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As Ministers Speak Out Moment Of Truth Is On The Way Newspaper Enterprise Assn. NEW YORK (NEA) The civil rights leadership of clergymen has been extended to other national issues. And With this spread has come militancy and intensity that church members find difficult to follow. The quiet, folksy preacher has a new look of determination and aggressiveness. As one: pastor put it: "We're tired of acting like al Greek- chorus that stands the side watching a tragedy take place and merely offers occasional comments." if history is repeating itself, then the activity of William S.

Coffin, chaplain of Yale, and Robert McAfee Brown of Stanford University, is worth watching. For these two clergymen were among the earliest to draw attention to the civil rights protest by their leadership in the first sit-ins at southern lunch counters 10 years ago. Men like these are the channel between university ferment and congregational For Brown and Coffin command the respect of the academic community, the enthusiams of the students and are highly regarded by churchmen. Today, Brown, Coffin and. Co.

have held up the horror of the Viet Nam war for the churches to behold. Says Coffin, an infantry captain in World War Il: "The church must keep insisting that war is a bloody mess and that we have no right to turn our face away from all' the blood that is involved. Let' no one say that anything' as important as foreign policy should be left foreign policy experts alone." (Last in a Series) By DAVID POLING Special Writer Dick Scott Ford Selected MES-TEX Steel Buildings WALKER Steel' Co. GY6.4501 When Brown was speaking the General Assembly of the Jnited Presbyterian Church, last sprng, he said the most argent moral mandate facing Christians Protestants and Catholics was concerted" action to stop the war in Viet Nam. "I have great that future generations will look back at the insanity of the 1960's and ask the churches.

"What were you doing to stop Today there are more than 150 chapters of National Emergency Committee of Clergy concerned About Viet Nam. Sol active pulpit greets the uncomfortable pew, and as the protests escalate we will see churches split and divide. This unhappy result does not surprise the leaders of the new involvement. They point to the example of Jesus who divided households, families, friends and religious bodies. As Coffin has observed.

"Jesus split the church right in I think the church is going to split and has to do it as gently as pos-1 Funeral Rites Set Sunday For Sherman Brown Funeral services will be held lat the Webb Chapel Primitive Baptist Chruch Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock for Sherman Brown, 54, a native of beck who died in Florida on Aug. 29. The services will be con(ducted by the Rev. W. W.

Walker, and burial will be in Webb Chapel cemetery in Limestone County with the DorseyKeatts Funeral Home in charge! of arrangements. Mr. Brown was born in Groesbeck on Jan. 1, 1912. He was a laborer.

Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Alice Collins, of Groesbeck; a sister, Mrs. Jesse Thomas, of Mart; a daughter, Maxine Brown, of California; three aunts, Valorie Thomas West, both of Groesbeck, and Maggie Baker, of Mart; two uncles, Robert Bennett and Roddie Bennett, both of Groesbeck, several grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews. WORTHAM METAL WORKS R05-3203 RO5-3485 CHOOSE A. Payne AIR MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST FOR THE FINEST AIR CONDITIONING FOR LESS! but one can't away from it." Looking across the campus, but really looking across thousand church lawns, the chaplain of Yale sayd, "I believe that thw whole message of Christianity is that it takes nerve.

Christianity hash't bech tried and found wanting, it has been tried and found difficult!" Was this what the martyred priest of Colombia, Camilo Torres, means when he cried out to a newsman. "Christians should side with the oppressed, not the oppressors. Do you know what I tell my followers? The Catholic who is not revolutionary is living in mortal 1s this what Rabbi Philip E. Schechter pointed to in his famous sermon, "Silence Is Not Always Golden," quoting Ecclesiastes: "A time to be born and a time to die, a time to break down and a time build up; a time to keep silence and a time to Students may march across the city and demonstrate Wortham line were the' bride, her mother The Greatest Guy Around Is Dad! As head of the family, it's Dad's job to look after all the family's needs and build for their future. And Father knows He comes to us for all his financial advice and needs.

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and Mrs. Joe and Eddie is the of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Walker. Rev.

Robert Benson the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. David and children visited Mr. and Mrs.

