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The question for our time
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Staff
Updated: Oct 28, 2009, 1:00 PM
Published: Oct 29, 2009, 3:34 PM

Dear Editor:

 

The question for our time is the same question that our Founding Fathers asked themselves when forming our Constitution: Can a free people govern themselves well?

And can they sustain that governmental system without a Christian moral foundation?

I believe as they did, that it can not be sustained without a moral compass. I believe a self-governing people must have a moral structure coming from the words of God (The Bible). Society functions well when all have a moral code to follow, hence the laws of God written by himself in the Ten Commandments. When we stray from Christian principles we are like a plane without a pilot, destined for destruction. I am sure that theonly reason our society functions well now is because of Christian moral fragments still

in practice by many Americans. I think there are some that are tearing away purposefully at these fragments. They want our Christian Society to fail. I believe the time is here when we must start to stand up for these principals and the politically correct silence must end. Why is standing up for our Christian faith and moral principals a reason to be called a "bigot"?

It is sad the times we are living in. We have always been charged with the obligation to spread the gospel in word and deed and now it will mean our survival as a free nation. Everything we do that is good is derived from a Christian faith having a foundation in sacrificial love. All of the Founding Fathers including Benjamin Franklin had a profound Christian faith. It surfaces in their writings and speeches. Why have politicians of today become so polluted? Where is Sacred Honor? Have the morals of theBible escaped them? Were they never taught? I believe that the governance of a free society is an honor. It is the only Free Democratic Republic in the world:" A government of the people, for the people and by the people." An Experiment, if we are smart enough to keep it. Sacred Honor, it means that much!! Will we sell it? We have always stabilized the world because as a moral people we were stable. An immoral people cannot hope to stabilize anything. It is an abomination and we deserve what we choose.

 

Jennifer C. Jeffers

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Showing gratitude for service
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Staff
Updated: Dec 8, 2010, 3:56 PM
Published: Dec 8, 2010, 3:57 PM

Dear editor: Another election cycle is finally over and the voters of Bryan County have spoken. We will have three new county commissioners in January 2011.
My congratulations go out to Jimmy Henderson of District 5, Carter Infinger of District 4 and Wade Price of District 2. I look forward to working with them as we continue to take care of the business of the county.
All three races were contested, which gave the voters a choice of who they wanted as their commissioner. Those who did not prevail in this election are to be applauded for offering themselves as candidates.
Our county owes a debt of gratitude to retiring commissioners Rick Gardner with eight years of service, Blondean Newman with eight years of service as a commissioner and 30 years as tax commissioner, and Toby Roberts with 18 years on the county commission.
These three spent many hours establishing policies and procedures for our county government and many meetings with state and local officials to achieve the best possible outcomes regarding our county on numerous issues. Their many years of experience will be sorely missed.
I well remember the first time I ran for public office and lost. Sometimes those who are not elected are the winners because they don’t have to go to all the meetings – that is said with tongue in cheek, of course.
After my loss, someone sent me the following quotation from President Theodore Roosevelt, which I keep on the wall in my office:
“It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
And my wish for all the citizens of Bryan County is to have a truly blessed Christmas and a prosperous and happy New Year’s.

Jimmy Burnsed
Chairman
Board of commissioners

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