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THE COVINGTON NEWS
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BELMONT DENNIS
Editor and Publlshar
LEO S. MALLARD
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNTY
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
We join hundreds of other friends of Miss Layona
Glenn, Covington News Columnist, in warmest con
gratulations upon her 101st birthday, which marked
over a century of service to her fellowman, on
Wednesday, March 8.
Miss Glenn, one of Newton County’s most illus
trious natives, was born on the Yellow River plan
tation of her father, Dr. John J. Winfield Glenn,
which in 1866 was still a part of Newton County.
Her versatile career has included roles of teacher
in Newton and Rockdale schools; assistant editor
of The Conyers Times; director of Coliegio Flumin
ense, Rio de Janiero; instigator of founding of
Coliegio Bennett, Brazil’s first junior college; foun
der of Anna Gonzala Orphanage in Rio; co-founder
For those who are about to throw in the sponge
and join the cynics who see little hope for the
future, the week of March 12 to 18 may come as
a reminder that youth, hope and high ideals are
ever-present. These seven March days are of
ficially designated as Girl Scout Week. The theme
of the Girl Scouts’ 55th birthday is; "Values to
Hold--Worlds to Explore’’. The values are still
those instilled by the founder of the Girl Scouts,
Juliette Gordon Low. The young ladies of the
Scouts now, as then, represent the highest ideals
of character, conduct* patriotism and service. The
worlds they explore involve the home, communi-
Dollars that make sense are Easter Seal dollars
put to work rehabilitating crippled children and
adults.
WHY? There are 8,500,000 crippled persons
in the United States today. Millions of these
handicapped persons are dependent upon family,
friends, or tax-supported relief but could be
taxpayers and independent if given proper re
habilitation treatment - Easter Seal treatment.
You, the businessman and taxpayer, are paying
$780,000,000 annually to provide maintenance and
medical care for disabled persons through tax
supported agencies. You pay additionally because
of the loss of economic productivity, purchasing
power and taxes not realized from the (JisableU.
There are more tlian 2,000,000 disabled persons
in our country today who need and could benefit
from rehabilitation services. Each year 270,000
The American economic system has three inter
related and indispensable ingredients: (1) private
ownership of property; (2) the competitive market;
and (3) tire profit incentive. Every time throughout
our nation’s history that Government has acted in
some manner to interfere with or curtail the natural
forward thrust of either of these three motors
driving our economic system the action has carried
with it the danger of “killing the motor.’’ Such
actions in the past sometimes have “stalled”
tiie motor.
Profit incentive is the fuel of every forward
business action and creator of wealth, as well as
a basic motivator in all human behavior. Profit
incentive in America already is terribly burdened
by the most extravagant Federal government pro
gram in history and correspondingly back-breaking
taxes. We need in Washington, in January 1967,
not talk of ever bigger budgets and new taxes,
but the wielding of history’s biggest Axe!
With the cost of living soaring, and with our
armies locked in a punishing and expensive
stalemate war in Viet Nam, what’s needed in Wash
ington is common sense and courage—a reduction
We have arrived again at one of those periods
in American history when the people, particularly
those who take an active interest in the economic
and governmental affairs of our country, need to be
reminded of the role of profits in the nation’s
welfare and progress. Persons who wish to de
stroy our prosperous nation, and well-meaning
citizens who do not understand the economics of
American capitalism, have spoken out for new
“taxes on profits” to curtail the Government
made inflation that has been cutting into the living
standard of every family in the country.
The Socialists and Communists who, with their
identities concealed, have been talking up new,
additional “taxes on profits" have a very definite
objective — the breakdown of the American bus
iness system. The uninformed citizens and political
leaders who have joined with them unwittingly,
think that additional taxes on profits would be the
quickest and easiest way to solve the very critical
fiscal and monetary crisis in our Government.
This is the wrong solution.
Profits are already being taxed — not only
business profits but also personal profits — to
Ui his economic report to Congress, the Presi
dent appealed “to business and labor—in their own
interest and that of the nation--for the utmost
restraint and responsibility in wage and price dec
isions.” Wage increases during the pastyear rose
faster than productivity increases, and there is
strong likelihood that they will continue to do so
in the months ahead.
For one thing, changes in the federal minimum
wage, voted last year by Congress, started to take
effect as of February 1. Under recently enacted
amendments, additional groups of workers will be
brought under the wage-hour law and the rate of pay
gradually increased to a minimum of $1.60 an hour
in 1968. The additional cost to employers will
run about $7.7 billion. This is the direct cost.
