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THE PARABLE OF THE TWO SONS
—LUKE 15| 11-32.
CHINA IS REFUSING
TO KEEP TREATY
Her Refusal as to Antung
Causes Comment in
Japan.
REFUSE TO TESTIFY
AND ARE IN JAIL
Gross Irregularities Found
in Denver Ballot Boxes
When Opened.
Special Cable—Copyright.
Toklo, Japan, Aug. 10.—The lnalat
ent refusal of the Chlneae government
to lire up to the spirit of the treaties
made With Japan and the United
Slates to open Antung and seventeen
other Manchurian cities as places of
International residence and trade. Is
causing unfavorable comment In gov
ernment circles here.
China contends that the opening of
Mukden means the opening of an un
occupied area outside the city, and that
foreign trade and residence be confined
to that area. Furthermore she Insists
that goods entering Mukden from that
area shall be liable to all duties and
taxes which China may continue to
Impose, as hitherto.
CAN’T OBTAIN A SITE
FOR PROPOSED CUSTOMS.
By Private Leased Wire.
Pekin, Aug. 10.—The establishment
of Chinese customs at Antung, on the -
v-,. - under the Ameri- between the poll books and the num-
lalu. a port opened u " [l meet-! b * r fdun<1 In the bo*. In the box con-
can treaty of October 8, 1903, Is meet talnlng ballots on the proposed ordl-
Ing with difficulty. The Japanese have I nance for the purchase by the city of
By Private Beassd Wire.
Denver, Col., Aug. 10.—The four men
sent to jail Wednesday for contempt of
court In refusing to testify In the
franchise election frauds Investigation
are still In fall. William Evans, gen
era! manager of the Tramway Com
pany, may join them. He was sub-
penaed to appear In Judge Lindsey's
court and tell what he khowx of the
alleged fraud, but hts office was found
locked yesterday. He Is on a "vaca
tion.’’
It developed later that there has been
a regular exodus from the city of tram
way and gas company employees who
are wonted In court to explain how
they came Into possession of tax re
ceipts which entitled them to vote on
the franchises. The majority are
known nor to own any property.
Gross Irregularities were found when
the ballot boxes In ward 4, In Mayor
R. W. Speer's home precinct, were
opened. The box containing ballots on
the proposed ordinance for (10 arc
lights showed a discrepancy of 88 votes
propria tad for a nominal payment
ng their military occupation, the
■lc river frontage for several miles,
all the land outside the native city
.liable for foreign settlement. This
- lira It Impossible to obtain a site for
i a- proposed customs.
TWO ARMYDESERTERS
CAUGHT BY MARSHAL
Special to Tht Georgltn.
St. Augustine, FI*, Aug. 10.—James
NewJand and Jamca Blankenship,
charged with deserting from the United
States army eighteen months ago,
while stationed In Atlanta, were ar
rested here last night by a detective
and United States marshal. They were
taken to Fort Bcrlven for further in
vestigation.
Mrs. William Carter.
Mrs. William Carter, 45 years old.
died at her home on the Sandtown
r»>ad at 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon.
The funeral services were held at tne
Mt. Olive church at 2 o’clock Friday
afternoon, the Interment being In the
churchyard burying ground.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
I r.ip.otfully snrioune. mysrif a
candidst. for counoll from tns Third
waid, subject to ths whits prlmsry on
August 22. a w . MANGUM
I respectfully announce my seif -
ndidate for council from ths Fourth
»rd, subject to whits primary on
igust 22. dr b E PEARCE.
I respectfully announce myself
candidate for council from the Sixth
ward, subject to the white prlmsry on
August
JOHN W. GRANT.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER.
JAME8 G. WOODWARD.
I respectfully announce myself a
candidate for County Treasurer, sub-
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AMUSEMENTS
CASINO
TONIGHT—MATINEE SATURDAY.
VAUDEVILLE.
ABD’EL KADER AND
HIS THREli WIVE8.
Johnson and Hardy, Will Dockray,
Charles F. Semon, Eddie Mack, Brin-
damour and Cameragraph.
Sale at Grand Box Offlcfe.
Next Week,
VAUDEVILLE.
an electric light' plant there were
found lit for and 118 agalnet. The
poll hooka ahowed only 173 peraona
voted.
