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Wesley takes Aldersgate to the people (stained-glass window at First Methodist Church, Ansonia, Connecticut). ^^-^-^^^FW! It Happened

The Man . . . John Wesley, founder of worldwide Methodism, was born in 1703 at Epworth Rectory near England's fog- gy east coast. Till he was 35, the career of this scholarly little clergyman (he stood five feet four) was not notable. Change came suddenly— and henceforth, says a biographer, "He enjoyed the profoundest tranquility whilst creating around him the most intense excitement." At 87 he died. His tomb at City Road Chapel, London, records that he was in zeal, min- isterial labours, and extensive usefulness, superior, perhaps, to all men since the days of St. Paul. This likeness by Romney is in the Phil- adelphia Museum of Art.

The Time and Place . . . The 18th century was not England's most glori- ous era. Americans remember it as a time when injustice and arrogance of the motherland touched off a tea party in Boston harbor and a revolution. Even British historians are caustically critical of what went on in their islands. Thomas Carlyle, for example, summed up his opinion of England as "soul extinct, stomach well alive." John Richard Green, historian of the

English people, wrote of "a revolt against religion and churches . . . new political and material channels opened to human energy were producing a

new indifference . . . Purity and fidelity to marriage were out of fashion."

Now, Wednesday, May 24, 1738 . . . Unlike so many of his more comfortable countrymen. John Wesley was sorely troubled about his owr

soul. Back in London, he had sad memories ol two years as a missionary to settlers and Indi ans in Georgia. He had left especially wretchec because he had not realized his love for a gir till she had wed another. Most of all, he waf troubled about his own inadequate faith whicl was "in the head and not in the heart." At 4 a.m. that day, he rose as usual for praye and study. That afternoon, at St. Paul'

Cathedral, an anthem caught his mood . . .

Out of the deep have I called unto thee, O Lord! Lord, hear my voice. let thine ears consider wet the voice of my complaint.

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The Event . . . "In the evening," John Wesley wrote, "I went very unwill- ingly to a society in Aldersgate Street." Some unnamed person was reading from Martin Luther's notes on Paul's Epistle to the Romans when, "about a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, / felt my heart strangely warmed." To Wesley came a flood of confidence and trust in Christ for his salvation. Many painters have put on canvas numerous incidents in Wesley's life, but apparently only a forgotten woodcut artist had pictured the Aldersgate

moment (above) till Together challenged Jack White, Methodist layman and an artist distinguished for character portrayal, to depict Wesley's heart- warming experience. His reverent study on pages 40-41 highlights this issue.

The Ongoing Results . . . Psychologists and theologians still discuss factors that led Wesley to his Aldersgate experience. But historian W. E. H. Lecky, mindful of how Methodist fervor lifted Britain's morals and morale, asserts "the scene which took place at that humble meeting in Aldersgate Street forms an epoch in English history." He could have written the same for America. By 1784, the Revolution had cut transatlantic state-ecclesiastical ties. The founder of Methodism, acknowledging the "logic of events" and "the very uncommon train of providences," gave his reluctant nod to American Methodists to organize as a church. Today, there are 43 units in the World Methodist Council which represent a community of some 42 million persons.

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Background: In only 6 of the last 21 years has membership in The Methodist Church kept pace with the nation's population growth, according to the de- partment of research and statistics of the Methodist Council on World Service and Finance. The per- centage of Methodists in the total U.S. population also has declined steadily each year but one since 1950. [See chart below.] Are We Methodists Dr. Earl D. C. Brewer of Candler School of Theol- ogy, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., an authority on Growing Fast Enough? town and country Methodism, says: "Because of continued population growth, Meth- The News: Methodism's current emphasis upon odism can show substantial net increases in member- revived spiritual life will reach its high point of the ship while suffering a decline in the percentage of year on Friday, May 24—the 225th anniversary of that population in church membership. If such trends John Wesley's heartwarming experience at Aldersgate. continue long enough, it is obvious that net losses in

Church leaders are hopeful it will stall, even re- membership will eventually replace net gains." verse, an alarming membership trend which has seen An example of this can be seen in one of Method- Methodism's growth lag behind the United States' ism's 100 annual conferences which reported that exploding population rate. [See Methodism's 'Empha- during the 1961-62 conference year it received more sis' to Be 'The Warmed Heart,' January, page 3, and than 22,000 members but removed some 20,000 from Laymen Call on Unchurched in Nationwide Visitation, its rolls for various reasons and wound up with a net March, page 3.] gain of only 2,000 members. It took 173 Methodists Methodists also will be observing Ministry Sunday to gain one new member. on May 19 to emphasize the need for recruiting at Methodism has had its ups and downs in member- least 1,200 new ministers to meet the demands of the ship gains over the years. Dr. Brewer reports there immediate future for churches to serve new areas. have been four periods when membership grew less

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rapidly than the population. These 62, but the number of seminary grad- civilization by greatly reducing the in- were 1860-1870 (the Civil War era); uates has ranged from 594 to 680 a centive to give." 1900-1910 (a period of heavy Roman year. For 1962 it was 677. Catholic immigration from Europe); Methodist Bishop Oxnam Dies 1930-1940 (the depression years), and Significance: The Aldersgate em- Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, 71, a 1950 to the present. phasis of 1963 will draw attention of retired bishop of The Methodist However, Methodism has not been the General Conference of 1964 to the Church, died March 12 as a result of alone in experiencing a leveling or fact that Methodism is not keeping up complications following a mid-Decem- downward trend. The 1963 Yearbook with population growth. Methodist ber operation. of American Churches reveals that for leaders have been fully aware of these He had been bishop of four Method- the first time in 17 years, church mem- trends, and action to reverse them may ist areas—Omaha, Boston, New York, bership percentage gains in the U.S. be expected. and Washington, have fallen below the estimated popula- At the 1960 General Conference, the D.C., where he tion increase. Church membership Episcopal Address mentioned that in retired in 1960 for gains were listed as 1.4 percent in 1961 1960 there were more than 66 million reasons of health. compared with an estimated increase of people in the U.S. having no active Prior to his elec- 1.6 percent in the nation's population. affiliation with any church or syna- tion as bishop in Membership in the nation's churches gogue. 1936, he was presi- and synagogues represented 63.4 per- "On the basis of our proportion ol dent of Methodist- cent of the population as against 63.6 the current church membership, nearly related DePauw percent year earlier. six million of these people are our a University, Green- responsibility," the address said. "It is castle, Ind. Why the Sag? Church leaders have predicted that there will be a popula- Bishop Oxnam, these factors as important influ- tion increase of 3i million during the cited Bishop Oxnam a native of Sonora, ences: next 10 years. On the same basis, three Calif., was or- • rising million of these The growth of secularism, people should be at dained a minister in 1916. nationalism, dissatisfaction our doors." tide of and He served as president of the with denominational divisions. Federal Council of Churches—fore- find mean- • Failure of churches to Methodist Council Opposes runner of the National Council of ingful forms of evangelism. Tax Revision on Donations Churches—in 1944-46 and co-president • to penetrate Failure of churches of the World Council of Churches in The executive committee of the the hard shell of materialism. 1948. Methodist Council on World Service • Mobility of the U.S. population, In 1953, he appeared at his own, and Finance has gone on record in causing some families to lose church request before the House Un-American opposition to the Kennedy administra- contact in moving. [See Americans Al- Activities Committee and was cleared, tion's proposed tax revision affecting ways on the Go: Who? Where? Why? completely of charges of communist! deductions for charitable contributions. November, 1961, page 14.] affiliation. "Highly detrimental" were the words Surviving Bishop Oxnam are his used by the council in describing the Operation Lost Sheep: It is said widow, two sons, a daughter, and effect that the revision would have on that 400,000 Methodists are lost to the eight grandchildren. churches, universities and colleges, church each year because they fail to hospitals, and homes. make contact with Methodist churches The council commended the revision Publishing Executive Dies in new communities to which they for "reduction in income-tax rates," but Pat Beaird, 63, executive vice-presi- move. TocKTHiiu's Family Plan sub- said the section on charitable deductions dent of The Methodist Publishing scription program includes Operation would "seriously affect our American House since 1956, died March 17 in a« Lost Sheep, a service which helps keep Nashville, Tenn., hospital. track of such traveling Methodists. For more than 40 years Mr. Beaird When TociiTHER receives a change of TOGETHER May, 1963 been associated with the Methodist Vol. VII, 5. Copyright The had address notice, its electronic machines No. © 1963 by Methodist Publishing House. book publishing business. He joined process the information and within five Editorial and Advertising Offices: Box 423, the Publishing House staff in 1922. days a card is on its way to the pastor Park Ridge, III. (Telephone 299-4411). I le provided leadership and guidance in the community where each moving Business and Subscription Offices: 201 in the publication of The Interpreter'^ Methodist makes his new home. 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to create programs and films which have Methodists receiving awards-—Arch X. constructive effect and Christian in- Booth of Washington, D.C., and John fluence on the general public." Mr. C. Satterheld of Yazoo City, Miss. The White will supervise the agency's mo- Methodist ministers honored were Dr.

tion-picture production there. Carl J. Sanders of Richmond, Va., the Rev. Charles M. Crowe of Wilmette, Freedoms Foundation Cites 111., Dr. E. Pearce Hays of New York Together, Eight Methodists City, Dr. Walter K. Kerr of Tyler, Texas, the Rev. James Roy Smith of The Freedoms Foundation in its 14th Arlington, Va., and Dr. Frederick year of national awards honored eight Brown Harris, chaplain ot the U.S. Methodists, Together, and Goodwill Senate. Industries with presentations for 1962. Together received an Americana Train Award honor medal for its June 13 Overseas Ministers A college-emphasis issue involving stu- Thirteen Methodist ministers from LIVING dents, parents, and church "in a cam- Asia, Africa, and Latin America are in paign to stimulate college attendance on training at Drew University s Theologi- MEMORU a well-planned basis." cal School in Madison, N.J. They are Goodwill Industries of America, Inc., in the United States for 10 months of FOR received an honor medal for its 1962 study and field work in American program of "rebuilding the skills, con- churches. YOUR fidence, and usefulness of some of For the third time, the overseas '•; America's physically and emotionally pastors training program of the Division LOVED handicapped." of World Missions, Methodist Board Two laymen were amonti the eight of Missions, has brought leading minis- ONE, AND 7ftet&odiat& i«t t&e Ttetva YOUR Truman W. Collins has been Greater Los Angeles. Also, he has been named First Citizen of the Year for given the newly created For God and CHURCH 1962 in Portland, Oreg., by the Port- Country Award and the Silver Beaver land Board of Realtors. from the Los Angeles Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

Miss Margaret J. Gilkey of Coral Gables, Fla., is the new chairman of Mrs. Irene Windecker Alonso of the Defense Advisory Committee on Sao Paulo, Brazil, was presented the Dis- Women in the Services. tinguished Citizenship Award at Meth- odist-related Ohio Wesleyan University Robert Jeffrey Caswell. 18, Meth- Charter Dav Convocation at Delaware. odist theology student of Dickinson. Ohio. Texas, has been named Young Texan of the Year and recipient of the Trov The Rev. William E. Stone of New V. Post Award for 1963. Milford, Conn., has been honored by the International Reform Federation Dr. William E. Kerstetter has of Washington. D.C., for 50 years of been president continual support. \ elected of Methodist- related DePauw University, Green-

i castle, Ind. Peter W. Kotilainen of Millbury, Mass.; Glenn F. Bender of Niles, WESTW00D BEVEKIH BYRD Bishop Marshall R. Reed of Ohio; Ray Jones of Pueblo, Colo.: IHUCIH Detroit, Mich., has been by Richard C. Parsons of Garland, n\ named HAB8Y H Michigan Gov. George Romney as a Texas; and Frank R. Bush, Jr., of member of an advisory panel on ethical Palo Alto, Calif., were among the 12 and moral questions in state affairs. Boy Scouts and Explorers who pre- I' sented their organization's report to Memorial Bells by Schulmerich® a Bishop Arthur J. Moore (retired) President Kennedy. stirring and lasting tribute to your of Atlanta, Ga., has received the loved one. A unique and wonderful Georgia for Distinguished L. Jackson, Medal Public Mrs. Martin Harvey of gift for your church. Schulmerich Service from the Associated Industries Miss., and Joseph E. Wroten of Bells are the finest vou can give . . . of Georgia. He was appointed recently Greenville, Miss., were honored by the accepted as the standard of the world. as interim pastor of St. Mark Church Methodist Board of Christian Social There is one to fit every church — in Atlanta. Concerns for their activities in brother- grand or small. hood and other Christian concerns. Schulmerich Bells are a gratifying Edgar O. Mansfield of Columbus, gift to give in your own lifetime, in Ohio, has been named president-elect Miss Janice M. Paton of Warwick, your own name. Appropriate plaque if you wish. Write for information of the American Protestant Hospital R.I., is the first woman to be elected to and brochure. Association. the national board of the Young Men's Christian Assoociation. SCHULMERICH Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los CARILLONS, INC. Angeles, Calif., received the Judge Gene Cowles is the new public 3153 Carillon Hill • Sellersville, Pa. Harry Hollzer Memorial Award from relations director of Methodist-related World's Most Honored Same in Carillons, Bells, Chimes. the Jewish Federation-Council ol Pacific Homes, Los Angeles, Calif. *Tradcmark r>f Schulmerich Carillons Inc.

|May 1963\Together ters from Methodist and Methodist- A NEW CONCEPT IN RETIREMENT LIVING related churches overseas. When classroom study ends June 5, each minister will be assigned to an Your Happiest Years American Methodist church as an asso- ciate pastor. There he will work for six Are Ahead At months and share in all phases of the church's ministry. The Rev. Theodore Runyan, the division's associate director for research, said there are no more overseas minis- ters available for U.S. churches.

Need to Train More Laymen; Cuban Family Life Suffers Protestant churches should step up the training of laymen, particularly in the misssion field, Dr. Tracey K. Jones,

Jr., told the annual meeting of the Methodist Board of Missions. He said that this was indicated because laymen have had to assume much of the leader- ship of the church in China and Cuba since the communist take-over. 120 apartment resi- The Western style Dr. Jones, associate general secretary dence is located on an elevation with- in the city of Bozeman, Montana, over- of the board's Division of World Mis- looking the city and valley, with a four- way view of the mountains beyond. sions, said that Chinese and Cuban FOR COMPLETION SCHEDULED ministers and laymen agree that one of JULY 1st, 1963 the greatest mistakes of the precommu- nist days was the inadequate emphasis you'll have placed upon laymen's abilities and train- ing given to rank-and-file church mem- community activities FREEDOM You'll come and go as you please, plan your own days, join in — bers. when you wish to. accommodations and SECURITY—You'll look to the future without worry, because your living In the meantime, Dr. Harold R. all arranged for. care are Hodgson, director of the Methodist INTERESTING ACTIVITIES—Worship, reading, discussion groups, singing, drama, fishing golf gardening, ceramics, carpentry, weaving and painting are only some of the activities planned refugee center in Miami, Fla., said that entertainment. for residents. One half of the building area is given to community activity and refugees in the United States vacationland, with Cuban A VACATIONLAND AROUND YOU— Hillcrcst is in the heart of America's trout streams and mountain studded national forests and parks around it. need to be reunited with members of private apartment or cottage with private PRIVACY—Each resident or man and wife will have a their families still in Cuba. bath. The heating and intercom systems are individually controlled. Dr. Hodgson emphasized at a meet- COMPANIONSHIP—You can always be in touch with other residents who are interested in you always con- and the things that interest you. Also, the Hillcrest staff will be at your service, ing of the Methodist Committee for cerned for your comfort. Overseas Relief, "Unless reunions are NO BOTHER—You won't have to worry any more about such things as property taxes, heating, fire insurance and repairs. quickly facilitated, the social conse- FINE MEALS Three meals a day are prepared, under professional supervision, and served in — quences will be divorce, suffering of the dining hall and cafeteria. There is a wide selection of food, and special diets can be pre- pared for those requiring them. orphaned children, prostitution through CONVENIENCE Almost anything you desire can be obtained right at Hillcrest. Transportation — economic compulsion, and heartbroken will be provided, however, for those who want to shop downtown or go to outside activities. Carages are available to residents with their own cars. people." ACCOMMODATIONS FOR VISITORS—You may entertain your family and friends in your own apartment, in the lounge areas, and in the family-sized dining rooms. Apartments will be avail- able for your overnight guests. HEALTH PROTECTION WHEN NEEDED— If illness should come, you won't need to worry about mounting expenses or about being sent off to a nursing home. A registered nurse will always be CENTURY CLUB on call, and special care will be given in Hillcrest's own health center, located in a separate wing. Five more Methodists who have had 100 or more birthdays OPERATED BY THE METHODIST CHURCH- join the Century Club of OPEN TO ALL FAITHS Together this month. They are:

Mrs. Emily Burke Conklin, 103, Mail to C. V. Henderson, Director Hillcrest Homes Whittier, Calif. 1201 Highland Blvd. Mrs. Evelyn L. Broadbent, 102, Bozeman, Montana Willmar, M' nn - Name Age William C. Beckett, 101, Pitts- Address burgh, Pa. Mrs. Emily Radabaugh, 100, Please send me additional information on the HILLCREST retirement community. I am par- Masontown, W.Va. ticularly interested in: Mrs. Emma W. Hunt, 100, Apartment plans and for cost lifetime occupancy Sioux City, Iowa.

Lifetime care for one lump sum payment based on my life expectancy (state age and sex) ESTATE PLANNING— Names of other Methodist cen- A LIFE CARE financial program can be yours plus an annuity if desired. This life care tenarians will be listed as they are program can be coordinated with your estate planning in such a way that the financial savings to your heirs can pay for part or all of your care for life at Hillcrest. A detailed received. When sending nomina- financial program can be outlined if the following information is furnished: tions, please give address, birth Age Sex Amt. of Estate Annual earnings from pensions, annuities, and social security (not investments) date, and church where nominee Other has membership.

10 Together /May 1963 J Little Lessons in Spiritual Efficiency Number 738

The HOLY SPIRIT Has a

iiE WAS a more or less famous scholar, and thing. Arguments in its behalf come forward

it was evident that he had made an extended in our minds unbidden. Reasons supporting it study of the great world religions. He was seem to come unannounced from everywhere. familiar with their vocabularies; he could explain Where do they come from? We are unable their doctrines and name their honored teachers. to claim any originality for them. But there they His lecture had been announced as "a study are, and we cannot dismiss them. We do not in comparative religions," but as he proceeded judge them; they judge us. To the experienced with his analyses of the various faiths, comparing Christian, the answer is simple. We have been them with Christianity, I became aware that he dealing with the Holy Spirit of the living God! was omitting the central fact of all Christian There are other occasions when we have suc- experience—the activity of the Holy Spirit. cumbed to a temptation and belied our own He compared the Christian concept of God honor. No one saw us dishonor ourselves and with that of the Buddhist, the Shintoist, the our sin has never become known, but inside Confucian, and the Hindu. He explained the our own souls we have suffered severely. different beliefs in immortality, morals, social Why? The psychologists call it a "guilt com- ethics, and human personality. He listed the plex." Why do persons suffer from a sense of various virtues and described the worship, the guilt? culture, and the literature of each form—but Again our Christian doctrine describes the nowhere did he even hint that Christianity, situation: the "Holy Spirit convicts us of sin." unique among religions, promises the personal That is to say, the Holy Spirit of God, having help of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the found easy access to our innermost thinking, believer's emergencies. holds our evil action up to the light, and we see Yet that doctrine lies at the very center of all ourselves for what we really are. truly Christian teaching. There is one added matter we must never It is true, of course, that this doctrine of the allow ourselves to forget. No man ever escapes Holy Spirit has given rise to some of the most the Holy Spirit! Even the most hardened con- absurd vagaries that have ever seduced the tinue to feel the Holy Spirit. They are persuaded, Christian church. As a consequence, literally pursued, entreated, reminded, and goaded millions of Christians look with suspicion akin without end. Evil persons may shut their hearts to fear on any consideration of the subject. Dr. and close their minds against honor, decency, Halford E. Luccock once said that "the queer and holiness, but they never escape the prod- have queered the Holy Spirit." And there are dings of the Holy Spirit. people, otherwise sensible, who have thought- On occasions almost without number, I have lessly discarded this most important teaching. seen men who were as hard as nails break down Toward the close of his public ministry, Jesus under the impact of some accidental remark, assured his friends that they would receive some offhand appeal, some simple searching power from the Holy Spirit. Later he assured sermon that went directly to the center of their them they would not be left alone when he died, lives, because the Holy Spirit guided me when for he would "send" the Holy Spirit. All Chris- I took aim at them.

tians believe there is some kind of "presence" in There is no hour in any day when we live this world. To this the understanding Christian entirely alone. We make no decisions without gives the name of "the Holy Spirit." taking the Holy Spirit into consideration, even

It is our distinctive teaching that the Holy though we do not realize he is present. His ap- Spirit is "that part of God which enters in upon proval, and his disapproval, is the most common

the life of the believer." That there is a mystery experience of our life.

here must be admitted. It is a mystery to be "Something tells me," is the way we some- experienced, not to be explained. times describe the experience. When that "tell- In many situations there seems to be one course ing" is perfectly plain, then simple and complete

to follow that is "better." It may be hard, it may obedience is the one sensible response. To sin

be strange, and it may be dangerous, but it ap- against the Holy Spirit is always fatal, for it is pears to be right. Something urges us to do that a sin against one's best self. —Roy L. Smith M y ARHOLD TOYNBEE

Renowned British Historian

WvITHIN the last 50 years, the United States' position and outlook have ceased to be just the private concern of the people of the United States and have become one of the major public concerns of the human race. This has been an awkward change for both the United States and the

\ world. It is unpleasant to lose one's

privacy; it is also unpleasant to lose one's independence and to find one's fate hanging on other people's deci- sions, and no longer just on one's own. Americans would have depicted the United States in 1913 as being a Promised Land for wanderers in the European wilderness. Here was a country in which former Europeans could make a new start with a fairer prospect. By crossing the Atlantic, they could jump clean of the old evils of Europe. They could escape from Europe's inveterate follies and crimes; the senseless European international power game; the burden of competi- tive armaments and the bloody and destructive wars which this power game made inevitable; the political oppression of subject nationalities and of liberal movements by reac- tionary-minded forces; the economic oppression of tenants by landlords and of workers by employers. Here was a country where every man was his own master. Yet here were witnesses who would have given a different report:

—cJ ew Dimensions for America

. . . in the pattern of Christian outreach set by religious colonists. for instance, the survivors of the a missionary religion; and, like them, rest of us, and who had the faith,

American Indians, the grandchildren it is this intrinsically, by virtue of its courage, and spiritual insight. They of the Mexicans of the generation of fundamental beliefs and ideals. Chris- were led to this act of self-sacrifice 1846, and the tardily emancipated tianity's worldwide mission, like by their religion, and they dedicated descendants of the Negro plantation theirs, is part of the religion's essence; their lives to it. slaves. The war that the United and therefore it is ultimately incom- Christianity's recognition of the

States made on Mexico and the patible with sectionalism on any level brotherhood of all men is a warning sweeping annexations that followed —spiritual, political, or economic. that a sectional earthly paradise is it were a classical example of im- The 19th century saw the emer- an unsatisfying spiritual idea. There perialism. The War Between the gence of a small band of Americans were more prosaic warnings that it States was the greatest and most who were Christians before every- was also not going to be a practicable bloody war of any in the 19th cen- thing else, and who, therefore, objective. tury anywhere. crossed the Atlantic to preach Chris- At about the time when Bleriot

The sad truth is that the Europeans tianity in the Old World. At the flew across the English Channel in a who had colonized the Americas had time, these 19th century American mechanically propelled heavier-than- brought Europe's evils with them to missionaries did not attract much at- air conveyance, Rutherford was al- the New World, and this is not sur- tention. To friendly American eyes, ready at work on exploring the prising. An Atlantic voyage—even their deliberate rejections of economic structure of the atom. These were a slow and painful one in a small opportunities at home seemed dis- the first steps toward the forging ship—is not a cure for original sin. interested, no doubt, but quixotic. of the annihilating intercontinental One of the things that the To unfriendly eyes, their conduct weapons that our governments now European colonists in the New may have seemed un-American. To hold in their hands. World brought with them from the remigrate from the American earthly By the same date, a change was Old World was their previous re- paradise to the Old World wilderness taking place in the balance of power ligion; and they would have been came near to being an act of treason in Europe, and this change was go- horrified if it had been suggested to against the Promised Land—just as ing to make the United States' tradi- them that they must make a break a whale might seem to an elephant to tional foreign policy of avoiding en- with that if they were in earnest be a traitor to the order of Mammalia tanglements in Europe no longer about their program of making a for having slithered back off the adequate as a means for keeping the new start in life on new ground. good dry land into the primordial U.S. secure in her own hemisphere. Indeed, the motive that led some of ocean. The threat to the United States the most notable of them to pull up Viewed in retrospect today, the from Germany in both World Wars their roots in Europe and to cross the 19th-century American missionary was serious. Yet, as far as I can make Atlantic was a wish to remain faith- movement looks a good deal more out, the American people did not ful to their European religion with- significant. It looks like a premoni- take this serious German danger out any longer being penalized on tion, through religious faith, of a very much to heart—not even after this account, as they had been truth that the present generation in they had found themselves compelled penalized at home. the United States has been learning, twice over to go to war with Ger-

However, down deep, there is a with pain and grief, through harsh many in order to prevent her from contradiction between the ideal of experience. This truth is that our subjugating the world, including the Americanism and the ideal of Chris- social obligations to our fellow United States herself. tianity on the question of what one's human beings have no limits short If, since the end of the Second relation with one's neighbor ought of embracing the entire human race. World War, the American people to be. Mankind is a single family with a had not taken the Russian threat to

One of the aspirations of Ameri- single destiny, for weal or for woe. the United States seriously either, I canism was to insulate America from In the Atomic Age, which mankind should have concluded that Ameri- the rest of the world in order to turn has entered in our lifetime and in can minds had been so conditioned America into a local earthly paradise which our descendants will have to by the international security that the whose citizens should be "not as live so long as the human race lasts, United States had enjoyed from 1783 other men are." One of the aspira- a recognition of the human race's to 1916, that it had almost become tions of Christianity, on the other solidarity is one of the necessary con- a psychological impossibility for hand, is to "preach the Gospel to ditions for the race's survival. All American minds to entertain the idea

every creature," including all the honor to those 19th-century Ameri- that their country's security might publicans, harlots, and sinners. Chris- can missionaries who recognized this really be threatened.

tianity, like Islam and Buddhism, is truth so far in advance of most of the This theory, however, is ruled out '

by the sensitiveness and the vehe- after the First World War was self, she gave the exhausted and im-

mence of the present American re- equaled by the irony of it. For the poverished European peoples the action to the Russian threat. This steps taken by the United States pro- means of recuperating. The Marshall makes the previous American com- duced exactly the opposite results Plan is the cause of Western Europe's placency about the former German from those at which she was aiming. present prosperity; and Eastern threat rather mysterious. For, in The Nazis, on their side, correctly Europe could have been proportion- each of the two World Wars, the interpreted these interwar American ately prosperous today if Russia had

German danger was, I should judge, actions as being evidence that the not prevented the East European much greater than the Russian American people were determined states that were under her domina- danger is —or, at any rate, than it not to go to war with Germany tion from accepting an American has been so far. The Germans are a again; but the Nazis shared the offer extended to them as well. great deal more efficient than the American illusion that the United American aid stimulated the West

Russians are; and, therefore, when States would actually find herself European peoples that received it the German people dedicate their able to do what she wished. to co-operate with each other for

skills and efficiency to the causes of Both the Nazis and the Americans using it to the greatest common war and conquest, the danger for the seemed to have overlooked the truth advantage. I believe the temporary

rest of the world is extreme. that even the most pacific-minded European organization for imple- people will go to war if and when menting the Marshall Plan was the

it finds itself confronted with a germ of the permanent European

I F IT is a fact that the American choice between going to war and union that is now coming into

people did not take the German losing its independence. existence. danger seriously in either World If the American people had fore- The American people have, in

War, it is one that has had unfortu- seen this from the start, perhaps they fact, recognized and accepted the nate consequences for the United would have joined the League of truth that, for the United States, the

States and for the world. Nations after the First World War age of isolation now is over. This The United States refused to join and have made military alliances, of change in the American people's out- the League of Nations, which had the NATO type, with the West look corresponds accurately to the been founded largely on the initiative European powers instead of enacting change in their position in the world.

of the President of the United States. the neutrality legislation. If the Nazis It is the most epoch-making event in She throttled the flow of European had realized the same truth, perhaps the history of the United States since immigration by passing the immigra- Hitler would have refrained from the achievement of independence. tion restriction acts in 1921 and 1924. going to war. Obviously, the United States' ac-

She tried to collect her war debts Since 1946, the United States has tion since the Second World War is from those European countries that thrown her time-honored traditional not beyond criticism. No human

had been her wartime associates. And policy of nonentanglement to the action ever is. But, at least, the then, when the coming Second winds, and has adopted a new policy American people have taken note of

World War loomed up, the U.S. which is the exact opposite. In the previous mistakes and taken care not enacted the neutrality legislation. past, the United States sought to to repeat them. Such self-criticism

These interwar American acts were avoid clashes with other powers by and self-correction is all too rare in

all disastrous for Europe. I have often drawing in her horns and withdraw- human affairs. When it is achieved,

thought, since, of the number of ing into her shell. Since 1946 it has it is a sign of spiritual strength and

young Europeans who, in the inter- been the United States who has been maturity, and it gives promise of war period, might have become good anxious to gain and keep allies. future success.

