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THE COVINGTON NEWS
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3 jjBER Q
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Official Organ of Newton County and The
City of Covington.
The Special Session
Much talk pro and con has, like water, passed
the dam, since the regular session of the Legislature ended.
It was thought at that time that Ihe Legislature would
called hack into session within a few weeks.
Time and again the date has been set for the special
session to be called and as the time draws nearer to the
prediction date the date is always advanced.
While the date is being pushed around we would
like to predict there will be no extra session of the Legis
lature. In the first place Governor Rivers knows that the
members of the Legislature have had no reason to change
their minds. They still think there is enough tax being
levied to run the state.
In the second place we believe Governor Rivers does
not want to place the burden of the expense of a Legisla
tive meeting on the state when he is quite sure nothing
but bitterness and bickering will result from such a move.
The political lines are so finely drawn, even at this
writing, that the various political candidates for Governor
next year can make their influence felt in the Legislature
and thev are sure to make their henchmen hold out for no
further’taxes
We are quite sure there is not a man in the state who
does not desire to see the teachers of the state paid in full '
We are also quite sure they will be paid in full and that
the schools of the state will open next September on sched
ule with sufficient funds in view to run the full term.
We are of the opinion that Governor Rivers will get
the money in his own way and in his own good time. ^
there is no other means available we believe he will take
complete charge of the Highway Department and divert
sufficient highway funds to insure the schools of the state
a complete term next year.
However, the means by which he secures sufficient
funds to run the state schools is not yet assured, but we
feel sure in predicting they will be secured before the
schools open in September.
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It would he far more comforting to the average man
if his doctor would write his prescriptions in English and
send his bill in Latin.
What is needed at this time of year is some weather
that is so satisfactory people won’t talk about it.
It is no disgrace to be on relief; the disgrace comes in
being perfectly satisfied to remain there.
Some people see no drawback in living from hand-to
mouth. It's having to live from hand to four or five mouths
that floors them.
Factionalism and Strife Must Cease
Before Georgia Can Prosper
The average voter in Georgia desires most heartily
to see the various factions in the state come to some kind
of agreement and end the strife so evident now in the gov
ernmental affairs of our state.
The people of Georgia are sick and tired of the bick
ering which is constantly evident among the political
followers of various leaders. They desire that the indi
vidual subvert himself for the interest of the state. Our
state needs peace and harmony now above all else.
Georgia can never prosper at the expense of the
people of the state. State jobs belong to the people, not
to individuals, to be bartered for so many votes. The time
has come for all good Democrats to get together and for
get self for the moment and work only for the best
ests of the state as a whole.
There is no earthly excuse for our great state to be
in its present financial condition. This has been brought
on bv lack of cooperation of the various factions. There
. has been too , much , of , an attitude .... , of j, ,, rule , or rum . ,, for , our
state. We can never hope to realize efficient government
until personalities, trades and barters are eliminated from
the governmental set-up of our •state.
The State of Georgia needs the services of a man who
is interested only in the conduct of the affairs of the state
in a business-like manner. The State needs a man who
has only the good of the state at heart, preferably a man
with some political experience, but without faction affilia
tion.
We can see very little hope of complete harmony
among the present factions governing our state. Our only
hope is to concentrate in 1940 upon a man who we know
will serve as governor in a business-like manner and will
not trv to use the positions in the state to build a machine
to further his political late ambitions
It isnot too for the present administration to
do a great service by bringing the various factions
gether. If this could be done it would he a great step in
the right direction. We have the greatest state in the
union in many ways and if we can promote harmony
among its governmental factions, there is no limit to its
possibilities.
Our great state collects, from all its various tax
agencies, approximately $40,000,000.00 (forty million dol
lars) per year. With all this coming in surely there is a
way to finance every phase of state government as well as
its old age program, schools, charitable institutions, and
heal Hi program.
Even patriotic Georgian should determine in his heart
that he will work toward harmony for his state. “United
tvp stand, divided we fall,” has never been more true than
it is today in the affairs of our state. We must turn aside
from petty differences and selfish desires and work solely
for the good of our state.
