The Kings Mountain Herald
Established 1889
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enlightment, entertainment and ber.elit of the ckiwns of Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House,
Entered as second class matter at the postoffiei* at Kings Mountain. V C\. 2SOS8
under Act of Congress of March 3 ,1*73.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon . Editor-Publisher
Dirk Woodward . Sports Editor
Miss Elizabeth Stewart.Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Miss Libby Bunch.Clerk
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TODAY’S BIBLE VERSE
For I have no j dettnure »* tin death >d him that dirth. sadh the Lord (!<*l: u'h< ref ore turn noitr
nr Ives, anil live ire. Ezekiel I'1:
County Finance
With a S2.(HK).(hn> hospital bond pro
posal in the offering, it is natural lor
Cleveland County citizens to become
more than normally interested in coun
ty finances.
The records of Auditor Max Ham
rick’s office show* that, at .tune .Ml, 196*1,
Cleveland County will owe and aggre
gate long-term debt of S2.SS-1.tHK). which
it is currently discounting at the rate of
$249,000 annually, and. of course, pay
ing the interest on due dates.
This is the general and complete
count\-wide obligation. Citizens of the*
Shelby school district will have an
outstanding balance of 8930,000 and
June 30. Presuming that the Kings Moun
tain school district’* Sl.lt*0.000 authoriz
ed school bonds will be sold by that date,
the net King* Mountain school total will
Ik‘ about S900/too. Two years of advance
tax pay ments, plus some investment in
terest. Mi. Hamrick estimates, will total
roughly S200.000 by June 30.
The sum of NJ.xM.tNHt general debt
is a large one I rum the standpoint of an
individual. It is a small one when con
sidered against the wealth of 68,000 citi
zens and tin* taxable property valuation
(for 1963) of S113,00(),<XXi. Similarly,
there is no reason to believe Cleveland
County, expanding industrially commer
cially and residentially, need fear chok
ing on a gross debt of less than 85,000.
000. This amount would place the coun
ty's general debt ratio at about 1.3 per
cent of 1963 taxable valuation, far from
the limits ol financial danger prescribed
by the State of North Carolina and the
investors in local government bonds.
Needs of the hospitals have been
graphically and factually set forth by
professionals. From the standpoint of
the layman, a perusal of the quite high
occupancy rate at lnith the county's hos
pitals indicates the need for additional
lied space. The occupancy rate at Kings
Mountain Hospital in August (generally
considered a more non-sick month) was
95 percent.
A Cleveland County citizen remark
ed this week on a Imut u ith kidney stone
some months previously. Hospitalized
and in considerable pain, his first night
room was rather make-shift, a bed in a
storage room. “I don’t mind admitting.'
he recalls, “as a longtime taxpayer aid
ing in providing hospitals, not being
able to get a room made me feel kinda
bad.'
In the past decade. Cleveland Coun
ty has proved quite attractive as a home
for new and expanding industry Indus
try officials have made it plain that
community facilities such as schools,
hospitals, and recreational spas weigh
heavily in their decisions to settle and
expand.
The Hiblical parable of the talents
demonstrates the returns of witting in
vestment. Good and adequate hospitals
arewitting investments for Cleveland
County.
Oh. Mo. Not That!
There is murh conversation. foMow
ing the surgeon general's report on the
dangers of smoking, concerning require
ment for labeling cigarettes as to the
hazards of inhalation of the golden leaf.
Labeling of the package, of course,
won’t be too bothersome and might save
a youngster from a lifetime of nicotine
slavery.
But the proposals to require the
winsome television career promoter of
smoking to complete her commercial
with: “Caution! You take your life into
your own hands if you drag this blissful
creation and are flirting with lung car
cinoma. angina pectoris, and peptic ul
cer*’ is just too, too much.
Let it be said that the cigarette com
mercials are among the least offensive
of this money-providing institution. Let
it also be said that commercials them
selves, which blare forth on loud pitch,
contribute to ulcers, hypertension, obes
ity and other assorted ills.
