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TDn@ W©nee _PUBLISHED WEEKLY “Dedicated to the promotion ol the cultural social and spiritual iife of a great people ’ Melvin L. Shakespeare r Publisher and Editoi Busu.ess Address 2225 S Street Phone 2-4085 U No Answer Call a-1508 Kubie A Shakespeare. Advertising ana Business Managei Dorothy Greene . Office Secretary Mrs Joe Greene ..Circulation Manager Member of the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association . .Entered as Second Class Mutter, June 9 1947 *t the Post Office at Lincoln, ilebrasKa under the Act of March 3 1879 4 wear niwwlatlqB. . $2.00 Single copy..fo 1 RTHTORIALS The vlewu expit-sseo in these columns ire those ol the w.itei ana not necessarily 1 reflection ol the policy of The Voice. Puh. m Southern California Conference Where There is No \ ision the People Perish By Mrs. Camilla Leftridge, Los Angeles, California Today’s condition is in need of itrong, fearless, consecrated lead ers who have a vision of this great program in the expansion ef kingdom building. There must be faith in God and confidence in self and love for ones fellow man. Our Bishop Walker had a vision in awakening Fifth district up to their duties. We have taken on i new life under President Stafford. Making our start from Kansas City, we have been going ever since. We made our first report to our annual conference in San Diego, Calif., on September 6. These are times for high and hon est decisions, which is expensive, but it pays at the end of the har vest. God’s men who are his trumpets must co-operate with him, to wake up the slumbering world, we must be happy warrior in arms, with the will to serve this present age. As laymen we must be steadfast and unmovable, always abounding in the works of the Lord. From the Mailbag Dear Editor: Within a few days I plan to send a write up about the Lay man’s League. I think The Voice is just fine. I will send the group list later. St. Paul A.M E. Church, St. Louis, Mo. J. E. Bell, President Laymen League. Missouri Conference Nebraska Conference Like Voice Dear Editor: Our league is impressed with the first edition of lay news. En closed you wiH find 26 subscrip tions. We are out to get “a sub scription in every home.** Mrs Bessie Walton, Secy. Trinity A.M.E. Church, • Kansas City, Kas. So. Calif. Conference Sends Report Dear Editor: Enclosed you will find money order for assessment and extra copies of The Voice. W. E. Webb, Treasurer Los Angeles, Calif. Colorado Conference Will Present Voice Dear Editor: Enclosed you will find money for the extra papers. Our annual conference will be held Septem ber 20 at Tucson. Ariz., and I will present copies of this very fine issue of laymen news. A. L Mitchell, president. It is Renewal Time for many —Be sure your Subscription is Paid Up. To Form New Civil Rights Group PHILADELPHIA. (ANP). Mrs. Maude B. Richardson of Brooklyn is here in Philadelphia to find a new Council for Equal Oppor tunity. In New York, Mrs. Richardson is the founder of a similar organ ization of the same name. There the CEO has won more than 100 jobs for Negroes in places where they never worked before. It has 300 members. Mrs. Richardson said that same day she would like to see CEO become a national organization. Although mother of five children, she is also active in the political front as well as on the civic. She is the first woman of her race to be elected to the republican state committee of New York. Notes of Interest The Rev, R. G. Nathan, pastor of Newman Methodist church, has returned from Boston with his family. Rev. Mr. Nathan has been serving the church here since May 30. VINE ST. MARKET GROCERIES & MEATS 22nd and Vine 2-6585 — 2-65*4 ---—' SUBSCRIPTION BLANK THE VOICE P. O. Box 2023 Lincoln 3. Neb. Enclosed find $ . for .years subscriptions to The Voice. Name . Street ... City . Representative I Your City Light Department Greetings from the 9th The Ninth Episcopal District (Alabama) wishes to extend to the Staff of the Voice our best wishes. You have instituted some thing for the Laymen in the Gen- ■ eral Connection of the A.M.E. Church which will stimulate much interest and set an example for other Districts to follow. We, in the Ninth, feel that the Laymen are the backbone of the Church and need all the informa tion we can get. We labor day in and day out in an effort to meet j the physical requirements of our Church. We do our best to meet the demands of our leaders. We seldom get any information how finance raised is distributed. We should be concerned. Publication periodically should be made in some manner so as to be dis tributed among the lawmen. Such a publication as you have would j be an excellent medium. We have been held back here in Alabama and consequently we have been slow getting started with a working organization. Our situation was reported by the 9th Episcopal Lay President at the Bishop’s Council at Jacksonville, Fla. We are now in the process of convincing our Bishop that we mean well and are determined to press forward. We hope by Gen eral Conference time that we will definitely be in line and able to stand w’ith other districts who have done such magnificent work. Our hats go off to the “Voice” and the Fifth District. I venture to say there will be other dis tricts to follow in your footsteps ere long. Best wishes from the 9th Episcopal Laymen’s League. W. E . Shortridge, President. Greetings from the 3rd The Third Episcopal District Lay Organization welcomes the Fifth District Lay Organization into the ranks of organized lay groups of the connection. We have just pride in the lead ership of your district bishop, D. Ormand Walker and Presi dent George Jones with whom I have had the distinguished privi lege to serve as an officer and co-worker in the pastorate, lay movement and general confer ences. Bishop Walker is my ideal as a bishop and Brother Jones is a devout and Christian