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VOLUME 49-NUMBER 44
PASTOR'S PEN
"SAINTS: WHO ARE THEY?"
Ephesians 1:1
Someone has remarked that the best thing
on the earth is a saint. And, it might be
added, the most needed thing on earth is
saints. This being true, let us raise and
answer three pertinent questions concern
ing the saints:
1. Who is a saint?
The popular idea is that if you live a very
saintly life, eventually you may become a
saint. No so. The moment you hand your
life over to Christ, you become a saint.
A saint is one who is "in Christ Jesus. "
Lest you get the impression that this de
finition lowers the meaning of saint, I re
mind you that "if any man be in Christ, he
is a new creature" (II Cor. 5:17), mean
ing he has been inwardly purified by
Christ's blood and thus outwardly con
secrated to God's service. If a Christian,
then a saint; if not a saint, not a Christian.
2. Where is a saint?
Th
e Apostle locates the saints in two
places. First, saints are found in the
chruch. The New Testament knows noth
ing of solitary religion. It was unthink
able to Paul that a saint would be outside
the local fellowship of believers. It is as
abnormal to find a saint outside of the
chruch as to find jay birds in the fellow
ship of French sparrows. No one need
identify himself with the chruch in order
to be saved, but the New Testament is
quite clear in teaching that a person will
want to be a part of the church, after he
is saved. Second, Saints are in Espesus.
A saint is first in Christ, then in the
church, but at the same time in the world
(Ephesus). The glory of being a saint is
that you can ve one in spite of your envir
onment. "In the world, but not of the
world." The person who says he cannot
live a Christian life because of his sur
roundings needs to re-examine his Bible.
Think of Ephesus --Satan 1 s very headquart
ers, a focus of idolatry, superstition,
wealth, luxury, springing from commerce
and moral corruption. And there, on that
dunghill, was this little garden of fragrant
and flowering plants--the "saints in Christ
Jesus. " Jesus lived in the midstream of
human activities. Here is where God has
ordained that we live as saints. How else
can we be the "salt of the earth" and the
"light of the world"?
3. What is a saint?
Paul uses three rich descriptive phrases
to delineate the saint's character: A saint
is God's inheritance (Eph. l:18)--God's
property. A saint is God's workmanship
(Eph. 2:10)--The creation of God's own
hand. A saint is God's habitation (Eph.
2:22)-- the place where God lives. Are
you one of God's saints?
Rev. Ernest S. Purcell, pastor
First Baptist Chruch
Nahunta, Georgia
Hunters
Warned
Hunters are reminded by
Chief Mallory Hatchett of
the Georgia State Game add
Fish Commission Waycross
District office that hunting
on private property is pro
hibited by state law unless
permission of the owner Is
secured.
Chief Hatchett says that
both permission of the owner
and a state hunting license
are required to hunt on pri
vate property.
“We will make cases
against anyone violating
these provisions of state
laws,” says Chief Hatchett
Church to Honor
Rev. and Mrs. Purcell
Members of the Nahunta
Baptist Churchwill honor Rev.
and Mrs. Ernest Purcell upon
their twenty-eighth wedding
anniversary with a reception
in the church social hall on
BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE
Brantley County — Land of Forait Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey. Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
Neal’s Grade
Elects Officers
The students in Miss Neal's
Seveneth Grade Homeroom
class elected class officers on
Monday, November 29, 1971.
The officers elected are:
President- Sheryle Sowell
Secretary & Treasurer-Beverly
Hendrix
Reporters- Phyllis Chancey &
Margie Patten
Reported by
Phyllis Chancey and Margie
Patten
Monday, December 6, at
7:00 P.M.
The couple's many friends
throughout the area are cord
ially invited to attend in ack-
nowledgement of this mem -
orable occasion,
MANY GAME
VIOLATORS
APPREHENDED HERE
In a release to the ENTER
PRISE, Game and Fish Com
mission Warden J. L, Farist an
nounced the apprehention of
twenty duck hunters. Assist
in the case were Wardens Ho-
ward and Ross.
Farist stated that he observed
many duck hunters at a lake
north of Nahunta on Thanks
giving Day. He said that he
intended to check for licenses
at the close of the prescirbed
hunting hours. Farist said the
hunters continued shooting un
till after darkness fell.
Federal and State Law con
trol sportsmen shooting ducks
Farist said and the prescribed
hours for shooting are "one
half hour before sunrise until
sunset" .
Garden
Hold
Decoration Contest
The Nahunta Garden Club
announced this week that the
club is sponsoring an outdoor
Christmas decorations contest.
Anyone is eligible to enter in
either of the two categories
that resides in Brantely County.
The only requirement is that
your name be given at the
Brantley Enterprise office by
December 15th. The official
judging will be done on De
cember 20th after dusk so that
the full benefit of the lighting
can be seen.
