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: BELMONT DENNIS
X Editor and Publisher
: LEOS. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
5 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
X NEWTON COUNTY
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In Viet Nam there is a 24-year-old Marine Lieu
tenant named Ward S. Johnson. He is in charge of a
platoon of leathernecks. Lt. Johnson is only two
years out of the University of Illinois where he
earned a degree in business administration. His
wife waits in Moline, Illinois, for here man to come
home. He wrote her an earthy letter a few days back
and suggested that she share it with the editor of the
Moline Daily Dispatch.
A great deal of Lt. Johnson’s letter concerned the
draft-dodgers here at home and the "demon
strators” who protest US policy in Viet Nam. Since
it is doubtful that any reader of these lines falls into
either of those groups we'll pass over the part of the
letter about them and focus on the Lieutenant’s re
marks directed to the rest of us - to our indif
ference.
"Don’t you know,” writes Lt. Johnson, "that one
thousand of our youth have died in Viet Nam and that
thousands have been wounded?
“Will it always take a‘sinking of the Maine’ or a
‘Sunday morning attack on Pearl Harbor’ to make
you pull your heads out of the clouds? Doesn’t that
Under the tutelage of Ex-Schoolteacher Lyndon
Johnson, the 89th Congress has given a great deal
of time, effort and money to education. Where
earlier Congresses dipped only a wary toe into
the controversial subject of schooling from pre
kindergarten to Ph. D., the 89th has plunged in with
a mighty splash.
Early in the session, the ong-standing barriers
to federal aid faded away, and by April Mr. Jolinson
signed the bill which will pour billions into elemen
tary and secondary schools. The bill to help higher
education took longer, butthat, too, has now cleared
a conference committee.
Aid to higher education is no longer new, but in
this measure Congress has broadened the scope
and deepened the commitment. For the first time
needy undergraduate college students will be in line
for federal scholarships. Funds for construction
of college buildings and aid to libraries are in
creased and made less restrictive. Student loans
are to be guaranteed by the government. Teachers
seeking advanced training will be aided.
A major provision encourages colleges and uni
versities to set up community services programs
and work on such problems as urban renewal.
Another would establish a National Teacher Corps
to send teams of young teachers into deprived areas.
In all of this is the strong imprint of President
/ Johnson’s early experience as a teacher and his
' concept of a “Great Society.” When the House-
It is an ancient truism that ignorance breeds
suspicion, even enmity. That applies to the re
lationships of nations and their peoples. And it
applies, to a considerable extent, to different
groups within a nation.
On the other side of the coin, the road to under
standing lies in knowledge. And this truth gives a
deep significance to the annual observance of Na
tional Farm-City Week
This year’s observance will take place during the
November 19-25 period. As in the past, business
men will visit farms, and farmers will tour factor
ies. Urban and rural young people will gather
together. The schools and churches will lay stress
on the Week and its purpose. Newspapers and other
media will provide an invaluable aid by publicizing
the Week and what it is intended to achieve. Clubs,
civic organizations and all manner of other organi
zations will play their roles.
Right about now, when “the frost is on the pun
kin, and the fodder’s in the shock” is as good
a time as any to say a word about the problems
of our farmer neighbors. Harvest time and the
coming Thanksgiving Day ought to sober our
thinking for a minute as to just what America’s
farmers have wrought in the past forty years or
so.
Let’s start with a pretty staggering statistic. In
the last forty years, the productivity' of each farm
worker has increased 5007. It may lie that there
are other workers who can point to something
approaching that increased productivity , but darned
if we can think of any. Put another way; one worker
on an American farm feeds more than two-and
a-half .times the people he did just twenty years
ago.
Now, let’s see how that fantastic output has
been rewarded. In the past fifteen years, the
share of a dollar for which the farmer sells his
food in the nation’s market place has dropped
more than 107 -a dime. At the same time, Ins
costs have gone up. If you relate his production
costs to his gross income, then the production
costs have increased about 107 in the same
period - another dime.
The simple arithmetic of it is that if you take
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Education At Full Tilt
(Reprinted From Chicago Daily News)
National Farm - City Week
The Time Os Frost
MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
group of babbling nitwits that denounce our stand in
Viet Nam arouse your anger?
"How in hell can you permit the voices of a few
thousand to be heard above your millions? Doesn’t
the threat of Communism make you angry? When
are YOUR demonstrations and teach-ins being held?
