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IF YOU HAD BEEN touring in Maryland last spring, and had followed that road sign above, you might have happened upon this scene. And if you'd remarked that even in this historic Pipe Creek community (30 miles northwest of Baltimore) people don't usually go about dressed like this, you'd have been absolutely right. These are descendants of the builder of the log dwelling, steeping them- selves in its lore for their part in the Methodist historical fashion show pictured on pages 26 and 27.
That building holds great significance for all Methodists. Records say it was here, in this home, where John Evans lived some 200 years ago. Here, it is claimed, the first Methodist class meeting in America was held in the mid-i76os. Eight attended, including Robert Straw- bridge, the Irish-born lay preacher who brought Methodism to
Maryland and who lived nearby [see The Three Roots of American
Methodism, November, 1959, page 25]. John Evans—no known relation to the John Evans of later Illinois and Colorado fame [see John Evans, April, page 32] —was one of the neighbors who took care of Strawbridge's plowing, planting, and harvesting while the preacher was out spreading the Gospel.
Mrs. Strawbridge fed the friends who helped so generously, and it was while Evans was dining there that she persuaded him to be- come a Christian. His conversion "in 1764" according to his son,
David, was one of the first in American Methodism. A long time ago? To most people perhaps. But not to those in the picture: Robert K. Billingslea, Jr; his mother, Mrs. Robert K. Billingslea; Mrs. Lloyd Elderdice, and Mrs. Elderdice's daughter, Mrs. Joseph Hering, holding her son, Douglas. All are John Evans' descendants who live in the neighborhood; to them, the area's his- tory is very much alive. Harold Flecknoe photographed them when he was covering the historical fashion show for Together. His shot is an excellent ex- ample of the way Methodism's past can be linked with its present lor Together's 1960-61 Photo Invitational, which seeks color slides depicting Methodist Americana. Many such spots are clearly marked; not only does that sign above point out the Evans house, for instance, but the log structure is indicated on the Methodist Americana Map in the November, 1959, issue, which commemorated the 175th anni- versary of Methodism. Reprints are available (50 cents) at Cokes- bury Bookstores.
Descendants of John Evans pose before his house, an American Methodist landmark^ four miles south of New Windsor, Md.
It is located on Marston Road near State Route 27. \AdLulAjdU (xW.^atb>uj- "How many read Together?'''' Pastor Hobbs asked Mrs. Gilbreth's
T other membership class and to his delight found every hand waving.
"I like the bright color pictures." ... an inspirational "And I read Teens Together first thing." teacher for all "Our whole family loves it."
Yes, all over the country impressionable youth are reading and en-
Subscription: $4 year, $7 two years. Group Club joying Together, an official publication of The Methodist Church. Plan Rate: $3.20 year. All Family Plan: $2.60 (billed quarterly to the church). Colorful picture pages present an invitation to read for them as well
For further information write to as for mom and dad. Truly Together serves the entire family. Together, 740 Rush St., Chicago 11, III. And class, you're very handsome. Your church, First Methodist,
Tucson, Arizona, must be very proud of you. 1
Is thy heart right, as my heart is TbcjCthcr presents for August, 1960 with thine? Dost thou lore and
serve It is 1 give thee God? enough. 2 Here People Called Methodists Wove History the right hand of fellowship. 13 God Walks Beside Me Robert M. Foote - ija- —John Wesley (1703-1791) 14 The Hiroshima Maidens— 15 Years Later Norman Cousins
17 Sadako and the Poper Cranes Alice W. Pryor
18 Unusual Methodists
20 Seeing Ourselves as Non-Americans See Us (Powwow) OINCE OUR COVERS have a way of speaking for Yasuko Horioka, Artemio R. Guillermo themselves, we customarily reserve comment to a 23 They Are Kind to Animals Karl Detzer brief paragraph at the end of the column. But this month's choice tempts us to let ourselves go and rave 25 AA—A 25th Birthday about a picture like what this does to us on a day 26 Historical Fashion Show (Pictorial) like this. It's one of those sweltering afternoons 28 The Angry Sinner Leon Ware when leaves droop in humid calm and thunderheads frown down without stirring a breeze. So we'd like 31 Lapses in Apses Alan D. Le Baron
to give Mr. G. Dixon of Mount Vernon, Wash., top 32 Push the Fledglings Out! Edna Walker Chandler billing for the soothing, cooling effect of this month's 34 Galileo and the Word of God Donald Culross Peattie cover. What could be more appealing, now that 37 Pictures to Sing a Song of Faith (Color Pictorial) summer is building up and vacation days are at hand, than a photograph of two mountain climbers—on 45 Let's Not Waste Our Pastors Mrs. 'Rev. Bob' Holmes
Colman glacier atop Mount Baker—attacking what 60 Three Churches Make One (Pictorial) appears to be a wall of vanilla ice cream? 64 Let's Learn to Walk Frances Coan Zehr
While mountain climbing isn't among our vaca- 66 Onward and Mostly Upward tion plans (homemade ice cream is), we found—as 67 News of the World Parish you may find —a travel hint or two in this month's superb eight-page color pictorial, which was directed 76 Invitation to Scutch! (Pictorial) and produced by Together readers from all over the SPECIAL FEATURES AND DEPARTMENTS country. It's the fourth reader-participation pictorial since the magazine first appeared in October, 1956; 6 Letters 52 Loofcs at Books another is for scheduled next year on the theme, 1 Newsletter 56 Hymns to Live By Methodist Americana. This year's vacation time, no 46 Wicked Flea 57 Browsing in Fiction doubt, is finding hundreds of Methodists on the 47 Teens Together 58 Small Fry lookout for color shots that tell some facet of our church's glorious heritage in this country. For fur- 48 Your Faith and Church 65 Name Your Hobby ther details, turn to 36. page 49 Spiritual Efficiency 72 Getting Along Together
Speaking of vacations, here's a fresh perspective: 50 Light Unto My Path 74 Camera Clique "Vacations are fine things precisely because thev arc limited. They are bound on both sides bv work; without those boundaries they would become vast wastelands of despair." Browsing, we found it in Together 740 N. RUSH STREET, CHICAGO 11, ILLINOIS Telephone: Michigan 2-6431 The Parables (Harper, $3.50), a new book by our Christian Advocate, founded in 1826 as "an favorite browser, Bishop Gerald Kennedy. Together continues entertaining, instructive, and profitable family visitor." It is an official organ of The Methodist Church. Because of freedom Norman Cousins, editor of Saturday Review, fust given authors, opinions may not reflect official concurrence. told us about the Maidens in the first issue of Together is called "the midmonth magazine for Methodist
Together \The Hiroshima Maidens Go Home. Oc- families" because it reaches subscribers by the 15th of the tober, 1956, page 30]. That was three years after he month preceding the date of issue. It is published by the Methodist Publishing House. (Second-class postage has been and Mrs. Cousins met the girls at the Methodist paid at Chicago, III., and at additional mailing offices.) church in Hiroshima heard firsthand their and heart- Editor: Lcland D. Case • Executive Editor: Richard C. Underwood rending story. It, was Mr. Cousins who helped pro- • Art Editor: Floyd A. Johnson • Associates: Paige Carlin, Helen Parker B. Lusk, Ira M. Mohler, Charles E. Munson, mote their trip to America for surgery and hospital Johnson, H. B. Teeter • Assistants: Else Bjornstad (research), Carol care. Now, on page 14, exactly 15 years after the Scott Carlson (production), George P. Miller ("photos' • Business A-bomb tell, he brings their story up to date. Manager: Warren P. Clark • Advertising Manager: John H. Fisher • Circulation Manager: Alan M. Deyoe, Jr. Author, teacher, and lecturer—that's M'-s. Edna Manuscripts: Authors should enclose postage for return—and Walker Chandler who wrote Push the Fledglings address all editorial correspondence to the Editorial Department. Out, this month's Together in the Home feature on Advertising: For rates, write to the Advertising Department. your local Methodist church. The page 32. But first of all she is a mother who has Subscriptions: Order through basic rate under the All Family Plan is 65c" a quarter reared five children of her own, and knows whereof ,,._ ( $2.60 a year) billed to the church. Individual subscrip- she speaks. In addition to her household duties, Mrs. tions are $4 a year in advance. Single copy price is 50c'. Chandler has written many children's b:>oks includ- Change of Address: Five weeks' advance notice is re- quired. Send old and new address and label from current issue. ing a cowboy and Indian series.
—Your Editors Vol. IV, No 8, copyright 1960 by Lovick Pierce, Publisher.
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SELECTED BITS FROM YOUR only for the magazine but for the effort Together has made to bring this situa- tion to public attention. We have taken and read the magazine in my home for
some time and have enjoyed it very much.
38 Letters @ 70 Cents Each LOURDES L. DAVID Manila, Philippines
I would like to show you my deepest Matthew 7:15-20 Still Timely magazine would be an understatement, — appreciation in publishing my name in but please leave political articles to RICHARD C. JOHNSON, Pastor your pen-pal column [Name Your politicians and not to psychiatrists. Waldorf, Md. Hobby, March, page 72]. I was not able Jerome D. Frank's views in Disarma- to write you immediately due to so Drat That Blue Hat! ment: The Imperative of Our Time many letters to answer. I hope those [May, page 32] are quite similar to MRS. E. H. ANDERSON who have written to me and I haven't those of the isolationists back in 1938. Mesa, Ariz. answered yet don't get mad. I thought In those days, some of them claimed Why did you stuff a child's blue hat I would only receive about 10 or 12 that our stereotypes of Hitler and the in front of that magnificent stained- letters, but to my surprise it has Nazis as enemies were unwarranted glass window of Jesus in the Garden reached the number of 38. Another reason that if we would trust Hitler and dis- [April cover]? why I can't answer them much earlier is arm, it would be a step toward peace I had a tiny frame and would have because each airmail cost me 70<- in our time. History showed, however, loved to cut out the gorgeous window [Filipino money—or 35tf U.S.]. the fallaciousness of this "moral rela- and frame it, but the whole is wrecked tivism" approach. And Matthew 7: 15- by the blue hat. Deaf Know Real Loneliness 20 is just as true today concerning Could you reproduce this same win- MRS. EDWARD O. RYE totalitarianism as it was in 1938. dow on an entire page in a future issue? Morrill, Nebr. Those cobalt blues carry me right into I appreciated the important message paradise. What an artist! Beat Bombs Into Plowshares in Ministry to the Deaf [March, page
MRS. CHARLES CURPHEY Sorry—it's too late to remove the 62]. I wish that more of us "hearing" Portland, Ore. girl's hat from the photograph.—Eds. folks could communicate with the deaf people not only to help them Disarmament: The Imperative of Our — broaden their horizon, but because they have Time was wonderful! It is high time She's a 'Long-Time Methodist' something to contribute to the world! Christian Americans gave more thought MARGUERITE STITT CHURCH I was in a hospital recently to this subject. cannot, with good and heard We Congresswoman, 13th Illinois Dist. a lady sigh and remark: "I was so glad conscience, contribute pennies through Washington, D.C. to our churches for mission work while be moved from the room I was in. As a long-time Methodist, whose first patient allowing large portions of our income to The in the other room with me acquaintanceship with Methodist publi- be taxed away for destructive purposes. was deaf and I got so lonely." My heart cations came through the weekly arrival went out to the deaf patient, must If we would start disarmament by who of the long-honored Christian Advocate, converting one large munitions factory have known what real loneliness meant! it means much to me to have the factual to produce farm machinery for India, statement, Where Machines Mine Coal for instance, we could dare the Rus- Jed Smith Writes Home [May, page 14], telling what The Meth- sians to do the same, thus starting a REGINALD R. STUART, Secretary odist Church is doing in West Virginia. disarmament race. With our advertising Jedediah Smith Society know-how, we could spread the knowl- College Pacific, Stockton, Re: Deaconess at Amherstdale of Calif. edge of our plan around the world and It is good to see that Donald Culross Russia would look very suspicious to RUTH I. POPE, Assoc. Secy. Peattie's article, Jedediah Smith, Trail- all nations if she failed to join in this Board of Missions maker Extraordinary [June, page 31] race. New York, NY. bears tribute to Diah not only as a on the staff of the department of We frontiersman, explorer, and hero, but as Please, No Psychiatrists! work in home fields express our appre- a religious man. Here is a transcript of ciation to you for the interesting man- MR. RALPH ROBERTS a letter we have that attests his religious in which presented Methodist Schweinfurt am Main, Germany ner you fervor. work in West Virginia. We especially Jerome D. Frank's statement in Dis- appreciate your reference to work of Wind River, East Side of the armament: The Imperative of Our Time Rocky Mountains, the Wesley House at Amherstdale and showed a definite ignorance of the plain, December 24, 1829. the picture of the deaconess there down-to-earth facts which are so real Dear Father and Mother working with the Girl Scout troop. to us who live in the middle of the Your unworthy son once more under- takes to address his mutch slighted present world crises. His proposal of parents 'Critical Economic Situation' giving ground to antireligious Com- I have several times written, but have received no answer from any of you, munists on the principle of "the BUFORD ELLINGTON, Governor es- since I left home, with the exception, of sential brotherhood of man" demon- Nashville, Tenn. Austin and Peter, they state that our parents now reside in Erie County, strates fine psychological thinking. A great deal of public attention is Pennsylvania, and a few other particulars However, this line of thinking in world being turned to the critical economic with regard to the family, but it would great satisfaction to hear more diplomacy demonstrates a lack of com- situation in the area covered by your give me fully it is a long time since I left home mon sense. Anyone who has traveled article, Where Machines Mine Coal. It and many times I have been ready, to in a Communist satellite knows this to is encouraging to see the religious press bring my business to a close to endeavor to come home; but have been hindered be true. also examine the situation. hitherto as our business is at present, To say that I have enjoyed your Please accept my appreciation not it would be the height of impolicy to set
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a lime to come home, however I will 1956, and have used it as a reference would have us believe that parochial endeavor by the assistance of Divine at conservation camps, camping work- schools do just the opposite. May I point Providence, to come home as soon as possible. The greatest pleasure I could shops, and 4-H leader training sessions out that although parochial schools are enjoy would be to accompany, or be in until it is almost worn out. It has been restricted to the denomination which company with my friends, but whether I shall ever be allowed the privilege, extremely useful for giving background supports them, there are not any re- God only knows. I feell the need of the and inspiration to leaders carrying out strictions as to social status or race. work and care of a Christian Church Are the public schools in you may well suppose that our society one of the objectives of our 4-H home- the U.S. really ". is of the roughest kind. Men of good furnishings project: . . To develop free from racial and social prejudices morals seldom enter into business of this greater awareness of surroundings, and biases? . . . kind 1 hope you will remember me before a throne of grace perhaps you beauty in nature, man-made art, etc." Bishop Kennedy now reaches the think it strange that I do not give may How helpful to have the article re- main point of his article. Now that a you some particulars with regard to what is passing in this country but for this, printed as Together's Reader's Choice! Catholic is a presidential candidate, will it is perhaps better that we wait a meet- his belief that his is the "true" religion
ing. . . . interfere with the May God of his infinite mercy allow Bishops Under Forty proper administration me soon to join my parents, is the prayer of his office? I think that FRED H. PEEPLES, Assoc. Chaplain would anyone of your undutiful who professes to faith Son Methodist Hospital a would think Jedediah S. Smith Memphis, Tenn. that his is the "true" faith. Here again Bishop Kennedy fails to provide an Again the statement is made in our Diah Smith was a follower of John answer—instead, he poses many ques- church magazine [June, page 15] that Wesley—and a man whom Americans tions. All are in way of suggesting a Bishop Gerald Kennedy was the of all creeds may properly honor. predetermined answer to his readers. youngest man ever to be elevated to He wonders, for example, "Are Spain the episcopacy. Diah Wasn't a Mormon and Peru examples of official Catholi- All honor to Bishop Kennedy, for we cism?" and goes on to ask several more THERON H. LUKE all rejoice in his wonderful service to similar questions on Catholic church- Provo, Utah the church, but I give you herewith and-state combinations in other As city editor of the Provo Daily facts as they appear in the 1940-41 countries. Of course, the answer he ex- Herald. I especially enjoyed your arti- General Year Book of The Methodist pects to be forthcoming is that if this cle, Jedediah Smith, Trail-maker Ex- Church: is so in other countries, it will be so in traordinary. "Bishop Charles Betts Galloway born the U.S. But there is no reference to For several years, early Utah and September 1, 1849; consecrated bishop the Protestant churches in Europe Mormon history has been a rather in- at the General Conference of the M.E. which combined Church and State as of mine. Jedediah Smith Church, South, in May of 1886; 36 years tensive hobby did the Lutherans and the Anglicans. has always appealed to me as a charac- old. And there is never any thought of a ter, aside from the historic importance "Bishop Eugene R. Hendrix, born problem if a Lutheran or Anglican of the early trails he cut through Utah. May 17, 1847, consecrated bishop at might become president. . . . He is little known in this state and the same General Conference in 1886, His failure to substantiate claims be- 39." among the Mormon people, but I fear age lies his article's title. For he has not most of those who merely hear his Also I find that Bishops Coke, Asbury, given the "whys" and why it should be name think that with a moniker like Roberts, and J. O. Andrew were all the exclusive heritage of the American Jedediah Smith he was probably an consecrated while under 40. I am sure, Protestants to believe in separation of early Mormon. It is a misapprehension however, that Bishop Kennedy was the Church and State. If he had, he would I continually correct. youngest to be elevated of the living find out that American Catholics also bishops. cherish this American tradition, and Sins: Catholic Doctrine Correction noted. And thank you, Dr. that any Catholic president could not
FRANCIS J. CONNELL, Dean Peeples!—Eds. be bound by the church to do anything Catholic University of America that would undo this precious heritage Washington, D.C. Re: Church & State Separation of all of us Americans. Your Faith and Your Church [Febru- In June, Together carried Why We A copy of Mr. Thrasher's letter was ary, page 46] states that mortal sins are Believe Church and State Must Be sent to Bishop Kennedy, those which cannot be pardoned, and Separate (page 14) by Gerald Kennedy, who responds: venial sins those which can be forgiven. bishop oj the Los Angeles Area of The But the Roman Catholic Church teaches Methodist Church and president of its Your assumption that I assumed that in that all sins, however grave, can be for- Council oj Bishops. To it Michael only Protestants believe separation of and State is entirely un- given in the present life, when the sin- Thrasher, oj Belviont, N.Y., takes Church ner really repents. exception. Identifying himself as "a warranted. There are some Catholics who believe in it as strongly as I do, The real distinction is this: Venial Catholic and living with a Methodist official position sins do not deprive the soul of God's family while attending college" as a but the of the Catholic is in favor of it. All friendship or sanctifying grace. Hence, history and political science major, he Church not you to do is consult your priest or to a person who dies with only venial sins writes: have read the official position of the Catholic upon his soul would be saved. But the Church on this matter. Officially, your mortal sins deprive the soul of sancti- Starting with his title, Bishop Ken- nedy would seem to imply that the church still insists that the State must fying grace, so that if a person dies be under the Church. with even one mortal sin upon his soul Protestants are alone capable of believ- a great American tradition. In any of communities across he will be condemned to hell. ing in such number
. . . Rome has always recognized the this country, there has been pressure principle of separation of Church and against the public school which nearly Thank You, Rachel Carson! State in the U.S. . . . always stems from those who support EMELDA KUNAU Bishop Kennedy says that public a parochial school. If you would write Ames, Iowa schools provide a living experience in to POAU at 1633 Massachusetts Ave., I clipped Rachel Carson's Help Your democracy by combining "the rich and N.W., Washington 6, D.C, you will find Child to Wonder [June, page 24] from poor, the white and colored, the execu- chapter and verse for any number of Woman's Home Companion back in tive's son and the janitor's boy." He instances where Catholics have tried
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August 1960 Together --"-- > -»". -I to take over public schools and put in their own teachers. ORDERING STAMPS OR CARDS? Pressure was put upon the State De- partment to refuse passports to Prot- TOGETHER accepts advertisements only from reliable deal- estant missionaries to other countries ers. If the advertisement mentions the word "approvals," the which happen to have Catholic majori- ties. dealer intends to send a selection of merchandise known as Where does the great drive for an "approvals" in addition to any free items or ones have you official ambassador to the Vatican come paid for in advance. If you keep any of the "approval" items, from, anyway? you must pay for them and return the ones you do not wish You missed my point regarding the to buy. If you do not intend to buy any of the "approval" public schools. I feel it is most important we should not be divided up according items, return them promptly, being sure your name and to our religion. . . . clearly address are written in the upper left-hand corner Of course, every man believes that
of the package in which you return the merchandise. his faith is true. It is only the Catholic Church which insists that all other
faiths are not true. It is this insistence which would put a Catholic president in a very different position from any Fast Relief Wherever Feet Hurt! other Christian. I am sure you are not trying to
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as openly as you have stated that it THOU SHALT nOT believes in the separation of Church and State and in the freedom of all religions, there would be no problem DBTROUTHH whatsoever. .' 'Lump in My Throat . . MRS. ANNA-MODINE MORAN FORESTS... Vincennes, Ind. The pictorial presentation of the 23rd Psalm [May, page 37] raised a lump in my throat and brought tears to my eyes straining to see through their dimness.
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10 Together August 1960 Together NEWSLETTER What are the
14 Wonder Words
NAME NEW BISHOPS. Sixteen, possibly more , new Methodist bishops are being elected this year at the six THAT HAVE HELPED Jurisdictional Conferences. At press time, reports RAISE $4,000,000 had been received from only two. They were: FOR 15,000 South Central—Elected five Bishops and created two new episcopal areas. Elevated to the episcopacy CHURCH GROUPS? were Dr. Eugene Slater, 53, pastor of Polk Street Church, Amarillo, Tex., assigned to the Kansas
Area to succeed Bishop Dana Dawson, retired ; Dr. W. Kenneth Pope, 58, pastor of First Church,
Houston, Tex. , assigned to the Arkansas Area to succeed Bishop Paul E. Martin, who moves to the Houston Area succeeding Bishop A. Frank Smith, retired; Dr. Paul V. Galloway, 56, pastor of
Boston Avenue Church, Tulsa, Okla. , assigned to
the new San Antonio-Northwest Texas Area ; Dr. Aubrey G. Walton, 59, pastor of First Church, Repeat One Little Rock, Ark. , assigned to the new Louisiana Area, and Dr. Kenneth W. Copeland, pastor 48, Sentence of Travis Park Church, San Antonio, Tex., assigned to the Nebraska Area to succeed the late Bishop EARN MONEY
H. Bascom Watts and Bishop Ivan Lee Holt , who EASILY FOR YOOR has served the Area in the interim. The CHORCH GROOP Jurisdiction reassigned Bishop William C. Martin to the Dallas-Fort Worth Area, Bishop Eugene
Frank to the Missouri Area, and Bishop W. Angie Fabulous is the only way we can de-
Smith to the Oklahoma-New Mexico Area. scribe this Fund Raising Idea! A simple
14 wonderful words strung to- Nort heastern—Named four bishops and created a sentence; seventh episcopal area for the Jurisdiction. Elected gether like pearls of wisdom, perform almost miracles of fund raising with the bishops were Dr. Fred G. Holloway, 62, Drew University of Commemorative Plates. president, assigned to the newly created sale Keepsake West Virginia Area; Dr. W. Vernon Middleton, 57, general secretary of the Division of National Exquisite Commemo- of of Missions the Board Missions, assigned to the rative plates with Western Pennsylvania Area (formerly the Pittsburgh permanent (never comes off) repro- Area) succeeding Bishop Lloyd C. Wicke, now duction of your transferred to the New York Area to replace church in realistic colors on the B. Newell, Dr. W. Ralph Bishop Frederick retired; front, any message Ward, Jr., 51, pastor of Mount Lebanon Church, on the back. 17 styles to choose Pittsburgh, assigned to the Syracuse Area to succeed from, 23 let. gold Bishop W. Earl Ledden, retired, and Dr. James K. borders without extra, charge. Learn the 14 of Mathews, 47, associate general secretary the Wonder Words that will Division of World Missions of the Board of Missions, make your fund raising set records of success. assigned to the Boston Area to succeed Bishop John Wesley Lord, who moves to the Washington Area to succeed Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, retired. Bishop WORLD WIDE Fred P. Corson was reassigned to the Philadelphia Area, and Bishop Newell S. Booth to Elisabethville, P. O. Box 958, Covington, Tennessee Republic of the Congo.
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12 Together /August 1960 J* Personal Testimony
God Walks Beside Me By ROBERT M. FOOTE Psychiatrist and Surgeon
M-.Y STORY BEGINS on a languid spring associates tried to be cheerful. However, I knew
day in April, 1947, when I was senior resident in I had cancer and the prospects were far from surgery at the U.S. Marine Hospital, New Or- favorable. My convalescence included three leans. In nearby Texas City, Tex., though, things months of daily X-ray therapy, with its attendant
were not so tranquil. A French freighter, loaded discomforts and wasting. I continued my work,
with nitrate, exploded, taking with it much of the as much to occupy my own mind as to be of city and the lives of hundreds of persons, and service to others, but on my lips constantly were leaving many more suffering, maimed, and dy- the words of the 23rd Psalm:
ing. I flew into the devastated city as head of a "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
medical team—three surgeons, 10 nurses, and a . . . Even though I walk through the valley laboratory technician—mustered on a moment's of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for ." notice. thou art with me . . We started work immediately and continued Through those trying days, a new relation- four days and three nights without pause, ex- ship with God was crystallized. Without the
cept for food. After that, rest came as circum- certainty of life tomorrow, I learned to give the stances permitted our team to alternate with fullest extent of my strength to each day. Un- similar groups. It was during one of these brief derstanding became my stethoscope. The 13th
pauses that I became aware of an abdominal chapter of Paul's first message to the Corinthians pain and other symptoms of appendicitis. became my bandage roll, the seventh chapter of
Our emergency operating rooms were con- Matthew my adhesive tape. Fervently, I learned
taminated by gas gangrene, precluding any clean what it means to earnestly pray, "Not my will,
elective surgery, and I knew that if I shared but thine, O Lord."
my discovery with anyone else I would be re- I cannot fully explain why God continued turned to New Orleans. A powerful restraining my life. But I am content there is divine pur- force would not let me go; I felt the assurance pose in the work that is mine to do. I try con- that if I exercised judicious caution, God would stantly to walk in the footsteps of Lucanus, the take care of my symptoms. Not even in war had Greek physician better known as St. Luke, and
I seen such devastation. I was needed. I had to to share his tender compassion for men and their stay. torments, realizing that all men are divinely My trust in God was not misplaced; not until created with respect and dignity as birthrights.
I was safely back in New Orleans did the symp- And I search, even as Luke searched, to find the toms recur. But then an examination not only insight to fulfill, with all the creative power with- confirmed appendicitis but also revealed the in me, the purpose for which God gave me presence of an unsuspected tumorous growth. breath.
By its nature and location I knew it must be To St. Luke, medicine was a ministry; so
malignant. Immediate surgery was the only also with me. It is a rare joy to walk hand in
rational decision, and it was performed. hand with God in the care of his most precious Until microscopic studies were completed, my creation—man himself.
