Letters to the editor
To the Editor:
This letter is in response to Sunday alcohol sales in Marion County.
I want to commend Bob Maxwell for protesting the sale of Sunday alcohol. Why didn't the many preachers in Marion County protest the sale of the "money making drink?" If the preachers had any backbone and had protested to the commissioners, it could have made a difference.
Marion County Commissioners need to hang their heads in shame for approving a resolution to sell 3.2 beer on Sunday. Their main concern was it would bring in more money for the county. The many deaths and property damage on highways caused by drunken drivers are a bad investment for tax revenue.
Just because alcohol is legal does not make it right to drink the slop. Alcohol does not have an once of food value, it only pickles the brain. The brain cells it kills are never replaced.
I hope some young boys and girls read this letter and make a resolution in their heart to never drink alcoholic beverages. They never will become a drunkard.
God has pronounced a great curse against those who sell and serve alcoholic beverages found in Hab. 2:15. Read the following verses in the book of Proverbs concerning alcohol: 20:1, 23; 23:20, 21, 29-35; 26:9; and 31:4, 5.
Only by having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ by putting your faith and trust in the shed blood of the risen Savior (John 3:16, 36 and 5:24) can a drunkard or anyone else be delivered from the habit of drink. Those who continue drinking what God has cursed will end up in the Lake of Fire called hell, Rev. 20:14, 15.
We are not sinners because of our actions and thoughts but we are sinners because we are born that way and it is natural to sin. We don't go to Heaven because we do good, join a church, or being baptized (these things we ought to do after getting saved) but we go to Heaven by trusting Jesus Christ and receiving his free gift of salvation. Eph. 2:8, 9; Rom. 3:23; 5:8, 6:23, and 10:9, 13.
Richard L. Gfeller
Trenton, S.C.
To the Editor:
I just want to take a moment of my time to thank everyone who had a part in the CROP Walk Sunday at Marion County Lake.
The fall flowers were out in bloom as 53 people from the Marion and Hillsboro areas ranging in age from 10 months to 86 years strolled, walked, or ran the course around the lake road. There were 22 walkers from four churches participating in the CROP Walk from the Marion area.
The grand total of donations from Marion alone was $1,153. The Presbyterian church had the most in total donations with $340. Eastmoor United Methodist Church had the most walkers with eight, Aulne came in strong with both walkers (seven) and donations ($312). Valley United Methodist Church once again had the winning walker with the most donations of $303.
Erna Mae Yeagley really has it down as to what walking for CROP is all about and this year her great-grandson, Grant Bryant the youngest participant, came along for the ride in his stroller.
Twenty-five percent of this money will be coming back to be used at Marion County Food Bank.
It was a good day and I hope a lot more of you will want to take part next year.
Donna Kreutziger, CROP Recruiter of the Marion area Janet Bryant, President of Church Women United and overseer of the Food Bank.
