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THE COVING ION NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
W. THOMAS HAY
Advertising Me ne ger
Official Organ of
Newton County
and the
City of Covington.
American Education Week
Last week, November 5-11, was observed
as the 30th American Education Week. The
national sponsors for this week are the
American Legion, National Education As
sociation. National Congress of P-TA and the
Federal Office of Education. The general
theme of the week for this year is Govern
ment of, by, and for the people.
People, plural of person, means you and I,
•nd our government is an organization of
our creation. It. is an organization which
must have our support and our criticism
We are its master and we are directlv re
sponsible for what it does, for all it does is
in our behalf.
Years of hardship, experienced by cen
turies of our predecessors and of which we
learn through our history books, plus ex
perience of two World Wars within one
generation, have proved that our system is
the best yet devised. These same experiences
Corn wunr O lesson foe
Sunday School
Scripture: Isaiah 1:11-17; Luke
4:16; John 4:19—26: I Corinthians
11:17—34; Colossians 3:16 He
brews 10:25—25.
Memory Selection: "God is
spirit, and those who worship
Mm must worship in spirit and
teath.” John 4:24.
This is a sadly mistaken notion,
<**trary in every particular to
the teaching of the Word of God.
Why is eommon worship both
the duty and the privilege of
every Christian? First, because it
brings together like-minded per
ians who in their fellowship en
emu rage and support one another
M the things pertaining to God.
Again, the church service affords
unparalleled opportunity for
teaching and exhortation. Last of
•ill. we should be aware that in
spiration of an indefinable qual- |
tty occurs in connection with
public worship which occurs no
where else in like manner.
There is nothing that can be
• substitute for a Christians
faithful attendance upon the
services of the church. Let us
lose no opportunity to assure our- ■
selves and others of the serious
ness and privilege of such a re
sponsibility.
It had been God's plan for the
Hebrew people that they should
rid the promise land of the last
vestige of idol worship, take full
possession thereof, and cultivate
• spiritual life apart from the
•ther nations of the world.
This detachment was necessary
until the day when the Hebrews
Would carry the full revelation
of God in Christ Jesus to a wait
ing and needy world.
But the divine plan was frust
rated by men’s iniquity. The He
brews mixed themselves with the
people of the land and adopted
much of their idolatry. Particul
arly did they succumb to the
pagan idea that when a man
offers sacrifices and carefully
meets other ritualistic require
ments, he has performed his full
religious duty.
Against this the prophets in
veighed endlessly. They emphaai
ed the truth, which had been
latent in Hebrew religon from the
beginning, that God is not satis
fied with a man's worship unless
worshiper is honestly trying
to lead a righteous life.
This seems like an obvious
trui h to moat of us today, but m
the ancient world it was a new
idea which had to fight for its
life.
It appears that in the time of
Isaiah many people who were
punctilious in meeting the ritu
alistic requirements of religion
were imtterly indifferent to its
moral requirements. Ritual had
been ordained from the beginning,
and Isaiah wanted to see it con
tinued; hut he warned the peopi«
to bring no more vain oblations"
int > God's house. He pictured the
Aimighty as weary of a multitude
of hypocrites who weue careful
to go thrpugh the motions of
religion but who were indifferent
to its substance
The lesson for every generation
is plain—the first requirement
of true worship <s sincerity.
Worship is not so much a mat
et doing something for God as
it is of putting ourselves in a
pi dt l n where God can do some
f„r u <.
.It costs » mcuiinf to be a
sincerity religious man or »«-
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i | man; it costs renunciation, self
। control, discipline, perseverance,
and faith.
We read in today's lesson the
remedy prescribed by Isaiah for
a spiritually ailing generation, and
we realize that this remedy per
| fectly meets our needs today.
First of all, we are to wash
ourselves and make ourselves
. clean. For the Christian this
means thrusting evil away—rid
ding one’s self of its defilement
and having nothing more to do
with it. But it means something
more. We read in Revelation
(7:14) that the saved who have
come through the tribulation in
cident to their redemption are
those v > have “washed theii
robes ar I made them white in
। the blood of the Lamb.”
Put away the evil of your
doings from before mine eves;
cease to do evil; learn to do well
I . . . . .’’The words which stand out
।in these commandments are
| strong action words. The singular
notion seems to persist among
many people that the way to get
the full benefit out of one’s re
ligious faith is to relax and to
let spiritual blessings come down
upon one like snowflakes falling
gently on the landscape. The
Bible teaches no such thing. There
is much of the passive element in
a religious experience—waiting,
watching, listening—but every
: true religious experience also
| involves energetic struggle.
