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dell and the many other feature writers who gave us their
daily thoughts. great of
We sincerely trust the army newspaper men
and women who were made among the unemployed by
the closing of this great paper will he rapidly absorbed
by other newspapers so they will continue to serve in the
efficient manner of the past.
To all o f them we bid au revoir, but not goodbye,
for we hope our paths are destined to pass frequently in
the days to come. Our latch string is hanging on the
outside ready for a call from each and everyone of our
friends.
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City of Covington.
Our Christmas Message to Our Friends
“Glorv to God in the Highest, and
On Earth, Peace, Good Will Toward Men.”
—Luke 2:14.
Just those two lines illustrate to us the true Christmas
spirit and we pass them on to our friends as our Christmas
wish for them. We could wish no better gift to any person!
than that he give ‘‘Glory to God.” I
If a man glorifies God he is everything that a person
should be. He is a good citizen, a law abiding man, a
taxpaver, a church worker, an honest person who pays I
his debts, a person who could not lie or cheat. A person
who will make the world better for having lived. A per
son who will do unto others as he would that others would
do unto him. Therefore we believe we could make no
better Christmas wish.
‘‘On Earth Peace ...” Some way we don’t' believe
that that phrase just meant peace between nations. We
believe it means peace among men. Peace with our neigh
bor, peace in our homes, peace in our business life and
peace in our church life, Peace is a wonderful wdrd and
as we think what quiet restfulness rests in the word we
wish for all our friends .... Peace . . . the peace that
passeth all understanding.
“Good Will Toward Men.” There rests a phrase
which has locked up within its borders all the happiness!
in the World, Good will toward men . . . what does it
mean to you? ... It means just the difference between
happiness and heartbreak.
Good will toward our fellow man as we meet him j
on the streets or mhis off ice or workshop Our good will j
for him will beget his good will for us and as we go along
life’s journey our road will be smoothed with kind words
and the jarring bumps of selfishness and greed will
smoothed into a road paved with good will and we will j
ride thereon floating upon the clouds of happiness.
As we near this Christmas season and express our l
Merry Christmas to each and every one of our friends our
hearts go backward to the Christmas of our childhood,
just as the younger ones race with anticipation for the
one of today.
This glad season of the year will bring to numerous
hearts a brief season of happiness and enjoyment. Many
families whose members have dispersed far and wide in
the restless struggle for life will be reunited and meet '
once more in that happy state of companionship and ;
mutual good will which is a source of pure and unalloyed
deliirht
Old tales will be told and old songs sung as they
gather around the festive board. There is sacredness 1
a
about our Christmas season which we sincerely trust will
never be lost. A consecrated happiness which is all
embracing to those who have gathered together again
this happiest of all holidays.
We have noted with great pride the dwindling of the
tendency to “celebrate” in the alcoholic sense of the word.
There is a growing tendency of just happiness and con
tentment on this day of days. If there must be a day of
“alcoholic” celebration we are truly and sincerely glad
that it has been pushed a full week away from Christmas,
If it could be entirely eliminted we would like it all the
more.
Truly we would like to “light a candle of understand
ing in thine heart which shall not he put out. Such a
candle would light our entire community much more than
the lights we have on our trees and our square. If those
things which we have in our hearts were lighted SO all
could see our entire community would be happier.
There is so much silly misunderstanding and fear in
the hearts of us all. If the love of this Christmas season
could , eliminate ,. . that it would ii, do much i , to , , tringmg .
wart
“Joy to the Earth.’
Our fear that this person or that person for some rea
son or other does not like the way we do things. Our fear
that we will be hurt in some way or hurt another through
some thoughtless word. B’ear is the terrible bugaboo of
ur all and has always been for even i n announcing the
Birth of Christ, the‘angels used* as their first utterance,
„r> i i,
rear not.
before the world . , the ,, greatest , , , , .
Just giving to
of all times, the gift had to be prefaced with Lear not.
The sooner we take to our hearts this command and
that “all things work together for good for those who
the Lord, the sooner we will enjoy with all our
not only the Christmas season, but every season of
» e
These angels said in announcing the birth of
which we are celebrating at this time: “Fear not,
behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall
be to ALL people.”
