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Peter Preaches to Gentiles ILLUSTRATED SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By Alfred J. Buescher
Scripture —Acts 10:1-48. *
Cornelius, the centurion sees in a vision
an angel who tells him to send men to
Joppa and call Simon Peter, and Peter
will tell him what he must do.
Peter Preaches to Gentiles
"BRASS TACKS” ON THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
“Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am
God, and there is none else.”—lsaiah 45:22
(The International Uniform Les
son on the above topic for March 5
is Acts 10:1-48, the Golden Text be
ing, Isaiah 45:22, “Look unto Me. and
be ye saved, all the ends of the earth
for I am God, and there is none
else,”
By NEWMAN CAMPBELL
l'r
Gradually it has been dawning on
Peter .that God intends the new re
ligion of Jesus to be preached to all
men,, not alone to the Jews. In to
day’s lesson he has the lesson driven
home very forcibly, and convinces
his fellow disciples that henceforth
they must preach to Gentiles.
In Caesarea there lived a Ro
man captain or centurion named
Cornelius. He was a very fine man
who loved God and who was very
charitable. One day, while Cornelius
was at prayer he had a vision. An
angel came to him and told him that
God had blessed him be o of his
good works. He was tola send to
Joppa for a man by the name of
Peter, whose surname was Simon. He
would find him, said the angel, in the
house of a tenant whose name was
Simon, who lived in a house by the
side of the sea.
When the vision was gone, Corne
lius sent for two of his servants and
one soldier who was very devout. He
told them to go in all haste to Joppa
and find Peter and bring him to Cor
nelius’ house.
In the meantime, Peter too had
been having a vision. Peter had gone
to the housetop to pray at a certain
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A vision also appears to Peter end a
spirit tells him that three men are seek
ing him. and that he shall go with them,
for they are sent of God.
time, as was his custom, and he be
came very hungry, and fell asleep
and dreamed. In his dream he saw
a vessel let down from heaven with
all manner of live beasts in it. . A
voice said, “Arise, Peter, slay and
eat.” But Peter objected, saying he
never yet had eaten anything that
was unclean—according to the Jew
ish law. Then the voice said: “What
God hath cleansed, that call thou not
common.”
Peter was not at all sure what this
vision meant, but he awakened to
find three men were seeking him,
and the voice that had spoken to him
about the food again spoke and told
him that he was to go with these
rnen. So Peter went to them and they
told him that Cornelius had had a
vision and had been commanded to
come to Joppa for him, and he in
vited them to stay with him. The
next day all journeyed to Caesarea to
Cornelius’ house.
Cornelius told Peter about his
vision and how he had been told to
send for Peter, and then Peter be
gan to realize what his own vision
meant—that he was chosen to preach
to this Roman soldier and his house
hold and friends. So Peter told them
about Jesus, how He had gone about
doing good and preaching, and had
been crucified and arisen from the
dead. And as he preached they were
convinced and Peter baptized them
and the Holy Ghost fell on them,
even as it hud 1 on Peter and the other
disciples.
But when some of his followers
heard about this, they were dis
pleased Tind con ured Peter for liv
ing in the hou and eating at the
table with th c Romans. Then
Peter told them about his house
top vision and what it meant, and
how the Holy Ghost fell on these
Gentiles, and all were impressed
with what Peter said, and glorified
God.
In the week’s reading, reference
is again made to the story of the man
who fell among thieves and who
v/as aided by the Samaritan to show
that, as Peter said, when preaching
to Cornelius and his friends, “Os a
tVuth I perceive that God is no re
specter of persons.”
And further: “But in every nation
he that fearcst Him and worketh
righteousness, is accepted v/ith Him.”
All this lesson refutes the claim
of some that they or their nation is
superior to any other. “Arc we not
God’s children, all?” as the hymn
says. And should v/c not have re
spect and deal kindly and in a spirit
oi friendship with all? If we truly
are Christians we will do so.
Thy word H a lamp unto my liml.a light unt» my path.’*
SECURITY IN GOD
Psalm 125. They that trust in the
Lord shall be as mount Zion, which
cannot be removed, but abideth for
over. As the mountains are round
about Jerusalem, so the Lord is
round about his people from hence
forth even for ever. For the rod of
the wicked shall not rest upon the
10l of the righteous; lest Ihe righte
ous put forth their hands unto ini
quity. Do good, O Lord, unto those
that be good, and to them that are
upright in their hearts. As for such
;, s turn aside unto their crooked
ways, the Lord shall lead them forth
with the workers of iniquity: * but
peace shall be upon Israel.
