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Official Organ Ben Hill County.
Guyton Fisher’s
Sunday Sermon
Fourth of Series of Ser.
mons on Apostles'
Creed
I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY GHOST.”
We have talked to you about
God, the Divinity of Jesus Christ,
the Resurrection of Christ,—but
the Creed continues with these
words: “He ascended into heaven.
He sitteth at the right hand of
God the Father Almighty.”
^ esus Christ, rules the ages. Not
^vith as the residum influence in of the His intellectual life left
a
life of human t/. Not with as weet
and beautifully bright ideal pro-
pogated from generation to gene¬
ration as a torch might be handed
on from runner to runner, one
falling by the way while another
lifts it on high to course light a
meteor of warning or encourage-
ment along the darkened way.
Christ is not merely a past great¬
ness, but a present living power.
When He took leave of His dis¬
ciples it was with the words: “Lo,
I aru with you always, evenunto
the end of 'the world.” He de¬
parted from the circle of His disci¬
ples that He might be with His
church in all places. Christianity
isn’t a mere system or cult, but a
personal relation to Jesus Christ.
For Jesus Christ is not a Mediator
who by one act in time secured
our communion with God: “By
Him,” saith St. Paul, “all things
consist.” He continues to be our
Mediator. He is nevbf^to be super¬
fluous: “Without Me ye can do
nothing.” Our communion with
God is because He is at the right
hand of God. He is pre-eminent
in human history, and He wills to
be pre-eminent in human hearts.
“I am the vine; ye are the branch¬
es: he that abideth in Me, and I
in him, the same bringeth forth
much fruit.”
But since this is a relation with¬
in the province of our spiritual
life, it must be between spirit and
spirit. And therefore Christ must
enter the heart of man and abide
in the life of the individual by His
Spirit, called in the Scripture the
Holy Ghost.
When Jesus before His depar¬
ture gave commandment to His
disciples to baptise in the name of
the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
He gave in these three names the
whole revelation of salvation in
which the mystery of God has
been disclosed. And it was Jesus
.imself who took our belief in
Hol y Ghost and wrapped it
up in our conception of that prob-
lem of orthodoxy which has
troubled so many minds, the Doc¬
trine of the Trinity. Since we
cannot refer to the Holy Ghost
without that of the Trinity, may
we not take a little time for con¬
sideration ?
The orthodox faith in the Trini¬
ty is that the three persons, Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost, are by nature
equal in power and glory. Theo¬
logians call this The Essential
Trinity.
But can it be understood? Is
not this notion of the Trinity an
impossi ble, one ?,■ Certainly one is
not equal to three. Certainly we
shall draw no comfort from hold¬
ing this doctrine absolutely within
the jurisdiction of the multiplica-
tion table. W e Shod Id not wonder
if the fullness of the Divine nature
would not submit to the limits of
our thought and should overflow
the powers of ex-
pi ession. Froj# the time we began
to consider, doubtless, the first re-
bell ion of the poind wa* tapper rning
the doctrine pf the Trinity; and
our last thots will certainly Melanc- get no
farther than did those of
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA , FEBRUARY 1, 1911.
High School Now
inFirst
The changes made in the course
of study in Fitzgerald High School
will take it from the second class
and put it in the first class of ac¬
credited schools. Supt. E. E.
Sams has received a letter from
Mr. Joseph S. Stewart, Professor
of Secondary Education at the
University of Georgia, stating that
the Fitzgerald school will be rank¬
ed among the Senior High Schools.
The following are the changes
made: the high school studies are
introduced into the eighth grade,
more literature for study and prac¬
tice has been put into the course,
and the amount of Rhetoric has
been changed to meet the require¬
ments of the University of Geor¬
gia and associated institutions.
These changes, together with oth¬
ers that have been decided upon,
will enable our high school to do
work second to none in the state.
It is the policy of the Board . of
Education to put our schools in
the front rank and beep them
there. J ’. *■ •
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thon, who comforted himself upon
his deathbed with the -hope that in
the world to come he should be
acquainted with those mysteries of
God which in this life he had been
incapable of comprehending.
One of the greatest mind that
ever lived was Augustine. For a
thousand years the Western world
derived its mental nourishment
from him; and at the present day
we are still his scholars. He de¬
voted the powers of his mind to
the investigation of this mystery,
and the paths of thot concerning
the philosophy of the subject has
been a treading in his footsteps.
