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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.
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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
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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. I would suppose at this time, 1532, they were rather a Euro- them covered. . . . We had no grass or pean oddity and hardly the type trees, and I remember her trying to of plant trees along the curbs, but the "animal" to be browsing around the kids rooted them out as fast as she'd countryside in Rome. I am not an art critic, just a curious get them started. . . . but satisfied reader.
Boycott 'Red' Stamps? Encyclopaedia Britannica says tur\ey> from America "were not introduced John W. Duckwall into Europe before 1530." So maybe Hood River, Ore. Van Heems\cr\ did have a live model. This is to suggest that on your hobby But he let his imagination go a bit in page you try to get your readers to boy- having gobblers hobnob with duc\s cott stamps not actually used for post- and a peacoc\ in Abraham s bac\ age from all countries behind the Iron yard!—Eds. FAMOUS ZENITH QUALITY Curtain. Some dealers sell these stamps in a tiny, full-powered hearing aid that have been canceled but still have the original on them. Also, some worn entirely at the ear ...$125. gum Dab's Christ . . . 'Impossible' are sold as new stamps. Obviously these Now! Zenith makes better hearing David stamp sales directly benefit the Com- T. Parkinson simple and practical for new thou- munist countries that issue them. They Kansas City, Mo. sands of every age, in all walks of life. take advantage of it by issuing large The new "Diplomat" Slip-On Hearing I wonder how anyone can attach re- Aid fits snugly and securely behind numbers of beautiful stamps each year. ligious or Christian interpretation to
the ear . . . weighs less than an ounce, Dali's Corpus Hypcrcubus [January, including tiny, pill-size battery. page 2]. It is a fine rendition of a phys- The seven new 4- and 5-transistor Stuffiness Isn't Saintliness ically perfect, nude male body plas- Zenith models are designed to meet H. A. Critchett, Pastor every type and degree of electroni- tered against the end of one arm of a Denver, Colo. cally correctable hearing impairment. cross of cubes—an entirely impossible Prices range from $65 to $165. How typical were the reactions of situation. There is no depiction of the Zenith keeps selling costs low; the those who objected to the November suffering and anguish of the Christ, savings If are passed on to you. we [cover] mallards . . . Only those who which is the only significance of the paid commissions of to $180, as $160 have learned to see God in all his crea- Crucifixion and the basis of all Chris- do, our prices would have to be some tion of see in the strength the wings of tian faith. . . . To call it the Cruci- much increased. Even our S 65 model the waterfowl the reminder of the fixion should stir the indignation of the would have to sell for over $200 wings under which we can all take Christian public. Visit your nearby Zenith Hearing refuge. Aid Dealer, listed in the classified We are too prone to mistake humor phone directory. Or mail coupon for for irreligion, and stuffiness for saint- free literature and list of dealers. Swink a Methodist, Too liness. Your sane and fresh approach to (----MAIL FREE COUPON TODAY— Jordan life is stimulating, and I enjoy your J. H. Zenith Radio Corporation fresh outlook on "the beauty of holi- Sun ford, Me. Hearing Aid Division, Dept.25P 5801 Dickens Avenue, Chicago 39, Illinois ness." Thanks for a wonderful magazine Please mail facts on "Diplomat" Slip-On for the whole family! It has a lot oij Hearing Aid. Also list of Zenith Dealers.
life and vitality . . . and spirituality. Gobblers in Europe, 1532? But one item surprised me. In the PRINT) NAME ( PLEASE Brindle, H. J. Jr. football article [December] by Fred Chicago Heights, 111. Russell I was looking in vain for a good In the picture of Abraham and the picture of Jim Swink, '55 All-Ameri- ZONE STATE Three Angels by Martin Van Heem- can and '56 award winner. According
Together /March 1957 to The Portland (Mc.) Sunday Tele- pram pictorial section, )un Swink is a
devout Methodist .is well as a tremen- dous footballer.
]im Swin\ attends Texas Christian
University (Fort Worth), which is not L Methodist related school. Now, if * ,onl\ he had elet ted to go to Southern Methodist (Dallas), Freddie Russell Would certainly hare considered him PLUS WARM FELLOWSHIP \for our . III-. I mercnin , . Ill Methodist As the Father's hand guards and guides, university team.— Eds. just so your Annuity contract will protect and comfort you through the years. Mail coupon for beautiful FREE booklet "Bright Horizons" Norman Rockwell Explains and learn how you can get an income for life comparable with any other investment John N. King of guaranteed safety. Investigate . . . New Yor{, N.Y. The ANNUITY PLAN In the November issue of Together Makes you a partner with God in sowing the Word and is a picture by Norman Rockwell. mere winning souls. Saves you time, worry, loss, legal On page 30 there is a photograph of expenses and will trouble. You enjoy income tax him painting the picture. advantages and can provide for a loved survivor. What nobler Stewardship is possible? In the first picture there is a train Mo/7 Coupon for beautiful FREE booklet today outside the window; in the second pic- ture there are people. Why? Division of World Missions and Division of National Missions of the Board of Missions of We usf^ed the artist. He writes: THE METHODIST CHURCH, 150 Fifth Ave., New York 11, N.Y. "Mr. King has a good eye, and his Attention: Rev. H. Burnham Kirkland Dept. T3-24-7
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Please send me illustrated catalog on Gold Outline Embroidery Items and Cut-Out Kits: GOLD OUTLINE EMBROIDERY ITEMS Q CUT-OUT KITS ." NAMF "I'm the handsome gay . . AfWRFSS HITV 7 Ma ch i957\To9ether recumbent lad is certainly someone else.] I KNOW WHT To show how I looked in those Sunday with Stevie WE GiVE THANKS CHURCH halcyon days I enclose a picture of the Romulo children (see page 5). The handsome guy to the right with his left arm akimbo is yours truly. Re: The Wilson Case Allen Lambert, Pastor Canby Methodist Church Canby, Ore. The article by Erie Stanley Gardner [ The Case of the Missing Morals, To enhance your child's January,] was spoiled for me because: understanding • • • Attorney and mystery writer Gardner was chairman of a committee, suggested fhvsv outstanding children's hooks! to Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of Washing- ton, to investigate the famous and con- LISTEN TO THE NIGHT by Furn Kelling troversial case involving the death of Pictures by Mariel Wilhoite Turner Miss Joann Dewey. Turman and Utah God's nighttime sounds make a wonderful story—the skwi-sh of Wilson were accused, convicted, and passing cars, the crunching steps of the friendly policeman, the big brutally hanged for her abduction and drum-like boom of the thunder. death. And just as the house creaks 'cause it too is stretching to go to sleep, so all the other sounds are friendly when children know The facts clearly indicate that Tur- about the sounds they hear as they listen to the night. Ages 2-8. man and Utah Wilson could not have In beautiful color. Board, 60<-; Cloth, $1.00 been guilty because they were elsewhere when the crime was committed. This JIMMIE GOES TO CHURCH by Gladys Rhiner is established lawfully by the brilliant Pictures by Janet Stnalley legal defense of the two brothers in the This is the story of Jimmie's big event going to church service — court record by six persons, then later i for the first time. by Mrs. Eva Adams, together with He carefully held his money until time to put it in the offering. Orval Watts, as well as by the knowl- He bowed his head when the people prayed . . . and Jimmie prayed, too. edge of a third person, also present in After the service the pastor shook Jimmie's hand and told him the Portland, Ore., Playhouse Theater how happy he was that Jimmie was coming to church now. Jimmie where the two youths were at the exact) felt all good inside! Ages 3-5. Illustrated with colorful pictures. Board, 60<-; Cloth, $1.00 time of the abduction of Miss Dewey . . . Gardner had said in his report that SUNDAY WITH STEVIE by Polly Hargis Turman Wilson was guilty and that Pictures by Janet Smalley Utah was an accessory ... So you will Stevie is a little boy who likes to go to church on Sunday. This understand why we are very unhappy book tells you what Stevie does at church and about all the things with Mr. Gardner. he sees and hears there. Pictures in black and white and color. Aces 3-5. This excerpt from Pastor Lambert's Board, 60tf; Cloth, $1.00 letter will remind readers that the Wil- son case was and controver- I KNOW WHY WE GIVE THANKS "famous sial," as he notes. We also ta\e this oc- by Mary Sue White casion to announce that a powwow on Pictures by Katherine Evans capital punishment is planned for a The boy in this book knows why he says "thank you" to God. And future issue of Together.—Eds. he can tell you why. The print is big so that young readers can read it themselves. Ages 6-8. The pictures are in lovely color. 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Send to: interested in the coming genera- $1 BYBYMAIL, BOX 67, Dept.O 93 Dept.12 55 Sudbury Street. Boston 14, Mass. am Oakland Gardens Stat., Flushing, N. Y. ) tions. Together /March 1957 ", . " Together NEWSLETTER :& mi W- THREE ANC IENT RELIGIOUS FAITHS—Hindui sm , Buddhi sm r and Islam—are moving into Christian strongholds. Dormant for centuries , they now look at the U.S. as a prime mission target. Explains the Rev. Eugene L. Smith, Methodism's chief foreign-missions "fywu U V executive: "Nationalistic passions have awakened J Asia's old loyalties and a determination to win political and religious initiative from the West . Church PRODUCTION OF A MAJOR FILM on Francis Asbury, first Methodist bishop in America, and on Methodism's Groups early circuit-rider movement, will be explored by a Raise special committee of the Television, Radio, and Film Commission. Money METHODISTS CON TRIBUTED $1,001,347 to aid Hungarian refugees and other victims of oppression, with more Easily churches still to report. Bishop Frederick B. Newell made this announcement in mid-February at Mrs. Harold Nance, wife of the minister of First Methodist Church in Dexter, Missouri, the National District Superintendents Conference in recommends this ideal fund-raising project: Chicago, attended by 570 of the nation's 572 DS's, 36 bishops, and scores of agency staff leaders. Praising the response, Bishop Newell said: "We are painfully aware of the difficulties in making wisest Keepsake use of this money. We will attack the problem as intelligently as we can." Bishop Newell 's own New York Area led the nation in contributions ($61,257) Plates BISHOP G. BROMLEY OXNAM, Washington, D.C. , is making a • picturing your church satisfactory recovery from a major operation at Boston's Deaconess Hospital. "Everyone is pleased with them. Ever) home willi a plate on the wall or table OPEN HEARINGS on Methodism' s controversial jurisdictional has a constant reminder of the church setup (five regional divisions and the Central always before them." This was written to an all-Negro grouping) will be con- us by Mrs. Harold Nance, whose picture is Jurisdiction, shown above with the plate picturing her ducted this fall by a special 70-member commission. (hutch and sold by her church group. parts of the U.S. will seek Groups traveling to all Wc arc proud of the main letters uc to determine whether the system is effective, and will gel from friends all over the nation. They give special attention to racial segregation. Their tell us that these spiritual keepsakes sell themselves. They are wonderful for anni- recommendations will be passed on to the 1960 versaries, dedications, bazaars and to com General Conference. rnemorate any special occasion. People like to unc them for birthday, wedding and holiday gifts. METHODIST LEADER S PAID SPECIAL TR IBUTE recently to Mrs. Walter William Fondren, Houston, Tex., widow of A picture of your church (or school or hospital) is permanently fired into [lie one of the four founders of the Humble Oil Co. Her glaze of the plate at intense heat and will gifts (some estimate $20 million) and years of never wear off. You have choice of man) styles decorated in leadership helped 10 institutions, including Southern 23 Kl. Gold. Methodist University, Methodist Board of Hospitals See for yourself why these are such ap- pealing mementos ever) church member and Homes, Southwestern University, Rice Institute, will waul. Write today, at no obligation to and the Texas Conference. Mrs. Fondren' s response: miii. for full-color catalog, quantity prices, and samples of plates we have made for "I'm grateful but undeserving. Why I'm chosen I'll Other churches. never know . . . I ' ve tried to stay in the background. A MULTI-MILLI ON DOLLAR Methodist theological school Write today to: will be built on a 50-acre farm site three miles south of Delaware, Ohio, home of Ohio Wesleyan University. WWORLD WIDE A joint committee unanimously recommended the loca- 7 tion—one of 17 considered. Officials will now pick w Art Studios architects and a full-time director, begin building P. O. Box 953 a faculty and student body (story, page 68). Covington, Tennessee (For more eh arch news see page 65.) March 1957\ Together NEW BODIFORM® UPHOLSTERED PEWING NEW. . . and its comfort exceeds that of any other pew! Upholstered Continuous Pewing There has been a long-felt need for church pewing that would incorporate traditional church beauty and dignity and, at the same time, offer comfort comparable with the advances in seating in homes and elsewhere. AMERICAN Now American Seating answers that need with new SEATING Bodiform Upholstered Continuous Pewing! This new pewing is of all-steel, welded-channel construction, Department No. 144 and is built to give a lifetime of comfort that encourages attention. It has full-depth spring-arch seat and back, padded Grand Rapids 2, Michigan and covered with your choice of nylon upholstery materials in true and traditional church colors. Seat has an extra layer WORLD'S LEADER IN PUBLIC SEATING of foam rubber. Bodiform Upholstered Pews • Bodiform Hard to damage, easy to clean, you can reupholster this Traditional Pews • Bodiform Contemporary pewing without using tacks. Aids acoustics in the church, too. Pews • Bodi-Ease Pews • Upholstered For complete details, ask your American Seating representa- Chairs • Folding Chairs and Tables tive, or write us. Chancel Furniture • School Furniture Togeth er/ March 1957 Personal Testimony Anxiety Is Not Necessary' by E. STANLEY JONES Most of us waste time and energy meeting life's decisions. Here a great evangelist gives yon the key to serene living. Methodism's globe-girdling missionary, Dr. E. Stanley fones, preaches along the streets of Vellore, India. A FEW WEEKS ago, on a night flight to with it. I trust the water to hold me up. I relax." Orlando, Fla., my plane was delayed. It was A mental attitude—confidence— plays a large 5 \.m. before I got to my room. part in the physical skill of swimming. Project I had not slept for some 20 hours, yet just that thought a bit further and you have the cen- before getting into bed, I set about doing my tral rule lor an energetic life: let your whole regular bedtime exercises: push-ups, knee bends, being—body, mind, and spirit—work together hands-over-head—30 of each. in harmony. Perhaps such behavior was a bit strenuous for Not long ago some scientists gave a group of a man 73. But that is really not the point. Bed- athletes pills containing dextrose. At the same time exercises are so much a part of my daily time a control group received similar but in- routine that I did them in Orlando without de- effective tablets. The athletes who took dextrose bate. exceeded all their previous records. But so did Most of us, I think, waste time and energy those who merely thought they were getting struggling with decisions to get things done. stimulants. Clearly, any routine tor producing Actually, we can cultivate a routine to help us energy should include more than physical train- live energetic and worth-while lives. ing. Once a British major told me, "As a swimmer, In Japan, a guest visiting in a home is greeted I'm a dud. I'm much stronger than you and yet formally with the words, "You must be tired." "1 you swim better." My response is always the same: am fresh 1 told him, "You fight the water and struggh in God." For I have \uv\m\ that it I allow mvsell March 7 957 \Together to say, "I'm tired," then I become tired, indeed! straight our values and priorities. "Seek ye first the ." In the same way, our physical natures can influence our Kingdom of God. . . If we get the first thing first, life minds and spirits. A middle-aged man can have the good will come out right. If not, nothing will. life fattened right out of him until he becomes as stuffed Frances Ridley Havergal, who wrote so many beauti- and stuffy as his purse. We cannot hand the body over to ful hymns, once had such a bad temper that she would the doctor, the mind to the psychiatrist, and the soul to fall onto the floor with tantrums. She gained poise and the minister, treating each part of ourselves as separate. good will by inwardly asking the Lord to dissolve her Life is a whole. harsh feelings in his love. Then she brought her resent- In India our Christian ashramas, or retreats, recognize ments up and out, talking to the person concerned and this balance by including daily manual labor. Big busi- asking his forgiveness. nessmen, doctors, bishops work with their hands. My own Doctors say that worriers have frail bodies, with meas- job has long been to go around with a bag and sharp urably narrow chests. From a spiritual viewpoint, worry stick picking up papers. I recommend some manual labor is even worse: we are sinfully saying that God is not to each day, even for myself. be trusted. The same applies to mental labor. I carry a pocket- For the Christian, anxiety is so unnecessary. I have not si/.cd book almost everywhere; when a free moment had a blue hour of discouragement for 35 years. There presents itself, I'm prepared to read and think. In another have been moments of flitting disappointment, of course, pocket I carry a notebook. When an apt story or a new but not for so much as an hour. My solution? When a idea comes my way, I jot it down. Perhaps I can use that large problem looms, I simply say, "Lord, I turn this over passing thought in writing a book or in telling a friend. to you. Tell me what to do." The important thing is that I've forced my mind to do The secret is surrender, a willingness to forgo a selfish some creative work. When our human personalities first choice. God's choice for us may differ from our own cease to create, we crack and even grow tired of resting ambitions, but who are we to challenge it? The painter, or doing nothing. Whistler, wanted to be a soldier; he took up the brush only when he failed at West Point. Walter Scott gave up his dream of being a poet when he could not equal A woman once told me, "I'm about to jell into the Byron. Ashamed of being a novelist, he wrote anony- kind of woman I don't want to be." How could she avoid mously—but he gave us It/an/we. for stagnation? By watching ideas and challenging each To discover and follow the Lord's plan for us, we need one! to exercise our souls. Each day I get up early to spend the If physical and mental work is a necessary part of life's pure, strong hours of the morning in a quiet time with so is recreation. I of fly-fishing rhythm, am fond because God. It is then that I get my orders for the day. it, like all true diversion, adds to life instead of subtract- This quiet time is as firm a habit as my nightly ex- ing. If we have to recover from any pastime physically, — ercises; I have never had to decide to do it. That's an mentally, morally it is false. or — Recreation should be important point for someone still fixing this habit: to find re-creation. an unvarying quiet time each day. A mother of small Those are of the some ways we can energize our minds children might have to wait until her brood is off to and bodies. But the spirit needs flexing, too. Without school and the baby takes a nap, but no human creature spiritual poise, destroy our vitality in worry. we is too busy to find a daily interval with God. We can In the drought-ridden Southwest not long ago, a man always answer the phone and eat breakfast; our quiet asked a cowboy about some clouds in the skv. The time should be even more important. cowboy looked up, shook his head, and replied, "They're just empties drifting by." Too many of us are spiritual empties. Indeed, the most frequent stain on the Christian N,F.xr, we must pray—even if we don't feel like it, even soul is emptiness. if we must pray by the clock, even if our prayers are Yet we can be easily filled. The art of living is the art clumsy. A fashionable woman in Texas came to me with of receptivity, the ability to take God's resources as our a problem; her home was breaking up. We prayed to- own. To find an example, we need look no farther than gether, and I urged her to continue praying regularly. a growing tree. Later she admitted that she hadn't known how to pray For human application of this art, we may consider ir thought not. Gandhi. In our astonishing 20th century, we have seen Her solution was to write a letter to God in the lan- the discovery of two great sources of power: the atom guage of the country club. "Dear God," she wrote, "life and the atma, that word which in India means soul. has dealt me a very bad hand. Please show me which Gandhi's soul-force changed the course of history; his card to lead. Sincerely," and she signed her name. Her demonstration is a major contribution to mankind. How prayer was answered, her home saved. Today that woman did the Mahatma—the Great Soul— fill himself with speaks to church groups all over Texas as an authority spiritual vitality? Once I stayed with him at his famed on marriage problems. ashrama. Each week he and his followers observed a day We Christians are so fortunate. Our religion is piety set of silence, putting the spirit in order, practicing the art to music. The Christian who will use his soul has a of receptivity. hair-trigger laugh and an inner gaiety. His joy is an "Don't try to do people good; love them." Such is the inside job. Within him is a harmony that unites mind, advice of the Indian poet, Tagore. It is an answer to the body, and spirit, and makes his energetic life worth- busy life of action without reflection. Our inner life sets while. 10 Together/March 1957 — Thoughtlessly, yet lovingly, each of the five fathers was Bending* the By JUNE JOHNSON T.HE HUGE interurban bus lum- children. And they asked each other: ness trip to make in the morning, but bered to a stop at Victoria and Cres- How did it happen? Why young he'd take 10-year old Dan for com- cent, and five men swung off. All Bob? pany and they'd start early. wore the same worried, intense ex- bob's background was at least as "Don't drive too fast, dear." ad- pression. good as any of them could have pro- monished his wile as she kissed them For shame and scandal had visited vided. His parents were upright and good-by the next morning. "I their quiet suburban street. Bob Roes- good to their children. What had won't," Chuck promised, winking at stcr, son of their accountant-neighbor, caused Bob to go wrong? Dan. had been caught in a stolen car. Mari- Chuck Conners shrugged off the Soon an open road stretched in- juana cigarettes were found in an ash serious matter as he carefully latched vitingly before them. With a laugh, tray. The newspapers were full oi it. the front gate against their toddler's Chuck threw off all the tensions ami The five men knew the anguish exploratory tendencies. Friday night, problems ol the week and stepped Rial must be gnawing at the hearts and a whole wonderful weekend on the gas ... 60 ... 75 ... 90. II ol the Roessters, for they all had with his family! He had a short busi was too lnis\ to sec how narrowly he Worch ?957\Together missed a clog chasing a rabbit across the wreck scars. It's just a heap." "Goodness, Billy," exclaimed their the road. Pleasant dairy farms, each Miss Hastings was worried. "It mother, the rush of getting off telling with the warning sign, "Cattle Cross- doesn't seem right to charge so much in the irritation in her voice, "we're ing," fled past unheeded in a blur of for a damaged car," she said, "and not committing a major crime. It's green and red and white. to make it look so beautifully new." just that we can save a lot of money "Gosh, Dad," Dan gasped at last, She was silent for a minute. "Jim, a this way." "that sign said, 'Speed limit, 55 miles nice boy like you shouldn't be work- Jack laughed. "Trust a kid to think per hour.' What if a policeman ing in such a place. Do your folks of something like that," he said catches us?" know about all this?" "You be my cop-spotter," Chuck Jim laughed. "Sure," he answered. The Rivetto youngsters waited im- suggested with an easy grin. "Mom says, 'Wel-1-1,' and Dad just patiently as they waved good-by first; says, 'There are tricks in every trade.' to Mr. Conners and Dan, then to alii Steve Branson, too, forgot the Roes- I guess he's right." the Ludwigs. Their turn came at last, stcrs' troubles as he stretched luxuri- and they piled happily into the ously in bed that Saturday morn. Over the bacon and eggs and Sat- family car, bound for a park upriver. "Okay, Son," he answered young urday's special popovers, Mike Peters They had a fine morning, Vic and Jim's request for the loan of a tie. listened to 11-year-old Mickey tell Vi and all the little Rivettos. They "Take the one your mother gave me about the big subscription drive played at the water's edge in the for my birthday, if you like." And he "his" paper was conducting. Mike, soft sand; they found clam shells and chuckled to himself over his mild who was proud of his son's interest in a few wild roses, and they swam in scheme to make it wear out twice as his route, listened carefully. the sun-warmed waters. fast. "Work hard, now, and sell a lot "What sales technique are you Finally it came time to leave. of cars." using?" he asked, hiding a smile. "Shall we pick up the pop bottles, Jim, eager to earn a compliment "Oh, the boss says to tell 'em all Mom?" asked Fran. from his dad, reported early to the about how I'll get a trip to camp if "Don't bother, Honev," Vi an- used-car lot where he had been taken I get 10 new subscriptions," the boy swered carelessly. "It's not worth the on recently as a Saturday extra. He answered. "And he says to wear my trouble for the few cents we'd get." grinned a "Good Morning" as his oldest jeans." The parents looked back at their favorite teacher drew near the car Inspiration struck Mike. "I've got picnic spot as they followed the chil- he was industriously polishing. it," he exclaimed. "Tell 'em you have dren on the steep trail up the bank "They told me I'd find you here," to have an eye operation. They'll Their eyes didn't see the litter ofel she said. "I'm going to get a car at think you need the money." banana peels and bottles and papers last, and remembered you worked "That's right," Mike's wife agreed they had left. here." placidly. "You do have that little eye "We picked a pretty spot," Vi com- "Thanks, Miss Hastings," Jim correction coming up soon. mented. Vic nodded absently. smiled proudly, his fingers crossing "Mind you," she added, "if you fervently in his trouser pocket. aren't back by eleven, I shan't drop The five men reassembled Monday Together they walked through the you off at the movies. I have a bridge morning at the bus stop. Their conf lot, while the young teacher com- luncheon today." versation returned to the terrible pared colors and price and make. "Okay, Mom," Mickey promised as world their children were growing "There's a beauty," she said enthusi- he sped away on his bike. And if up into. asticallv as thev stood near the office. most of his new subscribers won- "I don't know." A worried frown "I'd like to try that one." dered helplessly, after Mickey left, creased Jack Ludwig's forehead. Jim, mindful of the watchful eyes how they could possibly read another "Something's wrong. The youngsters and listening ears of old "Big Hearted paper—except of course that the poor just aren't being trained to be good John" himself, agreed that it was in- tyke did need it so—it wasn't citizens. Our standards are weaken- deed a beaut, and off they went on a Mickey's worry. ing somewhere. It must be the test run. Miss Hastings at the wheel. churches that are falling down." Once away from the lot, Jim No loafing around at the Jack "Or the schools," suggested Steve turned to his teacher. He was blush- Ludwig home that Saturday morn! Bronson grimly. The others were in- ing with embarrassment. The twins, small for their age and clined to agree. Of them all, only Vic "I just can't sell you this car," he golden as daffodils in the soft yellow Rivetto thought of the weekend just blurted out. suits that exactly matched their past. He knocked his pipe on the "Why Jim," Miss Hastings said in blonde hair, were being briefed in the lamppost as the bus came into sight. consternation, "why not?" short drive to the station. "Possibly we are a little lax, our- "Because it's been in a bad accident, "Now, remember, girls," Jack ex- selves, in the example we set our that's why. Stop and I'll show you." plained slowly, "you are 11, under- youngsters," came his thoughtful, Jim pointed to the newly painted stand? And for heaven's sake, don't voice as the bus roared to a stop. car bottom. "That's so you can't tell talk about being in high school." Mike Peters clapped Vic on the I that the front fenders and axle are "But, Dad," young Billy broke in, shoulder as he followed him into the new," he explained. "The whole "our Sunday-school teacher says we bus. "You think too much, Vic," he paint job has an undercoating to hide shouldn't tell lies." said jovially. 