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HISTORY OF BAPTIST CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA
The first year there were thirty- '
nine students, five of whom were
studying for the ministry. The fail
ure of the Convention to agree upon
the location of the proposed Southern
Baptist College in 1835 led to the ele
vation of Mercer Institute to the
rank of a college,, and to the securing
of a charter under the title “The Mer
cer University.” It was not until 1845 i
that the Theological Seminary of
Mercer University was fully organiz
ed. Students in the Theological Sem j
inary were required to complete four .
years of college work before being ad j
mitted. “After this thorough prepara- (
lion, the students are conducted •
through such a course.” says the ad ;
vertisement given in the Convention'
Minutes, “as is pursued in the most
celebrated Theological Seminaries of
our country.” A study of the curri
culum establishes the truthfulness of
this claim. The theological faculty
was an able one: John L. Dagg, I). D.,
N. M. Crawford, D. D., and Patrick
H. Mell, D. D.
The annual financial reports indi
cate an ever-widening interest in the
causes of the Kingdom. In 1826 four
brethren, J. M. Gray, Wilson Conner,
John White and Adiel Sherwood were
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note in Handling Freight
The freight service of the Central of Georgia Railway is founded upon prompt and regular movemont ef freight and
the considerate treatment of patrons’ wants by an organization that strives to render a service of satisfaction. We hold
these to be the requisite elements of freight service.
The Central of Ger rgia is among the leading railways of the country in handling perishable freight. During the
shipping season of 1921 we handled 8,175 cars of peaches, of which 7,415 cars were originated along our rails. This
means that we handled ten peaches for every man, woman and child in the United States. Peaches are handled in solid
trainloads, under refrigeration, and are delivered at the markets of thirty-one states, Cuba and Canada, on substantially
express train schedules.
During last year the Central of Georgia Railway handled 8.864 cars of watermelons. Cuban pineapples move to
the m*arkets of the west over our rails, sometimes to the number of 3,000 cars per annum. Domestic fruits and vegetables
produced in Georgia, Florida and Alabama are handled in substantial volume.
Transportation of quality and quantity is an essential for the well being and development of trade in commodities
commonly classed as perishable freight. Without rapid and dependable transportation service, consuming centers would
have to depend on supplies from relatively nearby points of production, and t rade generally would be constricted. The
accurate maintenance of schedules is important in handling perishable freight. The practically perfect on-time record
of Central of Georgia passenger trains is in effect duplicated in the fast f reight service which may be relied upon to make
early morning deliveries on schedule time. A bureau in the office of our. general superintendent receives telegraphic
advices of the movement of cars loaded with high-class freight and is able at any time to furnish shippers or consignees
the exact location ol such cars and probable time of arrival er delivery to connecting lines.
This n only one feature of the service that the Central of Georgia Railway extends to its patrons. Its officers,
agents and employes are here to see that business is handled with speed and with care. They are ready at all times to
give you fuL information upon any point of interest.
The Central of Georgia originates much coal and lumber traffic. This does not require such rapid movement as
perishable freight, but does demand regular and dependable service which we are enabled to give through a well equipped
transportation plant and special attention to the freight movement.
The Central of Georgia offers mnexcelled service between the east and the southeast. The Ocean Steamship Com
of Savannah maintains three sailings each week between New York and Savannah, and two sailings between
Boston and Savannah. The Merchants and Miners Transportation Company maintains at present the equivalent of two
sailings each week between Philadelphia and Savannah, and Baltimore and Savannah.
Fast steamer merchandise trains are operated to all important points, leaving Savannah on the afternoon or
• gof steamship’s arrival in port. Dispatch in handling is made possible by the waterfront terminals of the Central
evening ja which a ff ords space for 19 vessels at one time for the loading and unloading of export and import cargo,
of Geor /’ f t a ’ cUitieß are provided for handling the import traffic, chiefly fertilizer material, and the export traffic, mainly
W are continually adding to our equipment in the effort to keep abreast of traffic demands. We own 315 locoino.
j C o 71ft freight cars. Since the return from Federal control we have added 19 locomotives, 500 ventilated box
tives and 0./to
cars, and 100 flat cars.
are striving constantly to perfect all deparments of our service. We realize that our worth to the public is
ed by the serv ‘ ce we ve ’ we * nv * te P u^^c t 0 upon us for any service, small or large.
Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited.
W. A. WINBURN,
President, Central of Georgia Railway Company.
appointed agents 1 to collect funds for
denominational work. The following j
year, these brethren, reporting to the ’
Convention meeting in Eatonton,
Georgia, admitted that they “had not |
abjured much nor made but few coll |
ections.” For the Burman Mission a
total of $5.00 had been given; for In
dian Reform, $10.0t0; Act educating*
minister , $15.00; for all causes,!
