European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes wednesday april 29,1987 columns today s crossword to religion hurts Little churches Brand Rooney you have to Eccl sorry for the traditional Little neighbourhood churches. The Pope has been gallivanting around he world attracting attention Ana Money Tor the Catholic head Quarter in Rome and the television preachers like Oral Roberts. Pal Robertson Jim Bakker Rex hum Bard Jimmy Sauarl and Robert Schuller Are skim Ming the Cream off the tap at the Proto unt collection plates. The Little Church around the Comer has Totake the Ler Ioven. The Good solid Small Church protestant minister Sand Catholic Parish priests across the country Mutt act i the Neon evangelism of the television hucksters if the prints and ministers believe what they preach they must worry about the perverse pleasure they Are taking from the scandals in which the big Money television ministers Are involved. It seems so unfair and yet inevitable that the most ignorant and the poorest people in America pay the most for nothing. It is Tor the most part the ignorant and uneducated who respond to the appeals from the television ministers. They Are the same people who buy lottery tickets. There is a correlation Between buying a Lattery ticket and sending $10 to Orel Roberts or Pat Rober son because he results Are the same. There Are none. In each Case the person pulling up the Money i looking Tor some disproportionately wonderful return on the Money. In the Case or the lottery ticket the person Hopes to win is million a year for life. In the Case of the Money tent to the television ministry the sender Hopes to get Back life everlasting or at the very least forgiveness for his sins. I d give $10 to Oral Roberts myself for a Little of that. The television evangelists Are Good at what they do. Words flow from their throats like sugar from a bag. They never seem to be Al a loss Tor words and when they Are they say Praise Talent is like that of the vaudeville perform ers who can juggle eight balls in the air or draw two rabbits out of a size 6 hat. Preaching is a trick they be mastered la s Sleigh a of Mouth. Jesse Jackson who is smart enough so he should t have to resort to it can do this vaudeville trick. Once on "nightline1 he appeared along with Jerry Falwell. Falwell has an appealing Way about him if you Don t listen to what he says but Jackson oui double talked him that night. When Jackson was backed into a Comer by Falwell or Host Ted Koppel to turned on his invisible preacher switch. His Mouth started going while fal Welt Koppel and presumably the whole television audience tried to make out what he was saying. The words were All familiar. He sounded As though he was making sense but you realized that like those double talk nightclub comedians it was an illusion of sense. He was t saying anything. Ii was his act plan now to Greet the year 2000 by Joe Murray Back in 1950 when the world was celebrating the20th Century Al Middle age i remember my aunt Bonnie telling me that i could look Forward to seeing the turn of the Century. She added of course i won t be around by the year 2000." nowadays i m older than she was Ihen. Moreover she seems healthier than i am now. The turn of the Century being just 13 years off 1 see no reason for either of us not to make plan for new year s eve 2000. But despite the Odds in Pur favor i think i la hedge the bet a bit. What tin going to do is Send $2 one for me and one for aunt Bonnie to my Friend Martha Ferguson of port Arthur Texas. That will Reserve a place for our names in the year 2000 life is Beautiful club if you haven1 heard of that particular Organiza Tion it s understandable. Ferguson has just though i in up according to the letter i received from her. I m is years old love life and want everybody else in the world to love life too and to live to reach the year 2000, Only 13 years away she wrote. To Supply you with a bit of extra incentive she will record the names of people who Are determined to live to see the new Century in her club Book. She admits she can t guarantee anyone a Long and Happy life or " Ell them whal to eat or what not to eat whal to do or what not to mainly her club will serve As a Challenge and a encouragement. There will be no club meetings and no additional dues. The St will help mrs. Ferguson pay for the 26 notebooks she has already bought one for each letter of the alphabet. But you never can Tell she said. Come new year s eve 2000, we May All gel together for one Heck of a i won t try to predict what May come of Ferguson s year 2000 life is Beautiful but nothing concerning this lady would Surprise me. Almost every year her Short stories and poetry win awards in regional contests. She has written a novel the depot Saloon that s almost As Long As gone with the although she has received much encouragement from editors she has yet to find a publisher. But she plans to keep up the search for at least the next 13 years. Meanwhile she has another Book in the works. In any Case i d put my Money on Martha Ferguson at least 12 of it. Anyone similarly inclined can write her at . Box 291, port Arthur Texas 77641. Further if you would like to strike up an acquaint Ance and correspondence include a stamped self addressed envelope. 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