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EDITORIAL
Worst Time Possible
Much has been said of late con
cerning a constitutional amendment
that would substitute the direct elec
tion of a President of the United
States for the present electoral col
lege method of selecting a man tc* fill
the highest office in the land. Many
concerned citizens are opposed to the
idea of direct elections, and their
ranks are growing.
In a news release, the American
Farm Bureau Federation expresses
deep concern about proposed eli ruina
tion of the electoral college system
noting that, "The establishment of
the direct election of the President
would be the first step in a process
which eventually would abolish state
representation in Congress and let
population determine the apportion
ment of members in both Houses. The
duality of our government, sl:ate and
Playing Games With Calories
Makers of dry breakfast cereals
have been subjected to a kind of con
sumer protectors' numbers game. It
seems that most of the dry cereals
measured by an ambiguous rating
system are found wanting in nutri
tion. It is claimed they contain "emp
ty calories." However, as a spokes
man for a large food processing con
cern points out, the rating of the ce
reals was done in a way that would
make a lot of food fall into the emp
ty calorie category - including eggs
and bacon.
If, as the investigators infer, every
cereal should be fortified to the maxi
mum .with nutrients, it is doubtful
people would eat them. Noted the
food concern spokesman, "Obviously,
to load up the breakfast meal with all
nutrients for the day without regard
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federal, has made it unique in the his
tory of popular governments. It is the
the single greatest strength that sets
us apart from the rest of the world."
Another opponent of the direct elec
tion, Mr. Richard N. Goodwin,
writing in the Washington, D. G,
Post observes, "Direct election might
well bring us a farmers' party, a senior
citizens' party, a black party and
other groups coalescing around com
mon interest and belief... If this is sfer,
then direct election could not come at
a worse time - when the tendency to
political fragmentation and ideologi-.
cal division is reaching new heights."-
Direct election of a President could
be the beginning of a catastrophic
alteration in the U. S. constitutional
system under which our people have
enjoyed a greater measure of liberty
than any other people in history.
to those that will be consumed at
other meals would be illogical ... Our
view is that we should fortify only to
the level that is consistent with the
mean occasion and not attempt to
solve the whole day's diet problem
with one dish at one meal. Our point
of view is supported by many nutri
tionists."
The investigators of breakfast
cereals, like the investigators of most
products, can never quite come to
grips with the real world. They over
look what should be a primary consi
deration. Consumers purchase dry
cereals because they like them. In
doing so, they exercise their right of
free choice. If they wish, they can
turn to other food products. It is
just that simple.
i Iffs Up To You!
VOTE/'
Weekly Sunday Lesson
For September 27, 1970
YOUR BIBLE IS YOUR MAJOR TEXTBOOK: STUDY IT
WHAT LOVE WILL DO
Scripture: Genesis 44:18-34; De
votional Reading: John 10:7-18
Memory Selection: Greater love
has no man than this, that a
man lay down his life for his
friends. John 15:13.
18. Then Judah came near
unto him, and said, Oh my Lord,
let thy servant, I pray thee,
speak a word in my Lord's ears,
and let not thine anger burn
against thy servant: for thou art
even as Pharaoh.
19. My Lord asked his serv
ants, saying, Have ye a father,
or a brother?
20. And we said unto my Lord,
We have a father, an old man,
and a child of his old age, a lit
tle one; and his brother is dead,
and he alone is left of his moth
er, and his father loveth him.
21. And thou saidst unto thy
servants, Bring him down unto
me, that I may set mine eyes
upon him.
22. And we said unto my Lord,
The lad cannot leave his father:
for if he should leave his father,
bis father would die.
23. And thou saidst unto thy
servants, Except your youngest
brother come down with you, ye
shall see my face no more.
24. And it came to pass, when.
we came up unto thy servants
my father, we told him the words
of my Lord.
25. And our father said, Go
again, and buy us a little food.
28. And we said, We cannot go
down: if our youngest brother be
with us, then will we go down:
for we may not see the man's
face, except our youngest broth
er be with us.
27. And thy servant my father
said unto us, Ye know that my
wife bare me two sons:
28. And the one went out from
me, and I said. Surely he is torn
in pieces; and I saw him not
since: '
29. And if ye take this also
from me, and mischief befall
him, ye shall bring down my
gray hairs with sorrow to the
grave.
30. Now, therefore, when I
come to thy servant my father,
and the lad be not with us; see
ing that his life is bound up in
the lad's life;
31. It shall come to pass, when
he seeth that the lad is not with
us, that he will die: and thy serv
ants shall bring down the gray
hairs of thy servant our father
with sorrow to the grave.
32. For thy servant became
surety for the lad unto my fa
ther, saying. If I bring him not
unto thee, then I shall bear the
blame to my father for ever.
33. Now, therefore, I pray
thee, let thy servant abide in
stead of the lad, a bondman to
my lord; and let the lad go up
with his brethren.
34. For how shall I go up to
my father, and the led be not
with me? lest per adventure I see
the evil that shall come on my
father.
