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“I DONTKNOW.”
Writing t.o the good man who de
nounced her as an infidel because she
said “I Don’t Know,” Jessie Baxter
Smith, in last week's Dalton Citizen, j
calls him to task as follows:
Dear Brother: I don't know and y< u ,
don't know, either. It i* not neces-1
nary for us to know, because we can j
believe without knowing, anti It *"•
faith that Just Hies. We can love with-j
out Comprehending, anti it is h>ve that |
makes ns Children of God. Wt* <“ ,
keep our lives clean as possible anti
w . r v< our fellow creatures without un
derstanding. and it is purity of life
and unselfish service that constitutes,
pure and undetiied religion.
Brother, the fact that the wyrltl is
brimming fuil of mysteries that none'
us can fathom slionhi teach us nit
mil it v if spirit, and reliance 1 upon that
Omnipotent Dower whtjse \ glory the
heavt-m ami the earth declare. <htr
very helplessness should cause* us to
lie* low in the Almighty Hand that (
holds all things In its grasp.
Hr* liter, the whole vast universe is
a p.ibie that reveals the* existence of
tliiit Omnipotent Wisdom and Dower
tlitit we* call God: hut the nature* and
fulne ss if that Wisdom anti Dower no
finite mind can grasp. Hence, we
know not wiuit God is. '1 hi* finite;,
hrotlier. cannot compass the infinite*.
The earth has no vessel into which the
ocean mu lie pooreel.
U,,w Original .Matter came to exist,
and how Divine Energy moved upon
Original Matter separating light from
darkness, conquering chaos,‘anti bring
ing myriads of worlds to birth, i do
not know. That it did, I can easily
believe.
How That Divine Energy moved upon i
the* earth and the* water incarnating
life upon constantly ascending planes,
I certainly do not know. That it did,
] find no difficulty in believing.
By what process the first man came
to exist, no man knows. God created
him, but how 7 Creation could be in
stantaneous ami it could In* gradual.
Whether the first, man at tin* command
of (;<.d suddenly stood up out of the
dust of Ihe ground, full grown, mature
in mind ami body, or whether under
the operation of divinely ordained law
he was gradually evolved from the di
vinely energized earth, the thought
is tin* same; God created him.
How the Logos was made flesh, 1
cannot comprehend, blit all my life I
have believed in the Crystal Christ—
tht Swi‘i'l Son of God Who revealed
the marvelous scope and the glorious
possibilities of human life.
Brother, please stand aside and do
net try to thrust some distorted, man
made image between me and the D'i
vim* Jesus. It is Mini that 1 would
set*. I tell you when He is revealed
in all His beauty and grandeur Cue
world will love Him. 1 tell you when
the veil Is lifted and all the blind eyes
are opened and all thi* deaf ears Un
stopped. lit* will he the desire of the
nations, and all peoples and tribes and
dominions will serve and honor and
ol>e.v Him.
I nnm t believe the Plan of Redemp
tion is the narrow thing you would
make it. touching only a handful of
men ami women in one little world.
So, sir. 1 tell you it covers time and
eternity and embraces the universe.
1 will not believe that Cod is t.lie
weakling your theology makes Him.
1 will believe He is the Omnipotent
Maker and Iluler* Whose will is su
preme. and Whose purpose can not be
defeated. 1 will believe that lie is the
Almighty Father in Whose house are
many mansions, and that in each of
those mansions the Croat Killer I troth
or is tiie Perfect Pattern leading and
lifting to higher and yet, higher planes
of development.
We neither know what lies at arm’s
length or beyond the Pleiades. We
see life incarnating itself upon ascend
ing planes, reaching from that of the
worm to that of the man. That life
does not incarnate itself upon higher
and yet higher planes, stretching above
that, ef man. none may say. We can
as easily understand life incarnating
itself in forms invisible to our eyes,
as we can understand how life incar
nated itself in our own bodies. Until
we know what life is we can set no
intelligent limit, upon its activities.
Shall we call the horizon the wall
of the world? Or shall we call it the
limit of our vision? Shall we say
the Creative Power readied its limit
when it constructed the mysterious
cells that lie behind our own forlieads?
