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DIED. Chester H. Lauck, 78, co-star with Norris Goff of the Lum and Abner radio series, which dealt with the comic doings of a pair of country storekeepers in Pine Ridge, Ark., and during its long run (1931-55) won a nationwide audience that was second in size only to Amos and Andy; of cancer; in Hot Springs...
...When Ada Lum addressed the 250 participants in a Christian conference at the University Lutheran Church last Friday night, she did not tell them how to relate to God or to find themselves through religion. These listeners, college students and recent graduates from the Boston area, had long accepted the church as a major focus of their lives. They came to the two-day gathering with a far more specific goal: to find out what they can do to help the church's world-wide missionary endeavors. Lum, a slight, soft-spoken Hawaiian who is known throughout the American Christian...
Drawing on her 18 years of experience as a missionary recruiter, Lum said that she believed that youth movements of ten years ago played a positive role in incubating the present trend towards involvement with missions: "The '60s forced young people to be more aware of themselves and the world around them." But she added that "these radicals didn't have the answer, only the questions. Young Christians today finally have realized that we have got the answer...
...direction of John W. Alexander, Ph.D. president of IVCF, do not disguise the rigors of the conference or the life of the missionary in their glossy publications and audio-visual presentations. They do, however, add a political bite to many of their messages. A slide show that followed Lum's speech at the Lutheran church last Friday included the ususal scenes of sweaty but cheerful youths working with the underpriviledged. The show then identified "revolutionary Marxism," Islam and Eastern "cults" as the enemies of the church's evangelistic efforts. Pamphlets and paperback books which further examine the philosophy and logistics...
Before her speech, Lum said gatherings such as Urbana, which drew about 16,500 college students and missionaries, and its extension, Urbana Onward, give participants "an intelligent presentation of what's going on around the world with missionary work...