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By Quimby Melton
(This is the third installment
of an Easter Sermon preached
more than 70 years ago)
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Let us examine some of the
direct evidences of the resur
rection of Christ.
(1) We have the writings of
the evangelists and the apostles
who testify that Christ is risen
Indeed. Luke speaking of our
Lord’s appearing after his re
surrection, says, "Unto the ap
ostles whom he had chosen: To
whom also he showed himself
alive after his passion, by many
Infallible proofs being seen of
them forty days, and speaking
of the things pertaining to the
kingdom of God.” We have an
account of at least eleven tim
es in which he appeared to his
disciples after his resurrection
and before his ascension to his
Father and our Father, to his
God, and our God. Let us enu
merate them: On the very day
he arose he appeared to Mary
Magdalene.
Then he appeared to her in
company with the other Mary.
Afterward he showed himself
to the two disciples on their way
to Emmaus.
Then the same day at evening,
being the first day of the week,
he appeared to all the disciples
except Thomas who was ab
sent from the prayer meeting.
After eight days he appeared
to all the apostles, Thomas then
being present with them. Then
our Lord gave Thomas all the
evidence he could ask. "Then
saith he to Thomas, Reach hit
her thy finger, and behold my
hands, and reach hither thy
hand and thrust it into my side
and be not faithless but believ
ing. And Thomas answered and
said unto him, "My Lord and my
God.”
"After these things Jesus
showed himself again to the dis
ciples at the sea of Teberias.”
Then we read of his appear
ing to the eleven disciples on a
mountain in Galilee.
Then Paul tells us that he ap
peared In Galilee to about five
hundred brethren at once. In Ga
hilee he had spent most of his
life; his person was well known
there. These five hundred wit
nesses would soon spread the
news aboroad.
After that he was seen of Ja
mes.
And then on the day of his as
cension he appeared to all his
disciples, on the Mount of Oli
ves.
The great mission of the dis
ciples was to bear witness of the
resurrection.
Let us hear Peter’s testimony
of the resurrection of Christ. He
said: "Him God raised up the
third day and showed him open
ly: not to all the people, but un
to witnesses chosen before of
God, even to us, who did eat
and drink with him after he rose
from the dead. And he comman
ded us to preach unto the peo
ple, and to testify that it is he
which was ordained of God to
be the Judge of the quick and
dead.” And it is said of all the
apostles, that with great power
they gave witness of the resur
rection of the Lord Jesus.
We may notice under this head
the place where they began to
bear witness of the resurrec
tion. It was Jerusalem where
Christ had lived and suffered
and died. These things were not
testified of in some obscure cor
ne of the earth.
We may notice also the time
where they began to bear wit
nesses of the resurrection of
Christ. It was 50 days after his
resurrection on the feast of Pen
tecost, When the Jews were ga
thered in Jerusalem from all
ner of the earth.
Nevertheless, they persisted in
their testimony of the resurrec
tion of Christ in the face of ev
ery opposition, even in the face
of death itself for it is believed
that all the apostles except John,
suffered a violent death at the
hands of the enemies of Christ
and that John alone died a na
tural death.
We also notice that there was
no ground or reason why the
apostles should try to decieve
the people concerning the resur
rection. If the resurrection was
a falsehood, then the apostles
had every thing to loose, and
nothing to gain. On this supposi
tion, the apostle Paul exclaims,
"If in this life only we have
hope in Christ, we are of all
men most miserable.” But he
adds, "But now is Christ ris
en from the dead, and become
the first-fruits of them that sl
ept.”
(To be continued)
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(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Flames shoot skyward at building supply firm.
Fire Levels Building
At Griffin Supply Firm
A building at Concrete and
Building Supply Company was
destroyed Monday night in a
blaze that broke out about 9
o’clock.
The concern is on West Col
lege street behind Haisten Fu
neral Home.
Destroyed in the blaze was
the building, about a half
freight car load of lumber, a
truck, some tires and other
building materials.
Arthur Fluornoy, owner of
the business, said he had
checked the building some 15 or
20 minutes before the fire start
ed.
He was at work in the office
of the business when he notic
ed the flames shoot skyward.
Griffin firemen had the blaze
under control soon and kept it
from spreading to other build
ings nearby.
