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-12 The Boston Globe Monday, April 24, 1967 fYrsf lay Minister Named Here By GEORGE M. COLLINS GUb KcliflM Bwrter The congregation of historic Arlington Street Church set a precedent Sunday in recognizing the role of the laity in the ministering of a church to its congregation and its community. In a special corporation meeting following the morning worship service, church members voted to ask G. Robert Hohler of 28 Ather-ton Brookline, to "accept the honorary distinguishing of him as minister of the congregation." The meeting was called by the church prudential committee and the minister, Rev. Dr.

Jack Mendelsohn. Discussion during the meeting made it clear that Hohler was not being called or ordained as a professional clergyman. "It has been our concern for some time that the traditional concept of the ministry must be broadened to include the dedicated layman," Dr. Mendelsohn said. "In the early days of the Unitarian Church it was not unusual for a church having the congregational polity-such as ours to call out and set apart laymen for special reasons.

In this century this practice has not been followed. "But I have long felt that the definition of the ministry must be broadened to indicate the role of the dedicated layman as well as that of the professional clergyman. We desire through this vote to symbolize and dramatize this new role." Hohler, 34, is the executive secretary of the Unitarian Uni versalist Assn. Laymen's League. A life member of the Arlington Street Church, he has served as a church school teacher, choir member, music committee member, chairman of the prudential committee, and moderator of the congregation.

Dr. Mendelsohn stressed that the "ministry of the modern church covers both the work of the clergyman and the dedicated layman. "Looking to the future we must acknowledge very sub-stantially the role of the laity in ministering to the congregation and the Hohler and his wife, Barbara, have three children, Julie, 10, Cynthia, 12; and Robert, 15. I v. Young Driven to Self -Hatred, Priest Says but skeDticism about the or will have much in the way of accomplishment." "None of the faiths that are offered to them seem to-offer much of a reason." They respond to orthodoxy, said, with "Your wisdoms haven't worked.

Your orthodoxies have made a mess of the world. Your faith is quite irrelevant." "Their faiths, the traditional faiths, are of precious little help to them in interpreting their lives," Fr. Gree ley said. the parents would be failures as parents," said Fr. Greeley.

"Our long-run hope," said Fr. Greeley, "is the generation raised on this 'conditioned love won't raise their children in the same way." Fr. Greeley's talk centered on the identity crises facing the "New Breed," specifically Catholic college graduates. The other three are: search for faith and meaning combined with profound skepticism of orthodoxies; quest for community involvement ganizations already in effect and desire to serve but the skepticism about the commitment involved. Youth, he said, "finds it extremely hard to find a set of systematic explanations for the phenomena in the world today." It's tendency is to leave the chaos in the world outside to itself and to find meaning in their domestic and private sphere.

They really don't expect their lives This was a model Seder ceremony for children at the Emunah Temple in Lexington. (Edward P. Lincoln Photo) SYMBOLIC CUPS Albert Oster, 7, points out to his sister, Annette, 6, one of four cups of wine used in the Seder ceremony to express joys of freedom. Passover Becomes Ecumenical If taifar order of procedure, the readings and blessings for the holiday, which commemorates the emancipation of the Hebrew slaves from bondage in Egypt. This will be done by Hope Stuart, 17, and she will be answered from the Haggadah by Al Albend.

All the male students will wear yarmul-kas. Fr. Lorden, with the permission of the Most Rev. Metropolitan John Wendland, exarchate of North and South America, will speak of the plight of the nearly 3 million Jews living in the Soviet Union who are not permitted to observe their religion as are other religious groups, and he will offer a prayer that this condition be charged. Rabbi Samuel Perlman is B'nai B'rith Hillel counselor at Emerson.

A Seder service will be conducted in most Jewish homes tonight and Tuesday evening and in a number of synagogues, especially on the second night, for those who, for whatever reason, do not have one at home. By LEO SHAPIRO BUR Reporter Erev Pesach, the eve of the Passover, the festival of deliverance which wil begin at sundown today, found a group of Emerson College students preparing Sunday for a unique Sedar service to be attended by 75 to 80 of Varying faiths. They were preparing and cooking food, with turkey as the main item, for tonight's Sedar, in the kitchen of Governor's House, at 150 Beacon home of the late Gov. Al-van T. Fuller.

The students are members cf Rev. Gregory J. Lorden's course in Philosophy. Fr. Lor-den, a member of the Russian Patriachal Church under the Moscow patriarch and an assistant priest at St.

John the Baptist Albanian Orthodox Church in South Boston, is teaching "Comparative Religion." Originally it was planned to conduct a mock Seder as a class project. Then, because of the holiday, Fr. Lorden suggested that a real Seder be held at his home on the By LAURA HOLBROW BUS Kcvorter Modern youth almost universally faces a crisis of self-hatred caused by the over-competitive American way of life, a Roman Catholic priest said Sunday at Emmanuel College. "Self-hatred is epidemic in American life," Rev. Andrew M.

