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DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1948
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BOAZ OPTICAL CO.
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(Established 35 Years)
229 Mitchell St. S. W. Atlanta
WA. 9831
New Year
you ever had
... Greetings
from
Lee’s Beauty Shop
Margaret and Gladys
4 t On the dawn of the a v
Hew Year, we pause once \ / Ty/
again to express our best
wishes for the coming
twelvemonth.
We trust you'll cut many
fancy Figure Eights on
your journey thru 194fL
BULLOCK CLEANERS
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We Sense...
a New Year filled
with plenty of good
things*or the people
of this community.
We’re happy and
proud to be a part
of it. Best wishes!
Builders Supply Co.
Lumber - Millwork
Phone 4166
SCRIPTURE: Matthew 22:15—23:39;
Luke 2; 3:1-3; Galatians 4:1-5. .
DEVOTIONAL READING: Luke 1:46-
55.
Before Sunrise
Lesson for January 2, 1949.
Dr. Foreman
T AKE another lod^ at your new
calendar. 1949 ft says: 1,949
years since the one single event
on which turns the history of the
* r-s ’ _ world—the birth of
Jesus. (As is well
known, the first
calculators missed
the . exact, date by
four or five yjars;
but the main idea
is there all the
same.) With the
coming of the Son
of God to this
earth, it was as if
a twilight world
first saw the sun. -■»—
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Military Government N
T F WE go back in imagination and
* think what the world was like
before there was a bit of the
Christian religion in it, we can bet-
I ter understand the story of Jesus
| and of the nineteen Christian cen-
j turies. For the next six months we
shall be thinking, week by week, of
the life of Jesus Christ. But first
let us think of the world in which
he lived.
Jesus’ homeland of Palestine
; was run by a military govern-
I ment. Roman soldiers were
everywhere, taking the best of
everything. Jews could scarce
ly forget, even for a day, that
they were a beaten people, any
more than a Japanese or Aus
trian can forget It these days.
Jesus grew up in the sort of
atmosphere which military occu
pation always tends to produce: un
certainty, fear, hatred and desire
for revenge, tense with under
ground plots, rumors and con
spiracies. The Romans found Pal
estine hardest of alf their pos
sessions to rule. When Jesus was a
boy there was a terrific uprising
hear his home, and the Romans
crucified 2,000 people in' reprisals.
...
Established Church
W E MUST not think there was
no religion before Jesus was
bom. There was too much of it—
that is, of the wrong sort. The
“established church” of Jesus’ land
was the Temple at Jerusalem, with
its complicated ritual, its countless
beasts roasting on the great altar,
its white-robed choirs chanting by
day and night.
The High Priest himself was
appointed by the Roman over-
lords; chosen for his skill in
rabble-soothing, he held office
on condition that he could hold
the masses in check. However,
the Jerusalem temple* was a
very small part of the actual
religious life of the ordinary
citizen.
Even the most religious would
see the place only a few times a
year. Jesus seldom referred to it,
and ft was finally the leaders of
the established church who hound
ed him to his death.
'* * .
The Sects
T HEN as now, not all the religion
of the people was confined to
the official priesthood and “officers
of the’ church.” There were other
religious, groups, unofficial sects,
and not all good. There were the
Sadducees, aristocratic and
wealthy, professing a strictly this-
world religion, not believing in any
life after death and rejecting most
of the Scriptures.
The Pharisees were the un
official religious leaders of
Israel, as the priests were the
official leaders. They were the
traveling preachers* the Bible
teachers, the D. D.’s of that
time. Closely associated with
these were the Scribes, experts
in the study 'Of the laws of
Moses.
They should have been good, but
what Jesus thought of them can
be seen in the blistering words of
Matthew 23.
Watching for the Dawn
I T WAS a discouraging world in
which to be born. Under the Ro
man heel, with government in the
hands of foreigners, with religion
under the leadership of political
bosses, hypocrites, church lawyers
and fanatics, it was not a hopeful
time.
And yet there were some
really Godlike souls. The
stories in Luke 1 and 2 bring
before ns God-fearing people
old and young: a priest who
had real faith In his heart,
old, old people who prayed for
nothing else so much as for
God’s kingdom, and simple
shepherds who welcomed the
message of God. And above
all, Mary the blessed among
women.
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J. COWAN WHITLEY CO.
—Funeral Directors—
— Ambulance Service Phone 3421
Just a Word
By REV. PAT A. JOHNSON
"BETWEEN THE YEARS"
Once each year we corns' to
stand between the years. There
is the closing year behind us and
the opening year before us. The
opportunities and privileges of
the year behind us .are gone for
ever, while the year before us is
ready to invite and enlist our
best efforts’ in the things that
count most for success and hap
piness. Those who think seri
ously and act wisely during the
coming, year will escape the feel
ing of failure and defeat that
many, are experiencing today as
they think back over, their rec
ord for the past year.