American citizens if they had been Where once the American people given the same chance as their pre- believed that the international power I war predecessors. game was a crime and a folly that J_ O BE thus reinvolved in the inter- Numbers of young Germans failed was peculiar to the depraved nations national power game is, of course, a to get in on the quota and felt frus- of the Old World, today the United terrible plight to be in. It is doubly

trated. Perhaps Hitler would never States is playing this very power terrible when it is a disappointment

have come into power if he had not game herself, on a worldwide scale. of long-standing previous hopes and had, ready to hand, a host of these During the Second World War, expectations. In such circumstances,

frustrated and therefore restless and lend-lease was substituted for repay- it is only human that Americans bitter young Germans for him to use able loans to the United States asso- should sometimes look back wistfully for his evil purpose. ciates. After this war, when Euiope's to isolation. Perhaps Mussolini would not have economic life was at a lower ebb The price of being privileged,

come into power either. I remember than after the first war, the United however, is to be lonely and unloved; how, passing through Rome at the States did not again leave this and this is too high a price to pay

end of 1920, I was disturbed at the European wasteland to produce for anything. Privileged persons or sight of swarms of demobilized but another crop of noxious political nations cannot even love or admire unemployed Italian soldiers lounging weeds like fascism and nazism. She themselves. At any rate, they cannot about in the uniform of the so-called launched the Marshall Plan. do that with any conviction if their Guardia Regia. At her own expense, without ask- ancestral religion is Christianity. The tragedy of what happened ing for any economic return for her- What Christ stands for is God's de-

M ^.i—j —

s=vt fi ') mclhodlsi Europa liberate renunciation of his privileged aloofness, for a voluntary participa- tion in the suffering that is the crea- Announcing: tion's common lot. If Christianity means anything to us, it means that Methodist Europa we must try to follow this example as best we can. Like the American missionaries MANY Methodists were among the in the 19th century, the whole American missionaries of the 19th century American people in our postwar age whose early recognition of humanity's has deliberately stepped out of its oneness is praised by Historian Toynbee. transatlantic earthly paradise and has Methodism, born in England, reached re-entered the Old World. But there fullest flower in America. But it blos- somed anew when transplanted back is a difference in the objectives. The across the Atlantic to Europe. Immigrants missionaries re-entered the Old converted in the USA took Methodism World in order to propagate Chris- home to relatives and friends in Scandi- tianity there. The present generation navia, Germany, Italy, and it soon spread of Americans has re-entered it in to other nations of the Continent. The vigor of Methodism today in many order to check the propagation of unexpected parts of Europe is testimony of these missionary efforts. communism there. Recognizing the interest in America of European Methodism, Together The communist regime in Russia has prepared Methodist Europa—eight full-color pages of pictorial maps in the issue. is unquestionably oppressive and June For those planning overseas travel, Methodist Europa is a concise, easy-to-carry guide to almost 100 places of tyrannical, but this is not all that Methodist and Protestant interest. Armchair travelers, too, will enjoy this unique gathering of information—the there is to be said about it —as it was overseas counterpart of Together's Methodist Americana Map [November, all that there was to be said about 1959, page 61] which many readers continue to find a valuable guide to the nazi regime in Germany. Com- Methodist landmarks in the United States. Your Editors. munism is a tyranny that stands, paradoxically, for economic and social justice as against vested in- terests. Its performance evidently falls very short of its principles; indeed, it sometimes seems positive- about the communist and anti-com- the world, the total amount of change ly to belie them. munist ideologies, and perhaps cares is staggering. In this flux, is there

Yet these principles remain in- less about the little that it does know. a guide line to which we can hold? scribed on communism's flag; and But it cares immensely about the The thing about the United States they are potent because they express social justice for which communism that had struck imaginations and the aspirations of the huge depressed professes to stand. won hearts was the American majority of the human race. This When we, the rich minority, are people's generosity. Here was a peo- majority cares for equality more than opposing communism, we ought, all ple that had crossed the ocean to it cares for liberty; its objectives are the time, to be searching our hearts. carve a new world out of the wilder- economic realities, not political ab- We must remind ourselves of the ness; and when, by the pioneers' hard stractions. It wants the bare necessi- repeated warnings of the Gospels, labor, the wilderness had been trans-

ties of life, because it lacks even these. about the snares in the path of the formed into an earthly paradise, the In the eyes of the poverty-stricken rich, and about the special difficulties people who had created this paradise

mass of mankind, the enemy is the in the way of their finding salvation. did not try to fence it in as a closed vested interests of the rich minority. If we ever catch ourselves opposing preserve for themselves. They had

And this brings us to the difficulty communism, not in defense of its thrown it open for other needy in which an undiscriminating op- victims, but in defense of our own Europeans to come and share. ponent of communism finds himself. vested interest in the preservation of This American generosity is char- In opposing communism intransi- our own wealth, we ought to take acteristic of the American spirit.

gently, it is difficult to draw a line that as a danger signal and draw back. Anyway, it is a golden thread that

between opposing its tyranny and Is our island of prosperity in the keeps on shining out in lengthening

oppressiveness and opposing all its West to be a Promised Land for skeins of America's destiny. It shone

works and all its principles alike. It the poverty-stricken majority of man- out in Marshall aid to Europe; it is

is, therefore, difficult to avoid slip- kind? Or is it to be a privileged shining out again in the aid that the ping into the position of opposing minority's closely guarded preserve? American people are giving today to economic and social justice and Whatever the true answer may turn Asia, Latin America, and Africa.

championing vested interests. out to be, it will be decisive for the Here is something in American life Anyone, however, who does slip future of the United States and the that has suffered no change within into this position may find that, West, and the world. the last 50 years. without intending to, he has alienated When one adds these changes, Here lies the hope for the future the poverty-stricken majority of within the last half century, in the of the United States, and therefore, mankind. This mankind knows little United States' relation to the rest of also for the future of the world. M "

A biblical parable comes to life when a cobbler discovers that . . .

Where Love Is,

There GOD Is Also

fly LEO TOLSTOY

IN A CERTAIN town there lived fearing man," he said. "I only wish a shoemaker named Martin Av- to die. That is all I ask of God. I am deitch. He lived in a basement room a lonely, hopeless man." which possessed but one window. "You should not speak like that, This window looked onto the street, Martin," replied the old pilgrim. "It and through it a glimpse could be is not for us to judge the acts of caught of the passersby. It is true God. We must rely, not upon our I that only their legs could be seen, own understanding, but upon the but that did not matter to Martin, Divine wisdom." who could recognize people by their "For what, then, should I live?" boots alone. He had lived there for asked Martin. a long time, and so had many ac- "For God alone," replied the old quaintances. There were very few man. "It is he who gave you life, and pairs of boots in the neighborhood therefore it is he for whom you which had not passed through his should live." been reading late. He had been read- silent. he spoke hands at least once, if not twice. He Martin was Then ing those verses in the sixth chapter I was given plenty of custom, for his again. of the Gospel of St. Luke which run: work he did well, his materials were "But how am I to live for God?" "And unto him that smiteth thee good, his prices moderate, and his he asked. on the one cheek offer also the other; ( word to be depended on. "Christ has shown us the way," and him that taketh away thy cloak His wife had died while he was answered the old man. "Can you forbid not to take thy coat also. Give still an apprentice, leaving behind read? If so, buy a Testament and to every man that asketh of thee; her a little boy of three. This was study it. You will learn there how and of him that taketh away thy their only child, indeed, for the two to live for God. Yes, it is all shown goods ask them not again. And as elder ones had died previously. you there." ye would that men should do to you, But God had not seen fit to give He went out the same day, bought do ye also to them likewise." Avdeitch happiness in his children. a large-print copy of the New Testa- Avdeitch read these words, and

The little boy was just growing up ment, and set himself to read it. felt greatly cheered in soul. and beginning to help his father and Thus he came to read it every Thus he kept on meditating, to be a pleasure to him, when he evening and the more he read, the though conscious that it was time for fell ill, was put to bed, and died after more clearly did he understand what bed; yet he was loath to tear him- a week's fever. God required of him, and in what self away from the book. He began Martin buried the little fellow and way he could live for God; so that to read the seventh chapter of St. was inconsolable. Indeed, he was so his heart grew lighter and lighter. Luke, where the rich Pharisee in- inconsolable that he began to mur- From that time onwards Avdeitch's vited lesus to his house, and the mur against God. life became completely changed. woman washed the Lord's feet with At last he ceased altogether to go Early in the morning he would her tears and he justified her. So he to church. sit down to his work, and labor came to the 44th verse and read: Then one day there came to see through his appointed hours. Then "And he [lesus] turned to the him an ancient peasant-pilgrim—one he would take the lamp down from woman, and said unto Simon, Seest who was now in the eighth year of the shelf, light it, and sit down to thou this woman? I entered into his pilgrimage. To him, Avdeitch read. And the more he read, the thine house, thou gavest me no water talked, and then went on to com- more he understood, and the clearer for my feet: but she hath washed « plain of his great sorrow. and happier he grew at heart. my feet with tears, and wiped them "I no longer wish to be a God- It happened once that Martin had with the hairs of her head." AMM — —

" 'Martin!' someone seemed to

breathe in his ear. He

started from his sleep . . . loo fed toward the door, but could see no one. Again he bent forward over the table."

and, leaning forward upon his from the chair, and rubbed his eyes.

elbows, he was asleep almost before He did not know whether it was

he was aware of it. dreaming or awake that he had "I am even as that Pharisee," he "Martin!" someone seemed to heard these words, but he turned out thought to himself. "I drink tea and breathe in his ear. the lamp and went to bed. think of my own needs. Yes, I think He started from his sleep. The next morning Avdeitch rose 3 " only of having plenty to eat and "Who is there he said. He turned before daylight and said his prayers. drink, of being warm and clean and looked toward the door, but He sat and worked hard, yet all but never of entertaining a guest. could see no one. Again he bent for- the time his thoughts were centered And Simon, too, was mindful only ward over the table. Then suddenly upon the night before. He was of of himself, although the guest who he heard the words: two minds about the vision. At one had come to visit him was—who? "Martin, Martin! Look thou into moment he would think that it must Why, even the Lord himself! If, the street tomorrow, for I am com- have been his fancy, while the next then, He should come to visit me, ing to visit thee." moment he would find himself con- should I receive him any better?" Martin roused himself, got up vinced that he had really heard the voice.

"Yes, it must have been so," he concluded. As Martin sat thus by the window,

READER'S CHOICE he kept looking out of it as much as working. The doorkeeper passed in We are apt to forget that Count Leo Tolstoy, new felt boots, and then a water author of War and Peace and Anna Karenfna, carrier. Next, an old soldier, a gave up his wealth and even the copyrights to his veteran of Nicholas' army, in old, novels in his later years to devote himself entirely patched boots and carrying a shovel to his search for the meaning and purpose of life. As a peasant in his hands, halted close by the he preached brotherly love as he worked in the fields and made window. Avdeitch knew him by his his own shoes—perhaps somewhat as the shoemaker in our story boots. His name was Stepanitch, searches for love in his desolate life. Miss Nanine S. Churchill and he was kept by a neighboring of Worcester, Mass., receives our sincere thanks and the $25 tradesman out of charity, his duties award for first nominating this month's selection. Condensed being to help the doorkeeper. from the book Master and Man and Other Parables and Tales Stepanitch began to clear away the by Leo Tolstoy. Everyman's Library Edition. Reprinted by per- snow from in front of Avdeitch's mission of E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. Editors. window, while the shoemaker looked —

at him and then resumed his work. Stepanitch had forgotten all about though it is the time for warm "He is evidently an old man now tea. He was an old man, and his clothes I had to pawn my last shawl and broken," thought Avdeitch to tears came easily. He sat and listened, yesterday for two grivenki." himself. "He is not strong enough with the tears rolling down his Then the woman returned to the to clear away snow. Would he like cheeks. bedstead to take her baby, while some tea, I wonder?" "I thank you, Martin Avdeitch," Avdeitch rose and went to the cup- he said. "You have taken me in, and board. There he rummaged about, fed both soul and body." and presently returned with an old A<.VDEITCH beckoned to him and "Nay, but I beg of you to come jacket. then went to open the door. again," replied Avdeitch. "I am only "Here," he said. "It is a poor old

"Come in and warm yourself," he too glad for a guest." thing, but it will serve to cover you." said. "You must be frozen." So Stepanitch departed, while The woman looked at the jacket "Christ requite you!" answered Martin poured out the last of the and then at the old man. Then she

Stepanitch. "Yes, my bones are al- tea and drank it. He stitched away, took the jacket and burst into tears. most cracking." yet kept looking through the "I thank you in Christ's name, Stepanitch drank his tumblerful, window—looking for Christ, as it good grandfather. Surely it was He turned the glass upside down, placed were—and ever thinking of Christ himself who sent me to your his crust upon it, and thanked his and his works. window. Otherwise I should have host kindly. Presently a woman in woolen seen my baby perish with the cold." "Are you expecting anyone?" stockings and rough country shoes asked his guest. approached the window, and halted

"Am—am I expecting anyone? near the buttress outside it. Avdeitch T.HEN HE told his guest, the Well, to tell the truth, yes. That is peered up at her from under the soldier's wife, of his vision and how to say I am, and I am not. The fact lintel of his window, and could see he had heard a voice foretelling that is that some words have got fixed that she was a plain-looking, poorly today the Lord himself would come in my memory. Whether it was a dressed woman and had a child in to visit him. vision or not I cannot tell, but at her arms. Avdeitch rose, went to the When she had gone, Avdeitch ate all events, my old friend, I was read- door, climbed the steps, and cried a little soup, washed up the crockery ing in the Gospels last night about out: "My good woman, my good again, and resumed his work. All Our Little Father, Christ, and how woman!" the time, though, he kept his eye he walked this earth and suffered. She heard him and turned around. upon the window, and as soon as

You have heard of him, have you "Why need you stand there in the ever a shadow fell across it, he would not?" cold with your baby?" he went on. look up, to see who was passing.

"Yes, yes, I have heard of him," "Come into my room, where it is Then suddenly he saw something. answered Stepanitch; "but we are warm, and where you will be able Opposite his window there had ignorant folk and do not know our to wrap the baby up more com- stopped an old peddler woman, with letters." fortably than you can do here. Yes, a basket of apples. Apparently, her "Well, I was reading of how he come in with you." shoulder had begun to ache under walked this earth, and how he went their weight, and she therefore to visit a Pharisee, and yet received wished to shift them to the other no welcome from him at the door. T.HE woman was surprised to see one. As she was doing this, a boy All this I read last night, my friend, an old man in a leather apron and in a ragged cap appeared from and then fell to thinking about it with spectacles upon his nose calling somewhere, seized an apple from the to thinking how some day I, too, out to her, yet she followed him basket, and tried to make off. But might fail to pay Our Little Father, down the steps, and they entered the old woman, who had been on Christ, due honor. 'Suppose,' I his room. her guard, managed to turn and thought to myself, 'he came to me "Sit down and eat, my good seize the boy by the sleeve, and or to anyone like me? Should we, woman," he said, "while I hold your although he struggled and tried to like the great lord Simon, not know baby. I have had little ones of my break away, she clung to him with how to receive him and not go out own, and know how to nurse them." both hands, snatched his cap off, and to meet him?' Thus I thought, and "I am a soldier's wife," she said, finally grasped him by the hair. fell asleep where I sat. Then as I "but my husband was sent to a Thereupon the youngster began to sat sleeping there I heard someone distant station eight months ago, and shout and abuse his captor. Avdeitch call my name; and as I raised myself I have heard nothing of him since. did not stop to make fast his awl, the voice went on (as though it were At first I got a place as cook, but but threw his work upon the floor, the voice of someone whispering in when the baby came they said they ran to the door, and went stumbling spectacles as my ear) : 'Watch thou for me to- could not do with it and dismissed up the steps—losing his morrow, for I am coming to visit me. That was three months ago, and he did so. thee.' It said that twice. And so I have got nothing since, and have Avdeitch tried to part them as he those words have got into my head, spent all my savings." took the boy by the hand and said: v and, foolish though I know it to be, Avdeitch sighed and said: "But "Let him go, my good woman. I kept expecting Him—the Little have you nothing warm to wear?" Pardon him for Christ's sake." Father—every moment." "Oh, sir," replied the woman, "al- "Yes, I will pardon him," she re- * mm^tt^m HH —

torted, "but not until he has tasted "Martin, Martin, dost thou not Avdeitch as he crossed himself, put

a new birchrod. I mean to take the know me?" on his spectacles, and set himself to young rascal to the police." "Who are you?" said Avdeitch. read the Testament at the place

"Let him go, my good woman," he "Even I!" whispered the voice where it had opened. At the top of said. "He will never do it again. Let again. "Lo, it is I!"—and there the page he read: him go for Christ's sake." stepped from the dark corner "For I was an hungred, and ye

The old woman released the boy, Stepanitch. He smiled, and then, gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye

who was for making off at once had like the fading of a little cloud, was gave me drink: I was a stranger, not Avdeitch stopped him. gone. and ye took me in." "You must beg the old woman's "It is I!" whispered the voice again And further down the page he pardon," he said, "and never do such —and there stepped from the same read:

a thing again. I saw you take the corner the woman with her baby. "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto apple." She smiled, and the baby smiled, and one of the least of these my brethren,

The boy burst out crying, and they were gone. ye have done it unto me." begged the old woman's pardon as "And it is I!" whispered the voice Then Avdeitch understood that Avdeitch commanded. again—and there stepped forth the the vision had come true, and that "There, there," said Avdeitch. old woman and the boy with the his Savior had in very truth visited

"Now I will give you one. Here you apple. They smiled, and were gone. him that day, and that he had re- are,"—and he took an apple from Joy filled the soul of Martin ceived Him. the basket and handed it to the boy.

"I will pay you for it, my good woman," he added. "God has commanded us to

! pardon one another," went on us. ; Avdeitch, "or he will not pardon We ought to pardon all men, and LEARNING TO trail especially the thoughtless." ; The old woman shook her head and sighed. She was raising the sack to her shoulders again when the boy darted _T OR MANY YEARS I used prayer swered prayer is love in operation. All forward and said: conventionally and sporadically God's ways are mysterious, but his spiritual laws are as plain print, "Nay, let me carry it, Grand- usually when things went wrong. But as and I his is mother. It will be all on my way during the last four years have plan Order, Justice, and Balance. home." learned to pray in a way most helpful Without help, without recovered The old woman nodded assent, to me. I know all prayers are an- belief, I would not now be alive in wish. gave up the sack to the boy, and swered, though not always as we this material world. The mere fact went away with him down the Now and then the desire for com- that I am makes me part of a purpose. with God is so intense street. munication All prayer is good—the formal, the Having seen them go, Avdeitch that words fail and my prayer is a informal, the talking aloud, the silent, passionate returned to his room, finding his voiceless cry. My most the prayer at desk or table, watching prayers were voiced during seven ter- spectacles—unbroken—on the steps a sunset or storm, the prayers in rible weeks some years ago; they together one's fellow as he descended them. He finished church with man, one boot completely, and then weren't, I then believed, answered. the prayers in the dark night and the I know they were, if not accord- lonely dawn. turned it over to look at it. It was Now ing to mij will. The spirits of men struggle to mani- all good work. Next he lifted the When my husband died and I fest themselves through the erring, lamp down, placed it on the table, and comfort to the of and took his Testament from the turned for strength stubborn, density the flesh and Unseen, I was not conscious of any physical mind. Almost always the link shelf. He had intended opening the response. From that, I concluded that between is corroded or walled off. book at the place which he had trust and belief had been mere lip I believe that our spirits or if you marked last night with a strip of my — service. Since then, however, my will, souls—are part of the Divine leather, but it opened itself at another prayers for others have been unmis- Spirit and that if we could learn to instead. The instant it did so, his takably answered. know our higher selves and allow the vision of last night came back to his of the things I have worked knowledge to come through us, memory, and, as instantly he thought One we prayer is an inner quietude, no would be happier and better people. he heard a movement behind him for in what the circumstances of my Prayer is a reaching for a hand; as of someone moving towards him. matter anxieties. Little prayer is sometimes spontaneous He looked around and saw in the life, nor how deep my a little, I have achieved something and selfless petition; prayer is, in shadow of a dark corner what ap- by this. secret, a secret. But, I am convinced, peared to be figures—figures of per- of in operation; an- it always reaches its destination. sons standing there—yet could not Praver is trust distinguish them clearly. Then the voice whispered in his ear: —Faith Baldwin

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THE Complomniex Knowm

Moment By ARTHUR GORDON

A GRAND OLD actor, Charles develop this magic faculty, nothing damage is done by parents who can- Coburn, died not long ago. I never goes right. What use is beauty to a not or will not postpone a quarrel knew him well, but I never forgot woman if she constantly destroys the until the children are out of the way?

one conversation we had. I had been admiration she attracts with ill-timed Once, in penitent mood, I asked

sent to interview him, actually, and remarks ? What good is a bright idea my wife which of my smaller failings

so I asked him a stock question: to a man if he tries to put it across annoyed her most. "Your tendency,"

What does one need to get ahead in if there is no climate of acceptance? she said promptly, "to wait until life? Brains? Energy? Education? People who constantly meet with we're about to walk into a party

He shook his head. "Those things failure are often disheartened by before telling me that my hair is help. But there's something I con- what seems to be a relentlessly hostile mussed or my dress doesn't look sider even more important: knowing world. What they almost never quite right."

the moment." realize is that time and again they Well, of course! I remember staring at him, pencil are making the right effort at the In rearing children, too, knowing

poised. "What moment?" wrong moment. Their problem is the moment is at least half the bat- "The moment," he said, "to act not bad luck; it is bad timing. tle: when to praise and when to or not to act. The moment to speak "Oh, these quarreling couples," I blame, when to punish and when to —or to keep silent. On the stage, as heard a family-relations court judge look the other way. A child is not every actor knows, timing is the all- say the other day. "If only they'd a machine. Sometimes he is rested

important factor. I believe it's the realize that there are times when and happy. Sometimes he is tired and

key in life, too. If you can master everyone's threshold of irritability is cross. Same child, but different mo- the art of knowing the moment in low, when a person can't stand nag- ments—and each moment calls for your marriage, your work, your rela- ging or criticism—or even good ad- different treatment. Each age does, tionship with others, you won't have vice! If married partners would just too; you will not get eight-year-old to pursue happiness or run after suc- take the trouble to study each other's performance from a five-year-old. But cess. They'll walk right in through moods, and know when to air a some parents are forever trying to your front door!" grievance or when to show affection, hurry the moment. I never forgot that interview be- the divorce rate in this country would Good manners are often nothing cause the old actor was so right. A be cut in half!" but good timing. What is more capacity for timing, for knowing the The judge was saying what annoying than to be interrupted in moment, brings richer rewards than Charles Coburn had said: know the mid anecdote? Who is more welcome almost any other gift. If you can moment. How many domestic explo- than the dinner guest who ends an learn to recognize the right moment sions are caused by wives who choose awkward silence with an easy when it comes, and act before it goes to complain about something when phrase? away, all the problems of life become their husbands are tired and hungry, Who has not been trapped for what vastly simplified. instead of simply waiting until after seems like a lifetime by the bore

On the other hand, if you do not dinner? How much unnecessary who never knows when to leave?

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Knowing the moment can mean But gradually, observing people who portant in business that many corpo-

the difference between success and seemed blessed with the gift, I began rations make it the main yardstick

failure in romance, too. As a young to realize that it was a skill that could for job advancement. But it is just man, the headmaster of one of our be acquired by anyone who cared to as important in running a household. great church schools married a make the effort. Talking to such peo- Will Saturday be a good day for a beautiful and popular Boston debu- ple, asking them about their tech- trip to the beach? Better have cold tante. Everyone was astonished, since niques, I came to the conclusion that cuts and sandwich bread on hand he was a poverty-stricken and rather anyone who wishes to master the just in case. Is your widowed mother-

homely young minister. Finally art of good timing must keep five in-law's health beginning to fail ? someone asked him how he had basic requirements in mind. Better face the possibility that she managed to make the girl say yes. First, keep yourself constantly may have to move in with you or be "Well," he said with a grin, "I aware of how decisive timing can be placed in a nursing home. Very few

knew I had a lot of rivals, but I also in human affairs, of how true Shake- of the problems and crises of life knew that I was in love with the speare's insight was when he wrote, present themselves without some most tenderhearted girl in the world. "There is a tide in the affairs of men warning. The art of good timing, One snowy night when I was taking which, taken at the flood, leads on to then, includes knowing the moment her out, I slipped and fell all the fortune." Once you have grasped the when present action will eliminate

way down the porch steps. I was not full importance of "knowing the future trouble or gain future advan- hurt much. moment," you have taken the first tages.

"But I waited till she rushed to step toward acquiring a capacity for

help me. Then I stopped groaning it. long enough to ask her to marry me. Next, make a pact with yourself JT OURTH, learn patience. "Every-

I figured she would not be able to (a pact you will undoubtedly break thing comes," said Disraeli, "if a man

add to my misery by turning me at times) never to act or speak when will only wait." But very often, if the

down. I was right!" driven by the whirlwinds of anger, right moment does not present itself,

Often it is the unexpected timing fear, hurt, jealousy, or resentment. people decide that it is never coming that makes the strongest impression. These emotional monkey wrenches at all and take some premature action

I have a friend who always waits six can wreck the most carefully de- that spoils everything. There is no months before writing to congratu- veloped timing mechanism. Winston easy formula for acquiring patience,

late a man on a new job or a woman Churchill once said to an explosive which is a subtle blend of wisdom on a new baby. By that time, he says, general, "Sir, you do not possess your and self-control. You just have to all the headaches of both are in full emotions; they possess you!" To be believe, with Emerson, that, "if the swing, and a word of encouragement so possessed is to lose the objectivity single man plant himself indomitably

is much more welcome. and selectivity that are the essence of on his instincts, and there abide, the good timing. huge world will come round to him." I still remember the lesson I was Sometimes the waiting period in- A SENSE of humor can help in once taught about the necessity for volves months or years. good timing, too. Down in Georgia, a self-control. At a turbulent public Sometimes the waiting period in- doctor who had arranged for a child- meeting one night, I lost my temper volves only seconds—but they can be less couple to adopt a new-born baby and said some harsh and sarcastic excruciating seconds. A Civil War was making some late night calls things—with the result that the pro- story my grandfather used to tell was

with his wife. Suddenly he said, "The posal I was supporting was promptly a good example of this. One Septem- adoption papers are all in order. Let's defeated. My father, who was there, ber afternoon in 1862, he and about go to the hospital and get the baby said nothing at the time, but later 20 other Confederate cavalrymen for Ruth and Kenneth." that night, on my pillow, I found a under a young lieutenant were cover- "At this hour?" cried his wife. marked passage from Aristotle: ing a retreat from a town in Mary- "Why, they aren't ready. They're not "Anybody can become angry—that land.

supposed to get the baby for several is easy; but to be angry with the right As they reached the crest of a days. They'd be scared to death!" person, and to the right degree, and hill, a much larger force of Federal "Ha!" said the doctor. "New babies at the right time, and for the right cavalry came racing in pursuit. The

i have a way of arriving late at night purpose, and in the right way—that is outnumbered Confederates wheeled —and first-time parents are always not within everybody's power and is to face them. At that moment, Wade

scared to death. It'll give them a not easy." Hampton, the fiery general from good, normal start. Let's do it!" Third, sharpen your powers of South Carolina, rode up. "Charge So the baby was "delivered" in the anticipation. The future is not a them!" he ordered.

middle of the night, the parents were closed book. Much of what is going The lieutenant was watching the

'flustered, excited, and upset, and it to happen is determined by what is onrushing enemy calmly. "Let's wait was indeed a memorable beginning. happening now. Yet relatively few a minute, General," he said. For a long time after that inter- people make a conscious effort to The Yankees reached the foot of

view with Charles Coburn I thought project themselves beyond the pres- the hill; their pace slackened as they that timing was a gift, something ent, gauge future probabilities, and began laboring up it. At precisely the 'you were born with, like unusually act accordingly. point where the grade was steepest, keen vision or a sharp ear for music. This look-ahead capacity is so im- the lieutenant hurled his little troop Mm M upon them. The shock of 20 horses thundering downhill broke the

Yankee formation and drove it back to defeat. Ten seconds earlier or later,

and it would have been a different story. The young lieutenant knew

the moment, waited for it —and won. The final—and most difficult—step t is learning to get outside yourself.

