Fort Wayne Bible College - Vine / Light Tower Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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T' V in Q I W n1fj Yt'ia ' .sr P :n '- 5 1 u f 'E i 5 . fl r . . we t. C :: tt . f-Q. 2 .l:A . zl - - fi t l al i 'i z Q f ' i f fa. 'fi 35 .33 g 1 W , ' - , A b -::'1' .1 5 ' -- -- -'ve .1 .Im 5 , 61 :..M-jg, f The Korean Children 's Choir TO THE WORLD WITH LOVE Students,-faculty, and friends had an experience which can only be described as exciting, captivating, and charming, when Fort Wayne Bible College hosted The Korean Children's Choir sponsored by World Vision on November 18, 1972. The choir, on their four-month tour of the United States, Bermuda, and Canada, dropped in on FWBC to present their program, 'lTo the Vtlorld with Love. Their musicianship and exceptional individual abilities were both evident as they presented a great variety of musical numbers. This year's program came complete with lovely stage settings and bright colors. The usual use of a director and pianist was replaced by recorded orchestral-accompaniment. lVluch of the music, the costumes, the stage decorations, and the choreography added a Korean flavor to the program. Nlany people in the audience remarked, The time went so quickly, I could hardly believe it was over! The 32 children, who can only quote their name and age in English, did a remarkable job of singing in at least four differ- ent languages besides their own language. Their profession- alism was evident as they presented songs in English, French, German, and Spanish. Kurt Kaiser, director of artists and repertoire for Word Records, puts it this way: The children are incredible. Their powers of concentration, so important in achieving artistic excellence, would astound anyone. And not only do they polish their performances to exacting perfection, they add the dimension of the heart. It's a sure thing that all who attended the Artist Series will agree. It touched the heart, and added an evening of memorable pleasure! 19

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Is A bortion Ever E thi cally Rzght? The Hrs! of the college ethics series BY DR. ROBERT J. HUGHES Ill Today abortion is the most com- m0l'llb' 9fTlOl0yed form of birth control in the world. Abortion has been defined as the ezpusion of a human fetus within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy, be- fore it is viable. . . We notice that functionally abortion terminates a pre- Qflancy resulting in the death of the fetus. Whereas the operation is to be done before the fetus is considered alive--that is be- fore it could possibly remain alive after removal from its mother, as practiced now the operation is not always limited to these early days of pregnancy. Also, cases are on record of operation teams having to wait for the fetus to die even after removal of an eight-week old fetus. The Question: ls An Abortion Ever Ethically Bight! To find some guidance as Christians we turn to the Scriptures, but there we meet virtual silence. Many of the prior circumstances that make abortions popu- lar--love, family, sexual chastity tpre- marital, marital, extra-maritalj, social and economical concerns--are pointedly dealt with in Scripture. However, except for a brief regulation about accidental miscarriage due to injury by fighting men to a pregnant mother CExodus 21:22-255, no reference to abortion appears in Scripture. As formally defined abortion is to be prior to life. But can we determine when life actually begins? Opinions range from the moment of conception to the time of the first independent breath by the infant. Genetically no break appears from conception on. The ferti- lized egg is alive with all the genetic potential to develop into the adult as deter- mined bythe DNA of the 46 chromosomes, Yet the fetus cannot live on its own until weeks later. So some have viewed it as part of the mother until birth. Even with reference to life before birth we do not have such specifically stated in the Scriptures. However, using the Biblical references to David CPsalms 139: 13-185, Jeremiah fJeremiah 1: 4-57, John the Baptist CLuke 1: 13-17, 41, 445 and Jesus tLuke 1: 31-33, 352, we might be indirectly led to conclude that to God these individ- uals were specific personalities with destinies planned even in some cases be- fore conception. Beyond these special cases little else is found. Since abortion does involve the death of the fetus which, in