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GOD'S ETERNAL REST.
Paper read by Miss Lilly Boatner
before the Methodist Sunday School
last Sunday:
- At the close of another week [
would bring to you a message of
" God’s rest, a message that may not
only abide with you, but may help
¥you in meeting the responsibilities
of another week that is soon to be
gin,
Throughout almost every page of
God’s word, underlying almost every
duty that is demanded of us, lies the
story of the reward of rest. And
‘though we might turn to many pages
“to find its declaration, I would ask
you to read one particular text as
found in the 28th and 29th verses of
the 12th chapter of the gospel ac
cording to Mathew.
“Come unto me all ye that labor
and are heavy laden and I will give
you rest,
“Take my yoke upon you and learn
of me; for 1 am meek and lowly in
heart and ye shall find rest for your
souls.”
To ye who have passed through
the physical iabors of your difficult |
week, rest means the end of t,u:!.-rl
and burdens f
To you who have met the responsi-|
bilities of yvour daily living, passing|
through the strain of mental la"zv—i
blems, there is no word like that nl'l
rest when your mind can relax zml‘
you know that sucsess comes with |
realization. g
I'o those of you who have passed |
through the sorrow of a sunless|
time, with the heartaches and f.«il~l
ures the anguish of misunderstood
purposes and unrequited endeavors ‘
there is no thought so sweet, 80
peaceful as that of laying down your
regrets, your unhappiness in rest,
The desire, the longing for the
peacefulness that immortal wish
which ever clings to man, is sought
after through all the surcease of la
bor—even when the heart longs for
something which it cannot tell,
So as we go along toward the noor.
of life, or you who are older aad howva !
set your faces toward the radiance of
the setting sun, we, each, look to
ward a light that shall point the way
to the rest of endless years. So I
would speak to you of God’s rest.
The life of 33 years that Christ
spent upon this earth knew little
rest. From the child preparing its
physical life at his father's work
bench, for the agony of tha mental
and spiritual that was to follow af
terward, until the last torture oa
Golgotha's cross there was little
rest. Even the last moments in
Gethsemane brought not even the
silence of peace. The prayer that
the last drop of the cup should pass
was never answered until the angels
of Paradise again welcomed their re
turning Lord.
We here often learn of conditions
by only knowing the opposite. The
Oasis could never be appreciated if
we had not passed through the de‘«l
sert first. There could never ln-i
rest if there had not been labor, |
there is no peace where there has
been no unrest. There are dutivs‘
that must be, so we can know the
joy of success, or of having tried and
at last come into the sweet happiness
of having done our best.
Yet, realizing what life held for
him, knowing even of the nails that
should be driven through his hands
Christ stood and said:
“Come unto me all ye that labor
and are heavy laden and I will give
you rest.”
The invitations of Christ have al
ways been so simple that the scant
words have brought a conviction of
their earnestness that cannot be
overcome.
“In the last day-—that great day
of the feast, Jesus stood and cried,
saying: “If any man thirst, let him
come unto me and drink.”
Years afterward, John, the evan
gelist, living in the unrest of Pat
mos Isle, declared, “And the spirit
and the Bride say come; and let him
that heareth say come; and let him
that is athirst come. And whoso
ever will let him take of the waters
of life freely.”
There is no limitation to church
invitation. Beyond the confines of
human verdict stretches the limit
less realms of God's declaration.
If we will analyze the two verses
that constitute the text, there are the
three points that stand out clearly
viz: (1) The Invitation. (2) The
conditions with whickh all can com
ply. (3) The Invitation's reward.
“Come unto me all ye who labor
and are heavy laden, and I will give
you rest.”
They are the same words that
mother might say when a little child
awaited the end of a long day, they
are the words that you would say to
one you loved, as you saw them op
pressed and wearied, “Come Unto
Me,” These three words alone im
ply the confidence, and yet to make
all sure, Christ added, “And [ will
give you rest
l “Take my yoke upen you and
learn of me.”” These conditions
might seem strange and hard to
those who read no more, who knew
no further. Yet, the next phrase
ceparated only by a semicolen of
punctuation shows the possibility;
“for I am meek and lowly in Leart.”
