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at the Protestant-Orthodox pavilion of the New York World's Fair.

THE PARABLE

By WILLIAM F. FORE, Executive Director, broadcasting and Tilm Commission, National Council of Churches

V,ISITORS TO THE Protestant and Orthodox Cen- is that Parable, or any film, was made at all. Its acclaim ter at the New York World's Fair come away from the by Newsweek as "possibly one of the best films at the showings of an extraordinary motion picture with a fair" is an evaluation not only of the film but also of wide variety of reactions. the Protestant church. Thus, Parable, at the very least,

Seen in the perspective of the fair, Parable is really proclaims that Protestantism can use a contemporarv three different things: a film, a representation of art form, and can draw a crowd with a film which asks Protestantism, and a message. relevant and thought-provoking questions.

As a film, it is a unification of sound and picture Finally, Parable is a message. Here it is less success- in motion instead of the usual illustrated slide lecture ful. If a parable is "a short fictitious narrative from (with the emphasis on lecture) produced by most which a moral or spiritual truth is drawn" then this

church groups. Parable is not so much a parable as a film Rorschach One of the remarkable things about Parable is that, test, in which every viewer is invited to read into it except for a brief prologue, no words are spoken. In his own conclusions. an allegorical setting where words would lose their Is Clown the Christ figure? Perhaps for many. But I meaning and easily might become counterfeit, the re- many others would say that to be called a Christ figure

lationships between Clown and the Water Carrier, the is the dutv of everv Christian. However, here is a

Girl, Magnus, and the rest are refreshingly personal fundamental flaw, for Clown is too meek and mild, and direct. No claims of the sponsor intervene to spoil too simpleminded, too otherworldly, too intent on get- the human encounter. ting himself killed, whereas the Jesus Christ of history

We are free to enjoy the visual images, and they are engaged his world, knew it. grappled with it. was

dramatic and full of impact—the kind one plays and killed bv it, vet overcame it. replays in his mind long after the film itself is dim Who killed Clown? Obviously it was those for whom memory. Examples: the circus parade; the appearance Clown, in his simple honesty, posed a serious threat to

of Clown, with an all-white face which is not alto- their way of life and thinking. But here is another flaw. gether clownlike; Magnus seated in his magnificent for the nature of that thinking and that way of life is red chair, manipulating the strings of a human Punch- not always made clear. and-Judy show; the face and cry of Clown as he is Could thev reallv have killed Clown in the main killed; Clown at the top of the circus tent, arms out- tent? Of course not. but neither would a circus parade stretched in death. These images mix with the wild really take place on an isolated countrv road. And who

and sometimes discordant circus music in a cinematic is riding that donkev in the parade at the film's end? experience one cannot easily forget. Clown? Magnus?

As a symbol of Protestantism, Parable is moderately No, this is not just a parable, it is a fantasy and an successful, especially when one considers alternatives. allegory as well. And. as in every allegory, you cannot What could quickly and interestingly summarize what push the comparisons too far without betraying the Protestant groups stand for—groups as diverse as the truths of comparison.

Salvation Army, Episcopalians, Methodists? If "the Though its theology is shaky or at least unclear. simple Gospel storyi' then whose interpretation? If Parable contains moments of insight and poses search-

"basic Bible truths" then whose selection? ing personal questions. It is, certainly, an exciting Amid the inevitable confusion surrounding develop- film—and a better representation of Protestantism, with

ment of the Protestant exhibit for the fair, the miracle all its diversities, than we had a right to expect.

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. Clown, first seen riding a donkey behind the circus parade, mazes the weary Water Carrier by picking up his heavy pails and struggling p a steep slope with them to water the thirsty elephants.

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2. Clown, followed by the Carrier and a Girl and a Negro he has liberated from indignities, cleans the children's shoes, interrupting the main show.

. Beside himself with fury, Magnus the Great violently jerks le strings that control his human puppets. They gyrate helplessly at the top f the circus tent in his cruel, living Punch-and-Judy Show.

. Clown, having released the living puppets and taken their place, angs in the harness. Now he is helpless against the attacks of men whose •ay of life he has threatened. Instinctively, they kill him.

5. Again the parade passes. Behind

it trots a donkey, bearing a clown. Is it Clown come back to life? Or Magnus, who has put on Clown's makeup? —

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The News: A little more than 19 months remain Background: Serious negotiations looking toward before November, 1966, when General Conferences union of the 760,000 EUBs and 10,300,000 Method- of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and The ists began in 1958, although the two denominations Methodist Church will meet in Chicago to consider have been regarded as first cousins since the days taking the first major step toward union of their of their common early history in 18th-century denominations. The General Conferences, highest Pennsylvania. EUB and Methodist governing bodies, will be asked One of the EUB Church's founders, Philip William to adopt a Constitution for the proposed united Otterbein, was among those who laid hands on the church. Delegates also will have the first draft of head of his friend Francis Asbury at Asbury's con- a proposed Discipline for study. secration as first bishop of U.S. Methodism. And Much remains to be done before November, 1966. for a short time in its early history, the EUB branch But much already has been done. Few members of headed by Jacob Albright was called the Newly either denomination are even vaguely aware of the Formed Methodist Conference. It was primarily a countless hours spent and thousands of miles traveled language barrier which kept them from uniting by a team of some 100 negotiators who now are their work at the beginning. (The early EUBs spoke writing the document which will be proposed as the German as their mother tongue, while Asbury in- Discipline for a new 11 -million-member denomina- sisted on English as the language of his congrega- tion. Four important divisions of the book already tions.) are in draft form; 13 more will be written by Doctrinally, the followers of Asbury, Otterbein, September. and Albright throughout their history have shared Already prepared, though subject to further re- beliefs of the Wesleyan tradition, and their patterns finement, is the brief (17 pages) Constitution. If of church organization always have been similar. the Constitution is approved by the General Con- Just as The Methodist Church today represents ferences in 1966, it will then be presented to the the 1939 reunification of three former branches,

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9f-S\ Together of two commissions appointed by the ten on our hearts and our minds." with other Canadian denomination parent General Conferences. Common- rather than joining their U.S. brethrer ly, the two bodies refer to themselves Three Levels: Negotiations at the in union with U.S. Methodists. as the Joint Commissions on Method- general church level, of course, are A new co-operative venture betweer ist-EUB Union. Dr. Charles C. Parlin only the essential steps by which EUBs and Methodists is in Indonesia serves as secretary for the Methodist Methodists and EUBs can achieve where two EUB missionary couple; commission and Dr. Paul A. Wash- organizational union. But genuine are at work in an evangelistic missior burn is executive director of the EUB unity must come at the levels of an- to the Karo Batak Church, support© group. Coeditors who will handle nual conferences and local congre- by the Methodist Board of Missions. editorial preparation of the new gations. Discipline are Dr. Emory S. Bucke Even in advance of the 1966 Optimism —With Caution: As wort (Methodist) and Dr. Curtis A. Cham- General Conferences in Chicago, a of the Joint Commissions on Unior bers (EUB). surprisingly large number of local has moved forward in recent months Thirty-seven persons make up the Methodist and EUB churches already a mood of cautious optimism has actual commissions memberships, but are expressing the desire for closer grown. Sortie problems which earliei an additional 90 church leaders are relationships. A recent survey con- loomed large seem to have diminished assisting in the work of formulating ducted for the Joint Commissions in size and importance. Still remain and writing the new Discipline. They shows that Methodists and EUBs in ing, however, is the problem ol are grouped into 17 working commit- 90 different U.S. communities have disparate size between the twe tees to deal with various subjects: taken steps to tie themselves closer churches. Methodists outnumbei missions, education, publishing, hospi- together. EUBs by more than 13 to 1. Some tals and homes, judicial administration, In some cases, two or more con- EUBs have voiced concern that theii and others. The committees prepare gregations have joined in yoked church would be "swallowed up" in preliminary drafts for final decisions fellowships with one pastor, either union. A system of proportionate by the commissions meeting in joint Methodist or EUB, serving separate representation is proposed to assure session. (The next meeting is sched- congregations of both denominations. a voice for the EUB minority in the uled for September 8 to 11.) The In other localities, federated churches united General Conference and on completed Discipline draft is tenta- have been organized with two con- churchwide boards and agencies dur- tively planned for publication August gregations supporting one pastor, ing early years of union.

1, 1966. using one church building, yet retain- Perhaps the most difficult issue fac- The simultaneous meetings of the ing relationships with both Methodist ing the Joint Commissions is one raised two General Conferences in 1966 will and EUB annual conferences. In still by the Methodist General Conference take place in Chicago's mammoth other places, complete union of local of 1964 in its approval of the so-calleci Conrad Hilton Hotel. The 500 EUB churches has taken place with the Kirk Amendment (offered by W. Astoi delegates, meeting from November 8 members of one denomination chang- Kirk, reserve delegate of the West to 17, will conduct a regular quad- ing their membership to the other. Texas Conference, Central Jurisdic rennial session. For the 850 Methodist The prospect that additional unions of tion). In this measure, the Methodist delegates, however, it will be an un- these kinds can be worked out is seen body recorded its judgment that th( usual special session, the first ever by many leaders as a strong factor in racially segregated Central Jurisdictior called, lasting only three or four days favor of unifying the two bodies. of Methodism should not be includec and dealing specifically with the At the mid-level between General in plans for the united Methodist-EUE church-union question. It is expected Conferences and local churches, how- denomination. Accordingly, writers ol to start November 9. ever, fewer working relationships have the new Discipline have made nc The four completed reports pre- been developed between annual con- provision for the Central Jurisdiction'; sented to the Joint Commissions' most ferences and their agencies. At their continuation. recent meeting in March were those March meeting, the Joint Commissions Clearly, however, mere exclusion dealing with conferences, administra- encouraged more such activity of co- of tire words "Central Jurisdiction" tive agencies, evangelism, and hos- operation and negotiation. from the written document will not pitals and homes. A partial report Negotiators have agreed that EUB eliminate the racially segregated pat- from the committee on judicial admin- and Methodist annual conferences tern of church organization where it istration also was in written form. serving the same geographic areas still exists within Methodism. (The Reporting to the commissions on would have 12 years after union to EUB Church has no such segregated work of the 17 committees, EUB work out their own unification. By structure and. in fact, has few Negro Executive Director Washburn pointed then, it is hoped that no overlapping members.) out that the committees are striving conferences would continue to exist. Negotiators so far are unable to to write into the Discipline the kind foresee how tliis question will be re- of general enabling legislation which Outside the U.S.: Interestingly, solved. A report on progress toward will give it needed flexibility to be progress toward union is moving more elimination of the Central Jurisdiction used in working out details of union rapidly in Germany than in the United is included on the agenda for the in all areas. There will bo a minimum States. Both denominations have special 1966 Methodist General Con of references to the two former do- vigorous, though numerically small Ference, and an important decision nominations and few detailed direc- churches which grew from missionary relating to the question is expected tives of "What the Methodists will get activity starting about 1S45. Leaders this year from die Methodist Judicial and what the EUBs will get" in the of the two groups have formed their Council. Whether that decision will union. own committee to prepare for union. help to setde old issues or raise new Dr. Washburn urged that the A different situation exists in ones is not known. Discipline be regarded as a covenant Canada, where Methodists became a by which Christians live together and part of the United Chinch of Canada Significance: On both sides, mem- treat each other in justice and love in 1925. EUBs, on the other hand. bers of the Joint Commissions agree through patterns of order. The have two annual conferences with that a strong spirit of co-operation has Discipline is a document which will nearly 14,000 members in five characterized sessions of all the work- be written on paper, he said, "but Canadian provinces. Presently they ing committees. Dr. Washburn recalled it will take longer to get it writ- are weighing the possibilities of union the comment of Dr. Ernest C. Colwell, First Time in One America's 28 Album! Favorite Hymns

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Bishop How did a half-dead man pet out of Goodson presented to the and immoral—immoral because the injunction lave clothes, leaving them neatly Alabama governor "as strong a repre- subverted rather than sup- sentation as I know in ported the cause of freedom. riled on the floor, roll away a huge how my own human as in I in this act, dif- tone, and walk the same day to Em- behalf, as well the church's, my ... believe that so naus and return to Jerusalem? Where disapproval of the Sunday afternoon ficult for many to accept or under- episode." The bishop said the gov- stand, freedom was reborn within our lid Jesus live from then on? Why did expressed his regrets. nation." leither the Jews nor the Romans dis- ernor own deep over the deception? What happened They discussed human relations at Bishop Lord was one of 16 leaders hmi during the rest of his life? length, he said, and prayed together chosen to represent the rally and talk before parting. with President Johnson the same Later, Bishop Goodson and Bir- morning. After the two-hour confer- \ Sunday of Strife in mingham Area district superintendents ence, the bishop said he felt confi- telma and Its Aftermath issued a six-point statement urging dence in the President's leadership Less than 48 hours after racial vio- reason and restraint in thought, word, and that his proposed voting-rights ence erupted in Selma, Ala., on Sun- and action. They solicited "the prayer- legislation would "sustain the highest la}. March 7, 500 clergymen of every ful concern of all people of goodwill hopes of those who went to Selma." aith arrived on the scene. . . . that just establishment of the Acting on orders by Gov. George rights and privileges of all Alabamians Catholic-Stronghold Chicago 1 Wallace, state police had used may prevail." Adopts Birth-Control Plan lightsticks and tear gas to disperse One point in the statement voiced Chicago, which Carl Sandburg •ivil rights demonstrators intending to regret for "the entrance into Alabama narch 50 miles to Montgomery', the of many clergymen and others whose called hog-butcher for the world and tate capital. Eighty persons were concern we do not impugn but whose the nation's freight-handler, is also the citadel of American Catholicism the Hurt. strategy we seriously question, as we — The clergymen joined a second feel that many ameliorating efforts of seat of the largest U.S. archdiocese. narch protesting voter registration in- native churchmen, both lay and clergy, But here the nation's first extensive >quities, led by Dr. Martin Luther will be greatly handicapped by this city-sponsored birth-control program begins in six clinics this spring. Cing, Jr. It was peacefully turned tactic." xick after the mile-long column of Back in Washington, Bishop Lord Chicago's board of health has ap- 1,500 marchers knelt on U.S. High- was a key figure at a National Coun- proved a pilot plan for free birth- vay 80 to pray. cil of Churches' rally which drew an control information, assistance, and Methodist Bishop John Wesley estimated 5,000 persons. He paid pills to qualified candidates. L,ord of Washington, D.C., was among tribute to the Rev. James Reeb, the The program will not be limited he demonstrators, seeking, he said, Unitarian minister slain at Selma, to married persons, those above a 'to redress the grievances suffered by called for President Johnson to visit certain age, or those on relief, says Negroes in the violence and brutality, the troubled city to restore lost con- Dr. Eric Oldberg, board president. lot only to defend the freedom of the fidence and increase hope in the fu- Any woman who qualifies for "health Megro in Selma but of all men every- ture, and defended defiance of the reasons" will be eligible. And health where." He came not on specific in- federal court order restraining the reasons,, explains Dr. Oldberg, will vitation, he said, but in response to march in which he took part. include not only medical reasons but Dr. King's general plea. He said the injunction issued by social factors as well. The same day Bishop Lord and the a federal district judge represented a Mayor Richard J. Daley's accept- cither marchers crossed the Selma denial of the right of peaceable assem- ance of the program reverses his bridge, Bishop W. Kenneth Goodson bly for the redress of grievance guaran- earlier opposition to birth-control of Methodism's Birmingham Area met teed by the Constitution. He said the services in city clinics. One Chicago with Gov. Wallace, himself a Meth- injunction "was declared by the dem- news columnist noted that the Mayor odist, for more than an hour. onstrators to be both unconstitutional "must have wrestled not onlv with

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the facts of the case for family plan- ning but also with his own strong Roman Catholic religious conscience." Mayor Daley's about-face was doubtless influenced by many factors, among them Chicago's galloping population rate, especially among the poor, and the fact that federal funds are now available for family-planning projects. Moreover, recent opinion polls in Chicago show that people of all faiths, Roman Catholics included, overwhelmingly favor birth-control services. The mayor described the new pro- gram as "an attempt to try to bring about some recognition of the problem from a health standpoint." The board These are the of health's resolution stated it "does streets Jesus trod, not intend to engage in any discussions or controversies having to do with nearly 2,000 race, religion, or tax questions." On the state level, the Illinois Birth- years ago. Control Commission appointed by Top: a portion entry mall, with Gov. Otto Kemer in 1963 presented of housing units at left, of award-winning its program. Said to require no legisla- See them while Wesley Manor Retirement Village tion, it, like the Chicago plan, calls near Jacksonville, Fla. Below: aerial they're still the for birth-control services for married and unmarried women. view of Blanton Gardens, Dallas, way they were. Texas Methodist retirement project, that also took a top design award in Seek 18 for Task Force Everything's the same. The valley the 1964 FHA design awards program. near Nablus where the Lord spoke to To pioneer three years of medical, Abraham. Mount Nebo from which educational, and social projects in Moses first saw the Promised Land. Methodist rural and urban communities of Brazil Homes Honored The Via Dolorosa where Jesus trod Two Methodist retirement homes laden down with his cross. The Garden and Bolivia, the Methodist Board of of Gethsemane. The Mount of Olives. Missions is recruiting 18 young men recently received honor awards in the Nazareth. It may be that the Holy and women college graduates as a Federal Housing Administration's De- Lands will change soon. But it hasn't Latin American task force. sign Awards Program. happened yet. Wesley Manor Retirement Village. There isn't anywhere on earth his- It is hoped that at least six Negroes torically as important as this small will be included. Though demand for 266-unit housing project near Jackson- pocket of land. You can spend seven- Negro missionaries overseas is increas- ville, Fla.. and Blanton Gardens, 105- teen days there on a remarkable new ing, applicants are few. unit project in Dallas, Texas, were BOAC tour; visit Lebanon, Syria, Positions are open for teachers, among 9 entries to receive top honors Egypt, Jordan and Israel. j We think the cost is exceptionally public-health nurses, social workers, out of nearly 200 submitted. reasonable. The entire tour (and this agriculturists, bookkeepers, and pas- includes all transportation, hotels and tors. The group will begin extensive meals) comes to just $1095, from New Bicentennial Plans Underway language and area study on June 14. York. (Based on 14/21-day midweek Plans are being developed for a economy fare and double occupancy in This is the second task force set up four-day church-wide meeting in Bal- hotels.) by the board. Last year, 16 young, Eighteen departures are scheduled timore. Md.. next year in connection single men began training for emer- from now to November, 1965. See your with the bicentennial celebration of gency sen ice in the Congo. They now Travel Agent or mail the coupon and the beginnings of the Methodist move- we'll send you a 'detailed brochure. are completing a year's language study ment. in Brussels, Belgium, and will leave British Overseas Airways Corporation Bishop Paul N. Garber of Raleigh. for the Congo in June. Dept. A-250B N.C., is chairman of a general com- 530 Fifth Avenue As a mobile missionary force, they mittee which is planning the April York, N. 10036 • 7-1(500 New Y. MU will serve in tense and difficult situa- Please send me your brochure on the 21-24 meeting in 1966. tions where regular missionaries might Holy Land Tours. Sessions will he held in the Balti- not be assigned. NAME more chic auditorium with probably one session scheduled for historic STHF.F.T Former Board Member Dies Lovely Lane Methodist Church. CITY STATE Dr. Karl P. Meister, 78, former Bishop John Wesley Lord of Washi ziprnnrc PHflNE head of the Methodist Board of Hos- ington, D.C., heads the program com- MY TKAVF.1. ACF.NT IS pitals and Homes, died February 10 mittee, with Dr. Frederick E. Maser in Elyria, Ohio, after suffering a heart of Philadelphia. 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Historical Society, is chairman of a Va.; Dr. Homer J. R. Elford, Youngs- committee in charge of local arrange- town, Ohio; and layman Raymond W ments. Miller, Washington, D.C. The 1964 Methodist General Con- • Editorials and articles—Luther A ference, recalling the centennial in Smith, Hattiesburg, Miss.; Troy Hoi 1866, authorized the 1966 bicenten- liday, Chalybeate, Miss.; and Fret nial observance and passed further Cloud, N3shville, Tenn. resolutions supporting the celebration. • Drama—the Rev. Emest K. Emu The Association of Methodist His- rian, Arlington, Va. torical Societies is being joined by Goodwill Industries received ar

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Toaett role )f the basic ol the church In so 7967 World Exhibition Will ( lanadian bishops ol the church. ;iety. Have One Christian Pavilion The Rev . John Martu< ci se< retar Regarding the seventh listed sub- genera] <>l die Christian pavilion s.i\s Seven let, the commission plans to ask two Protestant, Roman Catholic, the pa\ ilion will not he di\ ided into ethodist seminary professors to write and Greek Orthodox churches in several booths belonging to the diffei omprehensive papers dealing with Canada have agreed to lieu .i com cut denominations, and the churches he theological aspects of church-state mon witness to Christ at the L987 "will preach not about themselves but iroblems. Members of the task forces World Exhibition to be held in Mon- Christ. Sharing the same faith, the nil begin work on the other six areas treal. same hope and the same charity, they if study as soon as possible and pre- Signing an unprecedented agree- want to bear a common witness to ent reports at the next full commis- ment to build and share a common Christ and his Gospel," he said. ion meeting October 14-15 in Wash- pavilion at the fair are the Anglican, Precise cost of the pavilion has not ngton, D.C. United Church of Canada. Presby- been determined, but it is expected The importance of the new com- terian, Baptist, Lutheran, Roman to be less than the S7 million spent nission's work is pointed up by the Catholic, and Greek Orthodox for the Vatican Pavilion and $3.5 Kt that Methodists, unlike other churches. Participation in the joint million for the Protestant-Orthodox lajor denominations, have neither of- venture by the Roman Catholics has Center at the New York World's Fair ciallv adopted guidelines nor author- the approval of the Vatican and still in progress. ed persons to speak for their church /hen government programs are in the arly stages of formation.

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'.a., was elected to the Board of Mis- ions Joint Commission on Education nd Cultivation with primary responsi- ility of editing the annual program ook of the Woman's Society of Chris- -- ian Service.

Mrs. Porter Brown, general secre- ary of the Methodist Board of Mis- ions, New York, and Bishop Prince l. Taylor, Jr., of the New Jersey jea have become members of the oard of directors of Religion in Amer- ;an Life, Inc.

Theodore M. Berry, Cincinnati, The )hio, a member of the church's Ju- icial Council, was named director of GEORGE STEVENS ommunity action programs in the Production sderal antipoverty effort.

Franklin C. Thomas, former Illinois THE richer and Methodist layman, re- amed to the United States after three GREATEST ears in Pakistan as the church's edu- ational advisor engaged in improving STORY nd expanding the Methodist educa- ional system there. EVER Dr. Orville H. McKay, pastor of the 'irst Methodist Church, Midland, TOLD /lich., named president of the 110- ear-old Garrett Theological Seminary Released by i Evanston, 111. He succeeds Dr. UNITED ARTISTS Xvight E. Loder who was elected a CINERAMA lishop in The Methodist Church in 964 and now heads the Michigan MAX VON SYDOW • MICHAEL ANDERSON, Jr • CARROLL BAKER • INA BALIN • PAT BOONE VICTOR BUONO • RICHARD CONTE brea.

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A FRONTIER for Today

A-.T THE END of January, two members of our Methodists among the city's population of 780,000. editorial stall returned from assignments on the But ignoring problems won't avoid them. As West ("oast minus the usual signs of travel fatigue. Robert Lee says in The Cfmrcli and the Exploding ". Instead, they were excited. As they put it, "We saw Metropolis, . . there is no corner of the nation

the growing edge of Christianity." where the city's tower does not cast its shadow, no

Two of the stories they covered are reported on person who is not in some way influenced by the the following eight pages. The first concerns the modem metropolis. A religion that does not take freewheeling program of the Glide Urban Center seriously urban civilization—the focal point of in San Francisco. Though its roots are deeply economic and social organization—is surely one and distinctively Methodist, the center avoids con- that weakens itself. The place of religion should

ventional programs. Instead, it pinpoints problems be at the heart of the city . . . precisely in the usually dodged by the churches, decides what turmoil and turbulence, in the joys and frustrations 1 churchmen can do, and starts doing it. In main of the modern metropolis."

cases, the results are both controversial and unpre- This thinking is foreign to those many of us reared dictable. But there are results. in rural or small-town America. We don't under- The second report describes a rehabilitation center stand the city, much less know how to grapple with for recuperating mental patients. Conceived by Glide its problems. Ours has been a religion of the open

staff members, it now is geared into the San Fran- country, of the pasture, mountain, and sunset. And

cisco United Methodist Mission and is sponsored by yet, to concede that religion shrivels and dies in the

Park Presidio Church. Here again, a need that had asphalt jungle is to admit that our faith is out of

long existed is being met. The church is coping with date, that it will fade to obscurity in the rush of real problems. urbanization. This we cannot do.

We Methodists always have been frontier minded. "Metropolitan society must be taken for what it For John Wesley, our founder, the frontier was out- is," declares Robert Spike. "It must be seen as the side the walls of 18th-century England's too-respec- creation of God for these times; and the response of

table churches. Wesley went into the streets, the the Christian is to be involved in its life, to participate

jails, the mines, and the fields to carry the good news in its awkward inconsistencies, even to accept its

of the Gospel to the common people mashed under- dehumanizing effects for the sake of strategy in its

foot at the start of the industrial revolution. development. That is, to risk the terrible danger

When Methodism jumped the Atlantic, it didn't of being swallowed up by a secular culture, out of dig in comfortably on the eastern seaboard. Circuit the faith that such risks are of the essence of the riders pressed westward, to the farthest reaches of Gospel commandment." 1 the frontier. There were the people who needed the Don't misunderstand. Methodists are doing excit- church most. And when the West was won, Meth- ing things in many cities. We are equipped by odists looked elsewhere—and found still another tradition, fervor, and organization as are few church frontier in mission lands on other continents. bodies to make a mark on urban culture. But the old

Today, even the missions frontier is diminishing. ways of work and witness will not do. Radical

Missionaries still are needed overseas, but today changes are a must.

they usually are helpers rather than trailbreakers. What should we be doing? The list is endless,

Where is the frontier for this age? Where can the yet incomplete. But each of us has a responsibility church lead and serve—as it must to live? to be aware, to be informed, to be concerned. Out That place, that frontier for today, is in our of this, surely, will come new relevance and vitality

cities. At the turn of the 20th century, the United for our churches, and new forms of witness and

States was 64 percent rural; by 1950, it had become mission in the city. Only in this way, on this new 64 percent urban. Clearly, in the city lies the future frontier, can we avoid that about which Wesley of American civilization. There, too, lies the future warned 200 years ago: of the churches. "I am not afraid that the people called Method- And yet, for all our frontier orientation, we Meth- ists should ever cease to exist, either in Europe or odists typically have ignored this frontier at our America. But I am afraid lest they should exist only very doorstep. Instead of staying in the changing as a dead sect, having the form of religion without city, many congregations have moved to the com- power." fortable isolation of the suburbs. In the city of The Bible begins in a garden and ends in a San Francisco, for example, there are only 6,000 city—and yet in both places God made known his plan for men. This is our calling today as Christians

1 From The Church and the Exploding Metropolis, edited by on the frontier of the city. For the city is people. Robert Lee, -published by John Knox Press ($1.50, paper). Copy- right © 1965 by M. E. Bratcher. Used by permission. —Editors —Your Editors

.-lay 1965\Together 13 A team of Methodist ministers from Glide Urban Center is bombarding

San Francisco with new ideas lor Christian witness. The result often is controversy,

for they insist that the church belongs among the untouchables. the City—

The Rev. Ted Mcllvenna (right) helps to plan defense for four people arrested during a fund-raising venture for the Glide-initiated Council on Religion and the Homosexual.

