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GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, AUGUST, 29, 1968 9
SCLC’S DR. YOUNG
Non-Violent
Revolution Still Possible
WASHINGTON, D.C.
(RNS)-Non-violent revolution is
still possible today, but Christians
must be willing to die for it, an
aide to the late Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., told some 4,500
participants in the 1968
Liturgical Week here.
“Anybody celebrating the
reconciliation between God and
man must concern himself with
the reconciliation between
himself and his brother,” the
Rev. Andrew J. Young, executive
vice-president of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC), said in a keynote address
last week.
Theme of the week was
‘‘Revolution: Christian
Responses.” The event is
sponsored annually by the
National Liturgical Conference,
an unofficial Catholic
organization which claims 7,000
members.
Young’s address was preceeded
by the presentation of'an award
to Miss Dorothy Day, founder
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The presentation was made by
Father Clarence J. Rivers,
Director of the. National Institute
of Drama and Ritual and widely
known for his “folk” liturgical
music.
Father Rivers read the citation
as two projectors beamed images
visualizing his concepts onto a
screen behind the rostrum. Miss
Day gave a brief acceptance
speech in which she insisted that
the non-violent revolution must
continue to be non-violent.
In his talk, Young called upon
the Liturgical Week registrants to
look upon the world as a table.
“At our end we are dying of
obesity,” he said, “and at the
other end they are dying of
starvation.” He added: “If the
earth is the Lord’s, how can we
go on day after day glutting
ourselves while others starve?”
Thus, he said, “the first thing
about the liturgy is that it must
be a liturgy of penance, because
we pay taxes to murder people.”
In the liturgy, he noted, men
come together to ask God how
He can use them to reconcile the
world. This is the “ministry of
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reconciliation,”. Young said,
which Dr. King practiced. It is a
ministry that is riot only to
individuals; it “must also cope
with institutions, the structures,
the powers” of American society.
“We have to expand our
concept of the Gospel,” he
insisted.
values, Young suggested;
“God did not baptize democracy
or America;”
He then turned to the central
question: “Is the non-violent
revolution still possible?” and
asked another question: “Can
America be saved and is it worth
saving?”
“The earth is the Lord’s, and
it must truly be brought into the
service of His people...The
ministry of reconciliation must
be exploded so that people get
out of their little churches.”
He said that prior to Dr.
King’s death, the assassinated
civil rights leader had planned to
broaden the base of his campaign
to free men from oppression, not
only in the U.S. but throughout
the world. Vietnam, Africa and
Latin America were the principal
areas, he said.
“The ‘clash of creed’ in our
time is the clash of East and
West, democracy and
communism,” Young stated.
“We decided that we were God’s
chosen people and everybody else
who decided anything without
our permission was doing evil.”
As a result, he said, “we have
replaced the God of history with
the God of our petty bourgeoise
values.”
God may now be speaking to
us through other men in other
lands with other cultures and
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