Show The Gauntlet The Herald Journal Legal Utah Sunday April 11 1171 It’s Present Tense: Jesus Is Risen The message of Easter is not past tense: Once upon a time Jesus rose from the dead It is present tense: Jesus is risen The distinction is important Past tense statements about an event which is believed to have occurred 2000 years ago obviously are not susceptible of proof The best that can be done at this point so removed in time is to show historical evidence for the actuality of Jesus’ THEN TOOK THEY the body of Jesus and wound It In linen clothes with the spices as the manner of the Jews is to bury Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden and in the garden a new sepulchre wherein was never man yet laid There laid they Jesus theref ore because of the Jews' preparation day for the sepulchre was nigh at hand 0" The first day of the week cometh Mary Magadlene early when It was yet dark unto the sepulchre and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre Then she runneth and cometh to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved and saith unto them "They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre and we know not where they have laid Mm” hard-and-fa- st resurrection This is more persuasive to anyone who examines it with an open mind than any alternative explanation that can be offered for His disciples’ unshakable conviction that He had overcome death It is very doubtful however whether anyone has ever been prompted to bet his life on Jesus simply because the arguments for the historicity of the resurrection seemed to him plausible Infinitely more stirring is the present tense assertion Jesus is risen For that means Jesus lives He lives now He confronts us today not as a memory out of the past but as a present fact and a present challenge His challenge is empirical: Try My way See for yourself whether it will lead you to authentic abundant life It is possible to turn away from the challenge Millions do every day The other response is vividly described by German theologian Willi Marxsen: “I take the risk of doing what He asks contrary to all human reason In the course of doing I experience the fact: It is true I do not need to save myself but at die very point where I let myself go I discover that I am being held by something outside myself but at the very point where I let myself go I discover that I am being held by something outside myself “Once I wanted to live but could not do so Fear stopped me Now I give up the attempt to live in the sense in which I have hitherto understood living and discover that now suddenly I am really living” No human experience can be fully captured and explained in wonts Marxsen’s description of the way a person arrives at faith in Jesus may not be meaningful to everyone Some will say quite validly that they reached the same point by another route But anyone who attempts to describe what it means to follow esus finds himself compelled to speak not of dogmas and rituals but of risk commitment and experience The experience is open to anyone who will take the risk of making the commitment — and it cannot be J had on any other terms Letters He Encourages Common Sense Dew Sir: It haa been a matter of concern to me that M many people find fault with so many things which they really know very little about We hew the cry: “Wolf Wolf’ when with Just a little common sense consideration they would find that there if really no wolf at all Here is an example: The Wurlitzer Company and their burning equipment have come under considerable criticism Criticism which I feel is unjustifiable' We all used to burn coal and wood in our homes and businesses This was acNow after conceptable siderable promotion we have enticed a prominent company to come into our valley to provide Jobs and income for ow people and turn around and damp Editor Many times the advantages greatly out weight the disadvantages With a little common sense we should be able to come up with some practical solutions even if it requires some allowances Let’s not pay too much attention to these “Dogs in the manger” who bark so loud in their own selfish interest Let's decide what ia the hot for all of us in the community I have a few more “peaves" that I will present in other letters Sincerely Darwin W Larsen 46 W 1st No Logan Utah Expression Of Appreciation To the Editor: Last Tuesday April unreasonable restrictions to 6th the League of evening Women Voters hamper their operation of Cache (baity sponsored an open town meeting to review the Now to have one concern 39th State Legislative session burning wood is not acceptable On behalf of the League I would Our critics say that we would like to thank the community for establish a precedent in allowing the fine support this meeting them to burn and while this may received The audience was be true knowledgeable people made up of s very diverse group realise there is no of Cache Valley residents inpossibility of large numbers of cluding city commissioners industrial plants coming into our faculty and students from USU is just not Chamber valley of Commerce or strategically representatives both Skyview economically feasible and Logan High School students and other interested and conWho really objects to the faint cerned citizens pleasant smell of wood smoke and I seriously doubt that we wUl Our special thanks to our three be able to smell it at an? Let’s be State Representatives Messers fair If we restrict Wurlitzer Bullen Leatham and Workman let’s also restrict the fireplaces who spoke to us and very in every home charcoal grills competently answered a variety campfires meat anokers etc of questions I’m sure none would go for this that It Good government depends I propose a simple solution upon active and informed Let’S have Wurlitzer compress citizens This newspaper has