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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER,
dr. h. J. poster
Butler, Ga‘
SAUL'S EARLY PREACHING
Lesson Text:
Acts 9:19-30; 11:25,
26
m u St I ! h t° much antici Pation
have been thrown into a
great rage. Their plans had failed
madJ a to nallZe and they had been
ade to appear ridiculous in the
tfbe rid*! 6 ^ ltitude - wp all hate
to be ridiculed whether we are
facfs 1 Wr0ng ' In face of these
in? 7 are not surprised that
mt(Jht dlSC i ,S u ed Aether how they
m ght put him out of the way ny
killing him. They were members
everyone
Roma 1:16.
nf ° rT V , y were members
Golden Text: I am not ashamed of ' a Ecclesiastic school that be-
the gospel for it is the power " eved that a truth can be de-
of God unto salvation Co 4 by faith . They Relieved
that believeth. — i tnat lf they made the club heavy
1*^“ those vvh o differed
, „ "f, them in opinion could be
Devotional Reading: silenced. e
I Timothy 6:11-26 I Nero was to apply this priciple
Our lesson two weeks ago con-, & GW y yulf r lat f r ,. ln ? omp > and
eluded with an account of Saul's countries mri hS ^ low
baptism by AnninaU. In last Sun. horn In iur day hlS
sr-s —Snrs : f-KSv® r
= SSL rsL < n ±
conversion ol the great arch-pe,. truth a f las c t °' ha “f
secutor. memory of those who believed
Our lesson for today begins wit,i that they could permanently de
the words, “and he was certain strov it Pnni i oa ™J J* y ,
days with the disciples that were to kill' him. He was wise P i°n
at Damascus. and what days worldly matters, as well as n
these must have been! And we spiritual matters. One reason why
can we can guess hat Annanias he was wise to their plotting was
los t no time in telling his fellow the fact that he had been assodat
disciples of the vision he had ed with the cruel practices himseif
seen, the announcement he had He knew their temperaments and
received of the conversion and the knew that they would not stoo at
healing of Paul s blindness when anything to put him out of the
he was baptized, tye can imagine way. They in turn (Paul and his
the excitement of the Damascus friends) planned a means for get
Christians at the announcement ting him out of the city Thev let
of the conversion. At first they him down at night over the wall
had shown fear, then awe, and It is most probably that it was
iast, rejoicing. ... after this that Saul went Into the
The very person who had been Arabian desert
awaiting Paul's appearance in the
city with fears, now acknowledged
their fellowship with him. We are ! When Saul finally reached
told in Gallatians that Paul did Jerusalem probably after his trip
not go from Damascus directly, tbe desert, he found that the
but instead, went out into the de- disciples suspected him to be an
sert to be alone to study this new imposter and spy. They were ex
revelation in the light of the Old I cusab le for their belief. The blood
* nf fVmir brethren was on his
Noted Evangelist
Comments On Topic,
‘Here And Hereafter’
(Bob Jones)
The writer recently conducted
an eight-day evangelistic cam
paign in the Birmingham Gospel
Tabernacle, which was founded 15
years ago by Rev. Glenn Tingley,
who, by the way, has done a re
markable work in North Alabama.
Bro. Tingley has led many people
to the Lord Jesus Christ. It was
the privilege of the writer while
in Birmingham, to meet more than
50 men and women who had been
converted under, his ministry. It is
a great joy to go up and down
America and come in contact
with people who say, "Go many
years ago I was a sinner. I heard
you preach and I found God.”
Sometimes they tell us their homes
were broken up by sin, and they
were able after their conversion to
rebuild their homes. Some tell us
how God worked a miracle in
their lives, how He actually made
them over again. “The crnngs I
once loved, I now bate. The
things I once hated, now I love,”
many have said to us.
GEORGIA, APRIL 13, 1944,
T Grady Head Rules
That 17-Year-Old Boys
Are Eligible To Vote
Any person who will be 18 years
old November 7 is eligible to reg
ister and vote in the general elec
tion on that date, according to a
ruling by Grady Head, state at
torney general.
This means also he ruled, that a
person, although still 17, may reg
ister and vote in the Democratic
Primary to be held in July, if
such person reaches the age of 18
before the next general election.
