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er of the colonial powers. He
recalled that only four Afri-
can nations signed. the United
Nations charter e ight e n
years ago. The other day he
saw representatives of drirty-
four African nations at the
UN General Assembly.
In Southeast Asia, along
the roof of the world, amid
the overwhelmingly beautiful
peaks of the snowy Himat
layas, Mr.. Harmon said, the
Red Chinese hordes stand
poised ready for descent upon
North India. Even if there
were no theological struggle"
he continued, "the sheer ami
NAL instinct for survival in
this century of exploding
populations may soon send
hungry humans, like plaques
of locusts, swarming over
neighboring areas"
Like the little boy answer
ing his geography teachers
question on the shape of
the world. Mr. Harmon agrees
with the boys Pop that tits
in the worst shape" he's ever
seen it.
Today over the earth hangs
the ominous threat of COM
plete humiliation with n.y.
drogen bombs and nuclear
warfare.
"Throughcut the world,
nations fear one another,
races despise one another
and classes are jealous of one
another" he said.
It was in another time of
crisis that a man of God in
an ancient land exclaimed:
sThe pillars of the state are
fallingl What good thing can
a just man do?"
This is the challenging
question that Christians must
face today, Mr.. Harmon said:
when the pillars of the
Status quo are falling all
around us at home and over
seas, what should men and
women in Christian churches
be doing?
Indeed, what can we do
when some of the problems
seem so overpowering!"
The outcome or solution Of
the problem depends upon
the way each Christian ans
wers these questions - and
each Christian must decide
whether he will become a
part of the solution or part
Of the problem.
There are four attitudes of
mind and heart which Mr..
Harmon believes are worth
examining in an effort to de-
termine what, if anything, an
ordinary Christian man or
woman can do today under
prevailing conditions.
We can be either an escap-
list, a spectator, a Christian
of limited liability or we can
have direct participation in
helping to bring in the king
dom Of God.
When asked by a New
York friend "a Mississippi
born, Millsaps graduate) what
he was going to speak on to
the Jackson church, Mr.. Har-
mon told him his address
could be summed up in these
words: Hurry, hurry, folksl
Catch up with Bishop Gallo
way. He's only been dead 81
years."
He spoke Of the Bishops
total dedication to and in
volvement with the Kingdom
of God. This man for whom
the great church of Jackson
is named was neither an es-
capist or spectator with Ii
mited liability. He recalled
that the Bishops first church
assignment, as a man of 20,
was Sharon and Colored
Charge.
Mr.. Harmon reminded that
another friend, the late Judge
w. D. Anderson of the Mis-
sissippi Court had as his
first job after graduation a
teaching post in a Negro
school in northeast MISSISSIPPI
pi. He recalled that Senator
John SHARP Williams at a
picnic at Black Jack Baptist
Church in Yazoo County read
from the minute book of the
church of Negro participation
in the worship services. "How
tragic -. how shortsighted.