HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Published Weekly at
Perry, Ga.
JOHN L. HODGES, Publisher.
RUBY C. HODGES. Editor.
Official Organ of Houston County
and City of Perry.
Subscription, $1.50 per year.
Entered at the Post Office in
Perry, Ga., as Mail Matter of
Second Class.
UNITED STATES
WARI
OOK CS
STAMPS
THAT PROVES IT
The old miller hod a pet saying
“Patience and Perseverance will ac
complish all things.” And one day
in a train on the way to market he
repeated his favorite maxim very
solemnly.
A pompous individual in the cor
ner turned to him at once.
“Nonsense, sir,” he said. “I can
tell you a great many things which
neither patience nor perseverance
can accomplish.”
“Maybe you can,” said the old
miller. “But I'm an old man, and
I haven’t come across one yet.”
“I’ll tell you one,” was the stately
retort. “No amount of patience and
perseverance will enable you to car
ry water in a sieve.”
“Patience will,” replied the old
miller.
“Patience! How?” snapped the,
stranger.
The old man smiled. “Simply by
waiting pMiently for the water to
freeze,” he said.
I
CLOSE QUARTERS
“Have you ever lived in an apart
ment?”
“My boy, I have lived in a place
where I couldn’t throw out my chest
without bumping my conscience.”
Suspicious
Widow Williams bent industrious
ly over her washtub as she listened
to the polite conversation of a man
friend. Before long he turned the
talk round to matrimony, winding up
with a proposal of marriage.
“Are you quite sure you love me?”
asked the widow, pausing to wring
out a towel. “Are you telling me the
tru*h?”
The man vowed that he was in
earnest. For a few moments noth
ing more was said. Then suddenly
the widow raised her head again
from the tub.
“You haven’t lost your job, have
you?” the asked, suspiciously.
Nothing to It
A supposedly hapnted house had
been converted into an emergency
first aid post. The staff were so
keen that the thought of ghosts
didn't worry them.
On the first night the nurse on
duty heard strange noises in the
corridor. Opening the door, she
saw a spectral figure with its head
tucked underneath its arm.
“Dear, dear!” she exclaimed
brightly. "How ever did that hap
pen? Come inside and we’ll sec
what we can do.”
Or Wood lie?
When the tramp knocked at the
door of the bungalow, it was opened
by a grim-faced woman.
“Did you sec that pile of wood in
the yard,” she snapped.
“Yes, mum," replied the tramp
meekly: “I seen it."
“You should be more careful of
your grammar,” she said coldly.
“You mean you saw it.”
“No, mum; you saw me see it,
but ain’t see me saw it.”
TAKES PRACTICE
“Joe seems to get along fine with
his new wife.”
"He did the same with his old on*
when she was new.”
To the Lions
An income-tax collector had died,
and a subscription was raised for a
wreath. The boss promised five dol
lars.
A few days later one of the clerks
called to collect the money, and the
chief handed him ten dollars.
“You want five change, sir,” said
the clerk.
“No," growled the ether; "keep ii
and bury another.”
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
Bv HAROLD L, LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Of Th* Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for May 24
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se-
I lected aiul copyrighted by International
i Council of Religious Education; used by
I permission.
THURSDAY: THE LAST DAY
WITH THE DISCIPLES
| LESSON TEXT—Luke 22:14-30.
1 GOLDEN TEXT—This do in remembrance
; of me.—Luke 22:19.
The last day! How quickly it
comes, and how fleeting jet mean-
I ingful its moments.
We do not know what our Lord
| did on Wednesday of Passion Week,
In all probability He remained in
Bethany to rest in fellowship with
His friends. Surely He needed that
day of quiet, for that which had gone
before, difficult and strenuous as it
had been, was as nothing to that
which lay before Him.
Late on Thursday He and His dis
ciples came to the upper room
where Peter and John had already
made preparation for the observ
ance of the Passover (Luke 22:8).