ItriKher, the Apostle says: “Faith
is a basis of things hoped for. a con
viction of things unseen.” anil tlie
Apostle also says that, love is greater
than faith. Then, brother, let us pray
for a larger faith, and lot us not for
get that “Ho who loves anchor has
fulfilled the law.”
You come to me with a little cup
and sa.v it holds the water of life,
but my eyes are on the boundless
ocean gleaming and waving in God s
bright sunlight. Brother, he who lias
once drunk from those crystal waves
can never again drink from men s little
cups.
Knowledge is the knowing that we
ear, not know.” Those of little faith
tinve always called those of great faith
oitldels t r fools or dangerous trouble
makers. In the language of Emerson,
■Great believers are always reckoned
infidels. Impracticable, fantastic, and
a’.bristle: and really men of no ac
count." Hut always it has been the
despised great believers who have led
aunn anity to loftier heights of thought
and feeling and lift*. Great fait h brings
a great vision, and he who has once
caught a glimpse of the spheres rolling
in eternal light cun never again fasten
his eyes upon mole hills. A little
faith revels in form ami pomp and
diow fastens a yoke upon the necks
of men and lays u curse upon imperial
Henson. A great faith rests in God.
Eucii man must see with hm own
ryes. What each man sees depends
upon what lies behind his own eyes.
It i-- the st.ei within that colors the
world without. If there are mole hills
ami dc-’-ris ami the dry beds of per
ishei; streams, uml devils ‘and ghosts
ami hobgoblins flitting in the twilight
,n my soui, there will be mole hills
a.utl deserts and dry beds of perished
streams, and twilight and flitting fiel
ds anti ghosts ami hobgoblins in the
world without- If there are lilossiming
faith that brings the great, vision, and
ing oceans, and morning stars and ris
ing suns and angels dollied in white
in my soul, all those things will greet,
my eyes in the world about me.
Brother, let us pray for the great
faith that lungs the great vision, and
let, us not forget that t lit- greaest thing
on earth or in heaven is love, for God
is love.
DON’T IT T VOUIt BRAIN
ON A LEVEL WITH A DOG’S.
In this issu we are discussing the
subject of lit>" to increase one's agri
cultural knowledge.
The first need, of course, is that a
man shall believe that he can learn
more ami wish to learn more. Then* i
is no hope for the man who “knows ii j
all." On the. other hanjl, there is lioi
hope for the man who knows that lit*
Jacks knowledge hilt has no determina
j Hon to get it.
There is hardly anything ipore pa
j tht-tic or exasperating- one or the
other, according to conditions -than
to hear a man excus ■ himself for in
tellectual shifticssness or vagrancy by
quoting tin* old proverb, “Von can't
tench an old ting new tricks.” This
may lit* good enough doctrine for dumb
beasts ami lower animals, but what
sort of a man is it who is willing
t< put, his brain on a level with a
ilog's? Is a man made in the image
of <!od to say that in* is no more cap
able of making progress than a hound
or flee?
There is no telling how much prog
ress has been list to the world thru
the perverted use of this proverb as
an excuse for mental laziness ami
dry rot. Instead of those effortless
beings who put their brains on a level
with u dog's and do not try to learn
after their beards get grown, we like
to think of an old farmer nearly eighty
we saw a few months ago. lie had
been learning all his life, anil was even
tin'll buying some alfalfa seed and
making imiuiry about how to grow it,
never having tried it on his farm, al
though he had observed instances of
success with it. in' his nogihborliood.
And the writer also likes to think of
the gray-lmired men lie has seen smok
in'; tlieir pipes as they went from
classroom to classroom on the grounds
of agricultural colleges and high
schools in Denmark. In one such
school we were told of an old man of
s veil i.y - two who had recently taken
the short course there—and sometime
before that, a man of seventy-six bad
taken a special course there in some
subject in which lie was interested.
-The Progressive Farmer.
“PEEPING TOM” BILL
MAKES CLEAN SWEEP
Just at the tail-end of last Saturday
afternoon's session of the ticorgia
House of Hopresentatives “Peeping
Tom” claimed the attention of the hot.
dry. summer solons, anil that body
passed a bill making it a misdemeanor
to act as a “peeping Tom or to eaves
drop on the private premises of all
ot her.
