Religion in the News
by Tlierlon E . Cobbs
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International board
name Seattle woman
M r» . Jeialdiue Bright was
recently elected to tie Board
of D ire cto rs of the Northwest
International Conference on
World M issions. The Con
ference holds and sponsors
an annual institute on |« r t l-
nent issues (elated to tie
World of M issions.
It is
sfionsored by the Canadian
Council of Churclies and tlte
National Council of C ligrcles,
I '.5 .5 .
Jeraldlne served a 2 year
term as Pirat Vice President
of tie Puget SoundConference
M issionary Society, AJUJE.
Church
(Incorporating
5
siatoa), is piesently serving
a 3 year term on tlte Board
of Trustees fo r tlie Washing
ton State C hildren's Home
Society, la Chairman of M is
sionary C ircle jf3, a m ender
of The Trustee Board.aClass
le a d e r of F irs t AJkIJI.
Church, is working in con
junction with tlie lotem G irl
MN Council.
Jeraldlne is the w lfe o fM ll-
ton B right, a contractor and
mother of a son, M arvin,
Jeraldlne says, "w e are In
to res to 1 in more young adult,
and black persons participa
ting In tlie Mission Confer
ence,"
Next year's con
ference w ill 1« held at T r i
nity College. I a ng ley, Wash
ington. You w ill hear more
about this as tlie year's work
progresses.
Blacks create religion
S trikingly s im ila r develop
ments in Black A frlca n C h rls-
tlanlty and Black American
C hristianity are leading to a
new type of cultural religion,
says tin Rev. James II. Har
gett. Secretary fo r Black
M in istrie s
in
tie United
Church of C h rist,
Rev. Hargett recently re
turned
from
a five-week
round of tours arid seminars
In Ghana and N igeria. UrxJer
a Martin Luther King Jr.
Fellowship from Rochester.
N.Y. Center fo r Theological
studies, he is working on a
three-year project to develop
m aterial» fo r Black Studies
Cable TV
subject
M rs . Jeraldlne Bright
programs
In
theological
schools.
In west A frla , he noted tlie
rapid growth of S piritualist
churches which empira size tlie
"to ta l B ib le " in th e ir teach
ings. S im ila r movements in
the U.5. are leaduig to what
!»• calls "c re a tiv e accom
modation"
of Splrtuallsts
w ithin middle class black
churcles.
Most UJs, slaves were cap
tured and sold in west A frica,
Rev. Hargett explained, so
most American Blacks lave
th e ir social and religious
origins in west A frican tra
ditions.
th e s e
On Ihursday, September
14th, the Center fo r Urtian
Encounter of tlie Greater
Portland Council of Churches
w ill present "The Wired Re
volution: A Cable I elev Is Ion
W orkshop".
11« principal
speaker w ill 1« tlie Rev. W.
James Richards, Deputy D ir
ector of the office of Com
munications of die United
Church of C h rist. I he w ork
shop w ill le lie Id at tlie F irs t
United Methodist C lu rch , 1838
S.W. Jefferson, at 7:30 p jn .
T lie general public is invited
to attend. H e r e w ill le no
admission cla rg e .
The workshop w ill provide
p a rtic iia n ts widi an oppor
tunity to learn about tie
|«jtential of cable television,
and how citizens and com
munity groups can le s t u ti
lize tie medium.
Recently
adopted rules oi die Federal
Communications Commission
(FCC) w ill also le reviewed.
'I le workshop is being leld
because Portland is currently
at a major crossroads re
garding cable television. Five
cable firm s have made ap
plication to die office of
C ity Commissioner Connie
McCready fo r die franchise
to w ire tie m ajor portion of
die
Portland metropolitan
area. Most Portland re s i
dents, however, are unaware
of tlese actions, or of the
potential Impact of cable tele
vision on die community.
a ie
tlie co nclusio ns
of Jolin P. Kildahl, a clinical
psychologist who did Intensive
research on glosaolalia, or
speaking in tongues, over a
period of 10 years. Results
of his findings are presented
in a new book, "T h e Psycho
logy of Speaking In longues."
(Ubllslied by Harper & Row.
