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f 5 I LOOK! ME V MT MHcrtfOM It Mil If H rr Wfttii. nl ta tkt aoat A felat t lk wtM a4 rail. mclf . ADVERTISING RATES Transient rates 12 cents per inch Contract rates 10 oents per inch Discounts in proportion to cpace and term of contract. Special care giren all ftdTertUlng J matter accepted. Jj J l J l SUta library 7 Published Evrory Tuesday. VOLUME 3. WADESB0R0. N. C. AUGUST 25. 1908. NUMBER 13 Editorial Comment tfrt(ttt "Airship late again this morn ing, remarks the Baltimore Sun. Ours hasn't arrived jet. Tin: world do-snt cxpt the man to jay up who has no 11101163-; it knows he cannot, but it very well exicts him to go to work and get in shaj to do so. An incident of the recent Reun ion was the complaint among the merchants and business men of Wadeshoro that tliey themselves did nothing to amuse the veterans and their friends who came to town. We understand that the matter came up for discussion in the business meeting of the Ketail Merchants Association last Friday night, and it is very prolwiblc that on next lteunion day the mer chants and business men of the town will unite in giving those who come hre that day the Ust time of their lives. People like to come to Vale.sloro and tho citizens of the town are determin ed that they shall enjoy every trip they make here. Fi 1: thousand trops have not lieen able to suppress rioting nt Springfield. III., caused by a most heir"s assault ujon a respectable while wonuii in tho heart of the residential section of that city by a black brute. For tim e days the infuriated citizens, after mobbing the guilty wretrh, burned property owned by negroes and killed a great nunilrof these. There are several lessons in the affair for U)th whites and bla ks, and tie pity of it all. is the fact that, as iiMial. these lessens will not sink deep enough to prevent the same thing occurring again. One significant fa t illustrate! here is that in the South a mob is usually content with having de stroyed the guilty mvro. while a Northern mob seldom sti at that, but gies on with the d-ath-dcaling and property -destroying violence until a great army of soldiers i. unable to maintain order. Again, we see i n I ! shown the utter impossibility of social equal ity among the white and black rices, and it i well that no man. who w ishes to see the Anglo-Saxon 1 ae reach its highest erfection, desires to ee this equality. Whe ther or not olitical equality, as striven for by so many negroes and not 1 few white-., is in any way responsible for the outrages, committed as a rule by the worst element of the black race, we do not attempt to say. Hut this much i certain, that the frequent occur rence of this nameless crime is surely removing every thought of olitical equality from the minds of mist leading statesmen of the South. Tin: "close season" for college freshmen is aUmt over, as most of the colleges anil universities oien during this month. Already the talk of haing is heard, and remedies suggested for its preven tion. Ir. Hill, the recently elect ed president of the A. & M. Col lege at Italeigh. is re'ported as say ing that unless the student UIy extended its sympathy and gave its aid, the faculty was, to a cer- ROCKY RIVER SPRINGS This is to let you know that the latch string is on the out side, and you are invited to come and stay within our gates. If you are a sufferer from stomach, bladder, liver or kidney troubles, the great variety of water here found will reach the seat of trouble. Rheumatism in any form, diseases of the skin, and other similar affections lind the Arsenic water a complete specific. If n search of a little rest, and cTiange from old sur roundings, every reasonable comfort is here provided for you. Rites and $J jier week. Special rates for children. r Rocky River Springs Hotel W. T. BRASINGTOV. Prop., C. S. BRASIVGTON, Mgr. Rocky River Springs, N. C. mooy orders cmt mor than oars. They qui twice a much red tape, the order la no better, aad it require a longer time to recover U is U tost thaa oax BANK MONEY ORDERS. Southern Savings Bank. tain extent, iwerless to suppress these unlawful assaults and batter ies even in places where respect for law and the greatest intelli gence is supposed to prevail. IHks like it is aliout time that the hazers were taught that the destiny of these institutions is not altogether in their hands; that the3" are welcomed there for a sjie citic purpose ami not desired when they propose taking charge of affairs. Commenting on the subject, the Statesville landmark is move I to say: There is little reason to expect reform in the hazing matter from Dr. Hill. Whenever the presi dent of a college admits that the facult3 is powerless to control the student laxly, the student body may le exacted to engage in riotous conduct whenever the toughs in the college feel so dis losed; ami really it is a poor re commendation for a college presi