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The
Living
Way
By REV. ROGER WILLIAMS
PASTOR. CUMMING FIRST
BAPTIST CHURCH
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore
get wisdom: and with all thy getting get
understanding. (Proverbs 4:7)
The last of this week marks the beginning of the new school
year. Students are actually eager to return and their entusiasm
seems to actually match that of their parents.
How great it is to see students thrilled at the prospect of
returning to the scholastic routine. My hope is that their thirst
for knowledge and wisdom will equal their desire for social
ization. If the two can get together some real learning will take
place and we will all be benefited.
This same thing applies to parents. Parents must take an
interest in their children’s schools or be prepared to relin
quish their rights to have a part in their children’s education.
This is very much akin to the parable of the talents. Those who
used their talents, took an interest in them and tried to improve
on them, gained even more talents, but the one who sat on his
talent, did not use it, neglected it, was subjected to the anger
of his master and lost the talent that he had.
This story is reenacted daily when we lose our freedoms,
responsibilities and right to participate simply because we fail
to involve ourselves and settle our own problems. When will
we learn?
en you don’t
know who to turn t 0...
Turn to God.
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they strode forth to battle in a suit of
armor. Unfortunately, more protection
meant less mobility. Finally armor be-
came so cumbersome that it was rele
w&WwvS&Jf - gated to museums—the useless antique
was discarded—not the man under the
coverall. He had to adapt to the
Vl' How many of our ideas ond customs
m, ~y%Bk jlpr have become useless? The world is not
PUMP static and even some values change.
H-• JH Jp WgdwK What we cherish must be genuine. That
9 oes or *°°- A shallow faith can
not survive the twentieth century-or any
era for that matter. But the Christian
faith is not superficial, or outmoded! It
survives, and continues to reach millions
Wj S j| ■! eorh Sunday-proof that Christianity is
K IfflMiMSim n °t destined for the museum.
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Church News
Revival
Revival Services will begin
Sunday night August 27 at Pl
easant Hill Full Gospel Church,
9-E Highway in Dawson County.
Rev. Kenneth Lark, evangelist;
Rev. Fred Ray, pastor. Come,
have a good time in the Lord.
Singing
County Line Baptist Church,
Saturday night August 26 at
7:30. Many good singers, in
cluding the Lark Family, will
be cordially
invited to attend. Rev. Grover
Shirley, pastor.
Kindergarten
Bethelview Methodist Church
Kindergarten opens Friday,
Aug. 25 at 8:30 a.m.
Parents and children are ln
yited to open house at this time.
Chicken Supper
Concord Baptist Church will
sponsor a chicken supper, Sa
turday August 26th at Concord
Baptist Church at Silver City.
Plates will be served from 12
O’clock to BO’clock. Donations
are $1.25.
Reunion
The Heard Family reunion
will be held on Sept. 3 at the
Mount Vernon Baptist Church
in Dawson County.,
All friends and relatives of
the James Elliot Heard Family
are invited to bring a lunch ar
ound 11 a.m. and enjoy the
fellowship.
Cemetery
Cleaning
Cemetary cleaning Saturday
August 26th at Bethel Baptist
Church. Would like for every
one having loved ones buried
here to come out and help.
Lottio Moon
The Lottie Moon Group of
the Pleasant Grove Baptist Ch
urch met Monday night at the
church for the August meeting
with president Mrs. Lois Hemp
hill presiding.
Call to prayer by Mrs. Hem
phill: at the business hour new
officers were named for the for
thcoming church year. All new
officers will be installed to their
prospective positions at the Oc
tober meeting.
The program was pre
sented by Mrs. Wilma Wood.
Mrs. Wood was assisted by
* Mrs. Winfred Waldrlp, Mrs.
Carl Stovall and Mrs. Ruby
Cheshire.
Dismissed with sentence
prayer.
Special
Conference
Pleasant Grove Baptist Ch
urch met Sunday night in a spec
ial called conference to elect
church officers for the new
church year with the Rev. John
Morgan appointed to act as Mo
derator.
Officers elected as follows:
The pastor will be the Rev.
Claud Hood; Church Clerk, Mr.
Clarence Bagwell; Assistant
Clerk, Mr. Morris Wood.
Sunday School Superinten
dent, Mr. Larry Waldrip; Assi
stant Sunday School Superinten
dent, Mr. R. C. Mathis; Church
Secretary, Mrs. Gwen Bishop;
Assistant Secretary, Mrs. Lu
gen Gravley; Vacation Bible
School Director, Mrs. E. C.
Waldrip; Primary Sunday Sc
hool Teacher, Mrs. Blanche
Durand; Beginners Sunday Sc
hool teacher, Mrs. Debbie Fow
ler.
At this special called meeting
delegates to attend the Baptist
Association were named. Those
named were Mr. Wallace Wood,
Mr. Brice Bennett, Mr. Ray
Hemphill, Mr. Larry Waldrip,
Mr. Guy Waldrip. Alternates
named were Mr. W.M. Cain
and Mr. Amos Millwood.
Bethel
Kindergarten
Bethel Kindergarten begins
Friday, August 25, 1972. Hours
8:30 to 11:30. For additional In
formation phone 887-3690 or
887-6344.
For registration for 5 year
olds, Phone 887-3690.
For registration for 4 year
olds, Phone 887-7329 or 887-
3550.
