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Eclipsed By Rain
French astronomer Pierre
Janssen was so intent on
photographing the solar
eclipse of 1870, during the
Franco-Prussian War, that
he risked German rifle fire
to escape from the siege of
Paris in a balloon. Unhap
pily, when he made his way
by land and sea to the eclipse
path over the African coast,
rain hid the event.
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C. E. (Chubby) Williams, Paul Mickle and Jim Doughtie (hr)
were involved in administrative shifts at Crompton-Highland
Mills. Doughtie who has been general manager of the Griffin
plant more than 17 years, was transferred to the Waynes
boro, Va., main Crompton office where he will work with
outside suppliers of velveteen and corduroy materials for
Crompton. Mickle who came to the Crompton organization
God doesn’t overwhelm us
Os God and Man
By LOUIS CASSELS
United Press International
It would be easy for God to
overwhelm us, if He chose, with
unmistakable proofs of His
reality and power.
But He has always refused to
do that. He will not reveal His
truths to men by spelling them
out in neon lights.
Instead, He hides truth in
paradox, wisdom in fables. He
scatters beauty and goodness in
the most improbable places.
And when He chose to come
in person to dwell for a brief
time among men, He came—
typically—incognito.
Instead of appearing as a
king, clad in royal robes and
seated on a throne, He came as
a defenseless baby, wrapped in
swaddling clothes and lying in a
manger.
His Arrival Proclaimed
His arrival was proclaimed,
not with trumpet blasts in the
palaces of the mighty, but with
a song sung by angels to a few
frightened shepherds who were
in the Judean fields keeping
watch over their flocks by
night.
When the shepherds hurried
away to see the long-awaited
One, they found Him surround
ed, not by courtiers, but by an
from Burlington Industries about two years ago, succeeds
Doughtie as general manager of the Crompton-Highland
plant. He also will head the plant Crompton is building at
Leesburg, Ala., and will maintain an office in Griffin.
Williams will be plant manager of the Crompton-Highland
mill in Griffin.
honor guard of oxen and
donkeys.
You can hardly blame the
shepherds for being surprised
and a little disappointed. “Such
a babe in such a place—can He
be the promised Savior?”
Even today, men often are
disappointed, and sometimes
get quite irritated with God,
because He insists on playing
hide-and-seek with us.
He hides Himself deliberately
in order that we may seek Him
of our own volition. It is our
free choice. Seek and you will
find. But if you don’t care
enough to hunt Him out, to find
the clues He has dispersed
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for a ride upslope at Vai D’lsere, France, during World
Cup competition. Coming down feels easier, no doubt.
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lavishly around His universe,
you may easily make it through
your entire life without ever
realizing how many times and
in how many places you have
encountered Him.
Why is He Hidden?
Why does He choose to be a
Hidden God? Why His great
reluctance to bedazzle us by
intruding signs and wonders
into the expected regularities of
natural process?
It is always rash to try to
answer any question about God
that begins with “Why?” His
ways, as an ancient Hebrew
psalmist noted, are “past our
finding out.” His reasons are
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Thieu said ready
to concede point
By United Press International
South Vietnamese govern
ment sources said today Presi
dent Nguyen Van Thieu is
prepared to concede a key point
the Communists have been
demanding for a Vietnam peace
but only if Hanoi withdraws all
its troops from his country.
Administration sources said
today at the Florida White
House in Key Biscayne, where
President Nixon is spending the
holidays, that he will order a
temporary halt in the renewed
bombing of North Vietnam
during a Christmas cease-fire.
But they made it clear the
President will continue the
stepped-up air raids after the
holiday pause until Hanoi
resumes peace talks with a
“constructive attitude.” North
Vietnam and the Viet Cong
have already announced a
Christmas truce.
The sources in Florida said
Friday that North Vietnam
“balked” on its earlier agree
ment concerning the release of
U.S. prisoners of war and
attached new conditions tied to
the release of some 40,000
political prisoners held by
Saigon that Nixon found “total
ly unacceptable.” This, they
said, was one of the fundamen
tal points that led to the
part of the eternally impenetra
ble mystery of the Divine
nature.
But the Christmas story
offers us a clue. It suggests
that God places a very high
value on human freedom
much higher than we are wont
to realize. He will not make His
presence so obvious that we
have no choice except to
believe in Him.
The only way He has loaded
the dice is to implant in each of
us a hunger, a dimly sensed
need, a vague awareness of
dissatisfaction and incomplete
ness.
St. Augustine described it
perfectly in his Confessions:
“You have made us for
Yourself, and our hearts are
restless until they find rest in
You.”
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Our sincere gratitude to all our many friends and neighbors.
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Men's And Boys Wear
Griffin Daily News Saturday, December 23,1972
breakdown of secret peace
talks in Paris between Henry
A. Kissinger and Hanoi’s Le
Due Tho.
The Saigon sources said
Thieu has agreed to be more
“flexible” on the makeup of a
National Council of Reconcilia
tion and Concord that would set
up elections to decide the future
government of South Vietnam
following declaration of a cease
-fire.
But they said he remains
adamant on what he sees as the
most important point—the with
drawal of North Vietnamese
troops, 300,000 at Thieu’s
estimate, from the South. This
condition is not part of the
Kissinger-Tho accord.
Thieu, the sources said,
appeared to be easing up on
one of the points he has
vigorously contested in the
Kissinger-Tho draft agreement
—his opposition to a coalition
government with Communist
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participation.
The sources said Thieu’s
concession was in response to a
warning from Nixon that all
economic and military aid for
South Vietnam would be cut off
if Thieu remained stubborn
about signing a peace pact.
IN MEMORIAM
in loving memory of our
beloved Father and
Husband, Homer Pierce,
who passed away three
years ago today December
25.
Today recalls sad memories
of our beloved one gone to
rest, and those who morn for
him today are those who
loved him best. His image is
ever before us, one we will
never forget. A look that will
last forever, Daddy, we see
you yet.
God gave us the strength to
fight it and courage to bear
the blow, but what it meant
to lose you, no one will ever
know.
Sadly missed by:
Wife: Ruth Pierce
Children: Mrs. Marshall
Mann, Mrs. Tommy
Thompson, Mrs. Gary
McLendon, Keith Pierce,
Jimmy Pierce of Columbus,
Ga.