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>e M i<&**i< ^^ tf&F & // •$) \* "flSI ^ *vtf*& ^$£>****5srt8& wk <*> Together Established in 1826 us CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE The Midmonth Magazine for Methodist Families "Is thy heart right, as my heart is with thine? . . Dost thou love and serve God? It is enough. I give thee the right hand of fellowship." John Wesley (1703-1791 ) THE GREAT COMMISSION APRIL, 1957 Vol. 1, No. 7 Howard Chandler Christy's great painting The Mother's Hymn (Favorite Poem) 2 of Jesus giving the Great Commission to his disciples The Face of Christ Corl Sandburg 9 is owned by Dr. Elmer T. Clark, secretary New Hope for Old India Chief Justice Earl Warren os told to James C. Derieux 10 of the World Methodist Council, Lake Junaluska, N. C. Unusual Methodists 14 It shows the risen Christ at Ascension as The Easter Gift Herbert A. Francis 16 he proclaimed: "Go Into All The World." Let's Change Our Pace! . . . Charles W. Ferguson 19 How I Think of Immortality . . . Edwin Markham 21 They Adopted the 'UN' (Pictorial) 24 I Was There Chester A. McPheeters 28 TOGETHER is an official organ of The Methodist Church, Two Methodists Look at Social Drinking (Powwow) 30 issued monthly by The Methodist Publishing House, 740 Morie Miller 31 N. Rush Street, Chicago 11, 111. Opinions expressed do not Dr. Lester Keyser 32 necessarily reflect concurrence of The Methodist Church. Each One is 'Special' Marjorie N. Pressey 33 Entered as second-class mailing matter at Post Office in Spring Sings of Faith (Pictorial) 35 Chicago, 111., under Act of March 3, 1879; additional entry at Nashville, Tenn. Accepted for mailing at special rate in These Women Get Things Done! Murray Teigh Bloom 43 Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized July 5, 1918. Teens Together Richmond Barbour 46 And Love Let Him In Paul McAfee 50 My Bible and Bad Times .... Martin Niemoller os told to John L. Shernll 53 Manuscripts and Correspondence for publication: Write to Looks at New Books Barnabas 55 Editorial Offices, 740 N. Rush Street, Chicago 11, 111. Magic Carpet of Friendship . . . Robert W. Luebke 61 Authors should send postage. Light Unto My Path (Four Meditations) 63 Subscription: $3 per year. Write to Business Depart- News of the World Parish 7, 65 ment, 740 N. Rush St., Chicago 11, 111. OTHER FEATURES AND DEPARTMENTS Advertising: For rates write to Together Magazine Repre- sentatives, 454 Wrigley Building, Chicago 11, Illinois. Letters 3 Browsing in Fiction . 59 A Prayer 78 Best Sellers . . . . 60 Spiritual Efficiency . 47 Dr. Rail Answers . 64 Small Fry 48 Methodist Almanack . 66 Editor: Leland D. Case Executive Editor: Paul Friggens at . Looks Movies 34 Let's Get Acquainted . 74 Managing Editor: Charles W. Keysor Art Editor: Floyd A. Johnson Associate Editors: H. B. Teeter, Bruce L. Williams, Fred R. Zepp Editorial Assistants: Else Bjorn- T athr stad, Beverly Cederberg, Judy M. Johnson, Owen Meredith Contributing Editors: Newman S. Cryer, Jr., T. Otto Nail, H. F. Rail, Roy L. Smith Business Manager: War- As any boy learns at Easter, ren P. Clark Advertising Manager: John H. Fisher a babychick is bright-eyed, Publisher: Lovick Pierce Associate Publisher: J. Edgar fluffy, soft, warm, and full Washabaugh. • (Copyright 1957 by Lovick Pierce.) of peeps. He is also full of pecks, most eager to try out that tiny bill. So—watch those freckles, my boy! The fcL photo is by Vivienne Lapham. • ., Favorite Poem Submitted by Mrs. Carl M. Boyd, Indianapolis, Ind. the Mothers Hymn German-Jewish refugee Fred Fredden Goldberg painted this compelling scene of modern mother love from sketch he made in China. Painting was shown at Madonna Festival, sponsored annually by Los Angeles' Methodist Wilshire Church. Lord who ordainest for mankind Such thanks the blessed Mary gave Benignant toils and tender cares, When from her lap the Lloly Child, We thank thee for the ties that bind Sent from on high to seek and save The mother to the child she bears. The lost of earth, looked up and smiled. We thank thee for the hopes that rise All-Gracious! grant to those who bear Within her heart, as, day by day, A mother's charge, the strength and light The dawning soul, from those young eyes, To guide the feet that own their care Looks with a clearer, steadier ray. In ways of Love and Truth and Right. And grateful for the blessing given -William Cullen Biyant, 1794-1878 With that dear infant on her knee, She trains the eye to look to heaven, The voice to lisp a prayer to Thee. Together /April 1957 — etters Share the Phone! ent or guardian, whether it be Christ- mas, Easter, or just everyday life. Then Mrs. L. P. Winsor the parent will receive truth from the Troy, N.Y. child. I read the advice of .Dr. Barbour in Teens Together [February To- gether, page 45] where it was sug- 'Superficial . . . Irrelevant' gc ted that to solve the problem of William S. Hatcher teen-agers using the family telephone Vanderbilt University they find work and have their own Nashville, Tenn. private phone installed. It seems to me that children might As a college senior and pre-ministerial learn to share in a home. . . . Also, student, I would like to express my ex- in this day and age when we are being treme disappointment in the new Meth- asked to sacrifice for our churches, odist magazine, Together. If I were it utter waste of not identified with the institution seems an money Send for "Bright Horizons" today. Learn when one telephone has been and still which publishes it, I would not even how you can make your future secure, how is ample to provide the services for take the trouble to give you a criticism you can increase your spiritual satisfac- which the telephone was intended of it. tion and live more abundantly by means of business—and not foolishness. As for Together is superficial and wholly me, I certainly am not proud of an irrelevant to anything approaching the The ANNUITY PLAN official magazine that sends such advice real meaning of the Christian faith. It into the homes of the church that it strongly resembles the publications of An investment that saves you worry, principal is represents. . . . fraternal and business organizations. trouble and expense. Your The magazine pictures Methodism as a safe, your income guaranteed at a high passive fraternity of "just plain folks" rate. As long as you live your income never varies, no ups and downs, no re- Re: Man at the Middle huddling in "togetherness" to gain com- investment worries. Finally your money fort, security, and success, rather than Dorothy McDonald Copeland goes for God's work here and abroad, the creative and redemptive fellowship spreading the Gospel, winning souls. Director of Christian Education of suffering love which is the only First Methodist Church thing capable of renewing and trans- YOUR TWO-FOLD BENEFIT Independence, Mo. forming a world on the brink of dis- A DOUBLE BLESSING Of the 571 district superintendents aster . . . help yourself while helping others, It is not togetherness we need. It is You in The Methodist Church in the U.S., "i mi can lease a legacy not onl\ to cany satisfying fellowship, capable selected favorite for excel- deep and you my your on Missionary enterprise but also to pro- of facing the depths which life has to lent picture article, Methodism's Man vide an income for life for one or more in affirming this can the offer. Only Meth ones. Remember receive a high at Middle | February Together, loved you odism claim to live in the spirit of its legal con- page 22]. Twenty years ago when I rate o\' return under a binding founder, Wesley. you You all was an Epworth Leaguer in his church, John tract as long as live. save fees legal or otherwise. You enjo) tax the inspiration of Dr. McKean's life advantages and avoid trouble over a \\ ill and his interest in our youth group from and loss or dissipation o( your estate. helped me decide to enter Christian Report Mong Kong service. New beautiful booklet " Bright Horizons" R \i imi A. Ward, Bishop Maurice McKean has always been the Hong Kong in two Colon gives you full particulars. Send copj today. "man at the middle," uniting the hearts for your have it. is a of his people with the mind of God. . . . You done TOGETHER That's the way it looks to us Thank you for producing such a won- success. Mail for FREE Book Now derful magazine. OUt here. The December issue has jusl d us. Congratulations on the new Divition of World Millions ond Divition of publication. Notional Mi»»ion» ofthe Board of Million* of Agrees With Linklctter THE METHODIST CHURCH, 150 Fifth Ave., New York 11. N. Y. T4-27-7 Attention: Rev. H. Burnharn KlrkUnd Austin B. Hall She Doesn't Enj'oj Dangling D Mi Kirkland Pleatt lead mi Plan and Smhhville, W.Va. i Horiioni" detcribina toa Annuit) ii\ advantai Mi{^. VlRGINl \ M. km PI LA Since reading Art Linkletter's article, Bristol, Tenn. The Darkest Day of My Life | February Name I wish appreciation Together, page 48], I can understand to express my why Art Linklctter has been my favor- of your i\n IKnt magazine. I have use some articles and Address ite radio and TV entertainer. already found for shuns, as thoughts Like him, I believe the child should such from Bishop City Zone Stbte first have absolute truth from the par- Northern's // My Daughter Should Catholic November preme good of life. Not happiness, Want to Marry a | but Together, page 27 1 and As Ye Sow satisfaction. The Scripture says, "With by Dorothy Canfield Fisher [December long life I will satisfy," not "make hap- Jt-S. Together, page 43]. Many other ideas py." Also, it warns against spending are clipped and filed. Your format is money and labor for that which "satis- perfect—one does not reach the bottom fieth not." The article fails at this point. of a page to find a hyphenated word & \ left dangling, "continued on page 89, column 3." Twin Kansas Songbirds J. William Jones, Pastor Hutchinson, Kan. W Heredity vs. Environment Los Angeles has its Block twins, Thelma White featured in Together October cover] | Glen Ellyn, 111. and about whom you carried a letter in In college, we had many a debate February. on environment vs. heredity, which But we in Kansas have our Judy and plays the major role in molding intel- Trudy, twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. ligence, personality, and character. C. T. Thayer. The girls love to sing and Some argued that heredity was just are in demand from other churches and about everything. For these people, I'd for special occasions in our area. recommend Erie Stanley Gardner's statement entitled The Case of the Miss- ing Morals [January Together, page < *\ 101. I also would point to the recent find- ing of researchers at Children's Hospi- tal, Columbus, Ohio, as reported to the Mrs. Harold Nance, wife of the minister of American Association for the Advance- First Methodist Church in Dexter, Missouri, recommends this ideal fund-raising project: ment of Science. Nearly 1,000 nine- month-old infants were tested to meas- ure their "intellectual potential." Only 1.4 per cent had scores below 75 and Keepsake only 1.8 below 85— with 90 per cent scoring between 90 and 120. Yet, tests Judy and Trudy Thayer. among school-age children show 5 per Plates cent have IQs below 75 and 14 per cent below 85. Hoople Is Not Puffle • picturing your church Isn't it apparent that the difference may be accounted for by what educa- Bill Frevse, Artist tion and environment the child is ex- Tucson, Ariz. "Everyone is pleased with Ihem. Every lioine with a plate on the wall or table posed to between infancy and school family and I wish to thank yoj has a constant reminder of the church My age? And, as Gardner sets forth, does always before them." This was written to for the nice item and photo you ns by Mrs. Harold Nance, whose picture is not environment—family training and lished of my daughter Lynn [Marc shown above with the plate picturing her discipline—determine the kind of youth church and sold by her church group. Together, Unusual Methodists, or adult a child will become in the 33]. But in the copy concerning rrj We are proud of the many letters we years ahead? gel from friends all over the nation. They you were in error. I have never workel loll us that these spiritual keepsakes sell themselves. They are wonderful for anni- for Gene Ahern, nor had anything versaries, dedications, bazaars and to com- for do with the comic Room and Boar,\ memorate any special occasion. People like Brickbats Philosopher to give them for birthday, wedding and featuring Judge Puffle. My Majil holiday gifts. S. Perry White Hoople is the main character in n Hutchinson, A picture of your church (or school or Kan. comic, Our Boarding House, syndicattl hospital) is permanently fired into the by Newspaper Enterprise Associatiol glaze of the plate at intense heat and will Just why did you waste paper, ink, never wear off. You have choice of many and time to print [Dr. Will] Durant's styles decorated in 23 Kt. Gold. article Why Are Happy People Hap- See for yourself' why these are such ap- 'Bread' Turns in Chicago [February Together, page 10]? Up pealing mementos every church member py? will want. Write today, at no obligation to There is enough of this kind of stuff Rev. Paul Gardner you, for full-color catalog, quantity prices, printed without its being in the paper .in Together Apr// 79 1 Bed him. 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Center column references, maps, illustrated Cyclo- Long before Quayle was elected to the pedic Concordance. Family Record. India paper edition. 5 1: x 1". $19.50 episcopacy Dr. McLean predicted he ;lox8% would be made a bishop. Quayle did A t your bookseller not share this thought. As they dis- OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, Inc. 114 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. 11 cussal it, Dr. McLean asked Brother J-u6(tsJters cf t/u> >Autfion2i?{£J(tnq James J$i6le si'ttce 1bJ5 Quayle if, when the latter became a bishop, he would preach his first ser- Aprii ?957\Together mon in his—McLean's—church. Quayle promised with a smile. When he be- came a bishop he remembered—and _3endi kept his promise. [©gather 'Gallant Mrs. Low' Mrs. J. E. Ferrell Jacksonville, Fla. As a stanch Methodist and a volun- subscriptions teer Girl worker, it was with Scout pleasure that I read Arthur Gordon's article My Aunt Daisy [February To- gether, page Too much tribute • TOGETHER is always a welcome gift. Now is an 26]. cannot be paid the gallant Mrs. Low. appropriate time to enter subscriptions for your local library The Girl Scout organization has not or hospital. Or, share your enjoyment of Methodism's only enriched the lives of millions of new family magazine with a shut-in, friends and family. girls, but has also brought enjoyment and a sense of achievement to the lives of the adults who work with them. Aside from teaching in the church Use the coupon below and pay the regular S3. 00 a year school, no activity outside my home has brought such satisfactions. rate for only the first gift or your own renewal. Additional subscriptions are $2.00 each. TOGETHER will send a gift announcement in your name. Enter your orders now Jesse Stuart . . . Surprised of entertainment, information and give twelve months Jesse Stuart, Author and School and inspiration. Superintendent South Shore, Ky. The Advocates and the Togethers have come ... I was surprised when I looked into these magazines. The To:?0GETHIR Gift Subscriptions, © material is written by some of the 740 Rush, Chicago 11, Illinois finest writers in America. The editorial work is excellent. The format of mag- Please send TOGETHER gift subscriptions for one azine I think is just the right size. year to: In fact, I think that the Methodists are doing a tremendous job with these publications. V^ X 2- »> NAME_ = « « 5 — o. 2; (ADDRESS) (BOX OR RFD) Together in Hospitals re © y% & ~ m 3 « ?! Richard W. Harrington, Pastor a: o IP (CITY OR TOWN) (ZONE) (STATE) First Methodist Church Galeton, Pa. r>s S = £ NAME_ • a I | last October I sat in a hos- ~ = °- One day *° © pital waiting room, trying to encourage = (ADDRESS) (BOX OR kFD) qJ|?C -— a woman whose husband was under- .E £ ^ going a five-hour operation. We talked, = (CITY OR TOWN) (ZONE) (STATE) read. . . . ? 1~- walked, and o . £ % "S Suddenly I realized we could do C E ~ Renew my own subscription for one year something about the situation with our i?5 new Together. We read it, found it My name is again to be attractive, interesting, and worth while. Our church adopted the a (ADDRESS) (BOX OR RFD) All-Family Plan with unanimous vote, after which I suggested we send »— a subscription to each hospital in the (CITY OR TOWN) (ZONE) (STATE) oUi area. This idea was approved and the o addresses were included with our list. I am enclosing $ Together now graces the hospitals' (SendIC-..J $3.00t*» nn for<«, first subscription or renewal, $2.00 for each additional.) racks and we feel it is money well spent. This idea may be worthy of being Gift cards to read fror handed on to other churches in the in- terests of better reading and of Meth- odism. Together /Apr// 1957 " — , Together NEWSLETTER SHOOTING PASTOR DID RIGHT. That's how New Albany, Ind. feels about its Methodist minister who shot and killed a bank robber. The bandit, advancing on the Rev. Robert Gingery, 37, with two pistols, had just slain the minister's friend, a state trooper. "Here's a man caught in circumstances over which he had no control," said the chairman of the Floyd County Ministerial Association. "Certainly there was no time to sit down and discuss the theological and philosophical aspects of the situation." Said Gingery: "I didn't feel that being a dead minister would help. s PROTESTING PAGAN RITES during the Ghana (Gold Coast) i\Vv independence celebration, Protestant leaders including the Rev. Geoffrey T. Eddy, Methodist district chairman there—boycotted the African A Christian Answer ceremonies. Leaders had requested omitting the rites. Ghana, which became independent in March, has a to the Prayers of Methodist community of 160,000, meeting in 1,200 places of worship, and managing 790 schools and five colleges. a Troubled World In this period of economic un- WILL U.S. -VATICAN RELATIONS be resumed eventually? certainty and international con- "I don't know," said Vice President Nixon, flict, an American Bible Society emerging from a 20-minute audience with Pope Pius Agreement comes as an XII. Nixon, a Quaker, and his wife, Patricia, a Annuity Methodist, brought the pope a personal message answer to the prayers of most of from President Eisenhower. us. For it offers a generous, guar- anteed income, plus tax savings, is to LOS ANGELES' FIRST METHODIST CHURCH protesting regardless of financial condi- the Federal Communications Commission cancellation tions. Your purchase of the an- of its Sunday-morning radio broadcast, oldest in nuity helps combat tin- evils and the nation. Purchased at regular commercial rates, the program was dropped because KFAC is replacing; hatreds of the world with the religious programs with musical shows, said the great power of the Holy Bible. church. No income could be more secure NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PANEL LEADERS clashed over While enjoying this income se- segregation, but drew praise for "sensible," curity, you help the Society "intelligent" discussion at a recent national the Scriptures to the Methodist meeting. At the Chicago session (for bring annual conference board chairmen of social and peoples of the world economic relations), conferees scored "prohibitive" low-cost housing and encouraged ministers to get Help meet this level. need while provid- into politics on the precinct ing lor your own financial security CONGREGATIONAL SINGING is becoming a lost art among Send coupon below Methodists, warns a long-time professor of church music. 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If our you're Church and Church School Supplies Book Talk not, fill out the coupon and mail to us " Spring-Easter Catalog Methodist Books Catalog Vacation Church School Catalog Church Library Catalog today. You'll receive a free copy of the Q The Projector Bookmarks catalog or catalogs you specify. Church School Literature Catalog Missionary Materials Forecast 3 Bulletin Board Brochure Book Catalog D Church Bulletin Service Shop at our Cokesbury Book Stores in these it cities: NAME Atlanta, 72 Broad St., N. W. Boston, 577 Boylston St. STREET Los Angeles, 5244 Santa Monica Blvd. CITY _ STATE Together /April 195 J* Personal Testimony The Face of Christ . . . By CARL SANDBURG Portraits of Christ in the October Together especially interested Mr. Sand- burg. Recently in Chicago, where he was honored as poet of the year, he tele- phoned us from the airport: "Maybe you'd care to see what one of my characters in Remembrance Rock thought as he strove to carve Christ's likeness from a block of oak-" We did—and now share it with you. The speaker is Oliver Windrow; the time, 1608; the place, England—seething with religious controversies.—Eds. THE CHRIST HEAD, the Christ face, what mutual obligations, mistrust, and hate—they would man will ever paint, chisel, or carve it? When be there on the face and head of Christ. finished it would float and gleam, cry and laugh, "The look he gave the Magdalene when she with every other face born. human. And how can washed his feet and wiped them with her hair, the you crowd all the tragic and comic faces of man- look he gave Judas to let Judas know he knew of kind into one face? . . . the 30 pieces of silver, the look he gave the crowd "Once I woke from a dream of day on day, when he turned water into wine and when he mag- month after month, seeking faces. I found one at nified the loaves and fishes for the feeding of the an autumn fair, a tall peasant with flaxen hair. His multitude, the private gaze he turned on the 12 smooth, waving tresses of oat straw had the gleam disciples when they journeyed by themselves from of summer sun ripening the grain, a mouth of city to city, the peace in his eyes when he turned compassion and resolves, eyes of anger and pity. them on the Galilee storm and commanded the He seemed beyond all others in a face made of all waters to be still, the series of faces at the stations the good faces swarming at the booths, peddlers, of the cross, the majestic anger in his nostrils when acrobats. 'This,' I said in my dream, 'must be in he drove the money-changers from the temple, the the Christ face I shall foreshadow from a block of awful quiet on his lips when he bade Lazarus rise oak.' from the dead, the music and serenity of his mouth "Then in my dreams I sought an evil face and as the syllables poured forth in the Sermon on the found another tall man, gloss and black in his hair Mount, the desperate gleam and twisted grimace and eyes, a mocking mouth, eyes of cunning, over the mouth muscles in those blinding instants cruelty, and sly greed, seeking possessions to pile when the earth trembled and the sky darkened and on his accrued and fat-dripping possessions. Pride, he cried, 'My God, my God, why hast thou for- sloth, gluttony were all there in his face. In him saken me?', the baffling and dazzling radiance that were blended all the sinners seeking land, gold, issued from his hallowed head when he rose from power, hunting women, wine, bargains beyond the tomb in white robes and announced his work their needs. Lust, thievery, murder, sat on his face done and he would go home to his Father and made of many vile sinner faces. await them to join him—must not all of these faces "And I said in my dream I would join these two be joined, melted, and composed into one for setting faces, with the good one having its will over the forth the face of Jesus the Christ? Otherwise is it evil one, the child of satan overcome by the Son of not less than the Christ face?" . . . God, the sinner subdued by the saint. With fury and prayer I carved those two faces into one. Then flE brought a goose-quill pen and inkpot with I stood back and looked at it. What I had made paper to the big table and began writing: was a gargoyle of two faces in combat. I needed Before my Christ head comes alive out of oak, thousands of other faces. The surge and wail of my heart must be sunk deeper and get closer inter- mankind, the pity of circumstance, were not there, woven with the hearts of all other men, the good nor the betrayers nor the saviors. who have some bad in them and the bad who have "Then in my dream I saw too that the face of some good in them, none being utterly good, none Christ must have in it the essence and mystery of being utterly bad. I must be shameless dust of the the sea and the sky, the valleys and the mountains earth and roots singing underground till they be- overlooked by sun, moon, stars, and the heavy dark- come blossoms of harvest triumphant in the sun- ness where men grope and stumble. For the face light above. I must know tnc sorrow of endless of Christ would hold what every sees, hears, man tears and the deeper sorrow that has forgotten how smells, touches, tastes. And it would be very old to weep. I must come near the miracle of those and very young, older than bare hilltop boulders who can give and go on giving when it is a mystery burnt latest and time washed, younger than the where they get what it is they give and never fail fresh-born child seeking its mother's nipples. in the having to give. 1 must be silent often and "The face of the landless man having no piece break m\ silence only with prayer. I must believe of soil he can call his own—and the face of the in many deeds beyond my doing in the hope that landlord owning more acres and miles of land than one or two such unbelievable deeds may come from he will ever in his life have time to ride over—their my hands. From Remembrance Rock by Carl Sandburg; Copyright wis, Baroourt, Brace & Co. April J957\Togetricr Keep your eye on strategic India, says Chief Justice Warren after visiting Asia. What happens there may affect the peace of the world. New Hope for Old India An interview with CHIEF JUSXICE EARL WARREN reported by James C. Derie ux B efore I visited India, I had not imagined the signifi- In talks with Indian officials, judges, and lawyers, cant similarities between that new republic and our I confessed with embarrassment that I did not know United States. much about their country. It is a sorry fact that in the Both countries are enormous, extending from ocean to United States we rarely were, until recently, directly ocean and from tropics to snow-clad mountains. We concerned about the Asian nations and peoples. We knew both can compute distances within our borders with a something of India's colonial period, of her long and thousand-mile measuring stick. We both have great rivers difficult struggles to achieve independence. But we had! and plains. We have diversified resources and climates. little or no appreciation of the wonderful cultural back- We have written constitutions guaranteeing in similar ground of India, of the fact that civilization there can terms the freedom and dignity of the individual. And be traced back to antiquity; that 5,000 years ago their finally, this great spiritual similarity: Both are committed city of Mohenjo-Dare was of multiple-story, burnt-brick in domestic and foreign affairs to act in accordance with buildings, with wide streets, sanitation, and public baths. law and not with force. We realize now, I hope, that it is only by understand- Hauling a street roller: Indian leaders want machinery to free laborers for more productive jobs. India has a soul—and devout millions—developed through thousands of years of struggle. Mainstays of Christianity are worshipful families li\e these. ing the past of others that we can understand them in Constitution —social, political, and economic problems the present. In a talk over the All-India radio network are solved in a variety of ways. This is not frowned upon before leaving India, I admitted our nagligence in fail- but is encouraged to the point where the states are said to ing to learn more about them, and at the same time be 4S laboratories for development of democratic invited them to know more about us. I believe the wel- processes." fare of the free world demands that India and the United It is a stimulating fact that in India, where only a States become closer friends, understanding one another, few years ago there were many discriminations between seeing clearly that the differences between us are in- castes and cultures, today there is a constitution like cidental to our main objectives—liberty, justice, peace, our own, which compels recognition by everyone oi the satisfying ways of life. dignity of the individual and his equality before the "Free governments neither come into being nor con- law. without regard to race, color, creed, or economic duct their affairs in accordance with any common pat- status. It is significant, too. that in India, as in our own tern," I said. "They cannot be constructed from a blue- United States, the people are ol many national or racial print of the government of any other nation. They arc origins, ycl one in loyalty and fundamental objectives. evolved in consonance with the history, culture, ami Lov< of freedom is not derived from homogeneity oi race economic conditions of the nation itself. Democracy is or national origin. It is a longing in the hearts ot .ill men lite more a way of life than it is a form of government. Ml who have had a chano thai on this beautiful democracies have like objectives but, oi necessity, dilTcr- earth <.au he pleasant, stimulating, and satisfying. 