Hla research was sponsored
by tlie National Institute of
Mental Health («cause of die
widespread upsurge of speak
ing In tongues In mainline
Protestant and Roman Catho
lic churches beginning alout
15 years ago. D r. Klldahl's
study was of mainline Pro
testant churclies only, and
included groups from coast
to coast. Physchological test
ing was done of individuals
amt tajies were made of per
formances.
Tongue-speakers are overly
dejendent in temperament.
D r. Kaldahl reports.
I hey
lean le a vlly on the approval
of die authority figure, tie
religious leader who teaches
them glossolalia, end it is
this approval tliat gives them
their sense of joy and w ell
being, rather then die »leak
ing its e lf. If they lose tie
leader's approval o r if tle y
cease to admire him, tlien
tle y no longer feel any satis
faction from speaking in ton
gues, though tle y s till are
able to do so, le found.
Most glossolalists inter
viewed had gone through some
anxiety c ris is p rio r to te -
• oming tongue-sjeakers, he
says, and a ll ted suffered a
feeling tle t tle y were worth
less lefore becoming glos-
solalists.
This was not a
guilt feeling, 1« points out.
fu t a sense of leing nothing.
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out of nothing—than totelieve
tliat God always existed and
h e t He created everything ac
cording to His own marvelous
and intricate plan.
D r. W illia m Urey, a re
nowned scientist lea pointed
out that tie vast, elaborate,
complex. Intricate and inter
dependent Creation simply
could not evolve anywhere.
Gam er Ted Armstrong, and
the continuing researches
being conducted by the Am
bassador Colleges, of tie
Worldwide Church of God.
demonstrate (le t evolution is
not a fact, hut a carefully
conjured up niyth --t,ia t the
theory of evolution Is just
tle t —a theory.
Even Da tw in, considered to
le the father of evolution,
»as puzzled try m . inability to
find
fossil
specimens of
"tra n s itio n a l fo rm s” of one
species of creature becoming
"e vo lve d " into another spe
He questioned about this in
his w ritings:
"A s by this
theory
innumerable forms
must have existed, why do we
not find them embedded in
countless numbers In tie
crust of tie e a rth 7"
"Geology assuredly does
not reveal any such finely-
graduated 01-gaiitc chain (of
“ It's th o u g h tfu l
and sensible
to pre-arrange
fu n e ra ls,“ says
M rs. Jessie H enson,
CXxch «re VRww '•» C aeevh
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C hristian Youth Fellowship 6:00 PJvl,
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A Praise In w ill be held
on Saturday, September 16th,
from 6:30 to 8:30 p jn . in
Fern
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Adams High School). Among
the participants are the Prince
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Lord Band and theNewChris-
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(bring your own lunch). T ie
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intermediate species,, and
this, perhaps is tlie most ob
vious and serious objection
that can he urged against tie
theory.”
Darwin believed that as
geologists and paleontologists
got a more complete record
of the earth’ s fossils the
missing links between species
would be found. Yet, today,
a hundred years later, when
evolutionists sjeak of the
"m issin g lin k ," they actually
mean m illions of missing
links; because no definite
proof of any transitional fos
s ils existing.
Eohlppus, a creature look
ing remotely like a horse is
said to be the ancestor of the
horse; yet Ambassador C ol
lege has shown in "P la in
T ru th ," tle t eohippus was a
different animal entirely, and
scientists mostly have treated
it as such.
The Museum method of ex
hibiting skeletal fossils of a
monkey
somewhat like a
chlmjenzee, alongside of an
orangutang, and tle t beside
an ape and that of a man, Is
offered as "evidence," or
"p ro o f,” to convince the mind
tle t
these graduations of
s im ila rity is proof of evolu
tion.
It is very much as if
they were to exhibit skele-
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tons of a mouse, a rat, a
sq u irre l, a cat, a dog, a wolf,
a leopard, a zebra, a hip
popotamus and an elephant,
and then say, "See, the ele
phant
evolved
from
the
mouse," without showing any
"tra n sitio n a l stages" o r spe
cies.
Ivan T. Sanderson in "M a m
mals of the W o rld ," says,
" s o many interm ediary forms
are completely lacking."
