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Letters To The Editor
Feds Not Cutting Spending
Dear Editor:
We hear a lot of talk about the federal
g:l\;ernment cutting spending. We are led to
eve that whatever cuts are made will lower
our nations h‘éfe national debt. President Clin
ton has recently shown that He’s not in favor
of reducing the national debt and its horren
dous interest burden. He wants to cut some pro
grams only to earmark the savinis so that his
socialized medicine scheme might seem less
costl’l{.
e president and his unelected spouse are
committed to having government take over
America’s medical system. And they’re willing
to cover its cost by shuffling around some
federal funds. What they’re not interested in
doing is cutting back the size and cost of
government.
The president and top members of his ad
ministration went all out to defeat the Penny-
Kasich deficit reduction package. This modest
measure, named after fiepresentatives Tim
Penny (D-MN) and John Kasich (R-OH), would
have trimmed federal spending by S9O billion
over the next five years, a mere one percent of
projrected federal outlays.
he president, Mrs. Clinton, numerous
Paper Whitewashing Scandals
Dear Editor:
We agree wholeheartedly that our city is in
need of praf'er. Here we are, a town of less than
8,000 people and one individual has (allegedly)
manaied to steal some one-half million dollars
and absolutely, no one has any idea how it
hap&ened!
e elected wh Stanley, Earl Parris and
Mike King; we ected lox-time Councilman
Ira Pollard and Mayor Sewell Cash. We trusted
these men with our tax money; yet, you lead
us to believe these men and other trusted city
employees never had any clue this was
occurring.
How can we continue to trust any of these
individuals to handle our hard-earned tax
dollars? How can unsi%ned checks continue to
be run through a local banking institution and
not one person questions it until now? To top
it all off, our own city attorney allows the ac
cused to take SIO,OOO out of a frozen account
for her legal expenses! Again, we have taken
it on the chin.
You are very quick to editorialize your
views. Be carefix?,’ your bias is showing through
the smoke screen you have set up, with what
we believe to be an attempt to convince
everyone of Mayor Cash’s innocence as well as
other. employees with the city.
Come on folks, if you were mayor or coun
cilman, would you be that naive for some seven
years, not having any idea where your city’s
funds were going? The bottom line is that we
are being governed by individuals who care lit
tle about rules and regulations, only the end
results.
Come on (Editor), you know more than you
are telling. If you were able to investigate the
Earl Parris scandal and dig up all the im
propriorities on him totaling less than SSOO, cer
tainly. your detective skills would allow you to
reveal the whole truth in the City of Summer-
Pass Tougher DUI Laws
Dear Editor:
The: Coalition for Young Driver Safety is
working very hard to pass a law that will save
the lives of our youth, who should be of special
concern to all. As you well know, effective and
important legislation is not always passed.
Strong public opinion is the best tool we have
in ga_imnfthe attention and support of our
elected officials.
We encourage you to look at the needless
number of deaths and injuries that occur on our
roads annuallfi' because young drivers, those
age 15 to 21, have no motivation not to drink
and drive.
Quite frankly, our society is at fault. One
law says those under 21-years-old are too young
to drink, while another says 16- to 18-year-olds
can have a blood alcohol content up to .06
before they are assumed to be driving drunk.
The News Is Worst Newspaper
Dear Editor:
To the Readers of The Summerville News:
I was invited to write a letter to the editor
when I called to cancel my subscription to this
newspaper and I have decided to respond. The
Editorial that initiated mJy anier and indigni
mas,that written by Joseph Goulden and
irvine which appeared in the Thursday,
Jan. 13, 1994 edition of this newsp:fi,\er. It was
a lurid physical description of an alleged rela
tionship between Hillary Clinton and Vince
Foster, the Presidential aide who committed
suicide last year. The language and the accusa
tions in the article were of a sort that might
have been found in the type of ‘blue” jour
nalism normally referred to as ‘‘scandal
sheets.” Were I the editor of a newspaper, I
would not have allowed such inflammatory and
obscene lang:ge about anyone much less the
wife of thePresident of the United States.
When 1 questioned the editor of this
news'gfiper about the evidential basis for this
particular article he replied that “these people
thought they had evidence.” As an editor,
before I printed such insulting accusations, I
would feel it my responsibility to satisfg' my
own .conscience about the validity of the
evidence. Remember this article not only
rendered opinions, but alleged certain informa
tion as facts.
