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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, MAY 3, 1934.
THE DEATH OF CHRIST
PAGE THREE
(By
Martha Ray Turner,
Mauk, Ga.)
l thn fifty-third chapter of Isaiah
k ; tti ii ti»d ti' es - w °*' ds: ,“ SureIi ;
, h;i th borne our griefs and earned
■ trims yet we did esteem Him
tSTilin of God, and ulfUc-
, jut He wus wounded for our
in-seressions. He was bruised for
t iniquities; the chastisement of
I ewe was upon Him and with
stripes we are healed.”
■ riv e times that little word "our”
1 use a. l would like if I could, to
ike that 53rd chapter of Isaiah
[,1 i would like if‘I could to bring
you this truth—that Christ
I, suffered for each one of us. We
jke v ,p the Bible, we read the ac-
in of His crucifixion and death,
v He suffered in agony; and we
tin- Bible down, go uway and
■ink nothing more r.bou it.
If wish I ,could bring before you in
l inK colors the sufferings and
lath of Chri3t. I want to speak of
phf.dcal suffering; for that I
Ink we can lay hold of. No man
Lvs or can know what Christ’s
Lai sufferings were,
pen a friend or loved one dies
we treasure tthat last word—
we tell it to his friends. Now
JS visit Calvary.
Let’s go hack in imagination to
, time of Christ’s crucifixoin, and
fcpose we are living in the city of
rusalem.
Take the last Tuesday He spent
|h His disciples before He was
icified and imagine we are walk-
one of the streets of Jerusa-
h. We sec a small body of men
Ilikng down the street; many are
■ming to see what the excitement
I As we get nearer, wc find that it
Jjcsus with His disciples. They
|er a common-looking house, we
» r also; and there we find Jesus
[ing with the disciple. You can
sorrow depicted upon His brow,
i disciples see it, but do not know
P has caused His grief. We are
that “He was sorrowful unto
kh.”
[omo one has said, “Our Lord’s
, hours must have been a great
Itery to the twelve disciples. He
had filled Jerusalem with wonder at
the resurrection of Lazarus; and
here He was talking about death. lie
who could raise a dead man thnt had
been already in his grave four days!
Wlmt did it mean ?’’
And as they did eat, He said,
“Verily I say unto you that one of
you shall betray me.” Then Judas
which betrayed Him, answered and
said: “Master, is it 1?”
Soon after Christ said to Judas,
“What thous doest do quickly.” Then
Judas left the room. For three years
he had associated with the Son of
God. For three years he had sat at
the feet of Jesus. For three years he
had heard those words of sympathy
and love that had fallen from His
lips. For three years he had been
one of the twelve. He had seen Jesus
perform His wondeiful miracles, and
Judas goes out into the night the
darkest night this world over saw—
the saddest parting that ever took
place on the earth; he goes out into
darkness, despair, remorse and death.
Off into the darkness and blackness
of the night he goes to the Sanhedrin
and to the chief priest, and said unto
them: “What will ycu give me, and I
will deliver Him unto you?” And
covenanted with him for 30 pieces of
silver.
That was a small amount; men
condemn Judas; but how many are
selling Jesus for less than he did.
How many give Him up, and all
hope of heaven for less than 30 piec
es of silver? There are men and
women who are selling Him for a
few hours of pleasure.
It was on that night that Jesus
said to his disciples: “Let not your
hearts be troubled, ye believe in God
believe also in me.”
Instead of the disciples trying to
comfort Jesus, He tries to cheer
them. He took them into a place
called Gethsemane, and said unto
them: “Sit yc here, while I go and
pday yonder.”
Then cometh He to His disciples
and saith ur.to them, “Sleeip on now.
and take your rest; behold the hour
is at hand and the Son of man is
betrayed into the hands of sinners.”
He that knew no sin was to bear
ieorgia Baptist Hospital Day
o Aid Many Throughout State
ir.it 1 1
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' ll,e children's ward at (ieorgia Baptist Hospital in Atlanta is the
j (, ic o) many huppy hours for the young inmates who are furnished
r ftr and amusement in addition to the best o1 medical attention.
rmiin i lere are s n p e ,j n ten<lent W D. Barker and Miss Georgia
pW. Hour suyerinlendent. enjoying a visit in the ward. Baby hong,
Home, da., who has rust had a peanut removed from her lung, t»
r'dirie a u t w UJ oran!Je m j ce . Three little friends from /he Georgia
r ,isl Ur Phans Home guest patients in the hospital, are a.’so in the
They are Bobby Townsenu, /lunette Cruse, and Laura Evans.
