Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-04-10
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An English regiment were carry
ing a large bell from one place to
another upon ship, and in the
heving of the water, the bell tum-
bled over and dropped into the
mud and when the tide flowed cut.
they could just see where it went
down, sunken in the muddy bottom
of the shallow sea. How could they
lift it? They tried every human
contrivance that they could think.
of in vain, but by and by, one
suggested that they build q great
raft and with low tide tie the bell
to it. He said, we Will dig down to
the bell and join it to the raft at
low tide, this they did after several
days of work, and when the great
ocean tide began to roll in, it
lifted the heavy bell and all, and
tloated them out to the shore. That
bell is up in the belfry now Chin
ing out its music.
When | read that, l said, "God
has given NE a parable. What
we need to do is just to get poor
men and women, sunken in the
mud of sin, and somehow join them
to Christ. The Holy Spirits power
is the infowing tide that lifts
them out of the mud of sin, and
somehow join them to Christ
and float them to the shore of
glory. The tide has come in, it is
linked to Christ, and if we are
linked to Christ there is no depth
in which we have been buried that
we cannot be lifted from. DR.. A.
c. Dixon.
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N. 0. Christian Allocate.
The anti-prohibition papers are,
publishing everything they can get
hold of that in anywise reflects on.
the work of prohibition. They are
especially happy in making public
the sad predicament of Mobile
which city they tell US will be
fr55DI:ged to cut its appropriations 1oi
public schools, and possibly discon-
tinue some important work, all.
because the law now compels
saloons to close at nine O'Clock ir
the evening, and will shortly en-.
force the prohibition law. The
revenues from the liquor traffic vii
be cut off and leave nothing to take
its place. AS remedy for thi.
calamity it is seriously proposed
by somebody to tax the Churches
preachers and others who have
brought about prohibition to sup
ply the lost revenues. That woulc
be nice, indeed. The next thing
! we will likely be told that the sa
loon men will make an effort t.
get the Churches and preachers t,
reimburse them for the loss of thei
business. Had these fellows heedet
the warning given years ago the,
would have been spared theirpresen
distress: What they laughed at a.
dream is now a reality. 9TH,
prudent man foreseeth the evil an,
hideth himself, but the simple pas
on and are punished"
Herald of Light. I.
The results of the late prohibition
victory in Georgia are gratifying
indeed. Police court ard prison
business is being crushed. For the
first time in the history of Atlanta
a session of police court was held
without cent of money realized
from fines. This is sure evidence
that prohibition does prohibit.
The sale Of intoxicating liquors
should be legally prohibited the
same as killing, stealing or any
other fragrant sin. Let the good
work go on; and it will go on to
the extent that the church members
take hand in the wiping out of
this cruel destruction of men. One
preacher in reporting his work at a
session Of his conference stated.
I'VE have four saloons on our cir
cult, when the bishop took excep-
ton to such a mixture of ideas,
whereupon the young preacher re-
piled, Eyes, sir, l mean what l say.
When the church members deter
mine to put the saloons out of bust
ness, they can do SO.
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Kings (Chicago) Herald.
Love is the greatest thing in
the world and character is the
grandest Character is what re-
mains of man when everything
has been taken away that he can
lose. 1t is something that stays
when the money and the property
are gone. Something that is still
there when the last friend has been
taken away. 1t is something that
can never be burned up CT blown to
pieces. Something that cannot be
lost in the sea nor buried in the
ground. Reputation may be lost,
but character never. 1t needs no
epitaph, for it never dies. You can
put the body Of man in the
ground, but you cannot bury his
character. 1t will beat the hearse-
back from the funeral every time,
and will keep on walking up and
down in the community long after
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