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After substantial pressure from the US State
Department, the ruling military oligarchy in South
Vietnam agreed to relinquish control and to hold
“democratic” elections next month.
It will be well for Americans to understand that
these elections are, in fact, an exercise in win
dow-dressing. Neighbor countries in Southeast
Asia know it; the Communist press exposes the
travesty each day in that area of the world;
somehow it seems that only the American tax
payer who is footing the bills is being kept un
aware.
It may, indeed, be rationally argued that South
Vietnam is not ready for democratic elections.
The illiteracy, the corruption and the Communist
terrorism all militate against any truly democratic
elections. There is also some question as to
whether or not the nature of the guerrilla war
being waged makes this an opportune time to
make any attempt to subject the country to the
subtleties of democracy.
Still, once the commitment was made, it be
came incumbent upon the military leaders of
the country to make the elections truly represen
tative. But that is not to be the case. Under
The word passed quickly. The Detroit looters
realized instantly that it would take hours to re
call off-duty police not scheduled for early Sunday
morning duty.
In Newark, New Jersey, a moving van moved
slowly through the riot-torn streets, stopped before
a furniture store. The back doors were opened,
chains were uncoiled and attached to the iron
gratings protecting the display windows. The truck
lurched forward tearing the gratings from the
building front. Quickly the plate glass windows
were smashed and men systematically filled the
moving van with furnitureand drove away, unmoles
ted.
Down the street a corner liquor store which had
served the neighborhood for a quarter century was
invaded. Before night’s end a quiet, elderly couple
who had no enemies in me town was wiped out.
Every bottle in the building was carried out. Then
the light fixtures hanging from the ceiling. Finally,
the shelves themselves.
In midtown New York City, marauding youths
stormed a fashionable men’s clothing store on
Fifth Avenue. The prize loot men’s sweaters
priced in the SSO range. Who took them? Men
wearing SSO sweaters they had bought in the same
There are. It should be mentioned, white people
who are poor, too. The census figures for our
nation say that there are ten times as many poor
whites as Negro. Do you think for one minute that
those wretched, jobless whites in Appalachia would
dare to march downtown to raid and loot every
liquor store, TV shop and exclusive haberdashery
in sight?
The finger-shaking Freuds who rush out of their
segregated suburban homes to assert that “the
major burden of responsibility for the current
civil disturbances . . . must be accepted by the
majority, white community of our nation," are
patently phoney. They blaspheme the 99 percent
of the black community in our country who work,
save and pray on Sunday whether or not President
Johnson requests them to do so.
That 99 percent doesn’t think or talk about
hyphenated-Americans. They learned from grand
parents, parents and in person, in two world wars,
in Korea and in Vietnam, that not even a hyphen
separates Americans fighting to keep the American
dream alive. There are no hyphenated-Americans
in fox-holes or trenches.
Can the color-conscious Freudians or the quak
ing politicians name a country in the world where
10 percent at the population is represented in as
With the growing list of Presidential candidates
who are “not running,” it may be appropriate to
set down a platform for them. A winning platform.
The mere fact that a winning platform is in being
may move some of the “undecided," and prompt
them to detail for us how they would propose to
implement the planks in the platform.
Plank 1: Immediate and drastic reduction of
governmental expenditures by abolishing unnec
essary agencies and consolidating departments
and bureaus.
Plank 2: A Federal budget balanced annually,
based on accurate estimates.
Plank 3; A sound currency to be preserved at
all hazards.
Plank 4: Remove Government from all private
enterprise except public works.
Plank 5: An Army, Navy and Air Force adeq
uate for national defense which will not burden
{people with expenditures of many billions of dol
ars.
Plank fr. A firm foreign policy based on no
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obvious pressure from the military, the South
Vietnam parliament has announced that two lead
ing opponents of the government will not be allowed
on the ballot. That is peculiar to say the least,
since neither candidate seemed to have a chance
of winning. But they did represent a valid op
position. One offered a peace platform that had
no serious backing in the country. The other,
General Duong “Big” Minh, although a popular
military figure until his expulsion from the gov
ernment and the country, was not credited as
posing any threat to the slate headed by Ky and
Thieu.
The point is, however, that by denying them the
right to run in the elections, the whole process
becomes suspect. The action in South Vietnam is
similar to denying George Wallace, or Adam
Clayton Powell, or the Prohibitionists the right to
run for the presidency of the United States. Demo
cratic elections are presumed to offer the voter a
viable choice between candidates.
