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By Quimby Melton
“Thy WUI Be Done” is the
subject of this week’s Interna
ional Sunday School lesson.
Background Scripture is Isaiah
1:2-4; 9:2-7; 11:1-10.
The Memory Selection is “He
shall judge among the nations,
and shaU rebuke many people,
and they shall beat their swords
into plowshares, and their
spears into pruning hooks; na
tion shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shaU
they learn war any more”
(Isaiah 2:4).
“Thy Kingdom Come,” the
title of our lesson is a quote
from the Lord’s Prayer. These
words come early in this prayer
— the third phrase.
There are students of the
Bible who hold that if one has
complete faith in Jesus Christ
God’s Kingdom can come into
the heart of that person while
they are alive, and that he or
she does not have to wait until
the Second Coming of Christ for
God’s Kingdom to be establish
ed.
Charles Layman in introduc
ing the lesson this week seems
to this layman to believe this.
And he says attaining dtizen
stiip in God’s Kingdom, while he
or she is living, is a “goal”
which they should strive to
reach, then he quotes a
professor of church history as
telling his class “Christianity
provides a ‘goal’ and power to
move toward that goal.”
The prophets of the Old Testa
ment, all but Isaiah, predicted
the coming of a “Messiah”. The
Hebrew word “Messiah” means
“anointed” and usually refers
to a king and sometimes a pr iest
or prophet being anointed with
oil when he takes office. Such is
accompanied with a lot of
pompt and predictions of a
powerful nation, a strong na
tion, that shall triumph over
other nations.
Isaiah prophesied a different
type of a kingdom. Instead of
material strength, or mighty
army, and victory over others
Isaiah predicted a spiritual
kingdom. And when Jesus
(John 18:36) said “My kingdom
is not of this world”, he con
firmed Isaiah’s prophesy of
spiritual kingdom in which love
and obedience, will qualify one
for citizenship.
As one studies this lesson may
we suggest they ask themselves
the question “would I like for
God’s Kingdom to come right
now?” Or would I like Felix,
want this blessing to come at “a
convenient season?” Acts 24:23.
Isaiah in the verse chosen for
the Memory Selection (Isaiah
2:3) pictures the Kingdom of
God as a time when God shaU
“judge many nations” and He
will caU to their attention and
rebuke them for their trans
gressions — but Isaiah then
pictures a nation and a time
when there shall be no more
wars, when the implements of
war shaU be turned into peace
fill tools and “man shaU not
study war.”
This lesson is fuU of warnings
and promises.
This layman believes that one
who studies this lesson will get
much more out of it if he
remembers the words of Jesus
Christ “Let not your heart be
troubled, ye beUeve in God, be
lieve also in me” and then reads
all of John 14.
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“The atom is no more
destructive now than it was a
thousand yean ago — man is”
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Tricia Nixon, daughter of President and Mrs. Richard Nixon, will become the bride of Edward
Finch Cox tomorrow afternoon in a White House garden ceremony.
Mobile home
registration
being checked
The Spalding County Tax
Assessors is making a check to
Brinkley
pushes help
for towns
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Rep.
Jack Brinkley, D-Ga., has intro
duced legislation he hopes will
reverse the trend of rural resi
dents migrating in increasing
numbers to the cities.
Brinkley said his bill proposes
federal aid to build community
centers and refurbish business
districts of small towns.
“If a town can provide ade
quate municipal services and an
attractive business district, it
will find itself attracting new
economic activity as well as pro
viding an atmosphere of pride
for the entire community,”
Brinkley said.
But he said few towns can af
ford to build community centers
to house local government facil
ities for health, recreation, li
brary and public safety pur
poses without help from the fed
eral government.
GRIFFIN
DAI LY<'N EWS
Daily Since 1872
see if mobile homes in the
county have a permit required
by state law, according to Al
Hill of the tax office.
Mobile homes are required to
register with the county and
post a sticker on the home to
show this has been done, Hill
explained.
There is no charge for
registration or the sticker, he
said.
The purpose of the law is to
make sure mobile homes are
assessed and taxed for property
taxes. The law was passed by
the 1969 General Assembly.
Hill said mobile home owners
were put on public notice that
they must register their homes
between Jan. 1 and April 1 of
this year.
