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<2! 4 % 'w- THE ENTERPRISE r 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 - 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. - 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 ‘ -. -aI •<! 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 - !! ^ 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 •* . “ * " 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 n , h( . . . . kPOW of u lanrelvLlmn-u PUS vey,a / edge sec oad hand—through ‘ t ° ear : to no IZT . IZZl . , . 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 C Cfp i