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S.W.P. Services and a
Frightful Incident
Under the government there are various
departments of service, designated by
three initials, in provisions for the un
employed. The above heading, with the
three initials, means Sober, Watchful,
Prayerful in the kingdom of divine
grace. On this subject the writer uses
for a text the following Petrine admoni
tion : “But the end of all things is at
hand; be ye therefore sober and watch
unto prayer" (I Pet. 4:7). The word
“sober” here is from a word in the
Greek New Testament that is defined:
“To be of sound mind. i.e. (a) to be in
one’s right mind . . . (b). to exercise
self-control.” (Thayer's Greek-English
Lexicon). The sober-minded are those
who have a deep sense of their responsi
bility and duty in relation to the God
head —Father. Son and Holy Spirit. To
present one’s body ‘‘a living sacrifice,
wholly acceptable to God” is one’s “rea
sonable service” (Rom.. 12:1). So not
to do this service is to live void of rea
son in Heaven's sight. Hence, the lead
ing definition for logiken. the Greek word
for “reasonable” here is rational.
Watchful—Prayerful. As a reason for
the apostle's admonition, he says: “The
end of all things is at hand that is ap
proaching. This admonition is for Chris
tions at all times while they are in the
flesh before the Lord's coming, and can
be thought of as reaching down to con
ditions in distant days from the time it
was written. Jesus gives a like admoni
tion in Luke 21:25:36. In view of “the
great tribulation” that is to come upon
the earth (Matt. 24:21-25), following
which is the personal advent of Christ
‘‘with his saints” for judgment on the
wicked. He says: “Watch ye therefore
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THE WILD WHITE ROSE
It was peeping through the brambles,
that little wild white rose.
Where the hawthorne hedge was plant
ed, my garden to enclose.
All beyond was fern and heather, on the
breezy, open moor;
All within was sun and shelter, and the
wealth of beauty’s store.
But I did not heed the fragrance of
flow’ret or of tree;
For my eyes were on that rosebud, and
it grew too high for me.
In vain I strove to reach it through the
tangled mass of green,
Yet through that summer morning I lin
gered near the spot;
Oh, why do things seem sweeter if we
possess them not?
My garden buds were blooming, but all
that I could see
Was that little mocking wild rose hang
ing just too high for me.
So in life's wider garden there are buds
of promise, too,
Beyond our reach to gather, but not be
yond our view;
And like the little charmer that tempted
me astray,
They steal out half the brightness of
many a summer's day.
Oh, hearts that fall with longing for
some forbidden tree,
Look up and learn a lesson from my
white rose and me.
’Tis wiser far to number the blessings
at my feet
Than ever to be sighing for just one bud
more sweet.
My sunbeams and my shadows fall from
a pierced hand.
I can surely trust is wisdom since His
heart I understand ;
And maybe in the morning, when His
blessed face I see.
He will tell me why my white rose is
just too high for me.
—ELLEN 11. WILLIS.
In Cartersville Tribune-News.
and pray always that ye may be counted
worthy to escape all these things that
shall come to pass, and to stand before
the Son of Man." Will not the redeem
ed. “worthy" saints “escape all these
things"—"the great tribulation.” called
in Rev. 3:10 “the hour of trial, that
hour, which is to come upon the whole
world." R. V., —‘by being called to meet
Him in the air (I Thess. 4:13-18) and
dwell with Him until He shall come
“with his saints” to execute judgment
upon the unprepared. Judge 14. 15?
One can be drunken without drinking
literal intoxicants. God said of the apos
tate Jews: “They are drunken but not
with wine.” (Isa. 29:9). When people
do not do the service of watching and
praying they are not sober, but arc
drunken upon the world’s allurements.
The warning of the Bible is against both
this kind of drunkenness and literal
drunkenness. Jesus tells us take heed
against surfeiting and drunkenness, lest
the day of His coming break upon us
unawares (Luke 21:34).
On Lord's day, Aug. 20. we began a
revival with the little church at Awin.
near Pineapple, Ala., with the purpose
of endeavoring to enlist all we could in
the S. W. P. Service. We had morning
and afternoon services, with dinner on
the ground. When we had closed the aft
ernoon service and a good portion of the
congregation was lingering at the place
of worship a speeding truck passed,
frightfully zigzagging, leaving the high
way, barely missing a truck with chil
dren therein, smashing a mail box. then
crossing the highway, headed toward a
part of the crown before the meeting
house. They barely escaped, by running.
The truck then turned and went into a
ditch, which stopped its perilous course.
The driver was drunken. Some said if
the occasion had been one of reveling
and drinking there would have been a
dozen new graves to dig, but since it
was a time of prayer and holding forth
the light of life, all marvelously escaped.
The driver was arrested and he must
reap for his wild sowing.
