Sunday School Lessor
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placed herself at the right place
at the right time and had been
in a position to be appreciated
by the king. Mordecai knew all
this, but he also saw from a
third perspective. God had had
a hand in Estner s situation.
God's Design
We would be going contrary
to the witness of the Bible to
assume that everything in our
life is the express design of
God. God does not will that
every poor man be poor and
every rich man be rich. Neither
the history of our personal lives
nor the history of the world is
the result of God's handiwork
in every detail. Yet I can never
be quite certain that the good
and the bad in my life are not
in some way God's dealing with
me.
When I am well off, I am to
thank God; when I am in diffi
culty, I am to rely upon God for
courage to see it through; and in
all conditions I am to remember
that I do not live alone. The
world does not revolve around
me, and the future is not on my
shoulders alone. I may be so
well off that I have all sorts of
responsibilities. I may be so
badly off that my job is to show
what it means to rely upon God
in the midst of crisis and de
spair.
Sometimes God places us
where we are for a purpose.
Sometimes he uses us where we
have gotten ourselves. Perhaps
both situations are merely dif
ferent ways God uses our free
dom to guide history. Thus we
can never separate God's plans
from man's plans.
To be a responsible Christian
does not mean to quit asking
questions about such knotty
problems. Christian responsibil
ity, however, means acting when
you don't know all the answers.
The responsibility of which the
Bible speaks is that responsibil
ity which attempts to relieve the
plight of the poor even when we
don't know why they are poor,
to make our prisons more con
cerned for the rehabilitation of
criminals even when we don't
know why they act the way they
do, to work for peace even when
we recognize that war may
sc.netimes be the judgment of
God.
Many Circles of Responsibility
"Everybody's gotta be some
where." One of our difficulties
is that we are always at many
somewheres at once. At the
same time we are members of a
family, citizens of a community,
members of the church, adher
ents to a certain political phil
osophy, and workers on a job, to
mention just a few. Sometimes
our loyalties do not conflict, but
more frequently they do. Each
circle in which we move carries
certain responsibilities, and quite
often these responsibilities clash.
When they do, it is no simple
matter to decide which is most
important.
We can easily rationalize, of
course, and say that family re
sponsibility comes before com
munity obligations; but is this
always true? Are there not times
when in order to do what we
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Mr. Thomas Foster
832 Rugby St.
Mr. Richard Smith
1302 Sloan Street
Mrs. Eula Willis
1306 Moody Rd.
Mr. Howard Graves
Gibsonville, N. C.
Mrs. Maggie Walker
910 Sevier St.
Mr. Robert Anderson
400 Gorrell St.
Mrs. Bessie Billings
307 Avalon Rd.
Mr. Robert Jones
Route 10. City
Mr. Willie Adams
724 Bingham St.
Mrs. Peggy Ann Johnson
1706 Bashford Lane
Mr. Harold Summers
609 W. Florida St.
Mr. James Brock
922 Logan St.
Mr. Wayne Isley
1904 Southside Blvd.
Mrs. Janice Hursey
215 Dean St.
Mr. John Donnell
2114 Vale Place
Mrs. Julia Jones
789 Carver Dr.
Mrs. Lucille Sweeney
1716 Pichard St.
Mrs. Beulah Marshall
Summerfield, N. C.
Mrs. Clara Barham
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Mr. William Guy
1716 Spencer St.
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408 Asheboro St.
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4607 Swift St.
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767 Willow Ct.
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900 Harrington St.
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4913 Troxler Rd.
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Carolina Nursing Center
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713 Gillespie St.
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218 Obermeyer St.
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608 Sampson St.
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503 S. O. Henry Blvd.
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2107 Wythe St.
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