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Despite progress, humanity cannot afford to sit back and relax. Overpopulation â€" leading often to malnutrition and poor health among people in developing countries â€" remains a barrier to genuine progress in a great many lands. And each year, the global population inâ€" creases by almost three Canadas. According to United Nations findings, the world population will not stabilize until it reaches 12 billion in the year 2045. That date is far off, and those of us who are alive today must ensure that population growth continues to slow down â€" not by next century but in the coming decades. We owe it to, our children not to force them to live on an overpopulated planet haunted by hunger and disease. Submitted by United Church of Canada However, looking through my scrapbook I found this valuable item on faith healâ€" ing from "McGail‘s‘"‘ magaâ€" zine dated September (1974). The article asks the quesâ€" tion: What do modern faith healers accomplish? Letter fto the ediftor In September. 1976 I sent a letter to one of our local pastors _ seeking â€" informa~ tion on faith healing. To date. I have received no reply. To the editor In the villages of Indonesia and South Korea, wives‘ clubs have been formed where young women exchange birth control information. Across Asia and Latin America, paramedics are being trained to provide general health services, including family planning advice. The Chinese barefoot doctors are assisting China‘s population control programs, and this system is being copied by other countries. Waterioo Chromicle office is located on 2nd floor of Waterioo Square‘s Office Tower Enter via the mail entrance beside the Longhorm Restaurant (directly opposite the card shop) or from the elevator foyer beside the Tâ€"D Bank Take the elevator to the 2nd floor and you are there The United Nations Fund for Population Activâ€" ities also concedes that there are signs of hope. Yet the Fund insists that today‘s world populaâ€" tion of more than 4 billion will have doubled by the year 2015. What has caused this new and enâ€" couraging picture in population control? The leaders of many countries with serious population problems have spoken out clearly and firmly in support of family planning. Indians have realized the urgency of the problem, and thousands have gone along with voluntary sterilization. Page 4 â€" Waterioo Chronicle, Wednesday, January 12, 1977 Now one researcher claims that previous forecasts of a doubling of the world population by the end of the century may never happen. Lester R.. Brown, president of Worldâ€"Watch Institute, says a new survey indicates that falling birthrates and rising death rates in some areas of the world have caused a breaking in the global population growth. Despite man‘s ingenuity, nothing is more detrimental to humanity over the long term than overpopulation. We live on a finite planet which simply cannot support infinite increases in the human population: Man has an unbreakable will to survive. This is shown once again by the recent reports of strong gains in the family planning field from around the world. waterioo chronicle The will to survive published every Wednesday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Record Ltd. . owner, address correspondence to Waterioo office : Waterioo Square, Waterioo, Ont., telephone 886â€"2830 Publisher: James M Boland Editor: Mary Stupart subscriptions : $10 a year in Canada $12 a year in United States and Foreign Countries He said: After a little soft music and prayer, the healer said "Now we‘re going to take up the offering and I want twenty people out there to write out checks for one hundred dollars. Fifty peoâ€" ple to write checks for fifty dollars, one hundred people To find out. Dr. William A. Nolen attended a healing sesâ€" sion of a famous ‘"Christian" faith healer in a large Minâ€" neapolis auditorium. 225 Fairway Rd. S., Kitchener, Ont established 1854 Prompted by the healer, the young woman said she was "cured". The doctor comments; "This scene. to to write checks for twentyâ€" five dollars."‘ Before writâ€" ing out my cheque I decided to read more of what hapâ€" pened at the session and the good doctor states that a young polio victim took off her leg brace and stood on ‘‘"one good leg and one short, withered leg"‘. Winding up the budget debate, in the closing hours of this session of the Ontario Legislature, Premier Davis anâ€" nounced that the government is planning to extend the rent review program, to provide some continuing form of tenâ€" ant protection after next July, when the current program, requiring landlords to obtain government permission for rent increases beyond 8%, expires. The Premier was not specific about the type of legislaâ€" tion to be introduced, but stated that tenant protection is necessary ‘"as long as we have antiâ€"inflation regulations‘. Among possibilities being considered is legislation simiâ€" lar to that in Quebec, where tenants can seek a hearing if they consider a rent increase is too high; controls are reâ€" moved from an apartment when a current tenant moves elsewhere and retained only in cities where apartment shortages are so acute that supply and demand cannot regulate prices. There has been considerable discussion of the operation of the Workmen‘s Compensation Board, under review by the provincial standing committee on resource