HENDERSON,.(N. C,) DAILY DISPATCH FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1939
Peter goes to Cornelius' house, and In- But Peter defends himself and reveals
curs the censure of some of the Jewish that he has baptised Comelfus and the
disciples who think he should not eat Holy Ghost has descended upon him
with such as are not of the Jewish race. (GOLDEN TEXT—lsalaft 45:22.)
Agriculture
Duplication
Yet Unsolved
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY LYNN NESBET
Raleigh, March 3.—With all the
precautions to insure secrecy that a
ku klux klavern might use, the sub
committee studying agricultural
duplication continued its study of
the subject this week. There wfcs
even a tiler at the door to see that no
unauthorized and intrusion upon the
consideration of npu blic matter, in
volving the expenditure of large
sums of public money, was permit
ted. Members of the legislature, elect
ed by the people, and even mem
bers of the joint committee on agri
culture, were shooed away from the
door by its iealous guardian.
This bothersome question of dup
licating activities was raised by ac
tivities of Farm Bureau members in
eastern North Carolina, who want
State College or the Central Experi
ment Station to operate the test
farms now owned and administered
by the State Department of Agricul
ture. The same group also wants new
POTASH PAYS A
W. T. SNIPES, R. D. 2. Hurdles
lowed the recommendation of i iiiiiiiiiiiniiii^^
MmSm Hk my Experiment station and 98 Coi/c Mr Uar/fieAn
side-dressed my tobacco with Kg +9€MJf 9 mWm mm ■ l(flllfdUlV "
of POTASH per H W . M . HARDISON. R. D. 3. Williamston, Martin I
tion to using 6% POTASH fer- 8888888$ ■
tilizer under my crop - My to ‘ wm County ' conducted a fertilizer test on his farm last |K -
|| vj|| s|llllL , bacco had more weight and season to find Out just How much NV SULPHATE
wIMm * less vf'W; M ? Y of iK m OF POTASH his tobacco could use at a profit. On a I
SULPHATE Os POTASH in 1939 |gj| field which received 1.000 pounds of 3-10-6 fertilizer M
i-jlt to P roduce bigger yields of j||||| per acre, he side-dressed five different plots with I
better quality tobacco." |J| different amounts of NV SULPHATE OF POTASH.
R. C. robuck, R. D. 1, Rober- 9 * -|jSj- v ' , |j|| the results he obtained.
bacco per acre than 3-8-5 in a |Bfe> - y 88 Side-dresser Per Acre ISS&fj 1
test on my farm in 1938. The , |||||J ________ ________ Fertilizer
3-8-8 tobacco had more weight '■\ C ■ J lll|l| "
and less disease." 88 No Side-dressing 1110 $24.28 $257.38 H
WOODLEY HILL, R. D. 1. Deep iß| 80 lSfpe?J«e H 10 26.69 281.92 H
Run (right below), says: "I am Hlra SULPHATE
farming with my father-in-law. BB OF POTASH 1005 26 05 OAA ft® I
Albert Heath. We switched §||§ V TBO lbs, per acre ‘ 5 244,08 8
from 3-8-5 to 3-8-8 tobacco fer- f|||f NV SULPHATE ———— ' S
tilizer. We will use 3-8-8 again 88 80 OF POTASH 1060 26.77 263.84 8
us bigger yields of better qual- FIV Hn
fM| f§§ MR* HARDISON'S results are a striking demonstra- I
f■ tion to® effect oi NV SULPHATE OF POTASH on
|||Ry/ | - ■ improving the quality of tobacco. Where the extra |B .
I potash was used, the tobacco ripened much better I
|H and produced broader, better-developed leaf which
illi s °ld or a fiigfi er price. Many growers in this section
IIIJI H - H - AVERETTE. R. D. 5. Ox. H| have produced bigger yields of better quality to
r say T s: -? a , st Yea ? for Hi bacco by side-dressing with NV SULPHATE OF H§
the first time I side-dressed my HR »r>rr . lAA . ___ _
tobacco with 50 pounds of NV §jra|| POTASH at 100 to 200 pounds per acre, 20 days
i,. |y|||k sulphate of potash p§r 1111 l after transplanting in the field.