The municipal ownership party claim
that the same evidence of collusion be
tween corporations and election Judges
to doctor the returns will be found In
every precinct.
STORE PLUNDERED
BY BOLD ROBBERS
By W. O. CLEMENT.
Bpeel,I to The Georgian.
Rome, Ga., Aug. 10.—The two brick
bulldlnga owned by W. W. Brooka and
Mra. \V. T. Turnbull, on Broad street,
which were considerably damaged by
lire aeveral weeks ago, were yesterday
condemned by Mayor Maddox and are
now being tom down. They will be
replaced with handsome structures.
Robbsrs Plunder Stors.
The store of J. H. Radcllffe Compa
ny, near Rome, on the Central railroad,
was broken Into by rubbers Tuesday
night and a considerable amount of
goods carried away. Sheriff Byars Is
in pursuit of the robbers with blood
hounds
Polieemsn Resigns.
Joseph Johnson, who has been I
member of the Rome police force for
the last eight years, has resigned his
n and will enter other buslr
iccesaor has not yet been
pointed. Mr, Johnson has made an
efficient officer.
Gibson-Rugglas.
Charles R. Buggies and Mlsa Leona
Gibson were married last evening at
the home of the bride on Upper Broad
street. The ceremony was performed
by Ordinary John P. Davis, and waa
witnessed by relatives and friends of
the contracting parties. Mr. and Mrs.
Buggies are well known In Rome, and
they have the best wishes of a large
circle of friends.
First Baptist Revival.
The revival service which was begun
at the First Baptist church last Sun
day by the pastor. Dr. R B. Headdsn,
la dally growing In Interest and at
tendance. Two services are being held
dally—afternoon and night—to which
the public la cordially Invited.
BUSINESS FIRMS
MAKING CHANGES
Special to The Georgias.
Covington, Ga., Aug. 10.—On Sep
tember 1 aeveral new business Arms
will begin business In Covington. First
Is the Arm of Cash, Mobley A Com
pany, who will take the store room now
occupied by W. L. Adair. Both re
side In Covington and are welt known
here.
fn the store room vacated by G. T.
Smith, E. 11. Mobley will open up a dry
goods and notions business. Mr. Smith
mores In the new Covington bank
building.
R R Parker leaves the Arm of Swan-
Davts Company to open up a general
merchandise business In the store room
now occupied by C. c. Robinson.
Mr. Robinson will occupy the store
room of Lee A Anderson, who will re
tire after a long and active career.
N aming of
done by C
clples wh<
Golden Text: Return unto Ms and
I will return unto you, asIth the Lord.
—Mai. 3i7.
the parables was not
Christ nor by -the dls
who heard them, but by
men long afterwards who wished to
designate them by some appropriate
name that would express the central
truth of the parable or the leading
character In It. A better name could
have been selected for some of them
than the one by which they are gen
erally known. A better name for the
“Sower" would hare been "The Dif
ferent Kinds of Boll." That of the
"Rich Man and Lasarus” had been bet
ter named "The Danger of Unbelief."
The parable In our lesson Is generally
known as that of the "Prodigal Son."
The International committee has chosen
to call It the "Parable of the Two
Sons.” The elder brother has been
sufficiently recognised to be mentioned,
and that Is all. Read the parable and
Its exposition In all tho lesson helps,
and you will And that all they have to
say la about the younger eon. In many
of them the elder Is not mentioned.
Most of preachers have a series of ser
mons _on the prodigal son and have
never preached on the elder brother.
Visit ths picture galleries of the old
world and you will see many paintings
of the prodigal son, with his. elder
brother left out. The seme Is true of
the Poems that have keen written.
The truth of the matter Is that the
elder brother Is the principal character
In the picture, and the story of the
prodigal la only the background.
Preachers and poets and painters
have reversed this. In nearly every
By DR. GEORGE A. BEATTIE.
nature, bear our aim and die of
Instance; and It may be all, the para
ble was suggested by something Jeaua
saw, or heard, or read In the hearts of
His hearers. It la not always recorded,
but It Is In this as In many others.
