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News of Pinraclc Route Two.
Rev. S. F. Morton fiiled his
regular appointment at Brim's
Grove Saturday and Sunday. A
large crowd was out. Mrs. J. P.
Dunman was baptized. Three
joined by letter, and Daisy Joyce
joined, to be baptised next second
Sunday. Rev. James Bennett
will preach there the first Sun
day in June.
Mrs. R. H. Mitchell and child
ren, of Guilford College, are
visiting relatives in this section.
Mrs. -J. A. Covington and
children and C. B. Bovles will
leave for Fowler, Colo., in a few
days.
Mr. J. P. Covington is attend
ing court at Danbury this week.
Mr. J. M. Boaz called on Miss
Ida Tilley Sunday evening.
Lawn Party.
On the evening of May 27th.
beginning at 6 o'clock P. M., the
good Ladies of the new St. 1
Marks M. E. church, will give a
public lawn party for the sup
port of the church. Everybody
invited. Church on Box Moun
tain road miles south of Wal
nut Cove.
COMING
Large party of young ladies, j Splendid musi c, mountain Make your arrangements to' J
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Review's big voting contest, also trips, games, parties, social spend a few weeks at Piedmont ]
many of their friends and others i
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Piedmont Springs Hotel j
Danbury, N. C.
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Is the World Growing Better?
Mr. Editor :
Will you allow space in your,
valuable paper for a few lines
from this part of the country.
I have been studying and watcn
. ing the people in their social |
whirl and everyday life to see:
if I can tell whether the times;
of the world at large are getting i
rid of any evils or in other words |
is she growing morally better. I
am under the impression that
she is growing worse daily. We
look over the past decade of time
and we can learn from the evils
and crimes that are committed
of today, and the most horrid
ones, and we have more preach
-1 ing of late years than in former
years. I cannot see why we
should be going to the bad or in
other words drifting into heath
enism. I believe it is caused by
two evils. One evil is pride and
the other is money. It is said in
some book that money and the
love for it is the root of all evil,
and pride is upheld by money.
Pride is one of the greatest
curses and yet our preachers of 1
today will in their preaching ad
vocate pride in the highest and
yet money holds it up, for in-;
stance our preachers of today >
will not preach unless prompted
to do so by the promise of that!
almighty dollar.
We can learn from some of our,
Sunday School lessons the evil 1
that befell the king of Judah. I
He was a good king for a while
yet in prosperity he grew in
pride and was forced by a higher
power to see the error of his
way, and it is going to be with
us. Pride has got such a hold;
on us all that we will be like that
angel who was turned out of j
heaven. We are all or at least |
the greater percent of us will
miss heaven entirely and make j
our dwelling place in hell. Pro-!
fessing christians are betraying
their faith, as a consequence the I
world is losing confidence in the ;
church and refuse to be influenc- \
ed by its members. The stand-!
ard of morals in the church are!
too near on the level outside of
it.
The utterances of the pulpit so j
tits the brethren that sinners
forget they are preached to;with 1
the exception of pride and in- j
temparenee the destroying vices •
are seldom referred to by the j
church. For many years the |
church has labored for the cause j
of established orthodoxies and in- j
I tellectual standards of christian
' belief, but she has signally
i failed to cry aloud against the
| vices and evils of the world.
| She is prone to forget that
I young men are the hope of the
, church and the pulpit stands
| speechless while evil habits are
; sweeping us into perdition like
' dead flies, and yet men say that
] the world is growing morally
! better. Men wake up from your
silent or superstitions slumber, i
land cry as Jonah did to that
I wicked city and yet a little while
j and your doom will be sealed.
| Remember hell is what you make
j it. Churches are divided, king
: doms are divided and a house
divided against itself cannot
stand. One of the evils and the
! , love of it. There is not but few
evils abroad in the land today
that the love of money is not
directly or indirectly responsible
for. The love of money causes
the distiller to make and the
isaloon keeper to sell liquor. It;
causes the church member to
vote for license and the preacher
to preach to suit the church
member,- the one who comes
up with the dough. There is
not a man living with intelligence
enough to discern the signs of
the times, who does not know
• the christian ministry is more
corrupt than it has been in four
! hundred years and he also knows
; that the love of money is respon
| sible for it. If you know of one j
single evil abroad in the land to-;
day that is not being formed and
I kept alive by the love of money,
and greed for gain and wealth
write me a letter and tell me I
what it is.
{ In the face of such an array of.
facts what do you think of a
j preacher who comes before his
! Hock claiming to have a message
; from God and attempt to argue
ito an intelligent audience that
. Paul only meant to tell Timothy
that the love of money was a
I tendency towards evil.
With best wishes to the dear
I old Reporter and its readers. I
will stop.
X. W. Y.
i Mr. T J. Thore. of West field
Route 1, is attending court as
j a juror. Mr. Thore is one of
' the leading merchants of Quaker
Gap township. He handles a
i full line of farm machinery,
j threshing outfits, engines, etc.,
jas well as a stock of general
i merchandise.
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