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COVINGTON, GEORGIA
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Official Organ of Newton County and The
City of Covington.
Schools Open for Fall Term
In just a little over two weeks now the county and
city schools will open'for their Fall term. All the school
houses throughout the county are being reconditioned and
placed in splendid condition for the comfort and protection
of the school children
The Covington school is remodeling the upper floor
and making the auditorium into class rooms. It is planned
to use the auditorium in the new gymnasium building for
chapel exercises and other meetings.
The mothers of the city will begin to get their chil
dren ready for school and The Covington News will carry
1 a special School Edition next week for their benefit.
The merchants of the city will cooperate and will
carry advertisements next week carrying special prices
for the school children. This city is fortunate in that the
merchants of our city carry a complete stock of school sup
plies as well as clothing of every kind for the school chil
dren.
Patronize your home merchants with the sense of se
curity that you are purchasing just as good clothes at just
as cheap a price, quality considered, as you could buy else
where. The merchants of the city contribute to the upkeep
of the school through their taxes and are also ever ready
to actively participate or contribute to any activity of the
various schools throughout the county and in the city.
Through this cooperation they deserve your support
and through their prices you will gain by patronizing them.
Look for the special School Edition to be published next
week and profit thereby.
Home Defense Corps
Elsewhere in this issue is a story telling the details of
the forming of an organization of a Home Defense Corps.
It is to be formed from the ranks of the World War Vet
erans of this county.
John Bob Weaver has been appointed captain of the
corps and a call for volunteers has been issued to make
up the personnel. Out of the number of applicants which
are expected to volunteer a corps of 20 men will be
formed. j
It will indeed be an honor to be chosen as one of these
men to defend our own city. That this duty is delegated
to the World War veterans is a guarantee that the duty
will be performed well by experienced men.
We salute each and every one who will have the priv
ilege of serving and feel that in choosing John Bob Weav
er as the captain that the choice was well made.
German Propaganda Continues to Arrive
Practically every week there comes to our desk
through the mail many pieces of literature containing
German propaganda. Most of it comes out of the city of
New York where evidently the German publicity control
bureau is located.
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At first we highly resented these pieces of literature
but there came a thought to our mind which we desire to
pass on to you. The very existence of these pieces and the
fact they are permitted to go through the mail is a testi
mony against them.
When we read them and see how they are trying to
explain away the high handed actions of Herr Hitler, we
breathe a prayer of Thanksgiving that we live in a country
where people are free to give thought or oral as well as
written expression to any idea which they may believe.
We are thankful as’ we read this pernicious literature
that we live in a country where people are free to have an
opinion. That that opinion is not regimented as it is in
Germany and as we read we know those people who write
this literature, as servants of Hitler, are in bondage.
The latest piece of literature we received today issued
by the German Library of Information, 17 Battery Place.
New York, contains the purported official translation of
Herr Hitler’s address to the Reichtag, made on. July 19,
1940 ;
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The piece of literature is entitled “Appeal for Peace.
1 The foreword contains the following explanation: j
“The present documentary issue contains the com
address ^lete official delivered translation before the of Chancellor German Hitler’s historic
Reichstag, July 19,
19401 The reader will notice that, far from constituting an I
‘ultimatum or a demand for capitulation it stresses the
Fuhrers desire lor constructive work and offers a last 1
opportunity to make peace before exacting needless bloody
sacrifices from the belligerents.’’ I j
The absurdity , ... of . this document , , will ... appeal , x to
men
who are born free and equal and are allowed to continue
to live in this state. Only people who have been regiment
ed into the same thought, as the German people have been
under Hitler would swallow such propaganda for a min
ute. especially after what has transpired after the speech |
was made.
That is why such literature will do little harm. How
ever, it behooves all American citizens to guard against
such attempts to influence the mind. This- also should
put us on our guard against these “Fifth Columnists’’ op
erating in our own country.
