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Americans Tend to Minimize the Importance of Church Attendance

By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International There is a growing tendency among Americans to minimize the importance of church attendance. In a recent public opinion poll, 67 per cent of the people interviewed agreed with the state-

ment:

“You don’t need to go to church to be a good Christian.” One reason why this viewpoint has gained such wide acceptance is that churchgoers rarely try to contradict it.

well as in a church. But how many people get up on Sunday morning and repair to a mountaintop in order to spend an hour in reverent solitude? A church service is for most people the best opportunity the week affords to “be still and know that I am God." A second reason for going to church is purely selfish — but selfish only in the sense that it's selfish to eat when you’re hungry. The regular churchgoer comes to depend upon this hour on Sunday morning to renew

They’re afraid of sounding stuf- supply of love, kindness, pafy, or Pharisaical, fi they voice ti ence an< l perspective. In short, their conviction that going to ^ recharge spiritual batteries church is not an optional extra whi <* have been badl y drained but a verv basic part of Chris- b V a week’s encounter with the

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Why do they believe this? If

you pin down a faithful church- Once again, it must be acgoer, you’ll find that he has sev- knowledged that there are other eral reasons for spending mom- ways to achieve renewal of the Ing in a pew rather than in bed human spirit. Some people do it 1 or on the golf course. , by listening to music, by taking | Best Reason a walk in the woods, by sailing The first and best reason for a boat, or by taking the family j going to church is to worship on an outing. Most churchgoers God. To worship means “to give do these things, too. But it has honor or reverence." An older been their experience that all and more Illuminating defini- such forms of “re-creation’’ are tion says that worshipping more effective when treated as 1 means “ascribing u 11 i m a t e • a supplement rather than a subworth” to the object of worship stitute for communion with God

Worshipping God is not just 1 in church -

one of man’s religious duties. According to the Bible, it is his pre-eminent duty, the chief end of his existence, the thing for which he was created. It is certainly possible to worship God on a mountaintop as

A third reason for going to church is to learn. Few sermons are so bad that a listener cannot hear some faint echo of the word of God. And if the sermon should prove to be a total loss, j there are still the scriptural;

readings, the prayers and the hymns through which the Holy Spirit can speak to a person who is genuinely seeking light for his pathway. Member of Community A fourth reason for attending church is to identify with, to become a real participating member of the community of faith. "There is no such thing as a solitary Christian," said John Wesley. From New Testament times, the Christian experience has been recognized as something which men must share, which becomes fully real only in the context of a fellowship or community. And the church, notwithstanding its many failures and frailties, is still the “body of Christ," the human community within which Christ promised that his spirit would always dwell. The intelligent churchgoer will concede that there are some hypocrites in the church and some highly moral people outside it. He will acknowledge that churches waste a lot of time, money and energy on parochial boondoggling that has on revevanc' to what Christ would expect his body to be doing in a torn and suffering world. But to say that the institutional church has shortcomings is simply to register a fact which St. Paul noted 2,000 years ago: “We hold this treasure in earthen vessels.” The remarkable thing is that the treasure itself has been preserved, and transmitted from generation to generation.

Branigin Reveals Plans Today INDIANAPOLIS UP! —Governor Branigin revealed plans today to participate in “Indiana Day” festivities at the New York World’s Fair next Wednesday. Branigin and his wife will travel to New York by train, leaving Tuesday. “Indiana Day” this year will be marked by the simplest ceremony. Last year, a grand opera was presented by the Indiana University School of Music. Branigin also plans to attend the annual Governors’ Conference in MinneapolU July 25-29.

Adopt Amendment WASHINGTON UPI — The Senate today adopted its first significant amendment to President Johnson’s S6.8 billion medicare bill by voting to let retired persons begin drawing Social Security benefits at age 60. The senators were called into sessions two hours early in an effort to speed action on amendments to the sweeping health and welfare package, a keystone to Johnson's legislative program. Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La., floor manager of the bill, urged his fellow senators to get their proposed amendments in early so they could be voted on without delay.

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Negro Family Is Terrorized By United Pren International A Negro leader at St. Augustine. Fla., said Tuesday night someone tried to burn down her heme while her family and a white girl were watching television. The flames were extinguished without major damage. Mrs. Lucille Plummer, secretary of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLCl chapter in the nation’s oldest city, said her son saw a green pickup truck “full of white men" drive away just before the fire was discovered. She said a beachball, or something similar, filled with fuel had been placed under a 100gallon liquid petroleum tank at the house. Burning rags were put around the ball, she said. St. Augustine Fire Chief B. M. Hall said the fire "definitely was set by someone" and he would ask the state fire marshal to investigate attempted arson. The white girl, whom Mrs. Plummer said “is part of our summer tutoring program," was identified as Gail Blattenberger, 18, a student at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. At Selma, Ala., Tuesday integration leader F. D. Reese was indicted on charges of embezzling thousands of dollars in civil rights funds. Authorities said the charges may involve as much as $60,000. The indictments, returned by the Dallas County grand jury, accused Reese of depositing the money in a Montgomery Bank and using it for his own personal use. Reese is president of the Dallas County Voter League, an affiliate of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). King said > Atlanta “we have no reason to doubt either the interests or integrity of Dr. Reese.” and he sent his top aide, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, to Selma. Abernathy told a rally Tuesday night in Selma that Reese's activities were “none of the grand jury’s business. Reverend Reese didn't have to steal. It’s our money. If he wanted, it we’ll give it to him.”

