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Show Would Someone Please Enlighten Me! The great William Shakespeare himself said it in these words: "It is all as true as it is strange, nay, it is ten times true; for truth is truth to the end of reckoning." (Measure for Measure, Act V, i, 42, 43) Last week my husband and I attended two movies: 1. "The Majestic." 2. "The Other Side of Heaven." The first movie tells of a man who finally decided to stand for something. We felt good when we left the theatre. My husband commented: "I like to go to a movie when I feel good when I come out of the theater because the world is a little better because of some worthwhile thing that happened in the movie." I feel the same way. The second movie tells of a young man who serves a mis- sion for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon). It shows some interesting, inter-esting, and worthwhile experiences experi-ences he had while on his mission. mis-sion. But when it came time to bless a young man when he was ill, and almost to the point of death, the missionary rolled him on his side, and began saying "Bad air out, good air in." Rolling the young man from side to side, the missionary repeated the same words several times. (At one point the "patient" did regurgitate). But then he did recover. I am confused. Did he recover because he had an upset stomach? Or was the (See LETTERS on page 3-A) Letters From Page 2-A strange procedure supposed to be a blessing? I called the LDS Ward Mission Leader, to ask him if there's a new procedure going on with missionaries that I had missed, that instead of giving a blessing from Father in Heaven, they now roll the ill person from side to side, while chanting, "Bad air out, good air in?" He said he had not heard of such a thing either. In a fairly recent movie "God's Army," the missionary mis-sionary blessed a person who was unable to walk, and the person per-son did walk after the blessing. From what I read and hear, that's what Jesus did. That's good enough for me. I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sometimes labeled "Mormon" Church. I have friends who are not. I would hope if they see the movie, they would not be confused by it, and think a person can be "blessed" to recover from anything by this strange procedure. I am still confused by the movie, "The Other Side of Heaven." I wish someone who had something to do with the producingdirecting of the movie would enlighten me regarding the above incident in it. Lois Painter Ephraim |