August 1960\Togethcr /3 2 From Japan comes this heart-warming report on 23 girls whose sorrow has turned to joy. The Hiroshima Maidens —15 Years Later
By NORMAN COUSINS Editor, Saturday Review
OEVEN YEARS AGO, in the for the simple life back home. We women without their handicaps, are Hiroshima Methodist Church of the were not sure they could sustain theijf leading active, useful lives, facing Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, we saw the courage among old surroundings and with courage and assurance whatever Hiroshima Maidens for the first time. situations. life brings them. They were a heartbreaking sight. Since then, a steady flow of cor- Their psychological rehabilitation With fingers twisted and faces respondence had continued between was due to several factors. First, of scarred, they were embarrassed to be the girls and their American host course, was the surgery. It enabled seen in public. All hopes of leading families, but the Maidens never Terue Takeda, for example, to close
normal lives were gone; they lacked wrote of anything worrisome. The her eyelids for the first time in 10 even the courage to return to school only way to find out how they were years. Hideko Sumimura could bend or venture into the streets.* faring was to visit them. According- her stiffened leg so she could sit on Mr. Tanimoto, persuading them to ly, six American "hostesses" recently her feet, as Japanese ladies must, and meet in his church, had given them journeyed to Hiroshima, talking to be married in the traditional man- their only social contact. He had pro- each girl and her family. Here is ner. Michiyo Zomen could straighten vided them with solace, companion- what we learned: her right arm, permitting her to ship, and spiritual guidance. But he Before they came to the U.S. for learn typing and get a job in a pre- was distressed; more was needed to treatment, the girls had given up fectural office. Surgery also gave rehabilitate them, and he saw no way hopes of marrying. Now, however, back to several girls the use of their of meeting that need. eight have husbands. These couples' hands, which had been distorted by He told us of his dream to send ninth baby—each a normal, healthy contracting scar tissue. them to the U.S. for reconstructive youngster—was born just before we When Dr. Arthur J. Barsky and plastic surgery—a dream which arrived. originally went to Japan to examine soon became reality. The girls, seeming almost more the girls, he explained that plastic It was after this one-year treatment poised and self-confident than young surgery could never restore their that, in November of 1956, the Hiro- normal appearance. Yet the opera- shima Maidens had returned to tions improved almost all of them— Japan—all except Shigeko Niimoto and won for Dr. Barsky and his HAPPY SEQUEL and Toyoko Minowa, who decided TO surgical associates, Dr. Bernard HIROSHIMA to remain in this country to study Simon and Dr. Sidney Kahn, and
nursing and fashion design, respec- The distinguished editor of Satur- ior Dr. William Hitzig, the medical tively, and Mitsuko Kuramoto, who day Review, one of the first Americans director, the girls' boundless grati- was married in California. to publicize the plight of the tude. Hiroshima Maidens Tsee his The When we escorted the Maidens In the U.S., the girls had availed Hiroshima Maidens Go Home, October, back to Hiroshima at that time, they themselves of every opportunity for 1956, page 301, now brings Together were elated to see their families and education. Between operations, readers up to date on the moving proud of the improvement in their several went to high school, five story of these victims of the first appearances. But we wondered how Braille, atomic attack. Thanks to surgery learned typing, two two they would adapt when the first joy they received and skills they learned jewelry making, two painting, four ol their home-coming had worn off. in the U.S., he reveals, the girls now dressmaking, two hairdressing, three
Some of us feared thai their stay in lead happy, useful lives. And the piano, one fashion design, and one this land ol plenty might spoil them example they've set has been an nursing. All learned English and inspiration to others—on both sides home nursing. By their tactful cour- l"i furthei di cu ion of A-bomb problems, of the Pacific— EDS. Ban Big Scali Atomic /m'> Testst tesy, humor, and adaptability they [November, 1950, page 16] and Why Did 1 Sur-
I' ' I IS ! \nuu ' 1057, |..-iro 10], won the hearts of their American
14 Together /August 1960 1
Toyoko Minowa, a fashion designer, won rare notices in Tok^yo last fall after showing her creations in the Imperial Hotel. That's her in the plaid dress.
friends. One host wrote of them: stay, now was as gay as anyone at "It is not what we have done for the airport. Gone was the haunting them but what they have done for look of grief she had worn when the us. They came to this country to be Maidens arrived in New York in
mended of the outward scars . . . 1955. and in coming they healed in many All the girls have lost their discom- of us the inward scars and wounds fort at being seen in public. Self- of our own selves." confident and assured, they were During their stay in America, the overjoyed to see their friends from girls blossomed in an atmosphere of abroad and eager to return the acceptance and affection. In Japan, Americans' hospitality. The eight
remember, it is considered a disgrace girls in Tokyo had special reasons to to be wounded or maimed; the be proud of being able to entertain, Maidens previously had hidden their for they were living on their own. faces, some with masks. But in the Toyoko Minowa, who had studied U.S. they found that even strangers fashion design at Parsons School in took a kindly interest in them, so New York City, made this inde- they felt encouraged to meet people pendence possible. After being and to go about in public. We had graduated as one of three honor stu- hoped the knowledge that their dents (she had a full scholarship for
American friends still cared would the three-year course and another for give them the strength to meet dif- the five-month European study trip) ficult situations back home—but we she returned to Japan to establish a were surprised to see how our hopes custom dressmaking business. She had been exceeded. brought to Tokyo four Maidens who We were met by a group of joyful, had meanwhile been learning dress- poised, attractive Maidens. Scars still making. Now they live and work showed on some faces but, as one together.
girl said, "It doesn't matter that I Two of the girls, Masako Wada
still have a scar outside. I have none and Keiko Kawasaki, who learned Hide\o Sumimura, one of eight inside." Braille and brought five Braille type- Hiroshima Maidens who married, Now one notices not the scars but writers back to the Blind Children's was able to sit on her feet— the bright eyes, the irresistible smiles, Home in Hiroshima, are studying to as Japanese custom requires the jaunty gaits, the happy faces. work with the blind and live in at the ceremony—after Hiroko Tasaka, who had worn a the Tokyo house. Misako Kannabe, marriage mask on the street before her U.S. teaching in the hairdressing school mrgery in the U.S.
August 1960 \ Together /5 m from which she was graduated parents—and several husbands. Also after her return, married a co-worker last year, lives nearby. Last summer, on hand were the Japanese doctors and has a baby daughter. Michiko Tadako Emori, Hiroko Tasaka, who had accompanied the girls to Sako's week-old daughter was the Ruriko Fumatsu, and Sachiko the U.S. Into the arms of each Ameri- newest arrival. Mitsuko Kuramoto, Kawamoto helped Toyoko make the can was thrust a beautiful baby. who married a nisei, is bringing up clothes she had designed. Traditional Japanese reticence van- her two children in California. In the fall, a successful fashion ished in embraces and tears of joy. Employers were profuse in their show introduced their dressmaking News reporters on the scene took praise of the Maidens. Michiko business, "Toyo, Haute Couture" to special note of the unprecedented Yamaoka and Emiko Takemoto, Tokyo. The first fashion show ever lack of restraint at the reunion. who were graduated last year from held in the Imperial Hotel, it was Then followed a round of parties dressmaking schools in Hiroshima, attended by such a large audience with the girls and their families, calls are successfully teaching in these and so well reviewed in the press that on and from the mayor, and visits to schools. Both were sent to the Tokyo it brought an immediate—and in- the girls' homes and places of work. fashion show as school representa- creasing—stream of customers. The Everything we saw attested to the tives. Michiyo Zomen and Takako New Yor\ Times reported: "Experi- Maidens' successful adjustment. Harada are happy in clerical jobs in enced fashion observers gave high The husbands of the eight girls prefectural offices. praise to Miss Minowa's styling of now married are fortunate—and they Yoshie Enokawa and Chieko daytime and evening clothes in both know it. There could be no better Kimura have started their own busi- Japanese and imported fabrics. One wives. Several other girls expect to ness, selling yarn and knitting of these declared that the 'Hiroshima marry before long. Yoshie Harada, sweaters, some of which are being Maiden' surpassed current collections the first to marry, now has two sold at "Toyo, Haute Couture" in from Paris in the smartness of her healthy children, as does Hideko Tokyo. Chieko now is the sole sup- designs." Sumimura. Suzue Oshima is main- port of her paralyzed mother. Recently, Toyoko wrote: "Now taining her "Darien Beauty Shop" Tazuko Shibata works for a manu- we are very very busy so we are as well as keeping house for her facturer who extolled her depend- very happy. We have about 20 dress husband and 18-month-old daughter. ability and the affection she inspires orders which have to be done in Suzue learned hairdressing while among other girls. In the evening, one week and one customer wants she lived in Connecticut. Framed on Tazuko brought a young engineer to order six dresses for next week. the wall of her shop is a letter from from the company to ask for Ameri-
Is not it exciting? It is very good the mayor of Darien, thanking her can approval of him as a suitor. news for us." for the spirit she brought to that Motoko Yamashita helps her mother When we moved on to Hiroshima, town. Suzue married the young man and sister in their fishing-gear shop. we were overwhelmed by the recep- who painted her signs. Atsuko And Soyoko Komatsu, youngest in tion. The Maidens were waiting on Yamamoto, who worked as a the group, has finished high school the train platform, as were many bilingual phone operator at a hotel and now works in a department- store office. Not one of the girls has returned to seclusion. All are standing on their own feet. But there are two
who will always be missed : Tomoko Nakabayashi, who died after surgery in New York, and Hideko Hirata, who lost her life to cancer following her return home. On the anniversary of Hideko's death, her younger sister writes to the Americans who loved her. A faithful member of Mr. Tani- moto's church, Hideko lived her re- ligion. Quiet, gentle, with unusual strength of character, she had been president of the group. Before her final illness, she wrote to one of her American hostesses:
"I am so happy that I have known so many wonderful people in America and my family are saying too that they could have many friends in America. We can never
express our thanks. I cannot bear
Suzue Oshima, who learned Inm 16 Together /August 1960 and I will be encouraged and com- forted. Thank you very much for the key to your house. The key you Sadako open my heart by it, so if I could open others' heart how happy I will be. My parents saying they can understand now how I was happy and the in America and way I changed." When the Maidens returned to Hiroshima in November, 1956, we Paper met with them in Mr. Tanimoto's church. Besides these girls, there were a number of others who had been Cranes injured by the bomb and had wanted to come to America for surgery, but By ALICE W. PRYOR A young war victim's tragedy had been rejected. I told them, how- heritage prayer ever, that their government was left a of for peace. building a new hospital to provide surgical ami medical care tor bomb i\ LITTLE kimono-clad Japanese culminated in Hiroshima's Chil- victims. girl, her feet tucked under her in dren's Peace Memorial, paid for hv reply, their spokesman assured In typical Oriental fashion, sits on a children of the city and country. An me that they were grateful, but shelf above my desk. She is Sadako, inscription on the memorial explains added that this would not give them the favorite in my doll collection. it honors "the souls of the children the same new light in their eyes that Her winsome face is almost who died in the atom-bomb, and they saw in those of the Maidens. ethereal as she gazes down toward . . . appeals for the peace of the is the Was there any way, I was asked, that me. She forever occupied making world"— goal toward which they might receive the friendship of paper cranes out of bits of brightly- Sadako dedicated the final months Americans? colored paper, reminding me of the of her young life. true story she personifies. On my visit to Memorial Peace As a result, the Bucks County, Pa., It was on a visit to the Methodist Park in the heart of the city, I Quakers decided to befriend those church of the Rev. Kiyoshi Tani- suddenly came upon the memorial. who had been left behind. Each of moto in Hiroshima in 1958, when I Garlands of paper cranes hung from 55 families started corresponding attended a WSCS bazaar, that I it, placed there by youngsters on with a girl. They have been writing first saw the doll and heard the story pilgrimages. As I lingered, a line since, sending Christmas and birth- of the real Sadako. of blue-clad children marched to the day gifts, and in some instances Sadako was only two when a shrine, bowed, and gently placed providing financial assistance for flash of fire rolling over Hiroshima there still more brightly colored ushered in the atomic age. Tens of paper cranes. breeze set them scholarships. This, too, is a gesture A thousands were killed instantly and fluttering, as though giving wing to to show that America's concern for 70 per cent of the city was virtually their messages of peace. Hiroshima is not limited to the 25 destroyed, but Sadako and her The story is told in the final lines girls who came here. Two of Toyoko family appeared to have escaped; of a commemorative poem written Minowa's dressmakers (Ruriko and the devil's claw marks, as the by Japanese poet Eisaku Yoneda: Sachiko) arc from this group. Japanese called the scars, would not Another one, Matsubarasan, is pres- disfigure their bodies. You are the ones to fold all the ently making plans to come to the However, when Sadako was 12 other cranes. U.S. for study. she was stricken by the dread disease Never let the //littering wings be The Japanese doctors who accom- which so often follows radiation still, never let die. panied the Maidens to America say exposure—leukemia. Hospitalized, Never, them she spent the long hours in bed pur- But set them winging, winging. that the example of the girls has suing the favorite pastime of Japa- To the land where I shall rest in encouraged other bomb victims to nese children: folding paper squares peace, take a more positive approach to into miniature cranes. To the sl{y from where 1 gaze each life. Furthermore, the Maidens now As she grew weaker, she deter- day are regarded as ambassadors of mined to make 1,000 paper cranes Upon my thousand paper cranes, friendship for America, as they were to send forth as prayers for peace Upon my well loved sembazuru. for Japan when they were in the U.S. and her own recovery. She wanted This small group of young women so much to live that she even con- My little doll, my little Sadako, has generated more amity between vinced herself if she reached her goal sits where I can always see her. I Japan and America than many elab- her life would be spared. School want to be reminded constantly of friends, sharing her hope, helped what war can do. orate official projects. Whoever visits fold the cranes. But as the task I want to be reminded that though Hiroshima comments with surprise neared its end Sadako's life closed. I did not experience the horror of on the warmth of the welcome ex- In tribute to her memory—and that atomic blast, I, too, must re- tended to Americans. Those who that of all other child victims of lease 1,000 cranes for peace so that have known the Maidens understand the bomb—her saddened school- never again will any child suffer the this—and are not surprised. mates launched a campaign which late of those of Hiroshima. August 1960 Together 17 Unusual Methodists LINGUIST-DIPLOMAT. When the new African republic of Guinea was born last year, President Eisenhower, seeking this nation's first ambassador to serve there, bypassed a long list of career diplo- mats. He chose instead the chairman of modern languages at North Carolina College, a leading Tarheel Methodist named Dr. John H. Morrow. Fellow members of Asbury Temple Methodist Church in Durham were proud of their friend's accomplishment but sorry to lose the Morrow family's warm fellowship. The ambassador, once a commission chairman, had long served on the board of trustees; Mrs. Morrow was board chair- man of the local Wesley Foundation, and their son, John, Jr., was MYF vice-president. Dr. Morrow holds three U.S. university degrees and a Certijicat Avance from the Sorbonne. His father was a minister—his grandfather, a slave. ENVOY TO GUINEA. Teaching French teas Dr. Morrow's forte—but the President had other plans in mind. INTERNATIONAL MOTHER. Just ask Mrs. Mamie Dial why so many honors have come her way and she'll tell you, "I cast my bread on the waters, and it came back fruitcake." In recognition of her many good-will projects, "Mother Mamie" has been made honorary consul of Panama, an adopted daughter of Spain, an honorary citizen of West Germany and Free China. And she ranks high in the hearts of thousands. Mrs. Dial organized the Pan American Council of International Relations to act as liaison between citizens of her home town, San Antonio, Tex., and foreign military men in nearby training cen- ters. Simultaneously, she began entertaining groups of servicemen from all over the U.S. and abroad in her home; to date, hundreds have sampled her hospitality. As head of "Texas Good Neighbor Delegations," she also has led scores ol women on good will trips abroad, yet has found time to work in the Travis Park Methodist Church school almost 50 years. How can she do so much? "I or- ganize my thinking through prayer," she says. GLOBAL GOOD NEIGHBOR. Whether at home in Texas or visiting an Egyptian hospital (right) Mamie Dial is always on hand when a friend is needed. 78 Together/ August 1960 — ." "I'D LIKE YOU TO MEET . . One of Mrs. Maxwell's FRIENDLY FARMERS. Halfway around the world, Minne- thrills in India was greeting Prime Minister Nehru. sotan Maxwell finds the welcome warm as the sun. LIVE EXHIBITS. At the World Agriculture Fair in delegation spent many hours demonstrating equipment New Delhi, India, this year, the throngs who visited and explaining U.S. home and farm practices. Five days U.S. exhibits saw real, live American farmers, farm a week they donned colorful outfits to entertain the wives, and young people. Among the Yanks "on view" crowds with music and folk dances. were eight Methodists—four young people and four Also helping explain the U.S. way of life were Mr. adults. Working in the displays and visiting farmers in and Mrs. Milton Maxwell of Le Sueur, Minn. This Meth- their homes, they carried to India a message of friendship odist couple was among six at the fair on a program and hope. jointly organized by the three major U.S. farm groups. From a list of 75 nominees, eight 4-H members were Their sponsor was the Farmers Union of their home chosen for the trip. Four—Nancy Nesbitt, Hobart, N.Y.; state, where Maxwell heads the soil-conservation move- Ferdinand (Bud) Thar, Decatur, Mich.; Kay Mihata, ment. Kailua, Hawaii, and Stanley Stewart. Modesto, Calif. During their three months in India, the Minnesotans were Methodists, as were the delegation's leaders, Mr. traveled 10,000 miles, visiting homes of farm families and Mrs. Chauncey P. Lang, long-time workers with and, at the fair, answering thousands of questions about farm youth and active church members in State College, U.S. farm life. Their one-word description of their Pa. With young Indians as helpers and interpreters, the experiences: "thrilling." 4-11 TRAVELERS. Examining trip souvenirs—the Langs, Kay, Stanley, Nancy, and Bud. m j 'iji' Seeing OuMdm* as Mow- AmMtmn/L See Us Eight years ago a Japanese girl arrived in the U.S. for graduate studies in religion in Chicago and New Yor\. At almost the same time, a lonely Filipino boy enrolled as a Crusade Scholar in Syracuse University, where he later received his master's degree in religious journalism. Both looked at us through Asiatic eyes and as\ed questions. Are we a self-absorbed and intolerant people who have failed in every- thing except, perhaps, material success? Or does the vital warmth of Christian MIDMONTH POWWOW concern still abound in America? Here is what they saw, and here are their contrasting answers—one from Yasu\o Horio\a, poet and busy housewife of Cambridge, Mass., in a letter to her brother in Japan; the other from Artemio R. Guillermo, son of a Methodist minister, now executive editor of the Philippine Christian Advance. We are privileged to share their views with you.—Eds. business to meditate on the moon? 'God has no chance to get into a man's heart' One usually comes home after 5 p.m. and plays with one's children . . . says Mrs. Yasuko Horioka or watches TV until dinner is ready. A family gathering in front of the TV set follows the meal. 'EAR Brother: I arrived fore I left is almost the op- Di When Japan There is a whole day off on Satur- in this country in 1952, everything posite of my present view. When days for shopping, house cleaning, or I saw and heard was to I first here, I happy and new me and came was for a long drive. Sundays there is I used to write you almost every grateful to find an easy life with church, with social activities after- day. But as I continued living here, constantly available hot running ward, or a day spent reading a mas- I could no longer find anything to water, central heating, private auto- sive newspaper. write about. I was too lazy to ex- mobile, other conveniences. and The wife's life is similar to her plain things which had become so Now I am afraid of these conven- husband's. She runs a sweeper once familiar to me, but now I feel dif- iences. or twice a week, does laundry by ferently. The remarkable progress in the machine. Because things are abun- The picture I had of America be- standard of living is certainly good dant in this country, housewives news for mankind. But what hap- hunt for bargains rather than mend pened to man's soul? Drugged by old clothes at night as many women the pleasant way of life he himself do in Japan. made, man seems to be worn out and In the concrete "park" that di- to have lost his thinking power. vides one of New York City's busy Consider the life common to the thoroughfares are rows of benches majority of Americans. It takes 15 which are always crowded. Many of minutes to drive to work, so if one the people are aged. They chatter gets up at 8 a.m. there will be enough aimlessly with each other or gaze time for dressing, breakfast, and, into space with unseeing eyes. perhaps, for morning papers. Since They don't seem to care to go to one drives one's own car, there is beautiful Riverside Park a short dis- no need to worry too much about tance away. In that quiet place. the weather. In fact, one can live for pigeons and sparrows leisurely seek weeks without looking up to food, and squirrels scamper about in heaven; and is it not a madman's the sun. The few people there are pulled along by their pet dogs. "Material things prevail here li\e Many Americans patronize restau- reptiles did on ancient earth," rants and cafeterias. Imagine faceless writes Mrs. Horioka, shown with faces of cashiers, waitresses, and peo- her two children in her U .S. home. ple eating. If anything tragic or Together /August 1960 comic happens, they weep or Laugh a hit for over a year; an exhibition lization, don't cross the ocean!" to hut seem unable to bring any feeling of Japanese national treasures drew any Japanese who docs not have out of their souls. thousands of Americans. courage to pursue his own way of I think from these scenes you can Japanese ought to take advantage life. It may be too late, yet some who understand the American disorder 1 of the American interest in their still hold with natural human living am trying to tell you about. It is a country. It is a chance for self- will understand me. trouble which has started attacking reflection. The Japanese like to imi- Man will soon reach the moon. good, friendly Americans from with- tate the West, but is it not time for What remarkable progress! But in themselves. us Japanese to stop imitating others think of the desert scene of the There is nothing wrong with an and take pride in our culture? human heart! Do you say I am ex- advancing standard of living. Some- 1 have written that liie in this aggerating? I wish I were. thing has to be done, however, to civilized America is much easier Russia has a faith called Com- prevent men from suffering its than life in Japan. Cleaning, laundry, munism. What does the rest of the effects, making them like robots. No cooking, and many other things are world have to cope with it? Chris- system of government can do any- done with the help of machines, yet tianity, Judaism, Buddhism, or Is- thing about it, for it is a problem for there is little time to sit and relax. lam?' each individual. Even religious ref- American life is so busy that even I often wish every man could ormation does little to help it, be- God has no chance to get into a spare five minutes to watch a tiny cause the disease is within man and man's heart. A man nervously puffs weed flower at the roadside and feel nil external change can cure it. his cigarette while waiting for his a creation other than his own. There- Man has made machines and now telephone call to be answered; he is in lies the greatest need of today: is driven by machines. Man filled the transfixed by TV until he closes his a return to the nature of man and earth with his own ability and now eyes for the night. The moon and the natural, human way of life. is in danger of becoming its slave. all its loveliness are shut away and Dear brother, let us walk through Material things prevail here like rep- considered only as the destination of our lives with steady footsteps. Let tiles did on the ancient earth. rockets. Nature is not God's creation, us live without being driven. Let I welcome progress in physical but serves only to provide free re- us use our civilization without be- comfort. America has a great deal to sources for civilization. Man no more ing used. However advanced man teach Japan about organization in asks himself: "What am I?" "Why may become, he will never become daily life. But what I wish to tell do I live?" To do a thing without God by his highest achievements. If you is how talented man so often any direct aim is a waste of time; I say, "Let us thank God in the midst loses his spirit and intelligence in work to make money and, with it, of man-made civilization," do you this civilized society. live a happy life! smile at my never-grown view of The symptom is seen in the aca- I wish to shout, "American civi- life? demic world, where learning is no longer thinking, but knowing facts 7 or memorizing. 