The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 29

Saturday, October 2, 1976 Ottawa Journal I 29 South African churches Good works more important than a good profession for violence gear up our day was what It meant One of the many para By CLAUDIA BASKERVULE Rev A.C: Forrest 0 bles whose meaning can only be well understood against the background of the Middle East culture is that of the father and two sons In Matthew 21: Remember? The father asked the boys to work in his vineyard. The one said, "Yes, Sir," and then didn't. The other said he wouldn't, and then did. When Jesus asked his lis pineapple crops a year on 20,000 acres. She's treated as casual labor so the company doesn't have to pay her company benefits, he said.

"Canada doesn't have a lot to be proud of either. There are several Canadian companies with, heavy investment in South Africa." There are many blacks who say the problems in South Africa are as much as anything else," he said. There are 14 Anglican provinces in South Africa. Two-thirds of 'the Angli'- cans are black. "The church is watched closely by the government and criticized." he said.

"The church is one of the few places where blacks and whites mble together. Both the Anglicans and Roman Catholics have been' a strong witness for the rights of blacks." In contrast to South Africa, Kenya's church was found to be alive and growing. All the bishops and most of the clergy are black. The Canadian tors also found the church in Kenya is paying a lot of attention to primary or the use of lay people. "Many Canadian Anglicans had mixed feelings about Synod's actions," Canon Lackey said.

"Some felt the picture presented at Synod by a fact finding committee which visited South Africa was not accurate. Some also felt we should mind our own business." Canon Lackey said he discovered the picture was quite accurate. "It's a sad country. There are signs of affluence in the city American hotels and food chains yet the blacks are not allowed to participate in this. The average tourist could go to South Africa and come back thinking it is a wonderful country.

"It's easy to be deceived about it," he said. At one church servie, he said, there were a group of blacks singing. A few days before they had buried their deed from the township of Soweto. A black woman' from the country earns lesz than 70 cents per day working for a large American firm that yields four Journal Reporter The church in South Africa is gearing up for the violence they-feel Is inevitable, a Canadian Anglican church leader said. Canon Ed Lackey of the Ottawa Diocese made these observations following his return from a tour of South African church provinces during July of this year.

"The church is not encouraging violence. But in the eyes of many church people there is no alternative. They can see it coming," the canon said. church is going to have to live through the violence and are preparing themselves for it. The black clergy want to assume much more leadership in the church to help their people live through the blood bath," he said.

The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada passed strong resolutions about apartheid and pledged their support for the church in South Africa. in Jesus' day. That among us, and round about us, in all our communities, there are those who make no pretense to be religious, who have in one way or another, become the unacceptables of our' most polite society, who are closer to God than we who go to church every Sunday may be. Why? Well, because while they who have made no profession of faith, and have made no promises to keep the Ten Commandments or follow the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount, may live' a life showing kindness and love to one another. While many of us who have made our confirmation or church membership vows and said publitfty we believe in God and in his Son, don't keep our prom' ises and fail to live up to our profession of faith.

It is my observation that the kindest, most virtuous, most winsome and loving and to-be-trusted people in life are those who have made promises to serve God and keep his Commandments. One of the things one has to learn when first dealing with the Arab people in such a simple thing as asking directions on the street is that directions, will always be given. They may be wrong, but the Arab will not say to the stranger who asks the way to the mosque or hotel, "Sorry, bud, I'm a stranger here myself." More likely he will walk half a block or more discussing the probabilities. It's a matter of manners an innate courtesy shown to one who asks or begs or is in need. It is true in 1976, that an impoverished Arab refugee in his tent' will put a week's ration of sugar in the coffee he serves a stranger.

In many ways the customs and values of the New Testament are closer to modern Arab life than they are to modern Jewish culture. son to accede to a request or command from his father and then not keep the promise was common enough. But to tell the old man, "Nothing doing, I'm not going to do it," was unacceptable behavior. So when Jesus told the parable, and asked the question, even though his listeners gave the right answer, they knew that in ordinary life that answer was incorrect Once again Jesus' teaching cut across the standards, customs, accepted morality of the day. The Jesus went on to say that the publicans and the the unaccept-ables of the day, would enter the Kingdom of God before the pious and devout.

That is hard for us church-goers, for us who profess a religious faith to accept. It was hard on the godly Pharisees who tened to Jesus. What it really means in PENTECOSTAL teners which was the better, they agreed that, the obedient boy performed better. However, in actual fact, in the Palestine of Jesus' day, and in Arab culture in the Middle East today, it was and is the other way around. Insolence was and is worse than disobedience.

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