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Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, October 12, 1944 anything to chungc what has been done. But we can start here and now to see that we, in turn, don't hand down a mess to the oncoming generation for them to RELIGION IN THE Published Every Thursday at 167 Kain Street, Ashland, Oregon LIFE OF OUR COMMUNITY kill themselves to clean up, if I By J Howard Raos. Paator of they can. tha Neighborhood Congregation There's no ready and all-inclu Carryl H. & Marion C. Wines, Editors-Publishers al Church. sive answer. There is no one re Freedom in the exercise of medy for our own community religion was one of the main mo and another for our neighboring Entered as second-claw mall matter In the pont office at Ash tives which first brought early towns. Neither is an increase in land, Oregon, February 15, 1985, under the act of Congress settler to this country. Although the number of churches or politi at March S, 1879. this freedom found expression in cal parties heading in the direc ways which we might consider tion of a solution. There was a pecular to our way of thinking story htat appeared in Harper’s today, nevertheless those who Magazine some fifteen years ago THE NECESSITY FOR TEAM WORK had been persecuted now found now that told how an explorer themselves in the driver's seat. in Africa was held up for several Now that election time is about here, and most of us, But discounting as we must for days in an emergency call back the extremes and excesses to to civilization. After several days no doubt, have been thinking for whom to vote, the which religious forefathers of forced marches the explorer matter of selecting national candidates of the same of our these went, we must consider, 1 awoke one morning to find that was a very real part of his native carriers were waiting party might be dwelt upon. When it comes to state and religion their personal lives and of the for their souls to catch up with national tpolitics, the voter can hardly make his select society which they knew. Reli their bodies. There is more than served to regulate life for a moral involved in that story; ion because he does not know the candidate personally, gion them. The individuals who found there is a serious warning for us and most of them must make it by the policy or the themselves capable of emancipa today. We need a frank and soul- ting themselves from what they searching study and analysis of past records of the candidates. It seems to us that if considered the latest form of sup E , and try to find out what it the governor of the state, or the president of the nation erstition were a more rare specie is L IF all about. We need to deter they are today. mine what is the H IG H E S T is elected from one party, most of his teammates and than The stories of the part that re G O O D in life and how we can workers should be from the same party. We have seen ligion played in the lives of the best attain it. We must secure for leaders of our country are ourselves a new and deeper real- it happen in state politics several times where the gov great well known. The name, Valley I ization and appreciation of the ernor would be from one party and all the rest of the Forge, suggests, among other I physical-material and the spirit- tl ngs, the scene where Washing 1 ual parts of out makeup, and state elective officers would be from the opposite par to., pictured at prayer. This great how they can work for the wel- ty. If anyone expects that any good can be accomplish leader might be considered as an i fare of the personality which ed by such a setup, they just don’t know politics. We example of the more formal re i they constitute. Here, some read ligious adherent Lincoln, on tha ers will begin to lose interest. know too, that in national politics, our senators and re other hand, might be thought of Just another sermon, they’ll say. presentatives are not able to accomplish much if they as being a “free thinker" as far But that is where their indiffer as formal, organized religion is ence, coupled with an overlose of are evenly divided as to party affiliations. Of course, concerned. Thoroughly disgusted mental laziness and religious in- one might say that if they have it all their own way ' »t what he undoubtedly consider- diffenence, proves to be their un tng- least their loss. Some that is not a good situation either, but generally that '^Lincoln wàs anUindîvid- doing—at people today have the most t pecu- situation is taken care of at the next election, when the ual who prove the truth of the liar sense of appreciation. .. They statement that the truly religious want the best possible society party is ousted if conditions get too rank from a par experience is found in other and community in which to live; places besides churches. Because they want all the luxuries of life tisan standpoint. played so prominent a for themselves and are at least So when you stepup to mark your ballot, remember the irt Bible in the education of the willing to work for their own sel that for sake of harmony in the administration, elect reat Emancipator, it was no fish good. They never stop to fig wonder that he was so thorough ure out how the larger good of most of the officers from the same party. ly acquainted with that Great the community is to be secured. Book and absorbed the great They figure that the other fel truths into his own life. Not at low can do their part for them. tempting to belittle this beloved That is just the trouble— there figure in our national history, I aren’t enough "other fellows” . can’t help but feel that he would What’s more important is that THE OPA AGAIN have been that much greater if there is no such thing as the he had got into the church life “other fellow” . When we don't We seem to have rather “led with our chin” in last and helped to purify it with the take care of our own responsibi religious enthusiasm that lities, they simply do not get tak week’s remarks about the OPA and price ceilings etc. great was his. en care of. If we don’t feed our We have been taken to task several times already about We hear the remark from so own chickens, our neighbors may it, from people who apparently have been injured or many sources these days that we do it once or twice for us, but are almost becoming to believe it they won’t keep it up fbrever. have come to bolws with the OA some place some time. ourselves, that religion is on the The chickens would soon starve. In speaking of the OPA last week we did not mean to decline. I would like to question Society is “starving” . There is the maker of such a statement as nothing shameful or criminal infer that we were upholding the administration of its to what he means by the word about making mistakes. But the policies in Ashland, in Medford, in Klamath Falls or in “decline"? About ten years ago. shame and the crime aspects group of the church leaders of come in when we don’t have any other place or by any particular board. What we a our