This feast had (since that great and
awful night of Israel’s redemption
out of Egypt’s bondage) pointed for
ward to the Christ and to His cross
as the fulfillment of the type of re
demption by the shedding of blood.
But now the hour had come for Him
to give Himself in that death, and so
He set aside the Passover (because
it has been fulfilled) to establish the
great Christian feast of remem
brance—the Lord’s table, which now
shows forth His death till He come.
I. The Final Passover (vv. 14-18).
Our Lord looked forward with in
tense desire to the Passover which
He now observed with His disciples,
for it was the last celebration of
that feast recognized by God. All
that it had foreshadowed of deliv
erance and hope was fulfilled in Him
who now sat at the table. He had
moved forward with resolute pur
pose to this day when His mission
on earth was to be accomplished,
and He was to become the Chris
tian’s Passover lamb (I Cor. 5:7).
The fact that He had looked for-
I ward to it with desire does not mini
mize the deep darkness of either
! Gethsemane or Calvary. Remem
ber that, when in the garden He
faced that hour and thought of the
I possibility of the cup being taken
from Him, He said to the Father,
“Not what I will, but what thou
wilt.” Praying concerning the same
matter (in John 12:27), He said,
“Now is my soul troubled; and what
j shall I say? Father, save me from
this hour: but for this cause came I
! unto this hour.”
11. The First Communion (vv. 19,
20).
Taking the unleavened bread and
the unfermented wine of the Pass
over which had just been observed,
Jesus established a new feast, the
Christian feast of remembrance,
which we call communion or the
Lord’s table.
His words are significant, “For as
often as ye eat this bread, and drink
this cup, ye do show the Lord’s
death till he come” (I Cor. 11:26).
At the Lord’s table His followers
find spiritual strength in recalling
His death for them, but they also
find joy as they remember that He
is to come again. They thus testify
to the world that they believe and
cherish these truths.
This feast is rightly called “com
munion,” for down through the ages
and until He does come the saints of
God have at His table sweet com
munion with Him and with one an
other. Let us not neglect it!
Our Lord also spoke of the cup
as “my blood of the new testa
ment.” The word “testament” i
means covenant. The Lord’s table j
therefore speaks of our allegiance |
to Him, of our loyalty to our Lord,
and our devotion to His service.
That is why the Christian Church I
speaks of communion as a sacra- I
ment, a word from the Latin sacra- |
montum, meaning oath, and essen- !
tially an oath of allegiance.
111. The Folly of the Disciples (vv.
21-30).
Someone may say, “That point j
does not belong with the other two.
Both the Passover and the Lord’s
Supper are for the joyful remem
brance of deliverance and redemp
tion.” The objection is well taken
except for one thing—we are deal
ing with human beings as they are,
not as they should be and could be
by the grace of God.
Here in the inner circle of the
twelve there was one traitor. It
seems impossible, but apparently
Judas had maintained such outward
I conduct as to turn no suspicion in
his direction, even though all along
he had in his heart the blackest of
treachery against his Lord. A sad
and soul-searching fact is here re
vealed, that it is possible for one to
make a high profession of faith in
Christ and even so to live as to give
no cause for criticism, and yet to
be unregenerate and in fact the ene- |
my of Christ.
What about the strife regarding
position? Shameful as we agree that
it was, it still goes on in the church.
Not even the remembrance of our
Lord’s death and the reminder that
He is coming again is enough to
keep men from wanting to be great
est. i
IJust |^|
GOING—GOING
A stranger was standing on the
platform of a small railway station
when the express flashed past. Into
the whirl of dust raised by the
train leaped the stationmaster’s dog
and tore madly up the track in pur
suit.
“Does your dog often do that?”
asked the stranger of the station
master.
“Yes, sir. Every time the express
passes the dog is after it like a
hare.”
“That’s queer,” commented the
stranger. “Why does he do it?”
“I don’t know,” replied the dog’s
owner, scratching his head thought
fully. "What worries me is what
he’s going to do with it when he
gets it.”
