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being pushed to a stage of backing down. Doctors present a Christian viewpoint Certainly in the coming decade we on very stongly against chauvinism and this side are going to be stranger and sexism in my own congregation and stranger. We will look more and more elsewhere; and it is rife in the church, let weird. Even now I feel weird when I me assure you, not that you need mention what I believe. I mean "You can't assuring. be serious, do you really hold that?" Though, I have got some very brave It is the big issues that come down to Christian girls in the congregation who questions of "cultural" and "revelation". come out of feminist backgrounds, and We have just begun to touch them now. who have voluntarily dealt with the There is a real sense in which I see myself position themselves, and are great as the radical and you as the non-radicals. examples to me of the grace of Christ and I see a world which has shifted. This is submission to the'word of God against being very personal and unfair, but I see Registered by Australia Post Publ,ation No. NAR1678 Telephone 264 8349 the culture they stand. PRICE 50 CENTS in a sense Paul not playing the game as you believe it, but actually standing for a ACR Susan. principle of the husband as the "head". Glover Robert, I fully sympathize with It's a word he coined. But I think in our your position but one of the things that world in the late twentieth century, we haven't touched on, and one of the western society is so strongly against the things that I have heard you say today whole understanding of relationships with your use of certain words and which the Bible puts forward that I think concepts about women, is that your idea, Mary Whitehouse has been greeted with the issue is lost. Your comment is very of women are less than what I would like custard tarts and smoke bombs on her revealing, "a scandal to the gospel". I them to be. That comes across in many of previous visits to Sydney. This time she think that shows our real agenda in the the things that you said. was met with spontaneous applause! issue. I think one of the difficulties that has I am very much against forced been apparent in this whole issue is the subordination. I am very much for way women are regarded sexually. They Mrs. Mary Whitehouse CBE and Mr. voluntary subordination to the order of are regarded as sexually unclean. Many John Smyth QC are in Australia as guests Christ, not to the order of the authority of people say. "I could never receive the of the Festival of Light, in their campaign bishopo or the husband, of whatever. communion from a women", or "I could against "Video Nasties". Sunday, July 29th It is the scripture's right to ask us to never hear the word of God preached by both visitors addressed a meeting in the subordinate ourselves voluntarily to the a woman because there is something packed Sydney Town Hall. The subject "Children at Risk" — from legal violent word of God, not man or woman's task. quite unclean about it" That is one of the I think that maybe we have all been things that has to be brought up. and pornographic videos, easily available hree of the doctors who have presented the Christian Doctor? viewpoint on to children — was ably covered in the taught so long by bad, sinful life patterns The other thing I would say to you is current problems within our society. (Left to right) Dr. Barry Earp, Dr. Ronald Winton various messages given. and Dr. Clair Isbister. that subordination is incompatible with that your concept of voluntary equality. I don't belies it is. I think the submission is not voluntary once you Those attending came from as far away Bible is showing me a vision of both God begin to say that everybody who doesn't as Wagga Wagga and Cootamundra. LANCER BOOKS, a division of Anzea "GUILT" by Dr. Bruce Peterson and of human beings where do that is not in keeping with the grace of Some having to travel all day, attend the Publishers have recently published the "CONCEPTION AND CONTRACEPTION" subordination is not incompatible. God. I think it is the grace of God that meeting and then travel hundreds of first in a series of books prepared by by Dr. Ifor Thomas miles home again afterwards. People of members of the CHRISTIAN MEDICAL I will admit that I have not seen that in preaches to us the direction we should go Present at the launching of the series in all ages, came from across Sydney, as was FELLOWSHIP of AUSTRALIA. Dealing with church much nor in society much. But I now. The many doctrines we have talked St. Andrews House, Sydney were Drs. very evident from the names on the many the plethora of problems faced by young don't see this as a sign of the Spirit about are indeed threatened by the very Isbister, Winton and Earp along with Jeff church buses, as well as from a wide people and the family as a whole, from leading us to the great future that lies fact that we are linking, all the time, Blair of Anzea Bookhouse and the two priesthood and power. variety of denominations. birth through to death, the relevance of ahead, I see it as a sign of the corruption principal speakers, the Dean of Sydney, the series will touch everybody Written and collapse of this age. We are If you would answer one question for Support for the Rally and its aims, was the Very Rev. Lance Shilton and the The Platform Placards say it all. by Christian doctors in a helpful, departing, I believe, from fundamental me. What is the spiritual benefit to the given by leaders and representatives of Superintendant of the Wesley Central instructive and informative manner, the theologicial principles which will in the church in supressing women in a the various churches, parliamentarians, Al the Sydney Town Hall Rally, Sunday, July 29th, Mrs. Mary Whitehouse, CBE, presented her advice and warnings against "Video Mission, Rev. Gordon Moyes. booklets unequivocally present the long run be to our loss. voluntary submission? What on earth are and sympathetic organizations such as Nasties" to the hundreds of concerned and houghtful, parents and people of all ages who packed the meeting. Dean Shilton congratulated the doctors the Returned Servicemen's League. Brief Seated to the right of the Dean of Sydney, is the other guest speaker from the United Christian viewpoint. We are not getting close to the you spiritually going to benefit from it? Kingdom, Mr. John Smyth, QC. for presenting such a clear Christian How is the church going to grow with the comments of support came from the Known as "The Christian Doctor Kingdom by abandoning this teaching of Photo Ramon Williams perspective to so many of the traumas in exercise of gifts, and the mutual loving Salvation Army, the Uniting Church, speaks on ..." series, the booklets the apostles. There is a difference, a today's world. "There is a tremendous and relationship to one another, if you Churches of Christ, Seven Day Adventists, of choice and nut censorship was late to stop the availability of such videos prepared 59 tar are:— division between us. It is not just a outspoken fighter for morality through need for this information in our society. say for some God-given reason you must Jewish Synagogue, essential. "Any Society that ceases to division over this text. in homes. Not necessarily the homes of the other forms of media, yet all showed "THE FAMILY" by Dr. Clair Isbister We have a new responsibility before us to Church, Presbyterian Church, the remember its children is a decadent and those who would never buy such voluntary submit yourself to my their concern and interest by coming "ADOLESCENCE" by Dr. Clair Isbister reassess the standards of morality and I wonder what the future is, and how Lutherans, Baptists and the Anglican lost Society. It has no future." authority? What is the spiritual benefit of material anyway, but rather the homes of along for this public rally. "DYING" by Dr. Ronald Winton we get on being evangelicals together Church in Australia. life-style formerly and presently accepted it? There is very little, very little indeed. "Some say 'It's all a matter of taste'. If others where children may visit, for a "DRUGS" by Dr. Barry Earp with that fundamental difference, how we by the community." said Dean Shilton. The Dean of Sydney, the Very Rev. people lose the will to say 'NO', not only party or just to be with their friends. Obviously, people have had no idea can still love each other and affirm our ACE That is it, thank you all very, very Lance Shilton had a leading role in the what the issue was about beforehand, oneness in Christ without either side much. will they be destroyed, but also the The danger was in the permissible proceedings, as well as the Rev. Fred Nile, Society will be too, warned Mrs. content of videos under the "X" and "R" but hundreds left that meeting Governor-General to Launch MLC, National Director of the Festival of Whitehouse. ratings, here in Australia. Such videos can determined to do something about it. Light and Mr. Steve Stevens, the NSW be played slowly, or immediately Petitions are being organized through the Mr.

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