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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, JANUARY, 3, 1936.
PAGE THREE
BOB JONES
OMMENTS
ON
HERE a wo
HEREAFTER.
It will possibly be a number ol
weeks before this article appears in
the American papers. 1 am writing
from northern Ireland where we are
conducting evangelistic services. 1
have always wanted to come to this
country. My mother’s people were
from the north of Ireland. The peo
ple here are gracious ai d hospitable.
They are distinctively evangelistic. A
Scotch minister who is a pastor in
[Liverpool, speaking to me a few
lays ago, said, “The English have
polish, the Scotch have depth, and the
rish have heat.” I have met some
rishnien who have culture and who
lave depth, but all the Irish people I
ja ve met are fervent and most re
sponsive to the gospel.
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My attention has been called to an
[editorial which appeared recently In
|"'l ne Belfast News. It is so much in
line with what I have been preaching
that I am quoting an entire para-
raph. “Whither are we tending?
Tow often do we ask ourselves the
juestion in relation to politics, to so-
;ial questions, to scientific thoughts,
and, above all, to religion? As re-
ards religion, it is only as the ques
tion touches Christianity that it
maters seriously. There is no religion
:hat competes with Christianity for
World dminion today except the re
ligion of the secularist, for, in his
own way, the secularist is a re
ligious man. Just as the one hundreu
per cent Christian aims at bc nging
God into every phase ana part of hu
man life, so the secularist aims at
excluding Him from it completely and
ihorougoly. Which power is going to
sway civilized man during the next
few years? Is life going to be more
ar.d more secularized? Or is it going
to become more and more God-col
ored, and God-directed ?”
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The writer of the preceding article
says that there are signs of an
awakening conscience in individuals
everywhere, and that there is much
talk of a revival. He quo .es Mr
Ueverly Nichols who says, “I believe
that we ar j about to witness in Eng
land a re'igious revival of sucn in
tensity that it may well cauro the
kindred movements of history to seem
like feeble plaints and wea.-t ges
tures. There is every sign of it, and
every reasor for it, too” Iht editor
warns, as we have tried to warn the
Christian people in Arm riea, that we
are facing spiritual danger. Modern
ism has failed. Modernis-rc preachers
have emptied the churches practicany
everywnere. There is u swinging
back to the evangelical ort'i idox uo-
sition. The danger now is that we
may go into a religious fanv.l :t r. i
the devil can’t freeze us to dcith
with modernistic preaching, then he
will try to burn us up wun wild fa
naticism. At the Bob Jones College I
am always telling 0 ur students, “Be
orthodox, be fervent, hut stay in the
middle of the road. Don t ga o(T at ?
tangent.” There is going to be a
great need within the next few years
for a sane, well trained, middle-of-
the-road, fervent orthodox leader
ship.
SHORTE
COLDS
PROVED BY 2 GENERATIONS
Love—Life—Letters
(By Jules)
It All Begins ut the Beginning
Everyone and their grandfather de
plore crime and the producer of crime
Yet it appeurs to tnis humble ooserv-
er that very little is done about it—
until it’s too late. What good does it
do to kill ofT a dozen or so men when
they have reached the top of their
profession, while many boys and girls
are growing up under udverse cir
cumstances. Start in the home, school
and church! Educate, discipline and
teach diligence 1 And there won’t be
any time left for crime.
Jam Tomorrow But Never Jam Today
One grows tired of being promiisea
of being encouraged, just to be
flopped on one’s head with answers
to very eager questions—such as, will
there be an opening? Will there be
work for me? It is most unfair, this
alibing one out of an office or shop.
Why can’t it be an honest answer, in
stead of Jam tomorrow never Jam
today.
Honoring .a Poet
Omar Khayyam wrote a poem en
titled the Rubaiyat. At Christmas
time many copies of the Rubaiyat are
gifts between friends. Very few who
read have not memorized “a jug of
wine, a loaf of bread, and thou.” Out
in Persia today they are repairing
Omar Khayyam’s tomib. Seems
strange to try to place the writer of
the Rubaiyat in any tomb, least of
all in a way off Persian, when he
still lives on our library table.