Y r ou notice there it didn’t say to the privileged
but to all people. That actually mean’ all people
where and the sooner we can realize this the sooner
will be willing to say:
“Glory to God in the Highest, and,
On Earth Peace, Good Will Toward Men.”
And that is Our Christmas Wish to You.
“30” For The Georgian
The passing of the Atlanta Georgia was akin to
loss of an old fi-iend. We had so many friends among Jr
workers , and , writers •, that , it •, was like reading ,. a , letter ,,
thene ea( h day as \nc rested fiom GUI labors.
Also liked the way they did things on the
gian. If they desired to condemn certain practices
did not have to study if one of their large advertisers
an interest in that direction. They said what they
to sav regardless of whose toes they trampled upon.
After all that is a great American privilege if it
Wc ihe ■"‘m G ,r rei a '!
nf ,? 1 if ry T h .' W? Ilk? the .
M utiiev ulasjp, ri . the womanly intuition of Mildred bey
The Child and the Kingdom
(Christmas Lesson)
Lesson: Mathew 1:18-25; 18:1-14;
19:13-15.
Goliden Tex: A little child shall
lead ihem Isaiah 11:6
Christ is more than a sacred day;
it is a season which grows out of
the very nature of our faith.
The Nativity
Joseph, Mt.rv, and the Christ
child are three characters involved
pd *" thls dra ^ centure*
before the angel 6f God proclaimed
fhe first Christmas,
the coming of Jesus the pro
There are two men of outstand
ing significances in the Bible who
bore the name of Joseph. One was
that son of Jacob who is told about
in the book of Genesis. He was a
young dreamer. H? had dreams of
stars bowing down to his star and
sheaves of wheat bowing down to his
sheaf - and hls brothers hated him
for these dreams and sold him into
slavery. Then centuries later there
arose a second Joseph, and he also
was a dreamer of dreams. His first
dream reassured him when he was
minded to put Mary away privily
because of what was considered her
scandalous condition; he did not
know that she was with child by
^ he Ho,y 8l / rit H / had another
.
Esypt with Mary and the chfld
and still another dream which
brought them back again some years
a ter. in his first dream the angel
assured him that Mary had conceiv
ed under the power of the Holy
Spint ’ " and - said the angel,
shall bring forth a son. and thou
shalt call his name Jesus, for it is
he that shall save his people from
their sin."
These were the words with which
the first Christmas was announced.
Mary appears scarcely at all in
the nativity story of Matthew; it is
m the gospel of Luke that we get
the beautiful story abo-. t the Virgin,
So far ^ Matlhew is concerned, we
know her on1y a * wife of Jose P p
and the mother of our Lord,
" Hp ' ^mearL”jeh7 !° j 3 ® called .
ame Jos
vah is sa .i va tion.” The first Joshua
iaC i led the people into the promised
’and; the second Joshua, a high
the Babylonian exile; the third
far greater significance than were
all his predecessors
We are told that the purpose of
his coming was that he might save
j his people from their sins.
j would This, have we might been good naturally assume for his
news
dtapSmem mJn
Mt over this circumstance which
' caused them first to reject- Jesus and
- finally to crucify him. They wanted
a strong military leader like David
or Joshua, who would drive the
of a Roman from Pa,es,ine and set
up * Jf ' wtsh kingdom which wound
make men everywhere
whfn j udas discovered that Jesus
did not. intend to establish that kind
0 f kingdom at all, his disappoint
ment was so keen that he went out
and bargained with the high priest
a nd his associates to deliver
t0 ,hem for thir( y pieces of silver,
They were not looking for a ssv
. f did they
lour rom s®. nor
I such a person. They wanted a glor
ious so idier who would save
not from their sins, but from the
cruel sinners whom a Roman era
peror had sent into their
to tax, to rule and to abuse
Jesus came to eslabli »h an
spiritual kingdom—the rule of
in men's hearts.
The fact that this kingdom
into the world in the person of a
| little baby indicates that
is its out standing characteristic
2 An Obedient Servant
The outstanding characteristic
Joseph in tthe Old Testament
that he always obeyed certain high
er powers and principles. In the
of temptation he was adamant,
cause his life was built on the
of principle and faiih.
