The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-07-16

Bible, the less satisfied the indi-
vidual with his own life. One wo-
man told me she believed the way
she wanted to, and her conscience
was clear. You can draw your own
conclusions from that. Naturally her
conscience would be clear.
can think of no better illus
tration to bring out this point than
the comment Israel Zangwil made
Of Bernard Shaw: 1.-The way Shaw
believes in himself is very refresh
ing in these atheistic days when so
many believe in no God at ALL"
Do you not agree that what we
need is an advocated conscience? We
are a Christian nation, yet we have
a shocking percentage of rape, muir
der, arson, larcency and juvenile de-
We have OUR abortion
rackets, OUR narcotic rings, our gov
eminent whiskey. We have our
counterfitters, smugglers and polit-
cal corruption. The Bible student
knows that God has said, There is
a way that seemeth right unto a
man, but the end thereof are the
ways of derth." We cannot trust-our
fallable human Judgment, but must
learn what God, in His infinite
and wisdom, would have us
do. Then our conscience will be of
practical value to us. And how WON
derful to behold is a Christian in
action, a reckless Christian with "a
hard-bitten conscience!
Question nine, care you a church
member?" revealed the fact that
86.84% of those contacted are men,
bers of some Christian body, that is;
by baptism or other ordinance.
1860 are definitely outside the
Church. Does that seem compare
lively few? Consider the Christ who
wandered afoot over the hills of old
Judea, so conferred in healing the
bodies and souls of men that He fire.
quently forgot to eat, who accumu-
lated no worldly goods because He
gave them away too fast, who call
ed the filthiest sinner a "lost Sheep
and who went to death with the cry
ON His lips, Father forgive them for
they know not what they do" That
same Lord left it in our hands to
carry His message Ito every nation
and how beautiful are the feet OF
them that bring good tidings! Dc
you think 1850 seems little to
Him? No, of course you don't. He
wasn't satisfied when ninety and
nine were safe in the fold, remem-
Der? -. -. r.. ~
Hitler says one must be a fanatic
if he would succeed at any cause
That's his secret of power. Maybe
Hitler had one good idea after all
He so manages to drive home his
propaganda that it becomes a very
virus in the blood. "A German doc
tor said that Hitler actually reverses
the instincts Of German boys until
they can scarcely await the glorious
day when they can die for THE
Fuehrer.
Maybe we aren't fanatical enough
Maybe we ought to ry conservation
utter and absolute. Would that cor
rect our 90.79o failure?
Question ten, Where are you af-
filiated2" divided us into Methodist
Lutheran, Baptist, Nazarene, Catho-
lie and Christian, and there are
many other groupsc that were not
contacted. Would Church of Christ
be better Should we let the natives
of Africa get ahead of us in
Christian Unity? With the exception
of the Catholic, I believe all other
denominations have now united into
the Church of Christ in Africa
BUT oh, those unpredictable natives!
What won't they do next? They have
also unanimously voted taboo on
the use of tobacco Reason? They
don't want to smell like the heather!
Well, those are the. opinions OF
Kennewick, Uttered UP with my own!
Here's a few more of mine:
Christianity teaches people te
think for themselves, if they really
embrace its tenets. 1t disperses fear
it makes happy people, giving peo-
pie, caring people. 1t brings out
the finest in men, and it is power
full, for prayer changes things.
1t is men who limit themselves
The human race has potentialities
for a great destiny. I like to think
of a man, made of mud and subject
to temptation, who refuses to be
sucked under. Brue Barton says
that going into eternity must be
like the birth of a child into this
world. An unborn baby has legs
but no conception of walking. He
has eyes, yet no linking of sight o.
color. SO it must be with the SOU
of MAN. Someday he will have te
face up to the God who made him
and maybe he will be able to cope
with that bigger, broader existence
and maybe he won't Maybe he won't
Maybe he won't have grown hi