T,HE HEART OF Glide Urban Center is a small idea-happy team of Methodist ministers whose baa

of operations is San Francisco and whose work is near ly impossible to categorize or explain. Like the blinc men around the elephant, most people can describe Glide only in terms of the piece they have had contac with. And diis just docs not begin to tell die full story Financed by die Methodist-related Glide Fonnda tion and backed by a board of trustees that include.' Bishop Donald H. Tippett and many leading laymcr of Methodism's California-Nevada Conference, Glide Urban Center has one goal: to find ways churchmer can have an impact on city problems. The three-year-old center is directed by the Rex- Lewis E. Durham, whom District Superintendent D

Clifford Crummey describes as "a man sitting on i pile of firecrackers, gaily lighting matches." The results arc exciting new concepts—and oc- The lice. Cecil Williams (left) leads a group casional uneasy moments. to city hall with plans for an antipoverty program One example of Glide's willingness to break new that would be directed and staffed by the poor. ground is its involvement in die controversial Conner "Let's let them try." he argues. "The pros on Religion and the Homosexual. In facing the facti have made the mistakes long enough." of die city, Glide found diat it could not ignore

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The "political congregation," meeting in homes, "Great art is related to religion, yet we've is studying tJie power structure in San Francisco. abandoned the artist," says Harold Ehrcnsperger (left), Says the Rev. Donald Kuhn (gesturing above): showing plans for an interdenominational arts center "This is a future form of the church." to Glide's director, the Rev. Lewis Durham.

homosexuals. Estimates are difficult, for the known cident "one of San Francisco's most offensive incidents homosexuals are only the top of an iceberg—but of police harassment of unpopular groups," defended there are thought to be 50,000, perhaps more, in San three lawyers and a woman ticket taker who were Francisco alone. The vast majority live quietly in charged with interfering widi police. A judge later hopes that they will not be noticed. But they teeter ordered a "not guilty" verdict on a technicality constantly on the edge of severe problems—ranging leaving many of the basic civil rights issues unresolved. from job insecurity and blackmail to alienation from Said the News-Call Bulletin: "San Francisco's silent the rest of society. war on homosexuals is being forced into the open." A year ago Glide Urban Center sponsored a retreat To those who claim the church does not belong in for churchmen and homosexuals. Conversation bore such activities, the Rev. Ted Mcllvenna of the Glide out the suspicion that homosexuals generally feel es- staff responds: tranged from the church. They call Christianity's "If we look to Jesus, we see that he was in the world traditional attitude "a conspiracy of silence." on business. That business was not to acquire for As a result of that retreat, the Council on Religion himself a great name and the worship of men. It was and the Homosexual—including Methodist, Episcopal, to release, empower, and give divine sanction to the Lutheran, and United Church of Christ ministers as impulse of human sympathy, human concern, and members—was formed to promote communication and human kindness. The business of Jesus is the business to work on homosexuals' problems. Early this year, of the church—and the mission of the church is off- the council sponsored a fund-raising ball in downtown center until it gets this clear." San Francisco, and some 600 people attended. Despite Though initiated by Glide, the council has a major- advance negotiations at city hall, police raided the ity of homosexuals on its board of directors. With ball, made arrests, and photographed participants. typical courage, Glide helped launch an independent The American Civil Liberties Union, calling the in- organization in which it retains a close interest but

May 1965\Together 15 in which its control is limited to the persuasiveness of two staff members who serve on the board. As a result, critics say it has a tiger by the tail. And the men from Glide reply: a Christian life, fully lived, is always dangerous. Because the pressing problems of the city are central to its mission, Glide Urban Center also has become deeply involved in the racial crisis. Staff members have been out on picket lines, but most of their work is done quietly at the grass roots. Freedom House, a cold storefront in die crowded Fillmore district, is run by a handful of young people trying to organize the area's have-not residents so they can fight their own battles. "To a great degree, the poor have no spokesmen," says the Rev. Cecil Williams of Glide Urban Center, who functions as an unpaid staff member at Freedom House. For the most part ignoring the church because they feel it has ignored them, Freedom House workers are fighting greedy landlords, ignorance, poverty, and massive redevelopment ("Where are we going to link move—Nob Hill?" ) . Mr. Williams functions as the between secular society and the church.

Glide also is at work in other areas of racial unrest. "I sense in the city more hatred toward whites than I ever have before," says Mr. Williams. He has de- leaders the tactics veloped plans to teach teen-age gang Glide Foundation and church stand in the polyglot squads" of nonviolence, and mobilize them into "peace Tenderloin district, where $l-a-night hotels hide as to violence. a buffer summer in the shadoivs of a new Hilton and where pensioners Across San Francisco Bay, in an entirely different and patricians pass but do not meet. atmosphere, a Glide-sponsored minister is at work on the University of California campus. The Rev. Walt Herbert, who is a part of both die Wesley Founda- tion and Glide Urban Center staffs, arrived in Berke- intern program, goes on without fanfare. Interns are ley in September, 1963, to begin an experimental min- subsidized by Glide while they spend a year in San istry to graduate students. "Listening was my major Francisco, working with churches. Most are promising activity the first year," he says. "I was trying to find die seminary students whom Glide would like to interest points at which people were in real dialogue. To my in inner-city pastorates. But some arc laymen. In shock and dismay, I found there weren't many." September, for example, tiiey hope to enlist a field- worker from die Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee, and a gang leader. LAST fall, when the Free Speech Movement erupted Glide projects often grow and change until the on die Berkeley campus, Mr. Herbert dropped most of original idea is barely recognizable. Precarious Vision his plans and responded to the needs of the hour. Coffeehouse, for example, was started as a place where Throughout the demonstrations and negotiations, he young adults with widely diverging points of view has been an unofficial liaison between FSM and the could find a forum—Fascists, Communists, Blaek administration. Although he criticizes the FSM when Muslims, anybody. The Freedom Theater rehearsed he thinks it is off base, his sympathies have never been there before leaving for Mississippi. Slowly, however, in doubt, and he organized the support of 15 Protes- it became a neighborhood club. tant, Catholic, and Jewish leaders for die student Soon it will change again, for it is getting a new protest. home in Intersection, a center for the arts sponsored He says of his early contacts with FSM leaders: by Methodists, Presbyterians, and the United Church "I began to realize that they were talking about diings of Christ. Besides the coffeehouse, an art gallery and and were sensitive to things I'd been talking about a theater are among the facilities to be included. since" I got here—and I was floored!" The idea: to provide a place where artists and laymen When he works in a secular context, he does not can come to understand each other. preach—but he says what is on his mind without "Young artists can find in this kind of a place a qualms. Fast summer he mimeographed 38 pages chance to speak," says Dr. Harold Ehrensperger, who "about what causes me to say I'm a Christian. It was is serving as a special consultant while Intersection a kind of sermon to my little parish, and I've had a gets off the ground. He successfully resisted ideas to lot of good conversation about it." house it in a church. "Many people are terribly fright- Though some of Glide's involvements produce of die institution of the church," he insists. head- ened "They | lines, much of its most important work, including its think it exists only to perpetuate itself." Mil- —

Over in Berkeley, Campus Pastor Walt Herbert, who has aggressively backed the Free Speech Movement, y alks with FSM leader Lynne Hollander. Glide iponsors Mr. Herbert's experimental ministry.

Dr. Ehrensperger, a Methodist minister who was professor of drama at Boston University until retire- ment last year, chuckles when he recalls his introduc- tion to Glide. "Out of the blue," he says, "I received a letter from something called die Glide Foundation

I'd never heard of it. I wanted to go back to India, where I was once a missionary, but the idea for Inter- section intrigued me. I just couldn't refuse." Mr. Durham and his staff have that effect on people, rheir ideas, pinwheeling from a small center, ex- pand into scores of areas—one of them a space lab. That began when an engineer in a Sunnyvale church )egan reading theology and asking questions about tiow his work related to the church. "In a kind of lappy desperation, his pastor sent him to me," says Mr. Durham. "Here's a fellow who's ready to give several years of his life to exploring ways the church ^an take form in a space lab." Glide steered him to- ward a seminary student who once worked with atomic subs, and now those two and a handful of other engineers are meeting twice a week and reading extensively in an attempt to find answers. Because Glide has served as a catalyst for so many mercurial, House workers projects, trying to construct a chart of its activities and Young and Freedom try to help people the Fillmore district influence is an exercise in futility. "We specialize in of flexibility," says the Bev. Donald Kuhn, Glide's com- to help themselves. "They barely tolerate the church,' says Cecil Williams, has helped crack that munications expert who is busy turning out a series of who paperbacks that explore significant areas of individual wall of suspicion and indifference. decision-making in urban life. "Without any effort at all," he says, "I find myself on

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Glide's Precarious Vision Coffeehouse is run by seminary students, but there is no hard sell for religion. Music and quiet conversation are the usual fare. Says the Rev. Ted Mcllvenna, who started it: "It wasn't designed for a bunch of 'plainclothes preachers' or those on the make for the church."

14 committees. And we take these assignments serious- Glide Urban Center is its freedom to experiment, and ly; we do our homework and then go tell all kinds they're also willing to buy an ecumenical approach." of organizations how we believe things ought to be San Francisco serves as die mammoth laboratory in done!" which Glide seeks new thrusts for missionary efforts. There is a series of ecumenical "urban exploration It is an appropriate base from which to work, for seminars" to make the job easier for new pastors in San Francisco has all the problems common to odier the city. One staff member is currently spending half urban areas—some of them in aggravated forms. For time consulting with the Young Men's Christian example, it has among the highest rates of suicides, Association, which feels it must significantly change divorce, and alcoholism. its sendees for young adults. It also has many churches, but diey have not been "Glide is an exciting venture," says Mr. Durham, able to do the work diat needs to be done. With "and one which constantly threatens to get out of about 25 percent of the population on their rolls. control or to fragment into a cloud of glittering pieces. Roman Catholics have by far the largest membership, But there is a centrifugal force which sustains a but their leaders are publicly unhappy about the state forward momentum, and a common direction which of religion in the city. Protestant membership is frag- maintains a control. The Methodist Church is our mented. Methodism's 20 churches in San Francisco starting point, the Protestant community is our context, have fewer than 6,000 members in a population of and the total urban bay area is the potential object of 7S0.000. our endeavors." The Glide Urban Center believes certain tilings are Glide avoids doing what other church or interde- clear. To fulfill their mission—and to survive—the nominational groups have started. Instead, it pinpoints churches must co-operate closely across denomination- unexplored problems, decides what should be done, al lines. But they must go farther. They must reach and starts doing it. As fast as it can, it turns its work out to the unchurched, who persistently refuse to over to others, or encourages independence. "Despite clamor at their doors. To do this, churchmen must the temptations," Mr. Durham says, "we're determined crawl out of the isolation of their sanctuaries and find to avoid empire building." out what is going on. Because they are supported by a $180,000 a year "Traditional Protestant moralism," says Ted Mc- budget from the Glide Foundation, and by trustees llvenna, "is still one of our biggest problems. Oh, if who believe in what they are doing, the Glide staff only we could hear the last of those time-honored say- has remarkable freedom. "All of die men on the board," ings, 'A bad apple spoils the barrel/ and Tou don't says Mr. Durham, "are very much in the midstream of have to climb into a cesspool to know it stinks.' die church. What gives me hope is diat these men Wouldn't it be lovely to recognize that people are are backing us. They feel that the real value of the neither apples nor cesspools?"

18 Togetheraether/May 1965 . "

A handful of concerned Methodists, hacked hy Glide Urhan Center,

are helping to ease the critical rehahilitation problems of recuperating mental patients.

In the process, they are facing stiff challenges in this unusual . . .

Halfway HOUSE, San Franc ISCO

I FIND IT gratifying to see inner-city needs and conflicts. \ Rev. Ted Mcllvenna, Glide Urban hat these church people, unlike year ago, encouraged by the Glide Center staff member who spends ome others who have done nothing Urban Center, diese Methodists full time uncovering the city's nore than sit on their hands for caught fire with an idea. needs; a core of people at Park ears, are willing to get involved in They have not lived entirely hap- Presidio Church (including the

: project like this," Ken Lingnau pily ever after, for the realities of Rev. Allen Lewis and Christian so- ays with an appreciative grin. starting and running a rehabilitative cial concerns chairman, Dr. William Ken, who until recently had not residence for mental patients are Fuqua, who were uneasy about be- net many churchmen willing to hard. The churchmen do not al- ing in the city but not involved in iractice more than Sunday-morn- ways agree among diemselves, and its problems), and Mrs. Gumrukcu, ng religion, now is one of two it is still too early to tell if the who also works with die only other muse managers at Baker Place, a house will survive financially. psychiatric halfway house in San halfway house" (rehabilitation "But whatever happens," says Francisco. She believes that the lay station) for persons recovering Mrs. Patricia Gumrukcu, program people in a community—not gov- lorn mental illnesses. consultant, "it's a good percolating ernment or welfare agencies—are The people he talks about are process in the church. This group is its strongest resource and must rom the Park Presidio Methodist saying to odiers, 'Look, we've been take the initiative in helping those

Church in the Richmond section, sitting back too long.' who need it.

i neat, residential district of San Impetus for the halfway house As a first step, 30 laymen en- "rancisco that seems remote from came from several sources: the rolled in a 16-week training session

Answering questions during a regular meeting of volunteers at Park Presidio Methodist Church, Sociologist Pat Gumrukcu reminds them they should not expect mental patients to he ideal housekeepers. conducted by specialists in half- at the house mornings, answering meeting of volunteers and staff. way-house operation. Meanwhile, the telephone, attending to what- On the other hand, when Pat the restless Mr. Mcllvenna louud a ever chores they find, and trying to reported she had given one resi- house he liked. To get things going gel to know the patients. dent the ultimatum, "Get up and quickly, he borrowed money from Dr. Fuqua's wife, Bertha, has no look for a job—or leave," another a friend For a down payment. problems getting acquainted. "I volunteer objected: "The idea of Afterwards, the house was have a two-year-old and a four- making someone get out of the meshed into the organizational year-old, and diey go along and house because she doesn't want to gears. The building now is financed make themselves right at home," get out of bed is rather frightening by the San Francisco United Meth- she says. "The residents like it. It Baker Place is designed for peo- odist Mission and sponsored by gives them a taste of normal family ple who are sick enough to need Park Presidio Church. The mental- life." transitional help, and yet who are care program is administered and On the other hand, another vol- stable enough to be able to respond financed by Glide. unteer reported, "The residents to it. It is a fine fine, and die record Late last August, Park Presidio just ignore me." will not show all successes. The volunteers started a relentless Despite the training course and volunteers feel diese frustrations clean-up, fix-up assault on the aging their own determined efforts, some and are interested in learning about building, which had been a cheap volunteers have a difficult time un- the progress of patient-residents and overcrowded rooming house. derstanding why residents may act As one expressed it: "If we hadn't They had it ready a month later in unpredictable ways. When been interested, we would not have for the first residents and for Ken wastebaskets overflow or lights are gotten started in the beginning. Lingnau and Barbara Dzubay, who left burning, for example, the hard- The staff has taken diat comment serve as houseparents. Ken and working volunteers grit their teeth. to heart and keeps volunteers Barbara, deliberately chosen for But the house was established to abreast of house dynamics. their youth and noninstitutional foster self-reliance, and die em- "We must come to understand backgrounds, are backed up by Pat phasis is on self-ride. "If someone that we are pro\iding an important Gumrukcu and a psychiatrist, who else empties the wastebaskets," says service," says die Rev. Cecil Wil- do not live at the house. This ar- Pat, "it doesn't help the residents." liams, die Glide Urban Center rangement lends itself to the in- Although die volunteers are not staff member responsible for work formal community quality so im- in charge of the mental program, ing with Baker Place. 'We must portant to mental patients. diey notice things that worry diem. see diat some residents are op-

Besides taking care of the proper- "I don't think it's a good idea for erational and some not as mucl ty at 730 Baker Street, the Park them to be staying in bed so late," so, and that we are trying to pro- Presidio volunteers take turns being one observed during a regular \ide a kind of residential adjust-

Residents and their friends eat dinner with house manager Barbara Dzubay (left foreground). Patients and nonpatients live at Baker Place, and all take turns ai the cooking—with varying success!

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m^ pent. It we really understand the meaning of service— if we are the servants — it means thai we have to be careful about many things. \i all times we have people sizing up tin- patients and trying to help. But

1 think we're going to have some very difficult situations."

The job is not easy, l>ut the poo pie at Park Presidio Methodist

Church think it is important. The nationwide need for transitional lousing for mental patients, alco- liolies. narcotics addicts, and ex- convicts is acute. Some have no families; while for others. Family conflict is at the base of their troubles. Many of these people are not ready to go it alone immediately; they need a few months of support \vhile they hunt for jobs and learn once again to operate without the demands—and the security—of hospital or jail routines. Halfway houses, begun a decade ago and still experimental, have been one attempt to answer the needs. "We didn't expect this to be easy," says Dr. Fnqua. "But we got into it because it was a difficult job that needed to be done—and we're going to stick." —Carol D. Muller

At Baker Place (right), costs arc kept as low as possible. Each person pays $45 to $50 a month rent, phis a $10 service charge. Meals average about $6 a week.

May 1 965 \ Together —

A birthday that brings disappointment as well as happiness teaches a youngster

that we can keep going right on through the good and the bad things of life,

if we enjoy the beautiful and do not let disappointments knock us down.

Morning's at Seven

By EDWIN P. HICKS

i T WAS a windy 21st day of May Grandpa fitted the box kite together it was just a little dark thing way in Arkansas and the early morning and explained that many years ago up there in the heavens. The string sunshine came through our dining- the Wright brothers had applied kept slipping through my finders, room windows to rest upon my the principle of the box kite to de- but when I looked back at Grandpa overturned plate, perched upon a sign an airplane. Most kites have to to ask him to help me, he had gone stack of packages. On top of the have tails, Grandpa explained, but to sleep. The black speck that was plate was a little sailboat, gleaming a box kite does not—it just soars my birthday box kite was pulling white, boasting sails as snowy as a up, supported by the wind. like a horse and leaping like a wild freshly pressed handkerchief. For As soon as the kite was ready, tiling; and I was frightened because this was my seventh birthday a we went out into the meadow be- I was all alone now and could not day to remember. hind our house, where the earth stop this wild, distant tiling from

The packages contained a rolled- was soft with grass and blue and fighting me; I could not pull it back. up red-paper box kite, a rubber ball white flowers. Grandpa ran with Then the end of the string came with yellow elastic string, and a the kite and got it into the air, then into my hand, and I held on desper- copy of the latest Chatterbox. In he handed the ball of string to me ately and fought. But fear now was a long package was a precious base- and guided my hands until I got my master, and the strengdi of the ball bat, shiny green, with a red used to the throbbing tug of the box late seemed irresistible. The band around its middle. The boat line. The wind was strong and the end of the string tore through an had been whittled by Grandpa, and pull of the red kite was like some- fingers, and I stood there crying he had given it a lead keel for bal- thing alive. The kite went higher Then Grandpa's strong anus were last, carefully fitted the mast and and higher, while Grandpa lay back around me, and I pointed to die bowsprit and sails into place, and against a mound of grass and darting, flying speck in the sky—my applied the white paint with deft cupped his hands behind his head. box kite, falling to a certain doom touches of a tiny brush. There was a smile on his face. in the oaks and sycamores in the Breakfast was out of the question. he kite went still higher, until big wood beyond our pasture.

"We sent the little boat out into the pond, sJieltered on one side by cattails and on the other by a patch of lily pads."

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. Prince A. Taylor, Jr.

EDITOR Area The Rev. Robert J. Beyer, 50 Bonnie Lane, New Jersey Willinqboro, N.J. 08046

V L U M E 9 , NUMBER 5 MAY, 1965

AN EXPERIMENT IN ECUMENICITY Freehold Protestants and Roman Catholics Engage in Two Dialogues

Two Protestant anil Roman Catholic They will be judged for suitability, act- dialogues were held recently in Freehold. ing, staging, and lighting. A list of The first attended by about 50 Protestants available plays is being supplied by Clif- and 50 Roman Catholics was addressed ford E. Kolb, Jr., conference director of by two priests, the Rev. Thomas Ridge youth work; and the Rev. Lester G. of St. Rose of Lima Church in Freehold, Ward of East Rutherford, festival chair- and the Rev. John Petrie of Our Lady of Mercy Church in Englishtown; and two Protestant ministers, the Rev. James R. Memmott of the First Presbyterian Church, Church School Runs Senior Seminar and the Rev. Bernard Garlick of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, both of Free- Recognizing that more than 100 of its hold. youth will be on college campuses by 1966, First Church in Collingswood has Each of the pastors spoke of the factors built a "Senior Seminar" into the curricu- within their own confessions which either or hinders dialogue. Rev. lum of all 12th-grade classes of its church aids The John school. D. Merwin of the First Methodist Church Mr. Burkman was moderator. Included in the special programs pre- Discussion groups led by laymen with sented to the seniors this year is: an in- pastors as the resource persons were held Pastor's Son Accepted troduction by Mrs. Philip E. Worth, senior department superintendent; The also in the St. Rose cafeteria. And again For Short Term in Japan Bible and Psychology by Dr. Henry the groups were about equally representa- Brandt, consulting psychologist; The Bible tive. One Catholic lady said to a Protes- Thomas son Rev. as thrilled W. Burkman, of the and Faith by President Robert Cook of tant "I wonder if you people are Mrs. and E. Emanuel Burkman of Wild- King's College; The Bible and Inspiration as we are at this experience." The at- passed wood, has examinations and has by Dean William Lincoln of Northeast- mosphere on both occasions was most accepted been by the Board of Missions ern College; The Bible and Science by cordial. of The Methodist Church for short-term Allen R. Bleecker, instructor at Rutgers Four seminars were held during Lent missionary service. will be serving He in University; and The Bible and the Col- by the groups, two in Protestant and two for three years. Japan lege Campus by Prof. Robert D. Knudson in Roman Catholic buildings for the dis- Upon graduating College, from Asbury of Westminster Seminary. cussion of such topics as The Devotional Wilmore, Ky., this June, Tom will spend Life of the Individual Christian, Christian six weeks in intensive training for foreign Belief in the Modern World, and The service at Stony Point, N.Y. He will sail Woman's Society Birthday Church's Responsibility for Society. for Japan in August to begin six months' language study in Tokyo. He will teach Is Marked at Maplewood English conversation in a secondary The 25th anniversary celebration and George K. Hearn; and Mrs. Gottfried C. school and will also work with student spring tea was held by die Newark Con- Marti. groups, and Bible classes. ference Woman's Society of Christian Ser- Members of the first executive com- vice at Morrow Memorial Church, Maple- mittee received special recognition. Youth Fellowship Drama wood, Thursday afternoon, April 2. Also on the program was a special Dr. Henry Lambdin, who convened the service honoring all special memberships Festival Is Under Way first session of the Newark Conference given this year to about 200 of the Wom-

A drama festival is under way in the Woman's Society of Christian Service in an's Society throughout Newark Confer- 283 churches of the Newark Conference 1940, opened this annual meeting with ence. of The Methodist Church, which will lead an invocation. Mrs. Robert M. Taylor, conference to a certificate of achievement awarded president, presided. Several Persons Honored to the group which presents the best The 25th anniversary celebration com- chancel drama under the sponsorship of Past presidents were honored. Each was mittee included Mrs. Roger K. Swanson, the conference youth fellowship. asked to present the highlights of her chairman; all past presidents; Mrs. El- The contests are being held in each dis- term of office. Present were: Mrs. Alfred bridge Holland; and Mrs. Taylor. trict and are restricted to plays of a re- H. Townley, first president; Mrs. William The special memberships committee in- ligious nature requiring between 20 and Kellers, vice-president who served with cluded, Mrs. Carl W. Baker, chairman; 30 minutes to produce on a stage 20 by the late Mrs. Edgar Compton; Mrs. Carl Mrs. Marti; Mrs. Louis F. Schmidt; Mrs. 30 feet, three quarters in the round. B. Searing: Mrs. Samuel C. Morris; Mrs. Warren Schaefer: and Mrs. R. C. KiefTer.

A-l THE BISHOP'S MESSAGE Home for Aged Set in Newark Une 3amily Set* the Course A 13-story high-rise apartment build- ing for elderly residents of Newark will What goes on in the average family? This, to a large soon be constructed by First Church in extent, determines not only the state of the church, Newark, using a S3,590,000 Senior Citi- but also the state of the nation. Since the family is zens' Housing Loan granted recently by the unit around which society is developed, this pri- the Community Facilities Administration. mary unit sets the direction in which society moves. On the other hand, society plays a great role in determin- To be known as Wesley Towers, the ing the kind of families that are being established. project will include 299 housekeeping

It is not enough to make studies of family relations units, a meeting area, arts and crafts and talk about the impact of industrialization on the rooms, a drug store, snack bar, recreation modern home. We must also seek to understand the room, and laundry facilities. There will a is developed. the bases upon which happy home While problems differ be 182 efficiency apartments, 104 one- with varying situations, there is the constant and common need for the bond bedroom units, and 13 two-bedroom units of love and Christian charity. We as Christians believe that these bonds are Rentals will begin at $80. established and strengthened by the practice of the presence of God. large will Through family worship, God can become more real and His will more The apartment building be completely understood and embraced. built at the intersection of Mount Pros- We frequently hear the statement, "The family that prays together stays pect and Abington Aves.

together." It is true only when the prayer life is genuine, when it is accom- First Church is sponsoring the project panied by a corporate search for the will of God, and when it is the expression through the Wesley Towers Corp., a of that will in the life of the family. We need not deceive ourselves into believing private, nonprofit corporation formed to that the mere calling of the family together, however frequently, and going provide suitable rental housing for the through the routine form of saying prayers, or merely reading devotional •: elderly of moderate income. The Rev. literature, is going to work a magic trick in family relations. Many such Virgil E. Mabry, minister, is president of practices are not worship experiences at all. They have the form of Godliness i the corporation. without its force and power. :: If family worship is to have its greatest meaning, God must become the :, focal point of concentration. It is "in Him we live and move and have our being." And it is our relationship with God which gives meaning to our What's New at Drew? relationship with our immediate family members and with the world-wide Dr. Stanley R. Hopper, dean of the family of God. Let every local church emphasize during Family Week, and the weeks ahead, Graduate School, delivered the Shumate the spiritual strength and power inherent in genuine family worship. Lecture at Lynchburg College, Lynchburg,

Prince A. Taylor, Jr. Va., during March. His lecture was titled The Unread Vision. In addition

to his administrative responsibility, he is professor of philosophy and letters at Drew.

Dean Charles Ranson of the Theologi- cal School was the resource leader at the pre-Lenten meeting of the Syracuse Dis- trict Ministers' Association held in Lafay- ette Avenue Church in Syracuse. The dean also delivered the Ash Wednesday sermon at Andrews Memorial Church in North Syracuse.

Wednesday evening Lenten services were held in Craig Chapel each week at 8 p.m. Leading the speakers was Dr. Martin Niemoeller of Germany who spoke on One Man Should Die. Other lecturers were all memliers of the Drew- faculty: The Rev. William A. Imler. Dr. David M. Graybeal, Dr. Howard Kee. Dr. lames F. Ross, and Miss Nelle K. Morton.

Dr. Will Herherg's latest work, Protes-

tant-Catholic-Jeu : An Essay in American Religions Sociology, has been translated into Chinese and published in Worl{ To- Senator Clifford P. Case, second from left, greets New Jersey pastors. day Press. Hong Kong.

Pastors Go to Washington Seminar MAY. 1965 Vol. 9. No. 5

TOGETHER is .in official organ of The Methodist issued monthly by The Methodist Publishing New Jersey's senior United States sena- tured above, left to right, are: The Rev. Church, House. 201 Eighth Avenue South, Nashville. tor. Clifford P. Case, recently met with Charles H. Strain of the Methodist church Tenn. 37203. Publisher: Lovick Pierce. a number of New Jersey. ins attending the in Kinnelon; Senator Case; the Rev. Subscriptions: $5 a year in advance, single copy 50 (| l subscriptions (>5 Churchmen's Washington Seminar. David J. Bort of the Methodist church in cents. TOGETHER CHURCH PLAN through Methodist churches are S2.52 per year, cash Among those attending were these three Orange; and the Rev. Ronald Vander in advance, or 63 cents per quarter, billed quarterly. members of the Newark Conference. Pic- Scli. i. it of Christ Church in New Market. Second-class pastage has been paid in Nashville. Tenn.

A-2 Together /May 1965 l Preaching Convocation Held at Buck Hill Falls

New Jersey Conference pastors gathered with their counterparts oi the Philadelphia and Wyoming Conferences in the 13th amui.il Philadelphia Area Convocation <>n teaching at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., March

For the first time, a Roman Catholic shop, the Most Rev. fohn I. Wright of pttsburgh, who spoke last year to the Beneral Conference, lectured to the pas tors. His observations on the Vatican Council and insights into his topic. Funda- mentals of Faith, were well received by ittending.

