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To some of us as we read the above, those words
may seem ironic in view of the present state of affairs but j
as we ponder over these things we must still believe other
portions of the Book from which this is quoted.
Peace is where you find it. If you have peace in i j
your Own heart there is peace in the world for you. Jf
you have peace in your own heart you must necessarily
have good will toward all men, for these two are
synonymous.
In the present state of the World it is good for us to
pause at this season of the year and symbolically live the
birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. As we give
presents this year let us give them in His Name, symboli
cal of the gifts (he Wise men brought to the Christ Child
as he lay in the manger at Bethlehem.
We've often thought one of the greatest quotations we
have ever heard is the following by an unknown author:
“'Memory is a great thing, but the true token of nobility
is the power to forget.’’ Our Great and Wise Creator
knew there would be many things in our lives which we
would not care to remember.
He knew we would want to be able to forget the
sorrows and misfortunes of this world as well as to re
member all those hours of .joy which we have been privi
leged to enjoy. So, in giving us the power to forget he
gave us one of his greatest blessings.
On this Christmas morn let us forget, for the day,
war and death, persecution and grief and all the other
sorrows of the world. Let’s make this a Christmas of
joy as far as is possible in our hearts, remembering that
“all things work together for good for those who love
the Lord.”
Our nation is a Christian nation. It was founded by
our forefathers who desired to worship Cod in their own
way. It has been preserved as such by the Bill of Rights
and we sincerely trust no generation will ever forget this
fact.
Our nation will celebrate Christmas in a fitting man
ner this year and we trust ere the next day which we
celebrate the birth of Christ we will truly have “On earth
peace, good will toward men.’’ Some have little hope
of this coming to pass, but in our half century of life on
this earth we have found that all things are possible and
we trust this will come to pass. If we will it strong
enough, pray hard enough and work toward that end, it
is entirely possible.
Numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas
brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment. Many
families whose members have been dispersed far and
wide, in the restless struggle for life, are then reunited,
and meet once again in that happy state of companion
ship and good will which is a source of pure and un
alloyed delight, and one so incompatible with the cares
and Sorrows of the world, that the religious beliefs of the
most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the rough
est savages alike, number it among the first days of a
future state of existence, provided for the blest and happy.
Qbw many old recollections, and how many dormant
sympathies Christmas time awakens. We write these
words now many miles distant from the spot at which,
year after year, we met on that day, a merry and joyous
circle. Many of the hearts that throbbed so gaily then
have ce.sed to beat; many of the looks that shone so
brightly then have ceased to glow; the hands we grasped
have grown cold; the eyes we sought have lost their lus
ter inC the grave; and yet the old house, the room, the
merry voices and smiling faces, the jests, the laughs, the
most minute and trivial circumstances connected with
those happy meetings crowd upon our mind at each re
currence of the season as if the last assemblage had been
but yesterday.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to
the delusions of our chlidish days, recall to the old man
the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back
to his own fireside and quiet home. The world of today
with its horror is completely lost in the reveries of our
youth-. •
After this Christmas day has passed we will once
more resume the everyday tasks and remember once again
that our great nation is at war. We will keep the faith
with our boys as they go to fight the enemy, keeping the
home fires burning and the religious beliefs in our heart,
remembering to keep our church and other religious
ganizations working for their return.
And as we think of the days to come we will keep
ever clear in our minds our faith and trust in the Giver
of all Good Things.
In closing we desire to wish all our many friends the
happiest Christmas they have ever experienced, remem
bering :
We are not sure of sorrow,
And joy was never sure!
Today will die tomorrow;
Time stoops to no man's lure;
And love, grown faint and fretful.
With lips but half regretful,
Sighs, and with eyes forgetful,
v V eeps that no loves endure.
From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives forever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere to the sea.
—Swinburne.
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^Sunday School Lesson j
The Christian’s Hope
Lesson—John 14:1-6; Rev. 22:
1-5.
“Let not your heart be troubl
ed" is the fundamental theme
that interweaves itself through all
the strains and chords of this
grand symphony, the melodic
germ that blooms into all this
matchless music.
Sorrow, of course must pour it
self out in grief and tears, the
wounded heart must bleed. The
Bible is not an iron book that
would crush our feelings into in
sensibility. Yet the soul in sorrow
should not be lashed and torn like
an angry sea, but should possess
itself in patience and its central
depths should be filled with peace.
Jesus gives profound and pow
erful reasons for this untroubled
heart.
“Believe in God” is the tonic
note of this comfort, the corner
stone that can sustain the intoler
able weight of this weary world
and shape it into peace.
When we know that God reigns
we know that no atom can get
out of its place, that no creaturely
will can thwart his purpose, and
that all things work together for
good to thdtn that love him.
