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(Continued from lastweek)
In 1881, Sir Flinder Petrie ac
curately surveyed the Pyramid of
Gizeh. This was the beginning of
attention to minutive as he rec
ognized the extreme value, insig
nificant as these “potsherds”
might seem.
Winds and rains wash soil a
- from the surface of mounds,
exposing thousand of fragments
of pottery of all the periods rep
resented in the “tell”, consequent
ly even before digging by sections,
vertically, apchoeologists can
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trinkets donated by the parishioners.
The other bell had traveled hundreds of thousands of
miles on a Southern Railway locomotive. After many
[years of service it was bound for the scrap pile.
When fire swept the Bethania church in 1942, the
sweet-toned bell made from coins and trinkets was
destroyed. Parishioners missed its pleasant call. So,
when the church was restored, a search was made for
« bell of the same pure tone.
But it couldn’t be found. Then a member of the
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
come very close to the accurate
date of history of all the settle
ments.
In Palestine, at Tell el Hesi,
Petrie gathered “sherds” as well
as unbroken vessells, from their
respective levels. When dateable
objects like scarabs, jewelry,
coins, and inscriptions were found
with them in each level, he was
able to date the sherds. Thus in
other places, related examples of
pottery could always he dated by
similarity or comparative data, to
the same period. But now, even
comparative materials are not
needed, not necessary. Pottery is
now used as a criterian for dating
other objects found in the same
level. The work is most carefully,
meticulousely done. Even five
series are employed to catch the
smallest cultural object for it
might prove the greatest in im
portance.
This work is not “island hop
ping”, nor haphazard hunting for
antiques. The archoeologist real
pottery, shapes of vases, material,
color, and other details, change
from generation to generation,
that the successive periods of oc
cupation of a site can be recog
nized by the fragments of broken
pottery found in these successive
layers; that by a multitude of ob
servations, there can be construct
ed a sort of chronological scale,
approprate to any fresh sets that
may be opened up in the same
country, or even elsewhere. The
importance of little things, the
precise observation of the position
of objects found, the careful in
dication of this upon each object
of discovery, the painstaking and
accurate date recording, have
r-ade the technique of digging,
". cientific”. For all of this we are
indebted to Sir Flinders Petrie
who inaugurated the modem era
of archoeology.
Archoeologists are never inten
tional destructive. Their buried
A Bell for Bethania
THIS is a story of two bells.
One hung in the belfry of the
little Moravian Church in Beth
ania, N. C. It was made 105 years
ago from coins and treasured
THE BLACK MOUNTAIN NEWS
Concern Over Veterans
Filing Long Period
Allowance Claims
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Ralei-h. August— Concern over
the large numbers of World War
II veterans who have filed claims
for servicemen’s readjustment al
lowances for long periods had
prompted the Veterans Adminis
tration to conduct a survey to
find the causes for unemployment
for those veterans who have filed
claims for 20 weeks or more, Col.
A. L. Fletcher, Readjustment Al
lowance Agent in North Carolina,
announces.
Blanks to be filled out by vet
eran claimants have been pre
pared by the State Unemployment
Compensation Commisssion for
distribution through local Em
ployment Service offices to vet
erans claiming allowances for 20
weeks or more. Information is
sought on age, sex, disability, if
■any, date of discharge from ser
vice, types of work done before,
during and since military service,
reasons for separation from re
cent jobs, efforts to get jobs, nur
jobs refused, with reasons, job
mbers of employers contacted and
training courses taken or being
or to be taken or refused.
Data secured will give a rea
sonably accurate picture of why
such veterans continue to draw
allotments and a closer check is
to be made with a view to re
quiring them to take jobs or suit
able training couses in job train
ing. The object is to seek to stop
payments if it is found that vet
erans refuse suitable jobs or re
fuse suitable on-the-job-training.
treasures are indeed, precious.
They are mutely eloquent.
Mrs. Thomas Sharp
Member, American School
of Oriental Research
Yale University and Jerusalem.
church, Frank T. Miller, recalled the beautiful tones
of some of the locomotive bells of his boyhood days. He
wrote a letter to the Southern Railway System ... and
now, a mellow-toned old bell from a Southern Railway
locomotive hangs in the belfry of the Bethania church.
We like to think of this bell of ours still serving the
community... still “belonging” to the people it served
in another way for so many years. We like to think the
whole railway “belongs” in the same friendly way in
all the communities it serves.