Why Ask?
The tight-lipped woman marched
into the china shop.
“I’ve just broken a whole dinner
set over my husband’s head,” she
said curtly, “and I want to replace
them.”
“Goodness!” gasped the assist
ant. “Did you kill him?”
“Of course not!” snapped the cus
tomer. “If I had, I wouldn’t need
any more dishes, would I?”
PARDON HER
The Maid—And even after you
i met your ideal man you were not
bappy?
The Matron—l made the mistake
of marrying him, my dear.
Who Does What?
After a brief consultation the pa
tient remarked: “There’s a ques
tion I’ve always wanted to ask you,
doctor.”
“What is it?”
“Do you ever doctor another doc
tor?”
“Yes; quite often.”
“Then, tell me this. Docs a doc
tor doctor a doctor the way the doc
tored doctor wants to be doctored,
or does the doctor doing the doc
| toring doctor the other doctor his
| own way?”
Shirksleeves
“When I was young,” the father
cried,
“I worked and worked and
worked,”
“That’s why,” the wise young man
replied,
“I’ve shirked and shirked and
shirked.”
Bravo!
I wish that I could make a rule
That every Moth must go to school,
And learn from some experienced
Mole
I To make a less conspicuous hole.
Guess Again
“Isn’t she rather old-looking for
I her age?”
“Yes, considering that she says
I she is not quite as old as her young
! est daughter.”
Poor Fellow
“How do you feel?”
“Oh, just as I look.”
“That’s hard luck!”
ILLEGIBLE
“Isn’t it a fortunate thing?”
“What?”
“That people can't read the kisses
that have been printed on a girl's
lips.”
Ouch!
Boogy—Do you know what one lit
tle toe said to the other toe?
Woogy—No, what?
Boogy—Don't look now, but I think
we are being followed by a couple
of heels.
Heavy Charge
The young bride was extolling the
virtues of her husband to a friend. :
“George is the most generous man
in the world,” she declared. “He
gives me everything credit can
buy.”
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TAX SALES
Georgia, Houston County.
W ill be sold before the Court j
House Door, within the legal |
hours of sale, on the First Tues
day in June, 1942, the following
property to-wit;
Ail that certain lot or parcel of
End situated, lying and being in
the Upper Town District of Hous
ton County, Georgia, and in the
City of Perry, to-wit: That lot
a»id all buildings thereon, front
ing on Carroll Street 31 feet, and
running from north to south 52
teet, and bounded as follows:
On the north by Carroll Street:
East by Houston County Jail
property; and South and West by
lot formerly owned by Mahalie
Dixon. Being the same property
described in Quitclaim Deed from
Mrs. Elizabeth Bloodworth to E.
M, Beckham and A. H. Lawler,
dated March 29th, 1938, and re
corded in Deed Book 48, page
285, in Clerk’s Office of Houston
Superior Court. Levied on as
the property of the defendant
Wiilie F. Ragin, and found in
his possession to satisfy Fi Fas 1
for State and County Taxes for
the years 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940,
and 1941.
This May 5, 1942.
C. C. PIERCE, Sheriff.
ORDINARY’S CITATIONS
GEORGIA, Houston County.
Armin H. Smith having ap
plied for Letters of Administra
tion on the estate of Dr. S, D.
Smith, deceased; this is there
fore to notify all persons con
cerned, to show cause, if any
they can, why his application
should not be granted at t h e
Court of Ordinary on the First
Monday in June next.
This May 4, 1942.
JOHN L. HODGES,
Ordinary.
Georgia, Houston County.
Armin H. Smith having ap
plied for Letters of Administra
tion on the estate of Mrs. Lillie
Barker Smith; this is therefore
to notify all persons concerned to
show cause, if any they can,why
his application should not be
granted at the Court of Ordi
nary on the First Monday in
Juue next.
This May 4, 1942.
JOHN L. HODGES,
Ordinary, i
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