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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?" "
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