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The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1948-10-06
The Word of God proves it's

The Word of God proves us
genuineness and veracity by
calling attention to the FAIL
URES as we'll as to the success
es of those whose one thought
and desire was to love and
serve God. Their mistakes are
recorded for our profit that
we may be enabled to avoid
the pitfalls of Satan, and to
serve God more earnestly and
faithfully.
The Word of God sets forth
human failures in the working
out of Gods plan of Salvation,
as we'll as in His provision for
Divine Healing. No child of God
can claim that he knows all the
secrets of Divine Healing. No
one has been able to solve ev-
cry problem.
I THE FAILURE OF THE
IMPOTENT DISCIPLES.
- Verses 14-18; Psalm IT:
LIP; Joshua 24:14, Is;
Deut. 81: 6-8; Psalm 30:
is.
Nine IF Jesus' disciples were
left at the foot of the Mount
of TRANSPORTATION. Three dis
ciples, Peter, James and John,
spent the night with the bless
ed Master in the Mount, where
Moses and Elijah appeared
and spoke with the Lord con-
corning His decease which He
should accomplish at Jerusa-
lem. Peter, James and John
were especially favored in be-
ing permitted to behold the
glory of the Son of God in His
mai estic TRANSPORTATION.
Meanwhile the nine disciples
were confronted with this case
of terrible demon-possession.
Jesus coming down from the
Mount saw the multitude sur
rounding the nine disciples and
heard the Scribes arguing with
them. The reason for this heat
ed discussion was soon appar-
ent, - their inability to heal
the luntic son. Jesus had given
the disciples authority to "heal
the sick, cleanse the lepers,
raise the dead, and CAST OUT
DEVILS" No provision was
made in the Commission for
any failure; Notwithstanding
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this, the desired healing was
not forthcoming. Jesus appear
ed on the scene at the crucial
moment and proved Himself
indeed a "masterful Master"
in handling this perplexing
problem.
II JESUS REPROOF OF A
FAITHLESS G. ENER A
TON - Verses 10, %, 20;
Prov. 29:1; II Tim. 4 e;
Prov. 10: 25; II Tim. 3:16,
II; HEIR. 12: 1913.
Jesus had reason to grieve,
not only over the lack of faith
on the part of the helpless dis
ciples, but also over the spirit
of faithlessness manifested by
the people in general and es-
pecially on the part of the lead
ers, who were repudiating His
Messianic ministry. The Jewish
nation, because of unbelief, re-
jected their Messiah. Although
these disciples could not be
classed with the unbelieving
masses, for they were His own
followers, yet He groaned in
spirit because of the little prog
ress they had made and be-
cause of their unbelief. The
curse of unbelief kept them
from asserting the high pre-
negative of their calling and
ministry. The blame for fail
ure in this instance was not to
be put so much upon the sup
plant father as upon the un-
believing disciples. When they
inquired as to the reason for
their failure, Jesus declared
that unbelief on their part was
responsible; and then admon-
ished them to have faith that
would remove mountains, and
would know no defeat.
Today, many times the fail
ure of the sick to obtain heal
ing is chargeable to the unbe-
lief or lack of faith on the part
of the ministry. The Word of
God declares that the sick
should call for the ministry, or
ELDERS" to ''pray the prayer
of faith" When this condition
of a living faith on the part OF
the ministry is met, then moth
ing shall be impossible" to
them.
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THE HEALING OF THE LUNATC SON
Marks Proverbs 3O:5
Catholic Church
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Evening star., 1948-03-14
WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME
Continued from page fire

