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THE QUIET CORNER “That vve may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all Godliness and Honesty.”—I Tim. 2:2. Py REV. WALTER E. ISENHOUR Hiddenite, N. C. A GOOD MAN "A good man out oi the good treasure of the heart "bringeth forth good tilings: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things — Matt 12:35. Perhaps the greatest achieve ment of man on earth is to be good. That means he j* gi.idly. righteous, Christ like and holy He loves Hod supremely. tiien loves all mankind, and lives to do God's will and bless the world. What equals it ? A man may be great in me eyes of the work! and be sini.il, but lie will destroy nnuh good, and in the end lose bis soul. Is that a great? achievement? It is possible to ascend the throiu- of a mighty earthly king. 'queer., prince, princess, president, or monarch, biftsjive in such a Ivay that one's life curses the world Rulers as a rule are ungodly. The majority of them have cursed the work! instead of blessing it. Is that great? What the world calls great sometimes ;s just the oppo site of true greatUyss. The world Ints always needed good men, and will right on. Certainly. True greatness is true goodness. That comes from tout. Man apart from God. is evil Apart from God he brings forth his heart evil things. ' Hence the reason the world today is so lent and torn -by war. clinic, drunk eimess. and all kinds -ot evil and wickedness. How \vg need good men everywhere.' Men who lovi God, love mankind, and would not do anyone an in. ury foi any price; men who are mighty in prayer, mighty in 1 ait h. ami mighty in faith, and mighty to help their fellows to Christ, and to heaven. Indeed •’.is is the great need of the age. As l think back across the years of life, ami especially the years of my ministry,' 1 can think ot many good and noble men with whom I have had fellowship. Some of them have, gone on to their glorious reward, while oth ers are on their heavenward journey. May G-d see them through Among those with whom I have had sweet fellowship 1 wish to mention just here Bro. Kd Blackburn of Todd. Ashe County North Carolina. lie is a nephew of E. Spencer Blackburn who was once the most noted orator of North Carolian. a native of Ashe County, who died a number of years ago. I would put know where to g’o to find a mole godly man than Bro. Ed. Blackburn, nor a more godly woman than Ms wife. They have the confidence of their community where they live long to bless their native land. Bro. Blackburn is a World War MatefGKel Margaret turned off the hum ming vacuum cleaner, and straightened the slipcovers of the armchair and the daybed that she had pushed up to go over the rug. •Then she stood quite still in the doorway and looked at the small bedroom with its southern expos ure. It was as neat and imperson al as a pin. It might never have been lived in. The door stood open on the clean, bare closet. There w'^s not a pennant, not a team picmre, not even so much metic book left to show whose room it had once been. Margaret stared at the walls, the furni ture, anddeeply, slowly, she veal ized that no matter what lodgers with their own trinKets anapictures might occupy it, she would always see it the old way. It was the old way that she saw it now. A pair of hard-worn gray ants lay on the floor where they ad been dropped. Three base ball bats were stacked with a fish ing rod in the corner. A battered red cap with a letter on it lay on tha bed. And through the bed, as though it were transparent, Mar garet saw another bed, smaller, and with high slatted sides. She put the vacuum cleaner' away and went down to her desk in the sitting-room. She took the fifteen dollars rent that the new lodger had paid that morning in advance for the room, and added to it, from her purse, three dol lars and seventy-five cents more. Then she drew' out a sheet of pa per and began to write on it, slowly, gravely. “To buy a bond to help train a young man to replace Don, Jr.— Killed on June 6th in the Battle of Midway.” (Latter from an actual coromunicatlap I* tha file* of th«JTrea»ury Department.) Help our boys. Make certain the wage earner of the family a payroll savings plan and that 10% by New Year’s! U. S. Treasury Department sr I veteran. A few years ago he was taken very ill and went to the veteran's hospital at Johnson City. Tenn., for treatment. While in the hospital he became serious ly ill. and was in the very jaws of death. While in that condi tion he went to heaven, or was permitted to see heaven. How vvondei ful to hear him tell what ne saw! It will stir your soul to near him tell this glorious vision. When he woke up. or regained consciousness, and found that he was in the hospital, he cried for three days because he was still on earth, or had to come back from the portals of glory. He says such an experience will spoil one .o this old world. As lie goes about his work you can hear him praying. One sen tence of piayer tliai he repeats ove.i atm ovet is this: "God of the Bible, iieip us today." An other is this: "Jesus Master, help tls today." When he makes | a trip and gets back safely you i can hear hini say: "Thank God, another safe trip made." He is greatly interested in souls. He uas humanity at heart. He super-: intends a Sunday School, holds prayer meetings, visits the sick and the dying, lending a helping hand to those who have need, and continually points souls to the cross, and helps pilgrims up ward and heavenward. 