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z, DAILY MEDITATIONS
The rod and reproof give
e (RIRLA wisdom, but a child left to
; \ 5 himself bringeth his mother
' to shame,
Correct thy son, and he
all give thee rest, yea he shall give delight
ato thy soul.—Proverbs 29:15-17,
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The "Pink Fringe” Controversy
The following is re-produced by request from
The Atlanta Journal:
BY DR, LESTER RUMBLE
The article appearing in the Readers’ Digest un
der the title “Methodism’s Pink Fringe” and writ
ten by Stanley High has disturbed the Methodist
World and beyond. The appearance of such a thrust
in a popular secular digest at the time of tension,
unusual tension, in this country when nrany people
are jittery over the rapid encroachment of coms
munism in our world’s life has added to the frus
tration of many serious minded Christian people,
Many are imagining fearful threats to our life,
As one who has followed very closely the life of
Methodists in America for the past 15 years, 1
would like to add some facts about official Meth
odism, 1936-48. I am confident that they will be
teassuring to the Methodist and Protestant world.
1 am not going back-to.the organization of the
Methodist Federatiox} for Social Service, That his=
tory I do not know. Nor do I think it necessary. 1
do wish to say that there was a parallel organiza
tion among Methodists in the M. E. Church, South,
before unification. Its designs and purposes were
the same as the Methodist Federation for Social
Service in the North, It was Composed of laymen
and preachers who wanted to become intelligently
eware of and active in seeking the correction of
social evils in the Southland under a Christian
pattern. Unification mrade the Southern organiza
tion unnecessary. The Methodist Federation was
adequate for any one who wished to join, Both
groups were and the Methodist Federation is now
totally “unofficial” and so declared. ‘
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The General Conference, meeting every four
years and composed of an equal number of lay=-
men and ministers, elected in the annual confer
‘ence, laymen by laymen, preachers by preachers
(secret ballot), is the law-making body of the
Methodist church. It alone is official, )
The daily Advocates carrying verbatim the pro
ceedings of the Uniting Conference of 1939 and the
General Conferences of 1940, 1944, and 1948 are
before me. What do we find?
The General Conference of 1940 adopted unani
*i “mously this report from Its committee on the state
of the church, “While we recognize the fact that
any minister or layman in our church may elect to
join any federation, society or organization he nray
desire, it is important that it be made clear that
the general conference is the only body that can
speak for the church,” The Conference of the
United Church then adopted a formal resolution
on this point that was a duplicate of one passed by
the General Conference of the Northern branch of
the Church in 1936, Similar procedure was follow=
ed In 1944, the Conference declaring, “No person;
no paper, mo organization has authority to speak
officially for the Methodist Church except only the
General Conference under the constitution.” (Con
‘stitution refers to the Constitution of Methodism.)
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The same conference, 1944 (in the midst of war),
realized that Methodists must shoulder officially
the responsibility for soclal action. It reviewed
sentences of the episcopal address to the effect
that “It is the business of the church to define and
defend the principles of Christ and to point the
way to & soclal order which is in keeping with
those principles,” etc. The Conference expressed
appreciation that “for three generations the Metho
dist Federation for Social Service (unofficial) has
pioneered in the field now under consideration.”
(This is the only time the name of the Federation
appears in print, so far as I can find, for the four
Conferences.) A move was taken to create an offi«
cial group under the direction of the General Cons
ference. The resolution adopted declared, “The
Council of Bishops is requested to appoint a com=
mission in the field of social action and industrial
relations for the purpose of implementing the
social creed and co-operating with the boards and
conmmissions affected. The commission shall be
composed of at least two representatives of each
jurisdiction.”
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Such & commission for study was appointed and
reported its finding to the conference of 1948,
recommending that, “There shall be a Methodist
Commission for Social Action” and defined its area
of activities. The Conference referred this report
40 its committee on the state of the church, After
many days they reported to the Conference, “Your
eommittee on the state of the church ... appre
eiates the work of the eommittee. We are not
* ready to recommend the adoption of their report.
We believe the matter should be given further
study. We, therefore, recormend that the general
eonference request the council of bishops to name
a committee for further study into the advisability
(Continued in Column Four.)
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Peace With Russia Depends
On Qur Strength
In ironic mood the eminent scientist, Albert
Einstein, says there may be-some doubt how we'll
fight the next war but none at all about the one
after that. In World War IV, he says, the weapons
will be rocks.
His wry comment accurately mirrors the pro=
found concern felt everywhere by scientists, states
men and ordinary men over the future peace of
the world. Since President Truman’s announce=
ment that we're going to build a hydrogen bomb,
there’s been a rash of proposals aimed at staving
off another global conflict,
Senator McMahon, Connecticut Democrat, ad
vises a $50,000,000,000 world-wide Marshall Plan
to include Russia and her satellites, Senator Tyd
ings, Maryland Democrat, calls for a world dis~
armament parley to “end the world’s nightmare of
fear.” ’
A number of atomic scientists want the United
States to promise to use the projected hydrogen
bomb only if first attacked with a similar weapon.
The 1,500-man Federation of American Scientists
proposes that a new, nonpartisan commission
wholly divorced from the United Nations re-ex
amine the outlook for control of atonmric bombs,
These plans offered by earnest, sober-minded
men only serve to intensify the anguish of the
world’s dilemma at this critical moment. The dil
emma is this: ;
The prospect of the hydrogen bomb has made
the specter of war infinitely more terrifying than
ever before. All of us believe another war will
ruin our civilization and that therefore we must
avoid it.
