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Bible Society News
By MARY AIXMD
NEW YORK —Upon his
recent immigration to the
United States after being
prevented from returning
to his home in Jerusalem,
Vartan Sahagian, executive
secretary of the Bible So
ciety in Jordan, expressed
deep concern over events
in the Middle East.
■‘Christians accounted for
only seven per cent of the
population and this figure
is declining due to mass
migrations to Canada, Aus
tralia and the United
States," he said in con
ferring at American Bible
Society headquarters, 1865
Broadway, this week with
Rev. John D. Erickson,
ABS secretary for Asia.
Mr. Sahagian and his
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fices are now being opened
faster in North Carolina
than anywhere else in the
country, according to War
dell K. White, regional
representative for Social
Security’s Bureau of Dis
trict Office Operations in
Atlanta.
Eight offices have just
been opened and one more
is scheduled to open in
the near future. The new
offices already in opera
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ton, Lumberton, North
Wilkesboro, Rockingham,
Elizabeth City, Roanoke
Rapids and Statesville.
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wife and their infant
daughter were visiting rel
atives in Amman when
hostilities broke out the
day before the family plan
ned to return home to
Jerusalem. On several oc
casions since then the
Sahagians have attempted
to return to Israeli-held
Jerusalem, but rcadmission
has been refused them at
border points despite their
international Red Cross
applications.
There now are some
250.000 refugees in the
East Bank of Jordan from
presently held Israeli ter
ritory, with about 170,000
of these having been given
validated international Red
Cross applications for re
entry, Mr. Sahagian said.
He added that only 14,000
ing additional service to
North Carolina residents.
Elizabeth City is in the
Charlottesville, Va., social
security region and is a
branch of the Norfolk,
Va., district office.
There are now 24 dis
trict and branch offices in
North Carolina. In addi
tion, representatives from
these offices make frequent
visits to smaller or branch
office.
White said that changes
in the social security pro
gram and the enactment
of medicare program as
well as a large number of
middle size cities all con
tributed to the decision to
open the offices.
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to 20,000 refugees have
been allowed readmission
and that no former resi
dents have been permitted
to return to Jerusalem.
An elder of the Church
of the Brethren, Mr. Sa
hagian said his family are
visiting relatives in Bos
ton until he relocates him
self in this country.
The non-profit American
Bible Society is an inter
national organization de
voted solely to translating,
publishing and distributing
Scriptures without theolo
gical note or comment.
Medicare (Sven
Local Support
The number of Southern
hospitals participating in
the medicare program,
showed a dramatic in
crease during medicare’s
first year. Robert P. By
num, Regional Assistant
Commissioner for Social
Security’s Atlanta region,
said today that 837 general
hospitals in the seven
state area of Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, Mississip
pi, North Carolina, South
Carolina and Tennessee are
now certified to provide
services under the health
insurance program for the
aged.
This is a 24 per cent in
crease over the 674 hospi
tals participating as of July
1, 1966. The 837 hospitals
represent 84 per cent of the
total available general short
term beds.
In Chowan County the
participating hospital is
Chowan Hospital, located in
Edenton.
The 171 hospitals that
came under the program
during the period July 1,
1966, through June 30, 1967,
included some that achiev
ed participating status eith
er by upgrading their care
or by coming into compli
ance with Title VI of the
Civil Rights Act.
One hundred and forty
one hospitals in North Ca
rolina are furnishing quali
ty medical care for about
375,000 eligible aged per
sons. This is about 99 per
cent of the total available
beds.
Bynum said that there is
evidence that a significant
number of elderly persons
have entered hospitals for
surgical procedures and
ether medical services they
otherwise might not have
received. This is most like
ly to be true of almost half
the elderly, who, before
Medicare, had no health in
surance protection.
Let’s Go To Church Sunday
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
WHEN IS RELIGION REAL?
International Sunday School Lesson for Oct 29
Memory Selection: “Man looketh on the out
ward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the
heart.”—l Samuel 16:7.
Lesson Text: Amos 4:4-5; 5:21-24; 8-9.
The goal of this lesson is to enable adults to
realize the marks of real religion and the na
ture of true worship.
At the period on which our lesson is based,
Israel was failing miserably in holding to a
right relationship with God. She went through
the motions of ceremonial rites and the observ
ance of religious holidays, but this was mere
“lip service” for she disregarded the prerequisites
of a Godlike existence, as laid down in the Cove
nant. Therefore, she was to be destroyed; a few
were to be spared, however, and—if they lived
in accord with the Holy ordinances, the future
would be bright; the slate would be wiped
clean, and a new beginning established. Such
was God’s infinite mercy towards His sinning
children.
What Israel forgot was that God can see into
the hearts and minds of men. Mere worship—
without commitment—was not acceptable to the
Lord, for worship is meaningless unless the wor
shipper first commits himself (and his life) to
God. The only truly beneficial worship is that
which stems from sincere and personal dedica
tion to God; that (and only that) benefits the
individual, and is acceptable to the Most High.
Had this been the case with Israel, God would
have accepted their offerings and have taken
pleasure in the people.
But what we must remember is that now—as
then—God can see into the heart of man, and
He abhors hypocrisy in any shape or form; and
—before we condemn the Israelites —it would
behoove us to examine our own day and time
and then make our judgment—if we dare.
Church attendance, if we are to believe the
statistics, is at an all-time high. How, then, do
we account for the events that daily claim first
place in our newspapers, on television, on the
radio? Are we giving “lip service” to the Lord,
and failing to heed His Covenants in our private
lives?
For the true test of religion is what it does
to the individual’s life—and, collectively what
the sum total of individual lives adds up to on
a national basis. Religion works through, and
for, the worshipper—if he is sincere. That (and
that alone) is the test,
A true and sincere religion manifests itself in
daily living. It is not easy to attain, for it calls
for a selfless dedication on the part of the in
dividual Christian. He realizes that service does
not end with church ceremonies or attendance
he fully comprehends that what he listens to in
church must be carried into his daily life, and
lived up to. Only by putting this concept into
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