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I THE COVINGTON NEWS
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E BELMONT DENNIS
3 Editor and Publisher
3 LEOS. MALLARD
3 Assistant to Publisher
E OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
S NEWTON COUNTY
: AND THE
3 CITY OF COVLNGTON
Today is Thanksgiving Day, set aside by our
Pilgrim Fathers many years ago. Turkey seems
to be the traditional food for Thanksgiving, as the
people of that day went out hunting for food,
wild turkey, for their dinner on the day they set
aside to give thanks to the Heavenly Father for their
new home in America.
Yes, this is Thanksgiving Day, 1965. We
challenge you, the people of Covington, Newton
County and the Nation to Stop! Look and Listen!
What will we make of this sacred day? Will
it be a day set aside for prayer and thanksgiving
for the beautiful America God gave us? Will we
look around us at the great advantages we have
over our forefathers who had to use hand hewn
logs to build their homes; had to kill wild game
for food and live on what they could find until
crops could be grown, after new ground was
established.
We have everything! Who could wish for more?
Yet, there is more unhappiness, more unrest
than we have ever known. Salaries are better
than ever, IF, we want to work. Oh, so many
want to rob, steal, break in banks, kill, for
money! They will not accept the education offered
them, .when it’s here for the asking.
Horror is continually expressed at the numbers
of persons maimed and killed annually on streets
and highways in automobile accidents. As a matter
of fact, it is astonishing that ten times as many
are not killed. It’s just luck they are not.
The majority of automobile drivers today are
the greatest lawbreakers and most discourteous
individuals in the nation. Too many drivers think
they have to show their prowess as racers by pass
ing everything in restricted speed zones.
First, there are the midget cars whose drivers
seem impelled to prove they must show their speed
qualities. Then there are the imitation racing or
so-called sport cars with their imitation speedway
drivers. Then come the owners of their first
behemoths cruising at 80 to 100 miles an hour.
They pass on the right or left, they run on your
Disqualify The Poor
One of the big issues in Washington these days is
whether or not “poor” people should haveapart in
setting policy in the “war on poverty,” or if they
should be given jobs at “ the neighborhood level”
carrying out orders of Washington bureaucrats or
local politicans. This, we agree, is a tough ।
problem. Somehow, it just doesn’t seem right to i
set some poverty-stricken fellow down as a member ।
of the planning board alongside a bureaucrat who is
drawing SIB,OOO to $30,000 a year—unless you pay i
him something. Yet, if you pay him even a fraction
of the salary of his bureaucrat fellow board mem
bers, suddenly he “ain’t poor no more” and, ।
theoretically, is disqualified.
If the poor fellow sits with the board at little I
or no pay, and doesn’t get to say anything, or if I
the others pay his comments no mind, then sooner j
or later it will dawn on him and the impoverished I
citizens he supposedly represents that he’s there
just for show. On the other hand, if he makes
suggestions which are adopted by the high-priced ;
officials, then the question will eventually arise as 1
to why he shouldn’t be in charge. ;
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Similar problems are certain if a few im- 1
Twelve years seems like a mighty long time to
spend in self-exile from one’s native country and
family just to satisfy a curiosity. Yet, that is
the reason turncoat-defector William C. White
gave to reporters in Hong Kong for having refused
repatriation to the US from a prisoner-of-war
camp at the time of the Korean Armistice (1953),
and choosing, instead, to live in Communist China.
Now it appears that his curiosity has been satisfied
and he wants to come back to the United States,
bringing a Chinese wife and two children with him.
We note, in curious coincidence, that another
of those American turncoats from tlie Korean con
flict made the news again, along with the returning
White, but for an apparently different reason.
Clarence C. Adams, formerly of Memphis, Tenn
essee, is now serving the Communists quite openly
by making propaganda broadcasts aimed at Amer
ican troops, especially negroes, who are serving
in South Viet Nam, telling them, in typical turn-
In a recent speech, the head of a pharmaceutical
company listed some facts about his industry
that may come as a surprise to the many who have
been misled by wildly exaggerated charges and
claims.