woman Berlitz schools. But Czechs are nice
and considerate, and they are tremendously
interested in America"
When Eleanor Jancik went home last
year, her hometown paper printed a giam-
orized account of her life abroad Next
morning her phone began to ring. 1t seemed
as if all the girls in New Jersey wanted to
get into foreign service.
II told them to think carefully about
whether they would be adaptable enough to
stick it out. An embassy girl may be forced
to live with girls she has never met before.
She may be sent to the tropics or to Nor
way. She should be able to cope with either
super-active social life or with no social
life at all. And if she is the kind of girl who
likes to begin every sentence with, Yeah,
but back home - she ought to stay there"
Girls who join the foreign service be-
cause it looks like shortcut to romance
and matrimony are due for a shock.
Very few of the Prague embassy girls have
married 50 far and it's safe to say the foreign
service is better bet for career minded girls
than for the mariage-bound species
But there are compensations. You meet
people and make friends everywhere and in
no time your personal mail is philatelist's
delight. You feel you are doing an important
job - perhaps because you learn some
secrets before the average newspaper-reader
does. (You must learn to keep the secrets
too.)
You Miss Normal People
AND gradually, you begin to realize what
America means to you. One of the girls
summed up this aspect of it: Before went
overseas. took America for granted. It's
only after you've lived in Europe for a
while and the charm begins to wear off,
that you miss everything. Above all, you
miss normal people - people who aren't
neurotic or hungry or afraid of something.
You know those long-winded, fag-waving
speeches of our politicians that everybody
makes fun of? Well, here you begin to appre-
ciate the things the politicians are always
talking about. like freedom and opportunity
for ALL
Some mornings you wake up and you
feel so lonely and homesick for everything
that America means to you that you almost
want to cry" The End
Evening star., 1948-03-14

board, and are considered great luxury.
"Men can't understand what it means for
girl to come home after work and not have
to cook meals wash stockings or press
dresses" Helen Ball says. 1--WE had one
housekeeper who quit because she didn't
like American-style food. Not enough dump
lings potatoes and heavy gravies, she said"
"American-style foodr' Jean Berglind
sighs What does glass of cold milk taste
like?" Miss Berglind, veteran of two South
American posts, looks like one of the long
stemmed co-eds on the UCLA campus in
Westwood Village, Los Angeles which is just
what she was. Would she want to go back?
The Old Restless Feeling
WE ALL want to go back But then you
get home and listen to your family and your
girl friends with their diaper -and-bottle
problems, and their day-to-day worries -
and that old restless feeling creeps up on you
again"
Embassy girls are as global-minded as
overseas airplane pilots. They talk casually
vi ulpiOHloLnN CApSllCl III ClO, AiSLOil,
Dakar, Moscow, Shanghai, Panama City,
They all like Prague, it's quaint old streets.
its churches, bridges and palaces. The girls
love to 60 shopping under the Charles
Bridge, where old peasant women sell color
full pottery and ceramics, Slovak dolls and
embroidered blouses.
And they like the people. Il came here
after working two years in Germany for the
Army" says Irene Foster, of Chicago, one
of Ambassador Lawrence A. Steinhardt's
secretaries. 1T was wonderful to be in a
normal city again with lights, shops that
had something to sell and people who dared
talk freely on the street."
Few of the girls have Czech boy
friends. "A date with a Czech boy is a
little different from date in America
they say. Some of them are reluctant to
take us out. There are three or four places in
town where American dance music is played.
but they are just too expensive for the aver
age Czech. And in Prague you usually are
taken home in streetcar.
''Czechs are more serious-minded than
Americans. A Czech thinks nothing of TAX
ing you to a coffee-house and talking for
hours Some of our girls didn't like that;
they weren't exactly flattered to be- one
Evening star., 1948-03-14
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II am a young bride and
ICE lire in my husbands
home tOIn. IN, ] right in
expecting his friends to call
on US first or inrite us 10
their homes? Or should /
inrite them TO oar house?"
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-03-18
GMen GAzto1ioI
Taking America For Granted
From the Readers Digest
Condensed from an editorial in Vogue