He was wandering one day by the
seashore lost in thot, and medita¬
ting the plan of a work on this
doctrine, when he saw a boy in
his play making a ditch in the
sand. When Augustine asked him
what he was doing, “I want,” he
said, “to empty the sea into my
ditch.” “And am I not trying to
do the same thing as this child,”
Augustine said to himself, “in
seeking to exhaust with my reason
the infinity of God, and to collect
it within the limits of my own
mind?
How then are we to understand
the doctrine of the Trinity ? Not
that a trinity is a new thing to us,
it is all about us—yea, in us—one
in three, three in one; but to un¬
derstand “The Trinity!” This con¬
ceals within its depths that which
the profoundest speculation may
seek to fathom, yet a plain truth
which the simplest Christian is able
to grasp.
As for simple trinity in unity,
you will see it wherever you look.
Take the substance we call water,
when it reveals itself, we find it to
be a liquid, a solid, a gas, water,
ice, steam, three distinct things,
so that the one is not the other,
yet one in essence—the three forms
of the same suostance. Now we
know very little about water when
we see it in only one form; we
have, a complete knowledge of it
when,w« know it as a trinity.
Many years ago when mission¬
aries went to Siam and told the,
people, in that tropical country
that water in Scotland became a
solid, so that an army could march
pver it dryshod, they that the
missionaries were trying to im¬
pose some fairy tale upon them.
They thot in that hot country that
all the forms and functions of
water were liquid, for they knew
water only as liquid and not as a
trinity of until gas-liquid-solid. Thus
you see, we know that water
will do as gas and liquid and solid
we have an imperfect revelation
of the functions of water. Waier
Fitzgerald on New Short Line,
Jacksonville To Fort
St. Marys & Kingsiand Railroad Will Make Extension
Through Counties of Ware, Coffee, and Ben Hill,
to Abbeville in Wilcox, and on to Fort Valley.
Will also make Southern Extension to
Jacksonville.
Of interest to the business meh
and property owners of Ben Hill
County will be the announcement
that Fitzgerald is to be on the new
short line of railroad between Fort
Valley and Jacksonville, which
will connect with direct lines to
Atlanta.
Preliminary steps have already
been taken by the stockholders of
the St. Marys & Kingsiand, a Rail¬
road now operating between St.
Marys and Kingsiand with L. J.
Johnson as president, and just as
quick as money and a corps of en¬
gineers can do the work, Atlanta
and Jacksonville will be connected
by a new short line, traversing the
richest section of south Georgia,
At a regent meeting, of stock-
holders of .the St. .Marys Kings-
Obituary.
J. G. Harris, aged 78, died
Monday at his home in this city,
after a slight illness of several
weeks, death having resulted
from a complication of troubles,
incident to old age.
Mr. Harris was born in Green
County, and in the war- between
the states, espoused the cause of
the South.
He was quiet an unassuming
in manner, but was of such dis¬
position as to make friends
wherever known. He was a
member of the Presbyterian
Church.
Besides his wife, the deceased
is survived by one son, J. H.
Harris, of this city, a step-son,
Dr. Hudson, of Atlanta, and five
daughters, Mrs. W. H. Rogers,
Mrs. Tom Griffin, and Mrs. J. M.
McDonald, of this city, Mrs. W.
J. Josey, of Americus, and Mrs.
Frank Schuessler, of Wadley,
Ala.
The remains were taken to
Union City Tuesday night,
where the Masons, of which
order he was a member, had
charge of the funeral service.
Free Musicals
Delightful musical entertain¬
ments have been given each night
this week at the VV. H. Howard
Music Store on south Maine street
next to the Lyric Theatre, inter¬
esting programs being rendered
by some of best talent of the city.
They are free for all lovers of
music and the public is invited.
as solid will freeze you, as liquid
will wet you, as gas will burn you.
Water as liquid does things it can¬
not do as solid, and as gas, things
it cannot do as liquid or solid.
So with the trinity of God: as
Father He does things He cannot
do as Son, and as Son things He
cannot do as Holy Spirit. God as
Father begets us,■) as Son redeems
us, as Holy Spirit regenerates and
sanctifies’os; as water as ice can
freeze us, as liquid will wet us,
gas As is unity always Invisible.
but water is a simple thing,
how complete and complicated
as trinity, how diversified in form,
how contradictory in function and
infinite in operation! As liquid
we drink water, as gas we breathe
water, as solid we toss it as stone.
