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New-Church Messenger 7L NEW-CHURCH MESSENGER March 3, 1956 rThe Best is Yet to Be THE PARTIAL LIST PUBLISHERS & NEW-CHURCH OF CHURCHES DIRECTORY OF MESSENGER BOOK ROOMS BALTIMORE, MD. Official organ of The General Convention THE NEW-CHURCH PRESS Calvert Street, near Chase of the New Jerusalem In the United States (Hoard of Publication) of America. Convention founded in 1817. BATH, ME. 108 Clark Street. Brooklyn 1, N. Y. (Swedenborslon) Middle and Winter Streets American and foreign publications of • BOSTON, MASS. all New-Church Publishing Houses. Re Bowdoin Street, opp. State House ligious and Children's books of other Member of the Associated Church Press BIIIDGEWATER, MASS. publishers. • Central Square Convention service books & The Mes Published bi-weekly at 153 South Jeffer senger. BROCKTON, MASS. son Street, Berne, Indiana, by The New 34 Crescent Street, near Main NEW-CHURCH BOOK CENTER Church Press, 108 Clark St., Brooklyn, American New-Church Tract & Pub. New York. 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IOWA ligious education dept. recently added. ton Branch, Cincinnati 7, Ohio. Lenox Township Church Loan Library. Reading room. NEW YORK CITY • NEW-CHURCH LIBRARY 39th Street, bet. Park and Lexington Aves. The opinions of contributors do not ne Oak and Winslow Sis., Cincinnati. Clark Street and Monroe Place, Brooklyn cessarily reflect the views of the editors Reference works. Books sold and loan Harlem New-Church Mission, 166W.136St. or represent the position of the Church. ed. Swedenborg's Works: theological ORANGE. N. J. and scientific. Collateral, biographies, Essex Avenue near Main Street periodicals, rare editions. Vol. 176, No. 5 Whole No. 4674 PALOS VERDES, CALIF. Wayfarers' Chanel. Portugese Bend March 3, 1956 PATERSON, N. J. 380 Van Houten Street of 3Katltf PAWNEE ROCK. KANS. PRINCIPAL CONTENTS Main Street PHILADELPHIA, FA. of 3% £foro (Efjttrrlj EDITORIALS: 22nd and Chestnut Streets Frankfort, Paul and Unity Streets Which Shall Rule? 69 PITTSBURGH, PA. There is one God, and He is the Not Bread Alone 69 Sandusky St. near North Ave. Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. PORTLAND, ME. ARTICLES: 302 Stevens Ave. cor. Montrose The Harvest Years _67 PORTLAND, OREGON The Word is Divine and contains Gwynne Dresser Mack 2037 S.E. Spruce Ave. a spiritual or inner meaning where PRETTY PRAIRIE, KANS. New Horizons 70 East Main Street by is revealed the way of regenera Andre Diaconoff RIVERSIDE CALIF. tion. "Time is A Kind Friend" 72 3645 Locust Street SAN DIEGO, CALIF. Josephine Johannson 4144 Campus Avenue Presenting Swedenborg 73 SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF. Saving faith is to believe in Him Edward B. Hinckley Lyon and Washington Streets and keep the Commandments of The Commission to Print and ST. LOUIS. MO. His Word. 620 N. Spring Avenue Publish 75 ST. PAUL. MINN. John Sanford Peck S.E. cor. Virginia and Selby Ave. ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. Evil is to be shunned as sin FEATURES: 1915—5th Street, N. against God. VANCOUVER. B. C. Year of Decision 73 2516 W. 12th Avenue Letters to the Editor 76 WASHINGTON, D.C. Human life is unbroken and con News 79 16th and Corcoran Sts. WILMINGTON, DEL. tinuous, and the world of the spirit Baptisms, Memorials 80 Pennsylvania Avenue and Broome Street is real and near. 66 THE NEW-CHURCH MESSENGER THE HARVEST YEARS By Gwynne Dresser Mack LAST of life, for which the first was are inseparable on earth, they are not the same thing. made," said the poet Browning, speaking The body is machinery which gets used up; but the of old age on earth—but how seldom the soul is Motivation and Awareness, and these are world thinks of it that way! This is the problem-era, everlasting. To think that because the body is fail and not least among the problems crowding in upon ing, the spirit can go no further, is like supposing us is how to make our older people happy. For they that a driver is forever immobilized when his 1941 are fast becoming a large segment of the population. Ford gives out! During the past half-century the number of per When we see life whole we realize that the later sons over sixty-five, in this country, has quadrupled! years are no more superfluous in the scheme of It is estimated that by 1980 one of every seven liv things than are the thirties and forties which seem to ing persons will be sixty-five years of age or beyond. a school-child like the dreariest of denouements. It is In twenty-five years from now there will probably illogical to think that a human personality which be thirty-two million persons in the sixty-five or takes so long to grow, which must be so tenderly pro older age-range The difficult economic factors in tected in infancy, so wisely nurtured through child volved are already being recognized; but there are hood and adolescence, and is subject in maturity to so less apparent aspects which need as much if not more many disciplines, is not intended somehow to come attention. These have to do with the morale and mo to full flower at the point when growth and training tivation of this special group of people accumulating and labor have been completed. Far from regarding in our midst. old age as a time for slumping into carelessness and It is commonly thought that when a man must re self-indulgence, for being waited on and making no tire from work or when a woman has finished rais efforts simply because "at my age I am entitled to", ing her family, the important part of life is over for should we not by then expect to make perfect our them. Many of the disorders of senility grow from habits and to bring our efforts into sharper focus? the delusion that old people are useless—that a man Are these not the harvest years, for which the plow is "all washed up" when his earning days end, that a ing and planting, the weeding and watering, have woman is not needed once her children are grown. been done? The years that follow are regarded as, at best, a How, then, to help our older people to believe this? time-killing interim to be spent in self-indulgent lit How to prepare all of us for becoming joyfully and tle pleasures, or at worst an indefinite period of side usefully old? Should not the Church find here its line-watching and shelf-sitting. That old age is ac special challenge, its application of all that it tries cepted as a state of deterioration is borne out by the to teach concerning the good life and rewards for the prediction that in another ten years our accommoda spirit? tions in state mental hospitals (already comprising For the problems of old age, in spite of economic over half the hospital beds in the country) will have complications and physiological considerations, are to shelter 55% more patients over sixty-five than at really spiritual problems. Dr. Theodore G. Klumpp, present. Since 1920 this age-group in our mental in an address to a hospital issociation last year, said hospitals has increased by over 300%! that the difficulties of older people are largely due to the fact that they have stopped using their abilities; "All Washed Up?" they stop learning—not becmse they cannot learn Is it inevitable for old people to feel useless and go any more, but because they hive lost their incentive.
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