Are you too lazy to pick up a pen and write to your
newspaper editor? Are you too embarrassed to take
part in drives to get clothing and soap for our Viet
namese friends?
"Are you too busy to write to your friends and
relatives overseas? Are you too self-conscious to
hang a flag in front of your home? Have you ever
stopped to think that your complacency may render
our nation impotent?
‘‘Those of us in Viet Nam conduct a fight alone in
this war and hope to succeed. The war will be won,
but the victory will be shallow and insignificant
without your wholehearted support. That is all that
we ask.”
Well? The man’s going to be waiting for an
answer.
Senate conference committee threatened to balk
over the Teacher Corps, he applied pressure from
his hospital room and the corps stayed.
Despite the threatened rebellion over the Teacher
Corps and other segments of the higher education
bill, the votes in House and Senate (on slightly
differing versions) were decisive. The House
bill passed 367 to 22. In the Senate, the vote
was 79 to 3.
We need to look back only a few years to see
how revolutionary all this is. But the fight is over.
Except for details, there is nothing left to fight
about for the federal government is in education,
at every level, to stay.
It takes time to adjust to a revolution, and this
one is no exception. The great influx of federally
collected money is an invitation to haste and waste
and possibly corruption. Despite safeguards written
into the bills, there remain grave problems con
cerning the degree of federal control that will
follow the federal dollars onto the campuses and into
the local school districts.
But there can be no doubt that the intent of Con
gress and the President is to spread the benefits
and improve the quality of American education in
every city block and every crossroads village in the
land. The price is high, but the consensus in Con
gress—and we believe in the nation—is that the
price of failing to carry out this intent would be
infinitely higher.
The Covington Kiwanis Club annually observes
Farm-City week in Newton County. During the week
a program is presented at the club at which many
farm leaders are invited.
It would be difficult to exaggerate the importance
of an observance such as this. In the complex, fast
moving world in which we live and work we tend to
become totally immersed in our own concerns. We
give too little thought to the problems, aspirations
and achievements of others. So envies and jealous
ies tend to arise.
From the modern farm, with its highly advanced
production techniques, comes the meats, the vege
tables, the fruits, the grains and dairy products
that make us the best fed people on the earth. They
are consumed, with gusto, in the towns and cities.
The farmer and the urban dweller are partners in
the broadest sense of that word. The more they
know about each other, the better off the nation will
be. And that is what makes National Farm-City
Week so outstanding an event.
ten cents out of a farmer’s left pants pocket and
tell him that’s how much less he’s going to get for
his food products, and then take another ten cents
out of his right pants pocket and tell him that’s to
cover increased production costs, you’ve left him
with onlv $ 80 for doing what he got SI.OO for doing
in 1950.
If you were getting 207 less in your job today
than you were getting in 1950, you’d probably
change jobs. And do you know something? About
half of tire people who worked on farms in 1930
have left them. Those who have remained have
seized upon all the chemical and mechanical
know-how that American science can offer. We’re
the best-fed nation in all history, and we have
abundance to share with hungry people in every
nook and cranny of the globe.
You hear a lot of hot air in the Congress each
year about the high cost of our farm program. But
the frightening part of it is that the money goes
to those who don’t produce, who get paid for not
farming and harvesting. That would seem to be a
matter that Congress might take care of, in mortal
certainty that if it doesn’t, one of these years God’s
elements are going to. A'devout farmer — and it
surely takes a lot of faith to be one at any time —
could almost be forgiven for praying for a crop
failure some year soon just to wake us all up.
Starting with the first payday of next year,
the social security tax on both employer and
employees will be increased from the present
3.625 pOr cent of taxable’payrolls to 4.2 per
cent. Moreover, this higher tax rate will be
applied to the first $6,000 of annual earnings
instead of the $4,800 taxable wage base now in
effect. The maximum deduction will be $2'7.20.
Speaking in the House of Representatives, Con
gressman Curtis of Missouri pointed out that in
1964 the wholesale price index for ethical pharma
ceuticals declined for the 6th straight year, reaching
an all-time low.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
(H H WEEKLY LESSON For)
( Sunday School
NAAMAN
Devotional Reading: Psalms
103:1-12.
Memory Selection; Whoever
would draw near to God must
believe that he exists and that
he rewards those who seek him.
