Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 7, 1955 Page: 2 of 10
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BASTROP (TEXAS) ADVERTISER. APRIL 7, 1955
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In IN*; 1 returned from over-
seas service to find a former
schoolmate (hr wa« u senior
in high x-hoo! and I was a
"lowly frosh" > of mine in a
very important legal case. As
editor of the largest newspaper
in South Texas he had been sen-
tenced to three days in jail for
contempt of court. He considered
this to be an infringement on
the freedom of the press granted
by the Constitution of the Uni
ted States. He earned the matter
up to the Supreme Court of
the United States and won. 1
met him on the streets of Cor-
pus Christi after that and eon -
grntulated him on his victory.
Freedom of the press and free-
dom of religion are tied together.
His victory ws,- for you and for
me.
Just before my entering the
Service in 11143, in a column of
this newspapper of which he is
now the editor, he had given
me space in which I attacked a
proposal to rope off certain sec-
tions of the streets of Corpus
Christi on Saturday nights. Here
bingo would be played and the
proceed* used to buy a bomber
to be named after this city. 1
pointed out that the city of
Houston had just tai-ed 75 mil
lion to replace the destroyer
cruiser Houston, and this had
free will offer
form of gamb>
1 suggested that
in the matter of
no use stopping
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l.ate of mine be
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tith the paper he
lor. He wrote a
For Ea-ter Sun-
in this column a
and beautiful ac-
re-tin ection of
ot remember his
>ut he concluded
like this. "This
clicf of orthodox
Christianity through the years.
But is not i 'tportent whether
Christ actually arose from the
grave or not. If from this story,
truth and mercy and right
emerge from the dead hopes of
mankind ami triumph this i-
the important and sufficient
thing." He was a young man in
his twenties when he wrote that.
Whether that now is suhatant
ially his opinion I do not know.
No doubt he came to this opinion
by independent research and
thinking but he was actually
voicing the idea made popular
by Adolf Harnaek of the latter
part of the 19th century who
: made a di.-tin 'ion between the
Faster Faith and the Easter
Message. The Faster Message
Harnaek said, was the story or
account of tne resurrection of
I Christ. That is not important
according to Harnaek. The Eas-
ter Faith is the important thing.
1 If we have the Faster Faith,
: then we have ail that is nec
] essary and it does not depend
, on Christ actually rising from
the dead. You may not know it,
but this is becoming quite pop-
j ular among certain theological
] circles.
Or as has been put in another
■ manner, but with a similar
; m e anin g, it is unimportant
' whether Christ rose from the
grave or not. so long as we
have in our lives the value of
the resurrection. It may be that
! my reasoning i,- faulty, but it
: seems to me that, this matter
| of the supreme importance of
value apart from fact i.- wrong.
' It presuppose# an impossibility.
I do not mean to say that fic-
; tion make-believe are to have 1
i no part in our lives, but the
' value that the resurrection story
I intended to bring is lost if it
| be not true. Had there been no
fact, there would have been no ;
value—rio supreme value. Per
J manent values can only exist
upon the basis of established
facts. A value of perpetual forc<
| has never been created upon j
! the basis of so-called working
hypothesis. Sooner or later, the
hypothesis will cease to work
and when that happens, the
value passes awav like a mirage i
in the desert. If the hypothesi;
I i.- to continue it will be because
| it is finally demonstrated as
j being based upon fact.
To say that we h.ive some- i
j thing that is of supreme value
j to our lives in the Resurrection
! Story, but that it need not be
based upon fact is, to me,
strange reasoning indeed. A ban
don the fact and the value will '
be lost. The fact of the resur- j
reetion has created the high j
value of life. Deny the fact and <
the value will cease to grip and ;
! regulate the consciences of men
: and they will sooner or later
i revert to the bestial and ma-
j terialistic Ideal of life.
The Resurrection has always
been vital to Christianity. David !
t Fried rich Strauss, the brilliant j
| critic of Christianity did not
• believe in it, hut he realized and
so declared that to the Christ
; ian faith, the Resurrection is
I the center of the center. The
: Apostle Paul, the greatest ex- j
1 ponent of the Christian Faith j
' outside of Christ Himself rea
] lized that and wrote, "if Christ
hath not been rai«< d, then is !
| our preaching in vain, your faith j
i also in vain . . . ve are yet
: in your sins ... if in this
| life we have hoped in Christ,
: we are of all men most mi sera
! ble."