72 Together/March 1957 _ — Smiling children crowd around the author on a visit to a Russian youth camp. lining Russians ire Ming Questions An American Methodist minister, back from three months inside Russia, says Soviet youths may force changes behind the Iron Curtain. By VIRGIL A. KRAFT -J. HE scene is a Russian elementary atheistic propaganda has been drilled visualize the stunned silence as the schoolroom about 10 years ago. The into each of them. students looked for the first time at teacher is telling the children there I saw the effects of this indoctrina- a real live preacher from a capitalistic is no God. tion last summer on a three months' country. But this passed and the faces "just to prove it," she says, "pray tour of the Soviet Union and I now became friendly and inquisitive for God to give you some candy." believe that although the students of again. I had hoped for this, because I The children bow their heads. Russia are a godless lot, there is a wanted to know as much about them When they look up, there is no gleam of hope—they are beginning to as they wanted to know about me. candy. ask questions. They now seem to be This was typical oi main conversa- "Now close your eyes and pray to starting to think for themselves. tions I had with Russian youth dur- Papa Stalin." This came home to me one pleas- ing my tour as one of 21 Americans, While the children pray with ant afternoon last July as I sat on the including a state senator, educators, closed eyes, the teacher spreads candy beach at Yalta with six Russian stu- businessmen, newspapermen, and re- on the table before them. dents, three boys and three girls, ligious leaders. During our tour be- "Now you see. There is no God!" about 20 years old. The setting sun hind the Iron Curtain we were tree Some 22,000 of those children are was beginning to darken the waters to go anywhere, talk to anyone, or now taking advanced courses at Mos- of the Black Sea as our conversation take pictures to our heart's content. cow's skyscraper university. They are turned to religion. "Suppose in 10 years your country being paid to go to school. The qual- "I don't believe it," said one oi the is able to provide an abundance of ity of their education, particularly in Russian girls. "You can't really be re- everything that people want," I said. science and engineering, is as good ligious!" "And Suppose no one needs to work as any in the world. Russian youth 1 had told them 1 am a Methodist more than two ila\ s a week. What do are intelligent, healthy, ambitious preacher. And ii you have ever you think the people should do with Inn they do not believe in God. Ov< i looked into the Eac< ol a person who themselves?" and over again, since kindergarten, thinks he has seen a ghost, you can "Travel," one boy suggested. March ?957\Togethcr 13 ! "Study,"' another young Russian stu- "As a means only," said one of the The sun already had sunk behind dent answered. boys. "Sometimes we hope we won't the mountains of the Crimea, and One of the girls became thought- even need the state." the Black Sea was becoming foggy ful. She looked out across shimmer- "Do you mean to say that if ever with the descending night. ing water and a beach that looked the State conducts itself in such a way Then I said, attempting to answer something like America on a sum- as to be a hindrance to the develop- the girl's question: "No, real reli- mer afternoon. ment of human life, it should be gion does not need a priest. Real re- "I think they should do whatever changed or eliminated?" ligion needs only people with honest would make them happy," she said "Absolutely!" minds and humble hearts, people finally. The others nodded. "That's right!" who are willing to look at the full "In other words," I said, "for you, These answers came without hesi- truth of life and unite in a common the purpose of life is happiness." tation—and I have thought of them allegiance to it. If this leads them "Yes—as long as one person's hap- often during recent months as I read into a study of great religious leaders, piness does not interfere with the newspaper accounts of increasing like Jesus of Nazareth, and into the happiness of others." student resistance to the old-line pat- fellowship of people who believe that "Then happiness really is the pur- tern of thinking in Russia. But I hid Jesus represents what the highest pose of life for you, isn't it? In which my amazement at this apparent re- power in the universe is like . . . and versal I case, wouldn't it be wiser to leave of what had thought was a what man himself can become . . . human beings undeveloped, because Communist dogma. And I asked they should not hesitate to make the the more educated and the more them if they believed man had a study or to join the fellowship. By so civilized man becomes the more sen- spiritual nature which should be de- doing they will be true scientists, un- sitive he is to ugliness and pain!" veloped. afraid of truth. And above all, they "Of course," they answered, al- will be guided in the building of a most in unison. society which will not crumble." o'ne boy saw the trap and backed "Does this mean you think people It was dark when we left the beach. out quickly: "But real happiness is need religion?" The students left me at my hotel. not simply bliss. Real happiness is All the students burst into laugh- Our tour lasted from June into wearing yourself out building some- ter. "Religion doesn't have anything August. Everywhere we went we thing." to do with it," one of the boys replied. were greeted with open arms—and "But what's the purpose of build- "The spiritual side of man includes endless questions not only from stu- ing something?" his feelings, his will, his attitudes, dents but from people in the streets. "So that more people can enjoy and his reverence for life. These qual- Russians who had never seen an life!" ities can be developed much better American peered over shoulders, try-', "That brings us back to happiness, without making people superstitious ing to elbow their way to the center, ." doesn't it?" and fearful. . . asking for someone to interpret my "In a sense I guess it does. But it's a "Do you think believing in God answers. Once, when I was besieged special kind of happiness—it must makes people superstitious and fear- for two hours by a large crowd, I come with work." ful?" was escorted to a park bench where "In other words, the purpose of "Certainly, because there is no God the questioning continued. When one life is to build houses, but not to en- That's why it is easy for priests to of the men in the crowd lit a cigarette joy living in them," I continued. "If manufacture all kinds of fanciful be- and the smoke drifted in my direc- the only legitimate happiness is to be liefs to keep the people afraid and tion, several people spoke to him obtained through building, then real- coming back to them." quietly—and he threw the freshly- ly there is no goal. We must climb a "Would it surprise you if I told lit cigarette away. mountain that has no top, for the you that I am not afraid, that I am moment we reach a top we quit scientific, and that I consider mvself climbing. And when we quit climb- religious!" XLykrywhere I saw the youth of ing, we lose the essential joy of liv- They just couldn't believe me. But Russia—bright, questioning boys and ing." they listened intently and asked many girls about whom the Kremlin is so For a moment no one spoke. And questions as I described my faith in concerned. Perhaps "worried" is a then one of the girls looked at me detail. The students were quiet and better word. For although these boys with serious eyes and asked: "What serious as I concluded: and girls have been educated at state do you think the purpose of life is?" "Real religion is looking at the expense, they are apathetic toward the "This may surprise you," I replied, whole universe and acknowledging old ways. They aren't the banner- "but I think I agree with you—if you the Intelligence that is in it, and then waving crusaders their fathers were. will admit there is good work and becoming dedicated to what this In- They are smart. They know that bad work; that good work is deter- telligence prefers." waving banners and marching in mined by how it affects the highest The girl who had laughed was parades won't build houses or grow value in the universe—human life." the first to speak. corn. "That is exactly what we believe," "This is all very interesting and I stood one afternoon in front of replied the girl, and everyone nodded. sensible. But you don't call this reli- a large open-air stage with a crowd "But I thought in your Soviet sys- gion, do you? Doesn't religion have of students. On the stage was a popu- tem, the State is the highest value." to have a priest or something?" lar singer trying to teach them a new 14 To9Cthcr/Morch 1957 — song glorifying the achievements oi was. I doubt il these youngsters can ment and peace; they will demand the new society. The singer was at- be duped again! prosperity, and they will demand tractive and vivacious, but despite all It occurs to me that we should more freedom. of her efforts and her feminine send hundreds of tourists to Russia Meanwhile, we face the cold fact charm, she couldn't get one student tourists who are intelligent Christians of Russia's irreligious young people —no, not one—to sing that kind of and know how to talk with people. I who think they know what religion long. As I looked around those faces am convinced that Christianity with is and who repudiate it. They are —SO like those of the six students on all of its power to soften hard hearts godless—this is the end the Kremlin the beach— I realized more than ever and open closed minds, with its sought. But this end is also a begin- that Russia's new generation intends power to establish justice and free- ning. Once these young, serious- to go on asking questions; that this dom and abundance for all, could be minded patrons of science have a generation is forcing a change behind flourishing inside Russia in another chance to learn what real religion is, the Iron Curtain; that Russian youth generation—or maybe even sooner. I am convinced they will respect it don't want to communize the world so much as they want houses, auto- mobiles, and refrigerators. While in Russia, I visited several churches. There is no Methodist Church there—so I was invited to preach in Stalingrad's Baptist church, an invitation I was glad to accept. My sermon that morning was "Peace Through Christ," and the woman who translated my English into Russian was a confirmed atheist. But she gave an accurate translation of everything I said, according to those who understood both English and Russian. The church was crowded. People- stood in the aisles and were lined up outside the church. As I preached, I noticed many elderly people weeping. Some who attended that day, I learned, were not members of the church. They came because they had Atheists all, these Russian students at Yalta heard an American would preach. as\ed the author questions about his religion. Wherever churches are open in Russia, they are jam-packed with people at every service. There are at Our Christian tourists would very and accept it and then promote it. least 40 Russian Orthodox churches seldom lack an audience. During my They do not hate the church. They open in Moscow, where constant three months in Russia, it seems I ridicule it. What was once religion processions of mothers with infants was surrounded by one continuous in Russia is just about dead. The few come for baptismal services. The crowd of curious Russians. churches which remain open are people, whether religious or atheistic, The students at Yalta were some- crowded, but crowded mostly by old appear to have little interest in anti- what different from most Russians people and peasants. The Kremlin streets. Yalta is a choice religious museums which have been we met in the hopes that, with the passing of the resort for the best workers, set up to ridicule the church. In fact, summer older generation, there will be no the Kremlin taken the most loyal Soviet citizens, as well has down many more churches open anywhere across of the anti-religion posters at these as the most brilliant students. that broad and dreary land. museums and has placed them in the Eventually this new generation I recall the night I stood outside basements. will have something to say about a church in Leningrad. I turned to At one service I attended in Mos- Russia. Unlike the generations who a young Russian who stood beside cow's Baptist church, the pastor spoke submitted to the Bolsheviks and who me. on' the H-bomb. "There is a power stood helpless while Stalin trampled "Have you ever been inside?" I greater than the hvdrogen bomb," he them into their own mud, they are asked. declared. "It is the power of love." educated and curious and very rest- "Yes," he said. "One night I was But the message of Christianity less. To be sure, another war—or curious, so 1 went in." seldom reaches the young people. The even the threat of war—could rush : " "I lave you ever gone back only hope lies in the fact that their them back into the arms of tyranny '"Yes." he replied. "Every once in minds are beginning to inquire. They again. Bui as long as there is peace, because . . . well, I like the have seen Stalin set up as a god, then they will make three strong de- a while, degraded into the tyrant he really mands: They will demand disarma- music." Morch 7957\Togetrter 15 AN AFTERNOON WITH ROBERT FROST BY ARTHUR S. HARRIS, JR. W.HAT SORT of man is Robert colleges on the way. As one of his The big man with the heavy, Frost? friends pointed out, Frost spent his knuckled hands nodded and an- Not long ago, I went to see him early years running away from col- swered in a deep, throaty voice that at Amherst College in Amherst, leges; he left both Dartmouth and filled the sunny sitting room. Mass., where he is a beloved Poet in Harvard without a degree. But now "I taught a little in schools," Frost Residence. Every fall and spring he he is heavy with honors. told me, "at Pinkerton Academy. spends a month or more there. He greeted me in a reception room, For four years I taught about every- 1 had not seen him since my col- then said his own room would be thing there. I taught some Latin. I lege days, almost 20 years ago. Then better, lor we could talk undisturbed. taught English, I taught some solid he had been a man far away on the I followed him along the carpeted geometry. They took me in —having platform, vigorous, just 65, with hallway through doors which we al- seen some of my poem—somebody a powerful frame and deep-set ternately held open for each other, did, and thought I could come in eyes glinting playfully at us as he down to his sunny apartment over- there substituting. 1 was farming read poems his audience always looking the Amherst Inn's garden. down the road, chickens and things. wanted to hear: The Birches, The Frost seated himself comfortably, They saw I wasn't doing any harm, Death of the Hired Man, Mending then turned to me smiling. Beneath so they let me teach a little more. Wall. The memory came back to me the handsome face there is a hint of And then they began to pile it on when I heard his twangy, New Eng- the fragility of age—but noble age, and I quit." land voice over the telephone. indeed! Sturdy independence in the soul "You come after lunch sometime," I switched on my tape recorder for of this New Englander! he said with chatty informality. "I the interview. But I soon learned you I recalled his teaching days in like to sleep late mornings." don't "interview" Robert Frost. He is Derry, N. H. No harm done there, So after lunch I was there—at the too humble to sit on an Olympian either! Once the state superintendent Lord Jeffrey Inn in Amherst. The throne and answer questions. And at of schools. Henry C. Morrison, visited 82-year-old poet has no real duties 82, he is still so keenly interested in Frost's classroom and summed up now, except an occasional lec- others that skillfully he manages to Frost thus: "He was neither raising ture. The stooped, white-haired man turn the conversation to you! his voice nor cutting up any pedagog- is a familiar figure about the campus. Does he still write? ical monkeyshines. Rather, he was Sometimes he drops in on baseball "Well, I guess now I'm more ol a talking to his class as he might to a games or fraternity gatherings. lull-time poet than just about any- group ol friends around his own fire- With spring, he moves up to Dart- body," he observed. "I live by poetry side. But he had them as few other mouth, then on to a writers' confer- entirely. 1 do what the ancient bards teachers ever do get them." ence or two. Come fall, he works his did: I wander around doin' some As he talked. Frost's blue eyes way south again to Miami, lecturing reading a good deal like the old glittered under heavy brow s. troubadour's life, that sort ol thing. "But I hail no degrees, you knoit . .iiul DOgiving readingso at schools and I've earned my living at it lor the And I've never had any desire for a l.isi 40 years. Still at it." degree. I couldn't go anywhere What were some recollections ol teaching." . / venerable 82, the poet Frost shows a hint of the fragility the early years? "You once taught For a man with no degrees, Frosi : " of age—but noble age, indeed. yoursell I asked. did all right lecturer and Resident 17 — — ' A YOUNG BIRCH Poet at the University of Michigan, Dartmouth, Harvard, Amherst; four- times Pulitzer-prize winner, a world's its sheath The birch begins to crack outer record, incidentally; all sorts of hon- the beneath, Of baby green and show white orary degrees. The critic, Mark Van As whosoever likes the young and slight Doren, hailed him as "a poet of and May well have noticed. Soon entirely white for the world." He had even con- To double day and cut in half the dark founded a few academicians, who bark, It will stand forth, entirely white in were reluctant to take some of his And nothing but the top a leafy green simpler poems at face value and in- The only native tree that dares to lean, sisted on "explicating" them. Relying on its beauty, to the air. The aging poet recalled this ex- (Less brave perhaps than trusting arc the fair.) perience with relish. And someone reminiscent will recall Once the word got around that How once in cutting brush along the wall Frost was more than a "nature poet," I Ic spared it from the number of the slain, more than just a rural New England- At first to be no bigger than a cane, er who loved to write about old stone And then no bigger than a fishing pole, walls and cow pastures in the first But now at last so obvious a bole flood of springtime. Before long, the The most efficient help you ever hired critics began to put some pretty eru- Would know that it was there to be admired, dite interpretations on Frost's homey And zeal would not be thanked that cut it down poems. When you were reading books or out of town. There was the poem, Stopping by It was a thing of beauty and was sent Woods on a Snowy Evening. It tells To live its life out as an ornament. the simple story of a man and a horse headed home on a snowy evening. The man stops his horse a moment to watch the snow falling in the Whose woods these arc I think I know. white woods. Then, because it is late His house is in the village though; FAVORITES and he has a distance to go, he moves TWO He will not sec stopping here me on. his fill with snow. Frost To watch woods up by Robert But the critics wouldn't have it so My little horse must think it queer simple! To stop without a farmhouse near The farmer-poet leaned forward Between the woods and frozen lake and scoffed. "All that it means," he The darkest evening of the year. explained, "is that the fellow wanted He gives his harness bells a shake to go home." STOPPING BY WOODS To ask if there is some mistake. That trait more than any other, I The only other sound's the sweep think, explains our greatest poet. No ON A Of easy wind and downy flake. degrees! No falderal in his classroom. No pretense in his poetry. SNOWY EVENING The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep. We visited, and the reels of tape And miles to go before I sleep, piled up beside the recorder— And miles to go before I sleep. "Frostisms" dry, direct, deliberate. On American education: "They're talking now about more and more television, as if books were about over! Pictures, pictures, pictures! Might just as well have education by comic strips." On conscience: "Live by your own judgment of what's right for you what's the noble thing to do." On poetry: "You see, I don't ever look at poetry as knowledge. To me it's just pure performance, and all this knowledge stuff is incidental." From Complete I'm ins nf Robert I packed up my tape recorder, Frost. Copy- right, 1930', shook the hand of a great and simple 1949, bv Henry "I'll your Holt & Co., Inc. man. be wandering, maybe Copyright. 1936, way, like a troubadour come spring. 194S, by Rolx>rt Frost, By per- Come, talk with me again," he waved mission of the publishers. good-by. Together/March 7 957 • ': ' . i A li % O hfr^- ick" Richmond BAbour.-Ph'.BC I am 14, an only child. I have a a demonstration of good citizenship. duce the disagreements, but don't ex- boy friend. 1 sec him every day at Your principal is right. Persuade your pect to eliminate them. Try to be fair school. We have grown up together in friend to behave himself. and see her side. Avoid irritating her our church. We do not say we are in by staying out of her way; do not an- love, but we thinly a lot of each other. swer back. Talk with your parents I don't ask permission to have dates about your troubles. i;;-i./y At 14, I've been dating three with him; 1 just want permission to When things get rough, ask for a different boys. Each wants to go steady. be friends.—M.M. Family conference gather together in I have too much fun to think of going — the living room and ask them to help steady. Besides, my parents wouldn't solve your difficulties. Hold your tem- let me. Will it be all right for me to give sister tell It is natural for girls your age per; your time to her keep dating the three? J.T. — side. to like boys. But it is hard lor older Then try to work out some reason- lolks to understand. Young people to- able compromises. day are developing faster than their IE l, —; Yes. Most girls aren't so for- parents developed, both physically and tunate as you are. emotionally. Your parents remember ^%r I'm a girl almost 13. I like a boy, how they were at your age. They expect but I can't get him to warm up. Is some- you to be relatively childlike. thing wrong with me? Or with the boys Probably your friendship is all right. *c I'm worried about my /(id sister, in my school?—R.F. It will be a poor if friendship you do 15. She has been going with a secret unwise things. The two of you should club interested in hypnotism. One boy set out to prove to the grownups that has taken private lessons. He put my Probably nothing is either you are responsible, wrong capable, wise teen- sister in a trance. Had her walking on way. Girls grow up I aster than boys. agers. her hands and knees, barring like a In some ways you are a year or two Don't continually bring the up sub- dog. Is this safe? —F.C. ahead of the fellows in your classes. ject ol your friendship, fust demonstrate They aren't interested in girls but your maturity. Your folks will catch — on. they will be later. * No. She should not fool around with hypnotism. (Jo to your folks about it. In the hands of qualified specialists, / went with a boy until last June. *?>* My closest friend and I arc high- hypnotism has real value. But in the Q i now am IS. In September, starting school seniors. The principal won't give hands of an unskilled boy it is dan- he had a breakdown and was my pal a diploma unless he changes his gerous college, ways. He gets good grades, but messes sent to a sanitarium. The doctors said around in class. He cracks wise at he had "typical schizophrenia." He is starting college teachers, strips classes, and has a hair- recovered quickly to make her change? . Ill I asl{ is for Schizophrenia is the most com- her to stop criticizing me. A.K. — mon mental illness among young peo He still has time to show he has pie. Must luii agers recover, but usuall) the qualities needed lor graduation. need interviews with psychiatrists t March 1957 \Together 79 it. Avoid reference to his illness unless he brings it up. Continue to be his Until 12:30 P.M. friend. by ROY L. SMITH I'm 18, eloped at 16. My husband was 21 then. Our baby boy was born on my 17th birthday. My husband loves me and 1 love him, but not as strongly as I did. He expects me to stay home every evening. He will not go to dances or parties. I don't go to church any more, though 1 still belong. I want to have more fun! Must a married teen- ager act as if she were old?—L.S. When you married, you assumed a responsibility beyond your years. When your baby was born, you as- sumed even more responsibility. It is normal for you to want excitement, but you can't act like a teen-ager. You have a baby to think of and an obligation to your husband. Your mistake was in marrying so soon. Dr. ALAN WALKER, the coura- bath day, and there was developed a By all means, return to church. Have geous and beloved Australian evange- popular belief that Sunday is a day of your husband go with you. Join to- list, offered a discerning comment on rest. gether in church activities. contemporary church life in the United There is much truth in that concept, States. of course, but the Sabbath was not de- "As I have observed the matter," he signed as a day of rest. Rather, it was I'm a girl of 15, but feel much said, "the American people have re- set apart as a day for concentrating at- older. I have been secretly seeing a boy vised the Sabbath commandment to tention to the cultivation of one's own of 22. He wants me to run away and make it read, 'Remember the Sabbath soul. get married. Should 1 try to stop seeing day and keep it holy until about 12:30 There is a great deal of difference "him?—].B. " on Sunday afternoon.' between a day designed for letting When pressed for an explanation, he down and one set apart for toning up. went on to say, "Your churches are But for millions of Americans, Sunday <- Stop seeing him. You are too to think of generally filled on Sunday morning, has become a day for downgrading. young marriage. Read the question just before this one. but as soon as the benediction is pro- At least some of this feeling results nounced you turn secular. You go off from a mistaken opinion concerning on picnics, arrange dinner parties, at- church attendance. A family may say, tend the games or the pictures, and live for example, that they appreciate the / li\e to s\i on Saturdays. My precisely as you would on any holiday." early service "because we can go to friends s\i Sunday afternoons. My Now Dr. Walker would be the first church at nine o'clock and then have grandparents say it is wrong to s\i on to admit that such a generalization the rest of the day to ourselves to do Sundays, but my friends say it is all needs some qualification, or even as we please." What they really mean right. My parents tell me to let my conscience be my guide. What shall I amendment. But the rest of us will is that, having discharged their reli- A.A. have to admit he has voiced a very seri- gious "duty" and having presented do?— ous warning. themselves for an hour at the house of The problem of Sabbath observance God, they have done all that the Al- J &. ;- Ideas about appropriate Sunday is a very old one. For many genera- mighty has any right to expect of them. activities are changing rapidly. Talk tions preachers have been asked: "Is it Thereafter they can turn with clear with your minister, then with your right to do this, or to do that, on Sun- conscience to merry-making. folks again. I'm sure you can work out day?" As though there were one list of For Christians, the acid test of any a sound conclusion. things right and permissible on the Sunday activity is very simple: "Does Sabbath, and another list of things it increase my sense of reverence and wrong, forbidden, or sinful. hare me with any the sense of of holi- Teen-agers: Having problems? Dr. But "keeping the Sabbath" is not as ness? Barbour is ready to help you with them. simple as that. Identical acts may have Any Christian who will spend the He is head of the San Diego public- different spiritual aspects. Sabbath day in the cultivation of spir- school system's counseling department There is more than a clew to the itual sensitivity, in examining the week and has had long experience meeting problem in the form in which the past in the light of the will of God the kjnd of problems that bother you. commandment was given to mankind. and the week ahead in terms of the Write to Dr. Richmond Barbour, c/o According to the Old Testament story purposes of God, will discover that he Together, 740 N. Rush St., Chicago 11, of Creation, God rested on the Sab- has rested. ///.—Eds. 20 Together//March 1957 . Wate* Practice nitil{cs perfect—so it's not strange Gulfport MYF members can whip up pyramids lil{c this. D Rev. Clyde H. Gunn, is becoming as much at home ship services for all competitors. The club's aim is zooming behind a speedboat as preaching in the pulpit. expressed in its vow, repeated at its "hand stack" cere- The club was the brain child ol bob Smith, then monies "m recreation and in life, our best." Worch 7 957\Together 21 Intermediates repeat club's vow at a " hand-stack^' ceremony. Members must play their part in all activities, exemplijy Christian sportsmanship, before they can win their big "M" letter. B.UOI SKI TUB (gltlfport JFirol fHrthoitiat (Ihurrh Certificate of recognition stresses benefits to youth of "clean, active, challenging sports" in leisure hours. mm" Like the kjlliloo bird that always files backward because it wants to see where it's been, this MYF-er races full speed astern. Think it's easy? Try it! Form like this is the reason the young people are winning high honors in regional and national tournaments against topflight competition. 22 Together/ March 1957 . Dry-land practice session for a mixed-doubles team under the watchful eyes of Director Bob Smith, right, and Harold Hill, center. Church is proud of the many honors its doubles teams have ta\en. "Graduating" seniors are given send-off. Juniors place traditional four-corner caps on seniors' heads. Next year it's their turn. The first step is the big one—to "get up" on the board. Visiting preachers who can master the art, as this young lad has done, win a certificate. March ?957\Togcthcr 23 Should the United Nations Long log-jammed in UN councils, this explosive issue has snarled the world agency's wordings, often threatened to bring them to a halt. Key prize in Peiping's eyes: the Security Council seat now MIDMONTH held by Nationalist China. Here, from an POWWOW American Senator and an Asiatic who heads his nation's UN delegation, you get both sides. YES R. S. S. GUNEWARDENE of Ceylon, Ambassador and UN Delegation Chairman. 