(BY GEORGIA NEWSPAPER ALLIANCE)
W. D. Barker recently, praising the
service to the children under hiB
supervision.
“We rejoice," he said, "in the as
surance that our hospital is always
available with its many depart
ments to care tor the children in
our home 1 wish in behalf of the
children and 'he management to
thank the hospital and the Baptists
of Georgia for ibis great service."
Guest facilities at the hrapltal
are open not on y to orphans from
the Baptist home but to other chil
dren recommended by Baptist min
isters throughout the state, to mis
sionaries home <*i furlough, and to
pastors whr need hospital care.
Reports from pastors and Sunday
school superintendents indicated
that tlie observance of hospital day
will result in the offering exceed
ing the goal of $7,500, making pos
sible a greater service than ever
before.
I UNTA, Ga.- Hope for expan-
F n of tlle Rues'. facilities at Geur-
1 baptist Hospital, where medical
Peniion for children from the
f° rgla baptist Orphans’ Home is
I 'alure of the service, was held
baptist officials as "Georgia
,ptlst Hospital Day” on May 6.
proached.
he social offerings In the Sun-
schools of Georgia on that day
extend Hie work of the hospital
"s free service both to children
«PS from all parts of
I,, 1 ! 6 hospital cared for many
I 11 a during th, recent epidemic
nieaslei. at the orphanage, and
l ans Mnt lWo of the youthful or-
KLii”,! Covering the.e from
I '°os growing out of mea-
|v. P
l Ule home, w
rote Superintendent
Kernaghan-Goodman, Inc.
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all our sins. He who was as spotless
as the angels of heaven wns to Buf
fer for us.
All classes of persons conspired to
crucify Him. The kings of the earth
stood up and the rulers were gath
ered together against Jehovah, and
against His Christ. The dissolute,
blood-thirsty Herod; the crafty,
worldly-minded Pilate; the idolatrous
Gentiles, and the religious people of
Israel. All united to .condemn to
death God’s holy Child Jesus.
1 never knew until lately what the
Roman custom of sicourging was.
When l first road it l could not help
but weep, and ask Christ to forgive
me for not having loved Him more.
Let us imagine the scone when He is
taken by the Roman soldiers to be
scourged. The orders were to put 40
stripes, one after another upon His
bared back. Sometimes it took 16
minutes, and the man died while be
ing scourged. See Him stooping
while the sins of the world are lnid
upon Him, and the whips come down
upon His bare back, cutting clear
thru the skin und flesh to the bone.
Instead of pouring oil into the
wounds of Him who came to bind up
the broken henrts and pour oil into
it swounds instead of doing this' they
dressed Him up again and some
cruel wretch reached out to Him a
crown of thorns, which was placed
upon his brow.
They arrived at Calvary a little
before nine. Thev laid Him upon
the cross, put nails in His hands and
without mercy they drove them thru
the flesh and 'bone into the wood.
Then they Drought nails for His feet
and lifted the cross and the whole
weight of the Son of God came upon
those nails in His hands and feet.
You who say you see no beauty in
Christ that you should desire Him,
come with me and look at those
wounds. Remember that crown of
thorns was laid upon His brow by a
mocking world. Look at Him as He
hangs there. Can’t you love a Savior
like that?
Christ had not spoken since He ut-
ered those words of comfort to the
daughters of Jerusalem; but at last
there comes a cry from the crosa
What was it? Is it a cry to God to
take Him down from the cross? Is|it
a cry of vengeance? Or is He calling
fire down upon them? No. It is
“Father forgive them, for they know
not what they do.” Was there ever
such love as that?
At last He cried, “I thirst”. In
stead of giving Him a drink of water
from one of His own springs, they
gave Him gall mixed with vinegar.
It was about t-lie only thing He ever
asked of the world, and see how they
treated his request.
But now He cries “My God, my
God, why hast thou forsa'ken me?”
We have just seen what He suffered
physically; but His mental sufferings
were too deep for any mortal man
to understand. He wan dying in the
sinner’s stead. A righteous God could
not look upon sin and He hid His
face from Him. Earth had cast Him
out, man had mocked and rejected
Him; His own disciples had forsaken
Him and fled: and now that God
would not look upon Him, it almost
broke .our Saviour’s heart.