Sharing the platform with Bishop Consecration services for this $80,000 Avalon Methodist Church plant will be Wright were Bishop W. Angie Smith of held May 9. Although the church has a membership of less than 100, during the the Oklahoma-New Mexico Area, leading summer months it series many more than that. Visitors helped in the financing. liscussion on Practical Evangelism, and the resident head of the Philadelphia Area, Bishop Fred Pierce Corson, who used The Avalon Church to Be Consecrated Preaching of Herbert H. Farmer as his theme. The consecration service of the new the membership at Avalon is less than 100, New Jersey Conference laymen also \\ don Church will be held May 16, with but during the summer months attendance shared two outstanding programs with the pastor, the Rev. Louman A. Fillmore, swells to many times that number. A large their Philadelphia Area counterparts at presiding. group of patrons and summer visitors have Buck Hill Falls in March. Over 1,200 Construction of the $80,000 structure contributed generously to the Avalon

laymen attended the two weekends. was begun exactly one year prior, and it building fund. The attendance at these two gatherings has been occupied since February. The brings to an end the planned programs cornerstone for the brick structure was in which New Jersey Conference people laid on August 30, with Dr. Franklin T. Willingboro Church participated with the Philadelphia Area, Buck, executive secretary of the New Jer- of which they were a part prior to last sey Conference Board of Missions, speak- Consecrated by Bishop June. Next year, the New Jersey Area ing. Bishop Prince A. Taylor consecrated the will have its own programs. As is true of many seashore churches, new Charleston Wing of St. Paul Church in Willingboro on April 4 in an evening service. The new 11,000-square-foot structure contains 13 large classrooms for the chil- dren's division, a choir room for rehearsals and storage of robes of the four choirs, and three offices for the ministers and secretary. The new building was named "Charleston Wing" in memory of the Charleston Church, mother congregation for the present St. Paul Church.

Five Years Old

St. Paul Church is a five-year-old con- gregation, established by the New Jersey Conference when the new Levitt devel- opment was planned between Camden and Burlington. Already the congregation has grown to above 800 members and a Sunday school attendance averaging more than 400.

The new wing is the fourth major struc- ture, joining a contemporary sanctuary, fellowship hall, and previously built edu- cational wing. The former educational wing has been re-named "Wesley Wing" Dr. King Speaks at MSM Meeting and will house a rapidly expanding youth and adult program, and the former offices are being converted into a spacious library Frank Mitchell, Dickinson College stu- early this year in Lincoln, Nebr. and lounge. dent from Westfield, third from left, More than 3,500 Methodist students and R. greets integration leader, Dr. Martin campus religious leaders were present at District Superintendent George Prop- Rev. Luther King, before the Nobel Peace Prize the MSM gathering. Pictured above are: ert joined the Robert J. Beyer and winner and racial equality leader ad- Dave Chapman of Phoenix, Ariz.: Dr. Dr. Jerre F. Moreland, ministers, in the dressed the eighth quadrennial conference King; Mitchell; and Miss Daisy L. Capers service. The cost of the new wing was of the Methodist Student Movement held of Jacksonville, Fla. $125,000.

May 1965\Togethei A-3 cAround tlte Circuit

• The Butler Church will be host, May

17, ;it 5:30 p.m. to youth workers from Newark Conference churches to study new trends in the leadership of young people.

The session is sponsored by the Youth Work Department of the Board of Edu- cation for pastors, teachers, and youth counselors.

• The role of the laity in the church and the relationship between clergy and laity will be explored, June 11-13, at the 17th Annual Methodist Conference on Church- manship at Drew University. Dean Charles W. Ranson of the school of theology will be the leader.

• Four workshops are being held in the Newark Conference for prospective vaca- tion church school teachers. Miss Donna McMurray, second from left, after being consecrated by Bishop Ta\/or. The first one was held April 6 at Archer Memorial Church, Allendale. The others are scheduled from 8 to 10 p.m., Deaconess Consecrated April 20 in Bernardsville; April 21 at Wanted: Canteen Workers First Church, Montclair; and May 4 at Miss Donna McMurray, director of An appeal has been made by the Com- the Newton Church. Christian education and assistant to the munity Youth Canteen at Church, Emory pastor at Community Church. Roselle, • A "What's My Line" panel will be part Jersey City, for volunteers to help super- has been consecrated a deaconess by of the program at the Newark Confer- vise the program Saturdays from 7:30 to Bishop Taylor. ence Church Vocations Convocation to be 11 p.m. She is a graduate of Muskingum Col- held April 23-25 at the Chatham Church. canteen is project The a community lege, New Concord, Ohio, with majors Representatives from various fields will "to create an sponsored by the church in music and Spanish. She taught for participate including the ministry, Chris- acceptance" young atmosphere of among three years as a missionary in Brazil and tian education, hospitals and homes, and people live in deprived areas of who worked as educational assistant in her missions. Bishop Taylor will speak. City in an effort to "give them an Jersey home church in New Castle, Pa. She has • to opportunity to their talents and Thanks contributions from friends expand a master's degree in religious education First ethical, social re- of Church, Dover, the 9:30 a.m. develop moral, and from Drew University and has also service broadcast sponsibility." was for several weeks studied organ and voice at Westminster by the local radio station. Many responses Funds have been supplied by die con- Choir College in Princeton. were received from nearby communities, ference of Missions to meet pre- Board She is shown second from left in the hospital patients, and shut-ins. liminary needs, but the committee is also above photo with Bishop and Mrs. Tay- Members also did some spiritual broad- seeking the following equipment: card lor. At extreme right and left are the casting on behalf of the success of the tables, a juke box, ping-pong tables, Rev. Roger L. Smith, pastor of Com- church's financial crusade. They held a magazine stands, a literature rack, and munity Church, and Mrs. Smith. 24-hour prayer vigil with shut-ins par- subscriptions to good magazines. ticipating at home at stated hours. Communications may be sent to the NEW FACES—NEW PLACES • The Westfield congregation welcomed Rev. Joseph L. Helle, 562 Bergen Ave., back one of its former pastors as a Lenten Jersey City. Newark Conference speaker: Bishop John Wesley Lord of the G. Thomas Skyler. supply pastor of Washington Area. He served the church Progress at Aldersgate the Sandyston-Walpack Charge, effective from 1938 to 1948 when he was elected November 1. 1964, bishop. Builders are busy at Camp Aldersgate Edwin A. Hartney. supply pastor of • Bishop Taylor consecrated Christ preparing for a full summer camp pro- the Green Village Church, effective Feb-

Church in Piscataway, a new building gram. The lower shell of the dining hall ruary 1. 1965. for a new congregation. The Rev. Ronald has been completed and two wash houses John Slaughter, supply pastor of the are construction. hall will Vander Schaaf is the pastor. under The Vernon Church, effective Februarv 1. seat nearly 100 persons for meals and can • The Northern District Ministers' As- 1%5. also be used for assemblies and meetings. sociation sponsored .t day of prayer anil Thomas W. Higgins. pastor of the the summer program are two chil- participation in local demonstrations for On Johnsonburg, Walnut Valley, and Green- dren's camps, three for junior highs, one civil rights. dell Charge, effective February 1, 1965. for senior highs, one work camp, one Pastors and members were particularly Ismael Garcia, supply pastor of the each tor family groups and older youth, urged to attend a demonstration sponsored Haverstraw, N.Y.. Church, effective Oc- and one inner-city camp. A "family by CORF in I Iackcnsack. tober 1. 1964. frolic" will be held May 1 from 10 a.m. 1 David E. Zahrt, pastor of the Saddle • Political science majors at Drew I'm to 4 p.m. effective versity will participate with Hunter Col- River ami Montvale Charge, 15. [965. lege students in a study of urban govern- January Session Set for Children's Workers ment, Utilizing three campuses in city, New Jersey Conference urban, and suburban environments. The Newark Conference will hold its The Drew campus represents the sub annual session on children's work May Robert Allin. pastor of the Marltod urban, the Manhattan campus of Hunter 15, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Drew Church. the city, and tin- Bronx campus ol Hun- University. Workshops are planned in David Finch, pastor of the Bridg^boro ter the urban. the fields of music, worship, and drama. Church.

A-4 Together /May 1965 "Well, Davey," Grandpa said, "you sure got her up there, didn't you! What say we go now and sail your boat?"

1 On tire way to the house . Grandpa picked an armload ot red and white and yellow and pink hoses —all the colors he could find —and he carried them to Mom. "From two men who love you. he said. "You put them together the way you want them to go. Davey and me ain't got any idea how things like that should be fixed." We took the beautiful boat to the stock pond, and we had a launching ceremony and called the boat Mom. We sent her out into the pond, sheltered on one side by cattails and on the odier by a patch of lily pads. Mom sailed forth as pretty and as trim as any vessel ever did. The beautiful sails were like gos- samer in the bright sunlight. First 20, then 30 feet out she went. Then a gust of wind swept over the pond, tossing the cattails wildly and lapping waves over the lily dads. The wind caught the mainsail m the little white ship and dipped it low on the starboard side. When the glossy sail touched the water, Mom capsized and drifted into the tangle of lily pads. "Boy," Grandpa said, "don't let this spoil your birthday. I'll figure out some way to get that boat to- morrow, even if I have to swim for it." We went back to the house and —

sat in a lawn chair beneath the two and breathed a delicious fragrance big walnut trees in our front yard. that the wind carried to our nostrils Grandpa lighted his pipe, puffed a and over the entire countryside. bit, then began to tell me stories. Roses and a thousand other blos- Nobody could tell stories quite soms attracted droning honeybees, like Grandpa. They were always thunderous hummingbirds, and beautiful stories, and diey meant white, black, and golden butterflies. How t something. You did not have to Martins soared about our chimneys,

listen to every word, and it did not buckled into the wind, fought it for make much difference whether you die pleasure of a moment, and then listened or not. Now and then he turned and sailed with it. The wind would say somediing that you swished through the treetops, and heard, and somehow you would the whole world, from the racing A,.LL TOO FEW young clerics remember it always. clouds to the frodiing grass blades, starting at the front door of their That day he said something was alive. career trouble diems elves to ask about die power of the wind that Those images are as vivid as some die question, "What do my people had taken my box kite away and of the things Grandpa told me. want from a sermon?" Rather, they had blown my new white ship into "This has been quite a day for you, ask themselves, "What do I want the lily pads. Yet you could never Davey, my boy," he said. "Your to give them?" see the wind. sevendi birthday, and you got a lot Fundamentally, preaching at its "It's kinda like the good God," I of nice presents, and everyone did best is one of the entertainment remember his saying. "Not many of his best to make you happy. arts, and the successful pulpiteer us ever see God, or know it if we "The day started out lovely," he will always think of himself first do see him, but we know he is went on. "But the wind snatched as an entertainer. His problem is there and all about us—in the wind your box kite from you, and then much the same as Jack Benny's or and in the trees, the sunshine and took your pretty little boat. But Shelley Berman's or Mort Sahl's. He the rain, and die blossoming you are all right, Davey, my boy. has to stand up and keep die flowers, and the smile on Mom's You didn't cry over spilt milk customers interested in what he is face. Look, Davey! See those clouds well, not much you didn't. You got saying or business will fall off at hurrying along? We can't see the over it in a hurry your troubles — an alarming rate. wind, but we know the wind is and you still have a good day of it. The old pros of the pulpit know there, to make the clouds fly by fast "You see the beauty of God's diat they should always aim to do like that." world," he said, "and you hear the diree things for and to die custom- I looked up at the beautiful birds, and you see a bluebird set- ers (congregation) in every ser- clouds, flying along up diere against ting on her nest. But remember, mon: the blue sky, and I felt happy and Davey, as you grow older, that all 1. Make them laugh. comfortable and glad to be alive. through life there will be good 2. Make them cry. In the edge of our yard the leaves diings and bad things. There will 3. Make them feel religious. of a silver maple rippled as the be peaceful bluebirds . . . and This does not mean that people sunlight and wind played upon its strong winds that tear die things in church should be induced to branches; and the poplar trees that you love away from you. guffaw like drunks in a nightclub. stood out from the front corners of "And what can we do about it. The amenities of civilized church- our house leaned far over under the Davey? Well, we can just keep go- going preclude tliis sort of congre- pushing wind. ing right on—enjoying the things gational beha\-ior. A preacher Way up in the top of one walnut we have, beautiful days like this, should not aim to be a belly-laugh tree a redbird sang. And across the and not letting discouragement cut comedian—but he should be a road, atop a telephone pole, a us down too badly when things are hearty-giggle humorist or he is un- mockingbird turned somersaults in taken from us." likely to be called to a major-league the air, and recited everything he Then Grandpa knocked the pastorate. had ever heard. But sweeter still tobacco out of his pipe and dozed This level of skill is attained by was the warble of a bluebird. off, and I left him to go play with loading die sermon with funny There are not many bluebirds to- my rubber ball. stories. They do not need to illus- day, but on my seventh birthday a Many, many times through the trate anything ( one can always con- mother bluebird sat on her nest in ensuing years, when one of my kites trive to make a story fit); they just one of the walnut trees. Grandpa of a different type fell into the tree- need to be funny. got me to see the tiny patch of blue tops or when my shiny white sail- By making them cry, of course, on the big limb by sighting up at boat collapsed in deep water. I we do not mean that actual tears the spot with my green and red seemed to hear Grandpa's chuckling must flow (although if die custo- baseball bat. It was he who identi- comment: "You didn't cry over spilt dian regularly conies upon damp fied the warble of the bluebird's milk—not much you didn't." mate. Or was that just the sound of the Excerpted from a chapter of How to Become :i Bishop Without BoitiE Religious by Charles It was a wonderful day. Banks wind which had torn something I Merrill Smith. Copyright © 1965 by Charles Merrill Smith and published by Doublcday

24 Together /May 1965 ucceed in the Pulpit

Caution: satire ahead. For all its glory, the church sometimes is trivial,

ridiculous, or superficial. The same goes for clergymen, who happen to be human, too.

Should we pretend these things are not so? No, says this author; it is better

to acknowledge them and poke fun at them. He does just this in a new book,

How to Become a Bishop Without Being Religious (Doubleday, $3.50). As he puts it,

"More devils can be routed by a little laughter than by a carload of

humorless piety." See if you don't agree after sampling these excerpts. '

By CHARLES MERRILL SMITH Pastor, Wesley Methodist Church Bloomingon, Illinois

discarded Kleenex when he picks up after the service, it is a hearten- ing indication that you are con- sistently striking the bull's-eye). A lump in the throat and a quivering sensation in the breast, however, are quite adequate. For making them cry, so to speak, your best bets are stories about old-fashioned virtues and values, partriotism and self-sacrifice. If you tell them properly, these will always do the trick.

A 'Religious Lexicon Now we come to the problem of making them feel religious. This is the easiest of the three because it is mostly a matter of nomencla- ture. You need only employ a suffi- cient number of words and phrases which are loaded with "religious" meaning to accomplish the desired end. For quick reference, the author here includes a brief lexicon of graded religious words and phrases. Roughly, a number one word or phrase has twice the religious punch of a number two and three times that of a number three.

Faith of our fathers (1) Bible-believing Christians (1) Repentance (3) —Many people are

Vlay 1965\Together 25 ) ,

i iot enthusiastic about repenting. A Surefire Formula line of goods as you will discover. Salvation (2) —A good word, but \s you begin your career ol la- There is very little sales resistance c.iMH's sonic overtones of the camp bor lor (he Lord, yon must keep to it.) meetings. in mind that, while the content The remaining 20 percent ol your The Bible says (1)—Billy Graham's matter of your sermons is not too preaching can be devoted, for die Favorite phrase. Most congregations important if your style is adequate, most part, to sermons for special will believe anything you say if you precede it with this phrase. there are some types of sermons occasions. These should be keyed which are guaranteed to to our important national Christ-centered (1) —Use this often. almost more win enthusiastic reactions from holidays. Righteousness (3) —Given the low- est rating because it implies that Chris- your congregation. Many youthful clergymen, in- tians ought to behave themselves ac- If you will never forget that your spired no doubt by the highest and cording to a standard stricter than beloved parishioners are primarily most pious motives, begin their many church members care to observe. interested in themselves, their spir- careers by using die Christian cal- God-fearing (1) Your people are — itual aches and pains, their desire endar as a guide for their preach- not afraid of God, of course, but they for with ing. the wise ones quickly dis- enjoy thinking that they are. whatever they equate hap- But piness, their urge to succeed so- card this antiquated practice. The Serve the Lord with gladness (1) — This has a fine biblical and literary cially and financially, the preserva- only days in die so-called church ring to it; sounds as if you are calling tion of their provincial prejudices, year which merit a special sermon for instant, forthright action, but is then you will do the bulk of your are Christmas and Easter—and sufficiently vague as to require nothing preaching on these subjects. diese merit it because diey have at all from your hearers. Hard to beat. Your people, you will discover, evolved into important national, The Good Book (2)—Older mem- have an insatiable appetite for ser- commercial holidays rather than for bers will like it, but it is a little dated for younger people. mons on how to improve them- any vestigial religious significance Sin (or Sinners) (1) —Every ser- selves, or solve their emotional still clinging to them. mon should include one or the other. (spiritual) problems so long as the These words conjure up images of panacea you offer them does not The Threat of Heresy bordellos and orgies and black lingerie require them to: Had diis book been written a —which images have an entertain- a) Quit doing anydiing they like few years ago, the audior would ment value in themselves. Your peo- ple will never connect the words with to do; have issued an iron-bound injunc- anything that middle-class white b) Spend any money, or tion against any preaching which Protestants do, so you can flail away c) Submit to any very rigorous attempts to relate the Gospel to at sin and sinners to your heart's con- or time-consuming spiritual disci- contemporary social issues. Noth- tent. pline. ing subtracts from the marketability The kingdom of God (1) —Your then, is congregation has heard this phrase What you need, a form- of a preacher so much as having the from every preacher that ever served ula tailored and trimmed to the label "liberal" pinned on him. Not them, so they consider it a true mark above specifications. The author many of us invite attacks on our of a devout and stable minister. suggests that whenever you preach theological orthodoxy these day! Holiness unto the Lord (1) —Not a how-to-use-the-Christian-faith-to- because 99.44 percent of any mod- one member has a clue as to what get-what-you-want type of sermon ern, standard-brand congregation is this means; but it is one of the most (and you should be preaching just so dieologically untutored that it euphonious and soul-satisfying phrases in the lexicon. such a sermon 8 Sundays out of 10) would not be able to recognize I Heaven (1) —No preacher ever got it is well to rely on a formula which heretic. But it is quick to spot any fired for preaching about heaven so varies no more than die rotation of slight leaning toward liberal so- long as he it clear that made he the earth. cial views in its pastor. Heresy to- thought everyone in his congregation The formula is this: Whether the day is social radier than dieologi- would get there. sermon deals widi the problem of cal. and every congregation has its Hell (3)— Tust as well lay off this loneliness, frustration, marital felic- self-appointed Torquemadas anx- one, or use it sparingly. ity, getting ahead in one's business, ious to oil the rack or heat up the These examples should suffice to or whatever, the solution to the fires around the stake. give you the general idea of how problem is always: It would be best, tiierefore, if to go about making your people a) A catchy, easily remembered the preacher could avoid entirely feel religious. As a rule of thumb, Bible verse. (This is variable with any reference to any subject which rely heavily on those words and each sermon, according to the has a side to it capable of being phrases which evoke pleasant re- topic. construed as 'liberal." The author ligious feelings, and use with con- b) A simple, sunny little prayer can remember when church life siderable economy any word which to repeat as needed. (Also variable, had a lovely, serene, otherworldfl might make people uncomfortable as above.) flavor to it because preachers did or fidgety (which is why we warn c) An exhortation to hare faith. not concern themselves with tem- against preaching about hell, for (This item is invariable. You do poral problems. But this day has you would be surprised at the not have to be specific about faith disappeared; we now live in un- members of your flock who are try- — in fact, it is better if you are not happy times in which every news- ing to quash the suspicion that they specific—just urge Faith. Faith in paper brings tidings of some social might end up there.) faith is die best-selling item in vour problem which directly involves re-

rimmta «t ligion, the church, and the faith soluble dilemma for the preacher. ly undermining the American way and which forces us to make some The way out is to keep handy a ol life, they will welcome sexeial kind of response. set ol nonspecific words ami sermons on "this atheistic decision."

It is, in fact, a decided advantage phrases which allow the members This issue should be good for to you to be known as a fearless of the congregation to fill in their se\ era! years yet. and forthright and prophetic pul- own meaning. "Brotherhood* and Hut by far the safest social prob- pit voice—so long as you can "Christian love" have already been lem on which the preacher maj achieve this reputation without be- mentioned. lake an unequivocal position is the ing thought liberal. So you will Of course, it is always a good idea temperance question. You arc have to venture into the choppy to urge your people to employ more aware, of course, that in die ncw- and shoal-filled waters ot preaching of "the spirit of Christ" in the solu- speak of the temperance movement on social issues. There is no avoid- tion to social tensions, since hardly temperance does not mean temper- ing it. or the author would counsel any of them know what this means, ance. What it means is total ab- you to do so. but practically all of them think stinence from the use of beverage they do. alcohol.

The Danger of the Specific What you have working for you Your congregation is made up ol

This, then, is the most dangerous here is die average American citi- members who advocate temperance part of the preaching ministry. But zen's touching faith in simple solu- and members who drink without if you will follow three simple prin- tions to vast and complex problems. apology, the proportions varying ciples, you can mitigate the dangers And people who believe that a with the size, sophistication, and of shipwreck. balanced budget or bombing China urban or rural character of your

The first principle is this: Never or a Republican administration community. But both groups ex- be specific as to the Christian posi- would solve the problems of the pect the preacher to trot out a tion on any burning social issue of nation and the world will have no temperance sermon every so often the day. difficulty believing that your non- in addition to frequent blasts on For example, if you feel com- specific phrases are clear Christian die subject as a subpoint to other pelled by current events to preach answers and that you are therefore sermons. The temperance people on racial segregation, never, repeat, a keen and courageous preacher. love to hear you lambaste booze, never, suggest that integration is and the drinkers are not offended die Christian solution. In fact, es- Preach on Remote Problems by it because they understand that chew the term "integration" entire- A second principle to follow in this just goes along with your job ly. It is far too specific. preaching on social issues is to in the church. The points you will want to make preach on problems which are as A preacher who does not preach in this sermon will go something remote as possible from your com- temperance sermons is as unthink- like this: munity. able as a Frenchman who frowns 1. Extremism in racial matters You can denounce the govern- on love. This is the one social issue is the chief evil. ment of South Africa with all the which involves no danger what- 2. The colored people ought to vigor at your command, but be ever, no matter how violent your reflect on the great strides forward careful about denouncing political denunciation. they have made and not be too im- corruption in your own city, be- If you understand your people, patient for too much too soon. cause some of your good members their hopes and fears and prides 3. Brotherhood and Christian might be involved. Criticize to your and prejudices (and every truly love will point the way. ("You can't heart's content the godless New successful pastor does understand legislate love" is an excellent phrase York stage, but do not knock the these things), then all you need to to use here. Since the congregation local movie house, because some- do to be a highly regarded pulpit will define "brodierhood" and one in your congregation may be man is to tell them what you know 'Christian love" to mean a kind of leasing it to the operator. they want to hear. vague goodwill toward colored After all, they are badgered and people so long as they stay in their Hold Righteous Indignation buffeted by worldly cares six days place, they will take no offense at The third principle, and perhaps a week, and diey need a sanctuary this.) the one of pristine value to you in from all this on Sunday. They

The problem here is to avoid any preaching on social issues, is to re- should be able to come to the suggestion that white Protestant serve your righteous indignation Lord's house when the sweet Christians have been at any point for those questions on which there church bells chime secure in the remiss in dieir attitudes or actions, is no substantial disagreement knowledge that they will find it and at the same time outline a solu- among your members. here. tion which involves new attitudes As this is written, die Supreme They should come anticipating a and actions (since any idiot can Court ruling on prayer in the pub- jolly, sprightly, positive, entertain- reason that if what we have always lic schools is getting a lot of at- ing, noncontroversial homily from done is not working, we had dam tention in the press. Since most their beloved man of God, aware well better think up something of your people have been led to that no discouraging or disturbing else). believe by the papers they read that word will be spoken from your

This is a delicate but not in- the Supreme Court is systematical- pulpit.

May 1965\Together 27 CONTROVERSIAL Council

By LOUIS CASSELS Religion Writer, United Press International

A top reporter appraises the National Council of Churches, America's largest co-operative religious organization, and reviews some

of the criticism it has received in its 15-year history.

IN 1950, leaders of 29 Protestant tions that they have taken steps to its own. Its Division of Foreign and Orthodox denominations met withhold funds from their parent Missions co-ordinates phases of the in Cleveland and established an denominations until assured that work of 70 mission boards in 65 organization called "The National none of their money will wind up countries. And its Division of Home Council of the Churches of Christ in the NCC's treasury. Missions, among other activities, in the United States of America." Methodist Bishop W. Kenneth provides an interdenominational During the nearly 15 years of its Pope of Dallas became so weary of ministry to migrant farm workers existence, the National Council of hearing complaints about church and visitors to national parks. Churches (NCC) has developed money being drained off to the Had the NCC stuck to such into die nation's largest co-opera- NCC that he offered to refund out activities as these, it would never tive religious organization. It now of his own pocket that portion of have become controversial. But includes 31 denominations with 40 any Methodist's contribution which from the outset, it has also sought million members. The Methodist went to the NCC. His only stipula- to serve as "a voice of Christian

Church is a charter member, and tion was that the refund must conscience" on social issues. It has the largest affiliated denomination. amount to at least a penny a week. been particularly outspoken on race Along die way, the NCC also It was a fairly safe offer: The Meth- relations. has become an exceedingly contro- odist Church's annual contribution In June. 1952—two years before versial body. The very mention of to the NCC is such a small percent- die Supreme Court's famous ruling its name is enough to make some age of the total church budget that on school segregation—the NCC's conservative church members wax any individual member would have policy-making General Board de- choleric. Its foes are particularly to be a very big giver indeed to clared that segregation is "diametri- numerous in the South. have as much as one penny per cally opposed to what Christians At last year's Methodist General week of his money reach die NCC. believe" about the brotherhood of Conference in Pittsburgh, some The NCC operates on a budget man and the dignity of every in- southern delegates spearheaded a of about $14 million a year, con- dividual as a child of God. drive to pull The Methodist Church tributed mostly by its member Since that time, the 270-member out of the NCC. It was overwhelm- denominations. About 95 percent General Board, which meets diree ingly defeated. Similar withdrawal of this money is spent on religious limes a year, and the 700-member moves have been made—and de- and service activities that the mem- General Assembly, which meets feated—at the national conventions ber denominations once performed every three years, have repeated- of several other major Protestant individually but now cam' on co- ly put the NCC on record in bodies which have sizable constit- operatively. For example, the Eavor of speedy and total elimina- uencies in the South, including the NCC's overseas relief department. tion of racial barriers. Protestant Episcopal Church, the Church World Service, distributes Last year, XCC formed a Com- Presbyterian Church in the United food, clothing, and medicine to mission on Beligion and Race to States, and the Disciples of Christ. needy families in 50 nations. Its stimulate action by churches and (The issue does not arise in the Division of Christian Education as- church members in support of the Southern Baptist Convention, sists in the preparation of church- Negro's drive for equality. This which has never joined the NCC.) school materials, especially audio- commission lobbied openly and ef- Opposition to the NCC is so visual aids which are very costly fectivelv for the enactment of the strong in some southern congrega- for a denomination to produce on 1964 Civil Rights Bill.

