The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-06-18
THE NEWS OF WHITMIRE.
Fine Meeting Township S. S. Con-
vention-Mr. Wicker Suffers Se-
rious sAccident-Persona

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Whitmire, June 16.-The district
Sunday school convention met with
US, at Whitmire, last Sunday. Mr..
E. E. Child, chairman, presided over
the meeting and he, Mr.. W. H. Sher-
ard, Mr.. w. B. Gordon, Mr.. j. w.
Hipp, Mr.. T. H. Watson and Miss
Alma Lupo, welcomed US to their
beautiful Y. M. C. A. building, which
had been offered for this occasion,
and did what they could to add to
our comfort and pleasure. The nlu-
sic, under the direction of Mr.. W. B..
Gordon and his choir of trained
helpers, was enjoyed by all.
The devotional exercises were
conducted by Revs. ]. P. Simpson and
E. G.. Ross. Mrs. H. L. Parr was
the first speaker, she has the infant
department. She spoke beautifully
of the early impressions of religion
and of the great and lasting value of
devoted godly parents, who train
their children in the nurture and
admonition Of the Lord. Mrs. Parr
is we'll known in the county, as one
of our devoted, loyal church and
Sunday school workers. The heart
of every woman in the audience
glowed with pride as we |. Sened to
our sisters sweet words of advice
and encouragement. Then came DR..
Geo. B. Cromer, whose subject was
'The Bible the Only True Guide"
We have all heard DR.. Cromer but he
is a speaker of whom people never
grow weary. He is always ready
with a new thought and clothes it in
words SO appropriate that to listen
is pleasure. He spoke of the Bible,
the greatest of books, of it's history,
it's contents, it's great value to us
and voiced a sentiment that we have
long and deeply felt, that this book
should be thoroughly taught in the
schools.
We were then given an intermis-
sion for dinner. We repaired to the
banqueting hall upstairs and the la
dies of the different committees ar
ranged the repast. As we partook
of this sumptuous feast we forgot
for awhile all about the high cost of
living. The fact, that while you ate,
you could be comfortably seated,
have an individual plate, a fork or
spoon and a glass of ice water, add
ed greatly to comfort on this hot
day.
After dinner Col. E. H. Aull spoke
to us of "Why the Sunday School is
No Greater Power Than 1t Is" We
appreciate Col. Aull's good qualities
and he has done so much to help
Whitmire that we are always glad to
hear him talk. Among the many
good things which he said, he paid
beautiful tribute to the work done
by the ministers and our Christian
colleges. He said that these, together
with the Christian homes, are hold
ing the nation together just now, and
up them, especially the lat
ter, our future power as a nation
depends. He agrees with DR.. Crom-
er that the Bible should be taught in
our schools. AS an editor he has an
opportunity to push this idea.
Mr.. Jno. C. Goggans, our efficient
clerk of the court and a noble, court
eous Christian gentleman, spoke of
"The Adult and the Sunday School,"
He said that at the beginning the age
limit for this institution was from
six to IA years and it seemed hard
to get away from that idea, for one
of our great problems is to keep the
adolescent in the Sunday school. He
stressed the fact that our great mis-
take is in quitting too soon. He
stated how many years he had been
going to Sunday school and said he
had no idea of quitting. We could
hardly believe Mr.. Goggans was that
old, but decided that his mother car
ried him to Sunday school in his in
fancy.
Mr.. Arthur Kibler and DR.. w. C.
Brown discussed what Can I Do?"
Mr.. Kibler spoke of the poor pay
given preachers, teachers, editors
and lawyers and Of the invaluable
services rendered by them in the
late worlds conflict. He reminded
the farmers of what they can and
must do to feed the world and avoid
a famine, and spoke to the cotton
mill presidents and operatives, whose
part it is to clothe humanity, told OF
what some rich men are doing for
the cause of Christ, of the chaos that
would exist without the church and
Sunday school and said that all
strikes, riots and strife between la
bor and capital will end when we
live by the Golden Rule.
DR.. w. C. Brown told Of how little
some persons who live in Christian
communities, know of the Bible and
of what we can do to improve these
conditions. He cited certain cases
of what an individual has done, es-
pecially the case of Miss Pinkie Lee
Estes, thus showing what we all
might do if we would only use the
talents which God has given. We
enjoyed having our Newberry friends
with us and hope they will be like
Col. Aull, who says he doesn't need
.xo~,, oool avo,eo to ,oaka him