1 sat that Court cm approaches. There are as main difTereni ways ol While m India. with nation's Supreme accomplishing democratic objectives as the ingenuity and several of the High Courts, counterparts ot our of the people can devise and, by devotion to purpose, state Supreme Courts. It was a great experience. The implement. proceedings were all in English ami conducted much like "Within the framework of broad democratic principles oni own. Lawyers argued their cases in accordance with ol their there is the utmost latitude lor developing programs tot oin concept law and equity, reinforcing argu- the welfare of the people in keeping with die conditions ments by citing American c.ises. The conns, like our that present themselves. This is not only true as between own, were zealous in protecting the individual's rights. I judges private law- nations, it is true within nations. In America—where had discussions with main and each of our 48 states regulates its own domestic .tlTairs. Mis. It thrilled me to learn the importance given to the illusions ot mil Supreme In so long as it remains within the bounds oi the federal own CoUTl attorneys ami April )957\Togethcr n — a judges. In every court I visited I saw shelves of United States' court decisions and heard from many lawyers that they read all they can find in the field of American law. This fact brought home to me again the similarities between peoples who love freedom. What about India's future? India's problems are in- comprehensible to most Americans. Millions are at the edge of starvation. The Indian government is working heroically to ward off starvation and at the same time find enough money to develop natural resources and industries to raise the standard of living. Already India has a large power, irrigation, and flood- control project, built with the Tennessee Valley Author- ity as a model, and constructed with assistance from former TVA men. When completed, this will bring a vast acreage into greater production. But it will be noth- ing like enough to relieve the tragic shortage of food for THE $30 MIRACLE the millions of people, no longer so patient, who exist in the 500,000 villages of India. JVLeTHODISM in India is starting its second century of Many other great projects of this kind are needed. service. Through the efforts of pioneer missionaries, and Some industries have been established recently and are those have followed, countless thousands have accepted who functioning admirably, particularly a locomotive-manu- Christ. But how many know what a vital part the "$30 facturing plant and a steel-car plant to equip what until miracle" played in giving this work the impetus it needed? recently was a hodgepodge of medieval railroads. Here, as old-timers recall it, is how it all happened: India has been independent only about seven years. The first U.S. Methodist missionary to India was William In this period its leaders Butler, who left his pulpit in Lynn, Mass., to sail for his have accomplished almost new field in 1856. He had barely started his work, however, miracles. They have put together a free government when the India Mutiny broke out. The work of the church for 377 million people of 14 basic languages and 200 in India ground to a reluctant halt. But not for long. dialects. They hold free elections, and at their first na- In 1859, a young preacher in Ohio heard the call. James tional election 100 million people voted. Their constitu- M. Thoburn—who was to spend 50 years of his life in India tion guarantees the fundamental rights of the individual. and to become one of the best-loved Methodist bishops Independent courts protect life, liberty, property. The was fresh out of college. Brimming with enthusiasm, he ar- people are governed by representatives of their own rived in India—to find there were exactly 13 Methodists in choosing. They have taken their rightful place in the that vast subcontinent. And he labored a full year before community of free nations. winning the fourteenth! in years, But when Thoburn had dedicated his life to Christ he These things they have done seven notwith- had made no mental reservations. He persisted. Results grew standing the poverty, congestion, and unhealthful condi- better, but were still slow. By 1890 there was still "too much" tions they inherited. Until recently, death by starvation to be done. And that's when the $30 miracle occurred. was the lot of thousands yearly and it is estimated that It was at the Northfield Student Conference. Thoburn, as late as 1943, three millions died of starvation. Other on a U.S. visit, was winding up a talk to college men when, millions were dwarfed from malnutrition. Between 80 as an afterthought, he mentioned that $30 would support and 90 per cent were illiterate. an Indian Christian worker for a year. It wasn't a fund- I do not know the future. But I am sure that a nation raising appeal; the bishop was merely mentioning an in- which has accomplished these things in such adversity cidental fact. But 100 students immediately pledged $30 should have the understanding and help of the entire each. One, Sherwood Eddy—who himself eventually spent half a century in India—recalled years later how dum- free world. It needs both, help and understanding, to founded Thoburn was. But he wasn't nearly as surprised as keep body and soul together. Eddy was a year later when he received a report on the In- And India has a soul that has developed through thou- dian worker his $30 had supported. sands of years of travail. It is a peaceful soul that wants 100 other Indians to Christ! Eddy The Indian had won to follow the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and the did some fast mental multiplication and saw the possibilities culture of thousands of years of civilization. If disaster of the $30 miracle. He sent along another $30—and, in time, from floods, droughts, or whatever can be held off a few even sold his gold watchcase to keep the yearly gifts rolling. years, and if they can live in peace, the Indian people Scores of students and others joined in. The result of this combination of money plus labor? Well, should have a firmly established republic that could, andl in 1909 when the semicentennial of Thoburn's sailing was perhaps would, determine the direction the world takes observed, there were 200,000 Methodists in India. Thoburn —toward the law of force or the force of law in the himself baptized 1,000 in a single day. Recently it was esti- coming centuries. mated that one Indian out of every 45 was a Christian. The The free world will stand in imminent jeopardy if influence this has had on shaping Indian thought along the circumstances drive India toward the rule of men and lines outlined by Chief Justice Earl Warren in the accom- away from the rule of law. The rule of men inevitably panying discussion of India's constitution is said to be over- whelming. The $30 miracle has paid the richest of dividends. becomes the rule of a small group or of a man— —Anobel Armour despotism. 72 Together /April J 957 There is no doubt in my mind about the direction India's leaders wish to take. The only doubt is whether conditions will allow them to guide their hundreds of millions of countrymen toward more freedom and at the same time more food and clothes, better shelter, and the other primary physical essentials which this nation needs so urgently at this time. India could become one of the greatest forces for peace the world has known, for the Indian people are as peaceful as any in the world in their natures and their philosophy. The Indian government has had courage to do un- popular things because it has been necessary. In our own republic the people know they must at times accede to policy they do not like. Freedom is not free. Knowledge that responsibility goes with privilege is a result of experience, and the Indian masses have not yet had full experience with freedom as we know it. There is danger here which we should understand and which should give us sym- Bay Ojj- pathy for the Indian leaders as they strive against the gravest handicaps to re-establish an ancient viewpoint of Qencfcd vears ago: "May I be deprived of heaven, of life, and of offspring if I oppress you." In man's long struggle for self-government and indi- vidual freedom, there have been many republics. They have lasted for varying periods, depending on the spirit of their people and their relations with neighbors. Thev have lasted as long as their people were determined to be free and were willing to sacrifice to solve their prob- KASHMIR: lems according to law rather than yield their principles to the dictates of a man. Beautiful but Combustible! Great leaders can supply wisdom, courage, and vision justice abiding —but only a strong spirit of freedom and .L/IKK A luse on a time bomb planted at the crossn in the hearts of the people can give that character to til Asia, Kashmir is smoldering toward a threatened ex- government which will make it last through the cen- plosion. To the tree world, it is a dangerous test ot Indian turies. policy. For while India's constitution calls tor peace and as Chiel Earl Warren points out in tin We would do well, while praying for the strengthening justice, Justice companying article, Indian troops arc being accused of of that spirit in ourselves, to include the people of India thwarting Kashmir's wish to unite with Pakistan. in our prayers. Beautiful, mountainous Kashmir once was a prince-ruled Indian state. Abutting China, Tibet, Pakistan, India, .\\\d only stone's throw- Russia, it Young India—a generation in transition. It strategic Afghanistan, a from occupies a pivotal spot laps at the bor- may hold the \ey to a more peaceful world. where Communism ders of the neutrals. When India was divided at the <^nd ot Mritish rule into India and Pakistan, the local Hindu mahara- |.i took Kashmir and its predominantly Moslem population into India. Irate Pakistanis invaded the state; India struck 1 back. I!\ I'M' , when the I \ arranged an uneasy cease fire, India's tones held two thirds ot Kashmir. Since then, a constituent assembly carefully chosen In Indian leaders lias drawn up a constitution stating that Kashmir is "an integral part ot the union ol India." Pakistan insists that Kashmir's late be put to a vote. Repeatedly the I \ has called on India to live up to a 1947 promise to hold a plebiscite. Indian delegates' speeches boil down to this: India isn't getting out ot Kashmir, isn't going to hold a plehisi lit at least tor now . Pakistanis point out that II plans have been put forth tor settling the dispute; Pakistan has accepted all II, India none. Too, Kashmil has \2 million Moslems in its 4.1 mil lion population mu\ Pakistan is a Moslem State. India's position, backed In Russia: Pakistan committed thi original aggression; because <>l religious overtones, any plebiscite could touch oil new violence. And India won't cede away what it considers "Indian" territory. /3 April 7 957\Together Want to meet some interesting new people? Here's your chance: From far and wide come these five. All of them are: Unusual Methodists RHEE . . . million-dollar target! IN A DANK prison cell in 1904, a young Korean prisoner of the Jap- anese gave his life to Christ. It was a momentous step. It led to affiliation with The Methodist Church, to edu- cation in a mission—and, in time, to Christian leadership for Korea. For that prisoner was Syngman Rhee, now president of the Republic of (South) Korea and anchor man of democracy's defense chain in the Far Pacific. Dr. Rhee, who holds "work- ing"—not honorary—degrees from Harvard and Princeton, has long had a million-dollar price tag on his head, put there by the Reds, to whose total defeat he is devoting his life. How deep are his religious beliefs? Well, he refuses even to attend top-level policy talks at worship hours on Sun- days. Daily reading of his Bible is as much a part of his life as breathing. Faith, to the Korean President, is "more powerful than the H-bomb." DR. GRIFFITH . . . from mountain pea\s to library shelves. MAN OF a million books: That's American University's new School of what they call Dr. Ernest S. Griffith, International Service, is no pallid director of the Library of Congress' bookworm. At 60, he enjoys tennis, Legislative Reference Service. He basketball, mountain climbing. (He handles 60,000 requests a year from once scaled 14 Adirondack peaks in Senators and Representatives seeking a day.) An active Methodist layman, information on legislative problems. he teaches a Methodist Sunday- But this onetime Rhodes Scholar, school class of senior-high boys— 100 who in '58 is to become dean of strong! 14 Together/Apri/ 7 957 — FLOYD AND PHYLLIS . . . bravo! TWO young people now setting the operatic world aflame happen to be Methodists. Carlisle Floyd, son of a pastor in Florence, S.C., is being hailed as one of the nation's fore- most composers for his Susannah, based on the story of Susanna and the elders. Soprano Phyllis Curtin, whose father is a Sunday-school superintendent in Clarksburg, W. Va., sings the lead. Floyd says he based his work on experiences as "a preacher's kid." MRS. GO WEN oldest reader? EVERYBODY for miles around Sanford, Me., knows—and loves Sarah Gowen. On her 100th birthday recently, congratulations poured in from such luminaries as President and Mrs. Eisenhower, and Bishop John Wesley Lord. Bouquets came from as far away as Japan. The only living charter member of the Hod- well Street Church, Mrs. Gowen is the oldest known reader of Together —and has been enjoying it sinc< thi first issue. Her credo for long life: "I don't worry. I just trust the Lord." —I Through tragedy and doubt, a pastor learns the true meaning of the Resurrection The Easter Gift By Herbert A. Francis H).E TRIED not to listen for the "I'll get you some coffee," she said sound of his son's voice. The last few quickly. But she didn't go. She years, when he had sat down to put simply stood and looked at him for the final touches on his Easter ser- a long moment, and after a while mon, he had always heard his wife she put her hand against his cheek getting young John to bed, trying to and she said, "David, you haven't get him quiet and asleep so she shaved." inside the small glass sphere. And could begin hiding the chocolate He remembered, then, with a kind then, as if he could scarcely bear to rabbits and the decorated eggs in the of shock: he had meant to shave give it up, he had set it soberly on colored straw basket. She would when he came in from choir practice his father's desk, alongside the Bible, lower her voice, and he'd hear her at six. He seemed to forget every- the concordance, the reference books. say, "Your father's writing what he'll thing these days. He had lingered to look at it for one say in church tomorrow. Be quiet He looked up at her and saw their last moment, and his nose and and go to sleep, and tomorrow it will reflections in the mirror on the op- mouth—about level with the desk be Easter!" posite wall. "What a handsome had made a moist spot on the glass After a while he would hear her couple," his parishioners had said of the paperweight. tiptoe down the hall toward his when he and Margaret had first come "Thank you for the present. Now study. to Kerrville. They had warmed to run along, young man. Your father's He turned and saw her standing his enthusiasm and Margaret's warm got a lot of work to do." That was there now, but her face was not friendliness—and they had adored all he'd said to his son that day—be- bright as it had been on those other young John. "It makes the whole cause it had seemed there'd be so Easter eves, and when she smiled her church look brighter just to see him many other days. He'd given John blue eyes did not smile at all. there," one of the women had said. a brief hug—though his smile had "Coffee?" she said, just as she al- He reached across his desk now, lingered long after the child had ways had, but he saw her glance to- an almost involuntary gesture, to gone—and he'd turned back to writ- ward the wadded sheets of paper on touch a familiar object. It seemed ing next Sunday's sermon. How his desk, the futile attempts he'd only yesterday that John had come could he have known—how could made to write his Easter sermon. running in from that birthday party, Margaret have known—that in only She frowned a little, and he won- carrying the small glass paperweight a few weeks. . . . dered if she knew, or even suspected, with the snow scene inside it —two "I think I'd like that coffee, Mar- what had happened to him: that in children on a sled. garet," he said now. "Maybe it'll help the days since they had lost their son, "I got it for a favor at Charlie me think." he had lost something else—the very Garner's birthday party, and it's for Still she didn't go. She delayed a faith and hope he was trying to give you," he'd said excitedly. "It's for little, straightening his desk. "I — to others. — your desk. Here—watch!" was cleaning John's room," she said "Margaret " he began, and tried The boy had shaken it, staring en- finally. "I thought—Billy might sleep to smile. chanted at the snow falling silently there tomorrow night." 16 Together /April 1957 He looked at her blankly lor a dowpane where a baseball had gone sunlight streaming in the windows. moment. He'd forgotten that her through one rainy afternoon; the That was the day they had taken sister was coming tomorrow morn- mended blanket that had served as the special collection for Korean or- ing, with her small son. a tepee during a brief Indian war phans, and he'd seen John hesitate between John and four friends; the and then reach slowly, almost re- carefully painted-over scars on the gretfully, into his pocket. He had got all the feeling he had tried T,HEN wall where John and his cousin Billy out the silver dollar his grandparents to keep inside him seemed to rush had set up a homemade dart game had given him for his birthday and out, overwhelming him. He was one afternoon when both their par- dropped it into the plate. Seeing him, another child's voice in his hearing ents had been busy at the church. his father had thought in amaze- son's room, running footsteps, child- Several space-man pictures were still ment: But that was the money he it not be ish laughter. But would thumbtacked to the wall, and John's was saving to buy his new bike. John's laughter, ever again. favorite books were still stacked on And then he'd remembered the sorry," he said very quietly. "I'm the bedside table, where he'd left conversation he'd had with the boy tell not "You'd better them to come them the day he was moved to the the night before. John had been lying here after all. I —we're too busy right hospital. on the living-room floor, gluing now, working on the plans for the Rheumatic fever—that was all the wings on a model airplane. "Is it church. Alice and Billy can go new doctors could tell them. John had cold there, Dad?" he'd asked. "In to and Dad's. They'd love on Mother had the benefit of all the care and Korea, I mean?" to have them." experience and scientific knowledge "In winter, yes. It's very cold. It He saw the disappointment in her that a fine hospital had to offer, and goes down below zero." to "Tell face, and he wanted say: all the prayers and hope and faith "I guess those kids don't even have to stay here. Billy can have them that his parents had to give. Yet it ear muffs, do they? Or gloves?" John's room. It's all right, Margaret." hadn't been enough. "They don't have much of any- But he couldn't. Billy was just John's He shut the door to John's room thing, John. They're war orphans. age, John's size. His hair was even and went on down the hall, trving That's why we're trying to help that same bright yellow. to think what he would say in church them." Margaret had turned away and tomorrow: Easter, a time of joy, of There'd been a long silence then, stairs. started down the In a few rebirth, of believing. while John thought about it. And moments he could hear her setting then he had gone upstairs. That must the coffeepot on the stove, getting have been when he'd broken his Easter out cups and saucers. LAST he had looked down bank to get out the silver dollar. He got up and started toward the at his wife and son praying side bv David had smiled that day in bathroom to shave, passing the room side in a front pew. John had worn church. He had felt blessed. What that had been his son's. The door the yellow-and-black plaid coat that had he said last Easter? He couldn't was open and he paused for a mo- Margaret had made for him, and his seem to remember. He knew only ment to look at the big, old-fashioned blond head had been as bright as the that the words had come from his room that was bright with sun in the daytime. It was a good room for a boy to grow up in; there had been plenty of space for John and his friends to romp. There was evidence of their playing everywhere; the taped win- His gaze was drawn toward a blond head bent in prayer. . . . Then he remembered. It was Billy. John's cousin. — heart—from a deep conviction and faces before him were blurred and a simple, untested faith. the lilies decorating the church Now his faith had been tested seemed to be floating in front of his and found wanting. . . . eyes. It was dawn when he finally Afterward, as he stood on the finished his sermon. He stood up, church steps greeting his congrega- to make your own stretched stiffly, and went to look tion, he took young Billy's hand and out at the morning. It was a beauti- held it a moment, fighting for self- ful day, serene and still, with the control. "That coat," he said, trying white of a late frost showing here to sound cheerful. "It's just like one and there on the dark earth. It was John used to have. It—it gave me the kind of day that, always before, quite a start." had made him glad to be alive. Billy looked up at him, grave and He turned from the window with very clear-eyed. a sigh. If only he could sleep! But he "John gave it to me," he said in a never seemed really to sleep any quiet voice, "the day he went to the more; he would close his eyes and hospital. He said he wanted me to the doubts and the questions would have it. Mother didn't want me to ." begin. wear it today, but . . . He gathered up the final draft of David put his hand on the boy's Reinhold his sermon, the words about life after shoulder, on the shoulder of the coat Niebuhr, clergyman death that had come to him so easily that once had been his son's, and and author on other Easters. Before, they had suddenly he wanted to call back his sounded so sure and unshakable. congregation—call them back and Now he was unsure of them. tell them what he had been too blind How can I lead others, he won- to see before: that there was no G od dered, when I can't lead my own death, because even a small child's heart and thoughts? acts could live after him. Here, he grant me knew now, was the secret of the Resurrection. A:.ND yet later, when David stood the in the pulpit, the congregation lis- tened to him as they had always lis- serenity tened to him—rapt and silent, trust- ing and believing what he no longer READER'S CHOICE was sure of himself. to accept Have you a favorite short story His voice was low and his heart or article? Mail the title, author, felt burdened with a heavy weight date, and source to the Reader's the things that was almost like guilt. If he kept Choice Editor, TOGETHER, 740 his head lowered, his eyes averted, N. Rush St., Chicago 11, III. If I cannot he need not look at the front pew, you're first to suggest a feature we at Margaret, and the empty space be- reprint, you'll be paid $25. side her. Mrs. Floyd Carson of Birming- change, He opened the Bible and began to ham, Ala., sent in this Reader's Choice short story. It first appeared read the story of the Resurrection: in Collier's April 16, 1954, is copy- the courage "In the end of the sabbath, as it be- righted, and is reprinted by special gan to dawn toward the first day of permission of the Harold Matson the week, came Mary Magdalene . . . to change the things Company.— EDS. And behold, there was a great earth- quake: for the angel of the Lord I can, descended from heaven. His coun- tenance was like lightning, and his and the wisdom raiment white as snow." John must have known, someho\ His voice trembled, faltered. His that he wasn't going to live, h( gaze was drawn toward the front thought. to know pew—toward a yellow-and-black But he said only, "I'm glad the! plaid coat and a blond head bent in coat fits, Billy. You and your mother the prayer. It seemed to him that his are coming back home with us, yoi heart would stop—and then he re- know. We want you to stay in John': membered. It was Billy, of course room." He felt Margaret's touch oi| difference. John's cousin. his arm, and even before he turner, He went on with the service, forc- to look at her he could tell that sh< Amen. ing his voice to steadiness. But the was smiling. 78 Together/ Apr// 7 95; Lets Our Pace! By W. It isn't so much the fast clip CHARLES FERGUSON that kills today— it's the need to let down and switch tempo XT HAS BEEN years since I broke ing brought into currency the phrase in a new car. But I remember that I "change of pace." A baseball pitcher followed scrupulously the injunction with a change of pace is one who not to drive over 30 miles an hour tor can throw a ball that smokes and, the first 500 miles. Then, after the using the same motions, follow it breaking-in period, I was dum- with one that lazes up to the plate so founded to see what a difference a teasingly that the batter swings fu- few miles an hour made. The experi- tilely before it reaches him. ence opened up a whole new way of The ablest pitcher is one who thinking; it taught me that any act varies his shots. And the most effec- performed at one speed is not the tive person is one who alternates his same as one performed at a different hardest drives with an easing slow- speed. ness. The pace that kills is the pace that I have discovered what a difference never changes. Frequent change of a change of pace makes when applied pace will keep us from tedium on to breathing. Too many of us think one hand or apoplexy on the other. of breathing as an unconscious proc- For most of us a change of pace ess; actually, we can profitably con- means slowing down—but in many trol the rate of intake and output. I activities we should speed up. We have found that when I am tired, yet may walk and talk too fast, but think tense, I can achieve relaxation and and work too slowly. Sunday and church —the best even sleep by slowing down the in- Often the best way to get some- change of pace in the weekj. halations and emphasizing exhala- thing out of the printed page is to tions. The practice has immediate read it fast, to see how quickly it most imperative that I improve my physical benefits; more importantly, can be intelligently covered, because longhand. I discovered that I had it gives me a sense of command. the mind may wander when reading been rushing pell-mell through my It's the same with eating. Most of is too slow. Chances are, you should words. I disciplined myself to write us gulp our food and miss half the change your reading pace from leis- plainly, meticulously. Associates testi- fun of eating. I was a fast cater. So I urely inspection to concentrated, fy gratefully that the improvement is tried imagining that I was a slow- swift consideration. On the other a long step toward legibility. And motion picture of myself. For the hand, if you have become a hit-and- what was once a chore has become a first time I really tasted foods I had run reader, you may need to give pastime. been eating all my life. each page more time. No one pace is Oddly enough, a job done at differ- The area in which I live is one of adequate; there are books to be read ent speeds is not the same job at all. the uncelebrated scenic spots of the hastily and others with loving delay. The motions and emotions connected United States. Everyone accepts its We've been kidding ourselves with with it are different. Many people charm as a matter of course. One rea- the notion we are rushed to death. who pine to change jobs need only son is that no one drives slowly We are rushed with the wrong change the pace with which they do enough to appreciate the region. Un- tilings. In these we ought to slow their jobs—get variety into the til I slowed down in a new car I down, but in others speed up. "Slow tempo. never even saw an old tulip tree on and easy" is no motto for an inter- Originally, pace meant a step— the way to the station. Its top is esting life. Slowness may be a deter- literally, a stretch of the leg. In time, broken by a generation of storms, rent; often a man can get further it came to mean any of the gaits ol some of its limbs are missing, vet it with a difficult job by plunging into a trained horse or mule; later, a survives with a pride and strength it full steam. horse's swaying gait when both feet th.tt shame me in moments of trifling Frequently a change of pace is in on the same side are lifted and discouragement. And there is a itself a means of learning. Years of moved forward at once. cathedral of trees and rocks on the using the typewriter steadily —added In these meanings the word was parkway not a mile from where I to the tact that I never learned to tied up with speed, as in "the pace- live —a place of quietness ami write as a child—recently made it al- that kills," until modern sports writ strength. Even to glance at it thought April J957\Together J9 — fully in passing is to experience a from the sermon they are tethered to moment of vespers. I had never been something suggested by the minister aware of this spot until I changed my and something I do not find else- Wicked pace. where. But I speak now chiefly of the Since in my work I have to talk experience of being there, of escaping a lot, I have fallen into the habit of —in the best sense of the word—from talking rapidly. Lately I decided to the grime of hasty routine. On this alternate rapid speech with periods point I never fail to feel benefit. "Sour godliness is the devil's religion" of slowing down, weighing each Whatever the preacher's topic, to me — JOHN WESLEY word, and letting its implications he is preaching on the basic injunc- have full play. This, I find, keeps the tion heard by the Psalmist, "Be still to his parish, a Anxious impress new listener's attention and makes me and know that I am God." minister prepared his first sermon with phrase my ideas more clearly. But it I like the sense of timelessness, care and committed it to memory. Sun- does more—it affords me a new sense peculiarly needed today, that I get day morning came and he stood up be- of confidence. from the Bible. When the Psalmist fore the congregation to announce his Contrarily, haven't you known exclaims in a moment of illumina- topic, "Behold, I come." Then his mind went blank. He waited a mo- dreary, hesitant people who ought to tion, "For a thousand years in thy ment, then repeated with assurance, try talking fast for a change? While sight are but as yesterday when it is "Behold, I come," but further words they fumble with facts, ideas, and past, or as a watch in the night," still eluded him. phrases, you'd like to jolt them into it does not seem to me that he is Gripping the ancient podium he thinking a sentence swiftly through measuring time by our standards but leaned forward. "Behold, I come," he before they begin it. that he is showing us that this thing stated firmly just as the podium gave It is to our credit that most of us called time is merely an illusion way. There was a crash and he found realize the need for new rhythms in created by man for his convenience. himself in the lap of an elderly woman. our living. A Hindu visitor from One of the great values of religion "I really should have expected you," India told me about the doorman of is to change our whole intellectual she said with dignity. "You told me three times you were coming." a New York hotel who accosted him pace with the concept of eternality —Mrs. O. L. Willits, Holly, Colo. as he got out of a cab. The doorman of matters that rise above the clock had watched the Indian go and come and the machine. Nothing gives me Two men were arguing about re- several times. This time he drew the a better sense of eternity than the ligion. "I'll bet $5 you can't even say visitor aside. "Say," he said, "give me hymn I have heard 500 preachers the Lord's Prayer!" challenged one. a little of this Hindu philosophy stuff sing without any fancy modern in- that's easy," replied the other. "Ha, —all you can in two minutes." strument at Methodist conferences: " 'Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray There is pathos in the incident; .' " the Lord my soul to keep . . and so When we've been there ten thou- there is also magnificence. We have on. sand years a kind of yearning recognition of "Here's your $5," said his friend. "I Bright shining as the sun, values not prominently a part of our could it." didn't think you do We've no less days to sing God's —Mrs. C. Shockley, Grecntown, hid. culture. The Indian, a distinguished praise scientist, maintained throughout his Than when we've first begun. When my son was about four, he sat stay in America his practice of a full between his grandmother and father hour of meditation everv day. He did And part of the beauty of the time- through a service which was opened by it by getting up an hour earlier— lessness came from the fact that the singing, "Peace, be still." speeded up his rhythm to get the full slow-paced rhythm of Amazing After the service, grandmother com- values of slowing it down. Grace was at variance with the syn- plimented the child for being so quiet. For a number of years I have made copated jazz of the age. And it was He replied, "Didn't you hear them sing, it a consistent practice to go to emphasized by the slow and even 'Please, be still'?" —Mrs. Ralph McPherson, Mt. Vernon, III. church on Sunday morning. There way the preachers rose up and down are few times in modern life when on the balls of their feet as they sang. Six-year-old Laura's mother worked one has a chance to think about It seems to me finally that the in a department store six days a week. things that are important rather than need for a change of pace goes deeper One afternoon when the child and her urgent. Church affords a change in now than ever. It cannot be met ade- friends were playing, they began talk- tempo. Sunday itself offers a wel- quately by little exercises of the mind ing about eternity. "My mama is going come relief from the ulcer rush of and the tongue and the hand. The to heaven," said one. the week. A church service is better soul as well as a pitcher can profit "All our mamas are going there," re- still, for in the cadences of the Scrip- by variety in gait. Slowing down plied another. ture passages, the responses, and the the body may speed up the percep- "Not mine," Laura declared. "She hymns one finds a refreshing new- tion of what matters most. can't get off from work." —Harland E. Fitch, Seattle, Wash. ness of timing after the boogiewoogie It is from the affirmations of the and tom-tom prose of television and Christian faith that we get our basic Send in your jauorite church-related radio and commerce. idea of eternity. We ought not to chuckle. If we print it, you'll receive I would not like to have my mind neglect any appointed time when the $5. Sorry—no contributions can be re- read at all times while I am in soul, through a change of pace, is turned.