IQ—bmmter F«rmlng'.‘ ‘Ma r" 2, 1974
In this age of stiff competition
between nations, it doesn’t make
sense to waste effort end resources.
When thinking of resources, most
people conjure up visions of oil wells
and forests, rivers, farmland, mineral
deposits and the like. This overlooks
the fact that the most valuable
resource which any nation has is the
intelligence and ingenuity of its
citizens, combined with the ability of
its economic system to produce the
goods and services that people need.
It is hardly advantageous to have
trees in a forest unless someone can
make boards out of them to build
to Remember
Any fortune-tellers peering into the
mists of the future would be forgiven
if they felt a little disheartened at first
by visions of unemployment, Mideast
tensions, shortages in everything
from gasoline to bathroom tissue and
prices which move ever-upward -
seemingly at the speed of light
Life has never been easy, and it
doesn’t promise to blossom into a
paradise for quite sometime But no
matter how tough the going gets, we
are confident the American people
“Grassroots Opinion”
OZARK, ALA, SOUTHERN STAR
"Many things in our life-style will be
changed if and when gas rationing
goes into effect One industry that
has been booming will feel a
tremendous pinch, that being the far
flung and many-faceted industry of
tourism With airlines cutting back
flights, and with the threatened
shortage of gasoline, diesel fuel etc, it
makes you wonder if you’ll see a
resurgence of rail travel with the
reappearance of the steam
locomotive This may be impractical,
bui it may come to pass as we explore
alternate means of travel rather than
Our Greatest
Resource
A Year
homes Oil in the ground, unless there
is some way to transform it into
gasoline at the local service station
pump, is of little use. U.S.-style
private enterprise working with the
incentives, as well as the disciplines
of the free market, is the greatest
device ever created when it comes to
providing jobs and turning out things
people need to live reasonably
comfortable and pleasant lives m the
.midst of relatively hostile natural
surroundings. It is the greatest
resource the nation has. We should
take care of it
will pull through. The brand-new
pages of yet another year have barely
been creased, and while the story it
has yet to tell will not be without
unhappy moments, surely the U. S
system of free enterprise and justice
under law will overcome any tem
porary setbacks to emerge trium
phant If we will just have faith in
ourselves and our country, 1974 can
be a year of accomplishment to
remember
jumping into the gas gulping, high
powered family auto, and zoom 70-80
miles an hour over 4-lane highways
We may still be able to go places, but
it may be at a much slower pace ”
XXX
"Des Moines zoo director Robert
Elgin has a roaring good idea,” notes
an American Mutual Insurance
Alliance publication, “on how to
discourage vandals Following a
costly incident where vandals
sprayed zoo animals with paint and
set some species free, Elgin provided
the zoo community with a roving
watchdog A lion was allowed to
patrol the enclosure after dark "
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PENTECOSTAL
PURPOSE
Leuon for March S, 1*74
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Background Scripture: Acts
1 through 2.
Devotional Reading: Isaiah
6:H.
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If what happened in
Jerusalem on the Day of
Pentecost happened in your
church, your minister, your
congregation, or both would
probably be in trouble. There
is little room for the Pen
tecostal experience in the
lives of most churches. Most
church worship services are
designed to be the very
opposite of the experience of
the Jerusalem Church on
Pentecost. Our services are,
for the most part, intended to
be unexciting, undramatic,
and certainly not spon
taneous.
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Filled with the Holy Spirit
The rise of the so-called
“Pentecostal” groups today
has helped many of us in the
‘ ‘standard-brand-
denominations” to realize
that we have been too con
temptuous of the pentecostal
experience and have
therefore been too restric
tive to the work of the Holy
Spirit. As John the
Evangelist indicated, the
Holy Spirit is like the un
predictable wind: it cannot
be manipulated and con
trolled. We cannot schedule
it through an order of wor
ship or liturgy.
Young people have often
become disenchanted with
the churches because they
have found them largely
devoid of power. They are
convinced of the validity of
religion, not so much by
argumentation, but by
demonstrations of spiritual
power to heal and mend
broken lives and com
munities. Many of us are
rediscovering the need for
pentacostal power in our
Christianity.
At the same time, it is very
evident to some of us that the
pentacostal experience may
be misused. For some people
the ecstatic experience is an
end in itself. They seek the
experience because of the
way it makes them “feel.”
The pentecostal experience
for some is a continual
search for “spiritual kicks”
or “fireworks.” Religion of
this kind becomes self
centered, a never-ending
quest for spiritual ex
citement.
“And they devoted them
selves ...”
Consider, by comparison,
the account of the first
Pentecost experience in
Jerusalem. Acts does not tell
us that the result of Pen
tecost was a pentecostal
binge, but changed lives that
were devoted to Christian
growth, fellowship, and
worship. Because of the first
pentecostal experience,
Peter preached a mighty
sermon- that brought con
versions. There was a
pentecostal purpose behind
that pentecostal experience.
