The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 24, 1980 Page: 24 of 30
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1 saw a man preaching in
front of the student union
building. A few students had
already stopped to hear him
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what he was
saying.
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mire the man's
courage and convictiou: it
wasn’t an easy task he had
taken upon himself. But I
couldn’t admire what he wu
saying, for although he had
never been on the campus be-
fore and knew nothing about
these students, he attacked
them viciously for the sins he
imagined they committed. He
assumed they were addicted
to drugs, alcohol and illicit sex
and he condemned them with-
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Some of the students scoffed
and jeered at him, but most
listened quietly, a few challeng-
ing his unfair assumptions.
One young man wu particu-
larly upset with the preacher’s
allegations. At lut he broke in
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and called to the preacher:
“I’ve heard only judgment and
condemnation from you, not
one word about the love of
God. You're not talking about
the God I worship in Jesus
Christ!” Instead of replying,
the preacher began to thumb
through his Bible and, find-
ing a proof-text he read it
aloud, the purpose of it ob-
viously, to ignore the student's
question. One girl standing in
front of me shook hey he*d
and said to no one in parti-
cular: “It's people like you
who give Christianity a 'black-
eye',” and she walked away.
As I joined the crowd that
began to drift away, I couldn't
help but think of those words
from 1 John: "He who says he
is in the light and hate* his
brother is in the darkness still”
(2:9). To judge and condemn
people you don’t know is hard-
ly an act of love. The preacher
had intended to share the
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The writer of John draws a
very sharp line: you cannot
despise your brother and still
walk in the 1
in the light. As I drove
home that same afternoon’, 1
asked myself: “Am I walking
in the light or am I walking in
darkness? Am I free of hate
for all brothers? In fact, can 1
regard all people u my broth-
ers and sisters?”
And u I asked myself these
quations, I thought about my
belligerant feelings toward
some USA-based Iranian stu-
dents about whom I had read
in our morning paper. Like
most Americans 1 wu caught
up in the growing hoatluty
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Read, R. L. The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 24, 1980, newspaper, April 24, 1980; Silsbee, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth819883/m1/24/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Silsbee Public Library.