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Volume XII.
Boomer, North Carolina, November, 1922.
Number 7.
THE VALLEY OF TEARS
Once, when' the world was folden
Heavy with unshed right,
Hidden and unbeholden
Of God's piercing sight,
Thou didst awaken and borrow
Time from the unborn years,
Sorrowful mother of sorrow,
O Valley of Tears.
Thy unmade hills wore shaken,
Thou yet-unbuilded earth,
And brooding Space was taken
With pains of cosmic birth
With pains that went before thee,
Abreast with nameless fears,
When laboring nature bore thee,
0 Valley of Tears.
Slow as the feet of .the ages,
Treading the grapes of wrath;
Having such wine for wages
As no mortal hath ;
Born of such bitter crying
As no mortal hears,
Thou earnest, doomed and dying,
O Valley of Tears.
Then we, like insects breeding
Within some" stagnant fen,
Game forth of thy blind leading,
A blinder race of men;
Of men whose voice of wailing
Is loud in heaven's ears,
But barren and unavailing,
O Valley of Tears.
Nursed at the breast of passion,
Rocked in the cradle of. pain;
Eating, with lips turned ashen,
AH things bitter and vain.
Here where no star hath risen,
Here where no light appears,
Faint we in thy dark prison,
O Valley of Tears.
James Larkin Pearson.
ON PARADE
These things"' I see, passing in
endless file:
Night with her mantle, tread
ing he beefs of Dawn;
Love with a kiss, Hate with a
dagger drawn:
Death with a mask, and Beauty
with a smile.
And these go marching, march
ing, all the while:
Faint-hearted, crouching Fear,
and timid Hope,
And weeping Sorrow, holding
in her scope
All things that be, of every
name and style.
But I have seen the end of this
parade
The goal of every pilgrim on
the way
And I shall journey, too, as
far as they,
Till all shall reach the Valley of
the Shade,
Where I shall meet, in some
sure Afterwhile,
Death with a mask, and Beauty
with a smile.
James Larkin Pearson.
A SERMON ON COLUMBUS
The Providence Journal wants
to know where we-unses would
all have been now if Columbus
hadn't discovered America. Oh,
I guess if Chris hadn't done it
somebody else would. As big" a
thing as America couldn't have
remained lost forever. The
reason it wasn't found sooner
was. because the people of old
times were ignorant and didn't
know how to look for anything.
The people of the old world pro
bably knew thousands of years
ago that America was lost, but
thiey didnt seem to cape. If
anybody had wanted to find, it
at an earlier date they could
easily have done so. It was
right here, and so far as we know
it made no effort to get away.
It was not a bit wild when Col
umbus and his men arrived.
America hadn't done anything
then to be ashamed of like she
had now, and there was no need
for her to run and hide like
Adam and Eve did when Gcd
came " walking in the garden
about five o'clock one evening.
My honest opinion is that
Columbus has always been given
too much honor for what he did.
He has been treated just as if
he had done something that
was very hard to do, like find
ing a needle in a haystack or
a Democrat that didn't want
office. But what h did wias
nothing like that. He started
sailing west, and all he had to
do was to just sit steady in the
boat and come right on. Here
wras America stiletchedl right
across his path for about five
or six thousand miles, and even
if he had come with his eyes
shut he was bound to have hit
it somewhere. He couldn't pos
sibly have missed it, unless he
had turned around and gone
some other way.
So I can't see that Columbus
is entitled to so much credit, af
ter all. Now if he had found an
honest politician, or discover
ed some sense in this-here "new
poetry," it would have been
something to brag about. But
just discovering America good
Lord! Anybody could .have done
that. . - -
rm. T i f
xxiere are plenty oi sure cures-
for every disease known to man.
They are perfectly nice, respect
able cures, and the only objec
tion to them is that they never
cure anything.
DISILLUSIONED
I clip the following editorial
from the pages of Charity and
Children, a Baptist paper pub
lished here in North Carolina.
