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COMMENTS
Salem’s Call To Worship
For many to whom “camp meeting’’ is but an
event recorded in yellowed pages of history, Salem
Camp Meeting which opens its 139th annual assem
bly Friday August 11, comes as an intriguing sur
prise that such a religious convocation is still held
- even in the Southland’s “Bible Belt.”
Not so, however, is this the viewpoint of the
multitude of worshippers who since childhood have
attended Salem Camp Meeting, held each year at
historic Salem Camp Ground, off Covington -
Conyers Highway 1-20. For to them, some of whom
are 7th generation “tenters’’, whose forebears
helped found this Lighthouse of Faith, it is a ch
erished heritage.
Salem Camp Ground was established in 1828,
when worshippers came in horse or oxen drawn
wagons, during “laying-by” time, to hear the Old,
Old Story expounded in a brush arbor. Modern
frame cottages have long since replaced the circle of
“tents” made from protecting sheets used over
cotton hauled and sold in Augusta, as farmers re
turned from market. But, the ancient tabernacle,
laboriously built with hand hewn beams joined with
wooden pegs, which forms the hub of the surround
ing “tents” and modern, rustic hotel, where ex
cellent meals and lodging are available, stands un-
T’ain’t Funny, McGee! On a recent visit to Phi
ladelphia, Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy remarked, "A
lot of women have been the mother of one president
but there never has been the mother of two or three
presidents.” Then, realizing that she may have
spoken out of turn, she added that she was only
joking.
We hope so. When you think of Bobby or Teddy in
the White House it is a joke of sorts. But not a
very funny one.
Economic Pied Piper: Walter Reuther is telling
his union members that they’ll soon be making
$25,000 a year, and a guaranteed annual wage.
What he didn’t tell them was that when they reach
that income level, automobiles may be expected to
cost $12,000 or so, a pair of shoes $l5O, a loaf of
bread $2., and union dues will be at least four
times what they are now. That’s the way inflation
works. It isn’t just salaries that increase. Every
thing increases, including debts.
Last Stop: It wasn’t widely noted in the press,
but, after Premier Alexei N. Kosygin finished his
business at the UN, visited with President John
son at Glassboro, and hugged Castro a few times
National Debt Nonsense
Not only is it utter nonsense, it is patently
dishonest to decry criticism of our astronomical
national debt as unwarranted concern because “we
owe it to ourselves.” However one interprets
that facile and cryptic phrase, it simply isn’t
true.
First and foremost, of some $326 billion in
funded national debt outstanding on 30 November
1966, $15.3 billion were owned by foreigners. It so
happens that foreigners can claim payment in gold,
and US gold holdings on that date barely exceeded
sl3 billion.
The statement that “we owe it to ourselves”
naturally implies, and the unregenerate spenders
want us to believe, that it will never have to be re
paid. We may be able to send rockets to the moon,
but it is improbable that we can talk those for
eigners out of their $15.3 billion. Moreover, it will
be a bit difficult to squeeze $15.3 billion out of
our sl3 billion gold supply. Unquestionably, those
commercial bankers will not sit quietly by and see
their depositors’ funds delivered in irredeemable
paper.
We hope, for the sake of insurance policy holders,
depositors in mutual savings and savings and loan
Every four years, right after the off-year con
gressional elections.” the political pundits begin
to play the “pick uie nominee” guessing game.
For the Republicans they give us the 4 R’s:
Romney, Reagan, Rhodes and Rockefeller. And
Nixon. On the other side of the ticket the consensus
is that President Johnson can contain the obvious
aspirations of the junior senator Bobby Kennedy,
unless the so-called “credibility gap” widens to
become completely incredible. Then there is Lur
leen’s husband waiting in the wings to run as a
possible “independent.”
Now another name has been thrown into the hop
per, that of General Curtis LeMay. It seems that a
group of Republicans approached the General re
cently and urged him to bid for the nomination.
The Washington newsweekly, Human Events, inter
viewed the former Air Force Chief of Staff and
builder of the Strategic Air Command. He has not,
he said, made any commitment to try for the office,
but adds, “that the world situation being what it is,
the trouble in Asia and the problems there and the
Middle East about to flare up, perhaps a President
with some military background might be helpful.”
He declared that he is “not satisfied with the pro-
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moved by over a century of time as tangible testi
mony of the Faith and zeal of its builders. Its
rafters have echoed stirring sermons by some of
the century’s outstanding preachers of various de
nominations; for although begun as a Methodist
meeting, Salem has long since become interde
nominational.
