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THE FUTURE OUTLOOK J. F. Johnson Editor & Publisher Miss Emma P. Johnson News Reporter L. A. Wist Staff Photographer Make all checks payable to and mail to: THE FUTURE OUTLOOK P. O. Box 20831 ? GREENSBORO, N. C. 27420 PHONE 273-1758 Second Class Postage Paid at Greensboro, N. C. 10c Per Copy Published Weekly $6.00 Per Year HOSPITAL VISITORS One should be aware of how and when to visit hos pital patients, especially at the L. Richardson Memorial Hospital. The L. Richardson Hospital is more or less an emerg ency center. It is not large enough and it does not have all the facilities that a complete hospital should have. There fore, the visitors cannot compare it with the Moses H. Cone or the Wesley Long Community Hospitals. When a person is carried to the L. Richardson Hospit al, the primary purpose is for treatment rather than rest. Therefore, the hopital will have to maintain special visit ing hours. All of the attendants, nurses, and doctors have to work on round to round schedules. The doctors prescribe medicines for patients according to the illnesses including their food diet. Also the time these medications should be given. Attendants cannot render services to the patient with a room full of visitors after visiting hours. It is much better for visitors to visit the home of a hospitalized person and offer services than to go to the hospital. On many occasions friends of certain patients visit in groups because the patient may be a member of their society or social group. Please do not carry food or any home remedy to a hospital patient. Hospital visitors should always be neat and clean un less they are called to rush to the hospital doe to an emergency. There are some emergencies which require surgery and the presence of some member of the family until re cuperation. But the member present should get complete instructions from the nurse to render service for the pa tient. A patient should consider what the word "patient" means. Please do not become irritable with the attendants or the nurses because they do not drop everything they are doing and rush to you for every little pain. By-standers should not crowd' the emergency room every time they hear the ambulance bring an emergency case into the hospital. Visitors should never ask patients about their ill. noises. If they want you to know they will tell you. In maiur cases, the doctor or nurse does not tell the patient the illness or the cause of it They ten the patient what he should or should net do. Pfctients and visitors should not criticize the doctor, nones, attend aats or facilities. If a perm sees that there shMrid be same improvement at the hospital, they should dlMMs the matter with social dubs or outer organizations to arrange improvements or to buy facilities nmisl. TVere are many improvements that could be made at L. Richardson Memorial Hospital by clubs and other or ganisations, former patients or citizens at large. Just visit the hospital and talk with the administra tive staff as to what help may be given to improve the working facilities and give suggestions as to what im provements the club could make. Some member of every family should know first aid, but remember, "First aid is the immediate and temporary care given the victim of an accident or Alness until the services of a physician can be obtained" And therefore Is not intended to take the place of a doctor's expat care and advice- First aid can be of immense help in cases where a person is far from a hospital and must be trans THIS WEEK'S SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON OBSERVING CHRISTMAS IN CHRISTIAN WAYS Beginning Where You Are What is the meaning of the Incarnation? What does it tell us about God, about life, about ourselves? Such questions may have inspired Robert Frost to write this poem: "But God's own descent Into flesh was meant As a demonstration That the supreme merit Lay in risking spirit In substantiation. Spirit enters flesh And for all it's worth Charges into earth In birth after birth Ever fresh and fresh. ? We may take the view That its derring-do Thought of in the large Is one mighty charge On our human part Of the soul's ethereal Into the material." What do you think the poet was trying to say? If you read the poem thoughtfully several times, you may find that his phrases stimulate your thinking to move beyond bis ideas to new insights of your own. Searching The Scriptures The Scripture for this lesson is John 1:1-18. Selected verses are printed below. John 1:9,18 9 Thai true light that en lightens every man was coming into the world. 10 He was In the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world knew him not. 11 He came to his own home, and his own people received him not. 12 But to all who received him, who believed in bis nsme, he gave power to become children of God; 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will at man, but of God. 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father. IS (John bore witness to him, and cried, "This ww be of whom I Mid, 'He wfeo comes after me ranks before me, for waa before me."