Newspaper Page Text
The Twentieth] Century vv onISIP
(W. H. Faust.
Nearly twenty centuries ago the
Crist-child rested his head upon the
bosom of the Virgin Mary and from
on woman came to occupy a
higher position in the affairs of the
""ve are in the midst of an age of
women societies, hut this was pre
ceded centuries ago by the one corn
led Of Mary -Magdalene, Joanna,
Susanna and the long list of others
, vho labored unceasingly for heir
ord and his cause. Who sacrificed
unstintedly for the purpose af ad
vancing his kingdom and set all fu
ure generations an heroic example
iu the field of human activity. For
their priceless example in this realm
■vve owe an unpayable debt of grati
tude and love.
Vs for my own personal views con
cerning woman, I heartily agree with
nuaint old Matthew Henry who said
that “Woman was not taken out ot
man's head to be his superior, not
out of his feet to be his inferior, but
out of his side near his heart to be
his equal.” 1 “Woman is not necessa
rily the peer of man, though she
sometimes is. She is his equal and
is entitled by all rules and regula
tions of justice, and equity, to the
same privileges to which “the so-call
ed “Lords of Creation” aspire.
The world has long been in the
tremendous fields of ignorance as re
gards woman’s sphere and her place
in the world. But gradually it is
coming to the light and the dawn of
a new day is already casting its
slanting rays of light athwart our
horizon. No where in the Bible is
it taught that woman is a menial
and inferior to man. Note the
words carefully of Dr. Talmadge:
“Come into the picture gallery, the
Louvre, the Luxemburg of the Bible,
and see which pictures are the most
honored. There is Eve a perfect
woman, as perfect a woman as could
he made by a perfect God. Here is
Deborah, with her womanly arm hurl
ing a host into battle. Here is
Miriam leading the Israelites orches
tra on the hanks of the Red sea.
Here is Ruth putting to shame all
slang about mother-in-laws as she
turns her back on her home and her
country and faces wild beasts and
exile and death, that she may be
with Naomi, her husband’s mother.
Ruth, the queen of the harvest fields
Ruth, the grandmother of David;
Ruth, the ancestress of Jesus Christ.
The stories of her virtues and her
life sacrifice, is the most beautiful
pastoral ever written. Here is Vashti,
defying the Bacchnal of a thousand
drunken Lords, and Esther willing
to throw her life away that she may
deliver her people. And here is Dor
cas, the sunlight of eternal fame
gilding her philanthropic needle, and
the woman with perfume in her box
made from the mills of Alabastran,
pouring the holy chrism on the head
of the Christ, the aroma lingering
all down the corridor of the centu
ries. Here is Lydia, the merchant of
Tyrian purple, immortalized for her
Christian behavior.”
Some of our old fogy people used
to search the Scriptures for pas
sages justifying them in believing
that woman was merely a drudge of
a housekeeper, and must never get
out into their own back yards, but
that day and sort of folks have been
relegated to the rear by the light of
wisdom as it shines from the Bible
into the farthest recesses of the in
habited earth. The day of woman’s
rights and privileges has now dawn
ed with a glory and halo all its
own.
Woman is not merely an ornament
in the home. She is a helper and a
marvelously important factor. She
has a great work to do and is doing
it.
Mrs. Newell Dwight Hillis says:
“There is a condition becoming gen
eral with an alarming ram'ditv. wnj,
the increase of luxury has come an
alarming innovation, and idleness
which calls for increasing stimulus
in recreation, and we have such e>
hibitions as the bridge whist mania
frequently produces. This is neith
er more nor less than a disease,
which has seized and twisted the
moral forces of women until the em
ployment in a scramble and a gamble
for prizes of hours which God
gave her for work and development,
appears proper and dignified to its
victims; until the display of gar
ments and furniture become more
important than the building up of
home and character.”
Woman has a work and a glorious
w'ork to do and her indifference up
to the present has been as much
the result of man’s ignorance as it
has of her own.
“They talk about a woman’s sphere,
As though it had a limit;
tThere’s not a place in earth or
heaven,
There’s not a task to mankind given,
There’s not a blessing or a woe,
There’s not a whisper yes or no,
There’s not a life, death or birth,
That has a feather’s weight of
worth,
Without a woman in it.”
I heartily agree with my brethren
when they say that woman’s sph re
is largely in the home, but part com
pany with them when they say it
is wholly there.
Yonder in our nation’s capital is a
great blind senator who says that
his success is due largely to his wife
who is to him eyes mnd help unsep
arable. Lincoln, whose birthday we
celebrate this very month, was pos
hly the greatest of all presidents,
credits all of his success to his moth
er. There is not a real man of
worth in all the world today who
will not tell you that he is what he
is because of wife or mother.
“The bravest battle that ever was
fought,
Shall I tell you where an when.
On the maps of the world you will
find it not;
'Twas fought by mothers of men.
Nay not with the cannon or battle
shot,
With sword or noble pen;
Nay, not with swords of eloquent
thought
From mouths of W'onderful men.
But deep in a waked up woman’s
heaort,
Of women that would not yield,
But bravely, silently bore her part,
Lo, there was the battle-field.”
But along comes a nub-headed,
twisted-visioned, out of date, persim
onious, end-trailer and says: ‘‘But
she can not go to war.” True, but
kindly remember that we do not
build houses out of gold blocks. Gold
bricks don’t go into ordinary build
ings. Men don’t ditch with fountain
pens, they use steel shovels, but
what does that signify. There are
12000 names in Who’s Who in Amer
ica,” out of this list 898 are the sons
of minister's wives, which shows
that these men had great mothers
More proportionately great men from
this class than from any other. All
attributable to the fact that their
training was wholly in the hands of
the mothers.
