November 2016 0 This Month’S Meeting Features a Special Presentation: Garrett Gore
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The Belo Herald Newsletter of the Col. A. H. Belo Camp #49 And Journal of Unreconstructed Confederate Thought November 2016 0 This month’s meeting features a special presentation: Garrett Gore The Oh-So-Innocent Abolitionists The Belo Herald is an interactive newsletter. Click on the links to take you directly to additional internet resources. Col. A. H Belo Camp #49 Commander - David Hendricks st 1 Lt. Cmdr. - James Henderson nd 2 Lt. Cmdr. – Charles Heard Adjutant - Jim Echols Chaplain - Rev. Jerry Brown Editor - Nathan Bedford Forrest Contact us: WWW.BELOCAMP.COM http://www.facebook.com/BeloCamp49 Texas Division: http://www.scvtexas.org Have you paid your dues?? National: www.scv.org http://1800mydixie.com/ Come early (6:30pm), eat, fellowship with http://www.youtube.com/user/SCVORG Commander in Chief on Twitter at CiC@CiCSCV other members, learn your history! Our Next Meeting: Thursday, November 3rd: 7:00 pm La Madeleine Restaurant 3906 Lemmon Ave near Oak Lawn, Dallas, TX *we meet in the private meeting room. All meetings are open to the public and guests are welcome. "Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity." Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA Dec. 3rd 1865 Commander’s Report Dear BELO Compatriots, HELLO again. Hope each of you can make it this Thursday the 3rd to la Madeleine for the dinner hour from 6:00 – 7:00p.m. and our meeting starting at 7:01p.m. Looks like we will need to go thru the formality of elections for officers this meeting. I regret that I did not ask if anyone was interested in running for a camp position during our October meeting. With that said I believe that our current officers will gladly serve in their positions for 2017 if approved/re-elected. We should be able to get this accomplished fairly quickly during the meeting. Also please come prepared with some ideas for our December meeting/Christmas party. We welcome any thoughts. Not much time to talk politics this meeting since I hear we have a super fantastic speaker (and Sam Davis Youth Camp alumni) so we will need to give him plenty of time. Also bring them dollars for the books and other money you have laying around for things like Sam Davis Youth Camp. As always, bring a friend, spouse or a potential new member since we welcome all to our meetings. Please come out and support Belo Camp this Thursday. So years later, I hope it can be said for each one of us,“Decori decus addit avito”. Deo Vindice, David Hendricks [email protected] Chaplain’s Corner Meeting for the Better! On his second missionary journey, the Apostle Paul founded the church at Corinth. (Acts 18: 1-18) Then a few years later, while in Ephesus during his third journey, he was informed of problems in the Corinthian Church. In response, he wrote a lengthy letter to the troubled church, which we call First Corinthians. Even a casual reading of this letter will reveal that the church at Corinth was filled with confusion and doctrinal error. Twice in the eleventh chapter, Paul tells them plainly, "I praise you not." (vs. 17, 22) Corinth was a very large city of Greece located at the southwestern end of the isthmus between Peloponnesus and the rest of the region of Achaia. It was a port city and a major crossroad for trade in the Roman Empire. It was a city filled with a widely diverse population of varied backgrounds and unique ideologies. As the people of Corinth became part of the Corinthian Church, they brought with them their own individual ideas about Christianity, Christian Worship, and doctrinal issues. The result was bickering and infighting, as they split into various fractions within the church. Perhaps the Epistle of First Corinthians could be subtitled, "Don't Let This Happen to You!" In verse seventeen of the eleventh chapter of First Corinthians, the Apostle Paul, guided by the Holy Spirit of God, writes to the Corinthian Church, "Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse." Now, it would seem from this Scriptural statement, that their meetings were causing more harm than good. Then in the next verse Paul adds, "For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it." Their meetings were not resulting in agreement and unity, but in division, debate, and confusion over every issue. In verse 22b of that same chapter, Paul states firmly, "What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? I praise you not." At various times the Sons of Confederate Veterans meet together for a variety of reasons. From our monthly camp meetings to the National Reunion, all are important and in some way affect the future of our Confederation. Let us discuss our proposals, and present our ideas. But, when the meeting is over and the smoke clears, lets