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Page 4. The Carolina Kidian Voice-Thursday, Janauiy 29, 1987 Church News THE VOICE OF MAN... by Dr. James N. Lowery, DD When a man holds up a book and sa3rs, “You must believe this, because it says ITius saith the Lord,*’ should we not pity that man? Does he comprehend the liberty of man to acquire knowledge? If a book were to fall down out of the sky with the Lord’s signature on it, man would not accept it bn that account. 0 Lord, what am I that I should supplicate this? Know, I my own weakness or under stand my own thoughts. You have placed before me most wonderful creations. They impress and my senses rise up in remembrance. Where have-1 invented one thought but by looking upon your works." And yet, though I have appropriated the earth unto' myself, I am not happy nor perfect withal. My misery and crime and selfishness are tipqh my people. What is my weakness that I can not overcome it? Or what is my strength that I succumb to the desires of the earth? I build - up my belief and courage in this matter; but ere I know the way of my weakness I stumble and fall. Am I made that I should be forever a reproof to myself? How shall I say to this man or that, “Be thou-pure or holy.” Are not riiy flesh and blood proof that man can not be without sin: 0. that I had a starting point wherefrom to estimate his wonderful decrees or could find a road in which I- should never stumble! Thou brough- te§t .me forth out of sin and darkness and clothed me in light. I behold the smaUness of myself in his great worid. Thou hast bound me to travel on the earth, to sojourn with beast and with all manner of .creeping things! Nor given •rpC one araibute wherein I' can boast over them, save in the power to destruction. The high firmament placed above me, the stars, the moon and sun! I have not power to riseup to thy distant places. No, I have not power to shape my own size or shape or stature. . But all things take form and dimension, whether I will , or not Why have I vainly set up myself as the highest of all thy words? My failures are worse than any other living creature under the sun. I cannot build my house in perfection like a bird. My -ingenuity can not sail up in the air like a bird, or live in the water like a fish, nor dwell in harmony like a bee. The half of my offspring die in infancy! The multitude of my -household are quarrelere, fighters, drunkards, and beg gars. I go forth to war to slay my broker, even whUst Thy wide earth hath room for all. Yes, I accurse the earth with starvation and sin and untimely death. 0, that I could school myself to boast not of greatness that I should be forever ashamed in the sight of the Creator. I took up arms against my brother. .With ereat armies I encom- p^sed him about to despoil him. His widows and oiphans 1 multiplied by the strote oi my sword. The ciy of anguish that came out of their mouths I answered by the destruction of my brother’s harvest We ' have those among us today that are held hostage b^ the job they hold, which is by their own choice. Man, by his cunnings works has taught that my brother was his enemy, and that to fall upon him and destroy him was great patriotism. And they ran at the sound of his voice, and commited great havoc. And their judgment was turned away from the people of peace! I made them think. To stand up for me was righteousness for their land.I called upon my armies saying, “Come, behold the gloiy of my defenses which I built for you.” Thus I led them away from the Great Spirit, Their eyes I turned down to the way of death. To the man that said “There shall come a time of peace where war shall be no more forever,” I mocked and said, “Thou fool. Man knows the counts against him; he can not hide his iniquity from the Great Spirit Man has said war was a necessary evil to prevent a too populous worid. Man turned his back toward wide unsettled regions of the earth, with this falsehood in his mouth.”' I stood before him. Yes, I cried out r,s if for the righteous, saying, “I war for righteous and for the protection of the weak.” In the destruction of my brother, I stood as a murderer, plead ing this excuse. Stubbornly I persisted in not seeing justice on the other side, whilst I cut down whom the Great Spirit hast made aJive. I am the© great grandson of a famous person of the 18th century, who fought for the great truth that I am fighting today. He fought with fire arms and vengeance. Tam fighting with love and education. He want ed to build a Temple or Village on the foundation of this great truth. He was told he could not because he was a murderer and blood was assigned to his hands. Bout out of your seed it shall come to pass. Will you agree? The voice of man has cried out more than this. I persuaded my sons and daughters to war for me was to war for our Father in Heaven. By such blasphemy led I them into ruin. Behold the gloiy of them that were slain for the honor of this country. Ihus have I added crime to crime, before the Great Spirit Thus destroy ing thy beautiful creation. Verily have I not 1 word of justification of my deeds before thee. In one place, I called out to my sons and daughters saying ‘Be ye Bra- 'hmins. Brhama saveth who soever called upon his name’ In another place I said. “Be ye Christians: whosoever calleth on Christ is saved.” In another place I said “Be ye Mohammedans, whosoever saith ‘There is but one God and Mohammed is his pro phet shall have indulgence without sin.’ Thus have I divided the earth. I founded them and into their hand have placed all manner of weapons of destruction and they have become more temble against one another than the beast of the forest 0, that I could put away these great iniquities which I raised up as ever lasting torments to the earth. Verily, there is no salvation in any of these. Their people are forever destroying one an other. They quarrel and kill for their respective religions, setting aside Thy command ment Thou shall not kill. They love their own nation and hate all others and set aside thy commandment. “Love Thy neighbor as thy self.” In vain have 1 searched for a plan of redemption; a plan that would malw the earth a paradise and the life of man a gloiy upon Thee and joy unto himself. But the two extremes riches and poverty have made the prospect of a millennium a thing of mock- eiy. For one man that is rich there are a thousand poor. Their interests are an inter minable conflict with one another. Inbor crieth out in pain but capital smiteth him with a heartless blow. To understand this, man must have an understanding of faith and wisdom. There is more wisdom in the song of a bird than in the speech of a philosopher. Any message that imparts knowledge of the life and destiny of man is a good message. When a message give us information of things we know not of, it should also give us a method of proving that information to be true. This message covers that ground. The day has arrived when man will not accept proclamations and assertions. He wants plausi ble or substantial proofs. The time of man worship is at an end. The message must have merit to its own, other wise it will soon pass out of existr ence. But, as many as sepa rate themselves from the dominion has been given the faith that the foundation of the earth was founded on and by their woiks will they be known henceforth on the earth as faithists. WORDS Cf HOPE By Charles W. Godfrey, Pastor Pembroke Seventh E Advcntlat Chnvcb COME GET ALL YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFTS FX>RMENAT 'THE SMOKE STACK THE SMOKE! ,.STflCK •C’Aoict Cigars *Hpes *Tobacco "Lighters "SpeckUAsh Tmys C'OAfEiitA’LAf.&JOANNEVANS 706 East ISth Street, laimberton (Behind the FXIX Grain Maiket) Rhone: 739-1666 ■ With God AU Ihings Are Possible' ’ Matt. 19:9.(t Soak cup apple pieces in salted water for ten min utes. They'll remain crisp longer and won't turn brown. There are only 20-30 Mexi can grizzly bears left in California's Sierra Madre mountains. Kiddie Boutique January Clearance 50% Off On AU Fall & Winter Merchandise We re Making Room For Spring Merchandise Arriving Daily! On Union Chapel Hoad ^(Next To Southern Literiorsy OPEN: 9:30-6;00 Does God always answer our prayers? If He does answer, does He give us exactly what we ask foi? What was the first example of answered prayer? hi fact, what was the firet prayer? In the perfect Eden worid Adam and Eve had the privilege of talking with God face-to- face. Before their sin marred their perfect life and home, they could communicate freely and directly with their Maker and Master. In this sense they didn’t need to pray. After the tragedy of sin ruined this beautiful situation, Adam and Eve fled from their best Friend. Genesis 3:8 tells about it: “They heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the lord God among the trees of the garden.” Essentially this was a prayer to God; in a sense it is the first prayer recorded in the Bible. Adam and Eve were asking God to leave them alone. They knew they had sined, and they were afraid. They were saying to God, “Stay away.” Did God answer this prayer? No. He came looking for them and calling to them. This picture of a pursuing God is the same as that portrayed in Francis Thompson’s memorable poem, “The Hound of Heaven.” Adam and Eve were the first of God’s children to flee from Him. To some degree all of us have followed in fleeing from Him, as the poem describes: ‘ ‘ I fled'Him down the nights and down the dajrs; I fled Him down the arches of the years.” God knew Adam’s heart better than he knew it himself. Even though his outward prayer was, in effect, “Stay away from me; leave me alone.” surely his deepest desire was different. Surely the greatest longing of his heart was for something better, for Someone to make things right again and to restore the lost paradise. And as the poem emphasizes, God pursued His straying children in the hope that they would