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THf COVINGTON NEWS
COVINGTON. GEORGIA
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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Entered at the Postoffire at Covington, Georgia, as mail matter of
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Official Organ of Newton County and The
City of Covington.
The Great Destroyer
Fire, the great destroyer, has been in fine fettle
summer.
Fire, ranging and uncontrolled, has made black and
barren and ugly, thousands of acres of the nation’s finest
forest land. Fire has turned pleasant homes into piles of
smoking debris. Fire has ravaged factories, and added
men and women to the long rolls of the jobless. Fire has
marched irresistibly through farms, killing livestock,
razing buildings, and ruining crops.
Eighty per cent of all fires, say the experts, could
have been prevented. They need never have occurred.
Back if T\] these fires, great and small alike, lies the
human element. A cigarette butt tossed from a speeding
c ar a camp fire not quite extinguished— a clean-up job
eft undone until tomorrow—a vacant lot left to dry, un
tended weeds—these are the things that make fire, this
year, last year, next year.
There can be no recompense for the fires of the past
—unless it is in a general campaign to prevent the fires
of the future. It can he done. It’s up to us—each of us,
as an individual .holds the weapon that will destroy the
great destroyer.
And, at this time especially, when those vacant spots
around our premises are grown up with weeds, which are
and will soon be becoming dry. and a real fire hazard.
let’s clean up these eyesores and menaces to our fair city
and county and not only lessen the danger of fire loss, but
also add to our general well-kept appearance.
Dancy^vrmg ougtruus j^cunumy Frnnomv
Driving on tires that have worn to a point where
but few frail cords separate the highway paving from
the inner tube is dangerous economy. Saving the price
or a new tire, or a complete new set of tires until one of
them gives way completely is just another form of in
sanity. Only those who have suffered “blowouts” know
the great danger one encounters from that type of mis
hap, while graveyards all over the land hold motorists
who got into them while trying to stretch a worn-out tire
into a few more miles of usage. There is no excuse for
taking a chance on worn tires- there is less excuse for
forcing the family to do so. Never before in history has it
been possible to buy as good tires for as little money as
now , not Pt before were flies as well built as they are to
dav. Human life may be held cheaply in some parts of
the World, but here it is entirely too valuable to risk for
the sake of a few dollars that should be applied to the
purchase of safe tires.
More Good Will
limse who have heard that quotation about “it IS
more blessed to give than to receive. usually used in
church to herald the coming of the collection plate, will
upon second thought agree that it also applies in the daily
intercourse with our fellow man. We can give a smile or
a cheering word, and they will produce greater good than
money. There is satisfaction in doing good to your
neighbors; it brings comfort to the giver and receiver
alike. So do the good deeds today and postpone the had
ones until tomorrow'. Evny, ingratitude and enmity will
meet their reward, and good will will eventually bring its
return. Human hate can never reach one who dwells in
the atmosphere of good will. Keep that in mind a? you
plod on through the vear. You'll find yourself happier
and far better off w’hen the year comes to an end.
“Revolutions” in Farming
Untold centuries ago, an authority on agriculture has
observed, the art of farming was revolutionized “when
some inventive genius contrived to overturn the earth by
means of the forked limb of a tree, drawn by a camel,
horse or OX.” The first crude plow marked the initial ap
plication of mechanical power to farming. *
Since that far-off time there have been many revo
lutions in agriculture. And today there is an immensely
important, if quiet revolution going on, though it is not
of a mechanical character. It lies in the comparatively
new awareness of the farmer to the fact that one-man
enterprise is not enough in this age, that the energies
the brains and the abilities of many men must be enlisted
together if each is to succeed and piospet. It s concrete
manifestation is found in the fast-growing, strongly in
trenched agricultural marketing co-operatives which dot
the nation. And a “revolution” which makes it possible
to .distribute crops more quickly, surely and to better
vantage for all concerned is as important as a “revolution”
which makes it possible to produce them with
efficiency and reduced effort.
Saturday Night
On Saturday night, when weary of body and mind, J
it is relaxing and restful to sit in a comfortable chair and
let memory drift backward at will. Maybe the week has
brought tremendous changes for us; it always does for
some. If we have served faithfully during the week !
then our vision has been enlarged and our sympathies
broadened. We are greater at the close of the week than
we were in the beginning—or we are smaller. We are
glad when Saturday night comes, for it means a rest
on the morrow—a day of rest and gladness when the
mind turns aside from the dizzy, rushing whirl of getting
rr and spending to a comtemplation of better things. Life
«r would be out of balance without one day in seven for
rest and meditation. So Saturday night may bring weari
ness, but it also brings hope and anticipation of rest and
a refreshing of the body and soul.
