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SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 1939
TODAY’S THOUGHT
“But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look
not on his countenance? or on the height of
his stature; because I have refused him: for
the Lord seeth not as man aeeth; for man
looketh on the outward appearance, but
the Lord looketh on the heart.”
—I Samuel.
Could They ?
Tobacco looks good or so we hear on the streets of Rox
boro every day. The crop is planted and before long you will
hear that someone is curing a barn.
As usual we are doing nothing about the opening of our
market. Everyone here wants Roxboro to have a good mar
ket, but we all want the other person to make the first step.
This writer has been impressed with the work of the
ladies in connection with “Hospitality Week.” They really
have been working and a major part of the success of this
week can be attributed to the ladies who have been interest
ed.
Os course, no one would want to admit that the ladies
could possibly do more with the Roxboro tobacco market
than the men could, but when you consider the fact that
the men have not been able to increase tobacco sales to any
large extent you naturally wonder if the ladies could lend
a bit of help that might mean much to the Roxboro mar
ket.
Everyone admits that our farmers have planted a much
larger crop this year. That means that Roxboro should sell
more tobacco. If we are going to sell this extra weed it’s time
to start convincing the growers that Roxboro is a mighty
fine place to sell it.
Good Work
Our health department seems determined to do some
thing about syphilis in this county. Last week a Negro wo
man was placed in jail for refusing to take the treatment
for this disease and Dr. Allen stated that she would be con
fined until she had received sufficient treatment to make
her non-infectious.
More people who are not doing the right thing about
taking these treatments will probably be placed in jail soon.
We now have a definite cure for syphilis and evidently
our health department sees no good reason for not using this
cure. If it will wipe out this awful disease we see no reason
for not using it.
In this connection it might be interesting to note that
the penal division of North Carolina will Soon broaden its
anti-syphilis work among prisoners by giving blood tests to
short-term convicts and treating those found infected with
Hie disease.
In the past only long-term prisoners have been given
Wasserman tests and received treatment.
The new program, Penal Director Johnson said, will ne
cessitate blood tests for 5,000 to 6,000 persons. The short
termers now in prison as well as those admitted in the fu
ture will receive the tests.
He said that tests taken in the past among felons indi
cated to 22 percent of them had syphilis.
‘This percentage of infected,” he said, “is probably high
er than you would find in any group you could get together.”
The state board of health will furnish the treatment,
Johnson said, and when a short-termer with syphilis leaves
prison before the treatment is completed, steps will be taken
to see that he continues the treatment.
Some day this nation will wipe out this disease. It may
be years from now, but those in charge seem to be going a
bout their work in a business-like manner and this applies to
Person County as well as other places.
“Reggie”
We hear more and more about a man in Person County
who is called over the state “Reggie Harris.” Every week
brings a new report that he will toss his hat into the poli
tical ring and run for lieutenant-governor.
And every now and then we bump into an influential
person and' talk about this matter. So far we have bumped
into no opposition and now we 'await the signal from Mr.
Harris. That signal should be “Let's Go.”
No Answer
King George no more than got to town Thursday before
a member of congress demanded that he say what Great
Britain intends to do about its war debt to the United States.
Representative Sweeney (D-Ohio) read in the house a
telegram he said he.had sent to the British monarch at the
White House suggesting that as long as England is spending
“a few billion dollars” annually for armaments, she might
give “some consideration” to debts to a country ‘‘whose
World war assistance made possible continuance of your ma
jesty's goverhment.”
This move of Representative Sweeney may have been
a bold move, but Sweeney wanted to know and so he asked.
There are many others who would like an answer to this
question, but toe doubt if the king can give much of an ans
wer—or would if he could. ~
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POOL LESSON
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WORLD-WIDE PROBLEMS OF
THE MODERN CHURCH
Church problems are not a
modem discovery. The church at
Thessalonica was not a year old
before problems had arisen that
demanded from Paul two letters
of counsel and instruction. The
difficulties in the Corinthian
Church, which occasioned our
two letters to the Corinthians,
came less than thirty years after
Pentecost.