turn and accept His mercy. In Jeremiah 29:11 God assures us that His thoughts toward us are “thoughts of peace, and not of evil.” Instead of answering the prayer of Adam and Eve exactly as they asked. God followed them and brought them good news, the greatest news ever told, the greatest idea ever conceived. And that news was that all was not lost There was a plan. There was a Saviour. And now He had come to tell them all about it. He gave them the promise of a Redeemer. Adam and EX'e began to understand the infinite love and mercy of God in finding a way out for them. So. did God really answer their prayei? He did not give them exactly what they asked for, but -did He give them the deeper desires of their Hearts/ The Lord seems to say it all in Isaiah 65:24: ‘“It shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer.’’ A second striking example of how God answers prayer-or doesn’t answer- is found in the stoiy of the prophet Elijah in I Kings, chapters 18 and 19. First, though, let us remember how Elijah met outstanding success on Mount Carmel when he called down fire from heaven and then had his prayer answered when God sent rain to end the drought. Not only was God greatly exalted; Elijah also, as His true prophet, was honored before all the'people. But Elijah proved to be all too human. TTiat veiy night, when he learned that the wicked Queen Jezebel had threatened to kill him, EHijah fled in teiror. He kept going for an entire day until he couldn't go a step further. Then he collapsed under a juniper tree and prayed for death. How far Elijah had sunk in despair! From the heights of Mount Carmel he had gone downward until he prayed to die! How and when did God answer his prayer? First, He sent an angel with food for the weary and hungry man. He waited until Elijah was nourished and rested before trying to reason with him. He still had a great work for him to do. On Mount Carmel (Jod had answered eveiy request Elijah had made. But when did He answer the prophet’s prayer to die? Never did he answer it, for Elijah was taken to heaven without dying. Great are the ways of God! He knows us better than we know ourselves. He responds to our deepest desires. Don'tforget to listen to “Springs of Living Water, ” Weekdays at 7p.m. on WSTS-FM, 96.5 on the Dial With Your Host, Pastoj Godfrey! Mr. and Mrs. Carson Revels Observe 64th Wedding Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Carson Revels of Route 1, Shannon, celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary January 24, 1987 at the Saddletree Chvjvh of God. The event ^ixls hosted by their children and grandchil dren. Mr. and Mrs. Revels are the parents of seven "It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all." James Thurber (PKpvDL'x TAX 0(PE9iiNQ 07 ITS ^WSTOTiT: J'E'B'RU^VRCf 10:00 am IVance Street across from the Liunbee Bankl HOUSE & LOT FOR SALE IN PEMBROKE Just Off Main Street Small Downpayment Call Collect-Jesse Baysden (919)485-4111 In Fayetteville, NC PEMBROKENEWS ITEMS By Mrs. Bazie Hardin Mr. Jose Cervantes, an exchange student at West Robe High, spent the holidays with his parents in Chihuah^^ Mexico. Jose was accompanied back to Robeson Countv hv v sister Miss Lupita Cervantes. She spent a few weeks visiK with Mrs. Elssie D. Locklear where she made her home ^ she was an exchange student some four years ago Whl here, Lupita visited with several friends, including Mr U ^ Brewington, Mrs. Lena J. Dial, and Mr. and Mrs bI'' Hardin and family, and many more friends. Jose is makin? k I home with Mr., and Mrs. Hartman Brewington 4? attending school. Mr. Kenneth Locklear has returned home from Southeis' tem General Hospital of Lumberton where he was a treatnet; patient Mr. Teddy Jacobs has returned home from Duke Hospital^ Durham where he underwent surgery for the second time, “IV first time was at Southeastern General Hospital of Lumberton Mr. Jacobs later suffered a relapse of the same illness and carried to the Duke Hospital of Durham. As of Tliesday he reported to be improving satisfactorily. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Chavis of Greensboro spent the pas weekend visiting with mothers, Mrs. Lila Chavis of Dj, Terrace and Mrs. Melissa Deese and other relatives Mrs Deese has been in several days due to Ulness. Mr. Billy D. Jacobs of Myrtle Beach. SC attended chim service Sunday at the Mount Olive Pentecostal Holiae. Church along with his mother, Mrs. Christine Burke and otkp relatives. Mr. Jacobs came especially at this time and spc some time with his brother, Mr. Cari Jerry Jacobs, a patieni; the Moore County Hospital of Pinehurst where he underes; major surgery Tuesday. Mrs. Mary Ann Locklear was scheduled to have surgf Wednesday at Southeastern General Hospital of Liimbert: Mr. Brent Locklear and his friend attended a baskeft; game held between the University of North Carolina and Nor; Carolina State on January 18 at Chapel Hill. BIRTHDA YPRO VERBS FORTHURSDAY,JANUARY29TH Ephesians S:16 “Cease not to give thanks for you. Making mention of you; my prayers.” IN LOVING MEMORY children: Mrs. Lillie Mae Bullard and Mrs. Odessa Hammonds, both of Lumber- ion, Hubert Ray Revels of Shannon, Ralph Revels of Pembroke, William Earl Revels of Red Springs, Theo- dore_ Revels of Fayetteville and the late Robert 'Lee Revels. The couple was honored vAth a three-tiered cake baked by Mrs. Woodrow Cummings which VMS served with a dehcious dinner and enjoyed by everyone. The invocation um given by the Rev. Julian Ransom. Tena McMiUian sang a solo. The music was by the Monroe Goins Sensational Singers. Remarks were made by the Rev. Rease Hunt who spoke loeU of the ccniple. The honorees received many anniversary cards and gifts. 