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Beginning Sunday morning at 11
o’clock levival services will be held
daily in the Monticello Presbyterian
church for ten days or more. As has
already been announced, Rev. George
W. .Belk, of Hendersonville, North
Carolina, will be present and will con
duct the meetings. He will be assist
ed by Rev. James Bradley, pastor of
the Presbyterian church, and the oth
er ministers of Monticello.
Rev. Belk is a minister of great
power and eloguence and has met
with phenomenal success as an evan
gelist for a long number of years, and
his coming to Monticello is looked for
ward to with much pleasure by our
gitizens. .
In the meetings which he has re
cently conducted in his home state
he was heard by large and apprecia
tive congregations at each service and
his efforts were richly rewarded both
by conversions and renewed interest
in church work. :
After Sunday the morning services,
in all probability, will be held at ten
o’clock and the merchants of Monti
¢ello are requested to close their
places of business for one hour so
that the clerks and proprietors may
attend the meetings.
A pleasant and profitable feature
of this week have been the cottage
prayer-meetings which have been
conducted simultaneously in the four
sections of the town each night, be
ginning at 8 o'clock. The object of
these services is to prepare the citi
gzens for the revival meetings and
stimulate them for more consecrated
and active duty in christian endeavor
in Monticello and surrounding terri
tory. |
The following schedule of meetings
this week began Tuesday night: |
Tuesday Night, June Bth. |
HOME—E. T. Malone. |
' LEADERS—C. N. Elder, M. Phil
lips. ‘
- HOME-—-Miss Maud Penn. |
: LEADER—W. E. Ballard. ‘
HOME—Mrs. T. A. Hutchinson’. ;
° LEADER—Rev. James Bradley.
- HOME—D. ‘N, Harvey.
LEADER--W. A. Reid.
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REV. GEORGE W. BELK,
5 Wednesday Night, June 9th.
HOME—Troy Ellis.
LEADER—Wm. D. Cornwell. ‘
HOME—Mrs. E. C. Kelly
LEADER—Rev. James Bradley.
HOME-—Mrs. J. E. Hecht.
LEADER—Rev. R. B. O. England.
HOM!‘E—C. L. Henderson. Z
LEADER—W. A. Reid. :
Thursday Night, June 10th.
HOME—C. T. Ezell.
LEADER—L. K. Jordan.
HOME—Mrs. J. B. Persons.
LEADER—Rev. R. B. 0. England.
HOME—D. B. Benton.
LEADER—-W. E. Ballard.
HOME—Dr. F. S. Belcher.
LEADER—Rev. James Bradley.
Friday Night, June 11th.
HOME—J. A. Downs.
LEADER—Rev. James Bradley.
HOME—W. J. Phillips. .
LEADER—Wm. D. Cornwell.
HOME—Miss Arna Jordan.
LEADER-—H. B. Jordan.
HOME—R. Jordan.
LEADER—Rev. R. B. 0. England.
A cordial imvitation is extended to
all the people of Jasper county and
Monticello to attend the revival which
will begin Sunday morning, and es
pecially are the singers of the com
munity urged to come forward at each
service and help in the singing. It is
always a source of much pleasure and
aid in any service to have a good choir
and it is hoped that no one will stand
back who can sing.
After you have read this article,
please tell your friends about the re
vival and tender them an invitation
to be present at each service. Christ
ian fellowship will be accorded to all.
Further announcements as to the
meetings, etc.,, will be made from the
pulpit.
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~ When your visitors come ’phone us.
“The Monticello News Covers Jasper Like the Sun-its Rays Shine Into Every Home.”
BlE: EDUGATIONAL RALLY TO BE HELD IN
MONTIGELLO SATURDAY, JULY THE THIRD
A big educational rally with note
worthy features to be held in Monti
cello Saturday, July third, is being
planned by the local chapter Daugh
ters of the American Revolution and
promises to be a great occasion for
the citizens of the town and county.
Governor-elect Nat E. Harris and
other noted speakers have been in
vited to make addresses, an invitation
has been extended the Monticello
Brass Band to furnish music, a basket
dinner will follow the speeches and
in the afternoon there will be various
literary and athletic contests,
As the glorious fourth falls on Sun
day this year, it was thought best to
have this celebration on the third in
stead of the fifth, as the basket din
ner will be an important feature and
it would be difficult at this season for
the housekeepsrs to make the neces
sary preparations on the latter date.
Everyone is asked to bring a well
filled basket so that at the noon hour
there may be an enjoyable spread.