; Thrusting unworthy and impure
I thoughts out of one’s mind, turn
ling from temptations, breaking
with evil practices—these things
are involved in the religious life
of practically every man or wo
man.
Sin is as old as the human
race. The determined attempt of
sophisticated writers, psycholo
gists. and liberal-minded educ
ators to convince our generation
that the idea of sin is an outworn
superstition encounters refutation
on every page of the Bible.
Isaiah was not content to deal
merely with the sin of individuals.
He realized that an individual is
a member of a social group and
that there are social sins as well
as individual sins. In his day the
cruel hand of the oppressor was
almost unrestrained. The rich
oppressed the poor; those in high
| position trampled upon the
humble; judges perverted justice
for a bribe; unscrupulous men
—a multitude in number—made
it a practice to wait until a man’s
death and then to pounce upon
the widow and orphans and
wrest their inheritance from
them.
In enlightened, democratic
I countries today, we have laws
which restain much of this
iniquity. Yet we must not forget
two things: first, that the least
relaxation of vigilance would
1 bring back these ancient evils;
second, that there is much more
social injustice even in our own
beloved country than we some
times realize. Oppression is not
unknown among us. Chicanery,
which results in the stripping of
the weak and unprotected, is still
an awful reafity in our national
life.
Be sure that God's vengeful
anger is waiting to destroy indi
viduals and nations which persist
in such iniquity.
W hen we look beyond the
i limits of our own land, we see
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
show that the best vehicle for preparing a
citizen for his active participation in our
government is education, for each person to
be schooled in his responsibility to his
government. Each generation inherits cer
tain freedoms, rights and privileges, duties
and reponsibilities, but each member of
each generation must be educated so that
he may best enjoy, exercise and perform in
his inheritance.
Government of, by and Tor the people
therefore is a living thing. It is part of us the
same as we are a part of it and if it is to
continue and improve, we must be informed
so that we can teach others. We must per
form well our duties and responsibilities so
that others will be inspired to studv and
take an interested and active part in the
preservation and improvement of our
government, the noblest achievement of
mankind.
a world in which material and
political benefits are very few*
the great mass of mankind is
hungry, serves some overlord in
slavish submission, learns how
to be content with a scant supply
of life’s necessities and with none
of its comforts.
The Bible does not urge
socialism, but it does command
all men so to order their lives
that the weak, the needy, and
the underprivileged may be given
every opportunity to live life to
its fullest.
There is only one cure for sin,
whether individual or social, and
that is the religious cure. Though
our sins be scarlet,. they shall
be white as snow; though they
be red like crimson, they shall
be as wool.
Mian’s repentance and God’s
forgiveness are the great double
gates through which we all may
pass from darkness and the mis
ery of sin to the light and joy of
redemption.
The Jew made much of the
place where worship occurred;
Jesus, by his coming, put an end
to localized religion and made
worship valid anywhere, provided
men are sincere. "For such doth
the father seek to be his worship
pers —that is, those who worship
Hirn in spirit and in truth. For
"God is a Spirit" (or, as the
marginal rendering has it, “God
is Spirit”).
God is Sprint—this describes
his substance. God is light—this
describes his intellect. God is
love—this describes his character.
We come in contact with God
through nature only when we
yield ourselves to the spiritual
side of our natures.
The word of Christ dwells in
us richly today when we listen
reverently to the reading of the
Bible and the exposition of the
minister; and this of course must
be supplemented with private
study of the Word.
There is too little admonishing
today in preaching and teaching.
What is the matter? Are we
afraid of our congregations or of
our Sunday school puplis or of
the church officials or of the ridi
cule of the pagan world? There
are flagrant evils today which
the Christian church has almost
ceased to rebuke.
Colossians 3:16 teaches us that
an adequate church service in
cludes reverent Bible reading,
diligent teaching, fearless preach
ing against sin. and a devout and
prayerful spirit. Much should be
made of song, and sinking should
be with grace in our hearts unto
God.
48 Cents Decides The
Outcome Os $128,000
Thomas W. Oastler, president
of the Tri-State Construction
Company of Atlanta, can hence- ।
forth look on 48 pennies as an
important bit of change. 'Hie
reason: A difference of only 48
cents determined which of two
Atlanta firms was the apparent
low bidder on a $128,000 Govern
ment contract.
