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Show 11 page a TBE HERALD, Proro, Utah, Sunday, December 5, a joyful nou eliqious humor Prices Effective Through Wednesday Dec 11th, OR As Long As Supplies Last! By Th Associated Press my pimples cleared Henny Youngman once gave a "It talk to a bunch of priests: "They If I had the gift of healing, didn't pay me. They forgave me." up, my hair fell out. Evangelist Tony Campolo on would I look like the limits of his faith- - "It seems Tony Campolo, evangelist just as soon as my pimples cleared I fell hair had the out. If up, my gift of healing, would I look like this?" Take my minister ... please. psychologized that we can't see the they had never met a priest before, When limes get tough, the cothe clergyman asks why then do humor anymore. We're blind to medians get going, and no one has it." they hav e a picture on the wall of more cause to be joyful than those St. L. of John May Pope Pius XII, a former pope who Archbishop who take the Bible seriously, say a Louis, former president of the Nawore glasses. "Oh my God!" the couple exgrowing number of religious lead- tional Conference of Catholic ers rebelling against the idea that Bishops, agrees that a little less claims. "We were told that was e churches must be solemn, forbidsolemnity may be in order. Hsrry Truman in his w ding places. "I can't imagine that Jesus as Masonic outfit." The jokes told by Youngman so solemn as he so often has been "I think humor basically gives and Campolo were taken from The portrayed," May said. "Can you a sense of humility," Samra us the publication Joyful Noiseletter, imagine the way people were at"It shows us how far each of said. of the Fellowship of Merry Christracted to him, the way children fallen short of the glory of has us tians, a group that has grown from came up to him and jumped on God." 600 to 10,000 members in its him, that he was a forbidding charHe added, "I think basically this history. acter That's not possible to imagCal Samra, editor of The Joyful ine." is the message of the Bible in the Noiseletter and author of "The May said that religious services sense that it tells us we're all sinJoyful Christ: The Healing Power should be conducted in a spirit of ful, and we all need a savior." of Humor," said there are several celebration, and humor can have Much of the humor in The Joyplaces in the Bible where a joyful an appropriate role. ful Noiseletter pokes gentle fun at outlook toward life is encouraged. "Paul talks about singing, 'Rethe church, but occasionally it will For example, Proverbs 17:22 joice in the Lord; again I say, repoke fun at the powerful, as Samra states, "A cheerful heart is a good joice," May said. says Jesus did in his day. One of his favorite jokes begins medicine, but a downcast spirit One contributor who is writing a dries up the bones." with the captain of a sinking ship book on women hymnwriters told In John 15:11, when Jesus is appealing for someone who knows of the time Julia Ward Howe, who how to pray. When one man steps discussing the Christian believer's the life, he says, "These things I have forward, the captain replies: wrote "The Battle Hymn of Charles Sen. asked spoken to you, that my joy may be "Good, you pray. The rest of us Republic," Sumner to come to the aid of a in you, and that your joy may be will put on life preservers. We're seems just as soon as this?" 33rd-degre- six-ye- Bullets ar full." Samra said that people are particularly hungry for good cheer in these difficult economic times. "Our feeling is that humor is a powerful evangelistic tool, a peacemaking tool," he said. "We've gotten so heavily theologized and one short." The archbishop also tells the sto- ry of the encounter between a priest whose car stalls and an elderly couple in the Ozarks in southern Missouri, where Catholics are a minority. When the couple indicates that mi pJrder ill StCk f Buck Mark Utt Scan Auto 22 Pistol Adjustable Sights, S&St Limited to stock on hand needy citizen. When Sumner turned her down with the excuse that he was too busy to any longer concern himself with individuals, Howe replied: "Charles, that's remarkable. Even God hasn't reached that stage yet." Shared Ministry releases stafemen Shortly after the United States entered into World War II, 120,-00- 0 Americans of Japanese de- scent, denied their constitutional rights, were forcibly placed in interment camps. Located in desolate areas, one such camp was es- tablished in Delta. Four decades later, the Congress and president of the United States signed into law legislation acknowledging the injustice of these actions. This national apology for an injustice ". . .motivated largely by racial prejudice, wartime hysteria, and a failure of political leadership . . ." was received by the remaining 70,000 Japanese American citizens who had been interred. The slow pace evidenced by the government of the United States in these matters seems symptomatic of the blight of racism and prejudice which continues to raise its ugly head throughout this society. Japanese Americans, other Asians, and people of color, along with minorities of every stripe are today victimized by a culture which appears to give permission to racial intolerance within our society . On the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, it is the prayer of Shared Ministry in Utah that national repentance might result in national resolve that "liberty and justice for all" moves from slogan to JP prac- tice. Toward this end, let us pray: liefs. If you were unable to attend the series and would like the sermons and other materials, please send $5 to handle printing and mailing to: Springville Community Church, P.O. Box 367, Springville, 84663. Of fir 19)1 wO USaisy avelirself a Little Time! Pneumatic BB & Pellet Rifle BB Gun, holds 5000 Sermon texts now available The Springville Community Church has completed its interpretation series on the Protestant and LDS faiths. The purpose of the event was tc improve understanding of each other and the various religious be- External Hammer, Blued Finish, Nickel Finish add $20. LjOTsSSEL O God, we have sinned against our brothers and our sisters. We have claimed rights for ourselves that we have denied to our neighbors. 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