______Particularly distressing to some bishops, priests and laymen signature ol President Franklin southern church members was the headed by Bishop J. Brooke Moslej Clark Fry. NCC's role in training the hundreds of Delaware. This document assured Luther of volunteer civil rights workers The committee's report, formally aus that the NCC "is and always who went to Mississippi last sum- Submitted to the church's general has been unalterably opposed to mer—after it was clear that other- convention last October, said that Communism.'' It also repudiated a wise they would have had no orien- conferences with officials of the number of other stories widely tation program before entering the House Committee on Un-American circulated by enemies of the NCC ate. Deep resentment also was Activities and the Federal Bureau — including assertions that it has Birred by the NCC's participation of Investigation failed to unearth advocated racial intermarriages, in a project to bring religious "any fact or record that would sup- that it distributed a reading list of workers from other nations into port charges" that the NCC "is a civil rights materials containing "ob-

Mississippi as "missionaries for ra- communist conspiracy or that it scene" books banned I mm the mails cial justice." harbors communist sympathizers by the Post Office Department, and Segregation is only one of the and allies." that it encouraged youngsters to touchy issues on which the NCC On the contrary, the committee rebel against parental authority has taken a forthright stand. It also said, the NCC has clearly demon- when there is disagreement be- has come out against right-to-work strated by its pronouncements and tween die generations on social is- laws, and has said that government its action that it is "enlisted in the sues such as race relations. programs of medicare for the aged fight for free men in a free world." Dr. R. H. Edwin Espy, general may be necessary if voluntary The Episcopal investigators did secretary of the NCC, says that health insurance fails to meet find the NCC guilty, in dieir opin- some people hate the organization needs. Although die NCC itself has ion, of speaking too often, and too so intensely that they "purposely never advocated recognition of Red dogmatically, about political, so- misrepresent" its actions and stands. China, a study conference which cial, and economic issues on which As a result, many church members met under its auspices in 1958 did church members have honest dif- have acquired a "false image of >ay that U.S. interests would be ferences of opinion. It said the the council," and are opposed not to served by opening a diplomatic NCC should take pains in the fu- what it actually is but to "what they channel to Peiping. ture to avoid giving the impression have been made to believe it is." In recent years, the NCC has that it speaks for 40 million church "Our greatest cause for concern Deen a favorite target of extreme members, or that its specific recom- is not what this campaign is doing

ight-wing groups, which have giv- mendations are "the only Christian to the council, but what it is doing 3n wide circulation to charges that solution" to a problem. to the whole church," says Dr.

t is Communist infiltrated. On January 1 of this year, the Espy. "The council is not that im- To investigate the charges, which Lutheran Church in America dis- portant; it is a secondary organiza- .vere causing bitterness and schism tributed to its congregations a tion, the creation of the denomina- n some congregations, the Protes- report on the NCC which was pre- tions themselves. The true target of ant Episcopal Church appointed a pared at the request of its execu- these attackers is the leadership of ;pecial committee of 21 prominent tive council and issued over die the mainline Protestant and Ortho- dox communions which work to- + + + gether through the NCC." The NCC has no intention of HOW TO GET MORE INFORMATION retreating from the stand on segre- gation which is the principal irrita- is fully The National Council of Churches, like the U.S. Congress, tion of many of its critics. At its responsible to its constituent members. Its organization, policies, last meeting, the General Board in- finances, and programs are matters of public record. Consequently, structed the Commission on Re- the NCC welcomes any and all inquiries and makes a special effort ligion and Race to continue the to explain clearly to laymen all aspects of its activities. Among fight for racial justice, and to ex-

the explanatory materials it has prepared are these booklets: tend it into "ghetto areas" of north- cities, The National Council—How It Came to Be and Why ern as well as continuing

The National Council—What It Is and What It Does programs already underway in the The Churches Working Together for a Christian America South. Catalog of NCC Publications "The NCC makes no apologies for its efforts to gain justice for all," Single copies of these publications, as well as many other booklets says Bishop Reuben H. Mueller, and fact sheets, are available at no charge. If you want answers senior bishop of the Evangelical to particular questions or just general information, write: United Brethren Church who is Department of Information president of the NCC. "We are National Council of Churches committed to this fight in the name 475 Riverside Drive of our Lord Jesus Christ, and wr e in-

New York, N.Y. 10027 tend to keep at it until die battle is won."

Aay 1965\Together 29 Foreign students find a hearty welcome on the campus of Methodist-rcJated American University, Washington, D.C. Our Campus Diplomats

World relations of the 1970s and 1980s are being shaped by U.S. collegians and their friendships with future world leaders now studying here.

By JAMES POLING

w,HAT A foreign student on destined to rise to leadership in People University Program housing a U.S. college campus thinks about tomorrow's world, it would be sur- committee stepped in. The com-

America may not seem important prising, indeed, if some of these mittee stirred up embarrassing —until one remembers that the did not in time prove to be thorns publicity about the community's anti-American attitude of Ghana's in our diplomatic side. discriminatory practices, carried the President Kwame Nkrumah has At a college in California recent- case to the county fair-housing been traced to the discrimination ly, for instance, lour students from board, and finally won for each

he experienced during his student Kenya I omul almost every door in African student a clean room at a days in the United States, town closed when they tried to reasonable price. And we are probably still tmning find rooms on their own. Two ol Thanks to the- People-to-People

out Nkrumahs. At least, it has been them finally managed to rent a University Program, a movement estimated that half of the 75,000 filthy basement in an old house; recently initiated by U.S. under- foreigners now studying here will the other two ended up in a cock- graduates, we are now winning return home with strange ideas roach-infested, unfurnished one- the lasting friendship of many about us because of the way they room shack. Here was a situation foreign students through a freer have been ignored on our cam- bound to generate deep resentment exchange of ideas. puses. And with many ol them —until the school's People-to- With support of some 13,000

— Togetherjgether//May- 1965 —

young Americans, the movement to lill out, classrooms scattered "brothels' oi "sisleis who would

has already spread to 1 IT oJ the 317 from one end ol a strange campus correspond with them during the colleges it hopes to encompass to the other— all without a single summer months, meet them on their

2."> (host' with enrollments ot or friend to help them become ai i i\ al, and help them theieallei . more international students. Oriented tO their strange new world. 3. A job-placement bureau. The People-to-People University Then there was the problem of I. \ tour program that would Program was born of a chance en- finding adequate housing, with so Schedule visits to farms, factories counter between an American, Bill many landlords reluctant to accept and offices, and public and private Dawson, and three foreign students, them Or willing to only at exor- institutions such as the state legisla- in a University of Kansas coffee bitant rents. Many of them, too, ture, courts, museums where inter- shop in November, 1960. Dawson, had to find jobs to help finance' national students could sec the then a 22-year-old journalism major, their schooling, yet were so un- "machinery" of democracy at work. overheard two Cubans comparing familiar with our free-enterprise 5. A housing and hospitality pro- notes on their campus lite with a system that they did not even know gram, to provide incoming students boy from Bombay. Disturbed In how to begin job-hunting. Finally, with both rooms and a schedule of their bitterness, he broke into their as the boy from Bombay put it, social activities. Conversation. "book-learning is less good without The movement's first major test "They felt completely unwelcome see-learning." But how could they came in the spring of 1961, when on the campus because of the way see how Americans live and work 56 students asked for .summer jobs. they'd been ignored," Dawson re- if no doors were* ever open to them? This was many more than the job- tells. "Since no one had bothered "Those guys really shook me up," placement committee could hope to to make their acquaintance, they Dawson says. "Still, I wondered if find in the college community of knew they weren't personally dis- they'd really tried. I knew that, like Lawrence (population about 35,- liked. So they thought they were most schools, we had an administra- 000 ) . So Dawson and 14 co-workers being ostracized simply because tion-sponsored international club got in their cars, combed 50 Kansas they were foreigners. And this left where foreign students were sup- cities, and found jobs in factories them totally disenchanted widi die posed to have every opportunity to and stores, on farms and construc- United States. make friends with local students. tion projects, even in bowling alleys, "It was unbelievable. In more So I checked, and found diat only for everyone. than a year at the University, these seven of the club's 155 members With the opening of the 1961-62 three nice guys hadn't been able were Americans. Obviously some- school year, the full plan went into to make a single American friend. diing needed doing. So a lot of us operation. A series of formal forum They had never been invited to a got togedier and tried doing it." meetings and informal coffee-hour student-sponsored social event, Dawson formed a council of stu- get-togediers was scheduled. The never even been inside a fraternity dent campus leaders to work out a brother-sister program was operat- or sorority house. As it turned out. plan of action, and each fraternity, ing. Tours to the Kansas City stock- they were typical of most of die 260 sorority, and campus organization yards, nearby wheat farms and foreign students, representing 60 was asked to contribute to its sup- dairies, and factories in Topeka and countries, then on the campus. They port. In three weeks, a surprising other cities had been arranged. were all living in a sort of social $1,200 was raised. Then, to stimu- And the housing problem had been ghetto, surrounded by a yawning late furdier interest, the campus solved. On campus, most of the 24 wall of indifference. No wonder was plastered with 1000 posters, fraternities and sororities had each they had an unflattering view of our and dozens of aroused undergradu- volunteered to give free rooms or way of life. We'd never given them ates immediately offered to help in meals to at least one visiting stu- a chance to know or like us. We any way they could. dent. And an appeal to the towns- were also depriving ourselves of people of Lawrence had produced a chance to learn from them about a heartwarming response. their world." I MPRESSED, the authorities gave The owner of the Hotel Eldridge From his new friends, Dawson the infant movement office space set aside an entire floor for the learned diat social isolation was in die student union. use of newly arrived foreign stu- only one of the foreign students' By die year's end, the council had dents, with rooms at only $1 a many problems. Others ranged worked out a five-point plan and night for as long as it took them to from things as trivial as, say, learn- appointed committees to organize: find permanent quarters. And in ing to run a laundromat when diey 1. A forum program, where local reply to radio and newspaper ap- had never before seen such a and overseas students could meet to peals, 300 families offered lodgings, machine to trying to find something air grievances and exchange ideas. many for only a nominal fee. Thirty to do widi diemselves during tiieir 2. A brother-sister program diat families even offered to take in long, lonely vacation periods. would give each foreign student an foreigners free of charge. That fall, What most concerned them, how- upper-class counselor to turn to. for the first time, the 236 foreign ever, were the first few anxious, Names of students planning to come students in need of off-campus bewildering days of school. They to the University of Kansas from rooms could pick and choose. lad to face endless registration abroad would be supplied by the To launch the social program, a ines, an infinity of mystifying forms registrar's office, then assigned to fraternity and sorority had joined

Vlay 1965\Together 3/ L forces to give an international pic- volunteered to postpone their Wis. With transportation supplied nic—the first student-sponsored schooling to help get a national by the local Kiwanis Club, it in- party ever given for K.U.'s foreign program started. cluded visits to a paper mill, a contingent. Inevitably, with stu- Working sometimes individually, breeder poultry farm, an industrial- dents from more than 50 nations sometimes as a team, diey recruited research laboratory, a dairy, and present, everyone was at first self- almost 100 member schools. Their on-the-scene studies of the county conscious, excessively polite, and greatest success came when, with court system and the state legisla- limited to small talk. missionary zeal, they persuaded 26 ture. But, after dark, when the crowd state governors to call conferences In their hospitality programs, went indoors, an American boy be- of student leaders from all the col- many of the chapters rely hea\ily gan playing the piano. A boy from leges in their states, so that they today, as might be expected, on the Spain produced a harmonica. A set could present their case to groups hootenannies currently so popular of bongo drums materialized. And of schools at single sittings. It was with all collegians. Talent shows are when a Kansas City boy brought through these conferences tiiat 87 also in favor, as are conventional out his bagpipes, a girl recently colleges were added to the roster dances, picnics, and parties, ranging arrived from Scotland stepped for- for that year. from skating-rink and swimming- ward and danced a Highland jig. pool cookouts to hayrides and hoe- With the ice broken, self-conscious- downs. ness, race, and nationality were JL ROM a beginning in a bare In addition to party-gi\ ing, quickly forgotten. room with six desks, three secre- hospitality committees also arrange Now, the climate on the campus taries, and a telephone, the Program home visits for foreign students who soon changed so noticeably that a has grown into an organization have no one with whom to spend girl from the Philippines, Lilia with a headquarters staff of eight holidays and summer vacations. Siasat, said, "It was like a sort of recent college graduates, trained Last year, die committees opened fairy godmother had suddenly in People-to-People programming; die doors of 1,200 homes to these popped up in the silent hours of and six similarly trained regional lonely undergraduates, where tiiey what had previously been a long, representatives, hired to seek the were introduced to tilings as typi- dark night." And when Dawson affiliation of colleges and help mem- cally American as Thanksgiving made a progress report to the heads ber schools solve their organiza- dinners, babv-sitting, calling hogs. of the student governments of tional problems. A Los Angeles field Fourth of July fireworks, baking K.U.'s sister colleges in the Big office was also opened, and an office pies, and county fairs. Eight Conference, they were so im- was set up in Brussels, Belgium, to As for die forums, tiiey are pressed that they adopted the pro- handle die overseas end of a newly sometimes gavel-controlled meet- gram for their own campuses. But introduced feature: a Student ings widi a set topic and an outside the major impetus to die spread of Abroad program. speaker. But more often, they are the movement came when Kansas This offers Program members informal weekly kaffeeklatches. City businessman Joyce C. Hall charter-flight trips to Europe and Thus, with a simple, unaffected lent his support to it. the Middle East at an average cost display of genuine interest in dieir Hall, president of Hallmark of only $850 for six weeks. If the overseas colleagues, our campus Cards, is also the founder of the student lives with a local family diplomats have been changing Hallmark Foundation, a nonprofit overseas, the cost can be as low as potential disillusionment and ani- organization which sponsors the $395. But unlike commercial tours, mosity into lasting friendships both international People-to-People Pro- the trips give die U.S. student an here and abroad. gram started in 1956 by President opportunity to join in the daily life From Athens, an admiring edu- Eisenhower. And because he recog- of die young people he visits. cator—a counselor for Greeks plan- nized that the K.U. plan exactly Through the Brussels office, he can ning to study abroad—has written fitted President Eisenhower's defini- arrange to live with a foreign stu- Peoplc-to-People's central office,

tion of a suitable People-to-People dent and his family, take part in "Your program is the most dynamic project, Hall offered to incorporate off-the-bcaten-path tours in the change in die college scene in it into the People-to-People Pro- company of European undergradu- years. On too many campuses the gram, to give die collegiate plan ates, visit resorts reserved for stu- student from another country is status and the backing necessary dents only, or join a typical considered a burden, not an oppor- to its further expansion. European student work camp. In tunity.

In accepting the offer, Dawson the past three summers, 975 young "And since I naturally want agreed to devote two years exclu- Americans have enjoyed these en- to send our students to campuses sively to the Program. In February, riching experiences in international where their happiness will be

1962, he dropped out of college brotherhood. furthered. I would like a list of and moved to the People-to-People Once school is in session, the tour, U.S. schools which are affiliated headquarters in Kansas City. With hospitality, and forum committees with the People-to-People Univer- him went Rick Barnes, his most take over on various American sity Program." active co-worker, anil Rafer [olm- campuses. A typical tour program Obviously, the seed Bill Dawson son. UCLA's great I960 Olympic was the one arranged last year by planted five years ago is bearing decathlon champion. They, too. Lawrence University in Appleton, rich fruit.

32 Together /May 1965 II How to Root Out rr

By E\ I RETT 11 . PALMER Bishop, Seattle Area, The Methodist Church

R ESENTMENTS are an extrava- looked at each other. They hesitated, for resentments is multiplied. As gance no one can afford. then ran into each other's arms. Robert Frost reminds us in one of Twenty years ago two young Telling me about it recently, one his most famous poems, "good fences couples lived side by side on a tree- of them said, "What fools we were make good neighbors," but in our lined street. They were good friends. to carry a grudge. When I think of times fences for living space once

Scarcely a day passed when the what it cost us during those 16 years, provided by an agrarian culture are young matrons did not chat, sharing it makes me want to sit down and coming down. each other's joys and troubles, each cry." The elbow room which keeps peo- deriving comfort and strength from Each of us has a long case history ple from jostling each other and step- the other. of resentment. Even before conscious ping on one another's toes is being Then, one developed an interest memory, resentments against restric- painfully restricted. More and more, in flowers. The other family had a tions and prohibitions chafed us. as the saying goes, we get into each rambunctious dog. Like most dogs, "No, No!" was our introduction to other's hair. Hence, hostility in all he had little regard for boundary the mystery of language, and we did its ugly profile, from sullen isolation lines and viewed any flower bed as not like it. We were disturbed by to crimes of violence and the threat an appropriate place for burying an demands and coercions. of nuclear conflict, is becoming in- occasional goodie. When we wished to frolic, we had creasingly a threat in our times.

One morning it happened. Words to take a nap. When we were sup- Whether in family or neighbor- of wrath were exchanged, doors posed to eat, we wanted to splash. hood, in church or where we work, slammed. And that was that! When hoisted into a high chair's lofty or in relationships between labor and Weeks rolled on. Months and domain, we wanted to be down on management, races, religions, and years went by, but never another the floor. Resentments, sprinkled by nations—resentment is an extrava- word was spoken between them. many a tear, are thorns that flourish gance we cannot afford. There was never a smile, a friendly in the garden of childhood. One means of gaining a victory nod, anything that would indicate As we grow older, resentments over resentments is the maturity of either family thought the other become more of a problem. They are accepting criticism and opposition as existed. no longer mere physical frustrations, normal. To be alive is to be criti-

Sixteen years passed and the baby moments of irritation quickly passed. cized. To attempt anything is to meet of one family had grown to a young They move more deeply now, fur- opposition.

man. A friendly lad, he never would tively slipping a network of roots, I like the story of the boy and the take the feud seriously, so frequently tightly clinging, into the core of our earthquake. A young couple with offered a cheery "Hi, there!" being. They invade us by way of a small son was living in the vicinity Late one afternoon, the evening envy, jealousy, sex drives, the fight- of Yellowstone several years ago paper thumped against front doors, ing instinct, competition, failures, when earthquakes occurred in that telling of a fatal accident. The boy defeats, troubles, sorrows, humilia- region. was dead. As one woman stood out- tion. They threaten to choke and A maiden aunt, residing some side her front door with the news- destroy us. 200 miles away, feared for the safety paper in hand, stunned by what she Modern urban life makes us all of the little lad and insisted upon had read, the bereaved mother drove the more vulnerable to resentments. taking him to her home. After two up. As she started for her door, they When living space is reduced, cause days, the parents received the follow-

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ing wire: "Am returning son, please send earthquake." BELLS It seems to me, we must always be dealing with the equivalent ot an earthquake or a small boy. There RIN6 in is no perfection among us mortals. Lacking perfection, we have faults and make errors offensive to others. They in turn, lacking perfection, of- eassurance ten misjudge both our motives and X our actions; again, lacking perfec- tion, they may fail to recognize merit

when they see it. Criticism and op- position are part of the warp and

woof of life. To accept this fact

without rancor and self-pity is a mark of maturity, a defense against resentments. FOR MANY elderly people, the utes, then a third. If there is still But best of all is the armament of bright coin of independence has a no answer, someone is sent around love. Paul describes it magnificently dark side of terror. It's the fear of immediately. When the person is in his classic letter to the Christians what will happen if illness over- planning to be out, he notifies the takes them while they are alone. callers. of Corinth, a definition of love which Laura, an aging widow, had a It is as simple as that. And who every Christian should have written backyard dinner with her Phoenix makes those calls? Anybody! Any- upon the tablet of his heart. neighbors, then went happily to her body who loves the elderly ones, To live by the law of love means home. which means it is likely to be a we look beyond another person's friend tele- service passed around among chil- Two days later a faults and concentrate upon his phoned but got no answer. She dren, grandchildren, and friends. virtues. Frequently in my reading I tried again the following day, Mon- Thus it is no burden, but a pleasure come upon this famous counsel from day—still no answer. So she called to all concerned. Henry Ward Beecher: For peace of the woman next door. Sometimes oldsters have no mind and a happy heart, develop a "Laura probably is out of town," family. Church groups then take the neighbor said, "but I'll see her over that responsibility. Men's, fair-sized cemetery in which to bury when she comes back and tell her women's, and young people's the faults of your friends. you called." groups all have found it an appeal- To live by the law of love means The neighbor looked over the ing project. to do some positive good for the hedge on Tuesday and heard In several cities, a professional person against whom we are tempted Laura's radio, but she was too busy calling service has been started by to hold a resentment. then to visit. Finally, Thursday churches, and this may be the best E. Stanley Jones tells of a husband evening, she took over a loaf of provision of all. The paid caller, in and wife who quarreled continuous- hot bread. The radio was still blar- many cases one of the elderly, can ly. Usually their strife began over ing and a bedroom light was on, earn a needed $25 to $50 a month. but Laura did not answer the bell. In that way the service becomes a the radio—she wanted music and he The neighbor, finding the door double blessing. the news. Finally the man had a locked and suddenly suspecting Individual fees of about $2 a change of heart; when he got home trouble, called the police. month are paid by relatives, friends, and the time for tension arrived, he When police found her, Laura or, if need be, a church. If the went to the radio and tuned in the still barely. oldster all was breathing— She can pay, the better. music station. Looking up in amaze- had lain there, sick and terrified, Loneliness is almost as big a ment, his wife said, "Why, this is for six days. Doctors have not been problem with the elderly as is fail- time for the news." "Well, yes," he able to mend the damage that re- ing health. Many come to feel un- replied, "I know, but I thought you sulted. wanted—not exactly unloved, but would enjoy the music." Millions of older folk across useless and troublesome to younger America prefer to live alone; others people near them. She sat in silence a moment, then have no choice. Happily, some- One group of senior citizens got up and switched the dial to his thing finally is being done to ease took on the project of calling one favorite news program. That, says a fear that troubles many in both another. Besides being safety E. Stanley Jones, was the beginning groups. checks, the calls generate dinner of new life for their marriage. II is Reassurance Service, started parties, trips, picnics, croquet Resentment is an ailment as old in Saginaw, Mich., after a tragedy games, bridge sessions, and church as our memory, as old as the race. much like Laura's. It now has and church-school attendance. There is a way to victory over it. spread to more than 300 communi- "It's the most fun I've had in When tempted to resentment, re- ties. Here's how it works: years," one member declared, "and member it is a mortal extravagance: Senior citizens who live alone I don't get scared any more. Just arc called in the morning and after talking to somebody on the phone learn to accept criticism and opposi- supper. II there is no answer, a once a day can be a great blessing." tion as a part of life; be brave enough second call is made in a few min- - Adele Le Baron to live bv the law of love.

34 _^_ I» * / • %1

WHERE THE chill of winter lingers, the seed dwells in darkness, waiting. Self-sufficient, packed

tight with an immemorial legacy, it sleeps the un-

stirring sleep of the dead—yet is not dead. When the time has come, the seed will know. Then, and only then, the clock of life will tick again, syn- chronized to the tilting earth's seasonal rhythm. Irresistibly, seeds find their way around the world, unfurling green banners that tell of greatness arising from the very small, attesting the age-old promise from Genesis: "While the earth remains seedtime and harvest... shall not cease!'

May 1965\Together 35 LAST year. Miss Elma Waltner of Hurley, S.Dak. worked to capture this Fulfillment of God's promise on the Midwest's fertile eornland. Her color photographs on these pages cover three seasons, beginning as rich topsoil turns up behind the plow and birds move in to feast on grubs and insects. Then, from a handful of seed which the farmer plants in faith, cultivates with zeal, and watches with hope, come tender shoots, sturdy stalks, and glossy green leaves drinking in a siimmer shower. A weed, too, grows by the miracle of seed and. by that same miracle, it will persist, man's effort to the contrary.

Together /May 1965 To look at a field of corn whispering in summer wind is to wonder how such complex perfection came to be. Tine, the farmer laid straight furrows, fertilized, planted, cultivated. But a greater Power, an infinite and providential wisdom and order, is behind each shooting tassel, every golden grain of pollen, each tightly folded husk swelling with kernels.

The greater miracle is in the seed, not in the fruit it yields. Even more miraculous than the giant sequoia's size and age was its beginning— green shoot peeping out of the forest floor hundreds of years ago. Whether tomato, violet, or ragweed, the wonder is the same.

May 1965\Together |N MOST cases, warm rains and lengthening days are nate after 50, 75, 100 years—one type of lotus seed, it required to set the amazing chemistry of a seed in is said, after 1,000 years. Boiled, frozen, subjected to motion. But such environmental factors do not explain a vacuum, some seeds remain hardy enough to survive the latent energy that causes the seed to respond, to and bring forth new life. break through its coffin-like shell with life without "If there is a living thing which might help explain which other life could not exist. In winter, our seed to us the mystery behind life, it should be seeds" wrote appeared lifeless; now its primary root answers the the late Donald Culross Peattie. "We pour them curi- call of gravity and thrusts down hungrily into the soil. ously into the palm, dark as mvstery, brown or gray

Above, the green shoot shoulders aside a clod of earth as earth. ...We shake them there, gazing, but there is to seek the sun. no answer to this knocking on the door. Thev will not Many seeds are almost imperishable. Some that live tell where their life has gone, or if it is there, anv more the longest appear the most unpromising. Some germi- than the lips of the dead!' — H. B. Teeter The Greatest

Story

Ever Told...

Can It Ever Be Put on Film?

