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Mission Funds Result In New Guinea Hospital The Valley View Seventh Day Adventist church has been notified that the special mission funds given by the church for work in New Guinea a year ago have result ed in the opening of a hos pital in the'Wabag Valley. The medical unit, called the Sopas hospital, accommodates 100 patient beds. It consists of four wards, administration block, nurses home and the doctors' residence. Dr. Roy 0. Yeatts, a mis sionary from Montana, is in charge of the hospital. Mrs. Vernise Martin, Sab bath school superintendent, has announced that another special mission offering will be taken for the South Pacific on Saturday. The funds will be used to help expand facili ties at the Church's Fulton Missionary college on Figi. The college is one of 4,800 school operated by the Ad ventists throughout the world. The Rogue River Academy in this area is an Adventist school. : Dwarf Mistletoe Is Conifer Killer Washington - (IP1 - Dwarf mistletoe, already the No. 1 killer of western conifers, may become an even greater killer unless control measures are put into effect, says the American Tree Farmer." Forest industries and the U.S. Forest service have found many stands of firs, larches, hemlocks and spruces in the West and Southwest with between 50 and 100 per cent of all stems infected with the parasitic plant, the publication said. MEDFORDsJiiWrRIBUNE SECTION D MHDFORD, OREGON. THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1963 PAGES 1 to 8 Religion in America Most Social Action Programs Said Lacking Essential Element Editor's nole: Louis Cat- els, UPI writer on religion, is ill. During his absence, substitutes for his weekly column "Religion in Amer ica" are being written by leading clergymen of Tar ious faiths. r " 'V- 's M' n' mi i in irrt ITT J., , y -rf&M..t..&,jti6t iMJI t WAA ... .AS t ... 1 A... t A.AA at... u '1 . d0blilAjkdluN fc. AMuulltl Wl UdIA a .av2h ii mill H11 111 llHllllllllllll lOHIIIIiHiUllli ... i A custom-built Cadillac at no extra charge? Practically. For with Cadillac's unprecedented choice of twelve models ... 106 body colors . . . and 143 interiors, you're not likely to meet yourself ' coming around the next corner. (Even with more new Cadillacs on' the road than ever before!) ' , VISIT YOUR LOCAL AUTHORIZED -Ct(i$Cl(y DEALER . SKINNER BUICK-CADILLAC .143 SOUTH RIVERSIDE V i (,-..4 l -J l" ' i ' '! U .T'. ' Advertising helped it happen By stimulating mass demand, advertising helped create mass market for facial tissues. As demand grew, more and more were made. The more of them made, the less each box cost. Result: new and better facial tissues mass produced for more and more people at lower prices by America's remarkable and competitive economic system. Is this worthwhile? Then, so is advertising worthwhile. Frtptrtd by llw Adertivng Ffdfrtinn ol Am'fici ind Ihf Adpftiiw Avwcijtton of ihf Wl Publuhfd ihriwch ihf riiuMr" lh (Hil'l""- By RABBI RICHARD G. HIRSCH Director, Religious Action Center Union of American Hibraw Congregation! "The chief output of the churches today is preachers' pious platitudes and laymen's lame laments over even these platitudes." Thus, in a recent report. college students character ized the social action efforts of religious groups. Most social action programs lack one essential element action. Religious groups mis takenly assume that a resolu tion passed at a national con vention constitutes action. The truth is that resolutions have greater impact on those who discuss and approve them than on the people to whom they are supposedly addressed. To demand the right to preach to society without be coming involved in the so ciety to whom we preach is to act irresponsibly. In Genesis 17:1, God pre scribes for Abraham the nat ure of his convental obliga tion "Walk before me and be wholehearted." The convenant made by God wiih all men of religion commits us to strive to walk before God not in compart mentalized, halfhearted but in a "wholehearted manner. Our contemporary society, however, is "two-hearted" rather than "wholehearted." How else can we describe the discrepancy between the unparalleled high status of religion and the unprecedent ed low state of personal and public morality? , . Business is business" seems to have become the new standard in economic life just as politics is politics seems to have become the accepted pattern of political life. When translated into the vernacular, these two seem ingly innocuous terms mean "you can't be a success and be completely ethical at the same time." The next step Is Inevitably, "religion is religion." This is already manifest in superficial religious preach' ments which smear a smooth' ing balm of fatuous faith over men s itchy consciences in stead of pricking those con. sciences with barbs of social concern. The primary task for relig ion and its institutions, then, is to point out unequivocally the injustices still rampant in our world. , Affirm Obligation In this increasingly com plex age, when it is at time necessary for government to extend its influence into areas formerly considered beyond its purview, we affirm our obligation to encourage the individual to preserve and enhance this individuality by actively participatine In the social issues of his life and times. The most formative Influ ence In the life of an Indivi. dual is neither creed nor scripture nor pulpit but tne over-all social, economic and political milieu. We affirm, then, that religion can best affect the character of man by seeking to affect the character of man's environment. The fundamental division In American religious life is not between faiths but with each faith. ' It is the division between true religion and religiosity, between those who are acti vated by and those who are apathetic to religious Ideals, between those who relate re ligion to life and those who use religion to escape from life. We live In an era of cata- cylsmic social change. The fate of our society and our world are determined by the decisions made by men. Whether we will it or not, we participate in those decisions. Either we participate con sciously and responsibly, or we participate by silence and acquiesence. Religion must function as the radar of morality, employ ing Its insight and sensitivity to identify unethical behavior and to focus on ethical tar gets despite the haze and maze engulfing our society. 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