FOREWORD: It was an amaz
ing piece of artifice that came
out of the mind of Joseph. After
such gradousness shown to his
brethren; in that be not only had
their sacks filled with cord, but,
be alao put back their money hi
the containers every man had
in his bag, the exact amount he
had paid. But the stratagem of
the Prime Minister of Egypt was
paradoxical, in that, it was gra
cious and helpful, on the one
hand, and ugly and mean, on the
other.
Joseph had the steward to put
in the sack, the silver goblet
from which he filled his' wine-
cup. The object of the plot was
to pursue them later, find the
goblet, and accuse them to theft.
The cup was put in the sack of
Benjamin, Joseph's full brother.
He could ask and receive the de
tention of his brother as a serv
ant; also to see whether or not
any change had come over his
brothers, since they had sold him
(Joseph) as a bondman into
Egypt. He found out their callous
hearts had been changed. Even
Judah's heart and outlook had
undergone a transformation. It
was he who made the eloquent
plea, and such scarificing ges
ture of Love ... "a man who
gives up his freedom for his
brother."
LESSON OUTLINED: I. Ben
jamin's Sentence. Vs. 17. 11. Ju
dah's Pleading. Vss. 18-29. 111.
Heroic Self-Sacrifice. Vss. 30-34.
«, CENTRAL THOUGHT: God by
his providence tries the spirit
that is in us.
COMMENTS ON LESSON:
L Benjamin's Sentence: The
silver cup was put into the sdck
of Benjamin, as the plot called
for. The men were allowed to de
part, unconscious of what had
been devised against them. They
were not too far when the stew
ard caught up with them, and
accused them of theft. They
professed their innocence, and
vouched that they did not know
anything as to how the goblet got
there. Just as the steward ex
pected, the cup was found in
Benjamin's sack —he had put it
there. Joseph did not want the
life of any one, he wanted Ben
jamin. He modified the sentence
that the brothers had proposed,
and took the younger brother as
a servant. They rent their clothes
to give expression to the anguish
of their souls.
Benjamin became a bondman.
This was to the utter dislike of
the brothers. To every living
creature, slavery is sad and de
grading, even when it is most
mitigated. They instantly retrac
ed their steps back to the city.
Made adject acknowledgement of
their offence: "What shall we
say unto my Lord? God hath
found out the iniquity of thy
servants." "Behold, we are my
Lord's servants, both we, and he
also with whom the cup is
found." The plan was wisely de
signed. It revealed the charac
ters of all the brethren.
IL Jadah's Pleading: It is dif
ficult to imagine language more
respectful and deferential than
that of Judah. Almost every word
is so framed as to convey a
sense of Joseph's lofty station,
superior dignity, and just cause
of indignation aganist the speak
er. Infinitely more powerful than
either vohible rhetoric, or close
ly-compacted argument, is the
plain and unaophisticated logic of
truth. Without the most distant
approach to* sophistry, or even
an attempt at persuasion, Judah
confines himself to a bare recital
of the facts of the caae which
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were already well known to Jo
seph.
He sets forth his father's love
for Benjamin, for his dead moth
er's and bis lost brother's sakes,
he tells how he himself had be
come surety for the lad to his
aged father, and that if he should
fail to take him back again in
safety, be would very likely has
ten him to the grave. In behalf
of one whom he knew was pre
ferred to a higher place in his
father's affection than himself,
he was willing to renounce his
liberty rather than see his aged
parent die of a broken heart.
This is the high peak in this do
mestic drama.
HI. Heroic Self-Sacrifice: The
self - forgetful magnanimity of
such, an action has never been
eclipsed, and seldom rivalled.
After words so exquisitely beau
tiful and profoundly pathetic, it
was impossible for Joseph to
doubt that a complete change
had passed upon his brethren,
and in particular upon Judah,
since the day when he had elo
quently urged, and they had
wickedly consented, to sell their
brother Joseph into Egypt.
We cannot but rejoice over the
noble sacrifice he proposes to
make for Benjamin. "Let thy
servant abide instead of the lad,
a bondman to my Lord." Rather
than that Benjamin should not
go home again to Hebron, he
would himself remain a bondman
to my Lord the governor for
ever. "Noble Judah! Thou art be
whom thy brethren shall praise."
Let us pray that the love of
Christ may constrain the direc
tion of our life.
FOR MEDITATION
Sidelights On Lesson:
Love In Actios
In all the volumes of fiction
ever written there is nothing to
surpass the tenderness and pa
thos of this pleading of Judah.
We may learn from this position
and pleading of Judah as to how
we should approach God. We
have sinned and can only throw
ourselves on his mercy. We also
see Christ, in his office of inter
cessor, how he pleads for us. His
pleading is real and earnest. He
prayed on earth for his disciples.
The present is a dispensation of
meditation. Hence Christ still
pleads, as our surety in heaven.
He makes intercession for our
sins.