" acre in addition to using 6%
POTASH fertilizer under the Mr. HARDISON has also found that it pays to 8
m ' ro P- extra pro- H use plenty of potash on »weet potatoes. He lue, I
■■ duced bigger yields and the H inofDni>ACU- W t -.l* " e ÜBe *
yellow spots, indicating dis- *U/o rOTAbH in his fertilizer at planting and
ease, were greatly reduced. I 88 side-dresses with NV SULPHATE OF POTASH. 8
will increase my NV SUL- • it ■
PHATE of POTASH side-dress
ing this year—using 75 to 100
pounds per acre."
■BHKBI THESJ i N ? RTH CAROLINA TOBACCO GROWERS to 100 to 200 pounds oi SULPHATE OF POTASH H
n^ 0 £ ® e^ m C 9 * OUSa “ dS ? Uoverthes,a,ewho acre, the sidedressing to be applied within2o HR
NV POTASH. That is why 9°Q aft ® rtran splantmg.
| HI | TOBACCO FERTILIZER have become so popular! farU ?*“ ta<nld
tobacco with NV POTASH. dreSS seer Man can'supply U yo u with P °§^ H " Jour Fertil- 2
%M
POUndS per acre ' pIUS a sid edressing of potash equal N. V. POTASH EXPORT MY. I
x'- nimriTnnni niflfffflHl
test farms established, and wants the
federal extension forces at the col
lection of the fertilizer and feed in
spection taxes, provided the college
folks get the money.
The question isn’t new, either to
the State or to the legislature. It has
been up before, many times. Next
after test farms marketing has caus
ed trouble. The extension forces
don’t want to retire from the mar
keting field, though they admit that
marketing is service rather than edu
cation.
An agreement for division of ac
tivities signed by Commissioner
Scott and Dean Schaub a year ago
alleviated the trouble, hut did not
cure it. The full joint committee on
agriculture discussed it but made lit
tle progress toward solution. So a
sub-committce was named, and then
a sub-sub-committec. And that’s
where seci’et sessions, became the
rule. / • '• -
The sub-supcommittee held sev
eral sub-rosa meetings in hotel
rooms. Lesterday they announced a
meeting in the committee room of
the Department of Agriculture. After
about an hour’s deliberation they ad
mitted some sub-committee members
and then after awhile a few mem
bers of the full committee. But since
no report was ready, the ordinary
committeemen were chased out and
only the elect subs remained in the
hall. They hope to have ready an ac
cepable report by the middle of next
week.
The futility of gll such practice is
evident. Rumors which are not con
firmed but which cannot he denied
are current concerning the terms of
the report which the group will
make.
Unless further concessions or j
changes Di'o made, the report will
provide, roughly, that:
The test farms now administered
as a division in the State Depart
ment of Agriculture, will be trans
ferred to the jurisdiction of the cen
tral experiment station, a co-opera
tive State-Federal agency, if—and
this is the important “if” —
There is named a director of the
experiment station who shall give
his attention to that job. At present
Dean Schaub, who besides being
dean of the school of agriculture at
State College, is also director of farm
extension work under the Federal
government, has been serving for a
year or more acting director of
the experiment station. Members of
the sub-committee don’t like dupli
cation between departments; but
neither do they like for one man to
hold three jobs, either one of which
ought to be full time work.
Other provisions of the report deal
with marketing and disease control,
but test farms present the big issue.
And hack of all of the discussion and
argument is money. Department of
ficials, college officials and legisla
tors all recognize the thin ice upon
which they are skating when at
tempt is made to divert inspection
tax money to purposes other than
inspection and regulation.
Victor Bryant Is
Best Posted Man
On State Finances
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By HENRY AVERILL.
Raleigh, March 3.—8i1l Fenner is
eh airman of the House Finance Corn
nr. ttee. Pat Taylor is head of the
Senate’s finance group. A. J. Max
well is commissioner of revenue and
lias sat through every session of the ]
finance committee.
