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COMMENTS
Over twenty centuries ago angles announced the
coming of the Messiah whose birthday is the inspir
ation for our annual celebration of Christmas. His
Coming marked the greatest event in the history of
mankind, or the world.
For, He set new standards for the world. No lon
ger should “might” be “right”. No longer were
men to live by the rule of law alone; but, also
under the rule of Love.
The Christ-Child was the manifestation of God’s
infinite love for man, when “He gave his only Be
gotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should
not perish, but have everlasting life.” And the basis
of all of Christ’s teachings was love - love of God
and one’s fellowman.
History’s files are filled with lives of dictators
and conquerors who practiced the law of force,
rather than love. Napolean. Europe’s conqueror,
is quoted as saying during his declining years of
exile on St. Helena, “Caesar, Charlemagne and I
founded great empires. On what did our genius
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Our men in uniform in Vietnam, the press
quoted him as saying, are “defending the cause
of righteousness, the cause of civilization and
God’s cause,” and anything “less than victory
is inconceivable.”
That was in December of last year. The words
are from the Christmas message to our fighting
men in Vietnam by Francis Cardinal Spellman,
Vicar General for Roman Catholics in the United
States Armed Forces.
That year and the fifteen prededing, Cardinal
Spellman had gone at the Christmas season to be
with our men in uniform. It was traditional.
And no matter the creed or the color or the
insignia, our men in uniform came to hold this
man in a reverence reserved for special mor
tals symbolic of what each might wish his own
image to be.
Those words about “defending the cause of ri
ghteousness, the cause of civilization and God’s
cause,” brought on a furor in the press. There was
a great rash of comment chastising the Cardinal.
There were long and labored letters to the editor;
slick magazines purported to reveal that
“anonymous” spokesmen at the Vaticial were dis
mayed at his language.
The Meaning Os A Dollar
A dollar is worth one of two things: whatever
it will buy in goods or services at any given
moment, or whatever labor or service you are
willing to perform in exchange for it at any
given moment When all is said and done, that’s
what a dollar is. A dollar is a piece of paper.
It has value only as you trust it to buy a known
value in goods or services.
It doesn’t make an iota of difference what
any Swiss banker, or Charles DeGaulle, or a
German industrialist thinks. It makes no diff
erence wliat Henry J. Fowler or Lyndon B. Jolin
son says. The test is; will the corner grocer
accept the piece of paper in payment for four
loaves of bread? The test is: will you work eight
hours for 20 such pieces of paper?
So long as you are able to buy four loaves of
bread for that paper dollar, or are willing to
work eight hours for 20 paper dollars, the dollar
is going to hold its value. And so long as you can
buy four loaves of bread with a paper dollar,
Big Charlie, the German industrialist and the
Swiss banker are going to scheme and sweat to
get their hands on dollars.
But the day the grocer and the landlord lose
confidence in the dollar-that is the day the French,
the Germans and the Swiss will stop wanting it.
Bibb Increases Retiree Pay; 3 Named To Vice-
Macon, Dec. 15—-Bibb Manu
facturing Company President Ro
bert Train today announced the
promotion of three officials to
the rank of vice president, the
election of two new directors,
and the retirement of two com
pany officers.
lowell W. Belk of Macon was
also appointed an assistant sec
retary.
Mr. Train further announced
that, effective January 1, retire
ment benefits for former Bibb
employees will be increased by
three percent “for each year
since they left the employment
of the Company.”
He explained, “This is a move
to keep step with inflation. We
realize that retired people on
fixed Incomes must have some
provisions for meeting the higher
living costs that occur in this
country.”
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LEO S. MALLARD
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Eternal Christmas
The action was taken at the
annual stockholders’ meeting
here Friday morning.
The new vice presidents, all
residents of Macon, are: W. A.
Watson 111, director of Marketing
and Sales; Harry M. McFarling,
Controller; and Fletcher Terry,
Director of Raw Materials.
The new directors are John
Comer of Macon and M.G. Wood
ward of Chattanooga, Tenn.
Retiring are Senior Vice Pres
ident J. S. Turner and Treasurer
H. J. Bivins Their successors
were not named.
Mr. Watson, a native of Ma
con and graduate of the Univer
sity of South Carolina, joined
Bibb as a sales trainee upon
his graduation from U.S.C. in
1948. Beginning in Bibb’s New
York office, he later served as
assistant division sales manager,
division sales manager and re-
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depend? On force. Jesus of Nazareth founded His
Kingdom on love and service. And today millions
do Him honor.”
