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By Theo. Davis
An old man said to a young
man, “A man can’t go anywhere
unless he’s going some place.” The
old man had known the other as
a youth in earlier days. He was
now a “rising” prize fighter with
nothing to do but stay “fit” and
win. This he was doing very suc
cessfully and satisfactorily to him
self. Beyond making money and
spending it he had no objective
in life. A choice for youth, but
none for old age.
This story reminds one that
every day one sees both boys and
men just going along. Direction
and speed do not count. Nothing
is planned except the temporary. I
recall a young man I knew years
ago. He was then 26 and had a
year or two in high school. I had
just graduated from Wake Forest
College and was teaching in a
school in Person county. He said
to me, “It’s time that I decide on
what I’m going to do.” A few years
after apparently he had not yet
made any decision. The last I heard
of him he was a book agent out in
the mid-west.
Especially do I remember two
young fellows in college with me.
One was the son of a rich cotton
mill man in the Piedmont. This
boy spent more in one year than I
did in the four years of college.
He “went through” colloge and re
turned home where he continued
to live a wasted life. He finally
died from dissipation. I never
heard him make a serious state
ment of his future. He had neither
a care or purpose in life. He just
drifted the way of least resist
ance on the current of time into
eternity. Each of us is going “some
place” whether we plan it or not.
The other young man was from
S. C. One would believe he came
from a good yet poor family. He
roomed alone and almost starved.
He subordinated everything to a
consuming desire and purpose to
have an education. He burned the
midnight oil. He graduated with
one of the highest marks ever
made in Wake Forest. What he
planned to do with his life, no one
knew. It seems that when he had
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fashion, celebrating their Golden Wedding Anniversary at their home.
Their six children and a host of relatives and friends helped them
observe the beginning of a second half-century of married life. They
are shown just before cutting the beautiful and delicious cake.
Going Some Place?
reached one goal he had no other.
The last time I heard of him, he
was plowing a mule in a cotton
patch. No wrong in that. His mis
take was that he never decided
what he would do with his life.
The Apostle Paul was'ambitious.
He had plans of his own, not for
getting God. His consuming pas
sion and purpose is definitely ex
pressed in these words, “This one
thing I do!” And then he goes on
to amplify which brings in many
other subordinate plans. He never
turned from his chief objective he
went “preaching Christ” every
where. He “went places and some
where.”
No man or body is headed right
till he makes at least one definite
decision or choice for life. Then
all others will be secondary and
supplemental to that. Would be
lawyer, minister, or any other, to
assure success, victory, must out
line the coUrse and purpose of his
life as it relates to all else. One
sets his ideal then with ideas trans
formed into realities, he goes on
“conquering and to conquer.’’ The
secret of success lies in having
one big purpose ahead, of failure
is having none.
Our community has both youth
and age that time thus far have
never yet made a choice of voca
tion or profession and many of
them probably never will. Again,
I repeat the words of one who had
“some place to go and something
to do:” “If any man will, he shall.”
Ask that boy or man, “Where are
you going?” And he will doubtless
say, “I don’t know,” or “to get a
job,” “to get married,” to have a
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good time,” “to college’ or some
other indefinite reply as to the fu
ture. Like Jesus said of the poor,
“ye always have them.” Many of
these die without ever deciding
where they are going when they
drift into eternity. We are ad
monished, “Choose ye this day.”
What are you doing? Where are
you going? Have you a great de
sire, or a high purpose? Better
start now while it is today. The
old man was as right as right can
be, “You can’t get anywhere un
less you are going some place.”
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appreciation to everyone who ex
tended their sympathy and friend
ship by visits, cards, flowers and
gifts, during the recent illness
and death of our husband and
father.
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Appreciation
I wish to thank my many friends
for the cards, letters, visits, and
prayers, during my long stay in the
hospital and at home.
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Preacher Herring's Eighty-Three
On Thursday of last week the
members of the Dora Pitts Circle
of the W. M. S. of the Zebulon
Baptist Church, gave a birthday
supper to Rev. R. H. Herring in
the home of Mrs. C. S. Chamblee,
one mile east of town. On the 9th
of January he was four score and
three years old.
An even score of his friends
were present to celebrate this oc
casion and congratulate him on an
occasion few people reach in the
passing of the years.
An old-fashioned supper (or
dinner as some would say) with
all the modern improvements was
served. The food and the fellow
ship gave the occasion a festive
air. Mr. Herring with all the zest
of youth and the skill of age cut
the cake, while a single candle
symbolized not a year, but a long
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life lived for the good of mankind
and the glory of God.
Those present besides the hon
ored guests, Mr. and Mrs. Her
ring, were Pastor Bev. A. Asbury,
Theo. B. Davis, Mr. and Mrs.
Preston Smith, and Mesdames C. S.
Chamblee, M. G. Crowder, L. C.
Pearce, M. T. Debnam, Repsie Mc-
Gee, Fred Hales, R. R. Creech,
Ashley Murphy, Eldred Rountree,
Julian Horton, Ralph Lewis, R. G.
Privette, K. P. Leonard and Ben
Kemp.
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