The Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 70, No. 143, Ed. 1 Monday, July 23, 1962 Page: 3 of 8
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THE CHICKASHA DAILY EXPRESS Monday uly 23 1962
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Moscow's Latest Portrait
This brief photographic tour of Moscow USSR
emphasizes the latest touches in modern Soviet archi-
tecture Just distributed by the Russians the pictures
show lesser-known sights of the centuries-old Soviet
capital
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Moscow’s equivalent of a city hall stands near this small
park near Sovetshaya Ploshohad (Soviet Square)
Lined with modern buildings Moscow’s broad Bolshaya Sadoyava Street is free of the
traffic jams that plague other modern cities where cars are more in evidence
Modern Hotel I'krania rises above Moscow’s Kutuzov sk
Ave traversed by trucks buses and a few passenger cars
Challenges Religious Illiteracy
Professor Declares Founding Fathers Lived Sn Heathen Era
By LOUIS CASSELS
United Press International
To comprehend the problems
which now face America’s
churches we must stop romanti-
cizing history
So says a leading church his-
torian Prof Franklin Hamlin Lit-
tell of Southern Methodist Univer-
sity Prof Littell debunks the popu-
lar notion that America began as
a highly religious nation but has
slipped into a “post-Christian
era”
Just the opposite is true he
maintains in a new book entitled
‘‘From State Church to Plural-
ism” (Doubleday Anchor Orig-
inal) ‘‘The time of the Founding Far-
thers was not an age of Christian
virtue” he says spiking one of
the favorite themes of Fourth of
July orators “Actually America
was a heathen nation at the be-
ginning of the Republic”
Found Sta!b Churches
Most of the colonies following
the European model had estab-
lished state churches And these
state churches suffered in Amer-
ica as in Europe from wide-
spread public apathy At the time
of tire Revolution no more than 5
per cent of the American people
were church members
The proportion of the U S pop-
ulation affiliated with churches
has climbed steadily since 1776
and now stands near 70 per cent
This vast expansion of member-
ship resulting from mass evan-
gelism in successive waves of re-
ligious revival “is the most im-
portant single fact in American
church history” says Prof Lit-
tell It means that A m e r i c a's
churches have absorbed within a
relatively short period of time
News From Abroad
By riHL NEWSOM
LPI Foreign News Analyst
Notes from the foreign news
cables:
India-Red China:
There will be no large V scale
fighting between Indian and Red
Chinese troops facing each other
along the mountainous border of !
the two countries Charges and
counter-charges and minor skir-
mishing will continue But that's
about all in the epinion of in-
formed quarters in London Hie
reason is simple: The area is too
difficult to fight over
One recently-ret ired Indian
army officer now living in Lon-
don summed it up this way: The
border area is too remote and
tlie problem of logistics just too
big for both sides And for the
benefit of Americans the retired
officer also made this observa-
tion: “You may not like t Defense
Minister V K Krishna Menon
but he is a good administra-
tor and for the first time things
do get done in the Indian army”
Berlin deadline:
Eastci n diplomats In Berlin arc
hmtmg that Russian soon will set
new deadline for the Western
Allies to get out of that divided
city The deadline would be the
date for the signing of a Get man
peace ticaly
Moscow campaign
Moscow is campaigning to get
leading West German officials to
visit the Sivite Union with Ico-
nonnes Minister Ludwig Fih ird a
pr'me LujM But Erhard whose
invitation of vcais back lias just
been renewed is tiol biting
"The present time is unsuit-
able” he said in turning down the
Russian bid The Russians are not
having much luck with other Bonn
leaders either Parliamentary
S p e a k er Eugene Gerstenmaicr
Schwarzhaupt and Postal Minis-
ter Richard Stuecklen also are
turning down invitations The
only person to accept so far is
Thomas Dehler the vice speaker
of parliament
the greatest influx of converts in
the whole history of Christianity
“Most American church mem-
bers ate first-generation or at
best second-generation Chris-
tians” he says “The problems
which confront churches today—
and they are many— are paral-
lel to those which are found m
all periods and places in church
history where large masses of
new converts affiliate with a re-
ligion whose implications they but
vaguely grasp”
Growth Brings Problems
W’hat are the problems that
face America's churches as a re-
sult of “the most successful mis-
sionary effort in the world?”
One says Prof Littell is wide-
spread religious illiteracy among
church members “Only once be-
fore in church history when
masses of Germanic tribesmen
embraced the official religion of
the Roman Empire have such
serous problems of education
confronted the church”
A related problem is the weak
ening to the point of virtual dis-
appearance in some large Prot-
estant bodies of church disci-
pline Churches which once had
distinctive tenants now find their
most basic teachings flouted by
members who apparently feel un
the yoke of Christ
“Inadequately trained for mem
bership without the proper in-
stiuments of voluntary discipline
many members never have had
the discontinuity between life in
Christ and life in the world
Theodore Roosevelt was the
only U S president who didn't
use the personal pronoun “I”
in his inauguial speech
Walker Sees
U M Takeover
Of Military
DALLAS (UPI) - Resigned
Maj Gen Edwin A 'Walker said
Saturday the appointment of Gen
Maxwell D Taylor as new chair-
man of the joint chiefs of staff
is a step toward “placing all our
men and weapons under the Unit-
ed Nations”
Taylor was named by Presdent
Kennedy to replace Gen Lyman
L Lemnitzer who in turn suc-
ceeds retiring Gen Lauris Nor
stad as supreme commander of
American and NATO forces m
Europe
Walker snd in a statement to
newsmen that Taylor “is a new
frontiersman who no doubt has
interposed no serious objection to
disarming of the United States
military forces and to placing all
our men and weapons under the
United Nations”
“Tlie choice of a man called
back from retirement and
groomed by the New Frontier no
doubt hes caused consternation
and questions regarding rank pro-
cedure and the purge of military
viewpoint throughout all eche-
lons” Walker said
der no obligation either to live brought home to them” he says
by the rules or get out
Prof Littell believes that “the
scandal of indiscipline” in major
Protestant bodies reflects a wide-
spread misunderstanding of what
religious freedom means To him
it means that a person is free to
choose whether or not he will join
and support a particular church
It does not mean that one who
has voluntarily identified h'mself
with a religious community is
fiee thereafter to spurn its moral
disciplines and make a mockery I
of its teachings
Most Basic
Perhaps the most basic of all
problems confronting chui dies in ’
Prof Littell's view is the fact
that millions of their members
have taken on tlie name but not
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As the German'c tribesmen of
tlie 9th Century brought poly-
gamy blood vendettas torture of
prisoners and other barbaric cus-
toms with them into the church
so the “new Christians” of 20th
century America come into the
chuich clinging to the sexual
mores business ethics and racial
prejudices of an “ unbaptized so-
ciety” Prof Littell is not disposed to
blame the “new Christians” for
th's state of affairs
“The ordinary members” he
sas “are less at fault than the
leadership of the churches who
neglect catechetical instruction
and concentrate solely on the ac-
quisition of more new members
at any price”
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Drew, Charles C. The Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 70, No. 143, Ed. 1 Monday, July 23, 1962, newspaper, July 23, 1962; Chickasha, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1895306/m1/3/: accessed July 12, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.