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1 NEWS WITH PICTURES THE SHREVEPORT JOURNAL SHREVEFORT-BOSSIER CITY LA SATURDAY JULY 15 1972 A THREE tj iu um iui iui imam confident Living 1 A Change of Bishops By Dr Norman Vincent Peale jp I Oklahoma Minister Optimistic Bishop Sheen Writes By Bishop Fulton Sheen you have faith" says the most reliable document ever written shall be Impossible" This means that you have it in your potential to overcome every difficulty facing you to change the slant of your thoughts and so reach goals that now appear impossible How often do you dully say do it?" If you repeat that negative thought to your subconscious mind often enough it will become a fact a defeating fact Then when you happen to come up ith a proposition that obviously has some possibilities and you hopefully think I can do it" our subconscious mind will answer that you You have trained it to answer negatively Your creative imagination has formed a picture of yourself as failing and so you do fail AND WHO WANTS to be a failure? The answer to that one is easy no one except maybe a few oddballs So get positive convictiosn into your mind about what you want to become Sharpen your goals Visualize your objective Think positively and get going Result? You will go far toward attaining those goals And don't think it's easy On the contrary it may be downright tough but if you truly believe that you can you can For Gail Fisher gal Friday to private eye Joe Mannix on the television series it easy at all got the pain to remind me of what had to go to get where I says Gail not through gonna go that for positive thinking! Gail was the first black person to make a national TV commercial on camera with lines That was over 10 years ago when blacks were rarely seen on television But Gail was determined to be an actress mother is a great lady who brought me up to know that there is no such thing as says Gail FATHER died when she was two and her mother barely managed to get through the Depression with five children to support They were poor but they made it Crossing NJ where we recalls Gail the reputation then of being of the poorest rural slums on the Eastern Seaboard' but I'm proud to say that none of us got three brothers and a sister was ever in jail or ever became a junkie or ever committed a crime And you can put that down to stamina and faith she taught us the will to win" mother helped her realize her positive visualization Faith was the spiritual camera that developed the picture she held in her mind She saw herself as a successful actress and she was determined to win She believed and worked hard and never quit and so she made it Many of friends discouraged her for there just weren't many black actresses in those days She worked in factories and she was lucky every once in a while landed a modeling job She had to skip meals to pay for acting lessons She joined the Young Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center to work with top flight instructors knew I was a good says Gail I wouldn't give Come right dowm to it that's the score: have a goal work believe and never give up! TODAY SHE is best known secretary- Six years in the role and an Emmy under her belt Gail hopes to go on to even greater things Of course her positive philosophy is bound to help her gain further successes all have to do the best we can and if I die tomorrow I believe done the best I could up to really something to be able to say! If you believe done the best you can and you plan to continue to give it all you've got then for sure it Believe there is something in you in every one of us that is greater than has even been shown or realized Believe me that is a fact a great big fact (All Rights Reserved) exaggerated chapters In books as "Jesus the Communist" the Hippie" the and "Jesus the Rock and Roll This unhistorical and fuzzy mentality makes religion the justification for any social or political or even immoral habit one espouses Priests ministers and religious claim that by immersing themselves in world problems tiiey are manifesting the presence in the This forgets that an official of religion in the inntor city docs not necessarily spiritualize it any more than the presence of a football player at a baseball game -develops a fondness for Joe Namath Presence alone means that a part of the--world is uniting with another part of the world Because I call myself I do not necessarily provide a Christian presence among the Mafia if I moved among them 1 lie flesh may be there but it does not follow' necessarily that the spirit is there TO RE in the world one has to be non-world to some extent The apostles were first sanctified and then they were sent Holiness is the condition of mission When the churches cease to be holy they cease to be interested in foreign missioners If 60 per cent of the Senate of the United Slates was made up of the "presence" of ministers rabbis and priests would the Senate be necessarily more religious and moral? Obviously all w'ould depend upon the spiritual character of the representative Non-praying clergy even up to 100 per