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THE HOGANSVILLE HOME NEWS
OPINION
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A Special Week
For Preachers
Easter Week is always spe-
cial for Christians. Many preach-
ers have been preaching about
the Cross and the events prior to
the Crucifixion for several
weeks, now.
I can picture Jesus entering
Jerusalem for the final time. He
stopped on the outskirts of town
the Bible says and began to weep.
Surely He was thinking about
the sins of Jerusalem and the
world and death which would
come to them. Then I think He
thought about the superficial reli-
gions of that day and then the
judgement which would follow.
Jesus knew His earthly days
were numbered and the Cross
was in front of Him.
I can see Him in the Upper
Room with his twelve disciples.
There He took the bread and
break it and said take, eat this my
body and gave the wine and said
take, drink this is My blood of the
New Testament which is shed for
the remission of sins.
There He said one of you will
deny me and one of you will
betray me.
wash his hands of the matter.
Jesus went on to Golgotha. A
crown of thorns was placed on
His head, nails driven into His
hands and feet, beaten with a cat-
of-nine-tails, 39 times that you
couldn't tell that He was a human
being, curse, spit on and much
more.
He was placed on the Cross
between two theives.
One rejected salvation and
the other repented and asked
Danger of Educating A
Sooner or later, I knew a
bunch of schoolteachers would
decide athletes hadto study and
become educated like the other
students.
This, of course, is what has
happened in Texas-of all places -
where the "no-pass, no-play" rule
has gone into effect. Other states,
I am certain, soon will follow
Tex_as's lead.
I don't think we have thought
this thing out. As a matter of fact,
I believe we may be making a ter-
rible mistake in insisting school-
boy athletes become educated.
There are several reasons I
believe this:
1. Students who aren,t ath-
letes have enough trouble as it is.
I mean, how many dates can you
get off your annual Science Club
project?
About all these students had
to look forward to was the future,
when, because of their superior
grades, they could expect to get
all the good jobs with IBM while
all the dumb jecks would end up
working at dumb jobs.
If we insist athletes learn
while in school, then the other
students not only won't have
dates, but they also probably will
lose out when the IBM jobs are
up for grabs.
Let's face it. If both applicants
have the same grades, who is IBM
going to pick, a former all-state
quarterback or some wimp?
2. If we start educating ath-
letes, we could wind up with a lot
more politicians like Jack Kemp.
3. How many athletes are
going to continue to play such
games as football if we teach
them to think for themselves?
Football is a fun game to
watch, but it really can't be that
much fun to play. You run around
out there and large people are
trying to knock you down to the
ground.
Football players have to learn
such uncomfortable tactics as
"playing hurt,"and "sucking it
up." Plus, you can get a variety
of rashes and diseases hanging
out in locker rooms."
What intelligent person is
going, as the coaches say, 'o pay
the price?"
Educate our athletes and most
of them will quit playing ball and
start hanging around playing
video games with the other stu-
"Football is a
fun game to
watch, but it real-
ly can't be that
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dents.
4. Give an athlete a quality
education and he might start say-
hag intelligent things to the media.
As it is, the media can simply
make up quotes for athletes
because they always say the same
things.
"Well, you know,
know, God gave me,
the talent, you know,
game, you know,
know, need any
Jesus to remember him when He
came into His kingdom.
Jesus promised him that,
'Today shalt thou be with Me in
Paradise.'
Jesus saw HIS mother stand-
ing by the Way and made prepa-
rations for her as he said, "Woman,
behold they son and to John he
said, 'Behold thy mother.'
Judas lscariot was the betray- Then He cried, 'Father for-
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The money didn't satisfy (
money never does) Judas and he
went out and hanged himself.
Peter denied the Savior, went
and wept bitterly. He later repent-
ed and served the Lord until his
death.
After the Lord's Supper, Jesus
went with the eleven disciples (
Judas was gone) to the Garden
of Gethsemane which was locat-
ed just outside Jerusalem.
He left eight on the outer edge
of the garden and took three,
Peter, James and John with Him
into the inner garden to pray.
He left them and went deep-
er into the garden alone to pray.
But the three fell asleep.
He prayed all night until HIS
sweatdrops became as drops of
blood.
It was at Gethsemane that
Jesus suffered much agony and
there they arrested Him early
the next morning.
The mob came with Judas
leading the way, took Jesus
before Pilate and other kings.
They couldn't find any fault
in Him and Pilate even tried to
. What hurt Jesus more than
the nails or the crown of thorns
was the separation from His
Father as God turned His back
on Jesus as He had become SIN,
yours, mine and the whole world
(God cannot look upon sin). Jesus
cried with a loud voice, 'My GOd
My God, why has thou forsaken
Me?'
He cried, 'I thirst' and they
gave Him vinegar. In a little while
He cried, 'it is finished' and he
bowed His head and said, 'Father
into thy hands I commend my
spirit.'
Jesus died and He went
through Death, Hell and the
Grave for you and me.
They played Him in a bor-
rowed tomb but three days later,
on Easter Sunday morning, the
ladies went to the tomb to anoint
his body with precious ointments
but, PraiSe The Lord, the stone
was rolled away and Jesus was
gone.
The angel said, 'He is not here
for He is Risen.'
Yes, today Jesus is alive and
we have something to celebrate
and be thankful for--- Our Savior!
you know, get in
with my agent."
4.
if we,
where will our TV
from?
6. Educate
and today's coaches
jocks, will
nicate with their
more.
