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PU R IT Y virtue is a top priority material in building a joyful and useful life right here. Let’s tell our children that “ vir tue” means “ strength,” “ virility,” “manliness” and “womanliness.” Let’s believe, practice, and teach it with color and life, rather than with long faced drabness. Someone has said that “ chastity is a challenge.” A challenge is an invita tion to a contest. Unless there is com petition, there is no “ contest.” Purity and promiscuity are fierce competi tors. That’s what makes the contest a challenge. Perhaps this is what virile young men like Joseph and Daniel felt—a challenge to this moral contest. Young people- will more likely be challenged to root for the side of purity when they realize the worth of the value which chastity guards. Ch a s t i t y g u a r d s God-given love. Chastity guards human love in action toward a person of the opposite sex united in holy matrimony. Chastity guards the dedication of two people to each other that thrills everyone who watches a bride and groom stride joy fully away to face the challenge of a life of love together. Chastity guards the tender looks of pride and devotion when the young father looks at his first bom and its wonderful mother. It guards the look of joy and satisfac tion when the young mother knows she has made “ daddy” proud and happy. Chastity guards the unblem ished oneness that husband and wife share in the marriage embrace. It guards memories from stinging regrets when grief and sorrow enter the pic ture. Chastity is the virtue that keeps conjugal love holy. Married love is holy. It is a mysterious symbol to God and man of becoming one in love and unselfish dedication. This is the mature love which chastity protects. Chastity is a challenge— one of the finest contests of life. As parents, Sun day school teachers, and ministers, let’s honestly face these challenges with our youth. Let’s not be hypocrit ically pious. Let’s not prove our own purity by down-grading love and pas sion. Let’s acknowledge, realistically, the power of sex, its beauty and good, when controlled and contested. Let’ s help our youth root for the winning team in life’s greatest contest.
A y o u n g couple came into my office to discuss their engagement and marriage. Later, during a private interview, the girl said, “ Sometimes I love him and sometimes I don’t.” She continued, “ I’m everything to him. I cook for him, wash his clothes, drive him to work, comfort him—in fact, do everything but sleep with him, and we’ve even done that many times.” Prior to this interview, two married couples had come for counseling be cause of the emotional and spiritual effect of having traded partners for a weekend. Another couple said they were going to be secretly married some months before their church wed ding because they couldn’t refrain from “ living together.” Obviously, the processes of therapy in these cases were long and involved. Our concern in this column is an ex amination of the Christian viewpoint of chastity and virtue. A ll of these persons, whose lives had become so involved, had grown up in churches and in professedly Christian homes. Can it be that as parents, ministers, and church we are missing the point in the presentation of morality? The poet Swinburne challenges Christ: “ Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from Thy breath.” Many Americans feel that Christianity has taken the color out of life and has left only a pale dullness which, to them, seems to have virtue. Even the church has made virtue and chastity seem pale and unreal. Christians concede to the immoralists that vice is exciting and virtue is dull. Instead of positively portraying the real attractiveness of virtue and the challenge of purity, we appeal to our hope of eternal reward as an incentive to avoid the “ joys” of immorality. We tell our youth that “ somehow” God will reward them in heaven if they sacrifice promiscuity for purity. We shake our heads won dering how “ somehow” can ever be! It isn’t Christ who has made purity pale. It is the modem, half-hearted Christian attitude. Of course, the thought of eternity, heaven, and hell will help to guide our lives and keep us straight. But perhaps we do not do enough explaining that
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