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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 22, 1932.
MEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA
Miss Myrtice Nowlen, Preston high
.school senior, died Sunday the result
-of pneumonia,
Atlanta and most of North Geor-
-S>a was blanketed in snow and ice
over the week end.
While acting as peace-maker J. W.
Wynn, well known Atlanta man was
Trilled Saturday night.
Seventy-eight are reported to have
'been named for Governor-elect Eu
gene Talmadge since Sept 14th.
Col. Sigo Myers, for many years
-prominently identified with Savan
nah's business interest, died Friday.
A wintry week-end left the south
with 25 dead from accidents and many
Of the fatsUties were traceable to the
-cold.
O. V. Graves, 48, and Clark Folds,
37, operators of a wood-yard at
Moultrie, were instantly killed in an
auto-train grade crossing crash Mon
day night.
Richard H. Rhoades, prominent
.young Atlanta insurance man, was
Rilled at Sylvester, Ga., Saturoay
Slight when his automobile was struck
by a train.
Approximately $15,000 in cash was
released in Macon Tuesday when em
ployes of the city were paid cash in
stead of scrip for the first time in
several months.
Cam Cantrel, night marshal of De-
Soto, a small village in Sumter
county, is in jail at Americus, charg
ed with the theft of gasoline from a
local filling station pump.
A major operation out of the or-
-dinary was performed at Valdosta
last week when Dr. Frank Bird re
moved the appendix of Frank Bird—
father operating on the son.
Double funeral services were held
at Fitzgerald Sunday for Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Jones who died within 24
hours of each other. Their ages are
given as 73 and 79 respectively.
Governor-elect Eugene Talmadge
"Tuesday announced the appointment
-of Lindley Camp, Atlanta and Mari-
-etta lawyer, to be adjutant general of
-Georgia, succeeding Charles H. Cox.
Gerrard S. Haines, city alderman,
and one of Savannah’s most widely
known citizens, was found dead at his
-desk in his business office early Sat
urday p. m., a victim of a heart at
tack.
Charles James Meredith, 66, mem
ber of the Georgia house of repre
sentatives, of Muscogee county since
1928, died Tuesday at the city hos-
-pital at Columbus after an illness of
several months.
The Gillespie Noritial school locat
es at Cordele will receive $5,000 thru
toe national board of missions from
the will of Agnes Johnstown Gillespie
which has been offered at Pittsburgh,
Pa., for probate.
In a statement at Athens Monday
C- nree Barrett, state forestry spe
cialist, said that 21,734 forest fires
were reported in Georgia last year
■causing a loss to land owners of ap-
. jjroximotcly $4,631,415.
The Central of Georgia railroad
announced on Tuesday its through
-train service to Florida during the
winter season. The trains are tne
Southland, Dixie Flyer, the Flamingo
and the Dixie Limited.
Accusations of inhumane treatment
•.practiced on some animals subjected
to vivisection at the Medical College
of the University of Georgia have
“been made by investigators for the
Augusta Humane Society.
Deliberating less than two hours, a
"Fulton county jury Thursday night
acquitted Roy V. Clayton, former
—captain in the Atlanta fire department
at his second trial of murder charges
for the death of his brother, C. C
—Clayton.
Mrs. Maude Martin, 19, who was in
jured in an automobile accident at
Columbus Dec. 13 in which Mrs. Vir
ginia Williams, of Albany, was killed
•died of her injuries at a Columbus
"hospital Friday. Funeral services were
held Friday at Columbus!
Another naval stores deal involving
•approrimately $100,000 in Clinch
-county, near Valdosta, is revealed in
•the application for charter for the
Thelma Naval Stores company, witn
"headquarters at Thelma, east of Val
dosta near the Clinch-Lowndes county
line.
E. C. Stigall, former head of the
vice squad of the Atlanta police de
partment, who has served nine years
at a 16-year sentence for voluntary
manslaughter, was pardoned Friday
tiy Gov. Russell. Stigall was convicted
■of killing Wm. H. Hames, a private
detective, in 1923.
When President Hoover arrives in
■Savannah, tomorrow he will be met
—there and conducted south for his fish
■oug trip in Florida waters by a fleet
of Coast Guard boats from the Flori-
—da east coast patrol area, according
to an announcement Saturday by
Capt. C. F. Howell, area commander,
The Albany post of the American
"Legion put on a country store bazar
Saturday night and an Atlanta cou
ple, Miss Iona Haunson and Forest
O. Currier, went down and copped
the principal honors—at least the
spotlight of the show. They responded
to the call for a marriage ceremony.
