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THURSDAY, JOLT 19, 1993
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THE CARROLL rlEB PRESS, Dili OLLTOH, CARROLL COUNTY, OJL
CHURCH CIRCLES
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
E. L. Baber, Pastor.
The Woman’s Auxiliary will hold Us
regular monthly meeting next Monday
at 4 P. M. at tho church, Topic:
■‘Signs of the Times,” u study of the
Equipment Needs of our Foreign Fiolds.
Answer roll call with an item of mis
sionary interest.
Junior Christian Endeavor at 4 P. M.
Friday. Bring scissors and pictures.
Last year tho Woman’s Auxiliary
gave $25,000 to Miss Dow’s School in
Japan. It iVns so applied without any
deduction. This year the Auxiliary is
TtU'sing $25,000 for tho school in Texas
fit Mexican girls. Every cent of it
will go there. Last year tho ‘ ‘ Special
Gift” went to Foreign Missions; this
year it Will go to Home Missions.
av:
awakening of church members to their
responsibility as Christians, and citi
zens,” and.‘‘For tho Student Body of
Oklahoma Presbyterian Collogo for In
dians. ”
day night, ‘‘Knocking Out the Props.”
On Wednesday night the all-absorbing
question, ‘‘What Must I Preach to Be
Saved?” was auswered. Thursday
night the question comes up ‘‘Would
Christian Union Help?”, and on Friday
right Mr. Organ will show ‘‘The True
Basis of Christian Union.” There will
be no services on Saturday night. Next
Sunday will be a great day again and
timely sermons will be preached. The
music is a special feature in these meet
ings, the singer, C. S. Hayes, knows
how to inspire nn audience to Sing.
He has a special song overy night, either
singing by himself or in company with
others. Carl, Jr., delights the audience
frequently with his beautiful child
voice. Mrs. Organ cannot bo excelled
as a pianist and the harmony of Evan
gelist Organ’s cornet playing is ibtyond
compare, These services will bfe con
tinued next week and everybody is in
vited to attend and get (lie benefit' bf
the meetings.
The Endeavor meeting before • the
preaching service Sunday hight has for
its subject, ‘‘What in Present Day So
cinl Life Would Christ Approve? What
Disapprove?”
Scout meeting at the pastor’s home
S P. M. Friday. The Scouts and their
master enjoyed a,'delightful swim Mon
day morning in Griffin’s fine pool on
Maple street. '''
This congregation sympathizes with
Mr. and Mrs. C, L. Faulkner, formerly
members of this church, in the death of
their son, William McDonald, last Fri
day.
We are glad to welcome back from
the Sttuo Normal School at Millodgo-
villc, Misses Lena Darden, Kate Slade,
Mattie Dozicf and Damaris Earnest.
We hope to see thorn all Sunday.
The pastor will preach Saturday flight
and Sunday morning at Whitesbdrg.,
WHITESBURG CHRISTIAN CHURCH
J. W. Bolton, Pastor.
The pastor will preach at Whitesbnrg
on Saturday night and Sunday morning.
On Saturday night he will speak on
‘Abiding in Christ,” and on Sunday
morning the subject, will bo ‘‘What
Think Ye of Christ?”
Wo hope to send a good representa
tion of young people to the Atlanta
Presbytery Young People’s Conference
on the old Smyrna Camp Ground July
28th to August 3rd.- Dr. <B. It. Lacy
will conduct the Bible hour, Wilkes
Dcndy tho Christian Endeavor Expert
Class, Mrs. W. K. Turner the cabs on
Woman’s Work. T. B. Hay, of Covl
ingtou, will have charge of recreations
in the afternoons, swimming, tennis and
Other games.
THE METHODIST CHURCH
John P. Erwin, Pastor.
isnpprove?”
Tho Bible School lesson for next
Sunday is ‘‘John tho Apostle.” Tho
lessons this quarter are tho New Tes
ment characters. They are intensely
teresting.
The pastor desires to see every one
resent, at these services us he will prob-
bly close his work with the church at
hitosburg at this time.
FAMILY RELIGION
The Week’s Work and Worship.
< < When I thought to know this, it was
loo painful for mo; until I went into
tho sanctuary of God.” The sanctuary
is the court of appeals for tho conscien
ces of men; and the place to solvo the
probelems that perplex the soul, is the
temple of worship where men como face
to face with God and face life’s prob
lem^, in His, presence.