The extent of the industry’s profits is one of
those facts. The average prescription today costs
the patient $3.35. Out of that, the net profit to the
pharmaceutical manufacturer is only 16 cents or
slightly less than 5 per cent
The industry’s research work constitutes another
of those facts. The manufacturers reinvest an
amount equivalent to almost half their profits after
taxes into research and new plant facilities for
^wanded drug output. And the cost of research to
National Safety Council Statistics
Motor vehicle death totals vary sharply for
different days of the week and different months
of the year, according to the National Safety-
Council. Saturday is the worst day and Tuesday
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Watch Out For Crazy Drivers!
Curious Indeed!
Human Profits
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Have we forgotten the meaning of Thanksgiving
day, or of that word “Thanksgiving”? Yes, in
America we are so “far out”, on the way to self
destruction, that God may not even have to take
a hand in destroying us. Let’s think this over with
a view to filling the sanctuaries in our churches
on Sunday, or whenever those church doors are
open. Let’s pull out that “Mothers” old tattered
Bible and start finding out what God would have us
do, and how He would have us treat our brother,
our sister, our mother, father or neighbor. The
homes must be schools of learning, when it comes
to Christian living. It must begin with the parents,
for their actions speak louder to even small
children, than any words.
Any man, woman, child, friend, evan a pastor
or teacher may criticize or condemn another human
being, and instead of going to that child, or per
son, as they should. . .they condemn themselves
then and there when they denounce them to others
in the schools, homes, pulpits, clubs or on the
ball field. Sometimes we hurt ourselves more
than we hurt others by doing this.
Let’s look for a long time into the mirror and
see the person we are. .see ourselves as God
sees us. . .we can’t fool Him. . .then let’s get
on our knees this Thanksgiving day and rededicate
our lives to the Father who made us all.
bumper, they don’t come to a full stop at signs,
they pay no attention to turn signals of the car
ahead but speed past.
Many pleasure cars, trucks and motorcycles run
with mufflers open until the noise on city streets
and freeways is deafening. If they know the rules
of the road, they pay no attention to them or driver’s
manuals.
No wonder there is so much juvenile delinquency
when there is so much adult delinquency.
There is not much use of talking about reducing
automobile killings until the public abides by the
commonest rule of courtesy and driving techniques.
In the meantime, try to keep out of the way of
the drivers who think it is smart to break the
traffic laws and don’t be surprised at the mounting
auto death rate.
poverished individuals are given anti-poverty jobs
at the neighborhood level. From the moment they
receive their first paycheck, those fellows will no
longer be in the poverty class and other down-and
outers not lucky enough to get on the anti-poverty
payroll will be aware of the fact Anyone who
thinks this will inspire inpoverished onlookers to
go out and look for real working-type jobs had
better enroll in a correspondence course on human
nature.
One side fears that unless the poor set policy,
political bigwigs will exploit the program and the
funds to further their own political ambitions.
The other side contends that if the poor set policy,
the program will be taken overby dissident political
factions and opportunists who claim to speak for the
poor. And Solomon himself would have to admit
they are both right.
If the whole program can’t be cancelled, what
about converting all the funds into small bills,
loading the money into crop-duster airplanes,
and shovelling it out over poverty-stricken areas?
Such a “dusting” would eradicate some poverty at
least.
coat fashion, that they are fighting on the wrong side.
This coincidence makes us a bit curious as to
exactly why turncoat White is emerging from Red
China at this time. We’re no more inclined to
take his word as to why he wants now to return
to the US than we are willing to accept his ex
planation as to why he went to Communist China
in the first place.
We’re curious, too, as to just why the Communist
regime in Peking would allow this fellow to leave
its domain at this time, accompanied by a Chinese
wife and two children. We recall a similar in
stance wherein another Communist regime, the
Soviet Union, allowed a fellow named Lee Harvey
Oswald to return to the US with a Russian wife.
Come to think of it, “curiosity” was one of the
reasons given for Oswald’s initial renunciation of
American citizenship and expressed preference
to live in a Communist-controlled land. All very
curious — very curious, indeed.
the industry runs to a million dollars a day.
