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Together How I Listen to God BY HARRY A. BULLIS ive Mi*Lmo-«JJt M a*yCu>2sl+ue fo* Me4Juo-JLiAU rf.a*tUsU*A. ^eMA^Ku^tf, 1959 For AIL Ckildten,: Fosin. ax God American Bo)

By LOWELL B. HAZARD

A,.ND A VOICE said, "For all children there is the right to a faith that will sustain them in today's world!' And I said, "What children? And what faith?" Then I seemed to see all the children of all the world marching single file across my vision—

White children and black children, children in trailer parks and migrant camps,

well-dressed children and ragged children, children in mushroom communities,

children whose language I could understand, children in dying communities,

and children whose language I could not understand, refugee children, unwanted children, happy children and friglitened children, children born and children spawned,

children in homes and children without homes, handicapped children and sick children,

safe children and wanderi?ig children, the mentally retarded, the mentally precocious,

playing children and watching children, wide-eyed children and hard-eyed children,

children in the wide-open spaces the children I know and children crowded like rats in a warren, and the children I have passed by. f

All these children passed single file across my vision, I listened, but the words did not satisfy me; I stirred and the children of my own community were among impatiently. I cried, "How can they believe in beauty? them—everyone. Many have never seen beauty. Or in love, when some And I said, "O Lord, all these?" have never known love? How can they believe in Think not in a mass, but one by one of all the chil- honor, when today's world provides them with so dren of your community and of all the world until many lessons in dishonor? Or in the eternal Tightness your mind grows tired counting them and your heart of the universe, whose universe has betrayed them be- grows sore thinking about them. Think! fore they were born? Or in You, when they do not

And a Voice said, "For all children there is the right know You?" to a faith that will sustain them in today's world!' And the Voice answered, "That is your job. Go out

And I said, "What faith?" Then the heavens seemed to all the children of the world. Bring them the love to open and the Voice replied, "Faith in goodness, that they must know, to know Me; the beauty they faith in beauty, faith in honor, faith in love, faith in must see, to see Me. Introduce them into the world of the eternal Tightness of the universe, faith in Me, honor; be the advance guard of a universe that does their God." not betray!"

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John The Baptist is emerging from the haze of history as a very real person according to new light thrown on his times by the Dead Sea Scrolls. Read a penetrating analysis of this new found information John The Baptist Today by Biblical Scholar Dr. W. F. Albright of John Hopkins University.

"Folly, stupidity and malevolence are al- ways our real ene- mies" states historian Bruce Catton, editor of American Herit- age magazine. His Ever yearn for an old fashioned stimulating "To Sur- Sunday dinner down on the farm vive, Man Must the kind grandpa talks about? Serve" appears in the Then you will savor Homer Croy's March TOGETHER. nostalgic recollections in "Our Wonderful Sunday Dinner." FUTURE

MM Mme. Chiang Kai-shek wil relate her living faith in a YOU'LL WANT TO REA lenten article, "What Res- urrection Means To Me", These and other exceptional features are welcomed in one of the "Personal Tes- timony" features appear- over Methodist 900,000 homes every month. Yet it ing in Together. Her in- is only the continued growth of the All Family spiring philosophy will ap- pear in next month's issue. Subscription Plan that makes it possible for

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next month. "So real . . . impressive" raved Together staff members who photograph- ed the annual American Passion Play in Bloomington, Illinois, as it was presented this past year. You and your entire family will want to save this unusual pictorial to show to your friends and relatives. Is thy heart right, as my heart is In this issue: with thine? Dost thou love and For All Children: Faith in God Lowell B. Hazzard 1 serve God? It is enough. I give thee

How I Listen to God Harry A. Bullis 11 the right hand of fellowship. LjJ —John Wesley (1703-1791) Ten Minutes With Death Annabel Morris Buchanan 12

Uncle Gabe Elmer Hinton 15 associated with churches, OCOUTING has long been A Religion With Depth Ralph W. Sockman 16 both here and abroad—and The Methodist Church, with Where Laymen Come In Richard C. Raines 18 12,678 Scout units, far outstrips all other Protestant de- nominations. So chances are your church will join in A Way Out for Shut-Ins Catharine Brandt 19 the observance of Scout Sunday in February, anniversary They Rang 1,000 Doorbells (Pictorial) 20 month of the Boy Scouts of America. 'He Loved Me Truly' It all noes back to an American businessman who lost Bernadine Bailey & Dorothy Walworth 24 his way in a London fog in 1909—and to the small boy who courteously directed him to his destination. The boy God's Mysterious Way Harry Claxton 27 declined a tip, explaining he was a British Boy Scout Unusual Methodists 28 doing a good turn. Is Religion on TV a Flop? (Midmonth Powwow) The late William D. Boyce, a Chicago publisher, was so impressed by the boy's helpfulness that he accompanied Paul Molloy, Ed Stanley, S. Franklin Mack 30 him to the office of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of Another Headache for France Roul Tunley 33 Scouting. Their conversation led to the start of Scouting Bolivia, A Land of Decision (Color Pictorial) 35 in this country—a movement which we, with all Ameri- cans, salute with pride. 'Just Lean on Me, Grandpa' Dorothy Van Ark 43

She Plays It Pianissimo Nona B. Thompson 60 Scouts, of course, have always been known for their Unusual Congregation (Pictorial) 63 high ideals. And speaking of ideals, we hear there's a trend in publishing back to those expressed in the Horatio News of the World Parish 9, 66 Alger books. After decades of scoffing at up-from-the- Where Washington First Made History ranks success through old-time pluck, grit, and hard Richard C. Underwood 74 work, it has been decided that Alger's heroes may have had something after all. Certainly there are some dis- tinguished gentlemen around to offer living proof. One SPECIAL FEATURES AND DEPARTMENTS of them is Harry A. Bullis, recently retired as chairman of the board of General Mills, whose Personal Testimony, Letters 4 Browsing in Fiction 55

How I Listen to God, is on page 11. Teens Together 45 Vour Faith and Church . 57 Harry Bullis earned his way through college as a sewing-machine salesman—and won his Phi Beta Kappa Spiritual Efficiency 46 Small Fry 58 ey en route. When he was hired for a lowly job at Light Unto My Path 48 Methodist Almanack 67 General Mills, he not only did a full day's work on the Looks at Books .... 50 Photo Credits 77 irst shift; he stayed around to learn what he could on che second shift! For years, his knowledge of practically :very job at General Mills and his Christian concern for jeople have been priceless assets to his company. lOtJQthCr, the Midmonth Magazine for

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Selected Bits from Your Letters

Only Adah Omitted portance to the moral and physical MRS. VERNON GRANT welfare of the traveling public that the 86th Congress will undoubtedly take Valley City, N.Dak. some action to curb the objectionable Your Women of the Bible [December, practice. 1958, page 35] gave me great pleasure. The House of Representatives once I am a member of the Order of Eastern overwhelmingly endorsed a bill to out- Star and our heroines of the Bible are law intoxicants on airlines and it is Adah, Ruth, Esther, Martha, and Electa, reasonable to expect that the Senate the Elect Lady. will follow suit. If the people back LAST CALL Is it possible to get copies of these home really want this legislation it pictures to hang in our temple? is my judgment that Congress will re- spond to their requests. for Sorry, no. But if arrangements jor reprints are made, we'll pass word along through these columns—Eds. Church Should Speak Out

COLOR LOUIS J. BOZMAN .' 'Horrible, Unnatural, Unreal . . West Plains, Mo. Photographs MRS. ESTHER ANDERSON At a meeting of our Commission on Mesa, Ariz. Social Relations we discussed Drinking on Airlines? The commission voted The Women of the Bible are horrible, unnatural, and unreal. Bible women unanimously to endorse the belief held Don't forget February 10th! All were of Assyrian, Jewish, Arabian, by Helen Chase, secretary, Air Line color transparencies to be considered Egyptian types, which means they had Stewards and Stewardesses Association. believe that as a Christian nation for Together's pictorial illustrating pointed noses and were tall and slender. We are not in the minority the beloved hymn, America, must All of your women are blondes or faded we group as date. Stuart G. Tipton, president of the Air be received by that blondes with blue eyes. Mary is the If you'd like to share choice Transport Association of America, would your only one fit to see. Ruth and Martha have believe. color-photo shots with other readers are wearing the same wig. Esther ap- us We feel that our church should take —but just haven't gone through pears to be about 14, Mary about 15. your slide files or taken those pic- a positive stand on this issue and speak tures you've been dreaming up do out against anything harmful to the 'Women . . . Magnificent'! it today! Twice readers have created individual and the nation. FARRIS F. MOORE, District Sup't. outstanding Together color pic- Nashville, Tenn. torials. Here's your opportunity to Wanted: More Statistics build a third and help others get I want to express my appreciation for — MARCIUS E. TABER the fine quality of the December issue. a refreshed understanding of what Pentwater, Mich. this country means to you. If we receive nothing more than the Re Drinking on Airlines? : If handling America is No. 489 in The Meth- art, which is shown in Women of the of problems rising out of serving drinks odist Hymnal, or it can be found in Bible, we certainly will be more than aloft increases mental and emotional almost any other book of songs or repaid for subscription costs. This work strain on pilot and stewardess, then it hymns. Read its stirring words, then is magnificent! cannot be said that serving liquor intro- put your imagination—and your duces no hazard to safety. camera—to work. She's Agin Whamdoodlery The subjective matter of such things Send us as many transparencies JAMES H. MISHEFF, Pastor as strain can easily be overlooked in (not prints or the orange-colored Cincinnati, Ohio investigations. But are the airlines or negatives from which Kodacolor Both Mrs. Misheff and I think To- the Civil Aeronautics Board willing to prints are made) as you wish. gether is a splendid magazine. What I release the figures on the proportion of We'll pay $25 for 35-mm slides used, think doesn't matter too much. But what accidents on airlines, and deaths on $35 for larger transparencies, all she thinks does matter, for she is an flights, where liquor was served in com- reproduction rights to become To- acid critic of bogus writing, wham- parison with those flights where it was gether's property. Include return doodlery, and horse-thievery. So, you're not served? postage, please; we'll use all reason- doing a good job. able care in handling and will return She's a Proud Teacher! all transparencies not used. If con- Needed: 'Back Home' Voice venient, indicate camera, film, lens GRACE CRANDALL opening, speed. DR. CARADINE R. HOOTON Colorado Springs, Colo.

But be sure we have your trans- General Board of Temperance I have never been so proud to be a parencies by February 10th. Mail to: of The Methodist Church public-school teacher and a Methodist Washington, D.C. as when I read Why Don't Methodists Methodists can be grateful for your Have Parochial Schools? [November, Photo Editor, TOGETHER timely Powwow, Drinking on Airlines? 1958, page 30]. As a teacher for over 740 N. Rush St. [December, 1958, page 26]. 30 years, I see some faults in our Chicago 11, III. The issue is indeed of such vital im- schools, but anything controlled by

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Testament) there is no barrier to aug- This is a newly formed group of young menting "togetherness" and making adults in one of the oldest churches in Methodists of Moslems (except that the St. Louis area, Mt. Zion Methodist

the Moslems might not go for it) . Miss Church. In the left center are our pastor Thompson hasn't proposed lumping and his wife, the Rev. and Mrs. Jared Moslems and Methodists, but she has Taylor. proposed what is tantamount to some We chose "Together" because we felt sort of "simultaneous evangelistic em- that the name and the publication phasis" with them. exemplify a vital Christian spirit. We ear subscribe 100 per cent, and feel that 3i Rader Data Together is a must in every Methodist MRS. M. A. HILL home. Olympia, Wash. Well, well—here is something new in Barnabas [November, 1958, page 55] Methodism. And we are especially proud asked about "the Reverend Rader" that the people who selected the name Dr. Daniel L. Rader. I am his grand- are young!—Eds. daughter. After my grandfather left nous I Wyoming he was a preacher in Denver, Candle Clows on Campus Colo., then went to St. Paul, Minn., and MRS. EARL ROADMAN then to Tacoma, Wash., where he was GREATEST DEVELOPMENT Dike, Iowa pastor of the First Methodist Church. I I was delighted to read The Candle in IN CARILLON MUSIC think it was in 1904 that he was sent to Portland, Oreg., as the editor of The the Forest [December, page 16]. I am personally interested in this beautiful SINCE THE BELL ITSELF! Pacific Christian Advocate, which now has united with Together. story, since it has become a Christmas tradition on the campus of Morningside Our thanks to Dr. Rader's grand- College at Sioux City. Each Christmas daughter jor interesting information on season the college president's wife is this Westerner's life.—Eds. asked to read it to the college girls gathered around the Christmas tree in

She Stopped Procrastinating! Dimmitt Hall. For 20 years I had this MRS. CHARLES B. HASSON privilege. The girls never tired of it Calhoun, Ga. and felt that it was a sort of spiritual preparation for their Christmas What a procrastinator I am! Ever home- coming. since I received my first copy of To- gether my gratitude for the wonderful This story is particularly fitting for a spirit of the magazine has been bound- day in which it seems easy to substitute that can for less. things money buy the things There's no bigotry, littleness of spirit, that money can never buy. narrowness of presentation in Together. INSPIRING NEW It has a Christlike spirit and faces facts Many Rooms Disappointing with dignity and truth. Some of the MRS. MYRTLE FAUCETT criticism in letters is unfair. I like con- Indianola, Iowa structive criticism which offers ideas of As one born in India of Methodist- AMERICANA® growth, not narrowness and prejudice. missionary parents, and who married How I pray for an open mind and the a Methodist missionary, and lived in awareness of others' needs in spirit as Bells India 55 years, I take exception to much as in physical needs! By SCHULMERICH Bishop Kennedy's recommendation of Robin White's House Many Rooms Young People Co Together! of Inspired by world-famed CARIL- [Browsing in Fiction, December, 1958, LON AMERICANA® Bells at JACK ROTHER page 53]. Robin White was born in St. Louis, Mo. Brussels Worlds Fair . . . this in- India and lived there until he was 16.

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what bizarre customs he can remember from his childhood or conceive in his brain and used these as props for his story. But he has exploited India to write a modern "popular" book that will shock, amuse, and startle.

Here's Bro. Van's Song

E. E. PECK Dalhart, Tex.

I was much interested in Saint in Stirmps [July, 1958, page 18] because

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The seed I have scattered in springtime with weeving, Safety and a Share in World-wide Missions And watered with tears and with dews from on high; Another may shout when the harvesters investment accomplishes reaping No other you can make so Shall gather my grain in the sweet much. Send for booklet "Bright Horizons" and learn by-and-by. full details of the triple benefits which you will enjoy Another may reap what in springtime I've planted, Puerto Rican Boys under The Annuity Plan. Your income, guaranteed Another rejoice in the fruit of my pain— Not knowing my tears when in summer I for life, never varies, is not affected by financial or fainted While toiling, sadhearted, in sunshine and economic conditions and is always paid on time. rain. Your return (up to 7.4%) is further increased because The thorns will have choked and the summer you enjoy a tax reduction on income and a gift de- sun blasted The most of the seed which in springtime duction on a part of the principal sum. I've sown; But the Lord who has watched while my weary toil lasted Annuity reserves are handled in accordance with the Will give me a harvest for what I have done. New York State insurance laws and are kept in a segre- Chorus: Children of Great Smoky Mountains gated fund which cannot be used for any other purpose. Over and over, yes, deeper and deeper, My heart is pierced through with life's sorrowing cry, Missionary outreach is the true work of the church. But the ears of the sower and the songs of ." the reaper "Go ye . . applies to every Christian. Recognizing Shall mingle together in joy by-and-by. this, many long to do something substantial for mis- sions but need an income during life. The Annuity Christmas Quandary Quelled Plan provides the answer. You make the largest MRS. VERNER W. FALK possible gift to the extension of Oakfield, Wis. while enjoying the Kingdom Each Christmas I am in a quandary as

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1959 WARNING Together NEWSLETTER from The Wall Street Journal

During the next three months, you will need to keep up to the minute on news affecting your future and the fu- ture of your business. Because the reports in The Wall Street 38,000 MISSIONARIES. Protestant missionaries over the Journal come to you DAILY, you get world now number 38,606. So reports the National Council the fastest possible warning of any new trend that may affect your business and of Churches' division of foreign missions. The total personal income. You get the facts in has increased 50 per cent in 22 years-but the agency- time to protect your interests or to seize warns that trends toward nationalism may have an effect quickly a new profit-making opportunity. To assure speedy delivery to you any- of workers accepted in the future in on the number where in the United States, The Journal such areas as Africa. It also says a "fellow worker is printed daily in five cities—New York, with the church" concept is replacing the old-time Washington, Chicago, Dallas and San Francisco. You are promptly and reli- ' paternalistic attitude. [See Are Foreign ' Missions ably informed on every major new development regarding Prices, Taxes, Thr o ugh? , January, 1959, page 32.] Consumer Buying, Government Spend- ing, Inventories, Financing, Production South Baltimore, Md., Methodists wound TWO FOR FIVE. up Trends, Commodities, Securities, Mar- 20 years of talk in 1958 by reducing their churches from keting and New Legislation. five to two. All were located within a quarter-mile The Wall Street Journal has the largest staff of writers on business and finance. It radius and all were suffering from the changing social costs $24 a year, but in order to acquaint pattern. In two separate mergers, four churches you with The Journal, we make this whose history covers 125 years-the South Baltimore offer: You can get a Trial Subscription for three months for $7. Just send this ad Station, Light Street, Patterson, and Lowe Memorial- with check for $7. Or tell us to bill you. have become the Good Shepherd Methodist Church. The Address: The Wall Street Journal, 44 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y. T-2 fifth church, Fort Avenue, did not join the merger.

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10 Together/February 1959 J J* Personal Testimony

How I Listen

to God

Byn HARRY A. BULLIS

A Methodist layman, Mr. Bullts recently retired HEN I was a youngster, I was a skinny, w as chairman of the board, General Mills, Inc. stammering, self-conscious, six-foot bean pole of a boy who suffered a dreadful inferiority com- plex. My mother, a devout Methodist, worried about my anguished state of mind. God's helpful guidance may come out of a

One day, when I was moodier than usual, clear sky, while I am talking with someone or she said: "Harry, you go out into the woods reading a book. It has come to me in a strato- and talk over your troubles with God." plane over the Atlantic, or in a taxi hurrying

I called my dog and walked out into the still, through the streets of downtown Minneapolis.

green forest. In all my youthful earnestness, I And when I have had the courage to follow what

asked God for help. I waited and listened, my I believed to be God's will, I have reached de-

dog silent beside me. Finally, I thought I heard cisions that proved to be right. But when I

God say: lacked the necessary courage, I failed.

"Harry, you've got to stop being ashamed of My experience with prayer and listening si-

yourself. Lift up your head. Straighten your lence has convinced me that God is order in

shoulders. Walk forward with honesty and cour- the midst of doubt and confusion. I have found

age, and you will fight and win your way up to it is possible for me to listen to God. Sometimes

a good life." I go into a room and sit there for 10 minutes,

That is when I learned the secret of what I relaxing, praying, listening for God's guidance.

call "listening silence." After every talk I have In these busy, exciting times we must seek

with God I sit back and listen for his guidance. God's guidance more fervently than ever before.

I have talked to him many times about my I fear that our intelligence and experience have various responsibilities and about my personal not prepared us tor the crises ahead. Anyone

problems. In the business world, I have had who denies that we need God on our side as

many vital decisions to make. These affect we march along the years is either arrogant or

the lives of thousands who work with me or infantile. I am convinced that if we learn to who depend on my judgment. attune ourselves and listen receptively, the an- Up to a certain point, I try to trust my own swers will come. Perhaps not all at once. Per- intelligence and experience. But I have no high haps not entirely to our liking. But they will opinion of my intelligence. Countless times in surely give us new confidence, spiritual poise,

mv career I have realized that I alone was not and power.

up to making the plans and decisions I had to Our forefathers were strong men with cour-

make. I needed help. At those times I have age and aggressive self-conhdence. But they did

never forgotten what I learned in the forest. I not rely entirely on their knowledge or experi- put mvself into a mood of receptive listening, ence. Thev had an abiding faith in God.

alone and silent, waiting for some help or signal When I take my problems to God humbly from God. and listen to him receptivelv. my confusion and

Through the years he has never failed me. I pessimism give way to optimism. My faith in

know that his voice is waiting to be heard, if I God has given me faith in myself and faith in seek out and find a corner of silence. mv future.

February 1959\Together a —

Flames! Smoke! A child's innocent remark gave the learning; a brave mother saved their lives.

Ten Minutes With Death

By ANNABEL MORRIS BUCHANAN

I T BEGAN like any other mid- Already the stairway exit was cut off. fury within. But they were calling to January morning, with the cold, gray And my husband was asleep on the us, and men came running with a mist of southwestern Virginia grad- other side! ladder. I turned back to my children, ually turning to sleet. In our second- At once I started to run through to reassure them. floor apartment I had donned my to wake him. But in that instant the "Mother'll be back—I'm going for most housewifely garments and flat- monstrous black shape before me, Daddy. They'll get you down. Don't heeled shoes, and was busy with a sweeping up the stairs, billowed into move!" general shining of kettles, cupboards, a giant of destruction, hurling at me I do not know how much of this and kitchen. My husband, convales- the most agonizing decision a woman I said. My whole being was one ago- cing from a recent illness, was asleep can be called to make. Should I try nized prayer. O God, let me reach in a room on the other side of a cen- to save my husband or my children? him in time! Let my children be tral hallway. Our five-year-old son The answer was instantaneous— safe! was absorbed watching Susy, the flame-quick revelation of the chil- With the children's rescue appar- goldfish, cavorting in her globe dren's probable fate if I left them. ently only a few seconds away, and among ferns and flowering plants My husband might wake, or others the closed door momentary protec- on the broad window shelf beside me. might discover the fire and call him. tion from the fire, I ran back to the The kitchen door opened and my But my children were solely depend- kitchen door which led into the hall, little girl came in. ent on me now. If I started down the intending to creep on hands and

"Mother," she remarked, "I saw hall they might try to follow, calling, knees until I reached that room be- Dr. Brockman running, with fire "Daddy." yond the stair well. under his feet." Suddenly I realized I had been I tugged at the doorknob and the

"Did you, darling?" I responded calling his name over and over, door burst open. I was thrown flat absently. After all, her six-year-old though the screams of warning could on the floor as a black wall of smoke fantasies were no more farfetched not possibly have been heard over the surged in. The hall just beyond was than my own had been at her age, increasing roar of the fire. And if an inferno. Nothing could get and I generally humored them. I could not get back to them . . . through. And I had left my husband

"But I did see him. Mother!" All this had taken only a second asleep.

"Oh, darling, perhaps you just or two. I slammed the door shut and Dazed, my eyes full of smoke, yet imagined it." rushed the children to a big front with something racing within and

I had seen Dr. Brockman leave window in my room, adjoining the shaking me into action, I managed to his rooms, adjoining ours, only a kitchen. The hall door in that room get back on my feet and pushed with few minutes before, and we were the was closed and locked. I would throw all my strength at the door until the only occupants of the second floor. open the window, place the children catch held—for how long? I could But, to satisfy her and carry out the beside it, and call to someone in hear window glass crashing to the lancy (or was there a note of anxiety the street two stories below to bring floor on the other side. The whole in her voice?), I went to the door, a ladder for them, while I ran back building was quivering under some- opened it—and almost fell backward through the hall. Perhaps I still could thing menacing, monstrous. It was from the shock. get through to my husband. death.

The long hallway was black with People had begun to gather on I rushed back to the children. I smoke billowing up the central stair- the street below. I shouted to them, had left them only a few seconds be- way, lashed by fugitive tongues of begging help for my husband, point- fore, but in those seconds something flame. Incredibly, in the space of a ing to the room where he lay, calling in me had answered the challenge of few minutes, the building was on for a ladder to get the children down. that hideous advancing destruction. fire. Even in that dazed second I Although my voice was a shriek, bv I was not me any more. I was a watched, the flames increased in size, this time it could not be heard above cringing human being, facing a cer- the ominous rumbling grew heavier. the hubbub outside and the raging tain and terrible fate. But I acted

n Together/February 1959 "I could feel heat from the

fire below through my thin-soled shoes.