Leading Albany socialists served
members of the wedding party and
the ceremony was performed by the
Rev. W. R. White, pastor of the First
Taptist church of Albany.Groomsmen
Included Mayor J. S. Billingslea and
—«ther prominent Albanians.
• The First National, only remaining
bank in Ft. Gaines, failed to open for
business Thursday morning last.
On motion of Senator Walter F.
George, of Georgia, Thos. L. Bowden,
prominent attorney of Columbus, has
been admitted to practice before the
United States superior court.
A state-wide convention of the
consolidated forces for prohibition, a
newly organized group of representa
tives of existing temperance bodies, jJo. hen” eggs'---
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hand is taken into account.
Commercial White Leghorn flocks
have paid greater profits by far than
any other farm enterprise in Taylor
county for the year 1932, and will do
so every year when properly man
aged.
Flock No.
No hens
has been called in Macon on Tuesday,
January 10, acocrding to an an
nouncement by Dr. Walter Anthony,
chairman of the executive committee.
Arthur Lucas, prominent Atlanta
and Savannah theater owner and mo
tion picture executive, as well as
former editor of the Americus Times
Recorder, was elected chairman of
he State Board of Control at a meet
ing held at Milledgeville Thursday.
He succeeds Judge Shepherd Bryan,
of Atlanta, who resigned Thursday.
A 2-year-old girl baby was behind
jail bars at Ashburn last week be
cause her mother, held as material
witness in the slaying of her young
husband, insisted that her daughter
be by her side. Mrs. Walter Koker,
30 sat calmly in her cell, her wide-
eyed, attractive baby on her lap, while
she told police she knew nothing of
the slaying of her husband.
Joseph N. Neal, of Macon, and Sam
Nunn, of Perry, will be the principal
speakers at the midwinter meeting of
“The House of Houser,’ a family or
ganization of Houser descendants in
Georgia, in the new Perry hotel, at
Perry, on Monday, Dec. 26. A recep
tion will be held at 4:30 p. m., dinner
will be served at 6:30 and an enter
tainment program will be presented
from 6:30 to 8:30.
Governor Richard B. Russell Jr.,
who goes to Washington as United
States senator at the expiration of
hiB term on January 10, Tuesday an
nounced that Leeman Anderson, who
has been his private secretary, would
continue in that capacity after be oe-
came senator. The governor also an
nounced that Miss Julia Harris,
daughter of the late Senator Wm. J.
Harris, to whose unexpired term he
was elected, 'and Miss Harriett Tay
lor, who also has been attached to
the governor’s office, also will be in
Washington office. Miss Harris at
present is in the office of Sen. J. S.
Cohen, who is serving by appoint
ment
John I Kelley, candidate for gov
ernor in the recent Democratic pri
mary, has tendered his resignation as
an assistant attorney general of the
state of Georgia and will open a law
office in Atlanta early in January, it
was announced Saturday. He will
have his office at 411 Hurt building.
Mr. Kelley is one of the best-known
men in the state, having been in pub
lic life for many years. He was
graduated in law from Mercer Uni
versity in 1914 and engaged in the
practice of his profession in his home
city of Lawrenceville. He was private
secretary to the late United States
Senator Thos. E. Watson for several
years, and also has served in the
house of representatives and state
senute.
A sentence of death imposed
Joe Groves, Thomas county youth, in
Thomas superior court, Nov. 6, while
Groves was in the death cell at the
state penitentiary, was declared "ah'
solutely void’’ and that section of the
state electrocution act which provides
for th e resentencing of a condemned
prisoner without his presence in court
was held unconstitutional, in an
opinion by Judge James Park, of the
Ocmulgee circuit. Judge Park criti-
ized “mob law and declared that “it
i s really worse to deprive a man of
his life, liberty or property by moo
law than by mob violence." Mean
while, Groves remains in the death
cell of the state prison, under new
sentence to die today, but defense
lawyers are planning a fight on his
death decree also.
3 KILLED; 3 OTHERS
INJURED IN CROSSING
ACCIDENT AT ALBANY
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For December 25,1932 ”
By Dr. H. J. PORTER, Teacher Men’s Bible Class
Butler Baptist Church.
