My Crusade Against Caste By India's Prime Minister Nehru
Flowers for the Church Year
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f t>e M l • It mw :. \ wMS ' . t » * I Young missionary in Greece.- She's from the Philippines! (For the story, turn the page) Methodist Girl in THE PHILIPPINE Islands are half a world away from the little vil- lage of Variades in northern Greece where the land is too harsh, eroded, and rocky to fill every stomach every day. But nearly two Melvina's rabbits: years ago a gentle, attractive Filipino girl made the long trip to They're pets—and serve a people she did not know. Melvina Ramos was 24 when she food for the poor alone, to gain the confidence of the villagers with her smile people of Variades. came, and the magic of her hands. She gave canning demonstrations, taught sewing and cooking, organized girls clubs, and formed a small library. Then she launched vegetable plots, helped revitalize the poultry industry, taught animal husbandry, and started a hot-lunch program. Melvina is one of a team of Christian youths in the area. 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It is essential in every home where edu- Michigan Avenue, Chicago 11, Illinois. Just think of a subject—and you'll find cation is valued and respected. 1 Is thy heart right, at t»v htart is icith thine? Dost thou love ami serve God? It is enough. I give thee Together FEBRUARY, 1962 the- right hand of fellowship. John — Wesley ( 1703-1791) The Midmonth Magazine for Methodist Families 'UR BIG BUILDING at 740 N. Rush Street, a o. 2 Methodist Girl in Greece block olT the "Magnificent Mile" ol Chicago's busy 13 I Found God in America Mrs. Thomas Ray Mil higan Avenue, has s( i ved the Methodist Publish 1 \\ ing louse well tor many decades. The old Chrisi i 14 Special Report on Angola V. L. Nicholson Advocate was at home lure, and Together was born 16 My Crusade Against Caste J.iwaharlal Nehru within these walls more than five yens ago. Now the 18 About Mr. Nehru . . . Bishop time has come to move, to take up the old memories, ). Waskom Pickett and pack them awav to a modern new building in 19 In Marriage —Tremendous Trifles Count Bishop Hazen C. Werner the suburbs. We'll have a bieo lawn, a lot of alm.iss. real live trees, maybe a lew songbirds, and. lor a 21 The Methodist Family-of-thc- Year change, plenty <>i parking space! So, on or about 22 Antidote to Eichmann George Kent Februarv 1, 1%2, we'll be getting our mail at Box 25 He Defied the SS . . . and Lived! Robert C. Cram 423, Park Ridge, Illinois. 26 Where's the Funeral? (Powwow) While musing over this issue, u occurred to us Charles L. Allen and Winthrop B. Yinger that the lines from an editorial desk lead i list about 27 What to Do When Death Comes V. L. Nicholson everywhere and evervwhen; that and by yanking 28 How Much Should 'Decent Burial' Cost Wayne Carlstrand a line here you land some unexpected fish there. 29 Knowledge Comes, But Wisdom Lingers Crace M. Whitehead What, for example, could an article about Prof. Ben 31 Announcing: A Winner Cartwright of the University of Oklahoma, who 32 Unusual Methodists collects superstitions [see page 62], have to do with: (1) the most famous of the rough-and-tumble cir- 34 The Counsel Assigned Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews cuit riders; (2) the Great Emancipator, who was 37 Flowers for the Church Year (Color Pictorial) born 153 years ago this February 12, and a Meth- (3) 45 Brotherhood of Man, Fatherhood of God Charles B. Copher odist lighthouse of hope and mercy in a slum area 55 The Ways Men Worship of present-day New York City? 62 He Collects Superstitions Neil M. Clark Well, it turns out that the professor's grandfather was a cousin of Peter Cartwright, who did as much 65 Tiger's Den! (Pictorial) as anybody to make pioneer Mid-America a strong- 78 A Helping Hand for Self-Help (Color Pictorial) hold of Methodism. Peter wasn't awed by the likes of Andrew Jackson or Abraham Lincoln (against FEATURES AND DEPARTMENTS whom he conducted an unsuccessful race for Con- 8 Letters 54 Looks at Books gress). Now Lincoln, we noted last Februarv with a 1 Newsletter 59 Browsing in Fiction two-page painting by Charles Hargens, once visited 30 Wicked Flea 60 Small Fry Five Points Mission in New York, still open at 69 48 Teens Together 64 Name Your Hobby Madison Street under Methodist supervision. 49 Spiritual Efficiency 68 News of the World Parish "Some conditions found in Lincoln's day are still 75 Feeding Fifty with us," the folks at Five Points report, indicating 50 Your Faith and Church that the little mission continues to fight against great 52 Light Unto My Path 75 Camera Clique odds, including lack of adequate funds. Adding that there are 45 gangs and an estimated 2,000 narcotics TOCETHER Editorial and Advertising Offices: Box 423, Park Ridge, llhnois. (Telephone CYpress 6-2241 I addicts in the mission's Lower East Side neighbor- hood, they then say that "we have had to curtail our TOCETHER Business and Subscription Offices: 201 Eighth Ave., South, Nashville 3, Tenn. (Telephone: CHapel 2-1621) youth program when heaven and earth demand its TOCETHER continues the CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE founded in 1826 as expansion!" All of which may prove that if you ever "an entertaining, instructive, and profitable family visitor." It is an official organ of The Methodist Church. Because of freedom given get a chance to go fishing in an editor's head, don't! authors, opinions may not reflect official concurrence. TOCETHER is "the midmonth magazine for Methodist families" because it reaches subscribers by the 1 5th of the month preceding cover date. Our Cover: The girl is Melvina Ramos of the Phil- It is published by the Methodist Publishing House at 201 Eighth Ave., ippines, who soon will leave Greece for the United South, Nashville 3, Tenn., where second-class postage has been paid. Authors should enclose postage for return and address States where, as a missionary, she will take "ad- Manuscripts: — all editorial correspondence to the Editorial Department. vanced studies." She's sponsored by the World Coun- Advertising: For rates, write to the Advertising Department. Subscriptions: Order the All Family Plan through your local Methodist cil of Churches which, incidentally, held its Third church. The basic rate is 65« a quarter ($2.60 a year) billed Assembly in New Delhi. India, November IS to to the church. Individual subscriptions are $4 a year in advance. Single copy price is 50«. December 6. We have asked Bishop F. Gerald Ensley, Change of Address: Five weeks' advance notice is required. Send old and new address and label from current issue. who attended, to tell you about its significance. Look Editor: Leland D. Case • Executive Editor: Richard C. Underwood • Art Editor: Floyd A. Johnson • Associates: Paige Carlin, Robert G. Cram, Helen for his article in an early issue. . . The continuing Johnson, Ira M. Mohler, Charles E. Munson, V. L. Nicholson, H. B. Teeter Believe series pages 45-47 this month is • Assistants: Else Bjornstod (research), Loretta Carlson (production), We [on | Robert C Goss (art), George P. Miller (photos) • Editorial Associate: making a big hit. apparently, with our ministers. Anthony J. Tolbert III • Contributing Editor: Ewing T. Wayland • Busi- ness Manager: Warren P. Clark • Advertising Manager: John H. Fisher More than 2,500 have asked for reprints. • Circulation Manager: Thomos B. Newton. —Youu Editors Vol. VI, No. 2. Copyright 1962 by Lovick Pierce, Publisher. February 1 962 \ Together '.,.'.. , YOUR REWARD... IF YOU DON'T DRINK! 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The shameful fact is that dogs in America eat better than people in many foreign countries. Feeding dogs is big business! Twins Win Her Vote! MRS. WILMOT C. WELLITS Kansas City, Mo. UN Ambassador Agrees as he seeks to please men rather than I have a complete file of our much- God"? prized magazine Together and have en- ADLAI E. STEVENSON I agree with Dr. Stowe that we should joyed many of the covers, but my vote U.S. Representative to UN keep the system flexible! New York, N.Y. Thank you for sending me your Oc- He Favors Time Limit Together "b other — tober [1961] issue with the article by HERMAN A. LEHWALD, Pastor the late secretary-general, Dag Ham- Moberly, Mo. marskjold [The UN Is Here to Stay, I heartily agree with Dr. Norwood"s page 23]. It is most fitting that we argument in Bring Back the Traveling should have an article of this sort at Minister? that pastoral time limits this time. It comes near being a last will should be set. His and testament from him. reasoning is sound. Dr. Stowe's arguments for keeping our We miss him here, but we believe system flexible are weak. will as he did that the United Nations is He be amazed, after leaving St. Luke's Church, definitely here to stay and our job is to how much more his successor will be October, 1956 see that it does. able to accomplish. Things he thought .' impossible, the new pastor will do. is for the October, 1956, and October. 'Conditions Have Changed . . Long pastorates "type" a church. 1961, covers. They are outstanding—so I. K. BRUHN, Pastor clear-cut and truly symbolic. Hazel Crest, III. The January Oklahoma-New Mexico I'm sure there must be proud parents Together Area News Edition noted that Bring Back the Traveling Minister? of those lovely twins. Dr. Stowe's church recently [Powwow, November, 1961, page 20] broke the existing record evangelism, was interesting. Certainly, Professor for and now has the second Cood Reading for A.D. 2011? Norwood's argument in favor of a pas- largest membership in Methodism.—Eds. toral time limit has precedent in the E. D. TREGELLAS very concept of the "traveling preacher" Topeka. Kans. Are Dogs Sacred treated in the Discipline. Cows? The cover for October, 1961, was a On the other hand, perhaps there A. B. MADISON, Pastor beautiful picture of two lovely young is something to be said for changing the Denver, Colo. ladies. It was just one of your many circuit-rider image of a bygone era The dog on the October, 1961, cover fine covers. and accepting the newer conditions of adds nothing. The most interesting sub- For the cornerstone laying at our our time, such as an educated constit- Oakland Methodist Church, on Novem- uency, a clergy with greater life ex- ber 18, 1961, we prepared a copper box pectancy, and the demands of a grow- to put into the cornerstone and filled ing family—which may be balanced off it with numerous items we thought by a comparison with the success of WEI ARE would be of interest 50 years from now. certain churches that long have stressed AS OF FEB. One was the October, 1961, issue of the settled ministry. 1,1962 Together. The question surely has two sides, EDITORIAL MAIL believe that conditions but one likes to Skies Are Blue in Nebraska have changed somewhat since the days SHOULD BE SENT TO CAROLINE BENGTSON of the horseback clergy. TOGETHER BOX 423 Hastings, Nebr. Circuit Rider in Nebraska's Sand 'Keep the System Flexible!' PARK RIDGE, ILL. Hills [November, 1961, page 63] gives D. JOSEPH IMLER, Exec. Sec'y the erroneous impression that Nebras- Preacher's Aid Society ka's climate is well-nigh diabolical: Boston, Mass. MOVING! "Always on the go. whether Nebraska's In Bring Back the Traveling Minister? temperamental skies offer blazing heat Professor Norwood pontificates from the or fierce cold. Earl Reed averages 30.- security of his university tenure, de- 000 miles a year on highways, unpaved claring that all pastoral ministers should ranch roads, and sand-hill trails." move every eight years. Apparently this Nebraska and other states of the would not hold for the ordained min- high plains do have some brief periods ister-university professor. of intense heat and severe cold, and By what authority can he say that they are often unpredictable; but Ne- the minister of the long pastorate be- braska really is a very healthful state, comes "institutionalized"; that he be- with much delightful weather. One dis- comes the "property of the congrega- trict superintendent called the western tion"; that "his ministry is compromised area of the state "the land of the sky." Together / February 1962 At times, the heavens are the must beautiful blue that can be imagined. Direct Factory Wings for Circuit Rider? Prices EARL H. REED, Pastor Lakeside, Ncbr. Our sincere thanks for doing such a fine job on Circuit Ruler in Nebraska's Sand Hills. Many people here have com- mented on the story, and we have re- Your Choice of Tops ceived letters from many parts of the Masonite or Blon-D United States. In fact, one letter from or Melamine Plastic Ohio indicated that some people may 1908-1962 help us obtain an airplane. ONROE THE LEADER 'rs tliat Pastor Reed will recall FOR 54 YEARS s the person jeatured in the pictorial. FOLDING PEDESTAL TABLES his DIRECT FROM FACTORY His thank-you note is typical of FOLDING CHAIRS SAVINGS Clubs, and all Organizations thonghtfulness. He's a worthy successor Churches, Schools, If you are on the Purchasing Committee of your church, educa- to Brotlier Van Orsdel from neighboring TRUCKS FOR tional, fraternal or social group, you will want to know more Montana [see Saint in Stirrups, July, FOLDING TABLES about MONROE Folding Banquet Tables. 94 models and sizes 1958, page 18].—Eds. AND CHAIRS for every use. Also, MONROE Folding Chairs, Table and Chair Trucks, Portable Partitions, Folding Choral and Platform Risers. Does Anyone Top This? Owned and recommended by over 60,000 institutions. Mail coupon today for catalog and full information. CHARLES S. ALDRICH, Pastor MONROE'S THE MONROE COMPANY. 59 Church St . Coltai. Iowa Chautauqua, N.Y. Please send me your new 1962 Monroe catalog, and 1962 NEW full information on DIRECT FROM FACTORY PRICES. Regarding the News item on Dr. Ralph CATALOG W. Sockman [December, 1961, page 70], We're interested in: PORTABLE PARTITIONS FREE! Mrs. Flora Crago of my congregation Group called to my attention a book telling Mail to Title about the pastoral record of one of her CATALOG Address previous ministers, the Rev. John Mc- City Zone State Clintock, at New Providence Presby- THE MONROE COMPANY, 59, Church St., Colfax, Iowa terian Church near Carmichaels, Pa. Mr. McClintock served this church con- tinuously for 50 years, from 1839 to 1889. Apparently Dr. Sockman's 44 years Gold Ribbon cook at the Great Barrington at Christ Church. Methodist, is not the Fair shares the winning recipe for her longest single-pulpit tenure in Ameri- can church history. ?? Breadwinner" Self-Help in Mexico "Making fancy wedding and birthday cakes is a hobby P. J. TREVETHAN, Exec. Vice-Pres. of mine," says Mrs. Robert E. Tenney of Great Goodwill Industries of America Barrington, Massachusetts. "But my family and Washington, D.C. friends think this 'Breadwinner' is my real specialty. I have read with appreciative in- It won me the Gold Ribbon for the best yeast terest the article on our Mexico City baking at the Great Barrington Fair. It's based on Goodwill Industries in the January a recipe I inherited from my grandmother. And issue [Self-Help South of the Border, Fleischmann's Yeast plays a very important part. Too! page 63]. It's so fresh and fast-rising." This program was established with a gift of approximately $3,000 contributed, / BREADWINNER Makes 2 loaves largely, by our Goodwill Industries, 1 2 cup very warm water Place in greased bowl. Brush with their staffs, and employees operating in 2 packages Fleischmann's Active melted margarine. Cover; let rise in the United States. word has come Dry Yeast Now warm place, free from draft, until dou- that our Mexico City friends desire to 1 Vi cups warm water bled, about 1 hour. Knead down. Di- Va cup sugar return the gift—not to be used in the vide dough in half. Roll one part into 1 tablespoon salt U.S. but to establish a similar program rectangle 12" long. off slice 3 eggs Cut %, in some other city in Mexico. We think lA cup Fleischmann's Margarine into 3 strips, braid them. Divide third this is an example of Home Missions 7!4 to 7'/2 cups sifted flour slice into 3 parts and braid. Place small braid larger braid. at its best! melted margarine on Work ends to- 1 egg yolk gether. Repeat process with rest of sesame seeds dough. Let rise, uncovered, until dou- Churches-in-the-Round? No! Measure Vi cup very warm water into bled. Brush with egg glaze (yolk beaten H. CONWELL SNOKE, Gen. Sec'y. large bowl. Sprinkle in Fleischmann's with 2 tablespoons cold water). Sprinkle Division of National Missions Yeast; stir to dissolve. Stir in warm sesame seeds. Bake at425°F, 25-30 min. Methodist Board of Missions water, sugar, salt, eggs, margarine, half Philadelphia, Pa. the flour. Mix till smooth. Add enough flour to make soft dough. Knead on The November Mobility Issue of To- lightly floured board until smooth. gether is doing much to create a new v.. S awareness among Methodists of the op- February 1 962 \ Together portunities for service in national mis- Pews, Pulpit 6 Chancel sions. We appreciate this tremendously. for CHOIR PULPIT But, having said that, how shall I tell FURNITURE x designs of ever- you it also embarrasses us? EARLY lasting good taste, DELIVERY for Junior, Senior Illustrating that excellent article on Choirs and Clergy. church architecture by A. Hensel Fink Send for free WRITE FOR is a drawing for a Methodist church at FREE CATALOG catalog. Middleburg Heights, Ohio. It doesn't say Li|.„ Religious amey Vestments that Mr. Fink approved the plan, but J. P. REDINGTON & CO. 1828 Church St. because of the juxtaposition, many To- Nashville, Tenn. DEPT. 2 SCRANTON 2, PA. gether readers assume he did. They're writing us. 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ROBERT HINER Belle Center, Ohio My son's sixth-grade class was asked to bring to school a full-page, colored. Thanksgiving picture from a magazine. When Jeff told me this, my first thought was the November, 1961. Together: but then I remembered that the November cover was on the sad theme of a family moving. Yours wasn't the only monthly sans Thanksgiving pictures: the other three we subscribe to were likewise. What could I say to Jeff? Correction for MSM Report H. D. BOLLINGER Methodist Board of Education Division of Higher Education American Leprosy Missions Gift Annuity Plan Nashville,. Tenn. Speaking for participants in the Meth- odist Student Movement, I can say, gives for life, you a generous, guaranteed income and as one of its counselors, that we ap- preciate publicity given to our efforts. gives life itself to the world's most neglected sufferers— However, in the September. 1961. issue [page your news report could easily those with leprosy. 71], have given a more detailed, and thus correct, statement in regard to entrance Here are a few of the blessings you receive: of Red China to the United Nations. Our students took the exact position • proven security with no worries or risks in June which our government took four months later. They did not take • interest rates up to 7.4% on your gift the position of "admitting Red China • liberal income tax savings into the United Nations." as was in- the joy that giving • comes from while living- ferred by the writer of the letter, MSM helping to wipe out the of leprosy. scourge Giving Us Black Eye? in the December, 1961. issue [page 8]. The students did call for the termina- Write today for further details tion of the House Un-American Activ- ities Committee, but requested "the role AMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS, INC. T-22 Since 1906 American Leprosy of investigation [be] referred back to Missions, a cooperative Protes- 297 Pork Ave. S., New York 10, N. Y. tant agency, has been provid- Please send me, without obligation, your booklet the Judiciary Committee of the House ing a medical, material and on the ALM Gift Annuity Plan. spiritual ministry to the world's of Representatives when needed." This leprosy sufferers. Working - latter constructive proposal for judicial through 48 mission boards and Name overseas cooperative commit- procedure you did not report. tees, ALM reaches more than Address- 100,000 men, women and chil- There were a great many other ac- dren in 260 treatment centers City -Zone. .State. in 33 countries. {Contintied on page 76) 10 Together / February 1962 Together NEWSLETTER MUCH AC COMPLISHED AT NEW DELHI. During its 18-day Third Assembly, the World Council of Churches: THIS GOOD TURN V Admitted to membership the 50-million-member BRINGS YOU MANY Russian Orthodox Church. HAPPY RETURNS! \/ Adopted a new basis for membership defining the WCC as a "fellowship of churches which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Savior according to Scriptures and therefore seek to fulfill together their common calling to the glory of the one God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit" (previous definition: "a fellowship of churches which accept our Lord Jesus Christ as God and Savior"). \/- Integrated the International Missionary Council into the World Council , thus uniting two main forces of world Protestantism. V Approved a unity plan calling for interlocking communities of churches which recognize one another and permit joint participation in Investing in on American Bible Communion. Society Annuity Agreement often gives V Appealed to all governments to make every effort you a longer as well as happier life to take "reasonable risks for peace." When you invest in an ordinary way you a for of cells V Endorsed call creation of get the usual interest and nothing more. Christian laymen and women in areas where the But when you buy an American Bible church has lost contact with the people. Society Annuity Agreement, you re- ceive many blessings— and so do others! V Called for condemnation of religious-liberty violations through "legal enactments or the Here's what you get: pressure of social customs." An immediate return—up to 7.4%, (For additional World Council news, see page 68.) depending on your age. O Great security all your life— and for EVACUATE MISSIONAR IES IN KATANGA. The Methodist a survivor as well, if desired. of Missions says about 50 of its 80 Board 3 A big gift deduction in income tax. missionaries have been evacuated from the Congo's 4 Annual income tax savings. embattled Katanga Province. All but two in The of Elisabethville were flown to Kitwe, Northern 2 happiness doing good for mankind by sharing in a vital, world- Rhodesia, just before a mob stoned the Methodist wide, Christian work. mission headquarters. Others were evacuated from ^ And often longer life as well, as an- Kolwezi, Jadotville, and the large rural mission nuitants usually live longer! station at Mulungwishi. To date no Methodist missionaries have been reported injured in the fighting between UN and Katangese troops. AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY 450 Park Avenue, New York 22, N. Y. RACE RELATIONS SUNDAY APPEAL. The National Council Please send without obligation, your booklet T-22 entitled "A Gift That Lives." of Churches has prepared a 1,000-word, nationwide n »'• call be made on Race Relations Sunday, Mrj. pulpit to NameQ Mi s , February 11. The call urges U.S. church members Address. to "support laws to further justice and freedom in the rights of full citizenship, education, City. employment, and residence." Zone_ .State. (More church news on page 68) February 1 962 \ Together 11 — - a Because I was nervous-a 'Grumpy Grandpa' my doctor started me on Postum." "My grandchildren made me realize how irritable and nervous I was. 'Gee, Grandpa's grumpy!' I heard them whispering. Was there something wrong with my nerves? "The doctor didn't think so. He asked if I'd been sleeping well. I hadn't. Then he asked if I'd been drink- ing lots of coffee. I had. It seems many people can't take the caffein in coffee and I'm one of them. Change r to Postum, the doctor advised. It's 100 ( caffein-free can't make you nervous or keep you awake. "Did my grandchildren notice the difference? They certainly did. When you sleep well, when you're not on edge, you have lots more patience. I'm sold on Postum — I like the way it makes me feel. You will too!" Postum is 100% coffee-free Another fine product of General Foods 12 Together / February 1962 J* Personal Testimony I Found God in America /m l/A'.S. THOMAS RAY .Is /o/J /o Frances Ellis Reared in Russia, Mrs. Ray now is a Texas farm wife. I WAS BORN in the Soviet Union, the child understood no English; Thomas and I conversed of communist parents and a product of the only in German. I only knew that I was to say atheistic dictatorship which has ruled Russia for "Yes" when the chaplain nodded to me. more than 40 years. When I came to America, When I arrived in America with Thomas in I often was asked if I believed in God. My 1947, I came into what seemed a new universe. questioners seemed shocked when I replied, "I It wasn't just the big cars, the bright lights, the don't know anything about God." They usually gadgets. My husband comes from a large family countered, "Well, what do you believe in?" A in a small Texas town, and we were welcomed truthful answer, considering my childhood and affectionately when we settled on a farm there. the years I had spent at slave labor in a German Everyone tried to help me enjoy my new concentration camp, would have been that I country, and soon we were even going to church. had no religious beliefs. The minister came often to talk with me about Before I came to this country I recall only the Christian faith. He suggested that I make three experiences in a Christian church. The my own approach to God in prayer. first, shocking as it sounds, was to help destroy My first faltering efforts were pleas that God a house of God. The memory is vivid, though would bring my mother to America. But I soon I was only seven at the time—a school child in was discouraged when all my attempts to send Artemovsk, a salt-mining city in the Ukraine. her money and packages were frustrated. I was One chill morning all of us in the school were hurt when her last letter asked me not to send marched about five miles to a church in a small anything else, but I knew she had made the village. There we were told to tear down pic- decision unwillingly. I received no more news tures, smash furniture, and carry books to make until a letter from my niece told me Mother was a big fire. The building meant nothing to us. dead. Groping for comfort in my new religion, The villagers stood with tears in their eyes, un- I studied the Bible and asked many questions. able to stop us as we destroyed their church. But it took several more years, and a more shat- Some years later, in a German concentration tering experience, before my faith matured. camp, I made friends with a young Belgian who When our first son came, he suffered a birth wanted me to share his deep religious convic- injury, and at 18 months he was not yet walking. tions. He said I could find help for my troubles "God help him!" I prayed, not realizing that if I went to church. His urgings aroused my what I wanted was a miracle. As he grew older, curiosity, and, when an opportunity came later, problems mounted, and my prayers were "Help I did creep into a sanctuary where a low voice us with this child!" When a second son was came through curtains to ask, "My child, are born, it became apparent the older boy had to you in trouble?" Terrified, I fled, convinced the have a new home. At last my prayer became: voice was that of my friend's God. "If this be your will, help us to accept it." The third time I entered a church was to I have come a long way since the day I helped marry my husband, Thomas, one of the Ameri- pillage that little village church. Christian faith can soldiers who had liberated our prison camp. meant nothing to me then. Now it is a part of The chaplain did not speak Russian, and I my life—a part I will never again be without. February 1 962 ^Together 13 : — Special Report on P repared from on-the-spot dispatches by missionaries and news correspondents, firsthand accounts by refugees, and other sources . . . by V. L. Nicholson, Associate Editor. /\NG0LA may seem to be only a small ripple ly against the government of a land in on a sea of trouble in Africa. But nowhere which it has missions. Previously, the else on the vast continent has the cry for U.S. government had supported United freedom evoked such a savage reply: unre- Nations resolutions urging Portugal to end lenting war, waged with a disregard for the violence in Angola and to take immedi- humanity which in barely a year of fighting ate steps toward granting its colonies has cost the lives of 40,000 Africans and self-rule. 1,500 Portuguese whites. Background Located just below the Con- Of special church concern is the possi- go on Africa' s west coast, Angola is nearly bility that Protestant missions will be twice the size of Texas and 14 times as big swept away. American Methodists and Brit- as Portugal. Fertile, rich in minerals, ish Baptists, two of the most active denom- and blessed with natural harbors, it is inations in Angola, have suffered crushing populated by 4 million Africans and 200, 000 blows. At least 21 Angolan Methodist pas- whites. Experts say it could support 40 tors have been killed, and— in just one of million people. the country's two Methodist areas—130 of The Portuguese settled Angola in 1482, 164 pastors and teachers are missing. ten years before Columbus discovered Amer- Of the 42 resident Methodist mission- ica. They consider it a part of the mother aries in Angola when the fighting began, country. No formal color bar exists , but the only 8 are known to be still at their posts. populace always has been legally divided Five, charged with aiding the nationalist into two "civilized" and "uncivilized" revolt, were arrested, taken to Portugal, classes. The "civilized" include all and jailed. [See News, page 69.] Efforts whites, Christian Arabs, some mulattoes, to wipe out all sources of opposition to and literate Africans who adopt European Portuguese colonial policies have re- ways. There are only 30,000 of the latter sulted in the destruction of Methodist mostly because of limited opportunity. churches and schools in northwest Angola. Fighting broke out in the port city of Appalled by this bloodshed, the execu- Luanda on February 3, 1961, when national- tive committee of the Methodist Board of ists tried to free political prisoners be- Missions issued a statement condemning ing held without trial. In swift re- Portuguese atrocities and calling for eco- prisals, hundreds of Africans died. nomic and social reforms. It is the first On the night of March 15, vengeful Afri- time this body ever has spoken out sharp- cans swooped down on isolated settlements 14 Together/ February 1962 " — —. and farms in the Sao Salvador area, kill- Malcolm McVoigh of Stanhope, N. J., Meth- ing 500 white men, women, and children. odist missionary since 1958. Unable to quell the uprising, the colonial "Africans aro forced to work on coffee government issued arms to all Portuguese and cotton plantations for as little as 10 whites, who hastily formed civilian de- cents a day," he said. "Then, if they fail fense groups. Thus began the reign of to fulfill arbitrary quotas, they arc which terror prevails today. beaten with palmat o rios [heavy, perforated Portugal now has 20,000 well-equipped wooden paddlesl . There is little educa- troops in Angola, according to military ob- tional opportunity and no political par- servers, but the terrain limits effective- ticipation by the people." ness. Nationalist bands strike swiftly, Mr. McVeigh also reported that thousands then lose themselves in giant elephant of Africans have disappeared in recent grass or dense jungle. months: "The jails are constantly being Congo officials report that 130,000 filled and emptied, but few prisoners ever Angolans—perhaps as many as 250,000 return to their families. Where are they have fled north into their country. The going? The rumor is that they are taken out refugees tell of atrocities: white set- at night, shot, and buried in mass graves." tlers hacked to pieces by marauding bands ; He said reprisals had been heaviest and the populaces of whole African villages against the 30,000 assimilated Angolans lined up, mowed down with machine guns, and "pastors, teachers, nurses, bulldozed into mass graves. function- aries, the more highly educated and trained Revol t Red-inspired? Portugal claims classes." Mr. McVeigh's views were sup- the rebels are armed by Communists and are ported by the Rev. David Grenfell, a Brit- being directed by red-tinged pro-Lumumba ish Baptist missionary to Angola for 28 forces in the Congo. It says their leader years, in a London Times interview. is Holden Roberto, a Baptist clerk in 1885 Leopoldville who heads the Union of Peoples Methodist work in Angola began in long of Angola. before dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar came to power 34 years ago. A year To counter outraged world opinion, Por- ago it included 292 churches served by 123 tugal is striving to restore its image in African pastors, and 125 schools with 140 