the absence of definite negating information, may be considered a human person, we may check the areas in which man is respon- sible to terminate the life of another human. Capital punishment commanded for murderers fGenesis 9:63 Numbers 35: 9-345 as well as for other crimes or immoral acts is never applied to the unborn. Complete destruction of populations given over to judgment explicitly by God would undoubtedly include both infants and fetuses CJoshua 6:21g I Samuel 15:33, but these aqain do not find parallels in our present problem. But even in these cases we note that termination of life was not left to individ- ual discretion, but was defined by law and was to be overseen by the courts Celders, town councils, kingsj of the day. On the other hand, infanticide, usually used for religious purposes, is severely condemned by God and strictly forbidden in Israel CDeuteronomy 18: 9-145 Leviti- cus 20: 1-55 ll Kings 16: 35 17:17g 17:31g 21:65 23:1OJ. If any possibility remains that a fetus might be a living human, even though unborn, it would appear very dangerous to cause its death under any but the most extreme tragic moral choices. Even then it must be considered a desperate lesser of two evils. That the Christian should remain in the arena of Birth Control even though undesirable practices are being used is in- dicated from man's Creation Mandate to reproduce, populate the earth and gain dominion over it CGenesis 1: 26-283. lf we are approaching a saturation point in population certainly the human race needs guidance from Biblically-minded men as we wrestle with life on this planet. If left without such help, sinful man will use his potential for evil ends CGenesis 8:21, 11: 1-97. Clt is inter- esting to note that 747, of the member- ship of the British Abortion Law Reform Association are atheists or agnostics tfiardner: ABOBTION: THE PERSONAL DILENIMA, P, 553. We also find that God Himself sets for us examples as He remains involved in man's sinful society in the areas of slavery, polyg- amy, and divorce, even though neither should have ideally been a part of man's living. God, instead of with- drawing from the question, kept His ideal before us in Scripture, placed regulations upon man's sin to deter it, and patiently moved His people toward His ideal. We find this explicitly illustrated in the area of divorce by our Lord in lvlatthew 19: 3-12. Per- haps the same principle is to be followed in the areas of birth control which presently includes abortion. With some ease we discuss this question academically. However, when w as a husband, wife, family member, pastor, physician, nurse, social worker, father or mother, may personally face the question it will be much more difficult. Any previous shaping of our minds by Biblical and spiritual thinking will become very important to our decision. We make the best decision we can and cast ourselves upon the mercy of our heavenly Father Who with compassion remembers that we are of dust. G 1 8 l

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port Bow SUMMER MISSIO S During the summer of '72, SlVlF sup- ed twelve missionaries--Doris sher in Alaska, Kathy Chamberlin in India, John Charles in Brazil, Bev Confer inB ritish Columbia, Doug Eckert in .-,,-.-4-rw. .X-HV' . ,,. British Columbia, Lauri Gervasi in Maine, Bob Kirby in Indonesia, Bruce Masopust in Indonesia, Linda Perry in Haiti, Wendi Schwartz in Thailand, Jeff Wenger in Ecuador, and Bonnie Draper in Haiti. Ont hese two pages, Doris and Bob share their experiences with us. Ar L. , nl. fs. lb -. 834' rn' P uf ' 1- ,J Ap., 1 ,. .,.., .- X Up to Alaska .ff f -,,.,asl'f I we ,. C -ff.-ll is-,, 'ypfi of-I Doris Bowsher, a Christian Educa- tion major, worked as a secretary for a radio station in Glennallen, Alaska. Doris also had a tremendous opportun- ity to share the message of Christ to people in Alaska as she would visit the camp grounds around Lake Louise and then have a Bible study in her cabin every Sunday morning. When asked why she chose Alaska, Doris replied that she simply had been interested in summer missions and the Lord had directed and provided! Before her summer ministry in Alaska, Doris felt that she had placed mission- aries on a pedestal and that they were super human or super spiritual and that they had no problems whatsoever. Upon her return home she said, I learned that missionaries are human beings and they do have problems which work out because there is a oneness in Christ! ...-