Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 16, 1964 Page: 2 of 16
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Claude, Texas JAN. 16, 1964.
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'Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship 11:00 a.m
Training- Union 6:00 p.m.
Evening Worship 7:00 p.m.
Prayer Meeting, Wednesday 7:00 p.m.
Meet Your Friends At
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Claude, Texas
"Spare thy people, O Lord, and give
not thine heritage to reproach, that
the heathen should rule over them:
wherefore should they say among the
people, Where is their God?" Joel 2:17
Heavenly bread
Moments of Meditation
by FreJiui XV. Bennett
schools violates the First Amend- the Commonwealth of Massach-
ment to the Constitution. That usetts, himself a negro, is not in
Amendment reads as follows: a position to be cognizant of what
"Congress shall make no law is involved in the fact that the
respecting an establishment of Anglo-Saxon-Celtic peoples are
i I religion, or prohibiting the free the Israel of God in the world to-
Then ..said ..the ..LORD ..unto exercise thereof; or abridging the day and are in possession of a
Moses, Behold, I will rain bread freedom of speech, or of the press; heritage of thousands of years
from heaven for you; and the 0r the right of the people peace- of civilization. Furthermore, they
people shall go out and gather abiy to assemble and to petition are the custodians of a code of
a certain rate every day, that I the government for a redress of law and conduct that stems from
may prove them, whether they grievances." the day when our forefathers were
will walk in my law, or no. Ex- Note carefully that "it is Con- encamped on Mount Sinai and the
odus 16:4. gress that shall make no laws Lord God Jehovah gave them the
In mercy to the children of Is- respecting the establishment of Commandments, Statutes and
rael, God gave them bread from religion." Congress has passed no Judgments to be administered as
heaven instead of the judgment SUch law. Actually the Supreme the law of the land from that
they deserved. God heard their Court of the United States is it- generation to this.
murmerings, was grieved with that seif violating the Constitution by May our nation awaken soon to
generation, and yet in pity to prohibiting the free exercise of a recognition of its origin and the
them continued to care for them, religion in a community that acceptance of its Divine heritage,
To realize that God hears us chooses to have Bible reading for compelling those who are aliens
when we murmer and complain its school children. Each city and to 0U1' birthright to desist from
about His providence concerning town should have the right, un- undertaking to prevent us and our
us, ought to make us ashamed, der the First Amendment to our children from honoring the Lord
We need to remember that we are Constitution, to say whether or our God who has blessed us be-
not worthy of the least of all the not prayers and Bible readings y°nd measure from our beginning
mercies that God has so gracious- will be a part of the procedure as a nation.
ly bestowed upon us. jn their local schools. It is Con-
God gave them bread to try gress, not the State, not the city, -- - - —
them. Would they depend upon not a town or any committee, " "T
Him for their daily food? Do we that is enjoined to take action by
really trust God when we pray: the First Amendment to the Con-
"Give us this day our daily stitution—an Amendment placed
bread? Have we learned to do there by our forefathers to pre-
our best and then look up in vent the interference with the
humble faith to God for our local exercise of freedom of re-
needs for tomorrow? Comparison ligion.
with the children of Israel, how As pointed out in "The Rights
do we stand the test? 0f God," Destiny for September
God gave them bread from 1963, our nation was founded by
heaven to be spiritual food for God-fearing men who had no in-
their souls. Has He provided spiri- tention of relegating the Bible to
tual food for us today? Yes! a place among the forgotten liter-
Jesus said, "I am the bread of ature. They were concerned lest
life: he that cometh to me shall the Federal Government under-
never hunger; and he that be- take to curb the exercise of the
lieveth on me shall never thirst." freedom of worship. This the Sup-
Christ is the living, quickening, veme Court of the United States
powerful Word of God—a spiri- is now undertaking to do. It never
tual feast of good things open entered the minds of our fore-
before us in the Bible. Jesus said: fathers that the recognition of
"Blessed are they which do hun- God and His Written Word—the
ger and thirst after righteousness: Bible—would be forbidden among
for they shall be filled." the people of this Christian coun-
How we need to learn that man try.
cannot live by bread alone but by a decision of the Supreme Court
every word that proceedeth out is the law of the case—not the
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[lev. KOBERT II. HARPER
Howard B. Rand, Editor
Destiny Magazine
Merrimac, Mass.
