125th Year Of American
Sunday School Union In U.S.
Brief Outline Of Great
Influence Of Work
In Rural Places
(Editor's Note. This brief out
line of tiie work of the American
Sunday School Uniotn in the United
States has been prejuared by K. H.
Hull, who with Mrs. Hull, have
been workers in this section for
five years and have established
many Sunday Schools in isolated
communities wher<e no church min
istered to the jneed of the children.
Their J work is done quietly and
with devotion which is helping
build strong Christian bulwarks
this county).
This is the jubilee year of the
American Sunday-School Union, the
i25th Viniversary.
Founded in 1K17; by 1KW, 70,
f'M teachers, and 700, (XX) pupils had
orwne into its membership. Empha
>izing Bible study, in the early days
it was <necessarv tr> teach reading
in most of its schools and the
reading l*>ok was the Bible. Th,e
inthiepce of the movement was
strong in the establishment of
public school systems in many
states Ys time went on, its liter
ature went into countless homes
all uver the land, primers, hel^s,
texts, tracts, commentaries, dic
t: niari,es. and nine periodicals with
a circulation of eight million cop
ies
Memorization or Scripture has
always had an important place in
its scheme, of instruction. The Un
irm has ever been evangelical and
non- sectarian. Many have been
the churches of every denomina
tion to grow out of the small
Union Sunday Schools.
The tremendous energy of th<e
early movement -was illustrated in
the Mississippi Valley Project. In
May, 1830, the Urn ion resolved in
convention to establish within two
years a Sunday school in every
destitute place throughout the Mis
sissippi Valley, "wherever practi
cable". important personalities in
American life interested in making
possible this expansion were Dan
iel Webster, Frederick Theodore
Frelinghuysen, Attorney General
Wirt, and Francis Scott Key, au
thor of our national anthem. Some
ninety missionaries were set to
work, and nearly 5,000 small com
munities were brought under the
beneficial influence of the Sunday
School. The Bible was thus built
into the very foundations of the
great Middle West.
The success which attended the
Mississippi Valley enterprise
brought forth a call for similar
effort in the Southen states. Many
leaders in these states were called
together at various centers to dis
cuss plans am! arouse a wide
popular interest im the needs of
the people of the rural sections
of the South and in -the work
which was to be done for them
through the ministry of the Am
erican Sunday School Union.
The representatives of the Am
erican Sunday School Union tackle
the tough problems of the church.
Last y,t?ar 160 men maintained 3,
500 Sunday Schools in forty states,
with over 144,000 enrollment. More
than 400 new schools were es
tablished.
These untiring Sunday school
men are the largest distributors
of the American Bible Society
Scriptures. They work on lines
indicated by Morris K. Jessup,
notable Christian laymen of an
earlier day, who said, "If we want
to save this country amd have it
an example for the nations of the
earth, we have got to care fbr
the children. For they will soon
take our place. The destinies of
our great kand depend on them,
and their life depends on the love
of God *1 their hearts." The pres
ent management is true to Mr.
Jessup's words. They emphasize
mot merely "religious education"
*ajid moral precept, but "tl\e need
of the new birth in Christ."
Chief Justice Burr, of the Sup
reme Court of North Dakota, de
clared the work of th,e American
Sunday School Union "the only
Christian service rendered in hun
dreds of neglected fields." It is
indeed little known outside Chris
tian circles, but mightily useful in
strengthening the -Church of |
Christ and in forming those Chris
tian ideals that have built up the
ideal America.
EXECUTRIX NOTICE
Having qualified as executrix of
J. C. West, deceased, late of Ma
con county, N. C., this is to noti
fy all persons having claims
?gainst the estate of said de
ceased to exhibit them to the un
dersigned on or before the 20th
day of February, 1<M4, or this
notice will be plead in bar of
their recovery. AH persons in
debted to said estate will please
make immediate settlement.
Tliis 20th d?y of February, 1943,
ELLA WEST,
Executrix.