Evolution cannot explain the
o rig in of the universe, the
origin of m atter, the origin
of life . L ife can exist upon
the earth, o r anywhere else,
only when a planet such as
tlie earth is held in position
where it is kept at a "c o m
fo r ta b le ”
temperature- -
neither too hot nor too cold;
it must have just the right
thickness
of atmosphere,
which also protects life from
being bombarded by small
m e te rio rite s, and otherdeadly
debris. Chemical and photo
synthesis conditions suitable
fo r
producing elementary
foodstuffs fo r higher form s of
life; and an interdependence
of living species on various
conditions and upon each other
disclose a highly intelligent
and intricate design to make
living pleasant as well as
possible to countless species
which exist to serve each
other. These things could not
possibly have just happened,
as is often said, no more than
could have "an explosion In
a p rin t shop have produced
the
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some subjects and w ith o tfe rs
does not. I have reached the
conclusion that tongue-speak
ing is a learned phenomenon.”
It Is common occurrence,
he says, fo r tongue-speakers
to take hold of the jaw of
ore wishing to learn and to
spend hours urging the per
son to repeat sounds until
the individual starts producing
sounds from his own un
conscious, in a so n of re
gression to the sounds a child
makes learning a language.
Glossolalists lend together
as an in-group, are exceed
ingly kind to each other, but
redirect form er anger feel
ings toward those who do not
wish to join them, he says.
They exhibit "subtle d isre
spect
fo r
non-tongue-
speakers,” he points out, of
ten resulting in disruption and
frictio n in churches. He feels
tliat some elements of prac
tice should be discouraged,
as there are more construc
tive ways of gaining a sense
of well-being.
D r. Kildahl is a member
of the faculty of the Post
graduate Center fo r Mental
Health and d ire cto r of the
program in Pastoral Physcho-
logy at New York Theological
Seminary.
"Happy” Pullen
cie s.
CALDWELLS
Nam« «
C ity ____
OR
IION?
Which one is true?
some science minded C h ris
tians call themselves " I hels-
tic evolutionists," a middle
ixisltlon which scarcely satis
fies the enigma. In any case
those s im ila ritie s and re
lationships which men see in
creatures and which they call
evolution is s till (le liandl-
work of God.
But lecause tie skeletal
structure of one creature is
s im ila r to another It does not
follow tle t tie one proceeded
out of the other. God simply
adapted a su n lla n ry of design
to given environmental con
ditions upon tie earth, to many
of the different forms He
created.
To believe that a ll that
exists In tle lre la b o ra te , com
plex and Intricate designs and
(unction created themselves
,
/z/ilift
Wien tie a bility Is dev-
elojed. D r. Kildahl reports,
the tongue-speakers always
experiences exhilaration in
hebig accepted by an in-group
and approved by the leader.
I le new confidence resulting
iron, glossolalia extends to
«11 areas of life , making tie
s|<eaker bolder in business
dealings, marriage relation
ships, and all other in te r
personal relations.
He (eels tliat he is singled
out by God to receive tins
g ift, and that God is using
his vocal chords in a mecha
nistic fashion to produce tie
sounds, making it posalble
for him to sjeak a language
unknown to him .
However,
linguists all lave told D r.
Kaldalil that tie sounds ut
tered, though rhythmical do
not meet the requirements of
■ true language. Exceptions
are tlie cases where tie
tongue-speaker las in the past
been exposed to a foreign
language long enough to have
picked up some of it, le
states.
Confronted with this infor
mation, glossolalists say God
is expressing a meaning in an
unknown language and that tie
g ilt of interpretation is be
stowed on a few. Thosew-hodo
claim this rare ability may
give interpretations as ser
vices progress. H o w e v e r ,
when D r. Kaldahl submitted
tajes to different interpreters
individually
and privately,
each attributed a different
meaning to the recorded ut-
terences.
"1 have observed" D r. K il
dahl w rites, "the same rou
tine everywhere I lave been:
(I) a meeting devoted to in
tense concentration on tongue
sjeaklrg, followed by (2j an
atmosphere of heightened sug
gestibility to the words of
the tongue-speaking leader,
after which (3j the initiate is
able to make the sounds le
is instructed to make. It is
the same procedure that a
competent hypnotist employs.
Like lie hypnotist, the tongue-
speaking leader succeeds with
Zest of Life
C R E A T IO N
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fhursday, September 14, 1972
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People who speak in tongues
do not S|«ak a teal language —
though tfiey think they do—
and they lave definite per
sonality patterns which lead
them to this type of expres
sion. However, they are no
leas and no more liealthy men
ta lly tia n others, and they
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