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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from Drew University with a grant from the American Theological Library Association http://archive.org/details/together16unse <^\ VWG/L KRAFT Russians Questions vo5Jvnrbung Ask V tfrffcC,VJ DONALD CULROSS PEATTIE jN* Txntherl Rainbows at Work M' idU*uo~+iAM. JM ajfGsijsl+Le. ffO^t Me4Jvo^LLiU tf. cl4haJu^A. AUmA 1957 AMvmn "o-moa ^HiNns 'c Together Almost in the the Established in 1826 as CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE shadow of Kremlin an American pastor photographed this The Midmonth Magazine for Methodist Families crowd of elderly worshipers in Moscow's Baptist church. Communism "Is thy heart right, as my schools its youth in atheism . but now Russian students are heart is with thine? . Dost beginning to ask questions, Virgil thou love and serve God? It as Kraft reports on 13 of this issue. is enough. I give thee the page right hand of fellowship." John Wesley (1703-1791) MARCH 15, 1957 Vol. 1, No. 6 Can Spring Be Far Behind? (Verses) 2 'Anxiety Is Not Necessary' . E. Stanley Jones 9 Bending the Sapling June Johnson 11 Young Russians Ask Questions .... Virgil Kraft 13 An Afternoon with Robert Frost AS. Harris, Jr. 16 Teens Together Richmond Barbour 19 Fun on the Water (Pictorial) 21 Should the United Nations Admit Red China? YES — R, S S. Gunewardene 24 NO — William S. Knowland 26 Christians in China Eugene L. Smith 27 The Last Leaf 0. Henry 29 Unusual Methodists 32 Rainbows at Work . Donald Culross Peattie 34 Our Temporary Daughter . Marie Wynne Clark 43 The Teacher Who Won't Answer Questions Frances V. Rummell 45 Methodist 'All-American' Basketball . Fred Russell 48 Looks at New Books Barnabas 54 TOGETHER is an official organ of The Methodist Church, Calling All Wesleyana Collectors Frederick Maser 61 issued monthly by The Methodist Publishing House, 740 North! Street, 111. not neces- Light Unto My Path (Five Meditations) 63 Rush Chicago 11, Opinions expressed do sarily reflect concurrence of The Methodist Church. Entered of the Parish News World 7, 65 as second class mailing matter at Post Office in Chicago, 111., under Act of March 3, 1879; additional entry at Nashville, Tenn. Accepted for mailing at special rate in Section 1103, Act OTHER FEATURES AND DEPARTMENTS of October 3, 1917, authorized July 5, 1918. Leffers 3 Browsing in Fiction . 59 Spiritual Efficiency ... 20 Best Sellers . 60 Manuscripts Correspondence for publication: Write to| . and Prayer to Remember 31 Dr. Rail Answers . 64 Editorial Offices, 740 North Rush Street, Chicago 11, 111. Auth- Looks at Movies . .44 Methodist Almanack . 66 ors should send postage. Small Fry 52 Lef's Get Acquainted . 74 Subscription: $3.00 per year. Write to Business Department.) 740 N. Rush St., Chicago 11, 111. Advertising: For rates write to Together Magazine Repre- sentatives, 454 Wrigley Building, Chicago 11, Illinois. From windy hilltops, va- cant lots, pastures, and Editor: Leland D. Case Executive Editor: Paul Friggens I schoolgrounds, the colorful Managing Editor: Charles W. Keysor Art Editor: Floycl Linde, H. B| kites of March are soaring A. Johnson Associate Editors: Shirley Motter Teeter, Grant J. Verhulst, Bruce L. Williams, Fred R. Zeptl heavenward to herald ap- Editorial Assistants: Else Bjornstad, Beverly Cederbergl proaching spring. The two Owen Meredith Contributing Editors: Newman S. Cryerl youngsters on our cover Jr., T. Otto Nail, H. F. Rail, Roy L. Smith Business ManX ager: Warren P. Clark Advertising Manager: John HI were photographedinCali- Fisher Publisher: Lovick Pierce Associate Publisher! fornia by John Mechling. J. Edgar Washabaugh. (copyright 1957 by lovick pierce) J* I UtJi ill! 8WM* IF WINTER COMES WIND Can Spring Be Jar Behind? The March wind whoops and hollers And spills down tears of rain; It must have bumped into a house And is crying with the pain. WHEX ROBIXS 5IXG —Jean Mergard When robins sing the vespers of the day, And low-flung crimson fades along the west, APRIL IN MAINE When warm night voices whisper winter's death, The buds are folded tightly on the elm; And maples stand, in scarlet mantles dressed, The snow holds fast beneath the hemlock tree; On rocky hills, and green pulls off the gray Not yet the thin sweet songs of peepers rise, Of barren boughs, and southern-scented breath The brooks run under ice down to the sea; Comes back across the empty fields to say But, oh, at dawn I saw the wild geese fly, That old-new, deathless word we call the spring, So near that I could hear each beating wing, 'Tis then I fling all winter thoughts away And, with the flock, my faith was flying, too, And let my heart with every robin sing. Faithful and sure, into the heart