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MEDITATION
Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, alt ye land.
Serve the l ord with gladness: come before his presence
with singing.
Know ye that the Lord he is God: it i* he that hath made
us, and not we ourselves; we are hi*, people, and the sheep of
his pasture.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving:, and into his courts
with praise; be thankful unto him. and bless his name.
For the Lord is good: his mercy is everlasting: and his
truth endureth to all generations. ? I'salm 100.
Real Thanksgiving
Today we celebrate Thanksgiving, and all
are reminded that thanks should be given for
the many blessings that we enjoy. We repeat
year after year that we are thankful for the gifts
of the Four Freedoms, of being Americans, and
for the material and spiritual blessings that sur
round us. We are sincere in the expression of
our gratitude.
However, it is hard fcr a person who always
has had all the clothes he wanted and to spare,
to be thankful for them in the truest sense: it is
hard for a person who has never known hunger
to feel the deepest gratitude that he has suffi
cient food to eat; it is hard for one who always
has walked in his communiy, state and nation
with utmst freedom to realize that in so doing
he enjoys a blessing that much of the world is
denied: it is hard for one to be the mcst deeply
grateful for the privilege of worshipping as he
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I pleases, visiting whatever church he desires and
giving expression to his Christian beliefs, if
from his birth he has known no other condition
it is hard for cne who always has been surround
ed by love of family and friends to fully appre
ciate that love.
Therefore, on this Thanksgiving day. a dav
cf rejoicing and praise to a kind and loving and
infinite Father, it will not be those that are most
privileged and who have reason for the greatest
thanksgiving that will be singing the most
meaningful scngt of thanks. U will be people
who have seen the depths and been lifted to a
better state in life because somebody was kind
to them, or because they have a new-fcund
freedom, or a new privilege of worship.
N. C Death Hate
Is Below Average
WASHINGTON The crude
death rate in North Carolina rose
last year over that of 1946. but
both figures per one thousand
population we re below the nation
?! average, the National Office of
\ ital Stat:- es reported here
today
The rate : n 1946 for North Caro
i na was 7 8 oer one thousand
estimated population, while the
rate in 1947 was 8.2. The nation
al average rate in 1947 was 10.1
and in the year preceding it was
10.0.
Figures released snowed an in
crease in the number of deaths in
North Carol na from 28.724 in
: 946 to 30 187 in 1947. Crude
death rates, the agency pointed
out. represent the total number
of deaths per one thousand esti
mated midyear population.
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BIBLE
? SPEAKS _
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01. KENNETH J f OR [MAN ]
S RIPTURF: Isaiah 5 1-7; Matthew
44-46; Lu 10 85-31; 15.3 32.
DFVOTIONAL HEADING; Matthew
13 10-10. 51 i>2.
God's Story-Teller
|.rssnn for November 28, 1948 1
"^pRUTH in a tale," it is said
1 " will enter in at lowly doors ' '
The greatest truth of the entire
Bible does not come to us in the
shape of an essay 1
but of a story? the
story of Jesus.
"The gospel did
not appear on the
editorial page but
on the news pages."
Many people can
understand essays;
millions more can
understand a story.
Jesus himself, when
he gave the world
Dr. Foreman
his message, usea siones 10 ao u
We are told that he never made ; | <
talk to the people without using f
parable. The parables of the Bible
are simpli stones, often no more
than a sentence long. ?
They are all alike in this:
Whatever the story may be,
there is more in it than meets
the eye. Parables were not a
form of entertainment; they
were a way of teaching.
No Cause Is Lost l
SOMETIMES the teller of a para
^ ble would explain what he |
meant, as Igaiah does with his little
. <ng of the vineyard. Sometimes,
and most often in Jesus' case, the |
meaning is so plain that only a very ,
stupid person could miss it. [
Matthew arranges several ol |
Jesus' parables in pairs; one of
these is the twin story of the mus
tard seed and the yeast in the meal
? Matt. 13:31-33). Both mean the
same thing, and both are so obvious ?i
that Jesus did not think it neces- ^
sary to explain them. i
?
The Kingdom of Heaven ? the *,
ideal world, the world as God
intends it to be ? is a living
thing, a growing thing, some
thing at first small, almost in- ?
visible. Hut it will grow; you
eannut stop it. ?
So the ideal world, the Kingdorr i
Heaven. (Jesus hints) is not a
?itirieial thing, it cannot be con
strutted by blueprints. It has tc
follow the course of living things. 1
It does not come all of a sudden. ? i
it grows very quietly. You might lot '
i' the seed in the ground, but the,
farmer knows it is there. i /
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I'oarl of Great Price
SOMETIMES two or three ol i j
Jesus' parables are like a mu- '
sical theme with variations. The
t un stories of the pearl worth more ; i
?; tan the jeweler's whole collection.],
and of the treasure hidden in the
t eld. are very much alike, yet just i
a little different in meaning. ' '
Both tell us that the Kingdom of
God is more valuable than any- i
thing else on earth; indeed, it in- '
eludes everything else of value.
But the stories are different. One ,
tells of a man who was looking for \
something, the other tells of a man 1
who was surprised by finding some- J
thing. I ,
Once a Chinese gentleman be- |
came dissatisfied with his in- '
herited Confucianism, and set !
out to find a better religion. !
For years he shopped around, )
never finding what he needed. !
He left Christianity to the last, j
for in his section of China only .
coolies and peasants were Chris- |
tians. But when he began to
make friends with some real ?
Christians, he was overjoyed. I
This was what he had been j
looking for. This was the pearl |
of great price. ^
On the other hand, a drunken j
sailor, certainly not looking for re
ligion, wandered one night into a
Salvation Army meeting. They j
could do nothing with him, but be
fore they dragged him off to the
lodging-house one of them slipped
a bit of paper into his pocket. The
next morning, cold sober, wonder- j
ing where he was, he put his hand
into that pocket and pulled the
paper out. On it were pencilled
three words: God loves you. It hit
him right between the eyes; and
he became a Christian. That was
the "treasure hid in the field."
? ? ?
How Far Will Love Go?
JESUS' contemporaries told para- j
bles too, but they have all beer
forgotten. Jesus' parables are in- !
comparable, unforgettable, im
mortal. If Jesus had beQn known
for nothing else, he would hav*.
been remembered for the four
stories of the Good Samaritan, th<
Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin, the Loet
Son.
These all have much the same
point. "Lost" does not mean
hopelessly doomed. IIow many
persons we give up as hope
less! But God never gives up
any one. A "lost" person is one
whom God is seeking.
(Copyright by the International Coc-v/.' 1
of Religious Education on behalf o- ?. 1
Protestant denominations. Released L- f
WNU Features.)
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Mrs. Jennie Howell, Miss Barrie \
Vaughn and Judy Fisher, visited i
Mr and Mrs. Joe Fulmer and fam- f
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Postell
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Mi Ada SUles and ehildren
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fernery. M?ot
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Many ther such Bargains around Murphy.
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