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VOL. XXXVIII. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTS', N. 0, OCTOBER 6, 1915.
NO. 9.
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THE WORLD OVER
Happenings of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE NEWS OFTHE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place in the South
land Will Be Found in
Brief Paragraphs.
Foreign
Investigation has disclosed that be
tween 30 and 50 workmen were kill
ed in the fire which destroyed a
large comb factory at Muemliswyl,
Switzerland. Four hundred persons
were at work in the factory at the
time of the' explosion and the major
ity of them were more or less in
jured. A dispatch from Bagdad tells of a
mutiny of two Indian regiments in
the British army the Eighth Murse
na regiment and the Tenth Sikh regi
ment. In the fighting that followed
the mutiny the dispatch states that
1,200 British were killed. Of the Hin
dus 1,100 were killed or wounded.
Nearly a dozen French aviators, all
of them picked men,- have come to
England to aid British fliers in keep
ing off Zeppelins, according to report.
It is stated that the friendship of
Roumania for Italy and France will
assure her continued support of the
cause of the entente allies.
Great Britain has discovered and
put into effective operation means of
combatting submarines, which have re
sulted in a loss estimated at between
fifty and seventy German submarines.
Great Britain believes she has entire
ly crushed the German undersea cam
paign. A Paris dispatch announces that a
fire which was followed by an explo
sion occurred on board the Italian bat
tleship Benedetto Brin, at Brindisi,
Italy. Rear Admiral Rubin de Cervin
is among the dead. Eight officers and
379 marines were saved. The fire was
accidental.
A Berlin dispatch announces that
bread rations for children between 9
and 11 years has been increased to
one pound a week more.
In an attack by Haitien rebels on
an American force two miles from
Cape Haitien, forty rebels were killed
and ten Americans wounded.
Eighty passengers of a Southern Pa
cific Mexican train were thrown into
a car containing hay and the car set
afire by a band of Yaqui Indians near
Torres, Sonora, Mexico. Only twenty
of the eighty 'passengers have been
accounted for, the others having been
burned to death.
Domestic
A test case of the Davis package
law in Florida will be made hefore the
sate supreme court at Tallahassee.
The coast guard cutter Miami has
arrived at Key West with the yacht
Ventura, stolen from the harbor there
On board the cutter were six men,
said to be members of the crew of
the schooner Lucy H., charged with
the stealing of the Ventura.
The present price of cotton and the
efforts of the federal board to finance
the crop have had a beneficial effect
on all other lines of trade in the South,
is information coming from every sec
tion.
Reports from scattered sections of
the storm-swept area in Louisiana and
along the Mississippi gulf coat places
the number of known dead at 149;
reported dead, 106, and missing, 105
Property damage will run into the mil
lions.
A number of persons are known to
dead, many people injured and prop
erty loss reaching into the millions,
has been caused by the most severe
storm in the history of New Orleans
A howling gale with a velocity of 86
miles an hour swept New Orleans,
tiemolis-hing scores of buildings, strip
ping the roofs from hundreds of oth
er structures -and strewing the streets
with broken glass and debris.
With protestations of innocence on
their lips, five negroes were electro
cuted in the state penitentiary at Co
lumbia, S. C. The time consumed in
the separate executions amounted to
one hour and ten minutes.
Capt. Frank R. McCoy, commanding
the United States troops about Mis
sicn, Texas, reports to the southern
department that an American soldier
vas overpowered at a crossing and
carried prisoner to the Mexican side
and beheaded. The statement fur
ther says the soldier's ears were tak-
fr- away as souvenirs.
The Anglo-French financial commis
on announces in New York City that
'fe proposed credit loan to Great
Britain and France will be $500,000,
000, and will be issued on joint Anglo-
French five-year 5 per cent bonds.
offered to the public at 98 and to the
syndicate of underwriters at 96.
J. J. Mendenhall, convicted at Clear
"vater, Fla., on the charge of the mur
tier of Miss Susie Eliot on the night
cf July 2, gave notice of a motion for
a new trial and offered a formal mo
tion for a stay of sentence. Another
indictment charging Mendenhall with
tne murder of the girl's x mother is
Tending.
Attorneys for Chicago packing hous
es announce that they will protest to
-f;e state department against the seiz
ure by Great Britain of the Norwe
fran steamer Vitalia, containing sev
enty carloads of Chicago packing
At least two score dead. 200
sons injured and nronertr damac nf
approximately five hundred thousand
aoiiars, were considered conservative
estimates of the havoc wrought
Ardmore, Okla., by the explosion ot a
car or gasoline m the Santa Fe rail
road yards. Of the known dead nine
teen are white people.