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Orchids To Miss Layocina Glenn
Happy Birthday Girl Scouts!
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of Collegio Americano; Mother of Brazilian Wo
men’s WMS; field secretary and treasurer of Meth
odist Brazilian WMS, - all during her some 40
years as a Methodist Missionary to Brazil; and since
her retirement from the Mission Board, she has
been an ambassador at large in Kingdom Work; is
still a regular columnist for the News and several
other Georgia newspapers, and a contributor to
Towers Talk, magazineofWesley Woods, where she
maintains an apartment.
Orchids nor words can pay adequate tribute to
"Miss Layona’’, as she begins the second year,
of her second century, of Christian witnessing and
dedicated service to her fellowman.
ty, nation, other cultures and other lands.
In tills day' when skepticism and materialism
are rampant and many young people are rebel
ling against restraint of any kind* the importance
of such organizations as the Girl Scouts takes on
a new meaning. The three million Girl Scouts
represent a mighty force that may come up with
some meaningful answers to today’s problems for
all young people.
The Girl Scouts and Girl Scout Week deserve
the unqualified endorsement and support of every
adult U. S. citizen.
more persons are added to this group. Crippling
affects one family in every five, It affects every
taxpayer.
Easter Seals provide the rehabilitation services
the disabled need. With greater voluntary support,
such services can be extended to vastly greater
numbers - here, in Georgia.
A federal survey showed that a group of 88,000
persons rehabilitated had earned sl7l million a
year and that these same people during the re
mainder of their lives will pay in federal income
taxes from $7 to $lO for every dollar spent on
their rehabilitation - instead of drawing upon tax
supported doles and relief!
Yopt dollars, working through the Easter Seal
Society to rehabilitate the crippled in Georgia
communities, mean good business - good sense,
so give to Easter Seals.
of from S3O to S4O billion in present Federal
spending programs and governmental expenses.
Our profit-stimulated productive system can only
continue to support the world’s best living stan
dard and way of life if we increase, rather than
curtail, its incentives. In the decisive weeks
ahead, as important judgements and decisions are
debated in Washington affecting the health and
future of our economic system (as well as our
national security), we intend to discuss in detail
what makes the American system click, whatparts
are played by private ownership, the competitive
market, and the profit incentive.
Karl Marx set out to kill the motor of capitalism
throughout the world. His prescription was Gov
ernment (or "Social”) ownership of all facilities
of production and distribution, abolition of market
competition through Government price-wage fixing,
and abolition of the profit incentive. We mustn’t
do the Communists’ work for them here. Our
national security and continued prosperity require
a strengthening of the unmatchable productive
elements in our American system.
very near the limit of our system’s capacity.
Every family in America will suffer the burden
if additional taxes are applied to any segment of
our profit system; business, personal income
profit, or what have you.
The American economic system, which has
produced a living standard at least twice as
abundant as any other system known to the world,
is not a textbook system. It just grew up naturally,
out of natural laws — fitting itself into human
nature, as an instrument for progress, through
the wonderous play of freedom. Essentially it is
a form of capitalism. But it received the name
"capitalism” not because it followed a textbook
blueprint of 19th Century theoretical writers, but
because, when it grew up out of the newly estab
lished freedom of this New World, in the 18th
Century, its basic economic principles were seen
to be those of capitalism. The fact that it is
capitalism doesn’t make it work. It works be
cause it is the natural means for advancing the
production of wealth and assuring the most equit
able distribution of that wealth among a free
people.
As was pointed out time and again during con
gressional hearings last year, when the minimum
wage floor is raised it means a boost in wages all
along the line in order to maintain the differential
between the skilled and the unskilled. It is es
timated that this escalating effect will cost an addit
ional $2 billion a year.
When wages rise faster than people produce
goods, inflationary price increases are inevitable.
Opponents of excessive increases in the minimum
wage have long warned of this danger. All of this
would be water over the dam now except that the
minimum wage issue will be up again for consider
ation sooner than most think if inflation continues
at the rate many expect
MABLE SESSIONS DENNIS
Associate Editor
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington. Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
OI K WEEKLY LESSON FOR
Sunday School
man under judgment
(TEMPERANCE)
Devotional Reading; 11 Tim
othy 4: 1-8.
