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Official Orcan of Newton County and The ;
City of Covington.
Legislature Adjourns
The 1939 session qf the Georgia General Assembly
has adjourned.
Just a? is the case following every legislative session,
there are numerous criticisms. Without discussion of this
criticism. The Covington News believes that much good
was done, and takes this occasion to compliment the rep
resentatives and senators on their fine work in many re
i
There can he no doubt but that administration and
anti-administration forces rolled up their sleeves and went
to work in an effort to save the people money, Roth
houses were economy conscious. This is a refreshing sign.
The task facing the Assembly was a big one. It is
not surprising that a perfect situation, satisfactory to all,
was not achieved. It was apparent, however, that all of
the legislators were sincerely working for what they be
lieved the best interests of the state. They constituted
an able and conscientious group, working in an unselfish
mannpr.
It would .... bo impossible ... to , comment , the ....... fine job
on
done by various individual solons. It can briefly be said
that President Spivy of the Senate and Speaker Harris of
the House both conducted their respective branches of the
Assembly in an exceptionally able manner, and that they
received outstanding help from scores of leaders on both
’ides who showed progressive thought and able action.
Representative Pat Campbell, of this county, took a
sane, active participation in the session. His good work
is appreciated by the county. Pat introduced a bill to
make the rotation of Senators compulsory so that the
smaller counties would have an even break in represen
tation in the Senate. The bill passed the House but when
it came to the Senate, Paul Lindsey, who was the ring-;
of leader sending in depriving Senator last Newton County again exhibited of the opportunity his selfish- j
a year, madej
ness when he insisted the bill was against him and
the statement that he intended to run again next vear for
the Senate as he had this year.
In spite of his opposition, however, the bill passed
both houses. Senator‘Pat’Compabell is to be commended
for his activity in getting this bill through so that not only
our county but other small counties will have proper rep
resentation in the Senate.
The governor has not yet signed the bill, but it is
presumed that he will do so this week, because of the fact
that it means so much to the smaller counties of the state.
The great majorities giv»en this bill in both House and Sen
ate prove the need for such a law in fairness to counties
like Newton, Rockdale, and many others.
Pat is continuing his efforts in getting the Governor's
's-' ','nature and wires are being sent the Governor from all
parts of Georgia.
A good many citizens owe their goodness to the fact
that they have never been tempted.
Modern youngsters aren't different. They just learn
ed to be ashamed of the wrong things.
Extra Session of Legislature j
;
It appears certain that a special session of the Assem
bly will be called, probably after the beginning of the
State’s new fiscal year on July 1, 1939. Athough the Ap
propriations Act of 1937 continues in force, revenues will
be short by approximately $8,000,000, even after economy
plans . and , the ,, probable , , . increase . in . yield of the State in
come tax have been taken into consideration
There are certain political implications that make
details of the calling of the session uncertain at this time:
(1) if the Assembly calls itself back into session, it can
consider any measures it desires, including some bills of
local importance that died in the legislative jam, but the
session is limited to thirty days, a hopelessly inadequate
time to study properly the necessary reorganization, econ
omy and tax revision measures; (2) if the session is called
by the Governor, it can consider only subjects embraced in
his call, but the session can extend for as many days as
the two houses wish.
The pressure occasioned by the closing of many school
systems, and by the near-bankruptcy of many counties that
were reiving upon the assembly to provide funds to restore
losses from homestead exemption, is expected to militate in
favor of a summer session, although many members have
been represented as preferring a fall session.
The fact that Governor Rivers sent no major appoint
ments to the State Senate for confirmation, leaving some
of his closest personal friends and political advisers within
the administration in the status of holdover appointees,
makes it almost certain that there will be a special session I
before the end of the calendar year.
Another thing that hurts this country is that a lot of
people are turning up their noses when they ought to be
turning up their sleeves for a little honest work.
Stabilizing Easter !
