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McJLnuo^uLU Ma^a^i^ve ffO^i Me4Jto~ OCT 20 1956 <* , KMwn 4t0 Together Established in 1826 as CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE The Midmonth Magazine for Methodist Families "Is thy heart right, as my heart is with thine? . . Dost thou love and serve God? It is enough. I give thee the right hand oj fellowship." John Wesley (1703-1790) Provo Canyon in Utah is the setting for this col- October-November 1956 Vol. 1 1, No. or masterpiece. It is from Mike Roberts, professional Statement From The Publishing Agents 8 photographer and Methodist What My Religion Means To Me Ralph W. Sockman 10 layman of Berkeley, Calif. Midmonth Powwow 14 How Donald Learned To Say "Okay". .Charles Mussen as told to Katherine ]. Pitkin 17 Rosemary to the Hospital (Pictorial) 19 Goes Editor: Leland D. Case • Man- A Tip from Susannah Wesley Mrs. Elmer DeGolier 22 aging Editor: Charles W. Key- Martin Luther, Mighty Reformer Donald Culross Peattie 24 sor • Art Editor: Floyd A. He Drop-Kicked 63 Yards! H B. Teeter 28 Johnson • Associate Editors: The Hiroshima Maidens Go Home Norman Cousins 30 Edwin H. Maynard, H. B. Tee- ter, Grant J. Verhulst • Edi- Can Colds Be Cured? Shirley M. Linde 34 torial Assistants: Else Bjorn- Teens Together Richmond Barbour 36 stad, Beverly Cederberg, Owen How Did Jesus Really Look? Dwight Loder 38 Meredith, Roberta Riggleman Editors: Here's How Sollmon Painted It. . .William F. McDermott 47 • Contributing New- S. Cryer, Jr., T. Otto Nail, The Torn Invitation Norman Katkov 49 man H. F. Rail, Roy L. Smith • Mama's First Vote Constance Foster 55 Manager (Business, Circula- Looks at New Books Barnabas 58 tion, Advertising) : Warren P. Light Unto My Path (Four Meditations) 69 Clark • Publishing Agents: News of the World Parish 71 Lovick Pierce, J. Edgar Washa- baugh. OTHER FEATURES AND DEPARTMENTS Letters to the Editor 3 Together, an official organ of The Methodist Church, issued Together Newsletter 7 monthly by The Methodist Lessons In Spiritual Efficiency Roy L. Smith 16 Publishing House, 740 North A- *L.\ Looks at Movies Harry C. Spencer 23 Rush Street, Chicago 11, 111. Opinions expressed do not Prayer To Make Your Martin Luther 27 A Own necessarily reflect concurrence We Put Christ in Our Christmas Cards Dorothy L Yates 35 of The Methodist Church. The Wicked Flea 37 Application for second class mailing privileges is pending We've Got The Buttons! Grant J. Verhulst 53 at Chicago, HI. Together With The Small Fry 56 Dr. Rail Answers ..H. F. Rail 70 MANUSCRIPTS AND COR- RESPONDENCE for publica- Methodist Almanack 73 tion: Write to Editorial Offices, 740 North Rush Street, Chicago 11, 111. Authors should enclose postage. 1 No, he's not Lassie. He's SUBSCRIPTION: $3.00 per a grandson of the famous year. Write to Business De- movie collie. Those twins partment, 740 North Rush Street, Chicago 11, 111. are Lindy and Sandy Block He restores my of Los Angeles. They and ADVERTISING: For rates the dog are very much to- write to Together Magazine gether — which as you Representatives, 454 Wrigley Building, Chicago 11, 111. have guessed is one rea- son we selected this photo for our first cover. This photo by John Randolph. » ^V5W^* N % v^: ~ k * |)RD is my shepherd, I shall not want, kes me lie down in green pastures — He leads me beside still waters leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of Death [evil for thou art with me Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. . . . Gentleman of Old Korea Students of Raiwind School — Pakistan The Annuity Plan Gives You Guaranteed High Return, Unquestioned Safety and a Share in World-wide Missions No other investment you can make accomplishes so much. Send today for booklet Puerto Rican Boys "Bright Horizons" and learn full details of the triple benefits which you enjoy under The Annuity Plan. 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Gives you a new vision of world need and a better Annuity Plan. grasp of the broader aspects of world-wide Christian service. A helpful guide to truer, wiser stewardship. Get your copy today. Name- Address- Board of Missions of The Methodist Church City -Zone State. Dept. T10-31-6 150 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK 11, NEW YORK . A dream ... a plan . . *3JM a new church to the glory of God ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF AMERICAN SEATING'S HELPFUL SERVICES Like Old-Time Class Meeting TO CHURCHES E. Retired J. M. Chambers, Pastor A new church is not just masonry and wood. Mt. Pleasant, Iowa It represents the faith, prayers, inspiration, Two or three large boxes of To- and sacrificial labors and gifts of its hundreds gether were freely distributed at the of members and friends who make the building closing session of our Des Moines Con- possible. ference here yesterday. Congratulations! This is true in the case of the new Grosse Pointe Baptist Church, Grosse Pointe Woods. It looks good to me. Michigan. I am a 77-year-old retired pastor, for This beautiful, modern edifice, located in the the past three years an attendant at our heart of a substantial residential area, with state mental hospital here, and have not Reverend A. Dale Ihrie, The unlimited possibilities for growth, is an impres- missed a day off duty yet. Used my holi- ThM., Th.D.: "We are deeply sive landmark . . true realization of a days to attend Conference. indebted to everyone who had dream ... a plan and a new church to a hand in the planning and Together will help to make up for construction of this marvel- the glory of God. our old-time class meeting. Experiences ous structure . . . They have We are proud that American Seating of life are worth telling when they are given us a building of which Bodiform® church pewing was selected — for worth telling or writing. both the congregation and the its quality, comfort, beauty, reverence, and community are justly proud." durability — to be an integral part of this Loneliness Is Endemic modern structure. Katharine Pitkin If you are planning a new church, or remodel- Social Worker and Author ing your present facilities, remember your church deserves the best. In seating, this Buffalo, New Yorf\ means beautiful furniture by American — the The title of the new magazine To- result of highest quality materials, careful gether interests me. You hit on one of design, and famous Grand Rapids craftsman- the profoundest of longings today in ship, which insures enduring beauty and lasting that title. I think loneliness in these satisfaction to you. times is almost a disease. And I keep For full details or free consultation, contact American Seating office. watching the effort—everywhere—to the nearest cure it. Only trouble is — it's endemic! L She's 87 . . . She's for Progress AMERICAN Mrs. Kate L. Annas, Housewife Edward J. Russell, Chair mini. SEATING Construction Committee: "We Ainsworth, Iowa are pleased to state that both Grand Rapids 2. Michigan. Branch Offices and Dis- Will you please change my ad- visual and postural features tributors in Principal ("itii^. Manufacturers of Church, of American Seating pewing, Auditorium, Theatre, Stadium, Transportation dress. . . . School, as well as its silence in use, Seating, and Folding Chairs. I will be sorry to have the Christian have met our highest expec- Advocate change from weekly to tations." WORLD'S LEADER IN PUBLIC SEATING monthly. I like mine every week, but I am X7 years old and try to keep up with "progress" even if it don't please me. TABLE NAPKINS . . the ideal, easy way to earn extra money! Early Christians Were "Together" Thousands of church groups and individuals have Paul R. Woudenberg proved for themselves just how fast and easy Echo Par/\ Methodist Church Graceline napkins sell. They're so appropriate for social functions both Los Angeles, California at church and in homes. They add such a Congratulations on the name "To- pleasant touch of reverence — save the ex- pense and loss of time using linens. gether" for our new magazine! While doing recent research for a Ph.D. dissertation involving the laity of the early church, the utter appropriate- • "We received four Please send me free samples of nc« (irace- cartons of Graceline line napkins and complete money-making ness of this name struck me as in keep- napkins about two weeks details. Dept. to 106 ago and they are selling so ing with our finest Christian tradition. fast we are ordering fuur All religions require popular assem more cartons." Plymouth Namo bly for ceremonies and participation • "We plan to make a year 'round • project of them." Chicago, 111. • m public pomps and for instruction, • • but Ar1r1rp« in no religion is assembly so essential • • Ttiq Grace LinQ Co. • • as in Christianity. rity 7nn*» M*ta • Pagan temples were designed as 801 LaSalle Ave. • Minneapolis, Minn. • October i956\Jbgether houses for the deity with giant idols and labyrinthine passages symbolizing GLOVES, mystery. Christian churches were de- signed primarily as houses for the peo- ple of God, who, acting together in an GLORY assembly, constitute the temple of the Holy Ghost. The requirement of to- getherness is absolute for worship. AND GOD Christianity was from the beginning a social as well as an individual re- An Autobiography ligion. The isolation of ascetic hermits HENRY ARMSTRONG or monks in the Middle Ages was a step away from the early church prac- From slum youth and hobo to boxing tice. Similarly today, champion; from prize ring to pulpit! This the Christian who is the story of Henry Armstrong, only believes that he can worship in solitude fighter to hold three world titles at one on Sunday morning, either in his gar- his boxing skill faded, he time. When den or hammock or driving through the lost titles, fortune, self-respect. Then came countryside in his car, has missed the the impact of God's calling and his de- cision to become a minister. A thrilling essential requirement of togetherness. book to read and give! $2.9.5 Togetherness expressed the deepest mood of the Christian fellowship and is NO utterly necessary. It is the triumph of the tiny church and the constant prob- lem of the giant church. To have named WINGS our new publication, Together, is an appropriate reminder that the prophetic strength of our faith is founded in fel- IN THE lowship. We do well to stand in such an honorable tradition. MANSE Sorry, Mrs. Edwards Mrs. Janet Edwards Life and Laughter Under Housewife the Preacher''s Roof Warrenville, Illinois BETTY FRIST In your thinking about the new magazine for our Methodist families, A true story of laughter, tears, fun and faith at the pastor's home. Betty Frist have you thought about including a de- remembers "papa," a preacher in the partment for us homemakers? What I Deep South who presided over a riotous mean especially is a section where we household. Then, she gives a wife's-eye who cook for husbands and children view of the pastoral calling, its trials, duties, and amusing incidents. Mrs. Frist can get new recipes. Perhaps you think writes with humor and an abundance of it would be a waste of space, but I can "My Utile buttk&i li. opioid... solid, sensible religion. $2.50 assure you women are always on the He clings to me because lookout for new ideas of this sort. I take care of him. I beg food for him. I steal AMERICAN Sorry, Mrs. Edwards. We've con- sidered recipes—but, frankly, there al- clothes for him. I am fot'fr.m ready are so many demands on space in a man and I YOUTH ffsL Together we've decided to omit them. am not afraid . . . One reason is that so many other maga- ." zines are available which do the job except sometimes. . . IN better than we could.—Eds. There are children in Korea • Felicitations from Presbyterians who were forced by violence to TROUBLE! Robert Cadigan be men before their time. They J. Common Sense and Editor, Presbyterian Life can be children again with your Juvenile Delinquency Philadelphia, Pennsylvania help. Methodist orphanages HENRY RISCHE We are eager to convey to you im- need your support. "The main cause of juvenile delinquency mediately a resolution adopted today lies in lack of knowledge of God," re- by the Executive Committee of the ports Henry Rische. The author parent, — Board of Directors of Presbyterian Life. 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Name episcopal areas request. i upon Four or complete, with meditation, two ' Address . . more additional pages are available at City -Zone .State hymns, scripture lesson, and i cost.—Eds. prayer. Bible-centered resource Methodists Surprised Him material, simple, direct, and Edward L. Bernays practical. October 8. $1.50 Public Relations Consultant New Yor{, New Yor{ Congratulations on . . . Together. LAYMEN I have a great respect for Methodists since my talking to a group of Meth- AT WORK odist ministers in Chicago. Before I did this I studied . . . and found, to my George Stoll surprise, that they stood for many of the soundest broad social ideas. Edited by Albert L. Meiburg Wanted: Many Pictures in Color! Arthur S. Mann The true story of a group of Industrial Engineer dedicated Louisville (Ky.) lay- Tucson, Arizona men who put their faith into We in Arizona are pow'fully proud action. Descriptions of people CHILDREN'S PRAYER PLATES of our state magazine, Arizona High- teaching Grace at the table, and institutions who were ways. Its pictures of the Grand Canyon build the Spiritual life of your for the other Church homes, while you changed better because and sights of the Southwest are MAKE MONEY these laymen worked and beautifully reproduced in color by the offset process. Such printing costs For Church Projects cared. Tested, adaptable plans. Thousands of these beautiful 8 inch 5 color money, I know, but it would be won- prayer plates have been sold and used in October 8. $1.75 homes since introduced at The Methodist derful if our new Methodist family National Conference on Family Life. magazine could have lots of pictures RETAIL PRICE $1.50 Child's cup to match plate now available with some in color. Sold only by Church Organizations Published by Abingdon Press not sold by stores We thinly so too—and "lots of pic- Bulk of the profits go to your Church. Sent on consignment for 30 days. No Cash re- tures" are in our planning. In fact, this quired until sold. Write order from the regional month's color section was printed in off- CHARLES S. APPLECATH house that serves you set by the W. A. Krucger Co., Mil- Lake Avenue Methodist Church, Box 1951, of Ashtabula, Ohio. waukee, the same firm that prints Ari- Endorsed by Directors of Religious Education. zona Highways. Eds. Togetheiv/bcfober 1956 Together/ NEWSLETUR NEW C HURCH CURBS IN EGYPT The Egyptian government, which recently ordered Christian schools to teach the Islamic religion to Mohammedan students, now will censor sermons. Protestant ministers will be obliged to give authorities the sermon topic and time and place of delivery several days in advance. ... is beauty in all things. JORM OHIO SEMINARY COMMITTEE New choral robes in color sharpen With a new Methodist theological seminary slated the interest for all, enriches the effect, for Ohio, a committee of 96 met in Columbus, qnd add a sparkle to every Sept. 22, to plan financing of the $4,000,000 performance. project. The group picked Bishop Hazen G. Werner MOORE materials, available now, in colors that remain richly colorfast as permanent chairman and Rev. John W. Dickhaut, for their long, fabric-life. New 5 Columbus district superintendent, to direct the process, solution-dyed Chromspuri enterprise. Plans were announced to raise yarns, woven by Cohama Fabrics for $1,500,000 through the churches, the balance by MOORE — for ease in care, years of wear, resistance to wrinkling and special gifts. easy color matching as your choir gains more members. Good news ARKANSAS FORMS CHURC H COUNCIL indeed, for choral groups everywhere Write your nearest MOORE office Formation of the new Arkansas Council of for catalogs and swatches. Fill out Churches leaves only five states without such a and send in the coupon below . . . mail to Department N-6 council: Idaho, New Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Rev. J. Kenneth Shamblin, pastor of Pulaski Heights Methodist Church, Little Rock, is president. SEEK 100,000 MEMBERS An intensive evangelistic campaign to enroll 100,000 new members during the next four r years will be launched this winter by New York Area Methodists. ' CGETHER STARTS W ITH HALF MILLION TOGETHER subscriptions neared the half-million Q Send catalog ol flob* Styles and Fabric mark as this, the first issue, went to press. Selector containing twatcnes lor color and moterial. The total includes All-Family Plan subscriptions We may need opprox Robej (or: in more than 1,500 churches throughout the D Adults D Children United States. The latest type of electronic The color we like is equipment is being used to process subscriptions, Delivery required by (dole) but the influx has been cd great that some O Hove representative {with somples) phone families will not receive the October issue on for appointment . schedule. Overwhelming early response to the new Methodist family magazine indicates that sub- E. R. MOORE CO. scriptions will probably reach the goal 932 Dokin St., Chicago 13, III. of one million during TOGETHER' S first year. 268 Normon Ave., Brooklyn 22, N.Y. 1641 N. Allcsandro St. Los Angeles Calif. (For More Church News See Page 71.) 26, October J95o\Togeth.Cr It would PROSPECTUS. ea Parly in he battle of CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, s iii the 74th PUBLISHED BY Island, and N. BANGS, J. the father of & EMORY, wards of 50 FOR THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Collector of B. BADGER, {late Editor ofZiorCs Herald,) EDITOR. ids and lite- kages from This will be a general Religious Newspaper, published mable time. weekly, on good paper, of imperial size, and well printed. BS. It will be conducted on liberal Christian principles, and is Brownsville designed to be an entertaining, instructive, and profitable its way to family visiter ; devoted to the interests t place from — of religion, mo- >n deck, the rality, literature and science, household economy, and elevated his general intelligence, both domestic and foreign. All the off—he was ;ed for some various relations and connexions of society shall have a share in its departments ; and no reasonable pains or ex- d of Pough- pense will be spared, to make it worthy of its patrons. »igh profes- The profits will be wholly appropriated to the spread of the m the river rably bruis- gospel, and to one of the noblest charities—the support of dered. He distressed and superannuated preachers, and the widows otive which and orphans of such as have died in the work. The price will be $2.00 a year, if paid in aovar.ee, or ty of ladies $2.50 within six months. It is fixed thus low with the ure on the f the party hope of placing the paper within the reach of all, and of i the others making it as extensively useful as possible. ! while de- 1826. epped into New York, September 9, The ter- Post Office County State Sum paid. ice of some Names to the spot, finding the Preachers and Agents are requested to form Subscrip- r^ey were Hon papers, by copying )spej i on a sheet of writing paper In forwardi-JLto us should be parti That scrap of paper launched the Christian Advocate, September 9, 1826. Within five years this Methodist journal had 30,000 subscribers— largest circulation on earth, the London Times not excepted. Its influence went far beyond Methodist circles, Abraham Lincoln being among its readers and admirers. Now, 130 years after founding, the Advocate is to be twins . . . because in 1952 at San Francisco the Methodist General Conference rose to a challenge of the Bishops for a "bold venture"— two magazines "combining the best in modern craftsmanship *"< Tf^-^ and editorial skill." One is to serve pastors; one is to be for Together/:October 1956 Eamilies. Both will share Methodism's proud journalistic tradition. The new pastor's journal will, in fact, perpetuate the name in The New Christian Advocate. As the magazine for families, Together will carry on in the 130-year-old editorial formula set out in the original prospectus of the Advocate that is reproduced on the opposite page: an entertaining, instructive, and profitable family visitor. In yesteryear, the Advocate not only had articles on personal religion but recipes for cooks, prescriptions for home doctors, and market reports for rural Methodists. It even ran serially E. P. Roe's sentimental novel, A Knight of the Nineteenth Century . . . and reams of Victorian verse! But new times bring forth new interests and ways-of-doing. Radio and television now crowd into everyone's reading time. And hand presses were long ago superseded by equipment that can reproduce photographs in full natural colors. So again the time has come to rethink Methodism's journalistic program. And that we have done. Not only have we counseled with numerous ministers and editors of religious magazines but with Methodist laymen associated with such magazines as The Reader's Digest, Toiun Journal, Saturday Evening Post, Capper's Weekly, The Rotarian, Time, and Life. Professors at our schools of journalism have given generously of their time. Together as you now see it is the product of many hands, many minds. We have labored conscientiously to meet the ringing challenge that came from San Francisco. Together stresses prophetic religion, as you see. It will always be mindful of what the editor of the Advocate wrote in 1926 for its 100th anniversary issue: "Christians realize now . . . that personal holiness is not the whole duty of man; that God is not truly glorified unless the individual's relationships to his fellows in industry, in trade, in society, in citizenship, in racial contacts, and in international affairs shall be infused with the spirit which has its incomparable expression in the Gospel of Jesus Christ." Together will strive for an editorial approach somewhat comparable to that used by Christ, who taught eternal truths through parables about people. In this issue, for example, we might have had a profound dissertation about how Christians grow in grace. Instead, we present the personal story of Dr. Sockman, revealing development of his religious concepts from boyhood to maturity. . . . Methodism's responsibility for the world parish shows up in the account of the Hiroshima Maidens. . . . And there's a large textbook on youth psychology packed in the pages telling the true story about Donald, the boy with the cleft palate, who had troubles and tears at a summer camp. Pains will not be spared to fill the pages with quality articles, stories, and pictures. Some will be from well-known writers, artists, and photographers; but the many will come from readers who seldom see their names in print. At San Francisco, our Bishops called lor a "circulation of not fewer than one million copies "— as a starter, only. If every Methodist church will put in its annual budget a $2 subscription lor each family on its rolls, TOGETHER will have approximately 3 million circulation. It is our hope and our prayer that this will be clone. For Together has been conceived in the same evangelical spirit of reaching multitudes that marked efforts of our founder John Wesley as he preached to throngs on hillsides and in the pits of abandoned coal mines. Only as it is exposed to many people can TOGETHER achieve a destiny of great service to The Methodist Church and to the larger purpose that called it into existence almost 200 years ago. Lovick Pierce and J. Edgar Washabaugh Publishing Agents of The Methodist Church October 1956WTogether Millions have drawn strength and hope from the words of America's leading radio minister. Here he reveals . . . What My Religion Means to Me By Ralph W. Sock?nan, Minister, Christ Church, Methodist, New York City yy HEN a friend of mine was trouble my childhood mind. What would still be cavemen believing that directing Hadley Rescue Mission, did trouble me was that I believed the earth is flat. down under Brooklyn Bridge, I fre- in God. I would have been more Yes, I admit that my beliefs, both quently attended his services. There comfortable at times if I could have in school and Sunday school, began on one side of the aisle, I would see dismissed that belief. Cynical critics by accepting ideas pretty much on unkempt men, bleary-eyed and per- can say that belief in God is just the authority of others. But if anyone haps half drunk. But on the other wishful thinking, but it was not so says that I believe in God merely be- side were alert, well-dressed, dynamic in my case. I believed in God even cause my parents and teachers and men who would stand up and give when I wished there were no such neighbors did, I answer, no; because testimony like this: Being to see what I was doing! a second element soon entered into "Four years, three months, and two My belief in God came on the au- my faith. weeks ago tonight I came to this thority of the persons closest to me, Like other youth, I began to won- mission and found Christ." Or, "two of course. My parents, my friends, der about what was behind and with- years, four months, and five nights most people in the community be- in and beyond the things I saw with ago I was down-and-out. But that lieved in God. I heard how Jacob my own eyes. I began to discover night Christ came into my life and believed in God when he dreamed of that there is insight as well as sight. now I am sober and have a good the ladder reaching up to heaven; I would learn passages of poetry or job!" how Joseph remained faithful to quotations from great men so that I Some persons can thus pinpoint God during his captivity and temp- knew them by heart, and then sud- their conversions. I cannot. My own tations in Egypt; how David be- denly a new and deeper meaning faith has been one of development. lieved in God and overcame Goliath; would flash out of the words, giving May I tell you how it has grown? how Jesus came as a Babe in a me a new insight. I was born in a family where the manger and grew up as our Savior. I learned, too, that one can know home, the school, and the church are But if anyone discredits my early some things by intuition. I discovered taken for granted as the pillars of belief in God because I took it on that in family circles thought often community life. authority, I could answer that in leaps through language and that emo- My earliest memories include the school during the week I accepted tions too deep for words run through simple one-room church out in Green knowledge on the basis of authority the streams of love. I could often Valley, Ohio. also. tell what father was thinking and he Sunday school classes were held in I took my teacher's word for the had an uncanny way of knowing various sections of the church pews. belief that the earth is round. I could what I had been doing or planning Afterwards we rearranged ourselves not prove it. When my teacher told to do! as families for the preaching service. me that the Taj Mahal in India is I even had some intuitive apprecia- As we boys and girls grew older, we one of the most beautiful buildings tion of beauty. When as a boy of ten were allowed to sit apart from our of the world, and that the pictures I was taken to Niagara Falls, I was parents, showing our grades of shown me could give no adequate stirred with an indefinable feeling of "grownupness" by sitting ever farther idea of its loveliness by moonlight, I awe or reverence. back in the church. But we sat there, believed it on her authority. If all my I also had intuitions of goodness don't you forget it! ancestors and I had insisted on prov- and duty. Before I learned the Doubts of God's existence did not ing everything for ourselves, we Golden Rule and the Ten Command- 70 Togethcr/ocfober 7956 with little me. •/ earth and concerned And when my geology teacher told about the ages of the various rock strata and talked in terms of aeons rather than centuries, my previously held ideas of creation became con- fused. Like so many youth, I was passing - through a period of questioning doubt. But the more I thought about it, the very vastness and complexity of the universe made it more than ever necessary to believe in a God as Creative Will. How could these myriads of heav- enly bodies be co-ordinated so per- 3 fectly. The wonder of it deepened my sense of awe. How could life have evolved on this earth from the crawling beasts of the jungle to the graceful horse, from the cannibal in his cave to the counselor in the United Nations? Certainly there must be plan and purpose in the physical universe. Surely the psalmist was right when he wrote: "The heavens de- rvutions of human even more than physical nature strengthened my conviction." clare the glory of God and the firma- ment showeth his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge." merits by heart, something in my vere Him. Some chord in my nature Observations of human nature heart told me it was right to be kind responded to what He said and did. even more than of physical nature and helpful and wrong to hurt and In my early teens I could not have cheat. put my religious feelings into words. strengthened my conviction of God. far back as I could study Man. As I grew a little older, something Certainly I could not have defined As he was a worshiper of something. inside me responded to those Bible my faith. But I had a belief that Even the savage somehow felt stories which I had heard and read. there is a God who had his eye on by a sense of otherness. 