Black says: “The church owes
more to the consecration and self
sacrificing service of her women
than to any other earthly factor, not
excepting the ministry. No labor
has been too hard, no time nor talent
too precious, for Christian women tc
give to keeping churches open and
the torch of divine truth aflame.
Last at the cross and first at the
sepulchre, women have ever been
the champions of the Christ and the
chief promoters of his kingdom
Without her zeal and consecration
th echurch would not be half so far
along in its conquest of the world.”
Esther was asked by her kinsman,
“Who knowest but that thou hast
come into the kingdom for such an
hour as this.” I would ask the
twentieth century woman the same
question. Duty can never be shirk
ed and blessing found yonder on the
far flung battle line is where you are
needed my sister, and where duty
calls or danger be never wanting
there.
“Be good, sweet maid, and let who
will be clever,
Do noble things, not dream them all
day long;
So make life, death, that vast for
ever,
One grand, sweet song.”
We may not all agree in minutest
details with the mighty suffragist
movement sweeping this land from
ocean to ocean ,but we must sympa
thize with its spirit and purpose, and
lend our co-operation to the unfold-
Second Round.
Sharpton’s Store, March 8, 8 to 11
A. M.
Carl, March 8, 1 to 5 P. M.
Auburn, March 9, 8 to 12 A.M .
Rocky Creek, March 9, 2 to 5 P. M.
Cain’s Court Ground, March 10, 8 to
12 A. M.
Thompson’s Mill, March 10, 1 to 5,
P. M.
Mulberry, March 11, 8 to 11 A. M.
Baidy Stewart’s, March 12, 9 to 11.
Bethlehem, March 12, 1 to 5.
Jones’ Store, March 15, 9 to 11
A. M.
Wright’s Store, March 15, 1 to 5, P.
M.
Chandler’s Court Ground, March 16,
9 to 11 A. M
Statham, March 16, 12 to 5 P. M.
Jim Jones, March 17, 9 to 11 A. M.
Johnson Academy, March 17, 1 to 5,
P. M.
Union School, March 18, 9 to 12 A.M
I will be in Winder during court
and every Saturday.
J. A. STILL, T. R. B'. C.
NATURAL CONSEQUENCE.
The man who reads is the man
who leads. It is natural that this
should be so. “The ancestor of every
action is a thought,” says Emerson,
and the richness or poverty of a
man’s reading usually determines the
richness or poverty of his thinking.
The man who does not read gets his
thoughts only from Tbm, Dick and
Harry and the others in a little nar
row neighborhood right around him.
The man who reads gets the thoughts
of the foremost minds in his county,
state, nation and the world.
A people are not educated if they
only know how to read; they must
actually read. If one goes to school
weeks and months, year after year
learning how to read, and then does
not read, —if he is then too short
sighted to pay a few' cents a week
for good papers and books —he is like
a man who spends days and weeks
breaking a piece of land, getting it
in shape for planting, and then is too
foolish or stingy to buy seed corn
or cotton seed to plant it. Learn
ing how to read prepares the mind,
cultivates it, makes it a fertile seed
bed, but then a man must fill it with
seed-thoughts. Books and papers fur
nish the seed corn for the mind.
When a man says he is too poor to
pay tw'o cents a week for a paper for
inspiration, help, intellectual food,
seed-thoughts for his whole family,
ask him if he ought not to spend as
much for brain food as he spends for
tobacco.
Make your neighborhood a r~ad
ing neighborhood and you will make
it a leading neighborhood. Join in
a movement to teach all grown-up-il
literates to read if you can, but
in any case bestir yourself to get
all who can read to read more. If
they read papers that stand for prog
ress they will eventually join with
you in all the progressvie movements
you are interested in.—The Progres
sive Farmer.
ing of a glorious and resplendent
womanhood.
“Build thee more stately mansions,
O my soul,
,As the swift seasons roll,
Leave thy low vaulted past,
Let each new temple, nobler than
the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome
more vast,
Till thou at length are free,
Leaving thine out grown shell by
life’s unceasing sea.’
WINTER TOURIST FARES
BOX JTHERN HAILWAY
PREMIER < APR I EE OF THE SOUTH
REDUCED ROUND TRIPRATES TO ALL PRINCIPAL POINTS IN THE
SOUTH SOUTHEAST SOUTHWEST
For information call on nearest agent or address
.T. C. BEAM, A. O. P. A. J. S. BLOOD WORTH, T. P. A.
Atlanta, Ga. Macon, Ga.
when you let The News DO YOUR
PRINTING. “Neutral” in price.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
My friends, leather has advanced so
much I can’t afford to do any more
work on credit. Please have the money
ready when you call for your shoes.
F. HOFMEISTER, The Shoemaker.
COTTON INSURANCE
Our policies are just as staple as “green-backs.” The
policy of any Insurance Company in our agency is
acceptable to the United States government in issuing
currency against stored cotton. Let us supply your
needs in Fire Insurance-
Kilgore Sz Radford
Winder, Georgia.
FOR BEST
Red Ash or Blue
Gem Block
DOMESTIC COAL
Phone 65. Quick Delivery any Part of City
PEOPLES FUEL CO.
' SILENT
1 WALL
JUST RECEIVED
Two Thousand and Four
Rolls of 1915 Wall Paper
PRICE PER ROLL
7c and up.
A Free Sample Book on Request.
Come and make your
selection now.
Smith Hardware Cos.