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i Irve been thinking about Christian joy a 1ot foi this article and I a-'t vuays wind up with cliches. ![e all know them so perhaps the bes,t way to ex- plain the joy of be.ing- a Chris,- tian is to define our terms. Firstly_ the Christian is happy and fuII of ')oy.because s/frrl- - hEs, aecepted'a- program l-ald.. ,9o* b'y the creatoi of .the unil vers,e- and epiomiaed, by the. life Eqd teachings of: Jesui:..; Mty Fomg-peoplg accept the plan ,. eas1ly while other:s rejeet it shows us howeve.r that many , pe'op1e_hate denied the plin and , ri-diculed the pi?n throiighout_ their lives:onIy to accept it at the. end* I for one f-eel that an intelligent, questioning, caring atheist may be close_r to acceptance than a dogmatic, hateful, person who clai-ms-to be a Christian. : Beyond the acc.epta.nqp of the plan which .Jesus, ,enrbodied, two of the main polnts of the' p1an. are tfOrgiv'eness oi sins t, and the, gift of , eternal l-if e t . V,hy .should for:giveness of sin make us joyful? lr/hat is sin? .Today-we think of sln'in the narrowest of terms, but sin is much more than merely doing that which we innately felt is wrong. J_A..Y*_'j6 qgR. a " . g ri RJ.$Ir A I{ _,""CIQIy["L0.r)U"EA!Itr- 4a- Sin is pain, sin is erroli, sin is res,trlction, sin 1s loneliaess, sin is everything that is not o f, God in our lives. Sin is the NOHIVIAL state of our be.1ng. Eve.n though we strive to do good, the best of us continues to live irl e.rror.. Sin is error. and errrr is lack of truth and Jesus said ItYou shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.?t Jesus insists that Gods plan is the prograrn of. libe.rati-on. THe Ci:riltiSn is joyful becaus e s/ne is accepling "the plah and knous that the fog has lifted, th re.-. strictions, no longer apply. The Christian accepts all challenges, r i,r t r-.,

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Irve been thinking aboutChristian joy a 1ot foi thisarticle and I a-'t vuays wind upwith cliches. ![e all know themso perhaps the bes,t way to ex-plain the joy of be.ing- a Chris,-tian is to define our terms.Firstly_ the Christian is happyand fuII of ')oy.because s/frrl- -

hEs, aecepted'a- program l-ald..,9o* b'y the creatoi of .the unilvers,e- and epiomiaed, by the. lifeEqd teachings of: Jesui:..; MtyFomg-peoplg accept the plan ,.eas1ly while other:s rejeet itshows us howeve.r that many ,

pe'op1e_hate denied the plin and, ri-diculed the pi?n throiighout_their lives:onIy to accept itat the. end* I for one f-eel thatan intelligent, questioning,caring atheist may be close_r toacceptance than a dogmatic,hateful, person who clai-ms-tobe a Christian.

: Beyond the acc.epta.nqp ofthe plan which .Jesus, ,enrbodied,two of the main polnts of the'p1an. are tfOrgiv'eness oi sins t,and the, gift of , eternal l-if e t .V,hy .should for:giveness of sinmake us joyful? lr/hat is sin?.Today-we think of sln'in thenarrowest of terms, but sin ismuch more than merely doing thatwhich we innately felt is wrong.

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Sin is pain, sin is erroli, sinis res,trlction, sin 1s loneliaess,sin is everything that is not o f,God in our lives. Sin is theNOHIVIAL state of our be.1ng. Eve.nthough we strive to do good, thebest of us continues to live irle.rror.. Sin is error. and errrris lack of truth and Jesus saidItYou shall know the truth, andthe truth shall set you free.?tJesus insists that Gods plan isthe prograrn of. libe.rati-on. THeCi:riltiSn is joyful becaus e s/neis accepling "the plah and knousthat the fog has lifted, th re.-.strictions, no longer apply. TheChristian accepts all challenges,