Neither the US State Department nor Premier
Ky has served the democratic process by pre
cluding alternatives for the voter. What, after all,
are we fighting for out there?
store weeks earlier.
These were the looters. One might fill this en
tire newspaper with authenticated cases. In some
instances the looters carried expensive transistor
radios which had been professionaly improved
with a special attachment which permitted the
owner to hear all police-band radio calls.
There comes to mind a disaster which struck
our native State many years ago when a river ran
riot. It was an “Act of God”. Not man. The Na
tional Guard was moved in, and the first order from
the Governor’s office was: “Looters will be shot
on sight.”
There was no exception. There were no condit
ions. Age, sex, color mattered not. From child
hood it has always seemed that this was, indeed, the
law of the land. For what crime could be more
despicable than to carry off the property of those
already the victims of disaster. And how much
more despicable to cause the disaster and then
loot!
No governor, to our knowledge, has issued any
such order concerning looters. And until one
governor does, and others follow suit cities large
and small in every one of the 50 States will be
looted.
many high posts, in and out of government, as in
the United States? Russia? Britain? China?
France? India?
Or what about Cuba, which hosts international
conferences to incite insurrection in every country
in the hemisphere? A Negro in Havana has the
stature of a stray animal, and any Negro who bot
hers to read knows it.
And what about the wealthy Congo, where a Negro
named Mobutu gouged out the eyes of two political
opponents, then hanged them, wearing hoods to cover
his brutality? He wants to do the same to a west
ern-education and refined Christian statesman
named Tshombe. There hasn’t been very much
civil rights legislation passed in the Congo, really.
And the Welfare State hasn’t dawned. In the United
States, the kook who writes a threatening letter
to the President of the United States is smother
ed by a swarm of Secret Service and FBI men.
But the kook who shouts “Burn, Baby, Burn,”
and incites 34 unnecessary deaths and millions
of dollars in damage gets a full-color profile on
TV and a double-page spread in the Sunday sup
plements.
Why? Because politicians in Washington fear
they might lose some fraction of one-tenth of the
vote in the United States. That’s sick.
interference with other nations; the sanctity of
treaties and the maintenance of good faith and good
will in financial obligations.
Plank 7: Condemn the disastrous action which
made the Government a speculator of farm products
and the unsound policy of restricting farm products.
Conclusion; To accomplish these purposes and
to recover economic liberty, pledge the nominees
of the convention the best efforts of a great party
pledged to the doctrine which guides us now in the
hour of our country's need: Equal rights for all;
special privileges for none.
How do we know this is a winning platform?
It contains the principal provisions of the plat
form on which Franklin D. Roosevelt ran and won
election in his first campaign 35 years ago.
And the planks in the platform remain unused
to this day.
Any candidate, irrespective of party, who could
persuade the voters that he would put those
planks into use after all these years, would win
by the biggest landslide ever recorded in a national
election.
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associat* Editor
LEO MALLARD
Advortiting Manager
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at Covington. Georgia, as
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Devotional Reading: I Peter 4:
12-19.
Memory Selection: I am ready
not only to be imprisoned but even
to die at Jerusalem for the name
of the Lord Jesus. Acts 21:13.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Ready Even to Die.
Young People - Adult Topic:
Ready Even to Die.
Our last lesson told of the up
roar In Ephesus caused by the
silversmiths. In the chapter
following, there are very in
teresting and Important facts not
included in our study of the re
gular lessons.
Following the tumult In Ephe
sus, Paul went back to Mace
donia and left from there on his
journey to Jerusalem. AtTroas,
Paul stayed a week. It is not
able that the Christians had their
communion service and preach
ing service on Sunday, the Lord’s
Day, rather than on Saturday,
the Jewish Sabbath.
Paul preached through the
night. The service was inter
rupted by a young man named
Eutychus who went to sleep
like many who have slept through
the sermon in later ages. Euty
chus fell out an upper-story win
dow. He seemed to be dead until
he was restored by the Apostle
Paul.
From Miletus, Paul sent and
called the elders of the church
In Ephesus. He told them he
expected persecution In Jeru
salem. In connection with our
lesson today it is well to read
what the Apostle himself said
in Acts 20: 22-24.