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Praise For Mr. Taunton
The county agent is glad to
that Mr. Howard Taunton has bought
new herd boar for his Poland
Chinas. This boar is a grandson of
the World’s Champion Broadcloth,
bred by Mr. A. H. Jennings, of
Americus. He is replacing the boar
Big Bill bought three years ago by
Mr. Taunton, and which now weighs
about 1,100 pounds.
Mr. Taunton won grand champion
prize with a Junior Yearling Sow at
Columbus last Fall. He is one of the
leading Poland China breeders of
this section, having succeeded in
selling 18 June and July gilts to the
4-H Club boys of Fulton county this
month, thru the Taylor county agent
and Mr. S. D. Truitt, Fulton county
agent, at a very satisfactory price.
Such local breeders as Mr. Taunton
are-bringing fame far and wide to
the class of Poland China hogs Tay
lor county is now producing.
<&&a (&\ft Mi it
Golden Text: “For God so loved the
world that he gave his only be
gotten Son that whosoever be-
lieveth on him shall not perish
but have everlasting life."—
John 3:16.
Lesson Text: Luke 2: 8-20
In some respects it is lucky that
Christmas Day this year comes on
that the angel did not appear unto
kings and to the rich, but it was to
the poor, for they would most likely
be more susceptible to impressions
made on them. God does not manifest
himself to scare them, but just the
opposite to take fear from tne hearts
of those who love him.
Verse 10 says, “I bring you good
tidings of great joy which shall be to
all people." The Gospel when proper'
are told in the Golden Text.
There is in the world among some
people a great misconception of what
it means to celebrate Christmas.
Some seem to think that it is a time
for great commotions and rackets
and satisfying of the temporal appe
tites. We have seen those people who
would pick the Christmas holidays to
imbibe too freely of intoxicating
We are fearful that there are peo-1* iA av j our '” r ‘! e
pie who do not fully realize what, 1 ™* ha l.fTu t0
celebrating Christmas means or tipi-l^ an J" ^ P“. ° f t . a little babe .
fies. Some seem to think it is just a ,* ®. 1
time to feast and exchange gifts with I aad “f j“ er . tJ J at had been
friends and loved ones, and lose sight £ JL ° f *>[ ea 5 ' bef ™ a ;
salvation to all the world. No certain
social set was to have a monopoly
over it. Also it was to know no bar
riers, no priest or potentate couid
keep back the blessings of this heav
enly gift.
The Great Gift
“For unto you is born this day in
of the deeper significance of what
means. It is a solemn occasion or
should be when we celebrate the
event of God giving toymen his im
mortal Son. The greatest gift that
man could ever receive. For this rea
son alone we should look with rever
ence upon the Yuletide. This is a good
time to repair to our respective plac
es of worship, and offer our thanks to . r
Almighty Gofl for His eternal gift to were told that they would find a baby
I man. _ ! just born and wrapped in swaddling
clothes and lying in a manger. He
We read in Isa. 6:9, “For unto us
a child is born, unto us a son is given
and the government shall be upon his
shoulders, and his name shall be
called' wonderful councellor, the were fed. Suddenly there appeared in
note I mighty God, the everlasting God, tne I the air above with the angels an
Prince of Peace.” The prophet Isaah heavenly host. They were testifying to
Is here foretelling us just what would I the shepherds their interest in the
Albany, Ga., Dec. 16.—Two Albany
women and a man died in a hospital
at Albany Thursday night, a short
time alter an automobile in which
they were riding was in a crash with
a switch engine in the railroad yards
in East Albany.
* iree other occupants of the auto-
ile were injured, one of whom
was taken to the operating room for
the amputation of a leg.
The dead are: Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Vinson, each about 21 years of age,
and Mrs. Lillian Whitaker, 30.
The injured:
Miss “Billy” Toole, 30, leg crushed
so badly amputation was found neces
sary.
Leon Willis, 26, former fireman
and now employed by a dry cleaning
establishment, in serious condition,
but nature of injuries not determined.
— Loftin, 26, employed on the
Colonial Farms in Lee county, also in
serious condition.
Where the young people were go'
ing was not determined by the Al
bany police force. The young people
still living were able to talk.
"RIZE BEAUTY IN
SECRET MARRIAGE
Macon, Dec. 17.—Dorothy Jean
Hedgepath was crowned “Miss Ma.
con" in the municipal bathing beauty
contest last July, missed the title of
Georgia’s prettiest by five votes and
then stepped into matrimony by se'
cret marriage.
