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THE CHATHAM RECORD ft A. LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising Od Square, on nMrtioa One Square, ti atMrtiMM L3 On Square, one monUi S20 . : For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts Will bo made VOL. XXXVI PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C., MARCH 4, 1914. NO. 30. rm ii n w sua OFFICIAL. STATE LEGAL i STATE SUPREME COURT HANDS DOWN OPININONS IN ELEVEN APPEALS. LATE STATE CAPITOL NEWS Review of the Latest News Gathered Around the State Capitol That Will Be of Interest to Our Readers Over North Carolina. Raleigh. The supreme court handed down opinions in 11 more appeals, new trials being granted in four cases, errors found in two others and still another reversed. The list folows: Roper Lumber Company vs. Rich mond Cedar Works, Camden, no er ror; Richmond Cedar Works vs. Ro per Lumber Company, Gates county, the court being evenly divided in. opinion. Judge Brown not sitting, the judgment stands affirmed; Leroy vs. Steamboat Company, Currituck, no er ror; Carter vs. Strickland, Nash, af frned; Bullock vs. Cottonseed Oil Company, Edgecombe, reversed; State s. Lee, Bertie, new trial; State vs. Fenner, Halifax, new trial; State vs. Gapion, Vance, new trial; Johnson vs. Lranning Manufacturing Company, Ecriie, error; Rooker vs. Rodwell, Warren, new trial; Whitehead vs. Pitt man, Halifax, affirmed. In State vs. Gupton, .from Vance county, in which the suprem court orders a new trir.l, John D. Gupton, a deputy sheriff, is under sentence of 10 years in jail with right of the county commissioners to hire him out for the killing of Charles Snyder in February, 1913, while the officer was serving a warrant of arrest on him for assault with deadly weapon. The new trial is on the ground that the trial judge ruled out certain evidence of self-defense offered. Gupton claims that Snyder resisted arrest on the ground that the warrant he was serv ing was defective. Both Snyder and his wife attacked Gupton and Snyder was fatally shot. The supreme court sets out in the opinion that there was no excuse for Snyder to resist the ar rest because of any alleged defect in the warrant, the proper place for this being at the subsequent trial of the cause. Fire Insurance For Methodists. The Methodist Mutual Fire Insur ance Company, with principal office for the present at Statesville, is li censed by the state department of in surance to provide mutual insurance for the churches, parsonages and. the personal property of the ministers of the church in the Western North Caro lina Methodist Conference. The con ference, at its last annual session ap pointed a commitee to launch the en terprise with a view to cutting down the cost of church insurance. It is practically settled that the North Car olina Conference will also come fnto :i.e organization so that the scope of its work wUI be state-wide for the Methodist. Charters Issued. The Reformer Publishing Company Durham, capital $25,000 authorized, end $1,100 subscribed by W. S. Young, W. T. Wodard and G. W. Adams. The Rural Hall Supply Company, Rural Hall, Forsyth county, capital 525,000 authorized, and subscribed by -:- S. Jones and others for agenral agricultural supply business. A charter is issued for the Pope Lrick & Trading Co., Coats, Harnett county, capital $100,00 authorized and 3,000 subscribed by P. E. Pope, C. D. Overby ando thers for a brick and tile nianufcuturing and general mercantile business. The Bethlehem Telephone Com pany, Walkertown, Forsyth county, capital $5,000 authorized, and $280 subscribed by R. L. Joyner and oth ers for maintaining local and rural telephone service. investigate Cause of Fires. Captain F. M. Jordan, special repre sentative of the North Carolina De partment of Insurance, is spending some lime in Brunswick and New Hanover counties investigating the causes of fires which have recently destroyed buildings in that section. The business of Captain Jordan is To travel over the state at the direction of the Insurance Commissioner and look into the ' causes of fires which are believed or known to be the work of incendiaries, and business of this nature is being investigated. Moving Picture Men Organize. Mr. J. M. Bradlet, of New York, formerly with The Moving Picture World and The Motion Picture News, is in North Carolina to arrange a con vention of the motion picture exhibi tors of the state for April. The object of the convention is to form a state branch of the Motion Picture Exhibi tors' League of America ; of which M. A. Neff of Cincinnati is the president The national league will hold its fourth annual convention In Dayton, C, next July. HS NOTES Special Rates for Government. The Corporation Commission made an order recently for the application of special freight rates on crushed stone and gravel to , be delivered by railroad companies at Elizabethtown, to be used by the United States Gov ernment in the construction of