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ORONO WEEKLY TIME~S, THURSDAY. JUNE 19th. W-e Seeing People As Pei sons Or Things Taken from a sarmon preached The book "Enviroumental Man" by Rev. B. Long. Sripture Read- states, 'Toclay's growing aware- ing - Mark 8: 22-25. ness of the influence of techuol- An interesting incident in the agyupon mian makes it imnoerat- expeienc ofJesu isfoun in ive to search out the etfect of expeienc of esusis fund this environnient on' the entire the account of the blind nman v7l '. range of 0 1hristian beliefs and ex- kavng been toched by Jesus, was precs asked if 11e could see anythcrl,. prec In reply he answere.d, "I se e men What the inpersanal aspject of as trees, waliking." Jesus touelied our'modemn expression does ta him again and the mnan saw clear- People is of real ooncern. It rests ly. upon the Christian at least to be In the first stage of this exper- of the sanie spirit of Jesus and ience the man saw peo,,Ile is see People as persans liather than bUnngs; but in the next stage he, things. The longer the blind man aaw theni as People. w as with Jesus the clearer he saw The stixdy book "Man Alive" 11is feùbowmen. The same is also asks tihe w~esftof, "Hiave you ev- true for us. The longer we re- er âtopped' to count 110w many main in the presence of Christ times you have to identify your- the more auxr visi clears and the acif by a nuwnber? Whether we more we corne to see each person are putting money into.Ahe bank, as an individual and not as part paying our bis, re """" 1ý of tihe crOwýd. cal attention or using tihe tele- phone, the important thing is to' Our vision cani become biurred give the identffying number. It is in a nuanher of ways. For ex- dtflcult to, feel like a persan 'am.'ple, w e ean see peopfle as a ,when even the telephone talks means to an end. This hapvenri, a back to Jou without h&arý'- - e, great deal in our world. A man thi.ng you nay wisii to gay by way, is seen as, a potential customer. of exiplanation ("1this is a record. Hfe is nôt a "ýperson" to bc deqIt ,-.îng. Please bang up and dial wth for hIS good also. He be- agaun!"> conies a "lhing" to be exploited r in as many wàys as oissuibke. -Within our homog it is easv in- deed, for mariage partn ers to forget that the other is a 'person' not a 'thingi', or for 'chldren to use their- parents as a means Vo an end. We may tend to classihy peo- pie as types and flot sec bb-~ individuals. This happens j-tic- ularly when we associate 'people with their Profession, race, na- tionality or Social status and speak of it as if there were scyme stigina attaChed to it. We see ev- idence of the sanie thing ini our common, cvery-day ,expressions,, MnW reaetions. One niay be com-' pletely frustrated with the inecx- cusable habits of tihe driver of the car ahead when travellinp,-*on a buey road. nImproper signalling, weaving across the centre line, driving in spurts of speed then slowing up to a crawl and a hosti ef other offences may cause oe to fée that -oly a woman could drive se poorly aund that women in general are a menace to the road. ,Te other passengers iu the car znay hear a lengthy aceount «f the inferior driviing of woffnen, but when an opportunity finailv arrives to pass, and vhen one loois into the other car, it is with embarrassu-ent tlbat he secs the driver is net a woman but a mani. So'mething in their zeal for mnoral standards Christians are tempted to Put prineiples before people and to write off someone because he has been gullty of seine moral lapse. The prnciple becomes the al important consid- eration while the person is of Little consequence. We are inconsistent in that we generalize about people we do net know or who are remote from us. "Man Alive" points out that we (Continued page 5) 1968 VIVA VAUXHALL DELUXE Automatic. One owner car. Lie. No. 303059 2-DOOR $ 1493. $1482. ,$1593. $1067. $996. 1965 CIIEVROLET 3/-TON 8 foot Fleetside body, 1V8, 3-speet! manual transmission. Excellent condi- to.Lic. No. 32343V --------- --.-------- $1598. 1966 FORD '/2-TON PICKUP 6 cylinder, 3.speed transmission stick, radio, 19,843 original miles, 1699 locally owned This vehicle is just like new. Lic. No. 47650B We also have in stock for immediate delivery 50 NIEW CARS AND TRJUCCS, AILSO 40 GOODWIVrlLL USED CAIRS many models, colours and! options available. Be sure to see them at our lot in Bowmanviile DEAL WITH YOUR AUTHORIZED GM DEALER 166 KING ST. -e A * A', E. 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