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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Read Bargains In This
Christmas Issue And Trade
At Home This Year
This week the Covington NEWS is pub
lishing its 95th annual Christinas Edition
for the benefit of the citizens of Newton
County.
The merchants of Covington have a
wonderful variety of Christmas needs and
gifts on hand and by trading at home you
trade with those you know and also have
the satisfaction of knowing if something
is not entirely right it will be exchanged.
You also save wear and tear on your
automobile and yourself in driving and
shopping in crowded areas w’here you
cannot find anything more suitable than
you can find right here at home.
Covington has always been a trading
center for an area of 25 to 30 miles and if
you desire any piece of merchandise you
can find it right here at home. If others
come from other counties to trade in Cov
ington, then we urge our local people to
make their first call on Covington stores
and we are quite sure they will find just
the article which they desire.
The stores in Covington compare fa
vorably with any store in Atlanta and any
item which you can purchase in Atlanta
or any other place nearby, can be pur
chased right here at home and you will
save by giving our merchants the oppor
tunity of serving you.
Read the ads in this Christmas Edition
and if you don’t find exactly what you
desire, call on the stores and you will find
it there.
The merchants cannot advertise every
article in their stores and therefore if you
desire some article which is not advertis
ed, please call on your local merchants
and give them an opportunity to furnish
your needs this Christmas.
Also by trading at home the dollar
remains at home and part of this dollar
will some back to you. Dollars spent
elsewhere are gone forever from this
community and will never return. So,
keep your dollars at home — save wear
and tear on your car — save wear and
tear on yourself — and trade with people
you know who have given you satisfaction
throughout the years.
Toy Shopping Tips For
Safer Holiday Season
Available to parents, relatives, and
friends of children everywhere are two
new publications -a leaflet titled “Toy
Shopping Tipa for Parents” and "Toy
Shopping Tips." a poster - both develop
ed by the Bureau of Public Health, Med
ical Department, Equitable Life Assur
ance Society.
The materials support a nationwide ef
fort of the National Safety Council to re
duce the number of accidents involving
toys and children. Information in the
leaflet was taken from the Council’s Fall,
1959, issue of HOME SAFETY REVIEW,
planned to trigger educational efforts in
advance of the Christmas toy-buying sea
son.
The leaflet makes practical sugges
tions for the kinds of “safe” toys to buy
or make for children up to 2. from 3 to
4. 4 to 6, 6 to 8 and older. Also listed are
the kinds of toys to beware of, for each
age group.
Supplementing the toy shopping ma
terials in another leaflet, developed by
the Ecfuitable’s Bureau of Public Health,
♦.tied “Play is the Business of Children.”
This leaflet points up the importance of
play to children and suggests ways pa
rents can “get into the act.”
Both of the leaflets and the poster
are available without charge by writing
to Bureau of Public Health, Box 572, Gen
eral Poet Office, New York 1, New York.
What women refuse to comprehend is
that men are not especially interested in
their problems or their future because
most men are essentially selfish, bad,
worthless, ruthless, and undependable,
with certain exceptions, including you
and me, dear friend.
If you have a friend who reads a book
once a year or so, you have to listen while
- he tells you about it. chapter by chapter,
verse by verse, comma by comma, till
you go nearly nuts.
A new study, reported in a publica
tion of the American Medical Association,
shows that nearly as many Americans die
from bee stings as rattlesnake bites. Over
a five-year period rattlers killed 55 peo
ple in this country, and bees 52.
Only successful people know the bitter
ness of defeat.
(Our Advertisers Are Assured Os Results)
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MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, os
mail matter of the Second
Class.
New City Hall Fulfills
Long Need Felt For The
City Os Covington
Thousands of Covingtomans and New
ton County citizens, as well as citizens
from adjoining counties, attended the
opening of Covington’s New City Hall last
Sunday and were thrilled beyond words
at the splendid edifice which has been
constructed.
We also took advantage of the oppor
tunity to look over the new City Hall and
were delighted in the commodious and
efficient planning which has gone into
this structure.
Every department of the city is provid
ed for including the billing and paying of
gas .light and water bills, the fire depart
ment and the police department. The
space: usnessness of the City Hall allows
for future expansion without changing the
physical structure of the building.
We wish to congratulate our Mayor
and Councilmen and all those who had a
part in planning this building as well as
the various departments of our city.
Our thoughts go backward about 25
years when we, as president of the Cov
ington Kiwanis Club, had the pleasure of
presiding during the laying of the corner
stone of the new Post Office Building.
