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By Quimby Melton
Wb .believe a most appropri
ate hymn to discuss this week is
“A Mighty Fortress is Our
God,” written by Martin
Luther. Julian, the English
hymnologist, says this was first
sung in 1529, but says the Ger
man poet Heinrich Heine may
have been correct in saying it
was written in 1521. Martin
Luther wrote both the words
and the music.
The first four lines of the
opening stanza of this beloved
hymn are:
A mighty fortress is our God,
A bulwark never—failing;
Our helper he, amid the flood
Os mortal ills prevailing.
The German poet described
this hymn, “A battle hymn was
this defiant song, with which he
(Luther) and his comrads en
tered Worms (April 16, 1521).
The old cathedral trembled at
these new notes, and the ravens
were startled in their hidden
nests in the towers. This hymn,
the Marseillaise Hymn of the
Reformation, has preserved its
potent spell even unto our own
days, and we may yet soon use
again in similar conflicts the old
mailed words.”
Martin Luther was born at
Eisleben, Saxony, Nov. 10,1483.
He was well educated and be
came a Augustian monk, then
priest and in 1508 was a pro
fessor of theology at Wit
tenberg. where nine years later
he presented his famous ninety
nine theses protesting against
special indulgencies. His views
which were presented to the
Diet at Worms, were rejected.
He was held a prisoner at Wart
burg, but a friendly Elector of
Saxony saved his life. While in
confinement he began his
translation of the Bible. Two
years after his release he issued
his first book of hymns. He is
credited with writing a total of
thirty-five hymns. Being a skill
ed musician, he wrote the
“tunes” for many of them.
Martin Luther was a firm be
liever in congregational sing
ing. In his writings he frequent
ly stressed the importance of
singing. “Music,” he once
wrote, “is the glorious gift of
God.” And he said “Singers are
never sorrowful, but are merry,
and smile through their troubles
in song. Music makes people
kinder, gentler, more staid and
reasonable.”
The mfisic Martin Luther
wrote for some of his hymns
were a new type melody. They
were called “Chorales”
resembling folk songs as sung
then. This new style in church
music proved most popular and
the chorale type song had a
great influence on the trend of
music and hymn writing which
followed the Reformation.
Martin Luther died at Eisle
ben, Feb. 18, 1548.
In these days and times when
some are prone to fear more
than hope, this great hymn by
Luther, telling of the Mighty
Fortress of God; and other
hymns written by others such as
the one that sings of The Firm
Foundation, laid in His Ex
cellent Word; and the hymn “0
Love of God”, written by Hora
dus Bonar, should be “Blessed
Assurance” to us all.
The closing stanza of Bonar’s
hymn is:
0 Love of God, our shield and
stay
Through all the perils of our
way;
Eternal Love, in thee we rest;
Forever safe, forever blest.
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Nancy Hanks pulls in for final Griffin stop
Griffinites wave bye
to Nancy Hanks
Several hundred Griffinites were at the train stop last
night in Griffin to see the Nancy Hanks for the last time.
Some boarded here and road to Barnesville for one last
trip on the famed train.
The train was some 30 minutes late arriving in Griffin.
An old fashioned steam locomotive pulled the Nancy
from Atlanta south as far as Jonesboro just for old times
sake. Switching engines at Jonesboro caused a little
delay.
And during the trip between Atlanta and Griffin,
someone pulled the emerge\ry cord on the train, causing
it to make an unscheduled s‘op.
Many Griffinites went to Atianta on the train in the
morning and returned here last night. They said that
people holding “Bye Nancy” signs lined the tracks for
miles and miles.
Some people waiting at the train stop in Griffin put coins
on the tracks so the Nancy Hanks could flatten them when
she pulled out of the station. Those who had put the coins
on the tracks rushed to pick them up as the Nancy pulled
out of Griffin for the last time.
Nancy fades
into history
ATLANTA (UPl)—The Nancy
Hanks, Georgia’s most famous
passenger train, belched up
black smoke and gasped her
last breath Friday night, while
passengers and onlookers on the
final 290-mile trip from Atlanta
to Savannah fought back tears.
The Nancy Hanks, named af
ter a famous trotting race horse
of the late 1800 s—which in turn
was named after the mother of
Abraham Lincoln—first ran be
tween Atlanta and Savannah in
1894. The current Nancy Hanks
has been running between the
two cities for 24 years.
The Nancy Hanks is being dis
continued because it is not part
of AMTRAK, and effective to
day, AMTRAK is taking over
the operation of nearly all the
intercity passenger trains in the
United States.
AMTRAK is the name of the
National Railroad Passenger
Corp., formerly known as Rail
pax. It is a quasi-governmental
corporation formed by Congress
in an effort to revitalize and up
grade railroad passenger serv
ice in the nation.
It chose to operate 184 passen
ger, but not the Nancy Hanks.
Several other well-known trains
also made their last trips. There
was the Midwest’s famous old
Wabash Cannon Ball, the Geor
gian running from St. Louis to
Atlanta and many others that
were put out of business.
The Nancy Hanks had some
500 people aboard on her final
trip, and had been doing a brisk
business the past fortnight.