the U.S. as a friendly, pro-Western power teachers and nearly 10,000 students. Now, and ally. A private banking and business many of the institutions are destroyed, and syndicate in Lisbon has raised more than most of the people who ran them gone. $1 million to "publicise Portugal's pol- icies and achievements in Angola and other Portuguese claims that Protestant mis- overseas territories," according to the sionaries helped stimulate the revolt con- May 17 New York Times. A well-known New York tain some truth. Protestant emphasis on public-relations firm now is on the job. equality, development of African leader- ship, and democratic church government Two articles in a major U. S. magazine undoubtedly did stir Angolan desires for last November pictured Portugal as an in- freedom and justice. nocent victim of communist conniving. One of the stories was written by an American Portugal is preponderantly Roman Catho- Negro, the other by a retired U.S. general lic. When Protestant missionaries were not who described the revolt as "an explosion harmed in recent raids, suspicious critics of tribalism and fetishism among people declared this proved conspiracy with the who have no inkling of what independence, rebels. Even the government has alleged nationhood, and the other such concepts that the missionaries were arming rebel advanced in their name mean." terrorists and planning acts of sabotage. Methodist missionaries long have known Stakes are high: If Portugal loses An- trouble was brewing. While conceding that gola, Mozambique—another colony across Communists may have sought to exploit the the African peninsula—may fall, too. This conflict, they say it is part of the nation- would disrupt the economy of the Portu- alistic phenomenon sweeping across all guese, already the poorest people in Africa. They also present a different pic- Europe. Some Portuguese say openly that ture of conditions in Angola. Prime Minister Salazar is tolerated only because he has been able to hold the shaky A tour of the country just before the re- empire together. If it crumbles, they add, volt began prompted Methodist Bishop Ralph Salazar might be toppled—possibly plung- E. Dodge to issue a report containing ing Portugal itself into a bloody internal these prophetic words: power struggle. "There are few colored or African law- For these reasons and because the pres- assimilados hold impor- — yers and doctors ; ent conflict has generated fierce emotions government depart- tant posts in one or two on both sides—no easy solution is in sight ments, and that is all. Schooling is still The once-bright hopes for a multiracial on left almost entirely to the missions, society in Angola are dulled. But all is a voluntary basis. The Protestant church not dark. The forces that brought civiliza- alone has educated more Africans than the tion to other lands still are at work in government. Angola. To succeed, however, they must be Forced labor: This still is employed by backed by the conscience of well-informed the Portuguese, according to the Rev. people in all lands. ?5 February 1 962 \ Together A great statesman tells of the fight to free his people from the chains of the past. MY CRUSADE AGAINST C^&tc By JAWAHARLAL NEHRU Prime Minister of India T.HE caste system is the mortal enemy of democracy, she does to all her children, in innumerable ways. Behind because democracy stands for equality for all. But India me lie, somewhere in the subconscious, racial memories is drowning in the pool of casteism. of a hundred, or whatever the number may be, genera- We have some three or four thousand marriage groups. tions of Brahmans. I cannot get rid of either that past A Tamil Brahman, for example, would not marry a inheritance or my recent acquisitions. They are both part Marathi Brahman; a Brahman who worships Vishnu of me, and though they help me in both the East and would not marry a Brahman who worships Shiva. This West, they also create in me a feeling of spiritual lone- accounts for there being so many groups—not just four liness not only in public activities, but in life itself. I am caste groups as some people may think. While more and a stranger and alien in the West. I cannot be of it. But more intercaste marriages are being reported, it will take in my own country also, sometimes, I have an exile's feel- several decades for the marriage aspect of caste to break ing. down even as much as has the occupational aspect. Social The change that is taking place before our eyes is due relations must change to bring about real democracy. essentially to basic economic changes which have shaken In politics, the caste system is also causing devastation. up the whole fabric of Indian society and are likely to Even those who talk of democracy from public platforms upset it completely. Conditions of life have changed and practice casteism in their private lives. Democracy in thought patterns are changing so much that it seems im- India will be a complete failure if this continues. possible for the caste system to endure. Internal quarrels can bring ruination to nations, how- What will take its place is more than I can say, for ever great. History tells us that India, which at one time something much more than the caste svstem is at stake. was the foremost country in the world spreading the The conflict is between two approaches to the problem gospel of peace, lost her freedom because the rancor of of social organization, which are diametrically opposite casteism disrupted her unity and solidarity, while other to each other: the old Hindu conception of the group nations marched forward. being the basic unit of organization, and the excessive Everyone in India should think of himself as an Indian individualism of the West emphasizing the individual first. We want to give equal opportunities to everyone above the group. to find his own level and help increase the strength of The caste system does not stand by itself: it is a part, the country. To have democracy, cohesion, and tolerance an integral part, of a much larger scheme of social or- of each other is essential. This is particularly important ganization. It may be possible to remove some of its in a country like India which has some inherent fis- obvious abuses and to lessen its rigidity and yet leave siparous tendencies. In social matters, because of caste the svstem intact. But that is highly unlikely, as the and its ofTshoots, India lacks cohesion. This is a dangerous social .\\M.\ economic forces ai play are not much con- development which has to be fought against. cerned with this superstructure; they arc attacking it at Looking back over the last 10 years. I'd frankly say the base and undermining the other supports which held that there have been occasions when I have felt very 11 up. Indeed, great parts ol these are already gone or arc despondent. All these provincial, caste, and linguistic rapidly going: and more and more the caste system is conflicts come in the way of planning and development left stranded by itself. It has ceased to be a question of and make one feel despondent. 1 have often felt dejected, whether we like caste or dislike it. Changes are taking seeing this disunity; and yet, looking at the face of a place in spite of our likes and dislikes. changing India, of a country going forward even though The structure of the tratlition.il Hindu society was making mistakes and stumbling, one does not feel de- based on three concepts: the autonomous-village com- spondent. munity, caste, ami the joint-family system. In all these I have become a queer mixture of the East and West, three, it is the group that counts; the individual has a out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. Perhaps my secondary place. thoughts and approach to life are more akin to what is In ancient days when the Indo-Aryan culture first took called Western than Eastern; but India clings to me, as shape, religion had to provide for the needs of men who 76 Together /February 1962 MMSI ^^^H ' Mr. Nehru's family has pioneered in breaking down India's caste and social barriers. His sister, Madame Pandit, was the first woman president of the United Nations General Assembly, and another sister, Krishna, is married to a non-Brahman Hindu. His widowed daughter Indira (above) married a Parsi (a person not of the Hindu faith). Mr. Nehru, now 72, joined Gandhi's civil disobedience movement in 1919 and became India's first prime minister in 1947. were as far removed from each other in civilization and Assimilation was attempted, but there was no denial or intellectual and spiritual development as it is possible to suppression. conceive. There were primitive forest dwellers, fetish- In a sense this may be compared to the numerous ists, totem worshipers, and believers in every kind of minority problems of today which afflict so many coun- superstition; and there were those who had attained tries and are still far from solution. The United States the highest flights of spiritual thought. While the highest of America solves its minority problems, more or less, forms of thought were pursued by some, they were by trying to make every citizen a 100 per cent American. wholly beyond the reach of many. It seeks to make everyone conform to a certain type. The Indo-Aryan approach was to avoid the forcible- Other countries with a longer and more complicated suppression of any belief or the destruction of any claim. past are not so favorably situated. Each group was left free to work out its ideals along The conception and practice of caste embodied the the plane of its mental development and understanding. aristocratic ideal and was opposed to democratic con- February 1962 \Together 17 1 ceptions. It has its strong sense of noblesse oblige, pro- vided people kept to their hereditary stations and did not We ivant our readers to meet our au- challenge the established order. India's success and achievement were on the whole confined to the upper thors, so ive asked Bishop J. Waskom classes; those lower down the scale had very few chances, Pickett to introduce Mr. Nehru. Noiv and their opportunities were strictly limited. retired, Bishop Pickett— ivho spent U6 But the ultimate weakness and failing of the caste years in India—tvrites as a friend.—Eds. system and the Indian social structure were that they degraded a mass of human beings and gave them no opportunities to get out of that condition—educationally, JVLR. NEHRU is a man of unlimited courage, massive culturally, or economically. That degradation brought ability, pure patriotism, and democratic spirit. deterioration all along the line, including in its scope His fearlessness has frightened both his colleagues and even the upper classes. It led to the petrification which to those assigned protect him. became a dominant feature of India's economy and life. Once, during the outburst that followed partition of India, In the context of society today, the caste system and he emerged from a store to find himself in the midst of a much that goes with it are wholly incompatible, reaction- mob of Hindus and Sikhs trying to kill a young Moslem. ary, restrictive—barriers to progress. There can be no Mr. Nehru was carrying a cane. The attackers had swords. equality of status and opportunity within its framework, Without a moment's hesitation, he started swinging. Recog- nor can there be political democracy less eco- nizing him and awed by his courage, the attackers desisted. and much nomic democracy. His massive ability makes him stand tall among contempo- Between these two conceptions con- raries. Only his close personal friend and political ally, flict is inherent and only one of them can survive. Mahatma Gandhi, has held a comparable position in the India must get rid of the exclusiveness in thought and esteem of the nation. social habit which has become like a prison to her, stunt- Few Indians have written so well or so voluminously. His ing her spirit and preventing growth. The idea of cere- written Autobiography and Discovery of India were while monial purity has erected barriers against social inter- a political prisoner of the British. Without the benefit of a course and narrowed the sphere of social action. The brain trust or even one ghost writer, he has produced in day-to-day religion of the orthodox Hindu is more con- English, Hindi, and Urdu a prodigious number of addresses cerned with what to eat and what not to eat, who to eat and articles. with, and who to avoid than with spiritual values. The Descendant of a long line of eminent public men who were of Kashmiri Brahman origin but domiciled for 200 rules and regulations of the kitchen dominate his life. years in Delhi and Agra, Jawaharlal Nehru inherited an ex- Caste is the symbol and embodiment of this exclusive- traordinary blend of cultures. In his days in England at ness among the Hindus. It is sometimes said that the Harrow, he was an avid reader, developing a strong fond- basic idea of caste might remain, but its subsequent ness for poetry. At Cambridge, he studied chemistry, geology, harmful ramifications should go; that it should not de- in then at returned to and botany. He read law London, 23 pend on birth but on merit. This approach is irrelevant take up the struggle for freedom. and merely confuses the issue. In the social organization Until my retirement from administrative duties in 1956, of today it has no place left. If merit is the only criterion I met the prime minister often and conferred with him on and opportunity is thrown open to everybody, then caste many issues. During the prolonged food crisis, for example, loses all its distinguishing features and, in fact, ends. I shared his mounting concern as it became evident that millions would starve unless food could be imported from Caste, in the past, has led not only to the suppression the U.S. While legislators in Washington debated, Com- of certain groups but to a separation of theoretical and munists denounced America and democracy. But Mr. Nehru scholastic learning from craftsmanship, and to a divorce was magnificent in faith and purpose. When the loan was of philosophy from actual life and its problems. It was an voted that made possible the purchase of 2 million tons of aristocratic approach based on traditionalism. This out- wheat, the party in India collapsed. Communist look has to change completely, for it is wholly opposed An aristocrat by heritage, Jawaharlal Nehru became a to modern conditions and the democratic ideal. democrat by conviction and practice. The only people against We must aim at equality: equal opportunities for all whom he is set inflexibly are those who would make Hindu- and no political, economic, or social barrier in the way ism a state religion, or otherwise deny equality betore the ol any individual or group. It means a realization of the law to all Indians. Among the able men he brought into his fact that the backwardness or degradation of any group cabinet was Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar, leader of a large section of untouchables who had vigorously opposed him and is not due to inherent failings in it. but principally to lack his party on several issues. of opportunities and long suppression by other groups. My first meeting with Mr. Nehru lights up the significance It should mean an understanding of the modern world of the article he has written lor readers of Together. It wherein real progress and advance have become very happened years ago when he was chairman of the Allahabad much a joint affair and a backward group pulls back city council. Christian An Indian friend had arranged for others. me to meet his hero at Mr. Nehru's home. were at We there Therefore, not only must equal opportunities be given seven o'clock in the evening—but Mr. Nehru arrived late. to all, but special opportunities for educational, economic, "You are Christians, so you will understand," he explained. and cultural growth must be given to backward groups "A street cleaner was cruelly beaten by high-caste Hindus. so as to enable them to catch up to those ahead of them. I had them arrested, took the injured man to a hospital, then to his homo." Any such attempt to open the doors of opportunity to Caste rules made the street cleaner an untouchable, but all in India will release enormous energy and ability and Mr. Nehru challenged them to treat him as a brother. transform the country with amazing speed. 18 Together /February 1962 — T couple mux see the pit jails, but forget that — In marriage- tremendous trifles count By HAZEN G. WERNER Bishop of the Ohio Area Chairman, General Committee on Family Life R,.EMEMBER the adage, "Take "Usually it isn't the big arguments, family. With this announcement be- care of the pennies, and the dollars or even physical blows, but the con- gan life's greatest family and the will take care of themselves"? I think stant hammering and chiseling in a Christian faith. The two belong to- this applies as well to marriage, thousand different ways . . . that sign gether. As Horace Bushnell said, "A where the "little things" also count. the lethal warrant of their union. It's house without a roof would scarcely Most marriage bonds are not broken a repetition of the ancient truth that be more indifferent than a family " on the rocks in a great storm; they 'dripping water wears away stones.' without religion." are worn away by the endless batter- Thanks be to God, there is a The family is as indispensable to ing of pebbles—sarcastic words, counter truth. Marriages flourish in God's work as sun and rain are to wanton irritations, petty acts of the presence of gracious and appre- growth, beauty, and the harvest. We vengeance, intentional slights and ciative words, thoughts, deeds and know the desolation that results from embarrassments, naggings and accu- actions. These richly fulfill the pledge years of drouth, and the certainty of sations. to "love, honor, and cherish" until decay, disease, and death without A divorce-court judge who had death dissolves the partnership. sunshine. So it is that where religion heard 100,000 divorce cases, wearily What are some of the "little and family do not work together, granting decrees in most of them, did things" that can make, instead of proper moral and spiritual growth succeed in salvaging a few. He was break, a marriage? are impossible. the late Judge Joseph Sabath of Let us begin with a look at the A cheerful, gracious atmosphere Chicago, who declared: home. Where a certain Christian genuine, not artificial—is developed "Nine out of 10 of these broken motto hangs on the wall and is em- in the home through the spirit the marriages are needless, and could bodied in the hearts of those who love of Christ incarnates in human have been saved if Christian love in- dwell there, this is a place that can hearts. Such an atmosphere does stead of satanic hate had ruled the withstand any temptation or weather more than any amount of lecturing, household. Impatience and fault- any storm. You may recognize it: scolding, or threatening to bring finding beget irritation, which in "Christ is the Head of this house, the children up as kindly, idealistic, use- turn foments bitterness; bitterness Unseen Guest at every meal, the ful persons. turns to hate, and hate to vengeance, Silent Listener to every conversa- How do we achieve it? By the persecution, cruelty, and finally tion. practice of biblical precepts—the in- marital death. Never have I seen such Surely the most important an- numerable little acts of thoughtful- vitriolic hatred as that which stems nouncement of all history, "unto us ness and courtesy which Jesus lived from what once was tender love. a child is born," had to do with a as well as taught. I can never forget February 1 962 \ Together 19 the simple yet graphic description oJ It is the oil of Christian love that you to know that today we are cele- the compassionate Christ as one who keeps the machine of marriage brating our 72nd wedding anniver- "went about doing good" (Acts 10: operating smoothly and silently. Into sary, and we are more in love than 38). His were endless little kind- that lubricant go mutual considera- the day when we each said / do. We nesses of word and deed. And how tion and thoughtfulness, unlimited have constantly sought God's guid- the people loved him for it! His spirit appreciation and praise, patience and ance and blessing and have en- carried over into the home is the understanding, tender words and deavored in countless little ways to one infallible means of bringing admiring looks, handclasps and make our marriage happy and family life to its highest level. caresses of warmth and affection. blessed. A small boy was always late get- A friend of mine, a veteran re- ' You may smile when you hear ting home from school, and parental porter, tells me ol being sent by his what I am going to say, but our scoldings seemed of no avail. One city editor to interview a couple magic fur inula is that we have un- day the father and mother empha- who had been married many years. failingly sought to be considerate sized the need for him to be home "I judged it was just another and kind, not only to ourselves but to " that day on time. He came in later golden wedding," this writer told all others. That plan always works.' than ever. This time there was no me, "so when I was introduced to "While I was there, I noticed scolding; just the routine of waiting them, I complimented them on their flowers and candy that John had for him and then sitting down. happy 50 years together. They looked brought to his Mary—throughout The lad sat between his father and at me and smiled. their long, long marriage he had un- " his mother. He looked at their 'You tell him, Mary,' " said 92- failingly given her little surprise plates, filled with meat and potatoes, year-old John with a boyish grin. tokens of affection. I also saw her vegetables, and preserves. Then he She smiled and nodded. make him a cup of tea, giving him " " looked at his own—it had only a slice 'Our golden wedding?' she said. a pat on the hand and a kiss as of bread, with a glass of water beside ' 'Why that was so long ago we have she set it before him." it. There was a silent moment; the all but forgotten it. It may surprise The right "little things" can be boy was plainly crushed in spirit. Suddenly the father took the boy's plate and put it in front of himself; then he took his own plate and placed it in front of his son with a loving smile. When that youngster became a man, he vividly remembered the in- cident. "All my life I've known what God is like by what my father did that night," he said. "He gave me the incentive to seek God and to do his will." There is an architecture of living about the Christian family that is entirely different. The Christian family lives in a way that expresses Christian hope, guidance, and love. It places all its life in harmony with the purpose and will of God. It lives by an intelligent and dedicated plan. That plan is reasonable and joy giving, because it holds to Christian values and assurances. The family lives by and for this Christian design. The coming of children does not automatically provide a permanent, sacred marriage bond. The hundreds oi thousands of divorces in which children are tragically involved prove that something far deeper than auto- matic parenthood is needed to make .1 Christian environment. Similarly, When Bishop Werner dedicated his booly. Christian Family Living. countless childless marriages prove to "Catherine, a Troubadour the Spirit," he referred to Mrs. Werner, sublimely happy because of a deep of his children. concerned with family life as a trust in God and the common aim mother of two Also ol husband and wile to live out their pastor, he again will guide Methodism's National Conference lives in his keeping and his service. on Family Life in Chicago next October 19 to 21. 20 Together /February 1962 — just as potent in preserving .1 mai riage as other little things are in de- stroying ii. H a wife is cagei to att< rid an evening show or concert, bui Finds her husband is exhausted Erom a hard day at tl\t- office, she dismisses the idea, and concentrates on a pleasant, relaxing evening at home. Or it the husband finds his wife distracted and tired from strenuous labors of the household, he may smile and suggest an evening out. This positive ap- proach to marriage can grow on one until courtesy and kindness become a natural part of the marriage relation- ship. A Methodist minister and his wife, who for years charmed all who knew Family-of-the-Year joy 1958: The James I. Detweilers of California. them with their thoughtfulness and consideration, practiced little adven- tures or surprises. They wrote loving notes to each other. These turned up We ask your help in finding under dinner plates, pillows, or on the dresser or dining room table. They gave inexpensive presents to each other, picturesque little dolls for The Methodist Family- her— she got quite a collection of them—and ties or initialed handker- chiefs for him. During World War II, a young husband parted from his pregnant of-the-Year wile. He wrote love letters to her one for each day of her three-day T HREE TIMES since 1951 a typical family has been designated journey home—and hid them in her Methodist Family-of-the-Year to represent the many families that sym- handbag. They became her treasured bolize the positive virtues of Christian living. Now Together is co- possessions for a lifetime. Not only ordinating the search for a new, 1962 Family-of-the-Year. The family did they ease the travel days for her, chosen will be announced in the November Together (out October 15), hut lor a long time afterward proved and brought to Chicago as the magazine's guests for the National Con- a halm of Gilead whenever she felt ference on Family Life October 19 to 21. discouraged or in need of reassurance. Selection of the 1962 Family-of-the-Year from nominations Surely the little things mean much by each and sometimes they mean every- Methodist district will be made by a national committee under the thing! chairmanship of Bishop Eugene M. Frank. Right now, however, your Little things not only make life local church is being asked to select an outstanding family for considera- run smoothly, they help to bring in tion by the district judging committee. You can help by telling your the of God. love note in kingdom A pastor or members of your church's official board which families you a handbag or suitcase when a trip is think best fulfill these qualifications: at hand; an unexpected telephone call just to say "I love you"—little things like these refresh marital af- fection. "A flower given to your wife QUALIFICATIONS: FAMILY-OF-THE-YEAR for no reason at all is worth a carload of Easter lilies," someone has said. 1. The family exemplifies inspiring Christian living in the home. And a husband sent off to work by a good breakfast, an ardent kiss from 2. Members of the family ore known as warm, good neighbors. his wife, and a "God bless you, dear" 3. The family takes a creative role in church and community life. goes with enthusiasm and confidence to his job. 4. The family applies Christian ethics in business or professional life. Surely God rejoices when he sees 5. The family shows concern for the welfare of the world outside the com- his children building happy, endur- munity, and appreciation for the Church's role in world affairs. ing marriages out of the thoughtful "little things" which are little at the 6. Members of the family are church members or are in church school. moment, but eternal in effect. February 1 962 \ Together 21 Out of nazi horror and inhumanity arose Europe's Antidote to EICHMANN By GEORGE KENT 1 HE UNIVERSAL revulsion created when the world learned how the Nazis killed 6 million Jews has an antidote. It is to be found in the decency and heroism of thousands of Europeans who risked death to save other Jews from Hitler. They were men and women from every country in Europe—French, Dutch, Danes, Norwegians, Belgians, Italians, Por- tuguese, and Germans, too—and these self-appointed protectors smuggled to safety or kept alive in their homes not less than 200,000 refugees from nazi persecution. This is the uplifting story of the few who could not stand idle while others suffered and died. In Berlin itself, 5,000 Jews lived to the end of the war, thanks entirely to such peo- ple. They were passed from home to home, from hiding place to hiding A Belgian countess cooked place, often 20 times. The figure is \osher food for the 100 Orthodox Jews astonishing. It means that here, in she hid from the Nazis. the city of the Gestapo, at least 50,000 Germans must have taken part in So many clergymen devoted them- Jews out of Yugoslavia into Italy. the rescue. selves with such good effect to saving The wife of a Belgian carpenter who Other parts of Europe did better. Jews that clerical garb became a uni- was already caring for 22 Jews Denmark, for example, saved prac- form highly suspected to the Gestapo. answered the door one day to find tically its entire Jewish population. In Paris alone, 49 were caught in an unhappy mother whose two chil- France saved about 50 per cent, the pro-Jewish and underground activi- dren had been taken by the Gestapo. Netherlands 20 per cent. Norway ties, arrested, and many of them shot. There was hardly an inch of space spirited thousands to safety. In Nice, The rescuers were all manner left in her home. But she took her a Protestant minister saved 100 or of people: farmers, businessmen, into her own bedroom and let her more adults by smuggling them into waiters, titled women, schoolteachers, share a bed with her own child. Italy and putting them on ships policemen and, of course, the clergv. Dr. Arist icier de Sousa Men- heading for North Africa. In Rome, Queen Elizabeth of Belgium fought der, the Portuguese consul at Bor- virtually in the shadow of the against the deportation of Jews from deaux, France, defied explicit orders Vatican, a Catholic priest established her country and saved many. The from his government and issued a printing plant for false passports, King of Denmark gave the smug- visas to all Jews who applied for fake ration cards, phony birth gling of Jews out of the country his them. In three 15-hour days, he certificates, each with authentic- blessing, and successfully restrained stamped 9,000 passports to enable appearing signatures, ancient stamps the Nazis during the carlv years of that many Fugitives to enter Portugal and yellowing papers—all for fugi- the occupation. from France. He also sheltered and tive Jews. This admirable priest A Belgian countess concealed more fed scores while they were waiting developed an efficient organization than 100 women and children. An for transportation, and then drove for smuggling Jews into Spain and Italian officer picked up a Jewish them to the railroad station in his Switzerland. He even got the Holy child in the street, took it home with own car. See to intercede with Franco to him where he and his parents cared One of the most successful strug- facilitate their passage across the tor it until the end o\ the war. An gles to save the Jews was carried out Spanish border. Italian Army officer smuggled 3,000 by the Danes. In rowboats, trawlers, 22 Together /February 1962 freighters, police laun< hes, lighthousi i i i< tend* s, mm canoes, the 1 >ancs i i ied to Swed< n 7,540 oul <>| .1 total )rw ish population ol .ilx >ui 8,000, \nmng the lead< rs oi this opi 1 a tion, sometimes called Little Pun l(irl(, were Copenhagen's doctors. The) filled theii hospitals with lugi- tives, giving them false names, hang ing Eeva charts on their beds, handling them in general as il they were patients, Others they stowed away in the nurses' quarters. When rescue ships were ready, they drove their "patients" in canvas-covered trucks out to lonely beaches, where they embarked lor freedom. Once, on a bleak stretch of sand, a doctor who had 150 Jews with him signaled the wrong ship. A blast ol gunfire answered him. It was a ( rerman coast guard patrol. Rushing his people to another beach, the doctor went aboard a The heroic Danes smuggled trawler and asked the skipper point- thousands by boat to Sweden in blank, "How much do you want for "Operation Little Dun^irk^." your boat?" The fisherman hesitated a minute, then named a price he thought possible—about $4,000. The doctor peeled off the bills and or- dered the man to take on the passen- gers. By nightfall, all were safe in Sweden. The doctors did not work alone. At least six other organizations sprang up overnight to help in the smuggling. One shopkeeper doing business directly opposite nazi quar- ters in Copenhagen became virtually a travel agent. Jews would come to him, tell him when they were ready to go, and he would arrange pas- sage—strictly for hatred of the Germans and love of Denmark. The Finns helped, too. No large Finnish merchant vessel left Danish waters without at least a half-dozen Jews stowed away in the bilges, en route to Sweden. One of the spectacular yet least- known stories concerns an extraor- dinary Dutchwoman, now 65, who actually crossed swords