Confidence and Cash" is the hap
py combination that has speeded up
the wheels of business in the South
eastern states during the recent
weeks, superinducedi by the high price
paid for cotton.
The cities of Philadelphia. Boston.
Chicago, Atlanta, St. Louis, San Fran
cisco, Pittsburg, Baltimore, St. Paul,
Minneapolis, Denver and Louisville
have announced their intention of par
ticipating in the loan to the Euro
pean allies, France and Great Brit
ain.
European War
It is stated in London that German
and Austrian forces have been sent
to Bulgaria to direct the Bulearian
army, and this Is a fact which the
allies regard "with the utmost grav
ity." The question has arisen as to what
assistance the entente allies will give
Greece and Serbia. An agreement will
probably be made with Greece provid
ing that for every soldier she sends
to help Serbia the allies will land a
soldier and equipment at Saloniki to
protect Greek .territory to the south,
and at the most propitious moment to
march against Bulgaria.
The British have won an important
success in Mesopotamia. The Turks
are reported in full retreat toward
Bagdad.
The London Times Petroerad cor
respondent says that a reDort which
has been confirmed from a good quar
ter is that the Forty-first German
army corps was overtaken by the
flooding of the Pinsk marshes and,
being unable to escape, nearly the
whole of the corp perished.
In the western zone of the European
fighting, the British have taken ex
ceptionally strong German lines of
trenches and bomb-proof shelters sev-
eral hundred yards in extent. Hav
ing taken the second line, the British
are now after the third line of trench
es, which if successful, will hamper
the German line of communication.
Heavy and continuous attacks by
the British and French have cost the
Germans more than twenty thousand
unwounded men taken prisoners and
twenty miles of trenches in the west.
The Germans admit reverses.
Washington
Dismissal of six midshipmen, sus
pension of four others for . one year
without pay and the returning to the
next lowest class of fifteen others,
is announced by Secretary Daniels as
the result of the recent hazing inves
tigation at the naval academy.
Improved business conditions in
practically all sections are reflected
in reports from federal reserve agents
in the twelve districts, made public
by the federal reserve board.
Leaf tobacco prices are reported to
be holding well, and contribute an im
petus to the business conditions of
the country.
Great Britain denies the widely cir
culated report in this country that she
has been interfering with legitimate
trade of the United States with neu
tral European countries.
Unless Captain von Papen, the Ger
man military attache, is voluntarily
withdrawn, the United States will re
quest his recall, as a result of dis
closures in the Doctor Dumba contro
versy.
Imports of gold to the United States
from January 1 to September 17 of
this year amounted to 1252,895,000, an
unprecedented record in the history
of international financial operations.
In the same period last year only ?11,
077,000 was imported.
Long distance wireless telephone
communication was accomplished for
the first time when experiments ex
tending over several months culminat
ed in successful transmission of the
human voice by radio from Arlington,
Va., to Mare Island, Cal., 2,500 mile3
away.
Thomas St. John Gaffney, American
consul general at Munich, Germany,
has been asked to resign because of
his criticism of President Wilson's
policy anent the European war. This
is the second time he has been made
the subject of controversy over ex
pressions concerning the war, and it
was thought desirable to request his
resignation.
It is announced that Russia will
not participate in the loan which the
allies are trying to negotiate in the
United States.
President Wilson cordially welcom
ed the forty-ninth annual reunion of
the Grand Army of the Republic, and
reviewed the remnant of the host that
made Pennsylvania avenue historical
in 1865. The veterans are in Wash
ton by the thousands. They are frat
ernizing with survivors of the Confed
erate army, and t;he city is in a blaze
of war reminiscence.
Details of fighting between Haitiens
and United States marines have reach
ed the war department, in which it
is stated that one marine was killed.
ten wounded and more than fifty Hai
tiens killed. Admiral Caperton re
ports that the supply routes have been
completely cleared of hostile forces.
Dr. Constantln Dumba will be for
mally recalled by Austria-Hungary.
Ambassador Penfield at Vienna had
made it clear that a "leave of ab
sence" for Doctor Dumba would not
satisfy the United States, but that he
must be recalled,
dual monarchy.
