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St. Thomas Church At Bath, Oldest Religious Edifice In State, To Be Restored By MRS. ,\. <". I). NOi: Bat> reb. 29 —St. Thomas Church in B'.in built in 1734. of English brick with Flemish-Bond workman ship. is the oldest religious edilice in the State. It has many valuable relics, among which are: The Queen Anne bell cast in London in 1732. making it eighteen years older than the Liberty Bell and doubtless the oldest in the United States: a Bible in a glass case, printed in England in 1703. was used in the services here before the church was built, and was Jong preserved by the Ashe family whose ancestors lived at Bath in the early 1700's: lovely three-branched candlesticks of Sheffield silver, pre sented to the church by King George II. of England: a large hand-wrought silver chalice from the Bishop of London to the Rev. John Garzia. iirst rector of the church: a book from the first public library in the province, it being bound in leather and stamped in gold letters. "Belong ing to Ye Library of Si. Thomas Parish. Pamlicough." So far as is known it is the only remaining book from the collection of over a thou sand volumes printed in England and sent to the parish in 11>99. by the Rev. Thomas Bray. The church was built by our worthy ancestors, of whom we are just proud, who in spite of hard ships and privations dedicated a temple to the Lord. Their de scendants are members of all churches. For more than two centuries this little temple on the Pamlico has been a religious shrine and regardless oi denominational affiliation thousands have come here for worship and for a revival of their faith, on ihe .-acred spot where their fathers put "firs: tilings first." St. Thomas i- now b^ing restored to its former -i;:te. : • f * preserved for the present and f :.;:e genera tions. It is fitting that the work be done by Xorth C... ' n as :i me morial to the fait:1, and courage of these brave pioneers wi. > I; • firm foundations tor us It . - v. a work for one person. <» • a ;; group, but for every man. woman and child now living in th> and all with a Xorth Carolina "rack ground residing without our bor ders. The operating cer.ur.iit.v a: Bath nas worked out ^ ' :.,m wmrei,v everv person may har e a part in me pro gram—"The Penny Parade.'' details of which arc a» folio •.«: Each person, in me State en : > * lo.r school;, or civic organizations the amount they wish to give, and it v.:!' be forwarded to the "St. Thorna- Res toration Fund" at Bath. Xorth Caro lina. Tiie organizations ,n each place ate asked to appoint one chairman • for the community creive and transmit funds. Beaufort. Pitt, and New Hanover counties have been organized and Kinds are a I readv coming in. They v.-ill conduct a tri angular conte.-t and reoort results • at intervals through the pre-, for! the information of others. This "me- S thod -•?' campaign is being used in j orde>- *-> save the expense of going! liom <• >unty to county organizing i units, and to make a concerted and ' speedy campaign possible. Everv in-' dividual giving a dollar will be" list- j ed as giving 100 pennies: S!0. a i thousand pennies and $100 ten ; thousand pennies. Mondal morning a Pyramid of 1 Pennies was started on the church i lawn and the big I80o perm v. found while excavating at t!ie church, was ! used as a foundation. .I . Bro°:-cs- president of i the Bath Garden Club and Mrs. G Rnf - I'fh; president of the Colonial ' Club, representatives of their organizations, and local churches were among the first contributors to the pile, the Rev. E. X. Harrison S«°rflhe Bath Meth*H*t church! i houi 2nnn penny' Within an noui 2,000 pennies had joined the parade. Reports Monday night reg- ' istered a.ooo from Washington and mlnsZ. Ba<h- :,nd sjm j galToito. '"Cal icho°' children bo- : Ss", «£g,„'Sgto ,h0 pyramid <° ei-Tm6 in?[!lediut9 restoration pro ST i! mcIude tfie church the Williams house as a rectory a ballot rock wall around the propertv -md \ colonial garden. Much otP this work ha^been done.Jome ^ ^ j $1,500 Prize Book 3)G. CJ£M£NT £*tom March first is the publication date of "Freedom of Thought in the Old South," by Dr. Clement Eaton, for mer North Carolinian who is head of the history department of Lafay ette college. The book won $1,500 centennial prize offered last year by | the Duke University press, which js publishing it. , | been acquired, about a thousand tons of ballast-rock fished from the creek and placed on the grounds, and work on the church has been in progress since September, accomplishments so far include: pulling a six-inch bulge out of the side walls, concrete foun dation under the church, a reinforc ed concrete boom around the upper interior wall of the church, remov ing plastering, ceiling, lioor. etc.. in preparation for the work of archi tects and