But most companies change their
commercials at least tw'ice a year. To
hear each fag pusher complete his pitch
with a Federal Trade Commission-pre
scribed warning would be fpo, too much.
GOP Problems
In a horse race, class tells.
In political horse races, students
know, the better the horse or candidate
the easier he i« to elect. This involves
also ihc savins of cash on the sales job.
The Republican party, in North
C arolina and in majority of Southern
states, has difficulty in this category, as
does the Democratic party, hut for the
Republicans obtaining top candidates
proves a much harder chore. It is quite
human that any person wants to win.
and furthermore is unwiling to be a
martyr. A reasonable gamble is one mat
ter. but a sure sacrifice quite another.
The Republican party in North Ca
rolina had hich hopes that its Washing
ton Congressional star. Charles Raper
Jonas, would lead the state ticket into
next November’s battles. He declined,
apparently on the grounds he risked
quite much, both for himself and his
party, with little promise of gain, even
w inning.
The GOP isn’t happy w ith the will
ing toiler State Representative Don
Badgley as a ticket-leader, made over
tures to recently-registered Democrat
Jack Stickley to' switch parties and
take the ton GOP candidacy. Mr. Stick
lev put the “R” beside of his name but
declined to offer. Now another boom let
is underway for a “Democrat-but" in the
person of a Winston-Salem citizen nam
ed Tab Armfield.
Party loyalists on both sides, it is
presumed, regard the changers in as
•converts'* and the changers out as
“turncoats. ’ However, there have lieen
f e w successful candidates following
change of party after long association.
Senator Wayne Morse, of Oregon, once
a Republican, now a Democrat, is one of
the few. but Oregon's brand of politics is
hardly North Carolina's.
The Republicans are rejoicing over
the state Supreme Court’s strikedown of
the GOP-hated loyalty oath. The Su
preme Court, solidly Democratic, ruled
properly that it is not constitutional to
require a man to pledge a man to pledge
his future political action.
Yet who were are the Stickleys and
the Armfieids kidding? Only themselves.
A “Dembut" or “Republicrat" has
no great honor with either group.
New Industry Indicated
Announcement that Chicagoan an
ticipates construction of a 200-employee
weaving operation here made a happy
send-off into I9t>-1 for Kings Mountain
and for Kings Mountain’s future econo
mic prospects.
A 200-employee industry is a size
able one anywhere and moreso for a
community the size of Kings Mountain.
Why all the steam about need for
industrial expansion'
The answer lies in one word: auto
mation.
Recent governors of this state, as
well as presidents, industrial and labor
leaders, have repeatedly pointed to the
need for expanding industry merely to
retain current levels of employment, not
to mention employing the continuing ad
ditions to the employment pool of those
citizens ready, willing, and able.
It is a truism that one seldom holds
his own. He either ptogresses or falls
behind. The same truism applies to com
munities.
Mr. Kakassy listed several practical
factors which influenced his decision to
locate in Kings Mountain. All should be
proud, perhaps proudest, of his state
ment to local officials that he liked the
people. He did not say as much for some
areas he had inspected.
Plaudits to President Wilson Craw
ford and the Chamber of Commerce and
to Mayor Glee A. Bridges and the city
administration, chief agents and agen
cies in the productive conversations with
our Mid-West visitor.
A best bow to Carl F. Mauney, new
ly-elected president of the Lake Mon
tonia Club. Inc.
Hearty congratulations to Jerry
Patterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Patterson, recently elected to the Uni
versity of North Carolina chapter of Phi
Beta Kappa, national scholastic frater
nity.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
By MARTIN HARMON
tnrjrrdirnt*: bit* of new*
wisdom, humor, and comment*.
Direction*: Take weekly, if
jmssihl*. but avoid |
overdosage. ,
----
In Dir!; I^ennon's office at the
>ank the othei morning. 1 l»n«l
:hr pleasure of mrrt:ng ami
chatting with one of First Union
I National's visiting fitemrtrt. liar
Ivey Livingston, of thr trust de-i
partmrnt.