Down through the ages the Coming of Christ
has continued to bring joy to the world. Each time
a light of Faith is set agleam in the heart of one
who accepts Christ as his personal Saviour, the Joy
of Christmas is born anew. And the new Christian
discovers the secret of true happiness in service
to his fellowman, as he remembers Christ’s words,
“Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least
of these, ye have done it unto me.”
So Christmas is not just a date on a calendar,
or an incident in the past. It is an ever-present
joy which gives one a soul that sings. It lights
life’s darkest hours as well as its mountain-top
experiences. It is the symbol of the abiding Love
of God in the hearts of man.
May Christ, the real significance of this Sacred
Season, make Christmas eternal in our lives!
But Cardinal Spellman never budged, never
hedged, never retracted, never qualified. He
let it stand. And a few days ago, on December
2, when he suffered a massive stroke, he was
rallying his ebbing energies to go again to South
Vietnam for Christmas.
No news story and no obituary which we saw
made mention of the controversy he caused a
short 12 months ago. Yet it is hardly necessary
for one to be a Catholic, as this writer is not,
to wonder aloud if that Christmas message ought
not properly to be regarded as a fundamental
tenet of Cardinal Spellman’s faith. For it is
not on the record that he ever found anything on
the face of this earth more-anti-Christ than
Communism.
In Vietnam this Christmas, his flock will be
saying prayers for their Shepherd, Protestants,
Jews and Catholics, men with skin pigmented
black, yellow, brown and white.
Francis Cardinal Spellman devoted his life to
“defending the cause of righteousness, the cause
of civilization and God’s cause.”
We think he knew whereof he spoke at Christ
mas last year.
We regret that his voice has been stilled.
Why is the grocer willing to accept a paper
dollar in payment for four loaves of bread? Be
cause he understands that there’s gold in Fort
Knox behind it. He knows that the law says there
is $10.3 billion in gold behind it.
The day the grocer hears that the $10.3 billion
is gone, that’s the day he will waver. He may
fancy that he can hear the high-speed presses
running in the night hours, printing millions and
millions of those pieces of paper. He may even
think that he can smell the fresh ink on the paper
you hand him. And he knows there is no gold
behind any of those pieces of paper. Uncertain,
troubled, he thinks he had better have two pieces
of paper for the four loaves of bread. And the
next day he may want four pieces of paper.
You may call hem names. You may swear at
him. But if you want to eat you pay.
And that is why that $10.3 billion in gold must
stay there back of our currency.
The Swiss, the Germans, the French will al
ways be able to buy the equivalent of what you
can buy for a paper dollar. You do have one
advantage: you can offer to sweep out the store
for four loaves of bread rather than hand over a
shopping bag full of printing-press dollars in
payment.
gional sales manager before be
ing brought to Georgia in 1964
as field sales manager. In 1965
he became director of Marketing
and Sales.
Mr. McFarling was born in
Danville, Va. and was graduated
from Duke University in 1953.
Formerly with Kendall Company
Textile Division in Charlotte,
N.C., where he supervised plants
in South American, South Africa
and England, he became asso
ciated with Bibb in 1962.
Mr. Terry, a native of Jack
son, Miss., attend'd Millsaps
College and joined Bibb in 1962
after working for the cotton firm
of Anderson Clayton Company,
Memphis, Tenn.
Mr. Comer, Macon attorney, is
a partner in the firm of Sell
and Comer. A native Maconite,
he has practiced law here since
1949, being a graduate of Har-
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
AtiocixU Editor
LEO MALLARD
Advertising Manager
Entered at the Rost Office
at Covington Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
OCR WEEKLY LESSON
FOK
Sunday School
ONE GREATER
THAN THE PROPHETS
Devotional Reading: Isaiah
9:2-7.
Memory Selection: For you
who fear my name the sun of
righteousness shall rise, with
healing in his wings. Malachi
4:2.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
Christmas in Prophecy.
Young People - Adult Topic;
One Greater Than Prophets.
In the disclosures He makes of
his will and purpose God appears
often to employ means which am
aze, and perhaps bewilder, us.
When King Saul proved unworthy
of the responsibility placed upon
him, God chose a simple shep
herd boy, David, who, after pas
sing through many vicissitudes,
occupied the throne in Jerusalem
and becamse the hero in those ex
ploits over which the Hebrew peo
ple have always rejoiced. Furt
hermore, when He wanted to re
veal his divine will and purpose
to the whole of humanity, He ch
ose a humble carpenter who resi
ded in the despised town of Na
zareth.
