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THE NORTM GEORGIAN (BUCCESSOR TO THE NORTH GEORGIA. BAPTIST.) Entered at the postofflce at Cura ming, Ga. t as second class matter. The gas that is burned over being engaged costs more, reckons the New York Press, than the wedding presents are worth. The legislature of Texas has ex tended a most cordial invitation to President Taft to visit the state. If, during the process of enlarging the White House, the president’s quarters should be at all cramped, suggests the Ixuiisville Courier-Journal, he will find plenty of room in Texas. There is nothing novel in the decree issued by the pastor of an American church against the big hats, says a writer in a Vienna paper. Toward the end of the 13th century great broad brimmed hats .were fashionable in Australia. They were of such huge dimensions that a face under one of them could not be recognized. According to the San Francisco Call the older divorce capitals have a formidable rival on the Pacific Slope. “Los Angeles,” says that jour nal, “has become a close competitor with Chicago, St. Louis and Philadel phia for the divorce record and has New York and San Francisco beaten to a frazzle. In January Los Angeles had 115 petitions for divorce, while San Francisco had but 98, and in the past ten years the Los Angeles courts have granted 5362 divorces.” This is the remarkable story the Kennebec Journal gets from Morrill in the state of Maine: “Miss Adelaide Merriam, the little 4-year-old daughter of Herman Merriam, was liding down hill a few rods above the dam near her father’s mill, the other day, when her sister was thrown from the sled over the bank into the river. The old er sister made an outcry, and the fa ther who was at work in the mill, as well as others, hastened to the res cue. He jumped into the river and shortly saw her floating under the water and caught her as she neared the sluiceway. The little girl had floated 120 feet under water, 40 feet of the distance under ice which reached from shore to shore. She says that while she was traveling un der ice and water she saw a snake and a frog.” A more or less novel reason for state prohibition is advanced by the Memphis Commercial Appeal. “If pro hibition,” it says, “by closing so many city business house, could drive most of the men thus thrown out of work back to the farms, it would accom plish one great good.” Then this news paper harks back to the old days when it was a badge of honor, almost of aristocracy, to live in the manor houses of the big plantations, and give one’s best energies to agricul ture: Farming was the occupation of a gentleman, and the man who planned the spring plowing or the au tumn ingathering could quote Latin and write polite verse. Life on the plantations was typically southern life, with its abundance, its lavish hos pitality, its black and wb’j/e threads running side by side, but never blending in the social warp. The he roes and heroines of the old south were chosen from the wide-hailed houses out on the farms, where dwelt in a large measure, the country’s real aristocracy. Today these beautiful old homes are falling to decay and the family names that were as landmarks are never, in many instances, heard m the old haunts. Anvor.o sending a aketch and c v crirtlon may ovlcklv ascertain our opinion free whether au invention Is probably patentable. C omrnuniea* t ions st rtctly confidential. HANDBOOK on r menu fret; Ohlcst uirenev for eeouriim puUWts. Patents taken through Munn & Cos. revive tptcinl notice, without choree, iu t.io Scientific American. A handsomely Illustrated weekly. J S’ mom Usfi’ l. Sofa by alll m-wsov. vr . ‘VWNN & Cos. ?G1 - rondwsy - New YcvK V r "llc!| Offlee. CR V Ft.. VViuhlMfloti. It. C. The e>anbatj-£>choof INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR MAY id. Subject: Paul’s First Missionary Journey - Iconium and Lystra, Acts 14:1-28—Golden Text: Psalm 96:5 —Commentary. TIME.—4 6 A. D. PLACE. —Lys- tra. EXPOSITION. —I- A Cripple front His Birth Made Whole, 8-10. It was a case of real lameness. The man had never walked. The case was beyond man’s skill, hopeless. But there are no hopeless cases with Christ. There was no magnetic touch, no treatment, just a look, a word, and then a per fect and not an imaginary cure. Paul did not attempt to heal every lame man he met. God directed his atten tion to this man, and gave him to see that he had faith to be healed. How did he get it? By hearing Paul speak ( Ro. 10:17). Something of this kind was needed to gain Paul a hearing in Antioch. Paul thoroughly studied and understood the case before lie spoke the word. He commanded the man to do the naturdlly impossible, but “all things are possible to him that believeth” I Mk. 9:23). Hie man oroved his faith