Established July 18?
Published every Thursday at Murphy. Cherokee County. N. C
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Hanging Dog Section
Insulted By Magazine
A beautiful section of our county recently was the scene of violence
in which ? men wag ohot to death. Another man, accused of the death
and found guilty by a jury, wag sentenced to death in the gas chamber.
Such acts of violence happen, unfortunately, every day in other
parts of the world. When it happens near to home, the neighbors are
shocked for a while and wooder bow It could have happened here.
We rdgret that our community has suffered such a blade eye, but
we don't -object to outsiders discussing the incident?just as long as
they stick to the facts.
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A magazine with a national circulation saw the violent death of
our late sheriff as the basis of a story. We in Cherokee County know
that story has only a passing acquaintance with facts. Fiction is one
thing, but writing a news story, in which the truth i$ not to be tamper
ed with, is another. That magame took the fact that a sheriff bad been
shot and turned loose bad publicity on Cherokee County and especially
the Hanging Dog section.
Hanging Dog is not the back woods, mountain ridge, Snuffy Smith
infested community the magazine would have its readers believe.
Hanging Dog is one of the most beautiful areas in this section. It
boasts a good road, a new school and many modern homes.
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WHEN Paul speaks at
tlana as "dead to the law" i
"tree from the law*' ha la
thinking of what wa call the law of
the land. Paul was vary careful to
observe the laws of his own Bo
man Empire, aa weD aa all local
lawa. Furthermore,
apeaka at Christians' I
law he does not
mean that a Chris
tian can afford to
turn his back on
the Ten Command
ments, even though
when he says "law"
he is usually think
ing about those
Ten Command
ments and all they
involve. Let us see
what is meant by Dr- m
saying Christians are dead
law.
Law As A Curse
Paul speaks more than once of
the "curse" of the law, as for ex
ample in GaL 3:13?Christ "re
deemed us from the curse of the
law, having become a curse for
us." Now it may seem odd and
even perverse to think of law as
a curse, especially a good law.
And particularly the law of God;
how can that possibly be a curse?
To understand this we have to
think our way back into Old
Testament times. There were cer
taialy some people, like the un
known poet who wrote the 119th
Psalm, who loved the Law and
found Joy in studying and keep
ing it. But for every such man
there must have been numberless
others who found the law just What
Paul at one time in his life had
found: a sort of standing threat on
God's part. "Do this or else?;
don't do that or else?." Don't we
know people in our times who think
of God as keeping a sort of record
/book full of black marks, ? who
think of God as keeping up with us
just in order to take down every
thing bad we say or do or think?
A person who is not very conscien
tious may think gaily, "I'll get
by;" but a conscientious person
who realizes what a high standard
the law calls for, may live in ter
ror lest God demand vengeance for
every broken law. great or small.
Now the Christian can breathe
freely; he "is free from such terrors
because whatever curse there may
be in the law, Christ has taken
upon himself.
Law As A Condition
Then the Christian is free from
the law as a condition of God's
favor. "When shall I be good
enough for God to love me?" is a
question no one ought to ask. The
Christian is one who has discov
ered that God's love does not wait
for our obedience. A mother does
not wait till her baby is old enough
to understand her and obey her
before she will love him. And
even when he is ol'd enough to
understand, if he disobeys she
may disapprove and punish him,
but she will not stop loving him. If
God had waited to love us till we
were good enough to love, he would
be waiting yet. It is God's gracious
love that produces what goodness
we have, not the other way around.
Doing what God wants done is ab
solutely right and we. should try
our best every day to do just that.
But It is absurd to think that
God's love is like a thermometer
that goes up and down with the
temperature of our obedience.,We
can't earn our way into God's fa
vor. As we were noticing last
week, the smile of God is not for
sale.
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Law As A Cage
Again, law for some people is a
kind of cage. Inside its narrow pat
tern they carefully live. They do
what they must, what the law com
pels; but beyond that they will not
go. They are only as good as they
have to. be. Now the Christian is
tree from the law as a cage, just
as he Is free from it as a curse and
as a condition. The Christian loves
by faith, hope and love; and these
take him clear beyond the limits oS
law.
A husband who does for bis wife
and family only what the law re
quires will be a poor husband. A
citizen who win do no mors for his
country and community than Just
not to break any laws. Is nod the
best bpe of citizen. A soldier who
win not go beyond the Una of duty
win deserve no medals. A "Chris
tian" who does no more than bare
ly try to keep from breaking the
Ten Commandments is never the
high-level Christian. A Christian is
free. He Is law-abiding; hut he does
not live "under" law, he Uvea;
under Grace. It Is a differs
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