ftMr klank DNi hi inn uiwrcn Bear Marsh Church has a long Christian background of serving Duplin County and sur rounding area. One example of the service this historic church has rendered during the past two centuries was to or ganise and help found Johnsons Baptist Church at Lanafield. The Johnson Church In turn, and some years later, helped organise the Warsaw First Bap tist Church which in turn began In 1959 amission that developed Into Calvary Baptist Church. The long history of the minis try of Bear Marsh began more than 300 years ago when ac . cording to a legend, a commit tee was organized to draw up designs for the construction of "this Church that all peoples might come together In Chris tian fellowship to worship their God." It was then found neces sary that a committee be ap pointed to represent the wisdom of this great and Important undertaking. It was further de cided necessary to appoint a committee to represent the st rength of this vast undertaking. All materials, master builder, and laborers were assembled to begin the building of the Temple. tMAimlM/. Ihn AnmmiUoA An ., . viiq mui mug uro bwuiuiivwv w ' > Wisdom noticed UMt the men 0ve standing- ldli"?v Dean used to call "statics" when he was talking about baseball on television. But these statics here was mighty disturbing. A feller named Stanton Evans, that was editor of the Indianap olis Star, has wrote a book about what causes crime in this coun try. I always figgered newspa per editors was pritty smart folks, and 1 aint got no reason to think this feller Evans ain't got his figgers official, t The gist of this piece I clip ped from the papers is that pov erty ain't the cause of crime and that welfare creates more crime than it cures. He says crime in the United States between the Depression and now has increased 80 per cent while the population was increasing 47 per cent. He re ports we got less pore people to day than any time in our his tory, but we got the highest crime rate we ever had. He says the town of Johnstown, Pa., had the highest unemployment rate in the nation in 1962 and had the lowest crime rate in Ameri ca. He reported the Guvernment was spending $9.58 billion on welfare in 1SS9, $35 billion in 1958, and $71 billion in 1964. And the crime Aggers, be said, show.-d crime kept climbing right along with ever increase in welfare. Per instant, he report ed, when they had that riot la Loi Angelea la 1MB, they check ed and found 37 per eaat of the juvenile* arrested had been on welfare all their lives. Furthermore, said this editor feller, besed on population, these fancy Federal bouMng develop ment! had the highest crime rate of any type of community in the world. Thes? was the areas where the Guvernment was charging low rents and moat of the folks was on some sort of welfare or Guvernment hand out program. He put the stopper in the jug by giving flggers that showed crime in this country never got in high gear from poverty but started going sky high when we went on this all-out welfare and hand-out binge that covered thousands of folks engaged in crime. I was planning on pasting these figgers up behind the cheese box at the country store but I've changed my mind. Them fellers at the store, Mister Edi tor, was miserable enough ever time they took a look at the go ings on in Washington. I think it would be unchristian fer me to add to their misery with these statics compiled by that news paper feller in Indianapolis. And, incidental. Mister Edi tor, 1 know you got a lot of mis eries yoreself about these mat ters in genera! and I apologize fer this little piece this week. Temra My Uaete Pete The Minister's Desk By: D. E. Parkerson Carboro, N. C. In a sotrhern city a few years ago a young lady In a courtroom came to the wit ness stand to testify in her own behalf In a breach of pro mise suit. "That man." she said, as she pointed to her former fiancee, "made love to me, promised to marry me, and then ran off and married another woman. He broke my heart and I want $10,000." She got It. The next case was a damage suit brought by a woman wno had been run over by an automo bile and had three ribs broken. She was awarded $275. What a sense of values! A lot of husbands must have read reports of this case In the newspapers. They operate on the philosophy that it is cheaper to break a wife's ribs than It is to break her heart. Some break both ribs and heart. At least, according to our story, hearts are worth more than ribs. i nis would De true in every case that I know except one - the first man Adam's rib. God took one of his ribs and made Eve. Therefore, mat's first experience with women resulted In a broken rib. It hasn't been the last time either. The broken rib. In Adam's case, however, brought great joy to him. It forbids cruel and unusual pu nishment. Well, the punish ment meted out by Municipal Judge John a Lawrence of San Bernardino, Calif., to a couple of teen-age girls who pleaded guilty to shoplifting as certainly unusual. Some might even say it was downright cruel...What Judge Lawrence did was to order the two girls, both overweight, to whack off 10 and 15 pounds respectively within six months or spend ano ther 29 days In pokey." was not long before Adam had a broken heart to go along with his broken rib. That smarted a bit! The world's first family had sinned. Why was this the case? Each member of that family, both Adam and Eve, lost their sense of values. The fruit of the tree took on a value higher than it should have ?Material things were suddenly valuable I guess it was at this point that history began repeating it self. From that day until the present moment men have got ten their wires crossed. Men keep making the same mistake that Adam made. When the world kicks in our ribs we whine, but then, rathtr tharf rising above the world's standard by believing in a practicing noble deeds, we give In. We adopt the world's level of groveling existence. By doing this we ex change broken ribs for abroken heart. What are the valuable things in life for you? Be honest with yourself! In ten years how va luable will this thing be that Is now of Infinite worth to you. How aboir twenty year3? When you come to the end of the road and look backward how much comfort, strength, and hope will you derive from those things to which you give your undivided attention now? Wnar I am saying Is that you are bet ting your life, and also your eternal life, on what you trea sure the most. It is best that you give your life to something that will last. Your sense of values involves more than the immediate present. 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