-
In the old days nothing brought contentment like a
heart full of love, and now nothing brings as much
tentment as a tankful of gasoline.
H.arrest Coverage Any Weekly ?n the State) THE COVINGTON NEWS
j| ! Sunday School Lesson
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UZZIAH. A KING WHO FORGOT
GOD.
Lesson: II Chronicles 26.
Golden Text: Every one that ex
aiteth himself shall be humbled; but
he that humbleth himself shall be
exalted Luke 18:14.
Some men come to their downfall
through weakness; others through
,he misuse of strength. Uzziah.
whose life we study today, was of
the latter group. He started with
promise, but his life ended in trag
edy.
Uzziah was only sixteen years old
when he came to the throne, and I
his reign continued for more than
fifty years. Although he was brought
up amid the ease and comfort of the
palace, he showed himself to be a
vigorous monarch, and the author
of the book of Chronicles praises
him BS onp of Judahs greatest
kin8 *
* s particularly interesting to
0,5servc '^at he had fine training
in ,hings re,i * ious - Hp had as hi *
tu<or a pn>pd<H ’ z “ hari * h Pv
name about whom we know noth
J**'“"J" 1 ' ri nd " P
purpose wa , frequenUy disclosed to
LTseTon walking TnTe'Ltiwav 1
of the lord. This faithful prophe,
passed on his enthusiasm to the
young Uzziah. i
The young Uzziah doubtless
proved an apt pupil, for we are told
that throughout the whole of his
life, save at the very last, “he did
'hat which was right in te eyes of
Jehovah.” If this could have been
the epitaph written over his grave,
Uzziah would have died a happy
man - ° np °t the most terrible of'
aI1 ,ra K pdiPs ^ for a man ,0 ,lvp a
blameless life and then mar it at the
very last by a foolish or sinful act.
This King of Judah was a great
warrior. He defeated the Philistinse
and the Arabians, the Edomites and
11 Amm °nites. Although he was
king of only a little nation, his name
war spoken with reverence in the
court of Egypt. He fortified hls
country, provided adequate water
supply for the cities, and reclaimed j
to cultivation great areas of thej
wilderness. He loved fine cattle and
raised many of them. He had hus
bandmen and vine-dressers in the
mountains, and all the arables val
leys of Judah teemed with fruitful
ness under his supervision. He main
tained a large standing army “that
made His reign war -ith mighty glorious power.” j
was not so as
that of Solomon, but it was greater,
It was not marred by slavery or op
pression. Neither was it burdened, as
Solomon's had been, by taxes which
broke the economic life of the na
tion. Uzziah lived in a period of
prosperity and was himself the sym
boi of that prosperity. Everybody
loved and respected him. j
Uzziah was one of the most re
sourceful characters in the whole
history of Israel. He was a fine man
and clever. He began his life amid
every promise, and for almost half
a century was a tower of strength
among his people. And during these
years he grew stronger and strong
pr Pp °p Ip came to rely implicitly on
hls enterprise and sagacity. But as
time went on ' hPi wh0 had started
Mlt a humblp young man, depend
u,X)n ,hp Lord became so filled
8 ''Taft "I 111 * I ’'’ portRnce
hand which had given him his pow
er and position that at last he was
guilty of fearful trespass against the
Lord his God.
The trouble with Uzziah—and he
appears to have had only one great
fault— was that he could not stand
prosperity. We are told that when
hP was strong, his heart was lifted
up s0 that hP did corr "ptiy and
trPS P ass ed against the Lord his God
Lp ' us lnok close,y for a niompnt
al ,h e Clr “t«nces of his fall and
T* f we can f,nd1lhw 8 ’ ess0 " for
Wr flre told first of all , that when
he grew strong, hi s heart was lifted
up Hp camp to rpgarri his own clev _
ernPSS a5 the cause of his success,
Little by little his dependence up
on God vanished. He came to feel
that that he had made himself
what he was. He regarded himself
as a self-made man and worshiped
hi* maker,
He responded to the law which
says ,as a man thinketh in his heart
so he becomes.
