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PORTLAND Portland/Obau ver Thursday, June 28, 1972 Page 5 OHS EKI'EK Religion in the News Ctourrt) oí Dour Ctoota Be true to thyself by Rev. T . N . Noffa As we go Into honesty, I will try to summarize this lesson with life itself. When we speak of life, we think of dying. But forget the Joy of dying in the Lord. These words from the book of Job summarize In the form of a graduate degiee In Speech- simple question tlie essence Communications at San Jose of the Great liebate about the State College and Is a recent a fte r-life . When preachers, graduate of the Church D i philosophers, poets, mystics, vinity School In Berkeley. scientists and psychiatrists Manning was ordained as a have said their say, and we Deacon In the Diocese of C ali have listened to every kind Rev. T. N. Noffa fo rn ia June 3. 1972, and looks of interpretation of what is forward to his ordination Into called "E tern al life ," this is die priesthood In early De the question to which the or cember of d lls year. dinary man or woman re tegan to understand how uni turns: " I f a man dies, shall que and precious Is the life he live again?" It may be of an Individual human being that there are many today who that they found It hard to be have been so conditioned by lieve that physical death their secular or marxtst up means total annihilation. So bringing that the question Is the thought of immortality firs t arises in the Bible as qRIckly brushed off with a a wistful question, a question contemptuous " N o ." But It is hard to believe that there that is echoed In every Society on earth and in every age Is anyone at all who has not had even a flicker of curio right to the present. " I f a man dies, shall hellve again?" sity about the almost univer sal human belief that there is This is the real guideline to all such questions, our something for us beyond the grave. Can anyone really conviction about the reality of life after death comes to experience the death of some one close to him or contem us, and grows in us, as we relate to our end here and plate his own without at least now. 7 he only definition of an echo of this question cross eternal life I know in the Bible ing his mind, " i f a man dies. Shall he live again?" Does is "Knowing G od". Quite this life snuff out like a can simply, my belief in life be dle, and that’s that? I find yond death rests on the fact It fascinating that this topic that to know him now Is to should be raised right in the to know him forever. To put middle of the Elble in the it another way, when God form of a question. Those grasps you, he does not let who are not fam iliar with the go. Not even when the body scriptures are apt to think wears out and the heart stops that they are full of infor beating. F o r the Christian, mation about heaven and hell no other assurance is needed. The mere fact that it’ s called If our curiosity leads us to a Holy Book suggests to them Cod who shines upon us the that It deals almost entirely light of his crucified and with another world. The fact risen Son. we shall need no is you can read fa r Into (he more assurance about the life Bible without finding any re beyond. " In my Father’ s ference at all to an after house are many rooms.” If life. It was only when the it were not so, I wouldn’t have w riters began to worry about told you so. ” 1 go to pre such questions as the unfair pare a place for you." That's ness of human life, the way all we need. But it would be the wicked often seem to good to die still curious about prosper while the good a re op The B a n tu Educational these rooms In the Father’ s pressed, that they envisioned Committee w ill be sel ling bar- House. Shall a man live? A the possibility of another life child g r e w and b e c a m e beque dinners-to-go fo r July where justice would be done 4th. I he number of call to or strong, so they had him perfectly. It was when they crucified. der a dinner is 287-0451. Vicar appointed for St. Philips As of July 1st» James D . Manning, 34, w ill assume (lie duties of V ica r of St. Philips Episcopal Church at N J i. Knott and Rodney. M r.M a n ning w ill be replacing Father Stone who Is retiring after 37 years as V icar of St. Philips. O riginally from Washing ton, D .C M Manning lias lived In California fo r die past ten years. He r a c e lved Ills under- Ihe North Portland Day Care Center, house«I at New Hope Baptist Church, la funded through die Metropolitan Area 4-C Council. Reverend A. A. Newton Is the center d irecto r. Portland Summer Concerts open The popular Portland Sum monla O rchestra. m er Concerts opens its MASUKO USIflODA, vlo- second season at 8 p. m , Hniat and winner of die 1966 Thursday, July 13 In (he Lin Tchalkovaky Competition In coln Hall Auditorium at Moscow. She has performed Portland State University. with m ajo r symphonies and N in e te e n professional orchestras throughout Europe musicians from Tokyo to and the United States. Portland w ill combine talents LAURENCE LESSER, In this series of ten unique Maauko’ s hushamt, a cellist, concerts scheduled through also a prize winner In the August 22. 