She and Felton Williamson were
married in Jeffesonville, Ga., Nov. 12,
but kept it a secret until Saturday. It
might not have been made known but
for a friend of the bride who couldn’t
keep silent.
“We didn't tell you because we are
so young,” Dorothy explained to her
parents. She’s 17 and the groom
19.
The parents said it was all right
and now everybody’s happy.
PROMINENT ELBERTON YOUNG
MAN’S HEAD BLOWN OFF AS
HE WORKS ON OIL TANK
Elberton, Ga., Dec. 16.—While at
work at his regular duties in the ma
chine shops of Orr & Garrett, Mr. J
B. Orr, 23 years old, popular and
highly respected young Elbertonian,
had the top of his head blown off by
an exploding oil tank on which he was
working Tuesday p. m.
He was rushed to the hospital near
by, but was already dead when he ar
rived. In fact, death was so nearly
instantaneous that the victim of the
tragic accident suffered no conscious
momentary pain from the explosion.
His father, J. B. Orr, Sr., working
near the son, rushed to his prostrate
form and grasped the quivering body
in his embrace in the vain and pa
thetic attempt to rescue him from
the clutches of the dread messenger
that came like a thunderbolt from a
clear sky.
At the time of the accident, the lo
cal newspaper had just come from
the press carrying the announcement
of his engagement to a popular
young Elberton girl, and the bride-to-
be was at the moment standing in the
receiving line at the home of a mu
tual friend where a miscellaneous
shower was being given in her honor.
No tragedy in decades has so
played upon the sympathetic heart
strings of the entire people of Elber
ton as has the unexpected and un
timely death of this promising mem
ber of a highly respected and splen
did family.
“RENDER TO ALL THEIR
DUES”—PAUL
This appeared in Cuthbert I,
of Dec. 16. Among other thing-
have felt the prevailing slum?in 0?
community is the taxi service.
the reduction in railway service 5
travel, tins service which formed
embraced several cars has dwffi?
until now it is hard for those Jff*
want this service to find a cuth °
a passing which is to .be regretiVl
I was born in Cuthbert and wliw
exception of 13 years of my life 0177
years have been spent in RanaolsV,
county. Her interests are mtae/ A?..
railroad man I have established inth?
county one basket factory which ha«
grown to two in the county, one in
Dawson und one in Eufaula. Three ot
those factories are flourishing a nH
ail people. • me uospei wnen proper- their ^eMertiv«^fw!? > tl ] e * of
ly received produces great joy. JoyJ countv ?? nt *u n our
through these shall at last spread to i interstate * ettin K
the whole world. This word or gospel■ Ed at h * 8 T C0 1 rn,r "°%
was to carry the great.glad neVof
never raised, but have lowered rate,
on every phase of railway service
Compared with the active service
of other callings we are equal to any
^urch in the land in rendering to
all Christian citizenship. These* are
my credentials for criticising the
above from the Cuthbert Leader Re!
cause of the Bus Service at least one
thousand dollars have been cut from
the money per month circulating j»
Cuthbert, since bus service has beei
the vogue and bus service has never
added one cent to the prosperity of
Cuthbert, nor any other place it has
served since its beginning. Right now
the railway force employed in Cuth.
bert—with , their number curtailed
two-thirds by bus and truck—pay into
the merchants of Cuthbert five hua-
dred dollars monthly. The bus and
truck combined, not over ten dollars
to labor. I protest that any newspaper
as individual or as w corporation
mourning over the parasite passinj
is guilty of at least idiocy in mourn
ing the passing of this curse to Geor
gia. Granting every argument against
the rail carriers that has been,or can
be brought by ignorance of their
problems in the past, nor in the fol
ture, they have builded Georgia and
the nations everywhere, including our
own. and getting down to cases, Cuth-
bert was known as the worst town,
morally, except Newton in Bnker
county, until 1849 when SWRR was
chartered from Macon to Ft. Gaines,
Ga. Then she began to wash her fa-
and after it reached here in 1866 h
gotten to a bath a day. And railroa
have made this possible in all parts
our land.
Andrew P. Rives.
Cuthbert, Ga.
Every knee shall bow to him and
every tongue shall confess him. By
Jesus’ contact with man during his
sojourn on earth was the opportunity
to see God. When one saw the Son
they sow the Father.