Parenthood After Dec. 8
1941 Not Entitled
To Deferment
Registrants whose wives have
become pregnant since December
7, 1<W1, are mo longer .entitled to
deferment on the grounds of de
pendency, it was announced today
by the Statue Director of Selec
tive Service. He stated that this
revised policy has been made nec
essary because present regulations
provide that no status which was
acquired on or after December 8,
1941, may be considered when de
ciding questions of dependency.
The Director further announced
|hat all local boards in the State
have been directed to reopen and
reconsider for classification the
classes of all registrants heretofore
?deferred on the grounds of depend
ency because t-hjeir wives have be
come pregnant since December 7,
1941.
The fact that a registrant is a
parent shall not be considered in
determining the class in which
he should be placed unless the
child was conceived prior to Dec
ember 1941, the iDirector said.
He further stated that this ruling
applies to all cases, regardless of
the date of marriage, and is to
be applied both in considering the
classification of a registrant and
in determining his category.
JOIN
Bryant Mutual
Burial As?ociation
?
OkUit and Strongest
in the County
EXECUTRIX NOTICE
Having qualified at execu
trix of J. E. Perry, deceas
ed, bte of Macon county, X. C,
this is to notify all persons lav
ing claims against the estate of
said deceased to exhibit them to
the undersigned on or before* the
23rd <U*y of February, 1944, or
this notice will be plead in bar
of their recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate will pleas,c
make immediate settlement.
This 23rd day of February, 1943.
EFFIE H. PERRY,
Executrix.
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Official Tire
Inspectors
Expert Recapping
and V ulcanizing
WALLACE TIRE
RETREADING CO.
CuUcwhM Road PKon* 1S3
Sylva, N. C
NOTICE
The Board of County Commissioners
of Macon County will sit as the Board
of Equalization and Review on March
15, 16 and 17, 1943.
All taxpayers desiring to appear be
fore said Board will arrange to appear
on said dates.
Lake V. Shope,
Clerk to Board of County
Commissioners.
J. M. Keener Lived Long
Life; 206 Descendants
i ? l* : '
Hi? Son, W. A. Keener
Writes Brief Sketch
Am] Tribute
By W. A. Keener.
James Morrison Keener died at
the home of his son, W. A. Kee
ner, at Gneiss, February 22, 1943,
and was buried at Walnut Creek
cemetery, February 23. The Rev.
Frank Holland and the Rev. C.
W. Modder, officiating. The pall
bearers, Emory Keevcr, George
Keener Jim Page, Emory McCoy
Bfhd J.%). McCoy, grandsons, neph
ews and son-in-law.
His wife fhed 15 years ago. 'He
is survived by six living children;
two son, W. A. and U. P. ^eener ;
and four daughteers, MrsAS. C.
Woods and Mrs. Fanny Mosses
of Gneiss; Mrs. Ella Jones of El
lijay and Mrs. Jim Page of Way
nesvillt ; 38 grandchildren, 128 great
grandchildren and 34 great, great
grandchildren and an immense
number of friends and a good
niany .enemies and one lone sister,
Aunt Mary Jennings, of Otto.
He was the son of Ulrich and
Sophronia Ledford Keener. His
father was a native of Sevier
county, Tennessee. H,e was born
February 19, 1850, in a little one
room log" cabin near the place
where Pritchard Russell's house
now stands, on the J. H. Ledford
farm. He was 93 years and three
days old when he died.
He was a retired minister. He
practiced several different religions,
bnt was finally converted and prac
i
tised Christianity i,n his last days;
hence his enemies.
In his young days he taught
several schools, (armed, drank
whiskey and fought sonve and was
twice elected for County Com
missioner of Macon county. He
was the average citizen, taking
him lall the way around. He had
his faults as all of us have, and
also his good qualities. He was
a man of splendid nerve and con
stitution. He was ill about three
weeks but bore up well and was
but very little trouble.
We sur.c miss him very much
in our home. '
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