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Soul Purpose
Religion in the News
Africa stakes satellite claim
by N o n iu n
Kart
NAIROBI, Kenya - A vlaltor
Io Kenya aaya (hat lie aakeri
Hie Government M in later at
that time reeponalble (or
broadcasting what lie was go
ing to do willi tlie satellite
earth station which lies In
Kenys’s Rift Valley, 30 miles
from Nairobi.
The
M inister, lie sakt.
looked at him In a sad and
puzzled
way and replied,
"T h a t is not for us. It ’ s for
them.'*
Satellite communication he
re me possible when men dis
covered how to rocket Into
sftace satellites from which
radio signals could be bounced
beck to the earth. Tlie fact
that this could he done was
only demonstrated 14 ye are
ago, hut today tliere are satel
lites 22,000 miles above tlie
Atlantic, Pacific and Indian
Oceans liy which communica
tions can be ‘ bounced' from
any part of the world to any
other part.
To send and recelws tie
communications, earth track
ing stations are needed on tie
ground, andAfrlcaalrea>ly has
nine of them, with 13 more
to follow in tie ¡ext two or
three years. But possessing
an earth tracking station is
not an automatic passport to
entry into the powerful sa-
t e llia club.
At present only six nations
— tie Soviet Union. tf«U J»jA „
Prance,
Japan. China and
Great Britain, In (hat order —
have put up satellites.
And while 81 nations, in
cluding
some 20 African
countries, are members of
tie International Telecom
munications Satellite Con-
sorlum - INTELSAT - this
does not nean that tle y have
an equal say In (he use which
can le made of this new means
of communication.
The Ecumenical Satellite
Commission, o r ECUSAT. Is
concerted about the usewhlc!
nations Intend to make of the
Shake off thy
Great
Heaviness
''H e a r, O ye my beloved, salth
tlie Lord: behold tie days of
trouble are at hand, but I w ill
deliver you from the same,
lie not afraid, neither doubt;
for God Is your guide, and
gusle of THBM wild M i l’
MY CUMMANDMENTS AND
PRECEPTS, said the Lord
God: let not your sins weigh
you down, and let not your In
iquità la lift tfemselves up.
"And deretane shake off
thy great lea vlie sa , and put
away (le multitude of sorrows,
that tfe Mighty may le m e rc i
ful Into (lee again, and tie
Highest shall give (fee test
and ease from thy lab o r."
11 Esdras 16 ff.
THERE IS MURE TO LIU.
THAN GROWING O LD . OLD
AGli
AND
D E A IH
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P o rt! and/Observer Thursday Janu ary 4, 1973
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By Chuck Singleton
A w rite r named LeC erf
surveyed the world around
him and finally surmised,
"M y s te ry Is the footprint of
the divine.” His statement
was not a newly revealed truth.
Somehow men had never put
It In words, hut that truth
hss always feen there.
Yet we act as If God Is
the
dummy when there’ s
something about Hun we don’t
understand.
"W hat do you
mean T rin ity, how you gonna
get three beings Into one?"
"V irg in birth, how's a virgin
gonna have a baby?" “ Noah's
ark? How you gona flood tfe
whole earth? Even God caln't
do that."
It's amazing how some of
the supposed most brilliant
minds become like babies
when it comes to tfe things
of Cod.
I remember tfe P fo . who
decided that If he safcl stu
dents were wits, he'd he tel
ling a half-truth. He couldn't
figure exit how any Imbecile
could believe that God was
the originator of life when
It was perfectly clear that
man came from a ore-celled
animal who was tfe original
life . . . Of course, he never
told me where tfe one celled
anlrnal came from??? | was
the fool ’cause fe taught In
school. Maybe that's why a
Pti?
don't
guarantee
no
J .O.fJ, - almost anyore can get
one.
Many men feel that once
they are doctors in some field,
they've got the whole world in
th eir hands, not realizing it’ s
only a particle of dust.
Blacks influence
Council of Churches
4FRI0A
i
ju s t atxxit every meeting
with two or more blacks has
a black caucus - an American
tradition. The General As
sembly of the Council was no
exception, tut tfe composition
and style of the black group,
in this religious setting, was
different. Moreover, tins cau
cus was more effective than
most.