The year at our back has been
a glorious one in a thousand
ways. To some it has been an
unusual year in suffering, sorrow
and loss; and yet, it has been a
year of peace, prosperity and un
limited opportunity throughout
our country. Too many folks are
engaged in the business of wast
ing time. This does not mean
that all of them are idle. It is
very often true that people can
be unusually busy, and as serious
as you please about what they are
doing, but literally, throwing
their time and talent away. Are
you engaged in something that
is worthless and meaningless? If
so, then, the past year has been
one of waste and loss for you.
Would the Lord commend and
reward you for what you are
giving your life to?
I once rehd the story of an
Englishman who spent seven
years completing a four-foot long
model of the Fourth Bridge, and
he used more than 5,000 match
sticks. Then one afternoon while
he was at the theater, to see the
play, The Wasted Years, a mir
ror fell from the wall of his
room and completely destroyed
the little model, his work of sev
en years. Mr. Carr never rebuilt
the model, and he often applied
to title of the play, The Wasted
Years, to his own experience in
connection with the seven years
labor on the bridge model. We
have reached a high point when
we can learn great lessons from
our own failures and successes.
Standing between the years, what
about the “wasted time’ ’in your
life?
Unsaved' friend, standing be
tween the years and viewed in
the light of eternity, the years
you spend in vanity, pride, vice,
crime, self-indulgence unbelief
and indifference to God’s claims,
will be written off in heaven as
“wasted years”—wasted beyond
recall! But here is good news
for you; no more years need be
asted. Today is yours and you
may invest it rather than waste
, it. Since Christ died for the un
godly salvation is yours by grace
through faith, if you will have it.
Your past will be forgiven, and
you will be enabled by the Holy
Spirit to live acceptably before
God. *
It is sadly possible for genuine
believers' to fail to heed the ex
hortation to lay aside “all malice,
all guile, and hypocrisies and en
vies, and all evil speakings.” If
not before, then at the judgment
seat of Christ, all time spent out
of the ill of the Lord will be seen
as “wasted 1 years.” Rewards are
not offered by the Lord for
wasted years. As we stand be
tween the years today, let all whq
are save | by God’s grace pledge
his best to the cause of Cfirist
for the New Year.
Bonus To Farmers
For Richer Milk
ATLANTA— (GPS) —Georgia’s
dairy farmers in future will re
ceive a bonus for producing
richer milk.
That was made possible by one
of the first official acts of the
new State Milk Control Board,
recently appointed by Gov. Her
man Taimadge with Charles G.
Duncan, of Atlanta, as the new
director.
Under the board’s ruling, pro
ducers will continue to be paid
$6.06 per hundredweight for milk
of 4 per cent butterfat content,
but will be paid $6.76 for that
with a butterfat content of 5 per
cent. At the same time the board
decided to hold 1 retail prices at
22 cents a quart in the Atlanta
area until September 1, 1949. The
same applied to the Columbus
area but xiq time limit was set.
There were 4,500 American
newspapers by 1870.
Reporters were paid $15 to $30
a week in 1860-70. ,
By 1765 only about five per
cent of the white families in the
colonies received weekly news
papers.
Peachtree ARTheatre P'tree at 13th, Atlanta
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We are looking, forward to the
coming year with optimism.
I, as a holder of office in our
county, promise to serve you
in best keeping with the New
Year tradition.
L. E. Bartlett
Ordinary
Douglas Gounty
194-9
SIM’S
5 & 10c Store
This is a good time, we \
think, to pledge ourselves
to better serving you.
We appreciate past favors
and hope to merit your
continued good will
J. M. ADERHOLD
GRADE “A” RAW MILK—NATURE’S BEST FOOD
John and Minnie Aderhold, Carlton, Zula, Charlotte,
Brenda and Judy Eason; Howard, Dorothy and
Ethelene Daniell
ING IN A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
IDE IN A BETTER USED CAR!
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’47 Ford, Four-door . • • $1^350
’46 Ford, Four-door . . . $l f 050
4' . • '
’42 Hudson Four-door • • $603
’46 Plymouth two-door NEW MOTOR f«45
’41 Chevrolet Club Coupe : . . $895
’42 Plymouth Four-door • •
$725
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40 Autos to choose from
Lots of Fords and Chevrolet^
B. N. Brown & Son
Douglasville, Ga.
TRADE and TERMS—OPEN WEDNESDAYS ’TIL 9 P. M.
