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From the
editor’s Desk
Joe Brady
Editor
After a series of
text messages last
week, birthdays
have been on
my mind. I have
inevitably been
remembering my
own birthdays and
I realize I have
led a deprived
childhood.
Family pictures
reflect my fair
share of parties,
and the snapshots
of a four-year-old boy sitting amidst other young
children I have long since forgotten or never knew.
Perhaps Mama just sent invitations to all the
neighborhood children. Back when we lived in a
neighborhood that is.
It also seems to me that most birthdays were
spent in Millen. In those days, we all converged on
that little green house in Emmalane with a single
thought in mind: seeing our cousins and partaking
of Granny’s country fried steak.
After the rounds of hugs and the business of
eating was finished, we sat around the huge
picnic table waiting on a birthday cake which I
never knew from whence it came. Granny would
announce the cake’s jovial arrival with a loud,
“Happy Birthday!” As the cake, complete with
blazing candles, was placed in the center of the
table we could just make out the dark green
writing festooned with blue, pink, and red roses,
“Happy Birthday Mimi, Kenneth, Alyce, Ronda,
Joey.”
No matter where I spent my birthday in the
years following those celebrations at Granny’s my
birthday cake has always had at least two names
on them. In fact, I was almost grown before I
realized that birthday cakes weren’t supposed to
have two names on them.
Of course, since I must share a birthday who
better to share it with than my own mother? When
I informed her that she would have to live forever
because my birthday would be forever ruined once
I no longer shared it with her, she calmly informed
me that I could always drink a toast to her memory
on the big day.
During the course of this conversation, she also
confessed to choosing my birthday because her
doctor was checking into drug rehab after he
delivered me. I always wondered what was wrong
with me, now I have the answer. A drunken
delivery on Friday the 13th...How’s that for self
esteem issues? That’s all for now, take care.
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Lawton
Dr. Ryan McNutt, Ph.D, FSAScot, R.P.A.
“The Last
Confederates”
As the 9th Alabama Cavalry retreated (as discussed
last week) in the face of Sherman’s advancing corps:
the 20th behind them, and the 14th to their north,
the picture of their movements becomes even foggier.
Presumably, they made their rendezvous at Beaver
Dam Creek in Screven County. Reattached to Wheeler’s
command, they protected the retreat to Savannah,
moved back northwest to defend Augusta’s munitions
factories, and into South Carolina in February of 1865
to defend Augusta from Kilpatrick’s cavalry at the battle
of Aikin. But there were desperate attempts to stave off
the inevitable. Sherman’s inexorable march to the sea
had already taken Savannah on December 21st, 1864,
which he presented to Lincoln as his Christmas gift.
From Savannah, after a month of rest, Sherman struck
north into South Carolina, driving for the capital at
Columbia, and from there into North Carolina. Strikes
at Augusta by Kilpatrick and disparate other actions
were smokescreens, maneuvers to keep the limited
Confederate forces stretched to the breaking point and
guessing at his true route. By March, Johnston’s Army
of the Tennessee had been hammered at the Battle of
Bentonville in North Carolina, with Wheeler’s cavalry
driven in in the final actions and savaged. On April 9th,
1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern
Virginia at Appomattox Court House. On April 26th,
1865, General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to
Sherman at Durham Station, Orange County, in North
Carolina with the Army of Tennessee, and Wheeler’s
Cavalry, including the 9th Alabama. A little less than
a hundred men from the 9th Alabama lived to seek
parole and swear the oath of allegiance and loyalty
to the United States of America. Four years of war
were at an end. And the desperate engagements at
Lawton were barely footnotes in its history. And what
of Lawton itself? A poem by Sandburg perhaps best
sums up the aftermath of conflict, and the immediate
need to heal by forgetting:
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work—
I am the grass; I cover all.
And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the
conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?
I am the grass.
Let me work.
At Lawton, the grass went to work. Remnants of the
fortifications, of the stockade, and the Confederate
camp survived. People from Lawtonville, the small
settlement around Lawton station, mentioned seeing
the still visible remnants of Camp Lawton as late as the
1890s, but now denuded, slowly collapsing, and being
reclaimed by pine forests and the grass, carpeting over
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AYER
Pastor Wayne Ayer,
First Baptist Church
Sylvania, GA
Hang In There
Have you invited Jesus Christ to be the forgiver of your
sins and the leader of your life? If the answer is yes, then
I want to help you as a Christian to develop a Biblical
worldview. Every decision you and I make, and every
action and reaction should be shaped by the Truth that
is from the beginning—Jesus Christ. The question to
consider is not whether you have a worldview, but rather,
is your worldview a true biblical world view? If we as
Christ followers if we don’t use spiritual discernment,
we can allow the culture around us and the popular
worldviews to cause great confusion in our lives. A
worldview can be broken down into three parts: basic
beliefs, a master story, and action. Every worldview can
be evaluated by these elements. A biblical worldview
(or a Christ follower’s worldview) is a worldview based
on the unchanging Word of God. A biblical worldview
is important because it is the only true worldview. If we
reject God’s word, we fail to see the world as it really is.
Think of a worldview as a pair of glasses. If you have
broken or discolored lenses or the wrong prescription, you
won’t see the world correctly. A biblical worldview shows
you the world as its Creator God intended. We’d love to
be able to see the world with perfect vision, but because
of sin, our view is distorted. Using a biblical worldview
corrects our vision and helps us see the world through the
theme of God’s redemption. What are you saying Wayne?
A biblical worldview is not just a conceptional idea my
friends. A biblical worldview changes the way a Christ
follower responds to everything in his or her world. Let’s
check your biblical world view . . .
How do you respond to a natural disaster?
How do you respond to traffic?
What do you do if your fast-food order is wrong?
How do you respond to a terrorist attack?
What is our response to political tumioil?
A true Christ follower with a biblical worldview is going
to respond to these events with the Word of God in one
hand and The Sylvania Times (News) in the other. . While
others may have their worldview shaken after a disaster, a
Christ follower will respond with trust in God’s wisdom,
confidence in Christ’s future return, and zeal for spreading
the gospel. Christ followers don’t rely on a biblical
worldview only when major events happen. A biblical
worldview informs how the Christ follower prioritize their
time and money, respond to leadership, raise their children,
and respond to hurtful words and comments. God’s Word
is the owner’s manual for a true biblical worldview and
our guide for all of life. Let’s ask God today to help you
and I to shape a true biblical world view for our lives and
our witness and let’s talk again soon.
Pastor’s writing was inspired by reading https://
blog.bjupress.com
Rev. Wayne Ayer is the new Lead Pastor of First
Baptist Church and the leading voice of a podcast
called “On The Ayer” that airs daily on Apple and
Spotify.
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