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The Gainesville Eagle.
W. H. CRAIG,
Editor ai.-J Business Manager.
at Go’■ Ga., nont-otOce
as sect'’ •-.■lass matter.
Call: Bell Phone No. 56-
Thursday, February 26, 1914.
APOSTLES OF FAITH.
“He that is of merry heart hath a
continual feast.”
It is one of the greatest blessings
of life to meet a person bubbling
over with good cheer and optimism.
We know several men who are the
constant bearers of the gcspel of
faith. There is Brother Belk —you
all know him —always smiling, al
ways shaking hands like a candi
date for County Treasurer —always
bubbling over with enthusiasm.
And there is Bobbie Wilson of
Candler district —he has a smile that
never wears out nor off —never fades
nor shrinks in the wash. Last Sum
mer Bobbie raised a twin water
melon —a great agricultural achieve
ment —and when he proudly walked
int<# the office and showed it to us
that same old smile wasn’t a hair
breadth longer nor broader nor
the millionth part of a candle
power brighter than was Its custom.
Some years ago his home was burned
to the ground, with all its contents,
and when Bobby came in to tell
about it he had the same identical
smile as when he was showing the
phenomenal melon.
“Yes, he that is of a merry heart
hath a continual feast.”
And there is Jasper Pierce, from
up Big Hickory way—he is also a
standard-bearer of the gospel of good
cheer. He is always rejoicing. Many
a time he has bounded into this
office like a whirlwind: “Here’s a
dollar for the Eagle—l haven’t time
to stay long—T left my mules on the
street.” But he came in last fall
and did stay to talk a little, for his
soul was running over with enthu
siasm. “Oh. crops were_ never
better.” And he told of the glori
ous yield on a nine-acre field, and
the wonderful things all his land
was doing.
Now, what is this boundless en
thusiasm? It is faith —faith that
overcometh the world. Yes, enthu
siasm is but faith —faith in the order
of things—faith that God is in
Heaven and is running the machine.
This faith is not the “evidence of
things unseen,” but the evidence of
things present right now.
Now, Brother . Belk and Bobbie
and Jasper have the living, breath
ing faith —not the faith whose form
ula they read in a book, but a faith
that the Lord wove into their make
up. And maybe this is what is
meant by faith being the gift of God,
and by persons being elected to
eternal life.
Anyway, if they shall perchance
go up together to the pearly gates,
and St. Peter tries to turn them
down, and if they will let Jasper do
the takling, we are confident that
||the old gentleman with the keys
'will have the time of his life.
■ But Jasper and Bobbie are far-
Fhers, and the farm is the last place
Ku the world to hunt for an enthusi
a\st. Pessimism is a habit with the
f armers. Things are never what
' they ought to be, and are going to
be worse. They are always cross
ing the bridge—and falling in—long
before they get to it. When the
seasons are just right, and every
thing lovely, they will complain:
“If there doesn’t come a dry spell,”
or “If it don’t rain too much.”
When there is a big crop, “The
price is too low.” When the price is
high, “I didn’t raise enough.”
And so it gees.
And yet—and yet—they will break
their ground deep and fine. As they
plow they pray. They will plant
the seed snug and proper. As they
plant they prophecy. Now their
part of the work has been done and
done well. They have fulfilled their
part of the contract. It is now up
to the Lord to do his part. Will
He do it?
“I have planted, Apollos watered”
—will God give the increase?
The farmers ought to have a
thousand times more faith than any
other class of men. For they have
only to deal with themselves and
the shunshine and the rain—and
God sends the rain upon the just
and the unjust—so all can have a
chance.
Yes, the farmers have to deal only
with Nature, and Nature is ever
true —the very soul of candor —no
deception or double-dealing. She
doesn't promise any too much, but
when she does promise she fulfills
witli scrutinizing and hair-splitting
exactness. She will not cheat you,
like some people do. The old girl
sometimes gives us a cyclone or an
earthquake, but she doesn’t promise
not to. Nature is without heart or
soul or sympathy, but she is honest.
She had as lief send light-
ning to strike a church as a bar
room, but she never deceives her
votaries; and she plays no favorites.
She is alike deaf to prayers and
curses—and mercy in the hearts of
men and poison in the fangs of ser
pents are all the same to her. But
she has laws, and they are more im
mutable than the laws of the Medes
and Persians. And when you learn
these laws, all you have to do is to
fall in line, because she holds the
whip in hand, and will make you or
break you.