1 was a stranger and you welcomed me Man is dazzled by his self- says Artemio R. Giiillemio confidence. He almost forgets he is a limited being who may fail at any moment. Now the aim of learning is Ai.FTER an all-night flight from uncomfortable wait was changed to make a living. I! one says, "I study San Francisco to Chicago, I rode a suddenly into a pleasant experience. in order to think more about the taxi to the downtown skyscraper "Hi, stranger!" may he almost a meaning of life and how I ought to where the Philippine consulate was trite, impersonal greeting from one live," he will be sent to a psychiatrist located. The door was locked. In the American to another, hut to a new- immediately! gray light of early morning the tow- comer in a busy country the saluta- ( Since 1 H5 America has imported ering building was deserted; I real- tion is unbelievably warm. x many Japanese products. At every ized I was hours too early. In the 2 /i years of my stay in the dime store one can find cheap but I sat down on my suitcase in the U.S. while training for a career in coarse "made in Japan" merchan- unfamiliar surroundings and re- journalism, there were many occa- dise —products of the selfishness of signed myself to a long, dreary vigil. sions when this spirit of welcome both American and Japanese mer- Disconsolately I waited, watching cheered me. chants. the trickle of early arrivals turn My first months were particularly Is it not a shame that Japan is eventually into a stream of workers lonesome. I felt a strangeness that known as a maker of inferior goods, bound for their offices. Many of them set me apart from my new environ- most of which do not show any went through the revolving door un- ment. Like ice encasing me, the feel- Japanese originality? I want to ask concerned. Some chattered gaily as ing kept me from enjoying the the Japanese exporters to send here they passed by with scarcely a glance beauty of my surroundings. only the goods that are made with at me. I was on the verge of tears. Before the warmth of welcome ac- pride. Just then a neatly dressed woman corded me by fellow Methodists I Yet I cannot deny that there is a hailed me with a cheery, "Hi, met at church, however, the ice be- "Japan boom" in this country. For stranger!" She inquired about my gan to thaw. In the privacy of their instance, the film Gate of Hell wis problem and offered her help. My homes, they impressed upon me that August I960 \ Together 2/ I was not really a stranger. From the This was revealed to me one day by or in the foreign field, is bound to humble home of a farmer in Little a housewife from Winnetka, 111. She be supported with all the resources Falls, N.Y., to the mansion of a busi- befriended me in the office of a high- and enthusiasm of its members. nessman in Evanston, 111., I was re- strung woman who was in charge of Why? Because there is in every ceived as a friend. locating rooms for foreign students. member's heart that Christian love There is a meaningful verse in Perhaps to counteract the brusque which commands him to share his Matthew 25:35 which reads, "... I reception I received from the regis- blessings. To me, this expression of was hungry and you gave me food, trar, she invited me one Saturday to thanksgiving makes up the hallmark I was thirsty and you gave me drink, her home. Since it was spring, the of American religious life. I was a stranger and you welcomed day was spent driving out in the Being an Asian, a brown man, I me." countryside with her, taking in the had some misgivings before I landed Welcome is the golden cord which beautiful hues of blooming lilacs, on American shores. My greatest binds all Christians the world over. tulips, daisies, and dandelions which fear was of being subjected to indig- A person is received for what he is, clotted the meadows. There were nities because of my color. But to a worthy member of the human fam- other Saturday cultural and aesthetic my surprise, I traveled in the Deep ily. And as one who has experienced excursions later. South (Louisiana and Georgia), and welcome in the U.S., I have found Then there was the friend who re- I moved about in the restaurants, in it a deeper meaning of love, con- mains dear because of the many movies, stores, and public places of cern, and understanding which en- profitable times spent with his fam- Nashville, Tenn., without experienc- compassed me, my people, and my ily, talking of the things which make ing the least unpleasantness. country. life worth living. The TV remained In my estimation, those segments This spirit of welcome showed up unused in the corner. in American society that insist on significantly in several of my en- Perhaps, among some other Amer- discriminating against their fellow counters with life in America. Any icans, mechanized living has damp- beings because of race or color are foreigner who studies in the U.S. ened the values of life. But to my victims of gross ignorance and blind cannot but feel the individual's observation, the electrical comforts prejudice. Under the fatherhood of worth in American society. This is and conveniences are seldom used God, we are all human beings with particularly striking to visitors who as substitutes for real friendship, con- a soul accountable before his pres- come from Asia and Africa, con- cern, and awareness. While it is true ence. tinents long colonized by Western that life in an industrialized society The Statue of Liberty standing nations. can be a robotlike existence, eternal majestically in New York harbor This high regard for the individ- values burn deep in the conscious- stirs emotions in any foreign visitor. ual many times takes the form of ness of many persons I met in indus- With her torch in her upraised hand helpfulness. I was lost one day in the trialized America. in a gesture of welcome, Miss Lib- labyrinth of Chicago's subway. In These values find expression in the erty seems to say to the stranger: my desperation I turned to an elderly importance given to the church. At "Welcome to this country. Enjoy lady for directions. She not only cor- Syracuse, N.Y., where a local Meth- the warm hospitality of her diverse rected my bearings but actually rode odist church "adopted" me during people. Drink deep of her fountains all the way with me to my station. my study at Methodist-related Syra- of knowledge. Take home whatever Underneath the facade of material- cuse University, I found a high de- you can from her bounty. Then, ism that characterizes American life, gree of stewardship. Any drive for a when you are in your homeland, re- the finer things of life are cherished. project, whether on the home front member her with kindness." "Hi, stranger!" That to me re- mains the enduring symbol of the America where I lived and traveled. The Chicago woman with her radi- • > 1 2 34 5 ant lace and cheery welcome is 6 7 H 9 10 1U2 etched in my memory. Her spirit was not an isolated case of warm- MM 15 16 17 18 19 hearted welcome. I am sure that 20 21 22 2,] 24 25 26 spirit is shared by many Americans 272X29.10.11 in countless cities. And this spirit, which makes for brotherhood, is sorely needed today by a world torn with hate and fear. If it continues to abide in the heart ot America, even the "gates of hell shall not prevail" against her. "/ was not really a stranger . . . / was received as a friend," says Mr. Guillermo, who has returned to the Philippine Islands to live. Together /August 1960 They Are Kind to Animals By KARL DETZER A.T NEW YORK'S Idlewild Air- following by military transport. port one day last spring an express- For Harry and 25,000 other ani- man delivered a large box with holes mals that pass through Idlewild each bored at both ends in front of a white year the American Society for the building which looks a little like a Prevention of Cruelty to Animals first-rate motel and sounds like an built and runs the $300,000 animal overcrowded Noah's Ark. port, where for a small charge birds The official in charge, a solidly and beasts are rested, kept warm or built man named George Bauer, cool, properly fed, and made as carried the box inside. Printed on it happy as possible between flights. in red were the words, "HANDLE Last year Bauer was host to 229 cats, WITH LOVE"; a hand-drawn 289 cows and heifers, 86 baboons, 2 sticker announced, "My name is kangaroos, 4 sea lions, 51 mice, 134 "Harry proved to be a Harry." Harry proved to be a sheep, 12,677 monkeys, 1 crow, 2,550 friendly dog of fantastically mixed friendly dog of fantastically mixed dogs, and 60 or so other varieties of ancestry that had adopted an ancestry that had adopted an Ameri- fish, birds, and animals. American soldier overseas." can soldier overseas. The soldier, Overnight charges for board and ordered home, had expressed the dog room range from $7 a day for horses by commercial jet airliner and was and bulls to $2 for average-size dogs and $1 for domestic cats. Day-old "... With his teeth he chicks and white mice are charged turned on the water faucet for at 50 cents a box. Most memorable soon was romping and recent guest was one Bauer darkly happily in billows calls "The Lion!" His name was oj suds." Charlie II. As his weight approached 200 pounds, die lion, raised by soldiers overseas, became too fierce for a pet, and his masters presented him to a Cincinnati zoo. The men who were to pick him up were late, so Bauer ignored the "Do Not Feed" order chalked on the cage, put cage and eight pounds of red meat in a strong room, and let the lion out. Charlie gobbled, then explored the room. Finding a pail of detergent on a shelf, he knocked it across the floor. Then with his teeth he turned on a water faucet—and soon was romping happily in billows of suds. When Bauer tried to turn off the August 1960 \ Together 23 — water, Charlie chased him out of the cause. He tackled many problems. substantial citizens. In his early ef- room. It took several hours to coax No state or city then had laws or forts to pass animal-protection laws, him back into his cage. ordinances against cruelty to animals, Bergh was aided by good friends There are only two animal ports and truckers and streetcar drivers named Vanderbilt, Roosevelt, Bel- in the world (London has the other). often were hard-hearted scoundrels mont, Astor, Olyphant, Rhinelander, But hundreds of large and small ani- with blacksnake whips in their and Peter Cooper. mal shelters, clinics, hospitals, adop- hands. The new society, goaded on The ASPCA was only two years tion centers, and rescue stations are by Bergh, did its level best to alleviate old when similar societies were maintained throughout the United the situation, but it had too lew organized in Boston, Philadelphia, States by various humanitarian members and scant support from the and San Francisco. They adopted the groups; local Societies for the Pre- press, so Bergh went out into the initials SPCA and still are among vention of Cruelty to Animals; cat, pot-holeel streets, wading in mud the me>st successful organizations in dog, horse and other "protective asso- over the tops of his spats, and this field. The San Francisco SPCA ciations"; Animal Rescue Leagues; snatched sticks and clubs away from last year investigated the cases of Animal Welfare Centers, Animal teamsters who beat their animals. 40,000 animals reported to be in seri- Shelter Societies, Be Kind to Ani- At night he prowled what the ous trouble, including one skunk that mals Clubs, and local branches of newspapers called the city's "most had fallen into a basement and two the American Humane Association insalubrious purlieus," his keen ears that had got into sewers. and the recently established Humane alert for cockfights and dog-and-rat SPCA agents who accomplished Society of the United States. Their fights. He was so positive in his man- these rescues were happy thereafter methods and outlook vary, but all ner that when he burst into the to answer emergency calls to retrieve are dedicated to the same kindly premises and ordered a fight stopped little girls' kittens from the tops of ends. there usually was no argument. tall trees. They also succored a very Although they often work amica- Although Bergh and the ASPCA ruffled peacock, stuck in the mud, a bly together, all these fine institu- were ridiculed by most of the news- small bird with a fishhook embedded tions are independently organized papers, they soon had solid backing in its face, a pigeon covered with even the several score SPCAs by a number of highly respected and paint, a rabbit frantically dodging scattered across the country. Oldest fast traffic on a throughway, and of these, and the only one that may SPCA agents may find themselves thousands of dogs and cats that were use the word "American" in its up a tree—even out on a limb—in victims of accidents or wanton title, is the New York SPCA, their efforts to rescue pets. cruelty. organized in 1866. (There is no na- The Pennsylvania SPCA, with tional headquarters of the SPCA.) headquarters in Philadelphia, is not Its founder was a lank New Yorker bounded by the city limits. Last year named Henry Bergh, whose kindly its agents worked in 36 Pennsylvania heart, high silk hat, luxuriant Dun- counties, inspected some 5,000 stables, dreary whiskers and drooping mus- pet shops, carnivals, slaughter houses, tache, yellow kid gloves, and stiff, and laboratories and investigated four-inch collars were known and 2,364 charges of cruelty. But the admired from London to Constanti- society found it necessary to take nople, from Paris to St. Petersburg. only nine persons into court; in hun- He was a truly humanitarian citizen dreds of cases the culprits are with a well-filled purse. thoughtless young children, for Bergh had time, thanks to his whom a stern lecture or a visit to family's shipping interests, to travel SPCA headquarters to see the ani- to the far corners of the world, to mals seems preferable to punishment. compose a great deal of bad poetry The Pennsylvania SPCA stresses and also to write hundreds of long education for kindness among chil- letters to newspapers about kindness dren and young people and its repre- to animals. In London he approved sentatives visit hunelreds of schools heartily when the Royal Society for each year with educational films and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals exhibits ol live animals. Last year arrested and sent to the workhouse a traveling collection of nonvenom- hundreds of teamsters who beat, un- ous snakes was taken to many derfed, overworked or overloaded children's summer camps, to illus- their dray horses. On his return to trate a talk on the value of reptiles New York, Bergh brought together to farmers and city fe>lk alike. a group of his well-heeled and social- The Massachusetts SPCA is be- ly prominent friends to establish the lieved to be the largest self-supporting American counterpart of the Royal humane organization in America. London Society. As leader and In 1868 a lawyer named Angcll read founder, he gave his time, intelli- an account of how two horses had gence, vigor, anel money to the been raced from Brighton to Worces- 24 Together /August 1960 ter, cruelly beaten all the way, and vacation, leaving pets unattended. In had both dropped dead before they the autumn, too, many heartless reached the finish line. Angell asked folk turn their dogs or cats loose in J^\J\ Henry Bergh to come up from New the woods or along the shore as they York and help him organize. Bergh start home. Animals that do not complied happily and Angell was starve to death often go wild and A 25th Birthday active in the Society for 50 years. hunt in packs. SPCA agents capture Angell Memorial is the world's the hungry animals and if they have largest animal hospital, with a full- become too wild to retrieve, destroy IJILL, a visiting businessman, sat staff 6 them units hold time of 21 veterinarians and humanely. SPCA in an Akron, Ohio, hotel room operating tables that can be used strays from three days to three grimly fighting a mighty inward simultaneously if necessary. A total months before destroying them. battle—virtually for his life. It was of more than 140 employes work Usually "adoptable" cats and dogs spring of the depression year 1935, around the clock, and nurses are on are quickly taken by new owners when the nation was trying to duty at all hours. Like most SPCA anxious for pets. Naturally, only regain its footing. That was Bill's problem, too. hospitals, Angell makes no charge if healthy animals of good disposition A promising business deal had just the animal's owner cannot afford to are held for adoption. fallen through; now, alone and dis- pay. In several large cities the SPCA couraged, he was on the verge of The Massachusetts SPCA's staff of has taken on the job of local pound taking the one drink he knew would investigating agents wear uniforms master and with it the licensing dog pitch him back into the alcoholic's similar to those of the state police, concession. When, as in New York shadowy world, from which he had have full police authority, and before Stale, the law requires the pound- escaped only months before. starting work must attend the state master to turn over for scientific or Desperately, Bill snatched up the police training school. They not only medical experimentation all healthy phone and dialed a minister. Where, answer complaints, but make routine stray dogs not claimed either by their he implored, could he find another alcoholic he investigations of pet shops, stock- owners or for adoption, the SPCA with whom might talk? A string of coincidences led him to yards, medical laboratories, kennels, runs afoul of militant antivivisection- Dr. Bob S., a prominent local sur- auctions, and rodeos. Occasionally ists. Resolutely against animal experi- geon who had virtually dissipated they go out on a hunt for cock-fights ments, come plague or sudden death, his practice by drinking. Together which still pop up in foreign areas. these zealots assail the and the SPCA they fought the problem—and won! Last year motorists who drove past medical associations and scientific Out of this chance meeting grew a Massachusetts farm were astonished laboratories with which it co-oper- Alcoholics Anonymous, a spiritual to see a policeman in full uniform ates, with the ferocity of tigers. fellowship founded on the unique milking a cow in the barnyard of a Although there is some dissension principle Bill and Dr. Bob had dis- that alcoholics dilapidated farm. This, it turned out, among some of the local SPCAs covered: strengthen their resolve not to drink was one result of a routine investiga- themselves, humane organizations own by trying to help others find sobriety. tion. SPCA Officer Herman N. have worked jointly for some worthy It is therapy based on the kinship Dean, chief of the society's investiga- causes. Among the nation-wide cru- of common suffering—and it works! tion unit, had checked the report of sades the SPCAs and the American AA's two pioneers soon were hungry farm animals at the place Association have conducted Humane joined by a third alcoholic, then and had found it true. Several cows is a recent fight for the adoption of others. Then, in 1939, members were in serious need of milking, and a humane slaughter law. Congress published Alcoholics Anonymous, before he did anything else. Dean passed such a law in 1958 which their "big book." It has since sold milked the cows. Then he began to becomes effective this year. It ad- more than 400,000 copies. dig out the facts. mittedly is not perfect, and zealous Last month, 10,000 of AA's The bachelor-owner of the farm, workers already are trying to put more than 250,000 former problem drinkers gathered for a 25th-anniver- taken suddenly ill, had been rushed new, sharp teeth into it. sary convention in Long Beach, to a hospital. Pigs, goat, dogs, cat, Limited budgets prevent the small Calif. There the men and women cows, and 150 hens were hungry. humane groups from doing all they toasted—with coffee and soft drinks Dean fed them. Then he visited the would like to do in restoring lost pets —their personal independence from owner at the hospital, and found that to their owners. But not long ago a alcohol and their organization's a neighbor had offered him $38 for frightened, hungry, and lost dog was guiding purpose: service to alco- all the animals. found on the streets of Buenos Aires holics who sincerely want to stop "Let me see what I can do," Dean by Senor Jorge Enrique Keil. To his drinking and are willing to sur- said, and he did a great deal. The surprise, he saw that the license tag render to a "Power greater than themselves" to do it. dogs and cat went to the SPCA had been issued in New York by the Surviving co-founder Bill W., shelter for possible adoption, and a ASPCA. He wrote to the society. Its who still remains publicly anony- dealer bought the stock and paid records showed that the dog be- mous, was there. So were members $280 cash for it. Dean turned the longed to an Argentine citizen who representing some 8,000 local groups money over to the grateful owner. had lived temporarily in Forest Hills, in 5,760 communities scattered Most frequent complaints— in Mas- Long Island. The society so notified through more than 80 countries. sachusetts and elsewhere—are against Seiior Keil. Result: happy reunion And all because Bill reached tor the families that have gone away on in Buenos Aires! phone, not the bottle, back in 1935! August I960 \ Together 25 Women of a Maryland church use their area's tradition-rich past to stage a colorful Historical Fashion Show T,HANKS TO a woman who cherishes the nation's past, and to the active participation of WSCS members and their volunteer assistants, nearly two centuries of American Methodism recently came alive in a Maryland church. The accent was on style; it was actually the Antique Fashion Show of the Westminster Methodist Church. But in presenting this pageant of clothing styles from the earliest period of American Methodism down to the Gay 90s, the participants transformed the long-ago Methodists who once wore such garb from memories into flesh-and-blood human beings. Fittingly, the director was Miss Dorothy Elderdice. Her father was a long-time president of Westminster Theological Seminary, now Wesley Theological Semi- nary in Washington, D.C. Her special interest is re- flected in her collection of some 4,000 authentic historical costumes. She was encouraged in the project by her pastor, the Rev. Robert H. Hiller, also an ardent student of Methodist history. Drawing on local history for many settings and plot situations, the pageant was rich in church lore. West- minster, 29 miles northwest of Baltimore, was an early center of the church's activities; one scene of the fashion show depicted the first Methodist class meeting of record in the United States. [see page 2]. Another relived the days when a local tavern keeper demanded that villagers pay him for water drawn from his well. But Betsy, daughter of Squire William Winchester, town founder, insisted that water belonged to all and declared her fa- ther's well free to all. The sequel: the tavern owner's well ran dry; "God's well" continued to flow. Also dramatized, while an orchestra played back- ground music, were such events as a Civil War victory celebration, a high-society wedding of the Elegant 80s, and a Sunday-school picnic of the Gay 90s. For a special audience close-up of the outfits after each scene, actors paraded out along a ramp. All in all, it proved to be truly an antique fashion show—one which gave anima- tion to much early Methodist history. Adhering to a Wesleyan admonition, early Westminster Methodists wore plain clothes—such as these doeskin breeches made in 1827. Together f August 1960 In a scene from actual history, the town's tavern \eepei puts a price on each bucket of water from his well. Old-time costumes, drawn from the director's collection, presented time-consuming problems calling for expert co-operation. His wig slightly as\ew, Alan Wagaman fixes Carroll Beard's vest straps. Strolling out on the ramp, the actors give the audience a close view of their long-ago outfits. August 1960^ Together — Miracles don't just happen. You have to hustle for what you get, Ben believed. So he became The Angry Sinner By LEON WARE B:'EN HUCKINS shifted restlessly When they were finally out in the in seat. was an enter- foyer she put her gloved hand on his his pew His READERS CHOICE prising nature and to have to sit arm. "Ben, would you mind if I quietly for an hour, without partici- The Angry Sinner was first asked Dr. Burdick to dinner?" pating, went against the grain. He nominated by Alice Cooper Elliott "OK. Day's spoiled anyway." of Lafayette, La., who will receive didn't like any game where he "Ben!" $25. It first appeared in This couldn't carry the ball. He winced a little because he Week, April 5, 1953, and is re- His eyes roamed around the printed by permission of Harold hadn't really meant it. He grinned. church. It was an old building, and Ober Associates, Inc. Why not "Sorry, honey. Sure, it's OK by me." nominate favorite or there was a crack that started on the your story Having the minister to dinner article? But please remember: only wall behind the pulpit and angled certainly improved the boys' table one nomination at a time.— EDS. up toward the roof. Wouldn't manners. Ben grinned sympatheti- happen today—not if they'd used cally once at Ricky, the 10-year-old. Huckins Mix. He turned to follow Ricky stared a sickly smile and then the course of the crack and Evelyn's froze as Dr. Burdick glanced at him. sharp elbow dug into his ribs. "Play football, Ricky?" He didn't understand how she "I'm taking a month's vacation but "Oh, sure. Yes, sir ... a little," he could sit so quietly, her gloved hands in the meantime, until I return, I added hesitantly, as if wondering if in her lap, her pretty head cocked a hope the congregation will give some the church approved. little as she listened intently to the thought to what we might do about "Great game, football. Used to sermon. She was always happy Sun- a youth hut on the piece of land left enjoy it." day morning—getting breakfast, the church by Mr. Harkness. Ricky's mouth dropped open. "Did seeing that the boys were cleaned 11)1 "Our town sorely needs a meeting you play football?" lor Sunday school, dressing herself place for the young people—for the "High school and two years of carefully, getting them all off in Boy and Girl Scouts, the various college." Dr. Burdick smiled, remem- time. She always worked on him a youth organizations. The building bering. "Played tackle." little, too, trying to get him to come, wouldn't need to be elaborate, but "Is that how you got the scar?" but she wasn't successful unless it building costs being what they are, Joey asked. "Playing football?" rained, like today, and his weekly it would probably take a considerable "Joey!" Evelyn's face grew pink. tennis game was canceled. sum. I want to ask you all to join Dr. Burdick laughed and gently He settled himself doggedly to me in a prayer that we may be able touched his fingertips to the scar that listen to the balance of the sermon. to utilize Mr. Harkness' generosity began on his forehead at the right The Rev. Paul Burdick was young, for our children's benefit." temple and ran back, faintly visible, but in the two years he'd been pastor Dr. Burdick bent his head and the through his hair. he'd made a good impression on the congregation followed suit. All but "No," he said ruefully, "I got that community. Ben Huckins. He stared at the big at Iwo Jima. I was standing up when Ben eyed him now, wondering man while his deep voice rumbled I should have been sitting down what made a minister. Dr. Burdick in prayer. Ben knew that piece of way down. And I had my helmet off was a bachelor, big, broad-shoul- land down by the river. It'd never —something no Marine should ever dered, and as tanned as one of Ben's been worth much, and when the do." truck drivers. state condemned part of it for a levee, "Well, how do you like that!" The sermon ended, the congrega- Harkness had been paid a lot more Ricky exclaimed. "You, a fightin' tion sang a hymn, and Ben got ready than the whole piece was worth. Marine!" to leave, lint Dr. Burdick had an Generosity indeed! He must have "Ricky," Evelyn said quickly, "the announcement to make. snorted, because Evelyn's elbow di\^ Marines have chaplains, just like the "As you know," he said, smiling, into his ribs again. other branches of service." 28 Together /August 1960 _ — Dr. Burdick shook his head. "1 division in theological college after ment while Ben stood at the window, wasn't a chaplain, Mrs. Huckins. I the war." apparently studying the sullen day. was a buck sergeant. But it was at Ben chuckled. "I know what you "A fine family you have, Mr. [wo that I decided." mean. I was in the Scabces. 1 here Huckins." He smiled at Ben and added: were times when I needed more than Ben turned. "Thanks." He sank "As a matter of fact, I wouldn't a foxhole." The minister settled into into a chair. "Maybe I'm nosy," he have been surprised to find the whole a deep chair with a sigh of content- said, "but after football and the Marine Corps don't you rather miss the excitement?" Dr. Burdick smiled. "I'm afraid one of the reasons I went into the ministry was because I'd had enough excitement. And now I find that this is the most exciting thing in the world." Evelyn came in and they sat with their coffee. Dr. Burdick smiled at Ben. "You know, Mr. Huckins, most ministers have to work on faith alone. There's no financial reserve you just go along with your plans, praying and working, and when the time comes, whatever you need is there at hand." Ben laughed shortly. "Wish it'd work for me." Dr. Burdick smiled. "The power of prayer is practically unexplored, Mr. Huckins. Probably yours weren't answered because you didn't think they would be. You not only have to pray, you have to believe, too." Ben couldn't resist it. "Like this youth hut?" Dr. Burdick nodded. "That's right." Ben stretched out his legs. "You mean, seriously now, that you'll get that place by prayer alone?" Dr. Burdick's glance was steady, vaguely disturbing to Ben. As a matter of fact, the calm, quiet, as- sured gaze irritated him. By what right did this big young man sit there talking about prayer getting him what he wanted when he should be out hustling for it? "I believe we will," Dr. Burdick said quietlv. "If the whole com- munity joins in prayer, I'm sure we ' will." "That leaves you quite an out." Ben said. "Ben!" Dr. Burdick chuckled. "It's all "Some generosity! A building 30 by 50 would practically cover all the usable ground. He stopped suddenly, looking down at the mud. A slow, wry grin crossed his face." 29 —— right, Mrs. Huckins. Believing, real- "Never mind who I'm sore at," how we could get it by prayer," Ben ly believing, is the hardest thing in Be-n said. "This is a rush job. Gotta continued. the world to do. Even the disciples, be done—paint, wiring, plumbing "That's right." who'd witnessed the greatest miracle everything in a month." "Well—that's one way, maybe. A of all time, didn't believe at first." "Free?" way I don't know much about, I Evelyn didn't have much to say "Free. Are you in?" guess. But there's another way, too. to Ben when they were alone. She "Well . . . sure ... I guess so. I Get out and hustle and sweat. That's was too angry. "Just because you always like to help . . . But 30 by my way. For my money, that's what ." couldn't pla.y tennis today you don't 50 . . gets things done. How do you like it, have to take it out on everyone! "And plywood for a locker room, Doctor?" Sometimes I just don't understand plus kitchen cabinets." He had timed it perfectly. The car you!" Earl groaned. stopped in front of the youth hut "I don't understand him," Ben re- "What electrical contractor's had whose white paint glistened in the lumed shortly. Knowing that he the best year?" Ben asked. moonlight. The lights were on and hadn't behaved well only lent an Earl snorted. "All of 'em. Joe the front door open. edge to his voice. "A big husky guy Pearce, maybe. He had that big job like that ought to be working for in Watertown. what he wants!" "Joe's my man, then. And Earl D,'R. BURDICK got out of the car She spun on her heels and went this is top secret. Make sure every- without a word. He went up the swiftly up the stairs, her back stiff, body who works on the deal under- walk and took off his hat as he her head high. stands it." entered. He saw the opened kitchen, She didn't come down; he didn't By the time he got home Evelyn the locker room, the two bathrooms. go up. Late in the afternoon he got was in the kitchen, fixing a snack of He swallowed several times and into his rain clothes and went out soup and toast for the boys, and he turned slowly around, his eyes in the car. ate some, too. She didn't speak to glistening. Only then was Ben He turned down toward the river him, and he didn't speak to her. He conscious of Evelyn, squeezing his front. He found the lot old man nursed his secret, gloating a little. arm so tight it hurt. Harkness had bequeathed to the By the end of the week the slab "Here's the key, Doctor," Ben church. An ugly mud levee cut was in, the studs up, the roof on, and said. across it at an angle, leaving an the fireplace almost finished. Abe Dr. Burdick took the key and bent oddly shaped piece of land on which Decebaum stopped him on the his head. When he looked up again there were only weeds and scrub street. his face was shining. His eyes held willows. He got out and paced it. "Look," Abe said. "I live here. Ben's. Some generosity! A building 30 My kids belong to the Scouts. How "A miracle," he said softly. by 50 would practically cover all come you don't come near me?" Ben shook his head. "No miracle. the usable ground. He stopped sud- Ben pushed his hat back on his Just plain hard work by a lot of denly, looking down at the mud. A head. "How'd you find out?" hard-working people." He grinned slow, wry grin crossed his face. Abe grinned. "Radar." triumphantly. What a joke! What a first-class, Ben laughed. "Abe, you're all "I told you this was an exciting down-to-earth, cash-on-the-barrelhead right. I didn't come to you because, business," Dr. Burdick said gently, kind of joke! after all, the building's going to be- "and I think it's a miracle. How else long to our church." do you explain that a man who's had "OK," Abe said. "All the kids but little interest in the church should H,.E GOT back into his car and gonna use it—that's good enough for become God's instrument? Only a drove some distance to Earl Kenyon's me. What do you need?" man like you could have accom- house. There were a number of cars "A stove, refrigerator, and a sink." plished this in so short a time, Mr. parked in front so he drove on to a "Me and my big mouth! OK, Ben Huckins—so a man like you was drugstore and went in to use the —you got 'em." selected." phone. He rode it like a bucking bronco. Ben's grin slowly faded. An odd, "Earl? Ben Huckins. Look: day And it was done in time—just. puzzled feeling crept over him. after tomorrow I'm pouring a con- Dr. Burdick returned from his trip "Why did you do this for us?" crete slab 30 by 50 for a community late in the afternoon, and Ben made Dr. Burdick asked. youth hut. I'll supply the asbestos an appointment for after dinner. He Ben looked past the man, at the shingles and the wallboard, too. How took Evelyn along and they picked big fireplace. He recognized the about you donating the lumber?" up the minister. Ben drove slowly, feeling now. It was awe. "Hey, wait a minute!" Earl gasped. savoring the moment to come. When "I ... I got mad at you," he said, "What is this?" they turned down the dead-end almost to himself. "I thought instead "('all it a shakedown." Ben said street he began his little speech. of just praying, you ought to be out curtly. "Do you or don't you want "You remember the rainy Sunday doing something about it." in?" you were over to dinner, Doctor?" Dr. Burdick laughed softly. "I "Who you sore at?" Earl de- Ben asked. was doing something about it, I manded. "Thirty by fifty—that's a lot "I remember it with pleasure." guess. I was making the right man of lumber!" "You spoke about the youth hut mad!" 30 Together/ August 1960 " " Lapses in Ap By ALAN D. LE BARON Dutifully, the pastor's son put the familiar message on the board—and then added his own brief hjc\er. A NEW PASTOR in Pittsburgh, stayed up six days before his dad preach on the theme, 'Who Will Pa., wanted to impress on his flock discovered it. The message: "Love Serve?' the long-term role of music in his Your Enemies. It'll Drive Them "In the absence of the Rev. church. He mailed each member a Nuts." while on vacation," read another an- form letter—but somehow a gremlin Still another bulletin board, this nouncement, "our assistant minister, "y" dropped the out of "years," so time in West Virginia, offered un- Rev. , will do his best to take that the faithful found themselves expected hope for harassed husbands charge of all pastoral cuties." exhorted to "sing, sing, sing, through in its announcement of a sermon Even the renowned Riverside Bap- the ears!" They were assured further: topic on altering the course of one's tist Church in New York City is "You'll be surprised at what this life: "How to Change Your Wife not immune. One Sunday a line in will do for you, and at how your Through Prayer." the order of worship read, "Hymn loved ones will react." The best bloopers, however, have 356. Congregation standing." Im- That embarrassed pastor, of been printed in the little orders of mediately under that was: "Sermon: course, was not the only gentleman worship handed to parishioners at 'What Are You Standing For?'" of the cloth to come a cropper on a the door. "Our parish is large," one "Intimations of Immorality," was