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Tltis is the unit of the hank
which o.ecute wills, manage ea-j
1 tales, trust an-i pension funcis.
1 private charitable foundations,!
j etc.
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It adds to .1 mountain of re
sponsibility for the institution,
not to mention a mountain of
money. Indeed. Harvey said on
query, the amount in his firm’s
total trust account is not general
ly regarded as public information.
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A native of Atlanta, vfr. Liv-,
; ingston nas hern in the banking
; business since 1°36. came to Char- i
I lotte and Firs! Union National
from Atlanta'.- First National
something like a year ago.
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Our conversation reminded of
anothet- a few years ago with two
mutual friends one. like Harvey,
with the trust department of a
large hank, th * other, at that
ttme, rather heavy in the stock
market and not doing badly. He
askisl the trust hanker. "Ilow
much money are you hoys play
ing around with in your depart
ment these days?" To the reply
of some StW millions, the specu-;
lating friend ejaculated. “Say
how much will they charge me
to work for them? It'd he worth
a lot just to know what they’re
buying anti selling!” Much truth ,
I therein, too.
Mr. Livingston, the con versa- i
tion revealed, had good enough I
i financial sense to enter and stay I
with hanking. Bu: he is some- I
thing of a frustrated newspaper- <
j man. having hobbied on weekends
for a decade as a cartoonist. <
| Even here he exhibited hanking I
proclivities by making the hob
hy pay a little His speciality was ^
1 cartooning and Ralph McGill,
editor of the Atlanta Conslitu- ’
tion. gave him his start. Mischief (
specialty was a Biblical cartoon,
question and answer type crea
tion. with both drawing and copy,
which. 4Ts he says, is ageless. But ;
at one time he was also doing
political cartoons and another oil
' the American flag. His closest (
call to breaking with banking for ,
the printer's ink route was when
he signed a ten-year contract |
with an a - horning syndicate, j
which meant to compete with
King Features. Hearst. Herald
Tribune and other nation-wide :
suppliers of everything from
Steve Canyon to Drew Pearson.
But the organizer's financing j
failed to pass ?crutiny of the Se
curities and Exchange eommis- '
sion. Harvey still has his copy of
the worthless contract. Syndicat- j
ing on his own didn’t prove to
pay at high hourly wage rates, as
he was doing his own drawings. 1
stamping his own mats, attemding 1
to his own mailings, and serving 1
as his ow n not-too-sueoessful col '
lector, and he forsook the busi
ness in 06 though the tools of
his craft are still in his basement.
These shop notes disposed ot.
Harvey returned to his main the
sis: Had Brother Harmon exam- j
ined his will letely? The answer «
was there nothing to examine,
for the last time I examined 1
; tore the holograph into shreds. !
This was terrible, terrible, my !
new found frirtid inferred. Did I 1
prefer that the State of North !
Carolina write my will post-mor
tem? Well, probably not, anti I
what about taxes? Harvey knew '
about them, too
Indeed. export advice is needed
by most, for so\eral factors must
hi* considered .n estate planning,
among the major tint's the poten
1 tial incidence <>! federal inheri
tance taxes, of state inheritance
1 taxes mo S60.G00 estate exemp
1 tion here*, and to whom and for
what a person wishes his estate
t devoted. Other factors involved
include the likely business ability
of the beneficiaries, their ages,
and other innumerable imponder
ables aiid improbables which, life
being stranger than fiction, have,
occurred, do anti will happen.
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A folder ilarvev provided re
minds that state legislatures have*
and likely will change law* gov
erning distribution of properties
>f persons dying intestate anti
point out that the osnly way a
oerson can get his property to
•hose he wishes is to make a will.
Most folk know that, just asthe\
know regular visits to the dentist
will prevent and defer tooth
trouble. But they put off the
•hore until tomorrow and the day
after.