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What is EternaL life? Forthat matter what 1s l-ife? Isit seventy years of strivinE?fs it a short space of littiejoys and woas cior^rned with, f,al]"-ing limbs, pain, senility, and-the. grave? N9, that is iifewithout the p1in. When the.?od{ go?s, [ou gor But as sination, 1ife. must be ete,rnal andthe death of the body nrerelylhu sloughing off of-a husk.Uoes a caterpillar die when itspins a cocoon (so like a shroud)Does a snake die when it sheds

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IFIHADAI{A}O{ERThen and Now

,[bour']-80- A.D. whi]-e Ularcus

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Aur$l-iusi.was: sti1l qmperor, p€.r-ppc0tionl bf the 'Christians brokebut stionger than ever. At rnanyplace,s, parti,cularly in GauI,,the Christians had become so nu-merous alld so zealous thal theypubliclyi;irisulted the Roman gods,Iaughed at the-pagan pri-ests

,,and made 'ihemsol-ves generally:op jectionable.. For eiample r &o,,influential young man narned Sym-irphorian, who lived in the city

merely^cf,aqg?.. Death is .surely ,

.a painful and sad thing tohave to endure, but it-is not? ll?S.$v, just a pLr.ase, evenI Learnrng .experience, as is111'e and .blrth. It r s

- a1l thesame thilg,and iils ifi-jrui-a part of, an . eternal fife acc_ .ording to the p.lan, a life ofjoy and ful,lnes,s. - Death isthe one most overpowering, eviI,mind numb_ingIy terrifyinE' factthat people have.to face. Con_sci-ousI-y or- unconsciously 1tmoulds our lives on eartit.Some pe.ople will not accept that,some people doltt have to. Thalis.]oYr

it skin-? No, the snake fives-on with a new skin ana th6 cat_'erpillar becomes a butlerfly.So having ac.c.epted the plan vrel-ook forward not to death but

procession in honour of the god-dess Cybelle, shouting his e on-tempt,foz" a1.L. ridolatry and su.p-.:erstitiorr, I Summoned before, a.judge, and asked why he'r'efus.ddthe respect due the mother of :

the gods, Symphorian replied:ttl adore lhe lrue God, but as. forthis idol of your demons;-if rIhave an opporlunity I wil:"I -'breakit with a 'hammer before youreyesltt The ';udge had hlm flogg-ed and throwh in prisor:-, 'andquestioned again bfter i fewdays., wiren he was offered fulJ.pardon if he would cons.enL to theformal saci"ifices required by thelaw of the land. Symphorian re-fused, with the mosl insultinglanguage, so that the judge hadLo read .the'death. sentence"

In the early hours of Sept.1980, eight''Ghiistian activistsenteieO tne' Gendral Electrtcof Prussia, Pennsylvania. fn amatter of minutes they hammeredthe casings of two ivlark 12 A ,

warheads and poured a bottle ofblood on the weapons and on near-

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I rby classified blueprints. Theythen sat d own and began prayingand s inging tilt security 'off-ici-als'and police came to &rre,stthem.

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Sg", this kinE dom of .God is,nolv found within us. The grace.:of the Holy Spirit shines forthand warms us, and; ove,rflow-'ing with roany varied,scents, intolhu alr ar.ound us, regales withneavenly_,de-J_ight., our s.enses,,as it fifls our hearts wlth joyinexpressflble.

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CATHOTIC WORKERS VISIT

0n Friday October the tenthChuck Angus., Brit Griffin andJulie Egan of the toronto Cath-olic \dorker visited with us andpresented,, their work and phil-osophy at the PeterboroughPublic Llbrary. Il ..was , realtreat to meet, hear, and tafkwith them" They told us al_labout their house of hospital-i'ty in Torontc. At pres-ent four--teen people are living in thathouse - under lhcse circumstan-ces ,vou realiy need to have a com-munity feeling. Icluded in thatnumber ar.e three srnall babies.T]." communily is a succe.ss despitethe fact that (naturally) allforms of grantr or.loans arenot sought. the house and iisextended family run on personalcharit1,, and varied amounts kick-ed in by the fclks v;ho livethe re e

Apparently the storefrcnt onQueen street will be closed as itis felt'that it reaItry is notdesparately needed and the funciswill be more useful at the house.The turrrout was less than itshould have been, a,s we had someproblems wlth the media advert- :ising the evening. Still we hadsome- twenty odd (very odd) follcsshow up aiici for a group that sizea good donatlon was raised as mJrcap was passed around. A specialtreat for me was meeting the I,4cCa-ffreys who drove down especiallyfrom- their farm at !ililno'about150 miles away and though theyhad to return right aftEr the-presentation, it vras a real plea-sure to meet and talk for a while.