But over all, and above all, you
can calculate on them to a certainty,
for they will not fail you.
And it would seem that the
farmer, dealing only with Nature —
with the things that are ever true
and constant —would be overflowing
with faith.
The farmer’s constant compan
ions are the growing plants and the
beautiful flowers —and there is no
deceit, no strife or contention among
these —no jealousies or heartburn
ings. The rose in its majesty bends
its head in brotherhood to the
modest violet, nor says a word about
its standing in society. The lily of
the valley, arrayed in the glory of
Solomon, is only striving to plant a
joy in the life of some lowly pilgrim.
Yes, the beautiful flowers, the ever
constant companion of the farmers
each summer day, are preaching the
gospel of good cheer and peace and
joy and loyalty.
The farmer has no corroding
cares. When he brings his products
to town the whole community fall
over each other to buy him out.
But the merchant buys his goods,
and they may languish on the
shelves, and he has sleepless nights.
The lawyer may have his fears
(groundless ones) that people will
all of a sudden turn to love each
other —and Othello’s occupation will
be gone. The doctor may have fore
bodings (groundless also) that real
sickness and hippoes will suddenly
vanish from this vale of tears and
he will have to go to work. The
minister may be seized with a
premonition that the Millennium
will come shortly, like a thief in the
night, at such an hour as ye think
not, and old Satan will be chained,
and there will be no further call for
him (the minister, not Satan) and
his job will go out by limitation.
But remember this: The farmer
feeds them all —and people must
eat and will eat, no matter what
happens—so his job, like Tenny
son’s brook, goes on.
Don’t you love to meet a man that
loves to tell good news?
“How beautiful on the mountains
are the feet of him that bringeth
good tidings.”
Were you ever sick for a spell,
and when you got out on the streets
some one would come along and
tell you how bad you looked?
Jot Allen used to tell it that once
when he had an exasperating car
buncle on his neck, a friend—a dear
friend—met him and told him he
had known two men to die from
carbuncles on just the spot where
his was.
You know, there are some people,
especially some women, who are
so constituted that they are never
happy unless they are miserable.
Like the bat, they can see better
without the light.
We once knew a woman, a mil
liner—she lived in Gainesville long
time ago. She was the original
weeping willow. She beat Pa
tience on a Monument a whole city
block when it came to smiling at
grief—yes, she welcomed Old Missus
Grief as a bloomin’ jolly comrade.
Like the Harp of Innisfail, she “was
tuned full high to notes of sadness.”
Some days she would have an extra
good trade and a little touch of
merriness would creep unbidden
into her poor soul; but she would
soon put the lid on it, for she would
close up shop and make a break for
the cemetery—and there, brooding
among the gloomy hie jacets of the
great white way of the dead, she
would soon get her system reorgan
ized and in proper trim again.
Dr. Isaac Watts wrote more
hymns for the Church, and more good
ones, than any other man. Up to a
certain point they were as optimistic
as the flush of the rising sun. But
he fell in love with an ice-cream
girl, who did him to a fare-thee-well
in the line of “loving not wisely but
but too well.” As the Constitution
reporters say, she “canned” him.
Then into his soul went the worm
wood. And he wrote:
“How vain are all thiugs here
below!
How false, and yet how fair!
Each pleasure has its poison too,
And every sweet a snare.”
We once knew a good woman
whose first-born went to the war of
the sixties, and after the first great
battle was fought she heard no
more. She grieved like Rachel of
old, but hoped and hoped—yet no
tidings. Neighbors who came and
prophesied that the boy would come
again were instantly enshrined in
her heart. But when the war was
over a soldier came back and told
her he had heard her boy’s name
read among the dead. She ordered
him from the house and never spoke
to him again.
When King David was straining
his eyes watching for tidings of his
erring but beloved son Absalom—
“And the watchman saw another
man running; and the watchman
called unto the porter, and said,
Behold another man running alone.
An the king said, he also bringeth
tidings. And the watchman said,
Me thinks the running of the fore
most is like the running of Ahim
ehaz the son of Zadok. And the
king said, He is a good man, and
cometh with good tidings.”
Mrs. A. F. Nunn, of Rome, is vis
iting her mother, Mrs. J. T. Curtis,
on College, Av. She was accom
panied by Mrs. J. N. McGhee of
Rome, who has been visiting rela
tives here.
Thoughts to Ponder.