—Eds. church. But if my thoughts stray given a chance to see. - 20 Together /Apn ; J 957 How I Think of Immortality By Edwin Markham, Late Author of The Man With the Hoe. D OES MAN survive the grave? the short step with the long look. that this earth life is only one scene Does he pass onward to some won- I believe that there are more reve- in the romance of the infinite. derful existence beyond .the shadow lations of life to come. I believe that Yet it looks to us as if the footsteps of the valley ? If he does, we ought to God is the Divine Dramatist; that of the departed one die out forever know something about it; for it is a he has created a vast drama with at the grave. We see no footstep go- Icautiful thing to look ahead, to take many exits and many entrances; ing beyond. But philosophers know that seemings are often deceptive. We see the star set; yet no star goes down but it climbs another sky. I soul "As soon as death clears away So believe that when the the mist of matter, we loo\ disappears from this world, it dis- at once into the next world." appears only to become manifest upon another scene in the wondrous drama of eternity. It is not incredible to me that we should survive death. The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should there be any life at all? Why should this world oi stars ever have come into existence? Why should we be here in this sun-illu- mined universe? Why should there lie green earth under our feet? Why should there be the whitening ocean? All this revelation oi grace and ol grandeur, this is the incredible thing. Whence did it come, and what power sustains it through the long cycles of time? This mystery excites my astonishment, compels m\ con- jecture, creates mv reverence. Life is incredible, \et we know- that we are here in the midst () | lite. Some Ineffable Power has called us out of the unknown. And the Power that has called us into this revelation of wonder can easily have prepared for us another surprise beyond the .ilnss ol death. 1 believe I hat this II Jut Powei has created a world for us beyond, a world ol the spun. And then is a philosophy ol spirit that supports this view. Saint Paul gives us the key to it in his gie.it statement "There are bodies nai ui.d, and tl bodies spit itu.d." In othei woids, there are two kinds «.i substance in the universe. I h is .1 natural oi physical substance, and time is a spiritual substam e. \\ ^ know som< thing "I rriatei ial substance, foi we an constantly in contact wiih materia] forms. Bui 21 — these forms are not living forms. ical brain. The only thing that can plane. The divine Master of the They take on the appearance of life see, can feel, can think, is the spirit- Universe wishes to give us many in plants and animals and men; but ual organism within the physical kinds of experience; so we have they take on this appearance only frame. these material bodies in order that because there are living spiritual What was the ground of the old we may take part in this earthly forms within them. skeptics when they denied the sur- scene in the long drama of existence. The flower is alive only because vival of the soul? They said that the Each man is given a physical body there is a spirit flower within it, a physical brain secretes thought some- somewhat as an actor is given a mask spirit flower that ascended out of the what as the liver secretes bile. There- for his appointed role. substance of the spiritual globe that fore, when the physical brain Wearing this mask of the body, we exists, and always has existed, within crumbles, the whole man crumbles. come into conscious contact only this outer physical globe. The bird is with the physical world. Our physical alive and pulsing with joy only be- eyes, for example, project our spirit- cause there is a spirit bird within it. sight only into the physical universe. A man is alive and meditates on Thus the spiritual world is tempo- POET OF FAITH the great mysteries only because there rarily shut away from our vision. is a spirit man. Back of the human When Edwin This is the reason we do not see into body there is a spiritual body, back Markham saw the world of spirits that is pulsing all Millet's famous of the physical brain there is a spirit- around us. painting, The ual brain—something that is spirit, As soon as death clears away from Man With the something that is vital substance, the soul the mist of matter, we look Hoe, he was inspired to write a something that is deathless and at once into the next world with all poem about it. His poem became divine. its wonders. it is a blessed as famous as the painting and And In the light of this philosophy, all brought the author world-wide thought that all the departing men forces are spiritual forces. Material notice. This article, written and women are received by noble forces are non-existent. The winds shortly before Markham's death, comrades, and are made to feel at blow and the waves leap and thunder was sent in as a Reader's Choice home on the paths of the new exist- against the cliff, the thinker thinks by Mrs. Grace Gale of Tucson, ence. Ariz. It has been condensed from all as the result of spiritual forces, And it is also blessed to know that the original version in the Chris- whose occult origin is in the spiritual a departing soul does not need a tian Advocate, April 2, 1931. world. physical body; in the hereafter he So we men and women are spirits will not need such a body any more now. Man does not become a spirit than a hand needs a discarded glove. If there is nothing but a physical at death: the embryo of his spirit is The spiritual body will be all-suffi- brain in us, the old skeptics would bestowed upon him in the mother's cient: it will be an electro-vital body, be right, because as soon as the phys- womb. He comes into the world a organic, evolving, imperishable. ical brain melts away, there would soul, wearing the body, "this muddy We now see that the higher spirit- be no thinker left. But if a man vesture of decay," as a time-vesture, ual world is not, as Dante thought, thinks with his spiritual brain, then as a temporary envelope, which en- in some remote expanse in the death has no power to destroy the ables him to function for a while heavens. The spiritual world is here, thinker. upon this lower nature plane. here very near these earthly paths Now, what happens to a man at What, then, is the soul? we travel—near us, but invisible to death? The soul of the man, with The soul is an organism; it is an our eyes on this hither side of death. only a brief delay, passes into the organism existing as the living form It is within our physical world just soul of the world. What I call the within the body. Hence every physi- as a man's soul is within his body. soul of the world is the spiritual cal organ of a man has a spiritual And at death, what happens? The world that is embedded and breath- organ within it, giving form and spirit-man, after a brief waiting, rises ing as the living substance within the stability to the physical. So when this out of the cast-off husk of the body. physical world. Matter is only a mist; spirit form leaves the body at death, This is the resurrection. and back of this mist is the primal the body begins to crumble, because Where does the man go? He and undying world, the world of nothing is left to maintain the fabric doesn't go anywhere; for he im- spiritual reality, the world that pulses of the frame. The soul is the form mediately finds himself in the spirit- and vibrates in all these thousands maker, the body builder: "the soul is ual world, finds himself mingling of physical forms. All this wonder form, and doth the body make." with his old friends, his old asso- we call nature is only the time-ves- Since the soul is the living substan- ture of the eternal. ciates. Each man goes to his own tial physical kind, for spiritual affinities organism within my If nature is only a time-vesture, the are uni- organism, I do not look at you with body may also be looked upon as a versal, and are forever drawing us my physical eye, but through my time-vesture. The use of the body to our fates, to our fortunes. physical eye: I do not feel with my is to enable the soul to come into Here is something to give us physical hand, but through my physi- contact with the physical world, and pause: each man goes to his own cal hand; I do not think with my thus absorb the knowledge that a place. Each man joins those who are physical brain, but through my phys- man can acquire on this physical kindred to him in spiritual qualities. 22 Together Apr// 7957 This is a terrifying fact: we go to the wisdom of Italy; Carlyle and those who arc kindred to our souls. Ruskin and Charles Kingsley will be Only by being noble ourselves shall there with more than the wisdom of we ever come into permanent asso- England. ciation with other noble comrades. The next world, then, is not a I am giving you my judgment floating phantasy. It is something as based upon my study of the Bible practical as wood chopping. There and the great seers; also upon my all upward-looking souls will enter into knowledge of the logic of life. We their real happiness, for they will will hereafter go to those who are enter into the joy of the holy brother- kindred to our spirits, whether they hood. Selfishness will be eliminated. be good or whether they be evil. This is the main practical purpose of religion— Vast groups in the next world will to help us to eliminate They Started gather together under the persistent selfishness and to make us ready for urge of spiritual gravitation, of spirit- a divine society on earth and for a Sunrise Services ual affinity. divine society in the heavens. This social law is the basis of the There, O friends, you will enter VJOING to sunrise services Easter idea of hell and heaven—hell being the path of an eternal progress. morning? If you are, you owe a debt the rallying ground of the loose There will be a field for the mani- to a little band of men and women you thinkers and loose livers, festation of all your dreams. that horde probably never heard of. There were whose ruling love If you are an artist, is the push of the there you will 100 of them—a few may still be alive self-life. Heaven is the rallying practice your art; if you are a gar- —and the only thing they had in com- ground of those consecrated men and dener, there you will practice your mon until that Sunday morning in 1909 was women who believe in love and craft: if you are a scientist, there you the fact that they were guests in a California hotel. justice, who believe in subordinating will find ample field for exploration But following that morning they had private interest to the public welfare, into the laws and processes of the achieved an honor they treasured ever who believe in the services and gen- universe; if you are a political leader after—for they held the first known erosities of the holy brotherhood. All with an honest heart, you will find Easter-sunrise service in America. men and women of this noble sort opportunities for service in organiz- Here, according to old-timers, is how will ing inevitably gravitate toward one higher expressions of brother- the sunrise-service custom came about: another, will seek to organize them- hood. In that better country will exist Not far from Riverside, Calif., looms selves into a society under the in- that nobler form of political wisdom Mount Rubidoux. There shortly after spiration and leadership of the social where government becomes the 1900, a large cross was erected on top Christ. organ of fraternity. ol the mountain—and in 1909, Jacob Riis, writer and social crusader, was Thus we see that both hell and So it is a great hope that we have inspired by its sight to make a predic- heaven are founded upon the logic ahead—a social and industrial order tion. He told Frank Miller, owner of of life. What happens here on earth quickened by the spirit of the Christ the Mission Inn where lie was a guest. gives a forecast of all and based utterly on love, labor, and that will that someday "an annual pilgrimage" happen loyalty. hereafter. would be made to the cross. It is is eternal is my belief that the next world Cod youth. This the The next Sunday was Easter, .\n<.\ on will do much to set wrongs and reason why the earth sinks into that day Miller invited 100 of his guests miseries of this world right. In that winter, only to rise into the glory of — Riis had lett by then — to welcome in the holy clay with sunrise rites on the better country men will still be men, a new spring; this is the reason why mountain. and women, women; and I feel sure the universe, although snowed upon An annual high light of the Rubi- that immense preparation has been by the ages, remains forever young. doux service is the reading ot a special made there for the amendment of \ud this is the reason why all souls verse from the poem, God of the Open all the lacks and losses of this earthly who touch the vitalizing and valor- .lir, by Dr. Henry \.u\ Dyke a verse life. ous love life ot ( rod round at List the author added to the original poem into youth on the Unquestionably, the next world again fragrant especiall) lor the sunrise worshipers: ol the new existence. will have lofty realms for all ascend- paths .///(/ so, on Easter morn, his victory ing What an inrush here ol the high and expanding souls. The icon. poetry ot the heart, what a vision ot horizon of knowledge will be widen- Breaking the- mortal bars that sealed the supernal beauty this throwing ing forever. the- to ml'. olT ol the hard husk of time, and this Here on earth we are cramped, In i/ l April J957\Togethcr 23 — Meet the amazing Carl Doss family they adopted 12 children nobody wanted; their love knows no bounds; their art of Christian living is a model for families everywhere. Carl and roly-poly Gregory. They Adopted the 'UN' You think you're busy with your family. You Thirteen years ago, Carl Doss was a Meth- should see the rumpus and hear the laughter odist minister when he and his wife adopted in the 17-room home of Carl and Helen Doss their first baby. They went back for more, but in Redlands, Calif. They adopted a dozen chil- were told they would have to wait unless they dren representing 16 nationalities. But probably took "unadoptables"—children of other races. they won't adopt any more: "Twelve is about Now Doss youngsters range in age from 5 to as many as we feel we can have and still give 14, from blondes to brunettes, from Chinese to individual attention." a Blackfoot Indian. Photographs: \ohx Pattehson K r 1 ^Ev ^k Is? g 1 With 24 potential flat tires, Carl Doss is an expert bike repairer. Most toys come as gifts from friends. w "Never mind." A small boy in need of mother love is certain to find it in Mrs. Doss' arms. 24 1 Iw. « The house and playgrounds of this UN family hum with activity. The Dosses share in recreation; enjoy outdoor fun. /Pn'"957\Togcthcr 25 The Doss Daily Dozen lines up for breakfast. All sing the blessing at the table. Later each child is assigned a special chore. Mrs. Doss runs the family beauty parlor. Dad is barber for six sons. Fourteen hungry Dosses eat five pounds of potatoes per meal. dnnl{ U> quarts of null( daily. Helen buys eggs by case. Together//*P r;7 1957 His international family clusters around Carl Doss for the quiet hour. A member of the California- Nevada Conference, Carl reads everything from the classic Heidi to the Bible. End of a perfect day! Helen adds up family accounts, answers heavy mail about her UN family—and still finds time to write and teach! 27 J Was There (SIMON OF GYRENE) By CHESTER A. McPHEETERS Minister, Metropolitan Methodist Church, Detroit, Mich. cf^° pi^" Yes, I carried his cross to Golgotha. They made me carry it. I refused as long as I dared. But black men cannot always refuse the white man's orders. Little people cannot resist the powerful people forever. We are finally forced to submit, to obey. Some force us with whips. We yield and hate. Some force us with kindness. We yield and love. That happened to me that day in Jerusalem. I had just arrived from Cyrene. I was walking along the street when I heard a frightening, rumbling sound. It sounded like thunder. But the sky was clear. Then I recognized human voices, angry voices, sobbing voices. Then I saw the procession. At the head of this slow-moving company was a tall, slender man. He was dragging a cross too heavy for his frail body. He stumbled and fell. And he didn't get up. A Roman soldier struck him with his whip, but he couldn't get up. m He was down to stay. He lifted his head and looked around as if hoping some friend would help him. : W& Some women wiped the blood from his face. They tried to lift the cross. But it was too heavy for them. I wanted to run away. And yet something held me there. I couldn't take my eyes from his face. I wished I had never come to Jerusalem. And yet, I was glad that I was there. Then the Roman centurion saw me. I knew instantly what he intended to do. He came striding toward me, his face hard and cruel. I could not move! The hatred of my heart drove hot blood to my head. I wanted to drive my two big fists into that evil, sneering face. How I hated him and all he stood for in that moment! And yet I felt pity for him. Maybe he hated this job. Maybe he did not relish his work. All he knew was to obey orders. I looked past the centurion and saw that man pinned to the stones of the street by the heavy cross. The centurion shouted his order at me angrily: "You, black man! Come and carry this cross to Golgotha!" "No!" I shouted. "No! I will not! I am not of Jerusalem. I am not your black man." But even as I spoke I knew that I would carry that cross to Golgotha. I would carry it—not because the centurion ordered me, nor because the soldiers could punish me with their whips and swords. I would bear that cross because some strange power drew me to the man who looked so helpless and alone. He needed someone to lift that load from his back. But more ... he needed a friend! And I felt I wanted to be his friend! 28 Together /April 19s; I stepped into the street and toward him. The centurion followed me. I forgot all who were watching. It was as if just the man under the cross and I were there alone . . . just the two of us. As I stooped to shift the cross from his back to my shoulders he smiled. He spoke quietly to me, "Thanks! My brother!" A strange strength surged through my body. I felt I could have carried the gates and walls of Jerusalem in that moment. I was no longer just a black man. I felt I was a son of God! "Thanks! My brother!" For the first time in my life I was not conscious that I was black! [ do not remember the walk up Golgotha's hill. [ cannot recall carrying the cross. Other arms and shoulders must have borne its weight. There were just two of us walking that sad way that day . . . just he and I. I followed him . . . and felt that what I was doing was right and good. On the hill, I felt shame for the priests in their ceremonial robes. i» 'I was sorry for the people who jeered, "Let his blood be upon us They did not know what they were saying. The only person on the hill who needed no pity was this tall, slender man. But—a great change came over him as he stood there waiting. He no longer looked frail and lonely. He appeared refreshed, sure of himself, unprotesting, unafraid. (I was proud of him! Then ... he did something so unexpected that everyone gasped. The priests looked at each other with misgivings and fear. The soldiers were stunned and stood uneasy waiting their orders. That man with the crown of thorns on his head, and bloodstains on his face, walked deliberately to the cross where I had dropped it. He looked down on it for a moment. Then ... he turned and lay down on it as if lying down for a nap. No one could breathe for a moment. The centurion stared in amazement. Finally, in a harsh whisper, he ordered the guards to do their work. Hurriedly they pounded the nails into his hands and feet. I had seen many punishments, brutal and evil. But I had never seen a crucifixion. My teeth bit into my lips until I tasted blood. Those nails went right through his hands . . . into my heart. I closed my eyes to shut out the cruel scene. I fell to my knees. I prayed that God would forgive all these people who did not realize what they were doing. He did not struggle. No word of protest, no cry of pain came from his lips. As I knelt, weeping—and hating the men who had done this thing to him—the soldiers dropped his cross into its socket . . . between two thieves I came closer to him then. I wanted him to know that I was his friend to the very end. His lips moved. I could not hear all that he said. He seemed to be talking to someone very near. He looked at me and smiled, as if saying again, "Thanks! My brother!" Once more I felt that strange power surge through me. I felt like a new man! All the evil deeds I had ever done were now forgiven and forgotten. All the hatred and resentment I had ever felt was gone out of me. I was born again! I was free! I loved everybody! Nobody could ever again hurt me! I never dreamed that my name would be known beyond Cyrene. What I did that day in Jerusalem, I did for him . . . and for him alone! 29 — MIDMONTH POWWOW Two Methodists Look at Social Drinking WH Y THIS DEBA TE? Abstinence is not required of persons becoming members of The Methodist Church. But there is no question about The Methodist Church's official attitude toward drinking alcoholic beverages. The Discipline of The Methodist Church— which records Methodist legislation—says in part: "Against the confused moral beverages is increasingly respon- judgments of our age with respect sible for the disintegration of the to drinking and the liquor traffic, home as witnessed by social serv- The Methodist Church lifts the ice records and those of divorce clear voice of the Christian con- court proceedings. It is a major science. The teaching of Christ cause of public disorder, disaster, emphasizes, as one of its basic and traffic injuries and fatalities. principles, the sacredness of each It causes poverty and produces human personality. The use of economic waste in industry and alcoholic beverages . . . not only commerce. It is a corrupting in- impairs physical health but . . . fluence upon the conduct of pub- deteriorates character. . . . lic affairs. It is a most formidable ." "The drinking of alcoholic obstacle to the good life. . . T,hus saith the Discipline. It reflects the overwhelming "those worldly amusements . . . such as card playing, majority view of nearly 800 men and women (equally dancing . . . attending circuses and theatrical perform- divided between laymen and clergy) who meet every ances." four years as representatives of 10 million Methodists Should Methodism's stand on "social drinking" also to transact church legislation. At Minneapolis last May, be relaxed ? The Board of Temperance and other official the General Conference reasserted Methodism's "long- agencies of the church emphatically believe not. From its established conviction that intoxicating liquor cannot be headquarters in Washington, just across the park from ." legalized without sin . . the nation's Capitol, the Board of Temperance carries However, Methodism is a democratic—not an authori- on a vigorous educational campaign for total abstinence j tarian—church. Its tradition of open discussion is rooted among members of The Methodist Church. The Boarc in philosophy of founder John Wesley, who advised encourages informed open discussion. In harmony] Methodists to "think and let think." The Discipline with that spirit, Together herewith impartially present? 1 has recorded many changes of mind among Methodists two divergent views from lay people on one aspect ol| since 1784. For example, no longer does it condemn the larger problem. Eds. Note: Contents of this magazine an- copyrighted. To avoid misuse or distortion, TOGETHER expressly prohibits re- production of tliis Midmonth Powwow in whole or in pan without special permission in writing from t lie editors. 30 Together//Vi7 1957 IS THE CHURCH'S STAND MAKING HYPOCRITES? asks MARY MILLER, housewife, mother, church-school leader. H.AVE YOU ever felt that The Methodist Church's we think of "drinking" as the opposite of temperance. stand on drinking is making a lot of hypocrites of us We believe in sobriety, as does the church, but we today? heartily resent the feeling of guilt and wrongdoing such I feel that way, and I think I speak for worlds of good as resulted from the incident I have described. Most of Methodists everywhere. That's why I'm sitting down to our friends drink, and their religion either doesn't con- write this now. My husband and I have just had an un- demn it or they don't care, or perhaps they don't drink pleasant experience on this question—the same thing in front of their church friends and call it being discreet might have happened to you—and I've got to get it off rather than something else. my chest. Never mind the cakes that have to be baked I would rather be honest, and I don't want my children for Circle meeting or the collecting for the United Fund. growing up to think a person who drinks beer or an To begin with, my husband (a chemical engineer) occasional cocktail is therefore an undesirable associate. and I are in our 30s. One night we attended a meeting Certainly the people I speak of are not undesirable. of the church's Couples' Club. They had voted to hold They're alert, intelligent, open-minded, self-respecting a party and the only place available that was big enough people who know where they want to go and how to for a group our size was a roadside restaurant a few miles get there. Not a square in the lot! from town. Moderate cocktail drinking with friends serves as an When we all got settled, I asked, "What shall we or- icebreaker and a pleasantry—that's all. An habitual drunk der?" The fellow next to us said, "I sat and drank root would be just as unwelcome as the person who would beer all evening last year. This time I'm ordering beer!" hold up a hand in dismay when a cocktail was offered. So we ordered beer, too. I can't say I don't care what the church thinks, either. I drank beer with my husband when he was just a I can't even take the casual attitude of many of our poor graduate student, as did all our friends there, with- friends who say, "We'll take what we want from the out exception. We have a glass of beer together at home church." I care. now. It's pleasant and companionable, and we believe as Tell me if you think I'm wrong in predicting the immaterial and irrelevant to our religion as whether we outcome of this particular episode. It was bizarre enough eat fish on Friday. to have attracted attention, and we're new and under but I know Methodists, or at least I certainly think I scrutiny, so to speak, so it will get around. People who do. I started to a Methodist church as soon as I could once smiled graciously and extended a hand and mur- walk, and my mother has taught Sunday school since mured, "Good morning" after church may look at and before that time, and I have a brother who is a Methodist through us vaguely. A few will frankly look as if thev minister. So I think I know Methodists. had encountered a bad odor. Others may nod briefly and The night of the church couples' party my first cow- hurriedly begin searching for a glove, or the reassuring ardly impulse was to say, "Order something else for me face of a discreet friend. tonight." Then I realized that this was hypocrisy, clear Things like this are happening all the time to young and simple, and I know what my husband thinks of churchgoing people like us. We are people who consider hypocrisy. He detests nothing so much as a phony, and ourselves intelligent and reasonable. We have earned a I love him for that. certain place in the world, and we will not be shoved So there I sat, drinking my beer, and straight across around. If you make us feel guilty because of the way we from me at the next table sat the Sunday-school superin- live, we will stay away from church in droves. tendent with a strange, and I imagined, a disapproving Is it the purpose of The Methodist Church to reform look. Not a "Milquetoast," I might add; just a good, us? I frankly don't think this is practical. There are too sensible, admirable man. Whether he actually disap- many of us. To shun us? To what Christian purpose? proved or whether I imagined it, I felt guilty and some- To make hypocrites of us? No thanks. It would be easy how disgraced, and this is the frustration I'm steamed up for us to join the ranks of those who sip silently behind about. Yet if I were to face the situation honestly again, drawn draperies, so that they can feel the good glow of I would do exactly as I did that night. approval on Sunday morning. Probably by this point you're critical or disgusted with We'd prefer to be honest —to be ourselves. What would me. Perhaps you've never encountered the problem in you prefer- Is this something we have to work out our- this way. But it is very real and serious and faces great selves, or can we do it together? numbers of us. We know what The Methodist Church says about drinking and we understand its position—but FOR THE OTHER SIDE TURN THE PAGE April J957\Togcther 31 OUR CHURCH MUST NOT RELAX ITS STAND! ! says LESTER KEYSER, Methodist physician, surgeon, lay leader. W,HY HAS The Methodist Church, throughout its strongly recommend that all members voluntarily ab- history, been so strongly opposed to drinking? The stain and seeks to commit each individual and family church is convinced that often social drinking is the first to the alcohol-free life. Abstinence is a part of the larger step toward alcoholism; that the use of alcohol is costly program to encourage Methodists to make right choices economically, spiritually, mentally, and physically. The in all areas of living. church is convinced that the safest way to guard against As a physician who works with alcoholics, I have seen the consequences of alcohol is to avoid the first drink. the eventual tragedy that befalls many social drinkers. I Our church must not relax this stand. have talked to others who can say in all honesty: "I have As a Methodist layman who frequently makes temper- never been involved in an auto accident, in a crime, our ance talks, I am aware that a majority of the adult popu- home life is excellent. Also, I'm not an alcoholic, never lation of the United States indulges in social drinking. intend to be!" Some of the advocates of social drinking are Methodists, This brings us to the most important reason why the I might add. Yet, advocates of social drinking, I find, church opposes the use of alcoholic beverages in any unconsciously acknowledge that they do not really be- form. Is the social drinker who never lets alcohol "get lieve there is little harm in so-called "moderation." out of control" guiltless on the serious moral issue in- "Two cocktails won't hurt anyone," a social drinker volved? Does not the beverage he drinks support an in- told me recently. Yet I doubt if this man would approve dustry whose product causes 40 per cent of our highway two cocktails for the pilot of his plane during flight, for accidents, 65 per cent of our crime, thousands of broken the surgeon who is about to perform a delicate operation homes, 7 million American men and women who fumble on his wife, or as an appetizer for his seventh-grade son helplessly in the throes of compulsive drinking and al- at the school cafeteria. He believes—as an intensive coholism? What about the young person who looks up liquor-advertising campaign wants him to believe—that to him and thinks he's tops, and wants to pattern his or two cocktails before dinner is moderation and that mod- her life after that person's? eration is synonymous with temperance. Greeks defined temperance as moderation in all The IT IS ENCOURAGING to find more and more Meth- things wholesome, and abstinence in all things harmful. odists committing themselves to sobriety as one witness to This is much the Methodist position. Alcohol must prove what they believe. It is encouraging to find that more and it is harmless if it is to be classified as temperate. more young people of all churches have decided ab- No one becomes an alcoholic before the first drink. stinence is the smart thing to do. It is estimated that 4 "Alcoholism is 5.5 times more prevalent than cancer," million fewer Americans are drinking today than 10 according to the U.S. Public Health Service. "It is 3.2 years ago, despite the increase in population. times more prevalent