ASSOCIATED AND CENTRAL PRESS SERVICE
Six Weeks Revival Ends
Here On Sunday Evening
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Rev. H. C. Caviness Preaches Twice Sunday on Second
Coming and Signs of the Times; Heavy Rain Fails
To Keep Crowds Away in the Evening
A six weeks revival meeting which
has been held in the Big Hendrson
Warehouse here came to a close with
the final Service Sunday night. The
campaign was under the auspices of
most of the city churches, and was
a union revival. The preaching was
in charage of Rev. H. C. Caviness,
evangelist, or r*ortsmouth. Va.
Three services were held Sunday,
beginning with a sunrise service at
6:30 a. nr.., rollowed by an afternoon
sermon at 3 o’clock, when the evan
gelist preached on “The Second Com
ing of Christ.” At night the final
sermon was on (the subject* “Th©
Signs of the Times.”
During the night sermon, the,fcvah
gelist reviewed various prophecies in
the Bible which he said described con
ditions that would come to.pass be
fore the return of Jesus to the world
and he said that virtually all of these
had already happened. He gave it as
his opinion that the return of the
Lord would be fp or before the year
1937 but said it might not be in 100
years or evert much longer. He said
that: earthquakes famines, wars and
pestilence predicted by Christ had al
ready happened, and that, regardlesb
of efforts of the nations toward peace,
there would be no univr&al lasting
peace until Jesus returned to the
earth.
The evangelist took the time to ex
press thanks for every one who had
helped in any way in the meeting.
H? took only actual expenses for his
own serv.ces here, without a per
sonal offering to himself. He said he !
would go next to a small mill church
in Fayetteville for a revival and after
that wouid be in union revivals in
Haywood and Clay counties in West
ern North Carolina, to be followed by
a citywde revival in his home city
of Portsmouth.
Mr. Caviness formerly was a law
yer. and was solicitor 'of a judicial
district in Western North Carolina.
He also served a term in the State
Legislature about 20 years ago. He is
a native North Carolin.an.
The evangelist ,in his final sermon
last night said in part:
“The new birth is spoken of in this
Bible nine t.mes; the matter of bap
tism referred to but twenty times;
repentance is mentioned seventy times
but the second coming of the Lord
Jesus Christ is prophesied and pro
mised three hundred and sixty times
in-the New Testament alone. And
in fifty-three references to hope in
the Bible it refers to the hope of His
return. ‘Looking for that blessed
hope, and that glorious appearing of
the great God and our Saviour, Jesus
Christ.’ Titusx 2:13.
“There are many schools of thought
in the ear‘h today concerning the
second coming of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Perhaps the two chief di-
Y aicns 'hereof may be called the pre
miilienial, an dthe post-millinial.
Those who say that Christ will re
turn prior to his millienial reign, that
is for a thousand years, set up a tem
poral k ngdom in the earth, establish
His headquarters in Jerusalem; sep
arata the living nations of the earth
at his appearance; that .there iIP an
appropriate period of about : “seven
years between the rapture of the
saints of God and the appearance of
Christ; that during this period the
terrible time of the tribulation will
take place, but out of which the
church, the bride of Christ, the born
again ones, the believers, will be de
livered because they who are alive
shall be, ‘caught up together with
them (that i 3 'hose who now sleep in
Him, Christ) to meet the Lord in the
ar; and so shall we ever be with
the Lord.’ 1 Thess, 4:17. That dur
ing this period the believers will ap
pear before the ‘judgment seat of
Christ, their deeds to be the deter
mination of extent of rewards, their
rins having been judged at Calvary,
That a' the close of this thousand
years reign, when Jerusalem will be
the capital of the earth, Satan will
be loosed from hell for a short sea
son. who will go forth and deceive the
na’ions of the earth, and gather them
together in the world’s greatest war,
but its last revolution. ‘When the
thousand years are expired, Satan
shall be loosed out of his prison, and
shall go out to deceive the nations
which are in the four quarters of the
earth. Gog and Magog, to gather them
together to battle; the number of
whom is as the sand of the sea, and
they went up on the breadth of the
earth, and compassed the camp of the
saints about, and the beloved city
(which is Jerusalem) and fire came
down from God out of heaven, and
decoured them.’ Rev. 20:7-9. After
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i which there comes the last, and final
t judgment only of the wicked dead,
Rev. 20:11-15 and then there appears
forever a ‘new heaven and a new
cath, for the first heaven and the
i first earth are passed away, and there
was no more sea.’ Rev. 21:1. The
mighty word-—finished—heard in the
morn of creation, uttered at Calvary
by those blood flecked lips of our
. Lord Christ, will be repeated for the
last time as prophesied in Rev. 21:6.
