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Loj It* To Christ And Hi! Christ W Doss I n??tt,D<' 'ta^'be'1' sue before it cen be said we ?reJoyal to Jesus Christ? but we must allow film to leld SwT1 iCt'u ^wfc^b^ exc^ the BUdeeodln^Psslms llghtunto our paths. Before we look further, let us define the meaning at loyalty. When we look it Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary we find thut ft Is the "quality or state of being loyal". To be loyal merely meant that we are being faithful or devoted to someone, to a cause, or to an ideal. In deed. we who are being loyal to Jesus Christ and His church are not only being faithful to a cause or to an ideal, but to Somqpne who is the very Son of God! Let us look into the various aspects of how we can prove our loyalty to Christ and His church. To lllustrue one point of what loyalty mesas, let us take ourselves and our closest friends. What do they mean to us? Are they those with whom we can share our closest confidences? Are they com rades who understand us and our personal problems and give that extra little push when It is needed? Certainly, if we have friends with these qual ities then we do not want to lose that friendship, but we will cherish it as something pre cious. We will stand up for our friends when others point their fingers - so it should be with our Lord and Saviour! Why do we fail to stand up for Christ when others tear Him down? Is He not more pre cious than a friend? This is one way we could show our loyalty to Christ. We should dare to be different and not follow the crowd. We should dare to be an individual, but we should be a Christian in dividual! mere are people in tne world today going around preaching one standard but pra cticing *1 other. Some of these call themselves Christians, but the Ufe which they live speaks louder thai the words which they say. This Is what hurts the cause of Christ and we should remember this little poem and let It bear some mean ing dpon our own lives. You are writing a gospel A chapter each day By deeds that you do And by words that you say Say, what is the gospel ac cording to you? Peril 93 we can go so far as to say. there to nothing the world hates more thai a hy pocrite. We wait the real thing veiled by no mask. We should "practice what we pre ch" and our lives should be examples of the gospel which we preach. We should be a stepping stone aid not a stumbl ing block I Here is a quote from the Free Will Baptist ?iaper which we should keep n mind, "Could Christians be wha they claim when they as sume the name of Christ and do less to prove to a lost world their identity with Christ?" If we are to be loyal to Christ then we must be loyal to His Word. We are told in n Timothy 3:16, 17, that "all scripture Is given by inspir wlon of Cod, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for cor rection. for instruction In right eousness: tha the man of Cod may be perfect, throughly furn ished unto all good works". We must believe it to be true and tha it is the inspired Word of God, We must accept its teachings and discipline our lives accordingly because it is God's letter to us. Aiiuuici w?j wc ^?ti pruvc our loyalty to Christ and His church is by being faithful In our own church. Tne church is part of the body of Christ and when we are faithful to It. are are being loyal to Jesus Christ. In being faithful to our church we should be there whenever the church doors are open and we should take advantage of every opportunity of being in church services. It is a necessity be cause we are being fed and it is through these services that we are made to grow spirit ually. We realize, also, that we must be fed from the Word of God and then the church permits Christian fellowship. We should support our church not only in attendance, but fi nancially and prayerfully. We should stand behind it in any way we can and prayer is Just as Important, if not more, than finances. Money is an import ant factor in the growth of any church, but the church cannot survive on material things alone. We must spend much time in prayer and we must earnestly ask God's blessings upon the church and His people. Without God's blessings there will be no prosperity. The church, also , needs workers and these workers must be ded icated, consecrated, and totally yielded to God. Good workers must be loyal to God, to His Word, to tne church, and to the ministry which he is called. Tea. the Lord has called each lis to a ministry and we find his command in John 21:17 whan Jesus asked Peter three times If he loved Him. Each time Peter would answer, "Yea, Lord, thou knowest I love thee." Jesus said unto Peter, "Peed my sheep." This is what Jesus watts us to do. Jesus tells us not to spend our time saying how much we love Him nor to claim some wonder ful experiences or revelations we have had, but to feed His sheep. Jesus has different ty pes of sheep, too - some have gone astray, some are stub born, some are dirty, and some are rebellious. If we love our Lord we have no business of letting personal feelings stand In the way, but we must feed His sheep. There Is