1966 Tchaikovsky Competi S ix weeks of masterclasses tion. A native of LosAngeles, in chamber music w ill be he studied with Gregor P la tl- taught by ten resklent musi gorsky aid now teaches at cians. T h e ir su ing, wind and the Peabody Institute in b a ld - keyboard students w ill pre more sent one or mure group re citals during (lie season. M IW A K O WATANABE, violinist with the Los Angeles Music Department C hair Chamber Orchestra, has per man W illiam Stalnaker and formed In chamberensembles Music D irecto r Sergiu Luca throughout Europe, the United have designed two series of States, Soviet Union, Canada, concerts. Six Thursday even Japan and G reat B ritain. ing concerts, Ihe Series, July I3-Augus( 17, w ill p re RICHARD LUBY, violinist, sent larger ensembles chang was a member of the 1971 ing from week to week to concert series. He has stud offer a wide variety of music. ied at the Curtis Institute Three Tuesday evening con and the Ju llllard School. He certs, the o ther Series, July has performed at the Salzburg 25, August 8 and August 15, and the Lucerne Festivals and will h i g h l i g h t Individual has been soloist with orches talents of die artists In var tras In D etroit. Philadelphia ious duo combinations. and Washington, D.C. Resident artists Include: UR1 M AYER , 2 6 -year-old SERCIU LUCA, young Is assistant principal viola with raeli violinist who also di the Montreal symphony O r rected the concert series a chestra from 1967-68 and year ago. Since then he has spent 1968-70 with the A m eri performed with the National can Symphony Orchestra In Symphony In die Kennedy New York. Center, the Oregon Symphony, KO IWASAKI, cellist and a Atlanta Symphony, M iam i winner of the Tchalkowsky Symphony, Isra eli Philhar Competition, directs a cham monic and has had hla London ber music series In Tokyo. debut with the new P h llh ar- He has toured widely In Rus sia, Eastern Euiope and the United States. ROBERT GURALNIK, New York pianist, was with the series last summer and has performed all over Europe anl thia country. MICHAEL WEBSTER, con- axle rml one of the test c la ri netists in the country, is a member of the Rochester Philharmonic. Webster’ s wife, Nancy Howe Webster, flutist, w ill be one of the nine guest artists ap pearing during the season. Other guest artists Include Claus Admag, cellist with the Jullllard String Quartet and Joseph Kallchstein, Isra eli pianist of New York as well as Portlanders Patrick Fay, principal hom with theOregon Symphony; F orrest Jennings, principal bassoon with the Oregon Symphony; Phillip Murthe, bass with the Oregon Symphony; Phil Baldino, saxsphone with the Oregon Symphony; W illiam Stalnaker III, hoinlst; andl hotnasSvo boda, composer, pianist and PSU assistant music profes sor. SANIXlR VERESS, the dis tinguished Hungarian com poser, another resident artist, w ill teach a four-week class In composition beginning July 17. He also w ill (each a semi nar on Bartók, his form er teacher and friend, July 13- August 10. Several ofVeress* pieces w eie premiered by the 1971 Portland Summer Con certs. The U.S. prem ier of his "Plano T r io " w ill occur at the July 20 concert. Program for the firs t con cert July 13 features the world prem ier of Thomas Svo boda’ s "Parabola, op. 58"; F rederich Kuhlau’ s "Plano Quartet in G ": Anton Dvorak’ s "T e rze tto , Op. 74" for two violins and viola; Franz Schu bert’ s "o c te t. Op. 166" for clarinet, horn, bassoon, string quartet and bass. Guest artists (or this con cert Include Thomas Svoboda, Patrick Fay, Forrest Jennings and P hillip Murthe. Tickets, available either at the PSU Box Office or Cele brity Attractions, are $1.00 for students and $2.50 for the public. With the help from the Ore gon Arts Commission, four out-of-town concerts have also been scheduled: Pacific University, July 12; Oregon College of Education. July 19; M t. Angel Seminary, August 2 and the University of O re gon, August 9. CX*'* ¡x-d Vba» IT Cam«*-'-’» < N 0 IF W S C A T M O I K C H U t C H M •o e m i x .M t ’ » t f v B ftX A z e • »»*« < *•' AMO «f , » ' •» * G 0 8 0 '•« O< I *«».»•» » X a» "v ~ M >0 1 0 * 1 J 00 »o* «Um ALLEN TEMPLE CME CHURCH >.*». 9; ill \ . \ l . Corner of 8th Ave snd .Skidmore Sunday r t o i s h ip 11:00 A > l. Christian Youth Fellowship 6:00 P .M . (-’ml and Fourth Sundays) Rev Thom as S lra y h a n d . M in is te r Vancouver Ave. First Baptist Church 31.38 N. Vancouver Ave. Phone 282-9496 Sunday School 9 :0 0 A M J ] QQ Morning Worship x M. Or. 0.1. Williams, Pastor "The Church With A H e a rt-F e lt W elcome" Methodist 4th of July dinners ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■a Zest of Life ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■aaaaaaaaaBaaaBB Jesus said to the helpless man healed by the pool, after ward when He saw him In (he temple. "Sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee.” John 5:14. And again He said, "Whosoever commlteth sin Is the servant of sin. And the servant abtdeth not In the