Tt is done.’ Here will close all prop
hecy, and there begins that eternal
era* those everlasting eons, into which
the soul steps whose robes have b pen
washed and made whiter Uiart snow in
the blessed blood of the Lamb. Down
whose endless ebrridors; we begin that
eternal march of eternity with God,
the Father, God the Son. jand God, the
Holy Ghost, together with redeemed
and blood washed hosts of heaven.
“Th eother school of thought, the
post-millinial student, declares that
Chiist shall come, but after a thou
sand years of perfection, that the
world, the moral the temporal world,
will grow so perfect that all sin will
be cast out, and that at the close
thereof Christ comes to reign in the
earth for a thousand years.
“There are those who accepted
neither teaching, declare themselves
to be a kind of bybird, subscribing
to neither doctrine.
Then there are those who claim to
be millinial dawnists, the now' called
Tn'einational Bible Witnesses,’ bub.t
which are in fact naught but ‘Rus-
I crli'it es’ parading under a different
name
“‘Their teachings, and 1 say it with
God’s love in our heart, have done'
more by the devil to discredit the
‘blessed hope’ of His return than any
thing else perhaps. They have de
clared themselves invested with the
date and the time of His return pub
lished this three times, declared that
He was coming and when He did not
appear at such time or place they
sought to cover up their slander and
blasphemy by saying that He was
come already, and that He now rules
in the earth. Have heaped their
abuses upon the Church of Jesus
Christ, declaring tehmselves to be the
144.000 who are going to be saved
when Christ comes, hurled their
athemas at all other doctrines, de
nied the existence of hell and the
lake of f re, together with the teach
ing of eternal punishment. So clever
ly inter-woven with this fabric of
falsehood has been the truth as it is in
the Bible, that thousands of the very
finest folks have been utterly de
ceived. Yet the very fact that the
devil has thus counterfeited the doc
trine, the blessed hope of H.s return,
is but an evidence if evidence, is need
ed, ofifits reality. Surely the devil
wouSd counterfeit nothing but a
reality.
“There are thotte of course who
deny His coming at all. Who say.
‘Where is the promise of His coming?
For since the fathers fell asleep, all
things continue as they were from
the beginning of ceration.’ 11 Peter
3:4. It is always refreshing to meet
these, to whom one can always say,
‘friend God wrote of you in A. D.
66.: .‘Knowing this first, that there
shall come in the last days, scofferes
walking after their own lusts.’ 11
.Peter 3:3. These but make their con
trlbui'jjon 'to ,the un-ieri'ing
ment of prophecy.
“It is not our place to enter into
any argument wii’h any school of
thought, to discuss doctrines in this
'hour. One simply does not argue
about a fact. Facts need no evidence
other then themselves for corrobora
tion. As we see it, an din the same
breath we hasten to say that we have
no quarrel with those who do not see
it as we do, the pre-millinial com
ing of Christ is a bigger thing than
a mere ‘doctrine.’ It is a truth. It
is the only ‘hope,’ the ‘blessed hope’
of the church, and of the world at
large,
“It was this truth, this hope, that
stirred 'he hear's of those who com
posed the early church of Christ. In
fact it was not until the 16th Cen
tury that the church began to accept
the theory of 'he post-millinial com
ing of Christ. Introduced in England
that cen'ury by a man named Whit
ley. If this was the truth, why would
a just, and gracious God, hide such a
truth for nearly sixteen hundred
years?
“How could we have a kingdom
w th an absent King? Who is the god
of this world? Satan, the devil. 11
Cor. 4:4. Who is the price of the
tpower of the air? The devil. Ept.