GERMANY'S REPLY
Tl
WILSON AND LANSING CONFER
BUT NO ANNOUNCEMENT IS
MADE.
ARABIC CASE IS DIFFERENT
American Lives Not Question - For
Hague is Stand Taken By Presi
dent Wilson.
Washington. Germany has failed
to satisfy the request of the United
States that the sinking of the Arabic
was a loss of American lives will be
disavowed and liability for the act 'as
sumed by the Imperial Government.
This became known after a conference
between President Wilson and Secre
tary Lansing at which the latter sub
mitted a note given him in New York
by Count von Bernatorff, the German
Ambassador.
No announcement was made after
the White House conference. Secre
tary Lansing declined to say what the
next step would be, but it was learned
later the German Ambassador would
be asked to come to Washington soon
to receive the view which the Ameri
can Government takes of the last
German note. Count von Bernstorff
is fully authorized by his Govern
ment to conduct the submarine nego
tiations.
While the situation has Improved
to tha extent that there is no danger
of an immediate break in diplomatic
relations, as the note affords an op
portunity for further negotiation, it
was stated reliably that final refusal
by Germany to meet the American
viewpoint on the Arabic case might
bring about the threatened rupture.
In general, it was learned that Ger
many after examining the evidence
submitted by the United States, came
to the conclusion that her submarine
commander erred in assuming that
the Arabic was intent on ramming
the German submarine when, steering
to rescue the passengers on the
British steamer Dunsley. This ad
mission of a mistake would amount
to a disavowal of the act, but the
United States has insisted that dis
avowal must be accompanied by an
assumption of responsibility and lia
bility, and that full reparation must
be given for American lives lost.
President Wilson has taken the
position tfrat the United States can
not arbitrate questions involving the
loss of American lives and it is be
lieved that in the next step the Wash
ington Government will indicate that
the only matter it can submit to arbi
tration is the amount of the damages
to be paid after the question of liabil
ity already is admitted. j
EARTHQUAKE IN UTAH.
Southern Pacific Watertank Over
Thrown in Nevada.
San Francisco. There were no fur
ther seismic disturbances as a result
of a series of earthquakes believed to
have originated in the Wasatch Fault
underlying the Wasatch Mountains in
Utah.
The severest shock was at 10:56 at
ndght. The quakes were felt in Utah,
Nevada, California, Oregon and Idaho.
So violent were the tremors in Ne
vada that railroad water tanks along
the Southern Pacific were thrown
down.
At Baker, Ore., and at Sacramenta,
and Fresno, Ca, bufiUdingis swayed
and residents rushed into the streets.
The disturbances reached as far
north as Victoria, B. C. In San
Francisco the shocks were barely per
ceptible. Will Fight at Mardi Gras.
Oklahoma City; Okla. Jeas Willard
announced that his first fight to de
fend the title of world's champion
heavyweight pugilist when he won
from Jack Johnson, probably would
take place in New Orleans in March,
the challenger to be the "logical con
tender" for the title selected toy the
sporting writers of the country. He
said he would accept the offer of New
Orleans promoters for a 20-round
match there during Mardi Gras.
Canal Blocked to November 1.
Washington. The war department
announced that .there was little pros
pect of repoening the Panama Canal
before November 1. Since the chan
ned was blocked by a slide from the
east bank north of Gold Hill Septem
ber 20, the movement has continued
steadily, pouring earth and rock into
the waterway while the dredges work
ed away in a vain effort to keep it
open. Hundreds of vessels will be
held up by the closing of the canal for
40 days or more, causing the first very
serious interruption of traffic. ,
Death List Grows.
New Orleans. Scores of relief ves
sels despatched from almost every
point, along the Lousiana and Missis
sippi ' gulf coasts were searching the
storm-stricken district where, hun
dreds of persons were reported ma
rooned and without food. The list of
known dead still stood at 202 early
at night but it was "believed that the
total death list will be well above 300
as more than 100 persons are reported
missing. - Refugees were arriving on
every boat, bringing with them stories
ISA
ACTOR
JUDGES WILL NOT
GRANGE BOND CASE
PUBLIC ROADS ARE MATTERS
FOR COUNTIES AND THE GEN
ERAL ASSEMBLY.
DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH
Doings and Happenings That Mark
the Progress of North Carolina Peo
ple Gathered Around the State
Capitol. i
Raleigh.
