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Evangelical Friend, June 1988 (Vol Digital Commons @ George Fox University Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church Evangelical Friend (Quakers) 6-1988 Evangelical Friend, June 1988 (Vol. 21, No. 10) Evangelical Friends Alliance Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_evangelical_friend Recommended Citation Evangelical Friends Alliance, "Evangelical Friend, June 1988 (Vol. 21, No. 10)" (1988). Evangelical Friend. 223. https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_evangelical_friend/223 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church (Quakers) at Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Evangelical Friend by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. june 1988 FRIEND Watches and Worship PAGE 4 llVIN G STONES . ,, . BYRmHB····in the Holy land King of my life I crown thee now; Thine shall the glory be. Lest cherish the old rugged cross, to be true to it, cling to it, I forget Thy thorn-crowned bro~ Lead me to Calvary. gladly bear its shame and reproach, and "exchange it ANDA and I sat but a stone's throw from someday for a crown:' Calvary, singing the familiar hymn in English; HE PROMISED Land is a potpourri of never-to­ W three-fourths of the congregation in Jerusa­ be-forgotten experiences: Standing on the hill lem's Church of the Nazarene sang concurrently in their overlooking Galilee, reading the Sermon on the native Arabic. It seemed right that each could participate T Mount and pondering the enormity of its message, sitting in his own tongue; appropriately, the songbooks had the on the steps where Jesus walked into the Temple and feel­ Arabic and English on facing pages. ing His indignation at the injustice of God's house having My mind reached back to my childhood church, and become a den of thieves, retracing Jesus' triumphal Palm relived the stirring chorus: "Lest I forget Gethsemane, Sunday journey, almost hearing the hosannas and smell­ Lest I forget Thine agony, Lest I forget Thy love for me, ing the donkey, standing on the Mount of Olives, sharing Lead me to Calvary:' His sorrow and understanding His weeping for the dis­ I was moved as I pondered another hymn of deep obedient city below, whispering a prayer in beautiful childhood meaning: "On a hill [near, today!] stood an old Gethsemane, empathizing with the sleepy disciples and rugged Cross, the emblem of suffering and shame; And I dreading the approach of the betrayer, and-perhaps most love that old Cross, where the dearest and best, For a important of all, for me -looking across the valley to Beth­ world of lost sinners was slain:' I renewed my vow to lehem each evening from our room at the Tantur Institute 2/EVANGELICAL FRIEND for Theological Research, experiencing the awe of the Palestine met an overwhelmingly eager response. No shepherds, while we viewed the neon star over the place wonder a half-century ago multitudes of Zionists looked where the young child once lay. to Palestine for a place to escape from the Nazi obscenity. Does all this make a difference? Is it important A very significant day it was when, in 1947, the whether Abraham's bones are actually in that place iden­ United Nations declared that half -the better half, even­ tified as the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron? Would it shat­ of Palestine would be given to the Jews. No one in the his­ ter me to discover that Jesus was not born in the tory of the world has been more deserving of a place to designated spot? Who cares whether those narrow steps call home. actually put us in Lazarus' temporary tomb? Yet, sadly for the Zionist cause, Herzl had drastically Well, I do care. But of course it makes no real differ­ misled his eager followers. The "land without people" was ence. In fact, in view of the bitterness among competing occupied by more than a million Arabs, who in a different Christian denominations, it might be better were there no way were also victims of history. Mostly Moslem, some actually discernible sites to Christian, a few Jewish, these Arabs had lived in Palestine possess and protect. It is un­ for centuries, each under "his own vine and fig tree:' but bearably sad that so many also under the rule of outside empires such as the who venerate the shrines Romans, European crusaders, Mamluks, and Thrks. Then, seem totally oblivious to the as the Ottoman Empire disintegrated in World War I, the life-changing content of the Arabs, like the Jews, received Britain's implied promise of message. Ironically, one of an independent homeland. By the end of World War II a the few things upon which generation later, the rest of the Ottoman's Mideast empire the Christian denominations was free and independent, under national banners such as have agreed is to give the Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. But why not Palestine? Moslems custody of the keys '''''''''"'''' to the Church of the Holy HE ANSWER is simple: The Zionists were com­ Sepulchre, in order to reduce ing! In fact, 600,000 had already come and by Christian infighting. T 1948 comprised one-third of Palestine's population. Arab houses that may have been in continuous use for a Still, one thrills at the millenium were now occupied by newcomers or bull­ places where Jesus and the dozed for Jewish construction. Arab victims of Jewish Old Testament heroes once terrorism were being dispersed throughout the Middle lived. Consider Hezekiah's East. tunnel in the original City of David. The Bible Alarmed, the unorganized Palestinians and newly (2 Kings 20:20; 2 established Arab nations resisted, but by 1949 the well­ Chronicles 32:30) armed Zionists had gained military control of 77 percent tells the story, of Palestine, while Jordan and Egypt took over the rest. but until our gen­ Palestinian national aspirations were postponed indef­ eration it had to initely. be accepted mere­ Then came 1967 and another in the series of Mideast ly by faith. Then wars. Israel's extraordinary military, bolstered by massive the tunnel was U. S. aid, took control of the remaining 23 percent of discovered by Palestine, and since then has maintained a harsh occupa­ archeologists, ex­ tion, under which Arabs are subjected to some 1,300 mili­ cavated, and tary orders that govern their daily lives. New construction of The Evangelical made accessible Home for Boys (leftJ in Ramallah and I . The casual visitor may not notice, but in the occupied dedication stone (above) written In to pi gnms. !mag- territories the evidence abounds: Guns are carried by the Arabic and English. ine wading one- Israeli military and any civilian who wants one, but a third of a mile through the dark passage, rubbing shoul­ Palestinian faces imprisonment for mere possession of a ders and bumping heads on rocks around a tunnel hewn weapon, even for threatening a Jew with a rock; Israeli 2,700 years ago! cars carry yellow license plates, Palestinians have blue on But the land is more than archeological remains of the West Bank and silver on the Gaza Strip; human rights fascinating biblical events. It contains the living stones of are guaranteed for Israelis, but Palestinians can be people today, as three major world religions continue to arrested merely for protesting; Israelis have full property vie for the perpetuation of their faiths and for political rights, while Palestinians live in fear that their land might security. be confiscated; economic opportunities abound for Israe­ The wandering path of the much-scorned Jew, victim lis, but Arabs are prohibited from businesses that compete of history's worst outrages, leads eventually to Palestine. It with Jews; Israelis have excellent educational opportuni­ is no wonder that hearts quickened when 90 years ago ties, while many Arabs are arrested and prevented from Theodore Herzl looked wistfully toward the ancient taking the examination that is prerequisite to college homeland, "a land without people:' just waiting and avail­ admission; Israelis have a nation, but Palestinians have able for "a people without land:' No wonder 20 years later nothing. Lord Balfour's implied promise of a Jewish homeland in {Continued on page 16} jUNE rg88f3 SPEAKING THE TRUTH The Curse mectronic Watches BY LON FENDALL comes and goes, even two hours passes blend of coloration, architectural lines, with little notice when worship is vital, and balanced lighting. Actually, the last NDOUBTEDLY you've had the penetrating, and alive, when people are time I had a wonderfully satisfying, rest­ experience too. It's 11:55. The involved with praise, celebration, tearful fully unhurried worship experience was U pastor has reached a key point confession, and hushed listening to in a church that meets in a movie thea­ in the message, the time for reflection, God's words for the day. Fortunately, ter in Manila. There wasn't much to say for personal examination, for response. their church culture does not limit their for the surroundings, just another Then it happens! Like a piercing, worship to 60 minutes. generic, ugly cinema, not meant to be penetrating mini-siren it starts in one Where in the Bible are we directed to seen except in the dark. But it was a part of the sanctuary, then is echoed place strict time limits on our worship wonderful worship experience that from another corner, then follows up experiences, to close our Bibles with a March Sunday in Manila. The people and down the pew, through the last of sharp "thud" at twelve noon, to start came to meet the Lord and He was the sermon's "finallys;' the closing turning to the closing hymn, to gather there.
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