The space fronting the Planters
Warehouse will be used and Mayor
E. T. Malone has consented to have
traffic stopped from the public square
to the railroad crossing during the ex
ercises. This is an ideal spot for the
celebration. Here under the shade of
the trees the platform will be placed
and here the tables for the dinner
MEETING OF MEMBERS OF W. . T. 0.
. THURSOAY AFTERNOON, JUNE THIRD
A large number of thé miéiibers of
the Monticello W. C. T. U. met 1n the
Baptist church last Thursday after
noon and carried out an interesting
and profitable program. Mrs. Jas. A.
Downs was the leader of the meeting.
Song—“ Blessed Assurance.”
Prayer by Mrs. T. A. Hutchinson.
Scripture Lesson—lo 3 Psalm.
Prayer by Mrs. J. A. Downs,
Paper read by Mrs. J. A. Downs.
Prayer by Mrs. J. B. Henderson.
Paper read by Mrs. J. A. Downs.
Closing Song—"“l Love to Tell the
Story.” P .
The Following Papers Were Read by
Mrs. J. A. Downs.
“I think you will see that there is a
contrast here— that as you pass from
one verse to the other there is a
'change in thought, in mood, and in
outlook. And yet they are both the
‘cries of one psalmist, and are includ
‘ed in the limits of one psalm. In the
one there is a wild," stormy unrest; in
\the other there is the beginning of
peace. Perhaps a night has inter
}vened between them, for you know
‘what one night's rest can do for a
fevered mind and a despondent heart
At night ‘I don’t know what we were
not going to do! We would resign
our position! Matters had become in
tolerable! We would leave them as
‘they were and get right away! Our
resignation should be sent in the
very mnext morning! And the morn
ing came, but God had sent the sweet
angel of sleep, and the feverishness
had been allayed, and the impetuous
‘impulse had been quieted, and the
‘duwn came very peacefully!
~ “Perhaps it was some soothing,
‘quieting interlude which had similar
1y intervened in the life of the psalm
ist between the two expressions
which I have taken for my texts.
Here he is face to face with a great
trouble, a sore difficulty, a heavy bur
den, and his first thoughts about it are
exceedingly morbid and unhealthy.
‘Oh that I had wings like a dove! for
then would I fly away.” He wants to
fly away from his burden. He would
like to leave it there, just as it is, and
get right away. He says that if he
could only fly away he would be at
rest. That was the mistake he made.
No man ever finds rest by flying away
from a burden. Whatever shape your
trouble may take, you cannot find
peage by desertion. God has ordain
ed it otherwise, and the psalmist
came to see it. At night he said: My
burden is greater than I can bear;
would that I could fly away and leave
it When morning dawned his heart
had come to calmer and clearer vis
ion, and he said: ‘Cast thy burden up
on the Lord, and he shall sustain
thee.’ No need to fly away! Rest is
not gained by flight, but by seeking
the power and strength of God. ‘Oh
that I had wings like a dove! then
would I fly away and be at rest.’” No!
never; the path of flight is the way to
‘weariness' and . pain. ‘Cast thy bur
den on the Lord, and He shall sustain
thee;’ yes, thou shalt be able to lift
thyself up, and stand erect under the
heaviest load.
‘Now, this disposition to seek rest
from our burdens by flight is as pre
valent today as in the days of the
psalmist. We will try to fly away
from our difficulties instead of seek
ing the strength of God to sustain
them, and I want to ask your atten
tion to one or go ways in which this
flight is som es made.
The Temptation of Burdens,
. Here, then, i§ a man whose business
affairs irg..«“ifivolved. His
Eernesaet e es, e
mpov He feels as though he
Lu' bdnfi;‘nmmy and relentlessly
Cclosed in as by an fron wall. Night
MONTICELLO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1918,
will be set.
There will be contests to interest
all, These contests, with the ex
ception of the Stick Horse Race which
will be engaged in by the town and
county officials, are open to the school
children of the town and county and
it is hoped every pupil will take part.
The business men of Monticello
have generously offered to contribute
the prizes for these contests and the
list, will include many handsome and
desirable articles, The names of the
contributors and prizes offered will be
published in-these columns next week.
The following contests are being
arranged:
Written Spelling—Boys and Girls.
Declamation*—Boys 8 to 14 years.
Recitation—Girls 8 to 14 years.
- oOld Fashioned Spelling Bee—Open
to all, young and old.