Declaring that the principle is too
well settled to.be disturbed Asso
ciate Justice W. R. Allen of the Su
preme Court denies the petition of
the plaintiff for a hearing in the noted
appeal of Hargrave vs. Commission
ers of Davidson county involving the
validity of the $500,000 bond issue
for roads issued under special act of
the last legislature that was put
through by Representative Leonard
without the knowledge of the oppo
nents of road bonds in the county
bonds to be issued without recourse
to an election.
The court, just before the close of
the last term; delivered an opinion
upholding the bonds and since then
they have been sold and the actual
work of road building under the spe
cial act is under way. In declining
to reinstate the appeal for another
hearing Justice Allen says:
"The only question involved is
whether a debt created for the con
struction and maintenance of public
roads Is for necessary expense with
in the meaning of Article 7, Section7
of the onstitution.
"We. have nothing to do with the
wisdom and propriety of creating the
debt, now can we consider methods
adopted for securing the enactment
of the statute under which the defen
dant board is acting. These are ques
tions which the General Assembly and
the people must pass on, and there is
no power in the courts to deal with
them.
"The legal question has been fre
quently decided against the conten
tion of tne plaintiff and incoming to
a conclusion in this case at the last
term we were doing no more than
following well-established precedents."
The precedents were recited and
Judge Allen continues:
"These cases also hold that the
courts can do no more than decide
whether a particular expense comes
within the class of necessary expen
ses, and that the amount to be ex
pended and the use of it are matters
for the General Assembly and the
governing authorities of the county."
Judge Allen takes the view that the
Supreme Court is not capable of con
trolling the exercise of power on the
part of the General Assembly or of
the county authorities and it cannot
assume to do, without putting itself
in antagonism to the General Assem
bly as well as to the county authori
ties, and erecting a depatism of five
men opposed to the fundamental prin
ciples of our Government and the us
ages of all times past.
"Blue Sky Law" to Be Tested.
North Carolina's "Blue Sky" law is
to be tested through litigation just
started in Buncombe Superior Court,
thence through the Supreme Court of
the state to the United States Supreme
Court, according to information re
ceived by the state department of in
surance. It comes through the case
of J. W. Agey and other agents of
the Southern Orchards Company of
Tatnell County, Ga., arrested in Bun
combe and Alamance county for sell
ing stock in the company -without
having license.
New Furniture For Court House.
-The specially designed quartered
oak furniture for the court room in
the new $235,000 Wake county court
house has arrived and is being placed
in position, except the chairs for the
auditorium section, which are still
missing. October 11 Is the new date
set for the big Wake County Day cele
bration in honor of the completion
and occupation of the new temple.
Gay New Field Secretary.
Rev. R. L. Gay, who for the past
two years has been pastor of the First
Baptist Church at Washington, N. C,
has accepted the position of field sec
retary of the North Carolina AntiSa
loon League and will enter upon the
duties of this office October 15. Mr.
Gay was born in Albemarle . County,
Va., about 50 years ago and educated
at Richmond College. Soon after
graduating he entered the ministry,
and for 15 years filled appointments
in the eastern part of Virginia. Since
then he has filled several pastorates.
Guides Must Deliver Goods.
. There has just been, received in the
office of Collector of Internal Revenue
J. W. Bailey here orders from the
revenue department at Washington
that in future there are to be no al
lowances of pay N for guides and posse
men in making raids on blockade stills
unless the raid is successful in the
capture of the still or blockaders. The
order aplies to government raiders An
ail part3 of the country. Heretofore
it has been the practice to allow pay
to these (guides and possemen no mat
ter what the outcome of the raid was.
Governor Pleased With Conditions
Governor Craig has been going out,
into the country a good deal recently.;
He says that the hot September;
weather has matured and opened the
cotton rapidly, that the farmers are
gathering it, and that the people are
cheerful, full of hope Continuing,
ne said: ' . 1
"Conditions are very different now
from what they were last fall. - We.
were then demoralized on account of
the low price of cotton- We planted
the last crop of cotton with the ex
pectation of getting about twelve cents
a pound for it, and sold it for seven.
We planted this crop with the expec
tation' of getting seven and will sell
it for eleven or twelve. We make
back this year what we lost last. The
south last year was hit hard. The
people were discouraged and lost their
bearings. We did not stand up as we
ought to have stood. We called for
help when we should have helped our
selves and .we did help ourselves. We
learned a ., lesson from those condi
tions; that is, we had an opportunity
to learn that it is necessary to diver
sify crops to always be ready for such
an emergency as we faced a year ago,
that the farmer ought to keep his corn
crib and smokehouse at home, not to
depend on Chicago and Kansas City.