'Dear God, don't let the floor give way!' Again, with agonizing clarity,

I heard the call of death." perhaps automatically, I do not know. Again, with agonizing clarity, I It all had been so incredibly sud- There was only the ghastly feeling of heard the call of death. den, with no warning! From the fur- having failed to rescue my husband; Frantically, I shoved aside the nace room, the monstrous fire jinni

now I must not fail in this other, plants and the goldfish bowl on the had leaped, full grown, up the stair- perhaps even more peremptory duty. big window shelf. In that instant the way. And only a little girl's crossing

1 must get my children out. thought leaped into my mind of peo- the hall to give her innocent warning They were still at the window and ple who, under terrific stress, had had saved her own life—and probably I caught them up, trying to place suddenly found themselves able to the lives of two others!

them on the ledge so the men could accomplish the impossible. Was it the rescue them. My little son was ter- answer to a desperate prayer? rified. Both must have thought I I threw myself against the window o,'UTSIDE, the sleet fell cold upon meant to throw them down onto the —and it flew upward as if made of us. Our coats and winter clothing

street below. I leaned out to help cardboard. In another second the now were fuel for the flames. Fire- place them on the ladder—and the heavy screen went clattering to the men had reached our rooms in time ladder wasn't there! roof below. to save the few things farthest from Fire and smoke belched from the God, the fresh air! The wonder- the stairway. But in that 10 minutes

windows below us. Outside, people Jill, beau ti fid world! of destruction, most of our pos-

were gesticulating, shouting, point- 1 dragged the children up beside sessions had been lost. Pathetic heaps

ing. Suddenly I understood. me, and there, hurrying to us across which had been tossed out of "Get away from that window!" the low, flat roof below, were men the windows lay on the ground about They were pointing back of us, running to meet us with a ladder. In us. A few yards away was a smoking, motioning us toward the kitchen. another few seconds they had car- water-soaked pile of exquisitely flow- Even as we huddled together, smoke ried the children down. ered silk and lace—my favorite eve- and flame billowed over our heads. Then I discovered again the hid- ning dress, worn only a short time Fire had broken through the door den power available behind fear and before at a candlelit colonial tea.

and wall of my room, and we were stress. Never in my life had I gone There were other things in the engulfed in blackness. Death had down a ladder except by clinging to apartment that the firemen did not

called for us all. the rungs and creeping down back- have time to reach, prized possessions

I dragged both children to the ward on hands and knees. Now, with they did not know where to find had

kitchen door, but my son broke away hardly a thought of what I was do- there been time.

and, apparently crazed with fear, ran ing, I stepped from the window and Our grand piano, my husband's straight back toward the fire. My ran lightly down the ladder. wedding present to me and the pride

mind clicked. I reached him almost Other men pressed up to help us of my heart, had stood in the room on the instant, and—unbelievably, as from the low roof to the ground. at the head of the stairway, directly

I look back—slapped him. It worked. And, running toward the foot of the in the path of the flames. Books (I was to find, years later, that he was second ladder, reaching the spot just handed down in our families, treas-

trying to reach my coat, near where as I did—his face cut, covered with ured linens and silver, keepsakes, the fire had broken through, for me smoke and grime, hands bleeding and paintings, family records—not to to wear outside.) We three ran to- burned—there was my husband. mention furniture, rugs, and clothing gether into the kitchen, slamming the "Oh, John, John, I thought you for everyday needs—most of these we door behind us. Death might be kept were dead!" would never see again, or only as

at bay a few seconds longer. "Honey, I tried to reach you! I they had become blackened and dis- crawled along the hall in the smoke figured. and fire to get you and the children As the sleet beat down upon us,

ZjLS I ran to the wide kitchen win- —and the door was locked!" He tried we stood, my husband and I, with

dow, I remembered that for weeks to hold us all in his arms at once. arms clasped around our children and

1 had not been able, with all the Then it seemed as if the whole each other—and we laughed. Those

strength I could muster, to budge town were crowding around us. We around us thought we were hysterical

it. It had become wedged tight. And were safe. We were together again from the 'shock and reaction. But we

I never had been able to move the as a family. In broken sentences, were not. We suddenly realized, with heavy screen on the outside. our friends told of their joy at our our worldly possessions in flames, Now we had no other hope. In escape, of their efforts to reach us that we still had each other and our that closed room, all sounds from the after a sudden explosion in the fur- children. We had love. street were absent. There was the nace room had doomed the building; In those first few minutes of the ominous, continuous falling of win- of Dr. Brockman's discovering the reprieve death had granted us, I think dow glass around us, as one window fire on his way out and running back we both came face to face with a after another gave way. There was upstairs to call my husband, of both profound, universal truth: that even

the dull, menacing roar of the fire, trying to reach us. I learned that the if one of us had been forced to answer

and, more and more, that ghastly two, on finding escape through the the call, and leave the other, love it- shuddering of the entire building. I hall cut off for all, had crawled along self would not have been touched.

could feel heat from the fire below the window ledge outside, clinging Now, these many years later, I through my thin-soled shoes. Dear to the building and calling for help know that love endures—even on the God, don't let the floor give way! for us still trapped within. other side of death.

14 Together/February 1959 —

He rarely spoke out— but when he d Uncle Gabe

By ELMER HINTON

I RECKON it was the only time to put up the rest of the money. Uncle Gabe to speak up in church.

in his life that Uncle Gabe ever spoke Now they'd been hoping Uncle "Now I ain't a-sayin' one way er out in public. But chances are old Gabe would side with them. They t'other on this organ question," he

Caney Fork Methodist Church never felt he was the one person who could began. "But I calkilate the devil is

would have got an organ if he put it over, though it made them un- a-gittin' his enjoyment outten all this hadn't. easy when they wondered about how argyment."

The old folks were talking about he'd do it. "Amen!" bellowed Brother Brooks, that a while back when we decided They remembered some of his the pastor. Up to then Brother Brooks to trade in the old piano for a new methods in the past, especially when had straddled the organ issue until one. It didn't take hardly any effort dealing with the tightwads of the he had a pretty good balance.

to raise the money for that. congregation. Then there was the "Now I heer," Uncle Gabe went "Gittin' a organ back in them days time he went outside the congrega- on, "that the folks over at Goshen and a new pianner now is a mighty tion to get a liberal donation toward Church has bought a new organ

different thing," said Reed Amos. putting a new roof on the church. didn't have no fuss 'r feathers over

"Back then a organ was just a wedge That caused a big uproar. it, either. But I guess they just get

to split the congregation in two." It came from a man who didn't along better'n we do. I don't keer,

"Shore was," added Rufe Barlow. belong to any church. Which was all though, if people say Goshen Church "An' I figger we'd still be a-pitchin' right—only this man was reasonably can have a organ an' we can't. So,

our songs by Tut Akers' oF tunin' suspected of using his corn for some- I just say vote one way 'r t'other and fork but fer Brother Gabe." thing besides roasting ears and corn let's go home." Now some members have always meal. "That's the devil's money," looked on Uncle Gabe as a special thundered Lem Brizentine, and cross old Caney Church had to bear. Uncle Gabe snapped back, "Used to u,NCLE GABE sat down. But It's a fact he isn't a very pious man be; ain't now." That about ended he'd really thrown his Sunday punch. —except during big meetin' time and that argument and they went on and If there was one thing the pillars of

when the preacher goes to his house used the money. old Caney Church didn't want, it for dinner. He's been known to show But the discussion grew hotter and was for the folks over at Goshen to up at a game-rooster fight, but each hotter the night they met to settle the outdo them. time he vowed he just happened to organ question. "Sounds like a mighty lot of sense be passing by. "Spendin' a dollar or two distracts to what Brother Gabe says," said

But Uncle Gabe is known to be an some people more'n the devil does," Brizentine. "Maybe we've been a accommodatin' neighbor and really said Sally Jo Foster, madder than a mite off balance on this thing." lets his light shine when the church copperhead in dog days. "Amen!" roared Brother Brooks. has a tough job to do. "As fer me," spoke up Job Eskin, "I say we ort to sing a song and Most of the menfolks had been "I ain't in favor of doin' things half- pass the hat an' git the money to buy

dead set against buyin' the little foot- way. Iffen we git a organ I move this organ right off," spoke up Job

pump organ from the start. The that we buy a monkey to go with it." Eskin. women had raised all the money to "We got plenty o' monkeys with- And they did. Not only did thev date by donating their Sunday eggs out havin' to buy one," snapped Gus- raise enough to pay for the organ and butter, by quilting quilts and sie Stubblefield who sang alto in the but had enough left over to buy a selling them, and had staged one choir. new lot of songbooks. strawberry festival. But money was There was a lot more. But finally After which they sang On Jordan's hard to come by in those days and came a lull and Uncle Gabe rose Stormy Ban\s—with Uncle Gabe they didn't have but half enough to slowly to his feet. You could have joining in on the bass—and had a buy the organ. They wanted the men heard a pin drop; nobody expected big handshake all around. mm 1MB Everywhere confused and empty people are searching for A Religion With Depth

By RALPH W. SOCKMAN

I MUST MAKE a confession. For more than 40 years

I have ministered to a Methodist parish in the city that boasts it is "the gateway to a continent." I have partici- pated in uncounted meetings of churchmen, including

10 General Conferences. But until I recently traveled in the Orient, I was woefully unaware of the strategic role of our denomination in the struggle for the minds and hearts of men in the Far East. In Singapore, for example, the vitality of our Methodist institutions surprised me. And as I met professional and civic leaders who had been trained in our schools and are active in our parishes, I was swept by a challenging conclusion. Just as Britain shaped the physical planning of that great port city, so Methodism is helping mightily Dr. Soc\man is the pastor of Christ Church, to give direction to its social and spiritual future. Methodist, New Yor^ City, and is preacher We Protestants, especially, need such eye openers. But to millions on the National Radio Pulpit. it is not necessary to take a trip abroad to get them. One of the most missionary-minded persons I ever knew was tethered to a secretary's desk and never traveled more than a few hundred miles from her job. When she joined the church, she felt it was her duty to share what she the peoples of the world as human individuals. Our press had. As she gave she developed her duty into a pleasure and radio, in order to cover the world's stage every day, by cultivating acquaintance with those to whom she- have to generalize. They do so by citing governmental gave. Soon she had a wide correspondence with mis- actions and quoting official leaders. If the Kremlin speaks, sionaries and new converts. I testify that the life of that they say, "That is Russia talking." If Downing Street woman went out to the ends of the earth. utters a statement, they say, "That's England speaking." No thoughtful Christian feels that his serving and If the White House makes a pronouncement, the other saving work can be limited to his own locality. The nations say, "That is what America feels and thinks." O J world is forcing itself into our communities. The supports But America is more than Washington, Britain more of a church rest on foundations that run out beyond than Downing Street, Russia more than the Kremlin. neighborhood and nation. No church can live to itself Some persons must see behind the headlines and listen —certainly, not today! Modern communication and beyond the broadcasts in order to understand the hearts travel are making us aware of multitudes we never saw and hopes of God's other children beyond national

: or thought of a few years ago. boundaries. Who—if not we who strive to follow Christ My father had a favorite expression to describe the Dwight Morrow, businessman and diplomat, is reported utterly unreachable. Of certain proposals he was wont to have said that one of our troubles in international to say, "We can no more do that than fly to Egypt!" Yet relations is that we judge ourselves by our motives and today we fly from America to Egypt in less than 24 other people by their actions. Certainly we Americans hours. And Egypt's Nasser figures in our nation's affairs believe and assert that our motives are pure, that we more forcibly than our home-district congressman. desire nothing but peace in the world. But some nations Nasser and Nehru and Khrushchev—these names have judge us by our world-wide air bases and our world- become household words among us. The news of what cruising navies. And we must appreciate what our fears other governments are doing is broadcast into our homes would be if Russia planted airfields in Mexico and daily, even hourly. Yet despite all this, we are not seeing Canada. —

We must try to see ourselves as others see us and ed by native workers, are helping with Wesley Village try the motives of other nationalities as May, 1957, page 38 and other denominations are also to comprehend | | we would wish them to understand ours. And if we are working mightily to bring order and hope,into the chaos to have our eyes opened to see personality behind propa- and despair. The refugee hordes must find rootage or ganda and curtains, we need the added touch of Christ millions of little children will be tossed like refuse on to sharpen our insight and imagination. Along with a rubbish heap. organizations like the United Nations and Information When the Japanese Emperor disavowed his divine Services and Technical Assistance Programs must go a status, he left a spiritual vacuum in the minds of his Christlike imagination helping us to put ourselves in people, as Dr. E. Stanley Jones pointed out in Together

others' places, to see how life would look to us if our last month [page 32]. Our occupation forces did not culture and color were like theirs. We need Christ to put quite realize that fact. Now, the Japanese leaders are

charitableness into our charity. waking up to it. There is much discussion of moral

Those who belong to the white race and the strong education in their schools and press. Japan is bedeviled nations must see that helpfulness does not flow like a with youthful delinquents just as we are in America.

river from a higher to a lower level, but that it moves The devastation of war, the migration of refugees, the between nations and races as the tide moves across the mass living of crowded cities, the weakening of home ocean—on the level—drawn by the attraction of a power life—all have combined to create a rootless generation. above. As the power of the moon moves the tides of the Great areas of the world have been reduced to human

sea, so the power of God through Christ moves the dust bowls. But the waste of rootlessness is not limited

tides of conciliation and co-operation. to refugee camps and war-worn lands. One can see it in Those who have seen the refugee camps in Jordan America on college campuses. Students are groping and Pakistan, in Hong Kong and Calcutta, can hardly for something to believe in, something to hold to. Many erase from their minds the appalling evidences of human are living on short-term contracts with life, looking ahead

erosion. The government of Hong Kong has bravely to marriage and jobs, but having no philosophy of life tried to transplant the squatters from their squalid huts to give meaning and purpose. Seemingly, they just want on the hillsides of Kowloon to blocks of new buildings, to make enough to live on. Many of them are interested but with 3,000 persons to a block and families of S or vaguely in religion for they feel the emptiness of mate- more to a room, tolerable home life and moral decencv rialism, and some are studying comparative religions, of living seem far from being realized. Methodists, aid- thinking that there must be some good in all of them

'In Singapore the vitality of our Methodist institutions is helping give direction to its social and spiritual future.

I ' J H but too few of them are rooted and grounded in Christ. Where Paul Tillich, the distinguished Harvard theologian, recently wrote in the Saturday Evening Post on Re- ligion's Lost Dimension. Pointing out that popular cur- Laymen rent methods of mass evangelism and mental assurance do not reach down to our real needs, he called for a Come In recovery of depth in our religion. If there is to be any real revival of religion which will save the present and shape the future, we must present our Christian faith in By RICHARD C. RAINES a way to reach the campus as well as the crowd on the Bishop, Indiana Area, street. The church is challenged to proclaim and practice The Methodist Church a faith which is intellectually respectable, socially re- sponsible, morally reforming, and spiritually redemptive. with | HE BIBLE seems not to be concerned Here is a task too great for the pulpit. We do need what a man does to earn his living. It is no re- more good preachers and enlarged institutions for train- specter of persons—whether one is a physician, ing them—but the greatest hope of spiritual advance is in a fisherman, a teacher, or a tentmaker. But it the pew. I believe with the late Clenn Frank that start religious revival is interested in the way and the spirit in which America could a real in a few months' time, if laymen would talking about a man works. begin religion in the same straightforward, simple, matter-of- We usually define "laymen" or "laity" as non- fact way that they discuss their daily affairs. We must professional religious people—those who do not get our religious faith out of its Sunday moth balls and earn their living by serving the church. But the wear it as a working garb. This does not mean a parade word laity comes from the Greek word laos, which of piety or the current vogue of offering prayer as the meant simply "the people of God." quick way of financial success and social acceptance. It Too long have we thought that we had to means discussing and demonstrating the difference Christ leave the office, or the store, or the market makes in the practice of law and medicine, in the factory, place, or the lathe, or the bench, in order to do the field, and the office. spiritual work. It is not so! Paul was a tentmaker, At the Union Church of Tokyo, I listened one Sunday John Woolman was a tailor. John Bunyan was morning to the minister outline plans for the year ahead. a tinker. But their vocation, their call was to His stress fell on clarifying and determining the goals of that particular congregation. Should it concentrate be Christians—to witness for Christ. on non-Japanese English-speaking residents? Should it We shall come to see the sacredness of the encourage Japanese Christians to attend and strengthen common task more clearly if we lay hold upon their own Japanese churches? How can it adjust itself one of the main discoveries of the Protestant to the transiency of the American colony in Japan? Reformation, namely, the priesthood of the in- Practical questions, these, but all pivoting around the dividual believer. Martin Luther discovered that church's mission. What those Tokyo Christians were do- while God worked through the priest, he also ing should be done by laymen everywhere. What should worked through other people. He did not confine be the goals of our local church? And what is the mission himself to conveying his presence and his life of the church-at-large?

and his will to any one institution. He came to These are questions to challenge the best minds of see that every man not only could be used of our parishes. As we answer them, we will realize how missionary effort is an integral part of the church's mis- God to minister spiritual things to his neighbor sion, as branches are a part of a tree. And we shall best but that every man was meant by God to exer- show this by getting down to the roots of our faith. cise this kind of vocation. Every disciple could Doing so, maybe we shall redeem the word "mission." thus be a priest to his own soul, receiving di- Today when we read of America sending a mission to rectly from God through scripture, or through Pakistan or Thailand or Korea, it usually means a dele- Holy Spirit, direction presence of the and peace. gation of military experts to strengthen our air bases or He was also intended to be a priest to others. army equipment. Fifty or a hundred years ago a mission Our primary calling—our primary vocation was sent forth, as Christ said, to "make disciples of all —is to be witnesses for Christ by the equality of nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and

our life and the testimony of our tongue. of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to ob-

all I Spiritual work is thus not to be limited to the serve that have commanded you."

his promise was, "Lo, I with you always, to less than three tenths of one per cent of the And am the close of the age." people of God who are known as clergymen, but God grant that it may be so again! it is the privilege and, indeed, the responsibility of every disciple of Christ. And each disciple

This article by Dr. Sockman is a condensation nf a chapter in Christian must exercise this spiritual ministry to which he Strategy for :i Struggling World (SI) <>• h, published this >„,,i,tli In/ tin has been called or he begins to lose inner glow Commission mi Promotion and Cultivation of Tin Methodist Church. Copii mini he obtained from /he Central Promotional Office, ? i" .V. Rush St.. and joy and power. Chicago 11, 111., or through bookstores of the Methodist Publishing House.

18 Tosether/February 1959 Cheer up, smile, help others! Here's

A Way Out for SHUT-INS

Ry CATHAIUNE BMNDT

JLAIN, loneliness, and insecurity boys in service, to youngsters on their thing for some of your loved ones. are not easy to accept. But they are birthdays, to the ill or sorrowing. Storytelling—Even if you are manageable—if you get the vertical Your church missionaries will wel- confined to bed you can do a little slant toward daily life. Even if you come a newsy letter about church grandchild-sitting. While Mother is are literally horizontal, ill in bed, families. One woman writes to teen- busy making dinner, you can tell you can still live vertically, your eyes agers committed to detention homes, stories to the little ones. Again, help and faith fastened on the Lord above. offering friendship and a paper copy them make a family tree or fill a Newspapers and magazines carry of the Gospel of John. notebook with family anedcotes. You accounts of people who accomplish Telephone—Can you reach the may be the only one who remembers great things in their 60s and 70s. All phone? Then save time for your Great-Uncle Bob's last name. these men and women have one minister or WSCS chairman; be a Gifts—My grandmother, on her thing in common—self-confidence. telephone committee of one. By SOth birthday, began to give away her They refuse to give up. phoning, you give extra publicity to silver, china, linen, books, and other

Even if you are bedridden there is special gatherings. Remember, active cherished possessions. She sent some- no reason to feel useless. One polio- people do not have time to chat, but thing to each of her descendants on paralyzed woman even creates Christ- lonely, bereaved, or other shut-ins his birthday, graduation, or marriage. mas cards by holding brush and pen will welcome a longer call. The warmth of her love and thought- in her teeth. Another shut-in, over Handwork—If you can use both fulness circulated through the whole 80, calls her pastor regularly for a hands, this is for you. From the good family. Another shut-in, whenever list of people to pray for. Without portions of old greeting cards, cut she receives a letter from a child, disclosing personal problems, the little gift cards. Buy small envelopes writes a reply at once—and tucks in minister gives her the names of those to fit. Paste Scripture verses over the a SI bill- This practice keeps youth- who need guidance, healing, comfort. signature on suitable greeting cards. ful mail coming her way. Remember, John Milton was blind, Cut the verses from an old, large- The Bible—Keep your Bible open yet he wrote Paradise Lost. John print Bible or a religious maga- on the table beside you and ask Bunyan, in prison, wrote Pilgrim's zine. Missionaries and church-school visitors to read a few verses or a Progress. Paul, also in prison, gave teachers use the finished cards as chapter. You can even help children us, "For I have learned, in whatever memory awards. Another variation: memorize Scripture or the books of state I am, therewith to be content." Cut out magazine pictures and file the Bible.

The older you are, the easier it them by subjects in a large envelope. Yes, there is more than one way should be to find contentment—and Teachers use these as illustrations for out if you are a shut-in. Don't settle with a smile, a word of praise, and stories and class projects. for hibernation; you may still be patience, make it easy for those who Knitting—Rip up old knitted gar- equal to circulation. Even though care for you. It costs nothing to be ments and reknit them into usable poor eyesight may keep you from agreeable. There are plenty of oppor- sweaters and mittens for orphans or reading, you can still see to follow tunities for shut-ins to serve. Here for a needy family. Him. You may be hard of hearing, are some: Mending—One grandmother, too but you can still hear His voice. Letters—If you are physically able frail to go out. mended clothes for You may be weak and helpless, but to write, there are many chances for her son's family of six. Don't say you can grasp the Savior's out- you. Address envelopes for the she didn't help stretch his pay check! stretched hand and share your talents

church mailing list. Write notes to And probably you can do the same with those around you.

<'-'k MB i E

They prayed, they walked, they talked—and They Ranj

Hands linked in jriendship circle, Judy Ziegler, Jim Harding,

and Phyllis Seic\meyer (left to right) pray

jar guidance in the day's undertaking.

Or"N THE HIGH tableland of Western Nebraska a sheer bluff rises 800 feet above rolling prairies that stretch eastward as far as the eye can see. Visitors look down on what was once the Oregon Trail and see deep wagon ruts left by prairie Mood youthful evangelizers is of schooners as they went west in ma$s migration 117 years ago. reflected in faces Lori of This great prominence on the plains is Scotts Bluff, now

Harris {top), ferry Weinman, Dic\ a National Monument. It dominates historic Mitchell Pass, Wymore, and Barbara Cox as they listen and the broad, shallow twist of the North Platte River, and to discussion of mission's aims. looks out over the town of Gering, population 3,850. Wagon ruts and bluff are visible today because both have resisted the erosion of years. Not visible, but just as real and lasting, are the tracks and the deeds of a group of Nebraska young people who worked a week in Gering last July. The result: 79 teen-agers pledged to Christ. "That passed expectations—but of greater importance was the training and experience our young people received in the field of personal evangelism," declared Dr. Henry C. Beatty, pastor of Gering Methodist Church, who was host to some 50 MYF members from the Nebraska Conference. The teens arrived on a Sunday afternoon with Bibles, bed-

Together/February 1959 ,000 Doorbells

i

No one is overlooked by sharp-eyed Joan Brodhead—she even uses

this car's fender as a writing des\ to

jot down information given by a construction worker.

