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Frustration
I become very discouraged
and sad when I commit the same
sins again and again. When you
Sincerely submit yourself to
God, do you n 0 longer commit
these sins? H.B.
When a person like yourself
has a sensitive conscience and a
weak will, frustration is the re
sult. Like Paul you are saying,
“Who will deliver me from the
body of this death?” I think
that you are not far from inner
victory, for the Bible says: “Bl
essed are they that hunger and
thirst after righteousness for
they shall be filled.”
You put your finger on the se
cret of triumph when you said:
“When you sincerely submit
yourself to God, do you no lon
ger commit these sins?” That
is exactly the point of difficulty
in your life. You have used your
power of choice to do what you
will, rather than what God wills.
We sing the song in all of o u r
Crusades: “Blessed Assurance,
Jesus is mine.” But the verse
begins with these words: “Per
fect submission, all is at rest;
I and my Savior am happy and
blest.” Perfect submission al
ways goes before Blessed As
surance. He forgives our sins,
but He also wants a yielded he
art, and a will brought under
His control.
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We are not of those who shrink
back and are destroyed, but of
those who have faith and keep
their souls. (Hebrews 10:30,
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PRAYER: Dear Lord, we
thank Thee for the faith we live
by and ask that it may grow
and that we may live for Thee
without faltering. In the name
of Christ, in whom is our streng
th. Amen.
Thought For Today
A thought for the day:
English author Jane Austen
said, “Those who do not
complain are never pitied.”
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Bill Knight, Executive Editor
Editorial Roundup
Legislature
In Spotlight
Georgia editors have spoken their minds on a number
of matters before the General Assembly including such
varied subjects as obscenity, riots, elections, daylight time
and homestead exemptions.
Random comments on subjects included the following:
THOMASTON TIMES
Members of the General Assembly will face among
other things, a bill to protect young people in Georgia from
obscenity.
We have long fought the losing battle to protect at least
young people from obscenity and we can only hope that
the members of the General Assembly will face up to the
issue this time and act positively in this field.
Although the higher courts have made obscenity a pay
ing business for some unscrupulous people they have
allowed some laws to stand restricting obscenity for chil
dren.
Noted authorities in the field of human behavior have
attested to the fact that the printed word, and picture,
have contributed greatly to deviation and anti-social be
havior.
There is real danger in the things that are printed today
and left free to the gaping eyes of people of all ages.
Some people who stick their heads into the sand can’t
possibly believe what is available for a small price in
magazines, books, motion pictures and other pornographic
literature. ...
Certainly Georgia owes it to the young people of this
state to protect them from such material until they have
the maturity to form some moral fiber.
We urge the General Assembly to take positive action
on the matter of protecting young people from obscenity.
AUGUSTA HERALD
As galling as the thought of a stringent anti-riot law may ,
be to some of Georgia’s ethnic groups, there is a very de
finite need for such a measure, as proposed Tuesday by
Gov. Maddox....
Basically, the proposal would enable the state govern
ment to deal swiftly and effectively with the kind of dis
turbances that disgraced the nation last year with wide
spread orgies of killing, looting and burning by unchecked I
mobs. It would provide the state with a means of defense
against the kind of senseless and anarchistic movements
that pose new threats of the same—or worse— in the com
ing year. And it would, hopefully, also provide authority
for officials at lower levels to react on the spot to any out
break of mob violence while the slower moving state auth
ority was girding itself to act.
To deny the need of such a law after the record of mob
activity amassed over the past few years is to plead both
blindness and irresponsibility. The objecting legislators,
rather than placing themselves in the position of devil’s
advocate for the forces of anarchy on the specious grounds
that the law would be racially discriminatory, should view
the proposed law dispassionately and as a means of pro-!
tection for all of Georgia’s citizens, whatever their race or
color.
Law abiding citizens have nothing to fear from such a
measure, and neither do the uneasy legislators. Such a
statute would become discriminatory only against those
lawless persons who made it so by their own actions.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
There seems to be growing sentiment among Georgia
legislators on an answer to the big question of how the
state’s governors should be elected.
The question was raised this past year when many ob
jected to the present plan under which Gov. Lester Mad
dox, who finished second in the voting, was named gover
nor.
