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PAGE FOUR - ■ '—"TgW . ... . ■I _ \ H 1 A '*' Higher than Mt. Washington in Ney «|^: | |rv 'WHmK W J Hampshire, linville Pinnacle in Ca tß™/tawba County, North Carolina, is one V IE" of the spectacular sights of our South* -'jJ! A : ' The Linville River forces its way in a ’ n B- an '^>“* 30016 places,over2000feet * Southern Motor Car, ANDERSON - unequalled in beauty, and value atny southerners go to ANDERSON, the feet that it is New Hampshire for a home product should decide v j ' mountains as they you in its fovor. sometimes go north and west The Anderson is a remarkable ■ • for motor cars. Even as the car for performance—watch it mountains of the Carolinas take hills o* gather speed. * are unmatched anywhere for A superb car for beauty—the • , scenic beauty and grandure, masterpiece of the Anderson so the ANDERSON Motor Car# fCoachbuilders, femous for five __ also an achievement of the generations for their fine car ,4 Carolinas, is of outstanding kiage wolk . 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Kock Hill, S outh Carolina H CHA *°* L Manufacturers * y ■■ ■ - T:_ - - am mi . ■ n i -•jltfiltMi ~ -- t 1 fa*. . ■- ujt ■■ . Digest erf Proposed Amendments t&the State Gonstitutiton « I.—lnviolability of Sinking Funds. | t To amend the Constitution by insert- 1 In* a new section to be Section 30. Sr-j fMe 2, to rend as follows: j T ‘'See. m. Tine OtAMBI Assembly shall Iwt use nor authorize to be used any part « M the amount of any xinkfufc fUbd for lujy purpose other than the iSpth-rttosewt -of j|» bon</ for which said sinking fund i iTOIes and Mortgage. we held and taxed in the county where the home is sjfuated, thw**the owner of [ the home shall be exempt from taxation [of every kind for fd> per cent, of Uie value of said notes and mortgages. 3. —To put a limitation on the State Debt. •- N To hmenil Section 4, Article !>, so that (be General Assembly shall have no pow er t« contract any new debt or pecuniary ofiJWh Btkfo, except within the tMateg* Wt'fcm'KM tiOß. . ■ 4. As to Pay of Members of tbe-Gen l hly, ■ ’m''’' THE CONCORD PsAfLY TRIBUNE «ion oxewds sixty days the member* shall serve without pay. The members ihall receive ten cents per utile traveling expenses. For exttn sessions the mem bers shall receive $200.00 for their ser viees. ... y An Act to Provide a WsrM War Veterans Loan Fund. , This Act biiefty provides, as follows: To authorize a bond issue of two mil lion doHors nt nn interest fate of not exceeding f» per cent., the proceeds to be leaned World War Veterans nn amounts not in excess Os three thousand dollars at ; six per cent, to each veteran and not fcx ceafiing 75 per cent, of the appraised viHiie of the real property offered as se- • chWty, the loan to be used in the purchase who s4ll appoint "Ii pefoon kpown as the “Commissioner of the Veterans Fund,” drawing an annual galary »f l sa,Boo. .rjp. is Cheap in America, where We] Hackensack Girls Ban flapper ism, Passaic Giggles and Stands Pat - New Vork World. Girls of the Haekenshaek, N. J., high school have voluntarily forsaken flapper ism and all its works.A set of reso lution« adopted yesterday at the Girls’ Rods I Council, and presented to the faculty advisers, contain* the following: “We resolve to dress-moderately and apprdjmiateiy attd ngre* Shot to we* ex tremely short OV loose sleeVev, drtswes of extreme length, itghtneh* or in too elab orate a design. 1 ‘ Jr;,. 1 “We agree to dress shoes^for i hair simply. -H nt ran conn sets eh hbr ik V . ... i use of paint, lipsticks, eyebrow pencils and powder. “We agree to abolish all gum chew iftg.” “We will condOct ourselves properly and in h ladylike manner on the dance floor. - . “We will abolish smoking, boisterous-; ness and swearing in public places. “We agree to Tollbw the dihtkteb of politeness and to treat’those with whom bee come ip contact politely and thought [ Blit— . h CptfK'rt, the Hackensack girls* reso- I ill no . ■ »** "Vuooi, teahrb New Difficulties For the Missionary Literacy mtelt. . Picture young pagans heckling a m'm siouary to explain to them the mysteries of the Virgin Birth and the Atonement, to reconcile Christianity with Western business methods and to explain how the oil scandal could occur in a Christiana country, and you will have ail idea of the new difficulties enqptfntcred by the' mod ern missionary, fir