by obedience. H. ‘ Paul and Barnabas Worshiped as Gods, 11-18. The people were now ready not only to listen to Paul, but to worship him. The human heart always wants a man to worship. Men are always ready to render unto the instruments God uses the adoration and gratitude that belong only to God Himself. Underneath the heathen idea that, the gods visited the earth “in the likeness of men” there was a great and glorious truth (Jno. 1:14; Phil. 2:6, 7). The actions of these Lystrans seem very ignorant and foolish to us. but do not many Chris tians bow down and lay their offer ings and garlands at the feet of men God greatly uses, as if the man was himself something? Paul and Bar nabas quickly showed the stuff they were made of. As soon as they saw what, the people were up to, they re fused their proffered homage with mingled horror and sorrow. Paul and Barnabas would permit no mis taken notions about themselves. They would have it clearly understood that they were of the same stuff as other men. "Why do ye these things?” These Lycaonians had probably never stopped to ask that question. They just did them without asking. It is a great thing to get people to asking themselves why they do the things thev do. It. is a great thing to get people to thinking; it leads to re pentance (Ps. 119:59; Luke 15:1,, 18). It is. indeed, “good tidings” (v. 15, R. V.) to proclaim unto a man that he can turn from idols unto a God who lives, who has a mighty power, and who is ready to hear and help those who trust and serve Him. The idols of the Lycaonians were "vain things,” because they could not hear, nor act, nor answer, nor help, nor save (Is. 45:20; 46:7: Jer. 10:5, 14; 14:22). The idols of the world to-day are different in form, but es sentially the same in character. But the God of the Bible is “the living God.” Not the god of the rationalist and deist, a god who once lived and worked, but the God who lives and works to-day; the God who hears and answers prayer, am# saves. He "made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is,” and therefore, “there is nothing too hard for” Him (Jer. 32:17). Conversion is simply turning “to God from idols to serve the living and true God” (1 Thess. 1:9). Conversion, therefore, is a very rational thing. God has never in the darkest heathenism left Himself “without witness” (Ps. 19: 1-G; Rom. 1:20). His care for men in doing them good, and giving rain from heaven, fruitful seasons, filling their hearts "with food and glad ness,” has borne witness to His fath erly love and forgiveness (comp. Matt. 5:44. 45; Luke 6:35, 36). Even with these wonderful words Paul found it very difficult to keep them back from their purposed idolatry, and it is hard to keep men and wom en from idolatry to-day. 111. Paul Stoned by Man. Raised by the Lord, 19-22. How little de pendence is to he placed upon popu lar favor. It worshiped to-day, stoned to-morrow. It was fortunate for Paul that he was not depending upon man’s favor, but God s (1 Cor. 4:3. 4). This was not the only ex perience of this kind that Paul had (2 Cor. 11:25, 27). This is the sort of treatment ail who are loyal to Christ and His truth may expect in this God-hating world (2 Tim. 3:12; Jno. 15:18-20). But there are abun dant compensations (2 Tim. 2:12: Rom. S: 18; Matt. 5:10-12). There are some who think that it was white in this condition of apparent death at Lystra that Paul was "caught up to the third heaven and heard unspeak able words” (2 Cor. 12:2-4). This treatment did not stop Paul from preaching, lie got up and went back into the city, and then on to Uerbe, where he preached the gospel, and then hack again to Lystra. Oh, for men of such courage, persistence and unquenchable love tor Christ and man! Abundant success attended his preaching in Derbe. It is not enough to bring men to Christ; we must strengthen and build up the young converts (v. 22). This is the point of failure in much modern evan gelistic work. It is not enough that men start in the faith; they must "continue in the faith” (Jno. S: 3i, 32; 15:4-6, 9, 10; Col. 1:22, 23; Rev. 2:10). GREATLY IMPROVED SERVICE TO Cincinnati and Louisville —VIA Southern Railway AND QUEEN % CRESCENT ROUTE “FLORIDA LIMITED.” Leave Atlanta 5:35 a m Arrive Rome 7:37 a m Arrive Dalton 8:48 a m Arrive Chattanooga .. ..10:15 a m Arrive Cincinnati 8:35 p m Arrive Louisville .. ' .. .. 8:50 p m This is a through train to Cincin nati witli dining car, observation car and coaches. Pullman sleeper to Chi If going to Rome, Dalton, Chatta-nooga, you have an opportunity to get breakfast or supper before ar riving at destination. „ When you think of New York, DON’T FORGET the “New York and New Orleans Limited. Leave s Atlanta 11:01 a. m. every day. 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