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IHE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
W. THOMAS HAY
Advertising Manager
Official Organ of
Newton County
and the
City of Covington
Drake-Wood Opens New Building
For Convenience Os Customers
Today, Thursday, the doors of Drake- I
Wood Furniture Company will be opened
to the public in their splendid new build- '
ing.
For several months, work has been pro
gressing on the old Delaney Hotel Building
which was purchased by Drake-Wood.
Every effort has been expended to produce
one of the most modern and convenient
furniture stores in the Piedmont Area.
An elevator has been installed for the
convenience of their customers and also
a modern ladies’ lounge and rest room
on the second floor, which will be open at
all hours, where ladies may come to rest
and also meet their friends. This will be
completely furnished with powder room
and restful chairs.
Several model rooms have been built
.o display complete home furnishings
where the prospective bride and groom
may come and see just how the furniture
will look in their own home.
SOUR WESKLY LESSON FOR
unday School
Background Scripture: Mat
thew 21:1—22:14.
Memory Selection: Fear not.
little flock, for it i» your Father'*
good pleasure to give you the
kingdom. Luke 12:32.
Our lesson this week resembles
the lesson last week in two parti
rulars. Both lessons are presented
in the form of parables; in both
parables a householder is the
principal figure.
The lesson differ, however, in
one very important respect. The
parable which we studied last
week was uttered by our Lord to
teach certain duties to his disci
ples; the parable which we
examine today was addressed to
his enemies, and every syllable of
this utterance was freighted with
solemn warning and predictions
of judgment.
Last week’s lesson dealt with
the nature of God s grace. To
day we listen to our Lord’s words
as in parable form he sets forth
the significance of God’s divine
Son and the value of the king
dom.
“There was a man that was a
householder, who planted a vine
yard. and set a hedge about it,
and digged a wine-press in it, and
built a tower, and let it out to
husbandmen, and went into an
other country.”
The householder is God, the
vineyard is Israel, the hedge a
bout the vineyard consists of the
laws, customs, religious practices,
and geographical isolation which
separated Israel from the rest of
the world. The householder
“digged a wine-press in it,”
which means that he provided for
the use and preservation of its
fruits. He built a tower—such a
tower as always appeared in every
Oriental vineyard—that from its
top kings and prophets and other
holy men» might keep watch
against marauders.
Finally the householder let out
his vineyard to husbandmen, in
this case meaning the people of
Israel in general and the religious
leaders in particular. Then the
householder "went into another
country"—describing God’s with
drawal from a place of domina
tion in human affairs so that men
might exercise their free will.
This is a picture of the betrayal
of their trust by the religious
leaders of Israel. It also shows
how the church and its leaders in
every age have come short of
God’s glorious intentions.
There have been times when
church leaders have been shrill
in their insistence upon cruelty
and violence. At other times they
have neglected the vineyard and
allowed it to be overrun.
But this is the picture also of
the opportunity God leaves to
every one of us for working out
his own destiny. The opportuni
ties of our lives constitute his
vineyard. These are hedged s
bout by the protective provi
dences of God. God jealously
guards the fruits of our labors
and lay* them up to our eternal
^account.
■ He Himself is in the watch-
Ftower, guarding us against the
attacks of those who would rav
'age sur souls.
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A nursery department has also been
provided where all furnishings pertaining
to the nursery may be found.
Another department has been set aside
for the appliances, electric and gas stoves,
refrigerators, radios, etc. The store has
been departmentalized where all furnish
ings are grouped as to make it more con
venient for the prospective home furnish
ers.
Mr. Wood and Mr. Drake have spar
ed no expense in providing this communi
ty with a beautiful store with the utmost
in conveniences of all kinds. Mr. Wood
and Mr. Drake asked us to convey to their
friends and customers their appreciation
for the wonderful business with which
they have been favored and extend an
invitation to all citizens of our city and
community to visit their store on its open
ing day.
We congratulate them on their progres
siveness and wish for them continued
success in their new store.
There came a day of harvest—
"the season of the fruits drew
near.”
There is a day of reckoning for
every nation and for every in
dividual.
The householder sent his serv
ants to the husbandmen to receive
his fruits. They beat one and
killed another and stoned an
’ other, and when he sent other
servants, “they did unto them in
like manner.” Such servants were
Moses, Samuel. Elijah, Elisha, and
others of the prophets and
teachers.