It is notable that In verse 35
of this same chapter Paul quotes
the only words spoken by Jesus
Christ that are found in the New
Testament outside the Gospels:
"Remember the words of the
Lord Jesus, how he said, It is
more blessed to give than to re
ceive.”
In the lesson today the cen
tral theme is the courage and
determination of the Apostle to
go on to Jerusalem and accom
plish his mission there even if
It meant his persecution and pos
sible death. This brave stand
was born of consecration and
commitment to Christ. Paul’s
conviction was a result of faith
and the martyr spirit—he was
willing, if called upon, to die
for the master. What an ex
ample for each one of us!
Alcoholism---Its Fears
By The Rev. George Home and
The Rev. Tom White
Material From: Fairfield
County Connecticut Alcholic
Commission and other sources.
Last week we talked about
confronting the alcoholic with his
or her situation. We advised
careful preparation, the seeking
of advice, selecting the right
time, making the confrontation as
unemotional, as factual, as firm
as possible, and said that this is
no time for debate or relenting.
We suggested too that hope must
be offered but on a realistic ba
sis.
One of the questions that always
comes up, however, is, “What if
he or she still refuses to get help
and treatment, then what do Ido?"
This question is most often asked
by wives of alcoholics, and it is
a very natural one. For behind
this question are all the fears
connected with either living in a
continual hell with the sick alco
holic, or the feared stigma of
living without a husband (even
though he may be a husband and
father in name only), the feared
stigma of divorce, the feared sti
gma of what people will think.
This question and the fears be
hind it should be in most in
stances dealt with before the
confrontation, either by honest
self examination - which, by the
way, Is often unsatisfactory, or by
the wife seeking counsel concern
ing these fears - which is by
far the better way. At any rate,
more hope and more help for the
alcoholics has been lost by wives
who relent, who back off and say,
“I just can’t follow through.”
And the question must be asked,
“Why?” “Do you enjoy the role
of being a martyr; Do you enjoy
playing the part of a “Poor Pit
iful Pearl”; Do you enjoy having
people say, “What that woman
has suffered for that man?” A
nationally famous woman who has
spent years helping to rehabili
tate alcoholics has said that a
woman who remains by choice In
the sickness surrounding alco
holism has to be sick herself.
Now let us look just for a mo
ment at what backing off does,
what not following through does.
First, if you back off from the
facts you have presented, if you
relent, the alcoholic will con
clue in his sick thinking, and
with trumph by the way, that
his rationalizations have been
right all along. By backing off
he will think that he isn’t as sick
as you said, and most important,
by backing off you delay healing,
make the healing process much
more difficult to Initiate at a la
ter date. Further, out of his
sensitivity he will understand that
you think more of yourself than
you do of him. It will make it
more difficult for him to trust,
to find truth. Finally you cannot
help a sick man by pretending
that he Isn’t sick or by wishing
him well.
Another understanding that you
THE COVINGTON NEWS
No doubt every person who th
inks about this attitude of the
great missionary Apostle will
note the resemblance to that of
Jesus Christ when, "he stead
fastly set his face to go to Jer
usalem” (Luke 9:51) even though
he well knew it would mean death
on a cross.
The account of the meeting on
the seashore with the elders from
the church in Ephesus shows, as
do few other scenes in the Book
of Acts, the deep affection and
love of these church officers for
the apostle and In turn the love
of Paul for them. "They all
wept sore, and fell on Paul’s neck,
and kissed him.” We should be
reminded from this of the great
part that love and affection for
one another should play in the
Christian Church.
They sorrowed most because
the Apostle had said they would
not see his face again.
We are now coming to the
close of the third missionary
journey of the Apostle Paul. The
whole tour had been of the ut
most importance in the founding
of the church of Jesus Christ
and the strengthening of new
congregations in the faith. There
had been many tribulations, but in
our lesson today we learn of the
matchless courage and spirit that
sustained the first great mis
sionary under all circumstances.
One of the most notable fea
tures of this third Itineration
was the stay in Ephesus for more
than two years, so that “all of
Asia,” meaning the Roman pro
vince of that name, heard the gos
pel (Acts 19:10).
Now as the Apostle draws clo
ser to his destination in Jeru
salem, we find that the ship on
which has party had passage
reached Tyre, where the vessel
was to unload its cargo.
