Marion Progress

EPISCOPAL MEN'S CLUB MEETS MONDAY

Rev. Ralph K. Webster, rector of St. Francis Episcopal church in Rutherfordton, was the guest speaker at the Supper Meeting of the Men's club of St. John's Episcopal church last Monday evening at the community building.

In his opening remarks the speaker said men have lost sight of the underlying principles of how man should live. That Principal, ultimately, lies in the fact that life has eternal or spiritual value, as well as worldly values.

Man can find security only as he conforms and lives in accordance with it, he said.

"All life has a higher purpose which is important and visible and involves an attitude toward life, or an outlook on life, which even prehistoric man recognized. Neanderthal man who lived in the mid-palaeolithic period following the ice age, recognized the eternal purpose of life.

He cited the fact that their dead were buried with great ceremonial and with their implements for a resurrected life as evidence of this.

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belief.

He told his audience that life had eternal values. "Today we are seeking security and peace, and the right to live as free men," he said. "These things can be had only when we recognize that the world in which we live is God's estate. He is the landlord, and we must recognize His ownership."

E. P. Dameron, president of the club, presided and introduced the speaker.

Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: E. P. Dameron, president; W. W. Neal, Jr., vice president, and Wayne Jarrett, secretary-treasurer.