Sunday School Lesson:
Lure Of The City Was Strong,
Even When Lot Chose Sodom
DR. WILLIAM T. ELLIS
and EARL L. DOUGLASS
Much of today Is wrapped up
in the long-ago yesterday of Abra
ham and Lot. We find the same
dispute over territory; the ghastly
consequences of wrong decisions;
the brotherly attitude of one party
to a dispute; and the lure of city
life to a countryman.
Abraham and his nephew Lot
had settled in Canaan. As their
possessions increased, so did fric
tion between their interests and
their herdsmen. The time came for
an apportionment of territory.
Wise and generous old Abraham
bade Lot take his choice.
By all the usages of the Orient,
Lot should have deferred to his
elder relative. But Lot was bad
mannered and selfish and unstable.
So. Instead of saying, ‘‘After you,
Uncle Abraham. You choose first,”
he looked covetously at the lush
green valley of the Jordan, with
great cities near at hand and said,
“This for me; you may have the
bare uplands.”
Abraham was a spacious, toler
ant character, rather Inclined to
have peace at any price. He
thought more of family loyalty
than of his own advantage. So he
bade Lot follow his desires.
We find a key to Abraham's mo
tives in his return from his un
fortunate sojourn in Egypt, where
he had resorted to a cowardly lie,
calling his wife, the beautiful Sar
ah, his sister, to save his own life.
His shame and repentance for this
sin are easily Imagined; for this
is the one blot against his godly
character. Pull of remorse and re
pentance. he left Egypt, and Jour
neyed up to his first altar at
Bethel, to renew relations with the
God of a 8econd Chance. Thence
forth his life would be guided by
the will of Jehovah, the merciful.
This wandering, wicked world of
our needs to make pilgrimage to
Bethel. A return to old time relig
ion will do more for this muddled
era than all of the schemes of
statesmen. Things will get right
when men get right with Ood. It
was a converted and consecrated
Abraham who was made ready to
deal with presumptuous Lot.
What wonderful things would
happen to our world were 8talin
suddenly to return to the Scrip
tural teachings he once learned as
a theological student; and Church
ill were to take his Prayer Book
as his guide, and Truman were to
stand utterly for the faith of his
youth as a Bapitst! The simpli
cities of religion would solve the
complexities of statesmanship.
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Canaan and Egypt, henceforth to be
the man scene of the Bible Story.
The Oarden of Eden region, with
its great cities and empires, is no
longer central. Henceforth the
little strip of hilly country, with
few fat valleys, that lies east of
the Jordan, is to be the middle
scene of God's dealings with the
Chosen People. There the Messiah
was to come.
The Jordan Valley, which Lot
chose, is the deepest rift in the
earth’s surface — 1300 feet below
sea level, and of tropical richness.
The Sunday School Lesion
for July 22 is, "Abraham’s
Practice of Brotherhood” >—
Genesis 13-15.
The Dead Sea. now being utilized
by Great Britain as a source of
immeasurable mineral riches, was
bordered by luxurious and sinful
cities. A French archaeologist has
identified the site of Sodom and
Gomorrah as on the northeastern
shore of the Dead Sea. Dr. Mel
vin Kyle contended for a sub
merged site at the lower end of
the lake. By the western shore
are famous mineral springs, the
healing properties of which have
been used from remotest antiquity.
THE CITY MOOD
Lot, a life-long dweller in tents,
felt the alure of the cities. He
liked the idea of going to town for
his shopping. At first he only
pitched his tent toward Sodom.
Later he decided to leave tents
and all they stood for and move
into the city. Gradually, he made
acquaintance with the bright lights.
If thpre had been night clubs in
Sodom, he would have made the
round' of them. His was not a
deep ture. The glitter and so
phistlei'.tion of city life appealed
to him. While his Uncle Abraham
sat under the stars, communing
with God. Lot lounged in the wine
i shops of Sodom.
Easy was the next step Lot
moved his family into the city —
with tragic consequences. Only the
intercession of Abraham saved him
from destruction when Jehovah
poured out His wrath upon the
citadel of sin.
Tills old. old choice between city
j and country confronts myriads of
returning soldiers. Pleasures in
numerable, and quick prizes, await
the young man in the city. But in
the country, human roots strike
deep, and character grows strong.