COACH:
were you thinking
you made that play?"
7. If "no-pass,
spreads, there
dumb jock jokes
where
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there are ina year, andJ
contemplation, he
"Twelve. January
February second,"
NOR DID the senator make
Roosevelt the only meddler. In
a major speech shortly after
Barnesville, the tobacco town
of Waycross in far southeast
Georgia, he attacked White
House advisers "Tommy
Coreoran and Benny Cohen, two
little Wall Street lawyers who
had arrogated to themselves the
power of saying who shall be
senator and who shall not be
senator." (Coreoran, in fact,
may well have been the man
behind the purge.)
He also attacked John L.
Lewis and "James Ford, the
speech since the
race.
Talmadge's
off his coat
trademark, red
galluses) roll up
.before his tirades.
hottest Georgia day,
to legend, George
even unbutton his
speech, outdoors
So his
paign rhetor
""lTte people o] to
Georgia do not need his
to be told by the beat, Georgians
President of the mitting to outside
Yankee outside
United States whom purge," he said, "is
tO l?ote for. " march through
antilynch bill
Negro nominee of the Senate was
Communist party for vice pres- glorified."
ident," and E.L. Oliver of the
"so-calledNon-Partisan
League" who "demanded that I
vote for the reorganization of
the judicial branch of the gov-
ernment."
WALTER GEORGE was a
dignified country gentleman
who had to be chauffeured
everywhere because he never
learned to drive a car. Where
Eugene Talmadge, the third
candidate in the race, was
famous for his personal attacks
on his opponents, George was
famous for not making speech-
es of any sort in his own behalf.
He had not had to make a stump
MARGARET
author of Gone with
a supporter of
friend that "since
Barnesville speech,
heard so many yells(
rights, and
sion, and sini:
of power, and so
playing Dixie, that I
dered whether this
1861."
Miss Mitchell
Connecticut
before primary
that "for the
years that I can
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The Bible says in I Kings 21:3,
"and Naboth said to Ahab, the
Lord forbid it me, that I should
give the inheritance of my
fathers unto thee."
This is a verse from an
account about a king who tried
to talk a man out of his inheri-
tance. The king was wicked Ahab
and the man was Naboth, the
Jezreelite.
Naboth had a vineyard that
was passed down to him by his
forefathers and because it was
close to the king's house, the king
tried to buy it.
No matter how hard the king
tried, no matter what the king
offered, Naboth would not sell
out. Eventually, King Ahab's wife,
Jezebel, had Naboth killed in
order that Ahab could have the
vineyard.
WE IN AMERICA have been
left a great heritage, but unlike
Naboth, it seems many are sell-
ing out. Just as Naboth was
offered "something better,"
Americans are being offered
"something better."
We are told it is "better;' for
mothers and doctors to murder
babies, for our government to
break all ties with the Bible, for
our children to make their own
decisions, and for our society to
allow all kinds of perversions.
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These better things come to
us in the names of choice,
progress, tolerance, diversity,
free speech and alternate living.
In the narrative from I Kings,
Naboth basically told the king
that his inheritance was not for
sale.
DOES MODERN AMERICA,
does the peach state of Georgia,
or does the wonderfully quaint
little town of Hogansville have
any Naboths that will stand up
and say, "My inheritance is not
for sale?"
In the village, on Main Street,
on the city's outer limits, may
those who are saved by the grace
of God stand like Naboth and not
sell out what God has blessed
them with.
Any true student of history
will affirm that our great nation
was founded upon the
est nation on the
stand upon the
made her great.
sign on our
world they cannot
Every church
has a place that
claims the Word of
church_
It is imperative
not sell out their
citizens
and that Christians
their Savior.
NABOTH DIEV
what was left to
Americans have died
what was left to her.
be to
that we
left?
It would be a
die for the cause
not be willing to
(Jesus) unless we
live for him."
BUT CAMP WAS correct in
saying that "If you want to help
the President, vote for me." He
was, as he said often, "100% for
the New Deal." But it was not
correct to say, as he also did
often, "The issues in this cam-
paign are clear and simple: do
we want to go along with a
national program or do we want
to go back to the days when the
When the President attacked
Sen. Walter George for his
behavior in Congress, he was
reacting to the Georgian's votes
on a few key Roosevelt mea-
sures-the Public Utility Holding
Company Act, the Wagner
Housing Act, government
reorganization and, principal-
ly, minimum wage and hours
bill.
But George had voted for
many key Rcoseveltian propos-
als. He supported the Tennessee
Valley Authority, the National
Labor Relations Act, the
Agricultural Adjustment Act,
Social Security, the Securities
and Exchange Commission, the
NhtionalRecovery
Administration.
He was a thorough-going con-
servative, an ally of big busi-
ness, more and more after 1936,
but he was no reactionary or
one-dimension puppet of the
special interests. In fact,
George often called himself an
advocate of "liberal democra-
cy."
program of the national gov-
ernment was only to help big
business?"
If it had been that simple,
then George might have lost.
You have to say "might have,"
because George did a master-
ful job of diverting the public's
attention from any substantive,
legislation-related issues. He
made Roosevelt's intervention
the main issue.
"The people of Georgia do
not need to be told by the
President of the United States
whom to vote for. That is their
business. We are capable of
managing our affairs without
outside help from the
President."
Roosevelt had a home in
Georgia, of course, but George
took that head on, too. "I'm a
full-time Georgian, too!"
FDR's Toughest Campaign