Tyre was the greatest mari
time city of the world in the time
of the New Testament. There
was a great deal of Industry
and manufacture in the city. It
was, however, noted chiefly
for its mariners and shipping
which led the world of that time.
Not only had these sailors made
the Mediterranean their pond,
they had actually circum
navigated the continent of Af
rica. Besides taking first place
in navigation and freight in the
Mediterranean these notable
mariners were versed in as
tronomy and the charting of the
waters where they traveled.
need to have Is that If he doesn’t
respond right away, or makes
some little gesture of getting
help, it will be because he doesn’t
believe you, that he really has not
accepted his condition as a fact.
He may respond later, when what
you have told him about himself
begins to come true, and espe
cially if he sees you following
through on what you said that you
were going to do. Which says
to him that you know that without
help he will get worse.
Finally, if he still refuses help,
go back to your advisors, and re
view with them what you have
done. No case of alcoholism be
comes hopeless until those who
would help the alcoholic don’t
want to try any more. And fur
ther if the response is nil then
in returning to your advisors you
will have help in facing some
decisions that you ought to make
without delay.
If he should agree to accept
help, put him in touch with sou
rces of help, go with him if you
sense that he wants your support,
or asks for it. Give him as
much of the decision role as he
can stand, but for gracious sake,
don’t treat him like a mother
with a naughty boy that needs
his mouth washed out with soap,
and don’t pretend that you are a
saint, either. Keep in mind that
his recovery is a process, a
growing process, and Is not so
mething that happens overnight.
In this growing process you and
your family will have to make
many adjustments just as you
did to his sickness. To help in
the recovery process, here are
some suggestions. 1. Forget
the past - don’t taunt or remind
him of the past. Neither you nor
he can do anything about it - the
past is - and bringing It up will
only produce more guilt and he
has enough of that anyway. 2.
Live the present, or maybe a bet
ter way to put it, live in the
present. AA puts it this way
- 24 hours at a time, and
most Importantly, live this 24
hours, not the future 24 hours
or the past 24 hours. This might
be good advice for all of us. 3.
Don’t be a doubter, don’t con
tinually throw out warnings. 4.
Understand that there may be a
slip. Recovery is very seldom a
straight upward curve to the sky.
And finally, above all, remem
ber that in recovery from a
long emotional illness hope is a
very fragile but vital ingredient.
Next week we will give some
resources for help and tell a
little about each of them.
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August 21, 1967
Mrs. Belmont Dennis
Covington News
Covington, Ga.
Dear Mrs. Dennis:
The Newton County Library
would like to express their sin
cere thanks and appreciation to
you and your staff for the pub
licity given our Vacation Reading
Program and Story Hour this
summer. Both were most suc
cessful.
We have always found your
staff most cooperative and we do
appreciate It.
Sincerely,
Newton County Library
Mrs. Harry Dietz, Librarian
August 19, 1967
Editor
The Covington News
Covington, Ga.
Dear Editor:
In February, 1967, you pub
lished for me two news articles
on farm business. At the time I
was taking the 4-H Farm Bus
iness project, and competing for
an all-expense-pald trip to the
annual American Institute of Co
operation. Each news article,
talk, radio tape, etc. done on
farm business gave a certain
number of points. The boy and
girl with the highest number of
points In each district were cho
sen to take the trip.
Fortunately, I was a District
winner and made the trip. I’d
like to thank you for publishing
my articles and helping make
this trip possible. We left Au
gust 4th for Purdue University in
Indiana where the meeting was to
be held, and we came home
through Washington, D. C. The
trip lasted two weeks, all ex
penses were paid, and we stayed
In only the finest hotels. The
trip was sponsored by the Cotton
Producers Association, but I
would not have been able to win
it without your help.
Thank you again for your co
operation and the fine coverage
you have given the 4-H clubs.
Sincerely,
Faye Hamby
District Winner
4-H Business Project
Mrs. Belmont Dennis
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Mallard
Covington News
Covington, Georgia
Dear Friends of Salem:
As you know, since you were
staying at the hotel and enjoying
all the activities of the 139th
Salem Camp Meeting, we have
just concluded one of the best
encampments in history.
As Bishop Smith was saying in
his sermon Sunday, there is great
power in this world and Chris
tians must use this power wisely
and for. the benefit of mankind.
