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for your church to help select

The Methodist Family of the Year

A TYPICAL Methodist family you see here, outfitting the lovely teen-age daughter for Easter. But there's more here than meets the eye—how this family

in its home and church and community ex- emplifies the best in Christian living. You know such families in your church.

And this is your last opportunity to nominate one for the 1958 Methodist Family of the Year.

Each Methodist church has been asked to propose

one family from its congregation for this honor. Every reader of Together— any individual o group of persons in the local church— may sugge:

a family. The official board of each church wil decide the local nomination. (No nominations

may be made directly to Together.) Candidates

will be screened by official family-life judges at

district, conference, and national levels. The 1958 Methodist Family of the Year

will be guests of Together at the Third National Conference on Family Life in

Chicago, Illinois, October 17 to 19.

Here are the special qualifications for the Family of the Year

1 Parents age 50 or under. Now think of the families in your

2 Two or more children, at least church who fit these qualifications. one teen-ager, baptized and church members, or in Sunday Then get the ball rolling to see that school. their names come before your official 3 Family exemplifies inspiring board. Remember, April 18 is the Christian family living. deadline. Your pastor should have 4 Family applies Christian ethics in everyday life. complete details and entry blanks. in 5 Family active church and com- You'll be proud to have your church munity life. represented in this selection of the 6 Family members are known as warm, good neighbors. Methodist Family of the Year. . — —

and other d Bits from Your philanthropies, colleges, de- serving institutions which desperately need money for training younn people tters for tomorrow's leadership. Norfolk Likes Its Sailors!

VICTOR E. RAMSEY, Pastor Boswell, hid. jht to the Heart' that Together "gives almost no hint of how to find Christ as Savior," may I rANLEY NEUENSCHWANDER, I especially appreciated Fleet's in—at express the opinion of one who has istor, Harlan, hid. Church! [January, page 23]. It meant never before subscribed to a Christian something special to me. In World War mr Prayers for the Seasons [Janu- publication? II I was stationed for a while at Nor- page 35] were wonderful. Since Together is less direct and more folk, Va., and I attended the local churches are rural, we feel close subtle than the usual church magazine. churches regularly—usually Epworth series od through nature. This went It uses the picture-story technique of Methodist in downtown Norfolk. In fact, t to the heart of many members, expressing the principles of Christian at 19, I received my first local preacher's mse the pictures are so typical, we living and thus appeals more to those license from the Norfolk District at a able to place ourselves in the who most need religious guidance. Per- conference . . . granted upon joint rec- e and dedicate our life anew. Mr. Pigueron finds Together a bit haps ommendation of my home church, First "watered down" merely because he has Methodist in Robinson, 111., with the jesome and Disappointing' outgrown it. But let him remember endorsement of the Olney district su- that there are of must RS. JOHN DAHLBY many us who perintendent and the pastor of Epworth start out on the Together level. To- . Paul, Minn. Methodist, Norfolk. gether's great is it service that starts The article brought back have enjoyed Together and its happy mem- so previously indifferent people many ories of similar experiences in Norfolk, itiful pictures until I saw Scenes on the road toward the good life. where, contrary to popular Navy n the Life of Christ [by artists of rumors, a sailor is welcome among de- a, December, page 351. I was horri- Apologies to Mrs. Williams people. at the pictures of our Christ on the cent - 3. The one with those artificial GENEVIEVE TETER WILLIAMS ing eyebrows is not my idea of my Redlands, Calif. 'Disciples' No Work of Art? st, either. In fact, the whole collec- When Together came, I was annoyed CHARLES R. SIMMONS, Pastor is gruesome and disappointing. to see myself called a Methodist Grand- Ridgecrest, Calif. ma Moses. [January, page 16]. Why rt . . . Toward Cood Life' What a shock to see the collection of was the spotlight on her? I began my photographs of the 12 men labeled ARY ANN PARKER art career when I was 21, so I had been "disciples" [October, page 34] called a rrysburg, NY. an artist many years before Grandma work of art! Why can't we have the Moses began to paint. Professionally, I ;garding the Rev. George H. works of the great artists of the past had made my record long ago. . . . My leron's comment [January, page 3] with their creative interpretations of life has been "art for art's sake." the disciples? Or would it be too much to ask for some evidence in your mag- Our apologies! Grandma Moses is azine that there are contemporary self-taught, too\ up art late in life. Not TO 4 OUT OF 5 SUBSCRIBERS artists who lift us above the level of so Mrs. Williams, aged 90—who long photographic reproduction whether it ou receive your TOGETHER through ago went from expert training to a dis- le ALL FAMILY PLAN—adopted by comes by way of the brush or the tinguished career as an artist. We salute ,400 Methodist churches. Here's how camera? . . . works: this remarkable woman!—Eds. The appearance of Together is little more challenging than The Saturday 1 Your church includes in 'Eccentric Bequests' its yearly budget $2 per family Evening Post with a Methodist baptism. for you and other contributing BRADSHAW MINTENER, Attorney Ministers have the responsibility of families on its rolls. TOGETHER Washington, D.C. preaching the prophetic words con- is then mailed to your home. cerning community and culture. Doesn't 2. You aren't billed —but Has Your Town a Nest Egg? [Febru- your church is, four times a the magazine which is supposed to ary, page 20] is an intriguing article year. (You will not receive re- strengthen this ministry also have a newal reminders, of course.) which makes one wonder why some responsibility to help us look critically 3. When a church goes on people do as they do with their money at the manifestations of our culture the ALL FAMILY PLAN, it as they approach "the last long mile." should send us only additions even Christian art? F. H. Goff's reaction, which caused him and corrections—never a com- plete "renewal" or "revised" to originate a new idea in philan- list. (To do so only slows up thropy, was natural. I have had the More on Christian Symbols? operations!) ALL FAMILY sub- same reaction as I have read of large Pastor scriptions will continue auto- THOMAS G. HOFFMAN, gifts in wills to animal cemeteries and matically. Lafayette Hill, Pa. 4. You through your church other equally eccentric purposes. —can send gift subscriptions for However, we must realize that we are Looking at the last 14 months' cover libraries, hospitals, and other confronted with several important, pages, ... I notice a definite lack of institutions at the same ALL firmly fixed principles, such as "every Christian symbols . . . FAMILY $2 subscription rate. I realize that a book cannot be judged • American has the right to deal with his property as he wishes." by its cover, but I am also aware that Now if you have questions about the ^LL FAMILY PLAN, please write di- The fact that so often such large sums many people see very little beyond the ect: TOGETHER Business Office, 740 are left to these wasteful objectives is cover. So maybe with the enrichment of >1. Rush St., Chicago 11, III. a depressing commentary on our sense life's beauty with Christian symbolisms, of values. Surely there are churches, as you did with the November picture,

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then, too, I believe you would have religious matters, such as "mission;!

cover pictures that would be worthy of and "prayer meetings," too . . . the splendid contents of America's greatest Christian magazine. Tip to Older Parents

MRS. H. W. MARIS To Pastor Hoffman and others who Pecos, Tex. rejoice, in the richness of Christian sym- bolism, we refer you to our February We read a lot about the problems issue, pages 75-76. Eds. rearing children. Let me tell Togethj readers how we met and solved om Who Wrote It? We were at the age when most foil are grandparents when our childr A. E. HEATHERINGTON came along. didn't have that Orlando, Fla. We sma youthful look of a parent. So we con

In regard to One Solitary Life I De- plimented each other often in our chi cember, 1], I have a printed copy page dren's presence to assure them we we Is of this which I have had for a long Your Church pretty special even if we didn't go in f time. My copy gives the author as square dancing and walking shor Phillips Brooks. I don't whether Getting Through to know Result, our children proudly accept* is authentic. this their "old-fashioned" parents and ev< the [/^churched? laughed when people mistook us f Was Schaff the Author? their grandparents. We avoided ar HAROLD W. KING shame that children so often imagii a national organization, As Warren, Ohio when their parents are compared perhaps your church is mak- others. Regarding One Solitary Life. You ing good headway in mis- stated that the author is unidentified. sionary activity. To Prison We Co! In one of my old scrapbooks I found this But how are you doing in article credited to Dr. Philip Schaff HERMAN K. SPECTOR, Libraricm your own back-yard? How (1819-1893). California State Prison are you letting your own Maybe this will help to clear this San Quentin, Calif. matter. neighbors know that you're We are grateful for your kindness ready to help them? sending six copies a month of Togeth Many readers have sent in the names Bells are uniquely effective for the last year. The interest shov of men credited with writing One Soli- was tremendous for a religious public- in communicating this mes- tary Life, prominently including Dr. tion. Even our library staff put T sage. Fortunately, good bells James Allan Francis, a Baptist minister, gether on top of their must readir at and several others. Certainly the writer, can now be obtained They are of a solid opinion that t whoever he was, deserves more than modest cost. A Schulmerich issue with the 12 disciples was superi anonymity. Together is continuing its carillon, with bell-metal to anything of its kind. research to try to ascertain the author. So please accept our heartfelt than tones of surpassing beauty, —Eds. for your consideration and assistance can be installed for as little helping our men. as $2500—a fraction of the 'Voice of Youth Is Not Heard' cost of traditional cast bells, RALPH W. WILSON Many churches and individuals a yet one of the most potent Mayioood, III. range to send Together as a gift forces at your command to institutions. Have you considered su> I was pleased to see Should Teen- a gift?—Eds. ring out a welcome to those agers Go Steady? [January, page 32]. in need of the comfort of An honest exploration of the problem Remember 'Boy and Chick 1 Covei church membership. A dem- has long been needed. onstration can be arranged I am a high-school senior planning M. C. HART to enter the Methodist ministry and Long Beach. Calif. to suit your convenience. would like to express my gratitude to In April. 1957, Together's cov> Howard Whitman for rounding out his Schulmerich Carillons, Inc. holding a chick work with the youth's point of view. All showed a boy baby his hands. I had th P 38 Carillon Hill, too often today, the voice of youth is Sellcrsville, Pa. not heard. cover framed ar now it hangs in

1 pro shop at the go Re: 'Barrier of Indifference course. LESTER H. BILL. Associate Pastor There have be Indianapolis. Ind. many comments < Congratulations on the wonderful this picture and

work you are doing in publishing To- don't think I have ever seen a cut gether. I also greatly appreciate the little boy. Is there any way of obtaini: fine material in The New Christian extra pictures? If so, kindly quote SCHULMERICH Advocate. You are breaking through prices. I can use a dozen—and I don the barrier of indifference which blocks care what they cost. CARILLONS many people's minds toward Christian ideas. The use of the new word, To- So many readers wanted the "bo gether, is excellent. We need a new and chick'' cover to frame, our suppl

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of that issue was exhausted months ago. Christ I October, 1956, page 46]. R< But Don, our alert office boy, has just cently we were discussing this pictu THIS YEAR . see jound some over-run extras of the color with friends. They said that there a

section. Write Together's Reader-Serv- seven religious emblems painted in tl TENNESSEE ice Section, 740 Rush St., Chicago, en- picture. The only two they cou closing 25 cents apiece, to cover handling identify were the chalice on the rig costs, for as many copies as you want. temple and a wafer on the forehead.

First come, first served!—Eds. Neither my husband nor I had ev heard of these reported symbols ar would appreciate learning more abo Bishop Kennedy Flattered them. If symbols do appear, were the SARAH FRANKS intentional? Lisbon, Iowa Artist Sallman has had countless While searching for an oratorical ports from people claiming to identi declamation for speech contests, I came hidden religious symbols in his pain across Bishop Kennedy's Our Right to ing. He tells Together that he paint Be Wrong [December, page 16]. I no symbols, hidden or otherwise.—Ei thought like to know that I send for FREE BOOKLET you might have decided to give it as a reading. Treat your family to a 3-way vacation that 'Together' . . . Key Word includes mountains, lakes, and history. We're glad to grant Sarah special per- They'll ride highways into the sky in the H. I. STRIGHT, Exec. Secretary Great Smoky Mountains National Park; mission. Bishop Kennedy will be flat- Minnesota Council of Churches fish, boat and swim in Tennessee's 22 tered—as we are—that his article will Minneapolis, Minn. Great Lakes; see the homes of three — presidents, historic battlefields, TVA be declaimed. Eds. The key word for the program of oi dams, and the world's only Atomic Minnesota Council of Churches is "t< Energy Museum at Oak Ridge. Yes, for three vacations in one, see Tennessee. gether." Our slogan, which you w Send now for free 40-page booklet. Facing Up to Facts see on our seal, is "Together we bui

ERNEST L. BOYD a righteous state." In leaflets and in tl Wilmette, III. Messenger we shall constantly carry o Tennessee Division of Information 1762 Cordell Hull Bldg., Nashville, Tenn. the meaning of this word. So we a Bishop Kennedy's Our Right to Be Please send Free Booklet interested in adoption of "Together" Wrong brings Together into full stature the name of Methodism's new fami as a publication cognizant of, and un- NAME magazine. afraid to deal with, the most critical ADDRESS issue of the decade. The article brings & STATE, into focus what I conceive to be the Uplift in a Spire first duty of Christian American citizen- MRS. O. K. EVENSEN ship the duty of evaluating, of exer- — Green Bay, Wis. cising independent judgment, and of declining to relinquish the precious The November cover is much like MATURE prerogatives of freedom of thought, of little church I attend when I am at r speech, of competition and of lawful summer home. It is a Methodist chur action, including the "right to be in a little settlement. Parfreyville. W YEARS wrong" throughout all of those most I feel that the modern churches a precious domains of worship and fam- missing something by leaving off t ily life. spire in their plans. We can't help b Methodism's own attractive, stim- feel an uplift and a thought for bett ulating magazine for its Older living when we pass a church with Adults. Each quarterly issue Penny-wise Mr. Underwood: lovely spire. brings 64 pages of inspiration, R. S. YEOMAN information and entertainment to Whitman Publishing Company help readers enjoy a fuller, rich- In Every Member Canvass . . . Racine, Wis. er, more purposeful life. Stories, RICHARD DRAKE, Pastor personal interest features, ar- The article. Dollars for Your Pennies Alliance. Ohio ticles on travel and hobbies, [January, page 60], was very well-writ- Our Union Avenue Church, with poetry, devotional helps, inter- ten, and I consider it one of the most membership of 943. embarked on tl pretations of International Sun- practical approaches to this hobby I have this year, sendii day School Lessons, and spir- ever read. Sometimes writers who are All Family Plan past in the paris itual counsel on personal prob- not numismatists place the wrong em- Together to every family part of the annu lems. All this and more ... in phasis on coin values. Mr. Underwood This was done as a every canvass program. M MATURE YEARS. has done a splendid job which I am member fine replies from all of o\ sure will do a lot of good for the hobby. have had families. The children are reading and we make continued reference to MATURE YEARS No Symbols in Sallman Portrait throughout our church life in mar ONLY $1.50 A YEAR ways. MRS. CHARLES W. MOTTRAM. JR. For Individual Subscription Our Official Board also sends Togeti Nutley, N.J. Order TODAY from the House er to the Public Library and to eac nearest you We have made a practice of saving floor of the local hospital and the war THE METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE any of your pictures which we consider ing room. The magazine has been w€ Baltimoro 3 Chicaooll Cincinnati 2 outstanding and the basis for a good received at these locations, and we ai Dallas I Detroit I Kansas City r. Nashville 2 Now York II Pittsburgh 30 Christian home. Among these was a proud to be a part of this larger pre Portland 5 Richmond 16 San Francisco 2 copy of Warner Sallman 's portrait of gram.

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A noted preacher and writer proz>es by logic the answer

to an old, thought-provoking question each one must ask:

Where Are Our Loved Ones

After Death?

By NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

WOMAN of past middle age came to visit me. "I "Yes," I said. "You are in a very fortunate position. ve a difficult problem," she said. "Three of the most Regardless of what happens, you still have all your stinguished physicians in New York have told me that family for both now and then." mist undergo a serious operation not later than Mon- "God is very good," she said slowly.

morning, and that this operation may mean my When she stood up to leave, I took her by the hand ath. They told me frankly, because I asked them for and said, "You are one of the greatest personalities I have e truth." ever met." She had the quality of personality that could take the Quietly, rationally, simply, she was getting ready for Jth, no matter how grim. "I lost my son in the war," a journey. When she left me, she went to a photographer e said as she showed me his picture. "I ask you, sir, if and had her picture taken. Later I saw those photographs die as a result of this operation on Monday, will I see and there was a light on her face. Next, she saw her m again?" lawyer, and even made arrangements for her funeral. She looked me squarely in the eye, searching for any Then, quietly and in utter peace, she went to the hospital, defmiteness or evasiveness. I looked squarely in her where she submitted to the operation; but, despite the es and told her: "It is my positive belief, based upon best skill of modern science, due to that inscrutable force bat I know of Jesus Christ, that you will see him we call the will of God, she passed on. Today, I believe,

;ain." she is with both her son over there and her loved ones

"How soon will that be after I go?" she asked. here.

"I wish I could say," I replied, "but if your son were I cannot prove this; long ago I got over the idea that,

a foreign country and you went to see him, you would as a preacher of Christian religion, I have to prove obably make for him just as soon as the ship had everything. The man who disagrees can't disprove it. nded, wouldn't you? Although I cannot prove it scientifically, I can do so by "You will find him. It can't be long, for love can never a logic which goes beyond so-called scientific argument. se its own." It is the deep intimation and logic of the human soul, She continued, "I have a husband and a daughter. If which, in the final analysis, is the ultimate secret and die, I will see my son. If I live, I will be with them and source of truth. What we feel inwardly in the logic of timately we will all meet on the other side. Is that the experience is true. The gospel of Christ tells us that ay it is?" death is a natural experience in the love of God.

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MID.MONTH POWWOW °>2&2i

Is TV a Monster in Your Horned

By HOWARD WHITMAN

Author and authority on home problems

T«ODAY THE PROBLEM for types of programs— in some instances, parents is not so much what's avail- the specific programs." able on TV but how to control the Parents don't question their role selection. The arguments about a in helping to regulate the number cheap Western with 15 murders in of hours a child sleeps, or practices 15 minutes vs. the educational values the piano, or plays outdoors, or does of Disneyland have reached an im- homework. They are diligent in the passe. There's good and bad on regulation of eating. TV viewing is television. We—or our children just as needful of guidance. must make our own choices. What shall our standards be? Is

So the question now is how to one hour a day enough? Or too manage the TV monster. Television much? What about three hours? has been lauded for re-establishing Four hours? Just because they're free, home life for our youngsters. But shall we have daily telethons in our there are also those who claim it has living rooms? kidnaped them in their own living No outsider can fix the specific rooms. hours for your family. You are the

Let's be realistic. TV is here to expert on that. But here is a plan stay. It is something new added to which I've tried with my own two the permanent fixtures of living, as children. It works. I call it the the car was added in the last genera- "Choice Chart System." tion and indoor plumbing in the Ask your child to draw up a chart generation before. Something new with seven vertical columns, one has moved into our living room and for each day of the week. Then have we can learn how to live with it. him divide it horizontally into the You will find yourself asking hit TV spreads before children an hours of the day, from after school questions, talking over the choice alluring fare, some fine and whole- until bedtime. Probably you will watch a few pr< some, some mediocre, and some Have him fill in the chart with all grams to satisfy yourself about then downright harmful. the programs he would like to see for Then comes the final shaping c

But can't children regulate their the week. Don't limit him; let him the Choice Chart. If your child h;i TV viewing by themselves? Some choose anything and everything. chosen reasonable fare, with can. But most children need help in Already you have achieved some- sprinkling of good, wholesome pre this, as in crossing the street or learn- thing. You have put the child to the grams and not too much ot th ing to swim. Note this pertinent task of studying the program offer- electronic comic-book offerings, yo'l

' observation of the Child Study As- ings ami thinking about them—the may be able to accept the chart a sociation of America: first step toward becoming a dis- is. Perhaps he will end up with

"In those homes where children criminating viewer rather than a total of .in hour to an hour and seem to profit most from television, channel flipper. half a day, with some special pa the family has worked out both the Now study the Choice Chart with grams for Fridav night and th amount oi time which the children him. This will acquaint yon with weekend, and this may fit in wel normallv watch television ,\nd the the programs your child chooses. with your familv routine.

10 Together/March 195a If his chart is overloaded, pare it

down. Talk it over. You may want to eliminate some inferior shows or cut down on the crime and violence, or add some programs of educational value.

This is where you express yourself as a parent. Perhaps you feel TV viewing should be limited to half an hour a day, or to two or three shows

i week. On the other hand, you may approve a great deal of TV time for vour child. You may even feel that !he can take the shows featuring violence in stride. A skillful parent decisions. I makes such Either way, your child now has a pattern for TV viewing, just as the

curriculum is a pattern for his day

it school. The Choice Chart should

not be rigid; it is a guide and should je a friendly one. Leave plenty of room for changes. Once you have initiated a child to this approach the problem tends to become self-liquidating. For you have taught him something. Video, like books and magazines, is a medium of choice. As the child learns to choose well he develops good taste. When a child has learned to choose, he no longer needs the Choice

Chart. He graduates from it. Like * an adult of taste and discernment, he will gradually discover television's

finest hours and shun its hours of dross. And the monster has been tamed.

Our readers speak out on TV's problems: Next page

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Is TV a Monster in Your Home?

Here readers say what they think.

Wouldn't Be Without children of so much advertising of may see—a total viewing time of five cigarettes and alcoholic beverages, and hours a week. This is decided with the TV is another of God's great gifts. of the shoot-and-kill programs, surely children, 11 and 7, with the under-

I have three teen-age boys, wards of is bad. The benefits are far outweighed standing that they must make choices the state, living with me. My system by the harm. Allen W. Corwin, —Margaret Hassig, Fort Wayne, Ind for TV viewing is simple. The boys Wellsvillc, N.Y. can watch, when their chores and Twist of Wrist i homework are done, until bedtime, Excellent Family Programs' which is a set hour each night. Mrs. TV can be switched off as well as on Avery Main, Gales Ferry, Conn. Our son, 13, says TV has been a with the twist of the wrist. If a parent great help to him in keeping up on does not have the strength or courage A Baby Sitter Speaks world events. Our little girl, six, enjoys to turn a little dial, he deserves to be some children's programs. There are ruled by TV.

I'm 18 and baby-sit a great deal. I some excellent family programs on The children and I enjoy many gooo have noticed that at first, as with any Sunday mornings before church. TV shows on TV. However, when there new thing, the children can't bear to is a monster only when Mother and is work for mother to do or home- leave TV for a moment. But after the Dad no longer control what goes on in work for the children, TV becomes I newness wears off they usually are their home and fail to have any family silent partner. Mrs. B. Schmiedefe content to watch when there is nothing activity during the children's leisure Pittsburgh, Penna. else to do. In homes where parents hours. Mrs. J. O. Armstrong, Pine- feel their children watch too much TV ville, Mo. Methodists Can Set Pace they might try playing together with them. Doris Bouton, Topekjx, Kan. IVo TV, More Fellowship Methodists are, after all, a minority We cannot dictate to all America, bul Answer: Planning? Last spring the picture tube on our we can live decently as we choose. Tc TV set went blooey and we suddenly solve the questions here considered, wc We make it a point to plan family rediscovered family life. We had been must be masters of our homes and oui outings—picnics, skating, bike hikes, trying to cram it in between commer- children. Also, we must provide foi swimming, movies, and reading out cials. Now we're one of those odd the void we create. If a series of T\ loud—with our four children. This families which does not have TV. We programs is prohibited, the family nun doesn't leave much time for indis- can practically hear visitors sigh in provide acceptable substitutes through criminate TV watching. Mrs. Robert alarm when they discover the fact, but family activities enjoyed together.— Jackson, Franklin Par\, III. after an evening of warm fellowship Stanley L. Grimes, Portland, Ore. we know they haven't missed the loud- Doesn't Have Doesn't Miss mouthed cyclops a bit. Mrs. Paul Thanks, Mr. Disney!

Kline, Jr., Anderson, Ind. So far we do not have TV in our A few years ago there were almosl home and do not plan to buy one By Invitation Only no movies suitable for children and until the children have finished school. TV had not yet appeared. Then came Every time I see TV the stupidity of TV poses no problems in our home. Walt Disney—a person with a delight- the program convinces me that we are I believe the reason is that our children ful sense of youthful enchantment, a not missing much by keeping it out. reflect their parents' attitude toward keen interest in God's world, and, I

— it. girls, F. J. Belinfante, Lafayette, Ind. We have three seven, five, am sure, a real love for children. . . .

and three. Our children seem to sense As a mother. I would like publicly Programs by Vote that if television is on and capturing to thank this gentleman, unique in this our attention it has intruded on their age of materialism. Jane N. Miller,

There is a firm rule in our home: rights, and their behavior degenerates . Uc.xandria, Va.

Not later than 8 p.m., TV is shut off. until the set is turned off.

If there is schoolwork to do, it comes Television does not run routinely in ''Deserves Much Credit' first. Cowboy pictures are all right. our home; it is brought into the home The good man always wins out and only by invitation for specific programs We have found that by careful selec- that teaches youngsters a lesson. II which we think will merit our atten- tion of programs, TV can successfully my four youngsters argue about which tion and that of our children. P. D. supplement a child's education and picture to see, we vote and that's it. Adams, MD, Osage City, Kan. recreation in the home. We find it — 7 Mrs. Gertrude If . Mon\, Pittsburg, works well when the children are Calif. 5 Hours a Week watching to consult the local TV list- ings before each change of program Harm Outtveighs Benefits Here is how we handle television and to offer them a choice of desirable

and it works: shows. . . .