gentle man. A great challenge is up to the lay men who have made so many gains through the co-operation and sacrificial service we have had from leaders aa you have heading your district. The Voice goes forth to meet the challenge of true and forthright Chris tian service in the church If the church is to maintain its hold upon the people a new leadership must be produced. I firmly believe that the church of tomorrow will, through thought ful. regenerated, and consecrated clergy and laity, filled with the spirit of Christ, and seeking to restore to its rightful place through Faith. Hope and Love, regain its former prestige We greet and welcome The Voice in this crucial hour to ad dress itself to the conscience; aim at the appropriation of Salvation for every individual; introducing a new spiritual energy into the lives of men and seeking to bind all Christian believers in the bond of LOVE. Were the church of today op erating upon love, there would be less bickerings in the council of bishops, ministerial confer - ferences; less occasion for secular papers airing, to the detriment of the church, internal affairs; less seeking to destray men for places of preferred honor. I am predicting a new birth in an atmosphere of free thinking; free expression; unencumbered and untrampled Christian lead ers with a social, moral, intel lectual and spiritual outlook among an inspired, informed and aroused LAYMEN. Faithfully and Respectfully R. J. Gardner, President Third Episcopal District Lay Organization. It is Renewal Time for many —Be sure your Subscription is Paid Up. What Is the Matter With the World? By Mrs. Ollie M. Blount Kansas City, Kansas Nebraska Conference Guest Editorial Mrs. Blount, director of reliKious educa tion. First AME Church, Kansas City, Kansas, is the wife of Dr. Wm. Blount, prominent physician in Kansas City. This is first in a series of arllcles written for The Voice to be of special interest to lay men of all denominations. The world is ill, seriously ill, but not beyond hope. Where there is life, there is always hope. No one needs to be told that these are troubled times. When we read the newspapers, the various circulars, magazines, pamphlets and books; and now even the ex pression on many of the faces of human beings here in America and elsewhere; listen to lectures, discussions, forums, by prepared minds from town hall, churches and from radio studios; it is evi dent that there is trouble in the human heart and mind. There is expressed degrees of instability in the inner life easily recognized. This sickness does not need to become chronic. If we are to ever recover, something must be done, and something drastic must be done now, right now. Our Lord said: “Ye are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted?” Some may say, “I am only one, what can I do? An individual isn’t much. But he is all there is. Jesus started the Christian move ment with a few ordinary persons; disciples—but they became impor tant persons. From this ordinary small beginning was the founda tion and the bulwark of the Chris tian Church. If we are to have a Christian world, then the indi- 1 vidual matters. There is no Christian world apart from indi vidual Christian lives. For our lives are so closely tied to one an other through business, education, government and all phases of our corporate living. If when seeing there is some thing wrong with the world and if when concluding that something must be done about it, why not get down to the source of the trouble, and begin treating the symptoms now, less the malady become malignant. Many practitioners and doctors have given their diagnosis, poli ticians, statesmen and peacemak ers have done their best in treat ing the symptoms. But we can not hope to cure a sick world, when conditions remain, that are responsible for its ills. The world is in need. The world s hungry. The world is fearful. The world needs consoling. The world is lonely. The world needs For Everything in HARDWARE Baker Hardware 101 No. 9th 2-3710 BEAL'S GROCERY PvMh Fruits & Vegetable* 2104 B T«L 1*6W3 kindness. The world is misin formed. The world needs under standing. The world is ignorant. The world needs knowledge. The world is disappointed and fi us- -*» trated. The world needs assur ance. The world is confused and disillusioned. The world needs security. The world is baffled. The world needs clear thinking. The individual Christian may feel overwhelmed in his thinking of these many needs and many more. But when we think of how Jesus, our Christ fed the thousands with five small loaves and two fish, can we do less by sharing our loaves and fish as the little boy did? And when they shall have God’s blessings, will they not feed thousands, yea ten thousands? But, they will not feed one, unless we work with God’s approval. As long as man feels he is all, and has control of things, his efforts will end in de feat. But if he is inspired by tt->e spirit of love that surpasseth all understanding, all these prob'ems of mankind, all the needs of this feeble and puny world, all the symptoms of this diseased world, will fade into oblivion. It is the Christians’ paramount task to put a new spirit into the world. Where there is hate, rut kindness; where there is confu sion, give understanding; where there is scorn, lend brotherhood; where there is loneliness and des pair, give security; where there is bewilderment, displace with grievance, pertinent Christian action. Let love rule our daily lives. (T« Be iniK-ii N>*l WVf k I. Pastor Addresses Portland League Puget Sound Conference On August 14, Mrs. Georgia Marshall, vice president of the 5th District Laymen’s League, or ganized a local lay league at Bethel church, Portland, Oregon. Officers elected were: Mrs. M. B. Jackson, president; Mrs. Helloise Hill, vice president; Mrs. Margaret McGuire, secretary; Mrs. B. 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