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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1909)
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The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the //A, Signature / /fI.U of w a Jfv In AX Use \J» For Over Thirty Years GASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. The November St. Nicholas. The new volume of St. Nicholas be gins with a fine list of good things: “The Refugees,’’ the strange tale of Nether Hall, by Captain Charles Gibson; “The Young Railroaders,” a series of tales of adventure, by F. Lovell Coombs; "A Thanksgiving Feast," the first of a new series of “Betty” stories,, by Carolyn Wells; “Books and Reading," a new depart ment, by Hildegarde Hawthorne. These all are features which will continue through the new year. The program for the new magazine year, given in part in the November num ber, promises an unusually rich and varied and delightful feast. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Even if a man should start out to go to heaven he’d want to drop in to the other place on the way for a chance to change his mind. GEORGIA NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. Former Governor binith issued a further statement in regard to the condition of the state treasury, re plying to the statement of Alonzo Richardson & Co., who made the re cent audit of the state’s books. He states that if the governor’s borrow ing power was increased to $u(»0,0(m) from $2200,000, it would tup.ole f>'" governor to meet all the states ob ligations as they mrnuu ... anti the money to be repaid when tax returns begin to come m taio m the fall. While praising tue anility of Alonzo Richardson Ai Co., as ac countants, he declares they did not understand that all state appiopr.a lions are not due on demand. As a case in point, he discusses the ap propriations for schools. Alonzo Ricn ardson & Co. made the following statement: "We have read Mr. Smith's interview and can see very little, if anything, in it that calls for any re ply from ds. We have no disposi tion whatever to be drawn into any controversy regarding our report, or as to the condition of the state's finances.’* An interesting case decided by the supreme court was the suit of Mrs. George M. Riley of Dodge county against the Wrihtsvllel and Tennille Railroad. The case grew out of Mrs. Riley, her husband ar d one child be ing put out of the depot at Empire, Ga while making a trip from Dub lin ’to Macon. They were forced to wait several hours at Empire, and were not allowed to spend the time in the depot. The family was caught in a rain storm, and from the expos ure Mrs. Riley contracted an illness. The court held that the allegations set forth in the petition furnished a good ground for action, but the peti tion was deficient in certain partic ulars, and the judgment was reversed. The court of appeals has decided that in a prosecution for the illicit sale of whiskey, where it was shown by the evidence that a bottle said to contain whiskey was offered and the money received in exchange, it was prima facie evidence of a viola tion of the law, though the defendant came into court later and clainud tse bottle only contained ginger ale. Eight thousand bales of cotton ap proximately sold in the Americus tei ritorv during June and July at prices around 10 cents for October ileliveiy are being demanded by several pur chasers. Farmers, believing a bum per crop certain, thus fortified them selves against possible low prices by selling portions of their crop, several here selling 100 to 200 bales at 10 cents for October delivery. Ihey theie by sustain a loss of sls a bale, but are coming up gamely notwithstand ing. In several markets here such deliveries are now' being made. Last Saturday was the record day for wagon cotton in Elberton, when nearly eight hundred bales were sold from the wagon, each bringing at least 13 cents. This cotton brought approximately $50,000. Fart of this season’s cotton brought 13 1-2 cents on the local market, and the good price has brought the staple from all surrounding points. Elberton Is up holding her reputation as the best cotton market in northe'kt Georgia The comptroller of tlie currency has approved an application to con vert the commercial bank of Unadilla into the First National bank ot Una dilla, capital $35,000. Twenty-five thousand dollars cash was the consideration announced in the purchase by Dr. B. 1. Wise, of ttie Oliver farm of 750 acres near Americus. The farm is a desirable orfe, situated upon an improved road, hence the price secured. The annual convention of the grand lodge of Georgia Masons will be held in Macon October 26, 27 and 2S, and it is believed that about seven hun dred delegates will attend. The grand lodge is headed by Mr. Thomas Jef fries of Atlanta, with Mr. W. A. Woli hin of Macon as grand recorder. Spec ial lates have been granted on all railroads leading to Macon. Notices about these rates have been sent broadcast ovor the state by Mr. \\ oli hin and he has already received ad vices showing that the coming con vention will be the best attended one of all recent years Most of the farmers of Laurens county have already paid out of debt, have money in the banks and cotton in the fields as a result of the high price of the fleecy staple. The crop in Laurens is as good as last year. W r hat is lacking in yield per acre is made up in the natural in crease in acreage, due to many farm ers of north Georgia moving here and purchasing wild lands. The merchants of Dublin are having a prosperous fall trade The farmers have been buy ing cautiously during the past twelve months and now r need many ibinas