Whether it’s transporting freight or passengers.. .or
providing a “Bell for Bethania”... our job is, and always
will be, to serve the South in eveiy way we can.
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or the infliction of bodily pain;
wrongdoers were held in prison only
until they were tried or executed.
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Lesson for Augu»* 18
Lesson aublectsandScrtpture^est^Mj
bXlJS’Nation; u~d by
perm last on.
JESUS AND THE BACREDNEBS
OF HUMAN LIFE
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unto you. That who§o«vor t* *
hi* brothtr without a j.jj.
danger of thaTudgment.-Matthcw
Human lift is sacred, and that is
not primarily because of any aw
of man, but because God created
man in his own likeness and image.
Since that is true, no man has
any right to take the life of another
for any cause except at the direct
command of God. Only by e
orderly process of law for the pro
tection of society and in accordance
with the Word of God may there
be any such action by man toward
man. , , .
Both of these truths are declared
in Scripture in God’s covenant with
Noah (Gen. 9:5, 6), which was made
possibly a thousand years before the
Ten Commandments were given to
Moses.
I. The Prohibition of Murder
(Exod. 20:13).
The word “kill” in this command
ment is one which means a violent
and unauthorized taking of life, and
■is therefore more properly translat
ed "murder.”
Not all killing is murder. A man
may kill another entirely accidental
ly, or he may be the duly con
stituted legal officer carrying out
the law of the land in taking the life
of one who has forfeited his right
to live because he has slain another.
There is also the right of self-de
fense, be it individual or collective
as in war. But these are the only
exceptions; let us not attempt to
justify any other.
Murder is more prevalent than
most of us suppose. In 1944 there
was a murder every fifty minutes
In our land.
Do not forget the deaths, the de
struction of life, by avoidable auto
mobile accidents. Some of these
were really murder because the
one responsible drove with defec
tive brakes, dangerous tires, or
while he was intoxicated. Add to
these the deaths In industry caused
by failure to provide proper safe
guards or healthy working condi
tions, and by the exploitation of
child labor, and we say that we
should cry aloud, ‘‘Thou shalt do no
murder.”
n. The Provocation to Murder
(Matt. 5:21, 22).
Murder finds its provoking cause
in the heart of man. Our Lord was
concerned about correcting the de
sires rather than to apprehend the
offender after the act had been
committed. It is the better way,
and the more effective one.
In this matter of murder, Jesus
cut right through the outward as
pects of the matter and pointed out
that an angry hatred in the heart
ict the root of all murder. If we
hate, we have murder in our hearts.
Circumstances may hinder its ful
fillment, but the danger is always
there until we remove the cause.
May God help those of us who
have strong feelings that we may
not yield them to the devil in such
anger against our brother!
111. The Prevention of Murder
(Matt. 5:23, 24; 10:29-31; 18:10-14).
Prevention with God means more
than putting up a barrier to try to
keep men from killing one another.
He deals with the heart of man,
and when that is right the whole
life will be right. There must be
1. A Right View of Self (Matt. 5:
23, 24). We must learn by prayer
and humility of heart to suffer at
the hands of others, to keep peace,
to seek our brother’s welfare.
Note that it is not even a question
of how we may feel against our
brother. If he has aught against us
we are to do all we can to win him.
We who believe in Christ are to
be in deed as well as word the
children of our heavenly Father
(Matt. 5:45), loving not only those
who are kind to us but also our ene
mies.
2. A Right View of God (Matt.
10:29-31). He who knows when a
sparrow falls to the ground is con
cerned about the smallest detail of
our lives. No man can lay hands
of violence on another man with
out having to reckon with God about
his misdeeds.
Our God is not afar off and too
concerned with eternal affairs to be
mterested in the sufferings of the
individual. He is here now, and we
should count him into every rela
tionship of life. .
3. A Right View oi Man (Matt
18:10-14). Even the little ones, ap
parently defenseless and at the
mercy of a cruel world, have guard
ian angels who have access to the
throne of God. He has a special
interest in the lost and rejoices
in the rescue of the one who has
strayed so we see that even those
whom the world regards as weak
and unimportant are in the mind
of God for good. He watches over
tnem.
The man who sees himself for
Corf l tv t S ’ a , nd who realizes what
God thinks of man, will find that
Wlth the c °mmand of
God, Thou shalt not kill."
