Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 30, 1955 Page: 4 of 8
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THK BASTROP (TEXAS) ADVERTISER. JUNE 30, 1W55
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Catholic Church
First Methodist
Rev. Claude A. Faust, Pastor Church
ROCKNE, TEXAS FRED BISHOP, Pastor
The schedule of Sunday Mas- i sun<jmv.
Sunday School, 9:45 a. m.
Morning Worship, 10:55 a. tn.
Evening Worship, 7:30 p. tn.
(Nursery for children during
morning programs.)
Wednesday:
Ladies' Prayer Group, 8:30 a. m.
Thursday:
Moments of Meditation, 6:10
s«s is as follows:
9:00 a. m first and third Sun-
days of the month.
7:00 a. m. second, fourth and
fifth Sundays.
Holy Communion at 6:00 a. m.
©n first and third Sundays.
Confessions: 5 to 6 and 7 to
9 p. m. on Saturdays preceding p m
second, fourth and fifth Sun- Choir, 6:30 p. m.
days. First Monday:
Otherwise by appointment. WSCS Circle I. 3 p. in.
Note: This schedule is followed WSCS Circle II, 3 p. m
regularly with only an occasion- 85', w ,,
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al chance for special events. For | ^ m
particular information call the | s^.ontj' Tuesday:
Rectory WSCS Circle III, 8 p. m.
Phone: (local* Bastrop 942-J 3 Second Thursday:
If no answer call 042-J-l. Comm. on Education, 7:30 p. m.
The church is located about ; Third Monday.
WSCS General Meeting, 3 p. m.
Second Wednesday:
Official Board, 7:30 p. m.
Where
I Stand
pit -t nted it separately to A
tiam> and Franklin. Frunklii
feit the pnra-t "sacred and un-{ transportation thither. This pi-
deniable" should l crossed out ratical warfare, the oppreobrium
and the word ".-elf-evident" sub- of infidel powers, is the war-
situated. Thi> was done. A- fan of the CHRISTIAN king
j dun.~ suggested that the phras« , of Great Britian. Determined to
saying "that /rom that equal j keep open a market where MEN
[ creation they derive certain J should be bought and sold, he
rights" be altered to "they are ; ha.- prostituted hi.- negative for
J endowed by their Creator". To | suppressing every legislative at-
this Jefferson ajrreed. Then h« ; tempt t< prohibit or to restrain
carefully rewrote the whole j this execrable commerce."
draft, including the lrankHn-j This was rejected for several
reasons. It wa.- felt that it was
not an altogether just charge
to level against the king of
Great Britain. But more to the
ii another hemisphere, or to in- point, it was a boomerang to the , the Congress
ui miserable death in their J Colonies themselves. The South-1 hundred and
Class,
10 miles from Bastrop on Farm I
Highway 20.
Church of Christ
Rev. Luther Archer, Pastor
Highway 71 Fast of Bastrop
Morning Worship, 11:00 a.m.,
with Communion Scrvice at
11:45 a.m.
Evening Service and Com-
munion, 7:15 p.m.
Gospel singing in all services.
Come, study and worship with
us.
Cool Off
FANS
All Sizes
All Types
All Prices
SOME ON BIG DISCOUNT
INSTALLED FREE
B. A. ELZNER
Ph. 146
Bastrop
Fourth Wednesday:
Wesleyan Service Guild, 7:30
|P- m.
First Baptist Church
REV. O. W, Sl'MERLIN, Foster
I
Sunday:
Sunday School, 9:45 a. m.
Morning Worship, 11 o'clock
Training Union. 6:15 p. m.
Evening Worship, 7:30 o'clock j
Tuesdav:
WMU, 3 p. m,
Wednesday:
Carol Choir, 3:45 p. m.
Mid-Week Service. 7 p. m.
Choir rehearsal, 8 p. m.
——1——■■■mm
Assembly of God
Church
REV. WAYLAND WOODALL
P«stor
Sunday:
Sunday School. 9:45 A. M.
Morning Worship, 11:00 A. M.
Evening Service, 7:30 P. M.
Wednesday:
Prayer Meeting, 7:30 P. M.
United
Pentecostal Church
REV. JAMES CASTLEBERRY
Pastor
Welcome to our Oneness Pen-
tecostal Church, located on the
Austin hignway.
Service Thursday. 7:30 p. m.
Sunday School, 10:00 a. m.
Sunday Morning Worship, 11 |
a. m.
Sunday Evening Service, 7:30
p. m.
——
Pentecostal Church
Of God
; REV. CHARLES D. SWANK
Pastor
Sunday School, 10:00 A. M.
Sunday Morning Worship, 11:00
A. M.
! Sunday Evening Worship, 7:30
p. m.
Weekly Service, Thursday, 7:30 j
I p. m.
OLIVER W. SI'MKKMN
The Declaration Of independence
On Friday, June 7, 1776, Rich-
ard Henry Lee of Virginia, in
the third session of the second
Continental Congress proposed
and John Adams of Massachus-
etts seconded a resolution that
"These United Colonies are and
of right ought to be free ami
independent state.-, that they are
absolved from al! allegiance to
the British crown, and that all
political connection b e t w e e n
them and the .-tati of Great
Britian is and ought to be, to-
tally dissolved.