Each moment is shared by every liv-

ing creature, but each person sees it from a different point of view. Really knowing the moment, then, includes a t euaaict knowing how it looks to other peo- l ple. Dean Charles R. Brown was a minister who always made a point of "Preach faith until you have paying Christmas calls on families in it," Peter Boehler advised. It finally his parish where a death had oc- curred during the year. He knew to Methodism's founder during came what a hard day Christmas would be. His sense of timing also a reading of Luther's Preface to the told him that the saddest moment after a death Epistle to the Romans, in which was not at the funeral service or even at the grave. It was coming back this pertinent section appears. afterward to the empty house. That was when he dropped in. Imagination—that is the key. A great philanthropist, the late Mrs. .FAITH is not something dreamed, a man without faith. He is groping John Dibert of New Orleans, told a human illusion, although this is about for faith and searching for how one night in midwinter, riffling what many people understand by good works, but knows neither what through a magazine, her eyes were the term. Whenever they see that faith is nor what good works are.

it is not followed either by an im- Nevertheless, he keeps on talking caught by a cartoon. In it, two provement in morals or by good nonsense about faith and good ragged, old women were shivering works, while much is still being said works. over a meager fire. "What you about faith, they fall into the error Faith is a living and unshakable thinkin' about, Maggie?" asked one. of declaring that faith is not enough, confidence, a belief in the grace of "About the nice warm clothes the that must "works" if are to God so assured that a would we do we man rich ladies will be givin' us next become upright and attain salvation. die a thousand deaths for its sake. summer," answered the other. The reason is that, when they hear This kind of confidence in God's Mrs. Dibert, supporter of hospitals, the Gospel, they miss the point; in grace, this sort of knowledge of it, donor to many charities, looked at their hearts, and out of their own makes us joyful, high-spirited, and resources, they conjure up an idea eager in our relations with God and the cartoon for a long time. Finally

which they call "belief," which they with all mankind. That is what the she went up into the attic, unpacked treat as genuine faith. All the same, Holy Spirit effects through faith. trunks, made bundles of warm it is but a human fabrication, an idea Hence, the man of faith, without clothes to be distributed the next day. without a corresponding experience being driven, willingly and gladly From then on, she resolved to time in the depths of the heart. It is there- seeks to to everyone, serve do good her charity better, to give, as she put fore ineffective and not followed by everyone, suffer all kinds of hard- it, "to the ones whose needs are now." a better kind of life. ships, for the sake of the love and Good timing, then, is not a single Faith, however, is something that glory of the God who has shown attribute; it is a combination of God effects in us. It changes us and him such grace. It is impossible, characteristics. self-con- we are reborn from God [John indeed, to separate works from faith, Awareness, trol, 1:13]. Faith puts the old Adam to just as it is impossible to separate anticipation, patience, imagina- death and makes us quite different heat and light from fire. Beware, tion—all these are essential elements, men in heart, in mind, and in all therefore, of wrong conceptions of and all must be developed slowly and

our powers; and it is accompanied your own, and of those who talk separately. But this in itself is an by the Holy Spirit. O, when it comes nonsense while thinking they are exciting challenge, and when the to faith, what a living, creative, ac- pronouncing shrewd judgments on challenge is met the rewards are tive, powerful thing it is. It cannot faith and works whereas they are great. As the Old Testament says, do other than good at all times. It showing themselves the greatest of "For everything there is a season, never waits to ask whether there is fools. Offer up your prayers to God, and a time to every matter under some good work to do. Rather, and ask Him to create faith in you;

before the question is raised, it has otherwise, you will always lack faith, heaven." done the deed, and keeps on doing no matter how you try to deceive It was true three thousand years

it. A man not active in this way is yourself, or what your efforts . . . ago. It still is true today.

A AiU^Mtf What ldersgate Means to Me

By HARRY DENMAN

General Secretary, Methodist Board of Evangelism

iJEVERAL years ago, when a man asked me: He became an "in Christ" person rather than an "What happened to John Wesley at Aldersgate?" "in social reform" person, but Christ used him as

I prayed for help before answering. The Lord did never before to reform the nation and the new

help me. I quoted Wesley's own words from his continent on which it was loosed. Journal: We, as Methodists, need to be "in Christ" per-

"I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did sons instead of "in church" persons. The church trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation: And is more than a club for the payment of dues, for an assurance was given me, that he had taken faithful attendance at worship service, and for faith-

away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the ful committee work. The church is more than this. law of sin and death." It is the living Christ incarnated in persons who Now the editor of Together has asked me: are his body and his voice in this sin-sick world

"What does Aldersgate mean to you?" I have —a world which needs reformation but cannot

prayed, and I know the Lord is helping me to be reformed except by persons regenerated through answer. the grace of God. At Aldersgate, John Wesley received the as- After Aldersgate, John Wesley began making surance of salvation. He knew Christ as his Christ known to others. Previously, he held to

personal Savior, and he knew that he knew it. the attitude expressed in these words: "I should For 13 years he had searched for this assurance. have thought the saving of souls almost a sin,

He was a good churchman. He had daily, disci- if it had not been done in a church." But after plined devotional habits. He was a scholar. He had hearing Whitefield x preach in the fields his a concern for persons because we read of his attitude quickly changed. As he says, "I sub- humanitarian ministry. He was a missionary to mitted to be more vile." Wesley preached Christ the Indians in Georgia. He knew Christ was the to people wherever he found them. As he wrote Savior of the world. many times, "I gave them Christ. I gave them When A. G. Spangenberg, the Moravian Christ." preacher in Georgia, asked Wesley, "Do you Prior to Aldersgate, Wesley had gone to Georgia

know Jesus Christ?" he replied, "I know he is the as a missionary. Full of concern for persons, he Savior of the world." But the questioner persisted, went to them. After Aldersgate, Christ in John "True, but do you know he has saved you?" Wesley went to the unwanted, the unloved, and Wesley replied, "I hope he has died to save me." the neglected of the 18th century. He was the The Aldersgate experience was yet to come. voice of Christ with a love message for all persons. Back in London, he tried to find salvation in He was the body of Christ with his concern and Christ by reasoning with Peter Boehler. (Susanna compassion for all persons. Wesley had testified how her son John liked to His lay preachers came to the new continent to reason.) However, at Aldersgate he finally found make Christ known on the American frontier.

salvation in Christ by a simple faith which he They did it with their lives and their lips. felt. This came from the heart and not from the Today America is a frontier nation of cities and mind. suburbs needing Christ. We have the inner-city He became an "in Christ" person rather than with its high-priced apartment dweller and an "in scholarship" person. Christ thereafter used tenement-house resident, with its minority groups the mind and the knowledge of John Wesley as of different races, languages, and nationalities. never before. Suburbia is a frontier whose inhabitants are satu- He became an "in Christ" person rather than an rated with things. It is hard for them to be "in church" person. Christ used him to try to dominated by the spiritual when material things bring a new birth to the church of which he was are in such abundance. We need "in Christ" per- a priest, but when he was resisted by this fellow- sons to make the Savior known in both frontier ship, a new movement, which was to become a places. new church, was born. Methodism needs an Aldersgate. Methodism needs to know Christ as Savior. We know him as a man, we know him as a prophet, we know him as a teacher; but we must know him as the Savior of all persons. Wesley had something to give to persons, something more than an in- stitution, more than money, more than prestige or knowledge. He had a person—the Christ as a loving Savior—to give. He could say what Simon Peter said to the lame beggar at the gate of the Temple, "I give you

what I have." If all we have is a pulpiteer, then

that is all we can give. If all we have

is a building, then that is all we can give. If we have a Savior and we know that our sins are forgiven, then we can give other persons a Savior who forgives, who redeems, and who reconciles. Wesley, after Aldersgate, made Christ known to the social order of his day. He had a concern for the children of the streets who needed to know about Christ. He was against the evils that destroyed or harmed personality. Methodism's founder preached and lived not a slanted Gospel but the Gospel of redemption. He knew that a new person in Christ becomes a new person in all relationships. A changed person changes society. The social order is not changed by resolu- tions but by "in Christ" persons who live revolutionary lives. People of the 20th century need Christ as much as the people of the 18th century needed him. All areas of life—economic, financial, educational, ecclesiastical, political, recreational, and family—need to know Christ as Savior. This is easy to write or say

but it is difficult to do.

Christ is made known by the per- formance, by the behavior, and by the deeds of his disciples. We are thankful for the men, women, and youth who have become or will become "in Christ" persons by having the assurance of Christ as their personal Savior. Let us pray that the followers of John Wesley will experience a "heart- warming" conversion and will come to know Christ as their Savior as Wesley did at Aldersgate.

i For the story of this early Methodist preacher and his influence on English and Ameri- can Methodism, see Eloquent George Whitefield, Together, March, page 28. —Editors. Methodism's Global Evangelist

Refusing salary, car, home, and most of the world's

material things, Harry Denman is known to millions as Methodism's

most active—and individualistic—lay evangelist. By LOUISE DAVIS

Why DID YOU let that from his Nashville headquarters to them and invite them to our services. preacher come in here?" one custom- Africa, Korea, Indiana, or Arkansas First I pray for our country, and then er asked the bartender in an Arkansas to put the word of God in as many for them, and then I ask them to night spot. hearts as he can. pray for me. Harlots, bartenders, and "I don't know anybody who needs But he guards his layman standing all—I always ask them to pray for him more!" the bartender shot back the way an athlete does his amateur me. — as he invited Methodism's noncon- rank. It is demonstration to him of That parting shot "Pray for me" forming evangelist, Harry Denman, his belief that every Christian is obli- —is enough to knock the glass out to return. gated to be a priest, a missionary, an of a nonpraying man's hand. But Mr. Denman, described by evangelist. "I don't know why you bother to Billy Graham as "the greatest prac- "It's your actions that speak—not come here," one liquor store owner titioner of personal evangelism in what you say," Mr. Denman said. said. With disarming directness, Mr. America," is not even an ordained "All of us talk with our lives." Denman answered: "Because God

minister. What it is in his life that has loves you, and I love you." A tall, craggy-browed, liquor- stirred as many as 1,200 Koreans in Even in Katanga, Mr. Denman hating man who can no more help one week to accept Christianity is found that drunks reeling out of being an evangelist than the wind difficult to pinpoint. "beer places" responded to his con- can hold itself in a tree, he heads the Office workers on his staff adore cern for them. Methodist Board of Evangelism, him. Church workers in cities where "So many church people won't credited with bringing 500,000 per- he has spoken plan their vacation have anything to do with people who sons a year into the church. After trips so that they can go by his office do things they disapprove of," he 22 years with the board, he insists he to speak to him. Churchmen of all said. "We have to disapprove of lots

is doing only those things that every ages from Canada to Mexico, from of things that people do, but we must layman should do. Norway to Katanga, clamor for his love them."

"All I've done is what all of us soul-shaking visits. It is his immense tenderness for who are Christians are supposed to Just back from six weeks in Africa, all mankind which, more than any- do," he says. "This thing of being a Denman slouched in a big red leather thing else, sets him apart from other

Christian is to be concerned about chair in his apartment (on an upper men. He scowls over his glasses even people." floor of the board's office building, as he speaks gently of Dr. Albert He treasures the friendship of bar- provided for him last year over his Schweitzer, who has spilled his flies and bootleggers. He buttonholes protests) and battled every attempt tremendous, sophisticated gifts into cabdrivers and porters, waitresses, to get him to discuss his career. Africa's vast valleys of raw want; and office boys to talk to them about But he did describe his technique of Dr. Helen Kim of Korea, "the itheir religion. in meeting men not ordinarily greatest woman in the world"; of Ascetic as a monk—refusing salary, touched by the church. The minute "dear friends" in federal prisons; of jcar, home, watch, and all but a he hits a strange town, he said, he dope addicts and embezzlers whose jminimum wardrobe—the bachelor- asks the pastor of the local church confidence he treasures. Imissionary spends his davs and to give him the names of families He disagrees with official pro- mights on trains and planes, traveling who are not attending church. He nouncements of the church so often knocks on their door, puts the re- that some high-placed Methodists sponsibility squarely on the parents. find him embarrassing. He bluntly Just bac\ from an African He visits business offices, stores, tells congregations their weaknesses. kn/7, Harry Denman relaxes briefly shops, and hotels to invite the per- "He really lets us have it right vbetween planes, as it were) in sonnel to his services in the church. between the eyes," one Fort Wayne. the small apartment over his "I never skip the liquor stores or Ind., church member said after Den- bffice in the Board of Evangelism the poolrooms," Mr. Denman said. man services there for a week. "He 'wilding, Nashville, Tenn. "I tell the men I'd like to have organized the membership into teams two or three minutes to talk with for personal evangelism, and he made

m^^m How does he catch planes around the world without a watch?

"There are clocks everywhere," is his reply. "Not having a watch gives me opportunity to talk to strangers. It's an icebreaker. "When you're traveling, you have to change the time so often anyway.

I don't want to bother with that. I

just look at the clock when I get there. Besides, people who have watches are impatient. They keep looking at their watches while they

wait for their plane. It's bad for the health." A man of vast energy, Harry Denman pares away every frill that wastes time and effort. He is con- vinced that the time saved by drudgery-saving gadgets in most

homes is consumed in taking care of those gadgets. He is appalled by the little time left in most homes for worship and cultural pursuits. The muchness of things in this

Harry Denman says no to many of the material things others country bears heavily on him when he sees the few spoonfuls of rice it cherish, hut does not believe these things are evil in themselves. "It is in the takes to keep people alive in other misuse of these things that the trouble comes," he says. countries. Doing without has become a game, a challenge to him. "I see how little people in other countries eat, and how much we put every team work. In fact he worked commandment, with many Ameri- in the garbage can," he said. "It turns with us. He didn't make it easy." cans, is: Don't get caught." you against all these unnecessary He hammers away at the respon- For years, Mr. Denman has turned things that we Americans have. It sibility of each church member. down invitations to Christmas dinner makes me want to do without." "There's too much letting the in the homes of his friends so that Harry Denman did without all preacher do it," Mr. Denman said. he could share the day with men in luxuries in his early years. Born 69 "We have to have the same concern prison. He insists on eating what years ago in Birmingham, Ala., he for persons that Christ had. The they eat, doing what he can to en- was the son of English parents who church has to leave the pew and go courage them in a new life. met after they came to this country. to the home." Equally effective before an audi- Denman, who still considers himself He sees materialism, not com- ence of thousands of churchmen at an Alabaman, learned some stern munism, as America's biggest enemy, a worldwide conference or in the lessons there. explaining: "We overcome commu- skimpy living room of a laborer's "I grew up in the good old days nism by living the Christian life. I family, he sticks to his job 18 hours when you worked if you ate," he am not afraid of communism, be- a day. replied, flashing one of his rare cause I have something better. To squeeze the best work out of grins. "It was root hog or die. It Communism will never destroy the the predawn hours—the best part of wasn't a bad time to live. It was a United States; it is being destroyed the day for him—he sleeps from good life." by secularism. 6 p.m. to midnight, turns out six He quit school before high school "It is not the material things that hours of work before most people to "run errands for two lawyers" for are evil; it is in the misuse of those get up. a while, and then to work as office things that the trouble comes. "If I am making a speech at night, boy and, later, clerk for Tennessee "You don't have to be rich to I get to bed by 10 p.m., and am up Coal and Iron Company. worship material things. Some people by 4 a.m.," he said. "Nobody needs It was then, as a teen-ager, that he worship a small amount of money. more than six hours sleep a day." fell under the spell of a church- It is not the amount that matters. Shunning a watch has become a school teacher. Through her inspira-

"Jesus said to pile it up in heaven part of him. When churches find tion, he decided to go back to school religious . . . but the American is so that he will accept no pay for his and prepare for work in accustomed to worshiping money services, they sometimes try to present education. that the great shock comes when a him a fine watch. He turns it down "I didn't graduate from high businessman goes to jail. The big or gives it away. school until I was 22 years old," he

26 Togetherqether^^ay 1963 recalls. "Then I went on to college said in one of his rare rhapsodic at Birmingham Southern and got my moments. B.A. and M.A. degrees." "It is because of the influence of For 19 years, first in youth work Helen Kim that we were able to and then in the church business baptize hundreds of women in office, he worked at First Methodist Korea— 1,021 last year and 700 the Church in Birmingham. He became first time we were there." There a force in the city's civic life, served were 4,906 rededications last year. on the county school board, led the Mr. Denman has been to Korea state's dry forces through bitter legis- six or seven times in the last few lative battle. years. He has a deep tenderness for "One of my best friends led the the people who have suffered so wet side," Mr. Denman says. "He much and borne so bravely. was a newspaper writer, and we In Africa, recently, he was sur- often traveled together. We fought prised to find that high-school stu- each other politically, but we were dents had never heard of Dr. the best of friends." Albert Schweitzer, the world-famous When he and the bootleggers musician-philosopher-physician who watched the legislative proceedings, abandoned fame and fortune in they sat side by side. In 1937, when Europe to minister to diseased his mother—a great church worker people in some of the bleakest out- and the inspiration of his life—died, posts of Africa. all the bootleggers in town went to "They didn't know Schweitzer her funeral. and they didn't know of anybody "I was deeply touched by that," in the United States," Denman said. said the man whose whole life has "This was way out in the bush. They been shaped by one idea: that every had never heard of the United States,

man's soul is worth going after. for that matter. It's good for your After his mother's death, Denman soul to realize that, when you think

presented their home to a new Meth- the United States is so important." odist church just getting started in As Mr. Denman traveled about the neighborhood. Unencumbered by Southern Rhodesia, the Northern possessions ("Nothing bothers you Congo, South Africa, holding

till you get it"), Denman began his evangelistic missions in police camps, suitcase life when he went to Nash- in government housing projects ville in 1940 to become general where policemen and their families secretary of the Board of Evangelism lived, and in villages, he saw the of The Methodist Church. overpowering hunger of the people For a while, he lived in a hotel for books. room in Nashville, but he was out In Katanga, where Methodists and of the city so much that he gave it Catholics have worked out a system, up. He could keep his few treasured by comity, or courtesy, for establish- photographs of family and friends in ing missions so that their work does his office, and that was all he cared not overlap, the results are astound- about having. ing, he said. When the Board of Evangelism "Those people have a hunger for moved their offices into a former knowledge, a thirst for anything to residence at 1900 Grand Avenue in read," he said. "Of course, French

Nashville, they furnished an upstairs is their language, and all the books apartment for his use. we send them have to be in French." "It's the nearest thing to a home But Mr. Denman, who had onlv I've had since 1937," he says, "but two days in Nashville after his Afri- I'm never there." can trip before he was to leave for On the walls of the trim, bright Mexico and then Korea, found time

> apartment are pictures of his mother in those two days to round up some

, and of Dr. Helen Kim, the recently books to be bundled off for Katanga. retired president of the largest uni- He quoted a balking churchman versity for women in the world, who complained, "Give, give, give.

Methodist-related Ewha University . . . That's all you hear at church in Korea. these days." Still a tireless evangelist

"She is a wonderful woman, a "That's right," Harry Denman at 69, he owns little more than his beautiful woman, easily the greatest said. "You've defined Christianity. suit and overcoat, plus contents woman in the world," Mr. Denman It's give, give, give." of the small case he carries.

^^rMan_ A YtCo j says Mrs. Brown. no sense of responsibility either for MIDMONTH POWWOW the program or the support of the church. They never had had any T.HE QUESTION of require- conversation about their Christian ments for church membership neces- faith. There had been no plan for sarily must revolve around two points nurture of their faith, other than of concern: (1) the degree of maturity sending a pledge card. They had just in religious experience for admittance "joined the church." into membership, and (2) the degree Do not misunderstand me. I am in Too Easy of commitment to witness which full agreement with those who say membership involves. that membership is a first step in a The stand of some pastors—most growing experience that should lead of the pastors of the church where I to a mature concept of the church

was a member most of my life—was and Christian discipleship. When a To Be a that intention is enough. candidate presents himself for church Often no more information than membership, I do not plead for his name and address was recorded fol- mature understanding of either the lowing the answering of the ques- tenets of the Christian faith or the Methodist tions for membership. I have known Articles of Religion of The Meth- pastors who explained to member- odist Church. I do plead for literacy ship prospects that membership really in the meaning of Christian disciple- is very simple—no obligations—just ship and the membership vows. Today? come with the crowd on Easter No stigma should be attached to morning and receive the right hand the status of preparatory member for of fellowship. an adult. Our early church fathers

How many times have I heard my often insisted on the memorizing of pastor give the following invitation the catechism and familiarity with at the close of his sermon: "If there the Articles of Religion, as well as

Make it tough to keep out are those in the congregation today faithful adherence to the means of who would like to unite with our grace. I am of the opinion that a the habitual joiners, advocates church, will you come forward dur- little of this would not hurt present- ing the singing of the last stanza of day Methodists, and a period of a woman leader who deplores the hymn." training before membership vows the deadwood on the rolls. But Frequently some person whom the are taken would have great value. pastor had never seen before pre- This might well mean fewer ac- a prominent pastor sees the sented himself, gave his name, and cessions to the church—fewer to be was received then and there into the registered on the conference report church as a lifelong school for fellowship of our church. —but I do not conceive of the local training in Christianity. More than once a person, at that church goal as being the largest moment playing the ninth hole on membership in town or the distinc- the golf course, was received by letter tion of the longest list of new

of transfer on Sunday morning. adherents in a year. Although I be- Mrs. Porter In conversation with other Meth- lieve strongly that consistent growth

Brown is general odists, I have confirmed that our local in church membership is a mark of church was no different from hun- a vital church, I conceive the ultimate secretary of the I Woman's dreds of others and that our pastors goal as being the winning of men were average. All of which raises and women, boys and girls, to Christ Division of the important question: just how low and his church and preparing them Christian can the hurdles for present member- for membership by instructing them Service. ship in The Methodist Church be in the knowledge and love of God and have any significance? and his Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Examining the roll of that church, doctrine of The Methodist Church. Ben F. one found numbers of names that no With greater consistency will they Lehmberg is one could remember. No one knew then become "bearers of the good minister of the whereabouts of the persons bear- news." Their lives will demonstrate First Methodist ing those names. They had come and that they are a people called apart. Church of they had gone. Among results of the failure of Colorado "Easy come, easy go." No doubt the church at these points are that Springs, Colo. some had moved away. Some were too many members neither know nor

still living in the community, feeling care that there is no difference be-

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tween the lives of the church mem- indicate his intention to hold his numbered with his people here and bers and nonmembers; that the church in his prayers and what serv- with his saints in glory everlasting." witness of the church is neutralized ice he would give to the church. Pos- This had been no casual reception by weak and even negative church sibilities for the latter ranged from into the church. It had been a members; and that the local lodge teaching a church-school class or sing- preparation of mind, and heart, and or pinochle club has more exacting ing in the choir to stuffing envelopes spirit for recognition into the blessed requirements for membership than or making a car available to transport fellowship of the forgiving and the

the average Methodist church, asking youth to camp. The list was so varied forgiven which is the Church.

at least some interest, a little money, that every person, regardless of physi- When I rose to my feet from the

and fairly regular attendance. cal or mental ability, could find his altar rail, I did so with a conscious-

I have not always felt so strongly place to serve. ness of discipleship that I shall never

about this matter of church member- We also made our pledge to the lose. I had done more than "join the

ship. I felt as do many of my Meth- church budget. church."

odist neighbors and friends: it just Such preparation for church mem- Bishop Everett W. Palmer of the did not matter. The church was bership had other values. The candi- Seattle Area (he was the pastor) and there, and I had my name on the dates came to know one another and I met recently at a church meeting, roll. The pastor married people, the class, in a very real sense, became and we again spoke of his require- buried them, and called at the hospi- a koinonia group, a fellowship of ment for church membership. He tal when someone was sick. I at- disciples. As the evenings went by, said: "Contrary to what may be ex-

tended intermittently and indulged there was opportunity for the pastor pected, I have had but one person in a fair share of the church activities. to learn the name, profession, family, refuse to participate in the instruction Then the family moved to California. and so on of each individual so that, class, and that person returned in a

One Sunday morning I attended at the reception of members in the matter of months again seeking First Methodist Church in Glendale worship service, the pastor called membership on our terms." and requested the pastor to send for my church letter. He was gracious and eager to comply, explained but The Marks of a Methodist to me that a class was received into

church membership once a month A Methodist is one who lives according to the method hid following four weeks' instruction in down in the Bible. the nature and meaning of church He is one who loves the Lord with all his heart, who prays membership. He would expect me without ceasing and in everything gives thanks. His heart is full to be present at each of four full eve- of love to all mankind, and is purified from envy, malice, wrath, ning sessions before being received, and every unkind affection. even by transfer. keeps all God's commandments from the least I had been a Methodist for 35 He unto the

years. I, who had even been on the greatest. He follows not the customs of the world. He cannot official board, now was being asked speak evil of his neighbor any more than he can lie. He does to attend a class for instruction in good unto all men, neighbors, friends, and enemies. preparation for church membership! These are the principles and practices of our sect. These are It : was an insult! the marks of a true Methodist. By these alone, do Methodists The pastor was kind but firm. If desire to be distinguished from other men. I wanted to be a member of First —John Wesley Church, Glendale, I had to take these

four periods of instruction. Still muttering, I rearranged my usual each of the 22 persons by name with- This pastor and others like him, Sunday-evening schedule to comply. out referring to any aid. who have made some basic require- As I remember, the first two Following the responses to the ments for membership in The Meth- sessions were a review of the basic questions asked for membership, we odist Church, are in good company, tenets of our Christian faith and knelt at the altar rail while the min- for John Wesley himself sanctioned commitment, with emphasis on our ister laid his hand on our uncovered dropping from membership persons baptismal vow. The third session heads, saying: "The Lord defend who had been improperly or inade- was instruction in the history and thee with his heavenly grace and by quately prepared. doctrine of The Methodist Church. his Spirit confirm thee in the faith In addition to the Articles of Re- The fourth session was a statement and fellowship of all true disciples of ligion, which John Wesley regarded of the history of the local church, an Jesus Christ. Amen." as basic Methodist doctrine, there are explanation of its program in detail, He then addressed the candidates: also the General Rules, found in and conversation about the obliga- "We rejoice to recognize you as every Discipline, of which he wrote: tions of membership that include a members of the church of Christ, and "These are the general rules of our pledge of prayer, presence, service, bid you welcome to all its privileges; societies; all of which we are taught and money. and in token of our brotherly love, of God to observe, even in his writ- A sheet of paper was given to each we give you the right hand of fellow- ten Word, which is the only rule, member on which he was asked to ship, and pray that you may be and the sufficient rule, both of our

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faith and practice. And all these we know his Spirit writes on truly awakened hearts. If there be any the individual joins a school of among us who observes them not, Ho, replies Mr. Lehmberg. learners in Christian discipleship. who habitually breaks any of them, In his book The Church We

let it be known unto them who Love Luther E. Lovejoy said that

watch over that soul as they who JNI OT AT ALL! I would object in his school days, before he accepted

must give an account. We will ad- to any legislation making it more the church's invitation to its fellow- monish him of the error of his ways. difficult. ship, while groping and stumbling

We will bear with him for a season. In the bulletin of the church I about, a good man asked him: "Are But, if then he repent not, he hath serve, under the invitation hymn you a Christian?" no more place among us. We have following the sermon, this notation He replied: "I do not know. What delivered our own souls." Thus did appears: "Every service should result is a Christian?" John Wesley close the rules of the in a commitment to God. If you de- The elderly saint replied: "A Chris- Methodist canon. sire to unite with First Methodist tian is a person who is going to I venture to say that only a small Church come forward as the invita- school to Christ."

percentage of the members of our tion hymn is being sung." No one That simple illustration and Dr.

church have ever read the Articles who comes forward is denied mem- Lovejoy 's discussion of the meaning

of Religion or the General Rules of bership. He is received immediately. of the church in the life of an in-

The Methodist Church. It goes with- The invitation is given at services dividual impressed on me as a young out saying that we all fall short of each Sunday, and every Sunday at minister that the Church is "Christ's complete achievement of the stand- one or the other, or at both services, school." We do not send our children ards set for us as Methodists; but it there are those who step forward to school because they know every- is the duty of every pastor who re- and are received into the church, thing. We send them because they ceives a member into his church to professing faith in Jesus Christ and know so little, and we hope they give him instruction in the require- pledging loyalty to his church. may learn more. We do not become ments for membership in the church Something should happen when church members because we know he is joining, and then to provide, people come for worship. Perhaps one all about being a Christian but be-

as time goes by, nurture in the faith of the failures in worship is the lack cause we know so little and desire and opportunities for Christian of expectancy. to know more and become more.

