Basic HTML Version
THESABBATH
(Continuedfrom page 21)
tual fact, there is more quantitative
New Testament information and in–
struction concerning the Sabbath
commandment than any one of
these other three.
So the emphasis in the New
Testament is on the last six com–
mandments and also on
the
interrelationship
between the broad
principies bridging the last six and
the first four. In Ephesians 5:5 , the
apostle Paul related that
cov–
etousness
(number ten)
is
idolatry
(number one).
However, the Ten Command–
ments, as magnified in the New Tes–
tament, sti ll represen! one whole,
complete law
with ten points.
Jesus
tells us that to !ove God is the first
and great commandment; James
tells us that there are points to
God's royal law; John tells us that
we cannot hate our fellowman and
!ove God simultaneously.
The Ten Commandments are a
"complete package"-one com–
mandment cannot be arbitrarily
ripped out ofGod's ten-point law. If
one is broken, all are broken in
principie.
The Sabbath law is still one of the
Ten Commandments! It has, how–
ever, been greatly magnified by
Jesus' own personal example and
instruction, typified by His famous
statement that "the sabbath was
made for man, not man for the sab–
bath" (Mark 2:27). Keeping God's
seventh-day Sabbath does
not
in–
volve an endless list of burdensome
dos and don'ts. The Sabbath was
intended to be a great blessing for
mankind- not a terrible yoke of
bondage.
This article has broached but one
aspect of the overall Sabbath ques–
tion . We recommend the following
booklets and articles as further
study guides:
Which Day Is the
Christian Sabbath?; The Ten Com–
mandmems;
"Were the Ten Com–
mandments in Force Before
Moses?"; "Are All the Ten Com–
mandments in the New Testa–
ment?"; "The Sabbath Was Made
for Man." Be sure to request this
free literature. Mailing addresses
are on the inside front cover.
o
The
PLAIN TRUTH September 1978
URBANHOME
(Continuedfrom page
19)
the insects cause intolerable damage
to our food."
She shared with me sorne of the
many techniques used to control
common pests, such as aphids. "We
leave sorne flowering herbs in the
garden at al! times," she said. "The
herb flowers are needed for the life
cycle of miniwasps. The wasps, in
turn, !ay their eggs in the soft bodies
of aphids and caterpillars, helping
to keep down the insect popu–
lation."
The benevolent Bay Area climate,
with a 12-month growing season for
vegetables, makes the task of food
self-reliance easier than elsewhere.
Tom Javits explained why they
concentrate on vegetables and fruits
rather than grains and dairy prod–
ucts. "Vegetables are about 20 per–
cent of our nutritional needs, but 50
percent of our grocery bill for the
average family," he said, "because
of the high energy inputs required
to grow, fertilize, pick, and transport
the vegetables to us. These costs are
bound to rise. Grains, by contrast,
can be grown for relatively lower
energy costs. Grains can be stored
and transported relatively economi–
cally. Dairy products would not be
possible in this limited urban
space."
Every bit of space in the house is
used, including the roof area off the
kitchen, above the greenhouse.
Salad vegetables and herbs grow in
container boxes filled with compost,
which is only 50 percent of the
weight of regular soil. Drip irriga–
tion to the containers further min–
imizes the weight that the walls of
the house need to bear. "We call
this agriculture 'detritus' or waste–
based agriculture," said Javits. "We
contras! it with the usual fossil -fuel
agriculture commonly practiced."
Stalk and le'af parts of vegetabies
not succulent enough to interest
humans are fed to chickens in their
cages on the shaded north side of
the house.
Beehives at the back of the lot
produce about a hundred pounds of
honey per year. "The bees are our
goodwill ambassadors to the neigh–
borhood," said another house resi-
dent, Tom Fricke. "They pollinate
everyone's ftowers, trees and vegeta–
bies."
On the back deck 1 saw the
piece
de résistance
of the system: a para–
bolic solar disc boiling a whistling
kettle ofwater that would be used to
make tea for lunch. The house resi–
dents also use a large solar reftective
oven for baking.
The longer
l
stayed at the Integral
Urban House , the more ideas
emerged. All the concepts had been
carefully worked out in this practica!
environment by competen! realists
rather than utopian dreamers. )f
there is an antidote to environmental
pessimism about our ability to adapt
and survive, this is it.
"We always favor the term self–
reliance rather than self-sufficiency,"
said Javits. "Here we try to be self–
reliant, depending on ourselves. Self–
sufficiency suggests that we are little
islands, but we are in fact closely
related to each other and ínter–
dependen! on each other."
o
LITTLEPEOPLE
(Continued from page 25)
say, "Hey, this is not fun ." So they
continue to seek the TV/comic-book
fantasy they have lost from their
childhood and the easy way to get it
later on is to sniff a little glue,
smoke a little joint, pop a few pills
and so on.
Q .
Where does your work wlth Pyg–
mles stand now?
A.
With the support of
The Plain
Truth
and its readers along with
others, the population of our Pygmy
friends is now stabilized. The situ–
ation is still fragile and isn't
deeply rooted, but the program goes
on.
Support to keep our work going is
very importan! right now. 1 have
sold practically everything 1 own to
compensate for the funds I was un–
able to raise this past year. 1 con–
tinue to seek more supporters to the
Pygmy fund and wish to take this
opportunity to thank those who sup–
ported the Pygmies as a result of
The Plain Truth
article.
The address of the Pygmy Fund
is Box 1067, Malibu, California
90265.
o
43