This Christ who was to suffer all
who was a son of a higher King than
the world had ever known, who was
a prince of God, and had endured,
had suffered, become ‘“‘meek and
lowly,” that he might know the suf
fering that we would bear. It was
not an arrogant King, who had only
known the princely happiness of a
life of ease. It was the man to be
crucified, who bore the anguish of a
cross that he might lead us to a
crown,
When Christ calls you today to
come it is not through the dogma
tism of a church, the doctrine of one
sect, the creed of a schism, but as
the man who once declared “My
God, my God! why bhast thou for
saken me?” It is the man who real
izes our limitation, it is the Chris
tian that has suffered long before
we did, it is the Godman, who knows
that afier the fear and pains, aftee
the sorrow and tears, lie the reward
in the joys of His kingdom.
If there are burdens which yonu
cannot meet, remember the hands
pierced on Calvary know where to
lead. The path before you lies hard,
the way seems rough and impossible,
but the eyes that saw his tempta
tions, His renunciation, and his final
restoration to Gods side see the end
of the path that you and [ must take.
“And ye shall find rest unto your
souls” no semi-colon here seperates
the results from the conditions, nor
does the text or the common ver
sion say ‘“rest for your souls,” but
“rest unto your souls.” It is not a
condition of a thing being possible,
but a thing that comes into and unto,
that lies with you, that abides ever.
“Far beyond the sighing and the
weeping lies a better land I know.”
Yet that land is only the home of
that Christ who stond and said,
“Come unto Me, all ye who labor, and
I will give you rest.” Not rest of
of mind or tired body, which must
sooner or later become wearied again
but rest and peace unto the soul, and
when souls find their peace body and
mind areforever at rest.
In this Kingdom there is no un
more sighing, nor pain, nor weeping,
for God shall wipe all tears from your
eyes. And there shall be no night
there, neither shall there be any need
of the light of the candle, for the
lamb shall be the light thereof.
**And the Spirit and the Bride say
ceme, and let him that heareth say
come, and let him ‘hat is athirst say
come, and whosoever will, let him
take of the watefs of the life freely.”
That same Christ that stood in the
last day, that great day of the feast,
and cried,” If any man thirst, let him
come unto me and drink,” cries to
You now. Holding out his hands,
calling to you of whatever nation or
creed you may be, knowing what you
suffer, what you undergo, what your
limitations are, that same Jesus calls
“Come.”
You are to again meet vour toils.
Temptations, adversity and weak
ness will close around you and yet
close by you, always leading yon
upward and onward, if you will only
hear, ring the words “Come unto
me.” There the ‘‘children of men”
put their trust under the shadow of
his wing. There one can drink of
the river of God's pleasure. There
is the fountain of light and in his
light we shall see light. While
underneath are the everlasting arms
of God's eternal refuge.
My wish is that there may be one
word that will linger with you, ever
after the text has been forgotten;
that you shall carry in your souls
the thoughts of God's eternal rest
so that as we go on toward the end
of life's long journey we may know,
“That the river tempest tost soon
will be with its lights and shadows
lost in the sea.
“Lost the heartache and the fears,
Lost the sighing and the tears,
In the rest of endless years,
When the bells ring home to me."”
And may the rest and peace that
passes all understanding be with you
and keep you, and abide with you
evermore.
Men’s slippers from $l.OO up,
Ladies’ slippers from 75 cents up;
$1.50 value; Children's slippers from
55 cents up. The German Store, L.
Saul, Prop.
BOARD WANTED—CoupIe with bs.-
by want board for the summer in
private home. Give full particulars
infirst letter. J. M., 140 Elizabeth
Street, Atlanta, Ga. It.
MONEY LOANED
on improved farm lands in North
Georgia. Lowest rats. Reynolds
Mortgage & Trust Co., Rome, Ga. 1m
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL AND COURIER.
MODERN WOODMEN
DRGANIZING HERE
Mr. James W, Smith District Depu:-
ty ¢f the Modern Woodmen of Amer
ica togethor with Messrs W. L. Wal
ton and Heniy Lowery are in Mari
etta organizing a camp of Modérn
Woodmen of America. They have ap
pointed Dr. W. H. Malone and Dr.
Donahoo examining physicians.
An advertisement of the order ap
pears on the back page of this weeks
paper.
AFTER SUFFERING
TWO LONG YEARS
Mrs. Aselin Was Restored to
Health by Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable
Compound.
