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SCRIPTURE: Mntthnw 5:5-7.
DEVOTIONAL READING: Matthew
13:44-53.
Ideal W orld
Lesson for February 27, 1949
7? NY MAN with a revolutionary
**■ new idea has to try to ex
plain it. Jesus was no exception.
Asa young teacher of religion,
he had to answer the
question which older
teachers were bound
to put to him: If ycur
teaching is new, how
can it be true? And
if it is true, what can
be new about it?
This was a fair ques
tion. The Sermon on
the Mount is Jesus’
answer to it. The
main theme of that
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sermon is the kingdom of God, an
ancient phrase but with new mean
ings as Jesus used it. We can say
“The Ideal World” and mean just
the same thing.
* * *
The Right People
JESUS EMPHASIZES, above all,
the kind of people who belong to
God’s Ideal World. This would be
surprising to some modern plan
ners. Communists think that if you
can once get a world in which every
one has enough to eat and drink and
-wear, a world where nobody is poor
(or everybody is as poor as every
body else, which is all the same
thing), you will have the perfect
world. Jesus would know this is
nonsense. You do not get the per
fect world by improving the soil,
or the system of government, or
the economic system; you do not get
it by passing laws of any kind. This
does not mean that such things are
unimportant—far from it.
But the faet it that even after
you got your perfect social sys
tem, with perfect politics and
perfect distribution of wealth,
even a perfect climate and soil,
you would still be nowhere near
the Ideal World unless you have
improved yoec people.
• • • S*
Is This You
WHAT WE call the “beatitudes”
(Matt. 5:7-12) is Jesus’ eight
point program for the citizen of the
Ideal World. The right people are
happy people, to begin with. (The
word translated “Blessed” is a reg
ular Greek word for “happy.”) But
the main difference between differ
ent kinds of people is not that some
want to be happy while others do
not.
Jesus’ ideal people are humble,
not proud; they see their sins and
are sorry for them; they are
“meek”—that they are not in a
hurry to demand their own rights:
they do not merely admire good
ness, they are positively hungry for
it; they are merciful, not careless
or cruel; they are pure in heart and
not only in speech and act; they are
not mere peace-wishers or peace
lovers (who isn’t?) but peace
makers; they are people who are
brave enough to do what is right.
• * *
Salt
DO YOU really want an ideal
world? The best way to begin
is to learn how to be a citizen of
such a world. Jesus uses two in
teresting simple words to describe
the kind of people he means. You
are salt, he said,—you are light.
Salt and light are old-fashioned
things but they have never gone out
of date.
So there is no substitute for
a really good Christian. Living,
here and now, like citizens of
the ideal world to come, Christ
ians are both salt and light.
Salt because they give a taste to
otherwise flat or bitter life. Salt be
cause they keep human society from
going rotten.
* • *
Light
AND LIGHT! Like salt, light ought
not to be too noticeable. A glar
ing light is bad on the eyes, as too
much salt is bad on the tongue. So
a Christian is .not supposed to rub
his goodness in on other people, so
to speak. He is as indispensable as
salt in bread—and should be as in
conspicuous. But light, like salt, if
it is any good has to be applied
directly. A strong light concealed in
a steel tube does no good. Swishing
the glass end of the salt-cellar
around in the soup gives it no
flavor. The salt must get into the
soup, the light must touch what we
see.
So the Christian, God’s ideal
citizen-in-training, can do the
world no good by running away
from the world.
If a Christian is going to leave
this world better than he found it,
-even a little bit farther on toward
the Ideal World,—he must come into
touch with the world, not to imitate
it but to change it.
(Copyright by the International Coun
cil of Religious Education on tiehalf of
40 Protestant denominations.
WE HAVE NOT
mm THIS
PROBLEM!
(Gainesville Times)
Let’s talk about whiskey—the
clear, potent, illegal corn “likker”
kind of whiskey.
Moonshining and bootlegging used
to be a rather amusing little game
in this part of the country. Small
time distillers and “revenoors” play
ing cops-and-robbers in the hills
caused us to smile and wink. The
same sort of “joy juice” episodes de
picted in colored comics on Sunday
give us a hearty chuckle.
But, is it funny today? A mere
glance at newspaper headlines will
tell you it is not. Moonshining and
bootlegging in the South today is a
big-time operation, and will soon
grow, if we allow it to maintain its
rate of increase, to proportions that
cannot he adequately handled by
our law enforcement agencies and
courts. Today, as those so vividly
show the illicit whiskey business in
cludes murder, corruption of our
youth and carnage on our high
ways.
We do not here attempt to argue
the moral points of indulgence in
alcohol. We want only to point out
the facts about illegal whiskey traf
fic in Northeast Georgia—Facts that
we must face coldly and logically if
we are to be safe on our highways
or maintain respect for law and or
der in the community.
A cursory study of court records,
from city recorder courts to U. S.
