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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF RELIGION,EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
VOL. XXI.
LOCAL MEWS
Stricßland-Puctt Wedding Plans.
A great deal of interest is
felt in the approaching mar
riage of A/iss Charlott Strick
land to Mr. Grrnett McAfee
Puett, which will take plaoe
at the First Methodist church
in Cumming, on the evening
of October 25th.
The maid of honor will be
A/iss Clara Rentz, ofUna
dilla, Ga,, the best man
will be Col. Louis Wisdom,
of Cumming. The brides
maids will be Miss Lorena
Groover, of Cumming, A/iss
Alberta Will.ams, of Oxford,
A/iss Annie Perry, of Buford,
and A/iss Annie Mae Strick
land, of Duluth.
The groomsmen will be
Mr, A/arcus Mashburn, and
Mr. Frank Groover, of Cum
ming, M r. Henry J. Atwood,
of Franklin. Tenn., and A/r.
Rupert* Edmondson, of At
lanta. The ushers will be
Mr. J. Edgar Puett, Col.
Charles L. Harris and Mr.
G. Hocker.hull, of
Cumming, and Dr. Will W.
Puett cf Rhine, Ga.
The program of music at
the church will be arranged
and rendered by Mrs. C. L.
Harris and Miss Mardelle
Estes, while that at the re
ception following will be in
charge of Mrs, H. P. Bell.—
Atlanta Journal.
I have now on hand and
coming in the next few days,
three car loads of buggies of
different makes; one car load
of furniture just coming in :
one car load White Hickory
wagons, one and two horse:
a good lot Bagwell & Gower
one and two horse wagons.
The best lot of buggy and
wagon harness I ever had. —
Some of the best double bug
gy harness I ever sold. A good
assortment of stoves —the best
range stove for the price I
know of. Some good sewing
machines. In fact nearly ev
erything you need in your
house. Floor Coverings: I
have a good lot of art squares
and rugs of the best makes. I
have a splendid assortment of
dining chairs, extension ta
bles, rockers of every descrip
tion.
Don’t faif to come around
at my place and take a look at
my .goods before buying. Will
appreciate youi trade and do
my best to please you in price
and goods.
Respectfully,
G. W. Heard.
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Hon. H. M. Stanley, of Dublin, candidate for Commissioner oj Commerce and
Labor.
WHOSE CAUSE?
T. P, TRIBBLE.
When )OU lit down at night by
your fireside and enjoy a quiet
hour reading your daily paper,
your farm Journal or some inter
esting book, do you consider that
you owe some cause or institution
a lasting debt for the privilege or
when you secure an improved
farming tool that will make your
burdens lighter and increase your
profits, can you not see that you
are brought under obligations to
some enterprise or cause for the
benefits derived?
These things, and many others,
such as the telephone, the improv
ed convediences for travel and the
peace of society that we enjoy, are
given to us by a great cause —the
cause of education. It would be
impossible to enumerate the bene
fits which we realize from this
cause. Tak6, for example, the
last benefit named—the peace of
society. This is a condition that
is favorable to eve,y thoughtful
person.
Then, whose cause is this?' There
can be but answer, It is the cause
of every person that particioates
in its great benefits The man who
has childreu can participate more
fully but it is none the less the
cause of the man that has no child
ren. It should be the pride of
every man to invest in the educa
tion of boys and girls even if they
are not his.
. Some say it is not fair for per
sons who have no children to con
tribute to the cause of education.
It would not be fair for people to
receive the benefits of the cause
without paying for them. But
you say you pay for your papers,
CUMMING, GA OC I’OBEK 27 1911
your telephone, your farming tools.
Youpaythe jobber but that does
not release you from the debt to
education
If you think seriously about it
you will conclude that it is the
bounden duty of every man to help
to support and further the inter
ests of this cause. It is certainly
unfortunate that all (people and not
have children to partake of the
benefits and thus keep them in the
family line. But a man who will
not invest in the cause of educa
tion because he has no children,
would not, according to the same
principle, try to save money be
cause he has no children to leave
it to.
Can you invest in a better cause?
What would you take for the
blessings that education brings to
you? How could you live with
out them? Remember without
the benefits of this cause you
would not have your newspaper,
your telephone, your peace, your
citizenship—in a word, you would
be in a state of barbarity and can
nibalism with no hope of harness
ing the great forces that nature
has for the subjugation of the
earth.
If education means a better
chance for the coming generations,
if it means a stepping out into
God’s glorious light, if it means
the execution of the divine com
mand 10 subdue the earth, if it is
moving in response to the divine
hand that is beckoning man on
ward and upward, and it is all
this and more, it is the duty of
every man to add every dollar,
every good wash and word, that is
in power, to the advancement of
the cause. . So inote it 1 e.