When I questioned the editor about the com
plete lack of balance on his editorial page, he
replied that he felt it was his duty to provide
an antidote to the so-called “left wing liberal
bias” of all the other press. As one who sees
Guest Column
: from editorial page
children. 9
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IT IS TRUE that a generation may be
lost already. We may already have produc
ed a segment of a generation so utterly
unredeemable that, no matter our efforts,
are destined to spend the bulk of their lives
cabinet officers, and top leaders of the
Democratic Par’tly pressured congressmen to
vote against it. The scare stories even includ
ed Secretafi/ of Health and Human Services
Donna Shalala insistintg that the measure
would cut funding for feeding programs for
women, infants and children.
President Clinton took time away from his
November summit meeting with Asian leaders
in Seattle to condemn the Penny-Kasich bill
because it “would make nationa{ health care
reform im(i)ossible." He was echoing similar
claims made bfi:gis wife at a meeting on Capitol
Hill with freshmen members of the House of
Representatives. Administration pressure suc
ceeded in having the measure defeated on Nov.
23 2{ a slim 219-213 vote.
e American people are already forced to
pay S3OO billion per year for interest on the na
tional debt. The Clinton plan isn’t aimed at
reducing this stagfiering burden. The President
is committed to having government control
everything. The name for that kind of govern
ment is totalitarian.
Sincerely,
Eddie D. Wilson
Summerville
ville scandal. Nothinfi else has been kept a
secret in this town; what makes you th.inf so
meone didn’t suspect Ms. (Myrtis) Evans prior
to December, 1993! Did close friends not
suspect something wasn’t right when she began
spending money, taking trips and giving gifts?
It is your duty to find out what the entire truth
is. So far you've attacked only those individuals
who have been willing to bring %uestions to the
forefront. Those very people who are beigg ac
cused by the public are being protected by
yourself.
If Mayor Cash, his daughter, Ira Pollard
and others have nothing to iide. then let this
investigation take place without any meddling
by them. It would seem so far the “fox has been
guardingnthe hen house.”
It didn’t take the antics of two of our coun
cilmen to embarrass the city, we accomplished
that with the mere implication that one person
could rob the citizens of one-half million ld)gllars
and no one ever suspect a thing.
What would it hurt for the city to be shut
down for a period of time and let the GBI and
IRS come in and audit everything? No one has
been running the town for years. That’s ob
vious! Certainly a couple of weeks won't make
any difference.
guxllf C(f)uncilr;;n, “Re}fl” Pan‘;i;)l inc}:xded, all;e
ilty of wrongdoing, then certainly the punish
ment should fit the crime. But let?; maEe sure
the same considerations are given to all the ac
cused. This paper is guilty of whitewashing the
fact that those elected have not done the job
they were elected to do!
Sincerely,
Christine Parris
Summerville
Editor’s Note: You must not have read our
editorial of Dec. 30, 1993.
By this point, their likelihood of being in a
serious crash ha:fljumped five times. Any
amount of alcohol affects young and less skillful
drivers far more severely than experienced
adults.
Studies show the best way to deter young
people from drmg i g and driving is by threaten
ing their most X ized possession — their license.
An underafie dministrative License Suspen
sion (ALS) law allows on-the-sgot confiscation
of a young person’s license if they fail or refuse
a breath test. States with underage ALS laws
have seen great reductions in the number of
alcohol-related inguries and fatalities involving
15- to 21-year-olds . . .
Sincerely,
Wayne Reece
Atlanta
press re%orts from the left side of that im
aginary line, I can assure you that the bias
definitely appears to lean the other way to me.
However, other newspapers that I read seem
to make a real effort to present columnists from
both sides of the ideological spectrum and allow
their readers to choose their own perspective.
The Atlanta Constitution, which is generally
known to have more liberal opinions from its
editorial staff, nevertheless, daily carries
several columns penned by conservative com
mentators. My hometown newsp;ger, The
Athens Banner-Herald, is owned by Morris In
dustries, a very conservative news establish
ment, yet they carry regularxf(f:olumns written
bg' avowed liberals. One bifi ifference between
those who claim to be the liberal left as oppos
ed to the radical right is that liberals cling
tenaciously to the idea of individual autonomy
of conscience whereas the conservatives seem
to look to their icons for all decisions about
values, facts and right or wrong.
My husband and I have lived in many places
while he was career military. We lived in small
towns and bi%cities across the United States
and abroad. I have never seen a public so poor
ly served by a newspaper as you are. I am vei'{
sad because I grew up in Summerville and
think that most peo&l!e there are good and fair
minded and should iroperly informed of all
points of view so that they can make their own
judgments.
incerely yours,
Anita Butler Brannen
Athens
lln prison.
