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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1945)
0 h lie ioiiify nil w X*> Devoted to The Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia. NUMBER 3—VOLUME 45. Baptist Preacher of Long Island, Ala., Gives His Interpretation of the Church of Christ; Says Campbell is the Head' Alexander Campbell, a seced¬ ing minister from the North of Ireland, came to America in 1307, and became pastor of a i resbyterian Church in p e nnsylvania. Soon his father, Thomas Campbell, came to dif¬ fer materially in some things with that church, and set up worship in his own house, a- vov/me* this principle: "When me Leri, ones speak, we speak; v.hey they are silent, we are -ient." A number adopted this aoctrine and gathered at the meetings. Andrew Munro, a clear-headed seceder, said at cn^e: "If we adopt that as a basis, there is an end of infant baptism." Soon, both Thomas and Alexander, his son, with fiv e others of the family rejected infant baptism, and on June 12, 1812, were immersed on pro¬ fession of their faith in Christ, in Buffalo Creek, by Elder Luce, and were received into the fel¬ lowship of the Bush Run Bap¬ tist Church. After this, Alexand¬ er began to iall in question the siripturalness of certain Baptist views and usages, chiefly in re¬ lation to the personal agency of the Holy Spirit in regenera¬ tion, the consequent relation of a Christian experience before baptism and the effect of bap¬ tism itself. As nearly as the writer could express Mr. Camp¬ bell's views, after much con¬ versation with him, he held: That no man can be born of God but by the word of truth as found in the Bible! that the Scriptures, being inspired by the Holy Spirit, the only agency of the Spirit which acts on the soul is exerted through the word of Scripture, that the act of Regeneration is not complet¬ ed until the soul obeys Christ in the act of baptism; and that, as baptism is Christ's appoint¬ ed method of confessing him, the washing away of sin is con¬ nected with that act of evinc¬ ed whom thereby. The Baptists held from he retired also to the full inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, and that God ad¬ dresses himself to the soul of man through that word to the soul in so powerful a manner, by his direct and personal a- gency, as to lead it to a perfect trust in Christ for salvation and that then he is born from above or regenerated. That when the Spirit bears witness with his spirit that he is a child of Gor, and he can testify of the grace of God in saving him, he has then become a fit subject for baptism; and so the act of bap¬ tism publicly attests his love for Christ, his obedience to him and the remission of his sns, as one who is dead indeed unto sin and alive unto God. The point of divergence between him and the Baptists was so vi¬ tal and radical, that every step vvnich followed widened the distance. Mr. Campbell came to regard what is known as the relation of Christian experience iioi only as savoring of mere impulse at the best, but as often running into superstition and even fanaticism; while the Bap¬ tists insisted on satisfactory- testimony ihe from the Holy Spirit .o convert's heart, and then from his own lips to the Church, that a moral renovation was • • rought in his whole moral na¬ in me by the Holy Spirit himself, which work he had used the inspired word as his divine in- stument in effecting salvation. Of course, much warm con¬ troversy of ensued, the convictions with the each party deepened di¬ progress of the contest, visions took place in Churches end Associations, the rent ran only through through Virginia but the entire South and Southwest, and the two bodies appear to be about as far a- part as ever, with this differ- once, that time and circumstan- ■ es have softened old asperi- ties and cooled the heat of fierce c-rce debate. debate- The Die leaders leaders in in the me Loth sides. Mr. Campbell poss- essed a powerful in tellect, which largely predominated over the emotional in his na¬ ture. fie was of French descent on his mothers side; of Irish and Highland J Scotch on his father's - tt ing) fearless ^capaUe oi TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1945. wonderful endurance. Without being ever-polite or ceremon¬ ious, his manners were bland and conciliating. While his mnd was entirely self-directing, there was no show of vanity a- b>out him; and while not an ora¬ tor in a high sense, his manner of speaking was prepossessing from the utter absence of cant in expression or whine in tone. There was a warm play of be¬ nevolence in his face and a irank, open-heartedness in his speech, which was clother in ihe dress of logic and armed - . . , , , which seldom