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!*. =*r situ. ] Hinson | *** ht« | lB d the ! said '• 6, on - Street | * front n Se c . iUedjre. t- Said in oxe- st and f Mrt. ‘n »h» inter- | fmber, ement 'f im- d be- n the itteaninjt of Christmas BY THE RT. REV. c. P. ANDERSON B,.b.p »l Chicgo .rd Preiidia, Bi.hop „f Th. Epiwop.l Cb.r, in n.. United Stn.«, -I wish you . Merry Christmas and a Happy Ncw Year!" How many million* of people will utter theue benevolent aenti- within the neat few week*! Even tho.e who do not ,top to iuquin- about the onein or 'neanine of Chri.tmaa will be caueht on inI o this atmosphere of good will. The air will be full of it For li- being, it will be a different and a better sort of world Yon Am Jn.t As “Bit As You Think •ad Do Everybody will bo wishing everybody else merriment, happines. end prosperity. Carols will be sung in the streets; children will be gathering around their Christmas tree., to receive and ei-e their .ifts; our homes will be touched with the Christmas spirit of loving, kindness Even those homes which are clouded with poverty, which out Of keeping with Christmas, will no, he entirely forgotten and K fort, will be made to reach them with messages of substantial kindness and good fellowship. The hospitals will be remembered ; „d iho penal institutions will have some evidence that Christmas is unlike other seasons of the year. T »» ♦ There arc X festivals, « ♦ The world of industry will he affected. Many firms will in- ♦ 'l* 1 ' “ b f ntV °‘““ t generosity which goes beyond the term, of ♦ their contracts The churches will be thronged with poo.ile, sing- { "* th ;" r , Fd "*; «■”«. «M ye faithful, joyful „„ d f triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem. Conic let us sdore Him, Christ the Lord!" The great Thanksgiving, the Holy Eucharist, the Clirist-mais will he celebrated in the presence of myriads of adoring worshipers. Christmas is a great day its in- | fiuor.ee reaches out to all of us. I did it tome from? What is the origin of Christman? these who say that these great and popular Christian rowned with worship and < ucharists. were borrowed from ♦ , wa " c . UMOm or trom tho mystery religion wnich flourished in the civilization of long ago. In this connection la it be admitted at once that the Christian Church in its march down the centuries has not hesitated to use anything that would serve its purpose. • ♦ Everything is grist that comes to its mill. It is one thing, how- X ever, to use a thing; it is another thing to say that the great I Christian festivals owe their origin to the materials which the ♦ ch “ reh employed for it, own purposes. The Christian Church used the Greek language and Greek philosophy. It used Roman law and organization. It used the religions with which it came into contact, but it owed its origin to none of these things. The origin of Christ- mas day is a person. A unique child wos born; His name was Jesus; He was born in Bethlehem; He was born of Mary; He was born in a mnnger. the Chi'd was born the world Megan to be changed, liberty, fraternity und equality beRan to be born. Slavery bepan to be abolished. War started out on its long journey towards ex tinction. Schools and hospitals and Ruilds bepan to come into ex istence. A new sacrednes- beRan to be attached to home and wife find child and mother. These things did not all happen at once. They have pktely happened yet. The Kingdom of God is in the process of be coming, but the world cannot be indoctrinated with the person and ♦ teachings of the Christ without becoming a different and a better world; and that which was the source and origin of the best that there is in our civilization and ideals was the Child Who was bom in Bethlehem of Judea in tho days of Herod the King. Why has the person of Christ had such unique influence in the world? It is because men have Found God in Him and have ol-o found in Him their highest spiritual attainments. This is not .‘imply a church doctrine or a creed. It has been a matter of spiri tin' experience. Those who were associated w.th Him began first liking Him, went on to love Him and ended by adoring Him. T(, whom else shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life.” This is the testimony of experience. The meaning of Christmas is that the greatest fact in the world God—that He is good, not bad, that He is benevolent, not malevo- '•‘nt: that He is love, not hate; that He has disclosed Hiimelf in the person of Christ; that He so loved the world that He gave his «niy begotten Son and that as God so loved u-«, we ought also to , l° v e one another. He Who gave, the gift of Christ to the world al- , so welcomes gifts from us. The only gift that is worthy of Him i ' s one that can be given by rich and poor alike; it is the gift of our < hearts to Him. As we thankfully acknowledge God’s great Gift to ’ the world, let us in return give our hearts to Him, our money to the ( needy and our love to tho*e for whom Christ lived and died. < Wh.t Make. U. What We Ara? Recently there came into my peas- cssion the photographs of five broth ers whom I have known very well all my life. Tho pictures were taken when the eldest of the five was only eight years old. The frisi thing that impressed was the resemblance of each one all the others. Anybody, looking them, would have known at. ot that