has repudiated the Bible as the Word of God and therefore has lost its moorings or standards, it is moving into these other areas and falsely claiming to speak for the mass of Protestants in these United States. Not only does the National Council urge that the legal drinking age limit be reduced to 18, but also they state that this is merely a stop-gap situation. Hopefully, they would eliminate all age limitations so that youngsters o f any age can drink legally whatever they want and all they desire. It is this same National Council of Churches leadership that is advocat ing the breakdown of law and order by encouraging young men to bum their draft cards, by having its leadership engage in the civil rights marches of recent years publicly and boastfully defying the laws of the land and inviting jail sentences to drama tize their illegal acts. It is the same National Council o f Church’s leadership that is encouraging close co-operation with the mur derers of Red China, and closer co-operation with Communist Russia and its God-denying ideology. Through its affiliate, the World Council of Churches, the National Council is encouraging a “ I hate America” program designed to take away all of the liberties that Americans hold near and dear to their hearts. Instead, the Council would substitute for them a world program in which Americans are supposed to give up everything for which we have worked to the “ have nots” and to live on the same level as the God-haters, Christ-deniers, and ignorant classes of people in other lands. In other words, the whole Communist line! The whole trouble is that all too many good people have raised their voices in very feeble protest against individual decisions on the part o f the National Council o f Churches. Those who have sought to bring together the whole mass of anti-Christiart and anti-American ideologies which are held by the leadership of the National Council o f Churches are accused of being ex tremists. “ Extremism” in every form is a despised word and concept in American life at the present time. Of course, this nation is simply another very successful effort on the part o f these world-be destroyers of our American way o f life. They have been very successful in getting all too many people to de nounce extremism, but the Word of God itself is an extremely extremist document. Sin is pictured as extremely heinous in God’s sight. Hell is depicted as a very extreme condition and location into which the unregenerate will be cast to remain forever and ever. The Lord Jesus Christ was extremely extremist when He said, “No man cometh unto the Father but by me.” He was very much an extremist also when He said to the Phari sees, “Ye are of your father, the devil.” Our Lord dealt most exclusively in the blacks and whites. There was nothing of the muggy, dismal grays with His statements which are so prevalent in the thinking of so many people today. Our Lord used “ the power o f positive thinking” and speaking 1900 years ago. It is nothing new whatever, but He also used “ the power o f negative thinking” 1900 years ago. Alas, that is not popular today! “ Thou shalt not” statements are quite readily understood by any right- thinking individual. The secular press more and more is taking issue with the findings and decisions and policies o f the National Council o f Churches. It is extremely regrettable that so many ministers and churches whose denominations belong to the Na tional Council o f Churches are afraid to speak out against the terrible trends which this liberal organization espouses. . . . “ Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing” (II Cor. 6:17). Hi]
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