The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 22, Ed. 1, Friday, March 15, 1968 Page: 4 of 8
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Letters to the Editor
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Editerial
Chapel: What's Wrong?
After three weeks of having chapel in the new Moody
'Coliseum-Auditorium we're finding that services there just
aren't quite what we had hoped and on the other hand it is
a little better than we dreamed.
The many distractions and shortcomings of the auditorium
almost destroy the atmosphere for worship there. But the
advantages and improvements of the place almost cancel out
the problem areas.
Many problems are caused by neglect or unconcern of
coliseum officials:
The heat is almost unbearable in chapel. If it does not
discomfort students so that they don't get anything out of
chapel it so dullens their senses that they don't wake up from
their chapel "trip" until their afternoon class. To correct this
all it would -take is to turn the heat down and someone
concerned enough to do it.
' The chirping of the birds which inhabit the coliseum
rafters is a distraction which should be cured when construc-
tion stops and passageways where the birds enter are closed.
But the greatest problems arc caused by the students
and faculty themselves:
Staging could be vastly improved if students would simply
open their mouths and project their voices .causing their
singing to reverberate and bounce back thus making a fuller
sound. Some students need to start singing to realise that
they are part of the worship service.
Faculty members who are not required to attend chapel
en some days leave the faculty seat section disoouragingly
vacant.
Leaving chapel early when the devotional is over or just
to get ahead of the crowds or after chapel has been cheeked
k tremendously distracting. Many students who do not have
to get to jobs or appointments practice this anyway.
Of course there are many definite advantages to having
chapel in Moody. An outstanding one is the comfortable seats.
Another is the half-hour fiee period following chapel.
It's also great to have all students together because it
gives everyone a sense of unity and-it must be admitted that
the walk to the Coliseum on a27-degY&'s(ltJwy'wlha'y morn-
ing is bracing.
But the most important advantage is that the change of
looation for chapel gave the chapel committee a chance for'
revamping their techniques in chapel programming. Tive de-
votional are unified instructive and smoothly ertecyjed.
To take advantage of these advantages and to correct
many of the disadvantages is new the task of all ACCians.
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Bdilor the Optimist:
iWffjpMY'ieheol year the ad-
ministration of this Christian col-
lege ha tn several way given
unofficial approval to the war In
Vietnam.
Many Christians believe that a
man can kill for his country but
we cannot conscientiously ap-
prove such action and since
silence gives content we feel
that we Tnuit speak; for the fight-
ing men themselves would ob-
viously not approve the cowardice
of non-commitment. We person-
ally do not believe that any nun's
political ideas or his social In-
justice against others constitute
Christian reason to take his life.
We laud the concept of giving
one's life for a cause greater than
oneself especially If that cause
Is Christ but we believe that
Christians should produce death
only in the man of sin.
Thus In the name of freedom
of speech for which our soldiers
Humble to Globe Hop
On Summer Teach -Tour
By KAY MeNEIL
The Philippines. Hawaii. Hong
Kong. South Afrioa. Palestine.
These are only the high spots of
Dr Bill Humbk's world tour .
Dr. Humble associate professor
of Bible and preacher for the
Woodlawn Church of Christ it
giving hit summer to help teaeh
in preachers' schools around the
world.
It it becoming obvious that in
most cases Humble said that
when young men with great po-
tential at preachers oo-me to study
in the U.S. they decide to live
here. To temedy this preachers'
schools are being set up in vari-
ous placet to train young men in
their own country.
ACC graduate student Doug
LaCroy interested Humble in hit
school in the Philippines. Humble
decided to go to the Philippines
to teach and then to go to other
countries.
"I hope to visit a number of
Bible schools for preachers over-
teat at I give instruction much
like that given at ACC" stated
Humble. He alto plant to teach in
other countries; always working
with former students now In the
mission fields. With these pur-
poses in mind he mapped hit
Itenerary
Hawaii will be the first atop.
From there he plans to spend
time teaching at Ibarakl Christian
College in Japan. At Seoul Ko-
rea he plant to teach at Seoul
Christian Collage. He hopes to
preach in Hong Kong and from
there meet Doug LaCroy in Bsglo
City in the Philippines. Baglo
City Christian College it located
there. Thailand and India will
be the last two countries to be
visited In the five-week visit to
Asia.
During the five weeks Humble
plant to spend In Africa he hopes
to teach in Kenya Tansanla. Mal-
awi Zambia and the KepubHc
of South Africa. In South Africa
Humble will carry out hit teach-
ing program with Ian Fair in
Petermarittburg.
