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THE DALTON CITIZEN, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1909.
PAGE SEVEN.
Are You Hobbled?
A Hobbled Horse can Travel, but Hobbles are a
Serious Handicap.
The man who pays rent is hobbled, so to speak. A good slice of his
income each month goes toward paying for the privilege of staying in
some other man’s house.
If you are hobbled, cut off the shackles, by agreeing to purchase one
of the many “Dependable” homes listed for sale that may be paid for
at little more per month than is now paid as rent.
Here are two, easy terms, sample homes:
No. 93 S. Spencer Street, 3 rooms, fresh painted, new house,
grand healthly location, stable, etc., only $450.
No. 48 Crav'ford Street, nicely painted, new house, doors
and windows all screened, mirrored mantels, lot 75x280,
with fine young orchard.
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1534 Hamilton Street, Dalton, Ga.
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The “ money-saving habit” is the habit
that will provide more for you when
you need assistance.
Don’t defer starting Take out some
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Amos 5:23-24. “Take thou away
from me the noise of thy songs: For
I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
But let justice roll down as waters,
and righteousness as an ever-flowing
stream.”
Among the last of that long line of
prophets, sent to bear a burning mes
sage to the chosen race, was the
prophet Amos. The simple herdsman
and gatherer of the wild figs of Tacoa,
forsaking his pastoral pursuits, be
comes a patriot-prophet to warn Israel
of impending doom. He was a child
of the field and the forest, living close
to nature and enamored with her beau
ties and glories. The imagery of his
prophecy is drawn from his early en
vironment of forest, field and stream.
He alludes to the height of the cedars
and the strength of oaks: the singing
of birds and roar of wild beasts: the
sifting of grain and the treading of
grapes: the moving of the stars and
the roar of falling rivers.
He was a prophet of retribution.
Doom was the dominant note of his
message. His''duty was to pronounce
God’s judgment upon Israel’s incurable
depravity. His mission was to foretell
the downfall of a throne, the exile of
a people and the dissolution of a
state. His ears had caught the roar
of approaching judgment. His eyes
had seen towering on the northern
horizon the black thunder storm of
the Assyrian invasion, soon to break
in awful fury upon the land of Israel,
destroying her vineyards, laying waste
her fields and depopulating her cities.
This was the unpleasant task to
which his hand was set. This was the
distasteful message he was called to
bear to his countrymen and his kin.
The occasion demands heroic action,
and the conditions warrant the with
ering denunciations pronounced. Is
rael, intoxicated by success, and lured
by the flesh, had forsaken the true
Jehovah, and become carelses of truth,
justice and mercy. The life of the na
tion had been eaten out by oppression,
and luxury and corruption. There was
everywhere social declension, religious
debasement and moral corruption.
True, these people still had their forms,
rites and ceremonies; their temple and
songs. But they had lost the living
sense of God. Their sacrifices were
forms without spirit. Their songs
were music without worship, and their
feast days ceremonies without devo
tion. Their whole moral and religious
life was a hollow mockery; a pretense
without performance; a promise with
out fulfillment. Against this withering
blight of falsity and sin Amos was
sent to declare heaven’s judgment.
God says: “I hate your hollow sacri
fices; despise your pretended worship,
and your hypocritical observance of
outward forms while there is no heart
and spirit within.” “Hush your songs;
stay the grinding of the great organ
break the strings of your hundred
tuned instruments for they are an of
fense unto me!” “To obey is better
than sacrifice and to hearken than the
fat of rams.” “The sacrifices of God
are a broken heart and a contrite
spirit.”
There are songs that never reach
the skies; prayers that never pene
trate the heavens, and devotions that
never rise above our altars.
“Take away from me the noise of
thy songs: for I will not hear the mel
odv of your viols. Rather let justice
roll down as water and righteousness
as an ever-flowing stream.” Then shall
Israel be acceptable in the sight of
Jehovah.
