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matter under the Act of March ). 1879.
Church Should Be Guiding
Influence Of Community
BY WINSTON CRAIG *
Chairman of the Board of Deacons
of the First Baptist Church. Mur
phy.
We are told by Webster's Dic
tionary that a church is ' an edifice
tor religious worship."
The Holy Bible tells us that a
church % a local congregation of
obedient believer
1 oulii, J 1 might, with these
two very similar definitions kept
in mind, like to cause every read
er of this article to tnink, to
think, to think.
In this atomic age in which we
c ? living many people think in
1- ns of the f nancial, physical and I
t'v social, forgetting entirely the!
spiritual side <f iil'e. The faet i
th.it we. as a people. need 1a
realize thai great need of our:
e =>
ce imuniv end oar country taday
is I,he spiritual
One noted writer has said that
the next field to b? conquered is
that of human relations. The art
i f people being abic to live to
gether amicabiy in peace, in
harmony with their fellow man.
i i oguizing your neighbor and
his privileges, recognizing also
tin individual s obligations and
responsibilities to his neighbor,
to his churh, and to his God.
The Church should be a guiding
influence oil tit? individual w'ocro
n 'V he iY!ir'h' h an pleasure Or at
v. iih.
T ? c cbinv'i i'.iiu'U lie an in
fill.vice on the s h.i P., of our land. I
b< in? ox .".??nc'.y c i rc'i n.nl about
he program of Christian 'ditca
. . in so far as iiifiucnciug the'
,.itv and student I nly toward
mair.t r ir. ice .it a h giior ".'aud
it morality.
I would lik-1 rinfine the im'
I) ' inc i l ie i mrCi to a coin
iiiit., by o 'lining i.ouie of the
at1- >U'toif a Christian. A Chrir-'
t; has a f0 giving spirit tie ??
v.illing to carry h.s p ill if (he Inn '
H" has a heart ot io.'e for his fel
1 - man. cjnsideratora tar others,
de voted to his Christian duty, dil
igent. faith in Cod, forebearance.
You should find a Christian free
from anger, conceit, envy, gossip,'
judging others, malice, wordly en-1
taiiglements. You Should find fur-!
ther characteristics in a Christian
such as gentleness, holiness, hon
esty, hospitality, humility, kind
ness, meekness, obedience, pati
ence. purity of heart, reliance upon
God.
I\e have record in the Bible of a
man who had the qualities listed
above?one infallible, perfect, a
savior an example never equaled
in so far as mankind knows of.
Can you imagine a town inhabit
ed with people of these character
istics? Certainly you and I can see
the importance of the church to a
community.
We will say. then, that the
most important doty of a chur
ch to a community is. being led
by the pastor, that it should
strive to preach, to teach and
to live so near the example
left as by oar savior, leans
Christ, that lost men and wo- .
men. seeing the contrast in the
lives of professed Christians
and their own. will want to
live a little better, will want
to come to church. srOl want
?0a influence used toward the
betterment nf his community. ..
The consequence, naturally
is that we have a better church, a
better town, a better county.
We need to give God a chance
NOW. Over a six weeks period
there will be an emphasis on the
part of all churches and church
members, cooperating together, en
deavoring to invite everyone to go
to the church of his or her choice.
If you haven't been asked, I'm
asking you through this article, a
personal invitation, to come to the
First Baptist Ghunh, or to the
church of your choice, next Sun
day.
Realize, If you will, that you as
an individual, are responsible
the success, or failure, of thi, prog
ram.
Give God ? chance, NOW1
insects and dlaeaaeu attack every
major crop grown In North Car
The Andrews Lions Club
sponsor a Kroom and
!.'? Mat Sale Friday and Sat
u.dav. March 26 and 27. This
sj':,, will include a door to
???a. r sale and street sales in
Andrews Marble and Nanta
hila. There are two sizes of
r>r "ins. one suitable for stores
and business places and one
for housewives. Lion E. A.
M linger is the chairman of
this sale which will be the
tit st of an annual broom and
: wr mat sale.
Andrews Personals
and Mr? Clinton Luther
V :it.1. Gj spent the week
. Mr. ar.cl Mi ? .1. W. Luth
,-i Mr,. ,t D. King and
of Dal' r.. Ga.. were the
ui guest, of Mr. and Mrs. ]
l- , Gay.
- .1 >e Sursavaie has returned
after a visit with her parents
(if Mrs M H. Russell in
i". .ersville.
ft Ferebee and W. D. Whitak
ci the week end in Raleigh
where they attended a bankers con
ve .*i: r.