Why He spoke this parable waa be.
cauae Ho consorted with publicans and
sinners. His object was to reprove the
self-righteous Pharisee by painting him
In the character of the elder brother,
and Inspire hope In the heart of ths
Gentiles In the father’s treatment of
the prodigal He had come “to seek
and save the lost,” and both these sons
were lost—the one In the "far country"
and the other In the father*t house. He
would portray God’s, love In.the treat
ment of both. This Is generally re
garded as the pearl of all tho parables,
the great teacher strung on tlm thread
of hit discourses It Is the climax of
the three parables spoken on this oc
casion near the cloao of His ministry;
the silly wandering aheap, the Insen
sate coin and the aelf-wtlled son. All
lost and all found. ,
All lost not only here, but In all Hla
sellings Christ emphasized the great
truth that we are all lost. We live In
a lost world, and we belong to a lost
race. How would we be found or
saved .unless we had been lost 7 If man
had not been lost Christ's coming to
earth'would be like throwing ropea and
lifeboats to a man on dry land, where
there could be no possibility of hls be-.
Ing drowned. God la a God of econo
my. He never makes a useless expend
iture of force In nature, providence or
grace. He would never hod aacrlAced
Hla Son and Jesus would never have
left His home In glory to assume our
ible.
The story Is told that a man once
took a Bible homo, and In the eve
nings read It to his wlfs, who said
"Husband. If that book ts true, we are'
lost." A few evenings later ehe re
marked: "If that book la true, we may
be saved." That waa Christ's mission
on earth—to teach ua that we are lost
and that He Im.l coma to save ua.
See how Ood’s love la portrayed In
the father’s treatment of the prodigal.
Jesus drew tbe picture from real life.
No doubt ths story recalled similar In
cidents with which they were familiar,
and many eyes were Ailed with tears,
and many hearts throbbed with pain, as
they thought of some wandering boy,
between whom and them, no matter
how long absent-or widely separated,
the cable tow of love, woven with
strands of Joys and grists, had pever
been severed. Tbe younger son, like
many a boy today, had become tired
of the parental restraints of home, end
he wanted to go out and see tbe world;
have a good time, and "sow his wild
oats.” Unwilling to wait for his fath
er’s death to get hla share of the estate,
he aska for It now. This request was
granted, and with hla mother’a prayers
and his fathsr*s blessing ha goes to the
"far country," and, like hundreds of
young men In our land today, he be
gins a Ufa of dissipation and wanton-
nesa. A father’s saving of many yeara
la soon expendad. With hla money gone
hla frlenda-are gone. At last he came
to want. Ha U too proud to go home
and confess hla prodigality and ask
forgiveness. If he ever returns he wants
to go looking os well as when he left.
But he must do something or starve.
There la no alternative. So he hires
out to some man to take care of hie
hogs, the moet menial occupation. Ha
Is so nsarly starved that he was wilting
to eat the "husks,’’ the beans that grew
on the carob tree tkpt were fed to the
hogs. When a man la reduced to that
condition he Is apt to think of home.
In his waking thoughts and In his
dreams he has visions of the boyhood
home. He sees the tears In hla moth
er’s eyes as she kissed him goodby; ho
hears the notes of love In the trembling
tones of hla father’s words of farewell.
The boy Is pretty safe who In memory
Is ever anchored to bis childhood's
home.
Plenty In the Father's house and
poverty In the far country. This
brought him to himself, sin Is a spe
cies of madness or Insanity. He had
been beside himself. Every man cornea
to himself before he comes to God.
He realises that he’Is a sinner, that ha
la lost, that he has wandered from the
Father’s house, that the world cannot
satisfy the soul
The good resolution to arise and go
to his father Immediately followed. He
wouid go and confess hla elns and seek
forglveneee. He has forfeited sonshlp,
and would be willing to perform the
moat menial service. He not only re-
eolved, but he acted. Delay meant
starvation, death. Good resolutions, If
not put In effect never cured a drunk
ard, never saved a sinner.
Ths Fsthsr’s Wsloomt.
"When he was yet a great way off.”
He did not surprise the father by walk
ing In the <joor. He had been wait
ing and watching for tbe return of his
wayward wandering boy, and when he
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Whitehall.
■aw him coming ran to meet him, fell
upon hla neck and kiaeed him. The
Greek here Implies frequent, repeated
kleslng. He doe. not wait for him to
make confeaelon and ask forgiveness.
