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was intended to teach an addition to
our faculties. New ones were created
in regeneration. That, however, is not
the meaning. These expressions ap
ply only to the change in man’s views
and habits, desires, objects and pur
poses. These are new, they are often
striking,, so much so as to warrant
this term applied—a new creation.
Notwithstanding this change, however,
in motives and principles and experi
ence and outward conduct the essen
tial constitution remains unaltered.
The ruling dispositions are changed
by the power of grace, but the frame
work of the mental and moral consti
tution remains the same.
Third —The regeneration of the soul,
though a supernatural work does not
set aside the free agency of man. The
heart is renewed through the spiritual
and supernatural application of relig
ious truth but the renewing influence
is exerted in harmony with our colun
tary nature. It is in accordance with
the willing mind and not in opposition
to it. If the spirits influence in con
versation were irrestible on any other
sense than that it would make man a
mere machine. It would deprive him
ot that responsibility which is essen
tial to his being—but just as men in
fluence one the other and so as to
change the minds one of another and
the actions—but without destroying the
individual freedom, so God exercises
that controlling influence over the
minds and hearts of men through the
power of the spirit that results in the
change of belief and conduct —we call
regeneration, but without doing viol
ence to their free agency or destrop
'ing their liberty or decision and ac
tion. The Holy Ghost works in ac
cordance with the laws of our nature.
Nc a t of mind is violated by his op
o...lions and no condition of responsi
bility opposed. The truth is present
ed to the understanding and conscience
ar 2 men are shown why they should
repent and obey and believe the gos
pel The appeal is made to the mind
and heart in a rational and convinc
ing way and the mind and heart re
el Ito respond. It is not the spirit
that believes for us or repents for us
ci ores for us or even in us. but the
s’ ' influences us to repent and be-
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lieve and love and obey. The work is
the fruit of the spirit but it is also the
voluntary act of man’s personal pow
ers. His will is the arbiter. And as
ii- every decision of will there is a
motive—so the presence of motive al
ways means choice—the power to de
termine. A power which can set!
aside the thing which ought to be and ■
act for that which ought not to be. I
Men can harken to the pleadings of
reason and the spirit of God or in
stead they can listen to the solicita
tions of evil and vice and passion.
They can make their choice of these as j
they will. They are not compelled to
take a wrong course contrary to their
will and neither are they required to
take the right one independent of,
their own decision. If a man does not
repent of sin it is not because he has
not powers that go to enable him, and
or. the other hand, he who does re
pent has not done so because he was i
forced to. It is true, that since the |
fall, man s nature has a bias toward I,
evil. There is a tendency to do wrong
as well as right but then there is a
counteracting agency also that comes ,
to every man. A measure of precious
influence that is brought to bear upon •
him apart from his seeking for it and ,
that gives a fair possibility of believ -.;
ing the gospel and obeying its require- i
ments. This influence comes to man ,
through the work of Christ and his (
own will must determine whetherj,
there shall be more grace and power-,
come to him or whether there will not; |;
tor the influence of the spirit ever, t
appeals to man’s power of choice. It;,
recognizes it and works in consiance j (
with it. While then there is this tend- ,
ency to evil in our nature—a fixed ]
and determined action in the direction . (
of wrong. It does not remove ourj
responsibility nor our moral freedom, i,
The propsperity does not make it it |
necessity that we must be governed t
by it, On the contrary, we are requir- <
ad to resist it and are helped to do so. (
It is in this power of resistance that .
our freedom lies and out of which |
grows our obedience. If we had not j
to decide between opposing tendencies i
there could not be probation. Proba- f
tion comes from this and freedom al- t
sc and responsibility. The tendency >
to evil does not destroy these but ere- i
ates them. So, too, while the influ- f
ence of the divine spirit is a super- t
added power to the natural influence £
of means, that does not weaken or de-' ’
stroy our free agency nor our re-; <
sponsibility. In the work of convers-h
ion the spirit’s method is to appropri- J •
ate every suitable means for giving
the truth ecect upon the mind. He
addapts means to this end. He does
not supercede the necessity of this—he
does not do violence to the intelli
gence. He acts in accordance with its
laws. Truth, conscience and the spir
it are all concerned in and have each
a part in the work of regeneration.
' The truth to convince, conscience to be
■ convinced and the spirit’s influence to
open the mind to the truth and ef
fectually apply it. No one of these
three dispenses with the rest. All are
i appropriated and all are necessary to
the accomplishment of the work of
regeneration. From this it may be
seen I think how irrational it is to
regard the spirit as working miracles,
that is in the ordinary meaning men
attach to miracles. Too look for these
miracles to come into the individual
experience, to expect the Holy Ghost
to act upon the heart —influence and.
