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Neoaho Dally News Friday, March 3d, im-2 Inside Religion By Rev. Lister Kinsohring United churches may be pattern The Episcopal Dragon Lady Austin, Texas Dorothy A. Faber, a striking redhead and mother of two who lives here, is becoming widely known in ecclesiastical circles as ''The Episcopal Dragon Lady" even though she was once the editor of "Real Romances" magazine. For Mrs. Faber, a graduate of the University of Missouri's famed school of journalism and a veteran daily newspaper and wire service reporter, is editor of "The Christian Challenge." This unofficial and independent Episcopal monthly magazine is a pioneer among a growing number of underground and conservative church periodicals.

These include such reasonable publications as "The Good News" (Methodist) and "The Presbyterian Layman," as well as the strident "Christian News," which has helped significantly in igniting one of history's most bitter liberal- conservative civil wars, within the 2.9 million-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. As for "The Christian Challenge," most Episcopal bishops and other clergy regard Mrs. Faber's work as if it were a diocesan banquet catered by the original Typhoid Mary. But The Dragon Lady is bulwarked by a hardy and elfin sense of humor, an elephantine memory, a gigantic filing system and an impressive instinct for the hierarchical jugular. She has therefore been able to report an average of at least a half dozen major or minor Episcopal scandals (or absolutely hilarious boo boos) in every issue of "The Challenge" for most of the past decade.

These unquestionably newsworthy incidents have generally been loftily ignored by the denomination's heavily subsidized official magazine, "The Episcopalian." Since Episcopalians are generally too sensibly sophisticated to appreciate the editorial Pablum resulting from such puerile censorship, "The Episcopalian's" circulation has plummeted to 102,000, among the denomination's 3.2 million members. The unsubsidized "Christian Challenge" has at the same time climbed to 77,000 this in addition to four other independent and unsubsidized 'Episcopal periodicals Living Church," "The American Church News," "The Anglican Digest" and "The Last Fall, the national Episcopal headquarters commissioned an unprecedented listen-to-the-grass-roots investigation. At a cost of $84,000, a specially trained task force of 101 pepple traveled 463,365 miles and met with 6,000 diocesan leaders for depth level discussion and tabulated evaluation of the present national Episcopal program. Among results of this massive survey and evaluation, "The Episcopalian" has evoked "strong dissatisfaction" as being "neither a true house organ nor an effective church-wide channel." Despite this horrendous rating, "Episcopalian" editor Henry McCorkle and his band of editorial ostriches have revealed that, if little else, they surely have chutzpah. For in the very teeth of this report card, they have asked the financially improverished denomination to virtually quadruple their present subsidy of $185,000 per annum, because: News From Rural Rocky Comfort by Mrs.

Roy Clifton Airs. Bessie Dabbs, who has spent the last three months in California, returned home last wpek. She visited her daughters, Mrs. Charles Smith and family in Rial to and Mrs. J.

T. Dugger and family in Cutler, Calif. Also her sister Mrs. Effie Feater and hqsband in Springerville, Ariz. Mr.

and Mrs. Feater brought her home and are visiting relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Horton and Mr.

and Mrs. Bodie Ledgerwood visited in the Fred Harvey home Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Rex McCracken, near Tulsa, spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Paul Savage. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Clifton visited in Kansas City from Saturday to Monday with Mr. Mrs.

Kervyn Clifton and family and Mr. and Mrs. Dale Marney and family. Jewell Plumlee, Salem, has spent the past 10 days here visiting relatives. Mrs.

Bessie Dabbs and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Feater, Springerville, visited Mrs. Clara Stephenson and Mrs. Loie Prewitt of Ridgley, Sunday afternoon.

They spent Tuesday sightseeing near Branson and other places of interest. Mr. and Mrs. R. C.

Clifton and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harvey visited in the Carl McCracken home Tuesday night. "We are most anxious to put our accumulated experience and our professional skills to work on a new kind of periodical." While this is reminiscent of the classic lad who having murdered his parents pleaded for mercy because he was an orphan, McCorkle will probably be able to continue on the Episcopal Church payroll, at least until May of 1974 when Presiding Bishop John E. Hines' resignation takes effect.