There was a time, in this country, when even a whole day
OF life was not taken for granted; much less water, shelter, a safe
nights sleep. Now, by reason of a uniquely bountiful heritage, we
take for granted : too much. We assume. Expect. Insist. Nowhere
else in the world is this possible.
Unthinking, we accept not only the great urgencies of food,
shelter and clothes but the whole spate of little things that make
APP a way of life, a pattern of security. We take for granted the
protection of our locked front door; a roof to our living room;
heat, lights. We expect our children, bursting with vitality and
ytamln b, to knock our hats askew with the vigor of their well
come. AS breathing, we take for granted a hot bath, soap, PENCIL
lin, sodas at the corner drug store.
We assume that young husbands will make a successful
future for themselves, that older husbands will retire on what,
over the long years, they have put away. We expect our daughters
to have an evening dress. We cheerfuly assume that some decent
men will get voted into public office, We know that veterans can
get a CT loan, and assume that, with it, one of them will start a
future .. S. Steel Another will marry, and produce an Edison, a
Jefferson, a Carver. We take for granted that we will not be shot,
imprisoned, or have our everything" confiscated; that our child
rem will live to grow up.
What we forget every day, every moment, is our own his
tory. That it was not entirely to give us these luxuries-become-
necessities that men stayed on at Valley Forge for % cents a day;
that Lincoln did the fine, unpopular thing, unwaveringly; that
over $4,000 men died in prison camps between 81 and '64; that,
Iater, half a million men lay in their blood on foreign soil. It was
not to guarantee us ice cream and radios that women bore child
rem during Indian attacks, were partners in the great pioneering
sweep to the West.
1t is good to remember what simple right to vote cost
other human beings. Perhaps they had no thought of us; they were
concerned with making their America. What they made is what
we have. To take this heritage, unthinkingly, for granted is a
first step to losing it.
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Second Glass Citizens

Absolute equality is not too be had anywhere in society
of course But it is the American ideal that all qualified cltlzens
the ignorant and the wise, the farmer and the city-dweller all
should be counted alike.
But they aren't. There is gross Inequality OF voting In Ie
election of state officials for most states. The INEQUALITY Oh re-
presentation has grown until it threatens to undermine the very
principles of democratic government.
Of this country's total population, SO per cent today live
in cities and al per cent in rural areas. But the SO per cent eject
only % per cent of the membership of state legislatures, while tne
al per cent elect rs per cent of the legislators. The United States
Conference of Mayors, which has just published a statistical STUDY
of malapportionment, says those figures represent PAD govern
ment. 1t is right.
1901, has many examples of that kind of bad government. Jeffer-
sson County has 1863 per cent of the states population, but only
SO per cent of the House membership. A voter in rural Lowndes
County has five times the power in the State Legislature of a voter
in the urban Etowah County. A Bullock County voter outweighs
six Cullman County voters.
There is no equality at the polls in cases like these, and
many other similar ones. There is no equality when, as in Georgia,
in the lower House, the 5000 people in Echols County have one
tives; or when, as in Oregon, there are 22,2O2 urban people per
representative and only 5,272 rural people; or when, as in Ohio
Cleveland with 16 per cent of the population has only z per cent
of the representation in the lower House.
But there is misrepresentation in more ways than in num-
bers. The SO per cent of the Americans who live in Urban areas pro-
cent of its taxes. The rural areas that have rs per cent of the re-
presentation in State Legislature pay only 10 per cent of the
taxes. Equality of taxation would call for areas that produce rs
per cent of the wealth to pay their full share of taxes.
With these facts in the record, Americans cannot well set
themselves before the world as an excellent example of free and
just government. They should face the fact of this tyranny of
unequal representation. They cannot point with complete pride to
their own way of doing things.
There is need for Strengthening the Voice of America a.
broad. But the Voice of America will never sound the message of
democracy as forcefuly as it should as long as the nation makes
of more than half of its voters only "second-class" citizens.
birmingham (Ala) Age-Herald
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| company from Crosley n has
produced not only ar impressive ar
ray of performance records. but also
hundreds of suggestions for broaden
ing the utility of the cars. Many of
these owner suggestions have been
Incorporated in the company's new
passenger, commercial and general
utility vehicles.
BITS O. BUSINESS - Americas
life insurance companies have inves-
ted 400 million dollars in rental
housing projects, completed or under
way, which are designed to take care
of about 100000 persons . Fifty OF
the biggest American companies
earned a total average profit of less
than So billion during the years be-
tween 1942-46 and required assets of
SAT billion to do so. Hence their war
year earnings averaged only four per
cent of. the total money involved in
conducting these businesses -. I'm
der current conditions it requires
capital of about $4,000 to start a
leadership for much in demand farm
implements -. The magic word
free" will lhave to be used more
carefully in advertising. A recent
Federal Trade Commission ruling
permits the use of the word only
when free goods are offered with no
strings attached, such as an obliga-
ton to buy one package to get an
other as a gift" -. With direct
mail promotion booming, the BUSH
ness of compiling lists of possible
customers has become a big industry
in itself, with compiling companies
collecting about 5000 million for their
specialized services last year. The
movie industry's continuing economy
drive may give you more entertain
ing film fare. Some industry leaders
say that less money to spend on
movie production will mean more
striving for originality and hence
better pictures.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-03-18
Dykmon Family Reunion
Held Al Shubutd Sunday

