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TWO THE FIT J. F. Johnson Miss Emma P. Johnsc L. A. Wise Make all che THE FV1 P. O. Box 20831 PH Second Class Pos 10c Per Copy Pub ST. VALI By HELEN 1 One of the outstan ary 14, Valentine's Daj Hearts, is a day in whi< undertakings. Saint Valentine w? he cultivated a variety correlate with them. I pressive months for a daffodils, hyacinths, g his mind ideas for pc beauty. Shakes pears had t on February 14th. Fro: on this day letters cor fection. How beautiful on Valentine's Day ai card from a loved one, girl-friends are always and appreciated for tl Mother is even more 1 gift is made by the lit The month of Febr ment of engagements i of the engagement is fc matrimony just as Fet to make preparations f entine's Day is a day couples do become engt Valentine's Day ha fKa TTaawf TTn?/T ? c V*. UiU JL&VOUL b X- UUU CUJ tions. This is done wit glamorous treats are g a gift will also be giv< the Day of Hearts is the donor if he makes suffering victims of he Child wrote "The cure i the sorrows, and the < one word love'". Sunday is Valenti care for if there is any loving. SING Wh 45 Miles per hour?sin 55 Miles per hour?sit Heaven is my horn 55 Miles per hour?sin 75 Miles per hour?sin yonnder, Fll be the 65 miles per hour?sin TB rURE OUTLOOK -Editor & Publisher >n News Reporter Staff Photographer cks payable to and mail to: rURE OUTLOOK - GREENSBORO, N. C. 27420 :ONE 273-1758 tage Paid at Greensboro, N. C. lished Weekly $6.00 Per Year EN TIN E' S DAY X1CHAKUSUJN WA'l'l'Lilfi iding days of this month is FebruThis day, often called the Day of :h love should be stressed in all our is a lover of flowers and poems. As r of flowers, he created poetry to rebruary was one of his most ex3 he bedded such plants as tulips, ladioli and iris he often bedded in >etry which correlated with their he notion that birds begin to couple m this arose the custom of sending itaining professions of love and af. it is for one to meet the mailman id receive an impressively-worded . Husbands, wives, boy-friends and joyous that they were remembered te greatest pleasure in life is love tenderly touched when the card 01 tie hands of her young one. uary also marks the final announce H- M 1 * > ?" according to tradition. The purpose >r the preparations necessary before iruary was used by Saint Valentine or his blossoms in June. Since Valfor the declaration of love man? iged on this day. s also been set aside by the Direc'toi i major day for receiving contribuh the hope that when glorious and iven to those so dear to our hearta sn to this worthy cause. Giving on more joyous and advantageous to i a contribution toward the ill and art illness. Of course as Mrs. L. M. of all the ills and wrongs, the cares. crimes of humanity, all lie in that ne's Day. Show someone that you -thing better than to be loved, it is ULE YOU DRIVE iff, "Highways are happy ways." iff, "I'm but a stranger here, e." iff, "Nearer my God to Thee." ff, "When the roll is called up re." iff, "Lord, Fm coming home." \ [E FUTURE OUTLOC THIS WEEK'S HUMILITY BEFORE GOD I Beginning Where You Are In C. S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters an imaginary devil named Screwtape writes to his nephew, Wormwood, concern-! ing the best methods of destroying the virtues of the Christian man and defeating the Enemy (God). "My dear Wormwood, "The most alarming thing in your last account of the patient is that he is making none of those confident resolutions which marked his original conversion. No more lavish promises of perpetual virtue, I gather; not even the expectation of an endow > iu..4 *? uiciiit ui giavc iui uic, uut uaijr ! a hope for the daily and hourly pittance to meet the daily and hourly temptation! This is very bad. "I see only one thing to do at the moment. Your patient has become humble; have you drawn t his attention to the tact, All . virtues are less formidable to us once the man Is aware that ( he has them, but this is specially , true of humility. Catch him at [ the moment when he is really t poor in spirit and smuggle into [ his mind the gratifying reflec[ tion, 'By jove! I'm being hum[ ble,' and almost immediately , pride ? pride at his own hu mility ? will appear. If he awakes to the danger and triee . to smother this new form of S pride, make him proud of his I attempt ? and so on, through k AH mariv cfo rtm.m ftn ? But don't try this too lon& for ' fear you awake his sense of humour and proportion, in which case he will merely laugh at you and go to bed. 1 "You must . . . conceal from 1 the patient the true end of Hu1 mility. Let him think of it not ! as self-forgetfulness but as a certain kind of opinion (name' ly, a low opinion) of his own talents and character. Some talents, I gather, he really has. Tlx in his rnioH ?h? iHff that humility consists in trying to believe those talents to be less valuable uian he believes them to bo.1 No