TV has great possibilities for educa- Our set is in the basement recreation Since TV offers such a wide variety tion if rightly used. However, it cm room, in a cabinet that closes when of entertainment for the whole family, monopolize time needed for work, not in use. When the door is closed it certainly deserves much credit for thought, conversation, creative activity, the empty screen is forgotten. We helping families to spend more time and prayer. keep a schedule pasted on the kitchen at home together. Mrs. Harlan Mid- The effect on the young people and wall listing every program the children dlcbroof{, Cresco, Iowa

12 Together/March 195S What Is A Methodist Bishop:?

By T. OTTO NALL, Iitlitor, New Christian Advocate

CHANCES ARE you recognized He is an elected officer of the The strength of the episcopacy de- at least one of the 39 men pictured church, chosen for his special quali- pends on his mental, moral, and in color on the inside cover. You may fications as a leader, writer, speaker, physical stamina. He is dedicated to have heard this man preach a time or thinker, administrator. He may have a dual purpose—the ultimate salva- two, and you may have been im- all or some of these talents, but in all tion of man and the building of pressed by his eloquence. Or you may probability he is an eloquent preacher Christ's kingdom on earth. To this have seen him only at a ground of the gospel. end he is consecrated in a ceremony breaking or a church dedication. Or The bishop has several right-hand which concludes with these ques- you may have read our article, Meth- men in his area. These are the dis- tions: "Will you be faithful in or- odism's Man on the Move [January, trict superintendents, whom he ap- daining and appointing others; will page 28 J. points. He has the final say in the you seek to deal justly and kindly The Discipline of The Methodist appointment of ministers, but usual- with your brethren of the ministry Church refers to him as "chief pas- ly goes along with the recommenda- over whom you are placed as chief tor." John Wesley preferred "gen- tion of the district superintendent. pastor?" eral superintendent." But to most lay- He is not a "holy man" in the ac- men and ministers he is known as cepted meaning of the term. But he the bishop. The word for "bishop" in has authority from which there is no FROM consecration on, as Bishop both Greek and Latin simply means appeal except on matters of church Gerald Kennedy points out in The

"overseer," which is exactly what a law, which go to the Judicial Coun- Methodist Way of Life (Prentice

Methodist bishop is. cil. He does not "run" the church. He Hall, $3.50), a bishop is called on for There are 54 such men in the administers the laws handed to him more qualities than any one man world. The U.S., with its greatest by the General Conference, which should be expected to possess. He concentration of Methodists, has 37. meets every four years. He cannot must study and meditate without Some 20 bishops now in retirement make laws or initiate programs other ceasing, for he has many sermons to are not included in this figure. The than those set forth by laymen and preach in many pulpits. If he writes, number ol bishops in America has ministers in the General Conference. he must sandwich the chore among grown steadily with population and In the Conference he has no vote. a multitude of others. He must make- church membership. A bishop is elected for life by the decisions affecting thousands.

^ our bishop is a traveling, preach- ministers and lav people of his own A bishop is called on to raise large ing, writing, superintending, and jurisdictional conference. He can ex- sums for church extension in his area presiding man. His is the ultimate pect to retire after the jurisdictional and the world. He must inspire his human responsibility for the growth conference nearest his 70th birthday. preachers to do their best, often in the and spiritual welfare of the church He is assigned to his area by a face of overwhelming odds and heart- throughout the world. Oddly enough, committee of ministers and lay peo- breaking frustration. he has no chance for advancement. ple. His salary is $12,500 a year, In the final balance, when a bish- When he becomes a bishop he has minus 3 per cent retirement pay, plus op's works are weighed, he will not gone as high as he can in The Meth- some expenses. be judged by the sermons he has odist Church. He receives no special deference, preached, the money he has raised,

The bishop is pastor to the preach- but his constituents hold him in high the colleges he has built, or the mo- er—and it is within his power to regard. He is seldom seen in the mentous decisions he has made. The move the minister to any church in formal attire of his office. He does final test of his service will be in the his area. But he is a warm, under- not always agree with his brothers effect he has had for good in the standing, democratic man who would when he meets with them in council, local community through the local rather not be held in awe. usuallv twice a vear. church.

4arch 1958\jogether 73 Immortal Story

By FELIX R. McKNIGHT

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Pharisees, gathered to prepare the sacrifice of the Passov Palm Sunday: the scene drew cloaks about troubled Eat hurried to and § as they heard the rolling shout: day of great triumph "Blessed be the King that cotneth in the name of the Lot peace in heaven and glory in the highest!" |HE 33-YEAR-OLD The first Christian legion storming Jerusalem's ga Tison of a carpenter irked the Pharisees and some cried out at this strange Je> rode: triumphantly of Nazareth. astride a restless colt "Master, rebu\e thy disciples!" ' X'' "#T^ through Jerusalem's gates But the answer withered them, rang like a challenge S FT*0 1 929 ears a today—ac- war: ^^^ii-'"//^ * W^l//. ' Y g° claimed as the prophesied "// these should hold their peace, the stones uould 1 Messiah. mediately cry out!" Thousands of the faith- Stones? The stones of dusty streets which had twice be ful hurried along the hurled at Jesus in murder attempts. The desert stones whi streets, tossing their mantles he had refused to turn into loaves of bread upon the dare and palm branches on the his enemy. The issue was made. On he rode, the trace of rough stones before the smile on his gentle face as he raised his head slightly young, sad-eyed Jesus of acknowledge the drumming hosannas. Nazareth, crying out A tear dropped on his cheek. He was crving softly "Hosanna to the Son of himself, not in self-pity; not for the suffering he would c David." dure; not for the shame he knew he faced; not for the dea The day was magnificent in its beauty. It was April and that awaited him a few days hence. spring. The Sabbath sun's brilliance sparkled across vine- No. He sorrowed not for himself, but for the poor sou yards and orchards. Velvety blue skies canopied the coun- who were about to perjure and compromise themselves tryside. the altar of unbelief. Knowing that the Scripture must 1 Only a few hours before, Jesus had gathered around him tul filled, that the prophecy must come to pass, he knew the on the nearby Mount of Olives, at Bethpage village, his would do just that. 12 disciples. He told them of his fate, that he was to be Meanwhile, the Pharisees called hurried councils amor outraged, struck and spit upon, and finally put to death. the chief priests and scribes to discuss the threat this carpe It seemed incredible to his followers. But Jesus calmed ter's son had brought to their midst. The throngs that tea them. Death was to be the promise of a second, and greater, fully shouted at his heels disturbed them. He was a menai life and his passion was to insure eternal freedom of man. to be destroyed. So with a beckoning gesture he started his triumphal march But Jesus, marching ironically in triumph to his doon upon Jerusalem—a condemned man who thrice had escaped heard only the joyous shout that pounded over Jerusalem death but who now chose it to save mankind. even to the walls of the Temple on the hill; the Tempi The crowd swelled like a mad river out of its banks as filled with sin. the procession neared Jerusalem. The Faithful, caught in a "Hosanna to the Son of David!" great moment of hope, slashed palm branches and boughs of Tomorrow he would lash from the Temple of God th

myrtle Irom the lorcsts ami waved them high. money-changers, the bankers, the vendors who dared to ir The din grew and some feared a riot at the gates. The vade the house ol the I^ord.

14 Together/March 195! Monday Before Easter: dignant. lie spoke that no more inui would grow on that tree. Matthew reported the tree withered at once. John told of authority day that when thej passed it the next da) it had perished. But

in an) event il could not Miller his ire,

|esus told Ins followers it was but a lesson that men SI S OF NAZ \Ki 1 1 1 strode up the dusty |erusalem needed to realize a simple faith, a faith in God which flstreet to the Temple ol God, Banked In his fervent Eol lowers. On the hilltop, the Temple beckoned in decei\ on him alone. ing brilliance. But his gende heart flamed into righteous He was using to tell them that the iig tree was like ndignation as he drew near. He saw what he had Feared. Jerusalem which, with its foliage, was magnificent in its Sin had occupied the house ol the Lord. welcome on the da) <>i his triumphant Sabbath entry. But, Greed was etched in the faces ol the money-changers who actually, it had not received him, did not understand his vis- itation, and was as barren as the tree he had spurned. an dim hands through bowls ol silver and copper. 1 lerds- ncn hawked their wares in the tilth ol their flocks. Vendors And then he went to Bethany lor a night ol quiet. (united raucously beside their pigeon coops. Oxen bellowed against a backdrop ol bleating lambs. Against the din, he stood

in scorn and viewed it all. The house of prayer now was a house of Mammon, Tuesday Before Easter: and money-changers cheat- ed and lied and became the day of controversy tools of priests. \o longer could he re- WAS TO BE a bitter and full day for Jesus of Naza- strain his scorn. The gen- ITreth—the Tuesday before Easter, last day of his public tlest of all men seized a ministry. knotted rope and lashed his So with the dawn over Bethany he arose, gathered his way through the market disciples, and started for the Temple of God he had cleansed place. He stung evil backs the day before. and upset benches ol the Jerusalem was feverish.

money-changers. Copper It had heard in every house how Jesus drove the wicked and silver coins clattered from the house of the Lord. The poor rejoiced and lelt the to the floor and rolled away. alleys; leprous beggars lurched toward the Temple; crafts- Greedy men bawled in as- men long suffering at the hands of the rich closed their tonishment. shops. Herdsmen stampeded oxen and sheep through the Temple The courts were overflowing as he walked in one of the oors and vendors tumbled to the floor beside upset coops, porches to begin his teaching. The lame and the poor watched he babble drew others from nearby courtyards and the imploringly. The multitude belonged to Jesus that day. amor rose at the sight of this man cleansing the Temple But he was not to be without enemies. In small groups f God. the Pharisees and scribes who plotted his death filtered into He stood majestically brandishing his whip and with the the courtyard. They were haughty sights. Sneering mouths, ist of the money-changers crawling from the Temple, loudly scorn in their eyes, tilted chins. .tiled after them: Jesus paused and awaited their attack. He knew why they "My house shall be tailed the house of prayer; but ye had come. He knew their cunning. Soon one of them ave made it a den of robbers and thieves!" shouted: And suddenly the courts were cleared and there was peace. "By what authority do you preach —and who gave this Soon, in the new quiet of the Temple, there came the authority?" lind and the lame. Boys of the neighborhood, possibly choir Jesus' answer shamed them and the multitude was pleased. oys, cautiously slipped in to see this man who had driven "I would as\ you a question. If you answer, I will tell you il from holy walls. by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John— The chief priests and scribes of the Pharisees, drawn to the whence was it? From heaven or from men?" emple by the act of Jesus of Nazareth, watched incredibly The Pharisees were shaken. If they answered "from hile he healed the afflicted. They frowned uncomfortably heaven" he would ask, hen little children cried and joyously shouted: "Why did you not believe "Hosanna to the Son of David!" him?" If they answered Indignantly the priests called out to him: "from men" they would be "Do you hear what they say?" stoned, for the people were And Jesus answered: persuaded John was a "Why are they saying this of me? Haven't you read in prophet. So they shamefully he Scriptures: 'You have drawn praise from the mouths of said: hildren and infants'!" "We \now not." And that silenced the Pharisees. But it taunted them and And Jesus said: t was that night that they banded together and conceived "Neither will I tell you he bribing of a betrayer—and the cross. It was a delicate by what authority I do dot to plan, for the people had accepted Jesus as the Messiah these things." nd hung upon his every word. Again the Pharisees tried On that day Jesus, weary and faint of hunger, walked cunning. One asked: "Is it tear Bethany. He saw a fig tree and sought to satisfy his lawful to give tribute to mnger. But the tree was barren of fruit and he grew in- Caesar? Why pay taxes?"

larch 1958\Together /5 Jesus deliberated. To have said, "No" would have been to fited from the Temple's merchandising, scribes who tend command rebellion. To have said, "Yes" would have belied the law, and elders who represented the middle class.

his own claim to Messiahship. But he knew well ot their Why did this group seek the death of Jesus r hypocrisy. He took a coin and said: "What is Caesar's give Greed and personal interests were the underlying caus< to Caesar, and what is Cod's to God." Intertwined in every business in Jerusalem, from the hij The Pharisees left the Temple. And the solution Jesus to the low, was religion. The high priests were beneficiari

gave has settled for all time the principles underlying it. of tithes, taxes from Temple trading, food from sacrihei Jesus paused for rest on nearby steps and watched the animals, and even from payments for first-born infants. multitude cast money into the treasury. He saw a pauper It was their privilege to take from herds and crops. Und widow give two mites, the smallest of coins, and knew that the law, even the bread on their tables came from Jews wl her sacrifice was the greatest of all. Their glances met and were compelled to give the twenty-fourth part of the bre; Jesus was pleased, although he did not speak. baked in their homes. They sold animals to be used Their silence was a tryst for heaven. sacrificial offerings. They formed secret partnerships wi The day was long and Jesus tired. He silenced the Sad- the money-changers. ducees when questioned on resurrection and then the Shamefully, the Temple of God became a bartering po Pharisees reappeared to plague him on the law. around which was wrapped the very life of Jerusalem. C "What command is the greatest of the commandments?" the Temple lived the priests and the wealthy. Merchar they asked. depended upon the priests and the rich and the millions "You must love Cod with all your heart and all your soul pilgrims drawn from over the world to the tainted house and all your mind. There is a second. You must love your worship. neighbor as yourself. There is none other commandment The poor existed from scraps dropped them by the greater than these." who desecrated the Temple. The evening came and Jesus wearied. He had told many To challenge this violation of God's house came Jest parables and had attempted to correct many errors. It was His teachings substituted love of man for every mercena

then that he met the approach of the proselytes, Greeks who scheme and threatened the continued existence of an i had married into Judaism. They wanted to become disciples famous network. of the Lord of Righteousness. They sent a messenger, Philip Many attempts to trap him with cunning questions h Bethsaida, accompanied by Andrew. failed. Jerusalem was crowded with foreigners for t And Gentile converts were granted the right to worship sacrifice of the Passover and tens of thousands were eith and praise Christ. Jesus said unto Philip and Andrew: listening to or hearing of his teachings. It troubled t "The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified. Pharisees. If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am Only Nicodemus arose in the Sanhedrin to attempt c there shall also my servant be. If any man serve me, him will fense of Jesus. But he was quieted by fearful shouts ." the Father honor . . others that if Jesus were permitted to continue his teac And Jesus, perhaps the fullest day of his life ended—he ings and gather great followings, the Romans would coi had denounced woe on the Pharisees and scribes, he had in conquering strength and seize the nation. foretold the destruction of Jerusalem and his own suffering Finally the decision was made. on the cross—returned to the home of Lazarus in Bethany. Jesus w'as to be seized before the Passover. But they wc cowardly and still feared the wrath of the people. Ma

schemes were discussed for the actual murder, but it \v decided against assassination on the day of the Passo\ "an uproar among the people." But on the next day came a traitor to solve their pre Wednesday Before Easter: lem. Judas Iscariot, one of the 12 disciples, was to betray I day of retirement Master for 30 pieces of silver—a modest sum for an avaricio man. It could not have been more than $20. A small price for a man's lite. WEDNESDAY of his Passion Week, Jesus of And no one knows to this day the mystery of Jud ONNazareth sought seclusion in the quiet of friendly Iscariot. We know only: Bethany homes. No record of events of this day in "Then entered Satan into judas." his lite is known. But wicked schemers, the troubled Pharisees and scribes who teared the challenging power of the Son of David, met to plan details of his death. To assassinate him open- Maundy Thursday: ly would bring down the plague of the people. Be- day of fellows hi trayal and crucifixion; that was the plan. The right THIRTY PIECES of silver were to be his doom befoi moment had to be Found. the day's end. but Jesus ol Nazareth tedious To the court ol the high planned Maundy Thursday tor last moments of fe priest, Caiaphas, went the lowship and prayer with his disciples.

plotters to counsel together. Not many hours of life remained for him. He was to r The Sanhedrin, supreme betrayed, given mock trial, and crucified before tomorrow council ol the capital's rul- sunset.

ing chiefs, was crowded So it was his wish that he should gather lor the la; with priests who bene- time his disciples, but no worldly goods were his and hi

76 Tosether/March 195j had no home for such Eel- agon) mi<\ tribulation wen- at hand. Events were moving

low ship. I [e directed two rapidly.

disciples u> go into fei usa lie peered down al the sleepers and whispered: note tal{c your rest. the hour ;< at lem and follow .1 man heai "Sleep on and Behold, into hands ing a pitcher and in his hand and the Son of man i.- betrayed the of home they would dine. .sinner.^." M.uiy men bore pitchers Out oi the shadows came Judas Iscariot in the light ol oi water from Shiloh on lanterns. Swords rattled from scabbards ol the motley rabble that day, but the disciples at his side. Foi JO pieces ol silver Judas Iscariot was to AJ, N W^^^Ki" followed the first the) saw identify Jesus w ith a kiss. So he walked straightway to him and kissed his check. asked: As' te 1 V^^^UJ^t'"' rangcmcnls were made. And Jesus In the evening came "Friend, betravest thou the Son of man with a l{iss?" [esus and sat with his dis- The guards rushed forward and Simon Peter drew his ciples tor the Lord's Sup- sword and slashed an ear oil the high priest's servant. per and the Passover least. Quickly Jesus said:

It was the first day of un- "Suffer ye them thus far." avened bread. To prove his love for those he was soon to And he touched the ear and healed it. i\c. )esus stooped and washed the dusty feet of his dis- The disciples fled in contusion and fear, and Jesus was ples. Protests arose but he said: led away to the house of Annas. At that moment his death "Verily, verily, I say unto you, a servant is not greater sentence neared. an his Lord; neither one that is sent greater than he that And Judas Iscariot fled into the night and hanged him-

nt him. If ye hjiow these things, blessed are ye if ye do self. cm." In his sadness he gave them a new commandment: "Love one another, even as 1 have loved you. Greater re hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for Good Friday: ." s friends . . Ami he took the bread and broke it in prayer and gave day of long suffering to them, saying:

"This is my body which is given for you. This do in re- DAY HAD COME—mockery, insults, the fic- cm brance of me." THE a legal trial, boundless pain, betrayal, and tion of And he took the cup and gave thanks and handed it to finally death on the cross.

i apostle: It was the day of suffering for Jesus Christ. "Drinl{ ye all of it, for this is my blood of the new Dawn was lifting the shades on that Friday when Jesus, ." venant which is shed for many . . insulted and slapped in the home of Annas, was bound Great lines furrowed his face and he shocked his dis- and led away to the palace of Caiphas, high priest, a step on jles when he gazed at them sadly and, in his sorrow, told the last path to the cross. em directly: The clay's first grief came when Peter, frightened and "Verily, 1 say unto you that one of you will betray me." confused, stoutly denied in Caiaphas' courtyard that he was The disciples searched each other's faces and were sor- a disciple of Christ, that he even knew him. A distant wful. They quickly pleaded to know the identity of the cock crew and Peter gazed into Jesus' face and remembered trayer. Judas Iscariot, the 30 pieces of silver even then his words: ;htly wrapped on his person, managed somehow to ask "Before the cock^ crows twice thou shalt deny me sus brazenly: thrice." "Is it I, Lord?" And Peter stumbled into the streets and wept bitterly, In answer, Jesus said: his face hidden in his cloak. 'He it is 1 shall dip the sop give it to for whom and Into the crowded Sanhedrin Jesus, alone now and wrists m." bound with rope, was Iscariot, fled into And Jesus handed the sop to Judas who shoved to hear perjurers e night. Then Jesus began his farewell conversation with testify before Caiaphas. e remaining disciples who were low in spirit and heavy of Two of them swore they -•art: had heard him say in the "Let not your heart be troubled. He who believes in God, Temple of God: •Ueves also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions; "/ will destroy this tem-

it were not so I would have told you, for 1 go to prepare ple that is made with hands ." place for you . . and in three days I will The supper was ended and Jesus took with him to the build another made with- arden of Gethsemane Peter and James and John. He out hands." nplored them earnestly to stay with him and keep a watch But Jesus answered noth-

< he prayed. ing; nothing until his own And he fell to the ground and cried to God: words condemned him in "Father, all things are possible unto Thee; remove this the eyes of these evil schem- ip from met" ers. But only an angel appeared to give him strength and in Caiaphas crooked a fin- 'j;ony he prayed until blood and sweat coursed down his ger toward him and asked: ot cheeks. He wearily arose and walked back to find the "Art thou the Son of God?" iree weary disciples lost in sleep. Not even his trusted And Jesus wrote his own death sentence:

iends could stand watch, it seemed, now that the hours of "Ye say that I am. I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see

17 i 195S\Togetherb\ the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power and coming with the clouds of heaven." Saturday: Caiaphas shouted: "Ye have heard the blasphemy. What thinly ye?" day of everlasting sorrow Death! Death! Death! That was the verdict. Jesus, exhausted and blindfolded, dried blood still on his JESUS CHRIST was dead. Man's freedom had bee cheek, stood with the guards. A passing scribe spat on assured. Three crosses stood in Golgotha's darkness an him. The rabble of servants and guards gleefully followed only one of the two thieves breathed. The crowd ha suit. And then they played blind man's buff—striking him fled and in the shadows lingered only the three Mary; in his blindness and demanding that he identify his as- To Pilate hurried those who demanded that the legs

sailants without sight if he were really a prophet. the crucified be broken at once and the bodies buried. But soon they tired and Jesus was taken before Pontius It was ordered and as was the custom to hasten th Pilate, the Roman governor, for confirmation of his sen- death of the crucified, a soldier broke the legs of the livid tence. The Pharisees falsely testified again and Pilate, thief. Jesus was dead, but John told that his side wa unwilling to shoulder the responsibility, sent him to Herod pierced with a spear in a last gesture of cruelty. when he told him he was a Galilean. But Jesus was silent Two notables of Jerusalem, Joseph of Arimathea an before Herod and the mob returned him to Pilate. Nicodemus, went before Pilate in the secrecy of darkness an Pilate, defending Jesus through hate of Caiaphas, not asked for the body of Jesus. Pilate, mindful that some c love, offered Barabbas, an assassin, in exchange for Jesus, the crucified lived many hours in agony, was astonishe but the throng still clamored for his death. So Pilate had that he should be dead. him stripped and arrayed in a purple garment, and the So he called before him the excutioner and, being a soldiers in the courtyard placed a crown of thorns upon sured of his death, gave unto Joseph the body of Jesu

his head and a reed in his right hand. And Joseph took fine white linen bands and returned t And they spat upon him and mocked him with: Golgotha where he met Nicodemus, whose servant boi "Had, King of the Jews!" many pounds of myrrh. It was a dark and sinister nigh And finally Pilate, fearful of the rising tumult, delivered and the two set out flaming torches. him unto the mob and washed his hands in water, saying: Slowly they lifted him from the cross and placed h "/ am innocent of the blood of this man, see ye to it!" body on the knees of Mary, who had borne him. And the Down the stony streets Jesus trudged, bearing his own they carried him to Joseph's nearby garden, where cross. Two thieves followed, also doomed to crucifixion. sepulcher had been hewn from rock for Joseph's famil Sobbing women, old men, children followed, crying. But It was to be the burial place of Jesus Christ. Jesus urged them not to weep for him. Water was brought from No longer could his strength hold. He fell to the street the well and his body under his cross. Only gasps of breath showed life. washed. The three Marys The Pharisees cast about in the crowd and picked one lifted from his bloodied Simon to lift his cross that the procession might not be brow the crown of thorns delayed. Outside the city's walls—capital punishment was Pilate's soldiers had woven illegal in the city itself—came the tragic, broken Jesus of in mockery. They smoothed Nazareth to a place called Golgotha, scene of the Cruci- his long hair and tenderly fixion. washed his many wounds. Four soldiers readied Jesus and the two thieves. Ropes The pounds of myrrh under his arms lifted him to the cross and nails were driven were touched to his body into his hands and feet. and the winding linen was "Father, forgive them for they \now not what they wrapped about him and he ." do . . was laid deep in a sub- And one of the repentant thieves moaned in agony as terranean passageway in- Jesus comforted him. tended for Joseph's body. ." It "Today shall thou be with me in paradise . . was done and they

Away from the howling men, fearful of it all, stood his kissed his forehead and mother, Mary. To John and Mary, Jesus whispered: departed.

"Woman, behold thy son; son, behold thy mother!" But the three Marys lingered at the entrance to tl Midnight darkness came and the sun was obscured. Many sepulcher. where Joseph and Nicodemus had closed th fled in fear, but some lingered. The parched lips moved again opening with a great stone. They were troubled and coul and at the ninth hour he said: not leave him alone. "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" < ^nc by one they prayed and then it is told that the Dust and blood coated his lips: recounted many stories of his kindness and his acts. But th ." night "I thirst . . was cold and black, and finally, weeping, they wer And a vile soldier dipped a reed in vinegar and brushed away.

it to his mouth. Death had not eased the hearts of the wicked Pharisee "// ." they still is finished . . and worried over the words of Jesus when h

The body trembled and the lips parted in final agony: said: ." three days I shall rise "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit . . "After again." And his head bowed and he gave up the ghost. So they hastened to Pilate and urged that he act. Suddenly, told Matthew, an earthquake struck am) the "Command that the sepulcher be made sure until th curtain ol the Temple was torn from top to bottom. The third day lest his disciples come and steal him away an, earth shook and rocks were splintered. Tombs opened and say unto the people, 'He is risen from the dead.' . hid the, bodies ot saints were raised. the last error would be worse than the first." 'Hie people, in lew :\nd awe, licit their breasts and cried: Pilate answered:

"Truly, this was the Son of God!" "Ye have a guard; go, mal{c it as sure as you can."

