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The 10 commandments for
children’s holiday visits
The Ten Commandments for
Children’s Christmas visit to
grandparents was written fol
lowing the visit last Christmas
from family, including an 18-
month-old granddaughter.
No. 1— Thou shalt prepare
diligently. However you have
your stuff arranged, it must be
put in another fashion. You’re
set in your ways, they are not
set in yours.
'No. 2 Thou shalt make
special preparation for little
•ties. The distance from the
flbor of all Christmas tree orna
ments is in direct proportion to
the reaching ability of your
grandchild(ren).
No. 3 Thou shalt fast at
least a week before. You will
consider (wrongly) the holidays
a reprieve from all diet
restraints. Watching consump
tion by your guests will bring
out your worst gluttonous per
formance of the year. Their
metabolism is young, yours is
old.
No. 4 Thou shalt vacate
your favorite places in the
house. Especially your bath
room. Nothing is worse than
having your toothbrush removed
from your own rack, except
liaving to share your wife’s
shower with bottles of dubious
liquids you cannot identify lin
ing the ledge.
2 No. 5 Thou shalt forget
lieatness. Os your person and of
.the house. Most everything you
n£yer valued that was smaller
than a bread box will not be
Tound again until next spring.
-And you will have neither the
real time nor the bathroom time
io take a shower until they are
No. 6 Thou shalt try hard
er to sleep than usual. First,
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because you do not want to hear
your granddaughter cry pierc
ingly at 3 a.m. Been there, done
that. Nor can you battle insom
nia with a walk down the hall to
the kitchen for a glass of sooth
ing milk. There will be five
ordinarily open doors closed
between your bed and the
refrigerator.
No. 7 Thou shalt not take
the name of the Lord your
God in vain. There is a special
danger of breaking this rule
when you stagger to the kitchen
in the morning darkness,
through the mine field of sharp
toys your granddaughter scat
tered after you went to sleep.
No. 8 Thou shalt not
covet anyone’s gifts. Nothing is
more sure than that your chil
dren and their children will get
more than you do. Get used to
it. Tell yourself you wouldn’t
have liked a furby (whatever
that is) anyway. Wear those
socks and be glad you didn’t get
a tie.
No. 9 Thou shalt plan for
a new wardrobe. Because this
one will not survive. Your
granddaughter will share her
chocolate pudding with you,
unexpectedly. Never mind. Your
clothes will not fit you on Jan. 2
anyway. See No. 3, above.
No. 10 Thou shalt give
thanks for it all. And praise the
Good Lord for giving these lov
able, wonderful people to your
family. And furthermore, you
won’t be able to wait until they
come next Christmas.
Hello Georgia: an unforgettable experience
Wesley’s musical, religious ties to Georgia;
After returning from the
Korean War in 1952, I made my
home for a time in Macon, Ga.,
where I attended Mercer
University. I had a rigorous
schedule, since I was singing in
a gospel quartet. We traveled
every weekend to towns
throughout the southeast to sing
in concerts and so-called “all
night singings.”
Desiring to improve my
singing ability, I decided to take
voice lessons. A teacher at
Mercer suggested 1 find a voice
instructor at Wesleyan
Conservator of Music, located
in the city limits of Macon. So I
managed to find an instructor -
a gentleman considered to be
the best voice teacher in the
South.
But imagine the hilarious fun
my quartet partners had with the
fact I was attending a college
for women. I managed to endure
the innocent persecution. I even
got better. Through voice exer
cises, I improved my range so
that I could double with our first
tenor on a few songs.
You can also imagine that I
didn’t object at all to the attrac
tive surroundings on the campus
of a school for girls.
When I enrolled for just one
class, I didn’t know anything
about Wesleyan; but I soon
learned some important things
that must be shared.
The Wesleyan Conservatory of
Music and School of Fine Arts
is located near the business dis
trict of Macon, and is part of
Wesleyan College, the first col
lege in the world chartered to
grant a degree to women.
Founded in 1836, it awarded its
first degree to Catherine Brewer
of Macon, mother of Admiral
Benson, in 1840.
The school was first chartered
as Georgia Female College. The
name was changed to Wesleyan
Female College in 1843, when
the Georgia Conference of the
Methodist Church accepted the
college. The name was then
changed to its present form in
1919.
