperial laws of a state. She also was condemned to die for her disobedience, and that by starvation. The gover nor on seeing her so inflexible asked. "And didst thou dare to disobey these laws?" Antigone answered. "I did not dream thin-*' edict strong enoogh. that thou, a mortal man. shouldst overpass, the unwritten laws that know no change. "The unwritten laws that know no change, and yet. these | are the holy mandates within which mankind must abide. Humanity gains her freedom when restralnted by these laws that know no change. Fritz Krelsler was free in his music. He had authority to burn a flam ing candle high on the scale of harmony. But he was not free from the law of harmonV He had to conform to the octave of eight notes which ruled the mu sic in Abraham's day. Jesus was free. But not free from living <n the orbit of the Eternal's will. He was free to wound his own body for a violin and take the cross for a bow to make undying music for the souls of men. He was free to serve mankind, free to suffer for the races of men. free to vote for God against the hazard of the cross. This unchanging law makes us free because it binds Is like uu-, breakable chains of steel. Jesus did not call the law a "law." He called the law "God." There is ,* verdict that the wages of sin is death. There is a law that the, gift of God is eternal life. Law is life. Chaos is death. In God we live and move, and if we do not move we cannot live. Try to change that law if we can. "If we want to get Into Life, we must keep the commands." HONORKD AT HHOWKR Mlu Lucille Johnson. MIm ,Oladjn Mae Wlnatead and Mra. Robert White were Joint hostesses at a shower Saturday afternoon, at the home of Mra. Robert White, honoring Mlaa Emma Mae Holmes ? bride-elect. There were aereral conteata en Joyed by all. Then followed a ahower of attractlre gifts to th honoree. Mlaa Merla Johnson and Mlaa Pearl Harris aaalated the hostess es in serrlng a delicious iced cours?. After the refreshments Mlaa Beth Brantley played and sang. Those present were Mlaa Emma Mae Holmea, bride-elect, Miss Dorothy Knox, Mlaa Beth Brant ley, Mlaaea Fannie and Roxle Underbill, Mlaaea Fannie and Pat tie Belle Patterson, Mlaa Delia Mae Mitchell, Mlas Doreas Holmea, Mlaa Bruce Dodd, Mlas Othelle Mullen. Miss Pearl Harris, Miss Maria Johnaon, Mrs. J. A. Prlv ?tte, Mrs. 8. T. Holmea and Mrs. J. R. Wright. TOR FIRST CLASS. PRINTING PHONE 2SS WILDER REUNION The family of the late Calvin Winder met Sept. t. 19S?, at the granddaughter's, Hattte Glas gow's, oa the Raleigh road, tor an all day visit together. The children aad relatives began ar riving the day before and con tinned until noon. Over a hun dred were present. At one o'clock on the beaatlful green grassy lawn In the shade of the spread! ag " oaks, a table waa set, which fairly groaned under Its burden of good things to eat. Here all met; many were the jokes and reclples that were ex changed. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wilder. Mrs. J. B. Wil ier and daughter Vernie Bert, Mr. 3 lean wilder, aad Mrs. R. T. Purnell, all of Praaklinton; Mr. ind Mrs. M. C. Wilder and fam ily, J. J. Wilder and daughter Qeraldlne. Mr. and Mrs. Johnie Hedgepeth. Mrs. Frank Dennis, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Perry and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Nelms and family, Mrs. L. J. Perdue ind children. Mr. aad Mrs. J. H. Southalt and children, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sou thai 1 aad daugh ter Lucille of Raleigh, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Souths! 1 and family, Mr. aad Mrs..R. P. Neal and fam ily. Mr. aad Mrs. Clellon Southall, Mr. J. P. Powers aad children of Everetts, Mrs. John Mack Lancas ter, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Olaagow and son, Mr. and Mrs. J. ?. Leon ard and family of Nashville, N. C., Mr. and Mrs. Harvey William of Spring Hope, N. C., Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Kirkland and daughter Dorris of Scotland Neck, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Nelms. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Perdue and family. Mr. W. P. Tharrington, Mr. and Mrs. Wal ter Pleasants and daughter Mar gie Lee, Mr. P. W. Justice. Miss es Alma and Lucille May, Mr. ud Mrs. S. W Marshall and fam ily, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Joyner and family, Misses Jauneta and Louise Cyrus, Miss Lavalette Weaver, Misses Ruth and Rowena Gordon, Ma. Bruce Partin of Henderson, Messrs. Bill Duke, Junior Ed 666 Liquid, Tablets, Salve, Nose Drops Checks Malaria la 8 days. Golds Brat day. 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