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...Sin. This strange pilgrimage of the spirit is recounted with rich journalistic detail-and a style occasionally reminiscent of Turkish delight-in Asad's autobiography. The Road to Mecca (Simon & Schuster; $5). There are vivid pictures of such figures as the late King Ibn Saud (whom he served as unofficial adviser) and of the beauties and terrors of the great Nufud Desert (where Asad was caught in a sandstorm without supplies and lost for three days). Threaded through the travelogues is a warm and enlightening picture of the world's second largest religion and its believers, who seem...
...people." But one thing put him off: "The distinction it made between the soul and the body, the world of faith and the world of practical affairs." Not so Islam. "Nowhere in the Koran could I find any reference to a need for 'salvation.' No original, inherited sin stood between the individual and his destiny ... No asceticism was required to open a hidden gate to purity: for purity was man's birthright, and sin meant no more than a lapse from the innate, positive qualities. . . . Was not perhaps this teaching . . . responsible for the emotional security...
...Evangelist Billy Graham, who was conducting a revival meeting in Nashville, came an urgent invitation from the Ministerial Alliance of Phenix City, Ala. Would Preacher Graham bring his crusade to Phenix City for a "sin-killing, old-time revival, reaching into every soul?" This, to many, was just what the doctor ordered, since Phenix City, once known as Sodom, was in the midst of a political upheaval following the murder of a candidate for attorney general and the revelation of a pack of other high crimes (TIME, June 28). But before Graham could reply, the answer came from a different...
...often our words have been impotent because they have not been incarnate in relevant works of service . . . It is not enough for the church to speak out of its security. Following our incarnate and crucified Lord, we must live in such identification with man, with his sin, his hopes and fears, his misery and needs, that we become his brother and can witness . . . to God's love for him. Those outside the church make little distinction between faith and works...
There are many other matters to which the Labour leaders might direct their curiosity. They might-if they can -seek out Kao Kang, who was the much-lauded ruler of Manchuria until this year he committed the unpardonable sin of "standing up against the party." Mr. Bevan should find this an enlightening interview. They might contrast the official announcement at the end of June that, "for the first time in many centuries," the peasants along the Huai river could now live without fear of floods, with the devastation that has since struck the area. They might raise the question...