'Permanent peace in the Far Eastern area can never be ensured except by" admitting Peiping to the UN. THE RECOGNITION by the United Nations of the I want to make it plain that I represent a country, Chinese Peoples Republic as the de facto government of Ceylon, a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, China and Peiping's assumption of the seat now occupied which holds no brief for Communism. The fact that we by the Chinese Nationalists on the Security Council and favor admitting Red China to the United Nations, that in the Assembly are a political inevitability. we recognize it diplomatically and seek to trade with it, China represents one of the oldest civilizations in the does not mean we approve its system of government. world, a people with a glorious history. The United Na- Ceylon heartily disapproves of the systems of govern- tions cannot effectively discuss problems relating to the ment that obtain in Communist regions. We recognized maintenance of peace, disarmament, atomic energy, hu- Nationalist China. But practical wisdom comes and we man rights, and stabilization in the Far East with 500,- face facts. Ceylon believes in friendship with all countries 000,000 Chinese who hold the balance of power in the of the world. We disagree very strongly with the political Pacific shut out of the deliberations. It cannot ignore the ideology of many countries and certainly with the polit- voice of two thirds of the people of the world whose ical and economic theories of Soviet Russia, Communist governments wish to have Communist China present in China, and the satellite countries. We believe in an en- the United Nations' forums. tirely different system. We believe in the government that The whole world knows that the Communists at is best for us, and we believe that each country has a Peiping are firmly entrenched. The regime has been in right to decide what government suits it. existence for years. It has an enviable record of progress. Furthermore, we do not have the slightest quarrel or For the first time in decades there is peace on the Chinese grievance with Nationalist China, or the United States, mainland; for the first time there is no internecine war- or any other government large or small which does not fare between one war lord and another; for the first time recognize Red China. That is a sovereign right which bribery and corruption have been removed; for the first a country exercises in accordance with its likes and time there is beginning to be freedom from dirt and dislikes. One is not called upon, in the United States, squalor, even from flies, in China. to have diplomatic relations with all countries. But I Today 35 nations have diplomatic relations with the would respectfully point out that the United States has new China. At least 62 nations of the world trade with diplomatic relations with Hungary and Romania and cer- the Chinese mainland, despite an attempted blockade and tain other states. Where is the nice distinction? Why are boycott. Most of these nations maintain close contact those countries admitted to the United Nations and Com- with the Chinese government, and some of them are munist China and Outer Mongolia barred? among the great powers. If China is not to be touched The pertinent issues in respect to Peiping's enseatment in the United Nations, is not good enough to be ad- on the Security Council and the Assembly, and the mitted to representation, how is it that she is fit to trade various other organs of the United Nations in which she with and be recognized diplomatically? might be concerned, are contained in the Charter. China, 24 Toseth er/ March 1957 Admit Red China? as a country, is already in the United Nations. There Easi, m Israel, in Hungary, and other places b\ countries is only one China; on this both Formosa and Peiping with whom we have dealings in the United Nations?" are agreed. 1 hat China is a great power, a charter mem- What if Red China has been guilty of atrocities? Six ber ot the United Nations and is entitled to a permanent years have passed since Peiping first applied for ad- seat on the Security Council. Those seats are now filled mission. I do not know of any atrocities committed by by Nationalist China's representatives, who speak for its government during that time. There is peace across some 10,000,000 people on Formosa and a few millions the Formosa Straits; there is no war in North Korea. more Chinese living outside Communist China. The If Communist China offers a threat to Nationalist China question is: Does Formosa, or Peiping, which rules over a or Korea, that is their lookout, and their friends'. naif-billion souls, speak for the Chinese people? We believe that permanent peace in the Far Eastern Much has been made of the claim that Peiping does area can never be ensured except by bringing Com- not represent China, because it was not installed through munist China right into the UN fold where it can be "Iree elections"; that the Formosa regime does speak for made answerable for its acts. the Chinese, because it was the last freely elected govern- Then there is the question of "guilt by association." ment. How many countries, members of the United Red China is charged with having "condoned" the ac- Nations, have governments which are the result of free tions of Soviet Russia in Hungary. We in Ceylon do not elections? My country believes in democracy; it is believe in the principle of guilt by association. Because pledged to democracy. We have universal suffrage, and Soviet Russia did something diabolical in Hungary, an every man and woman is entitled to vote. Nearly 80 per act which the United Nations and world opinion over- cent of the people go to the polls. We believe in free whelmingly condemned, does that make China, a Com- elections. So do many other UN members. munist state, a co-agitator with the Soviets or a participant Hut there are some countries which we and others do of those black deeds 2 not regard as democratic under our definition of the term, countries whose governments we recognize and do business with. There are various types of political T,HE United Kingdom and France committed open ideologies represented in the United Nations. aggression in Egypt. So did Israel. They were condemned The United Nations is not an exclusive club; its mem- by the United Nations Assembly and obliged to with- bership is not selective; admission cannot be restricted to draw their forces from Egyptian territory. Yet they were those we like or those whose political ideologies or eco- not expelled from the United Nations, nor even ostra- nomic philosophies we approve. It must reflect the world cized before they had made atonement. They continue as it is; it must reflect the various systems of government to be "recognized"; they continue as members in good -that exist and take cognizance of their problems. Other- standing; the world trades with them, maintains diplo- wise, there is no purpose for the organization's existence. matic relations. The fact that the Soviet Union does not have lice But should Ceylon, for example, a member ol the elections has not deprived it of the right to sit on the Commonwealth, be tarred with the same brush as Great Security Council; the fact that Poland, Czechoslovakia, Britain? II a friend ol Soviet Russia, a country which has the Ukrainian SSR and others have no free suffrage has the same political concepts as the USSR, has not done any not mitigated against their being members of the United dark deeds to talk about, is that a reason why it should Nations. Only a year ago Hungary, Albania, Romania, be drawn along with Russia? A person or a nation should and Bulgaria, where they have no free elections, were be judged for what he or it is. The fact that Soviet admitted to memberships. Yet Communist China and Outer Mongolia were barred. Why? At the recent Assembly, when certain big powers blocked Pciping's admission by the simple expedient ol «» striking the question from the agenda, the argument was advanced diat Communist China was unlit for member- ship because of "atrocities" allegedly committed some six or seven years ago. Everyone condemns atrocities, before and after they occur. ffe Red China has been branded as an "aggressor" by the "eral AsseW^ is United Nations. But 1 would like to ask: "Why not 8? one standard applied to all members ol the United Na- 6\« g&* Economic a« 4 s< 3 tions! How many countries have come to the United Social Counc^ Nations with clean hands? Were there not atrocities during World War II in very important countries? Have not atrocities been committed in Egypt, in the Near The six "principal organs" o/ tht I V, March 1957 \Together 25 Russia or Great Britain committed grave deeds, deeds Mr. Dulles then continued to say that "if the Com- which have been denounced, does not make Russia's or munist government of China, in fact, proves its ability to Britain's friends—or associates—responsible. govern China without serious domestic resistance, it, too, Stripping the question of Red China's admission to should be admitted to the United Nations." the United Nations of all more or less irrelevant issues, I would also like to call attention to resolutions adopted the points that are of real consequence are: "Is the at two recent international conferences, conferences held Communist regime the real government of China? Is the in the Far East and attended by representatives of nations Peiping regime able and willing to discharge the respon- which comprise two thirds of the population of the sibilities of membership in the United Nations?" world. The Colombo Power Conference was called at theiC As to the first item: Today we have some 80 countries initiative of the prime minister of Ceylon, a man wh which are members of the United Nations. At least 55 is certainly one of the greatest enemies of Communism jure, Chinese countries recognize, de facto or de the That conference was attended by Burma, Ceylon, India,; Peoples Republic and its government. I think that it is Indonesia and Pakistan, all members of the United Na- for the past years Peiping has undisputed that seven tions. It unanimously declared that the continued non- all prerogatives in- exercised, unchallenged, the duties and recognition of Communist China "increases the tension cumbent upon it. Its authority has been unquestioned; in the Far East and is a constant threat to peace." it has been accepted by the majority of the Chinese peo- Again, at the Bandung Conference of 29 nations, in- ple; it is firmly entrenched and has a record of political cluding Red China, where the voice of representatives progress. Despite boycott and blockade of the mainland, of nearly a billion of the world's peoples was heard, the some 62 countries trade with Red China. same view was expressed, namely, "that peace in the I would like to quote from a statement made at the Far Eastern area can never be ensured except by recog- last assembly by the Rt. Hon. Krishna Menon, Indian nition of Communist China and bringing it into the delegate, who referred to the thesis enunciated by John orbit of the United Nations fold." Foster Dulles, secretary of state. In 1950 Mr. Dulles said: There were no greater supporters of the principles of "I have come to believe that the United Nations will the Charter at the Bandung Conference than the mem- best serve the cause of peace if its Assembly is representa- bers of the Chinese delegation. If the views officially ex- tive of what the world actually is and not merely repre- pressed there by Peiping's representatives can be taken sentative of the parts we like. . . . Therefore, we ought to be willing that all nations should be members without at face value, there is reason to believe that Red China attempting to appraise expressly those that are good and has every intention of conforming to the principles those that are bad. Already that distinction is obfuscated and practices of the Charter if and when it is admitted by the present membership of the United Nations." to the United Nations. NO WILLIAM F. KNOWLAND, United States Senator. "Red China . . . was established by, and still exists on, a force alien to China." a body which would represent all governments of the world, good, bad, or indifferent, was settled at San Fran- cisco. There it was decided that membership should be on a selective basis. The Charter says the organization welcomes "peace- loving states which accept the obligations of the present charter, and which, in the judgment of the organization, are willing to carry out these obligations." The preamble also lays down the obligation of a mem- ber "to establish conditions under which justice and the respect for obligations arising from treaties and other S A DELEGATE to the recent Assembly, I heard it sources of international law can be maintained." Respect said that if only Red China were at the United Nations, for human rights is imperative. Red China meets none of it would be easier to deal with its government and reach settlements on controversial issues that affect the Pacific. these conditions. It was established by, and still exists on, But has the presence of the USSR or of Communist outside force, a force alien to China. Poland and Hungary, or the other satellites lessened in- I even heard that Red China's presence in the United ternational tensions or resulted in easy adjustments, on Nations would contribute to a rift between Peiping and equitable and decent terms, of outstanding problems? Moscow, that it would hasten the spread of "Titoism" The answer is no! and puncture the Communist dream of world domina- The question of whether the United Nations should be tion. The Russians do not seem to fear any such eventual- 26 Together/ March 1957 in. The exact opposite would more likely be the result. Association on the Security Council of the United Na What About closer the bonds \ tioiis would knit between Moscow and Peiping. Two vetoes instead oi one would be pitted against the already weakened entente of tree-world coun- Christians tries. The raucous propaganda voice of the Sino-Russian bloc, with the fortissmo of the satellite nations, might In China? Completely drown out the voices oi the democracies in the world's foremost debating forum. We hear constantly advanced the argument that the By EUGENE L. SMITH. Chinese Peoples Republic government in Peiping is Carnal Secretary, Methodist Hoard o\ Missions "firmly established," that it is the de facto government on the Chinese mainland. 1 hat Mao Tse-tung and his Moscow minions are "established" might be admitted, C HRISTIANITY has been planted in China lour times. but their very existence, militarily, economically, and Three times it has been wiped out. Will it survive this timer ideologically, rests upon Russian Communist support. The Church in China is alive today. In some Red China came into power on Soviet-supplied arms; areas it is growing. Its people are hungry for its economy was and is bolstered by Soviet technicians; contact with Christians in the West. its is trained, directed, and equipped. army Communist There are perhaps four million Chinese Chris- Its purges have been Soviet inspired. If Soviet Commu- tians under Chinese rule. Nearly one million nist influence and pressure and support were withdrawn are Protestants, and about one hundred thou- from Red China today, you would see in Asia a reflection sand are Methodists. Taiwan (Formosa) today ol what happened in Hungary. numbers 80,000 Christians, about six hundred We also hear much about "trade with China." Though of whom are Methodists. Both Generalissimo and Chiang Kai-shek are very active there are some 500 million Chinese, the importance of the Mme. and loyal Methodists. On that strategic island Meth- "vast Chinese market" has been greatly exaggerated. odism confronts rich and challenging oppor- Trade depends not on numbers, but entirely upon a tunities for Christian service. people's ability to buy and consume and to trade on But how do Chinese Christians on the main- reasonable terms. Communist China is bankrupt. Under land carry on today? the Red regime of confiscation, forced labor, five-year In earlier centuries, when missionaries left, plans, and communistic economy, the nation has become the Church died. Missionaries began their forced impoverished rather than prosperous, when compared departure from China about seven years ago, with Asiatic free nations. but congregations still worship; seminaries are full. What trade there was, and is, is oriented toward Soviet Reports as to the persecution of the Church Russia. One needs only to note the disastrous result of differ greatly. Anglican Bishop K. H. Ting of Britain's experience commercially with Red China. Not Nanking insists that he does not know of any only have Britons had to get out of China, but they have person killed or imprisoned for being a Christian. had to pay dearly for the privilege. We know, however, that many were killed and I that ex- From best available sources learn China's imprisoned on charges of being friendly to the portable surplus is about $4 billions. Eighty per cent West. of this is firmly committed to Soviet Russia and her Communist governments have usually been satellites. China's entire soya-bean surplus, for example, more concerned with controlling the Church is allotted to Communist countries. All Manchuria's iron than with destroying it. How much the Church in China has freedom to be the Church is an ore is earmarked for domestic consumption while the important question. We do not know the real 100 million tons' surplus of low-grade Hainan ore goes content of the teaching in the seminaries, in to Poland for processing. church schools, in youth programs. Communists Frankly speaking, the chief things that Communist insist there is freedom of worship, hut say China would try to export to the United States and — little about trccdom for the pulpit. other democracies—would be opium, heroin, and the There seem to have been in Red China products of some 25,000,000 slave laborers. In return, she serious spiritual losses. The denunciation meet would demand heavy machinery, machine tools, and ings with Christians denouncing Christians, the other supplies to build up her war machine, to be even- insidious pressures ot ruthless propaganda, the tually used against non-Communistic countries. thought control in so many areas ot lite—these upon the that cannot Apropos the export of narcotics from Red China, Dr. have had influence Church yet be measured. Harry J. Anslinger, who for 27 years has been U.S. What of the future? The re -establishment of Commissioner of Narcotics, testified before the Senate relations with mainland Chinese Christians may Judiciary Committee that Red China's annual production be near but how near we cannot predict. < oi from which heroin is derived, is today about opium, tainly, they will be very sensitive to being treated before the Communist <>l 6,000 tons. Production conquest in .ill things as equals. They probably will not the mainland was approximately 2,000 tons annually. I h . wish to accept any help in hinds oi personnel un- Anslinger estimated that Peiping prohts to the extent of less thej can oiler equivalent aid to the Church $d0 millions yearly from illegally exported narcotics. That in the lulled States. We face a new era and ol testing in t lima. is one commodity the free nations can well do without. period March 1957 Together 27 — Another export of China, which democracies will have Chinese troops killed 33,629 American soldiers, sailors, no use for, is "slave labor." According to documented and marines, and thousands of young men from 16 coun- data on file with the United Nations, 22 million Chinese tries which rallied to the support of the United Nations. now work in slave camps. According to ex-Ambassador To say nothing of the millions of Koreans slain. Joseph C. Grew, 1.5 million slave laborers have been The conviction of Red China still stands in the United "leased like machine tools to other Communist govern- Nations. She has not acknowledged her guilt, atoned for ments and shipped to Russia, Poland, East Germany, and her crime, or sought to remove the stigma of aggressor. Czechoslovakia in bill-of-lading consignments like cattle." She has not offered to make amends, or reform her wavs. The Peiping government, not these workers, is paid for Instead, she seeks approval of her acts: of her lack of their services in war munitions, tools, and heavy industry. international morality; of her flaunting of international Should we ever reach a point in international morality decency; of her outrageous treatment of prisoners of war where we would try to "buy" trade with Red China at the and foreigners—many missionaries who were devoting price of recognition of an evil regime or advocacy of its their lives to China's welfare; of her contempt for law admission to the United Nations, should we ever com- and justice. promise our ideals and principles to the extent of sacri- Furthermore, Red China has publicly approved (while ficing our friends in Asia to the Red Moloch, we would the United Nations, including India, condemned) the deserve the only reward we would surely get—payment brutal suppression by Soviet troops of the Hungarian in counterfeit coin. workers' revolt. Who really represents the Chinese people today: Mao Red China—and her friends—now ask that the United Tse-tung at Peiping or the Nationalist government at Nations forgive and forget, that they abandon Nationalist Taiwan [Formosa]? China and the 10 millions on Formosa to Peiping's The 10 millions on Formosa and the exiles in Hong tender mercies, that we accept as a matter of internal Kong and elsewhere live under conditions of their own domestic concern the final liquidation of the bastion of: choosing, perhaps not ideal but nevertheless preferable. liberty off the coast of Asia, that we permit to be ex- On Formosa are found a democratic government, a rela- tinguished the hopes for liberation that burn brightly on tively high standard of living, personal liberty, and re- Taiwan. spect for human dignity. Both the Republican and Democratic party platforms On the mainland half a billion people exist under in the 1956 elections carried strong statements against a brutal dictatorship which admits it has "liquidated" admission of Red China to the United Nations. 20 million "liberals, intellectuals, capitalists, landowners, Both houses of Congress, in joint resolutions, have six reactionaries, and critics-of-the-state" since 1949. These times (every year since 1951) opposed recognition of millions exist under a regime which, again to quote ex- Red China or its entry into the world organization in Ambassador Grew who knows the Far East well, "has which we have a veto. More than one million Americans no morals, no ethics, no compunctions, and no visible have signed petitions indicating solidarity on the issue. international controls." What are the real reasons behind Red China's—and The Chinese Nationalist government on Formosa, Moscow's—drive to seat Peiping in the United Nations, which sits in the United Nations as representative of the and incidentally unseat the representation of Nationalist Chinese, was the last government of China freely elected China ? And to obtain a de facto if not de jure recognition by the people. No elections have been permitted on the from Washington? Chinese mainland since the Reds seized power. They want international approval of what they have Of the 21,000 Chinese "volunteers" taken prisoners by done to China; they want a reversal, at the bar of world the United Nations' forces in the Korean War, 14,000 opinion, of Red China's conviction as an aggressor by the or two-thirds—when given a chance to return to their United Nations; they want to cloak their past, present, Red homeland or go to Nationalist China, chose freedom and future deeds in a garb of international respectability; on Formosa. they want to prove to millions of Asiatics that they can Today, according to the High Commissioner for Refu- shoot their way into the United Nations, that they can gees of the United Nations, more than one million force countries which they have flouted to make peace Chinese who have escaped from Mao's China prefer liv- with them on their own terms. They are asking—through ing in hovels and shacks in the slums of Hong Kong to recognition of Peiping—the withdrawal of recognition of returning, as they are constantly importuned to do, to the this nation's ally in World War II, the government of Communist mainland. the Republic of China. What would the answer be for half a billion Chinese The existence of the dictatorship in Peiping is one civilians and peasants if they were asked what they thing; to grant it recognition, and a seat in the United preferred? One needs only to look toward Hungary for Nations, is quite another. The Red dictators of China an answer. want approval by the world, through admission to the Communist China flaunted the authority of the United United Nations, on their acts in the past, their present Nations and an overwhelming world opinion by making policies, and a free hand in their future conduct in inter- war against Korea, upon which country it sought, at the national affairs. urging of Soviet Russia, to impose a Communist regime. We must not compromise for expediency. We must It was branded as an aggressor by the Security Council remember the admonition in Second Corinthians: "Be 1 and Assembly. Even India, which now champions Mao's ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For cause, and Britain, Sweden, and others which have rec- what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness, ognized Red China joined in the condemnation. Red and what communion has light with darkness?" 28 Together/ Morcft 7 957 . ". ' I ftcr the beating ruin and gUStS <>j wind . . . there yet A-T THE TOP of a squatty, through the maze of the narrow and Say, ten," he said, as he shook down three-story brick in Greenwich Vil- moss-grown "places" in the Village. the mercury in his clinical thermom- lage, Sue and Johnsy had their Mr. Pneumonia was not what you eter. "And that chance is lor her to studio. "Johnsy" was familiar for would call a chivalric old gentle- want to live. The way people have Joanna. One was from Maine, the man. A mite ol a little woman with of lining up on the side ol the under- other from California. They had blood thinned by California zephyrs taker makes the entire pharmaco- pound their tastes in art, chicory was hardly lair game lor the rcd- poeia look silly. Your little lady has salad, and sleeves so congenial that fisted, short-breathed old duffer. But made up her mind that she's not the joint studio resulted. Johnsy he smote; and she lay, scarce- going to get well. Has she anything That was in May. In November ly moving, on her painted iron bed- on her mind?" a cold, unseen stranger, whom the stead, looking through the small "She she wanted to paint the Bay doctors called Pneumonia, stalked Dutch window panes at the blank ol Naples some d,\\." said Sue. about the "colony," touching one side ol the next brick house. "Paint? bosh! Has she anything here and there with his icy fingers. One morning the busy doctor in- on her mind worth thinking about " Over on the East Side this ravager vited Sue into tlu hallwa) with a tw ice a man. lor instana r : " strode boldly, smiting his victims by shagg) . gray eyebrow "A man said Sue. with a ii tt 's- Mines, Ixii his feel trod slowly "She has one chance in let us harp twang in her voice. "Is a man March 1957 \Together 29 worth—but, no, doctor; there is loose my hold on everything, and go nothing of the kind." sailing down, down, just like one of "Well, it is the weakness, then," READERS CHOICE those poor, tired leaves." said the doctor. "I will do all that "Try to sleep," said Sue. "I must It was written long before peni- science, so far as it may filter call Behrman up to be my model for cillin outmoded pneumonia— but efforts, can accomplish. the old hermit miner. I'll not be gone through my the pathos of The Last Leaf makes But whenever my patient begins to it one of 0. Henry's most remem- a minute. Don't try to move till I count the carriages in her funeral bered stories today. Here it is con- come back." densed from The Trimmed Lamp, procession, I subtract 50 per cent Old Behrman was a painter who copyright 1905, by Doubleday and from the curative power of medi- lived on the ground floor beneath Co., Inc. We share it with you at will to ask one them. was past 60 and had a cines. If vou get her the suggestion of Betty Wrigley, He question about the new winter styles Marion, Ind., to whom we've just Michelangelo's Moses beard curling in cloak sleeves, I will promise you a sent a $25 check. down from the head of a satyr along If you have a favorite article or one-in-five chance for her." the body of an imp. Behrman was a short story to "nominate," send the After the doctor had gone. Sue failure in art. Forty years he had title, author, source, and date, to went into the workroom and cried Reader's Choice Editor, TOGETHER, wielded the brush without getting a Japanese napkin to a pulp. Then 740 N. Rush St., Chicago 11, III. near enough to touch the hem of his she swaggered into Johnsy's room Mistress' robe. He had been always with her drawing board, whistling about to paint a masterpiece, but had ragtime. never yet begun it. For several years Johnsy lay, scarcely making a rip- "Five what, dear? Tell your he had painted nothing except, now ple under the bedclothes, with her Sudie." and then, a daub in the line of com- face toward the window. Sue stopped "Leaves. On the ivy vine. When merce or advertising. He earned a whistling, thinking she was asleep. the last one falls I must gb, too. I've little by serving as a model to those She arranged her board and began known that for three days. Didn't young artists in the colony who could a pen-and-ink drawing to illustrate the doctor tell you?" not afford to pay the price of a pro- a magazine story. Young artists must "Oh, I never heard of such non- fessional. pave their way to Art by drawing sense," complained Sue, with mag- Sue found Behrman smelling pictures for magazine stories that nificent scorn. "What have old ivy strongly of juniper berries in his young authors write to pave their leaves to do with your getting well? dimly lighted den below. In one cor- way to Literature. And you used to love that vine so, ner was a blank canvas on an easel As Sue was sketching a pair of you naughty girl. Don't be a goosey. that had been waiting there for 25 elegant horse-show riding trousers Why, the doctor told me this morn- years to receive the first line of the> and a monocle on the figure of the ing that your chances for getting well masterpiece. She told him of Johnsy's hero, an Idaho cowboy, she heard a real soon were—let's see exactly what fancy, and how she feared she would, low sound, several times repeated. he said—he said the chances were ten indeed, light and fragile as a leaf her- She went quickly to the bedside. to one! Try to take some broth now, self, float away when her slight hold Johnsy's eyes were open wide. She and let Sudie go back to her draw- upon the world grew weaker. was looking out the window and ing." counting—counting backward. Johnsy kept her eyes fixed out the "Twelve," she said, and a little window. "There goes another. No, V^/ld behrman, with his red eyes later "eleven"; and then "ten," and I don't want any broth. That leaves plainly streaming, shouted his con- "nine" and then "eight" and "seven," just four. I want to see the last one tempt and derision for such idiotic almost together. fall before it gets dark. Then I'll go, imaginings. Sue looked solicitously out the win- too." "Vass!" he cried. "Is dere people in dow. What was there to count? "Johnsy, dear," said Sue, bending de world mit der foolishness to die There was only a bare, dreary yard over her, "will you promise me to because leafs dey drop off from a con- to be seen, and the blank side of the keep your eyes closed, and not look founded vine? I haf not heard of brick house 20 feet away. An old, old out the window until I am done such a thing. No, I will not bose as a; ivy vine, gnarled and decayed at the working? I must hand those draw- model for your fool hermit-dunder- roots, climbed halfway up the brick ings in by tomorrow. I need the light, head. Vy do you allow dot silly pusi- 2 wall. The cold breath of autumn had or I would draw the shade down." ness to come in der prain of her stricken its leaves from the vine until "Couldn't you draw in the other Ach, dot poor leetle Miss Yohnsy." its skeleton branches clung, almost room?" asked Johnsy, coldly. "She is very ill and weak," said bare, to the crumbling bricks. "I'd rather be here by you," said Sue, "and the fever has left her mind 1 " "What is it, dear.