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I GLOBE- GAZi Mini rity, lawk Minister big factor Southern Baptists study federal aid freedom in fight for wmJimSmMV 'A I 1 i 1 fc i r.v i i bytedans to the side of the Rev aid. lhe conclusion so far: no By BILL RAWLINS conclusion. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -Southern Baptists, torn between olution. As president of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton, his teaching had a strong influence on James Madison.

Nine ex- It boils down to "how far separated you want church and state to be," said Franklin Owen a need for money for their schools and keeping church and Princetonians sat in on the draft of Lexington, president of state apart, have reached the midway point of a two-year By TOM HENSHAW AP Religion Writer He had a jutting jaw and a large pugnacious nose and he liked nothing better than a good fight in defense of the principles he held most dear. His name was John Wither-spoon, a minister of the Presbyterian Church and the only ordained clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence. Over the years Witherspoon's name has become lost amid the glitter of the giants of independ the Kentucky Baptist Conven tion. study on the question of federal ing of the U. S.

Constitution. Witherspoon became a fighting preacher early in life. He was arrested a number of times in his native Scotland for his attacks on the so-called moderate wing of Presbyterian-ism. He considered himself or As a Baptist newspaper editor put it: "We came with the answers and left with the 1768 at the age of 42 and an American the moment I landed." Witherspoon laid down -Jus thoughts on civil and religious liberties in a sermon to Princeton students a month half before the signing of Ihe Declaration: "There is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost and religious liberty preserved entire." After the Revolution, Witherspoon turned his sharp penNo the task of helping the unstabja young union to find its feel-particularly in the sphere Jbl church and state. GIRL SCOUTS AGE The Girl Scouts of the.U$A was founded in 1912.

questions." The observations came during the first national conference of enceJohn Hancock, Benjamin thodox in an age of religious upheaval. Franklin and the Adamses, the Baptist Education Study Task. Federal aid was not the John and Sam. His theological writings He doesn't deserve that fate. earned him calls to the presi dency from Dundee, Scotland; Witherspoon, with his eloquent only question studied, but it developed the only real controversy.

The 275 Baptist leaders at the conference agreed to wait church is at 331 W. State, an old building which will be vacated later in the year when the new church is completed. This view is from the dynamic preaching, possibly didpublin, Ireland; Rotterdam, more than anyone else to swing Holland, and New Jersey. WORK PROGRESSES The new Church of the Nazarene building" on the southeast corner of Highway 18 (foreground) and Carolina has assumed much of the final appearance it will have from the outside. The congregation's present the majority of American Pres-I He accepted the latter call in until a similar meeting next June for any decision on federal aid.

Even then, the decision will not be binding on any school. I Six of 22 study groups at the convention agreed to let each educational institution make its own decision. This, however, apparently will RABBI L. M. KAPLAN fall short of effecting a solution, for several reasons: 1.

Most of the 73 educational Rabbi plans institutions, including 54 col 1 ir i x. 4 4 i I -r, JT4 to move to Tennessee Rahhi Leonard M. Kaplan is having Mason City to begin duties as rabbi of Congregation R'nai Sholom in Blountville, leges and universities, which Southern Baptists own, are controlled by separate boards of trustees and owned by state Baptist conventions. The state conventions allow the colleges varying degrees of autonomy, but many Baptist college officials have complained that their slate conventions exercise veto rights particularly where federal aid is concerned. 2.

The Southern Baptist Convention itself, which owns only its theological seminaries, voted at its recent national convention to oppose federal aid. 3. Where federal aid has been accepted by Baptist schools, it is no problem. Where it has not been and is desired it almost always has been because of opposition from the Southern or state conventions. Tenn.

He has been rabbi of Adas Israel Synagogue in Mason City since February 1965. Rabbi Kaplan said he plans to leave Mason City following the Fourth of July holidays and assume his new duties a short time later. EDWARD KENT (DUKE) ELLINGTON Jazzman goes to church The have about 120 families, Rabbi Kaplan said, compared with about 40 families here. Although the synagogue is located in Blountville. it serves Bristol, Johnson City and Kingsport, Duke says, "It was an oppor Edward Kennedy Ellington, Dr.

Felix Robb who soon known to millions of Americans tunity to give my God-given ih steps from his post of president as Duke Ellington, has for al talent to religious service and i most half a century been a force to say something with my music each cities similar in size to in contemporary American of George Teabody College, a non-Baptist school in Nashville, to head of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, to someone else concerning! Mason City. music. Little known is his deep While here Rabbi Kaplan was religious faith. active in the Mason City Min Reared in a devout Christian home, he says, "I didn't go to isterial Assn. and served on the opened the conference with a plea for federal aid.

"If Baptists really believe in faith." The theme of his first concert was the first four words of the Bi ble, "In the beginning, God Since his first concert last fall, he has given five other I 'r i 1 vj one church each Sunday, I went to two. (His mother was a Christian higher education," he sacred concerts in churches in said, "they must double, triple and even quadruple financial support to their schools." Baptist and his father a Methodist.) I was raised in love, and love is the number one aura of God." this country and one in England. And there are requests for more. During the next year, this re Early in life he read the Bible port will be discussed by nearly Sunday closing committee. No replacement at Adas Israel Synagogue has been announced.

Rabbi Kaplan, a native of the Bronx, New York, came here from Hyattsville, near Washington, D. C. A nuclear physicist as well as a rabbi, he was engaged in research work there. Rabbi Kaplan received his theological training at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, New York, and Mirrer Yeshivos in New York four times, and "What I learned 10,000 Baptists meeting in 200 FAITH AND SCIENCE NEW YORK David helped me adjust my perspec churches throughout the nation; Sarnoff, chairman of the board of the Radio Corporation of in 24 regional seminars across the nation next January through March and, without doubt, on college campuses and in church tive in the world." That perspective has been good, and through his music he has given an expression recently to his faith. It came about when Dean Bart- lett of The Grace Cathedral in America, foresees a growing "upsurge of spiritual vitality" as a "reaction against current cynicism and materialism." In a new biography of him by Eugene Lyons, the pioneering electro nics executive says: "Science begets humility." and in Jerusalem, Israel.

He was ordained in Isael with ordination both at the seminary congregations throughout the country. The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in America, has 11.7 million members. San Francisco asked him to compose and conduct a sacred Do You Understand and by the Chief Rabbinate of concert in his own personal style. the state of Israel. the 'Bible remains the world best seller year after year miihons within reacr ich of the.

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