this sawdust into fireplace logs done an excellent Job of covering and make them available to our the state legislature It was citizens without charge This beneficial however to imwould be nice and while it really plement our knowledge by wouldn't eliminate the problem personally our meeting it would spread it out so that legislators and questioning them none would notice it directly Instead of attracting favorable This was the first of what the industry into our community League hopes will be many let's keep them all out and then stimulating and informative we can send our sons and citizens meetings We thank you for your support daughters into crime-ridden smog-fille- d areas where they can at least get a Job and support their families I don’t know about you but I would prefer to keep my family here Sincerely Ann C Hatch President League of Women Voters of Cache County 0" PETER THEREFORE WENT FORTH and that other disciple and came to the sepulchre So they lan both together and the other disdple did outrun Peter and came first to the sepulchre And he stooping down and looking in saw the linen clothes lying yet went he not in Then cometh Simon Peter following Mm and went into the sepulchre and seeth the linen clothes lie And the napkin that was about Ms head not lying with the linen clothes but wrapped together in a place by itself Then went in also that other disciple which came first to the sepulchre and he saw and believed For as yet they knew not the scripture that he must rise again from the dead Richard Wilson’s u Interpretive Report WASHINGTON the long range DC - From point of view Nixon likes to which President adopt the basic question with respect to the FBI is not the immediate fate of J Edgar Hoover but the kind of federal investigative agency to exist in (he future This will depend to a startling degree on Hoover’s successor There is no basis for calculating this in the FBI itself for as the saying goes if you have seen one FBI director you have seen them all But there are condusioni to be drawn from the widely varying approaches of successive attorney generals These contrasts are sharp enough to show that enforcement of the law does not follow an inflexible predetermined course but that the degree and kind of enforcement tends to be a subjective nutter with the head of the Justice Department So it would be likely to be also with Hoover’s successor as head of the FBI The point does not need to be labored Ramsey Clark would not run the same kind of FBI as Hoover This had made all the more urgent the problem Nixon now faces The President has in tact a very short time in which to determine if Hoover should be replaced not for any lack of confidence because he has no such lack but because he cannot be certain he will be able to appoint a new director The reason he cannot be certain is that he cannot know if he will be reelected in 1972 The crime bill of 1968 for the first time makes the direc torship of the FBI a presidential appointment subject to confirmation by the US Senate Most people have thought this was the case all along but it was not The FBI director was legally chosen by the attorney general and was not subject to Senate confirmation but the matter never really arose because Hoover had established links with the White his personal prestige Ms direct House and came to THEN THE DISCIPLES WENT away again unto their own home she But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and wept she stooped down and looked into the sepulchre And seeth two angels in wMte sitting tue one at the head and the other at the feet where the body of Jesus had lain And they say unto her “Woman why weepest thou?” She saith unto them “Because they have taken away my Lord and I know not where they have laid him" exceed that of the numerous attorney generals under whom he has theoretically served during the last 47 years If Nixon should be defeated in 1972 by any of the Democratic candidates now prominently mentioned and without having found a successor for Hoover it is a reasonable conclusion that the new Democratic president would force Hoover's retirement and pick Ms own man Everything taken into consideration it must be reasonably concluded that a successor nominated by a Democratic president would have like qualities Hoover would unquestionably be sn issue in the 1972 campaign When will you fire Hoover? The campus rebels will yell Few press conferences would pass without the question rising Both the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees will be forced to answer in some way This question has not arisen in any sharp way since Hoover became elegible for retirement Promptly after he became president Lyndon B Johnson let er it be known that he was and there was noplace in pro-Hoov- his administration for a contalk tinuance of the during the two years of the Kennedy administration when Robert F Kennedy was attorney anti-Hoov- er general But now the issue has become focused and it is coming dose to being a Democratic policy position that J Edgar Hoover si tall be replaced Nixon could conceivably be the last Republican president who will have an opportunity to find a successor for Hoover who would carry on the FBI in the Hoover tradition There are all kinds of proposals for changing the FBI hamstringing its methods reducing the status of the director defusing its files and generally subordinating it to political control These proposals indoubtly would be advanced under a less director authoritative than Hoover The problem is also made more complex because the Democratic leadership may not let Nixon replace Hoover This unusual situation could arise if Nixon decided In the next year to appoint a successor and sent his name to the Senate for confirmation Confirmation could be delayed in the Democratically controlled Senate past