The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 3, 1949 Page: 2 of 8
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Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as
though God did beseech you by us:we pray you in
Chr’st’p stead, be ye reconciled to God. Second
Corinthians 5:20.
There is a lively discussion among government circles re-
garding this country’s stock of atomic bombs. One group
contends that the people and the world should be told exact-
ly how many atomic bombs we have on hand. Another group
contends that we should not disclose this information to pos
sible enemies. There is argument on both sides. Under our
form of government once this information is revealed to Con-
gress it is revealed to the whole world. The question is: Is
it better to tell the world every time we make a new bomb,
or a new gun, or a new tank, or is it better to keep these
things to ourselves ?
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Dinner was an hour late in a local household because a
neighbor woman dropped in with the remark that she “could
only stay a minute.”
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Both Tom Dewey and Senator Vandenburg gave the
country a sample of old time political oratory the past week.
There is a general belief that if Dewey had gone into the
campaign in the same spirit and abandon that he put into his
radio speech the other evening the count of the ballots Tues-
day, November 3, would have been different- Dewey, in his
recent campaign, reminded his listeners of a man who desir-
ed to go swimming, but shrunk from getting his bathing suit
wet.
The very fact that the Russian leaders strive to keep the
truth regarding the outside world away from the Russian
Jeople is evidence of the falseness and injustice of their rule,
t is the constant fear that the people of Russia might learn
he truth about the rest of the world, and the rest of the
vorld might learn the truth about Russia, that makes the
Russian leaders feel that the iron curtain is necessary.
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Tha mannsr in which tha trial
of Joseph Cardinal Mindeasenty
was held has crested wide distrust
of tha Hungarian government, The
trial appears to be an example of
Communist ruthlessness and un-
fairness and predatory methods of
persecution.
The fact that the iadividual be-
ing tried was a high church man
has given the proceedings a world
wide interest.
It is a snatter of common be-
lief, supported by numerous re-
ports from persons in a position
to know, that it is a common prac
tice in Russian circles and Russian
dominated areas for officials in
order to secure . a “confession”
from a prisoner charged with
crime to drug him, secure the con-
fession while the accused is under
the influence of the drug, and
later to present it as evidence at
the trial. This is believed is what
was done in the case of Cardinal
Mindszenty.
Because this practice is gener-
ally known the indignation of half
the world over the trial and its
outcome has been rising almost
daily since the trial.
On the heels of the Cardinal’s
trial comes the news from Com-
munist led Bulgaria that some fif-
teen top leaders of the United
Evangelical Church have been in-
dicted on the charge of acting as
spies for the United States and
Britain. There is little doubt
that the trials of these men will
follow the same pattcrncy-thiC^
Mindszenty, that they too will be
drugged, and while in an irrespon-
sible state “confessions” will be
secured from them which will be
used as "evidence” in their trials.
Relying on the long precedure
similar trials in Communist
countries western people do not
accept at its face value the Car-
dinal’s repudiation, while in cus-
tody, of a letter he wrote before
his arrest. That was the letter
which said any later admissions of
guilt mpde by him could be con-
sidered as having been obtained
under duress and due as the
Cardinal put it to ‘Sveakjess of
Bit!*,
aiu-n.
WildOatsHarvest
far March 6, IMS
X LL RELIGIOUS teachers
** mu’ time used parables.
the flesh.”
The reaction that this particular
trial has awakened is due to the
fact that it is an attack upon the
church. It definitely brands the
Communist party as an enemy of
the church.
As dumb as they are the .Com-
munists should know better than
to resort to persecution of the
church. Millions of people who
would remain impassive and un-
moved at the infringement of terri-
torial rights or even human rights
are instantly and vindictively and
actively aroused at the slightest
attack upon the church .
The whole history of mankind
does not record a single instance
in which an attack upon the
church has succeeded. It is a
singular hut undeniable fact that
it is upon such things that the
church thrives and grows.
Can it be that this is a Com-
munist move that will in the fu-
ture brand them as enemies of the
church even as they have already
been branded as enemies of hu-
man liberty and the dignity of the
common man ?
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Every social security account
number has nine digits in it,
divided into three groups, as
000-00-0000. Looking at your card
you will note there are 3 digits in
the first group, 2 in the second
and 4 in the last.
of Je-
But
the great difference between Jesus'
parable* and those of his contempo-
raries, a * Rabbi
• Klausner says. 1*
that hi* were re-
membered and
their* were not
People will remem-
ber a story who
cannot take in a lec-
ture. Jesus almost
never told “wonder-
tale*.” His para-
bles are not in the Dr. Fereman
least like Grimm's
fairy tales or Alice In Wonderland.
Mostly they are about simple ordi-
nary happenings, and practically al-
ways about living people or things.
If you said "Kingdom of God” to
the average religious person of Je-
sus’ time, he would have replied,
“Oh, yes, that wonderful time! The
time when these Roman soldiers
will be blasted off the earth by the
terrible breath of God, the time
when every grape will yield barrels
of wine and a single grain of wheat
can be ground Into bushels of flour
—the Miracle Age!” The Kingdom
of God as Jesus proclaimed it —
God’s Ideal lyorld — was some-
thing quite different from that. Je-
sus illustrated it not with fanciful
wild pictures, but with stories from
real life, from the field or the farm-
house.