1 Moses was no longer merely a baby me, who knew everything I did, who haunted who had been rescued from a basket would reward me for doing right remembered that near my home in in a river to become the leader of a and punish me for doing wrong. Ohio was an Indian mound from relics re- grand march through the wilderness. When I tried to picture God in my which had been removed, that the prehistoric Indians I began to understand that he was imagination, I saw him as a great vealing great because he had followed the Being who looked somewhat like had a religious faith. highest he knew with the best he paintings I had seen of Jesus, only What had kept Man worshiping and down the centuries : had —and that when I or anyone else older, larger, sterner—a sort of praying does likewise we too partake of mighty grandfather who dwelt Was it mere superstition? That might greatness. somewhere in the heavens above. account lor the ignorant savage but Something inside me responded Then my pilgrimage ol faith en- not lor the scholars; and it was a that as culture increased, reli- to stones about Jesus. As I outgrew tered a third stage—which I can best fact churches be- Santa Claus, I was drawn into the term as one of reasoning. In school, gious insights grew, richer belief that mysterious power I began to examine not alone reli- came finer, spiritual movements religion seemed called love comes down the chimneys gious beliefs which I had accepted on spread. Culture and ol homes where families live together the authority ol others, but those in- to help each other. The college w here I studied so other institu- in mutual helpfulness; that just as tuitions and insights I had experi- and many parents desire to make their children enced. tions of higher learning had been happy, so there is a heavenly Father Teachers told me of stars so far founded and supported by religious who gave Jesus to the world as a away from our lesser planet, the earth, faith. Why this persistent and per- gilt ol love that men might find the that their light traveling 1S(),000 vasive pursuit ol God? si ill greater happiness. How much miles per second requires years to The only conclusion I could tea more than man Jesus was, I did not reach us. Certainly in such a vast uni- sonably draw from all my observa that fully grasp in my youth. But 1 began verse u was difficult to think ol God lions ol men's religiousness was not only to admire Him, but to rc- as sitting in the heavens above this life is more than meat ,\\u\ Man is Ocfober 7 956\Jogether n " made for something more than this Without belief in God, how could relationship with God as a reality? earth. Man has an ingrained sense of I explain my mind? What is this Well, how do we make another per- inadequacy in himself which leads mental faculty by which I can put son a factor in our lives? I mav be him to reach up to a power higher two and two together and say they told that there is a man in San Fran- than human. If man has this longing, make four, this power by which I cisco who feels friendly toward me. and if this is a law-abiding universe, trace back from an event to a cause, My reason may convince me that the then the universe which answers the or forward to its consequences? reports are true. But if I am to be instincts of the migrating birds and We call this the power of reason, sure of his friendship as a real factor the spawning fish must keep faith and we have to trust it in order to in my life, I must do something with the hungers of his highest crea- live. But how can we trust our own about it. ture, Man. There must be a God who reason unless this be a rational uni- So with God. Action must be answers Man's craving for godliness. verse wherein two and two do always added to thinking if religious cer- Moreover, my conscience called for make four, and sowing does lead to tainty is finally to be won. To those an explanation of itself. Whence reaping, and deeds do have con- who questioned his authority, Jesus comes that moral sense within us sequences? could we said: "If any will God's] How know man do | which whispers this is wrong or that what sanity is in a mindless, insane will, he shall know of the doctrine is right? Do you say that it is only world ? If I am to believe in my own whether it be of God, or whether I the echo of the crowd's opinion, be- mind, do I not have to believe in a speak of myself." When we give our- cause some things were called right Divine Mind ruling the universe? selves to following the highest and in the First Century and now are So as I lived and studied, the more best we know, we find more and called wrong, because some things convinced I became that there is a more light breaking on our minds. are called right in Russia and wrong God who creates and controls this Saintly souls have become assured in America? I cannot believe con- universe, and that he is a God pos- of God by cultivating communica- science is just the reflection of the so- sessed of reason, righteousness, and tion with him and then practicing cial views around us because I know purpose. the presence of God. Saint Francis of of prophets who like Savonarola But my growth in faith has had a Assisi found God so real in nature went to the stake rather than yield fourth stage. Beginning on the au- that he went around calling the to popular pressure. thority of parents and teachers, ad- animals his brothers. No, conscience is part of our origi- vancing with my own youthful in- I am no mystic like Saint Francis, nal makeup. And how did it come sight and intuitions, and then being but I have found that when I look to be in us? Water does not rise tested by reasoning, my belief in God and listen long enough, nature higher than its source. If Man has an has ripened into assurance by ex- speaks to me of God. When I stop unborn sense of right and wrong, periment and experience. rushing around and let my spirit be there must be a moral sense at the How do we advance from mere led by "the still waters," as did the >» "What troubled Just Like the Man Next Door me as a boy was that I believed in God ..." five years before upon a trivial topic. looks like a successful lawyer and talks Such a story will come as no surprise like the man next door. A warm infor- to thousands who have followed the mality and amazing memory are among career of Ralph W. Sockman, a small- many attributes of the man who for 39 town boy who made good in a big city years has remained in the same church A MIDWESTERN salesman, attend- church. Sockman, for many years —longer than any other minister in ing services at Christ Church in New America's leading religious broadcaster, Method. sm. York City recently, approached the minister with hand outstretched. "Dr. Sockman," he began, "I cer- tainly— "Well, hello there Fred Smith!" Sockman exclaimed. "What brings you from Des Moines? And how are Mrs. "My earliest Smith, Anna and Jacqueline?" memories include the Smith's mouth dropped open as simple, one-room Sockman continued to recall details of a church out in casual conversation they had had almost Green Valley, Ohio." n — the reflection of the heavens above Announcing a Contest for Articles on: and also catch glimpses of the heav- enly within myself. I find the God of nature restoring my soul. I find also that God becomes more The Day My Religion real to me when I do something dif- ficult for the sake of conscience. Meant the Most to Me My friend Dr. Justin Wroe Nixon, of Rochester, tells that he once staked his future on a fateful moral decision. The Purpose: Having risked so much for what he To share true stories of thought was right, he at first felt Christian witness faith frighteningly let down as if he were in action! The three sinking in quicksand. But eventually best will be published. he felt something firm upholding him and he was sure that underneath were the everlasting arms. Open to: I must confess that I have never Laymen only, this time. done anything very daring or spec- Later there will be a tacular for righteousness' sake. But similar contest for min- I have discovered that when I have isters. . . . Their wives tried to do my duty until I thought and children may enter ihis one, however. I had reached the end of my strength, then I seemed to touch One able to do exceeding abundantly above all Requirements: that I could ask or think. I feel Manuscripts should (1) sure such help comes from God. be typewritten, and not Lowell Thomas, author, Furthermore, my conviction of more than 2,500 words; radio announcer, and commentator. God becomes more clear when I hear (2) be identified as con- and heed the calls of need. Prayer is test entry; (3) list the most real to me not when I am ask- author's church affilia- ing God to give me something for tion or membership. myself but when I am asking him to help someone else. Closing Date: Once I stood at the bedside of one of the most painfully stricken pa- It is January 15, 1957. Include postage if re- tients I have ever seen. She was not turn is desired. pitying herself. She told me how God had blessed her with a fine young husband and devoted mother. Her The Prizes: thoughts were of them and how First, $250; second, much care they were giving her. I $150; third, $100— do not know when I have felt the with five $25 honorable Divine Spirit's presence so clearly. mentions. Gerald Kennedy, author I find that those who might seem and bishop, So. California-. Irizona. All p r i z e-winning to have most reason to doubt God entries are to be the are the ones who believe in him property of TOGETH- most firmly. I find also that faith is ER. . . . Decisions of stronger in those who have done the the judges to be final. most for God than in those for whom God has done the most. The Judges: Personally, I have not gone very They're two Methodist far on the road of sacrifice but when laymen and a bishop, I see those who have, I catch the con- pictured in the column fidence of the Great Apostle who at the right. alter giving up almost all the seem- ingly good things of life for his Lord could say, "I know him whom I Address: have believed and I am persuaded The Essav Editor that he is able to keep that which I TOGETHER have committed unto him against 710 N. Rush Street Felix McKnight, Managing that day." Chicago 11, Ulinoifl Editor, Pal/as (Texas) Morning News Ocfober 1956>\Together »3 Introducing a regular department: an open forum. . . . Here readers discuss what they would do if Midmonth Powwow confronted by a real-life situation such as the one sketched think and let think - JOHN WESLEY . We in the box below. Next month J the Powwow will be a debate. Let's say his name is Jones. For 25 years he has widow who lives "on the other side of the tracks" worked for the Ex-Ex Wholesale Fruit Company. with a family of five young children. There is no As the man in charge of bananas and especially romantic attachment between her and Jones. perishable fruits, he is allowed a certain percentage Let's say you are the manager. You have just for spoilage. He has never exceeded it. But because made the discovery of Jones' dishonesty. Would you he regularly comes close to the allowable limit, fire him on the spot? Would you secretly reimburse management investigates and makes a discovery. the company, then put Jones on his honor to go Jones has been selling fruit on the side—but not straight? Would you pass the responsibility to for profit. He is a kindly man and he has been your board of directors? turning this extra money over to an impoverished Just what would you do? TEMPER JUSTICE WITH MERCY would be working for would see it Well, we didn't. We felt that the Robert E. Bearden that way. firm had fulfilled its bargain so we Methodist Pastor Personally, I would then cherchez had no further moral claim, no mat- Fayetteville, Arkansas la femme—look up the woman ter what our legal rights. whose plight caused Jones to mis- Now, to Jones—a problem in moral Here is a strange case in which a step. I would see to it that she got rights, only. His company permits a man's tender heart got him into diffi- needed help, if not from some chari- percentage of loss for spoilage and culties. table agency, then from my own Jones never exceeded it. So it actually Hardboiled legalists may insist that pocketbook. lost nothing. he be arrested and suffer the conse- The firm has every right to investi- quences. But it was Christian com- WHY PICK ON POOR JONES? gate and reduce the spoilage write- passion for the needy that got him off if it's too large—but not to hold Dan L. Thrapp into this trouble. I believe that fact Newspaperman Jones accountable for the rate it had should be given weight. Whittier, California accepted. What Jones does with the I assume the money involved was allowance—whether he shovels the board of direc- I his considerable, so the believe Jones did right—and bananas into the sea or peddles them tors should be informed. I would ex- company should recognize the fact. to those in need—is a matter for his plain details, then ask the company Here is my reasoning: When a dar- own conscience. to absorb the loss or to allow Jones ing local firm guaranteed boys' shoes The facts show his conscience to make it up. for four months, we bought a pair serves him well, though his case Justice should be tempered with for our 11-year-old Ricky. They lasted would be clearer if he had given the Christian mercy in such a case as this. three months. The firm replaced fruit to the widow and let her dis- Shakespeare reminds us that "The them with a new pair, also guaran- pose of it as she saw fit. quality of mercy ... is twice blessed; teed for four months. Ricky wore The company's only cause for com- it blesseth him that gives and him them out in one month! plaint is with whoever padded the that takes." I think the company I Should we ask for another pair? wastage allowance! U Together/bc/ober J 956 — I'D SACK HIM UNLESS... Jones has violated the moral code JAIL WOULDN'T HELP JONES George Thomas as well as the law. He did so know- Mrs. Clarke Capen ingly. Jones should face up to the fact Member of Parliament Lay Delegate, General Conference that he did wrong—and pay the con- Cardiff (Wales), England Basin, Wyoming sequence, whether it be a fine or a has the right to dip into No man jail sentence, and then start life on Were I the manager, I would talk employer's pocket at will to help his an honest basis. to Jones and try to help him work distressed people. If that were done out the problem without discharging generally, moral standards would GIVE HIM A SECOND CHANCE him. crumble and social distintegration H. A. McCee Why ? Because of past faithful serv- would follow. Any case such as this Methodist Pastor ice but also because of the kindly mo- should be considered against moral Kanpur, India tive which prompted him to do this and social principles. Jones apparently was trapped by a dishonest act. Probably he started his Jones did wrong. If he does not ad- misguided virtue—compassion for a wrongdoing in a very small way, mit that and promise to reform, I distressed family. But if he confessed then got in deep before he realized would sack him and let the law take his guilt and promised to lead an it. Many evils, both personal and so- its course. But if he showed repent- honest life in the future, I would cial, begin that way. ance and I felt sure he would en- think it my Christian duty to give I don't see that any good would be deavor sincerely to make good, then him a second chance. done by sending him to jail. I would take his case to the board of Assuming he did confess and ex- directors, to whom I, as manager, press regret, then I, as the manager, IF HE DOESN'T REFORM, FIRE! responsibility. owe would make a full report to the di- Alick S. Seymour I would recommend that Jones be rectors. If they insisted upon reim- Financial Adviser, Ministry of Labor, India given an opportunity to make good bursement for the loss, I would offer New Delhi, India the deficit by deducting so much to make it up—hoping I could make from his wages until the account is arrangements with Jones to pay me I would thoroughly investigate the cleared. And I believe most boards back. case—certainly not just take Jones' would accept such a recommenda- word that he was giving the money tion. DON'T FORGET THE WIDOW! to the widow. Then I would refer Whilst I would feel sorry for Jones, Mrs. Jack White the case to the board of directors, I believe that he should be made Social Worker and Housewife who are responsible to the stock- aware that he has erred. We would La Mesa, California holders. do him no good by overlooking what So poor Mr. Jones skidded on a If Jones' motive was proved to be he has done that is wrong. It would banana too! Frankly, I don't know a kindly one, I think the board would be misguided altruism to achieve a what should be done about Jones. give him another chance. But if, after settlement that did not make him That's a man's problem. But I have he had another chance, Jones didn't aware of his debt to the company a hunch that would depend upon reform, I would dispense with his and to the social order. what developed in an interview dur- services summarily! ing which he should be made sharply That's the way I have dealt with LET THE LAW TAKE OVER aware that he has been dishonest and many similar problems as financial James T. Albertson has broken a law. adviser and regional accounts officer Methodist Pastor No good would be done Mr. Jones Wenatchee, Washington were he to come out of the situation for the government of India, in New scot-free just because he had good in- Delhi. Jones did wrong. Nothing should tentions. A premium should not be gloss that fact. Just because his dis- put on wrongdoing. CHASTEN—BUT DON'T PUNISH honesty helped a widow and her chil- But don't overlook the widow and Sir Frederick Stewart dren, we cannot condone the fact those five children! Were I the man- Former Cabinet Minister that his action is unsocial and tends ager, I'd feel as concerned for them Melbourne, Australia to undermine the faith in our fellow as I would the company's profits. Charity is a commendable virtue, human beings upon which organized Surely, if the widow and children surely, but it can be perverted as society is built. His employers would were in a plight as desperate as is Jones demonstrates. Whilst he did probably have helped had the case indicated, I would find a charitable I both manager and come to their attention. agency to help them. wrong, think the Selling fruit on the side is a ques- tionable practice, recognized as such by law to protect both consumer and grower in the great fruit-growing state of Washington where I live. In fact, we have a commission to con- trol the fruit-sale problem. What would you do? October 7 95o\Together J5 the company should take his kindly Little Lessons in Spiritual Efficiency nature into their reckoning as they deal with this workman. If he is repentant, as I think he would be, he should be continued in The Secret employment—but not in the same position. Some other work should be found where his feeling for other people could be put to good use both of Togethering for himself and the firm. It might be in public relations or in sales or wherever his human qualities and training could be utilized to best ad- by ROY L. SMITH vantage. In short, the man should be chastened—but not punished. CONDEMN—THEN FORGIVE HIM Shu-chin Tsui 1 WO FARM families decided to we are compelled increasingly to live Professor of Law, move to the city. and work close together. National Cheng Chih University They had lived for nearly a third of Some principle of life must be dis- Taipei, Formosa a century as neighbors. Their homes covered which we can maintain in spite had faced the same highway, half a of straying chickens and blooming Undoubtedly, restitution should be mile apart. Their children had attended flower beds. The closer we live together, made. The man has taken the equiv- the same country school and both fami- the more of that redeeming spirit is alent of money not from the manager lies had been devout members of the required of us. nor the board of directors, but the same little country church. Quite obviously the problem of in- company's shareholders. Assuming And so, when some small prosperity ternational tensions can never be solved Jones makes good his defalcation and came their way, both families decided by force. The experience of five thou- then shows repentance, he should be to take advantage of the opportunities sand years of recorded history makes forgiven—and permitted to go on that the city offered. Having been good that fact inescapably plain. No nation with his work. friends, they agreed it would be "won- has ever yet been able to invest suffi- derful to live alongside each other in ciendy in defensive armaments to re- It is said that General Oglethorpe town." lieve either its own fears or the sus- once remarked to John Wesley, "I One family moved into a comfortable picions of its neighbors. never forgive." The Founder of cottage in a section of Christ new town and a Unless the Church of Jesus Methodism had a quick reply : "Then few later the family in there months second can Droduce Christians whom I hope, sir, you never sin." moved next door. With pleasant antic- is a different spirit the spirit of men — It is an anecdote which seems to ipation they setded down to enjoy each made new—there is small hope for the me to have pertinency to the case. other's company. world. Now it happened that the good Those two feuding families failed be- woman in one family was a great lover cause their faith lacked a reality of LAW PROVIDES THE ANSWER of flowers. Her old friend, the lady next spirit. They were members of the same Shuler Peele door, wanted to grow prize-winning church, but they were not members of District Superintendent chickens. the Christian fellowship. Tallahassee, Florida Within a few weeks the inevitable He is most Christian who is most This strangely twisted version of happened—the natural interests of capable of forgiveness, charity, and the parable of the talents presents chickens collided with the rights of close-at-hand living—not, necessarily, he one of those clouded ethical problems flowers! who is most nearly correct in theological Over the first clash there was a little logic or doctrinal adherence. pastors often are called upon to un- forced laughter; later there was mild Togethering is a matter of conced- tangle. But it is clear that two wrongs irritation. Then matters became worse, ing and not of conniving. It is a product were done: one to the company, one so the flower-loving family decided to of humility and not of clever assertive- to Jones' own conscience. attend another church! Finally they ness; it is fostered by a respect for the To right the first, he should reim- solved the problem by moving to the opinions of others and not by patronage burse the company for the loss, pref- other side of the city. They didn't even or privilege. erably without publicity among other say "good-bye." We learn to live together, not as we employees. To correct the second, he Both families discovered that it takes dominate, but as we participate, share, his honor more Christian grace to live close to- and forgive. should be placed upon gether than it does to dwell half a mile The true worth of our religion is to never to repeat the offense. Then, away! be measured in terms of the spirit it every effort should be made to re- Togethering calls for skills of the produces within us which makes us habilitate the man through periodic spirit that are never required of those lovable at close range. In other words, counseling by the manager or some- who live in isolation. The uneasiness the closer we live to other people the one in authority. A man like Jones and irritability of this modern world more religion is required to keep us usually can be rehabilitated. are due in large part to the fact that fit to live with. Tosether/ Illustration by Floyd A. Johnson 'VE BEEN a camp counselor for a long time. People often ask me what kids get out of camping be- sides fun. Then I like to tell them about Donald. It was the second day of camp, and I had 14 kids in my cabin. That morning Donald came to me—sob- bing. I knew why. Donald was here last year. He's small for his age, which is 11. So I had kept an eye on him all summer. We got to be good friends. "Kids making fun of you, Don- ald?" I asked. He just said, "I want to go home." I put my arm around him and didn't say anything for a minute. With Don it was the same old storj that it has been tor .ill these years. Ignorant kids riding him for some- thing he can't help. "What've the kids been saving to you, Don'" 1 asked, knowing in advance what he'd tell me. "You know. Charlie you know. They keep alter me. They say where'd you uet your tunn\ face or they say who smashed your face in? One guy asked me, 'Somebody ' : How Donald Learned punch you in the nose Don's voice broke then. 1 patted him on the shoulder and JJ let him alone £oi a few minutes. Then I said, "Don, some people To "Okay are big in their homes, bui they Say in aren't big their minds and their hearts." 1 told him these boys who " by Charles Mussen as told to Katherine J. Pitkin — A FASCINATING but unanswerable riddle for Bible students is: What was Paul's "thorn in the flesh"? He often referred to it in his letters. In Galatians 4:13 (RSV), for example, he comments, "You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first." It's unlikely that he was sickly and weak: only a strong man could have withstood exposures and labors recounted in II Corinthians. But in that letter (RSV 10:10) is a hint that his annoying handicap made public speak- ing difficult: "For they say, 'His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is of no account.' " Could Paul have been a stutterer? Or maybe like Donald, in our story, he was afflicted with a deformity that invited ridicule whenever he opened his mouth to talk! were laughing at him didn't know A long time ago, though, Don Their chattering woke me up next what was the matter with him. went on, his mother couldn't stand it morning. I kept hearing them—one "They're just ignorant, Don," I any more. She had spent all her after another—saying, "Look—watch said. "It's not their fault if they don't money on doctor bills. When she my mouth. Here's how you do it." know about you and about other couldn't pay the mortgage on their And I'd hear Don saying, "OHay, kids who have the same trouble as house, they were evicted. She and OHay!" "No, this way," a kid would you do. They'd be lots better off, Don went to live with Don's grand- interrupt. This went on and on. though, if they did. Let's explain to mother—but his mother had a break- All that day, off and on, the kids well. They them—you and I—why you don't down and she didn't get kept showing Don how to make a look and talk too well sometimes. had to send her to the state hospital. K—with his lips and his tongue and Let's tell them what it's like and She'd lost her mind, they said. his teeth set in just the right way. what people are doing to help you. Donald told the kids about how They made him practice and prac- Okay?" his grandmother takes him to see tice and practice. But he still couldn't "OHay," said Don. (He had his mother every single Sunday—for say K. So we let it drop. never been able to say OKay. I'd two hours. And about how his Next morning, while they were noticed that. It gave me an idea.) mother still loves him and he loves getting dressed, the kids started right So that night, just before we all her. Maybe she'll come home some- in again. They were so busy teach- turned in, we were lying around in time, he said. Maybe even this year. ing Don to say "OKay" that they the cabin, and I told the kids Don That's what the doctors hope. didn't spend much time sweeping had something to tell them. Don and I looked at the kids listening up the cabin and making their beds. I sat on the bed, and I had a big intently. They didn't say anything I told them it was okay with me. piece of paper and a pencil. Then when Don stopped. They just sat Then we left the cabin to go to Don started to talk. and some of them looked at their breakfast in the big house. He told the kids about how he hands or at the floor or any place About half-way through breakfast was born with a big hole in his except at Donald. a kid asked Don to pass the milk. face between his nose and upper lip. Then I drew a big picture on my "OKay," said Don—without think- He looked so awful, he said, that paper and showed them what a hare- ing. his mother and father couldn't stand lip looks like. I explained what a "He did it," shouted one boy. it. He told them how his father cleft palate is. And I told about how "Did you hear that, Charlie? He couldn't even bear to look at him. Donald has spent a long time in hos- said OKay?" So finally his dad just packed up pitals and clinics, getting patched The kids started yelling right there and left—nobody knows where. up and learning to talk. in the dining room—and I had to Then he told about how his looks "Look, kids," I said, "I guess tell them to pipe down. "He did it. made his mother sick too. She you've noticed as I have that Don He did it." They could hardly stop would hardly pick him up. But she can't say OKay." Don nodded. "He saying it over and over. kept taking him to doctors. They'd says OHay instead. Let's teach Don So that's how Donald learned to operate—and then they'd tell her to say OKay. Let's make it a proj- say, "OKay." to bring Donald back in six months. ect!" Made me feel good when he came Don told the kids about how this The kids let out a big yell. "Yea," to see me that afternoon. went on and on and on—and finally they shouted. "Let's start now!" "How's it going?" I asked, trying he had had 15 operations so he'd I said, "It's too late now—but first to look casual. have a nose and a mouth like other thing in the morning." "Everything's perfect," Don said. kids. He still had to have one more They had a hard time getting Then he smiled at me. "I mean it's operation. quiet. But they finally went to sleep. OKay, Charlie." 18 Together/cOctober 7956 ONE BLUSTERY winter day, Rosemary, age three and one-half, went to this hospital with her mother and dad. Plastic surgeons spent several hours skillfully repairing the deformed palate with which Rosemary had been born. Now, IS months later, you hardly notice any irregularity when she smiles, which is ROSEMARY GOES often. She romps and tussles with other youngsters and her life is nearly normal, except tor frequent visits TO THE HOSPITAL to the Northwestern University Cleft Lip and Palate Institute. Here ten top medical, speech, and dental specialists have become her friends. The story ol Rosemary's triumph over cleft palate is highlighted on following pages. October ?95e>\Togetlier 19 Head X-rays ta\en every six months give a record of Rosemary's growth. This denture too\ 20 hours to ma\e. Photographs by Robert McCulloug /\t the Institute, Rosemary's mother and father learned work. They peered into her mouth, studied X-rays and what caused their daughter's deformity. A staff plastic then laid plans for her treatment. From that moment, surgeon {above) uses a blackboard diagram based on the hopes of Rosemary and her family focused on the photos taken at birth to show her parents how Rose- clinic. Its waiting room (below) became a second home mary's lip and palate had not been completely formed. for the girl and her mother. Months passed as Rosemary Surgery, he told them, could give Rosemary a near- went through the treatment pictured (above right). And normal appearance and partially mend the gap in the though years of clinic sessions lie ahead, Rosemary is liv- roof of her mouth. ing almost normally. Then, he explained, a dental plate would be designed Says Rosemary's mother: "It has been a long, hard to help her eat and speak more naturally. For Rosemary, struggle for all of us, but Rosemary's problem has drawn the long road to rehabilitation began with an examination our family closer together. We know everything will by ten staff d( ctors—each one a specialist in cleft palate turn out all right for our little girl." Patient and happy, Rosemary awaits the doctors with her mother. Since Rosemary's operation, Institute specialists have studied many of the girl's X-rays and listened to hi-fi tape recordings that reveal her growing ability to tal\ understandably. Teeth straightening, part of the program, may continue until adulthood. Tussling happily at bedtime with sister Noreen and brother Patric\, Rosemary (below left) now enjoys a near-normal life. logather m fcfJ^H [rffbovK. cc>'tlk> A IF ANYONE had asked me 30 When I'm working in the fields of reading and we enjoy the coming years ago what I thought should be with my farmer husband—sometimes and going of the seasons, the frosty the ideal number of children for a from early morning until dusk—the mornings of autumn, the white days family, I probably would have re- older girls take care of the house. of winter. plied: "Oh, three or four!" Our children cook, dry dishes, make Most of all, we look forward to the But nobody asked—and now I'm beds, sweep and dust, pull weeds spring and summer months when not so sure. During those 30 years and do the hundred-and-one other our fields are full of growing things there have been 20 children in the chores necessary around a house and and the harvest of our labor is at DeGolier family. I am the mother farm. The object of every child's hand. Running a truck farm is our of what is said to be the largest living fond attention is little Janine, 3, baby business. The work we put into the family in the United States. of the family. fields is the small price we pay for the Only 12 of our children remain at We work and play together. We happiness and health of 22 people, all home. Each morning, along about have no television set, so the children members of one family. dawn, things begin stirring at our usually entertain each other. Their God has blessed us in many ways. 10-room farm home near Brocton, pets include four ducks, a dog, a calf Doctor bills have been few and far N. Y. I count noses as, one by one, and a parakeet. Most of the children between. All the children, except two, the little DeGoliers bounce out of are musically inclined, but musical have been born at home. All have six bedrooms and hurry in for break- instruments _ost a great deal of been healthy and normal. fast. money. We haven't forgotten the joy For outside activities, there is the With 20 children, would you—like the old woman in the shoe—have so many children you wouldn't know what to do? Could you—single- handed—feed, clothe and bring them to adulthood? I haven't done it—and I doubt if I could. I've had help, mostly from my own children. Susanna Wesley, the mother of John Wesley, who started Method- ism, knew this secret of rearing a large family. She was the mother of 19 children. Several died in infancy, but the Wesley family was a big one. Susanna saw to it that each of the little Wesleys had an older child to care for it, that each had a regular schedule of home duties to perform. That's the way the DeGoliers work. You are invited to write for this page—about real-life fam- ily and home problems and how you have solved them. If your letter is published (300 to 500 words, please) we'll send One of the few times the huge DeGolier clan has been pictured you a $25 chec\.—Eds. together was when they were feted in New Yor\ City as "America's largest living family." Children's ages range from three to 27. 