Not all calls are successes. Phyllis and Jim waited patiently

at this sugar-beet worker's home, but there was no answer.

Attentive team members listen as Dr. Henry Beatty

points out homes they are to visit.

Should survey show a need, teams will return to witness

^u^^SoagtHat. rolls and suitcases. The girls bedded down in the basement of the church. The boys bunked in the nearby educational building. They held a rally and they practiced the proper approach to be made when they told others what religion had meant to them.

What happened during the next seven days is typical of stepped-up Christian Witness Mission campaigns being con- ducted in communities throughout the country. But few such drives have ever been carried out with more enthusiasm and thoroughness than that of the boy-girl teams in Gering. They surveyed more than 1,000 homes, talked as witnesses for Christ to 129 persons—and they visited homes for elderly persons and talked to shut-ins. Their objectives: to find unchurched youth, to enroll other boys and girls in the MYF, to lead young people in a commit- ment to Christ, and to help each to witness as a Christian. The campaign called for rising each morning at 7 o'clock, for seminars and planning sessions, and detailed discussions of motives and methods of evangelizing with the Rev. Howard Ellis of Nashville, Tenn., youth director with the General Board of Evangelism of The Methodist Church. "It must be emphasized," said the Rev. Richard W. Dins- dale, director and chairman of the conference Board of Evan- gelism, "that the mission made a lasting impression on the participants themselves. In telling other boys and girls what Their heads bowed in prayer to asl^ for fruitful visits, Christ has meant to them, their own faith was deepened. At Cleo Messersmith stand street fohn Cronn and on a the same time their influence for good may be felt in the homes corner before calling on teens in the neighborhood. of Gering for generations to come."

"See you in church," promises fean Netherlands (right) as she bids good-by to a happy Cleo and fohn. She again attends MYF. Mealtime — means the "3Fs" food, fellowship, and fun. Kay Hamilton, for one, finds a p\e Tom Tout has told worth a guffaw.

" Ill ." . tforl{ and no play. . Not so here. With the temperature in the 90s, some

Swimming is a favorite way to relax— boys (right) use free time to read, to as pretty Sharon Bin field (in pool) tal^, or to relax on their cots in the proves as she smiles up at Patty Olson. cool basement of their living quarters.

February 1959\Together Would their hearts ever be in tune—this orphaned, backwoods boy

and his new stepmother? Soon they both knew. Years later she would say . . .

'He Loved Me Truly'

By BERHADIHE BAILEY & DOROTHY WALWORTH

1 HE BRIDE rode with her hus- chimney plastered with clay ran up and combed their matted hair with band on the high front seat of the the outside. her own clean shell comb. When the jolting wagon. She was 31 years old, Tom hallooed and a little boy ran wagon was unpacked, little Abe, and, in 1819, that was middle-aged, out of the door. He was thin as a who had not said a word, ran his for most pioneer women died early. scarecrow, and wore a ragged shirt bony fingers over such wonderful

It was a December day, cold for Ken- and tattered deerskin pants. But it things as a walnut bureau, a clothes tucky, and they were headed north was the look in his eyes that went chest, a loom, and real chairs. And toward forest country. "I reckon it'll to Sarah's heart, although it was a that night, when he went to bed he be fine weather," she said, for she look she couldn't put a name to. She had a feather mattress and a feather was the sort to make the best of got down from the wagon, opened things. her arms like a couple of wings, Yesterday Tom had arrived on and folded him close. horseback, all the way from his In- "I reckon we'll be good friends," diana farm, at her house in Eliza- she said. "Howdy, Abe Lincoln." bethtown. He had come straight to She had never been in the wilder- the point: "Miss Sally, I have no ness before; she had known small- wife and you no husband. I came town comfort. This was a one-room a-purpose to marry you. I knowed cabin, with no real floor, only packed you from a girl and you knowed me dirt. The bedstead was a makeshift from a boy. I've no time to lose. If of boards laid on sticks against the you're willin', let it be done straight wall, with a mattress of loose corn- off." husks. The bedcovers were skins and That morning they had been mar- castoflf clothing. Ten-year-old Abe ried at the Methodist parsonage. The and his 12-year-old sister had always preacher wrote down that she, Sarah slept on piles of leaves up in the loft, Bush Johnston, had been three years to which they climbed by pegs fas- a widow and Tom's wife had died tened to the wall. The furniture last winter. The horses and wagon was some three-legged stools and a Tom had borrowed waited outside. table axed smooth on top, bark side The wagon was piled high with her under. Dennis Hanks, an 18-year-old household goods, so that there was cousin of Tom's first wife, Nancy scarcely room for her three children. Hanks, was living with the family Tom had two children of his own; and had been trying to cook with the he hadn't told them he was bringing help of a Dutch oven, one battered back a new mother. There was a pot, and a couple of iron spoons. shadow in Sarah's steady blue-gray Although she must have expected a eyes when she thought about that. place far better than this, all Sarah Maybe they'd feel she didn't belong. said was, "Tom, fetch me a load of

A raft ferried the wagon across the firewood. I aim to heat some water." half-frozen Ohio River. The air This new stepmother with the rosy sharpened; the wheels sank to their face and the bright, curly hair hubs in snow. After five days they wasted no time. As soon as the water came to a log cabin in a small clear- steamed, she brought out of her own ing on Little Pigeon River. It had belongings a gourd full of home- no windows, and the door was only made soap. Then, in front of the hot a deerskin-covered opening. A stick fire, she scrubbed Abe and his sister

24 FEBRUARY, 1959 NEW YORK Area NEWS Edition / Together

UEM Adds 9 # 000 New Members to Methodist Rolls

Nearly 9,000 new members have been added to the rolls of 551 Methodist churches in the Newark and New York East Conferences as a result of the United Evangelistic Mission this fall. The mission was conducted in two phases. From November 15 to 20, New York East Conference ministers occupied parishes in the Newark Conference, preaching, training callers, and conduct- ing home visitations. From November 29, to December 4, the New Jersey men performed a similar function in the New York East Conference. The New York East Conference re- ports a total of 4,057 commitments but Bishop Newell states that reports are still

being received and it is expected that Happy to see the New Yoi\ sky line, Bishop and Mrs. Newell returned home on the the total will reach 4,500. A total of Queen Elizabeth after a nine-week tour of Europe. "Mrs. Newell has distant vision," 7,774 persons held 14,613 interviews the bishop said. "At daybreak she looked out the porthole for her grandchildren." with prospective members. The Newark Conference total is 3,547 commitments so far, representing 11,501 interviews held by 6,508 callers in the Bishop Newell Gives Report on Russia four districts, in the Northern District, 1,026 members were added; Southern Curtain coun- mittee for Overseas Relief, Bishop Newell Religion is free in Iron District, 890; Eastern District, 883; and it dedicated a youth hostel in Austria tries only so long as avoids contro- in the Western District, 748. does not criticize the which he said represents Methodist con- versial subjects, In the New York East Conference, the government, and "keeps narrowly to tributions totaling $150,000. He de- Brooklyn North and South Districts re- worship," Bishop Newell reported on his scribed the refugee problem in Germany port a total of 2,529 new commitments, return from a nine-week tour of eleven stating that East Germany is gradually the New Haven District, 1,032; and New being depopulated of European countries. Germans while a York 496. Bishop Newell said he recieved a cor- new generation of indoctrinated Russians dial reception, but added that an Amer- is developing. ican feels constantly that he is being "The refugees come to our Methodist observed in Iron Curtain countries. In churches penniless," he declared, "for Yugoslavia and Poland he saw "nauseat- they cannot get out with anything but ing propaganda" picturing the United the clothes on their backs. Our Meth- States as a warmongering country run by odist Committee for Overseas Relief gives capitalist aggressors. them fifty or 100 marks and a roof "At the Palace of Culture and Science over their heads until they can start in Warsaw," he continued, "there are life over. In Germany where Bishop horrible pictures of South Korea. One Wunderlich goes in and out of East shows an American jeep flying the Germany constantly, the church is a

American flag while beside it a Korean bridge of understanding between East boy is starving to death. Underneath the and West." caption reads: 'This is the way America Bishop Newell presented the report lets Koreans die.' On the other side November 23, at Drew University for the of the corridor are pictures of North Newark Conference, December 5, in Korea showing new factories, hospitals, Poughkeepsie for the New York Con- universities, and modern housing." ference, and December 16, at Christ Bishop Newell referred to Finland as Church, New York, for the New York the last outpost of The Methodist Church East Conference and New York City. in the free West. "We have already lost Estonia, Latvia, Auman Studies Merger and Lithuania," he said, "at least, our Robert R. Diefcndorf has been elected to Bishop is not allowed visit Hagan to The Rev. Dr. Lester W. Auman of his 11th year as president of the Meth- there. I of speak to you Finland be- Floral Park, N. Y., a member of the odist Hospital of Brooklyn. The new cause our ministers and pensioners are co-ordinating council studying the merger Stanley H. Miner Memorial Pavilion, core suffering fearful privation. I shall be of the church's three general social action of the hospital's $6,000,000 improvement pleading for aid for brave Finland." boards, participated in the study made program, is scheduled to be dedicated As chairman of the Methodist Corn- in November in Los Angeles, Calif. Sunday, February 22, at 3 p.m.

February 1959\To8ether A-l New Horizons

• The first call upon the Builders' Club of the Western District of the Newark Conference will be for a new church

to be constructed at Edison, N. J. Mem- bers pay $10 not oftener than twice a year for new building projects.

• Extensive remodeling of the Mt.

Fern, N. J., church was inspected at an open house in connection with the 75th anniversary.

The cornerstone is laid for $160,000 sanc- • Improvements at the Richmondville,, tuary in Demurest, N. }., on the site (N. Y.) Church include rewiring and where Methodists held their first service new oil furnace at the parsonage, new 40 years ago. Mrs. Marion Ketcham, 88, carpeting in the church, redecoration of only surviving charter member, spread church interior and Sunday-school rooms, first mortar in presence of District Super- and refinishing of floors throughout. intendent Harold N. Smith, left, and the Rev. David Follansbee, minister. Raising $100,000 An all-night prayer vigil preceded the consecration of First Church, Plainfield, • Newton, N. is raising $100,000 for J., N. Bishop Newell and Bishop Herbert a new education building and Blairstown, J. Home Nears Completion Welch participated in the service on the N. J., has just completed a capital fund fourth anniversary of the fire which de- The Bethel Home in Ossining, N. Y., drive to reduce a $30,000 debt on the stroyed the old building on W. Front St. is nearing completion and will be ready church plant. for occupancy about June 1, Director • Bishop Newell participated in the Daniel D. Brox reports. dedication of the Eastern Parkway MISSIONARY Dr. Brox spent four days at Friend- Church, Schenectady, December 14. ship Haven Inc., in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Honored in Japan inspecting the eight-year-old building and • A parsonage was left to Carpenter interviewing the director and department Memorial Church, Glen Cove, N. Y., by The Welfare Ministry of Japan has heads. the last Rose Jaques Moller. It is now cited Miss Mildred Ann Payne, Methodist The Iowa Home -derives 85 per cent being occupied by the Rev. Wayne White missionary, for devotion to children's of its support from room endowments, and his family, and will soon be ded- welfare. Miss Payne is the sister of Mrs. a plan similar to Bethel's Founder's icated. The former parsonage property Clara Paine Otis of White Plains, N. Y., program. has been sold. now residing in Japan.

Former pastors attended the opening service of the new com- Arnold C. Miller, present pastor; Dean M. Kelley; District Super- munity Methodist Church, East Meadows, N. Y. From left intendent Kenneth B. Grady; Harry S. Crossett; and William B. are Harry D. Robinson, Jr.; Robert E. Hullstrung, assistant; Gould. At right is the interior of the church.

Signs of Exchange ished their sophomore year in high school In Memonam and who meet the qualifications. The International Christian Youth Ex- Information may be obtained from the New York East Conference. The Rev. change, sponsored by the Youth Depart- Youth Department, Box 871, Nashville, Walter Pickering died December 4. ment of the Board of Education, is called Tenn. to the attention of New York Area FEBRUARY. 1959 Vol. 3. No. 2 churches by Bishop Newell. Wanted: Missionaries TOGETHER is an official organ of The Methodist "In country after country on my last Church, issued monthly by the Methodist Publishing House, 740 N. Rush St., Chicago II, III. Publisher: trip," the bishop states, "I met Meth- The Methodist Church has 817 open- Lovick Pierce. Subscriptions: Order through your local Methodist odist other areas I ings for missionaries in its home and students from and church. The basic rate under the All- Family Plan i> 50

Together/February A-2 1959

24 VJV

THE BISHOP WHITES Irvington; Broadway Temple-Washington Heights, Calvary, Fordham, Tremont, *76e Tteect £i New York City; Highland Avenue, Ossin- ing; Pleasantville; Yalhalla; Memorial. Once more at a convocation on the Christian Min- White Plains; Church of Our Saviour and

istry, I had the opportunity of meeting with some of First, Yonkers; First, Brewster, Drew, the splendid young people of the New York Area and Carmel; Fishkill; Lake Mahopac; Sharon; discussing with them the call to Christian service. We Shrub Oak; South Highland, Garrison; met in Hanson Place-Central Church in Brooklyn from and VanCortlandville, Peekskill. Fridav evening, November 28, through Sunday noon, December 1. There were 169 in attendance, all but two were young men, and about one-third of the enrollment Celebrates 99th Year were college students. At the close of the convocation, The Mamaroneck (N. Y.) Church cele- 34 young men dedicated their lives to Christian service, brated the 99th anniversary of its sanc- and most of them chose the preaching ministry. tuary Christmas Sunday. Also at the I came to the following conclusions during the convocation: First, I realized morning service, the Rev. Edgar N. Jack- as never before that many of the youth of the New York Area are dedicated son received the 99th person into the to the achievement of a better life for all mankind and the redemption of church since the start of this fiscal year. personality. Second, while a definite tabulation is not available, it appears at first glance that to a marked degree these young people come from the same churches which provided the greater portion of our attendance at the Add Zeal to Ideals, previous convocations. This would appear to indicate that in some of our churches the opportunity to dedicate one's life to Christian service is not Bishop Urges Youth

adequately emphasized. Third, I came away with the clear conviction that The zeal with which young Commu- it is the duty of the bishop, the district superintendents and the ministry ists pursue their goals was described by to find ways of reaching the hearts and minds of our youth throughout Bishop Newell to 169 young persons at the area, and to seek the dedication of their lives to some form of Christian Hanson Place-Central Church, Brooklyn, service. at the worship service which closed the As I write these words I am faced with unfilled pulpits in churches in convocation on the Christian ministry. many parts of the area. God grant that our churches in the months and "I wish you had that kind of zeal," years to come may ever be aware of this great need and may develop in the bishop said, "provided you have the our young people a compelling interest to enlist in the greatest call—the ideals of Christ." preaching of the Gospel of Christ. He reminded the congregation that a person who enters the ministry has dif- ficult mountains to climb and, men- tioned the hunger, illiteracy, disease, and fear which must be conquered in the New Faces Are Seen in the rea world. A He characterized the ministry as, "the most dangerous task in the world," and The following is a list of appointments told them if they decided to enter it, it that have been made in the New York must be "for keeps." He assured them Area within recent weeks by Bishop Family Readers that the love of God would never let Newell and his cabinet: From time to time we shall name them go. the churches in the area which have Troy Conference: The Rev. Warren P. adopted the All-Family Plan for the Waldo to East Burke, East Haven, circulation of Together. In the Janu- West Burke, and Newark; the Rev. ary issue we listed the 71 churches in Peter Weaver to Yergennes and West the Newark Conference. Following are Addison; the Rev. Richard Baker to the 69 churches in the New York Con- supply Mooers, Sciota, and Mooers ference which have recently adopted the Forks. plan: Athens; Big Indian; Blenheim Hill, Rev. Paul Dufford, to supply The Jr., Jefferson, Coeymans, Coeymans Hollow, South Plattsburgh; the Rev. Benjamin Fleischmanns, Glasco, Arkville, Hobart, Thurber to supply Derby Mor- W. and Jefferson, Lexington, and First Church, gan; Ralph G. Herrin, lay supply, to Margaretville. Sheldon and Rice Hill. Others are New Baltimore, North John S. Wenzel, ky supply, to Pitts- Blenheim, Norton Hill, Ouleout Church, field, Vt.; the Rev. Clinton Fairbanks to Treadwell; Port Ewen, First Church, supply Greenfield Center, Porters Corners, Roxbury; Shandaken, Shady, Township and South Corinth, and James A. Green Church, Hobart; and Willow. to Lvndonville, Lvndon, and E. Lyndon, The list continues with Wittinberg, Yt. Woodstock, Central Valley, Cooks Falls, Edenville Church, Warwick; Highland New Yorl{ Conference: The Rev. Falls, Highland Mills, Horton, Hurley- George I. Goodwin to Cold Spring and ville, Kenoza Lake, Kripplebush, Stone South Highland; Paul L. Daniell to Ridge; Liberty, Middle Hope, New Mil- church of Our Saviour and Memorial, ford, White Lake, Phillipsport, Ridge- Yonkers. bury, Stone Ridge, Summittville, Walker Beatrice Ann Coutts was the representa- Valley, White Sulphur Springs, Wood- New York East Conference: The Rev. tive of the Methodist Hospital of Brook- ridge, Hill; Courtney Johnson to Middlefield, Conn.; Wurtsboro, Rock Ardsley, lyn School of Nursing in the 1959 "Misi the Rev. Richard T. Tobey to Island Bedford Hills, Summerfield, Dobbs Ferry; Methodist Student Nurse" Contest conduc- Park; the Rev. Ralph E. Johnson to and St. Paul's, Hartsdale. ted In the National Association and the (ir.ice Church, Brooklyn. Also accepting the plan are St. Paul's, General Hoard of Hospitals and Homes.

February 1959\Together A-3

— Hymn Society President and Son Write Hymns Vke Qi/icuit Wltte/i The name William W. Reid appears twice among the authors of, Twelve Two young women were among the church also conducts a weekly recrea- New World Order Hymns, a collection 169 registrants at the Bishop's Convoca- tion canteen for 100-150 youngsters. introduced at the Fifth World Order tion on the Christian ministry. John The Schenectady Union Star devoted Study Conference in Cleveland.

Wild, a Dumont, N. )., high-school senior, a full page of pictures to the activities The first choice of the judges in the expects to be a missionary nurse, and of the Senior Citizens Center which is Hymn Society's effort to stimulate the feanette Reid, student at Fairleigh Dick- housed in the former Calvary Church writing of new hymns on international inson College, is training as a medical building. Under its Advance Program, justice and good will was the entry

technician. Troy Conference provides the building, of the Rev. William W. Reid, Jr., of Each shut-in member of Babylon, heat, light, insurance, and repairs. An Carverton, Pa. It was a hymn begin- N. Y., church received a poinsettia plant appeal is being made for $10,000 in ning, "O God of every nation, of every as a Christmas gift from the church. public support for this community serv- race and land." The conference of 500 Dr. Harold A. Brack of Drew was one ice agency. church leaders sang these words to open of ten theology school professors called Methodists will be interested in the the conference. to Nashville by the Television, Radio, December issue of Cosmopolitan maga- Another hymn among the 12 selected and Film Commission for a consutation zine which is devoted to the theme, was by William W. Reid, Sr., director on mass communications and theological "Man and God." The Rev. Dr. Ralph of the Department of News Service of education. W. Sockman is one of the participants the Methodist Board of Missions and Do we have gray-flannel minds? A in a symposium entitled, "If Christ chairman of the New York Area Pub-

Ridgewood, N. J., MYFer, troubled by Walked the Earth Today." lic Relations Operating Commission. The the trend toward conformity, raised the Clothing will be collected January 18, hymn, sung at the conference begins, question at a youth forum. and 25 at the' Annual Missions Festi- "All-knowing God, whose science charts Twelve Old Testament scholars from vals being conducted in the Brooklyn the path and purpose of each star." the East and Midwest attended the fifth North and South Districts, New York The senior Mr. Reid has been lay annual meeting of the Biblical Colloquium East Conference. World Service trucks leader of the New York East Conference at Drew. The organization is concerned will transport the material to New York and is a former president of the Hymn with research and publication in special- City for shipment overseas. A similar Society of America. His son is a grad- ized areas of biblical scholarship. drive was held in the New York Dis- uate of Oberlin College and Yale Divinity The new vice-moderator of the United trict at the January 11, Missions Institute. School. He served in the Medical Corps Church of Christ of Japan is the Rev. No one will deny that anticipation can in World War II and was a prisoner of Isamu Omura, a graduate of Drew be helpful, but Bishop Newell meant the Germans for eight months. Theological Seminary. to describe it as "hopeful" in his editorial Both father and son are the authors of Residents of Demarest, N. J., benefit last month. He referred, to his visits to numerous hymns and have both from the Methodist Church library which Iron Curtain countries. Also the differ- previously appeared among winners in is open two hours daily. The Rev. David ences which create discord are "ideol- similar searches for hymns on rural life, Follansbee reports that 250 families make ogical"— not "theological." The supple- social welfare and on the ecumenical use of the library's 3,000 books. The ment editors regret the errors. movement.

Asbury Church Sponsors AFTER TOUR Named to Hospital Board Religion and Life Series Madame Chiang Is Guest Two Brooklynites have been added to the membership of the Board of Managers A University of Life is being sponsored at Bishop's Office of the Methodist Hospital of Brooklyn. in January and February by the Commis- sion on Education at Asbury Church, They are Harold M. Lewis of 1511 Madame Chiang Kai-Shek was guest Crestwood, engineer N. Y. of honor December 15 at a tea in Bishop Albemarle Road, a consulting Five courses are being offered each Newell's office following a tour of the formerly with the Borough President of Sunday night from 1 1 to Feb- Eliot of 14 January Board of Missions offices and other Meth- Manhattan; and H. Sharp ruary 8 on the following topics: publisher of odist sights. Monroe Place, editor and Growing Together in the Family, The Madame Chiang accepted an invitation Investment Dealers' Digest. Old Testament Heritage, Other Religions, from the Rev. Dr. Tracey Jones and Dr. C. Wesley Maytrott, vice-president of Christianity and World Issues, and Clara French, executive secretaries for the Con Edison Company, was elected to Frontiers of Prayer. Southeast Asia and China for the Division the executive committee. Dr. and Mrs. William H. Genne of of World Missions and the Woman's The elections took place at the annual Upper Montclair, N. J., will teach the Division respectively, to visit New York's meeting which paid tribute to Bishop course on family life. Methodist headquarters and see the office Newell upon his return from Europe. Rabbi Arthur A. Chiel of the Genesis activities of the board. The bishop spoke on the work of Meth- Hebrew Center will teach the Old Testa- odist hospitals in the countries he visited. Sees MCOR Headquarters ment course. Religions to be studied are Islam, Shin- She also saw the headquarters of the Quite a Sound! toism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judiasm. for Relief. Methodist Committee Overseas Lecturers will be well-known leaders in Secretaries for overseas work for the The Youth Fellowship of the New each faith. Board of Missions and Woman's Division York East Conference is producing a new Christianity and world issues will cover were among the guests at the tea. Sound. South America, Asia, the Near East, Mrs. Newell was hostess. Apparently named for the geographical Russia, and South Africa. Dr. Samuel Bishop Newell presented Madame location of many of its churches, the Inman, and Drs. Nicholas Gontharoff, is junior-sized giving Chiang with a copy of the J. B. Phillips Sound a newspaper John Berdeau, Paul Anderson, and Lowell translation of the New Testament in- the past and future events in the confer- Atkinson will be the leaders. scribed, "Presented by your Methodist ence MYF. Dick Couch of Stepney, Frontiers of Prayer will be taught by Friends at 150 Fifth Avenue." Conn., is the editor. the Rev. Edgar N. Jackson.

