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PA6E FOURThe Black River DemocratPublished Every Thursday by THOMAS E. PRANK, LOWVILLE, N. Y. Reed Block, State StreetThe most widely read newspaper in Lewis CountyEntered at the Post Office at Lowville, N. Y., as second class matter, under act of Congress of March 8, 1879. Subscription rate, $2.0# per year. Official Democratic newspaper of the County of Lewis.THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1941EditorialFULFILLMENTOn last Sunday thousands thronged to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, when the entire length of the Cathedral was opened for public services. This great gothic church which rivals in magnificent vista the cathedrals of the old world has a history that is in many ways suggestive of its predecessors.Like Chartus, it is the result of the work and dreams of rich and poor. The great French Cathedral was the outward expression of the unified spiritual impulse of laborer and nobleman. St. John's is also the visible sign of the dream of spiritual beauty in all kinds and conditions of Americans. No sum has been too small to give toward furthering the great work, and the $18,000,000 which has been expended up to the present time leaves the vast building absolutely free of debt.Salisbury Cathedral, a thirteenth century English cathedral, was completed in 40 years through the indefatigable efforts of one Bishop Poor. St. John the Divine has been building for fifty years, but the greatest progress has been male under Bishop Manning during the last twenty.There is little cause to fear the destruction of religion. This great cathedral is one of the many expressions of the undying spirit of worship in man. And as days pass into eter-nitv, manv a traveler will enter this cathedral door while“The tumult of the time disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait.”BUrrklij SrrmimBy Rev. Walter L. Bennett, Rector Trinity Episcopal Church, LowvilleStealing SermonsMayor La Guardia has sent our topic this week ricocheting across the continent. Moses, the great lawgiver, was quite clear about it: “Thoushalt not steal.” As Fra Elbertus used to suggest. God has a way o£ enforcing His own laws. We may escape the judgment of the earthly court but no man has yet succeeded in eluding God’s judgment. A young student was going out in his senior year in seminary to preach for a call. His friend had just gotten one by preaching a fine sermon. “Loan me your sermon. Jack. “Sure,” was the response. But it did not win the call. When asked by his friend why that borrowed sermon failed, the reply of the author was: “I loaned you myfiddle but I did not loan you my fid-dle-stick” .The soldier knows that “It is the man behind the gun.” The laws are not reversed in the case of a sermon. Many men preach stolen sermons. The people like the sermons but the foolish preacher forgets that, as Emerson said, “What you are speaks so loudly, I did not hear what you said.” Influence depends on character and the preacher who stoops to steal instead of working out an address from his soul has destroyed his sermon before he preaches it. This does not mean that a man must not read and digest and memorize. In fact the sermon thief does nothing but memorize. If he digested what he read, and carried it out in his life, the material he got would be as truly his as the vitamins in good whole wheat are his who eats it.Shakespeare never wrote an original plot. Ignorant people think less of the Bard of Avon when they hear this. Profound people admire him the more for bringing out the meaning of life as contained in his immortal dramas. So is it with the true preacher. the true speaker. They find “Books in the running brooks; sermons in stones and good in everything.” An intelligent audience is always delighted by any address whichshows an intimate knowledge of much good literature. A sermon, like any great writing, is an interpretation out of the soul of its creator on. “Man, the heart of man, and human life.”Murder will out!” So will stealing. The thief .grows smaller and smaller as he becomes lazier and lazier. The God-given ability to create is wasted by stealing. Power is lost as Sampson lost his when he ran around after harlots. Nothing takes the place of work. He who steals instead of working and creating is slowly .paralyzing .his own soul. This law is also true of men who steal in business. A banker who never worked at anything in his life except at studying how to beat his neighbor and the market, ends up as thoroughly despised as the preacher who stole his sermons. Everybody knows at last that th© • banker did not earn his wealth and that the preacher is a fakir. 'One cannot fool God; no, nor the people. Save yourself a lot of time by learning how to do a good job well.Looking BackwardTke Aliev Cat \? . . - -. -------1 JL 11C JTa.11Cj^ \J d 1 i tt.....