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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18,1976 THE TRIBUNAL AID Pace 3 'k-k-k-k'k-k-k-k'k'k'k'kitir-k-k-k-k'k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k'k-kirkii'kirirk ♦ THETRIBUNAT. AID WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 18,1976 * The Week’s Church Activities ★ -K PRINCE HALL MASONIC CORNER ASHEBORO - St. Luke's Second Anniversary INSTITUTE at Greater Mt. the Mt. Pleasant Baptist wide, and state level. The J by: C. M. Winchester 33 Degree Major S. High 33 Degree Young Adult Choir will be success. Zion Baptist Church the Church of Belmont, N.C. is church groups of Mt. -K celebrating their Second week of Feb. 23 through 27. still without a pastor, the Pleasant often sponsor^ Anniversary beginning on GASTONIA - The GAS­ The instructors will be as members are determined to programs. A case in point + Brother Aaron Lightner of High Point, Saturday night, February TON COUNTY BAPTIST follows: Mrs. J.A. Little, keep busy and united. They 21, 1976, at 7:30 and UNION, Mrs, Alfredia Brooks, Miss co-operate with the People's Department of the + Prince Hall Grand Lodge of North Carolina has February 22, 1976, at 3:30. Mrs. Willie M. Anderson, Elsie Grier, churches of Gaston County, Missionary Circle of i contributed outstanding and dedicated service to our Everyone is cordially invit­ President, is sponsoring its and are loyal to the Baptist Friendship Baptist Church Jurisdiction. For years he has been District Deputy ed to come help make this annual MISSION STUDY GASTONIA ■ Although causes on a local,1oC,t1_ countyroiintv- takingrnkina partnnrf in a program nm ornm at nt J Grand Master forf— Guilford, j r»„_iRockingham • . and Mt. Pleasant on Sunday + Caswell Counties. He has initiated several programs night, Feb, 1, 1976 at 7:30 ^ that are indicative of his innovative leadership in the p.m. + Piedmont Area of North Carolina. STATE DEATHS AND FUNERALS * * Deputy Lightner is a past Master and Member of Burial was in Piedmont ■¥ GREENSBORO were in charge of arrange­ conducted in Haizlip Fune­ GASTONIA - The Vocal + Toussaint Loverture Lodge #524: Greensboro ments. ral Home Chapel, the Rev. Memorial Garden. HAIZ­ Choir of the Friendship J Grand Deputy 6f The Holy LIP FUNERAL HOME was, MR. JOHN HAZEL, 50, F.O. Bass officiating. Baptist Church sponsored a Arch Masons of North Carolina; a Member of in chargc of all arrange­ of 1600 Asheboro Street, HIGH POINT Burial was in Greenhill FELLOWSHIP DINNER at J Grand Commandery of Knights Templer GIG Aaron Lightner 330 ments. died in his home. Funeral Cemetery. HAIZLIP FUN­ 7:30 p.m. in the Fellowship ? First lllustrous Potentate of Ahballah District Deputy Grand service was held in Brown’s MR. JAMES THOMAS ERAL HOME was in Hall Tuesday night. Feb ♦ Temple #189 of the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order Master THOMASVILLE Funeral Home Chapel. COLBERT, 67, of 707 E. charge of all arrangements. 10. After the devotional Tobies Mystic Shrine located at High Point. North Prince Hall Grand Lodge Burial was in Maplewood Washington Drive, died in MR. ARTHUR DAVIS, opening, Mrs. Lillian Arn^- ^ Carolina. Deputy Lightner is Chairman ot the Board Of North Carolina Cemetery. BROWN'S FU­ High Point Memorial Hos­ COURTNEY DeSEAN 711 Barrington Street, died strong, president of the Trustees of Calvary Baptist Church; a Building NERAL HOME Directors pital. Funeral service was COOPER, 4 day-old son of in his home. Funeral Vocal Choir, expressed ^ Contractor by Trade, a Member of the YMCA and Billy Ray and Juanita service was conducted at appreciation to the choir Beta Sigma Fraternity. In addition to the Graves Cooper of 1847 Brown New Calvary Baptist members for their loyalty % Deputy Lightner is a Member of several “IN Blain Street, died in High Church, the Rev. J.W. co-operation and s h e ‘^I’g^'ii^^ations. OUR Point Memorial Hospital. Flake officiating. Burial welcomed the invited guest J outstanding service to Prince Hall Masonry, Deputy Lightner was given Eulogistic services were was in Mt. Olivet Ceme­ TIME' choirs that were represent- Honorary 33 of the United Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted held at Haizlip Funeral tery. THOMAS-HAIZLIP ed. After the DINNER* J Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Prince Hall Affiliation, Southern Jurisdiction of Home Chapel, the Rev. FUNERAL HOME was in there w'ere song selections United States of America. With the help of leaders as Brother Lightner, the Belvin J. Jessup officiating. charge of all arrangements. in• which 1- everybody partici­ J ^J NNorth o rth PCarolina n m l i n a PritT/->P*Prince Hall flrrtnA Grand Lodge will continue ____ to grow.