growth. To me, "joining the church" is I know the disciplinary suggestions More than minimal basic require- step number one in the process of be- for "Admission into the Church": ments may mean a slowdown in the coming a Christian. Then through All persons seeding to be saved from growth of church membership, the program of ministerial shepherd- their sins and sincerely desiring to be though I am not convinced of this. ing and tutelage, the member grows Christian in faith and practice are I am convinced that they would mean in the Christian life and service. proper candidates for membership in a more literate and committed mem- By taking this first step—accepting The Methodist Church. When such per- bership and a stronger Methodist wit- the invitation of Christ to "follow sons offer themselves for membership, it shall be the duty the ness in the world. me" and uniting with his church of pastor, or of proper persons appointed by him, to In bygone days, admission to Methodist classes was by a card certifying instruct them in the meaning of the that its holder was abiding by membership requirements and Christian precepts. Christian faith and the history, or- ganization, and teaching of The Meth- odist Church; to explain to them the baptismal and membership vows; and to lead them to commit themselves to *Zs1^ fesus Christ as Lord and Savior. When il they shall have given proof of the genuineness of their faith in Christ and METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, of their desire to assume the obligations and become faithful members of The FOUNDED A. D. 17S4. Methodist Church, and after the rite Baptism has been administered to QUARTERLY TICKET, of those who have not been previously baptized, he shall bring them before i^C _ Minister. the congregation, administer the vows and receive them into the fellowship Whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my word?, of of the church, and duly enroll them as members. (Paragraph 107, I960 him shall the Son of man be ashamed.—Luke ix, 26. Discipline.) Let us take up the cross, Till we the crown obtain, It must be a poor minister who And gladly reckon all things loss, during a year's preaching program So we may Jesus gain. does not instruct persons "in the meaning of the Christian faith and the history, organization, and teach-

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ing of The Methodist Church"! This puts the congregation on invitation for church membership When an individual reaches the de- notice that they are accepting respon- was given, a 69-year-old man stepped cision to step forward before a con- sibilities right along with the new forward. He had lived in the com- gregation of his fellowmen, and to members. To this end, we enlist the munity for 41 years without attend- answer affirmatively the questions help of the leaders of the church ing church, and had started coming concerning faith in Christ, allegiance the chairman of the official board, to church at my strong invitation to his kingdom, and loyalty to The president of the Woman's Society of only a few weeks before. He asked

Methodist Church, I believe that he Christian Service and her co-workers, to be baptized and received into the has "given proof of the genuineness the president of the Methodist Men church. There were those present of [his] faith in Christ and [his] de- and his co-workers, the youth leaders, who shook their heads in doubt. sire to assume the obligations and be- the chairmen of the various com- They knew something of his life and come [a] faithful member of The missions, church-school teachers and his reputation. He was received. It Methodist Church." officers, and dozens of others. These was one of the most stirring services

contact new members by telephone, in which I have every participated. by letter, by personal visitation, and In the weeks which followed, we I ONCE read a statement that the other methods. For example, every took a continued interest in him. only requirement for church mem- other month there is a "New Mem- He attended morning services bership should be that the individual ber Night" program to which the regularly. We have a Sunday-evening

is unworthy to belong! new members and the officials of the service. He attended it regularly. We There are minister friends of mine church are invited. have a midweekly "Hour of Power." who are correct in arguing that There also follows instruction in He attended that. He accepted his there are too many members on our the meaning of membership, given stewardship responsibilities. Previ- rolls who lack depth of experience, in class meetings over a period of ously, he was known as a tightwad. and that they really do not value five weeks. When one five-week Within a year, he accepted several

their church membership as much period is ended, a new class starts. positions of responsibility in the as they value membership in Rotary, When we write for a membership church. Some of the individuals who the Masons, or similar organizations. transfer, we ask about attendance, shook their heads in doubt the morn- We agree that there is not enough teaching, work with youth groups, ing he joined told me later they had difference between church members singing in choir, helping in serving never observed such a change in the and nonmembers. dinners, ushering, and so forth. This life of a person as in this man. And so there are those ministers helps us put the new member to I could have said to him that who require that candidates attend work. morning he stepped forward, "Be- classes of instruction, whether com- In addition, the membership secre- fore I administer the sacrament of ing by profession of faith or by trans- tary keeps a chart on the progress of Baptism and receive you into the fer. They require certain definite the new member's participation. church, you must follow certain pro-

promises before a person is allowed After a certain period of time, a cedures which we have outlined." membership. Some even go so far as call is again made on the new mem- He probably would have, or he

to require a pledge to the budget. ber to inquire how the church is might have resented such regimenta- My experience convinces me that serving him, how it may serve him tion. We followed the other pro-

if the program of assimilation is ade- better, and how he is serving it. cedure. He became a student of quate, such regimentation is not In a recent magazine article, a Methodism, and he became a necessary and that a program of young man who quit the ministry dynamic witness. assimilation develops better members. after four years in his first pastorate There is an old story of a little stated that his church listed 800 mem- boy who fell out of bed during the bers and "only half ever came to o.'UR Master said to two fishermen right. Hearing him fall, his mother church even periodically." His church one day, "Follow me and I will rushed to his room but found him was loaded with inactive members. make you become fishers of men." already crawling back into bed. He belongs to a denomination that They left their nets and followed When she asked, "What caused you requires candidates for membership him. I am sure they did not know to fall out of bed?" he replied, "I to be questioned by a committee, what it was all about, but they were

don't know. I guess I just went to which decides whether the applicant challenged by the Master. He passed

sleep too close to where I got in." is qualified for membership. Such a by a tax collector's office and said to That's what we try to avoid. Again practice has not solved the problem the young publican: "Follow me,"

and again, the congregation is re- of the inactive church member. which the latter did. How much did minded, in the words found in "The The answer is in the "care and he know about "following Him"? Order For Receiving Persons Into the feeding of the church members," in Not much. But Jesus taught him and Church," that we "commend to your the program of assimilation, in the others in the months that followed, love and care these persons whom program of continuous instruction teaching them "as one who had we this day recognize as members from the pulpit, in the church school, authority," and they grew into his of the church of Christ. Do all in and through literature, including likeness, becoming eventually dy- ;your power to increase their faith, Together, in every home. namic witnesses for the Kingdom. confirm their hope, and perfect them Several years ago, at the close of The door of the church should be in love." a Sunday-morning service, when the open, inviting all true seekers.

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of the so-called "better" people having a high time in John Wesley's day in England. Many historians agree that never in modern times was depravity so rampant as in 17th-century England.

JOHN WESLEY JJian is Know

By MILBURN P. AKERS Editor, Chicago Sun-Times

A CLASSICAL scholar, Oxford repose, but he drove himself unre- on a rigid schedule, seeing to it that don and ordained clergyman of the lentingly. He was versed in the ab- the children not only carried out Church of England, John Wesley, stractions of philosophy, but an the duties assigned but that they short, slight of stature, and in his over-riding social consciousness com- were diligent in the pursuit of lifetime plagued with illnesses, pelled him to fight evils of his day. knowledge and faithful in the exer- would seem to be an unlikely man The parish pulpit could not con- cise of their religious obligations. to challenge debauchery, social in- tain this man so long as there was Soon after his 10th birthday, young justices, and the complacency of 18th- a social evil uncorrected, an injus- Wesley received a scholarship which century England. But that he did tice unassailed. And England was enabled him to enroll at London's despite mob violence, the scorn of rife with social injustices when John Charterhouse School, where, in a the aristocracy, the condemnation of Wesley was born, the 15th of 19 chil- somewhat bleak atmosphere, he pur- the press, and the displeasure of dren, in the rectory at Epworth, a sued the study of Latin, Greek, He- the authorities of his own church. small community 160 miles north of brew, and philosophy. In due course,

He did it in a manner which later London, June 17, 1703. he qualified for admission to Christ caused Woodrow Wilson, himself a Parson Samuel Wesley of the An- Church College at Oxford. trailblazing scholar, to remark: glican (Episcopal) faith had not Oxford was the intellectual center "The church was dead and Wes- been given any sinecure when he of England although then perhaps at ley awakened it; the poor were neg- was assigned to the Epworth parish. its lowest ebb of scholarship. As ft lected and Wesley sought them out; It provided only a bare subsistence Southey said of it: "The waters of

the gospel was shrunken into for- for the family. And it would not Helicon were too much polluted with

mulas and Wesley flung it fresh have been that save for his wife the wine of Bacchus." upon the air once more in the speech Susanna, a woman of exceptional Into this environment came John of common man." talents, character, and energy. Wesley, son of the indomitable This man whose career was a Susanna—daughter, spouse, and Susanna. Only five feet, four inches, series of successful contradictions mother of clergymen—had a strong in height, never weighing more than sought not only to win men's souls religious conviction. Additionally, 120 pounds, frail and never in perfect but also to put an end to the social she possessed exceptional managerial health, Wesley did not succumb to injustices from which they suffered. capacity, a talent augmented by his surroundings. He was studious, He sought the reformation of the methodical habits. These traits were methodical, and, in the view of many I Church of England. The establish- later evident in son John, a heritage of his associates, austere, quaint, and ment of the Methodist Church (first from the woman properly termed the Puritanic. Even then, Wesley dared in America—then after his death "mother of Methodism." to be different. in England) was one of the results. Susanna conducted her household As a former Charterhouse scholar, The contemplative life appealed to Wesley received an allowance of 40 him. But he became a man of ac- i cop it'rjJowi.M pounds a year to defray his Oxford tion. His frail body demanded No. 29 in a Series expenses. There was little help to

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be had from the Epworth rectory ence of John Wesley. For religion, of his parents. But he was indiffer- as he conceived it, was not only a mr. lUesleq and ent to creature comforts. He had a seven-day-a-week affair concerned passion for knowledge. That knowl- with the hereafter but was also a edge generated a passion for the souls seven-day-a-week affair concerned the

accepted the abuses and distortions "Reverend Sir: As the commis- WeESLEY, following several years which, in course of time, permeate sioners can not doubt but you have of Oxford residence, was ordained as most establishments. In this respect, plate for which you have hitherto a priest of the established Church of he was not unlike Erasmus who, neglected to make an entry, they England. His scholarship won early several centuries earlier, sought to have directed me to send you the above copy of the lords' order, and recognition. He was awarded a fel- redeem the Roman Catholic Church to inform you they expect that you lowship at Oxford's Lincoln College. from within. forthwith make due entry of all your For 15 years, Wesley, who had en- Unfortunately, those who control plate, such entry to bear the date tered Oxford at 17, was student, established institutions too frequently from the commencement of the plate teacher, and sometimes itinerant regard reformers as rebels; too fre- duty, or from such time as you have minister in the surrounding country- quently consider those who seek but owned, used, had, or kept any side. For two years he assisted his to redeem as subversive. Institutions quantity of silver plate, chargeable father at Epworth. Then he re- which become callous to reformers by the act of Parliament; as in de- turned in 1729 to Oxford where his achieve a rigidity which breeds fault hereof, the board will be obliged to signify your refusal to brother Charles, then a student, had rebels. That is one of history's oldest, their lordships. N.B. An immediate gotten together a study club, which, most disregarded teachings. answer is desired." in the cynicism of the times, was ridi- The American colonies contributed culed as the Holy Club. to John Wesley's early education. In Wesley replied: John, upon his return, joined the 1735 he, accompanied by brother "Sir: I have two silver tea-spoons Holy Club. He was quickly the lead- Charles, went to Georgia. His stern in London, and two at Bristol. This

er of the group. He taught its mem- preachings against frivolity, added to is all the plate which I have at

bers his methodical way of life, me- his denunciations of the uncouth present; and I shall not buy any thodical habits of study, work, and ways and unrestrained indulgences of more while so many around me worship. The little band of Holy the frontiersmen, created dissension want bread. I am, sir, your most humble servant, John Wesley." Club members followed his instruc- in his parish. Wesley, his overseas

' tions so assiduously that, in derision, venture a failure, returned to Eng- This may have been a revelation fellow students termed them "Meth- land. But he had profited. There- to the accountant general who, no odists," a name now borne proudly after he was intolerant of sin but doubt, was familiar with the splendors in some rectories. by millions. Thus, at its inception, had compassion for sinners. The truth is that Wesley's books Methodism was a way of life, a Wesley had encountered a band could have made him a rich man. movement within the established of Moravians, a devout religious Various biographers estimate that Church of England created by a group, on his voyage. Their simple income from this source alone was band of dedicated young men con- ways and intense religious convic- between 30,000 and 40,000 pounds vinced that life had purpose and tion intrigued him. He made a trip ($150,000 or more). But never did meaning, the spiritual essence of to Germany, their homeland, to he spend upon his personal needs which was to be achieved in both study their ways and inspiration. Re- more than 30 pounds a year. He gave

• man's relation to God and man's re- turning to England, he resumed the away the rest. lation to man. organization of Methodist Societies When the founder of Methodism died, he had fulfilled a vow he made Those among us who would con- on the Oxford plan. Then came his years before: "If I leave behind me Methodist clergymen to their great decision to engage, as some of Inne 10 pounds above my debts and my pulpits on Sundays and limit them his associates were already doing, in books, or what may happen to be to pastoral calls on weekdays, those preaching. This was a prac- outdoor due on account of them—you and who would restrict their utterances tice he embraced reluctantly. It shat- all mankind bear witness against me

to abstract theological themes, would tered virtually every concept of pro- that I lived and died a thief and a have been uncomfortable in the pres- priety held by Church of England robber." Herman B. Teeter

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than mere "retailers of platitudes," "however familiar it became on the Helping an old woman was more as one of them aptly put it. important than basking in the glow The great unwashed, as well as John Wesley's of Dr. Johnson's approval. Human most of the washed, did not attend values were a part of this man's church. So Wesley took the church RULE OF LIVING religion. His religion has been lik- or, more precisely, the message sel- Do all the good you can, ened to two oars—one faith, the the church of that day other good works. dom heard in By all the means you can, to them. Many of the ministers of the The movement which began in In all the ways you can, established church, shocked at his the Holy Club at Oxford was a In all the places you can, outdoor preaching, protested. But prime factor in making the slave At all the times you can, Wesley and his colleagues continued trade illegal, in bringing about a To aU the people you can, even though mobs were on occasions more humane recodification of Eng- As Jong as ever you can. turned upon them. land's brutal criminal laws, in re- Once, when asked where was his forming its penal system and in mak- church, Wesley replied: "I look upon highways of England: a small man ing the lot of women and children, i all the world as my parish." in scrupulously neat clerical dress, pitiful victims of the industrial rev- Wesley rode horseback throughout jogging somewhat awkwardly along olution, easier. Wesley, when he be- England, Scotland, and Wales. And the road, reins hanging loose on the gan his mission, was confronted by a he ventured as far afield as Ireland. horse's neck, book in one hand and rum-soaked, religiously indifferent, ." So, too, did his colleagues, the preach- pencil busy in the other . . cynical people; a complacent church ers called Methodists. Everywhere As Wesley's societies grew in num- which had lost contact with those

they went, they organized Methodist ber and in membership, he increas- it was supposed to serve; an eco- Societies, preached to miners, factory ingly employed the printed word to nomic system which brutalized those

workers, farmers, and motley crowds. maintain contact with the "people it employed and a government, cor- Their mission, as stated by Wes- called Methodists." Says the Cam- rupt and inefficient, which existed ley, was "to reform the nation, more bridge History of English Literature: only to attend the status quo. particularly the church; to spread "It need only be said that he Wesley always considered his scriptural holiness over the land." [Wesley] was with the pen, as with Methodist Societies as a part of the Wesley describes in his meticuously the tongue, a master of direct Eng- Church of England. And so they kept Journal 60 mobs he and others lish and simple strength." remained in England until after his confronted as they carried the Gos- This mastery of direct English and death. Then, the powerful forces pel message throughout the land. simple strength was employed in his he had generated broke them away. "Always look a mob in the face." countless discourses and in his volu- For Methodists and the social gospel So Wesley counseled his fellow work- minous writings; it was employed they proclaimed needed greater free- ers even though he was once "struck unstintingly as he labored to win dom of action than is usually found down three times"—dragged, cursed, men's souls and to end the evils of in any facet of the establishment. reviled, shoved, and hit. the day. For Wesley, as was said of John Wesley, born soon after the Five thousand miles a year for 50 another, "took the ancient passion advent of the 18th century, died near years, this once sickly man rode for the souls of men and set it down its close—March 2, 1791. horseback, neither winter's storms, in the stream of modern life." His career was truly "the most im- nor summer's heat, nor mobs dis- This admirable quality does him portant religious and social move- suading him from his appointed task. an injustice, however, if one reads ment" of the 18th century. And as he rode, he read or edited only his sermons. To know Wes- For Further Reading: Together has carried waking mo- ley, one should skim through his manuscripts. His every numerous articles and pictorials about John ment (he seldom slept more than six letters. Here the person shows Wesley and the Wesley family. For a lift, sec the box at the bottom of page 32 of the February hours a night) was productive. through. He could be stern with issue. —Editors.

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The Way or the Warmed Heart

Aldersgate Year, 1Q03, commemorates an event

of supreme importance in the life of Methodism 's founder.

Copyright, 1951, by Pierce and Smith.

WhHEN HER son John was five, Susanna Wesley called him to her knee (where he learned the alphabet in one day) and began his formal education. Later, he would travel far, preach often, pray unceasingly, and master many things. But he would be tormented by a feeling that his re- ligion of ritual and cant lacked a vital spark. That spark finally would touch his heart and transform him in a wondrous way at a meeting of a little society—including Moravians on Aldersgate Street in London, on the evening of May 24, 1738. From that night on, Wesley moved in new directions. Doubts and fears gave way to faith and confidence. He began the 50-year leadership of a great moral and social reform, a spir- itual awakening, that the British Isles could not contain. The spirit of Aldersgate moved out of English so- cieties and spread to the American

colonies, where in 1784 it became embodied in the newly organized Methodist Episcopal Church. It would march with the vanguard of pioneers on New World frontiers, leaving churches, schools, hospitals, orphanages—and Christian servants —in its wake. Because of Aldersgate, the sun now shines every hour of the day on a Methodist church some- where in the world. On these 12 pages, contemporary artists help trace the way of the warmed heart from Epworth to Aldersgate—and beyond. We invite your attention to this remarkable series of paintings—each, we feel, a monumental contribution to our American heritage. Your Editors.

To his ministry, Wesley

brought traits of character and scholarship fostered at his mother's \nee. Fainting by Lynd Ward.

May 1 963 \ Together sat* —r

The Methodist Publishing House

A-_T OXFORD University, the young Wesley was de- ike First Methodists termined to find salvation through what he hoped would be a life without sin. He was one of a serious-minded group of students derisively known as "The Holy ClubJ' "Bible Moths"—and "Methodists" the latter name be-

36 Together /May 1963 The Holy Club: He see\s salvation in 'good worlds' and academic exercises. A new Together painting by Jaci{ White. cause members allotted regular hours for such activities and save his own soul. He was frank in analyzing his as prayers, fasting, Bible reading, and "good works!' frustrations with an existence that was in many ways Through visits to jails, contributions to charity, and aid highly commendable. He declared: "I alarmed no con- jto neglected children, John hoped to gain experience for sciences; I influenced no lives; I preached much but saw

;the ministry, obtain that still elusive state of perfection, no fruit of my labor]' So he "dragged on heavily" until...

,May 1963\Together 37 ... he decided to become a missionary to the Indians with Gen. James Oglethorpe in Georgia. Aboard ship with his verse-writing brother, Charles, during a storm at sea, the old doubts assailed him anew. He was terri- fied, and longed for the peace of mind and heart demon- strated by a group of Moravian migrants from Germany who calmly sang hymns during the tempest. What did these simple, devout people have that was denied him? HUB

Wesley among the Indians in Georgia. Painting by Lynd Ward.

I WENT to America to convert Indians" Wesley wrote. made no headway with the Indians during two years in "But, oh, who shall convert me! Who, what is he that Georgia. Nor did he change. He remained the Anglican will ." deliver me . . The Indians, he had presumed, were priest. The rough-and-ready colonists could not identify innocent children of nature eagerly waiting for him to with the High Church ritualist who refused Communion transform them into Christians. He was wrong, for he and Christian burial to those not correctly baptized.

May 1963\Together m .... •

Copyright, 1963, by The Methodist Publishing House.

IT IS NOW 8:45 p.m. on May 24, 1738. Everything The Mian at Aldersgate centers on this moment of time when a lay preacher reads from Luther's Preface to the Epistle to the Romans. One minute, John Wesley was the seeker who had not found; the next, his heart was "strangely warmed," and

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John Wesley's experience—Aldersgate—a monumental new Together painting by ]ac/( White.

all the resources of his great mind and tireless body came death!' No longer was John Wesley the High Church to focus through the prism of a vital religious faith. "I ritualist. He had a faith and a message he was compelled felt I did trust in Christ, alone for Christ salvation: And to share with others. If it were unorthodox, ;\n(] churches an assurance was given me, that he had taken away my were denied him—very well, he would take it into the sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and streets and fields, and none could stop his preaching.

M ay 1963\Together 41 METHODISM owes much to the Moravians, a Protes- tant sect that traces its origin back to 1415 and the martyred John Huss. A week after he returned in frus- tration and failure from Georgia, a young Moravian named Peter Boehler told him of salvation by faith alone. This may have planted the seeds of Wesley's transforma- talks tion at Aldersgate. Wesley then went to Saxony for with Count Zinzendorf, the Moravian leader (below). summer Moravian meetings featured Is this the man who once wrote: "I have a fair and my spirit is singing, reading from Scripture, religion. But let death loo\ me in the face Wesley's unflinching and lay speaking, with women troubled'.' After Aldersgate, fohn riots h\e that and men seated separately. courage and calm dignity saw him through 60 at right. A new Together painting by Charles Hargens.

The consecration of Bishop Francis Asbury, father of the American church, at the historic Christmas Conference of 1784.

ye sped life an arrow: WHETHER John Wesley desired it or not, the Method- freeborn Garrettson leaps ist societies in the new American nation wanted inde- the wo saddle and rides pendence and were determined to organize for spiritual go round up preachers for conquest. The Methodist Episcopal Church was born on wte Christmas Conference. A Christmas Eve, 1784, at Lovely Lane Chapel, Baltimore. %ew Together painting Present to represent 15,000 members of Methodist so- \h Charles Hargens. cieties were some 60 of the 81 preachers from Virginia to New Jersey. Their leader for 30 years would be Bishop Francis Asbury, that prophet of the long road, who almost single-handedly established the church we know today.

L lay 1963\Together "To reform the continent and spread scriptural holiness over these lands. Asbury pauses at Cumberland Gap. A new Together painting by Robert Addison.

BiISHOP Asbury traveled 265,000 miles, mostly in in dark places beyond civilization. With him rode the wilderness, outriding Wesley himself. He saw Methodism legendary Methodist circuit riders, a special breed of grow from six preachers and 600 members to 700 preach- men whose simple requirements included "a back for ers and 200,000 members. He crossed the Alleghenies any bed, a stomach for any food, a face for any weather" more than 60 times, and fanned the flame of Aldersgate —and, like Wesley, faith for any work of the Lord.

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FRANCIS ASBURY: A Methodist

St. Francis By NOLAN B. HARMON Bishop, Charlotte Area The Methodist Church

NO. in a series on OUR METHODIST HERITAGE

J7 RANCIS Asbury laid his mind upon American was not in the calculations of either Wesley or Dr. Methodism and established its distinctive polity to a Coke: he said he would not accept this office unless he degree greater than anyone else—hardly excepting John should be elected by his American brethren. The Christ- Wesley himself. mas Conference in Baltimore was called forthwith; Wesley, of course, was the founder of Methodism, Asbury was elected and duly consecrated; but his rely-

and fixed its doctrinal forms, its basic polity, and its ing upon the vote of a conference of preachers rather efficient, systematized method of spreading scriptural than upon Wesley's appointment was the inception of holiness over the land. "Christianity in earnest," some- the powerful General Conference which today manages 2 one has called it. And, of course, the whole Wesleyan all things for The Methodist Church. pattern of activity and zeal, with the emphasis on experi- Wesley and Asbury did not always agree, and were ence, coupled with an itinerant ministry, was transmitted different in many ways. The founder of Methodism to American Methodists by Wesley himself. never would have been at home in the American locale, But on this side of the Atlantic Ocean, especially after and even if he had experienced Aldersgate before he

the American Revolution had severed all connection went to Savannah, I doubt if it would have made a with the Church of England, the fast-developing Meth- great deal of difference in the way he felt about matters odist Episcopal Church, indigenous to the American over here. Asbury, from the first, made our country his scene and part and parcel of American life, was in- home. He was sensitive to a far greater degree than fluenced and shaped for all time chiefly by one man John Wesley ever could have been to the tides and cur-

. nd that man was Francis Asbury. rents in the fast-growing American nation—also among The relationship between Asbury and John Wesley the preachers of the American church. is itself something of a puzzle. Each was in the prophetic Asbury saw that the American church could not be tradition; each was ascetic and indefatigable; each was made a replica of the Church of England, or of

I thoroughly committed and thoroughly determined. Wes- any English body. It had to be a distinct entity, in !ley sent Asbury over to America when the latter was a conformity with the mind of the people on these shores. 25-year-old minister who had volunteered for the "Ameri- Reading today the communications between the two ca circuit." Asbury landed in Philadelphia on October men, one is thankful that these were by slow sailing 27, 1771, and never went back to his native shores. He ships with no telephonic or telegraphic communication. climbed rapidly in the esteem of his brethren, and John John Wesley might have spoiled things for American Wesley himself, during the war, named him officially Methodism had his English Toryism, his adamantine 'as his "general assistant." logic, and unyielding severity been pressed too hard upon When American Methodism was set apart by John the newly formed Methodist Episcopal Church in the Wesley in 1784, Thomas Coke was sent to ordain Asbury newly formed nation. .as superintendent. 1 Then Asbury did something which Asbury knew what to do and, more important, exactly

1 How this brought a break between John Wesley and the Church of 2 For a full account of thi Christmas Conference <>/ 1784, "' which the England (Episcopal) is told in John Wesley Completes a Decision, February, Methodist Episcopal Church was organized, see the special issue of Novetn- page 2G, —Eds. ber, 1959, which commemorated the 175th anniccrsary of the event. —Eds.

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when to do it. He was a genius at timing his moves. of his brethren who had elected him bishop, and by The grand design and overall policy that motivated the firm but fair way he exercised this office, was enabled Francis Asbury throughout his entire career as the first through a long life and in spite of many difficulties to Methodist bishop was the firm establishment of Meth- set a pattern for episcopacy and establish an itinerant odist itinerancy. That statement sounds trite today, but system which has meant almost everything to subsequent those few words outline what was then a gigantic task. Methodism. There was revolt and there were secessions Modern Methodists do not realize that our fundamental from the Methodist body, and with respect to the time plan of moving preachers from place to place at frequent limit (or number of years that a bishop could keep a intervals, and of assigning to churches their ministers, man at any one place), Asbury had to give way. with no refusal from either preachers or churches, was But the strong episcopacy and pattern of itinerancy something entirely new then in Protestantism. which he managed to establish by 1808 was firmly fixed Wesley started stationing his preachers and so began that year as constitutional for the church, and has so the itinerant system. But his societies in England were remained to the present time. To be sure, episcopacy few in number and his preachers were laymen of the has been modified as new occasions taught new duties; English church, most of whom earned their living in but to this very day "the plan of our itinerant general some secular occupation day after day, preaching on superintendency," written into the Constitution of The Sunday where Wesley appointed them. The Methodist Methodist Church, stems directly from Francis Asburv. Societies to whom they preached would never consider It is noteworthy that Asbury did his work on a salary themselves a church, nor did they call their meeting of $64 a year. He once called attention to the fact that place any other than a "chapel" or a "hall." The Church "all the episcopal churches in the world are conscious of England was the church. of the dignity of the episcopal office. The greatest part of them endeavor to preserve this dignity by large

salaries, splendid dresses, and . . . pomp and splendor." BUT IN America, an entirely new situation faced the "But if an episcopacy," he added significantly, "has people of the Methodist Episcopal Church established neither the dignity, which arises from these worldly in 1784. For, church it was—a rapidly growing ecclesias- trappings, nor that infinitely superior dignity which is ticism—one of the first to be organized in the newly the attendant of labor, of suffering and enduring hard- freed colonies. Its people, both ministers and congrega- ship for the cause of Christ, of a venerable old age, the tions, were imbued with the idea of independence concluding scene of a life devoted to the service of God, which they had won from the British crown. it instantly becomes the disgrace of a church and the It was in this atmosphere of unbounded liberty that just ridicule of the world." the fast-growing Methodist Episcopal Church took Bishop William M. Wightman 4 observed that Asbury shape, with one man, the bishop, able to tell his minis- manifested "the rarest combination of qualities— sagacity, terial brethren where they should live and to whom firmness, gentleness, impartiality, the authority not of they should preach; and to tell Methodist people in high-sounding titles but that one from labors more every congregation whom they should have as their abundant, from a sacrifice of ease, comfort and the

pastor. It is no wonder that instantly there was a reaction pleasures of domestic life, from a disinterestedness so and a tension which has not altogether diminished, scrupulous and lofty that the tongue of detraction could though time has proved Methodist itinerancy's value. not move against it, and a zeal so sustained that no fool

What Asbury also saw—and this is the key to his could question it. Upon no lower conditions could the whole policy—was that it would take a strong episcopacy 'captain of the Lord's hosts' in that early day of diffi- to make itinerancy work. This is why he repeatedly culty, when the new system was grounding itself and asserted that the "right of nomination to the pulpits lay going through its experimental epoch, have maintained in the General Conference—and in such as the General his government." Conference shall from time to time appoint." 3 The General Conference, as Asbury constantly reminded the church, had forthwith lodged the power of stationing w

length of time on this extensive continent if the bishops not less than 16,425 sermons, besides lectures and exhorta- were not invested with the power which they now tions; traveled during the same time 270,000 miles- possess." more than John Wesley— for the most part "on the He said also: "Our grand plan in all its parts leads to worst roads and on horseback"; sat in not less than 224 an itinerant ministry. Our bishops are traveling bishops annual conferences; and ordained more than 4,000

. . . everything is kept moving as far as possible; and ministers. Bangs continued: we will be bold to say that next to the grace of God, "He found less than 600 Methodists in the country there is nothing like this for keeping the whole body when he began to preach here; at his death he left a alive from the center to the circumference, and for the flourishing church in all parts of the land with more continual extension of that circumference on every hand." than 200,000 communicants, and served upward of 700 Asbury, by his own personal influence, by the suffrage * Bishop of the South Carolina Area, 1866-1882. 6 Pastor of John Street Methodist Church in New York City in 1810. 3 Notes of Bishops Coke and Asbury, published with the 1702 and 1796 publisher of the Christian Advocate t'n 1826. an editor of the Discipline Disciplines. Eds. (1816), author of A History of The Methodist Episcopal Church. Eds.