While the U. 8. has not approved or disapproved of
of the numerous plans offered for changing the calendar.
it is understood that steps are being taken along with 25
other nations to bring about the stabilization of Easter
This country has indicated its willingness to participate know-! in
a conference on the subject. The average citizen,
ing how difficult it is to keep track of the important holi
day probably will see the wisdom of its stabilization.
Practically all other major hoidavs are fixed as to date,
Easter alone of the ones most generally celebrated is mov
able, often occurring as much as three weeks apart in dat,r
in succeeding years. It is believed that a fixed date, i
agreed upon by the entire Christian world, is possible. It
would be generally welcomed, for as it is now the average |
citizen cannot tell what date Easter (alls on without con
s ug an almanac or waiting until a new calendar comes
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Sunday School Lesson i
an outcry was not made. He suffered
with P*tience the wicked injustice
of his tormentors.
And all this, of course, brought
down lnt0 ^e common walks of
uf e means that because God showed
his love for us through the patient
suffering of Christ, we are to be
patient with great and small in the
face of injustice, lying, backbiting,
and the. bitter enmity of any who
ma y hat* an d oppose us without
| cause. A* Christ was patient amid
Peter, in verses 32-34, goes into
particulars about this patient suf
fenng of Christ which is to be our
examp ] P First, he declares that
Christ did no sin, and the implica
tion is that if we profess to follow
him, we are to forsake sin also.
I Again there was no guile found in
the mouth of our Lord. That la, he
was not deceitful, he did not resort
to trickery, he spoke the truth in
season and out of season. Herein he
was also an example to his followers.
Duplicity and double-dealing have
no place in the life of one who
claims to be a follower of Jesue.
When Jesus was reviled, he re
viled not again; when he suffered, j
he threatened not but committed
himself to God whose judgments are
righteous.
What are we to do when people
repay our goodness with evil and go
out of their way to do us harm? Our
first, impulse is to cry out against
them and to threaten them with
pun j<,hment. But this is of no avail.
The issues of life are in the hands
f„^ f if we are true followers of I
rhr ^ t we ™ wi ' ,H l commlt C ° mm,t every- Y
the hands of the Father
fh h him knowing that both
punishment and rewards are his
prer0RaUves 8 and that He will handle
all such matters in his own good
time.
Since the death of Jesus Christ
savpd us from stn wp arp not to go
back t0 that sin like the d(>K t o his
vomit or thp sow to her wallowing,
and mar our n ves aga in with the
bitterness of hatred.
When we gave our lives to Jesus
Christ we died to sin, including the
slns of rev uj n g and hate. Therefore
wp arc t0 j ive U nto righteousness i
and to do so in the spirit of our
Ij0rd who bare our sins in his body
on the tree, by whose stripes we arc
healed.
In closihg, Peter reminded his
- nparers that they had been going
asfray like shePp , but had been re
turned unto the Shepherd and Bish
op of their souls.
How r vividly these early Christians
mugt havp reme mbered their sins!
Roth Jn thp tpmplp worship, where
immol . alltv was rife, and in their
daJ j contacts with their neighbors,
mpsp ppople before they expert
enced the regenerating influence of
Jpsug chris t had lived the free and
^ [pkpd life 0{ t he WO rld. Then Je
ms Christ had come with his heal
ing and led them to a life of right
eousness and joy.
Peter says that the memory of
thjs sa]va ti 0 n should sustain those
wpr ^ expe riencing bloody per
sedition. Because God had given
thpm the most pr€C j 0US thing in the
wor)d throug h Jesus Christ, they
were to endure the assaults of sin
fuI mpn patiently and without
riling.
The message is an important one
Christians of all generations
w? salvation through Jests.?
Christ wp have everything . Why
thpn shQuld wp cry out agalnst tbe
w5ckedneag and injustice of the
world when our adversaripg lay
stripeg across our backs? The
memory of our deliverance through
1 Jpaus Christ should ma k e us humble
ard keep us so.
