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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER
VOL. XLIX.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1914.
NO. 28
Farmers’
Supply Store
We have now entered fully into the new
year, and, as usual, are well prepared to take
care of the trade of the friends and customers
who have taken care of us.
Those who did not sow oats in the fall
should do so now, using an early variety of
seed, because all feedstuffs will be high. We
have for sale the famous 90-DAY BURT OATS
—a variety that we can recommend highly.
GEORGIA CANE SYRUP in 5-gallon and
10-gallon kegs, half-barrels and barrels. The
PEACOCK BRAND is the best syrup made,
and we can sell it at jobbers’ prices.
A full line of PLOW TOOLS, STOCKS,
TRACES, HAMES, BACKBANDS and BRI
DLES. Can dress up your mule with a com
plete outfit for the plow. HUTCHESON ROPE
for plow-lines.
Will say, in a general way, that we carry
in our store everything needed on a well-regu
lated farm. We buy for cash, in car-load
lots, and you will find our prices as low pro
portionately as cash discounts in buying can
make them.
Come to see us. You are always welcome.
It speaks to theiheart through the
pocket-book. That’s why the Ford
j is a friend to thousands the world
^ over. What any other car will do
I the Ford will do—and more—at a
j fraction of the cost. Buy to-day.
Five hundred dollars is the new price of the
Ford runabout; the touring car is five fifty;
the town car seven fifty—f. o. b. Detroit,
complete with equipment. Get catalogue and
particulars from NEWNAN AUTO CO.,
Newnan, Ga.
THE FIRST EASTER DAY.
Never bo ewoet a hu»h
In all Judean niirhta—
Never bo fair a nun
Ro«e o’er Judean helehta—
Never so hovorinsr close
Did ail of heaven lean.
As when approached the tomb
Tho weeping Matrdaleno.
What marvel jrreeta her eyes!
Too tear-bed I-nmed are they!
Behold no portal barred —
The stone is rolled away!
Vacant the sheltering depth
Where He was laid to rest;
Vacant the narrow space
Whereon His body pressed.
Only the cerements white
Where he, the Son. had loin;
Only at head and foot
The guardian angels twain —
The guarding angels twain.
Of gentle mien and grave.
To speak of word fulfilled
Of Him who diet! to save.
How spread the mighty truth!
How nil the earth divined !
What glorious promise kept
The Saviour of mankind!
And so the world is glad.
And men, rejoicing, pray.
As did His servants when
Came the first Easter day.
—[Stanley Waterloo.
ieet As The Bird
R.
(Jackson St.
on the wing, one of our
motorcycles will take a long
or short distance in record
time. Without a Lit of work
on your part either. Owning
one will make you independ
ent of railroad, time or space.
Better see them and try one
out just for sport.
L. Askew
Newnan, Ga.
Worshiped in City of Dead.
How little did the first Christians who
reverentially prepared a place for their
fellow worshipers suspect that these
same tombs should soon be their
churches and their hiding places! The
first catacombs of Rome wore excavated
by wealthy Christians for their own
families, and later, when extended, the
bodies of their poorer brothers and sis
ters in the faith were admitted. The
extent of the labyrinths which under
mine the surburbs of Rome rivals their
complexity. In four centuries B50
miles of corridors were cut from the
rock, some of the passages being 7G
feet below the surface.
The passages themselveB are only
wide enough for a procession to march
in single file., On either hand are the
sealed niches containing the bodies of
the first Christians, and occasionally an
arched doorway leads into one of the
larger crypts, which were used as
chapels in times of persecutions, in
which Easter was certainly celebrated,
when the insane wrath of the emperor
drove the Christians to cover.
These chambers which were used for
worship were small and the numbers who
assembled in them were limited. There
was a raised seat for the bishop, a
lower seat for the presbyters, and a
bench about the wall to accommodate
the worshipers. Frescoes and inscrip
tions indicate that the EaBter feast was
celebrated with the eucharist in these
vaults.
The doors and stairways were some
times blocked, with Roman soldiers on
guard. Then the air-holes were used,
and the worshipers were lowered into
the charnel recesses by ropes.
It was here that the embryo modern
civilization was nurtured and kept alive
through a period of great trial and
stress. Had Nero’s soldiers known the
catacombs as the Christians knew them,
the world might still be laboring along
under some silly pagan creed. The life
of Christianity at one time depended
upon the dark and seclusion of a tomb.
In the faint, red light of torches
which illumined the sepulchral cham
bers the venerable and caurageous
leaders of the little flocks administered
Ihe Easter sacrament to fearful yet
resolute Romans, in whose veins was
all the Spartanism of Rome, made
holier by an ardor and faith which the
presence of men who had seen and
spoken with the Master inspired.
