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Costs only one cent a dose. _ -104 Backache Don’t put up with it J; s e stimulating effect that s has on the circulation x ~ at ma kes it so wonderfully tfiective in relieving pain. Pat it °n gently—without rubbing, tt will not stain. Before you ! ,7y w it, your backache is gone. Aii druggists—i3s cents. Sloan’s Liniment— kiUspaml I To Cure a Cold In One Day It " •,A ATI Y e BROMO QUININE (Tablet*). U t, r v *r ! Bnvl?c He ®‘ 1 * cbe ,nd works off the L * GROVE S signature oo each box. 30c. IS THE WORLD BETTER OR WORSE? Dr. A. J. Moncrief, for a number of years pastor of the First Baptist church of Barnesville, but now pas tor of the First Baptist church of Decatur, Ga., preached the Conven tion sermon before the Baptist Con vention of Florida some time ago, and so impressed were the people who heard the sermon that its publi cation was requested. It will be no surprise to the peo ple here to know that it was regarded as a great message. The News-Ga zette wishes it had room for the ser mon in its entirety but not being able to print it in full we do want to publish a few extracts so that our readers may get something of the conclusions which Dr. Moncrief had reached. His text was, “Say not thou, what is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.” Ec. 7:10. Dr. Moncrief takes the position that the world is better today than it ever has been and we quote the following paragraphs from his won derful sermon: The former times were not better than these. Aside from the economic burdens imposed by the devastations of war, and the problems of adjust ment incident to the demoralization of war. the world is no worse than in “former days,” and life, with all the ebb and flow of today, has no less of hope and promise. Two things may be said about the familiar lament that “The former days were better than these;” First, it is false in its conception, being born of the spirit of pessimism. It “has not inquired wisely concern ing - this.” Age tends, toward pessi mism, the sophistication and expe dience of mature and advanced life incline to the censorious and cynical. This, coupled with the fact that time obliterates life’s wastes and failures and preserves only the successes and pleasures, accounts for the age-old cry for “the good old days.” Israel out of Egypt soon forgot the bonds and oppressions, the task-masters and tale of bricks, and remembered only the flesh pots. Conditions and social orders change, and sometimes over-night, but human nature reveals the same v/eaknesses in every age, and its as cent to higher levels is by slow stages and patient and arduous endeavor of both God and man. Sin is the same in every age, and its manifestations are the same evils with little varia tion, as a few references to the past may show. Let me read an excerpt from a pastoral letter issued by the General Assembly of the Presby terian church to its churches: “We perceive with pain and fearful ap prehension a general dereliction of religious principles and practices among our citizens; a visible and pre vailing impiety; contempt for law, and for the institutions of religion; profanity, pride, luxury, injustice, intemperance, lewdness, debauchery and loose indulgence abound.” That sounds like the familiar la | mentations of today—like it might have been issued by last Assembly. Not so. It is a relic of the “good old days,” having been issued by the Assembly of 1798. It was addressed to those forefathers of ours whose piety is held up to us as proof of a halcyon past. Here is another still more inter esting: “The times are decadent. There is lawlessness everywhere. Children no longer obey their pa rents. Everybody would write a book. It is manifest that the end of the age Is at hand.” The author of that is unknown, out I dare say I might ascribe it to almost any preacher in this house and he would be slow to disown it. Yet it, too, belongs to the past—to the days that were old when our Presbyterian fathers were writing the letter al ready quoted. It is said to be an in scription from a tablet from the ruins of ancient Assyria —old in the days of Abraham. The other thing that may be said about this lament is that it is false in its essence, being contrary to the facts. I dare go on to say that the past was not only no better but was in fact worse than the present. The world with all of its unrest is a bet ter world than that of yesterday. Life with all of its sordid excres censes is facing forward and moving upward. Material conditions of liv ing are better; the social order is higher, and religious ideals and at tainments are higher. We shall spend little time on the first of these statements as it is not debatable. None will deny that the world has marvelously progressed along scientific and mechanical lines, vastly improving living conditions, and adding to the comfort, conven ience and enjoyment of life. Electricity was discovered a little more than a hundred years ago, and today a thousand electrical devices lessen the labors and contribute to the entertainment and advancement of man. Someone has well said that civilization is concerned with the quantity of life and religion with the quality. Advancing civilization has added tremendously to the quantity of our living. We are in almost im mediate communication with the whole world, and every continent and race contributes to the sum of life. Two incidents will illustrate the dif ference in living today and one gen eration ago. On Armistice Day an invalid man, no longer aide to stand upon his feet and contend for his splendid ideals, broken in body and feeble of voice, uttered the great principles for which he had sacrificed his strength and un counted thousands scattered over a vast continent heard the living voice. In the snow-crowned hills of Maine; in the hurrying cities of the far west; throughout the vineclad valleys of the South, multitudes, by means of the most weird and wonderful of all discoveries and inventions of science, “listened