than tuberculosis; 102 times more People who are rejecting alcohol in increasing num- prevalent than polio." Certainly no sane social drinker bers are finding both intellectual and spiritual reasons would deliberately transplant cancer cells or inject live for abstinence. They are becoming aware, scientifically, polio virus in his own body. of what alcohol does to the body and the effects it has on the higher brain centers. They are becoming aware, TiHE METHODIST Church wants to upgrade so- morally, of what their example can do for others. ciety, not downgrade it. We believe in the divinity and Our church, from its very nature, stands against drink- nobility of man, not his debasement. The Bible puts more ing. For it to relax this stand, or be silent in its opposi- emphasis on the evils of alcohol than any single sin— 162 tion, would be disloyal to its function. In effect, the verses soundly condemn alcoholic beverages. church would open the floodgates to an angry sea of Further than this, our church's opposition to alcohol human misery, violence, and sin. is based on carefully considered evidence that has accu- People, I realize, drink for many reasons. They drink mulated through the ages. Toynbee, the historian, notes to celebrate. They drink to banish anxiety, dread, and that 16 of the world's 19 great civilizations have collapsed frustration. They drink because they feel good—or bad. from within. Major reasons: laziness, alcohol, and im- They drink to lend ceremony. They drink because they morality. Alcohol and immorality often go hand in hand. think it promotes good fellowship. Methodists who abstain from alcohol are not bluenose The Methodist Church is convinced that—whatever fanatics or killjoys. We believe that it is smarter and more one's motivation or rationalization for drinking;—religion nearly Christian not to drink. The church does not make and medicine have a better answer than alcohol for every abstinence a condition of membership, however. It does human need. 32 Together/ >V'/ 7957 , — LAURIE . . . DOANE . . . looks like Daddy the only son CARRILEE . . . the first child Each One Is By Marjorie N. Pressey 'Special' WHENEVER strangers call and were rugged and conveniences few. Our meet our six children, we have learned parsonage had no running water. John to expect comments such as these: chopped down trees, sawed them into "Your children are lovely—and all lengths, hauled them home, and split are blondes except Laurie." them for our wood stove. "They all look alike but this one One of Laurie's sisters, Rachel, was ;she is different." born during a January blizzard. When "Peas in a pod, except for this one." we brought her home from the hospital, It is always Laurie who is singled we put her bassinet behind the stove to out as being different. keep her warm during that week of 35- At first the only difference our visi- below-zero weather. tors noticed was Laurie's brown hair. By this time, many well-meaning [Then, when she was about five, a more persons had begun pointing Laurie out disturbing difference was apparent. In- as being the different one. Before we I stead of being friendly and sociable, in- left Sherman Station, Laurie had stead of being attentive and polite as changed from a sweet, affectionate baby •the other children, Laurie became shy. to a timid little girl who would soon be JAYE . . . I Whenever we met new people, she entering school. baby of the family I would hide behind us, chew on her My husband and I were disturbed finger, or wander off by herself. She by this change. I seemed to dislike meeting others, to "I just can't understand why she is resent their presence. so different!" John said. Laurie, our third child, was 18 Then the word "different" hit me. I months old when my husband, John, "Do you suppose that's what's accepted his first call. We went to a bothering her?" I asked. "Every time I small country church at Sherman Sta- people see the children in a group, tion in northern Maine, where winters they mention this difference. They don't Together^ Don't tell your children they're different—you may start Ulnlfe Home real personality troubles. The John H. Presseys, Cen- tenary Church, Skjou/hegan, Me. April 7 957\Together ) ) mean any harm, but Laurie may think she is different in an unattractive way." Looks at movies "Of course Laurie isn't unattractive," John said. "She's a lovely child." Then he nodded in agreement. By Harry C. Spencer "That must be the root of the prob- lem. We must show her that she is General Secretary, Methodist Television, Radio, and Film Commission different in a special way. And yet we mustn't give the other children the im- pression that only Laurie is the special Films are rated jor audience suit- lem as such, but since Sidney is a Negro one." associate together ability. Also, the symbols (-{-) and ( — ) and since he and John The next day, John gathered the chil- provide "yes" or "no" answers to the as equals, the film is a strong argument dren around him. "Do you know we question: Do the ethical standards in for mutual understanding and good love you all very much, that each one the film in general provide constructive will between the races—an exciting, of you is a 'special' to us?" entertainment? dramatic film strongly recommended to They didn't understand. thoughtful viewers. "Well, Carrilee, you are a special be- cause you were our first baby. Doane, Above Us the Waves (Republic) The Girl Can't Help It (20th Cen- you are a special because you are our Adult ( + ) tury-Fox) Adults ( — only son. A starkly realistic account of the sink- "And, Laurie, you are a special be- A racketeer (Edmund O'Brian) hires ing of the German warship Von Tirpitz cause you look different than all the Tom Ewell, an old friend but now a in a Norwegian fiord in World War II. others. You look just like your grand- down-at-the-heels theatrical agent, to The exciting drama is filled with great ma and your hair is a special brown make an unknown actress (Jayne courage and tremendous sacrifice. just like your daddy's. Mansfield) a singing star. This sets the "Rachel, you are a special because stage for the expected alcoholism and you are our baby." Barretts of Wimpole Street (MGM) the double-meaning comments which The children were delighted with Adults ( ) Youth ( ) best emphasize the statuesque blonde's + + their daddy's game, but there was am hourglass proportions. extra-big smile on Laurie's lips The tyranny of Elizabeth Barrett's and a; glow in her eyes. dictatorial, domineering, hypocritical Three Brave Men (20th Century- have added two blondes toi lather has been portrayed many times We more ) Family ( -)- Fox the family since that important day on stage, screen, and television. This nearly five years ago. Now Rachel is rendition of the famous play is one of The true story used as the basis for special for a different reason because the best. John Gielgud is brilliant as this film is enough to give concern to — she is so sweet. Debbie is special the father. Jennifer Jones has the role of those standing for liberal principles in be- cause she is our laugh-provoking little Elizabeth, and Bill Travers is the exu- government. Ernest Borgnine is dis- comedienne. Jaye is special because she berant Robert Browning. missed from his civilian job in the navy is our baby. when investigators report he has asso- Our children are growing fast, as all ciated with Communists. The reports Top Secret Affair (Warners) Adult children do. They are all attractive, are found later to be either untrue or (-) healthy, average children. all subject to an innocent interpretation, They at- tend church and church school regu- but the security officers give more The writings of J. P. Marquand form larly here in the attractive little town the basis for this film. Susan Hayward credence to gossip than to the integrity of Skowhegan, Me., where John is pas- is the owner of a large magazine. She of the man. How do you fight a rumor tor of the Methodist church. has tried to get a government job for which is never even reported to you? Laurie is 10 now, still the different a friend and, failing this, has decided How do you clear your name when one in appearance. Telling her she was to discredit Gen. Melville "Ironpants" neighbors accept false accusations as so very special to us has changed her Goodwin (Kirk Douglas), since the though they were already proved? And, personality from a shy, unhappy chile honor had gone to him instead. How- on the other hand, how does the gov- to a thorough extrovert. Now she loves ever, both Susan and Kirk are unmar- ernment protect itself against spies if it to lead the neighborhood children in ried, so the decision to vilify the general is forced to reveal the sources of its games and plays. After rehearsing the is sublimated in romance. information? These are the questions plays for days on end, she asks the faced—and partly answered—in this mothers to see their children perform. powerful film. Edge of the City MGM) Adults And—wonder of wonders—she want! to be a baton twirler and lead parades ( ) Youth ) + < + Wings of Eagles (MGM Adults when she gets into high school! ( + ) Youth ( + ) John Cassavettes is a drifter, trying But friends and strangers still make to run from his past. He longs to return John Wayne plays Cmdr. Frank the same comments when they firs! home, but his father doesn't understand W. "Spig" Wead, much-decorated navy meet our children: him. The army is looking for him as a flier who pioneered in the development "They all look alike and all deserter. Even the law may be searching of aircraft carriers. When an accidental blondes—except that one." for him since that day his brother was fall paralyzes him, Wead fights back Then John or I quickly say: killed. He gets a job as a freight to regain partial use of his legs. The "Yes, Laurie is her daddy's special handler in a New York railroad termi- story is told with wit and dramatic im- because her hair is just like his." nal and meets Sidney Poitier, who has pact, but represents the leading charac- And Laurie grins when we say that a more mature attitude toward life. The ters as using liquor to maintain their Her eyes sparkle. She's a happy little film does not deal with the race prob- morale. girl who enjoys meeting people. 34 Togethcr/^pr// 7 957 Spring Sings of Faitl With ascending sun and warming rains, The earth is alive with beauty and the slumbering seed throws aside its goodness. Here once again is the God- winter shroud. Across all the land the given evidence of life's triumph over colorful pageantry of another spring death, faith's eternal reassurance of moves on wings of song. resurrection and immortality. Apn/ i957\Together 35 They sleep in dust through the wintry hours, They break forth in glory — bring flowers, bright flowers! —Felicia Dorothea Hemans Together/April 1957 36 The Amen of Nature is always a flower! —Oliver Wendell Holmes April i957\Together 37 I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in her purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, Or . . . fair heliotrope, who hangs, Like a bashful maid her head. —Phoebe Cary 39 h> The harebells nod as she passes by The violet lifts its tender eye, The ferns bend her steps to greet, the prass] is the handkerchief of the Lord. And mosses creep to her dancing feet. hdia C. R. Door —Walt Whitman April ?957\Togethcr 41 In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a beauty in His bosom that transfigures you and me . . . —Julia Ward Howe 42 Together /April 1957: Water problem? Rutty streets? Poor city financing? Then look for action from the vigilant League of Women Voters. These Women Get Things Done! By \IIIMU\ TEK1H I1LUOM Ai.LL OVER AMERICA today long-overdue weeding out of out- modernization of antiquated state some 125,000 citizens make up the moded local ordinances in Muskogee, constitutions. Their continuous sup- largest and most effective force of Okla., and Verona, N.J. port of the U.S. Children's Bureau civic watchdogs this country has ever In Georgia since 1054, league helped it to become one of the had. women have compiled a record of greatest social agencies any govern- Most of them are housewives and how each of the legislators voted on ment ever created. mothers without much spare time, key issues. In this way the league At the league's biennial convention but they manage to find time to graphically illustrates for the voters in 1944 the delegates elected Anna keep a sharp, discerning eye exclu- exactly where every state representa- Lord Strauss, an attractive brown- sively on government. They are the tive and senator stands. eyed, gray-haired Quaker, as their only nationally organized non-parti- The league's first national presi- president. Miss Strauss, an expert san group to do so in every state. dent, Mrs. Maud Wood Park, helped skipper of racing boats and a veteran And because they carefully avoid set this policy. "The league keeps worker for international understand- taking bows, few know of the re- records of the way in which every ing, invigorated the league's work in markable achievements of the 1,000 legislator keeps his promises," she the postwar period and helped make local groups of the League of Wom- explained. "They are our simple it one of the strongest advocates of en Voters. housekeeper's way of finding out the United Nations and of reciprocal- These civic-minded women whether their merchandise wears trade agreements by the United sparked and led the fight to obtain well enough to buy more of it." States. modern sewage-treatment plants for The league was founded in 1920 Today from its modest national St. Louis, pure drinking water for at the Victory Convention of the headquarters in Washington the Salt Lake City, and major slum National American Woman's Suf- league operates on a remarkably small clearance for Wilmington, Del. They frage Association, which had just budget of $190,000, which goes main- won a primary-election system for concluded its 50-year fight to get the ly for printing of study materials and Connecticut, cleared the way for vote for women. Carrie Chapman some paid workers. The national of- obtaining voting machines for Mis- Catt, their indomitable leader, sug- ficers serve without pay. Just about the sissippi, and permanent personal reg- gested that the fight should be fin- only source of income the league's istration for millions of voters in ished "by teaching women to wield national and state headquarters have New York State. And they have ef- ballots wisely." is the $3 dues of each member. fectively exposed corrupt city budgets Politicians greeted the new group At their conventions the women in Illinois. They have obtained a fair- with a little scorn and much in- delegates who represent local leagues er deal for the harassed taxpayer by difference. But the women quickly in the 48 states, Alaska, Hawaii, and fighting for equitable tax-assessing built up a remarkable volunteer the District of Columbia, vote on systems. And in some cities they have organization along local, state, and a national program of issues which saved taxpayers large amounts by national lines. They led and won their local leagues will study and act voluntarily undertaking badly needed fights for stronger pure food and upon. In the 1956-58 period, for jobs the city could not afford, such drug laws, the abolition of child example, the national agenda calls as conducting a school census in labor in many states, taking civil- for an evaluation of lederal loyalty- Breencastle, Ind., and carrying out a service jobs out of politics, and the security programs and the conserva- THEY GET THINGS DONE! Are not (women) free agents, as well as men? Are they not members of the state? . . . tion of our water resources. When ers were paying twice as much as lems and agreed that the need the women finish their two-year sur- they should on their fire and water for a water-purification program was vey they will undoubtedly be among taxes. And some had been paying this high on the list. The U.S. Public the best informed American citizens double tax for 20 years! In all, she Health Service had already declared in those two fields. estimated, more than $12,000 had the city's water was "substandard." "First these women educate them- been overpaid. Enlisting the support of the Utah selves on an issue," an admiring male When Mrs. Reibstein took her in- State Medical Association and the legislator remarked recently. "Then formation to the county Board of Utah Engineering Council, the they educate the voters. Then they Assessors, the chairman of the board women decided to take the matter to end up educating the legislators." checked and rechecked her figures, the public. The ability to keep the respect and paled slightly, and agreed that she Medical, engineering, and financial good will of officials has been one was right. experts were interviewed on the of the league's enduring and endear- Instead of announcing the dis- league's weekly radio program. ing qualities. Its members quickly covery to the local newspapers and Newspaper stories appeared regularly realized that knowing all the facts getting plaudits for the fledgling on the findings of the experts. was one of the best ways not to look leaguers, they decided to inform the The opposition, fearing that it foolish. They also learned that all the affected homeowners individually. would bear the brunt of the in- it facts are not in textbooks; that "We didn't want to antagonize any creased taxation, closed ranks and j was a good idea to see and ask and of the village officials," Mrs. Ellen the battle was joined. The league think for themselves. Hirschland, chairman of the Great sent speakers to address local organi- I today of the first tasks league, told me. "After all, it zations all over the city. Others at- Even one Neck j of a new league group is to gather was just a clerical error which had tended every meeting of the city the necessary information for a de- been made 20 years ago. We expect commissioners. Some worked with a tailed Know Your Town Govern- to be in Great Neck a long time and citizens' committee that drew up a-J ment booklet. In hundreds of com- we will want the co-operation of our state anti-pollution bill. "In short," munities today these are the best village officials on many projects." as a league member told me, "wher- single compendiums of all pertinent A few years ago in an Illinois ever and whenever dirty water was civic, judicial, tax, police, fire, and township the local league made an mentioned the league was sure to school information. item-by-item study of its municipal be on hand." Just in the gathering of the in- government and discovered that a The state legislature passed the formation for these booklets the $300 increase in the health officer's anti-pollution bill and an act that women become remarkably well in- salary had been voted by the town permitted Salt Lake City to levy a formed about the functioning of their electors. The league knew that there small additional property tax to pay local governments, sometimes to the was no health officer. When they for the water-purification plant. Since embarrassment of the town fathers. persisted in their determined in- then two large water-purification We had an example of this recently quiries, the town electors rescinded plants have been completed, and two in my own town, Great Neck, N.Y. the $300 "increase," apparently sched- reservoirs have been covered. In order to compile a comparative-tax uled to line a politician's pocket. In Chester, Vt., a small town of chart for the area, Mrs. Louis Reib- Good housekeeping practices also 2,000, the local health officer found stein, a comely young mother of three mean clean water and Grade A milk, that the drinking water was polluted who happens to have a degree in pub- two liquids that are still missing in but every recommendation for chlori- lic administration, began going a surprising number of American nation was defeated in a village vote. through more than 1,000 tax sheets communities. Then the local League of Women for the villages that make up the In Salt Lake City in 1951 the new- Voters got into the picture and made Great Neck peninsula. She made a ly organized group made a study sure that water samples were sent surprising discovery: 155 homeown- of the city's most pressing prob- to the state Board of Heakh twice — Be useful in your generation. Seize opportunities of speaking a word to your neighbors —JOHN WESLEY, Founder of Methodism month as required. Half the and added two more building in- "We prod and probe and keep our samples were found to be unsafe spectors. The state legislature voted eye on the main objective, which is for drinking. The women wrote to to enable the city to raise the money not publicity for the league, but re- other towns that had chlorination for a master housing-authority plan, sults," she said. "Most legislative and got letters attesting that the water and Washington agreed to finance bodies are composed almost exclu- didn't taste or look any different as part of the city's program for slum sively of men and consequently it is a result. They staged a contest offer- clearance and redevelopment. necessary to persuade great numbers ing a prize for the person who could One of the hardest assignments of men to change their points of view tell by taste the difference between local leagues take on themselves is before the desired legislative end is chlorinated and unchlorinated water. to find more money for local govern- accomplished. Quite often in the There were no winners. Chester ment. In one hard-pressed suburban process of being wooed and won, the finally voted for chlorination. community, Oak Lawn, 111., sleuth- men have convinced themselves that In 1951 many of the local leagues ing league women found more than the legislation was their idea in the in the St. Louis area decided that ex- $1 million. Found it by putting on first place. And when the dust of isting sewage-disposal methods were their low-heeled shoes and covering battle has cleared away, and reporters causing a bad case of municipal the town, foot by foot. and photographers are called in to lalitosis. With other civic groups In 15 years Oak Lawn had grown memorialize the occasion, the women :hey organized bus trips to see raw from 3,500 people to 15,000. New are left out of the picture. And that's iewage pouring into open streams schools were needed, but tax assess- all right. As long as the objective is treams in which children played ments were at least two years behind. gained it doesn't matter who gets md waded. The league women and And the community's power to issue the credit." )ther citizens called for a sewer- bonds depended mainly on its as- Most league women have a deli- district charter. To win support for sessed valuation. The local league cate man-handling problem right at he move, the women spoke before women, in co-operation with the home. At the 1956 convention of the more than 100 organizations and overworked local assessor, literally league in Chicago the delegates in at- made more than 30,000 persuasive covered every house and lot in Oak tendance were asked to fill out a )hone calls. The campaign was a Lawn. questionnaire. ;uccess and St. Louis today is well on Every piece of property was One of the questions concerned the the way to smelling nicely—as a checked for size and type of con- reactions of their husbands to their modern city should. struction and for any recently added league work. Some wrote: "He is In Wilmington, Del., the local improvements such as porches or resigned but patient," or "amused eague women also smelled some- patios. Then the league women com- but suffering." But a more typical hing wrong with their city. The pared properties against their listed reply was this one from an Illinois >ad smell came from 6,000 slum valuations. With the help of the woman: dwellings in a district which, investi- assessor they were able to add nearly "He's tolerant on the face of it gators learned, accounted for the $1.2 millions in additional assessed but I really think he's quite proud deaths of nearly two thirds of all valuation to the city tax rolls—at a of the work I've done." children under six in the city, and for total cost of 7,000 league women- He is not the only one. All Ameri- nearly three fourths of the city's hours. cans can take pride in the amazing uvenile delinquency. Recently I asked Mrs. John Lee, way in which these housewives and Teams of league women went out present national president of the mothers have been able to make into the slums and found 100 build- league, how local leagues manage to government more effective, more re- ing violations in a short time. The be so effective as local civic watch- sponsible, and more democratic in Wilmington City Council took heed dogs. Mrs. Lee smiled. their communities. . "•«" Teens Together with an ex-teen-ager 'Dick" Richmond Barbour, Ph.D. she hardly ever fights. My folios are hand lane squarely in front of me. I poor; hers are rich. She is a better had a choice: cause a head-on collision Christian than I am. Should I \eep on or hit the other car. I hit it. The cops seeing her?—A.Y. gave me a ticket. My family may be , My folios want me to be a pop- sued. Dad says I can't drive again until ular girl. I'm 15, used to go steady, but I'm 21. How can I convince the judge my father insisted I go out with differ- I'm innocent?—N.M. Almost all your friends feel in- ent boys. 1 obeyed. l^ids say I'll Now ferior, too. They see their own short- go out with anyone. friends tell My me comings, not their pals'. Your friend I should go steady again I if want to probably finds good qualities in you Your speeding caused the acci- improve standing. my What should I which she thinks she doesn't have. dent. In driving, you must be ready for do?—S.A. What really matters is your desire to unexpected things—the sudden turn of be the right sort of person. Be friendly, the car ahead, for example. Fast driving generous, helpful, happy. Continue to by teen-agers is causing serious trouble. There's a nation-wide to s& • - Attitudes change. When your make Christian goals your goals. Keep movement folks were teen-agers they believed there right on being friends with the girl. raise the age for drivers' licenses. I'm was something wrong with a girl of 15 afraid a judge won't agree with you. i who went steady. In some neighbor- hoods now it is the other way around. v j At 14, I've secretly been going Explain to your folks things how stand. / a lad 15. I'm a cat. 1 dig steady with a nice boy. He is almost 7 am of Have them talk with favorite your that Presley man. He's most. girl 17. My foO{s say he is too old. My con- My teacher. Don't disobey them; give them science hurts because I don't usually friend things so, too. But her dad says a chance to understand you; see that deceive my parents. Doesn't a girl my Elvis is a bad lad and we should be standards have been reversed. age have the right to go steady with a ashamed. We trust you, Doc. Do you boy his age?—L.M. dig Elvis, too?—B.D. ife I ran away seven wee\s ago be- cause my dad used a horsewhip on me i I don't dig Elvis Presley. I avoic ». What you are doing is not un- once too often. I am almost 18 and a his recordings and pictures. But I usual; many teen-agers deceive their Christian. Dad sneers at God. I live at know teen-agers always will have their parents. However, your deceit is wrong. the Y now, have a fob, but miss my musical heroes I once had mine, too! Christians have a moral obligation to — mother. I am thinking going bac\ However, I have watched several of of be honest. Aside from the ethics, deceit home. But I have an older brother who these heroes run their course. My con- is unwise. When hoodwinked parents ran away, too. When he came bac\ my clusion is that they do not have much learn the facts they crack down and are dad had him arrested. I don't want that real influence. Presley isn't important suspicious. to happen to me. Do you thinly 1 should enough to justify the controversy ovei Tell your parents about your friend. go home?—L.F. him. It is normal for a girl to go with a boy a year or two older. The larger difference in your case is a bit unusual, but if he is i Get in touch with it shouldn't important. your mother a good boy be *N& I'm a preacher's \id. My family and listen to her advice. Probably you Get your parents to check on him. If is not rich. I have been offered at should not return, but you should re- they find he is reliable, they probably athletic scholarship by a university , bu. assure her as to your safety. will relent. am not sure it would be right to accept What would you do?—f.A. / have become friendly with an- f I'm a boy of 16. I was in an other girl in my seventh grade. My auto accident. It was not my fault. 1 m & When you receive an athletii problem is that she is so much better was driving fast, but all \ids go fast. scholarship you agree to take part 5 than I am. I fight with my mother; Suddenly a lady cut out of the right- athletics. You would want to do tha 46 Together /April 195/ — whether you hail a scholarship or not. It you accept and participate, there'll be no deceit. Halt the scholarships given Little Lessons in Spiritual Efficienc) this year will he athletic. I'd accept. «£ I'm a boy 16 and big for my age. I try to be good but it isn't easy. I have had dates with a girl of 17. She maizes out more than any girl 1 ever dated. God is Impartial She says I'm chicken. —C.P. j One of the had trends among By ROY L. SMITH teen-agers is the increase in making out, or necking, petting, smooching. Thou- sands of Christian teen-agers are asking the same question. My answer is that those who make out play with fire. You l can find other pretty girls to date girls who will admire your idealism in- stead of calling you names. You'll enjoy ARNER and Swasey Co., one of suffers the same consequence as any their companionship and not feel guilty VV the nation's great industrial concerns, layman guilty of the same offense afterward. published an advertisement recently against the moral law. which deserves the widest possible pub- Every defiance of the moral law ex- licity. acts tribute from the offender; no law- My problem is my mother. She At the top of the page appeared this breaker escapes the moral and spiritual loses her temper, says wild things, hits line: "In nature there are neither re- consequences of his lawbreaking. The me. I am 16; she is 42. She goes out wards nor punishments; only conse- powerful may conceal their wounds, the secretly with an older man. She has quences." proud may deny their injuries, but none warned me that if 1 tell about her dates Theologians of another generation escapes the consequences. she will make me move away. My father taught our fathers to believe that God Every moral decision we make is fol- and 1 go to church together. We love was a whimsical deity which could be lowed by inevitable consequences. Paul God. I am afraid my mother does not. bribed by good deeds or infuriated by put the matter rather bluntly: "What- I used to adore her, but now 1 am evil deeds. They were right in preach- ever a man sows, that he will also ashamed of her. She refuses to see a ing that there is a Judgment Day, but reap." (Galatians 6:7.) psychiatrist. Is there anything we can they were wrong when they left the The verdict of the centuries is against do?—C.H. impression that God is moved by ca- lying, for instance. Truth has the en- price. dorsement of God. Even a white lie is Scientists have proved we live in an an invitation to the consequence of orderly world of cause and effect. lying. A lie in even a good cause will l. Let me congratulate you. You We are more mature than your mother. know, for example, that every move- have the effect of defeating the cause by chemist's laboratory just that There are many ways to assist a mixed- ment in a produces much. up person like her. Religious conver- an invariable result. The moral and Every attitude we assume implies cer- sion could change her overnight. Can spiritual worlds are also organiz.ed ac- tain inevitable results. From them there you get her to go to church with you? cording to precise law. is no escape. Those who live by pretense To pray? To talk with your minister? The fact is that any law of God (or must be prepared to face the inevitable Are there ways to improve her home nature) is absolutely impartial. The law consequences. 