thev feel safe in purchasing. There will be more cotton marketed in Dub lin than ever before. This may mean a big cotton crop next year, but the larger farmers say that they are go ing to sow a great deal of oats, wheat and other small grain and plant a large corn crop next spring. Emanuel county can probably boast of the champion nine-year-old cot ton picker in little Miss Marie Waller, youngest daughter of Mr. S. A. Wal ler who lives near Hunez. Marie, who is a child of rather slight build, weighing only about fifty-five pounds, one day last week picked tw r o hundred and one pounds of cotton. The commissioners of Monroe coun ty are having more and better work done on the public roads than at any time. Chairman A. J. Zellner of the county commissioners, is a good roads enthusiast, and believes that Improved roads are one of the best and most substantial investments •which any county can make. THE PULPIT. A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY DR. J. M. HU3GERT Theme: Life Here and Hereafter. Brooklyn, N. Y.—Sunday the Rev. Dr. J. M. Hubbprt, of Philadelphia, preached in the Central Presbyterian Church. 11 is subject w r as “Life Here and Hereafter." The t»xt was from Philinpians 1:22-24: "What I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two. having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better: nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you." Dr. Hubbert said: The words of the text remind us of good Isaac Watts, who said: “Thanl: God, I can lie down at night with no concern whether I wake in this world or the next " Some people are world ly. chiefly concerned for things here below. Some are other-worldly, hav ing thoughts and affections set on things above; and such a man was Paul. This thinking about the future is by some called “impracticable star gazing." But Dr. Samuel Johnson correctly remarked, that “those who think most about the next life are the people who best perform the duties of this life.” First of all, the text speaks of our morality. In saying he has a desire to “depart,” Paul is not thinking of go ing from one place to another on the earth, but of going back to mother earth—“earth to earth, (lust to dust, ashes to ashes." This is the way we must, all go very soon. King Philip ot Macedon had a servant whose duty it was to wake the King each morning by saying, “Philip, remember thou are mortal." Surely, we need no such reminder. We have enough all around us to impress us that “all flesh is as grass." Passing through a street of a very healthful mountain town, and seeing a man with a hose washing mud from the wheels of a hearse, I said. “Do you use such things up here?" “Oh, yes,” said he, “we carried out three yesterday.” And that, is just what is going on everywhere. The cemeteries are fast receiving the teeming populations of cities, towns, villages and country places. Well may it be said: “Death floats upon every passing breeze, And lurks in every flower; Each season has its own disease, Its peril every hour.” Again, the text speaks of our im mortality. Paul has a desire to de part, “and to be.” He has no thought of ceasing to be, when death comes. Death does not end all. When the earthly tent is taken down, its oc cupant will still exist as a conscious, thinking, alert being. The body is corruptible, it perishes, it dissolves; but there is that within the body which is incorruptible, imperishable and indissoluble; that which no floods can drown, no waters can quench, no fires consume; which is destined to outlive mountains, firma ments, suns and stars. A prominent city social club has for its motto: “While we live, we live in clover; When we die, we die all over.” Oh, no, we shall none of us die “all over.” We die in part only. And even though the body only is to die, even it is to be raised again, and by and by soul and body shall be re joined, and then man in his complete personality shall live on and forever. “Have you heard, have you heard of that sun-bright clime, TJndimmed by sorrow, unhurt by time, Where age hath no power o’er the fadeless frame, Where the eye Is fire and the heart is flame? Have you heard, have you heard of that sun-bright clime?” Further, the text speaks of our chief felicity hereafter. Paul’s desire is to depart, and to be “with Christ.” The Bible gives different conceptions of Heaven, such as a place of rest from toil, release from persecutions, freedom from sin and reunion with friends. But Paul’s favorite idea of it is as a place of companionship with Jesus. True, Christ is with His disci ples here and now, by His Spirit, but in the hereafter they are to see Him in His glorified humanity, just as He was seen after His resurrection and when He went up from the slopes of Mount Olivet. We say “no home without a mother,” and what a mother is to a home, and infinitely more, is Christ to His redeemed ones in Heaven. “When death these mortal eyes shall seal, And still this throbbing heart. The rending veil shall Thee reveal, All-glorious, as Thou art.” Next, the text speaks cf the im mediateness of this heavenly felicity, after death. Paul’s expectation is to depart, and then at once to be with Christ. The language will admit of no other interpretation. He gives no intimation of a midway station, a halfway house, between the deathbed and Heaven. Some people carry very vague notions of what is called the “intermediate state.” As there is an intermediate time, between the body’s death and its resurrection, so there is an intermediate degree of blessedness for Christ’s saints, who are not to receive their full and final recompense of reward until after the general judgment; but there is no gloomy abode for the righteous, after this death, where they wait to see Christ. “To-day thou shalt be with Me in paradise,” were Jesus’ words to the dying thief, and such is the glorious privilege awaiting every saint that passes down into the valley of the shadow of death. Once more, the text speaks of a certain halting at the very threshold of Heaven. Paul is in a quandary, saying he knows not which to choose. ink s>unbatj-Scftocf INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR OCTOBER 21. Subject: Paul a Prisoner —Before Festus and Agrippa, Acts 2.VG 12—Golden Text: 2 Tim. 1:12 Commit Verses 20, 27-20. TIME.