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15. NO. 42.
v* COUNTY’S ROADS
TON AMONG
THE BEST OF THE SAVANNAH-ATLANTA TRIP
Rutoists Speak in Hi^h Praise
I Covington and Newton County
! Reception and
brtainment was
en the Party.
[mistakable manner did Cov
[fail to let the Savannah
[toists know that it was in this on
then he contestants
race came into the city
by light morning.
just as well be known
did not pass through
t were scheduled for a
)d in Covington, but the re
pdered the visitors was of
jture that time passed and
[the party spent just one
lifty-five minutes here and
krted with regret.
> first member of the party
i city,a fter having already
lially welcomed at the
unty line, an immense ar
>ple greeted them at the
was a bigger crowd than a
is—and cheers of welcome
lir. The entire party was
s city. Water aad gasoline
prepared for them, with
»1 their machines and sup
fuel.
as these purely material
been attended to, the visi
served refreshments by
of the city at the cour
Ms feature was purely with
llity and of a very socia
fe, which added largely to
re of the occasion, and for
lat credit is due the ladies
t in charge.
iant did the ladies make, it
t fere 8t covered all placed travellers at the that dis
r l^ies serving and a ride
be city was enjoyed by all
e makin S a d <*P impression
visitors was the reception ty
eds of children from the
»ol, who were drawn up on
front and saluted the visi
flags as they came in.
Jv the material side of it—
|ractical, Tfair, perhaps, sordid sid
which might at first
k declared a foolish and un
parade.
^.ounty was declared to have
[he the visitors the BEST roads
run between Savannah
a!
Mnly that ought to be the
P e People of this county,
I *hen it is considered that
foads are still there to serve
P and to be an example for
nement o of the remainder
ids in the county up to their
ovington and Newton coun
the r un the Atlanta Con
ays:
' R °yal Reception.”
N’ewton County Greets
deduced some of the best
£ the route. At every stop
1 See med to be more enthu-
1 ‘0 increase in volume.
Covington, however, that
st reception of the whole
£ Perieneed. The streets of
Were r°Pf d 0 ff ^ k>t the
ists to the place prepared for
r’‘ [ cou rt house, where din
served by a committee of
r s °f Covington. After a
punch there was a general
n > in which the Emory col
* k o had come into to take
a 'e their college yells and
^ visiting automobilists in
and collectively,throwing in
Savannah and Atlanta., the
finishing points of the
p'aunahiaus I lor responded by
h F-mory ami Covington,
dc orated the cars with
Ind • parade through the
l ti*- ladies ocupying the
thus followed, A picture of
£ decorated and filled
1 ‘-ral a reluctant adieu
y --on. w hich
was voted •
1 stop on the run.
,
n Covington was
uiitvutcs, but an hour ,
c.iut. s was Spent there.
GOOD MAN GONE
TO HIS REWARD
I Death of H. B. Ander.
son Sunday Cause
of Sorrow.
Covington and Newton county
been saddened by the death
of Hon. H. B. Anderson.
Early Sunday morning Mr.
derson suffered the third stroke 0
paralysis, and about the noon
death claimed him. As soon as
strok stroke _ was W3S . felt Dr. n N. M Z. „ as
was called and he did all that
cal skill could do for the sufferer,
was of no avail. Since the
defsonTs beTfe^e, Tt
iha . . . S . ea ,, WclS .,
'ihnut ih. m/'V t . . «.mong 2 s m a ny
friends nends. The deceased was
home city and connty L
as sheriff ... and . ordinary, .. filling
,. positions noiHnno wuth ^,__ honor to . the .. ,
and credit to himself He has
served as state prison warden and
Postmaster of Covington gave the
hc the 841116 faithfu1 ’ courteous
vice that characterized his
° f a11 oth6r public duties
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The funeral occurred Monday
noon at the Baptist church, and
throng of sorrowing friends that
flowed the edifice and packed into th
street but partially testified to
high esteem in which the deceased
was held by his feHowmea. Rev. E.
Ft. Pendleton conduced the services
j and devoted the enti^i time to a just¬
ly deserved eulogy of ihe deceased.