Had it not been for his gracious
: love, we should have perished, and
I were it not for his sustaining pow
er day by day. we should walk in
darkness and not in light.
summin? up of mir ] Psson
therefore is this: Be of good cheer;
Jesus Christ had to suffer to pur
chase our salvation; it is only to be
expected that, we must suffer also
in making this salvation ours. The
life of love Is too far above the hat
red 0 f the world for us to pay any
attention to it. Let us not seek re
venge, but redemption; and in grati
tude let us remember that we had
perished in sin had we not been
■escued bv the Shepherd and Bish
op of our souls.
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Hon. a. b. Dennis. Editor
Covington News,
Covington. Ga.
Dpar Mr Dennis: — After two
months of pnf °roed absence from
offlc * 1 am back on half ,ime
G,inn * tbp two months of person
^ ^ physic ,u Erring and
Zr^ the gVa B condition esT comri^ut nf ng
causp for be as
?ood a , lt is was thp beautiful evi
^ Prpps of mv frjpnbs ^ho miniatured
me in the most beautiful ways
Peter Interpret* Christ's Suffering
and Death
Lesson. , . t r, Pe.ei , , n 77 7 70.9S
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Golden Text: Christ also suffeied
for sins once, the righteous for the
unrighteous, that he might bring us
to God. I Peter 3:18.
The two epistles which bear Pet
ers name are examples of the wise
counsel he continually sent his peo
pie. After his delivery from prison
i a record of which we find in the
twelfth chapter of Acts', Peter piac
Ucally passes out of the New Testa
ment picture. Evidently he turned
over the management of the church
in Jerusalem to James, one of our
Lord's brothers. Paul went through
out the world to minister to the
Christian congregations made up
definitely of Gentiles and Peter
chose as his field of endeavor those
groups of dlscip.^s th* prediminant
numbers of which were Jews,
Th* boastful, arrogant Peter nad
come to the place where he gladly
down and allowed others to
be preferred before him. He had
caught the spirit of him who cams
not to be ministered unto but to
minister, and to give his life a ran
som for many.
In our last lesson we examined
Peter's exhortation to Christian liv
ing. Today we examine his interpre
tation of Christ's sufferings and
dPath -
"And if ye call on him as Father.
who without respect P of persons
1udgeth aocording t0 each mans
work, pass the time of your sqjoum
in g in fear ...»
with all his deep love for his
children, God is nevertheless a very
just judge. He does not respect a
man's position or wealth. He can
not, be bribed to render a decision
one way or (he other. He is inter
ested not in what a man claims to
be - but in tb e fruits of righteous
ness which he actually produces,
“ esus Christ cam « into thP world
P rimaril y to teact^men or to be an
exam Pie to them, but to save them
fromsin Hte sacrifice on the cross;
pffpcted thLs salvati e n n p
atonement we see Gods love as a
a 1Pr an ,0 s ^ ’ a 'V e
an sinrP . n ” r ° n v ° ' ■ h .
shedding of that precious blood, we
are to fear lest anything come be
tween ourselves and God's proffered
salvation.
"True is the saying and worthy
of al! acceptation, that Christ Je
sus came into the world to save
sinners ..." Let us hold fast
to this and similar declarations of
scripture, and shall stand a f
we
last, before the judgment seat of
Christ unafraid. 1
Peter now goes on to describe cer
tain very essential truths about
Christ with which every believer
should he familiar.
He says first of all that Christ
was foreknown before th» founda
tion of the world. That is, his ca
reer did not begin with his birth in
Bethlehem. Even before the world
was made, Jesus, as the only begot
ten Son of God, was enjoying ce
lestial fellowship with the Father.
The second thing which Peter de
dares about Jesus as Saviour is that
he was manifested for our sake.
That is, he came into human flesh
s0 that men could see him and know
him His coming , n the flesh is
known as the incarnation. His suf- ,
fering i n the flesh, culminating on
the cross. Is known as the atone
m ent. His rising from the dead is
known as the resurrection.
