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By Quimby Melton
Ore Easter, some 75 years
ago, Good Evening’s grand
father, the Rev. Isaac Quimby
Melton, preaching on the
Resurrection of Christ, chose as
his text “The Lord is Risen
indeed and has appeared unto
Simon.” (Luke 24:34)
Good Evening has Grand
father’s manuscript of this
Easter sermon.
Reduced, so as not to exceed
the space available for this
column we find this man of God
declaring:
‘‘The doctrine of the
resurrection of Christ is an
exceedingly important article
of our faith; Because if Christ
be not risen there can be no
resurrection of the dead—then
our preaching is in vain—then
we are yet in our sins—then our
faith is vain—then all the pious
dead who sleep in Christ are
perished and our hope of
meeting them in heaven is
without hope.”
“A belief in the resurrection
of Christ is one of the conditions
of our salvation. It is written ‘if
thou shalt confess with thy
mouth the Lord Jesus and shall
believe in thine heart that God
hath raised Him from the dead,
thou shalt be saved.’”
Grandfather continued this
sermon with the statement,
“The resurrection of Christ was
not an impossibility. Just
because we have never seen
such an event should not make
us doubt that this happened.”
He then tells how the un
believers said Jesus’s body was
“stolen by his disciples while
the soldiers slept.” This ex
planation he said is not true, for
after the resurrection Jesus
appeared to many people and
’ even ‘‘doubting Thomas”
finally accepted Jesus Christ as
his Risen Savior.
Grandfather in this Easter
sermon paid tribute to the two
Marys who early in the morning
went to the Garden to annoint
» die body and found the tomb
empty and who were met by two
angels who said, “Christ is
not dead,” and then en
countered Jesus himself who
told them to go and tell the
disciples that He had risen. The
, disciples were not as quick to
believe as were the two women.
Toward the close of his Easter
• Sermon grandfather again tells
of the people to whom the Risen
Jesus appeared. First to the two
Marys, then to the two disciples
on their way to Emmanpus,
then to Simon Peter alone, and
then to all the disciples except
, Thomas, and eight days later to
them all including Thomas.
After this he showed himself
again to all the disciples at the
sea of Tuberiu. Other ap
pearances were to the disciples
on a mountain in Galilee and to
some 500.
Summing up the question of
the resurrection grandfather
quotes Peter, who said, “Him
. (God) arised up the third day,
and showed Him openly. Not to
all the people but to witnesses
chosen of God, even to us, who
' did eat and drink with Him after
He rose from the dead.”
Grandfather warned that one
* must repent of his sins and
accept Christ as his personal
Savior and that one should not
, put this off; for after death has
come and one has been sum
monsed before the judgment
seat will be too late.
' “Repent, believe and obey
and thus prepare for that great
day,” grandfather continues,
“You will reap according to
your sowing. What a terrible
harvest, my unconverted
friends! Awake, awake before it
r be everlastingly too late.”
“If thou shalt confess with thy
mouth the Lord Jesus and shall
- believe in thine heart that God
hath raised Him from the dead
thou shalt be saved.”
• Why put off making this
important decision?” grand
father Melton asked the
z congregation.
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Hall laces anti-South attitude
Cary Hall of Hampton drew
an indictment against what he
called the anti-South attitude in
the federal government yester
day in a talk to the Griffin Ki
wanis Club.
He based his charges on
personal experience with the
department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare (HEW). He
was its southern regional direc
tor out of Atlanta until he
resigned a few months ago.
A native of Macon and a
retired career Navy officer,
Hall cited statistics and case
histories which he said indicat
ed the anti-South attitude exists
in the federal government.
Hall said that President
Nixon was the first national
figure in modern times to pro
mise to treat the South in the
same way other sections are
treated. But he said the federal
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government has not been
restructed to accomplish this.
He said the president hired
some 10 people in HEW but that
the department has not gone in
the direction of giving the South
a fair shake.
Georgia’s average income is
S6OO less than the national aver
age yet rich states such as Cali
fornia and New York get a far
greater per capita share of
federal programs, Hall charg
ed.
He said Georgia’s average in
come is $1,400 less than these
two affluent states.
Beginning with welfare pay
ments and going down the list
through educational support at
the federal level, Hall cited
figures to show how federal pro
grams penalize southern states.
He said Atlanta lost a learn
ing center, leaving one in North
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Carolina and another in Texas.
Yet he said that Missouri kept
two such learning centers.