- asked Sue. Sue. "Besides, I don't want you to morbid and full of strange fancies. "Six," said Johnsy, in almost a keep looking at those silly ivy leaves." Very well, Mr. Behrman, if you do whisper. "They're falling faster now. "Tell me as soon as you have not care to pose for me, you needn't. Three days ago there were almost a finished," said Johnsy, closing her But I think you are a horrid old—old hundred. It made my head ache to eyes, and lying white and still as a flibbertigibbet." count them. But now it's easy. There fallen statue, "because I want to see "You are just like a woman!' goes another one. There are only five the last one fall. I'm tired of waiting. yelled Behrman. "Who said I vill not left now." I'm tired of thinking. I want to turn bose? Go on. I come mit you. For 30 Together/March 7 957 lull an hour 1 hal been trying to say When it was light enough Johnsy, (lis is clot 1 am ready to hose. Gott! the merciless, commanded that the not any blace in which one so goot shade Ik- raised. as Miss Yohnsy shall lie sick. Some The ivy leal was still there. Bay 1 vill baint a masterpiece, and ve Johnsy lay for a long time looking #£ shall all go away. Gott! yes." at it. And then she called to Sue, who fohnsy was sleeping when they was stirring her chicken broth over to make your own went upstairs. Sue pulled the shade the gas stove. down to the window sill, and mo- "I've been a bad girl, Sudic," said tioned Behrman into the other room. Johnsy. "Something has made that In there they peered ottt the window Last leaf stay there to show me how fearfully at the ivy vine. Then they wicked I was. It is a sin to want to looked at each other lor a moment die. You may bring me a little broth without speaking. A persistent, cold now—no; bring me a hand mirror *7 ram was tailing, mingled with snow. first," Oscar Wilde, Engli sis Behrman, in his old blue shirt, took An hour later, she said, Author 1856-1900 his seat as the hermit miner on an "Sudie, some day 1 hope to paint upturned kettle for a rock. the Bay of Naples." The doctor came in the afternoon, and Sue had an excuse to go into the w in \ sue awoke from an hour's hallway as he left. down, O Christ, sleep the next morning, she found "Even chances," said the doctor, COME and help me! johnsy with dull, wide-open eyes taking Sue's thin, shaking hand in Reach thy hand, staring at the drawn green shade. his. "With good nursing, you'll win. For I am drowning in "Pull it up; I want to see," she or- And now I must see another case I a stormier sea dered, in a whisper. have downstairs. Behrman, his name Than Simon on the Lake Wearily, Sue obeyed. is —some kind of an artist, I believe. of Galilee: But, lo! after the beating rain and Pneumonia, too. He is an old, weak fierce gusts of wind that had endured man, and the attack is acute. There through the livelong night, there yet is no hope for him, but he goes to stood out against the brick wall one the hospital today to be made more of life spilt ivy leaf. It was the last on the vine. comfortable." 1 HE wine is the sand. Still dark green near its stem, but The next day the doctor said to upon heart is as with its serrated edges tinted with Sue: "She's out ol danger. You've My some the yellow of dissolution and decay, won." famine-murdered land Whence all good things it hung bravely from a branch some And that afternoon Sue came to 20 feet above the ground. the bed where Johnsy lay, contentedly have perished utterly, "It is the last one," said Johnsy. "I knitting a very blue and very useless thought it would surely fall during woolen shoulder scarf, and put one the night. I heard the wind. It will arm around her, pillows and all. fall today, and I shall die at the same "I have something to tell you, time." white mouse," she said. "Mr. Behr- /\ND well I know my soul "Dear, dear!" said Sue, leaning her man died of pneumonia today in the in Hell must lie worn face down to the pillow. hospital. He was ill only two days. If I this night before "Think of me, if you won't think of The janitor found him on the morn- God's throne should stand. yourself. What would I do?" ing of the first day in his room down- "He sleeps perchance, or But Johnsy did not answer. The stairs helpless with pain. His shoes rideth to the chase, lonesomest thing in all the world is and clothing were wet through and Like Baal, when his prophets that name i soul when it is making ready to go icv cold. They couldn't imagine howled on its mysterious, far journey. The where he had been on such a dread- From morn to noon fancy seemed to possess her more ful night. And then they found a on Carmel's Strongly as one by one the ties that lantern, still lighted, and a ladder that smitten height." bound her to friendship and to earth had been dragged from its place, and wire loosed. some scattered brushes, and a palette The dav wore awav, and even with green and yellow colors mixed I shall through the twilight they could see on it, and look out the window, J\ay, peace, behold night. the lone ivy leaf clinging to its stem dear, at the last ivy leal on the wall. ire the of against the wall. And then, with the Didn't you wonder why it nevei Feet brass, coming of the night the north wind fluttered or moved when the wind ..In- more white : was again loosed, while the rain still blew than flame, hands. Ik.h against the windows and pat- "Ah. darling, it's lichi man's The W minded the tered down from the low Dutch tei piece lie painted it there the night weary eaves. that the last leaf fell." human face. March J957 \Togetrier 31 From scholars to beauty queens, you find Methodists in all walks of life the world over. As a sample, meet these five Unusual Methodists BIBLICAL DIGGER. Once, Wil- 4 liam Albright was an itinerant farm- hand who "rode the rods" from job to job. Today, he is head of the Oriental Seminary at Johns Hopkins, a devout Methodist archaeologist whose finds have contributed much to our knowledge of Biblical history. One of the top experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls, he speaks 25 languages —once learned Swedish in two weeks just to read a source book in the original. He lectures in ecclesiastical Latin to Jesuit priests studying Cath- olic theology, next year will work at WILLIAM ALBRIGHT . . . once learned a language in tiuo wee\s. a Jewish seminary—writing a defini- tive history of Israel. TARBELL . . . no cowboy, but swings a mean rope. WILY WIZARD. Members of Chicago Temple 4 know Dr. Harlan Tarbell as a quiet, pious man indistinguishable from hundreds of others who worship there. But audiences and fellow magicians around the world know him differently—as one of today's outstanding mentalists and teachers of magic. He is a familiar artist in every state and many foreign countries, regularly baffles admirers by such feats as driving a car blindfolded through heavy traffic and predicting big news events in advance. Holder of six degrees, he is descended from a long line of Methodists, is a student of religions. Together /March 1957 R.I HILCENBERG . . . beauty with time for the church. CHURCH BELLES. Out in Tucson, Ariz., First Meth- odist is probably the only church in the U.S. with two beauty queens: Barbara Hilgenberg, Miss Arizona of '56, and Lynn Freyse, Miss Arizona of '57, are active members. Barbara, 19 and brunette, placed fourth in the Miss America contest last year, now is attending college on the scholarship she won. Active in community affairs, with special interest in polio work, she is listed as the first U.S. high-school student to receive her Salk shot when the vaccine was distributed for high-school use MAJOR HOOPLE and LYXX FREYSE. last fall. Lynn, 19-year-old blonde, is the daughter of Bill Freyse, artist who draws Major Hoople (see right) and other well-known characters in Gene Ahern's comic strip Room and Board. Lynn is active in relief work • among migrants, is queen, too, of a drive to aid the blind. For both girls, one rule: no matter how busy they are, there's always time for their church. PIVOT MAN. Russia has her eyes on Africa. And one of the key men blocking her path is a leading Methodist layman—William Tubman, 60-year-okl statesman now serving his third term as president of Liberia. His last re-election was by the thumping margin of 244,000 to 1,000. Son of a Methodist min- ister, he was educated in Methodist mission schools and is a close friend of the U.S. His governmental papers, like Lincoln's, are enriched with Biblical references; despite pressure of his duties, he amazes visitors by recalling verbatim the meaty passages from scores of sermons he heard long ago. March J957\Togetrter Through the spectrum and its colors man can peer into the very heart of matter—even on the By Donald Gulross Peattie remotest star. J_ HE STORM has rumbled away; the air tingles sunshine falls on the spray of a waterfall or fountain. freshly; the slanting sunlight strikes fire in every linger- Why? Just what is a rainbow? ing drop till the whole world glitters like a crystal Let's see what happens when sunlight falls upon chandelier alight, and a heavenly radiance spreads drops of water. Sunlight is a chord of colors, and just through the last of the trailing shower. That's the mo- as the notes in a musical chord reach us together but ment to look for a rainbow. each on its own wave length of sound, so the colors in And there in a perfect arc it stretches, bright against light travel from the sun on different wave lengths. the dark, retreating clouds. There curves high the spec- When this band of colors, united into a light ray, strikes trum, that immortal band of colors which, united, make a transparent obstacle like the prism on a chandelier or up a ray of everyday sunshine. It is the rain, of course, a raindrop, it breaks up into all its components—red, which has shattered that light into this sudden miracle. orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. When you see a And it is through study of the rainbow that men have rainbow, you see the refracted and reflected sunlight been coming nearer to the fabled pot of gold at the end from millions of raindrops. You see the violet reflected of it. For the spectrum has become a tool of industry, from drops at lower altitude than those that reflect the a weapon against crime, an instrument in the hands of red, and the other colors are reflected from the drops the physician. in between. This is the vivid primary bow. From the time of Aristotle, some of the world's great You may also glimpse a second bow higher and fainter intellects have not despised to go chasing rainbows. in the sky, caused by a different legerdemain of reflec- And any of us can learn more about them just by look- tion, elaborate in the physicist's explanation, yet easy to ing, next time this sign in the sky appears. see as a smile. No wonder the ancient Greeks thought You'll find that the most brilliant bow is seen when the rainbow a bridge for a heavenly messenger to pass the sun is directly behind you and the rain is falling over. And that, in Genesis 9:13, the Lord declares, "I in large drops before you. (A drizzle of fine drops do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token doesn't make su r h a glorious bow.) It gleams against the of a covenant between me and the earth." quarter of the sky opposite the sun, seeming to span a Sir Isaac Newton was the first to catch a rainbow for great section of earth in an iridescent bridge. study. In 1666, working with a prism and a slit of light Yet in truth a rainbow is not just an arc, but a com- in a dark room, he explored the spectrum, trying to; plete circle; the horizon cuts off from sight all but part break it down into further colors. But the human eye of it. The biggest bows are seen early in the morning can detect no more than the faithful band that always or late in the afternoon; near the middle of the day appears in the rainbow. the bow is entirely below the horizon and thus invisible. Much later, a young German perceived something Hut from a plane you can sometimes see the whole circle, new. Joseph von Fraunhofer was literally blown into his a crown of glory on the clouds below. life work. He was a 14-year-old apprentice to a Munich In any shower you are seeing your rainbow in a differ- glazier when, in July of 1801, an explosion destroyed the ent part of the sky from that in which your friend a mile shop and everyone in it save himself. The Elector of away beholds it. Indeed, he is seeing quite a separate Bavaria, seeing the lad extricated from the ruins, pre-t: bow. For the shower has in it not one but an infinity sented him with 18 ducats, and with his fund Fraun- of rainbows. No two people come upon this symbol of hofer began some optical investigations of limitless im- happiness in exactly the same place—and you can find portance. a moral in that, if you like! In 1814 he discovered that the spectrum cast through You can see rainbows on a smaller scale whenever a prism by light from the sun has in it curious dark 34 Together /^orch 1957 * 0Mm?m ?***• ££$*£ High over the Blac\ Hills, a double rainbow shimmers in the South Dakota sf(y. REFRACTION II WHITE LIGHT SECONDARY BOW PRIMARY BOW RAINBOW !^. EYE REFRACTION '2 RAINBOW HOW RAINBOWS ARE MADE REFRACTION *2 When light rays from the sun strike raindrops, Sometimes a secondary bow is formed above the drops act as prisms, bending the light at dif- the primary (above photo) by light rays bouncing ferent angles. This breaks each ray into its col- twice off the inside surfaces of drops (diagram ored components — red, orange, yellow, green, 2). These diagrams are simplified as if you see blue and violet. These are reflected off the inside all colors of the rainbow from each drop. Actu- wall of each drop and emerge to form the ordi- ally the colored rays are scattered when bent so nary primary rainbow (diagram 1). you see only one color from each drop. March 1957 \ Together 35 4 *i •fff < •»• *PrM an 4 •" vi :•>- »i I A rainbow adds beauty to Yosemite's Bridal Veil Falls A placid stream mirrors an unusual double rainbow. lines not visible in the rainbow. Though he had no acteristic pattern of dark or bright lines. You might inkling of their meaning, science rightly honors him by say that we can now fingerprint the entire universe. calling them "Fraunhofer's lines." For soon a man with The material to be examined is made incandescent, only one good eye—he had nearly lost the other in and its light is then passed through a spectroscope—an chemical experiments—saw farther: Robert Wilhelm instrument that does in through spectrum analysis, by its own unique and char- Thus, with the aid of a spectroscope, modern man March J957\Togcther 37 * ' Thundering Niagara throws a triumphant arc across Rainbow Bridge. Born of shower, colored by sun, a summer rainbow lifts her jewelled arm high above a city's skyline. can unfailingly pick out any element, in an alloy in his hand or in a star many light-years away. In the astro- nomical laboratory he can perceive what atoms are be- ing torn apart a quadrillion miles away, and even learn, by their displacement, whether the star is rushing to- ward our solar system or off into limitless night. Or, studying an imprisoned ray from Mars, he can warn the hopeful space cadet that one could not breathe un- aided on that oxygen-deficient planet. Coming down to earth, many an article in daily use has been tested by the spectroscope before it was put on sale. And many a blunder has been caught by that rain- bow eye. When a film manufacturer found fogged film repeatedly coming out of his plant, he took it to the spectroscope, which told him the fog was caused by mercury. One of the workers used a hair lotion oon- 39 Heaven builds a colorful span over the lush summer green of a Canadian countryside. At right, a rainbow's ancient promise hangs on a summer shower in the Golden West. taining this element, and some of it got on his hands. notes in the middle of the piano keyboard. On each Like a captured fairy pressed into service, the color side of this octave stretch other tones, high and low. band in the instrument tells if there are harmful gases So with the waves in light. The red rays in light have in city smog. In factories where dangerous and volatile long wave lengths, and where the red in the spectrum materials are used, it keeps watch on the degree of air darkens into black, the waves go on, though the human pollution. Steel companies check their processes con- retina cannot pick them up. This territory beyond the stantly with the spectroscope. It tests a leaf for phospho- red is called infra-red; you have probably felt the com- rus or manganese, to find what is needed by the soil forting warmth of its waves from a heat lamp. Beyonc from which it sprang. It identifies the paint on the the infra-ray the wave lengths increase, to the length oi fender of a hit-and-run car, the mud from the heel of a your finger nail and longer, till we reach waves so lon^ thief, the blood on a murderer's clothing. they are fully 30 miles from crest to crest. And thougr Free and elusive still, your private rainbow shimmers these are on the same enormous spectrum as the little in your garden spray. And beyond it other light waves rainbow, we pick them up in our radios, which convert dance on, out of sight. For in the God-given rays we them into sound. call light, the visible spectrum is like just one octave of In the other direction, where the short and chopp) 40 Together/ March 195? J* ^mmmmmk \ « Y, The immensities of the Grand Canyon are dwarfed by heaven's iridescent bow. waves of blue in the rainbow pass into violet and seem Deadly in quantity, they can—carefully used—destroy to our poor eyes to die away in dark, the ultraviolet rays the wildly erupting cells of cancer. These gamma rays, begin. These are the ones that give you a tan in sum- so short they are one-billionth the length of your little mer. As they shorten more, farther on, they pass into fingernail, represent the farthest part of the spectrum X rays, marvelous fingers that search through very flesh. on the midnight-black frontier of the unknown. Man- Shorter yet than the X rays are the gamma rays, such kind may yet find some of its greatest discoveries at the as are emitted by radium or during atomic reactions. end of the rainbow. 42 Togeth Cr /March 1957 — Would you adopt a teen-ager? We did and we learned to love Together Our Temporary Daughter OK Home BY MARIE WYNNE CLARK I HE GIRL "hired at me sullenly, daughter if she were your age. This The problems were many. Her life then followed without a word when I isn't a work home. You're supposed had been utterly different trom any- invited her into the house. It was a to become part of our family." thing we had ever known. Asking Jo- tense moment for both of us: for me, My answer was a skeptical glance. deen how she felt about anything was my first look at a prospective daugh- "Who do I have to bunk with?" useless. She was like a clam. I had to ter; for her, yet another foster mother. "You'll have your own room. Would rely on what comments she volun- It is never easy to take a stranger in- you like to see it?" teered, which were few. And her ques- to a family, but when the welfare "Okay, I guess." tions were endless. worker had asked us personally if we I thought the room was quite attrac- "How come your kids mind when would take a child, we had said weak- tive; at least I'd tried to make it in- you don't never beat 'em?" ly that we would try it. Our friends viting with ruffles and gay colors. Her "How come some women have lots had hinted that we were soft, both in comment: "Okay, I seen it." of kids and some don't have none?" heart and head, when we agreed to So we trudged back downstairs "Do you think I'll go to hell because take an adolescent—the most difficult again. She appeared to be thinking I hate my real mother and she's dead?" af children. deeply, and finally asked: "How come your husband never The girl, Jodeen, had no traceable "What about my boy friend? He comes home drunk?" idult relatives. Her seven years of fos- don't like me to sit home much. He Gradually Jodeen tried harder to :er-home care had left much to be de- don't go to school no more and we conform to life as we lived it. But the sired, due partly to poor placing, part- like to go out and have ourselves a friends she had once associated with y to the girl's refusal to co-operate. ball —you know, live it up." provided a direct contrast. They felt Jodeen was well developed for a 15- About this time I was :nded. Her unkept hair had been children are expected to do. You may had her hair dyed back to its natural ileachcd, her teeth were dark and dis- date if we have met and approved the light brown. And gradually we built rolored, and her whole mouth seemed boy and know where you are going. up her pitiful wardrobe. to be caving in. Our rules are simple enough: no cut- Her English improved. The teen- Her attitude at the beginning of our ting school, all homework done on agers in our neighborhood became in- ^-acquainted interview didn't indi- time, room kept neat, and you must be terested and lured her into some of :ate any overwhelming desire to move dependable and obedient and wear a their activities. They were nice young- in with us. "What are you taking in smile. sters and they liked her. ichool, Jodeen?" brought forth a "That's the deal, take it or leave it. None of us will ever forget the day mumbled, "I forget." It's your decision." her old friends dared to criticize her "Well, who are your teachers?" Evidently this was language she new friends. Jody came in mad as a "I disremember." understood. She brightened and "al- wet hen! "Do you think you'd like living here lowed how" she'd give it a try. One of her hardest experiences was with us?" "I dunno. It don't matter nohow. II tlicy say stay, I stay." "Oh, no, you don't, Jodeen! Mrs. Long said you were to decide after ive i^ot to know each other." "Maybe that's what she tolc you A MOTHER'S PRAYER it ain't what she tole me. How many kids you got? Any other welfare?" Help "We have three, and they aren't wel- me, dear Lord, each day I ask larc." To cheerfully, lovingly perform each task. "You mean I'd be all alone? Last Teach me thy ways of gentleness place I was in had 12. I s'pose you'd want me to baby-sit all the time." When children err and troubles press. "No, I'm home all day and you Let not impatience rule my day, QBuldn't very well baby-sit and go to But show me the calm and gracious way. school, anyway. I won't expect any more ot you than I would of my own —Valerie Beardwood March 7957\To9ether 43 ) — with the dentist; he spent month working on her. filled 16 cavities Looks at movies He ii her lower teeth, but the top row wa. beyond saving. Years of poor diet anc By Harry C. Spencer neglect made dentures the only solu tion. Poor Jody was terrified. But General Secretary, Methodist Television, Radio, and Film Commission whei the new teeth were in place, she looker, absolutely lovely. • Films are rated jor audience suit- The King and Four Queens (Allied Every change in her life she accepter, ability. Also, the symbols ) and ( — Artists) Adults ( — ) . ( + without comment, but she never gav< provide "yes" or "no" answers to the This film has Clark Gable as a roving up trying to get away with something question: Do the ethical standards in ne'er-do-well in search of $100,000 It continually puzzled her that w< the film in general provide constructive stolen by four brothers. Since three of didn't beat her or our own childrei entertainment? the brothers were blown to bits in the and she couldn't rest until she learner, robbery and the fourth is still at large, what we would do when she didn' Baby Doll (Warner) Adults ( — ). no one knows which of the wives will obey. Never before had she had an al Sensational advertising and public have illegal claim to the cash. To dis- lowance, and she was proud of havin< controversy have increased the box- cover possible clews to the location of her own spending money. It hurt whei office potential but tended to obliterate the fortune, Gable romances all four I docked that allowance each time shi the artistic qualities of what is really wives and vice versa. left her bed unmade. Our children go a superb production. The acting and the same treatment, so she couldn' direction are magnificent. As a study complain. Oedipus Rex (Kipnis) Adults ( + )• of certain psychological and social When we said come in at midnigh Sophocles' tragedy, founded on pagan phenomena, the film has much to say and Jody stayed out until 1 a.m., sh' customs and superstitions which are to the sensitive viewer, even though at told us she would prefer a beating t< not current today, has the moral that moments of greatest pathos the ma- staying in the next weekend. a guilty man should suffer for the jority of the audience is snickering with School attendance and homeworl many. This is true, but does not come erotic delight. were sore spots. The homework nearb up to the Christian message that an finished us both until I discovered sh> innocent man died for the sins of the Battle Hymn (Universal) Family didn't read as well as my second grader world. An interesting and literate pro- ( + ). During the two years I was teachinj duction, nevertheless. her phonics, I read all her schoo During the Korean War, Col. Dean work to her and typed her answers ex gave up his pulpit to enter the Hess Three Violent People (Paramount) actly as she gave them to me. I mus service again as an Air Force pilot. The Youth (-). admit that typing things like "Anni orphaned and homeless children of Tonnette was deheaded" came hard Korea affected him so deeply he ar- A dance-hall girl with a past tries Rut just to see her face in the candl ranged for the care of more than a to reform and does—after much blood glow from her very first birthday cak thousand of these victims, some of has been shed by her husband and his was thanks enough. whom were flown to the U. S. to appear brother, who also loves her. The char- The thing that really riled me wa in the film. acters are a strange combination of good and evil, which some will say is skipping school. Jody knew it, an< hadn't cut since she had been with us Full of Life (Columbia) Adults psychologically profound. (-). Rut finally she could stand it longer. So she cut. The Wrong Man (Warner Bros.) propaganda salvo on behalf of A The school called me immediately Adults ( ) Youth ( ). Roman Catholicism against a free- + + And when she came home, she cor thinking Catholic who has discarded Alfred Hitchcock tells the suspense- fessed rather defiantly. There was a bi; the rigid teaching of his childhood, filled drama of a respectable family dance coming up within the month am against his non-Catholic wife, and is falsely arrested in- man who and I'd made her first formal in anticip: against birth control and, indirectly, — dicted for crimes he did not commit. tion. It was heartbreaking for all of u against temperance in the use of al- to have her miss it, but we stuck cohol. Cleverly done, the film is full of Zarok (Columbia) Youth ( — ). the original agreement that we'd mac humor and lovable characters, of whom with her. Supposed to be based on the life of the pregnant Judy Holliday is, as usual, A week later her adviser called m outstanding. an outlaw of India, this is mostly a from school to report a conversatio hodgepodge combination of tried-and- he had overheard through his window) The Great Man (Universal) Adults true Western situations with the addi- One of her old undesirable friends su| of Oriental girls )• tion dancing and a ( + gested to Jody that her new ways wer harem scene. Victor Mature has gone Some of the subject matter presented making her look like a "sissy." Wh a long way—in the wrong direction here is sordid, but Jose Ferrer dis- not skip school to see a show and prov since The Robe. covers an inner integrity which makes she was still a regular? his ordeal seem worth while. A news "Not me!" said Jody proudly. "You Hollywood or Bust (Paramount) reporter on a local New York radio folks let you get away with anythinj Family ( + ) . station, Jose is assigned the job of build- but my folks really care about me. 1 ing a show honoring a big TV star The last of the Dean Martin-Jerrv I cut school again, I can't date unt recently deceased. The sleuthing re- Lewis films, this is mostly a gag-filled the end of the semester. They want m quired to discover the real character of travelogue of their trip from New York to 'mount to something, and they mea "the great man"—or lack of character to Los Angeles in a Cadillac they won just what they say. They sure do lov — is as exciting as a detective story. at a movie bank-night. 