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THE UNION PRESS-COURIER.
Thursday, January 26, 1939.
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THE SOWER
A Weekly Department of Religious
and Secular Thought Contributed
by REV. JAMES A. TURNER,
Pastor, M. E. Church, Patton, Pa.
INTELLIGENT BEING—
OR MOTH?
Whichever you are can be determin-
ed if you read the following by Dr.
Bailey:
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| be saved we must be socialized; that
| is, we must always exercise our in-
stinsts in view of another’s good, never
| exclusively in view of our own need.
It will be discovered, then, that sal-
vation cannot be an instantaneous pro-
cess nor one that is completed short of
eternity.
For as we ourselves progress from
| selfish individuals to socialized beings
| —as life reveals to us wider and wider
| reaches of experiencee, more numer-
| ous contacts with persons, more rela-
| tionships to be established on a high
| level, we realize that salvation is a
| never-ending process. It cannot be com-
selves and for others, we see that to endance at the mid-week Bible study
class on Wednesday evening.
Every professing Christian should
never let a week go by without spend-
ing at least an hour in the study of the
i Bible — a half hour at Sunday School
and another half hour at the Wednes-
day evening class. To omit that pri-
velege from one’s weekly program is
to trifle with one's soul's salvation.
, No man or woman can be the kind
| of Christian he or she ought to be with-
| out a systematic study of that great
| literature which has been the inspira-
tion of all great men and women since
| the beginning of the Christian re-
I ligion. The mid-week Bible class last
|
! i wi me | for a half an hour, from 7:30 to 8:00.
“ iverse gave us our bleted until our wills have become 2 nH 3
ng Ponies 2 then pro- | habituated to a socialized reaction in | Come and bring your bible and get a
ceeded to show their inadequacy, it| all possible adjustments to all possible | blessing.
was logically obligated to provide! persons including the Infinite. How-
some remedy. That remedy it did pro- | ever, when the general set of our MOTOR FEDERATION
vide. In general we call it Intelligence | total will is in that direction, we may
or Mind — the conscious part of us| be said to be saved.”
that judges whether an instinctive act
and then suggests another way. With-
out this intelligence and its special
peat indefinitely a damaging act.
A moth gets singed in the flame,
has been burned, and though it dreads
the fire it tries another method of get-
ting satisfaction out of it; until after
Only by virtue of intelligence can we
profit by experience.
Instincts, Memory, and Control!
These endowments distinguish us from
the lower animal world only by hav-
ing added to them Conscience, — that
something that judges Instinct — In-
telligence plus pressure applied to acts
or impulses that have a better-or-
worse aspect, impulses that are capable
of doing damage to our standards of
integrity, or threatining our spiritual
intergration and our growth. It is a
sort of advisory traffic signal which
says when we come to a fork in the
road: ‘The left road will not take you
where you really want to go. Better
take the right.’
We are now ready tor a practical
definition of two religious terms, Sin
and Salvation — interpreted from a
| himself or
stupidity.
Eemerson said that “the greatest ary 1st, has the indirect effect of driv-
some years it makes fire its servant. | enterprise in the world, for splendor, | ing thousands of automobiles from the
for extent, is the upbuilding of a man.”
It is necessary for all of us, young and year, Rupp said.
old, to idealize something, to have a
goal far beyond our reach, and, as
Stevenson said, “to keep traveling
hopefully toward it.”
Hitch your wagon to that great Star,
the Church, and you will someday
find yourself in the company of the
Aristocracy of the Universe, the cream
of Mankind, the Archangels of the
Living God, standing in the eternal,
effulgent light of the Throne of the
Everlasting Creator, ever to behold
the glory and the beauty of His end-
less day.
PATTON METHODIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
psychological viewpoint. Sin may now
be defined as the failure to transform
an instinct — the state in which we
are content with the direct, unmodi-
fied release of our biologic urges re-
gardless of how that release affects
our whole personality, present and
future, or the personalities of others.
Selfishness and sin are failures (to
transform because of disregard for an
ultimate good.
Salvation may be defined as that
state "in which instincts are trans-
formed. Since that transformaation is
in the direction of fuller personality
and greater survival value for our-
Church School 10 A. M., Preaching
11 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. Prayermeeting
Wednesday at 7:30 P. M.
On Tuesday evening, the 17th, the
Adult Bible Class met in the Church
Parlor with the following members
present: Mr. and Mrs. Eli Steir, Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Steir, Mr. and Mrs.
John Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. James
Blake, Miss Millie O’Brien,, Mrs. John
Morgan, Mrs. Mae Jenkins, Mrs. Mary
Marshall, and Mr. A. C. Winslow.
