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PAGE SIX THE BUTLER 'HERALD, 'BUTLER, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 13, 1945. SUM SCHOOL LISSOM By— Dr. H. J. Porter ) -EXALTING CHRIST IN THE LIFE OF A NATION Lesson Text: Isaiah 9:2-3, 6-7 Luke 1:26-38 Devotional Reading: Philippians 2:5-11 ctGokicn Text: 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, councillor, mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince Luke. The angel Gabriel, was sent to Nazareth as God’s chief mes senger to make to a betrothed virgin the most astonishing an nouncement ever made to the hu man race before or since. To this maiden came the news that she would soon conceive, and bring forth a son before her marriage to Joseph was consummated. Yet as strange as this message was, Mary bowed her head and received the news as a blessing from God. There was a reason for her being chosen. She was filled with the grace of God She trusted God and kept herself unspotted. She had lived after the best traditions of her people. It is very probable that she was decended from Da vid. From a life of simple trust I she had been selected to serve God in a momentous fashion. of Peace. Nearly two thousand yeais I gQ,^ parts of the Christian church ago and under amazing su- ba S g one beyond scripture authori- -pematural conditions the Babe of jy j n adoration of the virgin Bethlehem was born. The promise j m0 (her, and have caused other ■was that this babe would become c hurches to neglect Mary and to the ruler of all nations. i appreciate her significance. In today’s lesson we have the g be outstanding among all prophecy telling us of hte coming WO men who have ever lived, of the Saviour of the world, and Great men usually have great with the supernatural circumstan- mo thers. The mother of our Lord ces before he put in his actual j ia( j m uch to do with his un appearance. The Light The human race had seldom known a darker time than when our Lord was born. Greece and Rome was at the WflS ^ probabll itie 9 this height of their glory and had .. f . t vi ^ f , t h , paralled greatness. | Shadow from the Most High ! Mary was troubled by the an gel’s appearance and his an- \ nouncement. One reason for thi9 was the first vision that she had • ever beheld. To say the least this announcement was overwhelming. produced great literary men and the case, the bloom of their civili- y ^ zation had departed, and the y , “ y considered that . , ... K her faults were numerous and her whole Mediterranean world cor- virtueg but f She ld h d . rupted with luxury, had sunk into . ol , „ c . . . . - y believe that she had found favor with God. , . . ,, , . , We can then say of her Son years earlier the birth of Christ; .. „ .. . . . , • , L. * ,-_^w ^ j tha the would be great and secularism and moral darkness. Isaiah prophesied eight hundred would be caleld the son of the that light would be shed over what seemed to be an inpenetra- . ... , ,, , , , bio darkness. In spile of all the £** "T 1 happenings and threats of inva sion and the apostacy of the nor thern tribes; in spite of all this Isaiah’s prophecy has a forward Him the throne of David. He would reign over the house of I Jacob and there would be no end of his kingdom. Was there reason 1 why this be other than the Mes- look. He foretells the coming of a . c , „ . ,, , ,. ., siaii. She was doomed for disap- i better day. While the child would . , . ?■ . . , T , pointment in later years as his be born m Bethlehem of Judea He , ‘ 3 “ , ; . . , , , career unfolded. She would mis- would spend a greater portion of . , , , . . i , . ... . . ..... . .., , . understand him, as almost every his life in the little hill town of , y, . 