Mr.. and Mrs. Cole P. Younger and
daughter, Diane. of Jackson, C
companied Mr.. and Mrs. j. K. Boat
wright to Shubuta last Sunday to
Join in a family reunion with Mrs.
Boatwright's brother and family,
Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Dykman.
Others present for this occasion
were Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Dykman, of
Shubuta, Mrs. Leroy Nixon. Jr., and
baby daughter, frankie Lee, of Lau-
rel, Mr.. and Mrs. Wren Chapman, Of
Waynesboro, and Miss Dorothy Dyk-
man, of Shubuta.
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made in l947, and larger goals must
be met in l948. / hereby appeal to
farmers to meet their 1913 goals,
city people to volunteer for work
on farms and in processing plants,
and city people and farmers to
grow a Freedom Garden for an
adequate supply of vegetables for the
table, for canning, storage and other
uses"
Governor Wright, in his appeal for
more gardens planted this month,
stated that "the healht and strength
of the American people can best be
guaranteed by an adequate food sup
ply" adding that:
In time of peace. the increased
needs of food for war-devastated
countries and of people living in
cities and congested areas will con-
tinue to tax the American food sup
ply"
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-03-18
March 1870 Is
PIant-A-Garde Week

STATE COLLEGE - (SpeciaD -
Pointing out that Mississippi needs
100000 farm and city gardens this
year and that March is the time to
begin gardening for best production,
Governor Fielding L. Wright has
proclaimed the week of March 1920
IS "Plant-A-G Garden Week"
In his proclamation, Governor
Wright called on everyone on farms
and in towns throughout Mississip-
pi, who has suitable space and food
production facilities, to take part
in the National Food Production
Program in 1913.
New production records were
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-03-18

From Louisiana: " / like to read
about New York. Have never been
there but my Uncle Silas was and
he talked so much about it just after
he got back, I got tired of listening
and turned against it for awhile. But
l intend to 60 there next summer
when my school is out-Tm a tea
cher, you see, and don't have too
much money to spend travelling. If
I interpret what you and other news
paper writers say correctly, New
York must be composed of all kinds
of people, most of them thinking a
lot like l do. l want to know more
different kinds of people and would
like for them to know me better.
That way, we'll all get along and
have a happier, fuller life"
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-03-18

Veterans of any of the Armed For
ces can enlist in the army directly
for service in Europe. Japan or
Korea.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-03-18

Veterans of any of the Armed Ser
vices who held a speciality can en-
list in the Army or Air Force in a
grade up to Technical Sergeant.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-03-18
lRdlnflladl.kl
81 sEW iSRMa