election day and the remainder of Nixon's tom if he were defeated so that the new Democratic president could pick a successor The problem is very complex and difficult and must be of primary concern to both Nixon and Hoover in influencing what kind of an FBI there is to be in the future And when she had thus said she turned herself back and saw Jesus standing and knew not that it was Jecus Jesus saith unto her “Woman why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?" She supposing Mm to be the gardener saith unto him “Sir if thou have borne him hence tell me where thou has laid him and I will take him away” Jesus saith unto her “May” She turned herself and saith unto him “Rabboid” which ia to say “Master” JESUS SAITH UNTO HER "Touch me not for I am not yet ascended to my Father but go to my farethem and say unto than I ascend unto my Father and your Father and to my God and your God” Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that he had spoken these things unto her 0 But these are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that believing ye might have life through Ms name For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have eternal life 0 THE AROUSED ENVIRONMENTALISTS of the nation are pleading “Stop polluting or perish!” But how do we stop polluting — and when and where ? A good answer to these questions is contained in the "eco commandments’’ prepared by Dr Paul Kilburn biology professor at Principle College in Elsah IU Roscoe Drummond observes that these commandments are not as many as the Biblical 10 but they could be Just as tough to 1- - Thou shslt live by the laws of ecology 2- - Thou shalt not allow the introduction of any chemical or any material on earth whose environmental effects hove not been fully investigated and weighed in the decision to allow their use 3- - Thou shalt not allow any increased production of any sort that results in an increase in pollution 0 4- - THOU SHALT NOT ALLOW any increase of people now Uviig on the earth Thou shalt not allow production of any items without foil regard to their disposal 5-- Paul Harvey 6-- Thou shalt not allow any development in any town dty county region or country without sound ecological planning Medal For Harry Truman A There is a bill on the Hill proposing a medal for Mr Harry S Truman May I second the motion most History judges Residents after they’re gone Judges them by the results — the long-rang- e effects — of their decisions The one most agonizing long-rang- the Truman Administration already has been of decision Hiroshima Japan were 135000 Japanese destroyed were killed or injured But when it was either them or us Mr Truman chose to kill them In subsequent years Resident Truman was more damned than praised for that of decision Monday-mornin- evaluated diplomats Mr Truman had been President less than three months scientists when he learned that Americans g erbacks called it quartunnecessary called it cruel said they were their science The President was labeled a “ashamed" of had unharnessed the atom and suddenly in his hands was a secret weapon 23G0 times more lethal than any weapon theretofore With this weapon of decision in Ms folded fist on July 26 1946 he demanded surrender that japan On July 29 the Japanese cabinet met but chose to ignore the surrender ultimatum President Truman as Commander in Chief left with an uiprecedented decision did not procrastinate Aware of the terrible toll in American lives resulting from our tedious amphibious Thoughts Jesus said to them " The light is with you for a little longer Walk while you have the light lest the darkness overtake you: he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes”— John 12:35 a “monster” for two decades And thereafter American leaders fearful fought wars with outdated weapon And on the altar of their timidity in an unending forced march American sou were sacrificed Perhaps it serves no purpose to draw parallels between the costs of “enforcing peace” the Truman way and this other way : But no man can be insensitive to the cruel indictment which Mr Truman suffered for doing what he believed best: And though historians can already see the humaneness of the strategy officially nobody has told him so While in the Whits House Mr Truman frequently presented the Congressional Medal of Honor with the words “I'd rather have this medal than be es pulled-punch- swift-knocko- ut Resident" repeated that statement so times it must have reflected a very agonizing He Some men see things as they are and ask “Why?” I dream thirgs that never were and ask “Why not?" — Robert Kennedy in- vasions of South Pacific islands —knowing that there were years of Moody surf between us and the ultimate invasion of Japan — on Aug ( he lowered the boom on the enemy In one Mow four square miles “sadist" a “barbarian” Let the field ezult and everything in it! Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy before the Lord for he comes for he comes to judge the earth — Psalms 96:12 13 many personal question until then uianswered While he lives would it not be most appropriate for our former Commander in Chief to receive our nation's highest military decoration? And let the inscription read that when the cMps were down— and it was either them or us— he was on our side The director of the UJS Geological Survey asserts: “Cities and industries should not use the water available from natural sources without factoring in the cost of returning water to a usable stateThe smokestacks of our refineries and energy pMnts must not use materials that put unwanted matter in our air:A mineral source should not be developed unless it is rich enough to support proper restoration and reutilization of the land” Measured fay these standards the beginnings we hive made in controlling pollution are inadequate Drummond believes |