The effect was startling. It
was like a firebrand thrown i „ , i
. . . , , , the defense, says Saul K. Pad-
into the most flammable of ma- ... . , , , ,
, over, lay with the chunky, hard
tenal. Congress began an upro- .. , , . , ,
... ... , ! hitting John Adams, who, in
anous debate which continued at . , , . , . ,
, , , tne words of the grateful Jef :
white heat through .Saturday.' , , . . , ,
. . ... , .p. ... " ferson, wa.- •fitrhting fearlessly
Monday, and Tuesday. The final , ,, " ' 1
. i for every word
Adam- insertions, and present*
it to the whole committee. They
approved unanimously, and on
June 28, "A Declaration by the
Representatives of the United
States of America, in General
Congress Assembled" was pit-
ched into the lap of a waiting
and eager Congress.
The sharp-witted lawyers of
the Congress fell upon this De-
claration like hungry wolves,
tearing and devouring here and
there with a zest that cut the
sensitive and young Jefferson
to the quick. He took no part
in the debate. The burden of
em Colonies objected because
slavery was an institution with-
in their borders. The Northern
Colonies objected because it was
they who had assisted the king
in this "piratical warfare." It
was their citizens who had also
been guilty of "captivating and
carrying them into slavery in
another hemisphere." It was on
their vessels that these slaves
incurred this "miserable death
in their transportation thither."
So it was thrown out.
Out of more than eighteen
hundred words, the members of
fourth of the^y
tered about tw0
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i>wiio„.„,"
' Supreme jU(j..,.. "
Providence." Tu.; ■
* 1 ™ n I
otomtlon, Jeffe '
,i;d U) Dei'y. but ,.1
glected to do ho J, M
0n Ju'y 1st, tht
came up f0r ^
end of the day'g
of the Colonies aD. <
nine for end thre,
dependence. \\.w Yof.
(Continued on \
Le
vote on Lee's resolution was
postponed until a committee
could write an appropriate de-
claration giving reasons "which
impelled u- to thi.- mighty re-
solution."
This committee consisted of
Thomas Jefferson of Virginia,
John Adams of Massachusetts,
Benjamin Franklin of Penn-
sylvania, Roger Sherman of Cor-
For three day- the ordeal went
or., words and phrases were
slashed off as though they were
gangrenous flesh. in the se-
cond sentence of the Declara
tion as quoted above, Congress
change*! the wording of "inher-
ent and inalienable" to "certain
unalienable", it also crossed out
the word "independent" in the
sentence "that all men are crea
NOTICE
THE BASTROP CLINIC
will be closed
Monday, July 4
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BARBECUE
Sunday, July, 3
FAIR GROUNDS - - BIDDINGS
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$5.00 CASH TO HE GIVEN EAt II HOUR ON THE HOUR
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BASEBALL GAME AT 3 P. M.
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necticut, and Robert Livingston ; t,.,] equal and independent." The
of New York. This was a shrewd : slave holding states wouldn't
selection of men representing the j K0 a]ong. wjth that<
Southern, Northern, and Middle | One whole and complete
Colonies. The committee met and ! charge against the king was
unanimously insisted that Tho- thrown out. Jefferson had writ-
mas Jefferson, the chairman, | ten: "He has waged cruel war
draw up the declaration. against human nature itself,
Two things I want to observe violating its most -acred right.-
in passing. The first is that of life and liberty in the per-
though that day seems so far | sons of a distant people who
away from us, actually many j never offended him, captivating
people today (right here in and carrying them into slavery
Bastrop, to bring it home) are
the children of parents who per-
sonally knew those who were
born before the Revolutionary
War began. Figure it up for
yourself and see! The second ob-
servation concerns Thomas Jef-
ferson. He wrote this world
-haping , world shaking docu-
ment while he was twenty-two
years of age!
He was not eloquent in speak
ing. During the time he sat in
the Congress, John Adams says
that he never heard him speak as
much a.- three sentences togeth-
er. But at this early age, his
learning was known throughout
th( Colonies. He was unsurpa-
sed in his diction. To quote an
early biographer, he v as a get.
tie ma n "who could calculate an
eclipse, survey an estate, tie an
artery, plan" an edifice, try a
cause, break a horse, dance a
minuet and play the violin."
He was a natural choice for
the task.
Thomas Jefferson labored for
17 days on this document, never
once dreaming that he was do-
ing anything extraordinary. He
wrote in his room which he had
rented from a bricklayer on Mar-
ket Street. Listen to the haun-
ting beauty of the first sen-
tence:
When in the course of human
events
it becomes necessary for one
people
to dissolve the political bonds
which have connected them with
another,
and to assume
among the powers of the earth,
the separate and equal -tatioi.
to which the laws of nature
and of nature's God
entitle them,
a decent respect to the opinions
of mankind requires
that they should declare the
causes
which impel them to the sepa-
ration.
Jefferson is on f a m i . i a r
ground here. He is but express-
ing the philosophy of John Ix>cke
and John Milton that the middle
class of that day accepted as
it- political gospel.
Hut it was Jefferson's second
sentence that was dynamite. He
wrote:
We hold these truths
to be sacred and undeniable,
that all men are created
equal and independent,
that from that equal creation
the derive certain rights
inherent and inalienable,
among which are lift liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness,
Y ou will note that the above.
the second sentence, is not ex
actly as we now have it. When
Jefferson finished the draft, he
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Bastrop for their consideration, thought-
fulness and kind expressions of sympathy
in the total loss of our Lampasas store by
fire.
It is our plan as soon as all arrangements
can be made to re-open for business again
in Lampasas.
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Standifer, Amy S. Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 30, 1955, newspaper, June 30, 1955; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth237537/m1/4/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.