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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1950)
THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1950 3RGOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON Census Work Is Almost Finished In Co Mrs. Juanita Echols Reveals To Pilot The 1950 Decennial census count of residents of Curry Co. is rapidly nearing completion, Mrs. Juanita Echols, enumera tor, told the Pilot, Monday, and lists will soon be ready for for warding to headquarters for a final tabulation. “I would like to thank local “This friendliness on the part of all the citizens has been out standing and is really appreci- a ted by the enumerators and myself, ’’ she told the Pilot. organizations and public officials “ It is important that every who have assisted in making this person be counted. If anyone has count a success, with their ready | been missed, please notify me co-operation. I would also like (or fill out the' form elsewhere to thank each and every person in this paper) and immediate ar- whom the enumerators have contacted for their courtesy and rangemements will be made to kindness, which has made a dif get the necessary information. “Information about the total ficult job more pleasant. count for any area must be ob-1 tained from the district or na-• tional office since all of the in // formation obtained is contiden- ital,” she concluded. test day. and certainly, the Bible For convenience of those who does not contradict its own teach may, by being boarders, itiner-1 ings. In fact it plainly states that ant workers, or other reason, a “All go unto one place; all are' convenient form has been put of the dust, and all turn to dust I in the paper to help complete a again.” (Eccl. 3:20). And that | job which will soon be done. Thei place is the grave. (Job 30:23-24) form is self-explanatory. Eight times the Bible speaks of the SOUL itself as going into I the grave: Acts 2:31; Joh 33:18. 22, 28. 30; Ps. 30:3, 89:48; Isa. 38:17. The World’s Best Climate home, is up. Work is being done by the Kesslers. Mrs. Goldie Smith, Brookings post master, left last week for a six-weeks vacation. She went first to Salem, then to Portland and Seattle. She will heave Fri day, May 19. by plane for Las1 PAGE THREt Vegas. New Mexico. John Hogan left Monday for a 10-day or two weeks selling? trip to the Coquille and Coos Bay area, for Battleship roofing com pany. He told the Pilot he had been having gratifying results 'll the local area VOTE FOR ED F. ACKLEY For District Attorney NO. 19 On MAY 19. (Paid Political Advertising) WHAT IS A "SOUL-SLEEPER? Seventh-Day Adventists are sometimes called “soul-sleepers” because they believe that the Bi ble means what it says when it Hates “the livipg know that they will die; but the dead KNOW NOT ANYTHING” (Eccl. 9 5). But we don’t object to that term because it places us in good com- pany. In the Bible, death is call ed a sleep 54 times and Jesus Himself calls death a sleep in John 11:11-14. Notice how Job tells us where There are some who believe the dead are: “But man dieth, that the soul is immortal and and wasteth away; yea, man giv- cannot die. The Bible mentions cth up the ghost, and where is the woMd “soul” 1700 times but he? As the water fail from the never once speaks of it as be sea, and the Hood decayeth and ing immortal. In fact, the Scrip drieth up: so man lieth down and tures teH us that only God has riseth not; till the HEAVENS immortality (1 Tim. 6:15-16) and BE NO MORE, they shaJl not 1 Cor. 15:51-54 show us that im- awake, nor be raised out of their mortality is God's gift to the j O that thou wouldst hide righteous at the resurrection! SLEEP. me in tie grave that thou which takes place at the second wouldst keep me secret, until thy coming of Christ. Can the soul wrath be past, that thou wouldst die? “The soul that sinneth it appoint me a set time, and re shall die.” (Eze. 18:4). member me! If a man die shall । Paul speaks of those which he live again? All the days of “sleep in Jesus” in 1 Thes. 4: my appointed time WI l L I 13-17 and goes on to say: ‘For, WAIT, TILL MY CHANGE this we say unto you by the word COME. Thou shalt call, and 11 of the Lord, that we which are will answer thee; thou wilt have alive and remain