44 Together/AWn 7 95 Colleges welcome her students— they know how to dig for the fads! The Teacher Who Won't An Questions by FRANCES V. RUMME MiISS ENID LARSON, a gray- ing, warmhearted, scholarly rehel Rio teaches science in the high school at Carmel, Calif., lias unusual ways of inspiring ambitions in leani- cine. Characteristically, the teacher daily laboratory work they routinely ng. She begins the first clay of every feels just as much pleasure when her supply their own subject matter. The school year by pointing toward some graduates head for chemistry, teacher glows whenever they show impressive reference shelves and an- physics, or engineering. All her up with irresistible specimens of any nouncing, "I never answer questions classes are carefully exposed to the useful kind. that you can find the answer to." inter-relatedness of all branches of At first the students kept asking, Then she smiles. "The authority here science today. "When do we study animals?" And is not the teacher. In science the only Enid Larson requires her students she kept replying, "When you bring authority is the evidence. I'll have to go to nature itself for their subject them in." Unaccustomed as they just as many questions as you." matter. And for their answers. A were to self-starter learning, the stale- Her spirited expression makes stu- unit on birds means firsthand field mate was on. The class hung to- dents sit a little straighter, get ready observation. Since great numbers of gether somehow from September to to he partners in the quest for knowl- migrant birds funnel through the April without studying a single ani- edge. But what brings them up short Monterey Peninsula on their way to mal, but Miss Larson determined not is the discovery that they won't even and from Mexico and Alaska, young- to give in to the pressure for games have a regular textbook to use. Out sters keep busy recording the mass and gimmicks to pep up learning. of stubborn conviction, Miss Larson movements, comparing the routes Convinced that teen-agers enjoy a has abolished education's basic tool. followed by various species, and good intellectual tussle, she refused to Having students memorize text- puzzling through the relations of sell her subject short, grimly awaited hooks, she argues, has all but made migrations to breeding areas or food the chance to demonstrate that it us .1 nation of biological illiterates. supply. After school, some 350 local could speak for itself. Equally scornful of home assign- birds keep the students glued to their Finally a boy brought in a strange, ments, she says wryly, "Homework is school-owned binoculars even when hard object shaped like a cocoon. He a preposterous waste of parents' the class has moved on to other found from the reference shelves that time." studies. it was a pellet regurgitated by a barn Despite these deprivations—or be- Their excited conclusion demon- owl to dispose of indigestible wastes. cause of them—her graduates are strates the teacher's credo: what stu- Opening it before his awed class- warmly welcomed in California's dents figure out for themselves may mates, the boy sorted out a collection universities. A well-nigh incredible not be new knowledge, but if it's new ol tiny bones that started the whole- 23 per cent of her students, on the to them, it will never be forgotten. class doing detective work. It took average, go on to specialize in science "The quickest way to kill a student's them two weeks to Identify the skull of one kind or another, with 15 per interest," says the teacher, "is to tell of a gopher, the bones ol meadow cent of this total sticking to the him the answer." mice and sinews. biological sciences—everything from What youngsters can't study out of Hack to the reference shelves went forestry to marine biology to medi- doors they bring inside, and lor their the boy, to prepare a painstaking Manh 7 957\Together 45 I paper on the Eood of predatory birds. often borrowed by various exhibitors. any notion where his uranium-laden His report on the great extent to All told, the museum contains around prize had come from. which the barn owl aids man in 8,000 specimens of plant and animal Enid Larson is now serving as an , checking our destructive rodent pop- life. Some choice few cannot be dupli- adviser to California's State Depart- ulation was the first lesson Miss Lar- cated outside large metropolitan ment of Education as it struggles to son's students ever had on the balance museums. raise teacher standards in natural of nature. They were fascinated, and Naturally, the students learn best science. More than a fourth of all they reacted by swamping the labora- through undertaking their own col- California high schools offer no biol- tory with specimens of plant and ani- lection projects. These are never as- ogy courses, and only five offer a full mal life, whose behavior and inter- signed, students collect anything their two years of biology in sequence. so, California relationships they proceeded to study. hearts desire, but they must heed two Even does better than i Today it's a matter of routine for stern ground rules: First, a devoted most states. In a recent Purdue Uni- the youngsters to supply the subject versity survey of 15,000 high-school matter for their daily laboratory students over the nation, 45 per cent, work. One week they may bring in of all youngsters believed their rocks and minerals; the next, insects schooling too poor to permit them the or algae, or perhaps some lumines- choice of science as a career. Yet in cent organisms hauled out of the all states, as in California, science is Pacific. Recently a student brought in introduced in the schools in the pri- a live-trapped pregnant fox; another, mary grades. And it is at this point a king snake. that Miss Larson advises high-school i "Every week is full of surprises," subject-matter specialists to help out Miss Larson cheerfully remarks. their elementary colleagues. "The day even came when we had Recently, in a speech before thej the skull of a mountain lion. And a National Science Teachers Associa- lady trapper gave us a bobcat from tion, which has cited her teaching asl her deep freeze." The locale can sup- outstanding, Miss Larson eloquently a ply just about anything. preached, "Our ability to help chil- Eight years ago, when Enid Larson dren get the right start, and eventual-] came to Carmel High, biology was a ly achieve their own intellectual iden l dead subject. Only one year of it was tity, is the only valid test of good] offered, only 30 out of 300 students conservationist, Miss Larson preach- teaching." took that, the "laboratory" her students measure and es, "Don't destroy." She takes begin- How do own | boasted a single display—a pretty ar- ners to nearby reservations for the up? By meeting the single, most ex J rangement of sea shells purchased sole purpose of teaching them how to acting test of scholarship in the field from a gift shop. Within two years, look, absorb, and most of all enjoy, of natural science—by making actual more and more students were elect- without touching and disturbing. Sec- contributions to original findings ing the course, and a second year had ond, the student collects with an eye One boy even cleared up the loca li to be offered. But even this proved to scientific value, and uses his col- "mystery" of the so-called sea serpent! not enough. Word had got around: lection for gathering evidence and Long reported by fishermen in Monl "She's fabulous." Students finally pe- solving problems. terey Bay, the sea serpent was de 1 titioned the board of trustees for a One beginner who brought in a scribed as a sporting 12-foot beautyj third year, and Miss Larson now cigar box crawling with insects was with a silver body and a he* teaches six crowded classes a day and crestfallen to learn his collection was crowned with lavish, flame-colorec i offers the state's only three-year se- scientifically worthless. The boy had plumes. But the actual existence ol quence in biology. neglected to record precisely where, such an unusual creature was gen J Since biology at Carmel High is and under what conditions, he had erally attributed to romantic imagina taught as an enterprise and just the is, not a found insects. Actually, he con- tions. That until Charles Dawson i feat of memory, students have literal- fessed, he didn't get the point of a biology student, went wading ill ly transformed their once-drab lab- carrying around a little notebook the Bay in search of class materials oratory. Today it possesses a distin- anyhow. He asked Miss Larson Attracted by three unusual youn< guished little museum that grew point-blank, "How many notes do fish about four inches long, the bo] I quite spontaneously from the after- you have on your chipmunks?" She took one look at the tiny, beguiling] school efforts of the young naturalists quietly replied, "Nearly 3,200 pages. red plumes, scooped up his catch, ancl themselves. Miss Larson is an expert I am perhaps half finished." rushed to Miss Larson. Charles grin j in preparing biological specimens for Then she told the class the story in recollection: "She lit up like J exhibit, a practical skill she considers of the hapless rock hound who had pumpkin on Halloween. She knevJ basic to effective teaching of biology. collected specimens from all over the we had something, but we couldn'J Youngsters love to stay after school nation—when came the uranium find out what. We just got busy pre! to learn how to tan hides and dry boom. And what good did it do him serving." feathers, and a few avid taxidermists when a certain rock clicked merrily Keeping one specimen for theil have done perfectionist jobs on birds, to his Geiger counter? None. The school museum, they sent one to thji reptiles, and small animals. These are man had made no records, hadn't California Academy of Sciences am 46 TogetrterAiorc/iJI95m —" aaother to Stanford University's important contribution to natural his- ture, precipitation. And wind velocity. Hopkins Marine Station. From these tory. With such technical observations young fish, ichthyologists identified It was inevitable that Miss Larson's finally stirring his curiosity, this non- the "sea serpent" as the rare trachip- classes would start hankering for reader took a chance on Georjje R. terus rexsalmonortim, or plumed sal- their own natural reservation. Two Stewart's Storm, was fascinated, and mon, which sometimes grows to the years ago they sent a request to the began checking out formidable-look- unusual size of 5 feet. They hailed Board of Trustees, asking for an area ing reference books. They were hard the boy for supplying a highly im- where they could dig up their evi- going, he said, but worth it. portant link in marine lore. Privately, dence "free from the disturbing hand Another youngster, just browsing thev expressed amazement that he of man." The Board granted the use in the outdoor area, noticed curious had reported the precise location of of a rugged, overgrown 2'/^-acre can- little pyramidal houses of sticks, all his find, described the plant life as- yon adjoining the school campus. It partially concealed in tangles of dead contained grassland, a small forest sociated with it, and even recorded branches. Miss Larson refused to tell of pine, a strip of the temperature of the water. Monterey and him what they were, but the books chaparral made up of sagebrush, cof- Last year every one of Miss Lar- told him: houses of wood rats. The feebcrry, and coyote brush. Miss Lar- son's classes joined in turning out a student began studying the trails that son smiles in recollection: "When broad-scale research job for the led from house to house, concluded word came that we had our own American Museum of Natural His- that wood rats were great visitors, t natural area, the kids let out such a torv in New York City. The muse- and was charmed by their social hab- yell you'd have thought they'd won a um's Dr. Willis Gertsch, readying its—especially their means of com- J. football game." a publication on California spiders, municating by rattling their tails. The natural area provided the sought the students' help. For The first thing his teacher knew, he teacher with many obvious advan- months, after school and on week- was checking out a book published tages, as well as new approaches to ends, his 168 research assistants for graduate students of biology. education, and she made the most of probed the Monterey Peninsula for Like many students before him, the them. She chose a boy who was spiders and jotted down their notes. boy had a wonderful time demon- flunking geometry to set the lines for strating his teacher's pet conviction By the year's end, having weeded out the boundaries, and he began to un- several hundred duplicates, they sent derstand the reasons for triangula- that, once interested, students can, off 368 different kinds of spiders. tion. She chose a non-reading student and will, work independently, con- Twelve turned out to be species never to install and manage the new weath- sult the best evidence, and come up before known on this continent, and er station—a cheap purchase from with their own conclusions. "Just in his book, Dr. Gertsch gives credit War Surplus—and the boy never give a youngster an idea," she says, to his Carmel assistants for their missed a day reporting the tempera- "and then get out of his way." sea, his wife requests that the congrega- small daughter. "Run to the bookcase, tion pray for his safety." he told her, "and get the book we all The minister didn't have his glasses, love so well." Obediently the little girl however, and so he read: "Mr. Tom trotted across the room and returned Smith, having gone to see his wife, re- with the Sears Roebuck catalog. —Jane Jones, Lebanon, Va. quests that the congregation pray for his safety." —Mrs. H. C. Baum, Lockburne, Ohio A wealthy Texan took his pastor lor a ride in the oilman's expensive new At dinner one evening my six-year- "Sour godliness is the devil's religion" auto. He barreled down the street, nar- old granddaughter overheard a child — WESLEY rowly missing scurrying pedestrians. JOHN refuse bacon with the words, "I'm When the man of Cod spied the Catholic and don't eat meat on Friday." driver's glasses on the cushion, he cried She went back to her meal without A minister was leaving under pres- out, "Put on your glasses, brother! You saying anything, but the following sure, but the church folk gave him a know you can't see without them." Monday she pushed away her spinach. polite send-off. The chairman of the "Relax, pastor," boomed the Texan. "I'm Methodist," she said firmly, "and hoard presented the farewell gift, saying "I had the windshield ground to m\ don't eat spinach on Monday." earnestly, "We just want to give you a prescription." -W. C Ki>i i.r.iM;. Sterling, (',,/,,, — u little momentum." Grace Westfali., Waterloo, - Bert A. Bessirb, St. Edward, Neb. In making calls, a certain pastor When Tom Smith joined the navy, asked lor the Bible and read a few What's your favorite church-related his wile asked the minister to read the Scripture passages. Visiting his board chuckle? Send it in. If we share it lollowing notice after the Sunday serv- chairman one day, he made the cus- through this column, we'll send you a ice: "Mr. Tom Smith having sione to tomary request. The host turned to his $5 cheeky— Kds. March 7 957\Together 47 FRED RUSSELL SELECTS All-American All-Methodist QUINTETS 1 T IS A genuine pleasure to report to go to church at least once a week that the superb athletes chosen on says: "Shooting is confidence. Con the first All-American All-Methodist fidence comes from peace of mind basketball teams are, to a man, regu- The best shooters, confident and re lar church-going youths. laxed, flip the ball instinctively aru More and more in these hectic feel it's going through the basket." times, the top sports stars are turning The uncanny accuracy of the grea out to be religious, clean-living shooters (though this is by no mean athletes. In addition to a deep spir- the sole qualification for selection itual significance, they find religion on the All-Methodist university anc is restful to the mind, relaxing to college first teams undoubtedly re the muscles, a boost to self-assurance. suits from some deep, inner motiv Among an increasing number of tion. Natural ability, physical endo\ coaches who see their players in ments, and brilliant coaching on church on Sunday is John (Whack) partly explain a superlative plaver' Hyder, Georgia Tech's basketball demonstrated talent. mentor. Hyder, who urges his players Basketball nowadays is a game Dicl{ Brott, Forward, Denver. Six feet 8 inches—and fast! UNIVE RICAN Dic\ Mast, Guard, Vince Cohen, Forward, Danny Rogers, Guard, Jim Krebs, Center, Northwestern. Syracuse. Southern California. Southern Methodist. — I Lloyd Castillo, Forward, ubcrt Reed, Center, Dave Schneider, Guard, Bob Schrier, Guard McKendree. Oklahoma City. Hamline. DePaiiw. /(4 COLLEGE .ly.Aj^RickN Mason Cope, Kentucky Wesleyan forward, has the ball. ,izc. A six-footer on an all-star team a this age is considered somewhat liminutive. But tallness is not :nough. A slow, awkward giant :an't help. "Tall, quick, and co-ordinated hose are the qualities you seek," Bob Polk, highly successful Vander- )ilt coach, recently told the writer. "Quickness is absolutely essential," ^olk said. "If a boy isn't quick, he'll lever be a top-flight player. "Next thing I look for is co-or- lination. The dictionary defines it: harmonious adjustment or function- "Third, I like 'em tall—but, of :ourse, quick and co-ordinated. All hese, plus enough sense to pass his ,vork, and a fighting heart." johnny Wooden, the old Purdue lash of about 30 years ago who »aches UCLA, has drawn on his )ffice wall a figure he calls the 'Pyramid of Success." This is the chart he follows in oaching his teams. The stones con- iist of Industriousness, Enthusiasm, Friendship, Loyalty, Co-operation, Condition, Skill, Team Spirit, Poise, Confidence—and on top—Compcti- ivc Greatness. These are the stones, these are be virtues, and these the charac- teristics of the Methodist Ail-Amer- icans. The university selection probably would average scoring 100 points a same il i( played a season as a unit. March 7 957 \Togcthcr METHODIST ALL-STAR CAGERS It possesses tremendous point-mak- ing, rebounding, jumping, driving, and defensive ability. Except for FIRST UNIVERSITY TEAM towering Jim Krebs and Dick Brott, six-foot, eight-inch aces for Southern There are nine Methodist-related universities in the Methodist and Denver, respectively, United States. To qualify for Russell's mythical Ail- it is not a collection of giants. But American All-Methodist basketball team, a player did its members stand out as such. And don't not have to be a Methodist. forget that the skilled player of medium height will always be in POS. PLAYER SCHOOL CLASS AGE HEIGHT WEIGHT demand. Krebs may make the consensus F Dick Brott Denver Senior 21 6-8 220 Ail-American this year. He was lead- F Vince Cohen Syracuse Senior 20 6-1 185 ing Southern Methodist to what C Jim Krebs Southern Methodist Senior 21 6-8 225 would be a third straight Southwest Danny Rogers Southern California Senior 22 6-1 180 G Conference basketball championship G Dick Mast Northwestern Senior 22 6 175 and a crack at the national collegiate title as this issue went to press. Hi SECOND UNIVERSITY TEAM THIRD UNIVERSITY TEAM is the only collegian ever to get a< POS. PLAYER SCHOOL POS. PLAYER SCHOOL many as 24 points against Bill Rus- F Gary Clark Syracuse F Larry Showalter SMU sell, phenomenal center on Sar F Tom Kelly Boston F Jim Pugh USC Francisco's national champions oi C Joe Ruklick Northwestern C Jim Newcome Duke 1956. In fact, G Bobby Mills Southern Methodist G Charley Fiorino Boston Jim outscored Russel G Bucky Allen Duke G Ernie Uthgenannt Denver and held him to 17 points in tht NCAA semifinals that year. "Krebs learned more from playint FIRST COLLEGE TEAM than from our coaching because he i: a man of keen There are 74 Methodist-related senior colleges, 21 junior intellect," said hi.< coach, Doc Hayes. colleges, and 17 secondary schools. More of these schools What a wonderful time the guards participate in basketball than in football or baseball. Danny Rogers of Southern Californi: and Northwestern's Dick Mast POS . PLAYER SCHOOL CLASS AGE HEIGHT WEIGHT would have feeding the ball to sucl F Mason Cope Kentucky Wesleyan Senior 26 6-3 195 strong, lanky, agile targets as Krebs 6-4 F Lloyd Castillo McKendree Junior 20 210 Brott, and pre-law honor studen C Hubert Reed Oklahoma City Junior 21 6-10 220 Vince Cohen of Syracuse! Althougl G Dave Schneider Hamline Senior 22 6-2 210 standing only an inch more thai G Bob Schrier DePauw Senior 20 6-2 190 six feet, Cohen, roommate of Jin Brown, everybody's All-America, footballer last fall, can dunk t SECOND COLLEGE TEAM THIRD COLLEGE fEAM ball through the basket. PCS . PLAYER SCHOOL POS . PLAYER SCHOOL The writer commented in the stor F Lyndon Lee Oklahoma City F Gordon Fosness Dakota Wes. F Don Talbert Mount Union F Don Tobin Florida Southern with the All-Methodist All-America of Pacific Don Gibbs C John Thomas College C Iowa Wesleyan football teams in December that th G Jim Hibbitts Ohio Wesleyan G Ken Joyner Randolph-Macon all-college group was least G John Hannett Albion G Don Poppen Morningside at th equal of the all-university eleven. I basketball, that goes double. Man HONORABLE MENTION, COLLEGES students of the game might favor t college team in a with FORWARDS: Hubert Ausbie, Philander Smith; Dave Davis, Col- game the un versity quintet. However, absolutel lege of Pacific; Dean Padgett, Illinois Wesleyan; Loren no apologies need be made for tr Gipe, Kentucky Wesleyan; Keith Warner, Morningside; latter. Bruce Pumphrey, Mount Union; Donnie Fowler, Wofford; The selector wishes to than Albert Wilson, Lycoming. heartily athletic officials who o CENTERS: Ed Whaley, Millsaps; Winston Folkers, Hamline; operated so enthusiastically in tl Arthur Lanham, Union (Ky.); Gene Richter, Ohio Wesleyan; undertaking. Picking the universi Wayne Hawkins, Baldwin-Wallace. standouts from among only sevc schools was not exactly a knot GUARDS: Jerry Cantlon, Central College; Bob Abraham, Chat- problem. But more than 50 Met Phil Guthrie, tanooga; Hendrix; John Bunnell, DePauw; Bob odist-related colleges support baskt Iglehart, Central College; Bud Shelton, McMurry; Bill Ben- ball. Coming up with the crea nett, Emory and Henry; Ed Wilson, Baldwin-Wallace. posed a real brain-twister. 50 Togeth er /March 191 — 1 HE average Protestant minister, married and with two children on an income of $3,000 a year or more, is faced by a tremendous economic burden. Even with allowances for housing, utilities, an automobile— plus occasional extra income most ministers find it difficult to meet month-to-month expenses. Between 1924 and 1954 the cost of consumer items increased a staggering 53.5%. In the same period, ministerial salaries went up only 41%. a report Compared with a 102% increase for teachers, to thoughtful laymen sometimes referred to as the "forgotten profession," ministers' salaries are still frighteningly inadequate. Ministers spend more time in their profession than most other men. The forty hour week is unheard of in the ministry. In many cases their jobs consume a full seven-day week Ministers with long hours every day! Generally, churches do not want their ministers to take on side jobs, nor do they feel it desirable that wives of clergymen should have to work for supplemental income. Church work is a full-time occupation. As such, churches should consider an adequate salary for the minister as Must their first financial obligation. Some denominations are attempting to re-evaluate ministers' salaries — to put them on an equal level with other professions requiring like amounts of time and money for preparation. "living is not enough. minister Live A wage" The and his family are entitled to some of the "extras" of comfortable living—books, recreation, education and savings. Only now have responsible churches come to the realization that they must give as much as they ask if the ministry is to continue to attract the best qualified young men. Too! Reprints of this public service message for distribution to your Trustees and are available Board members on request. A recent study shows some 200 ministers running over S500 in the red each year. -^MinistersJifi &. AND CASUALTY UNION A Mutual Insurance Company 100 Licensed in Minnesota 1924 1954 15137 Ministers Life Building. Minneapolis 16, Minnesota AWi ?957\Togcther 5/ Together with the Small Fry Allied keeper looking most unhappy. He told "Hi, Alfred. My name is Andy." Alfred, "Anybody would think you're Alfred turned slowly around and the only animal in the whole zoo, the faced the cutest little alligator he could trouble cause ever hope to meet. he got BY MARGARET E. SINGLETON you me!" When ovci "Well, I am the only alligator," the shock, he replied, "Hi, Andy. I'vt sighed absent-minded Alfred. been looking for you." /vLFRED, the alligator, was looking The zookeeper stared at Alfred. "I know. Your friend, the zookeeper for something. "Why, so you are!" told me." His search took him for long crawls Alfred woke up late the next morn- "Where did he find you?" askec outside the zoo. It also made him very ing. His feet were tired from so much Alfred. "I've looked all over this towr absent-minded. In fact, his mind seemed traveling around. In fact, he was about for another alligator." absent more than it was present. ready to give up his search. "He found me at the zoo in the nex Alfred could even forget where he "Maybe there isn't another alligator town. He wanted you to have a frient lived. He would wander around, think- anywhere," he said to nobody in par- to play with. Now there are two of us.' ing about his search, and forget where ticular. Alfred sighed happily, "Now I don' he started from. Then he would just "Why, sure there is." The voice have to go for any more long crawls.' have to lie down and try to remember. seemed to come from behind him. It Andy shook his head. "Guess then If this happened in the middle of a didn't sound like the zookeeper. Al- isn't any reason to go outside any more", busy street, it caused quite a commo- fred was almost afraid to look. But is there?" tion. And if he opened his mouth to the voice spoke again. And there really wasn't. say, "I'm lost," auto horns tooted, men shouted, and women always screamed. But Alfred never had to crawl home. Someone always called the zoo and re- Co nn e c t the Dots nd see ported that the alligator was loose again. The zookeeper always came and drove him back. One time Alfred stopped under a tree where a little boy was playing. The boy stared at Alfred for a long time. Then he ran into the house. Alfred heard him say, "But, Mom, there is too an alligator in the yard! Look out the window!" Mom did, and the zoo- keeper got there faster than ever. He explained to Alfred over and over that he should stay at home in his cage so people could see him there. "They aren't used to seeing alligators in the streets," he said. "It scares them!" "Well," said Alfred. "I don't mean to —scare anybody. I just want to look for " But he wouldn't say what he V.7 was looking for. "Why can't you just walk around in the zoo park instead?" asked the zoo- keeper. "I have my reasons," explained Al- fred. "What I'm looking for isn't in the zoo." "But alligators aren't supposed to travel outside of zoos!" "Don't dogs? And cats?" Alfred de- ^ h K ^"hh> manded. "Is this a free country or not? *8 * 7 What do you have against alligators?" q ft So the zookeeper gave up trying to ?l 82 lock Alfred in his cage. Nothing had ** So worked, not locks nor bars nor screens. 8 4h ^8 % *7, ' * Alfred even ate the padlocks whole. \|Mjf One night Alfred found the zoo- TO • 7 2. 52 Together/ March 19i I . YOU CAN DRAW THIS TURTLE Turtle's Trailer A turtle whose title was "Pete" ADD HEAD AND TAIL Remarked as he crawled down the street, 'Wherever I roam, I'm always at home When I pull in my head ami my feet." —Margaret E. Singleton ADD SHADING LIGHTS OUT BIBLE QUIZ When I go to bed Fill these blanks with the name of a book in the Bible. When it is night, 1 In a courthouse, there are many . I push at a button And turn off the light. 2. Wise sayings from the Bible are . 3. In arithmetic class, we learn about . When God wants all 4. John took the chalk and made a on the blackboard. 