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THE YANCEY RECORD Established Jii^ v 1936 ATBVJrv and TRENA POX cO-PffEuSEERS & EDITORS MISS HOPE BAILEY ASSOCIATE EDITOR T. L. BROWN SHOP MANAGER Published Every Thursday By YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY 11 2 A Partnership Bnteivi as second-class matter November 11th, 1936, at the Poet Office, Burnsville, North Carolina, under the act of Maroh 3, 1879. EDITORIAL COMMENT. Bp Margaret B Xaughrun Recently in a series of articles under this column, I have attempt ed to share some of the -wonderful lessons taught by people with whom 1 have been in every-day contact since my child-hood. On April 10th it was my oppor tunity in Kingsport, Tenn. to hear a nurse who had been a prisoner. In a modest, quiet manner give a witness with such a challenge, that I would like to attempt to paint a word picture of her message. I feel that her message had "universal appeal” for though most of us have never been behind ban, we are all prisoners of a sort. Prisoners of time, habit, worry, doubt, sin Miss Sarah Perkins, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, has in the past few months received quite a bit of publicity, having been released after 4% years spent in Communist Prison in China where she was taken from her nursing duties in a Mission oper ated hospital and imprisoned mainly because she was a Christian. One would have to see her re fined, sensitive face, which has a look of serenity as well as the mnrks of deep emotion from her experience in prison, and the inter twining of her small nervous fingers as she told her story, to get the picture. Occasionaly her emo tions would overcome her and she would have to pause for a while until she could regain control. It was not self-pity for her hardship, but rather praise forQpd, who became so real to her during the endless months in prison, that made her voice tremble and her eyes fill With tears of gratitude until she Would have to cease talking and Wait for the control of her voice. As the basis of her talk she used the Lord’d Prayer, and she wove her story on this frame as one would weave a piece of cloth. In attempting to repeat the weaving of this story, I do so with the knowledge that to, do justice by it, one would of necessity have to live it as did Miss Perkins When she was first imprisoned her Bible was taken away from her. Later someone managed to get by the guards with a copy of the New Testament, which all Christian prisoners shared until they had it memorized. However, for a long period all the scripture Miss Perkins had was what she remembered. Having been a nurse and very buqy tending the sick and wounded Chinese people she had not read and commlted to memory as much as she would have. She began repeating slowly to herself those verses and psalms shehad in her heart, and now with time on her hands she began to search for the meaning. For days she thought of the Lord’s Prayer how many times she had repeated it thought lessly! Feeling the beauty of it, but hot getting the real meaning at all. Now she fully realized the meaning and she said as a preface to her story, "Surely, no one but Jesus __ Christ could ever have framed BNowl An entirely new kind of truck tire EXCLUSIVE • 1: ( S»FETY mH SHIELD Prevent* ruptures, cuts and blowouts in the vital tread area. 1 Prevents groove cracking end tread separation. 1 More recaps than ever before! . U. S. ROYAL . THI WORiyS SAFEST.. .TOUOHEST Royal Tire Service* PHONE w BURNSVILLE, N. C. Expert Wheel Balancing Tires-Tubes Sc Batteries Tri- County Tire & Recapping Co.. Royal Tire Service SPRUCE PINE, N. C. maiuon, N. a • I .-- j [ such a prayer." “OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN” ' Here in the dark, bare, cold prison cell alone, (no one, not even the Church which sent her to the Mission Field knew where she was) these words came alive. With no hope of getting out, all contact with family and friends cut off, terrified of what each day would bring, Here was a Father she could pray to, commune with and trust The Communists so strong and powerful in that City could not alter the fact that truly He was in Heaven as well as with any one who will trust Him. “HALLOWED BE THY NAME.” How often had she : repeated these words! How often have we too mumbled them while our thoughts were miles away?* Now, with the Communist guards cursing and blaspheming God with every breath, she knew “How Holy Thy Name.’’ “THY KINGDOM COME” Here with no company but the huge rats which shared her cell until she finally worked out pieces of brick out of the walls and stopped up their entrances, she knew that in spite of ali the Communists fn the world All the evil, destruction and want, His Kingdom Will Come. Just as surely as the sun shone! And she could see the rays slanting through the tiny high window in her cell. “THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN” She who had lived such a hur ried, busy life, now realized that time really matters very little in God’s Great Plan, Eventually His will shall be done "in earth as it is in heaven" Nothing can stop it or prevent it. She began to feel such courage as she had nevei* known ' before. ' “GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD" How many times had she prayed this while living in the luxury of : her colonial Chareston home, with , all the rich, southern-cooked food i one could desire? Here, not being sure she would get any food at all, I and even in her extreme hunger, I not knowing if shfe could possibly , eat the sort of food brought, this sentence became vital. Sometimes they served dog meat (a delicacy to some of her Chinese friends) but not to her taste at all. Once on some strange looking vegetables that she feared for fear it might be poison, was a large, boiled spider of the tarantula family, (her meat portion for the day). To make it worse a Communist regu lation that all food must be aatan, Now she prayed with an earnest ness she had never dreamed 1 possible, "GIVE US THIS DAY 1 OUR DAILY BREAD.)’ “AND FORGIVE US OUR 7 TRESPASSES AS WE FORGIVE ' THOSE WHO TRESPASS : AGAINST US ’’ She had never had a real enemy ' in her life. Os course she had said these words without too much thought. Now in order to share this wonderful fellowship with her bVIOLET RAYS ON ;our WAYS . BY H. Jtf. ALLEY i Note: This column Is wrilt n tr! malice toward none, but V.i't . common good of ali in nun I V • »-* • t It is generally supposed that if all workers in every sphere of! activity who go to sleep on the job, were laid end to end on Beauty Rest Mattresses, they would be much more refreshed upon awaking. t; *# * * When a reporter in a recent news conference asked the presi dent if he had any comment to make about the avowed" purpose of Democratic campaign strate gists to make him target of all their attacks instead of members of his cabinet, Mr. Eisenhour promptly replied: “Well, I think Lord, she must forgive the atro cities of her captors who had de prived her of all earthly possess ions, exiled her from her people. She must also forgive them the cruelty she had seen done to the Chinese soldiers and women and children Yes, she must completely for give them before she could ask Gpd to forgive her. Suddenly she realized how much she too needed forgiveness for sins she had not felt she had. A life time of saying the Lord’s Prayer as a pretty poem, but without meaning it; the fail ure to read and know God’s Word, so that it eouhj never be taken away from her. Yes, she needed to be forgiven too, and she wofkejl on this sentence until she could pray it with ftll the meaning it implies FORGfVR US OUR TRESPASSES AS WE FORGIVE THOSE ” WHO TRESPASS AGAINSTUS.” “LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION” How very lightly she had said this True she had met the usual temptations a normal girl meets, but this sentence never weighed heavijy on her. Now she was faced with "the temptation to end all temptations”. If she would declare she was not a Christian, denounce Christ (Completely, she stood a good chance to i)S Released. Many, of bsr friends weakened and when she said grace over her meals, they j who were in tearing would say, , for benefit of the guards, “Wha|t Nonsense!’) (Not that they meant this, hut just in the hope they would gain favor)- Now she must pray out of her owa peed, fer vently “LEAD US NO? IHJQ TEMPTATION,” OflO I realized that her liberty infant nothing in comparison with the ' loyalty she owed her Saviour, and she Thanked fk>d for "leading her not into temptation” AND DELIVER US FflOM EVIL” She had some knowledge of evil. We all do. But here she was surrounded and enclosed by evil of the most cruel and destructive nature on qgrth. Now she. fairly cried out the • words "DELIVER US FROM EVIL”. We who sat listening so her, knew that after 4% years she is trply deliv#ed from evil, for nothing can eye? harm her soul, refined by the furnace of her imprisonment. "FOR THINE IS THE KING DOM AND THE POWER AND THE GLORY FOREVER, AMEN" Could any one ever doubt it? Can we leave our Bible’s dusty on the table? Can we ever again mumble over the Lord’s Prayer without really meaning it? ■ ■! - ■■ ■— i THE YANCEY RECORD^ ****************** ****** POETRY COSHES Conducted By Edith Deaderlok Ersktae i • SALT \ All my life, and it seems ages, , I have but barely tasted this. Hungered, for this is common wisdom, That brings one—palate-bliss. Wanted “more”, a fault as human As all who crave —get less— Though in my case is substituted With true-heart happiness. „ Lena Mearle Shull, Asheville it is perfectly Correct. I am the head of the Administration, and I have been shot at before." There you have it, -the proper attitude and answer of a great soldier, a great statesipan, and a great presi dent. So, let the Democrats fire away. The target is ready. But watch out for the recoils and the backfire! . »*t* Speaking of politics on the nat ional front makes us wonder about the riflemen and the targets . . on the local level. (Yancey County.) What, no fireworks, -not even any sniping? What can be done to in ject a little fire and toe spirit into the political scene on the home front? If things continue moving as quietly as at present, half the voters in Yancey County won’t wakfe up in time to get to the polls. Even the “good old days’’ we have heard some of the older citizens speak of, when rocks, brought to town toy the pocketfull, would be left scattered pvejr Burnsville Square following political jrallies, -even that kept the citizens awake, and ready to contend for "prin ciples t?)