“If people had ridden in the
past two years like they have
in the past two weeks, the train
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wouldn’t have been cancelled,”
said the ticket agent.
During the first year of its
operation, the Nancy Hanks car
ried more than one million pas
sengers. This past year, it car
ried 51,215 passengers, down
from 62,223 in 1969 and 83,640
in 1968.
The Nancy arrived in Atlanta
at 1:25 p. m. Friday—2s min
utes late. At the throttle was
veteran engineer Robert Darden
who came out of retirement to
guide the old train on its final
trip.
“There’s a lot of memories
and nostalgia in this,” said Dar
den, “to know you’ve done these
things for 50 years and it’s com
ing to an end. It’s not exactly
a pleasant thought, but it’s
something that’s inevitable.
“I’m pleased that the railroad
asked me to operate this steam
engine on the last run of the
Nancy Hanks,” he said.
In addition to the Nancy
Hanks, the Georgian, headed for
St. Louis left the old Union sta
tion on Atlanta’s Forsythe street
at 5:15 p. m. Friday as the last
passenger train to depart from
the depot. The last Georgian to
pull into Union Station will
arrive at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Union Station will be torn
down to make room for a busi
ness development.
Another passenger train mak
ing its final trips Friday was
the Seaboard Coast Line’s serv
ice between Savannah and Mont
gomery, Ala.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Sat. and Sun., May 1-2,1971
College land price,
utilities announced
A 150-acre tract of land for a
junior college can be purchased
for $283,333 Chairman John
Carlisle of the junior college
committee announced today.
The cost of providing utilities
for the site will be $15,000, he
added.
Mr. Carlisle said agreement
has been reached with the
University of Georgia Board of
Regents for the purchase of the
land. It is owned by the Georgia
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ones for which the time is now
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Twisters
By United Press International
Twisters, thunderstorms, hail
and heavy rain, with winds up
to 78 miles an hour, struck ag
ricultural southwestern Georgia
Friday, uprooting trees, toppling
power lines and damaging
crops.
No serious injuries were re
ported.
For the town of Whigham in
Grady County, it was the sec
ond time in 24 hours a twister
had struck. Mayor Cecil Gibbs
said, “We never had anything
like this before.l have never
seen anything like it in 20
years.”
Something new
at city hall
There’s somthing different at
City Jail —a shopping bag full
of clean laundry which someone
found on a street and turned in
Wednesday. It includes
children’s clothing.
Officer-Jailer R. Wilson said
that the owner can claim it by
going to the jail which is on the
gound floor of City Hall and
identifying it.
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Griffinites wait for train
Experiment Station in Griffin.
Mr. Carlisle said that upon
the successful passage of a bond
referendum, the Junior College
would be located here. The site
is at the northwest corner of the
Griffin By-Pass and State Route
16.
“The Junior College com
mittee is very pleased with the
price agreed on. We feel that it
secures the best site in Spalding
County at a very fair price and
for a total cost of less than the
total cost for any comparable
site,” Chairman Carlisle said.
No other site in Spalding
County could be purchased and
the utilities provided to it for a
price comparable to the total
expense incurred at this site,
Mr. Carlisle added.
The value of the land was
determined after consideration
of appraisals by three separate
appraisers. The junior college
committee selected one, the
Regents another, and the two
appraisers selected a third.
Mr. Carlisle thanked Ethan
Taylor of Griffin for volun
teering his professional ser
vices as a real estate appraiser
at no charge to the committee.
The money paid for the land
which breaks down to $1,888.88
per acre will be used by the
Regents to modernize and
expand the Experiment Station
in Griffin, Mr. Carlisle said.
This means the sale of the
land will not constitute a
reduction of the station, he said.
Mr. Carlisle said land price
was to have been announced
Friday morning at a meeting
with the County Com
missioners. But he said it was
delayed • because certain
citizens interested in the bond
proposal could not attend the
Friday meeting.
The committee has scheduled
a meeting with the County
Commissioners Tuesday at 10
a.m. at the courthouse.
Mr. Carlisle said:
“Our committee wants to
afford everyone an opportunity
to be informed and to be heard
on this issue. I ask every person
who has any questions what
soever about the junior college
campaign to contact me per
sonally at any time, day or
night, and I will see that their
question is answered. It is my
opinion that every person who
takes time to find out the
tremendous benefits we will
receive from a junior college
will whole heartedly support
it.”
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Two men died in this pickup truck
Two killed in wreck
Two Barnesville men were
killed yesterday afternoon when
the pickup truck in which they
were riding collided with a
tractor trailer truck on the
North Expressway near Capri
restaurant and Griffin Motel.
The victims were William
Robinson and James Bateman,
Robinson was the pickup driver.
Driver of the tractor trailer
was Eddie Cochran of Mon
tezuma.
Cpl. Bill Shivers of the Griffin
State Patrol Post investigated
the collision.
He said witnesses told him the
pickup truck pulled from a
service station at LaPrade road
into the southbound lane in
which the tractor trailer was
traveling and the collision
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followed.
Cpl. Shivers said the two
victims died instantly.
Cochran was not injured, he
said. The wreck happened at
3:25 p.m.
The two dead men worked in
Atlanta and commuted daily
from their homes in Bar
nesville.