A LETTER TO THE EDITOR
(In reply to a Letter to the Editor
from Paul Mandeville, recently
published in The Nugget)
Information that comes from
our church to its members and
Christian friends is of a private
nature to them. In other words,
our letters have been rather per
sonal. If you would like to read
my personal mail, you will have
to come to me personally. It only
takes three cents to write me a
letter. If you desire to share the
love of God that we have in our
fellowship and worship, you are
always welcome. That is, Christ
said: “Come unto me all ye that
labour and are heavy laden and I
will give you rest.” Our prayers
and desire is for the best wel
fare of our people, the people of
the community and of the world.
I don’t intend to answer all of
your letter to me that you put
in the newspaper. Why it was put
there, I don’t know, but I think
I have an idea. I don’t have to
answer to anything that may seem
to appear to some people as slan
der or just plain gossip. In the
second place you misquoted me
in your letter.
I was led to say what I did in
our private letter from a concern
that grew out of a personal
prayer and what I read in a
note from the General Board of
Temperance of our church. It
reads like this:
“HOW FREE ARE YOU?
Do you live with a crutch?
A crutch on which you support
a false personality?
A crutch you use to escape the
world of reality?
A crutch to hide your true self,
even from yourself?
HOW FREE ARE YOU?
When others carry crutches?
Crutches that rob them of free
dom of choice, freedom of will,
freedom to develop their God
given talents. Can any Christian
be free while his brother suffers?
Alcohol has robbed more than
5,000,000 Americans of the free
dom to control their actions.
These are our nation’s alcoholics,
compulsive drinkers, dominated
by alcohol.
Gambling is an addiction for
thousands.
Narcotic addiction continues to
plague thousands. Youngsters
seeking new thrills, adults in
search of an escape from reality
are trapped by a habit almost
impossible to break.
Pornography and salacious lit
erature flood the news stands.
Sex is sold as a commodity over
the counter. This nation-wide ob
session traps men’s minds in an
unreal world where higher val
ues are pushed aside in appeals
to base instincts.
HOW FREE ARE YOU?
The Methodist Church calls its
people to personal witness to the
freedom and abundance of the
Christian life, to a life free from
the crutches of alcohol, gambling,
narcotics, pornography, and in
addition; The Methodist Church
calls its people to take action
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against those social evils which
roib men of their freedom to fol
low God’s will.
Freedom of the individual is not
enough. Christ came that all men
might have life and have it more
abundantly.
Christ calls His followers to
seek justice and freedom for all
men.
“Wherever the Spirit of the
Lord is, men’s souls are set free.”
(II Corinthians 3:17).”
— J. B. Phillips, From the Gen
eral Board pf Temperance of the
Methodist Church.
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I have always been able to take
slander and gossip but when the
churches of Christ are belittled
it is a different matter. We will
let' the other churches in town
speak for themselves but I will
speak for the Methodist Church.
The church being a non profit or
ganization certainly does not pay
taxes by act of federal law tp up
hold the city and nation -but our
members aid in this matter. And
for the churches they aid the
community. The Women’s Divi
sion of the iMethodist church
gave the city some land just this
past year. (Go look at the records).
Our churches in Nome claim to
represent God in the community.
The bar claims to represent —
what? Since when has your indus
try done more than the Methodist
Church, Methodist Hospital, and
Methodist Community Center. Ihe
men, women and little children
of the Methodist Churches across
the nation dedicate their pennies
and dollars to send to Nome. Year
after year they spend hundreds
and thousands of dollars to keep
these institutions up. The Meth
odist Church has 130 colleges and
universities to help finance and
keep going. It is possible that you
may have heard of some of them.
One for example is North West
ern University in Illinois.
Many of the other Christian
churches in our Nome and nation
can add their lists of works and
institutions to this list. The other
churches in our community have
fine records of service, welfare,
redemption and a host of other
things that they can prove to you.
I want to thank * some of the
other ministers and churches in
the community who are standing
behind me in this matter 100 per
cent. We are thankful that they
feel the same way I do about this
serious problem of alcohol we
have.
The church is a redemptive fel
lowship that includes all of life
and its abundances. Christ came
to free men from sin and bon
dage. Remember, my friend, I
have no ill feeling toward you and
I will add you to my prayer list. |
GERALD McCRAY, Minister,
Community Methodist Church.
j PRESIDENT OF INDIA
! HOPES' TO SETTLE CHINESE
BORDER DISPUTE SOON
NEW DELHI, India, UP) — Pres
ident Rajendra Prasad expressed
hope today that Communist China
can soon be persuaded to agree
on the disputed India-China
border.
Opening a new session of Par
liament, Prasad reaffirmed that
India’s policy in the border dis
pute is “both of a peaceful ap
proach by negotiation under ap
propriate conditions and of being
determined and ready to defend
our country.”
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please notify the Telephone Com
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15. Any listings after that date
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DETROIT, UP) — There wasn’t
a dog in sight when mailman
Lome Winbigler, 23, walked up
on the porch of a house in sub
urban Mount Clemens Friday.
But as Winbigler was dropping
the mail through a slot in the
front door, he became the victim
of a sneak attack.
A terrier named Tinker was
waiting inside the house , for the
mail carrier’s fingers to' pop
through the slot. When they ap
peared, Tinker grabbed hold with
her teeth.
Winbigler was given a tetanus
shot at a^hospital and returned to
his route — wearing gloves.
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Pete Walsh, Station Mgr.
U. N. Food
Researcher Tells
Amazon Fisli Story
ROME, UfI — There’s a tribe of
Amazon Indians who fish with
their feet. Another tribe fishes
with its fingers. A third whistles
for its fish.
All these methods have been
studied by Dr. A. W. Meschkat
of the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization. He says
all three systems work.
In part of the Amazon, the
slender, eel-shaped amure fish
lives in the mud at the river
bottom. Tribesmen weigh down a
net on the bottom under 8 to 12
feet of water. Then they dive
down and tramp around the edge
of the net, squeezing the amure
out of the mud and into the net
to be hauled ashore.
The finger fishermen wade
along the river edge, groping into
hollows beneath the bank. They
have developed a sensitive touch
and fast hands to catch fish lurk
ing -there.
But the really imaginative ang
lers are those who go after the
elusive tucanare, which weigh 8
to lfc pounds. They are a rain
bow-colored perch which leaps
out of the water to gobble up
kingfishers or even small ducks.
The fishermen have learned to
imitate the whistle of a king
fisher. They whistle, then flick
the water with a red rag hiding
a hook at the end of a long pole.
The tucanare rises at the call,
grasps the red rag, and winds
up on the dinner table.
Observers Suspect Havana
Bullets at Mikoyan Visit
Fired by Jumpy Police
By RICHARD VALERIANI
HAVANA, UR — The impression
developed Saturday that all the
shooting which threw the open
ing of the Soviet Exposition into
turmoil came from trigger-happy
Cuban guards and police.
Continuing silence at police
headquarters and toy newspaper
handling of Friday’s big story
contributed to a widely held be
lief the gunfire that marred So
viet First Deputy Premier Anastas
I. Mikoyan’s visit came solely
from official efforts to break up
an anti-Communist student dem
onstration.
Every Havana morning news
paper except the conservative
Diario De La Marina played
down the shooting, which erupted
in a nearby park minutes before
the scheduled inauguration of the
Soviet Exposition at the Fine
Arts Palace.
Foreign Ministry officials would
not comment on whether the
question of a resumption in
Cuban-Russian diplomatic rela
tions was raised, but other sources
presumed it was. Relations be
tween Moscow and Havana were
broken during the regime of Ful
gencio Batista, whom Castro
deposed.
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