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Show Fi Preacher Goes To Jail A minister of the gospel has been sentenced to serve eighteen eight-een months in a Federal prison by a court in New Jersey after L'-i conviction :.'or refusing to .ill out a I'raft questionnaire. Before sentencing the preacher preach-er the Court gave him 'nearly a month in wihicLi to change (has mini- and Jill out the 'draft paper pa-per but the man persisted in his refusal, defending himself by proclaiming bis personal loyalty loy-alty to Christ, Ihis Christian concern con-cern nor mankind and ihds devotion de-votion to American democracy. It should toe understood that the minister was not convicted because he would not wage war, as a matter of conscience, tout because me refused to fill out a qustiomnaire, permitting ham to make any claim for exemption that he might harve. The sentence is entirely prosper pro-sper and we are at a loss to un-I un-I derstand the brother's devotion devo-tion to democracy and in complete com-plete disagreement wife him) as i to his interpretation of loyalty to Christ and the obligations Of a Christian. Boiled do wax the reverend gentleman set himself above the law of the land, which enables en-ables ihi.TU to preach a free gospel gos-pel and gives him every advantage ad-vantage toat civilization acords a .minister of recognized faiths. He assumes that ihe can accept I the benefits and disregard the obligations of society, actually imposed through the machinery of government. |