Dick Gartrell is Director of Campus Services. Louise Pond, secretary to Mr. Gartrell, helps things run smoothly for her boss.
ment with many good things grew up in Chile, but while all that was going on, the Marxists came in and took the government. In the United States, Christians are almost totally failing to act where they are most needed — on the highest levels of public influ ence: In legislatures and other elective offices; in the mass med ia; in the great universities where most of the most influential people of the next generation are trained and where what they believe is shaped. Recently I saw a cartoon. It showed the main room of an old- fashioned Dutch house. Water was falling outside, and a leak had de veloped in the ceiling. The small boy of the family was standing on a table with his finger plugging the leak. A rather frantic looking man was standing at the front door, motion ing for the boy. But the father stood there and said, ''Well, the dike will just have to wait."
China. Many wonderful things were done. There were Christian schools and hospitals and churches and evangelistic meetings and or phanages and much more. And while Christians were busy about all of these good things, the Marxists were also busy. They weren't doing very much about hospitals, but they were going af ter the government. They worked at it until they got it, and when they got it just about all of those good things the Christians were working at were closed down or taken over. By failing to pitch the vision high enough, Christians allowed the forces of evil to steal the day. Oh but you say, it is too much to ex pect us to go after the govern ment. If it wasn't too much for the Communists, why is it too much for the Christians? Take Chile. There were great Christian movements in Chile in this century, some of the greatest in the world. A Christian establish
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