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Stanford Professor Called Most 'Relevant' Theologian By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International Dr. Robert McAfee Brown, professor of religion at Stanford University, is one of Protestantism's most "relevant" young theologians. has been deeply involved in the Ecumenical Movement, and served as a Protestant observer at the Vatican Council. He was one of the first clergymen to go to jail for participating in: civil rights demonstration in Mississippi. No one has ever accused him of being a hide-bound conservative.

When such a man becomes alarmed by trends in contemporary Protestant theology, it cannot be shrugged off as the maundering of a mouldy fig. Dr. Brown voices his concern in the preface to a new paperback edition of his book, "The Spirit of Protestantism." "Much of what is going on at present on the Protestant scene," he says, "gives the impression of being willing to jettison whatever is necessary in order to appeal to the modern mentality." THAT'S A POLITE, professional way of saying that some of his colleagues have gone too far in their gung-ho efforts to strip the Christian Gospel of any doctrine- up to and including belief in God -which seems to give offense to skeptics. Teaching in a great secular university, Dr. Brown is well aware of "the appalling irrelevance of Christianity to the vast majority of modern men." And he has tried hard in his, books, articles and lectures to present the gospel in terms which educated people of today will find comprehensible.

But reinterpreting the good news is one thing; abandoning it is another. "IT IS NOT the task of Christians to whittle away their heritage until it is fianlly palatable to all," he says. "Faith has never been easy there is a 'scandal' to the Christian faith and he who proclaims it, either through what he says or what he is or what he does, must be prepared to be called a fool for Christ's sake." "Scandal" is the term St. Paul used nearly 2,000 years ago to describe the reaction JFK's Religious Attitudes Studied The late President never made a public show of piety. Even in private conversation, he was disinclined to talk about religious beliefs.

But he strongly resented it when one of his biographers said that he was "not deeply religious." Kennedy felt the description was unfair because "faithfully attended Mass each Sunday, even in the midst of fatiguing travels when no voter would know whether he attended services or not." THESE INSIGHTS into the religious attitudes of America's first Catholic President are provided by his former White House aide, Theodore C. Sorensen, in memoirs pub- Parkerest CHURCH of CHRIST 5950 Parkcrest Street Sun. 8:30 11. a.m. 7:00 p.m.

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Cooled- by Look Magazine this week. Sorensen, a Unitarian, says that Kennedy simply accepted the Catholic faith "as part of his life" and felt "neither selfconscious nor superior about his religion." "He cared not a whit for theology," says the late aide. "Not once in 11 years, despite all our discussions of church-state affairs, did he ever disclose his personal views on man's relation to God." "I never heard him pray aloud in the presence of others, never saw him kiss a Bishop's ring, and never knew him to alter his religious practices for political says Sorensen. -STUDEBAKER ROAD CHURCH OF CHRIST 3433 Studebaker Road Sun. 9:50 10:50 A.M., 6:30 P.M.

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M. Founder THURSDAY, P. M. DEVOTIONAL SERVICE Paramahansa of Jewish and Greek intellectuals to the Christian claim that God had dwelt among men in the persons of an humble Galilean teacher. But the Apostle would not tone down his shocking story to make it more respectable.

in the ears of his It was better to be thought fool, he said, than to be unfaithful to the truth which God has revealed about himself in Christ. Dr. Brown does not want the church to be so concerned with doctrinal orthodoxy that it shies away from open dia-. logue with a skeptical culture. He acknowledges that "seeming irrelevance to the world is always the temptation of theological purists." But "undue accommodation to the world is equally destructive of faithful witness." And it is the latter pitfall which opens at the feet of Protestantism today.

Dr. Brown puts it plainly: "The coming generation of Protestants had better make sure that it does not succumb to temptation Ronald Knox once described as willingness to settle for whatever Jones will swallow." Pastor Says Slave Trade Still Operates The Rev. Halfdan Endresen, a Norwegian Lutheran who has served for many years as a missionary to Cameroun, asserts in a report published in his homeland that a large slave trade is still being conducted in Equatorial Africa. He charges that slave traders from Saudi Arabia and other countries of the Middle East have a cruel trick of posing as Moslem missionaries. They entice Africans to join "pilgrimages to Mecca" which in fact turn into forced marches across the Sahara Desert to the slave marts of the Persian Gulf.

Pastor Endresen estimates that Saudi Arabia alone has 250,000 slaves. A girl under 15, he says, commands a price of about $500 on the auction block. Slavery has supposedly been outlawed by international agreement, but the missionary says that the United has inadequate police powers to halt the traffic in Africa. Church Offers Sunday School on Wednesdays TULSA, Okla. -Midweek "make-up" classes for persons who miss Sunday school and church services on Sunday will begin this Fall at St.

Andrew's Presbyterian Church. The Rev. William Neff Jr. senior minister at St. Andrew's, said "Sunday" school classes would be held on Wednesday nights for children who are unable to attend classes at the regular time: He said the church's Sunday night worship service will be moved to Wednesday night, so parents may worship while their children are in "Sunday" school.

