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BELMONT DENNIS
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Newton County
and the
City of Covington
' Brotherhood of Man"
And Fatherhood of God
This week the nation is celebrating
‘ Brotherhood Week.” The reason for this
celebration is to bring forcefully the minds
of all men that we are all brothers under
th® skin.
In the past decade there has been a
tendency to criticize various people and
class them according to their race, religion
or creed.
The United States was formed and
populated by a conglomeration of races.
We were the melting pot for all of Europe
and we can look back with satisfaction to
the fact that we are a common race due
to the intermingling of various races and
the people of America today are making
these United States the greatest nation on
the earth.
Frankly, we think of Popeye. the Sailor
Man, and his favorite expression, “I yam
what I yam.” To our minds this expression
is a trueism. We are what we make our
selves regardless of race, religion or creed.
There is within us a spark placed there
by our Creator and if we fan this spark
into a flame of character, we will be what
God would want us to be
Every man in this nation was born
with equal opportunities but not with
equal environment or with equal material
things. Each man and each woman in our
nation has the opportunity to become great
and it is entirely within ourselves whether
we take advantage of this opportunity or
not. We have never felt ourselves qualified
to criticize any person according to their
race, creed or religion. In our minds each
man is an individual no matter what his
nationality or religion may be.
We should look on each person accord
ing to their qualification rather than judge
according to his race, religion or creed.
We have traveled in many countries and
have known practically every nationality
on earth, on their home grounds. One
thing which impressed us most in visiting
•foreign countries was that we hold a great
thank fullness in our heart to God that we
. I were born in the United States. It took
2 all kinds of people to make up our popu
lation and none can say which contributed
--most to the growth of these United States.
We judge a person according to what
;he is and not according to where or in
-what race he was born.
I Man's religion is generally due to how
T^he was born in this world. If he was born
-a Catholic he will probably remain a
^Catholic. If he was born into the Jewish
♦-religion he' will probably remain in the
’Z Jewish religion. If he was born a Protes
;tant, he will probably remain a Protestant.
Each man has the right granted by our
I Constitution to worship God in any way
-•■in which he desires and we believe this
-is one of the fundamental reasons of the
.^continuing prosperity of these United
-States.
We should iearn to judge a man accord
•ing to h* s ac ti°n and not according to his
‘race, religion or creed and not only through
.Brotherhood Week but during every week
~of the year. /
God created man in his own image and
_.who are we to judge a man according to
. his race, religion or creed.
Take-Care Package
President Eisenhower has asked the
- Congress for changes in the Atomic Energy
Act that will, among other things, permit
us to give our allies “such tactical informa
tion as is essential to the development of
defense plans and to the training of per
sonnel for atomic warfare”.
Having already shipped some half-dozen
of our huge atomic cannon to the NATO
forces in Europe, this request may seem
mere routine at this time. But we hope
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that our lawmakers will consider carefully
the terrible significance of this request.
There has been a considerable shifting
of alliances within the memory of Con
gressmen now at the Capital. How perma
nent are our present allies? Are we to give
these awful secrets to allied nations, such
as France and Italy, where the Communist
Party may come into power? Can we give
such secrets to one ally and not to another?
How shall we judge the capability of an
ally to protect this knowledge?
Or do we really have any atomic secrets
Mt?
Business Statesmanship
Following assurance by President Eisen
hower, in his press conference, that the
Government would go all-out in its mea
sures to check a recession if the employ
ment curve failed to take the expected
up-turn in March, assorted experts were
summoned to Capital Hill for their advice.
A number of the economists appearing
before the Joint Committee on the Eco
nomic Report seemed to think that we
are now in a slump that is more severe
than the Administration realizes, and that
even if the up-turn came tomorrow, it
would still have been a “recessioji”. Others
felt that Administration remedies, such
as raising the S6OO income tax personal
exemption, would not be sufficiently po
tent. CIO President Walter P. Reuther dis
paraged the idea that “spring and the
robins will bring prosperity”.
