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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1941
First Steps In A Program
In the words of S. G. Winstead, Mayor of the City
of Roxboro: “If we are not war-minded now, we ought
to be.”
Greatest difficulty will be for most of us realiza
tion of what “war-mindedness” means, but we are of
opinion that the score or more County and City civic
leaders who attended Friday’s civilian defense meeting
at the Person Court House had no trouble in grasping
first principles of the three-point, police, fire and utili
ties program now being set up in this area and through
out the Nation.
Acting under the State Coordinator, who is work
ing directly with United States and State agencies,
Mayor Winstead is the local head of an emergency
governing body having supervision of telephone con
trols, air-raid warning and police and fire and utilities
protection. Working with the Mayor are the City Man
ager, the Chiefs of Police and Fire Departments and
the Superintendent of the Municipal Water Plant, and
under these respective leaders are countless citizens,
whose duties will be more detailed execution of various
necessary tasks such as: control of city and county
traffic, Red Cross work, including first aid, disaster
and rehabilitation; the evolution of a more complete
fire protection system and the sustaining of a com
pletely supervised water-plant program.
Tentative defense plans have been discussed in the
—United States ever since September 1939 when World
War II began, but the situation is different now; these
plans, together with others of a drastic nature, must
be and are being swiftly fitted into the Nation’s way of
life. And this is at it should be, for in this war, as
in no other war, military units are effective only inso
far as they are supported by home defense units.
We are sure of the adequacy of our military de
fense. We must be just as sure of our civilian defense
and there is no escaping the fact that it is oUr job.
On With Life
Uppermost in the minds of ail American citizens
today is war, but we think that most of us must sooner
or later come to realization that insofar as it is pos
sible, normal activities must be continued. Children
still believe in Christmas, and they must not be dis
appointed. Older people, whose active participation in
the war program is circumscribed by physical limita
tions, must be thought of as they spend long days and
hours in their homes, and the rest of us, who are now
just beginning to be engaged in the super-human effort
to keep business and social and religious life going and
to contribute in time, service and cash to the “all-out”
effort for defense, must have moments of respite, so
long as they are possible, if we are to do our best work
with the double tasks we are facing.
This does not mean that we are to think careless
ly of the serious business at hand. This does njot
, mean that we are not to be sympathetic to those to
whom war brings an extra measure of sorrow. This
does not mean that we are to be selfish. This does not
mean that we are to be what the early Christians and
some others have called “worldly ”
In the program of sacrifice with service, whether
it be in the military or non-combatant units, or through
the Red Cross or by means of cash contributions to
Defense, it is possible that this our life will have a
new meaning and that in the two-edged task will be
found again a fellowship frequently lacking in ordered
routines of peace. Those in other countries who have
been experiencing the destruction of normal life-ways
have told us of the new fellowship that is now ours to
discover, provided we keep a sane balance and go on
with life’s program.
Christmas Music .*...
Being given today in Roxboro are two of a series
of Christmas musical programs designed to express the
more spiritual joys of the holiday season. Important in
any year as reminders of the original reason for the
celebration of Christmas, these concerts have this year
an especial significance on account of war events of the
past week.
As one of the few remaining international links,
music, Christmas music, in particular, has an import
ant function to perform. English-speaking people are
today in conflict with those whose native speech is
German and Italian, but on Christmas programs in the
United States and in the British isles the German “Si
lent Night” and the Italian “Jesu Bambino,” as beauti
ful today as they were yesterday, will have their place.
And this is as it should be. Men may war against
each other. They may kill each other, and call each
other foul names in belief that they are creating per
manent hatreds, but they cannot destroy forever the
records of their higher aspirations in music and art
and literature. These records remain and will remain,
against the time when sanity returns and men can
speak one to another in the other languages God gave
them.
Words
Baltimore Evening Sun
The “English Vocabularly Builder,” a book issued
by the Human Engineering Laboratory of Hoboken.
N. J-, contains lists of words totaling 1,118, grouped
according to how the words are known to adults. The
first list for 55 words which all adults know; group 2
consists of 15 words unknown to 1 per cent; in group 3
there are 16 words unknown to 2 per cent. The last i
list consists of 27 words which, according to the Hu
man Engineerings Laboratory wizards, are unknown to
99 per cent of all adults. This list includes these:
lambent, unwonted, anfractous, polity, quizzical and
ascetic.
Concerning the misuse of words the Human En
gineering Laboratory declares that 8 per cent of adults
think statute means a monument, while 4 per cent think
it refers to physique; 2 per cent think conversant
means unacquainted with; 15 per cent believe that gar
rulity means feebleness. -
“Ghosting” In Washington ,
New York Times V
Secretary Knox has given the expected answer to
the charge that he made a personal profit out of mag
azine articles appearing under his name and revealing
information which had come to him as the result of his
official position. He caused the articles to be written,
he says, because he considered it part of his job to
“publicize and popularize the Navy.” He divided the
money received between the men who did the actual
writing and a worthy and appropriate charity, the
Naval Relief Society. He frankly admits that his part
in the authorship was merely to “check it over,” and in
the case of a story disclosing that an American naval
officer was aboard the Catalina plane which helped lo
cate the Bismarck he obviously did not even do that.