' regenerate it apart from ruman co- j
I operation and willingness and aid. The
div ii e spirit does not work in that
manner. Regeneration is not affect
ed apart from or contrary to the laws,
that govern our nature, but in co-oper
ation with these. Men must be work-,
ers together with God in this as they
are in everything else that concerns (
the spiritual life. Without it there is
no promise and need be no expecta
tion. This is fully taught in the word,
of God. The Bible always recognizes'
man’s agency in the soul s salvation. It (
asks for his co-operation and aid and
advises and warns if at any time they,
are withheld. All the responsibility j
of failure with its consequencies arO|
placed upon himself and he is told that,
he alone is blameworthy. ‘Say unto,
them as I live, saith the Lord God, II
have no pleasure in the death of the
wicked; but that the wicked turn from
his way and live. Turn ye. Turn ye (
from your evil ways for why will
die. 0 house of Israel.” Regeneration
of the heart is a supernatural work,
only the divine power can affect it. |
but the Divine Being will himself take,
no responsibility for failure in the
work. That lies with man and h eis (
alone the responsible party. God wills
that men shall be saved and he pro- j
vides the means that make it possible
but he will work no miracle to accom
plish it. Men must save themselves--
that is, they must recognize their
agency and ability and responsibility.
They must use the means. They must
obey the commands. They must lay
hold of the hopes set before them in
;the Gospel.
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
NEWS FROM AMERICUS SCHOOLS ‘
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i EDIIOR-IN-CHIEF—
J Elizabeth Sheffield.
I ASSOt IATE EDITORS—
Hallie Walker.
Frances Sparks.
, Susie Johnston.
Courtney Ivey.
Marvin Giddings.
Norman McLeod.
I The 7-1 has a new- geranium and a
' new butter-cup besides the other flow
-1 ers they already had.
i Thursday we had a good crowd
■ watching our George Washington ex-
■ ercises Thursday night, the seventh
! grade girls served tea and crackers to
1 everyone who came to the picture ex
hibition.
Mr. Mathis has at last recognized
the uselessness of boys and appointed
Mary Bowers to play the Victrola in
' place of Marvin Giddings.
The seventh grade will finish their
1 geography Monday. They finished their
I reader. ’Tales from Shakespeare,”
Tuesday. The next reader that the
I seventh grade will take will be ’’The
Swiss Family Robinson.” in place of
1 geography we will study “agriculture,”
: revised edition.
The girls have been cooking muffins
'of all kinds the past week. There is
I no telling what they will cook next,
1 but Miss McKean will decide as she is
i the decider or teacher.
We had a large number of pictures
last week and every child enjoyed them
as much as any one else. Among the
'most beautiful and wanted were ‘‘Ma-
I donna of the Chair,” “SiSstine Madon ■
La.”’ both by Raphael, “Spring,” “In
; dian and the Lily,” “The Fot of
' Basil,” “Victory of Samothrace,”,
• Fighting Temeraire,” “Shoeing the
1 Bay Mare,” “Sir Galhead,” “Joan of
•Arc” ami “The Coming of the White
■ People.”
The prize for selling the most tick
lets was given to the 5-2. The 6-2 got
the second prize. The 5-2 had their
choice of two pictures and chose the
“Indian and the Lily.”
We think the Elks a’-e going to give
us a picture and we hope they will. It
would be fine if some other person or
lodge would donate a picture to the
schools.
Mr. A. G. Miller was here Wednes
day. He said they made $l3O when ,
they had this exhibit in Waycross.
They charged the school children tho’
and we didn't. We made about $35.
All the children have been asked to
bring 5c to help their room buy a
picture.
j The sixth grades had a spelling bee.
I The girls against the girls and boys
against boys. The 6-1 girls beat the
6-2 girls and the 6-2 boys beat the 6-1
I boys.
Our ha.r is standing on edge right
I now, because we have monthly exam-
I inations this week, starting tomorrow.
I The usual game of basket ball was
I played Friday between the sixth and
I seventh grades. The score was 6 to 1
lin favor of the sixth grade. Those
I playing on the sixth grade side were.
I Emma Westbrook. Louise Dudley, Julia
I Allison. Minerva Allison and Georgia
| Lumpkin. Those on the seventh grade
side were: Marie Bell, Lolita Physioc,
I Elizabeth Sheffield. Mary Bowers and
I Fiances Sparks. We (7 grade) receiv-
I ed many little taunts from the "little
sixth grade.” because they beat us but
we paid no attention to them.
We hope every one who saw the pic
ture exhibition and George Washing
on play enjoyed them. ' (
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ATLANTA BOARDING SC HOOLS ,
MIT l\ ( LASS WITH NEW YORK
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ATLANTA. Ga., Feb. 24.—Atlanta (
lias some very high class fashionable
bearding schools for girls, or leastwisj
ome that consider themselves as
such, both of the seminary and “limit
ed-number-of-students” variety, but
none has yet got in the class with
those exceedingly fashionable and ex
ceedingly c> pensive institutions of
learning and culture around New
A'ork, which provide their students
with thoroughbred saddle horses as a
part o ftheir program of turning out
finished gentlewomen. But the fact
that their school has no saddle horses
i did not deter a couple of high spirited
' young beauties from outfitting them
i selves from head to foot in very chic
i riding breeches and puttees and
I derbies, etc., and going to the village
livery stable and renting a couple of
' more or less bourgeoise mustangs
which the liveryman asserted to be
cuite gentle. Evidently the ponies
were not accustomed to. or may not
have approved, the practice of women
riding astride, for presently they
came loping home without any riders.
