tJKSDAV, MARCH 7, 1940
THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
Page 7
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iCcUcrje Student Gives The
$crel Of Her Christian Faith
s note The following ap-
fc i in the state magazine, mo
l k r is the daughter of Mr.- and
i E, J- Robeson, Jr., ol JNew
; News, and granddaughter of
!. and Mrs. E. J. Robeson).
Chapel Hill. Dec. 30, 1939.
or The State:
feu might be interested in me
-lts which came from this sim-:-:
and sincere expression of the
"Sstian faith. .
irhen Miss Robeson wrote it, I
md her to take it home for her
nts to read. She did so, and
father took it to his office. A
at neighboring desk asked
ie might read it Mr. Robeson
& the tears streaming down his
aa he read: and when he hand-
tie paper back, he asked if he
t send it to a iriena wno was
uninterested in the affairs of
church. . '
ien the miracle happened. I saw
rfc letter that this irreligious man
iisjte after he had read the paper,
yhing in his experience had
Eiched him so deeply, he said;
,i he was to prove it.
rJext Sunday morning, on the coi
tion plate of the church to which
- Robesons belong, there appear-
from this man who had been so
.ply moved, a checK lor ouu.
;er he gave to the same church
arillon, and he is now regularly
"Vested in its work. Other peo
"1 who have read the paper have
n likewise deeply touched and
,e renewed their religious vows,
i me it is one more instance of
fx power which resides in a real
; rbtian that this simple girl with
f, simple story has been able to
trance the Kingdom of God in a
W real way. '''":;.
Vou would do the cause of relig
; in our colleges a great deal of
d by publishing this paper, and
is a professor in a state uni
Bity, would be gratified to have
world kno that many of the
"v rs cast on secular education are
rounded.
... iss Robeson is a senior at the
Jversity this year. She still
jds to her religion and still takes
! tactive part in religious work on
i campus. She has a host of
bids and sheds a tweet influence
good wherever she goes. In
Borority she has been of great
rice in correcting the general
dency toward frivolrty not only
'her voice but by her example.
Cordially yours,
Jt M C. HOWELL,
professor of English.
SCOTTS SCRAP BOOK ,By RJ.SCOTT
RUTH CURTIS ROBESON
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By. Ruth Curtis Robeson,
nee my parents adhered strict-
o the verse, "Train up a child
he wav. he should ero and when
lis old he will not depart from
i' my religious life began very
fly. My first training consisted
two practices; saying my pray
j before retiring, and attending
tnday school regularly, both of
iich I have continued to follow.
H e continual communion "with God
, made praying a- part of my
folly life and of great significance,
mi tm afraid that I did not reap as
'.'"eat a benefit from my presence
! Sunday school, for it has taken
51 I eighteen years to find a teacher
tlo used the Bible to teach from,
ft d not some preacher's book.
"My first knowledge of the Bible
"lis not gained in Sunday school,
t through the untiring efforts of
V grandparents and parents. To
learn a verse a day, was my first
motto, and one that I followed dili
gently. Bible stories were read to
me daily and verses cited for me
to'learn. At the age of five I re
peated the names of the books in
the Bible and also quoted scriptures
before a large audience. :
An incident during my early
cnildhood confirmed my belief in
a Higher Being. My sixth Christ
mas I spent in a hospital in Au
gusta, Georgia, where I was crit
ically ill with pneumonia. My con
dition grew worse as the days
went by, and little hope was given
for my recovery, I shall never for
get the anxiety of my parents as
they frantically read the thermom
eter, only to see one hundred and
six degrees registered thereon.
The doctor finally told my father
he had done his best, and that time
would be the determining factor.
. My grandfather was very per
sistent in his desire to have his
pastor visit me. Permission was
granted by my father and I re
ceived my first visitor in two
weeks the following afternoon.
Although my temperature was still
very high and my resistance low,
I remember his visit very distinctly.
