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By Donald E. Wildmon
THE INFLUENCE OF THE CHURCH ON AMERICA
See the influence of the Church on some of the most
beneficial institutions of our country. Jesus once told a
parable about a certain man going down from Jerusalem to
Jericho. We call it the parable of the Good Samaritan. That
parable has been a part of our country since we began. In the
Fourth Council of Carthage, about 436 AD, religious leaders
were urged to establish international guest houses, for those
who traveled beyond their own kingdoms. Such a house
became known as a “hospice,” from hospes, the Latin word
for guest.
The importance of the hospice increased. In addition to
building more and larger houses, special orders were
developed to administer them. One of the first major orders of
this type was the Hospitaller Sisters of St. John of Jerusalem,
founded in the 12th Century. After the last Crusade, many of
these institutions began to specialize in the care of the infirm,
3ged, paupers, and cripples. Sick and wounded people were
also received.
During the 15th century, secular interests took over the
motel business, and the hospice narrowed its function to care
and treatment of persons suffering from ills and handicaps. It
also became known as the hospital. In Maryland, just outside
Washington, we have a city by the name of Bethesda and a
world famous hospital. The Bethesda Naval Hospital was
named after the pool located just outside the northern wall of
Jerusalem where Christ healed the man who had been ill for
38 years.
You may think you owe nothing to the Church. In
reality, you are so indebted to it that if you worked from now
until the day you die you could never repay your debt to the
Church. You get sick and hurt and you go to a hospital, which
owes its very existence to the Church. Many of them are
divorced from the Church today, but some are still related to
the Church. Ever been to Baptist Hosiptal, or Methodist
Hospital, or Lutheran Hospital, or St. Joseph Hospital? Their
very names let you know of their affiliation. Every hospital in
America exists because of a Man who healed so many people
that He got Himself nicknamed the Great Physician.
And look at the influence of the Church on another of
our institutions-education. What does education owe to the
Church? Let me quote from a publication of the National
Geographic Society, an organization in no way associated
with any church:"...it was religion above all that accounted
for the colonists’ obsession with education. Reformed
Protestantism, or Puritanism, when transplanted to New
England, left an indelible imprint on America.”
Public education is divorced from the Church now, but
it owes its existance to the Church for it was the Church which
gave it birth. In 1647 the government of Massachusetts Bay,
aware of the subtle aims of “that old deluder, Satan, to keep
men from knowledge of the Scriptures,” and anxious “that
learning may not be buried in the grave of our father,”
Jenacted what has become the most famous statute in
American education. The law required every town of 50 or
more households to maintain a “petty” school to teach
reading and writing, and every town of 100 or more families to
also support a Latin grammer school to prepare boys for the
university-both types to be sustained by local taxation.
In early America if you didn’t want a Christian
education you didn’t get an education. The local church
building was the school house, and the preacher was often the
teacher. Harvard was established in 1636, William and Mary
in 1693 and Yale in 1701—all were founded for the purpose of
educating minister. Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Rutgers,
and Dartmouth all were related to the Church.
In fact, the government didn’t get into the business of
higher education until 1755, a hundred and nineteen years
after the church had started higher education, when the
University of Pennsylvania was founded. Our land today is
still dotted with these Church-related colleges and
universities. Baylor, Notre Dame, Texas Christian, and
Southern Methodist just to name a few.
And what about the influence the Church has had on
America’s willingness to help those in need? Here is what
Readers’s Digest had to say about that: “Until the advent of
the New Deal in 1933, most American programs for human
THE COMEBACK
by
Cindy Brown
Once upon a time on a Saturday, November 6 to be detailed
Georgia spilled into the Gator Bowl and in a comeback they
prevailed.
Now this was quite an unusual story as to how those Doggies
came to glory
For in the game’s first 30 minutes, those Florida boys were
the Sugar tenants.
Fortunately for the Black and Red, the foray lasted for 30
more
The Junkyard Dogs were far from dead and Goff the off.
leader upped the score.
Noble Norris and Mighy Mark helped hustle the reptiles
toward Dooley’s ark
Moonpie Wilson and Willie McClendon, the Gators’s joyous
hopes were endin’.