no choice of service, only absolute loyal ty to our Lord's command; loy alty to what we perceive when we are In close contact with Christ. If we are loyal to Jesus Christ then we must obey Him. Sometimes we may not under stand what Christ says, but It is dangerous to say that He was mistaken In what He said. We must be willing to follow at any cost and to step out on faith as Peter did when he walk ed on the water. Many of us are loyal to our nations of Je sus Christ, but how many of us are loyal to the Master? Oswald Chambers wrote * loyalty to Jesus Christ is the thing that we 'stick at* today." It seems today that we will be loyal to the world, to work, to service, to the crowd, but do not ask us to be loyal to Jesus Christ. Some Christians dis like talking about being loyal to the Master and would rather talk of things of the world. Christ is dethroned more em phatically by people who pro fess to De Christians than by the world. Many times God is made a machine for bless ing men, and Jesus Christ is made a Worker among work ers. The idea is not the work we do for God, but that we are wholly surrendered and we prove our loyalty to Him so that He can do His work through us. God wants to use us as He used His own Son. Personally, I feel that a person has to be wholly com mitted to God before ne can even begin to be loyal to Him. If we would only permit our will to be His will then all of these things will fall into place and we can know the joy and peace of what it really means to be loyal to Christ and His church! ?AULETT|^pRIFFIN Sandy Plain F. W. B. Church ^pii _ - votei may 4tt, 1 n.c. * ? pr|hary SENATOR SAM ERVIN * SAYS Mountain Snow WASHINGTON ? Without dispute, the greatest domestic problem now confronting the country is the soaring crime rate. Responsible citizens re cognize that immediate action is required to control or pre vent behavior that threatens the public order and security of this Nation. Consider that in 1967 there was a .forcible rape even 23 minutes, an awBltctcrfliyy ^ minutes, a car theft evenr min*?' ute, a burglary every 27 se>? conds. The resulting monetary loss is authoritatively esti mated to be at least 327 bil lion. The pain, misery, fear, and suffering inflicted upon crime victims is immeasurable. Congress, aware of the ter rible toll being extracted from society, is considering bills to aid in such critical areas as narcotics and drug abuse, po lice organization, Judicial ad- * ministration. State detention and correctional agencies, or ganized crime, research in the prevention and control of crime, and firearms control. This column is devoted to legislative remedies under consideration and firearms control in par ticular. During recent years, the in creasing crime rate, the ass assination of a President, and the rioting in our cities have caused the Congress to take another look at the possession and use of firearms to deter mine if increased regulation would be in the national in terest. Legislation proposed on this subject falls into two leg islative patterns: First, tne highly restrictive type such as S, 1 and HR 5384; and. second, the moderate approach embod ied in the Hruska measure, S. 1853 and S. 1854. S. 1 as amended and HR 5384 provide express restric tions on the shipment of any firearms, including shotguns and rifles, interstate com merce. They prohibit the interstate mail-order sale, except be tween federally licensed deal ers, of all firearms including handguns, shotguns, and rifles, and military surplus weapons. They prohibit over-the-counter sales of handguns to nonresi dents. These bills contain e laborate licensing procedures and increased fees for fire arms dealers, manufacturers, and Importers. The Hruska fliproach, S. 1853 and S. 1854, aims its more moderate provisions at control of the sale of handguns and destructive devices such-as ba zookas, mortars, bombs, ger nades. rockets, and field or dinance. S. 1853 provides for an affidavit procedure for mail order and nonresident over the-counter sale of handguns, because handguns are the prin cipal tools of criminals. It exempts rifles and shotguns, because by custom and her itage, they are the firearms of the sportsman. Admittedly, both weapons can be used to kill human beings as well as game animals, but handguns, ly reason of their concSala blllty are the weapons most of ten used by die rlmlnal el?n?nr S lfliw rnnfafna an ' absolute prohibition of the sale of handguns to those under 21 years. This measurehas rece ived the full support of a sub stantial part of the American public, including the approval of major gun and wildlife or ganizations. S. 1854 would amend the National Firearms Act to strictly regulate the making or transfer of bazookas and simi lar destructive- devices, under* the s inui'viMfrtotlCMthtnpprp to machlneguns and sewed-on shotguns. After careful con sideration of th? various gun control bills, I have concluded that S. 1853 and S. 1854 provide a workable, positive approach without unnecessary restrict ions upon Individual rights or needless Infringement upon the traditional police powers grant ed to the States. Crime