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2 B Religion in America THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1363 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Church Heads Discuss Purging Members for Lack of Discipline BY LOUIS CASSELS UPI Correipondent Should churches purge their membership rolls of people whose lives flagrantly con tradict the teachings of Christ? That question is under ser ious debate in church circles for the first time in more than a generation. One of the church leaders who raised the question is Prof. Franklin H. Littell of Chicago Theological Semi nary. He told a recent church conference that major Protes tant denominations have vir tually abandoned membership standards and arc "incapable of maintaining the most elc mentary internal discipline." He said that lack of discip line makes it impossible for churches to play an effective role in the struggle for racial justice. Nearly every denomi nation has condemned racial discrimination as un-Chris-tain, he pointed out. But,, he asked, how often do you hear of a Protestant church expel ling a member for preaching or practicing bigotry? Excommunication Rsrt Even in the Roman Catholic Church, which theoretically has stricter standards of inter nal discipline, excommunica tion for disobedience of moral teachings is comparatively rare nowadays. Witness the nationwide sensation which resulted last year when the archbishop of New Orleans denied the sacraments to three people who had openly chal lenged the church's stand on j Big Talk Easier With New Set of Science Prefixes By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press International Washington -UPIi- It's get ting easier to talk big and think small. All you need is a set of prefixes recently endorsed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. With these prefixes you can discourse uninhibitcdly upon the microcosm and the macro cosm. With their help you can converse easily, and with great economy ot words, signs . and symbols, about such things as 90-gigubuck federal budgets and the femtosecond lifetimes of mesons. They will save you t h e trouble of trying to utter al .mosl unutterable fractions, such as "one million bil lionth." They also will clear your mind's eye on the bilious- spectacle of multitudi nous zeros spols with holes in them crawling monot- j onously across a page. New Prefix List The new list retains the old prefixes dec!-, cenll-, and mil-li- meaning 10th, 100th, and 1,000th. Then there is the more or loss familiar micro-, standing for millionth. Progressing more deeply into the world of the small you encounter nano-, bil lionth; pico-, million - mil ionth; femlo-, million bil lionth; and atto-, billion-bil lionth. An iittosccond, in this glos sary, would be a billion-liil- innth ul a second. There may be some strange nuclear par ticles which grow old in that period of lime. Climbing out of the frac tional world you find such old friends as kilo-, for thou sand, and mega- for million as in kilowalt and megawatt Beyond mega- Is giga-, for billion, and tere- for million million. Mogalon Rated The A-bomb which destroy eel Hiroshima was equivalent to nearly 20 kilolons of TNT The 500 limes more powerful H-bomb is a megaton weapon and there has been perhaps fanciful talk of a gigutun dooms-day device. The slaughter of which these weapons arc capable ranges al least theoretically from kilodcaihs through meg adcaths to gigadralhs. So ' i no one has thought up a tera ton weapon capable of reap ing leradeaths. Yet To Expand Similarly federal budgets have yet to expand 1,000 times from the gigaluik to the terabuck category, al though the needful prefix is ready and wailing. Sooner or later the new jargon is bound to invade show business. Then you can expect gigagiggle comedies and teratoa dramas of love and passion. Some of them will cost megabucks to make and will be worth all of a plugged nanonlckel to sec. Employment by f e d c r a 1. slate and local governments in the Los Angeles area in creased from 1R4.0U0 in 1051 to 3U7.RU0 in 19H1, according to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. integration of parochial schools. But the breakdown of church discipline Is not con fined to such fields as race relations, where there arc strongly held differences of opinion. Prof. Clenn Hinson of the Southern Baptist Seminary at Louisville,. Ky., observed re cently that churches are not even cracking down on such blatant acts of Immnralitv oi adultery and drunkenness. Hinson said many Chris tians today seem to feel that there is some thing "distaste ful, almost uncivilized" about telling people they must live up to the church's moral standards or get out. Writing in the Texas Bap tist Standard, Hinson noted the same tenency to look the other way existed in the early Christian church at Corinth. Writes Blistering Letter St. Paul found out about it, and wrote a blistering letter to the Corinthians about the maintenance of church disci pline. "I actually hear reports of sexual immorality among you," said the shocked apostle. He proceeded to lay down stern rules for "rooting out evil-doers from your com munity." "Have you never heard the saying, 'A little leaven leavens all the rough'? The old leav en of corruption is working among you. Purge it out . . . "You must have nothing to do with any so-called Chris tian who leads a loose life, or is grasping, or idolatrous, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a swindler," St. Paul made clear that he was notadvocating the church turn its back on sinners outside its fold. To do that would be to abandon its whole mission, for Christ said re peatedly that it was precisely for sinners that He came and died. It was nominal Christians- hypocrites who claim the name of Christ while making a mockery of his teaching that St. Paul said were to be "rooted out" of the church. And even in their case, the withdrawal of fellowship was not to be a vindictive act. It was the same kind of punish ment that a loving parent ad ministers to an erring child, to bring him to his senses. St. Paul specified that any church member who was expelled for wrong-doing should be wel comed back with open arms if he sincerely repented and sought forgiveness. The reluctance of modern churches to follow St. Paul's stern advice is not motivated solely by a desire to hang onto every possible member. Many church leaders fear that any attempt to restore "discipline" would open the door to self righteousness, Pharisaism and heresy hunts. On the other hand, they recognize that churches are being hobbled in their efforts to bear witness to Christ be cause their ranks are riddled with people who are not even trying to be Christians. "We know that discipline is needed," said Prof. Hinson, "The question, is: Dare we take the risk?" " Ata?s a Winner! jflpN x5 A BUTTERMILK DTT'! EM MORE BEEF You let More oney at m eat for Your THUNDERBRD fr in UU MA Prices are down LOWER than ever at Thunderbird! Save More! Swift's Premium USDA Good and Choice Tender Aged Beef - Trimmed Waste Free the Thunderbird Way! Meaty Blade Cuts 39c lb. 7 Bone Cuts" 45c lb. Round Bone CutsELd 49c lb. Cross Rib Cuts Boneless 55c lb. Rib Steak Standing Dnr-fl-Prime Rib IVOdSl Steak Tender aged top quality beef. Table trimmed A fine oven roast. Cut to order Boneless Nice to broil or barbecue. 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