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$2090 in Paper Money
Is Burned Up in Fire
MACON, Ga,, Jan. 4.—Two thousand
dollars in paper money was burned up in
a fire which destroyed the store of J. P.
Noble in South Macon last ni|ht. His
entire stock and furnishings were lost.
Noble had the money in a cash box secure¬
ly hidden away. It was burned to ashes.
The lire is believed to have been of inccn
diary origin.
The above tells its own story. .Please don’t YOU
take such a risk, when you can place your monev in our
bank, where we use every safeguard and precaution to
keep it for yeu. It costs you nothing to get this protec¬
tion from us. : : ; :
Our Wish for You is That the Year
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Be a Nappy and Prosperous Year in Every Way
Fitzgerald Georgia.
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Mill East Magnolia St. Office East Pine St. Phone 14.
FITZGERALD. GA.
FOR SALE
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newly graded road to Ocilla; a good 4-room house, with
hall, pantry, bath room, a good well of water, a good sized
barn, 37 bearing Peach Trees, Plums, Pears, Quince, Figs,
Cherry, Crab Apple, a Nectcrean, Black and Strawberries,
Grapes, and Chicken Parks, with Hen Houses, all under
good fence ; about 2 acres of line Timber. For terms and
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“THE PLACE TO EAT”
119 East Open Saturday, Jan. 7,1911 119 Oast
Pine St. Pine SL
Thoroughly up-to-date, and catering to the best trade.
Good Cooking, Clean Service and Prompt Attention.
Dinnerparties prepared for on short notice. A place
to come to after Church or Entertainment.....
The Model CeJe, 119 Eivst Pine Street.
I. MANHEIM, Prop.
Advertise in The
Rev. Fisher Discourses
On the Opostle’s Creed
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ute. Mrs. Hedy inteiprets life,
and sells a ‘key to the Scriptures:
the world ridicules. Jesus speaks:
“I say unto you That whosoever
| is angry with his brother without
a cause shall be in danger of the
judgement.” No egotism here, no
eccentricity: and the courts of the
world have never reversed that
decision.
To the seeker after eternal life
He said, “Follow Me:” of one
who would see the Father He
asked, “Hast thou not known
Me?” No other teacher has ever
dared thus. Who else has said of
truth, not that he teaches it, but
that it is He; of the vision of God,
not that he has found it, but that
it is in the sight of Himself; of
that which supplies all men’s need
of rest, of spiritual food, of
strength, of pardon, not that he
can point to it, but that it is all in
Him. Not Moses so spake or the
prophets, not Plato, nor the Bhud
da, nor Mahomet. But Jesus
spake thus. He did so habitually,
deliberately, pronouncedly. There
is no doubt about this, and it dif¬
ferentiates Him as a teacher from
all other teachers. Others know
; they are but messengers of truth,
i He i-i also the Message. They are
| self but torch-bearers, the Light of the He World. called Him¬ They
point to truth, He said, “come un¬
to me.” As a German authoi of
insight has said (< He knew no
more sacred task than to point
men to His own Person.”
What does He claim for Him¬
self? “I am the Light of the
world.” “No man coraeth to the
Father but by Me.” . * Come un
to Me all ye that labor and are
heavy laden, and I will give you
rest.”
Was Jesus mistaken? If Jesus
was deceived all other men may
well despair of linding the truth.
If Jesus was a deceiver then where
shall we find one who is true?
Shall we not exclaim with Le
quinia, “He called Himself the
Son of God, who among mortals
dare say He was not ?”
This is not all, if the disciples
were deceived, and Christ was
mistaken, is His own identity, then
in the greatest crisis of the world’s
history delusion has been better
than knowledge, and error better
than truth. Shall we anchor here?
“Shall we accept a theory which
thus bereaves hope, and atilicts
truth? Can we leave those angelic
forms like Mary weeping at the
sepulchre in the grey day of the
morning, declaring, •'They have
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3. Not otherwise can history
find Ilis place in the philosophy of
human affairs.
We know the wellworn steps on
which humanity climbs to great
ness: Christ came not this way.