If the south has learned this lesson
the hard times of last year will be rea
sonable tuition for our schooling. It
is said that experience is the only
school for a fool. That is not so. Ex
perience is a school for awise man.
The fool learns at no school. The
south has had experience. It is said
that a wise man gets his idea into his
head the fool gets it in the neck.
With the past years of high prices
of cotton the south ought to be rich
today With the present prices she
will profit by her experience and come
to be the richest of all agricultural
lands.
There is another thing for which we
should be thankful; the present demo
cratic administration has declared
that the resources and power of the
United tates treasury were behind
the cotton farmers to protect them
from the speculators.
I believe the declaration by Secre
tary McAdoo that he was ready to put
Into the southern banks thirty mil
lions of dollars for the protection of
the cotton crop had much to do with
the present healthy condition of the
cotton market. That ona act ,of this
administration, and the atitude of he
administration toward the south has
saved us millions of dollars, and
brought comfort and plenty to the
homes of our country. This adminis
tration stands by the farmer, and by
the producer, and not by the specula
tor and the financier. This was not
always so, but it will be so long as
Wood row Wilson is president, and as
long as the principles of democracy
control this country."
Home Opens With Thirty-Five Guests.
Returning from Fayetteville, J. A.
Turner of Louisburg, secretary of the
board of directors of the North Caro
lina Home for Widows of Confederate
Veterans, announced that the home
opened with Mrs. G. B. Sessoms of
Fayetteville, as matron and with 36
ladles . in attendance as accepted
cnarges for the institution, which has
a capacity of 65. The election of
Mrs. Sessoms took place and the
directors, at the same time, accepted
the building as completed and launch
ed the institution as regularly opened
for Its noble purpose. There were
nine applicants for the position of
matron.
Many of the rooms of the home
have already been furnished by chap
ters of the Daughters of the Confed
eracy and others will, be furbished
very soon.
Opinions of the Supreme Court.
The full list of opinions follows:
Butler ' vs. Butler, Gates, affirmed ;
Weston vs. Roper Lumber Company,
Camden, affirmed; Brinson and Kra
mer vs. Norfolk Southern, Beaufort,
reversed; Oil Company vs. Grocery
Company, Wilson, reversed; Newsome
vs. Bank, Hertford, error; Medlin vs.
Western Union, , Halifax, no error;
Mitchell vs. Aulander Realty Com
pany, Bertie, affirmed; Mitchell vs.
Lumber Company, Hertford, affirmed;
Bank vs. Johnson, Vance, reversed ;
Green vs. Atlantic Coast Line, Hert
ford, no error; Barnes vs. Fort,
Wayne, affirmed; Bland vs. Harvester
Company, Chatham, affirmed; Riley
vs. Stone, Chatham, reversed; Hill vs.
Skinner, et al, Durham, reversed;
Eason vs. Howe, Wilson, affirmed,
Craig Turned Back Year For Hazing..
Special from Washington. Arthur
B. Craig, son of Governor Craig, is
one of the 15 boys "turned back ta
the next lower class" for hazing at
Annapolis, by Secretary Daniels. Mr.
Daniels is determined to break up
hazing at the Naval Academy, and is
treating all boys alike. Among the
boys turned back a year is the son of
Admiral Benson ' of the Navy. Six
middies were expelled, four suspend
ed for a year, and Id turned back to
the next lower class. The young men
"turned back" were guilty of hazing.
Veterans to Meet October 20.
In connecton with the state fair
there is to be the usual annual meet
ing of the United Confederate Veter
ans, North Carolina Divsion on the
the evening of October 20 in the Rep
resentatives Hall. A number of mat
ters of importance to the veterans are
to be considered and every effort will
be made to get as many of the veter
ans here as possible. It is purely a
business meeting and only a few rep
resentatives fromeach of the camp
would ordinarily attend.
DIR.
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TO
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DAUGHTERS OF AMERICAN REVO
LUTION CLOSE NOTABLE SES
SION AT WAYNESVILLE.
FOUR OFFICERS REELECTED
Two Day Session Closed With Elabo
rate Reception. Weather Pre
vented Trip to Eagle's Nest.