us learn the lesson taught to the Corinthians, and not repeat their error. Let us leave in agreement and unity as brothers in arms. It is not our diversity that binds us, but our common respect and desire to defend our historic Southern heritage, and honor our brave and noble Confederate forefathers. So, let us support our SCV leadership and work as one body to fulfill the commission presented to us in 1906 by General S.D. Lee. I believe that success for our Confederation depends on our unity. As you read this, we are only a few days away from our National Reunion in Murfreesboro. It is my prayer for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, that on this and every occasion when we come together, we can all say, "We met for the better and not for the worse." May God bless each of you in your service to Him and our just and most worthy Confederate Cause. Bro. Len Patterson, Th.D Past Chaplain, Army of Trans-Mississippi 1941-2013 Please keep in prayer the family of Confederate agrarian Franklin Sanders, whose wife Susan went to be with the th Lord on October 11 . An opportunity to provide a “IN ALL MY PERPLEXITIES AND memorial follows his notice on the following page. DISTRESSES THE IBLE HAS NEVER , B FAILED TO GIVE ME LIGHT AND STRENGTH.” -GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE Tuesday, 11 October a.d. 2016 IN MEMORIUM My Friend and Confederate Agrarian Franklin Sanders’ lovely wife passed away this month. In remembrance, I wish to share this tribute from Franklin. Susan was a fine Southern Lady and we will miss her. Please consider supporting her Christian work in the Prisons with a memorial. –Mark Brown Memorial For Susan Sanders Susan Sanders passed away suddenly on 11 October 2016. Please send memorials to Christ Our Hope Church, Box 195, WestPoint, Tennessee 38486 with “Susan memorial” in the memo line. Memorials will be used to provide Reformation Study Bibles to jail and prison inmates in Tennessee. Susan loved the Church’s jail ministry and was deeply involved in it. Dear Friends: My beloved wife of nearly 49 years, Susan Sanders, passed suddenly into the arms of Jesus this morning. She had her heart mitral valve repaired in 2008, replaced in 2012, and she had a pacemaker. Death held no fear for her. She had long ago made peace with death, and looked forward with certain faith to Jesus' embrace and hearing, "Well done, good & faithful servant! Enter into the joy of thy Lord." Susan died as she had always lived, serving God and others. She had gone outside to feed the dogs and was coming back into the kitchen to fetch her oatmeal and collapsed. I ran to her but she was gone so quickly. As Susan loved to say, she is now "Dancing with the angels." Susan was always joyful, always hopeful, always loving, and had to be bringing up seven children. Even in the depths of our federal trial in the early 1990s, I never heard a word of complaint escape her lips. Her favorite psalm was Psalm 103. The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD! Susan's funeral will take place Saturday at 1:00 p.m. at Christ Our Hope Reformed Episcopal Church in Westpoint, Tennessee. http://christourhoperec.com/ Please forgive us our slowness to respond in the next few day, understanding that our hearts and minds are wholly occupied with our loss. But we honor Susan by imitating her devotion to God and her duty, and will take care to fulfill all our obligations. It goes without saying, I will not be publishing a daily commentary until next week at the earliest. Please pray for me, for our seven children, and for our 15 grandchildren as we mourn the loss of our beloved, and rejoice in her rest and salvation. INTO thy hands, O merciful Savior, we commend the soul of thy servant, Susan, now departed from the body. Acknowledge, we humbly beseech thee, a sheep of thine own fold, a lamb of thine own flock, a sinner of thine own redeeming. Receive her into the arms of thy mercy, into the blessed rest of everlasting peace, and into the glorious company of the saints in light. Amen. Argentum et aurum comparanda sunt — Silver and gold must be bought. — Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger Visit our website! www.belocamp.com Not to miss in this issue! Memorial For Susan Sanders Cannon Firing Demonstration Nov 11-12 Calvin Allen’s Ranch (directions below) The Folly of The Numbers & Dollars Strategy and Hope or The Folly of Banking On Nickels and Noses – Rudy Ray Fighting Fire with Fire or Meeting the Enemy Head On – Rudy Ray Ole Miss: Confederate Statue Plaque Officially Revised Three cigars wrapped with paper- Lee's "Lost Order 191" & the fate of the Confederacy – Rudy Ray Lee & meNikki Haley on AmericanismNEW 2017 Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show rules The Faces of Hood’s Texas Brigade Seminar November 18th (Deadline Nov.