It is a symbol of the Christian Ideals and Free
dom of Worship upon which America was founded.
A place where we as Christians veritably come
“Back to Bethel” and “Re-kindle the Altar Fires
of our Faith”. For this privilege we are indebted
to the current Salem Board of Trustees, headed
by C. D. Ramsey; and to all of those who have
through the years preserved this Rock of Faith,
from which we as Americans “were hewn”. And,
we are humbly grateful for Salem’s stabilizing in
fluence and its annual “Call to Worship”, in this
chaotic era of lax morals, frustrations and wars,
which are seeking the destruction of the minds and
souls of all mankind.
Everyone is cordially invited to attend the daily
services at 11:00 a. m., and 8-.00 p. m., to hear
such eminent ministers as Bishop John 0. Smith,
Rev. T. Cecil Myers, of Atlanta’s Grace Metho
dist Church, and Rev. A. A. Markley, m, First
Presbyterian Church of Gainesville.
in Havana, he stopped off en route home to have a
private talk at Grand Falls, Newfoundland, with no
less than Cyrus Eaton, the Cleveland industrialist
who wanted to get in the last word.
Eaton, it will be remembered, was very buddy
buddy with Khrushchev, and clearly Kosygin con
siders him of continuing importance to Soviet de
signs in this hemisphere.
Chicago’s Answer: On June 2, a big full-page
ad appeared in the London Times. It carried the
signatures of 70 Americans who charged that Am
erican escalation of the Vietnam war was destroying
possibilities for negotiations. Among the signers:
Marlon Brando, Dick Gregory, Owen Lattimore and
Dr. Benjamin Spock.
In Chicago, radio personality Wally Phillips told
his listeners he thought Britons ought to hear from
the other America. Three thousand of them contri
buted double the amount of money needed to run a
full page ad in reply saying that they “sided with
their government and did not have any truck with
all this anti-American junk. . .There are millions
and millions of us who do support our government
in Vietnam”, the midwesterners said.
associations, pension fund beneficiaries, etc., that
their managements also take a dim view of the idea
that US government bonds are not redeemable. We
doubt seriously that those millions of Americans
who own $75.9 billion will take kindly to the idea
that what was sold them as a loan to their govern
ment is something that they “owe to themselves.”
And where is the money coming from for social
security since the “trust fund” for that agency
is comprised entirely of government bonds?
If “we owe it to ourselves,” why has the
Congress appropriated some $l2O billion just to
pay the interest over the past dozen years?
And why will the Congress appropriate more than
sl4 billion—an amount in excess of total govern
ment revenues in any year prior to 1943—just for
interest for the current year?
Indeed, if "we owe it to ourselves,” we all can
retire, and live out the remainder of our days in
style, needing only toendorse the drafts the govern
ment sends us in repayment. If the theories of
the new economists are valid, such a luxurious lei
sure for all our citizenry would be possible. But
the reality is that the repayment funds have to be
collected from us, and our children.
gress we have made in Vietnam, and I don’t think
anyone else is either”. General LeMay takes a hard
line on the war, thinks we should “go as far as ne
cessary to stop the aggression against the south.”
He calls for “hot pursuit” when the enemy slips
into Laos or Cambodia. He sums up the situation
this way: “The only way to stop this aggression
in the south is to make the North Vietnamese want
to stop it. And you make them want to stop it by
making it so expensive that they can’t afford it
any longer.”
Some weeks before the speculation about General
LeMay appeared, there was a report that a group
of Republicans had talked with General Westmore
land in Vietnam about his availability as a candidate.
We’ve observed no groundswell of support for eit
her General at this early date, but it is clear that
some Republicans are recalling with satisfaction
the success the party had not many years back
with a military man as a candidate for the Pre
sidency.
And it seems clear that some Republican spokes
men think the country would rather switch and fight
in Vietnam come 1968.
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
LEO MALLARD
Advertising Manager
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
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POV» WEEKLY LESSON FOR J
| Sunday School |
PARTNERS IN THE GOSPEL
Devotional Reading: I Cor
inthians 3:5-9.
Memory Selection: I planted,
Apollos watered, but God gave
the growth. So neither he who
plants nor he who waters is any
thing, but only God who gives
the growth. I Corinthians 3:
6-7.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Partners in the Gospel.
Young People - Adult Topic:
Partners in the Gospel.