‘ ‘ Here bring your wounded hearts,
Here tell,your anguish;
4iart.li has no sorrow that
Heaven cannot heal.”
In order.that the church may fulfill
its glorious mifisipn in our lives, here 19
found a fine ideal tyt us is follows.
< ‘Every member a woi'Shippcr;
1 EveFy worshipper a Worker;
1,1 '■ Evdry Workor'A^ivor; _
Every giWir a spiritual face.
What a great spiritual force> puf
church might beddnie if- we wore to live
„p to this ideall.fWUI V®* «* kt ° ““
your place in the work and
the church, or will you be a drone and
is, slacker in God’s kingdom"
Sunday School.next.Sunday at 9:30
A. M. . . *
“All the church in the school,
All tho school at church,
And nil for Christ.”
Preaching next Sabbath at H A M
and 7 ;45 P. M. by the pastor. Read
,r„hn 18:19: 10-1- as preparatory to
St. John 1 d: 10; 19
the Sabbath’s messages. Fine congre
lie,
on tho Sab
lDDIU.li a — 4 ,t
gation last. Sunday morning and J a "_ a ‘
night. Why be ft‘‘oncer
bath unless circumstances niakoitne
cessary? Has hot the pastor the samo
right to he a “oncer” as the member?
Let us not give up to the languor of
the summer, but let us show the world
that wc mean it When wo sing. A
I a Soldier of the Cross? Let us be
“good soldiers of Jesus Christ, (
Tim. «s5) and good soldiers are not
controlled by Bunsluno or rain, but ny
the comjiinnd of their leader,
Epworth League devotional Sunday
evening at 7 o’clock. Tho service wUl
be held on the lawn in front of the
Sunday School assembly room. Good
attendance last Sunday and splendid
program. Young people, this m J our
hour, so come,and make ot n powe .
GenernJinieeting of tlTe Woman ’s Mls-
sionary Society Monday at 3.30 P. M-
A full attendance is kindly^ Chris-' t0 8ay ’
What a great opportunity for the Chris
tian womanhood of the church to help
pagan womanhood!
there
low
,-Privor meeting Wednesday evening
at'sTclok. “Men ought alway^
Drav ancl not to faint. ( •
fg f ) So faint not, but como to this
mid-week hour of song and prayer and
Christian fellowship.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
J. W. Bolton, Pastor
‘ Evangelist Organ is preaching splcm
did sermons this week. He is using
the following subjects in
Sunday ^“ w Testament
Church! ’ ,U1 There was a largo
,vm ” 9 of
thanks to-God for daily blogsingS—nO
family altar.- There is many.n Pflw in
our ehurehos with the parents devoutly
seated, but qlas! they Becm to bo writ
ten childless—far better it wodld be
wore they imjeod -childless—for on ac
count of those and kindred duties, their
children being left to themselves, have
wandered like untrained branches of a
neglected vine. One has fnstenod upon
a poisoned brambled of error; another
hangs out over a frightful Crag of
scepticism; aud still another struggles
in mid air, here and thorn, at loose ends
as to his creed, the sport of every winds
of doctrine or temptation. And all
trying ttf beileve that the difficulties
of a divine revelation arc a sufficient
apology for not receiving and obeying
divine truths,' or trying to sit still In
neglect of mercy’s call, until his con
victions have incrustcd upon him to the
consistency of insensibility, and so be
coming the activo propagandist of soul-
ruining error,' gathering around him a
deluded multitude to sharo his ruin.
From many a church, from many a
divided family and from many afar
wandered Christian, there is going up
the prayer of our text: “Tell me, O
thou whom my soul loveth, where thou
feedest; and where thou makest thy
iiorts to rest at noon.” I would to
God, that all such parents today wore
among those beseeching mournors. To
you comes tho answer: “If thou wilt
know .... go “forth ‘by the footstops
of tlm flock, and feed thy kids beside
the shepherd’s tents.” Feed thy kids
beside the shepherds teut and I will
show you where I feed my flock, and
where I make it to rest at noon, and
1 will lead you forth as a shepherd,
gathering the lambs in his arms -and
carrying them in his bosom.