150 guests attended the event. Mrs. SkiHey Locklear uns mistress of ceremonies. [T^Sgt. W.P. Revels Pftoto) In loving memory of Rev. C.H. Cummings by daughter, Fannie C. Oxendine. My Dad was a good man. He was my dream. He was my heart, the apple of my eye, my life, my hope, my dream. He often told me as I rode with him to and from church how much he loved me. He, Dad, often sung a song entitled “Gonna Lay My Burden Down By The River.” Not really knowing one day he was going to leave me, but one day, on August 9, 1971, my birthday, my dad laid down his last burden, never to worry again. So, Dad^ life for me has never been the same since you left me behind. DadJ; sure you are happy in hea^ and I know your crown b many stars. But, Dad, how I miss you. Words r never be able to explain, Di if you can look down, ji speak a kind word to i because I long to hear jo voice. I long to hear you pn Dad, it is so hard living dm here in this sinful woii Things have changed so biz since you left. But, Dad, id* of all, God has not chanji only man. You taught us love each other and 1 everybody. So, sleep on, i and get your rest because f worked hand for your ne home in Heaven. 1 love yt Dad. mo MINUTER um THE BIBLE BY CORNELIUS R. STAM PRES. BEREAN BIBLE SOCIETY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 6063S GRACE ABOUNDING "But none of these things was with me” (I Cor. 15:1( CHURCH BRIEFS Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, Pembroke- Prospect Road, Pembroke, NC, will observe Praise Sun day on Sunday, February 1, 1987. Morning worship will begin at 9:30 a.m. The pastor. Reverend Coolidge M. Cum mings, will be the speaker, liinch will foDow with after noon worship beginning at 2 p.m. Reverend Willie Scott will be the guest speaker for the evening worship. A gospel singing will follow and church groups are invited to attend and participate. move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and THE MINISTRY WHICH I HAVE RECEIVED OF THE LORD JESUS, TO TESTIFY THE GOSPEL OFTHE GRACE OFGOD.” —The Apostle Paul, in Acts 20:24. "GRACE to you, and peace” (Rom. 1:7); "Being justified freely by His GRACE” (Rom, 3:24); "we have access by faith into this GRACE wherein we stand” (Rom. 5:2); "the GRACE of God, and gift by GRACE... is by one Man” (Rom. 5:15); "the abun dance of GRACE and of the gift of righteousness” (Rom. 5:17); "where sin abounded, GRACE did much more abound . . . that GRACE might reign” (Rom. 5:20, 21); "for ye are not under the law, but under GRACE” (Rom. 6:14); "not under the law, but under GRACE” (Rom. 6:15); "there is a remnant according to the election of GRACE” (Rom. 11:5); "if by GRACE, then it is no more ofworks; other wise GRACE is no more GRACE.,,. But if it be of works, then is it no more GRACE” (Rom. 11:6); "By the GRACE of God I am what I am; and His GRACE ...was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the GRACE of God which "that the abundant GRAC might through the thaii giving of many redound: the glory of God” (II C« 4:15); "receive not Ik GRACE of God in vaii III Cor. 6:1); "ye knowd GRACE of our Lord Js Christ (II Cor. 8:9); "Godi able to make all GRAC abound toward you” (IIC* 9:8);''theexceedingGRACl of God” (II Cor. 9:14); GRACE is sufficient [i thee” (II Cor. 12:9): "I don frustrate the GRACE > God’UGal.2:21); "the prai of the glory of His GRACI (Eph. 1:6); "the forgiven? of sins, according to li riches of His GRAGi (Eph. 1:7); "the exceedin riches of His GRACE (Eph. 2:7); "For by GRAC! are ye saved, through faiik (Eph. 2:8); "the dispena tion of the GRACE offt ...given me to you-wan (Eph. 3:2); Let the Wordi Christ dwell in you riels ...singing with GRACE* your hearts to the (Col. 3:16); "the GRAC of our Lord was exceedid abundant” (I Tim. li!!' "who hath saved us.- * cording to His own purpo* and GRACE, which given us in Christ Jesus!' fore the world began” Tim. 1:9); "Be strong in® GRACE that is in Cbr^ Jesus’ ’ (II Tim. 2:C "GRACE be with you a* (Tit. 3:15). Animals are agreeable friends—they ask no questions they pass no criticisms." George EIW THE TAX SHELTER INCOME TAX SERVICES BUSINESS FORMS 8 SYSTEMS BOOKKEEPING SERVICES Mon-Frr 10 am-IO pm Sat8am-6 pm
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