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pillow, and enough warm blankets. likely to let things slide. She never wide cracks between the logs, white- In a couple of weeks, a body said he must do thus and so; she washed the inside walls. Abe wouldn't have known the place. was too wise and too gentle. But couldn't get over how sightly it was. Sarah had what folks called "facul- somehow Tom found himself mak- And she wove Abe shirts out of ty"; she worked hard and she could ing a real door for the cabin and cut- homespun cloth, coloring them with make other people work, too—even ting a window, like she wanted. He dye she steeped out of roots and Tom, who meant well, but was put down a floor, chinked up the barks. She made him deerskin

READER'S CHOICE

This tender story of a boy's love for his stepmother and the encouragement she gave him was proposed as a Reader's Choice by Miss Margaret Thomas, of Kings- ton, Ohio, who receives $25

for being the first to sug-

gest it. We share this with readers through permission of the authors and of

Reader's Digest, which first

published it in February,

1945.—fa's.

Sarah lighted from the wagon, and reached for the thin, ragged boy. "I reckon we'll be good friends," he said, tenderly. "Howdy, Abe Lincoln." breeches that really fitted, and moc- tried them out on Sarah first, and and you'd think he'd found a gold casins, and a coonskin cap. She had she laughed in the right places. She mine. He began reading late at night a mirror and she rnbhed it bright stood up for him, too, when he'd by the fire, and when Tom com- and held it up so's he could see him- laugh out loud, all of a sudden, at plained, Sarah said, "Leave the boy self— it was the first time he had ever things nobody else could under- be." She always let him read until seen himself—and he said, "Land o' stand, and Tom thought he was he quit of his own accord, and if he Goshen, is that me?" being sassy. "Abe's got a right to his fell asleep there on the floor she

Sometimes, in the early mornings, own jokes," Sarah said. would get a quilt and wrap it gently when Sarah laid a new fire in the Sometimes Sarah thought, all to around him. ashes, she got to thinking it was herself, that she loved Abe more He did his ciphering on a board, queer how things come about. When than her own children. But she and when the board got too black

Tom Lincoln had courted her, 14 didn't really. It was just that she he'd plane it off and start again. If years ago, she had turned him down knew, deep down in her heart he read something he liked a lot, for Daniel Johnston. Tom had been where she told nobody but God, that he'd write it down. He was always 12 years married to Nancy Hanks, Abe was somebody special, who writing, and was most always out of who died so sudden from the "milk didn't belong to her but was hers paper. He'd put charcoal marks on sick." And now, after all these years, to keep for a while. a board, for a sign of what he wanted Tom and she were together again, When Abe was little, Tom hadn't to write, and when he got paper he'd with his children and her children minded his walking nine miles to copy it all down. And he'd read it to feed and do for. the "blab school" where the scholars out loud to Sarah by the fire, after learned their letters by saying them Tom and the rest had gone to bed.

over and over out loud. But now Abe "Did I make it plain.'" he always J. HE cabin was 18 feet square and was older and stronger, Tom didn't asked her. It made her real proud there were eight people under its see why he shouldn't stay home and when he asked her about his writing, flimsy roof. Sarah was taking what chop down trees and cradle wheat or and she answered him as well as any- was left of two households, along hire out to the neighbors for husk- body could who didn't know how with the orphan boy, Dennis Hanks. ing corn at 30 cents a day. Of course, to read or write. Somehow she must make them into he felt kind of proud when the In 1830, Tom decided to look for a family of folks who loved each neighbors came to have Abe write better farm land in Illinois and the other; she wanted them to feel like their letters with the pen he had family moved to Coles County on they had always been together. made out of a buzzard's quill and Goose Nest Prairie. There Abe Tftere was plenty of chance for the brierroot ink. But Abe was helped his father build the two-room trouble, what with the two sets of "reachin' too fur" when he kept cabin where Sarah and Tom were voung'uns who had never laid eyes reading books instead of clearing to spend the rest of their lives. The on each other till now, and all the swamps; Tom told Abe you didn't place was hardly built when the day stories Abe and his sister had heard need to know so almighty much to came that Sarah had foreseen, the folks tell about stepmothers. Those get along. day when Abe would leave home. first weeks, Sarah felt mighty If Sarah hadn't taken Abe's part He was a man grown, 22 years old, anxious. Especially about Abe, against his father, Abe wouldn't and he had a chance to clerk in Den- though he did what she said and have got as much schooling as he ton Offut's store over in New Salem. never answered her back. Once she did, though goodness knows it saw him looking at her real serious wasn't much. He learned, as the folks when she was putting some johnny- said, "by littles." But through the A_T first he came back often and cake into the oven. "All my life I'm years she held out against Tom, no later on, after he got to be a lawyer, goin' to like johnnycake best," he matter if Tom said she was plumb he visited Goose Nest Prairie twice said suddenly, and then scooted crazy. a year. Every time Sarah saw him, through the door. You couldn't figure Abe would rather read than eat. it seemed like his mind was bigger.

Abe out. As Dennis said, "There's He'd read in the morning, soon's it Other folks' minds got to a place somethin' peculiarsome about Abe." was light enough to see; he'd read in and then stopped, but Abe's kept on

Maybe, if it hadn't been for her, the evening, when the chores were growing. He told her about his law he wouldn't have lived to be a man. done; he'd read when he plowed, cases and, as time went on, he told He had always grown so fast and while the horse was resting at the her about his going to the state legis- never had enough to eat. But now, end of the row. He walked 17 miles lature and his marrying Mary Todd. when he had eaten enough johnny- to borrow books from Lawyer After Tom died, in 1851, Abe saw cake and meat and potatoes that Pitcher at Rockport. Aesop's Fables. to it that she didn't want for any- were cooked through and not just Robinson Crusoe. Pilgrim's Progress. thing. burned on top, he stopped looking Shakespeare. The Statutes of Indiana. When she heard Abe was going to so pinched and putty-colored. And When his borrowed Weems' Life Charleston for his fourth debate with he wasn't so quiet any more. Now of Washington got rained on, he Stephen A. Douglas, she went there, he had some flesh on his bones, he worked three full days to pay for it. too, without saying a word to Abe. wasn't solemn. Why, he was fuller Once he gave a man 50 cents for an It would be enough— it had always of fun than anybody. He learned to old barrel and found Blackstone's been enough—just to watch him. tell yarns, like his father, but he Commentaries at the bottom of it, She was one of the crowd on the

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street as the parade went by. There was a big float drawn by a yoke of oxen, carrying three men splitting rails, and a big sign, "Honest Abe, 4 the Rail Splitter, the Ox Driver, the God's Giant Killer." Was that her Abe? And now here he came, riding in a shiny black carriage and tipping his tall black hat right and left. Was that Mysterious her Abe? She tried to make herself small, but he saw her and made the 4 carriage stop. Then, right in front of everybody, he got out of the car- 4 riage and came over and put his 4 arms around her and kissed her. 4 Yes, that was her Abe. 4 She wasn't the crying kind, but 4 -;;• she cried when he was elected presi- 4 -: dent. Alone, where nobody could see 4 her. In the winter of 1861, before he » went to Washington, he crossed the state to see her, coming by train and carriage in the mud and slush to say good-by. He brought her a present, a length of black alpaca for a dress; 4 it was really too beautiful to put the scissors into; after Abe went, 4 she'd just take it out and feel of it 4 4 once in a while. 4 Abe looked tired and he had a 4 IT'S ODD, the way God casts 1805. By the time of the wedding he 4 lot on his mind, but they had a fine some of us in roles which appear to also was a justice of the peace. talk. When he kissed her good- be obscure—and yet, years later, turn It was Head's custom to submit by, he said he'd see her soon, but she out to have been of vital importance lists of those he had "joined together knew somehow that she would not 4 in his scheme of things. Of all the in the Holy Estate of Matrimony see him again. men and women who come to mind agreeable to the rules of the M.E.C." whenever I ponder this, the most at intervals of several Four years later, they came and months. Thus interesting, to me, is Jesse Head. it was that long after the event he told her he was dead. The news- t Did you ever hear of him? Few sent in to the court a list of cere- papers wrote the longest pieces about people have. Jesse Head was fated monies including this notation: his real mother, and that was like it to live most of his life as an un- "June 12, 1806, Thomas Lincoln should be, but folks some came and known pioneer Methodist preacher. & Nancy Hanks." asked her what sort of boy Abe had Accounts even differ as to whether Subsequently, Head settled in been. And she wanted to tell them, he was a circuit rider or a "located" Harrodsburg, Ky., where he spent but it was hard to find the words. parson. He spent much of his life the remainder of his life, active as a "Abe was a good boy," she said. "He 4 bringing the gospel to frontier Ken- town official and newspaper editor. never gave me a cross word or look. tucky. It was an uphill fight, but He died March 22, 1842, never hav- Head won the love and respect of ing so much as heard of Abraham His mind and mine, what little I his tiny flocks and on June 12, Lincoln, and it wasn't until 1922 had, seemed to run together." And — 1806, in a raw, up-creek cabin, he that a simple marker was placed then she added, "He loved me trulv, crossed the path of history. above his grave: I think." That was the day he married "Rev. Jesse Head Often, during the four years that Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, Jan. 28, 1768—March 22. 1842 remained to her, she would sit of an to whom on February 12, 1809, was Preacher-Editor-Patriot evening and think of Abe. Being a born a son, Abraham. He Married June 12, 1806 mother, she did not think about him Head was an old friend of the Thomas Lincoln & Nancy Hanks, as president, as the man about whom Lincolns and the Hanks. He had Parents of Abraham Lincoln." they sang, "We are coming, Father migrated to Kentucky from Mary- To me, his life epitomizes the staking out mysterious way in which God Abraham, 300,000 strong." She re- land around 1795, a farm and plying his trade as a cab- moves. Never did Head achieve membered him as a little boy. She inetmaker. There is considerable tra- lame. Never could he have guessed was baking johnnycake for him; she dition that he taught young Tom that he was playing a vital role in was weaving him a shirt; she was Lincoln the rudiments of the cabi- the history of our nation—and the covering him with a blanket when netmaker's trade. A preacher as world. Yet well, without him he had fallen asleep over his books, early as 1798, Head was ordained a the course of destiny would have trying, as long as she could, to keep deacon of the Methodist Episcopal been altered, to the sorrow of us all. him safe from the cold. Church by Bishop Francis Asbury in —Hvrrv Claxton

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Unusual Methodists

FAIRWAYS CHAMP: Carole Pushing practiced less, but played her best golf.

LADY OF THE LINKS. Sports writers have hailed Carole Pushing, who hails from Olivia, Minn., as the most exciting woman golfer to emerge from the Minnesota goll scene since Patty Berg in the early 30s. Carole's artistry on the links won her the Women's National Col- legiate Championship in Ames, Iowa, last June and the Minnesota State Women's Open title at Minneapolis, where she defeated the defending champion. Her one major defeat came in the United States Golf As- sociation Women's National Ama- teur Championship.

It was only eight years ago that Carole became serious about golf; she won her first tournament at 13. Her mother shoots in the 90s. Doubtless, friends say, her golfing skill has been a strong influence on Carole's life yet, they add, the young champion

is a naturally gifted sportswoman. Last spring she was runner-up in the Carleton College tennis meet;

she is as much at home on water skis as on the golf course, and she finds fishing "the finest form of re- laxation." Carole studies music at

Carleton College, where she is a sophomore, plays cornet, and sings in the college chapel choir. After college she plans to teach either music or mathematics. The sports-

woman-student is a member of the Olivia Methodist Church, where she

is a member of MYF and once served as church organist for four years. She can poke fun at her own hobbies, too. One observation: "Golf sometimes doesn't make sense."

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VERSATILE VIRTUOSO. Ever since he was 11, Arthur Fenmmorc,

Jr., now 16, has been winning musical honors. Now a scholarship holder at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute and a pupil of world-famous Rudolf Serkin for the last two years, Arthur has appeared as guest soloist with several outstanding musical groups, including the Marlboro, Vt., sym- phony orchestra. He admits he was ''pretty scared" when he entered the recent Merriweather Post Contest for teen-age musicians in Washing- ton, D.C.—but not too scared to win second prize, $500. He also won acclaim from Washington music critics for his performance, in which he was accompanied by the National Symphony Orchestra. Although a musician first of all, Arthur is a sports enthusiast, too. Basketball, swim- ming, and, of course, baseball top his list. And at home in Berwyn, Pa.,

Arthur is a busy Methodist, serving as organist and MYF president at Berwyn Methodist Church. Of all his honors and awards, he holds a special niche in his heart for this one: An inscribed gold watch, presented to him by the congregation in appreciation of his services to the church and the world of music.

PROMISING PUPIL: Arthur Fennimore. To teacher, Rudolf Serein, a bow.

PASTORAL PATRIARCH. More than 100 years after his first baptism in a Methodist chapel in England, 102- year-old W. E. Warnes was rebaptized for a second cen- tury of consecration to the Lord. And his example may be followed by others among his 'AS-member family of 5 children, 16 grandchildren, 41 great-grandchildren, and S great-great-grandchildren, plus their husbands and wives. Long life seems to be a Warnes characteristic;

there have been no deaths in the family for the past 6)8 years. Mr. Warnes and his wife, 93, now live in Friend- ship Haven, a Methodist home for retired people in Fort Dodge, Iowa. The day before his 102nd birthday there last April, Mr. Warnes gave the Good Friday address "the finest we ever had," declared the home's director. But

effective witnessing is characteristic of Mr. Warnes. As a railroad employee, his Christian character was such that no one ever swore in his office. Long an active church layman in Eagle Grove, Iowa, he also was a licensed local preacher for 50 years and taught a women's Bible class for 40. Still active as Iowa's oldest Mason, he's a favorite at parties. He plays "the bones"—beef bones tapped to- gether as rhythmic accompaniment to music.

SECOND CENTURY: W. E. Warnes at 102, is rebaptized by Dr. C. W. Tompkins. THRILLERS: For Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Gordon, a new plot.

SHADES OF SHERLOCK. A long line of mysteries on the book- shelves at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Gordon of Sherman Oaks, Calif., carries one simple byline: "The Gordons." For Mr. and Mrs. Gordon—both onetime reporters and editors—collaborate on sus- pense tales which so far have sold over 4 million copies. Their day starts with a "board of directors meeting," where they plot chapters and dis- cuss characters. They then go off to separate studies to write. Mrs. Gordon does the episodes in which women predominate; Mr. Gordon, those featuring men. Later they edit each other's copy—and they do it so expertly that some of their stories have been bought by Hollywood. Active Methodists, both are members of Sherman Oaks Methodist

Church's Christian Social Relations Commission and Mr. Gordon is in charge of the church's publicity. How did they come to start out on a career as writers of mystery thrillers? Well, Mr. Gordon then was an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation—and his wife grew tired of his irregular hours.

February 1959\Together MIDMONTII POWWOW

Biblical dramas

such as this arc no

video novelty. The big

question: How much

do they accomplish?

Is Religion on TV a Flop?

Says: Paul Molloy TV and Radio Columnist, Chicajio Sun-Times

THE TIME HAS COME to take a deep breath and Most people go to church Sunday morning, hence re-

wade into a problem which is approached with fear by ligion is in the ludicrous position of competing with it-

those it concerns most: televised religion. self on TV. Most of those who are not interested in With few exceptions, religious programs are poorly religion are—let's face it—sleeping on Sunday morning. produced, poorly promoted, and poorly presented. The This leaves a pitiful minority. Except for religiously in- people who make religion their life's work are neither clined shut-ins for whom such programs are likely a trained nor equipped for the exacting demands of tele- godsend, this minority is divided up into (1) those who vision, which frequently challenge the keenest minds in think religion is for the birds, and we can forget about show business. them, and (2) those who watch because they have noth- A religious film turned out for a Sunday night church- ing else to do. hall audience will be well received. Its audience has made Religion and television both have a tremendous in- the physical effort of leaving home to seek dramatized in- fluence on the lives of most of us. It would seem that spiration. The reception of such a project on TV is quite somewhere along the line there could be a productive another thing, for religion, after all, is not a course in meeting of minds. The audience appeal of a Bishop conduct but a way of life. The way these programs are Fulton J. Sheen, a Billy Graham, or Methodism's own bunched, back-to-back, amid the Sunday forenoon, one Ralph W. Sockman or Charles R. Goff certainly should is led to think that religion is a once-weekly duty—like serve as some sort of cue. going to market. Whom do they reach? As of now, religion on TV is slotted as a filler!

30 Together/February 1959 The transfer television PROGRAMS PLANNED WITH CARE to — lor a mass audience in total to be sure, but for a single viewer in essence—does not seem to me to have Says: Ed Stanley been successful so far. It deserves study; perhaps it will be one day. Vice President in Charge Educational of The most heartening prospect for religious broadcast- and Religious Programing, NBC ing seems to me to be the many seminars and workshops being developed. Broadcasters can supply professional

production, but in the end we must depend on the re- ligious community for concept and content. The greater the knowledge of the medium, the happier the results are likelv to be.

PAUL MOLLOY's advice to breathe deeply before

wading into the problem of religious broadcasting is the kind of sound counsel that should give pause to a

circumspect angel. The problem is diffuse and there is more than one school of thought. Our network ex- CHURCH TV MONEY IS PEANUTS

perience at NBC is concerned with only one aspect, of course, and we could not claim to have any definitive Says : S. Franklin Mack answer. Still, now that I have left the of angels, company Executive Director, Broadcasting and perhaps I should get my feet wet. Film Commission, National Council of When we started Frontiers of Faith several years ago, the Churches of Christ our thought was to reproduce a worship service. We did this for a while and the novelty of television probably sustained us in our folly. When our breathing was nor- mal again, we concluded that it did not make very good sense for us to simulate a worship service best done in churches. Through long and widely diverse experimenta- THERE ISN'T a major Protestant communion to- tion, sometimes harrowing, we have arrived at the con- day that isn't lifting itself by its bootstraps, trying to clusion that, save for a few special occasions, this is find the right kind of religious programing for TV and exactly what we should not be doing. radio. Take TRAFCO, the Methodist Television, Radio,

We hope that we send people to church as a result, but and Film Commission; I doubt that as much creative we are not trying to produce a substitute for Sunday- effort, resourcefulness, and downright hard work has morning sleepers. Each program now is planned with gone into anything else in The Methodist Church in the great care and concern, in close co-operation with the last decade as into the Methodist Television Ministry.

faith groups, and seeks not only to enlarge and extend the Out of it came The Way, an outstanding experimental spiritual experience of every viewer, but also to stimulate series for TV, put on the air by the National Council of those religious concerns which lie in the heart of every Churches (and not allowed to be shown before 1 p.m. man. This is a tall order. We recognize, however, that on Sundays). And currently there is Tal\ Bacl{, a series the great artistic and cultural traditions of mankind are which requires the local community to come up with a founded in religious experience, and we believe that any- live local panel to meet the challenge of the 13-minute thing we can do within this framework which adds to filmed portion. Worth mentioning also are the experi- the aesthetic experience of our viewers deepens also their ments being readied by National Council constituents in interest in religion. the area of children's TV programs. We do not forget that we are working in a mass Admittedly, the money the churches have put into

medium. Yet this alone can never be the primary con- religious programing so far is peanuts in comparison sideration of religious broadcasting. A religious group with the cost of any of the big shows on TV. But one cannot, in our view, lower its standards to attract a larger thing the churches have learned is that "televised re-

share of the audience without courting disaster. Ideas ligion," as Mr. Molloy calls it, is indeed something to

have to come first, but we do not short-sheet Frontiers. baffle the keenest minds.

NBC assigns to it creative production and technical peo- To whom should the churches be speaking on TV? ple who are at other times responsible for some of the Those who are already convinced Christians? If so, to network's outstanding commercial programs. do what (i.e., that isn't being done already by other, more

We must remember that television reaches a general direct means) ? audience and programs must be designed to be useful Suppose we become convinced that TV's greatest po-

to the generality, not a closed-circuit within a particular tential usefulness for religion is to reach the millions denomination. This does not mean that the content must outside the churches, including those only nominally

be watered down or made innocuous, because if it is the churched. How do you do this, and in what relationship

program is a failure in every respect. to the churches in local communities? And how much

There is a school of thought, which Mr. Molloy appears church support can be counted on for programs designed

to share. It holds that preaching is a suitable technique to speak the language of the unchurched while not

for religious broadcasting on television. I am not con- "sounding religious"?

vinced this is so. Preaching was developed for the pulpit. After consulting with the National Council's Bureau

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of Research and Survey, and with Looks at movies four top authorities in communica- tions research, the Research Commit- tee of NCC's Broadcasting and Film By Harry C. Spencer Commission found it necessary to General Secretary, Methodist Television, Radio, and Film Commission ask the National Council's General Board to appoint a top-level commis- sion to grapple with this problem. A 35-member Study Commission on

• Films are rated for audience suit- tion to publicizing the problem. Jean the Role of Radio, Television, and ability. Also, the symbols and ( Simmons suspected her husband, Dan Films in Religion was appointed. ( + ) — provide "yes" or "no" answers to the O'Herlihy, of having an affair with Meanwhile, two major networks question: Do the ethical standards in her stepsister, Rhonda Fleming, but are co-operating with the National the film in general provide constructive rather than face this fact she escaped Council in live programing that has entertainment? into violent delusions. A year in a won awards and commendation mental institution has brought her back from TV critics. They are Loo/{ Up sufficiently to return home, where she I Want to Live: Adult ( + ) and Live on CBS and Frontiers of finds her stepsister and stepmother still Based on accounts of the trial and Faith on NBC. Both are programed on hand and all her old suspicions even execution of Barbara Graham, this film in a three-faith relationship, another more justified by the increased affection will attract the curiously sadistic who of Dan for Rhonda. important dimension that needs to want to watch a woman in her death be taken into consideration. and others who want to see the sordid Roots of Heaven: Adult ( — What constitutes optimum sched- story of her vice-filled life. But this film religious From a novel by Romain Gary and uling of programs ranks is notable for its powerful attack on a huge expedition to Africa, get a high among major problems. Our capital punishment. Susan Hayward is we strange mixture of realistic photography current objective is to demonstrate great as Barbara Graham—and the entire production matches her per- and fuzzy characterizations. Trevor that we can consistently produce in- formance with a documentary realism. Howard is trying to save the elephant teresting programs worthy of a time from extinction. Since he gets no help when more sets are in use. from the authorities, he assembles a Horse's Mouth: Adult ( — Perhaps the biggest job ahead of small band consisting of Eddie Albert, a A Joyce Cary novel is the basis of the American public—not just the free-lance photographer, Errol Flynn, an this Alec Guinness film, which delves churches— is to persuade broadcast- alcoholic British ex-officer, and Juliette into the strange, unreal world of artistic ing stations that it is to their ad- Greco, a pathetic ex-prostitute, to defend madness. Guinness, a blackmailer, thief, vantage to be concerned about the the herd against the ivory hunters. Men and generally improvident tramp, has "self-image" they project on the com- are killed but no elephants—at least on an insatiable desire to cover all blank the screen. munity. Those that are so concerned walls with intricate murals. He even will certainly be less likely to let spends days painting the wall of an Mardi Cras: Adult ( + ) Youth anybody put on audience-killing pro- abandoned church, only to bulldoze it ( + ) Children ( + ) grams. to rubble 15 minutes after his master- Pat Boone, Christine Carere, Program staffs, when properly ap- piece is finished. Another outstanding Tommy Sands, characterization by one of the best. Sheree North, Richard Sargent, proached, have been known to help and Gary Crosby, plus the Virginia build better religious programs. In Military Institute cadets, make this a ( this I feel it is Last Hurrah: Adult + ) connection, that high tuneful, easy-to-take film of young peo- time stations were encouraged to take Spencer Tracy is the long-time mayor ple in love. Without his knowledge, of an aristocratic city controlled by a pride in being known for putting the Pat's name is entered in a raffle, begun large Irish population. He keeps his good of the community alongside by Gary, for a date with the French power by cynical, paternalistic politics. the basic necessity of making a profit. movie star, Christine. He wins. At the But his opposition is not blameless. Certainly the con- New Orleans Mardi Gras he meets a Church must The ethical problems raised are at the masked girl, Christine, and without tinue its search for communicative, root of our misgovernment today. knowing who she is falls in love with credible, and provocative personal-

her. ities. But I doubt that a single Big Country: Adult ( — authoritative TV spokesman for brutal Western. Taut, powerful, Two Party Girl: Adult ( — Protestantism can be considered con- cattle barons fight for water rights Pulp-magazine crime describes this sistent with our Protestant heritage. owned by Jean Simmons. Gregory Peck, gangster melodrama. Robert Taylor is Anything that may be done in the Eastern dude, who has come West to a lawyer for Lee J. Cobb, boss of under- way of top-quality religious broad- marry Carol Baker, daughter of one of world vice in Chicago 20 years ago. casting on Class A time will have the men, falls in love with Jean instead Cyd Charisse, chorus girl in a dive, and fights his way to victory. little success by itself. It can't be ex- — picks up extra cash by attending back- pected to produce significant results room parties. At one of these she

Home Before Dark: Adult ( ) until the churches locally recognize + catches Robert's eye—and when she gets ( ) such broadcasting as the sowing of Youth + into serious trouble with a homicidal With one in 15 Americans mentally maniac in Cobb's mob, Robert sees how seed and are prepared to follow ill, this story of a woman's fight for wrong he has been. He decides to go through with comparable programs her sanity is an outstanding contribu- straight—and then his troubles start. of cultivation.