with Eich- mann personally in the course of rescuing about 13,000 from the Nazis. All heart, always ready to go to the A Dutch woman commandeered aid of anyone in need, she concealed a fleet of five buses, loaded the love she had for her fellow hu- them with children from man beings beneath a rough exterior. a Jewish orphanage, and put them Her greatest virtue was her capacity aboard a boat for England for slashing through rules and red before the invading Germans tape. reached Amsterdam. Truess Wijsmuller, a social worker February 1 962 ^Together 23 — —now a member of the Amsterdam finally for extra customs and im- a real fatherland. Most of them City Council—began rescuing Jews migration agents at the frontier. It made it, and today in Israel his mem- by accident. Driving idly one day in seemed an impossible task, especially ory is kept alive by a grove of trees 1938 on a wooded road close to the for a woman who had never been in planted in his name. Westerweel was German border, she espied a small Austria before. But Truess Wijsmul- not to see it. On his return to Hol- boy limping across the road. She ler, who in Amsterdam is described land the Gestapo put him to death. stopped the car and found his little as "the bulldozer," roared over all In Haarlem, the daughter of an body covered with welts where a obstacles. On Saturday, the train was old watchmaker—Corry ten Boom whip had left its mark. "They killed ready and the 600 children started set out to save the Jews. Her father my papa and mama, I saw it," he their journey. and sister helped. As a religious babbled. It was the first of a series of trains family, they felt it was their simple After taking the boy to a hospital, which took more than 10,000 chil- Christian duty. In their home, they she went back to the border the next dren out of Germany, Austria, and built secret rooms, accessible by day, this time looking sharp for Czechoslovakia to England. On one doors which only the initiate could fugitives. She found five little ones trip there were 100 babies under a discover. Within them dwelt always on the German side of the line. None year old. It is characteristic of the from 8 to 10 Jews. of them was visible when she drove Dutch that the porters at the Hook Aware of the danger of a sudden back through Dutch customs. Three of Holland ignored the passengers' raid by the Gestapo, Corry used to were under paper and rags in the suitcases and carried the babies in- drill her charges in getting quickly back of the car. Two tiny ones hud- stead. to cover the moment the doorbell dled under her wide bell skirt. The Dutch remember her most rang. She found they could do it in A month later, she was inspecting fondly for her exploit on the day 70 seconds. One day when she was in an orphanage burned down by Nazi their country surrendered—May 14. bed with a cold the Nazis arrived. hoodlums near Hamburg, and there, 1940. The jackboots were nearing They slapped her face and twisted in the snow, discovered 32 shivering, Amsterdam when Mrs. Wijsmuller her arm but, learning nothing, were terrified children. These, too, she got heard that there was a ship with about to leave. At that moment a safely into Holland by train. The steam up waiting in Ijmuiden for panic-stricken Jewish woman ap- immigration authorities at first re- clearance to England. Out of scat- peared at the door, babbling the secret fused to admit them, none of them tered garages, she quickly rounded of Corry ten Boom's work for the having passports, but when Mrs. up five buses and filled them with 80 Jews. The old man and his two Wijsmuller threatened to take up the children from a Jewish orphanage. daughters were sent to concentration matter with Princess (now Queen) As they rolled along, other Jews camps. The father and the older sis- Juliana, who was seated in the next clambered aboard, clinging to the ter died there. Corry came out and compartment, they were allowed to steps or lying flat on the roofs. By the established a home for former in- come in. time they reached the harbor, there mates of the camps. Her major job was given her when were 200 passengers. Small people, doing what they the British government decided to The ship's captain, fearing for his could. It is hard to comprehend their permit the entry of 10,000 Jewish vessel, was reluctant to take so many. heroism. Let a spiteful neighbor children. As a Protestant and as a "Take them," roared Mrs. Wijsmul- telephone the German police and the woman with the knack of getting ler, winking at the dockers who were result would be death or. at the very things done, she became the agent solidly on her side. "Take them or least, imprisonment. It is hard to for the Dutch committee charged you stay in Ijmuiden." No one was appreciate the discomfort they en- with assembling them. left behind. dured. Many of them lived in tiny Arriving in Vienna, she managed apartments, packed tight against one to wrangle an interview with another, with never a moment of Adolf Eichmann who was then M..RS. Wijsmuller has received privacy. War rations were at best supervising anti-Jewish activity. The German, French, and Dutch decora- meager, and these they shared with director made an appointment with tions, and her name has been in- their fugitives. him for her. Eichmann sat at his scribed in the Golden Book of the Of all the uncelebrated brave peo- desk, an enormous police dog at his Jewish National Front. These were ple, the bravest were the Germans, feet. He did not rise, he did not ask only material rewards. Such things for they performed their mercies un- her to sit down. She explained her do not interest her. She has gone der the very noses of the Himmlers mission. Turning back to his papers, ahead helping the distressed, raising and the Eichmanns. For example, Eichmann said, "On Saturday, you money for the Anne Frank Founda- there was the elderly Elisabeth can have 600 of them. You arrange tion, building hospitals in the Dutch Abegg in Berlin. She lived with her the transportation. If they get to West Indies. bedridden mother and ailing sister England and England takes them, One Dutch schoolteacher, Joop in an apartment house occupied by you can have the others." Westerweel, made a practice of guid- prominent party members. Yet she The proposal was diabolic. Satur- ing Jews into France. His last party found shelter in her own building day was only five days awav, and in was a group of 22 boys. When he left or in other homes for scores of fugi- this period she would be obliged to them, this devout Calvinist made the tives. She gave them ration cards, find places for the 600, arrange for youths promise they would try to go money, and cooked and served week- their feeding, for their escorts, and to Palestine to build for themselves ly luncheons in her small apartment. 24 Together /February 1962 — She also acted as schoolmistress to local officials ami to all the visiting 15 Jewish children who were barred SS officers, He Defied from ordinary schools. During air Once, when a train bound for it raids, she took her charges to the a concentration camp took 1-1 o! his basement shelter shared by nazi people, he raced down to the station officials. and made the guards open Up the the SS In Berlin, Dr. Franz Raullni.inn, train and let them go. a non-Jew, worked all day and most There was also the case ol the of the night nurturing his fugitives, train loaded with Jews bound lor passing them on to his friends when the gas ovens, which tor some reason ...and he had no more room in his own had been wandering about Poland home. Associates warned him, "You lor two weeks. Schindler managed must stop; it is dangerous." His only to get the cars open. Inside were Id reply was: "I know that sooner or dead. The others were skeletons, Lived! later I will be caught, but I have barely alive. The warmhearted in- Rcinold von taken my oath on the high altar and dustrialist forthwith established at Thadden 1 cannot stop helping the poor peo- his factory a clinic and arranged for ple." One day the predicted hap- three Jewish doctors. His wife drove 1 HE ORDER from the SS high pened. He was led out into a stony 200 miles to trade a case of vodka command was explicit: arrange the shot. for vitamins time, yard and and medicine. In execution of 30 Belgian hostages in all were restored to health. reprisal for the sabotage of a Ger- One of the most moving stories, man munitions convoy. Maj. M,.EN in German Army uniform also with Polish locale, concerns Dr. Reinold von Thadden, military did not forget their humanity. Once Alexander Mikolajkow, who lived governor of the Brusscls-Louvain dis- a detachment of privates helped carry with his wife in a three-story house trict, felt the sickening shock of despair. His whole spirit rebelled. 30 escaping Jewish children over a in Debica. In its attic, he hid 13 Jews But Major von Thadden knew river, all well aware of what they until the end of the war. The attic what the price of disobedience were doing. Equally remarkable was was so low no one could stand in it might be. A renowned scholar and the SS officer whose living quarters erect. There was no toilet, no way of a prewar pillar of European Prot- were directly above an center in washing. only light SS The came from estantism, he had been jailed by the Berlin. It speaks much for his pru- a foot-square skylight. Gestapo in 1937 for his outspoken dence that he was able to conceal a The doctor had a servant and a criticism of Hitler. Considered un- Jewish couple there until the end tenant, but for the two years the reliable, he had been pressed into of the war. And in Kattowitz, Upper fugitives lived there they knew noth- military service only when the war Silesia, the chief air warden carpen- ing of the concealment. Each mid- began to sap the Reich's manpower reserve. tered an empty barbershop with night the doctor and his wife would Yet Major von Thadden did dis- false walls, and there kept three Jews climb the ladder, remove the waste obey the SS order—and com- in safety. buckets, and leave food. pounded his defiance by arranging Anton Schmidt, a German soldier When at last Debica was liberated, the escape of Louvain University stationed in Wilno, Poland, repeated- the 13 and women stumbled men students slated for deportation to ly warned Jews of impending Ges- down from their hiding place, more Germany. tapo raids and personally escorted like beasts than human beings, blink- Somehow, in the chaos of defeat, Jewish laborers through the streets ing in the light, shaggy, haggard, the Nazis overlooked the rebellious to their homes, to make sure they filthy—but alive. The doctor, how- officer. The war, however, already would not be molested. He had three ever, was not there to welcome them. had exacted its toll. Three of Major von Thadden's five sons were houses under his command, all of- When the battle for the city was killed in battle, and his sister, Elisa- ficially the property of the German going on, he had hurried out with beth, was executed in 1944 for aiding Army, and in the cellar of each of his surgical kit to help the wounded. an anti-Nazi resistance group. them he hid Jews who were wanted A burst of shrapnel ended his life If the Nazis forgot the major, by the the very a to Gestapo. on day peace and chance the citizens of Louvain did not. In Oskar Schindler, owner of an en- rest had come to his city. 1947, they invited their "enemy amelware plant in Cracow, Poland, Such are the stories of the men commander" to be guest of honor under the German occupation, he and women who could not stand idle at a reception, where he was hailed gathered up every Jew he could find, while others suffered and died. You as "savior of the city." 1,200 altogether, put them to work can multiply their acts of humanity The major is better known today as Dr. von Thadden, founder of in his factory, and had them classi- by the thousands and take heart in Kirchentag, the annual German fied as essential war workers. He their spirit. Nowhere, in no other "day of churches" when throngs of bought their food on the black- period of history, has the ennobling Protestants assemble to worship to- market and paid enormous sums of quality of compassion for the misery gether. And the movement he be- bribe of others clearly money to the SS. As the war been more demon- gan has been described as the dragged on, bribes became a con- strated than in the humanity of the greatest awakening of the German siderable outlay, for he distributed simple men and women who suffered Protestant laity since the 1500s. tobacco and liquor and money to and died to help the Jews. —Robert G. Cram February 1962 \Together 25 MIDMONTH POWWOW Many ministers are alarmed by the fact that more and more funerals are being held in mortuary chapels. Even loyal church members now are asking . . . Where's the Funeral? funerals were held in the church, simply because there 'The chapel has was no other suitable place readily available for them. Why have our funeral customs changed : many advantages' There are many reasons. Almost every town now has at least one mortuary with a chapel. Generally, fewer people attend the services, and the services themselves Says Charles L. Allen have changed. Where they used to run for an hour, they Pastor, First Methodist Church, Houston, Tex. now last 20 minutes. More important, I believe we have developed a healthier, more Christian attitude toward death. In the WHERE SHALL the funeral be?" is a question shorter service, there is less morbid dwelling upon the which, in my experience, has answered itself. During 12 earthly remains of the deceased, and fewer vain attempts years as pastor of Grace Methodist Church in Atlanta, to recapture and perpetuate the past. Some people sin- Ga., I conducted more than 500 funeral services. I can cerely regard conspicuous emotional and oratorical dis- recall only four which were held in the church. plays as fitting tributes to the dead, but they often seem Nearly two years as pastor of First Methodist Church to be a denial of the belief in everlasting life. in Houston, Tex., has confirmed this experience. Of the As a pastor, 1 usually let the deceased's family decide approximately 16 funerals conducted each month by where the services will be, and I have no strong feelings staff ministers only a very few have been in the church. about whether this should be the church or the chapel. The people apparently have cast an overwhelming vote However, I have discovered that the chapel possesses in favor of the mortuary chapel. many advantages, not the least of which is convenience. This is, of course, a striking departure from the Churches often present forbidding steps, narrow aisles, past. As a boy I lived in small towns where a funeral and crowded foyers which make it difficult to carrj a was a community event. The body ot the deceased would coffin in and out. Chapels are built for easy access. lie in state at the home, where relatives and close friends Funeral homes also have private parlors where the bod) would gather and sit up all night. Quite often these were lies in state and the family can receive friends, and they very emotional occasions, as were many of the funeral usually are better equipped to cope with city traffic .\n On the day of the funeral, places of business—some- Another important consideration is expense. Church times even the schools—would close. Three or four min- funerals require extra services of the funeral director, and isters would participate in the services, and there would the additional costs naturally are added to the family's be several hymns, at least two prayers, long Scripture bill. readings, long talks, and the final parade past the open Since the funeral service is a worship service, main coffin. When it was over, the bereaved family was people believe it must be in the church. They feel that physically and emotionally exhausted. God's presence is more real and salvation somehow more On rare occasions, when an especially prominent or available in God's house. well-liked person died, services might be held in the high- 1 have found, however, that many chapels are as school auditorium to accommodate the crowd. But most worshipful in atmosphere as many of our churches, and 26 Together /February 1962 one feels God's presence no less there. Moreover, dog- matic Insistence upon church funerals encourages the 'Our presence in church idea that the church's ministry is confined to .1 specific building and has nothing to say to the world at large. is a declaration faith'' Although almost all funerals arc conducted by clergy- of men, many ministers condemn chapel funeral rites. In tluir belated concern over where the funeral should Declares Winthrop \\. Yinger he, they attempt to blame morticians lor sentimental, Castor, Bat it <(l,ilc Methodist Church, Fillmore, lavish, ami emotional services. As we have seen, the Calif. practices of open-casket viewing ol the body, emotional oratory, and huge floral displays did not originate in the funeral parlor. There is, in fact, much evidence that the growing T,HP. PURPOSE of the Christian funeral service is trend toward use of the mortuary chapel tor services be- threefold: to honor the dead; to comfort the bereaved, gan as a revolt against lavish, emotional church funerals. and to witness to Cod's sovereignty over both life and As to the beliei that a church funeral strengthens the death. Since Protestants believe that the funeral service- bereaved family's bonds with the church and makes the is primarily a service for the living, rather than the dead, sanctuary a storehouse of treasured memories, this is the third purpose far outweighs the first two. contrary to my experience. I would rather the family We can pay tribute to the deceased in a place other not be reminded ot its loss and of the funeral whin it than the church, and the living may find some comfort enters the church. I have even known some who would there, but we can make our most effective witness to not return to a church alter memorial rites for a loved God only in God's house. Our very presence in the one had been held there.— church at the time of death is a declaration of our faith Finally, the question "Where shall the funeral he?" in Him and in the reality of the Resurrection. —has been answered by the changing circumstances of Even the Christian's view of death is blurred by the time. In most instances, the mortuary chapel is the sorrow, mystery, and—free]uently—tragedy. Yet, we can answer because it is better suited to the purposes of the declare our belief that death's sting will be swallowed funeral service. A true Christian ministry can honor the up in victory. It is precisely at this point that the church dead, comfort the grief-stricken, and declare the faith has a unie]ue and explicit ministry. in victory over death through Christ in any physical The funeral service should be a time for rediscovering environment. It is the recognition and acceptance of joyfully that God is the redeeming father who loves us, God's sovereigntv which matters. the faithful shepherd who seeks the lost sheep, the for- What to Do When Death Comes J_ HE BEST time to make funeral ar- with your pastor. The wishes of the schools, hospitals, or worthy charities. rangements is before death comes, deceased, your own feelings, the num- 6. An autopsy should be encouraged when they may be discussed freely and ber of persons attending, expense, and if it promises to promote human wel- realistically. Preparedness can spare the type of service all may enter into fare. Other alternatives to consider in- both the emotions and the finances of this decision. clude cremation and donation of the the survivors. 3. Have the funeral as soon as is body to medical science. Although some The following suggestions for easing practicable. When relatives or friends people object to these practices, most the grief and prohlems which accom- are not delayed in arriving, it should Protestants look upon them as proper. pany the loss of a family memher were be within two days after the death. To 7. Return to normal routines as soon compiled from various Protestant avoid confusion and schedule conflicts, as possible. Attempts to perpetuate the sources: it is best not to have funerals on Sun- past—and deny reality—only prolong 1. Notify your pastor promptly. He day. grief. will provide solace and understanding 4. When possible, select the funeral Finally, of course, the Christian will and will gladly consult with the morti- elirector and burial site in advance. seek peace in his faith in victory over cian about details of the service. You Hasty, emotional decisions may result death through Christ. Most comforting may want to leave to him all details of in regret or hardships later. is the thought expressed in the last arranging for music, pallbearers, and 5. Decide beforehand on the type of words of John Wesley, Methodism's the order of worship. memorial gifts desired. You may want founder: 2. Consider beforehand where the to limit floral displays and advise "The best of all, God is with us." funeral services will be held. Consult friends to contribute to the church, —V. L. Nicholson February 1 962 \Together 27 — giving father who embraces the returning prodigal son. turies the promise of eternal life which enables us to But what is the witness of modern funeral customs? accept the fact of death, and to desert it for a busi- The editor of Theology Today recently wrote: ness establishment is—in effect—to question the validity Anthropologists have long recognized the clue to of its revelation. religions and cultures in the way people bury their dead. Since the funeral service is primarily a worship service, Need I elaborate on the conventional funeral in our it should be held in the place set aside for the public and country as an index of our faith? We dread and abhor private worship of our Creator. Though many funeral death. We train our morticians in the art of using powder chapels are indeed beautiful, they are lacking in Christian and rouge to make corpses look like grotesque parodies symbolism and worshipful settings. The businesslike of life. And then we even sweep the vestiges of "decent atmosphere and assembly-line haste may tempt the min- Christian burial" out of our churches and into the cozy ister to dismiss his obligations with brief meditations and comfort of a funeral parlor. poetry readings. Most funeral services are in funeral homes today, but The sorrowing family should be surrounded by the we should not blame morticians for this. The dedicated empty cross, the symbol of eternal life in Christ; the funeral director has a valuable ministry to perform, and altar, where people kneel before God to receive forgive- perhaps his chapels are the result of our neglect. The ness, and the Communion table, which reminds us that fact that we must ask, "Where's the funeral?" is a poor where he is, we may be also. commentary on our ministry and the relevance of the God's transforming power demands a fellowship of church in a time of need. believers which is to be found in the church. Here is the If the mortuary service is more convenient and less loving ministry of friends and local pastors devoted to expensive than the church funeral, we should take cor- the total life experience of the worshiping community. rective action. There should be no fee for the preacher, Gathered together, they declare that "whether we live or the organist, the ushers, the pallbearers, the use of the whether we die, we are the Lord's." building, or anything else. We must accept the loneliness When we sweep our funerals out of the church, we and sorrow of men freely and gladly, even as Christ did. surrender to sorrow, repudiate the element of victory If the morturary service is chosen in preference to the in death, and dispel the sustaining faith in the resurrec- church service, we are not properly performing our func- tion of life. When we turn our faces from God in sorrow, tion of worship and witness. The church has a mighty we question his love and the supreme sacrifice he made word to preach at the time of death, and it should fill for all of us. Death is a time for witnessing! the void created by the loss of a loved one—with the Nothing can replace the victory of the cross, the hope wondrous truth of everlasting life! of the Resurrection, or the love of God. which are fulh In the final analysis, I believe it is our Christian re- reaffirmed only in the church-worship service. In taking sponsibility and privilege to hold funeral services in the the funeral service back to the church, we can discover church. For the church has transmitted through the cen- a new and vital fellowship in the grace of God. How Much Should 'Decent Burial' Cost? U.S. FUNERAL costs have risen 42.4 most families ever incur, excepting a hearses, open-casket viewing in plush per cent in the last decade and are in- house or an automobile. "slumber rooms." huge floral displays, creasing at nearly twice the rate of A majority of the ministers ques- cosmetology, and luxurious coffins. living costs, according to a recent tioned in a recent survey said they To combat rising expenses, some 50 Saturday Evening Post article. The re- thought morticians exploited griet co-operative funeral societies have been port also includes the following facts prevailing upon the desire to "do what's organized in recent years. They bargain and figures on funeral expenses: right" and to provide "a decent burial" collectively for inexpensive services. The average funeral director's bill is —to sell people services which they do signing contracts which fix prices. $764, but total funeral costs—including not need and cannot afford. One group of San Franciscans ob- a cemetery lot, flowers, grave-digging, Funeral directors answer such charges tains tor its 5.000 members simple notices, and extra limousines—average by saying that they are only meeting funerals—including a redwood coffin. nearly twice that. public demand for services which use of a chapel, and transportation to The U.S. now has a yearly burial satisfy the "social and psychological the cemetery— for $150. bill of $2 billion, which exceeds the needs of the mourners." The whole problem obviously is amount we spend each year on getting The propriety ot modern funeral so loaded with emotion that there can well in hospitals. customs is debatable, but the reasons be no simple, all-inclusive solution. A funeral is the largest single expense for cost increases are clear-cut: Si 3.(100 —Wayne Caulstraxd 28 Together /February 1962 " Like Tennyson, she has learned that Knowledge Comes, BUT Wisdom Lingers / Together in the IzWTW^ Feature By GRACE M. \\ HITEHE ID .Y great-granddaughter, Eour- M- "The little jellow . . . persisted the toy dog year-old Linda, grabbed in trying to get his own way by from her two-year-old sister and refusing to get out of the bathtub. pushed her down on the sidewalk. It seemed the logical time to "Linda!" her mother exclaimed, initiate him to the meaning setting the baby on her feet. "What of a word dictated by is the word Grandma-Great gave you his own behavior." —vour very own word?" Linda looked quickly at me, her eyes welling with tears. "Thought- fulness," she whispered. "And what does it mean?" Again the pleading look at me. "To—to be kind." At the risk of being called "old fogy," let me—an 87-year-old former teacher—explain that Linda's word was an important ingredient in my recipe for imprinting such Christian virtues as consideration for others on the minds of my grandchildren and their children. If my method has met with success, I owe it to Francis Parker, under whom I taught school more than 60 years ago. A famous educator of that daw he frequently visited the various grades. As he entered the room, he would face the pupils and ask : "What is our big word, children?" The answer always came promptly and unanimously: "Responsibility!" Usually he would repeat the question for emphasis, and the youngsters would shout the word. He once said to me : "I repeat with Tennyson, 'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.' When my first grandson, Jimmy, was learning to talk, he delighted in being given words to pronounce. This became our favorite game when he cuddled in bed with me. I remembered Francis Parker and February 1 962 \ Together — — : his good old word, Responsibility. granddaughter appeared on my list, <7/te Jimmy did not have the slightest I pondered at some length the appro- conception of its meaning, but the priate word for this harum-scarum Wicked singsong of its six syllables caught his ball of fire who gobbled her food, fancy. Then and there I decided to demanded to be first, and always give him the word as a kind of raced outside without her sweater. present. As I explained the meaning, Eagerly she awaited her word—too we made quite a ceremony of it. eagerly. As I remember, she jumped "Sour godliness is the devil's religion" Not long afterward, I heard up and down demanding it. I made —JOHN WESLEY Jimmy's mother say: "Your coat and up my mind. She was a bit dashed mittens are on the floor. Remember at first, but finally reconciled herself your word, Jim." Already he was to Patience. Expecting a visit from the pastor the following week, the anxious beginning to see that his word was As grandchildren kept coming, I church-school teacher carefully re- related to his duties at home and at was glad I had kept my thesaurus hearsed her kindergartners for the kindergarten. handy. Consideration, Integrity, and big event. If the minister asked We all know that children like to Trustworthiness were appropriated somebody to tell him who made him, come to terms with life, even if they for numbers six, seven, and eight. little to stand and Johnny was up pretend willfulness and resistance If, like Eliza in My Fair Lady, the say, "God made me, Reverend," and, above all, that they like to be grandchildren became "sick of words. while the rest remained as quiet as admired. So his parents and I decided words, words." they never indicated mice. to employ this game, rather than it to me. As they grew older, I The next Sunday the pastor ar- wielding the big stick, as a means of reminded them of their dedication rived, and all went well until he promoting obedience. were from time to time. "Of course you'll asked the expected question, "Now, We at disasters pass," I would say to the one quaking can anyone tell me who made us?" amazed how many An uneasy silence fell. He repeated from sand-throwing to milk-splash- at the prospect of an exam. "Isn't the question. Still no answer. ing—were effectively reprimanded by your word Perseverance?" Or: "Con- Finally, a small girl raised her reminding Jimmy of his word. sideration means you drive Ellie to hand and said, "The boy that God Encouraged, I chose another word choir practice when it's raining, even made is home sick with measles." for the next grandson Co-operation. if you don't like her." —Ellen Carlson, Saint Paul, Minn. The little fellow was visiting me and Smiling, they pretended patient persisted in trying to get his own way indulgence with "funny old Gram." by refusing to get out of the bathtub. But I like to think that I have helped, On a special church-school occa- It seemed the logical time to initiate in a small way. to fix these precepts sion, teachers were taxed to find seat- him to the meaning of a word dic- in their minds and hearts. And I am for all the children. elderly ing An tated by his own behavior. I gave it back to the thesaurus again, finding woman helper, half pleased and half to him then and there, touching one words for my grandchildren's chil- bewildered, said, "I don't know moist shoulder and proclaiming loud- dren. where they all come from. Out of ly: "William Wallace, I hereby give Today I watch this newest genera- the ground, I guess." you your word." tion heedless little animals who A five-year-old heard her. Later, — with a solemn and puzzled look, he The solemnity of my pronounce- need as firm a guiding hand as did asked his teacher, "Hasn't anyone ment, like the White Queen dubbing their parents before them. But basi- ever told her?" a knight, took him off guard and cally they are good, healthy children, —Elizabeth Folwell, Carlisle, C. Pa. shocked him into obedience. He was imaginative and responsive, especial- all round eyed as he repeated after ly precious if they are yours, and I me: "co-op-a-tva-tion." do not worry about how they will We repeated it many times during turn out. Francis Parker's realization When T arrived at my new pastor- that visit. In fact, I began to wonder lingers" is ate, I found vacation church school that "wisdom borne out in session. I addressed one of the if I had chosen wisely. He reminded by the following letter from Jimmy, teachers, introducing myself as me, as I made a pie, that co-operation who a year later became father of "your new pastor." She blushed a should give him the privilege of help- Linda little and told me who she was: the ing—by gobbling up the sugared wife of the Baptist minister, teach- cherries. Years later, his childish ex- Dear Gram: ing in the combined Methodist- uberance replaced by thoughtful Tomorrow I'm to be married. Baptist sessions. amusement, he wrote from an Army I want you to know that at this —Rev. Charles Woodson, Chiba-shi, Japan post in Germany: moment more than ever before "Dear Gram: The company cook I'm thinking of my word. It will take a new meaning, because must have learned from you about Bettv will share it with me. By my word, Co-operation; hardly a J. Wesley said he enjoyed "innocent giving it to me, dear Gram, over cherry in the pie . . . but he's a good mirth." This column continues the 22 years ago, you exemplified don't Westcyan tradition. Why not add guy; we squawk." your faith in me to meet Respon- your favorite? We pay $5 for each Grandson number three became sibility. one we print. But no stamps, please; heir to Dependability . number four Ever your loving grandson, we can't return contributions.