Wesleyan is an accredited, pri
vately controlled college of arts
and sciences for women. The
Liberal Arts College is located
on the Rivoli campus, 5 miles
from the city of Macon.
Many historians delight in vis
iting the library of Wesleyan,
since it includes the Park
Collection of Georgians and the
McGregor Collection of Rare
Americana.
If your interest has been cap
tured, let’s probe deeper. The
college was named for John
Wesley, founder of Methodism,
the clergyman who came to the
new Georgia colony as a mis
sionary to the American
Indians.
Born in the Epworth Rectory,
Lincolnshire, on June 28, 1703,
he studied at the Charterhouse
and at Christ Church, Oxford;
then he took priestly orders in
the Established Church of
England, and received the
degree of Master of Arts.
Wesley was appointed a
teacher at Lincoln College at
Oxford. Following the example
of his father, Samuel, also a
priest in the Church, he
became deeply devoted to theol
ogy and developed unusual tal
ents in preaching.
How could he fail in this call
ing? His father, grandfather and
great-grandfather were clergy
men of the Church of England,
and his mother’s father, Dr.
Samuel Annesley, was one of
the most notable ministers of
London.
Susannah Wesley, his mother,
was one of the great mothers of
history.
There were 19 children in the
family of Susannah Wesley. The
eldest, Samuel, became a
teacher of distinction and was
helpful in the education of his
two brothers, John and Charles.
In fact, Charles, only 5 years
FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Sunday. January 10,1999 -
younger than Samuel, was his
faithful associate in later years.
The outstanding member of the
family of clerics was John. He
owed practically all his native
attributes, character and spiritu
al depth to his mother.
John’s correspondence with
his mother during his college
days while he was preparing for
the ministry forged the princi
ples, which in later life, would
become the foundation for the
Methodist Church. She was a
deep theological thinker, with
decidedly Arminian views.
An excellent scholar in
Hebrew, Latin and Greek, he
went on to master French and
German. With this foundation
and almost 10 years of preach
ing, teaching and assisting his
father in the ministry, he
became immersed in the doc
trines of the Church.
While at Lincoln College, he
joined the Holy Club; this was a
turning point in his life. The
club included a group of stu
dents which would later become
great Church leaders; namely,
Charles, his brother, and George
Whitefield, who was to become
the founder of the so-called
Calvinistic Methodism.
A sacred atmosphere pervaded
those meetings. The club mem
bers adhered strictly and
methodically to religious pre
cepts and practices; among
them, doing such good works as
visiting prisons, nursing homes
for the elderly and comforting
the sick and lonely. So they
earned the name which would
later become profound
“ Methodists,” as they were deri
sively called by many of their
friends.
“Leisure and I have taken
leave of one another. I propose
to be busy as long as I live,”
were the emphatic words of
John Wesley. They became a
self-fulfilling prophecy.
In 1735, after the death of
their father, John and Charles
Clifford V* |
Brewton !■■■
accepted an invitation of
General Oglethorpe to go with
him as chaplains to the colony
of Georgia. It was in Georgia
that the first Methodist hymns
were written in America. These
hymns were translated from the
German by John Wesley. He had
heard the hymns of the German
Moravians on board the ship on
his journey to America.
At Savannah and Frederica,
Wesley produced his first hyntr
nal, Collection of Psalms and
Hymns. It was published in
Charleston in 1737. This was
the first hymn book to be writ
ten in America.
Wesley’s hymns eventually
became the main spiritual and
doctrinal resources for the new.
movement which became mod
ern Methodism. Hated by some
and admired by many, Wesley’S
contribution to religious life in
America were phenomenal.
Georgians can be proud of the
intimate connection to this man
of such marked historic signifi
cance.
Clifford H. Brewton, an experi
enced writer, has dedicated his
pursuits toward the unusual and
spectacular riches of Georgia
history in a syndicated newspa
per series called "Hello
Georgia." Born in Pierce
County, he served in the United
States Army in two airborne
divisions during the Korean
War. He received a bachelor of
arts degree from Covenant
College, Pasadena, Calif., and
earned a bachelor of divinity
degree in 1959 from the
Columbia Theological
Seminary, Decatur.
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