There were so many who aided and abetted, Washington,
Tereshinki, and Allen Leavitt
Pace and Wisdom, Dooley and Russell
How they made those Doggies hustle.
And Pollard and McClee and all those others were proving
Georgia WOULD have her druthers.
And Doug Dickey was daring & doing & dreaming
And Vincent was secretly, wonderfully schemin’.
And yet like the children on Christmas Eve, we’ve visions of
sugarplums dancin’ about.
To insure further fantasies cornin’ true, o’er that Auburn
Eagle we still must rout.
So Glory, I say and Glory high, Let’s make that Eagle fail to
fly.
To the Louisiana bayou let us travel
The mystery of the best to yet unravel.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Flovilla
Happenings
Bj Mrs. Emily Bifrnt
Mr. and Mrs. Royal Long
of Forrest, Miss., along with
Mrs. D. T. Lone, were
weekend guests recently of
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Colwell of
Macon. Other guests were
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pevy
of Milledgeville.
Mrs. Robert Marsh of
Juliette was the dinner guest
Monday night of Mr. and
Mrs. Larry Marsh, Robert,
Marie, and Larry.
Mrs. Agnes Ball of Jackson
visited several days last
week with Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Long and family and Mrs. D.
T. Long.
Mrs. S. A. Elliott and Mrs.
Harold Elliott visited on
Monday with Mr. and Mrs.
Mike Hood and boys of
Macon. Jonathan and Brian
returned home with Mrs.
Harold Elliott and remained
for several days.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Cook
visited Sunday afternoon
with Mr. and Mrs. S. A.
Elliott, Mr. Charles Elliott
and Chuck.
Our sympathy to the
family of Mrs. Ed Craig
whose father, Mr. Andrew
Copeland of Jonesboro,
passed away on Thursday,
Oct. 28, 1976.
Visiting Mrs. Winnie Mon
crief on Sunday were Mrs.
Sherry Thaxton and Dawn.
Guests of Mrs. Carrie
Nelson on Friday were Mrs.
Susan Gilmore and baby of
Jenkinsburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Ford Thorn
ton of Aiken, S. Carolina
were the weekend guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Robinson
and Jason.
Visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Malcolm Smith and Rod
Tuesday evening were
Marinell and Rex Smith of
Atlanta.
Mrs. Carrie Nelson was the
guest Sunday of her daughter
Mrs. Patsy Cawthon and
family of Jackson.
Miss Wendy Elliott return
ed Jonathan and Brian Hood
to their home in Macon on
Wednesday and remained
several days for a visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Randy Long
of Chamblee were weekend
guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Long and family. Other
guests on Sunday were Mr.
and Mrs. Ellevee and family
of Jenkinsburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm
Smith visited with Miss
welfare remained in church hands, and throughout U.S.
history churches and churchmen have often been at the
forefront of movements for social and political reform.” And,
1 must confess, the Church often does a better job with
welfare than does the government.
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HIGH SCHOOL JOURNALISTS Pictured above is
the newspaper staff at Henderson High School. Mrs. Judy
Skinner is faculty advisor of the Tigertution staff. On
Tuesday, November 9th, the newspaper staff toured the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution building.
ftegins at 2:00 P. M.
t Jackson United Methodist Church
Tm ero in on handmade gifts
home canned food
cakes and pies
Rl emember Wednesday, Nov. 17
P. S. Spaghetti Supper 5-7
Browsers Welcome
Final Rites
Saturday For
Wiley Wright
Funeral services for Mr.
Wiley W. Wright of Forsyth,
formerly of Butts County,
were conducted Saturday,
November 6, in Andrew
Dillion Chapel with the Rev.
Bruce Martin officiating.
Mr. Wright is survived by
his wife, the former Bammie
Johnson. Three children by a
previous marriage, J. Glynn
Wright of Forsyth, Mrs. Roy
O’Neal of Macon, and Mrs.
Fred Hammond of Jackson;
seven grandchildren and
eight great-grandchildren,
also survive.