archaetogist. ana plac ed beams for slave gallery. Bath, the state's oldest town, was incorporated in 1705, and a number of the early governors and promi nent statesmen, planters and busi ness men lived here. John Lawson. the first historian; Christopher Gale, the first chief justice: Lionel Red ding. the Moore. Ashe, Porter, Swann, Daw, Anderson. Moselev, Rowan. Maule and Martin families. It had the first public library, the first free school (for Indians and negroes) was one of the first ports of entry, and was the home of the notorious pirate. Blackbeard. Bath v ' Indian vil lage of Pamlicough. and was set tled by French Huguenots from the James river section of Virginia in 1690. The English residents from the Albermarle. New England and Vir ginia began to come in about Attracted by the good port facilities ;md fertility of the soil. When John Lawson came in 1 TOO he spoke ot the English plantations here. Bath soon became a religious, social and political center of a wealthy planta tion. country, with a radius of about thirty miles. In this area which in cludes Washington. Belhaven, Pan tego. Aurora. Chocowinitv and Veatesvilie. Many of he old homes are still standing, and foundations ;nd historic sites attest the promin ence of the former residents. Capital Gossip By HENRY AVERILL. Daily Dispatch Bureau. In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh. March 1.—Times may be better m Xoith Carolina, folks may be more honest about taxes. or re ports may be more up to date. Any how figures released today by the revenue department show that near iv all .sources <-l general fund reve nue have paid more money into the Slate treasury cl iring the first eight months- el the present fiscal year than they paid last year. The reve nue division, winch includes all ex cept motor vehicles taxes, shows an increase of 1)9 percent and the motor vehicle bureau receipts were up 7.01 percent. From all sources the State this year got 543.287.341.01 1 for ths first eiiiht months as com- ! pared with S39.T57.UVC. i l..^t year. How well educated arc Amer icans? Recently compiled figures show that 15 out of every hundred adults in the United States are high school graduates, and 3..°2 percent ol' the adults in the country are col lege graduates. Information reaching Raleigh in dicates that the entrance of Robert L. Steele. III. ot Richmond county in the eighth district congressional race pretty nearly assures re-eler-t ion of Congressman Burgin. Mr. Steele is a fellow townsman of Chas. B. Deane. who came so near beating Bnrgin two years ago. and is expected to split the home town vote. Un to last night there had been 26..>24 revocations of drivers' license reported to the Motor Vehicle Bu reau of the revenue department. Nevertheless, the sale of automobile tags continued to show an increase over preceding years. Dudley Bagley. State REA ad ministrator. i- "'•>* much interest ed in the Hig1 Point power plant cases now pending before the Su preme court. He has nothing to do with High Point, but on a recent visit to Stokes and Surry counties he found that citizens up there won't discuss a co-operative power set-up until the High Point matter is decided. Prize Book Is Published Durham, March I.—'"The sup ression of the Southern antisalvery men furnishes one of the most iil^ pressive monuments in history of the ultimate folly of intolerance," concludes Dr. Clement Eaton, his torian of Lafayette college, in his hook "Freedom of Thought in the Old South" which won the 81.500 Duke university press centennial frize last year. Published today by the Duke press, the book is a revelation of manifold phases of Southern life and illuminates the social revolu tion that took place in the South between the time of Thomas leff erson, when liberal ideas were in the ascendant, and the era of Cal houn. when a profound conservatism hadowed the land. Eaton is a native of Winston-Sa lem. N. C-. a graduate of the Uni versity of North Carolina and Har vard university, and was a member •>f the faculties at Whitman college nnd Clark university before going to Lafayette college. The prize-winning manuscript was selected from more than 40 sub mitted, and the cash award was •^de last spring at a formal din ner The chief priests, the scribes and elders assembled together two days before thv feast of the Passover in the palace of the high priest and consulted that they might take Jesus and kiil Him At this same time. Jesus was catinpr at tlie home of one of His- friend." in Beth any; a woman came lo Him. having a precious aJahasler bos of ointment, which she poured on His head. 