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Wayside Pulpit
By D. I. EARNHARDT
Text: “Christ lore* the
church.”—Epbesians 5:S8«
The other day I was on my
way to Edenton to get a hair
cut in order to be pretty dur
ing Christmas. A man on the
road wanted a ride. When
in the car he wanted to know
my occupation. Upon learn
ing that I was a preacher, he
said he was glad to (meet me
because he had a question he
wanted to ask. “Don’t you
think a man can be just as
gocd a Christian outside the
church?”
I explained that I had
never seen anybody try it;
that when a man wanted to
be a soldier he joined the
Army; that when he wanted
to be a ball player, he joined
a team. I explained further
more, that a homemaker finds
him a gocd woman and adopts
six children and never hears
the last of it
He wanted to know why
the church always passes the
collection plate. I explained
that it was to accommodate
all those present —if a 'man
wanted to help people in
need he could put in some
thing, but if he was himself
in need he could take some
thing out.
INITIATED INTO HONORARY
GREENVILLE Thirteen
new brothers have been for
mally initiated into the Phi
Sigma Pi Honorary Fraternity
at East Carolina Uunversity.
Among them is Matthew S.
Garrett, son of Rev. and Mrs.
Meredith G. Garrett, formerly
of Route 1, Edenton.
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Letters Directed To The Editor
Gentlemen:
In recent weeks The Daily
Advance has featured dia
grams and articles concerning
the new campus complex for
OOA Admittedly this pro
posal is impressive—but is it
wise or necessary?
I would suggest that North
eastern North Carolina is
best served by having one
mature and comprehensive
university in Elizabeth City
instead of two lesser fa
cilities.
Neither the population nor
the needs of the Albemarle
require a more permanent
embodiment of two institu
tions on separate campuses.
The 1970 census assures us
that we face no population
explosion locally.
Increasingly Negro students
attend COA even as growing
numbers of white students
learn at BCSU. Just as the
10-county Albemarle Area
Development Association has
found its strength and suc
cess by merging vastly di
versified talents and back
grounds for the common good,
so too will the university re
sulting from a merger of
COA and ECSU find syner
gistic strength and succes.
Neither the charter nor the
circumstances from which
each institution arose is unal
terable. Indeed each institu
tion daily departs from its
founding fathers precisely to
meet the challenges and op
portunities of novel tomorrow.
How then would merger
annul the different and valid
emphases of COA and EICSU?
It could only facilitate a
more qualitative implementa
tion of the same plethora of
talents each now possesses.
Since World War H our na
tion has significantly mini-.
mixed double standards of
justice and opportunity.
Much overdue good for all
has been accomplished. We
have learned from Pogo’s
dictum: “We have met the
enemy and they is us.”
And so we have sought to
govern ourselves renewed—
and to actually develop our
human resources more thor
oughly and evenly.
What is more critical than
the judicious development of
our natural resources? What
resource is more precious
than our youth? They are
not best served through an
other COA “writ large” in
new and more gracious sur
roundings which only dupli
cate existing facilities. The
story of the Albemarle must
not be “A Tale of Two Uni
versities,” to paraphrase
Dickens. Rather, the future
of our youth and of the Albe
marle is best served by the
emergence cf one mature and
comprehensive university.
To conclude: the project
proposed is too small. The
alternative suggested while
difficult is more worthwhile.
The leadership, talent and fi
nancial resources requisite for
cne university are at hand.
Let us reconsider and
choose the alternative herein
suggested.
Sincerely, j
John A. Mitchener, 111.
P. O. Box 6,
Edenton, N. C. 27932
Mrs. Morgan, 48,
Dies Suddenly
HERTFORD Mrs. Beulah
Bunch Morgan, 48, Route 2,
Hertford, died unexpectedly
November 24 in the Albe
marle Hospital.
A native of Chowan Coun
ty, she was a daughter of
Mrs. Willie Peele Bunch,
Route 1, Edenton, and the late
Jimmy Burt Bunch. She was
a member of Mt. Sinai Bap
tist Church.