To Present
Testimony
Country music star and DOT
recording artist Peggy Little
will present her Christian tes
imony at the Central Baptist
Church in Gainesville, Georgia
during the evening worship ser
vice Sunday, August 20th at 7:30
p.m.
Peggy Little is a bubbling
wisp of a girl with a vibrantly
big voice. She’s a powerhouse
of sound in a petite four foot,
eleven frame.
The vivacious lass who says
her life centers around the 3
C’s . . . children, church and
career has done numerous per
sonal appearances on shows
such as "Hee Haw,” “The Mike
Douglas Show,” “The Ralph
Emery Show,” "Johnny Bench
Special,” “Wilburn Brothers,”
“Del Reeves,” "Billy Walker
Show,” “Bill Anderson Show,”
“Hugh X. Lewis,” “Good Ole
Nashville Sound,” and “Jim Ed
Brown’s Country Place.” Peggy
has also performed at the Lan
ierland Country Music Show In
Forsyth County.
Peggy Little has a voice big
enough to reach right to the
stars which is precisely what
she has done - and she became
a star herself. She will continue
to shine as a star in country
music and as a star amongst
God’s people.
FIRES DESTROY
LIVES AND
PROPERTY.
BE CAREFUL)
RICH LUNAR DUST
Potato Patch
On the Moon
Would Produce
By HERBERT WILCOX
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Correspondent
ELBERTON, Ga. - A land
hungry farmer of pioneer
times remarked that he wish
ed he could own the whole
world and it fenced in
and the moon for a potato
patch.
Just the other day. there
appeared a newsstory which
hinted that if this farmer’s
wish had been granted, his
potato patch would have been
the most fertile spot in his en
tire domain.
This story said space scien
tists believe that moon dust,
brought back by astronauts,
nourished seedlings better
than even the rich soil of
lowa’s Com Belt. In their ex
periments, the scientists
planted seedlings in smaples
of moon dust and in samples
of earth materials. In some
cases the plants grew twice or
three times as fast in the luraa
material.
PLANTS USED in the tests
included soybeans, sunflow
ers, and pine seedlings. No
mention is made of potatoes
being tried but there was an
extremely limited quantity of
moon dust available for the
experiment. In the days of our
pioneer farmer potatoes
meant sweet potatoes, and if
he could have reached the
mooii with some potato slips
and a few buckets of water to
use in setting them out in that
powerful dust he probably
would have found the fast
growing vines a problem.
The experiment by modern
scientists indicated that plants
grown in lunar dust might be
low in steroids such as choles
terol. However, it was said to
be too early to draw any con
clusions linking this to medi
cal studies recommending eat
ing of low-cholesterol foods to
prevent heart disease. Still, it
is a safe guess that this small
hint will cause a big demand
for moon-dust plants if and
when they are available.
Avoiding cholesterol is a most
popular diet fad as of now.
SHIPPING DUST from the
moon to earth in the vast
quantities needed for fertilis
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ing farm crops is not possible
at present. But it is no more
of a wild dream than putting a
ma n on the moon was a
generation ago. In the mean
time, one of the scientists sug
gests that it might be practi
cal in the reasonable future to
duplicate on .earth soil with
properties similar to those of
moon dust and thus grow
plants with a high nutrient
content.
Probably it will be just as
well to arrange for our supply
right here on earth if we can.
Another article regarding the
moon appeared in the same
paper that carried the story of
moon dust. This article said
that astrophysicists believe
that the moon is receding
from the earth at a steady
rate and the distance between
the two will continue to grow
for five billion years or so.
THIS STORY SAYS that the
best available measurements
indicate that the moon is mov
ing away from us at the rate
of about- one foot in 30 years.
This means that each year a
lunar mission has to travel an
added two and a half inches to
get there. This is not a great
distance now, but adding that
much each year for five bil
lion years will probably make
it impractical to get there at
all.
However, there is an opti
mistic viewpoint. These scien
tists believe that in something
like five billion years the
moon will grow tired of run
ning away and will turn back
toward the earth. Lest we be
came too elated over the
promise of the wanderer’s
eventual return, these scien
tists add a rather gloomy
note. They say that in the far
future—five billion years
seem pretty far for most of us
—the moon may come too
close to the earth for comfort.
If this happens, the earth’s
gravity could cause it to shat
te r into fragments which
could circle our planet some
thing like the rings of Saturn.
This should be quite a sight to
behold, and it is comforting to
know that we have such a
defensive weapon if the moon
does try to get too close.
FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-THURSDAY AUGUST 24, 1972-
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Golden anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Lee Smith, 1222 Vine Street, N.E.,
celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on July
29. A dinner was given in their honor at Laprades on Lake
Burton. Later at their home they cut the cake and
received anniversary gifts. The dinner was hosted by the
couple’s children: Mr. and Mrs. Jack (Louise) Walker
and son Keith of Pascagoula, Miss; Mr. and Mrs. James
(Edith) Chambers, Gainesville; Mrs. Russell (Allice)
Boleman Jr., Mrs. Russell Boleman Sr., Burlington,
N.C.; Mr. and Mrs. Bruce P. (Grace) Smith and children
Greta and Danny, Tucker; Mrs. Robert (Betty Sue)
Thompson and children Bryan, Blake, and Beth, Gadsden,
Ala.; Mrs. Lewis (Mary) Wilkins and sons Woody and
Mitch, Gainesville. Also present was the celebrants’ only
great-grandchild, Morgan Tanner Boleman of Richmond,
Va.
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