18 Together/March 195d So the Pharisees and scribes went by torchlight to the "Mary" sepulcher protected l>\ guards, and in the l lull night sealed And sin rejoiced and cried: the great stone. "Teat her!" And then they went to their homes and the day ol infamj But he motioned her aw.i\ and said: was done. "Touch me not, for I am not yet axe mini unto tht Father. But go to my brethren and say to them, '/ ascend unto my Tat her, and your Tattler, and my God and youi " God.' Mary arose and rushed to the disciples, exclaiming: "I have seen the Lord!" Easter Sunday: The- word spread and Matthew told that dazed guards reported the Resurrection to high priests and scribes. In

day of resurrection hurried counsel with the ciders it was decided to give the guards much money and say unto them:

EARLY of that morning came a quake "// questioned say, 'His disciples came by night and THE HOURS " INand the earth trembled and Jerusalem was troubled. stole him away while we slept.' Out of the skies as a lightning shait came an angel Soon, two friends of Jesus who had been in the house in white raiment to the sepulcher where Jesus Christ lay with his disciples journeyed afoot to nearby Emmaus and buried. He rolled away the great stones and terrified guards were talking of events of the last few days in Jerusalem. fell across their path and they turned to see a fell as it dead. A shadow they told And then the dawn was still and beautiful. stranger. He inquired of their conversation and One by one the stars were doused and a morning carved him the story of Jesus' suffering and the reports of his from heaven broke over the countryside. Resurrection. But of the last, they spoke in doubt. In great caution and sadness went Mary Magdalene and And then the stranger started from Moses and quoted Mary of Bethany to the sepulcher to weep once more over from all the prophets in interpreting the Scriptures. Soon their departed Master; perhaps to spread more spices over they arrived in Emmaus and he sat down with them to it, it to them. his body if the stone could be moved. Hut they were cat. He blessed the bread, and breaking gave astonished and without words when they saw the stone had The bread was broken! been rolled away. In astonishment they looked and they knew it was he! Could his body have been stolen away in the night? And then he vanished. Straightway they returned to Jeru- of the disciples, saying: Was it possible that even now he was lying in a common salem and burst into the house

: grave "The Lord is risen indeed , and hath appeared to Simon!" he The women moved closer and dared to enter. At first they And while the 11 disciples heard in wonderment, ap- saw nothing. Then a young man whose white garment peared in the doorway. One shattered the tomb's darkness spoke: by one he looked at them "Be not afraid. He is not here, for he is risen as he and then he said: "Peace said." be unto you." Frightened, trembling, the women listened. The disciples were fright- "Go quickly and tell his disciples that he is risen from ened and feared they had the dead. And behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; seen a spirit. there shall ye see him." "Why are ye troubled Quickly the women fled to the home where his disciples and why do questionings were in hiding and spread the news. arise in your hearts? See "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and my hands and feet, that it we \now not where they have laid him!" is I myself. Handle me and Simon Peter and John heard and rushed from the house. see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones as ye be- John, the younger, came first to the sepulcher and looked hold having." past the opening. He saw linen cloth on the ground, but me lifted his was fearful of entering. He hands and showed them his feet. Simon, breathless from his run, arrived and the two The scars of crucifixion were disciples entered the tomb. True, the linens and the white still there. opened his napkin which had been folded around his head were there. He garment and the mark of the spear was on his side. And they departed in haste and returned as rapidly as they In joy they still disbelieved and he asked for meat. And could run to their house. he took it and ate. believed. But Mary lingered and wept. She peered into the They "Peace be unto you. As the Father hath sent me, even so sepulcher and saw two angels sitting where his body had send I you. Receive ye the Holy Spirit. Whosesoever sins ye been. And they said: "Woman, why do you weep?" forgive, they are forgiven unto them. Whosesoever sins ye ." retain, they are retained . . "Because they have taken away my Lord and I know They believed and went out to carry his gospel into not where they have laid him." every land. Then she turned to go away and Jesus stood nearby, but And out of the heavens seemed to come words reminis- she did not know him. cent of his Baptism: "Woman," he asked, "why do you weep? Whom do you ." "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased . . seek?" But Mary supposed him to be the gardener and she said: This sensitive account of Christ's last week on earth was written by a leading

Tex.. Methodist It. It "Sir, if you have taken him away, tell me where you have Dallas, layman and editor. Felix McKnight. originally ap- peared in The Dallas News. Later it was published in book form and copyrighted laid him and I will take him away." by Henry Holt and Company, with whose permission we are privileged to .shan'

And Jesus said unto her: it with you.—EDS.

March 1958YTogether 79 Fraternities across the country are undergoing

a drastic change.

Pranksters once, many

are helping others now.

Not long ago fraternity pledges were made to prove how much they could tafe. I Hell Weeks Gon o.'NE BITTERLY COLD night youth was apt to be subjected to Chi Alpha join their parents each two years ago a young university night-long hikes, paddlings, goldfish year in an Easter breakfast. fraternity pledge, victim of a Hell swallowings, and a selection of odd- Once every fall. University of Den-

Week prank, was abandoned by his ball antics which had little to do with ver fraternities combine to treat or- fraternity brothers on a lonely road the ideals of his fraternal organiza- phans to a picnic and a college outside the town. Blindly seeking his tion. The purpose was to show how football game. All 12 fraternities at way back to the campus, he stumbled eager he was to become a member. Wesleyan University in Middletowa across a frozen reservoir, fell through Today, however, the tide is setting Conn., open their houses to town the ice, and drowned. strongly in the opposite direction. kids just before Christmas.

On another campus, a student died Help Week is replacing Hell Week At Boston University, the dean of of burns received during an initiation on campuses across the country men is constantly badgered for leads ceremony. Still another was injured —with Methodist-related schools on manual-labor jobs. Northwestern when he fell, blindfolded, down a among the leaders. University's 31 fraternities join so- mountainside. This year as Easter approaches, tot- rorities and independent students in

The past is dotted with tragedies example, Syracuse University's 35 week-long Operation Evanston, a resulting from Hell Week shenani- fraternities are preparing to take up community cleanup crusade. gans. True, thousands of young men brooms, mops, brushes, and pails to At American University, Wash- have gone through initiation without join in a communitv-wide cleanup ington, D.C.. fraternity pledges are harm; nevertheless, the few excep- and fix-up project that in the past has Christmas dinner hosts to some 75 tions have given college fraternities aided 2S health, welfare, and civic youngsters from local orphans' a black eye most do not deserve. agencies. Many chapters throw par- homes. Initiates also carry out Until recently, however, pledging ties lor orphans and underprivileged projects for needy groups, including a fraternity was something like sign- children on the various holidays. the annual cerebral-palsy drive. ing up for the Foreign Legion. As a At Methodism's Oklahoma City In other schools, too. Help Week pledge socking active membership, a University, the brothers oi Lambda is catching fire. Delta Upsilon at the

20 Together/March 1958 " ,.

asked the othei pledges. "A ( .In isl

i. in. is the) II never forg<

I here was cnthusiasl it agn em< in

Si Pledges attered through S< atl l< calling on shopkeepers, grocers, sup

ply houses, private ( itizens. ( )n

( Christmas Eve Bud c limbed into a Santa sun and led a decorated cara van through the citj to the old house where Mrs. Duponi and her boys were preparing to spend another un- eventful Christmas. There, before the family's astonished cms, the col- legians held one of the biggest parties Seattle had ever seen. Among the gilts were complete outfits lor the whole family, sports

equipment and toys for the boys, a sewing machine, a ton of groceries, and promises of a year's lree medical and dental bills. As Bud predicted, this was a Christmas the Duponts would never forget. Nor would the men of Sigma Chi who had changed Hell Week to Help Week. In similar vein, a record 400 old- sters attended an annual Old Folks Party given by Wisconsin's Sigma projects day many arc required to take part in such as community cleanups. Alpha Epsilon chapter last year. Other fraternities send their brothers out to local YMCAs, Scout troops, boys' clubs, and church centers. They clear land for playgrounds, distribute civil-defense literature, spark charity GOULD drives, wash cars, build, and give the By GORDON proceeds to such organizations as CARE. Quite a few fraternities sup- port a war orphan. Phi Delta mem- Jniversity of Missouri assigned University of Washington in Seattle. bers at Oregon State turn out each 'ledges to refurbish a rural school- Bud thought he was lucky to be in- year as handy men for a WCTU iousc At the University of Maine, vited to pledge Sigma Chi, one of farm home.

'ledges painted the interior of a the largest fraternity chapters on the A unique project is under way at lunch. Sigma Chi of the University campus. He considered himself the Penn State chapter of Delta

>f Tennessee adopted a needy family. fortunate, too, to have landed a part- Upsilon. There the brothers are How did this all start 3 In 1949 a time job at Providence Hospital to working to scrape and repaint Ad- Jniversity of Indiana student de- help pay his living expenses. There miral Dewey's flagship. And among

ided it was pointless for college remained just one hurdle before ob- the 5S fraternities at the University nen to behave like adolescents. So taining his cherished pin—Hell of Illinois, said to be the fraternity vhen the time came for Alpha Tau Week. Instead: capital of the world, the Help Week

3mega to process the season's crop "You will join other pledges in de- spirit is so strong that there aren't

)f pledges, Bob Lollar suggested vising a work project for your- enough projects to go around. hey be set to work repainting a com- selves," he was told. Fraternity men don't have to do

nunity-service building. It was Bud who dreamed up the these things. They're not running By the next year, more than half project. At his hospital job, he had service clubs or charitable organiza- he fraternities at Indiana had met a practical nurse named Yvonne tions. Then why do they take on unked Hell Week. Today, an esti- Dupont, whose three small sons such projects?

nated 75 per cent of the nation's knew no Christmas but the creche One reason is that most fraternities !,600 fraternities have squeezed the their mother set up during the holi- realize positive steps must be taken 'Hell" out of Hell Week. day season. On her meager earnings to counteract throughtless acts and You get a close-up of how this there was never enough money for unfortunate incidents in the past.

lew help-others philosophy works food and rent and presents, too. A second reason is that the World vhen you look at the case of a "What do you say we give this War II veterans who swarmed onto ypical pledge—Bud Hilpert of the family a real Christmas?" Bud the campuses during the late '40s had

inarch 1958\Together 2/ I

getting along were laughing and chattering. I asked seen too much of the world to who the man was. awed by senseless pranks. Th "He's the doctor used to run who balked at the traditional Hell Wee this hospital," I was told. "He's too A third reason is the spiritual u old to practice now, but he comes Together lift men feel when they apply thei here almost every day to talk with the selves to helping others. Richard children and give them the things his Stoddart. president of Kappa Sigr parents could never afford to give him." at Dartmouth, puts it this wa —Mns. J. L. Randall, Burrton, Kan. "There is a very real sense of pri My home town was tiny. Dad was the grocer. Nearby was the blacksmith, and in completing a community proj< a little farther the wagon maker. In or in watching the happy faces of the same block was a little brood of first graders when Santa Claus com His cows gave a country doctor I three youngsters, whose mother had clown the chimney." knew more milk than his family could just died. And it was Easter. use, so he told some undernourished Other fraternities feel that spiritt At dawn that Sunday, my mother children to stop by each morning for values must be emphasized by groi got up and silently -slipped across to a bucket of milk. A few weeks later, participation in religious observanc the children's house, to hide a few however, his wife told the youngsters At Oklahoma City University, Sigr eggs on the lawn. In the half-darkness, they would have to pay for milk in Phi Epsilon brothers generallv attei she saw two figures moving stealthily the future. some church en masse each Sund; about. Frightened, she was about to And what did the doctor do when run when they straightened up and And a growing number of frateri — he learned of this? He secretly gave she recognized them. ties at the University of Texas ha the children money to buy the milk The blacksmith and the wagon a religious retreat once a year, cc from his wife. maker—also out hiding Easter eggs for —Mrs. L. Wooton, Willhton, Fla. ducted jointly by chapter leade the youngsters. alumni, and church counselors. —Mns. Hazel Tedford, Keokuk, Iowa. The idea of service to college a: community, says Don Sullivan I was superintendent of the campus Beta Theta Pi, University of Mini Sunday school in a theological college I was on the bus when a woman sota, "keeps us from assuming tr in India. We had a garden and I used boarded it with her Negro maid. There brotherhood can be easily attain to give the students' children seeds and was only one seat left. "You take it, seedlings. and easily discarded." Mandy," the woman said. "You've I never knew how many were "And unless fraternities can bet worked hard all day and are tired." actually planted, but some months fit other people as well as their o\ The maid did so. Almost immediate- after I had distributed seedlings one members," adds Brad Fowler, a F ly, a colored woman at the rear arose, year two children shyly presented me Delta at Texas Universi Gamma j and offered her seat to the white woman with a basket of ripe tomatoes. "it is difficult to justify them in at with a smile of thanks that set the — When, I, who had so much, hesi- bodv's eves." whole bus to feeling better. tated to accept the gift, their mother —Theobel Wing Alleeson, Los Avgclcs Not long ago. the fraternities explained, "These are the first fruits the University of Miami "justifie from the plants you gave us." I realized themselves in then that she was teaching her children an unusually drama It eight o'clock to say "thank you" and I. in accepting manner. was on Everybody in our neighborhood — the gift, learned how to receive grace- Tuesday night—meeting night knows Aunt Laura. She's 95, blind, fully. many fraternities—when the pho and, since all her friends have passed Mns. C. S. Thoburn, Jabalpur, India — in one of the chapt away, terribly lonely. But each morning rang urgently

a I at nine, Aunt Laura's day is brightened houses. The call was from near by a phone call. It's from a young hospital where a man lay dying fro woman who lives on a farm; by that I have taught school lor many years. internal bleeding. He needed it hour, she has packed her children off Last year a little girl was enrolled in mediate transfusions of the uncoi is start her to school and ready to day's my first grade who was an inspiration. mon O-negative blood. From t old, chores. Hut first, she phones this Sandra's daily ambition was to see the doctor on the other end of the Hi blind lady and reads the day's devo- — good in others; to find something lor came a plea: "Can you help us tions Erom The Upper Room to her. which to offer praise. the last On day In the next few minutes, a roun She says it helps bring God's blessing ol school as I was passing out awards robin telephone call was begun to ; on both of them each day. to the children one child shouted —Carol Luth, Sheboygan Palls, Wis. the other fraternities, alerting the angrily, "Carl got two!" to the emergency. Meetings wc Sandra jumped up and joyfully disbanded. 8:30 the he yelled, "Let's give him a big hand." abruptly By —Mrs. B. R. Ilruxn;. Vale, N.C. pi tal corridors were filling wi Every chair in the hospital waiting donors. By midnight some 50 pints i room was occupied, mostly by chil- blood. 26 of them O-negativc. wc dren with gloomy faces. Into the room on deposit. And in the gratef shuffled an old man with a paper bag. True talcs which hare brightened patient, the light of life shown 1 le went from child to child, stopping a day or an hour for you may do the all because broth to give each a candy bar From his bag same for others. Send yours to To- lv once again— and a lew words ol happy greeting. enail k. For each story used, tee pay hood was more than just a word By the time he kit, the youngsters 55.—Eds. these voting fraternity men.

22 Together/March 19: —

v if

The Day We Flew the Kites

t By FRANCES FOWLER c OTR1NG!" SHOUTED Brother, bursting into the kitchen. "We need lots of string."

It was Saturday. As always, it was a busy one, for "Six days shah thou labor and do all thy work" was taken seriously in those days. My father and Mr. Patrick next door were doing chores about their large yards. March was a busy time. Indoors, Mother and Mrs. Patrick were running around in their usual Saturday marathon, complicated by spring clean- ing. Such a windy day was ideal for "turning out" clothe: closets. Already woolens flapped on clotheslines which snaked across the adjoining back yards. Somehow the boys had slipped away to the back lot with their kites. Now, even at the risk of having Brother impounded for beating carpets or washing windows, they had sent him to the house for more string. All of theirs had played out heaven knows h >w many yards! Apparently there was no

limit to the heigh; s to which kites would soar today. My mother looked out the window. The sky was piercingly blue; the breeze frc.h and infinitely exciting. Up in all that

blueness sailed great puffy billows of clouds. It had been a long,

hard winter, but toda : was spring. My mother looked from the pie-baking clutter on the kitchen

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, w ^Ax tabic to the disordered sitting room, sleepily back to the houses. Things Saturday. I pulled off my apronj its furniture all moved out of line for were just as we had left them, but "Come on." I told my little girl a really Spartan sweeping. Again her Mother looked as if she hardly saw "You're right, it's much too beautiful eyes wavered toward the window. the half-rolled pastry, the stripped a day to miss. Let's go take a look "Come on, girls!" She fumbled in sitting room. I suppose we had some at those ducks!" the kitchen-table drawer for a new sort of supper. I suppose there must Another decade passed. We were roll of twine. "Let's take string to the have been a surface tidying up, for in the uneasy aftermath of a great boys and watch them fly the kites a the house on Sunday looked decorous war. All evening we h:'d been ask minute." enough, or do I remember? ing our returned soldier, the youngest On the way we met our neighbor, The strange thing was, we didn't Patrick boy, about his experiences a Mrs. Patrick, laughing guiltily, es- mention that day afterward. I felt a a prisoner of war. He had talked corted by her girls. little embarrassed. Surely none of freely, but now for a long time he There never was such a day for those other sensible, balanced people had been silent, watching his cig flying kites! God doesn't make two had thrilled to it as deeply as I; none arette smoke curl upward into th: such days in a century. We played had had ridiculous, sacrilegious summer darkness. The silence all our fresh twine into the boys' thoughts about comparing flying seemed suddenly to throb. What waj kites, and still they soared. We could kites with the kingdom of heaven. I he thinking of . . . what dark and hardly distinguish the tiny, orange- locked the memory up in that deepest dreadful things? What, was he going colored specks. Now and then we part of me where we keep "the things to tell? slowly reeled one in, finally bringing that cannot be and yet are" . . . and "Say!" A smile twitched his lips it, dipping and tugging, to earth, for the years went on. He looked like the little boy he usee the sheer joy of sending it up again, A good many years had passed and to be, the very little boy always tag feeling its vibrant tug against the one day I was flying about a kitchen ging behind us others. "Say, do vol twine as it sought the sky. What a of my own in a city apartment. I was remember . . . ? No, of course yoi thrill to run with them, to the right, trying to get some work out of the wouldn't. It probably didn't make to the left, and see our poor, earth- way while my three-year-old insist- the impression on you it did on me bound movements reflected minutes ently whined her desire to "go park It was the first time I had ever seer later in the majestic sky dance of the and see ducks." them." kites! We wrote wishes on slips of "I can't go!" (My reasonableness I hardly dared speak. "Remembei paper, punched holes in them, and was wearing thin.) "I have this and what?" slipped them over the string. Slowly, "I used to think of that day a lo irresistibly, they climbed up until in PW camp when things weren't too they reached the kites. Surely all such good. Do you remember the day wc READER'S CHOICE wishes would be granted! flew the kites?" Even our fathers dropped hoe and »Mrs. A. E. Swab, Huron, S.D., Winter came, and the sad duty o receives $25 for being the first of hammer and joined us. Our mothers a call of condolence on Mrs. Patrick 12 persons to suggest this month's took their turns, laughing like school- recently widowed. Her family hac Reader's Choice. The Day We Flew girls. Their hair blew out of their the Kites appeared in Parents' moved away many years before, bir decorous pompadours and curled Magazine in May, 1949, and is she had brought back her husband", loose about their cheeks, their ging- reprinted now by the publishers' body to our town for burial, permission. TOGETHER invites you ham aprons whipped about their legs. dreaded the call. I couldn't imagim to nominate your favorite story or Mingled with our delight Mrs. Patrick would face lift puppyish article. Send us its title, author, how was a feeling akin to awe. These and the name and date of the alone. adults were playing with us, really publication in which you read it. I found her quite gray, a little First to nominate an article that playing! The gulf between parent stooped, much thinner than in hei we reprint receives $25. and child was greater then than now. vigorous, maternal middle years. But

Once I looked at Mother and thought she still had those warm, brown eves, she looked actually pretty! And her that low. caressing voice. We talks over 40! this and this to do first, and when a little about my family and her We never knew where the hours I'm through I'll be too tired to walk grandchildren and the changes in our went on that hilltop day. There were that far." town. no hours, just a golden, breezy Now. My mother, who was visiting us, Ami then she was silent, looking

I think we were all a little bevond looked up from the peas she was down at her hands in her lap. I ourselves. Parents forgot their duty shelling. "It's a wonderful day," she cleared my throat. Now I must say and their dignity; children forgot the offered, "really warm, yet there's a something about her loss and she combativeness and small spites. "Per- fine, fresh breeze. It reminds me of would begin to cry.

haps it's like this in the kingdom of that day we flew the kites." When I looked up, I was dumb

heaven," I thought confusedly. All I stopped in my dash between stove founded. Mrs. Patrick was smiling. our personalities stood out clearer, and sink. So she remembered! The "I was just sitting here thinking,"

more individual than ever, and yet locked door (lew open ami with it a she said. "Henry had such fun that there was no sense of separateness. gush ol memories, anil the applica- da\. Do you remember, Frances It was growing dark before, drunk tion ol her little parable. There had do you remember the day wc flew with sun and air, we all stumbled been much to do on that long-ago the kites?"

24 Together/March 195E Apostle of Good Cheer s AnITA WATSON is only 26, but she lives in an old folks' home. M| Each morning when she awakens in her tidy room on the third floor of ne Methodist Home at Elyria, Ohio, her thoughts and prayers are for the elderly people who live there. m- A home tor the aged is a quiet place, usually; a serene, restful nook shut away from the hectic pace of the world. It is a good place to live. But Anita Watson—apostle of good cheer in a wheel chair—knows / that solitude and peaceful surround- % ings sometimes bring loneliness, es- pecially to the ill or handicappd. So by 10 a.m. each day, and some- times far into the night, Anita is Busy filling any such void in the hearts and souls of the aged and ill. She tries to see each patient at least once every two days. Anita was born with cerebral palsy, vet graduated from high school as salutatorian without ever attending class—and, taking her wheel chair to Schaurfler College, earned a degree in Christian Education. Now serving as chaplain at the home, this vivacious, dark-eyed young woman counsels the elderly, prays with them, reads to them, X writes letters for them, conducts Sun- dav-morning bedside chapel services for them. Recently, George P. Miller, To- cether photographer, dropped by Elyria to visit Anita. In the pictures that follow, he gives you a close-up of Anita's work.

Smile of an active care- free young woman? Well, things aren't always what they seeml Turn page for Anita's surprising story.

March 195o\Together Apostle of Good Cheer, continued:

Helping Hand: Residents at the Elyria Home delight in little courtesies for crippled Anita. Frequent companion on a "stroll"

is Mrs. Helen George {above), a devoted friend.

Prayerful moments come often, always in her room person in need of her comforting. Anita uses a tape rccordet at morning (above), often at the bedside of an ailing to capture the reminiscences of the home's elderly residents. lealtime at the home finds Anita switching tittles often . I/though she usually spends most of her time with the ill, as

' she may become better acquainted with all the residents. chaplain she's always available to anyone who calls on her.

Among the very old deafness and failing eyesight are common handicaps. Right, Anita reads an inspiring chapter from Mr. Jones, Meet the Master.

cheerful greeting is shouted to a 0-year-old, so hard of hearing she has >st most contact with the world of ntnd. New elevator now helps Anita if(e her wheel chair all over the home.

1958\Together r t A 1 V <

v 4 V

MUSICAL MOTHERS. Mrs. Elbert Marshall and Mrs. Charlc

D. Montgomery of Dallas, Tex., are winning acclaim as authors c i 1 a book of sacred music. It's called We Go to Church and is put r lished by Carl Fischer in New York City. But for these Methodi. 1 lay women (Mrs. Montgomery and her two children, left, above Mrs. Marshall and her three children, right, above) composing worked in between child care, cooking, housekeeping, and churc v V • work. With families to care for, their collaboration works like thi Mrs. Montgomery gets an idea for a poem, jots it down, gives it 1

Mrs. Marshall who composes music for it. The busy mothers sol\ problems over the phone. Once difficulties are ironed out, Mrs. Mon gomery goes to work on illustrations. Both are members of Highlan Park Methodist Church, sing with their board-member husbanc

in the choir. Mrs. Montgomery is a contralto soloist: her partner an assistant organist who has written many anthems.

V -v Unusual

SKYWAY SCRIPTURES. The first scriptured bands taken off th legs of geese shot in the Far North were called "messages irorl heaven" by Eskimos who rushed them to a missionary for transhl lion. Today hands are being turned in faithfully in exchange fol r i Bible pictures. To spread the Word of God by skyway, wild C;l nadian geese and ducks are trapped —500 at a time—and bande<| with aluminum hands containing scriptural verses at the [acl Miner Bird Sanctuary, Kingsville, Ontario. Started 50 years ago b Jack Miner, the Sanctuary aimed at saving Canadian geese from

extinction. Its work now is carried on by Miner's sons. Jasper, ami Manley (in photo)- They are members of the Kingsville Methodisj

Church, where Jasper is An elder, a member of the official board and Sunday school teacher. From returned hands the Miners comj v pile information on nesting sites, wintering, and range of flights! v At the same time Scriptures are spread through the northland.

Together/March 195: \ MAN OF Ml Ml VHON.

'I ircd shoppers and woi 1

weary employees at the J. B, Ivey and Company department i store, Charlotte, N.C., drop the

i arcs ol the day by slipping into the .store's meditation room Eoi a lew moments ol quiet prayer. Their need was Inst seen by George M. lvey, company presi- dent and son ol the founder. Now 300 persons each week visit the room, meditate, and enjoy the stained-glass window imported from Holland. So re- warding do employees and shoppers find die sanctuary, that some New York stores plan sim- ilar rooms. Using Christian principles for his business yard-

stick, J. B. Ivey made his way from a department-store ap- prentice at $53$ a month to own- er of six stores doing a $22-mil- lion business. Now 92, he has occupied offices in several Meth- odist churches. Following his father's footsteps, George Ivey (shown with employee), also ac-

tive in the church, now is official- board chairman of Providence Methodist Church, Charlotte. Other business-house innova- tions: an auditorium for inspira- tional meetings.

V Methodists

Xa PUNKY SOLOMONS. Most Americans are familiar with this qurageous Methodist family from Georgia. They are the Joseph J Solomons, the 1958 March of Dimes poster family, three of whom L'cently completed a nation-wide tour for the National Association .m*

>r Infantile Paralysis. Mrs. Solomon and her three children, Joe,

. and twins Sandra and Linda, 6 (in photo), were stricken with olio in 1953. Today they are all greatly improved, although Joe nd Sandra still wear braces. Linda and Mrs. Solomon suffered onparalytic polio and do not require braces. As poster family for he year, the family was received by President Eisenhower at the |Vhite House before Mrs. Solomon and the twins toured the nation br the Foundation. Joe stayed home in Warner Robins, Ga., with lis dad, an air force major. The family has moved several times |Joe was born in Germany) —but wherever they live The Methodist Church forms the core of their lives.

1958\Together bridge of ffelblwj Ua*uk

By CARLOS P. ROMULO

As told to Beth Day

o,'N OCTOBER 11, 1957, my telephone. My wife told me that I got from that receptionist's desk t< eldest son, Carlos LI. Romulo, Jr., another son, Greg, who lives in Washington. The receptionist madi died in a plane crash, 50 miles north Manila, had called to tell her that a the airline reservation, then called th< of Manila. In that dark hour hun- plane was missing with Mike and embassy in Washington to tell then dreds of helping hands supported me five other men aboard. I told my wife which plane I would be on. Daj by a bridge of kindness across the that I would come to Washington Hammarskjold, UN secretary gen United States to Los Angeles, across immediately. Then I put in a call to eral, lent me his car to drive to th the Pacific to Manila, and back again. Manila. I knew Greg would never airport. At the terminal the airlin

It is in thanks to this generous host, have called merely to report a miss- agent was waiting with my ticket many unknown to me except through ing plane. He put me on the plane and into th their acts of compassion, that I tell Overseas operator 245 at Oakland, hands of the crew. I regained cor the story of my journey. Calif., is only a number to me and sciousness as we landed at the Wasj The evening before the accident, not a face. But I know she is a sensi- ington airport.

