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Kyodan ; Pp. 16, 19 (top) , Trevor Hancock ; Pp. 19 (bottom I, 21 , Dennis Fraude ; Pp. 23, 25. 27, Hap Stewart ; Pp. 28, 29, Gary Rose; Pp. 30, 31 , Wilson Inn ; Pp. 36, 37, 38, 39, UN A FAI R PICTURE NEW LEASE ON LI FE I spent three weeks in Belfast July 10-29 as a guest of a Presbyterian minister's family. I This begins the nex t to the last year in had the opportunity of discussing the situation which Taiwan Methodism will have the old with many Protestants. I was given a copy of a type colonial, paternalistic relationship under very fair appraisal of things published by P--------------------~ American Methodi m. Rejoice! Chinese col Northern Friends' Peace Board entitled "Orange leagues know how to run the church in Taiwan They work to undermine our yo uth. much better th an Westerners possibly could! and Green-A Quaker Study of Community Maybe I'm idealistic but I think the reason 1 It was indeed a large step forward when the Relations in orthem Ireland." I witnessed the we are over there is that just maybe what we Belfast parade on July 13; th ere were no in Taiwan Provisional Annual Conference voted have here is good and worth helping other peo for autonomy in 1972. Under autonomy the cidents that day. There were no riots while I ple to have. was in Belfast; there were several explosions Taiwan church will have its own conference MRS. DAYID FOSTEH chairman or president (instead of a bishop) directed against an Anny center nearby; the Scottville, Michi gan home of the Lord Justice nearby; and the home and its own leadership from top to bottom. of th e Rev. Martin Smythe, a Presbyterian min REMOVE .. " DEATH MACHI NE" Already th e two districts have Chinese super ister and head of the Belfast Council, Order of As a participant in the U.S. peace move intendents. Orangemen; also a big explosion in a bank in the ment, I was deeply moved by th e Vo-Dinh "New lease on life" is an apt phra e to de shopping center. I traveled on the bus up and "Letter to an American Peacemaker", as well scribe what has been happening. Giving fo r down the Falls Road and the Shankill Road to as by his beautifull y haunting illustrations. all causes was up 25 percent for the confer observe damage and conditions. We also Thank you for publishing it; I onl y wish the ence year ending in mid-1970, over the year motored, without incident, over many parts article would receive wider circulation. before. Laymen and pa tors are planning a of scenic orthem Ireland. My fri ends are not As U.S. citi zens, we must be deeply con new Discipline for Taiwan ~l e th o di sm. Con Orangemen. They tried to give me a fair pic cerned about our own urgent problems nectional committees and local churches are ture of the situation, and efforts for ecu racism, militari sm, di vision, repression. But it doing very careful planning as regards finan ces menicity. I feel Professor Reik's article [De is too easy to become engulfed by our own and work programs. The recently recorded cember J is rather one-sided in its survey. She problems, at the expense of those who are our overall membership gain of nearl y six percent says she stayed in a Catholic home. Did she victims. We must indeed help "clean up the over th e year before can be considered fairly stay in a Protestant home to get their reac mess" in Vietnam. good in view of the slow growth rate in the tions? Our first obligation, as individuals, is to re past few years. Ian Paisley and Bernadette Devlin get all move ourselves from th e Death Machine that CAHLI LE AND RUTH PHILLIPS the publicity because of their extremism. The is destroying Vo-Dinh's homeland; but we can Taipei, Taiwan, R.O .C. person I am suggesting with a more ecu not stop there and still consider ourselves menical point of view is the Rev. Ray Davey of Christians. MISU NDERSTAND INGS Belfast. He is head of Corrymeela Community FRED N. BR EU KELMA N (Ten ) months have passed since my "minor whose aim is "that people meet, study and Dover, Delaware ity report" to the ( World ) Division, outlining play together ... they may learn through the my concerns regarding the Taiwan policy of Holy Spirit now to build a better Ireland and SUPREME COURT AND GOD The U.S. Supreme Court keeps God and the Board of Missions made known over a a better world." He is making a valiant effort year ago by the Consultation Team. in reconciliation. His work i going unsung in Christ out of the schools. Is the Supreme Court greater than God or Christ? It is true that my greatest concern expressed the U.S.A. therein has been modified by our annual con H ELEN WHITCOMB ALBERT PmcE ference. Certain local leadership has been Wes tfi eld, New Jersey Kane, Pennsylva nia emerging of a moderate and constructive na Miss Whitcomb is church secretary of the COWARDLY DESERTE RS ture, th at has served to stabilize the church. Presbyterian Church in W estfielcl . How can new/ WOHLD OUTLOOK justify th e However, th e pressures to which I have re printing of the anti-American article "Things fe rred are still there and I believe that there SOMEBODY ASKED US TO COME Hoped For" in the November, 1970 issue? will be need for some time to come for mis Your article in December, 1970, "\V'h y the \.Yhat have these cowardly deserters done sionaries to be affili ated with the annual con Vietnamese Vl'ant a Cease-fire" made me so for the advancement of God's Kingdom or the ference, and later, with the newly autonomous mad! If these people want peace so bad why betterment of our United States that makes church. Actu all y, it is in their current plan were we asked to enter this war and to give them worth even a passing thought? to request that certain missionaries be assigned our boys' li ves? Somebody asked us to come.