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SECTION 2-PAGE 2-PLAINDEALER--WEDNESDAY MAY 18, 1977 The#e% on Answer! by Norman Vincent Peale and Ruth Stafford Peale 18 Years Old And 'Doing' Drugs Q. I am 18 years old and have been doing drugs for four years. I am presently in a county jail. My nerves are so bad from drug withdrawal that I have sores and scabs all over. I've been reading your book. The Power of Positive Thinking. Dr. Peale, and I love it. Could you please tell me how I can have the power to quit drugs? . A . ( D r . P e a l e ) Y o u h a v e already made a start toward kicking the drug habit by reading about positive thinking and then writing to ask how you can have the power. Here are six steps to take: 1. Want to overcome this habit, really want to. 2. Affirm repeatedly until you mind takes over the fact that you can do it. 3. Keep filling your mind with positive attitudes. 4. Ask God to help you. 5. Believe that He is helping you now. 6. Practice visualization; that is, see or image yourself as free of this devastating habit. Good luck and God bless you. We have a booklet. Help Yourself with God's Help, which has helped others with questions such as yours, and a copy of it is on its way to you. Anyone reading tlfis column who wishes a free copy may write for one. Address your request to Dr. and Mrs. Peale, Box 500, Pawling, NY'. 12564. o*w" Feels Guilty About Present Marriage Q. I am worried about myself. My first husband got into some bad trouble and was sent to prison for life. I remarried eight years ago and now I don't know if I did the right thing or not. I am so o worried I don't know what to do. A. The thing that should really make you feel guilty is not being 100 per cent sup­ portive of your present husband. Be a good wife to him and do not constantly rehash in your own mind whether you did the right thing. What you did, you did. Live with it, and find peace of mind. If you did anything wrong, live right from now on. Let go of the euilt feelings. O- Sorry She^ Read There's An Answer! Column Today Q. Today I'm sorry I read your column in the paper! Very sorry! The first letter was from a woman who said you always seemed to condemn women when husbands were un­ faithful. I could write a book about that. Poor spineless, weak-minded, deprived men. They blame women for all their troubles, mistakes, and take credit for any success. As for you and all preachers, writers and speakers, you could do us all a greater service if you would put the fear of God in men as well as women. Men's minds, most of them, run to the dirty side most of the time anyway. There's always too much said about blaming someone else for our mistakes. There comes a time in our lives when we have to reach down and pull ourselves up and be responsible for ourselves. Otherwise we remain im­ mature all our lives. Please do not encourage men's lack of morals! A. Thankyou, ma'am. We like your statement - which is not a question, but a statement. In this column we balme neither men nor women; we blame people, as you say, "for being spineless and weak- minded." We agree with you that the fear of God should be in men as well as women and we are terribly sorry we have given you the wrong impression. Dirty-mindedness is not limited to any one sex, though historically man, being con­ sidered the more predatory, has been assumed to be more mentally unclean ^han woman. This could be true. But ac­ tually, the sexes being equal, it could very well be that evil is impartial. This column does not encourage lack of morals in anyone, but on the contrary we e m p h a s i z e t r a d i t i o n a l Christain moral standards whenever we feel there has been an erosion of the same. Perhaps you would like to find an answer for yourself to a problem that you can share with others in There's an An­ swer! 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So appealing was it that she soon became corre­ spondent for another area paper and now writes a weekly column called "It's Great to be 65!" "My editor keeps asking me to write more," Mrs. Breen said. "It's flattering but makes for a hectic life." Life has become even more hectic since she re­ cently took on another job as a television news writer for the local Public Broad­ casting station. The job was made possible by the Broome County Office on Aging. "Most people my age are funded for jobs that provide services to other older per­ sons who need nursing care and homemaker assistance," Mrs. Breen said. "These are valuable services and I'm ?;lad money is available to und these positions." But Mrs. Breen is much happier working in a job related to her second career. "The people in the aging office try to match people with jobs they qualify for," Mrs. Breen said. "I had just completed a journalism course at the state univer­ sity and was writing my weekly column when the television job became avail­ able." At present her position consists primarily of writing news releases for the head of the station, but her duties may soon be expanded. "There's been talk of put­ ting me on the air," she said. "I don't know in what capacity or when, but I think it would be fun, don't you?" In between meeting dead­ lines and writing releases, Mrs. Breen somehow finds time to work on a collection of trivia and a poetry an­ thology, both of which she'd like to publish when they've reached book length. "I'm so busy now I don't have a moment to myself," Louise Breen says with a laugh, obviously enjoying the frantic pace of her post- retirement life. "But you know, I wouldn't change it for the world. I'm having too much fun." d better (font, hotm, 3,566,480 When Christopher Columbus sailed into the mouth of the Amazon River, one of his sailors said they'd found an island. "No," Columbus corrected torn, "we've discovered a continent. A river that big couldn't come from an island." So it is with the Bible -- a book so great couldn't come from man. It must be from God himself. Originally the Bible wasn't divided into chapters and verses, in fact, the words all ran together, with no punc­ tuation of any kind. A fellow by the name of Stephen Lanton first arranged it into chapters in the year 1228. Then in 1551, Robert Stepa- nus further subdivided it into verses. A man by the name of Thomas H. Home worked each night for three years in his spare time, counting every word and every verse. Mr. Home counted 774,746 words and 3,566,480 letters in the Bible. I'm willing to take his word for it! Some people are more intrigued with the facts about the Bible than the Bible itself. They look on the Bible much as a customer browses through a Sears catalog, expecting to find a size, price, color and weight for every question that comes to their minds! True, the Bible answers the basic problems of man, but you won't find therein a verse-by- verse "answer" to every question that pops in your mind. Francis Schaeffer points out that the Bible gives us "true truth," though not "exhaustive truth" on any and every question. It's a great day when a discoverer like Columbus Mils into a bay and discovers a whole continent. It's a greater day when a seeker opens the pages of the Bible and finds a whole universe of truth. R. J. Hastings is editor of The Illinois baptist in Springfield SUBSCRIBE To The McHenry Plaindealer And Save *10.30 Over Newstand Price FILL OUT AND MAIL OR BRING TO: McHENRY PLAINDEALER 3812 W. Elm St., McHenry .III. 60050, with check or money order for *10.50 for one year subscription within McHenry County. NAME. ADDRESS CITY .ZIP J