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Show I NEWS m He Owes All He Has I emzn To Gospel Member Says mmmzs if'or th. e lS zi Rclig cjs News Service and Press and t; i United Pres InTt' at cns1( 3y JACK E. JARRARD A 5.C Church News Traveling Editor 3ted ) Methodist Asks Abstinence 1 WHAT Methodist Bishop R. Melvin Siuai t ot Denver. Colo., recently urged all Methodists in the Rocky Mountain area to halt smoking and dt inking on a i voluntary moral basis. lie sen a letter to all pastors hi his area of Colo- Wyoming, Utah and Montana and to the lay J'ludo, of each local church who represents the at the Rocky Mountain and Yellowstone Conference. I I do not hesitate to make my own position very tv e lear, he said. I continue to believe that total in these areas is the most responsible and witness to be made. I Tlie last General Conference of the United Methodist Cnurch dropped the enforced abstinence rule for its clergy. The rule did not apply to laymen. An-inu- ahst'-tn.enc- 75 New Schools Fifteen new Hebrew day schools have opened Jhis fall in the U.S. and Canada, according to ofli-- f idLs of Torah Umesorah. National Society for Day Schools. J The number, which includes fout high schools, jc onstitutes the most new schools in any one year in tlhe past decade, according to the organization, .Jwhich assists in the establishment of schools and provides various services for them. The total number of schools reached a i ecord 404. Jiiicludina tig high schools. ,? v Drug Abuse 1 Some 90 New Jersey clergymen have formed a permanent interreligious committee in New Brun- swick, N.J., to work on die problem of drug abuse in .New Jersey, in cooperation with state and other jagencies. I An ad hoc committee, which organized the first Interfaith Conference for Clergymen on Drag Abuse, Jiold here Sept. at Rutgers University, was .named the permanent committee, with a mandate to expand and broaden its base for operation on a Istate-vide and regional basis, 3-- 4 v Don't Ape Media ' h, fnass communication ephemeral, mechanical, distant, frustratingly diverse and rapid, manipulative, find If the communication of the Gospel apes the media and ignores the vacuum, it will fail, he learned. sales-oriente- 1 Charitable Giving j n boy. His hard work and strong tesiano ny, however, has resulted in his being a student of the scriptures and he has studied various other subjects on Ins own. I also study the beliefs of other churches. I feel that a man should know what our brothers and sisters ot other faiths lie wa I lieve. If you jr.Rv SV0 w Their Exiiifc I know don't what .t is man believes vou !ldU t in no right to i his beliefs, Mr. Torres said. He is a hard worker in the Lucero Ward, a ward in the Temple View Stake in Salt Lake City, composed of Spanish-speakinmembers. Most of the members are Mexican-AmericanBoth Mr. and Mrs. Torres are natives of Mexico but are citizens of the United States. He was born in Zitacuaro, Mexico, Nov. G, 1896 to Sabino and Maria Torres. He came to the United States in 1917 and began doing any kind ot work he could get in Texas. Before deciding to move to the U.S., he was in business lor himself as a grain broker, buying ar.J selling corn and wheat in the Mexican state where nti-ciz- e he lived. The kind of communications practiced by the ijmass media is leaving a vacuum that will make seem increasingly jeommunication by churchmen a Lutheran clergyman said in Green-ivicattractive, Conn. The Rev. Gilbert E. Doan of Philadelphia called g The influential American Association ot Counsel, Inc., has warned that some sections of the tax reform legislation now in Congress could sharply reduce contributions to the nations religious and private institutions. Noting that the Tax Reform Act of 1969 has already been passed by the U.S. House, the associations August bulletin observed that past congressional actions have encouraged increased charitable giving by liberalizing tax incentives. The current bill, said the association, would have a completely opposite effect, experts say. There is one favorable provision in the prof the inposed legislation, the bulletin observed crease of maximum allowable deductions for gifts fto certain types of institutions, from 30 to 50 per cent of income. But that provision would have very little effect, since very few taxpayers now give at Tthc 30 per cent level. s I 4 being Church. declares Manuel S. Tones, owner of a specialty food preparation plant and store in Salt Lake City. Mr. Torres and his diminutive wife work to prepare he various typos of Mexican foods one of the Tones M)iis sells in the