The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, January 25, 1918, Image 1
The Henry County Weekly A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of McDonough and Henry County. VOL. XLIV. THE RIGHT EMPHASIS By REV. H. S. SMITH Life’s values are gained through personal initiative. In the growth of the lion’s whelp from weakness to the strength of the king of the forest, in the development of the rose from the tiny cutting to the graceful stem and the beauty and fragrance of the flower, in the growth of the* oak with sturdy trunk and wide-spreading branch es from the little acorn, there is an irresistible push that is never found in human attainment. The weather vnin turns from the cold north to the sunny south, driven by the force of the wind. But there is no irresistible force that turns man from evil to good, from sin to righteousness. There is a mighty power that operates in God’s Spirit, but man must yield and surrender to it. There is only one way to the greater life. Set your face like flint in that direction. “Set your affections on things above.” The man who never resolves or deter mines will know no freedom, reach no height, walk on no table lands, attain no ideals, and feel no exaltation of heroism or thrill of victory. “One ship drives east, another west with the self-same winds that blow; It’s the set of the sail, and not the Kale that determines the way you go.” Life brings the same opportuni ties for soul greatness to millions of people. It’s the kind of things you emphasize, the character of the opportunities seized that de termine what life shall be. Paul says in 1 Cor. 2. 2: “For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.” Paul passes by human philosophy, gives scant notice to science, cares little for eloquence, disregards morality except as it is rooted in religion. He blots everything out of the picture that would detract from the face'of the crucified Christ. No wonder that this genius was the greatest spiritual force that the world ever saw except his Master. Life’s Value and Influence De pend on the Right Emphasis. Emphasis of the great themes makes your great music, your great literature, your great orato ry, your great preaching. Mozart \sas a great musician, but your chap&l organ could not give ex pressiun to his great genius like tne magnificent pipe ogran. You can spend your days in wrong or insufficient emphasis. Your life will be a failure. Put the em phasis on the lower things of the flesh and material existence, men tal and moral, if not physical, dis aster awaits you. The different emphasis we give to the things that we all do also counts. One student works for the honors of the class, the other for the love of the truth. How different! One man runs his bus iness in the service of self, anoth er for the glory of God. One man makes money to hoard or to spend on self, another to use in the service of men. One person teaches for the meagre salary or as a stepping stone to something else, another regards the school room as a great opportunity for moulding souls. One man prac tices law for a livelihood, another regards the law as one of God’s greatest instruments for the pro tection of life, liberty and proper ty. One recites the creeds and believes the doctrines in a formal way, another with spiritual ap prehension and understanding. How we have failed in Empha sis! We have talked about the simple life; but we haye emphasiz ed wealth, comfort, luxury and show. We must keep up with the Jones’s. We have toiled for, struggled over and worried about material things. We have been in the grip of the temporal order. Oh, we have felt an emotional glow in church at the mention of love, service and sacrifice, but these principles have not been operative in life. We have not had the pearl of great price on exhibition, we have not manifest ed the finer qualities of the supe rior life to the world. The things that we have valued and empha sized are being swept away by the overflowing courage, and the end is not yet. Surely idealism shall emerge and emphasis be given to the things that are permanent. There are a few things of abid ing value that I want us to deter mine to emphasize in 1918. These I things have come down to us through the ages, they have been tested by fire and blood, they lie at the foundation of all indivi dual and national greatness, they haye given strength and comfort in the hours that tried men’s souls, and have never failed when all else perished. Let us give more emphasis to the Bible. “Oh, but that’s an old book.” Yes, it has witnessed the birth, life and death of millions of the best soldiers. Yet some or you sit up for two and three hours to read the latest book who haven’t read one book of the Bi ble at one sitting in a year. “There is no other book,” said Sir Walter Scott, As the ocean tills the mil lions of bays and inlets that indent its coast, so the life currents of this book fill the millions of in spiring books that are in our li braries. It is God’s revelation to man. It possesses untold depth and infinite power. It saves men from sin, comforts them in the hour of sorrow and despair, and guides in the hour of perplexity. President Wilson says \hat he could not see his way in this dark hour but for its counsel and teach ings. Read and stud} this book more and you will be different men and women. Let us give more emphasis to the Sabbath. Ther eare signs of a decreasing valuation of the Sab bath as a day of rest and worship. Men argue “necessary labor” and “necessary pleasure to justify buy ing and selling and Sabbath dese cration. Greed and selfishness are back of all of it. Disastrous results will follow its removal. France tried it and in the Reign of Terror the Seine ran red with the blood of innocents. Voltaire, the French infidel, said that there was no hope of destroying Christi anity until you destroyed the Sab bath. Webster was right when McDonough, Georgia. Friday. January 25, 1918 To the Ladies of the Red Cross. Our Instructions in Surgical Dressings has been postponed for two weeks, or further notice. In that time we expect to have Miss Ruth Harris, an official instructor, to teach a class, of not more than twenty. The sessions will be held in the afternoons, and from two to two and one-half hours, and will extend over a period of seven to ten days. All who desire to take these In structions please give me your name. There is no expense to the students, or practically none. Mrs. B. B. Carmichael. Smallpox. A few cases of smallpox have developed in McDonough recent ly. It is of a very mild type, how ever, and no danger of spreading apprehended, proper quarantine