We are not at war with Garmany, however, and there
1 should be no attempt to prosecute anyone unjustly. Re- j
member to be tolerant in all things but not to let tolerance !
make you foolhardy. I
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“AHEROCAW I
Sunday School Lesson
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gods care of his people
The Twenty-third Psalm is
probably the most outstanding
poem in any language. It was Da
vid’s faith at its best, and through
out the centuries it has cheered
the hearts ol multitudes.
The Hebrews were God’s chosen
people, set aside for the purpose ol
revealing his will to mankind. It
is not surprising that out of their
life should have come some of the
loveliest poetry in all the world,
David, their greatest king, was
also their most distinguished poet.
Had he done nothing but write
certain Psalms, his lame would
have been assured. The famous
Twenty-third Psalm which we
study today was undoubtedly writ
ten by this great figure who was
at one and the same time warrior,
musician, and poet.
It is natural that in thinking
and speaking of God, David should
have employed the figure of the
Good Shepherd.
He was the forerunner of the
one who a thousand years later
was to speak of himself the !
as
Good Shepherd and of his follow
ers as the sheep,
David himself had been ft shep
herd boy. He was born into hum
ble surroundings, as many of the
world’s great have been. His fa
ther, Jesse, was a citizen in the
village of Bethlehem and was evi
dently, as David himself said, e
man whose position bore no dis
tinction. David's great-grandmoth
er had been Ruth, the Moabitess.
Many a day David had tended
his father's flocks and had led
them to green pastures and beside
still waters. In a land which was
arid during a considerable part of
the year, the shepherd’s chief task
was to find water holes and ver
dant spots for his flocks. The life
of the shepherd is always a con
templative one; and as David led
his sheep about in the vicinity of
Bethlehem, his work no doubt
suggested to his mind that as God
was like a shepherd for leadership
and security, so the man of true
religious faith can put his trust in
Jehovah.
Notice that David’s interest in
religion was practical. He seems
to have had very little theological
interest.
He thought of his relationship
with God as something to be car
ried into the simple acts of life to
make them effective.
Gods revealed truth is at one
and the same time simple and pro
found. ft is so simple that the most
ignorant can understand it, and
yet so profound that the wisest are
not able to plumb its depths. The
Bible teaches us that God is a
Heavenly Father who loves his
children and is able by his power
personal relationship which he en
joyed with the Most High.
The reason this Twenty - third
to keep them. When men learn
these simple facts about Almighty
God, they have a genuine basis
upon which to build a life of peace
and righteousness,
“Jehovah is my shepherd.” This
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Psalm has become uc h a vehicle
f 0r the expression of religious de
xotion is that it is so simple. True
religious faith is built not upon
profound philosophy, but upon a
simple trust in the loving pur pos
es of God.
David had discovered the great
reli sious truth that the bqpt we
know in ,he nature of man can be
assumed to exist in the nature of
God.
The qualities he had, which
make a good shepherd on earth,
can be depended upon to exist in
the heart of the Good Shepherd
who is in heaven.
David believed that God’s first
thought is for the sustaining of
life. He had probably been im
pressed by the fact that the order
ly prece^on of the as
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the animate world. He had come
to see that God sustains every
thing he creates. Also he had ob
served in his own life and in the
lives of those about him that ev
erything needed for the sustaining
of body and soul is freely given,
and that God fashions every cir
cumstance of life in such a way
that the devout soul is led indeed
into green pastures.
He restoieth my soul- David
was a great religious genius whose
soul thirsted continually for the
things of God. He knew that what
was great and dominant in him
was present in some measure in
the life of all men. And he knew
also that the God who had created
this craving for spiritual things
would see to it that it was ful- I
filled. The Good Shepherd would
indeed restore the soul — renew
and sustain it in the midst of life’s
troubles.
He who sets each man to the
task of preparing his soul for
eternity will make available those
powers by which the soul is re
freshed and saved.
