The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1913-03-21
Santuc Letter.

lied at the Baptist church last 8
day, and quite a number are star
out as if to make it a good sci
and we hope they will continue
attend all the time when Provid(
permits. The officers are: DIR. J
Jeter, superintendent; w. o. ID
assistant; E. w. Jeter, secretary
treasurer.
Rev. A. McA. Pittman filled his
pointment at the Baptist CHI
here Sunday morning, then wenI
his appointment at Shiver's Spri
Rev. o. N. Rountree filled his
pointment at the Methodist CHI
in the afternoon the same day.
went down to Carlisle two s
days ago to attend the Fish
Township Sunday Schoon convent
just to learn, to be benefited,
recreation, and to see the people !
enjoyed the time spent there,
there was not very large attd
ance-not as much as l exped
to see. DR.. F. M. Ellerbe, DR.. G. |
B. Smith of Jonesville, and Mr.. Std
jolly and H. E. Brewington of Un
were the visitors from a distance.
Last week was a very rainy d
only two days could there be
farm work done, out of the six,
l needed to do eight, if l could. !
earth is soaking wet, but l feel Il
there will be time to do all of
ploughing yet. Much other work
needed to be done yet. 4.81 incl
was the weeks precipitation.
Some of the farm lands about i
place are running down, or bel
helped down at a fearful rate, 4
if it keeps on for a decade as it
the past few years, we will have
most CALLED section as background
this town that you ever saw, and
will no more look like d desira
"half-acre" to try to farm at.
must say whether it is by renters
owners. Now we need that "Lal
saving Commission" that l have 8
this country needed. Oh! yes, /
may say it is not mine, and it
not any of my business, but h
about the people who may be Cd
pying this town and section fifty,
sixty years hence. And, too, we nd
to be living in a snowy section rs
1t is Gods creation and we haved
right to abuse it.
The coroner comes out in
Times last week and says that wa
wrong report that 1 heard ah
of one Charlie Thompson (who 4
him holding an inquest over the b1
from a self-inflicted wound), that
investigated the case and did
hold the inquest, and calls on me
correct the mater through fhe II.
also. I can only correct IT'D
statement in The Times, as he co
rected (which 1 guess everybot
accepts as true, as l do-for I ha,
no time now to hunt about to fiji
the source from whence the rumo
did come. If he says he did not, v
all know that is true. The report
heard proves now untrue and we a
cept that, but there was no "fal
statement which he claimed
heard" misrepresenting him, or an
one, nor to advertise" him, and
himself is taking a powerful lol
stride when he uses those terms
explaining things or making CORE
tions, as if he tries to think that W
my motive.
Rev. 0. N. Rountree recently sa
in sermon at the Methodist chure
preaching on the subject of "The S
of not doing, said the sin of n
doing was the damnning sin; al
that the Sunday School was an il
portant part of the church work "a
that no church or Sunday School
doing what it ought to do it "
committing a sin of not doing; tn
men sometimes would not do thin
would sometimes hide behind the v
men and wait for them to do, wou
say for the women and children
go to Sunday School or church VIII
they would stay at home. That
was great sin, sin of not doil
for a man or woman to sit by, dol
nothing and let the devil come rie
into the home and take the boy
girl off, etc. That many nice chul
members would stand a poor show
the thereafter" because they sit il
by, doing nothing, not helping in a
way to encourage, to set no good
ample, to bring the world to Chr
etc. These may not be exactly
words, but it is in substance
same so far as I could grasp the
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