October 10, I boarded a late flight at tive and sympathetic woman. Gen- The news of the crash had broke

Los Angeles, where I had made a erally there is a long delay in an over- during mv flight and by the time speech, so that I would be back in seas call, but the urgency in my voice arrived at the embassy there were New York in time for a session of must have gotten through to her. handwritten note and flowers froi the UN General Assembly the fol- In exactly two minutes she had Greg President Eisenhower, and innume lowing afternoon. Usually, due to a on the wire. I asked him for the able radiograms and telegrams. Ther harried schedule which keeps me truth. were even messages of sympath shuttling over the country, I take my "The plane Mike was on crashed from mv Russian colleagues at th flying time for rest and fall asleep and his body has been identified," UN with whom I have ofte the minute I fasten my safety belt. Greg admitted. "It happened at two exchanged bitter words.

This night, however, I was vaguely o'clock yesterday afternoon." I found mv wife packing. Snatcl | uneasy. I read until midnight and Six p.m. in Manila—early morning ing at a last, unreasonable fragmerl then dozed fitfully. in the U.S. The time of the crash of hope, I put in a second call t

Suddenly in my sleep I saw vividly coincided with the time I saw Mike's Manila. Again in the miraculoi the face of my son, Carlos, or Mike face in my dream. measure of two minutes, she ha as he is affectionately known within I had suffered two nervous col- Greg on the wire. It was a crtu the family. Then I awoke. I had no lapses, in 1934 and 1938, which the question, but I had to know. "Is h premonition of tragedy. I did not go doctors diagnosed as an acute mi- really dead, Greg?" back to sleep, however, and read graine condition. Both attacks began "Yes. Dad," the boy said, "and yo until the plane reached New York. with a violent pain in my head, fol- and Mother must come home. W " Later, just as I entered the UN, I lowed by blindness of my right eye, can't face it alone his voic found I was being paged for a tele- paralysis of the right side of mv bodv. broke. When I heard his sobs phone call. I took it at the reception- and semiconsciousness. Now, as I fainted. ist's desk. It was from my secretary at heard those fateful words from Greg, My wife, seeing mv condition, ha> the Philippine embassy in Washing- I experiencd that same dread pain in called a doctor, who came immed ton. She told me there was an emer- mv head and the world swayed diz- .itch to the embassy. "Your husbajlj gency in Manila. zily away from me. I felt myself be- is in no shape to travel," I heard hir

"What has happened to Mike.-" I ing eased gently into a chair. saw "He might have a cerebral at ." asked. "Airline ticket to Washington . . tack in flight." "1 low did you know?" she gasped. I murmured. Then 1 blacked out. When I heard this I asked hiir

Then she put Mrs. Romulo on the It was onlv later that I learned how "Can't you give me something?"

30 Together/March 195J "1 can give \i>u .in injection which sisted that we take thcii seats. They Ik in orden d and was < xpe< ted ti will knock you out for a few hours, explained thai the) were headed for l'>\ now the medication I had r< and relievo the pain," he said. "Bui Ceylon ,\\u\ faced a two-da) layovei ceived in Washington had worn oil

1 still wouldn't advise the trip." in Honolulu before they made their and tin pain in mv head was intense .

I knew we must go. By plane time connecting flight. Bui I knevs there was something I

I was again virtually unconscious We had just taken our stats when i n ust do before 1 wenl to bed thai "1 from the medication. Yet nameless a little stewardess came up to me. Bight. 1 wenl across the street to the kind hands assisted me aboard, then know you, General," she said. "1 read ohurch to se< my son, Mike. The

- < helped Mrs. Romulo watch ovei me your article, I'm Glad I'm a Little ip] had known I would come and I through the long flight. 1 became Guy aw.\ it meant a lot to me because tne chureh, even at that early hour conscious as the plane was circling I'm a shorty myself!" She looked was crowded. Eyes lilled with silent over Los Angeles. over at Mrs. Romulo. "Do you think sympathy followed me as 1 walked

Thirty minutes before our plane the General should rest now?" iqi to the bier and knelt before it. was to leave tor Manila, the passen- The cabin crew made up a berth Only then I knew, with the shatter- ger agent came to us, a woebegone and got me into it. Then the little ing impact ol the truth, that my son expression on his face. stewardess said firmly to my wife, was "one. "We're terribly embarrassed," he "You need a rest, too. Go to sleep told us. "We had hoped to have space and don't worry. I'll watch him." for you from last-minute cancella- At Honolulu, we had a four-hour A.S; ALL BUSY MEN, I had paid tions, but every passenger has shown layover. On our way to the Royal tin price for public life in time taken up. The flight has been booked solid Hawaiian Hotel, which was only a from my family. Now I regretted for months now and I can't force any few blocks from the airport, I noticed bitterly that I had spent so little time ot them to give up their seats." a shabby old Filipino laborer stand- with this son of mine. I was holding

"When is the next flight?" my wife ing on the fringe of the crowd which three jobs the year he was born : news- asked. had converged. As I passed him, the paper editor, college professor, and "Two days from now." old man pressed an envelope into secretary to President Quezon. Then, W^e looked at each other helplessly. mv hand. "General," he said softly, when Mike was barely 17, an age "Come over to the ticket gate with in an Ilokano dialect, "please put when a boy most needs his father, me." said the agent thoughtfully. "I this in your pocket." the war separated us. I joined Gen. can't promise any luck because I've I assumed that it was a little note Douglas MacArthur's staff and did

1 never done it before. But there's one of condolence. When I opened it not see my family again for j /? years. thing I can try." later, to mv surprise out fell a $10 When Mike should have been enjoy- bill! The note stated that he worked ing carefree adolescent pursuits, he

on a sugar plantation and that he 1 ought through the war, first as a spy T,HE PASSENGERS were lined was giving me this portion of his for the guerrilla forces, then as a up in front of the gate, ready to life's savings "for flowers for your fighter with the guerrillas in their bo !. The agent asked for their at- son." mountain hideout and there he tention. A groan went down the line Our arrival at Manila was at a learned the cruel lessons of cold and as the passengers muttered gloomily, most inconvenient hour, 5:45 a.m., hunger and death. 'A delay! What's wrong this time?" yet a crowd that included our im- Mike always insisted on blazing "You have read your newspapers, mediate family and close friends his own trail. After successfully com- so you know why General and Mrs. awaited us at the airport. Dr. Agerico pleting the dangerous assignment of Romulo are here, trying to reach Sisom, dean ol the college of medi- spiriting my wife and his two young- Manila," the agent said. "Every seat cine of the University of the Philip- er brothers to safety in the mountains, on this flight is taken and there is no pines at Manila, had come directly to Mike would not board the. airplane other flight for two days. I am not the airport from the bedside of a which General MacArthur sent to going to bump any of you. All I ask patient without taking any time that evacuate our family, but chose in- is volunteers. If two among you can night for sleep. Greg brought the stead to march on loot, with his fel- see it in your hearts to give up your car around and drove us home. When low fighters, back to Manila. seats to the General and his wife, we neared the house my heart sank. As a student debater he once please stand aside." As a former newspaperman, I should violently criticized the current ad-

There was a moment's silence, and have known. A ring of photographers ministration, of which I was part. then seven passengrs stepped out of was at our front door to greet my When I queried Mike, he replied: "I

line. I was stunned. These people wife and me with the horror of flash- don't believe that I should always were unknown to me. Undoubtedly bulbs. As the men raised their cam- agree with you just because I am they had their own private plans to eras, I held up my hand and asked your son. I must learn to think for

fulfill. Yet seven people were willing for their attention. myself." After the war, when I asked to give up their seats to us. "Please, fellows," I said. "I know him to join our family in the U.S.,

After I had thanked them, I sug- this is your job. But this is a private where my work was, and attend gested that we talk to each person affair. No pictures, please." Harvard law school, Mike refused. individually to determine who was As if by magic, the photographers "Mv roots are in my homeland," he best able to relinquish his space. A faded from sight. Not one man made told me. "That is the country I couple with the Ford Foundation in- any effort to take the picture he had fought for. Besides the temper of our

March 1958\Together 31 —

people is changing and a Romulo Two Western Union Friends." said. "I've heard it on the radio." He should be there to watch it!" Names and signatures which con- turned around. "Why, you're Gen- Eight months before the crash, jured up to me images of friendly eral Romulo—the one who just lost Mike had set up a law firm of his faces and responsive hearts. Wreaths, his boy." own with an American partner and cablegrams, and telegrams poured in Before I could reply, he went on. was already making a name for him- —some 5,000 expressions of sym- "I was a GI in the Pacific during self. When his first son was chris- pathy. World War II and your name be- tened Carlos III, I kidded Mike about We had just returned from the came familiar to me. After the war it, reminding him that he had told funeral services when a long-distance my wife and I followed your career me the name was a handicap. "If my call came iri from the U.S. Greg said in the UN. When we read about boy is the stuff I think he is," Mike the name sounded like Furcolo. I what happened to your son, we felt wrote back, "the name will be a chal- thought it must be the governor of badly about it, as if it had happened lenge—as it has been to me." Massachusetts. But a cheery, familiar to a friend. So we went— to church He had promised to bring his wife voice greeted me. "This is Phil, your and prayed. Say, General " the driv- and babies to Washington over the barber in New York!" er again turned toward me. "Would holidays and I had been looking for- Phil had served with me on Leyte you autograph my license so I can ward to it. He had a wonderful sense during the war and had been cutting show my wife that I really did talk of humor and could always make my hair since 1942. I thought of all to you?" me laugh and forget my worries. the tips that must have gone into that "I'll autograph my card and you Once he said jokingly to me, "You $18 I knew that call cost! Yet Phil can take it to her," I suggested. know, Dad, the greatest ambition of had wanted to tell me, in his own "No." The cab driver shook his my life is one day to drive through words, how sorry he was. head. "I want your name on my li- the business district of Manila, and cense so that everyone who rides with have passers-by nudge one another me will see it. You see. General, and say, 'Look, there goes Carlos A,-.S A NEWSPAPERMAN I was you've always been a good friend to Romulo, Jr.—and his father!" aware that "nothing is deader than this country and we appreciate it." It could have happened had he yesterday's headline," and I expected I had hoped to forget my sorrow lived. Just two days before the crash no special attention on my return trip. in my work at the UN. But now,

I had received the last letter I would Yet, when I got off the plane at three months later, I still cannot walk ever get from him, full of the work Honolulu, there were five wheel down a street, a hotel corridor, or go he was doing and ending: "You chairs waiting, ordered from hospi- about my business in New York or should retire now, so that you can tals by five separate friends who were Washington, without someone stop- spend more time with your family concerned about my physical condi- ping me to tell me of his sympathy. and get acquainted with your grand- tion. At Los Angeles, when I boarded I no longer wish to forget. That the children." Now I would never have the plane for Washington the stew- world can forge such a chain of kind- the chance to get to know Mike ardess said, "You're General Romulo, ness which transcends hatred, preju- better. aren't you ? You were the commence- dices, politics, and personal con- Suddenly through the anguish of ment speaker at Knox College the venience to help one man through my thoughts, I was aware of a small year I graduated. You have been in his blackest hour is something I wish hand on my shoulder. I turned and my thoughts. General, ever since I to remember. looked into the face of a boy about heard the news." It reaffirms my basic faith in hu- 12, dressed in the robes of an acolyte. At Idlewild I found that my car mankind and furnishes a reminder to "We are all praying for you, Gen- had been sent by mistake to La those of us who engage in world eral," he said softly. Guardia. Since I was due at the UN affairs. We are not a family of na- Somehow, the child's touch gave shortly, I decided the quickest plan tions; we are a family of man. and it me the strength I had not found was to catch a cab over to La is only through that divine spark of within myself. That night I had the Guardia. When I climbed into the selflessness, the chain of human heart first untroubled sleep I had had since cab, the driver took a quick look in to human heart, that we can hope to

I heard the news. the mirror. "I know your voice," he achieve world peace.

Next morning I was awakened by a discussion going on outside the LV.vv.timv.v.'.^'.v.uv.r.'.^ ' '.v.vrrt door. "Orders for flowers are flooding i in from the U.S. and all over the i t COUNT THAT DAY Philippines. Here's one I can't make i' out," a man said, puzzled. i If you sit down at set of sun i "What does it say?" Greg's voice * And count the acts that you have done, asked. And counting find i "From the Bellboys of the Drake One self-denying deed, one word Hotel," the flower merchant said. That eased the heart of him who heard: * There were others equally puz- One glance most kind.

<> zling: "The girls of the Waldorf it went >' That Eel! like sunshine where

<< Codec House." "The girls at the Then you max count thai da) well spent, American Airlines Counter." "Your —GEORGE ELIOT (1819-1S80)

32 Together/March 1953 n Defense of Gothic

By HERBERT E. RICHARDS

\ MKRICAN CHURCHES arc building. Church rchitecture interests almost all of us. For me, this in- xest began in my Pennsylvania boyhood when 1 first literal an inspiring Gothic church. To this day, I can

.-call my awe, the unquestioned sense 1 had that God -as near in his holy place. Last month on these pages As I surveyed the altar, 1 had an experience of spirit- the noted architect, Frank al soaring that has enlivened my soul year after year. Lloyd Wright, said "Good- here was not a reverence for beauty alone; instead by to Gothic" as a style for lere was beauty leading a lad to reverence for God. canty as an end can he a false object of worship. Yet today's churches. Wright eauty, rightly used, can be a sublime channel to in- kicked up a fuss, for Gothic

>ire men to know the >rrandcur of God. still is a big favorite with

God-serving architecture has a long and noble his- countless churches. One is >ry. It sketched page 34 of for Feb- was on Together the $l-million First Meth- jary in Church Architecture Up Till Almost Now, but odist of Boise, Ida. Now its 't's take another look. energetic young pastor, Her- In ancient Egypt the effort to express reverence for bert E. Richards, tells why it le sun god stimulated the architect to develop squat- ilumn structures with a piece of stone across the top. isn't "Good-by to Gothic." ater, the architects of Athens refined Egypt's short, mat columns to create the three basic orders of architec- lre—Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. Following the exalted days of Greece, the Romans in- oduced the second principle of building—the vault, his spaced the columns wider apart and connected them

: the top with stones in an interlocking arch. Around the year 1000 the expression of God's re- eeming love was so commanding that the early stages f Gothic were begun. This style involved the use of lender ribs which could be supported until the key- :ones were in place and was developed with the idea tat pressure that comes from weight can be resisted by olumns and piers and, above all, by buttresses. The iothic mood expressed the upreach of man for the ownreach of God—redeeming love. The pointed arch ecame the high spiritual symbol, both emotionally and

he Boise "cathedral" as designed by he Philadelphia architect, Harold E. Vagoner, with the assistance of archi- xts Hummel, Hummel, and Jones. architecturally. Gothic had something deeper than an The Dynamic Gothic spire does not represent th( engineering principle. Here God revealed a message far monarchy of man, unless some stilted mind views it so beyond necessity and engineering. but exemplifies the missile-age soul of modern demo Our generation has contributed the use of reinforced cratic man pointing upward to the Christ who declared steel and concrete. Church architecture, therefore, por- "Lo, I am with you always." trays a deep-rooted message at the same time it ex- Modern architecture has made its contribution in th< presses beauty and houses worshipers. Church buildings field of church buildings. Its structural advances are no must express something far more than form following only valuable but, in a precise sense, blessed. In the hand function. For this reason I am convinced that Frank of an inspired, dedicated architect these forms revea Lloyd Wright's funeral oration for the Gothic style is beauty—at times spiritual beauty. Likewise the Ro premature. He missed the underlying philosophy of manesque and the Renaissance. But as is true in am the historic Christian faith. political, cultural, or intellectual idea that achieves

degree of popularity, the devotees are exposed to th< dangers of misusing their own principles or, worse X2/VERY style of architecture will have changes and ignoring the contribution of traditional points of view modifications. Gothic is no exception. It, too, has had To me, this is the distinction between those who wouk modifications for the present age. Dynamic Gothic is the advocate a popular as against an enduring form. result. These modifications are to be expected and do Modern architecture can achieve greatness. But Dv not break the mood of the style itself. Except to the namic Gothic, when modified for the age, has in it th> purist, the use of reinforced steel and concrete in the tremendous message of faith and inspiring emotiona

Gothic mood is not only good architecture, but a glorious response that the contemporary generation would los- way of applying the past's experience and inspiring emo- with great penalty, even to the peril of its soul. Dynami tional patterns to the contemporary age. Gothic has roots that will keep it modern for vears. To toss off blithely so rich a heritage as Gothic, or for At the turn of the century countless Protestant archi that matter Romanesque, is to miss one of the great tects employed the modern of 1900. It consisted of slop truths of the Christian soul. The secular mind may agree ing floors, circular balconies, sliding doors, central pulpit with architect Louis Sullivan's "Form follows function," and altar of organ pipes. Its form followed the function o but the Christian church declares, "Form and function the theatrics and sawdust-trail preaching. It served we follow a fact." Karl Schinkel first expressed the mood of that function. It was practical, catered to crowds. an< modern architecture when he asked that the world appeared to give most for the money at that time. produce in his time not a style that would have eternal With all of that, it has taken less than half a centur meaning, but a style for his particular age. to outdate the modern of that time. Why? It wa

On the other hand, the Christian church believes that functional for the turn of the century; its form followe there is an eternal fact, one which is the purpose of our function blindly. On the other hand, those who create being, to say nothing of the purpose of our building. modified-Gothic-mood churches at the turn of the cer

That fact is the revelation of God's love in Jesus Christ. tury have structures not only useful but beautiful in th This kind of faith requires that. historic Christian sense—even to the missile-age eve. The church structure does not represent beauty alone. To a Christian, the church and its building represent Christ's personal love that infuses all beauty with R..OOTS do not eliminate "being modern and pract radiance, character, and spirituality that shall be endless. cal." Only the misuse of roots can do that. Modernist Gothic has come to represent such radiant worship! weep tears of indignation when unfair critics judge thei To be sure, there are some religions that may be able work by second-rate examples and uninspired structure: to express their building mood in a passing, immediate This is a proper objection. way. This is the essence of what has been called prag- By the same token, the Gothicist has the right to th matic religion. Such a position is not valid in historic same fair play. The stilted, conventionally blinded archi

Christianity. Christians not only perform deeds re- tect is not fit to interpret Dynamic Gothic. He is merel ligiously, but they have and believe in a religion—the a trite copyist, when genius is demanded. religion of Jesus Christ. This is the core of the matter. Gothic purists are vulnerable to attack. Purists ar

Christianity is a religion with roots deep in the earth of extremists. Extremists in architecture, as in religion am a mount called "The Skull." It is a religion that calls politics, frequently injure the cause they seek to serve. every age to social responsibility, peaceful purpose, and The purist may falsely fume at the use of steel, concrete vital faith. It calls our age to see not only what is glass, and other modern materials in the Dvnami beautiful but what is truthful. Gothic structure, but his purism does not fulfill the moot

The architect who holds a particular style as "the of the ever sky-expanding theme of the Gothic. He i Style" to the exclusion of all others loses the roots that impaled by his own press-agent prejudices of purism. will keep his architecture functional and modern in the In the hands of the spiritually inspired genius, Dy years ahead. Who among the modern theologians—and namic Gothic can be functional as any style. It can b most social-minded Christians—would declare that the as modern as next month's Together. It has also provecj way to serve Christ in the 20th century is to say good-by its ability to arouse emotional and spiritual responses a to Christ ol the Inst century? Architecture without roots a sacred style. Dynamic Gothic best expresses the fac is like Christianity without the cross. Dynamic Gothic that "God became flesh and dwelt among us." And i has spiritual, historic roots. can produce a church that looks like a church!

34 Together/March 195 E own the years * * *

(? with Cjhurch Rrchitecture

How shall man glorify God through the edifices in which

he worships? The answer of "contemporary" architects

Fr was depicted here last month. . . . Now, we present eight churches blending beauty and the Christian traditions.

JLf BEAUTY is a luxury, then God is Their surprise was not over, for Jesus a wastrel. Why should he waste himself understood and came to the woman's de- with the making of stars and violets, or fense. take up space on the earth with mountains "Why do you trouble the woman?" he and waterfalls, or trouble himself with asked. "She has done a beautiful thing. For sunrises and butterflies? you always have the poor with you, but If beauty is a luxury, then man were you will not always have me." better a beast. Why should he struggle to Our Lord always had concern for a make a speech march in chaste and noble practical ministry to the needy. In his par- cadence? Why should he labor to create a able on the judgment he taught that devo- poem, fashion a symphony, write a book? tion to him must be expressed in such Or trouble himself with art galleries, con- practicality as feeding the hungry, clothing certs, and architecture? It is simpler to the naked, healing the sick. shuffle dully through life as if we were But Jesus knew every virtue must be oxen. guarded lest it become a vice. So at Jesus Christ has dealt with this. One Bethany Jesus was warning his followers evening just before his arrest, while he was that even such a virtue becomes a deadly dining at the home of Simon in Bethany, vice unless it is balanced by no less concern a woman burst into the room. To every- to minister unto mankind with beauty. one's surprise, she went directly to Jesus, He was insisting that beauty was not a broke open an alabaster jar of fabulously luxury, that mankind needs beauty even as

expensive perfume, and poured it upon his it does bread. head, as was the custom in those days of So, in a world of want we have need ^- anointing a king. for the precious ointment of beauty — an The perfume was equivalent to a year's armful of roses and a sky full of stars, a wages. Those present were shocked, then Ninth Symphony or hills against a sunset provoked. sky, a poem, or even a noble church rising "Why such a waste?" they scolded. where once was a dusty parking lot. T/? rr\ — Everett W. Palmer, Minister, First Methodist Church L\j ^ Qlendale, Calif.

Many persons gave aid and counsel in preparing these pages, especially: Dr. Harold Ehrensperger of Boston University School of Theology; Dr. H. M. King of the Department of Architecture. Division of National Missions of the Board of Missions, The Methodist Church; and Dr. Marvin P. Halverson of the Department of Worship and the Arts, National Council of the Churches of Christ.-EDS. Whalers' beacon, this beautiful church warmed the hearts of early Methodists. Its pulpit was once part of an old sailing ship.

The White Pillars of New England

Century-old hand-hewn beams are still in place. Rich with the lore of whaling days, stately Edgartown,

Mass., Methodist Church is a landmark in the famous Martha's Vineyard vacationland. A stout breed of seafaring Methodists traces its beginnings here back to 1787. Designed by Frederic Baylies, this beautiful church was built in 1842.

With a touch of the Greek in its pillars, its clean, simple lines

give the impression of strength and permanence. It has all that. The huge, hand-hewn beams of red pine were brought from Maine by whaling ships. In the tower, a visitor can see the 50-foot beams fastened by wooden pegs. The unusual upstairs sanctuary—with its box pews, whale- oil chandeliers, and foot warmers— is hallowed with the tradi- tions of early America and of Methodism alike.

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Heritage f Old Rome

'me broad street Memorial Methodist Church

Drexel Hill, Pa., is a superb example of modi-

1 Romanesque architecture. The arch—devel- :d in old Rome— is used with all of the grace

1 strength of the ancient design. troad Street's arch is a striking setting for the at rose window and religious symbols above doors. Inside, a unique truss design heightens spacious effect. Above the altar hangs a fine iy of the Sistine Madonna by Raphael. "his outstanding example of Christian art was »## reduced Erom the collection of the late Rod- chancel portrays n Wanamaker. The window Faced with the task of designing a church edifice that would triumphant Christ. The architect of this out- dominate other buddings, the architect conceived this striding idinu church was A. Hensel Fink. Drexel Hill church—now a show place in the Philadelphia area.

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Sistine Madonna copy at Broad Street

Church is set off by rich and beautifully carved altar framing.

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Three times a day from First Methodist's carillon tower, at main gate of University of Arizona, students are called to prayer.

The Old and Storied Spanish Southwest

Colorful chancel gives warmth to worship at the beauti- Two colorful Methodist churches in Tucson, fully conceived Catalina Methodist Church in Tucson, Ariz. Ariz., recall the architecture of the old missions. First Methodist uses glazed tiles and the great doors are of wrought iron and glass. The education wing, social hall, chapel, and carillon tower were designed by Funk, Wagner, and Sundt. The new

sanctuary is the work of Scholer and Fuller. Catalina Methodist likewise was designed for the desert landscape. Harold Wagoner, the architect, carried on traditions of San Xavier del Bac, the Indian mission near Tucson dating back to 1720.

Catalina's simulated bells and broad exposures of plain masonry reflect the heritage from ancient Spain.

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The English Heritage

Best-known church in Evunston, just

north of Chicago, is First Methodist

associated throughout its history with Northwestern University and scene of the World Council of Churches Assem- bly in 1054. ^ Llt °f s Pccud interest be- cause of its architecture is Emmanuel Methodist, designed by the celebrated firm of Holabird and Roche.

It is in style typical of the English parish churches—John Wesley, founder of Methodism, would have felt at home here. This brownstone church was built in 1891, but alterations were made through the years.

This great arch and yellow windows cast a warm glow over worshipers in Emmanuel's sanctuary.

A fitting site for a Gray's Elegy is this English-parish style church outside Chicago. The steeple has been removed. Christ Church: Classic Byzantine

No name stands higher in America as an exponent of traditional church architecture than Ralph Adams Cram. His favorite style was Gothic. Lacking space at 520 Park Avenue in America's largest city, he chose Byzantine for Christ Church —with emphasis upon interior beauty.

Byzantine is associated with vaulted ceilings and mosaics. And few mosaics in America are more beautiful than those in Christ Church—of which this month's cover is an example.

Byzantine beauty on New Yor\ City's well- \nown Var\ Avenue.

Mammoth mosaic; a breath-taking view of the great vaulted sanctuary of Christ Church, inlaid with tens of thousands of bits of glass.

40 Symphony in stone, is Mont Saint Michel, a land- mar\ of the iph century.

mding at the cultural center of Cleveland, amid a par%iike setting, Epworth- clid has been a part of the Ohio city's religious life for more than 125 years. jothic From the French

In epworth-euclid Methodist Church, Cleveland, the

:e Grosvenor Goodhue proved that Gothic still fits the th century. His church combines highly practical design ith rare architectural beauty. Goodhue often visited famed Mont Saint Michel off the trthern coast of France and its lines are reflected in aworth-Euclid. The modified Gothic mood is climaxed by e "heavenward pointing" fleche. This church has been The John Wesley win- :ed as one of America's most beautiful—a masterpiece by dow shows the life story renowned architect. of Methodism's founder.

rch 1958\Together 41 Praise window, this beautiful "rose" glass portrays the heavenly angels, each of whom plays a different musical instrument.