Through him the fullness of
God’s plans for humanity were
revealed. He was to become the
world’s Saviour.
The Old Testament ends with
the promise of God expressed
through the voice and writings of
the prophet Malachi that He would
send a messenger who would pre
pare the way for the coming of the
Great Deliverer. This promise
is generally regarded as having
been fulfilled when John the Bap
tist appeared at the fords of the
Jordan River heralding the com
ing of the Messiah. In him was
fulfilled the promise that Elijah
should come again. When the at
tention of Jesus was called to the
fact that Elijah must come an
nouncing the advent of the Mes
siah, he declared that Elijah had
already come “and they knew him
not, but have done unto him
whatsoever they listed. . .Then
the disciples understood that he
spake unto them of John the Bap
tist” (Matt. 17:10-13).
And what a herald John the
Baptist proved to be! He called
. By Mrs. Robert I. Burall
Tenth District Director
Georgia Congress of Parents
and Teachers
Religious holidays are among
the best builders of happy mem
ories in children. They enable
us to deepen our children’s ap
preciation of the beauty and sac
redness of life. Especially the
Christmas Holidays, with all the
evoking memories of shared war
mth, laughter, love, and tender
ness that comes and remains long
after the holidays are gone. They
provide all these experiences that
linger in the memory chambers
of our hearts and souls.
Too often our generation fails
to give the very young impress
ionable minds, spiritual warmth
and experiences, that will sus-
vard College and the University
of Georgia Law School. He
serves on the advisory board
of the Citizens and Southern Na
tional Bank and is a director in
the Macon Telegraph Publishing
Company.
Mr. Woodward, native of Ce
dar Rapids, lowa, holds an A.B.
degree from Coe College in Ce
dar Rapids and M.B.A. from
Northwestern University, having
won honors with both degrees.
He was at one time manager of
the business office for the Jos
eph P. Kennedy family in New
York and later a consultant to
the heirs of Julius Rosenwald
in New York. Formerly asso
ciated with Arthur Andersen and
Co. and Southern Nitrogen Co.
(now merged with Kaiser’s Ag
ricultural Chemicals Division),
he is now a financial consultant,
serving in the areas of long
term planning, financing and
taxes. He is also secretary and
treasurer of a new company,
Tennessee Metallurgical Corp.
Mr. Turner, senior vice pres
ident at Bibb in charge of Man
ufacturing since 1965, has been
with the firm since June, 1920.
Starting as a clerk in the Por
terdale Division, he has been
superintendent of the Osprey
Plant, Porterdale Division, and
General Superintendent for the
Columbus Division. He was nam
ed vice president in 1953, com
ing to the Macon General Office
in 1961 to be in charge of Man
ufacturing.
Mr. Bivins, a graduate of Mer
cer University, began working
for Bibb in 1925 while still at
tending Mercer. His first job was
as assistant paymaster in the
Columbus Plant. He was elected
treasurer in 1948.
With the exception of the two
retiring officials, all other Bibb
upon men to repent and proph
esied the coming of one greater
than himself.
Two messengers are really sp
oken of in this verse: John, the
messenger preparing the way for
Jesus, and Jesus preparing the
way for God. The people of that
day hoped for a great military
leader who, like David, would rid
the land of the military overlords.
The Romans had captured the
kingdom of Judah and placed
their puppet Herod on the throne.
The people could not realize that
the Messiah was destined not to
ride the land of the Roman arm
ies but to rid human life of the
bondage of sin.
“Coming to the temple” is a
figure of speech and means com
ing to the people. There was in
deed a literal fulfilling of this
prophecy when Christ was pre
sented in the temple as an infant
(Luke 2:22) and also when Jesus
lingered in the temple after the
feast of the Passover, “sitting
In the midst of the doctors, both
hearing them, and asking them
questions.”
In Isaiah 40:3-5 we read of the
preparation being made for the
coming of the Great King. The
valleys are exalted, the moun
tains and hills are made low,
the crooked places are made st
raight, and the rough places pl
ain, “and the glory of the Lord
shall be revealed. . .for the
mouth of the Lord hath spoken
it.”
“But who may abide the day
of his coming? and who shall
stand when he appeareth? for he
is like a refiner’s fire, and like
fullers’ soap.”
