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By Quimby Melton
Croa s covenant and Law” is
the title of this week’s Interna
tional Sunday School lesson.
Background Scripture is Exodus
19 through 34.
The ’Memory Selection is, Mos
es said unto the people, Fear not
for God is come to prove you,
and that his fear may be before
your faces, that ye sin not, (Exo
dus 20:20.)
This lesson tells the story of
the Ten Commandments.
Moses was summoned by God
and went up into the mountain
where He told Moses to remind
the people how He had deli
vered them from bondage in Eg
ypt ; if they obeyed Him they
would become a “peculiar” (spe
cial) treasure unto Him, but
that they must be an obedient
people.
Meanwhile after three days
there was thunder and lightning
and a thick cloud that covered
the mountain. The people who
had gathered became frighten
ed and asked Moses to act as
ambassador between them and
God. Moses gave them the Ten
Commandments direct from God
and the people pledged themsel
ves to obey.
Those Commandments are the
basis and foundation of all fun
damental law. But how man has
tried to amend them, to change
them, to overlook and disregard
them.
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The word Freedom is one that
is frequently used in telling
what man wants most. The Ten
Commandments tells how one
may attain the greatest Freedom
of all — Freedom from sin.
But man has always seemed
to want more than this. Espec
ially today do we hear the word
Freedom used time and time
again. Boiled down the Freedom
some want seems to be “Free
dom to do as I please, regard
less of whether it Is right or wr
ong, regardless of whom it may
hurt.” And those who have this
attitude seem to have as t h e 1 r
“theme song”, "Don’t fence me
in.”
There are even some who
would adopt a new code of ethics
which, holds fixed standards of
conduct (such as given in the
Commandments) should give
way to "certain situations.”
They say that to obey the laws of
decency and humanity is “old
fogie”. They maintain that "cir
cumstances alter cases.”
We join lustily In singing of
America as “the land of the free
and the home of the brave.”
Would that this country of ours
would be brave enough and earn
the right to be truly free by ob
eying the laws of God Almighty,
the Maker and the Ruler of the
Universe.
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It is doubtful if many of us if
asked to repeat the Ten Com
mandments Word for word could
do so. We know whart, thej
are, but unless we have memor
ized them we could not repeat
them word by word or even in
the order they were given. The
real Importance is to have them
engraved on Out hearts.
Jesus Himself in explaining
how to understand the Ten
Commandments "boiled them
down” into two. Remember Je
sus was talking with people
who did not have the education
you and J have and could not
be expected to remember the
Commandments word for word.
Patiently He told them:
"Love the Lord thy God with
all thy being; and thy neighbor
as thyself.” The people knew
who God was but they wanted to
know more about whom their
neighbors might be. And we have
the story of the Good Samaritan.
Last Sunday when teaching a
Men’s Bible Class suggested that
if they would appreciate the Co
venant God made with Father
Abraham that they read three
chapters of the Bible. We pass
this suggestion to our readers.
They are:
Psalms 136 — The Mercy Ps
alm by David;
John 14 — The precious words
of Jesus Christ as reported by
the Beloved disciple.
Romans 8 — A summation of
the blessings to those who accept
Jesus Christ as their personal
Savior, written by Paul, a con
vert to "The New Way.”
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TRANQUILLITY BASE, THE MOON — Edwin Aldrin's faceplate reflects
portion of Lunar Module, solar wind experiment, U. S. Flag and Astronaut Neil
Armstrong who.made photo. This photo was among the first to be developed and
released by NASA from film brought back to earth by the astronauts.
President Meets
Pakistan’s Khan
By MERRIMAN SMITH
UPI White House Reporter
LAHORE, Pakistan (UPI)—
President Nixon , and Gen. Agha
Mohammad Yahya Khan
agreed today that relations
between the United States and
Pakistan had worsened since
the days of the Eisenhower
administration. They sat down
together to try to do something
about it.
Even before he began five
hours of talks with Pakistan s
new military president Nixon
said in an arrival speech he
was not so optimistic as to
believe that "on one visit all of
our problems can be solved.”
