The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-06

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will be plenty of work for engineers and
contractors both here and in Cuba"
MemOrizing and Study of the Bible
Systematic study of the Bible is now
becoming a firmly established branch of
Sunday school work, and those who fol-
lowed The Age-Herald's reports of the
Baptist Bible Training school which closed
Friday after a fve-days' session, could
but be impressed with the high degree
of efficiency In Bible class and church
activities" said an old layman.
bible training should have a decided
appeal for Intelligent young men and
young women religiously inclined. but
along with the training the old habit, of
memorizing scripture should be revived.
| Every boy and girl should be required
by parents to memorize certain portions of
the good book. Ruskin, the great art
critic and man of letters, was in his
| day distinguished above all others for
his pure and eloquent English. He was
intensely religious by nature, and while
he may not have been much of a church,
goer In his later life, he never forgot his
Bible. Recently In looking over the last
book which Ruskin published-'Prae-
terita'-a charming autobiography L
found this, which may be OF interest at
this time: Walter Scott and Pope's
Homer were reading of my own election,
but my mother forced me, by steady toll,
to learn long chapters of the Bible by
heart, as well as to read 1t every syl-
liable through, aloud. hard names and all,
from Genesis to the Apocalypse, about
once year; and to that discipline-pa-
tient, accurate and resolute-I owe not
only knowledge of the book. which i
, find occasionally serviceable, but much
of my general power of taking pains. and
the best part of my taste in literature.
From Walter Scott's novels I might cas-
: lily, as l grew older, have fallen to other
peoples novels; and Pope might perhaps,
have led me to take Johnson's English, or
Gibbons, as types of language; but, once
knowing the s2d of Deuteronomy, the 10th
Psalm. the 18th of First Corinthians, the
Sermon on the Mount and most of the Apo
calypso. every syllable by heart. and hav-
ing a way of thinking with myself what
words meant, it was not possible for me-
even in the foolishest times of youth. to
write entirely superficial or formal Eng
fish; and the affectation of trying to
! write like Hooker and George Herbert
was the most innocent could have fallen
, into"
The Birmingham-v andiver Highway
1.-The Birmingham andiver and East
ern highway will connect this city with
a very important nearby territory" said
! a prominent business man.
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i ty, and is one OF the most important
5 connections in a highway to Atlanta via
3 Talladega and Admission. The section OF
Shelby county that it opens up has never
, been available to us before
, ''vandiver is on the Central of Georgia
( railroad &c miles from Birmingham BY
rail. 1t is just beyond the second TUNE
OF the Central of Georgia. 1t is abou
q miles from here by a dirt road, ant
:, on account OF the mountain through
which the tunnel runs, 1t is impossible,
} to reach birmingham by private con
veyance, without going about Is miles
or more than double the distance Som,
Birmingham men became Interested II
having good road built through tina
section from philosophical viewpoint
( for they have no property there.
'Dunivant. which is a station this sid
of vandiver, and just beyond the frs
tunnel from Birmingham and of cours
between the two tunnels is tied UP equal
i ly as bad II not worse. than vandiver
. While they are only a few miles from
Leeds they have to so all around TIN
, world to get out. Over year ago tn
parties referred to and the people Of Van
diver got together and had barbecu
I and launched campaign for a road t
Birmingham. This would open up to Bir
3 mingham and Leeds section of thu
r country that has never had access t
these towns. excepting by railroad. an,
it would give the people of that sec
ton an opportunity to trade In Birming
/, ham that have never enjoyed such ben
( !cfit before