Dewey Tyner on the way to Kingsville, where they are moving. Andy Keathly left Tuesday for Fort Polk; La. where he will receive Basic training in the service. Miss Gloria Magness and Mrs. S.

F. Herod were married Saturday night at the First Baptist Church. Rev. Roy Mathison, uncle of the bride, performed the ceremony. Mr.

and Mrs. Jack Paul' visitseed her brother, Corley who is in a Henderson hospital. Sincerest sympathy to the family of Mr. W. A.

(Bill) Stub'os who passed away last Friday. Mrs. Leonard Craig is ill and in the hospital, also Mrs. Reddock, Mrs. Theur Tacker of Mexia and Pete Williams.

Betty Lou Ridge, brideof Wayne Morgan of Corsicana, was honored with a tea shower Sept. 6 at the home of Mrs. Herbert Strunk. Mrs. Strunk greeted guests as they arrived.

Others in the receiving The Mexia Baily Nama Page 2-Mexia, Texas Sunday, September 11, 1966 Funeral Services At Groesbeck For William Jackson GROESBECK 4 Spl.) eral services were held at the Shelton Chapel at 2 p. m. Saturday for William Rawls Jackson, 55, a native of Groesbeck who died in a Dallas hospital Thurs day. Malcolm Smith, Church of Christ minister, officiated, and burial was in Cobbs with the Shelton Funeral in charge of arrangements. Mr.

Jackson was born Groesbeck and was a driver until his recent retirement. Besides his wife. he is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Jackson.

of Dallas: two sons, William R. Jackson and Autry Gene Jackson. both of Marshall; two daughters. Mrs. Barbara Janct McFarland and Miss Dorothy Earline Jackson, both of Dallas; a Magcobar Minerals Selected MES-TEX Steel Buildings WALKER Steel Building Co.

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Dessie Lindley. Mrs. Mozell Downy and Mrs. Jo Emma Denton, all of Dallas. downtown.

Professors, artists and men of letters may. mount constant and effective protests. Yet the moment of truth for the church is come ing as local priests, rabbits and pastors speak peace, the end of warfake and the new reconciliation that must begin if man is' to: survive. And with comes pain; and the agony. will not produce ecstasy but new divisions and separations within the churches of ica.

When Pope: Paul VI gave thei opening address of the finall session of Vatican 11, he saidy. "The church in this world 'is not an end in herself; is lat the service of all men: she must make Christ present to: all, both to individuals and to peoples as and generously as This is her mission." It would seem that if this! world is going to survive war, the church will have tol endure some wounds not unlike! those described on Good Fri-! day. land Mrs. Morgan. The house was decorated in the bride's colors of yellow and white: The table was laid with a' lace cloth.

The beautiful yellow and white arrangement was in a silver urn. candelabra held three yellow Punch, nuts and cookies were; served. Miss Cherl Smith serv-1 punch, sister-in-law of the bride. Mrs. Ridge served cook-! Mrs.

Judy Morgan presidled at the bride's book. Many useful gifts were displayed. Other hostesses were, Mrs Albert Rogers, Mrs. Robert Mrs. Marvin Smith, and Mrs.

A. W. Keathly. Mrs. Maurece Johnson has returned home from the hospital.

Last Rites Set Af Pine Top For Cora 0. Woodard: Last rites will be held at the Pine Top Methodist Church in the Pine Top 01. Freestone County Sunday after-18 noon at 2:30 for Mrs. Cora Owens Woodard, who died. in the Freestone County hospital at Fairfield on Sept.

6. The Rev. Z. N. Beal will officiate and burial will be in the Pine Top cemetery with the Dorsey-Keatts Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Woodard, a native" of the Methodist Butler community, was af and a member off Texas Banner Court 44 H. of Ft. 1 Oakwood. Besides her husband, Reuben Woodard, of Rt.

1, Oakwood, she is survived by two daughters, Katie Titus, of Rt. 1, Oakwood, and Mrs. Robertia Baily, of Bardwell; three sons, Daniel and David Woodard, both of Fairfield, and Reuben Woodard Jr. of Fort Worth; two brothers, Willie Owens, of Fairfield, and Curuel Owens, of Sand Antonio; 34 grandchildren, 89 great grandchildren and 11 great great grandchildren. Tumor Would Have Probably Killed Whitman In Year AUSTIN (AP) Charles J.