Harvey suggests that the idea!
location for cemetery promoters
is adjacent to a bank, relating
the tale of a sales engineer. This
•emetery property, adjacent to a:
rank, was attracting few custo
mers until the sales expert erect -1
•d a sign over the entrance. “If. i
you can’t take it with you, be! <
hurled where you cun watch It!" |i
Mail Now for an Early Refund
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Viewpoints of Other Editors
ONE AND ONE MAKES
NOTHING
French officials express two
tinds of surprise over the effects
>t Gaulllsi dipicmacy these clays,
ritey may well bp aware that the
wo kinds cancel out.
One is surprise over the tend
ency of Americans and other al
ied people t o “misinterpret"
’resident de Gaulle's moves as
icing antialliance or anti-Ameri
•an. This is an old argument now.
t goes back to the time of the
ie Gaulle veto of British mem
lership in the Common Market.
The other kaici of surprise is
tower, ft apparently goes hack
inly to u N'ew Year's reception at
vhieh de Gaulle spoke to Premier
’astro. French officials are now
surprised at the way in which
iavana radio is exploiting that
;hot*t interview to impress the
vorld that de Gaulle is specially
lympathetio to Castro's Cuba.
The implications of the Havana
iroadeasts are far-reaching. The\
vould make dc Gaulle not only
t promoter of French supported
leutrality in Cambodia, where
lis actions amount to an attack
>n the American position, hut a
■upporter of Communist inroads
nto the Western Hemisphere.
It should he remembered that
'ranee was quick to support the
Jutted States against Khrush
■hev in the missile crisis in Cuba,
iut it may never he known ex
telly what de Gaulle said to
Jastro.
So American'- sometimes enter
ain an impression that do Gaulle
s against them This is not sur
irising since C< mmunist-support
■<1 Cubans entertain an impres
;ion that he is for them.
The Chriatian Srimcr Monitor
TEEN-AGERS
NEED GUIDANCE
High school student* need en
ouragement to develop fully in
icademic. 1*010110081 and social
irowth.
Teen agers appear t o have
ome truly diltieult problems of
idjustment. Even though teen
igers think they are adults and
ight to be treated as such, they
;til! are in need of guidance. A
►a rent's method of working with
■hiWren must change during the
een years.
Academically, high school stu
lents have major decisions to
nakh.
For some, as David flydish of
,’nitod Press International points
>ut. high school will he thie end
if »heir formr.l education. They
.hould be sure to acquire the
linds of skills which will help
hem in their vocation.
For those vrho intend to go on
o college, it is necessary that
hey take the courses and achieve
lie grades required for admis
ion. In either case, it is advisable
o take courses whicli will help
he individual pursue his interests
vhether it be in literature or
arpeotry.
The emotional and social as
nvts of growing up are closely
■elated. The teens art* the years
vhen the onpositc sex become
mportant. The teen-ager is often
■onfused and perhaps frightened
>y his own thoughts and actions,
rhere is a constant need for re
issurancc and understanding. The
■hild needs guidelines to follow.
1c may raise objection* but he
task-ally wants limitations which
lelp to develop a secure feeling.
Naturally, standards must be re
J: stic and reasonable. They
hould be flexible and shouW not
wcome so stringent that the
■hild feel* trapped.
The Sanford Herald
REWARD
NOT IGNORANCE
A Presidential commission re-;
RitlV Hold the hope that vari
It MmiV m maintained by
he several states, would be grad->
TAKE YOUR
POLITICS SERIOUSLY
What happen;- when n refugee
cnmes here from a subjugated
part of the world? He often kiss
es the earth ni the good old L'jlit
cd Slates and vows he will In*
forever grateful for his freedom.
This is the first reaction but
what transpires after the initial
feeling of ecstasy?
Most Americans or their an
cestors eame front oppressed
lands. As time passes, too many
of them, though indifference, add
fuel to the flames that fired gov
ernment domination in the lands
of their forbears.