Our enthusiasm was high on that day and
we made the remark that the next real
need of the city was a new Municipal
Building. We have waited more than 25
years for this dream of ours to come true
and we are well satisfied with the reali
zation of that dream.
We believe the City of Covington has
now one of the most complete and effi
cient City Halls that we have ever had the
pleasure of inspecting and we know the
citizens of our town and county join with
us in rejoicing over the completion of this
fine building.
Tacticia De Gaulle
Just About Blocks Summit
Meeting Until Next Spring
As it looks from here, credit is due
France's rather determined President
Charles de Gaulle for blocking a head
long Allied scramble to sit at a conference
table with the Kremlin's travelling sales
man.
With the announcement of the new’s
that Khrushchev will visit Paris late this
year or early in 1960, it would seem that
the French have succeeded in checking
Britain’s eager Prime Minister Macmillan
and the complaint President Eisenhower
and have gained their objective by mak
ing it a practical impossibility to hold
that East-West summit conclave before
next spring.
Unofficial reports indicate that Gen
eral de Gaulle invited the Butcher of Bu
' dapest to the French capital only days
ago, despite three letters from President
Eisenhower urging preliminary Western
summit meetings as early as October 31
in preparation for the East-West summit
of summits by mid-December. Mr Mac
millan would have the Big Show start on
December 7th to commemorate Pearl Har
bor Day which might be appropriate at
that).
In view of the fact that the Allies will
hardly push now for a pre-pinnacle hud
dle with President de Gaulle before he
has had his turn at chatting with the
charming Ukrainian, preparations for the
next East-West debacle in Geneva (Presi
dent Eisenhower has indicated it will pro
bably be held there), will doubtless pro
ceed "without haste” as de Gaulle has
been urging.
This more relaxed approach will at
least give President Eisenhower time to
catch up in his correspondence with
Khrush and answer that long letter which
reportedly assures the White House that
K and Mao stand together on Red China’s
claim to Formosa, that the traveller had
not persuaded Mao that it is naughty to
use force (or even tried) nor mentioned
any discussion about the American pri
’ soners Mao is holding - as requested by
the President at the Camp David talks.
It is also reported that it was agreed
between Washington and Moscow that the
Khrushchev letter was not to be publish
ied, so perhaps the contents of the reply
will have to be leaked, too. From here it
looks a bit thick at the summit.
When she w r as painfully paying for
his music lessons, did any fond mother
imagine that her son would some day be
a member of a hot band, banging out hot
cha in a lounge till the early morning for
| the entertainment of undistinguished ha
bitues?
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUR WEEKLY
UNDAY
Peter's Broadening Ministry |
Bible Material: Acts 9:32—[
11:18.
Devotional Reading: Jolin
10:9 — 16: Memory Selection:
Truly I perceive that God shows
no partiality, but in everv na
tion any one who fears him and
does what is right is acceptable
to him. Acts 10:34 - 35.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:;
Enlarging the Circle.
Young People - Adult Topic: l
No Partiality with God
Luke, author of the Books of)
Acts, was a Gentile. He is pro
bably the only Gentile author
of any of the sixty-six books of
the Bible. He was a physician
(Col. 4:14), the companion of
Paul, and judged by his later
literary productions, one of the
most gifted men on the record
of world literature. It is under
standable, therefore, that this
Gentile Christian wanted to
make plain to the early group
of Christian believers that Je
sus Christ had come to be the
Saviour of the world — the
whole world, with no differen
tiation of race, color, or na
tionality. He describes at great
length two events in the open-I
ing years of Christian history—
the conversion of Paul (three
times related. Acts 9:1-9: 22:6-
11: 26:8-20). and the receot’on
by Peter of the first Gentile,
Cornelius the centurion, into
the church (Acts 10:1—48: 11:1
-17).
We have already dwelt on
the importance of Saul’s
(Paul’s) conversion. In the re
mainder of this lesson, we shall
see the overwhelming impor
tance of the race issue in the
early Christian church; for the
reception of Cornelius into the
Christian community, which up
to that time was composed
wholly of Jews, raised the most
burning issue in the early years
of the church’s history.
“And the apostles and breth
ren that were in Judaea heard
that the Gentiles had also re
ceived the word of God.”
It is hard for us today to re
construct in our imagination the
difference which race made at
the time these words were first
written. The discrimination
practiced today by certain races
against other races is not to be
compared with the rigid dis
crimination which all Jews
practiced against non-Jews.