Paul left Athens a discouraged
man. He knew what it meant
to be dejected, but his greatest
concern was that his ministry
had been rejected.
Nevertheless, he went on to
Corinth, and there he was to
form an important friendship with
Aquila, a Jew who had been born
In Pontus but had recently come
from Italy. Aquila’s wife Pri
scilla also played an Important
part in this friendship.
Paul remained in Corinth at
least eighteen months. From
there he proceeded to Ephesus,
where he left his two new fr
iends and continued on his way,
strengthening the brethren.
The path of Aquila and Pris
cilla then crossed with that of
Apollos, who was a Jew, a native
of Alexandria, and an eloquent
man.
The ministry of the early ch
urch was placed in the hands of
dedicated laymen. Their po
sition, even as today, was of the
utmost Importance, and the ex
tension of the church was de
pendent upon such Christians as
Aquila, Priscilla, and Apollos.
How Important was their roll
in the ministry of the church!
They were only laymen, but they
were dedicated to the gospel of
Jesus Christ. They were not af
raid to tell others about the faith,
and they dared to live for that
faith. So convincing was their
testimony that many came into
the church because of their wit
ness.
We should always be alert to
the role of the layman in the ch
urch, for without him the evan
gelistic efforts would fall. His
interest, his financial support
Alcoholism, The Three Phases
Article #7 of a continuing dis
cussion compiled by The Rev.
George Home and The Rev. Tom
White.
** * *
Confronting and helping the
Alcoholic. For some time now
we have been talking about how
to help the alcoholic who in
sists that he doesn’t need help.
We come now to the Confrontation,
the final action ofphasetwo“The
Surround.” The confrontation is
difficult for it is at this point
that the facts are laid on the
line. To say the least it is diff
icult for the spouse of friends
of the alcoholic and equally If not
more so for the alcoholic. The
time for evasion, excuses, cov
ering up is past for everyone,
the alcoholic, the spouse, the fr
iends. Because the Confrontat
ion Is so Important it must be
prepared for, and here are some
suggestions. First of all don’t
go off half prepared, discuss the
matter thoroughly with others and
be sure as much as you can be
sure that there is general ag
reement on what ought to be done.
Timing is crucial, above all don’t
discuss the matter when the al
coholic is drunk or within the
first 12 hours after he or she
has stopped drinking, for this is a
time of deep depression. Next
do not tell the story over se
veral days, or make the confront
ation In pieces—tell it all in one
whack-so that there can’t be eva
sion. And It is really impor
tant — as they say today — “to
keep your cool.” Spell it out
calmly, clearly, firmly without
anger. Give the diagnosis - that
Is, what his condition is, fitted to
what his behavior Is, not in a
condemning way but factually. Se
condly spell out what is going to
happen to him physically and
mentally If he continues his cou
rse without help or treatment,
again not in a threatening way,
but factually. Lastly spell out
the plan for recovery. Make it
clear that you are not bluffing,
or threatening or even asking
his permission. You are simply
spelling out the facts of his pre
sent life and where he or she is
going. You don’t want to see
them put out of the house, se
parated from the children, sink
deeper into debt, hurt even more,
but you know that unless he or
she gets help for the Illness no
one or anything will be able to
prevent these things from hap
pening. From this brief sum
mary you can see that planning,
getting all the advice you can get
yourself is vital. The next part
of the confrontation is real im
portant and that is — GIVE
HOPE. Express confidence in
the alcoholic’s ability to re
cover with the right kind of
help. Insist that life does not
need to be the hell he has been
living in. Assure him that thou
sands have recovered from this
Illness, including some you know.
And be prepared to put him in
touch with somebody immediately
—if he wants—who can give him
further reassurance from their
own experience. Keep in mind
that this may well be the darkest
hour he or she has faced.
Lastly — hold to what you
have been saying—don’t bargain
(the time for that is over), don’t
debate — don’t get trapped on
the defensive yourself. And don’t
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of the missionary cause, and
his own witness, all result in the
proclamation of the gospel of
Jesus Christ.
Aquila and Priscilla are first
introduced to us in the opening
of chapter 18 of the Acts of the
Apostles.
Paul had quit Athens and had
come to Corinth. The Apostle
had arrived in Corinth in a rat
her dejected frame of mind. His
efforts In Athens had been fruit
less. In that great center of
learning Paul had come face to
face with sheer intellectualism.
Athens was noted for its in
terest in culture and philosophy.
