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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1907)
Georgia Cullings Curtailed Items of interest Gathered at Random. Hines Commissioned Attorney. Judge James K. Hines of Atlanta, has been appointed by Governor Smith as attorney to the new railroad ccm inission. The railroad commission bill was amended before being passed so as to Provide for a regular attorney to the railroad commission at a salary of $2,500 a year. Judge Hines’ term of office is to be four years. * * * Georgia Paid $632,440.98 Revenue. The preliminary report of the com missioner of internal revenue at Wash ington for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907, shows that the federal gov ernment collected a total of $632,440.98 in Georgia last year for revenue pur poses. This is an increase over the collections made in the state during the fiscal year of 1906, which amount ed to $595,085.69. * * * Blind Academy Completed. The new Georgia Academy for the Blind at Macon is now in the hands oi the state of Georgia, the trustees having formally accepted the building from McKenzie & Sons, contractors. The building will be re-opened for the fall term next month and over one hundred children will be given accommodations. The institution is lo cated in Vineville, Macon's suburb, and has splendid surroundings. * * * Holden Succeeds Justice Cobb. Judge Horace M. Holden of the su perior courts of the northern judicial circuit has been appointed justice of the supreme court to succeed Justice Andrew 7 J. Cobb, who has resigned to take effect October 12. Colonel John N. Worley of Eiberton was at the same time appointed to succeed Judge Holden, who has ten dered his resignation to become effect ive October 5. The order of appointment in each case specifies that, the appointee is to hold the office named until the next general election and until his success or is elected and qualified. * * * Governor Borrows $125,000. Governor Smith has alr-ady borrow ed to supply the casual deficiencies in the state's revenue $125,000 as fol lows: $50,000 each from the Fourth Na tional and the Neal Bank of Atlanta and $25,000 from the American Na tional Macon. The money was secured at 2 ptr cent. The state will later borrow $75,000 merf, or the full limit permitted by the constitution for this purpose. It Is intended to get the balance of the money from the state depositories in Savannah, Augusta and Columbus, pro vided it can be secured from them at the same rate. * * * Only Half of a Peach Crop. The Georgia peach crop for 1907 will approximate between 1,300 and 1,500 cars, an average of 50 per cent less than the. output of last year. These figures were given out by one of the best informed railroad traffic men of the state a few days ago, who said that the figures would come with in 100 cars of the exact shipments. The shipments last season amount ed to between 2,500 and 3,000 cars, which was a decrease from the ouput of 1905, the banner year. The majority of ears were sent ou: by the Southern railway, which hand led from 1,000 to 1,100 cars. * * * Anti-Dope Bill Effective. The anti-drug bill has gone into er feot and Georgia druggists will now refuse to sell drugs to habitues who formerlv had no trouble in getting L. Dr. W. S. Elkin, Jr., of Atlanta, who is a member of ths legislative ccm miitee of the State Pharmaceutical As sociation, is mailing out a number of circulars to all parts of the state tell ing the druggists the provisions of the bill so that they would not incur any penalty for violation. The suffering of a man needing a drink the night after a spree is said to be mild in comparison to the tor ments of a dope fiend when his drug is taken from him. * * * Some State Fair Attractions. What promises to be n decided nov elty will be the gold stamping exhibit to be shown at the coming state fair in Atlanta by the county of Cherokee. Ben F Pfrry and John O. Rober.scn, two well known citizens of Canton, called upon Secretary Weldon, and as sured him that this exhibit will be in stalled by that gold-producing county. There will be a stamping mill w the gold ore will be washed and dust secured. Just as it is mined in the mountains of north eGorgia. Eecretary Weldon is in receipt ol a telegram from Francis Ferrari, the well known showman, who is now or the Pike at St. Louis, asking if he ca place his seven shows on the midway in Atlanta. He will be asked to name his shows, as many of the amusement concessions have already been sold. It is known that he has a fine animal show, but the others are not known definitely. The fair will inaugurate a new sys tem for the different exhibit depart ments, when all of the machinery dis plays will be placed in the old govern ment building instead of on the grounds under tents. The agricultural exhibits formerly housed in the gov ernment buildings