^ lilyself and everybody involvedfrom Projects For Ctranle thank allthose who came out and-were so

generous, and we thank Chuck,Brit, and Julie for fightingthe traffic on a b.usy long week-end to get here. Th; whofething makes me think'that theradical- Christian communityhere in Peterborough ought tobe in closer contact and see ifwe can?t get rnore of a commun-ity spirit going here " lrlhatabout it? Comments?

tif tti,f fi ttiinf trtrltritif iiiiitf ,iilittri!'n;inf f#Le GUINS ANARCHIJ?

l'{y novel The Dispossessed isabout a small worldful of peoplewho call thernselves Odonians.The name is t aken f ron'r the f ound.-er of their society. Odo, wholived several generations be-fore the time of the novel, andwho therefore doesntt get intothe acti-on - except implicity,in that the 'action staited rviihho-IM.

' 0donianism i-s anarchisrn., No!the bomb in the pocket stuff,which is lerrorism, whatever nameit tries to dignify itself vii'"h;not the" social-Darwinist econ-ornic tlibertarianisml of the farright; but anarchism as prefiguredln early Taoist thought, a-ncl ex-pounded by Shelley anci Kropotkin"Goldman and Goodman. Anarchismbprincipal target is the author-itarian state (capitalist or soc-ialist); its principal moral-.practical theme is cooperation(solidarity, mutual a id). It isthe most idealistic, and to methe most interesti-ng, of all .oo1-itical theories.

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BAD NEWS BEAE.ER

The Christian, and particu-rarly'the Christian anarchist isoften 'accused of being to harsh,to critical, of despairing. of theworl-d. This is because s/ne con-sistently speaks out on the evilsof the world, the faulty systemsi,rhich plague people rather thanhelp them .to become better people.They ar"e in good company. in thesixth century ts.C" the prophetJeremiah was similarly char"ged.Th-s was at a t ime when ihe Bab--'l-oni-an empife"was attacking a' '

iircakened Israel- and which culmin-r:teC in the 'ciefeat of Israel andt,]re deportation by the thousalndsrnto Babylona

The priests as it turned oui '

were anong the chief of thesettGlad hnde rs rr o io while t hc.people insisted on wealing?rrose coloured glass€stt, dourold Jerentiah continued.' Hedidn t t l-ike t he r ole he \,raspla,"*ing eLthe r, He clicln ttwant to be a clowner bui he yrasdoing the Lordis inori< and hetold._ ii; like it waS . Historl-shows, ihat Jeremiah_ v,/as rightand the scoffers were wrong

Christian anarch'i st, but v..e arenot excused f rom denouncing eviJ_.

I do noti think there is an\r,-one who takes quite'.such a fier-ce_ ple asure i-r 'things being thc,r-selves a,s I do. Thi startiinewetness of water excites arid '-

intoxicates me; tire fireinessof fire, the stee'l iness ofstee'l , the nnutterable muddincss,of mud

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' ?inl, -i ^+ 1-.-- ^ ^t :Tivrla rr u, r,l,r ffie SIIS Of HiS di"-sciples, v;ould he..re caught ai_l-the worid rn Fiis netr of faith.but the Srearer fishes brol.:e tho,ng! ald escaped out of ir, andall the r"'est' hb.ve sliitpcd'thr.-ough the holes made Uy'ttre great-er f ishes, so. thal ihe net hilsrernaineC quit"e enpty. The great'er fishes who br"oke ihe net arethe rulers,_ emporers,. popes"Kr_ngs, rlrho have no]. renouncedpower'and instead of true Christ-.ianity have put on vrhat is simplr-a mask of it: I

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reren:iah pointed ou',, t.he iowi,.,rrs,l level to which Israel had(aga.in) 'sr-ink and ,,varned of *u"y :

drsasters to corne, all directlyor indirectly because of the,:eopl-e turning a.,,vay f rorn God. .