32 Together/February 1959 —

Alcoholism is becoming Another Headache

for France

By ROUL TUNLEY

T.HE World Health Organization, a few short years ago, reported that France had Europe's biggest alcohol- ism problem. Some people were sur- prised; after all, wasn't drinking no more than a gracious French cus- tom? Others, however, were shocked —anion"; them a thoughtful, crusad- When then-Premier Mendes-France ing minority of Frenchmen. Im- urged Frenchmen to drin\ mil\ instead of mediately they launched a fresh, in- wine, this curbstone tensive antialcoholism campaign. propagandist ridiculed the idea. More recently, viewing France's current troubles, I wondered about her national burden of alcoholism. How successful had the campaign French people knew how to drink. for each man, woman, and child. against drinking been? What prob- The fact is, those fighting the up- Although the drinking habit is lems still remain to be overcome? hill battle against alcoholism in built up gradually over the years,

To find the answers, I spent several France have come to the conclusion and is not so noticeable or publicly weeks in France, interviewing doc- that the out-and-out drunk is some- offensive, the physical and financial tors, educators, politicians, and thing of a blessing. At least his prob- toll is overwhelming. France has the dozens of others. Most of them felt lem is on the table for all to see, and highest incidence of liver trouble in progress could be best described as: often something can be done. the world and it has been estimated "Some, but not much!" In France, however, the problem that 15 per cent of her males live in

Behind their answer, moreover, it is subtler and more serious. French- a perpetual state of "alcoholic impreg- was clear that France's struggle also men rarely drink to the point of nation." Alcoholism costs the French contains a timely lesson for our na- passing out, or even staggering. government an estimated $2.27 bil- tion and all others now facing that Theirs is a hidden drunkenness lion a year in hospital treatments, jail apparently necessary evil of democ- but they drink to excess all the same. sentences, traffic accidents, and man racy—the entrenched lobby. France's Starting from early childhood, hours lost to work. This would build powerful alcohol lobby stands ready youngsters are given wine to drink. 500,000 new houses each year. to toss a monkey wrench into any Many babies have their morning But why do Frenchmen drink so attempt to limit the nation's corn- soup laced with applejack. Bit by bit, much? The obvious answer, often sumption of alcoholic beverages. But they build up a tolerance to alcohol. given, is frustration—over poor hous-

its opposition now must be directed As teen-agers, it is not unusual for ing, wages that have not kept pace at a government which, stabilized them to drink as much as a quart of with rising costs, and bad working by a new constitution and a stronger vin ordinaire (inexpensive table conditions. Statistics would seem to president, cannot fall so easily. wine) a day. As adults, their intake bear this out.

When it first became known that is apt to be much more, often five Nevertheless, this answer is in- France had what might be called or six liters a day, especially among accurate. Despite frustrating living

a national hang-over, people every- the working class. The result is that conditions, the French manage to be where shook their heads in disbelief. by daily wine drinking, France now among the least frustrated people on Few tourists ever had seen a French- consumes the alcoholic equivalent of earth. Tranquilizing pills are rarely man drunk. Everybody said the a fifth of whiskey cverv three days needed and nervous breakdowns are

February 1959\Together 33 almost nonexistent. Psychoanalysts progress. The basic reason was that petition which recently attracted are apt to have a thin time of it. its position was too extreme. Finally 312,000 students, as a means of mak-

The real answer, most observers it received a thorough shake-up and ing participants aware of the effect feel, is threefold: became the spark plug of the anti- alcohol has on one's reflexes.

1) French wines are the best in alcoholism campaign. Young, dy- 4) A successful French version of the world. namic leaders took charge and Alcoholics Anonymous has been 2) Alcoholic beverages, dne to an strategy was overhauled to emphasize launched. unequal tax setup largely arranged moderation, rather than prohibition. 5) Milk bars are appearing in by the alcohol lobby, are cheaper Members conceded that a glass or Paris and other large cities. than soft drinks, fruit juices, or even two of wine a day was all right for 6) An increasing number of post- milk. an adult as long as he drank no more. ers display such slogans as, "One 3) Most important of all, the They also conceded that French wine can ruin his health by alcohol with-

French are victims of the greatest was wonderful. It was abuse of that out ever being drunk." wine-drinking propaganda in the wine which was wrong. 7) A few large wine producers, world. Immediately, progress began to perhaps seeing the handwriting on From birth, men and women are show. One of the most dramatic ex- the wall, are starting to produce told that they are missing a lot if amples was the help provided by fruit juices. Consumption of fruit they don't drink. We all know the Pierre Mendes-France, then prime juices and soft drinks has risen to cliches: "A meal without wine is minister, who started a milk-drink- 500 million bottles—a new high. like a day without sunshine"; "A ing campaign and urged stricter Certainly it is safe to say that the glass of wine aids the digestion"; and regulation of French liquor traffic. antialcoholism drive has sown seeds "A liter of wine provides as much However, he was so sucessful that he of thought about wine where none energy as [this or that food]." Or, incurred the displeasure of the all- existed before. Millions of French- patriotically, "Wine is the source of powerful liquor lobby. It is generally men, especially among the lower

France's wealth." Even tourists are conceded that, although the pre- classes where the problem is most urged to drink wine: "The water mier's government supposedly fell acute, no longer accept as gospel the isn't safe." because of the Algerian and other alcohol group's contention that wine

None of these claims is true. Wine issues, the underlying reason was is a normal part of one's diet. doesn't aid the digestion and it opposition by the alcohol bloc. Even as an impartial observer, I doesn't provide much food value. It To understand how strong this was sure of one thing: the problem certainly does not account for a bloc is politically, it is necessary to is getting wide publicity both in and large part of France's wealth (wine know how embracing the wine and out of France. It is being talked about amounts to only about 6 per cent of liquor industry is. According to one where it was never talked about the country's total recent exports). estimate, one out of every five per- before—notably in parliament. A Drinking water in France is just as sons in France is engaged in the while back the minister of public safe as in the U.S. production, sale, or distribution of health, speaking in the Chamber of But how could the average French- alcoholic beverages. Furthermore, Deputies, spoke out against the wine man know these things? Until re- vineyard owners and other producers and liquor industry. cently, there was little opportunity for of alcohol are powerful enough to "There are many kinds of murder- anyone in France to hear anything wring a subsidy of some $5 billion ers," he said. "Those who kill a man but one side of the story—the wine from the government each year. So in the street are in danger of the merchant's. Now, however, thanks it is not surprising that the alcohol guillotine. The distillers escape this largely to a revitalized National Com- lobby can deliver a large bloc of votes risk, but they have our contempt to friendly politicians, or even all the same, and will also have the threaten a government. punishment of God." Despite such impressive opposi- He was applauded for his words. / have prayed to God that he tion, the fight against alcoholism has But no one who heard him, least of would destroy the whole brewing managed to gather momentum. The all the Committee Against Alcohol- industry. I have often pronounced National Committee can point to ism, is underestimating the strength a curse on the brewer. —MARTIN LUTHER these evidences of progress: of the relatively silent, but powerful, 1) A growing awareness among liquor lobby. Most students of the industrialists, insurance companies, problem feel that dramatic progress and some labor unions that high con- will come only when other big blocs mittee for Defense Against Alcohol- sumption of alcoholic beverages is —labor unions, insurance combines, ism, many Frenchmen have been against their best interests. big employers—are fully aroused to startled to learn that wine is not 2) A strong anti-wine drinking the danger and fight it. mankind's greatest boon. Some even campaign is being waged in schools. Meanwhile, an alert Committee have been surprised to find that wine Teachers are allowed to search lunch and its crusading supporters, work- contains alcohol—some 13 per cent, boxes of pupils under 14 to see that ing on a limited budget and against in fact—and that alcohol is a poison. they carry no wine. big odds, are doing their best to keep The National Committee has been 3) The Committee is successfully the matter before the public eye. It in existence for a number of years, emphasizing sports, including spon- will not be their fault if France de- but until recently it had made little sorship of an annual national com- faults to alcoholism by ignorance.

34 Toget her/lFebruary 1959 m) nj

BOLIVIA—A Land of Decision

THIS MONTH a touch of green Andes in western Bolivia. To the east is coming to a bleak, treeless, 13,000- the land falls away through fertile foot plateau called the Altiplano— valleys into steaming rivers and fever- one of the highest inhabited areas of infested jungles. The Quechua In-

IOUIPUNI the world. It is summer 'now in dians live in the valleys, and other * ANCORAMES TR,NIDA0 V, CAMATA Bolivia, but for most of the year this small groups are dispersed in the LA PAZ is a bitter, wind-swept land jungles. obrajes f™ where COCHA8AMBA SANTA CRUZ time stands still for more than a mil- From the muggy heat of tropical

SUCRE lion Aymara Indians, descendants of lowlands to the cold, thin air of the the proud Incas. highlands, decisions are being made The Altiplano stretches between which will influence the lives of

two mighty arms of the towering Bolivians for years to come. This is

Market day on the Altiplano: for the small boy a priceless bit of American "candy-on-a-sticl(.' Hat styles may change from town to town, but shawls and ponchos are everywhere at this altitude.

To a warmer clime the Andes Wonder beast of the highlands: the tumble down through fertile valleys. hardy llama is a source of meat, md\, hides, and wool.

Together/February 1959 BOLIVIA (continued) the world are changing as rapidly. one of the four "Lands of Decision" And roots put down by Methodism

brought into focus in 1956 by the over a period of 50 years place it in a Board of Missions of The Methodist strategic position to help Bolivia de-

Church. (The others : Korea, Sarawak velop into a progressive, Christian in Borneo, and the Belgian Congo.) land.

Here the Church is bringing spiritual, But problems are many, the future educational, agricultural, and tech- both perilous and promising. Child nical forces to help Bolivians help of conquest and greed, landlocked in themselves. the heart of South America, virtually

Not since the Spanish destroyed the without roads, it is a country long Inca civilization four centuries ago prostrated by poverty, illiteracy, and

has Bolivia offered such opportunities disease. Communism is a constant for Christian effort. Few countries in threat. More than once Bolivia has

Indian tin miner: out of peonage comes hope for a new life.

Sailing along at 12,500 feet: for centuries the reed boats of Aymara fishermen have plied Laf^e Titicaca.

mmmmma^m^^m BOLIVIA (continued) snowy Andean passes to work with Frank Beck. Around 8,000 Bolivians been compared to a "beggar sitting in the downtrodden and indifferent are treated there every year. A score a chair of gold" because it is rich Aymaras on the Altiplano. Since then of primary and secondary schools enough in undeveloped mineral and Methodism's American Institutes at have opened near Lake Titicaca, agricultural resources to support an La Paz and Cochabamba, Bolivia's highest navigable body of water in estimated population of 50 millions. two largest cities, have turned out the world. Yet only about three and a half mil- thousands of pupils. Graduates are But change comes slowly to the lion persons live there today. today's business, professional and po- Aymara Indians. Many are addicted Until 1906, the Roman Catholic litical leaders—including the Bolivian to the coca leaf which, when chewed Church was the only church per- president, Hernan Siles Zuazo. with ash or lime, forms cocaine. The mitted in Bolivia. Protestantism was From the beginning the main em- drug relieves hunger, from which barred on the penalty of death. When phasis of the Methodist Church has many of the people suffer, and helps a measure of religious freedom was been educational and social. In 1930, them endure both severe cold and granted, the first official Methodist a hospital was started at La Paz fatigue in the thin air. missionary fought his way across the under the direction of Dr. and Mrs. Efforts to settle the Indians on bet-

38 Together/February 1959 The Aymara are a taciturn, stoic people—but a mother's face softens as a nurse cares for her child at Methodist-sponsored

Pfeiffer Memorial Hospital in La Paz, started in 1930.

Pupils in an elementary-grade section

of Methodism's American Institute at La Paz, the largest and best equipped

such school in Bolivia, stage a color-

ful fol\ dance for visitors. But hun- dreds who would enroll must be denied.

Bolivian boys play

volleyball in front of the American Institute at Cochabamba, the country's second

largest city. This school was founded in 1912.

39 This little red school bus pic\s up stu- dents throughout Cochabamba and the surrounding countryside and delivers them to the schoolhouse on the hill.

The Institute has around 755 neighborhood children from needy families in kindergarten and

primary classes. For them both instruction and daily meals

are free of charge.

Education will help these Aymara students find a proud birthright, lost somewhere in time. A cold wind blows on the Altiplano most of the time, but to the east in Trinidad it is warm and classes are held outdoors.

BOLIVIA (continued) positions changed from sullen indif- ter land at lower elevations have not ference to smiling co-operation. always proved successful. But one When a revolution brought nation- group recently did make the change alization of the tin mines and agrar- with amazing results. The addicts ian reforms, the change was so stopped chewing the harmful leaf and sudden that the people were unpre-

gained weight on a better diet. Dis- pared to take advantage of it. To help,

the Church is putting added em-

phasis on its program of education and social welfare. At the same time The Japanese farmer is it is recognizing the great spiritual one of 500 immigrants from needs of a people who are slowly Okinawa. Our missionaries help emerging from primitiveness. Church them become better farmers. membership has increased recently

February 1959\Together 41 II

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On the Altiplano, where little grows except potatoes and small grain, oxen pull a primitive wooden plow.

BOLIVIA (continued) from a scant 500 Methodists to more than 1,000.

Today, Methodist work is no longer limited to the Altiplano. Says Bishop Sante Uberto Barbieri of South America:

"Now is the time to go down to the plains, to the jungles, to the midst of new and throbbing communities, whose hope of salvation lies in the future, so that we may show them the way to victory over ignorance and chaos in which they are involved and all but lost!'

Symbol of progress: a Methodist missionary on the plateau shows a farmer how

to use his new steel plow.

42 J A modern mother rebels at casualness and adapts

Little Lord Fauntleroy's manners for her boys.

'Just Lean on Me, Grandpa'

A Together in the feature By DOROTHY VAN ARK

'URING the pre-Christmas rush,

I worked in a book department. I

still remember the day I walked over to help a pretty, gray-haired woman looking through the juvenile books. "Do you have Little Lord Fauntle- roy?" she asked. "I've been looking

all over town."

"I'm sorry," I told her. "We haven't

carried that book for a long time. It's so dated, you know." She nodded wistfully. "Yes," she

said, "I suppose it is, but I think children today could use some of that old-fashioned thoughtfulness and

graciousness. I wanted to give it to my grandson."

As I watched her leave I smiled to myself. With two lively sons at home, :

one six, the other eight, I knew One day, though, a sudden rain- on people are most important," I there'd be no selling Little Lord storm changed our plans to take the told them. "I don't care how brief

Fauntleroy to the rough-and-tumble two of them to an amusement park. it is, but when you greet an adult, little boys of today. Even back when The boy turned on his mother in a or say good-by, you're to look straight

I was growing up, the book was fury. at him." considered a period piece. I remember "You said we'd go," he snapped. It sounds like a superficial rule, laughing about the perfectly behaved "You broke a promise. I think you're and it is, but it is helping make the little character who was famous for terrible. Just because of a little rain!" boys seem at ease until they grow saying, "Just lean on me, Grandpa," His mother looked at me apolo- up enough to be at ease. And I hope and called his mother "Dearest." getically. "You know how explosive by that time it will also have helped they are at this age," she said in a them become sincerely gracious.

small voice. "A mother just has to Project Little Lord Fauntleroy is T.HAT night when I got home, take it." not a one-woman campaign by any feet and head both aching, I cer- After they had gone, my daughter means. The boys are lucky in having tainly didn't feel much like "Dear- mentioned the outburst only once. a father from whom they can learn est." And my two boys didn't even "You know, a boy who talks that the spirit as well as the deed of glance away from the TV as they way to his mother will yell at his graciousness. tossed me a "Hi, Mom." wife," she said. "I'm sorry I heard For instance, my husband believes Looking at them sprawled care- him. I'll never feel the same about in sending flowers to ladies—even to lessly on the floor, I suddenly felt him again." ladies other than his wife—and this that maybe that grandmother had From then on, every time one of is something I encourage. He enter- something. My sons could certainly my boys has talked back to me I've tains groups of schoolteachers in use some of the Little Lord Fauntle- remembered what she said. And each many towns in the course of his roy influence. time I tell myself firmly, if I take business. And for a long time he has

My campaign to get it across began this now, someday his wife may have made it a practice to see that each next day. My aunt, who lives next to take it. So I put my hands on his one has a corsage to wear to these door, is getting along in years and shoulders, spin him around so he has parties. moves unsteadily. I don't like to to look at me, and tell him: Just last week our daughter had make it obvious that I'm constantly "You are not to talk to me that her first small part in a real adult holding her arm, but it occurred to way. I am your mother, I am a play at the community playhouse. It me that my eight-year-old could do woman, and you are to respect me!" created quite a stir backstage when it—not just for her sake but because That isn't exactly calling me flowers arrived for her with a card it was something he should do. I "Dearest," but it amounts to the —signed by the three men in her life made it clear to him. "Whenever same thing. And it's building a "Daddy, Dexter, and Mark." she's in the car and I stop, you're to foundation for the relationship my get right out, open the door, and son will someday have with his wife. help her." Realizing that the success of his A,.ND it's a result of mutual pa- At first he followed my directions marriage and his whole future happi- rental effort when one of our sons, so energetically he nearly knocked ness can depend on the respect he following his dad's practice of her over. But since then, helping her has for his mother right now, I complimenting a lady after she's has become a habit without any know that the grandmother in the made an effort to look particularly prompting from me. He does it gen- book department was right! It is nice, says, "Golly, Mom, are you go- tly, with a certain pride. terribly important. ing out? You look nice!" For then I

I never watch him steadying her Once conscious of the Fauntleroy reply, "Golly, Son, thanks. I love to as she slowly climbs her front steps attitude, I found many little ways to hear you say so!" This, I hope, will without a catch in my throat. I guess encourage it. I was not working for encourage him to keep on compli- it's because I don't see only the small manners—every mother is expected menting me, and his sister, and in the boy; I also see the man he's to be- to teach her sons those—but the little future, his girl. come—a man, I hope, who will have extra courtesies that add up to "man- If their father and I can succeed in a special quality of consideration and ner," a word and a concept that are making concern for others a natural tenderness that a woman can't ex- fading from our generation. part of our boys' personalities, I don't plain but can never resist. There is Of course, this concept has to be think we'll ever have to worry about something to that "just lean on me" translated into today's terms. Take divorces in their future. And they'll picture that is terribly important in the old-fashioned custom of a child's be helped equally in whatever busi- the training of a boy. bowing or curtsying when meeting nesses or professions they follow.

And what about calling me "Dear- an adult. Ridiculous, of course, in James Barrie summed it up. He est"? I'll admit that'd be going too this day and age. But I noticed that was speaking of charm in a woman, far. But there's an important point when my boys met grownups they but it applies just as much to "man- here, too. I found it out not long ago were too casual, or they mumbled ner" in a man when we had friends visiting us. "how do you do?" while their eyes "If you have it, you don't need

They had a handsome 14-year-old slid shyly away. So I made just one anything else. And if you don't have boy and in no time our daughter, rule. it, it doesn't much matter what else then 13, developed a crush on him. "Your first and last impressions you have."

44 Together/February 1959 HMBBM

Teens Together

By RICHMOND BARBOUR

Teen-agers see\ —and respect—Dr. Harbour's expert counseling.

I'm a freshman in high school. father met us, swore at us. and ordered say things I shouldn't. I'm pretty un- 1? M\> counselor has warned me me out of the house. He said she's pleasant sometimes. How can 1 be a not to be a square. She says I should too young to see any boy. What can better girl?—C.C. do what the other l{ids do even though we do?—R.H.

I thinly they are wrong. Must I?—L.M. /ft You are in early adolescence. 1 Do other nice girls of 14 in your Xm. Your body is changing rapidly No. Your counselor means well, n. neighborhood have boy friends? and you are emotional. At this age hut you must make your own Could she persuade her father to talk nearly all youngsters get mad too eas- 2 decisions. Don't do anything which with their parents In some neighbor- ily. Try to control yourself. But don't seems wrong to you. hoods dates at 14 are approved, in others feel too bad when you make mistakes. they aren't. Unless her father changes Talk your problems over with your his opinion you should stay away. mother and your school counselor. // a boy isn't an athlete he isn't Things will improve. W anything. I've been dating a girl. Last night she stood me up and went / cheated on a test last wee\. I out with a football player. 1 get good feel awful. I can't sleep nights. I'm 18. 1 went steady with a girl grades and I have brains. That athlete Other \ids cheat all the time and aren't for four years. I love her. Sud- is dumb. Why should he rate higher bothered. Why should I hare such a denly she stopped going with me and than I do?—A.G. big, fat conscience? What can I do?— was married. I can't get over the shocl{. E.H. What should I do?—N.C.

M. Probably it isn't fair, but in high school athletes usually outrate conscience was formed Xs*. Your There is no quick way to get nonathletes. Is there any sport in which when you were little. It won't A t over such a blow. He sure you you could excel? Or might you be change. In the long run, life will be keep busy. Don't stay home, brooding. elected to a student-body office? After kinder to you because of your con- Get a job to fill your spare hours or graduation you'll find the really dumb science. You are much better off than cultivate your hobbies. Start dating of scene. easily. Tell the athletes fade out the Among the kids who cheat other nice girls, but try not to fall in adults brains are more respected than teacher what happened. Take the pun- love. Rebound love affairs often arc brawn. ishment. You'll feel a lot better. disastrous. Ask your minister to coun- sel with you. Gradually your happiness will return. If I'm a girl of 15. The boys I've | I'm 16. Sometimes I go to see a W dated have wanted to be too fe' girl who is married. She's 19. physical. Does a girl have to be a Her husband is an old man in his 30s. ) I'm 14 and almost grown up. wrestler to be popular?— V.C. I've gone for rides with her. I'm afraid W My father will not let me get in- I love her. What shall I do?—L.C. to a car with a boy. The boy I date is 16 and a good driver. So far 1 haven't No. Try to be a good companion argued about this. But my girl friends A. M_ in other ways. Try to be attrac- Don't see her again. Don't write. have no such rules. Should I stand up tive. You'll find boys who understand A Don't phone. Instead, look for for my rights?—S.F. and respect you. Every school has popu- unattached girl friends your own age, lar girls who aren't "wrestlers." or a bit younger.