The business is the old
Jones Construction Company
which Mr. Fluornoy purchased
in December of 1966.
An old horse drawn wagon
belonging to the original found
er of the firm was in the build
ing that burned. The wagon
was used by the late Mr.
Charles E. Jones, Sr. when he
first organized the firm.
Three More
Charged
With Arson
Three more Griffinites were
arrested Monday and charged
with arson in connection with
several fires in the city.
Those arrested Monday were
Riley Henley, 17, of 831 North
Hill street; Larry McDowell,
829 North Hill street; and a 14-
year-old Juvenile, whose name
cannot be published under
Georgia law.
Fourteen persons were ar
rested Sunday and charged
with arson in fires Thursday
and Friday.
Chief Leo Blackwell said the
14 arrested Sunday were
charged with arson at Stan
field’s Grocery on North Second
street, Newton Building Supply
Co. on East Solomon street and
Hutson Grocery and Slaton
Stanley’s Grocery, both of East
Chappell street.
All of those arrested are
scheduled to face the charges
at the June term of Spalding
County Superior Court.
Country Parson
...
“The church will find itself
ministering to no one unless
it ministers to victims of our
social problems/'
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
Hanoi, Peking,
Moscow Split
Over Peace Bid
By K. C. THALER
LONDON (UPl)—The Com
munist alignment of Hanoi,
Peking and Moscow has suf
fered a major split over
Vietnam peace moves, diploma
tic sources said today.
Hanoi’s peace feelers have
been made without prior
consultation of Communist Chi
na and the Soviet Union. The
regime of President Ho Chi
Minh did not seek prior formal
approval for his sudden willing
ness to meet American repre
sentatives for a Vietnam peace
probe.
Both of North Vietnam’s key
allies have been taken by
surprise by Hanoi’s decision,
the sources said.
This explains the prolonged
silence which followed Hanoi’s
decision.
Withholds Comment
The Kremlin took five days of
consultation before it decided to
back Hanoi.
Peking took longer and, unlike
Moscow, withheld support while
denouncing the American peace
offer as a fraud. The regime of
Mao Tse-tung was reported to
have, in effect, warned Hanoi it
would withdraw its support in
the event of any compromise
peace arrangements.
The sources said a major split
has occurred which Moscow is
trying to cover up as best it
can.
Hanoi surprisingly has not
made any formal effort to hide
the split. It has not once
referred to Communist solidari
ty and has almost gone out of
School Board Meeting
Building Contract For
Additions Gets Okay
The contract for additional
classrooms at three elementary
schools was awarded to Jones
Construction Company of Grif
fin Monday night.
The Griffin-Spalding Board of
Education announced the Grif
fin concern was the low bidder
with a quotation of $118,642.
The three buildings are to be
completed in 180 days.
The contract calls for the
construction of a circular build
ing addition on the Crescent
elementary campus. The circu
lar structure will be adaptable
to team teaching. Movable
walls can convert the building
into one, two, three or four
classrooms, depending on the
needs.
Two conventional classrooms
will be added to Fourth Ward
and two to Beaverbrook.
In other board action, Supt.
D. B. Christie announced that
$64,632 would be available for
tha system to provlda a six
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, April 9, 1968
its way to demonstrate its
independent strategy.
Diplomats said considerable
“soul searching” preceded Han
oi’s positive response to Pres
ident Johnson’s peace offer.
The “doves” were understood
to have prevailed largely on
strategic grounds, because war
losses were understood to have
become intolerably large and
prospects of victory over the
Americans to be receding.
Hanoi, according to the
informants, then apparently
decided to go ahead on its own
accord to avoid being swayed or
impeded in its decision by
anticipated conflicting reaction
from Peking and Moscow.
Could Chanye Position
The sources warned, however,
that the danger of a reversal
has by no means been removed.
Much will depend on the
outcome of the first peace talks
at the conference table.
Both Peking and Moscow, the
sources indicated, have differ
ing motives in the Vietnam war
and in any peace moves.
Peking, starting from the
premise that liberation wars
pay, sees its entire policy
endangered by a peace settle
ment. It also wants the
Americans Indefinitely pinned
down in a costly war while
Peking develops its own nuclear
potential.