1 spend a good deal of time ana
space telling readers of this column
what l think of New York City NOW
l am going to let others say VIVA.
they think about it. This column wiz
be devoted to the opinions OF VISIT
ors and residents.
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must have been left over from the
field artillery. They squawk about
the race question. We have more
fun down here between the white
and colored folks than all their trou-
bles l read about. Yes sub, that's
where I draw the line-the Mason
Dixon Line"
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tIob u a -
| am going to let others say Wnat
they think about it. This column wiz
be devoted to the opinions OF Vlsl'-
ors and residents.
We may as well begin with a re-
cent statement from a prominent
man who passed away the other
day. He was Gordon S. Rentscnler'
president of the National City Bank
of New York. Said he: standing at
the crossroads of the world ana
watching everything that goes oy'
this is an amazing city. All a man
could want is here and what ISM I
here a nevertheless be observed
from here. The commerce OF the
world, you know, flows through tne
offices of a great bank. From NO 90
Wall Street (his office studying
people in their reactions to a great
variety of conditions, I have a tele-
scope which comes pretty near
sweeping the world.
From a lady in Texas whose nus
band was once drama critic OF the
New York World: During the 80 odd
years l was a part of New York, no
matter what was my problem, II l
| could get on 5th Avenue / could al
most solve it in a turn. There was
always a zest and a push in me from
the city which is not to be explained
| away. / have heard folks say they
| could get so lonely in New Rork.
| never could. There are too many
| stimulating things to ever be lonely
A visitor from New Jersey: Il like
to live just far enough out of New
| York to be able to visit it when !
| please, to see the shows, to stroll
along Broadway, and down around
| the Battery, and see Radio City once
/ in awhile. Then when l am tired
and my money is all gone-which
isn't long-I dearly love to get on
/ the train and come back to my little
Jersey town where my neighbors
are waiting to hear me do a lot OF
Dragging about what l did in the
| big town"
From a Pennsylvania: you can
have that big, lousy place. Oh yes,
know some of the things you say in
| your column must be true. There are
| glamor and bigness and excitement
and fascinating people. But there is
too much of it all to suit little me
| Give me Philly or Easton or Bethle-
| hem anytime. Say-your New York
| isn't a city-it's a bunch of them
all thrown together and you never
know when you're at the beginning
Or ending of one Too many foreign
| ers there to suit me too. Sounds like
a town in Europe. Listen bud, if i
never see New York again it'll be
soon enough.
81 commute from Connecticut, live
in Rhode Island in the summer. It's
nice to live in New York, 1 suppose,
but there r no apartments avail
able now if a person wanted to move
there. I'd like to write a book, but
after reading how little money is
made off the average book-one SOLD
only "A copies-I think I'll spend my
leisure time down at the corner
drug store here in Darien. We've got
more literary people up here anyway
and they don't have to live in that
Greenwich Village-which is neither
green nor village"
From a reader in Georgia: II live
right near the Tennessee line. Every
time I 60 to New York, I have to
fight the Civil War over again. Folks
up there think we still use the Con-
federate flag down here. And the
food-they never heard of hot bis
cults. The hard rolls they've got
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-03-18

From a reader in Georgia: II live
right near the Tennessee line. Every
time / 60 to New York, I have to
fight the Civil War over again. Folks
up there think we still use the Con-
federate flag down here. And the
food-they never heard of hot bis
cults. The hard rolls they've got
Evening star., 1948-05-09
MONTE VITA RANCH 70:

Riding. Swimming. Rifery. Overnight
Camping Mt. Climbing, exploration. cabin
Or tent life: Boating, Fishing Mineral
water recommended by State. Emphasis
upon health, happiness, safety. Mem
American Camping Asso. All inclusive
Reasonable fee 21t hours from District OF
Columbia. WO. 42A. -
Evening star., 1948-05-09

in the nurture and admonition
of the Lord"