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—THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, MARCH X. 1960 2A TV/0 MINUTESa THE JBiBLE ■r co»N»uu* «. STAM rait. Y ■■MA* MIU ftOCMTY I A CMCAOO. ILLINOIS &0643 / J FULNESS OF JOY About 3,000 years ago David wrote in Psalm 16:11: "In Thy presence is fulness of joy." He was right, for there is no greater joy that personal fellowship with God. Yet David could not know the fulness of joy now spoken of in Paul's epistles, for he did not know Christ, who later came into the world as God. manifested in the flesh to die for our sins. He did not know that Christ would make full satisfaction for sin and be raisrd from the dead to con firm our justification. Nor did he know that believers would be given Christ's resurrection life and a position and "all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies in, Christ" (Eph. 2:4-6: 1:3). When Paul wrote that God has 1 called believers "into the fellow ship of His Son." he referred to a spiritual, heavenly fellowship, far more intimate and precious that any previously enjoyed by mortal i The N. C. Death Penalty Law This newspaper, raises its voice this week and cries out against the death sentence imposed on the 17- year-old Negro girl of Rocky Mount by the Edgecombe County Superior Court last October. We cry out against the action of the court be cause we are as diametrically op posed to the taking of human life by legal means as we are by illegal means. To make a long story short, we ask in all humility what man is there on this earth so rid of sin or evil that he feels himself qualified or fit to take the life of another human being, even as an instrument of the law, however horrible the crime his victim may have commit ted? Oh yes, Jesus settled the question of the death sentence or the taking of life by legal means, once and for all, when he was on this earth 2,000 years ago, and was confronted by a group of scribes and Pharisee* who brought with them a woman who had been caught in the act of adult ery. The penalty demanded that she should be stoned to death. "But what say est thou?" asked the scribes and the Pharisees. "But Jesus stooped down with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him he lifted up himself and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down and wrote on the The Integrity of President Nixon Drew Pearson's Merry Go Round let the "cat out of the bag" last Tues day, when it told of President's Nixon's behind the scenes moves during the Republican National Convention last year with South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond. As we warned in a previous editorial in this newspaper, immediately fol lowing the G. O. P. convention, there was great danger of Nixon becoming a puppet president with Thurmond pulling the strings from behind the scenes. It will be recalled that it was Strom Thurmond who had the honor of escorting Nixon to the podium to make his acceptance speech after his nomination. It now appears, accord ing to Drew Pearson, that an unholy alliance had been formed between Nixon and Thurmond with the former promising, if elected, to "let local districts set the guidelines for school desegregation." This, it ap pears, was the price Nixon agreed to pay for Thurmond's promise of de livering the white southern vote to him in the national election. The recent series of airline crash es, most of them occurring in very bad weather, should remind travelers mother nature is still an important consideration in air travel. While it is true that marvelous electronic devices have been per fected and that all modern airliners have equipment aboard which makes them theoretically almost foolproof, the truth is that there is still an element of human error to be con sidered in all flying and very bad weather greatly increases this dan ger. There is also an element of danger in bad weather (not present in good 1: man. This fellowship is to be en t j joyed by faith, but it is faith » based on fact, the fact that Christ r indeed died our death and rose i again from the dead that we , j might partake of His life and en f ( ioy a position at God's right hand in Christ. This is why the Apostle Paul urges believers of this dis pensation of grace to "seek those things which are above; where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God." (Col. 3:1). Peter and John both came to know much of this fellowship through communion with Paul, who was sent to Jerusalem "by revelation" to make known to ths leaders there, "that gospel which I I preach unto the nations" (See ! Gal. 2:2 9; II Pet. 3:15-18). This 1 is why John writes in I John 1:3.4: • "Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son, Jesus Christ. And these things write we I unto you, THAT YOUR JOY MAY I BE FULL." ground. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest, even unto the least: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman stand ing in the midst." So in the face of the laws of this state, which demand death in the gas chamber, for a person convicted of first degree murder, we cry out aloud, he that is without sin let him commit the uncivilized act of ad ministering death to the 17-year-old girl of Rocky Mount. We would have our readers understand here and now, however, that we are as dia metrically opposed to the taking of human life, outside the law, as we are to such within the law. We would suggest, therefore, in the place of the vile and uncivilized taking of life by law that life imprisonment become the penalty for any and all crimes demanding a sentence of death in this and all other states of this nation. So, as revolting as the crime is, for which the young girl has been con victed in Edgecombe County, if it serves to arouse the citizens of this state to the realization that the death penalty, as now administered in North Carolina, is for Negroes and poor whites only, it will, in the end, serve a good a purpose strong enough to influence the pre sent session of the legislature of this state to abolish forever the sentence of death in North Carolina. Said Drew Pearson in his Merry Go Round column of Tuesday, February 25, referring to the deal: "Throughout the presidential cam paign, Thurmond repeated the prom ise up and down the South. Wait until Nixon reaches the White House, he promised his southern satrapy. The order will be restored." Thus it now appears that unless Nixon is less than a man of his word that Negroes of the South are in for hard sledding during the present presidential administration, so far as the integration of schools is con cerned. It may be that Nixon, in keeping with his present trip abroad, will make a similar trip through the southern states where he will meet and greet white leaders of the South as their new found "Moses." If he keeps the promises, it is re ported he made to Thurmond, the people of this country may discover, ere it is too late, that they have a puppet president in the White House ™ith Thurmond pulling or mani pulating the strings from behind the scenes of his post in the U.S. Senate. Airline Crashes weather) concerning automatic equip ment; in good weather should it fail the pi lot can make needed corrections by visual contact. This is not pos sible. in bad weather when visibility is extremely limited. Flying is still safer than driving one's car, the statistics tell us, and the number of passengers hauled by the airlines continues to increase each year. But, also, the number of serious crashes occuring in bad weather months and periods is higher than in good weather year after year. It's truely incredible what bad weather modern airliners fly in, take off and land in, but mother nature still claims her toll. All Should Know Black History mJitMMul ' L m LISHMENT OF A DEGREE AMERICAN NEGRO STUDY. Vl'£ EVENT THAT SHOULD PROVE TO HAVE FAR REACHING INFLUENCE IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION: WHfTNEY tOUHG --Marshall (Continued from front page) Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, Pre sident, Southern Christian Lea dership Conference; C. E. Del lums, President, Brotherhood Sleeping Car Porters; Jack Greenberg, Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund; Dorothy Height, President, Na tional Council of Negro Wom en; Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Bayard Rustin, Executive Director, A. Phillip Randolph Institute; Roy Wilkins, Execu tive Director, NAACP: Whit ney Young, Jr., Executive Di rector, National Urban League. Dr. Benjamin Mays, President, Emeritus, Morehouse College, will serve as Treasurer. In announcing the 80th Birthday Committee and testi monial dinner, Rustin recount ed Randolph's achievements as "the foremost Negro labor lea der in our history. He has never wavered in his commit ment to integration through peaceful change," Rustin stat ed, "and he has steadfastly fought against racism of any kind, against violence in any form, and against segregation for any reason." The A. Philip Randolph In stitute was founded in 1964 to mobilize the nation's resources -white and black - in a con certed effort to bring equality and justice to all citizens. In working with those white forces which represent social progress - organized labor, re ligious groups, liberals and students - the Institute's ob jective is to forge a new and dynamic unity between whites, and Negroes. -Teachers (Continued from front page) ail increase of $750 over the current year. Alexandria's negotiated bachelor's degree maximum salary of $11,958 represents an increase of $1,563 over the current maximum. Starting salary proposals of $7,000 have previously been reported from profes sional negotiations in Fairfax and from the superintendent's - office in Falls Church. -Pearson (Continued from front page) eran of civil rights battles in the state's coutrooms since 1932, took aim at disruptive tactics on the college campus. "You ' can put it down in your book and don't forget it, the institu- Ck Carina Cimis ftMlthad etmy Saturday at Dmhaat, N. C. J by UnHad PvbMihan, Inc. L. E. AUSTIN. Pubiisher SAMUEL L. BRICCS Uanag*g EMo J. KLWOOD CARTER AdoartUng Umagft Stand On Postage Paid at Durham, N. C 27708 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 18.00 p«r ypu-ph* (15c tax in N. C.) anywhere in the US., and Canada and to' aatvicamau OMWI Foreign, $7.50 par year, Single copy flOo. ITAKFPAL OFFICE LOCATED AT 436 E. PANEI—II Brmmr, DVMMAM, NOBTH CttGUtt 27708 tions are going to be run by the trustees. You can protest, and maybe make some needed chan ges, but they are going to end up running the schools, and if you don't like it, you