slip of tongue or pen. There was such bulletin started out, "and many the morning sermon topic listed in also, for example, the preacher in persons come in person, by telephone, one Nebraska bulletin. The night Minneapolis who solemnly assured and by mail, bringing us their topic: "Enduring Enthusiasm." his congregation that "many a strong spiritual problems. We ministers con- Even newspapers get into the act. man has suddenly seen the bottom scientiously fake an interest in every On its church page, one announced: drop out of his wife"! one of them." "Rally Day and Harvest Home Ex- Almost invariably, such lapses in In Topeka, Kans., "The Ford Is ercises in the First Presbyterian the apses are created by the most My Light," was given as the title of Church will be hell on Sunday." reverent of people, the sweet souls a solo by a tenor—who was, of all One newspaper reported, "The who work hardest in the church. It's things, a Chevrolet dealer. And the grandfather of the child sued for their very innocence that makes the bulletin of a Massachusetts church damages for pain and suffering he humor charming. Like that of the announced, "Our minister will said the little boy sustained after eat- young Navy flicr-turned-minister preach on 'Evil Member in the ing some preachers." And a church who stood before his congregation Church.' Our choir will sing, 'Who notice in a Kansas newspaper solemn- and said, "Let us sing, 'Rescue the Could It Be?'" ly announced for the following Sun- Parachute.' The pastor's sermon topic of a day that the congregation could Then there was the bulletin board Texas church was printed as "Who expect "sacrament of Baptism and of a church in Houston, Tex., with Knocketh at Your Door?" The very deception of new members." the startling suggestion, "Rest in the next line gave the answer: "Shad- Then there was the bishop who Lard." When some smiling member rach, Meshach, and Mrs. Viola came to town and was interviewed finally reported it, the secretary Townsend, whose son is in the by the cub reporter. His Reverence rushed out and "corrected" it to, Navy." felt expansive, told a lot of incidents "Rest in the Yard." Members of one Texas church and anecdotes, then asked the young In Milwaukee another minister read in their bulletin, "Our young man not to use them because they asked his son to put up a familiar people's tennis team needs more were from his next address. So the admonition on the board. The boy players. Won't more boys and girls reporter printed this regret: "The put up the three words, then added please come out for the team?" The bishop told a lot of good stories that a brief commentary of his own. It next item said: "Our pastor will cannot be printed." August 1960 X Together 31 pm I: A mother, experienced in the trials of living with almost grown-up children, advises other parents: Push the Fledglings Out! By EDNA WALKER CHANDLER A Together in the JC Ifrs^1* Feature D,'O PARENTS ever get through and night, lugging sandwiches and free to go, and that his parents might raising a family? I wonder. In our homemade malts from the kitchen even be relieved if he did strike out case, when our two older boys to the boys' room. We were glad they on his own, plus a week of trying finished high school, they decided to had friends and felt free to bring to find a place he wanted—and could go to work. One got a job as an them home. But when I looked at afford, did wonders. apprentice sheet-metal worker, with the extra dishes overflowing the sink Almost the same thing happened pay enough to make him independ- —and the gaps where food had with our second son. Both boys found ent. The other became a civil-service vanished from the refrigerator— that freedom costs money, and that draftsman with a good salary. wondered desperately where their a wage-earning child still has definite Now, their father and I told our- parents' freedom came in. obligations to his home and family selves, our troubles with these two Our sons also became night owls. so long as he lives at home and bene- are over! But we were kidding our- Finally, when the older one came fits from the family situation. The selves. whistling home at 3 a.m. I told him boys are both married now, but when At first it looked rosy. "Now, "You know we don't keep hours like they come home on visits they help Mom," the boys told me, "we want this. Please, can't you get in a little in a way that shows real appreciation. to help out with the food bill." That earlier so everyone can settle down After them came Jane, who at 19 was fine, their dad and I agreed; for a decent night's sleep?" decided she should be completely they certainly ate enough. Between Well, our son felt that since he was free. 17 and 20 a boy is still a gastronomic paying his "board and room" he Her father and I had looked for- cavern. should have all the privileges and ward to having her home after a The boys began throwing in $10 a none of the responsibilities connected year at the university, for she is week toward groceries. But they also with the household. He announced bright and her thinking is a constant kept tossing their dirty clothes into he'd better find a place of his own. challenge. But along with her came the family washing, showing not a I suggested that he look for one Tommy. hit of surprise at getting them back where laundry, mending, and 24- Tommy was in love with Jane, but clean and ironed. And they kept on hour access to the refrigerator would he lived about 80 miles away and using the family stock of soap, tooth- be thrown in, as well as unlimited had no car. The first Friday night, paste and other incidentals, just as use of all personal supplies. I also told he hitchhiked to our place and spent they always had. him to seek a place where he would that night, all Saturday, Saturday If asked to help with household have free use of the phone. night, and Sunday as our guest. And chores, however, they were anything I clipped ads for him and he began I mean guest. He didn't so much as I nit cheerful. They never helped his search. For a week he ran down offer to dry a dish, and Jane wasn't without being asked, and if a date leads. Then suddenly he quit. He even worth shooting while he was or other plans interfered, off they pitched in and helped with the work hanging around. went, leaving me with the younger as he never had. He asked me to Saturday night we lent them our children, the lawn to Ik- cut, and their show him how to iron his clothes. car. They came back at 2 a.m. and room and the bathroom a mess. He began getting in earlier, and began frying hamburgers. They were good hoys and neither when he knew he would be out late "Are all our summer weekends drank, for which their father and I he got in the habit of telling tis be- going to he like this?" my husband were thankful. They had nice friends, Forehand. groaned as we lay tensely awake in who came in all hours of the day That little spell of knowing he was the hamburger-scented darkness. 32 Together/ August 1960 To older children with jobs, moving out of the family home seems best—until they find that freedom costs them money. she went on : "But I've been thinking that as long as my parents pay all my bills and send me $100 a month to go to college, then I am still a child." Our daughter not only has a bright mind, it's a fair one when she puts it to work on a problem. "I don't want to be a child any longer," Jane concluded, "so I've found a job in town. I'm going to quit college and support myself." The apartment she and a girl friend took in the city wasn't much, but it was respectable. We helped the girls move in, hoping deep inside ourselves that this wasn't the wrong thing. As Jane packed dishes, I reminded her to put in an extra setting as Tommy might be there to eat with them sometimes. "Oh no, he won't," she answered. "Tommy is going to eat somewhere else unless he brings his own food." "You didn't teel that way about for "I'm not sure," I answered, "but We admitted we might be stuffy cooking big meals him here," I I'd guess yes." and old-fashioned, but we didn't feel said. "Over my dead body," he mut- able to cope with broken sleep and "That was different. I wasn't buy- tered. upsets every weekend. ing the meat then!" The next morning, Jane announced Jane said angrily that she felt she Her father heard her and came up that she and Tommy wouldn't go was old enough to decide for herself from behind his newspaper: "We've to church. "He doesn't believe in how much and how often she could been taken. Mother, we've been organized religion," she explained see her boy friend. She should be old taken!" And parents are likely to soulfully. To maintain an aura of enough, she protested, to decide when go on being taken by their almost respectability, I stayed home, too, she should get in. And when, she grown-up children unless they have and my attitude was anything but wanted to know, would she be her the backbone to stand up to them. spiritual. own boss? Her father told her that When the young fledgling yells for In gentle ways we tried to get the when she was ready and able to pay a chance to try his wings, don't have idea across to our daughter that a her own bills she could make all her hysterics about "my-beloved-child- little moderation would be all to the decisions herself. turning-against-me" and all that good. But after the second weekend A few days later a quieter Jane stuff. Just step up to the edge, give we felt compelled to take direct ac- came home from a trip to the city. the fledgling a little push, then stand tion. Jane was told she would have "I've had a happy home," she be- aside and watch the fun. But keep to do certain things around the house gan, "and I want my memories of it the underbrush around the nest because I needed her help. Also, we to remain happy. But they won't be cleared away so the way back is plain. assured her, there would be no more if I'm going to be treated like a child Jane comes home occasionally and home-cooked meals at 2 a.m., no forever." she phones us almost every day. more showers at 3. And no more I'm glad I didn't give in to my Sometimes she invites us to be her weekend living at our house by her impulse to tell her that every teen- guests, for she did pack enough boy friend unless her lather and I ager thinks he's being treated like a dishes lor her family—even if we specifically invited him. child il his wishes are crossed, for don't bring our own groceries. August 1960 \ Together 33 Galileo and the Word of God By DONALD CULROSS PEATTIE E^EVERYBODY knows three things for music—and a genius unsurpassed about the 17th-century astronomer, for mathematics and physics. Galileo Galilei—that he invented the His early teachers, the kindly telescope; that he was the first to Vallambrosan Fathers, reported prove that the earth revolves about (with that infallibility some teachers the sun, and that for this belief he show for being wrong) that the boy was tortured by the Inquisition of had no talent whatever for mathe- the Church until he recanted, only to matics or any kind of science. Gali- mutter, "Nevertheless, it moves." leo's father sent him to Pisa to take Everybody "knows" all this—but a sort of pre-med course at the uni- none of it is true. versity there. And one day in the The truth about Galileo can be famous cathedral Galileo forgot the found in any encyclopedia or history Mass to watch a silver lamp, which of astronomy. Yet, often as the truth you can see to this day, swinging has been told, its lessons need to be back and forth over the heads of the learned again by every generation. worshipers as it left the hand that For this truth raises in our minds lighted it. Of course the lamp, hung these questions: on a long chain from the lofty ceil- Are we not making similar mis- ing, gradually died down. But this takes today against some of the men 17-year-old boy perceived that the and ideas we do not understand too lamp took as long to complete a small well? Do we not sometimes judge arc as a wide one. Fingers on wrist, great new concepts by the spirit of using his pulse as a timer, Galileo a past which—if we had to live in there in that dim old cathedral estab- it—would seem a small and stuffy lished the basic law in the dynamics intellectual realm, half-closed to free- of falling bodies. dom of thought and press and wor- At home he set pendulums swing- ship? ing from every ceiling and bough; Some have even thought that Gali- always the result was the same. When leo must have been at heart an people asked, "What's the use of atheist. But no atheist would have all this?" the lad had no definite written: "The whole of philosophy answer; he could not look ahead and is understood only by God." tell them that because of the pendu- Who was this scientist with the lum it would not only be possible to modern mind? To place him more make more accurate clocks but to exactly in time, he was born the year prove the rotation of the earth. Michelangelo died (1564), and died His powers as a mathematician, the year Isaac Newton was born largely sell-taught, grew until, hav- (1642). His father was an impov- ing quit his medical course, he was erished nobleman ol Florence, with a made a science professor at the Uni- mild gift lor mathematics and music. versity ol Pisa. I lis mother was a redhead with a Aristotle had said that a 10-pound t< mper to match. ( ralileo had the red weighl would hit the ground 10 hair, the short temper, and mild gilt times sooner than a one-pound 34 — weight, but Galileo did not agree. convinced him that Copernicus had Tradition has it that with some been right when he announced in jealous fellow teachers and a group 1543 that the earth turns daily on its of undergraduates as witnesses, he axis, and that it and all the other dropped simultaneously a one-pound planets revolve around the sun. 'v{/> weight and a 10-pound weight from This Copernican theory was con- Pisa's leaning tower. They hit the trary to Scripture. For it says in ground at the same time. Did his Ecclesiastes: "The sun rises and the m colleagues rush forward to congratu- sun goes down, and hastens to the late him? Far from it! They merely place where it rises." To this, Gali- '£41, shook their heads, preferring to be- leo could reply that the Bible teaches lieve their books. us how to go to heaven, not how the In his laboratory, Galileo continued heavens go. Yet, to save the ap- experimenting, now with bodies fall- pearance of things, church author- ing down an inclined plane. These, ities the i> wanted antiquated Oriental 1r he found, obeyed the same laws as astronomy of the Old Testament kept freely falling bodies. His theories as fundamental truth, which must were too much for the Aristotle- never be questioned. They wished grubbing professors of Pisa. They Galileo to compromise by declaring got his pay reduced. In disgust, Gali- that his view of the solar system leo, now 28, resigned and moved to was merely what they called "philo- Venice to teach in the University of sophic truth," or what some today Padua, where the air of intellectual would call "unproved theory." freedom was bracing. However, Galileo, though ordered For the next 18 years he served the in 1616 by his friend, the next pope, great maritime republic. He designed Urban VIII, not to teach the Coper- bridges, siege machinery, and forti- nican theory of the solar system or to fications. He invented what we might write about it as though it were call the ancestor of the slide rule. really so, was not a man to compro- It was in 1609 that Galileo heard, mise. So Galileo kept silent lor years, in Venice, that a Dutch spectacle- during which time he unwisely maker's assistant had discovered how changed his residence from the lib- a combination of two lenses could eral University ol Padua to the make objects appear larger—the first tyrannical, if splendid, court of the telescopes. True, their magnification Duke of Tuscany in Florence. was only three times and the image In 1632 he published his famous appeared upside down. Galileo Dialogues Concerning Two Principal promptly improved on this by a de- Systems, the Copernican versus the vice to turn the image right side up. ancient Ptolemaic notions. These di- Then, from the top of the lofty alogues have three persons talking campanile in St. Mark's Square in Galileo under another name, a man Venice, he demonstrated to the doge we might call Mr. Commonsense, and the senators that by looking in and Simplicio, a dunce. Galileo's the telescope they could see a ship 50 enemies presumed Simplicio to be a miles away as clearly as though it caricature of Pope Urban VIII, were within five miles. though the pope himself never be- The great sea power of Venice lieved it. Contempt for the Church's voted Galileo an increase in salary authority could not be tolerated even and a life professorship, and swiftly in a friend, however, so Urban set ^» his telescopes were ordered from all up a commission to investigate. parts of Europe. His own pet tele- The trouble that the Holy Office scope, named "Old Discoverer" and of the Inquisition encountered was magifying 33 diameters, he turned that the permission of the Inquisition upon the heavens. The greatest spec- to print the book had already been T tacle open to mortal sight thus was given in Florence. The trivial excuse revealed first to Galileo's eyes. of a slight change in the title page With darkened lenses, he discov- was the best that could be dug up. ered that the surface of the sun is But the Inquisition consisted of peo- swept by strong storms—sunspots, ple who were both prosecutors and which seem to travel across its face. judges, and had the power to con- He realized that the apparent travel- demn Galileo to torture, imprison- ing was due to the rotation of the ment, or death. sun on its axis. Further sightings Galileo was an old man, suffering August 1960 .Together 35 . from gout, double hernia, and crip- Calling all Photographers pling rheumatism. In addition, he- was urged by the Tuscan ambassador to plead guilty and throw himself on the mercy of the court. And finally, Remember he had no desire to remain at outs with his church. Thus there ensued the dreadful Together 's spectacle of the greatest scientist of his age reading, upon his knees, a recantation of his belief in the Co- pernican system. This done, Galileo 1961 was condemned to prison, although in fact he was handled with what was, for the Inquisition, kid gloves, being given a suite of rooms and a Invitational garden where he might walk. He was finally allowed to return to Florence, where he lived on a small grant of money from the Church, practically a prisoner under house arrest. can take storytelling color slides and i F YOU Here it was that John Milton challenge, like enjoy a camera we'd your help visited him, talking into the late in building Together's fifth reader-participation hours with the astronomer, who was pictorial, to be published sometime in 1961. For it, slowly losing his sight. Great princes, we're seeking transparencies which will link Method- even princes of the Church, and ism's history to its present. One example is this picture, famous scholars called upon the old taken last summer during a special 175th-anni- man. versary service at St. Paul's Methodist Church, Newport, A magnificent present was of- R.I. It was especially appropriate that people there should fered him by the Dutch government, Paul's is have worn the dress of yesteryear, for St. a but Galileo had to say that he dared truly historic first Methodist church—the not accept a gilt from a heretic state. in the world to have a steeple. You'll meetinghouse Still, secretly, he managed to smug- find it, other sites precious to Methodist history, and gle out in small parts his last great in the Methodist Americana which appeared in Map manuscript. It was circulated in Together's November, 1959, issue and which countries where press and thought is sale, separately, at your Cokesbury now on were still free. Thus, to the end, at Book Store (price 50^'). Together will for each pay $25 78, the great light burned behind the accepted the pictorial, for 35-mm. slide for $35 darkened eyes. larger ones. Entries, up to 10 color transparencies, Turn back a moment for a look at be postmarked by February 1961. must 10, Galileo's Inquisitorial judges. Note that some of the cardinals did not sign his condemnation. And neither did the pope. Whatever their reasons, TneT,^: METHODIST AMERICANA they abstained, permitting the ig- norant and the jealous to condemn him. READ THESE RULES CAREFULLY Eventually, Galileo's books were 1. Send no more than 10 color transparencies (color prints or color removed from the Index of the In- negatives are not eligible). quisition—that is, the books that 2. Identify each slide and explain why it is Methodist Americana. might corrupt the faith of the faith- 3. Enclose loose stamps for return postage (do not stick stamps to anything) ful. For science and religious faith 4. Entries must be postmarked on or before February 10, 1961. are not, in fact, enemies. They arc 5. Original slides bought, and all reproduction rights to them, will be- both paths by which man travels to come TOCETHER's property. (Photographers will receive duplicates iiiul what he may honestly believe. for their files of all slides purchased.) In this day when science has armed 6. Slides not accepted will be returned shortly after the closing date. Care will be used in handling and returning transparencies, but mankind with such dread powers, TOGETHER cannot be responsible for slides lost or damaged in transit. and when faith is needed more des- perately than ever to guide us in the Send to: Melliodisl Americana use of these (lowers, let us he careful never to bar either path to those who TOGETHER, 740 N. Rush St., Chicago 11, 111. seek the truth. 36 Together/ August 1960 PICTURES TO SING For flowers that bloom A SONG OF about our feet JViANY VIVID images must have come to Ralph Waldo Emerson's sensitive mind as he wrote the reverent poem reprinted below. But it is doubtful that even Emerson's great gift for poesy could have called up pictures of such colorful variety as those submitted by our readers in Together's fourth Photo Invitational. l IIJ color trans- This time 1,647 °f vou sent m a tota °£ I0 > parencies to illustrate Father in Heaven, We Than\ Thee. With sincere pride and gratitude, we present here a sampling of the best. Photography, of course, has advanced far beyond Emerson's day. In fact, today's color pictures and their accurate repro- duction would have been beyond the wildest dreams of the great essayist-poet who lived from 1803 to 1882. But the truths and the beauties Emerson wrote about, and sought with such fervor, are unchanged. They are the eternal things: a mother's love, the burst of wild flowers on a hillside, the worn hands of a woman turning the pages of a Bible, the shimmer of a spider's web on a dewy morning, the uncon- scious grace and innocence of childhood. All these were there for the poet to discern a century ago, as they are for us today. FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK THEE For flowers that bloom about our feet For tender grass, so fresh and sweet For song of bird and hum of bee For all things fair we hear or see- Father in heaven, we thank thee! For blue of stream, for blue of sky For pleasant shade of branches high For fragrant air and cooling breeze For beauty of the blowing trees- Father in heaven, we thank thee! For mother love, for father care, For brothers strong and sisters fair For love at home and school each day For guidance lest we go astray— Father in heaven, we thank thee! For thy dear, everlasting arms That bear us o'er all ills and harms Wild flowers on a California hill spread a colorful car- For blessed words of long ago pet here beneath the feet of Joyce Woolfenden, daughter That help us now thy will to know- of John Woolfenden, Carmel Valley, Calif., who too\ Father in heaven, we thank thee! this picture on a weekend outing at a nearby ranch. He used a Rolleicord camera, f/11 at 1/50, and Ansco film. August 1960 \ Together 37 For Soo/?y, too, the grass seems greener in other pastures—and she's doing something about it. John C. Wilson of Madison, Wis., captured this with an Argus C-j, f/8 at i / 100, on Kodachrome. For tender grass, so fresh and sweet For song of bird and hum of bee For all things fair we hear or see— Father in heaven, we thank thee! A busy bee on a bright Spring day caught the eye of Robert McWethy, an amateur nature photographer of Wichita, Kans. His Exaftta was set at f/5-6 and i/ioo; his film was Daylight Kodachrome. Silvery threads of a spider web snare the gold of morn- ing light for f. T. Rhoads of Win field, Kans., who special- izes in nature pictures. His camera was a Rico 35, f/56 at 1/25, on Kodachrome. Together /August 1960 y h Ayg&&b --' "' ..WWfrAJ i - The imperial shoulders of mighty pea\s are caught in the mirror mountain of a la\e . Miles Peelle of Adrian, Mich., used a Rolleicord, f/u, 1/60 on Tiktachrome film. Together /August 1960 — Beyond the trees loom New York's great skyscrapers, but here in the green shade of Central Par\ a small boy meets his grandfather in near-rural peace and quiet. Photo by C. W. ¥un\, Walnut Cree\, Calif., using a Retina II camera, f/4 at 1/50 exposure on Kodachrome film. For blue of stream, for blue of sky For pleasant shade of branches high For fragrant air and cooling breeze For beauty of the blowing trees — Father in heaven, we thank thee! August 1960 \Together 41 Bi5 Someday he will fly, perhaps to the moon! But here, in his small orbit above Daddy ' s strong arms, is one of the never-to-be forgotten thrills of a lifetime. This captivating picture was made by Mrs. Paul Bur\ of Cedar Falls, Iowa, with a Kodal{ Signet 40, f/5.6 at 1 1 wo on Kodachrome film. The lad is Mrs. Burl's young son, Kevin Kyle, two. For mother love, for father care, For brothers strong and sisters fair For love at home and school each day For guidance lest we go astray— Father in heaven, we thank thee! What wonderful stories big people tell! Childhood's eternal fascination with the world around them is the theme of this photograph by at Helen Walters, Los Angeles, Calif., on high-speed E\tachrome , f/2.4 1/25. I ^ *r 1 ki-ti Playmates: Kenneth Moss is only five, but he's li\e a big brother to Gail Henderson, three, at Spokane, Wash. The photo is by Robert Henderson, who used a Rival 35, f/8 at 1/50, Kodachrome. For thy dear, everlasting arms That hear us oer ail ills and harms August 1960\ Together 43 For blessed words of long ago That help us now thy will to know— Father in heaven, we thank thee! The years have been long, the road not always easy, but the precious Bool{ beneath her hands remains her constant source of inspiration and consolation. The photo is by Art Miller, Redlands, Calif., Miranda camera, f/u at 1/50, Kodachrome, using a strobe light held at the right of the camera. A plea every church member should heed: Let's Not Waste Our / Pastors H 7 r By MRS. 'REV. BOB' HOLMES, Rapid City, S.Dak: OUR PREACHER hasn't called lay on his heart as a part of his mis- on us for months!" . . . "Ministers sion, or he may have responsibilities just don't make calls as they used for such groups as Alcoholics to." ... "I know he's busy, but a Anonymous, city and state councils pastor should drop in once in a of churches, the USO, labor-relations while, at least on his active mem- boards, or a myriad of other com- bers." munity enterprises that today request If you haven't said something like the guidance of the professional serv- this recently, you've probably heard ant of God. it. For even in cities, many people Moreover, in any fast-growing still have the image of the small- parish, when the minister calls to town pastor with plenty of time for pass the time of day with a loya calls. He took his calling orders member who is getting along just alphabetically from the membership line, he may do so at the expense of list, stopping in regularly at every somebody who needs him badly. home to test the corn bread and see Every time he rings a doorbell his how Jessie was coming with her conscience asks, "Is this where I'm algebra. needed most?" Probably within his Times have changed. The modern reach are enough families and young minister cares just as much about his people in trouble to keep him busy parishioners, but friendly calling is every hour of every day. only one of many important 1 unc- Early in my husband's first tions. He is expected to team with pastorate he tried an experiment. He doctor and lawyer to promote the gave to his Pastoral Relations Com- total health and well a re ol anyone mittee a list of the areas ol his respon- in —or outside of—his congregation. sibilities: administrative details, study A vast radio and TV audience may and sermon preparation, community m August 1960 ^Together 1U service, radio and TV, outside city jail. He wants to know your speeches, church meetings, inter- tensions, to share your joys, to help denominational work, calling on your son decide about college. Wicked church members and others. He'll try to be on hand for Grand- "How much time should I give ma's 90th birthday partv. Hut don't to each?" he asked. expect him to remember her birthday The answers showed that several without some help, and don't move people were unwittingly expecting to another church if he doesn't get "Sour godliness is the devil's religion" 100 hours a week from their minister. there. He may be sitting in the —JOHN WESLEY One had a total of 135, which would hospital with a young mother whose leave less than five hours a day for husband is overseas and who has About the first of August every eating, sleeping, and playing with just lost her first baby. Or he may year, while the thermometer hovers the kids! My husband was not sur- be chatting, seemingly jovial and near 100 degrees, an Arizona church prised that most of his committee relaxed, with a waitress who is an puts this sign on its bulletin board: thought he could prepare a sermon unwed mother-to-be and desperately "You think it's hot here?" —Mrs. Daisy Haines, Westford, Pa. in three or four hours. What did in need of counsel. shake him was that they wanted Contrary to some churchmen's him to spend the largest portion of wishes, many of their pastor's hours his time calling on members. are spent with people who will never Seven-year-old Jimmy was always I suggest that it is reasonable to give anything back to the church. restless in church, so his mother was give your minister the same consider- This is as it should be. You pay pleased one Sunday when he sat ation you extend to your doctor. your pastor to serve quietly through a long prayer. human need Later she expressed appreciation. When you need him, you call him, wherever he meets it. You don't ex- "That fly," Jimmy explained, even if it's only for a cold. But meet- pect an itemized account of every "walked in and out of my hands ing him on the street you don't say, soul he touches with the healing love 265 times." "Drop in for coffee sometime, of God. You trust him to seek God's —Mrs. E. M. Kistler, Bluffton, Ind. Doctor," expecting him to read your help in deciding the priority of the mind and divine that you have a needs, which always outnumber the pain, nor do you expect him to see hours he has to minister to them. "Folks," said the minister, "the all of his patients—plus every new He would not trade bis profession subject of my sermon this evening is family in the neighborhood— every lor any other job in the world. There 'Liars.' How many in this congre- six months, sick or well. is no work that pays so well in the gation have read the 69th chapter of Every physician has intimate real value of life. Granted, be is Matthew?" friends, of course, who drop in to 1 rust rated by the impossibility of his Nearly every hand was raised. see him on occasion and invite him task. But every conscientious man of "That's right," said the minister. to their homes. But he doesn't have God comes to feel more and more "You are the folks I want to preach hundreds of them! Patients make of the peace that kept Jesus going. to. There is no 69th chapter of Matthew!" appointments to see him when they Your pastor wants you to call for — Mrs. Henry Johnson, Greensburg, A";/. need him. Why should a minister him when you need him and he not have the same kind of under- wants you to repeat your request standing with parishioners? if he seems to forget. Let him know Mrs. Jones may have smiled when if elderly Mrs. Smith is hurt because Discussing our soft living, a speak- she said, on emerging from church he hasn't called on her since she fell er recently said, "When I was a boy last Sunday, "I'm still saving that and broke her hip. He may have I worked 12 to 14 hours a day on fruitcake for you, Reverend," but he missed his secretary's note informing the ranch. On Sunday I rode a mule 10 miles to church, and when I knew that she was counting the him of this. Very likely he can make got there sang Wor\ for the Night months since she had first asked him time for such demands. Is Coming. to "bring the family and come over Every day a miracle happens that "Now the ranch is mechanized, some evening." Please, Mrs. Jones, makes urgent things wait for each and when Sunday comes my grand- if you want him to call, phone and other in order. There is also a miracle son and his family get in a softly make an appointment. that occurs in every servant of God cushioned car, drive over paved The pastor is concerned with each which gives him strength to meet roads to church, where they sit in a individual, of course. He strives to vital needs. cushioned pew, and listen to a paid build relationship So use your pastor. Enjoy him. choir sing Art Thou Weary, Art an understanding Let with each family, but once it is him serve you in every way that he Thou Languid?"