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By Quimby Melton
Before we start commenting
i the International Sunday
chool Lesson for this week,
lay we “warn” our readers
tat unless they set their clocks
head one hour Saturday night
iey can be late to Sunday
chool.
The subject of our lesson is
The Missionary Imperative.”
Background Scripture is Luke
1:45-49; John 17:6-23; Acts
1:1-3.
The Memory Selection is “As
iou hast send me into the
rorld, even so have I also sent
lem into the world." (John
7:18).
This is the third lesson in the
eries on “The Mission of the
hurch.”
The aim of this lesson is to
npress all with the important
ole the Missionary program of
le early Christian Church
layed. The early Christians
ave handed down to modern
ay Christians many fine
lings, but none of them finer
ian the importance of
fissions.*
The word “Imperative” used
i the title of this week’s lesson
i most interesting. The diction
ry says “Imperative” means
not to be avoided or evaded; a
ommand”.
We who claim to be Christians
mst not “avoid or evade”
tod's commands.
Now who gave this “com
land” some 2,000 years ago?
None other than Jesus Christ
imself.
And if this “command” was
zorth obeying 2,000 years ago it
i just as important that modern
ay Christians obey it.
We suggest that our readers,
they want to better under
tand the aim of this lesson,
ead all of Matthew 28: and pay
pecial attention to verse 19
rfiich reads “Go ye therefore,
nd teach all nations, baptising
hem in the name of the Father,
nd of the Son, and of the Holy
Spirit.”
Had the early Christians not
foeyed the command “Go ye”
here might not have ever been
i Paul, a Luther, a Wesley or
my other to keep the Christian
aith alive and Christianity
»uld be today a “local” move
nent. But thank God it is not.
Fhere are faithful Christians in
i majority of the nations of the
(vorld. And if we today obey the
‘lmperative command” of God
he number of nations and in
lividuals who worship the one
md only true God will be great
y increased.
Many, who read the Bible
lave their favorite chapters and
tend to read them many times,
rhese “favorite” passages have
away of assuring the reader
that God’s message was and is
being sent to special indivi
duals. But this is not true. God’s
message is to all mankind,
those of yesteryear, those of to
day, and will be to those of
tomorrow. And there is no
lation and no people who have
any right to take this message
as theirs and theirs alone.
One who would follow the
teachings of Jesus Christ must
be concerned about the
problems of others. Christianity
is and never will be a selfish
religion.
There are certain “com
mands” in the Bible that were
given directly to the prophets of
old and to God’s prophets of
later years, but overall the
messages in the Holy Book are
given to all mankind.
They are there to guide you
and to guide me.
Whether we obey the
“commands” is up to us as
individuals.
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WASHINGTON—Karin Kirschbaun is almost lost among the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Kirschbaun, of Redding,
tulips near the Tidal Basin in the nation’s capital. She is the Conn. The family was visiting in Washington. (UPI)
Hyatt calls
for end
to ‘iffies’
Dick Hyatt, candidate for the
Georgia House, today called for
an end to iffy statements. He
referred to possible court action
on Georgia house districts.
Hyatt said the U. S. Supreme
Court had ruled 8-1 to let the
state districts remain as they
are for the elections this year.
He noted that the house district
in which Spalding, Fayette and
part of Coweta Counties are
located has not been questioned
by the courts.
“The issue is much more
settled now than when Mr.
(George) Gaissert announced
earlier this year. It is time to
stop misleading and deceiving
the public with iffy statements.
I think the people want to hear
the issues and I for one look for
ward to debating these issues as
the summer progresses. I
remain a candidate for the Post
one in the Georgia House of Re
presentatives.”
Hyatt referred to an an
nouncement by Mr. Gaissert
that he probably would be a
candidate for the House, too, if
and when the courts settled
district lines.