The Kingdom of God is a king-
dom of law, not of happ#n-eo or
of magic wands. Jesus was
fond of comparing God’s King-
dom to growing plants. Every
plant la a miracle, It Is evidence
of God’s creative power; bat
plants do not grow overnight,
they grow by the laws which the
creator made In them.
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Wild Sowing
S WE SAW last week, the most
1 important feature of the Ideal
World, or of any or Id, is the qual-
ity of the people id H. So most of
Jesus’ parables were about people,
one of the most famous being this
one of the “prodigal son.” (“Prod-
igal" of course does not mean wick-
ed or repentant, but wasteful, reck-
less with money or other things.)
You could find many faults in that
young man. One of them — the
fault that nearly killed him — was
that If he had a calendar he never
looked at It. If you take a good
look at a calendar you will always
notice that there is another day af-
ter this one—another month, anoth-
er year. But the prodigal never
thinks about tomorrow, only about
today. He sows his wild oats be-
cause he has fun doing it. He can
say “So what?” fast enough but he
has never asked the question, “—
| and then what?” Childish, Isn’t it?
Some people even argue that
It it a good thing to sow wild
oats, on the theory that the
prodigal gets It out of his sys-
tem and is afterwards a better
man.
Nonsense! Is it better for your
education to spend several years
learning things wrong? Is it bet-
ter for a garden to let it grow up
In weeds for the first three weeks?
Is it better for a man’s health to
spend his childhood years on a sick-
bed? That's no more silly than to
say that a man la morally better
for having been immoral for a while
first.
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Prodigal Nation
tT HAS EVEN been said that we
A have a prodigal-son civilization.
Our generation is pretty busy sow-
ing wild oats. We waste the nat-
ural resources of the earth. Drink-
ing has become encouraged by law
and made glamorous by the movies.
Wt spend more on liquor than on
schools. More money Is spent on a
single day's horse-racing at a big
track than a whole state or prov-
ince spends on education in a year.
The ties .of marriage have grown
so weak, especially optside the
Christian church, that it has not
been long since one American city
was boasting that its marriage rate
had “caught up With” its divorce
rate!
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Wild Harvest
•pHE PRODIGAL son In Jesus'
A story went home—but he had to
reap his wild harvest first. The
modem prodigal, whether individ-
ual or nation, seems to misunder-
stand Jesus’ meaning. If God Is
thought of at all, he Is pictured as
a benevolent Being who after all
doesn't mind our enjoying our little
fling. “He will forgive,” said Vol
taiTe, "that's his business.” That
is a total misunderstanding of God
(Copyright by the International Conn-
ell of Religious Education on behali of
40 Protestant denominations Released
Writes David Lott
Interesting Letter
The following letter was re-
ceived by David Lott, ton of Mr.
and Mrs. J. E. Lott, from a lad in
Germany.- The letter cam* in
answer to one which David had
placed in one of a pair of shoes
that he gave to be sept over seas,
about two years ago. The letter,
written in a beautiful hand, reads:
“Cologne, 23th Jan., 1949.
“Mr. David Lott,
"Fairfield, Texas (USA).
“Dear Friend:
“Today, 28th January, 1949, I
have got a letter from you of *
strange sort. This letter did not
come with the poet but through a
shoeh, which has made a great
travel over the Atlantic. This was
a shoeh gathered in your country,
a help for the German Baptists.
When I tryed to dress this shoeh,
I found the letter in, how in a let-
ter-box. And now I am working to
write you a letter. That is real a
work, than I cannot write English,
not yet, but I am willing to do so.
“My name is Qlaus-Lieter Adam.
I am 12 years old. I thank you for
your gift. I am very much obliged
to you. I needed a pair of shoeh
and I am very glad to have got
that. I and my sister and my par-
ents, we are Baptists. We are
refugees from the limit Polish.
We have lived in Breslau, Pro-
vince Silesia, in the east of Ger-
many. We must leave our native
town and our house with all our
pieces of furniture, our clothing,
our money and all that was our
property, and we must flee in
front.of the Russians; and all was
robbed. My mother and I, we
keeped only a knapsack with
something bread and potatoes, and
than we must walk from a town
to another. We was on the way
during many weeks and we ar-
rived the north of Germany. This
was a bad time. My father was
in the war and my sister was im-
prisoned from the Russians. We
was hungary all the days and we
have much weeped. When my
father came back, he was without
work and without money during
two years. Now my father is
employed bei the post office in
Cologne by Rhine and we can buy
to eat and to drink. But we
have no good lodging and not at
all-dresses and pieces of furniture.
Here all buildings are destroyed.
But my parents are saving and we
hope to the Lord and the future.
“For the first time I have writ-
ten enough. Answer please and I
will write at once. It gives me
the greatest pleasure. To the New
Year I wish you joy with all my
heart. Kind regards to your par-
ents.
“Your friend,
“KLAUS-DIETER ADAM,
“(22c) Cologne-Deutz,
“Siegburger str 136.
“Britische Zone—Nordr-
kein-Westfalen, Germany.’*
This letter reminds us of the
many blessings that are ours in
America today, and should awaken
us to the task of protecting and
keeping America free; to the im-
portance of uniting in every effort
that we might continue to have
-unmolested homes, food, cloth-
ing and health, the essentials for
a happy existence.
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