dent to say tnat: it means, if it means anything, that he is not the man for the job. The trouble, sometimes, is that the w rong fellows engage in haz ing, the fellows whom the faculty is not willing to expel. It is an other case of "fearing the people and failing to perform duty. Not many years ago, one of the most successful high school principals in the State, vnt ten ls away from school for hazing and did it without much parleying too. The Uys came from a section which furnished many students for the school and jx'ople said a great in jury had leen done. Kven the trustees, some of them, criticised the principal's course but next session found a larger numlcr than ever from the section men tioned, and they are coming yet. Parents and students, as a rule, like such discipline and the faculty with the nerve to demand it will always have students, provided they hae the lct instruction to gle. Hut after all, the young man who stays away from college le i :uim he is afraid to face the mu sic, will find much difficulty in facing the ordinary affairs of life. Not for want of knowledge alone, but liecause he stands very much in need of .1 nerve tonic treat ment. As x mot ai.d colleges Ugin to announce their openings, many loys and girls are asking them selves the questions, "Will it pay me to goP "Can I afford to speml all that I have saved ami mayle go in debt?" With the ambitious, these questions will not down. They mark the crisis in so many lives, the tide, "w hich taken at the Mood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and mis eries." Along this line, the fol lowing questions, asked by the Kditor Marden of "Success," should be read by all: Ioes it pay an acorn to become an oak ? Does it pay to escape lieing a rich ignoramus? Does it pay to til oneself for a superior iosition t Does it pay to get a glimpse of the joy of living! Does it pay the "chrysalis to un fold into the butterily i Does it pay to learn to make life a glory instead of a grind? , Does it pay to open, a little wider the door of a narrow life! loes it pay to add power to the lens of the microscope or telescope! IXes it pay to know how to take the dreary drudgery out of life! I OFFICERS: John T. Patrick. Pre.; T. L Candle. V. Prea.; W. M. Morton. Outlier; W. P. LeJ better. JLltant Cashier. DIRECTORS: Fml J. Coxe. J. W. Odoin. W. T. Rose. W. O. Bennett, Jr., C. W. TbDtnaa. W. . T. Bnudngton. John W. Qulledfr. J. 3. Webb, T. W Autin. F. M. Hightower, D. A- Mc Gregor. John T. Patrick, 3. M. Clarke, Peter Jooea. Geo. T. Boyetta. Does it pay to taste the exhili ration of feeling one s powers un fold ) Does it pay the rosebud to open its 1 Metals and fling out its beauty to the world ? Does it pa 3' to push one's bori son farther out in order to get a wider outlook, a clearer vision? Does it pa3 to learn how to cen ter thought with power, how to marshal one's mental force effec tively 1 Docs it pa3 to acquire power to get out of life high and noble pleasures which wealth cannot produce? Does it nay to acquire a character-wealth, a soul-property, which no disaster or misfortune can wreck or ruin? Does it pay to have expert ad vice and training, to have high ideals held up to one in the most critical years of life! Does it pa3' to make lifelong friendships with bright, ambitious young people, many of whom will occupy high places later on? Does it pay to become familiar with all the lessons that history and science can teach as to how to make life healthy and successful? Does it pay to become an en lightened citizen, able to see through the sophistries of politi cal claptrap and vote intelligently on public matters? Does it pay to change a bar of rough pig iron into hairsorings for watches, thus increasing its worth to more than fifty times the value of its weight in gold? Does it pay to experience the joy of self-discovery, to open up whole continents of possibilities in one's nature which might other wise remain undiscovered? Does it pay the sculptor to call out from the rough block the statue that sleeps in the marble, and which shall tell the story of heroism and greatness to unborn generations? Hut above all, remember that simply "going off" to school or, college is far from getting an ed ucation. He sure 3ou do not miss the mark altogether, having gone. STATE AND CENERAL NEWS Mrs. K. T. Ingle of Albemarle, by mistake, gave her 7-month-old bab3' morphine instead of calomel, which caused its death very soon aftcruarjs. Win. Christenberry, a young farmer of Tarboro, aged about ii3 years, committed suicide last week by taking iodine and then shooting himself in the temple. No reason was given for the deed. Mr. (ieorge Hennett, a lumber man of Washington, on becoming despondent because he was out of a job, committed suicide by taking laudanum. He is survived by a wife and several children. Mrs. Wofford Tweed and three children together with Mrs. Mur ray Tweed, were burned