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This story seems to be filled with words like, astonished and amazed. Whenever the gospel is preached or put into practice, there will always be amazement. Dr. R. Maurice Boyd, former minister of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York tells a story about a church and a pastor that seems to demonstrate this. Several days after President Kennedy was assassinated, a Presbyterian church in Ann Arbor, Michigan, wrote to Marina Oswald, the wife of Lee Harvey Oswald who had been charged with the assassination. They had heard that she wanted to stay in America and learn to speak English. When word of this got out, the mail started pouring in. Most of it was critical of both church and university. People were astonished by their unpatriotic and un-American actions. One woman wrote to say that she had been going to church for 40 years and nothing like this had ever happened to her! The minister of the church answered every letter and gave particular attention to the letters that were critical. He ended every letter he wrote the same way: "The one thing you have not shown us is that what we have done is unlike Christ." (Permit Me Voyage, R. Maurice Boyd, Welch Publishing Company, Burlington, Ontario, Canada, pp. 22-23.) -- Angus