Hebrews 11:6b.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Naaman: Acting on Faith
Young People-Adult Topic:
Naaman: Acting on Faith
As we continue our study of
Old Testament biographies we
come today to the consideration
of Naaman. We are told that as
captain of the host of the king
of Syria he was a great man
with his master. He is described
as "honourable,” and It was
through him that the Lord had
given deliverance unto Syria. The
scriptures tell us that he was
also a "mighty man of valour.”
There appears to have been only
one thing to mar his all-round
greatness—"he was a leper.”
Naaman’s biographical study
brings Into sharp relief this
man’s trusting act of faith In the
God of Israel. He followed the
suggestion of his Hebrew maid
to seek a cure for his leprosy,
and he sets before us the exam
ple of one who was willing to
place complete confidence In God.
Thus he illustrates how we too
may become physically, morally,
and spiritually whole. Acting on
faith as he did, Naaman presents
the picture of a man who was
rewarded by the faith he poss
essed.
Naaman’s knowledge of and
faith in God resulted in the cure
of his leprosy.
Naaman, whose name means
"pleasant,” does not present a
very attractive picture physic
ally. He was a leper. On the
other hand, the scriptures give
us a most attractive and pleas
ant picture of the personality of
the man. Commander of the
army of Ben-hadad, king of Dam
ascus, he was an able general
and had won deliverance for the
Syrians. He had received every
honor that military skill and
fortune could bring. He was a
great man with his master. He
was honorable. Valor character
ized him, but . . .
It is this small word "but”
that makes the biography of Naa
man so attractive to us. "But
he was a leper.” In one fell
swoop the historian changed the
picture of the mighty comman
der-ln-chief Into one that calls
forth our pity. Leprosy, however,
did not exclude a man from
human society In Syria as It did
In Israel despite the fact that
It was looked upon as a loath
some disease. But with all of
his greatness and with the honor
of his position, Naaman lacked
something. He had the handicap
of a disease which gave him
physical pain and torture. Le
prosy was eating away his flesh.
It was a disease to be dreaded.
Nevertheless, It would appear
that Naaman’s affliction was not
at an advanced stage. The scr
iptural account of this warrior’s
activities and his boundless ser
vice as commander of the Syrian
host show us that he was not
completely handicapped by the
disease. Leprosy is something,
however, not to be taken lightly,
and we qan imagine that this
"mighty man” was plagued with
the progressive illness.
Naaman’s story is a picture
in contrasts. Described as
"great,” "honourable,” and
"mighty,” he possessed traits
that made him a great soldier.
These, on the one hand, are
counterbalanced by the simple
statement of his handicap that he
was a leper. His affliction high
lights and overshadows his great
ness as a soldier.
Here was a man who, In spite
of his handicap, was not over
whelmed by his limitations. Some
of the world’s greatest personal
ities are people who surmount
their limitations.
How seriously is our world
handicapped by those who poss
ess greatness In Intellect and
ability but whose contribution
in the world is limited because
they are not sound in soul! There
Report To People Os Georgia
BY GOV. CARL E. SANDERS
Georgia’s archives, priceless
records of our State’s history
and heritage, are now safely
housed in a new building of Arch
ives and Records.
This towering 17-story build
ing made of white Cherokee Geor
gia marble, a modern monument
to those who built our great State,
is a beautiful addition to the
Capitol complex.
All Georgians can be justly
proud of the new building over
looking highways leading into our
Capitol City signaling Georgia’s
growth and prosperity.
Georgia’s historical records
have not always been so safe
and secure. During the dark
days of the American Revolut
ionary War, John Milton, the
first Secretary of State, fled
with the archives first to Char
leston, South Carolina; from
there to Newbern, North Car
olina; and finally to Baltimore,
Maryland where they were lodged
for safekeeping until several
years after the War.
During the unsettled years
when Georgia's Capitol was
moved from Louisville to Mill
edgeville to Atlanta, the records
traveled by boat, by wagon, by
horseback, and by buggy.
is today a leprosy of the spirit
that waters down the effective
ness of many to provide an adeq
uate leadership in high places.
Capacity for true greatness is
sometimes vitiated by the lack
of spiritual health and strength.
Consequently great ability brings
forth little good for the world
or society because frequently
men are possessed with sound
ness of soul.
A sort of spiritual leprosy per
vades much of life today.
The scriptures tell us that in
one of their raids the Syrians
had taken captive a little lass
from the land of Israel. She
was brought to Naaman, who
took her to be a maid for his wife.
