ONE MAN'S COURAGE

wAchievements Of A Nation

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appears in name is connected, interesting- ly, with a book. He was the mm- lster of Moses in Exodus 24:13, and one of the minority group of spies sent into Canaan. As the time of Moses' death drew near, he formally appointed Joshua his successor. Throughout his life. Joshua remained a courag- eouS, God-fearing. unblemished military leader of Israel.

There has always been some- thing quite mysterious about the death and burial of Moses. Here was a man, a great leader, to whom entire preceding books had been devoted. Yet his death and burial take just two verses - a total of 46 words! He was 120 years old at his death: and, even today. no man knows where he was buried.

it has been argued that Moses was buried by Jehovah, placing him in the same category with Enoch and Elijah, to prepare for him a condition of body'and soul resembling these two men of God. In light of the fact that Moses appeared with Enoch at the time of the Transfiguration (Luke 9.30) this may be true.

of Joshua ushers l3 hto another great period of la- raelite history and is a continua- tion of the book of Deuteronomy. as the opening vense indicates.

Prior to Moses’ death, Joshua

had had words of exhortation Igrou

and guidance from Moses, but

now he receives a commission,

direct from God. The words of the Lord here are but a repeti- tion of earlier promises made to Israel, the continuing presence of God, and, because of His pre- sence, continual victory. Most of to es c a a

conditional, for in exchange for His presence and ctory. God commanded obedience and faith ‘from the Israelites,

Joshua was to prove the first great student of the Bible. His book is saturated with referen- ces to the Law of Moses, from which he constantly sought ad- vice. He always admonished his people to adhere to the Law of Moses. and to the Book of the

Law.

Joshua did this in obedience to God. For God had told him that the secret of his strength and guarantee of his courage would lie in doing all according

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his commission from , Joshua informed the Israelites of their impending entry into the Promise Land. He sent out spies, who brought back favor- able reports.

Then Joshua moved his people to the Jordan River which he miraculously caused to become damm up. All the people, and the priests bearing the Ark of the Coven a n t, passed over, “standing firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan.”

Other miracles followed. The walls of the besieged city of Jeri- cho fell flat at the sound of trumpets blown by priests and the shouts of the people. After deliberate preparation, every- thing in the city was utterly des-

Immediately after receiving the r

n . r this the city was left in ruins for five centuries.

After hie Promised Land had

troyed and Jericho burned to the bee

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been somewhat occupied. a few tribes returned across the Jor- dan to occupy land previotu assigned to them.

Now nearing the end of his life, Joshua felt compelled to give one final exhortation to the Isra- elites before he left them, summarizes their conquests under his guid a n c e, but reco- gnizes that they were gifts of God. These gifts of victories and blessings would continue only as long .as the Israelites served God with sincerity and obediene

The people pledge this- obedien- ce. but Joshua dies. still sus- pecting many secret idolator-s among his people. How right he was is revealed in the ve ry first sentence following the rec- ord of his death in the Book of Judges.

e travel arrangements.

mammals. Sat. Aug. 29, 1964. 'I

made for new priests to come

to Cuba. The latest was a con- 1

tingent of six Diocesan priests from Belgium.

The government .has de nated Jose Felipe Carneado, a lawyer and head of the Prensa Latina news agency, as respon- sible for church-state matters. Through him, church met—flour for hosts, cloth for

abits, transportation and

Church and government offi- cials agree that conditions vary and that acts against the church are often the result of petty of- ficialdom on the local level.

GO TO STATE

Two bastions of Catholic strength surmount most loc anti-church obstacles by going directly to the government.

Archbishop Perez Serantes of Santiago derives his strengt‘ from his personal stature as man and preiate and from be- ing credited with saving Cas-

RC Church Makes Slight Headway

By ARTHUR JONES

HAVANA (AP)--The Roman Catholic Church in Cuba is ex- periencing difficulties, despite an apparent “hands-off" policy by Premier Fidel Castro and an official government promise of religious freedom, '

The church appears to have made some slight headway from its situation 10 months ago. But it is still dependent to a large. extent on the Cuban government’s policies as to how in better conditions could ome. . it is through Castro — who rarely speaks publicly of the church—that arrangements are

tro's life. He intervened with the Batista regime to prevent execution of the survivors of the Castro-led attack on Mon- cada Barrac July as, 1953. The archbishop did not know Castro but was concerned with the fate of a band of young men facing dea .