3 :Xr _ ... . „ ... one else would. She would have, Nazareth which was in Galilee. . . . .. ... . .. , , the sorrow of seeing him end his His native city was regarded as a ,, B „ "~i . i , . ,, ? , erthly career on the Cross, which miserable place full of moral cor- , . , . ! .. , , • . . . , she had hoped would end on a ruption largely imported by sol- Jbrone diers and travelers who made use m. - , .. . .. of the highway passing through rjiffirnit / °- P^P e ln< ^ the city Truly it was reeking with dlff ‘ cult to r «»gnize trouble and cuy. lruiy it was reeKing witn spirUual triumph. Gentile ingenuity. The sc^cond and , third verse prophesies the coming t M ^ a of that day when the gospel of ! Christ would go out to bless the ^ W ™ t 'nS? 1 * - WUh Gentile world. It would turn sor- grp t t , r . ' j S v , V ’ aS 3 tow into gladness, infamy into f lnu LT h ? „ r &nd S* °° n ' J tinued to be a mystery till now, ~ . . , The best answer th hr S , lor the virgin birth is to say that ip <in 1C hPliPuH ^ it was a natural birth from an Un natural conception. This arrange ment was necessary that our Lord Butter Baptist W M. U. Observed Prayer Season At Church Last Friday i . . Members of the local W. M. U. met at the church last Friday for their annual Lottie Moon Foreign Missions program. During the morning and afternoon sessions, the members on the program gave accounts of the work being done by the Baptist Foreign Mis sions organization that extends around the world. These accounts were interspersed with prayers for the work. Mrs. T. G. Turk was in charge o fthe morning program. Taking part on the program were: Mrs. L. P. Anthony Sr., Miss Myra Byrd, Mrs. T. L. Fountain, Mrs. E. B. Wilson and Mrs. Lewis Bea- | son. | During the noon hour the mem bers enjoyed hot coffee with the lunch they had brought. Mrfe. Martin Chapman led the afternoon program on which Mrs. Julian Edwards I. and Mrs. Henry McLean took part. The two Circles of the regular W. M. U., the Business Woman’s Circle, the G. A.’s, the R. A.’s and the Sunbeams made an. offering o more than $200.00 for Foreign Missions, honoring Lottie Moon and her foreign mission work. ( —Publicity Reporter, j Auction Sale At Roberta Tuesday, Jan. 8,1946 ! One 5-room dwelling with cellar located on 2- acre lot. Also two 2- story garage apartments. Ail within city limits of Roberta. j 203 1/2 Acres land, part in cul- j tivation but most of it in timber, two streams stocked with fish, j Eight tenant houses and large; barn within 1/4 mile of Roberta, j To be sold at auction at Ro- 1 berta, Ga., to the highest bidder on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 1946. ; Property of J. A. Hill, Roberta, Ga. Clemency For Madison Farmer Sentenced for , Robbery 13 Years Ago Atlanta, Dec. 10—Freedom came Monday for another “fugitive from a Georgia chaingang” who gave himself up shortly after Georgia wrote finis to the cele brated Robert Ellis Burns case. I The state pardon and parole board cut the 3-to-10 year sentence of mild-mannered, 32-year-old Roy T. Harris to the tw’o and a Half years he served in prlsdn camps before he escaped nine years ago. The board also restored his civil rights. Hollis, who returned to his home near Madison and took up the life of a farmer after he escaped, said Burns’ surrender had nothing to do with his own surrender. "My wife and I just wanted to get it off our minds,” he explained He married after his escape and has three children. Burns, who wrote the book "I Am a Fugitive from a Georglia Chaingang,” surrendered several weeks before Hollis, and was freed by the board two hours later. | Hollis was given a hearing by the board Nov. 27, several days after he surrendered. The board said it was convinced Hollis’ life in recent years had been exemplary and that he hud been completely rehabilitated. At the hearing, Hollis said he had planned to apply for a pardon while in the Powersville highway camp in 1936 but that a section boss "threatened to see that I didn’t get paroled.” He was sentenced for robbery. He told the board members that he was “just a young fool with a gun” when he committed a series of robberies in Atlanta in 1932. ywwiwMiwu«««««««««««««««.^Yi(vifiiY>f>nnnnnnnAnn/innnntiiniu' SEE THE HEW HOT POINT REFRIGERATOR ON DISPLAY IN OUR SHOP $151.50 Electric Heaters Eelectric Hot Plates Electric Churns Electric Toasters Electric Irons Industrial and Commercial ELECTRIC WIRING MOTHER OF SEVEN KILLED AT MOULTRIE Moultrie, Ga., Dec. 10—Mrs. Fan nie L. Holland, of Moultrie, the mother of seven children, was fa- - tally injured Saturday night when struck by an automobile as she attempted to cross the Moultrie- Camilla highway. She had just gotten off a bus. THE ELECTRIC SHOP FRFD PEED JR., Prop. Second Door From Dean Theatre BUTLER, GEORGIA Phone 8503 .. TOPS FOR QUALITY Pepsi-Cold Company, Long Island City, N, Y. Pewi-Cola Battling Co.. Macon. <V righteousness, despair into hope. TV ,„ ,. , The coming of Christ always Th<? bCSt anSWer that we can ^ v e brings joy.With some sin is believd to bring happiness and as a re sult is sought after. Yet in the e-nd it only brings bitterness and "7; bt "7 ££7?