For this column has learned that Bishop Hines has adamantly refused to fire the leader of another of the national survey's disaster areas is the Episcopal Church's national program; Brooklyn black militant Leon Modeste. For "Modest Leon" as revealed in official reports to the Episcopal Executive Council, has discriminated against other minority groups in his administration of the $6 million General Convention Special Program. He has even employed a Black Muslim as one of his assistants. This column has learned that a number of Executive Council members have already asked Hines to fire Modeste without success. As Virginia Theological Seminary's revered theologian A.

T. Mollegen puts it: "Is there any way to get a Presiding Bishop who will fire Modeste? This is a serious issue which no candidate should be allowed to evade when Bishop Hines' successor is elected next September in Louisville." By GEORGE W. CORNELL AP Religion Writer Although they stood almost across the street from each other in the same block, the two churches operated separately for years, one United Presbyterian, the other United Methodist. Then came the flood, and the havoc. "When people endure such heartbreak, acceptance of the loss brings a special kind of freedom, a freedom the past," says the Rev.

E. Allen Campbell. "It freed us to think through more realistically what it means to be the church." With that sense of release, the two denominational congregations joined last fall after a June flood into a united Christian body in a grass-roots step that now is seen as the potential pattern for achieving unification of eight major denominations in America. The flood did huge property damage to the churches, and to homes of many members. They merged into a new "Church of Christ Uniting" the tentative name proposed for the merger of the eight denominations.

The local union also was based on the nationally drafted plan for interdenominational union. The idea is to build the connections "from the bottom up, rather than from the top down," says the Rev. Dr. Paul A. Crow of Princeton, N.J., general secretary of the Consultation on Church Union.

That kind of local-level unification is happening in many places these days, and when the Consultation meets next week, April 1-6, at Memphis, it is expected to give wider impetus to the process. Recommendations have been drawn tip for representatives of the eight denominations to launch a network of experimental "generating communities" about 30 of them to combine and spark local developments toward a nationally unified church. Denominations involved have News From Burch by Mrs. Horace Capps This week guests of Mr. and Mrs.

Charley McKee were Mr. and Mrs. Lee McKee and family, Pat Boyer, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Barckman, Mrs.

Emma Crabtree, Mrs. Jack Beauford, Mrs. Rex Wilson and Mr. and Mrs. H.

W. Capps. There were 52 present for Sunday school Sunday. Rev. Del Hampton is pastor.

The church is having a new air conditioner put in. C. L. Bowler of Neosho is doing the work. Mrs, Everett Lawrance and daughter visited Wednesday with her mother and family of Anderson.

Approximately 30 guests gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hughes to help Mrs. Hughes celebrate her birthday this week. Mr.

and Mrs. Horace Capps were visiting in Vinita, Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hazzard were dinner guests Sunday of Mr.

and Mrs. Ben Hughes. a total of about 22 million members. The Rev. Dr.

Rachel Henderline, an Austin, theology professor and head of a team that has analyzed about 8,500 responses to a draft plan of union, said they show clearly the churches want to move from "conversations about" to "experiments in" united operations. Under the plan, the "generating communities" of congregations of various denominations would act as one, sharing worship, Holy Communion, fellowship and join in common projects of service for a specific period of time. "They would be demonstration communities and would hopefully generate practical FISH NOW EVERY DAY WASHINGTON (AP) Although the Catholic church in 1966 relaxed its rules against eating meat on Fridays, Americans are now eating more fish than they did before that. The National Marine Fish- cries Service estimates that per capita consumption this year will be 11.6 pounds, against 10.9 pounds in 1966, suggestions for formation of a future united Church," Dr. Crow says.

That sort of building unification from the ground up already is spreading simultaneously in scores of cases in various ways such as outright congregational mergers, sharing facilities and cooperative "clustering" for joint projects. Damage suit filed in Circuit Court A suit for damages has been filed in Circuit Court by Basil Kissire and MFA Insurance Companies against Lewis Eugene Martin. The suit asks $740.58 for alleged damages to the Kissire vehicle in a traffic accident on Aug. 7, 1969. Increase in revenue sharing funds announced WASHINGTON (AP) An overall increase of 13 per cent in revenue-sharing funds for state and local governments was announced for the first half of 1973 today by the Treasury Department.