$67.29. Compare this insignificant >
sum with the amount given in in 1920 i
i —ninety-five years later —$1,774,399.74
j The Treasurer of the Convention re
ported in 1832, ten years after its
founding, gifts under the headings of
! Education, Foreign Missions, Domes
! tic Missions and General Purposes
1 amounting to $3,704.00. ’Ten years
later, the gifts of the denomination
amounted to over $33,000.00, and the
objects named in the report included)
Education, Domestic, Foreign, Bur
| man, African and American Baptist
, Home Missions, the Burman Bible, In
I digent Orphans, Christian Index
! Fund and the Sunday School Library
Fund. The precious year 1841, con
tributions were reported for the Tex
as Mission.
The Baptsists of America had dur
i ing this period a national organiza
C. W. SKINNER, Waynesboro, Ga.
FULCHER-MORRIS HDW. CO., Waynesboro, Ga
MULKEY’S GARAGE, Sardis, Ga.
By Rufus W. Weaver, President of Mercer University in Christian Index
tion called The Baptist General Con
vention for Missionary Purposes. Due
to the fact that the Convention met
only once in three years, it was pop
ularly known as The Triennial Con
vention. This body was organized on
the 18th of May, 1914, primarily for
the purpose of prodividng a support
to Mr. and Mrs. Adoniram Judson,
who, having started to India as Congre
gationaiist missionaires, became con
vinced regarding the verity of Bap
tist principles and doctrines and up
on ttyeir arrival in Indian were bap
tized missionaires there. Luther Rice
sailing by a different vessel, reached
India a little later than the Judsons.
Endeavoring to convert Mr. and Mrs.
Judson from the error into whch he
believed they had fallen, Luther Rice
also was led to accept our Baptist
views. He returned to America for
the purpose of arousing interest in
these missionaires who now found
themselves sixteeft thousand miles
from home and with no denomination
giving them support. It is probably
true that American Baptists owe mor#
to this man than to any other one in
our history, not so much because of
his personal ability or his executive
powers, but because he led in the or-
THE TRUE CITIZEN SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1922.
ganization of our people not only for
foreign missions but also for home
missions, education and benevolences
as well. He established the Colum
bian Star (now The Christian Index);
he founded Columbian College, now
George Washington University; he in
spired the several states to establish
denominational schools and colleges
and left the Baptists of America with
a world task which has done more to
preserve unity of spirit and co-opera
tion than anything else in all our his
tory
The first foreign missionary from
Georgia was Edward Abiel Stevens,
reared in the Midway community,
Liberty county, Georgia, Baptized at
the age of thirteen into the fellowship
of the Sunbuiry Baptist church lie grad
uated at Brown University and) later
at Newton. Theological Institution.
He attended the meeting of the Geor
gia Baptist Convention held in
Ruckersville, Georgia, in 1837. His
presence made a profund impression.
From this time forward until our de
nominational skies were darkened by
sectional' strifie, the minutes of the
Convention reported each year funds
received for Brother E. A. Stevens.
He was for eleven years the co-labor
er of Adoniram Judson at Moulmein,
India, and upon the death of Mr. Jud
son took up his work as translator
and as the head of the theological
school He continued in active Chris
tian service nearly fifty years 7 dying
June 19, 1886.
Another name appearing in the
minutes during this period is that of
J. R. Huckins, the representative of
the American Baptist Home Mission
Society. This body organized in 1832
with headquarters in New York City
sought to secure the support of all
the Baptist church North and South
in carrying forward of Home Mission
work within the United States. J. R.
Huckins spent the greater part of 1839
visiting the church of Georgia, rais
ing funds for the American Baptist
Home Mission Society. He was an an
ti-abolition Northern Baptist. He was
warmly commended to the Georgia
Baptist church by Jesse Mercer. Dur
ing his stay in Georgia, which was
less than a year, he raised over $2,-
500.00 for the American Baptist Home
Mission Society.
Among the students entering Mer
cer Institute on its opening day was
J. R. Jenkins who became one of the
pioneer Baptists of the Republic of
Texas. He left Mercer Institute in
1836. He wrote three years later an
appeal signed also by two of the ear
lier preachers of Texas, Murrell and
Bluffington. This appeal was publish
ed in The Christian Index by Jesse
Mercer. The attention of J. R. Huck
ins then traveling in Georgia was call
ed to the needs of Texas. The follow
ing year we find him in the Republic
of Texas, making a survey of that
country under instructions by the
American Baptist Home Mission So
ciety. During; this period the growth
of interest in our work in Texas is
evidenced by the funds reported diesdg
nated for Texas.