By F. THOMAS TROTTER Dean, School of Theology at Claremont Claremont, California

J. EW MOVIES have had so much advance theologically. In some respects, it is successful. publicity or stirred such anticipation as has The But for thoughtful churchmen, the film presents Greatest Story Ever Told, a film account of the serious problems and raises questions that must life of Jesus Cluist. be noted and pondered. Released in February and now playing at At stake in this film, which purports to be a Cinerama-equipped theaters around die country, "life" of Jesus, is the understanding of the Gospel it is die product of five years work by George itself. A "life" of Jesus is inevitably a dicological Stevens, one of Hollywood's most respected film- statement. Millions who sec Stevens' version makers. It has been promoted as the finest exam- of the life of Jesus never will read the account ple of a biblical film, bodi artistically and in die New Testament. Yet die four Gospels in

May 1965\Togethe Jk the New Testament are not merely the director has not seriously been the biblical tradition we know. biographies. They are faithful ex- guided by the last 50 years of New- For example, there is no tension pressions of the meaning of Jesus' Testament scholarship. He has free- between John the Baptist and Jesus life, death, and Resurrection. ly drawn from traditions and im- in the film, although the Gospels Therefore the statement about Jesus agination as well as from biblical are quite clear that there was. John that emerges in the film is of deep material. appears simply as a thoroughly concern for the church. The world Several historically questionable convinced booster for Jesus. Also, is skeptical of any claim to rele- events such as the slaughter of the there is no tension at all between vance in the Gospel. The questions innocents and the flight into Egypt Jesus and his own family, as re- churchmen must ask relate to die are included. The story of the wom- corded in passages like Mark 3:31- role the film inevitably will play in an taken in adulter}', relegated to 35. His brothers are simply non- shaping our generation's sense for footnotes in the Revised Standard existent in the film. the Gospel. Version and New English Bibles The fascinating dramatic possi- It should be noted at die outset because of its doubtful authenticity, bilities between Joseph and Man- that this film is neither biblical his- is not only dramatically portrayed on the whole question of die nature tory nor biblical faith. It is simply but she becomes Mary Magdalene of the birth of Jesus are completely a scissors-and-paste statement of a and joins Jesus' followers. This is missing. In fact, there is nothing to point of view about Jesus. Stevens purely traditional and unscriptural. commit die film one way or the has been quoted by Erskine John- Similarly, Levi the tax collector other on this major problem of in- son, a Hollywood correspondent, becomes Matthew the apostle, and terpretation. as saying that the film will not nonbiblical characters such as blind The character of the disciples is breed controversy "because in the Old Aram (Ed Wynn) and Bar never established. They are a flat, spirit of die Bible, religions are Amand (Van Heflin) are invented paper-doll collection, and one con- in harmony. In the spirit of the to provide dramatic substance to tinually wonders what on earth Bible, conflicts of dogmas are for- the story line. Lazarus appears as Jesus could possibly have seen in gotten." Only die most careful edit- the rich young ruler but he does them—or they in him. When Judas ing of the Gospels could substanti- not "go away sorrowful." Jesus, betrays his Lord, one is hard put ate such a statement. moreover, seems to be unconcerned to find any dramatic reason for this Ironically, diis approach effec- about the whole outcome of diat act of betrayal. Thus the highest tively removes what could be the incident. moment of the passion falls flat. most dramatic underpinnings for The whole thrust of die film is to lacking bodi drama and personal in- the stoiy. No one denies a film- harmonize disparate movements volvement. maker the right to make such a film. and events in die scriptural ac- The Gospels are full of material The churchman, however, has a re- counts in order to provide a coher- of the type diat would give bone sponsibility to measure the degree ent story line. In doing diis, how- and muscle to die drama of the to which die film is a positive fac- ever, die director has obscured ele- life of our Lord. Some cannot be tor in die communication of the ments of Scripture which would harmonized widi a preconceived Gospel in our time. have provided real dramatic move- view. But by remo\ing tiiese scan- It is immediately apparent that ment in die film and been closer to dals to die sweet, harmonized pic-

Jesus leads his apostles to the fishing village of Capernaum, on the Sea of Galilee. hire of a Jesus without problems, we arc left with a Jesus who only elicits a yawn. The tensions in his own ministry, clearly indicated in the Gospels, gave his ministry and its effect on the early church a vitality and power that is the only possible basis for a great dramatic statement such as this. The only consistent historical character in the film is Pilate. Stevens has managed to make him an understandable imperial admin- istrator doing his best in a hot, desert land. Pilate alone elicits the kind of sympathy that drama ought to provide. He has to face the most wrenching decision in the film. All other decisions, such as Judas' be- trayal, are without dramatic con- tent. Ironically, this may be the hidden truth in the film—that in Jesus encounters the Tempter in the wilderness. The Tempter, a quiet, our day it is, in fact, the governors soft-sell devil, appears at several other points in the film. who are faced with making ulti- mate decisions, while the religious people are called upon only for pious postures. First Corinthians! One can hardly really necessary to have teen-age Just as the historical emphasis is imagine a more violent distortion idol Pat Boone appear in a very obscured, so also is the element of of historical material and the char- brief scene as the young man in the faith—belief in the Gospel—the acter of Jesus' message. empty tomb? Another scene on die good news that Jesus is the Christ. The teachings of Jesus that have Via Dolorosa was particularly Jesus appears as something of an always been most compelling in weakened by Stevens' eagerness to automaton, mouthing simple homi- their power to communicate the exploit die tradition of black Simon lies rather than the hard words of Gospel are obscured. In fact, there of Cyrene who carried Jesus' the Gospel. is an almost total absence of any of cross. Who else appears but Sidney In one scene completely without his sayings about the nature of the Poitier, the sensitive Academy biblical foundation, a torchlight Kingdom. The powerful parables, Award winner who has been a gathering in the Temple, Jesus ac- such as the good Samaritan and the "crossbearer" for his people in such tually preaches the 13th chapter of prodigal son, are eliminated entire- films as The Defiant Ones and Lilies ly. Jesus, in fact, emerges as a of the Field. bland, religious teacher, mouthing But the temptation was too general religious truths which, out- great, for Poitier again steps out of side die setting of the story, would the Jerusalem crowd to lift the carry no unique authority at all. cross. The whole question of the Stevens, therefore, has removed intent of the Gospel is posed in a the stumbling block of history and dramatic problem such as this. If die foolishness of the proclamation. Jesus (Max von Sydow) had not The power that Jesus holds over been so obviously Nordic, the am- the church and the world is essen- biguity would not have been so tially the claim that his coming did painful. happen in historic bluntness and Other name stars appear briefly, with unique authority. The power serving to lengthen the marquee and the drama of his life can be star list but confuse die film. Why captured only in such claims. In the John Wayne as the Centurion at film, however, these are flattened the cross or Angela Lansbury as out into general principles that Pilate's wife? They appear so brief- neidier excite the imagination nor ly that the viewer cannot identify present themselves as particularly diem in their roles. Their only unusual. identity is as celebrity gods, and as Despite denials, Stevens appar- a result die momentum of the film

ently was successfully tempted to is lost. keep his eyes on the box office as There are moments of real power well as on die Scripture. Was it in the film. These only make one

41 sad that the entire production could tion to step from the pinnacle of faced in the film. By eliminating not have been more consistent. One the Temple. The Tempter appears cinematic-ally difficult and histor- long sequence of the terror and in- again at the healing in Capernaum, ically problematic events like walk- humanity of the city, presented in the crowd at Jerusalem, in con- ing on water and feeding the with a newsreel-like grain and with- versation with Peter, and at the thousands ( they are only men- out sound, is powerful. Beatings, cross. Had Stevens been as daring tioned as having happened), he rape, drunkenness, disease—all are with other thoughtful touches as has sought to avoid the very thing viewed against the dramatic ebb he was with this one, the picture against which Auden warns. But and flow of masses of people in would have been more powerful. his Jesus has no authority or Jerusalem. Then the viewer sees In terms of total impression and power beyond the straight-forward the dim outline of Jesus standing impact, what actually emerges in statement of otherwise general re- in a darkened doorway, surveying this film is neither history nor proc- ligious trutiis. the macabre dance of life before lamation, but legend. The creators him. One has the feeling that here of the film have woven together indeed was the Jesus of the Gos- the various strands of tradition J rVEN for its virtues, The Great- pels, poised to stride into his- about Jesus, added unscriptural em- est Story Ever Told is inadequate. tory with a prophet's judgment and bellishments of their own, com- It will confirm us in our sentimental a lover's tenderness. pressed stories to eliminate contra- notions about Jesus while insulat- While the raising of Lazarus was diction and to encourage harmoni- ing us against die absolute claims sheer theatrics (with Handel's Hal- zation (as in the cases of Lazarus of the Gospel. In the film's defer- lelujah Chorus as background), and Mary Magdalene) —and in the ence to Man7 and to Peter, it con- Jesus' conversation with his dis- process they have removed from firms the traditional argument of ciples under a footbridge on the immediate relevance any of the the priority of the Roman Catiiolic busy road north to Capernaum is problems presented in the stories. Church—an argument, incidentally, a brilliant directoral touch. The The real problem of the film for which is unfortunate in the ecu- movement of soldiers, beggars, the church is the degree to which menical age. In its confused post- shepherds, and traders over the legend is harmless, in the sense Resurrection episode, stiffly staged, bridge while Jesus discourses about that legend insulates us from the it will further confound those for his mission is an artistic high mo- personal, immediate claims of the whom the Resurrection of our Lord ment in the film. Gospel. Except possibly for Pilate, is not simply a matter of literal de- there are no characters in the film tail but existentially die real source with whom the viewer can identify of faith itself. J. HE setting for most of the film- as real persons. There are simply Harvard's Dean S. H. Miller once ing—Kane County, Utah—is per- two-dimensional "good guys" and noted that "Jesus always speaks of fect for the vast reaches of Cine- "bad guys" for the most part. There eternity in terms of die little events rama. The temptation scene on the are no real human beings im- of time." The only real vehicle of crags of these graceful yet terrify- prisoned in the magnificent contra- authority in religious art remains ing rocks is memorable. And the dictions of human existence, with die parable. The artist or preacher long shots of Jesus striding reso- all its grandeur and misery. By put- transforms the common events of lutely over the faces of these great ting the woman taken in adultery in daily life—die family, die Farm, a yellow scarps must rank as beauti- a short, bright-red dress—more ob- lost coin, a highway robbery, an ful as any shots yet conceived. vious because of the appropriate architectural problem, a rich man, Stevens' film also is refreshingly flatness of the costuming in gen- a widow's budget—into ultimate free from the exploitation of sex eral—Stevens deflects the intention trutii about the human situation found in many so-called biblical of the biblical story away from the and God's purposes. It is only the epics. Whereas Cecil B. De Mille's millions of sinners who will diere- parable tiiat can bear die full im- biblical films often were thinly fore not identify dieir particular pact of God's revelation through veiled vehicles for bubble bath and kinds of sin in die incident. There Jesus. dancing girls, the restraint shown is no subtlety in tiiat costume or in The parable does not allow by Stevens is commendable. diat sin. And because all die us the luxury of dieoretical argu- The dramatic device of having characters, even Jesus' enemies, ment or speculation. It conies into the Tempter appear at several immediately recognize him as the our lives and sits beside us. points in the film was an inspired Christ, diere is nodiing to empha- George Stevens has made one of touch. When Jesus confronts the size the humanity tiiat so compelled die better biblical films. It is worth Tempter in the wilderness cave, his followers to new humanity seeing. But it is inadequate as die Tempter is a quiet, soft-sell diemselves. Christian expression. To die degree type, rather than the stereotyped, W. H. Auden, suggesting that it that millions will acknowledge it thinly disguised devil. Especially is impossible to represent Christ in as "gospel trutii," die director has impressive is the fact that Stevens the dramatic arts, says, "If he is taken great risks. And vet. to the used the mountain precipice—dra- made dramatically interesting, he degree tiiat die church can use matized by kicking off a stone and ceases to be Christ and turns into it as a platform for further clarifi- listening to it drop below—as the a Hercules or a Svengali." This is cation of die Gospel, it may be a moment for discussing die tempta- precisely the problem Stevens has blessing.

42 Together /May 1965 Mother's Day, 1965

FAMILIAR STRANGER

Mother looked up at her oldest son.

Now come of age with twenty-one;

Birthdays filling him out to size.

But sons stay small in mothers' eyes.

Then she gazed downward through the years,

The months of joy, the days of tears,

The marks on the door that told how tall, lite cowboy wallpaper on the nail:

'That day she felt her hair turn gray, When he and Rover ran away;

But both were there for bedtime prayer,

And the gold came back into her hair.

Remembered his slam-bang, "See ya, Mom!"

Straightened his tie for the junior prom.

She raised her eyes again to scan Her son, and saw a strange, new man. —Ralph W. Seacer

THE MYSTERY

: Loving him, knowing him well, my heart and mind

Both ivliisper when my words should cease their flow And bide their restless lime or be confined

To eternal silence. Nevertheless, I go Precipitously

II ilh the weight of tumbling words pushing their way

I'ast unlocked lips, with ever the need to speak,

Forgetful of the right nay to convey

My love. But ivhat is more a mystery

Is that he understands and still loves me! —Jean Carpenter Mergard

THE SECRET

Tliere is a secret part to me That does amazing things:

It is an actress on TV,

A butterfly who sings,

The author of a winning play, An artist planning sketches.

The rest of me keeps house all day And, as expected, fetches

Lost dolls and balls, bakes hot cross buns,

Mends bruises like no other For my adored, unknowing ones, To ivhom Fm simply Mother/ —Jean Carpenter Mergard

43 NEW DIRECTIONS NUMBER 8 in a Series WORSHIP

Vital worship services are central to the life of any church.

Methodists, now beginning to use a new 'Book of Worship/ are learning

a new appreciation for liturgy. But this 'public work' of Christian believers

must be more than ritualism, do more than merely stir religious feelings.

It requires discipline, planning, and especially understanding.

By WILLIAM F. DUNKLE, JR. Secretary-Treasurer, Commission on Worship, The Methodist Church Pastor, Grace Methodist Church, Wilmington, Delaware

T.HERE IS A STORY about an old sailor who had the ecumenical movement, as well as the so-called sailed the seven seas and sinned in all the seaports liturgical revival. It is beginning to be clear, never- thereof—and then was roundly, soundly converted. theless, that the fourth really is an expression of the While preparing him for Baptism, his pastor was re- other three. viewing the Ten Commandments. Remembering his Commonly the word 'liturgical" suggests formality, past, the old sailor became more and more depressed "high church" ritualism, and ceremonialism. It should and remorseful as he listened to the prohibitions of not. The Greek term leitourgia derives from two odier Mosaic law. Then his spirit brightened as he thought words: laos, meaning people, and ourgos, meaning of one defense he might offer for his miscreant past: work. Originally "liturgy" referred to die public work "Well, at least I ain't never made no graven images!" expected of all citizens, much as we today would con- Consciously or unconsciously, the old seaman was sider voting, paying taxes, or fulfilling obligations of expressing the main point about the relationship be- military service to be proper public responsibilities of tween God and man, the first and foremost absolute citizenship, or, as in an earlier time, residents along about man's response and responsibility. God alone is a country road might be expected to band togedier and to be loorshiped. To nothing else or to no one else may contribute actual labor to highway maintenance. men bow down or give soul service. The ethical di- As "liturgical" has come to be an ecclesiastical term, mensions grow out of worship as the other command- it should be understood as die public work of the peo- ments follow this first one. Worship is the starting line ple of God gadiered for worship. It is wrong to diink of die religious life. of liturgy as necessarily fancy or complicated widi die

It is easy for the average church member to take "smells and bells" of incense, chimes, vestments, pro- this idea so much for granted as almost to forget it. cessionals, and such. Yet, if liturgy is work, dien, like The fellowship which develops from regular church all honest labor, it requires discipline, planning, in- attendance easily tends to assume priority over the telligent, and co-ordinated effort, more than just feel- faith which develops from regular, earnest worship. ings. And if it is public work, it cannot be merely When this happens, churches begin to become clubs, escapist, individualistic, exclusively personal. Finally. then in-circles of friendship. Finally diey may miss the if it is public work by die people of God, it cannot whole meaning of mission. This is when a church dies. be wholly professional, clerical, monastic, or elite. Vital worship sendees are what make vital, serving but radier an expression of Protestantism's "priesdiood churches. American Protestants, including Methodists, of ever)' believer," which even Roman Cadiolics are are renewing this basic understanding. Almost every- now beginning to understand. where now alert churchmen are concerned with the In a paper read at die Montreal Faidi and Order restoration of worship as the central relationship be- Conference in 1963 and published in Sttidia Liturgica tween God and men. in 1964, Frere Max Thurian of the Taize Community

This does not mean, however, that worship is the emphasizes the right understanding of die liturgical only major interest of the church nowadays. There revival in diese sentences: "First and foremost Chris- are, in fact, four principal interests claiming die at- tian worslup is a gadiering of die church in worship tention of churchmen in most denominations during and intercession before its God. But insofar as die recent decades: biblical theology, depth psychology, gathering is really fraternal and manifests die deep

44 Together/May 1965 ^ —

spiritual and human communion ol Christians, ii is worship and Depth Psychology

1 missionary in character: 'See how they love one an- But Christian liturg) must also be concerned w 1 • " other.' what the truths ol the Gospel are about man as well

All this is wliv tin- liturgical revival being lelt as with what the) arc about God. Churchmen have throughout most denominations must be constantly been learning thai die Endings ol depth psychology

connected with and corrected by biblical theology, also have much to leach about man, about who he is depth psychology, and the ecumenical movement. and what he needs. Seward llillner in his psycho logical study Self-Understanding writes. "II we are Worship and Biblical Theology to make a beginning at knowing ourselves midway In commending his abridgment of the Book of in the 20th century, we need to merge the insights Common Prayer to the American Methodists, John and aspirations of religion with the insights and tech-

IVesley wrote, "I believe there is no Liturgy in the nical know ledge ol modern psychology." For, he adds.

world . . . which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, "The two great fields of knowledge which bear upon ." rational piety . . Note the word scriptural. In ITS!) sell-understanding are psychology and religion." The when the newly independent Episcopal Church in the late Archbishop William Temple said that worship is ". United States published its first prayer hook, the . . to quicken the conscience by the holiness ol God,

preface commending it to the people concluded with to feed the mind by the truth of Cod, to purge the I sentence which read in part, "And now this impor- imagination by the beauty ol Cod, to open up the tant work being brought to a conclusion, it is hoped heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the

that the whole will he received and examined by . . . purpose ol God." Worship, therefore, deals with man,

fevery sincere Christian . . . seriously considering . . . his being, and his need for quickened conscience, in- ." what the truths of the Cospel are . . structed mind, purged imagination, discovered heart, Ritual and ceremony which do not publicly express and ordered will.

a people's faith in the God of the Bible is surely not Preaching alone, important as it is, may not do all Christian liturgy, however impressive and elaborate that liturgy can with man and for man. The early otherwise. The liturgical revival now current in much Methodist scholar, Adam Clarke, is quoted by John of Christianity could not have grown as it has without C. Bowmer in The Lord's Supper in Methodism, 1791- the renewal of interest in and study of the Bible. 1960 as having observed how "the Methodist people The first important purpose of ritual and cere- in England have incomparably more grace and more monial then is to teach. "No matter how beautiful stability since the introduction of the Sacraments a ceremony ... it is not good if it teaches nothing," than before." A more modern scholar, Henry Sloanc Bishop James A. Pike emphasizes in his book A New Coffin, says, "You and I come to the Lord's table not Look in Preaching. 1 To make his point more vividly. mainly to do something, however admirable, but to

Bishop Pike adds, "The service is over; the choir have something done to us and in us." has marched out; the music softens—plus trem- The modern liturgical revival is the serious attempt ulo; two acolytes begin extinguishing the candles to relate public worship, including the church's sacra- symmetrically; precisely when the last two are ex- mental life, to the fundamentals of man's nature, as tinguished, the organ booms, everyone immediately more and more understood through depth psychology. arises to depart. What does it mean? Something, There is a sense in which, to use psychological termi- doubtless, to Zoroastrian fire-worshipers, but what to nology, public worship might be considered "group Christians?" therapy." 2 In his major book, entitled simply Worship, Luther This is one reason why contemporary worship ser- D. Reed reminds his readers, however, that "Worship vices are more responsory, less a monologue by die

is more than a purely intellectual exercise." And minister alone. In a recent book. The Celebration of Dr. Reed continues, "Sound, line, color, and action the Gospel, jointly produced by H. Grady Hardin,

ue among its component parts just as surely as Joseph D. Quillian, Jr.. and James E. White, members ire words." To illustrate the importance of action, for of the faculty at Perkins School of Theology, Southern example, he quotes the scriptural account of how Methodist University, the statement is made that

[esus "took bread . . . and brake it, and gave it." These Christian worship "is not simply a response to the ire the liturgical actions we reenact in Holy Com- Gospel but is a participation in it." nunion and they still have their teaching values. Worshipers, in other words, are expected not only to Dther examples are numerous: the purpose of the respond to the proclamation of the Gospel by a I Christian year is to guarantee that each great biblical preacher from his pulpit, but to participate vocally

)r theological truth shall be taught in each 12 months and actively themselves in proclaiming die Gospel.

)f worship; the purpose of seasonal colors originally This understanding is what is behind die use of lit- vas to teach unlettered people the calendar of the anies and responsive readings which increasingly are

hristian year. The liturgical revival is the recovery part of contemporary worship services.

>f Christianity's teaching ministry and the main sub- A traveler in India heard loud drum beats coming ect matter is biblical theology. from a temple and was told in explanation, "The priests are waking up the god. It's almost time for 1 From New Look in Preaching by Bishop James A. Pike. Published A worship." Christians do not worship a god who needs 7 Charles Scribner's Sons ($2.50). Copyright © 1.961 by Seabury -Western heological Seminary. Used by permission. —Editors arousing. Christians worship God so that he can -From Worship by Luther D. Reed. Published by Fortress Press $5.95). Copyright © 1959 by Fortress Press. Used by permission. —Editors awaken them. . . . Depdi psychology is teaching diat i^JO^ men must be as honest with themselves as they arc worship is still the offering of sacrifices: the sacri- honest with God. fice of gifts, the sacrifice of obedience, the "sacrifice of praise and dianksgiving." For with such sacrifices, Honesty: Beauty, Not Prettiness God is well pleased.

The liturgical revival is seriously concerned with Methodists are learning to thus externalize their honesty—in art and architecture, in music and ritual, worship. In a symposium edited by Nils Ehrenstrom in ceremony and symbolism. Mere prettiness and sen- and Walter G. Muelder, and tided Institutionalism ". timentality is decried by all honest liturgists. The and Church Unity, John H. S. Kent decries the . . pseudo-Gothic which characterized so much Method- flabby doctrine of the Holy Spirit which assumed ist architecture in the 1920s, or the contrived emo- that the 'spiritual' was always the spontaneous, the tionalism of so much 19th-century hymnody, or the unrehearsed, the unwritten, the unread." fancy frills which continue to adorn so many Church Unquestionably there always will be a place in services even today—all these simply do not force the life and experience of Methodist congregations man into honestly confronting himself and his needs for extempore prayer, for unstructured services of before God. worship. Methodists surely will continue to find spir-

This is what is wrong with a great deal which itual validity in the simplicity they learned in the days passes as Christian symbolism. For example, candles when frontier circuit riders could not carry in their originally were put on altars because there were no saddlebags prayer books, vestments, and the appoint electric lights in ancient churches; they may or may ments of ordered worship. Worship in log cabins not serve useful liturgical purposes in churches today. and camp-meeting brush arbors was necessarily very At least they are not what honest liturgy is all about. informal indeed. Moreover, the poverty of early Meth- I do not mean to say that all beauty in worship is odists precluded die building of anything more than dishonest. Beauty in worship may be very important the plainest meetinghouses. For at least a century. indeed, particularly where it is so lacking outside of Wesley's Sunday Service included recommendations worship. Peter F. Anson in his unique book Fashions that the litany be read on Wednesdays and Fridays, in Church Furnishings quotes the magazine Ecclesiolo- and diat "gown and bands" be worn by ministers. gist of 1850 as asking, "Why should the poor man's Such suggestions were lost to American Methodists church be of the plainest style? He, whose own dwell- laboring under pioneer conditions in a rude, crude ing is mean and poor, has the greatest claim to rich- new continent. Officially. American Methodism re- ness and magnificence in the temple of the Lord. The tained a ritual, but it was hardly more dian a vestige

wealthy . . . can better afford to leave their carpets and of its liturgical origins. armchairs for a few hours in a plain church than the Since about die turn of this century, however. Meth- inmate of a garret who has such scant opportunity for odism slowly has been recovering its heritage of drinking in the beauties of external art." liturgical worship. Along widi most other denomina- Such a comment is still valid today. Unfortunately tions, it has been learning that diere is no special the Protestant suspicion of beauty takes strange forms. virtue in ugliness and that unordered worship risks For example, Protestants may not be afraid of pictures degeneration into die disorderly religion against which of the saints in stained-glass windows made of molten the Apostle Paul warned the Corinthians. In his first sand, but they often fear statues of the saints sculp- letter to them, he insisted diat "all things should be tured in stone as idolatry. The liturgical revival is done decently and in order," whenever Christians helping Christians understand at least that the only assemble for public worship. valid test of art and architecture, and indeed of all In addition to continuing its official ritual. The worship, is honesty. For public worship needs always Methodist Church in die 20th century twice has re- to find man honestly expressing his truest feelings vised its hymnal to provide more meaningful and before God, in word and act, in art and architecture. relevant music. The latest of diese revisions will ap- This is not meant to suggest, however, that honest pear in die late spring of 1966. worship is wholly a matter of feelings. Many Meth- In 1944 an "optional" prayer book called The Book odists so mistake it. Remember: public worship is work of Worship for Church and Home was officially —outward, physical work! Robert Sherwood once de- approved for use in churches and homes. The revised scribed the theater as "die dwelling place of wonder," edition8 of this book was published just diis year. A and these are words which ought actually to fit the great deal of study has been given to die improvement church even more than the theater. But much as of church arclutecture. The use of choir and ministerial worshipers know God to be the "wholly other," and vestments is now widespread, as are such chancel much as worship contemplates tire mystery of his appointments as crosses and colored paraments. peace "which passeth all understanding," rational wor- To be sure, diere has not been universal acceptance ship must never be allowed to become merely emo- of liturgical worship forms. There may never be. tional or a set of abstractions. Nevertheless, what Luther D. Reed in Ins book Rational worship is the directing by man of his Worship2 observed about his fellow Ludierans in whole being toward God amid the concrete realities America may also be said of modem American Meth- of physical existence, by word and action bending his body and mind in subjection to God. and proclaim- 3 The Book of Worship for Church and Home, published by The Afeth- odist Publishing House for the Commission on Worship of The Methodist ing by voice and posture the saving truth an immortal Church, is available through Cokesbury Hook Stores or Regional Service Centers. Price per copy is £„'..'.>. Copies ore available in either liturgical God has deigned to reveal to mortal man. Christian red or liturgical purple binding.—Eds.

46 Together /May 1965 ". odists: . . the culture and the refinements that (hihoilo\ churches have their own national liturgies result from education and economic welfare led man) in several languages. Nobody should expect thai an) to revolt against crudit) and uninformed individualism absolute uniformity ever will arise in Methodist wor-

. . . This colorless, unhistorical, and unimpressive sliip. ." atmosphere . . It may be safely predicted that Nevertheless Methodists are becoming more and American Methodism, like most denominations, will more consciously aware ol their position in and heri- explore the experience ol liturgical worship. tage from the holy catholic church, the whole body ol Christ. Our people are not nearly as separatist or Worship and die Ecumenical Movement as individualistic as once they were. Except where Part of the learning experience now engaging Meth- there' may be basic differences of faith and doctrine. odists involves the difficulty some have with making Methodists are much more disposed than they used the transition from the Methodist worship they know to be to accept the common standards and main as children when sen iocs wore more casual and traditions in worship which other denominations ob- informal to what has become more current. A few serve. No longer, for example, are Methodists afraid zealous coin cits to liturgical worship have swung to of being accused of "imitating the Episcopalians." extremes, enamored as they are with romantic Now they understand that Methodists and Episco- medievalisms of ceremony and symbol. Fussy and palians share a common heritage from the Church of meaningless practices fail to satisfy worshipers who England, a heritage much prized by John Wesley and seek reality. not necessarily in conflict with his evangelical spirit.

On the other hand, what Dr. Reed says again is all No longer are American Methodists afraid to put too true: "We have too many pastors who are bliss- crosses on or in their churches for fear they will be fully ignorant of the fact that dieir disregard of rubrics, charged with popery. No longer is it unheard of for Inaccurate reading of texts, inept interpolations, awk- Methodists to observe Lent. The ecumenical move- ward gestures, and similar personal peculiarities are ment is teaching Methodists and most other Christians simply bad spelling and poor grammar in a language what they hold in common. To quote Dr. Reed again, they have never really learned—the language of "Christian art has enabled the common consciousness liturgical refinement and propriety. We need to im- of Christendom to give classical expression to its faith prove the bad spelling and poor grammar of the in three great forms . . . the church building, the Sloppy Joes quite as much as to curb the zeal of the church year, and the church service. Next to Holy Sweet Williams!" 2 Scripture and Christian doctrine, the Christian liturgy Much of this curing and curbing will result from is the church's most valuable tradition." 2 More and the ecumenical movement. In other words, as Chris- more Methodists would agree. It seems almost certain tians increasingly drawn together in their oneness with that their number will increase. Christ, they are learning from each other the ways of Ecumenical involvement, for one thing, is demon- worshiping Christ which have proven meaningful and strating that much of the distinction between what valid in the several branches of his church. This shar- was once considered Protestant and what was once ing of devotional experiences is steadily creating a considered Catholic is not as real as had been common treasury of worship materials. For example, imagined. Robert McAfee Brown has pointed out to new revisions of The MctJiodist Hymtwl and The his fellow Presbyterians, for example, that Christians Book of Worsliip for Church and Home draw upon in churches of the Reformed tradition need not follow resources, both ancient and modern, from almost every all the practices of their forebears unthinkingly. He part of Christendom. cites the fact that John Calvin refused to take his hat But more importantly, Christians today are learning off in church, not because he was afraid he would be from each other that there is a common core of worship accused of "popish adoration" but only because his tradition and practice, some of which has existed since church in Old Geneva was unheated and drafty and the time of the first Christians. For example, all Chris- there were numerous pigeons. And Father Robert W. tians pray the Lord's Prayer, bury the dead, solemnize Ilovda, a Roman Catholic, writes in Sunday Morning Christian marriage, and share to some extent the faith Crisis, "The liturgy is not a group of secret rites to be formulated in the Apostles Creed and Nicene Creed. participated in only by a small elite. It is . . . an Almost all Christians engage in Holy Communion, experience of the holy, a rejoicing in the Word of have some initiatory observance equivalent to Baptism a giving, revealing, forgiving, saving God, which and/or confirmation, and ordain or set apart their belongs to the whole race of men whom he has ministers. called." Could anydiing sound more evangelicallv Out of all this have developed some standard con- Methodist? Because of the ecumenical movement. ventions, commonly accepted practices and procedures Christians are beginning to hear other Christians speak of Christian worship, more or less known to and —and old walls of division are crumbling. increasingly observed by Christians of various de- Methodists will take their place with all die other nominations. Naturally, worship never will be the people of God, working out publicly Christianity's same everywhere or at all times. The recent Second witness to God's redeeming love and doing their part Vatican Council sessions have revealed to Protestants in proclaiming honestly the beauty of holiness which that even the Roman Catholic Church has far more God's love offers to all. This is Methodism's new- variety of viewpoint and practice than commonly direction. Actually, it is very, very old. It started in had been supposed by other Christians. The Eastern die first century.