II. The family is the sublimcst rem
iniscence of man’s first estate. At the
beginning of the world, God instituted
marriage, and gave his first family the
garden of Eden for their home. Thoro
matiofi of the world, tho portion is Report of Committee on Tern-
fe Would Christ Approve? What
Rov. E. L. Barber.
Songs of Solomon, 1:8.
Hero is a picture of a chastened and
nit cut church, under the figure of the
Shepherdess, coming to the Good Shep
herd, asking wliore and how she may ro-
t in His forfeited and fostering, care
Tell me, O thou, whom my soul lov-
th, whore thou feedest, whore thou
makest thy flocks to rest at noon.”
Hero is suggested substantial nutri
tion, “green" pastures and still wa
ters,” such as would meet the neods of
her unkept and famished flock, This
she seeks iti nrdclit desire. “Toll me
D thou whom my soul loveth, whore thou
feedest, where "tliou makest thy flockf.
to rest at noon.” Hern is also suggest
ed the pence that passoth knowledge
springing fresh from tho fountain, of
gospel pardon, rest and security, a life-
giving antidote to the burning lustH of
sin, and the tormenting of a guilty con-
science, nil of which not only a buck
slidden church, but the backslidden fam
ily or individual fools sadly at this high
noontide of departure from God, ,
To these ardent breathings of re
penting affection, tho Good Shepherd re
plies: “If thou wilt know .... Go
forth by tho footsteps of the flock;’
that is, you must mark the paths of
holiness in which tho godly have trod,
and you must walk in tho tame; kind
then with all the omphasis of a closing
remark he adds: “And feed thy kids
beside the shepherds’ tents.” I have
a mist’ 1 tfcop and tender love for, the
children of my followers, and I will not
make you to lie down in groon pastures
nor lead you beside the still Waters,
and I will not give you peace and qui
etude of heart, nor fill you with the
strengthening provisions of my grace
mtil you bring the little Benjamifif
and Samuels and Timothies up to me.
Or in other words “Let the children of
vour families be brought away frpm
he outposts of danger, and from the
emoting paths of sin, where tlloy wari-
ler a wav ufld perish. Bring them up
to the fold where they may bo cared
for. then the Great. Shepherd of Ikrael
shall restore to you the rich provib
songs, the still waters flowed softly and
silently, thero the tree of life bloomed
and ciist its precious pollen over the
works of Eden, but the grandest and
sublimcst thing in that garden was the
family. This man and his wife walked
and talked with God. It was a relig
ious family. Tt was so in that day.
It w:is so all down through tho history
of God’s inspired word, and God meant
it to be so today. Tho family sliodld
bo a religious institution The family
may consist of only the married pair
Hut even then it should be religious
I do not say that there is no genuine
wedlock without true piety and Godli
ness. Nor do I say that unregenorutc
people may. not bo capable of lofty
conjugal affection. But I do suy, and
say it fearlessly and unhesitatingly that
without the religion of the Lord Jesus
Christ the strongest bond of the mnr-
riage covenant is lacking, and the pur
est, and most blissful element of conju
gal affection is overlooked. It is only
when husband anil wifo recognize each
other as a gift from God that they
properly regatrd oacji /ether. If the
boys and girls of the last generation
who are the men and women of this
generation, had been brought up around
the family altar, and bud bad tho in
fluences of the ehtirdh, there would be
less divorce eases today. Thero would
be less homes torn asunder, and fewer
hearts brokcp, and fewer little children
separated from father at mother. Thore
would be 'fc\yer suicides bbclrtiso of
loneliness, many a boy of girl would be
kept , oat of houses of correction, tho
prisons would be mote empty, and the
homes and churches would bo tilled with
happy families. And if you would se
cure your home and - your children
against the invasion of these evils then
you must rear up_ tho family altar, ill
the home. It is religion, and religion
atone, that enkindles perfectly unsel-
tlsh love and devotion. And where love
reigns supreme in till* hbkrtx of families
•thero is •experienced and seen by others
the livest type that earth affords of th»
paradise jji.Edcn, and of the blessednos:}
of heaven,. , ’" • .