developâ€" ment. The chairman of the board maintained that Ontario faces substantial economic risks if the costs of compensaâ€" tion to injured workers continue to rise, while NDP and Liberal Members accused the Board of failing to meet the needs of people injured or incapacitated in the course of their work. Hugh O Neil, Liberal MPP for Quinte, told the Committee that his office is flooded with requests for help in dealing with the board, from people who are worried about money to buy food, meet mortgage and rent payments and other essential financial commitments. He said "it appears to me that appeal tribunal hearings are conducted in such a way that the workman is dealt with more in a manner of a defendant in a trial rather than as a person who has sustained injury on the job...at these hearings, the workâ€" man and his representative are pitted against three seasonâ€" ed commissioners of the board." He suggested it would be more humane and just, and would probably save administration costs, to scrap the ‘‘antiquated and timeâ€"consuming"‘ present appeals sysâ€" tem and replace it with one geared to providing claimants with a speedy, fair and sympathetic assessment of claims ‘"‘in an environment free of the intimidating atmosphere that at present exists . , Legislation to protect occupational health and safety rights of workers in Ontario has been given final reading in the Legislature. The bill gives employees the right to refuse work which they believe to be unsafe or which they Liberal Party Line #2 2R%® my mind, was utterly revoltâ€" ing. The girl‘s leg was just as withered as it had been ten minutes earlier. I could imagine how she would feel when the hysteria of the moment had left her and she again had to put on the brace she had worn for 13 years. Another older woman suffering from cancer took off a back brace and ran across the stage. Visiting her two months later. Dr. BO/ REMEMBER WHEN THAT MEANT & THE FLAVOR WAS‘LOCKED IN‘? P â€"â€"â€"â€" h Contrast these soâ€"called cures with the authentic reâ€" storation of cures and healâ€" ings of afflictions recorded Nolen found her bedfast. She related awakening the moming after the ‘"cure" with a "horrible pain in my back". Medical examinaâ€" tions showed that a verteâ€" bra of her cancerâ€"infected back had collapsed. Within four months of her "miracuâ€" lous cure" she was dead. The Minister of Transportation and Communications has announced that four cities are to take part in a transit experiment involving articulated buses. These vehicles will be tested in rush hour traffic in Hamilton, Mississauâ€" ga, Toronto and Ottawa, commencing in 1978. The exâ€" periment will cost some $3.3 million in net capital exâ€" penditure over a three year~period. However, the use of the articulated vehicles â€" common in Europe but unknown in North America â€" could save the province about $4 milâ€" lion a year if put into regular operation. The Minister of Revenue told the public accounts comâ€" mittee that he believes his Ministry and the cabinet were right to grant an exemption from payment of $660,000 in land speculation tax last summer to Ronto Development Co. of Willowdale on the basis of the information available at the time. But under strong questioning by Albert Roy (Lib. Ottawa East), David Peterson (Lib. London Centre) and other Opposition Members, he admitted his view might have been different had all the relevant information been available to him. It had been his understanding that the company was in serious financial trouble, and 2,300 housing units under construction would not have been comâ€" pleted had the exemption from the 20%,â€"tax not been granted when the company sold land nefi’fqntford to George Wimpey (Canada) Ltd. for $12 millioonâ€" Opposition members argued that Ronto was apparently speculating, and proceeded part way with the project only to avoid the tax. The Minister admitted the Cabinet deâ€" cision was based on a report from his staff,; on the sole basis of a letter from Toronto lawyer Eddie Goodman. Some 25 communityâ€"based programs for treatment of the mentallyâ€"ill have been given grants by the provincial government, totalling $282,407, to cover costs for the reâ€" mainder of the fiscal year. The Minister of Health said two shortâ€"term studies are to be completed within the next few months and a third will receive limited financing in the following year. The other programs will be supported by grants totalling $693,967 a year for the next two years. He said that during the past ten years the number of menâ€" tallyâ€"ill patients in provincial hospitals has been reduced by more than 8,000. believe will endanger fellow employees, without fear of reprisal by employers, and gives the Minister of Labour authority to demand health and safety committees be established in workplaces. Labour groups welcomed the legislation, but said it did not go far enough. Meanwhile, spokesmen for employers feared abuse of the legislation would lead to work stoppages and shutâ€"downs. By Ed Good, M.F.P. Waterloo North After Christianity became firmly rooted and with the passing of the apostles off the scene such "gifts of healing"‘ also passed away. Read 1 Corinthians 12:8.9, 28, 30. Faithful servants of God accepted no money for curing the sick. Read Matt. 10:8. _ W.D. Pope Waterloo in the Bible when miraculous cures by Jesus and his apostles were instantaneous and complete.