5. goes to work in an office, and he likes his . Of his earth to rest, Daddy 6. People who live in one of the largest cities in Italy are His hand turns off called . The sun in the west. 7. It's easy to tell when Jim is happy by the way he . —LOIS SNELLING Answers on page 74 RIDDLE FOR MARCH Answer on page 74 TICK TOCK TALKS At night time when you go to bed, I'm not far Irom you, toes to head; And if in woodlands you should look, Though Tick Tock flew There I begin each bubbling brook. Hie world around All clocks would be a sorry joke, No place like home If I stretched out too far and broke; Could ever be found. Cold winter would seem most unkind. Now Tick Tock says If I weren't hilling close behind. He'll never stray With main meanings, none the same. Away from home think now know mv name? Another day. Do you you —Thomas F. Dillabouidi —Jean Mi rgard Morch l957\Together 53 - Barnabas and his LOOKS AT NEW BOOKS He was not exactly evil, as one picture; an evil man. He was amoral rather thar immoral, because he didn't seem t( realize the difference between right anc wrong. Allen Churchill's new book is Th, Incredible Ivar Kreuger (Rinehart $3.95), a remarkable story by a fine re porter who traces Kreuger's life fron boyhood. "There is sadness ... in Kreuger' youth. The home . . . should have beei a warm and healthy place. Yet in all th stories turned up about Kreuger non concerns his home life, or any affectioi and guidance it might have providec For unfathomable reasons the Kreuge home, with all its surface solidity, seem to have been empty—for Ivar at leas! The late Dr. Kate And nowhere else . . . did he find (Mrs. Kate Netvcomb) helping hand that might have guide' him." devoted her life to This alone helps to explain the life c Wisconsin's bact{ the man who consorted with president; country, saved lives, kings, and dictators; who outfoxed th built a church, most conservative banking houses in th a modem hospital. world; who created over 400 holdin companies whose manipulations are a most impossible to trace today. .DOWN South these days the Ameri- page. It is Dr. Seuss' largest and most What then is conscience? Concordi can circus would be stirring again in ferocious beast. It is a Spotted Atrocious recently published an excellent book o winter quarters, preparing to move with teeth that weigh 60 pounds each. this subject. It is The Voice of Cor north with the warm winds. This year The Atrocious, according to Seuss, eats science by Alfred M. Rehwinkel. Th is a sad one for the circus. The "Big "things like carpets and sidewalks and author quotes Dr. Joseph Stump o Top" is only a memory. people and trees!" conscience: But if Doc Seuss had his way, the A most deliciously written and illus- "There is nowhere a race of mei circus would be turning 'em away trated book from the pen of the nor has there ever been a race of me again. He tells us about it in // / Ran champion fly-spray seller of all time— so degraded as to be utterly devoid < a Circus (Random House, $2.50). He'd Dr. Seuss! moral sense. As man came from tr add a lot of new and unheard of ani- hand of his Creator, he had a clear an mals, for one thing. And he'd call it Twenty-five years ago this month an adequate knowledge of God's will. H "The Circus McGurkus." international swindler named Ivar did not need the Ten Commandment Dr. Seuss would have a walrus Kreuger fired a bullet into his heart. because he had them in himself." named Rolf from the Ocean of Olf who Few men in history had been held in Rehwinkel's lucid book points oi can stand on one whisker on top of five greater awe and respect. Few, it turned that conscience is one of the distinctn balls. He'd have a Drum-Tummied out, had lived lives of such duplicity. characteristics of man. Snumm from the country of Frumm Ivar Kreuger—the Swedish Match This leaves Ivar Kreuger somethir and a "Remarkable Foon which eats King of the world—was said to be cold less than a man, although mentally r sizzling pebbles that fall off the moon!" and calculating, a masterful liar, a was a superman. He was, I concluc One representative of the Circus Mc- cheat, and a thief. He was also a genius. in reading Churchill's book (it's a on Gurkus is introduced on the opposite He had charm. He had no conscience. sitting book of 301 pages), a huma 54 Together/Morch 195 : thinking machine whose- greatest "kick" "The bird that I am going to write n life was successfully playing the role about is the owl. The owl cannot see at all is as >t swindler, forger, and confidence man by day and at night as blind >n a scale never before attempted. a hat. "I do not know much about the owl, While there are Ivar Kreugers, tor- so I will go on to the beast which I am unately we also have our Katie New- going to choose. It is the cow. The cow tomb. The folk in Wisconsin's north is a mammal. It has six sides— right, woods called her Doctor Kate, the lei t, and upper, and below. At the back 'Angel on Snowshoes." She was a coun- it has a tail on which hangs a brush. With this it sends the flies away so that try doctor who lived a primitive life, fall into the ret helped build a church and a modern they do not milk. The is of lospital, and saved scores of lives. head for the purpose growing so that be In her book. Doctor Kate (Rinehart, horns and the mouth can somewhere. are to butt with. iS.T^), Adele Comandini tells of this The horns and the is to with. ivoman's selfless devotion to the sick mouth moo Under ind destitute during hard years of un- the cow hangs the milk. It is arranged mplovmcnt. (letting the church under- for milking. When people milk, the milk comes and there is never an end way was a hard job; building, equip- to the supply. the cow does it I ling, and maintaining a hospital was How ven harder. When the hours were have not yet realized; but it makes more and more. The cow has a fine sense of llackest, a minister told Doctor Kate: Was Ivor Kreuger, financial moncv. smell; one can smell it far away. This "If you stop thinking about genius and world swindler, is the reason for the fresh air in the ind begin to have a little more faith, born without a conscience? country. rau would find that much more would "The man cow is called an ox. It is x- accomplished." not a mammal. The cow does not eat The minister's words were prophetic. Seems there's a new Lincoln book much, but what it eats it cats tw ice, so Three years ago, Doctor Kate was fea- coming out every week or two. They that it gets enough. When it is hungry tured on Ralph Edwards' "This Is Your can keep coming as long as they have it moos, and when it says nothing it is the quality of Life" TV program. Viewers from all J. G. Randall's Mr, because its inside is all full up with >ver the voluntarily contributed Lincoln (Dodd, Mead, $6.50). A long- nation grass." scholar until 5106,000 for Doctor Kate's hospital time Lincoln his death That little masterpiece comes from recently, Randall sifts what he believes fund. Doctor Kate died last year. The Master Guide For Speakers (T. S. to be the truth from hearsay and un- reliable reports of Lincoln's day. Ac- analyzed, measured, evaluated , Been tually this book is a collection, gathered ately P If not, you're an exception. from Randall's works, by Richard N. Barnabas fell into the hands of an ama- Current, editor of the volume. :cur psychiatrist at a gathering of Maybe you'd like to test your own friends the other night. It was down- knowledge of Lincoln. Was Lincoln right embarrassing. really engaged to Ann Rutledge? Did That's why we read They've Got he really become insane for a time after Year Number by Robert Wernick her death? Did he drink to excess? (\V. W. Norton, $2.95) with great You're safest and nearer the truth if •glee. Wernick has a lot of fun picking you answer "No" to each question, ac- the science of psychometrics to pieces. cording to Randall, whose four-volume Americans, he says, "are more eager biography, Lincoln The President, is than other people to answer intimate considered one of the most authoritative questions about their lives with cheer- in the field. This work sold for $25, a tul Irankness. Psychologists have been little out of my reach. But Mr. Lincoln horrified to discover other cultures is a readable summing up of Randall's where people don't like to answer ques- vast knowledge of a great president. tions at all, or don't care what answers they give, or deliberately give wrong No one can outshine the child who takes in hand to describe the world ones. But here at home— if you just an- pen nounce you arc going to make up a test about him with unconscious humor freshness eye. Here's your neighbors will come running to and of mind and one by a 10-year-old was asked to volunteer." who write an essay on the owl The IQ craze hit in the 1920s. Some- one announced that the average Ameri- can movie-goer or newspaper reader had a mental age of 13. We've been suffer- ing from this ever since, judging from ithe pap Hollywood turned out for so Spotted Atrocious, many years. Anyway, as Wernick says, one of the beasts jthc highest possible mental age was 15 in Dr. Seuss' If I Ran a Circus. on the scales used to measure one's IQ luck in the 1920s. March i957\Together Inexpensive COMMUNION WARE . . . with expensive features • Interlocking, Dustproof Trays • Lightweight • Non Tarnishable IDEAL ALUMINUM WARE (At right.) Designed to give your church many years of beauty and service . . . this distinctive set of communion ware made of fine quality aluminum which has been polished to a smooth, velvety finish. 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French style, with little humor or sub- It has taken men centuries to figure out tleness, you would better spend your the language. time sending flowers to your wife or Says Ruth Moore in her The Earth cooking your husband an extra-special We Live On (Alfred A. Knopf, $6): meal to achieve what 145 pages really "As we look up and outward we can see gets down to saying." far into limitless space; we look upon Barnabas discerns great wisdom in the sun 92,900,000 miles away and upon that last suggestion. 'Nuff said ; the even more distant stars. As we gaze downward toward the earth we live on, Roland H. Bainton's approach to our vision generally halts at our feet. marriage in What Christianity Says We cannot see even an inch into the About Sex, Love and Marriage (Asso- earth." ciation Press, 50 cents) is different from Ccologists have learned to read much Maurois' and strikes me as more pro- of the earth's history in rock formations found and thorough. This is one of six -this is Miss Moore's story. She tells excellent paperback editions Association how they have argued and theorized is putting out for half a dollar each. and piled up evidence through the cen- Others you'll find on the stands: turies. You'll walk with wider and A Short Primer for Protestants, by more knowing eyes after reading this James H. Nichols. popularized presentation. Religious Living, by Georgia Hark- ness. Books are like eggs, someone ob- Basic Christian Writings, edited by served a long time ago. You don't need Stanley I. Stuber. in the beloved King James version to read the whole book to know that it Words to Change Lives, sermons by "The ?nost beautiful Bible 1 is bad. But I'll admit I sometimes read leading clergymen. have ever seen. copy belongs all the way through a book that's over The Life of Christ in Poetry, com- A " my head. I'm ashamed to give up. piled by Hazel Davis Clark. in every Christian home. Six similar books wili be published — NORMAN VINCENT PEALE of reading is the same every six months Association The process by Press, lou can give your loved ones no as it was when the first book came off the publication department of the Na- greater gift than this, the world's most the press. Super-science isn't doing tional Council of the YMCA. The direc- treasured book, now in an incredibly beautiful edition. niich to change books, except to make tor, James Rietmulder, tells me the for birthdays, weddings, them more colorful and readable. Es- project is "perhaps the biggest thing or anniversaries . . sentially, the book is what it always we have ever done." Stamped in 24-carat gold, with gilt was. Earlier predictions that we'd have Bainton's book features a love letter edges and silk ribbon page marker, it televised books, automatic page turners written by William Penn, Quaker is a handsome volume for both the and canned books, etc., haven't ma- leader and colonizer of Pennsylvania. family bookshelf and living room. terialized, except for limited use by It was written to his wife 10 years after as a commemorative gift to church school . . . handicapped people. Most of us still their marriage: your or The large, clear type, the spacing be- like the feel of a book in the hand, the "My dear wife, remember thou wast tween lines make it easy to read. Beau- the love of freedom to turn pages, browse, skip, my youth, and much the tifully bound in red Rexine, more even concentrate on one paragraph for joy ol my life; the most beloved, as well durable than leather, it is a perfect Bible for the lectern. an hour if need be. 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By sheer weight of evidence she builds a substantial picture of the Size: V/s x 4?4 man who was admired and loved by *7 Art not ihou our God. who head with h| didst drive out the inhabitants of and all Jud the Quakers, as well as the Delaware this land before thy people Israel, of Jc- and pavest it to the seed of Abra- wo- Indians, whose language Perm mastered ham ihy friend for ever? H 8 And they dwelt therein, and dre. in less have built thee a sanctuary there- child. than a year. In Together this month you'll find a pro and con discussion by worlc You've never seen leaders on the question of whether Rec China should be admitted to the Unitet a more beautiful Nations. One who would argue mosl urgently for admission is Julian Schu man, formerly China correspondent little Bible ol The Chicago Sun-Times and the Ameri THE can Broadcasting Company. Schumar stayed behind for six years after the New Beryl Chinese revolution. 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These paper- hound editions of Abingdon books issued earlier in more ex- pensive format make available of the classic short I HIS MONTH I want to depart from There are a few custom and review only one book. stories which can be read over again the works of top-rank religions Published in two volumes and contain- happily if you have already seen them. writers :it popular prices. These is represented ing a small library of fiction, STORIES For example, O. Henry books have already proved them- TO REMEMBER (Doubleday, $7.50) is by The Gift of the Magi and The Last selves and have earned their edited by Thomas B. Costain, whose his- Leaf (see page 29 in this issue of place in a list designed to to-ical novels are known to most of TOGETHER). From the other side of bring you, and John Beecroft who is editor in the water there is Guy de Maupassant's the best in religious writing to chief of the Literary Guild of America The Necklace. And, no matter how the largest reading audience. and has edited five previous anthol- many times you've read The Legend of Apex Books will have a uniform ogies. Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, size of inches, it seems to be just as good as it was ?>ys x 814 with As a rule I take a dim view of an- thologies—they usually contain so the first time. Reading these great beautiful 3-color covers. Watch short stories of another and stand- much material that does not appeal to day for the second list of Apex reading them is like eating a ard is a treat after some of the current me, and Books this fall. poor dinner in the hopes that the offerings. dessert will be worth the sacrifice. This The collection includes G. K. Ches- High in quality, high in in- terton's Blue Cross. is no judgment on the ability of the superb mystery, The terest, high in value! anthologist but just another illustra- I read it again and although most de- tion that one man's meat is another tective stories cannot stand a second man's poison. Nowhere is this more reading, one can follow Father Brown's LESLIE D. apparent than in the field of literature. contest with that archcriminal Flam- But this anthology offers better beau with something of the same ap- WEATHERHEAD preciation and anticipation of a first fare. With only a few exceptions, I this, you'll the Lamp Flickers found this good reading. The title is encounter. Then, to balance HWhen New light on savings. $1.25 accurate, indeed—here are stories one find Stephen Vincent Benet's master- Jesus' the of Babylon. finds it easy to remember, and think- piece, By Waters ing back on them brings a continuing Of the novels included, my favorites RALPH W. SOCKMAN are: MacKinlay Kantor's The Voice of pleasure. Higher Happiness Bugle Ann, Conrad Richter's The Sea of nThe The two volumes of 1 ,009 pages The Beatitudes interpreted. SI contain 6 complete novels and 33 sto- Grass, and Enid Bagnold's National Portrait ries. There are a number of excerpts Velvet. of Jennie by Robert from longer books which stand on their Nathan and The Bridge of San Luis Rey GEORGE A. BUTTRICK by Thornton Wilder may appeal more own feet and give the reader the sharp Prayer to you than they do to me. I had not flavor of the longer work. I had al- A comprehensive study. $1.50 ready read a number of the selections, thought of National Velvet for a long U time. But to read that wonderful story "but I found myself going through them E. again with about as much satisfaction of an English family, a little girl, and WINFRED GARRISON as they were first encountered. a horse brought back memories of the when 1 1 A Protestant Manifesto Let me give you examples: first time I read it, and fresh pleasure I I What being a Protestant means. and excitement at running the great I must confess that it did not start \ \ $1.25 too well for me, as Selma Lagerlof's race again. The General's Ring never has been one Martha Sawyer's double-spread, J. full-color illustrations on the title EDGAR G00DSPEED of my favorites. It may be yours, how- ever. pages add much to the volumes, as do How Came the Bible? 60 drawings in black and white by There are other atmosphere yarns I The Story of the modern Uiblc. $1 William II prefer to this—Edgar A'len Poe's The Reuswig. Admittedly this is not recent fiction, Fall of the House of Usher, for one. And HALFORD E. 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Or you New Testament Thought may turn to Arthur Train's story of A survey of key ideas. $1.50 The Bloodhound and discover again how foolish it is to assume that the great old lawyer, Mr. Tutt, is as naive as he BISHOP, i OS ^<.i i.i.s u;i:.\, appears. 'I Ml.l ( il HI. UOD18T Hi R( ABINGDON PRESS Uorch 1957 \T09cthcr 59 "memory" of another life she had lived. One must accept the premise that Miss Grant really believes she has lived other lives. Skeptics will say she is the SHOULD victim of her own brilliant imagina- X tion. CHRISTIANS X The next time you refer to the Bible DRINK? as a book, you are technically incor- rect. The Bible is an anthology. Its writings represent more than a thou- Everett Tilson sand years of effort by many men, some whose names we will never know. An objective, Chris- tian approach to the Read any of Shakespeare's plays since problem of drinking. college or high school? Did you appre- Explores scriptural ciate him then? 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Maser, Superintendent, Philadelphia Conference Ll r Y< )U find it. name your own price! a missionary to the Indians and firmly prayer, that He would show me what is refer to a rare bit ot Wesleyana that resolved to live an ascetic life and never best to be done." | [ou might happen upon in any second- to marry. There he met Sophy— That's the note Id like to own. hand bookstore. beautiful, understanding, intelligent Who has it? Did Sophy tear it up? Or It's a certain copy of Goldsmith's girl. She was the niece of Mrs. Thomas did she carefully lock it away in the Vicar of Wakefield, that bears the Causton, wife of the magistrate of the secret compartment of an escritoire, or llltograph of John Wesley, lounder of colony, the most influential man in Sa- some other place where 18th-century Methodism. An impoverished collector vannah. Wesley taught Sophy French, ladies kept their treasures 1 Humbled across it in a London book- theology, and practical religion. She I have over 150 Wesley items in my ttorc some years ago. What excised him nuised him when he was ill, being collection, besides more than 60 biog- ere the notations Wesley had written careful to dress in cool white, his fav- raphies, mostly first editions. fbroughout the volume. orite color. Book collectors can dream—and we But the price was two pounds, so But he never married Sophy. He felt do! One came true for me in a long, ,hc collector shook his head and turned a moral imperative to live a single life. low, narrow, book-filled, dust-covered, iwav. But all that night he couldn't Once he canceled the usual lesson. He secondhand, Midwestern book shop. Sep. The next morning he scraped up scribbled Sophy a hurried note and The dealer, unlike the usual unhurried the money and before breakfast hurried sent it to her by her friend, Miss book seller, was always moving about lack to the book shop. The book was Bovey. his shop, now diving to the bottom of gone! "I find, Miss Sophy," he wrote, "I a heap of books as if in search of pearls, 1 lad someone bought it merely for can't take fire into my bosom, and not now relighting his pipe that was for- jthe story or was it purchased by a col- be burnt. I am therefore retiring for ever going out. He had a worried lector? Does it lie unnoticed in some- awhile to desire the direction of God. crease across his forehead. one's attic right now? Join with me, my friend, in fervent When I asked if he had any Wesley No one knows, but I carefully ex- amine every copy of Goldsmith's Vicar that I see. W^^ Wesley read avidly and wrote notes on the margins on his books. Often F. X P L A N" A T O R V they were for the printer, because Wes- ley abridged many books for his Meth- NOTES odists. But sometimes the marginal notes were for Wesley's own use and The New Tefhunent. enjoyment. Alter his death many of Wesley's looks and manuscripts were in the pos- (> 11 1 N W E S l. K V, M A. session of a minister, John Pawson, I who o cupied Wesley's London home. A well-meaning, but narrow-minded Bethodist, Pawson was filled with zeal or destroying everything he regarded as frivolous or dangerous literature. How many of Wesley's hooks and pa- pers he burned we cannot tell. But we ?i "Jii do know that Shakespeare's plays with ') N I) o Wesley's comments went up in flames. When Henry Moore, a close friend ol Wesley, heard what was happening, he hurried to the Wesley home to stop l'awson. What he was able to save now is a part ol the famous Colman collec- tion in England. I like to think that someday, some- where, somebody will turn up a note Wesley wrote to his first sweetheart Wesleyana collectors lycep their eyes open for Sophy I Iopkey. bool{s lil^e this—a rare copy of Wesley went to Georgia in 1735 as John Wesley's Explanatory Notes Upon The New Testament. 6/ — — items, he hopefully handed me a little published, I believe, for the first time. Among the items is a glazed potter volume. It was a second edition of bust of Wesley at 81 made in 1784 b Whitehead's Funeral Sermon on Wes- London Enoch Wood, famed British potte ley. Then I saw something else and February 26, 1771 Also on display is the first edition c my heart began to beat faster. Inside 1 thin\ Dr. Wilson is in the right. Wesley's A Calm Address to the Ante was a brief letter, fairly well preserved, You cannot as yet be a travelling ican Colonies, written in 1775 as a pr< m the careful handwriting of Wesley. preacher. You must lie by jor a year, test against the Colonial slogan, "Ta: It I was almost afraid to ask the price. only preaching now and then, as your ation Without Representation." r< "This is only a second edition," I strength will permit. But I see no need suited in Wesley's losing considerabl complained, with as much composure at all of your quitting the House. Pray prestige among Americans. as I could muster. let S. Lowes and you l{ecp as near as One miniature bust is a rare, curiou: "I know," the dealer answered, suck- you can. I am and grotesque caricature made fror ing his pipe, "but there's a Wesley let- Your Affectionate Brother the backbone of a horse. Tradition : it ter in the front." J. Wesley that was displayed in a British pu "So there is," I said. "Well, how and frequently doused with ale b much?" It is a simple letter, but how charac- drinkers to show their dislike for We: "I was going to ask ten dollars for teristic of Wesley. Always he was con- ley. for others, of all for needn't wait to to it." cerned but most But you go Juni his preachers, to whom especially he luska to start collecting Wesleyan; I paused to get my breath. Ten dol- proved an "affectionate brother." Spend a few hours browsing in any 1 lars! Wesley letters begin at fifty dol- In old St. George's Church, Phila- brary. Buy a few good biographies- lars and many of them run to several delphia, and in John Street Church in such as Bishop Francis McConnell hundred. Ezra Tipple, who was once J. New York you will find much original John Wesley (Abingdon Press, $3) c president of Drew University, paid a Wesley material. Some of our Method- Maldwyn Edwards' fascinating stor thousand dollars for Wesley's letter to ist seminaries and colleges also have Family Circle—about the Wesley famil Wilberforce, the last one Wesley wrote. choice items. But for a pure treat, plan (Epworth, $1.75). They're good reac Ten dollars! But I tried to be casual a vacation in North Carolina's Great ing and will lead you to other volume and remarked, "I'll take it." Smokies with a few hours at Lake not in print. Discover even a fairly rar I left the shop with my heart singing. Junaluska near Asheville There in the Wesley item, and you're on your way!' home I looked up the letter in Tel- At World Methodist Council Headquar- We Wesley enthusiasts have orgar ford's eight-volume edition of Wesley's ters, the secretary, Dr. Elmer T. Clark, ized a Wesley Society. You can joi listed. the full Letters. It wasn't Then has assembled a notable collection. by sending $2 to Prof. Franz Hildt of find struck I meaning my me. was He began it in 1917 when he came brant at Drew University, Madisoi holding in my hand and owned!—an across 60 Wesley manuscripts in Lon- N.J. The occasional bulletin will lini unpublished letter of John Wesley. don. They cost him $100. Today one you to the growing band of Methoc The outside of the letter is addressed of the manuscripts alone would prob- ist laymen and ministers who kno\ to Mr. Lowes at the Orphan House, ably bring much more than the entire the fascination of the great personalit Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and here it is, original set. that launched our denomination. Here's a chance for you to trade stamps, coins, recipes, patterns, or stories with someone in your own city or on the other side of the world. Each month TOGETHER will publish names and addresses of the Methodist hobbyists so that you can get in touch with them. WWiljo^rUtij? If you want to be listed, send your name, address, and hobby to TOGETHER, 740 N. Rush St., Chicago 11, III. (Pen Pal entries are limited to those 18 years of age or less.) —Eds. s Amateur Radio: Copper and Silver Enameling: bridge); Mrs. Lyle Dawson, St. Anthony, I Lester Sade, 652 Second, San Bruno, Calif.; Pam Roberts, 4500 Marvine Ave., Drexel Hill, Dak. 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(Fishe, Batchelder, Watson, Trow- Kan.; Kathleen Brooks (10), Wallowa, Ore 62 Together /March \9S't ffitnlji Into jWy fatly WEEKLY MEDITATIONS ON THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS The crowds were aston- "Truly I say unto you, ished at his teachings. as you did it to one of for he taught them as the least of these my one who had authority brethren, you did it to Matt. 25:40 . . . —Matt. 7:28, 29 me."— HE DAY had been long HUS DID Jesus set forth ad hot, but he had held the people the keynote of his ministry—the jellbound. His words had ranged keynote of service. If he had ap- asily from one to another of the praised his mission on the basis of reat principles of human character human values alone, he probably ' nd moral conduct. would have expected his followers Then came these words like a to serve him. But he regarded his jsh: "Not every one that says to mission through different eyes, real- ie, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the izing that it could best be accom- ingdom of heaven, but he who does plished through avenues of service Robert Caspar Linl-ner tie will of my Father who is in to mankind. Verona, New jersey eaven." It is recorded that during the Last The Father had given authority to Supper Jesus rose from the table esus to probe the innermost secrets and went the rounds of the disciples 'f immortal spirits. He knew that washing their feet. Afterwards he \-ords of love and professions of loy- said, "For I have given you an ex- ." lty require deeds. There is one test ample. . . or such deeds, if a man wishes to What did he mean? Not the literal >rove his loyalty to Jesus: Will they washing of feet especially but. in a »elp to do the will of the Father? broader sense, all the thoughtful acts Jesus was gripped by a like com- of kindness and helpfulness—how- mlsion when he knelt in prayer in ever trivial—which each one can do 'he garden: "My Father ... as thou for his fellows. While done primarily Lilt." His authority still sets that for others, they also are acts of )iayer before us as the ultimate service we do for God himself. vhen we face life's problems. PRAYER: O Lord, purge us of self- PRAYER: Help us, O Master, to desires, and plant in our Herbert E. Richards seeking bow to thy authority in every mo- Boise, Idaho hearts the desire to serve as Jesus ment of life. Amen. taught us. Amen. —ROBERT CASPAR LINTNER —RICHARD HEWITT "Beware of practicing "If it be possible, let this your piety before men cup pass from me: . . . ; for then you will nevertheless, not as I have no reward . . will, but as thou wilt." —Matt. 6:1 —Matt. 26:39 iSHE DIRTY hands of iilOME years ago, at the iJackie, a 10-year-old, relaxed their Institutional Methodist Community 1 Iclutch on six dimes. The coins Center in Kansas City, a beloved clinked on my church desk. I won- deaconess was almost in tears trying Idered how and where he got the to persuade a group of boys to be- money. Jackie's family was destitute have—to no avail. Ibecause of the father's alcoholism. Finally, with a heavy heart, she "Here," the boy blurted; "these Richard Hewitt went to a corner and got a yardstick. are for the children in Korea. Clendale, California With it in hand she advanced upon :: Mother gave me five dimes, and I the leader of the rowdies. wsaved one myself." (Silence.) His Said the deaconess: "I've never eye twinkled with a tiny tear as he used force on you boys. I've loved • concluded: "Daddy came home." you too much for that. But this I Here was the true gift of grati- morning someone has to be punished Itude. There was no expectation of for what you are doing. I know of I reward or praise, no expectation of nothing else to do." Then turning I being seen of men. Here was to the leader, she said softly, "One k thankfulness expressed in mission- of you will have to take this yard- ijary service; a gift not for men to stick and give me a whipping." The see, but for God to use. room was dead silent for a few mo- ments. Then the leader spoke. "Oh. PRAYER: Father, help us to learn we can't do that. Please give us an- that we see thee best in the other chance and we'll be good!" gifts we offer—gifts known but to In this simple story I find some- thee alone. In the name of the thing that helps me to understand Giver of life. Amen. Ben Morris Ridpath the mystery of Jesus' suffering, his —HERBERT E. RICHARDS Kansas City, Missouri agony in Gethsemane, and his aton- 63 ,j March 7 957\Togcthcr — . ing death on the cross. Gethsemane and the cross are love in action. PRAYER: God of Light and TruU and Love, help us to understand with our dim consciousness, tht suffering and of Dr. Rail Answers death Jesus as In walked in selfless love. May wc too. as his disciples, follow him it Your Questions prideless devotion; wc ask it ii his precious name. Amen. —BEN MORRIS RIDPATH Harris Franklin Rail Professor Emeritus, Gar- Pilate said to them rett Biblical Institute. ''Then what shall I d( with Jesus who is callet Christ?"