It’s a tragedy, but if we have to lock
away half a generation to save half, we
should express our grief and build the
prisons.
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Jim Wooten is editor of The Atlanta
Journal’s editorial pages.
Conservative Christian Responds
Dear Editor:
Although I am not a citizen of any ‘“‘third
world country,” but a citizen of the United
States of America and a “‘conservative Chris
tian,” I would like to take the challenge issued
%y Pat Strange that a%peared in your “Letters
0 The Editor” published in the paper Jan. 20.
(1. If Pat Strange means that America is a
“third world country”’ then she must mean that
she believes it to be so. The meaning of a “third
world count?"’ is any underdeveh()f)ed country
of the world, esp. of Africa and Asia. The
United States of America is not considered to
be a “third world country”).
Pat Strange, I do not know you, nor do I
know of you, Eut I would like to commend you
for proposing ‘‘some” of the questions you have
about the l(t;firistian faith. I wish that more po
ple would express their groblems with Chris
tianity in some form so the problems could be
addressed. I take these questions as being in
tellectually honest questions and I believe they
deserve to be answered.
I would like to first make some general com
ments about the questions before I get into
answerin% each one individually.
First, I am at a disadvantage because your
T‘lestions deserve much more space in answer
than I believe I am allotted in this article.
Second, I do not profess to have all answers
to all questions about Christiang?' but I do
believe all questions can be answered after some
preliminary investigation.
Thirdly, I respect your choice of the King
James translation of the Bible but it is only a
translation. The best source to use would be to
consult the original languages (Hebrew and
Greek) of the Scriptures. I will comment on the
King James Bible%ut will rely upon the orifinal
languages in my answers (this is one of the
reasons Christians come to Church and Bible
studies, to learn what the original Scriptures
taufiht).
ourthly, none of your questions, with the
exce[f)tion of question No. 5, deal with the Chris
tian faith in particular but deal with interpreta
tion of Scripture. I will discuss question No. 5
first since it is a direct question dealing with
the heart of the Gospel of Christ.
Lastly, I noticed that you said you have
“many questions’’ and yet, I assume because
of the space preblem, you gave but five. I h?fie
these were not the toughest questions you could
come up with. If they are not the toughest ques
tions, why didn't you give five that really
bother you? I mean no disrespect, but these
questions have been raised by others many
years before you. I would some day like to meet
you and get some of your other questions writ
ten down so that I could present you with possi
ble answers.
Oh by the way, as a concerned Christian I
invite you to visit our church!!!
QUESTION NO. 5
It is not only Christians who claim that
Jesus is God’s only Son but the Scriptures
clearly claim this truth. The word found in John
3:16 and translated “only begotten” is the
Greek word ‘“monogenes” which means, in
classical Greek, ‘“only one of its kind.”
Throughout the New Testament we find several
passages which teach the unique relationship
of Jesus Christ to God the Father (check John
1:1-5; John 8:58; John 17:5, 24 just name a few).
As for the translation foundin Genesis 6:2,
4 the words “sons of God” come from the
Hebrew ‘‘bene elohim’’ (this Hebrew Fhrase is
used onl{ three other times in the Old Testa
ment: Job 1:6, 2:1 and 38:7). This passage real
ly deserves much space in answering but I will
give you the “short” version and convey to you,
or anyone else, that I would be %!ad to explain
this verse in length. In the New Testament the
Greek translation of the words ““sons of God,”
found in John 1:12, have to do with all who have
been “born again” through personal faith in
Jesus Christ and the concept of the spiritual
relationship of believers to God as analo%s
to that of children to an earthly father. This
teaching is also reflected in the gld Testament
(Psalm 73:15; Hosea 1:10; Deuteronomy 32:5,
Exodus 4:22) but NOT one of these examples,
however, uses the same Hebrew phrase as is
found in Genesis 6:2, 4. Furthermore, in each
case the meaniné is not really parallel to the
meaninihere in Genesis. Without getting into
too much detail, the obvious and natural mean
ing is that these beingz were ‘“‘sons’’ of God,
rather than of men, because they had been
created, not born. Such a description, of course,
would apgly to Adam (Luke 3:38) and to the
angels, whom God had directly created (Psalm
148:2, 5; Psalm 104:4; Colossians 1:16).