to death in their home on Laurel Mountain last week. Mr. Wofford Tweed was on business at Marshall about 15 miles away. A horse hitched in a back lot in Fayetteville became frightened last week and dashed through a store, across the street and through another store window, smashing a lot of glass and china ware. It then ran about two miles and got entangled in a barb wire fence. White, miners at the Woodside coal mine, a mile from Springfield, 111., and the Tuxhorn mine, four miles distant, have refused to work with the negroes underthe ground. They say that the negroes, who number about 150 of the 500 men, are armed and that they do not feel safe with them. Gertie Lewis, a young white girl of Salisbury, attempted sui cide last week by jumping into a 40-foot well because her parents punished her for attending a party without their permission. After rising above the water, she clung to the walls until rescued and her injuries were very slight. The largest procession probably that the veterans have had since the war was at Winston-Salem last week. Over two thousand veterans marched and for miles the streets were lined with sight seers. About one-third of the veterans rode in private carriages and there were over one hundred men on horseback. Joseph Lance, charged with the killing of Alma Green by a ran dom shot at Huena Vista station December 12, 1907, and confided of manslaughter, was released Thursday on $8,000 bond pending an appeal of the case to the Su preme Court. After the jury had convicted him Judge Ward im posed a sentence of nine years in the penitentiar3 and to this judgment of the court the defense appealed, the appearance bond be ing fixed at $3,000. A Faithful Friend "I have naed Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy since it was first introduced to the public in 1872. and hare never found one in stance where a cure 'was not speedily effected by its qm. I hare been a coimnerciai traveler for eighteen years, and never start out on a trip without Ma mv faith fnl . frinL" Rava H. 8. itichols of Oakland. Ind. Ter. When a . . M ' - M man naa usea a remeuj iur uunj'DT years he knows its value and is compe tent to speak of it. For sale by T. R. TomUnsou. CASTLED WALLS AND PALACES OLD IN STORY Editor foe's Visit to Sterllir Castle The Bloody Tower. Westminis ter Asbey. and Other Scenes Interwoven With Great names aad Events of English History While a number of The Anson- iaus subscribers read that excel lent farm journal. The Progress ive Farmer, the liberty is hereby taken of reDroducincr some more of Kditor Poe's letters, written from historic scenes in Europe. They are not only of intense inter est to old and young but are themselves models of correct Eng lish, and the many compliments paid them recently, by people who know, are well-deserved by the bright 3'oung author. Editor The Ansoman.J In my former epistle, most ex cellent reader, I promised to give in this letter some impressions of the historic and notable places J have visited in Scotland and Eng land. This, therefore, I now set out to do, beginning at Stirling (thirty six miles from Edinburgh), for it was as I went over the moat bridge into the gates of Stirling Castle with its more than a thou sand years of checkered and stir ring memories that I first felt the atmosphere of the Middle Ages and of the romantic days of knight hood and cf chivalry. Here for the first time I saw a great med iaeval castle with its massive stone walls and frowning battlements and towers, standing out upon its lofty eminence above all the sur rounding country: secure in the front by moat and drawbridge and trap door at the enterance on the gigantic outer walls, and then by two or three inner walls, while from the rear a ragged and pre cipitous stone ascent of sixty feet guards the approach of the ancient fortress. And Stirling has a his tory worthy of its lofty eminence and its isolated gradeur. It looks out upon one of the most beauti ful and upon one of the most his toric views in all Great Britian. The battle field of Bannockburn is before you here and Stirling Bridge of course, and yet another battle field Cambuskenneth in which Scots and Pict3 fought eooh, other six hundred and fifty jrears before Columbus discovered the New World. It is when you come upon facts like these that you be gin to realize that the annals of America indeed deal only with the last half hour of human history. This very Stirling Castle, for ex ample, was taken by Edward I. of England in 1304 more than three hundred years before the first white man set foot upon James town soil and ten years later the famous Scotch chieftain, Bruce, recaptured it. It was at Stirling that Lord Darnley courted Mary, Queen of Scots, and it was here that James I., who was King of England when the first permanent English settlements were made in America, was christined and crowned, John Knox preaching the coronation sermon. Stirling