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Are Protestants Redlly an Army ~ Of Christians With an Objective?

NOTE: This is the first of six installments by six “noted American leaders who are active “in religion. Besides Mr. Taft, contributors to this series will be Harold E. Stassen, Ambassadof” Francis B. Sayre, J. C. Penney, James W. Culliton and Russell W. Davenport, Their articles are sponsored by the Laymen’'s Movement for a Christian World, The movement this fall is engaged in a campaign to emphasize Christianity seven days a week, of which Laymenw’s Sunday is a part. The articles are from the book, WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING, just published by Harper & Brothers, Mr. Taft is a member of the law firm of Headley, Taft and Headley, Cincinnati and former President of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ. ; He has announced as a candidate for governor of Ohio.

By CHARLES P. TAFT CHAPTER ONE

WE PROTESTANTS op-.

erate on the theory that we are an army of Christian soldiers marching as to

war. But is it an we have? How is it organized? What are the specific

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objec tives in the 1 parish which the laymen unite to accomplish? Do they hav ciples, which they try cally to apply on weekdays? Could they stand up and express them out loud? Would they have any why they are Protestants? I think there is only one answer, so far as the overwhelming majority of laymen are concerned. They may feel but they don’t know the answers. They would break out in a cold sweat at the idea of trying to state them on their feet in public. How can you think of them, then, as an eager and vigorous Christian army, promoting specific Christian objectives for a local church? Some laymen think the way to conduct a Christian crusade is to bring into play successful principles of business, by which they always mean principles of advertising, sales, and propaganda. 1 haven't the heart to kid them as I might, but really they are off on the wrong foot. = = CHRISTIANITY is not insurance. It is a personal relationship to God, as seen in Jesus. It takes no personal effort to be sold insurance; quite the contrary. The only energy expended is in accepting the pen and signing on the dotted line. The buver of gadgets, from the-ads and the radio, need not

e Christian prin-

specifi-

idea

speak or think. All he is re-

quired to do is to walk, to point, to pull out his pocketbook and exchange his cash for his fascination. If laymen persuaded the professional clergy that evangelism means selling religion to new customers instead of the management and training of an army of volunteers, which is mow badly frained and badly organized, they will have done a great disservice to the cause of Christ and His Kingdom. Evangelism certainly has to begin with those already i churches and especi men among them who active community life for them evangelism has to be something qu fferent from pouring good news int quiescent listener's ear, water into a lifeless bucket 1s, among other

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tunately, social skills man relations represen the great failures of ol zation, =z = un SUCCESSFUL has to produce active res The =kill of evangelism is art of provoking listeners speak of their own needs, and of responding wisely with your good that you promote a participation in the common task of the church, The layman ask a newcomer t church, has to know wh: news he wants to spread

e van gelism

spirit

news

when he

simplé things about organization. organization, large or small made units, averaging ten or a dozen

peopie peopie,

up of little uf { Ht

Individuals their groups like that, and one of

can express

personalities only in the church's jobs is to see that

chance to belong to such a

every member has a

group in the church. The ef-

fectiveness of the whole is in tving together these units around common objectives, and in giving each of them a chance for co-operative effort in that task.

In starting a lavmen's league,

please don't start it as a monthlv. dinner club, to hear a speaker, having secretly in mind that at the right time you will enlist all the members to help in the every-member canvass or in building a garage for the manse, Start, instead, studying vour congregation an organism for the propagation of the faith. Study what kind faith it wants to propagate, in competition for the attention of busy men already fully engaged in navigating through life's fascinating conflicts.

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NOTHING is more important today than for Christian laymen to discuss and try to reach agreement on the facts and background of our economic situation, both at home and abroad, to think out loud what Christian principles can be applied to them, This is not an easy process, but it is tremgndously worth trying in groups congenial enough, and small enough, and informed enough. [Lavimen are more conscious than professionals, I believe, as to how far the gospel of Christ has traveled from the agriculth and trading economy of Palestine on the borders of the Roman Empire to the modern industrial civilization in the atomic age. L.avmen’'s Sunday offers the opportunity to tell professionals that laymen are a part of the church which has been too long neglected. It will make - the contribution of which it is capable only if it is stimulated by training, organization, and social which the whole church needs to learn. {Copyrig! 51 y t

skills

Next Sunday: Religion In world affairs by Harold E. Stassen, president of the University of Pennsylvania.

Cowboy Comic Complains

By United Press

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 10—The western comics of Hollywood are threatening to go on strike for working The studios, they charge, just aren’t

better conditions. -onsiderate of them. Pat Buttram, who supplies the in Gene Autryv's movies, when he got

laughs

was boiling mad

That's just the first of Butcompiaints. He also obthe fact that there's a

{ram's jects to water trough in every western picture, and a comedian in every water trough. “Every time I get dunked, it's a cold day,” he said. “We're going to have a minimum temperature for water trough scenes in

back from location with Autry’'s contract.”

Columbia oat opera, “Silver Canyon.” that have

he said,

comics

t's high time, ound

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of all, there's the eat-

Buttram said. “In every §

the eomiec has to eat a always shoot this breakfast

picture » “ al ™h v Big meal, They sceme right after

or iunch, when the thought of food is thev

Or else have us

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cumbrances. oli «pWhile those legal details are being worked out abroad, Gape is fretting over printed criticism from England. He lives here, not far from Akron, with his wife, Mary, 33, two sons, David, seven, and Tommy, two -months, and daughter Gracie, five, in a small but camfortable Cape Cod-style home while he ponders the provisions of the will. The estatechas heen in the Gap# family for 500 years and will go either to Gape, a brother in Detroit, or another cousin still in England. The American. Gapes were ‘born in Canada but came to the United States and are naturalized citizens.

Irked by Newspapers

I'm biting my nails over the whole affair,” Gape said

turbed over reports in English | newspapers that were critical over his “doubts.” !

| “It’s not the simple choice the English papers make it out to be,” he said. .

He cited a clipping from the &&

London Daily Express which said the Gapes evidently are turning down “everything so many British couples are spending a lifetime working toward and dreaming about.”

‘The story, written by an English newspaperwoman, also chided the Gapes for their hesitancy in| not jumping on the fastest (and. getting to England,

TOO MUCH LOVE—Mrs.: Amina Day (right), 57, of Los

sup Angeles is suing her husband, William P. Day (left), 69, for divorce

Her remarks led Mrs. Gapé to because he is foo affectionate, Because the love light seldom dims |observe that “I have half a mind, I" Mr. Day his wife says she has developed a crick in her neck “I've got my fingers crossed and to take the next boat to England and that his amorous advances have made her extremely nervous.

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