A lady anti her soil recently
visited East Germany. One thing
a relative then* impressed on the
son was, "take your polities seri
ously or you will lose your free
ttnn*,like we have here." He told
the hov that lack of interest in
government is what brought a
bout their subjugation. This mri
'lent brings home the danger of
lack of interest in government.
It takes effort to preserve free
dom. otherwise power • hungry
minority groups gain control. Vi
gilance is the only weapon able
to block infiltration.
Political groups seek power by
using the government as a gift
bag. Unless th** people are alert
to such methods which were us<*d
in Europe, anti are now being
promoted in the United States,
they will find themselves burden
ed with a bureaucratic yoke and
unable to fret themselves.
We Americans as a whole have
high ideals, generous hearts and
great energy. We must be vigi
lant to preserve freedom for our
selves and those who will follow.
The Clr vein nil Timm
ually and tmiformly lowered so
that more Americans could and
ivould participate in elections.
It was noted that only a few
states allowed lS-year-olds to
rote, that rcsitl* nee requirements
were far too severe in many
states and that there were, often,
other harriers to voting, such as
the poll tax.
Wliler voter participation in
government is t.oth desirable and
healthy. However, althoe.:h we
agret with the commission’s gen
eral conclusions, not nil of the
harriers to mass voting are bad.
The educational or literacy
test, if applied tairly to all. is not
a hail test. The founding fathers
of the* country did not intend that
the illiterate or functionally illi
terate should enjoy the same
right to vote as the conscientious
educated citizen.
To vote is tlie responsibility of
every qualified citizen. It is also
(he responsibility of every citizen
to become qualified to vote.
Thr Hrrntit, AhnxKie
TMM AGO
THIS WEEK
/(■ms of news about King.
Mountain arm people am
sweats taken from the 1M
film of the Ktnge HoaateP
Harold
Home Building A Loan associa
tion stockholders held their 30th
annual meeting Tuesday after
noon. heard reports of officers
showing the association enjoyed a
highly successful year, and re
jected all dire* tors.
An entertainment program of
pantomimes and impersonations
hy a group of seven children of
the Cast Harper school, at Le
noir. will be the entertainment
feature of the annual banquet of
the Kings Mountain Merchants
Association to re held at Masonic
Hall on Monday night at 7:30.
90CIAL ASD PERSONAL
Mrs. G. A. Bridges was hostess
Thursday night at her home to
theTaftfar fimtuiv of Amm
can Legion Auxiliary
t
The Body Of Christ
Or. Paul K. Ausley. Pastor
First Presbyterian Church
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TEXT: "For as wo havo many '
memher* in ono body, ami all -]
momhoK have not tho same ol (
fU-e: so wo. being many, aro one (
hoily at Christ, and every ono ,
momhors ono >f anolhor." !
Romans 12:1-3 j
At this Kpipnany Season, we i
recall tho visit of tho Wiso Men «
from the Easj to Bethlehem; ami i
remembering that they were not i
I Jews hut Gentiles, we see in them I
j and their visit tho first mnnitos ]
| tation of Christ to people beyond i
i tho bordet* of His own race, Bo
ing Gentiles ourselves, we tlitik
1 it very natural that this should <
! havo taken place But when you
consider some of the stumbling J
; blocks to believing in a Christnn
ity that should transcend all ra
cial harriers, a - you find them in
Simon Peter, even after Ponte- j
coat hatl occurred, you realise ■
; what a vast advance thin repre
sented. j<
Wo do not know what would •
havo hap|toned if the "Jidai/ers"
had had their lull way. and St. •
Paul had not mine in wit i his in
sistence that Ine Gospel was f«>r
all. and that he was tho apostle
| to tho Gentiles. The Christian
movement might then have Iteen
i cut off in its prime ov the spiri
tual myopia of its own adherents,
as many another spiritual move
ment has boon. If anything was
Providential in ilv* early Chris
tian movement it was the Spit it
of God at work in tho m*:id of
Paul and hi* insistence ihat the
Gentiles must also share in this
great gift of Salvation.