; He spoke of the life of the deceased,
as a citizen, as a member of the
(barch “»* as a who had always
1 followed th « promptings of a gener
ous heart in dealing with his fellow
man ' The tribute was a b ^tiful
° ne ’ and a11 the more im P re&sive he¬
CaUse of the fact ^ the hearer s
knew that it was the true story of
S a noble Christian gentleman whose
life had been an open book. The
interment was made at West View
cemetery.
A wealth of floral offerings cover
! ed the casket, testifying to the be
! reared ones the sorrow of many
hearts at the death of this good man.
The deceased leaves, besides other
relatives, a wife and two young daugh
ters to mourn his death.
The pall bearers were Messrs. E.
W. Fowler, A. D. Meador, C. G.Smitb,
E. R. Stephenson, W. S. Ramsey and
N. S. Turner.
TO CLOSE THANKSGIVING.
We the undersigned merchants of
Covington, do hereby agree to close
our respective places of buttress all
day November 2:.th, TXiP, on acount
of Thanksgiving E>ay:
T. C. Swann Co.
Fowler Bros.
Heajd White &- cy,
Stephenson & Callaway.
ML Levin.
Geiger A Harper.
J. I. Guinn.
Venable Bros
First National Bank.
WL Cohen.
Bank of Newton County.
Bank of Covington.
Stephenson Hardware Co.
Stationery & Novelty Co.
Adair Bros.
Lee Bros.
C. A. Harwell .
Thos. D. Johnson.
C. C. Robinson.
Fincher-Norris Hardware Co.
R. L. Loyd.
R. E. Everitt.
J. N. Bradshaw <fc Co.
City Clerk ’s Office.
E. H. Mobley.
Covington Cash Store.
D. A. Thompson.
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genial disposition, he EIRC-r Ss
" itb all with v ho:
tact, and his deal : is a source <•, Gfv p
sorrow to his ftU ff
The funeral >
Ha>I: < :■ 1
Tuesday after*
nade in West V ‘f 1
PROTEST FROM
PENNINGTON
Makes Pointed Sugges
tions on the Fire
Department
j^jitor Enterprise: —
j U( jgj n g f rom interviews in this
week ’ s News from many of our most
prominent citizens I fear that they
have not given the matter of purchas
ing or erecting a good and suitable
brick building for our fire equipment
due consideration.
To To erect erect a -> hniidinp- building t to cost t «•? $3,000 nan
w ould increase our °“ M °” l> ' " 4
cents on the $100 or $2.40 on the one
thousand dollars. The increase in the
would be more than overcome by the
the reduction in insurance rates
and this reduction would be permanen
while the increased tax rate would be
only temporary. Then for this tempo
rary increase the city would have a
valuable piece of property as an asset,
while no one gets anything as an as¬
set for insurance premiums that are
paid; out.
A well erected building situated on
1he square would be a great means
as well as a quick convenience for ge
ting to and putting out a fire in any
part of the city.
Now, I would suggest that we have
a bwo sbory building and that the firs
f] oor be used to store the fire equip
ment ^ ^ an office for ^ chk > f
of the fire department and clerk of
tbe city council and water board;and
in the upper stpry have apartmeil ts'
for twelve or fifteen members of the
fire department, furnished with water
and sewerage and nice clean beds, so
that in ease of a fire at any time of
the night that there will be enough
of our boys, all ready, right in the
building on the first alarm that is
given that in a short time will be
in any part of the city, while others
are going from their homes to rein¬
force these men with the balance of
the apaaratas. And in addition to this
they would all soon be on the ground
at the fire.
To show our appreciation for the 1
noble work our young men will
do, in this building we should also .
■
have a nice library. It should be a
pleasure to any citizen of the city to
donate money and books for the li
br*!*.
In the location of this building let
it be on the spuare and by no means
In rear of the court house.
As progressive a little city as Cov
ington is, we can not afford to follow
after any of our sister cities, for 1
feel aseored that no city near us has
a stronger water pressure than we
have. You could not afford to have
the reels and hose scattered over the !
town for fear that we could not get
them togethex in time.
When we are properly fixed, then
will be entitled to a reduction in in¬
surance rates. Let none hold back
but let Covington lead in these things
and it soon will be Greater Covington.