— Robert H. Smith, Canton, N.Y. established he would be wrong to is especially prepared to help. But spend hours with these families at keep in mind that he is called and the expense of others in distress. trained to fulfill many responsibilities Your pastor is genuinely pleased in a world that stands in desperate Why not share your favorite church- to be ol any real service to people need of Christian leadership. If you related chuckle with Together? // it be the service large or small, be believe in tin- stewardship ol the is printed, you'll receive $5, Sorry— the person a pillar ol the church or Lord's hours And minutes- don't no contributions can be returned , so please don't enclose postage. Eds. ,i -lunger who has called from the waste your pastor! 46 Together August 1960 1 Teens Together By RICHMOND BARBOUR I was popular my first two years They'll find most ol them can have in high school. Now I am a dates. Prove to them that you arc senior. I have not had a date jor many responsible, (jet them to meet the boys months. Some college boys have askjed you might go out with. Then they may me out. But I'm permitted to date only relent. high-school boys and they aren't in- terested. What can I do?—S.E. M H / fell for a boy at church camp *f^ last summer when I was 14. We A Keep busy in MYF, Y-Teens, went steady while we were there. How- Xm and similar activities. Go to ever, he said we shouldn't go steady Sunday school and church. Give the during the year. We're too far apart. high-school boys a chance to find you. He things we should date others, ex- cept during camp. Is he right?—F.Y. I'm a boy of 12, but I feel lil{e %t a teen-ager. There is a girl in Carl by Charles M Schulz our class who chases me. Sometimes -a. Ilk I believe so. she runs up and \ickj me. She says it "Brother Forbes' preaching on is because she loves me. Are all girls Sodom and Gomorrah never fails fig I'm a girl of 1 3. I have a big stupid that way?—B.S. p to thrill me!" \f brother who is 20. I've always been proud of him. Recently he became Some of them are. Girls grow engaged to a girl. Now he never has your father and your family doctor to- A up faster than boys. They have any time for me. He doesn't even listen gether could persuade her. There are crushes before boys do. Be polite to when I tal\. He hurts my feelings. several good psychologists at your her. She'll change eventually. What shall I do?—C.L. nearby college. Your mother is emo- tionally sick. If she gets the right help, she will recover. fl B I am a girl of 17. Accidentally I flm. People always change when l A. HI. 'W f0l{n d out something disgraceful they become engaged. They have about my father. I used to thin\ he a consuming new interest in life. They I'm a girl of 16. I don't lil{e the was strong. Now I \now he is wea\. spend much less time at home. Engaged boys of my age. They're childish. Should I tell my mother?—M.S. couples need to be with each other. I made friends with a man in our town. Ask your mother to tell your brother He is about 25. He is married and has how you feel. Probably she can per- two children. Twice I got him to hug I suggest you talk first with suade him to be a bit more considerate. and I(iss me. Yesterday he told me we your father. You may not have could not see each other again. He said the facts. Let him know you love him he loved his wife, not me. Do I have and want to help him. My sister and I are writing to- to give him up?—M.A. gether. I'm 15, she is 13. Our mother drinks too much. We don't H / am a girl of 16. When there bring our friends home because she Yes, you must. Keep busy with " %y is wor\ to do at home, I'm would embarrass us. We do the house- im your school friends. Date boys treated like an adult. When I want to wor\. All we get at home is fighting of 17 or 18. Don't see or talk with the go out with a boy I'm treated li\e a and arguments. Mama will not go to man again. You made a bad mistake. child. Why can't my parents be con- Alcoholics Anonymous. Our doctor says sistent?—J.B. there is nothing wrong with her physi- I / am a boy 15. I am worried cally. Would people blame us if we |H of %.: about dad. old job put ran away?—f.R. my His /|l They feel you are grown phys- too much strain on him. Fifteen months A. S&. ically, but not mature emotion- ago he had a heart attack^. He got well ally. They love you and want to protect Yes. Don't run away. It would slowly. The doctor told him to tal{c it you. Do your best to get them to talk A. sfc. make matters worse. Is there any easy, smo\e less, eat less, and worry with the parents of the other good girls way to get your mother to go to a less. Recently he went into business for of your age in the neighborhood. psychiatrist or a psychologist? Perhaps himself. Now he worlds 12 to 15 hours August 1960 \ Together 47 . Dr. ISall Answers Questions about a day. He worries all the time. He has started smoking again. When I asl{ him to takje it easy he gets mad. He says I nag him. What should I do?—C.H. Your Faith ami Join forces with your mother A and your father's doctor. Per- Your Hi ii roll haps the three of you can prevail upon your lather to rearrange his life. Prayer may help, also. Whhy is the Song of Songs in the Bible? Is it wrong jor me to read movie A good question, for the book people, and Christian apologists | V- magazines? I'm a girl of 14. My is a collection of love poems, unde- called it the love story of the in- mother can't stand them. She says they niably and unabashedly sensual. dividual soul with Christ. (Note are not sinful, hut are a waste of time. They describe the rapturous delights how often the mystic calls his Lord Do you agree?—L.P. and exquisite torments of two lov- "Beloved.") ers, courting in the Palestinian Present-day scholarship is in- spring and going through the mar- clined to write off these allegorical Most girls go through a period riage festivities with their family interpretations and take a realistic A of being movie-magazine ad- and friends. view, but it is certain that without dicts. Then they discover that there arc First-century rabbis made this in- the allegorizing the Canticles would many better things to do. I agree with to an allegory of relationships be- never have been included in the your mother, but I understand how tween Jehovah and his covenant sacred Scriptures. you feel. Time will solve your difficulty. , A s there a "^true'' Church? 11 / am a girl of 14. My hoy friend Without doubt, and it was really said to be "the spearhead of the ~\t is 18. We go to a drive-in theater founded by Jesus Christ on the rock Kingdom." Even in the churches every Saturday night. We ma\e out. of Peter's confession. But no church there is resistance to God's will. So do all the other \ids. My boy friend has ever measured up and no present Obviously, no church is the true wants to go further than I permit. My church attains the stature ol the Church where there is such op- problem is that secretly I want to give standards Christ set. All churches position. in to him. Am 1 abnormal? Why do I are imperfect, struggling in sin. Remember Paul's words: "Christ feel this way?—C.R. Christ is not yet their head. loved the church and gave himself The true Church is the people ol up lor her, that he might sanctify the Kingdom of God, yet the her, having cleansed her by the You feel this way because you Church, as an organization and in- washing of water with the word, A . are maturing and have strong stitution, is not identical with the that the church might be presented reproductive instincts. You must con- Kingdom. Anyone with eyes to see before him in splendor, without spot tinue to say, "No." It is a serious mis- knows that the Kingdom has not or wrinkle or any such thing, that take for you to make out at all. It come, although a beginning has she might be holy and without would be best tor you to stop dating been made, and the Church may be blemish." this boy. If you date at all, go with someone nearer your own age. I hope you'll stay away from drive-in theaters. hat do Methodists believe about the "apostolic succession''''? Wu They have become a source of im- morality in communities. We do not accept the notion that office by a "show ol hands." many .1 minister must be ordained by the The God-given qualities that "laying on ol hands" ol a bishop, make men and women good min- * ', I'm a girl of 14. I go to church who was ordained by another bish- isters do not come from the "laving £3; *- every Sunday. I believe in salva- op, and he by still another, reaching on ol hands." I;,./ tion through Christ. However, lately back to the apostles. I have not wanted to go to church. I True enough, the idea of bishops still read my Bible every night, but it ordaining is old, dating back prob- ma\es me uneasy. I am ashamed of ably to the third or fourth century. feeling this way. Where can I go for But in the New Testament we find advice?—A.G. the people "electing" while the apos- tles "appoint" and set apart by prayer, as well as laying on hands. Make an appointment to see This reference to hands is com- A your minister. You'll find he is mon in the New Testament, al- a wonderful counselor. though it probably means, in some instances, election to the episcopal parents are having trouble. | My fiit her often stays out late. i My I he author "f books and pamphlet . >i "ftp i ''II Noll h qualified to answer que: I ioi lie comes home smelling of liquor. faith and church Hi i o graduate ol Gai i e1 1 Biblical Institute and has been acth e in Then he and mother have big fights. Methodi i journalism since 1922 He now Recently I saw my mother \issitlg ,< \ . 48 Together / August 1960 Little Lessons in Spiritual Efficiency another man. I can't get my parents to go to church. I'll die if they get a Does divorce. Is there any way to get my When mother and father to love each other again ?—V.Y. GOD 1%, A marriage counselor probably A. m. could help. There are good ones on the staff of the Family Service Asso- ciation in your city. You'll find the Bless Us? address in the phone hook. Try to get your parents to go there together. Prayer may help, too. mm I "" ! a b°y °f H- I am " ot §L- developing as fast as the other By ROY L. SMITH boys. They tease me about it. I'm afraid to go to school now. Am I slow because I'm fat, or is there some other reason? What can I do?—B.R. There are great differences in A COMMON petition in our volving a serious moral question. the rate at which young tolks prayers is to ask God to bless "How can you expect God to bless develop. I've known dozens who had us. We ask his blessing on our meet- you when the thing you propose is the same problem. They were develop- ings, our gifts, and our lives. morally wrong?" his pastor asked. ing normally, for them. But their What do we really mean when we The boy replied, "If a man can't normal rate was slow. They had to ask God to lay his blessing upon us? expect God to help him, what is God's there to religion?" This implies that live through it. A few boys are slow Do we have any doubt about to develop because of physical im- willingness to stand by us when we God is like an errand boy, expected balances. They can be helped by the are right; to assist us when we are to help without asking questions. right medicines. Ask your folks to moving in the right direction; to One of the important lessons every arrange for a good doctor to give you multiply our effectiveness when we Christian must learn is that some of a complete physical examination. are trying to do his will? God's blessings are accompanied by How many times have we prayed unpleasant circumstances. for the blessing of God when what Skill is never achieved except at ^' ' •'' m ^s !t ll ro 01 ' ""' '" actually wanted was for to the cost of serious work. Character m m ^' "S I we God §P interested in boys? Or to want bless choices we had made without is never fashioned except at the cost to have fun with my friends? I'm being consulting him? of strict, sometimes painful, dis- raised by my grandparents who say I Almost daily we have to make cipline. Some of the rarest virtues am frivolous. They thin\ all teen-agers difficult decisions. Different alterna- in life are attained only by way of are sinners. Isn't it possible for a girl tives appear equally good. Finally, pain. II God sends pain in answer to be a good Christian and still enjoy we use our best judgment, decide the to our prayer for a blessing, are we life?—D.S. matter one way or another, and pro- to regard it as affliction? ceed. How many times in such sit- There is an Old Testament tale uations do we ask for the guidance involving Jacob which illustrates our I believe it is. However, be of the Holy Spirit? If we do not point. He found himself wrestling A patient with your grandparents. seek the judgment of God, what with an unknown antagonist. Sus- They love you and worry about you. right do we have to expect God to pecting that he was dealing with hard They have a time remembering endorse our decision? God, he exclaimed, "I will not let argue their own teen years. Try not to How can we expect God to ap- you go until you bless me." And interested with them. You should be prove a decision in which his judg- from that hour to the end of his boys. to meet many of in You need ment was never asked, his prefer- life he walked as a lame man. But and learn to judge them. Fun is them ences never considered ? he achieved immortality! provided it is clean fun all right too, Sometimes we ask God to bless When we ask God to bless us we goal in life. can and not the only You our efforts when we have no real are never able to specify the form Christian and still be a happy be a good desire to do his will. We come to in which the blessing may come. It teen-ager. our conclusion and then hope to in- often appears as a misfortune, or sure its successful outcome by ask- even as a tragedy. But God's bless- ing for God's blessing. ing is there. One day a boy asked his pastor Making it easy for us is not al- Teens: // you have a question, Dr. Bar- to pray for him in a financial mat- ways God's way of blessing. God's bour has the answer. ter. Solemnly he said, "If I can get greatest favors can come in heavy Mail your problem to enough people to pray for me I can loads that make us strong; baffling him c/o Together, 740 make this thing work." His pastor situations that make us cautious; N. Rush St., Chicago 11, asked what he proposed to do with profound questions that compel us A & III. We \eep identities his profits. The boy explained he to think, and suffering that con- HAL. confidential. Eds. intended to go into a business in- strains us to seek his presence. August 1960 .Together 49 1 |%ljt Unto 0Ly> patlj WEEKLY MEDITATIONS BY MINISTERS ON INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS AUGUST 7 ^Jrnurr: Eternal God, let there be day expressions of God's love and nothing more important to us than concern. Then we may discover See what love the Father has to be "children of God" to our that we are not people God for- given us, that we should be fellow men. Amen. got, but rather are people to called children of God; and so BEAL we are.— 1 John 3: —CARL whom the glory of God is made more real. IjjjJE ARE the children of God, AUGUST 14 Despite such tragedies we know and this lays a burden of that God's sun still rises and sets And one called to another and necessity on each of us. with amazing regularity; the law said: "Holy, holy, holy is the Calling late one evening, I ap- of gravity has not been repealed, Lord of hosts; the whole earth proached a lumberjack's cabin is full of his glory."—Isaiah 6:3 and his love and power are still and when a voice shouted, "Come available to us in the same, cer- in!" I entered. Introducing myself, VI HE LAND that God forgot." tain way. j I started to hand the man my VJ' This is a phrase used to de- When darkness is greatest, the card. He waved me off, saying he scribe the desert areas of the light from a single candle shines was an atheist. Southwest where scrubby mes- brightest. Where the desert is I made no comment, but saw quite trees, stunted greasewood most barren, the single, delicate that he was crippled. I asked, and bushes, grotesque and ugly cacti blossom is the most beautiful. he told me of the logging accident combine to produce a barren and When a life is most sorrow-filled, that had maimed him. I was in- desolate-appearing land. the love of God we take for terested in him, and in a few At times some of us feel, "I am granted is the most real. The minutes he was waving me to a the person God forgot." A sor- whole earth, and our entire be- chair. row, disaster, or even the ordi- ings, are surely full of his glory. I wrote his name in my book, nary perplexities of life cause us and when he asked why I told him to feel that God's love and glory Pragcr: Help us, our Father, to see it was to help me remember it; I are far removed from us. your love and glory expressed to was coming back to visit him be- However, if you will look care- us in the common, everyday ex- cause he was lonely. He liked my fully among the mesquites, grease- periences of our lives. Cause us concern, even about him, "an wood, cacti and other ugly desert never to get so involved in our atheist." Since then, I have re- plants, you will find signs of great own self-seeking pursuits that we ceived a warm welcome each time beauty—delicate purple desert forget to appreciate the many ex- I have called. flowers, intricate patterns of tiny pressions of divine concern that Perhaps he is part of the world plants, the rare bloom of the cen- are our heritage. Help us to stay which does not know us as "chil- tury plant. Even the homely cacti mindful of your love in every sit- dren of God," because there is take on an air of beauty when you uation of life; we pray in Jesus' no place for God in his life. Still, understand their amazing adapt- name. Amen. to him and every man, we must ability to their environment. —DAVID F. LEHMBERC be Christian. Soon you begin to realize that Again and again I shall call at the desert is most certainly not AUGUST 21 his cabin and share and help him a land which God somehow over- But the Lord of hosts is when I can. Someday the respect looked. Instead, it is full of his exalted in justice, and the and love that result can be the glory in its own wonderful and Holy God shows himself hohj way for my friend to find God and unique way. The same thing can in righteousness.—Isaiah 5: 16 realize his own sonship. be said of even the most remote Perhaps: and barren wastelands, for the (7JThE CRAZE to get something whole earth—including its deserts VJ' for nothing is upon the Amer- We are the only Bible —is full of his glory. ican public. One needs but read The careless world will read; Each life, too, is full of God's a newspaper to find verification We are the sinner's Gospel, glory, especially at times of sor- —buy a chance here, take a We are the scoffer's creed. . . . row or tragedy, when it can be chance there, get a ticket to this —Annie Johnson Flint sensitive to the common, every- or that bingo game. 50 Together/ August 1960 — ( i * m. «** j^Km Carl Real David F. Lehmberg O. W. Bell Ted Highlower Pierce, Idaho Tucson, Ariz. Bath, Maine Louisville, Ky. In a Boston downtown store a that your plan for the salvation In the redemptive work and large crucifix was placed in the of the world led you to a cross. program of Jesus Christ, our display window with a sign: Help us to see that righteousness heavenly Father has made the "This beautiful crucifix on easy and justice, the hard way perhaps, safe return both possible and terms." will one day bring a holy light available to all who would under- One wondered if that store- into our hearts and upon our path- take to heed and follow. It is this keeper had any idea of the incon- way. Amen. invitation of the Father "to re- gruity, almost sacrilege, of the —O. W. BELL turn" and his providing the phrase he had used: a cross that method and pathway through AUGUST 28 could be purchased on easy terms! which we can make "the safe re- We know that a cross can never For thus said the Lord God, turn" which provide our salva- be purchased cheaply. You just the Holy One of Israel, "In tion in deed and in truth. don't take up any kind of cross returning and rest you shall "I am the way, the truth, and be saved; in quietness and in on easy terms. The terms of the the life," said Jesus, is trust shall be your strength." and here cross are suffering, sacrifice, —Isaiah 30:15 the path, the source, and the blood, pain, anguish, and even fruit of our safe return. death. |UR SCRIPTURE sentence to- The Prodigal Son never would Nor does anyone win anything August 1960 \ Together 5/ a Can you thinly of anything cooler than a polar hear in a pool? Neither could Barnabas, and he shares this picture from Polar Bear Brothers {Harper, $2.75) as a special summer treat. It's one of 21 Barnabas sparkling photographs by Ylla that illustrate Crosby Newcll's delightful story for young children. Looks at New Books OEVERAL years ago Bishop Gerald point and he does it in simple, readable —an engineer's data on the reinforced Kennedy became so absorbed in the writing. As case histories he uses the Brooklyn Bridge. Next it's lyrical — spiritual significance of the parables lives of some unusual, successful, and description ol the Christmas-bright tor modern man that he began to happy people. Trust in, and a daily city, heavy with glitter and warmed preach on them whenever he had an tryst with, God are major starting with joy. opportunity. Now these sermons are points. Berger's most picturesque descrip- compiled in Thu Parables (Harper, This is a book, not just to read, but tions are in terms of people— for he $3.50). to be kept handy for reference in case himself was a humanist. So when he The result is a book for every Chris- of a loss of buoyancy. pictures the city, burning bright under tian who has been strengthened by the a night sky, it is from the observation timeless message of the stories Jesus To many, New York is a restless, post ol the Skyvvatch. When he tells of told. Of them, Bishop Kennedy says: impersonalizcd anthill. Not so to the the gaudy festivities for the Chinese- "Some are difficult and all are disturb late Meyer Berger of The Times. New Year, it is through the eyes of the ing. All ol them speak to us with the Berger hunted to iind the individual young boys who man the great dragons freshness ol this morning's newspaper." in the city of 8 million — to draw out that will prowl on parade. And lor all So does his book. the thread ol a man's life at a moment the average people in the world's great- of drama or quiet pain. Then he told est city, Mike Berger had a kinship, a According to Gordon Powell. the story in his column. About New warmth—a love. You can feel it pulsing author ol Happinilss Is a Habit (Haw- Yorl;. in this, his last book. thorn. $2.95), all you do is make Now Random House has compiled up to your mind be happy and there selei lions from those columns in Mi vi r Return to Japan ( Lippincott, S4A0) you are. happy as a clam. But the Bi rger's New York ($4. l >5). The book views a country and a people through author is ready and able to prove his is as varied as the city. Once it's factual the eyes ol love. American Quaker 52 Together August 1960 Elizabeth Gray Vining was, from 1946 to 1950, tutor to Crown Prince Akihito. Since then she has made two return visits to the land she has come to love with rare depth and under- standing. The first was in 1957, when she traveled widely and visited with the royal family and other friends. The second was in April, 1959, when she was the only non-Japanese guest at the Crown Prince's wedding. Warmly and candidly, she tells of an informal evening with the imperial family, conversations with scholars and politicians, visits with her former pupil and his bride. Only in the last chapter does she write of weightier matters. The Japanese, she says, live not so much by rigid standards of right and wrong as by concepts of what is appro- priate. "It is of the greatest importance," she warns, "that we respect | their] self-respect; that we do not regard Japan as a satellite and that we give her no grounds for supposing that we do." Queen Victoria personally chose Princess Mary of Teck to marry Vic- toria's grandson and heir to the British throne, apathetic Prince "Eddy" Albert Victor. The Queen felt the young girl possessed the qualities —a good educa- tion, inner discipline, and a level head To Understand —to offset the prince's inadequacies. Six weeks before the scheduled wed- ding, Prince "Eddy" died. His fiancee Our Homeless Millions found solace among the members of his family, particularly Prince George, "Eddy's" brother, who had become heir The twistings of tvorjd events have left 40 million to the throne. men, women, and children in refugee camps in Europe When Mary and George were mar- and Asia. How has this happened? What can we do? ried a year and a half later, in July, 1893, many looked on the union as one The High Tower of Refuge (Pracger, $6.75 ) is an inspiring of pity. But long letters exchanged by account of refugee relief written by Edgar H. S. Chandler, the two indicate otherwise. These let- who heads the World Council of Churches' Refugee Service. ters and other intimate papers were given to James Pope-Hennessy by They Are Human Too . . . (Rcgnery, $6.50) brings us Britain's present Queen Elizabeth II when she commissioned him to write face to face with the Arab refugees of the Gaza Strip through the biography of her grandmother. pictures and text by photo-journalist Per-Oloiv Anderson. The result, Queen Mary 1867-1953 (Knopf, $10), is an exceptionally The Yellow Wind (Houghton Mifflin, $6) is Canadian warm and human book for an author- Newsman William Stevenson's ancedote-filled report of the ized biography. It reveals a woman of Communist wave which has driven refugees out of China. deep devotion to God, country, family, and her fellow man. The Undefeated (Li file, Broivn, $4.50) tells the story of the Hungarian revolt and flight of freedom-loving people Charles Ray GofF's new book, from a satellite nation, by George Paloczi-Horvath. Chapel in the Sky (Abingdon, $2), had its beginning in sermons the pastor of the Chicago Temple has delivered The Changing Middle East (John Day, $5.75) gives us a on the Methodist Men's Hour. Its title comprehensive view of that explosive area, with emphasis came from the exquisite chapel his on the critical decade, 19 50-1960, by Emil Lengyel. church built high in the steeple of the skyscraper it owns and occupies in A History of Russia (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, $6.50), Chicago's Loop [see Chapel in the S\y, by John Lawrence, is a readable history of the country re- January, 1957, page 3|. sponsible for much of the refugee problem. In his own unique way of combining serious thinking with an informal, re- (Holt, laxed way of writing. Dr. Goff de- United Nations: Hope for a Divided World $4) scribes the nature of God and how we lets us see the workings of the world organization through the may communicate with him, the vari- eyes of Sir Leslie Mnnro, who has been its president. August 1960\ Together — ous characteristics of Christian living, wildlife since. But it wasn't until the stirring story, ami a co-worker who and ways ol handling problems and other day that I ran across a book knows a fair bit about towboating and finding purpose and direction in our which made the animals and primitive river life tells me it is authentic as well. lives. It's valuable guidance tor leading people ot the Dark Continent really ,1 Christian life in today's world. come to life for me. Too expensive tor most home li- The book is Alan Moorehead s braries, but worth knowing about, is The late Lloyd Lewis started an No Room in the Ark (Harper, $5). the Encyclopedia of Would Art being ambitious project—a three-volume Keen eyes and a talented pen have published by McGraw-Hill. When this biography of Ulysses S. Grant. It was given Moorehead the ability to share massive work is complete, it will con- a loss to historians and Americana fans in print the sights, sounds, odors, even sist of 15 volumes containing more when he unfortunately died just about the feel of a journey he made from than 7,000 printed pages and 7,500 the time the first volume, Captain Sam Johannesburg to Khartoum. Thus, illustrations. The first volume, cover- Grant, was published. Now, after a while the book is well illustrated, it ing art from Aalto to Asia and costing lapse of some years, Bruce Catton, was this author's word magic that made $32, now has appeared. Successive vol- Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War me feel I was really there. umes will be issued quarterly. historian, has picked up the dropped Don't get No Room in the Ark Material is presented in the form of torch. His new volume Grant Moves mixed up with another, published al- essays supplemented by illustrations South (Little, Brown, $6.50) —is the most simultaneously; Out oh Noah's and a comprehensive bibliography. The second in the projected series. Ark (Houghton Mifflin, $6.50) by roster of contributors is international. Catton is an excellent writer and is Herbert Wendt, is an excellent, au- steeped in his subject. The book moves thoritative volume, but somewhat How times change! The current edi- swifdy, carrying the reader down the scholarly. It blends science and litera- tion of Emily Post's Etiquette (Funk Mississippi as the dogged West Pointer ture, tracing the world-wide animal & Wagnalls, $5.95) goes into detail on hammers away until he cuts the Con- kingdom trom early legend and super- how to entertain graciously in a maid- federacy in hall at Yicksburg. He- stition to zoological fact. less household, including "the man's makes Old Three Stars come alive and It's interesting to learn that man's role in the kitchen." But in the early re-creates the day-by-day triumphs and hrst imaginings of such monsters as 1920s, when Mrs. Post put out her frustrations of the long, bitter cam- dragons, or such oddities as unicorns, first 600-page Etiquette: The Blue Bool{ paign. usually had some basis in tact. of Social Usage, I'm sure the only man However, whether Grant was as in the kitchen she'd have thought of skillful as Catton believes is open to Stories of the great Midwestern would have been the butler. question. Some experts have expressed rivers always fascinate me, especially the belief that if Stonewall Jackson had when they deal with some phase of What is the difference between pre- been fighting in the Western theater, steamboating. So Virginia S. Eifert's destination and the providence of God? Grant would have been thrashed long Delta Queen (Dodd, Mead, $3.50), What about spiritual healing and before Vicksburg fell. Others have though written for young people, kept miracles? How about pain and sin? asked what would have happened later, me entranced. These and a mass of other questions in Virginia, it Robert E. Lee had had I've seen the Queen several times, but are discussed with clarity and insight the unfailing supplies which Grant en- I never realized she is really "one of a by Georgia Harkness in The joyed, while Grant had had to keep a kind." Never has there been a steam- Providence of God (Abingdon, $3.50). half-starved, hall-clothed, ill-ec|uipped boat like the heroine of this book. She Here, in unusually lucid form, is the- and outnumbered army in the held as was built in Scotland in 1926, then ology for the lay reader. It may not Lee did. In reading Catton's excellent taken apart and shipped by freighter answer all your theological questions, works, perhaps these points should be to San Francisco to be rebuilt as a but it will give you a firm basis from kept in mind. which you may ponder them. Ironic, isn't it, that the lifesaving "Read it," Mrs. Barnabas said the wonders of medical science have other day, handing me a book. I did, brought man a terrible problem. Yet and I recommend it to any husband. the accelerated growth of world popu- It's Women and Fatigue by Marion lation, especially in the underdeveloped Hilliard (Doubleday, $2.95). areas ot Asia, Alrica, and Latin Ameri- Dr. Hilliard, a Toronto gynecologist, ca, is a major threat to free society. wrote the book primarily lor women, Iiii Population Explosion and ol course, and I hope they read it, too. Christian Responsibility (Oxford, It's lar more than a clinical discussion $4.25) is the lirst lull-length analysis ol the factors that cause that tired feel- I torn the Protestant viewpoint. Written ing, and when in the last chapter the by Richard M. Fagley, executive sec- author reveals the source of her own retary of the Commission ol the inner peace, you understand why. She Churches on International Affairs, it finds balance and serenity in religion. discusses the church's growing aware- ness ol the population problem, re- "Children's books are getting so good ligious obstacles, and persistent gov- the kids are going to have a hard time ./ Queen glides proudly past Memphis. ernmental neglect. A more widely held keeping them from their parents," an and vigorously supported Christian doc- envious co-worker remarked as she- trine ol responsible parenthood is im- modern 285-foot stern-wheeler lor handed me one. It was Indians of perative, Fagley says. California rivers. the Plains (American Heritage, $3.50) Alter adventures worthy ol a deep- by-lined by Eugene Rachlis and John With boyish excitement, I used to sea yarn, including service in the Navy C. Ewers. follow accounts ol the big game hunts and a 5,000-mile ocean voyage, the She was right. A more readable and ol Theodore Roosevelt, Martin John- Delta Queen reached the Mississippi, comprehensive book on the Amerind son, and Frank Buck, and I've missed where she steams proudly today be- has never come to my attention. It's Uw documentary movies on African tween Ohio and Louisiana. I li rs is a amazingly well illustrated, with more 54 Together /August 1960 £«ttentawmettt l&i tf&un, ttext foanty HERE ARE SOME DIFFERENT IDEAS! rf ere are some different entertainment ideas for your next party. All the suggestions in these ten volumes are different and unique. Planning a party will be a pleasure for you with all of the ideas that are furnished in these books . . . the party will be a pleasure for your guests too. It'll be such a success that the guests will want to come back again and again for more of your enter- taining parties. Included are ideas for indoor and outdoor fun—plays, stunts, songs, dances, skits, charades, radio scripts, puppets, minute dramas, riddles, and brain twisters . . . hundreds of party plans and ideas for all occasions and situations. Order your volumes from Cokes- bury today . . . get your party off to a fun-filled start! Croup Sodols • MINUTE DRAMAS CROUP SOCIALS FOR EVERY MONTH, by Jane Kirk. Com- CLIP OUT—MAIL TODAY! prehensive book of party plans for every month of the year. Divided into three parts: Part I has 70 complete plans for group socials; Part II gives ideas for large scale program planning; Part III contains tips on food, service, favors, and decorations. (AP) postpaid, $2.95 LET'S ALL SINC, by James F. Leisy. A collection of 153 songs including many favorites and some less familiar ones for those FUN WITH SKITS, STUNTS AND STORIES, by Helen and who like to sing. Two bindings. 