doubt they are In fact lees valuable than he believes, but that is not the point. The great thing is to make him value an opinion for some quality other than truth, thus introducing an element of dishonesty and makebelieve into the heart of what otherwise threatens to become a virtue. By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to | believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are tools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed In believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly ree.?i. fin i.i>i in i " ? IK FRI1 SUNDAY SCH volving on themselves in an effort to achieve the impossible. To anticipate the Enemy's strategy, we must consider His aims. The Enemy wants ta tiring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents ? or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall. He wants each man, in the long run, to be able to recognise all creatures (even himself) as glorious and excellent things." Searching The Seiiptuies The Scripture for this lessen is Luke 14:7-11; 18:9-14. These verses are printed below. Luke 14:7-11 7 Now he told s parable to thoee who were invited, when he marked how they chose the places of honor, saying to them, 8 "When you are invited by any one to a marriage feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest a more eminent man than you be invited by him; B and he wno mvnea you doiq viu come end say to you, 'Glvo piece to this man,' and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. 10 But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to yeu, Triend, go up higher*; than you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with yon. 11 F"or every one who exalte himself will be humbled, end he who humbles himself will be exalted." Luke 18:9-14 9 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that thitv twr* HffVitoAiie nn/l despised others: 10 "Two men went up into the temple to prey, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank thee that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterer^ or even like this tax collector. 13 I fast twice a week, 1 give tithes of all that I get.' 13 But the *?v collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me a sinner!' 14 1 tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for every one who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted." Memory Selection: Every one who exalts himself will be hum DAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1971 OOL LESSON bled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. ?Luke 14:11 The Meaning of Humility The parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector is Jesus' way of describing the meaning of humility before God. Like most parables it will raise more problems than it solves if we try to read too much into it. we cannot assume mat Jesus was criticizing any religious act or that he meant to commend the vocation of tax collecting or even the basic attitude of selfabasement On other occasions he spoke approvingly of keeping the commandments and recommended both tithing and fasting He also warned against hiding one's light under a bushel. Rather, the parable is a pointed reminder that God hears the heart, not the oratory. The parable presents humil ity In two phases ? first, as an attitude of mind; second, as an act of affirmation. Significantly, the Pharisee began immediately with a fatuous claim to moral superiority. The tax collector, on the other hand, expressed his need simply and clearly with no apologies or excuses. His attitude was one at seeking. Needing God, he called upon him for mercy. This wholly realistic and self-forgetful attitude is what the Bible calls humility. Vet we must go one step further ? to affirmation ? before humility is completely defined In Christian terms. Thomas Kally states it in these wards: "Humility does not rest, in final count, upon bafflement and discouragement. ... It rests upon the disclosure of the con nun? mate wonder of God, upon finding that only God counts, that all our own self-originated intentions are works of straw." Wa can thoroughly mistake the Intent of humility unless we understand it in terms of our relationship to God. It is in tha recognition of our dependence on God and the affirmation at his power that wa find true humility, for only that affirmation places all else in true perspective. Tree and Falsa Humility In this basically affirmative stance we find tha difference between humility and mere selfdepreciation. Self-criticism is not necessarily a sign of humility. When r* #_! 3 X 11-t ? u icjiu yiuacB our mrniy'w menta, we may protest, with false modesty, "It really wasn't anything; anybody could have done as well." Yet all the while our honest opinion Is that it was a pretty remarkable achievement When we have developed these patterns of self-depreda(Continued on Page 7) I
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