Gothic Grandeur . . . Glow of Glass

Beauty by night— the Webster A struggling mission venture in 1930, the Hills sanctuary is of classic Gothic. Webster Hills, Mo., Methodist Church has re- cently completed a striking new $525,000 sanc- tuary. A chapel was built 25 years ago and an educational building is planned for the future.

Gothic in exterior, Webster Hills is finished on the inside with a contemporary touch—including

air conditioning. The church is a glow of glass with 24 stained windows telling the story of Jesus and of mankind up to date—even atomic fission. The great Te Deum window portrays modern and ancient figures alike — Amos and Isaiah, Florence Nightingale, and Albert Schweitzer. A. Hensel Fink designed the chapel and sketched the church. Architect Gale Henderson did the working drawings.

Together/March 1958 Teen-agers come up with tOUgh problem-, but ToGETHERV "lhcl(' Richmond

Barbour is always ready with sound advice.

Teens Together

with an ex-teen-ager

X I'm a girl of 15 and my brother husbands have the legal right to deter- I'm afraid of what my father would do. V" is 17. The last few weehj he has mine where they and their wives should Can you help me? Boys really can re- artcd going with the wrong gang. His live. form, can't they?—L.B. ew friends drint\, smot\e, and talr\ >ugh. I tried to argue with—him, but e got mad. What can I do? V.A. \ How can I rate? I'm a high- I've known many boys who came V & school freshman. The girl I want A back lrom state schools and to date tells me her folios object. I spea\ made good. Talk with your father; tell jtk Many boys go through similar well. I'm clean and neat. Yet they say I him the story and ask his permission. £j^ tough phases. Sometimes it wasn't brought up properly. Is there any Ask him to check with adults who oesn't last long. However, arguing way for me to get to go with girls like know the boy. After that, you'll have nly makes them worse. If your brother that one?—A.M. to do as he says. oes with a nice girl he may listen to er. Responsibility should help him. toes he have much idle time? A part- %If it's possible, be an athlete. Or O , „„, ge, over „„ U„c, , Had Die job would help. Get your dad to hold a school office. Try to be- w a scholarship to college, but did lggest it. Don't criticize his new come a writer on your school paper. If a foolish thing and it was canceled. I iends—it will increase his loyalty to you can excel at things your classmates came bac\ home and found the girl I lem. think are important, you'll be accepted. loved had married another boy. The

shoct\ made me sict\ at first. Now I'm better physically, but not mentally. I'm

I I'm a boy of 16 and want to go i I'm a boy of 17. My trouble is afraid to see my friends. 1 want to hide. W with a girl, 19. My fol\s say she y that I swear. Where I used to live I'm depressed. I'd like to see a psychia- too old for me. Is that right?— V.S. all my gang talked that way. After we trist, but he is 100 miles away. Can you moved here I found Christ and became help me?—M.W. a better person. But bad words still slip Usually boys go with girls their out. Will you help me?—f.B. own age, or slightly younger. Any sensitive person would be A upset by such blows. Here are a ML Promise yourself never to swear few suggestions: Start doing jobs I'm 17 and engaged to a girl, 15. and keep trying. slips around your home painting, fixing f Xm again The — ^t' Do I have the right to decide will grow less frequent and you'll suc- furniture, pruning trees. Keep busy do- •'here we'll live after we marry? She ceed. ing things which hold your attention. .'ants to stay here. I can get a better As soon as possible go back to church ob elsewhere. We fight about many and MYF. You'll get emotional support hings, but this is the worst. We've I'm 15 and went steady with a there. Then look for a paid job. Save noicn each other only three weef(s. i^ boy a year and a half ago. He your money and enroll in college again laybe we shouldn't marry.—K.T. became a delinquent and my father next fall. made me stop seeing him. Soon after- ward he iras caught stealing and was Postpone your plans a few years. sent to reform school. Now he is bac\ II I'm a girl of 17. My trouble is You are too young to marry now and seems to have reformed. He is do- W clothes. My father would be will- nd you aren't well enough acquainted, ing well in school, goes to church, and ing to buy new dresses and coats, but t would be a weak marriage, full of has a good fob. He has as\ed me for my mother won't let him. I have only leartaches. I believe that in most states another date and I want to say yes, but two dresses and one shabby coat. My

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mother says 1 have more clothes thai Looks at moviesI she had at my age. What can I do?— J.Y.

By Harry C. Spencer Mk Parents need to discover thing General Secretary, Methodist Television, Radio, and Film Commission J^Mk. for themselves. Can you get you mother to go to school affairs and se< how other girls dress? Try to go U church or to parties with her so she'l Films are rated for audience suit- Don't Co Near the Water: Adults see what's new. Would she be willin ( ) ability. Also, the symbols (-{-) and — ) ( + to talk about clothes with the mother to the provide "yes" or "no" answers Most adults will enjoy this slap- of your friends? Perhaps your fathe question: Do the ethical standards in stick comedy of the navy's public re- will help persuade her. If she still re in general provide constructive the film lations boys in spite of the unfortu- fuses, try to get a part-time job so yoi entertainment? nate fact that the screen play sometimes can buy some of your own clothes. is in poor taste, occasionally ap- Peyton Place: Adults ( + ) proaches the vulgar, and more than Other reviewers have pointed out once comes close to obscenity. B This is the first time I've loved < that the characters in the film have ^m? girl. I'm 13 but loo\ older. elevated in contrast with the de- been Tarnished Angels: Adults ( — thin\ about my girl all the time. Las novel generate originals in the and night said I was either dopey or i A World War I flying ace is still Dad that the objectionable material has been in love with death as he makes the love because of the way I acted. I wa largely eliminated. The movie is an barnstorming, plane-racing circuit of afraid to say anything. My girl is m interesting study of youthful discovery the early '20s. His mistreated wife and wonderful, dear sweetheart and sh of the sex drive's power and, to a adoring son continue to love him, loves me, too. How can I tell Dad abou lesser extent, the meaning of adult however, despite all his shortcomings, her?—D.B. selfhood in a New England town to the final scene. where respectability is a thin veneer.

The final sermon given by the doctor tfk Just tell him there is a girl yoi Sayonara: Adults ( + ) Youth on behalf of human values appears to ^73^ like a lot. Try not to use th > be tacked onto a story in which moral- < + word "love" and avoid descriptive con ity has little relation to any divine pur- The James Michener novel is pre- ments. Don't get mad if he calls it pose. sented in an affecting film with Japa- crush. nese life pictured in scenes of surpassing loveliness. The plot involves the ro- Legend of the Lost: Adults ( + )

) mance between Marlon Brando, a steady th Youth ( + JP I'm 14 and going for pilot stationed in Japan, and Miiko ^%? time. The boy I go with als John Wayne, a professional guide, first Taka, a Japanese dancing girl. Red goes steady with another girl. 1 can and Rossano Brazzi, an explorer in Buttons (Brando's pal) and his Japa- sleep over this. Why are boys fickle? , search of hidden treasure, fight it out nese bride are also excellent in their he normal?—S.A. on the Sahara sands for the even hotter characterizations. love of Sophia Loren, a dance-hall girl. If the film were worthy of serious Most boys and girls are fickle z consideration, Rossano's changed mo- Mark of the Hawk: Adults ( + ) 14. Go out with different hoy Youth ( ) tivation (from religious to lust for + A and don't be upset if they get interest© gold) would be objectionable. Out of the conflict of African races, in someone else. You'll find you ar civilizations, and religions comes an changeable, too. Sad Sack: Children ( + ) Youth explosive film. Sidney Poitier, an edu-

) cated African, ( + has been elected to the typical soldier who Legislative Council by the votes of his Jerry Lewis as the I'm 16. I went steady with a bo working-class followers. But mm , does everything wrong is given a baker's when he W who is not truthful. Xon of tried-and-true gag situations. and his wile, Eartha Kitt, attend a re- dozen we've broken up he is telling tcrribl of will appeal to the less ception at the governor's house, they Most them lies about me. The \ids \id me abou, discriminating viewers. are rebuffed by a white colonist—and it. Hon' can I protect myself?—M.l. a race war develops. John Melntyre, a missionary, tries without success to Raintree County: Adults ( + ) prevent bloodshed. In this lavish and costly Civil War This happens more frequendl picture, Montgomery Clift is an Indi- A than you'd expect. Keep on be Wild Is the Adults ana boy in love with Eva Marie Saint, Wind: (+) ing good. Your real friends know th a childhood sweetheart, and she loves Anna Magnani is the second wife truth. Tell anyone who speaks to yoi him. But Elizabeth Taylor, a visiting of wealthy sheep rancher Anthony about it that there's nothing to th slave owner from the South, tricks Quinn, whose deceased first wife stories. They will blow over eventualb

Clift into marrying her. It is a strange (Anna's sister) is constantly in his marriage with somber emotional over- mind and heart. In her Irustrated tones. When war breaks out, Clift joins loneliness, Anna turns for love to PROBLEMS- Dr. Barbour is one o the Union Army and Elizabeth's mental Anthony Franciosca, who is almost the nation's top authorities on the prol disturbance leads her to a desperate a son to Anthony Quinn. The tempes- lems of teen-agers. If you need helf situation. The feminine audience par- tuous actors measure up well to the write him c/o Together, 740 N. Rus ticularly will have its emotions stirred. tempestuous script. St., Chicago 11, III. —Eds.

44 Together/March 1956 family opens its heart to a lonely boy and witnesses

Homemade Miracle

By JSAKCY L. TSEIL

^HERE HE STOOD, a thin youngster with a nar-

_ row, pinched face and a lost-puppy look. Once again

,' impulse was to put my arms around him and tell ti he would never be hurt again. But I restrained my- t. Small boys sometimes resent public demonstrations affection.

Bill, my husband, said simply: "Come, Timmy. Let's

: your clothes." Tlicv entered the orphanage together, the man and

: quiet little boy who had captured my heart. 'Is Timmy leaving to stay this time, mister?" one the boys in the institution asked.

'Yes, he is," Bill answered firmly. Both of us knew w often Timmy had been placed for adoption, only be returned with the complaint: "This boy isn't what want. He's too quiet and he won't talk." ur two daughters were delighted with their lon^- >mised "big brother." On the way home, Janet and iv vied for a chance to sit by him or do something for u. Timmy took it somewhat sheepishly but said noth-

X.

'He's like me," Bill said with a smile. "He only talks len he has something to say."

But in our hearts we knew better. I think I realized

2 truth the first time I saw him. That was months be- e. when he appeared for the first time in the Sunday

100I where I was superintendent. He seemed all alone a room filled with children.

'You're new here, aren't you?" I asked. 'Yes," he answered. The single syllable was brief and rely audible. "Your name?" "Timmy Brown." "Your age?" Eleven.

"Will you be here all the time?" "Just for the summer."

I thought a lot about Timmy after that, wondering bat life could have done to a child to make him so shy d withdrawn. He reminded me of pictures I'd seen of

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children in war-torn countries. His Timmy to change into a bright, smil- able to make him feel wanted,"

hurt look haunted me. Finally I said ing boy we would have been disap- told him. "We let him know that v% to Bill: "I've got to find out about pointed. But slowly at first, then with liked him just as he was and th; that child and what makes him that more encouraging frequency, Timmy no matter what, he could always d way." began to change. pend on our love. Then, too, I've a

Later I learned Timmy was six Bill and I can't take all the credit ways felt that God must have sent i when his parents turned him over to I'm afraid. Much of that goes to a this boy because we needed him an

the state home, telling him they puppy named Rumple—and a prize- he needed us. Furthermore, I thin couldn't afford to keep three chil- winning 4-H Club hog. life on the farm—fresh air, exercis dren. He had never seen or heard Rumple was a present from a vet- and good food—agrees with Timmy from them again. The state placed erinarian who took a personal inter- As Timmy gained weight and b him in several homes. But he always est in our boy. How Timmy did talk gan taking an active interest in h came back. —yes, talk—about dogs in general role as a new member of the famil After we determined to adopt and Rumple in particular! Once, his hold on my heartstrings becarr

Timmy there were many delays. We after we read a story about a child stronger than ever. I realized that e far well to do. Our West- selling a dog for $100, 1 asked Timmy pecially on the day were from we prepared I ern farm was drought stricken and if he would sell Rumple for that. fill out final adoption papers. our small home had only four rooms. "No," he said flatly. "I wouldn't sell "It looks as if we may lose c But finally we were visited by a fam- Rumple for any amount of money." boy," Bill said. He had only to nc ily consultant from the state home. The 4-H hog wasn't a registered toward the cloudless horizon to e He spent several hours talking to us. animal, but she belonged to Timmy plain. "You wouldn't mind his being and he took a personal interest in After a snowless winter, sprir quiet and never saying a word or his project. He spent hours training brought no rain. High win< laughing or smiling?" the consultant her to mind and she did well. For a whipped the sand across our fielc asked finally. There was a trace of There was no money in the bar doubt in his voice. and little hope of borrowing wh "The look in that boy's eyes will SHARE YOUR ANSWERS we needed. Even well-establish< continue to bother me," I answered, farmers faced a dark future. Every family problem has been

"but I think Timmy has reason to be solved by someone. If you've found Financial problems are always ha unhappy. If anyone has a reason to the answer to some family problem, to face, but far worse was the pre we invite you to share your solution feel rejected, he has—and telling him pect of losing Timmy. We knew, ai with TOGETHER readers. We will to be different won't do any good. I the state knew, we couldn't meet t pay $50 for any Together in the loved and accepted financial requirements for think he must be Home story accepted. perso the way he is. Timmy is a sensitive Manuscripts should be typed, wanting to adopt children. So, as \ youngster who has buried his emo- double spaced, not more than watched the sand whipping acre tions within himself." 1,800 words. Mail, with return post- our farm, tearing the new grain age, to: Together in the Home Edi- I was confident then, but I must shreds, we felt the clutches of t tor, TOGETHER, 740 N. Rush St., I misgivings state's adoption law aroui admit had momentary Chicago 11, III. closing after we took Timmy to the attic our boy. room we had fixed especially for him. "We can't give him up now," As he stood there he looked smaller week before the fair he scrubbed and told Bill. "I won't let him go. Sure than ever, more crushed than before. polished her, but on the morning of God won't let them take him aw;

There was no emotion, no elation in the big day he was irked when I sent from us." his eyes. him to clean up and change his I must admit my faith wasi

"Don't you like your room?" Bill clothes. strong. Although I prayed for asked. Timmy merely shrugged. "I want my prize exhibit to be miracle, I worried so much that oi

That night I lay awake thinking clean, too," I explained. family doctor became concern, of the boy in the attic room above Timmy was like that—careless about my health. 'You are doing tl us. Who could blame him, I thought, with his clothes, adverse to bath best you can and there is nothing for not liking something that he water. School work didn't come easy be gained lw making yourself sick feared would be taken away from and, as with many boys, his moods he said. He might as well have to him? Or perhaps he would never were unpredictable. But he loved the me to stand calmly in the face of react normally to the love and affec- farm. Each morning when he left tornado. tion we stood ready to give him. It the house for the fields, he reminded Even the family consultant fro hadn't worked with the last family me of a boy starting out to go fishing. the state home, knowing the rigid r -prosperous farm folk and splendid Happiness was in his every move- quirements of the law, was symp church people. They had failed to un- ment. Gone then was the shy, apolo- tlietic. derstand him, and the problem was getic manner he still displayed on "God has a way of taking care < complicated by an older son who not some other occasions. these things," he said. "You kno\ only resented Timmy's presence but The change in Timmy was noticed and I know, that Timmy is far betti often mistreated the smaller bow by the family consultant. "How do off here than in the state home. F : " Now it was up to us. you account for it he asked. is getting the things he really need

Weeks passed. If we had expected "Perhaps it was just that we were the love and acceptance that are moi

46 Together/March 195 ftportant than anything an institu little Lessons in Spiritual Efficiency m can give him. Unfortunately, by be letter of the law, I know ol no

,i\ you can be permitted to kit p immv—so you must leave it in the duI's hands."

Win, 1 asked, had God let life deal small child so much trouble and

: isc i \ Win had he given us Emmy, only to stand aside while e state snatched him away from us? "That," the consultant said, "is the Jgedy ot sin. The innocent suffer as ell as the guilty. But it (Sod wants ''"" >u to keep this child, he will lind a "' '" " The ' ' ^° ciod did find a way. It came in the rm of a new state ruling which nplified the adoption of older chil- RESURRECTION en—and gave us Timmy for keeps!

I think ot those days now when hear footsteps on the [torch and Rock of Our Faith e door opens for a tall, 16-year-old gh-school student. Timmy is a smil- By ROY L. SMITH g, confident boy now. He excels in ts and crafts and shows promise of

•ing a track man. He is active in jL/ET'S SAY, as a matter of histori- highest idealism because the words nirch work, particularly his MYF cal accuracy, that the Resurrection were spoken originally by one who oup, and he plays the piano for a saved Jesus from oblivion. There died and rose again. nnl.n -school class. were thousands of preachers in Jesus' The reason the parable of the When I hear his laughter ringing clay wandering up and down the prodigal son and the good Samaritan it with that of his adoring foster highways of the earth. Some were are effective is because they were told iters, I remember again the first learned, many were eloquent. Some by one who died and rose again. nc I heard that laughter. It hap- seem to have had an honest desire to The reason men believe in the ul- ncd one evening nearly four years be helpful and others an actual timate triumph of justice, decency, spiritual skill. and truth is because one who repre- ;o when the "iris and I were goinji From our New Testament we sented these things in his own life the dentist. learn something of one powerful died and rose again. "I guess Daddv and Timmy will preacher—a desert prophet known It was as if God had placed his st have to stay home and babv-sit as John the Baptist. From the few personal endorsement on the life of itli each other," Janet commented scattered accounts we have, he seems Jesus by restoring him to life. lemnly. to have spoken to multitudes. There Herod, the playboy, died and re-

I could see the amusement twin- is even some reason to believe he mained dead. Pilate, the politician, ing out of Timmy's eyes and preached to more people than Jesus. died in disgrace. Annas, the multi- /itching at the corners of his mouth In only a few cases, however, has millionaire, died despised of all the priest itil, unable to hold it back, he even the name of the preacher sur- Jews. Caiaphas, the high who vived. In the case of we have bribed his way to the ecclesiastical ughed—good and loud! John, no more than 164 of his words, of throne, was deposed from office to And I remember the first time he all the millions that poured from his die in shame and remain an object emed to lose his self-consciousness impassioned lips. of contempt. tough to begin really talking. That The explanation is simple. Jesus of But the carpenter of Galilee, who as during a visit to the zoo, and we Nazareth was the only one who rose went about doing the will of God, id counted on the visit to break the from the dead! was raised from the dead to become e. The results exceeded my expec- The Resurrection of Jesus lends the immortal hope of all hearts. tions. How that boy loved to talk authority to the things he said. Other It was the Resurrection that lout animals! preachers of his day taught beauti- aroused men's curiosity about Jesus

These were little things, I guess. ful things. The rabbis told remark- and became responsible for our the- ut perhaps better than any others, able parables. The priests of the ology concerning him. mystery religions, among the Greeks, It was because of the Resurrection tey symbolize the transformation of were often wonder workers because that the Christian Church came into immy into a happy, normal child. of their understanding of psychologi- existence. Without it, there would ounded on love and understanding cal principles. But none rose from have been no Church. Abandon our -and buttressed by the ever-present the dead and few are remembered taith in the Resurrection and the sip of God—we saw, in our own because of even a single sentence. Church would die. misehold, a homemade miracle take We accept the Sermon on the The Resurrection is the central lace. Mount as the noblest utterance, tbc fact of our Christian faith.

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Marvin H. Adams George H. Palmer John W. Lindsay C. T. Hawes Boulder, Colo. West Allis, Wis. Magnolia, Ark. Casper, Wyo.

MARCH 23 you always!" His love and pres- The presence and power of tl ence touched Roy with more un- Lord of life come to us. In illne and dis- Go therefore make derstanding of others and appreci- or health, we can respond to h ciples of all nations, baptizing ation for enduring of aid in his them in the name of the Father the values friendship and wor and of the Son and of the Holy life. He shared his faith, courage, Others may carry our concern ar Spirit—Matthew 28:19 and understanding with young the message of Christ's redem men from the nearby air base who tive love. No one need be mut 1| ) OY WAS HELPLESSLY would go into all the world. The motionless, or discouraged. Jl\ crippled from birth. He was deeper dimensions of life which he Certainty prevails among Chri the operator of a newsstand, not a found in our Father's house were tians during this Lenten perio trained minister. How could he remembered as Roy made God's The love of Christ triumphs ar go? How could he share? business his business. we are called to be his triumpha: Gene was blind. Arthritis con- Gene obtained a ham radio disciples. The Christ life within fined him to bed. Increasing deaf- license. He shared an unfailing the beginning of Christ within tl ness threatened to sever the audi- light with those in distant places life of all the world. Shark ble tie which bound him to others. who walked in sunlight but some- Christ is the beginning of brothe How could he share light and times lived in shadows. The power hood, which draws our Lord's f movement when his was a world of the love of our Lord, who was lowers into world unity. Tl of darkness and passivity? no stranger to suffering, encour- earth-molding influence we reve Our Lord did not give us a com- aged Gene to rise above self-pity. depends upon the active citize: mission and leave us powerless in His joy was in sharing the vision ship we are called to exercise j its performance. "Lo, I am with and the voice. God's kingdom.

48 Together/March 193 Iraurr: O Lord, grant us the will mands the attention of all who were on God's side This is true nd the means to exalt thee that pass by. It was in this church that humility, basic to entering into the 11 nations may proclaim thy sov- I recently had a real worship ex- protective presence of God. When reign majesty. Amen. perience. This high hour came as we have evaluated our own de- -marvin ii. adams a member told the thrilling story sires and motives and actions, and of how this lovely church came i>> liil a humble confidence that we :arch 30 be erected. are on God's side, then we will For over half a century an old,, have the assurance that he is on For as often as you cat this inadequate building stood on this our side and we need tear no harm bread and drink f /to cup, you proclaim tlic Lord's deatli un- location. One day it was destroyed that can come from man. til he comes.—I Corinthians by fire, leaving the small congre- I have just returned to my 11:26 gation in despair. The majority of study after spending the afternoon the people had moved to the calling. Again, as many times be- j|T'S GOOD to be in debt. Some urban areas. Yet the community fore, I have been impressed by the ^1 feel that a reasonable debt must have a church. wonderful attitude in two homes. a good thing. They argue, par- The task of building a new It is good to know those who have lularly for a church, that a debt church seemed more than this become able to endure confining rovides something for which to small congregation could face. The illness by moving to God's side ork. Co-operation, industry, and people prayed earnestly to God and accepting his spiritual power >als are more likely in a group for divine guidance. of endurance. The visitor is aware lat must liquidate an indebted- Finally, enough funds were ob- that they dwell in that protective ;ss. Apathy is likely in the group tained to pour the foundation. spirit and can say, "The Lord is tat has arrived. With a reckless faith in God, this on my side, I do not fear." There is something to this little band started construction. The fifth verse of this Psalm in- aim. However, many today are Through hard work, sacrificial dicates a second perception of God )t realistic concerning indebted- giving, and great trust, this mod- that is basic to this sense of pro- »ss. Churches, individuals, and ern building was completed with- tection and refuge—the bigness milies are mortgaged until debt out any indebtedness! and strength of God. The Interpre- a crushing burden. This is not As a result of this adventure ter's Bible suggests two additional he good." with God, there was a revival of translations of "the Lord an- There is but one indebtedness interest in the church and today swered me and set me free"—Les- hich can never be too great. Paul it is being served by its own full- lie's "answered me with freedom" iggests that in the Lord's Supper time pastor. and Gunkel's "led me into a broad e witness to our indebtedness to God working through man to place." jurist for his redemptive sacrifice, do the unbelievable was not un- We become so entangled with lis indebtedness should make us usual to the writer of the letter our tiny portion of the world and sponsive to a living Lord. to the Ephesians. His life was com- of life that we forget the bigness ." "For as often as . . Is there mitted to "him who by the power of God. Here in the mountain mger that repetition will mini- at work within us is able to do country, when one climbs or ize this rite? Not if in each ob- far more abundantly than all that drives to a mountaintop, he can rvance we "are proclaiming that we ask or think." see more of the world and can e Lord has died" for us. Not if Today as we think of the cross, sense again the bigness of God. inspires new love, hope, and joy the empty tomb, and Easter morn- We are fortunate enough to have our Christian experience. Fre- ing, we are able to grasp some- a mountain just at the edge of lently, friends get together in thing of the message being sent to town. We can go to its top and we nple, old-fashioned fellowship. the people of Ephesus. It is a good can look down and see the wide 2flecting on the good time, all day to ask ourselves, Have I com- expanse of the city, the lights of ;ree: "We must do this more mitted my life to the risen Lord its homes, its stores, its industry. ten." Observing the Lord's Sup- so completely that he can do far Then we can look up and see the ?r cannot occur too often, if each more with me and through me stars, closer and clearer, and we >servance reminds us of our debt than I can ask or think? can know that God is in his Christ. heaven, and "all's right with the •}3rayrr: Show us, O Christ, how world." rawr: Gracious Lord, keep us thy power within us may become If one doesn't have the actual indful of our indebtedness to a more effective witness for thee. mountain, he can still let God lead ee. Help us to express that sense Amen. his spirit to a high and broad indebtedness in loyal and loving —JOHN W. LINDSAY place, and he can still witness the rvice. Amen. glory of God, knowing that with —GEORGE H. PALMER APRIL 13 God at his side, nothing can harm him, fear. PRIL 6 and he need not With the Lord on my side I do not fear. What can man do to •Jjrmjcr: Dear God, let us come Now to him who by the power me?—Psalm 118:6 close feel at work within us is able to do to thee and thy power. far more abundantly than all Remove transgression from me, A WAR-BOND rally, a that we ask or think.—Ephe- AT that I may live on thy side. So expressed apprecia- sians 3:20 ^Cv speaker being in thy family, grant me thy tion that we had God on our side. fatherly protection and assurance, j[|N ONE OF the remote sec- It is reported that Joe Louis re- that I may live freely and without 2J tions of our state there is saying it was far more a sponded by fear. In Jesus' name. Amen. jautiful rural church that com- important for us to be sure we —C. T. HAWES

arch 1958\Together 49 Barnabas takes Looks at New Books

Bishop Kennedy here gives a cle^

picture of his beliefs and goals. He h; brought together in less than 100 pag

a revelation of how much we miss i life if we do not have firm beliefs. Or passage from a chapter on fellowshii "Among the papers left by the novc

ist F. Scott Fitzgerald there was a li of suggestions for future stories. Oi paper read: 'A widely separated fami inherit a house in which they have

live together.' This is the story whii is being written today. Just substitu God for the author and the world £ the house: 'A widely separated famil —Russians, Germans, Chinese, Ame: cans, Jews, Arabs—now live in a wor so small that all the quarreling tak place right in our own living roor

What the Bible calls 'fellowship' is mo

than a word or ideal. It is now t'

minimum requirement for living t gether."

