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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1916)
DON’T WORRY It is a well known fact that worry kills more than work. It is the distracted mind, the fevered brain, the anxious heart, that w-ear away the life, bring’ng gray hairs, wrinkles, broken down contitu tions, and dig premature graves. Many of us know what it is to have the mind swinging in a circle around some great anxiety, mak ing the day dark, and the night dismal. How many lay awake last night and tossed restlessly upon their beds because they were wor rying about business, house rent, merchants’ bills, or food and rai ment ? The weary hours moved slowly by, and the clock only struck to show how time dragged until the tardy daylight came. This is a far graver matter than prosperous people know. Christ understood it, and devoted a con siderable part of his one recorded sermon to the instruction and comfort of the over anxious hearts then present, or who would in all time to come read His holy precepts. One good reason against wor rying about tomorrow’s troubles, is that many of them never come. The future looked dark and hope less, but in point of fact, when to morrow came, what we feared did not happen, and all our worry was wasted. “Don’t cross the bridge until you get to it,” is good advice. Some people get into a habit of worrying, and become in genious in distressing themselves. A good woman who had a great deal of poverty and trouble, once in answer to my inquiring as to how her family did, said, thev are well, but with a sigh, “there is no telling when some of them will be sick, and my husband out of work.” “Yes,” said I, “but they are not sick and he is not out of work.” “Yes,” was her re ply, “but there is no telling.” If you reflect you will remem ber that most of the dreadful things you have worried about did not come. Perhaps you never thought out the matter to know why they did not come. Well, the reason is very simple, and near to seek. There is One who controls your life and loves you, and is able to do whatsoever He please. He owns all the gold and silver, controls health, storm, fire, earthquakes, and death, and His name is God. Most of your ex pected troubles have never com j because God is your father. Another argument against wor ry is because you are absolutely! impotent to make tomorrow to- 1 day. Can you influence tomor-J row, today with any certainty? The fact is, we live in the midst of an order of events which is es-j sentially beyond our control. There are many things we can I do if God permit, but the great! movement of our life goes on in obedience to a power far beyond us. It is said that “there is a di vinity that shapes our ends rough hew them how we may.” This is an awful fact, and I am terri fied unltss I can be assured that this power which surrounds me is an intelligent one and guided by love. Christ says it is “Your heavenly father,” so that instead of being dreadful, it is transcend ant 'comfort. The context says, which of you, by taking thought, (by being anxious) can add one cubit to his statute (or age)?” Whether this refer to a person’s altitude, or the length of his life, any one can see how impotent he is to do this. Let us rest in comfort upon the fact that most of the things w r e have to worry about are not only beyond our control, but are all in the hands of our heavenly father, who names himself Love. Another reason against worry You Know ’Em. The citizen 1 most abhor Is he who fights Old Europe's war. —Cincinnati Enquirer. The one whose goat We'd like to get Is lie who asks : “Yon fell off yet?’’ * Macon Telegraph. The one that really Makes ns grieve Ts he who says : "I got ver, Steve.” Detroit Free Press. The denizen Who hoists onr ii'e Ts th’ cuss who says : “Wife, start the fire.” ing about temporal matters is that there is something better to live for. Christ bids us leave these things to him and seek the king dom of God and his righteous ness. This means the salvation of souls, our own and others, and the glory of the kingdom. “The salvation of the soul is precious.” “What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” Temporal things do not satisfy, nor can w-e keep them. What is the use of all our toil and worry about mon ey and lands the day we come to die? Hers are men who spent a life-time of anxiety over temporal matters, who never gave one hour to solemn, honest thought about how to save their immortal souls. What does it all amount to? Care, trouble, a great funeral, a costly tombstone, and, perhaps, a lot of quarreling legatees who do not much thank you for all your labor to accumulate, and save during a misspent life-time. The only thing worth living for is something that will last. No use to build snow castles that to morrow’s sun will melt. Every man wants to do something that will remain. This is right. God made us thus, and we can do it. The only way, however, is to build of durable materials. The things that will last are good deeds, a kind act will live longer than the pyramids; an act of Christian char ity will outlast the stars, and he who saves a sinner from the error of his ways, has done a greater deed than to found an empire. Work done in the kingdom of God, and for the kingdom alone, re maineth, for it carries immortality in its heart. The visible nnterial universe shall, at length, have served its time. It was a tempor ary function, and the present or der was never intended to go on forever. The whole story of the past throws into the future the idea that time has a destiny, and a destination. The very cooling, of worlds which come hot at first