“Believe also in me” is the sec
ond chord, growing out of and
completing the first. Christ is
the manifestation of God, reveal
ing his heart of sympathy and
love. Therefore faith in God finds
its logical completion and crown
in Christ.
Jesus comforts troubled hearts
by drawing them into sympathy
with himself and enfolding them
in the Fatherhood of God.
Trust God and trust Jesus—this
is the cure for all our trials and
sorrows, a song in the night that
can sing and soothe our troubled
hearts into peace.
The Master now wove this pri
mal faith into triumphal chords of
hope. "‘In my Father's house
are many mansions.”
He opens the door into the other
world and shows us that it is
not a dark void where our con
scious life is lost in oblivion, but
a many-roonied, many-storied
house, a grand mansion where our
Father makes his home.
“If it were not so, I would not
have told you." Of course he
would, fee he always told the
truth. Would he leave us under
any delusion on so vital a fact
as future life?
‘“For 1 go to prepare a place for
you.” Wonderfully suggestive and
comforting are these words. Je
sus Christ has not vanished into
nothingness, but has gone to a
place.
He knew whither he was going
and simply stepped through the
door of death into the Father’s
home.
Jesus has gone to prepare this
place—there he is still at work.
Heaven is not a place of eternal
idleness and stagnation, but of
intense activities where all powers
are urged to the utmost and the
mightiest plans are being carried
on and where God himself is busy
doing his best. Jesus has gone
“to prepare a place for you’’—
then he is still our servant; still is
the Lord of creation building a
home for us and laying up his
treasures for us.
How richly will this place be
furnished after it has had lavished
upon it the wealth of Christ’s
wisdom and beauty and power
and felt (he finishing touch of his
hand?
Since this earthly house has
been builded so magnificently and
sculptured and painted so richly
and splendidly what a world of
grandeur and beauty will not that
heavenly place be where tire re
deemed dwell through eternity
with the spirits of just men
made perfect and with Jesus?
At lhis point occurred an in
terruption. Jesus assumed that
his disciples understood where he
was going and how he was about
to depart, but bewildered Thomas
spoke up and said, “Lord, WC
know not whither thou goest;
how know we the way?”
The frequent misunderstanding
,Iesus his disciples, especial
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in llght and of their ma
te rial hopes, is one of the pathetic
things of the gospels.
Thomas’ question elictied the
answer, “I am the way, and the
truth, and the life: no one cometh
ur.to the Father, but by me."
This disclosed , the goal to which
Jesus was going and the way: he
was going to the Father and for
' evermore is the to him.
way
Christ is the way to the Father
; >n that he brings God near to us
i and reveals him to us as our Fa
ther: in that he atones for our sin
j and clears the path for us back to
! him: and in that he is the ex
! ample after which we are to be
! fashioned into the full and fair
i image of the sons of God.
The way is the path of conduct
; in which we are to walk; the truth
! is the light of know ledge falling
upon our path; and the life is the
end to which the way and the
truth are the means. This way
and truth and life are all found
in Christ, and in following him we
shall not wall in da-'.oess, bu*
I shall have the light of life.
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We live in a world darkened by
many shadows in which we often
get confused and lost, but in
Christ we have the Light of the
world and a path of certainty and
peace. ■
This drew from Philip the pa
thetic appeal, “Lord, show us the
Father, and it sufficeth us.” An
other instance of blindness in the
disciples. It would seem that
Philip could hardly have been lis
tening to Jesus, or he would not
have so missed the point.
“Show us the Father” is the
universal cry of the human heart
through all ages.
The most hideous idol of wood
or stone has in it this great truth
that it is the feeling of some
human heart alter God if happily
it may find him. The whole world
is one great altar at which thi:
cry goes up day and night. The
coarsest materialist or the most
confirmed agnostic cannot wholly
suppress the stirring of this in
stinct, the silent yearning of his
heart after the Father, and very
pathetic are many of their con
fessions.
Philip’s exclamation was re
ceived by Jesus with almost pain
ful surprise: “How long have I
been with you, and dost thou not
know me, Philip?”
How long shall we be with
Christ, in the presence of his ex
ample and teaching, and yet not
know him?
Then Jesus said, “He that hath
seen me hath seen the Father.”
This is one of the truest sayings
of Ch> ist, full of the profoundest
truths and comforts of the gospel.
Christ is the visible manifesta
tion of God which has so long been
the search and hope of the world.
All the qualities of Christ, his per
sonality and truth and sympathy
and love, manifested the fatherly
nature of God. He came out of
God as the light out of the sun,
disclosing the central splendor at
its heart, or as a blossom blooms
out of a plant, revealing its inner
nature of sweetness and beauty.
