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ALIZED STATIONERY: es, 50 plain envelopes. Black Mountain News IN SWANNANOA - Warlick Cleaners Hour Service SEND YOUR Y CLEANING TO US. 3747 — Black Mtn Bushels Corn To Meet ebruary 5 1] over Western N'ortl corn growers who pro or more bushels of eorr ured acre of land wil the George Vanderbill heville at 12 o'clock or 5 for the annual 10( Corn Growers luncheor hv the Farmers Fedora prize of $100 will be !o tlie grower who harv largest number of bush measured acre of land, it announced by James G. Federation president. Se our mountain soils are to growing corn, a 100 is within the reach farmers in this area, and we look forward to see more members of the Corn Club attend our McClure declared. production in 1955 is like 1 the 124 billion pound this year. Dr. Frank P. Graham of Chape Hill, prominent educator ant statesman, has accepted appoint ment as a national vice-chairmar of the 1955 Red Cross campaigi for members and funds, according to Stanley C. Allyn of Dayton Ohio, national campaign chairman Dr. Graham, United Nation; mediator for India and Pakistan is one of 50 volunteer vice-chair men, selected from eminent na tional leaders, who will serve. Ht will advise and assist Red Cros; chapters in North Carolina ir planning and organizing for the 1955 campaign, which gets undei way March 1. GLEANERS GLASS HONORS MRS. COOK The Gleaners Sunday schoo class of the First Baptist churcl honored Mrs. J. I. Cook Jr., with s surprise stork shower on Monday Jan. 10, at the home of Mrs. Isaai Martin with Mrs. Clyde Hall serv ing as co-hostess. Mrs. Cook re ceived many lovely gifts froir members of her class. —The Navy wages war on th< teredo and- linnora, marine organ isms that eat up millions of dol lars worth of dock pilings eacl year. • CLASSIFIEDS SELL - Dial 410 rescription Service Depend on us for prompt, efficient Prescription rice. When you need a prescription filled, just call i. 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It goes without saying that the doctrine of the Holy Spirit is one of the most neglected of Biblical ti uths. h ew of us ever hear ser mons preached on the Holy Spirit; few of us ever consider Him very profoundly in our religious exper ience. We mention Him occasion ally in our prayers and in our creeds, but when it comes down to an actual understanding of His work, we are quite lacking. Per haps this lack of understanding is . llue 1° the fact that He is not pre sented as clearly in the Biblical records as are God and Jesus Christ. But it is rather striking, isn’t it, that the very One who brings home to our hearts the truths and the realities of our ( hristian faith; the One who leads us into a personal understanding of Jesus ( hrist; the One who re veals truth to us should be so sig nally neglected. In the Old Testament the Spirit of God is seen as the giver and maintainer of life, and this is a general function of the Spirit. But principally the Spirit is seen as the giver of particular endowments to citizens of Israel. Wisdom and discernment are gifts of the Spirit. I he judges — Gideon, Deborah, Jephthah, and the rest—were all what is known as charismatic lead ers. That is, when a particular problem arose, usually in the form of an invasion of Israel, the Spirit would rush upon some individual and endow him with particular abilities, recognizable by all, which would enable that leader to inspire his people and deliver them from their oppressor. But as soon as the job was done, the charismatic gifts would leave the particular leader, and he would return to his nor mal way of life. Everyone will remember especially when the Spir it left Saul —making him depress ed and hateful—and entered David, thereby signifying that a new charismatic leader had been chos en by God to lead His people. In cidently, when the monarchy was established under Saul and David (note the opposition of Samuel to this move), it thereby meant that the leaders of the people of Israel would no longer be selected by charismatic endowment by the Spirit, but rather by natural suc cession from father to son. Hence, we hear no more of a ruler or a king being endowed with special gifts by the Spirit; after David and Solomon, the charismatic gifts of the Spirit were given to the prophets. Note, however, that in the Old Testament the special possession of the Spirit was given only to selected individuals. The Spirit was not the possession of the peo ple of Israel. Neither king, nor priest, nor ordinary prophet could i possess the Spirit, but only the select few that -God chose to be instruments of His revelation. Thus the prophet Joel looked forward to the final age when the Spirit would be poured out upon ail flesh. I. John 16:7-11, The Comforter. In the Upper Room Jesus an nounced that He would soon leave His disciples and return to the Father. We cannot imagine the sadness that stole over the dis ciples as they were confronted with this terrible news. And yet Jesus would turn this into a time of joy for them by revealing the great fact that His departure will mean the coming of the Comforter, (l'araclete, meaning one who is called in to stand beside and to aid another). This Comforter, the Holy Spirit will continue the work which Jesus began and will carry it to its final fulfillment when Jesus Christ will be all in all. During His early ministry our Lord was limited by time and space to the environs of Palestine. As a man He was limited to the same spatial and temporal con finements that hinder us. 