Gentiles were permitted t o
come into the Christian fold. They
, were exempted from tho Jewish
rite of incorporation into their
■ spiritual fold, and brought in on
ly by P.aptism which was a dis
tinctively Christian Sacrament.
They did two things in the early
i Church without thinking <> f
them: They came to believe in
the Risen Christ and they were
hapti/cd into His Church. It
would not have occurred to any
of them that the only important
thing was to understand the ethi
cal ideals of .testis, and that such
came from an ultimate relation
ship with Him.
St. Raul is fond of railing the
Church Christ's “body”. He did
not take a spiritual symbol, anti
call the Church Christ's company
or brotherhood or spirit he took
a physical symbol and called if
His Body, yet it was a society, a
fellowship, a brotherhood.
The hotly hoerme a convenient
symbol for hint. The people com
ivtg in were a I read v diverse, anti
they would become more diverse.
That original company had had
in it very differing type*, tem
poramentally considered; hut
they had been I used together in
to a kintl of unity hv the actual
presence of Jesus. Now that He
was physicalh gone, anti more
people were coming in. St. Ratd
cast about for some way of think
ing about the fundamental unity
which might bind together such
i diversity. He found it in the hu
man body. “As we have many
members." he said, “and ail mem
bers have not the same office: so
w«\ being many, are one body in
! Christ, and everyone members
one of another."
The "Body of Christ" then 1m*
came the “hotly of believers.”
“We. I icing many, are one hotly in
Christ." There was no one who
believed in Christ that needed to
remain outside. They came to
Him by faith and they became
members of His Hotly hv baptism
anti confirmation. What was true
then, is true now. Any >ne of us
can become a "member of the
hotly of Christ" by faith and hy
baptism. The Church is the one
universal society to which every
one caii belong if he will.
Let me say some things that I
think We need to remember about
the Church.
First, think m the meaning <»f
! that phrase "one body in Christ.”
Thinking as we do today in <le.
mocratic patterns, we are likely
to find it more congenial to bo
' iieve that we .-.tine by faith our
selves, amt decide to link up with
• Christ whenever we desire. This
is not so because the real tnita
live comes from find Himself. He
sent Jesus. He (toured His Spirit
on the early Church and still
I pours it out. The Cospel comes to
us we did not create it. The
Church was provided f >r us we
<lid not create it. We find our
selves incorporated into the Rodv
of Christ by action wnich is fun-,
damentally Ills not ours. When i
a child or adult receives Holy
Baptism, he i> made “a member i
of Christ, a child of God, and an
inheritor of the Kingdom of
Heaven." Something very tremen
dous has happened and the tre- .
mendous |>art of it lies in the
Grace that ha> been bestowed. It 1
is not a rite or ceremony, it is a :
Sacrament, anti a Sacrament is
"an outward and visible sign of
an inward and spiritual grace." I
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Second, will you think of the
answer to the problem of "unity
i in diversity” represented by the !
words *%e beU.g many, are one 1
body in Chriat". We look back to.'
ipuBWBtf 0MM as the MM But <
i*y had their controversies, as |j
ou will sec in Acts: limy prnh
ibly diverged a» much as wo do.
Vn> woro oonse-rvatlvo and lib
ra! groups \\ illiin Iho oarlv
*huix-h. There woro signs oven
he,i <>f iho lator groat division.
•Highly called Catholic and Pro
pstanl. There has never Ison a
imo in the history of tho Church
rhon unity vv as not throathonofl
ir destroyed by diversity. All de
alerships. whet her political or
vligious. out this knot by est.i
dishing thoir own kind of unity,
t is bought at a groat price, anil
he price is lihei ty surrendered.