St. Peter may have stood in one of
these very cubicula and told of the
truth and beauty of His life and works,
while the distant clank and rattle of
bronze and Bteel bore witness to the
soldiery on the search for more prov
ender for Nero’s lions.
The beautiful pageantry of our Eas
ter, with its flowers, song, incenBe,
music and accompaniment of sunshine
and the warmth of spring, contrasts
strangely with the setting of the Eas
ter in the catacombs. There all was sad
and somber, damp and morbid.
The wallB, covered with their funeral
inscriptions, were cold and moiBt, the
torches flickering fitfully in the heavy
atmosphere of the sepulcher. The
Christians, hunted, persecuted, many
of them without homes, were a forlorn
and jaded spectacle. Only the undying,
invincible spirit of their cause upheld
them.
The preacher had to dwell upon the
joys of the future and the Master’s
promise to dispel the heavy gloom.
There was no rich organ music; no dis
play of color; no sound of mirth and
gladness from without. The spring
song of birds did not reach them—only
the deep roar of infuriated animals and
the tramp of the legionaries penetrated
to mingle with their voices in the ser
vice.
So was Christianity kept alive and
our modern civilization born.
Easter of To-day and of the Past.
With the coming of Easter interest
is always aroused in the ancient be
liefs, ceremonies and observances that
are brought together in the celebration
of the modern festival. These include
such things as eggs, cakes, flowers,
presents, and the Easter hare, to say
nothing of other items obsolete in our
times. Individual notings of one or
another of the ceremonies or observan
ces have there been, hut it is by no
means easy to lay hand on any assem
bling of them.
Authorities agree that the remote
ancestor of Easter was a ceremony of
pagan worship. Distant as are the
origins of the old religious forms, and
intertwined as are the threads connect
ing them with the present, it is not
now easy to disentangle them, bo that
it may he said that Easter observances
among the people include remnants of
the ancient worship of the sun, the
moon, and fire and water. The key
note of the festival has been from the
very beginning resurrection, the re
awakening of the vernal world. The
name is that of a goddess of spring, and
certain of the emblemR have had a co
relation that is remarkable, and through
thirty centuries they have come down
to us together, preserving the early
significance of resurrection, although
the faith that originated the idea had
ages ago been forgotten. Tho idea of
Easter sprang truly from a tomb; that
tomb was, however, the tomb of win
ter. The strong angel that rolled away
the stone from the door of the sepulcher
was the April sun.
Although Lent has the claim of Chris
tian orign, there are antiquarians who
assert that it is of far more ancient
origin. It arose, as nearly as has yet
been determined, in the fasting that
was customary among the Babylonians,
whose worship formed the starting
point of Easter. The fast was one of
sympathy with the goddess of repro
duction, who mourned her consort, and
the period was marked by fasting and
an abstinence from mirth and social
festivals. Fasting has been a wide
spread custom, Humboldt noting fasts
in Mexico, where, curiously enough, the
invading Spaniards found the natives
practicing baptism, with an invocation
to Cioacooatl that “the Bin which was
given before the beginning of the world
might not visit the child, but that
cleansed by these waters it might live
and be born anew.”
Easter was at first a continuation of
the Jewish Passover and came on the
fourteenth of the month Nisan, When
the revulsion of feeling in the church
against the Jtewa occurred it was
changed and deliberately fixed so that
it could by no possibility fall on the
same day aa the Passover. This matter
was Bettled in A. D. 325. EaBter was
set for the first Sunday following the
full moon that comes after March 21.
This relation to the vernal equinox
brought it to the time of the pagan
festival of the goddess of spring, dating
back to the Astarte worship of Baby
lonia. The name, Easter, is compara
tively modern, but the principle of the
story and the emblems and observances
are of this ancient date.
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Easter is Older Than Christianity
Easter is much older than Christiani
ty. The very name by which we know
the day is identical with that of the an
cient Saxon goddess of spring, Easter
or Eostre. Tho Anglo-Saxon name for
April is Easter month. Taking advan
tage of the coincidence of the Christian
festival in point of time with that of
the yearly feast in honor of the Saxon
goddess, the early missionaries gave a
Christian meaning to the observance of
the day, but it has ever retained its an
cient name. Easter was at one time
called the Christian passover, because
the Jewish passover occurs about the
same date, and the early converts from
Judaism celebrated Easter anil the
passover as one festival.
“The primitive Christians,” we are
told, “when they met on this day salu
ted each other with the words, 'Christ
is arisen,' to which answer was made,
‘Christ is arisen, indeed, and hath ap
peared unto Simon.’ ” This custom is
still observed in the Greek church. "In
deed,” to quote a foreign writer, "all
the ceremonies attending the observ
ance of Easter were at first exceedingly
simple, but in the early part of the
fourth century a decided change was
brought about.