She too is one of those minor
characters of the Bible who was
destined to play a major role
in the drama of Naaman. Her
Intense faith in God, and the way
she demonstrated her faith, des
tined her to a literary Immort
ality. Bible history has never
forgotten how she used her trust
in God for the glory of God and
the cure of Naaman’s leprosy.
Apparently she showed no bit
terness because of her servitude
in Naaman’s household. In fact,
it would seem that she had ob
tained a rather unique position
as the maid of Naaman’s wife.
Her piety must have radiated
In her work, for she took the
occasion to tell Naaman’s wife
that she was certain that if
Naaman could but go to see
Elisha the prophet, he would be
cured of his leprosy. "Would to
God,” she said, "my lord were
with the prophet that is in Sam
aria ! For he would recover
him of his leprosy.”
Here is a positive demonstrat
ion of a maiden’s faith in the
miracles of God performed by
his servants.
The report of the maid’s belief
in Elisha’s power reached Naa
man’s ear. "Thus and thus said
the maid that is of the land of
Israel.” Even the king of Syria
showed his concern for his
commander’s welfare, for he sent
a letter to the king of Israel
regarding Naaman’s plight. The
news from the king of Syria
disturbed the king of Israel, and
it appears from the tone of the
letter that at this time Israel
was a subject to Syria. Israel’s
king (Jehoram) expressed con
cern, "Am I God, to kill and to
make alive, that this man doth
send unto me to recover a man
of his leprosy?” (5:7). With
all of his kingly power he was
powerless. He could but imagine
that the king of Syria had ulter
ior motives and was seeking "a
quarrel against me.” Disturbed
in spirit, the king of Israel rent
his clothes.
Simultaneous with the sending
of the letter to Jehoram, Naaman
departed for Israel. He took with
him, we are told, ten talents of
silver and six thousand pieces of
gold, and ten changes of raiment.
This treasure was for payment
of the cure which had been prom
ised by the maid of Israel. Yet
we are to see that his gifts were
not the greatest price which he
had to pay for his cure.
Money can do much good when
it is committed to God’s work,
but there are many spiritual
gifts and miracles of body and
soul which money cannot buy.
The news of the king’s concern
reached the ear of Elisha, who
Is described as "the man of God”
(5:8). He in turn sent a message
to Jehoram asking why the king
had rent his clothes. "Let him
(Naaman) come now to me, and
he shall know that there Is a
prophet in Israel/’ He spoke
with the authority of the prophet
of God, and was so convincing
that the king evidently decided
that he would follow Ellsh’s ad
vice.
We now find that Naaman came
with his horses and with his
chariot "and stood at the dooi
of the house of Elisha.” Here
again we have a picture in con
trasts, the mighty man of valor
from Syria on the one hand and
the humble servant of Israel on
the other, the soldier and the
prophet, the godless and the man
of God.
And, for years the archives
were housed in the former A. G.
Rhodes home on Peachtree Str
eet, a magnificent old residence
given to the State for historical
purposes.
The archives have now com
pleted another move—perhaps
their last—into their home on
Capitol Hill.
The Archives and Records
Building stands proud and tall.
Housed inside for the use and en
joyment of Georgians are the
State’s vital records of history,
of our heritage.
Underground vaults preserve
the State’s most ancient rec
ords. . .records of deeds, pre-
Revolutionary land grant rec
ords, and old grant maps of the
first settlements in Georgia.
A memorial room with spec
ially designed display cases is
filled with exhibits and infor
mation of early Georgia and noted
Georgians.
The Civil War Records De
partment contains a wealth of
information of Civil War times.
The main hub of activity, the
State Records Department, hou
ses all State legislative and jud
icial records.
County records are preserved
on microfilm in the County Rec
ords Department.
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Dear Mrs. Dennis:
Congratulations to you and the
Staff of The Covington News on the
publication of the Centennial
Edition.
We can give your paper nothing
but praise. Being a Covington
Native, I have always looked for
ward to the paper each week.
Since my husband went back into
service in 1954, the paper has
followed us to Panama, Canal
Zone; Fort Knox, Kentucky;
Heidelberg, Germany, and here,
San Francisco, California.
I look forward with eagerness
to returning to Covington when
my husband retires. Until then,
I can keep up with my friends
through your wonderful paper.
Keep up the good work.
Again Congratulations for a
job well done.
