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By Quimby Melton
4 “How God Works” is the
overall theme of five lessons we
will study next in the Interna
tional Sunday School lessons.
• The subject next Sunday will be
“God Judges Nations.” Back
ground Scripture is Habakkuk 1
and 2; Acts 17:22-31.
' The Memory Selection is (He)
hath made of one blood all
nations of men for to dwell on all
■ the face of the earth, and hath
determined the times before
appointed, and the bounds of
their habitation; that they
' should seek the Lord if haply
they might feel after him, and
find him. (Acts 17:26-27). I
As we study for the next five
Sundays “How God Works” we
might ask “How Does God
Work?” William Cowper (1731-
( 1800) attempted to answer this
question with his great hymn
“God Moves in a Mysterious
Way His Wonders to perform.”
‘ The mystery of “How God
Works” is increased if one adds
just one word to the title of this
( series. That word is “patiently”
making the title read “How
Patiently God Works.”
The patience of God has
■ always been a mystery —to this
layman at least — and even
more a mystery in these days
when so many people and so
many nations openly defy and
denounce Almighty God. And
this denouncement and denial is
, not just apparent in other
nations but right here at home.
Only this week Uncle Sam
who it seemed to this layman
' was espousing I od’s program
for United Natior i took a sound
beating. And the forces that
administered this beating were
led by Russia and Red China —
both of whom openly deny that
there is such a thing as an Al-
. mighty God. And before the
week was over there were men
and organizations right here at
home that joined in the chorus
of hatred.
Why God doesn’t lose His
patience, wipe the slate clean
and start all over again is hard
to understand. But when one
realizes how great and glorious
and generous is Our Heavenly
Father, then one will get an idea
of why sinful man has not over
taxed God’s patience. Only Our
Wonderful God can have and
does have such compassion.
How long will we, individual
and nation, so greatly blessed
by God, keep on taxing His
patience? That is a question we
should answer. And the only
answer should be that we will
follow His wish for us that we
love him with all our heart and
soul and our neighbor as our
selves, walk humbly with Him
and help those who cannot help
themselves.
The book of Habakkuk is
different from the writings of
the ancient prophets in at least
one respect. The others tell of
God’s speaking to the people
> through the prophets. But in the
three chapters of Habukkuk
he speaks to God and tells Him
of his problems, his fears and
what he is trying to do about
them. And in the third and last
chapter he in a prayer to God
says in spite of all the bad things
that have happened to him and
to his people he “will rejoice in
the God of my Salvation” and
» concludes “The Lord God is my
strength.”
There is the answer to all our
problems. “The Lord God is our
strength.” If we will just admit
that we ourselves do not have
the strength to overcome
j temptation and to follow the
Lord God with all our being,
problems will fade away and we
too “Will rejoice” as did
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The walls came tumbling down this morning as workers continued to raze the old jail building
near the present Spalding County jail. A new building on the site is to be constructed to relieve the
clerical space shortage in the Spalding County Courthouse.
Carter asks $45-million
for mental health program
ATLANTA (UPI) - Gov.
Jimmy Carter’s Mental Health
Commission proposed today a
five-point program including the
expenditure of $45 million over
three years to bring Georgia
up to date in caring for its
mentally handicapped.
The program stemmed from
a five-month study by the com
mission headed by chairman
John L. Moore, an Atlanta at
torney, who said in a report
Georgia was “five to seven
TV repairman finds
portrait of Lincoln
ROSSVILLE, Ga. (UPI) - A
television repairman looking for
a good buy in a used sewing
machine at an auction sale has
acquired a rare picture of Abra
ham Lincoln that may be worth
a small fortune.
Dolphus F. Webb Sr. bought
the sewing machine for $5 last
July then made a successful bid
of $1 for a cigar box he thought
contained spare parts for the
machine. He found the picture,
a serious pose of a beardless
Lincoln, in the box along with
a light for the machine, a bag
of marbles and an old set of
checkers.
“I always thought that when
my ship came in it would have
a picture of Columbus on it,”
Webb said Thursday. “Instead,
it was a picture of Honest Abe.”
Webb, 50, said he began an
investigation and was told by
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
years behind the development
of comprehensive community
mental health services.”
The commission recommend
ed the state appropriate sll
million in fiscal 1973, sls mil
lion in 1974 and sl9 million in
1975 for community mental
health services.
Moore said that since Geor
gia trailed in such programs,
“we cannot expect large fed
eral funding for community
services as was possible five
the Chicago Historical Society
that it knew of no one with a
like copy of the picture posed
by Lincoln on June 3, 1860 for
a campaign poster.
Webb said his research
showed the picture was copy
righted in 1881 by G. B. Ayers.
The copyright has long run out.
So far, Webb said he has been
offered $5,000 for the picture
which he did not accept.