It's good that you have not

A.M. argued. Your parents still have B Teen-agers lac\ protection. I'm WW l' m 11, the oldest child in the the right to decide such things. You'll " \f a boy of 15. Yesterday I went W family. I used to get along with gain your point fastest by proving in home with a girl, 14, after school. Her others. Now 1 get mad too often and other ways that you and your boy

February 1959\Together 45 Little Lessons in Spiritual Efficiency friend are responsible. Ask your dad to talk with the fathers of your girl friends about their rules.

The chief business I'm 14 and smoke. My girl says ^~%? cigarettes make me seem like a 'juve.' She won't go out with me when I smell of—smoke. Should 1 stop on her of the CHURCH account? A.H.

There are many good reasons for stopping. Her opinion is one of them. Do stop.

Is my sister balmy? She's 14 and jell in love with her English teacher last month. He doesn't kjiow she's alive. How long will this last? —B.F.

/ft She isn't balmy. Nearly all girls A.m.. have crushes on teachers at one time or another. Don't criticize or scold her. Ask your mother to talk with her. Let her unburden herself freely. Crushes usually are short-lived.

iiy MOV L SMITH I'm ashamed of my mother and it makes her angry. I'm a sopho- A MILD-MANNERED man who "I move that we meet one week more in college. She worlds to pay my seldom asked for the floor rose at from tonight and spend the entire way. I've seen how refined other girls' a meeting of the official board of the evening devising some plan by mothers are. It's not her fault that she's church. which we can get out among the crude. Should she scold me for saying "I have listened to the discussion people and make them feel our con- so?—I.C. with interest," he said, "and I under- cern." stand how important our actions The suggested meeting was held, have been. But I have waited to and there was no talk of money or Yes, she should. She is making a hear something said about the chief deficits. Board members assigned A sacrifice and you ought to ap- business of the church. As I under- themselves tasks and agreed upon preciate it. Put yourself in her place. stand it, we are organized to bring procedures. Within a week they be- You'll see that you've been cruel. people into personal contact with gan to show results. Apologize and try to be more gracious. Jesus Christ and then into church Organizing themselves into teams, membership. they went into the community bear-

"But our entire conversation has ing their testimonies. During the I'm 16 and president of our revolved around money, organiza- day their wives visited from door to MYF. I have gone out with sev- tion, precedents, routines, and the door seeking those upon whom calls eral boys. They never asl{ for a second building. care of the Before we ad- might profitably be made. date. I tell them I don't believe in park- journ, I would like to ask whether Within six weeks, by spending one ing. Docs a girl have to go in for that is spend- there any prospect of our evening a week, members won 94 stuff to be popular?—P.O. ing an evening discussing the best commitments. But aside from the en- ways to win people to Christ and listment of new members, the board our church?" members themselves achieved a sense /ft No. Look at the popular girls With that he sat down. of spiritual victory within their own A- Isk in your class who don't. You'll He did not have long to wait be- lives. While offering others solid rea- find there are several. They're good fore another member rose. sons for uniting with the church, sports, friendly. Boys enjoy their com-

"What has just been said makes they convinced themselves of its im- pany, without love-making. You can do me feel guilty," he said. portance. as well. "I know that there are hundreds Purely as an aside, the winning of of people in desperate need of that nearly 100 new members provided which our church could give them. the congregation with sufficient ad-

I also know that we have made al- ditional support to take care of the Puzzled Teens need only to write Dr. most no effort to reach them. We deficit. Barbour their problems and he will hold our services and we advertise What would happen if the expe- help them find the right path. Address that 'everybody is welcome.' But we rience of this little church were du- him c/o Together, 740 N. Rush St., have never taken ourselves serious- plicated in every Protestant congre- Chicago 11, III. Names and addresses ly. Isn't it time that we did so? gation in the land? are treated as confidential. —Eds.

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bruaryary 1959\1959\ToBether 47 with new meaning by being sen- sitive to the wants, needs, wishes, ffitgljt Into i% atl) and interests of people. His was f a sensitive soul who observed the birds of the air, the lilies of the WEEKLY MEDITATIONS field, the lost sheep, the distraught BY MINISTERS woman who lost a coin, the heart- stricken father who almost lost a ON THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS son, and countless others. Al- though it is difficult to be consid- ered an authority and not be au- thoritarian, Jesus seems to have JANUARY 18 this, too. "Whoever would build a mastered the delicate art by being great church among you must let sensitive. Whoever would be great it be a servant." Finally, Jesus' was the author- among you must be your serv- ity of complete dedication. An ant . . .—Mark 10:43 grayer: Direct us, O Lord, that authority is one who masters his 'TiljHO IS there these days who we may attain unto eternal life subject. He is committed to it. Jesus fkliA applies for servants' jobs? because we are servants of our was so committed, so de- voted, Yet each of us is indebted beyond fellow man through him who so completely given to his measure to countless people who serves us, Jesus Christ our ever- task that he gave even his life. have lived out this truth—rela- lasting Lord. Amen. No wonder he was regarded as —James V. Claypool tives, teachers, preachers, scien- "one who had authority." tists, tradesmen, writers, soldiers, JANUARY 25 ^Jraurr: officeholders, and multitudes un- Our Father, in this time when the world so needs the au- known. For he taught them as one thority of thy rule, give us the The remarkable thing is that who had authority, and not as power to tell people who live their lives as serv- their scribes.—Matthew 7:29 of Jesus, wherever ants don't care whether they are we are, in the hope that all men find authority great or not. They don't even ^j[[ESUS had that quality which may in him. Amen. —J. Ralph Jolly think about it. All that matters i»lj awakens interest, convinces is that they can be useful work- the will, and motivates a response. FEBRUARY 1 men approved of God. While many teachers supported If we recognize that fulfillment their words with references to He said to them, "Then render of our best natures comes when other more widely known teach- to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things we are great as servants, and give ers, Jesus spoke with a note of that are God's."—Luke 20:25 up all ideas of manipulating and finality. In the passage from which people, inner life the theme for today is taken monopolizing Jesus JN A Mother's Day contest will flow serenely and be creative, said, "You have heard that it was C>1)31 conducted by a newspaper, beautiful, said . . . I say adventuresome, and but to you." the winning slogan was that of a sympathetic. The question arises in our boy who wrote: "My mother keeps Have you noticed the five sto- minds, why did Jesus have such on speaking terms with God and ries that comprise this 10th chap- authority and how did he get it? on spanking terms with me." We ter of is plain pointing simply to Mark? Jesus very To answer by find hidden in this boy's humor- that in all family relationships suc- his Sonship is to for an easy beg ous quip an approach to many of cessful living comes only when answer. must go beyond sim- We life's dilemmas when we wonder is servant of the other. ple each answers and well-worn about our relationship to God in speaks of how husbands and cliches. There are more intimate He the midst of life's issues. wives should live together, plus aspects of his authority which Jesus was presented with one the place of children among helpful to us. can be of these perplexing issues when adults. runs up the rich First, Jesus' the authority Then was the chief priests tried to trick him young ruler volunteering to sign of close fellowship with God. The into treason. "Is it lawful for us as disciple. sor- that of his life a He went away records we have to give tribute to Caesar, or not?" lived the indicate that the rowful. Though he by to us a sense of Jesus, perceiving their craftiness, Ten Commandments, he could not presence of the divine pervaded responded, "Show me a coin. catch the idea of living as a serv- all his experiences. Whatever else Whose likeness and inscription ant and using his abilities and the accounts of the Baptism, the possessions that way. Transfiguration, the Crucifixion, James and John and their and the Resurrection may mean mother missed the point when (and they mean much more), James V. Claypool asking for the best seats on the they indicate an intimate relation- New Bedford, Mass. platform right beside Jesus. Full ship between the Father and the expression of being a servant Son. He could speak with author- came when Jesus stopped along ity because he lived close to God. Jericho's roadside to bring light Second, Jesus' was the author- into the life of blind Bartimaeus. ity of a sensitive life. Scholars As a congregation of individuals have indicated to us that Jesus dedicated to such a way of con- did not teach anything radically duct, the church has to be like new; he simply filled vital truths

18 has it?" They said, "Caesar's." TIltE HAVE two boys, nine and This is certainly not an affair said to them, "Then render to only of feeling. our Father's He Xi ' eleven. We try to keep in When Caesar the things that are Cae- touch with their experiences at world lets loose its destructive sar's and to God the things that school and play, and to know forces against our treasured are God's." their friends. One day Mother was things; when evil events strike Jesus did not fall for the fallacy talking with John about school: so meaninglessly, it is then we of the false alternative. He recog- "With whom do you play at re- may feel no love. When John Wes- nized that the state has certain cess, John?" ley "went unwillingly" to a meet- claims upon its citizenry. Jesus "Oh, with Billy, Tommy, Rich- ing led by a layman, he felt no did not leave the issue there, but ard, and some other kids." Mother great love for God. But there his quickly acknowledged that we had met Billy and Richard. We heart was "strangely warmed" have duties and debts we owe to know their parents and the boys and love filled and changed his God. It was his concern that we have visited at our house. life. The travelers on the Emmaus put God and his Kingdom first. "Tommy? Who's Tommy?" Road felt despair, not love. Then conflict exists to- the visited Many a which "Oh, I don't know his last name. Risen Lord with them day stems from this fallacy of the He lives over behind Billy's and their hearts burned with love. false alternative. There are those house. He's in my room and he's So the best of us do not at all who persist in thinking that all a real nice guy." times feel love toward God. Yet of life's issues are either black A few days later, on a special we may and should have some or white, an either-or proposition; Parents' Day, Mother visited times when God's love fills our for example, those who advocate John's room at school. Looking cup of life to overflowing. the individual gospel at the ex- across the room, John whispered, But we should not depend only pense of the social gospel and vice "There's Tommy, Mother, right on feeling. We are also to love versa, when in reality it is "both over there by the window." God with mind and strength. We and." It is possible to be on "Do you mean the boy in the are to "inquire in his temple." We speaking terms with God while red shirt?" are to respond to his perfect love dealing with life's issues. Jesus "No, Mother. The one with the with a love that is daily clarified took this attitude toward the little bandage on his head. That's with our care-full thinking. claims of the state upon its citi- Tommy." Tommy is the only George Washington Carver zens. They can be met without Negro in his room at school—and prayerfully asked God what he surrendering ultimate loyalty to John identified him by a bandage had hidden in the peanut. God so God. Our first loyalty is to God on his head. much as said: "I gave you brains. and this should not only make Use them!" Carver did and re- us citizens of his Kingdom, but yraurr: Our Father, and the leased the hidden splendor of hun- also loyal servants in fulfilling Father of all men, teach us with dreds of things. With such rever- the requirements made upon us the simplicity of childhood to look ent thinking-through we are to in the world in which we live. not on the outward features of love God. men, but on the heart, that our Only with such an all-out love yraucr: Eternal God, we thank judgment may be like unto thy of God do we come to love neigh- thee that thou hast set thy seal judgment. Amen. bors next door and across the upon our inmost being, calling —John L. Carpenter whole world in a helpful, Christ- us to be heirs of thine eternal like way. Such love is what the Kingdom. We pray thy spirit to FEBRUARY 15 world and God are waiting for. guide us that we may be in this To love him with all the heart, world but not of it. Direct us, O Prayer: God, we know we must and with all the understanding, God, that not only be love thee with all our being if we may and with all the strength, and are ever to love others as we citizens of thy Kingdom, but also to love one's neighbor as one- we loyal servants of thine as citizens self, is much more than all love ourselves. So we come to in our nation. Amen. burnt offerings and sacrifices. dedicate anew our whole being to —Mark 12:33 —Carroll H. Spracue love with heart, soul, mind, and strength. Use this more thorough FEBRUARY 8 ^[T IS NOT so easy to love God dedication for creating thy king- /**}) —not in ways outlined by Je- dom of love amid the failing For the Lord as sees not man sus to this scribe. Love like this kingdoms of earth. We pray in sees: man looks on the out- requires all our heart and soul ward appearance, but the the name of Jesus who "for their and mind and strength. It does Lord looks on the heart.—-I sakes" dedicated himself. Amen. Samuel 16:7 not ask a little bit of us, but all. —Arthur B. Mercer

J. Ralph Jolly Carroll H. Sprague John L. Carpenter Arthur B. Mercer Birmingham, Ala. Mt. Vernon, Wash. Santa Fe, N.M. Morris, III.

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"•*> Barnabas takes Looks at New Books It's war for these tuskers—but only in fun! From Animals in India.

At A COUNTY FAIR in India, in That's why publication of the His- theological training what he thought of the spring of 1955, world-renowned tory of the Modern World, under way J. B. Phillips' translation of The New animal photographer Ylla was taking at the University of Michigan Press, Testament in Modern English (Mac-

pictures of a bullock-cart race from the is one of the most important publishing millan, $6). He said he thinks it has a hood of a jeep. The jeep hit something; ventures of our time. This massive great deal to recommend it. the photographer was thrown to the series, which will extend to 15 volumes, Phillips became a Bible translator in ground, fatally injured. will provide a complete, authoritative World War II when he began reading From the diary she had been keep- modern world history for the general the letters of St. Paul to a youth group ing and the photographs she had taken, reader for the first time in more than in The Church of the Good Shepherd, Harper has compiled Animals in India half a century. London, where he was vicar. The young (Harper, $10), an exciting work of art Co-editors are Pulitzer Prize win- people obviously weren't getting the full and a memorial to the young Hun- ning historian Allan Nevins, who meaning from the biblical language garian woman whose animal photo- conceived the idea 10 years ago, and and Phillips began putting the letters graphs have given delight to millions. Howard Ehrmann, chairman of the into words they could understand more The love she felt for all animals is University of Michigan's Department readily. The response was immediate, expressed in an entry she made after of History. Authors of individual vol- and 10 years ago Letters to Young an elephant hunt. She wrote, "I do not umes are men distinguished in their Churches became a book. understand that need in man to affirm fields who have proved their ability In three subsequent volumes, Phil- himself heroically by killing. It seems to present the past with color, clarity, lips has completed his translation of the to me that only a creative effort can and drama. New Testament, and now they are give one a true sense of fulfillment. The first four volumes now have being published together. The Phillips

Photography fills me with a satisfaction been issued as a boxed set under the translation is swift-moving, idiomatic, no dead animal could possibly give." title Countries of Decision (Univ. of definitely of the 20th Century. How-

Michigan Press, $24.95 plus $1 mailing ever, it retains the special qualities that We Americans are still a little be- charge to Founding Members, $35 mark the different Gospels, and it wildered by the mantle of world lead- regular price). They are Russia and the would never bring the charge upon it-

ership that fell on our somewhat un- Soviet Union, by Warren B. Walsh, self that it is Phillips' commentary on willing shoulders at the close of World chairman of the Board of Russian the New Testament. War II. Our need to know the historical Studies at Methodist-related Syracuse As a partner to your Bible, it may background of the fast-changing world University; The Far East, by Nathan- well give you a vivid new perspective

situation is being brought home to us iel Peffer, international relations pro- on Christianity. in many ways, in large part by people fessor, Columbia University; The Near from all lands who come to our country East, by William Yale, professor at "Distant lands or professional equip- to see and to study. You may ignore Methodist-related Boston University, ment are not what a naturalist needs

the need to know about a man's coun- and Latin America, by J. Fred Rippy, most of all. What he needs is a bump try and culture if he's thousands of professor of history at the University of curiosity and a seeing eye—that miles away, but if he's sitting in the of Chicago. kind of vision is worth more than all same room with you he can make you the tools in the world and it is what acutely aware of your ignorance. I asked one of our staff members with I should like to give my children, along

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with the habit of wondering," says Charlotte Orr Gantz in Discovering Better lor Nature (Charles Scribners, $3.95). Her twin sons, who live with her and her husband on a farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, should find this Youn easy to come by if they are like their mother. She writes with imagery and some knowledge about birds and butter- flies, sea shells and land snails, flowers Than and ferns.

Discovering Nature is illustrated by Charles Hargens. who painted Francis Asbury's arrival at a Pennsylvania vil- lage for page one of our August issue.

The Robert Paul Smith household

must be a lively one. Mr. Smith is the author of two of the funniest books of the last few years "Where Did You " Go?" "Out."' "What Did You Do "Nothing" Barnabas, May, page | 1957, 60] and How to Do Nothing With No- body All Alone by Yourself. Mrs. Smith

is Elinor Goulding Smith, whose

latest contribution to hilarity is Con- fessions Mrs. Smith (Harcourt, Brace, of Top writers of adult fiction and nonfiction are also $2.95). Their two sons haven't yet writing for boys and girls these days, and the results entered the field of letters, but then should give television some real competition. Here they are still under school age. are some samples. The whole family, however, figures

in the "confessions" of the lady of the Remember the Alamo! {Random House, SI. 9 5) by two- house, who shares with her readers time Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Penn Warren. This the secret of lack how she acquired her is the dramatic, action-packed story of how Texas won her of poise, admits defeat against a rising independence from Mexico. tide of antiques and books brought

home by her husband, and reveals her- Sailing the Seven Seas (Houghton Mifflin, S1.95) by self as a "rug addict." distinguished novelist and playwright Mary Ellen Chase. Mrs. Barnabas savs any woman who A fresh and salty book about seagoing New England families has a less-than-perfect figure, children and the clipper ships, packets, and East Indiamen on which who are at the jam-spilling age, and they sailed. a husband who brings home more books than the shelves will hold (here she The Marquis de Lafayette: Bright Sword for Freedom looked straight at me) will find a (Random House, SI. 95) by award-winning newspaper editor kindred spirit in Mrs. Smith—and and author Hodding Carter. The inspiring story of the plenty of air-clearing laughter in her young French nobleman who defied his king to fight for reckless recollections. man's freedom on two continents.

If the current rate of increase con- Gold in California (Houghton Mifflin, $1.95) by Paul I. tinues, 1965 will see at least 1 million Wellman, whose historical novels include the best-selling youngsters hailed into court as juve- Jubal Troop. The vivid story of how California was nile delinquents. Consequently, two transformed from a sleepy Spanish province into a vast new books that discuss what the mining camp—then into statehood. church, the community, and individuals can do to help stem this terrible tide Young Thomas Edison (Houghton Mifflin, SI. 95). a deserve serious study. warm, lively, authentic biography of America's greatest in- Understanding and Preventing Juve- ventor by Sterling North, author of more than 20 books nile Delinquency (Abingdon, cloth for adults and young people. $2.75, paper $1.25) has been written by Haskell M. Miller under the direction The Story of the Texas Rangers (Grosset & Dunlap, of the General Board of Social and S2.95) by Walter Prescott Webb, historian and author Economic Relations of The Methodist of books on the Southwest. An exciting account of the men Church. It provides a wealth of prac- who brought law to Texas. tical information, with projects and questions for discussion groups at the The American Revolution (Random House, SI. 9 5) by end of each chapter. The head of the Bruce Bliven, Jr., author of three books and many maga- Department of Social Ethics at Wesley zine articles. The stirring story of the quarter of a century Theological Seminary, Dr. Miller has that changed 13 English colonies into a new nation, the been an active member of numerous United States of America.

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child-welfare and family councils and Stewart Holbrook is a West Coast conducted a firsthand study of boys' author with a secure reputation. But gangs in Dallas. fate's quirks are so unpredictable that In How the Church Can Help Where many readers will feel most indebted Delinquency Begins (John Knox, $3) to him for discovering and putting be- Guy L. Roberts points out that the tween hard covers the paintings of an

church is in a unique position to "play eccentric whose name is the title of the the most vital role of any agency in the book, Mr. Otis (Macmillan, $3.95). enlargement and enrichment of family

life, and thus in the prevention of delinquency." Dr. Roberts discusses methods that are available to the church and traces steps that have already been taken. Now pastor of the First Methodist Church, Clarkston, Wash., he gained knowledge of the causes of delinquency as a minister in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he worked with the social-welfare pro- gram of the Council of Churches and the domestic and juvenile courts.

William Howard Taft was president when young James F. Byrnes arrived Dividend in Washington as junior congressman A Double from South Carolina. Harry Truman was president when veteran public one for You and one for servant Byrnes resigned as secretary of state. In between lay nearly 50 years Christian Education in which the South Carolinian had "I was with Custer." From Mr. Otis. held a greater variety of high offices An Annuity with the General Board of than any American since the days of Education of the Methodist Church pays Mr. Otis seems to have been a sort Jefferson—as a member of both Houses a DOUBLE DIVIDEND: of skid-row character able to catch of Congress, a justice of the Supreme social insight in lean lines ex- humor and First, the Annuity provides you or some- Court, master co-ordinator in the and flat colors. One critic, a woman, ecutive branch of the government dur- one you designate a liberal income, with told him, "You can't paint any better World War II, and secretary of state. rates of return as high as 7.4%, depend- than Picasso." All in One Lifetime (Harper, $5) ing upon the annuitant's age. This Maybe this art should be classified is Byrnes' own account of these years, income is not subject to fluctuation, and as cartoons. I am not sure. But I do plus the four years after his "retire- the has never missed or been late know that the adults who saunter by Board ment" when he served as governor of the reading table in the Barnabas home with a single payment. his state. It is an important contribu- and pick up this book then sit and tion to the history of our time. gift that The second "dividend" is the chuckle. goes to the General Board of Education. Remember the spring of 1*340? Re- After the annuity obligation has been member the astonishment—and despair For swift-paced reading, you couldn't fulfilled, undesignated funds are divided absorbing book than —as Hitler's crack legions swept find a more equally between the Division of the Local through one country after another? It Daughter of the Gold Rush by Klondy Church to further the work of Christian took less than three months for the Nelson with Corey Ford (Random This true story of the education in our local churches, and the Wehrmacht to overrun Norway, Den- House, $3.50). Alaska gold rush as seen by a girl Division of Educational Institutions to mark, and the Low Countries, to bring knees, and to sweep the growing into a woman is timely in aid in the higher education of Methodist France to her statehood, last British troops off the continent at view of Alaska's admission to young people. Or, if desired, a gift may Dunkerque. To the allied world, the and particularly interesting to Meth- be designated to any special project or shades of night seemed to be closing in odists in view of Methodism's historic Board. institution related to the in See Methodism's Sta\c on all sides; Nazi Germany's war role Alaska. | the Newest State, January, page 35.] Guaranteed by the General Board of machine was too fast, too efficient to be in Klondy's father was a prospector, Education, an annuity gift pays a gen- stopped. gold tran- Now we have a glimpse at how all whose compulsive search for erous lifetime income that is safe, regular life, even this looked from the inside. Teleford scended everything else in his time, it gives the and sure. At the same the Taylor's The March of Conquest his family. Klondy grew up in donor the opportunity and satisfaction of (Simon and Schuster, $7.50) gives us boom town of Nome, a tough, raucous, helping in the vital work of Christian prospectors, a close-up of German operations from violent town where gam- education. the point of view of Berlin and the field blers, claim jumpers, and prostitutes commanders. Based on official German rubbed elbows with explorers and pro- For further information about our an- them all. records, it is an absorbing story—and moters. Klondy knew nuity gift plan, address shows that, concealed from allied eyes, When she left Alaska to study music made up of hesita- in Seattle, she said she'd never go back. TREASURER, a king-size volcano tion, disputes, and jealousies was erupt- But she hadn't met Frank Dufresne. GENERAL BOARD OF EDUCATION ing among the top Nazi leaders and His job was wildlife reconnaissance in their generals. A book worth reading Alaska and points north, and when THE METHODIST CHURCH —but be prepared for more technical she married him she found herself on right back to Alaska again. P. 0. Box 871, Nashville 2, Tenn. data than a layman normally can absorb. her way

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Pogo and his animal friends in the Okefenokee Swamp are among the by Methodist authors funniest, warmest characters ever to climb out of a cartoonist's ink bottle. G. O. Fizzickle Pogo (Simon and

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54 Together/February

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Compare the type specimen at left with a page from any other Bible. give O thanks to the Lord, See how legible the size and face of 118 for he is good; the type make each word; how the BISHOP. LOS ANGELES AULA, his steadfast love endures for proper amount of white space THE METHODIST CHUR( II ever! makes each line stand out. PSALMS L. As well as being easier to read, DOCTOR ZHIVACO, by Boris Pasternak the Revised Standard Version Bible Actual-size tyt>e sfret itnen Jrom these RSV BibUs: (Pantheon, $5). is also easier to understand. It re-

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The answer is that the book deals with the Bolshevik Revolution and has as its hero a man who did not METHODIST MISSION TOUR believe in it. He thought that the TO victory of the revolution meant defeat for the dignity and freedom of man. When you consider who the author ^AFRICA was and where he comes from, this

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Russian novels, it has all kinds of characters and to me none of them

really became real in the sense that

other great novels bring people to life.

