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The Christian Life Friday, July 7, 1972 PIQUA DAILY CALL 15 God Is The Author Of Freedom BY REV. A. R. BALDWIN Now that we have celebrated the Day of Independence once again and we are back to normal, it might be welt to ask ourselves, "What is freedom?" Does it mean that we are now free to shink any responsibility? Does it mean we are free from work and that the country owes me a free living? Does freedom mean that I can free myself from all law and obligation, that I can cast off all restraint; and do as I please? Does my freedom allow me to undermine our freedom by working to bring a communist state and to do away with all private enterprise and kick God out of the universe which he created? The reason we have so much confusion about our freedoms is that we have failed to study the historical and religious background which gave birth to our independence. Our founding fathers had a sure trust in God and that made them strong.

We have lost that faith and with it we have lost our strength. We are afraid to stand for the truth and to leave the issue in the hands of God who is the truth. Only when we get back to God and have the faith lhat God is on the side of truth and justice will we be strong and less afraid. We live in an age which is doing everything possible to raise our standard of education, but we don't know what lo do with knowledge when we get il. We can't seem to get people to apply what they learn to the problems which are at hand.

We study history and from history we learn that these nations which are concerned primarily about material things are bound to perish, yet we pursue the material and neglect the spiritual values which are needed to build a nationa and make it strong. We live in an age which follows political quacks and yet thinks itself too intelligent to accept and to study the word of God. There was a time when this nation revered the Bible and tried gear its and economic life according to its precepts. Our nation grew and propsered. We became strong and God's blessings seemed to rest upon us.

Today we vote for the person who promises the most for nothing. We support the one who has a glib tongue and who thinks he has the solutions to every problem. We place the destiny of our nation in the hands of man and we reap what we sow. We end up with a chaotic world. The freedom we enjoy in our country is not guaranteed to all generations to What we have gained can be lost and it demands that we think about what we have and how we got it so that we can learn how to preserve it.

God is the author of freedom. Without sure trust in God we begin to put our rust in men, and when we do that we ind that men let us down. We must get jack to God and his word if we are to a free people. Shapiro's Lawyer Asks Pleasant Hill WT- Dismissal Of Charges THE BIBLE 38. Joseph Meets Jacob old Jacob learned that his ivorite son Joseph was alive and a man of power in Egypt, he was willing to travel to Egypt to see him.

With his Dther eleven sons and their wives and children, making a total of sixty-six people, they made the trip from Canaan to the land of Goshen. Jacob sent Judah on ahead to alert Joseph to their arrival. Joseph in torn took bis chariot and rode out to meet his father. Many years had passed since they had last seen each other. Joseph had grown to hill manhood and had prospered.

Jacob had grown old and feeble but the last days of his life were happy because Joseph was still alive. Their meeting was a touching scene as they embraced. he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good white. And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou are yet alive." Gene sis 46:29,30. Joseph told his father that he would go and tell Pharaoh that his father and brothers had come to Egypt and his brothers were shepherds and had their sheep and cattle with them.

Pharaoh was pleased when he heard and told Joseph to give them the best of the land of Egypt. Unless Chess Match Of Century Will Begin Next Tuesday REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer lost the draw Thursday night, giving Boris Spassky the first move, and the world championship chess match start next Tuesday. Unless the American challenger or the Soviet champion pleads illness and gets another postponement. The confusion of the past week was summarized by the old woman selling cigarettes who asked in the beginning: "Fischer come?" Near the end it was: "Spassky go?" "I'm very pessimistic," Dr. Max Euwe said at 10 a.m.

At noon: "It's a very delicate situation." At 7 p.m., the president of the International Chess Federation sighed: "There's hope." That was Tuesday. It could have been any day in the garbled prelude to what -'chess lovers say is the match of the 1 'century Spassky of the U.S.S.R. vs. of the U.S.A. arrived early to wait for Bobby.

Saying "I came to play," he philosophically accepted the first postponement when Fischer didn't show. Later he demanded an apology or he play. At one news conference, one of lawyers said he'd come to say tie had nothing to say. Geller, Spassky's second, fielded questions with: "Kak Gavarit po Angliski," or as you say in English, "No comment." there's the "Eavesdropper," a man approaching middle age with a shdck of graying hair combed in careful disarray onto his forehead. He takes voluminous notes, for a magazine piece, he says.

On scraps of paper he records conversations he's overheard. He carries the scraps in a red plastic shopping bag as he moves soundlessly about the hotel lobbies. One final quote, from Gudmundur Thorarinsson, president of the Icelandic Chess Federation, who was under pressure from Fischer to give up a share of the gate receipts: Ohio Weather COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Here is the Ohio weather summary from the National Weather Service: A low pressure system in the upper Mississippi Valley will move toward the Great Lakes area today. With the southerly flow of air, temperatures in Ohio will reach the 70s and 80s today and Saturday. Night-time temperatures tonight will be wanner than the record lows registered around the state the last two days.