Waynesville. Having , re-elected the
four state officers whose terms expire
this year and selected Raleigh as the
place of next meeting, the state con
ference of the Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution closed its two-day ses
aual session here with an elaborate
reception given at the home of Mrs".
James Atkins.
This is second state meeting the
organization has held here, the other
being on the Fourth of July, 1900.
The delegates were welcomed to
the city hy Dr. Joe Howell Way on
behalf of the city and Mrs. James At
kins on behalf of the 'local chapter,
Mrs. C. W. Tillett of Charlotte reading
the response which was to have been
made by Mrs. B. D. Heath, who could
not be here. The formal opening was
with "America," sung by the confer
ence and an invocation by Rev. A. V.
Joyner, pastor of tne Baptist church,
in whose lecture room the sessions
were held .
A feature of the first session was
the presentation to the conference of
Carson Wulbern, young son of the
late Mrs. Mary Love Wulbern, or
ganizer of the body. An address was
to have been delivered by Mrs. R. E.
Little, of Wadeshoro, state president
U. D. C, but she was not present
and a telegraphic communication was
read by Miss Grace Jones of Ashe
ville. The delegates had been looking for
ward to a trip to Eagles Nest, but
this could not be taken on account of
disagreeable weather.
The officers re-elected are: Mrs. S.
N. Harreli, Tarboro, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. John F. Wiley, Dur
ham, recording secretary; Miss Cor
delia Phifer, Charlotte, historian;
Miss Jessie Rogers, Waynesville, reg
istrar. Death of Major H. F. Schenck.
Shelby. Major H. F. Schenck, pion
eer cotton manufacturer, legislator,
financier and friend of education, died
in the Rutherfordton Hospital recent
ly.' He was president of the Cleveland
Mill and Power Company, Lawndale
Railroad, board of directors of board
of trustees of Thomasville orphanage,
vice president of Lily Mill and Power
Company. He would have Deen 80
years old In November.
No less than 1,500 people attended
the funeral exercises conducted In the
auditorium of the Piedmont - High
School, of which he was the proud
father.
Rev. J. W. Suttle had charge of
the exercises and- was assisted by J,
V. Devenny, W. E. Abernethy and a!
C. Irvin ,a Civil War comrade. The
school choir furnished music. Princi
pal W. D. Burns told of the Major's
friendship for the institution. Clyde
R. Hoey paid a tribute to the Major
as a citizen and business man. Con
gressman Webb spoke of what he con
sidered the Major's chief character
istics kindness and liberality.
Child Denied Doctor; Manslaughter.
Asheville. William Marion Embler
and wife, Charles Plemmons and Lew
is Ramson, the last a negro, were held
for a trial on a charge of manslaugh
ter following the returning of a true
bill by the grand jury in which it Is
charged that through their refusal to
allow physicians to atend 10-year-old
Ezra Embler they were responsible
for the child's death following a long
seige of typhoid fever.
Allegations made by officers are to
the effect that they - depndd on
prayer to cure the child and kept phy
sicians from the boy's bedside. Their
prayers were continuous by day and
night; but' the little fellow died.
Synod Meets in Gastonia.
Gastonla. The annual meeting of
the Synod of North Carolina will be
held in the First Presbyterian church
of this city beginning October 26 at 11
a. m. The meeting will last four days
or a little less, adjourning-some time
Friday, October 29. The sessions will
be opened with a sermon by the re
tiring moderator, Rev. R. P. Smith,
a former pastor of this church. Ses
sions will be held morning, afternoon
and night, and these will be open to
the general public. s
"Captain Boo" Passes Censors.
Asheville. "Captain Bob of the Nat
ional Guard," the picture in which
Capt. Robert R. Reynolds of this city,
the author, plays the leading role, has
been passed by te National Board of
Censors and approved by the War De
partment Captain Reynolds has Just
returned from New York where he
exhibited the films before the War
Department's representatives. He
states that the production will be re
leased at once and will, be shown
throughout the United States, under
auspices of the National Guard.
GONFERENG
RALEGH
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iNIHMnONAL
SWMIQOI
Lesson
(By E. O. SELLERS, Acting- Director of
me ounaay ocnooi course, tne Moody
LESSON FOR OCTOBER 10
ELIJAH TAKEN UP INTO HEAVEN.
LESSON TEXT II Kings 2:l-12a.