Just Off
Off to Australia—off to the depths
of the sea—off to the stratusiphere—
off to the C. S, A.—off to the south
pole—off to dig up ancient cities—off
to buy a pue.ny’s worth of lard. Just
so you’re off doing something. It’s
the fellows who aren’t off to any
thing that have so much time to
gripe. Keep busy even if it is pick
ing up scraps.
How to Face the World
It is not possible to be certain
about this world, but there is a pre
scription which is a good resistance
power to trouble that may come
along. I’ll pass this prescription on
to you—it’s "Knowledge and Charac
ter ”
Salesmanship When Married
I’ve been reading a book that
claim to show a better way of get
ting along in life. One certain chap
ter deale with marriage. It reads in
part to the effect that when a couple
feel the urge to marry they are su
per-salesmen, oierselling themselves,
and when they put over the bargain
the commodity falls short of repre
sentation—there comes the test.
Keep selling yourself and keep the
product up to the standard you set
before the sale was made, and mar
riage will be happier.
Is There Such a Thing?
I had a letter not long ago that
asked this question: Is there such a
thing as sincere, unselfish love? My
answer is “yes.” But that form of
love is so rare and evasive, so com
pressed with our human muttering.!
of mush that we seldom recognize i'.
when it occurs. I can explain in a
way: It was said not long ago by a
famous writer that “they were so
busy loving they did not realize they
themselves were loved.” I would
class that form of love as being sin
cere and unselfish.
Acquaintances
Nine-tenths of your friends are
just acquaintances. According vo
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Webster, the people who qualify at
friends have to possess many attri
butes- of character which, when meas
ured, fast prove themselves. Friend
ship is a serious matter and deserves
more attention, consideration and de
velopment than is given to so hig i an
honor. Acquaintanceship is ca-iuul,
deserving less of one’s time and con-
ideration.
Letters
Dear Jnck C. D.: 1 would suggest
that you do not go into debt furtliei.
There i3 M.th a thing as too much
weight on the old pocketbook and
your earning power does nut warrant
contractiig ones obligations at this
time.
Dear Mr. Haynes: Your letter ask
ing how to cure a nagging wife is at
hand. Man! Have you asked a ques
tion, or is it a question! I'm glad,
and sincerely hope you keep your
wife in Alabama, particularly after
you rend this. There are three solu
tions, none of which are accepted in
good society. Get something on her,
slit her throat, sew her mouth up, or
move on to parts unknown. Brother,
a nagging human—and humans are
the only creatures or. this earth who
nag—is an abomination.
THE BOOK OF BOOKS
From the Macon Telegraph:
J. A. Smith of Wellston has a
cliping from The Telegraph which he
has preserved for 22 years and
friends show such interest in it that
he brought it to the office that it
might be run again. It has to do with
a soldier’s explanation of why a deck
of cards reminds him of a Bible, an
almanac, and a common prayer
book:
“When I see the ace, it reminds
me there is but one God/ said the
soldier, “when I see the duce it re-
'mir.ds me of Father and Son. The
tray reminds me of the Holy Ghost.
The four spot is the four evange
lists that preached, Matthews, Marks,
Luke and John
“The five represents the five wise
virgins that trimmed their lamps—
there were ten, but five were wise
and five foolish and were shut
out. The six reminds me that in six
days of Lord made Heaven ana
earth. The seven reminds me that
on the seventh day He rested from
the great work He had created and
hallowed it.
“The eight brings to mind the
eight righteous persons that were,
saved when God destroyed the world;
viz: Noah and his wife three sons
and their wives. The ninth re
presents the nine lepers that were
cleansed by our Saviour, there were
nine out of ten who never returned
thanks.
“The ten represents the ten com
mandments which God handed down
to Moses on tables of stone. The
king reminds me of the king of
Heaven which is God Almighty The
queen represents Sheba, who visited
Solomon, for she was as wise a
woman as he was a man.