From the industrial centers, however,
the nation received a transfusion of con
fidence. More substantial than the pes
simistic analyses of the economists wss
the news that a group of large industries
will add collectively another two billion
dollars in expansion funds to the billion
previously announced by General Motors.
And in the general contagion of business
expansion, as it moves like ripples on a
pond from the giant corporations to the
lesser ones and on to the merchants along
Main Street, not even an. Einstein could
compute its ultimate labor requirements
or dollar volume.
For once, at least, business appears to
agree with Mr. Reuther and is likewise
placing no dependence on “spring .and the
robins”, except possibly to provide, along
with the mating urge the equally primal
yen for new possessions.
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Court Martial For Former
Prisoner of War in Korea
While America applauds the decoration
of six soldiers who “openly and stead
fastly resisted” Red indoctrination in North
Korea prison camps in spite of mental and
physical torture, we think the nation is
a little disgusted at the announcement that
the Army will court-martial Corporal Ed
ward S. Dickenson, who obviously funked
the hero role. ,
We need turn back only a few pages
in memory to recall the feverish efforts of
the Army to persuade the boy from Crac
ker's Neck, Va., and his 22 turn-coat com
panions, to give up the Communism they
had embraced and come back to their own
people. We do not recall that the Army
urged them to come back and be court
martialed. It sounded more like the old
line in»the melodrama where Poppa tells
his erring daughter, ‘‘Come home and all
will be forgiven”.
In fact, we think court-martial is ridi
culously superfluous. If Dickenson did “rat”
on his fellow prisoners and hide behind
Red protectors whd pampered him while
others starved, he can not avoid punish
ment. No penalty the Army can give could
equal living w'ith his own conscience, and
In mortal terror of meet'ng an old buddy
even in the fastness of the Virginia hills.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUR WE2 KL Y
UNDAY
The Good Shepherd
Background Scripture: John 10.
Memory Selection: I have other
sheep, that are not of this fold; I
must bring them also, and they
will heed my voice. So there shall
be one flock, one shepherd. John
10:16.
Todoy’s lesson pivots upon the
fact that the blind man of last
week’s lesson had been cast out of
the synagogue. This lesson is our
Lord's rebuke to the unworthy
shepherds of Israel—the high
priests, the pharisees, and other re
Ugious leaders—wtho had thus
maliciously dealt with the healed
man. Over against these false
leaders, Jesus sets him self up as
the true shepherd; in contrast
with the degenerated church, he
states the nature of the true
church
The background of today’s les
son k Wie 34th chapter of the
Book of Ezekiel. Almost six hund
red years before the birth of
Christ, Israel's great Prophet of
the Exile had spoken forcefully
and dramatically about true and
false shepherds.
Nature of the True Shepherd
A sheepfold in the Orient is
not a building but an open en
closure. Its walls are covered with
the branches of thorny shrubs to
deter marauders. Sometimes there
is a door, and at other times the
shepherd himself at night lies
across the entrance keeping his
flock safe within.
Several flocks usually occupy
the same fold. In Orinetal lands
sheep have names just as do our
domestic animals. One shepherd
watches the flocks at night. In
the morning the other shepherds
come and standing outside, call
their sheep by name. As the sheep
begin to come out of the fold, the
shepherds walk ahead of them,
and the great mixed flock breaks
into small flocks Every shepherd
knows his sheep individually and
by name; the sheep know their
shepherd. They can never be
deceived by the voice or call or
dress of anyone else.
How beautifully this figure de
scribes for all time the relation
ships of Christ to his church and
the relationship of pastors to
their flocks.
The Pharisees were false shep
herds —thieves and robbers. They
| had not entered in by the door.
They had secured their position
।by political connivance with the
Roman government. Christ was
the true shepherd, for he had en
tered in by the door. His coming
had long been prophesied. Upon
him the hand of God rested in
approval and power. The true
sheep—men and women of guine
religious faith—heard his voice,
understood him, and fallowed
him.
Our Lord's designation of
Simon as Peter indicates that be
lievers have a heavenly as well
as earthly name. They promised
a new name in the world beyond.