But Nixon said he hoped
during his 22-hour stay he could
lay the basis for eliminating
any differences of opinion
between the two countries.
Yahya said the visit would at
least permit the two leaders to
get to know each other.
Still outstanding and unlikely
to be solved at this meeting
was Pakistan’s request for the
United States to lift its arms
embargo. Pakistan said it
needed 100 Patton tanks among
Two Murder Suspects
Returned To Atlanta
By DON PHILLIPS
ATLANTA (UPD—Atlanta de
tectives left Tallulah, La. today
with two prime suspects in the
murder of Atlanta insurance ex
ecutive Mark George Gummer
sail, found strangled to death In
his plush suburban home.
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"A fellow with good morals
doesn’t need much
else—without them, every
th 1n g else is useless to
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other things to bring its
military strength back to
normal.
Yahya reminded Nixon on his
arrival that the relationship
between the two countries was
no longer as close as it was 16
years ago under President
Dwight D. Eisenhower, a
Republican.
In a White House statement
issued after his arrival Nixon
called for a broad program of
regional and bilateral projects
in Asia as the best way of
bringing peace and progress to
the area. Observers said the
statement appeared to be an
indirect appeal to India and
Pakistan to patch up their
quarrel through economic coo
peration.
Nixon, who flew to Lahore
from talks in New Delhi with
Indian Prime Minister Indura
Gandhi, stated once again the
policy he had stated in the
other Asian nations he has
visited: "Asian hands must
shape Asia’s future.”
Nixon, in one of several
speeches during the day, listed
six major reasons for his visit
The detectives were dri
ving Gummersall’s car, alleged
ly stolen by the two suspects.
The two, identified by Lt. W.E.
Harrell as Albert Sonbermeyer,
31, of Hawthorne, N.J. and John
T. House, 26, of Buford, Ga.,
waived extradition Thursday,
clearing the way for their re
turn to Atlanta.
They were arrested Sunday
driving a car belonging to Gum
mersall, 47, whose body was
found Wednesday as it lay face
down in the stylish home, his
hands and feet bound behind
the back. An autopsy indicated
he had been strangled to death.
Gummersall, vice president in
charge of group operations for
Kennesaw Life and Accident In
surance Co., was last seen alive
about 7 a.m. Saturday. The
body was discovered by busi
ness associates who became,
worried when he failed to show
up for work.
Gummersall’s wife was out of
town visiting relatives in Ohio.
His two sons are in the service.
Madison Parish (county), La.
Sheriff’s Deputy C. R. Harmaon
said a Tallulah resident report-
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, August 1, 1969
to Pakistan:
Reafirms Relationship
—During the sometimes diffi
cult times with Pakistan “the
basic feeling of friendship and
respect has not been lost. I
come here today to re-express
that feeling—and to reaffirm
the stable and cordial relation
ship between our nations which
that feeling makes possible.”
—“Second, a stable and
cordial relationship must be
built on a clear understanding
by each of our governments of
the interests and viewpoints of
the other.”
—“Third, I want to stress the
continuing interest of the
United States in the progress of
Pakistan and all of Asea . . .
the United States will continue
to give strong encouragement
to Asian development.”
—“Fourth, I wish to commu
nicate my government’s convic
tion that Asian hands must
shape the Asian future. This is
true, for example, with respect
to economic aid ... its purpose
is to encourage self-reliance,
not dependence.”
ed a hit-run incident late Sun
day and police at nearby Delhi,
La. stopped the car driven by
Sonbermeyer and House.
"When we got over there,"
Harmon said, "they (the sus
pects) couldn’t come up with
papers on the car and we dis
covered that there were just
too many names involved. Son
bermeyer had two sets of iden
tifications on him and he had
his names all mixed up.”
Harmon said Georgia author
ities began investigating after
his office teletyped a report to
Atlanta involving the suspect’s
car.
The deputy also said when
Sonbermeyer was handcuffed at
the arrest scene he broke and
ran and was fired on twice by
highway patrolmen before stop
ping.
Sonbermeyer was charged in
Louisiana with escape, hit - run
driving, no driver’s license and
auto theft. House was charged
with being a parole violator
from Florida and with automo
bile theft.