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By RICHMOND BARBOUR

"This is the most modern translation of the Bible ever published. Instead of VV HAT can I believe?" a college the word 'God,' they use the freshman asks. "I attend a large uni- term 'The Upstairs.' versity near my home. One of my Man professors tells us that the Bible is an outdated historical relic. He says we

it seriously today. should not take Cartoon by Charles M. Schulz. © 19C4 by Warner Press. Inc. "Another professor talks constantly about sexual freedom. He says stu- dents should try to rid themselves of all feelings of guilt and fear, in order your shyness. Soon you will be able that they can enjoy 'one of the good to talk with them freely. Check your things of life.' oa conversational habits. Make sure you "Both teachers are atheists. If I ask questions about things which told my parents the things I am learn- J am 15. My father says that any interest boys, and that you are a good ing, they would make me quit school. kid who likes the Beatles is stupid. listener. Remember what each boy Dr. Barbour, are these professors Wouldn't you say this is a matter of says and refer to it later. He will liars? Or are they trustworthy?" taste and not of intelligence? —B.C. admire your judgment. Also check Probably the two professors you Yes, I would. Each generation of teen- your social skills. Can you dance well? quote intend to be trustworthy. How- agers creates a new set of musical Swim? Do you know enough about ever, their sincerity does not mean heroes. Each generation develops its basketball to watch games intelligent- they are right. Good intentions are own type of popular music. Adults ly? And about football and baseball not enough. I believe what they say are sure to criticize the musicians and Finally, do not downgrade yourself. is quite wrong. the music. I believe enjoying the Most girls your age think they are not Perhaps my experience will help Beatles is a matter of taste, not in- pretty. Nearly all feel timid a good bit you. I started counselling many years telligence. May I make a request? of the time. Remind yourself that you ago. I had a new Ph.D. degree and a Please try to remember your feelings are very much worthwhile, and your headful of theories similar to those about the Beatles when you are a attitudes will improve. you have been hearing. But as I parent of teen-agers and get upset worked with people who had serious over the music they enjoy. Remember problems, I discovered that the the- and be tolerant. ories were wrong. Human misery oa taught me that mental health, happi- ness, and personal worth are found I am a girl, 16. Last fall I read within the framework of the moral oa about a girl my age who got up in the standards taught by the Bible. Not middle of the night and murdered her outside it. I came to realize that the I'm a girl of 17, flat as a board. My parents. I woidd like to do the same. Bible is an inspired document. Its nose is too big. I've never been kissed. My folks make me go to bed at 10 teachings are as valid today as they When I'm with boys, I'm too timid to every week-night. My mother forces were 2,000 years ago. The Bible is not talk. My girl friends all go steady. me to stop watching good TV pro- a mere historical relic. They've had their boyfriends arrange grams to wash the dishes. My father I suggest that you listen to your blind dates for me several times. I gives me one lousy dollar a week for professors without arguing. Instead, tried to enjoy myself, but I was too an allowance. All my friends get more. make a list of the things they say scared. Not one of the boys asked for Mama reads my mail and listens when which trouble you. Then go to the a second date. I hate being this way! I talk on the phone. When my dad pastor of your family church. Discuss Can you help me?—E.R. Probably scolds me, I vomit. I'm so upset that each item thoroughly with him. He is I can. Start by working on your ap- I have nightmares. I can see a big a more reliable guide than the pro- pearance. Pick an attractive teacher ape beckoning mc to follow him. He lessors. who likes you. Ask to see her a few talks to mc, and tells me to strangle What can you believe? You can be- times after school. Get her advice Dad and Mom. Do you think I am lieve in God and Jesus Christ. You about clothes, makeup, hair arrange- crazy? — D.L. I am sure you need can believe in the themes the Bible ment, and so on. Do your best to expert help, right away. All young contains. You can strengthen your follow her suggestions. Join MYF. At- people get angry at their folks from faith through the insight you will tend regularly. Volunteer to serve on time to time, but your feeling is too gain by your discussions with your special committees. As you work with extreme. Your symptoms are serious. I minister. Be sure to see him soon. boys on church projects, you will lose have checked with the pastor of your

48 Together /May 1965 - church. He is a trained counselor. You must talk with him. He will refer you to a psychiatrist in your city. Be sure and do exactly what he says. I have asked him also to see your par- ents, so they will co-operate in getting Bishop \«// Answers Questions About treatment for you promptly.

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I am a high-school freshman get- ting straight \ grades. 1 have many friends. Last ireek my counselor called me to his office. He suggested that I transfer to a special high school in our city for gifted students. He told me 1 have a very good I.Q. He thinks I should fake accelerated courses, so that I can enter college early. He tells me I need to be with other gifted students. I don't like the idea of leaving my friends. Yet I do want to go where I can get the best education. My parents think I should go. What do you say, Dr. Barbour? — What is 'Catholicism'? It has little to do with "Roman" Catholicism R.W. It happens that I am ac- or "Old" Catholicism or Catholicism of any other special kind. A quainted with the high school for Catholicism that is limited is no Catholicism at all, and the church gifted children in your city. It is one that is truly catholic must include all and exclude none who have of the best in the country. You are the spirit of Christ. luek\ to have an opportunity to at- In the book, The Work of the Holy Spirit, Lycurgus M. Starkey, tend. You still can maintain your shows us that catholicity, as defined by Augustine in his debate friendship with many of your present Jr., with the Donatists, means possessing the grace of charity. "Where classmates, but you also will make there is no inclusive love for all those who possess the spirit of Christ, new friends in the new school. The there is no Holy Spirit and no wholeness (catholicity) of the church." School has specialized courses, a spe- Wesley said: "Catholic love is a catholic spirit." cial library, special laboratories and lughlv capable teachers. I am sure as Jesus ever in a hurry? Although his responsibilities were far you will never regret going there. W heavier than ours, he was never pressed for time. In his book, Guilt and Grace, Paul Tournier calls attention to the relaxed way in which Jesus met his problems, lived his life: He had time to talk to a foreign woman he met at a well (John Qfl 4:1-26); he had a holiday with his disciples (Mark 8:27); he admired the lilies of the field (Matthew 6:28) and a sunset (Matthew 16:2). Vm ashamed to be near my friends. He had time to wash his disciples' feet (John 13:5) and to answer They do not know it, but I told on their questions without impatience (John 14:5-10). He could take them for cheating. They were getting time to to the desert to pray and even to spend better grades than they deserved. I go (Luke 5:16) a warned our math teacher before the whole night in prayer (Luke 6:12). last test. He caught them and gave hat is a 'just' war? Christian thinkers are saying that there them Fs. Now I feel like a heel. Was W Many is none. At Amsterdam, in 1948, the World Council of Churches I acting properly when I told on pronounced that every war is contrary to God's will, and this them?—J.R. I believe you were. opinion is coming to prevail. Cheating always is wrong. Those who Martin Niemoller says that "Christianity has suffered 1,600 years cheat and get by with it are apt to and more through a sort of loyalty to the power-state which certainly think it is right. If they are caught and had nothing to do with Romans 13." (This is the passage punished early in life, they may learn on which the divine right of kings and the current of not to cheat in the future. They would supremacy government is founded.) disagree with my answer, but I think The Church has blessed many wars, and called "just." what you did was right. them The Church seems to have been wrong.

How does 'evangelistic' differ from 'evangelical'? "Evangelistic has to do with seeking, witnessing, winning. As D. T. Niles. one of Nobody knows all the answers. But the missionary greats of our times, has put it, evangelism is one Dr. Barbour keeps in touch with teen- telling another agers and has learned beggar where to find bread. We are that hungry! "Evangelical" means, not simply warmhearted sentimentalists to help them. Send your (as think) problem c/o Together, sometimes but actually growing out of the Gospel and its salvation Box 423, Park Ridge, good news about from sin. It is hard to see how a church could be evangelical without being evangelistic. III. 60068. Don't wait. Names and addresses "Our people are full of questions," Bishop T. Olio Nail observes, afti thi Minnesota Area. "I often wonder whether John Wesley wasn't riijht in putting alt ttu are confidential. —Eds. ference business in the form of questions and answers."

i 1965\Toaeoether OPEN PULPIT / Drawn from sermons by Methodist ministers

it under the title which I have borrowed. Let me quote briefly from it: "There are fingerprints now on the palace walls, soiled marks on curtains. Rich carpets are growing thin. Souvenirs are taken, garden flowers are picked, THE and green grass is trampled on. For 200 years this palace has flourished while the people have grown thin. Today the people gather strength from the palace. Here they may come, barefoot or well-shod, THUNDER ignorant or brilliant, poor or rich, bad or good, old or young. Now the palace grows slighdy less polished and elegant while the people grow strong in die pride that this is their country, their government, their pal- OF ace. Here they belong."

Little People Are Climbing Keep your eye on that palace. It's what you are seeing all over the world. The shirtless millions are climbing up to power. The barefoot ones are walking up the steps into the palace. To understand this you have to go back a long way. FEET Dip down anywhere in ancient civilization within die fragment of human history known to us and you wall find it: big power, little people; masters at the top. By ). WALLACE HAMILTON masses at the bottom; a small elite in the palace, die Pastor, Pasadena Methodist Church barefoot ones below living by their leave and through St. Petersburg, Florida their condescension. The Egyptians lived off the sweat of their slaves, built their palaces and pyramids on the backs of die shirtless. The Greeks gave us die word for democracy, but it didn't extend to die slave class. Aristotle said. "The slave is an instrument of agriculture." The Taj

earth, is Now the tax collectors and sinners were all draw- Mahal, the most beautiful tomb on more than ing near to hear him.— Luke 15:1 a mausoleum; it is the symbol of an idea, prevailing unquestioned through thousands of years, that die barefoot ones are born to be die servants of those in the palace. Here and there in ancient days some lone rebel Or'N THE BANKS of the river that runs through the stood up, wanting to be free, and pitted himself city of Manila, there stands an imposing palace. It was against die power diat held him down. There is a built 200 years ago by a Spanish governor in the thrilling story in the Bible about Moses standing in Philippines to provide a summer retreat from the heat Pharaoh's court and saying, "Let my people go." and stench of the sprawling city. In the heyday of It is a kind of opening chapter in a continuing story. colonialism, the palace was the symbol of a life-pattern Later chapters can be found in Hebrew history, where that prevailed through most of die world. servitude was challenged; in Christian history, where Since that day of Spanish glory, some strong winds by Christian love it was gradually undermined; in have been blowing in the world and many old notions Anglo-Saxon history, where bit by bit die protest have gone. When Spain lost the islands, President against servitude got written into law. McKinley, to use his own words, "took them over for There is a little ditty about die common lands diat die United States under heaven's direct guidance." were confiscated from die peasantry and taken over The Filipinos watched dieir rulership change by the nobility: hands. They lost then old masters and got new ones, and the old colonial corruptions went right on—but The law locks up both man and icoman with one important difference. The people had a Who steals the goose from off the common, scrap of paper in their hands, a ballot, a vote. With But lets the greater felons loose their 5 million little scraps of paper, they built a Who steal the common from the goose. government—not by die elite but by the elected. A new kind of ruler moved into the palace, and the peo- These were die songs of the barefoot ones. They ple followed him in—peasants, poor folk, "bare feet in gave voice to dieir desperation, much as die Negro the palace." Agnes Newton Keith wrote a novel about spirituals speak die language of dieir enslavement,

50 Together /May 1965 m it isn't sale \n Explosion <>f iicidoiii die residential areas, where for a woman In at to a It is odd thai \\ « who take \i\n\r in our ov, arch walk at night, we are tempted times to Freedom become friglitened and suspicious when with Alexander Hamilton that "the common man is a others take it up. But that is what we are seeing now brute beast." —a freedom explosion, a global expression ol Voltaire s oft-quoted aphorism: "History is filled with the sound Message From a Stable of silken slippers going downstairs and the thunder However bewildering the issues and frightening ol wooden shoes coming up." The thunder we are the prospects, there should be no bewilderment in hearing now is the thunder of hare feet, the rising ol the Christian church as to where our mission lies, and the world's masses. no waverings as to where the lines ol our warfare are In many, main' ways the thunder we hear is fright- drawn. ening, A mass upsurge can be terrifying; it looms up as In the midst of clashing and confusing forces, there the most unpredictable problem of our time. A tew are two things we Christians must remember. First, years ago, after the fall of King Faruk, we visited his Christianity itself began among the barefoot people. former palace in Alexandria. Egypt. It now belongs to It was born not in a palaee but in a stable. Its first an- the people, and the beach is a public beach. Barefoot nouncement was made to peasants on a hillside. It people are climbing up the palaee steps, making marks was prepared for in a workshop and had its whole on its walls. In some measure this is happening every- beginning at the bottom of die social structure. The where: blue-denim peasants in plush hotels; shirtless common people heard Jesus gladly. "This Man eats ones taking over the pleasure grounds of the privi- with the riffraff, hobnobs with the irreligious!" leged; have-nots making Coney Islands out of luxury The immeasurable contribution Christ makes to hu- resorts. man life is his sublime, unwavering confidence in

The barefoot man is coming up in the world to sit common people and his revolutionary doctrine that all in the driver's seat, to set the standards, to make the men, the lowest and the least, are sacred to Cod. laws, to shape the culture, to take oxer the palace This idea has upset history, shaken thrones, and lifted from which he was formerly excluded. empires off their hinges! Jesus began at the bottom, He comes to the palace with some frightening identified himself with the common people, called liabilities. First he carries his inherited resentments. them "my brethren," saw them as sheep without a In his racial memories is the bone-deep bitterness of shepherd, taught them to hope, to believe, and made centuries. He has behind him a long, sordid history of them aware of their nobility and possibilities. misused power at the top. He remembers the whip of He has been doing it ever since. Paul looked around slavery, the— pinch of poverty, the rebuffs and snubs of at the shabby meetinghouse where the Christians of snobbery "Here, boy, whiskey and soda, and be Corinth gathered, and he said, "We're a queer lot, we quick!" Deep in his spirit are the scars that have re- Christians. Not many wise or mighty among us." sulted from centuries of exploitation, tyranny, and Celsus in the second century sneered at the Christian contempt. movement, tried to wither it with contempt, and his

The surprising thing, perhaps, is diat he is not more strongest argument was that there was nobody in it vengeful and vindictive. Every major liberation in but the riffraff. "This crazy Christ," he said, "this pro- history heretofore has been marked by violence and xincial rustic calls to him the uncultured and boorish, disorder. When the man down under overthrows his servants and shoemakers, the ragtag and bobtail of master and becomes the master—for example, in the society." French Revolution—when the bottom gets on top and the subjects become the riders, the age that follows Out of the Twilight is invariably an age of terror and disorder. "The Are we in die dawn of a new day when the light of tyranny of kings," said Mirabeau, "is hard to bear. God is beginning to penetrate into all the dark cor- But the tyranny of the mob is unendurable." ners of the earth? Are we in a time when some new What we are reaping now is the delayed harvest accent of the Holy Spirit is beginning to sound in of the sins of centuries, including the sins our ances- our ears? Are we on the edge of an age, maybe cen- tors planted. The white man of Europe and America turies long, in which there will be worked out on our must answer now for all the sins committed against planet, not without conflict and casualty, some new the dark-skinned peoples during the process of coloni- measure of fullness for the common people of the zation when, in a time of unrestrained universal greed, earth who for long generations have lived in the twi- the white man took over the earth to dominate it. light or the darkness?

Our generation did not do it; and we are trying, I If God is performing a new work, then of all people, think, in some measure to make amends for what our we in America, certainly we of the Christian church, ancestors did. But this is the white man's burden should be leading, not resisting or dragging our feet,

today: to bear the mistrust, the pent-up anger, the but leading in the task. This is what we started out to long-smoldering resentments of the barefoot man who do in Galilee: to make Christ known to all men, the is now climbing up the steps into the palace. last, the lowest, and the least. The most important | When we think of the terror in the streets in some business for Christians today is to bring the light of of our cities, where the barefoot ones have taken over God to the lands of rising hopes. If we don't do this, it won't matter much what else we do. The barefoot Condensed from The Thunder of Bare Feet, hy J. Wallace Hamilton. Copyright 1964 by Fleming H. Retell Co. Used by permission.—Eds. man must bow his knee to die diorn-crowned Man. Barnabas <*i % Looks at NEW BOOKS

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death into a long retirement; and fi- nally the queen, impelled by an iron The future Queen Victoria as a 16-ycar-old princess. sense of duty, ruling her vast empire as a mother—and her large family as a queen. have turned to Eve and remarked: thought-provoking book's various Author Elizabeth Longford had un- "My dear, we are living in an age of chapters. The others are Evelyn Mil- restricted access to the royal archives transition." At least, modem Adams lis Duvall and Paul Popenoe. and has drawn on unpublished pas- might well say this to modern Eves. All three speak very frankly. "We sages from Victoria's own Journals as David R. Mace in The Church Americans expect too much of mar- well as many private collections. Looks at Family Life (Broadman, riage in terms of solving personal Countess Longford was able to draw $3.75) says we are experiencing problems," believes Dr. Duvall. "A on her own resources, too, to under- enormous social and cultural changes, marriage is no better than the human stand her subject. Like Victoria, she and, as in no comparable era in human material that goes into it." Dr. Pope- is the mother of a large family; like history, families are having to struggle noe remarks wryly that: "The wed-

Victoria, she has been active in poli- to keep their equilibrium. ding is too often merely a transition tics. She has stood for Parliament In the process, the patriarchal fam- from appreciation to depreciation." twice and has done a great deal of ily is dying out, and a new kind of Dr. Popenoe is particularly con- work For civic groups. family is emerging. This should not cerned with how we can develop boys Queen Victoria once remarked upon he unsettling. Dr. Mace believes, for to be real men and girls to he real the quantity of hooks that had been the mark of the Christian family is women. "We have allowed the ag- written about her. most of them had. not its particular form or structure. gressiveness of the male to be per-

She would probably approve of the What makes a family Christian is the verted too often into exploiting women frankness and warmth of this one. degree to which Christian virtues and rather than protecting them. On the Certainly its readers will. Christian graces are lived out among other hand, too many women have the family members. tried to be second-rate men instead of When our first parents were leaving Dr. Mace is one of three family first-rate women." the Garden of Eden, Adam might counselors who have authored this Can we avoid both the eompetitiv

Toac 196A patterns between the sexes that are so destructive in marriage, and on the other hand, the overdependenl pat- terns that grow up when mother forces on the boy the love that shoidd be going to his lather? asks Dr. Tope noc. II so. we will not only straighten out married life in the next generation, hv producing a hotter crop of hus- bands but we will avoid the produc- tion in each generation of 5 or 6 mil- lion homosexuals.

The thesis of The Lore Fraud (Pot- ter, $5), by Edith de Rham, is that every woman is at least two people: one herself, growing and developing, the other nurturing the growth and development of others. Thus, Mrs. de Rham believes women want, and should have, both children and self- identifying work. In a society where servants are scarce and expensive, this means that many working mothers must be will- ing to place their children in group situations earlier than the standard nursery-school age of three. Thus, the author devotes the latter part of her book to evaluating results of nursery systems in Sweden, Israel, and Russia. Please... There are omissions and flaws in Mrs. de Rham's arguments. She spends little concern on the role of woman give me as wife, ignores woman's role in church and community, is prone to sweeping statements and impatient your, love condemnations, and ends up being the very thing she deplores—an armchair social theorist. There are better books $«2 r^MfttiS on the subject. if- *.-' - »---

In all three of the great religious Little Kim was abandoned by her You will receive the child's picture, life groups stemming from the land and mother in an alley of Seoul, Korea. She history, and the opportunity to exchange books of Israel—Judaism, Christianity, was found curled up behind a box, shiver- letters, Christmas cards—and love. ing, hungry and frightened. and Islam—it has been men who Since 1938 American sponsors have Her G.I. father probably doesn't even have formulated doctrine and estab- found this to be the beginning of a warm know she exists. And since Kim is a lished systems of worship, says personal friendship with a deserving child, mixed-blood child, no relative will ever Margaret Brackenbury Crook in making it possible for Christian Children's claim her. Women and Religion (Beacon, Fund to assist children in orphanages, Her future? Well, that's up to you. $5.95). schools, and special projects around the Women in these faiths, she laments, Look at her! Her every movement and world. have had only meager opportunity to gesture seem to be a plea for someone to Won't you help? Today? express their religious genius; and love her. Will you? despite recent modest gains, women For only $10 a month you or your Sponsors needed to help children in the today are hesitant about the next step. group can sponsor a boy or girl equally as following countries this month: Korea, Yet in meeting our pressing need to needy as Kim, in your choice of the Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, American Indians. rethink our ideas of God, we need all countries listed. the masculine and feminine capacities Write today: Verbon E. Ker:mp it our disposal. Contrasting women's Christian role /-CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S FUND, Inc. with that of the famous mother- Richmond, Va. 23204 goddesses of older religions, Miss I wish to sponsor a O boy girl in Name. Crook points out that in the Roman (Country) Catholic Church are limited Address. women I will pay S10 a month ($120 a year) to domesticity or to seclusion as brides monthly semi-annually yearly City f Christ, although an occasional I enclose my first payment of $ of genius woman has broken through Send me child's name, story, address, State. _Zip_ to ecclesi-political service to humanity. picture. Canadians: Write 1407 Yonge, Toronto 7 Protestantism has offered more equi- I cannot sponsor a child but want to give :able recognition, and in the last 100 $ Government Approved, Registered (VFA- 080) with Advisory Committee on Volun- 'ears some Protestant denominations Please send me more information TG 55 tary Foreign Aid. Gifts are tax deductible. lave accepted women as pastors. Such — —

a pastor is Miss Crook, who was ad- mitted to the Unitarian ministry in f?wwym England in 1917 and was the first % woman to have sole charge of a large church in that country.

It was Sunday, February 12, 1956, a gray, cold day in New York City. fSix times a year, this little Henry Faulk planned to go for devotional guide goes to Christians John a walk in Central with his wife, in more than 120 countries. Park Lynne, and their three small young- sters, then changed his mind and de- cided to work on an idea for a tele- vision show. He was already a success- ful radio and TV personality, with a show of his own on WCBS, flagship An Anniversary for station of the Columbia Broadcasting f System. As he sat down to his desk in their comfortable apartment, the telephone THE LITTLE WONDER rang. Val Adams, radio and TV col- umnist for The New York Times, wanted to know if he had seen the bulletin AWARE, Inc., had issued, of the Publishing World attacking him for procommunist ac- tivities. AWARE was a product of the Mc- Carthy era, a self-appointed "consul- tant" to the entertainment business IT DOES not use articles, fiction, for inclusion in a forthcoming bi- that purported to determine, for a humor, or letters from readers. It monthly issue. (He is the third fee, exactly who was a loyal Ameri- never features controversy, politics, editor in 30 years. The first was can and who was not, and who should war, crime, movie sirens, intrigue, Dr. Grover Carlton Emmons, who have their careers brought abruptly cooking hints, or homemaking tips. died in 1944; the second was Dr. to a close without any opportunity to But after 30 years of publishing Roy H. Short, who served until his confront their accusers. AWARE had history, The Upper Room still has election to the episcopacy in 1948.) a special reason to "get" John Henry the publishing world wide-eyed Typically, the daily meditations Faulk. He had led a revolt against with amazement as its circulation (one to a page) include a Bible such blacklisting in the American Fed- —in excess of 3 million copies per verse, a short text, a brief prayer, eration of Radio and Television Artists. issue—continues to grow. and a one-sentence thought for the The fear generated by AWARE To date, more than 360 million day. Covers usually are reproduc- terminated many careers, and injured copies have been printed, and tions of masterpieces of religious many lives. But John Henry Faulk small as the booklet is—that many art from the world's galleries. fought back, opposing in open court would pave a wide path around the Among related departments of the lies, the half-truths, and innuendos world. In concept and format, it the magazine today are The Upper that were AWARE's method of attack. is little different from the first issue Room Chapel, Museum, and Devo- The legal battle lasted six years, years that rolled off the press in 1935. tional Libraiy in Nashville, visited of bitter struggle to support his fam- A quarterly at first, it now appears by more than 50,000 persons a ily, years spent tracking down minute six times a year. A four-page pic- year; and The Upper Room Radio- documentation and witnesses reluctant ture section has been added—not TV Parish which, in a single year, to declare themselves. But at the end so much to attract readership as airs programs on some 2,000 radio of one of the most dramatic trials of to call attention to the inspiration and television stations around the modem times the jury awarded him an and quiet beauty that abounds in world. unprecedented S3. 500.000 in dam- God's world. Although organizationally a part ages. Later die figure was reduced to Less than three years after it of the Methodist Board of Evange- $550,000 by a higher court, but the started, The Upper Room's circula- lism, The Upper Room is both verdict was upheld. tion zoomed to 1 million. This year, interdenominational and ecumeni- Fear On Trial (Simon and Schus- as it observes its 30th anniversary, cal. (Only about half the readership ter, $6.50) is Faulk's own story, told there are 42 editions in 36 is thought to be Methodist.) De- with more charity toward his accusers languages, with Braille and long- signed for family devotions, it is and the fair-weather friends who let playing "talking books" for the equally at home in the hands of him down than most of us could mus- handicapped. When the first proofs an elderly woman or in the pocket ter. But he had powerful support in come from the press at The Meth- of a lonely man shuffling along the his lawyer, Louis Nizer: his wife; his odist Publishing House, copies are streets of despair. family, all Methodists back home in sent to translators here and abroad Many believe this little booklet South Austin. Texas, where the Faulks for reproduction in other languages. is one of the most influential forces had to go when he no longer could More than 200 manuscripts arc for good in the world today. It get a job in New York; and friends received each month in The Upper has found its way under the Iron like Edward Ft. Morrow, Tony Ran- Room's editorial offices in Nashville. Curtain and into prison camps. dall. David Susskind. Charles Colling-

Tenn., and each month the editor. Soldiers have carried it into battle, wood. and Garry Moore, who did

Dr. J. Manning Potts, sits clown alcoholics to sobriety, and untold stick by him regardless of very real with a 13-member editorial board millions to better lives. danger to their own careers. to select approximately 60 of these —H. B. Teeter Nobody is really safe from the kind

54 Together /May 1965 I character assassination that w.i^ at- forefront of the civil rights battle. In tanpted on Faulk. Hut because oi his ,i series of black and white drawings purageous, dogged fight, the smear that require little comment, we find rtists have been put on warning that no mercy shown to either Negro or

I they pick the wrong person, they white. nay pay heavily for their efforts. There is the Negro minister in ball and chain and tailor-made prison uni- The design of many hooks on art form. "When he is released, he must ails to he- worthy of the subject hurry and catch the people, for Ik- lowever, The Meaning and Wonder is their leader" . . . The horrified

is just f Art (Golden Press, $3.95) a white liberal who has been in- blight to the eye. formed that the house next door has

British artist and author Fred Cet- been bought by Negroes. . . . The ings has written this lively introduc- armed-to-the-teeth Southern chief of ion to understanding and appreciating police, who will be backed out of of- rt for young readers, and its 91 pages fice when the crisis has passed: "He re filled with four-color reproductions will not represent the new image the f the world's great masterpieces. city wishes to project for the Northern

Concepts of composition and propor- investor" . . . The black nationalist, ion, recurring motifs, aesthetic mood, with such great disdain for anything hythm, and design become clear and produced by the white man that he

\eiting as a result. insists on a black Cadillac . . . The The Pantheon Story of Art for Negro college professor, who has a Bung People (Pantheon. $6.95) string of academic degrees but flunks flows a more conventional approach, the literacy test for voters when he ut Ariane Ruskin has a relaxed, easy cannot give the 1934 census figures ay of writing about art history, and of children under 12 years of age in lis. too, is a stimulating book for a the state of Israel. Hung reader. More than 150 repro- Creator of the Yearbook is Jeff uctions, half of them in full color, Donaldson, an art department chair- lustrate it. man in the Chicago public-school system, and a Negro. I wonder why such rigid distinction made between art and crafts, par- What's Ahead for the Churches? cularly now that the walls of our art (Sheed & Ward, $4.50) could be mseums are lined with collages classified as a nonbook, that is, a book eated from almost anything artists that merely reprints previously pub- No Medical Examination in stick on canvas. Why should a lished material, if coeditors Martin E. icture produced with paint be called Marty and Kyle Haselden had not No Age Limit le art, for instance, when a painting added their own trenchant chapters >ne with wools or silks is termed on ecumenical action and the social iedlecraft? I think there is some mission of the churches. Chapters on American Bible Society Annuity Payments bbbery in this, and you may think the dilemmas and strengths of in- give you a guaranteed income for life! i, too, when you examine some of dividual denominations were written e designs illustrated in The Stitches by different authors for a series of Creative Embroidery (Reinhold, articles that originally appeared in • Interest up to 7.4% depending on age. 7.95) by Jacqueline Enthoven. The Christian Century. • Generous tax deductions — no legal Although this fascinating book tells Nonbook or no, Methodists will find fees—no re-investment worries.