"We've become a city of boat owners and with every new lake, more people acquire cabins out-of-town where they go for the weekend," Neff said. "With the kind of climate we have, this is not a situation which applies only during the summer months. It's at least a 10-month-ayear occurrence." Neff said the Wednesday night courses will be a "blend" of the preceding Sunday's lesson and the one to be offered the following Sunday. The church's monthly family night dinners will be changed from Sunday night to Wednesday night and become a weekly affair, he said. "Everything in One Beautiful Place" WESTMINSTER MEMORIAL PARK -CEMETERY HELP FROM THE Heart WHEN NEEDED MOST 14801 BEACH WESTMINSTER GENEVA-1-6577 TWINOAKS 3-2421 Lone Beach, 14, INDEPENDENT--Page A-1 DREW PEARSON Death Silenced a Dominican Priest WASHING TON--in the course of mass-murdering Dominican political prisoners during the recent revolution, American backed dictatorship of Gen.

Antonio Imalso murdered a CanaCatholic priest. The tragic story of his death, told in gruesome detail, 1 vealed in the hitherto Dominican atrocities prepared for the a nization American States. PEARSON This column has obtained a copy of this unpublished report which tells how Father James Arthur MacKinnon killed because he "pro(tested the mass arrests in a sermon from his pulpit and also before the central authorities." "This foreign priest," states confidential OAS report, "was killed in doubtful and suspicious circumstances which cannot the fact, that it could well have been another summary execution a public road. "The priest's body shows wounds from at least two different weapons; evidence of strong pressure on the neck a profound concussion from a blow in the thoracic region. His clothing, perforatby bullets, shows, under ultraviolet rays, the impregnation of powder, indicating that some of the shots were made at close range." The OAS report, prepared three expert criminolo-ots gists from Chile, Mexico and Peru, went into great detail regarding the manner in which Gen.

Imbert's troops had arrested several thousand then transported them to other jails. En route they were shot. HONORED Elder Richard C. Gibbs, 19, son of Dr. and Mrs.

Richard Gibbs, 6450 El Cedral will be honored 'Sunday at 4 p.m. by a testimonial in the Long Beach Third Ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints prior to his departure for a two-year mission in New Zealand. Elder Gibbs was graduated from Millikan High School in 1964. Christians. Jews Plan Conference Jewish leaders from the United States, Israel and Europe will hold a "summit meeting" with Protestant and Orthodox: Christian leaders Aug.

12-20 at the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, Switzerland. It will be the first time that such a broadly representative group of Jewish and Christian leaders have come together for talks about the role of religion in modern society. Topic of the conference is: 'The Situation of Man in the World Today." All three branches of Judaism Reform, Conservative and Orthodox--will be represented in the Jewish delegation. The World Council delegation will include representatives of about 20 denominations. N.Y.

Lack of Water Examined NEW YORK (P) -Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall climaxed a day-long finding mission into droughtplagued New York Jersey Friday with assurances that he could "see the outline of a solution" to current water shortages. But before the cabinet officer left for a meeting in Washington with President Johnson today he soundly criticized some officials in both states for what he considered in combating the shortage. "WE DON'T have the answers at the moment, but can see the outline of a solution," Udall said before leaving after hearings in Newark, N. and Manhattan. Although he warned that New Yorkers were "walking on the edge of the edge of disaster" because of the protracted drought, he singled out water shortages in northern New Jersey as the most critical.

"Maybe we can do just enough to get by the immediate he told a Manhattan news conference. Udall heads a special presidential water-crisis task force set up to assess the drought situation in the Northeast. Thursday the group met in Philadelphia. In Newark, he said emergency action was needed to prevent North Jersey from running out of water by next spring. TURNING to New York City, Udall said that it had the reputation of operating the "leakiest and loosestmanaged" water system in the country.

This statement was challenged by City Water Commissioner Armand D' Angelo who argued that the city loses only 25 to 30 million gallons of water daily out of a total of 1 billion used. Udall warned that New York and Philadelphia were on a "collision course" over water needs and expressed hope that he could come up with some recommendations to ease the crisis. tossed into the river. -This was one reason so few bodies could be recovered. However, the body of FathMacKinnon was one of those recovered, along with a rosary and wooden crucifix, and the examination of his body was minute.

It showed "bullet holes in the head, in the lower parts of the torso, and in the thighs; also lacerations around the neck." NOTE: There has been considerable indignation in the States over the fact that Bishop James Walsh was long detained in China, and that Cardinal Mindszenty and Cardinal Stepinac were not permitted to return to their church positions in Hungary and Yugoslavia. They, however, were not killed. Father MacKinnon was killed in Western country under a dictator whom the United States had hand-picked and who has been kept in office only through the support of American Marines plus millions in U. S. food and aid.