The high spirited beauties in rid
ing breeches got themselves
together with no broken bones and
dusted off their raiment and beat it
or the back entrance of the campus.
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BY FRANCES M’MATH.
| Next Thursday and Friday quarterly
examinations will be held and all the
pupils who are exempt from the ex
aminations will have the usual holi
days. The following Monday will mark
the beginning of the last third of the
school year. This is the most import
ant part of the year and all are pre
paring for the work that will be done,
. the High School meet, the junior and
senior plays and commencement, with
all its excitement and activity.
A number of well-known people
were visitors to the school last week.
Mr. A. G. Miller, former school super
intendent, now superintendent of the
Waycross schools, was a visitor on
Wednesday. Also on the same day Mr.
Norman C. Miller was at school. Both
spoke words of praise for the good
condition of the school and the work
it is doing Mr. N. C. Miller, of At
lanta, was formerly the principal of
the High school.
Rev. Buckholtz. the revivalist, and
Rev. Kendrick conducted the chapel
exercises Friday. Dr. Buckholtz also
spoke to us of training and develop
ments not only in body and mind but
also in soul. His talk was made more
clear and forceful with very striking
’ illustrations that were appropriate to
the talk.
’ The waste paper campaign is con-'
tinuing very steady. Every class has
entered enthusiastically into the race
and each is determined to win. At
present, however, the junior class is
in the lead, with the senior class a
close second. The baling of the
' paper has already been begun and
quite a good portion has been baled
by the students.
1 Washington’s birthday was very fit
tingly celebrated by a appropriate
program arranged gy the Literary
' society program committee. The pro
gram was rendered very successfully
and entertainingly by the senior, with
the assistance of several juniors. Fol
lowing is the program, which won
much applause from both faculty and
students for never was a more en
joyable program given with such pa
triotic suitability to the occasion:
Song, “America” —The School.
Recitation. “W’elcome, Thou Festal
Moon" —Katherine Buchanan.
Washington, a Soldier —George An
drews.
Washington, a Statesman Luther .
Wallis.
History of the "Star Spangled Ban
ner” —Ethel Lee.
Song. “The Star Spangled Banner”
—The School.
Reading, “America! Thou Hope of
Nations”—Sara Britton.
The Character of Washington —Arn-
old McGillis, Margurite Everette,
Alice McNeill.
Patriotic Quotations— Sara Poole,
Mary McLeod, Katie Sue Reese, Elmer
Bell, Hilda Johnson.
Our Flag—W T ilbur Giddings.
Declamation— Henry Clay.
Song, “Columbia, the Gem of the
Ocean” —The School.
The regular monthly election of
Literary society officers was held last
week. By an overwhelming majority
the following were elected to office.
’ Mary McLeod, president; Orlean Ans-
I ley. vice-president; Edwin Ryals, sec
retary Katherine Broadfield, censor,
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THE ALCAZAR
“The Common Law,” the great work
cf Robert W. Chambers, will be at the
Alcazar Monday, Feburary 26th. The
picture will begin at 10 a. m.
Robert \V. Chambers has never writ
ten a more wonderful story than
this brillant novel of New York life.
It's heroine, Valerie West, artist-model
and philosopher, is one of the most
sympathetic figures in modern litera
ture. As portrayed by Miss Clara
Kimball Young, she became a living
personification of sweet and noble wo
manhood. Her joys and sorrows, her
trials and ultimate triumph in the
Icve of Kelly Neville, artist and gentle
man. have given the screen one of the
f<*w really great photo-dramas exe.
produced.
ATLANTA TO PROTEST
AGAINST HIGH COST OF
LIVING WITH A PARADE!
ATLANTA. Feb. 24.—Soaring food
prices in Atlanta, coupled with de
monstrations being held in other cities,
have resulted in plans for a great
street parade and public mass meet
ing to protest against the high cost of
living. Already there is a well defined
feeling among the wage earners of
' the city that the enormous exportation
• of food supplies to the warring na-
• tions is at the bottom of the tremend-*
s cus advance in prices in this country.
1 and the demonstration here, as else
t where, may take the form of a demand
. for a food embargo.
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The Screen Spar Supreme
CLARA
KIMBALL
YOUNG
In the Photo-Dramatic Event of the Season
"THE COMMON LAW’’
By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS
A SEVEN-REEL SUPER-PICTURE
Revealing Life in the Art Studios of New York City
PRODUCED BY SELZNICK-PICTURES
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with fresh eges. Egg prices
continue high. Start before J } '
the season is too far advanc- ** . Wjfrgc
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as good stock as the South- <
affords.* Our breeders are X
chock full of quality and vi
tality. White Leghorns, a
few R.I. Reds and White Or
pingtons. Eggs and baby ■»>
chicks, big husky b-llows, by HV
100 or 1,000. We can and
will please you.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1917.