If my allergies are acting up, then it must be spring
      Is it me or is April almost half over? It must be the grass beginning to turn from pale shades of yellow to green and the sound of baseballs hitting bats at fields all around that show me the signs of new birth. Or is it the hassle of having to complete your taxes that tells you spring is in the air.
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LEDGER READERS ON THE ROAD
     Christine Brown and Ginny Burrows, along with their husbands, John Burrows and Tony Brown, are pictured here in front of The Breakers mansion while on a trip to John Burrows' hometown, Newport, Rhode Island. The Breakers was owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt, the brother of the Vanderbilt who built The Biltmore House in Asheville, N.C. On your next trip out of town, take a copy of The Ledger and send a picture of yourself or your group reading the newspaper to: cody@gaffneyledger.com.
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Set the question aside and just increase the tax
THEIR VIEW
      For nearly three hours, senators argued over how to divvy up the spoils, sparring over philosophy and pragmatism and slights real and imagined, rejecting one plan after another by the narrowest of margins before finally adopting one, by a single-vote margin that all but guarantees it won't pass the full Senate.
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THE MOSS REPORT
      This week's report gives you a good synopsis of the wide spectrum of issues that come before the General Assembly; read and marvel. I read something interesting this week that, upon occasion, reminds me of what sometimes goes on in Columbia. It was an obituary for our old friend Mr. Common Sense.
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The Sunday School Lesson
Holding to Your Faith
      DAN. 3:10 Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image: 11 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
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Stories Behind The Hymns
GLORIOUS THINGS OF THEE ARE SPOKEN
Stories Behind The Hymns By: Warren Shiver
      John Newton was born July 24, 1725 in Wapping, London, England to John Newton, a shipmaster in the Mediterranean Sea, and Elizabeth Newton. John's father was away at sea for months at a time, and was very little help to his wife in rearing John. Elizabeth John's mother caught tuberculosis, and was very sick for some time before she died.
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