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Official Organ of Newton County and Th* I
City of Covington.
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East Is East and West Is West
: The immortal lines of Rudyard Kipling may well be
< , ipplied to other sections ot , this country. They might . well
j changed to read North is North and South is South and
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never the twain shall meet. ’
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! - The recent remarks of Wendell Willkie in criticising
1 what President Roosevelt has done for the South is but the
I outcropping of the strain of a Yankee ancestor.
* There is still, and ever will be, a feeling in the hearts j
! of some people which will never be erased. There is a j
• North today, and a South exists today even as it did in the
days prior to 1861.
Whenever, and wherever there has been a difference
i of opinion in any nation or section of the country, that dif
i fererree will exist until time immemorial.
! On every hand you find the South has been discrim
inated against in every possible way. This discrimination j
has freight in the building '
' been evidenced in rates, of Fed- I
eral projects, amd in every way possible where a prepon- j
- derant Northern population has had a chance to express j
tfteir-p reference. i
Ilie latest outburst of Wendell Willkie is but another!
evidence of the feeling of Northern people where some j
good has been conferred upon the South. Some may lay it \
• to polities but politicians were responsible for the split in j
the North and South by insisting on favoring the North
due to The their South superior has often voting been power. referred to the “hope of! j
as
the Nation’’ in that its citizens are almost all of pure
Anglo-Saxon strain. The foreign immigrants have mostly
stayed in the North where they landed and intermarriages
have almost erased the true Anglo-Saxon spirit.
This is not true in the South and there are no more
loyal people in the Nation than those of Southern blood.
This has been illustrated over and over again. The papers
listments today carry in the a story U. S. that Army. Georgia The leads the Nation in en-1 I
same story was true in
1917 and also during the Spanish American war.
• In spite of this, however, the politicians * of the North ‘
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: "«l u 8t “ clannish . . . as the ,. v , hav « always , , been and Mr.
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■ Willkie . out against the favors shown the
is crying South
in true Northern spirit.
We have just returned from the National Convention
of the Sons of Confederate Veterans held in Washington
D. C. The same spirit was evidenced even in that conven
tion. A resolution was introduced to take Mount Vernon
from the parks department and return it to the War De
partment where it was originally developed.
Thiswasbrought about by the charging of an admis
. fee by the Parks Department true Yankee
sion in thrift
fashion. During the course of the debate the North and
South question was thoroughly reviewed and several flag- !
waving speeches for both the Union and the South were i
heard and these evidenced the old feeling still exists and
will ever exist in the hearts of men
the So, soiled it was not surprising to find Mr. Willkie bringing j !
out linen once more to be aired in public. There
is one thing which we have noted and that is the more Mr. I
Willkie talks the more votes he makes for President Roose
velt. - |
Talking with a good many men this past week in
Washington from various parts of the country we find the;
feeling is pretty nearly universal that if Mr. Willkie could!
be muzzled until after the election, the Republican party
might have a chance.
Many expressed the opinion that everv time Mr. Will
kie makes a speech he is working for the Democratic par-!
ty and there is no reason for anyone to campaign for the ]
Democratic party as long as Mr. Willkie is making speech
es supposedly for the Republican party but in reality bring- !
ing more votes to the Democrats.
Senator Russell and Congress
: - man Camp
We spent several days in our Nation’s capitol last
Week and spent a very enjoyable day with our Congress
roan Camp. He “showed us the sights’’ of the Capitol and
we also called up.» Senator Russell who was very gracious
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Congressman ( /-* amp states , . that ,, , Senator ; Russell „ is
highly very
regarded in the ( apitol. I hat he is one of the young
er ac'tive members of the Senate and is quickly upon his
feet to debate any bill which he thinks would not be bene
ficial to our country.
His knowledge of legislative matters is conceded by
his associates and Mr. Camp states he is a real power in
the Senate. A man of natural keen insight into legislative
matters due to his long exoerience in state and National
politics, Senator Russell is bringing credit to the state he
represents.