Those not properly registered
are subject at a S3O court fine in
cases treated as misdemeanors,
he said.
There are some 800 mobile
homes in the county, Hill said,
and estimated that all but about
10 percent of these had met
registration and sticker
requirements.
He said mobile homes found
without stickers and proper
registration would be subject to
the penalties.
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Lamar grand jurors examine narcotics on courthouse floor. These pills were among those seized
in the raids.
Pills, booze,
slots seized
in Lamar raids
BARNESVILLE, Ga. - Some
40 law enforcement officers
swooped down on Lamar
County in midafternoon yester
day to pull narcotics raids.
Eight persons were reported ar
rested.
Up to 50,000 pills believed to
be narcotics were seized. Also a
large quantity of liquor, illegal
fireworks and slot machines
were seized.
Col. Ray Pope, head of the
State Department of Public
4th of July
festivities
planned
The Jaycees and Jaycettes
have begun work on the Fourth
of July activities which will be
held on Monday, July 5, at the
City Park.
The activities wiU begin with
a parade downtown starting at
10 a.m., the morning of July 5.
There wiU be a full day of
activities with the highlight of
the day being the crowning of
Little Miss Griffin, Junior Miss
Griffin and Miss Griffin.
Application blanks for the
beauty contest may be obtained
at the locations:
Crouch’s, Smith-Roberts,
Jerry & Dons, L?onards’s,
Marsh’s, Diana Shops, Bazaar
Boutique, and the Griffin
Recreation Department.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
88, low today 67, high yesterday
86, low yesterday 64. Sunrise
tomorrow 6:33, sunset
tomorrow 8:41.
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Safety, said the raids were
among the most successful ever
conducted by the GBI.
Col. Pope was especially high
in his praise of GBI Agent Bill
Darsey who headed the nar
cotics squad in the raids yester
day.
GBI Agent Mike Carothers
who works out of the Griffin
State Patrol Post was active in
the raids, and was commended
for his work.
Butch Freeman, a native of
Griffin who is with the FBI out
of the Forsyth State Patrol
Post, was in on the raids also.
He was with the Thomaston
State Patrol Post as a trooper
before transferring to the GBI.
State Troopers, U. S. treasury
agents, state revenue agents
with Lamar County sheriff’s
officials and Barnesville police
officers assisted in the raids.
Among those arrested were:
Marcus (Snooky) Johnson, 47,
of Lamar County, operator of a
trailer park on U. S. 341 where
one of the raids was pulled;
Kerry Grant Blackmon, 24, of
Upson County; Randy Dwight
Self, 19, of Orchard Hill; Leroy
Kelly, 29, of Lamar County;
Tommy Henry Evans, 17, of
Route 2, Barnesville; Charles
Alton Callaway, 33, of 32 Zebu
lon road, Barnesville; Aubrey
Clifford Buchanen, 52, of Lamar
County and W. M. Ware of
Breezy Point Tavern, Lamar
County.
Judge Hugh Sosebee of the
Flint Circuit which includes La
mar County was at the court
house during the afternoon. He
called the current grand jury
back into session to return in
dictments following the raids.
It is possible some of the
cases against those arrested
yesterday may go before La
mar Superior Court beginning
Monday. Court will be in
regular criminal session be
ginning then.
Sheriff J. C. Waller of Lamar
County was with agents during
the raids. He was at the court
house and jail nearby to help
handle booking the suspects.
Johnson was indicted by the
Lamar Grand Jury yesterday
afternoon following his arrest.
He was indicted for poss
ession over the legal amount of
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GBI Agent Bill Darsey with some
of slots seized.
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liquor in a dry county, pos
session of gambling devices,
and possession of fireworks.
Ware, last man arrested, fac
es only charges of possessing
gambling devices. The others
face narcotics charges, in
connection with the raids, offi
cers said.
Bill Wilson, public informa
tion officer for the Department
of Safety, was at the courthouse
to brief newsmen on the raids.
Officers said the pills seized
in the raids would sell on the
market for about 50 cents to a
sl. But they said they were be
ing sold in Lamar County at
sometimes for 10 cents per pill
which they said was cheap.