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TjOcaI Mention.
Mr. T. J. Brooks Jr., left this mor¬
ning for a visit to Americus.
A happy and . proserous New xr xr Year
to all the readers of* the Journal.
What has become of our Cataula
correspondent? We miss her newsy
notes.
Mrs. Jno. Buchanan, is in town
the guest of her mother, Mrs. T. N.
Sparks.
Such beautiful weather as we have
enjoyed of late, is not often seen in
mid-winter.
Very little business of interest to
the public was transacted here the
first Tuesday.
Now is the time to put out onion
setts. A few fine ones for sale at
the Journal office.
Begin the new Year right. Take
your county paper. One dollar a
year—no dollar, no paper.
There are two neat residences in
(Own left vacant by removals. We
hope the owners will soon find
tenants.
Don’t wait to pay your subscription
until our assortmnnt of garden seed is
broken—come in now and got any¬
thing you want.
Miss Fletcher Turner has donated
a quilt to the parsonage, aud the
ladies are requested to meet next
week in the afiernoons and quilt it.
The Harris County Alliance held
its quarterly meeting here yesterday.
The order is in a very healthy con¬
dition, the delegates present repre¬
senting a membership of upwards of
six hundred males.
New Year’s day was not specially
observed here. People generally
went quietly to work, and “far from
the maddening crowd,” paid observed no at
atteniion to the customs
in larger cities.
Judge A. A. Allen qa.s been
doing some good work for the jour¬
nal this week. Fourteen renewals
and new subscriptions have been sent
us by him this week and he says it
is not a good week for subscriptions
either, lie has our thanks.'
Mr. J. H. Booker has been very
unfojtunate in losing several fine
fat porkers recently, that were ready
for slaughtci. Mr. T H. Kim
brough also lost several. No reme¬
dy, it seems has been found to pre¬
vent hogs from dying of cholera.
The beginning of the new year
is the time when many reflecting per
r .eaich enemy r* often r*fn deteats.. *—* is
Satanic inagcsty s best weapon is the
longue and when he gets control
of the wjley little member the best
resolves are worthless.
\ X \S \L INJECTOR free with each bottle of
s t atarrh Remedy. Price 50 cents.
I-'OR DYSPEPSIA and Liver Complaint you
ve a printed It guarantee fails on every bottle of Shiloh’s
t Ualizer. never to cure.
" t ."eft
, w ere expecieo 10 snow ne e Monaaj
git but vvei e prevented from com
mg bv the ram. ihey have an
ounced that they will be hereto
night, and much fun is in store for
ill who attend. The programme
a-rich. rate, and racy.
Some sneak thief made an attempt
to enter Mrs. A. B. Copeland's resi¬
dence Wednesday night but the
noise he made in raising a window
aUraCied attent i on and he was fjrced
to drop it and scramble off.
Many of our young married people
don’t know what a blessing Dr
Bull’s Baby Syrup is until the young¬
ster is able to ^yell” by the hour.
The election last Wednesday was
a very quiet affair. The regular
democratic ticket it will be seen was
elected by a very hanbsorne majority.
There was no opposition to the sheriff nom¬
inees except for the office of
by Parker, independent, and for cor¬
oner Gore, colored. For Oidenary,
Judge T. F. C. Williams ' received
i,oio votes; for Clerk Superior Court,
A. F. Truett, 1,024; for sheriff M. B.
Kimbrough 1006, J. M. Parker 267;
for Tax Receiver, J. D. Ely 1,008;
for Collector J. P. Murrah 1,013; for
Treasurer, Frank Hadley 1,035; f° r
Surveyor W. B. Roberts, 1,016; for
Coroner M. G. Reams 1,005; Gore
1 S 1 .
Mr. Mr Wm Wm. ir H Harllev Hadley, an an acred agea rit cit
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. oi this county, died at his home
izen
in Blue Apings Wednesday morning,
He bore the reputation of being a
man of sterling 5 integrity °. of character, l
quiet, . steady, , and industrious, j and
esteemed by all who knew him.