“Constantine, naturally vain and fond
of parade, Bignalized his love of display
by celebrating this festival with extra
ordinary pomp. Vigils or night watchcB
were instituted on EaBter eve, at which
people remained in the churches until
midnight. The tapers, which it was
customary to burn at thiB time, did not
satisfy his majesty, but huge pillars of
Wax were used instead, and not only in
the churches, but all over the city, were
they placed so that their brilliancy at
night Bhoukl rival the light of day.
"Easter Sunday was observed with
most elaborate ceremonies, the pope of
ficiating at maBS, with every imposing
accessory that could be devised.”
Not kneeling in token of humility, but
standing erect with arms outstretched
and faces looking toward heaven to ex
press triumphant peace, the early Chris
tians prayed during the fifty days be
tween EaBter and Pentecost, and no
songs but those of joy and gratitude
were heard. Between Easter and Pen
tecost the time was considered the moat
auspicious in the whole year for love-
making and marriages, and those two
holy days were the best on which to
baptize children.
Of all the Easter customs, that of
coloring and making presents of eggs
seems the only distinctive one thut has
found a place in our lime and country.
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Too much care cannot be used in
selecting a cough medicine for children.
It Bhould be pleasant to take, contain
no harmful substance and he most
effectual. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
meets these requirements und is a
favorite with tho mothers of young
children everywhere. For sule by all
dealers.
Canadian authorities say that since
1905 the emigration of farmers from
the United States has taken nearly
$300,000,000 in money and property out
of this country into the Dominion.
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“I suffered with rheumatism for two
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Truth That Easter Tells.
Dr. Washington Gladden.
If you look into the face of humanity
on Easter day and listen to its accents
and watch its movements wherever tho
message of Easter has been spoken you
know that it is joyful news, good tid
ings. The pealing bellB, the jubilant
songs, the churches and the homes
bright with flowers of spring, the fes
tive garments, the whole costume and
utterance of Christendom show that the
word has been spoken as a word of
cheer, a word of hope, a summons to
rejoicing. Is not this in itself a great
achievement? To fill the heart of the
world with a great hope and an unsel
fish joy —is not that a great good? That
Jesus the Christ has done all thiB for
the world no man can deny.
There is reason in this rejoicing. It
is the truth that Easter tells that makeH
the whole earth glad. What is this
truth? It ia the truth that there is life
beyond the grave. To the perfect man
there is no death, and in every man
there is a spiritual principle over which
death ha« no power. This has been the
unquenchable hope of mankind in all
the ages, and the resurrection of Chriat
gives to this hope a great confirmation.
Fools may sometimes give wise
counsel. w
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Miracle of the Easter Blooms.
Every flower that blooms is an Eas
ter miracle. There has been the death
of a parent plant, to produce the seed
or bulb. The sepulcher has had to
hide the seemingly dead thing, which
yet contained a hidden germ of life. A
watering by the tears of the great Na
ture Mother, the beams of a far away
source of heat, were necessary. Out of
the very “valley of tho shadow of
death” that bravery of green and bril
liancy has come. We may not “smell
the mold above the rose,” but it has
come forth from the blackness of the
dirt into fragrant beauty.
The Easter time hales us back to the
days when tho perfect Man, tho Flower
of our race, was cut down “by the
wicked men, and crucified and slain.”
It would ho an incomplete history,
judging by the analogy of nature, if it
left Him there. The life history of
your lily neither begins nor ends with
tho fading of the bloom.
It was because this was the first real
exemplification of tho raising to “the
life of the world to come,” that it was
heralded by the Angel of the Resurrec
tion. The first flower of humanity to
pass into its perfected stage of gloriouB
fruition was the Man who camo back
from the dead in the mystery of “a
Spiritual Body” on tho first Sunday
that over was.
Every garden is a sacramental place
now, Bince the Easter flowers first
waved, near 1900 yearB ago. It is a
sign of the inward grace which moves
amid the dust of the ages, preserving
germ liveB of all who have gone down
into tho soil, resting until the Angel of
the great Resurrection seta to his lips
the golden trumpet, and sounds the
clarion call of the great springtime,
when the Garden of Paradise Bhall give
back ita souls, and the black earth and
deep seas shall give up their dead, and
lives shall bloom again in new beauty
and the unfading majesty for which
they were created at the first.
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To those to whom death has brought
keen Borrow comes the Easter message:
“I am the resurrection and the life.”
It needs to them no proof, no scientific
demonstration. Through the insight
which is vouchsafed men in their hours
of crisis, they have the vision of this
mortal putting on immortality. A man
was talking the other day of tho death
of his 16 year-old son, who had been for
years his close companion. “I feel,”
he said, "that he is closer to me now
than ho was at home a fortnight ago.”
There wbb no need of argument there.
The seers of all ages have known that
the qualities which they have loved in
human personalities are undying, and
that the personalities embodying those
qualities ure living the life everlasting.
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