from chaos, intimates that nature j is a clock wound up to run down. At last the spangled heavens shall be rolled up and folded away as a worn-out garment. The earth shall be destroyed. All these now useful things shall become useless and as they melt away like mists before a rising dawn, the towers, battlements and domes of the city that hath foundations shall stand forth against eternity. This is the new Jerusalem, the Capital of the kingdom of God. This is all that remaineth; this with its popula tions, its riches and its king. If you are a citizen of this King dom, if you are possessed of God’s righteousness, be not over anxi ous, do not worry about the trials of this present world, for with all its sins, its sorrows, its ruins, and its graves, it shall pass away and leave nothing but a memory. Mean time trust God and live for heaven. —The Preshyterian. Yes, the world owes us a living —but we must all hustle to collect it. Georgia Day; Georgia Primacy. This is Georgia Day. Observance of the day will he general in the public schools. In connection wtih the observance the fohowing has been handed to the Telegraph as an example of Georgia primacy: First in the United States to es tablish an orphan's asylum—Kbe nezer. First vessel to carry guns from the Revolutionary war vessel cap tured off the Georgia coast and sent to Bunker Hill. First to legislate against the slave trade. First to establish a state univer sity —Athens, in 1785. First to have a passenger rail way —Augusta to Charleston. Fh'st to apply steam to naviga tion —William Longstreet, on the Savannah river in 1790. First to send a steamer across the ocean —The Savannah. The largest block of marble quarried in the United States —at the capitol building, St. Paul, Minn. The greatest mountain of gran ite in the world —Stone Mountain. Athens, the city with the lowest death rate of any registered area. An acre of land which produced 214 bushels of corn —raised by corn club boy. No other state had a Sidney Lanier. No baseball player like Tyrus Cobb. Largest tobacco plantation in the world in Georgia —25,000 acres. First to charter a woman’s col ege —Wesleyan, at Macon. First woman in the world to re ceive a diploma— Mrs. Catherine Brewer. First to have a sewing machine. First to discover ether anaes thesia —Di. Crawford W. Long, of Athens and Jefferson. First to Celebrate memorial-day. First to tunnel under the Hud son river—William McAdoo, of Georgia. First to diversify crops. First prize at St. Louis exposition Tl;e best peaches in the world —the Elbertas; 16,003,009 trees. Finest Sea Island cotton in the world. The most sublime waterfall in the south —Tallulah. The first mail delivered in the United States by rural mail carri ers was in Georgia and by J. E Ponder, at Quitman. Th 3 circular saw was invented bv Mr. Cox, in Georgia, in 1795, and his original design is in the one still used. The United States has nine zones of climate; Georgia has eight of them. The Georgia Technological school in Atlanta is not excelled in the south. Georgia can produce every food product known; has every zone of climate known except that of the Arctic regions; Georgia marble considered best building stone.— Macon Telegraph, Feb. 11. PARTIN-PALMER MOTOR CARS "- ~ — j—, ~ I- I. WEAVER, iA,enl and Demonstrator SIOO IN GOLD GIVEN AWAY FREE Cross Roads Hog killing weather is here again. Mr. Charlie Turner has put up a new shingle mill at his home near Cross Roads. Rev. E. Oglesby and wife spent last Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Barnett. Mrs. Elmer Wilkins and Miss Lee W ilkins spent Monday and Tuesday in Atlanta. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Patterson are all smiles over the arrival of a big boy. Mrs. Mollie Copeland is spend ing a few days with friends and relatives in Atlanta. Mr, T. O. Callaway entertained his neighbors and friends at an all day working Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Stansell spent one day last week with the latter’s father and brothers, Mr. Jim Carmichael and sons. Mr. T. O. Callaway and family spent Saturday and Sunday in At lanta. Messrs. G. L. Hill and Roscoe Morris made a business trip to Griffin last Tuesday. Uncle Joe Carmichael and wife have moved to his son’s home, Mr. Will Carmichael. Listen to the President while there is opportunity. It might be be that a day may come when you will be too busy running to listen —and there would be no reason to listen. Net Contents 15 Fluid Drachma ,■f- -t <- lAAas cfii.rr.'r’ Z.TZ~—T ~T! ' 1 __ „ nnetsfo Acido, rucinlxeei.l.axxitix'xge, r., /m. isposita T ■ - ' ‘i jVtc c - -.- C T? 7< ■ ASTORIA "alcohol--Trim cevn ; AVegctable Prepaiatioiiioi’As simiiatiiut, Uic Food ami Ferula tin critic Stomachs ami I T\FA\TS/CIiHPRE^ Promotes lJigesliout lieerf il nc.ssmidßesl.CoutaiQs^ilW Opium.idorpliiiic nor ilmciai. 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Mrs. Myrtie Mitchell and chil dren spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Mitchell, of Panthersville. Mrs. F. M. White and Mrs. Mer cer Turpin, of Stockbridge, spent Sunday with Mrs. Will Masters. Mrs. Lem Cook and daughter, Miss Vera, spent Saturday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Martin. Mrs. S. K. Austin and Miss Ruth Turpin made a business trip to Rex, Thursday. We have completed the porch to our sbhool house, which helps the looks of the building very much. One, Two, Three. CASTORM For Infants and Children. -j n rma ■hihmihi mi Mothers Know That Genuine Gastoria Always / . Bears the Signature,/ /K of ,W .1: (X for Over Thirty Years GASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY.