Moscow wants the war scaled
down, because it is very costly
to the Russians and because It
fears possible confrontation
with the United States in the
event of further escalation.
week summer program for pre
school children. It will be de
signed for students who have
had no kindergarten or other
School
Report
organized pre-school training.
The program will be set up
at Fourth Ward, Mr. Christie
said.
Funds for the program will
be available under Title One.
This is a federal program. The
$64,632 was considerably more
than the system here had ex
pected to receive.
United States
Contacts Hanoi
Dr. Altizer
Resigns Emory
Position
ATLANTA (UPI)—Dr. Thom
as J. J. Altizer, the Emory
University religion professor
who announced in 1965 that
"God is dead” will leave the
church-related school for State
University of New York at Sto
neybrook.
Altizer, whose tneory that “to
say God is dead is to say
Christ is totally alive” rocked
orthodox believers, said Mon
day he has taken a fall teach
ing position at the school. He
will go from being associate
professor of religion at Emory
to teaching English.
"I have sort of completed a
cycle of life and at this stage
in my career it is important
for me to enter a new kind of
work and vocation,” Altizer
said of his move to the secular
campus.
"There is no theology school
or chaplains or chapels there.
My philosophy will probably be
pretty much ignored,” Altizer,
who has been at Emory 12
years, said.
The theologian who started
the “death of God” theology
has, by his own admission, be
come comparably less radical
in the two years since his philo
sophy was first expounded.
University off icl al s chose
rather to let the controversy
run its own course when Alti
zex’s ideas were causing fury in
the religious world. Hie profes
sor denied that any pressure
from them was causing his de
parture.
"People are interested (in the
theory) because it is real, and
not a fantasy like orthodox
leaders are living in,” Altizer
said in a 1966 speech, one of
many across the nation he
made in the wake of the con
troversy.
NAACP
Appeals
For Calm
NEW YORK (UPl)—The Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
appealed to Negroes throughout
the nation today to reject vio
lence and “the shrill contention
of the militants that they are
taking over the Negro com
munity.”
The NAACP drive also includ
ed a program to get Jobs for
the unemployed by improving
community relations.
Mr. Christie told the board
that the system here would
show a net gain of $56,613.42
from the state over last year.
This was pointed out during fi
nancial discussions. Mr. Chris
tie said the board would re
ceive the budget for 1968-69 at
the May meeting.
Tommy Jones, principal of
Beaverbrook school, wa>s
named to the new post of di
rector of Instruction beginning
in the 1968-69 term, provided
the system can finance the pro
posal.
He will coordinate the curri
culum on elementary, junior
high and senior high levels.
Creation of the post was rec
ommended by the instructions
Committee, under chairman
Miss Anne Hill Drewry.
The board also approved
these recommendations made
from the committee:
—That sustitute teacher pay
Continued on page five
Vol. 96 No. 85
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Some drivers ignore these signs.
Drivers Told
To Stop For
School Buses
Some drivers are ignoring
stop signals on school buses,
the Griffin-Spalding Board of
Education was told Monday
night.
Herman Nelson, administra
tor who handles the system’s
transportation, said complaints
from school bus drivers about
such violations had increased.
Apparently some drivers do
not know that they are sup
posed to stop for school buses,
regardless of whether they are
approaching the bus from the
front or rear, the school board
was told.
One school board member ob
served that city and county
traffic officers always had co
Last Rites
Held For
Dr. King
By H.D. QUIGG
UPI Senior Editor
ATLANTA (UPl)—The last
rites were held today for Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., the
“drum major for Justice,”
before his family, his friends
and the nation’s leaders while
50,000 persons jammed the
streets outside his church.
After the funeral the vast
thong was to march behind
King’s casket, on a mule-drawn
wagon, four miles to Morehouse
College for public services. But
the march started before the
funeral.
An official of King’s Southern
Christian Leadership Confer
ence (SCLC) said "things got
too tense’ in the massive crowd
awaiting the funeral, and
ordered the funeral march
begun.
Vice President Hubert H.
Humphrey and ail the presiden
tial candidates crowded into the
red brick Ebenezer Baptist
Church while the bells tolled
mournfully the anthem of the
slain leader’s civil rights
movement —“We Shall Over
come.”