| r !DECEMBER 4, 1936Thirty people, who are interested in the development of a Little theatre in Lowville, attended the meeting held Monday evening at the Lowville' academy. 'Haveriey Moyer, teacher of English in the high school, has been chosen as director, and the group will soon decide upon a .play. The Little theatre is a fine addition to the village.Doris Martha Bush, age 16, daughter of- Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Bush, of New Bremen, died in the Lewis County General hospital in this village on Friday night. .She was brought to the hospital Wednesday with a kidney ailment.Mrs. Louise Mary Cobb, 65, widow of Charles Cobb, died at her home here Saturday, after a long illness. Death was due to a complication of diseases.The marriage of Miss Pearl Davis, daughter of Mrs. Mary Davis, Stowe street, and Russell Peebles, son of Mrs. Ella Peebles, took place Thursday Afternoon at the Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. Winfield Joyce, pastor of the church, presided.DECEMBER 4, 1936Herschel Gardiner, 20, of Koster-ville was indicted Tuesday for murder, first degree, by the grand jury which is in session here this week. Gardiner is charged with the murder of Clayton Furlow, 19, on Oct. 15, 1931. When arraigned Tuesday afternoon he entered a plea of not guilty and no doubt will be tried at a special term of court the forepart of next January.Simon Lehman, 67, a farmer residing on the Snell road near Lowville, died at 11 Tuesday morning after an illness of two weeks. Death was due to heart trouble.A stock barn, with 25 head of cattle and several horses, owned by E. G. Gregg, Bannes Corners, were burned about 3 o’clock Monday morning with a loss estimated at about $7,000.Orville J. Ross, 81, died Sunday afternoon in Utica following an illness of a week. He had spent most of his life in Lewis county as a dairy farmer, and was one of the county’s most ■'.onu.iar citizens.Dr. Fleming, the chief clergyman of the richest parish in America, Trinity in New York, said sometime ago that we should have a moratorium on preaching. -He knows how shallow too many of the preachers are. He I must know, too, what Paul said: “ItI pleaseth the Lord by the foolishness I of preaching to save them that be-' lieve.” Jesus was a preacher. He did (“hot baptize. He ordered his disciples to cover the world, preaching. Every ! sermon is a great sermon that is a flash of fire from the soul of a man or a woman filled with the Holy Ghost, and in tune with the infinite God. And like a flash of fire, that sermon goes out to scourge iniquity, teach of the eternal, inspire to noble deeds. Let Chaucer give us our model:“Christe’s lore and His apostles twelveHe taught; but first he followed it himselve.”CHRISTIAN SCIENCE‘God the only Cause and Creator” is the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, Dec. 7.The Golden Text is: “Thou artworthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy. pleasure they are and were created” (Revelation 4: 11).Among the citations which eom-ptiSg the Lesson-Sermon is the fol-~10Wfag from the Bible: “For thusSalth the Lord that created the heavens; (God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed It to be inhabited: 1 am the Uord; and there is none else. .Remember the .former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me” (Isaiah 45: 18; 46: 9).The ILesson-Sermon also includes the following selections from the textbook of Christian Science, “Science and Health with Key to the ’Scriptures,” by Mary Baker Eddy: Divine Mind is the only cause or Principle of existence. . . . All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, immortality, cause, and effect belong t.o lt;3pd. These are His attributes, Jhe eternal manifestations of the infinite divine Principle, (Love. . .. Mind is th© grand creator, and there can be no power except that which is ■ derived -from Mind” (pp. 262, 275, 143): • 'DECEMBER 4, 1921The Lowville Milk and Cream company, a local corporation composed of stockholders of Lowville and vicinity, the greater number of which are farmers, have recently started an action against the Utica Milk and Cream Co., Inc., a New York city milk distributing firm. Justice Claude B. Alverson granted an injunction against the aforesaid defendants on the evening of Nov. 23.William W. Stevens, 79 years of age, and one of Lowville’s most prominent and esteemed .citizens, passed into-the great unknown at 7:30 Tuesday evening at his home in Shady avenue. Mr. iStevens had been in poor health for the past few weeks and a gradual decline in his condition had been noticed for the past few weeks.In the final and hardest fought football game of the season the Low-ville academy aggregation held the fast Watertown high school team to a 6-6 tie on the local gridiron last Thursday morning. The game was the best that has been played in this village in several years.Another fall wedding took place an Wednesday afternoon when Miss Laura Louise Casler was united in marriage with Albert L. Phillips.