locks and dams for making the Cape Fear, Wilmington to Fayetteville, navigable all the year around. About 30,000 tons will be required for this work. The rates fixed by the commission are: Cranita to Elizabethtown, $1.18; Mount Airy to Elizabethtown, $1.17, these being for crushed stone. Gravel rates are: Lilesville to Elizabethtown, $1.12; Lillington to Elizabethtown, $1. The coarload minimum is 80,000 pounds. The order by the commis sion specifies $he proportion of each j of these rates the various roads par ticipating in the hauls shall receive. Meeting of State Committee. Chairman Charles A. Webb, of the Democratic Executive Committee of North Carolina, recently mailed let ters to the members of the commit tee calling a meeting which will, be held in the Senate Chamber at Ral e'gh Tuesday night, March 10, at 8:30 o'clock. The purpose of the meeting, as outlined by Mr. Webb, include the selection of the time and place for the state convention; the fixing of a com mon day on which all precinct meet ings or primary elections will be held for the purpose of ascertaining the choice of the Democratic electors for the state congressional, judicial and state senatorial offices and for the election of delegates to the county conventions; the naming of a com mon date for the holding of a county convention in each county of tae state for the purpose of declaring the result of the precinct meeting or pro- mary election or to ascertain the choice of all electors in mass conten tion and for the appointment of dele gates to the state, congressional, Judi cial and state senatorial conventions Walter Shelton's Sentence Commuted. Walter Shelton, who was under sen tence to die in the electric chair for the murder of his wife in Rockingham county, gets from Governor Craig a commutation to life imprisonment. In his reasons for the commutation the Governor says: "From the circum stances of the crime itself, and from affidavits filed with me, setting forth facts that did not appear in the court at the trial, I have come to the con clusion that at the time of the com mission of the crime ,the defendant was not in normal condition, and that from the continued use of drugs and ir axicating liquors, his mind was de ranged, and that he did not commit the murder with that degree of pre meditation and deliberation that de mands the extreme penalty. In the merciful administration of the law J give him the benefit of the doubt." Governor Issues Two Pardons. The Governor announced two par dons recently: Steiner Huffine, Guil ford coutny, who has served one year on a three-year sentence in Guilford for larceny and receiving. Pardoned on recommendation of Judge Peebles and Solicitor Gattis and county offi c'als because of the prisoner's health condition, being In a dying condition in prison. .George W. Brinson, Pasquotank county, who has served only a few days of a 12-months sentence and paid $200 fine. The imprisonment was to operate as a banishment as he was allowed to leave the state. He re turned a few weeks ago and was put on the roads. North Carolina Apples in Texas. North Carolina apples are being shown in Dallas, Tex., at the National Corn Show, the land and industrial department of the Southern Railway Company having shipped a large quantity of the fruit of a Asheville or chardist to the Texas city. The ex hibit is designed to attract to the at tention of the visitors to the show the wonderful possibilities of this state as an apple region. 300,000 Tons Fertilzer Sold. The fertilizer season is at its height now and it is estimated that he total movement at Wilmington to date is about 300,000 tons, which is 10 per cenfin excess of the shipments to the same period last year. Up to the pres ent time, since the beginning of the fertilizer year, July 1, 135,372 tons of material have ben imported, which is a total of 20,479 more than was re ceived at the same date last year. McArthur Case a Mistrial. The jury was discharged and an entry of mistrial was made at 5:30 o'clock in the Federal court trial of the Citizens Bank of Norfolk against Mrs. M.. E. McArthur and Adam Mc Arthur, involving the genuineness of their signatures' on the $25,000 note of Newton-Mc Arthur Lumber Com pany held by the plaintiff. The statement was made to Judge Connor for the jury that they were hopelessly divided. They stood 10 to 2 in favor of a verdict for the, plain tiff. James R. Young Gives Warning. Commissioner of Insurance James Young issues a warning to the people of North Carolina against the Century Life & Accident Insurance Co., a Del aware corporation doing busines with principal office in Philadelphia. A re cent investigation of the affairs of the concern shows, Comissioner Young says, that here are assets amounting to only $353 and liabilities amount to $13,433. The corporation paid out in claims last year $3,547 and maintain ed expenses amounting to $12,566.., NEWS DFJHE WEEK LATE NEWS OF THE WORLD TERSELY TOLD. SOUTH, EAST, NORTH