The town was obsessed with phi
losophical thought. Epicurean
ism and Stoicism were making
their play for the minds and souls
of men.
While the people of Athens were
always ready to listen to any new
idea, Paul had made little or no
impression. He had used the in
tellectual approach as he had
addressed the citizenry. He felt
that he should appeal solely to
their minds, and this proved to
be his undoing. According to
Luke, he did not even mention
Jesus by name. He simply re
ferred to Jesus as “that man’’.
Theism is the intellectual ap
proach to God, and it usually
leaves men religiously unstirred.
Christianity, on the other hand,
is warm and personal, for it
presents a Lord of life who re
veals God as “our Father.”
Results had not been forth
coming in the Apostle’s approach
to the cold intellectualism of
Athens. It appears that Paul
had failed miserably in his mis
sionary efforts among the Athen
ians. Little wonder, therefore,
that he withdrew!
He came to Corinth, according
to his later letter to that church
“in weakness, and in fear, and in
much trembling” (I Cor. 2:3).
In Aquila and Priscilla he found
the tonic he needed.
Apparently Aquila and his wife
Priscilla had traveled as exten
sively as Paul himself. Aquila
and Paul plied the same trade—
tentmaking. These new friends
were already Christians.
settle for swearing off, you have
heard that before, or don’t settle
for a change from 10 beers anight
to one beer. Above all don’t re
lent. You may think that you are
being hard or cruel or un
christian. The very opposite is
true. You can’t relent for the
alcoholic’s sake, until the whole
alibi structure is penetrated and
he becomes willing to accept help.
A word of caution. Set dead
lines for a decision with care.
Once you draw a line or set up a
condition you will have to stick
with It or the whole cause will be
lost. You have probably set a lot
of conditions in the past and you
let them slip by, you should cer
tainly remember the negative
results of this. Give the alco
holic a few days to decide what
to do, and allow some choice
of treatment methods, provided
you can be sure that they are
adequate to meet the particular
needs of the illness. To sum
marize then, get all the advice
you can get, familiarize your
self as thoroughly as you can
with the problem, including your
part in it, keep your cool, pre
sent everything at a well selec
ted time. Be sure you mean what
you say—don’t bluff. Give hope,
don’t bargain, or debate, don’t
relent, set deadlines with care,
but push for a decision.
Next week we will deal with
what to do if he agrees, and also
what to do if the alcoholic still
refuses treatment. Later we
will give some resources for help
and advice.
QCI^NCEi
r popics’
TOO MUCH MILK
MAY HARM BABY
FEEDING A BABY too much
milk may cause Iron-deficiency
anemia, reports a University of
Michigan pediatrician. “When
a baby’s appetite Isn’t satisfied
with a quart of milk a day, or
when he is two to three months
of age, it’s time to start feeding
him iron-enriched baby cereal,”
he says. Children who drink too
much milk have no appetite for
iron-rich foods such as baby
cereal, meat and eggs.
EVIDENCE suggesting that
man has been in the New World
more than 40,000 years has been
discovered by a research team
from Harvard’s Peabody Museum
and the University of Puebla,
Mexico. Up to now the most
generally accepted date for man’s
arrival in the New World has been
some 12 to 15,000 years ago. If
continued study upholds the new
evidence from Mexico, the known
length of human residence in this
hemisphere will more than
double.
CAFFEINE induces chromos
omal abnormalities when it is
fed to fruit flies, a Northern
Illinois University biologist re
ports. He says there is no evi
dence that caffeine is harmful to
man or other mammals. He
believes, howeverf that the poss
ible genetic effects of the com
pound on mammals should rec
eive Intensive study.
.dettciA Io
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July 22, 1967
To The Editor
The Covington News
Covington, Ga.
Dear Sir,
“The Panama Canal . . .con
necting the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans, owned, operated and con
trolled by the U. S. under treaty
for the transit of vessels of com
meree and of war of all nations
on terms of equality through
which it was built, is the con
stitutionally acquired domain of
the U. S. granted In perpetuity by
the Republic of Panama for the
construction of the canal, and its
perpetual maintenance, opera
tion, sanitation and protection.
The Canal is of the greatest
International Importance, strate
gically and economically.”
(Ency. Britt. 1965 edition)
The Panama Canal and canal
zones belong to the U. S., just as
surely as do Alaska (purchased
from Russia in 1868 for
$7,200,000), Louisiana, Misso
uri, Arkansas, lowa, North
Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska
and Oklahoma (purchased from
France In 1803 for $27,267,622),
Texas (who won her Independence
from Mexico in 1836), or Man
hattan Island (said to have been
purchased for $24 from the In
dians in 1626).