CRUSE DEAD
Covington was called upon this*
tr mourn the death of one of its
and most highly respected citizens
when Mr. Rufus Cruse was called to
his regard Monday afternoon.
Th- deceased was about 60 years of
age at the time of his death. He
served with distinction in tbe Con
federal army. and for many years
b-.- r, attached to the courts of
county and has served honorably
a c-otaxy.
Mr. ’rase has been in feeble health
a .Mmbex of years, but in spite of ;
this b has. until very recently, dis
<hcrg •t his public duties, and been a
iamii !,.» igure about the court house
r.y. of sterling qualities ; J ;
COVINGTON, GA., FRIDAY NOV. 12 1909.
THt SUNDAY SCHOOL AND ITo WORK
At the Oak Hill Sunday School
stitute held early in October, Prof.
H. B. Keeney delivered an
on the foregoing subject, and the In¬
stitute requested that the address be
published in The Enterprise. It
lows:
The object of anxious solicitude on
the part of its friends during the
earlier years of its introduce amon
the influences that mold our
life, the Sunday school has
won the respect and patronage
nearly all religious denominations
the Christian type; and the
tion has been incorporated into
systems for the organization of
world ajud the moral elevation of
masses. The babe, which, while
ped in its swaddling clothes and
! ing its feeble cries, met with so
favor from those who did not
kend its mission or dream of
grand de8tiny has at l6D S tb becom
1 giant whose off-spring axe
plying throughout Christendom,
appearance welcomed and their
espoused everywhere by the
of morality and the promoters
<* Sunday
are becoming fewer as the years
: by. In these days almost none
on j ze gys t em w h 0 are not
ly fQ ^ of Christianity> ..
'f 4 «* a "
1 however, in their vitiated lives
indubitable . . . proof that ^
; 1 morality isn’t
Insisted . , . ^ . .. the creed . of their , M*
on m 08 '
i tCT thodox ^ DeViL denominations—the tbe fact that all
Christian world collectively—are ral
lying in wellnigh solid phalanx to the
support of the institution and labor
ing for its promotion the friends
the Sunday school have cause for
Thanking God for this growth in
popular favor, and taking courage
from the prestige conferred by more
than a century of faithful work along
this beneficent line, let them press
forward in popularizing the institu¬
tion in .every worthy sense and ad¬
vancing and deepening its work.
Nor is it unaccountable that our
cause has grown in public favor.
Against the Sabbath school no valid
objection could ever have been
brought, and against no feature of it
was there ever urged an objection
even plausibly worthy, except the
charge against the schools insti¬
tuted at its inception—‘that they were
intended for the impartation of sec¬
ular knowledge.
Among the poor of London’'s crowd
ed population elementary education
was an imperative need; and the
philanthropic Robert Raikes, sympa¬
thizing with their wants, conceived
the idea of imparting the needed in¬
struction on the Lord’s day, when
both their teachers and themselves
might enjoy the required leisure.
That this undertaking was the Lord's
work and therefore appropriate to be
performed on the day set apart for
His especial honor and Service could
scarcely have ever been otherwise
than obvious to any except that type
of scrupulous religionists who “strain
at gnats and swallow camels,” who
‘ tithe mint and anise and cummin
and omit the weightier matters of
the law.” That it met with approval
trom the Christ Wbo took occasion
especially to defend and commend
works of mercy and even those per
formed for physical need on the Sab
tath day could never have been the
subject of doubt to any who
comprehended the meaning of the
words. T will have rn^rcy and
c-acrifice,” or weighed the import of
the declaration of Christ, "The
bath was made for man, tot man for
the Sabbath.’”
But within the last three quarters
of a century the antagonism of this
Christian Pharisaism has been avert
<-<i and its objections annulled by the
almost universal extension, in this
country at least, of ch-ap yet ade
quate educational advantages. Thanks
to the fac ilities afforded by the
ution of Christian principles into mo
<- rn civilization, the poor need be no
iongc-r dependent upon the Fahbatb
day labors of their philanthropic, and
more fortunate neighbors for instruc
i tion in the elementary branches
secular knowledge: :- brief r.nd pre
cious Sabbath hour can now be
1 voted xelueively to direct teaching
of th- Bible and to incidental moral
instruction.