Parents and children are conaoQtatod
by a mysterious, hoavrin-appoifttfed qom-
pact. When the tender infant, ,inj dn
its hclplessuoss, is laid in'thp qwrpritB
arms, it ib religion only that can tfacn
him how to estimate him rightly. Arid
when its mental and moral powers be
gin rapidly to cxpnnd, it is religion
j,„l v that can shape and regulate their
growth. And when the period of way
ward, precipitate youth, with its gusli
of hope, aspiration und action, comes on
these children, who shall guide them
and how shall they be guided without
that wisdom that coineth down from
above? The. learned philologist cai)
r( . 8U)rc - , . teacli them to parse, the mathematician
inns of his grace,-and shield you from „ an teach them the relation of numbers,
he burning noon of your bewildered the philosopher can tollthemjmmothiug
large anil, ample enough, but in reality,
the child has been ruinously deffinudcjl
by the parent. ' So they go out and
build up new homos. Their first meal
is eaten without imploring the benedic
tion of heaven. Tho first morning
dawns, there is go, morning prayer for
God’s guidance aud protection through
ttie day. Their first, evening passes, and
there is no sweet hymn of praise, no
Word read, and uo blessing of the Ood
of families sought, nnd yot they arc
of families that ouco knew God. Here,
tuy friends, is real apostacy. And this
young family, as far as form goes, is
an atheistical family. Those children
hove not boon fed by the shepherds
tints, for it !s written, ‘Train up a
child in tho way lie should go, when
he is-.old he will not dopart from it.”
But here is a view of another family.
After tho day’8 work is done, thoy arq
all gathered around the fireside. For-
Imps there is a vacant chair. The cir
cle may be. brokon, some may have
gone on their long journey, otliorB may
bo nwny from homo, some may be
straying, but there the family is gath
ered together. The fathor, old and
broken perhaps, conducts tlic family
worship. A hvmh is sung, ft passage
from God’s Word is read, then thoy
kneel in prayer. Tho voice of tho fa
ther is heard in thanksgiving to God
for the blessings of the day, or tho voice
of the. mother pleading with God for
her children nwny from homo, and for
that wandering boy, that ho may be
brought back home.
The children grow up and go out to
find homos of their own. The fathor
and mother arc old and bent with ago.
Perhaps the rooftree lias fallen in, and
the firo has died out in tho hearth. But
cncli, new branch that separate from
that parent stock carries with it the
blessing of tho God of Jacob. It has
its altar sacred to the worship of the
God of all the families of tho earth,
aud the morning and evening oblation
of family worship is ever fresh, and
thev in turn transmit tho precious heri
tage, tho favor of heaven, to their
children nnd to their children’s children
ence, M. E. Church, South,
Tallapoosa, Ga., July
9th to 11th, 1923
Mv dear friends, what, do father and
mother and home menu to you? A great
many of us are away from home. And
many will sooner or later leave the old
nest and go out into the world to build
their own homes. Will thoy ca J r y
influence of tho old homo there? And
what will that influeneo mean to them?
They will long for tho old home and
the blessings that came to them from
the family altar there.
We love our homes. It is natural
tliat we should, and better still, it is
spiritual that we do. There is where
our best friends dwell. And when wc
wander from our homes, we uro as
birds who have left their nest and have
rto settled homes. We wish to go back
again to see the smile, to grusp that
loving hand once more, and to feel that
once again wc are with those that lovo
•is best. Wc lavish our love oil that
pArticular spot, that oasis in this dark:
Insert world.
God pity the man who lias no home.
Who does not know thq influence of a
godly home, ^jord Byron was -such n
mini, poor Byron who died of old age
tit! 3«. Listen to what he says:
“t flee like a bird of the air.
In search of a home and a rcHt,
A balm for tho sickness of care,
A bliss for tho bosom unblest.”
And just, before ho died ho wrote:
f ‘ My days are in the yoilow loaf,
Tho fruits and flowers of lovo are
gone,
The worm, the canker, nnd tho grief
Arc mine alone.”
Home is the best place in the world.
Better than the church? Yes, better,
ftrr God instituted it, first. God was
first worshipped in tho home. O, fa
thers and mothers, if you would bind
vour children'to you and to your God.
bring item un, around the family altar,
GFecdCyonr Children beside tho shep
herds tents,” and you will get hold of
their r iie#rb‘ strings, and you can gnp
them, &iiil'hold them, and take,, them
with you to heaven. They may leave you
they wiirnot forsake you, -and the
old home will always be dear to their
hearts, ns the scones of their childhood,
where their tender hearts were led to
Jesus.