Memory Selection: Heaven and
earth will pass away, but my
words will not pass away. Luke
21:33.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
God Loves and Judges.
Young People - Adult Topic:
Man Under Judgment.
Jewish national life was to
come to a violent end, and no
one knew this better than Jesus.
Through the centuries prophets
had been warning the people what
would happen as the result of
their departure from the faith.
David had been their ideal king.
His life, marred though it was
by sin and betrayal at one point,
had nevertheless been of such
grandeur that the nation had look
ed back upon him as their ideal.
Only a few days before the
events narrated in this lesson
took place, Jesus had ridden
triumphantly Into the city. The
palm-waving multitudes had hail
ed him as the son of David
(Matt. 21:9; Mark 11:10). The
scribes and Pharisees were ac
customed to quote scripture ag
ainst Jesus. In Luke 20: 1-8
Jesus had thrown these stupid
and selfish leaders Into confu
sion by asking them what they
thought of the baptism of John.
If they replied that they consi
dered it valid (from heaven), then
he would ask them why they did
not believe on the prophet. "And
If we say, of men; all the people
will stone us: for they be per
suaded that John was a prophet.
And they answered, that they
could not tell whence it was.’’
Then Jesus said to them, "Nei
ther tell I you by what authority
I do these things.”
Jesus not only rose above his
detractors in a matter of moral
Insight; he also had about him a
cleverness which he manifested
from time to time, thus arous
ing their anger and leaving them
confused and frustrated.
But what Jesus saw with
supernatural Insight was that the
Jewish nation — which he loved
with an ardor unmatched by any
of his opponents—and Jewish na
tional life were headed for even
tual destruction. This destruc-
Public Opinion On Trading Stamps
Most housewives blame an In
flationary economy — not super
markets or their promotions —
as the main cause of higher food
prices, according to a nation
wide survey conducted last Nov
ember and summarized in a new
booklet by The Sperry and Hut
chinson Company, distributor of
S&H Green Stamps.
The booklet also summarizes
a survey conducted last July to
determine popular attitudes to
ward and familiarity with trad
ing stamps.
Both studies were conducted
for S&H by the independent re
search firm of Benson and Ben
son, Inc., of Princeton, New Jer
sey.
The November study sought to
determine what people really
thought were the main causes of
high food prices, which were
much in the news at that time.
The results showed 61 percent
blamed games and lotteries; 3
Teamwork Needed
With two-thirds of our population living in
urban areas, and approximately 85 per cent of
the people living on less than 2 per cent of the
land, it is easy to understand the growing national
concern for a prompt solution to improving both
air and water.
In defining the causes of air pollution, a recent
report by the National Academy of Sciences said
that less than one-third of the principal atmosphere
pollutants released in the U.S. comes from manu
facturing plants or electric generating stations. The
remaining two-thirds comes from other sources,
such as auto gases and municipal sewage plants.
Murray Stein, chief enforcement officer of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration,
has stated that “The underlying cause of water
pollution is that all over the country you have
municipal sewage systems that are inadequate for
the loads that have been imposed on them in the
last few years.”
Air and water contamination involves all Amer
ican society. Pollutants are released whenever back
yard leaves are burned, whenever an automobile
is used, whenever apartment or municipal trash is
incinerated, whenever inadequate city sewage treat
ment facilities discharge wastes into rivers.
Harold C. Thayer, chairman of the Area Indus
trial Problems Committee of the National Associa
tion of Manufacturers, said at the recent National
Conference on Air Pollution that pollution control
could profit by joint industry-federal study. “The
Executive branch of government has responsibili
ties set forth in the law for securing broad coopera
tion, supporting research and engineering and
producing a measure of leadership.
“Industry also has responsibilities for anticipat
ing regulations and becoming prepared to meet
them, cooperating with local, state and Federal
agencies and applying its own resources and skills
to abatement and control.” Mr. Thayer explained.
Let's all get to work now!
THE COVINGTON NEWS
tion occurred forty years after
the crucifixion, when Titus (then
a Roman general, later the em
peror) destroyed the city,
leaving, as Jesus had prophe
sied, not one stone standing upon
another (Luke 19:44).
Then he began to speak to the
people this parable: "A certain
man planted a vineyard, and let
It forth to husbandmen, and went
Into a far country for a long
time.”
