The Guide

THE GUIDE Thursday, February 22, 1962 Southwest High Acts

Would Jesus Have Done As Max Morris? (AN EDITORIAL)

(AN EDITORIAL) We don't believe any perceptive observer of comtemporary religion can find much fault in the precision of the devastating analysis offered last week in The Herald by the Rev. Max Morris as to why he resigned his pastorate at South Miami Baptist Church. The youthful (33) departing cleric said his resignation was a "protest." Among many things, he was protesting "that concept of the ministry which forces the pastor to be an executive, an administrator, an organizational genius, a public-relations expert, a confessor to hundreds of people who have 'stumped their toes' ... "A protest against ecclesiastical machines which measure success by attendance records, larger budgets and million dollar building programs ... Against the idea that a pastor must be a 'jolly-do-well,' a back slapper, a smiling, affable dunce, and a good mixer ... "A protest against a system which makes out of the minister everything except what God expects him to be—a spiritual leader and preacher of the word ..." Mr. Morris will return, he says, to evangelism. He leaves his church with a congregation newly-embarked on a most ambitious building program of some half million dollars. His resignation was prompted in no way by any dissension or upset within his flock, he said. The Baptist minister gives us much to think about. Unquestionably, he hits the bullseye on a major part of what is wrong with mid-20th century Christianity. And just as surely it is to be observed that these are man's problems, conceived in his own image and not in God's. It is nationally recognized that many ministers are led into mental breakdown by an overburden of organizational duties. The Christian people in America — not the church — stand indicted because of it. As for that, Mr. Morris makes his point. The remedy, of course, is obvious: Let the laymen run the church. We wonder about the form he took, with his resignation, he chose to cite Jesus Christ as a non-conformist and one who gave His life in "protest." We would not presume to lecture a Baptist preacher on the Bible but as we understand it Christ chose just the opposite method of protest. Rather than retreat from the problems of the day, the Nazarene sought them. True, in the end he did give His life but only after doing everything else to alert His people to their moral decay and spiritual needs. That method has stood the scrutiny of time; the method is to work from within, to be not overcome with evil but overcome evil with good. There are many men of the cloth who agree with Mr. Morris about what needs to be done to return religion to its prosper perspective. The job is more apt to be accomplished by those thinking men who remain than by those who resign and flee. ROLFE NEILL Editor & Publisher

Traffic Hazards Along Miller Road Need Investigation, Kids Plead

Members of Southwest Miami High School Student Traffic Safety Committee have written a letter to County Manager Irving McNayr calling attention to traffic hazards on SW 56th Street, known as Miller Road. They ask that an investigation be made and steps taken to improve the road. Many of the students and their brothers and sisters travel the road to Southwest, South Miami Junior High School, South Miami Elementary School, and Blue Lakes Elementary School twice a day. Copies of the letter have been sent to the prinicpals of the other three schools located near 56th Street, with the suggestion that they take similar action. The letter calls attention to the two-lane road, too narrow for the volume of traffic which student checkers have found to be an average of 450 cars an hour at peak times morning and evening. Rough shoulders ridged above the road make it especially dangerous for the many students who ride bicycles to the four schools. The canal with no guard rail which parallels the road between 92nd Avenue and 102nd Avenue is another hazard. Fifty student committee members and 75 faculty (not all were contacted or travel the road) are asking the road be resurfaced to three lanes, which it was originally, that shoulders be smoothed level with the road and that a guard rail be placed by the canal.

Births in Our Town

BIRTHS AT DOCTORS' HOSPITAL Feb. 9 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Weddle, girl, 9775 SW 14th St.; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hillbauer, girl, 10520 Old Cutler Rd.; Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Thomas, boy, 3038 SW 8th St.; Mr. and Mrs. Dale Joseph, girl, 311 E. 45th St. Feb. 10 Mr. and Mrs. Neil Devine, boy, 1500 SW 62nd Ave.; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Silver, boy, 17230 NW 56th Ave. Feb. 11 Mr. and Mrs. David Willis, girl, 8300 SW 32nd St.; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Foster, boy, 11860 SW 186th St., Perrine. Feb. 12 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Spence, girl, 3730 SW 105th Ct.; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene McNally, boy, 1545 Trevino Ave.; Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Davis, girl, 9820 SW 15th St.; Mr. and Mrs. David Day, boy, 768 Box Marathon. Feb. 13 Mr. and Mrs. James Hofstetter, girl, 2643 W. Island Dr.; Mr. and Mrs. Leo Khandjian, boy, 1970 NW 189th Ter.; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bledsoe, girl, 8200 SW 133rd St.; Mr. and Mrs. Otto Dowlen, girl, 3331 SW 22nd Ter.; Mr. and Mrs. James Monroe, boy, 3140 NW 95th Ter. Feb. 14 Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Johnson, boy, 7900 SW 55th Ave.; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Guy, boy, 4420 SW 114th St.; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mertens, boy, 11920 SW 87th St.; Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Almirantes, girl, 5100 SW 101st Ave. Feb. 15 Mr. and Mrs. George Shave, girl, 1014 Amnati Ave.; Mr. and Mrs. James Jones, girl, 9620 SW 46th Ter.

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CONCERT TONIGHT

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