cent w'ould not make a praying Senate One wonders if the disdain for religious garb and costume is not subconsciously an admission that since one does not reflect the spirit and consecration the garb once stowl for that therefore one should not show it Before one can a i the Presence" in the ghetto one must first have the Presence of the Divine within In many cases what religion needs is a return the spiritual ghetto where one makes his soul as the condition for making the social ghetto OLI) NEW BISHOP Bishop Aubrey Walton (left) retiring bishop of the Louisiana Conference of the United Methodist Church and Rev Finis Crutchfield pastor of the Boston Avenue United Methodist Church in Tulsa and newly elected Louisiana bishop are shown together in Houston this week following a banquet honoring Walton and three other retiring bishops from the South Central Jurisdiction (Journal Photo by Ed Pettis) First Centenary Bishop Is Elected By ED PETTIS Journal Religion Editor HOUSTON Tex have been years of tumult and change but they have been years of joy and Those were the words of Bishop Aubrey Walton here Thursday night as he reflected ujxm his 12 years as the first bishop of the Louisiana Conference of the United Methodist Church The occasion was a banquet honoring Bishop Walton and three other retiring bishops in the South Central Jurisdiction covering eight southern southwestern and mid-western states As be prepaml to leave the active ministry to return to bis home state of Arkansas Bishop walton said be was optimistic about the future of the church HE TOLD the more than 700 jurisdictional conference delegates attending the banquet have been good years rewarding years I have seen the church attain a spirit of unity and oneness in Bishop Walton was the first bishop appointed to the Inii-siana Conference after it was separated from the Arkansas-Louisiana Conference in I960 and undoubtedly he will lie best remembered for bringing alxwt what Dr Benjamin It Oliphint pastor of the University Methodist Church in Baton Rouge called liest merger lietween blacks and whites in the whole United Methodist DR OLIPHINT selected to present a brief address expressing appreciation to Bishop Walton at the banquet was simple but poignant in his words of praise Walton proclaimed a gospel of reconciliation and Christian the Baton Rouge pastor said he won the hearts of all in Reception Set Slireve City Baptist Church will hold a reception following the evening worship service Sunday to honor Rev Claude Spearman who has announced plans to resign as pastor after 12 years to enter the field of pastoral By EI) PETTIS Journal Region Editor HOUSTON Tex Dr Finis A Crutchheld elected here this week as the new bishop of the Louisiana Conference of the United Methodist Church is a man with a long record of past accomplishments and an optimistic tl for the future whole Christian movement including the United Methodist Church has turned awonderful the Tulsa Okla minister said in an interview at the Shamrock Hilton Hotel here Thursday night 1 1 i a banquet honoring four retiring bishops in the South Central Jurisdiction Among those four retirees was Bishop Aubrey Walton the man whom Dr Crutchfield succeeds and for whom he expressed great admiration IMMEDIATE the new bishop said to continue tne magniticent work of Bishop Walton "The Louisiana Methodist Conference is an exceptionally strong he added and I am extremely pleased to be identified with Dr Crutchfield pastor of Boston Avenue United Methodist Church in Tulsa for the past 12 years was the first bishop elected to fill the four vacancies at the eight-state jurisdictional conference here receiving the necessary 60 per cent of the vole on the third ballot IikS ELECTION was followed by those of Dr Robert Goodrich pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Dallas assigned to Missouri Dr Ernest Dixon assistant general secretary of the Program Council assigned to Kansas and Dr Don Holter president of Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City Mo assigned to Nebraska Dr Dixon is the first black elected to the episopacy by the geographic jurisdiction since the elimination of the former Central (black) Jurisdiction The new Louisiana bishop who plans to move to the state and begin his new duties about Aug 1 said he foresees a bright future for organized religion Discounting drops in membership in the United Methodist Church he based his optimism on what he called a committed body of HE SAID has been the of the for too long and he added that greater participation within the church led by young people has brightened the religious horiozns Dr Crutchfield along with the three other new bishops in the South Central Jurisdiction was consecrated to the episcopacy in a service Friday morning The service will be shown via videotape at 3:30 pm Sunday on KTBS-TV Channel 3 Now 55 the Oklahoma pastor will have 16 years to serve as bishop before reaching the mandatory retirement age PRIOR TO becoming pastor 12 years ago of the Boston Avenue Church one of the five largest congregations in United i Dr While