(Bv Flavil Hall.)
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1939
Unemployed Get $243
During Week Ang. 19
Unemployed workers in Chattooga
county were paid <5243.76 in benefits by
the bureau of unemployment compensa
tion during the week ending Aug. 19,
1939, it was announced today. Number
of payments was reported at eighty-six.
Total payments to Georgia workers
that week amounted to $73,353.77, rep
resented by 11,577 checks which went in
to 136 counties of the state.
Two hundred forty-eight payments for
$2,051.68 to workers in other states who
previously had established wage credits
in Georgia, swelled the total to $75,-
405.45.
Education, Please!
“BETTER EDUCATION FOR GEOR
GIA MOVEMENT”
(By Ralph L. Ramsey, Director)
TYPICAL LETTER
"I am now 47 years old and have been
teaching for more than twenty years. I
have been economical, have cut expenses
here and there, have lived in a home
without modern conveniences, and have
denied myself cultural advantages. Now,
after all the struggle. I am in debt,” says
depressed and worried Mrs. Harrison,
widowed mother, sole support of her
only son.
“My son wants to go to Emory next
“year. I still hope to see him graduate and
to see the day when I shall own a small
home with all conveniences.”
TATEMENT OF DESPAIR
This statement of despair, ending on a
note of hope, is typical of hundreds that
come to the desks of secretarys of edu
cational associations in the south. And
for many the hope expressed is vain. It
is a mistaken idea held by many people
that women teachers have no family re
sponsibilities. Over one-third of the sin
gle women teachers have one or more
dependents, and 50 per cent, of the single
women contribute at least half tlw ex
pense of supporting some relatives: The
single women teachers support more de
pendents than the single men.
HEAVIEST BURDEN
Os course the heaviest burden of caring
for dependents falls upon married men.
about four-fifths of whom have someone
to support. It is hard to see how a man
of ability who wishes to rear a family
can choose an occupation which pays the
average worker in Georgia less than the
cost of room and board for twelve
months. One of the tragedies of the sit
uation is that 95 per cent, of our (rural
teachers are in need of medical and den
tal attention which they cannot afford.
What a travesty on education it is for a
teacher to advise her children to “ visit
t dentist twice a year” when she lias
been needing to make such a trip herself
for the past three years.
TEACHERS CAREFUL SPENDERS
Teachers as a rule are careful spend
ers. The small size of their income com
pels them to be. However, the greatest
economy does not permit, the average ru
ral teacher much more than the barest
necessities of life. Forty-nine per cent. —
almosthhalosf —of the annual income of the
average married man teacher goes for
food and housing when he’s paid in full.
Otherwise, every cent goes to food, cloth
ing and shelter for himself and immedi
ite family.
But what shall we say about such
near-necessities are cars, refrigerators,
ind money for self-improvement. In the
country districts of Georgia, a teacher
must visit her patrons —would a car in
such cases be a luxury? Teachers are vir
tually forced by our school traditions to
continually better their educational tal
ents. It takes money to do this, and this
has put many teachers in the hands of
the money-lenders. So we note that evil
is piled upon evil, and that all phases of
community and individual life are af
fected by the one rotten apple of inade
quately financed schools.
WIDOW WOMEN AND CHILDREN
In Georgia we have a social phenome
non that appears to an extent not pre
valent in the bulk of the other states. In
almost every community in the state
there are families whose existence de
pends on the running of a boarding
house. In a typical family of this nature,
the father is dead, the family is large,
and the children are not old enough to
contribute to household expenses. Very
often, they have a small garden that the
children tend to, but their cash money
comes from the board money paid by
school inarms. When the teachers are hit.
they are hit at the same time. Actually,
many of them are worse off than the
teachers because they have no borrowing
power at all- —and no place to go to live
with relatives. If they give the teachers
credit, their own rhildren will suffer.
If they don’t extend credit, they are crit
icized by the community. In our opinion,
in such cases, the responsibility should
not be on the shoulders of these widows.
I don't think they are to blame. It is the
community that must assume the respon
sibility of feeding and rooming teachers
—because they are servants of the com
munity rather than the miniature busi
ness represented in the typical Georgia
boarding house. We should not be too
hasty in criticizing those who cannot af
ford to extend credit.
IHE HOPE OF THE COUNTRY
Believing that the backbone of Georgia
is the rural community, we must recog
nize that with the present centralization
of government in the state capitol, the
rural schools are at the mercy of legis
lators and the legislature. The cities do
not have any great cause for worry, and
■xcept in a few notable instances even a
large town will not come to the assist
ance of the rural schools in their efforts
to be adequately financed. But the rural
community has a strong weapon in the
ballot used to elect these legislators.
When this weapon is u«*>d effectively, the
rural child will get a “break”-=-for a
change.
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