The message of this reproving voice
is a message for Israel of every
lest they forget that piety and not plat
itudes; performance and not promise
practice and not pretense are accepta
ble tokens of man’s devotion to God
The prophet’s call to his people is to
“quit talking and go to doing: stop
singing and go to saving: enough of
creed, get to deeds.”
The value of a great river lies in the
fact that its great power may be har
nessed to the wheels of industry, and
its currents utilized to bear the cargoes
of commerce.
The true value of a church, a creed;
of a Sabbath, a song; of a profession
and worship, is that the great power
of these things can be harnessed to
man’s daily life and made to produce
goodness, righteousness, peace, love
and holiness in character and conduct.
In the day of Amos there w r as plenty
of profession, but little of perform
ance. Religion was i^jrely formalism;
confined to the^ temples and to cere
monies and holy days. It was not
harnessed to the daily life of the peo
ple and the street. But while they
sang songs and chanted high-sounding
rituals in the sanctuary, they went
dowm to the marts of trade to oppress
the poor, to bribe and practice graft.
Greed, wickedness and shame every
where characterized the conduct of
these worshipers and keepers of holy
days. And for this they were re
proved, and their profession pro
nounced a pretense, abominable in the
sight of God and worthless to the
world.
The current idea of religion, that it
is only worship, prayer and song; that
it is simply to be spiritually exercised
on the Sabbath; that it is believing a
creed and joining a church is a fearful
and fatal fallacy. It is this idea that
deadens the life of the church and
stays the hand of God in the redemp
tion of the world. But Christianity
is not confined to a church; the whole
wide realm of man’s affairs is hers.
Religion is wider than one holy day,
every day of the week is occupied in
her program for the soul of man. The
mission of the church is not simply
praise, but service to her Master and
salvation for man.
Moses received the pattern for the
tabernacle on the mountain top, but
its construction took place in the val
ley at the foot of the mountain. Sab
bath, Sanctuary and Scripture furnish
us the pattern after which we are to
build, but dowm in the valley, in the
everyday life is to be found the forge
and furnace where conduct is to be
wrought and character formed. And
he who misses this idea of his religion
misses the substance for form, misses
the real value of his profession.
We have built many churches and
nearly every man in this land of ours
may find an altar of prayer and wor
ship.
We have elaborated many creeds;
devised many ceremonies and rituals;
written many golden songs of praise,
so that there is not a form in which
a man may not express his faith and
devotion. But that which needs most
to be done today is for us to transmute
these things into character and con
duct and transmit their power into the
world about us, that “justice may flow’
dowm like a great river, and righteous
ness like an ever-flow’ing stream.”
“Leaving the principles of the doc
trine of Christ let us go on to perfec
tion.” “He prayeth best who loveth
best.” “He lives most w’ho loves most,
does most and acts the noblest.” There
has been much preaching and much
professing. The need of the day is for
Christian people to gear this right
eousness and harness this power, about
w’hich we have talked so long and so
much, to the mills of civil government,
commerce, society and the homes of
our land.
Transmitted into these channels
righteousness would flow down like a
stream to vitalize and purify the whole
life of our nation. If w’e harnessed our
principles of righteousness to the mills
of government the grist , would be a
noble citizenship and purity in civic
life. Harnessed to commerce and in
dustry there would result honesty in
the marts of trade. Carried into the
currents of social life our religion
w’ould purify and sw’eeten the compan
ionships and associations of men. And
these great streams harnessed to the
power of God, w’ould turn the w’heels
of religious progress rapidly on -to
wards the final exaltation of that right
eousness w’hich exalteth a nation, and
the destruction of sin which is a re
proach to any people.
Oliver Cromw’ell once entered a great
cathedral and noticing the images of
the saints that filled every niche, said:
“Take dowm those silver saints, coin
them into shillings and send them
about their Master’s business.” We
need to take down some of our Sab
bath professions, praise and prayers,
and coin them into everyday acts and
deeds, and send them on the Master’s
business in the realm of daily life.
God distinguishes betw’een pretense
and practice; between promise and
performance. He will not accept the
song of the lips while the hand is idle.