visiting a prison a fine looking and well educated young man explained his sad plight lie had been in a monastery studying for the priesthood and in atxiut three years expected to be ordained lie began reading the religious pamphlets and weekly magazines of those days which were filled with the words "religionless into tiie orld" the basic social 1 ssue of our The more he absorbed these ideas the less was the apH'al of theology and prayer lie decided to no more time on the spiritual" but to plunge himself into the world Six months after he left he shot a man Now he said he was back in prison to see the value of contemplation The story points up two truths The first a recognition that perhaps religion has lxcn too introspective and much of pulpit preaching was nothing else than meteorologists talking to meteorologists THE OTHER truth is that religion has a mission to the world and this is inseparable from the concrete situation in which humans find themselves The psychotics would make religion cultic and separated from the world the neurotics would make it basically sociological Today there are less psychotics in the churches than neurotics if for no other reason than the popular mood of the times is on the side of involvement It is not too difficult today to notice that the youths who ridicule religion a 17 for neurotic reasons are the very ones who at 25 for psychotic reasons return to some extreme form of it Even in the area of ecuinenr ism some decades ago the psychotic mentality of exclusiveness and transcendence from concrete reality made any common discussion impossible Now with religion generally under attack and unpopular the neurotic mentality would seek any kind of merging even economic to save themselves INASMUCH AS the trend toward transcendence and separation is unpopular atlcn-i ion must Ik directed to religion which is identified with political and social action It is this extreme mentality which produces such 5 No country anywhere in the world any time in history has given the human being more of the chance to realize his noble potential as takes place within the confines of this Messed land We may take America for granted hut America docs not take us for granted Sometimes sulrtly and secretly sometimes openly and distinctly the freedom force of America works its spell upon the human personality "WE CAN CHECK RISING CRIME" Bronrfcost this stations including: ovrr mnny SHREVEPORT STATION KRMD Sunday at 9:15 AM iheTRUTH fhaf HPIIS A ChritHar $cinc Vudio Sr Contemporary Religion By ED PETTIS Journal Religion Editor HOUSTON Tex The Methodist Church assumed control of Centenary College in 1345 but for 127 years the Shreveport based institution failed to produce a bishop for its parent denomination That situation ended here this week when delegates to the annual South Central Jurisdiction Conference elected Dr Rolert Goodrich Jr pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Dallas as a bishop DR GOODRICH who was assigned to serve the Missouri Conference of the church is the son of the late Robert Goodrich Sr pastor of the First Methodist Church of Slirevc)ort from 1923 to 1930 and possessor of an honorary Doctor of i i i degree from Centenary in 1924 Centenary records show that the Dallas minister of the past 26 years attended the college from 1925 to 1928 and for one semester in 1931 although he did not graduate THE 1927 and 1928 editions of the the col- Crutchfield served as pastor of the McFarlin Memorial Church in Norman Oka In Norman 21 years ago he was the first white minister to integrate a previously all-white congregation in Oklahoma Today his Boston Avenue congregation in Tulsa includes many Indians some Negroes Oriental families and Latins Dr Crutchfield in keeping with his firm belief that the church must go into the world to minister has developed a community outreach program in Tulsa An integral part of this program includes counseling and group therapy work at the Oklahoma State Poniten-t i a where he personally participated on a 1 a basis Enjoyment of Life By Dr Hyman Judah Schachtel Dr Robert Goodrich yearbook list Dr Goodrich as a rnemlier of the Centenary football team and as a member of the Kappa Alpha Fraternity In 1928 the yearbook caption on Goodrich stated at the beginning of the season by an injury however he distinguished himself for his aggressiveness and all-around ability he played both guard and tackle with great That 1928 Centenary team was the only major college squad in the nation with a 10-garne schedule that wras undefeated and united HIS A I) I) while in college was 2222 Fairfield Ave site of the old Methodist parsonage in Shrevcnort As a student he was a member of the Centenary hand in 1926 and a memlwr of the debate team and business manager of club in 1927 In 1948 Centenary bestowed upo'i him the honorary Doctor of Divinity degree him an folk and pleaded for him to uphold that image Having been a chess buff for years and having a warm feeling for American masters in any field I was looking forward to the championship match However actions have dampened the enthusiasm of