*) II And from hi* fulnees have we all imM, grace upon graee. 1? Far fee law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who Is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known. Memory Selection: 1 The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father. ?John 1:14 Exploring The Questions Our major concern with the Scripture in this lesson must be the "what" question. What was the writer trying to get across to his readers in these opening verses? In what way are these words the key to understanding his entire Gospel? Once we dig out the original message, then we must ask: What does it mean that God became flesh? And what about my life can be different because he did come to earth as a man? Finally, we must take a pain ful look at what this message means in terms of our celebra tion of Christmas. Must we simply bemoan once again the fact that Christmas has become too commercialized, or can we find some more creative ways of dealing with this situation? Finding Help With Your Questions Ernest Saunders has written: "As many an author can testi fy ..., a book can be made or broken by its opening. Here bis point of view and the plans be expects to follow are set be fore the reader, for better or for worse. Often enough it is the last thing he does, and perhaps with most worry and care. "In the case of the Gospel according to St John, it was a stroke of sheer inspiration that fashioned these first paragraphs (eighteen verses) and set them as the heading for the story to be told." The opening verses in John, known as "the Prologue," give us a capsule view of the tbor's theology. As Saunders suggests, John had to. choow his words well, for on than rests the rationale for his ap proach throughout the entire boefc. The Scripture printed with this lassoe mast be seen in rate ported by makeshift maena, it alee helpe to know what] should and should not be done in malting * patient fortable. Visiters, lliMi da not ? tab* a nuisance of youiaeU at tha hospital. On* should not visit a patient any longer than 18 minutes, especially if they ate net mattiber* of the immediate family. Please excuse yourself when tha visiting hours are announced ovsr. Remember, the bed is for the patient, not for visitors. Clothes may carry germs and a person sitting on the bed may jar or shake a patient so as to add to Us discomfort. Do not carry children, talk loudly and tell jokes espec ially to patients who are recovering from surgery. Remem ber these pointers when visiting the hospital and remem ber also that FLOWERS and CARDS are ALWAYS WEL COME. tion to the verses that precede it. Read verses 1-18 as a whole. As you come to verse 9, then, you will know that the writer is talking about Jesus. In the open ing verses of the chapter, the writer is talking about Jesus' relationship with God from the beginning of time. Beginning with Verse 9, he will focus on Jesus' nature and mission. The Uniqueness of Christ We are told that the light that has been in the world from the very beginning has now come in a new way in Christ. The writer of John acknowledges the fact that not all men have accepted Jesus. Some men pre fer to remain in darkness. But at least it is possible for every man to know himself and his obligation before. God. "Children of God" is the term John uses in verse 12. He di stinguishes here between a nat ural, physical birth and a heav enly birth. The heavenly birth is entirely a matter of God's grace. One writer notes that the whole Gospel of John centers around the theme of becoming a child of God, whereby man discovers his origin and purpose in life. Verse 14 is perhaps the key verse to the whole Bible. At least it is the key verse for Christmas. "And the Word be came flesh and dwelt among us, . . . the only Son from the Father." The author is careful ly making a double emphasis here because he has a dual truth to protect. He. wants to make sure we understand that Jesus was fully human and lived a real human life. He also wants to maintain the idea of Jesus' divinity, his uniqueness. A refreshing little story told by John Warwick Montgomery relates to this point. It goes like this: "There is an old joke about an argument between a Jewish and a Roman Catholic boy. The Roman Catholic boy boasted that he could enter the priest^ hood ? and some day might even besome pope. When his Jewish friend was unimpressed, the Catholic boy said: "Weil, what do you want? Ton want iw to become Jesus Christ?' The Jewish boy replied snugly: 'Qm of oar fuHsws made it' " Then Montgomery records his reaction to the story: "This is exactly what I don't; believe about Jesus Christ: that He was hist aa ordinary pwson who climbed up to Godhead. Jesus was not the ideal boy scout who spent a three-year ministry helping little old ladles across the See of Pel Hue. He was absolutely unique, for He was no less than CJod in the flesh, oome to earth to die tor the sins at the world." The problem, of coarse, is to (Continued on Page 12)
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