Overnight temperatures dropped into the 40s and lower 50s around Ohio. For the second consecutive morning, record lows for July 7 were set at Toledo, Zanesville, Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus and Marietta. Thundershowers will spread over Ohio today during the afternoon and evening today and Saturday. "I have worked for more than a year to get this match to Iceland. I would do many things.

But I will not bite into a sour apple." MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet prosecutor'soffice was asked Thursday to dismiss draft evasion charges against Gabriel Shapiro, a Moscow Jew who married a Cincinnati, Ohio, girl June 8. American trial lawyer Jacob Fuchsberg said the dismissal application was filed by Shapiro's lawyer, Sofia Kalistratova, and that a decision is expected next week. Fuchsberg, president of the Roscow Pound American Trial Lawyers Foundation in New York, arrived here Monday for a two-week visit designed to "develop a liaison between trial lawyers of both countries." Shapiro went into hiding last May rather than obey an order to appear for two months of military training. He reappeared to marry Judy Silver of Cincinnati in a religious ceremony at his parents' Moscow home and was arrested June 12 at Moscow airport after his wife left for home because her tourist visa expired. Shapiro spent 18 days in prison and was released on his own recognizance pending trial.

He faces a maximum sentence of one year in prison. Fuchsberg said Shapiro has begun procedures for applying for a Soviet exit visa to the United States. He also revealed that Mrs. Shapiro was married by proxy to Shapiro in a civil ceremony conducted by a Washington judge shortly after she returned home from Moscow. Although Shapiro has been released from prison, Fuchsberg noted his best man, Mark Mashpitz, was being held incommunicado in prison under in- vestigation on the same charges.

Fuchsberg said Mashpitz has not been allowed to retain a lawyer. Fuchsberg said a petition on the Shapiro and Mashpitz cases had been signed by 60 members of the U.S. Congress and delivered to Soviet authorities. State's Anti- Riot Law Is Challenged NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio (AP)-The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear in December a challenge to Ohio's riot laws.

The court said Thursday it will hear the appeal of James Russell, 39, an organizer for the United Mine Workers, and three other men who were convicted in connection with a disturbance Oct. 16 at the Hardy Coal Co. near Sugarcreek. The court also granted a temporary suspension of the prison sentences given the four following their convictions in Tuscaraways County Common Pleas Court. Defense attorneys appealed to the federal court on grounds the state's anti-riot laws were unconstitutional.

The four were convicted in connection with damage caused by several hundred strikers and sympathizers during a national coal strike. Mrs.C. E.Swancy Reporter Phone 676-2161 PLEASANT HILL-Rev. and Mrs. Duane Hamsey and children Kathy, Barbara, Michael, Nancy and Brian spent two days in the home of Rev.

and Mrs. Richard Witiner and family after attending the Church of the Brethren conference in Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Arnett have returned to their home after spending a week at Mt.

Morris, 111., at Camp Emmaus of the Church of the Brethren. They were guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Hare and children, Beth and Billy, who are employed there during Ihe summer. Hare as camp director and his wife as camp nurse.

Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Jones and 1 Jnda of Omaha, Nebr. spent the week at the camp visiting their parents. A number of persons of the Church of the Brethren attend the conference at Cincinnati on Sunday.

Forty persons rode on the chartered bus and 15 more came in their cars. The CBY of the Church of the Brethren will be picking up newspapers July 8. Contact any member of that group if you have papers. Three Killed DAYTON, Ohio (AP) persons were killed early today when two cars collided head-on at an intersection in suburban Kettering. The victims were identified as Gary Krapp, 17, of Dayton; Steve Bohardt, 22, and Larry Garrison, 20, both of Kettering.

Blue Cross Seeks Rate Increase CANTON, Ohio (AP)--The Ohio Department of Insurance is expected to 'decide in 30 days whether to grant a rate increase request made by the Blue Cross Hospital Plan, of Canton. Blue Cross wants the increase for its single and family plan policies in Stark, Holmes, Carroll and Tuscarawas counties. A hearing on the matter was conducted over the past two days by Kenneth DeShetler, director of the state department. DeShelter said his department "feels Blue Cross has an obligation to help control hospital costs" and that the days of "rubber-stamp" approval for rate increase requests are over. Within the past year Blue Cross has been denied two rate increase requests, and a third was granted a reduced rate.

Richard Parker, Bue Cross the hike would not affect group policies or policies extending coverage to persons over 65 years of age. Parker said the 7,630 contracts in question represent nine per cent of the Blue Cross policies in the four-county area, and the increases on the monthly premium for single person coverage would be from $12.95 to $16.25, and from $27.45 to $38.30 for the family plan contract. At Thursday's hearing Parker- pointed out that Blue Cross had a net loss o( $187,302 on the contracts from January 1971 through March 30, 1972. Message Of Our Religious Heritage Is Sponsored By The Following Business Firms: TASKER OIL SUPPLY UNION 76 PRODUCTS Ml S. Downing Ph.

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