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By Quimby Melton
The International Sunday
School lesson this week is
‘Jesus Intreprets the Law”, the
second lesson in the series “God
Working Through Jesus.”
, Background Scripture is
Matthew 5 through 7; Deuter
onomy 5: 1-21; 6:1-9; Romans 12
and 13.
. The Memory Selection is
“Owe no man anything, but to
love one another; for he that
loveth another hath fulfilled the
'• law.” (Romans 13:8)
The title gives us the sub
stance of this week’s lesson.
Jesus intrepreted, explained,
* clarified the law so that all
could understand. The very first
verse in our lesson (Matthew
5:17-20) tells how Jesus said,
* “Think not that I have come to
destroy the law, or the
prophets...l am come not to des
, troy, but to fulfill.”
This statement as well as
similar ones made by Jesus
concerning his attitude towards
* “the law” should be sufficient to
put at rest the fears of those who
have been disturbed by the
suggestion made in recent
* years that there is such a thing
as “situation ethics.” Those
who advance this theory hold
that the rightness or the wrong
* ness of some thought or some
deed depneds on the situation at
hand. Something that is wrong
today may be right tomorrow. It
all depends on the situation, is
the way they look on life.
All of which reminds this lay
t man of a talk he heard the late
Bishop Warren A. Candler
make one night at a meeting of
'.he Atlanta Emory Alumni
v Society. He told how some
people criticised him for
“having a cTosed mind”
refusing to discuss certain
* matters.
“If having firm convictions on
certain things and refusing to
argue with anyone as to
* whether these convictions are
right or wrong, is having a
‘closed mind’ then I am guilty,”
he said.
Then he said “I don’t believe,
I know, that Jesus Christ is my
personal Savior; that my father
, was an honorable man and my
mother a virtuous owman.”
Right is right, and wrong is
wrong, there is no room for any
. “situation ethics” in con
nection with what is true and
what is false.
* Just before Christmas read a
quotation in Billy Graham’s
magazine “Decision”. We
clipped it and know of no better
* time to pass it on to our readers
than in this column today.
In 1581, nearly four hundred
t years ago, James Bisse
describing the change in a man
who accepts Jesus Christ as his
personal Savior, wrote:
“We were chaff, now we are
wheat; we were dross, now we
are gold; we were ravens, now
we are doves; we were goats,
. now we are sheep; we were
thorns, now we are grapes; we
were thistles, now we are lilies;
we were strangers, now we are
* citizens; we were harlots, now
we are virgins; hell was our in
heritance, now heaven is our
possession; we were children of
* wrath, now we are sons of
mercy; we were bondslaves to
Satan, now we are heirs of God
and co-heirs with Jesus Christ.”
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WHO ASKS WHOM?
1 CHARLESTON, W.Va. (UPI)
—West Virginia’s multimillion
aire Secretary of State John D.
“Jay” Rockefeller IV became
‘ ill and could not appear at the
legislature’s Finance Commit
tee meeting to discuss his
, department’s budget.
Committee Chairman Lewis
McManus explained to the
group that Rockefeller would
appear later.
“Is he going to ask us for
money or are we going to ask
him?” quipped Delegate Albert
* Sommerville.
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OLD SALT believes in keeping up with the times, especially when it means making
his job easier. The traditional wooden lobster pots of New England may be on their
way out, replaced by a wire type which weighs only 13 pounds as compared to 50
pounds for a waterlogged wooden version. The new pots are made of rustproof Armco
aluminized wire fabric.
Rep. Murphy Calls
Treatment 'Joke 7
ATLANTA (UPI)-Rep. Tom
Murphy of Bremen branded to
day as “a joke” the state’s ef
forts in treating alcoholics.
Murphy made the charge dur
ing hearings by the House and
Senate Appropriations Commit
tees on budget requests for next
year by the State Health De
partment.
The department had asked for
an additional $57.7 million but
Gov. Lester Maddox recom
mended an increase of only
$28.9 million.
Murphy asked Health Direc
tor John Venable how much the
state is spending to try to re
habiliate alchoholics at the
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Mental Health Institute here.
Venable said the figure is
about $1 million, including $600,-
000 in state funds.
Murphy asked, “Considering
the posture of our law—that on
ly volunteers go out there and
can leave any time they want
to—don’t you think the money
we spend there is just a joke?”
Venable agreed the laws re
lating to treatment of alcoholics
need to be strengthened, but
said the clinic is doing a good
job with the money it has.