AND WEST Notes From Foreign Lands, Through out the Nation and Particularly the Great South. Southern. Ranger Captain J. J. Sanders, re porting to Gov. O. B. Colquitt of Tex as, made the direct charge that Clem ente Vergara, an American ranch, man, was shot to death while in the custody of Mexican federal troops, os tensibly en route from the jail at Hi dalgo to federal .headquarters at Pie dras Negras, Mexico. Governor Col quitt telegraphed Secretary of State Bryan asking what method should be followed in an effort to apprehend those responsible for the killing of Vergara. Texans are wrought up over the murder,' and much bitterness is evinced against Mexicans. The Georgia rate cases, involving in junctions secured by the Atlantic Coast Line, the Southern railway and the Central of Georgia against freight rate reduction ordered by the Geor- gia railroad commission, were set by the United States court of appeals in session at New Orleans for hearing in April before court in session in At lanta, Ga. - Governor Slaton of Georgia has ap pointed William Stanley West of Val dosta, one of the best known men in the state, to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator A. O. Bacon, whose death occurred in Washington Febru ary 14. Governor Slaton did not write any formal announcement. He merely walked out into the reception room, saw that the newspapers were all rep resented and spoke on word: "West! In an instant the news traveled throughout the capitol and wash flash ed to all parts of the city and state, Senator West was born in Marion county, Georgia. Admiral von Diederichs himself ad mits he informed the British naval commander in Manila bay at the time of the Spanish-American war that he would shoot any American officer who attempted to board a German warship "to make inquiry and establish her identity" in carrying out the orders of Admiral Dewey. The admission was made inthe course of a further narra tive of events given to the press. The controversy between Admiral Dewey and the German admiral arose over the visiting between the vessels of the various powers, in which Admiral Died erichs was quite promiscuous. Miss Maud McLure Kelly of Bir mingham, Ala., was admitted to prac tice before the Supreme court on mo tion of Secretary of State Bryan, but to do so she had to take off her head dress. Miss Kelly was anxious to wear her academic cap and gown upon being admitted. The court mar shal gently reminded her, however that members of the bar must remov their hats in addressing the court and that the rule applied alike to men and women. Jim Conley begins the serving of year's sentence on the chaingang fol lowing the verdict of a jury in his case, which reported against the for mer pencil factory sweeper, charged with being accesssory after the fact in the murder of Mary Phagan by Leo Frank ru Atlanta over a year ago. Con ley tof?k his sentence stoically. He smiled when he was told by his at torney that he "had got off light." The second day's developments in the sor did trial proceedings in which Conley was principal were not illumined by any- sersationalism. Atlanta was in the grip of the most persistent snowstorm she has had in years. The snow was by no means confine1:! to Atlanta, but on the contra ry Atlanta was one of the last cities visiteel Snow fell in Charleston, Sa vannah and the cities of the mountain secticas before it began to fall in At lanta The snow stretched its blan ket ever the entire south all the way from Richmond to New Orleans, leav ing out only a small part of Florida and possibly a few isolated spots here and yonder. General. The recent heavy snowfall already nag cost New York City nearly one million dollars, and were it not for the probability that rain and warmer weather will help out, the city's bill would reach approximately two and a half million dollars, figuring on J the contract price of removal. John T. Fetherston, street cleaning commis sioner, told the board of estimate that the department was praying for rain. "Keep on praying," replied the mayor. The French chamber of deputies voted an appropriation of $400,000 to provide for official French participa tion in the Panama Pacific exposition at San Francisco. The appropriation bill has still to go to the senate, where there will be some opposition. .Henry Moore Teller, secretary , of the interior in President Arthurs cabinet, and for more than thirty -years United States senator from Colorado, died at Denver, Colo'., at the home 6f his daughter, Mrs.. Gy E. Tyler. Sena tor Tf eller was 84 years old; ;had .been ill two years, during-; which '- time .Jie had many sinking .spells but-- from which he rallied. In the late seventies Senator Teller became ' a person : -txf wide repute because of his activities in the United States senate. His most ardent work was his opposition to the standardization of gold in the mone tary system of the nation. R H. Martin and Joseph Borders, Kansas City agents of the