With a gentle and sympathetic
air so true of a minister, an elder
ly man entered the room one early
afternoon. As he talked of Jesus
Christ and His Saving Grace,' he
patted my fevered hand and assur
ed me of salvation. My views were
sought on the subject of death and
eternal life. I remember convers
ing freely on this subject with no
thought of fear. He seemed pleas
ed with my ideas and at the close
of his visit prayed with me. All
of his prayer is not clear in my
mind, but I do recall the last sen
tence, which has been of great sig
nificance to me, "And Lord if it is
Thy will that this child live, may
she ever live for Thee and answer
Thy call."
I rallied very fast after the pas
tor's visit; and it is my firm be
lief, as it is of my parents, that I
was saved from death by prayer.
This was an experience that con
vinced me of a Superior Being.
Since that time I have always felt
my being belonged to the Giver of
Life, and that I must serve His
purpose, whatever it may be.
When entering this life, it is
customary to be baptized. My par
ents allowed me to choose the
method I desired. After consult
ing the Scriptures in order to de-
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termine the true meaning of bap-!
tism, I decided to be immersied. I
based my decision on the verse
found in Matthew 3:16, "And Jesus,
when he was baptized, went up
ctfoinrlitunxr nut tf (ho wntpr? Anrl
lo, the heavens 'were opened unto'
Him, and he saw the Spirit of God r
descending like a dove, and light
ing upon him."
The phrase out of the water,
convinced me that sprinkling was
just an easier method and really
not the proper one. My pastor was
very surprised when I asked him to
baptize me in this way. He con
sented, however, and brother and
I were immersed in 1931 at a pri
vate service.
Upon entering high school I
found that there were many things
which were done and said that I
had never seen or heard before. I
began to wonder if the people who
professed to be Christians ever
considered the significance of the
verse, "By their f raits ye shall
know them." Their actions cer
tainly didn't prove their religious
training.
With the constant urging I re
ceived to do the things my par
ents had forbidden, I began to won
der if people ever let others ma
ture as they desired. I found that
my parents were regarded by some
as peculiar, and by others as quite
sensible. I just turnled again to
my Scriptures and saw another
verse fulfilled, for Peter has said
(1 Peter 2:19) : "But ye are a chos
en generation, a peculiar people;
that ye should shew forth the
praises of Him who hath called you
out of darkness into His marvelous
light." The fact that I lived a
bit differently from my friends nev
er marred any of my friendships.
The more people nagged me about
my idea, the more determined I
became to be firm irt my beliefs.
It has been quite surprising and
disappointing to my friends that I
have not weakened under the rou
tine of college life. I have some
times found it hard to explain my
ideas to my friends, but my friends
have concluded that the things I
do which are inconsistent are just
"Ruth Curtis's ideas." Many of the
town gossips have been waiting for
me to make a mistake in judgment,
but so far with God's help, I have
been true to my convictions.
The real test came when I went
to college. Here, I found life real
ly new and quite different. Some of
the girls had never had any spirit
ual guidance, and thought I lived
a life of drudgery. It was always
a mystery to them how a girl who
didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't
dance, and furthermore didn't even
kiss a boy, could even find any
thing to do or even find any friends,
especially male friends. 1 could
have easily told them that the
Good Lord sent them, but that
would just have been another queer
idea. My idea regarding the op
posite sex, however, is not the re
sult of religious scruples, but of a
personal social rule.
As the school years passed, I be
came more intimate with my class,
mates and the subject of religion
was often broached. I found that
the persons who made the most
positive accusations regarding
God's word were the persons who
never read the Bible and further
more, they didn't care to read it.
Dwight Moody gave such persons
as these good advice. He said that
they should open the Book with an
open mind, and asking the help of
God, seek to understand the verses
and their meaning. The majority
he thought, were biased in the be
ginning and sure that their scien
tific minds were far superior to
those of the ancient prophets.
The Facts of Religion
I found that the most effective
way to deal with tnose who didn't
believe in Christ was to give them
the real facts of the Bible those
things that prove its worth. Sur
prising facts often attracted their
attention. I used such examples as
these, that five thousand years be
fore Columbus decided the world
was round, the Bible had declared
it so, for it Bays: "He hung the
earth on nothing." In another place
it was written, "He aitteth on the
circle of the earth." "Behold the
circuits of the earth." All these
teach the rotundity and globularity
of the earth.