Young Only Once, by Clyde ? Narramore (Zondervan Publishii House, $2 paperback) has one chapt

worth the whole price. The author c< tainly has his finger on the family pul He talked with many teen-agers befc Wesley Branch Rickey, conferring with then-Dodger manager Leo Durocher writing this book and found you (left), never played professional baseball on Sunday . . . in tribute to his mother. people are concerned about getti' along better with their families. T1

chapter on this subject is outstandir If The Methodist Church canonized A score or more years ago, I recall, its saintly leaders, Bishop Robert Rich- I heard Rickey speak to 4-H youngsters. ford Roberts might today be a patron I thought then—and still do—that this The story is told of a famous stati saint of DePauw University. Roberts Methodist layman would have made a man who said to a young reporti grew to manhood when the church great circuit rider if he hadn't gone "Yes. I'll be glad to prepare a sta foundations were being laid. A pioneer into baseball! ment for you. Just tell me when at heart, he was happiest among the your—what do you newspapermen c: frontier people. Anent the controversy concerning it? —your deadline?" And now Worth Marion Tippy has TV in the home, (see Powwow on page "Sir," the reported sighed, "som done a masterful job of weaving to- 10), there's a wonderful new book of place around the world at this insta gether the records and reminiscences of Songs for Children for families who a newspaper is going to press wi those who knew the bishop. Frontier want to make their own fun. This new United Press news. We've got a dea Bishop (Abingdon, $3.50) is a warm, collection, by Hoagy Carmichael (Si- line every minute." affectionate portrait of the sixth bishop mon & Schuster, $1.95), contains 23 With that introduction, a form of our church. songs in great variety. United Pressman. Joe Alex Morri A man of diverse talents, Roberts was One or two could be played by tells the story of the famed new an excellent administrator and a power- eager beginners at your house, but gathering agency on its 50th annivi ! ful evangelist. A desire to assure better mostly they look to be the music sarv in Deadline Every Mint education for others led him to devote Mother is called on to perform. (Doubleday, $5). Open this book the last decade of his life to DePauw any page—and there is a good stor and to name it the residuary legatee of Two thirds of a continent separates A press association, such as UP, is his estate. me from Bishop Gerald Kennedy. strange affair. Its assets are a collectic

But each month I think of the bishop as of beaten typewriters and batten I doubt that any Methodist in pro- my neighbor— ior there he is, just a desks scattered around the earth, fessional sports has more friends among page or two away, with his stimulating few leased wires—and an extraordina Together readers than Branch Rickey. comments. staff that never sleeps. All it has to se

We've been hearing from them since I This month I'm happy to bid him in the final analysis, is fast and trut noted last month Branch Rickey, . imer- welcome to my own bailiwick, for his ful news. In this book, author Morr ican in Action (Houghton Mifflin, $4) new book, / Believe (Abingdon, dishes up some exciting stories—an by his close friend Arthur Mann. SI. 25), deserves to be read widely. stories behind the news—since 190i

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Along about this time of year i smelt run, when the fish come in shore to spawn, usually begins. A with this indication of spring, talk the Barnabas household turns to su She collects antiques and cooking awards mer camp.

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couple of weeks each summer, and l It's fun to have a prize-winning you bake at home, use Fleischmann's Bonnie has served for years on I cook in the family, daughter Judy Active Dry Yeast. It's fast and easy camp committee for the local C thinks, as she looks over her mother's —and convenient, too — stays fresh Scout camp. awards. Mrs. George Weidman won for months. Keep Fleischmann's For these reasons we were interest two ribbons just last fall— at the Active Dry Yeast handy in your cup- in The Successful Camp by Lewis Ozaukee County Fair. board for yeast-raised treats and for Reimann (University of Michij. the new "Yeast-Riz" Dishes. Like most prize-winning cooks, Main Press, §4.75). It's a fine handbook There's a recipe Mrs. Weidman uses Fleischmann's on every "Thrifty anyone who owns a camp or serves Active Dry Yeast. Three." "It's fast and a camp committee, for it covers vim easy," she says. "Gives me perfect ly every aspect of camp administrat risings every single time." and accepted standards for mod During March, many of you plan camp facilities. Lenten menus. Of course, you'll in- clude yeast-raised specialties, and if Another Fine Product of Standard Brands Inc. Of Men and Marshes, by Paul

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54 Together/March 19 secede from the Union back in omitted most ol the recipes found in the i\il War days, he knows the South ordinary cookbook, foi he needed every ul its viewpoints. But this onetime uuh ol space to include odds ami ends arvard scholai also is able to look at ol cooking lore picked up in cooking citing in every area ol the B problem from the standpoint ol and Stocks and Bonds Slates. i North and the nation as a whole. United Bank Savings . In his view, segregation— at least on Annuity - e social level is going to continue Not only a scholarly re-evaluation ol ,ABS income - definitely. But he feels the South has Oliver Cromwell's place in English Safe .issured largely +ax exempt. responsibility to arrange its affairs so history, but insight into the way suc- chrls+>an purpose at Negroes ma) advance up the social ceeding generations interpret historj ikler as lar as their individual ability appears in a new book by Maurice ai rants. Ashley, The Greatness of Oliver Crom

The author is a controversial figure, well (Macmillan, $5). e has been hailed by some as a Ashley, a Cromwell scholar, ilil oncer in working out new patterns iers with past interpretations ol his

>r the South—and condemned by subject in that he considers him to have hers lor not defending the status quo, placed liberty ol conscience above all ith armed might it necessary. How else. And "where the choice came final- er you may teel about the racial ly between liberty and order, he (Crom- icstion, Ashmore is worth reading, well) prelerred liberty." How to be e has a definite viewpoint to express. Certainly this book is a contribution to the literature about Cromwell, who money-wise has been called villain, dictator, states- man, military genius, hero. Ashley and claims the latter for this Protestant ruler of England from 1650 to 1658. Christian too- This work is timely: September 3

is the 300th anniversary of Oliver Crom- well's death. Buy an annuity with a '.heart." Gordon N. Ray's Thac\crav: The Age of Wisdom, 1847-1863 (McGraw- You are wise to invest your money Hill, $8) is the second volume of the annuity because it is a safe biography of the man who is perhaps in an best known for Vanity Fair. It reveals and worry-free form of investment. two different aspects of Thackeray: the You are truly Christian when you writer the world knew and the man buy an annuity with a heart— an known only to himself. The tensions American Bible Society Annuity and conflicts revealed in the latter make Agreement. familiar reading in this age of psycho- Xoic for heaven's sa\e, don't get your In this way you obtain a secure, analysis and self-examination. And the ither started on political matters till regular, unchanging income, regard- cloying possessiveness ol Amelia's tcr he's digested his dinner tonight." less of world conditions—that begins mother in Vanity Fair bears strong re- semblance to Thackeray's own parent. immediately whatever your age- Visiting among our church friends, provides comfort for you all your e find a real surge of interest in The Police Athletic League of New life— and then goes on endlessly ome devotions. This growing aware- York, bent on helping youngsters make afterward to spread the Gospel to ess of the responsibility of us parents a better life for themselves, is noted all the world, as Jesus commanded. >r teaching our children the values for success in developing top-notch You can start with as little as lat matter most certainly is an en- athletes. fall, in a drive to expand Last $100.00. Earnings, which are largely luraging trend. its influence, it decided to try its luck tax-exempt, go as high as 7.4%. There's a new book, Our Family with letters. Give and receive generously with Vorships at Home, by Anna Laura An essay competition on Why I Li\e an American Bible Society Annuity. id Edward W. Gebhard ( Abingdon, to Read Booths offered books as prizes 2.50), which offers suggestions for in three different age groups, 8-12, 13- arting home worship. The authors use 15, and 16-18. Prompt, ;tual samples of their own family Top winner turned out to be an 11- full-payments orship pattern and suggest prayers, year-old from Staten Island, Earline without fail for over a century oems, and hymns for added interest Murphy. At the end of his rather nd inspiration. scholarly essay on the educational value of books was this succinct clincher: "I Send coupon today! The late Sidney W. Dean learned like to read books because it keeps me

) cook at 11. He kept at it for the next out of trouble." years to the eternal gratitude of Publishers, reviewers, readers would AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY N. Y. lose whose privilege it was to savor be hard put to improve upon such hon- 450 Park Avenue, New York 22, send me, without obligation, your le product of his culinary skills. est reactions as . . . "Better than money, Please booklet T-83. entitled "A Gift That Lives:' His equal skill as a newspaperman cake, soda, and candy put together," nabled him to translate his other en- "Books are funny and sad but you just "' C Mrs. tiusiasm into book form. Cooking be glad you have them,"' "Take a book NameQ Miss

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arch 1958\Toeether 55 — —

Dr. Michalson Answers Questions About

DANGEROUS YOUR FATHERS

PROBLEM FAITH MOTHERS

Dr. Carl Michalson is a professor of theology, Drew Theological Seminary.

H ow do you explain miracles?

If one could explain them, they power of the presence of God, and Carlyle would not be miracles. Miracles, the power of God since the coming

Marney however, are not just inexplicable of Christ is understood to be power deviations from the usual. In the unto salvation. (See Romans 1:16

gospels they always signify the and 1 Corinthians 1:24.)

Should Christians ask God for

Stop, look, and listen to what Dr. Christians who do not ask. God attitude is commendable but tend; Marney has to say about family living for things are usually unselfish and to do both God and man an in in this new book! self-reliant. They do not expect God justice. Man is not an angel, he is ; For every member of the family to rescue them from predicaments worldling. But for material things some surprising facts about themselves! within their own control. They are he could not survive as a man. } confident the world Dr. Marney's book will help people that God can manage the Christian may not be of

universe without is in it. Moreover, i grow into a deeper, richer understand- advice from them. but he surely "Not will but thine," they does an injustice because i ing of themselves and other family my God members. pray, believing God knows what wrongly assumes that God is no they need even before they ask. This moved by our requests. By applying the teachings in Danger- ous Fathers, Problem Mothers, and Terrible Teens, every family can be- i.re writings now inspired like the Bihle? come an even closer, happier, more harmonious group. $2 The Bible is the Christian's au- these writings testify to Jesus Christ:

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Also by Dr. Marney: but because it is inspired with the like any other book in the way the\ truth of God in Jesus Christ. The conserve the memory of our taith FAITH IN CONFLICT apostles were raised up to witness Inspired writings today which sa\ A Christian's reply to an agnostic's to this truth. When the church la- the things the Bible says depcm questions about science, evil, culture, thers selected the writings which upon the Bible tor their inspiration and death, in memorable statements of make up our New Testament, they Writings which say things the Bi conviction. $2.50 had one main test: Could an apostle ble doesn't say are not inspired un- have written this? That meant, do less they are a witness to Christ. THESE THINGS REMAIN

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Together wilh the SMALL FRY

Mrs. Robin's .. Easter Surprise

By MARGARET EVELYN SINGLETON

YOUNG Mr. and Mrs. nest almost every day now." "My," said Mrs. Robi Robin were building "Yes," said young Mrs. "they must be beautiful !" their nest. Mrs. Robin Robin. "I haven't had much "Oh, they are," said La stopped working a moment time to visit. We have to get ra. "Easter will soon be he and listened to the hens in our nest built so there will and our eggs will be gather the barnyard next door. They be a place for our eggs." for coloring. What color a' were clucking and cackling "Oh yes, eggs," said Lau- your eggs?" she asked \.i loudly. Maybe they would ra. "By the way, do you litely. tell Mrs. Robin what they know about Easter eggs?" Mrs. Robin looked do\i were so excited about. She "No," said Mrs. Robin. shyly. "I don't know—yet flew over to the fence and "What kind of a bird lays she said softly. perched there. Easter eggs?" "Oh," said' Laura. "We "Good morning, Leghorn "We do," said Laura they can't possibly be as prt ladies," she chirped pleas- proudly. All the Leghorn ty as Easter eggs." antly. ladies held their heads high- "I suppose not," sigh] The hens trooped over to er. "We lay eggs so white young Mrs. Robin. the fence. "Good day, good they can be dyed for chil- "Let us know when tfr day," they clucked. dren's Easter baskets. All come," said Laura. "We One of them, Laura Leg- colors—pink and green and like to see them anyway horn, said, "You're the new red and blue and yellow "I will," promised Mr neighbor, aren't you? We've even with stripes and polka Robin. She flew back to tl seen you working on your dots!" half-built nest and began

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)rk on it again. All the time was oil* hunting food for her, e kept thinking about the so she stayed where she was jghorn ladies' eggs, so and called, "Leghorn ladies, lite they could be dyed all my eggs are here!" lors of the rainbow. "Good! What color are "I wonder what color our they?" Laura called back. gs will be," she said to Mr. "I think you had better )bin. come and see them for your- "It doesn't really matter," self," chirped young Mrs. id young Mr. Robin, stuff Robin. g- a piece of bright-red Laura fluttered up onto ring into a crack in the the fence near the tree where st. "Don't you worry the Robins' nest was. Mrs. s what's inside the eggs Robin moved off the eggs We Thank You All ! at counts." long enough for Laura to see Last November we asked you to "I know," said Mrs. them. send us pictures of the things you were most thankful for. You )bin. Just the same, she Laura's eyes nearly snowed us under with 1,800 uldn't help hoping the eggs popped out. "Why, those drawings ! Later, we're going to )uld be pretty, too. eggs are the prettiest shade print some of them in To- Every day brought Easter of blue I've ever seen!" she gether. But right now, here are names of 10 of you Small Fry arer. last the clucked. "Aren't you the At nest was artists who, says our Art Editor, dshed. And on Easter lucky bird, Mrs. Robin ! You made very interesting crayon Hiring there were four lay your own Easter eggs. pictures. So we're sending big new scrapbooks to you 10 gs in it. Mrs. Robin looked Ours are never that beauti- wn at them. Her eyes ful even after they're col- Jonathan Bartlett, 8, Lakewood, Calif. Linda Bell, 7, one with surprise and joy ored." She flew back to the Sue Baltimore, Md. Beverly Cale, 9, Homestead, Pa. barnyard to tell the other Laura Leghorn would Karen Kalp, 8, Scottdale, Pa. ver believe it until she saw Leghorn ladies. Jay Landers, 7, Louisville, Ky. Vicki Maresh, 7, Berea, Ohio e eggs for herself! Mrs. Mrs. Robin snuggled down Barbara Pieh, 8, Perham, Minn. )bin began to sing and on her own Easter eggs. She Jane Sanders, 7, Natchitoches, La.

closed her eyes and dreamed Tana Spangler, 6, Reistertown, Md. She knew she could not —of the baby robins that Kathy Ann Wilson, 8, Harrison, Neb. ive the eggs, for they must would soon hatch out of the kept warm. Mr. Robin beautiful eggs. After our Art Editor picked those 10 he frowned. "Goodness sakes!" he said. "I'd like to list at least 25 more for a very spe- telp the Robins! cial 'thank you' from Together." "O.K.," we said. So he did that— and here are your names:

Gloria Blair, Naperville, 111.; Ada Bruso, Plattsburg, N.Y.; Linda Burt, Rothschild, Wis.; Jerry Fruetel,

Bemidji, Minn. ; Carol Geiger, Jeffer- son City, Mo.; Emil Hines, Jr., Belle

Vernon, Pa. ; Howard Huddleston, Houston, Tex.; Tom Kauffmann, Vero Beach, Fla.; Larry Keemer, Warriors Mark, Pa.; Carol Kresge, Pittsfield, Mass.; Caroline Lauielle, Ferguson, Mo.; Susan Loy, Brazil, Ind.; Carol Lutson, Bridgeport, Conn.; Patrick Murphy, Lexington, Neb.; Thomas

Parks, Gouverneur, N.Y. ; Randy Ram- sey, Wichita, Kan.; Kathryn Rickman,

Louisville, Ky. ; John Rood, Irvington, N.Y.; Barbara Rothfuss, Van Wert, Ohio; Luena Schultz, Louisville, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. Robin have just arrived Janine Stafford, Spencerville, Ohio; in the North where they will live dur- James Strasma, Kankakee, 111.; Paul Strickler, Houston, Tex.; Beth Water- lead ing the summer. Can you them man, Agency, Iowa; Elizabeth Winter, to the tree so thev can build a nest? Paonia, Colo.

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HELP

THREE DEVASTATING FLOODS destroyed homes and washed out the newly sown seed, so carefully guarded for planting, over a large area of northern India last year. Then, when the desperate farmers succeeded in planting a fourth time, the rains did not come—DROUGHT!

THERE WILL BE MUCH SUFFERING. The peopl I of India continue their valiant efforts to help then | selves, the government is using its precious foreig exchange to buy grain and prevent complete starvatioi hul the people are hungry. Among the hardest hit ar Christian workers and institutions in rural areas. Risl ing food costs and falling local income threaten th very existence of many Methodist pastors, church work ers and their families, the students in our church schc* dormitories. One-half million already die of tu herein losis in India each year. Now malnutrition will increas the incidence of disease. The Methodist Anti-TB cam paign must be doubled.

A SPECIAL APPEAL FOR RELIEF IN INDIA is being made In the MCOR with authority of the Advance Committee of The Meth- odist Church. The need is now! America will respond! For Advance Special credit, list name and address of church, district and confer- ence. Send funds through your Conference Treasurer or to the Methodist Committee for Overseas Relief, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York 11, N. Y. INDIA NEEDS HELP!

60 Together/March IS How can U.S. check Red gains in Asia? Here arc timely answers by an inquiring Methodist.

Around The World In Thirty Days

By GERALD KENNEDY Bishop, Los Angeles Area

T IS REPORTED that two Ameri- Once our enemies, now our friends, inevitable conflict more difficult and i girls tvent through the Louvre in the Japanese are a mighty force in the uncertain for us. minutes—it would have ta\en only Orient and we must aid them in their Can you localize a war in Korea? but they had on high heels, I am problem of limited resources for an ex- Is force the only answer to Commu- almost the same category in trying panding population. How they prosper nism? Are we naive in assuming that report on Asia after going around the will proclaim what the West has to the ultimate victory is ours if our cause rid in 30 days. The extenuating cir- offer, and their driving energy is one is right? I am sure of one thing: There nstance is that I was with Bishop G. of the major elements in our struggle. will never be any question as to whose imley Oxnam, whose presence side Rhee is on. It is good to have that ncd doors to the private conference kind of ally. mis of some political and religious SEOUL ders. With no expectation of saying The capital of Korea does not reflect TAIPEH vthing authoritative, let me set down the prosperity of Tokyo, for its war has ew impressions: been recent. It is a city filled with refu- Early one morning we were met at gees from the north. A Methodist is the airport of the capital of Free China TOKYO thrilled with the schools and churches, by a party of Christian friends headed though the Presbyterians have twice as by Bishop Ralph Ward. It was a full ft was a conference with our Meth- many members. President and Mrs. day of interviews and visits to church ist chaplains of the Far East that Syngman Rhee were in the congrega- projects. As Methodists, we are just get- rted this trip. I cannot refrain from tion where I preached on a Sunday ting started on Formosa with a church ying my compliments to the men morning, for the president of Korea is under construction, a new youth camp ving the religious needs of the mili- a loyal Methodist layman. in the mountains, a clinic, and a fine y services. The three days spent at Rhee is what we call a dedicated new building for Soo Chow University. so were an inspiration to me. The man, which is to say he is single- What is the future of this island, arch can be proud of its ministers minded. His life has been given to the stronghold of Gen. Chiang Kai- lose parishes are the military camps the cause of Korean freedom. He has shek? American officials on the scene lund the world. no doubt about the evil of Communism are optimistic about developing the

We were in Japan in 1951 and the and he has no hope of dealing with island so that it can support a large pop-

,elopment since then is astounding, the Communists on any other basis ulation. They do not favor recognition kyo becomes more westernized with than force. He is sure that his country of Red China and they see Formosa as :ry passing year; the dress of the can be united only by invading North a military base which must be held at ople is that of an American city, Korea. all costs. lere is even less bowing, as if the In the 40 minutes of private conver- Bishop Ward arranged a dinner party rit of hurry has eliminated the more sation Bishop Oxnam and I had with where we talked with Chinese leaders. surely courtesy of the past, Rhee, there was never the slightest hint Among those present were a general, fapan was the first Oriental country that compromise or negotiating with several government officials, and three adopt western ways—including some the enemy would be acceptable to him. educational leaders. They spoke with our less admirable tendencies. Further, he is sure that delay makes the great optimism about the return to the

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mainland, which one said would take pressions and their friendliness, and

Still here at 90! place within two years. think there must be a happy family lil Later, Chiang received us among the poor. shall not forg< " Your interesting letter Madame We and check came this in her home. She had been visiting one the early-morning trip along the wate morning. you so Thank of our aircraft carriers and must have where it seemed that everyone w much. For many years been weary, but show it. bathing. Merchants were deliverin the checks have been did not My coming from the office wife agrees with me that Madame their goods, and children were goin you now hold. 1 never Chiang is about the most attractive and to school, by boat. dreamed I should charming have ever met. There came to me a phrase used I still be here at 90 years woman we of age." She is full of grace and beauty. Adlai Stevenson: "Revolution of expe Contented Annuitant Although her courtesy never dimmed, tation." These people are no longer r she let us know that she was upset by a signed to their poverty and hopcle Your Income for LIFE report that a representative group of slavery. They have been touched I Mail coupon below and share the blessed joy Methodist young people had passed a the West's ideas of progress and ir of this wise woman by investing your money resolution advocating recognition of provement. Is this something to o in our Life Income Certificates which have to pay high Red China. This, to her, was treason. poser God forbid! Let us see this as oi „ . , never failed At our Hospital, t f income every 6 Barcilly, India Madame Chiang wanted us to under- glorious opportunity to serve and months., u „ is If lead. were for such a Beside guaranteed safety stand that her fight our fight. the We born day. you enjoy the spiritual struggle is not yet in San Francisco, it satisfaction of sharing in is because it is being waged in Taipeh. the Lord's work —preach- ing the Gospel, healing I left the city next day, troubled in NEW DELHI and bodies and win- I hearts mind. These people, who had been face ning precious souls. We met India's president, vice-pre to face with Communism, saw no hope Annuities accepted dent, and prime minister. I was ii in anything military force. from $100 and up. Your but pressed with this leadership. money is given the same expert investment care as President Rajendra Prasad is a t; a million dollar trust. HONG KONG white-haired, quiet-spoken disciple Mahatma Gandhi. He believes tr

This is one of the most interesting passive resistance will work anywht and is committed to it as a pracdi Please send me full particulars cities in the world, a listening post for of guaranteed high returns both sides. We met people who had weapon. My impression is that he is from the Life Income Gift moral influence in the governmt Certificate. lately come out of Red China and still Name bore the marks of fear. We shall not rather than a dynamic leader. He spc with appreciation of Christianity's soci Address write much about them, for they still City _Zonc\ .State. have relatives behind the Bamboo Cur- and educational contributions to Inc.; but is in favor of conversic Date and Year of Birth tain. This, in itself, is one indictment he not in, Clip and Mail to Treasurer. Fill of Communism. Any system that de- Christian missionaries will have an creasingly difficult time in India unl WOMAN'S DIVISION OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE pends on fear is evil. they confine their work to social se OF THF BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THE METHODIST CHURCH We had a delightful evening with 11, N. Y. New York . Dept. TF38, 150 Fifth Ave., Methodist friends. They told us of their ice, if the president has anything to work and we were proud of our church. about it. ORGANIZATIONS From the mountaintop on the island Vice-president Sir Sarvepalli Rad krishnan is of world's great that night, I saw a view almost as won- one the living philosophers, a great scholar IRacde 7H>o*tecf, Satilcf, derful as the one from my home in the a Hollywood Hills. statesman. He loves to talk and talks well. Is war inevitable betwi America and Russia? He thinks n BANGKOK Russia is changing more than we real and there is a growing demand

The capital of Thailand is on a river more individual freedom there.

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India's President Prasad is in favor of new restrictions on Christian niissionari lie expressed his views in talkj with Methodist bishops Kennedy, left, and Orm

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:h 1958\rogether 63 Church Hospitals Too Costl

A leading Methodist official thin Protestant churches should stop bui \ ing large -city hospitals.