As gas its homo is in the air, as
liquid its dwelling place is in the
sea, as solid its chosen habitat is at
Continued ~ 5th.
on page.
land a resolution was unanimously
adopted, providing for the exten¬
sion of the Road in a northwester-
ly direction through the counties
of Ware, Coffee and Ben Hill, to
Abbeville in Wilcox County,onto
Fort Valley, for which the right
right of way has already been pro¬
cured.
The capital stock was increased
from $50,000 to $500,000, and the
resolution also provides for an
amendment to the charter of the
St. Marys & Kingsiand, by which
the name will be the Atlantic,
Waycross & Western.
The Leader has received a copy
of the resolution for the extension
of the Road, and as official organ
of Ben Hill, will publish same for
the next four weeks.
Eastern Sta.r
Entertained Monday
A delightful musical entertain¬
ment was given Monday evening
by the local order of Eastern Star.
After the officers’ march, the
chapter was called to ®rder by
Worthy Matron, Mrs. W. A.
GreeD, and the following program
was carried out:
1. Piano and Violin duet, Mrs.
W. A. Green and Mr. H. F Phil¬
lips.
2. Vocal solo, Dr. Louis Turner.
3. Reading, Mrs. A. J. Roush.
4. Vocal duet, Mrs. J. A. Par¬
rot and Mrs. H.W. Brown.
5. Reading. Miss Mildred Tis-
del.
6. Ladies’ Quartet, Mesdames
Mary Green, H. W. Brown, J. A.
Parrott, and E. J. Thurston.
7. Reading. Miss Isla Green.
8. Reading, Mrs. Newcomer
9. Piano and Violin duet, Mrs.
W. A. Green and Mr. H. F. Phil-
lips
At the couclusion of the pro¬
gram, interesting and instructive
talks on Masonry were delivered
by a number of different members
of the order who were present.
Monday, Feb. 13, at 2:30 p. m.
The addition to the Aldine Ho¬
tel is rapidly being finished, and
it will be only a matter of a few
weeks before it is ready for use.
When complete, the Aldine will
rank with the best and most up-
to-date hosteleries in south Geor¬
gia, and will be amply equipped to
take care of its growing patronage.
Besides a new dining room and
eight guest rooms with bath, the
Aldine will also have a large sam¬
ple room, which will be a great
convenience to the traveling men
making this hotel headquarters.
Let me take up the mortgage
on your home. You can pay it
back in small payments.
10-8t Chas. B. Teal.
Monday, Feb. 13, at 2:30 p. m.
Monday, Feb. 13, at 2:30 p. m.
Mr.IFa'rmer. the best thintr that
you can do, is come to Fitzgerald
on Feb.- 13th and attend the Col-
lege on Wheels, and hear the
, cctures and the ex
machinery, stock and
on exhibition on this
m. Feb. 13th.
Davis Tried
j Before Mayor
The case of G. G. Davis, who
was arrested last week for vi-
dating that section of the near
beer ordinance which provides
that no intoxicating liquors shall
be kept in near beer saloons, and
if such are found in near beer
saloons, the license shall be for¬
feited, was tried before Mayor
Paulk yesterday.
Alderman D. B. Ware and
Chief of Police Smith were wit¬
nesses for the City, and testified
to finding the whiskey in Davis’
place.
Davis was represented at the
trial by Col. Jesse Grantham and
Col. Thos. Hill, of Cordele, and
the city by Col. J. B. Wall.
After hearing the evidence
presented by both sides, the
Mayor stated that it was his
duty .
to enforce the ordinance,
and that the only course for him
to pursue was the revocation of
the $1,000 license.
In rendering his verdict, the
Mayor stated that he would allow
the defendant ten days to appeal
his case to the Judge of the Su¬
perior Court giving bond in the
amount of $500.00, which course
will be persued by Davis.