the did days, we are* told, religion Was ticketed and labeled and handed out to prospective -Converts 5 in such doses as it was thought tfiff were able to digest.. Now, however, the young native is ofthn abreast of th* times and able to stump the missionary with a fair, but embarrassing question. The hands of the dock have moved forward in the missionary field as in the elinreh at home. 1 A generation of puzzled minds, changing conditions, brains upset and hew visions, says Pearl S. Buck, a nriAiionary in Nanking, China, has result ed in a general growth of soul for both the missionary alid the man he came to j help. And a historic figure, whose reward, is truly in heaven, is - passing. Fifty years ago. writes Miss Buck, in the New York Christian Advocate (Methodist), the missionary thought of his difficulties largely iii physical terms. Not for him were the conveniences of civilization. When his children died of cholera or dysentery in the wicked heat of the sum mer months, lie never thought of a sum mer resort in the hills, but buried the little victims and looked upon their death as a part of his trial for the great cause. When his wife faded and fell under -the burden of loneliness, inadequate medical attention and too tnany children, he set his Hpp. and endeavored to be resigned. A foreigner in a benighted land, ge ex l>ected hatred and qnmity and persecu tion, and got them. He was friendly with the natives but always with the uncon scidus superiority with the natives, but W one who has all to give and is beyond the need of receiving anything. He nev er asked or accepted advice from a na tive as to the best methods of propagat ing the foreign Gospel, which he had in its filial and perfected form. Yet, says the writer, the old missionary was a rare man, “a noble, high-minded, utterly con secrated sort of person, willing to sacri fi<-e himself and all he had to'the ‘work,' wring his heart as it might.” She recites the story of one who buried his wife and four children in the hills ofMar Szech uan. "But they were given cheerfully i for the Lord,”, lie said. A younger misH sionary was abounded that the other had taken the wife and family out where medical assistance was impossible. The sacrifice; he said, was the wife and chil dren’s, and he added: ‘‘l'd have gone alone rill my days before I'd have taken a wife and babies when I knew I could not get a doctor anyway.” The modern young-missionary, j writer, is a decidedly different sort of person and comes to a very different for-1 eign mission field from that of his father i or grandfather. He doesn’t have the I physical dangers to encounter; he doesn't I hick medical attention, or go withotit the; simple conveniences and comforts of civ ilization. He uses a side-car or a Ford instead of an ox cart. Better transporta tion brings him foods and other commod ities from all parts of the world. He need not send h'is children away Rt a tender age, for there are good schools in several ports. “Moreover, the very attitude toward his presence in a foreign country is changed. The ‘natives’ no longer universally re gard him as a supernatural and wholly evil being. He may %e disliked for his personal characteristics, but so might ho liuve been if he hud stayed at home, if he has a reasonable disposition, good hu- j mor and a ready laugh, if his racial pride is properly obsolete, if he is able to sec the other fellows' poitit of view, evCn tho’ that other fellow Jig a Japanese or- hi-, ficse, he is fairly certain of being liked for himself, despite his fair hair and blue eyes. He is not utterly damned because of his race, as he once vyus. “And yet, after pondering over those old days again, 1 really believe it was easier to be a misstioruiry in the did days. At least, it. was simpler. One’s religion Was so clearly defined, for one thing. Oiie had been told just what to believe about the Virgin Birtb and the Atonenrent. for instance. One's thoughts word perfectly' cleur on all doctrinal questions. ' "llie religion we came with in th<isc early days was all neatly docketed into .■■awtoianr. litriii nv.l r,i i in ii.rnrimiin prri , From Broadway to Schoolroom * - - 11 . "1 e i { -4; % IsPi i /v> : ’ .h ■Jif uRi ;mn ’ i I -■<; " */ ", ?; I j ImBMI Haw! Xivge*. 1$ year<Mr dancer. made good m Broadway I * rnl!»c« u«,,* -ij. .I.