In seeing Christ we see God
as though we looked upon his face
and into his heart.
Christ is the incarnation of God,
God manifest in the flesh. Great
is this mystery, but it is the bles
sed truth of the gospel, the mys
tery that contains and explains all
other mysteries of God’s redeem
ing love.
We . accept this fact because it
rests om Christ’s own word who
tells us only truth and because it
is confirmed by the many proofs
of his person and work.
This truth properly grasped and
experienced is also full of com
fort to the troubled heart.
Jesus now turned his departure
that so perplexed and pained the
disciples into a great and splendid
promise. “Verily, verily, I say
unto you. He that believeth on me,
the works that I do shall he do
also, and greater works than these
shall he do; because I go unto
my Father.”
His departure, then, was not so
much confusion and loss in his
work, but it was progress and
gain.
It was needful that he should
go back to the Father in order
that the kingdom might go for
ward. His was was not to stop,
but was to be continued by his
disciples. The power that would
slip from his hands would fall
into theirs, and the same work
that he did they should do also.
Yes, greater works should they
do, his power should develop and
multiply in their hands and work
along broader lines and strike
deeper into human hearts and in
stitutions.
It was Jesus himself that said
this, and therefore it must be true
and subtracts nothing from him.
Every great person is more
powerful after his death than in
life, as he is released from local
conditions and is able to cast long
shadows down the ages and prop
agate his teachings and influence
through the centuries and mold
distant generations and fertilize
far-off civilizations. Plato illus
trates this point.
The moral miracles and Irans
formations wrought by Christian
ity as it has marched through the
j world wrought are greater works than
! those by Jesus on the
! plains and mountains of Judea.
His works then excited wonder
j among a few , provincial . . Jews, but
j now his thoughts sown by his dis-
1 ciples are blooming on every
; shore. This is the peer of God
! unto salvation exceeding in great
j ness every other manifestation of
divine working and this power
* may flow through our hands.
I Here is a work committed to us
I surpassing the works of genius
that drew the attention to the
! world.
The smallest and weakest of us
are so interlinked with the pres
ence and work of Christ in the
world that we can touch the
; whole world with healing uplift
mg hands and help to send
j streams of mercy to its most
distant shore.
We can do greater works than
J - us because we live in a greater
I and more unified world.
(Largest Coverage Any yreekly In the State)
—NEWS FROM—
EICORA I
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Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Lewis spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Elliott, of Newborn.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Lowery
visited Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lowery,
of Colvin, Sunday.
Miss Mary Helen Aaron, who
attends the Martha Berry Schools,
arrived Monday to spend the
Christmas holidays with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Orell Aaron.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Corley, Jr.,
and children, of Starrsville, spent
Saturday night and Sunday with
Mrs. Corley’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Allen.
Mr. Raymond Layson, who has
been in the CCC camp at Chipley
for the past year, is spending
some time with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Floyd Layson.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dooley, of
Fort Benning, spent Saturday
night with Mr. Frank Dooley and
family.
Mr. Roy Leverette, of Brick
Store, visited Mr. and Mrs. Reu
ben Millen, Sunday.
Mr. Wilson Boyd, of the FFA
camp in Newton county is spend
ing the Christmas holidays with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer
Boyd.
Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey Johnson
and little son, of Monticello, spent
Sunday with Mrs. Johnson’s par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. T. King.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Kelley, of
Kelley, attended preaching at
Prospect Sunday and were dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Kelley and Mrs. J. H. Kelley.
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Cun
ard and children, of Atlanta, spent
the week-end with relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Gunnells
and little daughter, Betty Jean,
left Tuesday for Covington, where
they will reside in the future.
Mr. Wilmer Cain ,of Atlanta,
and Mr. and Mrs. Pat Jeffries
and little daughter ,of Porterdale,
visited Mr. and Mrs. Clifford
Lynch Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Barnes, of
Macon, were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Loice Allen, Sunday.
Mr. Frank Dooley and Miss
Grace Dooley visited Mrs. Dooley
at Emory University hospital in
Atlanta, Friday.
Mr. Frank Dooley, Miss Grace
Dooley, Mr. and Mrs. Venus Aa
ron and sons, Francis and Bobby,
Mr. and Mrs. Orell Aaron and
Miss Nellie Deane Aaron attended
the singing at Bethel Sunday af
ternoon.
Friends of Miss Cleo Aaron,
who was ill last week will be
pleased to know that she is im
proving.
—NEWS FROM—
OXFORD
BY MRS. W. L. FLOYD
Rev. and Mrs. C. S. Forester
will leave Wednesday for Ten
nessee to spend several days with
his father.
