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The Jacksonian. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BUTTS CO. Pufclisbtd every Triday. S. E. ANDREWS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Subscription SIOO Per Yr. Advertising Rates Furnished On Application. CIRCULATION GUARANTEED AH copy for advertisements and all copy intended for publication must be in tke office not later than Wednesday to insure insertion. Address all communications to i Thk Jacksonian. Entered at the Jackson (Ga.) Post Office as secend class mail matter. Flovilla, R. F. D. No. i. Editor Tub Jacksonian. The far mers are quite busy prepare!ng their land for planting they are going to raise plenty of home supplies and as much cotton this year as heretofore. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Vaughn from Bethel was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Riley Johnson Saturday night. Mrs. Will and George Vaughn were the guestß of Mr. J. W. Mayfield last Sunday. Mrs. A. J. Hay spent last Monday with Mrs. Edmond Hay. Mrs. Lelian Johnson and Miss Sal lie Moss spent last Wednesday with Mrs J. W. Mayfield. Mrs. Margerett Fogg spent last Wednesday with Mrs. R. M. Mayfield. Mr. A. J. Hay was in Juckson lust Saturday. Miss Agnes Duffy called on Misses Vivian and Agnes Hay Saturday eve. Our neighbor that planted the ear ly roasting ear patch had the misfor to get his plow stock burned ud last week. I guess he lost it iu the corn fluid. lliss Daisy and Maude Plymule Agnes and Vivian Hay, Mrs. Joe Car roll, Owen Brown, Will and George Vaughn spent a pleasant afternoon at Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Mayfield Sun day. Mr. and Mrs Homer Vaughn Mrs. Will and Geo. Vaughn from Buthil attended preaching at Sandy Creek Sunday. Bethel. The rain is gone and the farmers are busy plowing Gee I Woah I Harr! Come up there !! Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Vaughn Jr was visiting relatives at Flovilla Sun day. Bobolink is preparing for the Hay Fever this time for lie has already got bis medicine. Mr. H. M. Vaughn and wife visi ted Mrs. L. N.. Maddox Saturday and Sunday. Hello! G. C. Vaughn, why did you get tliooe pockets full of rocks Sun day. Some on must have been run ning yon. Bobolink says he can raise plenty bumble bees on his farm tn syoar for he has already caught t hem ana put them in a box. MARRIAGE OF MR. L.L. GREER AND MISS JULIA KELLY. • Mr. Luther Greer and Miss Julia Kelly wore happily married at the ho i e of the parents of the bride last Sunday. Mr. Greer is well known in Butts Cos haying been brought up here, is a minister of the Gospel and an ardent Sunday School worker. Miss Kelly is the daughter Mi. J. L. Kelly pf Pepperton. May the young couple find nothing in life but happiness. THE OUTLOOK IN CHINA BY REV. S. P. WIGGINS. (Continued from last week ) But before looking into the pro gress of Christianity in this great and hoary nation, we need to look at her three religions, Contucianism ) Taoisn and Buddhism and their effect upon the nation. Confucius, after whom his • ult tikes its name, lived about 550 B. C. Ho was a remarkobly learned and sagacious person. His teachings constitute the phsiosophy of human reason and make no claims to a revelation from God. It is a system of morals and maxims for human relationships without reterance to any divine relations or obligations. It possesses some ex alted precepts, e. g. the negative form of he golden rule: ‘‘What you would not have others do to you, o not do to them," —which falls far short of the device injauction of Jesus to positively love, even your enemi s and do good to them which despite fully use you. Confucianism is chisfly a moral etiquette for the family, the state, and for inferiors —hence its elaborate worship of ancestors. A Confucian ist dwells amid the tombs, and like the unhappy Gaderene whom Jesus unloosed he is is bound with the adamantine chains of pride and re verence for the family dead. The results of its teachings is to defy man with no loftier idoal|and example than one’s grandparents and is therefore, devoid of the inspiration and enno bling power which come from the perfect pattern and majesty of the man of Galilee, the Son of God. In short, ‘‘there is in Confucianism no supreme God, rosoui destroying sin, no Savior, no real prayer, no in spiration to righteous living." "Taoism is simply a deification of material mysteries, and its natural outcome is material idolatry." Buddhism was introduced from India. It has in it “no moral guidance in righteousness, no spiritual life for the soul, no uplifting worship.” The highest hope of Buddhism is annihila tion afterdeath. It is thus contrast ed with Christianity: The Christian asks, “what shall I do to inherit eter nal life?” The Buddhist enquires, ,‘what shall I do to inherit eternal extinction?”