Minneapolis, Minn. — ‘A fter my little
one was born I was sick with pains in
T my sidez which the
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FrE OSSR caused Ly inflamma-
Ly LN e Sy wamma
:éi 5 fi%fhi tion. 1 suffered a
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l \.o:.\ e ;%tbiz::. I was under the
PR 0 /,‘ - doctor’s care for two
L= llong years without
.‘fif\f\f% /' / lany benefit. Finally
S EELW after repeated sug
§x N gestions to try it we
e - got Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound. After tak
ing the third bottle of the Compound I
was able to do my housework and today
lam strong and healthy again. I will
answer letters if anyone wishes to know
about my case.’’ —Mrs. JOSEPH ASELIN,
628 Monroe St.,N. E., Minneapolis, Minn,
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or harmful
drugs, and today holds the record of
being the most successful remedy we
know for woman’s ills. If you need such
a medicine why don’t you try it ?
If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta
ble Compound will help you,write
to Lydia E.Pinkham Medicine Co.
(confidential) Lynn,Mass., for ad
vice. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by a woman,
and held in strict confidence.
Flower Pots at Dobbs Hardware
Store.
Charcoal ironing buckets at Dobbs
Hardware Store. .
Guaranteed Rubber Hose 10 cents
per foot. Dobbs Hardware Co.
PROFIT ON §7.036.48 ON 398 ACRES BY
Ualie SCIENTIFIC METHODS OF FARMING
The proof of the pudding is in the
eating. Scientific farming is the most
profitable. Evidence of this is found
in the annual report of the demonstra
tion farms of the Central of Georgia
Railroad for the year 1913. Cotton,
corn, oats, cowpeas were used in
planting the eleven demonstration
farms. The gross receipts were $16,-
933.55. The total cost of Crops was
$8,150.82. Add to this rent of $l,-
447.25, and the net profit is $7,335.48.
The Central of Georgia Railroad is
conducting these demonstration farms
under the direction and advice of the
College of Agriculture, J. F. Jackson
being agricultural agent and T. G.
Chastain agriculturist in charge.
Cotton proved the best money crop,
but not better than oats, followed by
cowpeas. Cotton netted a profit of
$23.41 per acre, while oats followed
by cowpeas netted $25.92 for both
crops. It costs $30.24 an acre to pro
duce cotton, while oats and peas cost
$26.18 per acre to produce.
BAEEDERS PURE BRED STOCK
N GORGIA 10 BE LISTED
The Georgla State College of Agri
culture i{s constantly receiving inqui
ries from all parts of the state asking
for information as to where to buy
pure bred stock. Whenever possible
Georgla breeders are referred to.
Doubtless there are farmers in the
state who have pure bred stock for
sale about whom the College has not
learned.
It is for the purpose of encouraging
the Georgia breeder and at the samg
time help the Georgia farmer to get
pure bred stock cheaply near home,
Announcemeuts.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
To the votzrs of Cobb County:
I hereby aunnounce my candidacy
to represent Cobb Ccounty as one of
her two Representatives in the Leg
islature, subject to the action of the
Democratic Primary to be held on
August 19th this year. 1 will appre
ciate not only your vote and in
fluence, but, if elected, your counsel
and support as well. .
JOHN T. DORSRY.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
To the whole Pecple of Cobb County:
1 hereby announce myself a can
didate to rcpresent our county in the
Legislature subject to the Democratic
Primary to be held on the 19th day
of August 1914,
1 favor: Strict economy in the ad
ministration of our government:
lower taxes; a County Board; better
roads; better schools; the rental of
our State’s railroad properties and a
per centum of the rent as a tax for
the counties through waich the rail
road lies.
I will appreciate your support.
Respecttully,
JOE ABBOTT.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
To the Voters of Cobb County:
I announce myself as a candidate
r the house of represeatatives anl
in so doing 1 pledge myself to repre
nt all classes of people fairly and
mpartially, In matters of entirely
tocal interest 1 shail be governed by
the wishes of the people on any biil
that is affecting Cobb Co. solely. 1
hall favor a clause therein submit
ting it to the votes of the people
for ratification or rejection before it
becomes a law,
Thanking you in advance for all
the help you can give me,
8.-M, STANLEY:
‘i FOR STATE TREASURER
| To the peopie ur wueorgia:
| lam a candidate to succeed my
| self as State Treasurer, subject to
itlm action of the Democratic Prim
' ary.
| My candidacy i 3 based strictly up
lon my record and experience in this
office, which are well known to the
| people of Georgia, and which 1 trust
| has been satisfactory. If, in your
| opinion, the management of the
!State’s finances under my adminis
| tration for the past several years has
Iboen faithful and efficient, I wouid
‘groatly appreciate your endorement
| at the polls in the coming primary.
t Thanking you for the support and
|confi(lence extended me heretofore,
| T earnestly solicit your further kind
l consideration of my candidacy in the
’ present campaign.