22 Togethcr/cOcfober 1956 ) 4-H club. I had the honor, with one of my daughters, of founding the Looks at movies Brocton 4-H club seven years ago. But most important, I think, are the Sundays we spend together. We load By Harry C. Spencer up the farm truck and go to church. General Secretary Methodist Television, Radio and Film Commission The Rev. John Petrie, pastor of the Brocton Methodist Church, will tell • Films are rated for audience suit- Ray Milland, an American smuggler, ability. Also, the symbols (-4-) an ^ ( does not her true motive when you the DeGoliers usually occupy j — know provide "yes" or "no" answers to the he agrees to find for her. more than one pew. , her husband question: Do the ethical standards in Two of our older daughters teach Moby Dick (Warner Brothers) the film in general provide constructive Adults Youth Sunday school and several of the entertainment? (+) (+). | terrifying and powerful presenta- others are active in Methodist Youth A Bigger Than Life (20th Century- tion of the great American novel by Fellowship. One was president of the Fox) Adult (+). Herman Melville about the early whal- Western New York MYF for two James Mason, underpaid grade- ing expeditions. Excellent production. years. Almost every child has a Bible. acting school teacher, is ashamed to tell his Superb by Gregory Peck. We encourage the children to ob- wife and 10-year-old son that he is Pardners (Paramount) Family (-}-). tain good educations. Some are working in a second job (taxie office). Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis lam- above-average students. Three This wall of secrecy is basis for im- have poon the typical Western by playing probable events that follow. The film been away to college, two are now first the fathers and then the sons in is an effective warning against indis- juniors in high school and the others a series of stock situations. A band of criminate use of drugs. are in grade school. gunslinging bandits kill the fathers. Later Dean, the There are 13 girls and seven boys Dakota Incident (Republic) Adult younger, becomes a famous rodeo star; and Jerry, the in our family. Four are married, one (-). younger, has become an effete Easterner is a graduate of Buffalo State Teach- When a stagecoach is wrecked, the whose heart is still in the West. Later ers College, another is attending occupants hide in a gully. While red- they get together as "Pardners." skins Michigan State University, and press the attack, the strangers be- come well-acquainted, and each of the Satellite in the Sky (Warner Bros.) another is studying education at weak or evil characters has a moment Family (-)-). Roberts Wesleyan College, a Meth- of nobility. A space-ship crew goes beyond the odist school. stratosphere to explode an experimental Davy Crockett and the River Pirates So, education and marriage is re- superbomb. Film contains good science- (Buena Vista) Family (+). ducing the size of our family just fiction adventure somewhat weakened Based on legends from along the about every year. At present, two of by the soap-opera private lives of crew Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Davy and members. Eventually courage, faith and the girls are in high school at Broc- his pal have a catch of furs they want heroism triumph. ton. One wants to be a nurse; the to take to the New Orleans market. other hopes to become a veterinarian. Mike Fink, the King of the River, de- Seven Men From Now (Warner Bros. ) Family (-|-). It seems that I have been around mands an exhorbitant price for passage Implacable Randolph Scott is track- children all of my life, as has been on his keel boat. Davy skippers another ing down seven men who killed his my husband. There were 12 children keel boat, and an exciting race ensues. wile while they were robbing a Wells in his family. There were eight in Johnny Concho (United Artist) Fargo office of $20,000. Suspenseful mine. Adult (— ) Youth (—). story, gorgeous scenery ami good act- With hard work, we have been Frank Sinatra as the weakling broth- ing. able to pay off most of the mort- er of the biggest gunman in the terri- Somebody Up There Likes Me tory, exacts tribute trom a terrorized gage on our 30-acre farm. There are (Metro-Coldwyn-Mayer) Adult community. two acres of grapes, several of toma- (+) youth (— ). toes, mellons and berries. My hus- King and I (20th Century-Fox) The sacrilegious sentimentality which band adds to the family income by Adult (+) Youth (+) Children (+) appears from time to time in the film working on nearby farms. Family {-\-). seems to be the result o! the typical I [ollywood lack ol genuine understand I have always wondered what it The story of the great contribution ing of religious truth and faith. Rock) would be like not to have running an English widow, Anna Leonowens, hie story begins when he made to the development ol Siam when Graziano's feet and laughter through the house. was directly to she became the teacher ot the children a delinquent heading But I was reassured recently when the penitentiary. Hut he fights back to ,,i King Mongkut ( 1851 1868). Anna's the telephone rang at 5 o'clock in I low courage, simplicity, honesty, and high become a respected citizen. can this oi divine Provi the morning. It was one of our sons. ideals are constantly in evidence. be? The mystery is In who some "You have another grandchild!" — dence \ond the producer Lisbon (Republic) Adults ( ). tunes translates it into maw kishness. he announced proudly. There arc Maureen ( )'l lara is in Lisbon trying For the theater trade, the film mixes now seven grandchildren. to make contact with her elderly hus- in scenes <>i vicious prize fighting also So we can look forward to having band, who lias disappeared behind the a realistic portrayal ot Rocky's drunken children around for a long time. Iron Curtain. Hut she wants him dead, father and heart broken mother. \ —Mrs. Elmer DeGolier SO slu Lin claim his (25,000,000 estate. thrilling but not always prettj film October J 956iVTogether 23 One man's flaming faith kindled the Protestant Reformation and it changed the course of world history. Martin Luther, Mighty Reformer By Donald Culwss Peattic 1 HE POUNDING of a hammer sprung up in the faith which he resounded through All Saint's Eve, loved with a biblical jealousy for its nailing a placard to the door of honor. Wittenberg's castle church. Those The dishonor he attacked was the blows would be heard far beyond sale of indulgences, by which all who the drowsy little German town, for gave money to good works thereby they announced the Reformation, bought off time in purgatory or for- the greatest struggle of conscience in giveness of sin. Not only the church Christendom. In the battles that fol- but secular rulers were permitted to lowed, untold thousands on each side sell indulgences, keeping half the studied for the law. Known at the would lay down their lives in the profits for themselves. Thus too often university as a jolly good fellow, fond fervor of their belief, until freedom fund-raising drives for worldly pur- of his beer, prone to jokes, delighting of faith, long after, was established. poses were conducted by professional in music, in love with the beauty But now the date is October 31, salesmen who played upon the peo- of the world, he never pretended to 1517, and the author of the placard ple's fear of hell fire. But not even be a saint and was very little of a is Father Martin Luther, an Augus- the rebuilding of St. Peter's was to mystic. It was not wholly because he tinian monk. Thirty-four years old, Luther a cause which justified this. once was knocked to earth by a light- his plain strong face shows his peas- Better that the grandiose structure ning bolt that he turned toward the ant ancestry, his powerful frame is should never rise over the bones of cloister, but because he truly fell in lean from years of mortifying the the poor fisherman than that the poor love with heaven. The way there he flesh, and his deep-set eyes burn with of today should be fleeced through saw as stony beyond human endur- the inner light by which a man their humble piety. ance, for whoever had the courage to searches his soul. Did Christ, asked Luther, say "Sell live up to the Sermon on the Mount? Though he had just started a one- all thou hast and—buy an indul- Yet, in the springtime of his youth, man religious revolution, this stal- gence"? And he challenged the power Luther entered the Augustinian mon- wart Doctor of Theology did not flee of anyone, pope or parish priest, em- astery at Erfurt—the strictest order the scene of his defiance. From under peror or duke, to bestow pardon for of the region of his birth. his cowl he calmly surveyed the plac- sins which only God could forgive. Here the daily round of prayers ard bearing his famous 95 theses, or He questioned whether any holy relic and masses, of fasting and vigils, was points for debate. Printed in Latin, could bring absolution to a pilgrim not enough for this deeply pious they were intended only for discus- seeking it. He denied that good young man. lie would go without a sion by theologists. Father Luther works could in themselves redeem crumb for three days on end. In win- did not know that they had been the sinner; a thief is no less a thief ter he would risk freezing by casting pirated by the printer, and translated for giving what he stole to charity. off even the light blanket permitted into German, so that copies would be Only Grace—divine favor past any him. When he came to celebrate his eagerly snatched in the markets, in human merit—could save the soul. first mass, he was so overpowered by the shops, in university classrooms. Who was this monk who dared to the presence of God and by his own Indeed, nothing was further from challenge the authority of his own unworthiness that he nearly fell to Father Luther's thoughts at this time great church? He was only the son the floor. In the confessional he so than secession from his mother of an iron miner, the grandson of minutely examined his conscience, church. He was only trying to call humble peasants. But in school he his confessor told him he did not attention to certain abuses that had had done so well in Latin that he know what true sin was. But never 24 Togethcr/cOctober 1956 — were devout with a medieval fervor. And for too long had the German cow been milked to keep the Italian churchmen in cream. Luther's plain speaking loosed a flood of fury. But in the Vatican there was alarm. Luther's attack was not only a threat to a lucrative source of income. He was laying ax to the root of ancient practices such as confession and ab- solution; he was questioning the in- fallibility of the papacy, and drawing a distinction between the church of God and the church on earth. That the views he opposed dwell peace- ably today beside his own, is a glory of the modern age of religious lib- erty. For four years Pope Leo strove to "quench the monk, Martin Luther." But never till it was too late did he realize how much water it would take to put out this German fire- brand. Leo, son of Lorenzo de Medici, called "the Magnificent," had cardinal at the age This scene from the movie "Martin Luther" shows him been made a of tacking his historic declaration to the church door. 14 and groomed for the Vatican from the beginning. Gentlemanly, elegant, art-loving and above all pleasure-lov- ing, he the worst disaster that could Martin Luther feel that he suf- Yet it was seven years, during was ficiently pleased God. which he was busy in Saxony as a could have befallen his great church For the ardent young friar was parish priest and professor of divin- in its hour of crisis. True that Leo longing for Christianity radiant as ity, before he forged his 95 theses in sent one legate or emissary after another to deal with Luther. But at it was in its first morning. He the furnace heat of indignation. And yearned for an evangelical faith for the result he was unprepared. Heidelberg, at Augsburg, at Leipzig, pure Gospel, based only on the life Throughout Germany thousands Luther crushed them out of Scrip- and words of Jesus and the Apostles. of voices, from every walk of life, re- ture, while he himself was received Not satisfied with the Latin transla- sponded with a deep growl of agree- by cheering throngs and won con- tion of the Bible then used by the ment. For the country was not then verts, from princes to peasants. Roman Church, Luther must needs rich in resources but only in the in- One of the cardinals sent to con- learn Hebrew to read the Old Testa- dustry and pluck of its people, who front the rebellious monk was can- ment in the original, and Greek for the New Testament. That is how he came to be made a doctor of divinity in the new university at Wittenberg founded by Saxony's ruler, Duke Frederick the Wise. It was on a visit to Rome that the first real doubts assailed Luther. There in the Holy City he heard masses rattled off mechanically by Italians who could say six while he was saying one. Climbing on his knees the 28 steps supposed to be those of Pontius Pilate's palace, up which Jesus was said to have walked, and saying the Lord's Prayer on every one in order to release his grandfather from purgatory, Luther at the top straightened up and to his own amazement asked himself, "Who knows whether it is so?" Luther's /hippy family life, shown in this old print, added warmth and tenderness to his fiery spirit. — tioned not to engage in debate with the princes who had elected him em- Luther's reply rings down the cen- him but to allow him only two peror. This was the place and time to turies. "My conscience is captive to words: / recant. subdue the rebel who had set his the word of God. I cannot and I will These, of course, were the last realm afire. Thus, on April 17, 1552, not recant anything. For to go against Luther cared to utter. Instead, he Luther, pale but steady, stood before conscience is neither right nor safe. loosed a torrent of others, advancing the emperor, the crowd in the great Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. step by step the measures of reform hall, and his prosecutor, Eck, Arch- God help me. Amen." And he flung which were to give the Reformation bishop of Trier. up his arms triumphantly and its name. The Church, he declared, The course of the hearing had been marched out of the hall. should divest itself of wealth and plotted beforehand : Luther was to be The flames of the stake were very worldly power. No monastic vows permitted to say only whether the near at this moment. Though the should be irrevocable. The clergy pile of books on the table before him emperor had given Luther a safe- should be allowed to marry. The were from his pen, and if he wished conduct, he did not feel obliged to sacraments should be reduced to the to renounce or defend them. keep his word to a heretic. He waited only two sanctioned by the Bible "They are all mine," Luther an- until Luther's most powerful sup- Baptism and celebration of the Lord's swered, "and I have written more." porters had left Worms, and then Supper. Excommunication was not And he had more to say. If he issued his edict against the monk, ac- valid, for it is not in mortal power could be shown to be in error, he cusing him of fantastic crimes. Any to sever another's soul from com- declared, he would be the first to who sheltered him stood in peril of munion with God. And every man is throw these books on the flames. But vengeance from empire and church. a priest, for God makes himself plain he must be convicted out of the Bible But Luther had vanished. Only a to all through Holy Writ. itself. To those hearers firm in their handful of his partisans knew that Thus spake Luther, setting others Catholic faith, Luther had here just in a wood on the road home a body to discuss what heretofore few had convicted himself, for reliance upon of armed horsemen had seized him dared question. In sympathy, the the Bible only, said Eck in anger, and spirited him away to safety in vicar of his chapter released him from was the way of all heretics. the remote castle of Wartburg. Here his monastic vows. Convert was he was persuaded to lay aside his added to convert; Luther's books and monk's habit, attire himself like a tracts spread far and wide till they knight, and grow a beard. Chafing were to be found even in the baggage LUTHER and WESLEY at inactivity, he took up his pen of Spanish soldiers engaged in the John Wesley was a frustrated and here translated the entire New conquest of Mexico. Other copies young clergyman of the Church Testament from Greek into German. were flung angrily into the flames, of England on the night of May Add to this his later translation of but some of the German public re- 24, 1738. "Very unwillingly," he the Old Testament and you have the sponded by burning the church's later recalled, he went to a prayer first Protestant German Bible, a book meeting in a secluded in book of canon or religious law. Not room that rings with all the power of the Aldersgate Street, London. only in Germany but in Switzerland original in words both majestic and Someone was reading the pref- and Scandinavia the Reformation simple enough for all. If he had ace to Martin Luther's commen- was spreading in a blaze whipped achieved nothing else, this son of tary on Paul's episde to the from the smoldering resentment of Romans when suddenly some- peasants would still be named among millions. thing happened to Wesley. the great poets. Now at last Leo X halted in the Here's how he tells it: And Luther's Bible swept the pleasures of the chase, and at his "While he [Martin Luther] Reformation along on a mighty cur- hunting lodge he wrote the Bull of was describing the change God rent, when the German-speaking mil- excommunication against Luther. works in the heart through faith lions heard the word of God in their in Christ, I felt my heart strange- This he dispatched to Duke Fred- own language. Soon masses were said ly warmed. I felt I did trust in erick, ordering him to take this her- in German instead of Latin. In the Christ, Christ alone, for salva- etic prisoner for trial at Rome. But celebration of the Lord's Supper, the tion; and an assurance was given Frederick was too wise and too congregation first — me that he had taken away my for the time re- much a convert of Luther—to allow sin, even mine, and saved me ceived the wine as well as the bread, this loyal subject to be carried off from the law of sin and death." and took the bread into their hands, to judgment in a foreign land. Luther Many scholars date Methodism just as the apostles had done. appealed his case to Charles V, the from John Wesley's heart- Extremists went so far as to de- warming experience that night. new ruler of the Holy Roman Em- stroy the images in Wittenberg Lecky, the renowned historian, pire and secular equivalent of the churches. At this point, Luther, still declared in "England in the Pope, who held sway over more of dressed as a bearded knight, came out Eighteenth Century" that "it is the globe than any man before or of hiding in angry haste, at the risk scarcely an exaggeration to say since. that the scene which took place of arrest and martyrdom. The dese- Charles stroked his long Hapsburg at that humble meeting in cration he put down with stinging jaw thoughtfully. In the city of Aldersgate Street forms an epoch scorn. For all violence, he preached, Worms he was calling a general diet, in English history." was a sin, and though "idolatry" was or meeting of the German electors, abhorrent to him, since it was con- 26 Togethcr/bcfober 1956 — t trary to the Bible, there were millions to whom the images were sacred. In these cross-tides of belief, many TO MAKE YOUR of the cloistered orders were break- (\?^^VOaWo OWN ing up. the protesting nuns Among By Martin Luther was one Katharina von Bora, who fled from the convent into which her ALMIGHTY God, thou desirest us not only to father had thrust her against her will. call thee Father but our Father; that we may pray For such unprotected women Luther Martin Luther felt responsible, and he proposed a unitedly for all people. Give us fraternal 1483-1546 respectable husband for Katharina. affection that we may recognize each other as true However, she intimated to a friend of Luther's that she would rather brothers and sisters, and petition thee have Luther himself. And so, to his as our common Father for all mankind as one child jocose surprise, to the clamor of the bells of Wittenberg, Luther, in 1525, pleads with its father for another. Amen was wed to his 26-year-old "Ketta." prayer-to-make-your-own submitted by Gaston Foote, pastor. First .Methodist To his own amazement, marriage This Church, Fort Worth, Texas. made him younger yet mellower and taught him toleration and humor. fortress of the Lutheran Church. The modern spirit of economic The bride brought no other dowry, Luther himself saw clearly now self-reliance was greatly forwarded by and Luther, who never took a penny that a separated church must be es- Luther's teaching, for in a day of from the lucrative sale of his books tablished, with ministers trained for beggars and of princely patrons, he (regarding them as his contribution it, and children brought up in it from preached instead the virtue of indus- to God's work), had only his small the beginning. For them he wrote a try. To Luther the calling of doctor, salary from the university. But Duke little catechism, and a favorite carol mother, plowman, or servant was as Frederick doubled this and made still Away in a Manger. holy as any priest's, since all honest over the now-deserted Augustinian Indeed, even the beloved chorals labor is a vocation pleasing to God. cloister to the young couple. Keeping of the church that had cast him out This monk who had left his cell house in this strange home, Kath- must now, he felt, be replaced. For urged men to go among their fellows arina proved the ideal wife for a hus- music, said Luther, is the most pre- to strengthen their belief. And na- band who was prodigal to his friends cious gift of heaven next to Holy ture, which to the darkly pious and took little thought for earthly Writ itself, and in its art "one begins medieval mind might be the work of matters. She kept a barnyard with to see the perfect wisdom of God, the devil, Luther proclaimed the cows, pigs, ducks, and chickens, and where one voice takes a simple part handiwork of God. herself did the slaughtering. She and around it sing three, four, or five The year 1546 found Luther 63 budgeted their income and gave him other voices, leaping, springing round and prematurely aged by his great six children, yet since their cloister about like a square dance in Heaven." labors. His wife and his friends were home was large, the Luthers adopted So he sent for the best German concerned about him and tried to four orphans, as well as taking in composers of the day to write new spare him what they could. But he student boarders. These young men music for the new faith, music that a was now considered by politicians, noted down for us Luther's famous century and a half later would reach princes, merchants and cities of the table talk, filled with wit, proverbs, its greatest voice in the works of Protestant faith to be the arbiter ol and funny stories which—like Lin- Johann Sebastian Bach. And he set every least detail, and he conceived coln's—were often wise parables. the congregation to singing, for the it his duty to answer their calls. So, In 1530 the emperor, determined first time in Christian history. He in the bitter January oi tliu year, he- to crush once and forever the reli- himself had a good tenor voice, and went forth to adjudicate a trifling gious and political uprising in his a gift for melody as well as an under- dispute, settled it, a\u\ at Kislcbcn, the realm, called for another diet, at standing of harmony, and for the city of his birth, preached on Febru Augsburg—to which Luther was de- first Protestant hymn book be com- ary 14 with all his old fervor. 1 » u cidedly not invited. But his most pow- posed several numbers, among them suddenly he interrupted himseli to erful friends were there, and they that battle hymn of the Reformation, say thai he was too weak to go on. drew up a paper attempting to show A Mighty Fortress is our God. Four davs later, the iclorinci how much in common there was be- Burdened with administrative drew his last tired breath. A guard tween their creed and that of the work for the new church, he never- ol honor accompanied the coffin back mother church. Instead, it was the theless preached constantly, was for to Wittenberg, and in everj village differences that struck the emperor ever revising his beloved Bible, and .ind town through which it passed, and his followers. His threats had the pouring forth new works almost scores and hundreds swelled it. In effect of consolidating his opponents, one hundred books, besides number- ilu castle church, on the doors ol and though the Augsburg Confession less tracts ,md pamphlets. His vigor- which lie had once nailed his 95 tailed to draw closer Protestant and ous opinions h.ive set their imprint theses, Martin Luther's both, but not Catholic, it stands today as the mighty on our lives today. his cause, was laid to rest. October 1956\Together 27 One brisk October afternoon young Mark Payne booted his way into football's hall of fame. These 1915 photos show Mm\ Payne practising a jew days before his record kjcl{. Most marks fall. Sprinters now leyan, instead of for one of the al- look forward to running the 100- leged 'higher institutions of learning' yard dash in nine seconds flat. Only in the East." the other day a high jumper broke Payne admits it was a gamble that Mar\ the "unbreakable" seven-foot mark. day, yet there was little to lose. Aber- Payne Babe Ruth's home-run record is be- deen had Dakota Wesleyan back in today ing threatened. But no drop kickers its own territory. And in secret prac- rise to challenge Mark Payne be- tice, Payne had been able to clear the cause the drop kick is gone from cross bars from around the 60-yard modern football. line. Not often, but some of the time. And the shape of the football isn't He had practiced constantly. what it was. It was bigger and "I used to practice at least an hour OrfN OCTOBER 9, 1915, two small- rounder 40 years ago. When the pig- a day and, during the summer when college football teams were grind- skin assumed its bullet shape, drop I was a guide at Wind Cave National ing themselves to pieces before a kicking became a lost art and the Park out in the Black Hills, I used to shivering crowd of 3,000 persons at place kick—one man holding, an- take a football along and practice." Aberdeen, South Dakota. The score, other kicking—came in. But he thought of none of these as time began to run out: 14-14. Not until three weeks after the things as he coolly took a pass from Playing halfback for Dakota memorable game did Payne begin center that cold October day, 41 years Wesleyan University, a Methodist to attract nationwide attention. ago. He dropped back to the 63- school at Mitchell, was Mark Payne, Frank G. Menke of International yard line. A slight wind was blowing a sinewy 154-pounder who had News Service hailed his accomplish- over his shoulder. It was neither grown up on an Indian reservation. ment as "the most wonderful" in gusty enough to swerve the ball off He drop-kicked 63 yards that day to football history. course, nor steady enough to help untie the score and to set an all-time "Mark Payne fractured all existing much as a tail-wind. record. records by kicking a field goal from The Aberdeen eleven expected a Now a purchasing agent for Gen- the 63-yard line," he wrote, "but you pass or punt and rushed Payne. No- eral Petroleum Corporation in Los haven't heard much about it simply body thought Payne was foolish Angeles, Mark is a compact, ener- because Mark doesn't go to Yale, or enough to drop-kick at that distance. getic man nearing 60. He has gained Princeton, or Harvard ... his mar- But the youth poised himself, only eight pounds since he walked velous feat has been almost over- dropped the ball and as it rebounded out on the field to help beat Aberdeen looked, because some persons regard gave it a mighty boot. The pigskin Normal, now Northern State him as a 'minor leaguer,' simply be- arched into the air, sailing end over Teachers College. cause he footballs for Dakota Wes- end toward the distant goal. 28 Together/bcfobv 19S6 By H. B. Teeter He Drop-kicked 63 Yards! 25, 1898, in a game against North- ball that attracted wide attention. western. It stood till Mark Payne Ethan Colton became international raised the yardage to 63. Previously, secretary of the YMCA after playing the best drop kicks were turned in on Wesleyan's first team in 1897. by Howard Pumpelly of Yale, 49 Over the years, Dakota Wesleyan yards against Princeton five years has acquired seven state champion- earlier; and by Hobey Baker of ships and seven conference champion- For a moment, those in the stands Princeton, 43 yards against Yale in ships. There are mementoes to show thought it would fall short. Payne 1913. this—but there is nothing left of did, too. But this guided missile of So the little Methodist school at Mark Payne for the trophy case, not leather cleared the crossbar by a good Mitchell has earned a place in the the shoe that booted the ball, not even five feet! sports books. But there were other the ball which took that spectacular The referee signaled the kick was Dakota Wesleyan football players flight between the uprights at Aber- good. Then, recognizing that he had deen. just seen sports history in the mak- But the old grads still talk about METHODIST ALL-AMERICANS ing, stepped off the yardage to the Mark Payne's amazing and nv\\\ 50-yard line. Who's best among the grid stars now to-be-repeated I cat. They recall that What came later was anti-climax. taking the field for Methodist-related Mark soon hung up his football uni- schools? TOGETHER for December will The game ended 20 to 14 in Dakota form to shoulder a gun in World present three All-Amerieon All-Meth- Wesleyan's favor. Payne's toe had War 1 —and never played football odist college and university football accounted for two field goals and the again. Later he was in semi-pro base teams picked by Fred Russell, Meth- winning six points. lull, then went into business and odist layman, sports editor of the Later acquired a family. Ever) year or so, Mark learned he had broken Nashville Banner and pre-scason ex- the however, a sports writer "discovers" 17-year-old record ol Wisconsin's pert for Saturday Evening Post.