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THE YANCEY RECORD , Established July, 1936 i_. > ABNEY and. TEEN A FOX CO-PUBLISHERS & EDITORS MISS HOPE BAILEY ASSOCIATE EDITOR T. L. BROWN SHOP MANAGER Published Every Thursday By YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY A Partnership Second Class Mail Privileges Authorized at Burnsville, N. C. 1 . .. —JJt’J J . HLJiI L'J. --Overlook On Life - By WARREN S. REEVE Note: The idea of ‘‘Overlook’’ is from the Overlooks provided for viewing panoramas along the Blue Ridge Parkway. i-wi , lb In last week’s Overlook we thought together about the mean ing of imagination in our lives. I •was incited to take up this sub ject because recently in my Bible reading, I was impressed again with the bold imagination~t>f the Bible writers. For exmple, the Psalmist wrote that “the mountains skipped like rams” (Psalm 14:4), and the prophet Isaiah wrote that God’s servant would “thresh the moun tains” (Isaiah 41:15) and pulverize the hills into chaff and that people could then take a fan and fan them and make them blow away! Isaiah also pictured God as com ing with.,a big scales in His hand and weighing the mountains in them! (Isaiah. 40:12), Simiarly, he says, God will put whole nat ions in the scales and weigh them, and in comparison with His might, they won’t amount to more than the dust that has accumlated oh the scales! (40:15). Another prophet (Nahum 1:3) likened the clouds to the dust that was shaken from God’s feet! People of other countries and cultures think in images very dif feret from our own. The pictures that spring to their minds are sometimes quite unintelligibje to us; often they appear grotesque or fantastic. The early followers of Buddhism formulated the teachings of their master in three groups. Each group they called a “basket”. Who in our day would describe a set of "teach ing as a, basket?. To a Buddhist, the’"three baskets” represents the whole of the ouster’s teaching. Centuries went by and, just as in Christian history, a “protestant” movement drew apart from the main Catholic stream of Church History, so in Buddhism there was a reformation. When they came to assign a! name to the protestant teachings, they called it the "Greater Vehicle’’, in contrast with the “Lesser Ve hicle” which signified the original traditional teachings. I cite this • For blpger- better cco Knock out nematodes WITH EASY-TO-USE i H^F • SOIL FUMIGANT Clear your soil of nematodes now and get bigger—better tobacco ... I yields at harvest. Use D-D soil fumigant. D-D soil fumigant is an easy-to-use liquid. You can apply it directly to the soil with gravity-flow or inexpensive pressure equip .< ment. Underground it becomes a lethal gas. killing root knot and other harmful nematodes as it spreads. Economical, tod—one treatment lasts an entire season. y<TTV\ This season use D-D soil fumigant before you f&Uß|rf plant. It’s available from your local pesticide dealer. See him today. SHELL CHEMICAL CORPORATION j , AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL SALES DIVISION j i _ 55 Marietta St., N. W., Atlanta 3, Georgia j Vk“ '' ’ " ' . ” / C case from Buddhist history to illustrate the way in which their minds framed mental pictures' that would strike us as very odd. It is as if we were to use the word “wagon” to describe the plAtforpi of a political party or the teachings of some school of philosophy. . The Egyptians and the Babylon ians had, also their favorite kinds of imagery and symbolism. What, for example, is the meaning of the Sphinx? Other Orientals were fond of numbers and pictured truth in terms of numbers. Bible readers, have puzzled all through the cen turies over the meaning of some of the numbers that occur in certain books of the Bible. Revelation 13:18 assigns a mystic number, 666, to the, “Beast” (the Devil). Is there a deep and hidden meaning in that number ? Perhaps no-4magery~of the Bible is harder for us to understand and be interested in than the pictures of God and of Heaven that are given in this book of Revelation. Really however they go back to the thoughts and visions that some of the prophets had. Ezekiel found that it took more than one picture to describe how he felt the Divine Being looked. First of all, God’s appearance impressed him like a mighty column of fire, terribly bright. (Ezekiel 1:4) But of course that alone was far from being a sufficient description of God. So, secondly, in order to stress how much alive God is, ,he said he saw “four beast.’’ ‘Now "beasts” is a bad translation of the Hebrew word that was used. The word meant “living creature”. Ezekiel was trying to make plain , ‘ ( i the “livingness” of God, i and if he had just said one living creature, it' wouldn’t have beeq emphatic enough. So he said there were four living creatures. The “livingness” of God was LIFE, to the fourth (degree. Thirdly, in the faith that man is created in the image of God, he Obituaries CECIL R. BODFORD » ' • . -V.- Cecit R. Bodford, 47, of Burns ville, Sled Sunday niglk in a Burnsville hospital after a long illness. ... 1 Funeral services were held Tuesday, Feb. 12,. at 2 p. m.-iii the Windom Baptist _ Church. The Rev. H. M. Alley and.i&e . .Ravi. As tor. Buchanan officiated and burial was in the Fete'Young' CemSfery: Survivlg are the widow, Mrs.; Odette Edwards Bpford; two daughters, Mass lha Ruth and Miss Virginia Bodford; a son, Eddie, all of the home; the mother, Mrs'. Bes sie Bodford of Johnson City, Tenn. and a sister, Mrs. Alma Miller of Baltimore, Md. THEODORE ROBINSON Funeral services for Theodore Robinson, 58, of Burnsville RFD 3, who died Tuesday night, Feb. 5, in wanted us to feel that God was not too different'from ourselves. And so each creature had a face! no, not just one face, Bpt four faces! - which again emphasized the fact of face. There' was a fur ther advantage in giving each creature four faces.-It meant that there was no direction where God was not facing. Nothing was hid behind the Ijfhd. To each of these .four creatures was attached a wheel. Now, who in our day, would think of a wheel-as away to describe God? And if we have not read this part of the Bible very much, this language will strike us as being queer, I have no doubt. We-will certainly .find it hard to.understand. I interpret the wheels to signify that God is mobile and that He is not tied down to any one spot. He can go anywhere. At what rate could He travel, let us ask? As fast as the lightning, said Ezekiel >(1:14); and in the same instant He could return to His starting point. What a maryellous. way of teach ing us that God is here, there, and everywhere, so that we may never dare to think that we are out of His reach or out of the range of His gaze, “of His gaze”, I said. Or, rather Ezekiel was saying it. In what language did he express it? He pressed the truth that God is seeing everything everywhere and at every minute with piercing scrutiny by saying that these wheels are “full' of eyes”. Full of eyes! They take in everything! , I could go oh and on this subject of imagination. To me it is fasci nating to study Bible imagery and , to school my imagination so that it may go along, even just a little bit, with the inspired imaginations of the prophets and apbstles. »»****>»*»*»*>*********»»»»»*»»*»***»**»»»*****’**' *. ,! ! t i\ MORE THAN j *' * f HALF \ i l * YOUE LIFE IS SPENT t * } IN YOUR HOME... ? A M S' - ; v | * ENJOY IT MORE! i i * * i ! 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Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ray a Marion hospital following a long illness, were held Thursday in., the Indian Creek Baptist Church. The Rev. W. E. Ray officiated, and burial was in the Robinson Cemetary. Surviving are his wife; a dau ghter, Mrs. Camel Johnson of Detroit. Mich.; four'dons, Mack of Burnsville RFD 3, Ed of Detroit, Mich., Clyde in the Air Force at Columbus, Ind., and Ralph of Lees-Mcßae College, Banner Elk; a sister, Mrs. Grady Robinson "of Burnsville RFD 3; two brothers, Fred and George of Burnsville RFD 3; and seven grandchildren. [ One of the deepest “subways”, in the world is found at a nickel n Ontario. More thar a mile underground 5,425 feet —I this railway carries men from the shaft bottom to their working sta-j . tions more than two miles away. COMPLETE SELECTION GRASS AND FIELD SEED Danish Orchard Grass ' (Onion Free) Ky. Blue Grass (21 lb. test) FESCUE Certified Ky. 31 CLOVER Certified Ladino Red’*'" Sapling White Dutch ALFALFA Certified Atlantic J Oklahoma V. S. V. O. 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