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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Published Weekly at
Perry, Ga,
JOHN L. HODGES. Publisher.
ROBY C. HODGES. Editor.
Official Organ of Houston County
and City of Perry.
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Keeping Spirit
Of Christmas
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HENRY VAN DYKE
(From “The Spirit of Christmas.")
It is a good thing to observe
Christmas day. The mere marking
of times and seasons, when men
agree to stop work and make merry
together, is a wise and wholesome
custom. It helps one to feel the su
premacy of the common life over the
individual life. It reminds a man
to set his own little watch, now and
then, by the great clock of humanity
which runs on sun time.
But there is a better thing than
the observance of Christmas day,
and that is, keeping Christmas.
Are you willing to forget what
you have done for other people, and
to remember what other people have
done for you; to ignore what the
world owes you, and to think what
you owe the world; to put your rights
in the background, and your duties
in the middle distance, and your
chances to do a little more than your
duty in the foreground; to see that
your fellowmen are just as real as
you are, and to try to look behind
their faces to their hearts, hungry
for joy; to own that probably the
only good reason for your existence
is not what you are going to get out
of life, but what you are going to
give to life; to close your book of
complaints against the management I
of the universe, and look around you '
for a place whore you can sow a
few seeds of happiness—are you will
ing to do these things even for a
day? Then you can keep Christmas. I
Are you willing to stoop down and
consider the needs and the desires of
little children; to remember the
weakness and loneliness of people
who are growing old; to stop asking
how much your friends love you,
and ask yourself whether you love
them enough; to bear in mind the
things that other people have to
bear in their hearts; to try to un
derstand what those who live in the
same house with you really want,
without waiting for them to tell you;
to trim your lamp so that it will
give more light and less smoke, and
to carry it in front so that your
shadow will fall behind you; to make
a grave for your ugly thoughts and !
a garden for 'your kindly feelings,
with the gate open—are you willing
to do these things even for a day?
Then you can keep Christmas.
Are you willing to believe that
love is the strongest thing in the
world—stronger than hate, stronger
than evil, stronger than death—and
that the blessed life which began in
Bethlehem 1900 years ago is the im
age and brightness of the Eternal
Love? Then you can keep Christ
mas.
And if you keep it for a day, why
not always?
But you can never keep it alone.
The First Christmas Tree
(A Legend.)
The drooping arms of the tree are
stiff with frost.
It is no taller than a child.
Perhaps a woodman will set it in
his parlor
Or a youth shoulder it home.
Glass oranges, gay lanterns, coils
of brightness
Lie in some secret box, waiting to
deck it.
A polished moon
Once voyaged above a forest clasped
in frost;
A man, trudging through the night’s
beauty,
Came to one tree no taller than a
child
(Brother to this, here in our forest),
Felled it, bore it over the rug of
snow,
Set it before his fire, watched melt
ing diamonds.
His young boy
Stared while they winked and
splashed upon the floor,
Stared as the branches relaxed and
lifted—
" Why did you want it, father?” The
man smiled.
He was a rare man, absorbed by
trees and children
And bold new actions, whether great
or small.
Martin Luther, bis nlme.
D. D.
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
Released by Western Newspaper Union,
Lesson for December 24
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
THE GROUND OF UNIVERSAL
JOY
LESSON TEXT—Luke 2:8-12; Hebrew*l:l
-4; I John 1:1-4.
GOLDEN TEXT—Behold. I bring you good
tidings of great Joy. which shall be to all
the people.—Luke 2:10.
What would you like for Christ
mas? Could anything be better than
1 to find for your heart and mind that
spiritual safety, certainty, and joy
which transforms life? Well, that is
exactly what Jesus came to bring
mankind. It was the first Christmas
gift, and it is the best gift this year
too.
I. Safety (Luke 2:8-12).
Men need deliverance from their
sin. They needed it when Christ
came. They need it today. They
must have a safe refuge, one in
which they may rest secure.
All the efforts of this world to
meet man’s need are vain. As Jo
seph Parker put it; “The world did
not want an adviser. The world had
advised itself almost into hell. The
world did not ask for a specu
lator. Everything that man could
do had been done, and men sat in
the darkness of their own wisdom.
The world did not want a reformer,
a man who could change his out
ward and transient relations, an en
gineer that would continually de
vote his time to the readjustment of
the wheels and the pulleys and the
various mechanical forces of soci
ety. The world wanted a saviour.”