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Please send me Tbe Christian Science Monitor for one year. 1 enclose SIS Q (3 moe. $3.7$) Q I (■erne) (address) <«*«y> (sene) (state) can carry on Jesus' work in all places. The principal work of the Spirit is to lead the followers of Jesus into the truth. The pri mary work of the Spirit is to wit ness to the revealed truth of God as it is found in Scripture by creat ing an evangelical experience of reality in the heart of the believer. Thus, in accordance with the teach ings of the New Testament, the early Church Fathers, and the Protestant Reformers, our author ity can never be the Bible by it self, or the Holy Spirit by Him self, but only the inner witness of the Spirit to the objective truth of Scripture that creates a con frontation with God the Redeemer in the human heart. Thus it is easier for us to be come Christians than it was for the people who met Jesus during His earthly ministry, for now the Spirit has the objective, accom plished facts of our redemption with which to work. The Cross is behind us as a historic fact, and the Holy Spirit can now lead us into a deeper and deeper aware ness of spiritual reality. But not only us, the New Testament af firms that the Holy Spirit is also operative in the secular orders— government etc.,—though they do not know it, convicting them of evil and bringing history to its eon sumation. II. Acts 2:1-4; 4:8-12, Pentecost. The day of Pentecost marks the coming of the Holy Spirit as Jesus had promised. He rushes upon the disciples and brings home to LAST KITES HELD. Last rites for Mrs. Isabel Stepp, 46, who died in an Asheville hos pital following a short illness were held Wednesday, Jan. 12, in the Mills Chapel Baptist church. their hearts the power of their new relationship with God. Immediate ly they are transformed into men of boldness who previously had fled from the guards of the High Priest in Gethsemane. They spoke out openly m the very city that hail crucified their Master. And the spokesman for the Christian community is Peter who earlier had denied the Master with oaths. Also, the healing powers which Jesus possessed now are operative through the disciples, for the very power of the in breaking Kingdom of God, the Holy Spirit, is now actively present convicting the world of sin and turning hearts toward the truth. It is significant that Peter quotes the prophet Joel who had prophesied the out-pouring of the Holy Spirit upon all flesh. Peter is boldly announcing that the day has come, the final age of human history of which Joel spoke has now arrived, the time is at hand. What remains now is a mopping up exercise, the following up of the decisive victory that has already been won on the Cross. We sometimes wonder why the Holy Spirit is not operative in our lives as He was in the lives of the early Christians. It is due to our lack of faith in the Spirit. We waste our energies asking that the Holy Spirit will direct us aright, and then we continuously ponder whether this or that action is in accordance with the Spirit’s direction. Thus we lose our vital enthusiasm through a lack of as surance. The disciples did not spend their time asking for the guidance of the Spirit and then sit back waiting for something climatic to move them. They knew that the Holy Spirit had been giv en, and they acted in the faith that the Spirit was already waiting for them to move. Paul did not sit around waiting for some mys tic sensation to direct him to travel to Rome, he had.the faith that the Spirit was already in Rome wait ing for him to act so that the Spirit might have an instrument through whom to work. If we had the faith of the early Church, we would begin our day by asking for the direction of the Spirit and then go out ana live as if the Spirit is really present and waiting for us to act. The coming of the Spirit into our lives is an accomplished fact, if we be Christians, we need to act as if we believed it. • TRY THE CLASSIFIEDS • We Salute - We salute you on your birth day: JAN. 18 — Joe Mackney, Violet Costner, Grace Teems, Claude Foster, Frank R. Gauthier, Beat rice Causey, Charles H. Aiken, Jr., George Carringer. JAN. 20 — William Quinn, Jr., Everett Stephenson, Grant L. Donnelly, Lorraine Vinson, Harold Davidson, Brenda Louise Cordell. JAN. 21 — Julia Blankenship, Thelma C. Wallin, Edith Bennett, Carl Wade Dehart. JAN. 22 — Ethel Childers, Russel! Rowland, Danny Hensley, Mrs. G. C. Earle. JAN. 23 — Margie Doss, Cynthia Copeland, Virginia Metcalf. WOMEN IN CIVIL DEFENSE “The press has reported the sober statement of eminent spokes men who have called these the gravest days of our history. In formed people do not doubt that fact”, FCDA Adm. Millard Cald well stated before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 19, 1951. A grim undercurrent in the President’s message on the state of the Union, showed that he was cognizant that the world is “bal anced on a sword edge; the next few years will be a time of danger and, possibly, of crisis, without parallel in our history.” Our “deceptive peace” is merely an absence of actual fighting — a “world stalemate”, our President called it. Administrator Caldwell says, as we know well, “The Russians are capable and ready to deliver this destruction (atomic bomb) when ever they feel like it—whenever it is most profitable for them to do so . . . That attack can come with little or no warning—the best we can hope for is a few minutes notice." We can not relax our guard. We MUST keep our defense. We must be alert. Mt. Mitchell radio station warns us nightly that radar has its lim itations. Low flying planes can get under our screens.” We need to strengthen our Ground Observer's Corps. Men and women under 50 who have good eye sight, are asked to enroll as “spotters.” If anyone wishes to enroll and so help their commun —Foreign purchases of cotton, tobacco, and wheat are likely to increase next year, with total farm exports for 1954-55 probably up a tenth or more from the relatively low 1953-54 level of $2.9 billion. SWANNANOA PTA TO MEET The Swannanoa PTA will meet Thursday night (tonight) at 7:30. All members are urged to attend. ity and their country, please phone or write— Mrs. Thomas S. Sharp, Chm. 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You couldn’t find more pointed proof of this than the 1955 Chevrolet—for here is a low-priced car that has snatched the styling spotlight, over shadowing even the highest-priced creations with its subtle sweep of line, the bold rake of its deep curved windshield. New V8 and two new 6’s But the Motoramic Chevrolet has advances in engineering that even surpass its styling. There are three ultra-efficient new engines—the 162-h.p. “Turbo-Fire V8" and two “Blue-Flame” 6’s. There is a whole new chassis design, with spheri i cal-joint front suspension that spurns bumps like a swallow skimming a lake, and Anti-Dive brak ing control to check that sharp “nosing down” of the front end. There are three new drives—sturdier Synchro Mesh and, optional at extra cost, a silkier Power glide automatic transmission or the flexibility of Touch-Down Overdrive . . . plus all the power helpers you could wish. Try a 1955 Chevrolet— now-and find out why it is stealing the thunder from the high-priced cars. 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