The school committee of North
Bookfield, Massachusetts, has de-
of the mouth of God. iaw of the land—nor are its de-
cisions a part of the Constitution
I °f the United States. The Attor-
LOOSi/ I:GctSOHIIlff ney-General of Massachusetts is
absolutely in error on this point.
No one, other than the individuals
who are involved in a specific
court action, can be held in con-
tempt of court for failure to con-
form with a decision of the Su-
fi., ., preme Court. Such a decision may
fied the Supreme Court of the r , , , ..
tt-i* j c.4. * i i- • become a precedent for the es-
Umted States by continuing pray- r ,, ,.
er and Bible reading in its ^ I rUlingS, 111
schools. The Attorney-General of f' ^ 11 fance; u'lless
the Commonwealth of Massachu- H,.n(y.npiri iu '"> eett° '
„ . , . Brookfield, Massachusetts, is it-
setts, Edward W. Brooke, has 111- _„1f K_-,,'Kf ' ,
. j, . . ., ., , , selt brought into court and a
terfered in the situation bv send- , , ... „
ing a letter ordering the School ZT roTn
Committee of North Brookfield to nriictiee thpv ' piesent
comply with the Supreme Court's temnt of court- nm- ti" C°n"
v.- t, i i. , tempt oi court nor are thev vio-
ruling which seeks to prohibit lating the constitution of the
Bible reading and prayer in pub- United states
lie schools. Warning that the (V,D . .. ...
School Committee had embarked lous t0 undertake 'to 1 £
on a drastic course he stated: cision of a „
They are public officials. They constitution, for if this was true
A PROFILE OF COURAGE
When the late John Fitzgerald
Kennedy wrote his book Pro-
files of Courage, he could not
know that his devoted wife, in a
tragic hour, would qualify as one
who might have been included in
his book. For Mrs. Jacqueline
Kennedy has demonstrated the
heroism which a historian has
written "not infrequently scourges
from the soul of womanhood."
Cradling her slain husband's
head in her arms as he was rushed
to a hospital in Dallas and soon
thereafter arriving in Washington
with his blood on the dress she
wore, Mi's. Kennedy has given the
world an imperishable example
of the way a high-horn woman
may walk down the dark \a ley
of the shadow of death, when the
rod and staff of Gol conifo: • her.
We accord her a sure pla? j
miong the 'reat women who have
adorned the pages of history,
and we confidently b • i . • that
when "the sands of trie des rt
grow cold and the infinite num-
bers are told ' the name of Jac-
queline Kc.v'O'iy will ! f mm!
inscribed in letters of ii-iht lha-.
shall shine mow a.i 1 re in
the Lamb's book <.fh.". :■ :terj
thai shall glow throughout all the
perfect day.
have taken an oath to uphold the th„ v, \i
„«• ... tne coults would have the power
It
a case. As pointed out in The
Constitution like the rest of us to nmpnri Z , , P°We'"
. _ ., to amend and change tlie nn'i-
have. I consider this (defiance) is stltution „ b da
a violation of that oath." y ueLluea
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This statement shows the loose Rights of God"
reasoning on the part of the At- ..The fl " Cq
torney-General who should be a ited stat b ^ ™ uv
man IVP versprt in inrisnruHonsoi .... ucioiun, un-
man well versed in jurisprudence. dertaking t'0 nullif fche
Since when has a Supreme Court datjon on whjch ■ greatnef°im
decision automatically become a thu naHnn f. . . .'
thls natlon rests; that is, the ack-
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part of the Constitution of the nowlprifmont
United States? There is only one ^Tur 7a on 2? "V ,°°d
method by which the Constitution ment of Hi m-ovident^
can be changed or amended and «coL4^ £Z « ll
it is not by any decision on the and Saviogur p^pTe" '
part of a court. If this were true, Wp „ , .|3e°P^-
then the Supreme Court would be based nnon ™,r f.?'!°US ^e'ltage
in a position to amend the Con- iri iust in God and
stitution at its will without Con- Saxon heritn!rpSS -/S-an ^ngl°" J BEAUTIFULLY engraved lnvl-
gressional action or the approval Dvisinp. thnf R0 ls not sur" J"1,1"118 f°r all occasions See the
of the people through their state are Jt s a s in our midst J°vely "Flower Line" at The
legislators. God forbid! rilL arI"s a&a'nst a birth- Claude News office if you aro
The supreme court has held!?' E2, w.^ch the>; h,ve no • ucckl erent
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