Astronauts head for Hawaii
ABOARD USS TICONDERO
GA (UPl)—Three Apollo adven
turers and a spacecraft
jammed with treasures
steamed at flank speed toward
Hawaii today, their lunar
mission perhaps signaling the
start of a new era of moon
science.
Apollo 17 astronauts John W.
Young, Thomas K. Mattingly
and Charles M. Duke, in
excellent shape after 11 days in
space, are due to reach
Honolulu Saturday afternoon
and fly on to the Manned
Spacecraft Center in Houston
late that day.
Their record 245-pound haul
of moon samples and mapping
pictures will be divided and
flown to Houston on two planes
Saturday. Impatient scientists
at the Lunar Receiving Labora
tory expect to open the first
rock box Monday in a sterile,
nitrogen-filled cabinet.
The astronauts Thursday
made one of the smoothest and
most accurate landings of the
Apollo series, and cleared the
way for the flight of Apollo 17
on Dec. 6, the final expedition
of the $25.5 billion U. S. lunar
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Apollo 16 command ship Casper splashes into Pacific to complete trip to moon. (UPI)
exploration program.
President Telephones
They received a telephone
call of congratulations from
President Nixon in Key Bis
cayne, Fla. The President
promoted Mattingly to com
mander and Duke to colonel.
Navy regulations prevent
Young from being an admiral
for awhile. Nixon invited the
astronauts to dinner at the
White House in mid-June, and
said he would use the occasion
to present some moon rocks to
Mexico’s president, Luis Eche
verria.
“Apollo 16 has written
another glorious chapter in the
history of man’s exploration of
the unknown,” said Apollo
program director Rocco Pe
trone, who watched Thursday’s
televised splashdown at the
Mission Control Center in
Houston.
Despite its close brush with
failure just before the moon
landing and several minor but
irritating problems, Petrone
predicted the mission “will go
down in history as one of man’s
greatest moments in explora
tion.”
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Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, April 28, 1972
Young, four times in space,
was unusually talkative when
he stepped on the deck of this
fighting ship Thursday and
called the flight “a mission of
discovery.”
Basic Knowledge
“There are secrets in that
vehicle right now,” he said,
referring to the command
module which still was bobbing
in the Pacific 1,519 miles south
of Honolulu. “There’s some
basic knowledge and under
standing in that vehicle right
now.”
At the Manned Spacecraft
Center, Dr. Isador Adler said
data from his lunar orbital X
ray sensor agreed with specula
tion of geologists that Young
and Duke may have collected
an unexpected booty on their
three-day exploration of the
moon’s highlands. He said they
may have found long-sought
pieces of the primitive lunar
crust, a discovery which might
force a revision of lunar
history.
To medical specialists, one of
the important preliminary re
sults of the mission was the
apparent good health of the
Vi'
NEWS
three spacemen. The Apollo 15
crew encountered heart abnor
malities during flight last
summer and they were slow to
adapt to the rigors of gravity
on Earth.
But the Apollo 16 crew
displayed none of these prob
lems Thursday.
Two men die
in blaze
ALBANY, Ga. (UPI)-Two
meh were burned to death early
today when fire swept through
their home.
Firemen said the bodies, one
found inside a closet and the
other close to the closet door,
were burned beyond recogni
tion and it would take a check
of dental records to determine
their identity.
Authorities said the victims
might have been based at the
Naval Air Station, however,
because homes in the area were
frequently rented to military
personnel.
The fire in the concrete block
home was already out of con
trol when firemen reached the
scene.
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Carter thinks
remap order
will stand
ATLANTA (UPI) - Gov.
Jimmy Carter has predicted
that the present U. S. Supreme
Court order staying a lower
court injunction against Geor
gia’s legislative reapportion
ment plan will be allowed to
stand.
Carter said Thursday the
state should know by May 12 if
the order will be left alone. The
order held tip action ordered by
a three-judge panel telling the
state to remap its state senate
and some of its House districts.