The Sign
“And this shall be a sign unto
you.” The announcement is to bring
proof of the fact that the shepherds
was. to be the heir to the throne of
David. What a contrast to a king was
this lying in a manger where stock
happen and what did happen hun
dreds of years later. He goes on to
tell us that the increase of the gov
ernment shall have no end and his
kingdom of justice and righteousness
shall tobntinue henceforth and for
ever. The zeal of Jehovah will per
form this. This prophesied one is not
only omniscent but also omnipotent.
He is every where and knows all
things, and think that we have him
as a gift from Almighty God! How
reverent we should be in celebrating
this great gift. He is able to save to
the uttermost and will save clear
through to the end.
He produces, commands and pro-
curs peace. There is no wonder then
that a heavenly host appeared at his
advent into the world, and sang
hymns of peace to all men.
In Micah 5:2 we read, “But thou
Bethlehem Ephratah though thou be
little among thousands of Judea, yet
out of thee shall he come forth unto
me, that is, to be the ruler in Israel
whose goings forth have been from
old, from everlasting.” At this time in
history Augustus Caesar was the
Emperor of Rome and was seeking to
gratify his pride by a great number
of additions to his kingdom, and as
was the rule every child born, was
required by law to be registered in
their ome town or city. All unknown
to himself, he serving the purpose of
God.
Mary and Joseph went to their own
city of Bethlehein where the family
records were kept. They came that
the record of their lineage might be
correctly kept. While they were in
Bethlehem the Saviour was born and
his cradle was a feed trough in a
stable for that was the only shelter
to be had. His humble birth has al
ways been the joy and comfort of the
world. Who of us who have read the
story without being happy at the
thought that our Saviour’s humble
advent into this world has enabled us
to come closer to him in our every
privation and struggle along life’s
pathway. Bethlehem was only a vil
lage but it became known for time
and eternity when it became known
as the birthplace of God’s matchless
gift to all mankind. His advent into and heard hu watchin „ t he rt" fl rcks
the world furnishes a simple and -m. t . ■ TV" 1 "? .V 161 ! n . s
beautiful solution of the otherwise in- 1 novil
soluble problem of human salvation.
The Prime Purpose
God loves us and because he loves
JUDGE CRISP MAY ACCEPT
OFFER TO ENTER PRIVATE
BUSINESS IN NORTHERN CITY
Washington, Dec. 16.—Chas. R.
Crisp, recently appointed to the fed
eral tariff commission by President
Hoover, indicated Friday that he has
received several "flattering” offers to
enter private business and is seriously
considering accepting one of them.
Action of the senate Thursday in
voting not to confirm any presidential
appointments until after March 4, au
tomatically forces Crisp’s elimination
from the tariff board until his ap
pointment can be confirmed in the
next session of congress.
To the above The Americus Times-
Recorder adds: “Reports have been
current in Americus for a few days
that Judge Crisp has accepted one of
the offers mentioned in the above dis
patch, but relatives have denied the
reports, although admitting that he
has such offers under consideration."
birth of the Saviour. They indicated
by their actions how glad the world
should be of the great and divine
event Jehovah is honored by them.
The new bom babe will bring glory
to the father of all and lead men to
rejoice in him and praise him. The
glory was given to Jehovah but man
was not left out, the child was to be
the bearer of peace to all men. God
wills good to all men and it shall be
the gift to all who accept the gift of
the Saviour to the world.
“The shepherds said one to another
let us now go even unto Bethlehem.”
The words that had been spoken to
them from above and the bright light
which they had seen and the hymn
they had heard convinced them that if
they would go to Bethlehem that tney
Would there see the Messiah.
There was no doubts in their minds
as to what they would find. They
were willing to leave their flocks and
go to the town to see what had hap
pened. They did not say let’s go and
see if this is true. They said we are
going and see. There is no doubt but
that they were all devout men and
were worthy of having this heavenly
vision brought to them.
Finding the Babe
“And they came with haste and
found both Joseph and Mary.” They
left their flock at once and by divine
guidance they found the place. Found
the babe lying in a manger as had
been foretold in the long ago. After
some search the place was found, and
perhaps from their being on a divine
mission they were admitted to the
privacy of the sacred scene. When
they had seen the Saviour they were
so filled with emotion that they pro
ceeded to tell those about them of the
things they had seen. What they had
seen was the most sublime scene that
had ever been man’s privilege to be
hold. We might add that the shep
herds were the world’s first evan
gelists.