That teaching of this spiritual cast
and character is needed in our time-s
r.ich'ix.l ohs- -v*- t
Wit ♦ V. irn t/1: C i IS ‘
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SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER
circulation of copies of the Bible,
vast and beneficent, which the pre
feeding century witnessed, was an im¬
portant work, but only preparatory:
it needs to be supplemented. That
wave has brought a possibility of
blessing, another must carry it on
ward fruiton. Vast and useful
is tllfc work that b as been accomplish
*»y our Bible societies. But ex
lienee . has shown them incapable
of adequate evangelization. Access
to the word of God the people must
h ave; but it is important to give
them also the desire to read it, and
interest them in its truths. The work
oI tbe world’s evangelization will not
he complete when the Bible is placed
in ever >' home: there it may still be
read hut little more than when
chained in the cloisters of the Mid
** Ages. Protestantism goes
tkan merely to unclasp the lids of the
Volume and to spread its con
tents before the people for their per-
6 o na l inspection; it seeks to
in them the conviction that in
Scriptures is revealed the fountain of
eternal life, and urges upon them
the importance erf constant and faith
M perusal In accomplishing this es
essential and uncompleted work in
telligent and thoughtful Protestantism
welcomes and sustains the Sunday
school as the most successful agency.
.'md powerful “'"'f ally 5 ;, ‘T without “ whose “ a tried help
their own labors would be of little
avail ‘ For wlld ... growt ... b from the car
nal soil the Sunday school, ade
quately equipped with appliances faith
fully operated by devoted adherents
of Jesus Christ, furnishes appropriate
and effectual means of destruction,
and holds to its furrow the great
moral turning plow for the fallowing
of the field of human society. It pre
pares at length a soil better adapted
to the germination of the seed-truths
in whose implantation the faith¬
ful preacher of the gospel is often
ineffectually engaged because of the
neglect of this essential preparatory
work. The Sunday school, when its
legitimate work is faithfully per¬
formed, supplies him with a congrega
tion possessed of keener moral perce i
tion and capable of more intelligent
and profitable reception of spiritual
truth. "Spiritual things are spiritual¬
ly discerned,’’and the interested study
of the Word of God under the careful
training of the Sunday school, during
the impressible and plastic periods of
childhood and youth, can but have a
potential influence in inducing the
necessary spiritual cast of mind.
When the people, young and old .shall
devote more time to the study of the
scriptures and to thought on religious
themes, the pulpit may launch out
into the great deeps of spiritual truth,
propelled by extensive and appro¬
priate canvas of Bibieal lore, and no
longer cruise so constantly along the
shallows of the shore. An intelligent
and industrious ministry, desiring th i
its ministrations be .comprehended an
productive of good, may always be
relied upon to second the efforts
of worthy Sunday school workers,
As illustrative of the importance of
the early training the Sunday school
gives, an able and earnest advocate
of the institution and diligent laborer
in its cause, tells of two young men
who, having become impressed with
the verity of eternal things, once
sought his pastoral counsel. The
had both led vain and wasteful
lives in the pursuit of pleasure. One
had enjoyed early faithful Cl ’isd&n;
instruction, the other had sp* hisi
in the miserable work, ess
of a Sabbath-breaking family and in
the utter neglect of the Word of God.
Ihe Holy Spirit had awakened both
to personal anxiety and religious con
corn. They were deeply affected, and
both manifestly sincere. “How dif
ferent,” says Dr. Tyrg. “were their
xperience and subsequent history.”
Under pastoral guidance the one in
gtanily embraced a truth which he
had never doubted, always simply ig-,
not d- The dur was ignorant, skep
;ioal. full of mental misconceptions
absurd ooj< < tkes and could neve
t>. settled ir. mind or es
tablisbed in h- art. To him j
the scriptures w- e all unknown,and
e— )- ai j never !• • 'rained to receive
their authority. The toil of lead- j
kg him.” says the faithful pastor.