unto the com a desire to the work of thine ing of the Lord shall not prevent hands.” (Job 14:10-15). them which are asleep.” “For the Lord Himself shall | “If I wait, the GRAVE is mine • descend from heaven with a house; I have made my bed in shout, with the voice of the arch the darkness.” (Job 17:13). The angel, and with the trump of time when Job expected to be God; and the dead in Christ shall awakened from his sleep in the rise first: Then we which are grave when the heavens will be alive and remain shall be caught no more is at the time wnen up together with them in the Jesus comes in the slouds of clouds, to meet the Lord in the heaven to gather his saints. air: and so shall we ever be with 1 (Rev. 6:14-17; Matt. 24:30-31. If one man has an immoral the Lord.’’ I This shows that the dead in I soul, all men must have the same, Christ do not go to heaven when Therefore, if the dead in Christ they die but remain asleep in were to go to heaven at death, their graves until the resurrec that would mean that the man tion. 1 Cor. 15:16-18 shows us who dies without Christ must be that without the resurrection, the somewhere burning in th fierv good people who have died are tortures of hell today. Even be- perished. This could not be true fore the day of judgment. But if they went to heaven when they we can be thankful that is not died. In fact, if they went to' Bible picture. The dead “know heaven when they died, what not anything.” their thoughts would be the use of a resurrec have perished (Eccl. 9:5-10; Ps. tion which might take place hun 146:3-4). They are ASLEEP in dreds of thousands of years la their graves and to the dead in ter? Christ it will seem but a moment There could be no reason for until they look up into the face Christ to come back to the earth of the Jesus they love who has the second time to gather His come back to this earth the sec saints (John 15:1-3) if they had ond time to gather His own. already gone to heaven at death. Then families will be re-united If the wicked go to hell-fire at and all will go to heaven togeth death and the righteous to hea er. If our loved ones were now ven at death as some teach, in heaven they could not be there is no use of a final judg happy there looking down at the ment day at the end of time or earth and seeing our tragedies for Christ to come to reward and unhappiness. God’s way is every man according to his surely the best way. works. (Matt. 16:27; Rev. 22:12) We’re sure this brief presen This idea of the righteaus go- tation does not answer all your in,«? to heaven at death and the questions concerning the state of wicked going to hell-fire at death the dead, so drop us a card to destroys the Bible teachings of day and we’ll gladly send you the resurrection, the coming of free of charge the pamphlet en Christ, and the judgment at the titled “The Mystery’ of Life.” I tival, one of the first Oregon Coast events, especially of floral I nature, was subject of Comman-1 der Scott’s radio program last Sunday over CBS stations. “Romance of the Highways,” the Greyhound program, which Commander Scott has built up to millions of listeners each Sun-, day, is a masterpiece of descrip tion, and enjoyed by all. Also included on the same pro gram was the Rhododendron Fes tival at Florence on the same1 dates, and of the Garden Club show at Portland. Friday to Sun day of this week. NEWS Business visitor to this area this week was Robert D. Fisher. architect from Grants Pass who met with the building committee of the Seventh-Day Adventists Monday afternoon. Much of the framework for Conner Kessler’s new home, on the lots opposite the Goldsberry OREGON i Democratic Candidate For COUNTY TREASURER EX-SERVICE MAN WITH BANKING AND AACOUNT- ING EXPERIENCE. Paid Political Advertising ROBERT F. MAGUIRE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE Choice of Oregon Lawyers Paid Political advertising HlllliillBillllHilinill NOTICE EFFECTIVE, JUNE FIRST WE WILL DISCONTINUE GIVING S. & H. GREEN STAMPS! WE BELIEVE THE PUBLIC WILL BENEFIT MORE BY EVERY DAY LOW PRICES!! WE GUARANTEE Y«U WILL NOT BE SORRY WE ARE MAKING THIS MOVE! I Brookings Market Bob Seventh-Day Adventist Church BROOKINGS Commander Scott "Boosts" Festival BERNARD ("B. I.") MATHER DIMMICK BROS LES
