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PINEY
WOODS
STARVED TO DEATH.
Starvation in a land of plenty! Such
a tragedy seems unthinkable in a mod
ern American city, such as Atlanta,
with all its organized bureaus of re
lief; and yet within the past week a
young woman, temporarily incapaci
tated for work by sickness, starved
to death in Atlanta’s midst and with
in the very shadow of two mammoth
wholesale grocery houses.
What Is the Cause?
Congestion in the cities is largely
contributory to poverty among the
poorer classes. And When we look
upon the rolling hills and verdant
meadows that adorn our Southern
sister states, and then take a birds
eye view of our own productive Geor
gia acres, it seems passing strange
that country life should “go a-beg
ging/’
Sugar Cane and Sweet Potatoes.
The two crops, surely, that would
appeal mightily to the lazy man are
sugar cane and sweet potatoes. What
could be more delicious than Georgia
cane syrup, and luscious yellow yams,
with the golden candy oozing out.
And the story comes from Waycross,
that a farmer has just this season
cleared One Hundred and Twenty-five
Dollars on three-fourths of an acre,
planted in sugar cane and sweet pota
toes. The man’s name is W. S. Booth
and he lives at Manor, Ga., a small
town west of Waycross. He is ready
to vouch for and verify the above
facts.
The tract of ground did not receive
any special attention, and the crop
was easily harvested. After the sale
of all the desirable potatoes had been
MAN’S FIRST SIN.
January 19, 1913.
Time —Unknown.
Gen. 3:12 and 22 to 24.
Place—Eden.
THE GOLDEN TEXT: "Every one
that committeth sin is the bond ser
vant of sin.” —John. 8:34.
SUGGESTIVE THOUGHTS.
What should I do?
1. Beware of Satan. V. 1.
We don’t know Satan and he does
not want us to know him, for so long
as we are ignorant of him and his
ways, the more easily he can deceive
us and use us to do his will. He al
ways holds before men something he
claims will make them wiser, better
and happier, but those deceived by
him, find that his ways lead to wreck
and ruin. He never tells the whole
truth, but mixes the truth of God with
his lie. He seeks to make us believe
we know him and deceives many good
people. He makes them believe that
his lie is the truth of God, and has
many teaching his lies for truths. If
we will study God’s word and learn the
truth concerning Satan and his work
and ways, we will at once realize that
we need the indwelling of God’s holy
spirit to enable us to overcome fiim
and do the will of God, we will then
obey the word, “Be filled with the Spin
it” (Eph. 5: |B.)
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
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made, a number of hogs were turned
loose in the potato patch and fattened
on the remnants.
What is the sense of starvation and
poverty in such a country?
Where Is the Cure?
The two chief bogies that have kept
industrious folk out of the country and
living in the cities, out of paper sacks,
has been the terror of semi-isolation —
Loneliness— and the poor educa
tional advantages the children had.
One of the finest and most practical
solutions —or dissolutions of the coun
try bogies—has been evolved out of
the fertile brain of Captain H. H. Tift,
Tifton’s first citizen.
The Atlanta Constitution recently
gave editorial comment to the Tift
plan, and it is such a worthy enter
prise that I am reproducing it here to
enlighten other communities of like
situation, as well as to impel an exo
dus of thrifty men, women and chil
dren from the city to the blessed coun
try.
The Constitution says:
“Development According to Tift.”
“Captain H. H. Tift, of Tifton, Ga.,
owner of practically all the land in
the county bearing his name, has in-
11. Believe the Evil Results of Sin.
Vs. 1 to 5.
Satan is a critic and paved the way
for the fall by suggesting a doubt of
God’s word. The present day criticism
of God’s word is leading man to live
in disobedience to God’s will. The
most of our sins come from doubting
God’s word and unbelief in the conse
quences of sin. Satan is still engag
ed in the business of telling people
that what God says will be the result
of sin is not true, but that man has
much to gain by doing what God tells
him not to do. We ought to remember
that nothing good is gained by sin that
is not attended with so much evil, that
the good results are made a curse.
Man did gain the knowledge of good
and evil by eating the forbidden fruit,
but at what a cost. Satan now has
his agents teaching that there is no
hell, and no eternal punishment for
sinners, but those who are deceived
by him will have all eternity to know
that God’s word is true, and that the
wicked will be eternally punished.
111. Hold Correct Views of God.
Vs. 1 to 6.
If we hold wrong views about God
and Christ, we will have wrong views
of the whole Gospel. If we believe
in God and the Christ revealed in the
Bible, we will believe the Bible and all
the supernatural things therein record
ed. This is the reason why Satan
The Golden Age for January 9, 1913.
By B. LACY HOGE, Richmond, Va.
troduced what is to this State, a
brand-new plan of rural development.