8,000 Marines Land On Da Nang SAIGON UPI — The United States added more muscle to its combat strength in South Viet Nam today by landing 2,000 Marines on beaches near Da Nang and Qui Nhon. Another 6,000 Leathernecks are on the way. The reinforcements bring U.S. Marine power to 25,000 men, the equivalent of a full combat division, and total American strength to 60,000. The buildup raised the possibility of direct combat support of hard-pressed Vietnamese units by Leatherneck forces in South Viet Nam’s central and northern sectors — an area of increasing Communist offensives. A U.S. military spokesman said 1,600 Marines went ashore today at Qui Nhon, 275 miles northeast of Saigon. The remainder landed near Da Nang, 180 miles north of Qui Nhon. Far to the south of the landing areas, there were reports that a company of U.S. Army paratroopers was engaged in a stiff firefight with Communist guerrillas in war Zone D 30 miles north of Saigon. The American troops were part of a 4-500-man force of Americans, Australians and South Vietnamese airlifted into the zone Tuesday on a search and destroy mission. A separate area of the Communist controlled jungle zone was the target of another raid today by B52 jets of the Strategic Air Command based on Guam. In other fighting, the Viet Cong ambushed a convoy of Veitnamese amphibious vessels on the Saigon River Tuesday night. One of the troop-carrying ships was sunk, but there was no report on casualties. The guerrillas opened up on the convoy 20 miles northwest of Saigon after the lead ship in the 27-vessel convoy hit a Communist mine and plunged to the bottom. Today’s B52 attack on Zone DB was the third such raid by the big jet bombers in the past three weeks.

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US Astronauts Will Orbit Soon SPACE CENTER. Houston UPI — America’s adventuresome astronauts will spend eight days in orbit next month, message earth with a “ray gun” next year and possibly reside in a living room-sided space station by 1968. And people are beginning to ask the question: Whatever happened to the Russians? The last status report in the U.S. bid for manned conquest of space came in three parts Tuesday: —At Cape Kennedy, informed sources revealed Aug. 17 is now the planned launch date for the eight-day orbital flight of astronauts L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., and Charles Pete Conrad. At the same time, their Gemini-5 capsule was mated to its Titan-2 booster rocket on pad 19. Light Communication —At Houston, Gemini-7 pilot Frank Borman and co-pilot James A. Lovell said they will try to communicate with a ground tracking station over a slender beam of light on their lanned 14-day orbital voyage, now expected around January, 1966. —At Los Angeles, Maj. Gen. Ben I. Funk, commander of the Air Force Space Systems Division, said the 1956 military budget requests include $1 billion to build and launc" a space station. This presumably is the Manned Orbital Laboratory (MOL) program that the Air Force expects to have approved by President Johnson this month. Space veteran Cooper and rookie Conrad were on hand at Cape Kennedy when their 7.000pound Gemini -t jle was 'Micately lowered and bolted to the top of the two-stage T -<-2

rocket. Still ahead are five weeks of intensive checkouts before they an leave. No Space Walk Meanwhile, spac agency ofials in Houston said flatly that neither Coop nor Conrad would attempt a “walk in *—j” similar to that taken by astronaut Edward H. White during '> ^our-day voya_; of Gemini-4 last "lonth. The Gemini-5 as*' nnauts will not have the right equipment along. Also. Houston official denied recurring report tha* an AtlasAgena rocket now at the Cape would be lau >ched to provide a target for a “rendezvous and docking’’ -*tempt on the flight of Gemini-5. Instead, that must await the voyage of astronauts Walter M. Schirra and Thomas P. Stafford aboard Gemini-6, now set for October.

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana Thursday, July 8,1965

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Bomb Explodes In Chicago CHICAGO UPI — A bomb exploded early this morning outside the downtown Masonite building, shattering glass in surrounding buildings and damaging nearby cars. The explosion was first reported at 3:45 a.m. District Fire Marshall Gerald Millin said he suspected a powerful dynamite bomb had been placed next to the ground floor office of Friden, Inc. More than 100 windows in the Masonite Building and the Kemper Insurance Building across the street were shattered, leaving several inches of broken glass around the buildings. Windows as high as the ninth floor were broken. Police estimated the damage at several thousand dollars. No injuries were reported.

Mexico Marks Fifth Anniv. MEXICO CITY UPI—Mecico today marks the firth anniversary of one of the world’s most remarkable accomplishments in the rehabilitation of amputees. It started on a pleasant September evening in Switzerland, when the left rear tire of a car leaving Lucerne for Geneva began to thump. The chauffeur and his passenger got out to see what was wrong. The ensuing chain of events leading to today’s anniversary have seen over six thousand crippled persons, men and women who had lost arms and legs

Romney Denies "Edge 0( Decision" LANSING, Mich. UPI — Michigan Gov. George Romney has denied a published report he was on the “edge of decision” about entering the 1964 Republican presidential nomination contest eventually won by Barry Goldwater.

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