Mrs. Baxter Lay and son. Dick
ey spent last week in Sylacauga.
Ada visiting her parents. Mr. and
Mrs W. H. Wyatt.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrance Reed
anas-ans. Tommy and Charles B?
sper.t the week end with Mr. and
Mrs. L. H. Baker.
Mr< and Mrs.-L. B. Nichols have
returned home after a weeks visit
witn their son. Lee Nichols, and
family in Nashville. Tenn.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hall of Ash
eville were in Andrews during the
week end due to the illness of Mrs.
Kail's father, Jake Abemathy.
Miss Margaret and Miss Mabel
Fi.sr.er have returned from a two
week s busing and vacation trip to
Nev, York.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Heaton
hive returned from a weeks vacat
NOTICE OF SERVICE OF
PROCESS BY PUBLICATION
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF CHEROKEE
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
CKSROKEE COUNTY,
PLAINTIFF,
-vs
W V. TAYLOR and wife. CLARA
TAYLOR, and JOHN BEAVER and
?wife. VESTA BEAVER
DEFENDANTS.
TO W. V. TAYLOR
TAKE NOTICE THAT:
A pleading seeking relief against
yea has been filed in the above en
titled action. The nature of the re
lief being sought is as follows:
Tse foreclosure of the lien of
Cherokee County taxes against
real estate located in Beaverdam
Township, Cherokee County, North
Carolina, and the condemnation of
said lands to sale to satisfy said
taxes, tax liens, interest and costs
of this action and to forever bar
and foreclose all of your rights,
title and interest to the same.
You are required to make de
fense to such pleading not later
than Friday the 14th day of May,
1*M and upon your failure so to
do the parties seeking service
?gainst you will apply to the Court
for the relief sought.
This the 30th dey of March. 1054
J. L. HALL
S7-4tc Clerk of the Superior Court
ion in Fiordia.
Mrs. Paul Boring and son, Paul
Boring. Jr., and Dan Owens of Can
ion. Ga., were the week end guests
of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Dewar.
Harry Dewar of Atlanta, Ga ,
was the overnight guest of his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Dewar.
PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. Francis C. Payne
i t'.iildren. Janet and Scott of
t Point. Ga., and Miss Ann Hill
[ " Bryson City were week end
of Mrs. Frank Crawford.
Miss Sus^ Miller has returned
?? Agnes Scott College. Decatur.
Oa. a'ter several days vish with
' er parents. Dr. and Mrs. Harry
Miller.
Mrs. C. E. Hyde and children,
Rosalie andPeggy and Mrs. S. M.
ilenton spent Friday and Saturday
n Atlanta with Mr. and Mrs. C. J.
lenton and children.
Mrs. Wiley C. Kinney. Jr., and
Monday.
Tommy Moore of Atlanta, Ga.,
IT.. Moore, and Vera Moore,
pent the week end with Mrs. W.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Snyder of
\shevil!e spent the week end with
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Luther.
son. Michael, spent the week end
in Dalton. Ga, with her parents,1
Mr. and Mrs. J. M Jones.
Mrs. Howard Moody spent last
?eek in Knoxville with her sister,
Mrs. Benton M. Taylor and Mr.
Taylor.
Mrs. Ruth Carringer spent last
week with her son-in-law and dau-1
ghter. Mr and Mrs. R. J. Blake in
Heflln. Ala. Mr and Mrs. Blake
> with their children, Richard and
Mike, accompanied her bom? and !
are spending thi, week here with
her.
Mrs. P. F. Woodyard and aon,
Michael Peyton, of Covington, Ky.,
after having spent a month here
with her mother, Mrs. Willard Co
oper. returned to their home Sun
day. accompanied by Mr. Wood
yard who canvg for the week end.
Mrs. Ralph Harbin of Maryville.
Tenn.. visited her mother, Mrs. L.
E. Mauney, this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Spurge Christoph
er of Atlanta came for th* week
end to visit the former's mother,
Mrs. W. Christopher, who is ill.
Jim Franklin attended a Buick
Dealers Meeting in Greenville, S.
C . last week He was accompanied
>y Mrs. Franklin and Mrs. W. P.
Odom.
Mr. and Mrs W A Phillips of
Asheville were in Murphy Monday.;
Mr and Mrs. W. A. Sherrill, Jr.,
are here with Mr. Sherrill's moth
er. Mrs. W. A. Sherrill.
I
Gordon Darnell has returned to
McCallie School in Chattanooga
tfter a few days' vacation at home.