______by Rev. R. M. White Burial was in Carolina MR. LONZO [LONI pated. The pastor. Rev. Biblical Garden. HAIZLIP GATHRIGHT, 60. of 115 T.M. Walker, gave closing Brother Lightner is married to Dorothy D. Lightner and they have three FUNERAL HOME was in In my weekly readings, I came upon a book by Oral South Street, was DOA at remarks and the benedic­ daughters. charge of all arrangements. Roberts, Healing for the Whole Man. It brought across Community General Hospi­ tion. J to me such a dynamic picture of Christ's purpose that I MR. CHARLES JAMES tal. Funeral service was LAST WEEK’S QUESTION: How many years did Dr. James E. Shepard serve J wanted to share it with you. DUNLAP, 21, of 800 Carter held at Jones .Chapel the Grand Lodge of North Carolina as Grand Master? “WILT THOU BE MADE WHOLE?” Street, died in High Point Baptist Church, Com­ Jf >♦- “The man at the Pool of Bethesda is a picture of the Memorial Hospital. Fune­ merce, Ga. Burial was in The Veterans Administra­ ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S QUESTION: Dr. Shepard served as Grand J human race - all of us, regardless of who we are or ral service was held at the the Church Cemetery. tion manages an insurance where we live. He is a picture of an individual who is Amos Street Church of God THOMAS-HAIZLIP FUN­ program of 8.9 million poli- ? Master from the year 1920 to 1928 and from (he year 1936 to the year 1947. lying down inside as well as outside and who needs of Prophecy, the Rev. Floyd ERAL HOME was in cies with a face value of ■¥ D. Collins officiating. $90.8 billion. healing for the whole man. “ Healing" is a term charge of arrangements. QUESTION: What Church was Rev. connected withO meaning deliverance, and is not to be confined to any one category, either physical, mental or spiritual. * J Healing is for the total person - his soul, his mind, his body. Nearly everybody in the world is sick in some way. Sickness is not always an infirmity of the body. People j COUPON Continued from Page 1 are sick in many ways. Some feel it in their bodies. others that Blacks should j FIVE TOWELS Others become upset and distressed in mind and soul. result Blacks withdrew I We iie ii)trcKlucin(; a new line of incredibly piacti have a separate church. REFERENCES: I cal unwoven cotton and rayon towels and would Many have terrible spiritual problems over which they from John Street Methodist I like you to be the first to try l ^e m Ihese are lust The decision was made franklin, JOHN HOPE, I gualtty-detinitely not seconds Episcopal church and FROM have gained little victory. when, on one occasion, the SLAVERY TO I FIVE TOWELS IN VARtOUS PASTEL COLORS On this occasion Jesus had come into Jerusalem and established the AFRICAN I (Please send SI 00 per set to cover all costs i officials pulled ALLEN, FREEDOM. NEW YORK I ^ MAXIM UM 2 SETS PER PERSON found His way to the Pool of Bethesda, which was by e pisco pa l VANTAGE BOOKS EDI- I f j Enclosed $1 tw I set o( five towets ABSOLOM JONES, AND I Q inclosed S2 for 2 sets of five towels the market place. There He saw a great multitude of ZION CHURCH in 1796. TION March 1969. WILLIAM WHITE from I Name distressed, diseased and afflicted people who had Leading this movement We care...= their knees during prayer. QUARLES, BENJAMIN j Address were PETER WILLIAMS, exhausted all other sources of help. They were at this THE NEGRO IN THE I Cily ALLEN immediately or­ father of the first Black H tlZ lIP FUNEIAL HOME INC. pool because of an ancient legend that said at a certain MAKING OF AMERICA I Slate Zip ganized the independent Priest in the Protestant 206 4th St. - High Point - 882-4131 season each year an angel would come and stir up the NEW YORK COLLIER j Send to STERLING HOUSE FREE AFRICAN SOCIETY Episcopal Church, JAMES 108 Church St. - Thomasville - 476-7472 M l SterlinE Road , oyrm g Valley N V 10 9/7 j waters and whoever stepped in first was healed of BOOKS, 1964. with the help of ABSOLOM VARICK elected the first whatever disease he had. JONES, JONES did not Jesus walked among these people seeking someone Bishop in 1882, GEORGE continue to cooperate with COLLINS, ND CHRISTO­ who had faith and would respond to the power of God. ALLEN none-the-less he And He found one who would - a man who had been PHER RUSH. These men was able to organize and could find no one in either lying thirty-eight years on his small pallet. Looking at dedicate the BETHEL the Episcopal or the the man, Jesus said, “Wilt Thou be made whole?” CHURCH in 1794. Bishop The man misunderstood Jesus. He thought Christ Methodist church who Asbury ordained him dea­ would ordain and conse­ was referring to the healing of his impotent body in the con in 1799, and later he crate their elders, and w'aters of the Pool of Bethesda. The