Another good thing to remember is that so long as
nature ij worth loving life is worth living.
A fro’ 1 many citizens own ilmir goodness to the
tluy. they have nevuA’ l^sen tempted.
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Sunday School Lesson
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REHOBOAM: A MAN WHO MADE
A FOOLISH CHOICE
This week we examine the chai -
acter of a man who had an even
greater opportunity than Jeroboam,
bUt l0St ls through obstinacy and a
pprvprae unwillingness to under
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'hem justly. Jeroboam was the son
of a commoner who rose to high
position through his great ability.
Rphoboam was the son of a king
who last the greater part of his
kingdom because of a wicked and
short-sighted policy,
Our lesson opens with the account
of how Rehoboam, the son of Soio
mon. went to Shechem to be made
king,
in mas, countries today where
monarchies exist, the eldest son of
fhe king succeeds his father att
tomaiically. In Israel, however, anv
r,ne of ,he kin –s sons strong enough
10 ?ra ‘ sp ,hp prown mi – ht have it.
Rehoboam appeared upon the death
of his father, Solomon, to be the
logical candidate for the place, but
in Israel each king had to be chosen
anew by the people. Rehoboam,
iherefore went to Shechem that he
might present his claim to the
crown and receive that crown at
the hands of the people.
But the people were determined
not to let any of Solomon s sons
rule, unless the royal policy with
reference to high taxes and en
forced labor was modified, Jero
boam. who, as We recall, had -been
the leader of ihe rebellion against
Solomon’s tyranny, returned from
Egypt, whither he had been forced
to flee and now became spokesman
for a discontented people before Re
hoboam's throne.
If Rehoboam had had any intel
ligence whatsoever, he would have
realized that the people's petition
was a fair one. Had he been quick
to embrace it, he might have had a
much more glorious reign than his
father, Solomon.
But Rehoboam asked for time to
think the matter over, and by so
doing brought catastrophe upon
himself and his people. He failed to
act pro, ? ptly on a good propasai.
y 11P 11016 the three-day period of
f Pace a pass ’ hls ® dvl * )rs had
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” no ’” ns 111,0 1S eat ,‘
that h . he took a step which plunged
him headlonK into destruction
We court the same end when we
hesitate to act on what we know
to be right. Indecision stands next
to compromise as the great destroy
er of men's souls.
At the end of three days the pe
titioners returned to receive Reho
boam's answer. Acting on the advice
of the young nobles, Rehoboam an
" wm ‘ d ,lle people roughly. He had
bppn raised in ,he seclusion of the
court ’ and believed that ail he
nppdpd to do 10 bnng hB people tC)
s,,bmlssion was ,0 sppak harshly ,0
t thpm
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He who wouid lead his fellow men
must love them and must be afraid
of nothing. David had been a great
king because of his great courage
and his keen insight into human
nature. He knew when to be firm
and when to yield. Poor Rehoboam
knew nothing. His was the pathetic
plight of a man who had inherited
a position much beyond his capacity
• » handle. Had David been con
fronted with this situation, he
would have united the nation by his
great understanding as indeed he
had united jt man Y years before
W'hen it had been divided.
David is always spoken of in the
Bible as God’s servant. Rehoboam
was a weak and selfish character
who could serve no one. In the face
of a great opportunity he made a
toolish choice and had to abide by
it forever.
The people showed their determ
ination as soon as thev heard the
kings decision. "What portion have
'»e in David?’ they cried, " . „ .
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your tents, O Israel.’’ And these
words became the slogan of a new
social order.
One of the most momentous
events in history took place when
Rehoboam made his decision.
Henceforth there were to be two
Hebrew kingdoms instead of one.
The ten tribes to the north consti
tuted themselves a kingdom, leav
ing only Judah and Benjamin under
the sway of Rehoboam. Wars be
tween these rival nations continued
for centuries, and in the end the
northern tribes were carried off into
captivity and absorbed by their
captors. Because of Rehoboam's
foolish choice, the real Hebrew na
tion was to be only a pitiful rem
nant of the great people who had
marched out of Egypt under the
leadership of Mises. All the Jew's in
the world today are the descend
ants of the two tribes that remained
to Rehoboam. Our Lord and all his ■
apostles were the descendants of
this little remnant of a great na
tion.
