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■01 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. 'RUIAY, PKCHMBER Clock ai shown in cut, r.tsponded from the beak of a bronze eagle with outspread wings, perched upon an onyx base supported by three onyx columns. Price $3.98 4 clock typical of the sculpture with a panel In bas-relief and a figure standing before the clock The Dancing Girl In an artistic light, graceful pose with’ a clock fir base upon, which she Is dancing. This clock Is done In a' rich electric Kreen $9.87 Cigar Boxes. Cigar and.. Cigarette Cases An innovation for the smoker; Cigar and Cigarette Boxes in Cedar, bound with nickel plate; all imported nov elties, $2.49, $2.89 and $3.98. Cigarette Boxes, all nickel, with word “Cigarette” in cut-out brass . across top, $4.29. * Wi t hco m bination 'lock, $3.97. Cigarette Boxes in red cedar, bound with nickel plate and picture top, under glass, of hunting scenes. &4.39. Jacobs’ Jacobs’ Jacobs’ Nickel Jewel Cases, vel vet lined; these are fitted with combination lock; upon the covers are productions of famous pictures: The Hunt, Coaching and others, in col ors, protected by glass. They are swell European novelties. Like cut, at $5.98 and $7.34. Clocks And Others Clocks In Rococo designs, with a Cupid perched upon the base. Above the clock Is tho head of old Father Time, the wings at each side typical of time's flight $10.57 Clocks with two draped figures representing "Music." One with a flute In her hand, the other a tambourine. The clock face In bronze held between them $7.47 Clocks In green stone ware, with bronze clock set In the center. On the top a group In dark green bronze ef fect. Two classic nude figures $18.67 1 Clocks suspended In a bronze eagle with outstretched wings poised upon three onyx columns $3.98 Clocks In white Dresden China with Cupids $2.89 Clocks with nude figure In ,pose as If rising from the water, surrounded by cattails ahd loaves. The Clock at the base. Price $7.49 Clocks with figure of woman reclining upon a bed of sea plants, with swimming fish. The clock mounted in the base $4.98 Clocks with two draped female figures at either side $4.37 Clocks with flsherwomnn with net, as If returning with the catch. The clock mounted In a rock $6.98 Clocks with seated draped figure with woman holding a raven $6.93 Clocks done in the effect of gray marble with seated figure of a woman across the base. The figure done In white nnd gold. The clock dial of etched copper. .$11.47 Clocks to represent a stone gateway with two. exquisite figures In dark green bronze—a man and woman $18.39 in Jewel and Some Beautiful Things Bronze Inkwells In an elaborate Rococo design with two Price Smaller size, 98c; with one well 89c. Inkwells mounted upon an onyx base with a beautifully modeled saddle horse—a thoroughbred In every point $5.98 Or a bronze figure of a victorious bicycle rider, on classic lines, with a perfect model of a wheel, at... .$9.98 Another on classic lines has a bronze figure of a work man with leather apron and square upon an onyx base with two Inkwells and a call bell $5.98 One of the most massive designs is an exquisitely mod eled woman’s head and bust upon a bronze clock, the whole mounted upon a polished rosewood tray, with two large Inkwells $17.87 .wells and figure of eupld. The large size shown In cut. $2.83 Inkwells and pen trays combined In unique designs with nude figure, $3.79, $4.37, $4.89, $5.98 and $7.29 Bronze Inkwells with two wells and bronze figures rep resenting the tennis player, the golf man. the oarsman, the ball player and others $2.79 One of the most artistic wells has a red bronze tray with two wells between which Is a kneeling figure of a woman, forming the handle of a blotting pad $6.98 Solid bronze trays with two wells and cupid's head 98c Bronze inkwells with pen tray and single well in Rococo design, at 83c J a c o Ph arm cicv SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON JESUSASCEMJS INTOHEA YEN .. —Luka 24 : 36*53. By DR. GEORGE A. BEATTIE. «-P into hfavro.”—Luke xxlv: 51. «nr Itfttoa ire hire an account of the Ja - ,f appearance of Chrlat to III* dfacfplea III* resurrection. One would sup- i ”• that He wonld have constantly re- ••'I with Ells dlhclple* during the forty of III* po*t-re*urrectIou life. He - M. nljr appeared, and a* middenly dlanp- { "I. and III* interview* seemed to hart* '••"•u brief. '**• wished them to realise that, though '"•“lit. He w«* Interested In them, and that u " would be with them though they could stv Him. Tht* time, to eonvluee them Jbat He was not a spirit..but the Chrlat : '-r had followed, lie showed them III* .'jo* and feet, and nte before them. »k th# Paalma most be fulfilled. .... »n.it the Christ must suffer and rise froi 4*ad on the third day. We wonder , f o«Hr dullness of comprehension. Imt we < osst remember that to the very Inst they '‘ re looking for a Hsvlor who would re- * ore th e kingdom to Israel, and they eren •'puted among themaelrea who should he 1 ' Prime minister. They had not rtsen ° ,h «t height of eplrltnality where ami only where spiritual thing* can lie compre hended. Takes Them Into Partnership. He tells them they are to preach repent ance and remission of