‘She brought with her 60 boys and
50 girls all dressed in boy’s apparel,
for King Solomon to tell which were
boys and which were girls. King Sol
omon sent for water for them to
wash; the girls washed to the elbows 1
and the boys to the wrists, so King
Solomon told by that.
“When I count how many spots in
a pack of cards, 1 find 365, as many
as there are days in a year. When I
count the number of cards I find 52,
the number of weeks in a year, and
I find four suits, the number of weeks
in a month. I find there are twelve
picture cards, one for each month;
and on counting the tricks I find
thirteen, one for* each week in the
quarter.”
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
“When all the tinsel has been laid
away,
The tree is stripped, the fevered
rush is past—
You still have trees, a hiH, a child at
play,
And love, and- prayer, and fadeless
things that last.
Wear your prohd purple underneath
your load
Touch hand with one who travels
lone, afar!
Brave your dark night and walk the
Three Kings’ road
To find your Christ beneath His
lovely star!
“He loves, I know, our pretty beubled
trees,
Our busy shops, our laughter,
young and gay,
Our ribboned gifts—have we no
gifts but these?
No bright, red wreaths except for
Christmas Day?
Though broken is some toy beneath
your feet,
Some dear illusion shattered, or
grown dim—
The Three Kings’ road goes by your
dusty street
That leads up to a star—and Him.
—Selected.
Why Any Empty Pewi?
The editorial in Tuesday’s Tele
graph in. which you quote Bishop
Ainsworth and also that great Pres
byterian W. T. Ellis is in accord with
the note that dominated the entire
session of the South Georgia Confer
ence just concluded in Macon. Many
of us regard that conference ae the
most spiritual and helpful we have
had in many years.
Through all its actions and debates
there ran constantly a turning away
from men, means measures and meth
ods, (as important as these are) and
a turning to the secret place of the
Most High as the world’s one need
and hope.
Perhaps this reached its highest
note in the address made by the pre
siding bishop to the class of young
preachers received into the member
ship of the conference. I have heard
64 such classes advised, enti'eated
and warned by our bisliops, but I
think that I have never heard one
thut so completely led that ciase and
the entire conference face to face
with God. It wus a great hour and a
great conference.
Your editoriul was also in line with
the traditional spirit of (Methodism
that r.ot only “recognized the Chris
tians of every church but the church
of every Christian.” Like John Wes
ley, every real Methodist “seeks a
league offensive and defensive with
every child of God” awl says to all
the world, “If thy heurt be as my
heart, give me thy hand.” Many of us
have not lived up to this, but there is
a heart hunger among our preachers
ami laymen- lor such fellowship with
God that we shall have perfect fel
lowship with all His people.
Your editoriul and other free pub
lications, (though a Macon layman
and the Telegraph did puy for the
lull page ad) publishing the call to
observe next Sunday as a day of
Confession of our personal and na
tional sins and an earnest seeking af
ter God is proof that some of our
newspapers in common with many of
our political leaders share with the
awakened part of the religious world
the belief that our supreme need is a
renewal of our minds and characters
by a deep consciousness of God’s
presence and guiding power.
As to the percentage of people
among us who belong to no church
being an average of about 50 per cent
no allowance is made for deduction
of the children under ten years of
nge. I have no statement of what
that percentage is, but when they are
subtracted the numiber still un
churched- and the number in the
church who have no vital part in it
but who share in the same heart hun
ger and conscious need of God, if
enough to drive the church to its
knees in humble confession of its
sins and an earnest seeking after God
until it is able “to make the blind see
the morally lame to walk, to set free
the prisoners of sin and vice and to
see to it that the spiritually poor of
the earth have the gospel and only
the gospel preached- to them as the
one and only power that can meet a*i
our need and make us free in deed.”
To say that any percentage of our
people do not belong to the church is
a very different thing from saying
that our church pews are poorly
filled. That may be true in many
cases but it is not true in the congre
gations with whom I join as a silent
worhiper and I seldom preach to less
than a full house. To me this is a
heartening fact and a promise of
better days.
Bascom Anthony.
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