A.P. TnnpthP, /m.-. IQA^ g—"—' " ?3k&, Asbury-T^ Very Human Being

MORE OFTEN than not, the keeper land N. McTyeire, Methodist historian, of The Journal was wet or cold, and "as one of the family, he enters feverish or tormented by pain. Almost into domestic life by shelling peas with invariably he was exhausted after a the good housewife, winding cotton, long day of riding and preaching. It and teaching the children their lessons."

is understandable that the casual reader Asbury 's love of children, and his of The Journal and Letters of Francis interest in their education, is an indi- Asbury (Abingdon, 3 volumes, $21) cation of the warm human behind the might be persuaded to believe that sometimes grim facade of the frontier the father of Methodism in America bishop. Not only did he delight them He could shell peas, too! was a dry, matter-of-fact stone face. with stories of his adventures (many But a careful reading between the lines were hair-raising), but he spent much reveals him as a warm, appreciative, time "in hearing the children read and bursts. In South Carolina, he wrote of

sometimes poetic leader. instructing them in the English gram- "twining jessamine flinging its odours A man without a home, he was at mar." far and wide around," and in New say so, home everywhere—a welcome visitor Asbury does not but he must York: "How sweet to me are . . . the in backwoods hut or plantation man- have been a venerated man long before hills and vales, the dewy meads, the sion. Frequent illness, brought on by his death in 1816. His slender purse gliding streams and murmuring exposure and hardship, sometimes was open to all in need. "I bless God I brooks." found him confined for weeks at a time have seen so much of the rough and His was the task of establishing in the home of a friend. smooth. ... I know how to be abased Methodism on the harsh and perilous "We look in during the weeks of and how to abound." frontiers of America. The man who enforced rest, and find him writing Enduring constant hardship and could do that, almost single-handedly,

letters . . . planning the work and driving himself relentlessly, Asbury still had to be a very human being! bringing up his journal," writes Hol- was capable of occasional poetic out- —Herman B. Teeter

traveling preachers and a great number of local was not a military conqueror but an apostle of the preachers." Lord; that the steed he rode was not a war horse, but Two significant statements made by Bishop Asbury (as the sculptor planned) the somewhat tired horse of about himself have always impressed me. One came a tired circuit rider at the end of a long day. So eventual- when he was defending himself and his own status as ly, the horse and rider were unveiled. a bishop. We have indicated that there was a revolt One speaker at the unveiling of the statue—I think against the idea of one man having the power which Bishop Hamilton—said Asbury "gave hard marching Asbury had, and the "episcopal controversy," as it was orders, but he always went wherever he told another called, raged in his early years. In reviewing his qualifi- man to go, and never asked another to do anything he cations as a bishop, Asbury offered what to me seems had not done himself." the ultimate argument: that in addition to having been The years have gone by since Francis Asbury lived, appointed by Mr. Wesley, elected by his brethren, con- but our church now feels and shall always feel the im- secrated as superintendent, there was this: "the marks of pulse of his strong, directive mind and the unselfishness an apostle have been seen in me." True—and unanswer- of a great ecclesiastical statesman. able! "At the session of the Western Conference in 1806,"

Another statement which I like to recall had to do Asbury wrote, "some of the preachers were in want and with his evaluation of his own life in later years. In could not purchase decent clothes. So I parted with my 7 his Journal, when enumerating his travels, his hardships, watch, my coat, and my shirt." his difficulties, and the purpose that drove him on, he One of his friends in 1800 asked him for a loan or

writes: "I have done it for souls; had I done it for silver, to give him 50 pounds. "He might as well have asked

there is not enough in the New World to pay me." me for Peru," said the bishop. "I showed him all the The writer of this article was present at the unveiling money I had in the world, about 12 dollars, and gave of the Francis Asbury equestrian statue in Washington, him 5." 6 D.C., October 15, 1924. The Methodists, north and They had to lift the old bishop from his carriage at south, and the Methodist Protestants—as we three the door of the church in Spottsylvania County, Virginia, churches then were—raised funds to put our pioneer where, as it turned out, he was to preach his last sermon. bishop upon a pedestal north of 16th Street and Colum- They seated him at a small table in the pulpit, and he bia Road, N.W., in the capital, and sought permission took his text: "He will finish the work and cut it short to do so. But the Fine Arts Commission of the District in righteousness." Then the childless, homeless prophet of Columbia objected to having another equestrian of the long road, the somewhat severe and lonely old statue. "We don't want another 'man on horseback,' bishop, delivered his valedictory message and finished it said. "We have too many of these now." his work in the righteousness of God. It was explained that this particular man on horseback Methodism, too, can claim a Saint Francis.

7 6 See Album of Methodist Americana, Together, July, 1961, page 37. The Heart of Aslmry's Journal, edited by Ezra Tipple (Eaton and -Eds. Mains, New York, 1904), vage 579. Entry for Sept. 20, 1806.—Eds.

49 May 1 963 \\TogeTogether "May the good Lord be with you" says the Rev. Don Hart, friend

and counselor to drag

fans and racers ali\e. He's with Arlen Vanhe, a driver from Ashland.

^$

Ohio Takes a Cue

From the Circuit Rider

D,URING time trials that afternoon, some cars roared down the drag strip at speeds approaching 150 miles an hour. Then, at intermission, the huge crowd near West Salem, Ohio, heard this announcement:

"What follows is another first for Dragway 42 . . . as a new venture, we present the Rev. Don Hart!" Thousands listened in respectful silence as Mr. Hart, a drag-racing fan himself, spoke briefly of "a race in life to be run and won." His appearance, successfully repeated many times, was only one example of new ap- proaches to evangelism by Ohio Methodists in such unexpected places as parks, drive-in theaters, factories, shopping centers, county fairs, and television studios. The statewide program, started in 1961 by Bishop Hazen G. Werner, covers ground the circuit riders, spurred on by John Wesley's spirit [see page 32], walked and rode across more than a century ago. And, Ohio's unconventional evangelists will tell you, taking the

Bishop Hazen G. Werner conducts a service at a Xenia drive-in theater. An enthusiastic participant in the Unconventional Evangelism Program he introduced

two years ago, he urges Ohio ministers to "preach to people where they are and how they are."

5fl For hundreds in the

grandstand at the Muskingum

County Fair, the din of carnival music and the spiel

of haw\ers seem jar away— temporarily, at least—as they join a Methodist choir in singing the beloved hymns

known to all Christians. This "Sing Unto the Lord" choir was started by the Rev. John Zinsmeister.

! On a bright Sunday evening,

\ members of Third Avenue

I Methodist Church, Columbus, move out-of-doors a j for hymn-sing on a grassy stretch

I of lawn near the street.

Gospel outside the church is bringing people into the

church, just as it did when Methodism was young.

Today's motorized, industrialized Ohio is a far cry from Aldersgate Street and the lone circuit rider. But though time has changed the calendar, the effectiveness

of personal, outreaching evangelism is unchanged. " "We call it 'unconventional evangelism,' a district superintendent remarked. "But this really isn't uncon-

ventional for Methodists. It is, or ought to be, typical." This summer, with two successful seasons behind them, Ohio Methodists again will go to people "where they are"—mingling, for example, with thousands of weekend visitors to Ohio's many beautiful state parks. (When the state frowned on religious services in the parks, Methodists secured adjoining land and built open- air chapels with log benches and limestone altars.) Already, Ohio's unconventional evangelists are being asked to share their know-how with others.

LS^W^j^ A . —

An artist and a lay preacher jointly present a "chal\-talk^ sermon" at a Goodwill mission in Canton.

Ohio Takes a Cue (continued)

i ^ .TORGET your conventional terms and talk straight out to people. Remember, many have forgotten the name of the church they stay way from." Bishop Werner's advice to the unconventional evange- lists points up perhaps the greatest challenge offered by the Ohio program—that faced by the minister himself. Out-of-doors, and among strangers, he is without the familiar support of altar and church surroundings. He is no longer speaking to Methodists alone. Among his listeners are Jews, Catholics, other Protestants, and a great many who have no church at all. The approach in Ohio, where an estimated 3 million have no church connection, is simple and direct. "I try to tell them what Christ means to me," one minister said. Another stresses beliefs common to all faiths: "We are God's children, and he loves us. For every in- dividual there is a responsibility to create and live a meaningful life." That's how Methodists are evangelizing in Ohio in the traditional way but unconventional!

The Rev. Thomas Cantor of Avon ha\e stations himself strategically at a shopping center, identifies

himself politely as "pastor of The Methodist Church',' and tal\s quietly with the churched and unchurched

alike. Here he as\s two teen-agers to join him in repeating the Lord's Prayer. Monday morning at the Cobey plant, Bucyrus: Workers

are permitted the first 20

minutes of the wor\ wee\ to hear the Rev. Norman Prichard, who takes Methodism's program of unconventional evangelism to men on the job.

World Wide Communion Sunday services, televised by the Rev. Walter Eyster, reach thousands of shut-ins near Columbus. 1

I'm sorry. Your experience is A typical of teen-age marriages. Could you talk your problem over with your wife's parents? Ask their co- operation in encouraging your wife to take an interest in cooking and house- keeping. It's difficult for such a young girl suddenly to be thrust into adult responsibilities. You and her parents must help her grow up. If you do a good job, perhaps she will make you a fine wife yet!

Ql'm a girl 17. Last year 1 sat in a class next to a boy of 18. We spoke to each other, but weren't real friends. Now he is in service, stationed in Japan and we write to each other. In his Inst letter he says he loves me and wants me to consider my- self engaged. I like him, but I don't love him. Why should he fall in love? What shall I do?—D.C.

Cartoon by Charles M. Schulz. © 1963, by Warner Press, Inc.

"What am I supposed to do, eat it or climb it?' Long distance infatuations are A common. Your friend is away from home, is lonely, and is in love

with a dream girl more than he is with you. Usually such love does not last. Write a kindly, gentle letter to IwW him. Tell him you respect his feeling, and appreciate his sincerity, but make

it plain that you don't consider your- By RICHMOND BARBOUR self engaged.

THINKING of marriage? Give it Can you do hard, unpleasant work Ql'm a preacher's son, 14. My long thoughts. If you marry the right day after day, without complaining? father tells me I must behave. person at the right time, you'll enjoy Can you plan a budget and live He says I have to be nice to the a good life. If you marry the wrong within it? Can you stand to be poor? church ladies who call me "little man" person, or marry at the wrong time, Can you live away from your school My mother says that even at school I you'll be sorry forever. Don't throw friends? Your parents? If you are a must remember I am a representative yourself away. boy, can you earn a decent living? of a fine Christian organization. I re- \ Are you really in love? could If you are a girl, can you keep house Or sent being a preacher's son. Do other this be another crush? You've lived cheerfully, week after week? boys whose fathers are ministers feel through crushes before. They do not Do your parents approve of your this way? Will I ever be free like other last. If you marry now and discover plan? Remember, they love you. They kids?—L.H. later your feeling was only temporary, want only the best for you. I do not you'll be in a sad fix. Waiting will suggest that your parents should dic- enable you to distinguish between love tate your life for you, but if you are Many other preachers' sons feel and a crush. Waiting is hard, but an under age, they have legal control. A the same way. However, they unhappy marriage is infinitely worse. Regardless of your age, you should all get over it, and you will, too. As Are you old enough? Is the one consider your parents' advice in mak- a rule, preachers' sons are more suc- you love old enough? Some persons ing your decision. Good luck to you! cessful than other boys. They go are more mature and ready for mar- farther in school. They are more likely riage at 18 than others are at 25. The Q You've printed letters from to enter a profession. They marry care- record shows that teen-age marriages girls who wish they hadn't fully. Eventually, you'll be glad you are extremely risky. For a few weeks, married in their teens. Well, here's are a preacher's son. young married couples live on Cloud one from a hoy. I'm 18, my wife is 16. Nine. Then many of them discover We've been married a year. Instead they were not really ready. of adventure and happiness, we've just QMy brother is 17 and can do Some of them have babies, and had misery. We both quit school. I anything he wants. I'm a girl regret it. Some shirk their new respon- got a job. All she does is loll around 15. My parents watch me like I was sibilities, and become rebellious. All her parents' house waiting for her girl an idiot. I can't have dates; 1 must miss their old crowds, and the fun friends to get home. I'd give anything come straight home after basketball, 9:15 they had before marriage. Eventually if I'd waited to graduate and then games; I have to be in bed by love may turn to hatred. Misery and married someone who was old enough week nights. My brother stays out as then divorce often follow. to be a real wife!—G.C. late as he wants. He has been dating

J^ ^mmi m^^ for three years; he even drinks and smokes. Is it fair for him to have his freedom while I am such a slave? Bishop Nail Answers —G.S.

Questions About . .

He is older than you, for one A thing. Also there is a tradition that girls need closer supervision than boys. I think both boys and girls should do their very best to live up to our Christian moral standards.

QWill yon warn girls not to act crazy in front of a camera? I'm 13. 1 know a boy who is a camera fan. He develops his own negatives and prints. He took pictures of me pretending to he drunk. 1 was making dirty signs with my hands. Now the pictures are all over school. If my father sees them, he'll wallop me. Why was I such a fool?—M.J.

AI'll be glad to warn other girls. Probably you responded emo- i tionally to the boy who took the pictures. You wanted to please him. Your judgment was bad. We all make i foolish mistakes. Tell your mother What is 'depth' Bible study? In this old, old method of study, re- about the pictures. Have her prepare discovered in our day, the student attempts to find out not only what the i your father. Then grin and bear it. writer tried to say to the people of his own day but what he is saying for present-day culture and relationships. QMy principal and teachers have He takes a short passage (perhaps only a verse, sentence, or paragraph) it in for me. I gave a girl a and reads it in as many versions as he can find. He writes the thought in cigarette. It was her first smoke. The his own words, contemporary and nontheological. He does not try to com- principal saiv me, and suspended me. mit the passage to memory so much as to commit his life to its truth. Some- Does he have a right to do that for one has said that the basic purpose of depth Bible study is personal com- something which happened off the mitment to "the Living Word without the word." 'School grounds?—J.R. xLcumenieal' and 'Confessional'—how do they differ? Ecumeni- cal Christianity includes all forms in all parts of the world. It includes Yes, he has the right. I'm sorry Roman Catholicism and the Pentecostal sects and Christian Science. A you feel that the principal and The World Council of Churches, with 198 member churches, is not com- teachers are against you. You broke pletely ecumenical, but it is stretching in that direction within the frame- the law and should take your punish- work of allegiance to the Holy Scriptures and the Trinity. ment. When you return to school ask Confessional Christianity is denominational, and the major confessional the principal to help you get squared bodies represent 250 million Christians. Many of these groups have their away. Follow his suggestions. Tell own worldwide organizations, like the Lutheran World Federation, the 'your teachers what you are trying to Baptist World Alliance, and the World Methodist Council. jdo. You'll find them willing to help, Time was when ecumenical and confessional movements were considered once they see you mean business. to be antagonistic, and it was thought that they could not coexist. It now

is believed that most confessional groups can make their best contribution to ecumenicity by emphasizing their own special heritage and insights. But QMy boyfriend worked until he duplication organizations bought a car. Then he quit. there is a problem at the point of of some and Now he doesn't liave money for gas. activities. I have a job and want to buy gas so we can drive around. He is willing, How do Communists try to enter churehes? So far as we can dis- but my mother says no. She does not cover, only through social or recreational life, never by means of religious Hke him, anyway. Is she using the life. Dialectical materialism, with its emphasis on man's preoccupation with gasoline as an excuse to break us material things, has nothing in common with true Christianity, which stresses kip?—M.S. spiritual things. The communist ruse is soon detected by those who under- stand the Christian idea of man as a child of God.

A Probably not. You should do "I'm no quiz kid" says Bishop Nail, former editor of the Christian Advocate. what your mother says. Tradi- j*\ "but I do like to try my hand at answering questions that bother people." His book tion requires boys to pay the cost of The Bible When You Need It Most is further evidence of his interest.

±\A*„ io»\ t »u„. A entertaining girls. Very few teen-age neck and frequently go too far. jtMfiiaftikfcL couples take exception to the tradition. Another disadvantage is that when you Your boyfriend should have a job. go steady you don't get acquainted :-i It*. , % Cars are expensive. with other girls. It is important for you to get acquainted with many nice 'Wicked girls. Then you'll have a basis for a boy, 16. Last night QVm my judging them when the time comes stepfather got mad at and me to think of marriage. wf hit me with a fist. I tried to hit him hack. My mother got between ns, and I hit her instead. She has an awful QVm a girl, 13. I went to my 'Sour godliness is the devil's religion" ter- bruise on her face now, and I feel first big dance last month. I —JOHN WESLEY rible about it. This is the fourth time had a new permanent. Mama bought my stepfather and I have fought. What me a new dress. I used makeup for shall I it?— do about R.A. the first time. My parents said I looked lovely. The boys didn't think so; I sat The small-town preacher rushed with my girl friends all evening. I was down to the railroad station every Do you have an older brother not asked to dance even once! I cried day to watch the train go by. Mem- A or sister you could live with? all the way home. What is wrong Or another relative who could take bers of his congregation thought his with me?—E.B. pastime juvenile, and asked him to you? If not, go with your mother to foster give it up. your county home headquarters (probably in either the probation office "No, gentlemen," he said firmly, Nothing is wrong. Nearly all or the welfare department). Find "I preach your sermons, teach your A girls have the same experience another place to live. You'll be better church-school classes, bury your at their first big dances. Most girls of off away from your stepfather. After dead, marry you, run your charities, 13 are interested in boys, but fewer to in touch chairman every drive it pleases you you move, be sure keep than one half of the boys of 13 are I

with your mother. ! to conduct. But I won't give up see- interested in girls. They refuse to at- ing that train. It's the only thing tend parties or dances. That means that passes through this town that there never are enough boys to QVm a boy, 14. My mother go I don't have to push." around. I suggest you ask to be ap- thinks I am in love, I daydream —Paula Baisch, Newton, III. pointed to the committee which plans so much. She is wrong. I'm not in love, the next dance. Then see to it that I just sit and daydream about sex. I there are tag dances and mixers. also have sex dreams at night. I am Everybody will have more fun that Joe had not been in church Sun- able to make myself think about school way. day, so when the new minister saw work or athletics, when I try, but the him the next day he chided, "I'm minute I relax, I start getting evil told you went to the ball game in- thoughts. Am I going crazy? Or am I a QVm a boy, 18, living at home. stead of church yesterday." sinner, through and through?—R.C. I've been arguing with my "That's a lie," foe spouted, "and father. He says that as long as I live I've got the fish to prove it!" under his roof and take his money, I —S. J. Gudge, Toronto, Ontario Many boys have similar day- A dreams, and night dreams. The must obey him. I say I became inde- dreams do not mean you are going pendent when I turned 18. I want to crazy. Significant changes have been smoke. He says I can't. When does a boy grow up?—D.B. The entire community was striv- taking place in your body. Partly, ing to convert old Uncle Ab. One your preoccupation with sex comes day, a long-time friend tackled the from them. Partly, the daydreams are They grow up at different ! problem. "Ab," he questioned, a matter of choice. You can keep your- A times, depending upon their "don't it soften your heart to know self from wasting your time this way homes and themselves. You came into the Lord loves you?" if you try. Keep busy with your certain legal rights at 18, but you still "Do you aim to tell me," Uncle schoolwork, go to school games and have moral obligations to your parents. Ab scoffed, "that the Lord loves me other worthwhile activities. Don't give Probably a majority of men would say when he ain't ever knqwed me?" yourself time to relax and daydream. exactly what your father said. Smok- The old friend thought a moment, You'll be better off that way. ing is unwise, anyway. It has been then said sadly, "Ab, it's a heap proven beyond a doubt that cigarette easier for the Lord to love you with- want to go steady, but smokers shorten their lives materially. out knowin' you than if he ever QI my girl Better not start smoking. knowed you like I do." friend refuses. I'm 16, she —Charles Kennedy, Jackson, Mich. is 15. We're old enough to go steady, aren't we? What are its advantages and disadvantages?—W.G. Puzzled about how to handle a situa-

If you have one or more favorite tion? You needn't be. church-related chuckles you'd lih\e to Many kids start going steady Just write Dr. Barbour, share with our readers, send them A at your age. The chief ad- c/o Together, Box in! We'll pay $5 for each one we vantage is that you're always sure of 423, Park Ridge, III, print. We can't return contributions, having a date. One disadvantage is for guidance. He's our though, so please don't enclose that kids who go steady get too experienced counselor postage.—Eds. friendly and often fall in love. They —ready to help you

tfStfS Christian Living Is Too Hard

A Together in the Feature by Kathleen Bruce

^TEVE burst into the kitchen with an editorial on "this wilful misbe- desire for freedom from his parents. a home-run slide. havior of some of our youth," Steve Might he not deliberately veer away "We won, Mom!" he announced had admitted he and his friends from any principles we might breathlessly, waving a dollar bill. "I moved the signs "just for kicks." "preach" to him? bet one of the guys that the Reds Then there was the BB-gun epi- I prayed earnestly, but Steve be- ." would win the ball game . . sode. An elderly gentleman had came even more rebellious toward

"But Steve—" scolded Steve and his friends for loud advice and punishment, and still re-

"Now, don't preach, Mom! I won talking in front of his house. The fused to bring his friends home. I the bet—the dollar's mine, fair and boys retaliated by pelleting his alumi- dreaded the summer, for his efforts square." num storm door with a BB-gun. The to get a job were unsuccessful. "Fair possibly, by some people's man phoned the police, who picked One Sunday, as my husband and standards, but taking money from a up Steve (his friends disappeared!) I were leaving church (Steve had friend on a bet, Steve, that's just not and brought him home with a stern refused to come) we were stopped by Christian living." reprimand for him and his parents. Larry Brown, a counselor for our

"Then Christian living's too hard!" The knife alarmed me most. I had Methodist Youth Fellowship.

Steve swung on his heel, slamming found it in the pocket of Steve's jeans "We'd like to have Steven come

:the kitchen door behind him. when I was putting them in the to our fellowship meetings," he said. It wasn't just Steve's betting that laundry. I asked him about it, and "We've tried to persuade him— to worried me. Steven had made new he told me he had ordered it from a come, but he's so reluctant " I

friends, but he did not seem willing catalogue. "Dan says every guy confessed. Then, on impulse, I told to bring them home. Actually about should carry a knife for self-protec- Mr. Brown about Steve's new friends.

all his father and I knew about them tion." The next evening Steve got a 'was merely their names were Joe, As parents, we had tried to train telephone call. After a long conversa- Dan, and Gerry, and that Dan and Steve in Christian principles. Our tion, he came back into the room. Gerry were older. goal had been to help him develop "Mr. Brown wants me to go to Recently, the boys' activities had self-discipline. Now, we had had to church camp next week," he said upset us seriously. There was the punish him for his involvement in casually. "He says a lot of the guys moving of several real-estate "For the sign-moving and the BB-gun

Sale" signs. Harmless enough, per- episodes; and, of course, I had con-

haps, but it had been a nuisance for fiscated the knife.

agents and clients. And it was wrong. How could we help him? Steve After our suburban weekly printed was feeling the adolescent's normal

"At night, when we sat around our campfire, I \ept remembering the things we'd tal\ed about during the day." are going. I can even ask Joe and feel a vague disquiet. Those Chris- to church. "Our minister is going to Dan and Gerry. If they go, I guess tian principles I had preached to tell everybody about camp," Steve

I will too." Steven. How would I go about liv- had said. His father and I would Dan and Gerry refused to go, ing an "all-out" Christian life for have to be in the congregation to but Joe was willing if Steve went. just one day? This day, for instance. hear. It was a lot easier to "talk"

Steve, undecided, finally announced: First, I realized, I would have to Christian principles than it was go-

"Guess I'll give camp a try." phone the dairy about the under- ing to be to live them. Yet I knew The young people returned from charge on our milk bill. It was their that if we were to help our son be- camp on Friday noon. Steve was un- mistake, but if I kept the $2, could lieve in the principles we so much usually quiet at lunch, but I felt he I judge Steve's keeping money on a wanted for him, we had to live so wanted to talk. I noticed he wore a bet to be wrong? he would have no doubt of our own tiny block of wood on a chain around "All-out" Christian living would belief in them. his neck. I asked him about it. mean calling on old Mrs. Bailey in A few days later, Steve asked if "It means something special, Mom. the rest home instead of going shop- he might have a meeting of the camp

But I can't tell about it — I have to ping this afternoon. She would be group in our back yard. He told me show what it means," he told me. expecting me, but this was the last they planned to have several camp- Then, after a moment of quietness, day of the sale on those milk-glass fire get-togethers during the summer, he began to tell about the group goblets I needed to complete my set. just for talk. A counselor would leaders, their talks about the Bible, And those goblets were expensive, be present at each gathering. the life and teachings of Jesus, and even on sale. If I "borrowed" from Steve also began to attend the how everybody had a chance to talk, our tithe money, as I had planned, Sunday-evening MYF meetings regu- ask questions, and "say what we real- would I really repay it as I had larly. He was still spending much ly thought." promised myself? There had been time with Joe, but the two usually One of their group leaders, he said, other times. Yet I often had were at our house, experimenting in was the high-school gym teacher. "preached" to Steve about the im- a "chem lab" they had set up in the "I never knew he went to church portance of systematic tithing. basement, doing gymnastics, or prac-

—and he prays and reads the Bible," If I were really true to my Chris- ticing baseball in the backyard. Steve told me. "Say, he gave me a tian principles, I would not serve Steve no longer saw Dan and job cutting his grass this summer." cocktails to our dinner guests tonight. Gerry.

He went on: "At night, when we Steve's father and I are opposed to Of course, problems continued to sat around our campfire, I sort of drinking, but the Joneses always have pop up. Often Steve was rebellious, kept remembering the things we'd a drink before dinner. determined, increasingly insistent on talked about during the day. Wait a And I would have to cancel Sun- independence. But we were closer in ." minute . . He dug in his bag. day morning's outing so we could go mutual understanding. Usually we "You want to read this stuff, were able to talk out our differences. Mom? Maybe Dad would like to Now, at 16, Steve shows reassuring read it, too." He handed me a packet proof of the inner discipline his of mimeographed folders. father and I have desired for him. The first contained the study He remains active in our church theme for the camp period. Titled t youth fellowship, and I will never The Conquest of Inner Space, it was forget the joy I felt on a recent Sun-

developed along the idea that while day when I listened to our son lead "THE churches are full of hypo- man is beginning the conquest of the Affirmation of Faith in the morn- crites. I'd rather stay in bed on Sun- outer space, the inner space of human day morning."—A remark overheard. ing worship service conducted by the beings is still unconquered. MYF. 7 heard an Elmer Gantry I paused to read some of the ques- When children are in their teen'?, give the Sermon on the Mount. tions: What, actually, constitutes the the religious influence of their par- Yet I still believe in sainthood. Christian life? Does our contempo- ents—no matter how hard they try rary moral code come up to Jesus' I saw a chauvinist wave — is not enough. They need added Stars Stripes merrily. standards? How would you go about the and support from outside adults they re- Yet I do not find patriotism ignoble. living an "all-out" Christian life for spect, and from their contemporaries. just one day? I am sure this support has steadied A misanthrope first read I asked Steve how this last one 13 Corinthians to me. Steve through the shaky years of was answered. He grinned. "It can Yet I will never renounce love. adolescence.

be done, we tried it. But it's hard!" Soon he will be ready for college. Is God less beautiful He picked up his bag: "Guess I'll I hope he will choose one of our if his children are imperfect? unpack and hunt up In the of the Joe." Is Christ less a Savior church-related schools, or one

doorway he turned and said: "At if multitudes go unsaved? 183 schools that have a Wesley church Sunday our minister is going Is the beacon of democracy Foundation on campus. Yes, Chris- less a light of hope to talk about camp. All of us who tian living is hard—too hard with- if superpatriots dim it? went are going to sit together." out help. That is why you will find Should I cast aside my ideals As I read the camp study guide Steve's parents with their son in the if I do not always uphold them? and discussion questions, I began to —Jill Crawford sanctuary on Sunday mornings

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Scripture Reading: 1 Peter 1:1-4, Psalm 130

Text: "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature."—2 Peter 1:4 (KJV)

May 24, 1738, was a memorable day in the life of John Wesley. That day he became a changed man. Because of what happened, historians say England was changed. Wesley arose before daybreak on May 24, and about five o'clock he opened his New Testament at our text. Just as he went out he opened it again and read the word from Mark 12:34 (KJV), "Thou art not far from the kingdom of God." These two passages spoke to his heart. The Moravians had been telling him that he was not far from the Kingdom, but still not in it.