5 gravity, for example, plays no favor- life Does your father show his love of There are those who have been clever sinner, liberal or conserva- for her, help her feel important? You ites. Saint or enough to evade the laws of the state: and your father should not show your tive, rich or poor, white or colored —for no man has ever been clever enough to disappointment in her behavior. Try all men and under all circumstances the outwit the Almighty. not to criticize her. Instead, look for law of gravity works in the same The spiritual laws of life are as exact things to praise. Build her up in every fashion. and inescapable as the laws of chemis constructive way. Scientists have demonstrated that try. No chemist can defy the known laws which govern in any field of laws which govern that science. Neither science are absolute. The laws of eco- can the cleverest of us hope to defy the nomics, for example, ignore all social moral order of the universe without Ieen-agers: Having problems? Dr. distinctions; the laws of chemistry know- suffering the consequences of such de- Barbour is ready to help you with them. no politics. No man's personal prestige fiance. He is head of the San Diego public- changes in any way the basic principles The Psalmist was entirely scientific school system's counseling department ol psychology; no man's political posi- when he said, "the way ol the wicked and has had long experience meeting tion alters in the least the laws of math- will perish." ( Psalms 1 :6.) It is a simple the /(ind of problems that bother you. ematics. statement ol the law ot consequent Write to Dr. Richmond Barbour, c/o This simple principle is ol utmost and it applies to individuals, nations; is .i^ loci i m.it. 740 N. Rush St., Chicago 11, importance in the field ol morals. It a and civilizations. It as valid tod.n ///.—Eds. bishop stoops to deceit or hatred, he it was the day H was tirst written. April 1957 \Together 47 bgether with the Small Fry HOW MANY NEW EASTER RABBITS? Draw answers as you go along Moth Fath er By SHIRLEY SLOAN FADER Once upon a time in the middle of a lived a and a ,11 ^—-ST >t-c Aw-** -v*" They had babies who were going to grow up to be Easter Rabbits too. day when they were all playing in the / they found One ^ <®m ^7jim) , wJE:^^. i^^ new babies crying because they had no home. "Come live with us," said "Yes," sai< "Then we will have. babies at our house." The next day noticed more new babies playing with her children. "May we vfc ^&xr stay with you and grow up to be Easter Bunnies?" they asked. "Oh yes," said "That will be fine. Now we can have babies at our house." y". '//iilX^-) But then one ^(Tjr)"rrrr~)-» day^ a y thin?th' n 9 s started to happen. A farmer's i^""-* caught babies and took them to his to keep for pets. Then there were only babies in the home in the »t* >W.v^ 48 Together /April 1957 Soon afterwards a wonderful circus came through the asked ^rj^z-^ky? of the babies to come to live at the "I will show you how to jump out of a and how to disappear," he promised them. "We would like that," said the babies. After they had gone away with the there were babies left in the in the V , home *ITAI~ ^ QiT^* "the babies are almost it is almost Easter time. "Now," said , grown up and We and get some Then we will show our m ust color some babies how to be Easter Rabbits." When all the work was finished, each baby listened and learned just what an Easter Rabbit must do. Then each took a and some \z)jb and hopped away to become a real Did you find out how many baby Easter Rabbits there were? Draw your answer here. {Answer on page 74) MOTHERS DAY Mother's Day is coming soon, "We thank you for the blessings I'm glad to know it's near. You send us from above; We always have a happy time For food and home, and most of all When Mother's Day is here. For our dear Mother's love. As we sit down to dinner "Help me, kind Heavenly Father And bow our heads to pray, At school, at work and play I'll thank God for my Mother To be so good that she'll believe And this is what I'll say: Every day is Mother's Day." Apiii J957\Together 49 Chang Hee Pok was almost a failure in his tiny Methodist church in Korea. Then on Easter came his inspiring victory. And Love Let Him In By Chaplain PAUL K. McAFEE, Fort Rucker, Alabama CHANG HEE POK stepped from Try as he might he could not break priest, a man wrinkled with age, was • his church and gazed out over the through to them. The old ones had a lifelong friend of Chang's family. browning fields of ripening rice. It spread the story of his being high Despite the difference of religions, was Sunday and the church bell had and mighty and working for himself, the priest and the father of the young been ringing for 15 minutes. Now it not for the Lord; their whispering minister used to, visit regularly and was still and a tiny handful of wor- campaign had been effective. Even Chang could remember vividly the shipers was gathered into the build- his young people were beginning to long discussions they enjoyed through ing. Such a tiny group! He knew shun him. the quiet, pleasant evenings as the. that there were many more in the Now he stood before the tiny con- darkness deepened. village who had attended in the past. gregation and preached, not forceful- The old man saw him from far But no more were coming now. ly but with great sincerity. They lis- off and came to meet him, hands He turned, walked inside to the pul- tened, for the most part, with little outstretched and a smile in his deep, pit, and nodded wearily to the organ- expression on their faces and at the wise eyes. Hours later, after their talk ist to begin the first hymn. end he felt he had once again failed had ranged over many things, the, A young man of 24, Chang was the to reach them. priest turned to Chang and told him, new minister to the tiny Methodist Throughout the long fall months "There is something more, my son, to church in Heunde, Korea. He had Chang wrestled with his problem; your visit than just to bring pleasure been fortunate enough to get an edu- how to win his people. Everything to an old man. What is it that brings cation scholarship to America and he did seemed doomed to failure. frowns to your forehead?" had returned to his homeland to The young people were influenced by Chang hesitated, then poured out preach and teach. But somehow a the old, and the old were suspicious the story of the difficulties in his par- block had been set up between him of anyone from an American uni- ish. The old one listened sagely, and his parishioners. versity—a dilemma from which there nodding now and then. Some trustees were certain that he appeared no escape. "... So I came to tell you my prob- was affecting an attitude of superiori- One afternoon Chang left his par- lem, old friend, and to see if out of ty. He was a seminary man and ish and walked far back through the your wisdom you might have some therefore was to be suspected. He mountains. There, nestled close to suggestions to an imprudent young had "gone American" and his preach- the far wall of the valley, was a Christian minister." The young ing reflected it, these men claimed. Buddhist temple. The Buddhist man's shoulders drooped. Unhappi- 50 Togcthcr/zpri/ 7957 ness lay heavily upon his features. gave him medicine, fed him. Then buried my dead. He is the strongest The old man leaned back and gradually the fever died. Slowly the man in this village—and he is your sighed. His sunken eyes peered at headman began to recover and one pastor. See to it that you treat him as the young man with interest. "My morning the minister, sleeping on a a leader among you, for such he is. son," he said, "wisdom comes with mat beside that of the sick man, Now go and do my bidding, and feel years and experience, freely mingled awoke to see the glazed eyes lighting shame that you could not return that with patience and love of people. It with a new gleam. The man was on which he gave many of you while is enhanced by knowledge, but the way to recovery. you lay near death, even gave those knowledge itself does not insure wis- And soon after, as mysteriously as like myself who are not Christian." dom or patience. Your people know it had come, the plague lifted. Chang He paused to shake his finger in their you have knowledge. They are fear- was able to return to his bachelor faces. "Let me tell you this. When ful of it, perhaps. They are waiting home. During the sickness he had this man is well again, I and my to see if you have the wisdom and appeared at the church only on Sun- family will be here to follow his patience that it takes to be a leader. day mornings to preach and to teach leading." "While we are of different reli- Sunday school, then had hurried All through the days that the min- gions, my young friend, we are of back to caring for the sick. Now he ister lay sick, the headman minis- the same blood; the people you serve was tired. His eyes burned, his head tered to him, repaying in kind the are brothers and cousins to those to ached, he was dizzy. kindness that had been given him. whom I minister. Go back to your Exhaustion, poor food, and the That was the way it was as the Easter village and learn to love them. Love continued pressure of caring for the season came with its sun and rain, them so much that it shines out of sick had taken a toll. Chang fell into and the flowers blossomed on the you so they may see. Speak your bed, uncaring, his strength gone, his mountains. As the weather warmed, words simply and firmly, but learn hopes dying. Chang began to recover. Finally it to be silent when silence is indicated. was announced that he would be able Then, when the winter winds have to enter his pulpit for the Easter ceased to blow and the mountains services. put forth their blossoms again, see if Darkness still lay over the land on a change has not been wrought." Easter morning when the minister They parted in the purple dusk, awoke. He was alone, for his strength one old and wise, the other young had returned and the headman was and impatient—but both filled with no longer needed by his side. For a the love of service. long moment he could not remember what woke him. Then the sound came to his ears again and he knew. 'UT OF NOWHERE, disease o, Outside his home, voices were fell upon Chang's village. First, chil- singing. They were caroling him dren took ill and died. Then the old with Easter hymns at two o'clock in ones began to fall. Soon there was the morning! This was a custom of mourning in most of the homes. the Korean Christians; they gathered As the sickness spread, the young as at Christmas time and went from minister bestirred himself and began A trustee, coming for a business home to home on Easter morning, to go from home to home, praying, visit, found him lying lifeless and caroling. helping, lifting, feeding, burying. unresponsive. When he summoned Chang dressed quickly in the dark Finally, the sickness visited the home help, a little group gathered about and opened the door. His yard was of the village headman. the house. A few entered, but the packed with people. So great was the Chang presented himself at the majority stayed outside, fearing a re- crowd that he could not see its end in house and entered. Seeing the sick- currence of the sickness. the darkness. His heart swelled as he ness of the women and children, the They were standing in a hushed listened to the voices! blankness in the eyes of the hus- knot when the headman, still stagger- "Low in the grave he lay, Jesus band, he knew the hand of death ing from weakness, came up. He had our Savior!" The song swelled and would fall on some. He stayed to heard of the pastor's illness. Pushing resounded over the village and the help, just as he had been helping in the others aside, he entered the room, heart of the young minister throbbed many homes these exhausting weeks. quickly began ministering to the pas- with it. One after another the children took tor. arose! arose! Hallelujah to their beds, then arose, miraculous- "I will stay with him," he declared "He He ly made well. The wives of the head- brusquely. "See that food and medi- Christ arose!" hac man died, but an old mother, ancient cine are brought." He fixed a stern These were his people! He and wrinkled, survived and soon was eye upon one of the members of the found them and they were telling grumping about. church and continued: him, in their own way, that he wa. Day after day, Chang ministered "I am not Christian. But this man one of them, their leader. He hac to the headman. For 36 hours dur- came to my home and stayed at my found his place among them; the) ing the crisis he did not sleep or leave side until I was well. He bathed my accepted him fully as their Mokja the bedside. He bathed the patient, body. He loved my children. He nim, their minister—and their friend 52 Together Apr/7 7957 1 An interview with MARTIN NIEMOLLER as told to John L. Sherrill My Bible and Bad Times Does God's word still speak to today's world? Here, from a man who suffered for his faith, is the answer! 1VJL\n holds in his hands today the "Bad times and the Bible. What ultimate weapons of self-destruction. would you say?" The fate of millions may hang on the Mrs. Niemoller did not look up. whim of a handful of power-crazed "Well, The Article, I'm sure. And atheists behind the Iron Curtain. It when they took away your Bible. is no wonder, therefore, that some And the confession." people are beginning to ask whether "Yes," said Niemoller. "Those ." the Bible can speak to them today. three times for sure. . . He seemed Are its messages applicable in a to be letting his mind run back over world seemingly bent on mass sui- a long, turbulent career. cide? Niemoller, in one sense, did not I know the depths of my own faith. choose the ministry so much as the But I wanted an authoritative an- ministry chose him. In World War swer from someone who has put the I he was a U-boat commander and a Bible to the acid test—a man who national hero. But with defeat his has suffered for his faith and learned career was swept out from under firsthand whether the Bible's mes- him. Disillusioned, he wanted to sages are words of timeless guidance escape from public life. He married or outdated myths. What man better and apprenticed himself to a West- meets these qualifications than "Pas- phalian farmer. tor Niemoller"—the Rev. Martin But when it came time to buy his Niemoller—who defied Adolf Hitler own farm, he discovered that his and experienced the rigors of a Nazi savings, in war bonds, had been re- concentration camp? You remember duced by inflation to wastepaper. him from World War II. When I Suddenly Niemoller saw that farm learned he was to visit the U.S. I life would not have been right for quickly arranged to talk with him. him. It was a running away. One- His appearance surprised me. I night he wrote in his diary: "I am had thought a man bold enough to going into the church." oppose Hitler, strong enough to sur- Niemoller entered divinity school. vive eight years in Dachau, must be To support himself and his wile he a physical giant. Pastor Niemoller is took a job as a railroad laborer. physically small. Several men disliked him because he But after a moment I was aware was studying for the ministry. only of Niemoller's vitality. He As was the daily custom, the sprang across the room to greet me. laborers went that morning to the His grip was like steel. He answered tool shed to choose their picks and my questions crisply, completely. I shovels for the day's work. Niemoller asked if he could remember difficult had just chosen an especially good times in his own life when the Bible pick when a burly laborer marched had indeed spoken to him. up and demanded it. Niemoller thought for a moment, Quickly, a crowd gathered. Nie- "bad times and the Bible?" He moller didn't hesitate. He lay the turned toward his wile, who sat at a pick down, looked up at the man desk in a corner, writing letters. towering before him, and s.iid he April 1957 \Togethcr —" — could come get the pick if he wanted "But no sleep came that night," was to be broadcast. Millions of peo- it. The fight was a hot one. Months said Niemoller. "Do you know why ? ple were waiting for his voice. of hard farm work came to Nie- Because I was angry with God Niemoller asked the servant to moller's aid. He won—and promptly angry because God expected me to bring him a Bible quickly. He turned stuck out his hand. From that day on, be faithful without my Bible. Up to his wife. "What shall I say to these he was friends with all the men. until that moment I had always had people? They want hope, a way out After graduation Niemoller ac- my Bible within reach. Now sud- of their despair. What shall I say?" cepted the pastorate of a church in denly I was without it. I discovered The servant brought the Bible. a Berlin suburb. From 1928 to 1933 it was not sufficient to have read the Niemoller opened it at random. His he watched with apprehension as Bible. That's like saying it's sufficient eyes fell on Jeremiah 14:17-21, a pas- Hitler's ideas gained acceptance. In to have eaten a meal. You can have sage that spoke to him so directly 1933 Hitler passed a law forbidding eaten every day in your life, but that Niemoller could hardly believe any Christian church to preach to, when food is cut off you starve. he was reading a text written thou- or baptize, a Jew. Niemoller saw that "That night, for the only time in sands of years earlier: the time had come when, once again, my life, I prayed in anger. 'God, "Therefore thou shalt say this word he would have to fight. let them give me back my Bible.' unto them; Let mine eyes run down "Here was a time when the Bible The next morning, Dachau's com- with tears night and day, and let spoke about the problem I was fac- mandant stepped into Niemoller's them not cease. ... If I go forth ing," Niemoller recalled. "The Bible cell. He seemed confused. "Herr Nie- into the field, then behold the slain was telling me one thing, Hitler moller," he said. "You know that with the sword! And If I enter into was telling me another. I had to you are here as the personal prisoner the city, then behold them that are choose my loyalty." of the Fiihrer. I have not yet re- sick with famine! Yea, both the Niemoller announced his decision ceived instructions how to deal with prophet and the priest go about into with a clarity that encouraged the you. Meanwhile, is there something a land that they know not. . . . We whole world. In the only uncensored special you wish?" looked for peace and there is no periodical still published in Germany, "Yes. My Bible," he answered. good; and for the time of healing, he printed The Article. It was against regulations for a and behold trouble! We acknowl- "The Article said that we must prisoner to have a Bible; for a mo- edge, O Lord, our wickedness, anA\ not obey Hitler," said Niemoller. ment the commandant wavered. the iniquity of our fathers; for we "As a direct result of the Bible's Then he turned to the guard and have sinned against thee. Do not speaking to me, I was put in prison." ordered: "On my desk you will find abhor us, for thy name's sa\e. . . He turned toward his wife. "And this man's Bible. Bring it to him." That evening, Niemoller made a the second time? When was it?" Thus it was that, for the eight years bold suggestion. Basing his idea on "When they took your Bible he was a prisoner, Niemoller had the the passage from Jeremiah, he asked away." unheard-of privilege of his Bible. that the whole church acknowledge "Ah, yes. The only night in my With it he gave spiritual aid to his its weakness before God. It was per- life when I couldn't sleep." fellow prisoners. He still treasures it. haps the first time in Christian his- Niemoller was kept in prison eight tory that the church itself had been months while the Nazis prepared the asked to make a confession. case against him. It was a tribute N.IEMOLLER pulled on his pipe. The confession now is world to his popularity that there had to be "The third time—it was a miracle. famous. As a body, the Evangelical a trial at all. And the compelling When I was released from prison it Church in Germany officially asked appeal of the man was felt around was as if I were in a strange land. God for forgiveness. The central the world when the verdict was an- The fields were ravaged. People were passage of the confession has almost nounced: Not guilty. hungry. We were at peace in name a Biblical ring to it. "We acknowl- Niemoller stood before the judge, only." edge that we did not confess more stunned. He was free! He started out The pastor felt he should lead his courageously, that we did not be- of the courthouse. A hand took his people again, but did not know how. lieve more firmly, that we did not elbow. "You're under arrest." Nie- Then one day a friend from Stuttgart pray more earnestly, and that we did moller was surrounded by Gestapo wrote, asking him to come for a not love more ardently." agents. He was re-arrested on "per- visit. The Niemollers arrived late by "There can be little doubt," said sonal orders of the Fiihrerl" train, took a cab to their friend's Niemoller, "that this was a direct The pastor was forced into a wait- house, and rang the bell. A servant instruction from God, because after ing car, expecting at any moment to answered and blurted out in surprise: the confession the whole church be shoved out and shot. In the middle "Herr Pastor Niemoller! But you came alive again. Today it is moving of the night the car stopped—at are speaking in the cathedral to- forward with a new sureness other- Dachau, the most hated concentra- night." He paused. Then, "The pas- wise impossible. tion camp in Germany. tor did not get the telegram?" "This," he said, "even more than Niemoller's captors took every- Thus Niemoller learned that he the time I wrote The Article and thing from him, including his Bible, was scheduled to give an address even more than the time they took and thew him into solitary confine- in the biggest church in Stuttgart my Bible away this is the time I ment. He lay down on his hard cot that evening and that his host was think of when I hear it said that and tried to sleep. there, waiting for him. His speech the Bible speaks today." 54 Together/dpi-;/ J 957 — Barnabas and his LOOKS at new BOOKS ll WAS MARK TWAIN, supposed- Comprehensive Desl{ Dictionary Gary Webster is- the pen name ol ly, who approached his minister after a (Doubleday, $2.95). a Tennessee writer who frequently ap- Service and said: "That was a mighty Nowhere else can anyone find "so pears in Together. A religious man, good sermon, preacher, but I have a much information about words and with a wide-awake sense of wonder. book at home which contains every their use," the dictionary editorializes, Webster has written in many fields. of it." His latest book, Wonders word "and nowhere else, if he is really inter- of Man upset, in- The preacher, somewhat ested in the language, can he find so (Sheed & Ward, $2.50), demonstrates sisted his was original and chal- his versatility. There are things sermon much curious, incidental and even many lenged the writer to produce the book. about man that cannot be explained amusing information about words" that Within a few days a package arrived in and, invariably, these mysteries point we use. the mail. It contained an unabridged to God. Good, readable, informative This dictionary, edited by Clarence dictionary! science, written with knowledge and L. Barnhart, is your best book buy of Dictionaries are books, of course. reverence. the month— if you don't already have New dictionaries come out regularly a good dictionary. It has 896 pages, but never get rave reviews. "The plots "And what do you think Christ over 80,000 entries, has about every are good but the stories are too short" really looked like?" I asked Bobby word you'll want unless you are look- is the classic, if corny, comment of one Barnabas during a family discussion critic. So I'm taking special note this ing for such jawbreakers as "antidises- the other day. The eight-year-old was month of the new Thorndike-Barnhart tablishmentarianism." thoughtful for a moment. Then his face lighted up. "Why, just like Jesus, of course!" Which is probably as good an answer as any to a question which is ages old and must remain unanswered. Just the same, I was fascinated by the work of a young Chinese artist, Shek-kai- nung, featured in Sketches of Christ from a Chinese Brush. It is interesting to note that in the paintings Christ is an Occidental—while the figures around him are usually Oriental. (See cut.) This one is published by Augs- burg in Minneapolis. Unless you carry a string of language degrees behind your name and are a stickler for all the rules, you have probably indulged at one time or an- other in some good old American slang. Do you ever say: "How are you doing?", "Where's the fire?", "Who do you think you are?", "What's the big idea?" If you read Together regularly you're probably acquainted with Roy L. Smith, Methodism's contribution to the ranks of America's top religious writers. His latest book, Don't Kid Yourself!, is Smith at his best lucid . //; Oriented interpretation of Christ before Pilate, painted by Chinese artist Shel{ kai-nung whose book is reviewed above. 55 — and penetrating sermonets liberally I've just had a bright evening with sprinkled with anecdotes from every- The Far Western Frontier, 1830-1860 day living. (Harpers, $5) by a Northwestern Uni- It has been said that Smith can write versity professor of history, Ray Allen a sermon, or preach one for that matter, Billington. It's scholarly, readable, and given any springboard of your own a neat rundown on the making of the choosing. He proves it by putting his West. The section most interesting to spiritual truths across with 10 of our Barnabas (starting on page 79) recalls most common slang expressions. how Protestant missions began in Oregon. Seems that four Indians from Words are wonderful things, perhaps there journeyed to St. Louis to learn man's greatest inventions. Put together about the white man's "Book of as Bill Geagan does in his latest book, Heaven." A letter about them was pub- Seed on the Wind (Coward-McCann, lished in the March 1, 1833, issue of $3), words can shape lives. The Christian Advocate—of which To- Writing on the potential within the gether is this latter-day continuation. small boy, Geagan says: "Nothing is "Seldom has a letter created such a bad in the beginning—the flesh, the sensation," says Billington. "Overnight raindrop, grass blade, tree or bumble the 'plea' of these benighted heathen BERNICE HOGAN ^ bee. They are produced clean, firm and for the word of God became the con- good. And it was intended by God and cern of every religious person in Amer- Twenty-four com- Nature that they should remain that ica." Soon missionaries—and settlers plete sets of plans for way, serving well across the years in were on their way to Oregon! gift parties on all occa their respective capacities. Methodist history also turns up in sions. Complete, easy di is This Is rections for making in "It interference or neglect by rela- the West (New American Li- vitations, decorations tive things that brings about twisting, brary, 35 cents), soon to come out as a favors and food, plus contamination and failure. ... I shall paperback for popular trade. It's edited suggestions for enter concentrate my efforts only on the flesh by Robert West Howard, son of a tainment and gifts —the human flesh—the boy and his Methodist parson, and authored by a Good taste, economical dad. galaxy of Western writers. gay. Illustrated. $1,95 "A boy is one of the great wonders Sponsors of the volume are The and one of the most valuable things in Westerners, an organization of business our world. He is the future with a and professional men who like to eat i freckled face and skinned elbows—the together and then gab about the West. future straining with tremendous Their "corrals" are scattered from Paris energy in a fierce, bewildering tangle and Liverpool, through Washington of wonder, hero worship, enthusiasm, and New York, across the continent imagination, appetite, and mild mis- to Los Angeles. chief. "It is the duty of the father to un- "It was a footbridge made of rickety tangle that maze slowly and carefully, boards with a handrailing which little then just as slowly and carefully start children could not quite reach . . . but the boy on a plainly marked trail lead- by an accident of history it became, ing up to the highway of life." for a few flaming weeks, one of the Geagan believes that if a boy is prop- most important bridges in the world, erly guided and encouraged to know for across its unsteady planks fled the ." something of the splendor, the mystery, soul of a nation. . . and the fun of nature, he will never That's James A. Michener in The become a delinquent. Bridge at Andau (Random House. $3.50) and that's about all that needs "The boy whose father is too busy to be said. Seldom does a book by a JAMES LEISY with his work, his social activities and first-class writer see print so soon aftei A song book designed his hobbies to spend much time with such momentous weeks in history. This for use by groups sing- him will naturally turn to mischief." is the graphic story of the Hungarian ing in schools, camps, A most enjoyable book on the char- freedom fighters, told by a man whc churches, home s—on acter-building opportunities a boy and any occasion at was present at the bridge. Almost cer — any his dad can find out-of-doors. age. The 10 sections in- tainly a best seller. clude old favorites, Ever since 1492 when over the deep stunt, novelty, and seri- It was C. C. Colton who said: "Th< blue sailed Mr. Chris Dove (you may ous songs. Music includ- writer does the most, who gives hi know him as Christopher Columbus), ed for less familiar reader the most knowledge and take : songs. Paper, these two words have had magic to 50Y from him the least time." stir men's blood: The West! I don't know how Colton would fee As lures, spices and gold and land about Gertrude Stein. Personally, I ABINGDON PRESS have been replaced by something that can't follow Miss Stein's writing. Nevel psychologists call sublimation of the de- could for any length of time. And thi sire to escape from restraint. Whatever hasn't changed since attempting to reaij it is, the West still pulls. Hollywood Elizabeth Sprigge's Gertrude Stein- knows that. So do book publishers. Her Life and Wor\ (Harper, $5)1 56 Together/^pr// 7 95; New. Baaki jpsi feayl and Qinli A new book by SELECTED BY MARJORIE BARROWS, editor of The Children's Hour DALE #oa the yo-utUfAdi 4?o* Ute MiddLU-Afed eiuU EVANS The Runaways, Berta and Elmer Hader Tabitha's Hill, Ruth Langland Halberg (Macmillon, $2.50). A charming book (Doubleday, $2.75). Cape Ann's 100th Declaration of Inde- about little woodland animals. birthday of the ROGERS The Elephant and the Flea, Alain pendence. (Whittlesey, $2). Funny for small Miracles on Maple Hill, Virginia Soren- readers. sen (Harcourt, $2.95). (Little, Brown, Stars tor Christy, Mabel Leigh Hunt TO MY SON George, Phyllis Rowland (Lippincott, $2.75). The family goes to $2.50). George didn't know he was a Faith at Our House the country, and Christy discovers the lost dog. But his family did! A warm, personal story about the teach- stars. See the Circus, H. A. Rey (Houghton, ing and practice of religion in the live- ly, prayerful Roy Rogers household. $1). One of Mr. Rey's books of gay Mystery ot the Auction Trunk, Eliz- bale Evans writes delightfully of the abeth Honness (Lippincott, $2.50). A verses and amusing fold-out pictures. seven members of the amazing juvenile New Hampshire mystery tale for girls. The First Day, Pelagie Doane (Lippin- "United Nations" who live beneath that famous roof. Young and old alike will cott, $2). What happens on the first Pomeroy's Postscript, Mary Fitt (Nel- find inspiration in this outstanding son, $2.75). A juvenile whodunit. day at Sunday school. Christian mother's account of ''faith at to the Planet, $2.00 / Know a Lot ot Things, Ann and Paul Stowaway Mushroom our house." Rand (Harcourt, $2.75). Eleanor Cameron (Little, Brown, $2.75). An amusing journey through space. Three Little Animals, Margaret Wise Brown and Garth Williams (Harper, GOING HIS WAY $2.50). An endearing book about three <#a* Olde* B ABC of Cars and Trucks, Anne Alexan- Sabre Pilot, Stephen W. Meader (Har- Introduction by der (Doubleday, $2.50). Funny verse court, $2.75). Training for a jet fighter Bishop Gerald Kennedy and amusing pictures. in Korea. You can begin today to live a life that will have increasing meaning and hap- Whistle tor the Train, Golden Macdon- The Islanders, Roland Pertwee (Bobbs- piness for all eternity. Using specific train ald (Doubleday, $2.50). A little Merrill, $3). Three boys go fishing and episodes in the life and teaching of that even whistles bumblebees out of hunting and have adventures with Jesus. Dr. Wheatley shows you how to find follow His way to peace and his way. Wonderful Weisgard pictures! poachers. and joy. Bishop Gerald Kennedy says in the Lion, William Pene DuBois (Viking, Arctic Bush Pilot, Bud Helmericks Introduction to this book. "Here i- a $3). A wonderfully imaginative fable (Little, Brown, $3). Factual adventure inn voice that fills the Eternal Gospel urgency and excite- by a favorite author-illustrator. tale of the Arctic. with contemporary ment." 12.50 The Long Hike, Dorothy Ivens (Viking, Old Yeller, Fred Gipson (Harper, $2.75). $2). The children go adventuring. A thieving hound dog turns out to be The Cunning Turtle, Kurt W/'ese (Viking, the best friend 14-year-old Travis and A true story of $2). Amusing and original. the family ever had. A fine book! TRIUMPH OVER Genius or phony (there are two schools revealing letters were never mailed. of thought), the late Miss Stein re- "From his youth," writes Miss mains an abstruse phenomenon on my Nowell, Wolfe's agent, "he had the literary horizon. habit of pouring out on paper all his TRAGEDY thoughts, emotion and experiences. . . . This outpouring was a psychological IONA HENRY with FRANK S. I can lollow Thomas Wolfe, although necessity: it was a solace for his loneli- MEAD ,he has taken up plenty ot my time. ness, an apologia lor the errors and Inn. i Henrj found herself fighting foi Wolle, a young man when he died, difficulties ol life, and a safety-valve life in a hospital bed her entire lainilv drank life in great gulps and the words lor his intense emotional reactions." wiped out. She writes of her fight against pain, fear, and hopelessness; her search he wrote came in a mighty torrent. The letters reveal the real Wolle in iei an explanation ot her traged) and The letters Wolfe wrote to his edi- a sharper light than his stories, 1 think. faith with which to overcome it. Says I tor, relatives, literary In one to his brother, Fred, he \\ il agent, and other wrote: Dr. Ralph . Sockman, "Seldom evei fjgures on the day make a bigger hook "I am neither a criminal nor an have I read a book which ~tir- deeper thoughts." S2.00 than any ol his novels. The Letter* of angel. I am just an honest man. I have- Thomas Wolfe, edited by Elizabeth no desire either to be sneered at or Nowell (Scrihners, $10) is evidence reviled 1>\ rascals, or fawned upon bj At your book store I til MINI', H. RIVIll COMPANY Publishers dial some ol his most interesting and fools. II I ever came hack to the town J April 7 957\Together 57 in which, through accident of birth, I World (Atlantic-Little, Brown, $3). 