All of which facts are thoroughly
well known everywhere and not re- ■
pea ted as matters of information. It
might be thought that this trio would
be the foundation head and source
I of the most reliable facts and fig- I
ures on the 1939 revenue bill. * <
But they are not. The best inform
ed member of the legislature—prob- <
ably the best informed in North Car- ;
olina —on the revenue bill is without ,
a doubt Durham’s Representative
Victor S. Bryant, who was finance
chairman in 1937 and who has toiled
- long and diligently this session as a
l private in the committee ranks, de- ,
f moted through his unsuccessful race
1 against Libby Wai’d for the speaker
ship.
- r Victor has all the figures dov/n in
j black and white in a neat brown
backed note book; but that’s just to
, show other people what’s what. He
1 can tell any inquiring person all
about anything in the bill, without
once resorting to the note book.
When it comes time to debate the
revenue bill in the House, it’s going
to be quite interesting to see whether
Mr. Fenner can get through all the
; necessary explaining without assis
-7 tance from the Durhamite.
y This is Bryant’s fourth legislative
7 term. He served in 1923, 1935 and
1937. He was born in Durham, Sep
"l tember 29, 1898, and is a lawyer by
profession. He graduated from the
University of North Carolina. In 1921
he married Miss Elizabeth Scales.
He has three children—Elizabeth
“ Taylor Bryant, Victor S. Bryant, Jr.,
and Alfred Scales Bryant.
’ SPECIAL SERVICE
l AT KESLER TEMPLE
A A special service will be held at
- .Kesler Temple, A. M. E. Zion church,
- Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock, when
a Rev. J. A. Brown, pastor of the
- Franklinton circuit, will preach. The
a Franklinton choir will render music,
n The public is invited to attend the
service.
$30,000 For
Jap Beetle
Control Near
t
Daily -Dispatch Lureau
In the Sir Walter Hotel
BY LYNN NESBET
Raleigh, March 3.—One of the
neatest pieces of “lobbying" din
ing the current legislature was
that stamed by Clarence Branmm
and C. D. Matthews, which has
resulted in getting a $30,000 ap
propriation for the control of Jap
anese beetles. Brannon is entomo
logist in the Department of Agri
culture, and Matthews is presi
dent of tne North Carolina Peach
Growers Association. They became
alarmed at the threat of a federal
quarantine against the state be
cause of infestation by Japanese
beetles. Such quarantine would
have been serious. No package of
vegetables or fruits could have been
shipped out. To peach growers and
truck farmers that; meant ti'agedy.
Dan Tompkine introduced a bill
providing $30,000 to be used in co
operation with the federal govern
ment in control measures. It sounded
foolish at the time, with the state
badly in need of money for so many
things. But telegrams came from
Washington saying that the quaran
tine would be applied unless some
thing was done pronto.
The House Appropriations Com
mittee o.k’d. the idea. The House
passed it. Senator Rodam for the ap
propriations committee on that side
said it didn’t have much chance
There just wasn’t enough money to
do it.
Meantime, Brannon and Matthews
had been talking to other folks. Even
the governor of the State got inter
ested. Pictures were painted of scenes
in Florida where State militia had
to be called out to quell riots when
farmers couldn’t ship beans or toma
toes or citrus fruits. Other pictures
were drawn of uniform officers at
quarantine stations along the high
ways. That got action. The bill has
been approved by all committees.
Brannon and Matthews did it. But
they couldn’t have done it if they
hadn’t had “something on the ball”,
I
Some folks climb the ladder oi
success, weary rung by rung. Others
wait at the bottom of the elevator
which never comes.
H. MAYNARD HICKS. Snow Hill
(below), says: "Before we switched
to 3-8-8 in 1933, we were unable
to grow a profitable tobacco crop.
3-8-8 certainly started profits by
giving us higher yields of better
quality tobacco. In 1937 we aver
aged more than $425.00 per acre
and even in poor years our return
J has never been less than $325.00
per acre. We shall again use 1,000
pounds of 3-8-8 per acre in 1939,
the seventh year we have used
this better tobacco fertilizer."
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R. G. FUTTRELL. R. D. 2. Pink Hill,
says: "I changed from 3-8-3 to
3-8-8 and also side-dressed with
100 pounds of NV SULPHATE of
POTASH per acre. The extra pot
ash gave me a smoother, better
bodied leaf with more weight. I
plan to use 3-8-8 and side-dress
with NV SULPHATE of POTASH
this year."