—Eds. to Perseverance. When the first Jimmy. 30 Together /February 1962 THE CHARLES WESLEY AWARD Announcing: A Winner PRAYER FOR FAMILIES M USIC AND METHODISM have been in- separably linked ever since the time ol Charles Wes- ley, brother ol Methodism's founder, who wrote Dear Savior, let Thy gracious peace more than 6,500 hymns. In his honor, Together is Our homes and Earn 'lies bless; conducting the Charles Wesley Award for a new hymn in co-operation with the General Committee on Let love akin to Thine increase. Family Life. Last May, poets were invited to write That bonds of tenderness ne'er cease new words on the theme of Christian Family Life, using the meter of any hymn from The Methodist Throughout life's weary stress. Hymnal. More than 800 entries were submitted. We now take pride in announcing the $100 first-place winner: Lois Stanley of Huntington, W.Va. May all that's joyful, all that's pain Miss Stanley has been an active member of High- Be shared and brought to Thee. lawn Methodist Church in Huntington since its founding in 1916, and has directed the junior choir. In Thy deep crucible we gain Her Prayer for Families (left) was selected by our New life, new sight, and leave the bane, judges: Dr. Bliss Wiant, former director of music, From sin and sorrow free. Methodist Board of Education; Dr. William C. Rice, music department head at Baker University, Baldwin, Kans., and the Rev. Leon Smith, worship committee Together work, together grow, chairman, General Committee on Family Life. Runner-up was Grace T. Beckwith of Buenos Aires, All childlike in our need; Argentina, who receives $50. Honorable mentions May all the years Thou dost bestow go to Beulah Mason Mackay, Atlanta, Ga.; Jean Hogan Dudley, San Miguel, Calif.; Edna A. Graham, Confirm and strengthen all we know Hanover, 111.; Miriam Drury, San Rafael, Calif.; and Of peace and joy in Thee. Vesta Towner, Kansas City, Mo. Bepmmn $wst for Music NOW, to complete the creation of a new hymn, we PLEASE OBSERVE THESE RULES invite composers to set Lois Stanley's Prayer for Fam- 1 Regular stave-ruled music paper must be used. ilies to music. If possible, harmonize your melody 2 All writing must be in ink or typewritten. into four parts—although this is not a requirement, 3 Words or syllables must be written directly beneath their and only melodies will be judged. Again, cash awards related notes. of $100 and $50 will go to the two top entrants, 4 Clef, key signature, notes, and accidentals must be correctly with five additional honorable mentions. indicated. The winning combination of words and music will be published in Together and premiered at 5 The deadline for submitting music is May 15, 1962. the Methodist National Conference on Family Life 6 Winning entries become the property of TOGETHER; others to be held October 19 to 21, 1962, in Chicago. remain the writer's property. Send all entries to MUSIC EDITOR, Together BOX 423, ?ar\ Ridge, Illinois 31 February 1 962 \ Together OUTPOST EDITOR. From Alaska's mighty Yukon River north to "the top of the world," freedom of the press is the business of a hardy Methodist. A Nome native whose parents were turn-of-the-cen- tury Alaskan gold seekers, Emily Polet Boucher has been owner-editor of the tri- weekly Nome Nugget for 18 years. The paper, founded when Nome was a tent city of 40,000 miners, now serves a Texas- sized area of forbidding wilderness. In some isolated Eskimo villages, all readers share one subscription—and Mrs. Boucher has been known to accept a 50-pound salmon in payment. Outside her office, the Nugget editor has many extrajournalistic jobs. At Commu- nity Methodist Church [see Minister at Home—in Nome, October, 1961, page 60], Mrs. Boucher is a church-school teacher and assistant organist. She also is Nome's part-time librarian, notary public, and New York^ Times correspondent. Unusual NOME NEWSWOMAN. Freedom of the press 150 miles from Siberia. HIGH-POINT MAN. The record books have not been the same since Terry Dischinger started playing basketball. First at Gar- field High School in Terre Haute, Ind., then at Purdue Univer- sity, the six-foot, seven-inch Hoosier has broken (and rebroken) almost every record in sight. A Purdue senior this year, he is trying for his third straight season as Big Ten Conference top scorer. Among his trophies: a gold medal for his part in the U.S. basketball team's victory at the 1960 Olympic Games. No slouch in the classroom, either, Terry is pursuing a demand- ing chemical-engineering course. A former MYF president, he gave serious thought to making the ministry his lifework and rarely misses Sunday worship at home in Terre Haute (Maple Avenue Church) or on his frequent travels. The Ail-American center's most enthusiastic hometown fans, of course, are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Donas Dischinger, and his two sisters. NET SWISHER. With 405 points in 14 Big Ten games, Terry was the conference's top scorer of 1960-61. 32 RISING STAR. No one remembers when G Bumbry started to sing. The Bumbrys are .1 singing family, and little Grace Ann weni to choii practice along with hei parents and two older brothers even before she was old < nough to join the youth < hoii . Ai 12, she was singing worship-service solos ai their church, Union Memorial Methodist in St. Louis. "1 I< 1 voice was phenomenal from the beginning," her high school music teacher recalls. At 17, she won a local talent contest and an ap pearance on the Arthur Godfrey Talent Seoul show. Resulting scholarships helped Grace enroll at Method ist-relatcd Boston and Northwestern universities and at the Music Academy oi the West in Santa Barbara, Calif. Other awards financed further study with the Vienna and Paris Opera companies. On her operatic debut in Paris as Amneris in Verdi's Aida, one critic called Grace's performance "her first step—or rather leap—in a far-reaching international career." The words were prophetic. Last summer, the 25-year-old mezzo-soprano—the first Negro ever to appear in the Wagner Festival of Bayreuth, Germany—won critical acclaim. A few weeks later she signed a five-year, $250,000 contract with impresario Sol Hurok for opera, concert, recording, and television engagements in the U.S. and Canada. Her parents, of course, are delighted. One reason: Grace may be able to visit home more often than during her years of study in Europe. WAGNERIAN VENUS. Starving in Wagner's Tannhauser, Miss Bumbry won raves and respect in Germany. TWO-JOB MAN. Mr. Bartell is equally at home counseling Merc\ employes or (below) MYF members. Methodists PASTOR-EXECUTIVE. Five days a week, Ernest C. Bartell of Westfield, N.J., is manager of personnel development and training for Merck & Co., Inc., in nearby Rahwav. Seven days a week, however, he is the Rev. Ernest C. Bartell, pastor of 137-member Finesville Methodist Church, 52 miles across the state. Other churches, of course, are served by men who have weekday jobs in secular fields, hut few such men enter the ministry after so many years of conspicuous success in the business world. An active churchman all his life, Mr. Bartell trans- Eerred into Methodism at First Church, Westfield in 1953. There he learned of the opportunity for older men to enter Methodist pastoral service while continu- ing in other jobs. After four years of correspondence study through Emory Univerity's Candler School of Theology, the drug-company executive—then 54—was C ordained and appointed to Finesville in 1 )5S. Proudest spectators: his wife, Madeliene, and daughter, Shirley. February 1 962 \ Together 33 He trusted the hearts of men to save a boy's life. The Counsel Assigned By MARY RAYMOND SHIPMA1S ANDREWS T HE CHAIRMAN of the county date, unnoticed, stepped inside and The judge looked for a moment committee stopped at the open door sat in the last row of seats. at the loose-hung, towering figure. of the office. The nominee for Con- It was a crude interior of white "What is your name?" he asked. gress was deep in a letter. The chair- walls, of unpainted woodwork, and The man answered quietly: man, waiting, regarded at leisure the wooden benches. The newcomer "Abraham Lincoln." face frowning over the paper. It was glanced about as if familiar with "I know your name, Mr. Lincoln; like a mountain cliff—rocky, im- such a setting. A larceny case was I shall be glad to assign you to de- pregnable, lonely and grim, yet love- being tried. He listened closely and fend the prisoner," the judge an- ly with gentle things that bloom. seemed to study lawyers and judge; swered. The candidate folded the letter and he missed no word of the comments The jury was drawn. Man after swung about in his chair. "Sorry to of the people near him. The case man came under the scrutiny of keep you waiting, Tom. I was trying being ended, the district attorney Lincoln's deep eyes; but he chal- to figure out how a man can be in rose and moved the trial of John lenged no one. The hard-faced audi- two places at once. It looks as if I Wilson for murder. ence began to glance at him impa- can't make the speech here Friday." There was a stir through the court- tiently. The feeling was against the "Can't make . . . your speech! You room. In the doorway appeared the prisoner, yet they wished to see some must be joking." sheriff leading a childish figure, a fight made for him. The man in the chair shook his boy of 15, dressed in poor, home- The district attorney opened the head. "Not a bit of it." He got up made clothes, with a conspicuous case for the People. He told with few and began to stride about the room bright head of golden hair. He was words the story of the murder. The with long, lounging steps. The chair- pale, desperately frightened; his eyes prisoner had worked on the farm of man excitedly flung remonstrances gazed on the floor. The judge, a one Amos Berry the autumn before, after him. young man, faced the criminal, in 1845. On this farm was an Irish- "Cartwright might beat us yet you paused pityingly, then steadied him- man, Shaughnessy by name. He know; it won't do to waste a chance self. amused himself by worrying the boy. —election's too near." "Have you a lawyer?" he asked. and the boy came to hate him. On The large figure stopped short, The lad shook his unkempt yellow the 28th of October the boy was and a queer smile twisted the big head. "No. I dunno anybody. I hain't driving a wagonload of hay to the mouth and shone in the keen, vision- got money to pay." next farm. At the barnyard gate he ary eyes. "Do you wish the court to assign met Shaughnessy with Berry and "I can't tell you why, Tom," he you counsel?" In the stillness a boot two other men. The boy asked Berry said, "and I'd rather not be asked, scraped the floor. The man in the to open the gate, and Berry was but I can't make that speech here back seat rose, slouched forward, about to do so when Shaughnessv Friday." And the issue was ended. stood before the judge. spoke. He said the boy was lazy and Friday morning at daybreak the "May it please Your Honor," he should get down and open the gate candidate's tall figure stepped said, "I am a lawyer. I should be himself. The Irishman caught the through the silent streets of the glad to act as counsel for the de- pitchfork which the lad held, western city before the earliest risers fense." pricked him with it. and ordered him were about. Traveling afoot, lie swung along into the open country, moving rapidly and with tireless READER'S CHOICE . . . America's veneration of its 16th president is beauti- ease. Nine o'clock found him in a fully reaffirmed by this story of Mr. Lincoln's selflessness. Mrs. W. B. Dehn, straggling town, 20 miles from his Summerfield, Fla., first nominated it and receives our Reader's Choice $25 starting point. award. This condensation of The Counsel Assigned, from the book of the The courthouse door stood wide to in Digest is reprinted the summer morning. Court was al- same name, appeared The Reader's (October, 1939) and ready in session, and the place was with permission of The Digest and of Charles Scribner's Sons. (Copyright 1912 crowded. The Congressional candi- Charles Scribner's Sons; renewal copyright 1940 Paul Shipman Andrews.) 34 Together/ February 1962 " to get down. The lad sprang Eoi w ard and, snatching the back ol the pitch- fork, flew at the Irishman—running one ot the prongs into his skull. The man died in an hour. This was the story. By now it was the dinner houi twelve o'clock. The court adjourned and the judge and lawyers went across the street to the tavern. One lawyer was missing. Nobody noticed the big man as he passed down the shady street with a little, laded woman in shabby clothes who had sat in a dark corner ol the courtroom crying silently. "That's the prisoner's mother," a woman whispered when the court opened again and the defendant's lawyer seated her carefully before he went forward to his place. The district attorney called and examined eyewitnesses who testified to the details of the crime. There appeared to be no doubt of the criminal's guilt. The lad sat huddled, colorless from his months in jail, sunk in apathy—a murderer at 15. The afternoon wore on. The dis- trict attorney's nasal voice rose and tell examining witnesses. But the big lawyer sitting there did not make one objection even to statements very ". . . Abraham Lincoln stalled slowly up through the silent benches, lie laid damaging to his client. He scruti- prisoner's thin shoulder, and the lad started nized the judge and the jury; one- a big hand on the great height. 'Don't be scared, Sonny,' might have said that he was studying nervously. Lincoln bent from his the character of each man. At length he said, quietly . . . 'I'm going to pull you out of this hole. the district attorney said: "The Peo- Try to be plucky for your mother's sa\e.' ple rest," and court adjourned for supper. word. "I'm going to pull you out ot room. The voice, rasping, unpleasant It was commonly said that the boy this hole. Try to be plucky for your at first, went on: was doomed; no lawyer, even a mother's sake." "You, Jim Beck—you, Jack Arm- "smart" one, could get him off after The boy glanced over at the shab- strong—." The stranger's huge such testimony, and the current by woman, and when she met his knotted forefinger singled out two opinion was that the big hulking fel- look with a difficult smile, he tried in the jury. low could not be a good lawyer, or to smile back. The audience saw the "You two can remember—yes, and he would have put a spoke in the effort of each for the other; the judge you as well, Luke Green—15 years wheel for his client before this. Senti- saw it —and the jury. Lincoln's keen back, in 1831, when a long, lank fel- ment favored condemnation; to have eyes, watching ever under the heavy low in God-forsaken clothes came killed a man at 15 showed depravity brows, caught a spasm of pity in into this country from Indiana. His which was best put out of the way. more than one face. He took off his appearance, I dare to say, was so strik- Court reopened at 7:30. Not a coat and folded it on the back of his ing that those who saw him haven't seat was empty. The small woman in chair and stood in his shirt sleeves. forgotten him. He was dressed in her worn calico dress sat close to "Gentlemen of the jury," began homespun jeans, with breeches the bar this time, near her son. The Abraham Lincoln, "I am going to stuffed into rawhide boots. Gentle- judge entered. And then Abraham try this case in a manner not cus- men of the jurv, I think some of Lincoln stalked slowly up through tomary in courts. I shall not call you will remember that young man. the silent benches. He laid a big witnesses; the little prisoner over His name was Abraham Lincoln." I hand on the prisoner's thin shoulder, there is all the witness want. I . The gaunt speaker paused and and the lad started nervously. Lin- shall not argue. All I'm going to do pushed up his sleeves a bit, and the coln bent from his great height. is tell you a story, and then leave jurymen saw the hairy wrists and "Don't be scared, sonny," he said the case in your hands." the muscles of hand and forearm. quietly, yet everyone heard every There was a stir through the court- Yes, some of them remembered the February 1 962 \ Together 35 — — young giant who had been champion a pocket and brought out a letter. glance swept the jury "to give in everything that meant physical "The young man who had come him that safety. strength. They sat tense. under so large a weight of obligation "Gentlemen of the jury, I said "The better part of a man's life prospered in later life. By good for- when I began that I should try this consists of his friendships," the tune, by the blessing of God, he case in a manner not customary. 1 strong voice went on, and the eyes made for himself a certain place in said I had no argument to set be- softened as if looking back over a the community. As much as might fore you. I have told the story: you long road traveled. "There are good be, he has—/ have—kept in touch know that at an age when this boy's friends to be found in these parts; with those old friends. But in the hands should have held schoolbooks that young fellow in blue jeans had stress of a very busy life I have not or fishing rod, they held the man's a few. It is about a family which of late years heard from them. Till tool which was his undoing; you to this" know the child was goaded befriended him that I am going last Monday morning— —he how by tell you. held up the letter "this came to a grown man till in desperation he me in Springfield. used that tool at hand. You know "It is a letter from the mother who these things as well as I do. All I ask "T HE boy Abraham Lincoln left welcomed a tired youth to her hum- is that you deal with the little fellow home at 22 to shift for himself. In ble cabin. Her husband died years as you would have other men deal those pinching times he could not ago, the two older children followed in such a case with little fellows of always get work. Late one fall after- him. The mother who sang to her your own at home. I trust his life to noon, when he had walked miles baby that afternoon"—he swept that test. Gentlemen of the jury, I looking for work, he heard an ax about and pointed to the meek, small rest my case." ring and came upon a cabin. It was woman shrinking on the front seat A little later the jury filed out and a poor cabin even as settlers' cabins —"the mother is there." crossed to a room in the hotel op- go. There was cloth over the win- The arm dropped; his luminous posite. Half an hour passed; then dows instead of glass; there was only eyes shone on the boy criminal's there was a bustle, and people who one room, and a loft above. Abra- drooping golden head; in the court- had left the courtroom crowded ham strode up to the cabin hopefully room there was no one who did not back. The worn, small woman in the and asked for shelter." Again the hear each low syllable of the sen- front row clasped her hands tightly voice paused and a smile flashed in tence which followed. together. The jury filed in. pleasant memory. "The baby is the prisoner at the "Gentlemen of the jurv." the "Gentlemen of the jury, no king bar." clerk's voice spoke monotonouslv. " ever met with a finer welcome. In the hot, crowded place one "have you agreed upon a verdict : Everything he had, the owner of that caught a gasp; one heard a woman's "We have." the foreman answered. cabin told Abraham, was his. The dress rustle, and a man clear his "What is your verdict, guilty or man brought the tired boy inside. throat. Then silence, and the counsel not guilty?" Two small children played on the for the defense let it do his work. For a second, perhaps, no one floor, and a little woman was singing At the crucial moment the frayed breathed in all that packed mass. the baby to sleep by the fire. The ends of the nerves of the audience The small woman stared palely at visitor climbed up a ladder to the loft were gathered up as the driver of a the foreman; every eye watched after supper. four-in-hand gathers up the reins him. Only the boy, sitting with his "Next morning, when he had done of his fractious horses. The voice of golden head bowed, seemed not to a few chores to help, he asked if the defendant's lawyer sounded over listen. there were jobs to be got. The man the throng. said yes; if he could chop and split "Many times," he spoke as if re- rails, there was enough to do. flecting aloud, "many times I have "N OT guilty." said the foreman. "Do you like to work?' the remembered those weeks of unfail- With that there was pande- woodsman asked. ing kindness from those poor people, monium. Men shouted, stamped. "Abraham had to tell him that he and have prayed God to give me a waved, tossed up dieir hats; women wasn't a hand to pitch into work chance to show my gratefulness. sobbed; one or two screamed with like killing snakes, but yet—well, the When the letter came last Monday wild joy. Abraham Lincoln saw the outcome of it was that he stayed and calling for help, I knew that God slim body of the prisoner fall for- proved he could do a man's job. had answered. ward; with two strides he had caught "For five weeks Abraham lived in "An answer to prayer comes some- him up in his great arm and passed the cabin. He chopped with the times with a demand for sacrifice. him across the bar into the arms ol lather, did housework with the It was so. The culminating moment the woman who rocked him, kissed mother, and romped with Sonny, of years of ambition for me was to him. The whole room surged toward the golden-haired laughing baby, have been tonight. I was to have her: hut Lincoln stood guard ami many a time. No part of his life has made tonight a speech which bore, pushed off the crowd. ever been more lighthearted or hap- it is likely, success or failure in a "The boy's fainted." he said loud- pier." contest. I lay that ambition—that ly. "Give him air." And then, with The lawyer picked up his coat failure, if the event so prove it a smile: "She's got her babv—it's and, while every eye in the court- gladly on the altar of this boy's all right, friends. But somebody room watched him, he fumbled in safety. It is for you"—his strong brinsi a drink of water for Sonnv." 36 Together /February 1962 1j** *4F»-. sp* mstim * Contrasting with the brilliance of stained glass, ashen flowers and foliage create a somber worship mood. Flowers for the; Qhurqh Year Hsh Wednesda across the country have co-operated with Together to create y these pages of poetry-in-pictures. The display above, for example, shows how sage from the SINCE OLD TESTAMENT times, devout people have used nearby desert was mingled with lilies of the valley, pussy flowers to adorn places where they worship. Gradually, par- willows, and euphorbia to create a starkly beautiful Ash ticular flowers have become associated with certain seasons Wednesday bouquet at First Church, Reno, Nev. Soft green- and holy days. To show how these bits of beauty enhance gray tones and black sackcloth recall traditions of penitence seasonal worship settings, representative Methodist churches and grief associated with Lent's beginning. February 1 962 \Together 37 . I^ent . . VIOLET, with its connotations of sacrifice, passion, and sor- standing dramatically in its crude wooden container. row, is the liturgical color for solemn religious occasions, This arrangement, like others in the series, was suggested notably the 40 days of Lent. In some churches the use of by L. J. Tolle, instructor of floriculture in the department of flowers is restricted during this season, but Methodists typi- horticulture at Michigan State University. Mr. Tolle gave cally glory in a devout floral display. this explanation of the symbolism in the bouquet pictured on In the symbolic arrangement below, a cross of coarse fern this page: "In violet tones, the flowers of Lent speak of roots is ringed by a circlet of Christ's-thorn, the spiny shrub penitence in response to the holy sacrifice of Christ. The which many think was used by Christ's tormentors for his cruel crown and five bleeding roses portray his wounds, with crown of thorns. Stalks of purple and lavender stock, red the three matched orchids depicting the precious, costly roses, Cattleya orchids, and palm fronds surround the cross hours of agony he spent on the cross!' (See Matthew 28:45.) Worshipers at University Methodist Church, Austin, Tex., \neel before a cross and flowers in the colors of mourning. f^i'V^ *w \?-" > 2*U Palm Sunday... PALM FRONDS, symbols of victory and acclaim, tradition kingship— majestit, powerful, and victorious, yet humble, ally bank church altars on Palm Sunday, recapturing the meek, and sacrificing!' The star, cul from ityroroam, is dec- hosannas at Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem at the orated with petals ot cushion pompon chrysanthemums. start of Passion Week. Representing the star ot David, it suggests the royal lineage Here, gracefully trimmed branches ot the cycad are ot Jesus. blended with palm hearts, lily-ot-the-valley blooms and foli- Although Palm Sunday itself is a day of triumph, it fore- age, and a crown of Christ's-thorn tor a Palm Sunday ar- shadows the tragic victory ot the cross, so restraint is recom- rangement. As Mr. Tolle explains: "The crown of thorns, mended in the floral decoration of any church. Where palms symbolic of our Lord as King Kternal, is sharply contrasted are not available, olive branches or sprouting willows also by the humble lily of the valley, telling the paradox of his are considered appropriate for decorating altars on this day. Carolers Choir members file past the Palm Sunday bouquet at Gretna Methodist Church, Gretna, La. 11 /'«. I *$* > N m . . * faster . . Pentecost NO FLOWER is more completely identified with any one THE CELEBRATION of Pentecost, or Whitsuntide, 50 days season than is the lily with Easter. Its flaring white trumpets after Easter offers rich opportunities for symbolism in floral are an almost universal symbol for the joyous news of decoration. To portray the biblical account (Acts 2:1-4), bril- Christ's Resurrection. Symbolic, too, is the glorious life blos- liant red gladioli and exotic bird-of-paradise plants suggest de- soming from a seemingly lifeless brown bulb. scending tongues of fire. There is imagery, too, in both the Native to Japan, the Easter lily was first cultivated in the red and pink varieties of gladioli whose name, from Latin, West during the 19th century on the island of Bermuda, and means sword. They recall St. Paul's powerful metaphor, "the the best known variety is called the Bermuda lily (see Ber- sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God" (Ephesians muda, Land of Lilies, March, 1959, page 74). Millions of 6:17). Here nine white chrysanthemums symbolize qualities lilies are grown in hothouses for Easter. Related species are Paul termed "fruit of the Spirit"—love, joy, peace, patience, hardy enough for outdoor planting in most parts of the U.S. kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control and usually are in full bloom about midsummer. (Galatians 5:22-23). Laurel leaves fill out the display. 'He is risen!" proclaim the lilies at First Church, Blue Earth, Minn. Descent of the Holy Spirit is it . The Sabbath . . WHETHER PREPARED by .1 professional Hon* or by vol- (see Imagination at the Altar, Pebruary, >:| g< n;S7> | unteer church members, flowers add beauty ami symbolic sig lo be ellective instruments ol worship, flowei arrange niiicance to worship each Sabbath Jay. Even a simple bouquet incuts should be purposefully planned. The arranger should oi garden flowers can enhance the service, both as an offering know the religious meanings attached to certain flowers by to God and as a revelation of his divine creativity to the scriptural reference and long, traditional usage, and he should worshiping congregation, [usl as he is revealed in the read use this symbolism correcdy, Unlike other artists, the flowei ing of Scripture, in the preaching ami singing ot his Word, arranger works with living materials which are artist u crea in pastoral prayer and individual meditation, so also he may turns even before he touches them. To the Communion be seen in the beauty of his handiwork. And in seasons when steward, like Florence Johnson of Rosewood Church, Los fresh flowers are not available, winter arrangements ot dried Angeles (below), the opportunity to present floral offerings plant materials such as leaves, seed pods, and tree branches for each Sunday's service of worship to God is a demand- can speak in the same simple but eloquent language ing—but most rewarding — challenge to reverent artistry. 'irst Church, Littleton, Colo. Members' gardens yield beauty for altar of Rosewood Church, Los Angeles. . A Reformation bouquet flanks Bishop Lord at the prie-dieu of Boston University's Marsh Chapel. Reformation Day . . RED, WHITE, AND GREEN-symbolizing courage, truth, The traditional Protestant belief in individual interpreta- and immortality—are the dominant colors in this striking tion of the Bible is suggested in the arrangement above, in arrangement designed for use on Reformation Day, October which the scroll represents the Word of God as it is recorded 31. This exclusively Protestant observance commemorates the in the Bible. Also part of the arrangement is a rendering of history-shaping day in 15 17 when Martin Luther nailed his Luther's seal—the black cross on a red heart, superimposed famed 95 Theses to the door of the castle church in Witten- on a stylized white rose and ringed in gold. Flowers in- berg, Germany. His action brought the smoldering Protes- cluded in this display are scarlet, heart-shaped anthuriums, tant Reformation to full flame. Today, not only Lutherans white roses, and red gladioli (again recalling St. Paul's but churches in all streams of Protestantism join each year in expression for the Word of God), with foliages of podocar- special services to mark their common heritage. pus, hackberry, variegated oleander, and ti leaves. 42 Together /February 1962 .