'J lie apostles were angry because the woman was extravagant with the pre cious ointment which they .said should have hoen .sold and given to the poor, but Jesus snid, ".She did it for My burial." As they ate Jesus said. "Verily l . unto you. that one of you shall t,-; me." Judas asked, "Is it I?" and Master answered, "Thou hast said.' (GOLDEN TEXT—I Cor 11:24) Three-Fourths Of State's Cropland Included In 1939 AAA Program, Report Shows College Station. Raleigh. March 1-. —An estimated 36l!,0!)3 „\Torth Cam- | lina farmers, operating more than: three-fourths of the cropland in the i State, participated in the 1939 Agri-| cultural Conservation Program, it, was announced here today uv E. Y. I Floyd. AAA executive officer o!" | State college. Tar Heel farmers! earned about S9.604.200 in conser vation payments, S4.436.29'.) in cot ton price adjustment payments, and $76,353 in wheat adjustment oav ments, for a total of $14 116.943. The preliminary report on the 1939 AAA program, issued by Floyd, slows that 6.231.300 acre-; of North Carolina cropland was in the farm pogam. o 78 pecent of the total cropland in the State. That is somewhat oelow the participation in 1938. when 82.7 percent of the cropland was in the program and North Carolina larniers earned nearly $21,000,000 in Federal pay-1 ments. However, Floyd pointed out that I the kick of a control program on | tobacco reduced participation and thereby cost Tar Heel farmers about $6,000.00!) in conservation payments. Except for Tennessee, this State had more farmers in the AAA pro gram than any other State in the East Central region, which also in cludes Delaware, Maryland. Vir ginia. West Virginia, and Kentucky. However, it trailed Tennessee, Ken tucky. and Delaware in percent of participation. Floyd predicted that 1910 will see North Carolina return to its dominant position in the AAA pro gram. with marketing quotas in el feet on tpbacco and cotton, and more interest in soil-building. SURPLUS COTTON TO ! FIVE N. C. COUNTIES ! College Station, Raleigh. Mar. 1.— 1 Distribution of surplus cotton to live | North Carolina counties for the pur- | pose of making mattresses for low income families has been authoriz- i ed by the U. S. Department of Agri culture, Dr. I. O. Sehaub of State College was notified here today. The federal Surplus Commodities Cor poration will distribute the cotton. Rural Churches MIDDLEBURG METHODIST Rev. T. VV. Lee. pastor. Preaching' at 11 a. m. at Cokes bury. Preaching at Shocco at 3 p. m. At Middleburg there will be preaching at 7:30 p. m. The pastor will preach at all three places. At 6:45 p. m. the young people of the charge will meet at the Middle burg church, and all young people of the community are invited to at lend. PflRdPISE S9&7 Sis7ux-S^erb<cr_qy TWIITTEN FOR AND RELEASED RY CENTRAL PRESS*ASSOCIATION CHAPTER FORTY-TWO THE NEXT month was a busy one for everyone in Cecelia's new ly formed family circle. Cissie was like a proud mother hen clucking over h?r two chicks as she watched their amazing radio careers unfold. A wouldn't have missed all this for the world," she told Romany one day in the studio, watching the first televised broadcast she had ever seen. In her South Shore drive apart ment, she had engineers install the best television reception equip ment money could buy. And she in vited all her friends to drop in for tea and watch and listen to her lovely niece as she came over the air. Cissie was as unselfishly devoted to Charlotte as to Romany. At first Cholly was overwhelmed with the idea of being introduced to Chicago society as Cecelia Harlowe's ward. But she soon grew accustomed to her new role and found herself hav ing a marvelous time playing Cin derella. Much to her amazement, she learned that a lot of people in the upper brackets were quite as human and unaffected as anyone else. And she began seriously to doubt that a lot of ideas she had entertained regarding the rich were entirely sound. For instance: There was Dover. Would he be any differ ent if he had been brought up on a farm than with a silver spoon in his mouth? If you were a real per son, did it matter whether you were rich or poor? A few days before Christmas, Ce celia asked Romany: "DC you know how to drive a car, dear? If you don't, you'd bet ter take some lessons." "Yes, I know how to drive. But why?" Romany looked puzzled. "Because," — Cissie looked up from the magazine she was reading in her boudoir—"I bought one for you today. And I can't wait till Christmas to give it to you." "Oh!" Romany jumped up. "Aunt Cissie, you shouldn't have done it!" Cissie kissed her affectionately. "Don't you think I know how much money you've been sending home to your father and mother, and if you won't buy anything but annuities for yourself, I'll just have to buy the luxuries for you. Be sides, I think you should have a car in your position. You seem to forget you're a famous young lady now." Romany burled her head In her aunt's lap. "Oh,"—her voice caught—"every body is so good and so many lovely thing! are happening to me. I ought to be the happiest girl