The Greeks killed Socrates, the
.Hebrews persecuted and stoned
their prophets, the Romans put
thousands of Christians to the
sword, the Roman church soaked
the soil of Europe with the blood
of its prsecutions, and different
: sects of Protestants preyed upon
one another.
This has been the sorry
spectacle of truth's reception
through the ages.
Evil men hate truth and oppose
it Behind such evil men are the
uevil and his whole demonic
empire, lashing their hapless
victims into a furious assault a
gainst righteousness,
। Finally the householder sent his
son. “They will reverence my
son,” he said. But they did just
■ the opposite. “Come,” they cried,
"let us kill him, and take his
• inheritance.”
, Here we discover the point of
i the narrative. The scribes and
: Pharisees knew only too well
• who Jesus was. To men trained
’ as they were in the religious lore
■ of their people, the miracles
> which Jesus performed and the
i fulfillment of prophecy disclosed
' in every circumstance of his life
i had long since revealed to them
• that this was the promised Mes
i siah. But they had built up a
system in which a Man such as
this could have no place. They
, had appropriated unto themselves
the fruits of God’s vineyard. They
had grown rich by controlling all
varieties of concessions to make
■ । money at the expense of the
I common people. They had excrcis
-1 ed lordly power over the masses.
Would they relinquish all this to
' anyone, even to the Son of God?
The answer was an almost un
’ animous “No.” Nicodemus and
(Joseph of Arimathea dissented.
But they were cried down by
! their colleagues. These people
were “in the driver’* seat,” as we
would say today, and they would
get out for no one. The Son of
God? "Let us kill him. and take
his inheritance.”
Sin had driven them to such
madness that, puny little men
though they were, they believed
that they could oppose and defeat
the purposes of God.
They won an apparent victory.
They did kill the Son, and, as
loving hands laid the body of this
dear One away in freshly hewn
sepulcher, the scribes and
Pharisees smiled complacently
and murmured among them
selves: “It is expedient for you
that one man should die for the
people, and that the whole
nation perish not” (John 11:50).
This, of course, was the analog.''
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
♦
Er.tered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
for having murdered One whom
they knew to be their relentless
enemy.
But in the resurrection. God
demonstrated his power and the
pitiful weakness of these murder
ous creatures. To this hour those
who oppose truth go down to
hideous destruction before the
victorious power of God’s Spirit.
All this of course is a warning
not merely to ancient Israel but
jto modern America. These words
are directed to the minds and
wills of modern men as they
were directed the hearts of our
Lord’s contemporaries. Here is
i the Son of God—what are you
(going to do with him?
What are you going to do about
i the' eternal Son of God and his
rightful claims on your life?
Jesus put to his hearers this
question: “When therefore the
i lord of the vineyard shall come,
what will he do unto those
husbandmen?”
The Lord of the vineyard will
come. All through tHb New Testa
ment we are assured of tis fact.
There is an honest difference of
opinion among Christians as to
(the circumstances under which
He will come, and the signs and
conditions which will precede and
^follow his coming. But that He
will come, no true believer will
doubt.
What a day both of joy and of
horror that will be to all the in
habitants of the earth! It will
constitute the climax of universal
history. It will bring joy to those
who have received the Son and
( who throughout their lives have
gladly given to the Householder
the fruits due Him from his vine
yard. But to those whose idea
has been to get and not to give,
who have interpreted life in terms
of a a selfish adventure and not
in terms of a pilgrimage—to them
the return of the Lord of the
vineyard will bring only weep
ing and gnashing of teeth.
There is a soleriinity about all
this which the modern Christian
in the midst of his comforts wants
to disregard or to explain away.
But the Judgment will mean
judgment unto eternity. Those
who have accepted the Son will
be received into pathways of
light, and those who have re
jected him will be driven into
i pathways of frightful and terri
fying darkness.
This fact ie not easy to face,
but it has to be faced by every
। living soul.
Matthew, tells us that the op
j ponents of Jesus pronounced
judgment upon themselves, say
ing that the householder would
miserably destroy such miser
able men and would let out the
vineyard to other husbandmen
who would render to the right
ful owner "the fruits in their
seasons.”
It is amazing to observe how
clearly at times the enemies of
Jesus saw the truth concerning
his and confessed it. This made
their rejection of him all the more
wicked.
You should leave a calf with
its mother the first two or three
days to get the first milk, accord
ing to livestock specialists for the
Agricultural Extension Service. 1
University of Georgia.