Call the t oll of those whom, in
exaggerated fashion, we de
nominate the world’s immortals.—
Darwin, Galileo, Newton; that is
to say, evolution, astronomy,
gravitation: thus they came to
their own. But this Judean peas¬
ant taught the world no theory of
spontaneous generation and sur¬
vival of the fittest, discovered no
force centrifugal and centripetal,
and drew no picture of flying
worlds and burning suns and
dancing atoms in the star-dust of
the skies.
Maceauly and Carlyle and Irving
came to fame along the avenue of
literature. This man never wrote
a sentence save the line in the
sand to be swept out by the pass¬
ing desert wind.
Michael Angelo, Rubens, Rem¬
brandt. Raphael, have become
famous as painters. This man
mixed no colors to charm the eye
and ravish the esthetic sense.
Handel and Liszt, Wagner and
Beethoven, have touched
hearts with their music.
man wrote no Angel’s Chorus, no
oratorio, no symphony.
We know how Milton and
Shakespeare, and Tennyson and
Lanier, sang in immortal verse
their way to fame. This man left i
no voice t0 music bentj no words
to metre timed. i
We know whereof the fame of!
Desrnosthenes and Cicero, and!
Webster and Clay. But this man!
was no orator to stir men’s blood j
or lull the heaving breast with the
witchery of words. I
Caesar and Napoleon waded thru
streams of human blood to em¬
pire's sway. This man massed no
army and championed no political
cause, He paid His taxes and said,
“Blessed are the meek, for they
shall inherit the earth.
Washington, Kosiusco, Lafa
yette, rode to public favor on the
tide of political revolt. This lowly
N azarene lived under the
most profligate government the
world has ever seen and incited no
rebellion, raised no revolution,
and said, render unto Caesar the
things that are his own.
Field, Marconni and Edison,
have laid cables on the floor of
oceans, made intelligent the all
encompassing air, and turned the
night to day. This man was a
carpenter and worked at His trade.
He failed in all points of human
greatness. He never put foot on
one single rung of the ladder on
which men have climbed to repu¬
tation. But history points to Him
as sublimest figure and the most
attractive character offered to
human imagination.
While He never wrought in
physics nor drew down electricity
from the sky, yet when the 10,
000,000 candle power electric light
of the Columbian Exposition
flashed out its first sentence, the
combined intelligence of the world
could think of no finer word than
a quotation from His lips—Ye
Shall know The Truth and The
Truth Shall Make You Free.
He never wrote a book, but a
million have been written about
Him. He never sang a song, but
for two thousand years the music
of the world has turned to Him
for inspiration. He wrote no
poetry, but the talent and poetic
genius of earth has broken its
heart in attempting metre and
word to match the sweetness of
His name.
He organized no army, but His
name is emblazoned on the banners
of the brave.
He painted no picture, but the
great artists of the world have
tried to do him honor.
He left no monument, but, »
thousand thousand churches are
erected in His memory, and 500,
000,000 million hearts lift loving
paeans to his praise.
He built no college, bat three
out of four today are built in His
name.
He organized no army, He
carved no empire. He conquered
no nation, but His title is the
dividing word for the peoples of
every land and cline. Christen¬
dom & heathendom are the only
alternatives.
He said no w^rd about almanacs,
but the centuries are nameless
without His name: the marriages
of Christendom would be broken
without His Anno Domini on their
face: the old world and the new
swing upon the hinges of His
birth.
And what is the explanation?
What shall we say of this man
who came up to greatness not
as humanity comes? What shall
we say of this Man of Galilee
who was neither inventor nor
scientist, artist nor orator, warrior
nor politician, and yet transcends
them one and all in the world’s ad¬
miration and devotion. What can
we say but that He is God: God
taking upon Himself human nature
that “all human sorrows may hide
in His wounds; that all human
frailties may lean on His cross?”
4. I believe that Jesus is the
Son of God because the Spirit of
the Eternal God acknowledged
His word and obeyed His will
while He was on earth, accepted
every check presented in His
when He ascended into Glory,
has for nearly two thousand years
put the forces of the universe in I
His hands and honored His dis-}
ciple with His presence and His |
power. i
God’s acknowledgement of
Christ is aparent in His acknowl
edgement of those who believe!
that He was the Son of God.