—Matt. 27:22 ELIGION has been do- in Scriptures? Arc we to believe everything we read the scribed as an approach to the Realit; back of the universe. Strictly speaking, we do not de- certain things in the Bible. But we C. S. Lewis in his spiritual biog- Surprised Joy, fine a Christian as one who accepts should not read the Bible as an in- raphy, by describe:- his pilgrimage from atheism to faith the Bible, but as one who accepts spired encyclopedia of knowledge. In his search, he found only two o Christ—one who has found God in As we read it, we ought to think the higher religions which chal-' Christ and follows him. of it as a book of life. lenged seriously his attention: Hin- it difficult to accept We may find duism and Christianity. He turnet down Hinduism because it containec such an oil-and-water existence o Do Methodists have cathedrals? paganism and philosophy. He found in Christianity a mature approach ti> Reality. The Catholic Encyclopedia de- But our Methodist bishops are As be sought to bring all his acts fines a cathedral as "the chief general superintendents. They are desires, and thoughts into harmon; church of a diocese in which the consecrated, not ordained, as bishops. with the universal Spirit as revealec bishop has his throne (cathedra) — Since none of our churches is a in Christ, he was appalled to fine' bishop's cathe- properly speaking, the bishop's church, we have no that his conventionally moral lif! church." drals. was "a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of am bitions, a nursery of fears, and ; harem of hatreds." When he becam> Where and why did the idea of Baptism originate? willing to give Christ his all, thi change within was as when a mai after a long sleep suddenly become had a rite of Baptism but also a wrong spirit which needs The Jews aware that he is awake. which they used when non-Jews to be removed from a man. Christ stands before each of us were received as proselytes into their There is no magic power in bap- What shall I do with Christ? Is it al faith. And something like Baptism tismal water, even consecrated water, or nothing? Only as we give our fu! was practiced by certain ancient reli- nor in the bread and wine of the allegiance to him and seek to brin; desires int< gions. Lord's Supper. What is vital is the our acts, thoughts, and harmony with him. do we becom The modern Christian concept of great truth that God, by his Spirit, aware of the Eternal. this sacrament's meaning came later, can cleanse us from evil and give us from Christ's teaching that sin is not a new life. PRAYER: Dear Father, giant tha merely a matter of wrong deeds we may so completely surrendc our lives to Christ that purit; peace, and power may dwell richl Do we believe in modern miracles? in our hearts. —EMBREE H. BLACKARD I What do we mean by "miracle"? Here is a man who is ignorant, Commonly, we think of a miracle helpless, a slave to drink; by God's as something contrary to the order saving help he becomes a man of we find in nature or history, the noble character, of high value to his order we see all about us. Those who fellows. see nothing but this order regard There are other miracles all about miracles as unscientific and irra- us. The great miracle associated tional. But we Christians, accepting with Jesus is Jesus himself: a humble the idea of a world of order, think Galilean spends a few years teach- that there is a higher order, a world ing, preaching, helping, healing, of the spirit. and then goes to his death. Today, It has its beginning in God. In around the world, men find in him him all things move and have their the supreme revelation of God. the being. In a real sense, all the many highest way of life, the saving help that we not call "mir- for this life wonders do and the hope for what Embree H. Blackard acles" are of his doin";. is to come. Asheville, North Carolina 64 Together/March 195. He went out of curiosity, discovered the newness of life Christianity brings. He entered a theological seminary—and married the girl. METHODIST LEADERS Hit Catholic Pressure parish of the world Two Methodist leaders have accused the Roman Catholic Church ol inter- lood Disaster: Methodist Churches Rush Aid ference with Methodist schools and mis- sion work. Methodist groups were among the man at Barbourville reported 22 inches Dr. Myron F. Wicke told the Hoard f'.t lo speed aid to families and ol water in his parsonage. of Education's annual meeting ol Cath- Birches crippled by the most devas- One of the first Methodist officials olic pressure to drop required Bible ling Hood in eastern Kentucky since to go into the flood area was the Rev. studies in Methodist institutions. He John F. Baggctt, assistant to the bishop, warned the interference represents "a The Kentucky Conference cabinet, who helped survey damage and co- steady but calculated probing for tim- pcting in emergency session with ordinate relief activities. During the orous spots among all Protestant schools Jshop William T. Watkins, set a spe- emergency the Kentucky Council of and colleges." 1.1 relief offering, which was joined Churches acted as clearing house for Speaking at the Board of Missions' Inost immediately by the Louisville cash donations. annual meeting, Dr. Eugene L. Smith, s . ca two other annual conferences head of the Division of World Missions, femphis and Louisville). JAPANESE KAMIKAZE PILOT named the Roman church and Com- •The Methodist Hospital of Kentucky munism as the major obstacles to Prot- i Pikeville fed hundreds and supplied From Warplane to Pulpit estantism's advance. Citing examples of te medicine. Parsonages and churches property confiscation and attempts at c dry ground were turned into cloth- A Japanese suicide pilot who has political control in Spain and the Philip- tj and food-distribution centers, and become a Protestant minister is dis- pines, he asserted that the Roman Cath- Inporary quarters for the homeless. closing how the impact of Christian olic Church is committed to the de- kngregations shipped off truckloads teachings—and a girl—converted him struction of all religions except its own. | emergency supplies to sister churches. to Christianity. The Rev. Sakae [The flood halted coal mining—at Kebayashi, a minister of the United $1.5 MILLION FIRE list 30,000 miners, many Methodists, Church of Christ in Japan, told the Na- LOSS ^rrc out ol work. One church reported tional Council of Churches' Committee Is Your Church Safe? I per cent of members affected. Meth- on World Literacy and Christian Lit- •list churches and parsonages sustained erature how he was waiting for the mis- Recent church fires have sent Meth- fobably $80,000 damages. Ashland and sion from which he would never re- odist losses soaring: First Church, Syra- lrbourville districts reported 17 turn on the day Japan surrendered. cuse, NY., $800,000; First Church, i.urches and seven parsonages dam- He went home "despondent and bit- Kingston, Pa., $500,000; Grace Church, ;cd. The First Methodist Church, ter'' and took a job in an oil refinery. Sioux City, Iowa, $300,000. keville, suffered $16,600 damage; a There he met a girl who showed him The Syracuse blaze, worst in the w Methodist church at Allen, $5,000. the New Testament and persuaded him town's history, spread to neighboring istrict Superintendent R. F. Ocker- to jro to church with her. buildings, causing total damage esti- f n lb ..iJitSU . ag £a t KtL^j oopiorl \ejore a photograph of a new Indiana church, Bishop Richard In a recent wave of U.S. church fires First Methodist Church, .'. Raines tells colleagues Bishops Frederick^ B. Newell ( (enter) Syracuse, N.Y., sustained an estimated $800,000 damages. nd William C. Martin (right) how Methodism is strength- Furnaces cause most church fires—44 per cent—probably be- mug its local chinches—one of two major programs explained cause heating plants rem, mi idle during the wee\ then are n detail at the Chicago District Superintendents Conference. fired to near capacity for Sunday services, fire experts say. -torch 7 957\Together 65 mated at $2 millions. First Church trus-j tees voted to rebuild on the same down j town site and accepted the offer o| Temple Society of Concord, a Jewish' vms congregation, to hold services tempo rarily in its building. \ The Kingston fire came after ^METHOD 1ST ! ALMANACK $150, ^ 000 had been spent to renovate the i-H-^^- A Miscellaney of Dates 6 Divers Interesting Matters _j.^:-=t building. for People Called Methodist Horatio Bond, chief engineer of th( National Fire Protection Association We fAcrt would have a short lent, —Mf- f^i. said losses fires /ef A/m borrow money to be repaid from church have beer at Easter— B. Franklin running $12 millions a year or mor< since 1952. The most common cause ii a defective heating system; next, arsont MARCH hath XXXI days 3rd Month and third, bad electrical equipment With rushing winds and gloomy skies, Bond declared. The dark and stubborn winter dies: To reduce hazards, Bond urj churches to have local fire department Far off, unseen, spring faintly cries, inspect their property. Bidding her earliest child arise: March! —Taylor LEAD LAWMAKERS 15 Fr Camels used inU. S. as "freight trains','1856 Government experiment- Methodists in 16 Sa Congress founds West Point, 1802 ed with camel caravans 703 Congresi across the Great Plains of 17 S St. Patrick's Day Methodists lead all religious affilia the West. Soldiers found 18 M Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden tions in the 85th Congress with 18 Sen camels ornery: idea was 19 Tu But is forbidden because it is hurtful ators and 85 Representatives. soon abandoned. Others in the top six are Romai 20 W Spring begins 4:17 P.M. In England, a 15-year- Catholics, 11 Senators and 75 Reprej 21 Th Plymouth colony and Indians make friends, 1621 old boy vowed that "Cod sentatives; Baptists, 14 and 69; PresbyJ 22 Fr Learn by heart Matthew 6:1 Almighty should have terians, 13 and 52; Episcopalians, lil 23 Sa P. Henry pleads for "liberty or death," 1775 all there was of William and 45, and Congregationalists, 8 ami 24 S Salvation Army makesU.S. beachhead, 1880|J^g- Booth." He became a 19. 25 M T. Jefferson opens Univ. of Va., 1825 Methodist, preached in London slums, later started 26 Tu Income tax due April 15. Get busy! Salvation Army. Carried LUTHER FILM BAN 27 W Corkscrew is invented, 1860. his skid-row work to U. S. 28 Th Hunger is the best pickle Sign of More Censorship? with a band of eight, start- 29 F Jazz Singer breaks film's sound barrier, 1927 ing in Philadelphia: their Churchmen protesting the ban of thi] medic first uses ether. 1842 30 Sa Ceorgia weapons, soap and soup; film Martin Luther by WGN-TV (Chil 31 S Daylight-saving Time begins, 1918 their target, souls. cago) have moved to block the station'] request to broadcast at full power. Th] Federal Communications Commissioil APRIL hath XXX days 4th Month is being urged to investigate the sta The first of April, some do say, tion's position on "broadcasting public Is set apart for All Fools' Day; controversial subjects." Cancellation of the Martin Lttthe But why the people call it so, TV premiere, reportedly because c Nor I, nor they themselves, do know. — Unknown. Roman Catholic pressure, has arouse' Protestants. 1 M First automobile is sold, 1898 ThePhaeton(pnce $1,000) Typical of Methodist action, Firs 2 Tu Congress decides to make money, 1792 jolted forward at 10 miles per hour, and took "ice Church, Evanston, 111., among man\ 3 W Pony express is off! 1860 packs" to cool its motor. circulated petitions against the ban. 4 Th Flag gets 13 stripes, 1818 Said the Rev. Harold Bosley: "Th The first mint, set up in 5 Fr Pocahontas marries John Rolfe, 1614 time has come for the church to clarif Philadelphia, launched 6 Sa C. Washington wins first election, 1789 work by making copper its thinking on the censorship of r< wi 7 S coins. ligious films. We have had and have a run on religious pictures and : 8 M Louisiana 145 years old today The newly-organized is important that we take this action. 9 Tu Lee surrenders at Appomattox, 1865 Methodist church sent An independent Roman Catholi Washington word that it 10 W Congress sets up patent system, 1790 magazine deplored the role of Chicagi placed "full confidence in 11 safety-pin patent, 1849 Th First the showing. Sai your wisdom and integrity Catholics in blocking 12 Fr Plough deep while sluggards sleep for the preservation of Commonweal: "The true image of th 13 Sa And you'll have corn to sell and keep those civil and religious church as a church of faith and trut 14 S Palm $undati liberties," granted by Cod. has been defaced. For many it wi have been replaced by the false imag of pressure and intolerance." 66 Together/ March 795; — . — gHOUR WEEK Vhy Pastors Break Down BWcthoilists in Jamaica, N.Y., appar- AIADDI pastor has a work Itly think their READI-CUT |ek of 80 hours—twice as much as n>st people. Replies to a questionnaire sent out HOUSE pastor fc the Rev. Charles A. Barton, First Church, show his congregation ARE ENGINEERED TO SAVE YOU HOUSANDS tmlil allow him eight hours a night i skip, slightly more than an hour BUILD IT YOURSELI-!— Aladdin designed i.l a hall each clay tor meals. For and manufactured the first Readi-Cut Home ever 50 yean ago. Tent of thousand, of people hove dis- nil y life and recreation, 20 hours a covered how easy it is to build an Aladdin. Our *ek—less than three hours a day customers have saved thousands of dollar* by doing L allotted. part or all of the work themselves. NOT PRE- FABRICATED—The lumber is cut to fit by preci- Members felt he should devote six sion machines, ready to be nailed in place. Each rurs a week to meetings, spend 10 piece is marked and shown on our erection drawings. QUALITY— All materials . . . lumber, doors, win- rurs working on his sermon, and 12 dows, flooring, paint, hordware. . .everything fur. lurs in personal devotions. Biggest nithed ore highest quality. Not only do you iave— your finished Aladdin Home will be a joy to behold- |ie-consumer on the list was pastoral beautifully designed and solidly constructed to meet cling, on which members felt he the highest building standards. CATALOG Sand for Aladdin's handsome new catalog now and you fcjuld spend 25 hours a week. will understand how Aladdin can save you up to 30 The pastor, they indicated, should or 40% an your new home. Mail the Coupon today. j:nd five hours a week in counseling, to hours in community work, three in Baching and teaching, eight in study- tr, six in office work, two in confer- fces, and one in miscellaneous duties. (ERGYMEN ASK V/iy Not Tax Churches? (Tax laws covering churches are com- g under scrutiny on three fronts. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, president, prion a I Council of Churches, is urg- RAISE MONEY EASILYandu.HhDignHu jg that the tax-free status of religious i>titutions be re-examined. Correspondence Notes and Envelopes The tax exemption seemed "a wise EACH SHEET WITH A PHOTO OF YOUR CHURCH pvision when churches were weak and a Year-Around Seller! )>or," Dr. Blake says. But now, "so Quickly, easily sold for $1 per box of 24 sheets and mch untaxed wealth is falling into 24 envelopes. Generous profits for your church group. No experience necessary. For samples and e hands of the churches, in time no full information, just write: ; crnative but revolution and expro- SPALDING PUBLISHERS, Dept. A 754 E. 76th St., Chicago 19. III. iation may seem to lie before the peo- Meanwhile, Colorado has revised its al-estate tax to raise exemptions on urch-owned dwellings from $3,000 to li.OOO assessed valuation. And Arizona Hearing; Glasses ay require religious organizations to *£5S! W taxes on property in which they ivc business investments. WITH Motvt>vvC^IIN THE EAR A revolutionary development for the Hard-of-Hearing . . . fashionable Hearing ORLD LITERACY Glasses with nothing in the ear! Ideal for conductive type hearing losses! etter Tools Needed? NO BULKY BOWS NO ATTACHMENTS It's time to reappraise Christian lit- aturc throughout the world and de- NO DANGLING CORDS rminc its impact on the millions of MAICO, Room 10 K :wly literate, warns the Committee on 21 North 3rd Street, Minneapolis, Minn. r Please tend free booklet. orld Literacy and Christian Lite ra Name re. Known as "Lit-Lit," the commit- e is a unit of the National Council of .Stale. hurdles' Division of Foreign Mis ons. orch 7 957\To9ether 67 — The committee wants to find out: Your cAo/ce of two men/toe How helpful are the pamphlets, magazines, and books published each FOLDING < year in some 250 languages and dialects BANQUET - for underdeveloped countries? ALASKAN TABLES How does this material stack up against Communist propaganda? 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Taro Goto, superintend- ent, has announced. the Lakes TILTON SCHOOL Region of N. h "We have set 1964 as the deadline for Thorough college preparation for boys, grades 7-12 Established In 1NJ0 by clergymen and laymen of tli integration," he said recently, "but we Methodist Church. First emphasis is placed upo character and the development of Christian leader shall, of course, be happy to see it take ship. Small classes, understanding masters, stimulat in^ instruction. I.arsc gym. Extensive sports pit place any time before that." gram including skiing, skating, mountain elimblm CHURCH GOODS Outing Club, dec Club, Debating. Dramatics. Moilerat The 31 churches within the confer- tuition. KarlT application advised. Catalog. tlational SUPPLY COMPANY |. ROLLAND CROMPTON. D.D., Headmaster ence, which embraces six Western Box I, Tilton School, Tilton, New Hampshire 68 Together /worch I9i . states, have been invited by the five white conference to integrate "in one She Struck way or another," (Joto said. The RITZ churches, he added, intend to become CLOTHS integrated as a conference, not through the separate transfer of individual a Blow for churches. MAJOR FAITHS URGE World Peace 'Let's Look at Prejudice Co-operative research by Protestants, Roman Catholics, and Jews into the problems of inter-religious relations in cloth for A Rilz quality the U.S. was urged at a two-day sym- every household cleaning Sine sponsored by the National Con- purpose at your local posium department or hardware store. ference of Christians and Jews. Recommended for your guild or The symposium brought together so- club promotions. Write for details. cial scientists whose findings will be JOHN RITZENTHAIER, 73 franklin St., N.Y. 13 incorporated in a book scheduled for release this spring. Dr. Joseph B. Cut- ler, chairman, said the symposium pro- vided "one of the few occasions when leading scholars of the three major faiths have met to face problems that ordinarily people back away from and pretend don't exist." imported CRFTONNE BASKETS I [ew 's 3 tried and tested method of making money for your church group. Because of their unique beauty and very LOW PRICE, these colorful Cretonne Baskets sell like "hot-cakes." Over 2 million already wtd. ...and gained Make moncv for vour organiza- tion fast! SEND FOR SAMPLES (returnable for ful! credit) , and fund-raising plan —now. Organiza- her own security! THE WINDSOR BROOM CO. of the best ways to bring {Established 1912) "One HAMBURG 4, PA. about peace," this good lady rea- soned, "is by bringing the light of the Gospel into far corners of the world. How can I best help do this EUROPE with my limited means?" The American Bible Society sug- 1937 Sunshine Tour and Spring DeLuxe gested she put her money into Tour, leaving April 23 and April 24, returning June 13 and June 14. Annuity Agreements, which gave ill deluxe accommodations, finest traveling her a high rate of return, freedom angements . . . really see the high spots anxiety, safe, regular, f Europe with the help of expert, professional, from and a glish-speaking guides. 17 countries in 51 partially tax exempt income. She ays. ALL-EXPENSE RATES from $1,098.00 knew any remaining principal "ill and Summer tour groups also forming would be used to further the work low . . . EARLY RESERVATIONS RECOM- JENDED. of translating and distributing the Call or write for illustrated folder: Bible all over the world. GRUENINGER TOURS Australian Methodist evangelist, the too, can help spread the Gospel 17 South Illinois Street, Indianapolis 25, Ind. You, Rev. Alan Walter, speaks to 1,000 peo- MELrose 4-4037 of the Prince of ^_____— ple from the courthouse steps in Evans- Peace. Why not ville, Ind., during his recent U.S. tour. investigate? 1- PENNINGTON - Hethodial College Preparatory School jor Send coupon Bays. Owned by the New Jersey Conference. SAYS today! roll » prepiii-atorv, genera! courses. Fulls accred- AUSTRALIAN ited; graduates In 89 colleges. Grades 7 12. .Ml aports. Gym, pool. Guidance, developmental read- "i crafts, shops, music. New dormitory. Moder- US. Probing Religion ate rate. Endowed. Established 1838. WHtc for fctaloK. Ira S. Pimm. D.O.. Box 45. Pennington, N. J. Americans are asking "pertinent, re- vealing questions of deep significance" AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY 450 Pork Avenue, New York 11, N. Y. about religion, the Rev. Alan Walker, Pleas,- -.cm! me, without obligation, your Australian Methodist evangelist, has Since I8S9 LEADING DESIGNERS ond CRAFTSMEN oi Ixxiklet T-73 entitled "A Gift That Lives." found on a year-long "Mission to i STAINED GLASS America." Nume_ CHURCH FURNISHINGS & BRONZE TABLETS | His recently completed speaking trip, Address wne-spieRS sgudios sponsored by the Board oi Evangelism, 48 54 EAST 13th ST. • PATMSON 8, N. ). carried him to scores ol cities tor major Cits '/line .State campaigns and shorter meetings. 1 [< ch 7957^ Together 69 spoke to 250,000. During one eight-day period, he spoke 44 times. THIS YEAR . . see YOU can raise The mission contributed much to the MONEY,with ^ TENNESSEE standards of Methodist evangelism and ecumenical Christianity, said the board. RUBBER SCRUBBER homiletics Now visiting professor of the SCOURING PAD of 1000 uses! and evangelism at Boston University If you hate scouring, you'll love the new Rubber Scrubber. Ideal for benevolent and School of Theology, Dr. Walker will fraternal sales! Repeat sales GUARANTEEDI go to Europe and Ceylon after the Write us for full particulars and your spring semester. He plans to return to FREE SAMPLE his Methodist work in Australia early in RUBBER SCRUBBER Corp. (Dept. Tl WATERTOWN, NEW YORK .>. 1958. THi NATION'S \ MOSI IN«»fSTINC S1"T NEW ALLY PULPITS CHOIR GOWNS Pulpit Hangings—Altar Cloths Bible Markers—Communion Linens Labor Fights Alcoholism Embroideries— Fabrics Custom Tailoring for Clergymen Labor organizations are making an ,,,, Marking 120 Years of 1837 Service to the Church 195/ effective contribution toward alcoholism and Clergy send for micoLonooK prevention, Methodist Bishop John COX SONS & VINING, Inc. 131 iost 23rd Slreel, New Vorfc 10, N.Y. Treat your family to a 3-way vacation that Wesley Lord, president of the Board of mountains, lakes, and history. includes Temperance, reported at its annual They'll ride highways into the sky in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park; meeting. : you can fish, boat and swim in Tennessee's 20 He cited a letter from Charles Mal- PUBLISH Great Lakes: see the homes of three ley of ask- * presidents, historic battlefields, TVA the Labor Research Council, dams, and the world's only Atomic YOUR for help. BOOK ing church : Energy Museum at Oak Ridge. Yes, for Free brochure tells how we published 2000 book; for "The acute impact of alcoholism on # \ three vacations in one, see Tennessee. a authors. Free editorial appraisal. Write Dept. T-3 Send now for free 40-page color book. industry has now focused the attention • EXPOSITION PRESS / 386 4th Ave., N.Y. 16 « of labor upon this perplexing problem," the letter read. "The need for an effec- Tennessee Division of Information tive program for preventive alcoholism Tenn. 1565 Cordell Hull Bldq., Nashville, has never been evident." jM^AMiiM, more %$«kI Please send Free Color Book Bulletin The council's called alcohol- Children's Praises NAME ism "a game of Russian roulette, played All-purpose songbook for Beginner — Primary — Junior ADDRESS with alcohol rather than a pistol." It Paper, 75f • Cloth, $1.25 said "the greed for profit on the part of & STATE_ At your Church supply house or the liquor industry causes it to spend JljMlMM- Kansas City, Mo. millions of dollars annually on false and fraudulent advertising of its poison- ous products, which shorten life." jfiJWKKUe WILLAMETTE TRUSTEES RELIGIOUS RELIGIOUS READINGS BUDII.CS 23 readings — prose, poetry, Back College ROTC dialect. Musical readings with piano supplement. • 75« a copy Trustees of Willamette University, At your Church supply house or Methodist school in Salem, Ore., have -JbEjUHOA Kansas City, Mo. approved continuation of an Air ROTC program. The vote was in line with a report of a special committee set up JBJWWW after the Oregon Conference. The Con- ference urged dropping ROTC. The Younger Choir 44 numbers for unchanged voices The committee report questioned Songs — Anthems — Spirituals whether a majority of Methodist-church Descants • 60£ a copy At your Church supply house or What are you stopping opinion is against ROTC. The impor- tant consideration, the committee ^Ltlu*UU- Kansas City, tAo. here for? stressed, is, "Shall our male students be enabled to train for positions of leader- The grass is never greener than the fairway Sunday morning! ship in the Air Corps under civilian, CHOIR ROBES Christian surroundings?" Then—suddenly the bells call out, Newest co/orfasf fabrics available. "Stop just in ." —you're time . . Wrire for Catalog A-74 Sheepishly — or gratefully —two FRANCO CLOSED IT E. R. CO. souls hear . . . and heed. Coinci- MOORE 268 Normon Ave., Brooklyn 22, N. Y. dence? Never in this world! Will Seminary Reopen? 932 Dokin St., Chicago 13, III. For the story of how an 1641 N.AIIesandro St., Los Angeles 26,Calif. electronic "miracle" can A Methodist bishop from South — inexpensively — bring America has been commissioned by the the ministry of majestic World Council of Churches to seek LMIMillilJIMViH carillon bell music to written permission from the Spanish S R those you serve, write: government for the Protestant Theo- INTO NEW CAPE K!JACKET See Morion's logical Seminary of Madrid to reopen. book of 30 gor 9 make $22° STROMBERG-CARLSON The seminary has been closed since ions we can from outworn fur. Only $22.95. A DIVISION OF GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP. January, 1956. Save over 50% thru world's 1 price fur 1751 University Ave. • Rochester 3, N. Y. oldest, largest, Bishop Santi Uberto Barbieri of service. Write to: MORTON'S Dept 9 c 'There is nothing finer than a Stromberg-Carlson' Buenos Aires is to discuss the problem Washington 4. OX. 70 Together/March 19!', TOGETHER • MAKCH 1957 Missouri NEWS of Your Church in Action Bishop Eugene M. Prank, 835 Oleta Drive, St. Louis 5, Mo Editor: Rev. Milton M. Thorne, PO Box 376, Clarence, Mo. Urge Leaders to Build World Parish HUNGARIAN RELIEF South Central Jurisdiction has contributed $193,275 toward Hungarian relief, according to fig- ures released at the district super- intendents' meeting in Chicago. Total contributions of Method- ists: more than $1,000,000 as of Feb. 15. Bishop Frank urges all Missouri Area pastors to remit relief money received by their churches. Many churches have not sent in contri- butions. MISSOURI- MISSOURI WOMEN To Meet April 2-4 The Rev. H. H. Liictzow, St. Louis (second from right) was one of the district super- First Church, St. Joseph, the Rev. H. intendents who led a discussion group at a gathering of Methodist leaders in Chicago Hugh Snider, pastor, will be host to the last month. Here he joins in a planning session with other discussion leaders and 16th annual meeting of Missouri Confer- ence officials of the Commission on Promotion and Cultivation, conference sponsors. Woman's Society of Christian Serv- ice, April 2-4. Mrs. Floyd W. Rigg of When district superintendents and bish- New York City; the Rev. Philip T. Bohi, Laclede is conference president. ops met in Chicago last month, the Mis- area director of stewardship cultivation; CHILLICOTHE-RICHMOND DIST. souri Area was represented by all its the Rev. Clarence P. Folkins of Lee's superintendents, with the of Summit; the Rev. exception Clinton B. Galatas of Improve Church Property one. The Rev. Frank C. Tucker, Cape Marshall; the Rev. Hugh O. Isbell of Girardeau District, was unable to attend Columbia; the Rev. George E. Poe of • Eighteen churches report that their re- because of illness. Cameron; the Rev. Wilburn S. Yoder of spective quotas for Central College have Bishop Frank led the group in devo- Webster Groves; and the Rev. Milton M. been paid in full for the conference year. tions at a morning session, speaking on Thorne, area director of publicity. Midyear reports disclose that Bedford, "The Field Is the World." The Rev. Camden, Centenary, Cowgill, Gallatin, Herman H. Luetzow of St. Louis District, LENTEN ACTIVITIES Grundy Center, Hale, Kendall, Ketron, presided over one of the discussion groups. Laredo, Mercer, Millville, Pattonsburg, The three-day meet brought together Prepare for Easter Pleasant Grove, and Richmond all have 800 key leaders of Methodism, including made substantial improvements to their Pastors and churches throughout the 560 of the 572 district superintendents. church property. area are engaged in a varied program of The conference program undertook to in- • Lenten and pre-Easter activities, reports Haseville's new edifice has been com- spire those in attendance to carry out the Bishop Frank. pleted and in use since Jan. 1. Much of four-year program to strengthen local the the work was done by volunteer labor. churches and Methodist schools. Many of churches are placing stress on attendance, building • The district designated the week be- More than 1,600 attended a special up to a high point on Easter Sunday. ginning March 24 as a week of evange- dinner, addressed by Bishop Frederick B. Other churches are holding special services. lism. Most of the churches will promote Newell, president of the Methodist Com- Church member- ship classes for an evangelistic program at that time. mittee for Overseas Relief, and Chancellor adults and for children are being held William P. Tolley, of Syracuse (N. Y.) by many pastors. • Church efficiency clinics were held the University. Dr. Tolley told the confer- Bishop Frank says that a large number last week of February and first week of ence that "erosion of denominational ties of churches will hold special services dur- March at Gallatin, Trenton, Princeton, in Methodist colleges must come to an ing Passion Week, and that the majority Chillicothe, Braymer, and Richmond. Re- end, and meaningful relationships re- will commemorate the sacrament of the source leaders were George Seiberling, established. Lord's Supper on Maundy Thursday. Harry Mayo, Donald W. Reid, J. O. Craig, Bishop Frank and the Missouri Area World Day of Prayer, March 8, was Andrew C. Runge, Robert C. Waters, and district superintendents attended an area the first Lenten service observed in most Elroy H. Hines. breakfast. Others present were Leonard churches. In numerous towns, this service • Chillicothe has voted to buy a new M. Perryman, General Board of Missions, was interdenominational. location in the north part of the city. March J957\Togcther Missouri Edition of Together A-l FAYETTE DIST. VanDevander, district superintendent, di- tory membership as the result of a revival. rected the consecration service and gave Both church and parsonage have been Sponsor German Families the principal address. The building cost piped for