We are further helped in our understanding
of Genesis 6:2, 4 by consulting the Sertuagint
(this is the Greek translation of the Old Testa- .
ment which comes to us from the third century
before the Christian era). In this translation of
the Old Testament we find that ‘‘bene elohim”’
Keep Government Out Of Medicine
" Thefdaral gverment o e
e feder vernment has been promising
to fix our hea]gt?l care system for years, but
nothing ever seems to happen. While President
Clinton made health care reform a major cam
paign issue, the Whitewater scandal could well
]eoglardlz' e the momentum necessary to pass
such a radical siste'mic change. Given these cir
cumstances, w! {vdo our state leaders insist
upon waiting for Washington before we embark
on our own health care reforms?
If we wait for Washington and it fails, then
what should we tell the retired person who is
rejected b{ insurance companies because he
devel?ed ou Gehrig’s Disease? What should
we tell the self-employed person who is unin
sured because she can’t a#grd the premiums?
Our health care system suffers from several
bad policies and mlsgilaced incentives rather
than one major flaw. Most Georgians are hap
py with the quality of their health care, but they
are very concerned about losing their health in
surance if the¥ develop a serious illness or
become unemployed.
While their concern about losing health in
surance is great, there are certain things
Georgians aren’t willing to sacrifice. According
to a statewide poll done for the Georgia Public
Policy Foundation in December, 68 percent of
Georgia citizens indicated that they are not will
ing to limit their freedom to go to the doctor
or hospital of their choice, 71 percent are not
willing to pay more income taxes, 66 percent
are not mlfi::g to pay more out-q‘smlgmt expen
ditures, and 57 percent are not willing to wait
several months for non-emergency procedures
andmations.
they overwhelmingly support are sim
ple reforms that would reduce the number of
uninsured, reduce health care costs, and provide
long-term insurance security without complete
ly scrapping the current system. For exa.ug:le.
58 percent of Georgians support Medical Sav
ings Accounts, 62 percent support the funding
of a High-Risk Insurance Pool, 68 percent sup
port a portability requirement for policies and
is clearly to be understood as applying ex
clusively to the angels.
Therefore, there seems no reasonable doubt
that, in so far as the language itself is concern
ed, the intent of the writer was to convey the
thought of angels. These angels, no doubt, are
fallen angels because of their opposition to God.
QUESTION N(g. 1
There are two parts of this question. First,
the reason that the genealogy of Jesus Christ
begins with Joseph in Matthew 1, is that Mat
thew’s purpose in writing his gospel was to in
struct the Jews that Jesus Christ was of the
‘“son of David” and the ‘‘son of Abraham.”
Matthew portrays Jesus Christ as King and
therefore ghrist’s genealogy is traced to King
David. Matthew gives us the LEGAL descent
of Jesus, which could only be through the male,
Joseph. He presents Joseph’'s genealogy as
?ESCENDING, one that leads via Joseph to
esus.
Second, Luke's genealogy (Luke 3:23-38)
gives us the REAL descent of Jesus, which
could only be throu%h Mar{ (Jesus being
physically conceived of the Holy Ghost, not of
Joseph). Luke’s purpose in writin%lhis gospel
is to present Jgsus Christ in His perfect
humanity. Luke’s genealogical record is
presented in ASCENDING order. Luke gives
us Mary's genealogy.
QUESTION NO. 2
Neither Paul (I Timothy 2:9) nor Peter (I
Peter 3:3) forbid this action. In the original
lanfiuage of the New Testament (Greek) there
is NO condemnation of the desire on the part
of girls and women to adorn themselves with
“braids” and gold or pearls or expensive
clothing.”
In view of the context of both Sassaies, the
Christian woman must understand that her real
adornment is not coiffure (a style or arranging
of the hair) or jewelry or sglendid attire but
something else, namely, the doing of good
works which are in keeping with a professed
faith in Jesus Christ.
Both passages emphasize the importance of
a proper sense of values and do not prohibit the
‘“adorning’’ of oneself.
It must also be pointed out that Christians
often do things which God forbids. God’s Word
recognizes this and God tells us what we must
do when we disobey Him (In I John 1:9 the
apostle John, writinafi to Christians, says that
we are to ‘“‘continually confess our sins”’ and
that God will ““continually forgive us our sins.”
Notice that in that verse John includes himself
with the word ‘‘we”).