This has produced a medical revolution. And that
revolution, the spokesman went on to say, has pro
duced another kind of profits—human profits. We
live longer, and our children and grandchilren will
live longer still. There is less pain and prolonged
illness. Less time is spent in hospitals, and
the bills are fewer. Diseases that once were
vicious killers have been conquered or virtually
so--tuberculosis, pneumonia, mastoiditis and so
on dowm a long and lengthening list.
The human profits, the ill and the injured
gain in return for the modest dollar profits
earned by the drug producers, can be fairly de
scribed as immeasurable.
is the best. Deaths are at their lowest level in
January and February, then increase steadily
to a summer peak.
L MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
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MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
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POUB WEEKLY LESSOR FOB J
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AMOS
Devotional Reading: Isaiah 42:
1-7.
Memory Selection: Let justice
roll down like waters, and
righteousness like an ever
flowing stream. Amos 5:24.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Amos: Champion of Justice.
Young People - Adult Topic:
Amos: Champion of Justice.
Naaman, about whom we
studied last week, was a Syrian,
“a great man with his master,
and honourable, because by him
the Lord had given deliverance
unto Syria: he was also a mighty
man in valour, but he was a
leper.”
All that he might have hoped
for for himself and his loved
ones was destroyed by the di
sease with which he was af
flicted. Yet he proved him
self a man of faith. He was
healed at the word of the pro
phet Elisha.
Elijah, Elisha, Nathan, and
others of the prophets were
spiritual giants, but they left no
record of their utterances. Later
generations recorded their great
deeds. Beginning with Amos,
however, about whom we study
today, we encounter the first of
the so-called “literary pro
phets.” Some of these prophets
were not nearly so significant in
their utterances and achieve
ments as were Elijah, Elisha, and
Nathan, but twelve of these so
called “Minor Prophets” left
records of their utterances.
Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel,
who are known as the “Major
Prophets,” left literary “re
mains” of large proportions.
On the whole the Minor Pro
phets were minor in their in
fluence, but they were called
“Minor” chiefly because they
left few written records. On the
other hand, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and
Ezekiel were Major Prophets
both because of the great amount
of written material they left be
hind and because of their over
whelming spiritual Influence on
the Jewish nation.
Amos was a member of the
Southern Kingdom of Judah. He
did his prophesying, however,
in the Northern Kingdom of
Israel. He lived at Tekoa, at
the border of the two kingdoms.
He was a shepherd. He also
made a business of preparing
the mulberry figs into a crude
kind of food and of pricking the
sycamore fruit artificially to
hasten its ripening.
Among the workmen of his
age Amos occupied a position
which, to say the least, was
humble. It may appear strange
that his solitary, thoughtful man
walking among his sheep in
northern Judaea should have be
come a figure upon whose
utterances the scholars and seers
of the ages have pondered long and
profitably.
Jeroboam had become king of
Report To People Os Georgia
BY GOV. CARL E. SANDERS
Thursday of this week, the
fourth Thursday in November,
is observed as a day set aside
for prayerful meditation and
thanksgiving for divine goodness.
It is a day first celebrated by
the Pilgrims who gathered to
thank God for the harvest and
their survival during a long,
harsh winter in the new Country.
It is a day when we thank our
Creator for our life, liberty,
prosperity, democracy, and our
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Israel upon the division of the
nation Into two kingdoms. He
had been a proud, alert leader
of men under Solomon and super
vised many of the great king’s
building projects in Jerusalem.
But Solomon was suspicious of
Jeroboam’s ambition, and Jero
boam fled to Egypt, where he
remained for sever al years.
After Solomon’s death he
returned, and when Solomon’s
foolish and degenerate son Re
hoboam refused to give the people
in the Northern Kingdom the basic
and humane rights they felt they
should have the ten northern
tribes split off into a kingdom of
their own and chose Jeroboam to
head the nation.
Jeroboam had plenty of
courage, but he was not a man
of deep spiritual conviction. He
realized the necessity of taking
is people to Jerusalem to ob
serve the religious festivals, but
he feared that when they got there
they would be won away from him
and that he and his nation would
thus be destroyed. Accordingly
he set up the golden calves which
Aaron had fashioned (Exod.
