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lIAI.EIGH. N. C., SATURDAY, JULY 31. 1971
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ANGELA’S MOTHER- Mrs. Sally Davis of
Birmingham, Ala., lold a Providence, R. I.
church audience last week that her daughter’s
only crime is her dedication to liberating op
pressed people everywhere. Her appearance
was part of a national drive to raise $250,00C
for Angela’s defense fund. Mrs. Davis’ 27-year
old daughter’s trial resumed last Wednesday in
San Rafael, Calif. (UPI).
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St. Peter was not wrong when
he declared at Pentecost that the
last davs had begun (Acts 2:
15,17). They had indeed be
gun, but God had a secret pur
pose to give the world a period
of grace before putting down Its
rebellion and sending Christ
to reign.
This secret purpose concern
ing “the dispensation of grace”
is the subject of Paul’s epis
tles, but it Is Interesting to see
how Peter’s last message ex
plains this interruption In God’s
prophesied program and the de
lay in Christ’s return to retgn.
First he says In II Peter 3;8,
“But, l>eloved, lie not Ignor
ant of this one thing, that one
day Is with the Lord as a
thousand years, and a thousand
years as one day.”
Mark well, this. Is not our
feeble explanation now as to the
delay In Christ’s return, "his
statement was made at the tie
ginning of this time of waiting,
at the dawn of the age of grace.
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. bert of New York has beennam
ed secretary for community ac
tion on the staff of the Women’s
Division of the United Metho
dist Board of Missions.
As an executive in the Div
ision’s Section of Christian So
cial Relations, Miss Gilbert has
been assigned responsibility for
assisting group and community
action aimed toward eliminating
poverty and achieving economic
justice, especially for women
and dependent children.. She is
to work with women of ethnic
groups on an Issue-oriented
basis and to maintain liaison
with churches and secular or
ganizations concerned about
poverty and welfare, reform.
Miss Gilbert assumed her now
responsibilities in July, having
come from the psot of associate
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But let us go on with Peter’s
declaration:
•The Lord is not slack con
cerning His promise. ...but is
longsuffering to us-ward not
willing that any should perish,
but that any should perish, but
that all should come to repen
tance.” (Ver. 9).
So the delay in Christ’s re
turn to judge and reign should
not be counted “slackness or
laxness, but “longsuffering.”
Thus the apostle goes on to say:
“And account that the long
suffering of our Lord is sal
vation....”
W'here'dl.d Peter get this in
formation? How did he knov
about the “dispensation of the
grace of God?” Verse 1G ex
plains:
“Even as our beloved bro
ther Paul also, according to the
wisdom given unto him hath
written unto you.” To Paul
particularly was committed
“the gospel of the grace of
God” which we proclaim todav
(Acts 20:24).
secretary In the Department of
Christian Social Relations of the
Episcopal Church’s Executive
Council In New York. For three
years she was staff officer for
the Episcopal Action Group on
Poverty.
Previously Miss Gilbert’s
professional career had In
cluded service a? director of a
Head Start day care center in
Mamaroneck, N.Y.j community
organizer for the Urban League
Center for School Dropouts; di
rector of teenage programs for
the Young Women’s Christian
Association (YWCA) in Brook
lyn, N.Y., and associate Y-
Teen director for the Cincinnati
(Ohio) YWCA.
Children
Discuss
Race
NEW YORX-An eleven mem
ber, multi-racial and Intercon
fessional group of youig people
left San Diego July 23 for Syd
ney, Australia to spend six
weeks exchanging views with
that country’s youth on the race
issue.
Besides the advisors, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Matthews, Black
teachers In the San Diego school
system, the team cons Ist s of
three whites, three Blacks, two
Chlcanos, and one Indian. They
come from United Presbyterian,
United Methodist, Episcopal, A
ME, and Roman Catholic
churcnes. A specially organiz
ed interconfesslonal committee
selected hesa young people.
David Parker, the Australian
Council’s youth secretary, has
organized local committees in
Sydney, Melbourne, and Can
berra where the U. S. visitors
will m-:et young Australian
Christians to discuss with them
the role of Christian youth reg
ulations and ths place of the
aborigines in that country’s so
cial and economic life. TheU.S.
team will visit a community of
aborigines deep In the mountains
for one week along with the Aus
trallan youth. Mr. Matthews
turned down his appointment to
head as principal the San Diego
School system’s summer ses
sions because he felt the “Aus
tralian project Is a priority to
me as a Christian and as a Black
citizen. ’’
Explaining the project, the
Rev. Kyoji Burma, executive
secretary of COEMAR’s Inter -
'church Action Office, said he
looked forward to the results
of the discussions In Australia
and what the project may mean
for race relations In San Diego.
This is not an attempt to pro
mote criticism of Australia’s
race problems, he stated, but
for the youth of both countries
to study hidden as well as overt
forms of racism as their pat
tern varies and #hat Is being
done to overcome them.
MEDITATION
A SERMONETTE
BY COLIN DOUGLAS
"I will forgive their Iniquity,
and their sin will I remember
no more.’* Jeremiah 31:34.
If you are a person who finds
it difficult to forgive, you need
to turn your thoughts more to
the presence of God, and let His
love fill your heart and mind.
Give yourself and the situation
that troubles you to Him, and
you will find yourself able to
forgive and forget every wrong.
When you keep turning over
in your mind the memory of
some hurt or iniustlce in the
to tne iorgivlng love otGod. You
harm only yourself when you
withhold forgiveness, for you
are closing your mind to the for
giving love of God. You harm on
ly yourself when you withhold
forgiveness, for you are being
disobedient to the laws and prin
ciples of the Father.
When tne forgiving love of God
fills your heart it wipes away
from your memory all thoughts
of the harm and injustice that
another may have done to you.
It prompts you to forgive and to
forget everything that has been
making you unhappy.
Love is the only power, for all
that Is not loving is not God, and
therefore has no power. Keep
love, Instead of resentment, in
your thoughts--and this will
keep peace and harmony within
and about you.
As we remind ourselves of the
spiritual power of God that Is
ours to share, as we change our
thoughts from hurt and resent
ment to thoughts of love and tol
erance, we gain a sense of free
dom in mind and body. We see
those who have wronged us in a
new light, as children of the One
Father...just as we are...equal
ly beloved by Him.
“Cast thy burden upon Je
hovah, and He will sustain thee;
he will never suffer the fight ecu*
to be moved,” Psalm® 55:22,
Corr.
he will never suffer the right
eous to be* moved,” Psalms 55:
22.
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