Castle, too, at the very first brings you face to face with the tragedy as well as with the romance of the old, old days. Not onb' does the terrible dungeon its opening a mere hole in the ground twelve feet down before you enter the dark grim caverns in which captive enemies or sus pects went to the torment of a living death not only, I say, does this foul dungeon cast a shadow upon the rc3' pictures we like to paint of "the age of chivalry," but Stirling and almost every other castle in Great Britain has its story of crime involving one or more figures well known in history. At Stirling they still show you the room where King James I. stabbed and killed the Earl of Douglas five hundred and fifty years ago. In Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh I saw the little room where Rizzo, secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, was murdered by Darnley and others and but a few months later Bothwell, having plotted with the Queen for the murder of Darnley, here married her himself. In Edin burg Castle near-by I saw the old banqueting hall where in 1440 the young Doug lases were invited to a great din ner only to see the black bull's head the symbol of death put before them on the banquet table, after which they were dragged away and beheaded. Here, too, Oliver Cromwell and others met in 1643 and discussed the necessi ty for executing Charles I., and Edinburgh Castle also has a con necting link with the murder of Macbeth in that the St. Margar et's Chapel here was built by the wife of the Malcolm of Shakes peare's play. Kenilworth Castle of which ouly picturesque ruins now remain, of coarse calls to mind the alleged murder of his wife by Earl Leicester as told in Scott's famous novel. And the Bloody Tower of London, of course, is famous for the horrible crimes which it has witnessed. At its very portals you pass the spot where the young princes were smothered by Richard III. four hundred years ago; and among those who languished in prison here before finding death from the headsman's axe were Annie Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII. and mother of Elizabeth; lady Jane Grey and ber husband (beheaded because of their claim upon the throne), and Sir Waher Raleigh. With the memory of these ter- rible crimes upon me committed in most cases by Kings and Queens clatmug to rule by the grace of iiod it is eas3' to see how far we hare come from the time when men aod women with human blood upon their hands could sit undis turbea upon, the world's greatest thrones. Having stood but a few aaysago upon tne sdoi in uxioro where Cranmer, Latimer and Rid- ley vere burned at the stake for (,uiia.icut,c a soac, r 11110 vjvai una put ts or his generation upon a time when the whole world enjoys reiiious liberty, should 1 not be a blind pessimist indeed did I not believe that "Through th ages one increasing pur- pose niis And the thoughts of men are widened wun we process OI tne suns. This is the best age that the world has ever known, and to- morrow wall be better than today, It is a god thing to come to Eu- rope and get that historical per- spective which makes for faith like this Not only has public morals inproved, but life itself is infinitely richer and nobler now than ever before. The plain South- ern tanner today may live in greatercomfort than the lords and ladies cf the so-called brave days of old." There are eddies and especially the great English cross cirrents in the stream of hu- speaking people of the the United man history, and sometimes the back waters" of reaction from the furious current; but always the miin movement is toward good: of this we may be sure, Here in the British Museum a day or two ago I looked with interest and wth reverence upon the on- ginal opies of the Magna Charta, that geat corner-stone of our Englisl liberties, and reflected upon tie long, hard fought and yet un'etreating struggle through which the idea of liberty, equali- ty am fraternity" has since foughtits way toward Thatfar-off divine event To whica the whole creation moves." 1 was glad to come to England as raucl as anything else for the Drivilere of making pilgrimages to the shrines of some of the men transferred here some of the very whose history or literature has soldiers who represented the iru provokfd my admiration. No perial Ceasar upou Golsrotha's single incident of the trip thus far, therefore, has pleased me more than the opecial privilege given me at Warwick Castle of putting on m3T head the helmet of Oliver Cromwell; and in V estminster Hall it was Cromwell's figure that was mast in my mind: Cromwell with patience exhausted coming upon England's unprofitable ser- vants, who had dill3r-dalled so ms axiut w eighty matters, and dnvinf the miscalled Parliament from ts halls. I can hear him now, ne stern-visagea ana pur posefu Puritan and man of iron, speakilg in the language of the Bible 6 he did at Dunbar and as