— Eds. ( great Pat O'Dea. him and that October day in 1 '15 "In fact, I didn't even know there lives again in print. was a Pat O'Dea," Payne recalls. who have made history both on and And. being human, Mark can't "And I hadn't realized my name oil gridiron. Three ol them, Clinton help thumbing through the new n^ ( would take his place in the record 1'. Anderson, Francis '.ist- and tin ord books every year or so. 1 [c can'i books." kite 1 larkm BushHeld, have < ai ned help nmning a linger down a pag( O'Dea, however, is still ranked as laurels in the U. S. Senate. The late- and looking lor his name. one oi the greatest kickers ever to Stew, nt Ferguson became a coach It's alwaj s there. It has been there put on a football uniform. His and his teams at Arkansas A & M lor 41 ye. us and is likely to stay there yard kick was made on November played a type ol razzle-dazzle loot- forever. October J 956sSTogether 29 0 w % JVR"i4f I The Hiroshima Maidens Go Home It is the morning of August 6, 1945. Young girls in bright \imonos are in the basement of a public school in Hiroshima, Japan. They laugh as they collect chal\ and erasers. . . . Suddenly the sun seems to explode. The building shudders and shatters in a burst of savage, blinding light. The terrified girls fight through debris and over seared bodies of schoolmates to the street. . . . That was 11 years ago. By Norman Cousins Editor, The Saturday Review T.HOSE GIRLS—some 25 who Then aged 19 to 24, they were of not have the means to go much survived the tragedy at their school marrying age, but they were so badly further with plastic surgery. Those —are the "Hiroshima Maidens." In disfigured or scarred they felt self- who have had surgery show improve- September 1953 Mrs. Cousins and I conscious about appearing in public. ment but it is very complicated and met them at the Hiroshima Method- Some who had been seamstresses or expensive business. Each case re- ist Church, where they had found a factory workers had to quit work quires several operations and I do benefactor and champion in the Rev- because, as muscles and skin con- not know where I can turn." erend Kiyoshi Tanimoto. tracted, their legs, arms, and fingers We asked him if he would wel- He had been a pastor, indeed. He tended to lose mobility. So the girls come efforts to bring the Maidens to had found work for them that did had withdrawn almost totally from America for surgery and hospital not involve their infirmities, had community life, seeking the company care. He replied that this had been given spiritual and psychological re- of each other and living on such his dream. habilitation, and had provided recre- meager subsistence as they could ob- "The American people have been ation. He had even started a public tain from families and friends. just and generous to Japan in defeat," campaign to send some of the girls "The big problem now is medical he added. Mr. Tanimoto had great to Osaka or Tokyo for plastic sur- treatment," Mr. Tanimoto told us confidence in America. He had stud- gery. at the time of our visit. "We do ied and visited there since the war. 30 Together/cOctober J 956 The Maidens wave good-by ing able to take all the girls and that games, he looked up at the clock and to America as they enplane for Japan. they might understand that the girls said: "It's time for you chicks to get Doctor at the right carries themselves understood. The second to bed." They were puzzled, then the ashes of Tomato Na\abayashi, was for the selection of the next girl. the girls consulted their dictionary. who died during her third operation. Next day, all 43 girls were at the "They found the word," the host- railroad station to bid good-bye to the ess reported to us, "then looked at doctors. They were arm-in-arm and each other incredulously for a split in even better spirits than usual. second before each pointed to the Upon my return to the United Try as they might, the doctors could not other and said, 'We chickens!' They States I presented the matter to my fellow board members of the Hiro- tell from their radiant faces which started upstairs, peep-peeping and shima Peace Center Associates, a were to stay, which were among the making clucking sounds. My hus- group concerned with rehabilitation 25 who would come to America. band joined in the game by crowing of victims of atomic bombing. When the Maidens arrived at like a rooster. The girls almost be- Mitchell Field in Island, A cooperating group in Japan was Long New came dissolved in laughter. formed through the help of Mr. York, the day was unseasonably "Two nights later we went to the Kiyoshi Togasaki, president of the chilly and the girls huddled together movies. On the screen appeared beside the plane. carried rooster. Im- Nippon Times. He also brought the Most of them Pathe-RKO newsreel their entire wardrobes on their backs; mediately one of the girls pointed, project to the attention of Gen. J. E. Hull, commander-in-chief of the Far their supplementary belongings were then called out the name of my hus- Eastern Forces, who said the U.S. wrapped in the multicolored Japa- band. I think half the theater joined Air Force would be glad to provide nese kerchiefs or bandannas. Ahead in the laughter." girls about round-trip transportation for the girls of them was the great unknown—the The had heard so much gadgets, to New York. surgeons and the hospital and the American materialism and Quaker families in the New York strange homes. area offered to supply out-of-hospital Some Americans were dubious, It feared that the girls care. Dr. William M. Hitzig, my per- too. was would sonal physician, called the project become homesick, they would not be able to adjust food, to the attention of New York's Mt. to American or Sinai Hospital which approved the that they would probably suspect the request for full hospital care of the motives of the American families. It girls. Dr. Hitzig also put us in touch was predicted that the effort would with Dr. Arthur Barsky, plastic sur- end in disaster. geon, who became Chief of Surgery Happily, there was no substance for the project, assisted by Drs. to these fears. One Friend family Bernard Simon and Sidney Kahn. was soon to report : "So far, no home- All medical and surgical services sickness. . . . And they love Ameri- would be provided without fee. can food, especially frankfurters. . . . The newspapers have reported I don't know how we're going to most of what followed —how the part with them!" girls came, were treated, and have re- This Quaker and his wife, in pre- turned to their homeland. But read- paring for the girls' arrival, took les- ers of Together may be interested in sons in Japanese. At least once a week some of the details. they invited a Japanese friend for Tanimoto, The.working project got underway dinner. former Crusade Scholar, chats with another Methodist pastor, in April 1955 when Dr. Barsky, Dr. Several "parents" told how easily Marvin Green, of New Jersey, Hitzig and I went to Hiroshima to the language barrier could be over- who co-ordinated U. S. aid. make final arrangements. come, how the Maidens were de- News of our coming had been pre- voted to small children. One woman objected to the rotation plan, maturely published in Japan, so even tluy were surprised to find then is when wc arrived there were 43 Maid- under which each of the girls would another side to America. ens awaiting us, more than twice as live with various families. The gentle, "They admire the pride of Ameri- many as had been planned for. It courteous girls from Japan had so cans in their flower gardens or in was decided to take the final plunge won her heart she didn't want to give their arrangement of flowers in the and bring every girl who could be them up. home," one ol the Quakers said. medically certified for the trip. Shyness soon melted in the warmth "They see Americans who have hob- On the evening preceding final se- of American home life; pint up bies or who are talented in handi- lection, the Maidens went to Mr. loneliness was released in gayety. crafts or knitting or dressmaking oi Tanimoto's church for special serv- "We will never forget the laughtei painting or who love good music as ices. Each girl had a prayer—and they brought witli them ami shared much .is sp.uis. .ind the) are deeply most prayers had two parts. One was with us," reported the head ot one pleased and impressed. When these for the American doctors, that they host family. girls return to Japan they will he able might know no anguish for not be- One night, after conversation and to talk about a much more accurat< October J 956Mogcthcr 3/ America than the people there see on this—and I can move my fingers very One of the Quakers had a friend the screen." easily." who is a professional maker of As a whole, the Maidens were re- Shortly before one of the girls was jewelry. Twice a week he gave two markably free of illness, but one of wheeled into the operating room, she of the girls lessons in ceramic jewelry the girls developed severe abdominal asked an interpreter to give this mes- making and he believes they will be pains one night. Dr. Hitzig diag- sage to Dr. Barsky. "Tell Dr. Barsky able to do this professionally in nosed acute appendicitis. The opera- not to be worried because he cannot Japan. tion was a complete success and the give me a new face," she said. "I Before she left for the U. S., an- girl returned to her home in a few know my scars are very, very bad and other was told that if she could learn days with an admonition not to eat so I know Dr. Barsky is worried be- to type in English she would be given many hot dogs so rapidly. cause he thinks I may expect that I a highly responsible secretarial job on The average weight gain per girl will be as I once was. I know that this her return. Her American "parent" was almost seven pounds. The Maid- is impossible; but it does not matter; enrolled her in secretarial classes in ens thrived despite the emotional something has already healed here the local high school. After only a and physical strain of their surgery. inside." month or so, the school authorities The required surgery in most Nine of the 25 young ladies re- reported the girl had received the cases was extraordinarily complicated. turned to Japan last June. The de- highest grades in the class. These The process of regeneration is dif- parture date for the others was set grades were maintained despite long ficult and requires months. Massive for the first week in September. absences when the girl was in the skin grafting calls for endurance by hospital. both patient and doctor. Realizing There was hardly a girl who didn't this, asked to Dr. develop some skill that be to a "parent" see GREAT CHANGE was evi- can put Barsky. She told him she wanted to dent when the girls appeared at the use vocationally later. One girl give her own skin for the girl and nurse's aide graduation exercises at studied to be a beautician; another said she had made arrangements to the American Red Cross, on comple- girl, the full use of her arms restored, stay at the hospital as long as was tion of a special survey course in took to custom tailoring; yet another, necessary for this purpose. nursing at the Manhattan Center of her fingers completely freed, learned Dr. Barsky said he would have the Red Cross. They sat with their to play the piano. given anything to be able to accept American "parents" rather than as Even more important, perhaps, the offer. But the skin from one per- a group. They radiated well-being were the home and community expe- son cannot be permanently grafted and a sense of inner ease. They were riences of the girls. One was "com- to another except in the case of neatly and attractively dressed; their pletely caught up" in ping pong, identical twins. The appearance of hair and make-up was American volleyball, extracurricular school the disfigured girls was improved but college-girl style. Each girl walked work, and church activities. In addi- they could not be restored totally to up to receive her diploma, returning tion, she liked to sew, work around their pre-injury condition. to her seat with that look of pride the house, and play with the children. Decisive and inspiring results, in achievement so well known to With another Hiroshima Maiden, however, were achieved in liberat- parents at graduation exercises. she put on programs for the neigh- ing fingers and hands from the "con- One "parent" told of the time bors about various aspects of life in tractions" of the muscles and skin her girl returned from the hospital Japan. that resulted from the burns. In at following a second operation that "Our girl has come out into the least a dozen cases spectacular success freed her fingers and hands from the sunshine for the first time in her life," was scored in making it possible for contractions and deformation caused one of the Japanese parents wrote. the girls to use their hands normally by the burns. The girl went upstairs, There was time and occasion for for the first time in many years. got a drawing pad and pencil, went sheer joy and fun. Dr. Hitzig ar- On August 6, 1955, the tenth an- outside and sketched the landscape in ranged for a full day's outing for the niversary of the bombing, many of front of the house. In the days that girls and their American families, in- the Maidens gathered together for followed, a scholarship was arranged cluding reserved seats at a night base- specially arranged short-wave tele- at one of the country's leading art ball game between the Giants and phonic communication with their schools. the Dodgers. Baseball being a na- parents or members of their families Another girl's painting was sold on tional pastime in Japan as it is here, in Hiroshima. The signal was good its merits. The girl asked for the the girls did not have to be briefed and each girl took her turn in report- privilege of turning the money over about what was happening on the ing to her family about her experi- to Mt. Sinai Hospital. The offer was field. All but one or two had de- ences in the United States. In the gratefully accepted. clared for the Dodgers. midst of one of the conversations, a Another girl learned Braille type- Ebbets Field contained no more girl began to weep. writing so that she might work with ardent or articulate rooters than in "It is not only because of my happi- the blind after her return to Japan. the section where the girls were ness that I cry," she said. "I cry be- This girl saved every cent of her seated. When Sandy Amoros broke cause I am holding the telephone small allowance in order to make a the tie in the fourth inning by blast- with my own hand and you cannot gift of a Braille typewriter for a ing a triple against the right field see it. I can move my elbow—like school for the blind in Hiroshima. screen, the girls leaped to their feet 32 Together/bcfober 1956 — in unrestrained joy and delight. unimportant white scar high up on Hitzig. I went down the hall and The few Hiroshima Maidens who the inside of her right forearm. telephoned Walter Bishop at home. favored the Giants never despaired. Later, when Tomoko came to the Then I sent long cables to the parents In the ninth inning, the first two hospital for a routine check-up, she in Hiroshima and to individuals in Giants went down in order. Then told Mrs. Yokoyama that she felt that Japan who were co-operating. Don Mueller singled to left. Even perhaps she ought to have another The next morning I returned to before the ball was returned to the operation to remove the scar. the hospital to see the Maidens who infield, the Giants-supporting Maid- The day before the operation, she were recuperating from their various ens were on their feet. checked in at the hospital. She operations. Their grief was great but "Here we go! Here we go!" one seemed somewhat pale and when the so was their compassion. I had come of them shouted. other girls asked how she felt she ad- to console them but it was they who "Yoshie," I said. "It is the ninth mitted to some pain but insisted that did the consoling. inning and the Giants are six runs nothing be said about it to anyone. behind." The morning of the operation she only outs," she said she felt fine. "But there are two The operation be- L they had done, massaging it until it I was told that the Americans have a had started up its beat again, supple- guilty feeling about dropping the months passed, menting their action with a defibril- R)UT AS THE atomic bomb and that this is the only Tomoko's skepticism and uncertain- lator, a device that helps electrically reason." ty began to fade. She had a natural to activate the heart. Mrs. Yokoyama said that while artistic flair, especially in fashion de- For almost six hours the doctors many Americans kit deeply about sign. Walter and Pauline Bishop, her worked over Tomoko. Nurses sched- the horrors of atomic warfare, this American "parents," enrolled her in uled to go off duty at 4:00 p.m. was not the only reason. courses in design. Later, the Parsons begged to be allowed to stay. On the "Suppose," Mrs. Yokoyama said. School of Design offered her a top of the respirator was a gauge "that some people have a philosophy scholarship that would run into 1957 with its black arm swinging inside .i of life which enables them to regard and advised Tomoko to plan to pur- narrow range. Underneath the respi- all human beings as belonging to a sue her studies beyond graduation, rator were the bellows, making it single family. Even though they perhaps in Paris. possible for Tomoko to receive the might not actually know each other. When she went into the hospital oxygen. even though they might live thou- for the second operation on her arm, At twenty minutes past nine, I sands ol miles apart, they might still she told Mrs. Yokoyama that she opened the door and looked in. The In lievc in then clos< ik ss and in their felt a totally new personality had bellows were still going and tin bla< I. duty t<> one another. been hidden inside her and was only hand in the indicator was moving "Tlu same love that members ol a now coming to life. slightly. Dr. Simon was standing family feel lor one another can be "I think maybe the reason 1 hit the over the respirator. Then he looked felt by thos< people lor all others. way I did when I first came lure was up and shook his head. Alter another especially lor those who are terribly " 1 because I had never before known minute, the indicator stopped. in need ol help. Is this not possible.- real happiness." 1 )r. Fujii came out, his arm around "Volt mean that these people are The second operation was com- Dr. Barsky. Dr. Takahashi put his helping me because they love me?" "1 pletely successful. There remained an arms around Dr. Simon and Dr. believe tlu \ do," I [elen replied. October J 956Mogctlier 33 Here, for the benefit of snifflers and sneezers, is the latest answer to an old, old question. . . . —«'- J Can Colds Be Cured? By Shirley Linde Rj.IGHT NOW more than twen- have isolated and grown the common ple. Fewer colds occur in air-con- ty-four million people are sniffling cold virus. If he's right, then scien- ditioned offices and plants and in the and sneezing. This is October, worst tists, having captured it, can study mild coastal areas. month for colds. Other peak months it to see how it causes colds and what Vaccines—The first big break in are January, February and March. drugs are effective against it. research came when Harvard's Nobel The common cold is nothing to Many children who seem to have a prize winner, Dr. John Enders, suc- sneeze at. With other respiratory cold all the time are being found ceeded in growing viruses on bits of diseases it causes more than half of allergic to ragweed, dust, molds, or animal tissue for the first time. all absenteeism from work, 150,000,- foods. Dr. Samuel Feinberg, of This technic made the Salk polio 000 work days a year, and costs Northwestern University, is discov- vaccine possible. And it made pos- Americans more than five billion dol- ering that many people are even al- sible discovery of the APC viruses lars a year in lost production, pills lergic to bits of dust from insects. that attack the adenoids, pharynx and doctors' bills. The best treatment for allergies is (throat) and conjunctiva of the eyes Until recently doctors didn't know antihistamines and injections. and cause sore throat, fever, and sore what caused it, how it was spread, Other influences being investigated watery eyes of grippe. Dr. Robert how to prevent it or cure it. Now it are weather, anatomy of the nose, and Huebner, of the National Institutes looks as if we're finally winning the having tonsils and adenoids removed. of Health, grew APC viruses in a fight. Some doctors think that with- Colds in the family—Dr. John test tube culture of monkey kidney in five years a drug will be found to Dingle of Western Reserve Universi- tissue, killed them with formalde- cure the cold. ty found that the average family has hyde, and made a vaccine that pre- Here's evidence of the heightened 10 sicknesses a year, six of them vented 70 per cent of prisoner battle: over 100 industries have respiratory. The study showed that volunteers from getting grippe. Now pooled their money and formed the when someone in the family comes he is testing a pooled vaccine from Common Cold Foundation to make home with a cold, chances are 50-50 several viruses causing grippe (not research grants to universities and any child under six will get it and the common cold) in a mass trial of hospitals. one to four that older children will. thousands of servicemen. And here is a progress report on Other facts we've learned: A cold Vaccines of three of these APC what we know about colds and is most contagious in early stages, viruses, now called adenovirus, were "cures." usually for 24 hours before you know tested on 16,000 recruits at Great Cause—The new concept is that you have it. You have fewer colds Lakes Naval Training Center. Re- not just one thing causes respiratory as you get older. Infants catch about sults just announced by Huebner, disease. Different things cause dif- seven to eight colds a year, grade Drs. Joseph Bell, Matthew Hantover, ferent symptoms. And as these causes school children four to five, and and Clayton Loosli are that the vac- are found, drugs and vaccines can be adults two to three. Women have cine proved 50-70 per cent effective studied to fight them. slightly more than men, but men's against grippe (not the common Viruses are being discovered that colds last longer. Worriers and bad- cold). The scientists said the vaccine cause influenza, some pneumonia, tempered persons catch colds often. looks like a "promising" weapon for sore throats, pink eye, grippe, and Farmers catch more than indoor reducing respiratory infections other cold-like symptoms. workers, office workers more than among military personnel and may England's top virus scientist, Dr. factory workers, and low income eventually prove helpful to civilians Christopher Andrewes, claims to people more than high income peo- suffering from grippe. 34 Togcther/Ocfober 7 956 Drugs—Many doctors feel that a Only 39 per cent on antibiotics had drafts, preferably in bed, eat an ade- vaccine is not the answer to respira- recovered! Antibiotics also hid and quate diet, and drink plenty of water tory diseases. The reasons are that confused early symptoms of serious and fruit juices. immunity doesn't last long even in complications and infections. • Things to make you feel better nature and there are many different Some doctors think that vitamins, are simple pain relievers like aspirin, viruses involved. As new viruses are vaccines, antihistamines, bioflavi- keeping warm, warm salt water gar- being discovered and grown in test noids, gargles, nose drops, and the gle for a sore throat, warm compress- tubes, scientists are testing thousands 600,000,000 cold pills we buy a year es over your sinuses, non-oily nose of different drugs to kill them. Some are worthless. They feel that hot drops or spray, hot baths. drugs have been found that will baths only make you clean, liquids • Watch for complications like high check flu virus in a test tube. just keep you from being thirsty, and fever, chills or earache that might Antibiotics—In a study of 159 chil- greasing your chest only makes your mean serious infection. dren with colds, Dr. Howard Trais- chest greasy. • Only use antihistamines if you man, of Northwestern University, Other doctors make these sugges- think your cold is due to an allergy. gave to 55 this standard treatment: tions, but not unanimously: • Don't use antibiotics, except when bed rest, keep warm, plenty of • To keep from catching cold, stay your doctor says there are complica- liquids, and aspirin if needed. An- in top physical condition, strengthen tions. Frequent penicillin shots are other group of 104 got the same treat- your general resistance with a good dangerous. ment plus a sulfa drug, penicillin, or diet, adequate vitamins, plenty of The best advice of all is to be philo- aureomycin. In one week 56 per sleep, and reasonable exercise. sophical and think of the immunity cent of those on the old-fashioned • To treat a cold and minimize you're building up that might make standard treatment had recovered. complications, stay inside and out of the next cold less severe! We Put Christ in Our Christmas Cards W ILL your family's Christmas cards reflect the true spirit of Christmas this year ? Ours will and yours can, too. As we did, you may find such a family project not only rewarding spiritually, but loads of fun! For example, in our house at Christ- mas we always have a birthday cake tor Jesus. One year we posed the chil- dren with it beneath a picture of the Madonna. Our Christmas card showed the scene, with our baby reaching for Christ's birthday cake (below). Our favorite homemade, photograph- A family scene with Christmas spirit. Three evenings of family fun yielded this Christmas card illustration. ic Christmas card illustrated the fa- Before we had children, we were able miliar hymn, O Come, Let Us Adore to convey .i religious message on our linn (above). Technically, this was the Christmas cards by illustrating vacation most dilfiaili ol any Christmas theme snapshots with appropriate verses from we've tried to photograph. We worked the Bible. It was easy to find texts thai on this lor three evenings. We set oil fitted perfect!) oui scenes oJ mount. tins, ;i Bash bulb inside the tiny stable, and beaches, and peaceful valleys. And to gel the right expression on tin- chil people seemed to appreciate' this rather dnn's faces we sang Silent Night and unusual touch in our family Christmas Away in 35 — Teens Together WITH AN EX-TEENAGER "Dick- Richmond Barbour, Ph.D. / AM a girl. Next month I'll be Try not to go out with anyone who go with you. Be sure to phone ahead 18. How can I tell whether I'm is unsuitable. And remember, re- for an appointment. Then tell the truly in love with my boy-friend? He ligion matters a great deal. If differ- mayor what you want. Ask him to is 20. father tells me I'm not My ences seem unimportant now, re- have the City Attorney's office check old enough to be serious. He calls my member that they will be very im- the legality of your proposal. Suggest feelings puppy love. When he says that portant later. It's best to have dates that the city fathers discuss it. I feel angry and awful. 1 really need with someone in your own church It's an idea for you, R. L. Try it to \notv. Is it love?—E. B. gang. If you can't do that, try to go then let me know how it works out. with others who are Protestants. My . or puppy love? REAL LOVE suggestion isn't intolerance. It is It's to say. first they have * •' / a girl. I love par- hard At based en a sincere desire to give * AM good my the day- ents and they love me. We have a fine the same symptoms— same you the best possible chance for a dreams and the same joy in com- Christian home. But we quarrel about life of happiness and service. the deadlines they set for me to gel panionship. You even feel the same Another suggestion: act slowly. home after club meetings, dates, and urge things. prayer to do reckless But Probably you will be infatuated parties. They tell me 1 am unreason- will help you understand yourself. several times before the right person able. 1 tell them that they are. How Pray for insight. comes along. While infatuated, be can we avoid the arguments? I am counsel people al- We who young courageous. Withstand temptation. 15.—L. M. ways urge them to wait a while. God will give you strength. Wait, i Then you can tell better whether it's and be sure it is real love before you a. IF ALL of you try to be con- temporary infatuation or the real marry. A good many high-school siderate you can work out a formula thing. first emotional Wait until the youngsters are marrying these days. that will prevent trouble. Set differ- rampage is over. Wait until the Many marry impulsively soon and ent deadlines novelty being for different affairs. of together has passed. regret what they have done. You'll Set them according to the expected Ask yourself such questions as live a long time. Don't jeopardize closing time of the affair you are these: Is he a clean Christian young your life by a hasty marriage! attending. If it is an commit- man? Is he kindly, patient, consid- MYF tee meeting on a week-night, you erate? Is he intelligent? Respon- should be expected home much sible? Does he have a stable per- / /IM discouraged about wor\. earlier than after a Friday night foot- sonality? Can he earn a reasonably I am a teen-age boy. I can't find a fob. ball rally. Estimate the time the good living? In other words is he There seem to be few opportunities for \ids to affair will end. Usually you can be the sort of person you need to have earn money. Dr. Barbour, what can we do about it?—R. L. quite accurate. If it is a show date, for a lifelong partner? If so, your add half to three-quarters of an hour affection probably will continue. It for a hamburger or a malt. Add the may grow into what we call real «- . HERE'S one suggestion. All travel time to your Finally, love. If not, the wise thing to do towns have parks. Most parks have home. add a few minutes for goodnights, is to stop seeing each other. Puppy undeveloped areas or hidden rub- love dies quickly. bish piles which need cleaning up. and you have your deadline. On I have two urgent suggestions for Responsible high-school boys might midweek meeting nights, travel time all young people growing up in good be employed on week-ends or during should be about all you need. Don't Methodist families. The first is to summer vacations to do this sort of take time for a malt on Tuesday pick your dates carefully. In your work. When I investigated I found night if you've a test coming up early teens your judgment may be one town already doing this. The Wednesday. Hurry home and study. wobbly. Don't trust yourself too people there say it works. Sometimes emergencies will arise. much. Don't let yourself run the risk Think up a good plan—then take You'll be detained unavoidably. of "falling" for the wrong person. it to your mayor. Have some friends When that happens, phone your 36 Together/bcfober 1956 — folks and tell them about it. Don't ings of high-school graduates total make them wait anxiously past the about $165,000. At least a part of 1U time they expected you. That would the difference comes from education. be cruel. Remember, they do worry All young people who have the Wicked about you. ability and the opportunity should go to college. "Sour godliness is the devil's religion.' *«Cr 1 AM a student in college and am — Wesley * John interested in politics. 1 organized a • '; , MY LITTLE brother is a Dennis political club to work in the presidential the Menace. He's four and I am campaign, but the college dean made 13—but he drives me almost crazy. me disband the club. Shouldn't college Ever since he was tiny I have students have political clubs?—/. /. done quite a bit of the work of taking i care of him. Believe me, Dr. Barbour, it is work} My mother tells me I can- ._: ihi I THINK so. I'd say the dean not spank him. Now he is getting so is shortsighted. You should be en- he won't mind me. He even tries to A leading layman once accompanied couraged to take part in politics, not hurt me. I really love the little demon. his preacher to the zoo. They looked at discouraged. But I can hardly stand him. Am I the monkeys, the kangaroo, the zebras, worse than most girls for feeling this and finally they arrived at the enclosure way?—M. T. where two camels were chewing their / a tall and shinny girl of AM r cuds. 13. I to want wear some cam- "Queer looking creature, isn't it?" & & NO. IN EVERY family where ouflage curves, but mother won't let said the preacher. there are children, there is a certain me. Is she right? I put some make-up "Sure is," answered the layman. "It last Sunday-school amount of bickering. That is espe- on Sunday. My looks like it was put together by a teacher was nice, but she said it was cially true wherever an older sister committee." in bad taste. Was it? Some girls my has the responsibility for caring for age use make-up. a younger brother. The fighting isn't My other trouble is clothes. Mother good, but it happens. Anyway, ask makes everything 1 wear. 1 have had your folks to relieve you of some only one store dress in my life and I of the responsibility of caring for bought it with money I earned. your brother. Try not to spend so Why can't I have nice dresses li\e — much time with him. Then you'll other girls? V. J. have chances to do pleasant things with him when you are together. world is not THE WHOLE Four-year-olds like to be read to. against you. You're just pushing it They love jaunts to the zoo or the The late Bishop Ernest Lynn Waldorf too hard trying to up a little — grow park. They like walks. They enjoy used to delight to tell about the occasion too fast. great girls A many make playgrounds. Try not to be too bossy. when he was preparing for a dinner at the same mistake. Your is hotel in Chicago. had been chair- mother Try to do things he enjoys. a He right about the camouflage curves, man of a meeting all day and was and your teacher about the make-up. hurrying to get ready for the march to the speaker's hall where he was to Good taste calls for you to wait a «% DO YOU think it is more im- preside again. Everything was in order while. Many girls are beautifully portant for girls to be popular with but he couldn't tie his bow tic. clothed in dresses sewn by their good boys than for them to get "A" He heard footsteps in the hall outside mothers. Why not help by picking grades in school?