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Religiously Speaking
By Rev. Howard D. Blalock, Pastor
Emmanuel Baptist Church, Blackshear
t he bible
The Bible is the most popular
book in the world today, In the
United States alone it is estim
ated that about three and one
half million whole Bibles are
published every year.
In 1954, 9,500,000 Bibles were
so ld in America. And at the
latest count, at least one Book of
the Bible has been translated into
1084 different languages. Al
though there are about 2,000
more to go, these remaining
tongues are spoken by less than
five per cent of the world’s in
habitants.
In 1954, Bibles and New Testa
ments were produced in eight
African languages and jn Maltese,
Sindhi, Cambodian and languages
of Peru and the New Hebrides
Islands. At this rate it won’t be
very long until each can read
it in his own tongue.
However, all of these people
who have access to the Bible do
not read it. In a recent survey
fifty three per cent of Americans
asked could not name a single
New Testament book.
Some do read the Bible.
Bromley Abbott, a british jour
nalist, said he saw two nuns
playing a game with car numbers
the other day while on a bus.
They spotted a car with the index
letters EXV followed by three
figures which they read out to
each other as 1,2, and 4. They
then recited three verese of the
Bible to each other.
Curious to know what they
were up to, Abbott went home
and consulted the Bible. He dis
covered that they had recited
verses 1,2, and 4 of Exodus,
Chapter V.
The Bible is not only the most
popular book; it is the most im
portant book. Taylor G. Bunch
impresses this upon us when he
says: “The Bible is the greatest
of all civilizing influences. Civil
ization and commerce always fol
low in its wake, it tames wild
men, makes saf6 the advent of
the traveler and the agents of
organized society.”
The Bible is as fresh as the
morning paper. Oren Arnold tells
of the bookstore holiday helper
who was endeavoring to sell a
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gift Bible to a customer. The
patron interposed an objection:
she already owned a Bible. “Oh,
yes,’’ said the sales person bright
ly, but it was probably written
hundreds of year ago. This one,
you know, has just been pub
lished.” When you read the Bible
you will think “it has just been
published.”
Robert J. McCraken says that
while talking not long ago with
a psychiatrist he saw a Bible on
his desk. When Dr. McCraken
referred to it the psychiatrist
said that it was in his hands
every day. This psychiatrist had
learned what all of us need to
learn; that the soundest and
shrewdest psychology is to be
found in the Bible.
But the Bible is of no value
to you personally unless you read
it. Read it, for it is the only
book by which you may know
certainly the future. It is the
only book that satisfactorily
answers the questions, Where did
I come from? Why am I here?
Where am I going?
A Chinese woman had just
learned to read. “Lord,” she
prayed, “we are going home to
many who cannot read. Make us
living Bibles, so that those who
cannot read the Book, can read
it in us.”
As Henry G. Weston says in
the “Moody Monthly,” “There is
nothing in the Bible that bene
fits you unless it is transmitted
into life, unless it becomes a part
of yourself, just like your food.
Unless you assimilate it and it
becomes body and bone and
muscle, it does you no good.”
Circular on
Small Grains
Now Available
A new circular is available to
help Georgia farmers do a better
job of small grain production,
W. A. Sutton, director of the
College of Agriculture Extension
Service at the University of
Georgia, announced this week.
Sutton said the publication is
just off the press in time to aid
farmers in following the latest
practices in putting in this year’s
crop. Small grain planting will
begin late this month in extreme
North Georgia.
Free copies of “Small Grain in
Georgia” may be obtained from
county agents.
Written by Extension Agrono
mists J. .JR. Johnson, W. H. Gur
ley, and J. Frank McGill, the
circular contains the latest re
search information from College
of Agriculture experiment sta
tions.
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Johnson said it features materi
al on soil preparation, seed and
varieties, planting dates, rates of
seeding, fertilizations, planting
methods, harvesting, and storage.
The agronomist pointed out
that small grains are fast gain
ing favor in Georgia because they
are dual purpose crops. He ex
plained that they may be grazed
during the fall and winter, and if
the cattle are taken off in later
winter or early spring, the grain
crop may then be harvested.
More than a million acres of
Georgia land are devoted to one
of the small grains each year,
Johnson reported.
Shop local stores first.
Drive Underway
To Free Georgia
Os Brucellosis
ATLANTA — A determined
drive is underway to free Georgia
of a livestock disease that costs
farmers thousands of dollars an
nually.
The disease is brucellosis or
Bang’s disease which wipes out
the production of about one cow
in every five according to the
United States Departmennt of
Agriculture., The disease also
causes undulent fever in humans.
The new accelerated program
launched by the State Depart
ment of Agriculture is designed
to completely rid Georgia of the
disease among cattle by 1960.
With $300,000 appropriated by
the last session of the legislature
a total of nearly $900,000 in state
and federal Kinds is ndw ear
marked for the progrdim.
Under the hew program female
cattle oh Georgia farms through
out the state will be tested to
determine sources of infection. In
addition, the State Department of
Agriculture requires that all fe
male cattle brought into the state
must have been tested or vaccin
ated unless they originate in a
certified disease-free herd or
area. Animals returning to farms
from livestock sales barns must
also be tested or vaccinated.
Young female cattle found free
of the disease can be vaccinated
to build up immunity. All dis
eased animals .must be slaughter
ed but may be sold for beef.
All testing and vaccination is
free under the accelerated pro
gram. In addition, payments are
set up to help farmers offset
financial losses when diseased
animals must be sold for slaugh
ter.
At the present the extensive
new program of testing all cattle
on farms has been inaugurated
in 10 counties where farmers in
the past have voluntarily reduced
infection among herds.
Those counties where efforts
are being made to test every
animal include Gordon, Chatto
oga, Dodge, Dooly, Burke, Hall,
Towns, Coffee, Wilkinson, and
Gwinnett.
The preliminary work for start
ing the extensive testing in five
additional counties has also been
completed and testing should be
gin in these counties in the near
future. The counties are Lump
kin, Greene, Hart, Oconee, and
Franklin. >
Farmers in any county jn the
state may secure this free ser
vice by contacting their local
veterinarians, county agents or
vocational agriculture teachers.
Roads Authority
Making Plans for
191 New Projects
ATLANTA — Looking toward
its third bond issue, scheduled
for public hearing about Jan. 15,
1957, the State Rural Roads
Authority has tentatinely ap
proved 191 new highway con
struction projects in 132 Georgia
counties.
The projects, covering 705
miles of new paving, will cost
an estimated $17,168,858.
The location of the proposed
projects and other details cannot
be released until rights-of-way
have been cleared and the deeds
filed with the authority, Chair
man Roger Lawson said.
Georgia now has S3O million
in bonds outstanding from the
first two issues of the Rural
Roads Authority. Interest rate on
the first issue was 2.69 per cent;
on the second, 2.79 per cent.
T. G. Williams, Extension Ser
vice landscape specialist, says
there is a trend toward using
fences and walls for screening
purposes instead of hedges.
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