The heat bad been furious and tlie
work fast Saturday afternoon. When
Representative .Johns, of Harrow coun
ty, arose from his scat and introduced
the “peeping Tom" measure, the rep
resentatives welcomed it as a relief
from the long legislative grind and
greeted it with levity and laughter.
Representative Johns, who is a law
yer and county attorney for Harrow
county, took the question good-natured
ly and replied to them in kind in
several instances, lie stated, though,
that, while on its face the lill appeared
humorous and rediculous, that there
was u real need for it oil the statute
hooks of the state.
Mr. Johns asserted that there was
a serious oversight in the laws of the
state and that this hill was needed to
correct it. So the bill, which was the
last passed in the house of represen
tatives Saturday afternoon, went by
103 to 0.
the WIXDEK NEWS. WINDER, UA.THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 119.
REV. W. R. DEAN
NOW ON BIG JOB
Organization for the raising of 75
million dollars by the Southern Hap-'
I
tlsts is under way.
Rev. W. It. Dean, of Elberton, Ga„ '
is organizer for Section E. which in
cludes seven associations, us follows:
The Appalacliee, Lawreuceville, Dh*as
nnt Grove, Stone Mountain, Mullwrry,
Sereptn and Hebron.
Kev. Dean was in Winder last week,
and lie is now busy on the job of or
ganizing. To raise 75 million dollars
is a man's job, and ifiany big men will
lx* m filed to organize this state.
| One tenth of this big sum lias been ■
set aide for Georgia Baptists to raise
i ml Kt-v. Dean believes that t,he Bap
tists to raise, and Kev. Dean believes
tint the Baptists of Georgia will lit*
equal to the occasion. In an address
to Southern Baptists among many
[Ollier things !l<*v. J. B. Gambrell says:
This noble task calls for cooperation
on tin* largest scale. This time we
must bod our people. We must go af
jter them where they are. Some will
met, give much. Some cannot, hut they
lari* needed. We want them. Many will
give in money like tin* Widow of
.Scripture reputation gave. The enter
j prise is so commanding and so ap
pealing that it can hardly fail to lie
i unifying ill its efforts. 'People will feel
;!ht* compelling power of an appeal so
i gracious that many heretofore unen-
I listed will fall into line for progress.
! Every one of us should lit* glad of this
new opportunity to enlist our people,
i Nothing like it has come to us before.
REV. W. E. MOORE CLOSES
MEETING AT EBENEZER j
Kt*v. W. E. Moore reports that he
had a wonderful meeting at Ebenezer
last week, which closed on last Sun
day morning. During the services
there was added to the present mem
bership. thirty-three by baptism and
two l>y letter.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Services for Sunday. Sunday school
11 a. m. Preaching 12 o'clock. “The
ltod in Thy Hand." Drenching p. m.
“The Works of The Lord Jesus.”
You are urged to he present.
W. H. FAUST, Pastor.
Special reduced price on Ford Size
Michcliu Tires at. Smith Hardware Cos.
x y The Golfer knows how much better you
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WILL CLEAN OFF CEMETERY
All parties interested in Jackson's
graveyard are urged to meet at the
cemetery Wednesday, August 20th, for
the purpose of cleaning off the grave
yard and beautifying the mounds. Let
every one who lias loved ones resting
there 'be on hand on that day. Bring
tools with which to work.—W. J. Grow.
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CEDAR ( KEEK BAPTIST (HI R( H
Evangelistic services begin Kat.urda.v
at 11 a. in. Sunday afternoon services
at T 5 p. m. Daily during the week at
Ml a. m. and Bp. in. You are cordially
invited to come and help in the song
land praise service thirty minutes be
fore the regular preaching service.
W. H. FAUST, Pastor.
NEW PENSION BLANK!
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We are authorized by Judg4 H. G.
Hill to inform all pensioners of Har
row county that the new blanks have
arrived at his office and that he is
ready to assist them in filing their ap
plication. The blanks conform to
new statute In regard to pensions.