Your committee in submitting this ro
port realizes that tho subject is far too
great, nnd too complex to do more than
touch on some of the outstanding phases
of tho subject. Nor do we think that
our remarks should be confined alto
gether to thoi cpmmonly accepted defini
tion of temperance, but rather wo should
seek to flntl aomo of the onuses that en
ter into this question, that ik of so .voung^
groat c on corn to. the home, the church, Maine
the stnto and tlio nation. *'' 'Ji
A,t present the rallying cry of ’till
the moral and religious forces' Should
lie ammded from every houso top, from
very pulpit, and frorp cvetry altar where
the fires of devotion arid loyalty to
homo and country sfrUl. liurn.
With tho determined effort of tho
liquor forces everywhere to broak down
tho wall of tomperaitee and sobriety,
that has given,' protection not only to
the indiVidmrtf bfit'-to tho tiomo and all
of pur institutions'thfit. havo been ere
cted arid maintBinsd for the good of
socloty, the elifireh should not faco this
great question with any measure of in
difference or a spirit of compromise, but
rnther it should faco it with an un
broken front, with a eourago and a
faith that will inspire tho weak and
the halting,'and that will striko fear to
the heart of the bootlegger and to the
legislator wlio Wjjuld Hook to weaken
or til destroy tho statutes that now ex
1st. " •
It may bo trite to say that we are
pnssing through a period of reconstruc
tion, a period where all formor stand
ards, morals, Religious, social, ploitical,
nnd civic have boon brokon down, nnd
wo are just, now coasting about to find
nn anchorage. Under thoso conditions
lmmnn nature has been too weak to
withstand tho undertow, and wo find
that, many of our people, especially our
young mun and young women, have
given themselves over to indulgences
that threaten society itself.
We deplore the seemingly utter <lis-
. sped for law on the part, of so large
a number of our pooplo; and the luck of
personal responsibility in maintaining
and protecting Hie customs and tradi
tions of tho institutions that have made
us u great people. Therefore, wo sub-
it tho following recommendations:
I. That, wo deplore tho introduction
of a bill into the Georgia Legislature
for the repeal of the bone-dry law in
this state. The repeal of which would
lie- calculated to weaken the temper
mice moralo of the people, nnd to give
encouragement to tho violation of the
ghtconth amendment to our constitu
tion.
Thnt we call upon all of our peo
ple, ministers and members; to stand
uncompromisingly for tho enforcement
-of all flic laws of onr land, especially
tho prohibition laws, the violation of
which, is responsible for 90 per cent of
the crime that is abroad in the land.-
3. That, wo call upon all the officers
of the'law, juilgos, .solicitors and sher
iffs, to sco that the laws of tho land ore
enforced without four or favor, and that
tire Romo District ‘ Conference, repre
senting a membership of over 10,000,
with a constitnency of■ nt least 25,000,
hereby assures such officers of tho law
that, being tree to the't.oftchinga of tho
New Testament and, the trnditions of
Methodism, we pledge them our moral
support in their efforts to suppress law
lessness of overy ’kind antong tho pco-
plo of our land.
4. That, we doplore the general des
eerntion nnd disregard for the Sabbath
in the matter of unnecessary buying
and selling, rind the almost universal
tendency to turn the Rnhbnth into a hol
iday instead of fi' Holy Day; We.
therefore, urge our poojilri t.b n> (faithful
attendance upon the ■Warship in the
AN ENaQYAJBJl.OEy NI °N
of
homo . . .. ,
re-union’in' honor of her pight^f^tjiird
birthday. Mrs. Tnrpley is a sister pf
tho late W. A., J. H., B. C. umL Jfm
Word, tho two latter brothers having
passed to thoir reward many ycare ago
though Uncle Ben’s widow still lives
and was with ns on this occasion.
But Uncle Bill nnd Uncle John (ns
W. A. Word anil J. H. Word were lov
ingly called by every one, old and
—shared tho honors with “Aunt
nt these re unions until a few
yenrs ago. Then tho angel of death
summoned them to a greater re-uniou
rfbfive and sft for several years Aunt
Snllio hns bden tho only member of the
older generation left. Tho house, is al
ways filled to over-flowing, but out : in
tho grove, in tho shade of tho beautiful
old treos, chairs and benchOB and swings
takcoare of tlio ovorflow. ’Twas-in
the shade of these samo beautiful trees
that, nt noon, a bountiful repast vas
spread on big tablos built for tho 'oc
casion. . _ , .