32:1-6) and pretended to worship
Jehovah using the golden calves
as symbols. This, of course,
was Idolatry of the most de
basing sort, and the Hebrews of
the Southern Kingdom hated their
brethren In the Northern Kingdom
because of this lapse of faith.
Furthermore, under Jeroboam
the Northern Kingdom became
very wealthy, but with only two
classes - the miserable poor at
the bottom and the luxury-loving
privileged class at the top.
It was primarily against this
maldistribution of wealth, as well
as against the Idolatry of the
Northern Kingdom, that Amos
prophesied - or preached, de
nounced.
The tyannical rich people of the
North had become so heartless
that they actually spoke jeeringly
of selling the righteous for silver
and the poor for a pair of shoes
(Amos 2:6). As for themselves,
they stretched themselves upon
beds of ivory, drank wine not out
of goblets but out of bowls, an
ointed themselves with precious
ointments, “but they were not
grieved for the affliction of
Joseph (fellow tribesmen in the
north)” (Amos 6:1-6).
This simple shepherd Amos
had probably traveled about quite
a bit selling wool and hides.
He had a mind that grasped the
significance of international pro
blems. He saw that injustice
could not eventually prosper, and
he realized that Jeroboam and his
privileged classes in the north
were leading their nation toward
dissolution and captivity. Ac
cordingly he went boldly into the
sacred precincts of Bethel (house
of God) and denounced the idol
priests, the idolatry of their
worship, and the heartlessness
which they sought to protect and
sanctify.
own special blessings during the
year.
Thanksgiving Season Is a part
icularly fitting time for each of
us to renew our dedication to
this Nation built on a deep and
abiding faith in God.
For many people in today’s
modern and sophisticated world,
expressing love for one’s country
too often seems old-fashioned,
but nothing could really be further
from the truth.
We often take our precious
liberty for granted, because we
have not known oppression. Since
our forefathers fought, and our
Nation was founded on the prin
ciples of life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness, we believe
that it just naturally will always
remain so.
But freedom, once acquired, is
not kept forever without our con
tinually striving to maintain it.
We, as individuals and as a
Nation, must take an active in
terest in preserving our liberty.
We must take an interest in our
local, state and national govern
ments, work for the election of
the candidates we think will make
the best representatives, and vote
for the candidate of our choice.
We must be willing to serve
our community, our State, our
Nation, when called upon.
The often quoted, “I regret
that I have but one life to lose
for my Country,” is not an empty
phrase merely found in our
history textbooks. These words
expressed the ardent patriotism
of one of America’s first heroes,
a man who believed so strongly
in liberty that he dared risk his
life in the struggle to found this
Nation, and indeed lose his life.
Since the end of the Second
World War in 1945, the United
States has been almost contin
uously Involved in conflict to
preserve American commit
ments to freedom and liberty.
In fact, the world has seen more
than 40 wars in the past 20
years. We are once more en
gaged in a war in South Viet
Nam to uphold these ideals, and
we have Armed Forces stationed
throughout the world to preserve
peace.
These men are willing to fight,
willing even to die if necessary,
so that we at home may live in
peace.
Therefore, I believe that it is
a particularly fitting time this
Thanksgiving to reflect on the
meaning of patriotism and re
dedlcate our lives to preserving
the liberty and freedom which so
many of our men fought to ob
tain^ and to preserve.
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Nov. 17, 1965
Dear Editors:
May I take this opportunity to
express the sincere appreciation
of the Palmer Stone School and
the PTA for your generosity In
helping make the Palmer Stone
School Fall Festival a success.
The proceeds from this festi
val, as you know, will be used to
purchase library books and
equipment that Is much needed by
our school.
Thanking you again.
Eugene Whatley, Principal
Morrow, Ga.
Nov. 14, 1965
Dear Editor:
You may think this is kind
of late to write but it is the
first chance I’ve had.
I am “The Citizen of Clayton
County” that wrote a letter to
you last year concerning the fair
in your city. I thought I would
not go this year but I changed
my mind and decided to any
way. lam now glad I did be
cause I had a good time. I
went on Saturday this time in
stead of Friday. The fair was
really good. The rides lasted
a long time and the exhibits
were good.