~ Stick Horse Race—City and Coun
ty Officials.
~ Foot Race—loo yards dash—Boys
8 to 12.
Foot Race—loo yards dash—Girls
6 to 12.
Shot Put—Older Boys.
Skipping Race—Girls 6 to 12.
Egg Race—Open to Girls. .
, Sack Race—Open to Boys.
Chicken Race—Open to Girls.
Greased Pig Race—Boys 6 to 16.
Pole Climb—Open to Boys.
comes into his day, and the iron feet
of anxiety c¢tush all the joy out of his
life. His cares accumulate until they
become a huge burden, which lies
‘llke a cold, heavy stone upon his
‘heart. This goes on for weeks and
;perhaps for months. The worry
gnaws away at his heart without ceas
ing, and makes him depressed, and
nervous, and irritable, unpleasant to
‘his family, disagreeable to all his
friends, and obnoxious to himself. At
length when the burden is intolerable
}he cries in the bitterness of his soul:
‘Oh that I had wings like a dove! for
then would I fly away, and be at rest.”
“Now that is an evil moment, a
moment fraught with infinite peril,
when a man begins to think of flying
away from his burden. For in these
matters thought is so speedily follow
ed by purpose, and purpose s 0 speed
ily followed by action, that even
thought itself must be regarded as
pregnant with tremendous issues.
When a man begins to think of flying
away from his burden, depend upon it
he will soon make an attempt to fly.
And how is the attempt very frequent
ly made A vast number of men try
to get away from the burden of their
worries and cares by an excessive in
dulgence in drink. Again and again
have I heard men say: ‘I could bear it
no longer; the burden was crushing
me, and so I took to drink.” And so
the man uses drink as a kind of opi
ate. He takes that mind of his,
which is ‘heated hot with burning
fears,” and he plunges it in forgetful
ness by means of drink. He takes to
drink as a means of flight from care.
You know this is no fancy picture
conjured up to meet the exigencies of
a sermon. It is a leaf from common
place life. Only the other day, in an
exceedingly powerful biographical
fragment, I read these words: ‘There
is no getting rid of these gloomy
thoughts; the only way to forget is to
go to some place where there are a
lot of people and where there is
drunkenness * and rollicking.” I be
lieve that this is the explanation of
why many people take to drink. It is
not because they like it, it is not be
cause they are driven by the appetite
of a beast. It is not the drink they
crave,but forgetfulness and rest. Of
course, the appetite is soon created,
and at length the passion for drink
becomes more intense than the pas
sion for rest. But let us willingly
recognize that in many instances men
take to drink to flee from care. They
wish to fly away and be at rest.
“How useless, then, to take the
wings of pleasure, and to seek to fly
awsg from the burden of our guilt!
Sometimes we recommend people
who are cast down and disquieted
within them, to get into company, to
look at the world, to see a bit of lite,
and have a change of air. What if it
is not a change of air they need so
much as a change of heart? We
counsel them to take the wings of
pleasure and fly away for rest, when
perhaps the counsel they need is just
this: ‘Cast thy burden on the Lord,
and He shall sustain thee’ Oh, men
and women, who feel the burden of
zuilt, don’t seek to fly away tr(}% it.
Bring it, and cast it upon the TLord!
Tell Him that you have heard that
with Him there is mercy and forgive
ness and plenteousness of grace, and
that you kneel at His feet if perchance
there may be healing and strengthen
ing for you. He will sustain you. Re
member that He has, in untold num«
ber, relieved men and women whose
consciences were as restless as yours,
and whose guilt was as burdensome
as yours, and He has imparted to
them His own calm. He will likewise
say to thee: ‘Thy sins, which' are
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MRS . J. HOLSENBECK
After a lingering illness, the spirit
of Mrs. Mary Lizzie Holsenbeck, the
widow of the late Mr. Dan J. Holsen
beck, returned to the God who gave
it, Sunday morning at nine o'cloek.
The news of her death, while not un
expected, came as a shock to her
many friends and her death has caus
ed sorrow in the hearts of those who
knew and loved her.
Mrs. Holsenbeck was born in Put
nam county thirty-eight years ago,
and was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Z. J. Gorley. About eleven years ago
she was married to Mr. Holsenbeck
and since that time has made Jasper
county and Monticello her home.
