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REGISTRATION FOR VOTING
The books are open for the Spring Primary election
which will take place in May. May we suggest that all of
our citizens and especially the college students go from
door to door and request all other citizens to quality them
selves on the registration books for voting in the primary
election and also the general election.
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Members of the N.A.A.C.P. Voting Campaign Com
mittee are going all out seeking to get non-registered
citizens on the book.
Many of the citizens have moved from their old pre
cincts since the last election. Therefore, they cannot vote
unless they notify their registrar and transfer their names
to their new precinct. This will have to be done before the
May Primary. The General Election comes off in Novem
ber, the college students as well as interested citizens can
follow through with the house to house campaign for
registering citizens and to see that they vote in the No
vember general election for candidates of their choice.
The General Election consists of the Democrats and
Republican government officials, namely, Senators, Con
gressmen, House of Representatives, County Board of
Commissioners, Clerk of Court.
The non-registered citizens can qualify themselves to
vote by making an appointment with their registrar in
their precinct or go by the County Board of Elections of
fice, 323 W. Market Street from 9:00 until 5:00 P.M.
. Before a voter votes, he should go to various Demo
cratic and Republican headquarters and talk with the of
ficials and secure literature about the candidate and know
their platforms before casting a vote.
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It is customary when one is a member of the Demo
cratic party to vote a straight democratic ticket and if he
is a member of the Republican party vote a straight Re
publican ticket. If you are a member of either party, you
may vote your choice whether Democratic or Republican.
One may vote for a Republican or Democratic candi
date on the same ticket or one may vote a straight Demo
cratic ticket or a straight Republican ticket.
The citizens of Guilford County, especially the Negro,
should exercise their franchise at the polls due to the fact
that many Negroes are denied the rights to vote in many
of the southern states. In order to vote in some southern
states, the Negro has to go through a long procedure of
schooling, and will have to answer certain questions se
lected by the registrar taken from the constitution of
the United States. If he is unable to answer the questions,
he cannot vote.
Again, we urge our citizens to register and help
others to qualify themselves to vote soon.
Poet's Corner
I shall have peace, when I go home."
"When I go home may quiet reign
And nothing win I say or do ?
To cause regret or needless pain
In those I love when I go home.
When I go home, my glory Crown
When heaven's host to Him bow down.
Will be that Christ is there enthroned;
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DRIVE SANELY
This Weed's Sunday School Lesson
PROMISE OF THE SPIRIT
Beginning Where You Are
Persons who have no faith in
God and are not concerned to
know and obey his will may
have no interest in this lesson.
But those who believe man's
welfare depends upon obedi
ence to God's command will find
it of great importance.
We must do more than affirm
that God exists and has a pur
pose for mankind. The questions
remain: How do we know his
will? How does he make his will
effective? Christians answer
these questions with the doc
trine of the Holy Spirit.
In John's Gospel the account
of the Last Supper includes a
long discourse in which Jesus
prepared the disciples for his
death and departure from them.
In these chapters he covered
many topics. Last week we
studied his prayer for unity in
Chapter 17. In this lesson we
are to read Chapters 14 through
16. As we shall note later, these
three chapters have five dif
ferent passages in which the
Holy Spirit is discussed. Two of
these passages are part of our
printed Scripture for this les
son.
Searching' The Scriptures
The Scripture for this lesson
is John 14 through 16; Luke 24:
44-49; Isaiah 61:1-2; Galatians
5:22-25. Selected verses are
printed below.
John 14:15-29
15 "If you love me, you will
keep my commandments. 16 And
I will pray the Father, and he
will give ydu another Counsel
or, to be with you for ever, 17
even the Spirit of truth, whom
the world cannot receive, be
cause it neither sees him nor
knows him; you know him, for
he dwells with you, and will
be in you.
18 "I will not leave you deso
late; I will come to you. 19 Yet
a little while, and the world will
see me no more, but you will
see me; because I live, you will
live also. 20 In that day you will
know that I am in my Father;
and you in me, and I in you.
21 He who has my command
ments and keeps them, he it is
who loves me; and he who loves
me will be loved by my Father,
and I will love him and mani
fest myself to him." 22 Judas
(not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord,
how is it that you will mani
fest yourself to us, and not to
the world?" 23 Jesus answered
him, "If a man loves me, he will
keep my word, and my Father
will love him, and we will come
to htm and make our home with
him. 24 He who does not love
me does not keep words; and
the word which you hear is not
mine but the Father's who sent
me.
25 "These things I have spok
en to you, while I am still with
you. 20 But the Counselor, the
Holy Spirit, whom the Father
will send in my name, he will
teach you all things, and bring
to your remembrance all that I
have said to you. 27 Peace I
leave with you; my peace I
give to you; not as the world
gives do I give to you. Let not
your hearts be troubled, neither
let him be afraid. 28 You beard
me say to you, 1 go away, and
I will come to you.' If you lov
ed me, you would have rejoiced,
because I go to the Father; for
the Father is greater than I. 29
And now I have told you before
it takes place, so that when It
does take place, you may be
lieve."