they are children of the sai father and mother. striking was the fact that today, when their average age ii forty, they seem to have changed very little. I had no difficulty in laying the baby pictures on the desk and saying; “This is Joe, and this There is only one obstcale progress of any community that is definitely fatal, and that is lack of civic % spirit and team work on part of'it» citizens. A few years ago « small town the sticks; today the only towns or communities in the sticks an those made up of sticks and a “stick’ is one who refuses to do anything himself or get together with those who will. A town is just as big as the people it. The trouble is that it is easier to be little than big, and nature, left alone, does not improve without aid. A big job requires big people, and John.” this day of keen competition, “putting your town over” is no little One might almost jump undertaking, and if there is an over- r,U8io *b from such an exhibit, that abundance of “little” people in uny ‘'^Pcricnce and will-power have very community, it won't be done. “Little to do with character, people are those who say it can't be * know that each of these five dene. “Big” people are those who boys has been changed, ond by the interrupt those who say it can’t be exercise of his own free will. done, by doing it. —- Thinking Milledgeville is the best , The hot tCm P° r ot the eldest ha: ace on earth isn't enough. It helps, ^ cooU ' d hy ‘“’l Control; he ha: but thinking so doesn't make it so, bopn,nc fnr "weeter and more toler- unlcss you follow up thinking-with an . doing. Tho impatience of another, which I ’rde him quick to start new thing! and quick to leave them half finished, Hs Icen transformed into ttcady By exercise and self-discipline the phy :« al weakness of a third has been built up into solid health. and hi: You say, “I think Milledgeville should do this,” or “We should have that.” You read these editorials and ay, “That’s a good idea," or “I think that’s right.” etc. etc., but what do you do about it? As you read this, you say, “1 hope so-and-so sees this. It hit» him right on the head, he is always talking a v lot, but never does anything,” and n you may be right, but how about | |i yourself? Maybe you don’t even y talk, and when you do talk, do you of them talk your town “up” or “down?” If \ onto n til are big. you will tnlk it up; struggled to push it into place, only otherwise, you will say to younelf, j to take it off ond start all over again. "Oh, let tho Chamber of Commerce, j "WeTI toko that Imby," said the the Lion. Club, or somebody else do j „ He will be a worker." I 1 discussed this subject once with To be "big” you do not have to ; a rhrewd observer of the human race, be a merchant, a doctor, a lawyer or j He mentioned the man who had been a banker. If you think you arc little. the loader of his class at college and potatoes, you will be little potatoes, j has never been heard of since. No matter who you are or what you “Perhaps he had tome hidden ill- do, you thrr told me that lv cent to an orphan n ylum to n little hoy. For n couple of they wntchr-d two hundred ungsters playing on the floor. One trying to fit the cover n. Time after time he Merry Christmas Happy New Year IS THE WISH OF THE Star Store L. SMITH, Muapr We appreciate your business and trust we tan serve you throughout the coming year. ■ > PAY YOUR SUbT^ SCRIPT10N NOW Merry Christmas just os big as you think and do. Copyright, 1929, A. D. Stone, 1 production prohibited in whole or part. This "Town Doctor” Article published by The Union-Recorder co-operation with the Milledgeville Lions Club. THE FAMILY DOCTOR By John Joieph Caines, M. A SNAPSHOT ness," I said. “Pcrhajft he just could n’t amount to anything.” My friend disagreed vigorously. “He could have changed himself,’ said. “Deep down in his heart that why he hun failed.' Personally, I believe this. The pic tures of my five friends tend to firm this belief. They are what they were as children, but they are also different. Each has moulded himself, and not merely been moulded. Not birth , but will power, has made them what they Our first Christmas in Milledgeville and our wish is that your cup will be filled with over (lowing of the good things of life al ihc glad season, and that in 1930 you will CLEAN WITH SNOW. Snow’s Laundry AFFILIATED WITH SNOW’S DRY CLEANING CO. FOR SALE—My bout, and lot o r Ivor road—lot 134x215—Horn -recently renodelcd—AH coi lencea on paved road to city. Will •ell at a bargain. Mrs. J. H. Blain pboae 148-J. The practice of medicine is not a ibu.iness, in the strict sense of the I word; it is a profession, based •zeal to serve humanity, tn prevent 'sickness and suffering, to minister to | mankind and to postpone death iltng a*, humanly possible. Your family doctor does not claim to do m*irarlcs; h-i makes none of the pre tensions of the quack. He does not advertise, for several good reason: First, he does not need to; his * ‘■peak ■ for itself. Second, all quacks advertise; having little or no nctual skill, they mu-1 make people think they have, by boasting of talent which they do not porsess. Third, the doc tor loathes humbuggery, and docs not wear a mask. Fourth, he is in a profession, not a business; his work is largely humanitarian; a great per cent of it is for charity. Sometime.- the editor gets mad bc-| a