I think the book could stand a good deal of condensation, elimination, and

organization. It was one of the easiest

novels to lay down that I have read

in recent days. This, however, is a

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Dr. AW/ Answers Questions About

Your Faith and Your Church ' My American Bible Check What can I think of the Trinity? Always Comes You can think of it as a blessed Holy Spirit, but all together in part of our faith, even though non- harmony and mutuality. He is both Christians have sometimes accused transcendent and immanent and not on Time" Christians of believing in three Gods (as some non-Christian theologians rather than one. Methodist claim) transcendent in the Father, Our When you invest in an American Bible Articles of Religion put it well immanent in the Holy Spirit, and when Society Annuity Agreement you have they mention "three persons, of one somewhere in-between in the Son. nothing to worry about! substance, power, and eternity." The doctrine of the Trinity is a The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit later clarification of our Christian Your first check arrives almost immedi- are not three distinct and separate thought, not spelled out in the Bible. ately, and you can expect the same amount persons (to hear some people talk Augustine had it: the Trinity is one regularly thereafter, regardless of world you would think that members of who loves, that which is loved, and conditions or economic ups and downs. the Trinity were in competition love itself. Calvin attributed to the And what a lot of taxes you save! with each other!) with distinct Father the principle of action, to the she characteristics and tasks, but one Son wisdom and counsel, to the Take the case of Mrs. Dowe. When Supreme Being, indivisible in ex- Holy Spirit power of action. bought a $1,000 Annuity at age 65, she was istence and in action. Others have had other ideas. The guaranteed an income of $50 a year for the

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^M^^Mx - m Remembers

Together with the SMALL FRY, by DALTON A. DOWDY

I HE COLD north wind He did not know about winter "You should have stored food brought snow and sleet as it and he could not believe that a before the snow and ice came," whistled angrily past the tree in time would ever come when food Leapy reminded him with a which Fliffo Squirrel made his would not be plentiful. stern chatter. home. Fliffo shivered, drew him- Now Fliffo gave up the search. "I did not know about the self into a tiny ball, wrapped his He knew that the other squirrels snow. Honest I didn't, Mr. long, bushy tail around him, and were going to say, "We told you Leapy. This is my first winter," buried himself deeply into the so," and he did not want to go Fliffo replied. bed of leaves. After that he slept to them, but there was nothing "Well, I wish I could help you, soundly. else to do. boy," said the old squirrel, "but It was past breakfast time The answer was the same I have eaten all the food I have." when Fliffo awoke and he was from everyone. They had only "Didn't you store any food hungry. He searched for food, enough for themselves. Fliffo either?" Fliffo asked, surprised. but the snow had covered all the begged them to give him just "Oh yes, I stored plenty, but nuts. There was nothing to eat one nut. He promised to repay I am old and forgetful. I cannot anywhere. Fliffo painfully re- them when the snow melted, but remember where it is hidden," membered how the other he was reminded that the snow Leapy said sadly. squirrels had chattered at him and ice might remain for a long As Fliffo headed for home, he when the trees started changing time. leaped wearily over the ice and colors last autumn. They had At last Fliffo went to Leapy, tried to remember where Mr. worked hard each day, gathering the oldest squirrel in the woods. Leapy had hidden his food. He and storing food. But Fliffo had Leapy was just finishing a sup- had often seen the old squirrel spent most of his time at play. per of nuts when Fliffo arrived. working steadily, but he had not

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paid much attention then. Now he tried and tried to remember. Suddenly he saw a fallen tree which looked familiar. Fliffo stopped short, turned quickly in his tracks, and sat back on his haunches. He frisked his bushy tail up over the back of his gray, furry coat, and perked up his thin, pointed ears. All at once he remembered playing nearby and seeing Mr. Leapy at the old tree. Fliffo slipped into the leaves under the tree and searched every inch, sniffing and smelling all the way. He scratched the Fun with Squirds' and 'Cowbits' leaves away quickly, and there they were. Nuts! Plenty of them IMAGINE a squirrel with a bird's tail! What Fliffo picked up a nut and was would you call it—a "squird"? Just for fun, the about to chew on it when he next time you're sick or don't know what to do, thought of Mr. Leapy. He re- try making some mixed-up animals. membered Mr. Leapy had said, First, look through old magazines for pictures "I am old and forgetful. I can- of until ." animals. Cut them out and save them you not remember . . have several different ones. Then mix up the Fliffo put down the nut to forget, but each time he picked animals by cutting off parts of one animal it up again he remembered Mr. and pasting them on another. For example, Leapy. He also remembered that you could make a "cowbit" by pasting a rabbit's it was not right to eat food that tail and ears onto a cow. Use color crayons to add belonged to another squirrel special touches. As you finish each animal, paste it

without his permission. Finally, on a separate piece of paper, give it a name, and he decided that he must take the write a little story about it, like : "This is a 'cow- nut to Mr. Leapy. bit.' It eats carrots and hay. It likes to hop around A few moments later, Fliffo in pastures and wiggle its nose." dropped the nut at Mr. Leapy's Then fasten the pages together and make a feet and told him where he had cover for them. Later, perhaps, you can take your found it. The old squirrel thanked Fliffo for finding the book of mixed-up animals to school to share with nuts, without even mentioning your teacher and friends. sharing them. So Fliffo was still hungry when he left, but he knew he felt better than he would have if he had eaten Mr. Leapy's food without permis- sion. When he was halfway down the tree, Mr. Leapy called to him. "Oh yes, Fliffo, help yourself to the nuts until the snow is gone. Valentine's Day You can replace them after you gather some for yourself." The aspens and the maples now "Oh, thank you, Mr. Leapy! have lacy frost on every bough, Thank you!" Fliffo chattered joyfully. through the woods the shadows go, He jumped excitedly to the And frozen ground and bounded over writing verses on the snow. the ice toward the old tree. He decided that he would never The tops of tveeds are sealed up tight again ignore the advice of his in little envelopes of white, elders. Next year he would gather enough nuts to last him And listen! in the frosty pines all winter. And maybe some ex- snowbirds twitter Valentines. tra ones, too just in case there — —Aileen Fisher might be a young squirrel around who had not planned for Reprinted from Holiday Programs foi Boys and Girls, © 1953, Plays, Inc. the winter.

^February 1959\Together —

HOBBY ALLEY

PIANISSIMO

By NONA BROWN THOMPSON

Mrs. Thompson holds two

of her midget pianos, one topped by a tiny cat (Kitten on the Keys!), the other

carved of "pin/( ivory," an African wood

sacred in Ztiluland.

A HUNDRED pianos? In one living small piece of plywood. Then we glued tell him I liked it just that way, that room ? the pieces together, stained the whole we would have the only left-handed Certainly, when they are miniatures. unit walnut, glued on a keyboard piano in existence. But my husband

And mine, with one exception, are just (meticulously drawn on a strip of white promptly tore it apart and turned the

that! paper), and finished it off with a tiny body upside down, so the curve was cor- But to tell the story properly, you brand name cut from an old Christmas rected.

first must meet the rest of our family card. Somehow, it still didn't look The best was yet to come, however. trio—Glenn, my husband, and Gary, exacdy like our piano. Then we real- Not long ago, we found a little china my son. They're important because ized what the missing ingredient was antique grand that is curved the wrong what started out to be my hobby soon —and made tiny copies of our sheet way. So we have a left-handed piano, became theirs, too. And it all began music which we put on the music rack. after all.

quite by accident, in a double sense of If Gary and I were asked now, eight Many of our pianos—in fact, most of the word. years later, to name our favorite minia- them—were found while on vacation

We had scarcely started a vacation ture piano, we would have to say it is trips, and now have double value as trip, back in 1950, when a car ahead of this one. mementos of the trips we took together

us stopped without warning and we My husband, however, was not to be while Gary was growing up. I es-

slammed into it. Gary was thrown outdone. In contrast to our amateurish pecially cherish the handsome pair of against the dash, but luckily only slight- methods, he and a friend used power book ends on onyx bases, with a bronze

ly injured. As I sat with him in a doc- tools to shape a block of solid walnut Beethoven seated at a bronze piano. tor's office, I idly picked up a hobby to the likeness of a grand piano. He We found and admired them in a gift

magazine and, leafing through it, no- used a factory-made plastic keyboard shop in the Arkansas Ozarks on our

ticed an article and pictures about a Los and as a finishing touch installed a 20th wedding anniversary, but I turned

Angeles woman who had a collection of small music box which played Brahms' away regretfully when I saw the price miniature pianos. Incongruously, at Lullaby when the piano's lid was raised. tag. When we left, however, my hus-

such a time and such a place, I said No doubt about it, this piano was band saw that the twin Beethovens to myself, "That's for me!" far more beautifully crafted than the went with us!

I might better have said, "That's for one Gary and I had built using scrap Another which we picked up while

us!" The day after we returned from wood. But it wasn't jealousy that kept traveling is a relatively large grand, our shortened vacation, Gary and I us silent when my proud husband first prized because it is the only one in our

were making our very first tiny piano showed it to us. Finally, Gary spoke collection to have a full 88-key key- a model of our own small upright. Ar- up apologetically. "But Dad," he mut- board. We found it in a Texas drug- dent do-it-yourselfers would have been tered, "you've got it curved the wrong store during a refreshment stop. Made amused at our slapdash methods. I de- way!" as a display chest for watch bands, it signed the model and Gary, with a dull It was only too true; the long part of had a music box which played, most ap- coping saw, cut the pieces from a dis- the curve was on the right where the propriately, Now Is the Hour. What carded scrap of common lumber and a treble strings should be. I hastened to good timing it was that we happened

60 Together/February 1959 along when the druggist had sold all that we began building models ol its the watch bands, and was willing to forerunners. part with the piano! In the very beginning, we learned,

Quite unusual, too, is the diminutive was the monochord, a crude, one- wooden grand with a blonde, pigtailed stringed affair. Then came the dulci- angel at the keyboard. A label identities mer, similar to the psaltery often men-

it as: "Made in Germany, USSR Oc- tioned in the Bible. Following it was

cupied." How it found its way into a the clavichord, which eventually bowed shop in Grand Lake, Colo., has always to the harpsichord—the modern piano's been a matter of conjecture. The tiny closest relative. piece of music on its rack has notes The first real piano was created by

distinct enough to be read. It is titled one Bartolomeo Cristofori in the late Ihr Kinderlein, Kommet—translated by 1600s. He called it the gravicembalo our Methodist minister as Ye Little col piano e forte—literally, a keyboard Children, Come, a traditional German instrument that plays both soft and Christmas song. loud. Fortunately for us, the name was ANTIQUES: Mrs. Harold DeLancey, Box 35, Ellen- surprising thing shortened by usage. To most people, the common Can you boro, W.Va. about our collection is the wide variety imagine calling to your young son, ARCHAEOLOGY: Donald A. Foster, Jr., 1821 of materials used and the purposes for "Come practice your gravicembalo col Dolloz Rd , Forest Acres, Columbia, S.C. which the small instruments them- piano e forte lesson" ? A fleet-footed lad ASTRONOMY: Bonnie Webster, R. 9, Box 343, selves were designed. have them would be two blocks away by the time We Pasadena, Md. made of such diverse materials as wood, you finished! BIRD WATCHING: Mrs. Vivian E. Reel, 12 pottery, china, spun glass, plastic, Learning the piano's history also Calvert Ave., Colorado Springs, Colo. bisque, cloth, rubber (complete with a gave us a new appreciation of the won- BOOKS: James A. Johnson, 70 Charles St., monkey musician), and even soap. ders of the modern instrument found Reading, Mass. (Methodist Disciplines); J. H. As for uses, there are sewing boxes, in so many of our homes. Today's Edge, 2011 Sweetbrier Ave., Nashville 12, Tenn. jewel cases, lighters, planters, salt and grand piano—with 2,061 separate (Methodist Disciplines).

pepper shakers, and various pieces of parts—has such a delicate mechanism CAMPAIGN BUTTONS: David Hart, 3320 S. jewelry (such as pins, charms, brace- that a small child's finger can depress Spring, Springfield, III.

lets, and earrings). One piano is a bank, each key, yet is enclosed in a frame CHURCH BULLETINS: Mrs. Clara Cowley, 8045 with a slot behind the music rack to strong enough to withstand a string S. Emerald Ave., Chicago 20, III.; Mrs. M. A. Cortner, 4321 Prescott Rd., Nashville 4, Tenn.; insert coins—and a removable leg for tension of 20 tons! Rev. Robert L. Oglesby, Box 265, Turkey, Tex.; withdrawals! We're enthusiastic collectors, of Robert A. Rougvie, 59 Belmont St., North Quincy, Mass.; Miriam N. Hickman, 2227 Carter St., Each of our tiny pianos is interesting course, and most anything pertaining Wilmington 2, Del. for some reason, whether it came from to pianos interests us. That's why we're COINS: James Jordan, 3484 Earl Dr., Santa Clara, the dime store or bears the distinguish- always brought up short when some- Calif. (U.S.); Barbara Buxton, R. 3, Mt. Airy, Md.; ing mark of Limoges, center of France's one sees our collection and asks: "What Mrs. Donald Zimmer, 2425 S. 16th St., Lincoln, Liberty dimes); Mrs. Walter porcelain industry. Perhaps the most good is it?" To us it has gone far be- Neb. (pennies and Hanson, 701 NE A St., Grants Pass, Ore.; Roger unusual is carved from African acquisition of related one an yond mere ob- Davis, 575 Carey Ave., Wilkes Barre, Pa.; Andrew wood known as pink ivory, the sacred jects. Much more meaningful is the F. Lawless, III, 936 Haverford Rd., Bryn Mawr, Pa. (U.S.). wood of Zululand. This wood is con- fact that we have developed and shared

sidered so sacred that tradition says any it as a family. Our collection is of DOLLS: Christine Jordan, 3484 Earl Dr., Santa Clara, Calif.; Mrs. Ernest Stone, RR 2, Cambridge, Zulu caught with it in his possession memories as well as of objects. Neb. must be put to death. It is the only Although I no longer actively search CENEALOCY: Mrs. Harold Nash, RR 2, Brookfield, authentically pink wood in the world, for new acquisitions, our collection con- Mo. (Strait, Nash, Kenyan, Thomas, Myers, Ballou, similar to ivory in hardness and tex- tinues to grow. Did I say earlier we James, Swartz, Schugg); E. Bomar, Box 678, ture. had a hundred pianos in our living Henry, Tenn. (Bowden, Townley, Lawrence, Chase); Mrs. M. D. Way, Hockessin, Del. (Humphreys, side light An unexpected to our room? Actually, the tiny ebony grand Armstrong, Monson, Orgain, Crook, Winfield, hobby developed soon after we started which came a few days ago in a laun- Meredith); Jerry L. Moore, Box E, Calhoun, Ga. (Moore, Medders, Chadwick, Stroud, Ganus, Jen- — it was learning how the piano de- dry case, buried deep among rumpled nings, King, Martin, Cowart, Gibbs, Neal, Hix, veloped. The story was so interesting ivy-league shirts, makes an even 120! Stultz); Mrs. Raymond L. Luther, Mascotte, Flo. (Luther, Kirk); Mrs. Delmar DeSmidt, 611 6th St. N., Humboldt, Iowa (Morgan, Highland, Swain, Bell); B. A. Putnam, 28 Elizabeth St., Melbourne, Fla. (Bemont, Bragg, Sherman, White). Mrs. Eva C. Conard, 411 Court St., Ida Grove, Iowa (Elmore, Barringer, Treese, Mann, Mc- Crocken); Mrs. H. A. Painter, 319 Howell Ave., Cincinnati 20, Ohio (Painter, Goas, Goss, Boston); Mrs. Ross E. Gibson, Box 272, Apalachin, N.Y. (Ensworth, Hutchinson); Mrs. Jack Hyman, 233 W. Euclid, Stockton, Calif. (Barkdull, Bergdoll, Blend, Bullman, Dick, Ennis, Sprague, Green); Olivia McCluney, 1711 S. Knoxville, Tulsa 12, Okla. (McCluney, Peevahouse, Elliott); George E. Miller, 2216 St., Sacramento, Colif. (Mauzy, Hogan, Ladd, Ogle, Coleman); Mrs. Milo D. Zimmerman, 12526 Califa St., North Hollywood, Calif. (Kable, Speicher, Monosmith); Mrs. E. B. Dakan, 104 Smith St., Bridgeport, W. Va. (Barger, Rine, Dakan); Mrs. John Letinich, 4015 Pierce St., Gary, Ind. (Austin, Darding, Letinich, Reitsel); Mrs. Lauren Crocker, 3148 Beech Ave. SW, Birmingham, Ala. (Crocker, Lamkin, Sides, Blakely, Smithson, McClure, Hardy). Mrs. A. A. Sterling, Box 43, Algona, Iowa (Bateman, Johnston); Mrs. B. E. Boren, 742 Livingston, Shreveport, La. (Boren, Bowen, England, Jordan, Hill, Ingram, Gravlee, Graveley, Grimes, These twin Beethoven boo/{ ends were a wedding-anniversary surprise Parkman, Hall, King); Miss Ollie Depcw, 1538 Greenleaf Blvd., Elkhart, Ind. (Depcw, Vaughan, from the author's husband. They're made of bronze, on onyx bases. ^HMl Hope, McFarland, Helm, Eberhart, Belk, Tackctt); —

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/| "' °'" ; 62 Tnr th "'• ' ' "' The Rev. Wilbur Choy and his . . .

Unusual Congregation

IF EVER you drop into St. Mark's Methodist Church in Stockton, Calif., chances are you won't understand half of the sermon. Don't worry. Neither will anyone in the congregation—unless he understands both Chinese and English! Seventy per cent of the congregation

is Chinese, as is the minister, the Rev. Wilbur Wong Yan Choy. The rest are Japanese, Negroes, Koreans, Mexicans, and white Americans. This makes St. Mark's one of the most unusual churches in Methodism,

but it wasn't planned that way at first. The building once belonged to Clay Street Methodist Church. But that church fell victim to a changing popula- tion picture, so familiar to churches in many cities today. Membership declined sharply with the exodus of families to the suburbs. Yet, nearby the Chinese Christian Center, a mission church, was gaining in membership. Consolidation, the only answer, came as a necessity. Assets, memberships, and official boards were merged successfullv into a well-functioning unit. Members Caucasians, Orientals, and Negroes comprise St. Mark's unique team oj ushei concentrated on a common denominator —their faith. In its glow, differences melted away. Mr. Choy, a native Californian, was named pastor of the new consolidated

church. He is a fluent speaker in both Chinese and English—and his affable personality helped weld together the di- verse elements. If you visit the new St. Mark's today you'll find a proudly self-supporting church with a budget of $14,000 and membership of 230. And if you don't understand the sermon in Chinese, just wait. In a few minutes Mr. Choy will

be repeating it in English.

"You preached a tvonderjul

sermon this morning!" Whether in Chinese or English, this always brings

a smile to Pastor Choy's face.

h-^—jmmh 63 mam

Unusual Congregation, continued J

Accountant William Neil

is chairman of the official board.

He's a graduate of Georgia Tech, the son of a U.S. Army doctor, and has lived in the Philippines and Hong Kong.

Well-attended Sunday school offers children such as foycelyn Taeger (left) and Mablc Lome an opportunity for companionship.

Collegian /lunette Wong leads Bible class. Cultures differ, but voices blend into one as the choir sings in worship.

64 Together/February 1959 Lay leader Dr. Paul K. Yee left . isia in 1929.

Nurse Elizabeth Clay is recording steward. Children find a richly rewarding fellowship in the church gymnasium.

Recent arrivals, such as former Chiang Kai-she\ pilot T. S. Liang {and wife) from Hong Kong, loo{ to Choy for counseling.