he dod in the letter from him which saw here in London the oth er dayl He recounts the follies of Parlimint: resolutely at last he drives hem before him. 1 our hour is?ome," he proclaims, the Lord hth done with you." That day Crinwell was master of Eng- and, riting with the power of a Ceasar ven if with a Ceasar s am bition o selfishness: and yet it was but a fiv years ' from this time when heistood before England as its Lorl Protector that the re- urning monarchy had his name put upoqthe gables of this same Westmiriter Hall I But Crom well's sti-y proves afresh that the sure ver' t of history may always be awaitd with calm confidence like as th polar needle, temporar ily distuned by some unusual af traction, ill yet inevitably return and swinitrue again to the un changing orth star. Nine years ago a gn t assemblage met here again and a life size monument of Cromlell was unveiled the monumen honored with a place within th( mclosed court of Parli ment anc a mighty nation un covered it head in reverence to Cromwell' memory. Carlyle k another one of my heroes, ana I was glad to go out to Chelsea bd see the house where he died jut as I was glad to see a typical leier , of his regretting his seeming fruitless search for a publisher lorl 'Sartor Resartus" and referingtasome man as pro voking Hs admration "because he is a mas, a rell man, and not a mere clolhes-hirse." Sundal moping I was glad to see JohnMiltpn's old church; his grave is b th chancel, and this, by the wiy, lithe same church in which Olsverpromwell was mar ried. W alp went to the Wes ley Chap4 Jhere John Wesley, the greatfoipder of Methodism, preached in pe latter years of his life, assisedpy his famous poet brother, Oiirles Wesley, the au thor of scnlany fomiliar hymns. John WUy died in the little house besdfe the chapel, and his mother, &iannah Wesley (mother of seventeb or nineteen children, I have foptten which number) is buried ill the Bunhill burying grounds jit across the way, as is also Isaac' Tatts, no less famous than Job Wesley as a hymn writer, Jt. i Bunyan, author of "Pilgrim! Progress," and Daniel Defoe, wi ie Robinson Crusoe" has been th delight of every gen eration olloys that has grown up since its 4bhcation. Londois full of such historic places. (tfar from St. James1 palace we saw the house where Byron 4woke up to find himself famous;" in Cheslea we saw the homes of George Eliot, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and the artist larner; near hitehall is the place where Charles II. was be beaded: the house given to the Duke of Wellington bv the Eni? lish people (just as America cave - la house to Admiral Dewev) is pointed out; in the crypt of St aul's are the tombs of Welling ion and rueison; and in Westmin ster Abbey. Chaucer Dickens J Tennyson, Browning, Thackeray, m 111 laiij x lib, TV III. Fj. VI ltttiSLO D O. besides numerous English mon archs, including Queen Eliza- beth. Queen Mary and the roya Edwards and Henrys. In West minster Abbey we also saw the coronation chair in which all the Kings of England have been crowned here since Edward I., and in the Bloody Tower q the King and Queen, sparkling massess of the costliest jewels, are shown to the public. V riting this much, however. has only served to convince me of the impossibility of giving within the limits of a newspaper article and adequate description of the many towns and places here in which mighty men have wrought mignty deeds, blessing not onlv the little island of Great Britain, but the whole world in fact, and States and Canada. There is the little town of Startford-on-Avon where we saw the humble cottage in which Shakespeare was born and his bridal place in the church whose approach is such a beautiful avenue of trees; there is Oxford with its famous University, and its rich heritage of splendid names Blackstone, Raleigh, Westle3r, Samuel Johason, Wellington, Peel. Ruskin, and many others: there is Chester with its famous Cathedral and its nearly nineteen hundred years of known history, Roman ruins here still telling the story of its beginnings as a Roman camD sixtv-one vears after the birth of Christ so short a time after the crucifixion that an his- torical novelist might imagine as hill, or with the unquestioned his- torical fact of Charles 1. watching from the walls the defeat of his forces at Marston Moor, the same novelist might wonder if the proud monarch dreamed here of the headsman's axe which was to be his end. My next letter will find me in France. Clarence H. Poe. .London, England, July 21, 1908. McYYhorter's Immortal 406 (Monroe Jounal) The vote received by Squire Hen ry McWhorter in the primary last Saturday, after his powerful whil wind canvass on anti-agent plat form, means one thing, and one only that there are just 406 voters in Union county who are not agents or kin to agents or married into the family of agents. All honor to the noble 406, who, with agents to left