Whitman, torn by inner guilt and puzzled by things going on inside his that he didn't understand, had a deadly tumor growing in his brain when he went on his murderous sniper rampage Aug. 1, a team of national medical experts said Thursday. They said it probably would have killed him within a year. But that tumor, less than an inch' at its largest part, could not have been the sole reason for Whitman's killing 16 persons and wounding 30 others, sald a' ber of the 32-man panel. The panel admitted it did not know exactly why: Whitman did what he did.

Annual por capita beef consumption the United States and is between 0.80 and 90. pounds, according to the Britannica. inches tall. AT THEATRE -Jerry here are a romantic two on ture, "Three On A Couch." color presents Lewis as an fiancee, a psychiatrist who cures three patients-co-stars an ard Leslie Parrish--of "Three On A Couch" starts MISS DELORES FORGE Forges Announce Engagement Of Their Daughter Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur Lee Forge of 601 North Echols Street, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Delores Forge, to Jesse Sharp. Mr. Sharp is the son of the Rev. and Mrs. Isace Sharp, of Waco.

Miss Forge attended the Madame C. J. Walker Cosmetology School. Her fiance is a student at Paul Qu'nn College in Waco. The wedding will take place ton Sept.

24 in the evening o'clock at St. John A.M.E. Methodist Church in Mexia. Funeral Services Set In Mexia For Johnnie Martinea Funeral services for Johnnie Martinea, lifelong resident Limestone County, will be held Sunday at 2:30 in the Mexia Union Baptist Church. Mr.

Martinea, a carpenter, died Sept. 2 at his home at 500 North Echols Street. He was a Baplist. Officiating will he the Rev. s.

A. Winfield, pastor of the Union Baptist Church. Burial will be in Mexia, under of Dorsey-Keatts FuIneral Home. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mattie Martinea, of Mexia, two daughters, Mrs.

Ethel Lee Henry of Dallas and Mrs. Eunice Rambo of Fort Worth; three brothers, Will Connor of Teague, Lee Dancer of Hobbs, N. and Dora Henry of Los Angeles, a sister, Mrs. Christine Phillips, of Mexia; nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Custom Excavating Trenching, Pipe Line Salvage, Foundation Work Contract or Hourly Rates Moxia WELDING, INC Mexia Readi-Mix CONCRETE Delivered Anywhere C.

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and Mrs. Bun Hickman. longtime residents of Mexia. Lewis and Janet Leigh shown 0 couch in new Columbla PicThe Jerry Lewis production in artist and Miss Leigh as his refuses to wed Him until she Mary Ann Mobley, Gila Gol. their mat hating complexes.

Sunday at the Mexia: Theatre. Freestone County Rites- Scheduled For Mexia Man Funeral services for Loyd McDaniel, of Mexia, will he conducted Sunday at 11:30 a. m1. in the Avant Prairie A.M.E. Church (Freestone County).

A native of the Avant Prairie community, Mr. McDaniel died Thursday at 7:35 a. m. ati. his Street.

home, 1317 East Methodist. Titus He was a Conducting the rites will be the Rev. H. V. Chambers.

Burjal will be in Avant Prairie Cemetery, under direction of Dorsey-Keatts Funeral Home. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lorine McDaniel, of Mexia; two brothers, Horace McDaniel of Fairfield and Love Henry McDaniel of Route 1, Oakwood; 29 grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren; four daughters, Miss Jeanette McDaniel of! Mexia, Mrs. Ruby Mae Evans of Fort Worth, Mrs. Doris Ann of Vancouver, and Mrs.

Dorothy Lee Wicker of Dallas; and six sons, Loyd McDaniel, and Garland! Ray McDaniel, both of Mexia, D. L. McDaniel, James S. Mc-1 Daniel, Eddie Ray McDaniel and Albert McDaniel, all of Fort Worth. USE THE WANT ADS Suit Is Brought Against Merger Of AFL and NFL CHICAGO (AP) The first legal challenge of the proposed merger of the National and American Football Leagues ha: been leveled' in the form of 3 $12 million suit.

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