/ “T UU1 77' tears and in the final conclusion Stement f Oj sttement of the whole thing, That Men rejoice when they know Christ as Lord and Saviour as does the farmer at the season of harvest and the soldier in the hour of victory. David's Kingdom David wished to build the tem whole doctrine of the virgin birth is not only very beautiful but is something which satisfies human reasoning. God still passes over the mighty who neglect him and lays a friendly hand on the hearts of those who love him. vid building the temple the un- f ° Und J ‘ n ** ^ hest P 1 ^- dertaking would be intrusted to uT'E’* ° Ver . f the . hi f h his son, Solomon, a man of peace ^V 6mple ’ c, * y of Jer ^alem A greater honor was to be D^id’s 8 ? recorded He made known He was to lay the foundation of a ^ J n T g 3 C0Unt " y royal dynasty which at last 8 u d , h b ° rn among the would be fulfilled in an everlasG wbis P erln ^ of scandal in a city mg kingdom. This was the pro- ^ Wlth pheysing of the coming of that king whose rule would know no! „ Lords kemdmaid end. I After listening to the angel’s If the religious teacher had been o nnouncement > Mary bowed her wise in their reading of the scrip- head and dre PUcd. "Behold the ture they would have understood hnd maid of the Lord > be unto that the Messiah would be virgin me accordin S to thy word” and born and would make his advent the an e e l departed from her. into the world under humble con- Jesus came to earth to restore in ditions and surroundings. But man that P erfp ct obedience from they would not see it in that man- which he had fallen. ner. They believed tiiat the Mes- 1 — — —. si a h would appear at the pinnacle 1 ^ ^ of the temple and would descend into the court yard the temple amid the joy of his worshippers. Isaiah had prophetically told that when the child was born the gov ernment, would be on his should ers. Jesus is not only the greatest religious figure in all history but the greatest practical figure also. This child whne he came would be called wonderful and he has been acclaimed as such by man through the ages. He would be noted for His wisdom--a wise counciler. The appellation mighty God is unquestioned declaration regarding the deity of Christ Everlasting Father means Father .of eternity. The dream of world peace goes back to hte promises which ac companied the coming of the "Prince of Peace. The birth of Christ was the fulfillment of the Lord to David. There will be no end to the Kingdom of Christ as established. When the earth is transformed and consumed the unseen Kingdom of Christ will fD on. A Heavenly Visitor There was a penou of eight hundred years between the propi.e- ey of Isaiah and the prophecy as recorded in the first cnapter of % feelChofcsd TO GET PROMPT RELIEF from distress of those nagging colds that cause coughing ana make you feel all stuffed up — put a good spoonful of Vicks VapoRub in a bowl of boiling water. Then feel relief come as you breathe in the steaming, medi cated vapors. These medicated vapors penetrate to the cold-con gested upper breathing passages. 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Here are the rules: r Protect your land from fire so that seedlings (your ne^t generation) will not be destroyed. _ ■■Cultivate’’ your woods by thinning stands which are too dense to permit each tree to put on maximum growth. Sell your “■thipuings” for pulpwood. Faster growth on the remaining trees will replace the wood you have cut. » Plant seedlings on open acres which lack sufficient seed trees to re-seed naturally. Grow a balanced woodland harvest. Cutting pulpwood helps grow sawlogs and poles. Harvesting worked-out turpentine trees for pulpwood helps make, room for a new crop. Always follow a saw timber harvest with a clean-up for pulpwood out of tops, etc. 7 Never cut an area without leaving a source ot ieed for \ the next generation of trees. Lret help from a state forester, an extension- forester, or a forester of Union Bag and Paper Corporation in preparing a troe farming plan for your land. 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