- . The story of Advent is told in the lighting of a new candle on each of the season's four Sundays. Rdvent . . SEVEN CENTURIES before the birth of Jesus, the prophet Flowers for Advent such as these at Peachtree Road Isaiah wrote: "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given Church, Atlanta, Ga., are an interpretation of another por- ...and his name will be called 'Wonderful Counsellor, tion of Isaiah's Old Testament prophecy: "...the desert shall Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace' " (Isaiah rejoice, and blossom!' Arrayed around the base of a tau cross 9:6). Christians long have accepted his exultant words as a of pre-Christian design, dry, lifeless materials, suggestive of prophecy of Christ's coming birth, and each year at the the desert, are overpowered by the warm, rich color of red Advent season they are read and sung with renewed joy- roses. A representation of the rising sun, made of gold paper, most familiarly, perhaps, in one of the stirring choruses from suggests Jesus as the "sun of righteousness" (Malachi 4:2). Handel's Messiah. Presentation of the beloved oratorio has Candles held by the four young choristers are traditional become a pre-Christmas tradition in many communities. symbols for the four Sundays of the Advent season. February 1 962\Together 43 1 . fl^W» * v\ : 1 •k. . !» Pastor James A. Fisher, Sr., offers a Christmas benediction at Broadway Church, Paducah. Cjhristmas . . CHRISTMAS, last holiday of the calendar year, is first in Just as individual blooms convey religious meanings, the Christian hearts, marking the beginning of God's incarnate life cycle of the plants symbolizes the Christian belief about life on earth. The floral arrangement pictured above at birth, death, and everlasting life. As tiny seeds or bulbs, they Broadway Methodist Church, Paducah, Ky., symbolically suggest hope, life, and the Resurrection. Developing to ma- unites the human and divine natures of the infant Jesus with turity, they speak of the trust and growth in grace that Jesus red and white carnations. Displayed with a traditional Na- observed in the lilies of the field. As buds open to full flower, tivity star, they are placed in a setting of evergreen boughs, they are symbols of joy, praise, and unfolding purpose, symbolizing eternal life, and artificial almond, the ancient and even when they fade and wither, they tell the vanity of emblem of miracles. Woods near Paducah yielded the earthly things. As they die, they give their lives to fruitful lovely 15-foot cedar which backdrops the bouquet. cause—the production of seed—and dying, they live again. Together acknowledges with appreciation ihe co-operation of the Florists Telegraph Deliver]/ Association in supplying flowers for these photographs. — Eds. W t DClUVC NUMBER G IN A SERIES Brotherhood of Man, Fatherhood Dr. Copher served pastorates in Ohio and Boston before turning to teaching. He is an avid gardener and has studied in Israel, Greece, and France. of God By CHARLES B. COPHER Professor of Old Testament Interdenominational Theological Center and Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Ga. J_ HE VERY way in which our subject, "We believe brotherhood under God's fatherhood seems to be held in the brotherhood of man under the fatherhood of by different groups of Christians. One view is that the God," is stated requires that any discussion begin with brotherhood of man embraces all men without reserva- a consideration of God and his fatherhood. The brother- tion or distinction. A second is that the phrase "brother- hood of man is to be treated with the qualification that hood of man" is only applicable to those men who are our belief about it is under the fatherhood of God. But brothers in Christ. And a third view is that which regards more significantly, Christians believe that all of life, with the phrase as signifying all men, universally, on one all its conditions and relationships, must be viewed in hand and also men in Christ on the other hand. This the light of God—not in the light of one's self, nor of third view, that which regards the brotherhood of man one's fellow man, but in the light of God. This means as inclusive of all men and yet in a sense as restricted to that instead of beginning a discussion of brotherhood a particular group, is that to which Methodists subscribe. with the subject man, we begin with God. We begin In subscribing to the third view, we Methodists be- with a consideration of what God is like in his relation- lieve that God may be related to man as Father in two ships to man: how he has acted and acts with respect to distinct senses; that man may be related to God as son man; what he desires for man, and what he requires of in two respective manners of speaking, and that man man in his relationship with his fellow man. may be related to his fellow man as brother in two sep- Moreover, this means that God is the one who deter- arate senses. In one instance each relationship may be mines what brotherhood—this relationship between man general or universal; in the other instance it may be and man— is and must be. Conversely, brotherhood is de- specific or particularistic. Thus each of the over-all topics termined first and last by man's relationship to God as must be considered in a twofold sense. a son of God. Our discussion, then, must of necessity deal with The Fatherhood of God three over-all topics in the following order: (1) the The universal fatherhood of God. We believe that God fatherhood of God, (2) the sonship of man, and (3) the in his relationship to man is universally, without dis- brotherhood of man. tinction or reservation, the father of all men in a natural One other matter calls for preliminary consideration. sense by virtue of the belief that he is Creator of all One or more of three distinct views on the subject of men. Further, we believe that God created all men alike. February 1 962 \ Together 45 in his own image. At the same time that God is the tain that "a man in Christ" is particularly a son of God. father of all men through his act of creating all alike, To be in Christ means in the varied figurative language he is potentially the father of any and all men who may of the New Testament to be born again, to receive become his sons in Christ. Christ, God's only begotten Son, to be adopted into As Father-Creator of all men, God is the lover of all the family of God through an act of grace that enables his children by creation irrespective of who they are or man to call God "Father." what they do. His love is manifested toward all, as is But particular sonship involves more than a wholly indicated by his making his sun rise on "the evil and on or almost wholly one-way action toward man on the the good," and sending rain on "the just and on the part of the Father. Also basic is man's response. And unjust." He loved (and continues to love) all the world that response must be one of love toward him who to the extent that he gave his only begotten Son that all even while we were yet sinners gave his Son to die men might have eternal life (enter the Kingdom). And for us. Sonship is granted to him who loves God with it is his desire to give eternal life to all; to have all his all his heart, soul, mind, and strength. Moreover, that sons by creation, his potentially spiritual sons, to become response must be one of obedience to the Father's his spiritual sons indeed. will. Thus the potential son follows in the steps of We believe that as universal Father, God desires that God's unique Son who in the face of death prayed that all his children be recipients of brotherly love and forgive- the father's will be done, and who was obedient even ness; he requires of those who would be his spiritual sons to death upon the cross. We believe in the particular to love their brothers also—and further, even their ene- sonship of the man "in Christ." mies. Furthermore, we believe that God's judgment Up to this point in the discussion consideration has rests upon all men alike; if any man refuses to love him been given to that which qualifies our belief in the and to do his will the wrath of God falls upon him no brotherhood of man. That qualification, as we have matter who he is. seen, lies in God's relationship to man as father and in Because God has created all men alike in his image man's relationship to God as son. And now, with this and because he regards and treats all alike, we believe qualification before us, we can proceed to take note of in the universal fatherhood of God. the first part of the subject, "the brotherhood of man." The particular fatherhood of God. At the same time that we believe in the universal fatherhood of God we The Brotherhood of Man believe in God's fatherhood in a particularistic, spiritual The universal brotherhood of man. Common father- sense. This latter does not, however, deny God's univer- hood and common sonship make for common brother- sal fatherhood in a natural sense; it adds to it. believe We hood. And we believe that in a universal sense every that God is particularly and especially the father of man is brother of every other man, that all men are those who recognize and accept his fatherhood as it has brothers. More specifically, we believe that all men are been most fully in the life, teachings, made known brothers in that they are mutually dependent upon death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. believe that We God for their origin and continuance, and in that they it is in the particularistic sense of God's fatherhood that all stand in need of God. In addition, we believe that the term "Father" is primarily employed in the New men are brothers in that God calls all to be his spiritual Testament; and that it is also the sense in which Jesus sons rather than some who have been elected to salva- and the New Testament writers interpret, expand, and tion. Still further, all men are brothers, so we believe, apply the Old Testament usages of the term. God, then, in their being objects of God's love but also and equally is the particular father of the "New Israel" in Christ, the objects of God's judgment. All are sinners until through body of Christian believers, and of the individual per- rebirth they become otherwise. We believe in the uni- sons who constitute the body of which Christ is the versal brotherhood of man. Head. We believe in the particular fatherhood of God. The particular brotherhood of man. While we sub- scribe to belief in the universal brotherhood of man in The Sonship of Man a natural sense, with equal seriousness we believe in The universal sonship of man. Our belief in the uni- the particular brotherhood of those who being brothers versal fatherhood of God demands that we believe also of Christ are one "in Christ." Ours it is to sing: in the universal sonship of man in relation to God. We believe that inasmuch as God is by creation the Father /;; Christ there is no East or West, of all men, without distinction, all men are equally God's hi Him no South or North: sons by virtue of his having created them alike, in his But one great fellowship of love image. Until and unless man becomes a son of God Throughout the whole wide earth. through rebirth or adoption into God's spiritual family, he is potentially a spiritual son. And as a son by nature, Join hands, then, brothers of the faith, a potential son spiritually, man possesses inherently What e'er your race may be. unique dignity and worth. So worthful is man as God's Who serves my Father as a son son that though a sinner the father loves him with a love Is surely l{in to me. that stands with arms wide open to receive him should —The Methodist Hymnal. No. 507 he come. We believe in the universal sonship of man. The particular sonship of man. Just as we believe in a Indeed, we emphatically declare that brotherhood in particular fatherhood of God in his relationship to those its highest and truest sense is that alone which is in who are his sons "in Christ" so do we conversely main- Christ. Such brotherhood transcends all ties of blood. 46 Together /February 1962 Gammon moved last September to Atlanta's new Interdenominational Theological Center campus, which it shares with the seminaries of three other denominations. The Methodist school, with a current enrollment of 65, supplies a fourth of the Central (Negro) Jurisdiction pastors. race, ethnic group, nation, color, station in life. It takes as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Matthew 5:48). seriously the elder Brother's identification of brothers In holding to our belief, we continue as one with not with even his immediate household but with the John Wesley, our founder, who emphasized perfect doers of the Father's will. Its chief and distinctive char- love of God and all men. We experience with him a acteristic is love toward God and toward the brethren. religion which he himself described as follows: By love of the brethren, which is the indication of love "This religion we conceive to be no other than love; of God, men are able to distinguish those who are the love of God and of all mankind; the loving God disciples of the elder Brother from all other men. What with all our heart, and soul, and strength, as having is more, loving God as father, members of the brother- first loved us . . . and the loving every soul which God hood love each other with the same type of love as hath made, every man on earth, as our own soul." =: that manifested by God. We believe in the particular brotherhood of those "in Christ." Conclusion Our discussion "We believe in the brotherhood of Such, then, is our belief in the brotherhood of man fatherhood of has man under the God" come to an end. under the fatherhood of God. We begin not with our- Yet, it has not. For what we believe as Methodists selves, nor with any of our fellow men. We begin with further than has thus far been indicated. goes God. And, beginning with him as Father in a universa- listic yet also particularistic sense, we take note of man The Scope of Brotherly Love as a son of God by nature and potentiality, then of The brotherly love manifested toward brothers in man as God's adopted son. Only after we have done Christ extends beyond the confines of the brotherhood, these do we dare declare our belief in the brotherhood so we believe. It includes all men as its object; and only of man in its universalistic and particularistic senses. to the extent that it does can it be said to meet the re- After having given due consideration to the particular- quirement of the Father as set forth by the unique Son. istic aspects of our beliefs, we believe that God requires Said he, "Love your enemies . . . that you may be sons us to exercise brotherly love to all men. ." of your Father who is in heaven . . (Matthew 5:44-45). * Quoted from God Can Be Experienced, by Nets F. S. Ferre, And also, "You, therefore, must be perfect [in love], Methodism, edited by William K. Anderson. February 1962\Together 47 — Teens £l Together By RICHMOND BARBOLR "I'm not interested in becoming real educated, Dad ... I just want to be like the average adult, and feel that I know all the answers!" Cartoon by Clinrles M. Schulz H In February, I will enter a col- have similar dreams. They are a re- All the \ids in my gang ncclt. Why U lege several hundred miles from action to the development taking place don't you bring your advice up to date, here. But I'm almost afraid to leave in your body and are beyond your con- Dr. Barbour?—J.E. home. What is wrong with me?—f.T. trol. Keep telling yourself that your dreams are normal, and try to stop worrying about them. I'm sorry you feel as you do. Nothing. Most sensitive young A Kids who neck and pet are ask- A people feel as you do. They want ing for trouble. Their judgment is not to grow up, but hate to leave the com- I'm a boy IS, a college freshman. good and they can be swept easily into fortable, familiar ways of childhood. Last Saturday night I went to a terrible mistakes. I know many teen- With your insight, you'll succeed. Join burlesque theater with some other agers disagree with me. A few parents the Methodist young people's group at freshmen. We saw strip-tease dancers, do, too. But I would not be a friend of college. Make friends with your class- heard dirty jo\es, and laughed lif{e young people if I said anything other mates. Keep up with your daily studies. fools. Why did I enjoy the show? than don't necl( and don't pet! Write home frequently. Shouldn't I have rejected the evil in it? Does my pleasure mean I'm bad? —R.W. I joined a college fraternity last / am a boy of 16. I have strong V' fau and went out with some of • religious convictions against my nctv brothers one night after a foot- dancing and can't afford to take girls to What you did was wrong, but ball game. We dran\ and got into a movies. Will any girl go out with me? A . your reaction does not mean you ti'recly. 1 was driving. Now I have been —E.G. are bad all through. Normal young expelled from college. My mother says males have strong instincts, and some- I have disgraced the family, and my times they arc expressed in ways father says I must get a job and cam Yes, many girls will. Ask the counter to our moral code. They have my own money. ]]'hat do you thinly I A girls in your church gang for to learn sell-control. The atmosphere of should do?—A.L. dates to church affairs and high-school burlesque theaters is degrading. Don't games. go again. The Methodist Church sup- ports a wonderful youth program at I'm sorry lor what happened. your school. Join and make the youth A However, the experience can help / hare shocking dreams about clubhouse the center ol your social life. you grow up into a responsible person. £- once a month. I'm a boy of 15 Get a job and save your money for a and a good Christian. The dreams year. Early next spring apply lor admis- / a girl 17. r worry me. Do they mean I have a sinful am of My mothi and sion to another college. Make it plain heart?—J.D. %. I have discussed your advice you have learned your lesson. against necking and agree that you arc a prude. She says there is nothing wrong No, they do not. All teen age with a little kjssing and petting, when My gym teacher coaches sports. A hoys and many teen age girls a boy and girl really lore each other. 48 Together /February 1962 team and my grades slipped. I need /.////( Lessons in Spiritual Efficiency \o. .-'• As if I'm to win a scholarship, so this year I didn't go out for the team. The coach says he'll give me an /•' in gym if I don't report for sports. He me a slacker and maizes wisecracks about People me- to tin- class. Is this fair? What can i do? n.s. Who Live is I \It unfair. 1 lowe\ ei . under- stand how \ teacher. A scholarship is more im- portant than a varsity letter. /m ROY L SMITH I'm a college sophomore. A year 'w' aS° I nul " student of another rate, and /it's the finest boy I hare ever ll'e last I(nown. began dating Septem- A.S SOME wag has put it: "People.' ber. When my mother heard about it who are all wrapped up in them she flipped. She told my grandmother, selves make very small packages." college ex- n ho has been paying my But there is something much more penses. Now I'm told I must not date serious than hitter wit about the this again, or the money young man whole thing. To be self-centered is trill stop. His people hare told him to to be morally and spiritually de quit seeing me. Why are grownups so — lormed. People who live for them- bigoted? M.G. selves never seem to think they are getting all they are entitled to in this life. Rare indeed is the self-centered ,A Adults usually are more conserv- person who ever gives any real evi- ji. ative than young people in racial m dence of inner joy. matters. Your mother and grandmother They cannot live without holding are thinking of your happiness, and the their friends under suspicion. The boy's parents are thinking of his. They best efforts to show them considera- know that interracial marriage fre- tion are never sufficient; the most Moreover, to defend such as these quently ends in disaster. The children artful compliments provide no satis- against defamers is a man's right. of such marriages often are treated factions; the chairmanship of any But that person who is never able shamefully. Please listen to your folks committee never satisfies their ego. to think beyond his own interests, and tollow their advice. Self-centeredness has the effect of serve beyond his own needs, and love making one extremely sensitive. beyond his own brethren, has cut Even the gallant or the generous re- himself off from of m I'm a boy 15. This winter I've some the richest mark must be searched for its secret joys of life. |^ become interested in girls. I en- meaning; the kindly treatment is joy talking with them and going to Those who live for themselves are only a cover-up for someone who is never happy, seldom really gratified, parties. My father jol^es about it. He trying to put something across. says I'm too young to thinly about girls. and invariably difficult to live with. Shakespeare once said that jeal- Am I abnormal?—N.K. There is something that insulates ousy is the green-eyed monster them against the spontaneous good "which doth mock the meat it feeds will of their community. No. Interest in girls is normal on"; and he might have added that Jesus was dealing in something the self-centered person is always en- A for boys your age. It is nothing much more intimate than abstract to be ashamed of. However, some boys larging his demands on life. theology when he said, "Who ever don't reach this point until they're 17 Paul dealt with the same problem would be great among you must be or 18. Perhaps you're growing up faster when he warned us not to think your servant." than your father did. more highly of ourselves than we His warning was, undoubtedly, ought to think. (Romans 12:3.) derived from observations of bitter, There is a proper place in life for disillusioned, and cynical people I'm 14 and had a crush on a boy honest pride. He is a poor citizen, whose original sin had been self- ^^ for several months. I was too shy and an equally poor Christian, who centeredness. to do more than tall{ with him at does not hold his honor, his good Blessed are the men and women school. When he asl{ed for a date, I name, his serious intentions, and his who can forget themselves for the got panic/ty and said no. Now he has personal integrity in high respect. sake of the best in life. February 1 962 \ Together 49 moved to another city. His friends say Bishop ISall he had a crush on me but was too shy Answers Questions to spea\. I've tried to forget him but can't. Should I write to him?— G.P. About Alt would be fine to write on a buddy-buddy basis. He's prob- Your Faith ably quite lonesome. However, you should also keep an eye out for other boys. Don't try to settle down to one and boy yet. Your When I was small I was "daddy's little girl." We loved each other and did many things together. .Yore / am 14, and sometimes I hate my father. Church He restricts me too much. If I talf{ bae\, he gets mad and yells at me. Why should we change so much?—E.M. Teen-agers all question their A parents' authority at times. You M.ethodism—a church or a sect? want freedom and independence and resent what you feel to be your father's This one is easy. Methodism is a Spirit and the idea of Christian per- interference. When you were little there church, not a sect which confines it- fection are examples. Yet these are were no conflicts, but now there are self to some fraction of truth. Meth- merely Methodist emphases in a many. to be more patient and avoid odism proclaims the whole Gospel. presentation of a well-rounded Gos- Try rudeness. Remember he loves you and Some insights are particularly pel that includes the teachings of is trying to protect you. Prove to your Methodistic. The witness of the Christ, every one. father that you are reliable. When he can accept you as an adult peace will ' return. i an a church member be fired' for sowing dissension? Yes! According to Par. 971 in by the Trial Court (Par. 974). was raised in Poland \ dad the Discipline, any church member In the latter case, he is denied My '} learned to speaf^ Eng- who inveighs against the doctrines the privileges of the society and ^~t* a d never frequently. and discipline of the church, or the Sacraments of the church (Par. lish well. I correct him }]'hen I do he gets mad. Mother tells against its ministers and members, 977) unless there is evidence of re- stop it. Is it wrong a girl to may be brought to trial, after reproof pentance, contrition, and satisfactory me to for her —T.H. by the pastor or church lay leader. reformation, according to the de- try to educate father? He may "withdraw under com- termination of the church's quarterly plaints" (Par. 984), or be expelled conference. %lt is if she assumes a superior attitude. Your mother under- stands vour father. Probably he can ac- J-s God most present at the altar? cept help from her, while he can't correct No, for we cannot localize God and it is our regard for symbolism from you. Better stop trying to (see John 4:20-24). We turn to the that prompts us to do this. But God his speech. What he says is more im- altar when we sing the Gloria Pa/ri is as truly present in the vestibule of portant than how he says it. or recite the Affirmation of Faith; the church as at the altar. Why does my dad ride n:. 1 much? He gets mad easily and Do Catholics value ''tradition' more than the Bible? 1 keeps asking questions: "Have you That depends on the beliefs of the Catholic makes his church the mowed the lawn? Have you trashed Roman Catholic under discussion. unerring norm tor these interpre- the car? I Li:e you scrubbed the garbage According to Father Gustave Weigel tations, he does violence to tradi- can?" I'm 14. I used to love him; now in Catholic Theology in Dialogue, tion itselt. I almost hate him. Will we ever be Scripture is in tradition, and tradi- Scripture needs explanations in buddies again ? —N.R. tion in Scripture. terms ol present-day needs. Some- The Catholic sees no violence to times these explanations are theolog- Mk Yes. Probably you're at the peak Scripture in using tradition to ex- ical, sometimes mystical, even al- of your conflict with him. Nearly plain and expound it. 1 le points out legorical. But the Catholic makes X m period of trouble —and Protestant scholars would them always ecclesiastical. all boys go through a and have a hard time contradicting him with their dads. You're growing up Testa- \n experienced, trained observer of people, resent orders. You crave freedom. Prob- —that the writers of the New places, and events, Bishop T. Otto Noll of ment interpreted the Old according the Minnesota Area of The Methodist Church ably he feels you are lazy and immature. answers questions about religion and yow 1 has trouble realizing that you aren't to Christian tradition. When the church vvith wisdom and rare understanding. le 50 Together /February 1962 i ,i .tin 1 1 little bo) more. j to do youi titration photographer* jobs without protest. In a couple ol M.irs you'll be more responsible, and he'll be less critical. Then you can be buddies again on a grown-up basis. p I'm worried about my bfother, V who is 13. Our tunic gave him DEADLINE a k^urt with a big engine. He is not supposed to race with it. but he doc* every weekend. He isn't supposed to FEB. 10 drive it on the streets, but he goes everywhere in it. Are kjarts safe? W.D. I For Your Best Kurt racing is a growing sport. A Many drivers arc very young. The National Safety Council recently Color Slides checked on kart accidents and found there had been many deaths and a great number ol injuries. Council ex- perts concluded that it is not safe to use karts the way most boys use them. Ask your lather to check with his in- surance company office about karts. He'll get an earful. "/;; haunts of wretchedness and need/On shadowed I'm 17, but I'm not allowed to m m thresholds dark, with fears." ^ tall{ with boys on the phone and I've never had a date. My father says boys are evil. I have a brother, 18, who's free to do what he pleases. Dad says it's iVlOST OF you reader-photographers will receive this issue all right for boys to sow wild oats, but that girls must be protected. Do you of Together by mid-January—which means you still have three agree with him?—M.L. weeks to review your color slides for pictures illustrating the theme of our 1962 Photo Invitational, Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life. Based on the hymn by Frank Mason Hardly. Your father follows a North (No. 465 in The Methodist Hymnal), it offers virtually A discredited double standard. A limitless possibilities for interpretation by imaginative pho- girl of your age should date nice boys. tographers. The photograph above, for example, very well You'll be safe enough, if you use good could illustrate the lines of the beneath it. But whether judgment. It is wrong for boys to sow hymn wild oats. A good single standard is you already have selected the pictures you'll submit or still needed for both sexes. plan to load up your camera and put a fresh idea on film, the time to do it is right now. February 10 is almost here! H I'm interested in a girl, 14, who 1^ likes me but won't go steady. She is equally nice to other boys. How Here are the rules. Read them carefully: can I persuade her to specialize in me? —C.N. 1. Send no more than 10 color transparencies (color prints of color negatives are not eligible). 2. Identify each slide and explain why it was inspired by the hymn. ,Sk It would be wiser not to try. 3. Enclose loose stamps for return postage (do not stick jL Wl At her age, it is better to play the stamps to anything) . field. There's plenty of time for special- 4. Entries must be postmarked on or before February 10, 1962. izing later. 5. Original slides bought and all reproduction rights to them will become TOCETHER's property. (For their files, photographers will receive duplicates of slides purchased.) 6. Slides not accepted will be returned shortly after the closing date. Care will be used in handling and returning transparencies, but TOGETHER cannot be responsible for slides For a problem that's big, or one that's lost or damaged in transit. ^0^ small, our own Dr. \ 7 Wp Barbour is always on ^^^L call. ]\'rite him do Send to : Photo Editor, ToOOthcT A * ^h Together, Box 423, Par e ,lL 740 N. Rush St., Chicago 11, Illinois Jw k Ridg - 5; February 1 962 \ Together fK^ljt Into J% fsA FEBRUARY 4 Sabbaths something real with which to strengthen our souls and "Re«iember the sabfaat/i day, our spirits and to prepare our to keep it holy."—Exodus 20:8 bodies for each week and its work. Amen. C7jf3 EFORE THE Communists —HARLEY W. FARNHAM r~** gained control of mainland China, coolies—working a river FEBRUARY 11 boat load of Americans up the Yangtze to safety from the revolu- "Honor your jather and your tion—paused periodically for a mother, that your days may day at a time to rest. be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you."— At the first stop the passengers, Exodus 20:12 not understanding the delay, sought out their ferrymen with t\ S I DIRECT your attention questions. The rivermen replied AV to Exodus 20:12, I recall that on that day there would be quite vividly a story that I heard no journey because the coolies several years ago. A young man must "let their souls catch up with who was the product of a rural their bodies." area moved to an industrial city The idea of a day for rest is not to take advantage of the opportu- new, nor has it the sole been nities that he had heard existed property of Christians. It orig- was there. Shortly after his arrival, inally a Jewish institution. however, he discovered such op- For the Jews, it a sign of was portunities were not as plentiful the covenant between God and as reported. The employment lines his chosen people; a of day rest in seemed endless, and the crowded remembrance of the rest of God ghetto in which he resided was after the creation. Perhaps some enveloped with an atmosphere of such idea underlay the earlier ob- futility. His jobs were temporary servance of Christian people, for and the pay was indeed meager. at one time, Saturday was the day Gradually he became more and for baking, shining shoes, pressing more embittered with his plight. clothes, cutting the grass, and During this period of disillusion- otherwise making ready so that ment, he became acquainted with the dawn of the Sabbath heralded a group of petty thieves and re- a day to be devoted only to the luctantly became a part of their unhampered worship of in God next criminal venture. But as the his holy temple and to letting group assembled at a prearranged one's soul catch with his up body. point prior to the actual execution These are times call for which of their planned venture, this something" other than our present young man severed his associa- customs of a very busy sabbath tion with the thieves with these day. words: "At this very moment my fam- ^Jnujrr: O God, our heavenly ily back home has assembled for father, help us to seek through our evening worship, and my parents are praying for me." His family ties prevented a potential life of crime. Life's blessings are possible Harley W. Farnham, Lakewood, Colo. through parental honor. We are Wilson, Robert H. Little Rock, Ark. introduced to the basic pre- Howard L. Love. East Hartford, Conn. requisites for a full and meaning- W. L. Clegg, Burlington, N.C. ful life initially by our parents. These fundamentals include love for others, obedience, and the Together /February 1962 WEEKLY MEDITATION BY MINISTERS ON INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS realization of our dependence describes the manner in which there is a refreshing spring of upon others. the all-inclusive, unconditional, clean, cool water. The oldest resi- The adherence to the funda- and undeserved love of God for dent in the community says that mentals learned at home will all men must be brought into the he never knew it to dry up in serve as a guide later to a whole- arena of human relationships. He summer or to freeze over in some and meaningful life. The de- commanded us to love not as a winter. The water is pure and gree of adherence is in proportion burdensome task, not for reward, good, and the flow is constant at to our respect and faith in our not partially or selectively, but all times of the year. parents. because, by the grace of God, we But the spring could become And so it is in the spiritual have been transformed in spirit contaminated. This would happen realm of life. Adherence to the and the unconditional love of God if I let the dense growth above it teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ is in us. be removed, or turned surface will serve as a guide to abundant This unconditional love destroys water into it, or built a stable and living. The success of our Chris- the relationship of enmity, throws kept cattle just above it. No longer tian witness will be in proportion the relationship back upon God. would its water be pure and good. to the honor that we accord the frustrates the one who hates and No longer would it be desirable. will of our heavenly father. shifts the ground of his stance. It But I would not allow any of has been said that the best retalia- these things to happen to my Pram*: Eternal God our father, tion against one's enemy is to re- spring. I keep it with all vigilance, guide us that we may spend our fuse to become like him. This for out of it flows water not only lives in thy service and finally, again is often a form of revenge to my cabin but also to the cabin by thy grace, attain everlasting which hardens the heart that of neighbors. Friends come to see life. Amen. hates. Jesus commands us not me and drink of the water from —ROBERT H. WILSON only to refuse to respond in kind my spring, and an occasional hiker to hatred, but to respond with a stops by to slake his thirst. For my FEBRUARY 18 positive quality of love and to sake and for their sakes, my spring pray for and do good to him. must be kept pure. "But I say to you, Love your This command is high. Who can God has given each one of us a enemies and pray for those who persecute you."