Msgr. Cesar Zacchi is treated as papal nuncio although in ac- tuality he is only Vatic an charge d’affaires. He moves in diplomatic circles and the high-i est echelon of .the Cuban revo- lutionary government. Catho- lics, lay and cleric. in trouble, usually can get their problems solved quickly through him

Enemies try to discredit him as “the Red monsignor."

There are Communists who would prefer to see the church eliminated from Cuban life, and Catholics who would prefer to see a “church of silence" rather than one coexisting with a Com- munist regime.

They're newcomers. They moved into the neighbor-

hood just this is the

in our church. Very soon they’ll be

making

joining in many worth‘

while church activities. Mr. organization, or fund-raisin may find her place in one

women, or discover that she loves to teach. settle happily into Sunday School classes suited to their

oup. Above all. this young family will share in the secure feel- ing of Christian fellowship and spiritual well-being that

comes from serving God

better people, better neigh- _

bors and better citizens

because of their decision

to put; God’s work first.

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viewing Canaan from the top of Mt. . J cums-ids the Israelites to tail and the Israelites conquer the them Nebo, he dies.—Dwieronomv 24 to enter .-J city—Joshua 2—6.

MEMORY VERSEz—“And the people said lotto Joshua, the Lord

Murder Of Jews

Food For

By CARDINAL McGUIGAN

The 'murder of some 6,000,000 Jews during World War II in a socalled Christian country giv- es the Christian food for pro— found thought. More exactly, it should force him to re-evaiuate his attitude towards the Jewish people.

How could such a terrible crime happen within the context of a Christian culture, within a a Divine Revelation wh i c h so clearly teaches the monstrosity of race hatred or discrimina-

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In actual fact, we really do not have to think too hard to imagine how this could happen.

We have only to examine ev- ery phase of our national life in the U.S. and Canada, 1964, to

of spiritual values.

church, neither democ- racy nor civilization can

tend services regularly and support the church. They are: (1) For his own sake. (2) For his children’s

of his community and

sake of the church itself, which needs his moral and mate- rial support. Plan to go to church regu- larly and read your Bibi

Church Murals Are Uncovered After 300 Years

NEW YORK fAP)——Not long ago. in .the old cathedral Cuernavaca, Mexico, a little- known chapter in Christian his- tory came to light.

Workman were scraping paint from the cathedral walls. pre- paratory to renovation. As suc- cessive layers were removed, a set of murals began to emerge. Further cleaning showed the murals cover huge expanses of wall space on both sides of the cathedral. They lay hidden for perhaps 300 years.

And they depict a religious tragedy, not in Mexico, but on the other side of the world—in Japan. It is a scene of execu- tion, of Japanese and Euro- peans dying by crucifixion or beheading. The contours of the

round in one mural strongly suggest that the site was a hill

last week, and ir first Sunday friends, and Jones may develop his talent for g, or youth leadership. His wife

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:gzani-mgg why w. Martyr’s Mount, near Nagasaki. . This is the story:

ery person Should at Toward the end of the 16th

century. the rulers of J apan, be. ing anxious for trade with the

in SIN

Thought

know how much men can come to hate other men because of the accidents of skin color or racial

origin.

'It is too easy to transfer guilt to the Germans or to the Nazis. The same elements of race hat-

Americans and we have not been very responsive to injus- tic

e. Albert Camus once said “What the world expects of Christians is that Christians speak out, loud and clear, that they should voice their con- demnation in such a way that never a doubt, never the slight- est doubt. could rise in the heart of the simplest man."

Too long have we been silent both in our pulpits and in the pews on the many social injus- tices perpetuated in our midst: the aged, the poor, the Negro, the ex-convict, the Jew.

Too long have we put up with the latent racist and antiSem- lie in our midst with the insid- ious “I like Negroes, but..." "if like Jews, but..."