The cost is too great for churches

bear. Dr. A. Dudley Ward, general s retary, Board of Social and Econon Relations, has told the Chicago Chui of the world parish Federation. Churches now receive governmen f aid ior hospital ' WAGES UPHILL FIGHT UNDER RED RULE building, opening I CHURCH : question of whether they can aco t- such grants and still maintain Behind the Iron and Bamboo Cur- hold extra jobs, with wives and chil- separati F of church and state, tains in Europe and the Far East, Meth- dren also working. Ward asserted. A he pointed out that churches can't odism still has a toehold, is even ex- Poland—Reports one leader: "We s» ply enough trained panding in places. have been along the road to Calvary. personnel to their hospitals and other social : This hopeful note comes from latest We have not succumbed." A new su- welf; agencies. reports to reach U.S. Methodists. From perintendent has been elected and 12 In Ward's view the church can some countries these are the first au- men ordained. more good by co-ordinating its sck thoritative reports in almost 10 years. East Germany—Membership, now welfare efforts with those of coi High lights: 62,000 in East and West Germany, con- state, ty, and city organizations with chur China—Officials report a spurt in tinues to gain, particularly in East Ger- owned agencies membership, but exact figures are lack- many. Seventeen U.S. Methodist youths built only in pion fields. ing. (In 1949, before Communists took recently met with young people from '.:' over, Chinese Methodists numbered East and West Germany. t 118,000 in 10 annual conferences.) Now Never Had It So Good! reports from scattered sections show Houston Nurse Takes Title When it comes to dating and small, but significant, gains. In the A Texas maiden has lassoed this opportunities, the 14- to 16-year-c Foochow Conference, there are 21,000 year's "Miss Methodist Student Nurse" are far ahead of the teen-agers of Methodists, compared with 18,000 in title. years ago. 1949. Barbara Bowman of McAllen, Tex., This is something for the chu East China Conference recently or- was chosen from candidates of 53 nurs- school to ponder, says the Rev. Don ministers; Mid-China, 11; dained nine '. ing schools connected with U.S. Meth- Newby, executive director of the North China, five. odist hospitals and made her formal tional Council of Churches. Bishop Z. T. Kaung, though past re- bow at a convention of the National A study of American youth brou tirement age, still is the Methodist lead- Association of Methodist Hospitals and out these facts, Newby said: er. His former colleague, Bishop W. Y. Homes. 1. Today's youth have 42,000 Chen, once imprisoned, continues under Miss Bowman, a senior, is former titles to choose from compared to 20. house arrest. student president of Houston Method- in 1940. Chung Chi College, 18 miles from ist Hospital School of Nursing. In tell- 2. The moving of 20 per cent of Hong Kong, has 463 students, 50 of ing why she chose nursing for a career, nation's families annually causes c them just out of Communist China. she said, "If I can live up to the great culties in teen-age group relationsl There are 197 Christians in the student tradition of true nursing, I will achieve and acceptance. body and all faculty members are Chris- an inner peace necessary for happiness." 3. We have 16 million teen-aj tian. today, and expect 24 million by 1' North Korea—Four years after the The 20-to-40 age groups—from wl end of the Korean conflict, there still is most volunteer youth workers com no information on Methodists north of will be relatively small. • the 38th parallel. 4. Today's 16 million teen-agers h Czechoslovakia—Methodists n o w about S9 billion to spend—earnings ; number 5,000, with 19 pastors. But the allowances. denomination is not growing. No new 5. In the 12-to-24 age group n" pastors are recruited and no new than 100.000 women have been man church sites are allowed. Young people anil divorced—6,000 of these are are susceptible to Communist propa- tween 14 and 1 7. ganda. Yugoslavia— Biggest problem: lack of workers. Bel ore World War II there To Survey U.S. Religion were 19 Methodist ministers; now, Religion in the U.S. will be stuc three. But large congregations, with this year by the Fund for the Rcpul many youths, are not unknown. a non-profit organization established The severing of diplomatic relations the Ford Foundation. between Yugoslavia and West Germany Dr. Robert M. Hutchins. Fund pr prevents theological professors at Frank- dent, said the study will deal with r helping Methodist lurt-on-Main from tions between church and state, the i colleagues at Novi Sad. of religion in public life, and religi Hungary—Despite severe pressure, dissent. Methodist morale is unbroken. There The study is part of an over-all p are 3,000 members, 12 preachers, but ect started last summer by the Fi few young people. when it tackled the analysis of corpc Bulgaria—Services held despite "dif- Miss Student Nurse, Barbara Bowman: tions, labor unions, common defei ficult circumstances." Most pastors must "Nursing ma^es me a /utter person." Among issues to be covered: rigl

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2 Church, youth and the family; the jrch and economic life; the Church

1 politics; the Church and culture,

I the growing Church. sh Crackdown on Smut PLUS WARM FELLOWSHIP 'rotestants are stepping up their As the Father's hand guards and guides, just so your Annuity contract will protect and >rts to clean up newsstands. comfort you through the years. Mail coupon ^. key Methodist, the Rev. Ralph A. for beautiful FREE booklet "Bright Horizons" inon of Spartanburg, S.C., reports and learn how you can get an income for life comparable with any other investment t the number and influence of ob- of guaranteed safety. Investigate . . te magazines and books has mush- med in the last two years, ipeaking before the Board of Tem- The ANNUITY PLAN ance, he said that "filthy, lurid Makes you a partner with God in sowing the Word and winning souls. Saves you time, worry, loss, legal gazines" can be bought by school expenses and will trouble. You enjoy income tax ldren as easily as comic books, advantages and can provide for a loved survivor. What ^iany publications capitalize on sex nobler Stewardship is possible? ause Americans find themselves Mail Coupon for beautiful FREE booklet today mndering" for a healthy attitude /ard life, Cannon explained. "Some- Division of World Missions and Division of National Missions of the Board of Missions of rig must be done quickly, before THE METHODIST CHURCH, 150 Fifth Ave., New York II. N.Y. .cene publications get the influence Attention: Rev. H. Burnham Kirkland Dept. T3-24-8 1 wealth which the alcohol industry Dear Mr. Kirkland : Please send me full information regarding your Annuity Plan and FREE copy of beautiful new booklet "Bright .v has," asserted. he Horizons". 2annon represented the Board at Name- irings of a subcommittee of the mse Judiciary Committee studying Address. cene matter in the mails. The hear- City .Zone. State- ;s focused on two bills introduced

ch 1958\Together 65 by Rep. John Dowdy (D.—Tex.). Oi JJ i«s?^s would make mailers of obscenity liab

to prosecution where the mail is

ceived as well as where it is deposite $• The other would put severe penaltl on persons who mail obscene matt' to youths under 19. More Protestant groups were repr

A Miscellaney of Dates 6 Divers Interesting Matters 5 , '*C ^I^X_ _ sen ted at the hearings than at ar X^jk JS^jK ^or People Called Methodist ^ (^3 previous hearings on obscenity. 7~Ae absent are never without fault, Cannon told the subcommittee abo nor the present without his study of 120 "sex-exploitative" pu excuse — B. Franklin lications sold openly on newsstands South Carolina: "The ideal man exalted by th MARCH hath XXXI days 3rd Month publications is the playboy who cast off all shackles of propriety,

Ah, March ! we know thou art straint, convention, and conscience. Fl

Kindhearted, spite of ugly looks and threats, is the 'man about town' who dress'

And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets!— H. H. Jackson fashionably, excels at sports, mixes r elegant cocktail, gambles intelligend 15 Sa Brutus betrays his boss, Caesar, 44 B. C Young, dynamic John and who to 'really be a man' must co quer a different every 16 S National Wildlife Week Summerfield, set to preach woman night In other developments: 17 M Methodist preacher enthralls crowd in the House Chamber that Protestant and Roman Catholic re from steps of U. S. Capitol, 1822 Sunday, moved outside resentatives testified at New York Sta 18 1 Moscow, 1917 Tu Issue No. of Praoda appears, when he found crowd over- hearings on obscene publications. 19 W Swallows return to Capistrano {Says here!) flowing. Immensely popular The International Society of Chr:

20 Th Spring returns at last, 10:06 P. M. everywhere, he reached pul- tian Endeavor anounced it will devo part of its 1958 Christian Citizensh 21 Fr New Yorkers see their first bicycle, 1819 pit of one jam-packed church Crusade to mobilizing support of leg 22 Sa U. S. outlaws foreign slave trade, 1794 only after climbing through lation against obscenity. 23 S flaafltDtt Swt&att window. a nearby The Detroit Council of Church 24 M Blind hymnist Fanny Crosby b. 1820 urged stringent laws to control t) (Methodist, she wrote nearly 6,000 hymns.) sale of salacious material. Beach-wear designers pre- 25 Tu He knows not when to be silent Five hundred druggists of the Nort 1 dicted some women would 26 W who knows not when to speak ern California Pharmaceutical Assoc wear form -fitting bathing tion adopted a resolution calling f 27 Th New U. S. Navy gets money for ships, 1794 expulsion se togs that summer. They did. of any member who 28 Fr One-piece swimsuits make a splash, 1921 lewd matter. 29 11:1-11 "This will arouse the dis- Sa Read Zechariah 9;9, Mark In Omaha. Neb., two distriburii pleasure of clergymen and 30 S Palut B»«n&ag companies and a dealer were fined f Puritans alike," they were 31 M Civilian Conservation Corps is born, 1933 handling obscene publications. (CCC men planted over 2 billion trees.) warned. It did. In San Rafael. Calif., police arrest a dealer, seizing five cartons of obsce material. APRIL hath XXX days 4th Month Alert COs to Church Prograr Again the blackbirds sing, the streams officials taking sha! Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams Methodist are a look at the church's program for co And tremble in the April showers— J. C. Whittier scientious objectors. The appraisal was started at a mo I Tu All Fools' Day Don't be tricked: Income tax due 15th! ing of the Council of Secretaries aft a California pastor complained th 2 W Prototype movie theater opens doors, 1902 Methodist COs have to "seek help fro 3 Th Rider mounts up, begins Pony Express, 1860 other sources." The minister charg< 1 Fr (jnuifo jffriuaji also that The Methodist Church h 5 Sa Methodist Missionary Society formed, 1819 no "creative posts" lor such men ar 6 S Eastrr §>mtiiait is of "little service" to them. The Council, however, replied th 7 M Television is shown off in laboratory, 1927 A jealous female friend church projects for objectors have be< 8 Tu Chas. Wesley takes a bride. 1749 §J^* had warned Charles she was r "personal, direct, and far-reaching." 9 Wesley holds first watch night, 1742 certain, by revelation," W J. According to the Board of Wor that his marriage to Sarah 10 Th Salvation Armv founder Wm. Booth b. 1829 Peace in Chicago, both Methodist ar (At 33 he became a Methodist preacher.) Cwvnne never would take non-Methodist COs are serving in a 11 Fr Eoen a single hair casts its shadow place. But, with John offi- proved Methodist institutional projec overseas. The projec 12 Sa Civil War touched off at Ft. Sumter. 1861 ciating, it did. Typically, in the U.S. and include 21 Methodist hospitals, sevc 13 S Practical theorist Thos. Jefferson b. 1743 Charles expressed his joy children's homes, five homes for tl 17 about 1 bv writing hymns M M SS Titanic hits iceberg. 1 :40 P. M.. 1912 ', aged, and Goodwill Industries in (It sank just 2 hr., 47 min. later.) the event. cities. Of 67 conscientious objectors pro

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ICKIY FOLD essed by the church since drafting ol The ONE and ONLY 1958 R UNFOLD (, objectors was renewed in 1 ^2, about FOR 9ttUcheU Is per unt have been placed in over- HANGING OOM USES seas work, including missions in India, Africa, and South America. Alaskan TOPS OF Board oi World Peace figures show MAS11NI1E that the number oi Methodist objectors RESDWOOD • FIR lias declined since World War II. & BIRCH PLYWOOD • Cruise for Methodists MAXIMUM LINOLEUM • PLASTICS SEATING A STRONG, RIGID Religion Faces Atomic Age Come along for a delightful adventure in MINIMUM TUBULAR good fellowship, thrilling scenery and peace atomic STORAGE STEEL LEGS Problems raised by the age nil, restful voyaging in cool, fai northern have been probed by 1,000 Protestant waters on youi annual fun loving Vlaskan Send for folder wilh complete specifications. Cruise for Methodists, leaving Chicago Au- MANUFACTURING CO. churchmen at a two-day conference at MITCHELL gust II. For the past seven summers these Milwaukee the ot Chicago. Sponsored S. 34th St., 46 , Wis.. Dcpt University 2748 C tours I" Alaska have been operated for by the university's Federated Theologi- members of The Methodisl Church, and Manufacturers of: cal Faculty, the meeting brought to- cadi time a wonderful group of congenial gether theologians, ministers, educators, people, who enjoy friendly travel together, assembled for the nip. GOWNS and business executives from 17 states • Pulpit and Choir • to discuss "Religion Faces the Atomic Sailing aboard Canadian Pacific's S.S. "Prin- RELIGIOUS SUPPLIES Age." cess Louise," the cruise includes Ketchikan, funeau, Mendenhall (.lacier, Wrangell, Speakers called upon the U.S. to end Skagway, Lake Rennet t and (ait loss in the arms race, advised ministers to view Alaska and the Yukon. The scenic American religion as a master weapon, and urged Rockies, Rainier National Park, the Pacifil Americans to recognize the danger civi- Northwest, Canadian Rockies, Lake Louise and Banff are included in the trip—alto- lization faces instead of pursuing a CHURCH GOODS gether a marvelous escorted lour with the SUPPLY COMPANY tlaticnal "business as usual" life. best company of fellow travelers imaginable. Dr. Seward Hiltner, professor of pas- Remember there is only ONE \laskan WORLD STUDY TOUR toral theology at the university warned Cruise this summer—Spate is limited i exciting -world hot.y LAND ad- around -the and that religion must evoke the courage to Send your reservation in early. iuii' in travel and education. Visit 10 countries. face the fears of the times rather than I 14 -Sept, G, Interview political, social, and ra- $••"'".,_ Write for FREE literature on iders of the world. Led by G. Ray Jordan, avoid them. tanally known Methodist author and educator and "Alaska for Methodists" to: id M. Bryan, experienced tour manager, costs less Two leading businessmen (Sears INC. r. you imagine. Write lor full details. CAREFREE TRAVEL, Roebuck executive James C. Worthy CHRISTIAN WORLD SEMINAR 540 No. Michigan Ave. 5541 University Avenue • Chicago 37, III. and U.S. Steel vice-president Edward C. Chicago 11, III. Logelin) gave ministers the task of No obligation defining the intimate relationship be- MARTINS FLAGS tween a man's faith and his business fe«f» practices. Try a HES AND This Summer ORGANIZATIONS "Theologians and ministers," said

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have been claiming for themselves. Cen- U.S. and CHRISTIAN sus officials said their figures were higher because many Americans not affiliated with any church have a de- I FLAGS nominational preference. 'Wicked. Two out of every three consider Beautifjil flaprs in all sizes for themselves Protestant; one out of every Churches, Sunday Schools, Lodpres, etc. Available in four Roman Catholic. Total Protestant grosprrain rayon, taffeta, or population in the 14-plus age group was bunting. Tear out this ad and write for our free cata- put at 79 million; Catholic 30.7 million, 'Sour godliness is the devil's religion" logue and direct factory Jewish, 3.9 million. prices. Replace needed flags —JOHN WESLEY Now. Send for free catalogue There are more Baptists than any today. other U.S. Protestant group—23.5 mil- lion, according to the report. Official REGALIA MFG. CO. Dept. 10, Rock Island, III. church figures list 19,438,502 belonging A minister, out driving, passed Everybody wants a better to 27 Baptist bodies. Largest: the South- track where a horse race was in prog ern Baptist Convention with over 8 mil- ress. His six-year-old son gazed frorr VANILLA c lion. Methodists are second largest, the window at the crowded stadium Your organization can earn money trailed by Lutherans, 8.4 million, and "Oh, Daddy," he exclaimed, "all tru jj fast selling your own private brand Presbyterians, 6.7 million. pews are filled!" —Rev. W. Spiegei.haldeb, Media, of Imitation Vanilla Extract. Will Protestants, a majority (66.9 per W. Pa not bake out. The taste is so delicious cent) in the whole population, are a that word of mouth advertising stead- minority in the Northeast (about 42.3 ily wins new customers from year to per cent). In the South they account for After church one Sunday, the chair year. This is a consistent money mak- about 82.8 per cent of the population. In man of our Commission on Educatioi er. No extra charge for your private rural areas too they are most numer- was discussing the summer progran label. For details, write to The Dill ous—but are outnumbered in most big with one of the staff. The latter an Company, Norristown, Pa. cities. nounced her intention of quitting. Th Since 1873 Largest proportion of those reporting chairman replied, "You can't do thai "no religion" live in "rural, non-farm You're one of our vital clogs." areas" such as prosperous suburbs, —Rev. H. W. Vincent, Farmington, Cali

rather than in large cities as is generally believed, the census survey shows.

Manufacturers of Church Worship Aids One day the telephone rang in th exclusively for over a quarter of a Misery Can Spark Next War clergyman's office of the Washingto - church which President Frankh century . . . Write for catalog and listing Unless the Church and the govern- of local dealers desirous of serving you. ment join forces to combat world want Roosevelt attended. An eager vok inquired, you expect the Presidet and misery another war is inevitable. "Do So says Dr. R. Norris Wilson, executive to be in church Sunday?" SUDBURY BRASS GOODS CO. the clergymai director of Church World Service, in- "That," answered Dept. 12 ,55 Sudbury Street. Boston 14, Mass. "I expect ternational relief arm of the National cannot promise. But we Gc Council of Churches. to be there and we fancy that shoul | Much work, he explains, can be done be incentive enough for a reasonab: Pews, Pulpit £ Chancel only by the two groups together. "And," large attendance." — Peggy Smith. Xashville, Ten he adds, "from time to time we of the FURNITURE a churches must goad the governmental EARLY partner into doing things that are on DELIVERY the religious conscience of the people." Saying her prayers one night, litt WRITE FOR He cites three joint goals: Susanne ended this way, "Good-b

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CLASSIFIED ADS at ross ilu i ountry, Investigation will 1SSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS are accepted ,01 center on crime, divorce, traffit acci vil, m., item* ol genera] Intereal to TOGETHER Ins sii.ii .is: s.i I.- ni persona] property; i: testa ror ili/iits, alcoholism, and public morals LADIES! wanted; Servloe offers of Interest to Individuals local churches; Help wanted; Positions wanted; generally. how by materials or exolian : Houses or uanipa roi [Tours. No Agents wanted 01 Opportunlt) foi profll The board also will seek to discover Hate 75c per word Mini m »0 CLOSING rE FIVE WEEKS IN ADVANCE OF PUBLICA- relative effectiveness ol st.itc liquor con- NAPKINS

el I'.ov . . N (15th). I'm use Nn. . TOQKTHEH": 11.00. Address TOGETHER— Classified Dept.. 740 trols. Surveys will be made by an in- brought success Rosh StrMt, Chicaoo 1 1. CASH MUST ACCOMPANY ALL ORDERS dependent fact-finding agency. ds of fund- HOOKS WANTED Ai the board's annual meeting, Dr. projects . . unions LIBRARIES PURCHASED. Send Dan W. Dodson, New York University si ni- Hook Houso. request details. Hnker sociologist, asked "it a lot ol us who MAIL THIS >|it. TO. Grand Rapids G. Michigan. are church people don't aid and abet FOR RENT W COUPON TODAY... drinking alcoholism because ol our O RKUROOM PENNSYLVANIA COTTAGE and for your FREE samples! pel Methodist lake community, sandy beach, cinolion.il rejection ol people who do cctricity. $86.00 weekly, July. H. R. Terhune, "-^ drink." TL . . .- / 801 laSallc Ave. Dendale, New Jersey. I he Orace Line LO./ Minneapolis, Minn. side, HELP WANTED Looking on the bright Dr. Cara- Without obligation, Bend Actuai Napkik Samples and quantity prices. I )ept.T88 riKKD MINISTER to supervise Membership dine R. Hooton, hoard general secre- til Visitation in flourishing suhurhan Wash- tary, reported: igton, D.C. Church. Box T-12, TOGETHER. Name- SISTERED NURSE POSITIONS, SUPER- Marked decrease in drinking hy 1SOK. obstetrical nursing, salary based on adults. uilitications ; INSTRUCTOR, medical inirs- _Zone Stale- tr, salary based on qualifications; GENERAL More news coverage about the alcohol UTY. tours of duty, beprinninR sal- rotating and temperance. 6.67 per month. ALL POSITIONS. 10 problem >ur week, premium pay when workinp eve- More community-level action groups. ngs or nights, three merit increases, social curity. pension plan, group life insurance, Better denominational co-operation. pply Chicago Wesley Memorial Hospital. 2 r>0 the dark side, he said: rnxnwoe ast Superior Street, Chicago, Illinois, a On odern til 7 bed general hospital affiliated Americans spend $10 billion annually FOLDING ith the Methodist Church and Northwestern niversity. on alcoholic drink. ECTOR OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Nearly 5 million alcoholics need med- BANQUET anted by church located in suburb west of ical coupled with Christian con- hicago. Desirable location. Congenial con- care, TABLES •egation. Active and growing church school cern and pastoral counseling. ith enrollment of 1500. Large youth groups, reat potential for future. Send full informa- Signs indicate increased drinking on regarding qualifications and experience Direct Factory among juveniles. Prices & Discounts . Box T-14, TOGETHER. To Churches. Clubs Lodges. Schools HOBBY MATERIALS Alcohol-related accidents are slaught- and All Organiza- \RN PROFESSIONAL cake decorating at ering more people on highways. Over 46,000 in- jme. Free color-illustrated literature. Deco- stitutions own Almost 60 per cent of all urban ar- and use modern AND Venice 10, Calif. ecrets, Monroe Folding MONROE TRUCKS OLD GOLD AND JEWELRY rests last year were alcohol-related. Banquet Tables. Write for the new JHEST CASH PAID FOR OLD GOLD, New targets of alcohol advertising MONROE 50TH roken Jewelry, Gold Teeth, Watches, Dia- are women and children. ANNIVKKSA R Y londs. Silverware, Spectacles. FREE Infor- CATALOG of Folding Tables. lation. Heyworth Bldg., proposed remedies: Establish- ROSE REFINERS, Among Folding Chairs, hicago 2. ing a clinic for rehabilitation of alco- Trucks. Movable REAL ESTATE Partitions. Fold- holics in Washington, as a pilot project ing Risers, etc. special prices, Request list stating Get our MES, FARMS, CAMPS. •omit ants. Paul Boughton, Dolson Avenue, for 74 U.S. Methodist-related hospitals, .Monroe Co., 59 Church St. Colfax, Iowa liddletown, New York. and organizing a Christian social-rela- RESORTS tions commission in every church to co- CATfON AT BEAUTIFUL Lake Junaluska, ordinate social and economic relations, orth Carolina. Write Lakeside Lodges for >lder and rates. temperance, world peace, and commu- TOURS nity-co-operation activities.

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Idyssey leaves June 16 ; includes Mt. Sinai, hebes. Babylon. Petra plus Europe. Fifth Urge Halt to Mixed Marriages hristmas Pilgrimage leaves Dec. 5. Conducted >• Bible professors; free lectures, budget BENTLEY & SIMON riced, time payments. Bible Lands Seminars Don't marry out of your faith. phone 3751) Box 3-TL, Wilmore, Ky. quality CHOIR ROBES This advice is being pushed by Prot- have set the standard D MEXICO, June 17-July 4, beginning San ntonio, Texas. EASTERN CANADA, July 10- estant, Catholic, and Jewish clergymen of excellence ever 5, beginning Detroit, Mich. PACIFIC as they seek to curb the growing prob- since 1912. Custom- IORTHWEST, August 2-21, beginning Rock tailored of fine fabrics, 111. August 9-23, begin- marriages. dand, EAST COAST, lem of mixed for your lasting enjoyment. BENTLEY % ing Decatur, Illinois. All tours personally that ROBES, too, made inducted in private automobiles. Our twelfth They are warning mixed unions PULPIT quality way. SIMON Inc. ear. Write for brochure. The Powells, 8016 create tensions between husband and in the same il Capitan Drive, La Mesa, California. wife, harm the children. "Religion Write for Catalog F-2 among spouses of the same faith," one Protestant spokesman says, "is a strong tie of harmony, happiness, and comfort, Order Any Book but in mixed unions it is a source of . . . you see reviewed in Together at the discord and disturbance." publisher's advertised price—we pay the postage to A particular sore point is the agree- you. ment a non-Catholic marrying a Cath- THE METHODIST END YOUR ADDRESS olic must sign, promising to raise the (*j$ft) children as Catholics. PUBLISHING HOUSEM^/ HANGE 5 WEEKS Methodists have spoken out on mixed Order from House serving you Baltimore 3 • Chicago 11 • Cincinnati 2 marriages through General Conference, 1 • 1 • Kansas G » ADVANCE . Dallas Detroit CltJ Nashville 2 • New York 11 • Pittsburgh SO which urged young people to "consider I'ortland 5 • niebmond HI • San Francisco 2 d Include your current address label, carefully before becoming engaged to Shop at our COKESBURY BOOK STORES in: that way you won't miss a single issue, ATLANTA. 72 Broad St.. N. W. anyone who does not have a similar BOSTON. 577 Bovlston St. rite to TOGETHER, 740 Rush Street, LOS ANGELES. 5244 Santa Monica Blvrl, icago 11, Illinois. religious background."

Irch 1958\Together 69 A Jesuit sociologist, the Rev. Luciull F. Cervantes, of Regis College, Denver! cites findings from a study he conducte in collaboration with Prof. Carl Zimmerman of Harvard University! "Those who marry into different faithl have four times as many divorces ancf desertions, and between two and thre^j times as many children with at least onf arrest for delinquent acts.

"They likewise have more trouble i keeping their children in the edu tional system after 16." The priest says Catholics are adverse" to mixed marriages than Proi estants or Jews. One third of Catholi marry outside their faith, he repo:

How Much Overlapping Effort.

Some church leaders now are proi l ing for soft spots in Methodism's ru »: tional organization. They want to fin out if the work of general boards an k Every member and friend of your church Write Today for Complete Information agencies overlaps if [ thank you for the opportunity to buy No Obligation.Of Course and, so, what ca N Raise Monet}! these lovely spiritual mementoes ... an be done to get better co-ordination for your group art'°t's drawing of your church on fine, glazed porcelain plates, decorated with 'WORLD WIDE Already a special 70-member con this easy, dignified way j 23 Kt. gold . . . your choice of border de- : ^ Art Studios mission, studying the church's juri with permanently decorated signs. Over seven thousand enthusiastic

groups have already used . . . again and P. 0. Box 953 dictional plan (division of the U.S. int again . . . Plates KEEPSAKE PLATES Keepsake to raise funds. Covington, Tenn. regions), has started to pull togetfu

findings from 24 public hearings hel rt coast to coast. Now the Board of Education sa; ' that "a multiplicity of agencies, inad o theRefoRe and quate guidance from The Disciplin \ and uncontrolled effort toward expai

sion are proving to be a problem in tl make 6isciples intelligent approach to Christian ed cation." the nations.. The board commends interboai of agencies as they seek better co-oper

tion. But it appeals to "key persons key places" to stay alert to possible ne essary mergers. One possible merg now under discussion would conso date the Boards of Temperance. Wor Peace, and Social and Economic Rel tions. Another recent board report express concern that basic teaching resourc for Methodist church school have bet produced outside official channels. "Our concern," notes the boards a

torial division, "is prompted by tl

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Before he sat down to write In Defense of Gothic (page 33) the Rev. Herbert E. Richards discussed architecture, a lifelong interest, with architects who strongly favor modern design and with stanch traditionalists. He began to see, he says, what modern architects and artists are working toward—but he still believes a structure should be timeless, not timely. Most people, Richards finds, favor traditional architecture be-

cause it has roots. Roots come from experience, down through history, and not from a single man or design. Silent Playmate—W h e n yoi When members of his Methodist church in Boise, Ida., started need an absorbing game to quiet chil thinking about a new building the phrase, "We want a church dren. or a rainy-day play suggestion that looks like a church," became a familiar one to Richards, a Rub-R-Art is it. Children are em former Drew Theological University professor and pastor in tranced with the endless number o< Boise for seven years. The new church, started three years ago, colorful pictures they make b' stretching colored rubber bands ove is to be completed in January, 1960. It will not be pure Gothic— it will be Dynamic Gothic, about which Richards expresses his views pegs. Spurs imagination: creative: ar in his article. This church, he predicts, will live. It will be Gothic tistic. Leaves no mess to clean up

in design and spirit, but its new features, he is confident, will Sample designs included to start then off. make it still modern tomorrow. Fine for shut-ins: excellent fo "I have no quarrel with modern architecture," Richards traveling. $1. Colonial House, Depi T-8, Edina, stresses. "But much of it can't be enduring." Minn.