While we have only a few words
which enable us to reconstruct the
picture, we can imagine that this
assertion that he did corruptly cov
p> pd many an act and policy to
which he would have giv p n no coun
t p nance in the wholesome days of
youth -
Thp ancipm HpbrpWs had a dpp P
sense of the separation of church
and state. They reverenced their
king a.s king, but they felt he had no
right exercise to lay (he his office hands on which religion onlyj or j
to
priests were ordained. j
But Uzziah came to the place j
where the throne was not enough
for him. He must be both the king
and high priest. The day came at
w when he pushed himseif tnsol
into the holien precincts of
the temple and declared that
would arrogate to himself the right
to burn incense on the altar,
j There was a quick revulsion of
feeling on the part of his people.
The priests, stunned and horrified ' t
set themselves to oppose this popu-1
lar monarch. Eighty of them, undei
the leadership of Azariah. withstood
the king and declared, “It pertain-'
eth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn
incerv-e unto Jehovah, but to the
priests the sons of Aaron, that are
consecrated to burn incense ...”
Uzziah responded to the threefold
formula of catastrophe which plots
and determines the destiny of those
who cannot stand prosperity. His
n ear t was lifted up, he did corruptly
he trespassed at last against the
Lord his God. This is the downward
path for men and women in every
agP who cannot handle the good
things of life. Their fall begins in a
too grea t estimate of seif and
ends in a too little estimate of the
power of God. Prom indifference to
to conceit and end by defying and
took and many have followed in his
*t these things,
Popularity, conceit, corruption
and ruin-.hi* was the path Uzziah
m,,ny hRve fo ' lowed in his
king ’ wh „° h * d t,ways
f
lin ed up against him, his anger
knew n0 bounds. He took the cen
ser in hls hand t o bum incense
whether or no. and while his face
was flushed with wrath against the
priests, suddenly the Lord smote
him and his flesh paled into the
whiteness of leprosy,
The greatest tragedy of sin is that
it is subtle. There was a weakness
in Uzziah's character from the be
ginning, and because he did not dis
cipiine and oppose it, the time came
when it held him in its toils. Im
perceptibly day by day its power
increased until at last Uzziah, out
ward ly a king, was inwardly a slave,
Many a man who has allowed a
weakness to go unrebuked has had
t hi S sam <> experience. How careful
we should be to guard the gifts God I
puts in our hands! A little careless
ness a nd a weakness about which
Wf may rise up at last to crush'
us
Life is a stewardship, and all we
have we are supposed to administer
as good stewards of God. People
who cannot stand prosperity are
either those who have never had.
or those who have had and lost the :
kingdom ideal of stewardsip.
How can this be avoided! It Is
avoided only as we transfer the
center of our lives from self to God
Our temptation as we become suc
cessful is to believe that we are the
cause of our own success. We be
lieve that we have achieved it be
cause w are so clever, so lucky, so
intelligent, or so diligent. The heart
of man is weak and erring and It
q ckiy forgets that all the things
are the gifts of God.
Therefore, if these things bring
success, the credit belongs not pri
marily to us as the users of these
gifts, but to God the giver.
The way of the world is pride,
corruption, defiance of God; the
way of the kingdom is surrender,
growth and salvation.
—NEWS FROM—
!C E b A R
SHOALS
MRS. K. G. SWITZER
Miss Hester Switzer spent several
days la.st week with Miss Charlotte
Mitchell at West Newton,
Mrs. Dora Speer and daughter,
Dora, of Covington Mills, spent the
week-end with Mr. and Mrs. J. o. I
Knight,
| Mr - and Mrs Andrew Burch and[
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Morrow, of Por
terda,e ' spen * s ’ lnday with Mr. and
Mrs. Wilson Cordor has returned
to her home in Elkmont, Ala., af
ter spending several days with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Day.
Mrs. Lee Terry arnd children
spent the week-end with Mrs. May
Arnold.
Mr. and Mrs. Virgle Norwood and
children spent Sunday with rela
tives in Porterdale.
Mrs. Anna Collis and Mrs. Aubry
Martin and daughter have reiurned
t their homes in Macon after
spending several weeks with Mr and
Mrs. Mose Collis. Mrs. Polly Morris
and Mrs. T. J. Kitchens.
Mr. and Mrs. Mell Bryant have
returned to their home in Dublin,
aftern spending several days with
her mother. Mrs Lee Terry.
Friends of Mr. Please Knight are
sorry to note his continued illness
and wish for him a speedy recov
ery.
Mr and Mrs. Fred Moat, of Salem
spent Sunduy with Mr. and Mrs.
Wilson Moat and family,
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Collis and
children of Lafayette. Ala., have
returned to their home after spend
ing several days with Mr. and Mrs.
Wilson Knight.
Mr. J S. Piper, of Atlanta, W’as
tl.e week-end guest of his father
N. H. Piper. U
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