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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1988. PAGE 25.
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BY REV. CHARLES CARPENTIER
BRUSSELS AND ETHEL
UNITED CHURCHES
“Look Rev.’’ he said, “There are
about 15 million people in Canada
who will be watching T.V. tonight,
and do you think for one moment that
they are worried about nuclear
submarines and improved atomic
weapons, and what it will cost the
taxpayer? You’re nuts if you so
believe I They’re worried about next
Friday’s grocery bill!’’
If that is so then this is the sin of
man, not that he has committed this
sinful act or that, such as stealing or
cursing or adultery. The sin of man
consists of the fact that he has
become a sheep instead of a man,
that he has allowed himself to be led
about by other men or women for
their selfish interest, or that he has
simply followed the selfish dictates
of his own heart, when he was meant
to be a child of God, listening to the
voice of God, doing the commands of
God, sharing in the purposes of God.
C.W. Wright Mills said in one of
his books: “Each day men sell little
pieces of their lives in order to buy
them back each night and each
weekend with the coin of “FUN”.
With amusement, withlove, with
movies, with vicarious intimacy,
they pull themselves into a sort of
whole again, so that they are
different men.” Small wonder that
we often regard leisure time as a
time for recreation .... recreation!
We need to be made over again into
men and women OR is it the sin of our
computers, mechanization and auto
mation? See what has happened to
our moral choices: not “what is
right’’ but “what are the other
sheep doing”. And so, the men and
women in power over us, are looking
upon us the masses of this country,
as sheep they must herd into their
fold, there to fleece themto divide up
the mutton!
Now.Ialsoknow, that it is popular
to look upon the crowd with
impatience, anger or contempt, and
to blame everything on “the little
guy’ ’. But how did Jesus react to the
crowd... this flock of sheep without a
shepherd? He had compassion on
them. He began treating them like
human beings even when they acted
like sheep.
“Thegood shepherd’’ he said,
“calls his sheep by name.” Give a
man or a woman a name and he/she
is no longer a sheep - he/she is an
Grey Central
news
REMEMBRANCE DAY
by S. Boyd and K. Ken-
On November 11, at Grey Central
we had a Remembrance Day Cere
mony. The Senior Choir sang a song
called “God of Our Fathers.”
After we sang we had a moment of
silence and sang O Canada. We
listened to compositions that Grade
eights wrote and listened to readings
out of the Bible also. The class
teachers pciked two children from
each grade to walk up on the stage
and pin a poppy on the cross. Then
we all rose and said the Lord’s
Prayer. We would like to thank
everyone who participated in our
Remembrance Day Ceremony.
WE RECYCLE
by R. VanVeen and R. Veitch
On Monday, November 14 we
started a recycling program at our
school. These boxes are blue and say
“We Recycle’’. There is a box in
each classroom. We can recycle old
paper like blank, lined, and graph
paper, but we cannot recycle
construction paper or anything like
that. Then we send the paper away to
the Huron County Board Office,
there they recycle the paper and the
money goes into the school system.
Soif you make a mistake putyour
paper in the recycling bin to help our
school out.
like sheep?
individual. Jesus treated each per
son as an individual person. That
gave them hope. For, if someone we
love and respect treats us with love
and respect, we feel we must have
some value. Jesus came to remind
humankind that they were made for
something better than blindly fol
lowing the crowd.
And he believed in humankind.
He showed it by laying down his life
for them, whether they were friend
or enemy. All this he believed was
the will of God. We say that we follow
him. Do we dare to be like him?
Haveagood day, and using the
“Peri Pasha” of Melito: Peace to the
one who wrote, and to the one who
reads, and to those who love the Lord
in simplicity of heart.
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