He was seventy four years of age,
and a Consistent member of the
Baptist 1 , . t churh . , at . , VV 1 ,,;. hitesvtile. •>. IBs
aged cnmpanion a.id four cht-dren
survive him, Joe* aad Frank Hadley
of this nlace / M M. Hadley, rev
enue dflfim «; a t r r
,
Mrs. Smith of Blue Springs.
number of our citizens went to Blue
Springs yesterday to attend the funer
a^rwees which were conducted by
Rev. W. A. carle).
Rey. Dr. BELL, Fditor of the
Mid-Continent, Kansas City, Mo.,
says qavs in in iu its issue issue of OI Oct uct 1st IS! 1887- lOO/.
It IS to be believed tnat 1 .
Shallenberger, ot Rochester, Pa., has
a sure remedy for Fever and Ague.
A gentleman in our employ suffered
greatly from Malaria, and tried man
y remedies to no purpose; when; see¬
ing this Antidote advertised, tried it,
was immediately relieved, and finally
cured. This was tw) years since,
and he has had no return of his
trouble.
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School Teachers Take Notice.
An examination tor Teachers
license will be held in the court
house in Hamilton on the 29 th, 3 °th
and 31st days of January, i-nst. No
ot j ier dc*.ys will be allowed for said
• n p n hhr SX School Term
j' eac i iers 0 f other schools than Pub
Hc Schoois can receive information
tQ rece iving pupils on Public funds
. con - errin „ wilh the udersigned.
w . A. Farley,
County School Com’r Harris Co.
January 2 nd, 1889 . ,
Easy expectoration, increase pow-
5 oi rest are ®
Dr. Bulls Doug VI ‘
sumtives.
Cuts, burn, and all other wounds
can be cured in a short time by the
use of Salvation Oil the geatest cure
on earth for pam. Price 25 cents.
JOHN THE BAPTIST.
LESSON I, FIRST QUARTER, INTER¬
NATIONAL SERIES, JAN. 6.
Text of the Lenson Mark I; 1-11—Com¬
ment Verses 6-8—Golden Text, Mark I,
3 — Commentary by the Rev. D. Iii.
_
Steams.
uarterly, ilisher, Philadel by per
mission of H. S. Hoffman,
phia.]
1 . “The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus
Christ, the Son of God.” We shall now be
privileged for six months to study again the
earthly life, or rather the unearthly life on
this earth, of our Lord Jesus Christ; for al¬
though Ho was a perfect man, yet He was an
unearthly man, at home among men, sym¬
pathizing with all men, and yet ever speak¬
ing of and pointing men to a home from
which He had como and to which He was re¬
turning. Ilis thirty-three or four years on
earth as a man among men was but an event
in a life which had no beginning and shall
have no end, for He was in the beginning
with God, all things were made by Him and
for Him, and He shall subdue all things unto
Himself. Although it is over eighteen hun¬
dred years since He was on earth, yet He is a
real man today, unchanged and unchange¬
able, and as we read of Him in the Gospels,
so w0 ar010 think'of Him, saving, healing,
sympathizin „ comforting; calling us to tol
low Him, serve Him, wait and look for Him
while wo yield our bodies unto Him that He,
by His spirit, may live His life over,again in
each of His followers. In the Old Testament
He was foretold as not only the seed of the
-woman who should-bruise the serpent’s head,
but also as the seed of Abraham in whom all
nations should be blessed, the Son of David
who should sit on David’s throne, the servant
of God, doing all His pleasure, the Son of
^ an gutting a ll things unto Himself and
restoring the dominion lost by Adam, and
the Son of God, equaf with God and reveal
ing God toman. In Matthew’s gospel we
learn of Him as Son of David, Son of Abra
ham, King of the Jews; while in this gospel
we see Him rather as the servant spoken of
in Isa. xlii, 1 , “Behold my servant;” also
Isa. xlxix, 0 ; liii, 11; Ezek. xxxvii, 24, 25;
££« eighty times in
the servant; it is used about
thoN° w Testament, and half that number of
times it is found ill this gospel; ten or eleven
times it is found in this first chapter and is
translated “immediately,” “straightway,”
tl£opfchwith * « anon » but in the Revised
y ers i on it is alwaj's “straightway.” While
each gospel has its distinctive features, we
also find more or less of each in them all, and
this first verse brings before us Jesus, the
“
Messiah, tho anointed King of Israel, and
the !3on of God, equal with God, one with the
Father. The beginning of the gospel or glad
tidings in my soul was when I received Him
as my own Saviour, aud blessed be God
there was a beginning there shall be no end.