can get out." Pearson said that the color of a lawyer's skin did not guarantee his concern. "There are many black lawyers who wouldn't give a damn about the poor they are interested in money and there are many more white law yers who wouldn't give a damn about the poor, but there are other lawyers who do." -Catholic (Continued from front page) personal salvation and spiri tual needs "Seriously out of tune with the post-Vatican II Church" and faulting the actiqnists on the ground that "the clerical role is primarily an expressive role related to human emotional needs, and not an adaptive role related to adjustment to or manipu lation of the environment." Lam anna and Coakley cau tion against launching pro grams without adequate re search, planning, and profes sional personnel. They also warn that lay Catholics in increasing numbers are be coming disenchanted with the involvement of the Church in political and social issues. They dismiss as "counter-pro ductive" priests who "assume that being Christian means strongly condemning 'white racism' and making guilt-pro voking accusations," while ad ding that "few clergymen have built up the 'capital' of respect and esteem that would enable them to effec tively influence their flock on unpopular questions." The Lamanna-Coakley stu dy was published by the Notre Dame Press as part of a volume entitled Contempo rary Catholicism in the United States, edited by Dr. J. Philip Gleason, associate professor of history. -Lewis (Continued from front page) keeper of finance of the local chapter of Omega Psl Phi fraternity and treasurer of the Kittrell College Founda tion. He is married to the former Miss Willa Woods of Witcha Falls, Texas. MARCH 1 - B. K. Bruce (1841-1898), senator from Mississippi, born. -Official (Continued from front page) I with uniform library circula tion rules and a joint catalog of the library's holdings. WHO KNOWS? 1. For what does the "M" in President Richard M. Nixon stand? 2. To what verse of scripture was Nixon's Bible open when he was sworn in as Presi dent? 3. What is lowa's motto? 4. Name the northernmost point of the United States. 5. Whose portrait and what building are found on a hundred dollar bill? 6. Name the capitalof Michigan. 7. What is the Roman Numeral for 80? 8. In Greek and Roman mythol ogy, who was Pygmalian? 9. Who was the first woman cabinet member? 10.When was Hitler made Chan cellor of Germany? Aoswors To Who Kaows 1. Milhous. 2. Isaiah 2:4. 3. Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain. 4. Point Barrow, Alaska. 5. Franklin and Independence Hall. 6. Lansing. 7. LXXX. 8. King of Cyprus; carved ivory statue of maiden which Aphrodite gave life as Galatea. 9. Francis Perkins, Secretary of Labor, 1933 1 O.January 30,1933, by Hinden burg. MOON-WALKERS NAMED Washington - The first Ameri cans who may walk on the moon have been named. Neil A. Ann strong, civilian test pilot; Michael Collins, an Air Force lieutenant colonel; and Edwin A. Aldrin, an air force colonel. If Apollo 9 and 10 prove suc cessful ApollO 11 is set for a moon landing about July 15. WATSON ON POST OFFICE Washington - Out-going Post master General W. Marvin Wat son has suggested the combin ing of first class and airmail for the single price of a 7-cent stamp and to tear down those local post offices which look like "huge public monuments." He also suggested the post master general be a business man not a politician. Ilhis Week || In Negro ■ History SNIMY SCHOOL tfSSON air OMXtmt—Loml* I. Baptlate, Editor, Do* of Church School litaratur* AMB Chore* —For March 1, IW CAN THIS BE THE CHRIST? Background Scripture: Mark 8:27 9:50 .Scripture: Mark 8:27-37; Devotional Reading: John 16:25-33 And Jesus went out, and hi: disciples, into the towns oi Caesarea Philippi: and by the waj he asked his disciples, saying un to them, Whpm do men say thai I am? 28. And they answered, John thn Baptist: but some say, Eliqs; and others, One of the prophets. 29. And he saith unto them, Bui whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him. Thou art the Christ. 30. And he charged them thai they should tell no man of him. 31. And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be kill ed and after three days rise again. 32. And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him. 33. But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savour est not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men. 34. And when he had called the people unto him with his dis ciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 35. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's the same shall save it. 36. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? 37. Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? GOLDEN TEXT: Whosoever will come after me, let him deny him self, and take up his cross, and follow me. Mark 8:34. HOME DAILY BIBLE READ-, INGS: February 24-March 2. M. The Confession of Peter. Mark 8: 27-30. T. The Sufferings to dome. Mark 8:31-33; 9:30-32. W. To Be a Disciple. Mark 8:34—9:1. T.' The! Transfiguration. Mark 9:2-8. f\, Powerless Disciples. Mark 9:14-29 S. The Question of Greatness. Mark 9:33-37. S. Be of Good Cheer. John 16:25 33. COMMENTS ON LESSON: I. A Good Confession: The ca- ( reer of Jesus was so wonderful, , that all ideas of explaining on j ordinary grounds had to be aban-, doned. In the popular mind the' only personages corresponding to ' Jesus, save John the Baptist, were . those of ancient Jewish history, ] the heroic ages of the theocracy. J They all agreed that in Jesus was , a revival or reappearance of the ' religious spirit of the best days of Israel. The opinions of the people ( were of critical importance to the j disciples as they calmly reflected. ■ By WHITNEY M. YOUNG The Changing South ONLY A FEW years ago, in the town of (Sparta, Georgia, toe only black people you'd see in the county court house were there to pay taxes. The large square in front of the courthouse had benches where men sat and talked—tout black people dared sit only on a few benches reserved for "colored." No Negro in his right mind would dare try to register at toe hotel. Few dared to roister to vote or to run for office. There were no black policemen. Just a typical Southern town with a rigid caste system toat kept Negroes "in their place." All that has changed. A few weeks ago I went to registered at the hotel; was served by white waiters and bellhops. I crossed the town square, where whites and blacks were seated indiscriminately, continued pest the Ne gro policemen and entered the courthouse. Inside, I met with the county commissioners, (two of the three are Negro) and with a predominately black audience of voters and citizens. Don't let anyone tell you that toe South hasn't changed. A New South Is Rising It may have a long way to go, and I am aware of many, too many, incidents of racism and brutality, and even starva tion conditions in soane places. But hard as old patterns d.'e, die they must, and a new South is rising. I'm hardly suggesting that Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia, is a paradise for toe black man. It's not. The hard grip of economic deprivation and prejudice takes its toll. But great changes have already taken place, and toey are toe beginnings of still greater changes to come. The new atmosphere In many parts of the South is due to the civil rights legislation of recent years. Too many people these days tend to belittle toe accomplishments of the recent past that so many fought for and even died for. But toe Civil Rights Act o4 1964, and perhaps most espe cially, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, are primarily respon sible for the hope of a new (South. ln rin «i n to toe region is that wtl of brave white Southerners who dared to chal- P° llt4cal demagogues and plantation owners Ralph McGill, one of the most outstanding of these men, died last month, but he left his mark on toe South. He Challenged The Klan A newsman for almost 40 years, he challenged toe Klan. toe bigots, and the haters. He befriended toe Negro at a . time when It wa« dangerous to db so. He was denounced •s The confession of the disciples, >fmade by Peter, at by y a twofold their his char it acter and of His peculiar 7 " spiritual equip ment, and his searching training, d and constant fellowship with God, the Father, Almighty. And, I (b) Inspiration of God. Christ d commented on the divine source oof the Confession: "Flesh and blood hath not revealed'it unto • thee, but my Father which is in i. heaven." We, too, have evidenre! , What is your confession »f Jesus? i" 11. Self-Contradiction: The dis- E «'iplos identifying Jesus with the E Messiah and yet deprecating his • sufferings. This was a serious con ■ tradiction. That the Messiah 1 should suffer was abundantly de ' clared by the prophets. His death was the greatest testimony he ' could give to the righteousness of • God. A comfortable, earthly, pros : iperous king could never occupy • (the spiritual position of the Christ; - moral influence, the essential feature of the latter's reign, would ! be entirely wanting. They should - have known from history and con , temporary life that, the Messiah ; ship "connoted" suffering, not as • an accidental but necessary quali fication. This blunder on the part of Peter was not due to irreverence, • hut to insufficient realization of : what he knew. He had divined the true dignity of his Master, but what it involved was not yet felt. Obsessed with notions of a world ly kingdom, Peter and his breth ren had lost sight of the true mission of "Christ, the Son of the Living God." "Our world has many Peters, and perhaps one-half might be found in the Church, who wish to be wiser than Christ," says (Hofmeister). We lean too heavily upon human wisdom. 111. Gain Through Loss: It would seem that Satanic influence had tempted many to join themselves ;to his fortunes—an earthly king dom with material possessions. •Our Lord lays down the terms of his service, so that none may en ter it without knowledge of its nature. Selfrdenial, and Cross-bear ing were inescapable requisites. Each man will have sfeis cross. Christ would take up his cross and would later be hanged upon it. But "it is in self-denial that we first gain our true selves, re covering our personality." Every man has to weigh this "world" against his "soul." Losing material selfishness, and gaining righteous ness, makes individuality and spiritual nature precious, and im parts the highest value to exist ence. Gain the kingdom through the loss of self. Ref. John 6:29; Matt. 10:38; Lit. 12:9.
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