“The picture has no set value
as a collector’s item, only what
it could bring at a sale,” Webb
said.
Webb bought the sewing ma
chine and the box from a store
that specialized in antiques. But
what Webb was after was a
used sewing machine for his sis
ter-in-law.
The picture has been put on
display in a locked case at the
Fort Oglethorpe State Bank.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, Oct. 29, 1971
years ago. Georgia will have
to go it alone in many health
districts.”
In addition to community
health services in every health
district by 1975, the commis
sion recommended:
— A separate division of
mental health within the pro
posed Bureau of Human Re
sources under Carter’s govern
ment reorganization plan.
— 100 per cent state financ
ing of non-federal costs of com
munity health services.
—a program of prevention of
mental illness and retardation
and training of community
mental health workers.
—and development of a fam
ily advocacy system for state
agencies delivering social
services.
James A. Mackay, a mem
ber of the commission and
head of the Metropolitan Atlan
ta Mental Health Association,
said many Georgians have
problems not traditionally de
fined as mental illness.
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“We tend to pass up jobs that
are too trival in order to fall at
jobs that are too big.”
NEWS
A prisoner who was serving
life sentence escaped from the
Jackson Diagnostic Center
about 3:45 p.m. yesterday.
According to Warden Allen L.
Ault, bloodhounds picked up
fresh tracks this morning in
Spalding County, near Highway
16 and the Butts County line.
The prisoner was identified as
Hoyt Bud Cobb, 40, of Toccoa.
He was a permanent inmate
and had been convicted of
murder, kidnapping, robbery
and forgery. He had been at the
center about four months.
He was described as having
blonde hair, which he wears in a
crew cut, ruddy complexion,
weighs 190 pounds and is 5-10.
He was wearing a two-piece
white prison suit with his name
stenciled on the left breast
pocket.
Dr. Ault said Cobb and four
other inmates were on a high
security work detail and were
with a guard carrying a
shotgun. They were clearing
some woods around the prison
when Cobb dropped back to get
a gas can for a power saw. The
guard turned around for an
instant and looked back to see
Cobb heading for the woods.
The guard fired and Cobb ap
peared to stumble but there is
some doubt as to whether he
was hit.
Lawmen have been combing
the woods and highways in the
area all night.
Dr. Ault said the center is on
900 acres of land and that in
mate labor is used to maintain
the entire site.
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Bill Bizzell (1) of the Education Services Center in Griffin
makes video tape of drug abuse program being presented
this morning to Susie B. Atkinson elementary students. State
Trooper discussed types of drugs often subject to abuse and
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FARMINGTON, Mo.—Glenn Olin Williams, 11 months old, being held by a neighbor, Mrs. Rita
Poole. is the sole survivor after shots through a window killed an elderly couple while three
persons died when the house across the road burned to the ground. Authorities are searching for
Eugene Wright in the shooting deaths Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Parsons, both in their 70s, and the fire
deaths of three members of a family who lived in a house across the road from the Parsons in the
settlement of Chalk Hill. It is about three miles southwest of Farmington. Glenn was heing reared
by the Parsons. He is the great-grandson of Mrs. Parsons. UPI
Peking to send delegates
to present U.N. session
UNITED NATIONS (UPI) —
Acting Chinese Communist
Foreign Minister Chi Peng-fei
told U.N. Secretary General
Thant today that Peking would
send a delegation to the current
session of the General Assem
bly.
A U.N. spokesman said the
cable received today from
Peking did not set a date but
said the Chinese delegation
would arrive “in the near
future.” Diplomats have pre
dicted the Chinese would arrive
by Nov. 4.
The cable also did not specify
the makeup of the mission but
there has been speculation that
Chi would head the delegation.
There had been earlier specula
tion that Premier Chou En-lai
might even attend.
The General Assembly voted
overwhelmingly Monday night
to expel Nationalist China from
the organization and to seat the
Peoples Republic of China,
giving it a seat on the Security
Council and veto power as one
of the five permanent represen
tatives.
Thant sent a cable to Peking
immediately informing the
Communist Chinese of the U.N.
action and asking them to
name a delegation. There was
no reply and Thant sent
another cable Thursday asking
again.
told the students how they would damage their lives. The
programs taped here today may become part of the state’s
drug abuse program.
Inside Tip
Carter
See Page 5
Thant asked that Peking act
as soon as possible, especially
in appointing a representative
to the Security Council since,
he said, the council must be
able to function continuously
and all of its members must
“be represented at all times at
the seat of the organization.”
Under council rules a new
representative must convey his
credentials to the secretary
general no less than 24 hours
before he takes his seat in the
council.
Diplomats noted that if the
Chinese representative arrived
by Sunday he could assume the
chairmanship of the Security
Council for the month of
November.