Coming Soon
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NOTICE
DEMOCRATSOFTOWN OF MURPHY
There will be an open meeting at the Courthouse
Monday Evening, March 29 at 7:30 O'clock
For the purpose of
Nominating a Mayor and 6 Councilm en to be voted on in the May 4th Elec
tion
THIS IS YOUR PARTY1
IT IS URGENT THAT YOU BE AT THIS MEETING TO
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| BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN J
ftcrlptare: John 15? It.
D?*?4i*n?l RtaJtaf: AcU S: 14.
57-30
Guiding Spirit
Umi for March tt. 1M4
??\1T HAT kind of evidence could
*V convince you that God ex
lets?" The question was put to a
famous agnostic who answered it
in a popular magatine last talL He
writes: "1 think that if I heard a
voice from the sky predicting all
that was going to happen to me
during the next 24 hours, including
events that would have seemed
highly improbable, and if all these !
events then pro
ceeded to happen,
I might perhaps
be convinced at
least of the exist
ence of some su
perhuman intelli
gence." This ag
nostic, who has a
brilliant mind and
knows a great deal
about many things, Dr. Foreman
has managed to lay bare a consid
erable ignorance about religion on
his part. If this is what he insists
on before he will believe in God,
he will never get it. If we all
waited for the kind of thing he
wants to hear, no one would be
able to believe in God.
? ? ?
The Spirit, Does Guide, But...
To begin with, it is most unlike
ly that God will reveal his plans
in detail to this gentleman. He has
never done it yet, not to prophets
and not to apostles, saints or,
martyrs It One of the greatest of
these who sa.d we walk by faith
and not by sight. So it is not like
ly that God will give an elaborate
set of predictions to a man who
does not want to believe in the
first place In the second place, the
demand made by the agnostic as
sumes that the future is just as
fixed as the past, that there is no
such thing as freedom. Not even
God can predict one day's events
in advance if there is any real
freedom in the person to whom he
makes the prediction (This is a
different thing from saying God
cannot know in advance?that is
anothei proposition And yet. and
vet?the same Christian church
which would with one voice deny
hut God pi i :: ises to any man in
adi le knowledge in advance of
,vii int day s happenings, has
llnineJ from the very beginning
rat God does guide his people by
ciis Holy Spirit. We believe that
Jesus' promise, that the Spirit
would guide his people into "all
truth." has been fulfilled. It may
be a mistake (though this writer
thinks not) to suppose that the
Holy Spirit has more than we think
to do with men's discoveries in
science, in geography and inven
tion; it is certainly no mistake to
suppose that the Spirit guides men
and women in their daily lives and
problems. The Spirit does guide
us but not as a voice from
between the clouds and the moon.
How long is It since anybody in
your church heard, with his ears,
a voice out of the sky? Yet God's
voice is heard every day by Chris
tians, the "still small voice," the
voice that makes no sound, the
"sound of gentle stillness" which is
the literal translation of "still
small voice."
Spirit of Truth
The most serious practical prob
lem connected with the guidance ot
the Spirit ot God in our daily Uvea
.s this, first of aU: How can we
tell the Spirit's "leading" from no
tions of our own? When we have
an Impulse to do or to say some
thing. to go or to wait, is this God
that gives us the impulse, or is it
only ourselves, or (chilling
thought) could it even be an evil
spirit? Mow we must remember
that God can and does speak to us
In quite "ordinary" ways. When
we are really hungry, we look tor
food. We don't need any voice
from the sky. But In the "natural"
Instinct of hunger, God who made
us Is saying to us, "Eat if you
want to lire." Admitting an this,
is there any good way of telling
whan the voice ta God's and when
it la not? Yes. One test la this: Is
It the voice of truth? Does It push
you toward reality or away from
it? . . . What would you say to a
man who told you that Ood had
commanded him to marry Ova
wives?
? ? ?
The Spirit of Jesus
The Holy Spirit and the Spirit
of Jesus are not two Spirits but
one. This gives us further insight
into how we may identify the true
divine Spirit, as different from
our own. If ever we are tempted to
justify something we want to do.
by saying It Is God's will, let us
stop and think Brat: Is this what
Jesus would do? We know enough
about Jesus to know what sort of
person he was. We know how he
lived. We can be quite certain that
the Holy Spirit will never lead a
man to do an un-Chrlstllke thing.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Shields atten
ed the funeral of a cousin in Mor
anton. Ga? Monday.
Dick Ketner of Clemson College
L C. spent the week end here with
is parents, Mr. and Mrs. Quay
ataar.