We were also pleased at the way in which Congress
man Camp is conducting his office and the interested man
ner in which he discusses important legislation. Congress
man'"Camp is a sincere, conscientious worker and is well
fitted for his important post.
We predict great things for him in the future. A man
who has an interest in his work and the welfare of his con ~ j
stituents at heart, cannot help but make a great record and
we predict just this for Congressman Camp.
W e a,so that the Georgia delegation in Con- i
another fT'T in ^ ie ‘ r attend
evidence e that it eat to be Georgian ,
1 is gi a and
(Our Advertiser* Are Assured of Results,
to have men in our Nation's Legislative Hall who are really
interested in their work.
Congressman Ramspeck, Vinson, Steve Pace, Paul
Brown and others were on the floor and interestingly de
bating the matters before Congress.
Sunday Scliool Lesson
Lesson: Luke 3,
The Message of John the Bap
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Golden Text: Brtng forth there
fore fruits worthy of repentance.
Luke 3:8.
Then came a great event; “The
Word of God came upon John . , .
in the wilderness.”
Nothing in all God’s creation is
so stupendous as the circumstance
here related. When the finger of
God reaches down and touches the
soul of man, immeasurable power
is released amid the affairs of
men when that divlne agent hap _
pens to be a man prepared as John
was by many years of sojourning
in £ ,he wilderness, the effect of
thls cooptation ° r human and di
vine agencies is bound to be ov
erwhelming.
For ten years John had made
the desert his habitation, ponder
ing the affairs of the world, the
spiritual decadence of his own
country, and the need everywhere
for a spiritual revival. He scorned
the soft life of the city.
For him the discipline of the
desert > combined with the disci
pline of prayer and meditation.
was preparing him to speak out a
message as rough and uncouth as
person, yet as penetrating as a
sword of steel.
He had a definite message 4-om
but it was not the full coun
that was to come later through
His words were preparato
- He was a voice cryin £ in * he
calling mens attention
the coming of one greater. Two
he required of his converts.
First, they should repent. The
repentance means to change
mind. It is not just sorrow
sin, but abandonment of sin.
meant then, and. it means to
to right-about-face and
in the direction of right
living,
For a,most four hundred years
aatlon had heard no P™P het
°* h L ° f . the “ S “ ddenly
the coming of John the peo
of God were electri f ie d. This
was what the truly sincere had
been waiting for through many
dark generations,
No preach**- ever treated his
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y than did John more When contemptuous- men ctme j !
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in mult itudes to hear him and
upon him to be baptized,
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warned
them t0 f!ee from the wrath to
You need not feel that you
fulfilled the divine require
ment, he said in substance, sim
P'y by saying you are free from
sins; you must bring forth
fruit worthy of repentance, it will
you no good on the day of
to protest that you are
Ab-aham’s children. God can turn
into Abraham's children if
He cares to.
Then he went on to declare that
coming of Christ would be at
one and the same time glorious
awful, it would be glorious in
that it would be the coming of the
of God to earth = 5t would be
in that his presence would
a man to choose either
fqr or against him. His words
cut and divide within the
circle of the family. He
stir a nation to its depths.
would save and heal men on
one side, but his very pres
would drive other men to
and murder.
John’s idea of the coming Mes
siah was that he would begin
around him with an ax.
that bore no ti-uit would be
down quickly and cast ir >to
fir< 7 He was n f ht 111 the lo " g
gentle, but if men refused him
a Saviour, they would have to
him as a judge on the
Day of Judgment, in the
of grace no effort would be
to make the tree fruitful,
if the grace of God was re- !
then would the ax cut down
destroy the unfruitful tree.
John spoke sternly in the face
an alarming situation where!
was needed. The Word
God came upon him, and the
was a glorious p-oclamation
... the truth, , .. for .
J prepa K mg – men
ministry ... of Jesus. ,
.. He urged , those .. who ... had suffi- ...
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. , , to share , with those who , , had ,
. sufficient. ....... If a man had , two!