country, headed by that what it takes to admit that we meant was that the general policies of the OPA are great American philosopher Er do make mistakes and undertake nest J . Hocking, brought out a to correct them and strive to do sound. study of the Protestant churches better. We are our brother’s keep ers and we do not live unto our When it comes to administration by the thousands of missionary work under the title selves. can be no such "Rethinking Missions”. Not so boards throughout the nation that is a diffenent mat long afterwards, there followed 1 thing as There a neutral corner or po on the many issues in life ter. Having had several years of experience on a feder several books with the obviously sition suggested title R ET H IN K IN G today; we are either for the good al board, we know from past experience that the local R E L IG IO N , all of which served things in life or we are against boards are sent thousands of directives, orders, regula to focus our attention to that fact them. People have been fooling people were thinking about themselves too long with that | tions, etc., rtc., and it takes a lot of common sense, a that religion again with p e rh a p s neutral corner myth. We are re- . sense of humor and a lot of hardheaded business sense broader and more critical eyes sponsible for the conditions that before. This was evidenced exist in society, whether we want ! to make the application of those regulations work out. than by the fact that religion had been to admit it or not If we don't Knowing a little of human nature, too, we know that undergoing a broadening process like certain aspects of our social wherebv its scope was consider surroundings, let’s ask ourselves ' not all boards are administered to the best advantage ed as lav in g something to do what are we doing to make for the individual or for the community. There have with this present world. It was things better? Are we aligning a repudiation of the narrow ourselves with those agencies been all together too much petty tyranny in the admin also er concept of religion as a purely the better things? or are we sit- istration of the regulations, and most certainly poor other worldly business. There fin and organizations that stand for dawned upon man’s con ting on the curb cursing the pass administration or over zealous adherence to the rules ally sciousness that religion should ing cars for splashing mud in our “by tiie book can work hardships on a community, as deal with things present, as well faces? There is one agency which as with things to come, that re has done more for mankind than well as an individual. We doubt if there is a board in ligion should be the defender of any other, and that is the the entire country, which has been so administered the common man. and not try to C H U R C H ; its nature and its mis make him content in his manifest sion are of such a nature that it that there are not a lot of complaints about it. There ly unfair social and economic can do what no other can. Yet it are too many rules and regulations that run counter to condition that was blighting his is handicapped through this in There was a decided up difference which is manifested our former way of living to state that there could be no soul. heaval in thinking about reli toward it. The Kingdom of God complaints. Since coming here we have heard them gious matters. There soon came could be more closely approxim recognition that the advice ated in society if those who are about the Ashland board, about the Medford board, the “there’ll be pie in the sky by and letting George do it, would take and others. It is the great national American past time by, don’t you cry” was poor re over their own responsibilities. ligion as well as poor common Lest anyone think that such a to complain about such things. sense. Not that all this implied a commitment is below the dignity Perhaps the source of most of the complaint, or the complete abondonment on the of the real he-man of society, let of religion for other wordly it be said that very few indivi couse of it, is that people have been placed on these part things, but it focused attention duals possess enough of the quaL boards who either know nothing about the matters un on the fact that religion had been re Guest Editorial SOUTHERN OREGON MINER g der their control, by training or experience, or they |»«ng of ^S le* ¿^interpret re- are just not fitted by disposition to be in such a place. iiglon u applying to all of life; Either one can cause a lot of troublt for the individual the present 33 weU 33 the here' and we believe that most of the complaints arise from Thia period of readpustment that source. has been painful, but it has also But our personal opinion of the matter is that the materialistic advancement, with its raising of the ease and luxury broad policy of the OPA—to hold down the price of of living, was accompanied by living and to see that all have their fair proportion of the discovery on the part of many people that the narrow available commodities, has been done. It hasn’t been idea of God they once had was done without injury to some people. totally inadequate for the new life. Because God didn’t strike Perhaps the main fault with the whole setup is that down all tnose who failed to do they didn’t go far enough in that there was no limit Him honor and worship, they set on wages of many employees and inasmuch as the came to ignore The Divine Being and to live as though they were wages have been allowed to rise more or less, it has had sufficient unto themselves. This a tendency to squeeze any profit in the handling of indifference for things religious on the edge of con many items. If there had been an absolute ceiling set bordering tempt, is one of the most serious on wages as well as the price at which manufactured threats to the future welfare of country today, not ignoring goods could be sold, it would have allowed sellers a our the problems of a post-war na fair profit. As it is, there has been some lines of goods ture that are looming ominously before us. The danger lies in the discontinued simply because there has been no profit fact that indifference to things and in some cases a loss in handling the item, and sell religious ,to our religious duties and obligations, spreads with a ers will not handle them. cancer-like speed and deadly The OPA is far from perfect, but no one has come certainty to the rest of life. With decline in religion goes declne in forward with a better plan, and in the whole we think morals a a and .......................... concern for the bet it is successful, in spite Of what some have to say about "er th?ngs*in'iife. We are reaping It. It 1« mighty easy to criticise, but unless a better sol- u tio n is o ffe re d th e criticism don ’t am o u n t to m u ch . about that becam e we can’t do F IL M S D E V E L O PE D 4b P R IN T E D 8 or 8 ex. 15c per roll Doable size 26c 5o extra of Panohromatle. AU flue grain developed. 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