will oe installed in the old agricultural hall. The live stock show -will remain in the live stock building while the poultry show will probably be in the coliseum as formerly, • * * State Chemist Holds Until January 1, Coincident with the announcement that an extension of the time for the pure food law to become operative October Ist instead of August Ist, comes the statement that State Chem ist McCandless will remain in office until the first of January, 1908. Dr. MoCandless, it is recalled, resigned in June, his resignation to take effect August Ist. Inasmuch as he is vir tually ‘tire father of the pure food law in Georgia, he was urged by Commis sioner Hudson to remain until that law becomes thoroughly operative. When the Pure food law was to go into effect on the first day of August, numerous letters were rece#ved from country merchants, stating that they were overstocked with doubtful feeds and asked for an extension in time for the pure food law to become operative. This extension has been granted by Commissioner Hudson. Dr. McCandless in his talk before the Cotton Seed Crashers’ Associa tion of Georgia at Lithia Springs last year, declared cotton seed oil to be one of the best vegetable oils on the market and has done as much, if not more, toward the furtherance of this great southern product than any thing else. The pure food law will see to it that every oil shall stand on its own merits, and after this law be comes operative cotton seed oil will be sold as such and not under the brand of olive oil. * * • Property Increases Forty Millions. The last of the county tax digests has been received at the office of the comptroller general, and these bring up the total net gain for the whole state over the tax returns for 1906 to $39,319,053. Sixteen counties show losses aggre gating $931,081, which, deducted from the gross gain in 130 counties, gave the net gain for the 146 counties $39,- 319,053 as stated. There is considerable doubt as to what sort of increase will be secured from the corporations this year, in view of the fact that the comptroller general’s assesmcnts are not boing very abundantly sustained by the boards of arbitration. The comptrolltr general, in his as sessments, increased the corporation returns a total of about $60,000,000. These are being cut down in some in stances one-half and others two-thirds. The final outcome will be to reduce the gain at least one-half from this source, or making it about $30,000,- 000,' which will give a tctal net gain for the state of $70,000,000. This will carry the total property valuations in the state to about $700,- 000,000, the highest it ha 3 ever been in the state’s history. highest u? to this year was 1860, when the slaves were property, and the aggregate re turns were $672,000,000. The increase in 1306 over 1905, a’- shown on the digests, was about $42,- 000,000, and of corporations about $8,000,000, making a total gain for last year of approximately $50,000,000. TO PURCHASE THE PHILIPPINES. Japs are Alleged to Be Seeking a Loan of Fifty Million Dollats. Despite rumors to the contrary, it is believed in Berlin that Japan is trying to raise money with a view of the acquisition of the Philippines. German bankers have informed a representative of a pool of eight Jap anese banks trying to float $50,000,000 loan, that nothing could be done be fore October and not even then, should the Japanese-Americaa war rumors still be in circulation. Tfbe ~Putp/t | A SERMON ’ ©Y Tf\£ r [RA\/ Subject: The Church at Home and the Foreigner. Brooklyn, N. Y. —Preaching on the theme, “The Church at Home and the Foreigner,” at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church, Hamburg ave nue and Weirfield street, the Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, pastor, took as his texts Ps. 96:3, “Declare His glory among the heathen, His won ders among all people," and Mark 16:15, “Preach the gospel to every creature.” He said: The foreign duty of the Church of Jesus Christ in America is most in sistent. The call to the service of those who are not native to the land is mandatory. Whether we look about us or abroad we find the foreigner our mightiest problem and the sat isfaction of the needs of the alien our greatest care. From many climes the multitudes have herded to our shores. Sheep they are that seek a competent shepherding. They look to the land of their adoption for the best that the world holds dear. To us they come expecting a larger vis ion and a larger life. Their hero ism is magnificent. Their hope is inspiring. Their courage should be augmented by the power of our as sistance. Their faith should be jus tified by the character of our leader ship. We have men to make; the destinies (if a nation to determine. For the fate of the foreigner is the future of America. The welfare of the alien is the concern of the coun try. The