He will not hear the prayer of the
tongue while the life is w’rong and the
heart is evil. Vain is the prayer, “Thy
kingdom come,” when no hand is lifted
to exalt that kingdom in the world.
There is no music to Him in that song:
“Take my life and let it be
Consecrated, Lord, to thee;”
w’hen there is no daily surrender of
life’s powers and possessions to Him.
It is the life and the living that
makes our songs acceptable to God.
God means for us to harness these
songs and prayers to the power of
righteous lives to generate light for
the world. “Let your light so shine
before men that they, seeing your
good works, may glorify your Father
who is in Heaven.”
God means that w’e should harness
our professions and devotions to the
power of noble living that we may
become “the salt of the earth,” the
saving influence in a w’orld.
We may never join the “Choir In
visible” until we have made justice
roll down as water and righteousness
as a mighty stream in the world about
us.
“Take aw’ay from me the noise of
your songs; for I will not hear the
melody of your viols. But let justice
roll down as a river and righteousnses
as a perennial stream.”
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on his cemetery lot. Any parties de
siring to take advantage of this most
generous offer can confer with Mrs.
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Score one tally for the primary
teachers and their wards! Last week
a strip of ground 20 feet by 15 feet
was prepared by plowing, spading and'
raking for the first “school garden”
in the county. Each of the four
grades has one-fourth the total area
to cultivate as teacher' and pupils may
elect. The plat has been enclosed
by wire fencing to keep out poultry
or stray cattle.
One of our Willies was told by his
teacher to write a sentence illustrat
ing the use of the word “greeting.”
Remembering the season just passed,
Willie produced the following: “The
old hen laid the Easter greeting.”
T. S. Lucas, superintendent of city
schools, has been selected as assistant
in the department of mathematics ii
the “Summer School of. the South,
which is conducted in the buildings
of the University of Tennessee, at
Knoxville, under the guidance of that
able educator, Dr. P. P. Claxton, pres
ident.
Postmaster Crawford, of Dalton, has
been instructed by tbe -postmaster-
general of these United States to pre
sent to each school teacher in Whit
field county a copy of a pamphlet en
titled, “U. S. Postal Service—Domes
tic and Foreign Mail Matter—Classi
fication, Conditions, Rates of post
age.” The booklet is neatly bound in
paper, and its pages are full of valua
ble information relative to the pos
tal service. Teachers are asked to
read the contents carefully and then
give their pupils the benefit of their
perusal.
The public school teachers in Dal
ton have always received their quota,
and unite in returning thanks to their
debtors, local and national.
A “Current Topics” class has been
organized in the seventh grades, and
to aid the work and heighten inter
est a -weekly publication, “Current
Events,” has been subscribed to, the
order summing up 41 copies. The
cost to each pupil for ten numbers
will he but 5 cents.
Last summer, an Iowa teacher, B. J.
Horchem, conceived the idea of tak
ing some of his pupils to h^j farm,
at best a worn-out piece of land.
In the April issue of “The Elemen
tary School Teacher,” one of these
city school boys tells of the work they
did, the pleasures they enjoyed, and
the results that they accomplished.
Judging from their report and the
fact that Prof. Horchem desires to
make his “farm school” permanent, it
would appear that the idea is a good
one. Let’s have one in Dalton.
“The world do move.” Cincinnati is
planning to have school dentists.
“A unique, pretentious and help
ful movement has been started, known
as the North American Teachers’
League The object is to obtain
higher salaries and pensions for teach
ers, and national and state aid to edu
cation. The object is worthy, the
scheme prodigious, and every friend of
education hopes for the league abun
dant success.”—Journal of Education,
Boston, Mass.
“This is the greatest year ever for
pension schemes.” At latest informa
tion the wave had not reached Geor
gia.
In Colorado 37 out of 59 county
school superintendents are women.
The type last week read, “The
schools of Houston are not absolutely
divorced from politics,” whereas it
should have read they “are now abso
lutely divorced from politics.”
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