With the life of humiliation of pain
and sorrow, and shnme, voluntarily
chosen and endured by our blessed
Lord; with His mental anguish and
bloody sweat in the garden; with His
bodily sufferings and brutal- treat
ment on the cruel cross; with ’ the
unspeakable burden of human sin
that was laid upon Him and that He
gladly bore He did it all that He
might redeem a lost rebellious
world.
Shall we render Him no return?
Shall we banish such love from our
hearts? Oh, the height and the depth
of our ingratitude nk.il infamy if we
scorn the love of such a Saviour, and
if we exalt Him not to His rightful
place, as King in our hearts and
lives.
God forbid that one soul who has
eve- heard the story of the cross
should be guilty of those things.
Thank God He is not now on the
cross, or in the tomb. He has risen
and now sitteth r.t the right hand of
the Father, where He waits to bless
His believing peonle and at last to
receive them to His presence and
glory.
MRS. RAGSDALE IS APPOINTED
POSTMASTER AT CARROLLTON
Washington, April 28.—Mrs. Mary
Ragsdale has been appointed post
master at Carrollton, Ga., succeed
ing Mrs. Kate D. Sosebee. resigned.
The following presidential post
masters have been commissionered:
Verne J. Pic’-ren Folkston, and Mrs
Carlen S. Bell, Trion.
Fester Burton has been appointed
acting postmaster at Adel..
The United States Civil Service
Commision has announced an exami
nation for third class postmasters at
Alamo and Lenox, Ga„ with applica
tions to close at Washington on May
11. 1
“Wins, Women and The
New Deal”
The following article by Arthur J.
Barton in last week’s edition of
the Christian Index is published
by request of a reader of The
Herald:
No, my friends, the heading given
above iB not mine. If 1 or any other
Baptist preacher or any ordinary citi
zen should assume to write an ar
ticle or make an address under the
heading, "Wine, Women and the New
Deal,” it would create u sensation.
The writer or the speaker would
doubtless be .charged with an effort
to reflect or belittle the “New Deal ’
No, the heading is not mine. As the
reader will see it is placed in quota
tion. The reader may be surpristd
and startled by the heading, as in
deed I have been. The heading is the
subject of an address delivered be
fore the Womsi’s National Demo
cratic Club at a luncheon February
6. The address was delivered by Dr.
Rexford Guy Tugwell, Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture, und the
head of the AAA. Dr. Tugwell is a
man of very radical socialistic ten
dencies and convictions. He has been
and is one of the most influential of
ficers of our government at the pres
ent time.
Dr Tugwell’s address is- reported
in te Democratic Digest, Vol. IX,
No. 3, for March, 1934. The Demo
cratic Digest is published by the
Women’s National Democratic Club
1526 New Hampshire Avenue, North
west, Washington, D. C. It certainly
will be interesting to the plain, sober
God-fearing, right-thinking citizens
of the United States to know -just
what this influential officer of our
National Government thinks about
wine, women and the new deal, and
just what he thinks ought to be the
attitude of our good women toward
wine drinking and what he regards
as the social benefits and uplifting
influence of wine drinking upon the
mases of our people, and how all this
relates itself to the new deal.
I give excerpts from Dr. Tug-
well’s address as quoted in the Dem
ocratic Digest:
“It would he treason to the entire
spirit of the new deal to lose sight
of the fact, that its objective, as
stated by President Roosevelt him
self, is to make possible a more
abundant life for the American peo
ple.
“Such an abudant life implies the
enjoyment of the pood things of life
in security and contentment, and the
cultivation, through such enjoyment,
of the good things of the spirit; re
flection, philosophy, conversation and
leisure.
“One of the oldest and quietest
roads to contentment lies through
the conventional trinity of wine,
women and song We have a chance,
now that the repeal of the Eigh
teenth Amendment is an accomplish
ed fact, to establish a tradition of
wine, used as a mild social stimulant
together with good food, good talk
and good company and, let me add,
good song. . . .
"The women of this* country have
a great opportunity to establish and
maintain a civilized attitude towards
wine. It is within their power to
shape and direct their own social at
titude and that of their men toward
this good thing in life. If they follow
the old line, they can drive back their
men to the bar room and the short
stiff drinks which go with the bar
room. If they follow a new and more
civilized line, they can accompany
their men to the cafes and beer gar
dens and consume at leisure the long
slow drinks which are appropriate to
pleasant conversation and mature so
cial relationships.”