Once the Day of Pentecost
was over, the writer of Acts
does not tell us that the old
and new followers of Jesus
spent their time trying to
repeat the pentecostal ex
perience. The writer does not
indicate that they spent their
time trying to teach people to
speak in ecstatic tongues.
Rather, he says, “ ... they
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Msx Smith
County Agr. Agent
Telephone 394-6851
TO BROADCAST
LEGUMES
Red Clover and Alfalfa
growers who are planning to
establish new stands in
winter grain by the broad
cast method should be
getting this done during the
first week of March. When
the ground gets a
“honeycomb” condition due
to alternate freezing and
thawing the seeds will be
worked into the topsoil at
about the proper planting
depth. Early seedings have
been more successful than
those made during late
March or in April. If the
band-seeding method is to be
used (a better method than
broadcasting) then the
grower should wait until the
ground dries out sufficiently
for the tractor and grain drill
to travel over the area.
TO PROTECT PASTURES
Some livestock men will
permit their herds or flocks
to roam over the pasture
area at all times during the
winter and spring months.
This will do little harm
during the winter months,
but when warmer weather
arrives and the sod fields
and pastures get soft, it is
best to remove the livestock
to give the grass plants a
chance to grow. Heavy
livestock traffic on a grazing
area during March or early
April could do considerable
Farm
Calendar
Monday, March 4
7:30 p.m. - Royster Com
pany, Stauffer Chemical
and Pro-Lix meeting,
Bird-in-Hand Fire Hall.
7:30 p.m, - Glen Rock-
Loganville 4-H Tractor
club meeting at the home
of C. Harry Miller, Glen
Rock RD2.
7:30 p.m. - York County 4-H
Baby Beef club meeting,
York Co. 4-H Center.
8:00 p.m. - Board of Direc
tors of Lancaster County
Poultry Association
meeting, Farm and
Home Center, Lancaster.
Octorara Young Farmer
fifth annual banquet,
Octorara High School
Cafeteria.
Tuesday, March 5
Lancaster County Dairy
Day, Farm and Home
Center, Lancaster.
9:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. - Southeast
Penna. Soybean Day,
Holiday Inn, Kulpsville,
Bucks County.
1 p.m. and 7 p.m. - Penna.
Organic Farmer-
Consumer Organization
meeting on Soil Fertility,
Room 309, Dept, of Ag.
Bldg., opposite Farm
Show Building,
devoted themselves to the
apostles’ teaching and
fellowship, to the breaking of
bread and the prayers”
(Acts 2:42).
The churches may still
need at times the pentecostal
experience, but let us
remember that behind that
experience there is always a
pentecostal purpose.
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harm and make the area
rough and full of tracks
TO PREPARE FOR
SEEDING
SPRING OATS
One of the very early crops
to be planted in this part of
the country should be spring
oats. Granted they will not
yield as well here as in cooler
climates, but if spring oats
are to be grown, they should
get into the ground late m
March or the first week in
April. Feed grains are
scarce and expensive this
year and some growers may
want to sow oats for their
livestock and for the straw
crop. The Agronomy Guide
will give some guidelines for
adapted varieties.
TO PERMIT SOIL TO DRY
When nice spring weather
arrives many folks are
anxious to get into the
garden or field and start the
spring planting job. In clay
type soils, or other heavy
soils, this could be a serious
mistake. Soil worked too wet
in the spring may never
become in proper condition
for many crops; it will stay
hard and clumpy for the
entire season. With heavy
mechanical equipment it is
more important that the soil
moisture is low enough not to
pack it too hard when ground
freezing may not come along
to make it more mellow and
workable.
Harrisburg.
6:30 p.m. - WrightsviUe 4-H
club meeting, Trinity
Lutheran Church,
WrightsviUe.
7 p.m. - Chester County
Extension Service annual
dinner meeting. Alert
Fire Company,
Downingtown.
7:30 p.m. - Hedging with
.Commodity Futures,
MerriU Lynch Seminar,
Livestock Exchange
Room, Lancaster
Stockyards.
7:45 p.m. - Swine Meeting,
Garden Spot High School,
vo-ag department.
7:45 p.m. - Ephrata Area
Adult Farmer farm
buildings course,
Ephrata vo-ag depart
ment, first meeting on
Farm Building Layout
and Foundation Con
struction.
Beef Cattle Conference,
CoUege mf Agriculture,
Penn State University,
March 5,6, 7.
1974 American Pork
Congress, March 5,6, 7,
Des Moines, lowa.
Wednesday, March 6
10 a.m. - 3 p.m., March 6, 7 -
Farm Financial
Management two day
clinic, Stone Barn,
Unionville.
9:30 a.m. -3:30 p.m. - March
5, 6 - Farm Financial
Management Clinic,
Municipal Building,
Lebanon, Room 201.
8:45 a.m. - 3 p.m. - Waste
Stabilization Ponds in
formational meeting,
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