Other affluent states such as
California kept theirs, too, Hall
pointed out.
He said that the need for
educational aid in the South was
greater than in these other
states which have more money.
Yet federal aid to the South is
much less, Hall said.
Hall chided the news media in
Georgia for not being more
critical of the discrimination
against the South on the federal
level.
He said he telephoned the
Atlanta Constitution and at
tempted to get a story published
about the loss of the learning
center in Atlanta. He said the
newspaper wouldn’t listen.
Hall challenged Georgians to
keep national candidates guess-
ing as to how they would vote.
He saw the power of the ballot
box as one weapon against the
anti-South attitude.
He said the idea senators and
congressmen with years of
seniority can get more federal
funds is a myth.
Hall said Sen. Ted Kennedy,
though in the Senate only a few
years, as able to get far more
federal money for
Massachusetts than the late
Sen. Richard Russell was able
to get for Georgia, even with his
seniority.
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Hall said establishing a real
two-party system in Georgia
was another way the state can
make its voice heard on the
national level.
He was introduced by Lee
Rqy Claxton, program chair
man for the day.
“The less we know about how
to correct a bad situation, the
more furious we become about
it”
Nixon to step up
troop withdrawals
By WALTER WHITEHEAD
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pres
ident Nixon, declaring his goal
is “total withdrawal from
Vietnam,” pledged Wednesday
night to accelerate the Ameri
can troop pull-out, removing
100,000 men from the war zone
during a seven-month period
starting May 1.
In a 20-minute televised
address, Nixon said the addi
tional U.S. servicemen would
leave Vietnam by Dec. 1,
cutting American troop
strength to 184,000. But he
rejected demands of his critics
that he set a definite date for
an end to American involve
ment in the war, saying he
intended to end the conflict “in
away that will redeem the
sacrifices that have been
made” by U.S. forces in more
than 10 years of fighting.
“The issue very simply is
this: Shall we leave Vietnam in
away that —by our own
actions —consciously turns the
country over to the Commu-
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COLUMBUS, Ga.—Governor Jimmy Carter (r) chats with
Columbus Mayor J. R. Allen (1) as the 11th annual industrial
Red Carpet Tour stops in the west Georgia city to inspect
industrial facilities. In a speech, Carter told 37 visiting
industrialists the Georgians are “identified by hard work...
.They believe in their own ability to support themselves”.
The Red Carpet Tour will visit Savannah, Ga. and then on to
the Master’s Golf Tournament in Augusta. (UPI)
nists? Or shall we leave in a
way that gives the South
Vietnamese a reasonable
chance to survive as a free
people?”
‘Vietnamization Has Succeeded’
“My plan will end American
involvement in away that
would provide that chance,”
Nixon said. “The other would
end it precipitately and give
victory to the Communists.”
Nixon said his program of
Vietnamization —strengthening
South Vietnamese forces to
assume the burden of fighting
the war —“has succeeded.”
American forces in Vietnam
will be reduced to 284,000 by
May 1. The rate of withdrawal
since pullouts started July 8,
1969, has averaged 12,500 men a
month. The rate between May 1
and Dec. 1 will be slightly more
than 14,200 monthly.
Potential Democratic pres
idential candidates criticized
Nixon’s speech. Sen. Edmund S.
Muskie, considered the front
runner for the nomination, said
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Easter
egg
hunt
anyone?
The Griffin Recreation
Department will sponsor Easter
Egg hunts Saturday at 10 a.m.
at City Park, Head’s Park and
Patrick Park for boys and girls
under six-years-old and seven
through 10-years-old. Miss
Linda King, a member of the
Recreation Department staff, is
shown with the thousands of
eggs that will be hidden.
he was “very disappointed”
Nixon did not set a date to end
U.S. involvement.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy also
expressed disappointment in
Nixon’s failure to set a definite
date. He said Nixon’s “grudging
and slight” increase in the
troop withdrawal rate could not
concel the failure of the recent
American-supported campaign
into Laos. Kennedy said he also
was “shocked the President did
not devote “one word” to the
“violence that this war has
visited upon the civilians of
Southeast Asia.”
But Sen. Robert Dole of
Kansas, the Republican national
chairman, said the President’s
announcement meant 365,000
Americans will have come
home from Vietnam by Dec. 1.
“I don’t know of a single
critic who could have done
better,” Dole said.
Nixon called again upon
North Vietnam to engage in
serious negotiations to speed
the end of the war.