The householder, of course,
was God. The vineyard was the
Jewish nation. The “hedge”
about which Matthew and Luke
speak was the law. This kept
them from mingling with the
surrounding nations and so be
coming morally corrupt. There
was a winepress in this vine
yard which no doubt was in
tended to represent the altar
of sacrifice. A tower had been
built also, thus enabling the own
er of the vineyard to detect mar
auders who might break through
and steal the ripe grapes. (Matt.
21: 33-46 and Mark 12: l-12give
a slightly fuller version of this
parable which should be read al
so In the preparation of this
lesson.)
God had set aside the Hebrew
(Jewish) people for the carrying
out of his most sacred project,
namely, the disclosure to the
human race of his nature and
purpose. He had been patient
with them In spite of their much
backsliding.
But although his patience would
never come to an end, the car
rying-out of his holy purpose re
quired that judgment at last be
executed upon those who per
sistently disobeyed Him.
God’s going-away represented
that long period from the fall of
man to the coming of Christ.
Jesus had been crucified, had
risen from the dead, had as
cended into heaven, but his as
surance to his disciples — and
particularly the assurance of the
two men In white apparel who
appeared to the multitude at the
time of the ascension (Acts 1:
9-11) — was that Jesus "shall
so come In like manner as ye
have seen him go Into heaven.”
God’s judgments are usually
long delayed, but the require
ments of justice and righteou
sness are that a day of reckon
ing at last take place.
percent blamed trading stamps;
and 1 percent blamed advertis
ing. Five hundred housewives
in 100 locations across the coun
try were surveyed by telephone.
The July study was the tenth
In an annual series conducted to
determine popular attitudes to
ward and familiarity with trading
stamps. Key findings Included
that, for the fifth year in a row,
trading stamps are saved in mo re
than eight out of ten homes ac
ross the country.
In this study, personal inter
views were conducted with some
2,000 persons across the country
constituting a cross section of
the nation’s consumers. Neither
the interviewers nor the respon
dents were told that the survey
was being done for S&H.
The booklet summarizing these
two studies Is being distributed
to educators, editors, libraries,
business organizations and
others across the country.
(Our Advertisers Are Assured of Best Results)
February, 1967
Mr. Leo S. Mallard,
Managing Editor
Covington News
Covington, Georgia 30209
Dear Mr. Mallard:
On behalf of the Georgia Soc
iety for the Prevention of Blind
ness, I wish to express our sin
cere thanks for your excellent
cooperation during our 1966
September "Sight-Saving Month’’
campaign. The results of the
campaign in Georgia demonstrate
the alertness of its residents to
the need for visual health and saf
ety. Because of this response,
our Georgia society will be able
to sustain its many year-round
programs for saving sight.
This could not have been ach
ieved without the help of the Cov
ington News in bringing the vital
need for prevention of needless
blindness to the attention of the
people of Georgia.
We appreciate your confidence
in the work of the Georgia Society
and look forward to your conti
nued interest and assistance In
this crusade against blindness.
Sincerely yours,
Mrs. Dan Y. Sage, Jr.
Educational Campaign
Chairman
The
Legisletter
By Glenn McCullough
(Executive Manager GPA)
ATLANTA —It was an Inter
esting week at the state Capitol
which saw another department
head roll, an exotic dancer pic
ket the governor’s office and the
Appropriations committee tack
an extra $lO million onto the
money bill, despite rumors of
cuts.
The Board of Industry & Trade
accepted the resignation of Dir
ector Jim Nutter, but still balk
ed at naming the hand-picked
replacement of the governor.
Patti White, popular Atlanta
night spot stripper, appeared In
the governor’s office picketing
for higher pay for teachers. "We
favor higher salaries for our
teachers,” Governor Maddox told
her, “but If we paid teachers
as much for teaching as you get
paid for dancing, we’d bankrupt
the state.”
While reductions were made in
funds for mental health and hos
pitals, the House Appropriations
Committee restored almost the
entire $10,000,000 which had been
sliced from funds for the State
University system. The commit
tee added $8,000,000 in fiscal
1967-68 and a similar amount
in 1968-69 for the state’s part
of the proposed Appalachia High
way through the Appalachians into
North Georgia.
The committee killed entirely
Governor Maddox’s request for
authority for a $50,000,000 bond
issue to match Federal funds for
highway building.
The 1967-68 and 1968-69 ap
propriations are almost identical
in their totals. This will enable
the Legislature next year to take
a new look at anticipated reven
ues and make any changes that
seem advisable. There has been
a strong movement among some
committee members to abandon
biennial budgets in favor of an
nual budgets.