Not only are church problems
not of recent origin, but neither
have they all been solved in the
nineteen centuries of the church’s
life. The tragedy of history is that
so many of our problems today
are the same as those Paul dealt
effectively with.
The Variety of Problems
Paul’s letters are our chief
source of knowledge concerning
the problems of the early church.
They would make a “Practical
Handbook on Solving Churclt
Problems,” so comprehensive are
they in this field. The practical
problems of the church take up
far more space in his letters than
do his theological discussions.
Look at a list of them: The
Christian and the Jewish law;
church and state; debts; the weak
brother, race problems; church
divisions; church discipline; rela
tions with non-Christians; legal
disputes; marriage and divorce;
meats offered to idols; church at
tendance; church finance, sup
port of the ministry; women in
the church, the Lord’s Supper,
prophecy and other gifts; relig
ious education; the family; respect
for ministers; loafers and busy
bodies, gossip, and controversial
ists; prayer; qualifications of of
ficials; pastoral etiquette; run
away slaves. This list is not ex
haustive, but how suggestive it is.
What a variety of problems came
up in the early church!
Some Are Solved
Some of those ancient problems
have been solved. There was the
problem of Christian freedom in
relation to the Law of Moses.
Paul led the early church to a
solution of that problem. There
was the problem of “meats of
fered to idols.” When Christ re
legated the idols to the museum
as curios, he settled that ques
tion. There was the problem of
human slavery. The teachings of
Christ have brought about the
abolition of slavery. And many
of the problems to us.
Others Remain
But some church problems re
main. Church divisions, for in
stance. I have had many problems
of this sort through the years.
What petty causes there are for
church division and quarreling,
and how magnificently Paul of
fers this solution: “Why not rath
er take wrong? Why not rather
be defrauded? Nay, but ye your
selves do wrong, and defraud,
and that your brethren.”
“All things are your’s,” says
Paul, “whether Paul, or Apollos,
or Cephas, (and we may add, or
North or South,) or the world, or
life, or death, or things present,
or things to come; all are your’s;
and ye are Christ’s; and Christ is
God’s.” Would that we had the
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courage to bring his Christian
faith and sanity to bear on all
our church problems!
Our New Problems
Paul did not have all our prob
lems. We live in a democracy, in
which citizenship involves res
ponsibility not only for “being in
subjection to the powers that be,"
tout for creating those powers
and seeing that they are worthy
of our submission. The moral
character of the candidates and
the righteousness of their plat
form is a genuine church prob
lems. For the church to fail to
pass judgement on these matters
openly and courageously, puts
the church into politics and on
the wrong side of politics. Separ.
ation of church and state, in
which we believe, requires that
each fulfil its function. It is the
function of the church to exert
its influence in behalf of right
eousness and obedience to law,
regardless of the personal or par.
ty allegiances of its membership.
A reading of Paul’s letters con
vinces one quickly that he ex
pected the Christian to be an ac
tive participant for righteousness
in everything. One also gets the
idea that the church was a com
munity to itself, and that in that
community there was no person
al, social, or civic relationship
that lay outside the sphere of the
church’s concern. All personal
and social problems were church
problems. Among the changes
that the centuries have wrought,
the chief one in this regard has
been the removal of the non-
Christian gentile world from its
place in the early scheme of
things. We call our nation, right
ly or wrongly, a Christian nation.
If rightly, then all national prob
lems are “chruch problems.”
Everything that affects the life
and character of the members of
the church are “church prob-
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peace, and of economic justice
and righteousness; the suppres
sion of gambling, of liquor, and
the narcotic traffic; and the pro
motion of Christian race rela
tions—these are present-day
problems facing the church. They
are not peculiarly church prob
lems, but the conviction is grow
ing that unless the church leads
the way to their solution, they
will not be solved on any lasting
basis.
Paul said he was a “debtor to
the barbarians and to the fooL
ish.” He meant, not that they had
contributed to his life, but that
he had been intrusted with some
thing that was intended for
them. So the church possessing
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