LISHMENT" tional church, that many feel a sense of guilt in still being related to it. It is almost out of fashion to belong. Let it be affirmed at once that right-minded Christians have never looked with favor on the state of living "at ease in Zion." To defend the organized church is not to be blind to its many shortcom ings. The Lord Himself when on earth foretold that the church would witness a mingling of true and false. Those who are deserting the established church do not pro claim loudly or otherwise that they have at last found that which is more relevant, meaningful, or the summum bonum. An institution is the embodiment of the cause it promotes. No one wants to plead for institutions for institutions' sake. There are those of the younger generation (and they are not the on ly antiestablishmentarians) whose aim is to destroy institutions. Being too immature, they have neither the insight nor the means to re build and replace. Do they even manifest the will to build another viable culture or other institutions? Personal independence is the prize they will not readily relinquish. If the establishment is in the way of full realization of personal unlim ited freedom, then it must go. All ethics and morals are relative, to be judged by the predilection of the moment (situation ethic with a vengeance). For them specific time and place are not essential for wor ship. The well-known cliché: "I can worship as well in the out doors as in a church" needs only the question, "But do you?" to de molish its false facade. The immature reason that de pendence is a mark of servitude and independence is a sign of ma turity, never realizing that the great est growth is achieved when we Page 5
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