house (body) fo rev er." John 8:34. Death Is the wages paid for persistent sinning. Most devout Christians never d ili gently undertake to obey "e v ery Jot and tln le " of C h rist’ s commandments and sayings. M att. 5:17-20. God said, "Y o u r Iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from vou, that He w ill not h e a r . " Isa. 59:2. Jesus commanded. "Co preach, saying. The Kingdom of Heaven Is at hand." M att. 10:7. Jesus said to His disci ples, "Into whatsoever city ye enter . . . heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them. The K lngdom of God is come nigh unto you." Lu. 10:9. He also said, " I f 1 cast outdevtls by the S pirit of God, then the Kingdom of Cod Is come unto you.” M an 12:28. Again He said, “ The Kingdom of C od cometh not with observation . . . fo r behold, the K lngdom of God is within you.” Lu. 17:20- 21. This concept of Heaven gives added significance to C h rist’ s words, n a m e ly : "F ro m the days of John the Baptist until now the Kingdom ot Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by fo rce ." M att. 11:12. Christians consider that by accepting Jesus Christ as their Saviour; without any thought of obeying His com mands and hard sayings they are assured of entrance Into Heaven (somewhere in an In visible realm In the sky) when they die as a result of their accumulated sinning. But they overlook the fact that Jesus said: "N o man hath ascended up to Heaven, but He that came down from Heaven, even the Son of Man which Is In Hea ven." John 3:13. AsHewalked about the hills and seashores of G allllee Jesus was Ina hea venly state (in Heaven) be cause He lived the totally obe dient heavenly life . He also said to those who think they sail off to Heaven tlie moment they die, ’’ W hither I go ye can not come.” John 13:33. To these obedient ones He said later In the same chapter: “ Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; tut thou shalt follow me afterw ards." John 13:36. Christians should study more carefully the words of Jesus. He commanded, "Heal the sick . . . raise the dead.” 288-5429 Ellis Casson, Associate Minister By Carnegie "Happy” Pullen The big message of Christ, which all Christians missed, Ixit which Is stated quite ex plicitly in His “ Gospel of the Kingdom of God", Is that Hea ven is here - NOW I Jesus C hrist came to earth revealing the presence of the Kingdom of Heaven here I By commandment, precept and example. He explained how men could qualify toenterinto the Kingdom here by being to tally obedient to His words, and emulating His example, by living the totally obedient heavenly C h rist-life.B u tm en , and even the disciples, consi dered they knew so much more than Christ, many of them ac cepted Christ but thoy rejected His "hard sayings." He said "Straight Is the gate and nar row Is the way that leadeth to L ife , hut few there be who find It.” He said. "Seek ye firs t the Kingdom of God,- ’ but so very few have sought to walk truly In C h rist’ s way to truth, to life, Heaven and the presence of God. If Heaven Is truly here why haven’: very devout Christians found It by now? Because, devout as they are, they haven’ t stopped sinning. 5828 N E 8th A. Lee Henderson, Minister If the dead were In Heaven it would be a strange paradox to bring them back to a world of temptation and evil. E vil prevails In the world only for sinful men, and this Includes sinning Christians. Jesus said, "E v e ry one that is perfect shall be as His mas te r ." Luke 6:40. And He pro mised the obedient ones; "B e hold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scor pions, and over all the power of the enemy (evil) and nothing shall by any means hurt you." Luke 10:19. "And If they drink any deadly thing. It shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall re cover.” M ark 16:18. Life in this world is a m iracle filled life, a divinely protected hea venly life for the totally obedi ent; but Is it also a world of m isery, misfortune, acci dents, disasters, old age, suf fering, senility and death for those who disobey and disre gard the commands and say ings of Jesus, no m atter how devout and saintly Christians they are. A true Christian is one who believes In Christ enough to do what he said to. Church School 9;45 , m M orning W orship 11:00 am Wed Noon — ine Hour of Power 12:00 noon Wed Prayer & C la n Meeting __ 7:30 pm Norjery Care Provided W e ere making our Neighborhood A Brotherhood" Zhc Olivet Kuplisi Church Pev John H Jackson Minuter N E Pirat ond Schuvler Portland, O re Phone 2 8 4 1 9 5 4 Sunday School Morning Worship Vesper 9 am 1 1 o m 5 pm ¿4» u* m a r to »loraAip a n d d tp a r t Io i t n e - M aran ath a Evangelistic Center 1222 N. E. SKIDMORE Pastor Bible Class 9 ;|5 am Bible Training School 9; IS am Sunday morning worship 11 am Evening Worship 7 pm ! Youth Meeting F r l 7:30 pm Reverend W endell W allace Pastor All things new in 1972 ■ flaBBMBBBBBBaaaBBaBBaBaaaBBeaaaaaaaaaBaBaaBBBB J s BB Bible Study Hour Tue. 7 pm Church Office 288-7241 Hour of Prayer PoWer fouth Office 288-7243 Wed 7 pm to 8 pm ■