The House Is expected to com
plete work on the appropriations
bill this week, and send It on to
the Senate. Lt. Governor George
T. Smith says he believes the
upper chamber can complete
work on the House bill within
two weeks after receiving it.
Meanwhile, such unexpected
progress has been made in com
mittee work on reapportionment
that the special session on this
subject envisioned by Governor
Maddox may not be necessary.
Unless, that is, action on the
proposed plans bogs down in the
House or Senate. Each chamber
has been working on its own
plan.
The House Reapportionment
Committee has voted unani
mously to report a bill which
would cut the size of the House
from 205 to 195 members and
reduce the number of districts
from 141 to 115. Fulton County’s
delegation would be raised from
26 to 28, but that of DeKalb,
the state’s second largest county,
would remain unchanged at 12.
There would be new combinat
ions of some ofthe smaller coun
ties In an effort to meet the Fed
eral court standard of variances
no greater than 15 per cent in
population, although three dis
tricts would be slightly over
this.
After a Senate Reapportion
ment Committee that met during
the recent recess had failed to
come up with a plan, Lt. Gover
nor Smith appointed a new com
mittee, headed by Senator J. Bat
tle Hall of Rome to work on the
problem. It held Its first meet
ing last Thursday morning.
Senator Ben F. Johnson of De-
Kalb County, who had been chair
man of the first committee and
is a member of the second, sug
gested that Fulton and DeKalb
each be given one additional Sen
ator and the rest of the state be
left unchanged until after the 1970
census. Although statistically
both Cobb and Chatham Counties
would be entitled to more re
presentation, some Senators be
lieve the Johnson plan, tiecause
(continued on page 4)
From
Representative Ballard
During the three-week recess
of the regular session, I had the
pleasure of working as a member
of the Re-apportionment Com
mittee drafting the plans for the
re-apportionment of the Georgia
House of Representatives follow
ing the U. S, Supreme Court
Guide Lines.
It had been the thoughts of ev
eryone that this re-apportion
ment would have to be comple
ted after the regular session and
during a special session of the
Legislature. Our committee
worked diligently and we comple
ted our study and proposals on
Monday of last week and I co
sponsored it before the House.
Last week was probably the
biggest week in the history of
the Georgia Legislature, since
three major measures were
handled in one week.
The billion and one-half ap
propriations bill was passed
Monday. The lease on the W &
A Railroad was dispatched to the
Senate on Wednesday, and our
re-apportionment bill was passed
by the House of Representatives
on Thursday, receiving 149 af
firmative votes.
Most people thought it would be
impossible to get the Georgia
House of Representatives to re
duce its size and re-apportion it
self at the same time, much less
during a regular session.
This House of Representatives
is by far, the most working
group I have served with while
in office. We started on Monday
taking up bills on the regular
calendar which had piled up wait
ing on re-apportionment, the ap-
Worhujlln
Our ißij
By
J. Harold Lee
Pastor
Newborn - Starrsville Methodist
Churches
I would like to share with you
an insight to prayer. I am in
debted to E. M. Bounds, O. Hal
sby, Andrew Murray, and Oswald
Chanbers. Murray, in his book
The Prayer Life, says “What
folly to think that all other bless
ings must come from Him, but
that prayer, whereon everything
else depends, must be obtained
by personal effort!” Too much
of our so called praying is an
attempt to get God to -give ‘u«
His blessings without giving Him
self. To get down to serious
business In prayer is to be
come serious about God and not
about what He gives. The mul
titude of things which He gives
are the by-product of the giving
of Himself to the believer. God
Is anxious to give us Himself
and prayer Is a means of giving
Himself and receiving us Into
His confidence.
Prayer becomes away of liv
ing for the Christian and ceases
to be the acting of a part, going
through religious motions and
religious work which is gone
through and avails because is
well done. Prayer ceases to be a
method by which one stirs him
self up and is instead a result
Layona Glenn
Says . . .
Do you recall the last words
of Jesus to his disciples? “Ye
shall be WITNESSES unto me
both in Jerusalem and in all
Judea, and Samaria, and unto the
uttermost parts of the world.”
These are recorded as His very
last words; “And when He had
finished, He went up and was re
ceived into a cloud.” Now that
Is what Christians are supposed
to be, WITNESSES.
What is a witness? In court a
witness Is called upon to testify
the truth about what he or she
saw or heard personally and
knows to be true. He is not
allowed to tell what someone
reported to him.