2:2. Can anyone conceive, with any
degree of intelligence, that Christ is
ruling in this worlGd just now? Why
He couldn’t be elected mayor of your
o ty, governor of your State, President
of your nation.. ‘He is despised and
rejected of man.’ Lsa. 53:3. Was He
come in the form of one Holy Ghost ?
Surely not. Do'h no< God bear wit
ness in the hour of His ascension that
‘this same Jesus which is taken up
from you into heaven, shall so come in
like manner as ye have seen Him go
Into heaven?’ Ac's 1:1. Christ, again
and again, referred to His personal re
turn. Did He promise that peace
should prevail? No. Said He in Matt.
24:6. ‘Ye shall hear of wars and ru
mora of wars, see that ye be not trou
bled, for all these things must come
to pass. For nation shall rise against
nation, kingdom against kingdom, all
these are the beg Inning of sorrows.’
Does He promise that, the world shall
gradually grow belter and and bet
ter? A thousand times no. He says
‘because iniquity shall abound, the
love of many shall wax cold.’ Matt.
'24:12. Ho continues by saying that
‘as the days of NoaTl were, so shal
hlso the coming of 'he Son of Me
be.’ Ma't. 24:37. Wha l kind of day
were those? Days in which apostac;
iuauta yn toward the judgment of
tStenherrtmtJßjuhj Srapnfch
the flood. Days when men would not
‘endure sound doctrine,’ and Noah
preached one hundred and 'twienty
years without a convert other than
in his immediate family.
“He prophesied again o fthe ter
rible era which waited the world, in
which now welter, in Luke 17:29-30.
‘The same day Lot went out' of Sodom
it rained fire and brimstone from
heaven and destroyed them all,’ He
had just said, 28th. vejrse. Lke wise
also as it was in the days of Lot, they
did eat, they drank, they bought, they
sold, they planted, they builded, even
thus shall it be ip the day when the
Son of Man is revealed.’’ What kind
of day was it during Sodomic* ac
tivities? A day of Intensive commer
cialism, they could plant, but not the
seed of truth, they could drink, but
not from the waters of life, they could
buy and sell, but their barter was, as
was that of Judas, the things Divine.
They could build, but not for eternity
It was an age of grossest immorality
and impurity. An age when men
mocked the warnings of judgment.
How true to form this present age
of Sodom runs. Hear again the Holy
Spirit as He prophesies in 11 Tim.
3:1-6. Os this present age. ‘This know
also that in the last days perilous
times shall come, for men shall be
lovers of their own selves, cove'eous
boasters, proud, blasphemers, dis
obedient to parents, untruthful, un
holy, without natural affection, truce
breakers, false accusers, incontinent,
fierce, despisers of those that are
.good, traitors, heady, highminded,
lovers of pleasure more than lovers of
God, having a form of goldliness but
denying the power thereof, from such
turn away, for of this sort are they
which creep into houses and lead cap
t ve silly women laden with sins, led
away with divers lusts, ever learning
but never able to come to the know
ledge of the truth.’ These prophecies
are coming to pass, they have, in fact
come to pass, and now only awaits its
last phaze as is described so graphi
cally, so amazingly when God in Rev. j
18th. chapter, describes how that in
ne hour this present civilization is
‘made desolate..’. In one ‘hour is thy
judgment come.’ In one hour so great
niches is come to naught.’ v
“ls that a picture of paradise which
our post-n?il{inial friends present for
our adoption? Strange though it
seems, yetv’tis true. We read in Rev.
1:7. ‘Behold, cometh with clouds,
and every eye shall see H m, and. they
also which pierced Him; and all kin
dreds of the earth shall wail because
of Him.’ Is this a picture of peace?
When He comes ,to a world and oc
casions by His coming a welcome that
is announced to be that.of ‘wailing?’
How absurd-to believe that Hs com
ing would bring,, anything! but joy
to those who awaited Him,,, whom
loved His appearing/ No, those who
wail, are those who hated and reject
ed Him artd now cringe in cowardly
fear and wailing at his approach*.