It is commonly understood that Dr.
Tugwell, through his studies in Rus
sia, as indicated by his hooks, is
much in sympathy with Russian So
cialism
Upon reading the foregoing ex
cerpts from his address one cannot
but wonder just what he means bv
“mature social relationships.” Taking
the setting into consideration and
knowing the influence that all intox
icating drinks have on social rela
tionships and knowing that indul
gence in intoxicating drinks often
leads, one might say usually leads,
to indiscriminate sexual indulgence
and immorality, one cannot but won
der whether Dr. Tugwell, speaking
to the Women’s National Democratic
Club, had this in mind and meant
that “mature social relationships,”
growing out of wine drinking, imply
and evolve what we hove always re
garded in America as gross im
morality. Whatever he meant to say
here Dr. Tugwell makes it very
clear that women who do not drink
are very uncivilized and the only way
for our women to “establish and
maintain a civilized attitude toward
wine” is to indulge freely in wine
drinking. He also makes it quite
IN LOWING MEMORY OF
AUBREY WATSON
On the 8th day of April there
were many heads bowed in sqrrow
and many a heart was crushed’ and
nching as the news was spred that
the spirit of Mr. Aubrey Wotson had
winged its flight to the great beyond.
He wns 36 years of r.ge, seemingly
just in the bloom of life Mr. Wat
son was only sick a few days with
flu which developed into pneumonia.
All was done for him that loved
ones, friends and skilled physicians
could devise but to no avail.lt seemed
so hard to give him up but we
realize that God is too wise and good
to make mistakes so wq^ how in hum
ble submission and say thy will be
done. We sometimes worder why we
should wish to keep him with us in
this world cf sorrow and disappoint
ments when God had a better home
for him.
Aubrey was happily married to
Miss Ruth Dike in 1924. To this
union two children were bom:
Margie June, age 5, and Truman,
age 2. He also leaves a heartbroken
father, mother, three sisters and
one brother
On the first Sunday in April. Eas
ter Sunday, just one week before his
death, as God stretched forth the
golden rays of sunshine, Aubrey, his
wife and children went for a stroll
and egg hunt. Such a happy time
they had with dady. This was the
last Sunday dady spent on earth for
he was stricken sick that night. Wo
will always have sweet memories of
this Easter day.
The funeral wns conducted by his
pastor, Rev. H. F Roberts at the
Mauk Methodist church and was at
tended by a large concourse of sor
rowing relatives and friends. Inter
ment was in the cemetery near by.
We would say to those who loved
him -so dearly be brave and weep not
for he is now free from the sorrows
and troubles of this life. Let us
strive to meet him in that beautiful
home around the great white throne
of God where there will be no more
tears but all will be happiness with
the Saviour where people never die.
We miss you in our home
We miss your smiling face
Though others true and faithful come
They cannot take your place.
The year will pass but still we’ll
miss you,
Still I pray that the wound may heal
But no one knows the sorrow
That is in our hea.rts concealed
Not now hut h» the coming years,
There will he a better land,
We’ll rend the meaning of our tears
And there we will understand.
Written hv request,
Mrs. II. L. Lumpkin.
$400,000 STATE FUND
WILL GO TO SCHOOLS
Governor Eugene Talmadge Mon
day made available to the state
school department $400,000 of its re
gular 1934 appropriaion which, it is
expected, will oc passed on immediate
ly to the common school teachers and
other employes of the department.
Dr. M. D. Collins, state aperinten-
dent of schools, said that the money
will ibe used to tide over the depart
ment until it can get an additional
grant of $1,000,000 or more from the
federal emergency relief administra
tion.
Governor Talmadge several months
ago borrowed $522,000 of accrued
funds of the highway department for
the common schools. This is “p be
repaid out of the regular appropria
tion later in the year.
clear that all of this is a part of the
“New Deal,” even going so far as
to appeal to the example of Mrs.
Roosevelt, which he thinks our wom
en ought to follow. On this point I
quote one more paragraph from Dr.
Tugwell’s "illuminating” address He
says:
“American women should follow
the example of Mrs. Roosevelt, and
serve wine in their own homes. They
should favor American wines as
much as possible, choose them with
regard to their flavor, bouquet and
price, and associate their use with
food. American wines are good
enough to stand on their own feet
without imitating standard European
wines.”