city water. $17,000. Many people donated labor. The • Three Germon families have arrived in • The district mid-winter institute at Rev. Richard D. Ezell is the pastor. Fayette under sponsorship of the Rev. Kirksville enrolled 158 intermediates and Charles W. Caldwell, pastor of Linn • The youth department of Centralia seniors. The Rev. W. E. Craig served as Memorial Church. They are Mr. and Mrs. Church was presented thirty Cokesbury dean and the Rev. Harry L. Rigsby as co- Gouenther Sendler; Mr. and Mrs. Gunter Worship Hymnals by Mr. and Mrs. Harry dean. Recreation was in charge of the Heuer and two sons, Friedhelm, 7, and K. Houchins, now living in Indiana. Rev. Ralph H. Hicks and the Rev. Alfred Mitchener. Rainer, 5; and Mr. and Mrs. Erich Lick- • The Rev. C. Neil Dubach of New W. Faculty members were the Rev. Paul Barton, the Rev. field and three children, Gerd, 14, Elke, 5, Bloomfield was again named chaplain of and Mrs. Roger Davis, the Rev. Virgil and Karla, 3. the Missouri house of representatives for Skinner, the Rev. William Rev. Mr. Sendler is employed as a carpen- the 1957 session. Bammon, and the Allen of Vancil. The Wesley Foundation Choir, ter in the maintenance department • A leadership training school, with 80 en- is mechanic led by Mrs. Ralph H. Hicks, provided ap- Central College. Mr. Heuer a rolled, was held in Hannibal in February. propriate music for the Holy Communion. with the Howell Implement Company; Courses were taught by Mrs. W. W. Bar- • The Rev. Ted Masters of Hannibal and Mr. Lickfield is also a mechanic. row of Clarence, the Rev. Oscar F. Kettel- J. mission- gave the afternoon address at the district • The Rev. Robert V. Marble, a kamp of Palmyra, and Mrs. Ted J. Masters conference held at Meadville recently. ary to India who is now on furlough in of Hannibal. The Rev. Joseph W. Thomp- District Superintendent John W. Ward America, spoke twice at Trinity Church, son served as dean. was in charge of the business session, and Moberly, in February. He holds degrees • Bethlehem Church, on the Shelbina Cir- University the Rev. Roy F. Sturgill was pastor host. from Central College and Yale cuit, has organized a Woman's Society to The list of speakers included President Divinity School; and now serves as village replace the Ladies' Aid Society which had Ralph Lee Woodward of Central College, preacher in Baihar, India, and as district functioned for many years. Mrs. Floyd W. Rigg, Conference WSCS superintendent. He went to India from president; the Rev. Don W. Reid, Confer- the Southwest Missouri Conference. KIRKSVILLE DIST. ence executive secretary of the board of Mrs. Marble, also a graduate of Cen- education; and George Seiberling, Confer- tral College, was Martha Prescott of Salis- 158 Youth Attend Meet ence lay leader. bury, Mo., prior to her marriage. She had served as a rural home missionary • Linneus' Lord's Acre sale had a net • The district camp council met recently under auspices of the Woman's Society profit of $1,500. Five members were re- at Kirksville to plan summer camps and of Christian Service. ceived by letter and three from prepara- other district work. ST. JOSEPH DIST. -THE BISHOP WRITES Church Damaged 7^ IQefotaeCtty r^eactiKy? • A serious explosion occurred in the Dear Methodists of Missouri: Francis Street Church Feb. 6. Fortunately, only two persons were in the building at Has "TV" replaced reading in your home? Families the time and they were not injured. The who have time for reading, are finding that children and main damage was in the basement, but youth, as well as the adults, are attracted to our new, pews in the sanctuary annex were over- Methodist "bold venture" Together. It's now reaching turned and window glass broken. The toward one million subscribers. estimated loss is $50,000. The Rev. B. V. A bishop, obviously not in the Methodist tradition, Powell, pastor, and the co-pastor, the Rev. remarks about one of his preachers, "If I took away his C. M. Birkemeyer, were both in Dallas Sunday morning paper, he wouldn't have anything to attending the mid-winter pastors' school at preach about." Would you like some books to read that the time of the explosion. The church will start wheels turning, light a fire, stir you deeply—preacher or layman? Try program is continuing without interrup- one of these on, for size! tion during repairs to the damaged part of Donald G. Miller wrote Fire in Thy Month three years ago. You will preach the building. as you have never preached before! You'll turn to your Bible with deeper faith. The Word of God is fire at any age.. It comforts the cold, the weary, the broken • Gladstone Church has changed its name and bruised. It destroys the perishable and leaves only the imperishable. to North Cross. This church, in the grow- The Christian and the World of Unbelief, (Abingdon) by Libuse Lukas Miller, ing area of North Kansas City, is served is for the "tough-minded," as James once put it. The Christian lives in two by the Rev. Roland A. Boone. worlds. For one of these worlds, there is no hope. Christ invited us to be loving • Groundbreaking ceremonies for a new in an unloving world, unselfish in a greedy, envious world, humble in a proud unit at Wesley House, south St. Joseph, world, to lift up a standard in a compromising, sophisticated sneering world. were held recently. The addition will The gospel of Jesus Christ will never stand out with greater clarity against contain a gymnasium, a movable stage, our modern culture than it does in this book. meeting rooms, showers, and a kitchen. The Cross in the Old Testament by Wheeler Robinson (Westminster Press) will stir your mind during Lent. It gives a background lor Jesus' conception of HANNIBAL DIST. Messiahship. Is the Messiah to sit on the throne of David? Or, is there a "cross" : Complete Education Unit at God's heart? Who is the Messiah Turn again to Abingdon. Have you seen Murdo E. MacDonald's The Vitality • consecration service for the new edu- A of Faith? The utter simplicity of his preaching will amaze you. The form of his Shelbyville was held cational building at sermon construction will make you envious (righteously envious, you know). in January, just 115 days after the ground- Here is a voice that reaches the people where they live and touches them with is 64 x 36 breaking service. The structure good news. feet, and contains modern kitchen and Has "TV" replaced reading in your home? You'll live to regret the day you rest rooms, classrooms, and multi-purpose missed any one of these books for Lenten reading. assembly hall with stage. A feature of Faithfully yours, the program was a recognition service for Eugene M. Frank those whose devotion had made it possible to erect the building so quickly. Dr. D. J. A -2 Together/March 1957 MARYVILLE DIST. ROLLA DIST. Read Bible in 74 Hours Men's Clubs Reach Goal One hundred persons took 74 hours to • A Men's Club chapter has been organ- read the Bible "from cover to cover" at ized at Eminence. The group applied for the Skidmore Church according to the a charter, thus enabling the district to Rev. Ted Reed, pastor. The reading was reach its goal for organized and chartered continuous, anil was done in 15-minute clubs. periods. Moderators, working in two-hour • Thayer Church, recently visited by a smoothly. shifts saw that the program ran representative of the division of Church moderators also kept a record of time The Extension, has consummated plans for a required to read each book. There were new building, and construction is sched- 297 assignments, with read- reading some uled to begin soon. Plans to modify the ers making "repeat appearances." It re- interior of the old edifice also have been quired 57 hours to read the 928 chapters adopted. The Rev. Wesley Clark is pastor. of the Old Testament and 17 hours for the • M. Law son, business manager of Phi- 251 chapters of the New Testament. lander Smith College, was the principal "This Bible-reading project," said Pas- speaker at the South Group Fellowship in tor Reed "was an effort to stimulate more February. He was accompanied by a male reading of the Bible. Already the im- quartet from the college. port of the three-day 'marathon' is being felt beyond the limits of our little town." CAPE GIRARDEAU DIST. • Savannah held a revival series begin- ning Feb. 24, with the Rev. Freeman Present Memorial Gifts C. Havighurst, district superintendent, Mrs. C. C. Long preaching. The meetings were preceded • Fornfelt Church, with the Rev. Leland by a week of home and personal visitation E. Butler, pastor, has expended $4,500 for Central Jurisdiction president, speaking on and are being followed by classes in improvements on the church building and the subject, "The Vital Spot;" Mrs. C. C. church membership for both adults and the parsonage. Memorial gifts for the altar Long, circulation manager of Methodist youth. The Rev. Eugene S. Trice is pastor. and chancel presented in a dedicatory serv- Woman, speaking on "The Lure of Litera- • The remodeled sanctuary at Sheridan ice led by the Rev. Frank C. Tucker, dis- ture," and Bishop Eugene M. Frank, who was consecrated by District Superintendent trict superintendent, included a cross, in will conduct the closing communion and Freeman C. Havighurst Jan. 27, and the memory of Mrs. John Martin given by the consecration service. Ladies new education unit at Mound City is now Anti-Can't Class; a baptismal font Missionary talks will be given by Miss being used. in memory of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Zicafoose Miss Ruth O'Toole Myrtle and Yount by Mr. and Mrs. R. Ferriell, and • District conference, meeting in Mary- J. from the Belgium Congo, and Miss Mabel candlesticks in memory of Mrs. Delores ville, granted licenses to preach to Nathan Ruth Nowlin from Malay. (Coats) McMullen by Mr. and Mrs. O. Austin of Tarkio and Fritz Mutd and Joe J. The theme for the meeting is the same Coats and Mr. and Mrs. F. Coats. Wright of Hopkins. J. as that chosen for the quadrennial empha- • Dr. W. W. Parker, president-emeritus sis, "Spirit of Christ—For All of Life." of Southeast Missouri College, died Feb. 9. Mrs. E. Russell Gemberling of Gibeon, • Dr. Tucker announces the transfer of •ST. LOUIS- conference president, will preside. the Rev. Frank Black from Third Street ARCADIA CAMPGROUNDS Church, Cape Girardeau, to Advance. He ST. LOUIS DIST. succeeds the late Rev. T. Evitts. Launch Camp Fund Drive J. Hold 'Week of Concern' • A special district committee, headed by Men of St. Louis Conference are at- Dr. Tucker and the Rev. Robert L. Mann, • tempting to raise $20,000 for the Arcadia Dr. Leroy Walker of the General Board district secretary of evangelism, is planning Improvement Program. Bishop Frank and of Evangelism in Nashville, conducted a a tent meeting for the summer. Neigh- the district superintendents have endorsed "Week of Concern" program in February boring churches will co-operate in promot- the campaign. at University Church. Ten other churches ing attendance and planning the program Called "Epworth Among The Hills," joined in the project. of the meeting. the Arcadia campgrounds have been serv- • Two area deaths have been reported. ing the youth and adults of the Conference Arthur V. Lashley, a prominent St. Louis JEFFERSON CITY DIST. for more than a generadon. attorney and an active member of Webster "The money is needed now" says J. Groves Church, died Jan. 30, and Mrs. 116 Attend Rally Clinton Hawkins, conference lay leader. Nelle Calfe, widow of Joseph S. Calfe, • Montgomery County's Group Ministry Churches and individuals are asked to send formerly general treasurer of St. John's sponsored Week of Dedication services in their gifts to the Rev. Roy F. LeGrand, Church and a leader in banking circles, all the churches of the county, beginning camp superintendent, Arcadia. tlicd Jan. 30. March 3. Each church has been asked to desig- • St. Luke's has plans for a new education • parisli rally, held at Wellsville nate "A Friend of Arcadia," to contact unit, to cost $110,000. More than 100 new A in interested persons. members were received the past year, 67 January, was attended by 116. of them by profession of faith. In the past • Jefferson City is planning a building WSCS AT FARMINGTON four years the budget, now $16,000, lias project. A representative from the General Expect 300 Delegates been doubled. The Rev. [van Lee LaTurno Board oi Church Extension recently visited is the minister. the church ami consulted with church Rev. I). Russell Lytic is More than 300 delegates and 200 visi- • A new site soon will be acquired along officials. The pas- tors are expected at Farmington, April 4-5 Ashby Road lor the erection of a church tor. for the 16th annual meeting of the St. house. A Sunday School will W- organized • The Rev. ). C. Montgomery, district su- Louis Conference Woman's Society of as soon as land is bought, Tins is to be the perintendent, is writing a historv of the Christian Service. fourth project by the district since 1953, Mount Sequoyah Assembly in Arkansas The meeting will be highlighted with through donations by the Ten Dollar clubs The assembly has been in operation for 39 addresses by Mrs. W. E. Horton, South and church extension specials. years, he reports. Worch ?957\Togcther A-i Marshall Hill, in Monett; Mount Vernon; TOGETHER' -SOUTHWEST MISSOURI- and Diamond. 20,000 Subscribe KANSAS CITY DIST. • The Rev. and Mrs. Gerald Sappington announce the birth of a son in December. Missouri Area subscriptions to To- To Air-Condition Church • Mrs. B. D. Jones of Aurora, widow of gether exceeded 20,000 early last month, a prominent layman, died in January. announced Warren P. Clark, circulation • Grand Avenue Temple recently initiated manager of Methodism's new magazine, a drive for $60,000 for an improvement • Neosho was host to the midyear lay- at the district superintendents' meeting. program, to include air conditioning, en- men's rally Jan. 27. Dr. Matt L. Ellis, Missouri Conference had more than 5,000 larged kitchen facilities, and rebuilding of president of Hendrix College, Conway, subscriptions, St. Louis Conference over the organ. The Rev. Philip T. Bohi, pas- Ark., brought a stirring address on "The 7,500, and Southwest Missouri Conference tor, hopes sufficient funds will be raised Challenge of Change." close to 6,000. to permit engaging associate ministers for • District Superintendent Perryman re- In Missouri Conference, 25 churches youth and parish visitation programs. ports that the Barry County Council, or- are participating in the All-Family Plan; • National College for Christian Workers ganized one year ago, is increasingly in Southwest Missouri, 26; and in St. value to county churches. Miss Kathryn will present Bishop Gerald H. Kennedy Louis, 43. for its 1957 Marcia E. Wertsch lectures, Kuhler, deaconess, is the rural worker. Total subscriptions are rapidly ap- March 26 and 27. The bishop, speaking proaching the 900,000 mark. The Illinois at 3 and 8 p.m., Tuesday, and 11 a.m. and NEVADA DIST. Area bordering Missouri has some 40,000 3 p.m., Wednesday, announces as his Time Off for Fishing subscriptions, Kansas 35,000, Iowa 27,000, themes: "A Skeptical Man," "A Working and Arkansas-Louisiana reports 10,000. Man," "A Young Man," and "A Genius." • The Rev. Arnold Prater of Belton, who A luncheon for ministers and their wives attended the first National Conference on will be held March 27 at 12:45. Reserva- Spiritual Birth and Growth recently at tions ($1.25) should be made in writing Paducah, Ky., reports a most inspiring in advance, President Lewis B. Carpenter meeting. Delegates from 31 states were states, in order that adequate preparations present at the event, sponsored by the may be made. General Board of Evangelism. The Rev. Mr. Porter took time out Missouri Council of Churches is issuing MARSHALL DIST. from the program to consult with dock- weekly "The Legislative Digest," giving hand Waymon Farley at Kentucky Lake, information regarding legislative bills re- Report on Mission Work and get some pointers on fishing. cently introduced and advice on their • Miss Mabel Ruth Nowlin, former mis- • Belton, Harrisonville, and Lee's Sum- value. Churches may procure these for sionary to China and Malaya, recently mit are engaged in an attendance contest $3 by addressing the council, P. O. Box addressed the Johnson County WSCS Zone from New Year's to Easter. Lee's Sum- 839, Jefferson City. An additional dollar meeting, held at Centerview Church. mit has been leading in actual attendance, will pay for a subscription to the Missouri reports indicate, but Belton is ahead on a • The Rev. O. M. Auner, retired mission- Council News. percentage basis. ary, recently described his work in India Bishop Eugene M. Frank is a member • The Rev. Clarence P. Folkins, pastor at Holden. The Rev. Wesley M. Smith, of the program committee planning the at Lee's Summit, has been speaking at now retired, spoke in Hout's Chapel. Dr. third National Conference on Family Life district conferences on the need to cor- Smith served many years in China. He to be held Oct. 17-19, 1958, in Chicago. also spoke the same day at a service in relate more closely the program of the Bishop Charles C. Selecman, retired, Montserrat. three annual conferences, and to set up a co-ordinate council or interconference an alumnus of Central College, has pro- • The Rev. Monk Bryan of Maryville was board. He illustrates his message with a vided funds for an achievement award 1957 Mabel Lowe lecturer at Warrensburg series of charts. Bishop Frank says the to be presented to a member of the senior recently. lecture is one of the finest presentations class of Central College each year. The • January Missions Sunday speaker at he has heard. award will be an engraved gold watch. Blackwater was Miss Evelyn Breeden of Thomas Spradling, St. Louis lay- the Delia C. Lamb Home in Kansas City. W. and the Rev. L. Bowers of Paseo The Rev. O. M. Auner, former mission- man, Roy Church, Kansas City, were among a group ary, was the preacher at Centerview. of 50 who visited Cuba early in February for an evangelistic campaign. JOPLIN DIST. Miss Claribell Galivan of Columbia, Club Seeks Members one of 38 three-year-term missionaries commissioned last fall, who was assigned • A district board of church extension has to Bolivia, later received notice that her been organized to promote and secure field of service would be Cuba, and she funds to aid new churches in building, now is at work there. remodeling or enlarging church plants, and purchasing of sites for new churches. The Rev. W. B. Selah, minister of Gal- Officers are: Corley Thompson Sr., chair- loway Memorial Church, Jackson, Miss., man; Don Heister, vice-chairman; the was the speaker for Religious Emphasis Rev. Charles Bruner, secretary; and Gale Week, March 3-7, at Central College. He Grayham, treasurer. The board is pro- also held evening meetings in Lnin Me- moting a 1,000 Club, with an annual morial Church on the campus. membership of $10. Bishop Frank was honored March 9 by district • The Rev. Willis L. Perryman, his alma mater, Pittsburg (Kan.) Teachers reports that much con- superintendent, College, at its annual "Apple Day" pro- struction is being done. Churches now in gram. The bishop gave the principal units include West Side, course of adding address at the celebration. in Webb City; Washburn, Mount Moriah, Channel 13, Jefferson City, and Butterfield. Churches now planning The Rev. Arnold Prater of Belton, Mo., KRCG-TV, a rerun of The Way series Feb. 5. to greatly enlarge present plants include gets tips on fishing prospects at Kentucky began is Tuesday 10:30 a.m. Grace and Royal Heights, in Joplin; La\e State Par\ from Waymon Farley. The time Together/March 7957 A-4 . . . ; — —— with officials in Madrid. Although seals on the property have been removed, GIVES MORE seminary officials want written approval from the government before starting FOR YOUR SEATING DOLLAR! classes. Otherwise, they fear, the school may be closed again at the whim of any More Comfort, Longer Life government official. Assured Through FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION CLARIN Engineering POLITICIANS PRAY No Sounding Brass Patented rubber feet molded Useful Products over brass plated prongs wear many times longer . . A retired Methodist minister has ar- can't accidentally drop out . ranged pre-session prayer meetings for will never gouge floors. Like These Easily removed if required. Iowa legislators. 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Miss Brasfield comforts a young patient. 73 — Birmingham, Ala., was presented to the 2eti Qet Aa^ucMdied Board of Hospitals and Homes' annual meeting in Chicago as winner over 2S candidates representing 52 nursim schools. FOR William Sydney Porter (1862- She is active in Fairview Methodis 1910) life was an uphill battle. He quit Church, Birmingham, where she ha' school at 15 to clerk, in a drugstore, left a lived most of her life, and in student later job as a Texas bank clerk to try his nurse groups. Probably her favorite hand as a newspaper publisher. His paper hobby is reading about medical am was popular—but a financial flop. Subse- nursing subjects. quently he was indicted as an embezzler, could spent three years in jail. But this man METHODIST GIFTS write! While he was in prison he put his abilities to work. He had a special knack Help 'New Japan' —probably learned from his own heart- International Christian University, c; breaks—of telling the story of the poor, the tablished in 1953 "to train new leader downtrodden, those on whom fortune for a new Japan," will graduate its fin turned her back. But he didn't write under class of seniors March 21. his own name. He signed his stories The event is significant to Methodisi O. Henry. This month our "Reader's because of the leading role they playc Choice" is one of his most tender stories, The Last Lea]. Read in founding the university—first of it on page 29. We think it shows why critics have said of him, kind in Japan—and in contributing he had "no talent, only genius." its support. Part of the commencement prograi T will be ground-breaking for the $350 At 73, E. Stanley Jones, who tells you why Anxiety Is \ ot 000 Ralph E. Diffendorfer Memori; Necessary, on page 9, is an evangelistic whirlwind whose activi- Church House and Student Cente ties would exhaust most men half his age. On a typical day he named for Methodist missionary will deliver three or four different speeches, stretching from D Ralph Diffendorfer, who died in 195 breakfast to bedtime. At day's end, he's still going strong. A He served for years as executive seer missionary to India since 1907, Dr. Jones has been spending six tary of the Division of World Mission months of each year in that country, six months preaching up and he was first president of the IC and down the U.S. Foundation, incorporated by some U.S. and Canadian church-missic Two Methodists tackle different aspects of communism in boards. The foundation laid the groun our pages this month. Sen. William F. Knowland, Oakland. work in getting the university starte Calif., newspaper publisher and minority leader in the upper Two hundred thousand dollars tot chamber, tells you in Midmonth Powwow on page 26 why he cost is being underwritten by the E is fighting Red China's entry into the UN. And on page 13 vision of World Missions and tl Virgil A. Kraft, former director of the Wesley Foundation at foreign department of the Womar the University of Minnesota, gives you an insight into what Division of Christian Service. Soviet young people are thinking. He gathered material for About 60 of the 168 students Young Russians Are Asking Questions during a three-month ICU's first graduating class (all libei Soviet tour. arts) will go into business and gover • ment jobs. Ten have received U graduate scholarships; Almost as soon as he could talk, Donald Culross Peattie two have be accepted began begging his parents to move out of crowded Chicago and in Japanese graduate univ> sities; 58 plan to teach. into the country. Now, half a century later, he is one of Ameri- all-Christian, ca's best-known nature writers. We are proud to bring you one The international fac ty of 86 includes noted of the most inspiring of all his writings: Rainbows at Wor\ educators frc (page 34) this month. Japan (66), the U.S., Canada, Chii Germany, and Great Britain. Of the student body of 665, 12 OUR CAMERA CLIQUE { cent come from abroad. Entrance (Credits are separated from left to right by comma: top to bottom by quirements are stiff. Among otlr dashes.) Bot., bottom: cen., center: exc, except; If., left; rt., right. qualifications, students must be in t: 1 — (and smaller picture to left) Virgil Kraft • 2— Bill Sears, Horticulture • 9—Religious upper 5 per cent of their high-schi[ News Service «13 Virgil Kraft • 15 Virgil • 16 Harris, • — — Kraft —Arthur S. Jr. class. 18—Lionel Green—Norton and Peel • 21-23—Photographs by Fulton • 27—Methodist At commencement the university a9 Prints • 30—United Press • 31 —United Press • 32 —A. Aubrey Bodine, The Baltimore will launch the first professional schJ Sunday Sun—Maurice • i3—Robert M. Riddell, Jr., Jack Sheaffer, The Arizona Star International • 34 35 News Photos —Pach Brothers of New York • —Paul Guillumctu. (Graduate School of Education), to I Inc. • 36—-Publix Pictorial Service, Inc. • 37—Harry Vroman, Arizona Highways • 38—Camera Clix • 39—Rev. Charles Ray Goff • 40—Louise Purnell Jones • 41— Shostal • 42 —Fred Ragsdale, Arizona Highways (Graphic View Camera: 5 !4 inch wide held Ektar lens; Ektachrome daylitc film: no filter; exposure: one-half second at ap- ANSWERS TO PUZZLES, PAGE 53 1 proximately F-lb ; picture was made the second week in September, 1950, at about Bible quiz: 1. Judges; 2. Proverbs;! 5 p.m.) • 50—United Press • 61 —Swallow's Studio • 65 —United Press, Syracuse Numbers; 4. Mark; 5. Job; 6. Romai (N.Y.) Post Standard • 76—Charles W. Keysor (Rolleiflex, multiple flash, Anscochrome, F-5.6 at 1/5(1 sec. 7. Acts. Riddle for March: Spring. 74 Together/March n School is closer than you think i&W IS HE RIDING TOWARD SUCCESS OR FAILURE'S Let Childcraft help remove your doubts School can be a frightening new world or an excit- ing adventure for your child. One leads down the road to continuing failure; the other toward shining success. Which shall it be? The answer rests with you. Fortunately, today's parents can have the help CMdcraft of Childcraft in preparing their youngsters not only America's Famous Child Development Plan for school, but for life. Childcraft, you see, is not merely a collection of books, but a complete child development plan. With its background, children step across the threshold of school prepared to learn because Childcraft en- courages the learning habit through hstening and doing. Childcraft instills a love of beauty, apprecia- tion of poems and pictures, understanding of music. It offers things to make and do, an introduction to science, and stimulates the young imagination. And it gives you the guidance of 1 50 educational experts in child training. In today's competitive world, no child should be denied this opportunity. BOOKLer •*>W> NOW FOR F*& Mr. W. F. Funk Childcraft, Dept. 3513 Box 3565, Chicago 54, Illinois Please send me FBEE, without obligation, my copy of the new 24-page booklet. "Their Future Is in Your Hands," which contains a summary of "Education Is Inquire how you can earn a set of Childcraft for your family. a 'Round The Clock Process." For full information, write to A. Weingartner, Childcraft, Dept. 4513, Box 3565, Chicago 54, Illinois. Name- Address- County Field Enterprises, Inc., Educational Division, Chicago, 54, 111. City _Zone_ State- My Children's ages are. IB a merly editor of The Gideon, house organ for Gideons International. Working closely with this editorial team as consulting editors are members of the commission staff—the Rev. O. L. Simpson, the Rev. Howard Greenwalt, business manager, and publisher Dr. E. Harold Mohn, commission general secretary. Purposes of the magazine, said Edi- tor Maynard: • Providing in one place information about current programs of The Method- ist Church. • Telling church leaders what resources are available to them through Method- ism's boards and agencies. • Describing effective local-church ac- tivities. • Showing what Methodists accomplish through World Service and other be- nevolence funds. Methodism's newest magazine took form eight months ago when General Conference mapped a streamlined church-publishing program that more sharply defines specific areas of reader interest. The new monthly family magazine, Together, serves Methodists of all Major responsibility for The Methodist Story, the church's newest magazine, ages. Pastors now have their own falls on these men: Dr. E. Harold Mohn (left), publisher and general secretary of professional journal—the digest-sized the Commission on Promotion and Cultivation, and Edwin H. Maynard, editor. monthly, The New Christian Advo- cate. Scholars and theologians have Religion in Life. Other church publications serving followed with graduate-study programs chairmen of the local-church commis- specific fields of interest (exclusive of church schools) in public administration (1958), and sions on missions, education, member- are The Methodist World Outloo\ (missions), social work (1959), and later schools of ship and evangelism, and stewardship Woman, medicine, business administration, the- and finance.) Motive (college students), Concern ology, law, agriculture, and engineer- Authors in volume one, number one, (young people), The Methodist hay- ing. included James A. Hamilton, head of man (men), Mature Years, (older Three Methodist leaders will attend the Board of Temperance legal depart- people), and Christian Home (edu- the commencement, representing the ment, who writes on alcohol legislation cational-family). church: The Rev. Thoburn T. Braum- before Congress, and Bishop William Until General Conference, five maga- baugh, Board of Missions secretary for T. Watkins, Louisville, Ky., who sets zines did the job it assigned to The Korea, Japan, and Okinawa; Bishop forth the objectives of Christian higher Methodist Story. They were Church Richard C. Raines, president of the Di- education. The contents also contained and Campus, The Pastor's Journal, vision of World Missions; and Miss regular departments like "It Worked Shepherds, The Story, and The Voice. Margaret Billingsley, executive secretary for Us"—a reader report on successful for Japan and Korea, Woman's Division local-church projects, "Just Out"— of Christian Service. description of new agency publications and short information. NEW MAGAZINE Editor of The Methodist Story is Edwin H. Maynard, former news 7o Help Methodist Leaders editor of Together and The New Christian Advocate. Darrell R. 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