—A. D. CO or 61. PLACE.—Caesarea. EXPOSITION. I. Not Disobe dient Unto the Heavenly Vision, 19- 2.‘s. Verse 10 contains the key to Paul’s life and successes. Christ spoke, Paul hearkened and obeyed. The heavenly vision, the call of Christ, conies sooner or later to every man. To hearken means blessing and joy and victory; to refuse to hearken means wretchedness and ruin (ef. Isa. 50:5). How Paul obeyed ap pears in Gal. 1:15, 16. Heavenly vis ions are not to he trifled with, hut promptly, unquestioningly, exactly obeyed. Paul began his testimony right where he was. The apostles were to begin in Jerusalem (Luke 24:47), where they were. Paul was in Damascus, so he began right there. Paul was to be a foreign missionary, but he proved himself first on the spot where he was converted. The substance of Paul’s message to Jew and Gentile: "Repent and turn to God and do works worthy of repent ance’’ (comp. ch. 20:21). To repent is to radically change one’s mind; to change one’s mind about God, about sin, and especially about Christ; to change from a mind that loves sin to a mind that hates sin; from a mind that snurns God to a mind that yields joyfully to God; from a mind that re jects Christ to a mind that accepts Him as Saviour and as Lord. To turn to God is to turn our faces, which are away from God in fear and dislike and disobedience, unto God in trust and love and obedience. The "works worthy of repentance" are the works which He commands in His word (see, e. g., Luke 3:8, 11-14; 19 :S, 9; Eph. 4:17-32). The turning to God is the inevitable outcome of repent ance, and "works worthy of repent ance” are the fruit and proof of the genuineness of the repentance and turning to God. “For thpse causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.” That was a strange cause to kill a man for, but the heart of the Jew' was “deceit ful above all things and desperately wicked” (.Ter. 17:9). And the heart of the Gentile to-day, of every one out of Christ, is just like it (Rom. 8: 7). The man who preaches the plain, unvarnished truth of God is bound to suffer in this God, hating and truth hating world (Jno. 15:19, 20; 2 Tim. 3:12). But we can stand it if Paul did, and Jesus did; yes, and rejoice in it, too (Matt. 5:11, 12; Acts 5; 41). There is a great utterance in verse 22: "Having obtained the help that is from God I stand.” Angry, blood-seeking Jews against him, a. loving, sustaining God for him. That was Paul’s position. So he stood. So can we. All we need is "the help which is from God,” and that is at our disposal (see also v. 16; ch. 14: 19, 20; 16:25, 26; 18:9, 10; Ps. 18: 47; 27:1-3; Ps. 124:1-3, 8; 2 Cor. 1: 8-10; 2 Tim. 4:17, 18; Jno. 10:28, 29; Heb. 4:16). Paul was now standing before a governor, a prin cess and a king, but he never forgot the little ones of earth. His testi mony was to "small” as well a 3 “great.” Many of us think the wash er woman, the servant girl, the boot black and the coal heaver beneath our notice. Not so Paul. 11. Almost Persuaded, 24-29. Festus was getting excited. The Spirit of God was gripping his heart. Festus was unwilling to yield, so he called the preacher a crank. The devil has cheated many a man out of eter nal life in that way. He has also cheated many a Christian out of a larger life in the same way. We must expect to be called crazy, if we get our message from God. That is what they called Jesus (Jno. 8:48, 52). Note Paul’s unfailing courtesy. Many a map is loyal to the truth and is called "mad” for it, and then goes to scoring his traducers. But in Paul unflinching fidelity went hand in hand with unfailing courtesy. Let us learn a lesson. Paul now turns directly to Agrippa with a tremendous, startling and soul-awakening question: "King Agrippa, believest thou the pro phets?” It was a master stroke. It is a good question to put to the un converted Jew to-day. It is a good question to put also to unconverted Gentiles, and then show them how wonderfully the prophecies have been fulfilled. The argument from prophecy is unanswerable. Many are trying to break its force, but they have failed utterly. They have succeeded in turning the eyes of some foolish peo ple from the contents of the pro phecies to qifffetions of authorship, but if any one will study the prophe cies themselves, instead of wasting time in the endless jangle of words about them, he will soon find that God is the real author, that the posi tion of the destructive critics cannot be true, and that “Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God.” Agrippa’s answer is full of suggestion: "Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.” While the Authorized Version is not a literal translation of the original, it comes far nearer to being a literal translation than the Revised Version. The literal translation is: “In a little thou persuadest me to make a Chris tian.” It is said that Agrippa said this in sarcasm. Perhaps so; but, like many another, the attempted jest reveals the real state of the heart. Agrippa was deeply moved. He saw the cost of further consideration of the claims of Christ.