Rev. 6:12-17." > • -■ . . . „
Time fails' me to - detail'* the’
velous prophecies of His coming;,
some of the glorious events transpir
ing when He comes. Some of the high
and holy things His return insures
might be barely mentioned. The earth
will be absolved from her enimity j
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E. M. Rollins Unanimously
Re-Elected Schools’ Head
R. L. Bennett Re-Elected Chairman of County Board,
With E. F. Woodlief Vice-Chairman; Committee Is
Named To Study New State School Set-Up Here
E. M. Rollins was unanimously re
elected superintendent of the public
schools of Vance county at a meeting
of the County Board of Education,
held today in his office. He wlas
first elected .in 1912 and hsa served
continuously since tht time- and the
new term of two years will, at its
completion, make a total of 23 years
he has served in that capacity. In
1923 he was elected superintendent
of the city schools ,and s’nce that
time has been the head of both city
and county systems.
R. L. Bennett was re-elected chair
man of the county board at today's
meeting, and E. F. Woodlief was
chosen as vice-chairman.' All mem
bers of the board were present at to
day’s meeting these being R. L. Ben
nett. E. F. Woodlief, J. C. Cooper,
J .E. Kimball, E. R. Boyd.
Mr. Cooper and Mr. Kimball who
were recently elected to membership
on the board by the State legislature,
were sworn in for. their new term, the
oath being administreed by Colonel
Henry Perry, clerk of Vance Super
ior Court. Election of the local dis
trict school boards was deferred un
til a study can be made of the new
wh ch gin ha'h occasioned. ‘They shall
nat hurt nor destroy in all My holy
mountain; for the earth shall be full
j of the knowledge of the Lord as the
| Wafers cover the sea.’ Isa. 11:9. There
shall never he peace until the Prince
of Peace returns. May we spend our
moneys therefor, for the only Peace
Conference that shall effectuate peace
will be held at Jerusalem when Jesus
cemes. Every hill top, then, shall
epeak of Heaven, every flower be
come a flame of God's purity. Not
until He comes can ws expect the
devil to be bound. Rev. 20:2. ‘And
he laid hold on the dragon, that old
•serpent, which i sthe devil and saan
and bound him a thousand years.’
Without H s second coming we should
go through the terrible tribulation
written of in / Book of Revelation.
Rev. 6 to Bth.-chapters. Without His
coming there is no resurrection from
the dead; Read 1 Thess. 4:13-18.
John Wesley build the denomination
known as Methodism on Christ and
its, chief corner-stone were holiness
/trid the hope of the second coming
Cjhriot. There is not a modernist
casting reflection upon God’s
who is a pre-millionalist. It
was the living hope of the first
church, and to them it was what the
North stgr is to the compass. God
give us a re-discovery of this hope
in these hours of peril.”
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E. M. ROLLINS.
State school set-up arranged by the
General Assembly, ad until the new
districts can be mapped out. In that
connection a committee was named
to confer with the new State Commis
sion, on the • set-up in the county,
this group consisting of J. C. Cooper
chairman, J. E. Kimball and E. R.
Boyd.
Hereafter, under the new State-sup
ported eight months school term
program .all salaries, including the
superintendent and other administra
tive heads, as well as teachers, will
be paid by the State.
JOHN O’NEIL HEAD
1933 GERMAN CLUB
John O'Neil, son of Mr. and Mrs.
M. J. O’Neil, of Henderson, has
chosen chairman of the executive
committee so the University of North
Carolina German Club. Appoint
ments for next year have just been
announced by David Morgan of
Asheville, president of the organiza
tion. Cither members; of' the com
mittee are W. C. Harris, Raleigh;! L.
O. Tyree, Jr., Winston Salem; Philip
Sasser. Princeton, W- Va.; and Gra
ham McLeod, of Raleigh.
Dr. James A. B. Scherer , anoted
Educator former director of the
Southwest Museum, Los Ange Hes,
bern at Salisbury, N. C. 63 year s ago.