Greeley, sociology lecturer at the University of Chicago, told nearly 900 students and parents attending the annual parents' Weekend Luncheon. Fr. Greeley traced the caues of self-hatred to the constant ranking, comparing with others" from the first tooth to finally the size of the funeral when a person is put back in the ground." "The problem is not that we have competition," he said, "but a level of competition which is intolerable for a healthy people." He illustrated with an example: toddlers who are tested for nursery school entrance. One school, he said, wants only toddlers, three-year-olds, that are college material." "The training for competition in middle and upper class families," he said is conditioned love." This is love given or with-held, according to a child's accomplishments. If a child can not accomplish, he is denied parental love and then feels and acts out his self-hatred.

Fr. Greeley stated that parents will readily admit a child's moral drawbacks, but never his intellectual shortcomings. A parent more readily believes his son to be lazy rather than slow. He cited a doctor who forced his son beyond the child's ability toward medical studies when the child was better equipped for a job as an electrician or the like. "He had to be a success or COLOR TVs til fll Stop in at Shawmut today and discover Supercheck.

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of The National Shawmut Bank of Boston FR. GREGORY LORDEN a participant dishes and utensils especially reserved may be used or made ritually acceptable through designated methods. Fr. Lorden scrubbed the floor of the kitchen, and the students scrubbed the stove, which hadn't been touched for 15 years. Tonight as in Jewish home, the youngest in the company will ask the traditional four questions as to the meaning of the holiday as contained in the Hagga-dah, the booklet giving the What is this plane? "It was in 'The Perils of the spokesman revealed.

and if the people of the world are interested, America is presenting a thing called "Cowboy Hardware." This consists of real-life six-guns, a saddle, spurs and branding irons used by cowboys in the Wild West. Those are the items the world press scoffed at. Even a personal appearance by an American astronaut, Lt. Col. Thomas Stafford, failed to halt the laughter.

The foreign press did not mention the display of art U.S. Expo '67 Exhibit Draws immimitffliiiflj ELECTRONIC EXPERIENCE Ooylsfon St. w)t. sr. Dcstcn 'Enti' 'Boyltton' M8T $tn.

Laughs five-story-high painted banners which hang from the ceiling of the bubble. The best features of the pavilion as shown Sunday was the premiere of a 20-minute film created by Polaroid Camera Corp. of Cambridge in conjunction with the government, showing in a unique and artistic effort, American children at play. The building itself, the brainchild of Cambridge Sevens Associates, of Cambridge, a geodesic, ultra-modernistic bubble-like structure, is also an attraction. So is the space exhibit.

lUSt TVs S1ERE0S a INSTAUtOI Jamaicaway for his nearly dozen Jewish students who couldn't get home for the observance. The idea spread among the other students, and Fr. Lorden joined in the enthusiasm. He told his friend Nathan Pearlman, chairman of the Religious Committee for College Youth of the Associated Synagogues of Massachusetts, about it. The organization offered to hire a kosher caterer to serve the meal, but the students, particularly the Jewish ones, would not hear of it.

They would prepare the utensils and the food themselves as they saw their parents do it. Fr. Lorden received instructions as to the procedures, both in the preparation and in the holding of a Sedar service. Food supplies were made available, and Rabbi Abraham J. Halb-finger, representing the Kashruth Commission of the Associated Synagogues and the Vaad Harabonim, which has direct charge, supervised the Kashruth.

On the Passover, only is also a huge (more than 6 feet high) display of Raggedy Ann dolls. The only display item which outtotals the hats and the dolls is a thing called "Bird Decoys." There are hundreds of these wooden creatures including, and again quoting press kit, "the Flying Brant, a Flying Black Duck, a Flying Blue-hill and a variety of sitting decoys and shore birds." In another area is "Indian Adornment." It shows Indian personal decoration and, again quoting from official press releases, "made up of bear claws, porcupine quills, bird feathers, etcetera." MOVIES, OF COURSE If the visitors wish to see American ingenuity in action, we are displaying "devices used in the home and range" from cherry pitters and apple parers to sewing machines and fly traps. Included here are turn-of-the-century washing machines, can openers, foot warmers, grape seeders, mousetraps and stringbean slicers. The second platform in the 20-story-high bubble is devoted to that all-important part of American life, "the movies." By the scores, visitors are confronted with 6x6 foot faces of cinema idols John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Rudolph Valentino, William S. Hart, et b1.

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Some were indignant, some ashamed, some hysterical. Because the United States despite its most impressive, Bay State-created, bubble-like building, despite its space exhibit showing two space capsules, lunar photographs and models, despite its $9.3 million price tag has somehow missed the boat. Almost 70 nations are participating in Expo during the next six months, all seeking to show their way of life, their progress, their accomplishments. These are just a few of the displays shown Sunday. One may see a display of guitars of such eminent people as Elvis Presley, the Mon-kees, Burl Ives, Peter, Paul and Mary, Jay and the Americans, the Beach Boys and the Kingsmen.

There are more if you wish to see them, and under each, in gigantic scrawl, is the autograph of the artist. There is also a thing called "America through its hats." This shows a cowboy hat, baseball player's cap and businessman's fedora. The press release given to the newsmen of 70 countries said, "And almost 300 other types of headware worn by men of different regions, occupations and personalities. They testify to the enormous diversity and countless activities of the American male population." Not far from the hats is an exhibit of dolls a history of dolls, if you will, since the early 1800s. If the dolls in themselves are not enough to stir Interest, there TERMiTi CONTROL IXTERMINATINO fitneiM iMciAiim unci tin C.ll Over 68,000 cash prizes in the greater Boston area.

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