Doyle Gilliam fromer ACC
stebient will assist Dr. Humble in
Malawi. Here they will preach In
IhV bush country. Also in the
bush country of Zambia are ACC
graduates Dennis Mitchell and
George TripletL They have plan-
ned "tn old fashioned camp
die. we submit to the student
body excerpts from Alexander
Campbell's "Address on War."
But If anyone desire to place
in contrast the gospel of Christ
and the genius of war let Mm
suppose the chaplain of an ar-
my addressing the soldiers on
the eve of a great battle on
performing faithfully their du-
ty from such passages a the
following:
"Love your enemiet; bless
them that curse you; do good
to them that detpltefully use
you and persecute you that
you may be the children of
your Father in Heaven who
makes his .sun to rise upon the
evil and the good and sends
his rain upon the Just and the
unjust."
Again in our civil relations:
"Recompense to no man evil
for evil." "As much as Heth in
you live peaceably with all
men." "Dearly beloved avenge
Humble says that this should
be a highlight of the trip because
they plan to set up a large tent
and urge the natives from miles
around to come and hear the
lessons. Meeting will last three
days.
Just at today's student hat lost
her bubble cut in a mats of long
straight hair or discarded hit let-
ter Jacket for an Army Surplus
reject so have the dark-suited
clean-shaven Beatles died.
The Beatles' formal burial at-
tended by such people as Marlon
Brando Diana Dors and Aubrey
Beardtley. was held In full dreet
regalia on the cover of their
album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band." The Realties
themselves came and stood before
their flower-oovered grave.
Reborn Inside the Jacket of
Sgt. Pepper it a mature so-
phisticated teehnleatiaed group
of musicians. The album it not
a collection of songs but an or-
ganic work that was four weeks
in the making.
In the first track the Beatles
create the vaudeville of Sgt. Pep-
per's Band which starts the show
on the road against a background
of a screaming multitude. The
Beatles mock their own popular-
ity the age of vaudeville and
themselves yet maintain a wink
in their eyes: "You're such a
lovely audience We'd like to take
you home with us We'd love te
take you home."
Moving on In the show the
popularly acclaimed new poet
laureates of England satirise their
country's last popular poet lau-
reate Tennyson and hit Lucy of
Aeadie. In "Lucy in the Sky With
Diamond" the becomes a mem-
ber of the Turned-on Generation.
John Lennon't voice echoes
"Look for the girl with the sun
in her eyas. And she's gone. Lucy
; in the tky with diamonds."
The underground cult claime a
strike for LSD in Lucy but it
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ao'w'
not yourselves; but rather gtVe
place to wrath." "If (Mac ene-
my hunger feed kcmi V jte
thirst give him drink." Ht net
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evil with good."
Would anyone suppose mat
he had selected a text suitable
te the oeeastonT Hew would th
cotnmemlsr in entef have Rot-
efted to WmT With whet spirit
weuld his audience have Im-
mediately entered upon an an-
As each of us roaUaes Chris-
tianity it never the easy way out
Being Chritt-Mke requires our
total submission to God and Gad's
help within us. We must decide
If we can picture Christ on the
battlefield and pray study and
strive that we may
Chriet-Mke.
In Hk grate.
Brute Terry
Don B attire
To culminate his rummer
Humble plans to visit part of
Burope and the Holy Lands.
Woodlawn Church of Christ will
pay hit travel expenses but he
will receive no salary for hit
summer's work.
CRfttC DAVGHERTy
does not get much support else-
where. "I don't believe all the
references te LSD and drugs are
written into all the tongs they're
supposed to be in" says Ron
Riley of Chicago pop ttatitn
WLS. "People Interpret and tee
what they want to tee. And the
Beetles aren't all that wrapped to
drugs they couldn't be and
still play and create the way
they do"
With enough money te with-
draw from the pop scene alto-
gether the Beatles remain the
primary innovators of today's
musk. Why? "They are four guys
without a religion" Riley says.
"They don't have the stability
and backdrop of the Catholic
matt or the Protestant service te
fall back on. They are continually
searching.' Tbk could be one of
the reasons for their tremendous
creativity."
Their
a music
ng has produced
timet aligned with
the
and discontent with
the ettabjiehment of
t
youth. Maintaining tee
their
sensitivity to the absurd the
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pie and sophisticated that Inter-
pretation is endless.
"Moot of the kids who come in
here were Beetle fans in 'N when
they first made it big" says Save
organist for the Predlkktert a top
Ruth Strea&bend. "New they're
old enough flrdrink and either in
college or graduated and work-
ing. They're not Interested in
dancing and they'll stend and
listen te the music we're playing.
We play the Beatles became they
are obviously great and they're
what's happening now."
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