The appeal of J. R. Huckins for
missionaires was answered by Will
iam Melton Tryon who also entered
Mercer Institute on its opening day.
He was a student for three years in
Mercer Institute, part of the time
teaching some of the lower classes.
Later he was the financial agent of
Mercer University and was eminently
successful in raising money. Acting
under the direction of Dr. Adiel Sher
wood he collected a considerable sum
for Columbian College in Washing
ton, D. C. After a brief pastorate in
Alabama, there came to him the de
sire to take up mission work in the
Republic of Texas.
Upon his arrival in Texas, he at
once began to discuss the necessity of
an institution being established there
like the one which he had known,
loved and aided in Georgia, Mercer
University. Judge R. E. B. Baylor,
for whom Baylor University was nam
ed, says regarding this: “With him
originated the project of establishing
a Baptist university in Texas. He
first suggested the idea and I imme
diately fell in with it. Very soon af
ter we sent a memorial to the Con
gress of the Republic. As I was
most familiar with such things I die
tated the memorial and he wrote it.”
The influence of Mercer University
continues to be felt in the great Em
pire State of Texas through the bless
ed ministries of Baylor University,
an institution which is in truth a
daughter of Mercer University.
Among those who took an active in
terest in the development of this
work in Texas was the patriarch
Jesse Mercer. Dying in 1841 he left
a bequest of $2,500.00 all of which was
to be used to aid our cause in Texas.
The facts seem to indicate that prac
tically all the money spent by the
American Baptist Home Mission So
ciety for the development of Texas
came from the Baptists of Georgia.
When Dr. J. M. Peck visited Georgia
a little later seeking to secure funds
for the Home Mission Society, he en
tered into an agreement by which all
the funds from Georgia might be
designated and the designations that
were made were for our missionaires
in Texas.
The meeting of the Convention in
Macon in 1846 was attended by the
two men who more than any other
had established and promoted our
Baptist work in Texas, William Mel
ton Tyron and James R. Huckins. The
Southern Baptist Convention had been
organized the year before, 1845. The
Georgia Baptist Convention commend
ed these two brethren to the Home
Mission Society of the Southern Bap
tist Cnvention, then located at Mar
ion, Alabama, giving assurances of
full and hearty support. At the
time of his visit to Georgia, William
Melton Tryon was pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Houston, Texas
The following year the yellow fever
broke out in the city Refusing to
leave his post of duty, William Mel
ton Tryon, falling a victim to the
disease, died November 16, 1847, only
thirty-eight years old. One of the
new dormitories of Mercer University
named Tryon Hall is the only me
morial which has been erected to this
saintly missionary and far,-seeing de
nominational statesman.
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VIDETTE ITEMS
Yidette, Ga., July I—Mrs. Leona
Powell, of Waynesboro, was in Vid
ette Wednesday and Thursday.
Miss Tom Ponder is spending some
time in Waynesboro with relatives.
Mrs. D. B. Smith is spending sev
eral weeks in Douglas with her moth
er, while Mr. Smith is attending sum
mer school in Athens, Ga.
Miss Udell Mosley, who is in train
ing at University Hospital, Augusta,
is at home with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Mosley.
Misses Beula Agerton and Ruby Mur
phy spent last week-end in Gough
with Mrs. J. R. Agerton.
Miss Mamie Lee Shivers is visiting
relatives in Savannah this week.
The woman's club met at the home
of Mrs. R. C. Mcßride last Thursday
Mrs. F. S. Griffin and sons, Frank
and Lloyd, of Stillmore, Ga. are visi
ting Mr, and Mrs. J. E. Rowland.
The Ladies’ Missionary Society met
Friday at the home of Mrs. G. H.
Shivers..
Mrs. Campbell, Master Henry
Campbell and Miss Reba Campbell of
Vienna, Ga., are spending sometime
with Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Harden.
Mr. George Stephens arrived Satur
day with his bride after a wedding
trip north.
The party given by Miss Debbie
Moseley last Wednesday evening was
enjoyed by all who attended.
Hall’s Catarrh M^didae
Those who are in a “run down” con
dition will notice that Catarrh bothers
them much more than when they are
in good health. This fact proves that
while Catarrh is a local disease, it is
greatly influenced by constitutional
conditions. HALL’S CATARRH
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fier, and acts through the blood upon
the mucous surfaces of the body, thus
reducing the- inflammation and restor
ing normal conditions.
