All Right... Let Us Judge
CATHOLICS BY THE BIBLE!
by John Eastman
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A wave of the checkered flag by Urbandale (la.) Mayor-Byron Jamison starts students on the run.
1 he checkered flag falls and the cars pull
away, but there's no thunder of exhaust, no
screaming tires. What kind of a race is this?
High-school students in more than a thousand
schools across the country are finding out this
Spring as they participate in "Economy Runs"
where trophies go to the safe; not the swift.
Safe driving is difficult to measure, but the care
ful driver is almost sure to get more miles per
gallon of gas than the fast, reckless driver. Econo
my runs, held in only a few schools three years
ago and in 50 last Fall, pit one student against
another over a 100-mile course. The best miles-per-gallon
total wins a prize, and the best ton
miles per gallon wins another, thus eliminating
any advantage held by a light car over a heavier,
more powerful model.
Usually 35 students drive in each competition.
The rest of the student body joins in by making
posters and route guides, writing publicity for the
school paper, inspecting the cars before the run,
and acting as "pushers" to move the cars from gas
pump to starting line. Every drop of gas counts in
this race, so motors aren't run needlessly.
The runs are organized and carried out by the
high-school teachers (especially the driver-education
instructor), townspeople, and local and state
police. Any boy or girl over 16 who has a valid
driver's license and is a student can enter. They
must drive their own or their family car, and it
must be adequately covered by liability insurance.
When the student starts on the run, an adult ob
server rides along. He keeps a log of the trip, and
any traffic violation costs a tenth of a gallon of gas.
This cuts down the driver's miles per gallon and
means that the safest driver tends to win.
The run is planned and patroled by the state or
local police and covers as many road conditions as
possible a real test of teen-agers' driving abilities.
What good are economy runs? The National
Safety Council and law-enforcement agencies in
many states have commended them, believing that
safety education is more effective in high schools .
than anywhere else.
Jerome Donovan, principal of Urbandale High
School, in a Des Moines suburb, has described
economy runs at his school as "safe and sane auto
mobile competition. Teen-agers love competition,
and what better way can they have it?"
Plans are under way to make the runs national
in scope, With regional sweepstakes for trophies.
Perhaps the coming generation of drivers will be
safer and saner than today's, and they'll get better
gasoline mileage in the bargain!
Family Weekly, April 7, 1957 , 9
Many sincere people regard the
Bible as the sole authority for
Christian belief.
And they reject the teachings of
the age-old Catholic Church be
cause these teachings and forms of
Catholic worship are not men
tioned by name in Holy Scripture.
"Where," some will ask, "does
the Bible say anything about the
Mass or Purgatory? And how
about confession to a priest, pray
ing to Mary, and those seven
Sacraments you Catholics talk
about? They're not in MY Bible."
Although everything contained
in the Bible is true, yet the Bible
is not the sole source of all truth.
For example, we know that Christ
established His Church . . . that
the Church existed long before the
Bible was completed ... that mil
lions lived and died in the Savior's
truth without ever having seen a
Bible.
But we are willing to set aside
these historical truths for the
moment and judge Catholic be
liefs and practices by the Bible.
Take first, for instance, the fact
that the Bible does not mention
the Mass or Purgatory by name.
Well, neither does it mention the
word Bible by name. Furthermore
nowhere within its covers is it
stated what are the writings which
contain the inspired Word of God.
The only authority you have for
this is the word of the Catholic
Church, which preserved and col
lected the Scriptural writings and
put them between the covers of
a book. .
The word "Sacrament," mean
ing a sacred rite, is not used any
where in the Bible. But Holy
Scripture does make clear the
sacredness of such Catholic rites
as Baptism, Confirmation, the
Eucharist, Matrimony, Penance,
the Last Anointing, and Holy
Orders the deputizing of the suc
cessors to the Apostles.
The Sacraments were in posses
sion of the Church and in daily
use before a single line of the new
Testament was written. People
were being received into the
Church by Baptism long before
there was a New Testament. They
were receiving Confirmation,
were being married according to
Christ's teaching, and praying over
and anointing the sick.
Christ definitely did establish
His Church. He did deputize His
Apostles, and their successors, to
continue His teaching. He did
promise that His Church would
endure forever, and could not fall
into error. But He never did say:
"All My teachings shall be in
a book. Read and believe nothing
else."
A tremendously interesting
pamphlet explaining the Catholic
teaching concerning such things
as the Sacraments, Purgatory, why
Catholics do not eat meat on
Friday, why we call it Catholic
Church instead of "Roman"
Catholic, will be sent in a plain
wrapper on your request, and no
body will call on you. Write for
Pamphlet No. FM-28.
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