millions In fact instead of being a hero of Americans back home he has been a source of embarrassment THE ACTIONS of a chess-master thousands of miles away in Reykjavik Iceland may seem immaterial to many but what about the other Bobby Fischers in the world? There are many times when each of us acts in a manner even more irresponsible than he These are the times we must guard against if our influence is to count with those around us In short are our everyday actions an asset or a liability to our lives? What must you and I do in this modern America of ours to justify the blessing that w'e have been given? For one thing we ought to liove our country and what it means in terms of freedom of human rights of benevolent fraternity Ours is a nation unique in the history of the human race Somebody once called it melting Yes into this great nation have (lowed the life streams of many people and nations many cultures many religions many nationalities blending into the creation of what we today call Weary ol 1 he old persecutions and disabilities wounded by inhumanity to man suppressed by ancient tyrannies and bigotries the people of the earth have come here seeking freedom and opportunity searching for their place in the sun And all the weariness and the hurt and tiie wounds and the suffering are healed by that of which is part of the American genius lleie a human being has been given a chance to realize his highest potential To Ik sure this chance has come easier to some than to others but the opportunity is implicit in the very structure of our American philosophy of life 4 DR in a series No Summer Slump At New Life! Every Sundoy lout at West Road! is a one-day revival 70th A Meriwether Bolides their own fine ministers musicians ond singers many others slop at the Tabernacle on their way through Shreveport Sunday July 16 AM PM 'THE LATINOS" will be singing and playing in their own anointed style that has made them one of tiie top gospel groups in California and Their 18-ycar-old evangelist will preach at 7 PM T79 1 Sunday July 23 at 7 PM "THE GAUIEANS" another bilingual tnpnotch gospel qroup will visit the Tabernacle Seats far I000 Nuiery always1 July 18-21 "KIDS' KAMP" will be held on the Center's 53-ocre grounds for b( ys qirls 6 through 11 Still time! Coll 686-8484 Sat July 29 The "NEW LIFE SINGERS" will participate in Jesus Rally at Coot 'Shreve stadium Sunday July 30 AM A Dennis lawyer-preacher of Austin Tex will bring his unique message 5th Sun dinner-on-the-grounds Aug 13-18 YOUTH CAMP for ages 12-21 Joe Mulford director All teens welcome! ITS All HAPPENING at The New Life Center New home of "life at Weit 70th 8 Meriwether Rd Exit 1-20 en Buncomb Rd Sunday: 30 10 30 8 7 Wedneidayt: 730 Did you ever stop to consider what other people think of you when you off the This question struck me as extremely pertinent this week as a result of the world championship chess match between Soviet world champ Boris Spassky and American challenger Bobby Fischer which bogged down for the second time because of questionable tactics CHESS HARDLY seems a likely subject for a religion column however the actions of the American challenger most definitely provide food for thought After delaying the much-publicized match for nine days in a hassle for more money and over petty gripes over playing conditions Fischer finally started play Tuesday However after making what chess experts said was one of the plays ever made by the 29-year-old American went on to lose the first round in the 24-game match and then threw a i 1 d-1 i temper tantrum and refused to show up for match Then after he was forced to forfeit the second game he went on another tirade angrily blasting officials of the match and demanding that the forfeit be set aside and that his request for television and film cameras to be removed from the hall be granted AT ONE roiNT during the week officials all but got on their knees and begged Fischer to reconsider and get on with the match They termed Harrison Food Program Changed Special to The Journal MARSHALL Tex A request to change from the Commodity Food program in Harrison county to the Food Stamp Program with the stale bearing all costs has been voted by the county commissioners court The court instructed the county judge to contact Gov Preston Smith relative to the change with the understanding that if the Food Stamp Program was chosen counties were still required to buy stamps which in Harris in Harrison County would have meant an expenditure of $30179 HEAR SCOTT TATUM of Bible messages on "THE HOLY SPIRIT" Morning Worship 10:45 am Telecast on KTBS Channel 3 11:00 am BROADMOOR BAPTIST CHURCH 4110 Youree Drive Shreveport La week-long concert tour throughout the South presenting the message of Christ in song and testimony Rev I) (Step) Martin pastor at Calvary said the public is invited to Sunday concert CONCERT SCHEDULED The Calvary Teen Choir a p0rtjon of which is shown above of Calvary Baptist Church wju present a concert of traditional and contemporary sacred music at its home church here at 7 pm Sunday The 70-voice group makes an annual.