sins In Ills name to all imtlons, beginning at Jerusalem. afterwards learn that they were In scattered by persecute Puritans nnd the llugue to this country. Repentance und forglv the world. How hopeless seemed the pro*- poet. , ho received no education from the schools of the world, who worked at a humble trade till he entered on his public ministry, whose personal followers were a few unlearned fisherman, ami who was put to death as a malefactor; this Christ who seemed so small In his prlvntt* life at Nax- areth, and In the Judgment of tuill of Pilate, Is to be the greatest in hen veil and on earth. It was n hard soil Into which Chris tianity, the divine mustard mvd, was drop ped nineteen hundred year* ago. For four thousand yearn, the world had been under the dominion of sin, and tit thl* time the condition of the world was most deplorable. If you wonld recall what government wo* then*, think of the Irupcrfitl Monster* that won* the purple at Home and the Herods rid the JTolomys and the Antlochuses of lined to stop at Jerusalem, when'they rthe Hast. If von would know _th«* state of — ... .. moral*#even In the most cultivated coun- hlng. tendency in those hit We are showing a beauti ful line of Full Dress Reef ers and Mufflers suitable for Holiday gifts. Levy & Stanford, 17 Peachtree St. the theme of their pr« There hn* been n let. ter day* to reverse this order nnd make forgiveness first, nnd ssy but little If any thing about repentance. Be saved nnd repent. Hay us little ns noeslbie about sin. It Is heluous In God's sight. It sounds harsh on polite ears, and It disturbs a guilty conscience Men do not like to Im* called sinners. If this doc trine mnst l»e preached, let It 1m» In sugar- coated pellet*. The cry of Jonah n* he walked the streets of Nineveh that awoke nnd saved that wicked city was, "Kepcnt! R 'Ke l burden of John the Baptist's preach ing was "Repent!" _ This Is the kind of preaching we most need today. Many church uiemtiers-should repent of their worldllne**. their *.lti.b- ness, their avitrieiousness, their Indiffer ence to the claim* of the gospel. i>r. that the gospel might lie so preached then from thousands of lips and hearts the |Way- er might go up, *God Is* merciful to iue, a sinner:" „ ... ... The history of every revival from Pente cost down verifies the fact that repentance ha* 1*4***n the burden of the tucssage pro claimed. To All Nations this go«|*d. He said, must Is* preached. He bad founded a kingdom that must embrace mils# $■ — JPN1 ...os, rend the first chapter of Homans. If you w’ould Inquire about the prevail* lug religion, road tin* stories of (he gist* who were worshiped and the BiiclinnuaTeau orgies that were Indulged. 4'Tho Gospel Seed was dropped Into this sterile Noll, and im mediately all the evil forces c*f the world roused themselves to destroy It. Although ronquered by the Master, Ha- tan had not given up the conflict. First, Judaism, then paganism, with all the power of Imperial Home, nswille*Mi. 'The founder was crucified. Ills apostle* murdered, and their follower* pursm*»l with sword and fagot. But the storm of opposition only fixed It* r«4»tK the doper. The blood of the martyrs watered it. tthmue was made Its ho?ist, the cross Its budge of honor. A Burning Bush. like the one Mown saw, on Iforeb, for three long centuries It stood nnd burned, yet un ion«timed. I in ring all this tine, the pure In the most thoughtless. Multitudes went tr» the <*ollseuiu to se«. the Hon* selxe their victims, nnd went home to pniv. Its converts were found In the army, in the senate, and at last the world . was startled to bear that even Caesar hliuself had bowed at the feet of tip* risen Nairn- rem*. ami hr Imperial decree hud placed the hated religion on the throw* of empire. Then Home having become weak through her vices was overrun by the barbarians of the North, and the church and ibe state suffered alike. A Dark Night of Ignorance and superstition followed, which resteil like u pall on the whole world —a* night- unbroken, save by transient gleam* of light, till the middle of the fif teenth century. . • . Yet Christianity survived through whole of It. At time* It seemed us If It lind l*»en crushed. • A pagan emperor erected u monument to himself and Inscribed on It: "Erected In Honor of'the Emperor who Extirpated Christianity." He died ami has Wen forgotten, but Christianity lived. It wa» the most vital 1 * Nut Ion* r perl*bed: learning fled Into the caves; art died, but Christianity lived, and all along that dreary track It-scattered the only fruits of love sml blessing and hope hi. h the world enjoyed. Mu.