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By George Miller
Your Turn
'No Segregated Services Here'
As man travels through the
vacuum of time, as man and
wife constantly do battle with
this ambiguous thing called life,
we are constantly made a war a
or the unrealistic ideologies of
contemporary Mississippi and
the world. Among these ideologies are the principles of prejudices and segregation (which is
a by-product of prejudice). Man
ls constantly legislating the idea
of segregation OUT of society.
He is constantly finding ways to
bring Blacks and Whites closer
to that inevitable brotherhood
through law. But the first Amendment of the Constitution restricts
government intervention into the
religious side of the racial issue.
People are projecting the opinion that there is no real religious
decision to the moral issue.
James 2:2-9 tells us, "SuPpose a rich man wearing a gold
ring and fine clothes comes into
your meeting and a poor man in
ragged clothes also comes in.
If you show more respect to
the we I-dressed man and say,
Have the best seat, but say to
the poor man, stand, or sit down
on the floor by my seat, then
you are guilty of cheating distinctions among yourselves and
making judgements based on evil
notives ....
You will be doing the right
thing if you obey the law of the
Kingdom, which is found in the
scripture, "Love thy neighbor
as yourself." But if you treat
people according to their outward appearances you are guilty
of sin, and the Law condemns
you as a lawbreaker.
Sunday morning May 2, 1971 I
and three other MSU students
decided we would attend the First
Baptist Church in Starkville. As
we approached the church a downfallen feeling overcame me because I knew what was going
to happen, I would be denied the
pleasure of listening to the word
of God. When we stepped into
the lobby an usher put his hand
in my chest and said, "We don't
have segregated services here."
I knew he meant intergrated services, but still I questioned if
God saw colors. As previously
stated James 2:2-9 warns us
against prejudices against our
fellow man. The Church is the
only institution where it will be
solely left to the individual to
decide which course it will take
the right or the wrong.
While religion is projected or
comes from the worldly, the
church ( the body of Christ) is
very much in the world. It wm
find itself in certain social situations, and its reactions are determined by its environment but
must be governed by the BIBLE.
The church, whose history began in Pentecost, must serve as
the balancing force between the
conflict of black and white.
Christianity has been accompanied and is projectedbyasymbolism of color. This abbreviation has formed and stimulated a
sensitivity to color that extends
even to people who claim to be
detached from religions. It has
created a "backwash" of fixed
impressions and attitudes difficult to erase.
Racial hatred has not evolved
solely from this color stigma;
nor can it be fully explained by
economic causes alone.
The
explains
Racial question is,
James Weldon Johnson, "the
saving of the Blackman's body
and white America's soul." ยท
We must realize that our society is a complicated one. It is
one where a mere mistreatment
of a cat can cause great concern, or a terrible wrongdoing
can go unseen. We must sit at
the roundtable or Brotherhood
and so as John Kennedy said in
his inaugural addt"ess, "With
conscience as our guide and history as the final judge of our
deeds, let us go forward to lead
the land we love asking his blessing and his help but knowing
that here on earth ,. . God's wo:rk
must truly be our own."
Your Turn
'No Segregated Services Here'
As man travels through the
vacuum of time, as man and
wife constantly do battle with
this ambiguous thing called life,
we are constantly made a war a
or the unrealistic ideologies of
contemporary Mississippi and
the world. Among these ideologies are the principles of prejudices and segregation (which is
a by-product of prejudice). Man
ls constantly legislating the idea
of segregation OUT of society.
He is constantly finding ways to
bring Blacks and Whites closer
to that inevitable brotherhood
through law. But the first Amendment of the Constitution restricts
government intervention into the
religious side of the racial issue.
People are projecting the opinion that there is no real religious
decision to the moral issue.
James 2:2-9 tells us, "SuPpose a rich man wearing a gold
ring and fine clothes comes into
your meeting and a poor man in
ragged clothes also comes in.
If you show more respect to
the we I-dressed man and say,
Have the best seat, but say to
the poor man, stand, or sit down
on the floor by my seat, then
you are guilty of cheating distinctions among yourselves and
making judgements based on evil
notives ....
You will be doing the right
thing if you obey the law of the
Kingdom, which is found in the
scripture, "Love thy neighbor
as yourself." But if you treat
people according to their outward appearances you are guilty
of sin, and the Law condemns
you as a lawbreaker.
Sunday morning May 2, 1971 I
and three other MSU students
decided we would attend the First
Baptist Church in Starkville. As
we approached the church a downfallen feeling overcame me because I knew what was going
to happen, I would be denied the
pleasure of listening to the word
of God. When we stepped into
the lobby an usher put his hand
in my chest and said, "We don't
have segregated services here."
I knew he meant intergrated services, but still I questioned if
God saw colors. As previously
stated James 2:2-9 warns us
against prejudices against our
fellow man. The Church is the
only institution where it will be
solely left to the individual to
decide which course it will take
the right or the wrong.
While religion is projected or
comes from the worldly, the
church ( the body of Christ) is
very much in the world. It wm
find itself in certain social situations, and its reactions are determined by its environment but
must be governed by the BIBLE.
The church, whose history began in Pentecost, must serve as
the balancing force between the
conflict of black and white.
Christianity has been accompanied and is projectedbyasymbolism of color. This abbreviation has formed and stimulated a
sensitivity to color that extends
even to people who claim to be
detached from religions. It has
created a "backwash" of fixed
impressions and attitudes difficult to erase.
Racial hatred has not evolved
solely from this color stigma;
nor can it be fully explained by
economic causes alone.
The
explains
Racial question is,
James Weldon Johnson, "the
saving of the Blackman's body
and white America's soul." ยท
We must realize that our society is a complicated one. It is
one where a mere mistreatment
of a cat can cause great concern, or a terrible wrongdoing
can go unseen. We must sit at
the roundtable or Brotherhood
and so as John Kennedy said in
his inaugural addt"ess, "With
conscience as our guide and history as the final judge of our
deeds, let us go forward to lead
the land we love asking his blessing and his help but knowing
that here on earth ,. . God's wo:rk
must truly be our own."