—A. T. His hotel room. Going to the door, he out patterns you like? Or, if you can noticed a man passing by. earn the money, there's no reason L 1 BELIEVE popularity is more "Pardon me, my friend," the big why you shouldn't buy your own important for lifelong happiness than Waldorf voice boomed. "Will you do with dresses. Good luck! "A" grades in high school. So do me the favor of helping my tie?" The passer-by agreed, came into the many parents. But good grades are room, and asked the bishop to stretch important, too. sofa. In a jiffy the tie was *Q* 1 AM a senior in high school and out on a neatly knotted. get pretty good grades. If I want to I "That's beautiful," Bishop Waldorf can go to work after I graduate next said as he surveyed the results in the June. Dad tells me I got to go to col- Note to teenagers: Since Dr. Bar- full-length mirror. "Rut why did yon lege. He says a college education pays " bour got his Ph.D. at Yale, he has : have me lie clown financially. Is he right?—R. S. people in the been counseling young ," "Well— saiil the man, "you see, I public schools at San Diego, California. am an undertaker." Now he also writes a column syndicated COLLEGE docs pay in many in newspapers, coast to coast. Write * ways. Financially, it is a good invest- church -related him in care of Toqether, il you have What's your favorite ment. The average lifetime earnings questions. From those you send be will chuckle? Send it in. If we share it of college graduates total about select ones of general interest to an- through this column, we'll send you a $268,000. The average lilctime earn- swer. Eds. $5 check- —Eds. Ocfober !956\Jogether 37 How Did Jesus Really Look? By Dwight E. Lodei J ESUS, WHOM men called Christ, showed Him as an Oriental potentate much alike, however, because the was once clothed with flesh. He lived —just, perhaps, but harsh and grim. pattern had become sterotyped. But on earth as a human being who In Europe, Christ was often depicted Fra Angelica could show him dressed earned His living as a carpenter. as the source of all wisdom. He was as a pilgrim and Andrea del Castagno But what did He really look like ? often pictured in the midst of His could picture a youthful figure No living person knows. Nor do disciples like a Greek philosopher, emerging at the Resurrection. artists who, through the centuries, with high forehead and long curly Protestants abandoned wall paint- have put brush to canvas and chisel beard. This was the origin of the ings associated with doctrines and to stone. tall, bearded figure that long domi- rites of the Roman Catholic Church. Primitive Christians were not in- nated Western art. They scorned the near-idolatrous terested in the physical appearance of The medieval artist, like the reverence given to images stressing Him whose name they bore. The medieval theologian, removed Him the person and life of Jesus. The re- Gospels offer not one hint whether from the sphere of human experience. formers approached the subject from He was tall or short, big or slight, He was not the Son of Man, gather- the human side. bearded or smooth-faced, blond or ing up within Himself the impulses But among Catholic artists there brunet. No contemporary reports of man and also suggesting man's was a return to the mystic view of throw light on His face. unrealized possibilities. Christ—the wounded, bleeding Christ It was not until the Third Century He was not a man whose eyes —as the Counter-Reformation forces that notes and letters of church lead- could flash with anger or kindle with set in. Material progress and the In- ers referred obscurely to His physical pity. He was an other-worldly crea- dustrial Revolution, however, had characteristics. Typical was the com- ment of Jerome, a scholar who wrote in the Fourth Century: "Had He not had something heavenly also in His face and in His Dr. Loder, 42-year-old president of Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, Illinois, is a eyes, the apostles never would have close student of the Bible and of trends in followed Him at once, nor would Christian art. His last pastorate was Henne- those who had come to arrest Him pin Avenue, in Minneapolis, which has one have fallen to the ground." of the finest collections of art to be found in But people are incurably picture- a church gallery. He is a native of Nebras- minded. Very early—no one knows ka and a graduate of the state university. just when — Christian artists and craftsmen began to put Jesus into drawings and on pottery. Their conceptions were stylized, ture the antithesis of a carpenter their impact. Even artists began to of course. On the walls of the cata- — who sweated and developed callouses be aware of the social teachings of combs, where Christian believers met on His hands at a bench. Painters the Gospel. t<> elude the emperor's soldiery, most of those days were less interested in Artists then began to draw on pictures were mystical decorations. reality than in theology. their own experience and the experi- Usually they represented a symbol of Came Gothic architecture, and the ence of the world, painting Him Christ, nothing more. figures lengthened to fit in with the realistically as a Jew, consciously re- Surveying the long history of at- graceful upward thrust of the pillars. jecting the idealization of the cen- tempts by artists to portray Jesus, we Heaviness and massiveness had no turies. They painted Him as a Dutch can see certain theological trends. At place in the lacey architecture of a burgher, a German peasant, a Nor- first, Jesus was shown as an idealized Gothic cathedral. The emphasis was wegian working-man. Modern Jap- Good Shepherd. Often He appeared on the ethereal qualities and artistic anese make Him slant-eyed. as a supernatural wonder-worker. design. So the stern rigidity of the How did Jesus, the man, actually By Mid-Fifth Century, church earlier faces of Jesus yielded to an look? Again, no one knows. Per- leaders began to use walls of churches almost feminine gentleness. haps it is just as well. Jesus was flesh to teach what unlettered peasants By the Fourteenth and Fifteenth and blood, to be sure. But with could not read in books. But reli- Centuries, more human qualities and mystery surrounding His actual gious pictures were not realistic. expressions had come into the por- physical appearance, it is given to Eastern art, centering on Byzan- traits of Jesus. The Christ of the each of us to envision Him in terms tium (modern Istanbul) usually Gospels was emerging. Portraits were of what He means to us. 38 Togcthzr/Oclober 1956 — Was St. hu\e an artist? Tradi- A Second Century portrait done on tion says he did this — but prob- cloth, preserved in the St. Bartholo- ably it's Third Century art wor\. mew Church at Genoa in Italy. i\\ EN "see" Christ in many ways—as our "Behold the man!"—and no one with assurance could 8-page album demonstrates dramatically. This page shows how say he was wrong. Christ is all things to all men as early as the Second Century some visual-minded Christians especially to artists. were breaking away from representations of Christ by mystical But gradually a familiar bearded face emerged in symbols. With no known life sketches from which to work, the forms popularized by Johann Hofmann, a Ger- they were uninhibited and drew lreely on their imaginations. man artist who died at Dresden in 1911. In recent That is the story repeated down the centuries. Portraitists years, however, artists have again been fascinated by have been influenced not alone by their own concepts of creative the problem and are repeating the centuries-old composition but by the art vogues, the environments, and the process of translating inward concepts of the Son of theologies of their times. Each artist could say of his work. Man into visual torm. And this will continue. -Eds. Christ before resurrection. This Christ done in a mosaic by some Second Century likeness is in the unknown artist in the catacombs— Sacristy of St. Peter's in Rome. safe from the prying persecutors. M,lOSAIC dating from the Eleventh the dead. The realism is remarkable for a portrait made Century at Daphni, Greece. Clearly, the artist was under of bits of stone or glass set into plaster. The book in Byzantine influence. Christ is not shown as a compas- His hand, however, is an anachronism for "books" sionate Saviour, but rather as a stern judge or potentate, mentioned in the Bible were not hard-bound volumes but Eastern style, probably ready to judge the quick and scrolls that were unwound as they were read. — I YPICAL of his period is this portrait toward feminizing Christ's face, rather than depicting by Albert Bouts, a Dutch painter who was born in 1455 Him as a vigorous man who had earned His living .it and died in 1549. It emphasized the agony of Christ manual labor and was accustomed to long walks in the which was in consonance with a theology that glorified open air. Albert Bouts did many religious paintings, suffering. The features also show a common tendency but few ot them have survived. R.EMBRANDT (1606-1669) grew up this conception Rembrandt put some of his own long- in a pious Protestant family at Leyden, Holland, so it ings, for his life was marked by sorrows and frustrations is not surprising that this portrait has been called the as well as by successes. The original canvas is now "Christ of the Beatitudes." It shows Him as a friendly among the treasured masterpieces preserved in the Metro- person whom one might meet on the street. Perhaps in politan Museum in New York City. New In all of these, Hofmann projected G'HRIST'S life fascinated Johann Church, York. Hofmann (1824-1911). This German artist painted many his concept of Christ's likeness, pictured above. 1 hough scenes with Christ as the central figure—with the adulter- n shows 1 lim as somewhat effeminate, u has the elements ess, with the doctors, in Gethsemane, to name a few. His of beauty that have made Hofmann a popular painter "Christ and the Rich Young Man" is in Riverside of religious subjects and scenes. m ' ^ Copyright 1944 by Whitmore and Ston /AN OHIO FARM BOY who won "American Girl." Dissatisfied with stereotyped concep- fame in New York was Howard Chandler Christy (1873- tions of Christ, he did this portrait—injecting a strong 1952). During the Spanish-American War he sketched note of modern realism. The original is owned by the news events in Cuba. Later he did portraits, illustrated Methodist Publishing House and presently will be hung books and magazines, and popularized the wind-blown in its new headquarters building at Nashville, Tennessee. Ghrist not alone as a B,REARING sharply with tradition is today's theology which thinks of as person who taught love, healed this portrait by Ivan Eugene Puseckcr, who was horn Man of Sorrows but a festive gather in Texas in 1908 but now lives in Ohio. It contrasts the sick, and found joy at weddings and with medieval pictures of Ghrist in agony and other- ings. The original is owned by Or. George W. Crane. worldly moods. Pusecker obviously was influenced by Chicago psychologist and church-school teacher. '*' •*..'- Here's How Sallman Painted It by William F. McDermott TiHERE WAS A knock at the anese. 'Same picture! We be friends.' door. A Los Angeles churchwoman, "Believe it or not, it turned out expecting a friend, opened it wide— that the American youth's church in and faced a masked man and a Boston had supplied the large pic- pistol. ture for the Japanese lad's mission in "Your purse and your jewels!" Tokyo. The two 'enemies' became he demanded. friends—reconciled by the Prince of As the terrified woman stepped Peace through the ministry of a pic- back, the intruder glanced inside the ture." living room. Suddenly his pistol arm Dr. Charles Ray Goff, pastor of went limp and the weapon dangled. the Chicago's First Methodist His eyes were fixed upon a large "Temple" tells of the time a Fili- framed picture. "Keep your money, pino accosted him in Manila with lady," he blurted. "I can't look at the words: "You saved my life!" that picture and steal. I saw things A graduate of a mission school, like that when I was a kid." He this man had been a guerrilla. Deep turned and raced down the steps. in the interior he was captured by What the robber had glimpsed was savages. Pleading for mercy because the "Head of Christ" by Warner he was a Christian, he opened his Sallman, the most widely favored wallet and showed them the "Head portrait of Christ ever painted. More of Christ." It so impressed his cap- than 60 million copies have been tors they released him. distributed and multi-color presses "I know how you got painter to operate around the clock to meet make picture," the Filipino told Dr. demands. Goff, "so you saved my life." Strange stories are being told of Bread cast upon the water had re- what the picture does to people. turned after many a day! There's one about two GIs captured Back in 1924, Charlie Goff, former Dare he try to portray Christ? He in World War II by Japanese, re- Iowa farm boy and miner, was a remembered years before the dean lated by the late Dr. Peter Marshall, student at Garrett Biblical Institute of Moody Bible Institute had said chaplain of the U. S. Senate and at Evanston, Illinois. Talking to a no artist had yet conceived the real subject of the motion picture "A YMCA Bible Class in Chicago's Christ. He was familiar with the Man Called Peter." "loop" the husky seminarian often Bible through stories learned from a "As they were being marched back stressed practical religion. devout mother and at Sunday School. at bayonet point to uncertain fate," "Christ lived right on the level And he had dreamed of doing re- said Dr. Marshall, "one of the Amer- of ordinary people," he once declared, ligious art ever since he had watched icans began whistling a gospel hymn. "like carpenters, bookkeepers, farm his father, a carpenter, sketch the Suddenly a captor sidled up. laborers, clerks, and ditch diggers. sea and ships to soften his homesick- "You Christian?' he asked. 'Me He helped them every time He got ness for his home back in Finland. Christian too. My mission in Tokyo a chance. We should do the same. "It'll be easy," Warner told him- has big picture of Jesus.' We oughtn't set Him apart. I hope self. "I'll pray about it, and God "A thought flashed through the some day an artist will give us a will reveal to me what I should GI's mind. He dug into his wallet, picture of Him as such a man of draw." pulling out a small print of Sallman's strength, courage ideals, cheer- and Relaxed and full of assuratue. Sall- 'Head of Christ.' fulness, and hope." man went to his attic studio th.it "That's it!' said the excited Jap- In the class was Warner Sallman, evening to make the sketch. But the young commercial artist. And he first one disappointed him also the was listening intently because only next, and the next. He had the idea. "Head of Christ" by Warner 24 hours away was the deadline tor alive, lie Sallman reproduced by permission of but no image came grew Kriebel & Bates, the copyright a cover lie must draw lor a religious nervous with frustration as mnl owners. youth publication. night approached. All his drawings 47 October J 956JxTogether lacked that something vital, strong "This is it!" Bates ejaculated as "We'll let that picture be your pass- and arresting, so necessary to draw he saw the painting. Kriebel agreed. port." the eye and stir the heart. Again he Within a few weeks, their color Sallman's portrait of Christ has prayed, but the inspiration did not presses were rolling. The first run brought to Durant, Oklahoma, the come. was 100,000, delivered in February unique distinction of being called Finally he gave up and went to of 1941. In two months it was ex- "The City-of-the-Christ-Picture" by bed. But Sallman couldn't sleep. hausted. A second edition of 250,000 the Chief of the Choctaw Nation. It Ideas raced through his mind only followed in April, a third of 500,000 came about when Miss Ora O'Riley, to disappear as he opened his eyes. in August, and a fourth of 500,000 a part-Indian girl, thought there The hands of his bedside clock had in November. might be a better decoration for the reached 2 a.m., when suddenly there The flood tide roared in with courtroom wall than the picture of flashed to his mind a vision—the orders for 3 million prints in 1942 a bathing beauty. to face of Christ as it should be! —millions going to servicemen over "Why not a picture of Christ the world—and it has been rolling inspire justice and mercy?" she like that and faster, ever since. Even asked the district judge. pajamas and bare feet he rushed I N World War IPs end and cessation of "A good idea," he agreed. "You to his studio. Grasping a pencil and Korean hostilities brought no dimi- supply it and we'll hang it." a sheet of paper, he quickly made a nution. The very energetic Miss O'Riley rough thumbnail sketch before the Meanwhile, Sallman has produced secured a print of the "Head of image faded. Then he returned to more than a dozen other paintings of Christ," got Sallman to autograph it, bed and fell into restful sleep. the Man of Galilee, and scenes of and gave it to the judge. "A few hours later, I returned to His earthly ministry—all of which, When he showed it to the Bryan the studio," Sallman told me, "and added to the Head of Christ print- County Bar Association, the at- made a charcoal drawing. It seemed ings, approximate 100 million copies. torneys formally requested that it as easy and as natural as if I were You will find it in the White hang in the courtroom as a reminder drawing a figure I had done many House, in governors' residences, in of the spiritual basis of man-made times before. And I made my dead- courtrooms, in stained glass win- law and order. line!" dows of churches, in millions of city The public response was electric. The Covenant Companion printed and rural residences, in Eskimo Durant was swept by a picture-of- Sallman's picture, but it did not igloos, Indian tepees, in ranch houses, Christ campaign. Homes, offices, and cause an immediate sensation. A few miners' shacks, and Mexican adobe stores responded. And soon looking people asked for extra copies, so houses. Protestants and Catholics out over desks in the Municipal Sallman had 1,000 extra covers run alike honor the painting. Court, the City Hall, Fire Depart- off at his own expense. The supply ment, and the Chamber of Com- lasted 10 years. merce was the likeness of the Son Meanwhile Sallman gave many I O)'NCE when visited the Cathe- of Man. chalk talks before church groups, dral of St. John the Divine in New So goes the strange and exciting sketching his likeness of Christ in City, I that York noted Sallman's career of a picture that was born colored crayons. One drew the at- of Christ" was prominently "Head in a dream. But Sallman—big, blond, tention of a McCormick Theological displayed I a and asked member of 63, and father of three sons—goes Seminary student entered it in a who the staff how visiting churchmen his quiet way. Pleased but unspoiled class competition for the most ap- rated it. by the incredible success of his work, pealing likeness of the Nazarene. "It ranks with them right along he gives the glory to God. Perhaps Many paintings and drawings, with Hofmann's portraits," he an- an incident in 1917, the first year among them world masterpieces, swered. of his married life, is the key to his were entered. When the votes were Many critics believe Sallman's genius. A doctor had told him that counted—a large majority of the painting already has won a place tuberculosis infected the glands of 50 students put the Sallman draw- among the great religious works of his neck and that he had but three ing first. all time. It is lofty in concept and months to live. Encouraged by this, a church- realization, yet there is an earthiness "Let's pray about it, Warner," his supply house made black-and-white about it that inspires the run-of-mine wife Ruth said quietly when he reprints, but Sallman was not satis- people of all races and positions to broke the news, "and let the Lord fied. Fully to express his concept, acts of kindness, decency and good have His way." the picture needed color. So one day will. They prayed, then serenely went in 1940 he made an oil painting and During World War II, a GI of about their tasks not only painting, placed it atop the mantel in his Japanese-American ancestry found, — also home. after he was aboard a train in North but taking the sick to hospitals, There Fred M. Bates and Anthony Dakota, that he had lost his ticket. calling on the aged and forlorn, giv- W. Kriebel saw it. They represented As the youth pulled out his bill- ing advice to aspiring artists, and a religious publishing house in In- fold, the conductor saw it carried testifying for Christ in churches and diana that was searching for new the "Head of Christ" picture. missions. nrtists to give a fresh touch to re- "I'll take your word for it that It is a visitation ministry which ligious subjects. you lost your ticket, son," he said. they continue to this day. 48 Togethcr/tOctober 1956 Illustration by Jack White .fie Torn Invitation By Norman Katkov fifteen, A T in the spring of his .1 leg in 1 1 rsi base and stretch half- home, Ins aims swinging as he sophomore year at Hamilton High way to righl held lor a bad throw moved. He passu! the toui tamiK School, Harry Wojick was as big as I mm his shortstop. Hat in the middle of the block. He a college senior, a long, thin, big- Now, in the waning, daylight, he passed the empty lot and beyond it boned left-hander, who could anchor turned into (Hover Street toward his tin condemned building with all the Ocfofeer i95c\Together 49 windows long since broken, and then under the lamp. "Hey, Frankie," he vited, where they called it dinner anc he turned into the cement walk said, "Come and eat." ate in a dining-room with table which ran the length of his house. He pulled the chair out and held cloths; where George Sidley's mothe The windows were raised in the it suspended off the clean, bare floor, sat at one end of the table and broki kitchen and he smelled the roast. He his fingers tightening on the wood. her bread piece by piece, buttering smelled the asparagus for the roast There, next to his plate, was the it lightly and eating slowly. and the fried potatoes with onions white, square envelope, and atop it, "Frankie's Ma got this invitation, that nobody made like Ma, and he covered by a transparent sheet of thin Theresa Wojick said, nodding a was suddenly terribly hungry after paper, was the invitation. their guest, who lived with hi the three hours of baseball practice. Harry looked at his mother, who divorced mother in one of the up had her back to him, busy at the stairs apartments of the four-famil stove. He heard Frankie coming flat. "How long she got the opei w*HEN he came into the kitch- through the house and knew it was house, Frankie?" en, Theresa Wojick turned from the Frankie's work, \new it. He moved "Mother had it," Frankie saic stove, smiling at her son, rubbing her the chair at last and sat down and, "She—we didn't talk about it." hands on her apron as she walked to without touching it, his hands hold- She turned to Harry, smiling a meet him. She held him at the el- ing his knees, he read the invitation her son. "You eat, Harry. Big ball bows, examining him carefully, her from the faculty of Hamilton High player must eat good," she said. face warm and her eyes gentle, wel- School to an open house in honor Harry ate. The three sat in silence coming him as though he had re- of all the students' mothers. Later, while Theresa Wojick se turned from a long and perilous It was for tomorrow. out the dessert plates, Frankie saic journey. She was a tall woman with Harry knew that, all right, had "How's practice going, Harry?" large, capable hands and black, un- known it for ten days and had kept "All right, I guess." He wante< kempt hair shot through with gray. it secret. He looked up from the an- this supper finished. She held Harry and she said, "Hello, nouncement as Frankie sat down Theresa Wojick filled the dessei my little son. Will you eat supper?" across the table. plates with pudding. As she sat dow joking with him as always. Harry's mother was sitting be- she said to Frankie, "Your Ma goc He put his cheek to hers, noticing tween them, and as she handed her to this open house?" again the redness of her chapped son the roast she said, "I asked "I don't know," he answered. "Sh hands. She could try to do something Frankie maybe he has this invitation, —well you know, she's pretty bus\ about it, he said to himself as she Harry. I heard by Celusik, the One of my aunts is sick and I thin' released him, remembering the grocery man, about this open house. she's going to be with her for a fe\ mothers of his teammates who lived Must be open house for junior, senior days. She packed her suitcase whe above the flats on Livingston Drive mothers." Frankie had skipped a she left today." and Harding Boulevard and scat- grade. "Ma," Harry said. tered through Maple Heights. They Harry was busy with the roast. She set her coffee cup down. were mothers with manicures and "It's for everyone," he said, watching "I wanted to tell you, Ma," h they were thin—and their hair was the roast. "Didn't you get one, Ma?" said. "I meant to tell you about always set just right. and he looked across at Frankie. He and then I forgot, I guess." Harry went to the sink to wash handed the platter to Frankie and "Easy to forget," she said. and, turning, saw the table set for turned to his mother. "They mailed "It wouldn't make any different three. He thought for an instant that them out," Harry said, remembering anyway, Ma," Harry lied. "We've gc his father was home, that Peter now that morning when he had that game with Central next wee Wojick had not gone to his night- waited for the postman on the and the coach is worried. He's bee watchman's job in the office building corner, taken the envelopes from working us hard all week. He's gc downtown. But he saw the hooks on him, searched for the square, white a game for tomorrow. You know, h the wall near the door empty of cap one, and had torn it, scattering the picks two teams from the squad an and coat. pieces in the empty lot before run- we play each other." "For Frankie Thomas," his mother ning home and dropping the rest whispered, looking at her son. "His of the mail in the black metal box mother is gone again till half the beside the door. I'VE got to go," Frankie saic night, and leaves cold cuts. Boy like "Maybe they make a mistake," his "Thanks very much for supper, Mr Frankie to eat cold cuts," she whis- mother said. Wojick." pered. "You call him, Harry." She reached for a thick slice of "You're welcome, Frankie.—Here "Why can't she learn to speak the rye bread she baked herself and —she reached across the table "het English?" he asked himself savagely. held it flat in her left hand. She is the invitation, Frankie," and sh "She's been here long enough." buttered it completely and thickly offered it to him. Harry walked through the short and brought it to her mouth, taking "Thanks." And he was gone. hall and stood under the arch which a large bite, and Harry wanted to "I won't be finished with the ga.r led into the living-room. He saw the leave the table and this house. He until six o'clock, Ma," Harry said. frail, black-haired boy with whom remembered the homes on Maple She nodded. Harry watched he he had grown up, sitting in the chair Heights to which he had been in- walking to the sink. "Do you war 50 Together/oc»ober 1 95 me to miss practice, Ma?" he asked. the bundle carefully with the string cafeteria cleared of tables, the floor She had her back to him. she always saved. But he only took bare and chairs lining the walls. He "We'll go next year, Ma. I'll be the package from her and said saw the huge coffeepots steaming, a regular on the team then. We can thanks, and left. and then he got his package out and go next year," he said, but she didn't All the way up to school he threw his books into the locker and turn, nor move, nor did she answer promised he'd make it up to her. slammed it. him, and he left the kitchen quickly. He'd start tonight. He'd sit in the He was half running for the door He went out for a walk; his hands kitchen with Ma; she liked him there when George Sidley stopped him: in his pockets. He tried to blame studying while she worked. He'd "Hey, where you headed for?" Frankie and couldn't and he tried take her for a walk Sunday. Harry stared at him. "Headed to blame Theresa Wojick and He came into school on the Liv- for?" he asked. "Where do you couldn't. He was seldom a liar, but ingston Drive side. His locker was think I'm headed for? Aren't you he just didn't want her there with on the first floor. He put the package going to practice?" George Sidley's mother and Eric inside, took his books, and slammed "Not me." George grinned. "Coach Portland's mother. the locker shut. The bell sounded said anybody who wanted to could When he came home he entered the house through the front door and moved through the living room in READERS CHOICE darkness, turning into the short cor- What magazine article or short "Reader's Choice" a $25 check ridor which led to his bedroom. He story do you remember well—and soon will be in the mail for you. Only one suggestion per person, could see the cracks of light below would like to pass on to others if please. the bathroom door and heard the only you could get a copy? This Norman Katkov story first Tell us (address: The Reader's water running; he wondered if appeared in The American Maga- Choice Editor). If you're first to zine, May 1952, copyright by Crow- there was ever a time in this house suggest it and if it's reprinted as cll Collier Publishing Co.