20th EDITION first saw the light of day (Asheville, Even veteran newspapermen will enjoy N.C.), I could only hope that I would reading again about some of the great- be met neither by a lynching mob nor est reporters of all time. by a brass band. If and when I do come back, I want to come back on my How would a sane man, sentenced own, to be exhibited, shown about and to live with the criminally insane, view exploited by no one. And if and when his fellow inmates? Here's a short I do come back, I shall come back in sample from Andre Soubiran's Bed- anflbwh that way—as my own man, my own lam (Putnam, $3.95), a shocker from {Formerly known as "Pocket Bible Handbook") master and very quick and strong to France: resent any intrusion upon my own lib- "There they were, the 29 companions Book OF a Lifetime . . . For a Lifetime erty and my private life." with whom I spent 14 hours a day, Loved alike by . . . Young and Old perpetrators of 23 murders or grievous Widely Used in Colleges and Seminaries Most interesting, moving, and nos- injuries and innumerable minor of- Highly Commended by leading Magazines talgic book seen this month: The Lord's fenses. It was a terrifying reckoning, Specially Useful for S S Teachers Oysters by Gilbert Byron (Atlantic- but when I looked at them I would It is an Abbreviated Bible Commentary, with Notes on Books of the Bible, their H istorical. Little, Brown, $4.50). The story of the often forget about their crimes and Geographical and Chronological Backgrounds, with 75 Illustrative Maps: wonderful life of a boy who lived in think of them only as creatures doomed Amazing Archaeological Discoveries, the shore region of Delaware and Mary- by an accident of blood, deprived by Confirming or Illustrating Bible History, with 78 Authentic Photographic Reproductions: land. nature of intelligence, kindness, moral Related Historical Data from the Annals of sense and courage. They were victims Babylon, Egypt, Assyria, Persia, Greece and Rome, touching the Bible Story: Suppose you went to sleep in 1926 of man's peculiar vices, to which even the Bible, Formation of Old and How We Got and didn't wake up until today. Then animals are not subject. . . . New Testaments, Apocryphal Books, Manu- scripts and Early Christian Writings: suppose you heard someone say: "On "Because Society refused to execute An Epitome of Church History, Connecting TV I saw a jet's radar in operation." irresponsible criminals, such men must Bible Times with Our Own; Early Church Fath- ers, Persecutions, Rise of the Papacy, the Popes, Chances are you wouldn't have the go on living simply in order to suffer, Luther and the Reformation. slightest idea what the man was talk- deprived of all human contact anc Now Contains "Best Bible Verses". There is nothing published, of its size, that has anything ing about. Many new words have come affection! like as much practical Biblical information. into use in American speech and writ- "But my compassion was somewhat {Further particulars sent on request} 4 x 6J2 x V-A inches ing; old words have found new mean- academic. As soon as I was back in 956 Pages Cloth Bound $3.00 ings. their midst, with the smell of decaying Order from your Bookstore or The new Dictionary of American- humanity in my nostrils, listening to English Usage by Margaret Nichol- perpetual quarrels and complaints and H. H. H ALLEY, Box 774, chicagoso, 111. son (Oxford University Press, $5) insults, looking at imbecilic or hate- brings us up to date, not on new words distorted faces, pity once more turned but on word usages. The book is based to horror." on H. W. Fowler's Modern English This appears in the guise of fiction, JUST IN TIME Usage, first published in 1926. Miss but it is more than fiction. It is a power- FOR Nicholson has added to and subtracted ful novel, starkly realistic, as near the from Fowler while retaining as much truth as fiction can ever be. The plot Sastcr as possible of the original. concerns a man who escapes the justice of French courts by pretending to bd Rudolf Flesch praises the original insane. What he finds in the asylum Fowler in one of his books: How to makes a significant, disturbing book. Make Sense (Harpers, $3), a 1954 edi- A new book tion. Flesch, who got in Dutch with More than one man of genius has by the author of The Story of Jesus some educators over his Why Johnny known the tragic distortion of mind to help lead young readers to Can't Read, says of Fowler's work: we call insanity. For some, it is the ". . . there is one book, and one only, final curtain before death. Others greater spiritual understanding that gives you advice on grammar and emerge from breakdown to do some of of the Bible usage that is neither of the dusty, their finest work. musty 18th century type nor of the Such a man is Van Wyck Brooks, BIBLE - - - statistical, 'appropriate in informal distinguished literary historian. He tells usage' variety. . . . Fowler wrote his about his own "Season in Hell" in his DICTIONABY masterpiece when he was 70 years old. new book, Days of the Phoenix (Dut- What he says about questions of gram- ton, $3.95). For him, the crisis came in for Boys and Girls mar, usage, vocabulary, and style is the middle of what has been a full anc By MANUEL and ODETTE KOMROFF always wise, original, based solely on productive life: Illustrated by Steele Savage his deep understanding and sincere "... I was possessed now with The perfect gift for Easter—and for all love for the English language. ... It fantasy of suicide that filled my mind a; the year—that provides a master key for is incomparable; there isn't any book the full moon fills the sky. It was a fixec unlocking the wisdom of the Bible to young on the English language that can be idea. I could not expel this fantasy , people. Nearly 800 mentioned in the same breath." and I saw every knife as somethinj entries. Beautifully with which to cut one's throat anc illustrated in color. At your bookseller's To be added to any outstanding every high building was something t< $2.95 books for boys and girls who would jump from. A belt was a garrote fo THE JOHN C.WINSTON CO. become newspaper reporters: Frank me, a rope existed to hang oneself with K. Kelly's Reporters Around the the top of a door was merely a bracke 58 Together /April 1957 fen&upUacj, in fyictibn [yor &aste ANGLO-SAXON ATTITUDES lived in a New England village will by Angus Wilson have no difficulty in feeling the (Viking, $4.50) authentic atmosphere. Tobacco Road give a does not run only in the South; the If a man really tried, he could scandals which could be dug up in child hardly find a worse title for a novel a your own block would probably shock than this. Not many of us know it you. As a rule, however, we leave comes from Alice in Wonderland and good such things buried. Someone is going it falls on the ear with a dull thud. to ask why I mention this book at book... It just goes to show that a book has all. Well, I consider my task to be to have more than an intriguing title one of mentioning the worst as well to be good, for this is an outstanding as the best, for this brief survey is a novel and has met with a generous glance at modern life as reflected by reception. The plot is woven around A Child's modern novelists. If you want only Thought a university professor and the whole the best, I advise you to follow the atmosphere is on the intellectual side. Abingdon list exclusively. At any But don't be frightened: the loves, of God rate, I have warned you. frustrations, disappointments, and ac- By HELLEN DRUMMOND ASHER; tivities of a professor fall into the color illustrations by Dorothy Grider. same framework as those of a TOWER IN THE WEST Here, through the simple words of a small plumber. It is surprising to find how by Frank Norris child as he expresses his thoughts about God, is an appealing interpreta- few people live in ivory towers and (Harper and Brothers, $3.95) tion of parts of the how much every man is the victim of meaningful 104th I Psalm. the daily struggle, just like all of us. was in New York recently and Many full-color pictures. Ages 2-5 There is even a thread of mystery in stopped by Harper's, where I cadged Only 75$ the story as we follow the clews to a copy of their prize novel. It is the determine whether an archaeological story of an architect. In a sense, discovery was a hoax. Any person the central figure is a tower built Prayers and with knowledge of university faculties in St. Louis. This great building, and what happens to it, stand a symbol will enjoy this. But this is not a as Graces for a necessary prerequisite. If you grow of the times through which we have weary of slick magazine fiction, and passed as reflected in the life of the if the newest volume on how to stop author. I liked it. It carries us through Small Child worrying has lost its appeal, try this the recent events of our generation, By MARY ALICE JONES, in collabo- one. It is pleasant to read a book and through the eyes of one man we ration with Kate Smalluood; color that not can see the period's virtues and vices. does depend on shock to illustrations by Elizabeth Webbe. This the readers. of the tragedy of the hero's life hold Most is a beautiful collection of favorite comes from a romantic blindness, prayers and graces in a lovely, big and most of its greatness is born of hard-bound book, tenderly illustrated PEYTON PLACE his compassion and sympathy. It has with full-color pictures on every page. by Grace Metalious the hard touch of realism without Ages 3-7 Only S1.00 (Julian Messner, Inc., $3.95) leading us through the sewers. Here is a representative, honest appraisal If you must read this book, don't Girls tell them Kennedy sent you. Blame of American life during my own life- Boys and time. It troubles that the whole it on anything else, but keep my me atmosphere assumes that the Church name out of it. The professor's wife Who Knew Jesus who wrote this one decided that the is not present in any vital way, but illus- formula for a successful first novel perhaps that has been the assumption By EDITH KEKT BATTLE; trated by Marjorie Cooper. Episodes would be plenty of intimate descrip- of a large number of our contempo- from the life of Jesus as viewed by tions of what even the frankest con- raries. children who knew him, told with rare versation usually leaves out. Yet she charm by an experienced religious in- has the real gift of the writer and I structor. Illustrated in color and black could wish that somehow someone and white. Ages 4-8 S2.00 would make clear to her that she does not have to stoop to these vulgar tactics to establish a reputation as Tell Me About BISHOP. LOS ANGLLKS .Mil \. a first-rate novelist. Anyone who has THE Ml.l BODIST CHI RCH Heauen By MARY ALICE JONES: illustrated by Marjorie Cooper. Satisfying, en- lightening answers to children's ques- tions about Heaven, written with a for the rope, every rusty musket had together in the house with nails or child's viewpoint in mind. Lovely, its predestined use for me and every pegs." meaningful pictures. "A sure-to-be-en- tomb in a graveyard was a place to Van Wyck Brooks devotes only a joyed book, excellent for very small ." and pre-school children." — Mobile starve in. . . portion of his book to this unfortunate Press. Ages 4-8 S2.50 Later the author became obsessed episode in his life. In its entirety, his Other excellent books by Mary Alice with the idea, while in an English new book is a delightful combination Jones for small children at $230 each: sanitarium, that there was a plot to ol personal reminiscence and literary Tell Me About the Bible. Tell Me bury him alive. "For many mornings, history by a man who has known many About Cod, Tell Me About Jesus, Tell waking early from an artificial sleep, literary giants of our time. Me About Prayer. I heard them putting together a large At all booksellers box for me, a box that, in my fantasy, A few moments ago I stood at my RAND M'NALLY had arrived in sections to be hammered office window looking down into Chi- April 7 957\Together 59 — cago's busy Rush Street, one block re- Lincoln lore as a researcher for biogra- moved from fabulous Michigan Ave- pher Benjamin Thomas, has tilled some Papa's Wife nue. I was looking for the home of fresh fields here. He brings us a new the late Nettie Fowler McCormick. picture of America's most written-about THYRA FERRE BJORN The magnificent old mansion which president—Lincoln, the practical, in- jAPA WAS A MINISTER . . . once stood two blocks away is gone genious executive who relentlessly P.Mama came to serve him now. But the woman who lived there pressed the hunt for better weapons as a housekeeper . . . The story comes to life in Stella Virginia during the Civil War. is one of happy love and a Roderick's Nettie Fowler McCormick^ Lincoln patiently watched inventors timeless trust in God." —Chicago Tribune (Richard R. Smith, $5). Many owed demonstrate their gadgets (on a couple of occasions he narrowly "A spiritual song of triumph." much to this good and wealthy woman, missed being —DR. DANIEL A. POLING who took a controlling part in the man- killed by faulty gimcracks) and Read it and you too will fall agement of the McCormick Harvesting prodded reluctant bureaucrats to accept in love with Papa's Wife. $3.75 Machine Co., which later became the improvements in time-tested arms. International Harvester Co. One of Mrs. McCormick's favorite Fifty-two days at sea, without sight- Face Toward people was the late Dr. John R. Mott, ing land, was only one lap in a three- Methodist layman who became a world year trip the Eric Hiscocks took the Spring figure in international religious move- around the world in a 30-foot yacht. ments. Dr. Mott was a young man Around the World in Wanderer 111 FAITH when he approached Mrs. McCormick (Oxford University Press, $6) will help BALDWIN in 1897. He told her he needed money soothe the soul of any landlubber who to travel in the interest of the World's yearns to see tropical islands and roll- ITH WONDERFUL Student Christian Federation, which ing seas. Yes, it may be exciting and SIMPLICITY, Faith was to unite Christian student move- significant to spin around the world Baldwin tells of her re- jm^^ lationship with God and ments throughout the world. in 40-odd hours aboard a jet bomber but a fellow take it *-**:4§P^^^ people, of the daily prob- "I can and will most gladly provide must easy to recap- lems that beset every woman. "Unpre- for that," Mrs. McCormick told Dr. ture the thrills tasted by early explorers. tentious and feminine, wholly per- Mott. This she did, as the author points —Barnabas sonal and yet peculiarly applicable • out, generously, thoroughly, inspiringly, and inspirational to every woman." — The Saturday Review. throughout the rest of her life. Illustrated by Adrianne Blair. $3.00 This splendid biography, of particu- BES1 SELLERS lar interest to folks in the Middle West, At booksellers RINEHART & CO., INC., N.Y.16 is also of general interest. North, South, East, West Dr. Marion Langer and Dorothy The best sellers selected here are Pitkin probably don't know each other. ta\en from a poll of Cohesbury Boo\ But both appear simultaneously with Stores in six major cities. Review does HBD books about the problems of widow- not necessarily imply recommendation stands for the finest, most hood. of the boo\s listed: useful one-volume Bible In And Live Alone (Pantheon, dictionary ever published. $3.50), Mrs. Pitkin tells how she moved Non-Fiction: Pictorial, authoritative, to a New Hampshire farmhouse after always up-to-date. $7.95 her husband's death. The house was The FBI Story, by Don Whitehead (Random House, ($8.95 with thumb index). too big, it had no electricity, there were $4.95). At your bookseller, ask for night sounds and the constant specter The Nun's Story, by Kathryn Hulme of loneliness. But she stuck it out and (Little, Brown, $4.). by the time the first year was over, had This Hallowed Ground, by Bruce Harper's Bible won her way through to serenity and Catton (Doubleday, $5.95). acceptance. Men to Match My Mountains, by Irv- ing Stone (Doubleday, $5.95). Dictionary Mrs. Langer's approach is quite dif- ferent in Learning to Live as a Widow The Bible as History, by Werner By Madeleines. (Gilbert Press, $3.95). Academically, it Keller (Morrow, $5.95). & J. Lane Miller should prove of great benefit to most The New World, by Sir Winston Harper's Churchill (Dodd, Mead, HARPER & widows who face problems of emo- $6.). BROTHERS tional adjustment, finances, and social N.Y. and personal relationships. Fiction: For the widow, the problems of re- The Fountain Overflows, by Rebeccj adjustment are many. Suddenly, with West (Viking, $5.). the death of her husband, she is back Don't Go Near the Water, by Willian where she started from—only it may be Brinkley (Random House, $3.95) some 25 years later. The Philadelphian, by Richarc Manufacturers of Church Worship Aids [ Powell (Scribners, $3.95). exclusively for over a quarter of a Every month, it seems, I find myself The Etruscan, by Mika Waltari (Put century. . .Write for catalog and listing saying: "Well, every book there is to nam, $4.50). of local dealers desirous of serving you. be written about A. Lincoln has been Compulsion , by Meyer Levin (Simoi written." Then, along comes another. & Schuster, $5.). SUDBURY BRASS GOODS CO. This time it is Lincoln and the Tools The Tribe That Lost Its Head, b of War (Bobbs-Merrill, $5). Robert Nicholas Monsarrat (Sloanr Dept-12 ,55 Sudbury Street. Boston 14, Mass. V. Bruce, who learned how to dig into $4.95). 60 Together Apr;; 195.\ Hobby Alley fMagic Carpet of Friendship' Via a tape recorder, this family visits faraway places—without leaving home. By ROBERT W. LUEBKE w,E DON'T write it; we tape it! retary, Noel, Va.; World Tape Pals, the interests of those concerned and What's more, we find it a tremen- Inc., Marjorie Matthews, Secretary, is limited only by the imagination lously fascinating way to become ac- Box 9211, Dallas 15, Tex.; Interna- of the participants. It might be just quainted with our "neighbors" tional Tape Worms, Art Rubin, Na- small talk from one household to tround the world. That's what tape- tional Chairman, Box 215, Cedar- another; it might be a report on a ecorded messages are—warm, friend- hurst, N.Y.; United Recording Club, trip, complete with accompanying y chats, just like visits with next- Richard L. Marshall, President, 2516 maps and photos. Or it might be an door neighbors. Our tape recorder is S. Austin Blvd., Chicago 50, 111., or exchange of music. Our family has he magic carpet with which our National Tapespinners, Carl Lotz, exchanged Dixie Land jazz from our amily visits families overseas. These Secretary, Box 148, Paoli, Pa. country with Zulu music from South ape visits have enlarged our circle In such clubs, members pay a small Africa. Other interesting recordings f friends until it extends around the annual fee which in most cases lists received by us have included inter- world. Countries and people once them in the membership roster, pro- views taken from the radio or made >nly geographic statistics have be- vides them with a copy of the roster, in person; an amateur-theater group ome intensely real to us. gives them access to the club's tape rehearsing in Pietermaritzburg, Via our tape recorder we have library, and pays for the club news. South Africa; an Australian jet for lelped a Chilean family improve its The fee the Voicespondence crashing the sound barrier, and New English and have been helped with Club, of which we are members, is Year's Eve revelry in Chile. our Spanish. We have been taken on $3 a year. Each member is listed ac- Tapes are available in lengths 'automobile tours" of South Africa cording to location, name, address, ranging from a few minutes to two and have taken our South African occupation, capacity of recording hours or more. We have adopted the friends on "camping trips" in the equipment, languages spoken, and seven-inch reel for our exchanges. U.S. With an Australian family we interests. Our machine is dual track, which exchange do-it-yourself ideas; with a Who exchanges tapes depends on means we play the tape twice. The Japanese family, music and garden- ing tips; with a Swiss, travel talk. We think the possibilities for creating better understanding between coun- tries are tremendous. The main requirements for partic- ipation are a tape recorder and some- one with whom to exchange tapes. Our tape recorder has become as in- dispensable as the family typewriter or camera, and its cost wasn't any greater than either. Finding some- one to correspond with is a matter merely of joining one of several tape- correspondence clubs. For example: Tape Respondents International, Jim Greene, Secretary, Box 125, Dept. T., Little Rock, Ark.; The Voice- spondence Club, Charles Owen, Sec- An all-family hubby for the Luebkjes—making a tape for overseas friends. first time the tape goes through the machine just the top half is played. W/lia(i(|oia+WMj? This is called track number one. The second time, the bottom half or track number two is played. Playing time of a seven-inch reel is two hours Here's a chance for you to trade stamps, coins, recipes, patterns, or stories with someone in your own city or on the other side of the world. Each month TOGETHER will publish at the slower speed of 3% ips (inches names and addresses of the Methodist hobbyists so that you can get in touch with them. per second), considered good for If you want to be listed, send your name, address, and hobby to TOGETHER, 740 N. Rush speech, or one hour at l x ips, con- St., Chicago 11, III. (Pen Pal entries are limited to those 18 years of age or less.) — Eds. /i sidered best for music. We usually put an hour of talk on track number one, with musical in- Amateur Radio: Schampers (16), 703 Marshall Ave., Green Lester Sade, 652 Second St., San Bruno, Calif. Bay, Wis.; Bennett Johnson (12), 381 Franklin tervals from records or radio to re- Ave., Princeton, N.J. lieve the monotony. We record track Antique Buttons: number two at the faster speed and Mrs. Karl Gerstenlauer, Broadway Rd., Mil- Photography: ton, Pa.; Mrs. Merrill V. Best, 29 Broadway, Bill Ncrman, Rt. 4, Box 969, Phoenix, Ariz.; fill it solidly with popular music. We Milton, Pa. Rev. Robert R. Huddleston, 1411 Locust PI., seldom exchange classical music be- Thornton, Colo.; Jean Henderson, 505 N. H cause it is universal. Church Bulletins: St., Hugo, Okla. Rev. Sydney B. Gaither, Box 12, Dallas, Ore. Tapes travel by mail and require Pictures: little more attention than a letter. In Clothes Catalogues: Stella Davis Hiller, 920 Juniper Rd., Glenview, than four years of Anderson, Ind. more exchanges Janet Holsapple, RR 5, Box 21, III. (covered bridges); Arthur Bentsen, 70 Kensington Ave., Bayport, N.Y. (airplanes). we have lost only one small reel. Coins: Tapes are not expensive and can Mrs. LeRoy Jeglum, Waterville, Iowa; Melvin Pitchers: be used over and over. Recorders are R. George, Wesley Memorial Methodist Mary E. Gayman, 321 S. Park, Mercersburg, Church, Auburn Ave. at Ivy St., Atlanta 3, surprisingly uniform all around the Pa. Waverly Meth- Ga.; Rev. Gilbert P. Reichert, world; a tape arriving from a foreign odist Church, Second and High Sts., Waverly, Political Mementoes: country plays perfectly Ohio. on our ma- Monroe D. Ray, Belmont, N.Y. chine, with all the realism of having Dolls: been made in our own living room. Mrs. Samuel Paulding, Box 985, Klamath, Post Cards: This, we feel, is a Calif. Mildred Faust, 6164 Tackawanna St., Phila- wonderful delphia 24, Pa.; Mrs. James W. Cook, Box hobby. Why not join in the fun? Epitaphs: N.Y.; Mrs. Gladys Hopsecker, 204, Prattsville, As a starter, you'll want to talk Mrs. Charles Piatt, 2318 Crawford Ave., Par- 111 Sixth St., Mapleton, Iowa; Mrs. Ruth with friends about the relative merits sons, Kan. Wood, 3008 Rosalind Ave., Baltimore 15, Md.; Mrs. R. B. Fox, 473 Cypress St., St. Paul 6, of various recorders. You can get Fans: Minn.; Betsy Bourne, 116 W. High St., Mt. catalogues from mail-order houses Mrs. C. W. Geil, 225 E. Commercial, Ana- Sterling, Ky.; Mrs. Dun Sears, Waterloo, which specialize in audio equipment. conda, Mont. Wis.; Mrs. Gene Jervis, 112 Lafayette Cir.; Kokomo, Ind. Tape recorders will run from $90 Genealogy: up; a seven-inch tape will cost Mrs. L. E. Wallis, 8952 Laramie Ave., Skokie, Postmarks: III. (Holsaple, Holtzappel); Mrs. Samuel C. around $3.50. Mrs. Edith Willmott, Gen. Del., Longmont, Veazie, Havelock, Iowa (Veazie, Viggers, Some of our friends have built Colo.; Mrs. Howard L. Ober, 12 Robertson Brownbridge); Mrs. Harry I. Hamilton, Jr., PI., Monterey, Calif. better-quality recorders into hi-fi sets Box 14, New Baltimore, N.Y. (Wood, Corn- stock). and find they get an even better Recipes: sound reproduction. Greeting Cards: Frances Schmidt, 28 Crescent St., Keansburg, Once you have a recorder you'll be Mrs. Agnes Johnson, 708 12th St., NE, Minot, N.J. N.D. surprised at how often you use it Religious Stereopticon Slides: and how much fun it is for the Lord's Prayer Pictures: Mrs. Ruth McClarey, Lovington, III. Rev. N. Clifford Bangham, Box 54, Okeana, whole family. When your child Ohio. comes home from Sunday school Stamps: with his first memory verse, you can Music: Clarence S. Bremner, 128 Hillside Ave., New Camille Bond, 1846 Dodge St., Sidney, Neb. Havsn 12, Conn.; Jerry G. Smith, Box 132, preserve it on tape. When there's a Piper City, III.; Catherine Lundal, 523 S. wedding or an anniversary in the Old Hymnals: Second St., De Kalb, III.; Etna Littell, 1121 family, you can tape the good wishes Rev. William A. Highfield, Box 96, Spring- Church St., Alva, Okla.; John Woffington, III., ville. Pa. 217 Bridge St., Tarentum, Pa.; Alfred of friends for later listening. Dale, Bellingham, Wash.; Mrs. James A. Pencils: We know of one young mother Larned, 522 NE Sumner St., Portland 11, Ore.; C. W. Faulk, Box 307, Clute, Tex. first baby arrived Lois Jean Rsasoner, 1719 State Rd. 67 E., whose when her Anderson, Ind.; Julius W. Kelley, 410 Sixth parents were serving as missionaries Pen Pals (open to age 18): Ave., NW, Ardmore, Okla. Carolyn Green (12), R.R. 3, Mitchell, S.D.; in Africa. A recording of the baby's Ann Yagel (13), R.R. 5, Columbia City, Ind.; Strsnge Names: first cries, and greetings from the Mary Hay (14), 1007 Sixth Ave., Worthington, Charlotte E. Pettypool, Isabella, Calif. new parents, bridged the distance Minn.; Verlyn Green (13), R.R. 3, Mitchell, S.D.; Ellen Milhan (10), Abita Rd., Covington, and brought that family together. La.; Juanita Smith (16), 1431 Greenland Ave, Wood Turning: Yes, tape recording is a wonderful Nashville, Tenn.; Sandra Foote (15), Box 44, Manuel Ehresman, 904 Sutton Dr., Ft. Wayne, S. Main St., N. Haverhill, N H.; Jesn Ind. hobby! 62 Together//W 1957 Ktnljt Into jWg $atl; WEEKLY MEDITATIONS ON THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS Let the wicked forsake his way, and the un- righteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may Edwin Kimbrough have mercy on him, and Anniston, Ala. to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.— Isaiah 55: 7. 1,'HE PUNISHMENT most feared by Hamish Bond's slaves was not the whip but the finger-pointing. When a violator of the code of the plantation, described in Rob- ert Penn Warren's novel Band of J. T. Copplestone Angels, was under the finger- Lynn. Mass. pointing, nobody spoke to him ex- cept to give an order. All he got George Truman Carl Lloyd IW. Conyers Batesville, Ark. from anyone was a silent stare and Mason City, Iowa a pointing finger. This bitter os- tracism went on until his punish- simple things of nature and create ment was worked out. something of beauty and worth Finally came what every offend- out of them. A common cloth and er looked toward, the raise-up. pigments plain may be made into The workers would gather at night "a joy forever." A sheet of paper in the light of pine-knot flares. The and printer's ink may become a old headman would reach down song "that singeth low in every to the culprit crouching in the heart." center of the circle and lift him up. But the Creator is greater than Then came a great clapping of the created and in all the works of hands and stamping on the man we see but a reflection of the ground. Everybody was happy at work of God, who, from the dust the restoration. of the earth, created man in his "I reckon it's just what every- own image, a creature "fearfully body wants," said Hamish Bond. and wonderfully made" indeed. Make me to know thy God's creative Now we can all have the raise- But even so, ways. O Lord; teach me up. Fellow sinners may not grant work with man is just begun. The thy paths.