Hymn: "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" Charles Wesley (The Methodist Hymnal, 338. May be read or sung.)

Jesus, Lover of my soul,

Let me to Thy bosom fly, While the nearer waters roll,

While the tempest still is high: Hide me, O my Savior, hide, Till the storm of life is past; Safe into the haven guide; O receive my soul at last!

In the afternoon, Wesley was asked to go to St. Paul's Cathedral. Wesley heard the cathedral choir sing the 130th Psalm, "Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice." This event was a wayside experience along the road to a richer life. It was a short distance from the magnificent cathedral, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, to that little society meeting in Aldersgate Street, but it was a long way in Wesley's experience. In the cathedral, Wesley was still not far from the Kingdom. That evening, Wesley says, "I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's Preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my fms&ij heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salva- tion: And an assurance was given me, that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death." CMffLfOj This experience gave Wesley an assurance of salvation that he had not known. He had moved into the Kingdom and the Kingdom was in him. Today we who are called Methodists have the common heritage of For use May 24 the warmed heart. at a quarter to nine Hymn: "O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing" Charles Wesley to coincide with (The Methodist Hymnal, 162)

John Wesley's O for a thousand tongues to sing Aldersgate Experience. My great Redeemer's praise, The glories of my God and King, By J. MANNING POTTS The triumphs of His grace! Editor, The Upper Room

Prayer ( in unison ) : Our Father, we thank thee for John Wesley and for what he did for the world. We thank thee for the world parish of The Methodist Church. May The Methodist Church, a part of the body of Christ, be alive to human need today. Give us, we pray thee, the witness of the Spirit that we may have hearts warmed to thee and to our fellowmen. In the Savior's name. Amen.

Thought for the Day: If Aldersgate is to mean anything to me, I must have my own experience.

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lames R. Sewell George Pearce, Jr. George F. V/eyand I. R. McAlister Unto Wilmot, Ark. Natchitoches, La. Newburgh, N.Y. Clinton, S.C.

He attended worship service ATHER and mother were next day and each service there- sound asleep in their bed- after. did personal work that x- He room one night, and their pre- caused twice as of his fellow many school son was asleep in his ad- soldiers to attend as were present joining room. A storm broke upon at the previous service. His com- that area with its accompanying manding officer forgave him on all lightning and thunder. charges. became a model He The parents slept until a sudden soldier. loud clap of thunder awakened the psalmist wishes to Here them. The father, thinking that

teach transgressors the truth in : the little lad would be frightened, rather order to turn them to God rushed into his room. than to cry out against them; to The boy had left his bed and was sing a song of thanksgiving for his Weekly Meditations by standing at the window, listening the of sin; deliverance from death and watching as the lightning Ministers on the International to offer that which God desires — flashed across the sky. He was above all else "a broken and Sunday School Lessons clapping his hands and saying' a contrite heart." excitedly: When everything is thus re- "Bang it again, God! Bang it stored, God will even be delighted again!" once again to accept one's whole This story, as told by Mar-' are told there is re- offering. We gueritte Bro, helps me to know joicing in heaven over one sinner MAY 5 that a good church-school teacher, not excess of that repents. Why an or grandparent, had given this lad The sacrifices of God are a joy in the heart of the sinner on some excellent training about the broken spirit: a broken and a is forgiven? earth who greatness of God as exhibited in contrite heart, O God, thou One moment the sinner was a the violence of nature. Someone wilt not despise.—Psalms 51: 17 (KJV) defiant man, the next he was a had certainly followed the psalm- of penitent before the judgment ist's advice for fathers to teach 3S THERE a chaplain in the God. Who has not prayed, grate- their children. ancient crowd?" This question was fully, the words of the The family is God's chosen unit penitent: "Create in a clean asked by a drunken soldier one me for instruction. A community is night on Bataan, Philippine Is- heart, O God, and put a new and too large for intimate instruction, or, lands, in 1945. Negligence to duty, right spirit within me"? con- but a family is just right. The disrespect to his commanding fessed, "Thy Word is a lamp unto laboratory for the working out of officer, and continued drunkenness my feet and a light unto my path"? Christian principles is one's own 1 had made him subject to general backyard or kitchen. The Supreme court-martial. ^rawr: O God, through the re- Court ruling against New York's membrance of the ever presence It was suggested that he see the public-school prayer makes it chaplain. He briefly related the of the Spirit of Christ, enable us even more mandatory that we situation and suggested need of to walk in the light of truth rather train our children within the con- prayer. I asked him to pray. Then, than grope in darkness. Amen. fines of our own homes. JAMES R. SEWELL I responded in prayer. — Parents, have your childrer There followed additional dis- ever heard you read aloud frorr MAY 12 cussion. A second time the soldier the Holy Scriptures? Have thej. suggested that we ought to pray. ever heard you pray? He established a testimony in I you 11 Again, asked him to pray, after Jacob, and appointed a law in Have you taken them with which I supported his prayer as Israel, which he commanded to perform deeds of kindness foi best I could. Arising from prayer our fathers to teach to their those who are distressed and neec he said, "Everything is all right." children.—Psalms 78:5 a Good Samaritan's help? jn MMiMfiriS H —

grayer: Heavenly Father, we are MAY 26 grateful to thee for entrusting to J was glad when they said to

| us our children and youth. Help me, "Let us go to the house oj us to be worthy of this trust. the Lord/"—Psalms 122:1 Through Christ our Lord. Amen. —GEORGE PEARCE, JR. SjOME TIME ago a lad of about fjs/ five years said, "Preacher, MAY 19 I had rather go to church than to any other place. You know why? Then they cried to the Lord in Because everybody is good to me their trouble, and he delivered there including and them from their distress.— — Mommy Psalms 107:6 Daddy!" It sounded as though he was JVLANY laymen, and even some E ALL know what it means not getting that little extra special ministers, think around-the-clock to be in some kind of dis- attention at home that he got at m prayer vigils I are a waste of time. tress. Last Christmas Day, I went church. Maybe his motive was not felt that way, too, until I participated through the file at the hospital to quite right, but he was glad when in one while on the Gainesboro see if any of our members had to he could go into the house of God. charge. remain there on that joyous day. There was a note of joy in his voice Our Virginia Methodist Confer- I was shocked to find the name and a glimmer of light on his face ence planned a vigil and out of of one of my parishioners—a love- as he thought about his church. loyalty I agreed the six churches ly, elderly lady—who had just The psalmist, also, is overjoyed on my charge that year would par- been admitted. She had fallen be- at having the invitation to journey ticipate in one to be held at a side her Christmas tree and frac- to the house of God. He is glad for central church. When I learned we tured a hip. the experience of worship, for the had been assigned a 12-hour period Christmas Day! What a time to high moment in his life as he gains from midnight to noon, I fully ex- be in the hospital! How alone one strength to lift the heavy load pected to have to stay in church the must feel, missing the family cele- from his dreary soul. entire time myself. bration! When I tried to express Man was created to have fellow- Since our young people would be my sadness over her being con- ship with God, and until that unable to attend because of school fined on this day, she replied fellowship is complete, there re- and homework, I asked them to cheerfully, "Why complain? I mains a restlessness and a dissatis- plan the program. To my surprise, always say if one kicks he only faction within his nature. The they took over with enthusiasm, ar- hurts his own toes." She was church affords us the opportunity ranging for the churches to make ready to make the best of this to fulfill that relationship, for it tape recordings of prayer and music. distress. By what grace could she is grounded in the redeeming love Right on schedule at midnight, a do so? of God. As we go into his house to couple who had driven 12 miles Sometimes God removes our give thanks, to pray, to commit entered the church. It was lighted trouble. But we need to remind ourselves to him, we find a only by two pulpit candles. As re- ourselves that the Christian faith stability that cannot be secured corded organ music filled the sanctu- never promises a trouble-free life. any other place. ary, I spoke: "The cross, which is It does promise that we shall find As it is so easy to get lost in the the center Christianity, stands for strength adequate to the task world, we need the high experi- of the Savior, who defeated death and if we cry unto the Lord. ence of worship. We need, and ." is among you this moment. . . It may be that the deliverance should be happy for the privilege Then came the choirs' 1 Am Pray- will be the strength to battle to go into the house of God where ing You, followed by more com- through the hardship with a vic- our minds are lifted above the for ments by the minister and by prayers torious spirit, as did the woman mundane tasks. and hymns. Each 30-minute period in the hospital. She could meet Through worship, we gain that was set off by the choirs' recorded the disappointment because she "peace that passeth all under- Be With You. trusted in God and knew that, standing." God People came and went steadily. come what may, he would see her Our Christian church is that During the 12 hours, each church through. Therefore, even in dis- signal pointing us upward to God was represented. More than 70 tress, she could be of good cheer. and the fullness we have in him. had committed themselves God had delivered her from dis- When we worship, we return with persons attend; only four failed. tress. our spiritual being recharged to to As each half hour was over, I Paul prayed to be rid of his meet the demands of the coming watched closely as people left. They thorn in the flesh. It was not re- days. The toil and journey of our were not sleepy, for their souls had moved. Yet he received God's daily life cannot be met adequate- been refreshed. Like Peter, they had promise which enabled him to live ly without this spiritual nourish- seen the countenance of their Lord. Victoriously: "My grace is suffi- ment. months later, benefits were cient for thee." So be it unto us Now, still being felt. Recently a woman also! grayer: Our Father, so fill us with thy love and understanding that told me, "It was the most wonder- experience I have ever known. r.rager: Hear us, O Lord, when we may always come in joy and ful sacred meant we cry unto thee. Grant that we thanksgiving to thy house. Help "It was more and may hear when thou dost speak us to realize that our emptiness much more," she explained, "be- gave unto us. In Christ's name, give can always be filled in true cause I sacrificed sleep—and us grace. Amen. worship to thee. Amen. it to God in prayer." —Philip E. —GEORGE F. WEYAND —J. R. MCALISTER Weeks

—..Vlav 19*3\Tnn.th„ 61 Baniaba. Looks at NEW Books

Back in My, i96i [pages 2-3], Rather, he thought them so unimpor- Together published a powerful blank tant that he would not press the claim verse poem that had been delivered by of his own denomination. He instructed Robert B. Anderson, then secretary his followers to enroll their converts not of the Treasury, at the opening of the as members of the Moravian Church Washington National Cathedral. Its but as Christians. title was A Nation Needs to Pray, and

we were proud of it not only because When they were students at Oxford,

of its own excellence but because it was John Wesley used to brace himself when the work of an outstanding Methodist his brother Charles walked into his layman. study. Charles, full of the poetic muse Now we are prouder still. Robert and being shortsighted, would some- Lutnes, religious editor of Thomas times walk right against his brother's

Nelson & Sons, was so impressed by table, often overturning it. If the "fine IBB Anderson's verses that he decided to phrenzy" were not quite so high, he create a book with them. Nelson's would merely discompose books and photographic consultant, Frances L. papers, ask some questions, not always MH|1 Orkin, set the lines to pictures much as waiting for a reply, repeat the verse a composer would have set them to that had just struck him, and finally music, and the book titled A Nation leave his brother to his studies. Needs to Pray (Nelson, $3.95) is a During his lifetime, Charles Wesley stirring word and picture testament. wrote about 9,000 poems, many of In the foreword, former President them the hymns for which he has be- Dwight D. Eisenhower says: "Through- come best known within the Protestant

out the nation's history, a deeply felt church. This is something like three religious faith has been a powerful force times the output of William Words- i« molding Americans in uncounted ways; worth and even more than that of shaping our system; enriching our Robert Browning.

F 8 II heritage." Representative Verse of Charles Wesley (Abingdon, $11) now is avail- If the picture on page 42 of John able to American readers in a limited Wesley at Herrnhut with Count edition of a volume previously pub- Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf in- lished in England. Frank Baker, an 1 1 1 '3 trigues you, you can find out more English Methodist minister now lectur- 1 P about the remarkable German noble- ing in church history at Duke Univer- man and his fellow Moravians in sity Divinity School, chose 335 examples

I- all Zinzendorf, The Ecumenical Pio- for it, divided them into hymns, devo- neer (Westminster, $3.75). tional verse, and miscellaneous poems, This book by Moravian minister and wrote an absorbing 50-page intro-

A. J. Lewis gives us a scholarly yet duction that discusses Charles Wesley's absorbing record of the plain-looking academic and spiritual background, his i kl 1 H[fj^| man who assumed no grand or solemn command of meter, and the structure airs yet whose eyes were full of fire. and style of his verse. Count Zinzendorf devoted his life and fortune to the missionary activities Modern biographers have been hard "How preoccupied is man with of the Moravian Church. His name was on Samuel Wesley, dwelling on his lack progress," says Robert B. Anderson's loved by slaves in the West Indies, Eski- of business ability, his failure as contemplative poem about the mos in Greenland, Negroes in Surinam. farmer, his inability to understand his blessings jor which America should Isaac Watts revered him as a "person daughters, and his mercurial tempera- of uncommon zeal and piety," and he ment. be grateful—and the dangers was called the greatest German Evan- Maldwyn Edwards strives to set which free men should beware. of gelical since Luther. the record straight in Sons to Samuel It concludes: "This nation The most remarkable thing about (Epworth Press, London; available irn needs to pray." The picture him, Dr. Lewis believes, was his belief this country through Abingdon Press,

that all of Christ are brethren, $2.50). The man who emerges is J above is in the boo\. members whether belonging to Rome, Witten- tempestuous, irascible, but a brilliant'

berg, or Jerusalem. He did not seek to student, a devoted churchman, and an> { abolish organizational distinctions. altogether human husband and father.]

iMiibita^ Lteaffc His wife, Susanna, declared it "a thousand pities that a man of his bright- An anthem that helped make Methodist history. ness and rare endowments of learning and useful knowledge should be con- fined to an obscure corner of the country where his talents are buried." Samuel's Out of the Deep own letters to theirs sons John, Charles, AT 3 P.M., May 24, 1738, the day ij and Samuel, Jr., show his never-flagging his soul-lifting experience came to John interest in their interests and his readi- Wesley at Aldersgate, he heard an anthem ness to offer—and seek—advice. in London's famous St. Paul's Cathedral To his sons, he transmitted his love [page 1]. This is that anthem, as of books and sound learning, his sturdy abridged by Dr. Austin C. Lovelace. orthodoxy with its strong evangelical With music he arranged, it is now pub- emphasis, his love of the Anglican ''""^fMrn^^y lished by Abingdon Press (35$). The Church, and his own large vision of original was written by Dr. William Croft the worldwide Church. (1678-1727), and was one of 30 anthems Any fresh estimate of Methodist published in 1724. The words are drawn St. Paul's Cathedral , beginnings, writes Edwards, will not 130. from Psalm as it looked in Wesley's day

: touch the status of the remarkable

Susanna, but it will recognize the

powerful influence of the rector: "Let I i Out of the depths cry to thee, I wait for the Lord, my soid waits,

: him keep his blemishes; he still remains O Lord! and in his word I hope;

: the first great fashioner of the Meth- Lord, hear my voice! my soul waits for the Lord odist story." Let thy ears be attentive more than watchmen for the morning, The book also gives us a valuable to the voice of my supplications! more than watchmen for the morning. study of the partnership of John and Charles Wesley, their relation to If thou, O Lord, shouldst mark O Israel, hope in the Lord! Samuel, Jr., and their contribution iniquities, For with the Lord there is steadfast through Methodism to the universal Lord, who could stand? love,

church. But there is forgiveness with thee, and with him is plenteous redemption. that thou mayest be feared. And he will redeem Israel Helen B. Walters gives boys and from all his iniquities. [girls a bright, appealing picture of Copyright 1963 by Abingdon Press young John Wesley and his brothers ©

; and sisters in When John Wesley Was a Boy (Baker, $1.50). It takes him from his birth to the 'time he decided to prepare to preach the Gospel. Life was not dull at Ep- row, $5) is her own frank record of missions is rooted in practical experi- iworth Rectory, and Miss Walters' her struggle toward understanding and ence. For 46 years, he served in India

Uprightly writing will put young readers Christian maturity. She is not afraid to as a pastor, editor, publisher, secretary

right into the spirit of it. hold a mirror up to her mistakes. She of regional and national Christian coun-

is not afraid to laugh at herself. And cils, and bishop. Since his retirement

One of the South's most formidable she is not afraid to be a crusader for a from episcopal administration in 1956,

fighters for integration is petite, blue- cause she has come to believe in. he has been visiting professor of mis-

:yed Sarah Patton Boyle, descendant "Here is the last of the discoveries sions in Boston University School of pf not one but several first families of which have renewed me," she writes. Theology and has also served as coun- Virginia and daughter of an Episcopal "When you obey the First Command- selor in evangelism for the Methodist clergyman. ment in Jesus' summary, the Second is Board of Missions.

, It was when she was 44 that she not only your balance, but also your ooked at herself and her South "for reward. As soon as you love God, you The explosive worldwide problems of he first time." A qualified Negro love man. Once you love God, you can- poverty, hunger, illiteracy and disease awyer had to sue for admission to the not help loving man." are the concern of Paul G. Hoffman. Jniversity of Virginia, and Mrs. Boyle, It was he who carried the Marshall ts the wife of a professor at the uni- The Dynamics of Church Growth Plan to success. Now he is managing ersity, offered her help, almost casual- (Abingdon, $2.50) is subtitled "A posi- director of the United Nations Special

y, naively taking it for granted that all tive approach for world missions," and Fund.

'nice" people would think as she did. this is an accurate description of Meth- In World Without Want (Harper

' It was the first step in a metamorpho- odist Bishop J. Waskom Pickett's & Row, $3.50), he points out that the 'is that led her to "leave the white race very readable book. people in two thirds of the world, so join the human race." The journey Evangelism throughout the world, earning the equivalent of half a loaf of vas not easy. White friends dropped declares Bishop Pickett, is not just desir- bread a day, have awakened to the fact

ker, Negroes were wary, doubtful of able, it is essential. He is convinced that that their poverty is not inevitable. Un- ier staying power. But slowly and the opportunities and responsibilities of less their demand for a better life is gainfully, the condescension with which the church are now greater than they met, we may have other Congos, and he, like other "quality" Southerners, ever were before, and he says the church other Cubas.

reated the Negroes dropped from her is better equipped for its work than it "Morally, we cannot escape concern,"

' nd understanding took its place. has been since apostolic times. he writes, "politically, the seething un- f The Desegregated Heart (Mor- His world-ranging view of Christian rest demands it; economically, we will

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gain from it. The bluntest and most tion is introduced personally by Ford, Easy-To-Read Type accurate answer to why we should be and the book is mighty pleasant to have concerned is that we must be if we on the piano. Moderately Priced . . . are to survive."

Reviewing the mistakes of the 1950s, I have been reading a paperback book he prescribes steps to spur growth in you may have already run into in an the 100 countries and territories still RSV adult study course. But I think it is dominated by poverty, urging business- such good basic reading for every Chris-

like surveys to prepare the way for tian that I want to mention it. FAMILY profitable investment—and reminding It is The Bible and God's Call - us that while 70 percent of the capital (50f/ ), a study of the Biblical founda- required for economic development tion of vocation, by Howard C. Kee must come from advanced countries, and Montgomery Shroyer. BIBLES J. The the sum needed is less than 5 percent Church's Interboard Committee on of the world's annual outlay for defense. IMITATION LEATHER- Christian Vocations and the Depart- EXTRA LARGE TYPE ment of Ministerial Education pub- When Tennessee Ernie Ford was lished it to help further the quadrennial Magnificent Revised Standard Version three years old, his father was invited emphasis on ministerial recruitment. family Bible with extra large type, generous margins, and convenient to bring him to the Men's Bible Class Actually, it does not confine itself to page size. Contains over 75.000 cen- at the Anderson Street Methodist the Bible. It discusses attitudes toward ter-column references, 12 full-color maps, three-color presentation page, Church, Bristol, Tenn. They had vocation down through the centuries to four-page family record in color. and heard he knew the words to The Old today. I like it because it is a reasoned Page size, 7x10 inches, approximately Cross. 1 5/16 inches thick. Black imitation Rugged and sensible consideration that includes binding; limp style; round corners; Ford does not remember whether he the many ministries of the church, the red edges; ribbon markers. Boxed. [TN-6803] postpaid, $11.00 did know them or not, but he began priesthood of all believers, and not singing at an early age, and it was not just the pastoral ministry that is, of

long until he was taking his place course, ministry in its most vital form. with the choir. He also sang with the TN-6803 Cornfield Canaries, a group of about Most of W. D. Weatherford's 65 20 persons the senior Ford organized years as a Methodist minister have been to sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual devoted to interdenominational Young songs. And in high school, young Ernie Men's Christian Association work and sang with a quartet that used to ac- Appalachian Mountain service. Out of company the minister on visits to the that rich background, he has written

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]>WM/4ihJi in Fiction

With GERALD KENNEDY, bishop, los angeles area

W HEN I stopped at the barber shop After skimming through this atrocity, spoken the best words I could find when the other day, I found only one magazine I tried to think of one word which would I saw a picture which seemed to me to published within the last six months— adequately sum up my reaction. I could be worthy. I do not see that book pub- copy of Esquire. I had time to glance think of nothing except that gutter ex- lishers ought to be in any special cate- hurriedly through only one article. pression "lousy." That a man would write gory. I have read some great novels

It contained the magazine's unique such trash today is the best evidence published by Harper & Row, one of the .annual nominations for outstanding men that our society has deteriorated very outstanding publishing houses in :in certain categories. I remember, for near to a point of no return. America, but I cannot let this Georgie

example, that they had nominated as What kind of society is it that pro- Winthrop garbage appear without utter- "Farmer of the Year" Billy Sol Estes. duces a writer willing to dedicate his ing my deeply felt disappointment. And under the heading of "White Man talents to such cheap triviality? What in- I hasten to add that just the fact that

of the Year" they offered the name of duces a man to treat seriously a situation a book has some sex in it has never

Governor Ross Barnett of Mississippi. I only one step above child molestation? stopped me from recommending it, even got to thinking about this and decided If there are such men as the hero of this when some of my brethren disagree with

that it was a good idea to point out not so-called novel, his story should be only me. I do not believe in censorship of only the best in our society but also the a case study in abnormal psychology. any kind, and I am not asking for novels most notorious and the worst. I am concerned even more that a which portray only a pale, artificial, and Following that lead, therefore, I want reputable publishing house like Harper sinless world. But this one is even de-

jto nominate what I believe must be the & Row adds this book to its list. I must grading to sin. ;worst novel of this year. It is GEORGIE confess a great sense of disappointment Just to even it up a little, I will men-

WIMHROP by Sloan Wilson and in this case. It has been a source of per- tion one other novel this month. It, too. published by Harper & Row ($4.95), sonal pride to me to have Harper & Row is published by Harper & Row ($4.95), which, in my judgment, is a pity. I can- publish most of my own poor efforts. In and it is one I can recommend very not see how any man can write a worse the religious department, I have dis- highly. book and have it published by any covered high standards which are not The title is SEVEN DAYS IN MAY reputable publisher. Let me tell you just compromised. When Harpers publishes a and the authors are Fletcher Knebel

i little bit about it. book, its authors feel they belong to a and Charles W. Bailey, II.

It has to do with the 45-year-okl goodly company and its readers assume This is a good yarn about an attempt vice-president and public relations man standards of good taste. I have never by a military leader to take over the

jf a small college. The fellow is married known finer Christian men than those government in Washington and destroy ind has two very nice teen-age children, in charge of Harper & Row's religious our democracy. It is a kind of whodunit

i boy and a girl. He invites to the drama department. on a high level, and it has the touch of acuity an old friend who is now a What has happened to the fiction de- realism. Only the suspicious mind of a )roken-down playwright and an alco- partment? marine colonel saves the situation, and iolic. The old friend has a daughter who It may be replied that no publisher even then it is touch and go. There is comes from Paris. She is 17, precocious, takes personal responsibility for every a kind of "Advise and Consent" familiar- itttractive, and exciting. book he agrees to print. Quite so. But ity with the President and certain cabinet

The story is that of the 45-year-old there is a level below which no publish- members which gives a fellow the feel-

nan falling in love with this 17-year-old ing house should sink, and it is impos- ing of being right at the center of what :irl. who takes the initiative in arrang- sible for any publishing house to escape is happening.

ng a brief and sordid affair. The whole responsibility for its choice of what it I do not know of a stronger case for :hing is supposed to indicate that the will produce. We five in a time when the continuance of our tradition that nan has never grown up so far as his business firms often deny any moral re- policy is to be decided by civilians and

ove life is concerned, and his falling sponsibility for what they do or the not by generals or admirals. I suppose

nto the pit is supposed to have made manner in which it is done. They may it means something that even our 'iim mature at last! deny until the end of time, but they mystery yarns have to have national and

Thus a novelist uses a plot which is will never be able to escape responsi- international implications.

inly slightly above Lolita trying to make bility by simply denying it. When we There was once a time when it was eaders believe that the way to grow up make a choice of doing anything, we thought quite significant that a shot fired

s to be seduced by a juvenile. It is typi- thereby accept moral responsibility for at Concord could be heard all around cal of certain persons' willingness to the action. the world. Today, however, a statesman

olame every moral defection on mental I have from time to time spoken harsh can hardly clear his throat without the llness or emotional instability. In short: words against certain Hollywood pro- noise being heard in the farthest places. Rejoice, O generation without dignity, ducers for the kind of pictures they turn And on that exciting and somewhat

or nobody is to blame for anything! loose upon us and the world. I have frightening note, I bid you adieu. cannot be defeated without the Soviet SELECTED BITS FROM YOUR Union being mortally wounded."

From what I learned in my travel through the Soviet Union, people there can be won with an extended hand of friendship and the testimony of Chris- tian love rather than by regarding them and ourselves as enemies. Only about 5 percent of Russians are members of the Party, and most want better rela- tions with the West and peace.