Peter goes on to describe the res
urrection, declaring that God raised
Jesus from the dead and gave him
glory that the faith of Christians in
the Heavenly Father might be made
*wure. The resurrection of our
L° r(1 w 3 * Gods answer o e u
,,ainy of men who beieve p rn .
selves a 9-powerfu ?■ e p '
Hp God frp ' ' a " d * co ° B J,
c b ns ian ian fa a ' tb Pe ter declared,
’
J^ , ” P °purified „ Qt rp „ n onsibilltv.
ayi ottr souls by obey
ing the truth, we are to °' p ° nP ]
another "from the heart fervently.
God has redeemed us through Jesus
Christ from the worst of all caiami
ties. namcly. the loss of our souls
through stn; and we are to show
our gratitude by loving both Him
an d our brethren with the fulness
of our hearts.
In chapter two of this First Epis
tl* of Peter, we find a detailed de
scription of how Christians ar* to j
behave themselves.
The crucifixion of Christ was a
indictment of human '
Mpn P ut to dpath thP °' lh per eP
P p r s °n that, ever apppare ' ippn
face of the earth wot* or .
iperfect Son ° « was
hiK dPa ' ,P ^
vl ? om . Tu>/w<> l t d th r _
apPS ° , V would have felt !
h tl of God had been
d u in retaUaUo n for this wick
^ity some awful
to fat, upon the torment
nrs of our Lord, and if Jesus him
,*i f bad cried out against the in
‘"stir” of the whoip proceeding But
such calamity did not fall, and
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Minute Sermons
! PRAYER”
SUBJECT—“LORD’S
TEXT'- t
( ■ Text: "Deliver us from evil" Matt.
;.-.v 6:13.
y.4 BY REV. ARTHUR KINSEY
Pastor. Newton Circuit. M. E. Church. South
There is a wonderful story about
a young man. a shepherd boy, many
years ago, who was watching his
sheep when a lion sprang in among
them and seized a lamb in his
mouth. The boy did not run away
from the lion, but ran after him.
and hit him with a stone from his
s 'ing. making him roar with pain
an( l turn about, and then he forced
°Pen the great jaw of the lion and
'et- the lamb go free, and most won
derful of all. he even killed the
bpa st. He did the same thing to a
bp ar. But there is another story
abf >ut. forty-two boys who were
killed by only two bears.
What do you think made such a
difference—one boy killing a lion
anb a bear, and forty-two boys
killed by only two hears? The rea
known to sympathetic hearts,
Someone has said "that the three
sweetest words In the English
language are Mother, Home and
Heaven," I would like to add to
L ese beautiful words, that of
Friends.
Like rays of sunshine on a dark
day my friends hardly missed a day
without letting me know in the
sweetest way that, they were inter
ested in me. and were thinking of
me in a most friendly way.
I humbly ask a kind Providence
GEORGE WASHINGTON
WOULD CONGRATULATE
Mr. H. H. HERLONG ■ ■■■■
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mw– $8$ :.4 ■:* II? WASHINGTON, passing through Edge- illi c
field County, South Carolina, said:
- '(if "This is the poorest territory I have
m-mm K,. m • observed on my trip afW the only pur- P' Silt®
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'V. M tto - pose of the soil seems to be that of xla
WALLACE ANDREWS, Carnegie, Ga., simply holding the world together."
*ay»: That in 1791. In 1938, H. H. Herlong.
"The unit cost of potash is so low, farmers can- was
not afford to neglect using plenty of it on cotton, Johnston, Edgefield County, produced ililisili
corn, peanuts, potatoes and small grains. Mixed 42 bales of cotton on 24 3 /io acres. ssH
goods in this section carry 6% POTASH. As Since Washington's
a side-dressing we use 150 to 200 pounds of day, commer- i w
10-0-10 per acre. We are never bothered by Rust cial fertilizers, cover crops and an ex
and our staple is very good indeed. It takes cellent system of farming have made
plenty of potash to produce yields and quality." Edgefield one of the banner counties of
the Southeast. Within four miles of f H
i f" J where Washington made his memor- if W4
11 able statement, farmers using modern -
If methods have won three first prizes and
m ''' '*–■ : eight district prizes in the South Caro- much
£8-. weevil. He makes almost as
* lina Five-Acre Cotton Contest. Mr. Her- ton on 24 acres as he once mail*
iik long won a district prize in 1938 with 60 acres.