We need to remind ourselves,
that the discrimination which
existed at the time the Book of
Acts was written was but an
extreme and unwarranted ex
tension of a command which
God had solemnly laid down.
He had made it plain through
his law revealed through Moses
that the Hebrews were to be a
people set aside from the other
peoples of the world, so that
through them He might make a
revelation of his truth, unob
structed by the false beliefs
which would naturally have
crept into the Jewish system or
doctrine had there been any
fraternizing between Jews and
non-jews.
In other words, this discrim
ination was. in the beginning,
utterly necessary for the carry
ing out of the divine will.
We read all through the books
of Samuel and Kings and in
the writings of the prophets
how Baalism and other forms
of idolatry were constantly
making corrupting inroads into
the pure revealed religion of
Jehovah. Therefore, the He
biews must be kept strictly
apart from the other peoples of
the world. Nothing must be al
lowed to interfere with or dis
tort that great revelation of
his nature and will which God
was making through the He
brew people.
With the passing of time
however, the religious leaders
went to such extremes in the
practice of this divine require
ment that they made it unlaw
ful for a Jew to enter a Gen
tile's home or to eat with a
Gentile.
Therefore, the news that Pe
ter had entered the home of
Cornelius the centurion (Acts
10) stunned the apostles and
the other Christians of the
Jewish church and caused them
to take immediate and drastic
action.
As soon as Peter arrived in
Jerusalem after receiving Cor
nelius and his Gentile friends
into the church, he found him
a vor tex of controversy
Thou wentest in to men un
circumcised. and didst eat with
them.” cried his accusers.
Here indeed was an unfor
givable sin A Jew had not
only stepped across the line and
behaved in a friendly fashion
with a Gentile, but this Jew
Peter, chief of the Christian
nostks, had actually received
number of hated and unclean
Gentiles into a Christian church
S LESSON FOR
CHOOL
which, up to that time, was;
wholly Jewish in membership. ■
Peter had been wise enough
to take six brethren with him to i
Caesarea. Therefore, he had
six witnesses to support every
thing he said. We can readily
imagine Peter standing with
six witnesses behind him and
facing courageously the fury of
his associates, who w” e de- '
termined to bring him to book
for his illegal association with
unclean Gentiles.
Peter was ready for the inev
itable trial.
Note that although he was
chief of the apostles, appointed
so by Christ himself, his asso
ciates did not hesitate to cen
sure him. He had done what to
them was a monstrous crime.
He had actually entered the
house of filthy Gentiles —for
all non-Jews were filthy, ac
cording to Jewish standards of
that day — had preached to
them, had received them into
the Christian church, and then
had committed the greatest sac
rilege of all by sitting at the
same table with them and eat
ing with them.
Peter did not stand on his
dignity and maintain that be
cause he was chief of the apos
tles he was above censure. He
“rehearsed the matter from the
beginning, and expounded it by
order unto them.”
He had the support of a vis
ion and a directive straight
from God to do what he had
done. Furthermore, Cornelius
had had a corresponding vision.
Peter had been in the citv of
Joppa praying. The first les
son which strikes us as we be
gin our perusal of this passage
of Scripture is that most of the
great experiences in the Chris
tian life are associated with
prayer. Jesus was praying at
the time of his baptism when
the Holy Spirit came upon him
(Luke 3:21); also on the mount
of transfiguration (Luke 9:29);
also as Christ faced the cruci
fixion and the agony of Gethse
mane. he prayed until “his
sweat was as it were great
drops of blood falling down to
the ground” (Luke 22:41 - 44).
Peter was in a trance when
he saw the vision. Modern dic
tionaries define a trance as a
state of partly suspended ani-
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mation. abstraction of mind and
spirit, a sleeplike state as that
of deep hypnosis.
The word "trance” occurs
only three times in the New
Testament, twice (Acts 10:10
and 11:5) in which this inci
; dent is related, and once (Acts
■ 22:17) in which Paul speaks of
: being in a trance. Let no one
1 dismiss as mere superstition a
state which seemed to have
holy uses two thousand years
ago but which is often the pa-
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God can make holy use of
something in one age which
men and women can use wick
' edly and deceitfully in later
generations.
Peter had seen a great sheet
• let down from heaven by four
' corners upon which were all
J sorts of animals, creeping
i • things, and birds, both clean
’ and unclean. And he had heard
> a voice saying to him, "Arise.
■ Peter; slay and eat.”
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