of spring. -R. A. Teeter —Beulah Fenderson Smith For your Church etters For your Alma Mater 'mitral Fees Are Wrong Christmases, and de-emphasized from those of home and school. Let's put the Mks. Robert ). May "Christ" in Christmas. Moriah Center, N.Y. God bless the Rev. Paul Worlcy lor She Votes tor Santa lis notable article on fees for ministers This has long January Powwow |. Hazel Fern Howard lecn a phase ol the ministry that has Sacramento, Calif. lceded airing. how to choose a Money tor rendering the Christlike God bless Webb Garrison for his crvice of comforting grieving hearts is vision and understanding of little peo- ple believe in Claus, \ rung. Never is a man of God given a who Santa from MEMORIAL pore sacred task, with the opportunity 3 to 73. I have always loved the old or turning souls to Christ, than at the lellow and get as much joy out of the nne of death. bewhiskered guy in department stores GIFT at Christmas as the tiny tots do. The love he inspires in our hearts at ['mitral Fees Pay Income Tax Christmas is unique and adds to the joy of Christmas. A enduring in beauty M\kvin Kennedy, Pastor M. practical in price First Methodist Church JL efficient in installation El Monte, Calif. Calling All Svenskas j| simple in maintenance I feel about as two of the four minis- A. Leon Peterson and, of course, tax-deductible :erial writers for Together did on the Kingsburg, Calif. natter of fees, but until churches pay ninisters more adequate salaries, our In the article, Smorgasbord at Algo- Individuals, families or cor- nands are tied. If it had not been for ma [January], I find three consecutive porations seeking an appro- five funeral fees I would not have had errors. (Don't take my word for it; I priate memorial gift can find ;nough money to pay my income tax am only a second-generation Swede.) a welcome answer in ind social security. And I am still three Potatis kpru should read korv, or, "Carillonic Bells"* by Schul- nonths behind on my pension-fund more likely, korf , as the final v sound merich. Here, in a truly payments. is often indicated by the letter f. Fat- practical package, is the tigmand bafyelser should be fattigman; beauty of old-world bell music and sur sild should be sill. produced automatically Wants More Bible Pictures and heard over any suitable Our Swedish is pretty limp admitted- W. ]. McKee distance. Universally accepted ly—but we thought we'd dished up a Aurora, 111. in cathedrals, pretty good smorgasbord feature. How churches, educational buildings. Sizes The Story of Creation, watercolors about it, Minnesota?—Eds. for all institutions. by Floyd A. is and types Johnson, | December | outstanding, especially for children. I NEW SOUND FILM Now avail- showed it to my seven-year-old grand- SaJnte to Robert E. Lee! able at denominational bookstores: daughter and she wanted to keep it as H. E. Spence "Mission of the Bells," 16-mm she read it over many times, and her Durham, N.C. sound & color film narrated by four-year-old sister wanted one also. I Milton Cross. would like to see a story from the I hate to put a fly in the gravy bowl "'Carillonic Bells" is a trademark for Bible in pictures in every issue to in- I by calling attention to what consider Bell Instruments of terest children. an inexcusable blunder in . the Sehulmerich Carillons, Inc. Methodist Almanac\. I have been ob- P37 Carillon Hill, Sellersville, Pa. serving church magazines, papers, etc. Agrees, Santa's Overworked for 70 years and I have never seen the like of your publication. The articles Iv\ Conner arc splendid, the humor clean and en- Monterrey, N.L., Mexico trancing, the attitudes praiseworthy, the I agree with Grace Muck; Santa art superb. Claus is overworked. Some children What's wrong with me? You use have no other idea of Christmas than Carrie Nation, F.D.R., Mr. Lincoln. SCHULMERICH Santa Claus ... I think Santa might and others in your list ol notables. ( >n well be omitted entirely from church Robert E. Lee's birthday. Jan. 1". you CARILLONS March 7957\Together ! 1 have a none-too-elegant proverb: "He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas." It does seem to me that a man who is loved and respected by 50 million people ... as a Christian statesman, an educator of reknovvn, as well as one of the greatest generals ever to enter a batde, might have rated a little higher than the dogs and the fleas! She Knew Jane Addams Mrs. Priscilla Roesel Eaton, Ohio Karl Detzer's article, Jane Addams The turkey in Abraham's bacl{ yard: oj Hull House [January], was inter- esting to me. skerk January, page 36], I was sur- I knew Jane Addams when she went | up and down the alleys trying to get prised to see a North American turkey folks to use garbage cans and keep on the canvas.