The fact that the Bible is geode
tic-ally correct often astounded
many. Princeton's great geologist
has said: "The more the leaves of
the book of the earth are turned,
the more they show the old Book,
the Bible, to be true." It is sur
prising to note that about two
thousand years before Harvey's i
time, Solomon wrote that the
streams that pour forth from the
heart through the circulating sys
tem, make the circuit in three min
utes; the Bible is medically correct
again in regard to leprosy. Four
thousand years before the Engllish
doctors who attempted to Btamp
out leprosy in England, Moses
wrote several pages on leprosy and
how it was treated.
The Bible is botanically correct.
More than two hundred and fifty
flowers and shrubs are mentioned
and described in the Old Testa
ment alone. It took civilization
four hundred years to learn to
classify plants by seeds. Moses
did this in the first and second
chapters of Genesis,
Bible Geographically Correct
The Bible is geographically cor
rect. The modern geography pro
fessors tell us that currents of the
air flow from the equator to the
poles and back, one current above
the other, and how they whirl
around a mass of air at the poles,
never resting. Three thousand
years before, wise men wrote:
"The wind goeth toward the south,
and turneth about into the north,
it whirleth about continually, and
the wind returneth again according
to his circuits." And again, "He
bendeth up the waters in a thick
cloud, he draweth up the drops of
water;" rain is condensed vapor.
The number of prophecies that
have been fulfilled in the Bible is
astonishing. One hundred and
ninety-eight direct, definite pro
phecies are found in the Old Test
ament concerning the coming of
Jesus the World's Redeemer. The
prophecies concerning the second
coming of Jesus are eight times as
many. Five hundred prophecies
have been literally fulfilled. Twenty-eight
were fulfilled the day of
the crucifixion.
The majesty of style of the Bible
combined with the simplicity of the
statvments, makes it a book for
philosophers and humble believers.
The meaning is so simple and so
easy to believe if only people would
accept what they read. The Bible
is the most popular, most hatea,
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Miss Selma Brown Is
Active In Church Work
Miss Selma Brown, a graduate
of the Clyde high school, is now
enrolled as a sophomore at West
ern Carolina Teachers College.
Miss Brown is active in church
work. She has recently been elect
ed as group captain of the Hunter
Baptist Training Union, of the
First Baptist church of Cullowhee.
Lots of rest has been ordered for
Senator Tom Connally of Texas,
who collapsed while attending meet
ing of Reserve Officers' Association,
in Washington, D. C. He recently
Buffered a prolonged attack of
grippe from which he had not com
pletely recovered. j
stroyed if irritating methods ara
used. I do not contend that all
my friends should do and act as
I do, but I do contend that the only
way of salvation and eternal life
is by the way written by John in
the third chapter of John and the
sixteenth verse, "For God so loved,
the world that he gave his only be
gotten son, that whosoever believ
eth in him should not perish, but
have everlasting life."
Beliefs Confirmed
and most attacked book.
been subjected to criticism and
examination. Through all theso
tests, the Bible has lived and will
continue to live.
Such statements as these often
started my friends thinking. They
began to ask questions and gradu-
I shall continue my life as I have
planned and only hope that the
criticism will be constructive if
possible. Many incidents in my
life have confirmed my belief in
Jesus Christ, and not once have I
ever doubted His word or any word-
It has fag1 of the Bible. Peter tells us
that . . . the prophecy came not fn
old times by the will of man; but
holy men of God spake as they
were moved by the Holy Ghost.
(II Peter, 1:21).
Timothy writes, "All Scripture
is given by inspiration of God, and
is profitable for doctrine, for re-
allv souirht the real truth and way :
of salvation. Mv school work has '-proof, for correction, for instruc-
often been neglected when I hnve tion in righteousness." (U Timo-
tried to explain the Bible to non-
believers. I believe that there are
times when the subject should be
discussed and de-siVable methods
thy, 3:16).
I, therefore, am sure of what I
believe because I know the teach-
. . . . . ...1
'of preOnUng it used. The whole ! nigs are true, naving ooen inspired
purpose ana meaning can oe uu- . 9
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