—Matthew attain unto it? Only the heart that spring to keep clean and clear. 5:44 has been emptied of everything The issues of life flow from it. which clamors to protect the ego. Jesus tells us the awful poisons iJilAHATMA GANDHI once It, therefore, behooves every per- that can come from a polluted -».4l was attacked by enemies son who would call himself a fol- heart: "For from within, out of who would have killed him but lower of Christ to open his mind the heart of man, come evil for the intervention of the police. and heart to the love of God thoughts, fornication, theft, mur- He implored the authorities not to through the study of Scripture, der, adultery, coveting, wicked- bring charges against them, say- through prayer and worship, and ness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, ing that they did not know what every other means by which our slander, pride, foolishness." (Mark they were doing. spirits are transformed and we 7:21-22.) Gandhi's response illustrates a become new beings. But "Blessed are the pure in manner of love which is alien to heart" (Matthew 5:8). As Paul the usual reactions of men. It ex- IjJraurr: Our father, in the fire of wrote to Timothy, his "true child presses an extravagance of good- whose love the iron of our resent- in the faith": "The aim of our ness and love which is out of the ment is melted, grant us freedom charge is love that issues from a ordinary—difficult for the average from ourselves that we, at last pure heart and a good conscience person to understand. It fulfills loving thee truly, may be able to and sincere faith" (1 Timothy 1: the command of Jesus to show love one another as thou hast 5). love in response to hatred, and loved us. Amen. "Keep your heart with all vig- to pray for those who persecute —HOWARD L. LOVE ilance; for from it flow the springs you. of life." FEBRUARY 25 We say it is foolishness not to defend oneself, not to "be a man." grayer: Lord, help to keep my Keep your heart with all me insist that Jesus figura- We spoke vigilance: for from it flow the heart clean and pure. Turn away tively when he said to love our springs of life.—Proverbs 4:23 from me the things that would enemies. But never did Jesus pollute and not only hurt me but speak more literally. Command- A T MY MOUNTAIN cabin in contaminate my friends. Amen. ing us to love our enemy, he -»"v western North Carolina —w. L. CLECG February 1 962 \"Together 53 Barnabas Looks at New Books This toast-warm tot spied at a TCU football rally provides one oj the chuckles in Humor in News Photography. JrERHAPS there's a bit too much read. It offers a rare opportunity to get Faber's first book. Great Moments in hero worship in Courage to Change acquainted with the life and thought News Photography, but you still may (Scribners, $7.50), but if you're going of one of our greatest Christian want to leave it on the coffee table and to admire a hero, I can't think of a thinkers. see if your guests laugh at the same better one than Reinhold Niebuhr. I. The title, by the way, comes from a pictures you did. Barnabas, found June Bingham's prayer Dr. Niebuhr used when he enthusiasm for her subject highly con- preached in the small church near his The Age of Reason Begins (Simon tagious, and her book on the renowned summer home in Massachusetts. Dur- and Schuster. S10), by Will and Ariel theologian very hard to put down. ing World War II, the USO distributed Durant, continues what now has be- It went back and forth to work millions of copies of it to servicemen. come the lifework of the Durant with me, and for several days was The National Council of Churches has family. Mrs. Durant's increasing role likely to be found wherever I was. reprinted it, and it has been adopted as as researcher for her husband's writings Mrs. Bingham does a remarkable job the motto of Alcoholics Anonymous: is acknowledged on the title page of of capturing Dr. Niebuhr's many-sided O God, give us serenity to accept their latest work, for which their personality—in the classroom at Union what cannot be changed, courage to daughter typed the manuscript. Theological Seminary, chairmaning a change what should be changed, and This seventh volume of The Story political meeting, in the pulpit, as a wisdom to distinguish the one from of Civilization, a massive biography husband and lather, devoting his week- the other. of the human race, surveys the turbu- ends to explaining the basic concepts lent years ol religious strife and scien- of Christianity to young people. He has If you're looking lor something to tific progress from 1558 to 1648. This termed himseH "a kind ol circuit rider lighten a long winter evening, you was the age that produced the telescope in the colleges and universities" who may get a chuckle out of Humor in and the decimal system, witnessed the sees his task as prompting an interest News Photography (Nelson. §4. l >^. resurrection of philosophy and the dis- in the defense and justification ol the John Faber, the National Press covery ot the planetary orbits, and Christian l.iiih, particularly among Photographers Association's historian shaped the modern mind and a new Christianity's "intellectual despisers." has selected pictures made by working Europe. I hope Mrs. Bingham's book will do news photographers to show there still Emerson defined history as the rec- some "circuit riding," too, in homes is some humor in the day's news. The ord ol a lew great men, and Dr. Durant where theology as such is not ordinarily collection lacks the punch of Mr. has spent nearly 50 of his 76 years 54 Together / February 1962 , proving him correct. Writing in the :*#WwW!!.'.^!v "-,.-.'£'' style that lias made him the most popular historian philosopher ol oui time, he lets us see the art, literature, morals, and politics oi an age through the eyes ol Bacon, Shakespeare, Mon taigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, Descartes, Catherine de Medici, and others. It's a fascinating view in which the warring powers and faiths drive a continent to its knees, and then — at the Peace oi Westphalia — join to reconstruct Western civilization. The conflict, the hook concludes, ended the reign ol theology over the European mind and marked the begin ning ol what Dr. Dm ant calls "the 1 -i i r main current in the stream ol modern '< i j^ * thought": the debate between science ! I ! : ' : ' and religion. v\h i/V, Will Durant produced the hrst ._r.Si I kr volume of this series. Our Oriental — »• — -sp Heritage, in 1935. He and his wife ' / 1 IF"v hope to rinish the eighth in 1963 and > ! \ \ i the ninth and last in 1965. 1 i 1 i 1 i "There is a place where the Pacific 1 i 1 coldly smokes. Sometimes it is only a 1 thin razor-sharp tendril of steam. Other times there is a great churning wall of vapor: gray, dense, impenetrable, ." WORSHIP ominous. . . Thus Eugene Burdick identifies the northern boundary ol that vast exotic area of the South Pacific known as Oceania. In The Blue Capricorn of . . . the world over bate striking similarities as well (Houghton Mifflin, $4.95), he explores as dramatic differences. These books, appropriate for it lor the armchair adventurer—from Brotherhood Week (February 19 to 26), help us to the huge stone faces of Easter Island to understand other men—and quicken our own faith. the unbelievable bit of English country- side that rims Tasmania. The Religions of Man (Harper, $5.75; Mentor paperbac\, It is a world of stunning beauty and 50$), by Huston Smith—A perceptive study illuminating of uncompromising rigors. Sometimes the teachings of Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, turning to fiction, sometimes writing Confucianism, Islam, and Judaism. with the factual accuracy of the re- porter, Mr. Burdick ranges from "in- tense, exaggerated, and convoluted This Is My God (Doubleday, $3.95), by Herman Wouk— cities" to lonely atolls where colors are A warmly personal view of the Jewish people and their faith so raw and unexpected they "make a by a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and playwright. phvsical assault on the eyeball and brain." Major Religions of the World (Abingdon, SI), by The men and women who people his Marcus Bach—Stresses parallels instead of differences in hook arc no less real because their sto- Christianity, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Judaism, ries are fiction. I am sure he utilized Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, and Islam. this lorm because he knew it was the only way he could present the poign- The Story of America's Religions (Holt Rinehart ancy of the interplay of forces between Winston, $4), by Hartzell Spence—Traces the history islanders and foreigners who sought an of religious faith in this continent and its impact on the escape from "civilization" in a life American spirit. remote, inescapably alluring, and—un- expectedly—monotonous. The World's Great Religions (Time Inc., $13.50), by the Editors of Life—A big, readable, richly illustrated When I read Dag Hammarskjold's volume that explores Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Bud- eloquent statement in this magazine last dhism, Hinduism, and Chinese philosophy. fall [The UN Is Here to Stay, October, 1961, page 23], I wanted to know more World Religions (Dutton, $2.95; paperbac\ 95$), by about the Swedish nobleman who, as Benson Y. Landis—Summarizes the beliefs, histories, and secretary-general of the United Nations, statistics of the major faiths, including Protestant bodies. was perhaps the greatest instrument for peace in our generation. After reading Joseph P. Lash's biog- raphy, I still am not so close to knowing February 1 962 \ Together the real man as I would like. Rut that some of his crew to safety, cajoling This year is not Mr. Lash's fault. Once, when a others into hanging on another minute promise yourself reporter asked the secretary-general and then another. Once ashore, it was whether he had some kind of picture in Kennedy who ultimately led the group you'll read his mind of what a peace with justice to safety. in the Middle East might look like, he Robert J. Donovan tells the story in replied: "I have my dreams." Would PT 109: John F. Kennedy in World he care to share them with the press? War II (McGraw-Hill, S4.95). It's an "I very rarely share my dreams with authentic saga of courage and adventure anybody," he said. by a topflight newsman. Yet as I read Dag Hammarskjold (Doubleday, I realized that $4.50), At the age of 82, the great Russian through his decisions, his never flagging novelist Leo Tolstoy staggered out into efforts, his complete dedication to and the snow in the middle of the night the cause of peace, he did share his and fled from the woman to whom he dreams with all better than he men had been married for 48 years. Ten days knew. later he was dead of pneumonia. The His was the dedication of a Christian. world mourned a genius—and blamed Significantly, the only book he took his wife for his death. with him on his ill-fated last flight was That's what is best remembered about a Christ in French. In it was Life of a tempestuous marriage. But to be mar- is full of found his oath of office. It rewards ried to Tolstoy was to bend beneath It will enrich burdens only the superhuman could be columnist-critic Paul Molloy TV expected to carry. So believed Cynthia all your previous reading has gotten used to the fact that he's Asquith who, just before her death, of the Bible not likely to be introduced as an award- wrote a perceptive biography of winning journalist. at all. Instead, It will give you the taste, Not Countess Tolstoy. he's braced for the identification that's the tang, the immediacy Married to Tolstoy (Houghton sure to come: has eight children, "He Mifflin, S5) gives us the portrait of an of the original Greek. know." you extraordinary woman. To be married Now he's also the author of And "To read it is like to Tolstoy, Lady Asquith reminds us, Then There Were Eight (Doubleday, reading the great story was to bear 13 children within 23 years, $3.95), one of the wisest, funniest and to be a secretary who copied literal- for the first time." — LIFE books on family life I've had the pleas- ly miles of manuscript, including seven ure of reading in many a day. At all booksellers 460 pages • $4.95 drafts of JVar and Peace. It was to be Do the Molloys have a lot of money, OXFORD • CAMBRIDGE housekeeper and hostess in a busy a big house, and servants? No, but they household and manager of all business have other compensations—such as nine affairs. And it was to embody all the close friends apiece. Space is a luxury; spiritual failings Tolstoy had to fight so is silence. But when the father of the within himself and to bear his scorn family once did have privacy and quiet of them. But it was, also, to love and in which to work, he couldn't. It was be loved profoundly and overwhelm- too silent! ingly. MATURE The Molloys—that is, Paul and his wife, Helen—believe that discipline, not Within the next decade or two, man the lack of it, is a manifestation of YEARS will be able to communicate with non- parental love. They believe that a child human creatures, predicts John C. bright enough to reject turnips for Lilly. But Dr. Lilly, an M.D., isn't cookies is almost bright enough to be- ta & referring to any creatures man may Methodism's own attractive, gin picking up after himself. In their meet in his space travels. stimulating magazine for its home, too, each child helps another, In Man and Dolphin (Doubledav. Older Adults, helps them and almost all are old enough to lend $4.95), he tells why he thinks man adjust . . to change . develop a hand with daily chores. may be able to communicate with the a philosophy of life that makes Do the Molloys consider themselves of life a real adventure. Make playful stars of aquarium shows. The fortunate? Let the lather speak: "I head sure all your friends and loved dolphin, he points out. has large the world's most opulent corporation a ones 60 and over have MA- brain, is triendly. bears certain physical because there isn't a dividend around TURE YEARS each quarter. resemblances to man, and can make that matches the fun ol being in love audible sounds. ONLY with Helen and romanced by eight prejudiced kids." "It is probable that their intelligence $1.50 A YEAR is comparable to ours, though in a very strange fashion," says Dr. Lilly. If so, One of John F. Kennedy's first acts they I, %S8» as President of the United States was and learn to speak. Barnabas, if these to give a hearty wave and big grin to wonder big sea-going mam- mals won't have i^akeslmiy 10 men who passed before him in the something to say sVScnri Mail ( Orders to Regional Service Centers inaugural parade on a float representing about what they think of man's at- Northeastern North Central Western Region Region Region PT Boat #109. tempts to run this planet. We may wish Boston 16 they never learned talk. New York 11 ^Chicago IT Los Angeles 29 PT-109 was rammed by a Japanese had to Pittsburgh 30 ^Cincinnati 2 Portland 5 ^Tcancck, N. J. 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This is a good book for adults to read, too, in preparation for Method- ism's Fourth National Conference on Family Life to be held in Chicago, 111., K^okesburtj October 19-21, 1962. •kSend Mail Orders to Regional Service Center \North Northeastern Central | Western Southwestern] Southern Southeastern Region Region Regiort Region I Region Region Alice director of The Boston 16 Mary Jones, New York IT [•Chicago 11 Los Angeles 29 Methodist Church's department of Pittsburgh 30 • Cincinnati 2 Portland 5 •Dallas 1 [Atlanta 3 Baltimore 3 •Tea neck, N, J., Detroit 1 [•San Francisco 2 Kansas City 6 •Nashville 3 •Richmond 16 Christian education of children, has a special way of presenting complex sub- February 1962 \ Together 57 jects so a child can understand and heroic stand has become so embroidered build underground cities with a vast respond to them. in folklore and romance that the truth complex of streets, slums, and suburbs? She has done this in God Speaks to has very nearly been wiped out, too. Then he reminds his reader there is Me (Rand McNally, $2), and it's an In A Time to Stand (Harper, another kind of shelter: not a cave, but excellent book for parents or church- $4.95), Walter Lord re-creates the a sanctuary. school teachers of youngsters from four whole fascinating story. He has gar- "If there's no sanctuary for the soul, to eight. nered a wealth of fresh information we might come up out of the survival Though she uses everyday examples, from contemporary documents, diaries, shelter to emptiness," he warns. the author conveys the feeling of and letters, and at last puts this true- The book has the simplicity and wonder as she shows ways God speaks life American epic in factual perspective. warmth that drew city crowds and visi- to us through his guidance and concern What were the defenders really like? tors from all over the world to hear Dr. for all living creatures. Mr. Lord introduces us to many of Goff when he was in the Chicago Tem- them—not just the famous, like Jim ple pulpit. Only children and artists, usually, can Bowie, but the unknown, unsung men see things without peering through the who played their part, too. In doing so, "Social dynamite is building up in foggy spectacles of preconceived ideas. he brings back to life that young, ideal- our large cities in the form of unem- So I was delighted to discover two books istic nation that was America at the ployed out-of-school youth," says James for small fry designed to encourage this time Texas was "freed" from Mexico. B. Conant in Slums and Suburbs: wonderful ability. Both are concerned A Commentary on Schools in Met- with shapes—triangles, squares, rec- Both as a book and as a motion pic- ropolitan Areas (McGraw-Hill, S3.95; tangles, circles. But they take opposite ture, Catherine Marshall's story of paperback, SI.95). approaches. her famous minister-husband, A Man This second book stemming from the Let's Imagine Thinking Up Called Peter, went straight to the hearts former Harvard president's studies of Things (Dutton, $2.95) invites its of thousands of Americans. Other books American public education points up readers to a new game for at-home days followed, including one on her widow- the severe educational and employment when "you are tired of your toys." As hood. Her first book sold one million problems facing school authorities in presented by Janet Wolff's writing copies, another three hundred thousand. the big cities. In many slum neighbor- and Bernard Owett's deliberately Now comes her latest, written since hoods, over half of the boys between childlike drawings, the game is irre- her marriage to magazine editor 16 and 21 are out of school—and out of sistible. Leonard LeSourd. Called Beyond Our work. Writer-illustrator Ed Emberley is- Selves (McGraw-Hill, $4.95), it can Wealthy suburban schools are now sues an equally intriguing invitation to best be described as a spiritual auto- spending twice as much per pupil as develop an awareness of the world of biography which deftly blends inspira- big-city schools, says Dr. Conant, add- shapes and things in The Wing on a tional thought with recollections of the ing that "in view of the problems of the Flea (Little, Brown, $2.95). The shape author's own life. Readers of her previ- large cities and their importance to the of a flea's wing? A triangle, of course ous books will be delighted to read of national interest . . . these ratios might —the same triangle that can be "as big the happiness of the woman they have well be reversed." as a mountain or as small as a bee." come to know so well through her Even though you may not live near Mr. Emberley 's concept and illustra- previous writings. a big city, this report is worth reading. tive style is sophisticated, yet calculated In a mobile society such as ours, a weak to charm the most unsophisticated Charles Ray Goff, who recently re- spot in education will, inevitably, spread youngster. tired as minister of the Chicago Tem- its effects into all other parts of the Either book is a gem. ple, writes of Shelters and Sanc- country. tuaries (Abingdon, $2.25) in a little On the morning of March 6, 1836, book that discusses Christian hope in a It's not often that I review a book in an abandoned mission called the world of confusion. written by a minister for other min- Alamo, a small Texan garrison fought Once man accepts the back-to-the- isters, but I made an exception to tell to the death rather than yield to an cave psychology of the survival shelter, you about The Minister and the Care overwhelming army of Mexicans. This he speculates, would we eventually of Souls (Harper, $3.50). What Daniel Day Williams says about channels of grace, forgiveness, No armchair historian, Walter Lord dug deep to bring the Alamo bac\ to life. judgment, and acceptance has equal relevance for the layman who tries to live as a member of the priesthood of all believers. His book also will give the thoughtful layman better understanding of the deeper concerns of his minister as a counselor. Thomas D. Clark, who is chairman of the University of Kentucky's history department, loves the South too well to ignore either its virtues or its faults. In The Emerging South (Oxford, $6), he gives us a picture of the social and economic changes that have altered the face of its countryside, the skylines of its cities and towns, and the social life of its people since 1920. It's a valuable book for the thought- i nl reader who wants to understand the South as it is today. —Barnabas 58 Together /February 1962 Methodist Schools browsing BREVARD COLLEGE In llu m ii.- Rldur Mountain! '• ...1 1 illlj .1 Illi -I Mi 1 • \ \ 1 1 . I 1 n .11 Admissions Oltlri\ ili.vaid Collrot- IH Box T. Id. 'v.i Ml, North Carolina CHANDLER SCHOOL FOR WOMEN "I 1 liltS NEW i:iu OATIONAIi i.M-i.iii l.M 1.. On - iii 1 1. in" in . 1. 1 oleic il m. lii -I mil offi excel lent secretarial training combined with maturing Influ enoe ol unu ua] n educational community, I yr, Medical Legal, Selena Research, Executive specialization. 1 yt. Course. B ilfnl re ' ""Lin 1 14 1 barle River, cultural. ooportunltli .11 i-iiv noted ror music, aris. and Ideas. Write for catalog, Dr. G. I. Rohrbounh. President. BISHOP, 1 OS W'.l I 1 S UU \, 452 Beacon Street. Boston 15, Massachusetts 1 I III ill I Mill.].- I III Rl II Martin College Fully accredited Methodist junior college. Associate in WORSHIP of bigness for bigness's sake without foul language. There was a Arts degree. Coed. 2-year transfer programs: Liberal \n .\ Sciences, Elementary Ed., Accounting & General seems to be spreading to the world young, well-educated doctor and a Business. Secretarial Science (terminal), Pre-professional programs (I & 2 yrs.): Business Administration, Law, of arts. For example, Forest Lawn young Frenchman who had both Medicine. Dentistry, Nursing, Ministerial, Bnglnei Forestry, Pharmacy. Tuition, room, board: $slo. w. C. cemetery has a great painting of the money and culture. Most of them, Westenberqer. Pres..Box M. Martin College, Pulaski, Tenn. Crucifixion which it says is the biggest however, were poor people, Methodists PENNINGTON "Only the excellent." It is to and Cod-fearing. I still feel if I ever. a wonderful experience as This fully accredited, church-related school view this painting, which has a good know them and, without exaggerating —grades 7-12—provides thorough prepara- tion for college. deal more to commend it than size, their virtues or minimizing their vices, Small classes, individual guidance, developmental reading for maxi- but it usually is acclaimed solely for can say that they were the stuff out mum progress. Attractive buildings, 40- its hugeness. Similarly, three-hour of which this nation was made. A story acre campus. Moderate rate. Est. 1838. En- movie epics are advertised as if length of this kind always reminds me how dowed. Summer school. Catalog. Charles R. Smyth, D. D., Box 45. Pennington, N. J. were a virtue, although I have yet to relatively easy our life is today. I won- see one that would not have been im- der if we could endure the hardships proved by judicious cutting. and sufferings which they accepted in COLLEGE PREP CAMPS Perhaps it is merely coincidence, order to get a fresh start. Our testings For Students Crades 8-12 but recently I received some very large, are in a different realm, but, physically SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY bulky books. They cost around $6 each speaking, our life certainly has offers 2 intensive six week programs in READING and STUDY SKILLS for and often impress me as an author's changed. college-bound boys and girls. Class work and individual instruction for able students im- attempt to crash the big time with Now the Indians involved are a prove comprehension and rate of reading, vocabulary, sheer weight. Not always do stories poor lot and, indeed, they are the kind spelling. Develop skills for studying, taking exami- nations. Complete recreational program at each demand as many words as writers use. who justify all the TV murders of the comp. In the Adirondacks: Sagamore at Raquette Lake, Pinebrook on Upper Saranac Lake. June 28 But I dealing this month with red men by cowboys. The villain is a am thru August 9. a big book that is a blockbuster. I renegade, thieving, murdering wretch Sagamore Reading Camp Grades 10, 11, 12. Write for Brochure mean by this that it is not only big despised by his own people. He gathers S82 Pinebrook Reading Camp in size, but also in power. Its theme around him similar types, and their Grades 8 & 9. Write for Brochure P52 is one that demands a wide screen. main purpose is to obtain food and SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SUMMER CAMPS 610 E. FAYETTE ST., SYRACUSE 3, N. Y. clothing without working for them. " I expect one might draw the lesson coed SPIRIT LAKE, by MacKinlay Kantor TENNESSEE that it is useless to appease such peo- F0UN1 (World, $6.95;. WESLEYAN ?8^ ple, for the more they get the more Fully accredited four-year college. B.A. and B.S. de- Living in the West, it is easy to they want. What is decency and crees: Liberal Arts, Teacher Training, l're-Kngineering, Pie-Ministerial, Pre-Medicine, Pie-Pharmacy. Business forget that Iowa once was on the generosity on the part of the settlers Administration. Si, 150 approximate rate. New dorm.. Fine Arts-College Center. Ittlated to Methodist Church. frontier and the scene of bitter battles is interpreted as weakness. Finally, the Write: Admissions Office, Box M between settlers and Indians. This Indians go on a rampage and massacre Tennessee Wesleyan College, Athens, Tennessee book vividly recalls the Midwest's the settlers. pioneer years. The story is set in north- The only time we today display the west Iowa around three lakes—Spirit, mutual concern apparent in the lives EASTER Okoboji, and West Okoboji. I preached of these families is when we are in CATALOG in Spirit Lake, Iowa, some time ago, great danger. They had a neighborly, Sacred Music Also Ploys • Helpers and I wish I had read this book before helpful quality which makes so much Pageants • Cantatas that visit. I doubt if it would have of our wanton selfishness despicable. WRITE FOR FREE COPY improved my preaching, but it certain- I am impressed that our country was ODEHEAVER HALL-MACK CO. ly would have opened my eyes to given to us by ordinary folks who had 150 Ninth St., Winona Lake, Ind. things I missed. character. Kantor does not preach and The families which sought new he does not moralize, but I think his McGUFFEY'S READERS homes around these lakes were a Spirit Lake is a good book for Ameri- After a long and costly search, reprints of the original 1S79 revised editions of the famous McCuffey's Readers representative cross section. Some cans to read just now. It makes me have been completed and you can now purchase exact copies at the following low prices POSTPAID: were rough and uncultured, and one mighty proud to have a wife who was 1st Reader $2.50 4th Reader $3.50 man could hardly speak four words born in the good old state of Iowa. 2nd Reader $2.75 5th Reader $3.75 3rd Reader $3.25 6th Reader $4.25 OLD AUTHORS, Dept. TR 2, Rowan, Iowa February 1962\Together 59 — with the SMALL FRY Poor Olaf ! He had forgotten what day it was, and rung the church bells on a weekday! By ISABEL COUPER McLELLAND r OR HUNDREDS of years, the lagers would say, "Aye, Olaf must be step lively there, step lively there!" people on a wind-swept island in the gone to sea. No one else can ring the Heels clicked quickly as the bell told North Sea had been called to church bells as Olaf does." the villagers to hurry, hurry, hurry on Sunday morning by the sound of When the first clang sounded on on their way to church. great clamoring bells. The bells hung Sunday morning, everyone knew "Clangety clangety clang, clangety in the tower of the village church, there would be 10 minutes to spare clangety clang! Faster, faster, faster, built by Norsemen over 800 years before the service started. "Clang folkj—no time to lose!" called the ago. clang—clans—clans:: time to spare, bells from the tower. Olaf, the bell ringer, had been a time to spare, time to spare," the Then Olaf would pull the bell young man when he first began to bells seemed to say. ropes so hard and so fast that one ring the bells on Sunday morning. A few minutes later the bells were clang could not be heard from He was strong then, and everyone saying, "Clang, clang—clang, clang: another. What an uproar of in the village knew when it was Olaf watch the cloc\, watch the clochj" sound! "Clangety-clangety-clangety- who rang the bells. If, by chance, he People on the streets walked a little clangetv: hurry, harry . hurry, hurry. were at sea fishing in far waters and faster. If yon are not here now. you are someone else rang the bells, the vil- "Clangety clang, clangety clang: late for church! Hurry! H-u-r-r-y !" 60 Together /February 1962 The clamoring, scolding bells ol urgent ihwhm oi the great bells. the List two minutes started tard) "Clangetj clangety clang, clanget) villagers running. The noise Idled clangety clang! Vaster, faster, faster the village. It filled the church. The jolly< no time to lose!" Shopkeepers minister stood waiting. He could left their shops, weavers left their not say .1 word until the bells had looms, tailors left their cutting tables. finished their scolding. Suddenly, I vcryonc was hurrying taster, faster, there was silence. The villagers faster. What could be the trouble? settled back on the church benches, Surely some terrible disastei was and the sei vice began. upon them. Thai was how Olai rang the bells, The minister mel the people at the and no cue else could do it quite door ol the church. He held up his the same. Even as the years went by hands to quiet the jostling crowd. awl\ Olai became .