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Leader - Tribune, Fort Valley, Ga., Thurs., June 20, 1968
Out For God
fa- K v E. B. ADAMS
MY TESTIMONY—
Miss Mary Culler White, the
one we spoke of last week,
>' to Fort Valley about a week
advance, and held services in
•church in preparation for the Re
vival. She was talking to Dr,
Rumble, the visiting evangelist. I
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got up and walked over to where
they were standing), I said to Mis?
Mary: May I talk with you? and
she replied ‘yes’. She immediate^
sensed what I wanted to talk a
bout because she asked if I would
like My for Dr. Rumble to accompany As we! j
us. answer was yes.
walking toward the Chapel, 1
were
V asked if I would like for Bro
her Robinson, the pastor, to join
us and I replied yes. We went in
to the chapel. I related to them my
story. They prayed for me, read
and had me to read certain pas
sages of God’s word. They asked
me to pray and I did the best I
could. I had never prayed audibly
in all my life before. After a while
the preachers excused themselves,
as the visiting preacher was to
speak to the Kiwanis Club at noon.
Miss Mary stayed with me, quot-
lug scriptures. She had me to read
different scriptures, explaining
them and pray
ing for me. Fin
ally, she said to
me, I do not
remember her
exact words b; i
to this effect:
Brother Adams,
might as well
make up your
mind that God
will not accept
anything less than yaur all. We
must be willing to trust Him with
all we have.
Then, just like a flash, I said,
‘Alright Lord, you can have it all’,
yes, I’ll go sell all I have and give
it to the poor, or do anything else
with it you say. and not only this,
I’ll go anywhere you tell me to g>,
and I’ll say anything you tell me
L o say. Whatever you say, I’ll do.
And the sweetest peace came into
oy heart I had ever known in all
my life, or at least since the time
,
ADAMS
God saved me when I was a teen
ager. I felt as though I had been
let loose or something. This ter
rible burden I had carried for ov
er forty years was gone, and I
thank God until this day it has
never returned.
It has been over ten years since
I took this step and I have not
had one single moment of regret.
I only wish I had a thousand lives
and a thousand times the possess
ions to do the same with. Now I
want to say to you. If you are dis-
turbed about your possessions, or
your possessions are standing be
tween God and you, then I have
some good news for you. God did
not want me to sell everything I
had and give it away. What He
wanted was my willingness to do
so.
It has been, as we’ve already
said, a little over ten years since
I gave myself to God in the little
chapel at the Methodist Church.
And never yet has He told me the
same thing; He told the right
young ruler. He may some day, I
don’t know about that. I admit it
would be a hard dose for me to
take, but even at that, it won’t be
near the dose Jesus took for me.
For even unto death did He suf
fer and qive Himself for me. See.
Rom. 8:18.
However, He did tell me some
things He wanted me to do. He
told me to get rid of the Cadillac
automobile I had, and I did. I told !
Hi m I couldn’t sell it unless He
sent me a buyer, and He did. I
may tell you about this some time.
Then He laid upon my heart some
restitutions He wanted me to
make. I wrestled with them for
quite a while, but could not get
them off my mind, and never did
until I had made them. Two of
them involved less than three dol
lars each, which I felt I did not
owe. The two persons felt differ
ently. God said to pay them, and
I did. I gave one five dollars and
the other ten.
No, God does not want us to go
sell all we have and give it away;
but He does want us to be willing
to. And to do anything else He
might call on us to do. Both the
rich young ruler and I, wanted
what Jesus had to offer, and want
ed it very badly; joy, peace, happi
ness, satisfaction, and most of all,
eternal life. But neither of us wan
ted it bad enought to meet His
conditions; or to trust Him with
all that we had. We might as well
face up to the truth. We loved our
possessions more than we loved
Jesus.
We sing; “I Surrender All”, ‘‘All
to Jesus I Surrender”, “I Give My
self to Thee,” “AH on The Altar,
dear Jesus, all at thy Feet I Lay.’”
But the rich young ruler, accord
ing to the recard we have, never
did take this step, or neither did
I until forty odd years after Jes
us saved me. And now I thank God
that I did. And now I had rather
have Jesus than anything, this
world affords today.
(To becontinued next week.)
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By Bertha J. Stronach
Certified Professional Secretary
IBM Office Products Division
While The Cat’s Away
travel may broaden; it ma,
even be fun. But for hard-work
ing girls it can be nothing but a
headache. Keeping an office run
ning smoothly while your boss is
out of town can turn into the
kind of problem that gives sec
retaries nightmares.
How do you answer Mr.
Smith’s urgent letter? Do you
ing-or interrupt that big business meet
the boss cozy know fishing trip-to let
that his best cus
tomer has a serious complaint?
And what about the executive
down the hall: the one who’s got
designs field on your time. How do
you his “orders” and still do
your own boss’s work?
The trick lies in organization—
the magic word that will keep
you business so efficient, with or without
executives emergencies, that other
won’t dream of impos
ing on your employer’s time.
the The girl well-organized who secretary—
raises, then gets the regular
and some-doesn’t
believe that while the boss is
away, a girl can play. She knows
that his absence puts just that
much more responsibility on her
desk.
You’re not going to get organ
ized unless you sit down with
your boss before he takes off.
This is one case where advance
planning in his calendar pays off, that so make he has a note
an
appointment with you-and don’t
let him leave until he’g named a
stand-in during Ms absence. You
don’t want to beHsafldled with
more than one temporary boss—
or. with checking five people for
a single decision.
While he’s gone, start every
day with a. eystematic attack on
the mail. Read, route and f ollow
I * up is the rule plus digest
— a
Wap-up that summarizes how
each item has been handled, so
f your boss can catch up quickly
his t 1 '
on return. , ,,
Make sure, too, that you have” ’
sufficient copies of his itinerary'’
on hand—just should heed in case manage^ 1
ment to reach him
in a hurry—even when you’re out
to lunch. Arrange in advance for
a and regular that telephone check-in—
see his associates know
when he’# calling, so that they
can fill you In on any items of
importance. All
such organized? You that should do
a good job you may
After even rate all, what a special boss thank you.
grateful wouldn’t be
to a girl who lets him
get a,way-and dorte. get his job back
home ds weill
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