e beginner how to make more than Chicago Theological Seminary pro- • Check is mailed to you regularly— no )0 embroidery stitches, Mrs. En- fessor Franklin H. Littell's examina- coupons to clip, no trips to the bank for withdrawals. oven constantly stresses the creative tion of Methodism pertinent or im- • You help the American Bible Society >proach, urging the reader to use the pertinent, depending their on own to distribute God's Word in more than ;edle as an artist uses pencil or brush views, but very much worth reading. 300 languages and dialects through- experiment with new combinations Methodism has basic problems, says out the world. stitches, exciting mixtures of color, Dr. Littell, in its anti-intellectual and Enjoy a regular income that never runs out and the spiritual satisfaction id and original designs. antitheological bent, and in the lack new of continuing the Master's work. In of discipline and training of its mem- 120 years, the American Bible Society Rebels With a Cause (Abingdon, bership. has never failed to meet full payments.

i.75) is religious nonconform- decline of Methodist influence about The Get all the facts. Mall coupon today. :s, famous ones like Martin Luther, since 1900 began, he believes, precise- sser known ones like Simeon Stylites ly at the point where the peculiar AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY Philip Neri. genius of Wesleyanism was sacrificed. id 440 Park Avenue South, Frank S. Mead tells dieir stories But he does not advocate the simple New York, N. Y. 10016 old structures. is isply, with humor and understand- recovery of What Please send me, without obligation, full details ;g, and, when you have closed the needed is a renewal of the church's about your annuity agree- ments and free booklet, "A Gift that •vers of the book, you have both ministry. He sees signs of this renewal Lives". ijoyed yourself and added to your in the Methodist Student Movement, lowledge of the history of the Chris- and in local churches that are putting Name. in faith. content into church membership. "With the steady recovery of Address. The Civil Rights Yearbook (Reg- disciplined witness by the whole body iy, $1.25) is a sharply satirical look of believers," he concludes, "it may City .State. the characters and issues in the be hoped that the need for an anxious-

ay 1965\Together 55 New, vital and varied reading ly cultivated hostility to other com- federacy's president. It covers the last munions will disappear, and that a 25 years of Davis' life, from the closing for the entire family . . . rebirth of authentic Christian joy and days of the Civil War to his death and Wesleyan evangelicalism may occur." magnificent funeral in New Orleans in December, 1889. There are countless ways of asking Written from a Southerner's sympa- the Lord's blessing on the food we thetic view, the biography arouses the eat, and over 100 have been gathered reader's compassion for Davis, sacrifi- together by Marjorie Ingzel in Table cial scapegoat of the war. Chapter Graces for the Family (Nelson, SI). titles such as "The Capture," "That There are ancient blessings, such as Living Tomb," "The Torment Begins," St. Cyril's Prayer After Meals, used by and "The Prosecution Continues" re- Christians for more than 15 centuries, veal the suffering and humiliation modern ones like the singing grace heaped upon him. from Walt Disney's Melody Time, verses from the Bible and famous August 13, 1521, when Spanish poets, mealtime prayers from many adventurer Hernando Cortes captured lands, inscriptions from cathedrals, the great Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, and even a silent grace. was the turning point in Spain's con- quest of the New World. Living By Faith (Holt, Rinehart, Young people will find an authentic- Winston, $3.95) is a misleading title account of how a handful of con- for Faith Baldwin's quiet ramble quistadores armed with more ad- through the seasons of a New England vanced weapons toppled a great na- year and the rooms of the hospitable tion at the peak of its power in Cortes challenging the saltbox house in which she lives. and the Aztec Conquest (Horizon There is nothing particularly inspira- Caravel Books, local church's ministry . . . $3.95). The narrative tional or challenging about it. was written by Irwin R. Blacker. MENTAL HEALTH I think, however, many women will Paintings, drawings, and artifacts of THROUGH CHRISTIAN enjoy this quiet chat with a serene the period, many of them reproduced friendly hostess. And if it is too COMMUNITY and in color, form the illustrations for this serene for my taste, many would tell absorbing book on a conquest that Howard ). Clinebell, Jr. A prac- me, no doubt, that it is refreshing to was inevitable in the course of history tical guide for making the find such calm confidence in a world but of which no Christian can really church's ministry in the mental that holds too many challenges. proud. art health field more effective. In- be Some of the treasures dex. 304 pages. $4.75 illustrated can now be found in Families, before very long, may museums of modem Mexico City, be spending vacations at resort hotels which rose on the site of Tenochtitlan. a new and clearer image . . . nestling on pure white sand, sur- rounded by multicolored coral, CHARLES WESLEY— but John Ciardi is one of the best of with waves above them instead of THE FIRST America's living poets and, in the 57 METHODIST sky. new poems that make up Person to This is only one of the future uses Person (Rutgers, $3.50), he ranges Frederick C. Gill. A lively biog- of the land beneath the sea that from the morning exuberance of the raphy of the dynamic co-founder Seabrook Hull suggests in The Bounti- young child "running so hard ... he of Methodism, shown in the light ful Sea (Prentice-Hall, $6.95). Passen- kicked die heads off daisies" to specu- of his own accomplishments. 240 ger submarines, undersea freighters, pages. Illustrated, $5 lation on the meaning of existence. ocean-floor storage, even underocean Death takes various forms, but it al- vacation "bubbles" instead of moun- ways remains a mystery as does the fifty-six meditations tain cabins may become as common as nature of God and the devil. CHANNELS OF the mining of diamonds, gold, and Ciardi writes with tensely controlled CHALLENGE other treasures already being done energy, tenderness, and compassion, from the ocean floor. and his verse bespeaks a man alive M.nxie D. Dunnam. Inspirational Hull pooh-poohs the oft-proposed to people, to nature, and to himself. meditations that challenge the idea of feeding the world's growing reader to accept God's eternal billions on plankton from the sea, Rabbi Robert I. Kahn does not real- power to sustain and support. 144 however. "There are far more effective ly say anything startling in The Ten pages. $2.75 ways to reap the harvest of the sea," Commandments for Today (Double- he says, "and the fish that eat the fish day, $3.95). but he does have a lucid learning to die that eat the plankton do it very well and compelling way of explaining die

is part of living . . . indeed." relevancy of diese ancient laws to die HOME BEFORE DARK Offsetting the pleasant and produc- space age. Christians and Jews alike tive peaceful potentials of the sea, will find this book rewarding reading. Bryant M. Kirkland. A book about however, is Hull's prediction on the life and death. Through learning deadly character of future under- It was a church organist who helped during His life to die, man most ocean warfare. War, obviously, is an Giuseppe Verdi enter die world of profoundly lives all the years of possibility whether music to which he was to give such his life. 160 pages. $2.75 equally menacing in "inner" or "outer" space. operas as Rigolctto, Otcllo, and Aida. Order from Cokcsbury Helen L. Kaufmann tells the story of Jefferson Davis: Tragic Hero (Har- the peasant boy who became a great ABINGDON PRESS court, Brace & World, $7.50) is the composer in Anvil Chorus (Hawthorn, The Book Publishing Department third and final volume of Hudson $2.95). It is a lively telling that young of The Methodist Publishing House Strode's fine biography of the Con- folks will enjoy. —Barnabas

56 Together /May 1965 )

^P/WHi^v^Jin Fiction

With GERALD KENNEDY, bishop, los angeles area

^/N PAGE 39 of this issue, ground music, this is such a climax quietness and thought about what had ocether publishes Dr. F. Thomas that it is very difficult to come back transpired. 'rotter's review of The Greatest Story after the intermission and feel that The last part of the picture seemed xcr Told. Here in Browsing in Fic- the high point has not been reached. to reflect a change of approach and ion, I am going to report my personal Every preacher knows the danger of mood. It was as if Mr. Stevens decided eactions to the film. (The editor of striking 12 too early. that for the trial and Crucifixion he

[lis magazine is a very kind and The opening of the picture with the would simply play the story in a enerous man who long ago gave me birth story centering around the shep- thoroughly orthodox fashion. I do not »ve to speak of a movie once in a herds and the Wise Men is beautiful mean to imply that it becomes a diile, as well as to talk about novels. and dramatic. Outstanding photogra- second-rate production, by any means, iertainly this is one of the great con- phy helped to heighten the wonder of but only that the creative and light jmporary motion-picture events, and this part of the story, but I assure you touch of the producer is much more hristian people will not object to there is something much more involved subdued. The speeches of Jesus are ;ading many and sometimes confhet- than photography. The story is told more the words of the Gospel of St. ig opinions of it. with simplicity and wonder. John and the whole result is more

I have just written a letter to Mr. If the whole picture could have stylized than spontaneous. This may eorge Stevens, the producer of the been about the length of the first part, be a necessity if the story is not to icture. I told him that in my judg- it would have been a good thing. I offend any particular groups. ient it is the greatest picture on the expect Mr. Stevens would say that I do not know how to speak with Fe of Christ that has ever been made. this is an impossibility and that the any authority about the technique of his does not mean that it will go subject demanded at least a four-hour the photography, but I am sure it is a shout criticism, for I doubt that if treatment—and even that meant cut- great experience to see the beauty of sus should come back and live his ting important parts of the story. the setting. The locale was Utah and, :e over again, he would meet with When I saw the Passion Play at while the scenery may be more spec- liversal approval. When one con- Oberammergau more than 10 years tacular than Palestine, there is the ders the myriad of theological pre- ago, I felt the same way. Of course, same desert majesty and loneliness ippositions with which we approach in the German play, one goes home of the country where Jesus lived. No ie New Testament story, it is not to to lunch and then comes back for the one will forget our Lord climbing to

? wondered at that a modern man afternoon session. I probably labor the heights for the temptation or lling the story through his eyes will this point too much, but the silence striding ahead of his disciples on dicir ive many who express disapproval. of the audience as they left at the end way to Jerusalem. No matter what the ideed, I do not know a more daring of the picture would indicate that details may be, the picture catches id impossible task than to write a their experience made ordinary talk the sense of the majesty of God in his >ok or make a picture about the life and gossip out of place and demanded world. Christ. The scholar will find some theo- The first part of the picture, which logical objections, but the common to say all that goes before the inter- people will see it gladly. Some will

ission, is outstanding in nearly every wonder why these scenes are chosen ay. Max von Sydow is as near the and not others. But that is inevitable dit actor for this part as we are DEAL TRAITS in a story as big as this one. ;ely to find. He is neither a Rotarian Some have wondered why Jesus

>r a hermit, and he comes close to FOR A MINISTER speaks the words of the 13th chapter iving the right balance between of First Corinthians, but to me this gnity and One who came eating and was a realization that Paul was not inking. Stevens has brought in a He should experience the the kind of man who could have writ- | iman, light touch here and there in vision of Isaiah, ten that great poem until he met Jesus is first part which to me was de- have the faith of Abraham, on the road to Damascus. In some sense at least, the words did come hhtful. I had a particular apprecia- the courage of Paul, from our Lord. The miraculous ele- >n for James the Less (Little James) a backbone of steel with life is treated with indi- I io was the kind of young man Jesus ment in his nerves of wire, last have loved. Among the disciples, , rection and suggestion, and the inci- a rhinoceros hide, in \ stands out in my mind as a real dent of the woman taken adultery a hard head, a soft heart, laracter who earned conviction. is convincing and revealing. the patience of Job, I I liked Lazarus and his two sisters, Along with Max von Sydow, I think the persistence of ocean waves special praise should be given to Jose | d it is a high moment when Lazarus Jmes forth from the tomb. With —and a smart wife. Ferrer as Herod Antipas, Claude vndel's Hallelujah Chorus as back- —Graham R. Hodges Raines as Herod the Great, and Telly Savalas as Pilate. Sidney Poitier as Simon of Cyrene says nothing, but hits SCHOOLS a mighty blow at our racial sin as he Always portrays the legendary man who bore the cross after Jesus had fallen. Family Plan The whole picture portrays the • . • Conceived at Sheraton* hand of a master director. Here and there—as, for example, when Jesus in prayer, born (Kids share is talking to a few of his disciples free.) under a footbridge—there is the per- in sympathy, the room fect setting and the right situation for the words he speaks. There are times developed by love C e\ when the crowds are portrayed in such a way that one sees something of maintained by ' and w / ^>-v" the bustle of the life which surrounded [ f|8,»\ X& him. We see a great directing talent {'.-o : philanthropy, m Hr - 1 J 3 ^ ~—S^ ti dedicated to the greatest story ever known. MEHARRY The treatment of the devil has the nxjnm touch of genius. The Tempter is an MEDICAL old man who practices the soft sell and makes a man realize how often ^^ wvsr^ >I^ COLLEGE v. he has met such a one and yielded to Sheraton means extra va/ue for travelers. his reasonable and exciting offers. I is a monument to PARKING IS FREE. Rooms are roomy, shall remember such things for a long rates are guaranteed and reservations are time, and so will the millions who will Insured. Free TV, radio, air-conditioning. Methodism. see the picture. The Greatest Story (Many Sheratons even offer coffee-makers, ice-cubers, swimming pools.) Ever Told certainly will be with us Meharry merits And Sheraton is always handy. Always far into the future, and it will carry a near business, shopping, fun. Our personnel witness to many people who would are genial, our chefs are geniuses. The and seeks never hear it from any other source. word's getting around: the place to stay is Let us rejoice that in a day when Sheraton. your continued men have been willing to prostitute 90 Sheraton Hotels their talents for the cheap and vulgar, financial support. & Motor Inns a great director chose this story. Mr. George Stevens, we are all in your debt. May the good Lord bless you Address: for telling the old, old story to a Nashville, Tennessee 3720 world that will either learn its mean- ing or lose its life. GREENVILLE COLLEGE

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58 Together /May 1965 : —

People Called METHODISTS / Number 41 in a Series

Four generations strong, the Fosters leave church on a quiet Sunday morning. They keep tilings humming in business, social, and civic circles during the iceck, hut their church remains always central in their daily lives.

When in

Bernards ton, Mass. MEET

1 HE FOSTERS live in a house and watch die rest of the world diings, however, revolve around, )y the side of a road where the go by? It would seem to be the or grow out of, a church—the aces of men go by—in a hurry. other way around, for folks in die Goodale Memorial United Church Hie road, new Interstate Highway Greenfield-Bernardston area of of Bernardston, made up of Con-

)1, was not there when they built northwest Massachusetts are more gregationalists and Methodists

he house, but Frank Foster, Jr., accustomed to watching the Fosters and are the Fosters' steady applica- ays he does not mind. go by. tion of Sunday morning to every "It is interesting to sit here and Take just the parents. Their ac- other day of the week. vatch the cars on a busy weekend," tivities include such things as own- Frank, who is also called "Bud," le says. "Then we can think how ing and operating a supermarket, taught church-school classes for 25 ucky we are to be in easy chairs selling real estate, pushing civic years; his wife, June, for almost vatching the world go by." drives, conducting benefits, acting as long. Both maintain a number Anyone who knows the Fosters in local dramatic presentations, of leadership roles in the united vill wonder: At precisely what his- serving as town moderator or auc- congregation led by the Rev. oric moment did any one of them tioneer, and taking leadership in James M. Mockler. lave the time to sit in an easy chair various civic groups. Many of these Meanwhile, June is in charge of

»H^i CO Frank Foster knows how to sell meat or real estate, ring up a cash register, or sack S25 worth of groceries without cracking an egg. He can perform as the town's auctioneer, and will oblige with a vocal solo at church on Sunday morning. At right, he practices for the solo with his sister as accompanist.

the home, which she calls "Foster- tion and comparing notes with ness, of course, but most of all I ville" and describes as "a small hotel other merchants, he has succeeded diink it helps die shoplifter reform where we find 6 to 12 for most in spotting most of the offenders himself." meals, and up to 40 for special in the area. At least twice a week, Frank's occasions." But her favorite role, "When one is caught, I tell him day begins at 4 a.m. On Fridays, now that two of their four children I would like to rehabilitate him," it's a trip to Boston for seafood. are married, is "grandmothering." Frank says. "He is permitted to "I pick up anywhere from 700 to A lot of people operate so-called return any time and shop around 1.000 pounds of lobsters," he says. supermarkets, and know what it is like anyone else, but he knows that "Yesterday I had nearly a ton of to deal with shoplifters and fierce I know about him. He'll come back, clams in my truck—and diat is a competition while struggling to very sheepish at first, but sooner lot of clams." On Mondays, tiiere make that 2 percent profit on a or later is as reliable as any other is a predawn trip to Springfield for great volume of sales. While good customer. This helps my busi- fresh produce for die store. Foster's store does not take in an entire block, as do some stores these days, it is jam-packed with fast- moving grocery and variety stock, has its own "Foster's Magic Empire Stamp" plan, and has its 60 parking stalls full of automobiles much of the time. "The store would show a bigger and quicker profit if Frank ever chooses to ask for a wine license," a neighbor said, "but, you know, Frank doesn't believe in doing any- thing he doesn't believe in doing." For the problem of shoplifting, a universal one, Frank has found a unique answer. "At first, they almost put me out of business," he says. By organizing a supermarket managers' associa-

There's singing in the home. too, with a quartet composed of

Jill, Ranse, Judith, and Janice joining with their parents.

60 ?ostcr's "hotel" is always ready to entertain guests ranging in age and status from grandchildren to visitors win another town. In emergencies, out come the portable tables, and down go the cots. At right, June Foster visits ;ith a grandchild, and at left helps Frank make ready for another overnight guest.

Foster's Supermarket is at Green- to be a very good place to work.) returning more than they take out eld, a city of about 18,000, and Frank is 44, blond and crew cut. of life. The Fosters, serious in their lie Foster home is on Bald Moun- He got his start in college as an roles as good citizens, keep church lin Road in the small suburban employee, and later as owner, of a and family ties central in their ommunity of Bernardston, about student supply store. Married in lives. What does it matter if chil- ix miles north. Every member of 1938, he was the father of three dren grow up, marry and build le family has worked in the store children when he enlisted in the homes of their own? Around the t one time. The son, Ransom Army Air Corps and became a Fosters, you would hardly know called "Ranse" for short), now gunner. Mrs. Foster, a brunette ex- the difference! larried and employed in a variety trovert, took over. She recalls that Of the four children, Jill is the tore, got Ins early mercantile their romance must have started only teen-ager left. The toddlers •aining in his father's market. A "about 40 years ago, in Sunday around the house diese days are )n-in-law, Milton Deane, has been school, when he threw a spitball grandchildren. n employee for eight years. (Since and hit me in the eye." In nominating die Fosters as 1962 lost of the regular employees have Alarmists to the contrary, Amer- Methodist Family of the Year, the een with Foster's Supermarket for ica is full of close-knit, warm, Rev. John H. Emerson, former bout 10 years, it would appear friendly families who delight in pastor of the Bernardston church,

aturday night at the Fosters: Places for 11 here, 4 at a side table there, and dinner coming up buffet style.

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said they "practice family devotions Together's visit to the Fosters bus terminal. Two huge roasts were in the home; plan many leisure- last October coincided with that of prepared for the 24 people who time activities for the entire family; five young people and two chap- came to dine, and die front lawn and every visitor to their home erones representing the senior-high began to resemble a restaurant discovers its warm, cordial, and Fellowship of a Congregational parking lot. Guests came and went, harmonious atmosphere. They live church at Braintree, Mass. In addi- some praising Frank's solo at upright lives and are highly re- tion to Frank's modier, Mrs. Lulu church diat morning, and four spected in the community. Foster, who makes her home there, times the apple bowl was emptied "The Fosters exhibit unusual die weekend's assorted guests in- of a dozen apples. A game of touch - qualities of Christian maturity, cluded husbands, wives, friends, football started in the yard, andi making a vital Christian witness to neighbors, and grandchildren. On Grandmother Foster went to her the community, and are proving Saturday, Frank and June served room for a nap. die relevance of the Gospel in all a 10-pound lobster, cooked on a Frank and June talked quietly aspects of daily life." stove in the back of the market, of dieir life togetiier, but said noth- As Methodists, the pastor con- plus six smaller lobsters and three ing of tiieir "home away from tinued, "they are really a remark- large steaks. home" for lonesome or troubled '. able family and their service in By Sunday noon, Foster's "hotel" young people, of tiieir steadfast Christ's church is most significant." took on the air of a well-patronized willingness to do for others. All day long the traffic streamed

along the superhighway nearby, t but not once did either look up to * watch the world go by. It was I pretty late when they got to bed f

that night, although Frank knew he 1

had to be up before 4 a.m. for that I run to the produce market in j Springfield. —H. B. Teeter

How do you tell your hostess you hud such a nice time, and say

it with all the sincerity you feel after a busy weekend with the remarkable Fosters? These boys apparently have succeeded!

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Bethlehem—Not Nazareth! for a printed medium which encourages open study of the issues which confront MARWAN S. KASIM, Consul Gen. everyone in a changing society. Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Take courage and let future issues New York, N.Y. upstairs of Together lead us in appraisal of I would like to bring to your at- other matters which agonize the souls ...downstairs*^ tention a serious error which appeared of contemporary churchmen. in your April issue on page 34 under and never climb a step! the title, Paid The Great Missionary. Rules Needed—And Education! There's never been a handier, easier way to The article starts with the statement get from one floor to another than on the that "Paul was born in Tarsus only ROGER BURGESS, Assoc. Gen. Secy. pushbutton Inclinette. Installed on your Division present stairway it's a must for people who LO years or so after Jesus was bom of Alcohol Problems must avoid climbing stairs for health's sake n Nazareth ..." I am sure that the and General Welfare ... for the elderly ... for the convenience Board of Christian Social Concerns birthplace of Christ is universally of the whole family. Inclinette is our budget- Washington, D.C. mown as being in Bethlehem, which is priced, single-passenger home stair lift. Our illustrated free booklet tells i Jordanian town, and not in Nazareth. The Powwow How Can Methodist about Inclinette, the two- I hope that in a coming issue you Colleges Control Drinking on the passenger Inclinator and .vill be kind enough to include the Campus? is positive and constructive. J•"nribjnc^^""b the "Elevette"—modern, • '( _ necessary correction. Thanks! 3-passenger home elevator. ai^a^fe'rs *£tPoteveri Methodist colleges have every right WriteforyourFREE COPY of We are at a loss to explain how so to establish regulations regarding stu- daring an error slipped through. With dent conduct on campus. Repeated in- rimson faces, we can say only that Inclinator Company fraction of the rules does not necessarily nir familiarity with both town names OF AMERICA mean that they are invalid. But response Paxton St., Harrisburg, Pa. ed us to overlook the inadvertent sub- 2307 to infractions must be remedial in titution one name for the other. of nature, not simply punitive. Ake other Christians, we recognize . .tiiiAAii^ Methodist colleges also have every Bethlehem, in Jordan, as the birth- responsibility to provide adequate alco- llace of Jesus, and Nazareth, in Israel, hol education for students as a part of s his boyhood home.—Editors a full and relevant educational experi- SAVE $5.00 PRICE! ence. Our division stands ready to OFF FACTORY-DIRECT fes. Parents Are Too Soft provide consultation service on campus- LINDA CORNELL, Age 16 drinking problems, and to assist with Tillamook, Oreg. specialized seminars involving student The Powwow Are Parents Too Soft? leaders, faculty, and administration. tSonroe FOLDING February, page 26] is an exceptional TABLE rticle. I agree that parents are too An Alarming Contrast

enient with us teen-agers. OMER BRUCE POULSON, Ret. Min. I feel that we should be able to take Trustee, Penn. Temperance League >n our share of responsibilities. Our Camp Hill, Pa. »arents think they have to let us do Now Only About the same time my March he things we want in order to keep $27.95 Together arrived, containing the Pow- F.O.B. COLFAX ur love. They should not need to wow How Can Methodist Colleges Con- You can always save money buying direct

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|Ja^l96!AToqether M that educators who occupy high places withholding coronation) or use excom- in our church boards and schools are munication in order to constrain its proposing that Methodists be "realistic" adherents to a course of political con- about drinking habits. duct, and that the state may not (as Who ever dreamed that the day would Henry VIII and Hitler did) manipulate of paper come when liquor merchants would be the church to its own ends. found urging youth to respect liquor This does not mean at all that the laws while trusted educators plead for church may not speak to its people 1000 Methodists to liberalize their stand on and to the state on any matter affecting the drink question! the individual or society. Indeed, if pounds the is take seriously the church to of ink Opposed to Moderation words "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven," MR. and MRS. GWYN EVANS it must so speak. Ashley, Pa. The Methodist Church has no power, wish to put it on record that we Do you know that this is the We however, to constrain either its mem- not approve of Methodists who con- average daily requirement of your do bers or the state. This is important. Methodist Publishing House in done moderation in drinking in order to younger generation. printing the materials used in Meth- satisfy the Proud of Larry odist churches and church schools JOHN E. KING, Preside7it across the nation? 'A Big, Happy Family' Kansas State Teachers College The giant presses and all the sup- ERNEST A. MILLER, Ret. Minister Emporia, Kans. r portive equipment and personnel Wesley Manor :. I deeply appreciate the article Larry that handle the printing of millions Jacksonville, Fla. Carpenter: High-School Teacher-Coun- of items today provide quite a con- I amazed that you allowed space am selor [March, page 63]. We here at trast to the Methodist Book Con- Blessing or Curse? to Retirement Cities: Kansas State Teachers College are estab- cern's one-room print shop Stanley S. Jacobs in the [page 45] by proud of Larry. He was a leader while lished in Philadelphia in 1789. February issue. in college and has been a leader since YOU can be instrumental in in- It seems clear that Mr. Jacobs made graduation. forming the members of your of the fine only a superficial study Together has made a major contribu- church of the interesting facts Consider many Christian homes of this day. tion toward helping the physically are part of the remarkable 125 of us are which Wesley Manor where now handicapped. Many handicapped stu- 175-year history of the Publishing a top award living. It has received dents will see the article about Larry House. Administra- from the Federal Housing and be encouraged to continue their A filmstrip entitled "The Meth- tion for its excellent design. I doubt education. odist Publishing House, What is it? if a single resident is discontented here. this history We are a big, happy family. Come and Where is it?" recounts Another Case of Paulic and tells of Publishing House ser- see. LYNN LANNING vice today. The 35mm, 16-minute, 1 Glendale, Calif. Side Given . : color-sound filmstrip is available for Only 'Curse use by groups interested in learning MRS. LUCILLE YOUNGMAN The article Pawite Takes the I.Q. [February, impelled to tell more about their church and its Riverview Terrace page 19] me agencies. Official boards, local Spokane, Wash. you an experience related by my psy- church school chology professor. She was testing an church commissions, The article Retirement Cities: Bless- 11-year-old boy who had been classed classes, training classes for church ing or Curse? made me so indignant membership, members of Methodist as mentally retarded. She began with that I must answer. Only the "curse" societies of third-grade vocabulary tests. The an- Men and woman's side was given. You usually give both Methodist swers he gave were not the expected Christian service, and sides of controversial topics. Fellowships are among the ones. "Puddle." for instance, was Youth For four years I have found retire- "something to jump over." many possibilities. Program sugges- ment living a great blessing in a non- the psy- included in the filmstrip After a few such answers, tions are profit, church-sponsored home, built chologist skipped to junior-high level package to aid the leader in an ef- with the needs of the aging in mind. answers were more fective presentation. questions. The boy's Certainly it is no "geriatric ghetto"! I appropriate, and he quit playing Suggest the filmstrip for a pro- would not live alone in my own home around the room and took an interest. gram in your church. Your pastor again if I could. The psychologist eventually determined can help you in ordering the film- he had an I.Q. of 145. strip from your Cokcsbury Regional Separation Misunderstood I would guess that Paulie in your Center on a ten-day free Sen ice J. P. SPEER. Director article was not ready for kindergarten, loan basis ... or you may borrow a on Peace Education Committee perhaps, but could have held his own copy From your district secretary ol Missouri Area, The Methodist Church in first or second grade. publishing interests. Kansas City, Mo. The letter from Mrs. V. V. Ruekman 'Ill Conceived, Inappropriate' in your February issue [see Church- H. NEWTON MALONY, Director State Wall Breached, page 68] demon- Psychology Department K_Arkesbury strates a misunderstanding about the Frankfort State Hospital and School and state which Service Centers separation of church Send m.n7 orders (o Reri'on.,1 Frankfort. Ky. DALLAS. TEXAS 75201 • NASHVILLE, TENN. 37203 unfortunately is widespread among PARK RIDGE, ILL 60068 • RICHMOND. VA. 23218 • the article Pa .die Takes SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. 94102 TEANECK, N. J. 07666 Methodists. In my opinion Shop in person at these Cofcesbury Stores: inappropri- Properly understood, this doctrine the I.Q. is ill conceived and Atlonto • Baltimore • 8oston Chicago Cincinnati Dallas • Detroit • Kansas City • Los Angeles • Nashville the church may not exact ate. • means that New York • Pittsburgh Portland • Richmond Son Francisco obedience from the state (as the As a Methodist minister and a medieval popes did by granting or psychologist, I do not feel that profes-