.;=remiah became known as a wetbL-anket, a gloomy Gus. fofi<sla,-rgheC at him and said ltl,ihattsthe sad news fiom the Lord tcdayJeremiah? tf Jeremiah aitackedlhose who insisted'that thlngsweren?t all that bad, thal thingswere getting better, that goodtimes vrere just around the corner.

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A FEW CHURCH PLA,CTICES i,lTlICHI,IERE DISCONTINUND ,AFTER THliTHIITD C]]TITURY ,,!,HICI1 IiIE IIOULD .

LIKE TO JJE RE-INT:IUDUCED.

The early Christ_ian churih h{as, eichurch without tenrpl_es or build-ings. That was wh'bn the chr.irchwa.s truly th9 body of membershipand not a piJre of brick. lil:en -

services, hrere not "held out ofdoors they were held j-n s,omeoneshome. We would like.to see few-e.r people g.oing into a church-builiciing on Sundays, ..and moreservices held in peoples homes,.

The_agape or love feas,t. usua1lyfollowed the 'eucharist and wasa time for fel-l-owship and'enjo1,.ment of a fes.tive nature. fieie.is something especlally 1bveIy :about people eating together:,(especialty today when peoplegra-b some'thing on the run anCcionrt comrnune at meal_ times,)

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There is a loL of fasting going ontoday for health reas.onsl Eut inthe ea"rly church fasting'tvas a rna-'lg" activity ha-rring two-aspects"

:the moral as wel1 5s, the physical.ttThj-s is. thc fast that f havechosen, sai-th the Lori, not t.hat,a.man should humble -his souli_, butthat he loos,e every band o.i. iniq-uLty, untie thg fasienings of haishrgreements, restore to 1ibert1, 1,5"*that"Are b4uised, tep.r in pieies..every un just cngagemcnt, f,bed t,hehungry with thy bree.d, i:lothe the ,

naked, bring the homeiess inbo thv.,house. rr (the Epistle of Barnabas r'c. 130 A,D. ). - nOn the day on whichyou fas,t-.'you wj-ll taste n6thing .butbread and walerl and having r.efk-'oned up the price of the dishes ofthat day which you intended to haveeatenr you will give it to.a wi-dol,s.r an orphan, or to some person inwoi;t.rf (Hermas)' In thre sLcond cent-ury fasting was exDected on r,Vednes-day and Frida.y in each week i.,e. onthose days, food was not taken be.fore3 in the afternoon (starting the

night before,) . The choice of,these two days was determined inopposition. to the Jewish c ustomof f'asting on l4ond.ays a nd Thurs-days, and the Christians gavethem the t itl'e rs,tation. daysr,r,vhich was derived from the wordS at"io, meaning a picket orguard, ioeo that Chris.tiar s wereby fasting, standing on wa.t-chf,or the return of, the Lord":;

There .we.re many practic es ofthB early church ir&1ch hrere abar.t-Coned. f or vari-ous rea^soras; throrl-.ghout ihe centuri,es, as vre f ind.more, tlra! appeal to usr w0 r,uitrlpublicise the.m a nd reccmend,them" r.

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rtHeIlo'.i you Lj-t,t,l.e fat father'li,lhe devil said;t'o. the 'priest.l?ili:rat made you lie so to thosepoor mis,led people? lvhat tor-tures of hefl did you depict?Donrt you know,they are al ready

in the-ir earthly lives? Donrt. you k:ro.w thaf 'you, and the auth- :

orities of the State are my re-p?es.entatives o.n earth? It lsyou that make them suffe-r thelains of hell wi-th rnrhich: youthreaten them. DonrU you know.this? trfe}1; :thge, come inrith mei ilThe devi-l- grabhed the prie st- bythe col-lar, lifted him high inth'e air, a nd carried hi-n'r to a :

factory, to an ir,on foundrl, He.