The New Testament Joseph,
band of Mary, was the same
of person. He, too, lived a life
0 ^ d ‘ pnce t0 cer « a |» higher pr power*
to his dream, that he ' must ?’ 10U
Mary Rway . his P , an was
completely by this revelation. He
from sleep "and did as the
fnJ of the Lord commanded
Having received instructions
on h igh ’ he nei<her faltered
; questioned. . He obeyed as one
lived ' lndp r the domination of
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moment that we can follow our
own desires and still serve Christ,
we are mistaken.
Joseph showed himself to be a
real servant of God when, without i
question, he did the will of God
that had been revealed to him- And;
we are told that even Jesus pleased
not himself.
3 Kingdom Standards of Great
ness
The disciples came to Jesus on one
oocasion and asked tha question
"Who, then, is greatest in the king
dom of heaven?’’ We are told that
Jesus called a little child to him and
set him in the midst of them.
The religion of Jesus Christ puts
the child at the center of every
thing.
How different this is from the
kingdom of the world! Her prosper
ity, national power, pleasure, luxury,
and wealth all come before the in
terests # of the child. According to
the standards of the world, children
are little people who some day will
grow into adults and amount to
something- But according to Jesus
the child is of supreme value as a
child, and not just because he Jus j
an adult in the making.
Jesus loved the characteristics of
childhood—humility, obedenoe, and
innocence. He declared that unless
older people could keep throughout
the ed qualities, whole of they their lives these bless-1
could not expect to
enter into the kingdom.
The baby Jesus was born, and on
ly a few people, apprised by heaven
of the significance of the event
paused to give glory to God. Cer
tainly the Almighty could expect to
accomplish much in a world of hard
realities with a little baby. If He
wanted to overcome the world. He
should have sent legions of angels.
Among his disciples Jesus found
the spirit of the w r orld entrertched.
They worshiped bigness. Jesus put a
child in their midst to show them
that God’s power works through lit
tle things- Also he used the nature
of the child to convince his disciples
that God will use humility, obedi
ence and innocence to pull down the
proud power of man.
One of the mast important dec
larations m an the today:' gosoei is found
in °ur lesson "Except ye
turn, and become as little children,
L e shal1 in no wise ent€r into the
kingdom of heaven."
Everyone who calls himself a
Christian should continually check
up his life by that standard to see
whether he is truly serving God.
The mast dreadful condemnation
Jesus passed upon any group of peo
ple was upon those who cause the
little ones to stumble.
who,!
by design or carelessness, turns lit- 1
t» feet into wrong pathways of!
!ife This means of course those who:
teach ness who children corrupt any them sort of by wicked-1 putting
>
temptation in their way, and who!
lead their ives to ruin by pandvr-,
Ing to their weaknesses and lead
ing them into habits which finally
I destroy character.
It makes us shudder to realize how
fearfully the condemnation of God
rests upon men and women every-|
Where who by their example, their|
counsel, the things they teach, th-■
way they entertain, may be corrupt -
mg the lives of children and youth
one day certain fond narenU
brought their children to Jesus tha;
he might lay his hands upon them
and pray. The Master was pleased,
Jesus, to this very hour; is bless-1
ing parents who bring their children
to him.
But the disciples were irritated by
this intrusion of the parents and
! their children. Ti ey felt that the
j establishing of God s kingdom on
earth was so important that the
Messiah should not be bothered with
| such trifling matters. They rebuke:. | I
the parents therefore and tried to
send them away. In another gospe
j we are told that Jesus was angry I
with his disciples because this '
: of
The anger of Jesus did not flare ;
up
very often but when it did, it was
! always against people who could not
appreciate the value of love,
Turning to his disciples, Jesus tokl j
| them belonged that the kingdom of heaven j
to children. By this he
doubl ’! s ' s " ieant ,ha ^ ™ that 1
do mthe desires and ideals of the
world will mean nothing, and the
innocence, love, faith and eagerne.s. c
of childhood will mean everything,
A* a good child Is to a loving par- 1
ent, so God wants us to be to the;
Heavenly Father through him. in j
that kingdom love holds full and;
final sway, and humility and faith
, cuM splrll „„ .„
I the kingdom s^t forth,
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