Mrs. W. P. Turner, and Mrs. W.
F Callahan, have gene to Emory
University to spend the week witn
friends.
Miss Ann Calvert, of Atlanta,
will arrive Wednesday to spend
several days with her mother, Mrs.
J. C. Calvert.
Miss Frances Baker, from Win
terville will spend the holidays
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
James Baker.
Mr. and Mrs. Hershel Ray, Sr.,
and daughter, Gloria, will spend
Christmas Day in Atlanta with
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Floyd.
Dr. and Mrs. Frank Wilhite, ar
rived Saturday to spend the
Christmas holidays with their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fay Peek.
| Mr. Vu'gil Dearing is at home to
spend the Christmas holidays. He
i ‘ s stationed at Camp Stewart.
’ Mr. Wilber Harwell and his
| mother, Mrs. R. F. Harwell and
j Mrs. William Ellis, attended the
marriage of Mrs. Harwell's niece,
I Miss Sara Aiken, of Madison and
Macon, Saturday evening, at 8
o’clock, at the Mulberry Street
Methodist Church at Macon. She
married Mr. John Terricon, of
Savannah.
Mr. Jule Bagsby from Winder
1 was the guest Sunday of his aunt,
! Mrs. Minnie Sandling.
Rev. and Mrs. Henry Ayers, of
j Be i gium Congo :' Africa, ’ formerly
of Nfw York C ty were overnight
. Ruests Mondav of Mr and Mrs
. .
R F Harwell enroute to West
p oinl Qa„ and Charleston. S. C.,
: wllere they will spend the holi
d ays with relatives,
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Letter From Our Congressman
Capitol Hill,
Washington, D. C.
December 20, 1941.
My Dear Constituents:
Members of Congress and their
secretarial forces will long re
member the past week as one of
the busiest ever experienced on
Capitol Hill. Committees have
been meeting in the morning until
the House sessions began at noon,
and have resumed their work at
night after the House sessions
ended. The mails have been
heavy, many anxious parents and
wives inquiring as to the welfare
of soldiers, sailors and marines on
duty with our forces in the Pa
cific.
We have given the right-of-way
to legislation necessary to the
prosecution of the war. Appro
priations for naval construction
and army and navy equipment
have been passed. Authority to
send the drafted men outside the
Western hemisphere has been
voted. A bill has been passed
requiring all men between the
ages of 18 and 64 to register, and
those between the ages of 21 and
45 will be subject to active mili
tary duty. Broad powers have
been granted the President as
Commander-in-Chief of the Army
and Navy in order to speedily or
ganize our war effort and success
fully carry on the war.
The “Trading with the Enemy
Act’’ has been revised, and laws
controlling aliens passed. Rigid
censorship of all communications
has been invoked. To give some
idea of this, I will describe an
incident that came under my
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observation. Mr, Elizalde, Resi
dent Commissioner for the Philip
pine Islands, desired to talk to his
brother in Manila over the tele
phone. Before the call could be
placed, he had to write out the
questions he desired to ask and
submit them to the censor. He
talked to his brother but he was
only allowed to inquire as to the
health of his family.
Upon the return to Washington
of Secretary of the Navy Knox,
full details were disclosed as to
the extent of the Pearl Harbor
and Hawaiian tragedy. We sus
tained a great loss of ships and
equipment, but the greatest loss
was the sacrifice of three
thousand brave boys. However,
everyone was thrilled to learn of
the bravery and spirit of our men
there, who shot down a large
number of the Japanese bombing
planes.
Several brave men from our
District were slaughtered in Ha
waii. Our hearts go out to their
loved ones in their sad bereave
ment, and a grateful nation
mourns with them.
There is complete unity here
and the whole country is deter
mined to work and fight day and
night until victory comes.
The President has ordered a
board of investigation, headed
Supreme Court Justice
to determine if anyone was at
fault at Pearl Harbor, and pend
ing this investigation he has re
lieved the Admiral and Generals
of their commands.
Hundreds of business men,
pecially veterans of the World
War, are writing in offering their
services.
The Government will classify
all men under the new registra
tion act and will call all those
who may be needed to fill partic
ular positions.
j WO uld like to give this infor
mation to parents and wives of
J our soldiers, sailors and marines,
A strict policy has been adopted
j n the Departments. No infor
ma tion will be given as to where
a particular regiment or ship is
located, but just as soon as news
is received that a man is wounded
or killed his nearest of kin will be
immediately notified, before any
such news is given the press or
anyone else.
We will have only a day or *o
for the holidays.
Wishing each and everyone of
you a Merry Christmas,
Sincerely,
A. SIDNEY CAMP. M. C.
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