Warm Hearts in Moscow

Cousins [page and the L. T. HATHAWAY, JR., Director It's Nice to Start With Action' Moravian 32], beautiful Early American Paintings of Wesley Foundation MRS. J. D. BRAGG the Life of Christ [page 35]. Never have Moscow, Idaho Kansas City, Mo. I seen a better Christian publication Inspired by the Aldersgate Year plans Church in Action on the first The than Together. announced in the January issue [The pages gives the reader immediately a As a Moravian, nothing could give Church in Action, page 3], members of desirable, up-to-the-minute news out- me greater pleasure than the knowledge the Wesley Foundation at the Univer- look on many important events within that our Savior found use for us in sity of Idaho decided our campus mis- Christian movement. the some small way in speaking to that sion could be accomplished by a warm mighty man of God [John Wesley] relationship. In the John Wesley tradi- If you aren't quite sure what Mrs. whose name your church thankfully tion, we extend our hands to others, Bragg refers to, turn to page 3.—Eds. bears. Our household of faith will ever with our motto, "Fellowship of the Wesley's Ideas Are Pertinent bear a great love and admiration for Warm Heart." yours. I pray that from the "hearts RICHARD C. BUTLER, JR. strangely warmed" by his spirit this Little Rock, Ark. year, there may come forth young men presentation, Kudos for your graphic and women to labor in the harvest in John Wesley Completes a Decision the vigor of the one you remember. JAPAN WESLEY SOCIETY [February, page 26], showing the steps Yoshio Noro, Japanese Secretary provide early he was made to take to Rouault & Dali: Fallout Forecast 304 Berry Hall, Aoyama Gakuin Univ. America with ordained ministers. Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan NORMAN L. TROTT, President Bishop F. Gerald Ensley's It Has the Wesley Theological Seminary We are pleased that John Wesley is Seal of God's Approval especially Washington, D.C. receiving so much attention in this year should be studied, along with the Wesley commemorating the 225th anniversary Dali picture beautifully letter and Dean William R. Cannon's The comes up of his heartwarming experience at inspired article, John Wesley: He Laid in your reproduction in the April issue Aldersgate. Dr. William R. Cannon is Methodism's Cornerstone [page 30]. [see page 37]. Rouault and Dali really well equipped to write on the theology These answer the questions of anyone of the founder of Methodism [see John has doubted the apostolic who ever Wesley: He Laid Methodism's Corner- authority of American Methodism. stone, February, page 30]. Our John Wesley Society is dedicated Parish Thanks, Mr. to making Wesley better known in LEONARD PARISH, Minister Japan. Translations of his works into Laclede, Mo. 10 500-page volumes are under way. In John Wesley: He Laid Methodism's Two have already been published. Tr.3 twice a Cornerstone [February, page 30], John Wesley Journal is published of course. Wesley is quoted as having used the year—in Japanese, gifts of books on Wesley words, "I deserve a league offensive We welcome Dali: Portends a wave comment. ." of and Methodism for our library—and and defensive . . membership certificates I have not seen a record that he so offer honorary command attention and will produce expressed himself, but Mr. Wesley did to persons or churches whose amounl a wave of comment. Your contrasting society is or more write, "I desire a league offensive and of support to the $25 use of Renaissance and contemporary defensive" on June 22, 1765, in a letter artists is very dramatic. And Advance Special credit is given to the Rev. Mr. Venn, then vicar of Weslei P.S.— I hope you have a bomb shelter for gifts made to the Japan Huddersfield (Yorkshire), my home handy! Society. For further information, wriU town where I began to preach in 1912. to Dr. Ashton A. Almand, 15th floor, 471 Your eyes are sharp, Mr. Parish. The Russian People Want Peace Riverside Dr., New York 27.—Eds. error slipped by author, editor, and GREGORY I. YASINITSKY, Pastor blame the grem- Deaconesses' Origin Clearer proofreader. We office Half Moon Bay, Calif. lin, whom we neither desire nor deserve. MRS. C. B. GALATAS I visited the USSR with a group of —Eds. Methodist ministers two weeks before Marshall, Mo. Bishop Richard C. Raines' ecumenical As a former deaconess, and now Message From a Moravian A group [see Russia in Paradox, January, minister's wife, I thank you for the tw< FREDERICK P. HEGE, Deacon page 14]. I agree with most of his ob- color pictorial features on deaconesse: Fries Memorial Moravian Church servations, but am saddened by his in the February issue. Winston-Salem, N.C. statement: The history of the origin of the dea- Congratulations on Thanks to the "As a nation, we must keep militarily coness movement had been vague t< original Moravians [January, page 30], Our strong enough to convince Russia we me. I remembered that it had

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in Germany, but the details were fresh A most enlightening translation: Dr Sentry «. Shell Texas Christian University / Valuable aid In exegetlcal study: Professor Reuben E. Omark, and interesting as I read them in First Bethel College and Seminary / Tresh and Inspiring: Dr John R. Kapp, Iowa Wesleyan College. in a Sisterhood of Mercy. Truly worth waiting 350 years to have this Bible: Professor David Wazd, Navazzo College Thank you for holding up to our It Is a gift to this generation : Professor Thomas Harrison, Southwestern Assemblies of God Methodist constituency the calling of College / 'Wonderful,' said a student. 'Now, I can understand the Bible.': Professor

the deaconess, 75 years of Shining Serv- .'.. V. Myres. Decatur Baptist Colleg. / Another milestone In Bible translation: Professor ice [page 35]. My experience in deacon- Robert V.'oodburn, Shellon College / Number one: Professor Douglas Jackson, School of Theology, ess work was filled with joy, with a S. M. U. / A fresh experience to read the eternal gospel In forthright modern English: r Reverend Professor J. "i '' t i0 ls superfluous: mmjim ,,,, , " storybook adventure and spiritual en- il>U!m , m"m—M i l l1iH lii Himfli

' Professor William ' i™ ifor understanding Sod's richment. I heartily recommend it as a fPPjjtffrjjj jJraflJSfflf' 4SlX Word : Professor Harold fPSwp?: $.\fflfflfX PSEwSfWlrfiji nary / My favorite for N. T. calling for young women, and hope study, both for personal d(Bi 1'''""' X E Cnrislo nerson lirak'f St V»^£§$ml [I'itUmMi" " ' P ' these two feature articles will bear Pacific Lutheran - nlver j Barrett Olivet Nazarene KHffflll ISnyflKiiafcJp^B HH^^ .

much fruit. College 1 - /Recommend it : JSk^fiM M I'm BswJkB Nk^fPl 8 M I ll r a Wesl e yan College A masterful work which Gray Rogers, Southeastern t^HHjHUtaSLSl riiimraToflHi B* Baptist Theological SemlnjBB^TPf^WwMB H^E»S^|BMw%^'ir|flj9| lS 1 1 c endorsement: Dr Guy They Come From National, Too! Funderburk. Salem Coll Professor Russell Auman, BBll 1 |j I EbJmIb 1 1 1 } i I Divinity GAIL W. HINES, Pastor Hamma School BHBmBBBI BBMJJl^B "* paralleled : Professor Ralph

Lightsex, Mount Olive C 1 e i n03e cannot Albion, III. o 1 ^^^^ffSSi *9SPP"^9 *n0 read the original Greek: Professo e:'' ti ' Will open new UJjufi T. ' ffr&^Ki National College (formerly the Na- 'i^tnriii^liiaU frontiers of meaning aj|g| ^jnfl BMIbbH n State College tional Deaconess Training School) in Students and lay people are Wi Kr¥ffi Hisight than I have Kansas City, Mo., has been training experienced in four deca?^*(8BJj BH^i^^lrciconian, McCormick Theological deaconesses for many, many years. I Seminary / The translation makes many paS3a^PS»^^to life: Professor F. Baker, Duke

was disappointed that it was omitted University / A sharp and dynamic translation, the worth of which is inestimable : Professor

Charles McRae , Hampden-Sydney College / Stirs one's spiritual imagination: Kenneth Estey, Keuka from your excellent article. College / Happy rendering of old and treasured truth: Professor John Steely, Southeastern

Our space did not allow us to list Baptist Theological Seminary / Tyndale's hope of a truly dynamic translation has come very work: the seminaries and other schools for close to reality In this Professor Arthur Core, United Theological Seminary j

i training deaconesses; thus we neglected i to mention National College (under THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE New Testament has met with overwhelming auspices of the Woman's Division, Board approval. Ministers, scholars, and laymen have hailed this new translation of Missions.) Scarritt College pre- as a great contribution to our understanding of the Bible.

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Taboo Bare Skin? Published jointly, throughout the world, by oxford university press/cambridge university press HARRY BOWMAN Fort Lupton, Colo. THIS SPACE CONTRIBUTED BY THE PUBLISHER I enjoyed the February issue of To- gether and liked the deaconess story. HARD OF But what do you think Christ would say about the picture of the youth group on page 1? Those young people HEARING? look friendly, but it is a shame they do Are you embarrassed by having not dress modestly. The sight or touch to say these things— of bare skin brings temptations. "Would you turn the TV up loud- er please?" It's a Prayer Circle "What did you say your name was.'" ; MRS. THOMAS VAN DAHM "What?" Edwardsville, III. Norelco can provide you renewed I sure that the little in | am boys hearing with amazing clarity. And pajamas, hands entwined, heads bowed, no wonder . . . Norelco Hearing !and eyes closed [February, page 38] Aids are created by craftsmen with would be surprised to learn that they Japanese women 70 years experience in the electro- "are playing ring-around-a-rosy. rarely get breast cancer. medical field. Norelco Hearing Aids come in a

. A notation that came with the picture variety of inconspicuous designs. Research scientists don't know why, 'ed us astray. Thank you.—Eds. Behind-the-ear models; hearing but they want to know. The reasons glasses: unsurpassed pocket aids. of of A Bow to Sister Susan for the immunity some groups To give yourself the precious sounds people tocancerscommonamongoth- of life once again, send in this cou- MRS. JOHANNA GNAUCK er groups reveal keys to the dis- pon today! Milwaukee, Wis. may covery of a preventive for all cancers. The issue, February from cover to North American Philips Company, Inc. The American Cancer Society is sup- •;over, will remain unsurpassed in print. 100 East 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. Sister Susan Kreutziger [page 42] porting eighteen research proj- Please send me the full-color brochure on Norelco 'New Life' Hearing Aids. ?ave our family its first welcome to ects on breast cancer. Write \merica just a few hours after we ar- your A. C. S. Unit for our leaflet, NAME. ,ived in Milwaukee, December 23, 1902. "Breast Self-Examination." See ADDRESS. Through her, learned we American your doctor every year for a CITY deals of religious freedom and became I health checkup. Vlethodists. She and other deaconesses HT-5 helped my parents learn English and AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY assisted our family in many ways To Cure More— Give More

^ay 1963\Together 71 through those difficult early years. German Methodist deaconesses in America achieved tremendous success OWt(|ot^liol>W with immigrants before World War I. They nursed the sick, taught church school, carried on social work, and worked as missionaries. They helped me to a better understanding of the

AMATEUR RADIO: Rev. William W. Ehlers, Box Baseline Rd., Lafayette, Colo. (Rhodes, Medsker, American way of life. 55, Forest Hill, Md. (K3SFT. Special interest: Darling, Adams, Bay); Mrs. Samuel C. Veazie, Methodist minister-operators). Havelock, Iowa (Veazey, Viggers, Viggars, Brownbridge); Mrs. Wayne E. Gurley, Pleasant More and More Homework BIRDS: Thelma Knife, RR 2, Box 386, Piqua, Ohio Dr., Cascade Locks, Oreg. (Mack, Watrous, (stuffed, with feathers). Baldwin, Barnum, Andrews); Mrs. S. W. Bosman, MRS. MARY R. JACKSON 6215 Washington Ave., St. Louis 30, Mo. (Mackoy, Fairfield, Conn. BLOTTERS: Russell F. Myers, 1728 E. 31st St., McFoll, Megginson, Young, Parker); L. F. Boben- Baltimore 18, Md. moyer, 1538 N. Albert St., St. Paul 13, Minn. A lot of rebellion against homework (Henninger, Kline, Leiby, McLister, Spongier); Mrs. BOOKS: Rev. A. Otis Beach, 807 Indiana, is parent inspired [see Is Homework Dorothy Pattison, 407 Lahoma, Bortlesville, Okla. Neodesha, Kans. (about The Methodist Church, Overdone? February, page 16]. It is a (Copeland, Webb, Edge, Denby, Stockstill). 1800 to 1900, and Methodist Disciplines before challenge to a student, an opportunity 1880). CLASSES: Helena Demeter, Box 18, Dover, N.J. to achieve on his own what is not possi- (states). BUSTS & STATUETTES: Edwin R. Lynde, 31 ble in a classroom. Homework has not Greene Ave., Amityville, N.Y. (Parian). WRAPPERS: Kris Howard, RR 1, Box 155X, CUM credit for Augusta, Kans. been given enough preparing BUTTONS: Mary Miller, 3494 E. Santa Ana Ave., for adult life. It does not end with Fresno 26, Calif, (campaign & political). HORSES: Robyn Miller, 3494 E. Santa Ana Ave., graduation, but can continue through- Fresno 26, Calif, (figurines & pictures); Mary CARDS: Barbara Meyers, RR 4, Angola, Ind. Jones, RR 5, Box 612, Flemington, N.J. out life. (birthdoy, get-well). Regardless of what your children be- HYMNS Cr POEMS: Rev. Earle Bream Saxe, Box CATS: Barbara Stewart, 824 S. Walnut St., Fair- 1566, Denver 1, Colo. come, they will spend some time on mount, Ind. paper work—making out tax returns, INDIAN RELICS: Kevin Williams, Vergennes, III. CHESS BY MAIL: Frank Wright, Box 1821, Tenn. (arrowheads). balancing checkbooks, preparing the Tech., Cookeville, Tenn.; Ward Dean, Jr., 819 Peaksview St., Bedford, Va.; Paul S. Cassidy, Jr., tools of a trade. A firm may ask an em- INSECTS: Dale R. Carr, 312 N. 12th, Independ-

Box 22, Bowling Green, Ky ; Kenneth A. Lafler, ence, Kans. (studying & identification). ployee to take special courses, attend 411 Howell St., Silver City, N.Mex.; Ron Lawton, institutes, submit reports. An employee 3419 Cable St., Lincoln, Nebr.; Rev. Eugene LECENDS: Emma M. Whipple, 16 Washington St., Dixon, R. 4, Elbcrton, Ga. Cortland, N.Y. cannot do all this in regular working hours. CHURCH BULLETINS: Ned Blackwcll, Box 606, MACAZINES: Rev. A. Otis Beach, 807 Indiana, Spur, Texas; Mrs. Owen Duggcr, Box 272, Lewis, Neodesha, Kans. {Reader's Digest, 1922). Housewives and mothers, too, spend Kans. much time on homework—reading Dr. MATCHBOOKS: Steven Gorrell, 5371 E. Kings Rowc, Shullsburg, COINS: Karlcna K. RR 1, Box 49, Canyon Rd., Fresno 2, Calif.; Mrs. Zell Magor, Spock, cookbooks, books on decorating, Wis.; Mrs. Emit E. Knowles, 103 E. 23rd Ave., RR 1, Box 835, New Kensington, Pa. patterns, or keeping a budget. And in- Anchorage, Alaska; Bonita McGonigal, Moshannon, terests outside the require special Pa.; Robert Churchill, 4307 Bigelow Blvd., Pitts- MUSIC: Kola G. Bolare, 16 Agoshofin St., Lagos, home burgh 13, Pa. Nigeria; C. F. Walker, RR 1, Franklin, Tenn. study. class COOKBOOKS: Mrs. Henry Peters, North Bend, MUSIC & DRAMATICS: Karolyn Strandfeldt, 26 The sessions are not long enough Nebr. Roosevelt Ave., Glen Head, N.Y. for teachers to impart to pupils all the

knowledge that is necessary. Today, job DRAWINC: Rev. Herbert H. Dougherty, RR 4, NEWSPAPERS: Charles Pankratz, 2262 Cabrillo Joncsville, Va. (ink, of old water mills). Ave., Santa Clara, Calif. opportunities are closely correlated with educational achievement. The high- EARRINCS: Mrs. Carolynn Woods, 248-70th St., PENCILS: Earl L. Neal, Lu Verne, Iowa (souvenirs Niagara Falls, N.Y. of cities & states). school passport that opens many doors is costlier to acquire when a pupil closes EMBLEMS: Bob George, 3414 Havenbrook, St. POETRY: Mrs. Orrin Albin, R. 2, Tuscola, III. Louis 14, Mo. (Boy Scout); Jim Stewart, 824 S. (religious or friendship). the school doors behind him. Walnut St., Fairmount, Ind. (fraternal & military). POSTCARDS: Elaine Wendt, 4508—60th St., FIGURINES: Mrs. Margaret Lee Hall, RR 1, Edina, Kenosha, Wis.; Mrs. John Lippincott, 8ox 237, Fault- Is With the Parents Mo. (horses); Angela Wells, 365 Henderson Ave., Malvern, Iowa (Methodist & Presbyterian churches),' Upper Sandusky, Ohio (horses). Mrs. Edward Kolves, RR 2, Easton, III. (capitol & S. E. EMRICH, Minister map); Stephen Sharp, 105 E. Seminary St., Liberty, Buchanan, Va. FISH: Gingrey, 301 N. Locust St., Pana, Joyce Ind. III. (raising). Most good teachers find it necessary POSTMARKS: Enid Erikson, 160 E. Parkway, to assign homework to train a pupil to GAMES: Mrs. Ralph Rydberg, 4711 Roigan Terr., Tooele, Utah. Madison 14, Wis. accomplish things on his own. Oren PRAYERS: Carolyn Windecker, RR 3, Little Falls, Arnold's point about infringing on chil- CENEALOCY: Mrs. Don Pendley, Star R„ Cotton- N.Y. wood, Ariz. (Krebs, Benner, Booton, Cannon, dren's time is not well taken. He will Harvey); Evelyn Payne Parry, RR 1, Toledo, Oreg. READINC: Afolabi Adeyinka Odukoya, 99 find huge blocks of their time unac- (Payne, Ross, Hotelling, Alger, Bumpus); Mrs. Apongbon St., Lagos, Nigeria. Patrick Damron, Wappapello, Mo. (Clark); Robert counted for, and that usually they waste ROCKS: David Tucker, 567 Lake Ave., W., B. Fletcher, 1320 Main St., Edmonds, Wash. Barberton, Ohio. time in the study periods—five hours a (Fletcher, Brooks, Grandin); Mrs. C. R. Woodhull, week. to make 2052 E. Epler Ave., Indianapolis 27, Ind. (Hogue, Teachers are forbidden SALT & PEPPER SHAKERS: Mrs Martin L. Carr, Browner, Wren, Kittrell, Nethery); Grace Medlock Jr., 1319 Shawnee Lane, Ottawa, III. pupils do anything. Mr. Arnold's diffi- Page, 260 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, Calif. culty is that he cannot shift the blocks (Medlock); Mrs. L. J. Moore, 1225 N. Jefferson, SPOONS: Mrs. Winifred Rowe, R. 1, Box 49, Mason City, Iowa (Marshall, Golden, Lauson, Stout, Shullsburg, Wis. of time for his own convenience. McConnell); Mrs. Elden Pettit, RR 1, Box 68, If Mr. Arnold and his friends ever FOBS: Larry Yartz, RR 1, Butler County, Bird City, Kans. (Chesley, Seitz, McCann, Cook, WATCH West Sunbury, Pa. (advertising). Amsberry); Mrs. M. H. Smith, 34319 Lake Shore "slave" over a child's homework, there Blvd., Willoughby, Ohio (Klock, Clock, Herrick, with WEAVINC: Mrs. Lela McFalls, RR 2, Sevierville, is something wrong with them, not Waring); Paula Dill, 6 Wrenwood Ct., Webster Tenn. the school or the children. Too many Groves 19, Mo. (Hopkins, Scott, McQueen, Maxey, demons); Emily Stothort, Box 344, Coushatta, La. parents are doing everything for the Please be patient if your entry is missing. (Benham, Northam, Wilkins, LeSuer, White); Mrs. kids instead of helping the children Just keep watching; we won't forget. But John S. Stewart, 824 S. Walnut St., Fairmount, »' learn how to do things for themselves. Ind. (Current, Freiling, Holderoft, Stewart); M. W. . . . if you haven t yet sent us your mi mc Bauer, RR 1, Earlville, III. (Dickerson, Thompson, pupils, and would like to, fust write to Hobby The assignments are given to the Hustead, Brownell, Goodman); Mrs. Carl Wilch, Editor, Together, Box 423, Park Ridge. not the parents. The latter should offer 594 Tower St., North Bend, Oreg. (Coe, Towle, Farley, Simson, Martin); Paul C. Roads, 108 E. III. One hobby to each letter, please! — Eds. occasional guidance (when sought); no

72 Together /May 1963 more. Let Buddy make a few mistakes. appearance, we had a rise in mail re-

If he knew it all, he would not need to questing literature and share-bank go to school. stickers.

New Outreach for 'Meals' Why Should We Merge? How the DONALD F. EBRIGHT, Dir. Ex. Soc. MRS. ELEANOR L. STIEVE American Bible Society Meals for Millions Point Pleasant, N.J. 215 West Seventh St. Why should The Methodist Church provides you with Los Angeles, Calif. merge with any other denomination? Herman B. Teeter's The 3-Cent Meal For Methodism ever to change its name [February, page 25] certainly will would be to turn our backs on John further the outreach of the Meals for Wesley and the dedicated men who ATAX-FREE Millions program. Within days of its made our church what it is. Methodism INCOME JOHN WESLEY Always the Inquiring Mind FOR LIFE

A BIT of John Wesleyana— apparently hitherto unknown to his biographers—turns up in a letter from Dr. Harry C. Trimble, special consultant to the dean of Harvard medical school. It's data in the following excerpt from an article on Dr. Samuel Ribiero Nunez, Georgia's First Physician, by Dr. Your own tax savings Alfred A. Weinstein, in the sum- mer, 1961, issue of the Harvard can pay for a part Medical Alumni Bulletin. of the actual costs! Wesley's logical mind was at- tracted to science, both as a student If you are interested in financial and teacher at Oxford. He ivas writ- ing about Ben Franklin's experi- protection for your loved ones as ments with electricity in America well as retirement income for your- before they were noted by British self, we urge you to investigate this scientific societies. His electrical unusual Life Income Plan. Many machine to treat diseases is on business advisers recommend it . . . exhibit (right) in his old home be- and are even investing in it them- side his chapel at 49 City Road, medicine book, Primitive Physiek. selves. London. But his Georgia medical work Its unique advantages include: Medicine fascinated Wesley. Pre- had been forgotten till Dr. Wein- ( ) Income that's tax-free for your paring for his tico years of mis- stein researched his article. A 1 life and the life of a survivor. sionary service in Georgia, he gave thank-you to you, Dr. Trimble, for (2) himself a "cram course." Later he enabling us to share the following Additional savings on estate and was to write his best-selling home- with Together readers!—Eds. inheritance taxes foryour heirs. (3) Plus the personal satisfaction of sharing in the American Bible Society's program for distributing years later (1735) Dr. man> of those who call him Lord." TWO the Scriptures throughout a Nunez met John Wesley, who Before Wesley had left England troubled world. arrived in Savannah with a com- for his priestly mission in Georgia Investigate this special Life In- mission from the trustees appoint- in 1735, he had made "anatomy Plan today. this ing him to the office of "priest of and physics the diversion of his come Use handy the Church of England" to the leisure hours." In Georgia, he met coupon for complete information. Savannah mission. Wesley courted John Regnier, who was a male the society of this Sephardic Jew, nurse among the Moravians, and but had no illusions about the ease assisted Regnier with the first AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY Dept. T-53 with which he could be converted autopsy in Georgia. The two men 440 Park Avenue South

to Christianity . . . He exhibited a listed the causes of death as "a New York 16.N.Y.

great interest in Dr. Nunez' medical hematoma of the abdominal wall. Please send me, without obligation, in- practice, and discussed with him among other things"] It was in formation on the American Bible Society's the conduct and care of his patients. Georgia that John Wesley became tax-free Life Income Plan. Said John Wesley, the Methodist, an active practitioner of bodily, as Name "I began learning Spanish in order well as spiritual, healing among his

to converse with my Jewish parish- parishioners, and on his return to Address- ioners, some of whom seem nearer England, he organized the first free

the mind that was in Christ than clinic "for the ill and the ailing." City Zone_ .State.

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should again proclaim the message of You Save and Share salvation that Wesley did. My father was converted from Catholicism be- cause he heard that message in a Sun- Shopping With An Annuity day-afternoon Bible class.

Family Hymn Available Inspirational Together's Charles Wesley Poems Award hymn, Prayer for Fami- lies, now is available as sheet "A book of Inspirational Poems of music in a size permitting inser- God's kingdom and plans for making free, righteous man. The history of tion in church bulletins or pro- You SAVE worry, man for seven thousand years. Also, time and money, "" grams during National Family the time John was shown when our and avoid losses. You Life Week, May 5-12. It also Saviour appears." Inspirational get a regular depend- could be affixed to the back of Poems, by FRANK FRIEND. able income for life. a songbook or hymnal. Printed by The Parthenon Press. Annuities are paid The hymn, with words by $2.00 postpaid. semi-annually and no Lois Stanley and music by Order from payment has ever been deferred. Archie M. Boothe, Jr., had its FRANK FRIEND You SHARE in a world-wide first public performance during 437 Bocom Point Road program of Christian service; the National Methodist Confer- Pahokee, Florida. carried on by missionaries ence on Family Life in Chicago and nationals in 30 countries. ,"" l^rnM^l Tr last October. Send for your copy of fyfl) Quantities of 100 or more can "Dedicated Dollars" to fW/j0f be obtain full information. ordered from Cokesbury Book Stores or Service Centers. /// Write— —— —Today!——— a The price per 100 is $2.50, and I- the stock number is APM-323. Supreme in beauty and style. Fine quality yesI send me free copy of booklet "Dedicated tailor- Dollars" and full particulars of your Life Income materials and Gift Certificates (Annuity). ing; fair prices. Write Nome Getting Together in Ireland forcatalog and material swatch book. Pie Address- ALLAN L. NESBITT, Minister mention name of City -State- Belfast, Northern Ireland church and whether Month, Day and Year of Birth- Back copies of Together which I have for pulpit or choir. WOMAN'S DIVISION OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE found in Northern Ireland are well DeMoulin OF THE BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THE METHODIST CHURCH worn from having been passed from Bros. & Co. Dept. Ty-53 475 Riverside Dr., New York 27. N.Y family to family. The few Methodist 1103 So. 4-th St. Greenville, Illinois FOR A BETTER- READ, BETTER-INFORMED AMERICA ministers here who receive it are en- thusiastic. Together's insight into American CLASSIFIED ADS Methodism helps correct some Irish CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS are accepted misconceptions about Methodism in the for miscellaneous items of general Interest to States. The Methodist Church in Ireland TOGETHER readers such as: Sale of personal is older and much more in the original property; Requests for items wanted; Service offers

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Methodist Church, Denver.—Eds. For use of "Box No. . . . TOGETHER": add $1.00. Want to make billions Address TOGETHER— Classified Dept.. Box 423, with the Sheikh of Kuwait? Go Park Ridge. III. Welcomed on Aldersgate Street on a desert raid with Lawrence CASH MUST ACCOMPANY ALL ORDERS ARTHUR J. A. TRENCH, Mgr. of Arabia? Discover the secret Barclays Bank Limited FOR SALE of Shangri-La? Float down the 28 Aldersgate Street AUSTIN ORGAN. 4 Manual, 50 Rank, 1925 Con- Mississippi on a raft, or orbit in $8,000. Monroe St. London, E.C.I, England sole, playable condition, Methodist Church, Box 2897, Toledo 6, Ohio. the earth? How about a visit Thank you for the January Together IN GROVE, New Jersey, tq the 25th Century? Or, maybe COTTAGE OCEAN which you so kindly sent me. This has two stories, three bedrooms. Lovely retire- ment home. Ten thousand dollars. A. 1 the 5th? Want to chat with Ein- interest staff been studied with by my Decker, P. O. Box 20, Stony Point, N. Y. stein, Socrates or Schweitzer? and myself at the branch and I have HELP WANTED Find out how to gain friends or now sent it to my head office where, I MINISTER OF VISITATION—retired man for lose pounds? Then run, not sure, it will also be appreciated. do am flourishing suburban Washington, D. C. walk, to the nearest library, Church. Write: TOGETHER, Box T-120. 1661 Readers will remember it was the N. Northwest Highway, Park Ridge, Illinois. browse around, open a book, and January cover that pictured the plaque MISCELLANEOUS Enjoy the fifth freedom — Read Aldersgate Street Branch Bar- on the of DEVOTIONS FOR EVERY MONTH. (Name National Library Week clays Bank. Here, it is believed, is the your assignment), 50rJ each. Ten Mother GRAVES, April Daughter Banquet Toasts, $1.25. 21-27, 1963 site of John Wesley's Aldersgate "heart- 905 N. Fifth, Springfield, Illinois.

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ylay !963\Together 75 Together with the Small Fry

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1 HE Foster family was just finish- drawer and took out the shell box, the dishes and piling them into the ing dinner. Mrs. Foster was bring- where she saved her money. She sink, Mr. Foster came into the ing in the dessert. Just as she set counted it. Why, she could buy kitchen. the bowl of pudding on the table, three aprons with that much money! "Come here a minute, will you, there was a loud r-r-r-rip-p. Little Georgie went into the liv- dear?" he said. Mrs. Foster un- Mrs. Foster looked down. Her ing room. He reached into the fastened the towel from around her apron had caught on a corner of bookcase and took out the tin box waist and went into the living room. ' the table, and there was a big in which he collected pennies. He There on the table was a pile o( jagged tear in it. counted them. Then he nodded. He beautifully wrapped boxes. Thei "Oh, dear!"' she said. "The last of could buy a very strong apron for whole family stood around, smiling. my aprons! They must be making his mother with all those pennies. "Happy Mother's Day!" they them of old newspapers. They just Next morning, right after break- shouted together. fall apart." fast, they all quietly left the house, "Please open my present first," She sat clown and began serving one by one. cried Georgie. "It's the one witli the rice pudding. Mrs. Foster was washing dishes the pink paper on it Freddie" Foster smiled to himself. with a towel instead of an apron Mrs. Foster opened the package Now lie knew what to get his tied around her waist. She looked In it was a little pink apron mother for Mother's Day. cross. "Just what I really needed!" said Frances Foster smiled to herself. "You'd think they could have Mrs. Foster, giving Georgie a hu Now she knew what to get her stayed around long enough to help and a kiss. She tied on the apro mother for Mother's Day. me," she said to the dishes in the at once The voungest Foster, Georgie, sink. "At least one of them could Then she opened Freddie'; smiled to himself. Now he knew have. present. In the box were two pre! what to get his mother for Mother's "It's a good thing they get aprons, one red checked and on

Day. hungry, or I wouldn't see them all blue checked.