What has been used most by the!
God of Nations in ameliorating!
and elevating the conditions of ;
men? All the world must say. I
Christianity! It has not made; !
perfect men, but it has made the
best men that have yet been pro¬
duced.
Neither Christ nor Christianity
are on trial today; but there was
a time when both Christ and
Christi mity were on trial. When
one hundred and twenty souls, in
obedience to Christ’s last instruc
tions, were waiting on their knees
in that upper room for the endue
ment of power, which He had
promised should come, “the Spirit
of God descending upon them,”
then Christ was on trial.
They believed He was the Son
of God. When He was ou earth
and the winds and waves obeyed
His will, the forces of life and
death paid Him homage: and now’
they wait to receive the Holy
Ghost. Now and then a soul
wings its way to the throne of
grace in the melody of song; then
the sweet breath of prayer rises to
the God just praised—prayer that
comes from hearts that hike falter¬
ed not these many days, and is
lifted now from one hundred
hearts that beat in the unison of
love. The night wears on and still
they pray. Morning soon will
dawn. Christ is on trial. And
with all reverence, I say it, but
say it none the less, if Christ was
not the Eternal Son of the Eternal
God, that was the time for the
Eternal God to have disclaimed
Him. He did not disclaim Him;
but there the God of the Universe,
according to the word of His Son’
put His seal of fire upon the dis¬
ciples as once before He had put
His seal of Glory on their Lord.
“Suddenly there came a sound
from heaven, as of a rushing
mighty wind.” Awed and over
whelmed, the praying group bend
lower. Far, far away a burst of
glory fills the heavens, swift as the
light, noiseless as the sun, des¬
cends the blazing token. It glows
for a second on the pinnacles of
the temple, but leaves it to its
shade; for a moment the Roman
eagles shine with the touch of
celestial splendour, but Rome re¬
ceives no tribute from the skies.
. • Down falls the flame into that
little room. Tongues of fire,
tongues of power, tongues of glory
rest on brow of every praying
saint. Peter wears a crown of fire
—John and James, Nathanael, and
Andrew’s head wears a crown of
flame. Thomas can no longer
doubt, the blazing light is on his
head. Magdalene, thou art not
forgotten. Woman is lifted up,
and a crown of fire rests on Mary
and on Martha, and on that blessed
Mother of whom the Bible may
well close its mention here.
And not only in that upper room
has God put His approval on them
who believe that Christ is the Son
of God. Those flaming torches
were but the initial recognition of
the Divine Sonship and His power
to disperse the blackness of sin’s
foul night. Torch on torch has
flamed since then, and to-day iorch
answers torch across mountain and
sea, and continent. The glory
which first shown in Jerusalem’s
little chamber has spread afar,
and pentecostal flames now glow¬
ing everywhere seem to hail that
day as near when ’the earth shall
be tilled with the glory of the
Lord, as the waters cover the sea.’
In conclusion I reitterate that
God has never denied the claim of
Christ nor the belief of His
apostles. If Christ was not God,
God owed it to His children to un¬
deceive them.
And now what shall we do with
this part of the Creed ? If Christ
was the Son of God—if God so
loved the world as to give His only
begotten Son for the sins of the
world, and yours and mine, it is
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Suppose you bought ten tons
of indifferent quality of coal
that costs the same as nine
tons of our coal—do you think
you save anything ? Hardly.
You lose at both ends.
First > the ten tens won’t
anywhere near as far as our
nine tons, f° r ours will pro
duce the Sliest heat obtain
able—and that, on a small con
sumption. Second, you have
shoveled in ten tons whereas
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to the “dot” is how you’ll find this
laundry takes care of attending to
your order. With the ushering
m of the new year you’ll find
WE STILL DO LAUNDRYING
AT THE OLD STAND.
Our laundry work for both la
dies and gentlemen will be of the
same high grade as before.
“ON TIME” IS WHERE
YOU’LL ALWAYS FIND US.
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not enough to accept the intellectu¬
al assent that Christ is Divine—
nay if He died for me, then that
shed blood demands that I shall
love Him and rejoice that I may
love Him, and accord to Him the
highest place in the royal throne
room of my soul.