176 pages. (AP) Larry Eisenberg. Book is sure to provide fun for everyone. Cloth binding postpaid. $2.95 Contains "quickie" entertainment ideas for any and every oc- Paper binding postpaid. $1 .75 casion. Selection of narrated skits and stunts, and section on hew to make up your own skits and stunts. THE FUN ENCYCLOPEDIA, by E. O. Harbin. Comprehensive (AY) postpaid. $2.95 all-purpose entertainment encyclopedia for groups cf all ages. Contains more than 2,000 "good-time" suggestions for parties THE END OF YOUR STUNT HUNT, by Helen and Larry on special days, for fun outdoors, for dramatic and musical Eisenberg. Contains 48 pages of light-hearted entertainment programs, for banquets, and for fun with magic. 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Contains 563 stunts— old-time melo- dramas and amusing plays; tall tales and nonsensical stunts; Southwestern Southern Southeastern riddles and brain-twisters. (AP) postpaid. $2.95 Region Region Region Dallas 1 Atlanta 3 Baltimore 3 Kansas City Nashville Richmond 16 AND PROMENADE ALL, by Helen and Larry Eisenberg. 6 3 Collection of joyful folk-games and square dances. Detailed Please send me, postpaid, the titles I have indicated: suggestions and helps for beginning leader. Includes record numbers and useful arrangements of music. Paper binding. Payment enclosed Charge to my account (TB) postpaid. $1 .00 Add state sales tax where it applies THE COKESBURY CAME BOOK, by Arthur M. Depew. Bock SEND TO of well-chosen completely classified material suits every need, whether occasion calls for hilarious group activity or quiet personal enjoyment. Included are: 50 quiet games, 50 outdoor Street games, 75 games to make and to play, 100 mental games, 25 cultural games, 50 musical games, and 150 games for special occasions. (AP) postpaid. $1.95 City .( ) State August 1960 \ Together 55 Hymns to Live By: Loyalty than 200 pictures—about a third of them in color. Page 82 should be especially interest- ing to Methodists, for there is repro- duced a page from The Christian Advocate (Together's direct ancestor) of March 1, 1833. And if you'll turn back to your Together for last No- vember, page 46, you'll see that same page from the Advocate illustrated— and, under the title, A Letter to the Editor That Got Unexpected Results, AMONG the stories about beloved Fawcett was in tears—and so were a historian's story of how this issue hymns, perhaps none has survived many parishioners who had come was a link in the chain that brought frequent telling better than that of to help load the wagons. Suddenly Oregon and Washington into the Dr. John Fawcett and Blest Be the she turned to her husband and said: Union. Tie That Binds. And it's little won- "John, I cannot bear this. I do not der. The touching account of how know how we can leave." The wife of the strong, self-contained this hymn came to be written is a Like his wife, the pastor felt man who led the armies of the Ameri- perfect illustration of its message poignant pain in breaking the bonds can Revolution and steadied the first of loyalty and love. which had developed between his floundering years of a new nation A native of Yorkshire in northern family and the Wainsgate people. needed also to be strong—and she was. England, John Fawcett was the son Such love was too precious to be Washington's Lady, by Elswyth oi improverished parents, and at 13 easily discarded. It was, in fact, Thane (Dodd, Mead. $5) is Martha was sent to London tor six years priceless. "Unload the wagons," Washington's story, not George's. Inn to learn the tailoring trade. There Fawcett shouted. "We're staying it tells much of the Revolution, and its he attended an evangelistic meeting here!" A few days later, to com- hero. led by the fiery Methodist preacher, memorate his decision, the Baptist The author had little firsthand mate- George Whitehcld. To the 16-year- pastor wrote the hymn, Blest Be the rial from which to build a picture ol old Yorkshire youth, White-field's Tie That Binds. the Washingtons' early married life. eloquence was overpowering; he The bond of loyalty between the since most of their letters to each other immediately decided to dedicate his Wainsgate pastor and people grew were destroyed by Martha after Wash- life to Christian service. even stronger in succeeding years. ington's death. With his apprenticeship to com- Fawcett continued to reject offers However, the book is abundant in plete and a living to earn, it was of higher paying positions and, anecdotes enlivening the Washingtons not until 10 years later, in 1765, despite the remoteness of his pas- and revealing their love for Mount that he was ready for ordination torate, gained fame through his Vernon—from which they were so and the pastorate of a little Baptist writings, which included six vol- often torn by duty—and love for the church in Wainsgate, Yorkshire. umes of verse and a number of awkward, fledgling America. Wher- The congregation was not wealthy prose works. In 1811 he was ever Washington went Martha followed and the young minister soon found awarded a doctorate of divinity by to make a home for him, whether at his family increasing more rapidly Brown University of Rhode Island. Valley Forge or in the first President's than his salary of under $200 a year. Today, Dr. Fawcett's best remem- mansion in New York City. In 1772, during his seventh year bered work is the simple hymn he of service at Wainsgate, Fawcett wrote for the people of Wainsgate Three children's books, all about was invited to accept the pastorate in 1772. He was still their pastor grass, have turned my personal clock of Carter's Lane Baptist Church, when he died at 78 in 1817. back to the warm, lazy days of summer London. The well-known pastor In The Methodist Hymnal this vacation when I had nothing more- there had died, leaving a thriving hymn appears as No. 416 with the urgent to do than lie in the yard ami congregation, a prestigious pulpit, musical setting known as "Dennis." watch grasshoppers. Each book has and an attractive church. The offer The tunc, also used for two other something special to recommend it. carried prospects lor fame and far Methodist hymns, was composed by With Wonders at Yolr Feet greater financial rewards than the the Swiss musician, Hans G. Niigeli (Dodd, Mead, $2.95) it's Margaret tiny Yorkshire congregation could (1773-1836), and was arranged by Cosgrove s magical writing, suitable ever afford. the American hymnist, Lowell ior youngsters eight to 12, yet sophis- Almost at once, Fawcett accepted, Mason (1792-1872). In this setting, ticated enough to make a professional lie preached a farewell sermon to the beautiful lyric seems destined writer envious. A sample: "The Earth the Wainsgate church and began for many more decades of service was as alive as a sleeping tiger." packing. As he and his wife faced to the Christian church. It's a delightful blend of words and the last round of good-bys, Mrs. —Doron K. Antrim pictures in The Tall Grass Zoo (Rand McNally, $2.75) in which Winifred and Cecil Lubell present the teeming animal life to be found in this green world. It's for children five to eight. Then there's Please Pass the Grass! 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Ruffy looked back at my mother calling." And he fur and big, sparkly green the robin out of his big, green scurried off in a big hurry. eyes. He was bigger than his eyes. Then he said with a Ruffy Tuffy Guffy McGaw sister. He was bigger than his growl, "I'm Ruffy Tuffy Guffy puffed out his chest and mother. He was even bigger McGaw. I'm the biggest beast walked on proudly. He was than his own father, who was you ever saw." looking for somebody else to a large cat himself. The robin said quickly, show off to. He saw a small Ruffy Tuffy Guffy McGaw "That you are, that you are. gray mouse nibbling on a was very proud of being so Excuse me, please—I hear my cooky. The mouse dropped his big and strong. In fact, every mother calling." She spread cooky when he saw Ruffy time anyone in his family said, her wings and flew away very Tuffy Guffy McGaw staring at "My goodness, Ruffy, you're fast. him. getting bigger every day," Ruffy Tuffy Guffy McGaw "Do you know who I am?" Ruffy Tuffy Guffy McGaw puffed out his chest and asked Ruffy. "I'm Ruffy Tuffy said, "You're so right. I'm get- walked on proudly. He saw a Guffy McGaw. I'm the biggest ting to be the biggest beast small squirrel busily looking beast you ever saw." you ever saw." for nuts. The squirrel saw him "That you are, that you One bright day, Ruffy was and sat up on his hind legs, are," said the small mouse taking a walk. He walked very quietly. Ruffy looked at quickly. "Excuse me, please along with his head high and him out of his big, shiny green I hear my mother calling." his tail up in the air. Suddenly eyes and said, "I'm Ruffy And he hurried off, forgetting he saw a robin on the lawn. Tuffy Guffy McGaw. I'm the all about his cooky. The robin was hopping about biggest beast you ever saw." Ruffy Tuffy Guffy McGaw busily. When she saw Ruffy "Oh, that you are, that you looked after him with a pleased 58 Together /August 1960 — — smile. "There are so many opened his huge mouth and are," said Ruffy Tuffy Guffy small beasts around and Ruffy saw the biggest, whitest, McGaw. "Excuse me, please about," he said to himself. sharpest teeth he had ever I hear my mother calling me." "Poor, weak little things. seen. He moved back a little. And he ran home as fast as he They're so afraid of me, but The large animal asked with a could go. I wouldn't hurt them. I just deep growl, "What did you When he arrived home he O" like to scare them a bit." say: found that his Aunt Tabitha Ruffy walked along proud- "I'm Ruffy Tuffy Guffy Mc- had come for a visit. "My ly. Then he saw another ani- Gaw. I'm the biggest beast you goodness," she said when she mal lying curled up on a porch. ever saw," said Ruffy in a lit- saw Ruffy come running in, Ruffy walked right over to tle voice. "you're getting bigger every him. He said very loudly, "I'm "Oh, no you're not," said the day." Ruffy Tuffy Guffy McGaw, large animal. "I'm the biggest "Yes, Aunt Tabitha," said I'm the biggest beast you ever beast you ever saw. Now run Ruffy, "I am quite big for a saw." The animal opened his along and let me be—I don't cat. But compared to a dog like eyes and looked at Ruffy. He fight anyone smaller than me." Rocky Boxer, I'm really very stood up slowly and stretched. "Just who are you, please?" small." Ruffy looked up and up and asked Ruffy in a very small And from then on, Ruffy up. This was the biggest ani- voice. Tuffy Guffy McGaw became a mal he had ever seen. He was "Why, I'm Rocky Boxer, of very pleasant cat to know. so big that Ruffy had to put course. And I'm almost as big Never again did he brag about his head away back to see his as a horse." being the biggest beast that face. Then the large animal "That you are, that you anyone ever had seen. Paper-Plate Pussycats YOU CAN MAKE a big cat like Ruffy Tuffy Guffy McGaw from an ordinary KIND paper plate. First, using crayons, draw a kitty's face on the bottom side of the WORDS paper plate. Then cut out the eyes and, with cello- At school, at home, phane tape, fasten two shiny at work, or play, marbles in the eye spaces. Please help me, God, Next, make whiskers out of black paper (or use soda to always say Kind thoughtful words— straws, instead) and paste them in place by the nose. You and most of all, might want to cut out paper ears and paste them on the don't let me boast; plate, too. Then, to give the cat a fluffy look, make small Help me to speak cuts all around the plate and curl the outside edges just a as Jesus would: little bit. If you use clear, shiny marbles for the eyes, you Words oj kindness, can make them glisten and sparkle by holding the paper- words of good. Thank you, God. plate face in front of a light. You can make other bright- Amen. eyed animal faces from paper plates and marbles, too why don't you try it today and see? —Ruth Adams Murray 59 August 1 960 \ Together " Methodism rolls up its sleeves to fight blight and decay where . . . Three Churches The Rev. E. C. McLeod's Union Church is in a neighborhood packed Make One with night dubs and bars. FILTH, FEAR, and sin, familiar elements in decaying inner-city areas, stalk the dark alleys and littered streets of Boston's once- respectable South End section. Here, only a few blocks from the city's historic Common, juke boxes and drunken voices compete with the grinding rumble of elevated trains. Yet in this area where Christian witness and leadership are desperately needed, many once- strong churches have withered and died. Three slum-surrounded churches, however, are very much alive today. More than that, they're setting a pattern which may show the way toward solution of a problem Methodism shares with other denominations: the fate of the inner-city church and the people it must reach and serve. To meet the physical, spiritual, and psy- chological needs ol an area where crime and violence are everyday facts of life, the three churches are working together as the South End Methodist Parish in a General Advance Special project promoted by the New Eng- land Conference and the Board ol Missions' Division of National Missions. One is Morgan Memorial Church of All Nations, birthplace of Goodwill Industries and nationally known for its work with the handicapped and under- privileged. The second is Tremont Street Church where, in 1S69, the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was organized. Union Church, chartered as a Negro church in 1824, moved into the area 11 years ago and South End children, who feel >c to the Church of All Nations, linger there after Vacation Bible school. Together /August 1960 Roydon C. Richardson, youthful minister of Tremont Street Church, often is called to tenements and jails. John E. Barclay has a double role: pastor of the Church of All Nations and co-ordinator of South End Parish. Pastor on patrol: Soon the sun will set, but his day is far from done. Soon, too, the cheap neon lights will flare throughout South End. August 1960\Together Richardson (rig/it), on a tenement call, finds children at play. Barclay (above) is as friendly with a street-corner fruit vendor . . . as he is greeting worshipers Sundays at the Church of .ill Nations 62 Three Churches (continued) now also serves several other ethnic groups. South End Parish churches carry on a posi- tive ministry in the blighted area—667 acres containing about 50,000 residents and some 220 liquor outlets. Roughly half of these peo- ple are unchurched. But change can and will come as the churches work together to remedy situations formerly deplored from the pulpit but not fought in the streets. While the three are not social agencies (the preaching of Christ's Gospel is central), churchyards have been turned into playgrounds, sanctuaries into day nurseries and schools. Ministers work with people where they are, rather than waiting for the lost ones to seek out the church. Aided by such dedicated laymen as Mrs. Martha Davies, parish director, they are working their way into the hearts of hundreds who once There'll be no Halloween vandalism for these South End young- thought nobody cared. sters—they're too busy having fun at a Tremont Church party. Pre-marital counseling by the Rev. Fred Fran\ (left), Morgan Memorial chaplain, has helped many engaged couples "All children are precious in God's sight," a South End mother tells her Bible class. August 1 960 \ Together _ . y *^ 1 1 1 ; 7 I '.'-^-M if;"'.." ; 9] . -A'*-? l^t [ife -v' VI. WMT- ^W^H^^H Hobby Alley Let's Learn to Walk By FRANCES COAN ZFAIK WALK to the game?" The pretty section traffic tangles and grimly re- I looked around at buildings I had teen-ager's eyes widened in amaze- solved that, like it or not, I would al- passed often but never really seen be- ment. "But it's so far. It's seven blocks!" ways walk to the shops. They were fore: an ornate apartment, circa 1890, That was all the conversation I only six blocks away, but back in our with oval stained-glass windows; a caught as the hook-toting couple passed small town I'd have driven to them. small, gingerbread-trimmed house sand- me in front of the high school. But it For months I paced off my errands wiched between a funeral parlor and was enough to support a pet theory of rapidly, staring at the sidewalk with a gas station. Tulips, just opening, mine: most of us don't know how to thin-lipped determination. My feet circled the base of a light pole. walk. My husband and I didn't—until hurt. My back ached. I felt sorry tor I suggested to Carl that wc picnic we moved from a small town to Chi- mysel I at a state park the following Saturday. cago. Then, one spring Saturday, my hus- We could even walk in the woods, I Our adventures on foot began when band, Carl, walked with me to the added expansively, lorgetting my ach- W( lound city life bogged down in bakery. The sky was so clear, the ing arches. traffic congestion. Often it was easier breeze so fresh, that we slowed our The next weekend, we drove along to leave the car at home and walk, steps and breathed deeply. From Lake the Illinois River to Starved Rock State- even though we begrudged every step. Michigan drifted spring's pungent sea- Park. At the lodge we got a map ol I had developed a special fear oi inter- life odors. the loot trails, then spent the rest of the 64 Together /August 1960 — day clambering along the riverbank, exploring canyons, and tramping on the wooded bluff. We saw the wild / flowers we had loved as children, and TWt (iowtHom birds we still remembered from school- book pictures. By evening we were ex- hausted—but our tiredness differed ART: Joseph M. Shafer, 341 Kambach St., Pitts- capitols); Mac Caudill, 216 N. Marshall St.; vastly from the fatigue of business burg 11, Pa. ("painting" with rag pieces); Mrs. Jerry Dye, 19 E. Market St.; Roger Caudill, 216 Pauline E. Parker, 43 Paul St., Chelsea Estates, N. Marshall St.; Billy Aikens, 12 W. Justis St.; routine or housewifery. Aching muscles New Castle, Del. (painting on plates). Tracy Kilby, 107 E. Justis St. felt strangely loose. Our spirits were AUTO LICENSE PLATES: Ralph Phillips, R. POSTER STAMPS: R. T. Newman, 407 Connelly high. 2, Valley Center, Kans. St., Paris, III. A few weeks later we explored BIRD WATCHING: Mrs. Erma I Bigelow, Har- ROCKS & MINERALS: Mrs. Floyd Parker, RR another park. Then we began taking rington, Maine; Mrs. Ury Dahling, 1011 E. 2nd 2, Newton, Iowa (jade, turquoise, agate); Lois C. regular evening walks in the city. The St., Webster, S. Dak. Newkirk, Kyle, S. Dak. more we walked, the easier it became. BLANK CHECKS: Joe Vaughan, 912 Nillash, SILVICULTURE: H. W. String, 10100 Clinton We learned the importance of wearing Liberal, Kans. Ave., S., Minneapolis 20, Minn. comfortable shoes and of carrying BUTTONS: Mrs. Rose Etheridge, 901 Denson SOIL SAMPLES: Mrs. D. L. Handley, Box 32, weight on the front part of our feet. Ave., Madison, Tenn.; Mrs. Florence Larsen, Ep- Lockney, Tex. worth, lowp. And I learned to leave my heavy hand- STAMPS: Jacob V. Aranda, San Antonio, Mag- bag at home. CHURCH BULLETINS: Ruby Presnell, Box 294, saysay, Isabela, Philippines; Michael Downs, 2740 Central Falls, N.C.; Russell A. Yeo, Hemp- S. 51st Terrace, Kansas City 6, Kans.; Pomelo Gradually, we came to enjoy walk- 950 stead Dr., Apt. 3, Cincinnati 31, Ohio; Rev. Riggs, 1006 N. Texas St., Fort Stockton, Tex.; ing. It proved the answer to our long- William C. Steorns, Box 315, Shelby, Mont.; Mrs. Dick Killingstad, Box 498, Albany, Wis.; Mrs. felt need for some kind of sport. There Bertie Kinslow, Box 34, Oglesby, Tex.; Mrs. Pearle Florence Larsen, Epworth, Iowa; Eileen Kistler, Gardner, 6310 McCorkle Ave., Charleston, W. Va.; Leonard, N. Dak.; Robert W. Hershey, 1404 N. is plenty to be said for it: it costs Mrs. Lee Lemon, 2601 Sunset Rd., Topeka, Kans. Franklin Ave., Bloomington, III. (from U.S., virtually nothing; it's gloriously un- British Commonwealth, Africa); Laraine Polzien, COINS: Larry Shinneman, 4909 Stonewall, Downers 612 Carol Ave., Mt. Pleasant, Iowa; Ronnie complicated, requiring no licenses, Grove, III.; Mrs. Elka Gerganoff, 230 Gibson Ave., Robinson, Montrose Ave., Garrison, Md. reservations, or special equipment; it's Pacific Grove, Calif, (silver dollars); E. C. Tarvin, Kenneth Clemens, Box 77, Commack, L.I., N.Y.; Box 136-A, Barnhart, Tex. (U.S.); Rev. James H. Cecil G. Shepherd, 1121 NW 11th St., Oklahoma healthful and educational—-and it's fun. Snell, Jr., Box 38, Temple, Ga. (U.S.); Frank E. City, Okla.; Steven Baumgartner, Mtd. R. 42, That August we vacationed at Rocky Weston, 58 Edgewood Ave., Methuen, Mass. La Crosse, Wis.; Danny Robinson, Harden Ave., Mountain National Park, where only (U.S.); Don Mungle, RR 7, Station Rd., Erie, Pa. Garrison, Md. (U.S. commemoratives); Ron Mc- Nickle, Farnham, Nebr.; Larry Shinneman, 4909 on foot trails did we catch the full EARRINCS: Mrs. Jim Edwards, Five Points, R. 1, Stonewall, Downers Grove, III.; Don Mungle, RR Lewes, grandeur of the wilderness. Maps in Del. 7, Station Rd., Erie, Pa.; Anna Stearns, Box 315, Shelby, Mont.; Robert G. Dasse, 20 Franklin St., hand, we followed steep paths edging HORTICULTURE: Mrs. George Clark, 96 Pine Apt. 3, Meriden, Conn. tumbling trout streams and climbed St., Presque Isle, Maine (African violets); Mrs. Edith Hushour,' R. 2, Sycamore, Ohio (house PEN PALS (open to age 18): Connie Hoff (13), stony ledges to view the lakes below. plants). 117 2nd St., Proctor, Minn.; Kathryn Ayers (11), Resting in still pine forests, we shook RD 1, Box 61, Glen Moore, Pa.; Kayetta Durrett HYMNS: Pauline Shortridge, 151 Wagner Rd., (15), R. 87, Hinton, W. Va.; Patricia Curry (13), off the irritations of our too-busy lives Morgantown, W. Va. Box 6, Flora, Oreg.; Janet Mihm (16), 346 N. and found peace and inner strength Main St., Middle Point, Ohio; Alice Pugh (10), INDIAN RELICS: C. A. Hyke, Box 223, Bowman, 913 Wheeler Ave., Scranton 10, Pa.; Judy Bishop lor the days and weeks ahead. Here N. Dak. (arrowheads); Ronald Longnecker, Jr. (17), 204 S. Daffrath, Springfield, Minn. R. 1, Box 128, West Plains, Mo.; Joe Vaughan, was still another benefit of walking Sharon Foglesong (15), 103 Elm St., Spencer, 912 Nillash, Liberal, Kans. (arrowheads). providing the climate for emotional W. Va.; Ann Hopkins (15), 600 Braxton St., Gassaway, W. Va.; Donald K. Baxter (16), 44 and spiritual renewal. INSECTS: Susan, Robin, and Vincent Myers, R. 2, Holmes Dole, Albany 3, N.Y.; Jeanette Purtee Box 124, Apache, Okla. (especially butterflies). Back home, too, we discovered that (15), 1405 W. Washington Ave., Jonesboro, Ark.; Kay and Mary (9) Buhrmann, Martell, Nebr.; short daily walks freshened our minds LIVE ANIMALS: Clara Hughort, 620 Grefer St., (7) Harvey, La. (horses). Jeanette Scarborough (16), 1406 W. Jefferson and spirits. Carl began taking 15- Ave., Jonesboro, Ark.; Gordon Harvey (15), 615 minute lunch-hour jaunts which cleared MACIC: Greg Burr, 412 Tulsa, Carpentersville, III. S. 117th St., Tocomo 44, Wash. Marilyn Depue (18), 31 D'Arcy Ave., Trenton his mind of petty business worries; I MATCHBOOKS: Mrs. Elka Gerganoff, 230 Gibson 9, N.J.; Geralyn Cornell (14), 605 Main St., grew fond of afternoon walks which Ave., Pacific Grove, Calif.; Vincent C. Porker, 2 Friend, Nebr.; Donna Hauge (10), Box 533, Wes- Jay Dr., Chelsea Estates, New Castle, Del. sington Springs, S. Dak.; Carol Marie Fuller (12), were ideal for breaking the day's Depot Rd., RD 1, Harbor Creek, Pa.; Janet Mike Russell, 1013 Division St., routine and setting work goals. We MICROSCOPY: Langenkamp (12), 70 Concord Rd., Mt. Fern, Red Oak, Iowa. Dover, N.J.; Ellen Oehler (11), 615 W. Stuart St., both looked forward to cool evening Clarinda, Iowa; Connie Drush (15), 918 N. Sioux, MONETARY FREAKS: Mike Larter, 12145 Excel- walks together—even just to the end Claremore, Okla.; John Banker (13), Hindsburg sior, Norwalk, Calif. (U.S. only). of the block and back—during which Rd., Holley, N.Y. Cheri Page (8), RR 2, Fort Wayne 8, Ind.; MUSIC: Alma Tarvin, Box 136-A, Barnhart, Tex. we shared the day's experiences, prob- Karen Denny (14), 30 N. Kennebec Ave., Mc- (writing songs). lems, and dreams. Connelsville, Ohio; Roxie De Nio (13), Box 176, Lu Verne, Iowa; Linda Raudenbush (10), 6 Garden also that NEEDLEWORK: Mrs. Alice B. Bhooshan, Meth- We found each walk, even Circle, Harrisburg, Pa.; Katie Holcomb (8), R. 5, odist Mission, Anupshohr, U. P., India; Mrs. Jim Box 443, McHenry, III.; Jenny Wilkins (14), 1323 over familiar ground, held the promise Edwards, Five Points, R. 1, Lewes, Del. (making Swezy St., Marysville, Calif.; Stacy (7) and of new adventure. We saw our first half aprons). Shelly (9) Hare, 1202 S. 12th St., Goshen, Ind . Thomas Hurley (16), 420 Hale St., Pennington, papaw tree while visiting a small PLATES: Mrs. Harold F. Wall, R. 1, Box 48, N.J. southern-Illinois town. Friends who Blacksburg, Va. (of states); Mrs. Paul J. Veas- 2544 Ricca Dr., Kingman, man; RR 2, Indianola, Iowa (of states). Nancy Touchette (9), had joined us for a country hike Ariz.; Greg (8), Cresston (13), and Judy (14) pointed out the yellow fruit and urged POETRY: Mrs. A. N. Seavers, Sr., R. 2, Shippens- Gackle, Ellendale, N. Dak.; Diannc Robertson burg. Pa. (short, religious); Mrs. Jewel Murphy, (13), 15 Waverly Circle, Newnan, Ga.; Priscilla us to taste it. Apprehensive, did we Odin, III. (including humorous); Mrs. Ollie B. Gonyaw (13), High St., Barton, Vt.; Sue Booth- and were fascinated with the banana- Richards, R. 3, Elmer, N.J.; Mrs. John Wempen, royd (14), 580 N. 105th St., Wauwatosa 13, Wis.; 108 Ponting St., Moweaqua, III. Connie Rupp (17), Box 115, Manorville, Pa.; La like flavor. we eat papaws when- Now Rita Roche lie (11), R. 2, Guthrie, Ky.; Johnny ever we can find them. Similarly, on POST CARDS: Mrs. Willard Greene, R. 8, Box 450, Hull (15), 802 Shenango Stop Rd., New Castle, Lenoir, N.C.; Mrs. Roscoe Pitts, Box 351, Blowing Pa. one of our spring city hikes we dis- Rock, N.C.; Miky Rose, 49 Ibukun St., Suru Lere, Priscilla Turingan (17), 9 A del Rosorio St., covered fresh sassafras for sale in a New Lagos, Nigeria; Steven Baumgartner, Mtd. Tuguegarao, Cagayan, Philippines; Cheryl Person tiny neighborhood grocery. We bought R. 42, La Crosse, Wis. (of state maps, covered (14), Des Lacs, N. Dak.; Jeanette Manley (14), bridges, St. Bernard dogs); Linda Fiveash, R. 3, R. 1, Sharpsburg, Ky.; Kay Harper (13), R. 1, Box some, made tea, and liked it. Each Box 7, Port Lavaca, Tex.; Mrs. Pauline E. 215, Clemmons, N.C.; Gene Wright (13), 2155 April since, the saucy aroma of sassafras Parker, 43 Paul St., Chelsea Estates, New Castle, Boulevard Dr., SE, Atlanta 17, Ga.; Judy Ann Del. (8) and Linda Nell (12) Fiveash, R. 3, Box 7, Port has heralded spring in our household. From Newport 4, Del.: Peggy Taylor, 17 E Lavaca, Tex.; Miss Arousiak Kouyoumdjian (18), Often on our walks we talked about Market St. (of monuments, state maps, state 57/92 New Baghdad Rd., Baghdad, Iraq. August 1960 X Together 65 B3 a-aaa__^^^m — the future and about the children to I Onward and Mostly Upward whom it belongs. How sorely, we agreed, they need to balance TV watching and club going with outdoor adventures. Here's a sport for walkers who set their sights high. It was partly this theory which prompted us to ask three out-of-town youngsters to visit us during their vacation. Their widowed J UST A five-minute stroll to the Where to climb? The continental summer friend of ours, end of the block and back can be U.S. will do very nicely, thank you. mother, a long-time in the auto made an adventure. But a lot of Mountains are found in some 37 had been crippled same walkers have stepped up to a more states, including Alaska and her accident that killed her husband. Of challenging sport—mountaineering. 