,and hur:r:y'ingr to and'fro, and--toi'I-ing in th'e s corching heaL. Verysoon the thick, haavy ai-r andthe heat are too much for thepriest.. illith tears in his eyes.he pleads r,rith the devil' rl,et ree'goJ-Let me leave this hel-l-l r:

,t?Oh my dear. fri_end, I must sho,w,,you many Jnore placesr Tl:e devil.ggts lq1d of him again and drags

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sees workmen threshjmg the grain.the dust. and heat are ins,ufferable..The overs;eor carries. a knout and un-rnerc.ifully beats, anyone who faltrs Lothe ground overcome by hard toi-L- orhunger,

huts where, theile same workers liver^rith their fami-Ij-es - dirty, co1d,smoky, ill sme1,1ing hol-es. Thedevil grins. He point"s out the pov-erty and hardships. rodrich are at homehere

r?lilel-L lsn?t this enough? he askei?And it seems as if even he, the. deviLlplties the people. The pious; servan!of Go.d can hardly bear it, lVith up-llfted hands, he begs: rrlet me goauny from here. Yes J YesJ this, ishell on earthlrt

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?t!{e11 then you seeo And stillpromise them another he.ll-" You tor-ture the,m to. de.ath mentally whenthey are already all- but dead physic-al1yl Come I uril,I qho.w you one morehell - one more, the.ve.ry worst.rf

He 'took him to a prisnn and shovl-ed him a dungeon, with it.s jl'oul airand the meny human forn:s, robbed ofall henlth and energy, lying on the

ttTake off your sil,ken elothes r,said the. devil t o the priest,, put .onyour anklles he.avy chains such asthese unfortunates wear; lle down onthe cold and, filthy floor - and thentalk to them about a helli that stilJ:-awaits them! ttNo, Noltt anshlered the.priest", ttl cannot thlnk of anythingmore dreadful. than this.. I entreat.you let.ila go &wff1r.from heret"

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ItYes , this is hell. The re. can beno worse hel} than t his. Did younot know it? Did you not- knol^r that

these men. end women whom 1rou.are .frightening with t he pic-ture of a hell hereafter -did, you not. knorar that they arein hell right here, beforethey die?It

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The Projects For Change FoodBank i-s reaIIy taking off" BinsfCr reci-eving donat idns ar,e nowinStal led at Harvest" House, 682George st. II., Kelceyrs Eanefax.Nutrition Centre, &1/+ George st"'N.', andi The Incredlble B-ulk, inPeterborough Square" Pleas;e begenerous, and j-ncidently supporLthes,e merchants vrho are, gi-vingcf tr.,e,rel spaee.

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The best things in l-ife are"free. If people did r,shat theyenjoy most what would they do?play games, hike, work together,make lover tet togelher withother people - all of which cos!little or nothing. To mix poe"r.-ry and hurnour into our f ives ,'isneither costly or exhausting,' I

The drug of affluence robs usof many of lifes deeper pleas-ures. Jesus said that t o enterthe good life we must become asIlttle children. Think of thejoys and pleasures of childhood.Unless we move beyond the frillsand artificial pleasures andlive simply as children we wil-lnever experience the joy of theI1ert, age . Joy is innoCentr uo-complicated, and simple. Sim-plicity and pleasure are olCfric:.ds.

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Dear Digger:

l1:e only thing I cantt agree within your f ronN page stuff in ilLZ,is tha.t itJesus. is the Chrlst, t6eonly hope of sal-vatlo" ,"0 the ionly way to knbw Goci. rr I believeJesus was a real_ fella who cameto understand some'deep stuff andhad the guts to live wLat he.be-lieved. I dontt see horc he coul_dbe the only hope of salvation orlhu only way to know God. Christ-:-ans are a minority in a world pop_ula.ted with Buddhists, Hindus, Mus_.li-ns etc. Their spirituat :oaihsrheroes, an4 heroinbs are ;u.-st asho lv as the Christians.. lvlakingJesus the onlv=h;p;-;f satvationturns hls good exar:nple i.nto a sup_ersiition, a graven--ima ge almost,a. oad dynamic warned against when-the ten commandments hit l{oses.