One division is open to any
business establishment in the
Nahunta Church Card of Thanks
Os God Services
Rev. Virgil Brooks, pastor
of the Chruch of God in Na
hunta, wishes to announce the
church services:
Sunday School begins at 10
A.M.
Morning worship begins at
11 A.M.
Sunday evening service be
gins at 6 P.M.
Mid-week prayer meetings
on Wednesdays at 7 P.M.
Members of the chruch and
the pastor extend a warm wel-
come to all to attend.
MISS KYMER MATHIE
To CO-ED Magazine
CORRESPONDENTS
ANNOUNCED
Miss Kymer Mathie and Miss
Pasty Altman has been nam-
ed Co-ed Correspondent for
the 1971-72 school year, ac-
cording to an announcement
by Miss Margaret Houser, ed
itor of CO-ED magazine.
CO-ED, published nationally
by Scholastic Magazine, Inc.,
for home economic students,
contains articles on fashion,
food, beauty, and home fur
nishings, and fiction.
Miss Mathie, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Don Mathie,
is a freshman at Brantley
County High School. She
was appointed Correspondent
by Mrs M. h."
THE BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE, NAHUNTA, CTOR GIA, DECEMBER 2, 1971
All cases made were turned
over to Brantley Sheriff Robert
Johns for routine handling.
Farist said that he has been
interested in game conservat
ion since he was a boy and
could not imagine anyone, es
pecially a sportsman, taking
game outside the law. He
said game is plentyful here in
Brantley County and hunters
could get their gab of game
out violating any game reg
ulation.
Since his arrival in the
county, Farish said that he
has made many friends and
wants to meet all good sports
men. He added that the few
who do not practice good
sportmenship give us all a
bad name.
Club to
Xmas
A prize will not be
given to a business, but the
judges decision will be an-
county.
nounced in the newspaper and
a ribbon will be given to the
business for each Ist, 2nd and
3rd places.
The other division is for the
outdoor Christmas decorations
for any home in the county.
Prizes will be given for the
best decorated home and/or
home grounds. Prizes will be
given for the Ist, 2nd and 3rd
places. These will also be
announced in the newspaper
in the December 23rd issue.
We would like to take this
means of expressing our sin-
cerest thanks and deepest grat
itude to those friends who were
so kind and thoughtful of us
at the time of death of our
loved one.
We are especially grateful
for the beautiful floral trib-
utes, covered dishes, mess-
ages of sympathy and other
acts of kindness shown us.
May the Lord's blessings a
bide with each of you.
The Family of
Emory Delano "Dock" Prescott
MISS PATSY ALTMAN
her home economics teacher.
Miss Altman, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Silas Altman,
is a senior at Brantley County
High School. She was ap
pointed Correspondent by Mrs.
Elwanda McCall, her home
economics teacher.
Selected for qualities of
leadership and enthusiasm for
home economics, Miss Altman
will serve as Senior Advisor
and Miss Mathie will serve as
Junior Advisor. Like the other
Co-ed Correspondents th
roughout the United States
and Canada, they will keep
t>e editors informed of act
ivities at their school.
" I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR THAT I WILL FAITHFULLY DISCHARGE ALL DUTIES DEVOLVING UPON ME AS MAYOR
(OR ALDERMAN AS THE CASE MAY BE) OF THE CITY OF NAHUNTA, ACCORDING TO LAW, TO THE BEST OF MY
ABIIITY AND UNDERSTANDING, SO HELP ME GOD."
The above oath, taken from the 1925 Georgia Laws was administered to the new city council. Conducting the swearing
in ceremony was Perry U. Rozier, Ordinary.
The new Mayor and each of the four Councilmen gave a solumn "I do" after Rozier read from the 1925 law that estab
lished the City of Nahunta.
COUNTY TAX MILLS SAME
BOARD OF EDUCATIONS’ UP
The Brantley County Com
missioners set the tax mills
for 1971 at a called meeting
on November 23rd. The com-
mission maintained the same
mill levy of taxes that has
been set for operation of the
county government for the
last several years.
As announced in the bulletin
in last week's ENTERPRISE,
the Board of Education in
creased their tax levy by 1.50
mills. As errorneously an
nounced, the Board of Edu
cation increased mills for
school purposes and reduced
the levy for retiring the school
bond indebtedness. As stated
in the bulletin, "The Board
of Education increased mill
age for school purposes by
two mills.
The Board lopped off one
quarter mill for bonded in
debtedness."
The above is wrong and sh
ould have read as follows:
The Board of Education in
creased mills for school pur
poses by one and seventy
five hundred. The board
lopped off one quarter mill
for bond indebtedness.