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TEOSINTE
A single seed producing from thir
ty to sixty stalkp each from 10 to 12
feet high, gives some idea of what an
enormous yield may be had from Teo
sinte. The Louisiana Eperiment Sat
tion reported a crop of more than 50
tons on an acre. If cut when 4 or
5 feet high it makes an excellent fod
der, starts immediately into growth
again and will give several more cut
tings as large as the first; we have
known it to yield five cuttings a sea
son. If sufficient is planted a con
tinuous supply of nutritious green
feed can be had daily right up to frost
The leaves are long and broader than
corn, contain 8 to 10 per cent more
sugar, and are readily eaten by all
kinds of stock. It makes splendid en
silage, but is more particularly recom
mended as a continuous cutting green
feed crop. Plant in May or June in
drills 3% to 4 feet apart, 2 or 3 pounds
to the acre. Seed for sale at John
ston’s Drug Store. Waynesboro, Ga.
Ask for the price of this wonderful
green feed crop—tf.
To Stop a Cough Quick
take ' HAYES’ HEALING HONEY, a
cough medicine which stops the cough by
healing the inflamed and irritated tissues.
A box of GROVE’S O-PEN-TRATE
SALVE for Chest Colds, Head Colds and
Croup is enclosed with every bottle of
HAYES’ HEALING HONEY. The salve
should be rubbed on the chest and throat
of children suffering from a Cold or Croup.
The healing effect of Hayes’ Healing Honey in
side the throat combined with the healing effect of
Grove’s O-Pen-Trate Salve through the pores of
the skin soon stops a cough.
Both remedies are packed in one carton and the
cost of the combined treatment is 35c.
Just ask your druggist for HAYES’
HEALING HONEY.
NOTICE
All creditors of the estate of Jas
F. Rackley, late of Burke county, de
ceased, are hereby notified to render
in their demands to undersigned ac
cording to law, and all persons in
debted to said estate are required to
make immediate payment. This 15tli
day of June, 1922.
GEORGE W. GRAHAM, Executor, of
the estate of Jas F. Rackley, de
ceased, Sardis, Ga.—6t.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Announcements $lO cash with copy
FOR LEGISLATURE
I hereby announce for re-election
to the Legislature, under the rules
and regulations of the Democratic
White Primary, same to be held on
the 13th of September, and will ap
preciate the support of all voters.
This the 27th of June, 1922.
H. CLIFF HATCHER—pd.
FOR STATE SENATOR 17TH
DISTRICT—I hereby announce my
candidacy for the State Senate, sub
ject to the rules governing the Dem
ocratic white primary.
C. B. GARLICK—pd.
FOR SENATOR, 17TH SENATORI
AL DISTRICT—I hereby Announce
my candidacy for State Senator for
this Senatorial District, subject to the
rules and regulations of the Primary
when ordered.
If nominated and elected, I pledge:
Ist. To lend my best efforts and
co-operation, first, last and all the
time, to any feasable movement or
plan having for its end a reduction of
the enormous burdens of taxation un
der which we are now groaning.
2d. To ‘.’Stop! Look and Listen” be
Lore casting my vote appropriating a
single dollar of the people’s money.
3d. To cast my vote for the repeal
of every bad law of which I may have
an opportunity, and against any un
necessary new law that may be pro
posed.
I solicit and will appreciate the
support of all the citizens and voters
cf the county. Respectfully
GEO, F. COX.-paid.
To the Democratic White Voters,
Men and! Women, of the First Con
gressional District of Georgia:
I am & candidate for Congress from
the First District in the Democratic
Primary to be held September 13th,
1922.
I respectfully solicit your vote, and
earnestly ask your support and influ
ence in my behalf.
If elected I shall faithfully repre
sent all the people to the best of my
ability.
Very respectfully,
R. LEE MOORE
HABERSHAM’S LATEST NEWS [
801 l weevil time has passed and
gone; the grass has got the cotton and
dry weather has the corn .
Last third Sunday was a very pleas
ant day with the children cf Haber
sham.
Miss Mittie Mae Chance has re
turned home from a very pleasant
visit with relatives at Girard.
Master Willard Smith >is visiting
his sister Mrs. C. W. Cullen.
Master Lealus and Loson Anderson
of Waynesboro are visiting friends in
Habersham.
Mrs. Wyatt Cullen spent a very
pleasant day with her parents Thurs !
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Royal and chil |
dren spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.,
Wyatt Cullen.
Mr. Argyle Prescott has returned j
home from Florida to visit his par- j
ents.
Mr. G. A. Chance was on the sick !
•list last week. ,
Master Louis Brinson is visiting j
relatives at Habersham.
Mrs. Emma Gray is very ill and we
hope her a speedy recovery.
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I CAN GI /E YOU AS GOOD A PROP
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Attorney-at-Law WAYNESBORO, QA.
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