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task and du in WAY 19 The greatest temptation for West Australian Christians is to jettison their spiritual patrimony and lighten the load to relieve the pressures of modern life, Fremantle's WAY 79 inter -church rally was told last Sunday night. "You Christians of West. ern Australia have a great heritage, born and nurtured through hard and gruelling times, and the faith was handed on to you at great
to speak to us about God's
"He is power crazy and regards God as someone he "The Christian faith is a can dismiss from his life. religion with a future; it "As Christians we make tells us what will come but no predictions about the does not fill in all the de- world's material future nor are their any promises about sacrifice," said Archbishop tails. what is at the end of the Winning of Glasgow. road. "We should have a great "READ THE SIGNS" age, but make love for our "The Christian knows the WHAT MAN MUST DO no concessions to it. world is not still looking for "Do not let the Christian a saviour; in God made "Nor is the world the antechamber of heaven in which message lose its sap. man, the future has already all we have to do is sit "Make sure you don't jet- been decided, around and be called," the tison the wrong possessions," "What our faith does not Archbishop said. said the Scottish prelate who tell us is 'what our world "Our response has to be is the Catholic Common- will be like at any given lived out in the rough and wealth guest invited to Perth period. tumble of daily life. for the WA combined "We have to read the "Faith in Jesus Christ will Churches' celebration of signs of the times and disnot immunise us from the WAY 79. cern the hand of God in the fretting and jarring experievents of history to see what ence of living in this world. "HIGHWAY WE the Holy Spirit wishes us to "The Christian will suffer do and achieve. CHOOSE" pain and human defeat, like "We have a blueprint of everyone else. In a 90 -minute service at "But we have the gospel John Curtin High School the person we have to win hall that consisted of read- for Christ today; he is a proclaimed by the Church big fish in a small pool and we are the Church. ings, prayer and song, backtruth.
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Army, world that can be spanned in one day and that has an
"We cannot content our-
selves with glorifying in past Archbishop Winning said: "Compared to what our extraordinary similarity of achievements or wallowing in present failure. forbears had, you have life patterns. "The whole world is "What our world is lookfared well but each generaing for are concrete protion travels along new roads, everyman's backyard, posals stemming front the encounters fresh obstacles. gospel. "Our last rendezvous with BIG "M", "It is for us to translate God the Father must deter- SMALL "C" we "The man behind the the gospel into the moral the highway mine
choose.
"We are at our best when we are needed or wanted. "In our effort to build a better world, we need each other, we need the Church
world's technology today is Man with a capital letter be cause he sees himself as a creator, but he has forgot ten that he is a creator with a small "c".
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At the Fremantle WAY 79 rally last Sunday night, Archbishop Thomas WINNING, of Glasgow was greeted by former Glaswegians, Gerold FARRELL, of Kordinya, and Helen MILLER, of Hamilton Hill.
Joint Churche's statement Leaders of the Catholic, Anglican and Uni-
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Churches this week released the following joint statement:
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similar proportion of bigoted racists in Western Am_
tralia also.
CLOSING FUNCTION The closing function of the Combined Churches' WAY 79 rally in the Entertainment Centre this Sunday, July 1, will commence punctually at 3pm. People are advised to allow at least 15 minutes to arrive at their seats after
parking. There will be 500 tickets on sale at the door price $2 adult and $1 for pensioners and children under 16. Following on successful regional, rallies this week, the Perth rally will be the latgest ecumenical service of worship and witness to have been held in. WA history. A feature of the 90-minute service will be interviews by. radio personality the Rev. Neil Adcock with three Commonwealth churchmen who have come for the Churches' celebration. The service will include a symbolic breaking of bread by all present as a fraternal Christian
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must
From the comfort of our have been shocked by the result of a recent survey armchairs, our jobs, our sotaken in Victoria indicating vial services and even of that over 60 per cent of the the relative affluence of ben_ population of that State efits paid to the frustrated were bigoted and racist and unemployed can we be so specifically opposed to fur- deaf to the appeals of refuther immigration into Aus- gees and boat people and tralia particularly of Asian unmindful of their tragic plight? refugees.
to be done, but in such a probably
way that they will attract our contemporaries.
Australians
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We, the undersigned Chris. tian leaders in Western Aus. tralia, undertake to use what authority or influence we may have, what personal and material resources we may control to encourage and as. sick and in prison and you sist the relief of refugee people everywhere, particudid not visit me." tarty those of South -East And they will answer Lord when did we see you thus? Launcelot GOODY, Cath"Truly, I say to you, as olic Archbishop of Perth. you did it not to one of'the Geoffrey SA M B EL L, Ang. lican Archbishop of Perth. least of these, you did it not to me. And they will go David OXLEY, Moderator. away into eternal punishelect of the Uniting ment" (Matthew 25:42-46). Church.
Surely we shall at our own PERTH peril be deaf to this warning. 26th June 1979.
In the recent Way to Life campaign of the Christian Churches of Western Australia over seven thousand participated in 700 discussion groups. Concern was expressed in these groups that all the talk could result in little consequent action.
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