Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 59, No. 163, Ed. 1 Friday, March 23, 1973 Page: 2 of 16
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PAGE TWO—.So pul pa ittkla.i Herald. Friday, March a. 1*73
Africa's Christianity Under Attack
NAIROBI (UPll _ The ..... _ ______
NAIROBI (UPI) - The
Christian religion is under at-
tack in Africa
From the Cape to Cairo,
Christians of various denomina-
tions have been harangued,
beaten, imprisoned or kicked out
of countries in recent months
In Somalia, the government
suddenly ordered all Roman
Catholic missionaries to leave
the country. Catholic officials
here said
E thiopian police cracked down
on Protestant groups, raiding
Monies, throwing scores of
persons into jail and shaving the
■eads of women as a mark of
disgrace, the sources said
Some 15.000 Jehovah s Wit-
nesses from Malawi have
cautiously returned to their
homes after they fled into neigh-
boring Zambia last year
following widespread persecu-
tion
Other incidents have been
reported in Uganda. Burundi.
Egypt and South Africa
“The whole continent is in
turmoil and change," says
religious writer Norman Hart
“It is inevitable that the church
will get caught up in it."
The Catholic Mirror newspaper
said many of the incidents have
been inspired by the dash
between Islam and Christianity,
including the situation in the
predominantly Moslem country
of Somalia, where, according to
Catholic officials, all missionar-
ies were ordered to leave the
country
The exodus has now been
temporarily halted pending a
review of the situation, the
Catholic sources said, but all
activity in mission-run hospitals,
dispensaries, schools and or-
phanages has ceased
In Ethiopia, the sources said,
the crackdown against Pen
lecostal, Utheran and Baptist
groups was inspired by the local
and still all-powerful Coptic
Church trying to protect its
position and prevent the influx of
competing Christian ideas
The police action began last
fall, and for the first time spread
from the countryside into Addis
Abaha Public meeting were
banned but when the groups
moved into private homes,
police raided these, too. The
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In The House Of The LORD
Family Worship Services
sources said In one swoop some
260 persons were thrown into jail
for months and women had their
heads shaved
There was another religious
crisis involving the Coptic
Church in Egypt last fall when a
senes of incidents against that
country’s five million Copts
resulted in the destruction of a
church in Cairo and clashes
between Copts and Moslems
President Idi Amin of Uganda,
a Moslem, has declared war on
Christian groups, accusing white
missionaries of being mer-
cenaries in disguise and ex-
pelling around 60 of them
In nearby Burundi. President
Michel Micombero in a recent
speech blamed white missionar-
ies for last year's massacres in
which an estimated 150,000
persons died Church officials
were apprehensive Micombero’s
speech might herald a fresh
crackdown against the church
The estimated 250.000 Jeho-
school in the Transvaal for
refusing to pay special respect to
the national flag
Tops In Sales
"The Living Bible,” a
paraphrase of the Bible in
modern English, was the
country’s best-selling book in
1972.
vah’s witnesses in Africa have
been in repeated trouble with
governments because their reli-
gious beliefs often forbid them to
enter into what officials consider ‘I iViniy lliltlo*
essential nation building tasks
and duties such as national
service, paying respect to
national flags and singing an-
thems.
President Hastings Banda of
Malawi last year called the
Witnesses "devil's disciples"
and, tacitly at least, encouraged
attiicks on them non-fiction list on the basis of
After reports of kiUings. rapes nearly 2 million sales through
and beatings. 15.000-20.000 Doubled.! A Companv. STJn
members fled ,nto Zambia additional 5 miNoTc^e* were
where, according to church so|d by Tvndal, Hou>e
sources, some M0 persons died Publishers Dr Kenneth Taylor
from measles and dysentery in who paraphrased “The Mving
rehigee camps Bible, ” is president of Tyndale
Witnesses in South Africa House
regularly have been sent to
jwison for refusing to serve in the sapulpa „„*L0
the armed forces. A recent An jnoepenaeni Newspaper
flashpoint occurred when chil-
dren were suspended from
Rev. Whitten
To Okmulgee
The Rev Ernest Whitten,
PUtor of Forest Hills Baptist
church for almost three years,
has accepted a call to become
minister of the Calvary Baptist
church In Okmulgee
Mr Whitten, who came here
from Mansfield. Tex., said his
Sapulpa ministry will end with
services Wednesday. March 28
4Mercy Killing9
Next Debate?
Churchmen
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Royce Brown. Sapulpa’■ Flrxt
Baptist church minister of
music, is among 44 Oklahoma
singers going to California this
weekend to record an album of
religious songs
The Singing Churchmen of
Oklahoma, of which Brown is a
member, will be recording for
Lexicon Music. Inc., under
direction of Ralph Carmichael
While in California, the group
will present concerts at Truett
Memorial church in Ix>ng Beach
and the First Baptist church of
Van Nuys The group is com-
posed of ministers of music from
Baptist churches across
Oklahoma
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By LOUIS CASSELS
United Pr**» International
Now that the Supreme Court
has legalized abortion, the next
great moral debate In America
may center around euthanasia
Euthanasia is defined by the
American Heritage Dictionary
as "inducing the painless death
of a person for reasons assumed
to be merciful.” A commonly-
used synonym is "mercy
killing.”
