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A voice unheard?

What should the role of the church be on
the many issues confronting today’s society?

The question is sparked by a reader's letter
criticizing a recent article in this newspaper
by a North Shore pastor. “We separated
church and state centuries ago,” he wrote.
“The church has no right to tell us whether
we should shop on Sunday, or whether a
pregnancy should be terminated. Let the
church look after things spiritual. Our
elected lawmakers... will handle the things

Leaving aside the fact that our elected
lawmakers often leave a good deal to be
desired even in handling temporal matters,
the letter-writer reveals a curious view of

True, the church in Canada is no longer
officially part of the state. Neither, of
course, are political parties until elected in
sufficient strength to form a government.
Nor any. of the hundred-and-one secular
groups that lobby governments in their own

Why, then, should the churches, which
still command the allegiance of hundreds of
thousands of Canadians, be denied the basic
right to speak out on important issues which
trade unions,
associations, consumer groups,
writers and every individual citizen?

Why should organized religion be the only
voice unheard in our public debates?

‘Choice of words

Fourteen wolves were poisoned in B.C.
last June and July by the deadly, govern-

_ ment-approved 1080 poison, according to
the Association for the Protection of Fur-
bearing Animals. This is the time when wolf
pups are still wholly dependent on their

Some poisoned mothers
terrible pain to return to their waiting young.
Others die.on the way, leaving the pups to
perish by slow starvation. Yet others get the
poison meat back, only to bring a convulsed
and agonizing death to the whole family.

The Wildlife Department calls it “wolf
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THE CHRISTIAN ANGLE

A collection of weirdos

By JAMES A. TAYLOR

The more familiar some-
thing is, the harder it is for us
to see it as others do. We
take it for granted — as
being as natural as driving on
the right side of the road,
paying bills, or going to
church on Sunday.

Of course, going to church
isn't that common any more.
In fact, churchgoers are now
a minority. And if you stop
to think about it, that
minority must look as if it’s
not playing with a full deck.

Why else would people
choose to spend a beautiful
summer morning indoors?
And often the place they go
to is dim, a bit gloomy and
run-down, and certainly
uncomfortable. It may even
smell musty if it hasn't had
much use during the week.

And the language used is
like a secret code. Where
else would you hear anyone
saying “Alleluia?” And what
do words like “Incarnation,”
“Redemption,” or perhaps
“Transubstantiation,” mean,
anyway? Even ordinary

words like “Lamb” and
“Salt” carry different
meanings.

The room in which these

BELIEVE-IT-OR-NOT
DEPT.: The Association of
Professional Engineers,
Geologists and Geophysi-
cists of Alberta has honored
one of its life members,
D.R.B. “Sandy” McArthur,
with a “special award.” It's
doubtless well-earned in the
context of Mr. McArthur’'s
services to APEGGA and as
a former top executive in
numerous industries. But
just a minute! The award
cites his “outstanding contn-
bution made to society.”

Mr. McArthur happens
also to be our kilo, litre and
centimetre dictator — the
chairman of Metric Commis-
sion Canada:

If books are on your
Christmas gift list for North
Shore recipients, take a look
at The Story of Lions Gate
Hospital: The Realization of
a Pioneer Settlement's
Dream — 1908-1980 by West
Van's Safly Carswell. Started
while Sally was a patient in
the hospital, it's much more
than a_ history of = the
evolution of North Shore
hospital facilities from the
first six-bed building opened
in 1908 to the present LGH
complex. It also covers
much of the overall history
of North and West Van.
gencrously illustrated with
old pictures from archives,
many taken by hubby Keith
Carswell and some by News
photogs EBsworh Dickson,
Terry Peters and lan Smith.
It's on sale at the hospital gift
shop and local stores such as

Hunt's Antiques in’ Lynn
Valicy

meetings are held is called a
“Sanctuary.” For most
people, that’s a_ wildlife
refuge. You get to it through
a “narthex,” which sounds
like a medical procedure.
During the service, people
stand up and sit down, for no
apparent reason, except that
they all do it at once. They
sing songs of joy and praise
in a tone better suited to

mourning. Songs that won't
get onto any hit parade. And
everyone sits and listens to a

monologue that would be ©

interrupted for sure if it were
delivered in your kitchen
over a cup of coffee.

For a stranger, perhaps

the most disturbing thing
would be that those people
claim to be communing with
someone who — for all that

“Oh, just worms.”