Carter had called a special
General Assembly session to
deal with the remapping, but
then called it off after the Su
preme Court stay.
In a wide-ranging press con
ference, the governor said also
that unlike the other Democra
tic presidential candidates, Sen.
Edmund Muskie had not taken
his campaign directly to the
voters.
“He went in as the front run
ner and was very careful not
to take specific stands or rock
the boat,” Carter said, adding
that Muskie “took a Lincolnes
que figure and spoke from an
ivory tower with an inclination
to remove himself from the
voters.”
Carter said Muskie’s decision
to withdraw from active candi
dacy in the presidential race
meant southern governors who
endorsed the Maine senator
ought to now be released if they
had previously endorsed him.
He said he had never dis
cussed the possibility of his
chances at becoming a vice
presidential candidate, but spec
ulated that former Gov. Terry
Sanford of North Carolina
would make a good candidate
for the number two spot on the
Democratic ticket.
Carter also criticized the
State Department of Education
at the news conference, saying
it will be the department’s fault
if Georgia does not get all the
federal matching funds availa
ble for the early childhood de
velopment program.
The governor said the depart
ment was taking a narrow view
of the program while it was
“flexible” enough to allow
broader federal participation.
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“When you find a man who
thinks you are lying — you’ve
probably found a fellow who lies
easily.”
Mourning
DAKAR, Senegal (UPI)-
Radio Conakry said today three
days of mourning had been
decreed in the Republic of
Guinea for Kwame Nkrumah,
the exiled former president of
Ghana. The death of Nkrumah,
63, was disclosed Thursday.
President Ahmed Sekou
Toure of Guinea himself
announced the death, according
to Radio Dakar in the
neighboring Republic of Sene
gal. No funeral arrangements
were announced.
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Mrs. McGabe waves from platform before making talk to
anti-busing rally in Washington. (UPI)
Anti-bus leader
keeps up push
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Mrs.
Irene McCabe needed a rest
today after her 620-mile march
from Michigan to Washington,
but chose instead another full
day of antibusing work, topped
off by a visit to the White
House.
While some of the other
mothers in her band took the
day off or went sightseeing,
Mrs. McCabe scheduled inter
views early and late, talks with
members of Congress and a
chat with one of President
Nixon’s aides.
Her initial reception Thurs
day on the steps of Congress
was friendly. Tanned, limping
slightly from sore feet and
wearing a bright orange
sweater with the legend “Sup
port Your Local Police” affixed
to its back, Mrs. McCabe said,
“Our movement is just begin
ning...when the South, North,
East and West unite in one
effort for one cause...”
House Republican Leader
Gerald R. Ford of Michigan,
who greeted Mrs. McCabe and
an estimated 2,000 other
antibusing demonstrators who
arrived in the capital at the
same time, said, “You’ve got a
great deal of support. I think
you are going to be successful.”
The Pontiac, Mich., housewife
was likely to get an idea of the
chances for that success in
today’s White House meeting
with presidential aide John
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Ehrlichman. The administration
has already decided not to
support the antibusing constitu
tional amendment Mrs. McCabe
favors.
Nixon, deciding the amend
ment route would take too long,
asked Congress instead to enact
legislative curbs on court
decrees calling for undue
crosstown busing solely to
achieve racial balances in
schools.
The proposals, already stalled
in Congress, have met opposi
tion even from within the
administration and have been
widely questioned as unlikely to
be heeded by federal judges
and the Stpreme Court even if
enacted.
The Michigan mothers, joir
at the district line by ei
others who had marched m
than 100 miles from Richm
Va., presented congress
with several armloads
antibusing petitions. The j a y
were aimed at getting .
signatures on a House
to force action on the pn
constitutional amendme;
duced by Rep. Norman .■>■■■■■■
R-N.Y.
The mothers and a <
latecomers who join,
went from the Capitol
at the Washington N
Thursday, where Ler
proposal would pass i
up for a vote.