The writer seems to be one of
the disillusioned; but having lost
his illusions he hasn't found any
thing to take their place. He
believed all the flowery propa
ganda they f eoT him on during
the -war. He expted every
thing to turn out just like the
official lying-machines said it," Propnecies intelligent y
would. It never once
his minoVthat the whole nation j But the popular orthodox teach-
i. . 1 1 ! . . .
and the whole worm was Denuding about the prophecies is. so.
'strung" And so when the bot
tom dropped out and he saw
what sort of fruit the fine pro
mises had borne- well, he was
all upset about it, and he had J way. .And there is no better!
to get the disappointment out j proof of which is the right way?
of his system in the manner f ol-1 o0mplre tem wit, thef
ww. EVENTS as they happen. There
lowing. lis just one system of Bible study;
The world isT deeply disappointed x that has fitted the events ex
at the results of our victory over jactly, and thus it has proven hV
Germany. Millions of our bravest self correct. You will not find,
and best are sleeping in bjoody : any member of the Internation
graves, and the nations of Europe al Bible Students who has ta
are looking forward already to the put up such a hopeless wail of
next war. We thought we were disr'ucn 7rt as Charitv and
giving our boys in a holy cause that Children has uttered. They un
of putting an end to war. Has that. j derstood years ago just how it
been done? We thought we were:was sroinsr to be. and nothing
breaking the shackles from the hands
of the weak nations. Has that Deen
done? We. were" told that we were
disarming the oppressors of man-'
kind, but the infamous Turks are
busy killing Christians and bidding
Where are the fruits o our sacri
fice? For what did our boys suffer
and die? We find the isame old
greed among the nations of Europe
that brought on the war. They are!
tbat brougnt on tne war. iney are,
still clamoring for commercial jad-
vantage. Broken and bleeding as I""" ns
they are, the old spirit of selfishness ; the religious world by the ear
seems to be as rampant as ever. The j and making it turkey trot all
United States made a great 'contri-1 over the place. In a recent
bution of treasure and of blood to j A fa fe
end the reign of autocracy m the j . T , TT .
world, and now refuses to lift a;m London Harvey raises .the
finger to hold the advantage we won question as to "whether women
at so great cost. We are less united,
less brotherly and friendly than we
were before the great conflict. We
are allies no longer, but' each nation
is fighting for itself. What is to be
the final outcome of it all ? Is it
possible jthatit- will take another
world strue-erle to brine: universal
? We do not believe war will
peace
ever settle any thing. If we cannot
live in peace without fighting for it
civilization is doomed. The only
hope "for us in the world is in the
religion of the Lord Jesus Christ. If
that fails us there is no other way.
Well, now, that is too bad,
ain't it? Just to think of a
I shore-to-goodness great editor
being balled up like .that ! His
first big mistake was in being
too much of an easy-mark and
(letting them string him along
with all that bunk. I don't claim
to be very smart, but that stuff
didn't catch me. Not for riary
single minute. I knew it was
propaganda and -hot air 'and
would alt fade out in the wash.
But the editor of Charity and
Children" is voicing the thought
of many millions of srood peo
ple who were caught in the same
trap and who feel just like he
does about it. And it is to
these disillusioned millions that
I would like to say afew words.
it people would study the
l i n .
T-V 1 . .......
wide of the mark thnf. if rnW
makes the confusion worse.
There are many ways of inter
preting tlje Bible prophecies.
out there is just one RIGHT
.'that has happened has come as
: a surprise to them. The Whole
j Truth is too big for me to try;
;. to tell in this little old paper,
1 1 can oniy repeat here what I
j have said SO many times: READ
RUSSELL,
THE FEMININE "SOUL."'
Our Mister George Harvey;
functionates offidalIy at
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have "souls." And nobody seems
able to answer. ?
Great problem!
Awful stunner !
Mighty hard question!
Yes-sir-ee!
But, sakes alive, how easv i
j would be if they would only ex-
ercise a nrae common sense. If
they could only get it through
their terra-cqtta noggins that
men haven't got any "souls"
either. But that solution of the
problem is so simple that they
have never thought of it. The
swell-headed scions of Spook
ology prefer to dabble-in myst
erious and foolish guesses about
impossible theories Instead of
coming right out and facing the
plain facts.