Mr. Knox can cite ample precedents not only in the
sporting and business worlds but in official circles even
more august than his own. They are precedents that
ought to be re-examined. Every journalist knows that
there are many men who have important ideas but can’t
write them. Such men are entitled to all the help they
need, provided that the ideas remain their own and the
public is not deceived. We are all more or less accus
tomed to the spectacle of wise old owls singing like
larks, jmd know just what it signifies. What seems to
many of us questionable is the practice of retailing of
ficial information to selected clients. If such infor
mation is to be made public at all it ought to go freely
to all who are interested. Facts about the Army, the
Navy and foreign relations are either publishable or not
publishable. If they are publishable they should not
be subject to any private copyright.
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Sunday School
LESSON
From
The Adult Student
To speak of a “giving” Christ
ian may be to use a rather awk
ward term, but the term is jus
tified because it is so exactly
descriptive of what ought to be.
Stewardship is giving. If you do
no give, you are no proper stew
ard. If you are a steward, giving
will be the proof of it. This is
what Paul is talking about. A
selfish Christian is a complete
contradiction. The heart of
Christianity is love, and love
gives.
But it gives joyfully, cheerful
ly, or, as Paul’s word really
means, with abandon—“hilarious
ly.” Morose giving is not Chris
tian giving. Even “giving until
it hurts" is a questionable per
formance. It ought not to hurt
us to give, unless the word
"hurt” is sued in the sense of
“sacrificial.” But the sacrifices of
love are joyful sacrifices. Love
“loves to give.” The very hurt
becomes a joy. Giving brings its
own reward.
The Fundamental Gift
Stewards of our lives—this is
the basic fact. “The gift with
out the giver is bare.” It is bet
ter to give something than to
give nothing, because the little
gift may lead to the greater gift.
Nevertheless, the Christian life
is not mere giving; it is self-giv
ing, self-dedication, self-surren
der. There is a very real sense in
which our Lord says to us; “It is
not your gifts I want; it is you.”
The Christian life is primarily
a relation between the soul and
Christ. We are in grave danger
of forgetting that. It is so easy
to externalize our religion; but
when we externalize it, we de
stroy its power. Has something
happened deep down inside the
man? Has he met Christ in the
way? It is well for us to talk
about the stewardship of our
time, of our gifts, and of our
money. But we ought to be clear
on the quqestion of the funda-!
mental stewardship. Hove you
first given yourself? You lay a
dollar upon the altar. Splendid!
But have you ever laid yourself
upon the altar?
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The Consequential Gifts
■ “First to the Lord, and 'then j
unto us.” What does Paul mean ;
here by “us”? He would seem to
mean “the Church.” The Mace
donian Christians, he says, “pray
ed us to receive the gift.” We
must not force the interpretation,
but we can at least say that
these Chirstians were concerned
to give to the Church because
they had already given them
selves to the Lord.
It is Hardly possible to separate
Christianity and the Church. It
is still through the Church that
Jesus Christ is making his most
effective impact upon the world.
The Christian is expected to give
of himself to the Church, be
cause the Church is the “body”
of that Christ to whom the
Christian claims to have given
himself. The Christian is a stew
ard and he will exercise his
stewardship, in the first place,
toward the Church.
The Stewardship of the Church
The Church, however, through
which we exercise our steward
ship, is itself a steward. The im
plication of the giving Christian j
is a giving Church. I give my
self to the Church in order that
the Church may give itself to the
world. For according as my
Church give itself to the world,
I too give myself to the world.
This does not mean that the
Christian makes no impact upon
the world except as he does it
through his Church. He may
give and serve and act in a
hundred ways through other
channels. But in the end he does
all of this because of his love
for Christ and because of his de
votion to Christ’s Church.
The Church giving itself for
the world is an extension of the
giving Christian, just as the giv
ing Christian is an extension of
the giving Church. In a word, all
Christian stewardship is of a
piece. It all springs from the
same root. It is all inspired by
the same purpose. It all con
tributes to the same goal—the
exaltation of Christ through the
spread of his influence in the
world.
The Motive of Giving
Paul would have the Corinthi
an Christians follow the exam
-1 pies of the Macedonian Chris
tians. It is as if he said to the
Corinthians, “This is how Chris
tians ought to exercise their
j stewardship.”
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1941
But this example does not give
him his final argument. He is not
; concerned just to promote church
rivalry. He does not say to the
wealthy Corinthians, “See if you
cannot beat those poor Mace
donians.” To base stewardship
on personal, pride is hardly a
Chirstian grace. No, Paul directs
the attention of his readers to
the one example that never
palls. He says in effect, “Remem
ber JesUs Chirst,. the supreme
steward, who gave all that he
had to give and who gave it for
you.”
We can well leave the question
there. The giving Lord calls for
the giving servant. But what did
the Lord give? His all.
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