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Page 2 THE FEDERATION JOURNAL Spring, 1962 THE FEDERATION JOURNAL “Lifting As We Climb” Issued by The N. C. Federation of Negro Woman’s Club Editor: Mrs. Fannie T. Newsome, Rich Square Contributing Editors Mrs. E. M. Spellman Elizabeth City Miss Ophelia Hargette. Williamston Mrs. Beulah Perrin, Charlotte Mrs. V. T. Bishop, Rich Square Mrs. E. B. Stewart Mrs. Ester Moore Editorials EASTER GREETINGS EASTER GREETINGS — To One and All — May the True Spirit of the Resurrected Christ blossom as never before in your hearts this season. What does the first chirp of the Robin mean to us in the spring? Do visions appear of a new hat, new draperies or paint for the house, or a spring festival for your community? “EASTER is a challenge to the faith of us all. It should be a time of renewal of this faith. Every thing during this springtime is an example of renewal. There is con tinuity in nature. It should be at tached to our faith as well. EASTER flashes its light about us and gives to us a New Vision of Hope and Confidence.” “A COMMUNITY THAT READS —LEADS." April 8-14 thousands of commu nities throughout the United States will be celebrating National Li brary Week. Your community and others in N. C. will be pointing up the theme above as they stress reading in their lives and the importance of libraries of all kinds . . . public, school and university libraries as well as individual libraries in our homes. We will be among the thousands of citizens of all occupations, sens ing the importance of reading to a rich, vigorous, and free intellec tual and cultural life in their own communities for their children. The objective, the sponsors of this week hope for, is to, “remind the American people that reading can help them to explore and to satisfy their need for a greater sense of purpose and meaning in their lives; to urge them to use more fully the libraries of all kinds in which the treasures of the printed word await throughout the land.” Never before has reading been so necessary and important. It is th“ very basis of aU education. Responsible citizenship is almost demanded in this age. To exercise Religious Emphasis By MRS. BEULAH PERRIN Almost overnight we have been ushered into a world of New Di mensions. Man traveling at an un precedented speed and altitude, he had pierced the outer space, ex plored the depth, split the atoms, harnessed the lightening and made it his servant. But he has failed to subdue what the apostle Paul called the evil propensities of human nature; avarice — selfish ness — jealousy — convetousness— prejudice and hate. Thus the challange comes to all who claim allegiance with the Prince of peace, to stand up and be counted. If — “The knowledge of the Lord is to cover the earth as the waters cover the sea” — Christians must awake from their the citizenship necessary to even survive in America re q u i r e s watchful readiness. Only a wide variety of reading can keep us abreast of what has been, and what is, and train the imagination to forge ahead into what might be in the future. Personal reading habits are fixed by the interplay of many forces in the school, in the home, in the community and in the general atmosphere of our culture. This should be the concern of every adult. There are many ways we can contribute; create new atti tudes toward books, serve on trustee boards or committees, ap peals for appropriations increases, secure gifts for library, more at tractive libraries, better trained librarians, is naming but a few. Good readers are better listeners as well as better leaders than are non-readers. Reading is something new and something old, for both of these are blended in the culture of our time. Without partaking of each, no one can call himself a complete person. Clifton Fadiman once said; “Civilized man is a reader.” Are we really as civilized as we think? A statement by Governor San ford; “In recognition of the fact that our freedom to read imposes a responsibility on all of us to make constant and beneficial use of our library facilities, I am glad to designate the week of April 8-14, 1962 as National Library Week in North Carolina and urge that all citizens unite in this effort to achieve a better-read, better- informed America, to stimulate in terest in libraries of all kinds to the end that we realize the full potential of our National purpose.” “READ—AND WATCH YOUR WORLD GROW” — National theme. sleep of complacency, lethargy and unconcern and hear the words of the Saviour, “as my Father sent me, even so send I you”. Whether our contribution is great or small, we can in the spirit of Peter and John render “such as I have in the name of Jesus.” We have reached an hour in the history of civilization which I be lieve is the most crucial mankind has ever known. We are living in an age in which we see the ac cumulating consequences of the defect inherent in human nature coming to a climax. Today when you talk to those of the business world; the scientific world; the field of economics; political or whatever line of endeavor, you will find that the thinking, serious minded people agree that the pres ent circumstances are such they cannot continue very much longer without precipitating a crisis on the greatest scale humanity has ever known. I am convinced that the only solution is to be found in the ap plication of true Christianity in the lives of individuals and nations. The world today is divided into two great opposing camps. In one are individuals and nations whose philosophy of life is wholly mate rialistic, who not only reject spirit ual and moral values, but who have become openly aggressive in the repudiation of all things that in any way recognizes the sover eignty of God, the diety of Jesus Christ and the true Christian way of life. In the other camp are those who still retain normal recognition of spiritual and moral values. These are the remaining individuals and nations that compose our so-caUed Christian civilization and say so- called purposely for one of the greatest tragedies of this genera tion is the fact that much of our Christian civilization is entirely undeserving of the name. What can we do about it? In dividual effort may seem feeble or futile, but like a mother who had exhausted all efforts to save her son from the conflict of war, she put on a clean apron, got her broom and reported to the army headquarters, when ridiculed and asked what she thought she could do. Her answer, “I can let the world know which side I am on.” That is what each Christian can do and should do. It is clear that the only solution lies in the return to the place where we make our professed Christianity real. In the first place take it out of the abstract realm of ideologies and bring it down to a heart realtionship with Jesus Christ as a real living Saviour and Divine Lord. In a meeting I heard a young woman from Africa make a serious indictment and challenge to the Christians of America. She Scrap Books And Art Exhibits Time is short and fleeting, for our Annual Convention will soon be at hand. What of our Artistic and Cul tural adventures since we were in Shelby? The beautiful ribbon awards to the four top club Scrap Books were very attractive last year. Please see that they are returned to Dur ham. We do hope you wiU be able to take them back for another twelve months, but we are sure other clubs wiU be anxious to re lieve your club of that beautiful rosette ribbon award. Seven very fine books were dis played last year for our second year of this activity. We reaUy ex pect to at least double the num ber this year. It was pointed out in the last Executive Board meeting that a permanent State Chairman for the Art Committee has not been se cured as yet, but that is cer tainly no excuse for our exhibit being omitted or its being a small one. The host is arranging space for the displays and we only need to canvass our club women for their masterpieces, then send them on by your club delegate to Durham. Then we hope our very best work can go on to Washington, D. C. where it will join that of other states connected with the National Association. said Africa doesn’t need the kind of Christianity that is most prev alent in America. She said mis sionaries go to Africa and teach them that the Commandments say honor thy father and mother . . . obey them for this is well pleasing to the Lord. Then when they come to America they find just the re verse, parents are taking orders from the children. They teach them that God requires them to keep the Sabbath Holy, and the way it is kept in America you can’t tell one day from another. They teach that the body is the temple of God, and when you enter many of the houses in America you can hardly get your wraps off be fore they ask, will you have a drink or a smoke. She wanted to know what kind of a temple we thought a Holy God dwelt in. To me our chief need is to get our Bible down from the shelf or table, dust it off and give council of God its rightful place in our lives.
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