Political Announcement
FOR REPRESENTATIVE IN THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY FROM
TAYLOR COUNTY
Joining the Jerusalem Church
Testament truth. Saul was now their
learning as we have all learned, hands. They had known him as an
that every new experience gives a enem y and persecutor. They, from
better and more comforting and these previous treatments of Saul,
more significant Bible. , d i d not trust him when he tried
The Testimony of a New Covenant . fell ° w sh‘P them. They sus-
picioned that he was merely try-
After his conversion Saul lost ing to betray them to the authori-
no time in telling the glad tid- ties. But we should be aware of
ings to the world. He went into the fact that at times the church
the synagogues preaching and had been afraid to receive who
teaching the glad tidings of later had proved to be most valu-
what Jesus had done for him and able members to the cause of the
would do for us. We do not on- j Kingdom. Paul who was to be the
ter into a new life when we try greatest asset that the church
to follow and understand him. would ever know, we see, was re-
The new life comes when we ac- garded and looked upon with
cept him, and let him as an in- suspicion. In the first chapter of
finite personality do something to Galatians Saul says that he spent
our finite souls which he alone a fort-night with Peter. Very
can do. This we know that if man I likely this meeting was arranged
is in Christ he is a new creature, i by Barnabas. And we can just
Paul was proving this when he j imagine that in these two weeks
proclaimed that Jesus was the! that Saul as a new convert, asked
Son of God. The people were j many questions of Peter who was
greatly amazed. They were sur-|the chief of the apostles. Saul and
prised that the conversion of the Peter visited many places in and
arch-persecutor had really taken about Jerusalem, which had been
place. If possible they were more made sacred to them by our
surprised at th message they Lord's ministry,
were hearing from him. His mes- i In the city itself Paul boldly
sage of testimony was with pow- preached in the name of Jesus
The Gospel, which, according to
the Bible, is the “power of God
unto salvation to every one that
believeth,” has not lost its power.
The same old message which we
gave as a boy we are giving still.
Of course, we clothe this message
we hope, a little better than we
used to clothe it, and we try to
present it in a little better style
than we did when we were young
yet ti is the same message. It is
the food we eat, and not the plat
ter on which the fod is brought to
us, that nourishes our body. The
platter, of course, is supposed to
be clean, but food in a good clean
tin plate is just as nourishing to
the body as food served from a
golden platter. So it is with the
Gospel. The Gospel may be given
in poor English ana with a
whangy” voice or it may be giv
en in beautiful English and with
great eloquence, but it is the
Gospel that does the business. The
Gospel in spite of the world's
tragedy and blood still works.
There is no substitute for the Gos
pel. There is a place for education
and a place for organization, and
there may be a place for ecclesi
astic machinery, but nothing will
take the place of the Gospel. It
pleased God by the foolishness of
preaching to save men. That is
God's way. It is not man's way.
Man talks about salvation by
character. God's plan is to pro
duce Christian character by the
proclamation of the Gospel.
I deeply appreciate the solicita
tion of a number of my friends to
become a candidate for Represen
tative from Taylor County in the
General Assembly of Georgia. 1
They feeling it my duty to do so i
and the interest I have always!
maintained in my fellow citizens, J
I hereby announce my candidacy
for that high honor subject to the
Democratic Primary July 4th. If
elected it will be my ambition to
serve every interest of the people,
state and county, to the best of
my ability.
Respectfully,
U. S. UNDERWOOD.
Hiss Emily Woodward
To Represent OWI
In Great Britain
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“I do not believe in revivals.
People who are converted in re
vivals do not hold out.” The writ
er has heard that rr?ny times.
That is not true. Revival conver
sions “hold out” bei: er than any
other kind. Some y^ars ago we
addressed an audience or two
thousand ministers of the Gospel.
er Thp como tu- ^ zr~~r~~ j" "7 ^ I “How many of you ministers were
1® sa ™ e th ‘ n g g° es with any-, Christ, and gained the enemity by !converted in a revival campaign?"
iJL b ° has had contact with so-doing of the Greek speaking 1 the writer asked. All but thirty-
esus. Many times we have been Jews to such an extent that they five of the group of two thousand
rr-V° the fact that preach-, sought to take his life. j stood saying they were converted
* and tea ehing does not have I Paul engages in three things in some kind of revival campaign
mser tor the simple reason the while in Jerusalem, namely, fel- All businessmen believe rn a busi-
p oacner or teacher are trying to lowship, preaching and teaching, ness revival. If business gets to a
r ut ovor something that is second He endeared himself to his bretii- 1 low ebb, they trv to stimulate
I and with them. Saul had actual-i ren. He preached in the syna- j business. Political" parties believe
/ scea the risen Christ. He then gogues to both believers and un-| in revival. If there was not a po-
acl first-hand experience with believers and he disputed with | litical revival every four years, the
, ne greatest reality in all the .those who regarded his utterances Republican and Democratic par-
, f e uru verse. as unsound and dangerous. At [ties would both die. Patriotism
u we lack power we snould im- last it was realized that Saul had.would die if there was not an oc-
rnecHately ascertain whether or, better move on for his own saiety j casional patriotic revival. When
lot we are in connection with the and the good of the church. After spirituality gets to a low ebb, a
P° w or plant. I Saul's leaving the church settled revival is needed. There has to be
Another noticable truth about back into its former ways again, some life in order to have a re-
i was that his power increas- By what had been done by Saul,
He truly was in full connection , the church throughout Palestine
Mth th e power plant, Christ, was built up.