Besides her mother, she is
survived by her husband,
Ernest Elliott Morgan; two
sons, Wade E. Morgan and
John Morgan of Route 2,
Hertford; two daughters, Mrs.
Eddie Trueblood of Hertford
and Miss Gaye Morgan of
Route 2, Hertford; five broth
ers, Melvin and Leon Bunch
of Route 1, Edenton, Carl
Bunch of Route 3, Edenton, |
Marvin Bunch of Portsmouth, I
Va., and Deltcn Bunch of j
Suffolk, Va. '
A funeral service was held
Thursday at 2 P. M. in ML
Sinai Baptist Church by Rev.
Charles Duling, pastor. Burial
was in Cedarwood Cemetery.
Pallbearers were H. B.
Miller, John Freeman Mans
field, Bobby Riddick, Lloyd
Ray Morgan, Preston Morgan
and Seth Mac Morgan.
Swindell Funeral Home
was in charge of arrange
ments.
THE CHOWAN HERALD
Make Going To Church A Habii
CONCERN FOR OTHERS
International Sunday School Lesson for Dec. 6
Memory Selection: “The fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, good
ness, faith, meekness, temperance; against such
there is no law.”—Gelatians 9:22-23.
Lesson Text: Isaiah 1:1647. Matthew 5:21-44;
I John 3:11-24.
In our personal commitment to the Christian
•faith we are ever constrained to live that faith
in all of life’s relationships. And perhaps one
of the most demanding (and the most
ing) facets of Christianity is concern for others.
Concern for all men was the ever-present fac
tor in Christ’s life on earth, and He was the
embodiment of God’s concern for all mankind.
Concern was the keynote of all His teachings.
It was the major responsibility laid on the
shoulders of His disciples as He trained them to
further His teachings long after He, Himself, had
ascended to Heaven. It was what led His foot
steps to the agony on the cross.
Love is the essence of the Bible—the Word of
God. And the extent to which that love is evi
denced in daily life is therefore the measure of
the Christian.
While we Will never 'be called upon to make
the sacrifice that Christ made in the name of
love, we will still be called upon to emulate
His loving spirit in times and circumstances that
we will find it hard to do so. But perhaps the
striving will make the accomplishment the more
precious in our eyes wheft we have achieved the
task we have set ourselves. Certainly we will
have grown as Christians in relation to the effort
we have put forth.
It is natural, when others have “despitefully
used us” to cry out against them in our wounded
pride, it is natural—but it is not Christlike. Who
could have been used more spiU/ully than
Christ? Yet not once do we see Him turning on
His enemies, or retaliating. Rather, by His gentle
ways and His loving concern, we see the way
ward and Godless ones won over to Christianity.
This is still true today, just as it was so long
ago when Christianity was gaining its first ten
uous foothold in the world.
We art judged by our attitudes, by our out
look, and by our deeds. We are judged by our
fellowmen. we are judged by God. If we give
mere lip service to our creed, our neighbors are
quick to see it—and God is even quicker. We
are even judged by ourselves. And sometimes
we are our own most severe critic—even against
our will.
Concern for others is the keynote of a per
sonal, satisfying Christian life. It is not neces
sarily achieved by the mere writing of a check,
followed by the self-satisfied comment: “Well,
I’ve done my part.” It is more nearly attained
by a kindly action, done at some amount of in
convenience to ourselves, It is effort—directed
towards the well-being 04. another. It is a giv
ing of ourselves—to someone weighed down by
grief, by pain, by misfortune. It is LOVE in
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A child can be proud of a mitring tooth. She knows it will grow in later, better and stronger
than ever.
It’s different with the opportunities a child may be missing!
Like the opportunity to gain the spiritual and moral foundation for adult life . . . and the op
portunity to gain inspiration and example from the religious faith of parents. . . and the opportunity
to find wholesome interests and friendships among the boys atsd girls at church.
Sure, she points today with pride to a missing tooth. But what if her parents continue to deny
her the precious opportunity for religious training} Wbat if she is forced to grow up without the
faith and moral conviction life constantly demands?
WILL SHE BE PROUD OF WHAT SHE DOESN’T HAVE?
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