European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                It is abducted by pushed into associations collect and disseminate information i organizations they consider they also Tome for state and Federal investigations or Ion the groups they largely in response to pressure from Par Date officials have set up a committee for the invest on of alleged fraudulent and criminal ices of various organizations in the its hear is year entered almost exclusively on the Una Flea committee recommended that the state establish a Ruvator shop Tow under which Young cult members be reprogrammed legally Ana that legislation be d to regulate the solicitation of charitable Contri i recommendations got meeting opposition from the Gray a National Orga pm of the from the Vermont Bishops Relief t a Catholic and from the National March of for state including those in Massachi Florida and also have no approve resolutions to investigate cult by because of opposition based on the Issue of Sepa of Church and scald a sponsor of the Pennsylvania Reso explained his concern this Way these Cults get Money out on the not from their own Mem ithe main thing to do is to dry up their Money so that Al leave the behold Ibe Rise and tall of the Ohio Resolution was my of parental anguish Aad sibling y Kannal of member of the intimation Trum for religious Freedom backed the Resolution h for an investigation into the goals and activities of and his Mil said that he had not see his 22yearold lev since the Young Man joined the unification to last he said hat he hears from his son Only tonally by it afraid Well Kidnap said Tess the elder Kannal said that he i not do but if my son came Home for a i  hesitate to detain him for purposes of the no Vork Dom Cen d Jolon for false 1978 Norman Vincent Peate apostle of affluence by Kenneth Briggs new York times hand on the Norman Vincent Peale leans slightly toward the congregation of Marble collegiate Church and plunges into is Sermon like a blues Singer immersing him self in a he stands behind the ornate lectern of the 120 year old new York Church and Speaks without the Aid of a Nugget sized Silver microphone pinned to his aus Tere Black the Sermon is a reflection of peales Central theme people can extricate themselves from their troubles by changing their attitudes and availing themselves of i think christianity is truly a he tells the packed audience of and i believe the Church is a Laboratory in which that science is Christ offered three he one is to love one another is to have and the third is that the Good life increases in proportion to the amount of Faith one the 19yearold minister shows no loss of Ibe compelling preaching style that has won him rapt audiences for nearly six fort five of those years have been spent at Marble where Peale continues to speak each sunday with Rich resonance and dramatic though his reputation was already secure in Church it was the publication of peales Book the Power of positive thinking 25 years at age which made him a truly National and controversial the Book was an immediate Selling two million copies in the first few years and occupying a notch on the new York bestseller list for a record breaking three year Over the the Book became the Model for a flood of self help echoes of the Peale message have been particularly apparent in the recent string of these from Horn to be your own beit Friend to pay relaxing in his spacious study after his Jaunty and talked about the books his preaching career and the mood of today he chuckled when be was asked to assess the Impact that his original work might have had on the current spate of books on they saw that this creative bought was be the authors of these and they wanted to get the Power of positive thinking was greeted with mixed reviews by both religious and secular observers when it first came out in among the chief com plaints was that that it propounded a simplistic View of human encouraged selfish pursuits and fostered false optimism on the basis of a flawed mind Over matter some theologians were deeply disturbed by what they perceived As peales idea that god could be used to gain Iune and material a result of the enormous popularity of the controversy began to focus on peales conservative political a Loyal he befriended such notables As Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon and shared platforms with spokesmen of arc conservative v the most intensive conflict surrounding Peale was generated in i960 when he joined Iso ministers in a state ment that opposed the presidential candidacy of John Kennedy on the ground that Kennedy might be unduly influenced by the Vatican in the conduct of foreign Peale later repudiated his support of the statement and said it had been a though his fortunes As a celebrity declined somewhat in the Wake of the Kennedy the Book continued Selling briskly through the rest of the and Peale maintained his demanding schedule of writing for a devotional periodical he and making weekly radio us Peale if Ibe apostle of affluence who attempts to Supply Candy coated panaceas to com Tex Bat to if admirers who testify thai us message has changed their Devi for Ibe the minister represents the Best combination of re Ute Aad common Many ministers said my Book was oversimplified and want couched in the Correct ecclesiastical Peale this was it was written in simple language because i was trying to reach people who were he recalled that the germ of the Book was his own struggle to most horrendous inferiority Complex anyone could the Story is a Standard feature of Peale As a College he he was a scared just scared of everyone until the Day that he decided to pull himself out of i just said that things were no longer going to be this years later in an interview he echoed this overriding concern for helping people to adjust better to the conditions of in so vie responded to frequent charges that his message served primarily to rationalize selfish this is an awful lust and were stuck with Peale said in a it Bat people Are deserving of some help so they can live la this world and make the Best of i plead gladly and to helping people to accommodate to living in this awful As he worked out a positive thinking antidote for himself and Peale Drew from Modem together with a Smiley in he founded the american foundation for religion and psychiatry in the Church peales close working association with the late Blanton is epitomized in the preachers recollection of one of the psychiatrists favorite comments in reference people Ore deserving of some help so they con live in this world and make the Best of to patients Ive got him opened now you just get in there and give him the Good old the Book that eventually summarized his pragmatic beliefs was written under the working title the Power a Friend in the publishing business suggested that the Power positive thinking would reach a larger a after one publisher suggested extensive an idea Peale the manuscript sat around in a desk drawer for Over a year before Ruth Stafford the ministers submitted it to another publisher without her husbands looking Peale concedes that there Are some aspects of the Book he wishes he had dope different for he Arguet that i false attic Era that i we Iryma to mate people go tit Mph the Book and Liy to eur Maate Nikaj night suggest he also acknowledged that some of his critics Wen Correct in accusing the Book of neglecting the traditional Christian emphasis on it is an important aspect that ought to be thought Peate because lives Are being destroyed by the need is to get sin out and bring the person to the Point where he can know something in sin was generally and i didst have to accentuate but i m basically a very traditional and a sense of guilt is too guilt is the number of self help books crowding the Market nowadays leaves the minister both encouraged and Cau he believes this generation is searching for i ing More than any comparable age in Modem but of a negative he says too Many of the cur rent pop psychology books Are either too mater ustic it Outlook or make the achievement of a positive approach Mund too his own Book Nas survived time and critical trial and is Selling in a new Fawcett paperback delighted by Ibe turn of he plans to press on with the theme that has made him sprinkling his familiar expositions with an eve fresh Supply of the stars and stripes Page is