Rehoboam, by his foolish choice,
destroyed his nation and ruined his
own career.
How inexorable are the choices of
life, once we have made them! For
Rehoboam and his people there was
no turning back onde the foolish
young king had made his decision
He must have pondered his folly of
ten in later years and wept bitterly
over it.
Every decision is a challenge; ev
ery choice a matter of serious im
portance. The foolishness of this
king should warn us all against has
ty and ill-advised decisions.
Once we have made our decisions,
we have to live with them the rest
of our lives, and ■ frequently they
prove to be most uncongenial com
panions.
Even after the people had w'arned
Rehoboam that they were through
with him, he was unwise enough to
believe that he could still prevail
against them. He sent Adoram, who
had been chief taskmaster under
Solomon, to put his oppressive pol
icies into operation. But the people
of Israel rose up against this royal
messenger and stoned him to death.
Only then did Rehoboam realize
that the people meant business.
Then he mad haste to get into his
chariot and flee to Jerusalem. His
true character was now revealed.
Weak and cowardly, he had refused
to treat his fellow men with justice,
and because we live in a universe
where justice ultimately prevails,
the people rose against the foolish
king and brushed him aside.
“No justice in the world?” cried
Carlyle: “there is nothing but just
ice.” Rehoboam was a pathetic ex
ample of the truth of this state
ment.
When the tribes to the north
heard ,hat Jeroboam was returned
from hls exilp in Egypt - ,he Y mailed
hlm l to the congregation and made
him king over al, Israel.
He proved in later years to be as
foolish as Rehoboam, but his folly
lay in another direction. Confronted
with a great opportunity. Jeroboam
compromised and so completely
turned his people away from the
worship of the one true God that
throughout all the history of Israel
he is spoken of as “Jeroboam, the
son of Nebat, who made Israel to
sin.”
We can see, however, why he was
chosen to a great position of honor,
He had outstanding capacities fo v
leadership. He was courageous, re
sourceful, and thoroughly under
standing in hi* dealings with his
fellows. His weakness was a lack of
moral principle, an unwillingness to
stand for what was right, when it
seemed temporarily against his own
best interests.
This whole lesson gives us a deep
insight into the origin of a great
human movement which finally re
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lt is the opinion of the writer
that we are ou the verge of a
great spiritual revival in this 11a
tion. In the last few months, I
have conducted short evangelistic
campaigns in Philadelphia* New
York, Toronto, Chicago, Seattle,
Portland, San Francisco, Los An
geles, and a number of smaller
cities. Everywhere, I have seen
signs of a spiirtual awakening.
Ten years ago evangelism was at
the lowest ebb it had been in
America in the last fifty years.'
The evangelistic tide is coming in
again. I doubt seriously if. this
revival will come about as a result
of an effort put forth by ecclesias- |
tical machinery. It will come
from God through the leadership
and evangelistic effort of individ
uals who will work largely on
their own initiative. God does not
seem to he using ecclesiastical
machinery to any great extent.
Most of the ecclesiastical organiza
tions are too busy taking care of I
the rooms in their own ecclesiasti
cal house. They at e calling for |
help from their own members to !
hold up, as far as possible, the j
walls of their ecclesiastical homes.
Revivals come fiot from holding
up machinery, but as a result of
the army of God marching for
I ward, sounding the Gospel trum
pet and carrying the flag, not of
“churchianity,” but the Flag of
the Cross on which. Jesus Christ
bore our sins in His body nearly
two thousand years ago. Prac
tically all of the independent, un
official evangelistic efforts with
which I have had contact are suc
ceeding. Of course, there is a
great deal of rubbish in many of
the free lance movements. iU !
is there a great deal of rubbish in
a great deal of ecclesiastical un
dertaking. The modernists in
most of our churches have produc
ed a spiritual paralysis ahd left a
great many of the members too ill
to throw out the group who are
responsible for the paralysis. That
explains why God is taking up
men and women as individuals in
our day for definite evangelistic
undertaking,
“Beware of wolves in sheep’s
clothing. Beware of evangelists.”