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INDUSTRY HAS A HEART
In an experience of many
years which has been spread
across the nation. I’ve become
intimately acquainted with
many leading American indus
trialists; and have been de
lighted to find that the large
percentage of them are men of
strong Christian character. The
Communists and their fellow
travelers, in their frenzied ef
forts to antagonize employees
against employers, constantly
i berate our industrialists as men
। without social consciousness and
without regard for the welfare
of the workers. This is done for
. the evident purpose of helping
' Stalin by slowing American pro
; duction.
t During Freedom Forum XIII
at Harding College, F. Gano
. Chance, President of the A. B.
Chance Company and a vocal,
1 influential member of the Na
tional Association of Manu
facturers, shared the platform
with the president of the Cen
tralia plant’s IUE-CIO local. The
j 104 conferees of the forum, rep-
I resenting a national cross-sec
tion of business, organized labor.
I the church and education, liked
what they heard from both the
industrialist and the labor lead
। er. The thinking and attitude
of Mr. Chance are, I think, fair
ly typical of the thinking and
attitude of most American in
dustrialists today.
A Man'* Wants
"Perhaps the best place for
me to start,” he told the forum,
"is with myself — to tell you
something about my thinking,
my wants, my ideas, and my
ambitions. I want a good home
for my wife and two boys. I
want them to enjoy the feeling
of security that is woven about
a secure home. I want my fam
ily to have good health and a
sound education backed by a
firm belief in Almighty God.
Most of all, I guess, I want
freedom for them, an oppor
tunity to work, to worship, to
study, to listen, to speak, to
grow, to develop, to own. to
receive, and to leave a heritage.
“Naturally I want to be a
success. By success I mean the
accomplishment of my objec
tive. My over-all objective is
to leave this world better than
I found it. I believe this re
quires rendering service to
others This, of course, leads
to a number of outside activi
ties besides company business.
I feel that each of us has an
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obligation to the community,
state, country, and world.
Serving All
"Our obligations and our
responsibilities must grow as
we grow. The president or
manager of a business these
days is standing on a four-leg
ged stool, the legs represented
by customers, emp.oyees, stock
holders, and the public. For our
customers I want us to produce
a better product thgm-^our com
petitors, or one as gOod at a J
lower price.
“For . employees, I want the
same things that I want for
myself and my family. For
them. I want our company to
progress and grow so those
who want to put forth extra
effort may have more oppor
tunities for bettei jobs and
building of their personal se
curity This is one of the deep
est satisfactions I can have. I
want to provide an atmosphere
in which people will learn to
grow, thereby achieving better
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things for themselves and the 1
company.
The 'Enterpriser*''
“For the stockholders who
invest their money so that wel
may have tools with which to
produce, I want us to earn
enough to pay them adequate
dividends for the use of their ।
money. They are the enter
prisers. I want our company
always to be in good sound
condition and a safe firm in
which to invest In the com-1
munity, I want our company,
and the people who work for
the company, to be leaders and
carry their share of the load
in building a better town. I
want to be good neighbors and
a positive force in setting an
example of a typical American .
business in a free competitive
society.
“In human relations, my ideal i
would be to have our over-all
relationship and our incentives
so constructed that every em
ployee would feel that he was
working for himself, just as
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start with the combined quickness, quiet
and smoothness of a 1953 Buick with
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Ga. Joins Fight
Against 801 l Worm
The State Department of
Entomology wilf join a South
wide drive to quarantine the
area against the influx of the
destructive pink boll worm, Di
rector C. H. Alden announced.
Twenty-four quarantine stations
though he were in business for
himself. .At Chance Company
we have made some progress in
that direction.”
If this be the viewpoint and
attitude of American business
men — and I think that it is
for the vast majority — then
employees and employers sure
ly can harmonize their desires
and thus make the American
system produce vastly more so:
the benefit of all. Write Hard
ding College for the full text of
the Chance Company manage
ment — labor presentation on
teamwork, available at 10 cents.
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mkx CIK9B WO*'*
Pa^n^ hwuugfii
Thursday, February ]}
are to be set up on the Ln,
Arkansas and OklahomTk!
to search the migrating ?
and cotton shipmenu ’
Georgia funds in the a m ’„
SIO,OOO to be used f Or ?
of the quarantine office^ 11
The destructive p es t s
now appear to be spread
this direction, threaten nm
cotton growers but
operators much trouble
Alden said. Approximate
workers will be on duty
stations during the cotton
ping season.
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