20,300-foot behemoth, Mt. McKin- necessity, her children led largely in- Like the dashing pair on this ley. Favored for tough, advanced door lives. month's cover, they'd rather scram- climbing are the Rockies, the Si- "Really the only way to explore a is told ble up a steep slope than hike erras, and the Cascades. There's city on foot," we our young guests when they arrived. "Driving is around it! challenge aplenty in Glacier, Rocky Why? Every climber has his own Mountain, Yosemite, and Grand too fast. You get only fleeting glimpses Five reasons. Yet, clearly, mountaineer- Teton National Parks. The Tetons, of people and buildings." strong, hiked through Swedish, Polish, and ing is not mere derring-do for the incidentally, have a climbing school we the lunatic fringe. This fast-growing where novices can safely sample Japanese neighborhoods, tramped piers, joined hobby has attracted atomic physicists their taste for the sport. length of six fishing and Bobby, and auto mechanics, seamstresses Yet one needn't travel lar to learn the crowds downtown. the on and college Ireshmen, patent attor- basic mountaineering skills. Local oldest, helped the others mark a city map routes that took in parks and neys and retired postmen—people dills, quarries, or rock formations museums. Then he led the hikes. from every walk of life. make fine training grounds. That s The three also contrived a game. Neither is age a barrier; the one reason mountaineering clubs let's say north- chaplain of a Methodist home lor are scattered all over the country They chose a direction— retired persons in Iowa scaled Cal- today. west—then walked one block north, ifornia's 14,500-foot Mt. Whitney The biggest, of course, are near one west, another north, another west, highest U.S. peak outside Alaska the larger mountain chains. Among and so on, sticking to this pattern when he was past 75! them are the Appalachian Moun- even past construction areas and street barricades. ingenious way to get Actually, mountaineering is no tain Club (5 Joy St., Boston, Mass.); An riskier than hunting, swimming, or the Potomac Appalachian Trail off the beaten track! skiing. Experienced climbers know Club (1916 Sunderland PL, N.W., The children enjoyed hiking more that mountaineering's rewards far Washington 6, D.C.); the Chicago than we had dared hope. Some months outweigh its hazards. As a pioneer Mountaineering Club (Mrs. Alice later we arranged to take them to two Swiss mountaineer wrote of his be- Eix, secretary, 15727 Lexington Ave., state parks for another workout. Bobby loved Alps: "The soul is strangely Harvey, 111.'). protested. "Going to a park isn't explor- rapt with these astonishing heights, Farther west are the Colorado ing," he complained. and carried off to the contemplation Mountain Club (9th Floor, Mining We admitted that following a trail didn't of the one supreme Architect." Exchange Bldg., Denver 2, Colo.); marked in a public park The Mountaineers, Inc. (523 Pike sound like high adventure. Where else, for a St., P.O. Box 122, Seattle 11. though, can town dwellers go Wash.); the Mazamas (Pacific rural outing? And parks do have much Bldg., 520 S.W. Yamhill St.. Port- to offer. Carl and I have never been in one. land 4, Orcg.), and the Sierra Club disappointed Even the most (1050 Mills Tower, San Francisco experienced hiker, it he scouts around, challenging trails in well- 4, Calif.). Write them for more can find any information, or—better—scout lor a chosen park. group closer to home. The trick is not to be discouraged If you're mainly interested in by the picnic-area crowds. They seldom serious armchair mountaineering, start with take to the trails anyway, so the James Ramsey Ullman's The Age of hiker is kit with acres of almost de- Mountaineering (Lippincott, $6). serted, unspoiled, and beautiful land. Alter that, you can make the great It turned out that Bobby, Peter, and climbs through such books as John Nancy thoroughly enjoyed their park Hunt's Conquest of Everest (Dut- trips. And they learned quickly how ton, $6, or Grosset and Dunlap, to spot hard-to-sce wildlife. $2.95); K2—The Savage Mountain, No doubt about it, the children hiking everything related to by C S. Houston and R. H. Bates loved and (McGraw-Hill, $6). and High Ad- it. We hope they will keep it up. We venture, by Edmund Hillary (Dut- hope, too, that they will influence their ton, $4.50). Your local library prob- sedentary generation to get up on its ably has well-thumbed copies of at feet. As the future brings increasing least a couple ol these. You'll soon cushioned comforts, our bodies more see why they're so popular! than ever will need exercise—even to a point approaching downright exhaus- tion. Bobby described this condition The Alp.<° Far from it. better than anyone when he said, alter This is the Pacific Northwest, a particularly long walk: a happy hunting ground for "I'm really tired. But it's a good kind tired!" . imerican mountaineers. of Together /August 1960 to enroll the Spanish-speaking pastors. In the first year, 13 pastors registered and completed the courses. This yeai 25 enrolled and completed the courses at a cost of $3,900 to the school. The Division of National Missions contrib uted $1,000 to the work. Goals for Argentina of the world parish The Methodist Church's goals in Argentina in the next four years in- clude a one third increase in member- SURVEY REVEALS SOCIAL, THEOLOGICAL VIEWS ship, a church in every province, 50 new ministers, and 45 new congrega Every second American Methodist was then asked to co-operate in tions, reports Bishop Sante Uberto Bar believes in equality of opportunities for sampling every 10th member of his bieri of Buenos Aires. all races, but feels that "present patterns congregation, using questionnaires con- His statement was concurred in by must be changed gradually." On taining 11 questions on religious beliefs, the Rev. Roberto Rios and Dr. Jorge another important current question, ethical and social beliefs, and social Vinals-Blake, a lay leader, who were 47.2 per cent feel that they, as Christian background. Forty -five per cent of those here with him to attend the General citizens, are obligated to support their queried responded. Conference. Special targets for evange- country in war when its continued On the question of race, two out of listic work will be university and sec- existence is at stake. 10 supported abolition of all racial ondary-school students. These and other insights into Meth- discrimination. About the same number Argentina is one of the Lands of De- odist beliefs have been reported by held that, although races should have cision for the 1960-64 quadrennium. Dean Walter G. Muelder of the Boston equal opportunities, "segregation is University School of Theology, speak- desirable to preserve racial purity." Hike Student Loan Limit ing for a faculty team which has com- Only one out of 12 Methodists be- The Methodist Student Loan Fund pleted a three-year survey, Methodism lieves that every word of the Bible is has announced an increase in the and Society. Results are contained in a true because it came directly from God. amount a Methodist student may bor- four-volume report to be published this And the traditional Methodist belief row for his college training. year by Abingdon Press. that "Christians should expect through Dr. Everette L. Walker, director of Based on a request by The Methodist the power of God to attain perfect love the Loan Fund for the Board of Educa- Church's Board of Social and Economic in this life" was upheld by only 11.1 per tion of The Methodist Church, said the Relations, the nation-wide survey covers cent of those who responded. maximum amount has been increased a representative cross section of more On the other hand, more than 56 from $1,500 to $2,000. than 12,000 laymen, ministers, and per cent believe that "men are saved Under the new scale, freshmen will young people in the church. Project by divine grace when they respond in be able to borrow $250, sophomores director was Professor Nils Ehrenstrom. repentance and trustful obedience." $300, juniors $350, seniors $400, According to Dean Muelder, the Of those polled, only 2.5 per cent theological and nursing students $300 survey has turned up an entirely new took the position they could under no a year, and graduate students $600 a body of data on the actual beliefs and circumstances support or participate year. The limit for each classification social attitudes of Methodists. in war. was boosted $50, except that graduate To accomplish the inquiry into con- students now can receive an additional temporary Methodist thought, every Crack Language Barrier $100. 80th Methodist church was selected Several of Methodism's jurisdictions "The amounts listed total well over from an alphabetical list. Each pastor $2,000," Dr. explained, "but are attempting to carry the Gospel to Walker each the rapidly growing number of Spanish- if a student were to borrow in period would have to cut his loan speaking people in the U.S. we somewhere along the line to stay within Language is the biggest barrier. the maximum of $2,000 that can be "It is obvious Methodists cannot loaned." reach these people through English- The Methodist Student Loan Fund speaking churches," says Dr. Clarence is accumulated from offerings from W. Lokey, a director of special fields local churches on Methodist Student of the Board of Missions of The Meth- Day and from personal contributions odist Church. "They need a pastor who and bequests. speaks their native tongue, and a church where they will feel at home." To solve the problem in territories Benevolences: $83 Million where the influx of Mexicans is grow- Members of The Methodist Church. ing, Anglo conferences of the South in the first 3]/2 years of the 1956-60 Central Jurisdiction have entered into quadrennium, contributed $83,249,899 a program of co-operation with the Rio to support six of the principal benev- Grande (Spanish-speaking) Confer- olence funds. ence. The per-capita contribution was In the 1958-59 conference year, the about $2.50 a year. South Central Jurisdiction gave $10.?, Of the total, World Service received 469 for salary support in the Rio $39,424,963; General Advance Specials, Israeli police inspected these 2,000- Grande Conference. The Perkins $22,179,407, and Conference Advance year-old "Tyre shekels" found there School of Theology, Dallas, Texas pro- Specials, $16,230,126. recently. received similar Judas coins vided instruction in Spanish in its Receipts of others included: Week of for agreeing to the betrayal of Christ. approved supply pastors school so as Dedication, $1,987,254; Fellowship of August 1960 \ Together 67 — — Suffering and Service. $2,736,447, and Methodist Television Ministry, $691,- UPCOMING EVENTS 7(L\ Of Interest to Methodists Everywhere Jurisdictional contributions to the three largest funds—World Service, AUGUST ( Jeneral Advance Specials, and Con- 1-4 South Central Regional Briefing ference Advance Specials, in that order — Conference on Christian Social —were: Concerns, Mt. Sequoyah, Ark. Northeastern—$10,454,537; $3,110,- 1-12—Southeastern Jurisdiction Lead- 450; $3,272,490. ership School, Lake Junaluska, N.C. Southeastern—$8,562,913; $6,476,- 4-11— Northeastern MYF Workshop, Williamsport, Pa. 444; $4,746,275. 4-ll_North Central MYF Workshop, Central—$701,480; $40,419; $327,- Jacksonville, III. 544. 5-12—South Central MYF Workshop, North Central—$11,110,621; $4,930,- Mt. Sequoyah, Ark. 15-20— National MYF Commission, 076; $3,099,496. Nebraska Wesleyan, Lincoln, Nebr. $5,808,873; $3,912,- South Central— 15-20— Northeastern Jurisdiction 508; $3,070,867. Leadership School, Williamsport, Pa. Council of Bishops President Gerald Western—$2,776,623; $1,577,603; $1,- 16-19—South Central Jurisdiction Conference on Evangelism, Mt. Se- 713,447. Kennedy conferred at General Con- quoyah, Ark. ference with his predecessor, Bishop 22-28— National Youth School of Al- Alaska U President Marvin Fran\lin (center), and Bish- cohol Studies, Nebraska Wesleyan, Lincoln, Nebr. Rev. Fred P. McGinnis has been Paul Martin president- The op (left), 22-28— National Youth School of president of Alaska Methodist named designate, who takes office in 1961. Moral Concerns, Oklahoma City, University, Anchorage, succeeding the Okla. 23-26 Central Jurisdiction Mis- Rev. Donald F. Ebright, who resigned. — South section, ami ordained ministers and a sionary Conference and Board of Trustees, in announcing the appoint- superintendent in the southern section. Missions meeting, Mt. Sequoyah, ment, said they "look forward to a most Ark. Membership is 2,000 in 18 congrega- fruitful period of development under 23-26—South Central Jurisdiction tions. Workshop for Local Church Com- his leadership." The school opens in Bishop Sigg said Methodists in missions on Missions, Mt. Sequoyah, September. An enrollment of 200 is Switzerland and Austria, the other two Ark. expected. countries in his Area, have undertaken WSCS STUDY TOPICS: General new ventures. In the former they joined Program Light for Today's Chil- Despite Communist Control with other Protestants and are setting dren, by Mona Kewish; Circle Pro- gram The Heartbeats of Our Love Methodists Worship, Work up a 100,000-watt radio station. In by the same author. Bishop Ferdinand Sigg of Geneva, Austria they have helped establish a Switzerland, reports that Methodists in new home for refugees. Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Southeastern Jurisdiction, member of Yugoslavia continue to worship, work, Plan Peaceful Integration the Methodist Commission on Chap- and witness despite Communist laws. The Rev. Robert A. Raines, pastor lains, and Army chaplain. The extent of their activities varies of Aldersgate Methodist Church of according to national laws, he said, Warrens ville Heights, Ohio, has urged Help Married Students adding: his all-white congregation to prepare Scarritt College at Nashville has "The important thing is that the lor peaceful integration of Negroes churches are alive and the people arc begun construction of a $375,000 expected in the community in the next building continuing to worship and witness. married-students' apartment decade. as the Methodists in these countries desire to be known Jesse Lee Cuning- Noting that Negroes arc living near- fellowship and better understanding gim Memorial, in honor of a former by', be has urged his people to work president of the school. with their fellow churchmen in other lor integrated housing and tair housing countries." The building will have 22 apart- legislation, to speak lor the rights of The bishop has frequent contact ment units and will feature a child-care Negroes, and not to fear their arrival It be with most of the churches and their center. will financed with con- in the neighborhood. tributions allocated the leaders. His report showed: and $200,000 by Aldersgate lor lour years has ex- I960 General Conference. Poland—Seven new ministers or- changed ministers, choirs, and congre- dained last November, making 27 gational representatives with Parkwood preachers to serve 10,000 to 15,000 Church-Fire Losses Climb Christian Methodist Episcopal Church members in 60 churches. The Meth- Ten large-loss fires—involving dam- (Negro). odist English Language School in ages of $250,000 or more—destroyed Warsaw continues to flourish. It has more than $3 million worth of church 1,000 students. Cooke to Succeed Lugg property in 1959. Czechoslovakia —Control is greater Dr. Don A. Cooke, pastor ol First The National hire Protection Asso- here than in many other countries. Church, Bradenton, Fla., has been ciation said 1959 losses compared with Seventeen ministers serve 2,000 mem- named to succeed Dr. Thomas l>. only four major fires causing damage bers in 33 churches. Lugg as general secretary and treasurer totaling nearly $1,170,000 in 1958. Hungary— Latest of infrequent re- of the Council on World Service and It is estimated that fires of all sizes ports show 12 pastors ministering to Finance of The Methodist Church. cost churches an average ol about $15 2. HOI) communicants with one Budapest Dr. Lugg retires next January alter million annually. [See Nine Churches . In i r i h being crowded each Sunday. 16 years with the agency. Burned Today! December, 1959, page Yugoslavia Methodism, as 16. Six of the major 1959 blazes oc- — weaker Dr. Cooke, in his 38 years a | here than in any other Eastern Europe preacher, has been a district super- curred in the U.S., the rest in Canada. country, relics on deaconesses and lay intendent. Wesley Foundation director, No Methodist Church was included in I'M .ii hers i" direct work in the northern secretary ol the Florida Conference and the list of 10 big fires. 68 Together /August 1960 1 . Annual Conferences Accept be eased through increased justice and It I Bus) Mother, \.l.t. Training it as fly I nsiver " Christian brotherhood both within the I wanted to w rite and found \ i \ Challenges Made in Denver Training the answer, Ann .1 few : 1 ;i .1 church and the nation." , sold torj to reli on Echoes of the 1960 General Confer- publication. 1 nav< ao sold stoi les A study was ordered by the North to Idaho Daily Statesman, Modern ence and its call for improved inter- 1: '<. and Todaj 's Babj A Indiana Conference to assess the possi- in- tin' my spare time, of which there " racial relations and a more inclusive little Mi H. Inverso, 3309 bility of having the Indiana District of Hawthorne Dr., Boise Ida church were heard as Methodism's An- the Lexington Conference (Central TO PEOPLE WHO WANT TO nual Conferences met to accept the Jurisdiction) absorbed into the Indiana challenge given them for the next WRITE for PROFIT Area of the North Central Jurisdiction. four years. [See This Time It Was but can't get started The Conference also urged local .DO YOU have that constant urge to write for publics Denver, July, page 6, and Four Dy- t i< >n - church members to welcome as neigh- Then licre's VOl'K big opportunity to get an i namic Years Charted at Denver, July, pert analysis "i youi natural ability without obligation. bors any persons of good character, Mow ... .1 Chance to T«-.sf Yourself Free page 69.] The Newspaper Institute of America offers ;i FREE Wril regardless of race, creed, or national ing Aptitude Test in order to discover more nun and Bishop John Wesley Lord of Boston, women who can add to their income by writing origin. in. ''i'-. publicity, advertising, ''to. Those who pas presiding over sessions of the Maine qualified to take the famous N.I A. Copy Desk Training The Newark (N.J.) Conference which teaches you to write at home in leisure time. and New England Southern Confer- Earn By H riling in Your Sparetime formed a Commission on the Inclusive ences, emphasized the action taken in Guided by experienced writer- editors, many N.I. A. stu- Church to promote fellowship among dents quickly acquire the "professional" touch neci a Denver by calling for renewal of the for sales with their first writing assignments. Soon they enjoy earnings of and more while all Methodists, and the Northern New $10. $25. $50, $100 church. training for material they write in sparetime. York Conference went on record as Send For FREE Writing Aptitude Test "The modern church offers to man Take the first step towards the most enjoyable and profit- opposing segregation at lunch counters. able occupation —writing for publication Newspapei in an easy religion with very few moral stitute of America, One Park Ave., N.Y. lfi, i Lie. bj New Hampshire Conference com- State of N.T.) (Member, National Home Studj Council.) absolutes," he said. "Too often the mended President Eisenhower for his rfltt Newspaper Institute of America 35th Year ' church negotiates a truce with its de- One Park Avenue. New York 16. N. Y. "dignity and calmness" in speaking , , Send me. without cost or obligation, your Writing fects. When great social issues demand Aptitude Test and further information about writing about the ill-fated Summit Conference. I ( I for profit. No salesman will call. interpretation and confrontation, the I Miss j i I Other Conferences, touching on inter- Mrs. I church takes refuge in sacraments [ and Mr } 1 national issues, urged admission i of Address ' liturgies. Seeking to save its own life, i I 1 Red China to the UN and U.S. steps City . . .Zone. . State i 1 it may find that its life is threatened (All correspondence confidential.] 73-M-780 i toward normal diplomatic relations from within. Discrimination and un- Copyright 1959, Newspaper Institute of America with Peking, opposed war, and called christian practices are a part of the very for disarmament and bans on nuclear life of the church of our day. bomb tests. "Because of this," Bishop con- Lord In Steel orWood Early reports indicated that in the J tinued, "the greatest need of the FOLDING TABLES , next few years Methodists plan to A church is the renewal of its inner WRITE FOR CATALOG / spend millions, in addition to huge , AND LOW DIRECT PRICES ( vitality lest it become a vestigial rem- sums approved at General Conference 1 nant of the society it meant to save. J.RRedington&Co. for World Service and benevolences, "This renewal will require that the DEPT. 52 SCRANTON 2, PA. for establishing new churches, hospitals, church manifest the power and the homes for the aged, colleges and uni- will to bridge the gulf between all New Styles in Xmas Cards versities. 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John Hunnicutt present* a to the U.S. in 1923 with the aid of an also EXTRA PRIZE PLAN Enclose Lucky Hank and Cards S4.50. American Methodist bishop. A grad- Penny worth scholarship to Alaska Methodist uate of the University of Chicago and Name University to Miss Barbara Rine, Methodist-supported Meharry Medical Address daughter of a U.S. Army sergeant. see College, Nashville, Term., | The Town Dr. II. L. Heller of AMU loo^s on. Meharry Story, April, 1959, page 26], August 1960 Together 69 1 e Dr. Banda returned tu Nyasaland in 1950 after 23 years of self-exile and took, up the leadership of his country. Youth Group Dissolved; New Magazine Formed The National Conference ol Meth- odist Youth, the denomination's selt- directing organization for youths and students since 1939, has been discon- - PENNINGTON - tinued. Its functions will he taken over by two groups: the National Conference Methodist College Preparatory School for Buys. Owned by the New Jersey Conference. ol the Methodist Youth Fellowship, i in I college preparatory. Fully accredited grades 7-12. Thorough preparation for college in and the National Conference of the small classes. Developmental reading. Individual guidance. Spacious campus, attractive buildings. Methodist Student Movement. Moderate rate. Endowed. Est. L838. Summer School. Win. in, t-atalog. Dissolution of the NCMY was re- Charles R. Smyth. D.O.. Box 45, Pennington. N.J. quested by the Conference itself and approved by the 1960 General Confer- Two Year College Cranting Asso. in Arts Degree ence. Coed. Fully accredited. Transfer and career courses in the Liberal Arts. Business Administra- Under the new setup, youth and (icni. Merchandising, Engineering, Secretarial, Medi- cal Secretarial. Courses in art, drama, music. student conferences will be related to Mrs. Raymond Valenzuela (right), Wesley C o 1 «* g the Board of Education—the National Career counseling. Activities program. Chorus, Conference of the Methodist Youth tvije of a Methodist missionary, band. Sports, pool. Dorms. N.Y.C. 160 miles; — Fellowship to the Youth Department, Phila. — 75 miles. Owned, controlled, supported by stands in the rums of a member's Peninsula Conference. Established 1873. Catalog. and the National Conference of the Dr. Robert H. Parker, Pres., Dover 16, Del. home destroyed by Chilean quakes. Methodist Student Movement to the 1 )epartmcnt of College and University CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Chilean Quakes Hit Churches Albany, Georgia Religious Life. MASTER OF MUSIC DECREE The 15-year-old Methodist youth Twenty-six Methodist churches sul- Major in Church Music or Piano magazine. Concern, published in Nash- fered severe damage in Chile's late- Intensive Work at the Graduate Level Only ville, and Contact, a social-action peri- spring earthquakes, which hit an area Tuition, includes everything except odical published in Washington by the including the three largest centers of room and board, 1625.00 church's Boards of Temperance, Social Methodist work. Small school, intensive work requires a limited enrollment. and Economic Relations, and World Those at Angol, Valdivia, and Los Write Peace, also have been merged in the Angeles were completely wiped out. Director Dr. John Paul Jones, change. Badly hit was the new church at The merged publication will be Talcahuano and the 350-member First called Contact-Concern, and will be Church in Concepcion, one of the ASBURY COLLEGE published twice a month. Roger largest and oldest of Chile's Methodist Burgess, Board of Temperance staff churches. member and former editor of Contact, Hundreds of Methodist families were Wilmore, Kentucky will edit the new magazine. left without shelter as the cold, rainy It is expected that Contact-Concern Southern Hemisphere winter began. All Z. T. JOHNSON, President will become the official publication ol 18 Methodist missionaries in the earth- the denomination's new Board of quake zone were sale, a preliminary Christian Social Concerns when that report showed, but nothing was Asbury Serves Methodism: 70% of agency is formally organized September known of the pastors and workers in 29 in Washington, D.C., through the villages. her 5, 1 26 graduates are Methodists. merger of the Boards of Temperance, Under appointment there arc: Social and Economic Relations, and Australian Methodists World Peace. Ordained ministers 1,129 Seek Union With Others Foreign missionaries 250 The General Conference ol the Praise from a Princess Home missionaries 38 Methodist Church in Australia has U.S. churchwomen have been com- Chaplains 28 reaffirmed its desire for an organic mended by a Japanese princess for their union of Methodists, Presbyterians, and District Superintendents 27 efforts in behalf of the International Congregationalists in that country. The Presidents of Methodist Colleges 4 Christian University in her country. Conference is held every three years. In a letter to Mrs. Harper Sibley, Conference delegates meeting in Other Alumni Who Are Methodists: chairman of the Women's Planning Sidney held that uniting the three Women graduates have who Committee of the Japan International denominations would be the first step married Methodist pastors 466 Christian University Foundation, Inc., toward a larger union. The three in York, Christian Education Directors 44 New Princess Chichibu churches have been discussing merger praised tin- group's latest project: for 60 years. College Professors 70 raising $65,000 to pay operating ex- Theme ol the 1960 session was that Doctors 46 penses ol the University's graduate the church cannot effectively call on Nurses 38 school ol education lor one year. nations to be reconciled when it is Public School Teachers 509 Princess Chichibu. an honorary divided denominationally. councilor ol the graduate-level insiitu- Emphasizing this, several speakers Fifty-two per cent of all graduates tion at Milakashi, Tokyo, is the first called attention to the ]\<.\\\ lor unity. member ol the imperial family to be- One said union ol the three of Asbury have entered into full churches come officially associated with a spe- would make eventual union with the time Christian service. cifically Christian enterprise in Japan. Anglican (Episcopalian) Church easier. 70 Together August 1960 — . Another declared "money should not he persons for a period of more than two C. L. Evans. Pres. of New England Art Publishers. Says: $ wasted in maintaining redundant and weeks and will function as a hospital, RAISE UP TO 300 OR MORE competitive churches." not just as a shelter. EXTRA MONEY In other action, delegates voted to attract more Methodist migrants to Methodists Receive Grants Australia by providing homes and Show Fabulous I&vtwa Line of Five Methodists were among 19 re- employment; condemned racial segre- over 300 New 1 960 Items cipients of the Danforth Campus Chris- Christmas & All Occasion GREETING CARD gation and discrimination, and called tian Worker Grants for 1960-61. They Assortments Folks Buy On Sight tor a greater show of concern for are: Cash Profits »o 1 00% human rights. No-Money-Down, No-Risk Robert G. Albertson, director of re- Starting Sample Plan. You keep They also praised British Prime ligious activities, University of Puget up to $1.00 per item for your Minister Harold Macmillan for his church, group or yourself. Self- Sound, Tacoma, Wash.; Richard Lee selling EVANS Christmas Card "Christian efforts to promote the Sum- and Gift Line, huge plant mean Gelwick, director of religious activities more sales, faster service. All mit Conference and his sustained efforts at Oberlin (Ohio) College; David K. you do is call on friends, neigh- to save it from collapse." WRITE TODAY bors, relatives, members in and Switzer, chaplain, Southwestern Uni- around your town. Everyone wel- For All New 1960 However, Dr. Alan Walker, super- comes you. No experience needed. versity, Georgetown, Tex.; Richard F. Feature Box Assortments intendent of the Central Methodist Read What One Group Says Vieth, minister of Memorial Chapel, On Approval, 2 Big Mission, criticized the statement for Order Getting "Through our sales last year we University of Maryland; and Cecil A. Catalogs - plus were able to add a good sized Big Free Album of ' not being specific enough. He attacked profit to our treasury. Williams, director of religious activities Personalized the U-2 plane incident as "one of the Christmas Cards Elsie S. Blodgett, Chairman at Huston-Tillotson College, Austin, few occasions when the cloak of self- Abington Mass. Tex. NEW ENGLAND ART PUBLISHERS, N. 861 , righteousness has been stripped from The Danforth Foundation, with nations." headquarters in St. Louis, also ap- $&0fc* Fold-King pointed 21 theological students—includ- Build Nuclear-Age Hospital ing five Methodists—as Danforth Interns for the year. Construction is under way in San Seminary coming They will take a year off from theologi- NO K3 TABLE Antonio, Tex., on what is believed to TEMPERED MASONIIE assistants at PUSIICIiiO TOP be the world's first true shelter-type cal studies to work as nuclear-age hospital. Christian student centers at universities. students selected as interns At ground-breaking ceremonies for Methodist FOLDING TABLE LINE Kitchen committees, social groups, ;ittcn> were Keith Keeling, Edwin Sylvest, Jr., the $20 million Southwest Texas Meth- Inm' I actory prices A discount uplo409& and Donald Cramer, all of Perkins to Churches Schools,' lubs, etc. Monroe odist Hospital, Bishop A. Frank Smith [-new FOI l)-kl\(. Banquci rabies, School of Theology; and James Scott ,'ith exclusive new automatic folding and of the Houston-San Antonio Area gave upcr strength, easy seating. 68 models and sizes. the count down for a simulated nuclear Sessions and Donald Thompson, both BIG NEW I960 CATALOG FREE ..lor piuurcv lull line tables, chairs, lablc and chair trucks, pl.it- explosion which broke the ground in of Drew Theological School. irtablc partitions, hulk-tin boards. Our 52nd year. i THE MONROE CO., 59 Church St., Colfox, Iowa place of the traditional shovel. First unit of the project will go two Change Seen in Structure full floors below ground. Within the of Overseas Methodism Order Any Book massive "survival complex," enclosed Methodism overseas may undergo reviewed in Together at by concrete walls 26 inches thick, will you see several important changes in organiza- the publisher's advertised price be located surgery, pathology, radi- we pay the postage. tion by 1964 as a result of action taken ology, central supply, pharmacy, and by the 1960 General Conference in food services. It will accommodate 1,200 Denver. If changes authorized by the Confer- ^okeshurif ence are carried out, overseas Meth- METHODIST PUBU5HING HOU odism will have a new provisional THINE BE Atlanta 3 • Baltimore 3 • Boston 16 central conference, seven new annual Chicago 11 • Cincinnati 2 • Dallas 1 Detroit 1 • Kansas City 6 • Los Angeles 29 conferences, four new provisional an- THE GLORY Nashville 3 • New York 11 • Pittsburgh 30 nual conferences, and two new bishops. Portland 5 i Richmond 16 • San Francisco 2 The largest change contemplated is formation of the Pakistan Provisional Central Conference. (A central confer- I ence overseas corresponds to a jurisdic- LADIES tion in the U.S.) The new central Discover how conference would be composed of the Indus River Annual Conference and NAPKINS Karachi Provisional Annual Confer- ence. Formation of the new unit has have brought success been fostered by political conditions, to thousands of fund- difficulty travel, the potential of and raising projects . . for Methodist growth under the 1960- MAIL THIS 1964 Lands of Decision program. V/ COUPON TODAY... New annual conferences were author- for your FREE samples! ized for Peru, Mindanao, Poland, Sumatra, Bolivia, and Uruguay, with 1 _., _ . . / 801 LaSalle Ave. l_0./r • I he Cjrrace Line Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. William Larsen (left), Dr. the seventh being formed by dividing I send ACTUAL Nal'KUN' the present Philippine Annual Confer- Without obligation, Henry F. Schuh, and Dr. Vredric\ I Samples and quantity prices. T-80 I ence. (An annual conference now A. Schiotz {right,) leaders of three I Name. I needs to have only 25 fully ordained Lutheran bodies, clasp right hands at I I ministerial members,— 10 less than the Address- the ceremony which saw establish- former minimum. This action by the I I City, _Zone_ -State- ment of American Lutheran Church. General Conference makes possible J August 1960 Together 71 ~A — A some of the new annual conferences.) getting along Two of the lour new provisional an- CENTURY CLUB nual conferences would be Sarawak Eleven members join To- Iban in Sarawak and Patagonia in cethlu's Century Club this Together Southern Argentina. The Taiwan-Hong month. Each is a Methodist who Kong and the Central American Pro- has celebrated 100 or more birth- visional Annual Conferences would be day anniversaries. They arc: divided into four separate provisional annual conferences—Taiwan, Hong When my 87-year-old mother left Mrs. Mary Ann Brown Mon- Kong, Panama and Costa Rica. ( her home in Ohio to live with us, nctt, 101, Lansing, Mich. provisional annual conference must she missed her friends. Realizing David McAllister, 101, RD. have not less than six and may have i li is. a former neighbor gathered a Oxford, Pa. up to 10 ordained ministerial mem- group ot them to record personal Mrs. Carrie Z. Copp, 100, bers.) messages on tape. He also recorded Philadelphia. P>y 1964 two more overseas bishops a worship service from the church, Mrs. Elizabeth Day, 102, Hal- may be chosen, one in Africa ami one then mailed the tape to us as a birth- lowell, Maine. in the Philippines. day surprise for her. Nothing else Mrs. Julia 1). Chase, 103, Lynn, could have meant so much. Mass. — .Mrs. Mary H. Musser, Wakefield, Mass. Resigns From Peace Board Mrs. Lillian Waste, 100, Wau- Dr. Daniel E. Taylor has resigned as watosa, Wis. general secretary of the Board of World Mrs. Elizabeth Booth, 100, Peace of The Methodist Church and Rochester, N.Y. I was tceling poverty-stricken as will take a pastorate in Portland, Oreg. Mrs. Robert E. Barrett, 103, I walked through the bargain base- He was appointed by Bishop Ray- Evanston, 111. ment of a large store. My daughter mond A. Grant to Rose City Park, Mrs. H. P. French. 