— Eds. when the water wasn't running. He made it to his bedroom and un- dressed in the darkness, dropping his for first hour and Harry went up- be excused. Isn't your mother com- clothes on the floor and crawling into the turned-down bed. stairs to his English class. ing? The tardy bell sounded, and "She had to go downtown," Harry The first thing he noticed as soon ." Miss Liggett look up as he opened his eyes in the morning Harry saw said. "Well, hang around anywaj the desk. wasn't called on was his clothes, arranged neatly on from He Harry shook his head. He swung afterward, on the chair beside the bed, the shoes during the hour, and his left arm. "It feels like it's stiffen- study hall, he waved to together on the floor and clean socks his way to ing up," he said. "Guess I'll work Sidley, who played third draped across his shoes. He dressed George out. See you." quickly. base, and to Bernie Cremmens, the He walked down Livingston Drive right fielder. They were both wear- The kitchen was deserted. He toward the baseball field. He crossed ing sports jackets and regular shirts, saw his cornflakes and the orange the playing area, moving toward the and they wore ties. Harry looked juice and the milk before his chair, Quonset hut that served as dressing- down at his sweater worn over the but he stood behind it, gulping the room. There was nobody inside but scivvy shirt. His corduroys were juice. As he set the empty glass on Art Hughes, student manager. corduroys, and the table, his in clean, but they were mother came from Harry sat down on the bench be- hall, was the rear porch. around him, in the study fore the lockers and unwrapped the of flannels. "You didn't eat, Harry," she said. a sea gray package. He pulled his sue. iter olT was only one lunch period "I'm late, Ma. I've got a test this There and he was in his pants and scivvv to get the morning. I've got to study for the today because they had shirt, standing in bis socks on the ready for the open house. test." He wanted to be out of here cafeteria cement when Oscar Anderson a glass floor now as he turned from the table, Harry bought a sandwich and walked in. In a lew minutes they saw that her hands were full. of milk. Then moving away from were joined by ("buck Kellerman. She held the clean, freshly dried the cashier's cage, he saw that half the shortstop, and Mr. Quint, who sweatshirt and the two pairs of wool the guys on the team, sitting at the taught chemistry and was assistant socks, and he knew now why the table they shared every day, were baseball coach. water had been running in the bath- dressed up, too. He sat down in a Mr. Quint came over to the bench. room last night. "For your game far corner with two guys he didn't "Look, you fellows; mv wile's out today, Harry," she said. "You bring know, ate quickly, and left by the side in the car. It seems there an me tonight your dirty stuff." And side door. only three of vou here. You won't she reached for the folded newspaper He went to his locker lor his after- mind if 1 go back to school, will on the cabinet. noon books. He had only a French you Harry watched her wrap the class left, because, for today, school ahead, Mr. Quint." Chuck bundle and he wanted to kiss her, was over alter fifth period hour. "Go said. suddenly. He wanted to put his arms The bell sounded at last and 1 larry don't run out on you." around her and hold her as she tied hurried to his locker. I le saw the "I want to ©cfoUr fo56\Togcthcr 5. Mr. Quint said. "It's just—well, with ticipation. He'd wait out in front of gaiety. He saw Miss Formanek, the only three of you here. There doesn't the school, on Hamilton Avenue, and French teacher. He saw her wave at seem to be much we would do." help her from the cab and hold her him, her finger curved, beckoning "Can I get a ride back?" Art arm and lead her up the curving him. He saw Frankie Thomas stand- Hughes said. "You guys can check walk to the front door. He didn't ing beside her and the woman be- out your own uniforms today." care about the bread any more, or tween them. He was moving side- "Come ahead, Art," Mr. Quint said how she talked. She was his Ma. ways, pushing through the people, and they left together. The principal's door was open. and he looked up for Miss Formanek Harry picked up the phone and again, and then felt his heart stop. dialed his home number. He waited. He rubbed his hands up and down ^/y HEN they were gone, Chuck There was no answer. against the corduroys and looked at Kellerman slammed his baseball cap Aloud he said, "Wrong number," his Ma. down on the cement floor. "All the but felt the first, tiny stabs of alarm "I was telling your mother how way over here for nothing," he said. in his chest. He dialed again. There you were watching for her, Harry. He looked at Oscar Anderson. was no answer. You have a devoted son, Mrs. "How about you?" he asked. He felt the ache in his chest now, Wojick," the French teacher said. "Aren't you going to Mama's Day and his hands were wet. "Maybe Ma Harry saw his Ma smile and nod. beautiful. and eat cookies?" is sick or something," he thought, She was "Listen; I've got six brothers and and he knew who had to take the Frankie was wearing a jacket and sisters and I'm the baby," Oscar said. blame. Now he remembered his Ma a tie. How come he was dressed up? "My mother's tired of this stuff. I'm helping him with fractions when he "And you're, pinch-hitting for going home and get the grass cut was at Crowley School. He remem- Frankie's mother, too," Miss Forma- and then I got Saturday for myself, bered her at graduation, Ma and Pa nek said. "Frankie was my best to do what I want." sitting alone in the back row, and student, Mrs. Wojick." "How about you, Harry?" Chuck after he had his diploma, when the "Frankie's a good boy," Theresa asked. other guys were bringing their Wojick said. "How about you, wise guy?" parents up to the front of the audi- "They're all good boys," Miss For- Harry said, beginning to tie his shoe- torium, he had led them out to the manek said. laces. hall and home immediately. He re- "Ma," Harry said. He had to tell Chuck got up from the bench and membered her walking over to the her. reached for a bat. "My mother is skating rink on Inverness Street, dead," he said, and he swung the standing in a corner beside the fence bat desperately, as though he were to watch him skate under the flood- OHE had her hand in Frankie's hitting a line drive. lights, careful not to be seen, but he arm. She was smiling, and her hair "Will you lock up, Harry?" Oscar had seen her all right. Seen her and was pulled back neat, and she was asked. kept away from that corner until she the loveliest woman he had ever seen Harry saw his mother in the turned for home. "Ma, I tore up the invitation," he kitchen and he reached for his It seemed to him now, alone in said and he looked right at her. sweater. the principal's office, that he had "I know," she said. "But Frankie "Will you, Harry?" been hiding his Ma all his life, and has an invitation. We are two or- Remembered the light under the he was sick inside then, with a phans; mother without a son, anc bathroom door and the sound of physical distaste in his mouth. He son without a mother." water as she washed the sweatshirt grimaced with self-hatred, wanting, "I'm your son, Ma," Harry said and the socks. somehow, to feel a sharper pain, to and saw Frankie slipping away, bui "HARRY!" hurt himself deliberately; and he his mother held the black-haired boy "It isn't too late, yet," Harry said. left the office and almost ran into "Ma, I'm your son." He had his sweater on. Mr. Quint heading for the cafeteria. She was wearing white gloves anc "Are you nuts?" Oscar asked. "Hello, Harry," Mr. Quint said. she looked right at him, and he wa: He'd call her. He'd use the phone "I thought you were practicing." more afraid than he had ever beer in the principal's office. "See you to- "I guess not, sir." in his life. morrow," he said, and he ran out of Mr. Quint took Harry's arm. "Let's "Ma." He held her elbows as sh< the Quonset hut. Far off, walking in get some cookies, Harry." had his and he didn't drop his eyes left center field, Harry saw Chuck "What's the difference?" Harry He said, "Please, Ma, let's get some Kellerman, and then he began to thought. "What difference does it thing to eat. There's my coach there! run. make now?" And then they were in I want to introduce you to rm He could call her, he thought as the cafeteria, in the midst of mothers coach." he ran, and she could even take a and daughters and sons and teachers, "Yes," she said, and she smiled a taxi. Just this once a taxi: Pa and Mr. Quint was pulling him him then, and for him. "Yes," sh< wouldn't care. Harry knew that. She through the mob. said, and put one hand through hi could get dressed in her gray dress But they got separated and Harry arm and the other through Frankie's and be up there in half ah hour, and was alone. He wanted to get out "Introduce, please, to this coach, rm he was suddenly breathless with an- now, away from all the laughter and little son." 52 Together/wober 195( We've Got the Buttons! HOBBY ALLEY IVEPUBLICAN or Democrat, there's their choice. That night he brought me adventure ahead for the family that col- one of each kind." lects political campaign buttons, folders, Here are some of the ways we've posters, and banners. found to develop this family hobby: I know. During the Democratic Na- 1) Visit campaign headquarters in 6) From classified ads in hobby mag- tional Convention in August, our son, your community. Ask for buttons, lit- azines you can get names and addresses Jay, strutted into the living room of erature, placards and other items. You'll of other collectors who are eager to our suburban Chicago home, his chest be surprised at the fun you'll have. swap. sheathed in political badges. He had 2) Trade with other people sporting The American Political Item Collec- made the round of party headquarters. buttons you don't have. tors Association publishes a mimeo- Now the whole family is helping Jay 3) Write to the headquarters of the graphed directory of members, who are build his collection. And we've been candidates in the largest cities of each interested in trading. Write Monroe D. learning some things about American state, asking for buttons that mention Ray, Belmont, N. Y. history. that state. APICA was organized in 1945 and For example, we've discovered that 4) From the back of buttons get the now numbers some 65 members. One back in 1824, Andrew Jackson's sup- names and addresses of manufacturers of them, Sam Cousley of New York porters started the campaign-button and send 50 cents to each, along with a City, is an editor by profession. Back idea. Their lapels sported small brass request for various buttons they are in 1953 he suffered a heart attack that discs—replicas of the Congressional producing. (We've found that manufac- put him flat on his back. His doctor medal presented to their hero for "brave turers will sometimes also send you suggested a hobby to occupy his mind. and successful repulse" of British troops quotations on rarer, more expensive but- "For years I had had around the at New Orleans in the War of 1812. tons.) house a little brown jug and a woven A neighbor boy, John DeCampi, be- 5) Visit second-hand stores where silk ribbon of the 1884 Benjamin Har- came interested in campaign souvenirs you may find buttons from previous rison campaign," Cousley recalls. "Also in 1952. Today he has more than 500 campaigns. a 'full dinner pail' badge from the 1896 buttons from that first Stevenson-Eisen- hower campaign. "My father brought me home my first 20," he recalls. "The newspaper he worked for wanted to find out what party candidate was most popular with the man on the street. So Dad was sent out with a great assortment of buttons. For one day he offered passers-by the buttons of Cousley and his daughter collect mementoes of U. S. election battles. He holds a pipe used by Henry Clay in the campaign of 1844. campaign of William McKinley. I de- printing those in turn on the display start, however, because Mr. Harris had cided to see what else I could gather mounts. inherited from his grandfather, an Illi from other campaigns." "Mrs. Cousley sees to it that metal nois politician, some interesting old but- Thus began one of the most interest- items are properly shined and badges tons. ing collections in the country. Every and scarves carefully ironed. Molly does Today the Harris family has several campaign from George Washington's the mounting. From the twinkle in thousand items, including one of the down to Dwight D. Eisenhower's is Nancy's eyes—she's our granddaughter, earliest 1828 Andrew Jackson medalets, represented. In addition to campaign just turned two—you'd think she could several Lincoln and Douglas medalets buttons, the collection includes parade hardly wait until she is old enough to with tintype likenesses that were worn lanterns, torches, handkerchiefs, canes, be a working member of our hobby on watch fobs, and gold and silver umbrellas and assorted headgear. team." bugs from the McKinley-Bryan cam- "The hobby has captured the interest Through their interest in campaign paign of 1896. of our whole family," Cousley reports. buttons, the Cousley family has un- The wings of both bugs unfold to "My wife has taken to haunting the earthed other Americana: old Christ- reveal the picture of the candidate. auction places and the Second Avenue mas cards, early valentines, dime novels, Our family has had a wonderful time antique shops for additional items. Oc- antique lanterns and handwrought building our collection of political casionally I bring home something I branding irons of the Old West. These souveniers. Unlike so many hobbies, have picked up after leaving the office. too are growing into sizable collections. this one gives us all a chance to take "Molly, our daughter, some months "I truly believe," says Molly, "that part, to the satisfaction of Mom, Dad, back, conceived the idea of renting parts the happiest families are those which and the young man of the family, too. of the collection to banks for display. share common hobbies. We find there As a bonus, we've taken a more lively Today she is our agent who makes all aren't hours enough to finish all the interest in the elections and thereby got- contacts and handles all accounts. projects we work on together. In fact, ten some practical lessons in good cit- "When we're preparing a collection we're so busy with our hobby that we izenship. for exhibit, you could easily mistake our often ignore TV for days at a time." Every four years our interest perks living room for a scene from You Can't The U. I. "Chick" Harrises of St. up. Right now it's at a high pitch and Ta\e It With You. You'll find me cut- Louis, like the Cousleys, didn't begin we're urging all our friends to join in ting mats or writing captions. Alphonse, their collection in earnest until just a the fun! our son-in-law, is responsible for hand- few years ago. They did have a head — Grant J. Verhulst Would you—whether you are 8 or 80— like to trade stamps with a Methodist living 2,000 miles away? Or swap old coins? Or have a pen pal? Each month TOGETHER will present a list of hobby categories like those below. Under each we will run names and addresses so you can get in touch with like-minded hobbyists. If you would like to be listed in this W/Wi^lUtij? directory, send your name, address and special interests and age (for pen pals).—EDS Genealogy: Flower Growing: Animal Figurines: Rev. Crawford Trotter, 5250 Santa Monica Marion R. Walker, Ventura, Calif, (iris); Helen Hardin, 319 Laurel Ave., Wilmette, II Blvd., Los Angeles 29, Calif. (Trotter family.) Mrs. Albert Thornton, Tallahassee, Fla. (camellias). Key Chains: Arts and Crafts: Edward Radoll, 5454 La Crosse Ave., Chicago Mrs. C. Rosenberg Foster, 727 East 60th St., Tea Cups: 30, III. Chicago, III. Mrs. Eugene F. Kreuger, W. 50 Oakdale Lane, Mundelein, III. Tropical Fish: Dolls: Leroy Bluing, 815 Demonbreun St., Nashville Katherine Waller, 1515 Davis St., Evanston, Dress Designing: 3, Tenn. III.; Mrs. Charles F. Kraft, 2626 Isabella St. Alice Anderson, Klemme, la. Evanston, III.; Susann Edwards, 266 West Stamps: Fossils: King St., St. Paul 7, Minn. Phyllis Dale, 615 South Dewey, Bartlesville, Rev. Clarence Seidenspinner, 932 Lake Ave., Okla. Indian Lore: Racine, Wis.; Mrs. Paul T. Scott, 524 Linden Rev. Edgar B. Smith, Protestant Chapel, Sher- Ave., Kinston, N. C; Rev. W. T. Wickstrom, Hooked Rugs: man Institute, Riverside, Calif. College of West Africa, Monrovia, Liberia; Mrs. T. H. Hefley, 616 2nd Ave., Northwest, Ted Hammond, 165 Lichfield St., Christ- Ardmore, Okla. Salt and Pepper Shakers: church, CI., New Zealand. Alice White, 815 Demonbreun St., Nashville Bowling: Bells: 3, Tenn.; Janet Harris, 7250 South Princeton Mrs. St., Chicago 21, III. Boyce Rogers, Belmont Methodist Church, Tyng Munns, 324 North Spring Ave., Nashville, Tenn. La Grange Park, III. Bird Watching: Ivory Pen Pals Warren E. Steinkraus, Iowa Wesleyan College, Monkeys: (open to age 18): Mount Pleasant, la. Thelma Reynolds, 701 N. Michigan Ave., (Miss) Ok-cha Lee (age 16), 251-79 Shin- Chicago 11, III. dang-Dong, Sung-dong-ku, Seoul, Korea. The! Model Airplanes: following girls at Methodist Ladies College,' Stereopticon Slides: T. C. Boone, Jr., Rt. 1, Graham, N. C. Burwood N.S.W., Burwood, Australia: Roma Frances Smith, Jackson Library, Jackson, Brown, Avril Cruikshank, Anne Hanson, Janet Photography: Tenn. Sutherland, Susan Wiseman, Philippa Rown- Roland Bailey, Rt. 1, Graham, N. C. tree (ages 15-16); Ruth Baja from Djkarta, Antique Glass: Mele Havili from Tonga, Lucy Chan from • Designing Women's Hats: Rev. Charles M. Laymon, 810 Broadway, Nash- Singapore, and Julie Chang from Hong Kong Mrs. Raymond Braxton, Rt. 2, Graham, N. C. ville 2, Tenn. (ages 17-18). 54 Together/kcfober J 956 by Constance Foster AMA is over 80 now but she still first chance to vote after attaining his mirror over the hatrack in the hall goes to the polls on Election Day to legal majority. He wanted to do some- where Papa had just hung his hat. In cast her ballot. She is not impressed thing very special about that first vote. the glass she could see him glancing at by the women who stay home and say "I'll cast my ballot for you today," her uncomfortably. She could see the they're satisfied to have their men repre- he offered gallantly at the breakfast white temperance badge on her sent them in the voting booth. Mama table. "Since you can't vote, being a shoulder, too. tried that once. She knows how it woman, I'll vote for you. Which shall Papa cleared his throat when she works. it be, my pet—Blaine or Cleveland?" asked him sweetly if he had voted for It happened the year that James G. Mama fingered the white satin ribbon Mr. St. Johns. She waited. He seemed Blaine, "plumed knight" of the Re- on her slim young breast. She was sur- to have a frog in his throat. publican Party, ran for president and prised at how little a man knew a "Well, you see, it was this way," he lost to Grover Cleveland. An obscure woman after being married to her six finally managed to stammer. "I left gentleman from Kansas named St. whole months! But she wasted no time the house this morning with every in- Johns was the candidate of the Prohi- setting him straight. tention in the world of casting my vote bition Party. I know because Mama "Now, Charles, you should know for you. But then I stopped for a has often told me about it, her old that with my convictions I would vote moment to listen to a man who wis Blue eyes flashing cold steel as they for neither Mr. Blaine nor Mr. Cleve- stumping for Blaine. I wish you could must have that November night in land. I would cast my ballot, if I could, have heard him for he was a most £884 when Papa came from the polls for Mr. St. Johns, the Prohibition candi- persuasive orator. In ringing tones he and explained what had happened to date." held his audience in the palm of his Mama's vote. Papa looked a little dubious. hand and managed to persuade us ol She was a very young bride of only "Your principles are excellent," he our high duly to our country." sixteen then. But like other pioneer agreed. "But I'm afraid that what it "So you voted for Blaine?" The blue women of those days she had strong amounts to is simply throwing a vote eyes were flashing. convictions and a mind of her own. At away. He will never be elected." "Yes," Papa admitted lamely. "I sixteen a girl who had been brought up Mama poured a second cup of coffee. didn't want to throw my first vote on a farm was not a bobby soxer or "Well, you asked me," she said away. You'll be glad, too, when the n a teenager. She was a woman. And on firmly. "I'm just telling you what / turns reach us and we learn that Mi. the ruched black taffeta dress with fac- would do if we women could vote." Blaine has been elected." ings of satin overlaid with jet passe- He kissed her and clapped on his M. una w is awfully glad that Cleve- menteria, Mama proudly wore the high black silk hat which he wore on land was elected! Papa lost his vote white ribbon of the WCTU. important occasions such as this one. anyway. She was very young in those Papa was known as the "boy preacher "St. Johns it shall be then, my love," days but she learned something that still of Ohio" in those days. At only twenty- he assured her magnanimously as he sends her to the polls seventy-two years one he was already a powerful and im- left the house for the polls. anil nineteen presidential elections later. passioned speaker. He was also a hand- It was late when he returned home Mama says that no matter how much some and devoted bridegroom. This again and dark had fallen. Mama had he loves you, a man can't speak tor a was not only the first national election dinner ready. She slipped off her apron woman in the voting booth. He*S t>>" after their marriage but also his own and straightened her pompadour al the busy speaking lor hinisell I Ocfober J95^Together 55 Together with the Small Fr> GUESS AGAIN (Answers on page 82) The Learner Family What Am I? THE RIGHT ACE FOR LARRY J. N THE Learner family it was time for Mama Learner to fill the Before a face kitchen with spicy smells as she cooked and stirred tomato catsup; for Daddy Learner to carry in wood for the fireplace in the living room; That has no eyes, for Larry Learner to put away his baseball bat and bring out his foot- ball; for Linda Learner to decorate the primary department at Sunday I hold two hands school; and for Stevie Learner to go to nursery school. "Now I'm big," said Stevie, "I go to school just like Larry and Linda." Of different size. "But you're only. four years old," said Linda. "I'm six." "I'm the biggest of all," said Larry. "I'm eight." "Why can't I be eight?" cried Stevie. Bible Arithmetickler "I wish I could be 14," said Larry. "Then I'd be in high school." "I'd rather be 20," said Linda. "Then I could get married and go to 1. Begin with the number of dinner parties." Noah's sons (Genesis 9:18). "All right," said Mama. "Let's pretend. Stevie, you're eight. Larry, 2. Multiply by number of times you're 14. Linda, you're 20." Naaman was to wash in river Jordan "I'll ask Daddy to take me out to dinner tonight," said Linda. (2 Kings 5:10). "First you can finish making this catsup," said Mother. "If you're die lady of the house, diat is one of the things you would do." 3. Subtract number of stones "This is fun!" said Linda as she stirred. But soon she called, "Mama, David picked up when he faced I'm tired." Goliath (1 Samuel 17:40). "I guess that's enough stirring," Mama decided. "Now you can pour 4. Divide by number of men with the catsup into the jars." Jesus on the Emmaus road (Luke "But, Mama, I can't do that. The pan is too heavy and I'd get burnt. 24:13). I'm not big enough." "Then you aren't ready to be 20 years old, are you?" asked Mama. 5. Add number of cubits in "When you're married you have to work hard." Goliath's height (1 Samuel 17:4). Linda laughed. "But I'm really just six! I think I'll go pick some What's your answer? flowers." —Grace V. Watkins Daddy came into the kitchen. "If you're 14, Larry, you can finish sawing up the wood in the back yard." "Oh, boy!" said Larry. He sawed and sawed till he had three sticks of wood. "I can't finish this woodpile!" called Larry. "It's too hard . . . And besides, I promised the boys I'd play football this afternoon." "Then are you 14—or eight?" asked Daddy. Larry laughed. "I'm eight." For days of golden sunshine, "But / was going to be eight," cried Stevie. "All right," said Mama. "Here's today's newspaper. Please tell For flowers bright and gay, me what it says about the weather for tomorrow." For ripened nuts and fruit and Stevie looked at the paper. "But Mama, you know I can't read it!" grain, "You could if you were eight." f Brown leaves in which to play, "But I'm just in nursery school!" We thank you, God, our Father. "And nursery school is fun, isn't it?" "Right now is always fun, isn't it?" said Larry. "There's a verse in the Bible that tells us that very thing," Daddy an- swered. That evening at dinner he opened the Bible and read it to all the family: "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven." You can find it in your Bible too: Ecclesiastes 3:1. 56 Together/befober l9i A GAME FOR YOUR HALLOWEEN PARTY v-^UTc, A HUGE pumpkin from a large sheet of yellow paper. On it draw, color, or paste pictures (one for each boy or girl) of such things as owls, cats, ghosts, witches, spider webs, kettles, jack-o'-lanterns, bats, masks. Let Mother cut almost entire- ly around each with a razor blade. Write a number on the back of each. Hang the pumpkin board on the wall. Blindfold the guests as they enter the room, one at a time. Each is to walk across the room to the pumpkin and feel with his finger until he touches a picture. Then tear it out for him to take home as a souvenir. When all have had a turn, give everyone a small wrapped gift (each different) bearing numbers corresponding to those on the backs of the pictures. CONNECT THE DOTS. ..AND YOU SHALL SEE A S 10 6 « S HZ H 7 12 M 1 40 H\ « 45 13 If 39 18 15 17 38 36 37 19 3S 23 2<* z6 34 277 Z0 30 *? * zs 23 33 XI 31 2i Ocfobw i956\Togethcr 57 John Clar^ describes primitive life in former feudal state high in the Himalayas. Hunza is now part of Pakistan. Introducing Barnabas and His LOOKS AT NEW BOOKS 1 HEY'RE CALLING me Barna- will stipulated that her books were not Hunza has been absorbed by Pakistan. bas here in Together's editorial shop. to be made into flicks. Judge of its remoteness from civiliza- And Barnabas I'm to be. But it doesn't tion by a boy's asking the author if he fit. Barnabas means son of a prophet, Are you a bed-lamp explorer too? personally had invented the wheel! as alpinist which I am not. Sons of prophets don't Then let's go to Hunza. Clark went to Hunza not or tourist scientist to study the lose arguments. I did. It wasn't on my map either till I but — We were sparring about whether this read Hunza: Lost Kingdom of the mingling of man's cultures. But he column should be about "new books" Himalayas, by John Clark (Funk & served as geologist for the government, head of a crafts school, and physician or "books" of whatever vintage. I was Wagnalls, 270 pp., $5). Now I know for almost everybody. It honed my in- pro just "books" because so many old it's a toe hold on the highest mountains in the world. Formerly a feudal state, terest that, though wealthy patrons ones are still good to read. To clinch underwrote him, he was under our the point I told Bennett Cerf's story Methodist Board of Missions. Hunza is about the co-ed who reproached her Scientist Clai\ explores 'host Kingdom' a prize travel book . . . rich in warm professor because he hadn't read a re- human experience and in wise com- cent best-seller. mentaries on Eastern affairs, of which "Why," said she, "it's been out over this is a fair sample: "What Asia needs three months!" today is not millions of dollars but "Young lady," he answered, "have thousands of the best of our Western you yet read Dante's Divine Comedy? teachers." No? Then you'd better hurry, too. It has been out more than 600 years." Attention: You who think old New But "new" is in the title as you see. England was peopled by kill-joys who I lost the tiff—but because I'm writing burned witches before breakfast are in the column I get the last word. It's that for a surprise when you read Eve I'll think of the "new" as newspaper- Among the Puritans, by Eleanor Ellis men do news. They say, "It's news till Perkins (Houghton Mifflin, 238 pp., you've read it." $3.50). Miss Perkins makes New Engend- What's your favorite book not yet ers real people, telling of her own fam- filmed? Write us. like We'd to know ily's loves and losses, achievements and . . . but don't choose Willa Cather's frustrations as circumstances jostled unforgettable tale of the Southwest, them out to Chicago. It's sprightly and Death Comes for the Archbishop. Her it's winsome. You'll enjoy this book. 58 Together/:Ocfober J 956 — Since World War I and its "lost gen- eration" writers, the academic and lit- erary fad has been to deride Puritans. Psychoanalysts have post-mortemed their morals. Satirists have jeered at HOW-TO-DO-IT BOOKS their culture. It's time for the worm to Puritans is A turn—and Eve Among the evidence that it has. So is The American Puritans, edited by Perry Miller (Doubleday, 357 pp., paperback $1.25). It's a selective col- lection of their prose and poetry in which I've found several favorites both old and new. October's bright blue weather has two flaws. It's spotty and it's short. HOW TO BUILD AND ENJOY YOUR OWN OUTDOOR So to keep you cheerful at home Sat- KITCHEN by Tom Riley. $2. In many parts of the United urday afternoons we've rounded up a States, late October and early November provide some wonderful covey of do-it-yourselfs. Heed them evenings for the outdoor chef! Riley's book is a complete and au- and you won't be a customer of the thoritative text on both the outdoor kitchen and outdoor cooking neighborhood shop that advertises "We because the author is a "how-to-do-it" fan as well as a good cook. repair do-it-yourself messes." Nonetheless, before you get out the chisel and hacksaw, check your first-aid 100 BEAUTIFUL PIECES OF FURNITURE YOU CAN BUILD kit. I have a neighbor who would ap- by John Bergen. $3. Men with well-equipped home workshops provingly wag his long right forefinger find they can save more than 60 per cent of the cost of new if he still had it. — furniture when they turn it out themselves. Bergen's book shows how you too can build graciously styled furniture for every room in the home. Contains hundreds of illustrations, photographs and Reformation Sunday, October 28, is a reminder that several excellent books diagrams. Working diagrams for each project are drawn to scale. about Martin Luther are in print. Here are a few to which Donald Culross HOW TO PAINT WITH BRUSH AND SPRAY. $2.50. Paint can Peattie, who authored the article start- perform miracles, provided you know the proper finish to apply ing on page 22, acknowledges indebt- to certain surfaces and have the right applicator. There's valuable edness: information here to help you save time and money while doing • Here 1 Stand—Roland Bainton a professional-type job. • The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century—Roland Bainton • The Renaissance—Will Durant HOW TO BUILD WALLS, WALKS, PATIO FLOORS. $7.50. • The Emperor Charles V—Karl As newly constructed suburban communities spring up across the Brandi country, there's also a rapid increase in the work new home- • The Life and Letters of Martin owners are doing around their property. Here's how to choose Luther—Preserved Smith and use to best advantage such materials as brick, stone, adobe, concrete, flagstone, gravel, mosaic, prepared and natural paving surfaces. Included are construction details with explanatory photos Gerald Kennedy is a bishop—and a browser, as you'll sec when you turn and drawings. this page. Recently when he moved to new offices over the Cokesbury Book- HOW TO BUILD FENCES AND GATES. $7.50. A well-con- store in Angeles, a reporter looked Los structed fence and gate adds much to the exterior beauty and style in—then zowied! of the home you live in. This can be done economically, too—if Seems that he was expecting book- you build it yourself. Here are complete building instructions shelves to be bending with theological for almost every kind of fence and gate, with 266 descriptive- tomes. They're there, plenty of them. But the newsleuth also saw books rang- photos, drawings and easy-to-follow instructions. Even legal ing into California's robustious history. aspects are covered. His comment was, "On these shelves, saint meets sinner!" BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS DECORATING BOOK. Bishop Kennedy is a rare critic. He $5.95. The 14 chapters in this 432-page book cover almost every savors his comment with a cerebral aspect of home decorating. Beautifully illustrated, with 300 full tang yet, unlike many a common con- color photographs, this gives practical how-to information on temporary, yields not to the temptation everything from color schemes to backgrounds, space makers to to leave you with a green persimmon pucker. furniture arrangement. Practical hints from the gorgeous color An advertisement for a new radio pictures alone should be worth the price ol the book to many. October 195c\jogethcr 59 &n,04AjLlia A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE, by Nelson Algren (Farrar, It seems like a strange thing to say, but for me at least Strauss & Cudahy, 346 pp., $4.50) a mystery novel is the best kind of soothing syrup I know. This is a one-sided picture of a segment of the de- It is much better than Ovaltine and if more people learned pression generation that appears to be hopeless in its to enjoy a good mystery, the sleeping pill manufacturers inability to distinguish between virtue and vice. It is would suffer markedly. John Dickson Carr is one of the no new thing to try to hold up prostitutes and pimps best, although unfortunately this is not one of his best. as essentially innocent, unmoral creatures. In this book Yet even his less than best is usually better than most there seems to be no redeeming hunger or thirst for of the others. I don't know what you can make of that. something better. It may be that there are people who come from such environments as to extinguish their THE PRESENCE OF GRACE, by James Powers (Double- consciousness of moral values. But when you remove day, 191 pp., $2.95J from people any basic dream or any conflict between Here is a collection of short stories, and like most such the lower is and the higher, the result rather tiresome. collections it is very spotty. A few of them I like very Life is essentially a struggle, and when a man will not much and some seem to me utterly useless. Like most of struggle but simply drift, it is very difficult to make him these collections, the writer seems to feel justified if interesting. it is worth while just portraying Maybe such he can blow up some little incident as if it were very im- people, but somewhere there ought to be the essence of portant. He is a Catholic writer and deals with priests a drama. I never felt that this man ever discovered it in and laymen. One thing about it that impressed me very his characters. However, I have the haunting fear that much was an obvious respect for the Church and at the this begins to sound like the word of a pharisee. Maybe same time a cognizance of the human characteristics of there is a greater depth than I perceive. At any rate, it is its priesthood. If your name is O. Henry, you can write rough and tough and hardly the book to be recommended short stories that are unforgettable. If it isn't, usually you for a church-reading circle. cannot. THE PRISONERS, by Evans Harrington (Harper, 248 pp., THE GREEN MARE, by Marcel Ayme (Harper, 234 pp. $3) $3) We have here a translation from the French and a very This is a straightforward moral tract on the way pris- peculiar book indeed. The author comments on two rival oners ought to be treated. The hero is a man who tries families in a small French village, approaching them large- to do what he can for a certain prisoner but is blocked is fine by his superiors, who prefer ease and political approba- ly through their sexual habits and vagaries. There tion. It is quite clear that this prisoner could have been writing and a great deal of insight, but a good many helped and turned out a reformed citizen if more sym- people will be shocked by the frankness. I am not quite pathy had been shown. Because this human kindness was sure whether the author is a Freudian and so assumes that missing, a man's life was destroyed. you get to the truth about people through their expres- It is a sad moving story, not the kind of a book you sions of their libido, or whether he is just a man who read for escape. In contrast to A Walk on the Wild Side figured this treatment would make a good many people this man knows about right and wrong and he makes it interested. I mention it because it is supposed to be very clear who is right and who is wrong in this novel simple and yet very profound. It is not my favorite kind with a message on prison crime. of writing, and I would really like to know why Harper's PATRICK BUTLER FOR THE DEFENSE, by John Dick- thought it was worth translating and publishing here. this son Carr (Harper, 278 pp., $3.50) If I have not been able to recommend very much month, perhaps I have been able to post some warnings I talk about this because it can stand for all mystery which will save you time. I hope so. novels, and I like to say a word about them from time to time. Most of the reading I do is justified on the basis of helping me to preach. I have yet to find a mystery novel that could be used for a sermon illustration. There is absolutely no excuse for this kind of reading except enjoyment. boasts that it looks like a book but Bishop Kennedy grinned when he possessions are books. All these gadgets when the cover is opened offers "a told us the story. "Few things have will have their days, but the simple world of entertainment." The Saturday pleased me more than this justified miracle of books outshines them all."] Review reports that Columbia Univer- outburst of a man who has some sense sity's Leon Seltzer, seeing this ad, ex- of the greatness of books," he said. William O. Douglas seems to dash ploded: "How's for opening a real "How people can be content with the off a book as easily as anybody, despite book? It looks like a book, and by kind of stupid vulgarity that passes the demands of his job, which as every- gosh, it is a book. Its batteries last for entertainment on television when body knows is a judgeship of the U. S. forever; there are no tubes to blow out, there is available a real book to read, Supreme Court. He has turned from and no service charges. All you need I shall never know. Mark my word, mountain climbing to Russia in his to operate it is a brain— if you've got some day men are going to awaken to latest, Russian Journey (Doubleday, 255 the fact that among our most precious pp., $4.50). 