So, as witnesses to Jesus,
Christians can tell only what
they themselves have experien
ced, and know deep in their hearts
to be true. If you do not know
Jesus as your Lord and Saviour,
you just can’t testily that He
is THE Saviour of mankind!
He himself made this perfectly
clear when He said; “Not every
one who says unto me Lord, who,
shall enter into the kingdom of
God, but he that doeth the will
of my Father.”
Let us be sure that we have
come to know Him, then we can
be witnesses. Someone may say:
“But how can we be sure?”
Read John 1:12-13: “But as
many as receive Him, to them
gave He the power to become
the sons of God, even to them
that believe on His name; which
were born, not of blood, nor the
will of the flesh, nor of the will
of man, but of God.”
Some people say that just can’t
have faith. This is nonsense’
We all live by faith every day.
If you didn’t have faith that oth
ers would obey the laws of the
road, you wouldn’t dare go out on
the highway in your car.
Thursday, March 9, 1967
propriation bills, and the W & a
Railroad lease.
♦* * *
Action in the Georgia Legis
lature has been moving at a fast
pace In the House of Represen
tatives. However, the Senate has
been somewhat slow in getting
started.
At the present time most of the
action In the House is handling
bills of varied and general nat
ure since all of our major legis
lation was previously cleared out.
Newton County, under the new
apportionment of representat
ives, will remain with one re
presentative and the size of the
House will be reduced by ten
members which makes Newton
one of the most perfectly ap
portioned counties in the State.
Local legislation for Newton
County has all been introduced
and sent to the Senate for action
In that body. The bills placing
the Ordinary, Clerk and the Tax
Commissioner on salary; the
changing of school board from
appointed to elected and the chan
ging of one man commission to
a multi - commission, are all
nearing completion at this time.
At the request of some people,
the Newton County Advisory
Board will meet on Thursday at
7;30 P.M., at the City Hall to
discuss a multi-commission and
following this we will request
the Covington News to publish
these bills in their entirety.
Any interested citizens are re
quested to be present at the
Thursday night meeting.
of abiding In God. To me, one
of the richest moments of prayer
Is not when we feel the necessity
of saying something, or asking
but when we are driven by a deep
need of love to be still and enjoy
the assurance of His silence.
“Thou life within my life,
than self more near,
Thou Veiled presence in
finitely clear;
From all illusive shows of
sense I flee
To find my center and my
rest In Thee”.
Author unknown
Too often the Church folk have
thought of prayer chiTd^hly until
It has seemed Irrationair; valuing
God less than the things he may
give until prayer has looked
mean; regarding prayer as an
obligation rather than a privilege;
neglecting prayer because it is
so familiar an opportunity; Im
patience with praying after a few,
fitful trials. “It is a great art
to commune with God”, said Tho
mas a’ Kempls. I feel as does
St. Augustine In his entreaty,
“Give me thine own self, without
whom, though thou shouldst give
me all that ever thou hadst made,
yet could not my desires be sat
isfied.” It seems that the in
tellectual puzzles are found in the
fringes of prayer; because prayer
at its center is as simple and as
profound as friendship.
If the farmer didn’t have faith
that his seed would germinate,
grow, and produce, he would not
plant a seed. If the merchant
hadn’t faith that people would
come in and buy his goods, of
whatever order, he would not
spend his money to stock his
shelves.
If the medical doctor did not
believe that people would need
and want his services, he would
never hang out his shingle. If
the professional men of all kinds
did not believe that their ser
vices would be needed and sought,
they would never seek their de
grees.
So, as we all live, move and
have our material being by faith,
why should we balk when it comes
to things of real importance?
Jesus said; “If ye have faith
as a grain of mustard seed ye
may say unto this mountain; “Be
thou removed and cast into the
sea, and it shall be done.”
I saw this materially demon
strated once in the city of Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil. There was
a small mountain occupying space
in the business section of the
town. The city farmers con
tracted with an American engin
eer to have it removed. This
engineer had the faith that he
could remove the mountain, so
he used water power to wash the
mountain out into the bay. He
built enormous flumes to carry
the waste over the tops of the
houses, and deposit it In the bay.
When he finished, the place from
which he swept the mountain pro
vided space for 60 city blocks,
and the peninsular he extended
Into the bay was used to make the
Scntos Dumont Air Fort. And,
there It is today, a material wit
ness to the power of applied
faith.