FRIDAY. APRIL 20. 1962
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Graham
MEDFORD MAIL TtUoowt:, MtOr'ORD, OREGON
Tells
To Christians acrou the
world, today it a moit lolemn
ol holy dayi: tha day Chriit
died. Why it thit a day to
commemorate? One preacher
of renown offers a modern
day explanation in the fol
lowing ditpatch.
By DR. BILLY GRAHAM
Written For UPI
A six-year-old boy who had
never been in Sunday school
before sat listening to the
teacher tell the story of the
Crucifixion of Christ. When
, she had finished, the boy said,
"If Paladin had been there,
they wouldn't have gotten
away with it."' The little boy
symbolizes some of our vague
thinking about Holy Week.
At this time of the year
our thoughts go naturally to
the climatic events surround
ing the cross and resurrection
of Jesus Clirist. Millions have
only the vaguest idea of what
it is all about. A man said to
me during Holy wcok lasi
year, "Why does the church
make such , a fuss about the
death of Christ?"
Recurring Question
During the last few weeks
I have been on several uni
versity and college campuses.
I have answered literally hun
dreds of questions on many
subjects, but one of the re
curring questions' which stu
dents were asking was, "Why
did Christ die?" In other
words, why do we celebrate
Good Friday? Usually we eel
cbrate the birthdays of great
men. not the death days. Who
can give the date of Washing
ton's or Lincoln's death? Why
is there such interest in the
death of Christ? And why is
it mentioned with awe and
reverence throughout the
world?
In a popular life of Lin
coln, there are five thousand
pages, but only twenty-five
are devoted to the dramatic
story of his assassination and
death. This Is the rule of most
biographies. The death of the
hero is a mere incident at the
end of the book; but when
we come to the four biograph
ies of Jesus, we are confronted
with an extraordinary fact.
One-third of the book of Mat
thew, one-third of Mark, one-
fourth of Luke and one-half
ot John are devoted to the Inst
twenty-lour hours of the life
of Christ. The death nt Jesus
Christ was different, from all
others. It is true that Socrates
drank hemlock. But when
Christ died, the lightning
flashed, the thunder roared,
the darkness settled, and even
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Why Good Friday Is Celebrated
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NAP TIME - David McCarthy, 12. of Gil
roy,, Calif., a member of the Gilrov 4-H
club, was caught taking a nap with his
calf before exhibiting at the Junior Grand
National Livestock Exposition at the San
Francisco Cow Palace. (UPI)
the soldiers confessed that
this was the Son of God.
There has never been
death like it In history. When
one hundred prominent Amen
icans were asked a few years
ago to name the most signifi
cant fact of history, the num
ber one event listed was the
death of Christ.
Of all men who ever lived,
Jesus did not have to die. He
was the lord of life. Sin causes
death, but Jesus never sinned.
Many people say that Christ
was a martyr. This is not true.
The soldiers did not seize him
by force. They did not take
him against His will. He said,
No man taketh my life from
me, but 1 lay it down of my
self."
Christ was dying for the
sins of the world. The Apostle
Paul said, "God was Christ
reconciling the world unto
himself." The cross ot Christ
had amazing power because
in it justice and love are
blended together in one great
and final revelation of God.
Love divorced from justice" Is
always in danger of becoming
a sentimental thing. God in
Christ laid the expiration of
man's offense on himself, and
the cross is the eternal revela
tion of what man's sin means
to God.
Faintest Reflection
A parent's agony when
son or daughter, heedless of
all prompting, pursues reck
less ai.d perilous forces, is but
the faintest reflection of the
agony of God In the face of
the sin of man. The cross con
demns the sins of our time -
pride, arrogance, prejudice,
cynicism and disillusioned
idealism. It condoms the per
version of law and order. It
condems even our false relig
iosity and hypocrisies. Wheth
er we like it or not, the people
of our generation are inked
by "chains of motive" to those
who crucified Jesus Christ.
The words of the old spiritual
are pertinent to us as with
Paul we contemplate the spec
tacle of the cross and its cos
mic meaning, "Were you
there when they crucified my
Lord? Wore you there?"
When I stand by faith at
tile foot of the cross, 1 can
only pray the prayer of the
Another unique thing about
Holy Week is that our Lord
could not be held in the grip
of death. He said, "I have
power to lay down my life
and take it up again." The
sadness of Good Friday must
yield to the gladness of Easter.