Judah is ready to be bound
for Benjamin. It is one thing to
talk, another to act. He bad
promised his father to bring Ben
jamin again (Chapter 43:9), and
he wishes to keep his word. He
became surety, a guarantee, as
one who is bound by signing a
paper. He was answerable to his
father. He is ready to give his
service for Benjamin, his life for
his brother. His faithfulness was
definitely proved.
Christ is our surety. He makes
himself one with us (Hebrew
2:11). He sprang from Judah
(Hebrews 7:14). He became one
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Wrong Count,. Agmn
WHAT COMES ONCE every ten%art*awjU«i»j't coujit?
The United States Census- Hji ~ ?)(
The last census—in 1960—managed to 'fciUp" t+fo mil
lion black citizens, a fact that wasn't i»fticj«Uy_ adMHtfed
until a few years ago. Now it looks
will have an even greater undercount of blacks. *%( » i
This means that cities and counties with significMt
black and minority populations will o>t-less-fedenftj i jd
state aid than they are to, ilrtce funds ft>r tappy
government programs are tied to population.
The results of the census miscount then, could be dis
astrous for already hard-pressed cities. Congressional rep
resentation will be cut, and federal funds curtailed.
Those of us familiar with the workings of the Census
Bureau aren't surprised. We saw it coming. That's why
the Urban League helped to organize and fund the Coalition
for a Black Count's national "Make Black Count" campaign
to educate people to the importance of being counted. The
Coalition set up assistance centers and recruited inter
viewers and tried to get the Bureau to fulfill its r«»Tv»nsi
bility to count everybody.
Duty Was To Count Everyone
Our campaign was a success ,in that the undercount
would have been much higher without the Coalition's ef
forts, but it couldn't counter the failures of the government
officials whose duty it was to count everyone-
Now there is a tremendous outcry against the census
from Southern governors and ghetto blacks alike All are
united in condemning a count whose preliminary figures
bear little relationship to reality. In city after city, mayors
are being informed that their towns lost population, while
the evidence of school enrollments and sanitation pickups
shows that those figures can't be true.
The Census Bureau's failures are far too many to list
here, but just a few of them will give you some idea of
why we believe that the census is structurally designed
NOT to count minorities.
All the census forms were In English. The huge Mex
ican-American and Puerto Rican populations in large north
ern cities and in the Southwest were ignored Many people
didn't return.their census forms simply because they couldn't
read them.
Many Were Never Counted
The Bureau used mailing lists that were sadly outdated
and took no account of the mail facilities in many slum tene
ments, many people never even received the forms. A
Coalition 'survey of 7,000 Bedford-Stuyvesant residents found
that nearly one of every five people didn't get census forms.
There was a high turnover among the interviewers.
Their paychecks were late; they were paid on a piece-work
basis fio they weren't paid for their time if no one was
home when they called, and morale was generally low.
Part of the low morale was caused by the patronage
system of hiring, especially on the supervisory levels. There
was a consistent under-representation of blacks in these po
sitions, as preference went to those with political connec
tions. «
Assistance centers were lacking. These places where
people could go for help in filling out tKe forms. There
were none in the South, and far fewer than needed in the
northern cities. Anti-poverty groups with roots in the neigh
borhoods weren't used to reach people, and only a massive
effort by the Coalition enabled many to fill out their forms.
The Censu« Bureau has already adnritted , "ith6t ""iMae
President on December 1 will be wrong and that will severely
understate the minority population. And these false figures
will be used to allocate funds,, programs, and electoral seats
for the next ten years.
Since a recount won't be of any real use as the Bureau
would just use outmoded procedures all over again, the
President should immediately order the Bureau to estimate
the extent of the under count and to increase its figures
for minority population by that amount.
Disastrous social conditions and the tragic plight of
the cities make it clear that there's more at stake here than
Just numbers.
with us in nature and in tempta
tion, and was accepted as our
substitute, was bound, abused,
and crucified. He bore the curse
for us (Galatian 3:13). He sacri
ficed himself for us.
We may see in the success of
Judah's pleading an indication of
the success of Jesus' work. Jo
seph needed no entreaty to be
merciful to Benjamin. He was
nearer of kin to Benjamin than
Judah was. So God is our Fa
ther. Joseph only wished to see
the brethren in a fit state to be
forgiven. They were entirely for
given (verses 5-15). He forgave
freely, and wished them to for
give themselves. He knew , very
well that if they began to blame
themselves too much, or to up
braid each other, they would
never be happy. Forgiveness
should produce peace. Let us
see ourselves in those suppliant
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brothers of Joseph. Forgiveness
showeth forth love. (Baptiste)
Words Of Wisdom
The Greatest Man
The greatest man is he who
chooses the right with invincible
resolution; who resists the sorest
temptations from within and
without; who bears the heaviest
burdens cheerfully; who is calm
est in storms, and most fearless
under menace and frowns; and
whose reliance on truth, on vir
tue, and on God, is most unfal
tering. Channing.
4000 years ago the Egyptians
found that candy made life
tweeter. They had a well
established confectionery art
using honey, flavors, spices and
herb* . . . the first corner cnndv
■tore in history.