I would like to commend the
American Legion for the im
provement in the fair and I hope
that it is this good or better
because there’s always room for
Improvement. My money was
was well worth it.
Yours truly,
Barbara Reynolds
A Citizen of Clayton County
Topics
PICKING AND EATING
WILD MUSHROOMS IS
‘GARDEN ROULETTE’
PEOPLE who pick and eat wild
mushrooms are playing a deadly
“garden variety” of “Russian
Roulette,” warns the American
Medical Association. Only a
true expert can determine
whether a wild mushroom is
safe or poisonous, and even ex
perts are sometimes fooled by
varieties that look alike. The
AMA says people who enjoy eat
ing mushrooms should stick to
commercially grown varieties.
CLAIMS of commercial cloud
seeders that seeding can increase
rainfall have been confirmed by
a University of Chicago scientist.
However, says Roscoe E. Braham
Jr., the local rainfall increases
could possibly be at the expense
of rain decreases in nearby
areas. He bases his statements
on the findings of a six-year
study of cloud seeding over part
of Missouri.
TAKING THE ‘GRIND’ out of
ink making is a line of “pre
dispersed” pigments marketed
by the Holland-Suco Color com
pany, Holland, Mich. The unique
pigments permit inks to be mixed
in 15 to 30 minutes, eliminating
hours of mixing and grinding.
ANIMAL FOSSILS at least 720
million years old have been dis
covered by a Dartmouth College
geological team in the Canadian
Arctic. The fossils, older than
any heretofore know to paleontol
ogists, are expected to help clear
up part of the mystery of how
advanced forms of life evolved.
In addition to finding the fossil
ized remains of small, clamlike
creatures called brachipods, the
geologists discovered fossilized
tracks and trails made by
burrowing wormlike animals and
small tubes and spines of an as
yet-unknown species.
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, the
space-age science that ties men
and machines together to do high
complex jobs, has been added to
the curriculum of Georgia Tech.
RIPENESS of fresh fruits and
vegetables can now be determined
rapidly and accurately by a new
meter, according to the Depart
ment of Agriculture. The in
strument, called a difference
meter, also reveals hidden in
ternal defects. The meter meas
ures the amount of light pene
trating food items. Unlike the
“pinch” test utilized by millions
of shoppers, the meter does not
damage samples.
Albert Lazenby
Completes Army
Aviation Course
FORT RUCKER, ALA.—Pvt.
Albert D. Lazenby, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Lazenby, Route
3, Covington, Ga., completed an
aircraft maintenance course at
the Army Aviation School, Fort
Rucker, Ala., Nov. 15.
During the five-week course
Lazenby received instruction in
the servicing and maintenance of
Army aircraft and in the opera
tion of airfields.
The 22-year-old soldier enter
ed the Army in June 1965 and
completed basic training at Fort
Gordon, Ga.
He attended Mansfield High
School.
Extension foresters at the Uni
versity of Georgia say 18 mil
lion acres of the state’s tim
berland need some degree of
stand improvement.
Burba ®n
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By Dr. Irvine S. Ingram,
President Emeritus West
Georgia College
"When we come in any year
to the season of our national
Thanksgiving, it is good to re
member that this has, from the
first, always been the occasion,
not only of thanks for what we
have received, but also of hope
for what we believe lies ahead
of us through the winter and
beyond it. At Plymouth, In that
famous November of 1621, the
Pilgrims had only a small har
vest from the past summers
‘about a peck of meal a week to
a person.’ But there were fish
in the sea, and water fowl, and
wild turkeys. And so the Pil
grims gave thanks and took fresh
hope.” This is a quotation from
American Scriptures, a book
written by Carl Van Doren and
Carl Carmer and published in
1946.
These writings actually com
posed a series of original radio
broadcasts under the sponsor
ship of the United States Rubber
Company. They were presented
to the audience during the inter
missions of the Sunday concerts
of the Philharmonic Symphony
Society of New York, from May,
1943, through 1944. "In that
troubled time they were intended
to lift the spirits of Americans by
recalling to them heroic things
done and wise things said in the
American past, by men and women
who had once lived through other
great national emergencies with
the faith and fortitude which were
now again demanded of the people
of this nation.” The American
Scriptures are based on true
historical events and no attempt
was made to Introduce any
glamourizing elements of fiction.
