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WHAT’S THE REASON?
MANY PEOPLE IN POOR HEALTH
WITHOUT l< NO WING THE
CAUSE
There are scores of people who
drag out a miserable existence
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Georgia Contributes 5 Young People
for Missionary Work in China and Japan
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• (1) Miss Letts Mae Hill, Atlanta, secretarial work, Shimonoseki, Japan; (2) James Hamir.cm Ware, Winder,
•▼anselistlc work, Hwungbslec, China; (A) Eph Whisenhunt, Buchanan, institutional church work, North Gate
Church, Shanghai, China, (4) Mrs. Edith Adair Whisenhunt, Gainesville, Institutional church work, Shanghai,
China; (a) Mrs. ltuth Espy Treadwell, Summerville, educational work, Japan.
From the larger proceed* of the j
Baptist 76 Million Campaign th* For-j
•lgn Mission Board of the Southern j
Baptist Convention has been enabled
to send out more than lfiO new mis- J
slonarles since that movement was
launched, It Is announced, and of that :
number sixty young men and women,
representing fourteen states, have Just j
sailed for China, Japan, Africa, Brazil,
Argentina and Chile. In addition to j
these, Dr, ami Mrs. Everett GIU of
Kansas City will sail September 14 to
become representatives of the Board
In Europe, while Dr. auu Mrs. W. A.
Hamlett of Austin, Texas, huve Just
sailed for Jerusalem, where they will
maintain headquarters In acting as the
Near East representatives of the
Board.
The new missionaries to China and
Japan stilled from Seattle, Saturday,
August 27, on the Hawkeye State of
the Admiral Line, while those for Bra
zil, Argentina, Chile and Africa sailed
from New York on the Aeolus August
17. They will be engaged chiefly in
evangelistic, educational, medical and
agricultural work and will be sta
tioned at various points in these fields.
■While a large number of new workers
have been sent out by the Hourd since
the beginning of the Campaign, at
least 10ft other caps hie young men and
wvmon could he employed to advant
age if they were available, Secretary
9. F- Love advises.
Mission Money Gets Results.
Os the more than 126.00V,000 that
has been collected in cash ou the 7S
Million Campaign to date, about $5,
000,000 has gone to foreign mission*.
This has made It possible not only to
strengthen the old work on all field*
and employ a large number of new
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racked with backache and headache
suffer from nervousness, dizziness,
weakness, languor and depression.
Perhaps (lie kidneys have fallen be
hind in their work of littering the
blood and that may be the root of
(tie trouble. Look lo your kidneys,
assist lliom in their work—give the
help they need, you can use no more
highly recommended remedy than
Doan's Kidney Pills—endoresd by
peop h* everywhere and by your
without realizing the cause of their
suffering. Day after day they are
missionaries, but to do much other
work, including building or making
stthStanDal additions to 15 boys’
schools, 17 girls’ schools, 37 mission
residences, five hospitals and dispen
saries, four light and power plants for
mission compounds, 26 church build
ings, four colleges, seven theological
seminaries. In addition, assistance has
been given seven church building loan
associations, six new stations have
been opened and equipped, land has
been bought for the enlargement of
several mission compounds, a home for
orphans in Italy has been established,
and a block of ground has been pur
chased In the heart of Home for head
quarters for the work in Italy, a theo
logical seminary, publishing house,
church and mission residence being
provided on this property.
Enlarge European Field.
As a result of the Campaign, South
ern Baptists have been enabled to
greatly enlarge their work in Europe.
They have carried on mission work in
Italy since 1870, hut now they have
opened up new work in Jugo-Slavia,
Hungary and Roumaula, and have made
a beginning, through the distribution
es Bible*, in the Ukraine and Southern
Russia and Siberia. To act as the
European representatives of the Board
in this enlarged program, Dr. and Mrs.
Everett Gill of Kansas City were re
cently named. They will probably
make tbelr headquarters In Switzer
land.
The first work Southern Baptists
hare ever done looking to the evangel
ization of Mohammedan lands has Just
been undertaken In Palestine and
Syria, and Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Hamlett
of Austin. Texas, hare gone to Jeru
salem, where they will superintend
' WALKER COUNT? MESSE NGER. NOVEMBER 25, 1921.
neighbors in LaFayette.
C. H. Moore painter, LaFayette,
says: “At different times my hack
was sore and sluggish. 1 was always
nervous and had headaches and oth
er kidney weakness. It pleases me
to say that I have always had won
derful relief from these troubles by
using Doan's Kidney Pills,
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get Doan's Kidney Pills—the same
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the work of the native evangel
ists. It is planned to establish a
church, theological seminary and col
lege, hospital and orphanage at Jeru
salem as soon as practicable and thus
seek to reach other points in Pales
tine and Syria from this center.
