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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.
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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.