60 Togetheiv^October 1956 Justice Douglas spent the summer of 1955 in Russia. End-paper maps trace his route and the photographs he and his wife took give this book the flavor Two outstanding of a Burton Holmes travelogue. He ob- served closely and writes lucidly. No new books in the doubt he tried to present what his pub- lishers term an "unprejudiced report," but some critics have concluded that his comments are flavored with his own wens yMjnw&gi political views, which are a bit left of center. One chapter is on "Church and State." At first he was depressed, he A milestone in religious publishing, says, "at the great erosion which the this new series explains the church had suffered." But as this son of fundamental concepts of Christian faith and practice in terms easily a Presbyterian minister looked further understood by the layman. General and thought deeper, he came up with a Editor, Robert McAfee Brown. more matured opinion. Cloth-bound. Previously published: "I became convinced," he says, "that THE SIGNIFICANCE religion in Russia will last as long as the The Christian OF THE CHURCH Russian people; that it is as sturdy and By Robert McAfee Brown. The as enduring as the shawled women and work of the church in the modern world, its mission in the life of booted men who kneel before the cross." Man man, and its place in the historical heritage of the Protestant faith. If your son is age 10, give or take By William Hamilton. This MODERN RIVALS a few years, you'll do well to put Eli new study of the Christian doc- TO CHRISTIAN FAITH Whitney, Master Craftsman (Abing- trine of man redefines man's re- By Cornelius Loew. About the lationship to Christ, his don, 128 pp., $1.50) into his grubby attitude "false gods" (among them sci- hands. He'll carry on from there—for to body and sex, his struggle ence, democracy, and exaggerated patriotism) that many well-mean- between egoism and humility, Miriam Gilbert has told interestingly ing Christians tend to substitute the story of the man who invented the and his need for forgiveness. for the one true God. cotton gin. This large-print book is the latest in a series on "Makers of America." Al- Believing ready it includes 13 biographies, rang- ing from Columbus to the Wright in God Forthcoming titles: Brothers. In preparation are new ones Daniel Jenkins. The Protestant and Politics on such figures as Roger Williams, John By A candid, by William Lee Miller forthright discussion of the dif- Muir, and Robert Fulton. Prayer and Personal Religion ficulties of believing in God, by John Coburn Making Ethical Decisions Boy or girl in the young teen age will and of the "mystery" of the by Howard Clark Kee thrill to Adventure at Table Mountain, Christian faith. The author of- The Meaning of Christ by Edna Anne Hall (Farrar, Straus fers the resources every man by Robert Johnson Understanding the Bible & Cudahy, 188 $2.75). It's mostly needs to answer his doubts. pp., by Fred J . Denbeaux about Jed Taylor, aged 16, and his Life, Dfath and Destiny by Roger L. Shinn sister Issa, aged 12. The Taylor family Westminster Press Barriers to Belief moved from Illinois to Montana, and Philadelphia 7 by Norman Lang/ord there young Jed has his problems. A Faith for the Naiions by Charles Forman One is in basketball, where he runs up against Chuck Dcming, star for- ward. Another concerns bright-eyed Christmas Tree-Top Star Honoring Christ's Birthday Nancy Severs, whose father is a rancher whose cattle are being rustled. Jed's Featuring Sallman's "Head of Christ" or "Madonna and Christ Child" father is suspected but that's enough — Now, a distinctive tree-top of the story. ornament for the remem- brance of His Bikimim-i is available. This truly Chns- British writing-visitors have long de- tian Christmas tree star will lighted in raising American dander, add thai needed touch. The children will it. from the days of Dickens and Mrs. love Full- color picture transparency "i Trollope on down to J. B. Priestley of Sallman's copyrighted "Head new our own time. He and his wife recently of Christ," or "Madonna and Christ Child." Silver spent eight days in Dallas, and Texas, plated star 7 ' j inches across. ten in Houston—and left in their wake Clip provided tor attaching your tree light. Packaged in a dust devil. window display box. 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Write today for full details. 740 Rush St., Chicago, III. tRE KNOBBY KRAFTERS, AttleWo, Moss. and Methodist Book Stores —Barnabas 66 Together/cOcfober »95 20th EDITION BOOKS Your , PASTORS Probably WORKS 'Bible 55 volumes of Martin Luther's READING most Important writings— in modern andliwb Reviewed by T. Otto Nail English for the first time TWO NEW VOLUMES (Formerly kniwn as "Pocket Bible Handbook"} VOLUME 21 {Sermon on the Mount Book OF a Lifetime . , . For a Lifetime The Mind Goes Forth (Norton; and The Magnificat). Publication Loved alike by , . . Young and Old date: September 15, 1956. $4.50 is the $3.95) new book by those inimit- Widely Used in Colleges and Seminaries VOLUME 13 (Selected Psalms II) able Overstreets, Harry and his wife, Highly Commended by leading Magazines Publication date: October 31, 1956 Bonaro. 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E A GARRISON, Monogcr of love, can travel the road toward per- details ol liberal cooperative plan. MT. STERLING, OHIO October 795o\Jogcthcr 67 fectibility is the theme of this book and much to rejoice over. Do the FAITH that describes rather than debates. The Hebrew prophets are somewh faith healers distant and difficult for most lay peop] HEALING really heal? Paul S. Minear's Jesus and His Peo- and for many preachers, too. They t ple (Association Press, $1.25) is one of to make these ancient stalwarts conter Is it the the World Christian Books, produced poraries of our own times. Few ha- will of God with the purpose of helping tbe Chris- succeeded so well as Bishop Ivan L< to heal tian to understand his faith, to find the Holt in Yesterday Speaks to Todt *BS all the sick? answers to the questions all men are (Association Press, $1.75). The mc asking, and to know how to present sage is as up-to-date as this morning Readx that faith to others. newspaper, and considerably more There is theology here—no doubt the point. about it. A clear thread of theological For example, Habakkuk, out of tl Faith Healing purpose runs through the whole; but welter of conflicting problems in h it is seen, not in terms that theologians day, said: "The righteous shall live 1 and the use, but in the language of Jesus and his steadfastness." And Bishop Holt e the first Christians. The result is a plains: "The function of religion in < Christian Faith meaningful and helpful series of chap- hour of crisis is to give a man coura: by Wade H. Boggs, Jr. ters on such well-known, but little- to do in the face of questions which 1 understood phrases as "God's People," knows he will never be able to answer This calm, courageous book answers "Called by the Name," "The New and This is not an attitude of hopele; the many questions puzzled Christians are Living Way" and "One Flock, One ness, but of hopefulness, as the auth asking about "faith healers" and their Shepherd." They are presented in the abundantly proves. It is one of mat activities. Charting his course by the Scriptural passages in which they insights that he receives from the prop Bible, the author probes the claims and were results of these "healers." The final four originally used. They are seen through ets, as he confronts the conflicts—re: chapters give positive suggestions for all the eyes of a gifted and devoted scholar, gious and social, personal and econom Christians—ministers, laymen, medical and the result is little to argue about —of our day. personnel—to put their faith into action. $3.50 BEST SELLERS: East, West, North, South His To get some idea about what Non-fiction Methodists are currently reading Arthritis and Common Sense t most, we've made a quick poll of Kingdom Dan Dale Alexander (Witkowe representative Cokesbury book 255 pp., $3.95). Is stores, east, west, north, and south. History of the English Spea\ir. Here is what the poll showed: Forever People, Vol. I, by WinstO Fiction Churchill (Dodd, Mead, 521 Pl $6). by Ernest Afternoon of an Autocrat by The Mind Goes Forth by Han Lee Norah Lofts (Doubleday, 320 pp., and Bonaro Overstreet (W. V Stoffel $3.95). Norton, 384 $3.95). Andcrsonvillc MacKinlav pp., The glorious meaning of citizenship in by Youth: The Years from Ten . the Kingdom of God shines through the Kantor (World, 767 pp., $5). Sixteen by Arnold Gesell (Harp pages of this important new book. Here is I m perml Woman bv Pearl Buck practical truth in clear language—so that & Bros., 542 pp., $5.95). (John Day, 376 pp., $4.95). all who will may read, and get under- All the Women of the Bible X standing. Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis Edith Deen (Harper & Bros., 4 (Vanguard, 280 $3.50). $3.00 pp., The Mandarins by Simone de pp., $4.95). Eisenhower: The Inside Story i Beauvoir (World, 611 pp., $6). Robert Donovan (Harper, 4. An Adventure in Love Don't Go Near the Water by Wil- J. pp., $4.95). Christian Family Living liam Brinkley (Random House, 373 Gift from the Sea by Anne Mo pp., $3.95). by Taliaferro Thompson row Lindbergh (Pantheon, 128 pn W. The Last Hurrah by Edwin $2.50 $2.75). O'Connor (Little, Brown, 427 pp., Guestward Barbai $4). Ho by order from The Rosemary Tree by Elizabeth Hooton and Patrick Denn (Vanguard, 270 $3.50). The Methodist Goudge (Coward-McCann, 381 pp., pp., $3.95). Letters to Young Churches t Publishing House B. Phillips (Macmillan, 230 Thing of Beauty by A. J. Cronin J. pj serving you (Little, Brown, 440 pp., $4). $2.75). And Wal\ in hove by Henrietta Love or Perish by Smiley Blai Buckmaster (Random House, 404 ton (Simon & Shuster, 218 JOHN KNOX PRESS pj pp., $3.95). $3.50 cloth; $1.00 pap.). 68 Together/b cfober 191 /IP^X ;>W 2Itght Into Jfflg fntti • ; WEEKLY MEDITATIONS FOR OCTOBER And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart; And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you lie down, and when you %4Jb rise.—Deuteronomy 6:6-7 Harold B. Williams AD, can I have the car You put the words, "Jesus is Mansfield, Ohio tonight?" . . . "The Lord," where you can see them winter coats down at when you open the door. And you Lamson's are something talk about the eternal values at extra this year." . . . home when you sit down together "That new boy in the sophomore at meal time, when you go to bed, class is a doll—but doesn't even and when you get up. You live in know I'm alive" ... "I sold that the shadow of such belief. house down on Elm Street today It is not to be crowded out by at a handsome profit." a discussion of the latest TV show, These scraps of family conver- the new furniture, or whether sation, or others like them, could Suzie goes to the state university occur in almost any household. or to a church college. They have a naturalness that is wholesome. PRAYER: O Lord, grant that \vc as a family may so live together, and live so But can we make God as real to close to thee, that we may never feel it our families as the new car? unreal to talk of the things of thy King- It's simple. You behave out- dom; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Wallace Fridy Amen. Columbia, South Carolina wardly the way you believe. —HAROLD B. WILLIAMS The Lord is my Shepherd; 1 shall not want.—Psalm 23:1 T is the custom in most active. The limb swells. The nutri- churches to conclude a tive substances necessary for the worship service with regeneration of the tissues are Scripture which asks brought into the wounded area. God's blessing upon us All processes are directed toward as leave. Perhaps you have we repair." Wonderful body! This is benediction: heard this God's protection at work even "Unto God's gracious mercy when we are unaware of it. and protection we commit you: Our experience of God's mercy and the blessing of God almighty, is in direct proportion to our sense the Father, the Son, and the Holy of need. When we depend upon it Spirit, be upon you, and remain and seek it, we feel the Good with you always. Amen." Shepherd's power. It seems to sum up in a measure of all. the real meaning them PRAYER: Our Father, who bestows mercy is gift. God's mercy a on those who love thee, and who is close A doctor writes: "When a limb to those who serve thee, help us to know is broken, the sharp ends of the that though we take the wings of the fractured bones tear muscles and morning and fly to the uttermost parts of blood vessels. They are soon sur- the seas, lo thou art there. In Christ's rounded by a bloody clot of fibrin. name we pray. Amen. Then circulation becomes more —WALLACE FRIDY But he was wounded jor our transgressions, he was bruised jor our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed, —Isaiah 53:5 HE little child with the perience of life, repairs the hurt hurt finger comes run- and says, "Now Mommy will kiss ning to its mother it and it will be better." Such is chanting a plaintive the strange alchemy of love that cry of mingled pain and it is better—far and beyond the frustration, something, mere physical repair. Kenneth A. Carlson "Do Mom- Santa Monica, California my." Mother, steeped in the ex- Of course such love is no more Ocfofeer I95o\Togcther 69 — comparable to the love of Go than a drop of water is to th ocean. But as the drop of wate does tell us something about th Dr. Rail Answers ocean, so human love tells u something of how God deals wit our sins and heals us. He, too, feels the blows we su: fer. He shares with us our failure; our disappointments. Even in ou. Is Togethering'? Harris Franklin Rail What wilful disobedience God does nc desert us, but draws even close ready to heal. Still we must neve forget the alchemy of love is a tw We read in Acts 2:1 that "they were all together in one place." The disciples way street. His suffering alon were in one room—but the meaning of those words runs far deeper than that. cannot save us. We must come 1 There was a togetherness which prepared the way for God's gift of His Spirit him with the same childlike fait and the the Christian word "together" marked beginning of Church. That that he can "do something." was never more important than today. PRAYER: Eternal God, we thank thee f< thy faith in us even when we have lo faith in ourselves. When our lives cast shadow in thy heart, still thou seekest v What is togetherness? May we hear thy call, know thy love, ar There is no merely individual brought together in chemical union. again be made whole. Amen. existence, not even in the physical The great meaning of togetherness —WILLIAM E. CLAR world. And every advance step is found in human life: home, depends upon a coming together. friendship, school, business, recrea- He has showed you, O man, what Consider water. We take it for tion, community, nation, world rela- good; and what does the Lord requv of you but to do justice, and to lot granted, but there could be no life tions—we cannot list them all. The kindness, and to walk humbly with yot without it. But water is two sub- great example is religion: com- men God?—Micah 6:8 stances — hydrogen and oxygen — ing together with God in faith. YOUNG Japanese gi who knew the meanir of suffering recent! Q What is man's part in this togethering? gave a world renowne woman the highest One kind of togetherness is exter- first our inner life; we must be one tributes: "Helen Keller mak< nal. We may be passengers on the within, our whole life brought into you see things in a way." same train, workers in the same unity and peace through oneness new of the tragedies of df factory, dwellers in the same village. with God. One our Never were men bound so closely In the world of work and wealth, is the widespread tendency deprecate it together as today. marked by competition, we need this man. So long has bee insisted are depraved ere The other kind of togetherness is larger togethering. It means regard we tures, conceived in sin, that mar moral and spiritual. It is rooted in for all men, a common good, work- of us forget were intended the inner life but works out into ing together, justice for all. we be the salt of the earth. all life. The crucial problem today is the Here we see the problems that relations among nations. Here, too, In their moments of deepest ii sight, pi confront the Church, that belong to the Church must bear its witness: prophetic voices have as being "litt all followers of Christ. They concern all men are God's children. tured man created less than God." He was made be magnificent! And the wonde ful thing about us is our inhere] Q What does God have to do with this togethering? power to choose between altern fives, to make ethical choices. G( Together is God's way of working, these great words of religion all have has fashioned us to be just ar both in creation and also in bring- to do with togethering. equitable, kind and loving. ing salvation. The Kingdom of God means more N only is man endowed with tl His first concern is to bring man than Divine power and human sub- genius to live by moral and spi together with himself in faith and mission. It is inner and spiritual itual values; it is expected of hit obedience. His next concern is to and ethical, God becoming the life This is the glory of Christie join man to man in right relations. of man, man's whole life created faith. It makes us see a new wa Faith, love, righteousness, service and shaped by God's Spirit. We dare to believe that Micj was right—that, "he has show* ." Months before he hiiew Methodism s family magazine would be called you, O man, what is good . . Together, Dr. Rail shared with readers the Christian Advocate of PRAYER: Eternal God, we thank th his insights on "togetherness." well did he express the concept out So that we are endowed with the splend which the name this magazine was evolved, that we are happy of for — to become thy sons. Let us never to present his statement in this, the first issue of Together. Eds. content to be less than we ought to 1 Amen. —KENNETH A. CARLSC 70 Togcthcr/(Ocfober 19 cannot be enduring peace "without a spirit of sacrifice and a readiness to serve others." Among men prominent in world affairs who attended the Junaluska conference were Sir Hugh Foot, gover- nor-in-chief of Jamaica; Sir Frederick Stewart, Australian industrialist and former minister of the world parish for commerce; George Thomas, member of Parliament from Wales; Russell W. Treleaven, justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario; and WORLD METHODISTS: UNITY IN DIVERSITY Masatsha Mike Hove, member of the Assembly of the Federation of Rhodesia American Methodists listening to riety of accents—Oxford, Irish, Aus- and Nyasaland in Africa. preachers from England or Australia tralian, New Zealander, Southern, Mid- Delegates found that they differed in this fall are getting an echo of the western and Texan. Delegates whose details: British Methodists use laymen World Methodist Conference held mother tongues are German, Fijian, to do much of their preaching, while September 1-12 at Lake Junaluska, Spanish, Korean, Swedish and other Americans channel men's energies into N. C. More than 2,000 persons were languages blended them into a moving club work; Methodists in British Com- there from 44 nations on five conti- expression of Christian unity when the monwealth countries stress Weslev's nents. Lord's Prayer was offered in nine lan- theology, especially the doctrine of the More than 60 speakers, mostly from guages at a worship service. Holy Spirit, while Americans are easy the British Commonwealth, will fill One of the world's few ruling going in theology; all delegates hoped American pulpits before they return to queens, Queen Salote of the Tonga Is- for peaceful relations among races, but their homelands. Several overseas lands, sent greetings to her fellow Meth- they differed to some degree on how- churchmen will also have radio and odists. The queen, who conducts a Bible to achieve them. television engagements. class each week, commended the confer- After 12 days of discussions, delegates The United States accounts for half ence theme, "Methodism in the Con- sent to Methodists everywhere "greet- of the world's 18,000,000 Methodist temporary World," adding the hope ings in the name of Jesus Christ." Their members, and Junaluska revealed the that the talks might point out "the message invited all Methodists "to colorful variety of John Wesley's spir- places of the world where the life and claim by faith and prayer that trans- itual descendants in the world parish. work of the church can be strength- formation of personal and social life Occasions for national dress brought ened." which is offered by the full gospel of out a full-skirted, straw-hatted Peruvian Though President Eisenhower is not Christ, our Lord." woman's costume, the characteristic numbered among the Methodists, he white jacket and trousers of a district too sent greetings. After the conference WORK CAMP superintendent from India, and the he received a party of overseas Method- Church for Refugees skirtlike garment of an African tribes- ists from the conference in the White In 1945 Pastor Ernst man who said that, for authentic sum- House rose garden. To them he urged Nausner fled op- pression in Poland, mer dress, he should have gone bare- use of "the principles described so vivid- taking his wife and eight children to a refugee chested. ly in the Sermon on the Mount" as camp in Ried, Austria. English was heard in an infinite va- mankind's guide to peace. He said there He started a Methodist congregation in the camp by converting a locksmith. The change in die locksmith's life, even in the terrible surroundings of the camp, attracted others to the cramped quarters where Mr. Nausner conducted services. With increasing numbers it was diffi cult to find a place tor worship. Foi several months, services were held in a room where a man was dying. Mr. Nausner, now pastor ol the l.in/ (Austria) church, still ministers to the Ried refugees, but until this summer there was nothing to house the congrc gation. Last summer a group ol 18 young persons from nine different countries came to live in the brown barracks tor si\ weeks and helped tin Methodist congregation build a church of its own. Helmut Nausner, son ol the Austrian minister, was a co-leader ol the work camp. As mountain breezes rippled flags of the nations where Methodists lire, the World These 18 youths w< re only a small Methodist Council's new building tens dedicated at Lalte Junaluska, N. C. part ot a large program. Some 6,000 Together/cOcfober J 956 71 — young persons have participated in sim ilar camps in the past 10 years, working on 220 projects in Asia, North anc South America, Europe, Africa and th< Middle East. Just last summer more than 900 tool part in 36 camps. The principa purpose of the camps is to give : demonstration of Christian action anc concern. The work-camp program i armong sponsored by the World Council o Churches. 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Write tor full details and FREE sample dish cloth. one per cent of the population—m; MUHLENBERG PRESS • Philadelphia VINE ASSOCIATES, BEVERLY 42, N.J. some day be brought together. Serving notional organizations for over 30 yean Last month a committee of tl Waldensian Church Synod propose that it seek union of all Italy's evange YOU'LL WANT TO SAVE . . . cal groups, rather than merge wi any one denomination. . . . this copy of volume one, number one of Together. For years leaders of Italy's 6,01 It will grow in value over the years. You'll enjoy re-read- Methodists have been negotiating wi ing the stimulating articles and will treasure the full-color leaders of the Waldensians—the work oldest Protestant body—numberir reproductions of Christ on pages 39-46. about 30,000. Partly because of the Your local library will appreciate a gift subscription own cherished traditions, Waldensia have not approved the proposed unic for its reading room—and subscriptions will be welcomed with Methodists. by hospitals, high school libraries, rest homes, and clinics. The Waldensians take their nan Why not enter your gift subscriptions today? Send $3.00 from Peter Waldo, 12th century m( chant and religious leader, who believi per subscription to Together, Business Department, 740 men should interpret the Bible i N. Rush Street, Chicago 11, Illinois. themselves. 72 Tosethcr/cOctober 191 1 WORD WAR Soper Outtalks Commie ^cf^hfr^yil There are two opportunities that col- orful Donald O. Soper, ex-president of British Methodist Church, never methodist Almanack the likes to miss: a chance to preach on the ,£ A Misccllaney of Dates 6 Divers Interesting Matters streets or to outtalk a Communist. H^^K r People Called Methodist He got to do both during the 1956 fllywf§tfo-v f° During annual conference at Leeds. buy a it §l!38P«Yli8 ~^Sl Money will dog but won't buy the conference he preached the week-long f§H±fiis&l|=~ wa9 °f ^' 5 tail—B. Franklin every day on the steps of the town hall —one day in competition with a Com- mie orator 20 yards away. OCTOBER hath XXXI days 10th Month began at the same time. After Both O suns and skies and clouds of June 10 minutes Dr. Soper had an audience And flowers of June together. of 50 and the Communist had 2. A Ye cannot rival for one hour quarter-hour later the Methodist had 100 and the Commie 4. Another 10 October's bright blue weather. — H. H. Jackson minutes and Dr. Soper had 200; the 14 S & C. Wesley sail for Ceorgia 1735 John was to be mission- Communist left the square. J. 15 M Poetry Day ary to Indians; Charles, 16 Tu Brown's raid. Harper's Ferry, 1859 secretary to head of colony YOUTH MISSION John 17 W Pity all who can't smell burning leaves in Ceorgia. The brothers 1000 New Methodists 18 Th U. S. buys Alaska for about 2i an acre 1867 stayed a scant 3 years. John "I have a friend I want you to meet. 19 Fr The most evident sign of wisdom returned to England in low His name is Jesus." 20 Sa Is continued cheerfulness spirits, thought he was fail- statement, or variations of it, That 21 S Layman's Day; World Order Sunday ure, but lived to start Meth- \\as heard all around the country this 22 M Methodist Council of Bishops meets, Chicago odism. Charles wrote many summer as Methodist youths from 111 23 Tu Interboard Committee Missionary Education of our favorite hymns. churches visited their friends and in- meets, Cincinnati, today and tomorrow vited them to church. These Methodist Youth Fellowship 24 W First phosphorus match patent 1836 u Druids, very early Brit- members were taking part in 14 Chris- 25 Th He that riseth late must trot all day ishers, believed goblins and tian Witness Missions and as a result 26 Fr And shall scarce overtake of their work, there are 800 new MYF His business at night. witches wandered on this members. 27 Sa Teddy Roosevelt b. 1858 night. Christians later The reports, which are in from 1 28 S Reformation Sunday: World Temperance Sunday called the night "Hallowed conferences, show that 952 youths made 29 M Stock Market Crashes 1929 Evening," but this camou- 3,257 interviews. As a result of these 30 Tu DeSoto discovers Mississippi 1542 flage has never taken very visits, more than a thousand young people made commitments to the 31 W Gobble-uns '11 git you-]. W. Riley g^ well. church. Nearly 300 youths joined on hath days 11th Month profession of faith; 243 rededicated NOVEMBER XXX Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful, if we arc to judge by her countenance.— Coleridge 1 Th M. Luther wakes up Wittenberg 1542 This monk 6 son of 2 Fr Dan'l Boone b. 1734 coal miner nailed on church 3 Sa Christmas is Holy Day: do gift shopping now door his protest against 4 S World Peace Sunday abuses of Roman Catholic 5 M First U. S. automobile patent 1899 Church. He was anxious 6 Tu Election Day; every vote counts! to start debate. Succeeded. 7 W Lewis 6 Clark sight Pacific 1805 Protestant Reformation 8 Th Many have quarreled about religion dates from his action. 9 Fr That never practiced it 10 Sa Continental Congress launches U. S. Marine Corps 1775 11 S Lost time is never found again 12 M Learn by heart John 3:16 13 Tu Flight of first metal dirigible. 1897 14 W Mamie Eisenhower is 60 today 15 Th Families that pray together, stay together In Tucson, . Iriz., youths begin u cull. 73 October I95c\To9Cthcr - their lives; 114 joined by transferring their membership. While they were out, the youthful callers found 2,155 new Methodist prospects. The usual plan, developed by the Board of Evangelism, calls for training thi*7feito teens in visitation. Then they go out, two by two, calling on prospective members. ***5< Many conferences, including Troy, FREE FINANCE PLANS Central New York and New England New Books at No Budget Cost Southern, are planning major missions NOW! You can pick the best in this fall and winter; while West Wis- quality and price. Here is the hymnal consin has a start on a of the year. Cou- made program brings you that will last three years. sample. See I prove its power and superiority. 