2. “As it is written in the Prophets.”
whole history of His humiliation, sufferings,
death, resurrection and future glory is all
written in the Prophets, for they all spake
the Ho * 8 *> irit speatl “ s through
“Behold I send my messenger before Thy
faco who shall prepare Thy way.” This is
quotation from Malachi iii, 1 , and refers
John the Baptist as the herald of Jesus Christ.
aswswsrs Holy Spirit in
father’s utterance by the
i, 70-79.
3. “The voice of one crying in the
ness.” This is a quotation from Isaiah xl,
and carries us beyond the first coming
Christ, when He came to suffer, to His
coming, when Ha shall comfort Jerusalem,
pardoning her iniquity and cause all flash
ffis glok- to buildup^Zion (?1 cii,
wh en Ho shall appear the second time
Jesus Christ. (I Ret. i, 5 , 7 , m
4 . “The baptism of repentance for, or
j the remission of sins.” Such was the
, mg of John, and such was the
to and the preaching jl>hn of the a^tl«
I * ' th at pointed ^ to a
about to come, while the apostles pointed to
a Saviour who had come, suffered, was cruci¬
fied, risen, ascended, and would come again
to restore all things of which the prophets
had spoken (Acts iii, 13-21).
The first essential to present happiness
and futuro glory is the forgiveness of our
sins, and that we cannot have without re¬
pentance—that is, a true turning from sin to
God, or, as our catechism has it, “a change
of mind tow r ard God, the effect of the con
viction of sin wrought by the Holy Ghost.”
5. “There went out unto him all Judea.”
Great multitudes/came to him confessing
their sins and desiring baptism, but his esti¬
mate of their sincerity and true repentance
we may gather from his preaching (Luke iii,
7-18). No outward form or mere say so is
worth anything whatever in the matter of
repentance, or faith, or service, nothing but
rea IJionest heart work is of any avail, and
John gave them to understand that unless
their lives proved their sincerity they would
like chaff come to the unquenchable fire.
6 . “Clothed with camel’s hair.” John was
no fashionable preacher, either as to person
or style; food and raiment were matters of
small importance to him, and as to his
preaching he sought not to please men, but
God. Gabriel had said that he would come
in the spirit and power of Elijah (Luke i, 17),
and although he was not Elijah (John i, 21),
he was wonderfully like him.
7. “One mightier than 1.” And John did
not consider himself worthy to be privileged
to unloose His shoes. Gabriel himself would
covet such an honor, and what angel in.
Heaven ’would not rejoice to do Him the
lowliest service? But the 1 is so mighty in
most of us that John’s “mightier than I,”
whom he so delighted to honor, finds us but
poor witnesses. He is “The Mighty God, the
Everlasting Father, the Prince of
and if we only believed what we profess t I
believe, that we are joint heirs with Hiir
who is Heir of all things, and are thus
alted through His sufferings, our devotion
Him would be such that a thought of self*
would not be tolerated. We would say with
Paul, “For me to live in Christ and to die
gain; let llim be glorified either by my life
or death” (Phil, i, 20, 21). with Holy.
8 . “He shall baptize you the
Ghost.” Unless we have this baptism we shall*
never amount to anything in Christ’s service
9. “Jesus was tumtized of John in Jordan.’
Read the more full account of this event nl ir
Matt, iii, 13-17* John i, 29-34. Jesus had
sin to confess; He needed no repentance,*but^ fo|f
He said to John, “Suffer it to be so now,
thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteous^
ness.”
10. “The Heavens opened, and the Spirit, jusi
like a dove, descending upon Him.” On Scrinf
seven different oce^ions do we read in
turo of Heaven being opened, and each tin* q§
it is to shew us Jesus either in humiliation
glory. VV hen He becomes the center of oui§ iff
life on earth, as He is the center of all life
Heaven, then we will have Heaven on eartt#
11. “A Voice from-Heaven.” Three timeg
during His earthly His ministry does this voic
testify to Him: at baptism, at His triuis
figuration, and just before ills crucifix ioiff
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