The shepherd goes before his
sheep. How perfectly this applies
to Jesus, who is our leader in the
matter of learning, who walks
ahead of us in hours of tempta
tion, who is near to us in seasons
of pain and trouble. Jesus by his
resurrection became the first
fruits of them that are asleep.
He goes before us in every
thing in this life, and supremely
in the things which have to do
: with eternal life.
In verses 1-6. Jesus is talking
about the church. He is discousing
on the door with reference to the
soul. He is saying that a true
church must have true leaders. If
ever a church began with God’s
blessing upon it. it was the church
of Israel. God had definitely
established it. had provided in de
tail for its every need, and had
spelled out clearly for a primitive
people its everyday duties. But
that church had become corrupt.
The leaders it our Lord's day
were wily politicians, knowing
only too well who this Jesus was
: but determined that he should not
sweep them from their places of
power by his simple, righteous
teathings about the kingdom of
God.
Some branches of the Christian
church have now, with the pasing
of time, become corrupt.
The authority of a church de
pends rtot upon the approval with
which God insitituted it, but
which men administer it. Jesus
made this plain when he said of
men (and it holds true of church
j ei), “If a man abidt not in me. he
J is cast forth as a branch, and is
i withered . . .” (John 15:6).
All this bids us carefully ex
amine the spiritual health of that
branch of the Christian church
to which we belong.
Our Anly Entrance
In these three verses Jesus ft
speaking not about the fold (the
church), but about the sheep (the
congregation. He that enters not
—into the church by Christ has
not entered the church at all. He
has not entered into the fold by
the door but has attempted to
climb up some other way.
Unworthy ministers and church
members, are in this category.
Those who would substitute the
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CHOOL
philosophies of men for the true
doctrines of the gospel are attempt
ing to enter the fold by some
other door that Christ himself.
Thus does Christ speak about the
church.
Observe now his teachings re
garding his personal relationship
to his people, “I am the door of
the sheep,” he declares. His state
ment that all who came before
him were thieves and robbers has
caused much bewilderment to
Biblical scholars. He may have
meant the leaders of Israel who
were opposing him, but more pro
bably he meant the false messiahs
who in previous years had at
tempted by violence to throw off
the Roman yoke and thus bring to
fulfillment the divine promise of'
Israel’s deliverance.
“I am the door; by me if any
man enter in, he shall be saved,
and shall go in and go out, and ■
shall find pasture.” Christ is the [
door into the church; Christ is
ite door into a vital experience
with the living God.
We cannot make the world
better with our war. Soldiers are
' false meshiahs, and the “bene
■ fits” of warfare are one of hu
' manity's most dreadful illusions.
The only door to world peace is
j Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace.
Are we trying to find the peace
I and power promised in the New
i Testament by some other means
than by a simple yielding of our
I hearts to Christ? If so, we are
| striving in vain. Jesus himself is
1 the door. When in all simplicity
! and humility we accept him, on
the basis of the statements he
makes about himself, then do we
' enter into a life of peace, joy,
’ and power.
Note the promise of Christ. He
who accepts him at his word is
saved —or, as the Greek has it, is
safe. Such a one may ba persecut
ed as were the early Christians.
He may have trouble, pain, and
sorrow. But none of these things
will hurt or destroy his soul. He
; is safe—saved by the power of
Christ.
And he “shall go in and go
out, and shall find pasture.” This
is a description of the daily life
of a Christian believer. Those
who have true Christian faith
have a peace and joy about which
the worlddy and sophisticated
know nothing. Suicide, divorce,
and drunkenness are frequently
the lot of those merely to enlarge
their opportunities.
The more people pursue plea
sure, the more frantic does their
pursuit become. Their laughter
! becomes hysterical. Cynicism be
. comes their philosophy. Self
| loathing fills their lives with
bitter revulsion.
But the life of the true Chris
tian believer, be he rich or poor,
is a thing of simple joy an trust.
He has accepted Christ with a
childlike trust, and thereafter he
goes in and out and finds pas
ture—or spiritual nourishment
which builds up his life and
deepens his happiness.