} Respectfully,
] W. J. SPEER.
Could the profits have been larger?
In considering the items of cost, fer
tilizer plays an important role, the
bill for that item alone amounting to
$2,036.56. Under general farm prac
tices of live stock production and crop
rotation, this cost would be consider
ably less. Man labor is the largest
item of expense amounting to $2,-
342.08. With improved farm machin
ery the labor cost on a large farm
would be considerably less.
What has been particularly shown
on the railroad demonstration farm is
what the small, one-horse farmer can
do, and, of course, the large farmer
should not only do, but exceed if good
farm practices are applied.
The railroad is not ¢nly encouraging
by example the application of scientific
farming as to cereal production, but
is encouraging the use of pure bred
live stock by offering prizes of Per
cherons, Short Horns, etc, to corn
club prize winners.
to save freight cost, that this request
is made for the names of all who have
such stock for sale.
Not only the name and address
should be given, but also the_number,
kind and full information. x'o near
pure bred need be reported, as it is
the purpose to obtain information only
for those who want to buy pure bred
stock.
The college will gladly bring the
breeder and buyer together in this
way, and whenever possible pass upon
the quality of the animals offered by
the breeders.
HELPING OUR
HIGHLANDERS
Blsecting the Old South east of the
Mississippi in a northeast to south
west system of ranges, 600 miles long
and 150 miles across, reaching in
scores of peaks 6,000 feet in elevation,
clad in stately hardwood forests
scarcely equaled in any other moun
tain ranges in the world, with an
area of 76,000 square miles, the South
ern mountains are part of the territory
of seven Southern states, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor
gia, Alabama, Kentucky and Tennes
£ee,
Though in seven states the mountain
people are essentially a distinct group,
with similar characteristics, whether
in Eastern Kentucky or North Geor
gia. They number about 3,500,000.
There are almost no Negroes—only
nine per cent., and these are in the
valleys and towns, not in the moun
tains proper. Contrary to general be
lief, the white population is denser
in the Highlands than in the other
portions of the seven states which
have a mountain district. There are
in the mountain area, by the 1910 cen
sus, thirty-nine whites to the square
mile, while in the extra-montane dis
tricts of the same states the average
white population per square mile is
twenty-geven.
The religious membership of the
mountain country by the 1906 relig-
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in the State of Georgia.
FOR RURAL
GHURGH EFFICIENCY
There has in recent years been no
more gratifying or promising trend in
religious circles than the increased
2mphasis which has come to be placed
upon the welfare of the country
churches. Nor is there any prospect
that the agitation will stop short of
definite results for rural church wel
fare? Within a few years past a large
country church literature has been
created, and the religious press is giv
ing much attention to the subject.
The South is still rural in charac
ter, notwithstanding the remarkable
growth of cities. Omitting Maryland
and Missouri and including Oklahoma
and New Mexico, the figures from the
1910 census gives the South 80 per
cent. rural population and 20 per cent.
in towns of 2,500 or more. Georgia,
notwithstanding its several cities, is
shown in the census as being only
20.6 per cent. urban, while practically
80 per cent. of her people live out
in the cpen or in small towns.
It is characteristic of the country
that it makes and gives to the towns,
and of the towns that they take and
give very little back. Towns are built
to manufacture and distribute. Their
function is economic. They serve the
country communities as trade outlets
and inlets. On the other hand, the
country serves the city by affording
the raw material for trade, and also by
giving many of its best young men and
women to perform city tasks.
The country church is no exception
to the general relation of giving by
country to town. Many of the best
and strongest leaders in city pulpits
and pews were nurtured and trained
in country churches. Some city
churches would gradually go to pleces
but for the continual influx of people
from rural places to renew the
strength of the city organizations.
These rural churches, in the South
not less than 85 per cent. of the whole
number of churches, are in the aggre
gate the hope and foundation of South
ern religious prosperity. But by a
pathetic anti-climax, the individual ru
ral church is in the eyes of the big
ness-hunting world too inconspicuous
to be noticed. The attention of the
world goes to the larger churches
when it goes to any.