Certainly a newspaper repre
sents power and you have done a
great service for this area in
giving Salem Camp Meeting first
place on the headlines of your
paper. lam sure that many of
the estimated 10,000 people that
attended the services during the
eight days of campmeeting, came
and benefited from these great
services because of this fine
publicity given at no cost by the
Covington News. We also ap
preciate the very generous con
tribution you made to Salem.
But most of all, we appre
ciate your great Interest and
support for an institution that
has meant so much to so many
in the past and will continue to
do so in the future.
Sincerely,
C. D. Ramsey
President
Salem Board of Trustees
Science LW
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NEW REACTOR MAY HELP
CREATE MORE ELEMENTS
CONSTRUCTION has begun at
Argonne National Laboratory on a
$25-million reactor that will sup
ply neutrons for new basic re
search programs. It is expected
to be especially useful in the study
of the structure and dynamics of
matter and may make possible
the creation of new isotopes.
Argonne scientists also hope that
they will be able to create new
elements.
A RELATIVELY new form of
drug abuse—lnjecting stimulants
—is becoming a growing health
problem. Instead of taking “pep
pills” an Increasing number of
users are injecting amphetami
nes, the drugs from which the
pills are made, reports the Am
erican Medical Association. The
Injected drugs have an addictive
and relapse potential comparable
to that of opiates or cocaine. An
estimated 4,000 persons In the
San Francisco area alone now
inject the drugs.
SOME CHICAGO AREA TEENS
really dig that city’s Field Mus
eum science training program.
In fact, they recently used sho
vels and trowels to help uncover
Information about Chicago’s little
known pre-hlstorlc Indian popul
ation. The excavation is a high
point in the museum’s program
designed to give gifted high sc
hool students an otherwise un
available program In anthropo
logy. The “dig” is an Upper
Mlssisslpian Indian hunting
camp, dating between 1100 and
1600 A. D.
Friday night the Newton County
"Rams” open their 1967 football
season in Conyers against the
Rockdale County “Bulldogs”.
Loyal football fans will be on hand
to support and encourage
the “Rams” and their new
coaches Wilbur Fisher, head co
ach, and Perry Haymore, back
field coach.
Members of the NEWS staff
will be on hand to cover the game
with stories and pictures for
next week’s paper and the 1967
NEWS Football Preview which
will appear in the paper on Thurs
day before the “Rams” first
home game against Morgan Cou
nty.
As school begins and the high
school athletic teams go into
action we pause to lament the
downfall of the Newton County
Ram Boosters Club which has
literally gone out of existence.
Lack of cooperation by the people
in coming to meetings and work
ing to support each phase of ath
letics as each sporting season
rolled around is the reason we
have been given for the failure
of this organization.
Every person has his or her
favorite sport for which they
are willing to work untiringly to
support. Yet, these same peo
ple are interested to some ex
tent in every other sport because
of the young people involved.
It is human nature for a per
son’s interest to falter in support
of a team that is not winning,
but the blame can not be laid at
the feet of the coaching staff
alone. Winning teams are the
result of hard working coaches,
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By E. Owen Kellum, Jr.
Pastor,
First Methodist Church
Covington, Ga.
One of the most perplexing
questions we can possibly ask of
ourselves Is: “How can I master
the requirements in this great
game of life?” The answer to that
question centers Itself in God.
To know how to reaHy live we
must first fully know God. We
need a firm confidence in God.
We need an unfaltering faith in
Him who has given us the rules
to follow. We need to believe
that He has at least three char
acteristics.
First of all, we must believe
that our lives are ordered by
One who is Interested in us per
sonally. We need a solid con
viction not only of the love of
God but also of His wisdom.
Often we are prone to doubt the
wisdom of God’s ways. We are
much like the parent who doubt
ed the wisdom of the teacher who
wanted his son to study Latin and
Greek. The father of the boy ob
jected vigorously to the idea
saying, “I do not care for the
classics. I want my son to have
a practical education. I want
him to know how to milk a cow.”
“Right,” said the teacher. “So
do I want my son to know how
to milk a cow, but I want him to
know how to do something else
that a calf can’t beat him doing.”
We need to believe that God
knows us perfectly, and that His
plan for us is the wisest possible.
We need to believe that, even in
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“Be ye also ready, for in such
an hour as ye think not the Son
of Man cometh.” Math. 24:44.