duty of the church of America to the foreigners is most insistent because it is her largest duty. At home they are fast out-numbering the native born in not a few local ities. Abroad they are unnumbered. The foreign fluty of American Chris tianity is largest because, there fore, it is most numerous. The Christians, influential and considerable though they are, com prise a minority of the religious peo ple of the world. A massive horde of Mohammedans and Buddhists, Confucianists and followers of a hun dred sects, have yet to learn the beauty of the unrestricted truth of God as it is revealed to men. and to us, in Jesus Christ. The Jews, here and abroad, are a burden on our souls. The followers of philosophers and priests and sages over all the earth are our special field to whom in the providence and under the di rection of the living Christ we must declare the glory of the one true God and the saving value of His gospel. We shall sub-divide our duty to the foreigners, as Christians and as heathens, at home and abroad. God has sent to our midst a mul titude of Christian foreigners, men who know Christ, men who yearn to understand Him more. To these and to the Christian brethren of other lands the church of America has a duty to fulfill. And that duty, is both inspirational and educational. The church in America both Catholic and Protestant—in spite of short-comings and in spite of her apparent sins—is the fairest flower of the universal church of Christ. Nowhere else is there more open mindedness and less of self-compla cency. To be sure, we may find much of intellectual arrogance, of spiritual narrowness, but taking it by and large the church in America, in all its branches, is the freest and most vigorous production of Chris tian experience, endeavor and of Christian fervor that the world has seen. The duty of that church, standing as it does at the zenith of religious progress, is to be an inspir ation to the Christian churches of the earth. Since the days of Christ the world has not seen the time when to be an inspiration to hu manity was a more glorious occupa tion or when the role of prophetic leader was more divine. Seldom has there teen an epoch readier to respond to the call of in spired leadership than is ours. Rare ly has inspiration been more neces sary or more certain to enter into its reward. And the church abroad needs the uplift of the example of the church at home as much as any foreign institution in the world. The Greek church is anything but a credit to Christianity. The church of Rome in the United States is the salt that savors Catholicism whenever the mass is said or sung. Much of Euro pean Protestantism needs a Luther. The duty of the American Church of Christ is to inspire the multitudes that are rushing westward to our shores to enthuse the sou! of the church abroad by such an example of fidelity to Christ and of obedience to His spirit as shall make them all to feel and to know that the enduring truth of God is still invincible, that the power of the personality of the risen Jesus is still supreme. The duty of the church of Amer ica is likewise educational. It is not enough to inspire. It is not enough to enthuse. It is not enough to kindle the fine flame of religious devotion. We must give inspiration, wisdom. We must direct enthu siasm. We must guard the flame of devotion and control its fire. Inspir ation run riot spells fanaticism. En thusiasm without direction may in vite excess. The unwatched flames may cause a religious conflagration. And nowhere is undirected or mis directed enthusiasm and fervor more dangerous than in matters religious. The sages of authentic history reek with the record of the crimes of re ligious arrogancy and of ill-directed spiritual exaltation. Many a ghastly deed has been done in the name of the Prince of Peace. Many an in tellectual and spiritual silliness has been propounded and propagated by unbridled zeal. The church in Amer ica, fragrant with the sanity and vis ion of the Saviour, ought to give direction and education to the aims and efforts of the church abroad. As with the church abroad, so with the Christian foreigners who are our neighbors. To eradicate false notions and to supply new ideals: to purge the foreign mind of all that is less than noblest and to suffuse it with vitalizing and superb wisdom; to take the raw material of other nations and to fashion it into sub lime temples for the abode of the Spirit of God, is the opportunity and duty of the church at home. Not otherwise is the duty of the church at home to the heathen who ai*e here and in the corners of the earth. The civilization that is most modern is co-terminous with the pro gress and the influence of Christian ity. Modern civilization as we under stand that term is the product of Christian lands and of the genius of Christian peoples. To the heathen both at home