Independence is there, and simple
neighborly fellowship, and habits
of worship and health for the
family. To be close to the soil
means, for most men. to be close
to-God. Not all cities are as Sodom
and not all rural communities are
paradise. But the Lot who became
entangled in a city's ways and
: fate would have been a different
man had he abode by his flocks in
the fields. He missed life's gold
in grasping at its tinsel.
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IN PACIFIC — Lawrence Oliver,
formerly with the advertising de
partment of The Star, is now
serving aboard a ship for the fleet
in the Pacific where he was re
cently promoted to the rank of
yeoman, third class. He does
clerical work in the ship’s office.
REVIVAL ENDS
AT KADESH
Daily Vacation Bible
School On; Peelers In
From Portsmouth
BELWOOD — Revival services
were held at Kadesh church last
week. Rev. J. 8. Gibbs of Shelby
did the preaching. There were 12
additions to the church,
Daily Vacation Bible school is
being conducted this week at Ka
desh church and the attendance
is good. Mrs. Latham Wilson,
Miss Doris Martin, Mrs. Everette
Lutz, Mrs. Walter Dixon and Miss
Bernice McMurry are the instruc
tors.
Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Bowen and
son of Baltimore, Md., are visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Noah Hubbard this
week.
Mrs. Burgin Brown and daugh
ter, Lydia, are spending this week
with Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Brown
at Flay.
Robert Hubbard of TJ. S. navy,
is visiting his wife and daughter
and his parents, Mr. and Mrs
| Noah Hubbard.
i Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Peeler
I and son, Charles, returned home
I Saturday from Portsmouth, Va.,
where they had been visiting their
son. Warrant Officer Stough Peel
er and Mrs, Peeler.
Mrs. Ada Gold and Betty, and
Mr .and Mrs. Horace Price and
children spent Sunday afternoon
with Mr. and Mrs. Roland Price
and family of Lawndale.
Sunday dinner guests of Mrs. J.
W. Brackett and Jewel, were Mr.
and Mrs. Everette Lutz and son,
Jake, Misses Bernice McMurry,
! Ellen Peeler and Bob McMurry.
Mr. and Mrs. Evans Grigg and
children, David and Elizabeth, of
Sharon community, visited Mr.
and Mrs. Hugh Hoyle Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Powell and
Jack, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Lutz
and children, Jo Ellen and Sylvia,
spent Sunday with their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Andy Elmore at Ca
sar.
Mr. and Mrs. Adjer Goodman of
Raleigh, spent the week-end with
Mr. Goodman's mother, Mrs. Lou
Childress.
Miss Catherine Stamey of Cher
ryville, spent last week with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sta
mey.
Lt. <Jg) Forrest Edwards Peeler
and Mrs. Peeler returned to Char
leston, S. C., Sunday after spend
ing a week here with relatives.
Gilbert Stamey returned home
Saturd;^ from Pineville where he
spent last week with his brother,
Rev. Robert Stamey and Mrs.
Stamey.
DILLON HEADS
STATE’S BOARD
RALEIGH. July 20—(/P)—C. A.
Dillon of Raleigh was re-elected
chairman of the state board of
correction and training yesterday
at a quarterly session of the board
at Eastern Carolina Training
school. Rocky Mount.
Other officers re-elected are Dr.
W. A. Stanbury, Winston-Salem,
vice-chairman; and Samuel E
Leonard of Raleigh, commissioner.
Superintendents were re-elected
for each school as follows: S. G.
Hawfield. Stonewall Jackson
school; William D. Clark. Eastern
Carolina Training school; Reva
Mitchell, Samarcand; Mrs. Maude
R. Jimison, Dobbs farm; Paul R.
Brown, Morrison Training school,
and Mae D. Holmes, Training
School for Negro girls.
Commissioner Leonard, in pre
senting what he termed a “bien
nial” report to the board, praised
the work of the superintendents,
all elected during the past two
years, and stressed the progress
made at each of the institutions
since re-organization of the state’s
program of correction and training
in October, 1043. Prior to that
time, each school was managed by
a separate executive committee
and there was no board of trustees
for over-all management.
The state’s six correctional
schools had an approximate total
enrollment of 822 boys and girls
during 1944-45, Leonard reported.
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NEWS OF OUR
MENwWOMEN
IN UNIFORM
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James R. Neal In
Koblenz, Germany
Pvt. James R. Neal, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Neal of Kings Moun- j
tain, has informed his parents he is
now in Koblenze, Germany, with
the 35th division. He has been in
service three years and has been
overseas for the past 12 months. He
is a brother of Arthur Neal of
Shelby.