Orange is the color of safe
ty when deer hunting and it’s
also the law, says Gerald
Kersey, Butts County Con
servation Ranger... All deer
hunters using firearms are
required by law to wear 500
square inches of fluorescent
orange showing above their
waist...and it’s a good idea to
also wear an orange cap...
This law has proved itself as
a big safety factor, says
Kersey and it is enforced.
Hattie Leverette at the
Living Center in Griffin on
Sunday.
Mrs. Edith Roberts and
Miss Virginia Smith visited
on Wednesday afternoon with
Mrs. Betty Jenkins and Mrs.
Anna Jenkins.
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Turner
and Todd of Greenville, S.
Carolina were weekend
guests of Mrs Laßue
Turner.
Guests of Mrs. . .E. Waits
on Friday were Mr. and Mrs.
Don Gable and Randy of
Marietta. On Sunday after
noon Mr. Terry Waits and
Mandy visited with Mrs.
W’aits.
Mr. Glenn Williams left
Monday for Kansas City,
Missouri to attend the
National FFA Convention.
Mrs. Edith Roberts and
Miss Virginia Smith visited
on Thursday with Mrs. Sara
Freeman of Jackson.
Mrs. W. E. W'aits, Frankie
Bell, and Mrs. Curtis
Cochran of Juliette were
guests Sunday of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Waits and
family of Jackson.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Duke
and Joy of Gray and Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Duke were
guests Sunday of Mrs. Sara
Duke.
Jackson Places First In
Region Cross-Country Meet
A freshman at Jackson
High School, Dan Wright,
placed first among 19
competitors in the Region 3-A
Cross Country Championship
meet held in Jackson
November 5.
Wright crossed the finish
line in 17 minutes and 26
seconds to claim top honors
in the three-mile race.
His nearest competitor was
Rod Smith, a sophomore at
Jackson High, who finished
at 17:40, and third place went
to Allen Hamm, a freshman
from Lamar County. Hamm
clocked in at 18:03.
Only Lamar and Butts
Counties were competing in
the meet which saw Jackson
place nine runners in the top
10.
According to cross-country
THE STRAWBERRY PATCH
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Welcomes You to Our OPEN HOUSE Nov. 11, 12 & 13
Come in, look around and see our beautiful variety of Gifts and Home Access
ories. Many items will be on sale 10% - 25% off during our Open House.
W ith only six weeks until Christmas, what better time and place to buy those
special Christmas gifts.
A few items you’ll find at the Strawberry Patch are listed below ....
Picture Frames
Pictures
Paques, vVaii
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Wicker Accent
Pieces
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Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri. 9:00 - 5:30
Wed. - 9:00 - 12:30 Sat. -9:00-4:30
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NOVEMBER 15&16
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CATALOG SALES
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Mon., Tues., Thurs. Fri \ j
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(You may call in your order if you cannot visit the store.)
FREE FAVORS—
for the children who come to visit with Santa.
SPECIAL PRICES
on appliances, Home Improvement and automotive items
during this event.
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MIKE PERKINS Jackson, Ga. 775-5023 b merchant^
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1976
coach Tommy Carmichael,
the top seven finishers from
each team will compete in
the state competition in
Atlanta November 20.
In addition to Wright and
Smith, the state team from
Jackson will include Freddie
Strickland and Phillip Law
son who finished fourth and
fifth in Friday’s meet.
Also competing will be
Randolph White, Charlie
Robison, and Joseph Hicks,
all of whom finished in the
top 10 in the regional finals.
Incandescent light bulbs work
because an electric current
causes a wire to become so
hot that it glows.
Stationery
Baby Books
Wedding Books
Photo Albums
Soap Packs
J ACKSON S WINNING TEAM - Dan Wright holds the
In si place trophy after Jackson had won the regional 3-A
Cross Country Championship Meet. Front Row (L-R)
Freddie Strickland. Dan Wright, Joseph Hicks, and Rod
Smith. Back Row - (L-R) - Phillip Lawson, Randolph White,
and Charlie Robison.
Coasters
Cookbooks
Placemats
Napkins
Coffee Mugs
Cutting Boards
Some spider webs, if straight
ened out, would span 300
miles or more.
China
Crystal
Stainless
Cookware
Glassware