. he , to .... to him who , 1
was give
none, and food if he had more than j
for himself and
family, he was to share the |
The him wicked and asked tax what gatherers their came du- j
should j j
be in view of their
He commanded them, j
substance, to stop their graft- j
for all tax gatherers extort- 1
m, \
To the soldiers he gave the com- ;
that they were not to pill-
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age or wrongfully accuse anyone. |
Furthermore, they were to be con- j
tent with their wages.
John is a great figure in Bible
history, but there is an infinite
mo-al distance between him and
Jesus, and no one knew this bet
ter than did John himself. The
people were not sure but that this
man John might indeed be the
Messiah. He was quick to disil
lusion them. He assured them that
while his influence upon men was
very necessary in preparation for
the larger message of Jesus, it was
superficial compu/ed with the in
fluence Jesus would have upon j
them. John could bring men to
repentance and seal that repen
tance with baptism try water. But
in addition to this, Jesus would
baptize with the Holy Spirit and
with fire.
John never seemed to tire of
emphasizing the sternness of the
coming Messiah. First he pictured
him with an ax in his hand, ready j
to cut down unfruitful trees. An
other figure he used was that o
a thresher with a fan in his hand
separating the chaff from the
wheat.
John was in deadly earnest a- j
bout the matter of establishing
definite stand,-*-ds of right and
wrong in men’s lives. Jesus agreed
with these standards but tried to
establish them not by telling men
what they must not do, but by
leading them to find God through
faith, and to serve Him gladly in ;
a spirit of loving devotion.
Strange as it may seem, Jesus
joined the throngs going down to ,
Jordan to hear John preach, and
was himself baptized.
Why did he need to be baptized?
He had committed no sin and could
not, tbsrefore, repent. Baptism
under these circumstances might
appear unnecessary and almost de
grading to the person of our Lord
But he insisted on being baptized
because he was art of a nation that
had sinned, and while none of the
sin was his, nevertheless he want- I
ed just to take if he this had sin upon himself j !
as actually commit
ted it, and be baptized as if he
were a common sinner.
All this fo-eshadows the great I
in-bearing experience he was to !
have on the cross Furthermore,
Jesus wanted to set a good exam
ple by this baptism and to show i
the nation that he was in absolute |
accord with the spiritual move- i
ment that originated in the I
preaching of John.
after Matthew Jesus and Luke tell us that j
came up out of the j
water, the heavens opened and the I
Spirit of God descended upon him
Luke emphasizes the fact that I
Jesus was praying after his bap
tism. Whatever else the baptism of
Jesus meant, it certainly meant-ti
reconsecration of his whole life
on our Lord’s part.
Observe what happened here, j
Jesus had consecrated himself to j
God anew and was p-aying for j
guidance, and suddenly the heav
ens opened.
Then the Spirit of God came
down with the fulness of divine
blessing. It came in the form of a
dove, representing simplicity and
sacrifice. Doves were used by the
poor people a great deal for sacri
ficial purposes, and they were al
ways regarded as the symbol of
peace and gentleness. The descent
of the Spirit, therefore, in the
form of a dove bespoke the. nature
and work of the Messiah. He was
to be meek and lowly of heart and
was to be sacrificed for the sin of
the world.
The third circumstance in this
treat drama was that the heavens
became articulate. “A voice came
out of heaven, Thou art my be
loved Son; in thee I am well
pleased.”
So here we have a beautiful
picture of how God works upon
the heart of consecrated humanity
When we offer up all to God and
pray fo~ guidance, his response
is the oening of heaven to us,
the coming of spiritual power into
lives, and the speaking of re
words to our souls. For
while he is above us in every way.
nevertheless typified in his
what must occur in our lives.
The baptism of , Jesus T and , the „
circumstances . accompanying f it
. picture . . of . how „ God .
give us a
'•ets , ,, the eager desire , . of , conse
, , , humanity ., and . satisfies .... it
. of . the riches of his Spirit.
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