failed to influ- ence his listeners. "Unquote." The spirit of Alexander bell still lives in and manifests itself through hs followers to this day. If the above is a true sketch of Alexander Campbell, and, according to his own doctrine, K^ < ?ST aVed ? the T 13 °‘ a BAPTIST preacher, and was a false professor until he was baptised. No wonder those who call themselves "THE CHURCH OF CHRIST" stlil receive mem¬ bers from the Baptist Church without rebaptising them. For example, Mr. Holder from Bridgeport, Ala., took two mem¬ bers from Bethlehem Baptist Church in and accepted Bap¬ tism at the hand of A BAPTIST preacher. If only ONE church has the authority to baptise, then MR. HOLDER admitted by his action that the BAPTIST Church has the authority. If I accepted another's baptism, I would admit that they had authority and that I did - not- - If Mr. Holder denies that he done that, bring him to me and I will take you and him to the two ladies and ask them in front of you both. They cannot be consistent in that respect, or what would become of Alex¬ ander? We will have to hand it to j them for adopting the best slo- gan ever adopted, "When the Scriptures speak, we speak; where they are silent, we are do j silent," if they would only that! That would be ideal for anybody to do, but when they publish that the devil is the head of the Baptist Church, and that it is a sin for a person to oin it, and all who remain in it until death will be finally lost in hell, they are just giving their opinion. No such statement in any of the scripture. I believe there are some Christians who have married into families of that church and joined to keep peace in the family, no doubt they were saved before they married and, of course, if they are saved they will go to heav¬ en when they die. If you want my opinion about the head of sheir church, I think he is ALEXANDER CAMPBELL. Of ourse, while I am writing this, I am aware of the fact that they will deny it, but you must re¬ member that I have denied that he devil is he head of the Bap- list church. The phrase, in quotation, "The Church of Christ," is not found anywhere in the scriptures. No man on earth can give chapter and verse for the phrase in the King James version. Well, I'd 'put up or shut up," or change my slogan. Oh, yes, I know that "Churches of Christ" is in there; also, "Churches of Asia" and "Church of God." They will want me to produce "The Bap¬ tist Church" by name. Just re¬ member, I asked for their church by name, and that is their slogan, "When the scrip- tures speak, we speak, and where they are silent, we are silent." I challenge the world to give chapter and verse in the King James Bible, where the phrase appears, The Church oi Christ." . This pastor received a lo o free publicity without expect- ing it, when his Apostolic_ name was Times, call; ed ea in n "The ^November ml in the November, edition. I was accused of saying, "There is not a living man that would deny that Jesus Baptist Christ preacher." was bap; tized ALMOST by a quoted cor- They me vectlv- What I DID say must h hurt. Thg 0 ff ter the editor See BAPTIST PREACHER Pp- 4 Published Weekly — Since 1901. Dade Fire Protection J Unit To Get New Fire Patrol Truck Soon The Dade County Forest Fire Protection Unit will be patroll¬ ing the county in a bright red fire truck in the near future. This. This piece of equipment will be furnished to Ranger Pace by the county and state under the \ r cooperative forest , ir ® P rev f^ 10n program. Th © addition of this truck will eanble the ranger to better m- vestigate smokes, to transport ( fire fighters and equipment to fires and will be of value in tower construction and tele- phone line maintenance. ^ track will be a half-ton P^-up. t0 . designate , It T . will it as be» , the painted county . , . red fire truck and will have a State and County identification. Leila Kimbrough Class Entertains Adults The Leila Kimbrough Class of the Methodist Sunday School entertained the Adult Class Fri¬ day evening with a dinner at the church. Husbands and wives of the members were q * . Mesdames Mesdames A. A L L. Dver Dyer and John Hinton were the com mittee in charge. Cpl. Rollie C. Moore Gets Conduct Medal A USSTAF Air Service Com¬ mand Post (Somewhere in Eng- land).—Cpl. Rollie C. Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs. W-J. Moore of Rising Fawn, Rt. 3, was re- cently awarded the Good Con- duct Medal for exemplary be- havior, efficiency, and fidelity at this large Air Service Com¬ mand depot in the ETO. Rising Fawn WMS Holds Jan. Meeting The Rising Fawn WMS met Thursday night, January 11, at the home of Mrs. J. Z. Bobo, with Mrs. F. A. Hall presiding. The devotional was given by Mrs. Wiley Dean. Mrs. Bobo had charge of the program, the subject being "Working Togeth¬ er for a Century-'' After the busi¬ ness hour, refreshments were served to 18 members and visi¬ tors. Farm Loan Group Holds Annual Meet The annual meeting of the Dalton Farm Loan Association was held at 2 p. m., in the As¬ sociation office at Dalton, Ga., on January 16, T. W. Price, secretary-treasurer , has an¬ nounced. A feature of the meeting was a round-table discussion of farm land values and a sound investment program, the dis¬ cussion on this subect being led By O. F. Luttrell, associate re¬ gional manager. direc¬ During the session four tors were elected, and financial and other reports on the 1944 period were made by secretary- treasurer T. W. Price. The Association's office is lo¬ cated in the Manly building, in Dalton, and handles Federal land bank loans in the follow- ing counties: Catoosa. ChaUoo- ga, Dade, Fannin, Gilmer, Gor- don, Murray, Pickens, Walker an d Whitfield, Mrs. W. H. Smith, Mrs. Ray Smith visited Mrs. W. A. Mc¬ Nair Tuesday at Red Bank, Tenn. Sgt. John Murphy Goes to Miami, For Reassignment SGT. JOHN MURPIIY MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—S.-Sgt- John A. Murphy, 21, of Rising Fawn, Ga., has arrived at Army Air Forces Redistribution Sta¬ tion No. 2, in Miami Beach, for reassignment processing after completing a tour of duty out¬ side the continental United States. Medical examinations and classification at this post pio¬ neer of several redistribution stations operated by the AAF personnel Distribution Com¬ mand for AAF returnee officers and enlisted men, will determ¬ ine his new assignment. He will remain at the redistribution station about two weeks, much of which will be devoted to rest and recreation. As a B-24 Liberator and B-17 Fortress gunner, Staff Sergeant Murphy flew 30 missions while in the European theater of op¬ erations, winning the Air Med¬ al with four oak leaf clusters. Son of Mr. John W. Murphy, of Rising Fawn, he entered the Army in March, 1943. Cpl. Dainel In England An Enghth Air Force Bomber Station, England.—Corporal Daniel, 20, of Trenton, Al- j Bert M. is a butcher at this Eighth Air ( Force B-17 Flying Fortress base, j and works in the ground en¬ listed men's mess hall, which feeds more than 2,000 men. Cpl. Daniel is the son of Mrs- Rebecca Stevens of Star Route, Trenton. Before entering the Army Air Forces in April, 1943, he was a farmer. Cpl. Daniel remarked, "When this war is over and 1 get home I should be able to use the ex¬ perience whch I have gathered in the AAF. The girl that mar¬ ries me gets a handy man in the kitchen." The Dade County butcher is a member ot the 486th Bomber Group, a unit of the Third Bom- eardment Division—the division cited by the President for its England-Africa shuttle bombing attack on Messehschmitt air¬ craft factories at Regensburg, Germany. SIGNS AT DADE ENTRANCES Six forest fire protection signs are being erected at the county highway entrances by clubs in Dade County. The Home Dem¬ onstration Club, Garden Club, 4-H Club, Lions Club Conserva¬ tion and the American Legion are each sponsoring one sign. The signs are five by six feet in size and are swung in a frame of unpeeled logs. Large green and red letters welcome incoming traffic to the "Inde¬ pendent State of Dade" and caution them to protect our for¬ ests and game by preventing destructive forest fires. Dade County’s Only Newspaper. Legislature Gives O.K. to Teacher WSCS of Trenton M.E Church Meets With Urs. A. L. Dyer The Woman's Society Christian Service of the Methodist Church met Thursday afternoon at home of Mrs. A. L. Dyer. Mrs. G. C Tatum presided. Reports were given by ers attending the officers' train¬ ing classes held las week at the First Methodist Church in Chat¬ tanooga. Mrs. J. A. Swanson led the devotional, which included a prayer for the renewed strength of the society and for the men who are in the service. Mrs. Dyer told of the plans and program for the youth work of which she is chairman. Plans were discussed for the forming of a young woman's guild or business circle of the society. Mrs. F. N. Orr was asked to take charge of this work. Mrs. Tatum announced that a furnace had been purchased for the church and a vote was taken to pay $150 out of the treasury on this expense. Mrs- W. F. Morrison, chairman of women's work of the ARC, dis¬ tributed sewing to the members. A vote was taken for the pres¬ ent officers of the society to hold over for another year, with the exception of Mrs. John L. Case corresponding secretary, who resigned on account of ill¬ ness. Mrs. W. H. Brock will serve in her place. The Rev. F. N. Orr, pastor, made a talk instead of the usu¬ al monthly program. The socie¬ ty will take part in