in the world." Cissie raised her head, looking into her eyes. "But you're not happy, dear. Not quite," she said gently. "Could you tell me about it? I'd like to know. I'm rather fond of you, you know." Romany stirred uneasily, her green eyes troubled. "I—it's something 1 can't quite wtplain, Aunt Cissie. Not even to myself. I—wish I could." "Is it about Brent Nelson?" Cecelia asked, stroking her hair. "Is it that you aren't sure you love him, and want to marry him ?" "That's part of it," Romany sighed. "I know I'm very fond of him, • and he has begged me to marry him. I think I'm crazy not to. But—I just don't feel-" When she stopped, Cissie nodded, S1^'You just don't feel! Yes, I know, darling. Well, if you're not sure, be very careful. It wcruld be terrible If you married someone you didn t "But you're not happy, dear. Not quite," said Cissle. love. I've seen so much of marriage for social position, and for money, I couldn't bear to see you marry and have your home smashed on the rocks. I guess I'm not very modern." "That's the way I feel." Romany held tightly to her aunt's hand, as if she needed something to cling to. "I thought once that I wasn't the sort of person who would ever real ly fall in !ove. That if I married it would be because I met someone who would be good to me and con genial. But now I'm not sure." Cecelia said gently: "Is there someone else, Romany, besides Brent ? Someone you met at the university, perhaps?" As if in answer to her aunt's thoughts, Romany said: "There's—Baxter Tree. The writ er I told you about. I'm very fond of him. I c'o miss him terribly. But I guess he's crossed me off his list. He really wasn't away for Thanks giving. I doubt if he had the fare to go home. He's so poor." Cissie watched Romany's .'-.ce closely. "But—he's just a friend, isn't he? You couldn't be in love with him." "Oh, no." Romany turned away. "There's never been any romance between Bax and me. But"—she hesitated—"he did kiss me down by the lake the night I went to his apartment to find out why he hadn't come to see us." Aunt Cissie was highly amused. "He kissed you! Did he act as though he meant it? O: just as though he thought it might be ex pected of him and he'd better get it over with?" Romany smiled wistfully. "Very much as though he meant it the first time. But later, when I wanted him to kiss me again, he just looked at me and said no, he wouldn't like to get the habit." "Yc- brazen thing!" Cissie laughed. "I can't imagine your go ing around asking men to kiss you." "I can't either." Romany said, in ajow voice "And I'll know better next time. But he was so discour aged and unhappy. I felt so sorry for him, it just about broke my heart." Oh," said Cecelia, "so that's it!" 'What?" Romany looked up questioningly. darling, is akin to love. Didn t anyone ever tell you that? And when a woman feels like kiss ing away a man's aches and pains, it looks pretty serious to me." Cissie said it teasingly. But she decided Baxter Mason Tree would come to her Christmas house party for lonesome and homeless radio performers if she had to go and bring him herself. She said a little later: "What is Bax's show like? Is he clever?" Romany said fervently: "He writes out of this world, Aunt Cissie! If 'Paradise Is Here' gets on the air, it will make radio history. I've some of th<? scripts, I think about ten of them, here. Would you like to read them when you aren't busy?" "I'd love it!" enthusec Cecelia. "I'm getting to be quite a radio dramatic show addict. I find myself hurrying home for fear Lizzie Corntassel will fall off the cliff the author left her on the day before and I'll miss it." Romany took Bax's scripts to Aunt Cissie before she went to her own room to bed. Cissie kissed her tenderly. "Good night, baby. I hope your starving genius is as entertaining as you think he is. We'll invade his attic and talk some sense into him some of these days if he spurns us much longer." "You'd better stay away from him," Romany warned her, snjUing. "Brent asked me today if I'd riiHid if he invited you to the opera with him next week when I was broad casting. You're dangerous competi tion, Cecelia darling." In the lobby of Interstate the next morning, Romany met Bob Lane. He held out his hand, grin ning. "Well, Miss Television, I haven't seen you in a long time. But I've been reading and hearing things." "Not Miss Television," Romany smiled. "I$e withdrawn from the contest." "You'd have won it," Lane said with assurance. "I hear the votes are pouring in for your girl friend, Miss O'Neil." "Isn't it marvelous!" Romany said happily. "She's a sensation," Bob nodded. "But I knew she would be when I saw her and heard her play. By the way, Baxter Tree was in to see iiie today. He's leaving for New York, he tells me." "Oh!" Romany's heart sank. "When? Do you know?" "Next week. The day after Christmas, he says. I've done everything I can, but 1 don't seem to have any luck getting a break for him. He's got the best show in town, too. This radio is a crazy business!" (To Be Continued) - . .. In the Upper Room "BRASS TACKS' ON THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON (The (Jroldett Ce* t ... 