A special request is being sent to
the membership of the Church to help
us in our campaign to incrase the att-
These definitions of Sin and Sal-
has been blocked or has failed to se-| vation should be committed to mem-
curethe good at which it was aimed, | ory. An intelligent man, like Paul, con-
{ tirrually “presses on” to better things
through the directions of experience
tools, Memory, we might destroy our- | and conscience. The “Moth” is the per-
selves without knowing it or might re- | son who never learns anything, either
by experience or conscience, who shuts
herself away from the
but having no intelligence or memory | Church, religious activities and spirit-
flies at the attracting object again and | ual growth, and stays on a dead level
again, until its fool life is extinguish- | Of selfish self-seeking and crude ani-
ed. A burned child perceives that it mality, and comes eventually to the | go 4 of March 1st.
foe fire of their own folly and
WANTS CAR LICENSES
DUE DATE ON APRIL 1
Harrisburg.—The Tennsylvania Mo-
tor Federation has announced it would
| back legislation to change the date for
| new automobile license plates from
January 1 to April 1.
John A. Rupp, president of the Fed-
eration said bills will be introduced
this week along with a companion mea-
sure to make the renewable date for
operators’ licenses February 1st, in-
The present system of renewing the
Pennsylvania Hotor Licenses on Janu-
roads during the early months of the
“These cars are put in garages when
the old licenses expire and are not
registered until March or April. The
average motorist with a small income
needs his money to pay year-end,
| Christmas and other holiday bills. He
expects winter weather to curtail his
driving and prefers to spend his lim-
ited funds for purposes other than re-
newing his registration.
“The final result is that the motorist
loses the use of his car for several
months, the state loses a large amount
of potential gasoline tax revenue and
business loses trade.”
The Federation's suggestion for the
transition would be for 1939 plates to
be extended to March 1st and start re-
newing automobile licenses during that
month with April 1 as the deadline.
Do You Know?
| The number of persons living on
| farms in this country is approximately
the same as in 1910, even though the
population as a whole has increased 33
per cent. The farm population, which
is about one-fourth of the total popula-
tion, accounts for one third of the
births and one half of the excess of
births over deaths each year.
At the end of 1936 there were 1,-
036 anti-opium hospitals and stations
in China, and 463 other hospitals of-
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SUDDEN OR VIOLENT
DEATHS CLAIM TOTAL
OF 400 IN CO. IN 1938]
CAMBRIA FARMERS WIN Jer. Patton, fifth; russets, G. H. Dumm,
POTATO EXHIBIT PRIZES | first; Donald Dumm, Bradley Junc-
| tion, second, Clair J. Dumm, Bradley
Cambria County Potato Growers | Junction, third, and Robert Dumm, of
A total of four hundred persons in| Were numbered among the victors in | Ebensburg, fourth.
: ; the competition at the annual
Cambria county met death in a sud- 2 :
der or violent Ya, in 1938—a ud-| form show at Harrisburg last week. | first; russets: G. H. Dumm, second;
crease of 176 from the previous rl : Akin
according to statistics our y by | awards were the following: District 3 | skin, Leo Hoover, Patton R. D., Pa.,
Coroner Patrick McDermott and his | —Rural White Skin, G. H. Dumm, Eb- | second; V. A. Holtz, Hastings, second;
deputy, John A. Conwey.
Of the 1938 total, 12 deaths hd, : s
classified as violent or accidental. The | POWer, Loretto, fourth; E. Paul Hoov- Vincent A. Holtz, Hastings, fifth.
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aptomobile fatalities headed the list
classified as violent or accidents in-
volving cars. While this figure is the |
lowest in some years it still headed |
the list of deaths that occurred from |
accidents or violence. The automobile |
fatality toll in 1937 was 55.
With 27 recorded, mine fatalities
ranked second in the 1938 list of ac- |
cidental deaths, according to the cor-
oner’s report. However this was a de-
crease from 1937 when 31 persons met
their deaths in mine mishaps.
Showing that fatal accidents occur |
in the home just the same as any |
place else, 16 deaths were charged off |
to falls in homes and six to falls from |
buildings, trucks and other things out-
side buildings. The totals for the pre-
ceding year were 12 and 7 respective-
ly.
There were no murders in Cambria
county in 1938 as compared to five in
1937 and a similar number in 1936. |
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A sharp increase in suicides over
the preceding year was noted in the
county. In 1938 a total of 30 persons
took their own lives in comparison to
18 the preceding year.
One person suffocated to death last
year, while eight others were burned
fatally. The coroner's report showed
12 other accidental deaths, including
one who was injured fatally in the
steel industry.
Alcoholism claimed three persons,
while a total of 260 persons died ud-
denly of natural causes. These cases
were also investigated by the Coroner
or his assistant.
DEADLINE FOR CAR
INSPECTION FALLS
LAST DAY OF MONTH
It's one thing after another for mo-
torists,
On January 15th owners were com-
pelled to put their car in storage un-
less they had 1939 license plates. And
if they do have them they'll still be |
28th if they want to continue opera-
denied use of the highways if they
fail to get an inspection sticker on
their car by January 31st.
Then drivers must renew their op-
erators’ cards on or before February |
ting an automobile.
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