And such a dinner! Words fail me.
I cannot begin to toll of it. Every fam
ilv brought a big basket and overy
thing you ovor heard of that was good
to cat was thero on that tablo L with
plenty of ieod tea, ico cold lemonade
nnd hot coffoo for somo of the older
nnM
wanderings.”
This is the exposition of this beautiful
passage. When tho church returns tc
the observance of Divine commands
and shall bring her children
then, and not till then, God will afford
her the riches of His reconciled favor
Bring the children and youths, of your
families under the best possible, rfehg-
ietis influences. “Feed thy kids besides
i.«> slienlierils’ tents.” | ■ _ rmr
^mid instfucti v c
command comes to us in answer tcr an
inquiry of repenting church, or indi
vidual family. By the grace of God :
His wandering people , ar0 ,.
sooner or later, to remember the ^read
enough and to spare,” which t®dyjd»K
in their Father’s bouse, and are.enabled
I will arise and gpto oy
that I mav be rcRtOiad to
-as taken place in our day, as
in Solomon’s, cannot .bo denied*. Mar
i.rofesseiUy belonging to,tho fowl,.kno
any
of tlio operation of their minds, the
musician can cultivate their finer moral
sensibilities, the statesman may tench
them the science of dignified govern
ment. And with all this, unless they,
are taught the moral principles which
religion alone can givo them, if not
educated rogues or genteel atheists, at
their best, they are deliberate negloct-
ers and despisers of the only things that,
can make them most useful in time
and most happy in eternity.
O parents, and guardians of youth,
if your children were merely earth
bom, if they were not begotten to nn
immortalitv of being .then you might
possibly dispense with religious, train
ing. For then their violent and un
controlled passions could only tqrm'cnt
themselves and others for only a -few
years, nnd then they would pa9S out
‘ ■ ' But vour children arc im-
Father,” that i may ^ bp . Btlt your c i„ mr en arc im-
soul-sustaining provisions. That sue piIgr i m3 journeying from cter-
departure from God and His-wqrship . ,—m—:« i. ..f .tenth
enp .Inv. ns truly,j^s
rity to eternity. Their ond is not death
anil their home is not the graveyard.
God has started them out on an immor-
- , , - ta! journey, with a heart prepense to
not where the Good Shepherd1 ;s, 1 ( vil. They have only one day to toil
his nourished and flourishing floca. '.(for nterniiv. Tliov have only one sun
manv churches where, tho gospel wan ide {hem, and-if thnt sun goes
nnd volt wit.fr 1 flown before they reach home, they will
r little bctlcr than tho hoi ! pevcr t there> And if you deprive
E Godliness ,repri intiod by I , rom Q) , th j g light, and tin
pompous and fashionable i worKln P', t),o dark, then their blood
md a congealed ortliordoxy. In many j ur heads,
daces where willing, solemn and < m T t
cues ■■■■■■ f ... -HuiritnaV UI - Lpt 118 tako a vww o{ - vour fnm '
cd numbers met > , , fly a few rapid years hence. You par-
nraver and praise, there is now com . feeble with
ness,, feebleness and death j And^vou children are in
in many families imp ( > hri8t l h 0r ,, turn, marrying and setting up new liamcs
fossed sheep of tlio foil o - . . d families, and each one says,
; s no family invocation of 1-eavei.ly ivo me ’ tlie portion of goods
'iipssings, no gathering the ‘^60 ^ m0 „ ‘' And h ow often
iround the Uncos, with ope < t-Jiht portion docs not contain one far
.inns of praise, and no giving ol ^ ^ ^ In th( , esU
sanctuary, instead, of ! -forsaking
altars of the c.fiui’ch fOf r plerurare
worldly amuscment'iF 7 1,01 : art
J. E. PURKSpGllitirmaij
Members of the Crintmittcc: O. . G.
Mundv. II. B. Neal,"Re EL'Cartwright,
J. M. Garrett, J. P. Erwin, A. F. Nunn,
Z. V. Hawks, G. W. Ridley.
IN MEMORIAM
BAPTIST PASTOR TO BE
IN PULPIT NEXT SABBATH
Rev. J. M. Dodd, who with Mrs.