“Cow cafeterias” being established by. the United States department of agriculture at the Florida experiment stations. Their purpose is to discover which grasses Suky prefers, which produce the most milk, and which influence the color of the output.—News item.Brave bovine brousing in the field.Little you know; your doom is sealed. Where once you chewed the dewy grass You watched the world indifferent pass. When food was luscious you rejoiced,But never a complaint you voiced When fields were dry and forage scarce And vegetation was so sparse Your cud clove to your lolling tongue And slowly, sadly your bell rung Even the garlic by the fence Hardly would serve for recompense,You rolled your eyes, and chewed your cud And cooled your feet in brookside mud But neither men nor cows, alas , Are left to crop free growing grass In school the poor youth must be guided And ample menu be provided If this course’s hard, why try another.In brain he’ll soon be bossy’s brother.And Silky now must moo her mood - At sight of grass she’d like for food.Full twenty grasses to b© grazed She gazes at them quite amazed.Then switching where a fly should be She ambles to the meadow free.Her feet sink in the oozy mud;She nips some garlic, chews her cud.Her guidance courses on the grasses End as they should, they are for asses.Editorial CommentDECEMBER 4, 1881.The extensive carriage and sleigh works recently erected in this village are turning out a vast quantity of work. Messrs. J. Hutchins Son have on hand upwards of 46 cutters, and are pushing business to be in readiness for sleighing. In the blacksmith department Mr. Richard Asacks of Constableville has the supervision and everybody knows, or ought to, that he is one of the best workmen.The Crogban stage, while coming to this village Tuesday, with 11 passengers, met with a mishap near W. L. Babcock’s farm on the East road. A hind wheel got seated in a rut, and the driver attempting to turn out, completely demolished it. Some of the passengers walked to the village, -while others awaited the return of Mr. Bach with another vehicle to convey them and their baggage to their destination.A, Pauline Wood, the daughter of L. S. Wood, Esq., Lowville, was yesterday married to Dr. C„ P. Kirley, both of this village.Large quantities of English steel rails are being shipped over th© U. B. (R. R. R. almost daily, to be used on the Canadian Pacific railroad. The company uses its own. cars, and on one occasion 30 of them, drawn by two engines, passed through Lowville.'Charles Pitt was working near a band saw, in Dannatt Pell's mill, the other day, when he slipped -and fell, striking his hand against the saw so forcibly as to throw it off the pulleys. His hand was terribly mutilated and he is unable to work.Donnatt Pell are about to . put a gas engine to run their toy factory, which is to be separate from their regularMOONLIGHTA full moon rides the skies this week, a moon of loveliness in any peaceful country. But there are places on this earth where it is a moon of horror, a bomber’s moon. There are places where the shadowy face of the moon has become a death’s-head, and there are those who see the hooked cross in- the night skies.But not everywhere, and not forever. That is the consoling thought. Not forever. Even in the occupied lands there are men who refuse to see a swastika on the moon, men who recognize a lie for what it is and know that faith can survive ukases. And in the number of such men can be read the ultimate fate of a black crusade which set forth to conquer with the lie enshrined and negation as its battle-cry. There was no god but force. Perfidy was chief among the virtues. Tomorrow was only another day for conquest, not a new day which somehow would be a better one. That was the code. The sun was a shimmering shield for attack the stars were compass points for the raider and the moon was the bombardier’s accomplice.There is still blood on the moon. But there is also faith still glowing in the hearts of men who know the moon’s phases are unchanged and who can wait for nights of darkness to carry out their little tasks along the fjords, the estuaries and canals. They can wait, knowing there are constancies in this world, the day, the night, the seasons, the love of man for peace and freedom. They, can wait, in darkness or full moonlight, knowing that even in that inconstancy of which Juliet complained the moon is yet a smybol of enduring things.— New York Times.