Two things held that oarlv
Thurch together: they had all pul
heir faith in the Kiacn Christ,
md. at Pentecost, when gathered
•with one accord in one plaev.
hey found a d< ep unity in the
Inly Spirit. They could swing a
mrt on many things, because the>
were bound closely together on a
few things. St. Paul said to tho
>rinthia»s, There are divers!
ios of g’fts. hut tho same Spirit,
rhero are diversities of adminis
rations, hut tho same Lord. Jjj
Ptu-ro are diversities of opera
lions. but it is the same <Jod
,vhich workoth all in all." That
toes not provide an idenlleal
nental outlook, nor agreement as
:o all methods. That assumes dif
ference and welcomes it. Any In
dus very difference it allows for
progress, for progress almost he
jins in protest. We must live up
10 the lights thai we have, and
w-ok new one? otherwise there
s no growth. Hut we must, as St.
Paul tells the F phfsian*. "endoa
cor to ke*e-p the unity of the Spirit
in the bond of peace." It is an at
■nospheric command, not a cleat
lircotive; it takes mature fieople
to understand anil follow it.
We sometimes have a view of
rhurch unity ti'.at is idyllic.* and
unreal. W'* think one Hay we shall
v completely in agreement ami
ill lH*lia\i* the same way because
.to arc Christians. I cannot ima
gine anything mine horrible. <»r
less like genuine unity. The
I'hureh of the futuic. whatever
its nature, must preserve the dif
ference ami richness that theeen
nines have contrihuted. Some <>f
hen ate utterly irreconcilable
.nth others except upon a basis
that, “we, being many, are one
vwly in Christ." That should
make us appreciate worth where
.te see ;t. and sincerity where we
rind it: it should make us declare
falsehood where we see it. anil
*X| ose unreality where we finti
t. There will he clashes and dis
agreements oniy they will Is*
fatnlh quarrels because there is
i Head of the family, and in Hint
ite find, not a pattern for all to
follow, hut a spirit for all to
K*ek. Hie unity is ideal and not
lierefore unreal, only unrealixed:
thediversity is real, but not neei>
tarily disruptive. Much rich fel
lowship and eo-opera'ion is pos
sihle lietween all who love and
itelieve in Jesus Christ, even in
Ihedivided slate of 11 is Church
now.
1
Third, if it is hard !■> hold to
gether |>enp!e in the fellowship of
the Church, it is indefinitely
lianler to hold them together in
the fellowship of the nation, and
(tarder still in the company of
nations.
1 think that the only kind of
unity wo shoul I seek in demoera
•ies. or in the larger democracy
if tile family <>f nations, is the
unity represented in Voltaire’s
memorable statement: "I wholly
lisapprovo of what you say but
.vill “defend to the death your
right to say it.' There is more fu
ture and promise in any nation
ihat will siriv. towards that,
however conservative it may ap
[>oar. than in any nation that ab
rogates that principle in favor of
.that looks like progressa nd ad- V
rami'. In this sense, many so-4
■ailed liberals have abandoned
liberalism and gone in for collec.
ivism. ami the only real liberals
left are the old-fashioned eonser
Liitivex that still believe in liber
ty
I believe that truth lu'kt under
IkI. and liberty pursued not as a
-elfish end Inn as the itreat priv
of all men everywhere, are
Ik- twin north stars of national
»r international unity. I believe
hat the more of God there is in
people, the moir there will he of
ighteotisness and truth, and
here fore the less then* will lie
>f disunity and division of spirit.
iVithout Christianity iherr* prob
ihly would have hoen no freedom
in dno democracy. as we under
stand them.
The Churt h is a society tien on
me groat end: the winning of
ill nwn. and the whole world, to
’hrist. I'ntil you fell pulsing In
four blood the seeking and spirt
tial need of people at home and
hef ar ends of the eartn. you are
nit a baby in the rhurrh family
teedfjg to grow ■;> and take
our own part.
God lu*lp us to realize the priv
lege of belonging to Christ's
'hutch, to understand the won
lerful and sacred mystery of it^^Bj
lature, to love it as our own ipir^
tuai famllv. and to labor with
iut ccatiif f<+ Its extension to