Joseph Tarlton Back
From European Area
Sgt. Joseph P. Tarlton, 25, of this
place, has returned to the States
after 16 months service as a ma
chine gunner in the European
theatre of operations. While there
he was awarded the Purple Heart
for wounds received in combat
against the enemy, the combat in
fantryman’s badge and the Euro
pean campaign ribbon with four
battle stars.
Lt. Earl Meacham
At London Office
Word has been received here that
Lt. Earl Meacham of the Navy, j
husband of the former Miss Mon- j
trose Mull of this place, is now at ]
| a navy port office in England. These ]
; offices were operated during th» war
against Germany to handle prob
I lems of the armed guards. Lt. Mea
cham is on duty in the London
j headquarters of the port offices.
i John Hawkins, Buddy
i Roberts Enter Navy
John Landrum Hawkins, son of
1 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hawkins, and
Buddy Roberts, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Roberts, went to Ra
leigh yesterday for their navy phy
sical examinations, having previ
ously volunteered for naval service.
Hawkins, who will take a course in
radar, went to Great Lakes, 111., for
immediate training, while Roberts
returned to his home here for a
short period before entering boot
training school.
Charles Eskridge Gets
Discharge From Navy
Charles R. Eskridge. who has
i been serving in the Navy for the
past 15 months, has been granted
an honorable discharge from ser
vice and is now at home with his
wife and two children here. After
training at Bainbridge, Md., and
Norman, Okla.. Eskridge was sta
tioned at Norfolk, Va., where he was
on duty until his recent discharge.
Harland Wright Wounded
On Mindanao Island
Mrs. Myrtle Wright of route 5,
Shelby, has been informed by the
War Department that her son,
Pfc. Harland P. Wright, was slightly
wounded on Mindanao island on
June 24. No further Information was
j given in the telegram, which stated
j that a letter would follow.
Two From Here With
Pacific Bomber Group
! Word has been received here that
i two Cleveland county men are with
the 13th army air force in the
Philippines, serving with a B-24 Li
berator group which has been
awarded two distinguished unit ci
tations for raids over Woleai is
land and Balikpapan. Pvt. George
O. Moon of Kings Mountain and
Chaplain ( captain) J. C. Reichard
of Shelby are members of the
bomber group, which fought at
Pearl Harbor, Midway and in the |
Solomons. They have participated
in tne campaigns covering the
South, Central and Southwest Paci
fic and the China-Burma-India
zone.
FSA Supervisor
Attends Two-Day
Electric School
The use and care ol home elec
trical appliances and efficient
wiring were among the subjects
discussed at a meeting of FSA
home management supervisors
from 30 counties who met with
representatives of Duke Power
company at Hickory, says Mrs.
Lena W. McGill, home supervisor
for Cleveland county, who was a
mong the group.
The meeting was arranged by
Miss Margaret F. Fuller, area FSA
home supervisor, in cooperation
with Miss Charlotte Mobley, home
service advisor for Duke Power
Co., and Mrs. Doris Hovis, local
FSA associate supervisor to en
able county FSA home supervisors
to give rural families better in
struction. Discussions were led by
Charlie Stone, Paul Tysinger, Joe
Howard and Miss Mobley to help
home supervisors to aid FSA bor
rowers using electrical appliances
for the first time to adjust and
repair them and adequately wire
the home.
"Many practical things of every
day usefulness that can be passed
along to FSA borrowers were
learned fxie meeting, which con
sumed a day and a half,” said Mrs.
McGill. "The importance of using
the right size fuse and wry fuses
‘blow out’ were points especially
stressed by the company officials.”
The session the second day was
devoted to a film on nutrition, a
discussion of laundry equipment,
operational care of major appli
ances, modernization of old lamps
and a summary of the program.
Newman Condition
Remains Critical
FORT WORTH TEXAS, July 30
—(JP)— The condition of Corp.
James E. Newman, who contracted
tuberculosis and other diseases
during three years in a Jap prison
camp, remained critical today.
Newman, who fought on Bataan
' and made the death march, was
able to eat lightly yesterday.
The corporal has received more
than 6.000 letters from all part* of
the nation.
j Re is suffering from tuberculo
sis of the throat, lungs and stom
; ach and from the after-effects of
beri-beri.