(The Council for Democracy has released its ‘Greed for Americans,” written for the council and “for 132,000,000 Americans,” by Stephen Vincent Benet, noted American poet and short story writer.)A CREED FOR AMERICANSWe believe in the dignity of man and the worth and value of every liv* ing soul, no matter in what body housed, no matter whether born in comfort or born in poverty, no matter to what stock he belongs, -what creed he professes, what job he holds.We believe that every man should have a free and equal chance to develop his own best abilities under a free system of government, where the people themselves choose those who are to rule them and where no one man can set himself up as a tyrant or oppress the many for the benefit of the few.We believe that free speech, free assembly, free elections, free practice of religion are the cornerstones of such a government. We believe that the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights of the United States of America offer the best and most workable framework yet devised for such a government.We believe in justice and law. We do not believe in curing an evil . by substituting for .it another and oppo-. site evil. We are unalterably opposed to class hatred, race hatred, religious hatred, however manifested, by whomsoever instilled.We believe that political freedom implies and acknowledges economic responsibility. We do .not believe that any state is an admirable .state that lets, its people go hungry when they might be Jed, ragged whan they might be clothed, sick when they:might be well, workless when they, might have work. We believe that it is the duty of all of us, the whole people, working through our democratic sysfem, to see that such conditions are remedied, whenever and wherever they exist 5n our country.We believe that political freedom implies and acknowledges personal responsibility. We believe that we have a great and priceless heritage as a nation—not only a heritage of material resources but of liberties, dreams, ideals, ways of going forward. We believe it is our business, our right and our Inescapable duty to maintain and expand that heritage. We believe that such a heritage cannot be maintained by the lacklustre, the selfish, the bitterly partisan or the amiably doubtful. We believe it is something bigger than party, bigger than our own small ambitions. We believe it is worth the sacrifice of ease, the long toil of years, the expense ef our heart’s blood.We know that our democratic system is not perfect. We know that it permits injustices and wrongs. But with our whole hearts we believe in its continuous power of self remedy. That power is not a theory—it has been proven. Through th© years, democracy has given more people freedom, less persecution and a higher standard of living than any other system we know. Under it, evils have been abolished, injustices remedied, old wounds healed, not by terror and revolution but by the slow revolution of consent in the minds of all the people. While we maintain democracy, w© maintain the greatest power a people can possess—the power of gradual, efficient and lawful change.Most of all we believe in democracy itself—in its past, its present and its future—in democracy as a political system to live by—in democracy, as th© great hope in the minds of the free. We believe it so deeply rooted in the earth of this country that neither assault from without nor dissension from within can ever wipe it entirely from that earth. But, because it was established for us by the free-minded and the daring, it is our duty now, in danger as in security, to uphold and sustain it with all that we have and are. We believe that its future shall and must be even greater than its past. And to the future—as to the past of our forebears and the present of our hard-won-free-dom—we pledge all -we bave to give. —In the Christian Science Monitor.sta:FIRM LANGUAGE TO JAPANIf anyone has been apprehensive that the United States might attempt to appease Japan by giving Tokyo a fre© hand in China, such apprehensions are now removed by publication of the terms which the United States has submitted to Japan as the only basis for peace in the 'Far East.Briefly stated, these' terms are as fallows: Japan most, end its aggression In China andiielsewher© in the Ijar East. Japan must likewise sever all her ties with the.’Axis. If Japan is willing to do these things, present economic restrictions will be lifted and Japan trill be: helped to rehabilitate herself..There is every' reason to believe that the United States will stand firmly on these terms. Japan has got to forget all about her “new order” in the Ekst.She has got to pledge herself Jo keep the peace. She must disavow Hitler mid all his-works, If. she does these things,; ahe ...will re- jtha ceirea helping hand fMm theJffntted1 1theoutpie!cro
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