in” and felt the thrill of mind and heart in living contact. On the second of August last the ' president died. Before his body was encoffined the news of his death had reached the ends of the earth. Six days later the obsequies were held in the capital, three thousand miles from the scene of his death. Pres ent at the obsequies were delegates bearing the condolences of all na tions, and many had traversed lands and seas in the interim. The news papers told us how one from far off Nicaragua came by fast steamer to 1 New Orleans, reaching there on Tuesday evening. The funeral was set for eleven o’clock Wednesday. Could he reach Washington in time? Not by any means of travel known to our fathers. A commercial air plane brought him to Pensacola, here he was transferred to a fast navy plane and traveled to the capital in a little more time than it would have taken George Washington to go from Mount Vernon there. Religious conditions today show a vast improvement over yesterday. Not a few of you will challenge this, and the statement is made in the face of a general decrying of the religious interests and and institutions of the times. Every magazine and news paper of every kind feels free to take its fling at the church. News paper reporters and magazine writers boldly assume the role of prophets and tell us of the dire disasters ahead of the church. Efficiency ex perts frankly charge that the church’s methods are antiquated and her doctrines medieval. Self-styled scientists and scholars declare that the inspiration of the Scriptures, or the Scriptures themselves, no longer interest modern students. Doctrinal controversies and the prevalence of heresies are cited as evidence of widespread unbelief. Not a few preachers themselves join the chorus that bewail the drift away from the church, away from the Sabbath, away from the Bible, and away from family worship. What are the indications that these things are true? Are such alarms, such fears, such charges, such repre sentations true to the facts? Let us see. In numbers the church —using the term in a general ser.ce—has grown more in the last ten years than it did during the first ten centuries of the Christian era. In wealth and cul ture the progress has been even more remarkable. We may take our own land for example. In 1800 the pop ulation of America w'as 5,308,48.1, and there was one church member for every 14.5 people. In 1900, a hundred years later, the population had grown to 75,994,575, but the proportion of church members had increased to 1 to every 4.5 people. In 1920, just twenty years later, the population was 105,710,620, while the proportion of church members was 1 to 2.3 people. I am profoundly convinced that H. G. JORDAN 8 SON Market St. Barnesville, Ga. DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES Get our Prices Before Buying the church needs nothing today so much as she needs a message of hope and cheer. A bad situation is never improved by wailing; it may be by raising hopes, enkindling enthusiasm, imparting inspiration. And one does not have to draw on the imagination for such a message today. There was never a time when one could put more encouraging facts and figures into his message. To be sure the times have their perils and problems —we are not in the millenium by any means. But there are no perils our religion cannot meet and no problems for which it is not a solvent. We have not yet apprehended, but for getting the past we should face the task and the future. Difficulties dis appear before faith and courage, We have had quite enough of la mentations. God’s messengers today should sound a higher note. Who savs the former times were better than these has not inquired wisely concerning this. America has a mighty responsibility to the world, and the church is her hope of meet ing it. President Harding in his last appeals to his countrymen put re ligion before them as the supreme need and sole hope for progress and prosperity. David Lloyd George freely declares that Christ is the one hope of civilization, and if the church fails all will be lost. Our day of opportunity has come. The hour of our destiny has struck. The doors of the world are open to us and we have a saving ministry to all men. Those counselors who bid America turn her back upon other nations save where she may profit herself, and withhold her intelligence, her strength, her wealth from the prob lems, the weakness and the want of the world are not safe counselors. “There is that scattereth yet in creaseth; there is that withholdeth but tendeth to poverty.” Our surest way to decadence is to turn from the present, world-wide task to a self centered life from fear that we may become involved in the perils and pains of other peoples. Where Christ points the way we need not fear to go, and the knowledge of Him is the world’s supreme need. His last com mand was “Go ye into all the world; disciple all nations.” Along the coast at points where dangerous shoals lie are life-saving stations kept by the government. To one of these came a call of distress through darkness and storm. The crew was ordered to the life boats. They looked on the wild sea, roaring its defiance in their ears and hurling its mad waves at their,feet. “No boat can live in that sea,” they said to the captain. “If we should suc ceed in passing those breakers we would never come back.” He looked at the faces of his men, at the wild sea with its threat of death, at the ship sinking to its grave with its cargo of life, and calmly the cap tain said: “Launch the boats; our duty is to go, we don’t have to come back.” So “He that would save his life shall lose it; he that would lose his life for my sake and the gospel the same shall save it.” Child-birth HOW thousands of women, by the simple method of an eminent physician, have avoided unnecessary miseries through many months ami U|t to thoß , ! llaby >t' rive, l, is fully explained .. In the remarkable book, Sy* “Motherhood and Baby." 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