QUESTION NO. 3
Neither the Matthew passage nor the Luke
passage say that these were the ‘“‘last words”
of Jesus on the cross. The order of the words
that Jesus s‘poke on the cross are as follows:
(1) “Father, forgive them; for they do not know
what they are doing”’ (Luke 23:34). (2) “I
solemnly declare to you, Today you shall be
with Me in Paradise”’ (Luke 23:43). (3) “‘Woman,
look, your Son! . . . Look, your mother!”’ (John
19:27). (4) “My God, My God, why hast thou
forsaken Me!"’ (Mark 15:34). (5) ‘I am thirsty”
(John 19:28). (6) ‘lt is Finished” (John 19:30).
(7) “Father, into thy hands I commend My
Spirit”’ (Luke 23:46).
QUESTION NO. 4
The simple answer to this question is,
because Gog wanted too!
Samson never “‘took” his life; he “‘sacrific
ed” it for his people. There is a big difference.
Jonah prayed, ‘‘Lord, please take my life from
me, for it is better for me to die than to live!”
(Jonah 4:3). But he never ‘‘took” his own life.
Suicide is acting “for one’s self.” What Sam
son did was to lay his life on the line for others
— his people. Samson’s act was no more suicide
than gfigst’s, when He said, “I lay down my
life,” for “‘the ioxfd shepherd fives His life for
the sheep” (John 10:11, 17). In fact, “‘greater
love has no one than this, than to lay down
one’s life for his friends” (John 15:13).
Of course, not every apparent death ‘‘for
others” is really an act of love. Paul made this
plain in his great love cha%t.er: “though I give
my body to fl burned, but have not love, it pro
fits me nothing”’ (I Corinthians 13:3). Even a
martyr may not be dying out of love, but in an
obstinate commitment to his own self-centered
cause. Saul took self-death ‘‘Lest these uncir
cumcised men come and thrust me through and
abuse me’’ (I Samuel 31:4). Samson by contrast
asked God for permission to die, praying, ‘“Let
me die with the Philistines” (Judges 16:30). God
granted his request, ‘‘so the dead that he kill
ed at his death were more than he had killed
in his life”’ (v. 30).
Sincerely,
Dr. Donald Howe
Pastor
First Presbyterian Church
Summerville
56 percent support a guaranteed renewability
requirement. :
Portability would allow those who retire or
change jobs to retain their insurance.
Renewability would ease people’s fears of
becoming priced out of their insurance or drop
ped if th%develop a serious and costly disease.
A High-Risk Insurance Pool would make in
surance affordable for those who have already
developed expensive illnesses, and Medical Sav
ings Accounts would reduce health care costs
for evexzone, including the self-employed and
those who work for small businesses that don’t
offer insurance. If we let another year slip by
without substantive health care reform,
thousands of Georgians will suffer.
Geor%ia has the oppertunity to provide pro
gressive leadership to other states and the na
tion by acting now to provide affordable and
secure health care for its citizens. This can’t be
accon;rlished by a %lastic card and another
federal bureaucracy, but it is possible through
a few Hractical, common sense reforms.
Kelly McCutchen
Executive Director
Georgia Public Policy Foundation
Additional
Letters To
The Editor
On Page 6-A
The Summervilie News, Thursday, January 27,1994 . . .
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Immoral Entertainment
Dear Editor:
I must say, I've never shaken so many hands as I have this
week. Friends, neighbors and complete strangers have looked me
ug to tell me how strongly they agree with my assessment of
the effects that Pat and Lewis Strange’s antics are having on
Chattooga County. Not one person gisagrwd with me. After
reading and re-reading their response to my letter of Jan. 13, I
really see no need for a direct response — which would add
nothing new. What I would like to comment on, however, is a
broader problem, of which Pat and Lewis are but the tip of the
iceberg.
Since the ‘‘senseless sixties,” the moral values of our coun
try have gone steadily downhill. Relifion and patriotism have
been replaced with immorality and self-hatred. \R’e have allowed
the terrible combination of government, the national media (net
work TV, big-city newspapers, news magazines, etc.), and
Hollywood to take the moral ground away from the people. These
forces are, of course, being manipulated by the ACLU (founded
by Communists, and cming into its own in the 1960 s); National
Organization for Women (founded and led by lesbians); the
NAACP, SCLC, and other civil ri%hts organizations whose se
cond generation leaders seem to feel they owe allegiance to those
off-the-wall gay and lesbian irouEs that glommed on to them
when they were fighting for black civil rights); People for the
American W:X (this patriotically-sounding organization actual
ly was formed to gush the leftist agenda); and, of course, the
various gay and lesbian organizations (such as the Rainbow Coali
tion) across the country.