The Home Mission Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention has in
stituted a department to promote the
welfare of country churches. It is
called the Department of Enlistment
and Co-operation. Through the Home
Board, the Southern Baptist denomi
nation, numbering 2,500,000 member
ship, has set itself to the worthy task
of helping the country churches, which
have helped make every religious in
stitution in the South, but for which
until now there has been little aid,
beyond an occasional piecing out of the
salary of a missionary pastor. |
Friday, May 15, 1914
fous census was 973,000, ang {8 now
probably at least 1,000,000. of these
forty-eight per cent. were Baptiys
thirty-cne per cent. Methodists, s‘.igm:
ly less than six per ecent. Presbyteri.
ans, five per cent. Disciples. A]] Other
denominations have ten per cent,
There are fewer Roman Catholics iy
this region than in any other section
of America; 143 out of the 178 mo, n
tain counties have not a single Roman.
ist in them, and outside of the Ala
bama mines and Chattanooga, the total
Roman Catholic population in tl,. 3
500,000 is only about 3,000. These s
mostly at mills, and the averae,
mountaineer has never seen a Romanp
Catholic.
Southern Baptists, through 1.
Home Mission Board at Atlanta, ap
spending $50,000 a year to help 1.
mountaineers to help themselves i,
thirty-four schools with 6,000 studen:-
Five of these schools are in Norf),
Georgia; Hiawassee Academy, Nori)
Georgia Baptist Institute at Morgan
ton, Blairsville Institute at Blairsville,
Draketown Institute at Draketown, an
Bleckley Institute at Clayton. In
these five schools are more than 800
students.
There is no better mission invest.
ment in the world than to help tlic.
belated Americans to get abreast o
the times, and to bless the times 1\
bringing into their making the nce(
element of manly powers and idea
ism and independence which the moy
taineer either has or is capabls
developing in remarkable degree, |
is a work that rightly appeals to (]
tian givers, and should receive
liberal sudport.
I Southern Baptists have dlscovered
| that of their 25,000 churches 20,000
| are rural and more than 16,000 of
| these are open for preaching service
gonly once a month, and are supplied
'by absentee pastors. This condition
| exists in Georgia. Hardly one in fifty
. of these churches has a pastor’s home.
| No agency exists with potentialities
for inspiring the life of a country
community equal to the church. But
| this cannot be, unless the church is
' awake and progressive. Once-a-month
' preaching was too little for the age ol
| homespun and localism. It will be
| positively ruinocus to the leadership of
the church in this day of intercommun
ication and machinery—of good roads,
telephones, mail delivery, automobiles
tand farm machinery. A once-a-month
ichurch, supplied by an absentee pas
_tor, cannot guide the lives of Georgia
boys who are raising 200 bushels ol
' corn to the acre.
! The trouble with many a country
' community is that it has lost its soul
~to some town. What is required is
to help rural communities to find again
I their souls and keep them alive out
{in the open places of field and forest
‘—where the locomotive whistle is a
‘distant echo and the grinding of fac
, tory machinery does not come. There
I is no better way to find the lost com
; munity life than to get the churches
| into energetic, competent action. The
' country church should be concerned
' in any and everything which makes for
i the community welfare. Forever its
' fundamental business is to win men
'to Christ, but it has a community
! function as well as an obligation to in
" dividual souls.
| The Home Mission board is sending
- out special Field Workers, who work
i in groups of associations. Their prime
business is to get churches to have
preaching at least twice a month, to
' get them to pay the pastor a living
salary and get him to locate where
he will give the people his life and
' not only occasional sermons, to get ad
' joining churches to unite in supporting
ia pastor, to get better church build:
ings and Sunday-school equipment. In
'a word, these trained specialists are
at work to help the country commun:
ity to win back its soul, through help
ing the church which serves the coul
munity into a fuller life and a fuller
service to every man and woman and
child within the reach of its influ
ence.
The development of the rural
churches will bring, and is also con
ditioned by, better farming. It will
with the public school keep secure th?®
foundations of public righteousness
and of democratic institutions. It wil
through its contributions to city lif¢
keep city churches strong enough (|
fight the great fight against sin and
corruption which confronts every city ‘
church. It will make mightily for t‘.ifii
perpetuation of our American republi¢|
and its traditions. People every
where will rally to the Home Mission|
Board of the Baptists and to f‘“"rf
church boards in the effort to deveioP
the very sources of our Americ;m)fi':
by developing the churches that fvit
that life at its sources.