. Christianity points man to a blessed hope, and everlast ing life. Buddhism drives man to despair, and complete obliteration. How clear therefore that her native religions cannot save China. Let him who says contemptuously, “China has lie own religious, let her alone,” murk well his words; for it:s because she hps these verv religions that our Lord’s command is binding upon us,“go preach the gospel to ev ery creature”—even to China, China with all her vastness, energy, resources, population, und great age, is nevertheless powerless and hone- Ivss, like one paralized, only waiting for Jesus of Nazareth to pass by and say, “Man, I say unto thee arise.” What a magnificent opportunity for tiie Church ot Christ. Wn,it a glorious trophy for our Lord to win China to Christianity. Who will en list! The reward is joy, and righto olistless, and life eternal. Let this people become God’s peo ple, and remembering their energy and colonizing capacities, it is safe to affirm that they will soon spread His ruie over all Asia and Oceania, as the Pontons and English h ive spread Christianity over Europe and America, Robert Morrison the first modern missionary to China, reached Canton |in 1807, but was forbidden to proveh the gospel. This was just 100 years | ago. He found, as it were, a great j wall nroifbd the E i pire, such as the ! Israelites found around Jericho, ' through the gates of which foreigners ! were not allowed to pass, not even to blow their trumpets on the outside. 35 years were spent in gaining an en trance, but not until 1806, over 50 years from the date the first mission ary arrived, were then allowed to o penly teach and profess Christianity. Regular missionary work did not actually begin operation until 1865 though of course, the numbar of mis sionerys had been made. The greatest gain made up to this time was the translation of the Bible into the Chi nese language, and learning the coun try an I its peculiar ways. The progress for the next 25 year 6 was wonderful. By 1885 there were over 600 ordained missionaries, and including the wives and lady mission aries there were 1500, representing 12 mission Boards. There were 250 ordained and 8,009 unordaineu native laborers, with 522 churches, ana 50, 000 members. Since then the rate of progress has been even greater In 1900 there were 2,785 missionaries, 6,888 native helpers, and 112, 808 members. It is proper to note the missionari es bear united testimony to the excel lent curacter and genuine piety of the native converts. It is a matter of history that thousands suffered mar tyrdom in the Boxer riots rather than deny Christ. The missionaries also testify to the efficient lanorers and zeal of the Chi nese ministers —as an example of which one Chinese preacher actually sold himself into slavery in a distant province that he might preach the gospel that community. This is said to be the only case of voluntary slavery for Christ, on record. And tliis honor belongs toaOhinaman. Next week we will give a short sur vey of the work of our own church in China. (To be continued next week.) A CHANGE TO 60 TO THE JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION. For a Few Days Work The Record Will Present You With a Ticket Free. The Jamestown Exposition to be held in Norfolk Va., will open April 26th and close November 30th. This exposition is in commemoration of the first english settlement in Amer ica, made at Jamestown in 1607 by Captain Joh T Smith. Preparations for the exposition have been in progress for a number of years and strenuous efforts are be ing made to make this one of the best expositions that have been held in America up to this time. Every state, and most of the foreign nations will have their exhibits. The Record offers any mau or woman in Butts county a chance to see- the Jamestown exposition free. Here Are Our Propositions. Contest No. 1. To tbe one who will get the most subscribers for ti e Record between February 15 and June 1 we will present absolutely free a round trip ticket, together with six days free entry into the exposition ; provided the total number sent in by all the contestants combined exceeds one hundred. Contest No 2. To the one who will get the most subscribers between February 15 and June 1, we well pre sent free one round trip ticket to the exposition ; provided the total num ber of subscriber sent, in by all the contestants combined exceeds seventy five. Contest No. 3. The one who will get the most subscribers between February 15 and June Ist, we will pay for one half your ticket to the exposition, provided the total num ber exceeds fifty. All subscriptions to be counted must be pail in advance at SI.OO per year, and must be new ones, No one will he ailowed to win in more than on contest, so state be fore you start which you want to enter, contest one, two, or three. Now get busy and seeure a trip to the exposition, and avail yourself of the opportunity to see aristocratic old Nirgiuia. historic Richmond and beautiful Norfolk by the sea. Tbe army of Tumerlane is said to have amounted to 1,600,000 and the forces of his antagonist, Bajaret, to 1,400,000. A Boston schoolboy was tall, weak and sickly. His arms were soft and flabby. He didn’t have a strong muscle in his entire body. The physician who had attended the family for thirty years prescribed Scott 7 s Emulsion, NOW: To feel that boy’s arm you would think he was apprenticed to a blacksmith. 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Said application will be heard at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary for said County to be held on the first Monday in April 1907. This 4tli day of March, 1907. B. P. Baily, Administrator upon Julia Beadden, estate.