That was said a few years ago by
a n ecclesiastical leader. “What
do you think of Dr. So-and—So,”
a friend of mine asked a certain
pastor, recently. “I am with
holding my judgment. I have
been disappointed in so many
evangelists,” the pastor replied.
There are evangelists and evan
gelists, and there are pastors and
pastors. It is a significant thing
that no outstanding evangelist in
the history of America ever went j
down under the weight of scandal i
and disgrace. Finney, Moody, j
Sam Jones, George Stuart, Wilbur
Chapman, Billy Sunday, and a
great many more whose names we
could write, lived and died with
out a breath of scandal or shame
ever being brought against their
names. This cannot be said of all
the great pastors in the history of
America. I could write the names
of some of the greatest pastors this
nation ever knew who went to j
their graves under the shadow of
a question about their moral in
tegrity. This is no reflection upon
the thousands of faithful pastors
who have stood in the pulpits of
the nation. I am simply calling
attention to this because I am
sick and tired of some of the sup
posedly orthodox pastors and Bible
teachers of this nation raising
question marks about the evan
gelists. I know evangelists who
have been unscrupulous in some
of their financial methods. I
know some who have done a
shoddy type of work. And I know
pastors who have been guilty of
the same things. This effort to
discredit God’s evangelists was.
born in hell and hatched in the
domain of the devil. I don’t carej
what Bible teacher or pastor or
ecclesiastical leader raises the
questions in the minds of people
about the decency and integrity of
evangelists, he is guilty of a great
sin. When Jesus Christ ascended j
on high He gave gifts unto men.!
eminent. The liberty-loving He- :
brew, who would not endure tyran-J
ny because his religion gave him a
great sense of self-respect was the
forerunner of thase men who, in
later centuries, rose up and wrested
power from the hands of wicked tyr
ants who resembled Rehoboam in
sentiment and purpose.
The outstanding lesson which this
incident in the history of Israel
teaches is that true religion and i
the love of freedom always go to
gether, and that It is the will of
God that men learn how to rulej
themselves under forms of free gov
ernment.
It is well for us to remember this I
in days when new forms of govern- j
ment are arising, divorced from and
very often hostile to religion. We
may well doubt the sincerity of!
thase who claim to be devoted to
the cause of human freedom while'
at the same time they despise and’
mock religion. ,
He gave some evangelists just as
He gave pastors and teachers. The
churches who are never ministered
to by evangelists are lop-sided and
are not the type church that ac
complishes great things for God.
The evangelistic gift is a Holy
Ghost gift to an individual.
evangelist is God’s gift to the Body
of Christ. What this nation needs
today, more than it needs any
thing else, is a large group of
sane, consecrated, Spirit-filled,
Divinely anointed evangelists. The
pastor has no more right to domi
nate an evangelist eccleastically
and control his work or circum
scribe his effort than the evange
li-st has to dominate the pastor,
circumscribe his effort, or control
his work. I am an evangelist hv
Divine right. I received my call
from God. There is no ecclesias
tical machinery under heaven
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that can swing a red lantern
across the track on which my
ev angelistic train runs and stop
me. I ask no quarter, and I re
fuse to let any cold, dead, eccle
siastical ethics slow me down.
(*od guve us evangelists who will
go out and herald the good news
of God's redeeming grace to the
teeming millions in this age of
hungry hearts.
I Knew Her Whfcn—
St. Peter was interviewing 1he
fair damsel at the pearly gate.
“Did you while on earth,’’ he
asked, “indulge in necking, pet
ting, smoking, drinking or danc
ing?”
“Never!” she retored emphati
cally.
“Then why haven’t you report
ed sooner?” said Peter. “You’ve
been dead a long time.”
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