of them, agents to right of them, agents in front of them, vollying and thundering against McWhorter, marched straight to the polls and voted for their chieftain. History records the glory of the 300 at Thermopy lae, and Tennyson has immortal ized the 600 of Balaklava, and now we, in our humble way, are mod estly calling attenten to our own famous 406. As for McWhorter himself, glory has done enough for him. His name, as historian and old time Democratic war horse of Jackson township, is linked on all tongues throughout this coun ty, with that of Old Hickory. So much so, that a great poet has said of them: ''On fame's eternal camping ground Their names are knit unbroken. And memory prances round and round, These two together yoken. 1 Bucklen's Arnica Salve Wins. Tom Moore of Rural Route 1, Coch ran, Ga., writes: "I had a bad sore come on the instep of my foot and could find nothing that would heal it until, I applied Bucklen's Arnica : Salve. Less than half of a 25 cent box won the day for me by affecting a perfect cure. ooia unaer guarantee at .far- sons Drug Co. "In Praise of Kinzs" (Lyman Abbott) The real rulers of America are its intellectual and moral leaders: the teachers, the college ' profes sors, the writers of books, the ed itors, the preachers; above all, the fathers and mothers. They are shaping the future industries, framing the future polices, determ ining the future destinies of this Nation. The real rulership is not in legislative halls, nor in railway offices, nor in mercantile centers. nor in labor lodge-rooms. It is the church, the school-room, and the nursery. The kings of America are not those that appear to exer cise authority. They are those that quietly and efficiently serve. The pedagogue is the prince. The pen is the scepter. The pulpit is the throne. The mother is the queen. Fineules for Backache, little golden globules, easy and pleasant to taker Act directly on the Mdneys purify the blood and invigorate the entire system. Best for backache, lame back, kidneys and bladder. 80 days trial $1.00. Guar anteed. Martin Drug Co. Sunday School Department Conducted fcy Special Editor. SUNDAY. AUGUST 30. Lesson David spares Saul's life. I Samuel 26:17-25. Golden Text "Love your ene mies, do good to them which hate you.' Luke 0:27. FUNDAMENTALS Time. Sometime during the seven years of exile, 1002-1055. Place. In the wilderness of Ju - dea. Southeast of Hebron. rersons amuel dies about tins time, aged 86, at Ramah. David was about 30 years old. Saul was still King. CONNECTION After David's interview with Jonathan he went to Nob, where he got the shewbread from Abim- elech, the priest, and he also took the sword of Goliah. He then Hed to Gath where he feigned mad ness. I hen he Went to the cave of Adullam in southern Judah. There he gathered a band of sev eral hundred outlaws. After car rying his parents to Moab for safety, he and his little band take refuge in the caves among the lills of southern Judah, keeping off the Philistines and beinir re warded bv the inhabitants. As the result of one of these adven tures, Abigail, the widow of Na- b&l becomes the wife of David. LESSON STORY Saul learning of the hiding place of David, takes with him 3000 men and seeks him. David, through his spies learns of the approach of Saul and watches for his camp. In the night David with Abishai vis its the camp. The host are all asleep and David enters into the very tent of Saul. His enemy is at his mercy, but David refuses to touch the "Lord's anointed.' le takes Saul's spea"r and his water bottle and returns to his hiding )lace. vv hen the morning David calls to Saul and when Abner an- wers him, he tells of his noctur nal visit to the camp and reminds dm of his opportunity to kill the tiing. rNiuI professes sorrow and promises to do no further injury. )avid returns the spear and Saul returns to his palace. David, how- ver, does not believe. Saul and continues to remain in hiding. LESSONS FROM DAVID The discipline of the wilderness life was useful to David. It made him realize his dependence on God and not on himself. It made him independent of other men and threw him upon his own recourceF, It taught him the needs of the common people and with their ways of thinking. It taught him to rule men not alone by force, but by influence. It trained him to the useful lessons of prudence, patience and persistence. It deep ened his piety and taught him of God's goodness. PRACTICAL Respect for rulers is a Christian duty. The treachery of men is a dan ger we must expect. .We must willingly wait God's time; remembering that he knows best. We must be sure that we know the difference between temptation and opportunity. If our cause is a just cause we can safely leave it in the hands of our God. He will bring all things right. Remorse is not always a token of repentance. Saul has not re pented of his anger at David. Realizing the danger escaped in the night, remorse