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Are You Satisfied With Or From Yourself By: John D. McCready At the University of Virgin ia a crowd had gathered for the varsity show. Suddenly a student came prancing out on the stage and burst into song - “Oh It’s great to be the center of attraction, To have them all salaam and cry ‘Tls he!' I’m completely overcome with satisfaction - I’m a hero - that’s me!” Such make-believe vanity no body objects to, and many find delightful. But on the stage of real life the feeling Is dif ferent. When pronounced ego tists like the German general Von Ludendorff of years ago, or the French general, deGaul le, now for some years the. president and virtual dictator of France - when men like these, hugely satisfied with them selves, come along they are apt to leave us cold. A New York paper, reviewing von Lud endorff’s recollections of his years of “blood and iron”, made a sly comment. “The General, ” said the editor, “is not offensively modest in his memoirs.” Much more appealing are the words ofWin ston Churchill, when on a visit to Harvard University, he de clared that he had never ob tained a college education, “but just had to do the best he ; could, picking up a few odds and ends here and there” - on the way, some one should have added to becoming the greatest statesman of the twen tieth century. A refreshing contrast to those tremendously satisfied with themselves Is found In the type of man mentioned In the Book of Proverbs In the old Test ament - the 14th chapter, verse 14. The entire verse reads “The backslider In heart shall be filled with his own ways, and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.” The two halves of the verse are evidently meant as a contrast between types of men, the one evil, the other upright. The evil one, It says, shall have this as his punishment, that he will have to eat his fill - to be stuffed - with his own misdeeds. If he takes a self ish , dishonest or violent life as his, he will have to par take of such things In abun dance, whereas the upright mail will find his blessings arising' likewise from tmngs connected with himself. Here we shall think mainly of him rather than his opposite. At first the - wdrds that a good man “shall be satisfied I from himself” sound somewhat puzzling and mysterious. Just ■What do they meian? A remark once made by an elderly colored preacher may help here. This man’s school ing was, like that of many others of both races, limited. One day he was standing on the street corner, talking to a very young minister. A passer-by hailed him , and genially in quired, “What are you doing - expounding the subject, or Just explaining it?” “Oh, Just realizin’ him a few things” came the answer. So the good man, whose trust is in the Lord, needs at times just to realize himself a few things in order to be happy and go forward courageously to do his work. Well, to realize what? For one thing that, as the epistle says, “That all things are yours, whether things pres ent or things to come.” In John .Wesley’s youthful days he was crossing the Atlantic when a terrible storm arose. Young Wesley, alarmed, then beheld something he never for got. On board were a company of Moravian Brethren. They were calm and serene. The satisfaction of great peace they drew from their perfect trust within. Christ was in their hearts. They were “satisfied from themselves.” Annual Phone Gains Reported Telephones in service in Black Mountain have ap proached 4,000 at year end ac cording to M. W. Carson,South ern Bell manager here. 1968 showed a net gain of 209 new phones in service in the «699” exchange; 112 of these were main service and the remain der extensions. 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North Carolina College Enrollment Increases North Carolina’s college and university enrollment reached a total of 126, 839 this past ( fall, according to Cameron West, Director of Higher Edu cation, State Board of Higher ' Education. This figure includes full-time and part-time stu dents enrolled in both public and private colleges and univ ersities and does not cover ex tension, adult education, non credit enrollment, and for the community colleges technical and vocational program enrol lment. The fall 1968 enrollment re presents an increase of 6,281 students or 5.2 per cent over the fall 1967 enrollment of 120, 558. This 1968 increase is lo wer than the 1967 increase of seven percent. While enrollment in the * public institutions increased 7.3 percent, the enrollment in private institutions increased only 1.9 percent. As a result, 62 percent of the total college students are now enrolled in the public institutions, an in crease from 61 percent in 1967. 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