Japan Coming
To The Front
Editor Clarence Poe, The Pro¬
gressive Farmer, who is making a
tour astonishing through Asia furnishes some
of his figures in the last issue
tional paper as to Although Japan’s educa¬
taxes progress. alone (on Japan’s
war account of her
struggles with China and Russia
and her present enormous military
expenditure) amount to ten times
the average tax rate in the South,
Mr. Poe points out that the people
gladly tax themselves enough to
provide for nearly every boy and
girl in the Empire, even those on
the farms. Mr. Poe says;
These brown Mongolian farm
children, whose land we opened to
civilization but fifty years ago,
and whom we thought of but yes¬
terday as backward heathen—they
are getting, as a general proposi¬
tion, just twice as mnch schooling
as is furnished in our Southern
rural districts: their parents are
providing, in the zeal for their
children’s welfare, just twice as
good educational facilities as we
are giving our Southern farm boys
and girls who bear in their veins
the blood of a race which has car¬
ried the flag of human progress
for a thousand years, and whom
we are expecting to continue to be
leaders in civilization and enlight¬
enment.
In other words, so Dr. Matsui
told me (and 1 went to-day to the
Japanese National Department of
Education to vertify the fact) the
Japanese farm boys and girls are
getting ten months’ schooling in a
year, while the Southern farm boy
gets five or six months—and when
I was in a Southern country school
fifteen years ago not nearly so
much as that! I>o you wonder
that 1 avoided telling the Japanese
educational officer iust how our
provision for farm boys and girls
compares with Japan’s and that
I also neglected to tell him how
we compare in the matter of util¬
izing school advantages, when he
showed me that of all the children
between the ages of 6 and 14 in all
the Empire of Japan the school
attendance is 98 per cent—98 out
of every 100 children of “school
•**" attending school, sad in s»v-
provinces 9» out of every 100.
1 h.rty.flve years ago the aver-
«*ool attendance m Japan was
lv and * 893 or ' ly * 9 ’
h "‘ hv tha tl me of *•“ wa ' w,th
R "”' a “ l ’ ad , P as f d ®°’ and sm “
tli*‘n has been climbing straight
VOL. XVI. NO. 9
The Ice Plant
Changes Hants
Fitzgerald Ice Plant Sells
For Consideration of
$25,000
As a result of a transaction
consummated several days ago,
the Fitzgerald Ice Plant to-day
passed into the hands of Messrs.
James L., John Henry, and Stubbs
Dorminey, these parties having
purchased the Plant from Mrs. G_
W. Smith for a consideration of
Jimmie Moore-— He
Makes Folks Laugh
Jimmie Moore, the black-face
has been the principal
at the Lyrice since Mon¬
and it is the verdict of the
many who have visited the popular
house this week that “Jim¬
mie” is the best ever. All Comed¬
ians sav and do some laugh-pro¬
voking stunts, but few there are
are.born fun-makersand their
movement and expression is
humorous. Jimmie belongs to
the latter class, and no one will
deny it .for he has succeeded at
every performance in keeping the
audience in an uproar.
Mr. Moore is ageniusinhisline,
and the patrons of the Lyric have
greatly enjoyed his every perform¬
ance. He appears to-night for
the last time.
To-morrow night and for the
remainder of the week, Miss Mar¬
garet Hastings, spot light singer,
will appear at the Lyric, and the
lovers of good vocal music should
make it a point to hear her.
Notice.
All parties holding Ice Books
to Feb. 1, 1911, are hereby
to bring same in and
them cashed, as the Ice Co.
changed hands,
Fitzgerald Ice Co.
By F. G. Clark.
Dr. M. S. Cohen is to day mov¬
into the Five-Story building,
where he will occupy a suite of
rooms on the fourth floor, facing
the elevator
steadily toward the amazing
maximum itself, the official figures
a gain of 1 per cent a year
per cent then 95, then 96,
then 97, and now 98. and the lead¬
ers are now ambitious for 99 or
100, as they told me to-day.
And then in the matter o£
compulsory attendance: when this
of an “inferior race” show¬
ed me that Japan is so intent up¬
on educating every boy and girl
in her borders that she compels at¬
tendance on the public shoo Is for
8 years, I didn’t tell him that in
civilized America, the great en-
lightended nation so long held up
to him as a model, demagogues and
others, on one pretext or another,
have defeated almost every effort
for effective compulsory education
laws, in the South at least, and if
a boy’s parents are indifferent to
his future, the State does not com¬
pel them to give him, a fighting
chance in life —for its own sake
and for thjl be?’**
With these Hots before me, as I
have said, I did not maka any
vainglorious boasts of the great
educational progress of our South¬
ern States these last twenty years:
all the proud reports 1 have heard
at educational rallies and confer¬
ences seemed somehow to collapse
like punctured gas-bags. How¬
ever much progress wehav?made,
these brown Japanese “brethren”
have beaten us.