—Psalms 25:4 it readily. But God is merciful heavenly Father hath designed and will always give the raise-up and moves that from the crucible IIE WERE PARKED on if a man is ready to rise. of human experience we should a city street, watching the crowds "be conformed to the image of his go by. It was a Saturday, just at •j.'nujir: O God, Father, help us to com- the first- neon signs were Hash- Son . . . that he might be dusk. The plete our readiness to return to thee, that born among many brethren" ing their silent —and urgent — mes- our lives may he open to receive thy [Rom. 8:29]. All the ministries sages to all who would look and waiting mercy. Amen. of the church have been ordained read. Suddenly, my eyes were —J. TREMAYNE COPPLESTONE to effect this work, thai we might drawn toward a sign in the win- come to "the measure of the stat- dow of a shoe-repair shop. It reail. ure of the fulness of Christ" [Eph. "Invisible Half-Soles." The sym- Then the Lord formed 4:13]. Truly, no man can have a bolism of it stabbed my spirit man of dust from the higher aspiration for himself than broad awake. "Invisible Halt- ground, and breathed " into his nostrils tli<- that God's work be completed in SouU breath of life; and him, The major events of our time became a living b have been so essentially man-cen- -Genesis 2: 7 ]Jr;iuiP: Eternal God, grant unto n>. the tered th.it one marked deficiency grace t<> persbrtentl} prea toward the has been brought sharply into fo- lANY OF THE marvel- mark <>i the prize of hiyh calling that tlum M cus: Man has not developed hia ous endowments of man manifesl hiist >ci for ni in t hiist Jetui out Lord spiritual resources He themselves in his ability to create; Amen. God-given the labyrinthine i along in his ability to take the crude and —LLOYD M ( <>«o RS Stumbles 63 April J957\Together ways of his own will, heedless of the Higher Will. However, God has set before us ways of hope and redemption, paths of peace and purpose; but Dr. Rail Answers midget souls will not find them, nor will self-obsessed men walk in them. It is time, high time, for Your Questions all who call upon the name of the Lord to cry submissively, to pray expectantly, and to live in the Harris Franklin Rail light of his will. Professor Emeritus, Gar- Christ came and said, "Learn of rett Biblical Institute. me." In our better moods we are haunted by this invitation from the lips of our Lord. Then, let ouq prayer be: "Make me . . . teach me. What can we pray for? grayer: Make us to know thy ways, O Lord; teach us thy paths, for we are lame "Lord, teach us to pray!" those Dare we pray for healing either — from wandering in our own ways. Amen. who walked and talked with Jesus for ourselves or those we love? For —EDWIN KIMBROUGH asked him one day, and his followers safety on a journey? For strength in have been making the same request overcoming a temptation? For suc- And Jesus came and ever since. should cess in examination, or even a We know why we an said to them, "All au- pray, why we must pray if we are to game? For weather that suits us? thority in heaven and on grow up from Christian babyhood For victory over enemies? For the earth has been given to me. Go therefore and into Christian adulthood, but we intervention of God in matters we make disciples of all na- don't to pray; need should handle ourselves, with his know how we tions, baptizing them in instruction. counsel and help? the name of the Father We are not bothered so much by Anything proper in a conversation and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching the words as by the ideas. One read- with our heavenly Father is a fit sub- them to observe all that ject for prayer. er writes about two devout women, But when we have I have commanded you; both victims of a dread disease. Both made our requests, we ought to be and lo, I am with you al- pray for recovery. One is healed and willing to leave the answer with ways, to the close of the age."—Matthew 28: 18-20 the other is not. My correspondent God. We ought not try to persuade, asks "Why?" as he refers to He- or argue, or cajole. Prayer, after all, /HE DIVINE POWER, ema- brews 11, where we read of women is not a mechanical force; it is the % nating from God, defies descrip- who "received their dead by resur- heart of a spiritual life, and we tion. Christ projected it in a rection" while others "suffered mock- cannot expect any result that is in- myr- of ing and scourging" and "were killed consistent with God's character or iad mighty ways, culminating with the sword." ours. in the "power of the Resurrec- tion." In the perfect prayer of our. Savior, this power is placed at our Is prayer limited to asking and receiving? disposal, but qualifiedly. It cannot remain static. It must find per- petual release. The aggregate of To ask is to answer; but too often dom, and the power, and the divine power, released through we confine our praying to a few glory. ..." Christian energies, compels all moments at the end of the day when Asking? Of course. According to tyranny to tremble in its tracks. we turn to God and say, "Thank Matthew 7:7, our Lord said of his We battle with iniquitous foes you, forgive me, watch over me." heavenly Father and ours, "Ask, and in a wilderness as wanton as did Unless prayer goes with us from the it will be given you; seek, and you Jesus in Matthew 4. But the same day's beginning to its end, it isn't will find; knock, and it will be power is at our instant command. much. opened to you." Victory with "ministering angels' God is the center of praying. In Receiving, too? Yes, but our re- is no ethereal dream. Through per- fact, religious living is fellowship ceiving is not an answer to prayer, sonality committed to Christ, oui with God: in faith and trust and but prayer itself. All that we do in world can know the mysterious obedience, in dependence on God asking is to open the door to God so fact of divine reinforcement. Nc and help from God, and in fellow- that he may say "Yes" or "No" or evil force in this universe cai ship with those of like faith in wor- "Wait" according to his will. This withstand the shattering impact o: ship and service. Prayer is nothing prayer of faith is the open door by spiritual power. It's ours! Let'j more or less than fellowship with which God comes in with his for- use it! God coming to conscious expres- giveness and grace, his love and sion. power. grayer: "Open the doors, good Saint,' It is no accident that the Lord's Penitence? Thanksgiving? Aspira- they cried. Prayer begins and ends with the tion—reaching upward and on- ''Pass deeper to your soul, supreme thought of God: "Our Fa- ward? be sure, prayer is all that, To There is power in your side, ther art in heaven, hallowed too, is who be and much more. Praying liv- Which hell cannot control." thy name. . . . For thine is the king- ing! —GEORGE TRUMAN CARL 64 Together /April 1957J "Today is quite a historic Sunday. Those two men in church . . . they've been bitterly opposed to me from the beginning. I don't know why they came, but I'm grateful to God." Pointing to a hole in the parsonage window, he explained: "A rock came through it the day after an article about the community appeared in a of the world parish national magazine. Sometimes the bombs go off over the parsonage, and Methodist Pastor, 35, Preaches Under Fire lately the telephone rings in the middle of the night, but no one answers." "The Lord bless you and keep you; ! Then Fison excused himself. "Maybe ." he Lord make His face. . . we can talk more later, but we have a The words of the square-jawed, in- youth meeting in the field house." ent young minister were interrupted by Next day Chicago newspapers re- he thud of an aerial bomb exploding ported Fison's eviction from his par- lear the temporary church. A worship- sonage. His landlord called him a r glanced at his wrist watch. "They're troublemaker. i little behind schedule today," he vhispered. Unflinching, the Rev. David C. Fison finished the benediction and U.S. GROWING hsmissed his scanty congregation. Too Fast for Methodists He shook hands with the faithful ew, housewives, laborers, two Negroes, Methodist membership is not keep- >robably 25 in all, from Chicago's in- ing up with U.S. population growth, shep- histrial South Side. Then he Methodism's Board of Evangelism has lerded his wife and two young daugh- warned. ers to his sedan and headed for the Population is increasing about 2 per arsonage, a police car falling in behind. cent a year, but last year's Methodist Exaggerated? Far from it. This is a increase was only 1.4 per cent, and ypical for David Fison, pastor Sunday that was the largest in six years, Harry if Methodist the South Deering Church Denman, general secretary of the nd this is how Methodists worship board, reports. here. Bombs, vigilantes, intimidation, Amid aerial bomb explosions, the Rev. "We should have a net gain of at larassmcnt; they've all been part of the David Fison carries on Sunday worship least 3 per cent a year," Denman adds. —often a scant or six members. rogram since Fison appeared on the for five In Cuba, however, Methodism has cene eight months ago. more than doubled in the last seven racial integration. The issue: years, shooting from 4,000 to 9,000. Said one church friend: "Temporari- years at Garrett. The church was grow- y we have services in this field house. ing. He was comfortable. Things Ve've tried to buy property for a new looked good. GIRLS' GOALS: hurch. Only as soon as they learn the "But my conscience began to hurt Marriage or 'Motherly' Job •hurch is behind it, the property isn't me. My wife and I talked it over for a ivailable. Finally, we've bought and long time before we decided to move." Take it from an official of the Na- »nly three people know the location. Fison states his stand on the racial tional Council of Churches, the aver- We're going to put up a sign. Then situation this way: "I have not particu- age American girl prefers marriage to hey'll know we aren't licked." larly encouraged Negroes to join The a career, and, if she must work, chooses As he spoke, squad cars and police Methodist Church. Rather, I feel the "mother-type" jobs. notorcycles slowly circled the area. church has a responsibility to minister So says the Rev. Elmer G. Million, "The opposition," he went on, "picks to the whole community and Negroes executive director of the Council's De- >n our pastor because he symbolizes live in South Deering. I will not ex- partment of the Ministry. He told a re- .vhat they're against. I guess they're clude them." cent youth-work session that recent ifraid they will lose their homes. It's In an effort to gain mobility for the studies indicate "womanhood is being lappened in Chicago, you know. The 25 Negro families, Fison led the reinstated as a goal with today's gen- STegroes move in, the whites move out." "Walk and Pray Association," a non- eration of girls." He went on to pre Back in the Fison home, the 35-year- retaliation movement of "walking and diet that the church will play an "m )ld pastor talked easily about his min- praying" in the face of almost nightly credibly enlarged role in vocational stry. When housing authorities ordered bursts of aerial bombs and other in- guidance" in the future. i large South Deering project to open timidation. 15 of its 454 apartments to Negroes, Fi- "For several years the Negroes rode son was a first-year seminary student at squad cars wherever they went." he HEADLINES C?nrrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, 111. said. "Now for the first time they walk Play Up Methodists Awarded his BD degree in June, he the streets without fear of bodily harm. re-examined his situation. He was well We've asked that the squad cars be Within the month, lour Methodists established in suburban Ingleside Com- withdrawn. made national headlines. munity Methodist Church in Fox Lake, "It hasn't been easy here. I've been Time magazine in a recent cover 111., his student pastorate his last two called everything in the book. storv featured 5S year old C.irrol Meteer April J957\To9Ctner 65 . Shanks, president of the Prudential In- surance Co. of America. President Eisenhower appointed to 1 the Supreme Court a brilliant legal technician—and a Missouri Methodist METHODIST ALMANACK —Charles Evans Whittaker. Star center of the University of Ken- £ x^=- A Miscellaney of Dates 6 Divers Interesting Matters tucky basketball squad, Ed Beck, a licensed minister, (or People Called Methodist Methodist won new fans with inspired play and preaching Write injuries in dust, benefits while his wife lay critically ill. She later in marble— R. Franklin died of Hodgkin's disease in a Macon, ftts^^jps Ga., hospital. Life's report on integration in the North carried an account of the Rev. APRIL hath XXX days 4th Month David K. Fison and his church in Chicago's tense Trumbull Park district. There is no glory in star or blossom Till looked upon by a loving eye; FOR MIDEAST: There is no fragrance in April breezes Till breathed with joy as they wander by.— Bryant Radio—With a Punch A 100,000-watt radio transmitter soon 15 M U. S. income tax due Early spadework was done will be beaming the Christian message 16 Tu A long lift may not be good enough bv hand, but machinery to Middle Eastern countries. is Canal 17 W But a good life long enough later speeded the job. Planned by the National Council of 18 Th San Francisco quake, fire, 1 906 opened for traffic after 10- Churches' division of foreign missions, 19 Fr (&aab iFrtbay years' digging. Parts of a the station will cost $250,000. Programs will be educational, cultural, and reli- 20 Sa Read Matthew 28:1-10, 16-20 canal from 640 BC were gious. The station will be supported by 21 S Easter §>mtbay Earlier channels put to use. co-operating U.S. Protestant and Orth- 22 wisdom are never shut M Doors of had been dug: the Pharaohs odox groups. 23 Tu Bishops begins Cincinnati meeting Council of built one in 1380 BC. The transmitter will give Protestant Methodist ministers begin seminar, churches a "really ade- Napoleon thought of dig- and Orthodox Washington, D. C. quate Christian voice in the Near East ging a canal, dropped idea 24 W First soda-fountain patent, 1833 and the Moslem world for the first engineers warned that when It is expected 25 Th First earth turned on Suez Canal, 1859 time," a spokesman said. the Red Sea and Mediter- to be on the air within a year. 26 Fr Plague blackens London, 1665 ranean were at different 27 Sa Church workers begin lab, Creen Lake, Wis levels. His advisers were FUND-CHECKING GROUP: 28 S National Christian College Day wrong: present waterway 29 M New York tries first "L" train, 1878 Open Door to Censorship? 30 Tu U. S. makes Louisiana purchase, 1803 has no locks. A warning that a new organization, set up to curb dishonest fund solicita- tions, opens a door to potential censor- MAY hath XXXI days 5th Month ship has been sounded by Dr. E. Harold If you would the doctor pay, Mohn, general secretary, Commission on Cultivation and Promotion. Leave'e your flannels offo! in May.— Unknown The National Conference on Solici- tations, Inc., aims at alerting the public 1 W Empire State building opens, 1931 to the "danger of racketeers operating 2 Th Wesley begins outdoor meetings, 1739 J. in the name of charity" and "at reduc 3 Fr You can make life a bed of roses . . ing the multiplicity of campaigns." 4 Sa if you put in a lifetime of spadework While approving of the group's aims, 5 S Begin National Family Week Dr. Mohn warned that it should not powers. Soliciting 6 M Postage stamps are born, 1840 have censorship groups should have "freedom to appeal 7 Tu Lusitania sinks, 1915 to the public conscience," he said. A plaque in a KansasCity 8 W V-E Day, 1945 (Washington and London announce war's end) building thus records a giant EDGE: 9 Th Better slip with foot than tongue step in Christian progress: 4-TO-1 10 Fr Methodists become one people, 1939 "In this auditorium on Protestant Films Gain 11 Sa Minnesota 99 years old today May 10, 1939, was consum- Four times as many films with a (Festival of the Christian Home) mated the reunion of three 12 S Mother's Day Protestant theme were produced in 13 M First English settlement at Jamestown. 1607 Methodist bodies to form Hollywood last year as with a Roman 14 Tu Israel declares independence, 1948 The Methodist Church." Catholic theme, George A. Heimrich, director of the National Council of Churches' Broadcasting and Film Together /Apr// 7 957 66 Commission West Coast office, reports. NEWS DIGEST . . . Tin- figures show, he says that Catho- } memboe lics no longer enjoy what was once con- USUALLY THE BANK repossesses FOLDING . Kdered a Eavored position in the film mortgaged churches. But this time Holy capital. Spirit Episcopal Church, Boston, has BANQUET a Council officials denied meanwhile taken over a bank—a branch of Na- TABLES that they are trying to bar the more tional Shawmut Bank. The church conservative branches of Protestantism bought the property when the branch from the airways. Dr. S. Franklin Mack moved to a new location. replied to a charge by the National Re- A NEW $5.5 million Asbury Meth- ligious Broadcasters, Inc., an affiliate of odist Hospital is being built in St. Louis the conservative National Association Park, a Minneapolis suburb. It will re- ol Evangelicals. place old Asbury Hospital in Min- neapolis, which will be converted to ac- commodate about 180 chronic and DUBLIN SALUTES MONROE DeLuie Model Folding Pedestal Tables in 20 siies convalescent patients. and finishes; 16 other Monroe Folding Table styles and sizes. Migrating Methodists AFTER FIRE caused $5,000 damage- TRUCKS FOR FOLDING TABLES A letter reviving memories of the to Rice's Landing Methodist Church Monroe Transport- part Irishmen played in founding Meth- (Pa.), members, appropriately, shifted Storage (TS) Trucks make odism in the U.S. has been delivered han- sen ices to the town fire hall. dling and storing to Methodist officials by Robert Bris- Folding . Tallies AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, Meth- simple, quick and coe, Dublin's first Jewish Lord Mayor. odist school in Washington, D.C., has easy. Special Table The letter, a greeting from the Rev. and Truck Combi- elevated its department of government nation prices and discounts. S. E. McCaffrey, president of The Meth- and public affairs to a school, effective odist Church of Ireland, was presented July 1, and named Dr. Catheryn Seck- STEEL FOLDING CHAIRS to Bishop Frederick B. Newell in New ler-Hudson as dean. Moi Folding Chairs in at- York during Briscoe's recent visit to * tractive range of styles, sizes and . in deserves official i Exi el < omfort, easy hand- the U.S. It recalled the work of such FATHER'S DAY s' ling and durability. Also full line of recognition, according to a Methodist Methodist pioneers as Philip Embury non-folding chairs, desks < and combi- and Robert Strawbridge. senator. Congress legalized Mother's nations for classroom, cafeteria and * church school ' Day in 1917. Says Margaret In it, McCaffrey said, "Irish Meth- Chase Smith (R., Me.): "Either we odists rejoice that migrating members honor TRUCKS FOR FOLDING CHAIRS both our parents, father, of our church were providentially led mother and or f ^^^^^^^ Folding Chair Trucks for let us desist from to sow seeds of Methodism in the North honoring either one." — MSHBk moving. handlingand>le.r- ing folding chairs. All American continent 200 years ago." ] •^ I, electrically weldod. Among a group from Ireland who DISPUTES RAGING: Swi Several ifjZX*3SmMmJ****fP* models & sizes including landed in New York in 1760 was Philip * Free Parochial Bus? cial table-and-chair. Embury, a young carpenter and Meth- odist preacher who, with Capt. Thomas New fuel is being added to the fires PORTABLE PARTITIONS Webb, got Methodism rolling in that ol controversy raging over proposals to Monroe's new mov- area. Another Irish Methodist, Robert provide parochial-school pupils with lartitions stur- dily built and hand- transportation Strawbridge, landed about the same free bus at taxpayers' ex- some in appearance- time in Maryland. His preaching soon pense. Most recent developments: Smooth masonite panels in tubular carried Methodism into Pennsylvania, Si. milord, Conn.: Corporation Coun- steel frames. Delaware, and Virginia. sel John M. Hanrahan declared it is Sw i\ el ac- McCaffrey invited American Meth- legal —and may be a "duly" — lor a tion pedes- tals, with odists to "visit our lovely and historic municipality to provide this service. ters or land," promising that "our churches, Augusta, Me.: Six hundred Catholic glidi and the Irish people generally will offer parents, who had threatened to irans- Change idle space to cead mile faille—a 100,00(1 welcomes." ler their children (Continued on page 69J Useful Areas, t'nhni- ited flexibility in s] a< c arrangement. COMPLETE CATALOG ON REQUEST A guide tables, The president of The Methodist Church of Ireland, the Rev. S. E. McCaffrey {cen- ing in chairs, trucks, partitions, etc. Color illustrations. I .S. ter), and the Rev. f. L. Cairns {right), Dublin, hand a message of greeting to Low direct factory prices, quantity dis- ei "lips and inslitul Methodists to Dublin's Lord Mayor, Robert Briscoe, prior to his departure for N.Y. counts to all io THE ~iMo»UO£. COMPANY 59 Church St. Colfax, Iowa • 1 i L Jk GOWNS »Pulpit and Choir* i i Headquarters for I RELIGIOUS SUPPLIES »l ^B rvtrcsk* v l HL ^L, ^>K^lF J a*jMIIvImI!altorul W»tY (0MMNT c!k 111-11 lilCM llllll rKII>OIIMI< t. »». 67 . BEAUTY One of the most re- warding things in life is the enjoyment of beautiful music. And when that music comes from a pipe organ, the pleasure is magnified. This is true because only a pipe organ produces musi- cal tones that are rich, full and complete. If your church is considering a new or- gan, we suggest you see and hear a Moller. When you do, you'll know why it is called the"Organ of Artists." For information write today. King-size do-it-yourself project: White and some of the 322 organ pipes in his home. O0QoooQo"QQ'n'h"f» There's Life in Those ©MOLLE/l INCORPORATED Old Pipes Yet! Renowned for Pipe Organs Since 1875 HAGERSTOWN. MARYLAND By HENRY CHARLES SUTER J. O MOST people, getting routed out and install it ran around $3,000, the gift of bed at dawn's early light with a loud found no takers—except the young blast of music would be grounds for physics student. justifiable homicide—or at least a quick With prodigious work, but little ex- call to police. Not so with the folks who pense, he managed to install the con- .g^EASY-TO-SELL live near Homer White's home in At- sole in the dining room, the pipes in the FAMOUS KATHERINE BEECHER lanta, Ga. To the contrary, they do all basement. He added extra pipes from they can to enourage his 6:30 a.m. sere- another church organ; for an extra fillip nade. put on a harp system which once be- The reason: White, a Georgia Tech longed to a wealthy Atlantan. The hun- student and organist-choir director of dreds of pipes have virtually filled the St. John's Methodist Church, has in- basement, leaving only narrow passage- stalled a 322-pipe church organ in his ways open to move about. The cellar home. His early-morning concerts fea- has been rewired, too—and to make FULL 12-OZ. KEEPSAKE TIN ure hymns—and neighbors for several sure every note can be heard properly, of these famous Pennsylvania Dutch Mints blocks around deluge him with requests White has cut a "hearing hole" in the for their favorites. In fact, it is not un- floor and covered it with a grill. usual for lines of cars to stop in front He overhauled the complete organ of the door, the occupants enjoying this with such success that the Stewart Ave- for your group to sample. unusual neighborhood concert. nue organist says it now produces The proof that they'll selt fast is in the taste. Usually White plays at least twice a richer, more majestic tones than at any MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY day, once in the morning and again in time during the many years he played the early evening. Neighbors say proud- it. 104 (ill I MnDE'C Creslmonl Avenue ly that they are probably the only people But it is from White's grandmother, UlLLmVnt. O Reading, Pennsylvania around fortunate enough to start their Mrs. K. B. McConnell, that comes what Please send a 12-oz. Keepsake tin of Kofnerine Beecfier minis al no cost or obligation to: day with a program of favorite hymns. is perhaps the highest tribute. She tells It was little over a year ago that the proudly of the neighbors' interest in ORGANIZATION Stewart Avenue Methodist Church gave White's inspiring music and adds: YOUR NAME. White the organ after it had bought a "Best of all is the privilege of being able in the ADDRESS new one. The instrument had been of- to awaken morning with fered previously to several other those beautiful hymns swelling in the Si CITY. churches, but since estimates to repair air." 68 Together//4pr;/ 7957 . (Continued from page 67) to crowded pub- lic schools, agreed to await a court rul- ing on the issue. A mass transfer could "BIRTHDAYS!" cost the city $4(),()()(). A dainty memory book that keeps birthdays and Ashland, Wis.: The city council has anniversary dates within easy reach. A Scripture asked the state's attorney general for verse on each day's page brightens the memory. Anniversaries, birth stones and flowers arc listed an opinion on the legality of a measure for handy reference. to provide annually for $3,610 Cath- 3%" x 5" x 1", in gift box olic bus service. Regular, all white leatherette, $1.50 Deluxe, padded white leatherette, flower design in color, $1.75 AUGSBURG PUBLISHING HOUSE ADVICE TO CHURCHMEN: Dept. I 426 South Fifth Street, Minneapolis 15, Minnesota lose $_ Send me copies of "BIRTHDAYS" Regular, $1.50 each (_ _) Deluxe, $1.75 each 'Get Into Politics ) @ @ Churchmen should leave off theoriz- ing about politics and get into the fray name and address clearly) down on the "firing-line" level. That, {Print in a nutshell, is the advice of a Denver attorney and a former California Con- gressman. 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ZONI necessity." Most of the work is being 69 Apr.7 7 957\Together — done on Saturday, he said, and distribu- tion will not conflict with Sunday ALEXANDER THE GREAT m school or church. and his trick quiz PASTORS AID COURT Church Curbs Crime MODERN TV pro- Ministers now help law officials with grams might take a tip juvenile cases in Trenton, N.J., and from Alexander the Allentown, Pa. Great, who lived 356-323 b.c. He had In Trenton, a clergyman is present at studied under the renowned Aristotle, session of the county juvenile each so felt sure he could stump the 10] court. Twenty pastors take turns offer- Gymnosophist philosophers who had aiding ing advice to the court and led one Sabbas to revolt. families. When they were lined up before him, THAT'S the kind of marriage In Allentown, young offenders must he explained that the first to give a report to church once a week for two ours should be! wrong answer would be put to death months—if their parents agree. Minis- Conflict! Then gently, distant bells call and then all must die. The oldest of ters sign the youths' cards to prove at- out a soft reminder . . . and in that pa- the 10 was to be the judge. Hear the tient music the voice of conscience rings. tendance. story as recorded by Plutarch: Reminded, two young souls turn toward "Which," Alexander asked of the your office for guidance. Coincidence? INDIFFERENCE Not ever in this world! first, "were the most numerous: the living or the dead?" Answer: "The liv- For the story of how an elec- Path to Welfare State? ' tronic "miracle" can—inex- ing—because the dead no longer exist." Indifference by Christians to the sick pensively—bring the ministry The second was asked, "Which pro- of majestic carillon bell music to those and aged may lead to the rise of the duced the largest animals, the earth serve, write: you welfare state, Dr. Ralph W. Sockman, or the sea?" Answer: "The earth—be- minister of Christ Church, New York cause the sea is a part of it." STROMBERG-CARLSON City, has warned. Unless the church The third: "Which is the craftiest of A DIVISION OF GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION carries out a ministry to the sick and all animals?" Answer: "That with 1751 University Avenue Rochester 3, N. Y. the homeless, the Methodist clergyman which man is not yet acquainted "There is nothing finer than a Stromberg-Carlson" feels, the government will. "This," he (probably meaning man, himself)." says, "would bring us closer to the wel- Please send booklet The fourth: "What was your reason fare state." Please arrange personal demonstration Sockman added: "Not only are there for persuading Sabbas to revolt?" An- more people alive at 60 today than ever swer: "Because I wished him either to before, but they are more alive at 60 live with honor, or die as a coward." than ever." The fifth: "Which do you think old- How a great Christian In similar vein, Dr. Benjamin Boshes est, day or night?" Answer: "The day, of Northwestern University, pointed by one day." When Alexander ex- In ho r ;ii or v works o"t recently that "with better medical pressed surprise, the philosopher added: care, more and more old people are "Abstruse questions must have ab- found on the population rolls, The Experiment being struse answers." and some provision must be made for Sixth: "What are the best means for them." And Olin E. Oeschger, general a man to make himself loved?" An- of Faith of secretary of the Methodist Board swer: "If possessed of great power, do has underlined A Handbook for Beginners Hospitals and Homes, not make yourself feared." need of trained help in hospitals, the Seventh: "How can a man become a By SAMUEL M. social work, and homes for the growing god?" Answer: "By doing what is im- SHOEMAKER number of aged. possible for man to do." This is a guide to faith for the layman. Eighth: "Which is stronger, life or In it he will discover how to begin the EUROPE & U.S. death?" Answer: "Life, because it bears Christian life, how to live it, how to r.-.ake it real to others. Dr. Shoemaker so many evils." has written THE EXPERIMENT OF FAITH Summer Student-Swap f;r the person ready to start where he Ninth: "How long is it good for a family, the job, among is, in his own on With Methodists among the partici- pcDple he understands and who under- man to live?" Answer: "As long as he spend him. The warm quality of this International Chris- pating groups, an does not prefer death to life." book makes religion a direct, personal Exchange will get under- experience. It is based on the famous tian Youth Alexander then turned to the aged "Pittsburgh Experiment." way this summer. Each of the five At your bookseller $1.50 judge, ordering him to give sentence. American denominations taking part "They have all answered one worse HARPER & BROTHERS, NY. 16 will bring 20 high-school students here than another," said the sage. from Europe and send five Americans "Then you shall die first." to study abroad for a year. Students will "No!" the philosopher said, "not un- live with families as a son or daughter. less you break your word—for you The Rev. Joseph W. Bell, director of said the man who answered worst voluntary service for The Methodist CHOIR ROBES should first suffer." Church, is chairman of the executive Newest coforfasf fabrics available. committee. Other denominations par- So charmed was Alexander by the Wrife for Catalog A-74 ticipating: Church of the Brethren, Dis- deft play of wit and wisdom, he loaded presents and sent them E. R. MOORE CO. ciples of Christ, Evangelical and the quizees with 268 Normon Ave., Brooklyn 22, N. Y. Reformed Church, and United Pres- on their way—even as do Hal March 932 Dakin St., Chicago 13, III. byterian Church of North America. and Groucho Marx of our day. 1641 N. Allesandro St., Los Angeles 26,Calif. 