At the last analysis, he purposes com
bating the recognized and growing evil
of tenancy and the drift from the
country to the city by transforming
Tift county into what he calls a ‘city
of farms. In this work, which we be
lieve is destined to be widely copied
throughout the South, he is associated
with his son, H. H. Tift, Jr., who is
himself one of the livest wires of that
very live section of Georgia known as
the ‘wiregrass.’
“The Tift plan contemplates sub'
dividing Tift county into small and
large farms upon identically the same
system that scientific engineers lay
out the lots and streets of a city. As
every city lot faces a street, every
farm —big or little —in the Tift project
in that county will face a road. In
no instance will the owner of such a
farm be compelled to travel more than
half a mile to reach a wide lateral
highway tapping one of the roads
leading to Tifton, the county seat.
Laid out on the unit system, these
farms will stretch for miles and miles,
one adjoining the other, interconnect
ing invariably and mitigating that iso-
is ever giving to men a different Christ
from the one revealed in the Scrip
tures, the One that was born of the
Virgin Mary and who was and is the
God-man. This is why he is ever
seeking to make men believe in a dif
ferent God than the one revealed in
the Scriptures. If we believe in the
God of the Bible and as He is re
vealed in the Bible, we will not doubt
His love or His care for us, we will
trust Him.
IV. Beware of the First Step. Vs.
6 and 7.
Eve listened to the insinuations of
Satan regarding God’s love, and quick
ly followed Satan to her ruin, she
looked, she lusted, she took, she ate
and then she gave to Adam to eat
also. Here we see the Three lusts we
are warned against. Ist, she “saw
that the tree was good for food.” “The
lust of the tiesh.” 2nd. She saw
“that it was pleasant co the eyes.”
“The lust of the eyes.” 3rd. She saw
that it was “a tree to be desired to
make one wise.” “The pride of life.”
(I. John 2:16.) If we would avoid
these three lusts we must turn a deaf
ear to all the insinuations that are
made against God and His word.
V. Don’t Hide from God. Vs. 8 to
11.
As soon as the man sinned God came
in search of him. God always comes
upon the scene as soon as man sins.
When Adam heard the voice of
SKETCHES
By MRS. W. D. UPSHAW
lation that has heretofore militated so
strongly against the other inducements
of rural life.
When it is remembered that besides
Tifton there are six other towns in the
county, and that educational and relig
ious facilities are among the best in
the State, it is seen at a glance that
the Tift idea has gone right down to
the root of the tangled rural prob
lem. Reinforcing the ‘city of farms’
hypothesis are the twin facts that Tift
county land ranges with the most fer
tile in Georgia, and that the Tift es
tate is in control of an acreage tre
mendous enough to materialize the
plan by the ingenious method describ
ed. Farms from five acres up will be
available, and it is proposed to so ar
range the terms as to fit the most
modest pocketbook. Purchasers will
not be accepted promiscuously. They
must give due guarantees of character
and thrift and of real ability to “make
good” before becoming members of
what is, in reality, to be a gigantic
farm community almost family-like in
its close relations.”
I am in no sense “boosting for Mr.
Tift,” as highly as I esteem that most
estimable citizen, and particularly his
incomparable wife, but I do realize, as
hundreds of other men and women are
coming to realize, that wonderful op
portunity lies in our unfilled acres for
those who will turn to God’s great out
of-doors for sustenance.
The cure is not one of purely mone
tary considerations, but out of the full
er and freer life that the countryman
enjoys, and that superb enthusiasm
that is born in the heart of every
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God, this voice that heretofore filled
him with joy, now fills him with fear.
Like all sinners, they tried to hide
from God, and also like all other sin
ners, they failed. Like all sinners,
they tried to cover their own naked
ness and sin, but failed. Only God
could provide a covering for sin. This
He did for Adam and Eve before He
put them out of the garden. Gcd has
provided the only covering for sin and
sinners. This covering is all they
need and they can receive this the mo
ment they come to Jesus and confess
their sin. “God is love.” He loves
the lost, and gave His son to save
those who are lost, so don’t doubt
Him, or seek to hide from Him, but
come at once and ask and receive the
forgiveness of sins and cleansing in
the blood of Jesus.
VI. —Don’t Blame Others for Your
Sins. V. 12.
Adam sought to escape by putting
his sin upon Eve. He was not to be
blamed for his wife’s offering him the
fruit, but ne was for listening to her
and taking it and eating. So we are
not to blame if temptation is put be
fore us, but we are to blame if we
yield to the temptation.
VII. Remember the Penalty for
Sin. Vs. 22 to 24.
Adam and Eve lost all by sin. The
penalty God placed upon sin was vis
ited upon them and if we sin we shall
not escape the penalty.
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