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K-86 City .__ Zone State Monthly Payments .^^0 Pfense literature ONLY .OLSON RUG CO Chicago 41, III. send a^H im m Chicago, New York, San Francisco ~m urn 78 Together/ocfober 19 < i tooktiikk . OCTOBER 1956 Missouri WEWS of Your Church in Action Bishop Eugene M. Frank, Centenary Methodist Church, Editor: Rev. Milton M. Thorne, PO Box 376, Clarence, Mo. 1611 Pine Street, St. Louis, Mo. ADULT CONVOCATION Announce Dates, Theme Flans for the all-Missouri adult convo- cation, set for Oct. 30 to Nov. 1 at Sedalia, have been announced. A teacher and a president from each adult class in each church, the general superintendent, the adult division super- intendent, and the chairman of the com- mission on education, are eligible to en- roll and urged to do so. The registration fee is S-4, and the deadline is Oct. 23. The Rev. Lee F. Soxman, 315 West Fourth Street, Sedalia, is the registrar. Program personnel includes Bishop Frank, Bishop Richard C. Raines of the Indiana Area, the Rev. Leo Rippey and the Rev. John Q. Schisler of the General Board of Education. Bishop Eugt nt M . Frjnly will dedicate the recently completed educational addition The enrollment goal has been set at to Spofford Home for Children, 5501 Cleveland Avenue, Kansas City, at 1:45 1,000. "We Would Be Christian" is the p.m. on Nov. 11. Sharing in the ceremonies will be Mrs. Charles W. Mead oj convocation theme. A dozen respond the Woman's Division; Mrs. Dewey H. /ones, Southwest Missouri Conference WSCS bility groups and an equal number of president; and District Superintendent Brett Kama. The public is invited. skill groups are planned. The local committee states that hotel CENTRAL COLLEGE The eighth annual retreat for St. Louis and motel accommodations are available. Conference men at Arcadia, Aug. 10-12, Write the registrar for reservations. Lay Holt Hall Stone again broke records. Enrollment totaled 667 and several scores were on the The cornerstone of the new Ivan Lee WOMAN'S SOCIETY grounds part-time as visitors. The tradi- Holt Hall, a dormitory for young women tional offering for campground improve at (antral College, was placed on Two Conferences Elect ments reached (2,068. Sept. 25. Two of the area's annual conferences Since the ceremonies came during the have new leaders in their Woman's I. ill convocation, many former students RURAL WORK actus of Christian Service. and church leaders were present. Bishop At the election held at its spring annual Eugene M. Frank, new area leader, gave Director Takes Up Duties meeting, the St. Louis Conference W .in address, and an honorary degree was The Rev. Herbert H. Brower, who elected Mrs. E. Russell Gemberling of rferred upon the Rev. Arthur Stanley succeeded the Rev. John W. Ward Sr. as Gideon as us president. She succeeded Leyland of Loudon hy President Ralph area director of rural work, with Mis Mrs. Cecil G. Kane. Long active in the Lee Woodward. Brower, is making lus resilience .ii Mo work of the society, Mrs. Gemberling Presiding al tin- convocation was Dr. berly. His business served as conference secrctarj ol children's Cyrus E. Burford of St. Louis, chairman address is 411 work before becoming president. of the college's hoard of curators. The Wightman. The Miss, mi i Conference WSCS elected college a cappella choir and brass band Dr. Brower, .il Mis. Floyd W. Kig.U ol Laclede as its presented musical numbers. ready at work, par president at its annual meeting. Mis Papers ol historical interest were ticipated in two Rigg had served in several capacities in placed in the cornerstone and then Bishop leadership train 1 loll and Dr. Woodward laid the StOn< ing schools, Sept. Ground «;is broken for the building 30 to Oct. 5, .h on II. Apr. Occupancy will be next fall. ho and Cass ville, foplin Dis METHODIST MEN trier. Hold Annual Retreats Brower Vccording t. Hon (it the are. Southwest Missouri men held their commission, DirectOl Browei st.ues, em fourth annual retreat Aug. -M 26, at phases during the current conKuiu Camp Galilee, bishop Eugene M. Frank will be on Lord's Acre and Lord's Houi and Robert (!. Maylicld, general secretary, .. organization of group ministry of the General Board of Lay Activities, unils, surveys in special selected areas, topped the program personnel. and conference and district institutes. \4rs \i I October J 956>\Jogefher Missouri i dition of Togktiuk THE BISHOP WRITES Bishop Frank greeted personally each member. Plans for a building are in the making. ^^'4 7H>*4t Sacted @&(n*tut*ttt€} • Bishop Frank was the guest preacher Greetings to all Missouri Methodist families who will at Broadway Church, Sept. 2. He was be enjoying the first copy of Together. introduced by the pastor, the Rev. Burnel Congratulations to the Board of Publication upon the L. Schubel. first issue of a magazine that brings a unity to the Methodist family and The Methodist Church. MARSHALL DIST. My personal appreciation goes to those far-sighted laymen who have realized the significance of Together Start Rural Film Shooting and are sending this first issue to every family in the church. Nicholas Head of Washington, D. C, You and I cannot measure in dollars and cents the influence of the printed is in Johnson County to produce a film word. Just now, God's most sacred community, the home, is being invaded of Methodist rural activities. He has by media of communication so powerful as to dictate the ideals, the values, written the story and will direct the film. the desires of every member of the family. The "shooting" began Oct. 1, with the The Christian family is surrounded, like an island, with a sea of materialistic arrival of a truck and camera crew from wants and desires. It is an ocean of secularism that lures many an adventurous Nashville and a technical advisor, Davis person away from the Christian home, never to be able to return. Foor, from New York. The Rev. Robert Together, as it comes into God's most sacred community, will not be the N. Arbaugh, Warrensburg pastor; Miss strength and undergirding of Christian family life unless it is read. Its pages Lois Marquart, formerly county rural will carry attractive, modern designs. Its message is the oldest and the greatest worker; Dr. T. Reed Maxson; and Miss story man has ever heard. Ruth Martinowskv have roles in the film. Again, let me congratulate those official boards whose concerned laymen have had the vision to bring Together into every Methodist home. Then, a personal message to Missouri Methodist families. On Sept. 12 we • Wesley Chapel now is having services began a series of district meetings designed to care for certain district business, every Sunday, except the fifth Sunday. but, more especially, to give an opportunity for acquaintance and fellowship. The Rev. Leonard Godall is pastor. By the time Together reaches your home, several of these meetings will have • Hout's Chapel had its annual rally day 9. basket dinner was followed been held. I want to say, sincerely and humbly, that you have been generous Sept. A to a fault in your reception of your bishop. Thank you, warmly and from the by a program. The pastor, the Rev. John heart. Walker Sr., was in charge. • Methodist morale was If the district meeting for this purpose is now being announced in your Johnson County lifted a tent meeting held at Holden. churches, I hope you will try to attend. Just as the major emphasis of The by Leslie Ross of the General Methodist Church, so the inevitable result of this is the strenthening of God's The Rev. J. most sacred community, the family. Board of Evangelism was the preacher. of churches received new Just as our goal is the strengthening of Christian higher education, so it is A number the result campaign. the purpose of every church-related college, every Wesley Foundation, to help members as a of the young people from our families to establish Christian homes. God bless your family! May his word be read daily in your family. May NEVADA DIST. his presence be sought daily in prayer. May his love keep you, his wisdom guide you, his faithfulness hold you. DS Begins Duties Eugene M. Frank The Rev. Mark S. Horn, newly ap- pointed district superintendent, and Mrs. Horn, have been warmly received by the churches of the district. Dr. Horn has the Woman's Society. For two summers completed his round of first quarterly she was counselor for youth caravan -SOUTHWEST MISSOURI- conferences. groups. succeeded Mrs. Clyde M. district She The Rev. J. M. Shockley, former KANSAS CITY DIST. Kirk in the presidency. superintendent, transferred to St. Louis Southwest Missouri Conference will Mark Three Milestones Conference and has been appointed pastor have its presidential election next spring. at Bonne Terre. Sunday, Sept. 9, was a big day in 'TOGETHER' Methodist annals in Kansas City. Ground • 18 years, Mrs. Ger- was broken for two new edifices and the After an absence of for back in her church Send Copy Supplement charter membership roll was closed for trude Miller was Sept. 9, at Belton. Mrs. Miller's husband The Rev. Milton M. Thorne, who has another congregation. Bishop Frank was died recently. His invalidism had re- served as editor of the Missouri Supple- present to share in the threefold festivi- quired her constant attendance. Pastor ment of Christian Advocate, will continue ties and to speak. Arnold Prater invited her to stand with as editor of the Missouri Supplement of Groundbreaking ceremonies were held him in the vestibule following the service Together. by Svvope Park and Stewart Churches. so she could greet old friends and make Ministers and laymen are asked to send The Longview Church, Ruskin Heights, new ones. their news to the respective district re- completed its charter membership enroll- • Rev. Charles P. Folkins of Lee's porters, who in turn will send to the ment. The new Swope Park building will The was one of the instructors in a Missouri editor of the Supplement. A be 140 by 56 feet to seat 460 persons. It Summit city-wide training school in St. Louis dur- good deadline would be the twentieth of will cost $135,000. ing the month. Stewart's new building, at Agnes Ave- September. It is hoped glossy prints of events may nue and Gregory Boulevard, will cost • A joint anniversary service was held be provided, 8 by 10 inches if possible. $75,000. It is the first unit of a plant at Lockwood Sept. 16, when the church Not all can be used, but we will use as which, when finally finished, will total and its pastor, the Rev. E. C. Wadlow, many as possible. Action, candid prints, around $200,000. each observed their seventy-fifth anniver- rather than the group or posed sort, are Longview's charter membership added sary. The Rev. Lloyd E. McKemey, a preferable. up to 160, and as the roll was called, former pastor, preached. A-2 Together/cOctober 1956 JOPLIN DIST. • The district Woman's Society held a KIRKSVILLE DIST. joint-zone seminar at Richmond, Sept. 20. Ministers Hold Educational Seminar Its regular district meeting is set for Oct. Three Move • The New ton-McDonald County WSCS 16, at Jamesport. • Since conference, the Rev. Floyd W. educational seminar was held Sept. 27 in • Haseville had to raze its building be- Rigg was transferred from Green City the Stella Church. Among those on the cause of termite ravages and rebuild. to Laclede. He succeeded the Rev. E. I. program were Mrs. Howard Bush and Much volunteer labor is going into the Webber, who went to Albany in Mary- Mrs. Kenneth C. Johnston. work. The basement is completed and the ville District. The Rev. E. Stanley Ray • Sponsored by the conference and dis- framework up. About 70 per cent of was transferred to Green City from Green trict boards of education, a Christian the cost is on hand, including an allot- Top. ment of $600 from the conference board Workers' Training School for Newton • Work began Oct. 1 at Browning on a County was held in the Neosho Church, of missions and church extension. Led unit to provide more classroom space. Oct. 3-5. by the district superintendent, the pastors A tent has been used to take care of the • A training workshop for senior MYF of the district gave a day's work to the overflow attendance. The Rev. A. W. project Sept. 15. The Rev. E. P. Carrow officers was held in Byers Avenue Church, Mitchener is the pastor. Joplin, Sept. 23. is pastor. • Rev. E. L. DeVore, 3028 Wall The • Kidder is rejoicing over an addition MARYVILLE DIST. Street, Joplin, has been named district valued at $20,000, with an actual cash reporter for the Together Missouri Sup- outlay of only $7,000. Donated labor Mexico City Choir Sings plement, by Superintendent W. L. Perry- cared for the balance. The Rev. George The week of Sept. 16 a 17-voice choir M. Hansford is the pastor. from The Methodist Church of Mexico City gave a dozen concerts in churches SEDALIA DIST. FAYETTE DIST. and schools in the district. This project Set Pastors' Retreat Improve Churches in international fellowship and under- standing was sponsored by Star Chapel • To accomplish a dual purpose, the Rev. • Fayette Circuit reports that three of its and its pastor, the Rev. G. S. Thistle- Robert M. Lehew, superintendent of Se- five churches have improvements under thwaite. dalia District, hit upon the idea of calling way. Woodlandville is building, and This church in the open country pro- his pastors to a retreat the weekend of Bethel and Smith are redecorating. The vided a scholarship which enabled the Layman's Sunday. The retreat will be Rev. George W. Burgin, divinity student, choir director, the Rev. Paul Macin, to held Oct. 19-21 on the Lake of the is the pastor. attend Union Theological Seminary in Ozarks. • Mrs. S. B. Searcy, widow of the Rev. Mexico City, the foreign Advance Special Since all pastors will be away, the lay- Benjamin P. Searcy, a graduate of Cen- of Missouri Conference. men of the several churches of necessity tral College and one-time member of must take over on Layman's Sunday. The Missouri Conference, died June 24, at first retreat was held last year, and "the Columbia. Their daughter, Mary, a mis- • Sept. 21 Bishop Frank was in Mary- laymen did a fine job," the superintend- sionary to Japan, is now in this country ville District. He spoke to the ministers ent says. "And we expect even better on leave of absence. in the afternoon, while the ministers' things this year." • wives were guests of Mrs. Freeman C. • Bishop Frank is in the district speaking Both Central College and Wesley Foun- Havighurst at the district parsonage. At at a series of conferences. His schedule dation at Columbia are prepared to send night the bishop spoke to more than 500 calls for him to be at Wesley Church, out deputation teams to conduct services. persons in the Maryville Church sanctu- fedalia, Oct. 14, at Warsaw (2:30 p.m.) Churches interested should write to Prof. ary, representatives from all congregations and Preston (8 p.m.), Oct. 15, and at Meredith F. Eller at Central or the Rev. of the district. Clinton, Oct. 16. Warren L. Briggs at Columbia. • A complete set of pulpit furniture was • The district MYF fall festival will be dedicated at Fairfax Sept. 23 by District held at Windsor, Oct. 27-28. HANNIBAL DIST. Superintendent Freeman C. Havighurst, Bishop Frank Is Visitor as a memorial to the late Charles H. MISSOURI- Schooler. Pastor David T. Morrison re- • Bishop Frank, who is making a tour ceived 22 as memtx CHILLICOTHE-RICHMOND DIST. of the area, visited Hannibal District • The Sheridan edifice is being remod- Sept. 24. He met with pastors in the eled, while additions are being planned Plan Training Schools afternoon, enjoyed a fellowship supper by Burlington (unction and Mound City. with a larger group, ami preached in Foui subdistrict training schools are Denver and Mount Moriah parson In i Church, Hannibal, to a capacity planned in Chillicothe-Richmond District. are being moderni congregation at night. Ilnv arc: Chillicothe, Oct. 14, 16 and • The district Woman's Society is hold- • Shelbyville has pledged more than 18; Richmond, Oct. 15, 17, 19; Gallatin, ing its autumn meeting at Oregon, Oct. for a new unit, to cost, Oct. 21, 25; Princeton, $10,000 proposed 23, and Oct. 22, 15. Mrs. Carl Winell of Wilcox is district > 15,000. 24, 26. exclusive of furnishings, l< ni. Groundbreaking will be followed this fall "The New Testament in the Life of the immediate laying of the founda today" will be taught by Prof. Meredith by DIST. Hon, reports the Rev. Richard D. I'./ell. ST. JOSEPH F. Eller of Central College; "Making Homes Christian," by the Rev. Don W, • During a "rest" eme prescribed for the Hold District Conference Reid, executive secretary of the confer Claj tor, the Rev. Milton M Hoard of Education; and "How to Thome, following majoi surgery, the District conference was held Sept. 12 pulpit was l>v tlu in Francis Street Church. I in the Church School," by the supplied Rev. J. B. lev. \. Sterling Ward, district superin Seh, .11, the Rev. Don W. Reid, the Rev. luri White, superintendent, presided. . Bishop I interest was tendent. Paul Powell, Di . VanDi \ andci . )i Www The center of Frank, R. Hull, Mis. W. A. Knowles, ami who was making his first official \isit. Mi hopes to resume Ins \ dinner was given m his honoi . The • Bishop Frank was guest of the district Others ["home mill < Powell was host pastor. at Chillicothe, Sept. 26. lie met with the work by tatober, Rev. Bradford V. pastors in tin afternoon, shared in the • The Rev. William Bunge has been ap • \n older adult fellowship has been fellowship ot a supper meeting, and then pointed to M uit, and the Rev. Organized at Cameron The first meeting preached at 8 o'clock. Robert L. CJtlaui to Vandalia Circuit. was held Sept. 1 _\ October J 956iVjogether A3 the week of Sept. 10, at Bell, Houston, POPLAR BLUFF DIST. ST. LOUIS- VanBuren and Vienna. Open Patterson Church CAPE GIRARDEAU DIST. • The Rev. John D. Prater, superintend- ent, met with the ministers of the district • Patterson's new edifice, costing $30,000 Oldest Church Celebrates at Licking, Sept. 17. The purpose was was consecrated, Sept. 23, by Superin to organize the new quadrennial program. tendent Elmer L. Thomas. The churcl • Old McKendree Church, reputed to be Spiritual and material needs were con- is on the Greenville Circuit- the first Methodist congregation estab- sidered and a program set up for the • Gideon Church has voted to purchasi lished west of the Mississippi River, is four-year period. Each local church is adjoining property for extension purposes celebrating its 150th anniversary. Bishop expected to adopt a program for each Frank preached the anniversary sermon • The annual district picnic for minister year of the four, and quarterly confer- the afternoon of Sept. 16. The Rev. and their families was held at Maiden ences will be held to approve the action Frank C. Tucker, district superintendent, Sept. 15. District Superintendent Thoma taken. presided and other ministers assisted. spent part of the time in district set-uj • The new Rolla sanctuary is nearing work and "talking shop." • The Rev. Chester Pulliam became pas- completion. When the old building is tor of Second Church, Sikeston, Sept. 16, completely remodeled into classrooms, • A postconference appointment sent th transferring from Bismarck. The new dining room and kitchen, the fellowship Rev. James L. Estep from Doniphan t< Greenville Circuit. congregation is housed in the sanctuary house will be fully decorated. Then the recently purchased from the Sikeston Rev. and Mrs. Walter D. Niles will move Christian Church. back to the original parsonage. • Wedding bells rang out recently for • The annual district educational semi- two ministers of the district. Miss Verna nar of the WSCS, held Sept. 12 at Salem, Hobbs of Cape Girardeau became the was attended by 125 women. bride, Aug. 19, of the Rev. Robert C. • A special quarterly conference, con- Bigenheimer, pastor at Illrno. Superin- vened Sept. 14 at Licking, authorized ex- The Rev. William Mathae of Belle tendent Tucker and the Rev. Ivan H. tensive repairs to the church building. fontaine Church, St. Louis, mourns tb Nothdurft, cousin of the bridegroom, offi- • Maples church on the Licking Circuit sudden death of his father, a well-knowi ciated in the Illmo sanctuary. was dedicated Sept. 2. The edifice was physician, which occurred Sept. 22. July 30, Miss Elvers Slover, daughter completely rebuilt inside, and space for Miss Claribell Gallivan of Columbia of the Rev. and Mrs. Leon Slover of dining room and kitchen added. who has been assigned to Latin Americ; Hermann, and the Rev. Rusby Slinkard as a missionary for three years, has lef of the Morley Charge were married. The ST. LOUIS DIST. the States to take up her work. Rev. J. C. Montgomery Sr., superintend- ent of Jefferson City District, officiated Consecrate New Church Harry E. Pankhorst of Barnes Hospital St. Louis, and Elmer W. Paul of Burgi in the Morley sanctuary. • District Superintendent Herman H. Hospital, Springfield, were among thoS' Luetzow consecrated the new Webster who were made fellows in the Americai JEFFERSON CITY DIST. Hills Church Sept. 16. At that time 100 College of Hospital Administrators, a new members were received. the convocation, Sept. 16. Build New Parsonages In the afternoon the beautiful Gothic ACHA chapel which has served as the first unit Mrs. Emmit Burk of Charleston is on • Living in new parsonages are the pas- was dedicated in honor of the Rev. of 42 Methodists enrolled for an around tor-families of Ballwin, Bethel (Pond, Franklin F. Lewis, retired, who founded the-world tour, the high point of whicl Mo.), Gray's Summit and Eureka. New the Webster Hills Church. The Rev. T. will be a visit to the Indian Methodis parsonages are being built at Hermann Cecil Swackhamer is the present pastor. Centennial in Lucknow Oct. 31 to Nov. 3 and Wellsville. Ballwin, Eureka and The Rev. Lewis B. VanWinkle, whos Wellsville are using their old parsonages • St. Paul's observed its 115th anniver- sary with a dinner Sept. 21. appointment as academic dean of Nationa for parish activities. Bellflower is mod- Bishop College was announced last month, a^ ernizing its parsonage. Frank was the speaker. The congregation brought cash gifts totaling around $1,200 sumed his new duties Sept. 1. • Russellville is using its new educational to be used in a rehabilitation program. William P. Sharpe of St. Louis building and Jonesburg and Old Alex- ha Conference Lay Leader J. Clint Hawkins, been elected a of the executiv ander will occupy theirs soon. member a member of the church, and Superin- committee of the General Board of Pen • Two abandoned churches, Horeb and tendent H. H. Luetzow participated in sions. Providence, have been led in revival serv- the program, as did the pastor, the Rev. KY-TV, Channel 3, Springfield, Mo ices. 70-Es, the Rev. Two Richard Long Marvin Fortel. is now carrying The Way, Methodism' of Iowa and the Rev. Ko Koyami of • The Rev. M. McDowell, president new half-hour dramatic television serie Japan, worked in the district during the A- general of The Methodist Church in summer. New The program is presented at noon Satui Zealand, was a guest in St. Louis the days. • The Rev. Ivan Nothdurft, missionary week of Sept. 23. He preached at St. The successor to Bishop at Firs returned South America, will Frank from ad- John's and Shaw Avenue. Church, Topeka, is the Rev. Ewart C dress the district mission institute Oct. • A memorial service for Glenn Clark, 16-17. Watts. He is a son of Bishop H. Bascor whose books on prayer and other sub- Watts of Nebraska Area. • Lord's Acre sales are now being held jects won for him churchwide renown, by many churches. was held in Grace Church, St. Louis, • Miss Grace Badgett, who served as rural Sept. 23. Those sharing with the pastor, worker in Mongomery County, has re- the Rev. Wesley H. Hagar, in presenting signed and returned to her Tennessee home. the service were the Rev. W. W. S. Hohenschild of the Church of the Holy DIST. ROLLA Communion; the Rev. Ervine P. Inglis, Webster Groves Congregational; Hold Four Institutes and the Rev. Clay Frye, Trinity Presbyterian. • Mrs. M. G. Joyce, conference director • The Rev. H. R. Runion of Kingshigh- of children's work, and Miss Barbara way Church, who underwent hospitaliza- Eskew, conference director of youth work, tion after a heart attack, has returned to held four institutes in the district during his pulpit. Dr. VanWi?i\le Miss Gallivan A-4 Togethcr/ocfober J 95 — Gauntry, although they lived close by. Because of the deception they were rele- She Struck gated to be hewers of wood and GOWNS K drawers of water. 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She was the "Birthda making money at once. Many thou- succeeded, so can YOU! Exact Replica Quart Size sands have 'IMflpFv Dollar missionary," being supported l] Album of Deluxe, Personal, Custom of Original —* $13.75 i MATCHING dollars given by women of Tennesst ysgP "\±l""'>7S*. Made Christmas Cards also availa- CHINA Cup and Saucer $3.50 r#Guaraileedby'%\ble. IT COSTS NOTHING TO TRY! Conference as they marked birthdays ^Good Housekeeping 6 Inch Plate 1.75 FRK G|FT prompfne$s 9 Inch Plate 2.25 ^ Back home, she began doing missio . Cream Pitcher 3.00 SEND NO MONEY — MAIL COUPON TODAY! Sugar Bowl 2.75 ary education in Sunday schools, ser Immediate Delivery for Payable check in advance, shipped ing seven years with the Board Parcel Post Mrs. Elliott: Please rush ON APPROVAL sam- Christian Education of the southei Dear — — WESLEY WEDCWOOD I pie boxes & everything I need to start making money 685 West End Ave., New York 25, N. Y. church. | the friendly Elliott way. (Free Christmos & Stationery imprint samples included.) In 1934 she married Mr. Tillman ar MY NAME j worked with him in the hotel busine ADDRESS 1 I 1 CITY ZONE STATE for several years before going to tl ORGANIZATION (if any) farm. From her farm home and circi' Manufacturers of Church Worship Aids church, Mrs. Tillman keeps a wor NEW AND TESTED MONEY RAISER exclusively for over a quarter of a view of Christian work. She says, "T day the witness of every Christian i battle <7a*te BelL century .. .Write for catalog and listing % world-wide in influence." —Traditional jingle bells with colorful Christmas of local dealers desirous of serving you. decorations. Attach to door with suction cup. Ring when door is opened. An easy-to-sell dollar item on which you make WHAT PRICE MISERY 40%, and even more! SUDBURY BRASS GOODS CO. Write foi- Full Information Quit Slum Business TATTLE TUNE BELLS Oept. 11 55 Sudbury Street. Boston 14, Mass. 2253 Arthur Ave. Lakewood 7, Ohio An Episcopal parish in Marshallto Del., razed 13 income-producing slu dwellings it owned when the vestry c HERE'S A PROVEN cided it should not profit from hum MONEY MAKING misery. The IDEA! weathered frame buildings we willed to St. Barnabas' Church by member, Frederick Every home o prospect for Bringhurst, w longer-burning, premium light died two years ago. Rev. Jack Hilla bulbs. Popular sizes in easy- Smith, rector, said the decision meant to-sell 6 bulb Ready-Paclts. loss of more than $300 a month. At least $6.00 profit per case. Write today for details. THREE MEN DIFFER Ready Jell Mfg. Co., 391 -H 3rd Ave., Troy, N. Y. Is There a Revival? PR A Y IN G HANDS Three The everlasting appeal of the famous medieval viewpoints on whether a gei work of art by Duerer is captured in this uine religious FOLDING CHAIRS revival is taking place l » reproduction. Genuine pewter medallion placque, handmade in West Germany the United States have express! il In Steel orWood^ by one been of the few craftsmen still practising the for- by Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, authf V FOLDING TABLES gotten art of pewter pouring. Truly beautiful, A WRITE FOR CATALOG I this is a symbol of inspiration for your home. of The Power of Positive Thin\in: K LOW meaningful l ". T AND DIRECT PRICES ( A Christmas gift. 4y2 "x5 /2 Evangelist Billy 1 Only $6.95, incl. tax & postage for cert. mail. Graham; and R<< Send J.P.Redington&Co. check or M.O. to Viking Imports, Alan Walker, Australian P. O. Box 118T, Baldwin Park Methodist. DEPt 52 SCRANTON2.PA. 3, Calif. The three addressed some 3,000 lJ| 80 TogcthcrA3cfober J 9 PRODUCTS AND SE ,S for ORDERING STAMPS OR CARDS? The World's Finest TOGKTH Kit accepts advertisements only From reliable dealers. 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CHURCH FURNISHINGS ULPIT FURNITURE, Pews, Altar Ware, Communion Tables, Fonts, Folding Chairs, FADE THEM OUT Free Catalogues. J. P. REDINGTON & COM- * Weathered brown spots on PANY, Dept. K, Scranton, Pennsylvania. the surface of your hands and face tell the world you're get- of FUND RAISING PLANS ting old—perhaps before you really are. Fade r-.fcd 'Old-Fashioned* them away with new ESOTERICA, that medi- 1 ROUPS, ORGANIZATIONS raise funds. cated cream that breaks up masses of pigment FUND RAISING PLANS? Pound tins Candies. Ralph W. Missimer, 5900 on the skin, makes hands look white and young Ella St., Philadelphia 20, Pa. again. Equally effective on the face, neck and MANY USES arms. Not a cover-up. Acts in the skin—not tor Cass*role Server HELP WANTED on it. Fragrant, greaseless base for softening, Looking a modern, easy, \ pleasant way to tnake mones lubricating skin as it clears up those blemishes. Snoci. Tray !<•[ Four group] These Oriental IOUSEPARENTS for children's homes. 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Chicago School of Nursing, Dept. R-10, Chi- cago. OF INTEREST TO WOMEN FINAL OFFER! October l95cV\Jogether 81 men at the National Convention | RAISE MONEY EASILYandu.HhDi.nify Christian Men at Cleveland in m September. The convention was sp* Correspondence Notes and Envelopes sored by the interdenominatio EACH SHEET WITH A PHOTO OF YOUR CHURCH United Church Men, a unit of the I a Year- Around Seller! tional Council of Churches. Dr. Peale said that the United Sta Quickly, easily sold for $1 per box of 24 sheets and 24 envelopes. Generous profits for your church is the most religious country in group. No experience necessary. For samples and world. full information, just write: Evangelist Graham said that SPALDING PUBLISHERS, Dept. A 754 E. 76th St., Chicago 19, III. though America is headed for a gr spiritual revival, it will not amount much unless new church members "fully committed Christians." Dr. Walker thinks there is as no religious revival in America but t "there is a widespread quickening interest in religion." He urged that Worries" National Council of Churches unc "No Financial take a united Christian mission to American people. Read this Inspiring Letter SAWMILL CHURCH "The future holds no financial worries for Remodel Every Sunday me. I have received peace of mind from a regular and assured income and I enjoy the People attending the West Palme inexpressible personal satisfaction of help- Church in the high-desert region ing in the important work of building the California rest their feet on an exp sive Persian rug during services. Kingdom of God around the earth, thus But a glance to one side shows a contributing to the greater stability of the cular saw; to the other side is a work bench. Satisfied Annuitant Every Sunday for more than a y Security Plus Christian Service the young congregation has remod a sawmill into a "sanctuary." Loss is impossible and blessing assured because you are in partnership with the Lord whose marching The loaned, expensive rug goes d< orders were, "Go therefore and teach all nations on the rough floor boards of the r and lo I am with you unto the end" —when you Drapes partly hide work benches purchase a saws. A donated banquet table, cov< with white bedspread, makes the al Life Income Gift Certificate Folding chairs serve as pews. WOMAN'S DIVISION OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE The makeshift arrangement is n& sary because there is no place ri Let the coupon bring you the story now where the congregation can b of how your dollars in one of our Annuities become immortal a sanctuary, and there is no other bu University money by blessing humanity ing except the mill available in wh Student through uncounted genera- to meet. Korea tions. Who can say what the widening reaction from your gift will be? 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