The lesson last week had to do
with responsibility — keeping
life’s covenant. The lesson to
day has to do with privilege. It
announces the coming, first of a
herald and later of the King him
self.
Human nature is to be made
over that the fullness of God’s
love and purpose may be revealed
to man and accepted as the di
vine plan. There is much dross
in the life of all of us. Sins
must be forsaken. New ideals
must be set up if Christ is able
to confer upon us the things he
wishes to confer.
tain them in dark hours. So as
we are caught up in the magic of
Christmas, let us not forget our
dedicated efforts to the welfare
and happiness of children - not
only at Christmas but throughout
the year.
My Christmas wish for all our
homes and the families in them,
is that God will continue to show
his mercy and shower each with
his blessings.
May we use "THE CHRIST
MAS SPIRIT” to don the qual
ities which our heavenly Father
wants us to have at all times.
Thus, we draw closer to HIM.
Presidency
officers were re-elected for ano
ther year. They are: Robert
Train, president; Hugh M. Co
mer, financial vice president;
Burris B. Snow, vice president;
George L. Burkhalter, secretary;
Albert Me Cowen and Allen M.
Tuten, assistant treasurers;
Frank W. Comer and James S.
Griffin, assistant secretaries.
Directors, in addition to the
two new ones are: Ben T. Co
mer, Jr., Atlanta; Hugh M. Co
mer, Macon; Charley W. Farmer,
Macon; L. G. Hardman, Jr., Com
merce, Ga.; R. Curtis Jordan,
Jr., Columbus; Mills B. Lane,
Jr., Atlanta; Robert Train, Ma
con, and William B. Turner, Col
umbus.
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LISTENING in ON 3year-old
Laura Wagoner is Dr. Loren G.
Mac Kinney, director of March
of Dimes financed Birth Defects
Center, North Carolina Memorial
Hospital, Chapel Hill. Laura has
a birth defect that twists and
stiffens her arms and legs.
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The Covington News,
Covington, Georgia
Today I looked up your name,
as the weekly newspaper for Co
vington and Newton County, the
beloved place of my birth on
March 16, 1892, and I enclose
herewith U. S. Money Order for
$5.00 for one year’s subscription.
Os course, you’ll note that I’m
almost as old as “Father Time”
but I hope that you overlook that
one inciaent of my birth which I
had no control over.
I’m now writing my second no
vel (and there’ll be three in the
series) and in the Second Book
of this second story, I’m laying
many of the scenes in Covington
and Newton County. I need your
paper to get some local color of
the present time, as I may wish
to carry on the story up to the
present time, which would come
in my third and last novel of
that series. I’m now writing
of the period from the beginning
of the 20th Century during my
childhood in Covington, on th
rough the time when I attended
Emory College, at Oxford, in
1907-19u8. In my first novel,
where the scenes were laid in
Alabama, Southeast Georgia, Ph
iladelphia and Boston, I drew for
two of my characters from tue
Starrsville section of Newton Co
unty, during the period of 1815
to 1837, where thoughts of a
nostalgic trend on an old teacher
of mine—Miss Laßue Morgan—
who had such a lasting effect
upon my life, but I had to move
her back a hundred years to fit
her into that picture. (This
first novel is not yet published
but Pm now negotiating with the
publisher.) Each book of the
series of three will be complete
in itself, but a reader who reads
the first one will enjoy the se
cond one more and the third one
still more (I hope.)
So, please understand that I’m
not yet an Author—only a writer
—but, as such, I shall endeavor
to bring back to life some sc
ense in Covington, where charac
ters will come to life and walk
across the broad square to draw
water from the four wells on the
town square; where the reader
may listen into some of the gos
sip and anecdotes the old fore
fathers loved to relate, as they
sat around the Court House Sq
uare; and I’ll try to bring back
that wonderful old General Store
of T. C. Swan, on the corner
of McDonough Street; and on
Sundays, the reader can recall
the Sunday School and Church
Services of that Grand Old Met
hodist Church, where my parents
attended, and I attended while I
attended Emory at Oxford. My
father was promoted to a Better
Land on August 26, 1896, and my
mother was laid to rest beside
him in 1920 in your Covington
cemetery, but my greatest herit
age was to have people tell me as
a child that “I was Jim Perry’s
boy and that I should be mighty
proud of that.”