A substantial body of Ameri-
cans believe an enlightened
■ociety should authorize the
termination of life, by painless
medical means, when a person is
suffering intensely from an
Incurable illness such as ter-
minal cancer or has lost so much
brain function, through ac-
cident, disease or senility, as to
be an unthinking, unfeeling
"human vegetable "
Euthanasia, it is argued,
would put such persons “out of
their misery" and would spare
their families prolonged an-
guish.
It also would ease the
workload of overburdened doc-
tors, nurses and hospitals,
enabling them to concentrate on
patients with a chance of
recovery.
No one who has watched a
loved one dying slowly and in
great agony from cancer, or has
seen a once-lively human being
lying comatose in a nursing
borne bed, can fail to feel the
emotional weight of the
argument for euthanasia.
On the surface, at any rate, it
would appear, as the Christian
Century magazine said in a
recent editorial, that euthanasia
"In some situations, might be a
become a burden to themselves
and others? Should they be
allowed to elect euthanasia’’
Who should make the decision
for or against euthanasia if the
patient himself is mentally or
physically incompetent to do so?
His doctor’ A committee of
doctors’ A court or some other
agency of government’ The next
of kin’ How could we be sure
that any of these especially the
latter - would be fully informed
and entirely free of self-interest’
Can anyone other than God
really be sure that a human
being has reached his time to
die?
There are other questions, but
those are enough for a start
Unless or until they are fully
explored, we should not allow
ourselves to be stampeded into
supporting euthanasia by the
kind of oversimplification of
issues and emotional
sloganeering that sold a majori-
ty of the public 1 according to
polls) and a majority of our
highest court on legalizing
abortion.
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Inc way a ,s ,00 had Tennyson gave the world his classic verse about a young mans fancy The dreams of
ipnng are not only for young men .. . and they're not only thoughts of love.
In many ways Spring awakens new hopes in every heart. The surge of life is renewed Old frustrations are
forgotten The targets of happiness seem nearer This is particularly true during Lent
It's a good time to think. And from our thinking to plan how best to pursue the goals we really cherish.
Spring, and Lent, is a good time to go to church ...or to go hack to church if you've been away awhile
Spring is a good lime to seek the Source of resurgent living
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loving and entirely moral
choice.’’
But there are questions that
ought to be soberly considered
The first and most basic is:
what about the commandment,
“You shall not commit mur-
der”’
We have strained this com-
mandment in the past to ac-
commodate war and ____
punuhment, and, more recently,
to Justify the lulling of unborn
babies through abortion Might
we not, with no greater
sophistry, carve out still another
"exception" to make room for
snuffing out the lives of hopeless
patients’
But where would we draw the
line?
If we may terminate the lives
of cancer victims, why not ex
tend the same “mercy” to those
slowly dying from debilitating
diseases or cardiovascular
disorders’
If lack of brain function is
accepted as a criterion for legal
euthanasia, what degree of
senility or comatoseness shall
we establish as the point at
which a person deserves to die?
And why should we not include in
this "act of mercy” those who
are suffering from apparently
irreversible mental illness’
What of the horribly crippled
or bed-ridden whose lives have
Youth Group
On Retreat
Forty-one youth of First
Baptist church and their
sponsors left Thursday for a
retreat at Falls Creek Baptist
assembly near Davis. They will
return Saturday
Chane Hutton, youth director,
said the theme of the retreat is
"His Life in You." Guest con-
ference leaders are David
Blotch and Paul Kiehn,
Oklahoma Baptist University
students
ASSEMBLIES SCHOOL
SPRINGFTFIJ), Mo (UPI) -
Applications for admission to the
new Assemblies of God
Graduate School, which will be
officially opened Sept 4. have
been mailed to about 300 per-
sons. Dr Cor das C. Burnett,
executive vice president of the
school, reports
Most of the applications went
to persons requesting them or
asking for information about the
school, which will initially offer
courses leading to the Masters of
Arts degree in Bible Theology or
in Missions The Assemblies of
God Division of Foreign
Missions also sent some to
missionaries and candidates
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But. remember this, that if I
a father dies and loaves great I
wealth for his tittle son, that
child u not much better off I
than a slave until he grows up, I
even though he actually owns I
everything his father had He [
has to do what his guardians 1
| and managers tell him to do, I
until he reaches whatever age f
his father set
And that is the way it was I
with us before Christ came, f
We were slaves to Jewish laws
land rituals for we thought
! could save us But when
the right time came, the time I
I God decided on. He sent His
Son, born of a woman, born as I
• Jew, to buy freedom for us I
who were slaves to the law so
I He could adopt us a^ His
! very own sons. And, because I
we are His sons, God has sent
the Spirit of His Son into our
hearts, so now we can rightly I
speak of God as our dear |
Father Now, we are no longer
slaves, but God’s own sons
And, since we are His sons,
| every thing He has belongs to
us, for that is the way God |
planned
God Bless You1
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Luke 10
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Matthew 11
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