Best of all, “He leadeth me in
the paths ■of righteousness.” These
feet of ours are wayward and love
BENNETT ft * t COFER
Covington, Georgia
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often lo follow the broad highway
which leadeth to destruction. But
when we trust in the Lord, we
may be sure that his hand of love
will lead us into circumstances
that will make it easy to do right
and hard to do wrong.
If men will put their trust in
God, they, will find that every
promise of his Word is at last ful
filled in providential acts. “Eye
hath not seen nor ear heard, neith
er have entered into the heart of
man, the things which God hath
prepared for them that love him’’
(A.V.)
The valley of the shadow is one
of the most real places in life. Ev
eryone has to pass through it
sometime during his pilgrimage.
Nowhere is God’s love for us
shown forth so appealingly as in
the experience of trouble.
God evidently intends that the
circumstances of life shall mold
our souls and prepare us for etern
ity. Our lives need for their
growth both the sunshine of joy
and the cloud and storm of sor
row.
When men and women face
life’s tragedies without religious
faith, they bear a burden which
God in his love never intended
they should bear. Trouble is hard
enough even when one is support
ed by religious faith, but when we
have to bear it without the sus
taining conviction that the love
of God is wider than the measure
of men’s minds, then indeed is the
burden intolerable. The difference
between religious and non-relig
ious people as they confront trou
ble and loss is that trouble makes
the non-religious man bitter, while
it deepens the soul and strength
ens the moral purpose of the re
ligious man.
Those who really have religious
faith can face the evils of life, sus
tained by the comforting convic
tion that G od is with them; and
■ such being the case, He will, as St.
Paul dec i ared centuries later, make
ad things work together for good
to them that love H im (Romans
g: 28 )
His rod and his staff comfort us.
That j Sj his discipline is intended
not to punish us and make us mis _
erablei but to guide us — as the
shepherd’s staff guides the sheep—
and to bring us out of the danger
of corruption and into the security
0 f r j gb t living,
Only the religious man can find
comfort in the chastening of God.
Lf we appreciate his loving pur
poses, we shall not ery out in bit
terness against Him.
We shall, like our Lord Himself,
see the travail of our soul and be
satisfied.
The Twenty-third Psalm begins
with a confident declaration of
faith; it ends with a note of tri-
umph. David declares that even
though he walks through the val
ley of the shadow -of death and
knows the disciplining power of
the rod and staff in the hand of
God, nevertheless God prepares a
table before him in the presence
of his enemies.
In all these troubles David had
trusted God. And although some
times he was driven almost to de
spair, hope, it seemed, never en
tirely forsook nim. When the oil of
coronation was poured upon his
head and he was made king in
Saul’s place, he must have been
impressed with the realization that
God is a God of jjustice and that
circumstances mount up to tri
umph in the life of a man whose
faith remains unshaken. There
comes a day when in truth God
annointed his head with oil, and
when the cup of his jojy and bless
ing ran over as God poured out of
his chalice the sparkling wine of
his love.
Gratitude is a rare virtue, and
the quality of a man’s love for
God is more truly gauged by the
extent to which he is thankful
than by any other means.
Men quickly cast themselves in
to the arms of God when trouble
overwhelms them. It is only those
of princely nature, however, who
seek out God in seasons of joy and
with full hearts thank Him for his
goodness. Upon such a man God
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pours his richest blessing. Good
ness and mercy follow him all the
days of his life; he abides in the
house of the Lord forever.
The Twenty-third Psalm has
comforted more hearts than any
combination of words ever writ
ten down by the hand of man. The
fact that it has been so gloriously
used is evidence of the fact that it
was written under the inspiration
of God’s Spirit. A simple man of
God, who in his youth had been a
shepherd boy, used the delightful
memories of his early days to ex
press the. beautiful relationship he
had with God.
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fessor of English at Emory Uni
versity, has met an eight o’clock
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