‘-was intense.” After tracing them
long,, and marking the simple, cheer- 1
ml. saruest aid consistent life of
if. one. other”s wayward,
tbe wise.
jpbic old
Lui sc o, in •
blessedness of that eaily teaching in
the Word of Cod in the Sunda.
school, which maae all the difference
in their parallel courses.
1 We are sometimes gladdened b;
he gratifyins assurance that the Bible
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!! ^ T™ th ° r0Ushly and dll critically
^ rc(U ‘ ' s age '
b t tv" ■ Iir" W T
consider that " 1S * n ^ u >
Ja p
ih rh . H nr' . C . * ... miS . <1S ^ DU
theologians “^ v •* .
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* " d almn ® more
reasonable “ * an i satlsfactor t f y ^terpreta
« of * v Pa thaiJ
^ *L t ° ^ ages 611 pre e
ees ’ , , e i 0 y ° 16
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of u lanrelvLlmn-u PUS vey,a / edge sec
oad hand—through ‘ t ° ear : to no
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tor to'dcj 'so'thm^hTh *2 7 ^. tPe;>
are ‘ Jed ”
est and participatlon
(he Sunday schoo , Even among
f ., Phr . * °° P ° lgnora • ° c
*
or f me R}hl ruble is . so common that if ii
were a book treating specially and ai
thoritatively of temporal affairs in
stead of spiritual concerns, and the
heeding of whose precepts, all were
assured, would result in financial
prosperity, such vague popular concep¬
tions of its contents would be aston
ishing. “for the children of this
world are wiser in their generatic.
than .. the .. children , ... of light” and di
n ot fail .... to . V manifest .. their . wisdom in
promptly seizing and appropriati
the things that make for advance
inent. The Bible is tacitly acknowl
edged to be the Word of God, poten
tially revealing His will, but how fev
show, by diligence in searching the
scriptures, that they possess any se¬
rious desire to avail themselves of an
divine light that may be used in the
guidance of their own lives!
Some are fond of asserting that
ihe scriptures are so plain that “he
that runneth may read,” that the way
of salvation is so clearly marked out
that “the wayfaring man, though a
fool, need not err therein.” Indis¬
putably, the essential truths are
clearly revealed, but God has hidden
much of his gold in the mine, and dig¬
ging is the only process by which
it can be unearthed. Deep in the in¬
terior of the great storehouse of the
scripture is valuable truth that yields
itself only to unwearied search. It
is erroneous to conceive of the Bi¬
as a book that the untaught, how¬
pure in heart and blameless in
understand, or whose meaning
be grasped by the simpleton
when he reads it at all, boasts
its perusal in the dark—without
from commentaxy or other source
the great origiiial luminary it¬
The revelation is not clear in
its details. The Bible has its ab¬
intricate passages along which
and science must flash their
laminating beams; it contains mys¬
labyrinths in whose inmost re
lurk obscure meanings to
only he can hope, to find a clue
also reads the Book of Nature
consults the Scroll of History.
wbo tb > nk3 incumbent upon
to acquire no more spiritual
<>wledege than is absolutely neces
for his salvation has not yet
1 ^ sen to ver >’ great spiritual heights,
a,ld must survey the Promised Land
dimly. That he can read clearly
k * s t° mansions in the sky
% ’ ou ^ d be a matter of the gravest
doubt to the Christian philosopher,
Showing no fondness for w hat he ats
knowledges to be the Word of God
and just enough reverence to prevent
his becoming familiar with it, and
manifesting no anxiety to discover
God’s will as therein revealed, cer¬
tainly not the attractions of Heaven s
so much as the terrors of hell have
started him on his upward journey;
he is not lured on by the desire of
enjoying forevermore the companion
ship of saints and joining in the cm
ployments of angels who desire to
look into tbe m >’ sterifs of God.
Now, it is the province and design
the people in all that pertains to the
culpable ignorance that thus undeni
exists concerning the pre-eminea
Fextboolc of Christianity! to instruc.
people in all that pretains to the
Christian religion and admits of pop
u!nr treatment, and so far as the ris
. generation oonoerned, to ots
mg a:
elate the charge cl inadequate or in -
accurate knowledg in this most im¬
portant of all realms of truth. Tru-,
the people thems-b -s may accompli; u
niti.h by introdu-ing a divine element
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