For instance, during the thirty
years that William Bradford was
governor of the Plymouth Colony
he wrote a historical journal of
the Pilgrims which ranks among
the major literary achievements
of his time. This work was used
as a basis for the Thanksgiving
episode in American Scriptures.
Mr. Carmer wrote on the first
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Says..
Away back in the time of David
he knew people who did not be
lieve in the exlstance of a sup
reme being and creator, and we
find him saying in Psalm 14,
“The fool hath said in his heart,
There is no God.”
While the fool was saying this,
others who knew their Lord were
singing: “The Lord is my light
and salvation; whom shall I
fear?” Psa. 27. And one of
God’s servants undergoing terr
ific sorrow, sickness, pain, and
bereavement, .. .taunted by those
who should have sympathized with
him, held firm to his faith and
cried out: “How long will you
vex me with words? I know
that my Redeemer liveth, and
that He shall stand at the latter
day upon the earth!” Job 19.
It has always been so; and
when Jesus was here on earth
He rebuketh those who would
dare teach the young to doubt
the love of the Father. He went
so far as to say “it would be
better if a millstone were bound
to his neck and he be drowned
in the sea ! ”
Today modern counterparts of
the ancient doubters have come
up with the teaching that “God
is dead! ” And that is in a
Christian university, right in our
midst.
What a glorious thing we have
to be grateful for! i. e., that
such foolish statements do not
change the facts of God’s exis
tance; and there are among us
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Wednesday, November 24, 1965
Thanksgiving in the fashion of the
modern poet, Interspersing blank
verse poetry with paragraphs of
prose:
“They might have stayed be
side their well - worn
hearths, Have walked old
lanes grown sweet with haw
and barberry.. .What drove
them on their way? Only the
knowledge that no man may
live At peace with his good
neighbors and himself if
other men, assuming power,
shall try To mould his
thoughts to patterns not his
own. These men would wor
ship God in their own ways.
Denied the right, they dared
uncharted seas, Seeking a
new world - no matter what
the cost - Risking the wild
and frothing surf on hidden
rocks, The fury of wild ani
mals and of wilder men.”
In one section of the book en
titled “Principles”, Carl Car
mer wrote on the American
freedom of the press, which he
says is in our very bones. He
quoted from the United States
Constitution as follows:
“Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof, or abridging the
freedom of speech, or of the
press, or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to
petition the government for a
redress of grievances.”
Our Constitution is the fruit
ion of the dreams of the Pil
grims for a completely free coun
try, and Mr. Carmer’s closing
lines on Thanksgiving are:
“We are the children of these
fathers. We are the children
of all the old nations, Bound
together by all that is good
in many heritages. We still
fight the good fight for all
mankind. And with God’s
aid we have delivered men
from the hand of the op
pressor. . .We praise the
Lord for troubles He had
brought us through. . .To
Him, upon the threshold of
new life, we raise Our hymn
of deep Thanksgiving.”
those who know their heavenly
Father, and His Spirit bears
witness to their spirits that they
are His children!
The inexplicable thing about
the protagonists of this dismal
teaching profess to believe in
Jesus!
Now, Jesus, Himself, teaches
that He and the Father are ONE!
So, if God is dead, Jesus, also
is dead.
The Christian belief on God
and His son, Jesus Christ, is
based on the Bible. In It, Jesus
Himself teaches that God is
spirit, and that spiritual truth
must be spiritually discerned.
He told Nicodemus, the great
Jewish theologian, that he must
be born again, spiritually.
Fortunately we have among us
“born-again” men, such as Bis
hop Arthur J. Moore, Rev. E.
Stanley Jones, Billy Graham, and
other thousands of real Christ
ians who testify by their dally
lives, and they live and move
and have their being in Him, so
we lesser believers can stand
with them as witnesses that God
lives and in Him we also live
and so standing.
We can join in singing. . .
“You ask me how I know he
lives - He lives within my heart!”
While we sing let us pray for
these misguided, be - nighted
souls, that they may open their
hearts and admit the living God
to enter and light their souls
with love divine.