Memory Selection: The Coun
selor, the Holy Spirit, whom the
Father will send in my name, he
will teach you all things, and
bring to your remembrance all
that I have said to you.
? ?John 14:20
Exploring The Questions
When the disciples finally
understood what Jesus was tell
ing them ? namely, that he
must die and leave them ? they
were naturally filled with con
cern. Who would lead them
and who would give them coun
sel and comfort in the dark days
that must lie ahead? It is against
the background of these ques
tions that we must read John
14, 15, and 16.
Luke closes his Gospel with the
story of an appearance of Jesus
to his disciples on Easter even
ing. On that occasion Jesus gave
them an interpretation of the Old
Testament Scriptures to help
them understand the necessity
of his death and resurrection.
He then told them that he would
sent "the promise of my Fath
er" ? namely, .the Holy Spirit
? upon them. (Luke 24:44-49)
One of the passages to which
Jesus may have referred in his
Easter night conversation is
Isaiah '61 :l-2> This is one of the
Scripture passages from which
the early church derived its con
ception of a servant, rather than
a conquering, Messiah. Instead
of afflicting, he would comfort
the afflicted; instead of making
captives, he would release the
captives. You will recall that
Jesus used these verses as the
text of his sermon at Nazareth,
near \he beginning of his min
istry. (Luke 4:16-21) "The Spirit
of the Lord God," who spoke
through the prophet and ani
mated Jesus, was now promised
to the disciples.
Not all spirits are holy. Men
are moved by evil spirits as well
as by the Holy Spirit. Paul met
many men who did evil things,
claiming they were doing good.
It is important to distinguish
between them. In Galattans 5:
22-25 Paul gave us a helpful
test. Here is a beautiful descrip
tion of the Christian character
that results from following
the leadership of the Holy Spirit.
"You will know them by their
fruits.'' (Matthew 7:16)
From these passages we can
seek light on our questions about
the Holy Spirit. What do we
mean by the term the Holy
Spirit? What is the work of the
Holy Spirit? What does the Holy
Spirit do for us?
Find In* Help
With Your Questions
Few doctrines have caused
more controversy in the church
than this doctrine of the Holy
Spirit. In the early centuries
Christians were concerned !? de
fine the relationship of the Spirit
to the Father and the Son. Was
he equal to them or subordinate
to them?
According to the Articles of
Religion of The Methodist
Church, "The Holy Ghost (the
Spirit), proceeding from the
Father and the Son, is of one
substance, majesty, and glory
with the Father and the Son,
very and eternal God."
However, many persona
("unitarians") have felt that be
lief in the Holy Spirit diluted
the teaching of one God. Others
have asserted that what some
call "the Spirit" is really the
presence of the resurrected
Christ at work in the world.
From time to time small
Christian groups or sects have
arisen who made such extreme
claims of receiving the Holy
Spirit's guidance that they have
caused the doctrine to be dis
credited in the eyes of many
persons. In the first century
Paul faced this problem at Co
rinth. (See 1 Corinthians IS
through 14.)
At the opposite extreme, some
persons have denied the possi
bility of Spirit-led lives, thus
making the doctrine meaning
less.
Perhaps the great majority
of present-day Christians sing
about "God in three persons"
but make no clear distinction
in their thinking between "Fath
er, Son, and Holy Ghost."
Later in this series we will
have a lesson on the action of
Spirit in the life of the church.
In this lesson we shall try to
clarify our personal relationship
to Him.
What Do We Mean by ,
The Holy Spirit?
Christians assert that the Lord
our God is one. However, we
find it helpful to distinguish
certain aspects of God's work.
When we wish to center on his
creative action in forming and
sustaining the universe, we
speak of the Father. When we
think of God's act of self-rev
elation in Christ, we speak of
the Son. When we think of
God as presently active in the
affairs of men, we speak of the
Holy Spirit
The Greek word used in our
passages from John is parak
letos. No one word in English
accurately expresses its full
meaning. The King James trans
lators used the word Comforter.
The Revised Standard Version
reads Counselor. The New Eng
lish Bible has Advocate, James
Moffatt in his modern language
translation uses Helper. Each of
these translations carries part ol
the word's meaning but falls
to suggest its full richness.
William Barclay, famed New
Testament scholar of the Uni
versity of Glasgow, has an illu
minating discussion of this word:
"The word parakletos really
means someone who is called
in; but it is the reason why the
person is called in which gives
the word its distinctive associa
tions. The Greeks used the ward
in a wide variety of ways. A
parakletos might be a person
called in to give witness in a
law court in someone's favour;
he might be an advocate called
in to plead someone's cause
when someone was under a
charge which would issue In
serious penalty; he might be
an expert called in to give advice
in some difficult situation. Ha
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