Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-09-03

Greetings to Sem1-Weekly headers
AS I passed my full nineteenth year
of newspaper service on our dear SEMI
WeeklyJournal, on August %, and am
on the first lap of my journey into the
twentieth year, it is meet that ! SEMI
you a greeting of affection as well as
appreciation.
1 begun with the beginning of the
Semi-Weekly, in 1899. I have never fail
ed to send in my quota, but sometimes
there has been delay in mails. q had a
letter from Atlanta some days ago in
forming me that business letter writ
ten by me, was four days in transit.
My desire and intention has always been
Ito get there on time" Nineteen years
ago I was siXtyfour years old. Now
l am going along toward eighty-four-
eighty-three last June. There have beer
many things occurred in that interval.
among them the Spanish-American war.
also the present European war-four
years old.
The articles l have written during
these nineteen years have touched upon
all the great things in state and nation.
| have been with you, dear readers, in
spirit and sympathy with good things
and, true things-effecting the country,
home and our great nation.
The Semi-Weekly travels a long ways
north, east. west and south-the lat
ter more especially. l appreciate the
letters 1 get from you all--wherever the
Semi-Weekly goes. The authorities in
charge of the paper have been uniform
ly kind and considerate with their aged
contributor. l certainly appreciate this
kindness and courtesy.
War times are seric<Is times-nobody
can tell today what with happen tomor-
row-nevertheless we can trace our
selves for efforts that are good and that
always mean to do gOod-every day in
the year.
AS l give you warm greeting at
this moment, I also wave my bonnet to
the dear readers. because you deserve all
the good that is coming to you-now.
henceforth and forever. May you live
long and be happy"
Pacing Death-At Eome or In France
1 received a lovely letter from be-
loved Methodist minister on yesterday
On the outside of the envelope he had
pastel the following:
Death and the Future State
NO room for mirth or trifling here;
For worldly hope or worldly fear,
If life SO soon is gone.
If now the judge is at the door.
And all mankind must stand before
The inexporable throne?
Nothing is worth a thought beneath,
But how L may escape the death
That never, never dies.
How make my own election sure,
And when / fail, on earth, secure
\ mansion in the skies
Jesus ouchsafe a pitying day;
Be thou my guide. be thou my way,
To glorious happiness.
An, write he pardon on my heart
And whcnsoever' here depart,
Let me depart in peace"
The casualty lists in the newspapers
are daily appeal to our hears and
our hopes as WEIR as our dangers. The
BOYS 10Y er there" understand the risks
and the dangers, but they, who are kill
ed, go out of life in the midst of car
mage and confusion. How necessary that
their minds are in a receptive frame to
meet this emergency? Dear Lord. help
them: t...
At home we know that automobile
disasters are far greater than railroad
wrecks. Dangers Turk in every place,
and with a world on fire, and with IN .
creasirg heat and greater carns sc, IN
deed there is no room for mirth or a
silly sort, or trifiinS with the terrible
axigencies of the present time. There
is another verse which 1 will added
here
IF now, paath) thou standost at the
door
oh. let me feel thee near.
And make my peace with God before
I. at thy bar, appear.