The good news of the Gos
pel is two things - Christ died
fpr our sins - and He rose
again on the third day. If
Christians the world over act
ually believed that Jesus
Christ was alive today, there
would be a new hope enter
ing into the United Nations or
the disarmament conference
at Geneva.
Exit Guaranteed
Jean Paul Sartre has said,
"There is no exit from the
human delcmma." I say there
is: This exit is guaranteed be
cause Christ has been raised
from the dead.
Also distinctive about Good
Friday is that today, twenty
centuries awny from that
event, we can share its power
and glory. This week in thous
ands ot Catholic and Protes
tant churches, millions o f
Administration Ready To Open
Fight for Transportation Bills
Editor'i Note: Following
it the first of two ditpatchei
on Pretident Kennedy'! mats
transit plan, describing the
$500 million program and itt
aims.
By JOSEPH D. HUTNYAN
Washington-IUPD-The admin
istration opens its fight next
week for an ambitious half
billion dollar plan intended
to strengthen commuter pub-,
lie transportation and reshape
some of our society's traveling
habits.
The legislation, requested
by President Kennedy in his
transportation message, would
broaden a $75 million loan
and grant program enacted
last year, and supervised by
the Housing and Home Fi
nance agency. .
The Senate Banking and
Currency committee is sched
uled to begin hearings Tues
day on this second phase of
the program which embodies
$ 5 00 million in matching
grants over a three year per
iod. Sponsors Optimistic
Sponsors of the legislation,
led by Sen. Harrison. A. Wil
liams (D-N.J.) generally were
optimistic. But they empha
sized the need for a 'tough
campaign o f congressional
salesmanship to pass it.
The feeling was that the
Senate would approve the
bill, but there was concern
about its reception by the
rural element in the House.
The parent legislation pas
sed last year was attached to
a catch-all housing bill - a
tactical maneuver that ham
pered its opponents. This year
it will have to stand or fall
on its own.
The Senate in the coming
weeks also was expected to
amend the bill to permit long
term grant commitments with
out sole reliance on annual
congressional appropriations.
Backers of the legislation
say this is necessary to give
the plan financial stability.
But the change will raise the
issue of "back door spending"
and add to its political sensi
tivity. The proposal is aimed at
stimulating the purchase of
railroad cars, buses, terminals,
tracks and other equipment to
revitalize urban mass transit
systems.
The idea is to get more
commuters to leave their cars
at home and use public facili
ties. Supporters claim the al
ternative is frightening.
Car ownership within the
next 15 years is expected to
increase from 70 million to
115 million. If more commut
ers are not enticed from their
autos to buses and trains, the
urban scenery will be a kind
of bumper-to-bumper chaos.
Planners conjure up an awe
some scene of expensive mul
tilane highways tunneling this
automotive army daily into
traffic choked cities reeling
under its impact.
They claim that neither the
cities nor the nation can af
ford it.
ENDORSE ROAD SYSTEM
Washington - (ITU - The Na.
tional Association of County
Officials, paced by Oregon
spokesmen, have endorsed
an expanded National Forest
access road system before Ilia
House Public Works committee.
Only about 6,000 stars are)
bright enough and near
enough to be seen without
artificial aids to vision.
Between- 1950 and 1960
Americans increased their life
insurance ownership 150 per
cent while the population rose
19 per cent.
HEAR
ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS
Each
Sunday Morning
8:30 on
K-DOV
publican In the parable of people will listen acain to the
Jesus, "God be merciful to me J words from the cross. He said,
a sinner." I "Forgive them," and he still
forgives. The wonderful thing
is that standing two thousand
years after Calvary, we can
benefit from it. John Wesley,
catching a vision of the cross,
said in Aldersgate Street, "An
assurance was given me that
he had taken away my sins,
even mine, and saved me
from the law of sin and of
death." At that moment the
Methodist church was born.
Was Blind
John Newton said, "Amaz
ing grace, how sweet the
sound that saved a wretch like
me; I once was lost but now
am found, was blind but now
I see." And the song that
every Baptist can sing from
memory was born.
I have seen it happen in
thousands of lives. It happen
ed in mine. As a young man,
with the typical rebellion and
emptiness, and with the quest
ing of this age, I caught a
glimpse of the meaning of his
cross. Inner power came surg
ing in to my life, and I have
been drawing upon it ever
since. I have found him more
than adequate for the super
human demands of these busy
years. I challenge you to en
grave upon your heart these
words, "I live by the faith of
the Son ot God who loved me
and gave Himself for me."
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