MONDAY, MAY 22, 1933
MRS. E. W. HORTON
DIES AT HOSPITAL
72-YearJOld Lady Buried at
Brown's Baptist Church
This Afternoon
Mrs. Bettie Clark Horton, wife of
E. W. Horton, of this county, was
buried at Brown’s Baptist church In
Warren county this afternoon follow
ing funeral services at 4 o’clock in
that church, of which she had been
a member about 40-years. Mrs. Hor
ton did at 9 o’clock Sunday evening
at Maria Parham hospital here after
an illness of about six months, dur
ing which time she suffered from a
complication of diseases. She was 72
years old.
Funeral services this afternoon
were in charge of Rev. L. B. Reavis,
Baptist minister of this city.
In addition to her husband,
Horton is survived by two sons, R. E
and A. T. Horton, both of Hender
son, Route 2, and four daughters,
Mrs. B. L. Parrish, Mrs. H. T.
Fleming and Mrs. C. W. Keel, all of
Henderson, Route 2, and Mrs. A. H.
Hight, of Route 1, Macon. One
brother, W. J. Clarke, of Pinetops,
N. C. also survives,
Mrs. Horton was the daughter of
Wili am Clarke, who lost his life in
the Civil War, Mrs. Elizabeth
Pardue Clarke, who died 33 years ago.
She was a native of Warren county,
but had lived most of her life in this
community.
Pallbearers for the funeral were an
nounced as follows:
Active, Hugh, Willie, David, Stan
ley, Horace and Henry H.ght.
Honorary, Mrs. W. T. Hobgood,
Mrs. J. B. Moseley, Mrs. J. ftf.
Tucker, Mrs. C. P. Fleming, Mrs.
J. M. Breedlove, Mrs..J.‘ A. Adcock,
Mrs. L. H. Langford, W. T. Hob
gcod, J. A. Adcock, J. H. Langford.
C. P. Fleming, V. M. Breedlove, J.
M. Tucker, James Tucker, Mel Breed
love .
FORMMIS
Service To Be In Stevenson
Theatre Sunday Aft
ernoon at 2 : 30
Major L. P. McLendon of Durham
will be the Kprincipal speaker at the
Mmorial Day exercises to be held at
the Stevenson theatre next Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock by the Am
erican Legion and its Auxiliary, it was
aphtrimeed today. As usual the ser
vices are open to the public and they
are urged to attend.
reliefSses
Total $10,602 In April, Com
pared With $12,216 I n
Vance County
A sharp decline in relief expend!
'tures in this county was shown j n
April, amounting to $10,602, from the
$12,216 in Uarc-i, according to an
nouncement today by the Governor’s
Office of Relief in Raleigh,. whirh ad
ministers Federal rel es fund distri
butions in the State.
Warren county shows more than 50
percent decline in relief needs, s4.4sg
having been expended in April as
against $31,610 in March. In Franklin
county relief xpenditurs in April were
$6,794, as compared with $12,317 j n
March. Granvoille spent $9,201 j»
March and $7,663 in April, the report
states.
State relief officials see in this a
continued improvement in the status
of destitution in North Carolina
Total expenditures for April for the
'Entire State are given as $1,091835
compared with $1,323,346 in March or
a decrease of $231,511, or about n 5
percent. Th e decrease in expenditures
was even greater than th decline , n
the number of families being helped
which was from 164,000 to 138,000, or
about 16 percent. '
The average expenditure per family
was $7.90 in April, as compared with
$8.07 for March.
Four Defendants . Tried In
County Court at Monday
Morning Session
Melvin Robinson and'Frank Insco,
white men, were tried-beforp Recorder
R. E. Clements iff county court to
day on charges of larceny and re
ceiving in connection with the alleged
theft of a quantity Os -copper from
the Harriet Cotton Mills. A nol pros
with leave was grantedvin the case of
Robinson, but Insco was sent to the
roads for six months-. He gave notice
of an appeal, and bond was fixed at
$10..; ; t
Champion Falkner waJ tried in the
same case and on the same charge a
few days ago: He-pleaded guilty and
was sent do the roads for six month l !.
Shelton Keeton, colored, was fined
$1 and costs for being drUnk.
Beatrice Evans, colored, was order
ed confined to the county jail 12
months for the larceny of a pair of
shoes.