\n old man, he The bells suddenly ceased ringing. was still the best bell ringer in all "Olai has forgotten the day ol the the islands for miles about. week," explained the minister. "He But time played tricks on Olaf's thought today was Sunday." memory. The older he got, the more The minister got no further in his forgetful he became. He could not explanations. Angry shouts came remember where he put his glasses. from the shopkeepers. "Olaf is a tool. He could not remember the names of He should no longer be allowed to the village children whom he met in ring the bells, calling us away from the street. And finally he could not our business as he has done!" World Valentines remember the days of the week. "We've left our doors open. We'll Every morning when he awoke, be robbed! It is all Olaf's fault." Olaf asked himself the same ques- "Get a younger man to ring the 1 think it would be rather fun tion: "Is this, perchance, Sunday bells! Olaf can no longer be trusted." If Denmark, France, and Italy morning: Should I be ringing the But not everyone had forgotten the Would send some valentines to Spain bells?" Then he would find out by long years of service Olaf had given. going to the calendar where he "Is there anything wrong in being And Turkey and West Germany. checked off the days each morning. called to church one day other than I think, perhaps, that this would be But at last the time came when Sunday?" called an old weaver who A world of love and happy signs Olaf could not remember to check had known Olaf in his youth. off the days on the calendar. He "Olaf has served us faithfully for If every country, big and small. woke one morning feeling certain it 60 years," called another. Would send each other valentines! was a special day. "Surely it is Sun- "Let this be Olaf's day," called a —Ruth Adams Murray day," thought Olaf. Everything housewife from the crowd. seemed quiet and peaceful. Care- "We have been baking," said an- fully, Olaf dressed in his best suit other woman. "Let us bring our of clothes and put on his tall Sunday cakes and have a feast." hat. Then, at the proper time, he "A feast, a feast! A feast in honor started for church. His watch, which of old Olaf!" called the children just was always exactly right, told him as Olaf came to the door of the 2 fceepq Tuwje/ it was time to ring the bells. church to see where all the people Slowly Olaf pulled the bell rope. were. I'm not one bit sleepy "Clang—clang—clang—clang : time The angry ones felt ashamed when to spare, time to spare." Shopkeepers they saw Olaf in his best suit and When it's time to go to bed. and shoppers looked at one another Sunday hat. They went back to their I can think of many things in wonder. What was this? The shops to lock their doors, but before rather instead. church bells ringing on Thursday thev locked them, they chose the best I'd do, morning? thev had on their shelves to bring But early in the morning Faster now. "Clang, clang—clang, to the feast. I am such a sleepy head. clang: watch the clocl{. watch the Then the children all gathered cloc\\" called the bells. Housewives around Olaf and said, "Don't worry, Though there are many things to do, left their baking to go out and dis- Olaf, we will help you remember I'd rather stay in bed! cuss the meaning of the bells with when Sunday morning comes each —Gina Bell-Zano their neighbors. No one in the village week." had died, and no one was to be mar- And Olaf the bell ringer, listening ried. That they knew. to the children sing and the people "Clangety clang, clangety clang: cheer, wiped a happy tear from his step lively there, step lively there!' eye. Indeed this was a special day Boys and girls at play began to skip for Olaf, just as he had thought toward the church in time to the when he awoke that morning. February 1 962 \Together 61 Hobby Alley Once upon a time, he believed many of them. But now He Collects SUPERSTITIONS By NEIL M. CLARK If THE FOLKS of Rocky Comfort, Mo., needed any proof that hoodoos worked, Joe Price provided it. He was driving back from Joplin with three friends one night when a black cat ran in front of the car. His friends wanted to turn around and not go home until next day, but Joe balked. "How can a cat crossing the road hurt anybody?" he jeered. "The cat doesn't do it," they argued. "It's a sign. Coming events cast shadows, and it means bad luck!" Joe was scornful, but two of his friends were so upset that he had to drive them back to Joplin, where they caught a train home. Joe and the other youth set out again in the car. No- body knows just what happened, but when the car was found it was wrapped around a telephone pole, and Joe and his friend were dead. Nobody objects to blacl{ cats—if they stay put and don't cross the path. This is just about everybody's No. 1 superstition, and one of the oldest. O.K. GRANDDAD. WHERE ) The other two youths—who recog- "When I went looking for the cows DID THE COWS GO? / nized a clear warning when they saw up in our hilly, brushy pasture," he one—shook their heads. "We tried to relates, "I would catch a daddy long- tell him," they said. legs, talk to it, then put it down and That is how superstitions start and go whichever direction it went. I gen- how they arc kept alive, says Benjamin erally found the cows, so it seemed A. Cartwright, who has assembled per- natural to give the spider the credit." haps the world's largest file—32,000 Wondering whether a certain maiden separate entries—on hoodoos, jinxes, shared his affection, young Ben would and charms. Born and reared on a name a mullein stalk for her, then farm near Rocky Comfort, the white- bend it down until the tip pointed to- haired University of Oklahoma pro ward her house. If—a week later—the lessor had a good start on his collection stalk were growing upright again, he of superstitions by the time he was 20. knew all was well! "And I believed most of them." he Ben also knew that a horseshoe must con I esses. be hung with the toe down to keep the Generally, Dr. Cartwright defines good luck trom running out, that a superstitions as beliefs based on hear- horsehair soaked in water would turn say, coincidence, or unreasonable fear into a snake, that setting your boots on ol the unknown, rather than on tacts. the table brought bad luck, and that Superstition teases farm boys who have They are only his hobby now, but they you never looked at the new moon no trouble locating a daddy — longlegs were a lorce to be reckoned with in his through a window. but don't \now where to lool{ for cows. youth in the picturesque Ozark hills. "Until I was 15," he says, "I had 62 Together /February 1962 — oi the chid barriers to the spread ol "Yi s, sir," the lady replied. "I've seen 'WHAT LUCK! the Christian Gospel, bill H is steadily ii myself." CCACK'.y losing ground wherevei the medical When she u .is ,i little girl, In r latin i A PUCE TO missionary serves. By demonstrating was bitten bj a rattlesnake. I li pressed PUT MY superioi knowledge in matters ol life the flesh oi a Ereshl) killed chicken v BOOTS! anil death, he clears the way loi at against the bite, and she saw the llesh ceptance <>i more advanced beliefs. tut ii a sickly green. The poison did that, Dr. Cartwright emphasizes, however, she thought and In i lather recovered. that superstition dues not recognize She never inquired whether chicken racial, geographical, or occupational llesh turns green lor Other reasons ( ii boundaries. Most ol the superstitions does), or whether people ever recover he has listed were picked up just 1>\ from rattlesnake bites without treal listening, but a newspaper article about men) (they do). him brought letters and oilers to trade Many superstitious rites linger long From as lar away as Connecticut and alter their meanings have been lost, Pennsylvania. and we practice them regularly without "1 saw a baseball player being inter- realizing their original significance. For viewed on TV one day," Dr. Cart- instance, when we shake hands, we wright recalls. "He had seen a truck are exercising the old custom of clasp loaded with empty barrels on the way ing right—or lucky—hands, thus in- to the park that day and knew he suring the flow of good luck between would lose. Hut he also knew that good triends. signs can counteract bad signs, and Hanging Christmas wreaths prob when he stepped on the mound, he saw ably is an outgrowth of superstition. a bright new penny in the dust. Evergreens were a symbol of fertility "He put it in his pocket, knowing to Northern Europeans, and they hung he was sure to win. He did, and he them around the house during the long, claimed he pitched one of his best cold winters, apparently in hope that Boots on a table bad luck? Sure—and games ever." they would absorb some of whatever it don't view the new moon out a window! Dr. Cartwright also recalls a dis- was that kept the boughs young. cussion of madstones with a charming, Dr. Cartwright, a distant relative of brilliant woman professor who was a famed Methodist circuit rider Peter warts all over the backs of my hands member of Phi Beta Kappa. Cartwright, was 20—still struggling to (probably from handling toads!). I was "I believed in madstones as a boy," finish elementary school—when a so ashamed that I washed them hun- he says. "So far as I knew, they were teacher planted the first seeds of doubt dreds of times in stump water and tried the only things that could save you about superstition in his mind. At the a dozen other sure cures. I washed them from a horrible death by rabies if a end of the term, she asked: with a stolen dishrag and hid it under mad dog bit you. The best madstones "Have any of you heard anything in the doorstep, buried knotted strings came from the gall bladders of white class that you don't agree with?" under the eaves of the house, and put deer." "I don't believe that about bumble- the blood from the warts on grains of The lady scoffed at the belief that a bees," Ben said. corn that I fed to an old rooster. stone could ward off rabies. "But," she "Oh? And why not?" "All such stunts, of course, were per- said, "I know something which does "Because there aren't enough bees." fectly worthless, but that doesn't matter draw poison: hot chicken flesh." The textbook claimed clover would one whit to superstitious people. A "Not that old one!" he protested, produce seed only when fertilized by charm can fail 99 times, but if it works thinking that she was joking with him. pollen carried from bloom to bloom by the 100th time that's remembered." It is this dramatic impact of coin- cidence, says Dr. Cartwright, which strengthens the witch doctor's fearful hold upon primitive people. If an epi- demic, an earthquake, a victory, or a death follows close upon the heels of a gp3M0RE \ curse or a prediction, they ascribe to .' MILES AND \ him magical powers. Ignorant ot caure \ I'LL HAVE HIM'.' and effect, and eager to rely upon some- one who seems to know, they accept the witch doctor's claims. Actually, the witch doctor's seeming ability to invoke disaster—or to effect cures and call down welcome rain probably is not the result of coincidence at all. He is probably simply more astute than his fellows and has learned to recognize the signs which signal an approaching rainstorm, the tremors which often precede an earthquake, and the symptoms of disease and the course they are likely to take. Superstition has, of course, been one Hoop snakes don't do this? Just try convincing a man who things he's seen one. February 1 962 \ Together 63 bees in search of nectar. But where were all those bumblebees? Ben had %UMl (ioUflJlOWtf. not noticed them. The teacher might have asserted her superior authority and knowledge, but she merely said: "Maybe you're right, This is catch-up month for Pen Pals and Genealogy—our most popular hobby Ben. Why not try an experiment? categories. But we haven't forgotten you other hobbyists; we'll continue to Maybe you'll discover something new." list your number one hobby specialties in forthcoming issues.— Your Editors. Ben built a big screen-wire cage and set it upside down in his father's clover field, so that the plants beneath it were 204 V' protected from the bees, but still open to CENEALOCY: Harry C. Asbury, Sr., 2 N. ware, York, Nebr.; Carol Guernsey (16), 301 S. MacDill Ave., Tampa 9, Fla. (Asbury, Barnett). Oak St., Clarksville, Ind.; Kathleen (17) and the sunshine, air, and rain. At harvest- Mrs. J. S. Colaw, 115 N. Parkwood Lane, Nancy (9) Miller, RD 1, Ulster, Pa.; Gwen time, Ben went back to inspect his Wichita 8, Kans. (Watson, Kracaw, Krakau, Melick, Unkenholz (13), Box 82, Breckenridge, Minn.; small plot. Sure enough, there was not Lowe, Morris, Ingham, Leichty, Shell, McCleary); Grace Higley (9), 407 Timpson St., Center, Tex.; Mrs. R. K. Dundas, 40 Carolina, S., Victorville, Carolyn Orr (13), 1503 E. 8th, Okmulgee, Okla.; a seed to be seen, although there were Calif. (Gould, Johnson, Rohr, Olsen, Olson); Orlo Sharon Baldwin (10), 3268 Lillwood Lane, Cin- plenty on the plants outside the screen. L. Bridge, 1240 Cherry St., Huntington, Ind. cinnati 39, Ohio; Sue (13) and Shirley (14) (Bridge); Elizabeth C. Young, RR 3, Rocky Bottom Cannon, R. 1, Matthews, Mo.; Sherry Adams "From then on," Ben says, "I de- Farm, Sunset Rd., Rockport, Ind. (Allen, Berry, (10), R. 2, Hermleigh, Tex.; Sharon Garvin (14), cided I would check the facts before ac- Cantwell, Drake, Duncan, Davis, Evans, Frank, RD 1, Rising Sun, Md. cepting things that didn't sound quite Grim, Garrett, Garvin, Hancock, Horner, Harvey, Martha Whitley (8), 4515 38th Ave., N., St. Howell, Jones, Lamar, Lang, Miller, Mackey, Petersburg 13, Fla.; Sandra Hampton (13), 126 right." He soon found that you will not Markle, Mason, McCullough, Montgomery, Skaggs, E. 3rd St., Weston, W.Va.; Barbara Herrington die if you eat fried fish and drink milk Snyder, Thompson, Thomas, Wollen, Woolen, Ward, (10), Radcliffe, Iowa; Beverly Sanders (13), 3281 Wilkinson, Young); John C. Williams, 8112 Lone- Maple Grove Ave., NE, Louisville, Ohio; Linda S. at the same meal, and he learned that willow Lane, Norfolk 2, Va. (Griffin, Hogan, Watts (14), RR 1, Mystic, Iowa; Sandra (13), Bill folks who told about hoop snakes Posey, Williams). (12), and Jack (11) Newcomb, RFD 1, Franklin, Martha Stucki, 1040 Angle Ave., Northbrook, N.H.; Sharon Sheets Box 176, Harlan, Ind.; thrusting their tails into their mouths (14), III. (Krebs, Bibb); Mark M. Redfearn, Box 1076, Judy Nelson (13), Menlo, Iowa; Carol Faust (11), and careening after people like run- Hugoton, Kans. (Redfearn, Redfern, Redefern, 80241 Coon Creek Rd., Allenton, Mich.; Gretchen away wheels were repeating hearsay. Redfearne, Readfearne, Readfearn, Redfarn); Mrs. Olson (13), 241 Mountwell Ave., Haddonfield, J. M. Morgan, Jr., Dozier Rte., Shamrock, Tex. N.J.; Pamela (11) and Cheri (16) Johnson, RD 2, For awhile, he even conducted a mild (Hartgraves, Pelton, Clemens, Capps, Ross, Russell, Kersey, Pa.; Dorothy Pfeifer (14), R. 40, Box 108, crusade to strip his neighbors of their Price, Derrick); Mrs. L. B. Blackstone, 714 E. Gowanda, N.Y.; Kathi Link (17), 306 Hamilton St., Tex. (Blackstone, King, Boone, Way, Smyrna, Del.; David Ward William- superstitions, but he soon gave that up. 13'/2 Houston 8, (12), Lawley, Pennal, Pierce, Paul, Herring); Mrs. son, Ga.; Lynn Lister (11), 7 Park St., Caribou, "You don't win many converts by tell- Madeliene Wentworth, 326 N.C. St., Arkansas City, Maine. ing people what fools they are," he Kans. (Rowley, Dodge, Nettleton). Ellen Blassingham (15), Larchwood, Iowa; Fred Chamberlain, 1034 E. Philadelphia St., Tommie K. Wright (14), Box 277, Damascus, Va.; laughs. Pomona, Calif. (Kinckerbocker, Chamberlain, Elizabeth Ahlquist (12), 15 Reed St., Oakdale, Steady scientific advances and rising Spencer, Teed); Mrs. J. H. Snyder, 1060 Capri Mass.; Kathy Caron (14), 34 Waushacum St., Dr., Campbell, Calif. (Altice); Mrs. John Shriner, Oakdale, Mass.; David Killgrove Box 96, educational standards will wipe out (13), R. 2, Colville, Wash. (Watt, Perry, Ensminger, Nashville, Ohio; Margaret Thompson (11), Box most superstitions, Dr. Cartwright be- Woodside, Barger, Waddell, Beck, Shriner); Robert 633, Belle Glade, Fla.; Judy Lee (16), Box 33, lieves, but he doubts that we will ever A. Peirce, RR 1, Hagertown, Ind. (Peirce, White- Lake Crystal, Minn.; Susan Pullman (11), RR 2, head, Anderson); James L. Douthat, 2076 Virginia Sidney, Iowa; Joseph Allison, Jr. (16), 252 Main be completely free of them. He says Ave., Bluefield, Va. (Douthat, Douthit, Moore, St., Milesburg, Pa.; Marilyn Minyard (15), 166 he has never known a person—includ- Painter); Mrs. Floyd A. Gore, 608 S. Ash, Centralia, Granite St., Quincy 69, Mass.; Madeleine Kannap- Mo. (Davis, Eike, Gore, McDannald, Osborn, pel (14), St. Johannesgatan 31, Norrkoping, ing himself—who did not harbor at Randall, Swearingen, Van Sweringen). Sweden; Donna Shane (17), 201 W. Exchange, least a trace of superstition. Jerseyville, III.; Jane Stimson (11), 10 Circle Dr. PEN PALS: (open to age 18): Stephen Winters Lawrenceburg, Ind.; Pearle Peck (13), Box 206, "Not long ago," he recalls, "I was a (10), 225 Pierce St., Pontiac, 111. Big Sandy, Mont.; Donna Peterson (13), Box 432, pallbearer at a friend's funeral, and I Girls 10-14 are invited to join a new pen-pal Big Sandy, Mont. Judy Black Sharon Rd., N. had to step across the open grave. As I club. Write Mary McLeod, Box 123, Hazel, Ky.; (16), 8500 NW, Karen Wartel (11), 90 Pierce St., Greenfield, Mass.; Canton 20, Ohio; Sharon Ziegler (14), 8107 did so, I remembered hearing long ago Linda Amos (14), Box 86, Beaver Crossing, Nebr.; Harford Rd., Baltimore 14, Md.; Marleis Hadasch that this invited bad luck—maybe even Susie Kirkpatrick (15), 1744 Pacific Beach Dr., (17), Lessingstrasse 7, Halle Soale, Germany-DDR; San Diego 9, Calif.; Cheryl Douglas (7), Carol Landin (13), 616 Lawman Ave., Bridgeport, death. It gave me the queerest feeling." (8), and Marilyn (4) Highsmith, 906 N. Willis, Cham- W.Va.; Linda Marquitz (12), 24 E. Sixth St., paign, III.; Bobbie Armstrong (14), Box 174, Wyoming, Pa.; Sharon Greenman (14), Box 123, Bryson, Tex.; Katheryn Ainsworth (14), Box 57, South Bend, Wash.; Barbaro Elcker (14), Box 174, Bryson, Tex.; Terry Ainsworth (14), Gen. Del., Raymond, Wash.; Donita Jo Lieske (14), 1724 Bryson, Tex.; Geneva Robinson (14), Box 246, Ave. "E," Hawardcn 3, Iowa; Shyrle J. Darby Bryson, Tex.; Betty Masey (14), R. 3, Jacksboro, (12), 918 California Ave., West Covina, Calif.; Tex. Jacqueline Grencrt (16), 23811 New Road, South From Kuala Lumpur, Sclangor, Malaya: Daisy Bend 14, Ind.; Joyce (12) and Mike (6) Kopy- Thomas (16), 148D Lorong Jubilee, Lorong Yew cienski, Main St., Linfield, Pa.; Cindy Lewis (14), Rd.; Pancy Leong (16), 161 Petaling St.; Rema Church Creek, Md.; Janice S. Melius (15), 1534 Gopal (16), Sungei Way Estate; Sylvia Tan (16), S. 168th St., Waukesha, Wis. 31 Freeman Rd. Christine Williams (12), 749 S. Broadmoor Ave., Jean Baker (18) and Rosemary Herrman (18), West Covina, Calif.; Jill Vankirk (17), 504 Brax- 640 Marshall St., Albert Lea, Minn.; Bill Quist ton St., Gassaway, W.Va.; Ann Hopkins (17), 600 (10), 213 N. Berkshire, Pontiac, Mich.; Suellen Braxton St., Gassaway, W.Va.; Jo Ann Conrad Donnelson (14), 1807 Hawthorne, Independence, (13), Wisner, Nebr.; Jordan Hamm (11), RR 1. Mo.; Sherry (11) and Karen (13) Hoffman, RR 3, Garrett, Ind.; Kay Arnold (13), 1242-A, Dresden Ridgcvillc, Ind.; Susan Jinnctte (13), R. 2, Eox PI., Anaheim, Calif.; Nadine Allison (15), 218, Greensboro, N.C; Penny Jessup (13), R. 2, Beardsley, Minn.; Linda Weinhold (12), 43 North Box 204, Greensboro, N.C; Liz Tolbcrt (17), 505 St., Methucn, Mass.; Christine Modishcr (13), 29 Jewel Lane, El Dorado, Ark.; Diane Sowcy (11), Church St., Fredonia, NY.; Mr. Obafemi D'Almeido 804 Central Ave., Dover, N.H.; Karen Kopisch (15), 15 Lake St., Lagos, Nigeria; Lurlcen (13) t PENNY/ NOW (12), 257 Norwood, E. Alton, III.; Sandra L and Kathy (10) Mahady, Hclcnbirg Rd., Covington, Heisc (14), 7824 Wilson Ave., Baltimore 14, La.; Marilyn Jenkins (18), Box 204, Chadron State ! we can't Md.; Nancy L. Hanlon (14), 3302 Putty Hill Ave., College, Chadron, Nebr.; Linda Griffith (11), 501 LOSE/ Baltimore 14, Md.; Karen (12) and Russcl (7) Buckeye St., Archbold, Ohio; Bethany Sears (13), / Felton, RR 1, Box 30, Charlo, Mont. 396 Tremont St., Taunton, Mass.; Alice Hoskins Valarie Belawicz (14), 419 Spring St., Phoenix, (15), 524 Weyman Rd., Pittsburgh 36, Pa. N.Y.; Cynthia Robertson (15), R. 2, Box 86, Patty Martin (11), R. 2, Catawba, N.C; Judy Panama City, Fla.; Jill Chapman (13), Box 37, Winters (15), 101 Mount Vernon St., Ridgefield He found a good omen to offset other Belle Glade, Fla.; Tim Robson (9), R. 2, Box 154, Park, N.J.; Bonnie Buckley (14), 107 Martin Ave., bad ones. Wasn't that a lucky breaks Scranton, Iowa; Vicki J. Stauffcr (11), 619 Dela- Hempstead, N.Y. 64 Together/ February 1962 tense Spectators: Dee iteming (right) and fellow Students. They'll let off steam later at the ^ ri&tK WBB* |r V ff After the game, these Colorado teens will swarm to Laf\ewood Methodist Church. For the full story, turn the page . . . Dee, head majorette, has an after-game 'den date with Tom Elliott (left), then a Hoarse with frenzy, a booster until the Tiger second-team forward. last, she cheers every La\ewood play —even though the other team leads. February 1 962 \Together 65 — THE TIGER'S DEN is not the sort of name usually used to describe a church's fellowship hall. But in Lakewood, a Denver suburb, the den is in the Methodist church—and teen-agers come there in droves after each Lakewood High home game. Sometimes, more than 400 are present, swap- ping game-time tensions for healthful relaxation. They listen to music, talk, play games, and consume fantastic quantities of pop, milk, doughnuts, cookies, and pizza. After-game shenanigans such as those sometimes reported elsewhere have been noticeably absent from the Lakewood area, and much credit should go to those in the community who recognize that the pent-up steam a hard-fought athletic contest generates among spectators must have an outlet which, in Lakewood, is the Tiger's Den. And Tiger rooters do have plenty of spirit; it helped carry Lakewood to the state football title in 1960 and runner-up in 1961. There's fun waiting for Tiger rooters beyond this door at Lakewood Methodist Church, where adult sponsors greet Dee and Tom. There's table tennis: Tom and Dee team up to play another couple while kibitzers loo\ on. A popular member of the group, Tom is president this year of Lahcwood's MYF. There's music: They gather around to listen and watch as Terry /ones pounds out a drum solo with a jazz combo. 66 Together /February 1962 A home game is hardly over before the lull begins to inks ii a student is to keep Ins pass, dim a student enters throb with activity. A student orchestra which will plaj - and leaves, he cannot return. Unruly conduct and smoking or try to play any request is supported bj ticket sales. are prohibited. And because competitive excitement lingers IX liners arc happy to have live music instead »>i ilu- long, no guests from the opposing school are permitted; recorded tunes of former years. Some students gather around When Tocethuk's photographci visited the Den last to listen; others prefer to talk or to play games. winter he found spirits undimmed, despite a 76 49 Tiger Since the Tiger's Den was organized in 1955 In the loss to Arvada High-School cagcrs. He reported, and «r Lakewood church's Methodist Youth Fellowship, it lus quote, that "some '(III inns downed H i.ises ol tola, 5 large become an increasingly important auxiliary to the high pizza pies, 10 dozen doughnuts, 48 pints ol milk, IH cand) school's athletic program. Admission is by ticket alone. bars, 40 packs ol gum, and copious quantities ol cookies." Formerly free, they now cost SI to help pay expenses. The music and laughter continued for two boms 01 Interested students obtain season tickets through theii high- more. Then, as midnight approached, the noise was replaced school homerooms. Guest tickets, foi one time use, are issued by a subtlued emptying-OUt sound. Soon the church was In the dean's office. The den is open u> all Lakewood stu- quiet and the yawning Tigers—geared down from the dents, not just Methodists. frenzy ol the game—went home to their private dins for Admission automatically requires observance of certain a night of sound sleeping. There's food aplenty: Dee and Tom swap big wedges of pizza. Nothing li\e a ball game to wor\ up an appetite! fast in front of Yigyan Bhawan Hall, where the WCC convened. During a panel discussion, The Church in the World, lay delegates urged the clergy to "become our part- ners and let us be your partners." They asked the churches to spend at least as much money for the training of the world parish and equipping of Christians who "try to do God's work in secular jobs" as WCC VOTES MEMBERSHIP FOR RUSSIAN CHURCH they do for training of clergymen and professional helpers. The Russian Orthodox Church and members ot the Orthodox church into the Orthodox Churches of Communist their own iold." Charles Parlin Elected Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania were In a report by a WCC commission, First voted full membership in the World proselytism was defined as witnessing WCC Lay President Council of Churches at its Third As- that has been corrupted, when cajolery, Charles C. Parlin, a prominent U.S. sembly in New Delhi, India. bribery, and intimidation are used Methodist layman, was one of two Lu- Nineteen other church bodies in the subtly or openly to make converts. men among six men elected co-presi- United States, Africa, Asia, and Latin It also was described as placing the dents of the World Council of Churches America also were accepted for WCC success of a church above "the honor of at its Third Assembly in New Delhi, membership. Christ," seeking to advance one's own India. Largest and oldest of the national cause by bearing false witness against The other lay president is Sir Francis Orthodox Churches, the Russian another church, and substituting self- Ibiam, governor- church with some 50 million adher- seeking love of individuals. general of Eastern ents is five times larger than The In other action, the International Nigeria, a Presbv- Methodist Church in the U.S. Its pres- Missionary Council (organized in 1921) terian. Also elect- ence brings to 300 million the number was integrated into the WCC. As a re- ed were The Rev. of Protestant, Anglican, and Eastern sult, the WCC, which has been con- Arthur M. Ram- Orthodox church members now repre- cerned principally with church unity, sey, primate of the sented in the World Council. An initial theological studies, international affairs, Church of Eng- membership of 146 bodies in 1948 has and service to refugees, now also will be land; Archbishop swelled to 198. responsible for co-ordinating the world- Iakovos, Greek By an overwhelming vote of 149 to 3 wide Protestant and Orthodox enter- Orthodox primate (with four abstentions), the Russian prise. of North and Mr. Parlin church became the first large church The Rev. U Ba Hmyin, secretary of South America; body from behind the Iron Curtain to the Burma Baptist Churches Union, Dr. Martin Nie- join the WCC. challenged Christianity to "make a radi- moller, a member of the German Evan- for cal break from purely of gelical Protestant Archbishop Nicodim, spokesman Western ways [ | Church, and Dr. the Russian church, said his church had thought." David G. Moses of The United Church complete freedom in the atheistic com- "We're against the domination of of Northern India and Pakistan. munist state. He asserted that, by foreign missionaries in India," said F. P. Mr. Parlin. a New York City Lawyer government decree in 1918, the church Fatehmasih of the All-India Nation- living in Englewood, N.J., was elected is separate from the state. This was alist Christian Association. "Under in 1957 as the first lay vice-chairman confirmed in 1936 by the constitution, cover of Christian activities they cover ot the National Council of Churches' he said. their western political activities." General Board. At the same time, he The Vatican Radio warned that ad- Mr. Fatehmasih staged a brief protest was chosen one of eight vice-presidents- mission of the Russian church would be used by the Soviet government as a means "to confuse the world" and as "a cover for further persecution of religion." In the meantime, it predicted, radical moves would be made by the Kremlin to liquidate the Russian church entirely because it represented a threat to "au- thentic communism." Two Pentecostal churches in Chile received less support in the voting for WCC membership than did the Russian church. No indication of the source of opposi- tion was given, but it was believed to have come from Eastern Orthodox and other denominations who object to the proselytizing activities of Pentecostalists. Bishop Theophilos of the Ethi- opian Orthodox Church had called in one council session lor definite steps to counteract an "unchristian clement Seattle Area Methodists hare joined with 19 northwest U.S. denominations in proselytizing." 1 le complained of Christian groups which, through "mis- and 15 religious groups to build this $175,000 Christian Witness Pavilion for placed enthusiasm," seek to "draw away the Seattle Century 21 Exposition, which is to be held April 21 to October 21. 68 Together /February 1962 Give Your Church THIS MEMORIAL ABOVE ALL! \ These Methodist missionaries to Angola were freed after three months in a A Ringing Tribute! Lisbon, Portugal, jail. .It left is the Rev. Wendell L. Golden of Rockjord, Loving! III.; at right {lejt to right) are the Rev. Edwin LeMaster of Lexington, Ky.; Li ring! Miii ion Way, Jr., of Charleston, S.C.; and bred Brancel of Endeavor, Wis. Lusting! al large oi the National Council ol Four Methodist Missionaries Churches. Released from Lisbon Jail In 1958, he visited Russia as one ol missionaries a nine-man National Council delega- Four Methodist jailed tion invited by the Russian Orthodox for three months in Lisbon, Portugal, Church. on charges of having connived with Vs a World Council delegate, Mr. terrorists in Angola, have been released Parlin attended a conference in Johan- (see Special Report on Angola, page nesburg to study the problem ol racial 14). segregation (apartheid) in South Africa. Arrested on September 5, 1961, in In The Methodist Church, Mr. Parlin Angola by the Portuguese government has been chairman. Commission on and taken to Lisbon to lace charges Interjurisdictional Relations; vice-presi- were the Rev. Wendell Lee Golden of dent, World Methodist Council, and a Rockford, 111., the Rev. Edwin Le- delegate to each General Conference Master of Lexington, Ky., Fred since 1940. Brancel of Endeavor, Wis., and In other elections at the World Coun- Marion Way, of Charleston, S.C. Jr., Memorial Bells by cil Assembly, tour Methodists were see Arrest More Missionaries, Novem- | Schulmerich!® What a added to the Central Committee. WCC ber, page 11 1961, J. uniquely wonderful way to They are Bishop F. Gerald Ensley, After their deportation from Portu- a loved one! Iowa Area; Bishop James K. Mathews, remember gal, LeMaster, Brancel, and Way re- surely your church would Boston Area; Bishop Roy H. Short, And turned to the U.S. Mr. Golden flew to appreciate receiving these Nashville Area; and Mrs. Sadie Till- London and then to Southern pure-toned Schulmerich bells man, Lewisburg, Tenn., president of Rhodesia for reassignment. as a "living" reminder, too. Woman's Division of Christian Service. All four men flatly denied charges As a gift from you . . . they had aided Angolan rebels by per- in your own name . . . Argentina Work Stepped Up mitting them to hold political meet- while you are here to give! A new Methodist primary school ings in Methodist churches or on mis- Appropriate plaque, and kindergarten has gone up in an sion grounds, by distributing and if desired. Inexpensive! Write underprivileged section of Buenos publishing subversive literature, and by for information and brochure. Aires, Argentina, as part of the stepped- helping Angolan students flee the coun- up work program in that Land of try. Decision during the 1960-64 quad- They also denied reports that Com- THE CARILLON rennium. munists had instigated and led the re- IN 1 HIS CHURCH Argentine respect for Methodist ed- volt which has grown into a full-scale IS DFDICATED TO ucational institutions is indicated by civil war. THE GLORY OF GOD the fact that almost half (44) of the that the Communists "We can't say PRESENTED 97 pupils at the William C. Morris to capitalize on the re- are not trying IN LOVING MEMORY OF Evangelical School are from non- volt," Mr. Way said, "but they neither MARIE HOTING Methodist homes. started the war nor lead it. The Africans BY The school is in the La Boca Meth- are rebelling against the deplorable JOHN L. HOTING odist Church, where members worked conditions that have existed in Angola day and night to convert Sunday-school for almost ^00 years." rooms to classrooms. The missionaries said they felt their Dedicated by Bishop Sante Uberto release resulted from pressure brought SCHULMERICH Barbieri of the Buenos Aires Area, the by thousands of letters sent by Ameri- CARILLONS, INC. school meets all the standards set by the can church to the Portuguese members 3122CARILL0N HILL • SELLERSVILLE, PA. government and offers to its students a government. ©Trademark of Bell Instruments course in religion. The Methodist Board of Missions Produced by Schulmerich Carillons Inc. February 1 962 \ Together 69 ) also had protested the arrest of the Amendment XII Apparently men to the U.S. State Department, and Fails; Substitutes Proposed When you're has issued a statement condemning Proposed Amendment XII to the the Portuguese government for its Constitution of The Methodist Church called on... policies see Portugal's in Angola | appears to have been defeated, and Angola Policies Hit in Board Statement, will YOU already new proposals are being dis- December, 1961, page J. Release of 69 cussed which have similar goals and the men lollovved negotiations between know what may be brought before the 1964 Gen- the governments. two eral Conference. to do? Interviewed by telephone by To- Tabulations of votes cast by delegates gether and Christian Advocate, Mr. to 1961 annual-conference sessions show LeMaster said that documents the 15,924 votes for the amendment and Portuguese government claimed to 9,022 against. The amendment is more have substantiating their charges could than 700 votes short of adoption, since have been obtained through torture or a two-thirds majority of all members forgeries. He told of hearing Angolese present and voting at the annual con- being tortured and beaten with a club ferences is required for passage. in the jail where he and his companions Thirteen conferences (Peninsula in THIS FREE BOOKLET ON FUNERALS were first held in Angola. the U.S., and 12 overseas) have yet to SHOULD BE IN EVERY HOME! Mr. LeMaster said he thought the vote, but they are not expected to Knowing precisely what to do when fu- Portuguese had planned to arrest the change the outcome. Indications—based neral arrangements are necessary can be missionaries as "hostages," thinking on 1956 voting are that they will not very comforting and helpful. That's why — WILBERT Burial Vaults offer you FREE, a that the Methodist Board of Missions add over 600 votes. helpful 24 page booklet titled FACTS Ever y would remain silent about conditions Amendment XII, sent by the 1960 Famil Should Know . Address your inquiry y in Angola under the threat of danger General Conference to the annual con- to: WILBERT, Box 147 G-2, Forest Park, Illi- nois. (No obligation, and no sales contact to its personnel. ferences for ratification, would have: will be made. He told of one Portuguese officer 1. Increased the maximum number When your funeral director rec- who pointed to a world map showing of delegates to the General Conference t. mends WILBERT Burial Vaults, you can place your the location of Methodist missions and from the present 900 to 1.400. complete confidence in said, "These are the areas which The 2. Required that the same persons his suggestion. These products have been Methodist Church has marked for in- be delegates to General Conference engineered and dependence." that are delegates to the jurisdictional scientifically ^ developed, To date, the Portuguese have ar- conferences. are quality- rested five Methodist missionaries. The 3. Changed the time and place of controlled and proved by Rev. Raymond E. Noah of Palco, the jurisdictional conferences so that over a Kan., was arrested in July and held they would be held at the time and quarter century of use. incommunicado for 28 days before he place of the General Conference, or at WILBERT Burial was deported to Switzerland see | a different time and place selected by Vaults have prac- tical merit. 