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— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, September 22, 1971
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Crisis hinted
in Red China
By CHARLES R. SMITH
HONG KONG (UPI)-Diplo
matic sources with contacts in
Peking said today there ap
peared to be some type of
crisis in Communist China.
Chinese embassies in key world
capitals issued statements say
ing Chairman Mao Tse-tung is
alive and well.
The diplomatic sources said
there was no indication exactly
what was wrong but speculated
the most likely explanation was
the illness or even death of the
77-year-old Mao who has ruled
the nation with an iron hand
since 1949.
The Communist Chinese em
bassy in Paris issued a
statement saying “Chairman
Mao is in excellent health” and
“the reports in the newspapers
that Mao Tse-tung is ill are
lies.” The Chinese legation in
London also said in a statement
Mao is in “excellent health.”
Much of the speculation
centered on reports the Chinese
had cancelled their Oct. 1
celebration of the founding of
the Chinese Peoples Republic.
The London statement said a
London reception marking the
day would be held next week on
schedule.
British government officials
said they had no official
information from Peking on
developments in China. And in
Washington the White House
said it had no information
about the reports and that
nothing had changed plans tor
Lay evangelists spreading word
By CLAIRE COX (
Copley News Service
NEW YORK - What does '
Billy Graham have in common (
with the quiet young man who (
smiles at the newcomer in the f
pew next to him in church on ]
Sunday and invites him to join
him at coffee hour after the |
services?
Both are evangelists. .
But while Graham appeals to
the multitudes to come forward .
and surrender their lives to :
Christ, the lone operator seeks ,
person-to-person relationships ,
— one at a time.
The term evangelist tends to
conjure up pictures of the Billy (
Grahams, Billy Sundays and
Aimee Semple McPhersons. It j
calls to mind the missionary
seeking converts among
“heathens” in African jungles
or other faraway places. Or the
hell-fire and brimstone
preacher at a tent revival 1
meeting exhorting his listeners
President Nixon’s trip to China
sometime before next May 1.
The Paris spokesman said
Oct 1 National Day celebra
tions in Peking had been
cancelled but he said this was
because it had been decided to
modify the way the national
fete is celebrated. He gave no
details. Mao usually makes a
public appearance at Peking’s
Gate of Heavenly Peace before
millions of Chinese on that day.
Hong Kong is a British crown
colony on the Chinese mainland
and is the major listening post
for Sinologists seeking informa
tion on what goes on in China.
Although they described some
of the evidence as “circumstan
tial,” the sources said, “there
are, nevertheless, some definite
signs of a crisis-type situation
there.”
They said the possible emer
gency was indicated by a series
of “unusual” events in Peking
in recent days:
—The decision by Chinese
authorities to call off the mass
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DOdy ETlgllSn g e t together. Some particularly eloquent
statements were made at the Amateur National Championships at
Wimbledon park by these two ladies, Winifred Cole, left, who follows
the play with obvious anguish, and Irene Molyneux, below, who shows
what follow-through is all about.
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to be “saved.”
Such highly publicized
evangelistic efforts have met
with considerable success, but
there is another kind — un
flamboyant, perhaps
numerically insignificant in its
results, in which showing love
for the individual is given
priority over winning his soul.
He becomes a name, a face, a
personality, while the mass
“conversions” produce
numbers of people whose
identities remain unknown to
the charismatic individuals
who beckon them to an active
involvement in Christianity.
What is called personal
evangelism is practiced by
laymen and women without
theological educations, without
preaching skills and often even
without detailed knowledge of
the Bible, who make up for
these so-called deficiencies
with deep commitments to a
kind of religion that is in-
rally and parade traditionally
held to celebrate Oct. 1, the
national day. News dispatches
from Pricing first reported the
cancellation and the sources
said embassies in Peking had
later confirmed it
—The grounding of all
domestic aircraft, including
military planes, during the past
few days. A traveler who
arrived in Hong Kong Tuesday
from China said he was forced
to wait for two days because all
flights were halted.* He said
they were stopped for at least
three days, according to
information he received in
Peking, but no reason was
given.
—The sudden “inaccessibili
ty” of Premier Chou En-lai
Tuesday to foreign visitors who
had expected to see him. Chou
has been receiving foreign
delegations almost daily for the
past several weeks.
—The absence of any major
military leaders from public
view since early this month.
The sources said “what it all
means is open to speculation.
You could speculate that Mao is
dead or gravely ill; that there
is some important internal
disagreement, or there is some
external threat.”
corporated into their daily
lives.
In some congregations every
member of the church is
regarded as an evangelist.
Each is encouraged to bring
his influence to bear through
his personal actions and his
expressions of his convictions.
But, more important, through
taking the time to talk with
people about their problems
and concerns, their doubts and
fears, and helping them learn
what the Christian religion can
do for them and their families
and friends.
This kind of lay evangelist
actually has been a part of the
Protestant scene in America
for many generations.
However, his image has
changed from one of
aggressiveness, self
confidence, self-righteousness
and ready answers to that of a
low-key person who wins
friends by acknowledging his
own weaknesses and un
certainties and by showing how
religion has helped him to find
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ONE EFFECT of the 10 per cent tax on imports into
the United States imposed in President Nixon's eco
nomic program is evident 6,000 miles away. Japanese
shoppers pore over table utensils originally produced
for the U.S. market but now on bargain sale in Tokyo.
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Mao
The last time Mao was seen
in public was Aug. 7 when he
met with Gen. Ne Win,
chairman of Burma’s revolu
tionary council.
his way.
The Mormons have long been
known for their commitment to
evangelism by sending young
men missionaries out to devote
two years of their lives to
proselytising for the church.
Jehovah’s Witnesses spend
considerable time in door-to
door “selling” of religion in
which their message often
receives more emphasis than
their medium. Other groups,
principally the evangelicals,
seek converts in many ways,
largely in group encounters
and often in radio and
television appearances before
audiences they never meet.
Within mainstream
Protestantism, the individual
layman is winning new
recognition for his skills at
evangelizing. As an example of
this thrust, Presbyterian Life,
the monthly magazine of the
United Presbyterian Church in
the U. S. A., devoted an entire
issue to lay evangelism with
the promise that “Every
Morning Can Be an Easter.”