The funeral was held at the resi
dence Monday afternoon at two o'-
clock, Rev. R. B. O. England, pastor
of the -Monticello Methodist church,
officiating. The interment was in
West View cemetery. |
The deceased is survived by two
sisters, Mrs. Lewis Jenkins and Miss
Mattie Lou Gorley, of Eatonton; and
four brothers, Dr. S. C. Gorley, of At
ilanta, Mr. Z. J. Gorley, Mr. George
Gorley and Mr., Frank Gorley, of Ea
tonton; also three children.
Mrs. Holsenbeck, who was a mem
ber of the Methodist church, was a
sweet christian woman and during
her long illness she never complained
'but bore her suffering with a forti
tude which was Christ-like. She will
be sadly missed by relatives, friends,
neighbors and all--but our loss is her
eternal gain, : e
i PROF. JOSEPH B. DUKE.
Speaking of the Commencement ex
ercises of the Eatonton High School
the Eatonton Messenger said the fol
lowing concerning Mr. Joseph Duke,
who will be superintendent of the
Monticello High School, beginning
with the September term:
It will also be of interest to all
our people to know that Prof. Jos.
’ B. Duke has accepted the princi
~ palship of the Monticello High
~ School, where he taught before
~ coming to Eatonton. While we
~are sorry to lose Prof. Duke from
- Eatonton, we are glad to gnow
‘ that he will at least be close by,
- and he will carry to Monticello
_the very best wishes of our peo
" “ple, pupils, patrons and others.
He has done thorough and effi
cient work here, always striving
for the good of the -school and
doing much toward the “general
betterment of our educational in
terests.
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LETTERS LIKE THIS ONE
“TICKLE US TO DEATH.”
Mrs. W. W. Simmons, of Weston,
Georgia, writes the News as follows:
I see that my paper expires the
9th. I send you one dollar for
another year, as I do not want to
miss a single copy of the dear old
News.” It keeps me in close
touch of all that happens in dear
old Jasper where I was born and
raised, but have gotten off so far
that I would lose sight of every
body and every thing if it was not
for your newsy paper. So let it
come,
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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY.
Life without endeavor is like enter
ing a jewel-mine and coming out with
empty hands.—Japanese Proverb.
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You may be great, you may be good,
You may be noble, more or less;
But all that *will be understood
Will be your tangible success. -
—Robert Burns.
A CLEAN RECORD
Of 17 years in the banking busi
ness in the city entitles us to bid for
your account. This record means a
great deal to the man who wants re
liability and stability ina bank. We =
expect to keep growing and be suc
cessful.
Jasper County Bank
v “A Good Bank in a Good Town”
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MR. W. H. KEY.
(Sunday’s Athens Banner.)
Mr. W. H. Key, of Monticello, Jas
per county, who graduates from the
University Law School next week will
go directly into the service of the
state in the capacity of representative
in the general assembly of Georgia
from his native county of Jasper. ¢
. Mr, Key was elected to the legisla
ture last year while a Junior' at the
University and defeated one of the
strongest men in his county. He has
taken a high stand in his work at the
University and will represent the law
department with an address at com
mencement. He is also business man
ager of this year's Pandora and has
been active in public speaking and
debating since entering college.
He is an aggressive and progressive
young graduate and should make Jas
per couagy an able representative in
the legislature. o
MR. JORN HATFIELD
The News regrets to chronicle the
death of Mr. John L. Hatfield, which
sad event occurred at the home of his
mother, Mrs. W. B. Hatfield, last Sat
urday night at 9:15 o’clock after an
illness of several weeks. :
He fought a brave fight, but Death,
the immutable conqueror, won, and
in his death our community has lost
a most excellent and worthy citizen.
Mr. Hatfield was of a retiring disposi
tion, but numbered his friends by his
acquaintances, for he was true to
every trust and loyal to his friends.
As a son and father he was a loving
and devoted companion.
Mr. Hatfield was born in Dahlonega
in 1873. :
He is survived by three children,
his mother, seven brothers and one
sister, Messrs Joe, Will, Sid, Oscar
and Raiford Hatfield, of Monticello,
Mr. Fred Hatfield and Mrs. Ida Brod
dus, of New Port News, Va.
The funeral services were held in
the Monticello Baptist church Sunday
afternoon and were conducted by Rev.
Walker Combs, pastor. He was as
sisted by Rev. R. B. O. England, pas
tor of the Monticello Methodist
church. The remains were laid to
rest in West View cemetery.
~ The pall-bearers were Messrs D. N.
Harvey, J. R. Ezell, Ed Wynn, F. L.
Penn, Oscar Connor and D. T. Pye.
NUMBER 18.