Jesus came as Saviour. The good
tidings revealed to the faithful shep
herds were to be “of great joy to
nil people” because they presented
the One who could bring them re
-1 demption from sin.
, That revelation is ready to be
| mode again this Christmas, and as
j it came to the shepherds at their
work in the field, so it may come
to you on the battlefield, in camp, in
j the air, under the sea, in the kitchen,
j the factory—yes, anywhere. We
rightly go to our churches to wor
ship on Christmas Day, but let us
remember that Christ is every
where, seeking each one yes,
knocking at your door. Will you let
Him in? Then you will have Christ
mas indeed!
11. Certainty (Heb. 1:1-4).
God has spoken through the ccn-
I turies in the messages of many faith
ful servants. We do well to give
heed to God’s Word through them.
But after all they were only serv
ants. This message of redemption
is so vital and fundamental that God
sent His Son, Himself the Redeemer,
to declare it.
How final, and definite, and bless
ed is that truth. The heir of all the
eternal glories of God the Father,
and Himself the effulgence (or the
flashing forth) of the glory of God,
has spoken God’s last word—His
certain word —about redemption
from sin.
We all know how full of uncertain
ty the world is, how our own minds
are distressed by the very uncer
tainty of countless things about us.
What a precious gift from God to
realize anew the absolute certainty
I wo have in Christ. He came to
; save, to satisfy, and to keep us.
Note that He has all the needed
authority and power to carry out
His loving purpose (vv. 3,4). He
| who “made purification of sins” for
us to believe, is divine. He has all
power. He is glorious beyond our
ability to describe. He is God. We
can rest in perfect assurance in His
| redemption.
111. Enjoyment (I John 1:1-4).
God knew the need of man for
real joy if life was to be pleasant
and profitable. Being a Christian
was never intended to be a somber,
doleful business. No, indeed. “These
things we write,” .viys John, “that
our joy may be made full.”
What did he write? By inspira
tion of the Holy Spirit he wrote of
Christ, “the Word of life.” He bad
seen and known Him, the Redeem
er. He had fine and uplifting fellow
ship with Him, and declares that we
j too (as believers) share in that fel
lowship.
) One of the bright and gladsome
things about the Christmas season
is our fellowship with our family
and friends. It brightens the whole
holiday season. How much more
delightful is the fact that we have
i "fellowship with the Father and with
[ his Son, Jesus Christ.”
That fact really "makes” Christ
i mas! Many will be separated from
; family and friends this year, but
Christ is there, and they may have
j this most precious of all friends with
' them. The empty place around the
family table will be filled (if we
wish) by the Lord Himself. Let’s
keep Christmas with Him as the un
seen but nonetheless real Guest. In
fact, let us do even more than that,
let us count Him into the intimate
fellowship of our family circle (and
two can make such a circle). That
is what He wants to be—to you and
to me—this Christmas Day, 1944.
May his joy be yours in full
measure. That is the wish of the
writer of these linos, and it goes
I from his heart to the very last read
-1 er who may be in the uttermost part
of the earth. A blessed Christmas
j to you!
PERRY
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Ideas were needed ideas that would work for the progress best letters in this far-reaching contest —3O to adults, 30 to
of Georgia and all Georgia communities. More than 7,000 young folks. Those prizes are their present financial reward
forthright citizens, young and old, responded magnificently f° r devoting their time and earnest thoughts to the better
with ideas on how to improve their communities. And these nient of their communities. But the greatest prizes will he
thoughts will help their own home towns, as well as every ‘“°. se "° money ? an b V y: . th ® eventual, actual realization of
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Sixty prizes are now being paid to the ones who wrote the Home Towns in which to live and work.
FIRST PRIZES—SI,OOO BONDS
GROWN-UPS DIVISION YOUNG FOLKS DIVISION
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OTHER PRIZE WINNERS
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Mrs. Kate B. Peterson, Mt. Vernon Mrs. Bernice Hilliard, Fitzgerald Mrs. C. H. Eppes, Athena
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Homt Sanders. Atlanta Mrs. T. W. Porterfield, Colbert Lamar Wren, Wrcsis
O/C H. W. C. Furman, Fort Benning George W. Martin, cuthbert
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Laden E. Roberts, Carrollton James A. Hazelton, Fayetteville
J, H. Clark, Forsyth Mary A. Juhan, LawrenceviJle
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Olive A. Wilkinson, Newnan James A. Morris, Vienna Joan Carter, Madison
Patricia Mansfield, Cartersvillc Earline McDonald, Rockramrt Warren Mallard, Girard
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Mary E. Tribble, Vidalia Harold McLendon, Damascus
Betty J. Henderson, Brunswick Katherine Mahaffey, LawrenceviUa
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
A CITIZEN WHEREVER WE SERVE
| LEGAL SALE OF LAND
|GEORGIA, Houston County.