control Is immensely complex, but I trust that the Senate will enact these measures at this session as needed legislation In the war on crime. SAT YOU SAW It HI THE TIMES - SENTINEL About 40 percent of the near ly 1,300 companies with common stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange have joined die big board within the last ten years. forms s pretty contrast to bright blooms. In many gardens this sum mer youTI see a plant whose white-margined bracts and up per leaves form a welcome contrast to the bright colors of annual flowers. Gallgd Mountain Snow or . Snow-on the-mountain. Its variegatedq Snow-on-the-mountain Is aaSf to grow from seeds. In faet-it is native to the great plains from the Dakotas to Texas. Plants thrive in sunny places, grow about 2 feet high with leaves that may be light green, green with white edges or, occasionally, all white. The flowers are small and hardly noticeable in the cen ters of the white bracts that surround them, but if you look closely youTl discover them. Stems exude a white Juice when cut. This milky sub stance can cause pain if it gets into an open sore so cut stems should be handled with care. Also because of the milky juice and its speedy loss after picking or cutting, the cut ends of the stems should be singed or plunged into boiling water immediately after they leave the plant. Either treat ment seals the cells and makes it possible to keep stems' in water in good condition for several days. ONE YEAR AGO Woody Oakly of Ken ansrille was commissioned a Second Lieutenant. Ralph B. Hunter, Jr., Rt. 2, Beulavtlle. is State 4-H Pro ject Winner in Field Crops. The State Youth Fellowship of Original Free Will Baptists had their annual convention at the Beulaville F.W.B Church. FIVE YEARS AGO Paintings of Mrs. Marshall Williams to be exhibited at St. John's Gallery. Warsaw Lions Club to sponsor Blood Clinic. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Brad shaw were honored an their 50th Wedding Anniversary. Miss Barbara Aim Ellis, Falson bride-elect was enter tained fay Mrs. Leo Jenkins in Greenville. TEN IE/AS AGO Robert Steward Powell of Wallace wins top award in three states, North Carolina. South Carolina, and Virginia, in Baton Twirling Contest. Miss Marcla Marie Scott and laud Hamilton Powell were married in Grove Presbyterian Church. Pauline Cost in of Warsaw received her nurse's cap from Hamlet Hospital School of Nurs ing. Meeting to honor Sam Byrd held ? Mi. Olive Junior College. ? '? iv'L...-'' J -A" TWENTY YEARS AGO First Annual Strawberry Jamboree set for Wallace. Mr. Hugh Wells was elected Vice-President of North Carol ina Education Association, Di vision of District Principals. Construction of new City Hall In Warsaw Is started. Duplin Times Progress Sentinel \ Published Weekly * V Progress Sentinel, Inc. Kenenrrllle, N. C. 38349 Second Class Postage Paid at > Kenansville, N, C SUBSCRIPTION PRICKS Steele cm Me te DspSa ami Adjetetef ? Mm. ? |LS1 1 Tf. ? ?U1 Ootelde Of teHh f S Mas A~,?Suttf VVTl 84J4 Unci. N. C. Sales Tee) 1 Tr. IMS iTlncle Pete From 1 { Chittlin Switch i ' ""V- ? DBAS MISTER EDITOR: Ed Doolittle told the fellen at the country More Saturday night ha was aiming ml soon to go to the city and aee one of them wrasaling matchea. He aaid he was reading when one wrassler defested another WFtt^ tier by breaking a chair ow hia head and knocking Mm out. He flggend thia waa a real dean sport after reading tor months about riots and demonstrations. For instant, he aaid he had read where it coat the taxpay ers $5,000 to paint over and git rid of the "Peace" signs at that demonstration they had a North western University. Incidental, Mister Editor, all the fellers at Hie store was strong agin these demonstra tions, protests, marches and things that was going on today agin about everthing AD the fellers was gltttng along in years and they wasn't raised up in that kind of goings-on. Maybe they was Just old fashioned and has-beens, and again maybe this country was built and growed great on their brand of fOoeo phy. I reckon future history will have to decide that question Zeke Grubb said he was read ing where some college boy broke his arm trying to hang some kind of sign on a monu ment in Boston. Zeke said in Ids day moat of the young genera tlon that got a broke arm was from trying to crank them auto . mobiles that come out tor the first 10 year with a crank un der the radiator afore self starters was ever invented. Josh Clodhopper said, speak lag of broke arm., he could recollect about 80 year ago when the feller that run the bank bought hlaaelf one of than Overland 8tx automobile., which waa about aa fancy aa a feller could gtt In them days. Joeh ?aid it waa the talk of the com munity and eveitody waa ahak ing their head about the power ful aiz-dllnder 46-horso power I motor thia ear had. A heap of folks, said Joeh, dldnt believe a feller could keep a car with that much horaepower in the road and everbody waa perdlct ing he'd git killed in the thing The only thing that happened to the feller, said Joeh, waa he got his arm broke one cold mor ning trying to