Dodd, have been on a month’s vaca-
Hon, will return this week anil will fill
bis pulpit Sunday.
The snbicct for the morning hour is
What Scnk Ye ? ”
The subiect for the evening service
“Tho Grent Invitation.”
The pastor is eager to have all the
embers present, at both services.
In writing to friends here Mr. Dodd
states that ho lias hail a wonderful
vacation and will return greatly re
freshed and with renewed energy for
a greater effort in doing the Lord s
work. ,
Mr. ami Mrs. Dodd spent two weeks
in and around New York “where mil
lions do tho dailv grind,” and then one
week in the backwoods of Pennsy.va
uia where lhodern wavs anil means are
about as scarce, as hen’s teeth, and
whi*re doer nnd bear and crows anil rat
tlesnakes thrive.like the grass on the
conn house lawn. . :,
Mr. Dodd left Pennsylvania tho first
of this week for Atlanta where lie wilt
snend a few dnvs nt his old home and
then on to Winder. Mrs. Dodd will
remain with her soil. Edward Dodd, in
Now York for several months.-—Winder
News.
MEET THI5 MAN
He wants to lore a ‘ , '' r - n
niece of real estate, a nun-bred animal,
some farm imo'emeu’- or oive of o. score
n f s-tv-les that, can be sold by " little
Pn* Sa'o ad in these columns. IJo is a
resident of this community and reads
the little For Sale ads regularly everv
week. Meet this haver with ready
cash! You’ll find hundreds like him—
„pd s,.n Hie things thnt von want to
sell OUIOKLY—bv inserting a little
afl n--*xt. week. Ads cost little but ac
complish much.
Safofv First—last and all the time
should be the rule.
On March 13th, 1923. the death angel
came to tlio home of Bro. 8. E. Hilton
nnd took from him his loving wife.
SiRter Hilton was born March flt.li,
1847, being 7<t years of ago at tho timo
of her death.
She was a member of the Baptist
church at Shady Grove, having joined
in the year 1897, and was a faithful
member anti”, her death, always attend
ing her meetings regulnrly as long as
health permitted her. She was nlwnys
really to greet you with a smile and a
kind word.
A loving wifo and kind mother liaa
gone to rest. She leaves a husband anil
seven children, five sons and two daugh
ters, all of this county, ono sister and
one brother, Mrs. Lucy Harris, of Ala
bama, and Mr. S. A. Wright, of Arkan
sas. to mourn her (loath. One son pre
ceded her to the grave many yeare ago.
Now, while the dark shadows of sor
row hover over tho husband and chil
dren, let us bow in humble submission
to tlio will of our Heavenly Father and
say, “Thy will be done,” and think
of the happy timo when we can meet
her in that beautiful world, where there
will lie no sorrows and partings. •
The family has our deepest sympathy
in' their great sorrow, and the church
has lost a’true npd faithful member, but
our toss Is her gain, and when this
weary life is over and our earthly toil
is done, may WO be re united around
the vverjasj.jpg throne. Dear mother,
wo will not, say farewell to thee, but on
♦ hat happy shore, where pain nor part
ing never comes, I pray wc will meet to
par* no more.
Therefore, wo extend our sympathy to
her children nnd grand children.
We, tho community, desire that a cony
of thoso resolutions be placed on the
church book anil., one be sent to the
county papers for publication.
MRS. WILLIE JACKSON,
MRS. OLA SHADRIX,
MRS. EVA SCALES,
Committee,.
By tho time all the states get their
good roads programs finished, it is our
opinion that the world will be riding in
airplanes.
ones. ! „
Whether J. W. Tnrpley, Bowdqn’s
clover photographer, wiBhod to preserve
for posterity that dinner or tho hungry
look of anticipation on the faces, of
tho diners, wo do not know. Anyprav
he made a picture of the tablo witjji all
thoso prosont just before dinner. „
After dinner tho timo was spent most
plonsantly in passing round from gr.oup
to group in rogular olil-fashionod “vis
iting” nnd in listoning to reminis
cences of othor days by somo ofi, the
older ones.