No one can "prove" the Resu
erection to another any more I
than one can "prove" God. But
j there are some vital evidence*
that demonstrate that those who
do so believe the Resurrection
Story have not followed the cun
ningljr devised fable of men,
I do not think we. should lose ,
{ the glow and the beauty of the j
Resurrection by the passing of.
Easter. So I shall write on ;
this matter for several weeks in !
the future beginning with next
week's issue.
May the joy of the words, "lb
is not here but is risen," be j
yours, now and forever more.
Plans Made For
Local (lancer
('.rusade
All preparation- have now
been made for Bastrop's part
in the nation wide educational
and fund raising crusade which
the American Cancer Society
will conduct throuu'iout April,
with $24,000,000 as its goal.
Mrs. O. B, Wilson, head of
the ACS Unit here, and chair-
man of the pending IceaS cam
paign, said today that she \va-
gratified by the fine spirit shown
by the many volunteer enlisted
to collect Bastrop's quota. And
ie a result of the advance edu
cation#! work done by the Unit
in March, she added. th< public
has indicated great Interest in
the vital subject of controlling
cancer.
Each of those volunteers, who
will go into action the last week
in April, has been as tgned to
his or her .special piace in the
drive. Some will take care of
the drive in the bu ine.«s sec-
tion; numerous others will make
a house icehouse ca'Mi--, giving
out informative literature and
appealing for contributions and
-till others will be s>usy at va-
rious other task- necessary in
conducting the drive.
"Lack of knowledge about
cancer is blocking progress in |
controlling that disease," Mrs.
Wilson explained, "That's why
the national Society is waging
an intensive campaign to per-
suade everyone to heed cancer's
seven danger signals and to have
periodic physical check ups. One
out of every three adult Amer
icans does not know that many
forms of cancer are curable. No
wonder so many person.-* who
suspect that they have cancer
shun a doctor's diagnosis, since
they look on confirmation of
their fears as a sentence of
death.
"Early detection enable -
prompt treatment and possible
cure. Each year 75,000 lives of,
cancer patients are being saved,
and 75,000 more could be saved
annually if the presence of the
disease were discovered soon
enough. The ACS educational
program is alerting Americans
to the danger and increasing
prevalence of mankind's crudest
enemy."
More and more cancer'- seven
danger signals are leading to
detection of it in time to enable
effective treatment. Mrs. Wil
son listed tho.-e signals thus:
1, Any sore that does not I
heal.
J. A lump or thickening in the
breast or elsewhere.
■'I. Uunsual bleeding or dis
charge.
I. Any change in a wart or
mole.
5. Persistent indigestion or dif-
ficulty in swallowing.
I. Persistent hoar-en.- s or
cough.
7. Any variation from normal
bowel habits,
"One arresting fact i- that
we cure only 5 per cent of lung
cancer fuses, when we could
cure 50 per cent, if its existence
were known in time," Mrs. \\ it-
miii added. "We cure 'i5 per
cent of breast cancel cases; we
could cure 70 per cent. Cures
of uterine cancer total per
cent, when 70 per cent could be
cured. We cure 85 per cent of
mouth cancer, but could cure
i ."' pei cent. And we cure 85 per
cent of skin cancer when we
could cure ! .i per cent.
Those figures show wny early
diagnosis is m vital, why the
First Christian
Church
ARTHUR E. GIMMES, Minister
Sunday Services:
10:00 a. m., Bible School
11:00 a. ni„ Worship
CVVF, every second Wednes-
day, 7:30 p. in.
Society's educational program is
so necessary. Cancer strikes
without mercy, and it is up to
every one of us to see that it
does not strike fatally."
First Baptist
kkv. o. w. ..i-],,
Sunday:
Sunday School, 3 j
Morning YV.
Training Unipn e
Evening Warship
Tuesday:
W.MIJ, 3 p. m.
Wednesday:
Carol Choir, 3 4-
Mid Week Service
Choir rehear a], .
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Standifer, Amy S. Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 7, 1955, newspaper, April 7, 1955; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth237525/m1/2/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.