Michael Medved, a well-known film critic and author, has
recently published a book called ‘“Hollywood vs. America.” In
it, he catalogs how much Hollywood has tried to demoralize the
movie-going and TV public, by churning out films and shows that
appeal only to the lowest common denominator.
He shows how studios actually lose money producing them,
rather than the wholesome shows that the American public wants
to see. He gzgzes that the biggest moneymakers of almost every
{Vear have the mass-appeal shows such as “E. T.” and ‘‘Star
ars,” “Sound of Music,” etc.
Each Xsear, Hollywood and the TV networks try to expand
the bounds of taste, tryinilt: impose their distorted values upon
us. If anyone ob;'ects to this, they immediately react with cries
of ‘“‘censorship!’
If that doesn’t work, they say that ‘‘All we’re doing is reflec
ting what'’s reall{l happening in mainstream America.”
Hogwash! When we complain that they’re affecting our
children, they respond with, “How can one show affect your
children?” But, it’s not just one show. It’s one show after another,
after another, after another. And if they don’t think our children
will emulate what’s on the screen, then there are an awful lot of
advertisers wasting their money trying to get us to buy their
products.
What do you think is more effective? A two-minute commer
cial, or a half hour of trash programming?
And, there are many sacres cows out there now. We must now
treat atheism, welfarism, homosexuah;? and lesbianism, AIDS,
and everybody's civil rights as sacred cows. But it is safe to
criticize religion, patriotism, and the military. When'’s the last
time you saw them favorably presented by Hollywood or on net
work TV?
The government yells, ‘‘Separation of church and state!”” Yet
it was the government that decided to interfere with reel¥ion when
it banned school prayer, made abortion legal, banned religious
observances on government (citizens’) property; and for the past
30 years, slowly developed a confrontational attitude towards
organized religion.
Unfortunately, until very recently, the churches have failed
miserably in their response to this attitude. Fortunately, a new
organization called the ‘“American Center for Law and Justice,”
g:ivately financed b{vl?hristian individuals (not churches) has
gun to fight back. They send lawyers out all over the country
to countersue and sue for people who have been victimized by
anti-religious orfiamza’ tions such as school boards, judges, town
councils, etc., who have put their own spin on the constitutional
rights of Christians and Jews.
For you young people reading this, please understand that
“separation of church and state” does not appear anywhere in
our Constitution. What is stated is that a state religion will not
be established, such as still the case in Great Britain and Scan
dinavia, for example.
Isn’t it strange that this nation managed to get along with
its rel.ifious populace for 200 years, going from strength to
strengt %rowinf strong and great, and then — we're told Bfl
some people in black robes that we've been doing it wrong
those years. Is it an‘y wonder our national morals are sinking?
Isn’t it, Strange
Sincerely,
John M. Carroll
Lyerly
P. S. One piece of curious business I would like to point out
to the citizens of Chattooga County. Did you know that the
finance officer of GEO (the corporation that is suing the l;»eople
of Trion for a million dollars) is none other than Jerry Brown,
a fellow Chattoogan and friend of the Stranges? How Strange.
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Continue With Prayer
Dear Editor: i
I wish to commend the recent school board decision to con
tinue prayer before their meetings (Jan. 13). I can almost hear
Patrick Henry's “give me liberty or give me death” revabam
through history, or Peter’s response when forbidden to p
or teach in the name of Jesus: “Whether it is right in the sight
of God to listen to you and obey you rather than God you must
decide, but we cannot help telling what we have seen and heard”
(Amplified New Testament).
I would like to say to those inciting rebellion against God to
remember a man by the name of Korah (Numbers 16:26): ‘“The
ground opened up and they and all that appertained to them went
alive into the Pit and perished.”
God doesn’t do things like that in our day you say: Take
ano&er lookb:::g‘. Al R s
t’s get every inch of ground sto! rom us .. . prayer
before games, preaching at the courthouse square. Yes, let’s gu’t
God back in our schools! Our backs are against the wall . . . let’s
get our children back. If one person could cause so much damage
to our precious religious liberties’, think what one man or woman
totally sold out to God could do tgefiam it all back!
Let’s go for it Summerville and tell the Devil . . . this far and
no farther. “If God’s for us, who can be against us?”
Jean Gauld
Mentone, Ala.
géaa‘ow @& Gare
Dr. Doug Reeves Linda Reeves Ballenger
4'&;»tometfist Optician
(404) 857-7877 (404) 857-7777
128 North Commerce Street
Summerville, Ga. 30747
5 _;——_—E Dr. KW. Harwood .
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