having been established, with all other necessary precautions. All patients have about recov ered and conditions satisfactory for complete abatement, without any epidemic. he said that the republic would not endure one century longer than the American Sunday. It is the day when children are taught the laws of God on which any permanent civilization is built. Let us emphasize the Christian Home. Home is the center of everything, the streams that i flow out of the home are sweet or bitter, so will your moral, so cial and political life be. “Home authority and home example set tle everything.” We have spared the rod and the oak shingle at the expense of the child. We need the godly life and the family altar to influence our children for right eousness. Let us giye a greater emphasis to the church of Jesus Christ There is a danger that we lose sight of the church in these times. With our Red Cross and Y. M. C A. drives we are prone to forget the church. Without your church you would have neither of these great institutions. Y.,ur Y. M. C. A. represents th j protestant churches. The church is the mother of all til it is worth while in civilization. She is the mother of schools, colleges, universities, hospitals, modern surgery, state institutions for the unfortunate, the deaf, dumb, blind, feeble minded, insane. If the church perishes all will go with it into the abyss. Let us stand by it, give to it liberally and attend its services. As the weeks and months and perhaps years drag out their weary lengths you will need its messages and inspiration. All I have emphasized is involv ed in what I now mention. Let us give more thought to Jesus Christ. Represent the things mentioned by concentric circles, here is the circle that contains them all. You would have no Bible, but for the Christ in it. Your Sabbath would have no sig nificance without a revealed God to worship. Home is his creation. The church was founded by Him. We want to think more of Christ and Him crucified, for He is the greatest fact and force in the uni verse. Life’s value and meaning and influence will depend on the em phasis you giv£ to Christ and His teachings. McDonough Suspends All Business Monday In compliance with the Food Administration order, business of all kinds was entirely suspended and the first workless Monday duly observed in McDonough. Merchants and others met in the office of the Farmers and Mer chants Bank at 10 o’clock last Fri day morning and unanimously agreed to comply strictly with the spirit and letter of the patriotic movement. Mr. E. M. Copeland was made chairman and Mr. J. M. Carmi chael secretary of the meeting, and a most harmonious result fol lowed, and McDonough is to be School Column* Another school week has past. It is gone forever with its oppor tunities and responsibilities. With the cold, rainy weather as hindrance, we may not have ac complished as much as we had planned to do, however, if we have made an honest effort we have not failed. * The reports are very encourag ing from the schools as a whole. Only one teacher has had to quit on account of sickness. Let’s look on the bright side of life. Keep on smiling. When we smile the world smiles with us. I am getting anxious to see boys and girls now. I want to play ball once more. When the roads get good I’m going to see some body sure. But I never had a let ter this week. Maybe it is be cause I’m married. 1 used to get lots of letters when. I was single. Well, I’ll continue to expect some. With the best of wishes for health and happines to all, both teachers and pupils, I am, Your friend, T. J. Horton. McDonough high school. By THORNTON FARRAR. In spite of the bad, rainy weath er, we are having school, on ac count of having lost so much time. The attendance is about 50 per cent on the worst days, and many of these pupils have to come from the country. We are running on the one ses sion plan and will continue this until spring opens. We have several new' pupils in the grades. On account of the cold weather, the news is almost frozen up. 9 CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our many friends for their loving kindness and sympathy during the sickness and death of our dear wife and mother. May God’s richest bless ings rest and abide with them all is our prayer. T. B. Massey, W. W. Massey, Mrs, Parks McCullough. FOR RENT. New four room cottage, close in. T. PATILLO. commended for cheerfully accept ing and entering into the situa tion. A report of the meeting was sent to the Atlanta papers, re qesting their co-operation, togeth er with the sister towns around us, in carrying out all provions of the new law. It was a novel experience with all, the first of a period of ten weeks closing Mondays, and is another forcible impression of the gravity of the times upon which our country has entered. For what follows, may all be prepared. LOCUST GROVE LOCALS. This Monday holiday is going to prove a great blessing to the home surroundings and town gardens. There was much done the few rainless hours last Monday. Mr. Joel Price of Atlanta spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. 11. Price. Miss Lura Simpson spent Sun day in McDonough. Mr. C. B. Plexico spent the week-end with relatives in Atlan ta. Mr. Daniel Rosser has gone home' after a visit to relatives here. Mr. Zelma Cathy, of Camp Wheeler, spent a few days with his aunt, Mrs. J. B. Smith. Mrs. Henry Colvin and daught er, Miss Ophelia Colvin, have moved to town. Misses Josie and Clifford Wil liams have returned from a visit to their uncle, Mr. Wilson Duffey. Mr. Bagerly, a former student of L. 1., has moved his family here and again entered school. Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Smith have returned from a visit to the Gate City. The workers for the Red Cress are urged to turn in the work as rapidly as possible, also all left over thread, so all the garments required may be finished at an early date. Red Cross. 100 hosDital garments and 25 sweaters are being shipped from the Henry County Chapter this week, to the Supply Depot in At lanta for distribution. In November we were called oa tor 50 Christmas packages, which we supplied. Also, the eighth grade, Mrs. 0. E. Ham, teacher, voluntarily fur nished 25 nice towels for the “boys in France,” all of which has been acknowledged by receipt. The work has been greatly de layed by inclement weather, but am hoping we can do more now soon. Our thanks are due all who have assisted in the work. Mrs. B. B. Carmichael. Notice. One-horse farm for rent, 3 miles east of McDonough, near Bethany church and Union Graded school J. M. HAYS, 797 Marietta st., Atlanta, Ga. $1.50 A YEAR