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A Distinguished Layman Speaks Out I n t h e M a y , 1966 issue o f The Reader’sDigest an article appeared entitled "Should the Church Meddle in Civil Affairs?” Its author is Mr. J. Howard Pew, Chairman o f the Board o f the Sun Oil Company. He has been President o f the Board o f Trustees o f the General Assembly o f the United Presbyterian Church for the past thirty years, Chairman o f the National Lay Committee o f the National Council o f the Churches o f Christ in the U.S.A., and is a ruling elder in his local church at Ardmore, Pa. His con nections are mentioned because they reveal him not only as a man o f outstanding administrative ability but also one who has been in a position through the years to know and understand current trends in his own denomination and in all o f Protestantism. Although his ideas are couched in very polite terms, the entire tenor o f his article presents a stinging indictment o f his denomina tion and o f Protestantism as a whole. The following quotations from this article disclose a very disturbed mind because o f the apparent direction in which the "mainstream denominations” are moving. "I am concerned,” writes Mr. Pew, "that many o f the church’s top leaders today are sorely failing its members in two ways: (1) By succumbing to creeping tendency to down-grade the Bible as the infallible Word o f God, (2) By efforts to shift the church’s main thrust from the spiritual to the secular. The strength o f the church in the past has been its reliance upon the Bible as the basis o f ultimate eternal truth . . . the Scriptures have been accepted as the one changeless guide to faith, morals, life. The philosophy o f our day makes all truth relative. Standards, values, ethics, morals — these we are told are subject to change according to the customs o f the times. The effect o f that kind o f thinking has been devastating to the morals o f our times . . . and one brilliant but confused man said to me recently, 'The trouble is we are being asked to play the game o f life without any stable ground rules.’ ” Then Mr. Pew quotes the late Richard M. Weaver, Professor o f English at the University o f Chicago, who stated: "This decay
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