By virtue of the power con-l
tained in a certain deed with
power of sale to secure debt
given by Mrs. Mary Houser
Brown McKinley to Mrs. Pauline
S. Long and recorded in deed;
'book 46 page 198, Clerk’s Office
! Houston Superior Court, will be
sold before the court house door;
in Perry, Houston County, Geor-j
gia, during the legal hours of
sale on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 1945 to
the highest bidder for cash the’
following property;
That tract or parcel of land
lying and being in the town of
Grovania in the 12th District of
Houston County, Georgia, bound
ed as follows: North by Perry
and Hawkinsville public road;
east by lands of Mrs. Burns:west
by Mrs. F. E, Bailey and the
right-of-way of the Georgia
Southern and Florida Railroad;
south by lands formerly owned |
by R. L. Baird and lands of G.C. i
Harrison. Being the house and
lot inherited by Mary Houser
Brown from Mary E. Houser by
will and being the same land
described in deed as of record in
deed book 51 page 244, Clerk’s
Office, Houston Superior Court.
Also one acre of land in the
13th District of Houston County,
(Georgia, bounded on the north
by lands of Mary R. Brown; east
by lands of Sophie Bunn; west by
Mary R. Brown, south by Perry
jand Hawkinsville public road.
Said land will be sold for the
purpose of paying a certain
I promissory note for the principal
.sum of $500.00 dated October 15,
'1943, and due October 15, 1944
| with interest from date at the
'rate of 8 per cent per annum.
The said Mrs. Mary Houser
Brown McKinley having failed to
pay said rcle and the interet
thereon, when due, the power
contained in said deed with power
of sale to secure debt becomes
operative.
The proceeds from said sale
will be applied first to the pay
ment of said debt and interest
and any taxes due, and the cost
of this proceeding, and the re
! mainder will be paid to the said
I Mrs. Mary Houser Brown Mc-
Kinley or her legal representa
| tive. /
A deed to the purchaser will
be made by the undersigned.
This the 27th day of Nvem
ber, 1944,
Mrs. Pauline S. Long.
J. W. Bloodworth,
Attorney At Law.
ORDINARY’S CITATIONS
GEORGIA, Houston County.
B. J. Hunt, Administrator of
the Estate of Mrs. J, B. Hunt,
deceased, having applied for Let
ters of Dismission from his ad-i
ministration; 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 Ordinary!
on the First Monday in January,!
1945. I
I This Dec. 4, 1945.
JOHN L. HODGES,
Ordinary.
LAND SALE ~
Will be sold before the court
house door of Houston County on
the first Tuesday in January,,
1945, to the highest bidder forj
cash, 100 acres of land, more or
less, being the south and west'
part of the county farm in the I
Lower Town District of Houston |
County, about two miles east of j
Perry. •
A plat of the land to be sold
showing the exact acreage can
be seen at the County Commis
sioners’ office at the courthouse
on and after December 20, 1944.
C. E. Brunson, Clerk.
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Georgia,
Call or write for estimates
Phone 3121
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12 NOON to 3 P. M.
CLASSIFIED ADS
For Sal e —Pure-bred N, Z.
iWhite Rabbits, selected for
| breeding stock, pedigree papers
ion request. W. E. Marshall Jr.,
| Phone 200 or 204, Perry, Ga.
! LAUNDRY SOAP (12 6c bars)
free with 24 pkgs. 25c washing
powder, postpaid, $6.00. General
Products Co. (WG-112) Albany,
; Georgia.
For Sale—Several prewar
Studebaker one and two horse
wagons. Merritt & Anderson
Bros. Co., Hawkinsville Ga. 12:21
Wanted—Sales Lady to sell
Lozier’s Cosmetics in Perry and
1 Houston County. Apply to Mrs.
W. B. Jump, 639 Forsyth St..
I Macon, Ga. 12:28
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I tor, experienced or inexperienc
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Electrical Appliances
Repaired Promptly
All Makes Elec. Irons Repaired
Cal) 2202
ROBERT W. GILBERT
Perry, Ga.
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Certified Public Accountant
Perry, Georgia
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