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Prayer group plans conference
The Prayer and Praise group
will sponsor a conference, on
Bible Prophecy Friday and
Saturday.
The film "Dry Bones" will
be shown at St. Mark's
Episcopal' Chapel Friday at
7:30 p.m. Following the film
John Ruthven will speak on
"The Present Day Fulfillment
of Bible Prophecy."
The Saturday 'session will be
in the Nebraska Union
Centennial Room, at 9:30 a.m.
Harry Turkis, contributing
author of And God Spoke
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Lindsay video tapes will be
shown in 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
sessions.
Singing and a message from
Carl Stuart will end the
conference at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday.
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Parents criticize tactics of
fundamentalist Children of God
by Merrill Sheils ,
Newsweek Feature Service
A 22-year-old nurse named
Kay Rambur was riding her
bicycle on the University of
California campus at Berkeley
when she came upon a group
of guitarstrumming Jesus
People. She stopped, listened
to the music, the sermons and,
on the spur of themoment,
decided to join them.
She rode off in their van,
first to Los Angeles, then to a
commune in Mingus, Tex. By
the time her father,- a retired
Navy officer, caught up with
her, she i was quite beyond his
resell
"WE TRIED to get her to
come home with us," he, said,,'
"but she told us, 'The Devil's
in that car with you. I'm not
getting into a car with the
Devil."
Kay Rambur became one of
the Children of God-a
y outhful, furiously
fundamentalist sect which split
off from the established Jesus
People movement and has been
appearing all around the
Western U.S. as well as in
sections of the South, the East
and Canada.
The COG people, as the
Children of God are sometimes
called, believe the world is
about to end-and for good
reason, according to their
lights. They reject practically
everything in modern society
from the profit system to the
existing churches to the
norms-and extremes--of
ordinary human behavior.
IN PARTICULAR, they
reject the family, pointing to
such New Testament passages
as that in which Luke quotes
Jesus as saying: "If any man
come to me, and hate .not his
father, and mother. . .he
cannot be my disciple." (Luke
14:26)
In rural communes and
decrepit city buildings, some
3,000 COGs lead lives of
strenuous asceticism. They
disavow alcohol, tobacco,
drugs and illicit sex. They
spend most of their time in
prayer, in memorizing huge
chunks of Scripture and in
proselytizing, in which they
have been so successful as to
provoke an organized backlash.
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Parents of some COGs have
set up several anti-COG groups,
the most notable so far being
the "Parents' Committee to
Free Our Sons and Daughters
from the Children of God." In
a series of blasts at COG, the
committee has charged the sect
with being "anti-government?
anti-religion and anti-schools.'
The committee also accuses
COG leaders of "brainwashing"
their followers, and there have
been allegations of hypnosis
and the use of drugs to keep
the members faithful to the
sect
COG HAS responded to the
committee with a $1.1 million
libel suit. It has also announced
that its rules against visits
home have been temporarily
set aside and that any COG.
member who wishes to may
spend Christmas with his
family.
This apparent liberalization
of policy comes after many
charges by parents that they
have been allowed to see their
sons and daughters only in the
presence of other COG
members. One parent, Ismael
Barron of Seattle, says that
several "guards" prevented him
from taking his 18-year-old son
from a COG camp near
Burlington, Wash.
"My son was preaching the
Bible to me every minute,"
says Barron. "He told me that
we were no good, that we just
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believed in money, that the
whole system was rotten, l
couldn't talk ' to him. He was
never that way before."
THE COG people profess a
total lack of surprise at the
suspicion and animosity they
have aroused in many quarters.
"Jesus was hated and despised
in his day, too," says Arnold
Dietrich, 32, who is known in
the sect as Bishop Joshua Levi.
(All COG members adopt
Biblical names upon joining the
sect.)
"We believe that we're a
whole new nation, a whole new
society based on the Book of
Acts." he says, adding the
phrase with which all COG
people end conversations:
"Praise the Lord!"
The sect claims that its
particular mission is to take
young people with serious
problems and make them
functional again. Some of the
parents of its members concede
it has done that.
HOUSTON industrialist
M.J. DuPoy says that his
16-year-old son was heavily
involved with drugs, had
dropped out of school and
disappeared, until he came
under the sect's sway.
"I have to admit that I am
now convinced that if he had
not joined the Children of
God, He'd either be dead or a
complete dopehead," says
DuPoy.
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