Please reread that paragraph and
think of the Christian womanhood,
Christian motherhood of America.
What will the soberj chaste, Chris
tian women of the United States
think of such deliverances from such
a source, anti what will they dr
about it? Shall we scrap God’s
word? Shall we utterly destroy the
civilization which we have builded in
America in the fear of God ? Shall
we slander the Christiap mothers?
Snail we abandon every semblance
not only of idealism but of plain
common morality? Is nothing left us
that is sound, sober and sensible?
Those who read this article ard their
right-thinking fellow Amer’cans will
have to begin to ponder and to an
swer. ’
Of Course You Can
(By Greenville Kleiser)
Today you have golden, opportuni
ties to do greater and better work
than ever before; to advance your
self through earnest effort to worthy
success The power for real achieve
ment is within you. Where you are
now is the place to do your best
work and to translate your good in
tentions ir.to actual deeds. You CM
do it. Of course you cant
Success depends chiefly upon the
kind and quality of your thoughts
and the habitual way in which you
think about yourself and your work.
Realize more fully your God-given
powers, unlimited abilities, and rap
acity for large development. Resolve
to make the most of present oppor
tunities.
To the man of confidence and cour
age, difficulties serve only to stimu
late and enlist the highest efforts of
which he is capable. However form
idable to task may seem to you, ap
ply yourself to it with unflagging
diligence Your physical and men
tal powers grows most rapily in the
exercise of adequately laborious
tasks. One of the rewards of achieve
ment is that it lights the way to
something still greater.
Set before yourself a great life
! purpose. Devote your best eneriea
I to its accomplishment. Make it the
one definite aim of your daily life.
, Be enthusiastic about it, The great
things of the world are done by men
who specialize and concentrate. You
must plan and plow and persevere
in order win reward and renown.
You can do it,
Of course you can;
Face your problem
Like a man
You can do it,
Try your best;
Show you’re equal
To the test.
You can do it,
Be a man;
Prove you’re master,
Of course, you can!
IN MEMORY OF
MISS JEWEL SANDERS
On March 8, 1934, a gloom of sad-
nes was cast over the home of Mr.
and Mrs. C. G. Sanders, prominent
family near town, when their daugh
ter, Jewel, wns called to her eternal
home. Miss Sanders had suffered
for twelve days from measles which
developed into a very serious attack
of pneumonia. After all medical aid
that was possible was given her,
there was nothing that could stay
the cold hand of death. God saw fit
to take her from us, leaving our
hearts filled with sadness and a va
cant place in the home.
Miss Sanders will not only be
missed in her home but by her many
friends and other loved ones. She
has departed this life, yet her beau
tiful character and sweet friendship
will ever linger on within the hearts
of those who knew her. She was
ever ready to help others along thru
this life. We feel assured that God
has taken her to the glory world to
reign forever.
Miss Sanders was in her sweet
girlhood being only 19 years of age.
She had grown up like unto a flower
and was cut down in her sweet
bloom of youth.
We think of her who in her youth
ful beauty died,
A fair meek blossom that grew up
and faded by our side.
In the cold moist earth we laid her,
And we weep that one so lovely as
that one young friend of ours,
Sc gentle and so beautiful should
perish like a flower.
Funeral services were conducted
at Little Bethel church, Macon coun
ty, an,} were presided over by Rev.
Will Emerson. Interment was in tha
cemetery near by.
Pallbearers were: Messrs Ray
mond Green, Jessie Barfield, R. C.
Barfield, Archie Barfield, Durward
Hankinson and Marvin Cox.
Besides her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
C. G. Sanders, the deceased is sur
vived by three sisters, Lois, Estelle
and Kate; two brothers, William
and Cecil. She also leaves a host of
others relatives and friends to
mourn her departure.
—Agnes Bridges.
HO\. CH4S. R CRISP.
OF AMERICUS. ON PROGRAM
AT ROTARY CONFERENCE
Americus, Ga.. May 1.—Charles
Crian who is n-esident of the Ameri
cus Rotary Club, will respond to the
welcome addresses of Earnest Pal-
mour and Cassius R. Hammond, at
the annual sixty-sixth district Geor
gia Rotarv conferenceat Gainesville
next Monday.
Other Americus Rntarians are ex
pected to attend the conference.
Opening May 6 the conference will
continue for three days.
The sessions of the conference will
he held in the historic a.ueitorium of
Brenau College, one of the muntry’s
most famous institutions.