No one has seriously suggested
any of these territories being gi
ven back to their former owners,
who were not even the original
owners. According to a recent
report by Congressman James B.
Utt, there will soon be three tr
eaties up for ratification in the
Senate to further reduce our con
trol over the Panama Canal.
Members of Congress and Exe
cutive Branch have been sur
rendering control over the ca
nal piece meal since 1945 and
now the U. S. flag can’t even fly
over U. S. property.
Since the Canal is of vital
importance to this nation, both
for security and economic rea
sons, it would seem we need to
block any further reduction of
our control over it and to restore
our sole control over this con
stitutionally acquired property.
Our Congressmen have taken
an oath to protect and defend the
Constitution of the United States.
Therefore, we have a right to
expect them to stand up for the
interests of this nation and stop
bowing and scraping to world
opinion which is largely con
trolled by the communists whose
fondest hope is our destruction,
physically and/or economically.
Write to your Congressmen
today and let them know how you
feel. Your security and that of
your children depends on It.
Sincerely,
Alice L. Helton
Route 1,
Oxford, Ga.
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ington, Ga.
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Last Saturday morning one of
the worst wrecks In Newton Coun
ty history occurred just outside
Covington on Interstate 20. The
driver of a gasoline truck was
killed and two local persons mi
raculously escaped the holocaust.
The Covington policemen, fire
men, and officers of the Sheriff s
department are to be commended
for their handling of this dang
erous accident. Not as much can
be said for the “common sense”
used by the sightseers who flock
ed to the scene In droves and cr
owded too close for safety to the
burning gasoline tanker.
Policemen and firemen contin
ually tried to move the crowd
back from the scene with little
success. Men and women with
small children in their arms
walked non-chalantly within 50
feet of the Inferno getting in the
way of firemen and cluttering
the area.
The gasoline tanker had al
ready exploded several times and
could have exploded again. If it
had exploded again at least 100
people would have been killed or
burned badly. Children ranging
in age from three to twelve years
old, white and Negro, were runn
ing around all over the place
getting just as close as they
could to the fire without getting
burned by the heat.
To point this situation out af
ter it is all over may sound like
“crying over spilled milk”, but
BY
808 L. BOWEN, MINISTER
TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH
Are You Sanctified By
God’s Word?
Our Lord Jesus prayed that his
disciples would be sanctified by
God’s word. (Jn. 17: 17) The
Apostle Paul picks up the same
idea when he concluded that "...
Gentiles might be acceptable, be
ing sanctified by the Holy Ghost.”
(Ro. 15:16).
Do you believe In entire sanc
tification? What is meant by
the term "to seek to become
perfect in love?”
If the word “sanctification” is
designated a part of the one doc
trine of Christian perfection, then
I do believe in “entire sancti
fication”. Especially, as the
Holy Scripture denotes the Idea
of sanctification within the hu
man - divine life relationships.
(See Le. 19:2; Acts 26:18; I Co.
1:30; I Co. 6:11; Ep. 4:24).
Has not Christ perfected for
all time the way In which man
can be delivered from his sin?
Certainly the man of godly faith
has ". . .been made holy by the
unique single offering of the body
of Christ.” (He. 10:14).
But sanctification Is only one
of several fractions in the doc
trine of Christian perfection.
Consider Its fraction of social
outreach as Wesley himself quo
tes scripturally from I John 4:21.
And in any case It is the expli
cit command of Christ that the
man who loves God must love
his brother too. (Paraphrase of
I Jn. 4:21),
Surely the elements of sancti
fication and social outreach are
not meant to exclude or Impede
the elements of justification and
the New Birth (regeneration) or
any other aspect of divine grace
that Is an essential part of Ch
ristian perfection.
The Wesleyan doctrine of Ch
ristian perfection has implied
also the term “to seek to be
come perfect in love.” One of the
best biblical statements on ma
ture or perfect love Is I John
4:18, “Love contains no fear...”
Undoubtedly the author of Flrest
John must have known and re
ceived some Inspiration from S.
Paul’s love poem of First Cor
inthians 13. The Pauline de
scription of Christian love as
Layona Glenn
M Says . . .
If you want to be popular, and
who doesn’t?. . .Be a good lis
tener.