These are nothing more than subterfuges to hide the stench

red are in the heart ofNorth ti

our Godwill

of dung rotten and un - Christian in our very souls. Our

Lord told us that the Church C

will always have its sinners, and that we can all say llmn'li

But what really separates us from Christ in the profoundest sense of the word is hate or un- concern about the fate and for- tune of our fellow man.

St. John of the Cross was cor-

rect when he said that at the end of this life we shall be judged as we have loved. And love becom- es a poor sentimentality when we refuse, out of complacency, to translate that love into ac- on. Action for our brothers is the only valid way to judge whether we love our thers. One thing should be clearly unders t o o d about the Christian attitude to- wards antiSemitism.

If ever there was a stain on the conscience of the Christian it must surely be our scandal- ously ambiguous attitude toward th ew. Christian‘s today slow to realize that hatred of the Jew has been fostered in a cer- tain type of facile theological reasoning that makes the Jew a

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God—Joshua 21:43—24:33.

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Lord's blessings on Israel. elbow!

to follow the Law and shy

to

we serve, and His voice will we obey.”-—Joshua 2/194:

nation has existed too long in the unspoken level of many a hristian conscience.

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It is hoped that the Second Vatican Council will end possible controversy point in its coming session in September

We must go further, though, in our theological evaluation of the Jew. We must say that one of the greatest sins a g a in hrist is the sin of anti-Semit- m.

Somehow we have practically forgotten that Christ an 12; mother were Jews; the twelve Apostles were Jews and the be ginnings of Christianjy were Jewish in origin.

We carry Israel in our midst or more precisely in the words of St. Paul "Israel carries us as the stem carries the branches.” V We who are from the Gentiles. were called by God but we were inserted into the original vine of Israel. The Old Testament, the Prophets, the saints of the Old

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Covenant, the fulfilled promises of ancient Israel all are bonds which unite us to the chosen peo-

ple in an intimate and mystu: ious way. It is no wonder that Pius was able to say that we are spiritually Semites. It is no won- der that there are few sins s 9' basically un-Christian as an

on this Semitism

What is asked of Christiangi therefore, is something very lo,-r gical and reasonable. de— fence of the Jewish community, the fight for the rights and dig; nity of the Jew should be, with- out debate or question. the sclh imposed task of the Christiasf LEAD -

Christians must take the led in this endeavor and not leave it just to the Jews. The re-evaluar tion which this calls for must' and can be done only within tin framework of the essential faith- of each denomination. '

This period of reevaluation has already arrived in Canada and it will and must spread. It will have far-reaching effects, for the fate of the Jew lies in the hands of the majority of which we Christians are ap

To a great measure, it will be our teaching, our concern, and our action that will be decisive.

Christ-killer, an accur -c- rejected by God.

Theologically speaking, the sins of all men put Christ to death. It is both injustice as well as theologically inaccurate to say that the blame must placed on the Jews of Christ’s time or even less on their des- cendants.

This basically un- Christian

St Paul's Anglican Church

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West, granted concessions to the

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Spaniards and Portuguese. At first. they permitted the Euro- peans to build churches and con- vert the Japanese.

BEGGED PASSAGE

A Spanish account. written in 'Manila at the time, indicates the seal of the Christians to carry their faith into Japan:

“Not the bare-footed friars of St. Francis but others of the orders of St. Dominic and St. Augustine, each one hurried to the Japanese ships and captains that were at the time in Manila and were then going back, to beg of them to take them."

The friars were notably suc- cessful. In a few years. they converted thousands of Jap- anese, from local lords to peasants. Some estimates put the figure at 300,000

At this point, the shoguns (rulers) began to be uneasy- not on religious but political grounds, They apparently came to suspect that the Japanese Christians were a potential "fifth column" in the event of trouble with Spain.

Thereupon. edicts were is- sued, ordering the friars to leave Japan on pain of death, and designed to extirpate the foreign faith, roof. and breach. from Japanese soil.

The edicts met almost total defiance. The friars continued to preach openly. and the people

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first. it took the form of execu- tions. They did not achieve their purpbse. This fragment of a let- ter from a condemned friar in- dieates the reason:

". . . For our Lord in His mercy. not looking at my sins. has been pleased to unite no to a company of 24 servants of God who die for love of Rim; of whom six'a're friars of St. Francis and 18 Jaapanese. With the hope that many more will

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