I hope that you’ll be willing
to let me come within your or
bit and permit me to read the
Covington News, thereby making
it easier for me to write this
story of yours and my bailiwick.
Sincerely,
Louis Stovall Perry-Writer,
2827 East Poplar St.,
Stockton, California 95205
December 12, 1967
Gentlemen:
Unquestionably, gasoline is ne
cessary to our way of life. U. S.
Bureau of Roads figures show
that 82 per cent of all driving
is for essential trip purposes and
67 per cent of all workers in
Georgia travel to and from work
by private conveyance. This, of
course, requires the regular pur
chase of gasoline.
Because gasoline is such a vi
tal commodity, and one-half of
all automobiles are owned by
families with an annual income of
less than $3,000, the heavy taxes
imposed upon gasoline fall with
special severity upon those least
able to pay.
Yet, Georgians pay higher gas
oline taxes than their neighbors
in any of the surrounding st
ates, and per capita motor fuel
taxes in this state or 10 per
cent higher than the national av
erage.
The motorist in Georgia pays
11 1/2? in taxes on every gallon
of gasoline he buys: 6 1/2?
state tax, 4? federal excise tax
and 3 per cent state sales tax.
The state sales tax applies both
to the price of gasoline and the
state and federal excise taxes.
Clearly, this is a 'tax on tax’
and should be removed.
Every state taxes gasoline, but
Georgia is one of a handful of
states that collect a sales tax
on gasoline. Os the 44 other
states that have sales tax laws,
38 completely exempt gasoline
from the general sales tax levy.
Georgia is in the small minority
that does not grant such an ex
emption.
Because he must pay tax and
‘tax on tax’ for gasoline, the
Georgia motorist pays at least
$2.30 in federal and state taxes
each time he fills a 20-gallon
tank.
The patent inequity of the ‘tax
on tax’ is further compounded by
the fact that the sales tax collec
ted from highway users on their
purchase of gasoline goes not
for highways, but into the state
general fund. This, of course,
flagrantly violates the princi
pal of a highway user charge.
Certainly, exemption of gaso
line from the sales tax—removal
of the unjust ‘tax on tax’—should
be the first step in any plan of
statewide tax revision.
Sincerely yours,
Eric Holmes, Jr.
Executive Secretary
Petroleum Council of Georgia
A column in a newspaper, be it
daily or weekly, is certainly not
the last word on what is right or
wrong, good or bad, or just how
something happened to come
about. When written in the right
way its aim is to create thought,
to explain, or to help spur pro
gress along.
Favorable comments on a co
lumn always give a boost to the
ego of the author, but when too
many favorable comments are
made it’s good for the author to
begin examination to find out if
that column is performing the
service for which it is intended.
The most welcomed comments
a columnist can receive are often
far from what can be considered
flattery. Occasionally life takes
on a perilous note when the phone
rings.
Putting your thoughts in a co
lumn is the best way known to find
out who disagrees with you and
why. . .often in emphatic terms.
But, the comments that please the
most are those that come from the
mature individual who calls to
make a constructive comment,
either agreeable with or opposed
to what has been printed.
One such comment came-this
week from a newcomer to Cov
ington, a man who chose this
town of his own accord and wish
es to live and shop here with his
family.
His comment was on this co
lumn two weeks ago entitled “Why
“There was no room for them
in the inn.’ Luke 2:7
By Rev. Sydney Whiteman
North Covington
Methodist Church
For generations Christians and
non Christians alike have dwelled
on this verse of the Bible and
many have wondered how anyone
could have failed to make room
for Jesus. The tragedy of this
is that today there are many peo
ple who will celebrate this coming
Christmas with no room for Je
sus. The reasons given are as
many and varied as those that
have been offered down through
the centuries.
Some have said that the inn
keeper failed to recognize Him
as the King of Kings. This rea
son (or excuse) is still prevalent
today. Many fail to recognize
Jesus as Lord of Lords. Even
in the Church there are many
who have pledged their allegiance
to Him, that will fail to recog
nize Him in the many forms
and places where they will meet
Him. Some have said that He
wasn’t expected at the inn, and
maybe He had no reservation.
Yes, even there we are excusing
ourselves because we have lost
all of our hope. Our faith has
weakened so from missing out
on the things of eternity, that we
no longer have any hopes of mee
ting Him in our lives. We are
so busy with the things of time
that we have no time for the
things of eternity. Some have
advanced the reason that He
wasn’t influential, as some of the
other guests, being the lowly
carpenter’s son that He was.