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Man On The Moon
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Americans Battle
Reds Along DMZ
Pictures Show
Flat, Grey Mars
PASADENA, Calif. (UPI)—
The first of a series of “near
encounter” pictures of Mars
sent back by Mariner 6 shows a
relatively flat, grey surface
scientists say is splattered with
craters “much like the mare
(seas) of the moon.”
The tiny, windmill-shaped
spacecraft Thursday night re
layed the first pictures made
during its closest approach to
the Red Planets—to within 2,100
miles of the surface.
Some photographs showed
large areas covered with what
appeared to be very old
craters, their edges eroded
away; some showed smaller,
newer craters with sharp edges
and deeper, rounded bowls.
Again and again the scientists
resorted to comparisons with
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the lunar surface to describe
what they saw on the pocked
face of Mars.
Examines Photograph
"There must be a hundred
craters in that picture,” said
Dr. Robert B. Leighton of
California Institute of Technolo
gy, the principal investigator of
the pictures, as he examined a
photograph of a 500-mile-wlde
area near the Martian eouator.
Although one picture showed
what could hage been a valley
or a ditch of some sort,
scientists in mariner control
carefully avoided calling it a
canal.
In fact, features which have
been seen and photographed
from earth as canals were
notably absent in the pictures.
Try To Rescue
Helicopter Crew
By WALTER WHITEHEAD
SAIGON (UPl)—American in
fantrymen battled North Viet
namese troops in two clashes
along the Demilitarized Zone
(DMZ) while trying to rescue
crewmen of a U.S. hospital
helicopter the Communists shot
down, military spokesmen said
today.
American fighter - bombers
and artillery smashed four
Communist bunkers and a
mortar site in the DMZ, which
separates the two Vietnams and
U.S. 852 bombers dropped 270
tons of explosives in three raids
on Communist camps and
bunkers 20 miles west of the
place where the Americans
fought the North Vietnamese
Thursday.
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Despite the fighting around
the DMZ military spokesmen
said there was relatively
“sparse fighting” throughout
South Vietnam in the sixth
week of the lull in ground
action.
“They seem to be avoiding
one source said.
“That’s the best way to
describe what he’s doing.” The
sources said there had been no
change in “use of the lull by
the enemy” and there were no
'indications the Communists
were planning a new offensive
this month.
U.S. planes and artillery fired
into the six-mile-wide DMZ
after Communist troops 700
yards inside the strip blasted a
U.S. position four miles west of
Con Thien and south of the
DMZ with mortar fire, a
military spokesman sad.
The fighting at the DMZ
which separates the two
Vietnams broke out Thursday
after a big Marine CH46 Sea
Knight helicopter on its way to
pick up wounded was shot down
by Communist groundfire.
Troops of the U.S. sth
Mechanized Infantry Division
sp»d to the crash site three
miles southwest of Con Thi“n
killed seven North Vietnamese
Open Fire
An estimated 150 North
Vietnamese opened fire with
machine guns.
Four Americans and seven
North Vietnamese were killed
in the fighting and in another
clash after the U.S. troops
reached the downed helicopter.
One of the helicopter crew
men was killed.
The Marine helicopter was
one of three helicopters lost in
the past two days’ fighting.
Military communiques said
fighting was light and scattered
throughout South Vietnam
Thursday in the beginning of a
seventh week of relative lull in
ground action. , '. •
U.S. 9th Infantry Division
troops conducting a search and
destroy operation 30 miles west
of Saigon killed five Communist
soldiers without suffering any
casualties.
Near Trang Bang, 25 miles
northwest of Saigon, U.S.
helicopter gunships responding
to machine gun and rocket fire
killed seven North Vietnamese
soldiers.
Girl, 10, Has
Normal Baby
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (UPI)—A
10-year-old girl gave birth to a
normal 5 pound, 10 ounce baby
boy in a suburban Washington
hospital Tuesday, Alexandria
Hospital administrator Charles
M. Goff said today.
“It was a normal delivery.
The baby’s condition is good,”
said Goff who declined to
comment beyond basic statis
tics because of the mother’s
age.
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