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New Delhi grave of Mahatma Gandhi during 70 Together /February 1962 g — — . . I. Pro\ ided foi the > onset ration ai General Conference ol bishops elected ,ii the jurisdictional conferences. 5. Created .i < leneral Confer* n< < For Your Club or Group WORLD'S LARGEST RELIGIOUS Episcopacy Your group can raise all tin* money it DMd L Committee on which Mauy.qotoUy, without Leoocttojool I'll G000S DEPARTMENT STORE would state conditions foi ili< transfei .. eemi yoor roup a topplyofny Pi iy«i N huorioui QnuM i ol ,i hem jurisdiction t<> advance. Exqolilti d«slg bishop one for Clergy, Choir and Church prmyarttxtiMl tjnftoefttl.thankfu] another, and announce assignment oi mood «( m.-uiH. Have 10 Dimbtn eui-h 20 packages; keep 160 v.-nr sell fa bishops .ii the General Conference. treasury, mid DM balance of (ffOOMda. Never Spend lc of Your Own Money (>. Permitted overseas conferences to WE REPRESENT EIGHT OF Take up to 00 days; wi* give credit on uupkiriH. either before or alter THE WORLD'S LARGEST rprr You risk nothing to try my amazing meet General ™ »»* OF ALTAR planf iMedbyoverB0 l000|rroQpa, MANUFACTURERS . 1^'*'* Conference. Rush vour name ami address now for de- yffZ*^ . , tail, which APPOINTMENTS AND of my Flan bring* no hat /PG uorome«i by'^ Although not directly linked to the cash, or valuahl,- «„, foment for your ( Good HouS(. k COMMUNION WARE group, rant/rw no obligation. Write to t \. denomination's integration problem, (tan Elizabeth Wade.Depl762FB.lynchbuit.Va. proponents oi the amendment at Den • Sudbury ver said it would foster a spirit oi National unity in the church, minimize the risk International Silver that separate jurisdictions might be- Gorham Silver come ingrowing and provincial in out- Rostand Brass look, and make possible assignment ol 'ell-Ware bishops across jurisdictional lines. Op- ponents argued it would destroy pres- ent jurisdictional rights and powers. The church now has six jurisdictions, five of which divide the U.S. by geo- graphic areas and the sixth—-the Cen- tral (Negro) Jurisdiction —which en- compasses the nation. Ordering Stamps or Cards? PARAMENTS The amendment resulted from rec- TOGETHER accepts advertisements only from Ready Made ommendations made to the 1960 Gen- reliable dealers. If the advertisement mentions Custom Made word 1 the "approval* or "approvals," the dealer eral Conference by a 70-man Commis- Do-it-yourself intends to send a selection of merchandise known as "approvals" in addition to any free items or sion to Study and Recommend Action ones you have paid for in advance. If you keep Concerning the Jurisdictional System CHURCH GOODS any of the "approval" items, you must pay for by Charles Parlin Engle- them and return the ones you do not wish to buy. headed C. of ^national SUPPLY COMPANY If you do not intend to buy any of the "approval" wood, N.J. The commission recom- • 51 -23 ««H SlllIT, FHILADil'HI A 7, »A. items, return them promptly, being sure your juris- name and address are clearly written in the upper mended retention of the present left-hand corner of the package in which you dictional setup except for the changes return the merchandise. set forth in the amendment. It did not '£/rwuim& rrm propose abolition of the Central Juris- Supreme in beauty g In Steel orWood and style. Fine quality -- FOLDING TABLES materials and tailor- / A WRITE FOR CATALOG J UPCOMING EVENTS ing; fair prices. Write . AND LOW DIRECT PRICIS ( Of Interest to Methodists Everywhere for catalog and material J.RRedington&Co. swatch book. 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The Chicago Co/^esbury Bool{ Store has moved to this new location in the Chicago Temple (First Methodist Church) in the heart of the Loop. 1 Guaranteed Life Income diction, but did urge greater imple- Two New Area News Editions 2 Absolute Safety mentation of Amendment IX, adopted Tocether Area Xews Editions now in 1956, which would bring about 3 World-wide Missions Korean Roadside clinic are published each month for 31 of eventual abolition of the Central Juris- Methodism's 45 episcopal areas. diction through voluntary assimilation With this issue, two new AXE's Booklet Free— Write Today into the five other jurisdictions. for the Atlanta and Louisiana Areas Mr. Parlin now heads a 36-member "Bright Horizons" fully explains The are being inserted in Together for sub- Plan all invest- Commission on Interjurisdictional Re- Annuity and answers your scribers in those areas. questions lations to study and promote Amend- ment and guides you to wiser Xo other religious or secular maga- stewardship. Annuities in amounts from ment IX, and to make recommenda- T zine in the L .S. has this "split level" $100 up. Investigate this means of benefit tions to the 1964 General Conference. type of journalism—an article-with- See Jurisdictional to and others. Write today. | Commission: you 'Make news periodical of general appeal plus No Basic Changes', March, Arten. of Dr. Ashton A. Almand: Division of World 1960, page inserted regional news editions which Missions and Division of National Missions of the 69; Four Dynamic Years Charted at Board of Missions of THE METHODIST CHURCH provide news of the church at the Dept. T-2-40-2, 475 Riverside Dr., New York 27, Denver, July, 1960, page 69; Amend- local, New York. conference, and area levels. Thev ment XII Up For Conference Action, also complement regional Methodist May, 1961, page 73; Close Vote Seen publications where thev exist. on Proposed Amendment XII, August, 1961, page 64; Amendment XII Vot- Plaque Recalls Pilgrim Trials ing, September, 1961, page 66.] While official announcement of the A plaque has been installed under outcome of voting on Amendment XII London Bridge to commemorate Clink Prison and Prison Church, which were BENTLEY & SI will be made by the Council of Bishops closely associated with the quality CHOIR ROBES only after all conferences have re- Pilgrims and have set the standard ported, other proposals for accomplish- the Mayflower. The memorial was a of excellence ever American Chanel to since 1912. Custom- ing the same general goals already arc gift of London's tailored of fine fabrics, being discussed for possible considera- the Pilgrim Fathers' Memorial Church for your lasting enjoyment. BENTLEY & (Congregational) of London. PULPIT ROBES, too, made tion by the 1964 General Conference Prison Church, the predecessor the in the same quality way. SIMON Inc. in Pittsburgh. of Pilgrim Fathers' Church, was founded Write for catalog F-2 7 West 36 St.. N Y. 18. H. Y One of these has been made bv the bv Englishmen imprisoned for their Rev. Ted Hightower, pastor of St. religious beliefs. of the prisoners Paul Methodist Church, Louisville. Many BOAC'S HERITAGE TOURS Ky., and a leader in the Southeastern Jurisdiction. FOR 1962 Dr. Hightower, who favors reor- Seven of CENTURY CLUB departures 28 days each: June 8, 15, 29; ganization and modernization oi the July 6, 13; August 17; September 14. Visiting Scotland, England, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and church's machinery, proposes in part Together uelcomes two more France. Cost? $1298 Including round-trip economy that: airfare from New York, accommodations, land travel, Methodists who are 100 or older sightseeing, even meals for the most part. 1. The Central Jurisdiction meet to the Century Club. They are: prior to the General Conference and EUROPE-HOLY LAND realign its 17 annual-conference and 25 days, visiting England, France, Switzerland, Italy, Mrs. Eugenia Thompson, h\e episcopal areas so that no confer Greece, Egypt, Jordan and Israel. $1495 inclusive. 101, Middle-field, Ohio. Departs September 4. ence or episcopal-area boundaries cross For the most Inspiring tour of your life, personally those ol the live other jurisdictions. escorted by a minister, see your Travel Agent or write Mrs. Lvdia Wright. 100, BOAC's Tours Officer, 530 Fifth Avenue, New York 36. 2. The General Conference then Troy, Ohio. Dent. BE-106. confirm these realignments and send ALL OVER THE WORLD to annual conferences lor ratification The names of other Meth- an amendment abolishing the Central odists, 100 or older, tall be listed Jurisdiction anil transferring its annual as they are received. 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At- tendance was good at the animal meet ing ol the Woman's Societ) oi Chris ti.m Service, and the Methodist Youth Interesting innovation — Fellowship assembly was attended In buffet /me wal\ right through tin 175 delegates—an all-time high. Cltatiteuse:t efficient kitchen at Covenant. The Hoard ol Missions said individual churches report that the) are able to carry on their work, with some oi them experiencing renewed \italitv and growth in church lite. zaant ante, Twenty-one ordained ministers and T two supph pastors have left Cuba, but In ordained ministers remain. Lav min- isters are serving 26 churches. Methodist Bishop Friedrich Wunder eattit (^cilLuq lich of Germany, a recent visitor to Cuba, said he was received with warmth and that he found the church alive and needing faith, confidence, and Chartreuse is more than a Chicken Chartreuse a renewed ministry. color. In cookery, for instance, my 4 (4-lb.) chickens Methodist churches of the South- dictionary tells me it has quite a 8 cans cream of mushroom eastern Jurisdiction were asked to take history: "Originally, a preparation soup a special offering tor Methodist work ot fancy vegetables in a plain mold; 8 cups rice, uncooked in Cuba and among Cuban refugees in later, a mold of two or more loods, 8 cups bread crumbs Florida. A goal of $80,000 was set. as of rice and fruit, one of which Vi cup onion, chopped conceals the other." Stew and bone chickens. What prompted me to investigate Cut meat into bite-size CAMERA CLIQUE the word's meaning was a recipe for pieces. Remove grease from Chicken Chartreuse I received from top of stock and save to What Is Shallow Focus.' Take a look at the Mrs. Ruth Jobes, WSCS local-ac- moisten bread crumbs. Cook opening picture of Flowers for the Church Year on page '". Here the photographer wanted tivities chairman at First Methodist rice according to directions Only the bouquet in focus. To do this, he Church in Pasadena, Tex. The busy on package. Heat soup and and used moved in close to the subject the women there, who feed as many as add onion. Pack half of rice uidest lens opening possible. Shallow focusing 200 every week at the Rotary lunch- in bottom of greased baking requires a short distance to subject and a wide aperture. Sometimes the use of slow film and eon alone, say Chicken Chartreuse dish (or dishes) . Add layer a larger-than-normal focal-length lem will always is a smash hit with everyone. of chicken. Add second layer help. In this case, the camera was a Rolleiflex I passed the recipe on to the of rice. Pour soup mixture loaded with ASA 100 daylight color film. Martha Circle at Covenant Method- over all. Top with bread Illumination -was from two Xo. 2B photofloods in placed to the right and left of the picture ist Church in Evanston, 111., which crumbs moistened chicken area. Exposure was 1/8 of a second at //>.5. was planning luncheon for an all- grease. Bake in 350-degree You can use this technique next time you day WSCS meeting. Apparently oven until bubbly on top and to make a portrait and no uncluttered have Pasadena people have Texas-sized heated through. background is available. Just get close to the thing it subject and use the widest possible lens open- appetites—and a good was ing with a slow-speed film. for the Evanston women. They pre- Two Evanston women cooked We'll discuss making the background sharp pared food only for the 75 who had chickens the day before. Six worked next month when we take up tliat old bug- made reservations, but had plenty in the kitchen the morning of the aboo of every cameraman: depth of field. for an extra 15 who came. Every- luncheon. Serving buffet style, one body got a generous serving, too, woman dished up the Chicken Char- reports Mrs. Alford Scott, luncheon treuse, another added parsley and Here are photo credits for this issue: chairman. jelly, and a third distributed bread. 1 The luncheon menu also included Food cost was just 4 Of a person. Cover—John P. Taylor • Pages 2-3— French bread buttered and then Mrs. Scott told me the Chicken John P. Taylor • 13—Frances Ellis • 17 —Brian Brake of Magnum • 20—Fred oven-warmed, cranberry jelly, and Chartreuse was a "huge success." Shannon of Ohio State Journal • 32 Top pumpkin pie. (To butter a loaf of But, she added, next time the cooks —Ted Bronstein, Bot.—Purdue University bread, Mrs. Scott uses % pound of will either add a little more moisture • 33 Top—Presse Foto Lainmel Bayreuth • butter, 1 teaspoon of celery salt, or cut down on the rice. 51 —David W. Corson from A. Devaney Y2 of paprika, and teaspoon the is • 54—George Smith of Fort Worth Star- teaspoon % By way, Feeding Fifty one Telegram • 68—Durham, Anderson, and of salt.) year old this month. To everyone Freed • 69 AP Wirephotos • 70-73 RNS — — Here is Mrs. Jobes' recipe for who has shared an idea, given me a • 78 Top—Rav Clements, Bot.—Mel Chicken Chartreuse. It will serve 50 word of encouragement, or sent me Jackson • 79—Martha Ross • 21-37-38-39- hungry men—or quite a few more a church cookbook, I want to say 40-4 1 -42-43-44-50-65-66-67-72-76—George P. MUler. light eaters: thank you. —Sally Wesley February 1 962 \Together 75 — CHOIR ROBES LETTERS (continued from page 10) sion on Christian Social Concerns and tions of a constructive nature which frequently have been concerned with Newest colorfoil fabrics available. Together's news report also omitted this problem and the related issue of Catalog Write for A-74 in areas of the world mission of the determining the proper scope of our E. R. 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Topeka, Kansas. served on our local church's Commis- heightened our joy in Christianity. 76 Together / February 1962 together/news edition BISHOP Lloyd C. Wicke EDITOR Mrs. Margaret F. Donaldson 475 Riverside Dr., New New York ^ York 27, N.Y. VOLUME t>, NUMBER 2 I- EBRU A RY, 1 962 Ministers Fellowship at Charles C. Parlin Named Buck Hill Falls Feb. 6 World Council President Dr. M.uk Depp, pastor emeritus ol Charles C. Parlin ol Englewood (N.J.) is Centenary Methodist Church, Winston- one ol six presidents elected by the Third Salem, (N.C.), will Assembly of the World Council ol be the preacher Churches in New Delhi, India, to .id Februarj 6 8 at the minister this international religions fel Twelfth Annual lowship for the next six years. Fellowship ol Area Mr. Parlin's colleagues will be the ministers at Buck Archbishop ol Canterbury, the Most Hill Falls, Pa. His Rev. Arthur M. Ramsey, Pastor Martin sermons will be Niemoller, president ol the Evangelical entitled Religion Church in Hesse-Nassau, Germany; Arch- for Our World, bishop lakovos (James) oi the Creek The Challenge to Orthodox Archdiocese of North and the Church and South America; Sir Francis Ibi.iin, a Dr. Depp What Maizes a physician, a Presbyterian and Governor- Methodist Information Great Church'.' General of the Eastern Province of \i New president greets new member. Bishop F. Gerald Ensley of the Iowa geria; Dr. David G. Moses, principal of Charles C. I'arlin oj Englewood (N.J.) Area will lecture three times on The Hislop College, Nagpur, India, and re- right, teas elected one oj six presidents Methodist Church—Its Call, Its Oppor- cently ordained a minister of the United oj the World Council oj Churches at tunity and the Ecumenical Surge. Church of North India. . lis in/'/y in Mac Delhi. At left is The program will also include ad- Mr. Parlin was chairman of a committee Arckmandriate Pitirim oj Russian Church. dresses by Harold E. Wagoner, on church to raise funds to finance the founding architecture and Henry L. Willett on Assembly in Amsterdam in 1948 anil has church windows. Cites Need for Support been on the Central Committee which be each Devotions will conducted day The critical need for stepped-up com- governs the Council between assemblies by the Rev. William H. Alderson of munity support for hospitals was under- since 1954. He has also chaired the U. S. Bridgeport (Conn.). scored by the Rev. Norman (). Edwards, Committee on Interpretation and had a preside Bishop Wicke will and address administrator of Bethany Deaconess Hos- assembly the evening. the second pital, Brooklyn, in a report to the board Session chairmen will be the Rev. Law- at the annual meeting. Drew Honors Parlin superintendent of the rence Larrowe, He appealed for widespread support Drew University will confer the Troy District, the Rev. William Rodda of Bethany's care programs for chronically honorary degree of of of Chatham (N.J.), the Rev. Kenneth doctor laws ill aged and drew the sharp contrast be- the upon Charles C. Parlin at a special B. Truran of Margaretville (N.Y.), tween hospital costs of 100 years ago and ceremony January 21 at 3 p.m. It Rev. Ralph E. Spoor, Jr., of Tarrytown today. Rev. Wilfred of will mark the first honorary degree (N.Y.), and the Hansen Dr. Edwards said, "The fact that more the university has conferred. A Stratford (Conn.). people are alive today at 60 than ever reception and tea will follow the The Rev. Burton F. Tarr of Ardsley before has placed an enormous burden ceremony. is chairman. Rev. (N.Y.) general The on hospitals which must care for the Saratoga Springs Howard L. Stimmel of vast segment of the aged population will be organist. (N.Y.) afflicted with chronic ailments." major part in the supervision of the in- He urged a "massive training program" formation services at the Evanston and to prepare people for work in all facets Plan New Buildings New Delhi assemblies. of hospital care. He pointed out that capital-fund drive for $52,000 for He presently is secretary of the Com- A hospitals employ 22 workers for every the expansion and relocation of Grace mission on Church Union of The 10 patients. Meth- Church, Southington (Conn.) has been odist Church and chairman of the Com- completed. mission on Interjurisdictional Relations. A campaign for $103,000 is under way New Faces—New Places He also is one of the nine directors of in Patchogue (N.Y.) for a religious edu- Newark Conference the Commission on Public Relations and cation building and fellowship center in is trustee The Rev. Arthur R. Kelsey is serving Methodist Information. He a addition to the drive for the budget and the Milton Church. of Drew University, American University benevolences. and College. is The Rev. Henry E. May, Jr., now serv- Bethune-Cookman He A 598,000 educational building is being ing the Anderson Circuit. also on the governing board of Union planned by the Linden (N.J.) church. Theological Seminary and of the Ameri- The new sanctuary has been conse- New York Conference can Bible Society. He has served as first crated in Smithtown (N.Y.). The Rev. Robert C. Schrock from vice-president of the National Council of A new church-school building is being Brewster (N.Y.) to St. Paul and St. Churches and as a vice-chairman of its constructed in East Norwich (N.Y. ). Andrew, New York Citv. Oeneral Board. He now heads the Na- A-l tional Council of Churches Business and THE BISHOP WRITES Finance Committee. A senior partner in the law tirm. Jfet U* Jleiolve. Shearman and Sterling, he is a director of the First National City Bank of New At His birthday the angels sang, "Peace on earth to York, of the Citizens National Bank, men of goodwill." Englewood (N.J.), the Celanese Corpora- In the full flame of His manhood He assured us, tion of America, Schlumberger Ltd. of "Peacemakers are blessed." As their reward they shall Paris and Houston, Guerlain, Inc. and be known as "the children of God." is the president and director of the United At this season of the year we should be reminded States and Foreign Securities Corporation, that peace does not fall like dew; men do not stumble an investment trust company. upon it whether or no; it is not the chance event of Born in Wausau, Wis., in 1898, Mr. idle meandering. Parlin is a graduate of the Wharton Peace is God's reward granted men whose life has School of Finance of the University of been given a ransom to God's will, to goodwill. Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School. As the beatitude reminds, His men are commissioned be "makers of He has been honored with the doctor of peace." laws degree by Lycoming College and This is our vocation! Bethune-Cookman College. He and Mrs. Let us be done with the notion that we are helpless pawns on the world Parlin have two sons, one a lawyer, the scene. Let us accept our full measure of responsibility as "makers of peace." other a teacher; and one daughter, wife Let us become well informed, active, consecrated disciples of the Prince of of a Methodist minister. Peace. What finer resolution could be made at this season of the year: us resolve to become peacemakers. Tribute to East Side Church Let Lloyd C. Wicke A tribute to the work done by the Church of All Nations has been received by the Board of Home Missions from it. I really had no idea just how vital ment Drive of the Centenary Alumni As- Miss Linda Leavid who worked there this ministry to the children was." sociation. last summer. "I want to tell the Methodists what significant work they are doing on the Bethany Receives $3,500 lower east side of York at the New More than $3,500 was raised on the Church of All Nations congratulate and 69th annual "Donation Day" for Bethany them it," she writes. on Deaconess Hospital—more than double "This past summer I had the oppor- the 1960 total of $1,615. tunity of working there, in of the one The Rev. Norman O. Edwards, hos- most meaningful, memorable, and eye- pital administrator, says the funds will opening experiences I have ever had. I help support the hospital's care programs, have long been interested in foreign mis- with emphasis on the care of the chroni- sions, not really knowing the needs in our cally ill aged. own country. This summer opened my eyes to a phase of American life I had hardly known existed, making me real- Centenary Opens Pool "Dios bendiga" and "God bless you" is ize the magnitude of the need here at said by the Ree. Paul N. fewett and the splash party the new pool our back door, and the lack of interest A christened Rev. Felix Morales at Lafayette Church, the George Ferry Natatorium at we as American Christians have taken in J. Jersey City tX.J.i at a Communion Sun- Centenary College, Hackettstown (N.J.). in it. The Methodists' Church of All day ritual for young unconfirmed children. Nations is doing the most terrific job in The $450,000 structure also includes this area, one that is going out to the a dance studio, instructors' offices, locker 'little children' and 'the least of these.' rooms and gallery. "It was really amazing for me to see • The Edward W. Seay Administration the difference in the children after they Building has a new nighttime look, became a part of the church's program, thanks to spectacular floodlighting made and horrifying to imagine them without possible by the 1960-61 Living Endow- .. God and Country Awards are presented by the Rev. Harold L. Beaumont at Rit l I church to Scouts H: head N.Y. John \ man. Laurence C. Scudder II. Barry Barth. FEBRUARY. 1962 Vol. 6. No. 2 TOGETHER is an official oroan of The Methodist Church, issued monthly by the Methodist Publishing House. 201 Eighth Avenue South, Nashville 3. Tenn. Publisher: Lovick Pierce. Subscriptions: Order through local Methodist Church. Basic rate under All-Family Plan is 65C per quar- Pecura Photo ter ($2.60 per year) billed to church directly from Nashville. Tenn.: thirty per cent of church membership Service markjng merger of Wesley and Fairfield-Grace churches of Bridgeport (Conn.) must be represented to qualify. Rate under Club Plan is $3.20 per year per subscription; ten per cent of qualify. itas conducted by I from left,) the Rev. Arch Trcmaync. former pastor; District Super- church members must be represented in order to Individuals may order subscriptions at $4.00 per year intendent /.'. Leslie Wood; the Rev. John /. Waggy, Jr., and the Rev. Donald S. Law, in advance. Single copy price. 50c. Second-class postage has been paid in Nashville. Tenn. associate pastor and pastor, respectively . of the Fan field-Grace Methodist Church. A-2 Together /February 1962 £W^ Ttecv*. (Q) Recent visiting lecturers on the cam- is were Dr. Douglas Steere, chairman the philosophy department at Havei illege; Dr. Kenneth Clark, pro sMir of social psychology at N^" York ;\ College; and M. Denis de Rouge ont, of Zurich, Switzerland. !'>islu>p Wick< spok« to the Theological hool seniors and second yeat Master oi digious Education students. Dr. Hirsch L. Silverman, dean of the aduate school of education at Yeshiva niversity, was guest speaker. The university was host to the New rsej Intercollegiate Speech Contest and a statewide meeting of the Methodist Bishop Wic\e, Mrs. Paul Siegrist, education chairman, the Rev. L. R. Oliver; Mrs. udent Movement. Janus White, bui/ding committee chairman; Dist. Supt. Lawrence Larrotve at the First Bishop Herbert Welch, oldest living consecration of education additions made to the Church at North Adams (Mass.). simp of The Methodist Church, was lest speaker in Craig Chapel on the pic. Living it I 'p. Une Snort Circuit ew All-Family Churches Ever hear of a church playing post mond Hill (N.Y.) was one of 3,000 dele- nt Together All-Family churches office—and making money at it? Before gates attending the National Council of the Area are Christ Church, Piscatawav Christmas, Grace Church in St. Albans Churches' second National Conference ownship (N.J.), Calvary Church, Du- (N.Y.) urged parishioners to mail all on the Churches and Social Welfare in lont. (N.J.), and West Chazy (N.Y.) greetings cards addressed to other par- Cleveland, Ohio. hurch. ishioners in a mailbox at church and The Leonia (N.J.) church adds to its deposit the money they would have spent cotters four times a year by assisting The on postage in a "no-stamp box." Mail New York Society of Electron Micro- was distributed in alphabetically marked scopists in arranging stacks of between boxes and picked up at a party following 200,000 and 300,000 reference cards for the Christmas service. shipment to research scientists. Laymen at Park Church, Elizabeth Valhalla (N.Y.) Church celebrated the (N.J.) received their Methodist Men char- 50th anniversary of its sanctuary with ter. Bishop Wicke as guest speaker. Total Lay Leader Fred Kirchner of the Troy construction costs in 1911 were $6,000 Conference was named to the General and the church is now raising a similar Board of Lay Activities by the Council amount for expansion. Other anniver- of Bishops. saries: Bedford Hills, the 75th; Sheeps- Coriolano Brito from Brazil is a "one- head Bay (N.Y.) 120th. rotestant beliefs are taught youngsters way" exchange student being entertained Scout Robert McKenna, who received ' Pease Air Force Base, Pembroke, by the Peru (N.Y.) church under the In- his God and Country Award at Fourth W.H.) by Chaplain (Lt.) Cecil L. Mc- ternational Christian Youth Exchange. Avenue Church, Brooklyn (N.Y.) is the arland. member. New Yorl{ Conference. The Rev. Eugene H. Haaf of Rich- first Scout in his troop to earn it. mm Wagner-Monticello Photo I window in memory of the Rev. Richard C. Phillips is dedi- Participating in burning of $17 ,000 parsonage mortgage note at ated at Park. Church, Weehawken (N.J.) by Dist. Supt. W. G. Saugerties (N.Y.) Church are (I. to r.) Trustee President Lewis 'orenson (left). Also shown are the Rev. David f. Bort and Mrs. Fellows; the Rev. Joseph H. Rainear, pastor; District superin- 'auline Yeo, the former Mrs. Phillips. Mr. Phillips died in 1957. tendent and former pastor George P. Werner, and Bishop Wic/^e. ebruary 1 962\"Together A-3 New York Area Horizons Expand Slice the appearance of the "building boom" page in the Decem- ber Area News Edition, several photographs have been received. Several are reproduced here including new college buddings. Netvington (Conn.) has an education wing under construction for $50,000. The church is six years old, has a membership of 385. The Rev. Dwight L. Kintner is pastor of the Netvington church. Averill Park, (N.Y.) constructed a circu- lar building demonstrating functional sym- bolism for $150,000. The congregation has rebuilt the church three times in 24 years as the result of fires. The pastor is the Rev. James I. Borden. a. New $440,000 gymnasium is being proj- WEEflg l fjxuzsjzagg j ected at Green Mountain College, Poult- ney (Vt.) adjacent to swimming pool building. Boonton has completed an educa- Nctvington (N.f.j . Iveri/l Par\ tion building for $41,000, the second unit in a three-step project. Newark Con- ference Board of Missions granted $10,000. The Rev. A. Nelson Bennett is pastor. Members of Archer Memorial Church, Allendale (N.J.) raised $129,000 for an education building and have also pledged $14,140 to the Faith in Action Crusade. A $440,980 dormitory being built at Centenary College, Hackettstown (N.J.) is inspected by (from left) President Ed- ward W. Seay; Representative William B. Green Mountain Gymnasium Widnall of the Seventh Congressional Boonton District, and Dean Ernest R. Dalton. Asbury Methodists in Forestville (Conn.) are spending $130,000 to add religious education facilities, renovate the sanc- tuary and install an organ and chimes. The Rev. Vincent W. Watson is pastor. Jesse Lee Church, Easton (Conn.) known as New England's Mother Con- gregation, dedicated Bennett Hall, its edu- cation building. Cornerstone of Dewey Hall, new dor- mitory at Vermont College, Montpelier Archer, Allendale (Vt.) is placed by Virginia Brooks, Leslie Parkin, Nancy Keith and Cynthia Knox. Christ Church, Hartford (Conn.) has completed a new sanctuary costing about $110,000. Youngsters at First Church, Stratford (Conn.), picture below, help lay corner- church school and social hall stone for m i mi ii ii i to cost $350,000. At left is the Rev. Wil- fred Hansen, the pastor. 1M* M Asbury, Forestville /esse Lee, F.aston k Dewey Hall, Vermont Stratford Christ. Hartford 1 962 A-4 Together / February t^m WITH AN OUTREACH SUBSCRIPTION TO Together Now, you or a group of which you are a member, may extend your Chris* tian Outreach by sending TocJQtnQr Outreach Subscriptions (Bundles of ten issues of TbcjOtnCT sent twelve consecutive months) to the church, school, hospital, penal institution, orphanage, retire- ment home, mission, or other institution of your choice. 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