HEAD START-Mississip- pi congressmen Sargent Shriver, head of the antipoverty program, to cut off funds for the largest head start program in Mississippi the grounds that the money is being used to finance the civil rights movement. Sen. John Stennis, claimed that some of the money had financed "freedom marches" on Jackson. Rep. William Colmer and John Bell Williams were also caustic in their criticism.

What they haven't meneditioned is how Mississippi bighave been harassing the children who the head start program is trying to keep in school. The Grenada Milk Co. of Mayersville, for example, refused to deliver milk to classes nearby Rolling Fork. The Borden Co. demanded written contract before it would supply milk for the children.

A white plantation agent trailed a bus that was picking up youngsters for the Rolling Fork classes. He intimidated several of the children from getting on the bus. While children were being tutored in the home of a Rolling Fork Negro, Sidney Alexlander, a green Ford started circling the home. Suddenly shot rang out, a bullet thudded into the house. The Ford hastily pulled away.

A Negro teacher trainee, F. L. Smith, was thrown into the Warren County jail for allegedly failing to yield the right-of-way. The jailer kept him locked up, claiming he couldn't reach Judge L. B.

Dillon, who would have to set bail. Meanwhile Mississippi congressmen demand that federal funds for this program be cut off. POLLUTION--Rep. Robert Jones, has requested six federal agencies to follow the example the U. S.

government is supposed to set for others by stopping the pollution of our waterways. The six pollution contributors are the Treasury Department, the Federal Aviation Agency, the Agriculture Department, the Army, Navy and Air Force. Meantime, a survey by Jones' subcommittee on natural resources! and power (part of government operations committee) shows that 963 federal installations of the above agencies and others each dump an average of 3,000 gallons per day of untreated wastes into rivers and streams. Other federal outfits guilty of poisoning our waterways according to Jones, are the Health, Education and Welfare Department, the Corps of Engineers, the Commerce, Interior and Justice Departments, General Services Administration, Smithsonian Institution, Tennessee Valley Authority and Veterans Administration. a great majority of federal installations are making substantial progress toward ending pollution of streams, we expect all installations to follow the polley established by Congress to end pollution and set the example for others," declared Jones.

He pointed out that untreated federal sewage generally is less than of untreated municipal sewage discharges, but that even this could create serious health problems in some areas. HEARING AID BATTERIES I OFF Mall LA. "HEARING 000D AIDS IT ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE? NEW YORK CUT COMPLETE DINNER INC. SOUP OR SALAD- POTATO DESSERT COFFEE $1.50 Chef's Pantry 6131 LONG ATLANTIC BEACH EASY BURIAL--The OAS was able to locate only a few of the bodies, and was not able to arrive at any conclusions regarding the number of political prisoners shot. However, La Victoria Prison, the most important under the administration of Gen.

Imbert, had its prison population reduced from 3,000 to 500. Many of the prisoners were shot on the Yuca River bridge so that their bodies could 1 be All Faiths Paint House for Negroes House-painting can now be added to the list of Ecumenical activities which Protestants and Catholics undertake together in the spirit of Christian unity. Vandals recently splashed paint across the front of home which a Negro couple had purchased in a previously all-white section of Camden, IN.J. A few days after the Incldent, a volunteer clean-up squad appeared at the home. It was organized by Lutheran Pastor Harry L.

Hall, and included Msgr. Joseph F. Doherty, vicar general of the Catholic Diocese of Camden; The Rev. Robert Helmick, an Episcopal Rector; Baptist Ministers Norman B. Evans and James Nordstrom; and The Rev.

Lawrence Black of the Camden Presbytery. Yemen Factions Agree to End 3-Year-Old War AMMAN, Jordan (UPI) Rival Yemeni Royalists and Republicans Friday night announced "full agreement" on ending the three- year-old civil war in Yemen, The joint announcement was heard here in a broadcast by Saudi Arabia's Mecca Radio. It said nothing about the terms of the agreement, worked out in a meeting at the Saudi Arabian summer capital of Taef. Saudi Arabian King Feisal attended the meeting and congratulated the Yemeni delegations on the agreement. MOTHERS MEETING PLACE: Classified Ads! Looking for youngsters' things or trying to sell some? Want Ads do both! Dial HE 2-5959 today.

LBJ VS RFK HEAVYWEIGHT POLITICAL BOUT OF THE DECADE When political feud pits the President of the United States against a rich young Senator bearing the famous name of Kennedy, when the stake is the White House, and when the action, like a torpedo, moves swiftly below the surface to explode in new and unexpected places, every politically minded American will find the drama gripping. Vera Glaser, Washington correspondent for North American Newspaper Alliance, has written a series of three articles on the Johnson-Kennedy feud which will begin Sunday in the Independent, Press-Telegram. Don't miss it. A SERIES OF THREE ARTICLES STARTING SUNDAY IN THE Independent, Press-Telegram.