The cheif lesson in this passage
of Scripture, and in the whole
New Testament, is that there is
no other door to salvation but
Jesus Christ. "In none other is
there salvation: for neither is
there any other name under
heaven, that is given among
men, wherein we must be saved”
(Acts 4:12).
Life Abundant
‘The thief cometh not, but that
he may steal, and kill and de
i stroy: I came that they may have
I life, and may have it abundantly,”
or as the King James Version has
it “I am come that they might
have it more abundantly.’’
Jesus Christ comes with a
promise of eternal life. But eter
nal life is not something which
begin after death. The fullness of
eternal life begins after death,
, but we enjoy a large measure of
this divine existence even while
we live here on earth.
The word “abundant” means
‘‘existing in profusion” and comes
from a Latin word which means
‘to overflow’ or literally, “to rise
I in waves from.”
That is a good description of
the life of faith and trust which
Jesus Christ establishes in our
hearts once we truly believe in
him. It cannot be pointed out too
often or too persistently that
[Christian faith confers a happiness
which nothing else in the world
1 can confer. Men wear their live;
away seeking wealth, and in the
end find no happiness in it. Those
who most ardently seek after
pleasure usually find their lives
berefit pleasantness.
Observe a Christian family and
you observe a happy family. En
ter the fellowship of Christian
believers and you must immedi
ately be struck by a quality of
happiness apparent here which
is never found amid the convival
laughter of those who frequent
night club and make the country
club their second home.
For such, life offers nothing
but bitterness. They are like ship
wrecked sailors trying to allay
, their thrist with salt water and
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finding this thirst only mounting
to intolerable agony.
While there is time, counsels
Jesus, make the right choice.
I Here is the invitation coming out
I of the Word of God to everyone
who aspires to discover life’s real i
significance. You will find your
peace not getting but in reeiving,
not by striving after more sen- j
sation, but by opening your heart
to the things which God has pro
mised us in Jesus Christ.
The Gospel of John is the
gospel of eternal life. Jesus is
the divine Being charged with
that supernatural quality of life.
By contact with him, we get this
life. From the day we open our
to him, we begin to experience its
blessings. On God's great calendar
there will come a day when the ;
limitations of all earthy things
shall be removed, and then the .
life which we now enjoy through
faith, modified by these limita
tions, shall become a perfect life
j ‘‘When that which is perfect is
come that xyhich is in part shall
be done away” (I Cor. 13:10).
The divine invitation is sincere
The way before us is plain. The
; gift is perfect. The only require- ■
ment on our part is repentance,
i faith, and acceptance.
Christian Science
Lesson in Madison
Thursday, Mar. 4
The practical application of
I Bible teachings and their spiritual
power to the solution of today s
problems will be the topic of a
public lecture on Christian Sci
ence to be delivered in Madison,
on March 4. 1954, by John D.
Pickett of Chicago.
On a nationwide tour as a mem
ber of The Christian Science
Board of Lectureship, Mr. Trickett
will speak under the auspices of
Christian Science Society in
Church Edifice South 2nd St. at
8 o'clock. P. M. E.S.T. His subject
will be Christian Science: Cer
tain and Complete Healing Avail
able For All.
Formerly president of his own
. investment banking firm, Mr.
Pickett liquidated his business
affairs in 1942 to enter the full
time public practice of Christian
Science healing. He was a Chris
tian Science Wartime Worker dur
ing World War 11. Prior to that he
served in active field service on
, | the Illinois Flood Relief Com
zimittees of The Mother Church,
The First Church of Christ Scien
tist, in Bostorr Massachusetts.
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Counsels For "Y"
At EAO Meeting
The State YMCA is today con
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the Northeast section of Georgia
at Emory at Oxford. The main
purpose of this Conference is to
acquaint interested young peo
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vor of full time Christian Ser
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YMCA has requested the Rever
end Henry A. Zinser, Rector,
Episcopal Church of the Good
Shepherd, Covington, to pre
sent the vocation of the Christian
Ministry. Mr. Zinser will have a
conference with aH of the boys
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