The trouble today with a lot of
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Layona Glenn
Says . . .
Let us ask GOD TO GIVE US
CLEAR MINDS AND CLEAN
HEARTS WITH WHICH TO SER
VE HIM and our fellow men.
Our daily papers and other
news media are so filled with
expressions that formerly were
considered indelicate if not vul
gar, that one shudders to hear
them. Things are openly dis
cussed that formerly were not
mentioned in a mixed audience.
<Th« Bible
We are filled with power,
with the Spirit of the Lord.—
(Micah. 3:8)
All of us are working to
ward success in one way or
another. Whatever our place
in life, we want to he a suc
cess at what we are doing. At
every level, in every field of
endeavor, at every stage in
life, we can be successful if
we call on and use the divine
power that is within us. In
any kind of work we do. we
are sure of success as we
work in the knowledge that
we are filled with power
through the Spirit of God
in us.
Thursday. December 21, 1967
COLUMN COMMENTS
By: Leo S. Mallard
Shop At Home In Covington?”.
He thought the column was fine
and had some good points, but he
wanted to point out that in some
stores in Covington some well
accepted credit references in At
lanta are not enough to open an
account in Covington.
He wasn’t ugly about his com
plaint, but he felt that the aut
hor of the column ought to know
his problem. He said he would
like to shop here but that he was
disturbed (we might say “slightly
hacked”) because his air travel
card, American Express, and se
veral other credit cards were not
proof enough of his credit ratings
to open an account without fill
ing out a local store’s own credit
information sheet.
“Sure, I took it home and pol
itely threw it in the trash can.” he
said, “my credit is accepted
many places in Atlanta and I’ll
continue to shop there rather than
be “bugged’ by outdated
credit procedures of a small
town.”
The man felt an obligation to
shop some in his new hometown
but he felt he was being discour
aged from doing so.
Merchants find the issuing of
credit to be a big problem, but
this was a comment from a cus
tomer and reader of this column
that might bear some considerat
ion. Just thought it would be worth
passing along.
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
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people is that He no longer wields
any influence in their lives. That
mother that has left her family
for the arms of another man, or
that husband that has left his fa
mily for another woman is proof
enough tnat Jesus is no longer
influencing some lives. That
mother that helps her daughter
ur son in their deceit is proof
of the lack of influence. Those
that have the mistaken idea that
they can be just as good a Ch
ristian outside of the Church
as they can be inside the Church
are also testifying to this lack of
influence.
Someone said recently, “If that
inn keeper had known who Jesus
really was he would have made
room for Him.” I am not so sure
that this is valid. I know many
people that live in the shadows
of the Church and have been
brought up in our Christian So
ciety and have been exposed to
the teachings of the Bible all
of their lives, but are so filled
with self righteousness that they
have failed to make room for Him.
Jesus said, “Inasmuch as ye have
done it unto one of the least of
these ye have done it also unto
me.” Yet why is it that to
night many people will go to bed
hungry, cold, naked and sick?
Why will millions go to sleep
this Christmas in sub standard
houses with little heat and why
will many children go this Chr
istmas without toys? We live in
an affluent society and yet we
should all be ashamed of the
waste in our lives when there are
so many that are in need. God
forbid that we shall go another
Christmas or another week with
no room for Jesus, Lord of Lords
and King of Kings.
Recently I felt sorry for a young
friend who said, in referring to
this unguarded habit of speech:
"It scares me to think of bring
ing up my young son in the pre
sent society!”
We are to blame for things
coming to this point. Instead of
exercising our right to refuse
to allow the use of careless or
indecent language, we have let
it pass and hoped that people
would, of their own accord, lea
ve off the use of such language.
We should have learned with Pope
the all too true saying that:
‘ ‘Vice is a monster of such fright
ful mien
As to be hated needs but to be
seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with
her face
We first endure, then pity, then
embrace.”
We women of our Christian
churches have it in our power to
correct our manner of speech,
and our manner of social habitis,
as well as fashions.
If all of the women of our Ch
ristian churches flatly refused to
wear, or allow their daughters
to wear the mini-skirts, how long
do you think the merchants would
stock them?
Let us who call ourselves Ch
ristians take a stand for decency,
modesty, and right and establish
a society that is fit for our child
ren to live in, and do away with
questionable things and styles.
LET US STAND FOR
DECENCY AND MODESTY