and abroad modern civilization and Christianity are syn onymous. To him the followers of Christ are the exemplification of modern advance. And they are. But they ought to be more. Unfortunate ly the church Is associated in the heathen mind with the vices as well as with the virtues of latter-day civil ization. We as a church at home, blessed beyond computation by the grace of God, owe it to the heathen over all the world to be such an edu cational and inspirational force that they shall see God in us and the salvation of the nations in the beauty of our religious self-expression. If we have an obligation laid upon us to inspire, to enthuse, to lead up and on and out the Christian nosts of God, we have at least an equal com mission to do as much for those be nighted souls who worship God un der other than the ensign of the Cross. But how shall we be fit to in spire, to educate, in short, to save? How may we effect the transforma tion of the world? How may we make actual the majestic vision of “the salvation of theworld in thisgei. eration? We can accomplish it only by being inspired, educated, saved — ourselves. Till we are these the work will remain unfinished. Till we are consecrated after this fashion the la bor cannot be completed. For how can an uninspired church enthuse? Can the blind lead the blind? How can an ignorant church educate any one in the knowledge of the deeper truths of the Kingdom of Almighty God? How can a people who have not experienced the joys of a sure salvation declare the glory of God to the heathen and declare “the gos pel to every creature?” It can not be done by any save a church that is itself inspired, that is itself versed in the eternal mysteries of the truth of God, that has had the spirit of life breathed of God into its soul. By such a church it can be done. For the w r orld is ready to receive the truth of the simple gospel of Christ. In spite of many very in auspicious signs, the times were nev er readier. We are told that in China, by way of example, Dr. Rob ert Morrison labored from 1807 to 1834 to secure in the end but two converts to the faith of Jesus Christ. In 184 0 there was but one Christian as the result of missionary effort in t lie midst of a multitude in China. To day there are 150,000 Chinese Chris tians. Of these 50,000 have come to Christ since 1900. The great awak enings in Wales and in India, in Ko rea and in America, in every quarter of the globe, prove that the world is ready to be inspired, ready to be led, ready to receive the truth. The church in America may move in the van of the effort to lift the world toward God if she will. Her position is exalted. Her call is di vine. Shall we lift or shall we leave the world? Christ or paganism? Which? Only Christianity can elevate hu manity to the level of the best. Only the Church of Christ can transform the heathen. The church of the liv ing God in America may, if she will, enthuse and regenerate and educate the world. For in Christ alone is found that catholic universal mes sage that meets the necessities of all the world. Blessed with our vision we shall be cravens if we do not bear the flag of Jesus high aloft and ahead. “Neither head-strong nor heart weary,” but, in the words of Dr. Stryker, of Hamilton College, “as mediators and contributors to the only time we shall ever have to do with,” let us “declare His glory among the heathen,” let us "preach the gospel to every creature,” let i:s enthuse, inspire , educate mankind. Let us be alive in Christ. The Sure Guide. The late Dr. Andrew A. Bonar re lated to me the following incident: “A man once asked me, ‘ls not con science a safer guide than the Holy Spirit?’ I just took out my watch and said, ‘ls not my watch better than the sun?’ Suppose that I said to you, ‘I will tell you the hour by my watch, and you must always taka the time from me.’ That is con science. It is the sun that is to rule the time. Conscience is fallen and corrupt. If we had an unfallen con science, like holy Adam, it would be as if my watch were always to agree with nun. But now it is a most un safe guide. Sometimes we hear n:en say, ‘I don’t see any harm in thi3 practice; my conscience doesn’t con demn it.’ It is not your conscience or your consciousness that is the rule of right and wrong; the law is the standard. By the law is the knowl edge of sin; sin is the transgression of the law, not of conscience. Home Herald. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR SEPT. 1 BY THE REV. I. W. HENDERSON. Subject: The Two Reports of the Spies, Numbers 13:17-30, 33-33 —Golden Text, Numbers, 14:9 —Memory Verses, 30, 31. Israel’s attempt to enter the prom ised land directly from the south was, as we shall learn from a perusal of the lesson, a failure. TheV grew fainthearted and doubted the power of God to enable them to enter into the land as long as it was inhabited with the population that, possessed it. This lack of trust was fatal. It condemned them to wanderings for forty long and weary years. It meant that many should die without experi encing the joy of entering the prom ised land. It meant Pisgah, and no jaore, for Moses. God’s willingness to allow Israel to prove the possibility of a fulfill ment of His promise is the first no ticeable truth that the lesson affords for study. Israel, in spite of all tho evidences of God’s providence, care and capacity to provide for them, con* | stantly doubted God. They contin- I ually were impatient. When God promised to bring them into a land flowing with milk and with honey they were glad, but they were soon distrustful. And so God permitted | them to send their spies in advance j that they might, weak and foolish as j they were, learn from experience that there was a good land ahead and one that was all that He had prom ] ised it to be. If Israel had been as loyal to Jehovah as He was to Israel they would never have desired any other than God’s promise for the i satisfaction of their souls. But they were not thoroughly loyal. If they had had the sort of love for God that God had for them they would never have sent spies into the land that j lay towards the south country. But they lacked that sort of love for their Lord. When they got the chance to send spies they sent them forthwith. The spies went up, looked over the land, gathered grapes and pomgran ates and figs, studied the inhabitants and the military resources of the country, and returned to camp. Oral ly they reported according to the kind of men they were. Caleb, a man of God and of purpose and of courage, reported that the project could l>3 brought to a glorious conclusion. Joshua, who also believed in God, a man of faith and of valor, substan tiated Caleb’s story. The other ten were like ten out of every twelve men They looked the difficulties in the face, blanched and fled. They were* cowards. Let us consider the land that they found first. It was just what God had declared it to be. It was indeed a land of promise, a land flowing with milk and honey, a land of prosperity. There had been no deceit. The prac ticability of taking it depended en tirely upon their confidence in their cause and their God. With the host and the help that they had the risk wa3 negligible, though the task was large. And possessing it they would possess all that the heart of any man or nation could desire. But it was full of big men and warriors. Caleb and Joshua saw the pleasant prospect and the rower of God. The other ten men saw the Amelikltes and tho Jebusites and the Hittites and tho Amorites and the giants. It was a ten to two report against the relia bility of God. The ten men saw the difficulties. And men without vision, men without faith, men devoid of the sense of tho omnipotence of the spiritual always see the difficulties and exaggerate them The giants undoubtedly were men of some size. But they in creased their stature by taking thought a hundredfold. A man with out neiwe is a man who is easily frightened. A man without courage is easily scared. A man without faith in God takes no delight in achieving the impossible. The ten were men after that pattern. They mistrusted God and had small confi dence in their own powers. There fore the giants became more insuper able barriers than the hills filled with the Amorites, and the Amorites more insuperable than the giants. Scared to death, they saw defeat and disas ter and possible extinction which ever way they looked. They are sam ples of men without vision, without faith in God. Caleb and Joshua, however, were men of insight and of fidelity to Je hovah. To them the grapes were evidence of a power that was greater than all the hosts that were against them. The God who made the grapes was able to lead Israel to Eschol. A glance at the land simply reinforced their faith in the exactness of the di vine description. The lessons are obvious as they apply to-day. We are, in Christ, on the road ffom a land of bondage to a land of Jehovah’s promise: the king dom of God as revealed in and through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Figuratively speaking wo may say that the road to the king dom i 3 beset with hosts and giants and enemies of the most rapacious class. The foretastes that we have had of the glories of the kingdom justify the hope of a land that is fairer than any eye hath yet seen. But ten out of twelve of us magnify the difficulties while we forget the beauties. Two out of twelve of us, on the average, are men of faith, men of vision, men of courage. Ten out of twelve of us are afraid of the enemy. All of as should be like Ca leb. All of us should be like Joshua. All of U 3 should say: “If Jehovah de lights in us then He will bring us into this land.” We should all mr? oa tow ard the promised land.