0 that we hail a world of men like that! Things wouldn’t be. as they are. This horrible war wouldn’t be sweeping the earth We would have sweet peace, and this would oe almost like heaven to our souls. Ashe County doesn’t have a more godly, saintly man than Ed. Blackburn. Not only that, but 1 doubt if North Carolina has a more godly man. There may he ot turns as good, but it would be hard to he better. 1 believe he would be the Iasi man to injure and the last dollar he has in his pocket if he were in need. Of course lie would . No doubt he has done this time and again. He would be the last’man in injure anyone, to kick anyone down the hill, but he would be among the fust u> lift him up. No night is too dark and gloomy for him to fail to heed the cry of need. No soul .could fall too low for him to pass him by unnoticed and without giving him a helping hand. No drunkard could go so low in the ditch, or in the mire, for Bro. Ed. Blackburn to refuse to lift him out. A good man? Indeed. “A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good tiling's. Praise God forever I hat is better than to be a mil lionaire, or to be President of the United States, if God were left out of the heart, soul and life. If I have a bouquet to give a man 1 had much rather give it to him while o is living than wait and lsty it n his grave. I want to ! stay on Bio. Ed. Blackburn’s j prayer list until he goes to heav n. or until I go. "God of the Bible.1' help me to so live that some happy day I shall walk the streets of glory with him. There is a reason why men re pent of sin and wickedness, turn from it, and turn from the devil and turn unto God. Sister Ollie Blackburn, Bro. Ed’s wife, liter ally prayed hint into repentance i and to God. She got under such ] a burden for him, and prayed so : Tremendously-, until it moved God on His throne to bring her hus band under awful conviction un til lie cried out to God for mercy and pardon, and was born of the Holy Spirit. If tens of thousands of wives today would pray like that for their wicked, drunken husbands they could see them saved instead of. going to prison for crime committed, or tilling a drunkard’s grave and going to a drunkard’s hell. Many of them abuse their husbands instead of praying for them until they come to Christ. When Bro. Ed. Black burn gets to heaven, and shines as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars for every and ever, Sister Ollie surely will share equally with him. A good wife is more precious than gold and silver, jewels, diamonds, pearls and gems. I speak from experi ence. My first wife went to be with Jesus thirteen years ago, while my last wife, by God’s grace is still by my side to pray for me, weep for me when the battles are hard, hold up my hands, and pull every pound she can. Thank God. If I should preach a shinning ! religion, which I am far from, J and see the life of Bro. Ed. Blackburn and Sister Ollie, 1 ; Would get under conviction and j quit such preaching. They are j great believers in holiness, and ! possess the blessing. It shines out i in their faces and reveals itself in their every day lives. To ! them Christ is real, the Holy Ghost is real. They walk with God, they talk to God. The Comforter abides in their hearts. They give their best to God. That is the way to have God's best for | this life and world, and for the life and world beyond. When good people pass away they aie greatly missed. The ci untry realizes the loss it has sustained. They weep around their casket, weep at their fu neral, weep at their grave, then turn their faces heavenward and say; "Bv the grace of God I'll meet you again. I shall see you m heaven.’’ On the other hand when wick ed people pass away they are soon forgotten by the majority of peo ple Nobody expects to see them in a better world. Perhaps no bod\ sheds a tear over them when the\ are gone. If they have been close and stingy nobody misses them. The church loses nothing wiien they leave, for they didn’t support it nor help to carry on its work. They won no souls to Christ. They left no record be hind worthy to be remembered, nor any example that is worthy to be followed. However, when the righteous die they leave a good and worthy, beautiful and won derful influence behind to bless the world. Their children rise up behind to bless the world Their children rise up and call them blessed, and so do their friends and neighbors, and per haps their enemies. They admit that the lives of the godly are gieat. If they took a stand against them while they were living, they confess that they were right, but they