the world day of prayer program to be observed in the church Feb- 16. Let's Protect Our Forests By JAMES R. BIBLE Dade County 4-H Club Member I have been a member of the 4-H Club four years. During this time I have been learned that a good 4-H member al- ways practices conservation of forests and wildlife. When I first became a ber, my father and I set out ten acres of pines on the side of a hill near our house. These trees now range from 12 to 15 in height. Had this not been planted in trees, chances are that we would now have ten acres of gullies instead of thrif¬ ty growing pines. There si a section of moun¬ tain land located above our house which has not been burn¬ for more than 25 years. Al¬ though it has been cut over sev¬ eral times during this period, there is still a good stand of timber sawlog size and much young growth- I find that hunt¬ ing is best in this section due to the fact that there is more wildlife food to be found be¬ cause of the absence of de¬ structive woods fires. Our community is learning to its forests and wildlife. A neighbor set out several acres of loblolly pine and black locust. Just recently he aided n restocking a stream that runs through this community by se¬ curing several thousand small bass and bream from a fish hatchery and releasing them in this stream. We are all very proud of the fact that we now have fire pro¬ tection Wo.ods fires are already scarce. With continued fire pro- ection we intend to again have a good supply of timber, wild¬ life and fish. $1.50 PER YEAR. Attention was focused last week upon a major achieve¬ ment of Governor Ellis Amall in the field of financing the pub¬ lic schools of Georgia when the State House of Representatives adopted by unanimous vote an authorization for the State Bud¬ get Commission to transfer to the educational fund the sum of $3,348,000 for a two months' salary bonus to the teachers and one million for a teacher- retirement program. The vote was 178 to 0 for the bonus and 175 to 0 for teacher retirement. The three and a third million dollars for the purpose repre¬ sented the accumulated sav¬ ings of last year not applied to reduction of the State's debts, and which was used to meet the emergency faced by the common schools. Following this, the State Board of Education moved to pay teachers on a twelve-month basis, but Governor Amall de¬ clined to approve this move for a $25,000,000 school budget, de¬ claring the school forces of the state "should be deeply grate¬ ful for what the Legislature al¬ ready has done for education." He said the only exception to his request that the General As¬ sembly not authorize increased State expenditures was made in the interest of the schools. He asserted "we have made possible a 12 per cent increase in funds for education since 1942; the budget of the state board (of education) will not be approved unless and until at some future date the cash is on hand in the Treasury." The school budget for last year was about $18,000,000, and to this has been added the $3,348,00 for the two-month sal¬ ary bonus and teacher retire¬ ment. Before the Legislature ad¬ journed last week-end, decision had about been reached to be in session not more than fifty days of what ordinarily would be a 70-day session. At the same time, both Speaker Roy Harris of the House anr Presi¬ dent Frank Gross of the Senate warned against too hasty ac¬ tion on legislative measures. ^ ne p^ a j° r tas ^ ^e assembly j members is to consider the pro- visions of a revis ® d Mem¬ stitution, streamlined and Brought up to date to enable the commonwealth o cope —‘ with post-war problems and other¬ wise compete with sister states. Bills affecting the interests of veterans of World War II are being inroducted, one of which would provide that they may be admitted to public schools with¬ out charge and regardless of age. Legislation proposed also will set up state machinery for administering federal "GI" benefits. A veterans' service board would be established in the connection. The question of eliminating poll tax as a requisite for vot¬ ing in Georgia has been elicit¬ ing interest in the Legislature, with a spokesman of Governor Amall predicting that such eli¬ mination will be in effect at least by the end of 1946, when his gubernatorial term ends. The Assembly re-elected State Auditor B- E. Thrasher, Jr., com¬ mending him Strongly for a notably efficient record in ser¬ vice. The Audtior reported that State officials have done a very good job in observing the re¬ quest of the Governor that they prune their payrolls. Bills sponsored by the Geor¬ gia Bar Association have been introduced which would pro¬ vide regulations to speed up court actions and also to incor¬ porate the Bar of Georgia.