man replied, “ Sir, I was elevated to the status have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into finally they had to it of an elder. His church themselves. Overcoming the pool; but while I am coming, another steppeth down became known as the before me." many divisions within and BETHEL AFRICAN opposition without the He thought Jesus was talking about the healing for METHODIST EPISCOPAL church was stable enough his body only. Jesus was including the healing of the CHURCH. man's body, but more than that. He was introducing by 1822 to elect a bishop Branches of the AME and to set up a program of him to the whole man concept of the gospel of Jesus church began to spring up Christ. expansion. in Wilmington, In 1809 Thirteen Black The Christian view is that man is a spirit made in the and towns in Pennsylvania image of God. He has a mind with a free will. And he members of a White and New Jersey. A number Baptist church in Philadel­ lives inside a muscle and bone house covered with skin. of able persons such as The body is the outer man. The soul is the inner man. phia were dismissed. They DANIEL COKER, MORRIS formed their own church The mind is the middle man linking spirit and body BROWN. ND NICHOLSON together. under the leadership of GILLIARD came to AL­ REV. BURROWS, a former There are people who have built their religion on the LEN’S aid. The church In 41 Black slave. This church became colleges today there mind, and that is good, up to a point. However, in the grew in strength until by final analysis, it breaks down because the mind is only an important institution are thousands of 1816 it was possible to bind among Blacks of that dedicated students the link between the soul and the body. It is the soul the church together in a who wont an that is the real person. community. education. Some oi formal organization. The Black Baptists of Boston, Christ spoke to the spirit of the man which He. conference chose DANIEL them may never get Himself had fashioned, saying, “ Will YOU-the man under the leadership of it. Their schools are COKER as its Bishop, but REV. THOMAS PAUL, in desperate need of inside that muscle and bone house—be made whole? he resigned and ALLEN money. Your Will YOU be set free?" organized their church in was elected to fill the 1809. Rev. Paul, at about contributions can In my ministry I have laid my hands in prayer upon vacancy. The Conference help these schools. more than a million people suffering with virtually the same time was assisting It's important. adopted a book of discipline in organizing the church in A mind is a every sickness with which man is afflicted. I have come similar to that of Wesley- to believe that if the soul is sick, it affects the mind and New York that later became terrible thing to waste. ans, thus the AME known as the ABYSSINIAN the body and soul. If the body is sick, the mind and CHURCH became the spirit are affected.® BAPTIST CHURCH. Give to the leading organization among “ Disease" can be explained ‘dis'-ease, meaning not Blacks took the initiative Black Methodist. at ease. The body, when it is sick, is not at ease. When in bringing about separa­ the mind is filled with fear, anxiety, inner conflicts and By 1820 for tion. but not until it was Blacks flourished, but the 55 E. 52nd St. frustrations, it is not at ease. It is sick. When the soul is obvious that they were not New York, N.Y. 10022 VESEY insurrection of 1822 welcome in White churchs. not right, when it is laboring under sin and a conscience Pr5;cg'a5^ed by L»m bf»y which has offense toward man and God. it is sick. It is a brought strong opposition The Black church became ‘dis'-eased soul, one not at ease. to Black organizations and an important place in the checked the growth of Man's most severe struggle is within himself. The life of Blacks. “My mother is scrubbing floors body and mind, keenly responsible to the soul, feel the BLACK METHODISM in Southern states. impact of the soul's fears and weaknesses and are easy so I can become a doctor. prey for mental and physical ills. The Di-Gcl When Jesus asked the man. “Wilt thou be made The White Methodist of D ifference Now my school is running out New York had the same whole? He was saying that when one part of you is ill. Anti'Gas medicine feeling toward Blacks as the whole man is affected. He was also saying sickness Di'Gel adds to its of money” those of , as a is imcompatible with the whole man." . so o th in g A ntacids. should you like my views on certain religious^ questions or should you like to share your Christian Register experiences with our readers, simply write; "In Our Time'’ c/o THE TRIBUNAL AID, P.O. Box 921, High Point, N.C. 27261. A Public Service o( This N ew sM pc & The Advertising Courx>l