fills his soul. But the remorse did not lead him to repentance. METHODS The editor of this department is desirous of not simply handling the lesson of the day, but lending a hand to all workers and if pos sible bringing to greater efficiency the Sunday Schools of this county. This department is entirely unde nominational and all denomina tional writers are drawn on for as sistance. From a recent address on the "Superintendent Who Su perintends" by Mr. L. P. Leavell, a prominent Sunday School Spe cialist, the following extract is A Few More Weeks of SioMtiry 10011 mm er A few dollars invested in ICE will help you over and keep your temper sweet Buy a book and get it the cheapest way. Delivered at your door. SOUTH ATLANTIC OIL COMPANY Phone No. 63 made, with the hope that every worker will read it. 1. On Sunday morning. The real superintendent will not be satisfied with the "same old thing." He will plan to have something different from last Sun day, because it is not the same lesson, nor the same day, nor the same school exactly. The needs are not the same; the songs and pra3ers should not be the same. He will plan to have it different. He must plan if it is different. He will plan to have the appropriate thing, each Sunday, in opening J words, songs, prayers. Scripture i readings, memory work, Bible ! drill, map drill, and blackboard j outline. The superintendent who suier intends is a planner. The superintendent who super intends will be on hand twenty or thirty minutes before opening time, getting his grip on the reins so as to prevent runaways. Things must be ready to go, however, if we start on time. They will not be ready unless planned for. The real superintendent gives the opening signal, then superin tends the carrying out of the pro gram as planned. The program is written up before the eyes of the school. He nods to his cho rister; lifts his linger for the bo3s to sing; "now girls" is the signal for the girls to read. A brief word explains the special object for prayer before all bow, "Teach ers," brings the teachers to their feet for part in reading or song. "Officers," brings them at once into their part of the service. The superintendent who super intends is the all-but-silent man at the front, who never leaves the front during the opening or closing service; who has a plan for each minute; knows who is to carry out that plan, and who wins others to carry out his plan. 2. During the teaching period. The superintendent who super intends gives his teachers the full time alloted for teaching, and pro tects them from interruption dur ing the time. No secretary goes fussing and rattling papers about the pupils' ears now; this superin tendent sees to it that the secre tary does this work before and af ter the teaching time. This super intendent spends this lime in not ing how well .the. nlans of the school are being carried out. 3. During the closing service. The superintendent who super intends does not reteach the lesson in the closing moments. His teachers have taught it. He met with them in the teachers' meeting and planned it all. Beside, he knows it is a pedagogical impossi bility for one person to teach all the classes of a Sunday school at oncel Else, why have classes? He may sometimes 'sum up," bring ing out the facts from the classes; thus honoring his teachers and confirming their work. Of course he knows what truth to "bring out," as it was all planned in the teachers' meeting. Sometimes he previews the work for the next Sunday, or next quarter. He and his teachers have decided on a plan of study for the quarter, and lie reviews the work from the first, in tlje light of this plan, and relates the work of the day to it. The school catches the idea of a systematic whole; they study bet ter after that. Reports are very brief only totals. Announcements are writ ten on the board never read. Brother Long-wind and Dr. Dry-as-dust are simply recognized and made happy by his saying, We are glad to have them as vis itors today." They are never asked to "speak to the children." 4. Between the sessions of the school. The close of this morn ing's session means, to the super intendent who superintends, the beginning of plans to do better next Sunday. Between sessions the teachers' meeting must be held. Between sessions the conference on "Problems" must come off. Between sessions the teacher must be found for that teacher training class, and the plans of work gone carefully over. Between sessions those committees must meet, plan, and do their work. Between ses sions that young man must be won as president of the Baraca Class. Between sessions the program for the special day, next Sunday, must be worked up. t N s
The Messenger and Intelligencer and Ansonian (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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Aug. 25, 1908, edition 1
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