70 Joseiher/April J 957 Hot Argument: Sunday School a Waste? Your choice of two A recent charge by a Yale Divinity mendous strieles being made toward cor- School professor that Sunday school is recting the conditions." "the- most wasted hour oi the week" More teachers are training, more ALASKAN has set off a storm ol controversy in well-equipped church schools are being church and lay circles. Many are hotly built, more money is being spent on Cruises for Methodists attacking Dr. Wesley Shraeler, who curriculum improvement, and more hurled the charge in a Life article; concern is being shown for children, Come along for a delightful adventure others are leaping to his defense, claim- young people and their parents, accord- in good fellowship, thrilling scenery and peaceful, restful voyaging in cool, far- ing he has brought to light a weak spot ing to Dr. Foster. northern waters on your choice of two ill the church setup. At the annual meeting of the Na- Alaskan Cruises for Methodists, leaving P. tional Methodist Bishop Fred Corson, Council of Christian Education, Chicago June 17 and August 6. For the speaking to 700 Methodist leaders at Harold E. Stassen, President Eisen- past six summers we have operated tours the district superintendents' conference hower's special assistant for disarma- to Alaska for members of the Methodist Church, in Chicago, accused churches of admin- ment, issued a call for 100,000 more and each time a wonderful group of congenial people, who enjoy friendly istering Christian education in "such "qualified"' Sunday school teachers to travel together, assembled for the trip. small doses, and mostly to the younger keep up with expanding child popula- Sailing aboard Canadian Pacific's S. S. groups, that it does not counteract other tion in the U.S. Princess Louise, the cruise includes educational influences." Two others at the meeting, the Rev. Ketchikan, Juneau, Mendenhall Glacier, Parents, Corson said, are unprepared Henry Tani of Philadelphia, director of Wrangell, Skagway, Lake Bennett and lo give direction to children; commu- youth work for the Evangelical and Re- Carcross in Alaska and the Yukon. The nities feel it is not their responsibility. formed Church, and Dr. Richard E. scenic American Rockies, Rainier Na- In the bishop's view churches have sur- Lentz of Indianapolis, director of fam- tional Park, the Pacific Northwest, Can- adian Rockies, Lake rendered the responsibility of Christian ily life for the Disciples of Christ, urged Louise and Banff are included in the trip—altogether a education to those which "give it only churches to do more for young people marvelous escorted tour with the best while Christian colleges and strengthen family life. lip service," company of fellow travelers imaginable. have "overlooked their distinctiveness In a related development, the Rev. Write for FREE illustrated folder, as church-related institutions." Harold W. Ewing, director of the Meth- "Alaska for Methodists", to Dr. Virgil E. Foster, editor of the odist Board of Education's youth de- International Journal of Religious Edu- partment, challengeel the 1,341,455- H. F. Compton, cation, declared: "There is too much member Methodist Youth Fellowship Northern Pacific Rv., 73 E. Jackson Blvd., truth in the picture Dr. Schrader pre- to "dedicated action." Their mission Chicago 4, 111. sents to permit complacency." work, he said, is among America's But, he added, the article did a "most "bumper crop" of young people, three- No obligation. inadequate job of reporting the tre- fourths of whom are outside the church. METHODISTS OPEN EVANGELICAL LUTHERANS fan yawl Centers for Elderly Ask Council Membership The San Francisco Council of The Evangelical Lutheran Church Churches is setting up 20 activity cen- has formally applied for membership ters for older persons and the first two in the World Council of Churches. The Christian Home are in Methodist churches. 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IN SPRINGFIELD Set WSCS Meeting Propose Statewide evangelism Program The Southwest Missouri Conference An area planning conference recently Society of Christian Service will proposed that each conference hold Woman's nar called for adult assistance. They in- one of hold its annual meeting in St. Paul cluded: its annual sessions on Central College campus, Church, Springfield, April 24-26, accord- A well-informed adult who would serve Fayette, sometime in the next ing to Mrs. conference four years. Dewey H. Jones, on state government as resource person; All president. the co-ordinator for the program should recommendations made during the Speakers will in- conference at Jefferson City are in the spend advance time in Jefferson City set- Rev. hands of ministers clude the and ting up the program; more student plan- and lay members of V. annual conferences for Mrs. Robert ning in selected areas of study; and the examination and Marble, study prior to the spring home on acquiring of permanent personnel from conference ses- furlough from the church educational and student or- sions. work in India; and About 75 people attended the meeting. ganization program to participate in the Guests included Mrs. T. Otto Nail, event. Dr. Robert G. Mayfield, vice-president of the general secretary, Board of Lay Activities; Woman's Division. Dr. D. Stewart Patterson, Commission on Others are Mrs. Lee Chaplains; and the Rev. Robert V. Marble, Tidwell, South PASTORS' SCHOOL missionary to India. Central Jurisdiction Other top recommendations included: The faculty for the Area Pastors' secretary of promo- That an areawide program of evan- Mrs. Nail School, scheduled to be held in tion; Miss Beulah gelism— "Tell Missouri About Christ" Fayette Sept. 2-6, is complete, ac- Reitz, missionary to Southern Rhodesia, be held early in 1958; initiation of a con- cording to Dean M. G. Joyce. and the Rev. Lewis B. Carpenter, presi- centrated Christian vote drive by the local Bishop Frank will conduct the dent of National College for Christian church commission on Social Relations; Bishop's Hour; Dr. B. Oman of Workers. J. enlivening of Advance Specials in such a Wesley Church, Minneapolis, will Among the local workers in the rural way that the local church will accept both teach a course on Pastoral Min- field are Vera Falls, Katheryn Kuhler and National and World Specials over and istry; Dr. T. D. James, executive Leone Lemons. Miss Betty Bowers will above the regular Advance askings; and secretary of Holston Conference, represent the deaconess group. that the three annual conferences par- will lecture on The Minister and The Conference Wesleyan Service Guild ticipate in a simultaneous every-member Christian Education, and Dr. H. H. plans to hold its annual meeting during canvass. Potthoff of lliff will present a course the weekend following the Woman's So- Also considered by the conference was on the New Testament. ciety meeting. a set of recommendations for future ac- Additional features of the school tion presented by representatives of the will be published in future issues. STUDENT SEMINAR area Commission' on Cultivation and Pro- motion. Youths Seek Adult Aid The Student Christian Citizenship Seminar at Jefferson City may become an annual event. The three-day meeting in February brought 63 Methodist students from seven colleges and universities together for talks and visits with leading state officials. Making the trip were students from Lincoln University, the University of Mis- souri, Central Missouri State College, Southeast Missouri State College, North- west Missouri State College, National Col- lege for Christian Workers, and Rolla School of Mines. Co-ordinator for the seminar was the Rev. Elmer L. Hobbs, Sedalia; aided by Professor Perry McCandless, dean, Cen- tral Missouri State College; and Donald Barnes, Central Missouri State College, and Robert Fuller, Rolla School of Mines, student chairmen. Suggestions growing out of the semi- These are some of the 75 people who attended the recent Missouri planning conference. April J957\Togethcr Missouri Edition of Together A-l "I feel the planning conference meas- CHILLICOTHE-RICHMOND DIST. • Linn County subdistrict MYF held its ured up and did about the things I was March rally at Meadville. Boost for College Fund hoping," Bishop Frank said. • Laclede Church will conduct a 24-hour "Its actions," he added, "go far toward • Vacation Church School Conferences, prayer vigil beginning at 3 p.m. April 18. the making of an area program which sponsored by the Missouri Council of ought to be most fruitful in the quadren- Churches, were held in the district March ST. JOSEPH DIST. nium now fully launched." 18, at Hamilton; March 19, at Cameron; "grateful to all He said he was who March 20, at Chillicothe, and March 21, Educational Units Open to the Rev. shared in the conference, and at Bethany. • Bishop Frank consecrated the $100,000 D. Russell Lytle of First Methodist • Cowgill gave a turkey dinner to raise educational unit of Huffman Memorial Church of Jefferson City, and his co- funds for its quota toward Central Col- Church, St. Joseph, March 3. workers, for their courtesies and co-opera- lege. proceeds were over Net $300. • The also officiated at tion." Bishop the open- • The Rev. Robert V. Marble, home from ing of the new educational building of his work in Baihar, India, will be the HUGH O. ISBELL North Cross Church March 3. principal speaker at the district Woman's • Explosion damage to Francis Street Society meeting, April 22, at Trenton. Columbus Pastor Dies Church, St. Joseph, was not as great as He spoke in the Black Oak Church March first reports indicated. The appraised Rev. O. Isbell, "The death of the Hugh 19, and plans to fill other speaking dates amount is $15,000, covered by insurance. 58, pastor of Missouri Methodist Church, in the district next fall. Columbia, is a shock to Missouri Meth- HANNIBAL DIST. odism and a loss to the whole Church," FAYETTE DIST. Bishop Frank said. Start Fulton Church Dr. Isbell was in his sixth year at Refugee Families Settled Columbia. He had served as pastor or dis- • Groundbreaking ceremonies for the new trict superintendent in all three Area con- • The three refugee families from Court Street Church plant, Fulton, were ferences, and was past-president of the Germany, lately "adopted" by Linn Me- held Feb. 10, and construction started the Missouri Council of Churches. He was the morial Church, Fayette are duly settled, following Friday. chairman of his conference commission writes the Rev. Charles W. Caldwell, pas- The unit will cost some $250,000, the on World Service and Finance, and was tor, and the men have permanent em- Rev. Joseph H. Wagner, pastor, reports, a delegate to the 1956 Jurisdictional Con- ployment. and is the first of three in the total build- ference at New Orleans. • Wilkes Boulevard Church, Columbia, ing project. The first unit comprises the Funeral services were conducted in his has received a bequest of $6,647 through sanctuary and fellowship hall. giv- church March 4, with Bishop Frank the will of Mrs. Callie G. Hancock, the • The Rev. Earl C. Griffith, the Rev. Mil- ing the memorial sermon. A second serv- Rev. Wilbur E. Longstreth, pastor, ad- ton M. Thorne, Dr. D. J. Van Devander, Mo., where his ice was held at Jackson, and the Rev. Raymond A. VanGiesen as- is survived body was interred. Dr. Isbell sisted the Rev. William A. Knowles in by his wife, and two daughters, Janet and KIRKSVILLE DIST. revival services at Bacon and Lowman Margie. chapels in March. Dinner for Delegate a • Louisiana Church was host to the east MISSOURI- • Macon's Methodist Men's Club prepared MYF zone for its midwinter institute March 8-9. similar institute was held NEW CHURCH and served a ham and bean dinner March A by the northeast zone at Shelbina, 1, clearing $100. The funds will be used MYF Officials Pick Site to send a delegate to the Second National March 15-16. Conference of Methodist Men at Lafayette, • Vandalia Ministerial Alliance gave its Officials have selected the site for a new Ind., July 19-21. annual youth banquet Feb. 21. church in Columbia. The decision was made at a recent meeting attended by Dr. J. B. Harris, field representative of the section on church extension—Na- tional Division of the Board of Missions; the Rev. Melville L. Koch, Fayette Dis- trict superintendent; and the Rev. Perry P. Taylor, president of the Missouri Con- ference Board of Missions. A ranch-type house is situated on the lot, located at Broadway and Manor Drive. Broadway Methodist Church is a temporary name given to the church, which will cost approximately $48,000. The project has been accepted as a Conference Advance project. BERT L HOLCOMB Succeeds Robison The Rev. Bert L. Holcomb has suc- ceeded the late Dr. E. L. Robison as chairman of the Missouri Conference Com- mittee on Memoirs. He asks that ministers see that obitu- aries of ministers and minister's wives, who have died the past year, be sent to German families now living in Fayette under sponsorship of Linn Memorial Church him at 2710 Hubbard Street, Hannibal, are (from left) the Guenther Sendlers, the Gunter Heuers and sons, and the Erich Mo. as early as possible. Lickjelds and daughters. Mr. Heuer and Mrs. Lichjeld are brother and sister. A-2 Together/Apr// 7 957 MARYVILLE DIST. 366 Hear Hawkins • The annual district laymen's dinner, at Maryville, March 6, was attended by 366 men. J. Clint Hawkins, president of United Church Men and St. Louis Con- ference lay leader, was the speaker for this event. • District young people met in annual session March 10 at Maryville, with the Rev. Charles Vinzant of Westboro, dis- trict youth director, in charge. • The Rev. Freeman C. Havighurst, dis- trict superintendent, was the speaker at a preaching mission at Fairfax March 10-15. ST. LOUIS- INSTITUTE QUESTION Standardize Parsonages? Reports from the recent St. Louis Con- John Hoerner Ami ference rural institute, at Fredericktown, show that, despite a severe storm, 30 of Here is an architect's sketch of the Court Street Church being built in Fulton. the 42 persons invited attended. Dr. Glenn F. Sanford of the Town and Coun- CAPE GIRARDEAU DIST. theme was "On Trial for Your Life." try Work Department, and the Rev. Her- Several hundred men attended. Louis M. bert H. Brower, area director of rural Plan New Sanctuary Nourse, district lay leader, served as toast- work, were the resource leaders. The Rev. master. • Interior of Maple Avenue Church plant, W. L. Stevens, vice-president of the con- • St. John's Church is beneficiary of the Cape Girardeau, suffered $20,000 damage a ference Town and Country Commission will of the late U. Menteer, in the in the March 11 fire. Adequate insurance J. sponsoring the institute, presided. The amount of $5,000. The money, when will enable the needed repairs and re- Rev. Dan Schores, secretary, reported on received, will go into the church's endow- placements to be made. a current parsonage study on grading and ment fund, the Rev. Alvea Godbold, pas- • For the second straight year the standardizing parsonages. tor, advises. churches of Mississippi County exchanged • Kingshighway's new educational unit pastors for special services during the AT VOCATION MEETING was consecrated April 7 by Bishop Frank. Week of Dedication. Participating were The Rev. H. R. Runion is the pastor. On the Reverends E. W. Bartlev, Jr., Ronald Define Christian Jobs that same day, the bishop consecrated the Bollinger, Robert L. Burke, M. B. Hen- new sanctuary of Shaw Avenue Church, "When is a vocation Christian?" was ley, Robert L. Mann, and A. A. Noggle. where the Rev. Fletcher S. Crowe serves answered, in part, by the Rev. W. C. • Chaffee Church, the Rev. H. L. Wag- as pastor. Kinnard, associate pastor of Webster Hills ner, pastor, has let the contract for a new Church, at the St. Louis Conference on sanctuary, cost to $65,000. ROLLA DIST. Christian Vocations, held in Centenary • District Lay Leader R. J. Genins con- February. re- Church, St. Louis, in He ducted a special meeting Feb. 19 for pas- Men's Club Gets Charter ported that any work which ministered tors, charge lay leaders, and Men's Club • Sullivan has a to the genuine needs of people was Chris- presidents, with 100 present. Goals new Men's Club. Dr. Hill, associate district lay leader, tian. stressed were the National Convocation John presented the charter Feb. 17, after speak- The conference, sponsored by the Com- for Methodist Men at Lafayette, Ind., the mission on Christian Vocations, the Board Arcadia improvement program, and ing to the club. Installation of the olficers was followed by a basket dinner. This of Education, and the Woman's Society, "Methodist Men Walk With Christ," a church has also improvements was attended by 200 delegates and adult witnessing program. completed on its buildings amounting to some workers, according to Miss Barbara Es- • The Rev. and Mrs. Robert Hammerla $1,500. The sanctuary now has a divided kew, conference youth director. of Lilbourn announce the birth of a son, chancel. Approximately SI, 000 has been Paul Scott, March 10. spent also on parsonage improvements. FARMINGTON DIST. The Rev. M. E. Williamson is the pastor. ST. LOUIS DIST. Festus Pledges $110,000 Consecrates 2 Units • Teams of men went out one Sunday -SOUTHWEST MISSOURI- afternoon and between 2 and 6 o'clock • Noonday speakers during the Lenten KANSAS CITY DIST. raised in cash and pledges $110,000 for season in St. Louis included such well- the proposed new educational building at known churchmen as Dr. Ralph W. Hear Seven Bishops Festus, where the Rev. E. C. Ellis is pas- Sockman, Bishop D. Ward Nichols ul tor. Plans call for 24 classrooms, two the AMF Church, Dr. Eugene Carson • The Rev. Philip T. Bohi, pastor of offices, and a chapel. Total cost is esti- Blake, president of the National Council Grand Avenue Temple, presented a scries mated at $160,000. of Churches, and Dr. Franc McCluer, ol guest bishops as preachers Sunday of • District ministers met at Marble Hill president Lindenwood College. nights, beginning March 5 with Bishop March 4. Evangelism, pastoral visitation, • Bishop Eugene M. Prank was guesi J. A. Hamlet ol the African Methodist and winning men to Christ were stressed speaker at the seventh animal dinner ol 1 piscopal Church. Other bishops app by the Rev. Roy L. Brown, district super- the Methodist Men's Clubs of the district ing were ]. Ralph MagCC, Titus Lowe. intendent. at St. Paul's Church, March 26. I lis Dana Dawson, II. Clifford Northcott, April J957\Jogether 4-3 THE BISHOP WRITES NEVADA DIST. 'TCuta &t Servant ? Construct New Unit • Ground was broken March 10 for the Dear Methodists of Missouri: new Longview Church fellowship hall Two vastly different conceptions of the Messiah are to unit, first of a three-stage building pro- be found in the Old Testament. One is a "King of David's gram. The location is 7201 Longview lineage," the second is the "suffering servant." Road, Hickman Mills. The Rev. Philip In the first instance, men give their lives for the King, Needles is pastor of the church, chartered but the King does not give his life for them. In the last September. second instance, a servant is ordered about, performs menial tasks and may be asked to die instead of his master. SPRINGFIELD DIST. One Christian scholar has suggested that this was Jesus' great temptation in the wilderness. "Who is the Mes- Elect Miss Klingner siah?" King or Servant? • More than Do I dare ask myself this question? Who is pastor? Why am I in the 200 people attended the ministry? For recognition? Honor? Position? Maundy Thursday makes these recent annual homecoming of Clever questions eternally persistent. How shall I answer them in the quiet hours Church, according to the Rev. K. H. of Good Friday? Bunting, pastor. Laymen, too, have questions to consider in these hours. Who can pass • Miss Mary Elizabeth Klingner, St. Paul through Holy Week without self-examination? In the light of the torches Church, was elected recording secretary flashing through the olive branches in Gethsemane, do we not all stand a test? of the South Central Jurisdiction Woman's Remember, there was only one Person who stepped out into the light of those Society of Christian Service at its annual torches to say, "I am he." The rest were hiding in the shadows. meeting at Albuquerque in February. How can I avoid these questions? Do I attend church worship to discover God's will for my life, or to have my own will confirmed? Do I attend worship to have my prejudices shaken or to have them approved? Do I go there to have my opinions shaped by Christ, or are my opinions really shaped before I go—by newspapers, television, and radio? Holy Week is a time for soul-searching, isn't it? Faithfully yours, Mrs. Lillian Bowers, a member of Jas- Eugene M. Frank per Church and the mother of the Rev. Roy L. Bowers of Paseo Church, Kansas City, died in California Feb. 20. Charles C. Selecman, and Eugene M. MARSHALL DIST. Mrs. William M. Alexander, now of Frank. Nashville, Tenn., first woman member of • National College for Christian Workers Coach Teachers the General Board of Lay Activities, was for a new men's dormitory. honored at the annual meeting of the has plans An • Saline County Council of Churches held of three a half city blocks east board in San Diego, Calif., Feb. 26-28, area and a coaching conference for vacation church- of the campus has been purchased for a for her "spiritual influence and leadership school teachers and workers at Marshall, the proposed dormi- throughout Methodism." Mrs. Alexander new gymnasium and March 26. latter is scheduled to is the widow of a Methodist minister who tory. Work on the • Malta Bend, the Rev. Lewis Odneal, begin at once. served for many years in Missouri. pastor, was assisted in a series of meetings • wife of the Rev. Mrs. Earl C. Griffith, wife the pas- Mrs. Louise McEowen, beginning March 17 by the Rev. George of Charles McEowen, pastor of Malrose tor, mourns the death of her father, A. W. Kingore of the Corder Church. Frank Church, was the subject of a feature arti- Fair, 63, who died at in Laredo, • Johnson County Rural Fellowship fea- J. home in The Kansas City Star March 9. Mo., Feb. 25. cle tured the a cappella choir of National role as a minister's wife, Speaking of her College for Christian Workers, Kansas Chaplain George A. Bowles of Barnes "It's wonderful, and Mrs. McEowen said, City, in Knob Noster Church, March 14. Hospital, St. Louis, said blood donors are I love it." needed for patients who have no relatives • The Rev. A. L. Stevenson of the Gen- SEDALIA DIST. or friends to whom to turn in their dire eral Mission Board led First Church of need. Kansas City North in the raising of Offer Popular Film Mrs. J. C. Montgomery Sr., wife of the $70,000 the first week in March. Half of superintendent of Jefferson City District, the amount will go toward new construc- • The Rev. Robert V. Marble, home on is reported much improved. tion and the other toward debt retirement. furlough from his missionary duties at Latest figures indicate the Missouri The Rev. Perry A. Rowland is the pastor. Baihar, India, gave a series of addresses Area conference treasurers have received • A "kickoff" meeting for a Lenten pro- in the district the week of March 13. Dr. $20,551 for Hungarian relief. Churches gram of visitation by all Methodist Marble spoke at Warsaw, Lincoln, Clin- that have not taken an offering for this churches of Kansas City was held Sunday ton, Versailles, and Wesley and First cause, and church treasurers who have not afternoon, March 17. The Rev. Leroy churches, Sedalia. remitted offerings received, are asked to Walker of the General Board of Evange- • N. Guy Hall, vice-president of the con- do so without undue delay by Bishop lism directed the project. Headquarters ference Board of Lay Activities, spoke to Frank. were Trinity Church, where the program the men of Central and Ozark zones was launched and where teams reported March 12. The Rev. Clarence P. Folkins The Rev. Wilber C. Denney, pastor at at a luncheon each day. The Rev. Roy of Lee's Summit presented the findings Bethany, who was hospitalized for a major L. Bowers of Paseo Church was chairman on area plans and changes proposed for a operation, has returned to his pulpit. of the general committee, with the Rev. more effective program to the men of A subdistrict MYF rally in Monteau James Brett Kenna, district superintend- Sedalia and Clinton zones at Windsor Chapel in February was attended by 84. ent, serving in an advisory capacity. March 12. The Rev. George W. Burgin, pastor, and • The Rev. Oliver W. Albright is now • The temperance film, "Far From his young people conducted an impressive serving as minister of Christian education Alone," continues to be much in demand. candlelight service. The subdistrict mid- at Linwood Church, Kansas City. He The film may be booked through Irwin year institute convened at Columbia for was formerly pastor at Higginsville. Raut, 703 West 7th Street, Sedalia, Mo. a two-day meet early in March. A-4 Together/April J 957 — qualities oi a Supreme Court justice- as SCHULMERICH Since 1889 LEADING DESIGNERS and CRAFTSMEN of "devotion to the law and a strong desirt STAINED GLASS to do God's will." TOWER CHURCH FURNISHINGS & BRONZE TABLETS Confirmed by the Senate, Whit- CHIMES PAYne-spieRS sgudios taker is the only Methodist on the high bench. A member of Central Method- 41-54 EAST 13th ST. • PATTRSON 8. N. ). ist Church, Kansas City, Mo., since 1^42, he has been a steward and trustee for 12 years. His pastor, the Rev. 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PROTESTANTS WARN flow would you like to try to pick the win- No U.S.-Vatican Ties ners out of this stack of American Protestants have been told photo entries? About that establishment of U.S. diplomatic 12,000 transparencies, relations with the Vatican would stamp sent in by 1,286 readers this country in the eyes of the world as who are helping To- favoring the Roman Catholic religion. gether illustrate the an- The National Council of Churches' them, America the Beau- Department of Religious Liberty has* tiful, are in the pile urged Protestants to maintain "con- which nearly hides Art tinued vigilance" against "efforts to Editor Floyd A. John- establish full diplomatic relations" withj son. Yes, in Together's the Vatican. Chicago office, things are humming. But this ac- it's activity heart-warm- tivity is more than mere busyness; with STUDENT PLAN: ing rewards. Such response from Together's reader family is giving all of us the richest satisfaction any editorial job can Negro-White Exchange That's the knowledge that you are taking Together offer. A Negro-white student exchange pro- into your hearts. gram is being set up by two Methodist- And manuscripts: We're receiving 1,000 a month now: related schools—Bennett College, in poems, cartoons, fiction, full-length articles. Humbly we put Greensboro, N.C., and Ohio Wesleyan our feelings in one word: Thanks. University, in Delaware, Ohio. Six Bennett girls will go to Wes- leyan for two weeks and enter intot season, this issue brings you a special In keeping with the campus life—attend classes, participate Easter flavor. We hope you'll enjoy The Easter Gift, page 16; in extracurricular activities, chapel, and How I Thin\ of Immortality, page 21; / Was There, page 28; assembly programs. In return, four In, page Spring Sings of Faith, page 35, And Love Let Him white girls from Wesleyan will visit' 50—Easter themes, from the typewriters and cameras of some Bennett. Future exchanges may be for mighty talented writers and photographers. periods up to a year. We're particularly proud this month to present two more world-famous figures on our pages: poet-historian Carl Sand- If Your Daughter burg and Chief Justice Earl Warren. Sandburg has taken a Marries a Catholic . . . fatherly interest in Together since it was in the idea stage. TOGETHER readers in Whenever he is in Chicago he phones us, his agile mind pouring forth ideas. Thanks to one of these conversations, we are able all parts of the country to- Face Christ, page 9. Justice Warren to bring you his The of day are asking for re- recently visited India; now he reports on what he observed. prints of Bishop H. Clifford You'll find his analysis of India's problems—and possible solu- tions—on page 10. Northcott's penetrating article on this subject ap- pearing in the November, What's an Unusual Methodist? Our editors feel it's a Meth- 1956, issue. odist whose life and/or occupation will interest other Method- Now additional reprints ists who don't know him. On page 14, you'll meet some of these interesting people—and maybe you'll know others who fill the are available. You'll find bill. If you do, let's hear from you! them invaluable in home, adult classes, and youth dis- OUR CAMERA CLIQUE cussion groups. (Credits are separated from left to right by comma; top to bottom by Price is $2.25 a hundred. dashes.) Bot.. bottom; cen., center; exc, except; If., left; rt., right. Order from Reprint Editor, 10—United Press—Ewing Galloway • 11 —Religious News Service • 13—Fritz Hefllc TOGETHER, 740 N. Rush • 14—United Press—Library of Congress • 15—rt., Gene Cook • 22 —United Press • 24-27—Nolan Patterson, Black Star • 33—Religious News Service • 35—David Corson. St., Chicago 11. III. Shostal • 36—J. C. Allen and Co., Town Journal • 37—Josef Muench, Horticulture • 38—Horticulture • 40—Gottsche-Schleisner, Horticulture • 41 —Leo Aarons • 42 Josef Muench, Arizona Highways • 53—Religious News Service • 61—Robert W. Luebke • 65—Garrett Biblical Institute • 72 —United Press • 74—Charles W. Keysor ANSWER TO PUZZLE, PAGE 53 (Leica, Tri-X, F-5.6 at 1/4(1, forced development) • 75-76—Bill Riddle, Methodist Television, Radio, and Film Commission. There are 4 Easter rabbits. 74 Together/Apr;/ J 957 hm U. S. Methodists: il.6 Million for Korea fit Korea becomes Asia's first Protest- It nation, as many leaders think may Jppc.n within 10 years, U. S. Method- is can take much of the credit. ; In 1954 the Methodist Council of shops urgently appealed for funds to tip the war-torn, autonomous Korean Methodist church. Critics, however, as- liled the appeal as ill-timed—Ameri- iii churches, they pointed out, already pere involved in raising millions for ccial causes at home and overseas. Now a final report brings good news: lorean contributions soared to $1,661,- |>3, tar in excess of expectations. Spent I us far: $1,5(10,272. The appeal, the report shows, ac- lally came at perhaps the most oppor- tune hour in Korean Methodism's 72- tar history—and touched off a chain I events affecting the church for years I come. Already, churches have re- couped and rebuilt. Morale, badly mattered by the death of leaders and ie destruction of churches, zoomed. Membership climbed from a 1952 low ' 23,000 to 38,000 in 1956, constitu- At Yonsan, friendly villagers greet Bishop Richard Raines of Indianapolis, chair- te v (members, potential members, and man of appeal fund, and Bishop H. Lew, head of the Korean Methodist church. fiends) from 38,000 to 110,000, places f. t worship from 540 to 1,018. I Koreans made such progress that he Methodist Church named their na- ton as one of four due to receive extra loney and missionary manpower in lie 1956-1960 period. Said grateful lishop H. J. Lew, head of the Korean liurch: "You, the friends in America, lave given us the aid and inspired us rith the strength to carry on." ' Specifically, Methodist money (70 per ent distributed by the Division of IVorld Missions, 30 per cent by the Methodist Committee for Overseas Re- lef) did these things: I Rebuilt or repaired 344 damaged hurches. I Repaired Methodist Theological Temporary tent churches string across Korea north of the iSth Parallel, : ing face to face the conflicting ideologies of Christianity and Communism. I land c hiseled rot /\. blasted from surrounding will raise a new Methodist church on a prominent hilltop overlooking Pusan, 75 Seminary; Chosun Christian University; Severance Union Hospital, medical col- lege, and nurses' school. • Repaired such Methodist high schools as Pai Chai in Seoul, where President Syngman Rhee learned Eng- lish, and leader-training centers. The money also sparked such proj- ects as the Boys' Democratic Town on Chinoo-do Island. Here "slickey boys," whom police round up from Pusan streets, receive shelter and guidance. Too, the Bishops' Appeal helped keep alive 4,000 orphans in 31 institutions supervised by MCOR representatives, and supported, unaided, the families of 76 unsalaried Methodist chaplains serving the Korean armed forces. In addition, it provided the Methodist share of an interdenominational pro- Rising from war ruins is this new church at Nonsan—one of gram caring for 1,200 amputees, built hundreds built or repaired by funds from the Bishops' Appeal. 100 homes, a community center, and a workshop for war widows with small children. The fund made possible, too, a re- habilitation program along the 38th Parallel, and 21 other projects, includ- ing hostels for boys studying in Seoul, bicycles for workers, and an agricul- tural center. Major needs now are for more mis- sionaries, better missionary housing, and funds for church construction and repair, authorities say. Though the present missionary force is the largest since World War II, there are still about 40 fewer missionaries than in 1940. The church hopes to erase this deficit by 1960. The Rev. Thoburn T. Brumbaugh, secretary for Korea, Japan, and Oki- nawa, summed up the situation before the Board of Missions: "What the peo- Methodists, in co-operation with other denominations, help support Ewha ple find missing in their ancient nature University (enrollment, 4,000) a Christian institution for women in Seoul. cults—which tell them what to do but have no power to help them do it—they are finding in the Christian faith." Grim reminder of the days before the United Nations armistice and Bishops' Appeal for Korea, this rusting tan\ hul\ lies in a river bed along the Taejon-Suwon highway. Tbh " ue - Give a Bible for Easter J0HN WESlEY The gift that becomes more IN the beginni valuable with the years and the Word the Word was Go STUDENT'S LEATHEROID BIBLE WITH STUDY HELPS (Illustration above). Printed in bold, self-pronouncing type on extra-thin Bible paper. Leatheroid binding with morocco grain; flexible, over-lapping covers; gold-stamping. Page size: 7x4% inches. 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