crank it up. Ago MB* m i W M Tooiy 8 4o-nors?power motor ain't hardly enough fer a 18 foot boat, and I reckon this Just about tells the story between today and whan us fellers at the etore was in our teens I reckon all of as was out of date and don't believe in all these peace demonstrations, protests, riots and things that waa going on today. But the storekeeper told us one thing we understood. He said a history teacher at Gloversville, N. Y. told his class the national debt was $S82JM6,963,118.8T exact The students took up a collection and sent the Government a check tor 87 cent to bring it to round numbers. Yours truly Uidi pete the Minister's Desk D. E. Parkerson; Carrboro, N. C. The records of an old church In Ohio reveal that In the mat ter of worship the responsi bility did not all rest on the minister . The congregation had to be alert and helpful. To Insure this, the church ar ppointed two officers ?"Mr. Pointer" and "Mr. Beaner." The duty of Mr. Pointer was to stand near the minister dur ing the preaching of the sermon. As the preacher made a cer tain point In his sermon that polm an* rcry-out, *?YOU THERE, JOHN DOE. THAT AP PLIES TO YOU." , Mr. Beaner was given a chair in a prominent place in the choir. From this favored place, he surveyed with hawk like eyes the congregation. If he saw A head beginning to sway and gtsitly bob from lack of attention and drowsiness, he would raise his shooter to his lips?he was always a crack shot- and zing, the sleeping Individual was reinstated to the ranks of attention. Mr. Beaner probably got lots of shooting practice. If the cjnirch in Ohio had not kept good records and If people today did not study old records we might not have learned about Mr. Pointer and Mr. Beaner. The whole Idea Is very Intriguing, to say the least, b has its possibilities for today. But it also has Its drawbacks. There are still a lot of people In the pews who are USE WANT AD PA6E saving to themselves as every point is made in the sermon, "He Isn't talking about me," or "I wish so and so were here to hear this." A Mr. Pointer could say, "ThatMeans You?You People Who Are Thinking at The Sins Of Others While Ignoring Your Own Sins." But the danger of having a Mr. Pointer is that he would become so interested in pointing out die sins of others that he would soon forget that he has spiri tual needs within his own he art. From this standpoint we already have several Mr. Pointers m not efettedCtdi 'tfiilr They point their- fingers at others not so much tb call their > attention to4helr needs as to make others around them a ware. Another word for this kind of person is "gosslper," They always excel in moral indignation. And moral indig nation is often nothing more than jealousy with a halo. If we had a Mr. Beaner in our churches this might help, too. A few nod their heads and go to sleep, but multitudes are asleep on the inside?asleep to the spiritual decadence, social Injustice, and moral indif ference in our nation. The ^church needs to wake up. We who serve in die ca pacity of Minister must share the blame for this slumbering state. It could be that we are like the minister who dreamed he was preaching and then woke up? and he wasl No wonder, then, that his con gregation was asleep?and sil ent?and satisfied withthestat us quo. The church of the twentieth century must be silent no more. 'TIs said that silence is golden?but sometimes it's just yellow. Crossword Puzzle ACROSS I- IT 1 IW 4 I 4 H7 ? If M M 1. Concealed Qol HBf I 4.Cut off >a '? MM'* I 7. Slumbered _ _ __i__ Imfl I 12. Flower iT H '* ??*- F-Jr ? !?:Pt? t ? H"' ~ ^ ?bbr. Ixrl IMItfll.'l knag a It- Chemical I I compound pyj? ? |Uy|hf ~) ["ffipM 28. Spreads RT| I MM 411 Wf lltTtThjUUIl |?jood 29. Owns 147 I ? "ww?t 1 ~fi| ~? 30 Summit I I K 34 Slip away DTl UUrt a-0'' U Kj?U*---' SBSto. rilMMIIMMI bird 47. Concepts 54. Oner 19. Rub out 41 Cycles 49. Median S5 Insect 21. Decay 4t& 51 Renounces ^ r DOW* Ed^c^ syllable SI Lsttsc pfP ?" 4 Elect as ORE of Your 4tk District Judges I Paul Manly Crompler | La* Mm bring Ma raeord of affldant logal and Judicial experience end hie reouta 4|Aak lkAMAA*U Aak^i |n IM uon Tor nonesiy ana iair naaa from tha Sampaon County Court ? daacribad at "ona of tha moat Hon oriDie ana oTTicieni in North Carolina" ? to tha now 4th DlatricL Nil Inly Cruanler wl tflVH|FI VI II |Mn mdiwi a* Mp d laafMa BIaMaAW flaHgl lit ffmoril ITpeilrt For Hsdf! ;^r \ ? | -Elected la I9S2 to Judge Sim peon County Court and tMlactrd rach succeeding I term by wide majority. Has mads many improvements, including reduction in opera- I ting e?pauses and increased eftlciency in handling court buainaas. Won praiac and ? ? eeteam ^attorneys, court officials, and general public for fab and impartial conduct I ^-Attended Wafce Forest UnfcenMy, National University Law School, and Washington 1 t -^ember^totejsnd^Couaty Bar Associations. Past President Sampson County Bar. I I ForaiSTt*' "** H Wtth 3 yM>* r"t Commander Veterans of I I I KamanSan clmnUuteJL CTnlluTAtMslli oinndl, ?* Co,,,,e<, ?* b' ScoMU* I I mm . ?. BBS
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