Minister to 900,000,000 People.
With the enlarged foreign mission
program of Southern Baptists that de
nomination is now operating in 18
countries on every side of the globe,
and has in its employ practically 500
foreign missionaries and twice that
number of native workers trained in
the mission schools.- Through its
present missionary operations the
Board is seeking to minister to 475,-
000,000 yellow people, 4,000,000 brown
people, 200,000,000 black people and
225,000,000 white people, making a
total of 900,000,000 people, or more
than half the population of the globe.
Numbered among its workers already
on the field are 21 foreign physicians
and 8 foreign mission nurses who last
year gave 154,070 treatments. There
are now 611 mission churches on the
foreign fields and of this number 184
are self-supporting. The average con
tributions of these mission churches
laßt year to denominational causes w is
$5 per member, the Ch/istians on the
foreign fields responding more liber
ally as a result of the 75 Million Cam
paign.
The new missionaries sailing at this
time were contributed by the following
states: Alabama two, Arkansas one,
Georgia five, Kentucky six, Louisiana
two, Mississippi four, Missouri four.
North Carolina three. South Carolina
five. Tennessee five, Texas fifteen,
Virginia six, lowa one and Pennsyl
vania one.
NOTICE
On the first Tuesday in December
1921, at 10 o’clock, a in in the North
east room, ujistairs, in tho old court
house, in the City of LaFayette, Ga.
I will offer for sale the following
articles, as part of the estate of R.
N. Dickerson, deceased:
Two bookcases, one lot of books;
Six dining room chair; two tables;
one library set, consisting of two
chairs and one table; seven picture
frames; one office chair; three split
bottom chairs; one wash stand, one
bowl and pitcher; one small ice box;
one hall tree; one L. C. Smith type
writer; one rayo Lamp and 1 small
lot of office fixtures.
Said articles to be sold at Execu
tor's Sale, as part of said estate. The
terms of the sale to be cash.
This, Novohber 17, 1921.
W. E. WITHERS,
Executor of R. N. Dickerson, Dec'd.
Just a Few of the
Many Things We
Can Sell You Cheap
Cotton Serge, all colors 25c
Outings 15c and 18c
Brown Canton 12£ to 20c
Dress Qinghams 15c and 20c
Children’s .Sweaters 75c to $3.25
Men’s Heavy “ Cotton $1.25
Men’s Suits (New Line) $13.50 to $27.50
Boys’ Suits $6.50 to $9.00
Knit Headwear 25c to $2.00
Hosiery (for all the family) 15c to $2.00
All Leather Shoes “Star Brand” Best Prices
Men’s Union Suits $1.25 to $1.50
W.men’s Union Suits SI.OO to $2.00
Children’s Union Suits 50c to SI.OO
Remember our Millinery De
partment. Our Hats are stylish
and the prices are Right.
Thurman Brothers
LAFAVETTE, GEORGIA
* HEAD RIVER NEWS *
11IXi I I 11: miiirii
Our whole neighborhood Is sad
dened by the death of J. M. Forester
Nov. 14. He was stricken wilh para
lysis on Saturday night while at
tending church and died Monday.
Funeral services were conducted at
the Johnson cemetery by the Masons
Tuesday. ,
Prof. Harry Forester and family
returned to Demorest Sunday Nov.
20. They were accompanied by Max
who will reenter school
there.
The revival services closed Fri
day night. Had a good meetirtg but
only one conversion. Rev. Mac Smith
assisted Bro. Abercrombie.
Mrs. J. M. Rose is sick. Dr. Card
ner was called there Sunday.
B. Y. P. U. was well-attended Sun
day night and the program was giv
en by Group No. 3, Mrs. G. A Hix’s.
The S. S. and B. Y. P. U. are send
ing a coop of chickens to the Baptist
Orphans Home at Hapcvillc so that
the children may have a chicken
dinner Thanksgiving day. The com
munity expect to have a service at
the church Thursday.
Mrs. S. T. Frizzell-is on the sick
list.
Mr. John Konradt of Alabama City
spent the week-end with homefolks.
I Fred Forester who was called to
i his old home by the sickness and
| death of his father will remain un
til Christmas.
Let’s all remember Prayer meet
i ing Wednesday night and do all we
can for good. ELLIEN OHESTEft F