'jf •»'«•' 1 ■*■»■ wmm ■—BMBBH— .. ft- . The Lazt Supper "Tills do m remembrance of me."—I Cor. 11:24 By NEWMAN CAJinsfcLL,. (The International Uniform Les ion on the above topic for March 3, t is Matthew 28:1-30. the Golden Text being I Corinthians 1 ]*24. "This do; in remembrance of Me.") "Then assembled together the; chief priests and the scribes and the ciders of the people, unto the place ' of the high priest, xvho was called j Caiapnas. ana consulted that they might take Jesus by subtlety and kill Him." This was Tuesday April *\ A. D. 30 authorities tell us. "But they said," the account re-j cords. "Not un the feast day lest there ; be an uproar anion? the people." It i was at this meeting that they de-, cided to pay someone to betray Jesus j to them. Jesus, meanwhile, had gone to the | home of Simon the leper, who prob- I ably had been cured ol his affliction. Historians say this occasion was lither this same Tuesday or the Sat urday before April 1. While Jesus sat at table with His friends a wo man (we are told it undoubtedly ivas Mary, sister of Martha and Lazarus, who seem to have been well jff) came to Him having a small alabaster box of precious ointment n her hands. This ointment was so expensive it was said to be worth lie pay of a common laborer for one ivhole year. Mary approached Jesus, jrake the alabaster box and poured he precious ointment on Jesus' head is a token of her devotion. Apostles Shocked. The apostles were scandalized at his extravagance. They said the )intment should have been sold and he money obtained given to the )oor. "When Jesus understood," says Matthew. He said, "Why trouble ye he woman? for she hath wrought t good worK upon Me, For ye have he poor always with you: but Me ,'c have nut always. "For in that she hath poured this! lintment on my body, she did it for My Durial. "Verily I say unto you, whereso 'ver this gospel shall be preached in he whole world, there shall also ' his, that this woman hath done, be;; olci lor a memorial to her." Just before this event Jesus had old His apostles that "after two days s the feast of the passover, and tne ion of Man is betrayed to be eruci ied. Nowhere is it recorded how the ipostles felt when Jesus made these tatements and whether they believ d them and were sad thinking that uch a terrible tragedy was so near \.s Jesus finished speaking of the voman and her ointment, Judas scariot went outAio the chief priests ind asked them what they would live him for betraying his Master, hey bargainedHvith him for thirty nects of siJvet. From that time Judas ought an opportunity to betray his ..ord. One wonders why Jesus kept this nan Judas among. His triends and ollowers. He must have known what iianner of man he-was. Did He thinly hat maybe His influence and teach ngs would change the man, or did He ieci mai soineui-e uwuiu i/n.. Him and Judas was The one appo::;1 ed to do it0 Held in Upper Room. The Last Supper was held in ai upper room in the house, it is sur mised of Lazarus. Mary imd Martha The disciples had asked where tfci Master wishec to eat the least: "G into the city t • such a man. and .-a; unto him. I v. ill keep the passow: at thy house w th My di>ciple>." Anc the disciples had done as Je-u> si.a There at the home ul Hi> niend> seated al the table with His apo-tle. He looked about at them .-aid "Verily I say un>o you. that oik- 1 you snail betray Ae." Very sorrowfully cat.ii aposi« asked Him, "Lord i- it 1'" And whet Judas asked as the re<t. Jesus an swered, "Thou has. said." l! is "do that the others did, not imdei.-tisnd and turn Judas out t.r put him where he could do no mischief. Ur maybe, as all was planned. ' <eir eve.- v.tie blinded, their under.1 anding aui.tc. or their hands were ?d. "And as they were eating. J took bread, and blesse*. it. and braKe it, and gave it to the disciple.-, a::<s said. Take, eat: this is My bedy. "And He took the ' -i >. ;'!'d ga'.e thanks', and gave it to : Drink ye all of it: for hi.- - blood of the new tcstainc.it. v.hx shed for many ul the j.1' 1 - sins. ' "But I say unto you. 1 will drink henceforth oi ' vine, until that d; v wnen - new with you in my Fathn I - dom." "And when they .had 111 hymn," says Matthew, •tin. vt': out into the Mount of Olives. Two days later Jesus was on the cross not for any sin el but to redeem us. Surely, wc strive to live the life He to live, lo follow in Ili> Joot.-ut -• ( well as we are able, and -u bc . to meet Him in His Father.-' k!'^ doin. 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