~

sunday brunch

by Noel Wright

Sally, incidentally, was
one of the first students at
Cap College, from which she
won a scholarship that took
her (at age 57) to a UBC
degree in history. She, Keith
and their two children have
lived on the North Shore for
22 years.

eee

Wedding-of-the-Fail, No-
vember 1 at 2 p.m., will
unite June Tomlin of West
Van and Rev. Desmond
Kimmitt, popular rector of
St. Christopher's, West Van,
with Archbishop David
Somerville conducting the
ceremony in the groom's
own church at 1jith and
Inglewood. It will be an
unaccustomed role for the
rector — just this once. Best
man will be his identical twin

brother, Dr. Maartce
Kimmitt, an internationally
known physicist from

England. This Tuesday, at 8
p-m. in St. Christopher's
church hall, the twins wind

up a three-part series of
debates on science vs
religion which drew a

packed audience last week.
On Tuesday they'll be
cxamining answers for the
future in this age-old con.
troversy.

ELECTIONITIS: Good
for Dama Taylor, first to
throw his hat into the ring
again for the single alder.
manic vacancy in North Van
City, after suffering defeat
last year (perseverance
cdunta, ask Ernte Crist!) In
the District meanwhiic.,
another 1979 loser, realtor
Stem =Preser, bas torpedocd

the hopes of Aldermen Jim
Ball, Peter Powell and Mary
Segal of being returned
unopposed by going after
one of their seats. With
nominations closing at noon
tomorrow, just two outside
contenders for the four
North Van = aldermanic
openings are a pretty thin
showing, but at least it's
200% better than West Van
— where, up to press time,
not a single council
challenger had crawled out
of the woodwork. All of
which leaves Mayor Derrick
Humphreys, Aldermen Don
Lanskafl, Bob Hicks and
John Humphries, together
with District Mayor Don
Bell, teetering for the next
2A hours on the edge of
victory by acclamation.

If you're secking election
thrills, it looks as if you'll
have to make do, this once,
with the school boards.
Especially West Van, where
James Mercier, one of the
five declared candidates for
the three trustee vacancies,
has already started to raise
blood pressures. Ho wants
the school board to set up an
“extra offort” school for
bright youngsters, modelled
on posh private academies
like St. George's and
Crofton House. A caso of all
students being equal, with

some being more cqual than
others _.

eae

Watered drunks is the
answer in Calgary, where a
recent’ North Shore-type
party involving 200 sozzled
young botile-smashers was
brought to order with fire
hoses How about that next

anyone can see — isn’t
there. In fact, according to
the book they keep referring
to, no one has actually seen
that person since Moses.

If church-going hadn’
been an accepted custom fo
so long, if it were something
new just starting up, an
outsider could probably

produce enough evidence to:
have

the entire group:
committed for mental:
examination!

Of course (if you'll pardon
the pun), church-goers . ”
already are committed. To"
Jesus. Or they wouldn't be
going to church, and.
praising God, and praying.
And so we should, if we —.
really believe. But we:
shouldn't assume that getting - -
friends or neighbours to -
church once in a while will
turn them on to religion. -
They may be turned off,
instead. *

It takes time for people to
become familiar with the:
strangeness of worshipping:
God, until it becomes a hab
for them, too.

(James Taylor is managing.
editor of The United Church

Observer published in.
Toronto) :
time, Chiefs Hallaway,

MacDonald and Evans —
just as a_ night training .
exercise? ; "e

FOLK-ORAMA: What do
North Van's Brian Johnston
and Mike Gill have in”:
common with West Van's: :
Jean Reid? All three are:
constituency convention,
chairmen at the 8B.C.°
Socreds’ annual convention”.
November 6-8 in the Hyatt:
Regency, that's what ../:
Named 2nd vice-president 0
the Kinsmen Rehabilitation;
Foundation of B.C. is North:
Shore Kinsman Georg
Lamb ... Shall we join the’
ladies? Veteran West Van,
realtor Len Kyle has teamed. -
up with June Diver and:
Caroline Froome in All-
Seasons Realty, the new~
shingle at Len's longtime
address, 1353 Marine Drive
... Congratulations to North
Shore winners of YMCA.
Duke of Edinburgh Awards,
presented yesterday by.
Lioutenant-Governor Henry
Bell-Irving at the downtown.
‘Y': taking tronze awards:
were North Van's Dave
Lamont with West Van's
Jason Ward, Andrew Milne
and lan Thordarson; silver
awards went'to North Vans
Darcy Barron, Mark
Charpentier, Graham Gill,
Mike Patrick and lan Smith.

WRIGHT OR WRONG!
Avoid that run-down feeling.
Look threo times cach way,
oven when crossing with the

light,