Mr. Oastler’s firm offered to
repair buildings at Camp Gordon 1
near Augusta, for $128,568. He
was awarded the contract. The
runner-up lost out because his
bid was 48 cents higher than Tn-
State s Nine bids were opened
The United States produced 27
per cent of the world’s total pro
duction of coal in 1949 The
global output was 1.799 million
tons. America's output: 478 mil
lion tons
THE COVINGTON NEWS
News At G'cnce
About Georgians
| GIST OF THE NEWS: "Who
is the legal appointing power or
। authority in the State Depart
ment of Education?” That’s the
question the State Merit Board
posed to Attorney General
Eugene Cook. His answer: The*
i State Board of Education, and
not the State School Superin
tendent. is the top boss of the
department. But that wasn’t a
new opinion by the A. G He
merely sent the Merit Board a
copy of an opinion he had is
sued May 18. 1949, in a previous
dispute. It still stands, he said . . .
Meanwhile, more than 1 001)
teachers and school officials at
tending the Fifth District Educ
ation Association meeting in Dec
atur heard speakers urge the
removal from “politics of the
office of the state superintendent
of education and the state Board
of Education. One of those urg
ing such action was GEA Presi
dent Kankakee Anderson, of
I Cedartown . . . State revenue for
the first four months of the cur
rent fiscal year (July through
October) is up $4,586,630 over
the same period last year, ac-
jcording to Revenue Commissioner
.Charles D. Redwine. The current
j four-month total: $37,248,653
Atlanta led cities of more than
200,000 population in traffic death
decreases for the first nine
months of 1950. Atlanta decline
54 percent.
* • ♦ •
AROUND GEORGIA: A small
shoe factory may be established
at the proposed camp for de
linquent youths near Toccoa,
State Department of Corrections
Director R. E, Warren announced
at a recent meeting of the Cor
rections Board. Only transferral
of lease to the Toccoa propertv
by the Federal Government
Erle Cocke Day
Sei For Dawson
What promises to be one of the
largest "homecoming’' partie ever
staged in Georgia is shaping ip
in Dawson for Nov. 24 when
Major Erle Cocke Jr., newly
elected National Commander of i
the American Legion, will be
welcomed home. Immediately
upon being elected Commander
last month he began a speaking
tour of 18 states across the nation
and has not been back to Geor
gia since the Los Angeles conven
tion.
Thousands of Legionnaires and
state and national dignitaries
will attend. A two-mile-long
parade through Dawson, home
town of the 29-year-old Work!
War II hero, will highlight the
activities. Speeches by high
government and Legion offici
als. and appearances by movie
stars, also are scheduled.
Unanimously elected to head the
32-year -old, 3.000.000 - member
veterans organization, Major
Cocke became the first Georgian
and the youngest man ever to
hold that high post. He is a
former commander of the Legion’s
Georgia Department.
T. L. Jennings, of Dawson, is
chairman of the Homecoming Day
committee, and John Brock, state
eommander of the Legion, is
chairman of the distinguished
guests committee.
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WEDNESDAY NOV. 22
Don* Clark • Roth Roman
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THURI. . PR|. NOV. 23-24
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I stands in the way of establishing
the camp, which would provide
facilities for first, second and
third offenders among 17 to 23-
year-old boys, he said . . . Miss
■ Grace Tully, private secretary to
the late President Roosevelt for
, more than 17 years, who was
with him when he died in the
Little White House in 1945, came
back to Warm Springs the other
day for the first time since that
tragic hour. She advised officials
♦of the Franklin D. Roosevelt,
U arm Springs Commission, of
which Chrales F. Palmer is Chair
man, about the little, human trials
of FDR. The Little White House,
now a national shrine, attracts
thousands of visitors from al)
over the world . . . Alben Barklev,
vice- president of the United
Stales, will speak at the annual
Law Day ceremonies of Mercer
University’s Walter F. George
School of Law Nov. 16. . . j
Georgia has moved up a notch i
(from 14th to 13th) in the U. S. |
population race, according to U. '
S. Census Bureau ratings. It
nosed out Wisconsin.
Lost Leave Bond
Be Replaced;
Barrell Slates
Terminal Leave Bonds which
have been lost or destroyed may
be replaced. William K. Barrett,
Director of the State Depart
ment of Veterans Service, an
nounced today.
The veterans should write the
Chief of Loans and Currency,!
U. S. Treasury Department’ j
Washington 25, D. C. The cir
cumstances, identification of the
b >nd, its serial nunfber if known, j
value, date and office of issue
should be given.
Upon receip' of this informa
tion by the Division of Loans
and Currency, an official appli
i cation form will then be sent.
The manager of the local Vet
erans Service Office will be glad
to assist veterans in their at
tempt to recover terrpinal leave
bonds.
It takes about 250 pounds of
coal to outfit a car with rubber
tires and tubes.
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