King’s successor, the Rev.
Ralph Abernathy, began the
service with scripture "Men die
yet he shall live,” Abernathy
intoned.
operated with school bus driv
ers in inforcing traffic laws.
He said apparently many of
the violations are occuring in
the county.
The board was told that the
sheriff’s office would station
deputies on buses in areas
where violations occur fre
quently and make cases in an ef
fort to curb safety abuses.
The school board emphasized
the importance of all traffic’s
stopping when a school bus
stops to load or unload stu
dents.
Not doing so can result in
serious accidents and injury to
innocent children, the board
said.
The family —King’s black
veiled widow, his four children,
his mother and his father —
entered the church as the organ
played the anthem.
Five-year-old Albertine King
bit her fingernails but she
stopped when her mother spoke
to her.
Through the medium of tape
recording. King spoke his own
eulogy. He said he wanted to be
remembered as a “drum major
for justice’ —not as the man
who won a Nobel Peace Prize
marching on the dusty roads of
the South.
Police estimated 50,000 per
sons were crowding around the
church 45 minutes before the
servi c e began and said,
“There’ll be more.
An estimated 60,000 persons
had viewed the body as It lay in
state, first at Spelman College
since Saturday, then through
the night and into today at the
church.
The services inside the church
were televised to the nation.
After the memorial service at
the college quadrangle, the body
was to be taken to be entombed
in a mausoleum bearing the
legend:
"Free at last, Free at last,
thank God Almighty, free at
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Peace Talk
Sites Believed
In Message
By MERRIMAN SMITH
UPI White House Reporter
THURMONT, Md. (UP) —
President Johnson announced
today that the United States
contacted Hanoi early today —
presumably suggesting possible
alternate sites for American-
North Vietnamese talks.
Johnson made the announce
ment during a brief break in
high-level talks on Vietnam at
the presidential retreat at
nearby Camp David, Md. He
said the United States had been
in contact with its allies since
receiving a direct message
from Hanoi Monday and had
replied today looking toward
arrangements for an ambassa
dorial-level meeting with Hanoi
representatives.
No time or place has yet been
announced for the meeting.
There was no official word on
the language or content of the
U.S. message but it was
presumed to contain suggestions
for alternative sites for the
meeting.
The Untied States originally
suggested Geneva as the best
place. North Vietnam has
suggested Phnom Penh, the
capital of Cambodia.
U.S. officials said in response
to private reports of North
Vietnam’s desire for a Cambo
dia meeting that this govern
ment was not anxious to send
Ambassador Averell Harriman
and the rest of the U.S.
delegation to any area where
this country did not have
secured communications back
to Washington.
However, Washington was not
likely to quibble over Phnom
Penh as the meeting place if
Hanoi insisted.
Snipers Fire
At Guardsmen,
Federal Troops
Ify United Press International
Sniper fire at federal troops
and National Guardsmen wor
sened Baltimore’s three-day riot
emergency early today. Wil
mington, Del.; Buffalo, N.Y.;
and Youngstown, Ohio, Joined
the lengthening list of communi
ties struck by violence since Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., was
assassinated.
On the day of King’s funeral,
at least 110 communities from
coast to coast had been hit by
the Negro disorders.
In addition to the first
outbreaks in Wilmington, Buffa
lo, and Youngstown, burning
and looting rekindled Monday
night in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh
and Columbia, S.C.
Thousands of police, National
Guardsmen and regular Army
troops kept a fragile peace in
Washington and Chicago, where
major violence erupted during
the weekend.
Patrol In Helicopters
In Pittsburgh, disorder mush
roomed from the embattled Hill
District to other sections of the
city. National Guardsmen whirl
ing in helicopters at rooftop
levels maintained a shaky peace
after four days of racial
violence, first in Pittsburgh’s
history.
Minor Negro disorder also
broke out Monday night in
Wheeling, W.Va., for the first
time.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Mostly cloudy and
mild Wednesday. Chance of
showers ending Wednesday.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 82, low today 59, high
Monday 77, low Monday 55,
sunrise Wednesday 6:17, sunset
Wedaasdjur 7:os,