11.1 bales on five acres. 19351
C. V. SHEHEE, R. D. 2, Kinston, Ala., ”1 Mr. Herlong gave his entire
says: Mr. Herlong rotates his crops and ton crop 450 pounds of 3-11-11 fed*
have used extra potash lor 10 years because I plows under legumes with!
know that it pays. Last year 1 used 10% POT- every year. He per acre and later top-dressed
ASH fertilizer at 300 pounds per acre under my uses improved seed, treats his seed be- tilizer containing 10 % POTASH. "IV
cotton. Then, at my first siding, I top-dressed fore planting, plants early and gets a to have Rust," Mr. Herlong.' 1
with 100 pounds of Soda and 50 pounds of NV good stand, well-balanced says
MURIATE OF uses ferti- extra potash stopped that and 1
POTASH per acre. This controls lizer liberally and poisons the boll arouni'
Rust; my cotton is better matured and picks m0 re and better cotton all
easier."
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T" ” A. G. SW1NT, Orchard Hill,
Ga. (left), pl–Pim
\- says: "As a cotton ginner and fertil-
1 JtL izer dealer, I observed that farmers
producing the most satisfactory crops .'•■V,
I r potash. recommending were farmers After who some this were practice study using I began extra f**
ally. With the gener
use of more potash, tzm
i average yields and quality for the v IP ^
entire community have shown marked %
i improvement."
Piiii S. JOHN C. (right), L. HAWKINS. R. D. 3, Greer.
:: : says: "My cotton got 800 iin
pounds of 4-8-5 at planting and 200 mmR
; Ill pounds of 10-0-25 top-dresser per acre. IMJi .
. The season was bad and there was wm®
considerable boll weevil damage. I W. W"
i 5 iS 8 : am selling enough <
i : alone purebred seed
S::> to cover crop expenses. In re
cent years I won two county cotton
prizes and one state district prize."
Fertilizer analyses above are expressed as NPK-- Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid, Potash.
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pOTASHk^ longer farmers 8 ,aX nn Ai™™ u° nger lb er P s " - r Some c Seed ' but Choose make Y° sure ur you ™thod use more of NV a P pl ^S
H NTpOTASH P T use S H cotton a a I of^NVjfuRLATE nS fa f r C ^ !amin9 3 . ’ . OP dreSS T™ U you wan NV ^TaVpAYS! * yields of better qual>f
whh 100 po nd ' Cr ° PS '
u per acre—
"» POTASH EXPORT MV Hurt Blda Atlanta. Sey'»» r
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(Our Advertiser* Are Assured of Results)
son for the difference was the shep
herd, young David prayed as you
do, that God would "deliver him
from evil,” and the other forty-two
wicked boys did not pray; they
hated God, and mocked his
the prophet Elisha.
These events reminds us, that
God can deliver us from evils and
dangers. He has often done this for
us really as he saved Daniel and
David from lions, and Paul from
a snake, and Elijah from
and Noah from drowning, and Dan
iel's friends from the fire, and Pe
ter from prison, and Jacob from his
brother. Esau, and the disciples
from shipwreck. He saves those
this day who pray, "Deliver us,"
whenever it is not better for us to
suffer than to be delivered.
But we ought, most of all, to ask
to give me added strength and op
portunity to repay every kindness
shown to me during the days that,
but for these manifestations of
kindly interest wmuld have been
dreary days and nights.
I enjoyed the Covington News es
pecially during these days, and I
want to take advantage of this oc
casion to congratulate you upon
giving us such a fine weekly paper
Gratefully,
R. P. LESTER.
Thursday. M
"rod to deliver us from evils and sin
hat Injure our souls, and keep us
;rom enjoying the many good things
3ur heavenly Father has in store
tor us. We can not be the boys and
?irls that God would have us be
with sin and evil in our hearts. So
let us ask God, to deliver us from
sin and evil, that we may be loyal
servants of his.
God be merciful to me a sinner ■
Amen.
| Will see you next week.
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