The present plan provides that if no one gets a majority
in the General election, which leader Howard Callaway
did not last year, then the legislature shall choose from
among the top two candidates.
This can really put the legislators on the spot, as it did
last year, when a candidate of the minority party in the
legislature gets the most votes in the election.
Legislators last year chose party loyalty over the
people’s expressed will, but many determined that they
would change the system before another election.
They have been seeking to come up with a satisfactory
plan, and now apparently have arrived at one.
It is expected that the legislators will propose a constitu
tional amendment to provide that if no candidate gets a
majority in the General Election that a run-off election be
held.
In this run-off write-in votes would not be counted, and
the people’s choice would be determined.
Some feared at first that denying write-ins would be
illegal, but the attorney general has ruled that it would not
since the run-off would be considered part of the election.
Some have proposed that the governors be elected by
plurality, but most apparently favor the run-off with write
ins barred.
We think this is a good solution and urge that it be
approved first by the legislators and then by the people
next fall.
Action is necessary next year so that the plan will be
effect before the next governor’s election.
AUGUSTA HERALD
The time to stop Daylight Saving Time was before the
entire South switched to that time-scheme, not now.
Yet some Georgia legislators are threatening again to
make the state a “time island," an hour behind her neigh
bors during the months of DST.
No matter how much one might dislike Daylight Saving
Time, the current movement to throw the state out of joint
with her neighbors goes beyond being a foolish quest. The
confusion in scheduling that it would surely cause would
seem certain to cost the state money, through lost profits
NEWS
Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
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BEfiRfS WORLD
“Tell me something, Light
foot — why in the world
would the North Koreans
WANT a PUEBLO?”
“Quote” |
WASHINGTON — Pollster‘
Louis Harris, predicting that
President Johnson will lose
votes among Negro and labor
groups if he runs for re-election
this year:
“Johnson will try to hold
together the old Roosevelt
coalition but it is 30 years out of
date.”
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Herman Talmadge
THE PRESIDENT, in his wide-ranging State of the Union
address, naturally placed a great deal of emphasis on the two
top problems facing America today—Viet Nam and crime.
The desire ha expressed to pursue every possible avenue for
peace in Viet Nam is the hope and prayer of all Americans. The
people want peace and would welcome any meaningful oppor
tunity that would result in an honorable settlement and an end
to Communist aggression in Southeast Asia.
But at the same time, as the President pointed out, the
United States should be wary of being duped into taking any
action that would jeopardize the security of our fighting men in
Viet Nam. So long as these Americans are committed to the
battlefield, our first concern should be their lives and safety.
And in view of the unwillingness of Hanoi to talk peace, we
ought to step up prosecution of the war and meet force with
more force in order to show the Communists that we do not
Intend to tuck tail, and that continued aggression is futile. a
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THE LOUDEST APPLAUSE came during the Presidents
attack on crime. As Congress knows, the people are indeed fed
up with Increasing lawlessness and mob violence.
I support very strongly efforts to improve law enforcement
and to provide more financial aid and additional laws where they
are needed. But at the same time, there are abundant laws al
ready on the books to deal with much of the lawlessness we have
been witnessing in the past two or three years.
If we are going to restore respect for law and order, these
laws must be enforced whenever and wherever they are violated.
People who break the law and people who preach against the law
urging others to take the law into their own hands must be dealt
with according to the law.
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DOMESTIC SPENDING and the proposed tax increase are
two other top priority complaints of the American people. AH of
us are concerned about the domestic welfare of our citizens, and
we want to alleviate the social and economic problems that hold
back some of the people.
But I find it difficult to accept new and increased spending
at a time when the war in Viet Nam has driven the defense
budget close to SBO billion. The time is long overdue to estab
lish priorities, to put first things first, and to cut back all noo
essential spending for the duration of the war.
I am not willing to impose more taxes on the people until
this determination is demonstrated. ■ emtn
in a disjointed business traffic....
It would be difficult to think of another move the legis
lature could make this year which would be quite so self
defeating as for Georgia to oppose Daylight Saving Time,
with all our neighbors on it.
From state capitol reports, it would seem that there are
enough sane voters in the Georgia General Assembly to
overcome the threat of disrupting Georgia’s commerce and
communications in this way. We can only say of the situa
tion, we hope so.