The allocation for the first half of 1973 will total an increase of $339,229,144 over the allocation for the second half of 1972. The allocations will be paid in two equal installments directly to each eligible unit of government. The first payment will be mailed on April 6 and the second in early July. Director Graham W. Watt of the Office of Revenue Sharing said the increased funds for 1973 result from use of more recent population data and actual rather than estimated 1972 state income tax collections.

PYRAMID WITH HOME IS COMMERCIAL CENTER QUEBEC (AP) A commercial center to be built here will" be shaped like a pyramid with an illuminated dome. It will provide 180,000 square feet of office and store space. The $5 million project Is expected to be completed later this year. The tides of the Bay of Fun- day are the highest in the world, rising as much as 70 feet. HIGH STREET Christian Church South High St.

Neosho, Mo. NORM AN MILLS, Minister. Sunday School a.m. WORSHIP SERVICE 10:45 A.M. Sunday Evening Service 7 P.M.

A typical ice storm occures when temperatures are below 32 degrees and rain or drizzle falls, freezing on impact and sheathing everything with a glaze of ice. Adult swordfish have no scales anywhere on their bodies. First Church of Christ Scientist WOOD McCORD STREETS Sunriav. II a.m. Subject: "REALITY" WEDNESDAY TESTIMONIAL MEETING 8P.M.

SUNDAY A.M. READING ROOM TUESDAY SATURDAY-2-4 P.M. THE PUBLIC IS CORDIALLY INVITED "DISCOVER THE DIFFERENCE' 9 BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH Corner of High and Sherman 601 South High St. WesVarnadoe, Pastor Sunday School .10:00 a.m. Morning Worship Sunday Evening Service 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday Prayer Service Ozark Mobile Homes Mfg. Co. Bank of Neosho Officers and Staff a Spicer Chevrolet Olds, Inc. Jim Spicer and Employes Stroop Plumbing And Heating Co. Neosho Building and Loan Association Skaggs Auto Supply Doug Skaggs and Employes La-Z-Boy Midwest Empire District Electric Co.

Office and Staff Mr. Swiss of Neosho Management and Employes Teledyne Neosho Mills Hardware Appliance McGinty Bros. Clothing Co. HaleMcGinty John Robison Branham Bros. Construction Co.

E. P. and Roy Branham Employes First National Bank Officers and Staff McClintock's IG A Market Management and Employes This message is published to encourage you and your family to have a deeper respect for living and doing the will of God. Each week the Newton County Ministerial Alliance will furnish a "Thought for Meditation" to encourage you to apply Christianity in your life. and get a spiritual lift for the whole week IF A MAN PRAYS RIGHT CAN HE LIVE WRONG? GROWTH TAKES TIME Colossians 2:6,7 "Just as you receive Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on living in him in simple faith.

Grow out of him.as a plant grows out of the soil it is planted in, becoming more and more sure of the faith as you were taught it, and your lives will overflow with joy and thankfulness." Today our approach to life is often one of speed whether it be on the highway or in daily living. We are in a hurry to complete one project in order to undertake another. Each day we want to complete as many tasks as possible. Youth growing up feel this pressure too. They want to complete school in order to be ready for a job.

At times their parents may be responsible for this approach even more than the youth. At times all of us are like the father who enrolled his son at a college in Ohio where James Garfield was president. The father asked Garfield if there was a shortcut that would get his son through college and out into the money-making world more quickly. Here was Garfield's answer: "Of course, but it all depends on what you want your boy to be. When God wants to grow an oak tree, He takes 100 years.

When He wants to make a squash, He requires only two months." God now calls us into deeper levels of maturity than ever before. Simply doing our heavenly Father's work is not enough. God wants us to be His people. Being must always precede doing. Sometimes this may mean waiting on the Lord giving ourselves time to grow and giving God time to accomplish His purpose in our lives.

As we live in union with Christ, slowly but surely we become strong and vigorous Christians. It just takes time to grow! (The story about James Garf ieW at Hiram College in Ohio is from "Daily Rev. Lloyd McKemmey, Pastor, Diamond-Granby United Methodist Church Diamond, Missouri, United Methodist Church Granby, Missouri, United Methodist Church THIS PAGE IS DEDICATED TO THE APPLICATION OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE SOLUTION OF HUMAN PROBLEMS AND IS PAID FOR BY THE PEOPLE WHO CARE PEOPLE WHO WANT VICTORY FOR GOD.