District courts, will reveal a lop
sided, over two-to-one proportion of
whiskey cases over all other types
of criminal charges. A day spent in
court during trials on the criminal
calendar will show a predominence
of young men, most of them in their
twenties, being tried and sentenced
for manufacturing and transporting
corn whiskey.
We face now a budding growth of
gangsterism. The root system for a
highly integrated, mob-controlled
underworld already has spread
through our society—nurtured joint
ly by the profits in illegal whiskey
and the habit of “responsible” citi
zens’ winking at violations of our
prohibition laws. How long will it
be before the law is openly defied,
either through the overwhelming
strength of this underworld or by
corruption of our law enforcement
officers?
Tuesday night of this week a
Northeast Georgia county sheriff
was acquitted on charges of con
spiring to fraud the U. S. govern
ment by violating internal revenue
laws. He was declared “not guilty”
by a jury of his peers of the con
spiracy charge. We are forced to
accept the decision of that jury, but
we point to these facts: 1. There was
sufficient suspicion aroused for the
U. S. government, through the Al
cohol’.Tax Unit, to spend 15 months
time by an investigator to search
out facts in the illicit whiskey traf
fic in that one county. 2. There was
sufficient evidence brought out to
cause a U. S. grand jury to return
an indictment, turning over the case
for court trial. 3. There was suffici
ent evidence for the judge to refuse
to direct a verdict of acquittal at the
motion of defense attorneys. 4. It
took more than three hours for the
jury to decide on the sheriff s inno
cence.
The sheriff is not guilty, but testi
mony showed that associations are
not all they should be and revealed
the danger of contamination, the
temptation that confronts any law
enforcement official.
The whole moonshining and boot
legging situation with which we are
faced resolve itself into this frame
of reference: Is prohibition enforce
able? If it is enforceable, are we
ready to bear the cost of enforcing
it? Are we ready to double or even
treble our law enforcement staffs,
The Jackson Herald, Jefferson, Georgia
from county sheriffs and city policq
up through the federal government?
Enforcement also calls for more
stringent sentences for violators.
Are we prepared to maintain the
costs of supporting greater numbers
of prisoners?
If prohibition is not enforceable,
then are we prepared to repeal it?
These are the two alternatives in
the solution of the social and eco
nomic problems posed by our il
legal whiskey traffic.
MAX VENABLE IN NAVY
Max Venable, seaman, USN, son
of Horace Bill Venable of Route 3,
Jefferson, Ga., is currently making
a cruise of Mediterranean ports
while serving aboard the destroyer
US3 Goodrich with the Sixth Task
Force under the command of Ad
miral Richard L. Conollv.
Leave is granted to the crew of
the Goodrich whenever possible to
afford them the opportunity to visit
European and African cities.
Certified See’d Production
According to the Georgia Crop Im
provement Association, more than
30,000 acres of certified seed were
grown in the state in 1948. This is an
increase of more than 15,000 acres
over 1947 and almost eight times
more acreage than in 1946.
When the one-variety cotton im
provement program was first start
ed in 1931 four-fifths of the cotton
grown in the state was seven-eighths
inch or less in staple. Bast year 90%
of the crop had a staple of one inch
or more.
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LAYMEN'S LEAGUE
WILL MEET FRIDAY
IN GAINESVILLE
The next meeting of the Gaines
ville District Laymen’s League will
be held at St. Paul Church, Gaines
ville, on Friday evening, Feb. 25th.
Elaborate arrangements are be
ing made for the entertainment by
the St. Paul Church. These arrange
ments include a real barbecue with
Brunswick stew and all the trim
mings. beginning at 6:00 o’clock P.
M. The meeting itself will begin at
7:30 P. M. in the St. Paul Church.
The program will be one of the
most interesting ever held. The main
speaker for the program will be
Rev. Kycshi Tanimoto. Rev. Tani
moto was the Methodist pastor at
Hiroshimo when the atom bomb (
was dropped. John llershey’s book
entitled “Hiroshimo,” tells the Tory j
of Tanimoto dqring that disaster, j
Be sure to remember:
Barbecue served from 0:00 to 6:30. *
Meeting begins at 7:30 P. M.
Destroying Broom Sedge
According to agronomists, broom
sedge is a poor land pest which is
best destroyed by fertilization. Tests
show that the greatest reduction oc
curs when liberal amounts of phos
phoric acid, potash and nitrogen are
used,
Savings made in a fair-sized home
garden can easily amount to SSO to
SIOO a season and with home can
ning and freezing, will double that
amount.
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Home Canned Food
In normal times of food plenty,
home economists advise eating up
canned foods within the year. How
ever, longer storage is not unsafe if
foods are properly canned, tightly
sealed and'kept in a cool, dark stor
age place.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17. 1949
One-Variety Cotton Plan
Thruogh the one-variety cotton
production plan it is possible to keep
seed pure in the field and at the
gin, to prevent plating of bales and
to obtain larger yields of high-qual
ity cotton per acre.
Plant Food Supplies
This year for the first time, plant
food supplies o f nitrogen, phos
phoric acid and potash in the nation
are expected to top four million
tons, according to the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture.
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