Very truly yours,
_ Mrs. Hazel (Kelly) Wills
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Topics
‘COME INTO MY LAB,’ SAYS
UNIVERSITY TO ITS LOCAL
SPIDERS
DON’T STEP on a spider if you
visit the University of Cincinnati
College of Medicine. Hundreds of
the hairy, leggy creatures are
there by invitation. Orb-weaving
garden spiders are the central
figures in an anatomy study aimed
at producing behavioral changes
by means of radiation.
NURSES are finding it easier to
care for post-operative patients
in recovery rooms because of
equipment that is “over their
heads.” Ceiling-mounted nurs
ing service columns, which can
be raised and lowered by vaccum
power, bring oxygen, vaccum,
electrocardiagram and electro
encephalogram equipment within
easy reach. The stainless steel
columns, supplied by National
Cylinder Gas, Chicago, eliminate
equipment that previously had to
be connected to wall outlets by
hoses and cables.
FELDSPAR-RICH ROCK, a po
tential source of raw material for
the glass and ceramic industries,
has been discovered in the Mo
jave Desert of California by De
partment of the Interior geolo
gists. The rock crops out in an
area near Barstow and is of
particular interest because of its
unusually high feldspar content.
A NEW SPACE SCIENCES and
Engineering Laboratory has been
established at The Pennsylvania
State university to help coordi
nate space research.
OIL SEEDS such as soybeans,
cottonseed and peanuts will be
come increasingly important
sources of food protein as the
population of the world continues
to expand, predicts Dr. Aaron M.
Altshul. The Department of Agri
culture scientist foresees a five
fold increase in the demand for
protein concentrates within the
next few generations. Animal
products now account for most of
the 20 million tons of protein
available.
COLD, SOLID gases that are
believed to make up comets are
being created in a Georgia Tech
laboratory under ultra-low temp
eratures and pressures that
simulate the conditions of space.
Spectrum studies by astronomers
indicate that frozen ices of am
monia, nitric oxide, acetylene
and ethylene form most of the
substance of comets.
TITANIUM, a metal principally
used as a paint pigment, is now in
demand for use in high-tempera
ture metal alloys required in the
aircraft and missile industries.
ACCORDING TO LEGEND, the
yard was established by King
Henry I as the distance from the
tip of his nose to the end of his
thumb when his arm was out
stretched.
Lt. Donald House
Earns Certificate
Os Achievement
Army Ist Lt. Donald L. House,
24, son of Mrs. Ben L. House,
320 Elm St., Covington, received
a Certificate of Achievement
from Colonel C. B. Drennon Jr.,
professor of military science,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, during ceremonies at the
institute, Oct. 20.
Lieutenant House received the
award for meritorious service
during his last assignment with
Battery B, Bth Missile Battalion,
15th Artillery at Homestead Air
Force Base, Fla.
Assigned to Headquarters, XII
U. S. Army Corps, Atlanta, Lie
utenant House is attending
graduate school at Georgia In
stitute of Technology. The lieu
tenant entered the Army in July
1963.
He was graduated from Newton
County High School in 1959 and
received his bachelor of science
degree from Georgia Institute of
Technology in 1963. His wife,
Nicki, lives in Atlanta.
Other old records are main
tained on microfilm and in bound
volumes in the Research Depart
ment.
The famous and elaborately
hand-carved circular staircase
of Honduras mahogany with the
three stained glass windowspor
traying the Story of the Confed
eracy stand in the new building
just as they were in the Rhodes
home. Seeing these famous win
dows is well worth a trip to the
building.
IBs
Rev. Edgar A. Callaway, Pastor
First Baptist Church
Have you ever tried to describe
something that was beyond de
scribing? Or, to measure some
thing that was beyond measuring?
Who can adequately describe the
love of God? Who can put a mea
suring standard to God’s love and
say "this is its measure?” On
the human level we often find our
selves trying to tell how much we
love - "a bushel and a peck, and
a hug around the neck.” Butthat
doesn’t really tell much, does it?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning in
one of her Sonnets to the Portu
gese askes the question about her
love for her husband, Robert
Browning: "How do I love thee?”
She then goes on to answer: "Let
me count the way. . .” We can
not measure the love of God, but
we can look at the way in which
His love was given and is given.
There is no better or more com
prehensive statement of the love
of God than that found in John 3:16
"For God so loved the world that
He gave His only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have ever
lasting life.”