Florida Fruit Lands company, pleaded guilty in the federal court at Kansas City to I the charges of conspiracy and the con ducting of a lottery in the sale of lands in the Everglades in Florida. Judge Van Valkenburgh reserved sentence. Among those indicted wa R. J. Bolles of Jacksonville, Fla., president of the company. Martin and Borders are the first to answer to the indictments. Thousands of Chicago women had their real experience with the ballot box and took part in the actual nomi nation of candidates for the city coun cil. In wards in which women candi dates were running in opposition to men for places in the city council, the women candidates toured the wards and hustled for votes in approv ed political fashion. A snowstorm ear ly in the day delayed many voters, and a movement fostered by many suffrage eaders kept hundreds' from voting at the primaries. Five of the eight women candidates were unopposed. . The conviction of Former Police Lieutenant Charles Becker of New York City of the murder of the gam bler, Herman Rosenthal, was annulled by the court of appeals at Albany, the state capital. He is entitled to a new trial, but it seems probable that he will go free without facing a second ordeal. It was made known that Dis trict Attorney Charles S. Whitman be lieves that under the prevailing opin ion handed down by the court, convic tion a second time will be impossible. The others convicted with Becker were not sustained in their appeal, and must go to the electric chair. Yielding to persons who have faith in ages old superstition the authori ties of Aurora, 111., have photographed the eyes of Theresa Hollander. State's Attorney Tyler admitted this, saying that it was the belief of many that . . ... t tains the image of the murderer. But whether the negative held by the au thorities showed anything of this na ture was not revealed by the state's attorney. Neither did he say whether it would be introduced as evidence in any proceedings growing out of the clubbing to death of Miss Hollander in a cemetery. There were no indications at Rob- insville, Miss., of trouble between the whites and negroes after the race riot, in which Morris Love, white, and two negroes were killed. White men, s"aid to have been incensed by noise a score or more negroes made, formed a posse to arrest them. The negroes, it was claimed, began shooting and Love fell dead. In the exchange of shots two negroes were killed. The white men treated when their ammuni tion was exhausted and the negroes fled. x The commanders of tne German cruiser Dresden has shipped to the German legation in Mexico City two machine guns and 40,000 rounds of ammunition. Accompanying the ship- ment went asquad of sailors from the Dresden in civilian dress. "This step was taken after Gen. Gustave Maas, commander of the federal forces at Vera Cruz, had given his consenL Washington. The senate committee on agriculture, and forestry has submitted a favorable report on the bill introduced by Sen ator Smith of South Carolina to regu late the selling of cotton. The bill, designed to reform the rules and reg ulations of the New York and New Orleans cotton exchanges, would re- quire any person or corporation in the making of an offer for future delivery of cotton, to specify the grade or the grades contracted for in each con- tract, such grades to be in accord- ance with United States government standardization. The bill requires the length of the staple shall be stipulated. All attempts to limit the authority of the postmaster general to change the weight, rates or zones in the par cel post service were defeated in the senate during the consideration of the postoffice appropriation bill. An amend ment to the bill as it passed the house proposed by the senate postoffice com mittee to prevent the postmaster gen eral from making these changes, was defeated by a vote of 33 to 24. Assurances have been received m Washington that the Canadian Pacific railroad has no intention of attempt ing to evade the provision of the Pan ama canal act barring railroad-owned ships from the canal. With this assur ance came a further declaration that the Canadian Pacific would not send its fleets through the canal even if there were no question about its right to do so, because the company's offi cials could see no advantage in chang ing present routes across the Atlantic and Pacific. Warning that unless the postmaster general was checked "bales of hay and bushels of potatoes" soon would be going through the mails was given the senate by Senator Bankhead, chair man of the postoffice committee, who, declared the postoffice department was running riot in the matter of par eel post business, and that the gov ernment was operating the new serv ice at a loss. The senator's remarks came in debate on the annual postof fice appropriation bill. Substitution of a year's course in practical training at some '.agricul tural college instead of annual; trips tto. Washing on :for the .young, prize winners ot tne corn, canning, Pjry.. and- other agricultural, ctubs, is th? t-Ytrrr . .. ij. v .iiDJ-'.k riTJrZrj--JVevuty S1 taiSvr.;. CU1 -"-f-nr: ;r:r: ees.ts elementary courses. in instruc- tions, teaciliS iess advanced instruc offish! the rtenart, " : D h0,iof tw Wh no,, r WUU1U Uc vaiuaui STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ALL NORTH CAROLINA PEOPLE. Military School for Salisbury, A $100,000 plant in the- way of grounds and buildings for a military school is in sight for Salisbury., In a mass meeting of interested citizens was held recently and over $30,000 in cash raised, 5,000 more pledged and when the $35,000 are raised friends of the new educational institution will. donate $10,000 more, with $5,000 additional thrown in for . good meas ure, making $50,000 in cash. The value of the lands, donated largely by Thomas J. Jerome, - of Salisbury, is estimated at $50,000. At the head is Dr. A. S. Ford of Alabama. For a number of yeaTs he has been presi dent of the Alabama State. Normal. He is now in Salisbury working with the local business and professional men in organizing the school. He has an enviable reputation as an educator and has aroused much enthusiasm over the new sohool to be located near, the Salisbury Country Club, on the northern outskirts of the city. Drainage Subject is Settled..-...;, .. The demur of property owners of Mecklenburg county to the Sugar Creek drainage assessment recom- mended by the assessment committee of the drainage commission resulted in a new tack in the matter. The commission agreed to appoint three men and to let them confer with three men named by the property owners in th selection of another commission of five to aTrive at a sat- isfactory assessment to raise the fund required to complete the work begun in the creek bottom. This decision was reached following two hours of . . . . -. argument in the meeting. $50,000 For Eyes. Asheville. One of the largest dam age suits for personal injuries ever brought in the Buncombe County Su perior Court is that of Mr. T. Steele, formerly employed as an engineer, against the Southern Railway Com pany, for damages in the sum of $50,- 000. The plaintiff asks for damages under the Federal employers' liability act, alleging that he lost the sight of DOtn eyes tnrougn no rauiroi ms uwu. Wilmington Has' 33,000. With the work of taking the census of the city by the county' sanitary po- tives pending the outcome of an ex lice about two thirds complete, it is change of notes between General Car- announced by the health department that the indications are that Wil mington has a population of about 33,000 people, which is a gain of about 4,000 over .last year. No Veal in Asheville Venl will hp eliminated from the bms of f of severai 0f the local hotels, Asheville stewards who are members of the International Stew- ards' Association having received let- ters from the office of the organization at Chicago requesting that they cease and the expedition to Chihuahua, ar to serve veal for an indefinite length ranged to start from El Paso was post- of time. NORTH CAROLINA BRIEFS. Wilmington emerged from one of the worst freezes of the season, the city for 24 hours being entirely cut off from wire communication with the outside world. Estimated damage to telephone wires alone within a radius of 20 miles of Wilmington is $is,uuu. The new power station of the Pied- mont Railrway & Electric Co., built for operating the light and power ser- vice for Burlington, Graham, Haw River and Mebane and the trolley line I and the -cotton mills of Alamance county, began operation recently. , ine city commissioners nave oecid- ed adversely to having a carnival in Greensboro. The association of po- licemen and deputy sheriffs had peti- tioned for one, the profits of which would go to the relief fund and bet terment work of the association. Prior to their Tequest the commis sioners had turned down the request of the firemen to be permitted to hold a carnival. While asleep in their country shack near Castle Haynes, a few miles north of Wilmington, Maggie Harold, her two sons and a grandson were burned to death with no one near to know of their tragic fate. It was not until 11 o'clock next morning, when Josh Moore, a negro, passed the place and the outside world learned of the tragedy. Division Passenger Agent James H. Wood- of the Southern Railway Com pany has gone to Jacksonville, Fla., to spend the month of Mdrch boost ing : Western North Carolina as a tour ist resort. The Morgan block at Mebane re cently cut up into lots' and sold at public auction brought $10,440. The prices ranged from $200 for several of the business lots to $3,800 for the home place. It is planned to build several business houses on this block in the near future, one or more of which amy be used in connection with the growing tobacco business. Mr. E. L. Keesler, of Charlotte, president of the North Carolina Building and Loan League, recently