The H-SU Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 47, Ed. 1, Tuesday, April 1, 1969 Page: 2 of 4
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POUGHKEEPSIE N. Y; Vassar College's 1600
women students whose dormitory rooms have been a
girls-only conclave for 108 years have won the right to
have male visitors on a 24-hour-a-day basis.
"I will say to you very frankly that we cannot afford
the presumptions that every young man with an eager
desire to know a Vassar girl better can come here with a
bedroll and set himself up in your rooms" Dr. Allan J.
Simpson Vassar president told the girls.
SHAWNEE Okla. Translating the entire New
Testament into the Engenni language is the goal of Reu-
ben Oku Oklahoma Baptist University" junior from
Joinkrama Nigeria.
In Nigeria Oku helped devise an alphabet for his na-
tive language. He worked with the Wycliffe Bible
translators in writing eight books on how to read and
write Engenni.
LUBBOCK An information booth will be placed
in the Administration building at Texas Tech.
Purpose of the booth is to provide a place where
any person having a question about the university can
have it answered or be referred to the person who can
answer the inquiry.
ARLINGTON A group of Negro students cited a
long list of grievances and demanded the firing of an ad-
ministration member and two others at the University of
Texas at Arlington.
Included among other demands were the hiring of
blacks in all phases of campus life abolition of the uni-
versity's Rebel theme and a voice in all decisions affecting
black students.
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Puritan or Pagan?
So tomorrow you get out of school osten-
sibly to celebrate the Easter holiday. Since
you are a Hardin-Simmons student it is
taken for granted that you are fully aware
of the importance of tins holiday that it
is the one event in history upon which the
validity of Christianity is based.
But why do we call this holiday Easter?
Why do we have Easter egg hunts and how
did the Easter rabbit become involved?'
The English name Easter is derived from
the Anglo-Saxon spring goddess Eostre.
Easter eggs which were formerly forbid-
den to be eaten during Lent have been
very prominent as symbols of new life and
resurrection. The Easter rabbit is a sym-
bol of fertility.
It was not until the latter part of the
nineteenth century especially during the
Civil War that Easter customs were ob-
served in the United States except in a few
states such as Louisiana and Virginia
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which were not dominated by the Puri-
tan element. ' "
Rolling Easter eggs down the White
House lawn has become a tradition. In
Greece each person in a group bangs his
red Easter egg against the eggs of all the
others present in turn saying "Christ is
risen' and receives the reply "He is risen
indeed." .
The question arises "Have we as Chris-
tians - allowed paganism to slip into our
Easter celebration?' Is it wrong for par-
ents to allow their children to have Easter
egg hunts and believe in the Easter rabbit?
Then is it wrong to allow a child the delight
of Santa Claus and the pagan Christmas
tree?
I answer by saying that a wise man is
not so presumptuous as to think that he has
all of the answers. A wise man also takes
the time to consider seriously difficult
questions. Have you considered it or is it
even worth considering?
The Good Christian
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By T. B. MASTON
Retired Professor of Christian Ethics
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
It is unfortunate that we feel that it is
necessary to insert "good" or "real" as a
prefix to Christian. It should be sufficient
for one simply to be known as a Christian
but it is not. There are entirely too many
"Christians" who are merely nominal
Christians.
Many answers are given to the question
"Who is the good Christian?" The follow-
ing are the major ones.
Some suggest that the good Christian is
one who does not smoke drink dance etc.
This is the negative test of the Christian
life. This emphasis is particularly preva-
lent among sectarian groups such as the
Pentecostals and among those with a con-
siderable sectarian tinge such as Baptists.
Others would say that the good Christian
is one who is faithful to the formal require-
ments of his faith. He attends the serv-:
ices of his church regularly he supports
its program with at least a tithe of his
income.
A few people judge the Christian more
by his active participation in the life of
the community. He may or may not be
active in the work of his church but if he
provides leadership for worthy causes in
his community he is considered a good
Christian.
All of the preceding may and should
characterize to varying degrees the good
Christian. However no one of them is the
supreme test of a good Christian. For ex
ample one may not
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he may not be a good Christian. He may be
faithful to the formal requirements of his
faith may be active in the work of God
and in the life of the community and yet
not be a good Christian. Really some
people may make one of these "tests" a sub-
stitute for real Christian living.
For one to comprehend what it means to
be a real Christian he needs to understand
the nature of the initial Christian experi-
ence. When we became children of God.
we were brought into a vital lifechanging
union with the resurrected Christ. We
were made "new creatures" in Christ Jesus.
To be a real Christian means to let that
which was a potentiality in the initial ex-
perience become a living dynamic reality
in our lives. Another way of expressing
the same concept is to say that the real
Christian is one who lets the resurrected
Christ live in him and express himself
through him. In other words we are real
Christians to the degree that we are
Christlike.
The preceding means that the supreme
test of the Christian life is positive rather
than negative; vital rather than formal.
Basically the Christian life is a relation-
ship a relationship so deep and meaning-
ful that all of one's life is influenced by it.
The good Christian will not do certain
things he will be faithful to the formali-
ties of his faith and will be active in the
work of his church and in wholesome and
helpful programs in his community. The
motivation for all these expressions of the
Christian life however will be one's love
for and gratitude to God for the blessings
that have come through his salvation Christ.
The whoije matter can be summarized by
simply saying that the Christian life flows
from within outward. Its source is one's
vital relationship to the living Christ.
It is very possible that our
technological advances may de-
stroy us if we cannot make enough
advances in the field of the hu-
manities to enable us to cope with
the changing environment.
Unless we can begin to love
and respect one another on this
planet the forthcoming conquer-
ing pf the moon may result in
creating another sphere of intol-
erance. I recently attended a large uni
versity which was constructing a
biology building a place in which
people would be trained to' save
i numeral lives White the build-
ing was still under construction
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the five story struct and
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ed which lengthen the average
life may actually be a curse un-
less people can be given some
reason to live.
Our architecture is being
copied all over the world almost
I would imagine as quickly as
our divorce rate is increasing. Is
this to be our distinction . .
America where the family life
may be destroyed in fashionable
surroundings.
This is the great American
paradox; our humanism is made
so insignificant in comparison to
our materialism that the result-
ing creation is luxurious misery.
If our technology remains an
end instead of a means we will
becoine a sterile and inechanksal
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Fair Held
March 27
The 14th annual Region XIV
Science Fair opened Wednesday
in Rose Field House at Hardin-
Simmons. Billy Moore director of inserv-
ice education at Region XIV Edu-
cation Service Center directed
the fair.
ELIMINATION judging was
held from 8 a.m. to noon Thurs-
day after which the fair was op-
ened to the public from 1-9 p.m.
The public also viewed the fair
from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and
8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.
Joint sponsors for the fair were
H-SU McMurry College and
Abilene Christian College and
the Abilene Reporter-News.
During the judging temporary
winner markers were placed on
the exhibits however the actual
awards were not announced until
Thursday night. The awards
.eeremony was held at 7 p.m.
Thursday.
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