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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. j| 00 t" •. f: v : s- % . -i • ? S ?. ; ■ * *• i-> : \ . . : .• v ■ • | KjjjLs* \ l <'• ” ''. K mSSm §i • b '■-y'. •’ . • 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 (Continued on page ;) NO- 42