Notice, first, that God’s love
was freely given. There was no
favoring of some and slighting of
others. There are two words that
show how freely His love was
given - "world” and "Whoso
ever.” There are no boundaries
national, racial or class. His
love is for all the peoples of all
the earth for all of time - even to
those who do not love Him. John’s
Gospel earlier tells us that "He
came unto His own and His own
received Him not, but to as many
as received Him . . .” The
apostle Paul tells us "But God
commendeth His love for us, in
that, while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us.” His love is
freely given. But more than that,
His love is lavishly given, for He
gave "His only begotten Son.”
We do not need to sentimentalize
about this. God gave his only be
gotten, the only one of His kind.
He did not hold back any of His
Lajona IJm
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Good morning! How are you
facing life today. . .in school, at
home, in business, on the street?
Are you expecting to succeed?
A friend of mine in Brazil used
to say, "If at first you don’t
succeed, keep on sucking till you
do succeed!”
John C. Wright, in the Vulcan
Bulletin, says:
"Success Comes in Cans
‘I can’ is a ruler of nations.
With power to do, to dare;
‘I Can’t’ fills the lowest of sta
tions
And sulks in the realm of dis
pair.
‘I can’ wears the crown of the
Master
Whose forces no foe can turn
back.
‘I can’t’ flies the flag of disaster
CLOSE THE BACKDOOR
Consolidation of several federal agencies into the
new Department of Housing and Urban Develop
ment has focused attention again on the billions of
dollars being spent through the “backdoor.”
Backdoor spending means that the authorization
circumvents the normal legislative appropriation
process and thus is not subject to annual Congres
sional scrutiny.
Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D.-Va.) has this to say:
“Every major program and agency to be consoli
dated into the new Housing and Urban Development
Department has unlimited authority to increase
contingent liabilities against the Federal Treasury
in insured mortgages and to guarantee local bond
issues for construction of new low rent public hous
ing units.”
The new department’s spending authority and
outstanding loans come close to SB2 billion. The
two main points of concern are the fundamental
mechanics—backdoor spending—and the large con
tingent liability created by long-range commitments.
Congressman George Mahon (D.-Tex.) holds
“backdoor spending practices indefensible” and
says that it is “a misapprehension to think that Con
gress exercises its full spending powers through the
traditional annual appropriation bills.”
How much longer will the taxpayers permit fed
eral spending to escape regular year-by-year con
trol? It’s time for Congress to close the backdoor
once and for all.
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love. There was no effort to de
termine whether He would be
giving too much. He did not
reason with Himself that perhaps
man would respond to a new code
of ethics, a new teaching of a
better way, or a new and more
attractive schedule of works. He
knew that none of these would
save man, so He gave His best -
His only begotten Sos. Lavishly
did He give. More still, He gave
His love compassionately. The
supreme object was preventive
and saving - ‘ that whosoever
believeth might no perish.” Man
had plunged himself into sin and
all of its dire and destructive
consequences. He was held in the
darkness of sin. The heart of
God was moved with compassion
and salvation was effected be
cause God loved.
Still, to measure God’s love
we must remember that it was
given enternally. It was not a
fleeting fancy, not a whim that
would soon pass away. When God
loved He loved forever. -“Might
have everlasting life” sounds
very much like "Yea, I have
loved thee with an everlasting
love” of which Jeremiah speaks.
David Livingston, when he was
opening the continent of Africa,
asked some natives, "Where does
this great river flow?” Their
answer was ". . .around the lasi
bend and into the sand it is
swallowed.” Livingston knew
better, for he had traced its
course around that ‘last bend’ and
many other bends until it plunged
into the great Atlantic Ocean. So
the love of God through Jee '
flows into God’s eternity. It is
eternally given.
One further word on the mea
sure of God’s love - it is person
ally given. This was no ‘cor
respondence by mail’ case, no
words sent by carrier service,
nor simply published in a took.
"The Word became flesh and
dwelt among us.” "For God so
loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son” is God’s per
sonal word, saying to everyman,
every woman, every boy, every
girl, "I love you.”
And surrenders at every at
tack.
‘I can’ is a doer and worker
Who sits on the throne of
Success.
‘I can’t’ is a drone and a shirk
er,
Who falters and lags in dis
tress.
‘I can’ marches steadily for
ward;
Achieving, rejoicing, in life;
‘I can’t’ is a craven and a cow
ard
Who always goes down in the
strife.”
So adopt "lean” as your motto,
face forward with God as your
guide and source of strength,
and you needn’t fear failure.
The Christian can truly say,
"I Can” do all things through
Christ which strengthens me.