i -rr at Ctrl on orlrl ruoa a fl-r1 an1 "CM n Re , The first art.est in Connection with m- at Barber's -Junction was' made at Bear Poplar, . Rowyn county, when R. B. Harris took into custody ufe Bailey, negro on; the charge of being an accomplice of an unknown i. . j. Pf J J 1 " nr the robber and murdered. Officers y that they believe Bailey knows, Ite guilty person. BENTON, UNARMED, WAS SHOT TO DEATH WASHINGTON OFFICIALS RE- CEIVE INFORMATION THAT BENTON WAS KILLED. SURGEON EXAMINES BODY Died From Bullet Wounds in Stomach. It is Thought When Facts Are Known, England Will Merely "Dock et the Case." ' , Washington. William S. Benton, the British subject slain at Juarez, was unarmed and wa sshot to death in Villa's office, pistol bullets through the stomach ended his life, according' to conclusive information which has reached Washington officials. While no statement to this effect was forth coming, slackening of official interest in the proposed post mortem of Ben-. ton' body was evident, the belief be- ing that the examination wouia De useful -only in that it might serve to supplement the eveidence of timid wit- nesses who possibly otherwise would withdraw their oral statements. , Benton carried no arms when he ap- proached Villa's office m Juarez, ac- cording to information; he spent two hours Waiting for the- interview that ended in his death, walking back and forth in front of the office building; he was shot through the stomach after he entered the office and received oth er wounds afterward, although the first was mortal. General instructions as to the meth od of investigation to be pursued were issued by the State and - War Departments to their representatives at El Paso. It is realized that local conditions must determine the details and only broad lines were drawn in the directions. v Carranza Objects to Examination. Washington. No examination of the body of William S. Benton, the British SUDject executed Dy uenerai Villa at Juarez, will be made by the commission composed of American and British Government representa- ranza, chief of the Mexican Constitu tionalists and the United States Gov ernment. General Carranza's declaration that Great Britain instead of the United States should deal with him concern ing the death of a British subject, counted with the broad intimation that all communications on internat- ional affairs first should be addressed to him, instead of to General Villa or any other subordinate, injected a ;new complication into the situation poned Senate Approves Big Bill. Washington. The senate passed the largest appropriation bill ever to meet the approval of either house of congress, when it sent to conference the postoffice measure carrying $311,492,057, an increase of nearly $840,000 over the bill as it was re ported by tne postonice coimmu.ee. All efforts to limit the power of the jpostmaster general to regulate parcel post rates, zones or weights were de- feated. Increases of salary from ?iuu to $500 were inserted for railway mail division superintendents, assistant su- perintenaents and cniei cients; rurm mail carriers received an increase of $100 a year on standard routes; and sub carriers and clerks from 30 to 40 cents an hour. Chief Justice Gary's Son Drowned. Lexington!, Va. Ernest Gary, the 17-year-old son of Chief Justice Eu gene B. Gary of the South Carolina supreme .court, was drowned while testing ice on a pond one mile from Lexington. Gary, a student at Wash ington and Lee University was out walking with Cadet Smith of the Vir ginia Military Institute, when he de cided to see if the ice was thick enough to hold him. He ventured too far and fell into 12 feet of water. Smith made a brave attempt to rescue him and in doing so went under. Theodore Lacy Found Guilty. Montgomery, Ala. Theodore Lacy on trial here in superior court for the the alleged embezzlement of $50,000 of state funds, was found guilty, when the jury reported at 12 o'clock, after being out only 45 minutes. The jurp retired at 10 : 12 o'clock following ' a lengthy charge by Judge Armistead Brown, which occupied two 'hours in delivery. In addition to hi sregular charge, Judge Brown made numerous special charges at the request of the various attorneys. Says All Should Wed. Chicago. Rev. John Gardner of the New England Congregational church declared that every normal man and woman should wed, but for a woman to marry Just to obtain a home he said, is a sin. Girls to Show Proper Tango. Patchogue, N. Y. At the request ot Rev. Geo. Probst, of St. Paul's, Episco pal church, several girls will show to church' members the "proper" way to dance the tango. JNIOMnOML SDKSfflOOL Lesson CBy E. O. SELLERS, Director of Evening Department, The Moody Bible Institute., Chicago.) ' . . LESSON FOR MARCH 8 WATCHFULNESS. (Temperance Lesson.) LESSON TEXT "Luke 12:35-48. GOLDEN TEXT "Blessed are thosa servants whom the Lord when he cometh hall find watching." Luke 12:37. The words of Jesus are the greatest authority the believer" has upon which to found his belief in the Second Com ing. Some refuse to have much to do with this important theme because oth ers have perverted it or else "overly emphasized It" yet in the 260 chapters in the New .Testament there are 318 distinct references to this theme, a far greater proportion than is placed upon some of the doctrines upon which whole denominations have beeu found ed. . ' ' ' Relative Value. I.. The exhortation to watch, w. 35 40. This is the-.beginning of a new paragraph. . Jesus... has been showing . the relative value of material posses sions and the Kingdom of God and epitomizes his teaching in v. 34.