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- w i t Ikal^ cao^lrU. ¿fe
satellites. W ill they he used
F o r A frica the uses of sa
by each country which can
tellite communication go far
afford a shaie in lliem simply
beyond tie exchange of tele
to project a hettei image of
vision programs which has
that country - to extend the
teen their most spectacular
’•w a r" latween 0 « external
use so fa r. Satellites can le
broadcasting services of the
used to forecast (le w eatler
U.S.A.. China, Russia, South
— meteorological satellites
A fric a ’ s lead? W ill tle y le
gave many months’ warning
used simply toexchange trivia
of the weather systems which
which offend no one - tele
caused
tie last floods In East
vision programs of stage
Pakistan.
shows and football matches?
Above all, w ill a way be
Satellites can le used to
found of letting tie developing
survey laid for m inerals and
countries share tlie facilities
to determine what kind of
which the satellites offer, even
crops w ill grow le s t. They
though tley cannot afford to
can le used to track tie move
spend
as much? Already
ments of wild life . They can
ECUSAT has attended a con
le used for education—India
ference of tlie International
w ill have tie use of a satel
Telecommunications Union in
lite jxit up by tie United Mates
Geneva to (17 to ensure that (he
for a two-year experiment in
case of tie developing coun
broadcasting programs to Im
tries Is heard by the countries
prove agriculture, aid social
who can already make us i of
vleveloptnent and teach family
satellite communication.
planning.
Mobile receivers and trans
m itters (mounted on lo rries
and tra d e rs ) for transmitting
local
news, to g e tle r with
cleap television sets which
need no large amount of elec
tric ity , could mean th atinfive
years time noAfrlcan country
reed be too vast for its people
to know quickly what is hap
pening in it and around it; no
distant vdlage need feel iso
lated from its capital or from
knowledge.
The question which C h ris t
ians see particularly cle arly
is w tether men have the w is
dom to use these possibilities,
to live in this naked world
which could be created.
'We want to see the new
technical opportunities In sa
tellite communication used for
the development of mankind,
and not for exploitation," says
ECUSAT.
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ALLEN TEMPLE CME CHURCH
WELCOME TO
ST. M ARK’S BAPTIST
CHURCH
N . E . M o rris
Sunday Service 9:|5 /||:0 0 a j n .
Evening Service 7:30 p jn .
Reverend Edward W ilder
ondly,
to
establish, with
budget, an ongoing task force
to m onitor tfe progress of the
Council witf regard to minor
ity group affairs.
The black caucus, along
with the Africa caucus, pre
sented a comprehensive doc
ument on southern A frica.The
resolutions
In the report
passed tfe Assembly over
whelmingly. It called upon the
United States Government to
halt purchases of chrome
from
Rhodesia, to cancel
South African sugar quotas,
to terminate loans to Portu
gal (which has colonies in
southern Africa),, and to re
fuse tax credits to corpora
tions doing tusmess in South
Africa occupied Namibia.
Meeting at least once a
day, and often twice, tfe black
caucus hosted some of tfe
leading names in tfe black
church and the C ivil Rights
movement. Bishop Stephen
Sponswood. president of the
NA.ACP, Dorothy Height, na
tional president of tfe National
Association of Negro Women,
Bishop B. Julian Smith, of
Memphis. Tenn.. the Rev. An
drew
White of Nashville,
The Rev. D r . Edler Haw
Bishop FJd. Jordan of Holly
kins, chairman of the black
wood, C al., and Bishop EJ>.
task force, said at the end
Murchison of Birmingham,
of tfe Assembly:
"Blacks
were among those active in
have won m ajor victories at
the caucus.
this meeting for our race
Hulbert James, D ire cto r of
and mankind. What we must
the Crusade Against Hunger
do now is follow through with
tar the National Council of
the effective cooperative ac
Churcfes, worked as chief
tions that we have witnessed
strategist for tie caucus. Un
here. If black church leaders
der his leadership, tfe caucus
could w or1 together year
was able to:
one, have a
round like they worked togeth
new commission on Justice,
e r at this meeting, the I ite ra
L iteration and Human F u lfill
tion of black people w ill surely
ment which w ill he at tfe van
soon he a reality, and the
guard of the Council's social
fullness of me Lord's king
and political thrust, and, sec-
dom w ill surely be on ea rth ."
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