Enjoy it? Haven’t you ever been
spunked, or at least threatened with r
spanking, before you’ll go to bod when
si,me elderly person (or sometimes two
of thorn) came to spend the night, and
von insisted upon stn.ving up until tho
weo mini 1 ” hours listening to tales of
the long ago? Well, most of us have
that much of tho child in us yet, for
thore is nothing so fuseirintig as the
mugicnl halo about “oldon times. ’
Out on the wide cool side vornniln
Aunt Snlllio” entertained us with
stories of her young girlhood—interest
ing reminiscences Unit, included some,
more or loss, famous persons, among
them being Asa G. and Warren A.
Candler, who. by the way, nro cousins
of hers. Their youthful days were spent
in close companionship, as the Word
and Candler fnmilies both lived in Villa
Klcii, ttie boys nnd girls visiting ouch
other’s homes. She gave us somo very
interesting incidents of Asa’s boyhood
ml young manhood and bis early strug
glos ill life.
Hooper Aloxnmlor is a cousin also
nnd Aunt Snllio.’s grandmother wits a
nloco of a former president of the Uni*
ted States, her grandfather, Charles
Word, having married Elizabeth Ad<
urns, n nloco of .President. John Adams.
Interesting stories of these and many
othor more or loss famous persons made,
the time pass nil too swiftly.
None of. us think of Aunt Sallio as old.
Versatile, interested in all current,
events nnd live topics of tho day, yet
well vorseil in the magical by-gone (lays
nnd times—the youngest debutante
might well envy Aunt Sally her sense
of humor, her straight active.form, her
youthful heart anil spirit. The han/1 of
Time has touched hor, but. lightly. His
.touch has- silvered -hor hair but her
heart is yet. a heart of gold. Lines
arc etched upon her face but hot eyes
-ire twinkling bright, and in the glow
-if hor loving smile, you forgot, the
lines of care.
Sho has' grown old so bkaatit'uUy!
Afldf all. the sunset, of a -well-spent
life is MOST BEAUTIFUL?, ; ‘
Alfred Tennyson’s “Crossing! the
Bur’’ is running through my uind< and
heart just now: ,, ,
“Sunset bid evening star and one clear
call for me, >
May there be no moaning at the- bar
when I put out to sen.’' 1
As the sun slowly sank in the west,
wo all reluctantly loft for our homes,
wishing most enmotly for many happy
a .. .. g at... ,1n.a Uac xtrltiln * * *A 11 n f
Sallio’s” sun of life has neared the
western horizon we all hope sho will
be spared to us for many years to come.
Among those so fortunate as to be
present wore:
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Word and family,
of Waco; Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Word and
family, of Buchanan; Mr. and Mrs. H.
M. Word nnd family, of Carrollton; E
P.’ Word, Carrollton, Mrs. Ed Ilrining-
ton, Cedartown; Miss Mary Lovvorn,
Cnrrollton; Mrs. Lucy .Word, Bowdon;
Mrs. Evio Garrett, Bowdon; Mr. and
Mrs. C. R. Garrett anil family, Mt. and
Mrs. J. W. Tnrpley and family, Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Tarpley, Mr. and Mrs. J.
M. Tarpley and family, Mr. and Mrs
Henry Tarpley and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Lake Tarpley and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie Ballongcr and family, Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Word and family, J. B.
Word, Jr., wifo and baby, Mr. and Mis;
J. W. Word and family, Mrs. John
Fletcher and soil, Mr. Robert Allen, Mr.
.anil Mrs. W. W. Lambert, Miss Lois
Wilson, Master Lois Wilson, Mr. Blanch
Word. Total present, 65.
C. B. W.
Natives in Alaska Increase;
White Population Decreases
Estimates compiled by tho Depart
ment of the Interior through the Bu
reau of Education show that there are
flow 27,153 natives in Alaska, anil that
tho gain for the last ten years amount
ed to 1,822. During the same period
the white population has decreased.
The native inhabitants of Alaska con
sist, of four distinct races including the
Kskimos dwelling along tho Arctic and
Rering Seri shores; the Aleuts living on
the Aleutian Islands; the Thiliqgits ro_
siding on the mainland and islands of
the southern coast; arid the Athabascans
occitpying the great valleys of the in-
t orjpr. .
About 400 of these natives are voters
anil participate in the territorial gov-
. ernment of 'Alaska.