// #* # * Uncle Josh says: “Bust my gal luses gentlemens, come ‘lection time down tt} Cedar Crick in the old days, th boys' a get ther gander up a sight in this world. Both Donkeycr/uts and Ellyphants would go on the wafpach, gjj sech kickin an sportin ye ail never seed gor heered l# all yer life. Fer weeks ahead both sides would be wqrkin like killin snakes fer to roqnrj pp the strays , An ft Heap of a tea) in an bribing an biddin agin one another went along on the aide. Some deadbeats would hold out to the last ti see if t'other side would ] false the bid star . iber votes, an some of ’em made more op ther J vojt.es than they'd earned by honest I Wftfk in thjrjee months Leaders on both sides would give spgartits to the risky ‘uns, an study lip some job, just to keep 'em away from t'efh?r side. They’d even sleep with the lousey cpitfe.rj a few nights fjfore the Big Day, ti keep «m safe. ! Then qq 'Lection mornin, they'd march 'em in apd ygfp ‘eta ther way. Course would preach party platforms an pmi tuples to these sell-outers, tryin to convert 'em. But shucks! I figure a foliar who'daed hfs vote wouldn’t know a principle, iffen he met hit a-coming down the big road,” . i *# * # Asked to name the greatest dan gers of flying, a clever airlines pilot replied, "there are two, eq ually dangerous: riding in your own ear or a taxi tp from the airport!' Saw fn Asheville papers recently where four of our local fellows had entered their prized Sport Cars in rupqrvised Highway Speed contests, taking place in another County, And here we had been thinking that all the Burnsville and Yancey County Speed Fan-s (atics) had.. been using Main Street, and other local routes for race courses, fight in the midst of other traffic. Pardon me, pArdners . . . Nuff Sed. i Attention Hemorrhoid (Pie) Sufferers i A Wonderful N«w Discovery Just Put On The Market- An ointment that has bean usad for the past two years by a prominent Mt. Holly, N. C. doctor who states “During the past thirty-seven years of geo. eral practice I have used all the well known and accepted reme dies for the relief of Hemor rhoids—without a doubt the formula known as SUTHERENE gives the most satisfactory re lief that 1 have ever used.** SUTH BRINE is especially re commended fer the soothing relief of pain and itching in Hemorrhoid (piles). In many cases bleeding has been stopped. Ask for SUTHERINE at all drug stores. c un. | r Far truly; the earth is the/Lorcte and the fullness thereof cut the responsibility for its stewardship . is vested in man. v STEWARDSHIP OF THE SOIL By Bov. Warren S. Reeve f "The Stewardship of Our Soil is (he subject to be stressed in some of the ehurehes oft Yancey County on §unday, May 0. At the last meeting of the Yancey Ministerial Association, it was agreed that the churches there represented would join with the Yancey Soil Conser vation District in sponsoring this pto#ervgpce. “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.., wrote the Psa lmist. Therefore no man is ever the absolute owner of his property, but everyone is a teflftttf of God’s and * - - - ■ ■ - - ■- : - imiljH ——' —■ — —- I Ruby’s flower & Gift Shop | BmSH?EE4-UP SPECIE! * Extra-tough enamel for ****4Sgggi perches, decks, exterior and Interior floors and steps SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PORCH-FLOOR ENAMEL '■ .■ j • • . . \ . s— ■ [_ypMX < 3uart Porc h & Floor Enamel anc * rus^ # r ®9- $3-00 1 nOW a * $ 2e29 N FREE with this special . , , trial package of Kem Brush Cleaner B. B. Penland & Son Lumber Co. PHONE NO. 8 BURNSVILLE, N. C. | - ■ : ' ——— ”, .. / • - ...... I • , - • under obligations to use his fields considerately and intelligently. In the long run, more blessed is he who enriches his land than he who gradually robs it of its fertility. > Surely God is not pleased when men take His good gifts and spoil them in selfish exploitation or allow them to deteriorate because of neglect. The churches, therefore, and the Yancey Soil Conservation . District together would have people reflect on the responsibilities laid upon us with respect to land and water and forest resoure^m, May we all deal with our Japd and its soil and products in such away. that future generations, THURSDAY, HIAY S) lftM L* -rp (words o ; „ - ♦' 7 |( ANYTHING >OU MIGHT WANI WHILE IJV\ pOWNTOWW Ltrs iar ir- ~ j Ohio Edison Company recently disclosed plans for “electronic brain” supervision of 35 steam ' generators in nine plants across Ohio, including automatic deter? mination of the heat content of the coal. 4 • * ♦ Indian painting, done on rock,' bone, hides, wood, pottery and cot ton cloth, was already an ancient art when Spanish Conquistadors forded the Rio Grande and moved into the American Southwest. t ooking back on what we have done, wi|l dec»&te that wo were faithful and worthy stewards of the trust imposed upon ufi.
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