Yet the rush toward this frightening holocaust
goes on without check. It does so because the
brake that could halt this headlong race is beyond
our grasp, a solid, genuinely effective peace agree
ment with Russia, For, if you discount the chance
that Germany may rise again, the Soviet Union is
the only potential aggressor in sight.
Every single proposal put forth these days in the
interest of peace depends in the end on winning an
honest accord with Moscow. But all the gvidence
we have—and new discouragements are piling up
almost daily—suggest that Russia is totally un
trustworthy. ‘
Desperate voices have been pleading for “just
one more try” with the Russians, But, in the blunt
est statement to come from our government in
many months, Secretary of State Dean Acheson
has ruled out anygnew approach to the Soviet
Union on the ground it would be a useless effort.
There can be no peace with Russia, he said, un
til this country and the West make themselves so
strong that the men in the Kremlin become con
vinced peace is the wisest course. For strength and
force are the only language they understand, and
any agreement not so supported is without value
to the world because the Russians will break it
when it suits their political ends.
Acheson has spoken with admirable wisdom and
courage. His words should help to set us on a firm
course toward the strength that alone can lead to
ward peace. .
Cabinet crises, punctuated by the usual parlia
mentary vote test, are more common in France to
day than revolutions used to be in Latin America.
Things have got so bad that Premier Bidault
keeps his government together with strings, bal
ing wire and threats that another cabinet collapse
means an end to western solidarity,
If this goes on much longer , it looks like a new
general election will be the only sensible solution.
The present instability in French government is a
travesty on the democratic process. A sounder po
litical alignment is sorely needed. Frenchmen
have got to realize that splinter parties*based upon
fine theoretical distinctions are a luxury out of
place iq the hard reality of 1950. ‘
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When and if excise taxes are cut they should be
cut on a selective basis—not on the arbitrary basis
of wiping out all of the increases put on by Con
gress in 1943. — Rep. Robert W, Kean (R), New
Jersey,
The U. S. S. R. has said that no couniry can
exist unless it is under the thumb of a hegemonis~
tic power. . . . We have proved it can. . . . While
dogs bark, the caravan passes.—Foreign Minister
Edvard Kardelj of Yugoslavia, :
You can not keep 80,000,000 people under mili
tary occupation forever. If the Western powers are
worried about communism in East Asia, the sensi
ble thing would be not to drive the Japanese to
comnrnisim by a long occupation.—lndia’s Prime
Minister Pandit Nehru,
The Negro has long been the weakest link in the
American domestic chain, and thr strength of Am
erican democracy among the nations of the world
is no stronger than the consideration which our
country now accords its people. — President John
W. Davis of West Virginia State College.
Sending the Navy over to Formosa could lead to
a war.—Democratic National Chairman William
Bovle. s
France Falters
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“Pink Fringe”
(Continued from Column One,
Editorial Page.)
of creating a commission in the
field of social action and indus=-
trial relations and report to the
General Conference of 1952.” This
recommendation was amended to
make it possible to report within
two years to the Council of Bishe
ops, said council being empower=
ed to take action which in their
judgment would seem wise. i
That is where the matter rests
now. ‘
In all of this one emphasis is
clear, Methodists have not and
are not going to sit by and keep
silent in an un-Christian social
order. They have not thus under«
stood the Sermon on the Mount
and the mind of Christ. Just now
they seem to be mroving toward
the organization of an official
group for implementing the de
clared ideals and action of the
General Conference. In the
meantime there are Methodists
that l{x:ve acted unofficially.
They have used the name Metho~
dist. This is deplored and has
been unauthorized.
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Now Dr, High has insinuated
that certdin executive secretaries
of boards in the church, deans of
theological schools, editors and 16
bishops are suspect because they
belong to this organization. Dr.
High relates the appearance of
some men in the program of the
Federation who presented view
points of a communistic tinge, He
is too wise to say that the per=
sons so indicated embraced what
they heard, or what they read. To
one who knows most of these of=
ficials personally and has seen
them serve as trusted servants of
the church for these years the
insinuation is preposterous.
A person thought to be a
“fringe man” can hardly be ele
vated to the office of a bishop.
One does not claim perfection for
his brethren. Certainly this writer
could not go as far in social ac
tion as many others can. They
differ among themselves. So did
Peter and Paul. That is not ques=-
tioning another’s Christianity.
Who of us has gone as far as
Christ? “Red were his wounds
and deep.” Anyone pioneering in
the field 6f Christian social ac
tion will make mistakes. He will
receive criticism. That does not
relieve him = from thinking and
acting to help answer his daily
prayer, “Thy kingdom come, thy
will be done on earth.” He has no
option. I am not 8 member of the
Federation.
George Ratterman understud
ied Lujack at Notre Dame and
told Coach Frank Leahy he should
be used more, When he could get
no such guarantee, he moved on
to the pro game with.the Buffalo
Bills. Bobby Layne spent his
rookie year on the bench for
George Halas of the Chicago
Bears, watching Lujack, and
eventually was sold to the Bulle
dogs where he bec one of the
‘club’s few Jtzickou;% 1949,
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