Salvation is free, but it takes
much sacrifice to gift after
you have got it.
The Sunday School, two preach
ing services on Sunday, and the
mid-week prayer meeting are not
much to keep up ordinary repairs.
Neglecting these, a day of fasting
and prayer should be kept to find
where you are.
“Many a one is trying to cleanse
the stream of life while some sin is
muddying the fountain.”
“A man’s money will help him to |
heaven or it will help him to hell, !
whichever route he wants to go. He '
can take his money and go up with i
it or down with it—either wav.” • i
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“The charity that pitches a dollar:
into a poor widow’s lap is good, but
the charity that hunts up and sym
pathizes with and puts its arms
around and helps a brother—that’s
the charity that takes us close to i
heaven.”
“Prisons will palaces prove if
Jesus will dwell with me there.”
Every day is a furrow lying open
before us. Our thoughts and actions
are the seed we are dropping into it
each minute.
How’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
forany case of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J
Cheney .for the past 15 years, and believe j
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions, and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by his firm.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent
free. 2Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists.
Take Hail’s Family Pills for constlpatioh
HELPFUL WORDS.
From a Gainesville Citizen.
Is your back lame and. painful?
Does it ache especially after exer
tion?
I« there a soreness in the kidney
region? ,
These symptoms suggest weak
kidneys.
If so there is a danger in delay.
Weak kidneys get fast weaker.
Doan’s Kidney Pills are for weak
kidneys.
Your neighbors use and reccom
mend them.
Read this Gainesville testimony.
R. R. Eberhart, 25 Summit St.,
Gainesville, Ga., says: “I still
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and confirm what I said about them
before. You may continue to use
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Pills were taken by one of my rela
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Remember the name—Doan’s—
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Stop a Minute! Read!
f OPENING WEEK
BEGINS MONDAY,
MARCH 2nd, 1914
You are especially
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I AFTER LINGERING FIVE WEEKS
CROW DIES SUNDAY NIGHT.
E. M. Crow, Who Was Shot by Tipton’s
Brother-in-Law February Bth, Died
Sunday Night at Helen.
The remains of E. M. Crow, sec-
I tion foreman of the Gainesville &
Northwestern railway who was shot
and mortally wounded by a brother
in-law of Bob Tipton on February
Bth, at Helen, were brought through
Gainesville Tuesday morning en
route to Monticello, N. C., his
so mer home, for interment.
j i will be remembered that Crow
i was working on the tracks of the
I Gainesville & Northwestern Rail
j way on Sunday morning, February
18, when Tipton and his brother-in
' law advanced on him and started a
row*. Crow was shot through the
right cheek, the bullet rangingdown
ward knocking out several teeth
and imbedding itself in Crow’s
j throat.
He was brought to Gainesville and
given medical attention and carried
back to Helen where he lingered
until Sunday night and died from
hemmorhages caused by the wound.
Tipton’s brother-in-law who did
shooting;escaped and is still at large.
Jewels from Proverbs.
I love them that love me, and
those that seek me early shall find
me.—Prov. viii: 17.
The liberal soul shall be made fat;
and he that watereth shall be
watered also himself.—Prov. xi: 25.
The fruit whether pleasant or de
testable must betaken back, “what
soever a man soweth that shall he
also reap.”
The Christian Sunday is Christ’s
Resurrection day. It is not nega
tive as in the old dispensation, but
a positive call to the heaveulies to
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Do not suffer another day. Get a
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Takes Off Freckles,
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/ Shall Not Pass Again This Way. I
The bread that giveth strength I want to give; Wh9
The water pure that bids the thirsty live; ■
I want to help the fainting day by day: ■
I’m sure I shall not pass again this way. *B
I want to give the oil of joy for tears, |B
The faith to conquer cruel doubts and fears;
Beauty for ashes may I give alway: B
I’m sure I shall not pass again this way. B
I want to give good measure running o’er, B
And into angry hearts I want to pour ■
The answer soft that turneth wrath away: ■
l’m sure I shall not pass again this way.
I want to give to others hope and faith;
I want to do all that the Master saith;
I want to live aright from day to day:
I’m sure I shall not pass again this way.
Garden Seeds.
SEEDS THAT GROW
SEEDS THAT GIVE SATISFACTION
Blue Grass for the Lawn.
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The Best Way to Prepare
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• Daily Thought.
Keep well thine tongue and keep <
thy friend. —Chaucer.