Thursday Augustin I9 J
NATURE STUDY ll
By Mrs Thomas Sharp ||
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Chicory (Succory) an<) I
St. John’s Wort I
Grass with green fj ag . , I
mast high Succorv to . hal( ‘l
sky.” Emerson. a
Chicory continues the n I
scheme of the sky. Co ‘°t|
“You’d think a piece of hea J
lay on our earth below." eil l
In bright sunshiny 3
with the dew sparkling Upon j*j|
is irrestibly facinatine tv ’ V
*>«*»» , Mybul , „
of the Chicory fsamilyl i t mkw |
ennial herb, erect, branching S|
long, deep, fleshy tap-root, nl
grooved, angular stalk i s j e |
hairy, scrawly, and rigid ”4*l
sharply-cut basal leaves, narrow!
ed into long stems, f orm r *1
that spread along the pound J
do those of its relative, the Da I
delion. The upper leaves clasp nil
stalk. They are smaller, lancJl
shaped, and lobed. This attract! J
plant bears the nick-name, BIJ
Sailors, because the very shorn,!
wheel-like blossoms are such ■
exquisite blue. In twos and three!
they are scattered along the near!
ly naked stalk at short intervals!
and they are set closely and ve!
tieally against the stalk, amid sev!
eral short, spreading leaflets, Jhl
florets, strap-shaped rays R -J
square, ragged, five-toothed ends!
are arranged in several spread; M
circles radiating from a flat. i ea f!
green cup. There is one peculiar!
ity about these flowers which yo®
will notice as you watch them' B
the window of the Black MountJ
Drug Co. See them in the earl®
morning, if possible, as they ope®
only in the sunshine, and close a®
noon. In cloudy weather they inayß
remain open all day. I
The ground roots are used as ®
substitute for, or an adulterant fl
coffee, also to give coffee "body®
and color, or sometimes. mere®
flavor. The tender roots may ®
boiled and served like carrots. I®
France, the young, tender leave®
are used as a pot herb. The ivate®
should be poured off once nr twi®
to remove the bitter taste, as ill
cooking Dandelions, The Frenc®
make an excellent salad of thl
leaves. I
Horace and Vergil mentions®
this plant. It was extensively use®
by the Egyptians. I
St. John’swort—Hypericum H
Perforation I
Although held in high repute bfl
the ancients, this plant is 4iw®
ious to the farmer as it is a vara®
pire, exhausting his soil. H
The dew which gathers upoH
this odd plant during the night be®
fore St. John’s Day, July 24. tvafl
believed to have peculiar .yjakne®
that would preserve the eye-sigh®
The smooth, slender, much®
branching, leafy stalk has car.®
barren shoots at its base. Th®
leaves, in opposite pairs, are th:®
textured and oblong with a round®
ing point. The “peculiar trait i®
"ribs” have between them
black specks. The
the spotted under-surface. " 3 ®
very fine, seemingly m edle-?ri c |®
ed, specks, (perforatum !•
the leaves to the light. The
can then be easily seen. Ihe m-C 3 ®
deep yellow flowers have
usually oblique petals that
finely notched along
Their surface is also covered
tiny black specks. These
are grouped in several :i,, ' n .
minals clusters while those 1
Hyperium Ellipticum haw ■
few five petalled flowers ll!1
simple usually four-angled
The St. John’s wort blossom? : ®
summer. The flowers ‘ j^B
to a rusty brown, never dr
The yellow “threads’ in tl!l
die, when bruised, yield a re ‘
juice, like blood. Small " ■
heads, containing small a
seed, which smell like resin '
low. . ,0®
The ancients used pa rts 1
plant as a remedy for woan ll3e
bruises. They are still so
The tops are mashed to ,®
in olive oil, making a bah"
warrior’s wound. The c r ‘
leaves have an order "°J' 1
like balsam. The j u ' ce
acrid, balsamic, bitter
will yield its properties t ' ®
alcohol, and water. It
used “in olden days f" 1 JB
urinary affection, and
tringent, sedative and d' ure , . V H
To prevent the entrap ‘ ®
spirits, in England anc ' . V :.H:
on the Eve of St. John > *3®
dows and doors were * n'®^
with this Wanderer r< " n j ir
World. There was a
lief that this w 011 *
“lightening strokes • 1 ; B
used to carry it in then v , 5
a protection against >''
The German women mm-' ■
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