“You and I both know that
we are sending too many
drunks to Milledgeville (Central
State Hospital)” where they can
Griffin, Georgia 30223, Friday, January 23, 1970
be committed as mentally ill,
Murphy said.
The joint committee also
heard R. S. Howard, director
of the State Water Quality Con
trol Board, make a plea for 12
new employes to help fight wa
ter pollution.
The committee met despite
snow which made driving ha
zardous in the state’s capital
city.
In the Senate, which had a
resolution protesting court
ordered integration transfer
plans at the top of its calendar,
three minor bills were passed
before the senators adjourned
for the weekend.
Griffin Keeps it f s
Ice Fingers Crossed
Griffinites kept their fingers
crossed today and hoped that
they would miss a winter rerun
of icing streets and roads that
happened here a couple of
weeks ago.
Ice formed on windshields of
automobiles here this morning
as the temperature hovered at
the freezing point, freezing a
light rain as it fell.
Most streets and roads in this
area were passable today.
Sidewalks were glazed with a
thin sheet of ice this morning
and pedestrians had to walk
with caution as they'maneuver
ed slippery streets.
Many Griffinites found their
windshields freezing up with ice
as they drove to work in the
early morning hours.
The weather forecast called
for warmer temperatures this
afternoon.
However, a winter front mov
ing in from the states west of
Georgia threatened to make
driving hazardous in many sec
tions.
Schools operated on schedule
in Griffin today and officials
kept their fingers crossed hop
ing the hazardous weather
would end before Monday.
The school system here was to
have had a holiday today but
had to make up a day student
missed earlier this month when
the streets were glazed with ice.
Elsewhere:
A sudden snowfall cast a
blanket of white over northern
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Georgia early Friday, creating
hazardous driving conditions
and forcing many school sys
tems to close.
The Weather Bureau said the
snow ranged from half an inch
to three inches in the mountains
and foothills of the northern
third of the state. Snow, freez
ing rain and sleet were report
ed north of a line running from
through Columbus, Macon and
Augusta. Savannah also report
ed some freezing rain.
The roads were described as
slippery and slick and “very
hazardous” to drive on.
All schools in the five-county
Atlanta metropolitan area of
Fulton, DeKalb, Clayton, Cobb
and Gwinnett were closed while
motorists inched along the ex
pressways of the city. Many
minor accidents were reported.
Further north, Habersham,
Rabun, White and Towns coun
ty systems were closed. John
Foster of WCON radio station
at Cornelia reported three
inches of snow on the ground
with the temperature at 20 de
grees.
Other counties which gave
their pupils an unexpected holi
day included Floyd and Rome
city schools, Pickens, Carroll,
Cherokee, Bartow, Douglas,
Gordon, Paulding, Forsyth, Fa
yette, Newton, Heard and Gil
mer.
Rising temperatures were ex
pected to turn much of the
snow into slush and water be
fore the day was out.
Beverly Phillips
Is Proud Os Griffin
Because - -
I’m proud of Griffin because it has places for
the young people to go. It is working its way to
become a big city. The people are friendly. It has
nice schools. The teachers help the young people
to learn about the world. It has nice churches. It
has nice homes. At the stores you can expect to
find what you want and more. It has a good medi
cal staff. We can know that the officers will see
that we are protected.
All that is why I am proud of Griffin.
Beverly Phillips,
Orrs School.
Clayton
Ordinary
Indicted
JONESBORO, Ga. (UPI)-A
special Clayton County grand
jury Thursday indicted County
Ordinary Horace W. Roberts on
charges of soliciting a SIO,OOO
bribe.
The presentments said Rob
erts allegedly offered his influ
ence with the county commis
sion to have 23 acres of land
rezoned for an apartment devel
opment.
Roberts, it was charged, ask
ed for the money “in return for
an agreement to attempt to in
fluence the official action of the
Commission of Roads and Rev
enue of Clayton County...”
Roberts was arrested at his
office late Thursday after the
indictment was handed down.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 38,
low today 26, high yesterday 36,
low yesterday 14. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:40, sunset
tomorrow 5:55.
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Couple Dies
In House Fire
BAINBRIDGE, Ga. (UPI) -
An elderly couple, John Lee, 74,
and his wife, Minerva, 72,
burned to death today when fire
swept through their frame
house here.
Firemen said the house was
a mass of flames when they
reached the scene. The bodies of
the victims were found inside
the building.
A faulty heater was suspect
ed as the cause of the fire.
“Unreasonable folks get
along pretty well with others
if the others aren’t also un
reasonable.”
Copyright 1970, by Frank A. Clark