Graft, Sixth Gharge Proven,
F H. TALI.ANT.
Dear Bro. Wills: The sixth
charge I made against the Lay
mans Mission Movement was that
it was being prumulgated in the
south by graft money, money got
ten by Graft.
I have referred to the Southern
Baptist Coavention Report so
much it has become monotonous.
So let me explain a little to our
readers.
The claim is made that tne con
vention missionaries report to the
churches through those minutes*
but the fact is the minutes is where
the missionaries conceal or hide
what they do from the churches;
yet by putting their reports in the
minutes they make a pretence of
reporting to the churches. There
is not one half as many copies of
those minutes published as there
are churches in the southern con
vention. Besides this, those min
utes are large books very dry read
ing, long-v'inded and those who
happen to get a copy seldom reaJ
it except bv little snatches
If a man wants to conceal some
mischief he has done, a good place
to put it is in the minutes of the
Southern Baptist Convention
In some respects those reports
remind me very much of the swamp
cat-tail.
Reader, when a boy, did you
ever go dowu to the swamp, walk
out on a log and pull of a cat t U?
certainly you have. Well it was
not very attractive in the concrete
was it?
Bat when you began to investi
gate it and to maul|and thump it
about, it became very interesting
to your boyship.
Fuzz, fuzz; you never saw so
much fu’.z in a!! your life. The
air became afloat with fuzz.
the harmless looking fuzz ball its
contents was full of obnoxiou and
objectionable particles.
So to get rid of it your elder
brother struck a match and touch
ed the fuzz and the cat tail was
consumed and the atmosphere be-
came pare.
Tl'.oee convention minutes are
uot very attractive unless you be
gin an earnest investigition of
them just thump them about a lit
tle look at them in the concrete
and then fuzz them.
Those reports are as interesting
as fairy tales, once you get inter
ested.
Our feelings since we began our
investigation have been varied.
Wi hpve been contrained to weep,
we have shed tears of grief and
tears of joy. Every sentence we
have penned has been in the fear
of the All-Wise Creator before
whom we expect to give an ac
count.
We have often diverted as
we have beheld the ridiculous view
advocated by those of the upper
tendum, Then our laugh‘er has
been turned to grief and tears as
we beheld the blind multitudes fol
lowing to denominational wreck
and ruin. So let ns proceed to
analyze tliose conventions Reports
and when we have got them suf
ficiently fuzzed you elder brethren
(pastors] just touch the gospel
match to the fuzz and purifv the
atmosphere throughout the High
tower.
Now for proof of charge see
cat tail Rep. 1910 Page 282 [ con
vention report,]
We would reccommend that the
convention instruct the Executive
Committee >f the Laymen’s Move
ment and the two Mission Board 1 -
to confer together and agree upon
a reasonable budget of expenses
for the coming year and that this
expense be divided equally between
the Home and Foreign Mi-sion
Boards and that our Laymen's
committee be requested to press
the work steadily and on the lines
marked out by the Southern Bap
tist Convention etc.
Ilere is the proof of graft e-i ib
lished, let me ill us rate: In l9to
sister Hopkins ard Bro. Hawkins
contributed to The Foreign Mis
sion Fund. This money 7 was set
aside for the spread of the gospel
to the heathen it w-as dedicated to
the Lord for that purpose, it was
consecrated by prayer to htlp pro
claim the gospel to the heathen, it
was holy money.
For what purpose was this mon
ey used? The Southern Baptist
Convention dipped its unhallowed*
finger in the treasury and gave'
this holy money to the committee
wickedness in high places. Mav
the God of heaven deliver his
children from such unholy usurpers
of authority.
Money given for ome Mission
went the same route. Think of it
brethren
Never et me be referred to a—
g tin >' Judas. Ti convention
curies the bag and > ar what is
put tmrein; the convention is the
fellow to commit su-cide which it
has already done when (he fact*
are made known.
Now you see why the good Bro.
come to our Association in 1910 at
New Harmony.
He was hired out of the sacred!
funds that had been collected for
the spread of the gospel in Japan,
China, Mexico and Africa, This
is admitted graft by the conven
tion.
Suppose Bro. Wills that I should
come over to Gumming church
and beg money to build anew
church house at Friendship, then
take the money thus raised and
build a school house. I would be
criticised as a sneak not worthy of
confidence. I would pay the pen
alty at the bar of justice. That
would be right.
Now here is the convention man
ipulators who can collect money
for the spread of the gospel they
can play graft and subsidize and:
employ an Editoral secretary to
mystify and pervert the word of
God.
I say it does all this and much
more and some people bow to it
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