If there is any inclination to alter the situation, we sug
gest that instead of eliminating Daylight Saving Time, we
switch to it on May 15 — rather than the latter part of
April — and return to Standard Time Sept. 15, instead
of Oct. And let’s petition Congress to do likewise for the
nation as a whole.
MOULTRIE OBSERVER
Among the measures which Governor Lester Maddox
briefly outlined in his State of the State message to the
Georgia legislature was one proposing a hike in the home
stead exemption from $2,000 to $4,000. t
The plan is worthy of study, but final judgment of the
legislature must be governed not by the popularity of the
idea but by the effect it will have on Georgia’s revenue
and what might have to be done to offset the loss of the
additional $2,000 per homestead. . . .
The persons most affected by changes in tax laws and
home ownership exemptions, however, are the elderly. If
any laws are considered by the Georgia legislature which
would change the status of the homestead exemption, the
first to be protected should be the elderly. If extra exemp
tions are allowed, the maximum benefits of such exemp
tions should go first to those who have reached the age
of retirement and are hoping to live as comfortably as
possible in their declining years. They have limitations as
to their earning capacity after 65, as a rule, but in this day
of inflation and increasing taxation their financial troubles
are multiplying.
When the homestead exemption proposal is given to a
committee for detailed study, we would beg that the com
mittee and the legislature as a whole will give utmost
thought to the welfare of those who are trying to live out
their time in the home they have struggled so desperately
to acquire.
Bat. and Sun., Feb. 3-4, 1968
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Religion Today
Social Action
Waxes Hotter
Griffin Daily News
By LOUIS CASSELS
United Press International
The controversy over social
action by churches is waxing
hotter.
Not since “fundamentalists”
and “modernists” battled in the
1920’s over infallibility of the
Bible has there been such a
deep, emotional division in
American church life.
Cutting across denominational
lines, it affects virtually every
major religious body.
As often happens in a highly
charged dispute, each side tends
to caricature the position of the
other. A rabid activist may
imply that people on the other
side are indifferent to human
suffering. An agitated conserva
tive may suggest that the social
action movement is so preoccu
pied with man’s problems that
it ignores God.
Actually, neither side is as
single-minded as the opposition
paints it.
Too Involved
Dr. Billy Graham is one of
the most articulate exponents of
the view that the church is “in
danger of moving off the main
track and getting lost on a
siding" if it becomes too deeply
involved in “trying to solve
every ill of society.”
But even as he insists that
"the changing of men’s hearts
is the primary mission of the
church,” Dr. Graham adds that
there also is “a sense in which
the church is to advise, warn
and challenge society” by
proclaiming God’s judgments on
its evils and “by preaching the
whole counsel of God, which
involves man’s environment and
physical being as well as his
soul.”
No one has better credentials
as a social action advocate than
the Rt. Rev. Paul Moore Jr.,
suffragan bishop of the Episco
pal Diocese of Washington, D.C.
Addressing a diocesan conven
tion last Sunday, Bishop Moore
said:
“I resist with p.ll my being
the church becoming just a
social action or service institu
tion, as much as I resist the
church withdrawing from the
struggles and issues which
surround us."
False Spirituality
“Without the life of worship
at Its heart, social work and
action can soon lose vitality, or
become bitter and violent. On
the other hand, the church
without social involvement soon
becomes a place of false
spirituality divorced from the
flesh which God put on in Jesus
Christ."
That Paul Moore and Billy
Graham are equally dedicated
Christians, this writer can
testify from long personal
acquaintance with both men.
Each of them is trying his level
best to lead the church in the
direction he believes Jesus
Christ would have it move.
They differ, passionately about
what that direction is.
Dr. Graham is convinced that
the only way to change human
society is to change individual
men by converting them to
Jesus Christ.
Bishop Moore is convinced
that human needs, for which
Christ showed unfailing compas
sion, can be effectively relieved
in the modern world only by
men of good will working
together in social and political
action.
It would be a great tragedy if
this honest difference of opinion
should degenerate into a highly
polarized squabble which
creates the impression that the
church faces an "either-or"
choice between evangelism and
social action. The disputants
seem to agree, in their calmer
moments that Jesus was
concerned with both the spiri
tual and the material welfare of
human beings.
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