It was enough for him that hla boy had
returned. The father’s heart had been
wounded, but the father's love had
never changed. Then the eon make,
cnnfeulon and crave, the place of a
servant, but the father aaye, "No, you
have come back to your father', houie,
you .hall be my eon, you ehall again
All the place In the home that has
been vacant since you left.”
And then command, tho aervante to
brine In the beat robe and aubatltute
for the rags; and put a ring upon
hie hand. The aeal ring that waa only
worn by freemen; "and .hoes upon hla
feet,” a command that Indicated more
than a tender regard for him, whose
bare, bleeding feet touched the father*,
heart. The eervanta and slaves wore
no shoe*, and were thus distinguished
from tho members of the family. Thla
meant that ha waa not to be regarded
a. n servant, but n eon, with all the
privileges of sonshlp; that he who had
never lost hie place In the father’,
henrt wee now to reeume If at hla ta-
KING ED WARD STANDS SPONSOR
AT THIS BOY’S CHRISTENING
ble and In hla houae.
The fatted calf must be killed, there
muet be feasting and mirth for th.
dead has come to life, tbe lent has
been found, and so aa soon as prepara
lion can be made, mualc All. the al
and tbe Aoor shakes beneath the dan
cera’ feet while the father looks on with
eyes Ailed with tear. o( Joy. In the
father In the parable, we have a pict
ure of Christ’! Father and our Father
drawn by Christ's own hand. Ring
and robs, feast am) fatted calf, the
sound of music and ths sight of dan
cers, ss the scene swims before the
prodigal's ayes convey to him the hap
py assurance of a father’s love; yet
how far Inferior that evidence to the
bleeding form that groaned and died on
Calvary. That was love no tongue can
express, no pen can picture. The apos
tle cculd not And any word to de
scribe or qualify It and so he says,
"God so loved, the world, that He gave
Ills only begotten Bon, that whoso
ever belleveth on Him should not per
ish, but have everlasting life.’’ Moet
of expositors and writers let ths cur
tain fall as they look on this picture of
God's lov., but there la another act In
thla drama In which It la more fully re
vealed. ,
The Elder Brother.
When he came In from the Held,
heard the music and tha dancing, and
when by Inquiry of one of the serv
ants, learned tht cause he would not
go In and stood outside and pouted.
Then the father went out and tried to
persuade him to come In. The spirit
he manifested was one of envy and
selAshnese. It wan abnormal, unnat
ural. It waa mating tha father jrnraa
than the prodigal ever did, and mu.t
have made a greater draft upon hla
forgiveness, and yet he forgave him.
Hla conduct waa cause of greater grl.f
than the prodigal's had ever been. In
him we have n picture of the Pharisee*
who proud of their ceremonial right
eousness, regarded themselves as In
jured by the favors shown to Publi
cans and sinners. To show them tha
spirit they manifested and assure them
that notwithstanding l(. God was will
ing and anxious for (hem to come In,
He spoke Ibis parable; Willingness
to forgive Is the greatest test of love.
The highest expression of love that
ever fall from the Savior’s lips wss
when He prayed on the cross "Father
forgive them; theg know not what
they do." In the father’s treatment of
both eons, we hnva a picture of God’s
love for us. The God whom ws preach
as drawn by tho hand, and seen In the
fare of Him whom He sent to sesk
and save the loll, to bring us bock,
to open a way of reconciliation, the
God who la not willing that any should
perish.
Tbe aun that shines on you shall set;
summsr streams shall be locked in Icy
fetters, and dee peat wells go dry, hut
not Hie love. Ills love la a alrehm
that never freesaa, a fount that never
fails, a sun that never seta in night.
God recognises ths Ant anil faintest
Impulse of the sinner to return. Io>t
Him but turn bis faca and feet inward
ths Fathtr’a bouts, and all the re.
deemed will sweep their harpa anew,
and with the angels make the arches
of heaven ring with their songs of
rejoicing.
Has there ever been rejoicing over
your return? A wireless mse.-ug*
cornea down to you In the far country,
in the Aeld and factory. In th. maria
of trade. In the halls of pleasure, In
the haunts nf vice; It Is the Father's
voice, "Prodigal eon, prodigal daugh
ter, come home, come home.
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