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7Iwithout that little know of fear in your stomach; odd not to listen with animal-like alertness for the meaning of every distantsound; odd to have your spiritj - « 1 ifreleased from the perpetual! A f I hlll*f|l (VlppfPipkin To Speakweight that is compounded offear and death and dirt and!noise and anguish. , .“The end of the war will be! worker in Raleigh County, willa gigantic relief, but it cannotj speak at Emmanuel BaptistSteve Pipldn, local socialbe a metier of hilarity for most of us. Somehow it would seem sacrilegious to sing and dance when die great day comes — there are so many who can never sing and dance again.“For some of us the war has if-1 already gone on too long.i7tfeelings have been wrung and drained; they cringe from the effort of coming alive again.t7Even' the approach of the end seems to have brought little inner elation. It has brought only a, tired sense of relief.“I do not pretend that my own feeling is the spirit of ourChurch Sunday.*Pipkin has received training in religion at Appalachian Bible Institute at Bradley where his father is president, and at Bob Jones University. In addition, ““‘•’Ihe spent four years in the ur United States Air Force where he was promoted to captain and commander an ICBM control center.Recently, Pipkin organized a Youth Evangelistic Team called“One Way.” This team specializes in weekend youth crusades and will appear witharmies. If it were, we probably jPipkin at the Emmanuel Bap* would not have had the power tist Church Sunday evening at)77:30.4 I . • . fPipkins wife, Mary, is a proficient pianist and will accompany the team for special musical numbers.Pastor of the church, Larry Wall, will be away for he weekend to preach the baccalaureate sermon at NorthCove High School in Northto win. Most men are stronger.Our soldiers still can hate, or glorify, or be glad, with true emotion. For them death has a pang, and victory a sweet scent But for me war has• sbecome a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit...The end of one war is a Carolina. Wall taught at the great fetter broken from around scbool prior to coming tofdtour lives. . . .Our next few months at home will be tom between the new spiritual freedom of half peace and the old grinding blur of half war. It will be a confusing period for us.“Thousands of our men willsoon be returning to you. TheyBeckley to accept the pastorateof Emmanuel Baptist Church.f*The atmosphere in Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave is pure and healthful and there is a tem-1 • ■ • i 1perature throughout the year - e .v, j— from 52 to 59 degreeshave been gone a long time! Fahrenheit.
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Post Herald and Register
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Sat, May 27, 1972
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