* ,j| •»; 't" I Qg Pcttny Ads* vict Results—Trv i item Thursday, October 23,1024 its proper theological files, and all one had to do when one wanted a sermon for the street chapel was to lot* up one's ideas under salvation pr faith, or what ever was wanted for "the occasion. The audience, too, was composed of comforta bly igfiorant people, already credulpus and superstitious and who. when they be came /Church members, found it not a ■ very far jump to transfer their belief in t|ye miraculous powers of a Kwanyju 1 to 5 the miraculous powers of a Jesus. ‘What , is-in a name, anyway?’ they reasoned. Today, continues Mies Beck, one has to stand before a crowd of hy percritical young students who know mdre about Darwin and Huxley aud Dewey and' Russell and all the ancient sand moderns than an old missionary can ever hope to know. Stand before some of these, and, remembering the Great War and the morphine traffic and indemnities and extra-territorial demands and other things that exist alongside Christianity in your own country, try to'preach with the cocksureness of the okl days. Here is what happens: “A back-fire of a hundred questions comes rushing at you straightway. ‘How do you explain the miracles?’ ‘Do you divinity bf Jesqp was from within or sHtboutr -Retain Jesus’ con sciousness of dirihtjty.’. "How Can the death »f obe mail.really save anyone else from star ‘Are heaven and hell con crete or abstract, and how do you know?’ •How can you prove it?’ In the light of the present situation in the West, how can you prove the efficiency of Christian ity in deveJpping a mangl and spiritual civilization r ‘How abottt the oil scan dal aud Christianity r “HoW about rndd , ern Business and Christianity in China?’ . ‘How can you prove Christianity is adapt ed to the Chinese ffilndr “ ‘How ram you prove—how can you g prove'—the query comes at one from ev ery angle from these restless young Orien tals. I think of the ol(J credulous, docile street-chapel congregations, So comfort able to thlk to, so unqcstioning. These young folks are neither credulous nor'sup erstitious, and certainly they are pot coin- for table. -< ’ “As far as cpmfort vgbeif, I doubt whether my airy homeland material ade quacies make up for the new difficulties which fgee the missionary today. No, on the whole, I think it was easier to be on old missionary than a young one now. 1 “For in the past our hardships were 1 | material, and we knew what they were and could face them. Today are far more subtle. They art mental and spir itual. Let no man come to the foreign field today who has not fought and won in the battle of conscientious don hr of all things. Let him retain his habit of ques tioning all things. Let him, in 'the pro -1 soundest sense, have a true reason for ev | ery faith in him.” j In the past a missionary’s equipment waH an assortment of clothing and food, and sonsecratkm and the Bible. Today I he can get food, and clothing on the spot, | but With consecration and the Bible he - must also have "a workable and pro gressive opinion on such question as the relation of business and a growing indus , tiyalism to Christianity, on government 1. and 1 war’aiuk Aims .testis said fcflon them ; ! on the interrelation of Science and relig ion." He must also bring a beiilthk hu mility 11 s to the achievements Os Iris own race and a mind open to the good in other 1 cultures aud civilizations. - He must drop his feelings of race superiority, for he will find it impracticable Where alert youug educated Chinese expect to. work, a lid, are capable of working, with him on a_ basis of utter equality. There is more: “He will need a mind thoroughly train ed in every way, and familiar with the trends bf modern thought, aud above all. he will need a heart trained in the love Os humanity, yellow or black or what not. These things and others like them con stitute his necessary outfit. All he has 1 in common‘with the outfit, of the old mis sionary is'the consecration and the Bible. The same Bible, mind you. but be most be able to interpret it anew for new needs. - , “Sternness and sympathy, sacrificial simplicity of living and friendly liospital -1 tty; truth-telling and love withal; equal ity with all men and .vet always main taining the practical, superior .idealism of Jesus—these are the hardships of thV missionary at present. “No, I shouldn't say it was easier to be a missionary nowadays
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