And Mr. Foster smiled to himself, day long." "Just what I really needed!" sak too. Now he knew what to get his The next morning, Sunday, just Mrs. Foster, giving Freddie a hut wife for Mother's Day. as she was clearing off the last of and a kiss. After dinner, Freddie went to his Then she opened Frances' pres room. He opened his treasure box. ent. There were three more apron: A Grace for Today Among the nails, bolts, strings, and one yellow, one blue, and on marbles was enough change to buy green! Bless and keep us, Lord, we pray, his mother a fancy apron. "Just what I really needed," sak So ive may serve thee more each Frances Foster went up to her Mrs. Foster, and then she gan room. She opened the top dresser day. —G. D. Davis Frances a big hug and a big kis?-

Togethei /May 196 "But I didn't know they were giving you aprons, too," Frances A said. "Oh, I love them!" said Mrs. Button Foster, opening die last and biggest box. Corsage It was from Mr. Foster. Inside for were six aprons, in all colors and styles! Mrs. Foster laughed. "Well, now," she said, "it will THottie/i/ take me years to wear these out!"

I'll help you wear them out," said Frances. She picked out an apron, tied it around her, and Here is a pretty button corsage the back of each button "flower." marched into the kitchen. Soon, the you can make. You will need green Thread the needle with the ends sound of running water reached yarn for stems, green felt for leaves, of the yarn and pass it through a them. 12 pretty buttons, ribbon for a bow, leaf or two for each button flower, Well, I can help you wear them a medium-sized safety pin, and a smoothing them as you go. out, too," said Freddie, laughing, needle. Arrange buttons to hang at dif- fie tied a pink apron around him- Cut leaves from the felt. Cut the ferent lengths. Tie in a bunch with self and ran into the kitchen. yarn into several seven-inch, six- the ribbon bow. Now sew the safety inch, and five-inch pieces. Slip a pin on the back of the Me, too," said Georgie. "I'll help ribbon bow, piece of yarn through holes of each so the pin can be used to fasten the them wear out," and he chose a button, looping the yarn on the corsage on your mother's dress. red-checked apron, wrapped it front of button. Make the ends of She will love it! around himself, and ran into the the yarn even, then tie a knot on —Velma E. Zimmerman citchen. Well, that leaves me," said Mr. Foster, laughing. And he picked out a blue apron and went into the dtchen, too. A loud sound of splashing and laughing and dishes rattling came through to the living room. Mrs. Foster put on a green- checked apron and went into the kitchen.

"It's lonely in there," she told her family. She took a dish towel and began drying dishes along with Mr. Foster. "Not today," Mr. Foster said, ou just sit there and watch your ily wear out your aprons for u. Mrs. Foster sat down at the tchen table. Aprons do wear out fast," she aid. "Be careful of them, please." "We're planning to do the dinner hes, too," said Frances. And don't worry about the ons, Mom," said Freddie. "You're ving another Mother's Day next i'ear, you know." Mrs. Foster looked at her family,

,ill wearing aprons and doing dishes ogether. "No Mother's Day could be bet- er than this one," she said, "not

ven if I get a hundred aprons next ear!" —Gina Bell-Zano

lay 1963\Together 77 'is thy heart right, as my heart is 'with thine? Dost thou love and serve God? It is enough. I give thee -Alfenr44owi fottlM/p. the right hand of fellowship. —John Wesley (1703-1791)

On a clear, frosty night nearly 40 years ago, when the sky over our little In This Issue town was ablaze with stars, this man gave a small boy his first look through a telescope. He talked to us about Jupiter's racing moons, Saturn's glittering rings, 1 It Happened One Night 225 Years Ago in London and mighty galaxies adrift in space. Then he told us about his God who is one {Color Pictorial) with the incomprehensible vastness of the universe. 11 The Holy Spirit Has a Way A friendly, scholarly man, he introduced us to good books, and he took us on L. Smith Roy picture journeys to the Holy Land. From him we heard for the first time about 12 New Dimensions for America such men as John Wesley and Francis Asbury, and what their having lived Arnold Toynbee meant to those of us who went to the white-frame church to hear him preach. 16 Where Love Is, There God is For he was a Methodist preacher, not a scientist or a Also Leo Tolstoy professor. As we said, that was nearly 40 years ago. You must 19 Learning to Pray Faith Baldwin remember this. You must understand, too, what this man who was little more than a wayfaring stranger in our 20 The Complex Art of Knowing the — Moment town—could mean to a small boy. Then you will realize Arthur Gordon our emotions yesterday when we accidentally ran across a 22 These Words Warmed Wesley's picture (left) and a biography of the late Charles Frank- Heart at Aldersgate lin in the Centennial Volume of Missouri Methodism (1806- 23 What Aldersgate Means to Me 1906). We had not known, until now, that he had been a Harry Denman preacher in Missouri, for we knew him in another state. 25 Global Evangelist Methodism's About all we knew was that he once took the time to help Louise Davis a boy find his way among the stars, and that boy would never forget. 28 Too Easy to Be a Methodist It occurred to us, then, that there are generations of men, long dead, who Today? (Powwow) Mrs. Porter Brown, brought immeasurable good into the world, as did Charles Franklin, and their Ben F. Lehmberg passing has not separated them from the present. The present in our lives is the 29 The Marks of a Methodist result of the past, of course. Aldersgate Year 1963 and worldwide Methodism

32 John Wesley—A Man to Know cannot be separated from an event in London 225 years ago; and this month's (People Called Methodists) color section (12 pages instead of 8) is the result of all Milburn P. Akers three, not to mention months of painstaking research and 33 John Wesley and the Tax careful checking with authorities on Methodist history. Collector (The good-humored man at right, Frederick A. Norwood Herman B. Teeter of Garrett Theological Seminary, Evanston, 111., has been a 35 The Way of the Warmed Heart behind-the-scenes consultant on many Together features, (Color Pictorial) including the Methodist Europa Map scheduled next month.) 47 Francis Asbury: A Methodist St. Francis There were talented artists, too. Some who contributed Bishop Nolan B. Harmon paintings to The Way of the Warmed Heart ordinarily 49 'Asbury—The Very Human turn out sleek 20th-century advertising. One was Bob Being' Addison, whose remarkable Asbury painting is on page 46. Herman B. Teeter "When wrapped up in a world of commercial art work 50 Ohio Takes a Cue From the like one must do today, a religious commission has special appeal," Mr. Addison's Circuit Rider boss writes. artist has license to hard cold rules (Pictorial) "The break away from the and of commercial justification and allows himself to paint with more emotion and 57 Christian Living's Too Hard Kathleen Bruce feeling toward ... a single, solid, and most tranquil man like Asbury." So the makers of good religious art do not all belong to the dim past. No 58 Refutation Jilt Crawford ancient masterpiece, for example, is this month's cover, a stained-glass window Associates. Inc.. 59 Aldersgate Family Devotional installed last year at the Ansonia, Conn., church by Whittemore J. Manning Potts of Boston, Mass. Carroll Whittemore, president, tells us that he secured a print

61 Praying at Midnight of Wesley preaching in the marketplace when he visited Wesley Chapel in London Philip E. Weeks three years ago. A Together cover of unusual significance and beauty is one 64 Recent Books on Wesley result of Mr. Whittemore's forethought. — Editors. 68 God of the Warming Heart Your Ervin Charles Tipton 73 John Wesley—Always the Inquiring Mind

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Together / 55 Your Faith and Your the 1 5th of the month preceding cover date. Church / 56 The Wicked Flea / 60 Editor: Leland D. Cose / Executive Editor: Richard C. Underwood / Managing Editor: Herbert E. Light Unto My Path / 62 Looks at Langendorff / Art Editor: Floyd A. Johnson / Associates: Paige Carlin, Helen Johnson, Ira M. Mohler New Books / 69 Browsing in Fiction Charles E. Munson, H. B. Teeter / Assistants: Else Bjornstad (research), Loretta Carlson (production! Robert C. Goss (art). George P. Miller (photos) / Editorial Associate: Anthony J. Tolbert III / / 70 Letters / 72 Name Your Hobby / Contributing Editor: Ewing T. Wayland / Business Manager: Warren P. Clark / Advertising Manager 75 Camera Clique, Photo Credits / 76 John H. Fisher / Circulation Manager: Thomos B. Newton. Small Fry. Publisher: Lovick Pierce.

78 Together /May 1963 .

Hobby Alley I Memo to Collectors

WESLEY in FIRED CLAY

Aldersgate Street, London, May 24, THE CLASS in Methodist history 1738! What many experts do not will please be seated . . know is that celebrating Aldersgate is an old, old Methodist custom. Students, what is the first event associ- In 1838 came the centennial. It ated with John Wesley, Methodism's observed with a year long fete founder, to become a traditional Methodist was •elebration? to link it with founding of Method- ism's first "preaching house" at The Holy Club- -the original so- Bristol, May 12, 1739. (The New allod Methodists— founded at Oxford Jniversity in 1729. Room, still so-called, is a must for Methodist pilgrims.) English Meth- Good try! But the date's wobbly—so it odism's centennial was remarkable las never been on our church commemora- for benevolent giving—$1,080,000 in ive calendars. Britain alone! Here at Lake Junaluska, N.C., Well, then, New Year's Eve Watch Hobbyists remember it because of historians Albea Godbold (left) and lights. Wesley started them as singing commemorative products of the pot- ind praying services for the sooty and Elmer T. Clark sample America's lebauched coal miners at Kingswood, ters. Men who turn England's fine best Wesley pottery exhibit. England, in 1741. Remember? clays into Wedgwood and Stafford- shire had long been making decora- Yes, Methodists still have Watch Nights I tive busts of Wesley. In 1838-39, —and you're close to the right answer, lere's a clue: heart-warming— they went all out—with statuettes, plates, tea services, pepper pots, and With that lead, who could miss! mugs. These occasionally turn up t's John Wesley's experience at even in American antique shops. The More treasures! Enoch Wood, most famous of Wesley bust-makers, achieved remarkable likenesses of Methodism's founder. larger busts may bring $25 to $100. even more. But collectors can obtain modern copies of various items, in- cluding teapots, through Cokesburj Book Stores.* The 1938 bicentennial evokec many meetings, especially in the USA. Addresses delivered at Sa- vannah, Ga., were edited by Elmei T. Clark in a now rare book, Whai Happened at Aldersgate. But th( event inspired a few other souvenir; for collectors.

It may be sj with the quarto-bi centennial. Bo lere'sa tip: Alreadj this year, printing presses have im printed more paper with Aldersgate themed words than they did in th< 225 years since John Wesley wen "very unwillingly" to a meeting on* night in London!

*Also various reference books on pottery Excellent and recent is Arthur D. Cum Evidence of England's prolific potters, circa 1838-39, mings' A Portrait in Pottery (London the centennial of Aldersgate and Britain's first Methodist chapel. Epworth Press $1 ) . It's about Wesley bustt

More of the treasures at World Methodist Building, Lake Junaluska, N.C. These girls ar> showing off pottery such as a great-great-grandmother might have used when the preacher called TOGETHEK/NEWbTOGETHER /NEWS EDITION BISHOP Lloyd C. Wicke EDITOR *rea Mrs. Margaret F. Donaldson 475 Riverside Dr., New New York York 27, N.Y.

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Two Conferences "fa Jflemoriam Top Crusade Goals Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam A wave of victory is sweeping through March 12, 1963 the New York and New York East Con- ferences as acceptances of the Fair Share How do words adequately describe the majesty of a mountain range? How Quotas by the churches indicate that both conferences will exceed their do we catch and share the wonder of a red-wood which lifts its crest about its goals by neighbors and traces the sky? several hundred thousand dollars. Incomplete returns indicate that the New York Conference churches have ac- Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam was a man of such majesty cepted quotas totaling 107 and wide-sweeping proportions. His was a monumental $1,619,000, or per cent of the $1,500,000 goal. mind possessing a sure touch for the primary facts, dis- In the York East Conference ciplined in their employment and piquant with imagina- New the is tive creativity. where quota $3,366,000, accept- ances exceeded the goal by $200, and more contributions are expected. His was a questing spirit, resolutely refusing to accept The parish solicitations were conducted the traditional unless its countersign of truth had proved between March 17 and 24 with both com- its validity and contemporary worth—doggedly seeking mittees providing literature and other the better way toward wider justice and more blessed visual materials to help the workers. living after the manner of his Christ. Dr. William H. Alderson and Dr. Wal- ter Scranton, chairman of the NYE and His was the breadth of the world Christian, loyal to his denomination but NY drives respectively, expressed deep understanding it as a member of a world fellowship, a member of the household satisfaction at the enthusiasm with which of faith as generously proportioned as the world-wide love of God in Christ. their churches conducted their campaigns.

His was the incorrigible courage of the crusade—no man could doubt that Area Contributions Up courage. Most men admired and celebrated it although they could not emulate it. Area contributions to World Service totaled $501,114 for the first eight months Upon so many occasions his courage in action provided the definitive water- of the fiscal year as against $465,368 for shed. How great is our national debt to this man who singly challenged that the corresponding period the previous growing aberration called McCarthyism! He not only alerted men to its danger year. but enlightened them as to the way of its defeat. Conference totals were as follows with the previous year's figures in parenthesis: Who can adequately measure the meaning of the man for the middle third of Newark, $132,625 ($120,671); New this twentieth century? Only the passing years will help write the just and York, $80,066 ($78,032); New York East, complete record. $168,048 ($161,223); Trov, 5120,374 ($105,440). He possessed another dimension seldom shared but as ingrained as his love of life. One such personal item is of interest and so revealing. The Cabinet Scholarships Needed of the Newark Conference was entertaining Bishop and Mrs. Oxnam at dinner. A daughter of one of the superintendents was seated next to the bishop. His The New York East Conference has manner with this just-turned-teenager was a wonder to behold, gracious, set a goal of $5,000 for 200 scholarships genial, jovial, never condescending, always informative. Just before the hour to send boys and girls to Shelter Island slipped to its close, the little lady measured the bishop carefully and said and Sessions Woods next summer. [candidly, "Bishop Oxnam, I wish you were a member of my daddy's district!" An appeal to Conference members to JNo greater compliment could she pay this man than to be a co-worker with support the scholarship fund reveal that jher father. It was a juvenile compliment which apparently he genuinely ap- 146 young persons were helped last sum- preciated.

What a man he was! A man whose greatness was the growing harvest which Conference Ithe concern, the consecration, the affection of the lady of his heart provided 1963 Dates all along the star-studded journey of his life. Without this companionship, May 8-12—New York, Newburgh the life we knew would never have been. With that companionship, the world (N.Y.) shall ever be in his debt—and hers. May 15-19—Troy, Lake Placid (N.Y.) June 5-9—Newark, Drew University Lloyd C. Wicke June 11-16—New York East, Middle- town (Conn.)

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300 Years in Ministry Aldersgate Revisited -1738 -1963 Marked by 7 Strombergs Two generations of Strombergs have John Wesley's heartwarming experience is being recalled this year given 300 years of service as Warmth in the Name in many area churches ministers. this spring as the spiritual descendants of Methodist During Aldersgate Year as Methodists Karl, the founder of Methodism prepare for Five brothers, Leonard, Hjalmar, around the world are celebrating John special services, evangelism Edwin, and Frederick were honored at workshops, Wesley's heart-warming experience, it is community calls and prayer vigils. the 1912 General Conference as the only interesting to note the number of area Brooklyn South District churches maw family of five in the ministry. churches bearing the name 'Wesley." sons in the use a special service prepared by the Rev. Two of Karl are now min- They are in Belleville, Paterson, and istry: Dr. Asbury E. Stromberg of James McGraw assisted by the Rev. Rich-' G. Roselle, N.J.; Staten Island, East Norwich, ard Rice which dramatizes Mr. Wesley's Lynbrook, N.Y., formerly superintendent Franklin Square, and Wesley Chapel, J. visit to Aldersgate Street. of the Brooklyn North District, and the N.Y.; and New Haven, Conn. The district evangelism committee Rev. Carl W. Stromberg of Janesville, The new church in Dobbs Ferry-Irving- com Wis. recently presented the ducted a religious census of Brooklyn ana They Meth- ton, N.Y., is "Aldersgate." odist Hospital of Brooklyn with a book called on 40 inactive members in the, by John Wesley published in 1818 en- vicinity of Fisherman's Church. Suffolk! titled The Family Advisor; or a Plain and Youth Goal: Truck County workers conducted a census of the Flanders area. Modern Practice of Physic to which is Half the money raised April 28-May 3 Aldersgate attached "Mr. Wesley's Primitive Physic." in the New York Conference Festival of workshops are planned in It is on display in Phillips Chapel. Sharing conducted by the Youth Council the Newark Conference to study the puoj pose of the Aldersgate One of the older generation of Strom- will go toward the purchase of a four- emphasis and sug| bergs, Edwin, at 91 has outlived his wheel drive truck for Camp Kingswood. gest a program for each church on Aiders- gate Sunday. brothers. He served churches in New The other half will go to the Meth- Jersey and New York and was immigrant odist Youth Fund. The decision was Glens Falls District ministers met at missionary for the Port of New York. He made by the Youth Council in coopera- Pottersville church the day before Lent resides in Pleasantville, NY. tion with the Camps and Institutes Com- for a study of the meaning of Aldersgate One member of the family, Sir Leonard, mittee of the conference board of educa- for our experience. Four topics were dis- was knighted by King Gustav V of tion. cussed: Wesley's Pre-Aldersgate Conflicts Sweden as the author of more than 50 An appeal for summer counselors for and Ours led by the Rev. Thomas Peterson novels. He was also a poet, editor, lec- Camps Kingswood and Epworth has been of South Glens Falls; What Happened at turer, and hymn writer and was the first made by the board. The number needed: Aldersgate? led by the Rev. Herbert Efl foreign born man to receive an honorary 182. Bowen of Glens Falls; Aldersgate and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Ne- Mission of the Church by the Rev. Delberti braska. B. Smith of Corinth; and So What Fori His brother, Hjalmar, was also an au- Zero Worth $585,000 Us Now? by the Rev. Stanley A. Fry of thor and hymn writer and received a A zero doesn't always indicate nothing. Schroon Lake. citation from the Austrian government In the March issue of the Area News, Three prominent speakers will discuss] for saving orphans from starvation in thanks to those type gremlins, it appeared John Wesley in several churches of thd World Wax I. that Green Mountain College was con- Troy District. They are Dr. Edwin P.] Frederick and Karl of the older gen- structing a very inexpensive dormitory Booth of Boston University, Dr. Gerald eration, served churches in the Middle for $65,000. Cragg of Andover-Newton Theological] West. Four of the seven were district Add one zero—and it becomes $585,000 School; and Dr. Max Stokes of Emor).j superintendents. more than that: $650,000! Theological Seminary who is schedulecj The family has also produced a promi- for fall. nent area layman, Sven Stromberg of Bishop Speaks at Easter Service Seven Burlington District churches wil Pleasantville, N.Y., son of Edwin, and conduct a prayer vigil from May 1! Bishop was the preacher leader. Lloyd Wicke former New York Conference lay through May 26 under the leadership o. at the Easter Dawn Service which was the Rev. James R. Osborne. held at 7 a.m., April 14, in the Radio A district-wide rally will be held Ma;\ Rev. Latimer City Music Hall. Honor C. O. 26 at Puffer Church, Morrisville, Vtl It was the 44th annual united service The Rev. Charles O. Latimer of Danne- Hewitt will on th> Dr. Arthur W. speak , sponsored by the Protestant Council of the mora, N.Y., has been cited by the State life of John Wesley and the Rev. Lloyil city of New York. Council of Churches as outstanding rural S. Van Norden will lead the singing oil pastor of the year. Charles Wesley hymns. He was presented the John Frederick Subdistrict meetings to observe Alder; Oberlin service award at ceremonies in gate Sunday are planned in the BrooklyiB Ithaca, N.Y., by the Rev. Charles Knight South District under the leadership c of Au Sable Forks, who made the nomi- Sidney Atkinson of Baldwin, district la nation. leader. Mr. Latimer was licensed as a preacher in 1936 and has served churches in Ver- MAY, 1963 Vol. 7, No. mont and New York. He is a graduate TOGETHER is an official organ of The Methodi of Hartwick College in New York state, Church, issued monthly by the Methodist Publishil House. 201 Eighth Averrue South. Nashville 3. Ten and Boston University. Publisher: Lovick Pierce. He has been chairman of the Troy Con- ference Rural Fellowship and the Town Subscription: $5 a year, in advance. 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firs. G. S. Gillette explains urgent needs of New York East Con- Miss Esther Suomi, Miss Methodist Student Nurse of Brooklyn of ertncc to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wheeler, left, and Mrs. Bob Plain 1963, receives hospital medallion from Director Vernon Stutzman the Church. Easton, Conn. Parish goal is $16,000. in presence Miss Edith Roberts, right, director nursing. >f Jesse Lee of of

Earned Staff Assistant • Thirteen pastors representing seven na- Troy Women Plan School tions are enrolled at Drew. They partici- Mrs. Paul M. Abels has been named pated in two panel programs depicting Four study courses will be offered ssistant for children's work by the board the current situation in the lands they women of the Troy Conference June 24- £ education of the Newark Conference, represent and the role of the church in 28 at the annual summer school of mis- ler responsibilities cover all phases of this changing scene. sions at Green Mountain College, Poult- rork from nursery age through the ney, Vt. • D. a senior at the Methodist jnior department. J. Webb, They are The Changing City Challenges Theological School in Delaware, Ohio the Church with the Rev. George Teague was awarded the second annual $3,500 M>men to Hear Kelsey of Glens Falls as the teacher; The Chris- Ralph W. Sockman Graduate Fellowship tian Mission in Southern Asia taught by Dr. George Kelsey, professor of Chris- in Communications Study by TRAFCO. Mrs. John M. Pearson of Newburgh; The an ethics at Drew University, will be the He will enter Drew next fall to work to- Christian Family and Its Money, Mrs. seaker May 8 at the 23rd annual meet- ward a doctor of philosophy degree. Milton Randolph of Nashville, Tenn.; and lg of the New York East Conference An Introduction to Three Spiritual Classics ySCS at St. Mark's Church, Rockwell by Mrs. Leon Adkins of Nashville. lentre, N.Y. His topic will be The Happy Birthdays! Jature of Our Stewardship. Two Newark Conference brothers are New Faces—New Places each celebrating 120th birthdays this year —and they are not twins! Newark Conference *D%eu>4 Ttctv^ Actually, they're not 120 years old, The Rev. Linwood J. Bowen, transferred either—but their churches are. from the Troy Conference, the Danville The Student-Faculty Board presentd a The Rev. Mahlon H. Smith, Jr., is pas- Circuit, to Bergen Point. :cture series entitled Five Views of Soviet tor of Areola Church in Paramus and the The Rev. George F. Jackson, Jr., from ussia. The topics were Soviet Education, Rev. Alden T. Smith is pastor of the Monclair to Summit. ex, Love and Marriage in the Soviet Passaic Church. Inion, The Soviet Economy: A First- Founded in 1843, they once were at- New York East Conference hand Report, Religion in Soviet Russia tached to Cross Street M.E. Church, Pat- The Rev. Frank Howley supplying nd Contemporary Russian Literature. erson. Stepney, Conn.

Marsh & Company Photo \he Rev. Ronald Vander Schaaf, New Market, N.J., center, and Tasters Tea House turned spotlight on Hong Kong, Formosa, Ko- Me Rev. Robert Grant, Suffern, N.Y., right, at Moral Man and rea and Taiwan at missions festival at Fourth Avenue Church, ftoral Society Workshop in Chicago. At left is the Rev. Donald Brooklyn. Displayed were customs, artifacts, native dress. Slides luhn of the General Board of Christian Social Concerns staff. and film, China in Dispersion, also were shown at the festival.

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Dr. J. Otis Young will speak May 8 at the New York Conference observance of the 75th anniversary of Deaconess work.

He is representa- tive of the North Central Jurisdiction Commission on Deaconess work, Dr. Young and Associate Pub- lisher of The Meth- odist Publishing House. A new publication, the New Yorf( East Conference Layman, has appeared in the

area. It is edited by William W. Reid, and published by Lay Leader Louis Hau- Mrs. Roland Thorpe, 97, former deaconess, ser for the Conference Board of Lay Ac- was honored during an observation of 75th tivities. anniversary of the deaconess movement at The Rev. I. A. Marsland, Jr., prepares Twenty-year pastorates in New York First Church, Springfield, Vt. With her cornerstone at the new Aldersgate Church. City earned Protestant Council citations is her minister, the Rev. Orrin lreson. for Dr. Alfred S. Akamatsu, Dr. Allen E. Horizons Claxton, Dr. Robert A. Lowell, and Dr. York City, received a citation for brother- New William A. Tieck. hood from Washington Heights B'N'ai A new parsonage has been purchased Dr. Loyd Worley, pastor of the Mary B'rith. by Eastern Parkway Church, Schenectady, Taylor Memorial Church, Milford, Conn., The Rev. Chester E. Hodgson of King's N.Y. The old one will be razed for an was a guest of President Kennedy at a Highway Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., will education wing. White House reception marking the cen- exchange pulpits this summer with the A religious education building and fel- tennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. Rev. John Jackson of Darlington Street lowship center is planned at Patchogue, In search of historic markers, the VFW Church, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, N.Y., Church. England. Post in Belleville, N.J., is removing debris Contracts have been let for a new par- from an adjacent cemetery, established by Man of the Year is the title conferred sonage at Newtonville, N.Y. Wesley Church, the oldest Methodist upon the Rev. Harold V. W. Vink of cornerstone has The been paid for the Church in New Jersey, whose chapel New Milford, Conn., by the Junior Cham- New Aldersgate Church at Dobbs Ferry- until 1900 stood next to the cemetery. ber of Commerce. Irvington, N.Y. An appeal for support of Methodist Bishop Wicke consecrated the new edu- work in Algeria comes from the Frank Fan Letter Leads to Trip cation center at Simpson Church, Perth Jay Reids of First Church, Mechanicville, Amboy, N.J. It started when Elizabeth Szecsi read a N.Y., after a seven weeks trip to Europe A development program has been ap- travel book which spurred her imagina- and North Africa. They visited their proved by the Bedford Hills, N.Y., tion. Elizabeth is a Brooklyn high school daughter, Sonia, an A-3 short-term mis- student, Church. It will include the erection of an one of the family of Hungarian sionary at Gamble Memorial Home in education building. refugees sponsored by St. Mark's Church. Constantine, Algeria. She wrote a letter of appreciation to The annual report of the Inner City the author and sent it to the publisher Mission of the Albany Methodist Society, Centenary Notes to be forwarded. prepared by Henry McFarland, is entitled The Aquatic Club sponsored the New She promptly received a reply from Witnessing for Christ on a Shoestring. Jersey AAU synchronized swimming meet U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. The document is bound by guess what in the Ferry Natatorium. — Douglas! They corresponded for about a shoestring! • — six months and Justice Douglas invited David K. Merill, Monroe, Conn, artist, The Little Theater produced Jean Elizabeth and her younger sister, Agnes, is donating an oil painting of the Stepney Anouilh's version of Antigone with to come to Washington. Church to be sold for the New York East Miss Susan Gaillard of Scarsdale, N.Y., in Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Schwartz, two of Conference Urgent Needs Crusade. a leading part. St. Mark's parishioners, took the girls to Rev. William E. Stone, • The 83, of New see him and they talked for an hour. Milford, Conn., has been honored by the Phi Theta Kappa's National magazine, International Reform Federation of Wash- The Golden Key, devoted 12 pages to a Plan ington, D.C., for 50 years of continuous Leaders Retreat pictorial story of Centenary College in its support. Members of all boards and agencies in January issue. Recent God and Country award winners the New York Conference will hold a • were Scouts Robert Trakimas, William retreat April 30-May 1 at Epworth near Fifteen students of radio on a field trip Jayne, Paul Pierson, Charles Papazian, High Falls, N.Y., to plan next year's to New York City attended the John William McKinnon and Victor Mukai at program. Gambling Show to observe his ad-lib radio Union Village Church, Berkeley Heights, techniques and watched the taping of N.J., and Gregory Powers at Centerport, the Merv Griffin show. N.Y. Miss Marilyn Sauer of Summit Ave- 3n yiiemoriam • nue Church, Jersey City, N.J., received an The Rev. Herman Giesen Jules Pagano, director of the profes- award from Girl Scout leaders for out- New York Conference sional, technical and labor division of the standing work. March 3, 1963 Office of Public Affairs, addressed the Dr. Allen E. Claxton of Broadway Tem- students on the Peace Corps. ple-Washington Heights Church, New

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