When Jesus finished Ms cor
porate mission on earth, and
returned to His heavenly home,
Ms angelic messengers an
nounced to Ms astonished dis
ciples (as they stood gazing up
as He disappeared into the clo
uds,) that He would come again
in like manner as He had pro
mised. Ms followers believed
the angelic announcement, and
expected Mm to return at once.
But days drifted into weeks,
weeks Into months, months into
years, years into centuries, cen
turies into mileniums, and their
expectation grew dim. It is hard
for us humans to realize the
Bible-stated fact, that with God
a thousand years are as a day.
He measures time to us by the
second, but He is not limited
by the clock, nor is He ever
in a hurry. Almost two thousand
years have passed, and millions
of His servants have finished
the tasks he has assigned them,
and been called to rest, but He
has delayed Ms promised com-
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Thursday, August 24,1957
High School Sports |
By: Leo S. Mallard
players inspired with the desire
to win, and enthusiastic fans who
work behind the scenes to pro
mote the team and coaches as
well as yell from the sidelines
during the game.
Our effort is not to promote
one sport in popularity above ano
ther, but to encourage the re
establishment of the Ram Boost
ers Club by fans of high school
sports in general.
Throughout the nation every
town follows one sport above
another, but the town’s favorite
sport seems to be the one that
the people have gotten behind
with a supporting organization
and money to provide the extra
incentives for the players and
coaches.
The Ram Boosters Club was
organized to support Newton Cou
nty High School football, basket
ball, the “Blue Rambler” band,
track, and baseball. The players,
coaches, and directors of allot
these fine school activities need
and deserve a well organized
and devoted Ram Booster Club
to aid them in their activities.
As football season begins we
urge the people to support Coach
Fisher, Coach Haymore, the
“Ram” players, Band Director
Basil Rigney, members of the
"Blue Rambler Marching Band",
and the Newton High School Ch
eerleaders in their efforts as
they represent their school and
the people of Newton County.
We also urge the people to
work to re-establish the Newton
County Ram Boosters Club to
support and encourage every sp
orts activity at Newton County
High School.
the seemingly harsh and cruel,
He is both loving and wise. When
the mother eagle comes to her
brood, not to bring them food,
but to tear their home into shreds,
and tb toss them out over the
cliffs, that Seems to be cruel
and senseless. But what is she
after? She is teaching them to
fulfill their destiny. They are
made for the cloudland and the
upper air. In all our experiences,
whether they be hard or not, we
must believe that God is seeking
to teach us flight sunward and
Godward. In wisdom and love He
is trying to bring us to our best.
Finally, we must believe, not
only in the love and wisdom of
God, but in His fair play. Jesus
speaks of three men to whom
sums of money had been entrust
ed. The first two took what they
had been given, invested it, and
doubled the amount. But the third
man took his sum of money and
burled it in the ground, afraid
to use it. He was fearful of the
one whom he served and who had
given him the money to care for.
What was the trouble with this
man? For one thing he had made
up his mind that his master would
not play fairly with him. How
many of us are like that in our
attitude toward God?
One man of long ago, Paul by
name, teHs us what he learned
in life by following the rules God
had given to him. “We know,”
he declares, “that all things work
together for good to them that
love God.” That same knowledge
is open to us.
ing.
The transport of Individuals
continues daily; sometimes in the
home quietly while asleep; some
times in massive, spectacular
tragedies as in frightful airplane
crashes; sometimes whole cities
destroyed by volcanic eruption.
Mankind has become almost
forgetful of the promised return,
but the Statement is just as sure
and certain now as it was when
it was first made on the mount
of Olives nearly two thousand
years ago.
At that time His followers,
(as human as we are) ask if it
would be immediate, and were
given the unequivical answer:
“It Is not for you to know
the times nor the reasons’’. But
they were assured that they would
be given power to carry on, and
were given the honor, and res
ponsibility, of testifying to the
truth of the Good news.
“Ye shall be witnesses unto
ME!"
How are we measuring up as
Ms Witnesses? If HE should
come today could He say to us:
“WELL DONE?"
der an ounce would equal that of
an entire football field.
TREE SWALLOWS are adjust
ing to modern society. Once li
mited by available normal nest
ing places, a natural tree ca
vity or one made and abandoned
by woodpeckers, they have be
come one of our commonest bird
box occupants.