I sornel.,,hat r:eject Heaven and Hel-1too, Iiel_l is literallv* on earthar:d. has been for some t:_me. Whati{9g,,'en.is is:up_ for graUi. Any--thing. is possible, if, could be-allea';en tof onencss.-vrith the EarthIlother'"- body and souJ- merging intotn. soiL. ihto the ecological neat_ncss of ifie planet" He'tl couldvel:y well b_e a coffin, body andsoltl keqt I'roin Big Mommas earthyellrbr'.=. CJ..'

Manl, folks seem to put God andJesus into a blender (though sometimcs they.are separate en[ities),t^n ? position o.f .power over ( afemlnist concept)- tneir believersinstead ef ,oower withr a more lib-eraNing perspective" 'I believethe pe.rspective on Jesus should bemore like the ]uluslim, that he i-sone of a long line of respectedp_rophets .- l-ike we hold Gandhi,King,' [Iot'f , Dorothy Dat, Emma GoId-man etc" in our .memoriei" Theygive us Nhe boost we need for ihefunky job of monkey wrenching andcreating ner,r societies in the shelIof lhe old, blah, b1ah, b1ah....Thornton Kimesr--Klndred CommunityDes l{oines IAr-US of A

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Glad to aet the letter. I dobelleve that Jesus is Christ ,the only way to salvation, butthat is my belief, others-cb- 1

vlously have theirs. Actua11ythou.ih Christians are a minorityin the world tha t in. no way di-minishes their truths', just asbeing a majority does

- not en-hance someone elses. As to Hea-ven and HeIl, whatever Heaven isI ?m sure it will be beautifuland I hope after a l_ifetime hereI will be ready for it. Forthought on the theory of Hel]being on earth, refer back inthis issue. It?s a theory I sy-mpathise with but actually Ithink if Heaven is the ultimategood trip, then Hel1 need benothing rnore than an absence ofHeaven (or anything else), a bigzero, death, the grave in fact.So Hell would take its meaningas an antithesis of Heaven.

iome .oeople te1l me they haveno use for reading about whatGandhi, Day, Goldman and othersdid in their time, that it issterile history and leads onlyto hero worship. I houreverfind great insplration in theirwork, Iil,here would we be todaytcithout them? Idhere will_ our=grandcl,ildren be (supposing theworld lasts that long) withoutus to keep the faith. Good tohear from ya" Kenny

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Due to the kindness of paulStranor- manager of Brookside{GA, Iou may now make foodbankdonations there. The IGA isacross from the Burnham Manor atLansdowne (hwy Z8?) and the oldKeene rd.r!tt ti rtetd, rlro!r.i tit9tt "lt!til.t tlr:titttt ttrtri

01" darv as Jesus was ,^lalcing bythe sea of Gatrilee He saw iiriroitand his brother And.rew fishingwith nets. They were commercfal-fishermen. ??How the fishlng???askd.Jesus. rrNot very.good. sir. rf re-plied the brothers. ttWell- if youcome with me, Itll make youflshers of men.trsaid Jesus.(Mark L, l6-t?) This is givenby Ivlalcolm Ivluggeridge as an ex-ample of Jesust dry sense of hu-Inor.

Paul- the apostle had been chargedby the Jews rvith heresy. As hewas a Roman citizen he appealedto be tried in Rome in frbnt ofthe emperotr. In the meantime, Iespent two years wrder arrest j-nCaesarea (tre wanted the state Uopay for the trip to Ro,le and tobe his body;uard). One day KingHerod and his wife Bernice eameto visit the Roman Aovernor Fest-lr.s and Paul was brought beforethem to state his case. He spokeso eJ-oguently that king Aggrippasaid ?tln brief r you want me tb'be-come a ChristiS.nJrr Paul replied,rrBrief or not I wish to God that-you all could be just l-ike me . . o

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Don?t forget to write. It?s-Digger/CA, 642 GeorEe st. N.,PeterborouSh, Ont., Canada

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ttMI sociaLi_sm was from the be_ginning a revolt against the intell_ectual degradation-of the factoryhands and Lhe .damned ugliness of- allthat, capitallst-lndustiiallsm pro_--duced, and it was not prj-marlly irevolt against the crublty and- in_justice of the possessing- classesor against the mlsery of-the poor.it was not so much the workin! .fi..,that concerned me as the workingman not so much what he got fiomworking as rtrhat he did by torking" rr

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