GOLDEN TEXT In thy presence la
fullness of joy; at thy right hand there
are pleasures forever more. Ps. 16:1L
This chapter is in type the Chris
tian's chapter. There are two chief
divisions: (1) Translation vv. 1-12;
(2) reception and use of power w. 12-
25. The event occurred probably 89$
B. C. This is a wonderful lesson for
youth as it emphasizes that the way to
heaven is the way to the best of life.
I. Elisha's Testing, vv. 1-8. Since
Carmel, Elijah had largely been work
ing according to the "still' small
voice." He had revived the schools of
Samuel, but now In some way notice
was sent from God that the time of
his departure was at hand. How Ell
sha learned this fact the record does
not suggest, but he had had a great
object lesson in Elijah's faithful, step- '
by-step obedience to Jehovah's word
and doubtless was listening keenly
for Elijah's words and for the voice
of Jehovah. This explains Elisha's
tenacity. Gilgal (v. 1) means "wheel"
our reproach rolled away, and is a
picture of our salvation (I. Peter 5:7;
Ps. 55:22). Elijah had already learned
the lesson of being supplanted by a
younger man and so he gracefully al-
lows Elisha to follow him. "Bethel,"
the house of God, was a good place to
tarry but not for Elisha at this time.
Now (v. 3) fifty "sons" pupils of the
prophet seek to dissuade Elisha.
Knowing something was about to
happen, they "stood to view afar off,"
but were not willing to draw nigh, to
follow like Elisha. They thereby
failed to reap a rich reward (John
12:26). Jericho (v. 4) means "fra
grance." It is the place of tempta
tion (I. Cor. 10:13). This was 14
miles farther and contained a settle
ment of prophets. Again Elijah and
Elisha passsed on, the one to glory,
the other to the fullness of the Holy
Spirit. At Jericho (v. 5), the "sons
of the prophet" evidenced greater in
terest than those at Bethel, but In
reply to their challenge Elisha com
manded silence. The last difficulty to
confront them was Jordan (death),
but they do not hesitate, for God had
provided even for that contingency.
Neither are we to hesitate but wil
lingly "die unto self." Here the aged
prophet exercised his supernatural
power and they "went over on dry
ground" (v. 8). Though this journey
seems to have been revealed only
stage by stage, yet it was direct to
the final goal, and at each stage,
though they saw not the end, they
knew where to go next. This loyalty
nf Miaha. to FMah is a ereat lesBon
for us to follow in our service of
Christ our privilege of loyalty to his
cause and the blessing which will re
sult thereby. No great victory or
blessing ever comes without muck
travail and testing.
II. Elijah's Translation, vv. 9-1 2a.
Even as in the first section we see im
type the plan of salvation so In this
section we are taught the resultant
facts and the experiments which come
to us when the blessing is received.
Elisha is now encouraged to "ask."
yet we have a like promise from &
greater than Elijah which we too oftea
neglect (John 14:13, 15:17). Elijah
was such a mighty man of prayer
(James 5:17, 18) that he was on inti
mate terms with God and could there
fore make such an offer to Elisha (see
Acts 8:15, 17). Notice that the "fifty
sons of the prophets" who "stood afar
off" were not on the right side of the
river to receive a like promise or en
ter Into the same fellowship. In a
sense this was Elisha's final test.
Again Elijah may not have known the
plan of God that a man so unlike him
self was to take the place of leader
ship. Elijah said, however, "If thou
see me when I am taken from thee,"
If God gives you spiritual . vision to
use and to understand, then he wilt
accept you as my successor. There
must be persistence to the end and
spiritual vision. "As they still went
on" Elijah went up, not in a chariot
but. attended by chariots and by m
"whirlwind into heaven." (See also
Ezek. 1:4; II Kings 6:17). Elijah,
the man of tempestuous fire and
sword, who in his hour of weakness
prayed to die, is swept out of sight
amid a display of God's power in and
through nature.
Note the simplicity of the record
one verse as though such power were
a simple and a common, thing for' Je
hovah. The translation of Jesus was quite
different and properly so (Acts , 1:9;
Luke 24:51).
"And he saw it."
Elisha's eyes were open and he saw
his departing chief, therefore he be
came his successor according to the
promise.
As 'a visible proof of his new ap
pointment Elijah let his well-known
mantle fall, as he ascended, and Eli
sha took it and is recognized as Eli
jah's successor.
What is heaven? Read the last chap
ters of Revelation.
Do we live after death? Elijah and
Moses on the Mount of Transfigura
tion, and the resurrected Christ prove
that death is but the transference to
another field of activity.
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