themselves are wrong. They know that god liness exalts, but sin degrades. That the godly are right, but the sinful and ungodly are wrong. We need good men in all walks of life, from the greatest king upon his throne to the least and humblest and most unlearned man over \ghom he reigns. Noth ing but the love and grace of God in the hearts and souls of men can make them peaceful, gentle, harmless, noble, sublime and great. .Nothing makes a man so useful, so noble, as to be Dale Carnegie Author of ^ "How to Win MmmU ami Iafluoneo Pooplo” MfcKfc'S one WAY TO START In 1932 a young man in Texas had a college degree and no job. Depression was howling over the country like a blizzard over the plains of North Dakota. His name was H. B. Fox, and he wanted to be a newspaper He applied to 13 papers in Texas and received a lot of kind nips.' and no job. Finally H. B. Fox went to a small-town daily and said, “I know you have all the men you want, and 1 realize you can’t ] hire me. But, I think I can help you. I want experience; so I’ll work for you without pay. And I’m ready to start now.” The editor looked at him now with interest. Why, the young fellow did mean business! But, I haven't any assignments. If you want to show what you can do. you'll have to dig up your own stories. " II- B. Fox put on his hat and walked out He didn’t get a story that day; but the next morning he was back, and he started all over again. One day the . editor gave him an assignment—-his first. Fox hopped out on the story; covered it. Three months and three daj’s after he began working for noth ing, the editor put him on the payroll at $25 a month. Two months later the society editor ' quit. Fox was offered the job A male reporter running Christ like. How we need good men today! Yours in brotherly love, WALTER E. ISENHOUR, Hiddenite, N. C. PATENTS mark's Prompt, expert service. Send sketch or model for free opinion. Expert Washington associates. DAVID P. DELLINGER. Special Attorney. Cherryville. N. C. FOR GOOD SHOE REPAIRING At Lower Cost, See COLEY’S SHOE SHOP PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED AT Houser Drug Co. WE DELIVER PHONE 4771 STOCK YOUR PANTRY WITH Christmas Groceries FROM THE SANITARY MARKET We Carry a Complete Line of Staple and Fancy Groceries Fresh Meats, Fresh Fruits, CHRISTMAS CANDIES. the society department! The editor expected Fox to turn it down. He took it. Two weeks later he was on the desk—$60 a month. A year later he was offered the job of city editor, but he had decided to go ihto business for himself. He heard of a country weekly that was for sale, mostly on credit. He borrowed $600 and bought the Madisonville Metor, Madisonville, Texas. He worked hard, and the paper began to make money. In the meantime his work was attract ing attention. Then there was a contest heid by the Country Home Magazine, New York, and H. B. Fox was chosen as the best coun try editor in the country. He was brought to New York and entertained for a week. He was banqueted, introduced to cele brities, and given the biggest week of his life. When he left a check was put into his hand tor $500—the price he had paid for his paper. ! "Meet the People.. w*ek ln space will be presented a picture ana word portrait of someone whose name is news.) FmI McNatt • Hard on the*heels of our entry into our sec* ond year of war came the announcement that President Roosevelt has given to Paul Varies McNutt complete authority over the nation’s {3 manpower resources for the urgent purpose of co-ordinating gun with gunner, farm with table, supply with demand, and of preventing the haphazard migration of essential workers. • Under the new set-up McNutt will control selective service, with Gen. Hershey remain ing in active charge. Enlistment is out, but selectees may still indicate a preference tor a particular branch of service. A worker in a vital war industry may quit, or may leave one job for another paying more money. But he can also be asked to go where he is most needed. • McNutt’s task is chiefly administrative, and he is well prepared for it. He has been, suc cessively, dean of the University of Indiana law school, governor of Indiana (1933-37), U. S. High Commissioner to the Philippines j (1937-39), Federal Security administrator and 1 director of the War Manpower Commission | Girls in Czechoslovakia are ex | eluded by Nazis from all but ele mentary schools, and so are the j sons and daughters of “progres | sive” parents. Abiut 1,800,000 women are members of AFL unions and 1, 500,000 belong to CIO unions. The Railroad Brotherhoods also have women members. YOU still have time to give gloriously—in the practical, joy - bringing way you want to. For here’s a lineup of gifts for every “her” and “him,’ in and out of uniform! All these suggested gifts are just around the corner at the retail jewelers you patronize regularly. Visit them now, and be able to say by the end of the day, “Now, all my Christ mas shopping’s done, and I’ve forgotten no one!”
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