Saul and Barnabas
In Antioch
Soul'.
conversion Not Premature
T Somet hing that did not
for |., rt s P ace of time die down
a , °* power. The mor« Saul
,) (< about his faith the clearer
After the persecution
came about as the result of the [ winter
stoning and death of Stephen, cer-
"? ore he gave "others “uie^more I tain people fled tG the dty ° f An ‘
God filled his soul with f„i. f .r,n f i i tioch and he % an t0 P reach Christ
'°d filled hi« cm11 f ii ..tioch and began to preach Chrisi
^ enjoyable truths What" *we ' not to the Jews but t0 the GentileS
JL and bcdd selfishly for our-
Hivn , We wil1 lose - but wha t we
-p. 0 ? tbcrs is ours for eternity.
Sai iv- . , vs looked forw’ard to
an v '• ariiva l in Damascus as an
Thm. n ,bp * r persecution program,
ceiy . mu ‘ 5 t have been badly de-
uhen they saw him and
hearri u ‘ Inp y saw him and
those .. ii™ d /f enc ii n g the faith of
out T r h0m be bad eome to stamp
do ah,::;: ( ‘, Was n °thing they could
lik elv bls ar goment. It is very
l . > tnat mam. w j 10
had bop‘n ai many disc iples
.he r5., wavCTln S.
the phT . Wdv e ri ng, now turned to
tvas «r ns , tlan si de. His argument
Peonip J stron g that many of the
Jesus accepted the fact that
SUs "as the Christ.
dotting for Saul's Death
This was the first time this had
ever happened. The Jews abhorea
the gentiles. But these man of
Cyprus and Cyrene wlio fled to
vival. A dead stump of a tree can
not be revived. It needs a resur
rection. Springtime is a revival in
nature. The sap of the tree goes
up and travels to every limb. Some
of the old dead leaves that have
I stood fhrough the chilly winds of
are pushed off to the
ground by the new life in the
tree. Some churches cannot have
a revival. They are spiritually
dead. There must be some spirit
ual life in an ecclesiastical organ
ization if there is to be a revival
in that organization. Many of our
churches are dead spiritually.
I was appointed Solicitor Gen
eral of the Chattahoochee Judicial
Circuit on the 23rd of November,
for the unexpired term of Hon.
Hubert Calhoun, who resigned to
enter the Armed Services, which
term expires on January 1, 1945.
My commission was issued accord
ing to law to expire on the first
day of January, 1945. Upon being
sworn in as Solicitor General, I
gave up the general practice of
law.
£ince entering upon . the dis
charge of my duty as Solicitor
General of this Circuit, I have en
deavored to the verv best of my
ability, faithfully, conscientiously,
and fearlessly to represent the
people of this Circuit.
It has been a pleasure and
honor to have served and I feel
deeply indebted to the people for
the honor bestowed upon me. I
wish to take this opportunity to
thank each and every person in
this Circuit.
It now comes time for me to an
nounce my candidacy for the four
year term, beginning January 1,
1945. I would like to be permitted
to serve for this term, and I will
appreciate an endorsement by the
people. I believe the work I have
done and the experience that I
have gained by virtue of having
served for the past two years
qualify me to render even more
valuable service to the people.
If elected, I shall do all within
my power, in keeping with the
confidence and trust placed in me,
to continue to serve honestly,
faithfully and to the very best of
my ability. I shall always ad
here to law enforcement, keeping
in mind at all times that it is the
duty of the State's Attorney to
prosecute the guilty and never
the innocent. That the discovery
of the truth is the basis of all
justice.
To this end I wish to solicit the
support and influence of every
person in the Chattahoochee Ju
dicial Circuit.
Respectfully,
ED WOHLWENDER.
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problem Miss Woodward directed the service.
the activities of 80 speakers I “I am too old to be a Wave or a
throughout the state, her most Wac,” she laughed Saturday “but
fnJ C run fU fo d f SCUSSi ° n gF ? Up haV ' 1 am deli ehted that I havJ this
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1930, making an intensive study deal of pleasure.”
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Antioch were oblivious to every- j Many others are dying. If there is
thing save the great poy they had
in Christian experience. Many
Gentiles were converted. Antioch
was a large city of perhaps half a
million inhabitants. It was no-
any life in a church it can nave a
revival if the people are willing
to pay the price. The writer has
been in vangelistic work many
years. He has more invitations
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wickedness. It w r as in this wicked than he has ever had in his life.
The hearts of the people are hun
gry for God. This is the day of
real spiritual opportunity. If the
preachers and the Christian lay-
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‘sh be ass ured that the Jew-
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Christians. The people who were
enemies of the Christians were
aware of the fact that all they
said and did centered in and
around Christ.
Barnabas came to Antioch and
later Saul. Men here first made
fun of the believers and attached
to them a name which was to con
stitute a badge of glory, “the dis
ciples were called Christians
in Antioch.”
If Christianity could thrive
the wicked city of Antioch
thousand years ago, it can be vie
torious anywhere today. If men
could be loyal to Christ in Anti
och, there is no excuse whatever,
'for disloyalty today.
first
in
two
men will take advantage of the
opportunity they now have, this
nation can have a great spiritual
awakening. Such an awakening is
greatly needed.
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