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CLASSIFIED ADS sional clients to rv.ilu.it.- .mil plan optimal UOOKS educational experiences for children are out of place in our society. VK BET OUR LIVES" 50 y«*rt Treaaur* Just one bequest State HomtatoadinKi Illustrated. Autographed, Such articles BS this do small justice |B.60. "Many Voices" inspiring, religious iiml guarantees feature poems, homespun philosophy, diary to the honest, skilled work of thi notes. Antogiiiplieil, :?.'..>.">. Jay \V. Gitcliel, psychologists attempting to make such — Boulder, Montana 59682, life income for judgments. your loved ones 11K1.P WANTED The implicit sarcasm directed toward U'lUU AND I'OMMl'NITY WOKhKK foi —perpetual help inner-city situation. Christian Education prep- the psychologist is questionable. The tration with graduate work preferred. Write for your church picturing of the psychologist as an in- Mrs. Fred Bergen, 20 liiooktield Way. Morris- :own. New Jersey 07960. adequate dupe is inexcusable. A lump sum left to those you love or )USE PARENTS WITH MAN to teach I hope parents who read this retort through a bequest insurance may :arpentry. Idaho Ranch for Youth. Rupert, be quickly dissipated. You may Idaho. Telephone 208-532-2715. will have their confidence restored in find under certain state laws you ICUPATIONAL THERAPIST OR ARTS & the educational system which requires cannot make a bequest to the Srafts Directress—Girls school for slow learn- such evaluations. church's work as you desire it. ers. Live in. Beautiful campus in beautiful nountains of northern Pennsylvania. Ideal for Consider drawing your will so dngle or widowed Christian Women. Good liv- Too Much Catholicism! that gift annuities will be presented ing conditions. Write: Superintendent, Martha to your loved ones upon your death. Lloyd School, Troy, Penna. MRS. LORENE SEELY While they live, the principal is 5TIRED MINISTER FOR PART time assist- invested to produce guaranteed mt in California church. Calling and youth Roosevelt, Wash. income, unaffected by economic Stork, $200.00 monthly. Write in detail : Pastor, I not like the trend that seems >737 13th Avenue, Oakland, California. do climate. Upon their deaths, it is :TIRKD METHODIST MINISTER WHO to be taking The Methodist Church to- released to do the Lord's work in .vishes to live and serve in the Miami area of ward a closer unity with the Roman whatever mission field you choose. Florida as associate pastor, primarily visiting, To help you plan for such per- .vith some preaching. Box 8, Hialeah, Florida. Catholic Church. It is not in keeping petual Christian stewardship, two PERVISORS AND CASEWORKERS— with our heritage. True, we can be challenging new booklets are yours 5TATE-wide progressive Methodist agency brothers, I think vith rapidly expanding program of adoptions, Christian but we for the asking: inmarried mothers, foster home care. Chal- should be very careful in how far we "DEDICATED DOLLARS", tell- enging opportunity to contribute to a dy- lamic, rapidly developing agency working go toward unity. ing how you may benefit from oward Child Welfare League standards. When we put so much emphasis on Woman's Division Annuities; S.CSW supervision ; NHW Retirement Plan. Salaries meet NASW recommendations. Re- Catholicism, as Together did in the "Remembering the WOMAN'S tirements : Caseworkers —MSW—Minimum DIVISION in Your WILL", cover- alary $6,000. Supervisors—MSW, ACSW and February issue, I think it is time we ing steps in making a will. xperience. Minimum salary $7,400. Experi- should take a second look. First there nce considered in starting salaries. Write to Address the Treasurer, Dept. T-55 tev. Eugene L. McClure, Executive Director, was the Church in Action article [Vati- lillcrest Children's Services, P. O. Box 902, WOMAN'S DIVISION OF THE BOARD OF MISSIONS )ubuque, Iowa 52003. can 11: The Record So Far, page 3] OF THE METHODIST CHURCH POSITION WANTED near the front of the magazine, and then another article, Catholic 475 Riverside Dr. New York, N. Y. 10027 SITION DESIRED AS MINISTER of Educa- Roman on. Twenty years experience. For full infor- Worship: The New Look, appeared far- lation, write TOGETHER, Box T-J, 201 eighth Avenue, South, Nashville, Tennessee ther back [page 49]. Why not write in- 7203. stead about what our church is doing PULPIT SUPPLY for Christ? NADIAN UNITED CHURCH MINISTER >eks remunerative vacation preaching, west- rn state. Accommodation unnecessary. Ref- Pictures Really Communicate rences offered. Write TOGETHER, Box T-K, 01 Eighth Avenue, South, Nashville, Tennes- M. A. SENSENBRENNER, Pastor ;e 37203. Grace Methodist Church TOURS Tampa, Fla. ARD OF MISSIONS TOUR, combining: (1) Missions Behind The Iron Curtain" (Poland, In Meet Robert Hodgell, Artist [Feb-

ustria) ; 12) "The African Challenge" i Al- ruary, page 34], you say: "In Hodgell's ters, Tunesia) ; 13) "Culture Cities" (Rome, thens, Cairo, Vienna); (4) Complete Holv view, any artist who deals with ultimate MAKE MONEY WRITING and Tour. Sept. 16-Oct. 18. Write Dr. J. A. concerns is producing religious art. But (ason. 501 N. 4th, Pekin, 111. . . short paragraphs! RISTIAN WORLD CITIZENSHIP TOUR, first of all, art must communicate. The You don't have to be a trained author to make money ia air to Hawaii, Japan, Taipai, Hong Kong, sole judge of this, he says, is the writing. Hundreds now making money every day on hailand, Burma, Nepal, Egypt, HOLY LAND, short paragraphs. I tell you what to write, where and reece. Meet people. Learn of their history, viewer." how to sell; and supply big list of editors who buy from roblems, potentialities. Features seminars small checks in a hurry bring cash ith diplomats, educators, industrialists, mis- This statement is hardly debatable. beginners. Lots of that adds quickly. No tedious study. Write to sell, onaries. Write for colorful brochure giving Surely Mr. Hodgell's Old Testament up ;tails. The Reverend Robert Bolton, Box 157, right away. Send for free facts. BENSON BARRETT, arcellus. New York 13108. Men of God paintings beginning on page 6216 N. Clark St.. Chicago, Illinois 60626 Dept. II3-E LY LAND-SCANDINAVIA "TWO in One" 35 really do communicate. They follow 1 expense tour, directed by experienced Trav- ers Dr. and Mrs. Ira Allen, August 2-23. a very popular style of entertainment •rusalem, Bethlehem, Israel, Galilee, Nazareth, presently available in movies, television, ibbutz, Cairo, Bergen, Oslo, Stockholm, Lon- >n, Wesley Chapel, West Berlin, Berlin Wall, and paperbacks—the monster, horror ast Berlin, East Berlin Opera, etc. Dr. Allen's classics. h trip into Palestine. Write for brochure, ompare before choosing your trip. Make reser- Moses will make a big hit with the itions early. 4650 15th Ave., S., Minneapolis, innesota 55407. $1399 Minneapolis, $1277 children. Coming down the mountain ew York. with a huge stone under each arm, he W! ECONOMY HOLY LAND Tour (Via .W.A.) All Bible Lands plus Mt. Sinai and should empty the camp. I know I would editerranean cruise—Methodist Educators run. And the head of Moses recalled 2nd tour. June 29 and Dec. 7. Write H. A. anke. Box 3T, Wilmore, Ky. to me the words of a hawker at the 500 ZIP CODE LABELS - 50c ITH PACIFIC ISLANDS, AUSTRALIA, New county fair years ago: "Not a freak of Start using the new Zip code numbers on your return >aland, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Hawaii—Dr. address labels. Any name, address and Zip code beau- carles S. Kendall, 1818 Outpost, Hollywood, naychur, but an ed-jew-kay-shun-al tifully printed in black on crisp white gummed paper. ilifornia 90028. ." 2" fee-jah. . . The huge canvass behind Rich gold trim. Up to 4 lines. long. Set of 500 labels ISS AND ENGLISH METHODIST homes in plastic box. 50c. Ppd. Fast service. Money-back guar- rar hosts, tour also features visit to him proclaimed a "half-man half-ape" antee. If you don't know the correct Zip code number, condary school, diamond factory, Wesley's was available inside. just add 10c per set and we will look it up for any ad- thplace, Eiffel Tower, Beethoven House, bus dress. Same fast service. Send for free catalog. llip through Alps, free time for individual The picture of Hosea removes the |J;htseeing, July 12-Ausr. 2. Write: _._, _ , 2605-10 Drake Bldg., Dr. Hud- stigma ;ston, 136 Blenheim Road, Columbus, Ohio. from Gomer which she has had Walter Drake Colorado Springs, Colo. 80901

1 965 \ Together to carry for so many ages. No wonder The caption states that this is a copy GO AROUND-THE-WORLD! J^^fiS, she left him; it is difficult to understand of "the better-known Wes Lee portrait" Have a lifetime of happy memories from why she ever came back. The picture at Lake Junaluska. this exciting 16th annual around-the- 41 to the I latter picture in world tour. All expense and economical, on page will communicate bought the England includes sightseeing and conferences with children, too: "The ogre has caught several years ago. Where did you get Heads of State, Ambassadors, Editors, the little girl and is about to eat her." the name Wes Lee? Actually, it is Educators, Missionaries. 16 exotic coun- These pictures of the "saints in glory" known as the Hitt portrait, from Daniel tries—see Japan, Formosa, Hong Kong, Philippines, Thailand, India, Nepal, Egypt, should reverse the trend toward scaring Hitt, Methodist book agent in New York HOLY LAND, Greece, etc. Optional return folks into heaven. from 1808 to 1816. The original was said via RUSSIA. July 5 departure. 7 wonderful to have been painted by Sir Joshua weeks. No other tour offers so much. 8 Reynolds who is known to have painted hourscreditif desired. 3 WEEK HOLY LAND New Subscriber Chagrined TOUR departs June 8. Send for folder: ETHEL ARNOTH a portrait of Wesley and sent to Hitt to be exhibited and reproduced since there BRYAN WORLD TOURS Hialeah, Fla. was no Wesley portrait in America at 1816 Gage Topeka, Kansas I am a new Together subscriber. One that time. Hitt had it copied and also CHAIRS/TABLES reason I decided to receive it is the reproduced it in a fine lithograph. These • SCHOOL FURN. beautiful color sections I have seen in lithograph copies are now very scarce. • BLACKBOARDS past issues. When my first issue came, • OFFICE FURN. I have seen only one. I opened it expectantly. To chagrin, my Unfortunately, the original painting I found the same gruesome paintings Adirondack was burned in a fire which destroyed I had seen on a Graded Press film for the printing plant, and Hitt seemed to ADIRONDACK church schools. CHAIR CO. have sent his copy to England to replace Is this art aimed at attracting young 276-H Park Ave. South it. N.Y. New York, 10010 people to religion? I feel sure it would It was found many years later, and DALLAS • BOSTON have the opposite effect. Is it not bad ANGEIES • CHICAGO I had an agent buy it for me. It was PITTSBURGH —U enough that horror is so prevalent in printed in Telford's book called The movies and TV without letting it creep Portraits and Sayings of John Wesley into our church literature? IT I it and is there long before bought I referred to as "the Hitt portrait." It is For information about rental of this 16 mm. Moses Her Favorite said that the original was owned by sound and color film write: The Protestant Council, 475 Riverside Drive, Dept. T, New MRS. PRISCILLA RAWLS Dr. Thomas Coke who lent it to Hitt. York, N.Y. 10027 or phone 212-749-1214 Whitman, Mass. We thoroughly enjoy your magazine. Teacher Is the Key Each month my husband and I read it NOLAN J. McCLURG, Pastor Pews, Pulpit cover to cover and find it most inspir- St. Paul's Methodist Church % Chancel ing. I especially enjoyed Meet Robert Tacoma, Wash. Hodgell, Artist and his paintings repro- FURNITURE After reading Grant S. Shockley's duced in Old Testament Men of God. FOLDING CHAIRS article Christian Education [February. I particularly liked the one of Moses FOLDING TABLES page 14] and his 12 lengthy proposals on page 37. WRITE FOR REQUIRED for reorienting the church school. I had

FREF CATALOG . . . a new appreciation for Jesus as the J. P. REDINGTON & CO. Unique, Delightful Treatment "great simplifier." DEPT. 2 • SCRANTON 2, PA LARRY MAYFIELD For some time now, we have been DePauw University lamenting our declining church-school " tetee Afm/y Ou/c/c/u Greencastle, Ind. attendance. From their professional perches, the experts have given us their I read with interest your article on TAKING ORDERS FOR diagnoses of the ailment. Robert Hodgell's paintings for the film- Most of us recognize the necessity ; CORRESPONDENCE strips in the new Methodist church- of making church-school materials and EACH WITH A school curriculum. Mr. Hodgell's treat- teaching more relevant. But from the ment is unique and delightful. I would standpoint of statistics, which seem tol PHOTO of your CHURCH be interested in obtaining copies of the > be our main concern, give me a faithful I CLUB, SCHOOL, HOSPITAL, paintings if they are available, possibly ETC. teacher who loves his work, his Lord. for use as teaching aids. These attractive Boxes of 24 sheets and 24 en- and his pupils. He may not know the velopes are quickly, easily sold for only $1 per box. Generous profits for your Group. Friends, Except for the paintings reproduced pronunciation, much less the meaning, neighbors buy on sight. For FREE samples in Together's February issue, no prints of "contemporaneity, sophistication, and and tested Money -Making Plans just write: of these pictures are available. Copies appropriateness." but he will have a SPALDING PUBLISHERS, Dept. A - of the two filmstrips, What Is God Like? flourishing class, growing in Christian 1020 West 94th Street Chicago 20, Illinois j Parts I and II, for which the paintings maturity. CHURCH ADMINISTRATION were commissioned, are sold at $3 each SEMINARS through Cokesbury Book Stores and Weekday Schools Needed Regional Service Centers.—Editors For laity and clergy, to be held at DAVID J. TWIGG, Associate Pastor Lancaster Theological Seminary Harris Memorial Methodist Church LANCASTER. PENNSYLVANIA Wesley Portrait Misnamed Honolulu. Hawaii June 21st-25th, 1965 ELMER T. CLARK Grant Shockley's article is honest] Eden Theological Seminary Dr. Ass'n. of Methodist Historical Societies I ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI and helpful. What he says about making )une28th-)uly 2nd, 1965 Lake Junaluska, N.C. the institution relevant is most im-l For details, write to: In the January issue of Together, portent. I believe the basic problem" William E. Peterson page 76, there is call of our church schools is the fact that what you a J Church Advisory Service Primitive Portrait of John Wesley, the students we have one or two hours! 12 Colonial Village Court reproduced from a painting at John on Sunday morning are strangers toj St. Louis, Missouri 63119 Street Methodist Church, New York. each other and to the church.

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Tin- Protestant denominations that are keeping up with the population in- crease in urban America are those that have a weekday, parochial school sys- tem. Colleges have been popular with Methodists, so why not elementary and secondary schools as well? To avoid the "parochial" aspect of such a school, perhaps we could co- operate with other Protestants. This also would make the idea more feasible economically. And the new develop- ment of "shared time" for parochial school students to attend science or PLANNING YOUR VACATION? THEN COME TO other courses in the public schools would be helpful for the same reasons. By co-operating with other Protes- tant denominations and the public LAKESIDE on Lake Erie school, we would be supporting the "THE VACATION PLACE WITH A PURPOSE" type of education that would be ef- The finest in Family Recreation: Swimming Tennis Shuffleboard Play- fective and relevant. — — — grounds— Fishing • Top Evening Entertainment—Outstanding Chaplain's Hour Daily • Fine Accommodations: Hotels, Cottages, Rooms, Apartments, He Knew 'Grand Old Man' Trailer Park and Camping Areas.

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SHOULDN'T we be starting on steps, she could no longer see her white powder and water, even in tain, Mother?" The worry in mother and Jacinto when she the dry season. )elina's voice showed in her small, looked back. Suddenly it was very Delina never had ridden in a rown face. lonely. truck before, but she wasn't afraid, "Maybe the missionaries ir/7/help She wished she would sec some- since Miss Helen seemed to know icinto." She remembered when one, Or lincl a path that would show just what to do with all the knobs ley came to the village and her she was getting close to the and levers. opped her cousin's fever with mission. But as far as she looked Soon, Miss Helen turned the nail white things they called she could see only grass and an truck off the road, and they drove >ills." occasional scraggly clump of trees. through the grass a short while. "Yes," replied her mother, "but The sun, now high overhead, made Suddenly, Delina saw the hut where iaybe we were foolish to come so waves of heat rise all around her. her mother and Jacinto were wait- r. The families of our village have How thirsty she was! ing. She hopped out of the truck

)t welcomed the missionaries for Suddenly she stumbled upon a and held out the bottle of milk to any years. Perhaps they will turn narrow open space. Two dusty ruts her mother with a big smile. Jacinto

; away." ran off toward the horizon. A road! drank it eagerly and then slept The mother and daughter were She must be going the right way. quietly for the first time in two sting in the doorway of an As she started to move again, a days. >andoned grass hut by a sluggish sound in the grass made her stop "We must take the baby to the ream. They had been walking al- with pounding heart. Could it be a mission doctor," urged Miss Helen. ost two days. lion? Or a leopard? The swishing "He can help Jacinto." It was the dry season and the sound came nearer, and a large tan Delina's mother looked up shyly. K>n sun on the high, flat veld of and brown python glided out of ntral Africa was scorching, but the grass a few feet from her. e nights were cold. Before dawn Delina froze with fear. But the elina had shivered in her cotton snake was on business of its own. THANK YOU ess and her mother had tried in It moved smoothly across the road FOR COURAGE in to keep the sick baby and and disappeared into the grass. rself warm in the length of cloth Delina heaved a sigh of relief and I thank you, God, apped around her own thin trudged on. For courage true >dy. Yet, now they were perspir- After a while, a clump of trees in That helped me right

2; from the heat. the distance became a ring of And honor do. "If only we had milk," said jacaranda trees, their mauve flowers dina's mother. "The goats gave us glowing in the late sun. In the I know that courage ry little yesterday morning in the midst of them stood a group of comes from you. aal. In the dry season, I don't low, clay and brick buildings with ink the missionaries can give us red-tde roofs and freshly white- But many don't, Ik if the goats cannot." washed walls. She knew it must be Though brave they be. "I can find out," replied Delina. the mission. Close by she found a Help them know et me go on to the mission, stream where she gulped a cool Their shield is Thee. other. I'm big now—10 years old. drink. —RUTH BARON vvill ask for milk. If they give it "Hello, little girl," said a kind me, then well know the mission- voice speaking the language of ed will help Jacinto." Delina's people. "Do not be afraid. Her mother ran a gende hand I am Miss Helen." "I will tell die people in my village er Delina's short, black hair, Delina looked up into the face of of your kindness," she said. loothing die many tiny braids a tall, blond lady in a pretty blue "You do that," said Miss Helen rich lay flat against her head. dress. Her blue eyes and smile were softly, "and perhaps afterward I 'You are so young to cross die so kind that Delina didn't even feel can bring your people other good isslands alone," she said. "But shy. She told the missionary about tidings—from the book we call the rinto can go no farther. He is too Jacinto and her mother waiting in Bible—just as our people used to k. So be careful. Only a few the little hut. do many years ago." Delina and dits ago a goat was taken from "I know die spot," said Miss her modier nodded. i village, and die men found lion Helen. "First, I will fix some milk, The little girl climbed into the cks." then we will drive there and bring truck again and beckoned her Delina started out bravely. The your little brother to the hospital." mother to get in beside her. jss was high, and after a few Soon Miss Helen and Delina Soon they were driving back to were jouncing down the rutted road the mission. Delina leaned against in a dusty, little truck. Delina the seat cushion. She felt tired sound in the grass made clutched a bottle of milk. She could but contented. She knew she had stop with pounding heart. hardly wait to tell her mother how done the right thing.

. It was a large python. Miss Helen had made the milk from —Jean Gilchrist

1 965 \ Together 69 Is thy heart right, as my heart is with thine? Dost thou love and serve God? It is enough, I give -Afai-44owi ^^Mmm. thee the right hand of fellowship. —John Wesley (1703-1791) We stay downright humble . . . bj reminding ourselves that millions will never see these words, and many others won't read them if they do. But we like IN THIS ISSUE to imagine someone a century hence—a student of old church publications, perhaps —finding this issue not only interesting hut inspiring and revealing. All three THE PARABLE 1 reactions were ours recently when a 1901 Methodist monthly magazine we had. William F. Fore never seen reached us by way of a secondhand bookstore. The American Illustrated Methodist Magazine, dated 64 years ago this May A FRONTIER FOR TODAY 13 looks like the old Review of Reviews and is about the size of today's A ational

Geographic. Published in St. Louis at 15

an avid reader staunch admirer of the publication. Even today, it is easy t HALFWAY HOUSE, SAN FRANCISCO . . .19 and Carol D. Muller understand why: the 1901 issue contains articles on Norway and the Philippines

on the artist Frederick Leighton (with reproductions of his paintings I and on MORNING'S AT SEVEN 22 the poet Chaucer (with photographs of Canterbury); two rather sentimenta short stories; several like glowing tribute to the current Edwin P. Hicks poems of nature; a dog; book reviews; an inspirational sermonette by a minister; and a 22-page instalhnen HOW TO SUCCEED IN THE PULPIT ... .24 of The Illustrated History of Methodism, with scores of pictures of bishops anc Charles Merrill Smith preachers in northern and southern churches. The editors, James W. Lee and ISaphtali Luccock, took note of troubh CONTROVERSIAL COUNCIL 28 brewing between France and Russia, Bolivia and Chile, Russia and Japan. Revolu Louis Cassels tion seemed imminent in the Balkans and in Uruguay. Rioting students in Russu protested "the overbearing manner of the Cossacks, and ask for greater freedom

OUR CAMPUS DIPLOMATS 30 of speech and conduct . . . Several students have committed suicide." Obviously James Poling the editors agreed with John Wesley's declaration that "the world is my parish." In 1901, young readers were being offered prizes for the best original photograph;

HOW TO ROOT OUT RESENTMENTS . . .33 on such themes as "Our Playground" (first prize, S3), and "Baby at Play' Bishop Everett W. Palmer (first prize, $2) —all of which shows that Tocether's annual Photo Invitationa is not exactly a new idea. BELLS RING IN REASSURANCE 34 It is too late, of course, to congratulate Mr. Lee and Mr. Luccock. who coul<

Adele Le Baron hardly have imagined the kind of world we're living in in 1965. But we'd like ti think it would please them to know that here—6-1 years later—they still couli THE MIRACLE OF THE SEED 35 spark our interest, tell us some things we did no (Color Pictorial) know, and make us proud to be among late arrival in line with them. THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD ... .39 THE «*• AMERICAN After vears. the two cute youngster F. Thomas Trotter another 64 ' B - ILLUSTRATED - . - . , , mrthodist on "lls months, eover may have grandmother an< MOTHER'S DAY, 1965 43 MAGAZINE grandfather status, and maybe they'll run across thi Ralph IV. Seager, issue while rummaging around in an old trunk. Surety lean Carpenter Mergard someone will save this issue for them, for not every* body gets on the cover of a magazine— not even once WORSHIP 44 The young man is George Garrison Callendine

William F. Dunkle, jr. great-grandson of the Rev. Ben Kendall of Kokons Ind., at 89 said to be the oldest living member of tin THE THUNDER OF BARE FEET 50 * North Indiana Conference. The young lady is Karei

/. Wallace Hamilton Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George P. Millet of Des Plaines, 111. Her father, our staff photographs THE LITTLE WONDER OF THE took such an interest in child photography after shl PUBLISHING Pictures aplenty- 1901! WORLD 54 arrived that Karen's photographic heritage 64 yean

H. B. Teeter from now is bound to be stupendous. \\ hen the pic- ture was taken, the Millers were at Epworth Forest in Indiana to cover a Methodist MEET THE FOSTERS! 59 event soon to be featured in these pages. —Yolk Editors {People Called Methodists)

THE TREE OF LIFE 71 TOGETHER— the midmonth magazine for Methodist families. (Color Pictorial) Editorial Office: Box 423, Park Ridge, III. 60068. Phone: (Area Code 312) 299-4411. Business, Subscription, and Advertising Offices: 201 Eighth Avenue, S., Nashville, Tenn. 3720iT Phone: (Area Code 615) CHopel 2-1621. (For subscription rates, see page 3.) A GARDEN OF FAITH 72 TOGETHER continues the CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE founded in 1S26 as "an entertaining, instructive^ and profitable family visitor." It is an official organ of The Methodist Church. Because ofl (Color P;< (or/a/) trecdom given authors, opinions may not reflect official concurrence. The contents of eacry issue are indexed in the METHODIST PERIODICAL INDEX.

TOGETHER is "the midmonth magazine for Methodist families" because it reaches subscribers by"! FEATURES DEPARTMENTS the 1 5th of the month preceding cover date. Editorial Director: Ewing T. Wayland / Editor: Richard C. Underwood / Managing Editor: Paige Carlin": / Art Editor: Floyd A. Johnson / Associate Editors: Newman Cryer, Helen Ira M., Page 3 Church in Action I 48 Teens Johnson, Mohler, Carol D. Muller, Charles E. Munson, H. B. Teeter, Willmon L. White / Assistants: EImI^ Together I 49 Your Faith and Your Church Bjornstad (research), Lorctta Carlson (production), Robert C. Goss (art), George P. Miller (photos) M I 52 Looks at New Books I 57 Browsing Administrative Assistant: James A. Miner Contributing Editor: James M. Wall Press and Churchl"; in Fiction I 63 Letters I 67 Camera Clique. Relations Manager: Herbert E. Langendorff / Editorial Consultant: Leland D. Case / Business- Circulation Manager: Warren P. Clark , Advertising Manager: John H. Fisher Promotion Manage Picture Credits I 68 Small Fry. William H. Pryor. Publisher: Lovick Piero

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>nely figures trudge toward a door marked "Knock and shall be opened," while English society in general The Tree of Life ooses "The Broad Way" toward perdition. Contemporary ith John Wesley, founder of Methodism, who was reared i the rectory, it depicts two 18th-century ministers

:ndeavoring to pluck sinners from the wrath to come." From the church garden—and for the church altar—Mrs. O. R. Montgomery (left) and Mrs. R. O. Illyes will choose blue delphiniums, lilies, and roses. Both were on the committee which established the garden. At right,

Mrs. Everett Phillips arranges red roses, lilies, delphiniums, and tamarisk for a Communion table.

Lawrenceville, Illinois, Methodists maintain... A GARDEN OF FAITH

+ When the faithful forget, a church altar may go undecorated. Not so at

Lawrenceville, 111., where an unusual garden assures First Methodist Church both a

variety and an abundance of flowers and decorative plants. It began in 1957

when the flower and altar committee asked H. R. Kemmerer, landscape specialist at the

University of Illinois, to design a garden on church property that would begin

yielding flowers with the first crocuses and continue through the autumn.

"Our garden was designed primarily to furnish flowers and plant material to honor and glorify our Lord Jesus Christ, and for outdoor beauty" says the Rev. C. H. Todd,

pastor. "But it is also a bird sanctuary and wild-flower garden!' He said

the church garden, a regular stop on local garden tours, now provides roses, tulips,

spirea, lilacs, delphiniums, viburnum, chrysanthemums, dahlias, and many other flowers. When the season of colorful blooms and flowering shrubs

is climaxed, there still remain elegant Canadian hemlocks, Japanese yews, white fir,

hollies, and other evergreens for beauty through the winter. Professional

nurserymen occasionally help Mrs. R. O. Illyes give the church plot

expert care. Other members take a great deal of personal interest in it, too.

Hardly had Together's photographer visited when Mr. Todd wrote: "We wish you were here now. Our roses are a mass of red and pink. The snapdragons and petunias have

filled up the bed. Come again— in early November when chrysanthemums bloom!'

The U-shaped church garden is, firsl

all, a play area for young children like those shfl beyond the hardy phlox and delphiniul

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