London Lawyers
Honor Eisenhower
LONDON, July 20 —(ifP)— Gen.
Eisenhower was elected an hon
orary bencher of the Lincoln's Inn
Society today. A bencher is a mem
ber of the governing board of the
society, which is one of London’s
legal organizations through which
the practice of law is governed.
The same recognition is given
British Admiral of the Fleet Sir
Andrew Browne Cunningham and
Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander.
Planning for
TELEPHONE PROGRESS
in Rural DIXIE
To keep step with farm progress and to
extend service to more farm families, the
telephone industry is working on important
new devices and methods.
Plans are already under way for resuming
our rural telephone expansion program
which was suspended in 1942 when equip
ment and materials became more urgently
needed for the armed forces. Surveys are
being made to determine the needs and to
provide the facts from which we can carry
out plans for expansion of farm telephone
service in the South.
DIXON STORE
NEARLY READY
FALLSTON — The new brick;
store building of W. J. Dixon and
son is nearing completion. They
continued business in the C. C.
Falls building after the disastrous
fire, and plan to be in their new
building soon.
The revival meeting is going on
at Friendship church. Rev. C. G.
Isley preaching at 11 in the morn
ing and 8:30 in the evening. Rev.
Furman Wright is directing the
music.
AUXILIARY MEETS
The Woman’s Auxiliary of
Friendship church met in the hut
Wednesday afternoon. The devo
tional was given by Mrs. Evan
Wilson. Mrs. Grier Martin had
charge of the program. Those as
sisting were Mrs. Oscar Morgan,
Mrs. Austin Royster, Mrs. Rob
Wilson and Mrs. Fields Toney.
After the program delicious re
freshments were served by the
hostesses, Mrs. D. C. Beam, Mrs.
uena wngnt ana Mrs. uettys
Bingham.
Loyd Wilson joined his wife and
family who had been spending
several weeks with Mr. and Mrs.
O. E. Hamilton near Dunn and
spent the week-end. They all re
turned home Wednesday.
Mrs. Hattie Beam has returned
home after a visit with relatives
in Gaffney.
DRUG STORE OPENS
Fallston drug store is now ready
for business with the exception of
fountain drinks.
Mrs. C. C. Falls returned home
Wednesday after taking several
days’ treatment in the Charlotte
Memorial hospital.
Reid Harris of Walnut Cove
spent the day recently with his
sister, Mrs. Evan Wilson and fa
mily.
Mrs. Joe Kara of Staten Island,
N. Y., spent several days this week
with her sister, Mrs. Austin Roys
ter.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Deal of Le
noir-Rryne, visited Mr. and Mrs.
Lem Williams Sunday.
Misses Shirley and Willie Lou
Harris of Walnut Cove, spent last
week with Misses Lavada and Ber
tha Nell Wilson.
Tuesday supper guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Warren Martin were
Rev. c. G. xsiey, Mrs. naiue isiey,
Rev. Furman Wright, Mr. and Mrs.
WiU Clay and son, and Mrs. Oscar
Morgan and children.
Miss Phylacia Gold of Shelby is
spending this week with Mr. and
Mrs. Floyd Cline.
Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Dixon were Mr. and Mrs.
Taft Putnam of Lawndale, and
Mr. and Mrs. Carmle Elam of
near Belwood.
Miss Minnie Mae Cline has re
turned home after visiting her
aunt, Mrs. Ralph Wise of near
Lincolnton.
HONOR WRAY LEWIS
Capt. Geo. L. McConnell and S
Sgt. Francis X. Calden of Camp
Lejeune, New River, were dinner
guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. Lewis Tuesday. They came
to pay an honorable tribute to Lt.
Wray Lewis who was killed in ser
vice. Dr. and Mrs. Austin Lackey,
Rev. C. G. Isley, Mrs. Hattie Ialey,
Prof, and Mr*. W. R. Gray and
Austin Lackey, jr„ Mr. and Mrs.
Leroy Hull were also dinner guests.
Mrs. Rochal Costner is sick at
her home.
Mrs. Stough Beam has returned
from the Shelby hospital and Is
now at the home of parents near
North Brook.
Mr. and Mrs. Grier Martin made
a business trip to Salisbury Tues
day.
Beer, In the Middle Agee, waa
the chief drink for breakfast.
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