-h wickedness was wrought In Its ..mm-. Worldly priest* and ambitious princes flannted the cross on their banners, blcli they never had In tlielr hearts. At Inst It threw off the pall and Intro duce! the latter days of light. The (Jre$>k scholars who fled from t on- ..taiitinoplc before the Turks rekindled learning In Western Europe. Religion of tho World. Christianity now promises to heroine pow erful; all others are ooy the wane. Not one Is aggressive, not even holding Its own. There Is a universal sentiment that they are doomed to pass sway. No new heathen temples are erected, and the old ones that have coat most fnhuloua sums arc not kept In repair. have been de ... dished and as never before her teeming millions are waiting to welcome the gospel messenger. Japan bad tills edict ou Iter statute (took*: "While the suu shall shine iiinhi the earth, let no Christian show'Ills fare In Japan, nnd thls was not repeals! till 1872. There was not a single convert there till 1M5. when n Japanese noble was con- verted by reading a Testament he found floating In the Buy of Yeddn. Now Japan has adopted our educational nnd military systems, our Hnbhath. and her victorious generals in the war With Husain were elders In the Presbyterian church. India, Africa, Korea nnd the Islands of the sea are white for Hie gleaming sickles of Christian reapers. The culmination of event*, the fulfillment of prpphech**. the concurrent providences, all iudh-ste that Christianity will become *‘ie religion of the world. The world today Is controlled by nations miilually Christian. Holy 8pirit Promised. He again sssur.il them that the Father great Joy. To th« and not To them Ills ascensloi in execution. their first lesson in the triumph cy were still full of spiritual tarry In Jerusalem tllf they were endued with power fr.nu ou high, a promise that us fulfilled ten days after the IVuteeost. Then, lifting up Ills hands He bleat them un.I was carried up Into heaven In a cloud, and disappear.-.! from sight, and then "■ rigels. some of whom wing His song ....itivlty on the first Christinas morn log. who ministered unto Him after Ills fast In the wilderness, and strengthened Him In the garden of Cctiisemnim. an nounced to the disciples that this same Je sus would come again, nnd thev returned to Jeruaalem with great Joy. was no death mil scene. There was . — , .... occasion for teara; no sign of tnnurn- M«*n without earthly power, men In jug that a great career was ended, that prison, have told the story of the living, the lips of a great teacher were forever dying, ascended Christ, and as they told dumb. dying. ----- - - . this story the temples Wfcre deserted, Idols overthrown, until today there Is not a god worslilpiMil on earth that was wor- shlpjml In in** day of the philosophy of Grcei-e and Hie |>ower of Home, when her temples Shone with splendor, when her * sang with eetiir** g* their forms of Ixnuty. No human kue** Imiws I HR tie Is open to Venus; no assembly prostrates "All the toll, the sorrow done; All the battle fought and Won." The work of the Redeemer Is over. The work which that short sojourn on earth was defttgued to Inaugurate Is now to be- gln. They returned to Jerusalem with great Joy. They had Just lost from earthly view Him who ha«f l*een all In all to them, dnrlug the years of Ills ministry. He wns gone and had left thehi a great responsibility. They were to In* Ills git of faith. , .... ignorance. They did not know Him us after wards they knew Him. But they were sure of Ills love and power nnd Ills absolute triumph over death. They had enlisted In Ills 04*rvlee, and they must be the soldiers of a conqueror. "Rise, glorious Conqueror, rise Into Thy native skles- Assuiue Thy right; Ami when. In many n fold. The clouds are backward rolled. Van * through the gates gold And reign in light.*' SPINNINGFLAX WHEEL FOR SALE. 1 have an oil! (lax wheel that la over ninety-seven (97» year* old that la In lierfeet condition and ean be und. To those fond of curios, thl* |h a rare chance to get one of the original kind. Addrna W. F.. No. M#6, Fourth Nat. Rank Bldg., City. PICKED HIS POCKET OF HOLIDAY MONEY While a passenger on a trolley car at Peachtree and Marietta atreota Thurs day night, R. O. Cheatnutt, a railroad . man, had hla pocket picked of $70. Chestnut! had Juat drawn hi* month'* ■alary Thuraday and the pickpocket obtained almont the entire euro, Chdst- nutt wait robbed before he had time' to Inveat any of hla earnings In Ohrfct- ruas presents, as he had Intended. T Cheatnutt had his money In hla pock et Juat before boarding the car and missed It a few minute* later. Tha robbery was reported to thq police. 1 BALLARD BIFOCAL. A revelation to glaaa wearer*, does with two pair* of glasses, both HOLIDAY EXCURSIONSJ»iffiTfe VIA GEORGIA RAIL ROAD. On account of Christmas holiday* ticket* will be sold at all point* south of the Ohio and Potomac and east of tile Mississippi river, 8t. lands, Mo., included, at rate of one and one-third first-claes fare, plus 25 cents, for the round trip. Tickets on sale at all stations De cember 20 lo 25, 30, 31 ami January 1, final limit January 7, 1007. For further Information apply to any tltket agent, or A. G. JACKSON, C. C. M’MILLIN, G. P. A. A. G. P. A. Augusta, Ga. proven the moat success! advertised Invisible bifocals. They are being sold by all (he leading houses In America and abroad. Our oculist’s prescription department is ' the most perfect system ever Inaugurated In this country. Not bow cheap, but how well We can serve you. Ask the oculist about us. Walter Ballard Optical Company, 41 Peachtree street. - , New Locomotives Arrive. fpeelal to The Georgian. Macon. Go.. Dec. $1.—Two of. Lo several big locomotives ordered time since by the Central railway have arrived and are how In service in the transportation of the great Volume at freight.