That Is not always easy. In
fact, sometimes it is most try
ing; especially if the speaker hap
pens to be self-centered, and
egotistic. Even so, if you are
unavoidably thrown together, and
there is no escape, if you listen
attentively while he speaks he will
always remember you as a most
entertaining person!
If your companion has a hobby
.. .as most people have; you can
open the way of the conversation
by asking a question involving
the subject of that hobby.
Then you can just sit back,
rest, and listen! And, believe
it or not you will sometimes
learn more than you would if
you just casually read some
thing on the subject, for you will
be given a lot of detail that he
has picked up because of his spe
cial interest that you would never
have noticed.
Thursday, August 10, 1967
’’Curiosity’’
Can Kill
By: Leo S. Mallard
it may serve as a warning and a
lesson in the future to know that
a major catastrophe could have
occurred under the circumstan
ces.
The billowing smoke and fl
ames from the accident was over
whelming in its effect on curious
people. Little attention was paid
to the warnings by policemen and
firemen. The crowd drifted all
around the area. When the crowd
was moved back in one place the
people quickly edged back Into the
danger zone from another direc
tion. Fire hoses were trampled,
fire trucks were surrounded,
people were getting in the way,
and they Ignored firemen and of
ficers who were trying to put out
the fire and keep the crowd a safe
distance away in case of another
explosion.
The fire fighters and police of
ficers were doing a dangerous job
in their line of duty, public ser
vice, and as an act of mercy.
You can bet your life that none
of them would have been swarm
ing around that flaming wreckage
without cause if they were not
needed. They knew the danger
of burning gasoline and they re
spected it.
The utter disregard of the
warnings and the lack of co
operation by the people could
have cost more lives. Curio
sity at any accident where you
are not needed to help could cost
you your life.
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the highest'and best gift to man
is certainly without question. Ne
vertheless Wesley’s comments
on I John 4:18 that “A natural
man has neither fear nor love;
one that is awakened, fear with
out love; a babe in Christ, love
and fear; a father in Christ,
love without fear”.
To “love without fear” means
one has matured spiritually in
Christ. In the Wesleyan order
of salvation, the believer now li
ves In the evangelical state.
In the state of holiness Lind
strom maintains that Wesley’s
“. . .sanctification is described
as an organic development, the
believer growing from a child
to a young man, and then to a
father in Christ”.
Rev. John Lawson comments
on Wesley’s state of love as
simply the believer’s want and
need to be perfect in love. The
man of godly faith has assur
ance of his salvation by the wit
ness of the Holy Spirit. “From
Romans 8:16 was derived the
conception of a twofold witness,
of man’s own spirit, and of the
indwelling Spirit of God”. Wes
ley has stood squarely upon the
doctrine of Christian perfection
in Methodism as being “Chris
tianity in earnest”. Wesley has
stated also that “If the believer
does not expect and seek for
this full victory over sin he
has failed to apprehend the pro
per goal of a Christian”.
Wesley and his Interpreters
have stated properly the state
of holiness. They have de
monstrated that not only is en
tire sanctification a good proba
bility, but the state of love is a
realized possibility In Christ.
The writer of Second Timothy
knew of holiness long ago when
he wrote of sincere faith.
For God has not given the man
of faith a spirit of fear, but he
has a spirit of power and love
and a sound mind. (Paraphrase
of 2 Tl. 1:7). Then too, I waa
hopefully reminded by Bishop
Nall’s article, “Your Faith and
Your Church,” that U. S. Met
hodist tishops were in favor of
Christian perfection. In 1952 they
declared, “We believe in Chris
tian perfection.” They conclud
ed that “Nothing short of per
fection, Christlikeness in thou
ght, word and deed, can measure
God’s loving purpose for us.”
How true!
You can direct the conversation
by an adroit question from time
to time and keep the ball rolling
Indefinitely, keeping him happy
and entertained, and you will be
surprised at what you may learn
that will broaden your field of
interest, Introduce you to a new
and varied line of knowledge.
You may not agree with your
companion. On the contrary,
you may totally disagree with
his point of view, but unless it
Involves a question of moral®
or real principal, it is well to
avoid argument, for argument
never convinces an adversary.
You remember the old sayings
“Convince a woman against her
will, and she’ll be of the same
opinion still!” This is a case
in which the women embrace the
men!
As on other things the Bible
gives us good advice on this sub
ject: “He that hath ears to
hear, let him hear!”