100, Seattle, needed a new formal and I wanted largest Methodist church in Portland. Wash. .1 suit, but the budget wouldn't let The Board of World Peace is to be- Mrs. Minnie Bell, 100. Scl- us have both. come a division of the newly created mer, Tenn. 1 stopped at a table where a Board of Christian Social Concerns, Miss Ella Smith, 100, Seneca middle-aged woman was looking with headquarters in Washington, D.C. Falls, N.Y. through a pile of nylon slips. I felt Formal organization of the new board, a surge of pity as I noticed her rough resulting from the union of the Boards Together has printed names hands, homemade cotton dress, and of Temperance, World Peace, and ol many Club members, but has battered shoes. Social and Economic Relations, will vet to honor a husband-wife com Suddenly, as she found the size 1 take place in Washington, September bination. Let's hear about them she wanted, she turned to me, her 29. Names of Methodists. 100 or face radiant. "This is for a friend of Dr. Taylor previously served 18 years more, are published as received mine," she told me. "She's good as in the Pacific Northwest Conference, Irom readers. gold but awful poor. This is her including four as a superintendent. In birthday—and 1 want her to have 1958-59 he led churchmen's study tours something nice for once!" to Europe. Mi:s, Oren P.niT. Sacramento, Calif. ol Methodist health and welfare institu- tions cost $11.^ million. Church support Board Official Burned totaled $5.5 million. Donald McKcc, treasurer ol the While driving to Florida we were General Board of Pensions of The Ewha Graduates 1 ,064 hailed by a voting chap whose ear Methodist Church, is recovering from Methodist-related Ewha Woman's was out of gas. We helped him, but severe burns suffered in the explosion University in Seoul, Korea, granted my husband refused pay. "fust pass of a cabin cruiser on Lake Michigan. more than 1,000 degrees at its most it on," he suggested. The accident occurred fune 4 in recent commencement exercises. Thirty- Two days later our tire blew out Chicago's Monroe Street harbor. Mr. lour of the 1,064 graduates received and our jack balked, fust then, the McKee ami six companions, including master's degrees. young man we had helped drove up; his twin brother, Ronald, were rescued Ewha Woman's University, with he had worked his way through alter jumping into the lake from the more than 6,000 students, is one of the school as a mechanic, and he burning boat. largest women's colleges in the world changed our tire in a jiffy. boat by a friend. see iii Biggest The was owned | Ewha Korea, Women's We then learned that he was a School on Earth, November, PJ57, page minister en route to his first charge Institutions Serve 35]. in Pennsylvania—but detouring to Many Florida to get his bride. And we had More than 1.5 million persons were Five Win Scholarships supplied him with a perfect illustra eared lor during 1959 in the 2 56 tion lor a "bread east upon the hospitals and homes affiliated with the Five voung women planning to be 1 ol waters" sermon text Board ol Hospitals and Homes ol I he directors Christian education have l - l)i oni 1 \ I'.i; \ Washington Cou t Methodist Church. received $1,000 John Q. Schisler II., i . Ohio Full-time personnel numbering $5,- graduate scholarships Irom the Board 00(1 persons are on duty in Methodist ol Education of The Methodist Church, hospitals and homes in 42 states and the at Nashville. Little tales for this column must be District ol Columbia. Part-time medi- The live are Mrs. Marie C. Allnutt, true- stories which somehow lig/it- cal and personnel stalls totals about Germantown, Md.; Miss Mary E. ened a heart. Together pays $5 I 5,000, and there are approximately 25,- Cooper, Albany, Ga.; Miss Marcella R. for each one printed. No contribu 000 additional volunteers and auxiliary Flynt, Dallas, Tex.; Miss Virginia V /ions am be returned; please don't workers. Gray, Woodward, Okla., ami Miss i a, lose postage.- -Eds. During 1959, free or part pay service Mary M. Shearer, Emory, Va. 72 Together /August 1960 Raise Bishops' Salaries Edward I!. Lewis of Kensington, Md. His associate is the Rev. Thorn, is The General Conference voted to Starnes. increase salaries of active bishops from QUICKLY FOLD $12,500 to $15,500 a year and to give OR UNFOLD! $3.5 Million for Relief retired bishops $5,500 and widows of Maximum Sealing Folding J**"5^ The Methodist Church and other — . , I Minimum Storage bishops $3,250, up $1,000 and $500 re- Tables /f^ spectively. Protestant churches in Germany In addition, a bishop's episcopal bridged political and denominational PERFECTION EE RED Better appearance, residence allowance was raised $300 to barriers this spring to give 15 million durability and strength. Finest construction, secretarial office marks (more than $3.5 million) for $3,300, his and fund workmanship, finish. increased $1,000 to $6,000 a year, and relief around the world. Choice of many top materials and colors. Bishop Friedrich Wunderlich of the a new allowance of $750 a year for Wft'fe for Folder Frankfort Area said the offerings bound office equipment granted. MITCHELL MANUFACTURING CO. the different German churches together Milwaukee 46, Wisconsin, Dept. C as never before. They came from all Closed Church Restored denominations in both East and West Historic Weymouth Furnace, N.J., Cermany. Methodist Church, closed for 60 years ra except for anniversary services, now is Four MSMers in France Manufacturers of Church Worship being restored by the New Jersey An- Aids Four representatives of the Methodist nual Conference. The structure dates exclusively for over a quarter of a Student Movement are attending the back to 1805, and was once in a thriv- century .. .Write for catalog and listing World Teaching Conference of the ing iron-ore and munitions center. of local dealers desirous of serving you. World Student Christian Federation in Strasbourg, France. The meeting Services Goodwill Expand opened July 16 and will end July 31. SUDBURY BRASS GOODS CO. Goodwill Industries of America re- MSM delegates are: Miss Lynda Hird Dept. 12 70 Pearl St., Brookline 46, Mass. ports operations and services were 10 to of Rye, N.H., student at Smith College; 15 per cent higher in 1959 than in John Waggy, Jr., of Charleston, W. J. PULPIT& CHOIR GOWNS 1958, and rehabilitation and employ- Va., Yale Divinity School student; Tom — Pulpit Hangings— Altar Cloths ment programs aided more than 38,000 Lord of Dallas, Tex., student at Bible Markers Communion Linens Embroideries— Fabrics handicapped persons last year. Southern Methodist University, and the Custom Tailoring for Clergymen .---Marking 123 Years o/,..„ Goodwill Industries, founded in 1902 Rev. B. J. Stiles of Nashville, Tenn., 1837 Service to the Church 1960 and Clergy by a Methodist minister and still related MSM staffer with the Board of Educa- VINING, Inc. to The Methodist Church, has 123 tion of The Methodist Church. COX SONS & 131 lost 23rd Street, N«w York 10. N.Y. units in the U.S. and 18 abroad. In 1959 Leaders from around the world will it paid $19 million in wages to handi- lecture and lead seminars on the SHORTHAND IN capped workers. theme. The Life and Mission of the Famous SPEEDWRITING shorthand wnm. No symbols: no machines. Uses ABC's, Church. Easiest to learn, write, transcribe. Learn at home or through classroom instruction. Four D.C. Churches Merge Lowest cost. Over 500.000 eraduates."Typing Forecasts More Controls available, 37tb Yr. Write for FREE booklet Four Methodist churches, all located Legislation achieving some sort of within a mile of the U.S. Capitol in '^ national control of the liquor industry Dept. 7308 m Washington, D.C, have united to form 55 W. 42 St.. N. 36 within the foreseeable future has been a new parish. Mention Merging were Wilson Memorial, predicted by Dr. Caradine R. Hooten, of Washington, D.C. TOGETHER Magazine North Carolina Avenue, Trinity, and Dr. Hooten, general secretary of the When Writing Waugh. All will become homeless be- Board of Temperance a division cause of land redevelopment projects —now of the new Board of Christian Social Pews, Pulpit £ Chancel and expansion of Capitol grounds. A Concerns of The Methodist Church— new church is planned. FURNITURE a told dele«iates at the New England An- Pastor of the new parish is the Rev. EARLY nual Conterence in Boston, Mass., that DELIVERY "piecemeal victory in the less sensa- tional types of legislation may be WRITE FOR reasonably expected within the months FREE CATALOG ahead." He stressed that, while there is a J. P. REDINGTON & CO. predominant dislike in the nation for DEPT. 2 SCRANTON 2, PA. the word "prohibition," there is "a Christian Christmas growing demand for curbs that can be enforced." Cards, Gifts, Jewelry Pay You Big Money Urge Churches Take Stand You can earn all the money you need for your- On TV and Movie Standards self, your church, club or group simply by showing The 250-member General Board of to good Christian neigh- the National Council of Churches has bors, friends, relatives, the oil new I960 Heather Line of cards, games and called upon churches and leaders to gifts which are inspirational ond educational. No experience necessary. Write today for money making concern themselves with the effect of kit and FREE Gift Offer. radio, television, and film upon the Heather Greetings, Dept. 53 U.S. public. 42 Hampden St., Springfield 3, Mass. Name In a 4, 500-word statement, the Address "Now you \now why the gang refers specifi- Council's policy-making body City " Zone. . .State to me as 'Butterfingers.' cally rejected over-all censorship as a Name of Church Group August 1960 Together 73 — tor improving mass media, hut church has been, and still is, "unalter- Mrs. Heck, Embury, and a dozen recommended that the communications ably opposed to capital punishment." neighbors sailed for America. Here industry inaugurate a policy of self- "Life imprisonment, with opportuni- they cast upon the waters a bouquet of criticism and regulation. ties for rehabilitative procedures to be flowers taken from the same garden The statement was presented to the used with even the most hardened and where blooms were picked in 1760 General Board by a special 34-member deranged criminal, is far superior in and tossed in the schooner's wake. commission it created two years ago an enlightened society than the taking Following prayers of thanksgiving, to study the role of the churches and of life as a punishment," he told the the celebrants in Ireland went to the the mass media. The document now committee. Heck birthplace in Ballingren. goes to the member churches for study. "Repeated studies have shown that The Board's statement counseled the death penalty does not deter homi- Crime Record at New High that churches and clergymen should cides." A seven per cent increase in the take positive steps to serve as "wise number of crimes reported by cities stewards" for the public good. They Celebrate Bicentennial of over 25,000 during the first three should not fail to speak out against Irish Methodists' Arrival months of 1960 made this the worst programs or films that are detrimental crime period in U.S. history, according Methodists in to society, it declared, but they should Limerick, Ireland, and to Director J. Edgar Hoover of the cultivate consultative relationships with in New York City celebrated simul- Federal Bureau of Investigation. leaders of these industries, recognizing taneously on June 2 the 200th anni- Murders were up 1 1 per cent over that many are deeply concerned about versary of arrival in the U.S. of a year ago. Burglaries had increased improving their own products. Barbara Heck and Phillip Embury, 10 per cent and robberies seven. pioneers in Methodism. | See The Forcible rapes larcenies increased Three Roots of American Methodism, and Asks End to Death Penalty five over November, 1959, page 25.] per cent the 1959 rate, while A Methodist spokesman has urged Mrs. Heck and her cousin, Embury, auto theft increased six per cent. the House Judiciary Committee to a local Methodist preacher, are credited approve a bill ending the compulsory with organizing the first Wesley Religion 'Very Important' death penalty lor first-degree murder "class" in New York City. Out of this Religion is "very important" to 73 in the District of Columbia—the only grew historic John Street Church in per cent of Minnesota's teen-agers, ac- jurisdiction in the U.S. which does not downtown Manhattan. cording to a survey conducted by the provide lor lesser penalty upon con- Identical worship services were held Minneapolis Tribune's Minnesota Poll. viction. on the same day in Ballingren Chapel, Twenty-five per cent called it "fairly The Rev. Robert Regan, Jr., director Limerick, and in John Street Church. important," while only two per cent of legal affairs for the newly established Descendants of Barbara Heck in considered religion "not important." Board of Christian Social Concerns of Ireland also gathered at the Custom Almost all (91 per cent) believed The Methodist Church, said that the House Quay in Limerick from which they personally have either "a great deal" or "quite a bit" of religious faith. 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Flax, most people know, is a plant which bears pretty little blue flowers and somehow yields the fiber from which linen cloth is made. But how a lustrously beautiful cambric or damask can be made from a plant is a mystery to many. Commercially, of course, linen is produced to- day by machinery. But if Stahlstown Methodists have anything to say about it, the centuries-old methods of making the fabric by hand will not be forgotten. Most important of many preparations is the May plant- ing of a quarter acre of flax —enough to produce raw How does flax become linen material? Here, spectators crowd the rail to watch a step-by-step demonstration. In scutching, the flax is beaten against a flat board to f(noc/( pulp and bar\ off the strands of linen fiber. Stahlstown's scutching expat, Mrs. Lucy I Linger, has had a hand in every festival but one. Note, even as she (hats with a visitor, she worlds on the familiar fibers. 76 88-year-old Mrs. Hauger was only eight Known by all Stahlstown residents as "Aunt Lucy',' heirloom. when she learned to spin. Li{e other equipment, her spinning wheel is an August 1960 \ Together 77 _-^W3 The Loyal Harming Long Rifles from Latrobe add another dab of color to the festivities. material for scutching demonstrations and miniature souvenir bundles. On the evening before the festival, the rustic site at Monticue's Grove, just north of town, comes alive with activity as heirloom pieces of equipment are put in place. Among required tools: breakers to crack the flax stems, scutchers to beat the woody pulp and bark from the linen fibers, hackles to comb out clinging bits of stem and bark, spinning wheels to make the thread, and, finally, the loom on which finished cloth is produced. The dem- onstration stage is a low platform surrounded by a rail just right for spectators to lean on. In other stands, church members vend food and festival items. Tradi- tional specialties are buckwheat pancakes and home- Church women in the biu\wheat-cake and sausage booth ta\e time to sample their own wares. The verdict? Delicious! Together August 1960 AUGUST, 1960 Together VEW YORK Area NEWS Edition Conferences Bid Bishop Newell a Reluctant Farewell ." It was a silent moment crowded with the Lord bless you and keep you . . the future and warned against capitula- affection, gratitude, appreciation and sad- As Bishop and Mrs. Newell stood for tion to the forces of evil. ness as the Rev. Dr. Lester Auman, com- the closing moments of the final Con- "I urge you not to seek the tropical pleted a long resolution of recognition at ference in the church where they had island type of escape," he declared. "I the close of the New York East Confer- spent their young years, the traditional urge you not to seek paradise in a pill ence and turned to the couple seated in hymn, "Blest Be the Tie That Binds," or to accept the nostalgic eyeglasses of the chancel and raised his hand in bene- coming from tight throats, was quieter those who always look back. But I call diction. than in other years—but conveyed deeper you to live your faith boldly. Be bigger He finally broke the silence with the meaning. than the age in which you live." traditional words that carried the feel- The next day, in his final sermon, Bishop Newell said it is impossible to ings of everyone in the sanctuary, "May Bishop Newell urged a bold approach to preach a little God in a growing world. Votes to Raise $1 Million Paterson. District leaders are William Seeker, Nils Stansen, Wesley Simpson The Newark Conference voted to raise and Clyde Fish. $1,050,000 in the next four years for The minimum salary of full-time min- church expansion, recruitment of minis- isters was raised from $4,200 to $4,400 ters and intensive work in cities. A goal annually and the annuity rate was in- of 30 ministerial creased to $60. recruits was set A Commission on the Inclusive Church each year for the was authorized to promote racial inte- next four years. gration in local congregations. A special session of Conference will Red China 'Contact 7 Urged be held next fall to make plans for The New York East Conference ad- raising and spend- vocated that the door to diplomatic con- ing the money. tact with the People's Republic of China District Superin- be left open. A resolution offered by tendent Robert the Rev. Loyd F. Worley quoted the Mr. Carson Goodwin, who Rev. Harold Bosley of Evanston, 111., on made the proposal, the importance of full representation of said that at least $600,000 is needed for nations in the United Nations and the church extension, and relocation, $200,- necessity for "diplomatic face-to-face en- 000 for city counters, exchange of visits by church- work and $250,000 for Bishop Lloyd C. Wic\e (left) is congratu- men, journalists and statesmen, open Methodist-related colleges and univer- and lated by retiring Bishop Frederick^ B. sities. channels of trade." Newell I right) jo/lowing his assignment Conference voted support Robert W. Carson of Little Falls was The of Dean at the Northeastern Jurisdictional Con- Nelson other elected Conference lay leader succeeding and faculty members at ference to the New Yorl{ Area succeeding Vanderbilt University who have resigned Paul Pitkin. He is managing editor of Bishop Wit ell The new area administra- over the Lawson incident; and petitioned Product Engineering magazine. New as- tor has been bishop of the Pittsburgh Area sociate lay leader is Douglas Gillespie of (Continued on page A-2) since elevation to the episcopacy in 1948. Leader Herald Photo Newark News Photo Troy Conference district superintendents named by Bishop Newell The Rev. Wallace G. Sorenson of Plainfield, N.f. (center) was are the Rev. Elmer Haley, left, to the Burlington District, and the named by Bishop Newell to succeed the Rev. Raymond E. Neff Rev. Hobart F. Goewey, right, to Glens Falls District. (left) as superintendent of Newark Conference's Eastern District. A-l . Stamford (Conn.) Church children break ground for new church. Scale model depicts Areola Church buildings oj the future. New Horizons tractor Martin Infante, the Rev. Mahlon Centenary Notes H. Smith, and Martin Infante, Jr. Model • In time for the rush of Troy Conference was constructed by Sulek. At the Warren 85th commencement, Dr. J. youngsters to Warrensburg, N.Y., for the Edgar Washabaugh, president of the summer camp program was the dedica- Board of China 'Contact' Urged Trustees, conferred degrees upon tion of the new dining hall at Skye Farm. Red 240 girls, the largest class in history. It seats 200 persons and was built at a (Continued from page A-l) Sixty-two students, including the Cen- cost of $37,000, including $9,000 for tenary Singers, are touring Europe this New Hampshire Judge George Grant, Jr., equipment. summer by chartered plane. for the release of Willard Uphaus from • Dover (N.J.) Methodists attended an prison. open house at the new parsonage of First A proposal to unite the New York and Dr. Ralph Emerson Davis of Morrow Church, Randolph Avenue and Lawrence New York East Conference was deferred Memorial Church, Maplewood, N.J., de- Street. A service of dedication preceded for a vear. livered the baccalaureate address on the reception. The Achievement of Poist • Looking toward a mortgage burning Troy Opposes Transfer ceremony on Mother's Day, 1963, St. Bet|lQny $tQrts New Wjng James Church, Lynnbrook, N.Y., has Strong opposition to the proposal by Municipal and hospital officials of New raised $35,000 toward the final $55,461 of the Northeastern Jurisdiction Boundaries York participated June 26 in ground- a $186,000 mortgage on its church school. Committee that Troy Conference be breaking ceremonies for the new $750,000 • After eight years, die parsonage at the shifted to the New York Area was ex- six-story wing to be constructed at Beth- Maybrook (N.Y.) Church is debt free. pressed at the Troy Annual Conference any Deaconess Hospital, 237 St. Nicholas in Gloversville, N.Y. The mortgage was burned by the trustees Avenue, Brooklyn. with the assistance of officers and The Conference approved the organi- WSCS The wing will add 47 beds and 22 the Rev. Lee H. Ball, pastor. A red zation of an Albany Inner City Ministry bassinets to the hospital's facilities. velvet communion table scarf pre- as a project of the Board of Missions. was The breaking of ground was part of a sented to she church by the choir. The Methodist Division of National Mis- month's celebration of Bethany's 68th sions will help subsidize the work with • The new $110,000 education building anniversary. Dr. Arthur P. Whitney was a $2,000 grant the first year, $1,000 the of the Succasunna (N.J.) Church was chairman assisted by Dr. Norman O. second year and $500 the third year. dedicated by the Rev. Edgar R. Schlueter Edwards, administrator, Edwin H. Muel- A net increase of 2,428 in membership assisted by District Superintendent Paul ler, president, Dr. Henry C. Whyman, was reported by the Rev. Howard M. Cullender and four former pastors. It the Rev. William C. Bennett, Miss Sally Hills, statistician. provides church-school facilities, a kitchen Niedhammer, R.N., and Edward Stack. Delegates voted support of a 100-unit and dining area, and an all-purpose room. • Dr. Edwards told the fund-raising housing facility for elderly persons sug- committee that one of the impressive • Church-school pupils helped break most (Continued on page A-3) gifts the hospital has received was $25 Uii Hind for the new Stamford (Conn.) from Mrs. Caroline Moore, 77-year-old Church and religious education unit at great-grandmother has worked at the Long Ridge and Cross Roads. Wielding Ability First for Bishops who hospital for 16 years. The money was an shovels in picture above at left are (1. to r.) The New York Conference petitioned accumulation of tips she received doing MYF President John Doane, Junior- the College of Bishops to make their housekeeper's work, caring for the aged, I ligh President Neil Jesperson, Robert assignments in the New York Area on and delivering food and newspapers to McDmigal of junior department, Linda the basis of ability without regard to patients. Pike of kindergarten and Nathaniel Dick- color. erson, Jr.. of primary department. It is The delegates also authorized a dele- scheduled for completion by March, 1961. AUGUST. I960 Vol. 4. No. 8 gation to make personal calls on the TOGETHER is an official organ of The Methodist • Ground has been broken for a $120,000 officials of two Delaware Conference Church, issued monthly by the Methodist publishing House. 740 N. Rush St., Chicago II. III. Publisher: addition to the Areola (N.J. Church. churches to invite them to join the Con- Lovick Pierce. The design is focused around a cloister ference. New York Area— Bishop Frederick B. Newell. Area Edition Editor— Mrs. Margaret F. Donaldson, or prayer garden and will include six The purchase of 48 acres of property 150 Fifth Avenue, New York II, N.Y. classrooms, auditorium, foyer, kitchen, near Camp Epworth, High Falls, N.Y., and lavatories. for $7,375 was authorized and a Con- Subscriptions: Order through your local Methodist church. Basic rate under All-Family Plan is 65C a Scale model of Areola Church buildings ference budget of $506,935 was approved, quarter ($2.60 a year) billed to the church. Individual subscriptions are $4 a year in advance. Single copy is examined in picture at right above by, an increase of $59,854 over last year. price, 50£, Second-Class postage has been paid at Chicago, III., om left, \rchitect John [watou, Con- (Continued on page A-3) and at additional mailing offices. A-2 Together August 1960 Une Short Circuit Summer Semester is the title of a series (N.J.) Church. (See story on page A-2.) of classes being held 6:30 to 7:00 a.m. The Rev. Thomas D. Walker, who on WCBS Channel 2, New York, by the has been serving for three years as pas- Radio-TV Department of the New Jersey tor of Warren Township (N.J.) Meth- State Council of odist Church, has retired after 52 years Churches. Partici- in the ministry. pating colleges are The Rev. Clara B. Spencer is the new Drew and Upsala. minister of educa- Dr. R. O. Hjelm tion in Morristown, of Upsala is teach- N.J. She holds ilJ£'£ ing Introduction to three degrees in- Mike Zwerllng Photo Biblical Thought, cluding her masters Mondays, Wednes- from Uni- Bet /nun Hospital President E. H. Mueller Temple days and Fridays; versity and has (left) displays architects s\etch of new and Dr. Stanley done graduate work wing to Brooklyn Borough President John Hopper of Drew, at Princeton, Clancy (right), Miss Sally Neidhammer, Bos- R elig i o n a n d and Dr. N. O. Edwards, administrator. Dr. Hopper ton, and Union Modern Literature Theological semi- Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. naries. She is an First Methodist Church, Plainfield, ordained minister Miss Spencer ^%e«A 7tecv& N.J., has agreed to pay one-fourth of the and served three support of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Emer- years minister of education in Glens son, missionaries to India. Falls, N.Y. • The Rev. Fred C. Heather, 1938 Mrs. Merritt B. Queen, wife of the The 166th anniversary of Mt. Zion graduate of the theological school heads pastor of the Pound Ridge (N.Y.) Methodist Church near Lincolndale, the Department of Civilian Chaplains for N.Y., Church, is author of a series of six articles was celebrated at a the Methodists Commission on Chaplains. Homecoming service starting in October for Music Ministry with the Rev. Richard S. Smith of York- • Drew University and Dr. Donald A. a monthly magazine for church musicians. town Heights as guest preacher. The Scott, head of the chemistry department, Carroll M. Shanks of Newark, N.J., church was one of the earliest founded received a grant of $6,250 from the is one of five lay members-at-large elected in that section and Francis Asbury spoke National Science Foundation for a sum- by the General Conference to the Gen- there in 1812. It has one member and mer chemical research program for un- eral Board of Lay Activities. one service is held each year. dergraduates. More than 200 persons turned out to Four more Area churches have joined • David R. Kingsley, Liberal Arts Col- honor the Rev. Mahlon H. Smith at a Together's All-Family Plan. They are lege junior, is participating in a YMCA surprise testimonial dinner upon comple- Ashland (N.Y.), Crarwille (N.Y.), Sparta Brotherhood project near Istanbul, Tur- tion of 10 years as pastor of the Areola (N.J.), and Valley Falls (N.Y.) key. Stutzman Named VP Troy Opposes Transfer Community Church, a Peru girl will ex- Vern in Stutzman. director of the change homes for a year with a girl (Continued from page A-2) Methodist Hospital of Brooklyn for six from Frankfort, Germany. years, is the new vice-president of the gested by the Rev. Dr. J. Edward Ca- An antique show plus a series of Greater New York Hospital Association. rothers. A committee of five will study money-making events to produce the Joseph R. Ferry, president of Board the proposal and report ways of financing $1,300 needed to finance the trips of both of Banagers, has announced that the $6 it and arranging to have it become self- girls. million goal for modernization has been liquidating. Miss Jacqueline Ladd has been chosen reached. The Conference reaffirmed its 1959 by the Peru Church to change places with stand on the advisability of recognizing Irene Schweimler of Frankfort. Red China. Charles Forster, adult adviser, and Miss Grace Ackley organized the antique show. Ability First for Bishops I Continued from page A-2) A report of the Board of Christian Social relations was approved which voiced "concern" that "the United States of America is losing its position of lead- ership and respect in the eyes of many of the peoples of the world." Meth- odists were urged to take definite stands in the light of Christian responsibility on nuclear test bans, Soviet proposals for disarmament, and the recognition of Red China. Glen Cote Mayor A. Suozzi, second Columbus r>i*patch Photo J. Friends Help Finance Trip from left,' gives scroll citing 175th birthday Arthur A. Schuc\, Summit (N.J.) Church of Carpenter Memorial Church to the Rev. Scout tal\s to the hard member and Chief Executive, Thanks work of 25 high- Wayne White. Others are W . Olsen (left), about Scouting with Vice-President Nixon. school members of the Peru (N.Y.) committee chairman; Dr. H. Whyman. August 1960\Together A-3 Many Get God and Country Awards During the past several weeks a number of churches in the New York Area have .warded God and Country medals to their Boy Scouts. Asbury Church at Tuckahoe set something of a record when it presented the award to a class of 14 Scouts. This is believed to have been the largest group of Scouts ever to receive the award in Westchester County. Shown in the five pictures below are some of the award winners: 1. The Rev. Harold Vin\ presents New Milford (Conn.) Church's first God and Country Award to Scouts Edwin Murphy (center) and Glen Smith of Troop No. 77. (Macy-West Chester Newspapers) 2. The Rev. Royal B. Fishbac/{, Jr., of Forest Avenue Church, Amsterdam, presents that church's first God and Country Award to Roy Delarm, Jr., Michael Green and Doug/as Harmon as Scoutmaster Arthur Hartig watches. 3. Star Scout David R. Shaffer, the Rev. Winston A. Saunders, and Eagle Scout LeRoy Steenburgh pose after ceremony at North Main Street Church, Gloversville, N.Y. 4. Scout Herbert Nash Chec\ was the first to get the honor at Hudson Falls, N.Y., from the Rev. Donald R. Lewis. His mother, Mrs. Mina Chee\ (left) and Scout leaders Robert Latham and Emerson Colvin loo\ on. (Press Star Photo) 5. This group made history in Weschester county when they received the medal Dr. and Mrs. .1. H. Brown, retiring after from the Rev. Barber L. Waters at Asbury Church, Tuckahoe. 23 years at Ridgcwood, N.J., enjoy boo\ of testimonial letters at farewell party. Participating in dedication of $1.4 million White Plains Memorial Church from left: the Rev. F. R. Dail, associate; Dr. E. B. Bostocl{, dist. Supt.; C. R. Velzy, building committee chairman; Bishop Newell, and the Rev. W. L. Scranton, senior pastor. I v " lr Publicity Photographers Model for I960 Brooklyn Methodist Hos- pital Christmas Appeal Poster is an attrac- tive Student Nurse, Miss Lynn Thomp- son, whose home is in Valley Stream, N.Y. A-4 Together /August 1960 Who's John Lowanse rooting for in this battle? For the answer, note his headdress. made sausage. To feed last year's crowd of 4,500 required 35 gallons of buckwheat dough and 186 pounds of sau- sage, not to mention 270 pies, 82 cakes, and 138 dozen hot dogs. 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