retail store of the tinn. The Mr. Torres only had three years of foimal schooling in the small Mexican town he lived in a- a g I I I am and vviut I have to having accepted the Gospel of Jesus Christ and a member of his Restored Fund-Raisin- "A friend of mine started talking about the United States and how we should come here to see if we could make a better living. I wasnt doing too badly there, but one day my friend came and said Tm going to the U.S. I decided to come too, no real reason, Mr. Torres said. He did all kinds of w oi k mostly labor in the farm fields and on railroad section gangs. From Texas he went to Arkansas, then to Missouri, on up to Chicago. From the Illinois city he drifted on over to Denver and then into Oregon, where he was working on the railroad. I was working with a friend who spoke no English only Spanish. We had railroad passes and one day vve vvote laid off because of lack of work. 1 and told my friend to take our get. tickets for California. 1 bad hoard there was plenty of work there and it was wann. But somehow the station agent sold him tickets to Salt Lake City and Huts why 1 am here. I came here in 1920 and got work on the railroad as a section hand and also got work thinning sugar licets. About this time a Juan Martinez came from Montieello, Utah, to preach the Gosel to the Mexicans living in the Salt Lake area. Juan opened a restaurant and al pa-.-- c, and Mrs. Manuel S. Torres make and box Mexican tamales in their food plant in Salt Lake City. Mr. ways closed on Sunday. He dosed foi two reasons, first he didnt believe in working on Sunday, and second lie had to have a place to hold Church meetings. We would have all the Sunday meetings in his restaurant which was at 503 W. 2nd South, in Salt Lake City. I used to go to the meetings so I could associate with Mexican people, f had no feelings to join the Church, but one day a man spoke to the congregaiton and wanted the names of all those who wanted to be baptized. I signed the paper and then when I found out what it was, I didn't want to go through with it. But my father had taught me that whatever I signed or promised to do I was to go through with it, so I did. A week before I was baptized, I prayed for the first time in my life. I got down on my knees and I was a little afraid. But I got a strong answer to my prayers. I quit smoking and drinking ami was baptized," he added. Mrs. Torres the former Austina Rivera joined the Church when she was a girl of 16 in Mexico. She came to the United States with two other girls and the mission presidents wife because OI a revolution going un in hot native land. Site was a member of a Protestant faith in Mexico, and her interest was aroused when she used to hear the small Mormon congregation sing hymns in their church. It seemed to me that my church only had one song and they only sang once during the meeting. I loved to sing and I would listen to the Mormons and the missionaries sing their hymns and they seemed to be very happy doing this. I started going to the LDS Sunday WEEK School and I would have to walk two miles to do this. My mother and I wen baptized at the same time. I came in !ho U.S. shortly after my baptism. My father couldn't read and be wasnt interested in joining the Cliuich, But he would sit in tiie otliei room and listen while the missionaries were teaching us about the Church. We would sing the hymns in the house all lire time. When he was dying lie called my sister to him and asked her to sing O My Father to him. This she did: I that he will join. We have done the work for him in the temple, Mi'. lie-iie- Torres said. She and Mr. Tones were man in! in the Salt Lake Temple in 1923 tml they have two sons and three daughter, as well as 18 grandchildren. t She was the first Relief Society in the Spanish-speakinmis'ion in Salt Lake County and has been ae uve in Relief Society ever since. Mr. Torres was secretary of the branch Sunday School in Salt Lake City prior to his baptism and then was '(vretary of the mission. lie w.n bianch secretary for 17 years. He now is a counselor in Hie In .ii iests group in Lucero Waid. During World 'War II he was cubed to serve a mission in the Spanish American Mission and he was making and "peddling Mexican food when he pres-iden- g left. I learned the ways of New Mexico while on my mission raid when I came back I opened my store. Now have a good business." said Mt w Torres. A son in Colton, Calif., Ls in the branch presidency, and the son her-- ' .serves on the high council of the Temple View Stake. Their daughters, too. ire active . ENDING NOVEMBER 8, 1969 CHURCH-- 11 |