Those who listening to them, were
confirmed in the faith of what they
were saying. They had known noth-
ln S of anything unusual in the birth
of the child till they heard the shep
herd’s version of what they had seen
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us he can love and save us and be
cause he can love and save us we
ought also to love him and give our
best to him, We celebrate Christmas
not with revelry and sin, but rejoice
and be glad. Enter into his house with
thankful hearts and into his presence
with praise.
God Communes with [the Shepherds
Verse 8 tells us “and there were
in the same country shepherds abid
ing in the field.” There has been an
attempt in time to assign some other
date than in December as to the time
of the Saviour’s birth. They tell us
that it was a season when the weath
er would be too inclement to be out
n 1 4. t
will never grow old. Every time it is
told it holds our interest. On the glad
and happy Christmas day when we
repair to our places of worship to
celebrate the coming into the
world of the blessed Saviour it should
be with reverential awe, devotion and
love to him. There is no more fitting
way to commemorate this great event
than to tell the young of what the
Saviour’s birth meant to the world and
point them to the star whose light
and glory will never be darkened, but
instead will grow brighter with the
passing of the years.
We miss the great purpose of
Christmas when we seek to celebrate
the event with carousals and gratify
our animal appetites. We should not
lose sight of the solemnity of the oc
casion. We celebrate the birthdays of
j numbers of this world’s great men
side with flocks at night, but by say- and how much more should we be
ing the shepherds were abiding in thelwililng to celebrate the birthday of
fields means that they were living in > he who can and will save our soul
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service will continue as heretofore.
Tliere will be no cnange in the oiticiul
aim employe personnel.
"It is, or course, a matter of re
gret tnat the railroad was unable to
cope with tne adverse circumstance*
wliich nave culminated in this action
Our belief is that this course will host
serve to protect the interests of all
involved. Our hope is that we may
find an early solution for our prob
lems and emerge from receiverehp
with a minimum loss to any interest
“The financial condition in whet
the Central of Georgia finds itself is
due largely to an unprecedented de
cline in traffic. Our receipts hi 1932
are less than half of the figure leach
ed in 1929. Although every economy
consistent with safety and efficiency
was exercised, it was manifestly im
possible to reduce expenses in like
proportion. Certain railway expenses
are beyond the control of manage
ment, for example, the staggering
burden of taxation. Coupled with the
depression and taxation, the railroad"
have to combat unregulated compe
tition and the non-enforcement, in
many instances, of such laws as are
on the statute books. These various
factors combined to make the odds
against us overwhelming.
“Our own officers and employ
have waged a gallant fight for the
preservation of the property. I am
profoundly grateful to them, and also
to the press and public in our terri
tory for the finest sort of coopera
tion. I believe that there is an in -
creasing understanding of transport
tion matters by the people general!
which will ultimately benefit to m
whole public, and the advancement 0
national prosperity.
“As receiver for the Central
Georgia I ask the same helpful spin
of co-operation that it was my go:
fortune to have as its president.
ATLANTA ISSUES SCRIP;
PRINT SHOP IS PROTECTE
Atlanta, Dec. 16.-^-Some Atbm
printer Friday was turning out ?4W
000 in negotiable scrip but just as
warning to possible holdup men, 0
ficials, announced a strong, guard
been placed over the printing shop:
The scrip will be used to paf cl
employes their November salary
since it is the equivalent of cash
far as the city of Atlanta is *°_
cemed a guard was detailed to P
tect the printer.
The name of the printing cones
was withheld.
the open and in the same country of
Judea where Abraham watched his
father’s flocks hundreds of years be
fore.
We have often seen pictures of
what was supposed represented the
angels hovering over the shepherds
which is a misconception. The sudden
ness with which the elements were
lighted with an intensely bright light.
This state of things during the night
and make us an eternal heir to Goa’s
glory. No Christmas celebration is
complete unless the Christ Child is at
some time during the performance
held up to those present as the Sav
iour of the world. That is why we
have Christmas celebrations to tell
the world that we love and adore our
Saviour and want to pay homage to
him.
The shepherds were humble and re-
of course filled them with awe. One ] sponsive to the divine vision they be
noticeable fact about the appearance held and heard. What message do we
of the angel to the shepherds was get from the shepherds?. Are we made
more responsive to the wooing of
Christ Child? If we are not, the me
sage of the shepherds and their vi»
has fallen down completely m
purpose. * , .
Let us join angels and sheph
and heaven in giving prmse to
name of Jesus. May it be with us
the shepherds in the fields on
blessed Christmas night in the i
ago, that we will want to * j
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Saviour of the world and
glad story of salvation to
world.
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