- He now sets before his disciplines what shall their attitude towards him during his absence (II Pet. 3:11, 12 R. V., Ti tus 2:13; II.- Tiin.;;4:8). Thus to be watchful seems io contradict his sug gestions about frnxiety. We need to , remember, howew, that the child of the Kingdom is in entirely new relationship with the world. His desire is not for self enrichment but rather to be in sttch relations with God as his rights demand and thus to bring to others their highest good. This par able epitomizes opportunity. Rightly to make use of none's opportunities spells happiness for the disciple when he the king shall appear. The evidence that we are watching for his appear ing consists of the readiness of the in dividual who is or is not watching, v. 35; I. Pet. 1:13. Jesus knocks at the Individual heart (Rev. 3:20) but when he comes 'twill be to be present at a feast, v. 36. We cannot contract this time and there is no call to service to morrow. Lions girt, ready for the bat tle or for the race, and lamps burn ing, (light is always the result of some thing being consumed) , are today's vis ible evidence of continuous service. Peter's Question. I!. The explanation to Peter, w. 41-48. Between this parable and the one which follows, Peter interrupts by asking the question, "Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even un to all?" That whichfollows is his an swer to that question but it is also a continuance of the teaching just given. In this part Jesus refers to stewards (bond-servants) that it is their su preme business to seek the Kingdom by selling in order' to give. The one work of a servant is to give to the members of an household, each in due season his portion of the father's bountiful grace.- John 21:15-17: I. Pet 5:2; Jer. 3:1-5. There are many de ceitful servants who first feed them selves, or feed only a portion of the household, or who feed chaff rather than bread, even the true bread of life, I. Pet. 2:2; 4:10, 11. Jesus teaches us that each bond-servant shall likewise be judged and that suddenly. III.. The exhortation. Jesus Christ here presents to us the fact that we shall all be judged. That the measure of our reward or of our punishment is dependent upon the measure of our khowiedge and of, .our opportunity, James 4:17. To him to whom much 1 is given, of him shall much be re quired. Our present responsibility Is that of being ready for the coming of the King and of his Kingdom. The ex pression of that readiness is evidenced by our lives of service. There are of course many other phases of service not Included in this parable, but our Lord is emphasizing opportunity, stew ardship, service, watchfulness. In or der to fulfill our service we must enter into fellowship with "the king in his . reign, and those who enter into that fellowship, who are faithful, he will reward vv. 37, 43. The measure of our punishment is conditioned upon the measure of our knowledge (v. 48) and, our knowledge can be enlarged as we use our opportunities. IV. The Golden Text, (v. 37). Is intended to fix our attention upon the acts of our Ixrd when he shall return. It seems astonishing that he shall com pel those whom he finds watching to seat themselves that he may gird him self and serve them. Here we gird ourselves that we may serve him by serving others (Matt. 25:40). But in that tomorrow the day of his victory, he will gird himself and serve those who have been watchfulness and obe dient, servants. This Is a suggestion of the . exceeding grace mentioned by, the Apostle Paul, Rom. 11:33. V. The Temperance Lesson Is sug gested by the conduct of those who are not watching for the King's ap-i pear'ng (v. 45). They were Indulging hi the animal pleasures of the moment.. The Kingdom of God is not in eating; and drinking but consists of righteous ness and peace and Joy in the Holyi Spirit, Rom. 14:17. The effect of in-t temperance on the death rates, on the next generation, from an economic standpoint or viewed from any angle,, Is only the result of the most criminal shortsightedness. A clear apprehen sion of the fact of the Imminence ot his return would change all lives.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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March 4, 1914, edition 1
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