When Gordon Gould started work on Hell Weed's Gone (page 20), his powers of persuasion came in handy. Fraternity leaders at first were reluctant to talk; Gordon met with cold re- ceptions from those in some 40 colleges contacted. "They're touchy about discussing activities," he finds, "because they've had so much adverse publicity in the past." But the chill

dissolved when Gordon made it clear that the story would be free from bias—that he was interested only in facts. Once con- vinced, fraternity leaders opened up and told their stories freely. As a matter of fact, Gordon admits, he thinks now that he would have enjoyed a fraternity while at college, though he had no yen to join one during his years at Yale. For the last two years he has been a feature writer for The Chicago Tribune and preceded this with a year at the City News Bureau, also in his home town—Chicago.

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Hobby Alley

The Fabulous Easter E

By WILMA TREIBER CYMBALA Author's first step in egg decoratior. is penciling a design on the eggshell

ONE OF YOUR CHILDREN nificance as crops were about to be In England, the Easter egg IFsuddenly asked, "Hey, Mom, planted. known by many names—Pasche how come we color Easter eggs?" Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans all Pask, Paste, Pace, and Pasque—al what would you answer? used colored eggs in their rituals derived from the Hebrew word fo

I'd have been stumped, too, if an offshoot, perhaps, of the ancient Passover. Years, ago, it was custom asked that question a few short years Persian belief that the earth was ary there to dye eggs, then scrape ago. Year after year, I'd bought dyes hatched from an egg, or the Hindu design on the colored surface with and supervised the familiar egg col- legend that before time began a penknife. Often an egg was appor

oring. None of it ever had any special "world egg" was formed in the tioned into segments—one for name significance to me or my children, for "waters of chaos." To this day, in- and dates, another for landscape: we—like most families—knew al- cidentally, many Chinese parents flowers, or special decorations sue most nothing about how the custom still distribute red-colored egsjs as as cupids with flaming bows an began. birth announcements, much as Amer- arrows. The best-decorated eggs wcr But that seems long ago. Now we icans pass out cigars. mounted in long-stemmed glasst begin planning Easter-egg decora- With the advent of Christianity, and given a place of honor in thi tions months in advance. What was ancient egg superstitions took on corner cupboard, furnishing an ui once just an annual routine has be- new spiritual significance. Early usual record of family history. come a fascinating hobby which has Christians likened the egg's shell to Es;cr-deco rating efforts of childre added new and deeper significance Christ's tomb, and the egg, in time, seldom were good enough to earn to our Easters. came to represent the Resurrection. spot in the cupboard. But this didn

It all began the year I tired of Then in the fourth century a.d., bother youngsters; thev preferred t mediocre results and decorated some Constantine the Great gave Chris- use their eggs in games and contest eggs with a small paintbrush. The tianity a boost by adopting it as the Boys pitted egg against egg; the fir: designs were crude, but my children Roman Empire's religion. As new to crack lost. Toughest egg w. and I were delighted. Then came churches sprang up throughout known as the cock and sometime

that puzzling question: "Where did Europe and the Near East, egg dec- survived a dozen or more encounter i coloring Easter eggs begin?" oration became a beloved custom in A more familiar English Eastt

I hadn't the faintest idea, so I Christian homes. From these vener- custom is the egg-rolling contest. Ir began to investigate. Before long I able traditions we've inherited a troduced in this country by Doll had uncovered delightful legends wealth of Easter-esiir folklore. Madison, wife of the fourth pre:

about the Easter egg and heard thrill- A Ukrainian legend, to cite one dent, it first was held on the grounc

ing tales from people of many faiths of many such tales, "explains" how- of the Capitol. Later it was moved t

and walks of life. I learned that egg decorating became a world-wide the White House lawn, where it

among some groups decorating eggs practice. The Virgin Mary, according still a picturesque annual observano at Easter is a highly developed art to this legend, dyed eggs to offer German Easter-egg art followed form, nearly as old as civilization Pontius Pilate while pleading for different pattern. While eggs oca itself. Jesus' life. While preparing them, she sionally were decorated, they mor Did you know, for example, that as wept; her tears formed brilliant dots often took the form of colorful, eg*

long ago as 5000 b.c. it was customary on the eggs. When she appeared be- shaped papier-mache containers, fille to exchange red-dyed eggs at spring fore Pilate she dropped to her knees with candy and brightly decorate festivals? That was one of my first in grief; the eggs rolled across the with lithographs of flowers, chicken

surprises. Even to ancient peoples, I floor, out the door, and continued and rabbits. Germans also enjoyed e? learned, the egg was a symbol of new rolling until they were distributed changing colorfully printed greetin life and fertility, having special sig- around the world. cards, many featuring drawings c

74 Togethey'March 195 ext, she fills in the design, using When the enamel dries, she varnishes The result is another bright addition uimel paint and camel's-hair brushes. the egg and oven bakjss it for toughness. to the author's traditional Egg Tree.

jgs, and ham brightly colored Xot just gorgeous—this goose egg is cut and hinged for use as a jewel box, tool jgshells from branches of small trees ik1 shrubs. The Easter Egg Tree, )mmon in Pennsylvania Dutch Wintry, originated with this practice.

It was Central Europe, however, hich contributed some of the most elightful Easter customs and prob- ity the most colorful Easter eggs. In nail villages, preparations for Easter ;gan weeks in advance and came to climax on Great Friday and White iturday. For weeks, families saved le finest hen and goose eggs. Then, sing designs and coloring secrets .mded down for generations, each imily decorated the eggs. Balkan peoples were pious and sim- le, not trained artists, yet uniquely ulled from long years of practice id experience. Generally they used ther of two egg-coloring methods.

1 one, they boiled the egg in a dye ith. For this, they preferred such Hural dyes as indigo (blue), log- ood (purple), fustic (yellow), gold- lrod (yellow-orange), onionskins jurnt orange), tea leaves (rose-tan), alnuts (brown), and madder (red), fter dying an egg, the artist gently raped his design on the colored sur- ce with a sharp knife, exposing the hite beneath. The second method required far iore patience and skill. The artist erced a fresh, uncooked egg at each id and emptied it by blowing. Then

: traced an intricate design on the irface with melted beeswax, using crude tin pen. After the wax hard- led, he dipped the shell in a dye. hen, using a slightly darker dye for ch dip, he repeated the process as any as eight times to create the oper design. When the design was

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Attention to detail and hours of patient craftsmanship add up to intricate egg decorations such as these done by Mrs. Cynibah

completed, the worker heated the a tribute to Atar, ancient sun god. The Egg Tree (Scribner's, S2.50) shell gently over a candle flame un- Designs and their messages were lim- containing a wealth of Easter-egg ddl til all accumulated wax had melted. ited only by the imagination and skill sitms collected in Pennsvlvania Dutcl Then the egg, after polishing with a of the artist, for by combining various country. soft cloth, was ready for exchange on motifs a talented artist could wish a The old methods and designs ar|

Easter Sunday. friend new life, good health, hope, too slow and tedious for many ill A highly stylized cross was the and prosperity on a single egg. In the rush of modern living. But for! basis for many of these designs. some areas, gaily decorated eggs car- tunately for us, some still possess th]

Others, too, had special significance. rying messages of love were ex- old-world craftsmanship necessary t<|. One was the fish, ancient symbol of changed on Valentine's Day! produce the fragile beauties whici

Christianity. Horses and reindeer, Immigrants to America seldom have become an important part 1 symbolizing wealth and prosperity, were able to bring treasured posses- our American heritage. and hens, signifying fertility and sions. But each brought his own Should Easter eggs be scorned bcJ the fulfillment of wishes, appeared skills, customs, and cultural mem- cause they stem, in part, from paga: repeatedly. ories. So it's not surprising that the ritual: I hope Methodists will nr

Familiar, too, were pine trees, Easter egg made its appearance in think so. Rather, let us accept th' ram's horns, spiders, grapevines, the this country and soon became part of Easter egg as a rich inheritance fror feet of geese, ladders, forks, rakes, our common cultural background. good things of the past. Let our chi geometric flowers, and the eight- Central European immigrants who dren remember their Easters by th pointed star. Most of these were sim- settled in the coal-minim:O areas of inspiration of our best-loved story ply objects commonly found in the Eastern Pennsylvania have kept egg- by glorious music, by sunshine, an] rural Balkan environment, although decorating customs very much alive. spring flowers. Yes, and by the fabi geometric (lowers stood for love and Katherine Millions, artist and author. lous Easter egg, traditional symbol cij charity and the eight-pointed star was has prepared a charming little book, Christ's Resurrection.

76 Together/March I I "..I | IN |; . \| \m || it) slew York Area NEWS of Your Church in Action

Bishop Frederick B. Newell, 150 Fifth Avenue, Editor: Margaret F. Donaldson

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Tlie Rev. C. Lloyd Lee, pastor of the Itmont Church, New York City, has en elected president of the Bronx divi- >n of the Protes- it Council of the ty of New York. e succeeds the :v. Edler G. Haw- ns, minister of

. Augustine Pres- tenan Church, onx. Lee was born in elrose, Iowa, and is educated at St. e University of John's Church in New Rochclle, N. Y., celebrated its 150th anniversary by paying .\/;-. L< inois and Boston off a $5,950 debt. The mortgage was burned Nov. 24. Shown above at the banquet fiool of Theology. He was minister of are, from left, Walter Beach Humphrey, entertainment chairman; Thomas Darling, general chairman; Bishop Newell; and the Rev. Matthew Gates, pastor. Bishop : United Church in Conway, Mass., H. fore coming to the New York Con- Herbert Welch, who preached at the centennial in 1907 , was anniversary service speaker. ence, where he has held pastorates in hite Plains, Mt. Kisco, and Washington uare Church. New York City. Senior Citizens Center Serves 439 He served for six years as superintendent Newburgh District. Increasing efforts throughout the coun- tea, coffee, and soft drinks at lunch time, Lee has previously served as vice- try to provide creative activities for re- as well as refreshments after the evenings :sident of the Bronx council and chair- tired or elderly persons is vividly reflected of fun and entertainment. One hot dinner in of the evangelism committee, and in the new senior citizens' center which is prepared an served at cost each week is a member of the executive committee occupies the former Union Street Church, by members of this volunteer "hospitality the Billy Graham crusade last year. Union and Lafayette Streets, Schenectady. committee." The center serves persons of all races Excellent co-operation has been received rew Starts Construction and creeds in Schenectady County, pro- viding recreational facilities and craft i $663,000 Center work in a well organized effort to occupy Drew University has begun construction the hands and minds of older persons. a $663,000 university center. A con- Under the leadership of the full-time ct for the basic construction in the director, Miss M. Asenath Johnson, who tount of $536,130 has been awarded to is a trained and experienced social worker, ed J. Brotherton, Inc., of Hackensack, the program offers social, educational, .ording to President Fred G. Holloway cultural, and recreational activities five the university. days and two evenings each week. Drew has been granted a $478,000 loan The facilities include a reception center, vard the multiple-purpose building by a TV lounge and reading room, a snack

: Federal Housing and Home Finance bar, and several activity areas in the ;ency. The university will conduct a building and outdoors. Music, dramatics, id-raising appeal for the required bal- games, weaving, ceramics, woodworking, :e of $185,000. sewing, chair-caning, and other craft \ cafeteria-style dining hall in the build- work help the senior citizens live fruitful

; will seat 400 persons in contrast to lives as they learn to enjoy new friend- >resent capacity of 200 in the university ships. ectory. The structure will also contain One evening a week is devoted to 'ookstore, campus post office, game and educational and cultural programs, in- isic rooms, student activity rooms, and clude speakers and movies. A second combination banquet and assemblv evening offers a "fun" program, includ- ¥:&2A*~> >m. It is designed for a student pop- ing square dances, community singing, tion of approximately 1,200. The Uni- and games. Life begins at 50 in Schenectady center sity's present enrollment is 800. Volunteers from the membership serve where senior citizens learn many crafts.

•ch 1958\Together New York Edition of Together A-l from many sources in the community. THE BISHOP WRITES The General Electric Co. gave desks, tables, filing cabinets, and more than 100 *£ente*t Tttedttctii&tt chairs; American Locomotive Co. made a generous contribution. Service clubs, Once more we are in Lent, that period of the year churches, and many individuals have con- when we meditate upon the life of our Lord as he moved tributed furniture and equipment. Senior toward Jerusalem and Calvary. May I suggest for your citizens have reconditioned furniture and consideration during this holy period two verses of made slipcovers to brighten comfortable Scripture? The first is found in Mark 10:32. Jesus sofas and chairs. The adult education had been telling his disciples it would be necessary for department is supplying instructors for him to go to Jerusalem and be delivered unto the chief class activities. priests and the scribes and be condemned to death. He Counseling is one of the important had spoken to them of the crescendo of evil which was services provided, with referral of special to befall him, using the words: "And they will mock ." situations to suitable agencies. him, and spit upon him, and scourge him, and kill him . . The creation of a "center" was one of And there you find this lovely verse so descriptive of the relationship which the chief recommendations of an ex- always exists between Christ and his followers: "And they were on the road, haustive study, "Appraisal of Opportu- going to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them: and they were nities for Our Older People," conducted amazed, and those who followed were afraid." by the Community Welfare Council. Here you come upon one of the most glorious moments in history. The This study indicated that there are ap- stark courage of Jesus is immediately apparent as he went before them. He proximately 15,000 persons 65 years or has always been ahead of his followers. He is the pioneer of our faith: ahead older in Schenectady County and that in the customs of this and every age; ahead of the dulled conscience of human the number of older persons increased by frailty; ahead of our blindness to spiritual values and spiritual need. He is more than 40 per cent between 1940 and the pioneer of our faith, pushing out into the tangled areas of discontent and

1950. misunderstanding. But you and I are such a laggard company. Sometimes A citizens' committee was set up fol- in this age it almost seems as if he gets so far ahead of us that we lose him in lowing this study and spent many months our creeds and on our altars and in our committees. I urge you to get closer in careful planning to insure a successful to him in Lent. organization. This committee felt that And, if you do get closer to Christ, you will catch the significance of those any program for older persons should last phrases of the verse: "And they were amazed, and those who followed include preparation for retirement; and, were afraid." therefore, the age for membership was Every person who gets close to Christ is overwhelmed by these two emotions: set at 50. amazement and fear. We are amazed at the glory of his being and we are is not Paid membership in the center afraid that we are not worthy to be his followers. I suggest that you meditate a requirement for participation in its prayerfully on this verse as you proceed through Lent. activities. And now may I remind you of another verse of Scripture: for Lent will end However, only paid members may and you will come to Easter and the days after Easter. You will be glorying it or on elect the board or serve on in the wonder of his Resurrection, and I trust you will be meditating upon At other policy-making committees. what the Resurrection means to you personally. May I suggest in this connection 246 present there are 193 members and that you read in John 20:19: "On the evening of that day, the first of the other participants. week, the door being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus was made available by ." The building came and stood among them . . thanks to the Troy Conference and, Our Lord is always breaking through closed doors. He can break through enthusiastic support from many com- yours, whatever your closed doors may be: doors of fear, anxiety, emotional an munity groups, it is now operating on instability, or insufficiency. He can break through them all and surround you annual budget of $15,000. with the glory of his presence. board of directors is The 30-member I earnestly pray that our Lord may come through the door of your dwelling Protestants, interracial and includes and abide with you in all the days that lie ahead. Catholics, and Jews, who determine the policy and plan the program. Frederick Buckley Xewf.ll The officers of the board are Paul L. Benjamin, president; Mrs. Gorton R. Fonda, first vice-president; Glenn B. Warren, second vice-president; Mrs. Rob- ert E. Burnett, secretary; J. Herbert Wemple, treasurer; and John L. Steele, assistant treasurer. Since the center was opened last June, 439 different persons have enjoyed the program.

Get $22,886 Bequest Dr. Edward W. Seay, president of Centenary College for Women, Hacketts- college has town, N. J., revealed that the received a bequest of $22,886 from the estate of the late Miss Katherine M. Bank. The will directed that the sum be added to the endowment of Centenary, that the principal be invested in high-grade securi- This new $913,000 gymnasium-auditorium-natatorium at Drew University was opened i it building on campus ai ties, and that the interest from it be Jan. 27. Under construction for one year, is the largest used for scholarships to be awarded to has facilities for physical education, large assemblies, and social events. The ma deserving students to be selected annually floor scats 1,000 persons for athletic events and has space for 1,200 chairs. The l. by the college. tatorium along one side of the main section houses an intercollegiate swimming pot

Together/March 19 A-2 7tee

ch 7te€4A 'Placet, Troy Conference:

Kenneth Hoffman t<> supplj Woodbury and Calais, Vt. Donald Blyler i" supply Weston and Landgrove, Vt.

Oliver R. Davison t<> supply Cabot and Marshfield, Vt. Paul LeFevre to supply Essex Center and Underhill, Vt. Donald Ouellettc to supply Lincoln, Vt. Newark Conference:

Ronald E. Benson t<> supply Dingman's Ferry, Pa. Marshall Bowers to supply Grace-

Church, Newark, N. J. New York Conference: Steam shovel prepares ground for new Bethel Home, Ossinger, N. Y., us (from left) Alfred Lee Eastman U> supply Pough- Brox, executive director, and site /. Tompkins, Mrs. Alma Pearson, the Rev. Daniel D. quag, Holmes, Hortontown, and Wic- \gust Rosengren inspect WOr\. The present structure (right) will be demolished. copee, N. Y. Phillip Edmunds to supply Pine Bush, EW HORIZONS N. Y. James J. Hilbert to supply Andes, N. Y. Herbert F. Lowe to supply Mountain- Ullage Church Pledges Record $81,000 ville and Vail's Gate, N. Y. New York East: Community Church, East Meadow, a combined total of $3,345 each year. Richard C. Williams to supply City Y., broke ground last month for a • Bishop Newell will consecrate Martin Island, N. Y. m church building. District Superin- Hall, Mar. 16, at the Hedding Church, Douglas Lawson to Coram, N. Y. ident Kenneth B. Grady participated Barre, Vt. James L. Neeley to Oceanside, N. Y. the ceremonies. Graphic evidence of the effect of a ilding campaign on a church budget supplied by the Village Church, Bay- le, N. V. The building fund goal was 8,000. The total pledged was $81,457, Vke Qi/icudt UJtU&i addition to $28,961 for the church dget from 218 families. Before the A Sunday evening series entitled "The Thirty young people from Cokesbury npaign, the Rev. Edwin S. Gault re- University of Life" at Fordham Church, (N. J.) Church visited the Goodwill In- rts, only 45 families were pledging Bronx, included lectures on Christian art, dustries in Jersey City and then attended music, drama, and race relations. a show in New York. onor Centenary Dean The Rye (N. Y.) Church will receive The Rev. Wesley D. Osborne of Searing $5,000 from the estate of the late Mrs. Memorial Church, Albertson, N. Y., was Margaret E. Hight of Centenary Dean Lillian Pierre, widow of the president of guest preacher at a six-day spiritual life >llege for Women was honored at the the Hotel Pierre in New York City. mission at South Orange (N. J.) Church. mien's reception of the silver anniver- Honoring Financial Secretary Voyle Miss Mary Lou Barnwell, executive sec- •y convocation at Union Junior College Lanpher upon his retirement after 14 retary of the Commission on Deaconess Cranford, N. J. years, Grace Church, St. Johnsbury, Vt., Work, will be guest speaker at the meet- was cited as the former president She learned that during his tenure he handled ing of the deaconess association of the the New Jersey Junior College Associa- about $200,000 in church funds and the Southeastern Jurisdiction, Mar. 21, at and dean of the oldest two-year col- n budget increased from $7,500 to $23,700. Pfeiffer College, Misenheimer, N. C. ;e in the state. The Rev. and Mrs. Frederick A. Dyck- Branchville (N. J.) Church has a men's man of Glens Falls, N. Y., have an- class which meets at 6:30 a.m. each irecror Speaks at nounced the engagement of their daugh- Thursday for breakfast, followed by Bible ter, Hazel Lillian, to James King study and prayer. hicago Meeting Hutchinson, also of Glens Falls. Runner-up for an early morning service The Rev. Vernon Stutzman, director of Miss Natalie Burgess, a member of St. is the Mamaroneck (N. Y.) Church, where Methodist Hospital, in Brooklyn, had Paul and St. Andrew Church, New York a healing service is held each Wednesday Dusy month in February. City, made her debut in a song recital at 7 a.m. He assisted in the presentation of a at Town Hall Mar. 9. Arthur Bates, who has retired after 32 ninar on administration and manage- "Power House" is the term applied by years as sexton of the Sea Cliff (N. Y.) nt at a congress of administration the Rev. Myron Lindow of Vailsburg Church, was honored with a "This Is party in the insored by the American College of Church, Newark, N. J., to his midweek Your Life" manner of the ispital Administrators in connection prayer service which is drawing more popular TV show. He was presented with

th its 25th anniversary. worshipers than attended the Sunday a purse and movies of the evening's fes- He also spoke on the topic, "At What morning service before Lindow became tivities. int Does Church Sponsorship Need to pastor. Also honored at Sea Cliff was Mrs. Strengthened?" at the annual conven- A business secretary with financial ex- Lena H. Steen, in charge of the cradle n of the National Association of Meth- perience is wanted to assist the director roll for 40 years. She was presented with a silver ist Hospitals and Homes. at the Methodist Church Home in River- sterling plate hand-wrought in Both events took place in Chicago. dale, New York City. 1790 in Sheffield, England.

rch 1958\Together A-3 In Memoriam

• Newark Conference:

Thomas J. Clark, 1957. • New York Conference: Albert H. Wilson, Feb. 12, 1958.

Writes Film Stories

The public premiere of a 15-minute color movie based on an original story by Mrs. Raymond Charlebois took place recently at Christ Church, Glen Falls, N. Y. The film, "Sharing Is Fun," is one of five stories written by Mrs. Charlebois, a member of Christ Church, and recently purchased by Family Films, a production studio of Hollywood, Calif. They are being produced as a part of the new series for church-school discussion groups of either children or adults. Mrs. Charlebois has two children and teaches one of the fifth-grade sections of girls in the church school of Christ

Church. Her first story was accepted Alhany Times I'nion Photo Participating immediately by Family Films. Two of at community Reformation Day service at Rensselaer, N. Y., were (jrom the Rev. Chester the five stories have been produced as left): Clifton, Greenbush Reformed Church, who is convenor of spon- movies, and she has a contract for others soring Greenbush Clergy Club; Bishop John Wesley Lord, Boston Area; the Rev. Charles covering screen and television rights. Edgington, Nassau, a Drew classmate who introduced him; and Albany District Super- intendent Harold W. Griffis. Of 15 participating churches, four of them were Methodist. Council Elects Methodist

A prominent Methodist has been elected president of the New York State Council of Churches. He is the Rev. Dutton S. Peterson of Odessa, a state senator. A former mem- ber of the state assembly, he has worked ardently for refugee resettlement. He has served a charge in the Elmira Dis- trict for 24 years.

To Stage Missions Benefit

Wedding gowns of by-gone days and other period fashions will be modeled Mar. 21 at Wanamaker's Westchester Room at the Yonkers, N. Y., shopping center for the benefit of the Five Points Mission in New York City. Entertainment will be provided by an accordionist and a madrigal choral group from the mission. A dance group from Five Points will also be presented. Funds will go toward the camping program in Cornwall, N. Y., and other youth facilities on New York's East Side.

Robert Oxnam on Board

Dr. Robert F. Oxnam, president of Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, has been elected to the board of managers of the Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn. Oxnam was formerly vice-president for administrative affairs and associate pro- fessor of government at Boston University. He had previously held educational and administrative posts at Syracuse Univer- sity and the University of Southern California. During World War II, he served in the armed forces as a captain This girl, one of 2,000 persons attending missions festival at St. Mark's Church, in the infantry. He is the son of Bishop Rocl{vilIc Centre, N. Y., inspects Algerian jewelry worn by woman dressed in native G. Bromley Oxnam, Washington. costume while a retired missionary from North Africa wearing Moslem veil look^s on.

A-4 Together/March 1958 "The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" ind the strength for your life... WORSHIP TOGETHER THIS WEEK

"I have never known a man to have faith in himself," goes an American adage, "unless he first has faith in God."

It takes such courage to face life . . . greater courage than any of us has alone. It takes such strength to accept success humbly,

to overcome setbacks . . . greater strength than any of us has alone.

And yet the world is full of unacclaimed heroes and heroines . . . men and women who have, in the course of their lives, faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles and griefs. Faced them, and conquered them. If they were the kind of people who talked about themselves,

they'd tell you . . ."I never could have done it without the help of God."

The strong Faith they called on to help them can be yours. Build such a Faith for yourself. Make it the firm foundation of your family's security and happiness. Worship together at your Church. There you'll find the strength for your life.

THE RELIGION IN AMERICAN LIFE PROGRAM "What is more precious than your family! What greater interest can you have than in the happiness and desires, the problems and challenges, the dedication and religious faith of your own family! These interests are also When arrives al the Bev the interests that Together seeks to discover, develop and interpret. TOGETHER ly Hills. California, home of C. Raymo Wood, the whole family "gets logelhe family No wonder, then, that your —and every Methodist family—is both in- Sons Gregory and Michael join flf Westsvood Co spired and entertained by the way Together gets to the heart of family living. parents—members of the munity Methodist Church—in mm TOGETHER, agree "its terrific, Together's role in serving the family benefits you, your loved ones, worthwhile and fun at the same tintt your church and all of Methodism. This is why your All Family Plan is a vital part of your church's total program.

The All Family Plan subscription rate is still only $2 a year, billed 5(H quarterly to the church. Ihe Midmonlh Mogatine fai Methodist Families

For information on All Family Plan benefits, write the Together business office. Together

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