A survey of tax levys in ad
jacent counties indicate that
the mills levied here in Br-
antley is lowest with a total
0f25.90. Camden and Way
ne is the next lowest with
29.75 each. Other county
levies are; Charlton 31.40,
BRANTLEY
FHA’ers
GO TO "INDIA”
Mrs. Dorothy Ferguson carr
ied the Brantley County Future
Homemakers of America to
India byway of slides Monday
night at their regular monthly
meeting. Mrs. Ferguson pre
sented and discussed slides of
her stay in India, this past
summer. Carol Patten, Gail
Corbitt and Mrs. Ferguson
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Glynn 36, 25, and Pierce with
36,25. Ware has the highest
rate of all adjoining counties
with 39.00 mills.
A comparison of Brantley
with the same counties levy
for county purposes are Br
antley 12.40(nobond), Ware
16.00 county bond 2.00,
Pierce 13,50 county bond
2.50, Wayne 12.00 county
bond .375, Charlton 10.65
(nobond), Camden 7.50 (no
bond), Glynn 17,50 county
bond 1.00,
A comparison of the levy
for school purposes with Br
antley are: Brantley Schools
12,75 school bond ,75, Ware
Schools 20,00 school bond
1.00, Pierce schools 20.00
school bond . 25, Wayne
schools 15.50 school bond
1,875, Charlton schools
20.00 school bond .50,
Camden schools 20.00 school
bond 2.25, Glynn schools
16.75 school bond 2.00.
Although Brantley's Board
of Education levy has shown
an increase during the last
few years, it is interesting
to note the above figures
which show that Brantley is
far below any of the adjoin
ing counties in their school
tax levys. By state law, a
board of education is pro
hibited from levying in. ex
cess of 20.00 mills. Several
of the listed counties have
reached the 20.00 mill
level.
modeled saree which were
purchased in India.
Donna Popwell, presided at
the meeting. Susan Cham
bless gave the devotional.
Carol Patten was chosen FHA
representative for Miss Brant
ley County High School. The
Color guard was composed of
Pam Mercer, Sandra Nichols,
Penny Gunter and Pam Moody.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
According to George F. Ste
wart, Commission Chariman,
the county has managed to
hold the line on a tax mill in
crease for another year. He
said that this was possible only
through the yearly growth in
the tax digest and good man
agement of the taxpayers
money.
There has been a consider
able increase in costs which
is estimated at six percent
annually. Stewart stated that
these costs probably run about
equal to what housewives have
encountered at the grocery
store. These costs are off-set
by the many new people mov
ing into Brantley County and
from people buying parcels of
land and building homes. He
said that three new major bus
inesses have recently been es
tablished that greatly added to
the tax digest.
Retering to a motion made
by one of the county commiss
ioners to buy several pieces
of heavy machinery, Stewart
stated that the cost to the
county tax payers would be in
the neighborhood of 250 to
300,000 dollars, if the motion
had been carried. To raise
that amount of cash would
have increased the current tax
levy from 12.40 to approxi
mately 32,00mi115. "To have
put such an added burden on
the taxpayers of Brantley
County would have been fool-
Card of Thanks
Words can never adequately
express our sincerest thanks
and deepest gratitude to those
whose expressions of sympathy
meant so much to us during
our recent bereavement.
We are especially grateful
for the floral tributes, covered
dishes and other kindnesses
shown to each of us during
this time.
May the Lord's richest bless
ings abide with each of you.
The Family of
Kathrine Foerman Mancil
NOTICE
The W.O.W. Camp #1260
will meet Monday, December
6th, at 7:30 P.M. at the Na
hunta Masonic Lodge.
ish and about as irresponsible
as some of the spending done
by the Federal Government,"
Stewart said.
Much of the county road de
partment equipment is old and
delapadated said Stewart,
however, it did not get that
way during the last year nor
the last three years he added.
He said that if previous Board
Commissioners had replaced
equipment when it became un
feasable to repair it or when
its value did not equal the cost
of repair, the county would
not be faced with a long range
program of replacing heavy
expensive equipment.
Senior Citizens
News
The Brantley County Senior
Citizens Club will meet on
Thrusday, December 9th, in
the R.E.A. Building Confer
nce Room at 7:00 P.M.
This meeting will be our
Christmas party. If you were
not at the last meeting come
anyway and bring a gift.
Band Boosters
Club To Meet
A meeting of the Band Boos
ters will be held in the music
room at Brantley County High
School Thursday, Dec. 2nd
at 7:30 p.m.
All parents of band students
and other interested are urged
to be present for this meeting.
BASKETBALL
SCHEDULE
HOME
Dec. io Lamer
Dec. 14 Nichoxis
Lee. 17 Atkinson
Jan. 7 :— Broxton
Jan. 14 Blackshear
Jan. 25 “OPEN”
Feb. 1 Ludowici
Feb. 4 Clinch
Feb. 11 “OPEN”
Feb. 12 Camden
Feb. 15 Patterson
AWAY
Dec. 3 Lanier-
Dec. 7 Clinch
Jan. 4 Camden
Jan. 11 Nicholls
Jan. 15 Ludowici
Jan. 18 — Patterson
Jan. 21 Blackshear
Jan. 28 — Broxton
Feb. 8 — _ Charlton