H9..IIIH 1 ! — MATURE YEARS

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lems. All this and more . . . in state and local councils of churches Church groups should be lobbyists MATURE YEARS. and, finally, local congregations. for the country's 2.5 million "stateless It is being set up to continue the and voiceless" migratory workers, dele- concern of the recent World Order gates were told at a recent meeting of Study Conference, at which 600 Prot- the National Council of Churches' MATURE YEARS estant leaders tackled thorny problems National Migrant Committee. ONLY $1.50 A YEAR of relations between nations and heard Five hundred civic and religious of- For Individual Subscription Secretary of State John Foster Dulles ficials heard speakers urge that the Order TODAY from the House warn newly independent nations against federal government shoulder its re- the blandishments of Communism. THE METHODIST PUBLISHING sponsibilities in this field. Effective HOUSE The Conference advocated "more Baltimore 3 Chicago 1 Cincinnati 2 legislation is needed in such areas as Dallas I Detroit I Kansas City 6 liberal and imaginative" aid to other Nashville 2 New York II Pittsburgh 30 loans to growers for adequate housing, Portland 5 Richmond 16 San Francisco 2 countries and step-by-step disarmament controlled transportation for workers, by multilateral agreement. But its most prevention of exploitation, and prohibi controversial action was to favor U.S. tion of child labor, the Committee was recognition and UN admission for Red informed. China. As the Conference's stand came mon/tae Formation of a of bureau migratory under immediate attack, it quickly FOLDING labor in the U.S. Department of Labor pointed out that it spoke only for itself. also was recommended. It also denied that recognition of Red BANQUET Mrs. Monica Owen, of the NCC's China would mean approval of Com- Migrant Ministry, pointed out that the TABLES munist policies—a denial one opponent Church cannot work merely through called "rank hypocrisy." that agency, which has only persons Factory Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam 40 Prices & Discounts chos. Clubs. at the national level. "Changes in the Lodges. Schools declared, "That China is a collectivized and All Organiza- law take years and the Church in its tions. tyranny but few doubt. But it is the Over 50.000 in- mission to people cannot wait," she stitutions own government in fact, and in all prob- and use modern AND said. Monroe Folding MONROE TRUCKS ability will remain so, many believe." Banquet Tables It was generally agreed that a The bishop also proposed the U.S. major Write for the nrv obstacle to raising migrants' wages in MONROE 51ST H let visit AXXIVKIiSAK V v^U. Russians America by the "tens "I some states is the fact that pay hikes CATALIM1 H ol thousands." Folding Tallies. I «' raise costs of growers have to com- Folding "Let them see our schools, factories, who Trucks. Movable 3 " ~-C*"-^ Partitions, Fold- pete with produce from states where ~^^^^^^H""~*~\'' churches, art galleries," he advocated. ing Risers, etc. w " costs are lower. Get our special prices, "Our dear land will stand the scrutiny Quantity discounts, also terms. .Monroe Co., 59 Church St., Colfax, Iowa, and prove to be the best answer to Soviet propaganda." Similarly, another Other Religions on the March prominent Methodist, Dr. Ralph W. By using the methods of Christian Sockman, pastor of Christ Church, New MAKE MONEY 50% FASTER churches, ancient religions of Asia and York, urged more exchanges with Rus- With Creative GREETING CARDS! ^^- Africa are staging an "astonishing" sian clergymen, musicians, educators, comeback, according to Dr. Andrew S. You Keep $7522 On Just 100 Boxes students. and of Make not 50c, but 75c on every $1.25 "Slim Burgess Luther Theological Sem- Elegance" All-Occasion Assortment. Earn inary, St. Paul, Minn. In a one-year the extra money you want quicker, easier! 125 %*^Jg'H other new card and gift sellers you'll be proud Praises German Protestants to show friends. 21 cards for $1 and $1.25, «,,. globe-girdling trip he found that some Sculptured Note-Cards, Religious Greetings. /\V/ll Stationery. Top cash profits plus Bonus Gifts \\'l II Attendance and membership in Prot- such religions already are launching worth $10 to $110! No experience needed. Mail *>-»'-* coupon for FREE Stationery samples. Assort- estant churches in East and West Ger- extensive Christian-type missionary ef- ments and Gift on approval. Kittens Talking [ Salt & Pepper Set FREE for prompt action! many are gaining. So reports Bishop forts. Buddhist children, for example,

CREATIVE CARD CO.. 157- K T^jUUji^F Friederich Wunderlich, head of The sing Buddha loves me, this I \now and Oept. | r4401 W. Cermak Road. Chicago 23. III. ^""J^^^^ I I Please Methodist Church in Germany. other corruptions of Christian songs. send samples on approval with Kittens Gift Set j I on FREE offer for being prompt. I Many young people are taking re- Dr. Burgess also found: ' NAME I ligion seriously, he finds, and there Buddhism has staged a vigorous | ADDRESS |

| I ITY & ZONE- — _-- STATE.. is more co-operation between free and rally in Japan, Formosa, and Hong

66 Together/February 1959 Kong, and is winning converts among Western peoples.

Shintoism is thriving in Japan after a setback after World War II, when y/i\\f^< the emperor declared he was not divine. At one Tokyo university, 5,000 students METHODIST !\ALMANACK are preparing to be Shinto priests and '/ i \ \ teachers. M i-u^i - A Misccllaney of Dates 6 Divers Interesting Matters Hinduism has been revitalized and for People Called Methodist reorganized by highly educated Indians. Old beliefs have been combined with What maintains one Vice would Christian ethics and "made to appear bring up two children.—B. Franklin both noble and divine." Islam remains the bitterest opponent of Christianity in Africa. Traveling FEBRUARY katk XXVIII days 2nd Month Arab merchants are fervent Moham- By winning words to medan missionaries. [See Moslem and conquer willing hearts- Milton Christian Can Be Friends, November 1958, page 18.] 1 S J. Wesley returns to England, 1738 tm~ In Georgia he preach- 2 M De groundhog seen his shadder ed plain and searching Light on Alcoholics New 3 Tu Four immortal chaplains, 1943: IW~ sermons which cut to the A National Seminar on Rehabilitation Meth. chaplain retreat, PacificGrove, Calif. soul, causing many sin- of Alcoholics has opened new insights 4 W Form Natl. Inst. Arts & Letters, 1913 ners to be "exceeding on counseling and working with prob- 5 Th Meth. Interracial Conf., Morristown, Tenn. mad" at his "satires on lem drinkers. 6 Fr 9 Power Pact to protect China, 1922 particular persons." The four-day training period, spon- 7 Sa Giving never emptied the purse sored by the Methodist Board of 8 S jHace ^lelattmts Jiautuay George Fox from old Temperance and held in Evanston, 111., Thetford (Vt.) Method- was a refresher for some who are 9 M John Wesley, age 6, escapes fire iW ist Church, died with heavily involved in the work and 10 Tu Mormons begin last trek, 1846 three other chaplains opened new areas to others new to 11 W Lincoln farewell to Springfield, 1861 in sinking of the "Dor- helping alcoholics. 12 Th 1st sermon by a Negro, H. H. Garnet, chester." These heroes Dr. Howard Clinebell of Southern in House of Reps., 1865 California School of outlined gave their life jackets to Theology 13 Fr Establ. Indian school for deaf, 1843 a five-point program: GIs. [See Together Nov. 14 Sa Jack Benny is 39 • Back research. page 15 S ^Mroiljerhnou JtUcck J§tarts 1956, 44.] • Develop a sustained education pro- 16 Envy is a pain of mind gram. M In 1696 the Samuel 17 Tu Geo. Whitefield preaches in open air, • Encourage early treatment. Wesleys and their many • Influence 1739. (Praised much by Benj. Franklin) social sanctions against children moved to Ep- heavy drinking. 18 Meth. Book Concern, N.Y., burnt 1836 W worth rectory. One night • Develop among all church members 19 Th Invade Iwo Jima, 1945 a Jacobite mob, enraged a concern for good mental health. 20 Fr 1st comprehensive postal law, 1792 at Sam'l for aiding Or- Dr. Carroll A. Wise, professor of 21 Greenough gets 1st sewing machine Sa J. angemen, burned his counseling at Garrett Biblical Institute, patent, 1842. (Mot much of a time saver) told his audience: home. By mischance little 22 s And Washington, Columbia's son, "It's not so much what you do in "Jackey" was left behind. Whom easy nature taught, sir, counseling as what you are." Sam'l fell to his knees, That grace xvhich can't by pains be The Board of Temperance reported commending his boy to won that there are 437,933 purveyors of God—but others formed Or Plutus' gold be bo't, sir. alcoholic beverages as against only a human ladder and from 306,893 places worship in 23 J. Q. Adams, 6th presdt., passes to his of the U.S. M the very jaws of the flame eternal reward, 1848. Age 81 saved Jackey, a "brand 24 "A law repugnant to the Constitution Reject 'Blue Law' Review Tu plucked from the burn- is void" Chief Justice Marshall, The U.S. Supreme Court has refused — 1803 ing"—the future found- 25 Greenbacks first printed, 1862 to review the constitutionality of an w er of Methodism! Ohio "Sunday blue law," a move that, 26 Th Napoleon escapes from Elba, 1815 court observers say, indicates the justices 27 Fr 1st reference to Robyn Hood," 1377 feel such laws are constitutional. 28 Sa Put down your hatchets, girls. Two supermarket owners, convicted This year you may not leap. of making employees work on Sunday, appealed an Ohio Supreme Court de- De groundhog seen his shadder cision which upheld their lower-court Yeah, but dat don't mean a thing convictions. The American Civil Liber- 'Cept hit jes make 'im madder

ties Union and its Ohio affiliate, in a Dan a three inch hornet sting . . . friend-of-the-court brief, contended that

Cuz ef de weather's bad . . . o' course! the law banning Sabbath business is Why, hit's all 'is fault you bet it "a clear violation of the constitutional But ef de days come soft and warm provision guaranteeing freedom of re- Den a robin gets de credit! ligion." —Frank Howard Clark In Philadelphia, the U.S. Circuit

Court of Appeals declared it will re-

February 1959\Together 67 .

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ODD "The World Service Dollar is worth &&m CHURCH -SIZE Without obligation, send Actual Napkin more than any other dollar at any Samples and quantity prices. T-29 mm BIBLE MARKER time," Boston's Bishop John Wesley Name- with purchase of Church Scarf Set Lord recently announced. "It's the big- iqaoj Write For Free Catalog, Dept. 506 Address- gest dollar in the world." However, for the first six months of ALTARWARE ee -Zone State- the 1958-59 fiscal year, Methodism's Crosses, Vases, Candelabra, Candle- sticks, Missal Stands, Offering Plates. "biggest dollar" has not been coming J. P. REDIN6T0N & CO. in as fast as before. World Service giv- Dept. 506 Scranton 2, Pa. ing is down 6.12 per cent—some $255,334 less than the same period a year ago. LIVE LONGER, BETTER IN FLORIDA A financial report from Dr. Thomas $10 down, $10 monthly BENTLEY & SIMON B. Lugg, general secretary and treasurer, buys your homesite in quality CHOIR ROBES Methodist Council on World Service Central Florida's finest and vaca- have set the standard retirement and Finance, showed receipts at tion community in the of excellence ever WS high ridge section near since 1912. Custom- $3,918,795.89, compared to last year's A ~J~ Sebring. On 84 square tailored of fine fabrics, figure of $4,174,130.22. mile Highlands Lake. ^C parks for your lasting enjoyment. BENTLEY & Free community Five other also and beaches. Get FREE color brochures, house PULPIT ROBES, too, made funds showed losses: plans; learn how we help you plan, finance, build the quality way. SIMON inc. in same The Week of Dedication, down 17.67 your low cost, tax-exempt home. Write Florida Realty Bureau, Inc., Dept. H -4. Lake Placid, Fla. 7 West 36 St.. N.T. 18.N.T. per cent; Fellowship of Suffering and Write for Catalog F-2 Service, 10.46 per cent; Episcopal Fund, 3.42 per cent; General Administration Now Many Wear raise EASY MONEY Fund, 8.87 per cent, and the Inter- denominational Co-operation Fund, w FALSE TEETH v TH EY S> 4.09 per cent. Gainers were: World Service Specials, With More Comfort up 32.11 per cent; General Advance FASTEETH, a pleasant alkaline (non-acid) Specials, 14.53 per cent, and Methodist powder, holds false teeth more firmly. To eat and talk in more comfort, just sprinkle a little Television Ministry, up 21.19 per cent. FASTEETH on your plates. No gummy, gooey, Checks "plate odor" A new fund, the Famine Relief for pasty taste or feeling. (denture breath). Get FASTEETH at any drug Famous Smiling Scot Dish Cloths sell like magic. Excit- India, received $24,178.76 in six months. counter. FREE! Write for generous sample to ing new patterns. Amazing Values. Repeat sales. Complete 222 Wall St., Binghamton, New York. satisfaction Guaranteed. A quick, easy way to make big profits with a proven fast seller. Send post card for details on 500 outstanding money makers. Hong Kong Bishop Dies CHOIR and PULPIT ROBES 1266 Goodule Blvd. Bishop Ralph A. Ward, 76, of the Smiling Scot Dept. DA-2 Columbus 8, Ohio Complete selection of robes for Formosa-Hong Kong Area, died adults — children. Lowest Prices- December 10 in Hong Kong. Much of Write for free catalog. his life as a HARTLEY People 50 to 80 had been spent missionary and bishop in China. RELIGIOUS VESTMENTS 1809-A Church St., Nashville, Tenn. During World War II, Bishop Ward Tear Out This Ad lived three years in Japanese prison camps, where he suffered from malnu- — ! i in wm . . . and mail it today to find out f trition. After the Reds took control FEMALE HELP WANTED Un. how you can still apply for a of China, he remained there 18 months. $23 WEEKLY for wearing lovely $1,000 life insurance policy to help Later he began Methodist work in dresses received as extra re- cii final wards. JustshowPashionFrocks sh take care of expenses without refu- Hong Kong and Formosa among to friends in spare time. No in- sal Cry burdening your family. gees from the mainland. vestment, canvassing or experi- handle the entire trans- ence necessary. Fashion Frocks, You hoi Dept. B-20871 , Cincinnati 2, O. action by mail with OLD 817 Jobs for Missionaries AMERICAN of KANSAS CITY. The Board of Missions has 817 No obligation. No one will call on openings for missionaries in 1959. In- CREO you! cluded, a spokesman says, are 100 sA Write today, simply giving your openings for special-term missionaries name, address and year of birth. —college graduates, 21 to 28, who flfit-J CATAUOO Mail to Old American Insurance serve for two or three years. send request to Co., 1 West 9th, Dept. L212M, Needed overseas (in Central and RODEHEAVER HALL-MACK CO. Kansas City, Mo. South America, Asia, Africa): 338 150 Ninth St., Winono Lake, Indiana

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teachers and other education workers; 99 medical workers, including 28 doc- In a ^1/ 1 &J? I flbP world what must the tors, 2 dentists, 51 nurses, and others; f\ 25 business and secretarial missionaries; Church do?

1 1 agricultural and home-economics Twelve leaders—7 pastors, 2 bishops, an editor, the presi- workers; 174 specialists in church and dent of a university, and a general board staff member social work, and 50 special-term mis- will help you find answers to this question in sionaries. U.S. openings call tor 120 workers. CHRISTIAN STRATEGY FOR A STRUGGLING WORLD- Requirements lor missionaries are a 72-page book which deserves to be "must" reading for ministers and laymen high, the Board says: college education, good health, wide Christian experience, everywhere. Publication date, February 1. high quality of past study and work. General age requirement: 23-35.

Poland—'Brightest Spot' Methodism behind the Iron Curtain Zone _, State is growing—and Poland is "the brightest spot of all." So reports Bishop I enclose $_ for copies of

Ferdinand Sigg of the Geneva (Switzer- Christian Strategy for a Struggling World land) Episcopal Area. at $1.00 each, postpaid. The bishop visited the U.S. to attend the Council of Bishops meeting in Send to: Central Promotional Office, 740 Rush Street, Chicago 11, Illinois, or your Cincinnati. His area includes Switzer- Methodist bookstore. land, Belgium, Austria, North Africa, Yugoslavia, and the four Iron Curtain countries of Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Poland. "SHRINES OF METHODISM" "Poland is a freer country than the others," Bishop Sigg declared. "It does Tour England and the Continent not have much to lose or much to gain, • but it is remarkable to see how the Complete Tour Only $955.00 people cling to what little they have."

As for some of the other countries: • EPWORTH . . . Birthplace of John • LONDON . . . John Wesley's and Charles Wesley "Hungary is the most Western- grave at the Wesley Chapel, • OXFORD ... The cradle of known to thousands as "The minded. Methodism Mother Church of World Meth- "Yugoslavia, the poorest of all, is • BRISTOL . . . Historic site of the always in-between. first Methodist Church odism." "Bulgaria has always been pro-Slavic and closer to Russia. Methodism is Make 1959 your year to visit England and the traditional shrines of Methodist history, the many places connected with the life of the great John Wesley. Follow winning everywhere except here." the paths Wesley took in spreading his doctrine to the old world and the new. In Poland, he said, hopes are high lor establishing a seminary to train When you depart England's shores you'll visit BRUSSELS; then on to the Methodist Seminary in HEIDELBERG; picturesque VADUZ in Liechtenstein; LUCERNE nestling in more Poles in the ministry. Methodists the Swiss Alps; fairy-tale SAN MARINO, oldest Republic in the world; ROME the there, the explained, bishop are free eternal; Monaco's capital city MONTE CARLO; and PARIS, mecca of tourists the to progress but not to enter politics. world over.

Methodism found its way into Poland FOR FREE illustrated brochure see your travel agent or write: in 1920 as part of a relief program of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. METHODIST FRIENDSHIP TOURS -LANSEAIR In 1949 missionaries were forced to 1 026 - 1 7TH STREET, N. W. withdraw, but two years later U.S. Methodists were able to return. WASHINGTON 6, D. C.

School Fire Jolts Churches ON Churches are cracking down on lire rjffAT'S us/ . s hazards in the wake of the blaze that $1.25 Retail Make up to f50^S// QUICK took more than 90 lives at Our Lady FRUIT BOWL Showing New-Idea Greeting Cards of the Angels Roman Catholic ele- Salt-Pepper-SugarSet colorful mentary school in Chicago. Delightfully Send for samples and start earning the easiest money centerpiece. Pineapple shak- ever by simply showing them to people you know. Church leaders are campaigning for and grapefruit are ers; sugar in bowl. No experience needed. See the big difference in strict inspection of church and school rnCC ON INTRODUCTORY Cardinal's big line of thrilling new cards for all oc- casions and Gift Items that sell fast the year 'round. property and are warning against using Yours FRtt offer... ol these Compare our low wholesale prices and liberal prof- Given with Approval Samples candles in church services. OF its. Extra Cash Bonus, too. SEND NO MONEY. 2 NEW ASSORTMENTS Get 2 outstanding Assortments on approval Washington, D.C., officials are urging and EVERYDAY CARDS Exclusive Stationery Samples FREE. $1.25 "Fruit that flashlights with flame-styled bulbs Bowl" Set included with FREE Offer. Mail coupon! replace candles in night processions and SEND COUPON FOR FREE GIFT OFFER & SAMPLES B-75 ceremonies. And at least one church I CARDINAL CRAFTSMEN. Dept. 140O State Avenue, Cincinnati 14. Ohio

the New Milford, N.J., Presbyterian Please send money-makinu kit of new Greeting Cards on ap- I proval. Include $1.25 "Fruit Bowl" Gift with | Set FREE Offer. | Church—has held a fire drill during Sunday morning worship service. The ADDRESS. Sunday school there has held fire drills

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February 1959\Together 69 ORGANIZATION QUICKLY FOLD DOES YOUR OR UNFOLD NEED MONEY? FOR 9lUtML CHANGING Sell our delicious Pennsylvania Dutch Brown- ROOM USES tabic* ies Assorted Chocolates and Butter Mints TOPS OF MASONITE BROWNIES PRESDWOOD . FIR & BIRCH PLYWOOD • SPECIAL MAXIMUM LINOLEUM .PLASTICS SEATING STRONG, RIGID 6 doz. Brownies Total Cost $86.00 MINIMUM TUBULAR Chocolates 1 lb. STORAGE STEEL LEGS Sell for $1.00 each 4 doz. Butter Mints! Send for folder 12 oz. tins YOUR PROFIT $34.00 MITCHELL MANUFACTURING CO. We pay all freight charges. Send NO 2748 S. 34th St., Milwaukee 46 , Wis., I money with order. Remit in 30 days. Please mention the name of your organization Ship us 10 doz. Brownies Special Check here for a free copy of our MAKE MONEY WRITING complete catalog ...Short Paragraphs! Hun dreds of beginners now making money writing short paragraphs. I PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH CANDIES tell you what to write, where and how to sell; and supply list of editors who buy from be- Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania ginners. No tedious study. Write to sell, right away. Send for free facts. BENSON BARRETT, Dept. H3-B, 7464 N. Clark St., Chicago 26, III.

Nurse H err man: Hailed by Methodists. HEAR CLEARLY for catalog and sample 'Miss Student Nurse/ J 959 Write AGAIN swatches. Fine materials; beau- | Ruth Herrman, 23, of Nyssa, Oreg., tiful tailoring; fair prices. Men- tion whether for pulpit or choir, Nerve deafness may cause words to is Miss Methodist Student Nurse for and give name of church. sound unclear to = you. 1959. She was picked from 32 candi- ^^ Write for Free Booklet. It may help dates, seniors in the upper third of the DeMoulin Bros. & Co. ^^ you to improved hearing and 1103 S. 4th St. Greenville, III. ^^ better appearance. No obligation. class at Methodist hospital schools of nursing, to be honor guest at the annual convention of the National ACOUSTICON International As- sociation of Methodist Hospitals and ^H Dept. 14 McGUFFEY'S READERS Homes in St. Louis, January 27-29. After and costly search, original 95-25149th Street, Jamaica 35, New York a long reprints of the , 1870 revised editions of the famous McGuffi y's lte;iders Miss Herrman represents Deaconess have been completed and you can now purchase exact copies the following prices postpaid: Hospital School of Nursing, Spokane, at low 1st Reader $2.25 4th Reader $3.25 Wash. An active Methodist, she is a 2nd Reader $2.50 5th Reader $3.50 3rd Reader $2.75 6th Reader $3.75 former president of the Methodist loTrKuDBS OLD AUTHORS, Dept. TR-2, Rowan, Iowa Youth Fellowship in Nyssa. ADDED Inspiration this Easter To Aid Negro Colleges A complete selection or dis- In Steel or Wood *' - tinctive st \ Ics and duality fab- Methodists arc being asked to give rics. All colors and shades. A^Wr FOLDING TABLES Send today for FREE cata- -1 log: C-13 (Choir Holies and $1 million in special offerings on Race WRITE FOR CATALOG J

. AND LOW DIRECT Accessories) : J-13 (Children's PRICES ( Relations Sunday, February 8, to aid 13 : l'-KS robi-s) Robes) (Pulpit ; v CP-13 (Confirmation Robes). Methodist-related Negro colleges. This J.P.Redington&Co. DEPT. 52 SCRANTON PA. COLLEGIATE CAP & GOWN CO. will be only a start, leaders point out, 2, CHAMPAIGN, ILL, 1000 N. MARKET ST. toward $6 million these colleges need NEW YORK 1, N. Y. CHICAGO 1, ILL. LOS ANGELES 28, CAL for buildings and equipment. 366 Fifth Ave. 228 N. LaSille St. 1634 N. Cahuenga Blvd. Since 1889 LEADING DESIGNERS and CRAFTSMEN of The $1 million, when raised, will allow the church to claim several addi- STAINED GLASS CHURCH FURNISHINGS Order Any Book tional millions from foundations and & BRONZE TABLETS individuals. Last year the Race Rela- PAYne-SPICRS . SGUDI0S . . you see reviewed in Together at the tions offering record publisher's advertised price—we pay the was a $355,456. 48-54 EAST 13th ST. • PATERSON 8. N. ). postage to you. The schools, all in the South, have L a total enrollment exceeding 8,600. THE METHODIST They own property worth $15 million CHOIR ROBES PUBLISHING HOUSE v and have endowments of another $10 Order from House serving you million. Newest coforfasf fabrics available. Baltimore 3 • Chicago 11 • Cincinnati 2 Write for Catalog A-74 Dallas i • Detroit 1 • Kansas City Nashville 2 • New York II • t'ittsburgh 30 Portland") • Richmond 1G • San Francisco 2 For 3 Boards: A Merger? E. R. MOORE CO. Shop at our C0KESBURY BOOK in: STORES 268 Norman Ave., Brooklyn 22, N. Y. ATLANTA. 72 Broad St.. N. W, general BOSTON, 577 Bovlston St. Methodism's three social- 932 Del In St., Chicago 13, III. LOS ANGELES, 5244 Santa Monica Blvd. St., Los Angeles 26,Calif. action agencies may become one at 1 64 1 N. Allesandro

the 1960 General Conference if an r- PENNINGTON - acceptable merger can be worked out. FREE EASTER CATALOG The church's Co-ordinating Council Methodist College Preparatory School jor SACRED MUSIC • PLAYS • HELPERS Boys. Owned by the New Jersey Conference. wants to combine the Boards of College preparatory. Fully accredited: graduates PACEANTS • CANTATAS • BOOKS in 89 colleges. Grades 7-12. All sports. Gym. pool. Temperance, Social and Economic Re- Guidance, developmental reading, crafts, shops, Write for Free Copy music. New dormitory. Moderate rate. Endowed. lations, and World Peace. A plan was Established 1838. Write for catalog. authorized at a Council meeting in Los RODEHEAVER HALL-MACK CO. Charles R. Smyth, D.D., Box 45, Penninijton. N. J. 150 NINTH ST., WINONA LAKE, IND. Angeles, after hearing reports on how

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mergers at the Annual Conference level have worked out. CAMP AND CONFERENCE DIRECTORS The Council is also weighing con- tinuation of the Commission on Higher Education at the national and Annual Conference levels. SON Bishops Friederich Wunderlich of PEAK OF PROTECT rrtKIC111T I1C 1) —CONSULT US. Germany and Gabriel Sundaram ot ¥ India attended. The Council will meet again April 20-21 in Chicago. MEDICAL EXPENSE ILLNESS AND ACCIDENT Coverage Observe Constitution Day OUR CLAIM SERVICE IS DESIGNED The 150th anniversary of the adop- FOR YOUR GROUP. tion of Methodism's Constitution was marked December 9 with ceremonies in Philadelphia's Academy of Music. BROTHERHOOD MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

Attending were bishops and other 230 E. BERRY STREET FORT WAYNE 2, INDIANA officials of The Methodist Church, the African Methodist Episcopal, Christian Methodist, AME Zion, Free Methodist, Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Meth- DELICIOUS Verte4etU4 WILL EARN odist, and the heavily Methodist United Church of Canada. HUNDREDS of DOLLARS Prior to adoption of the Constitution, . . . for your organization the General Conference held absolute The munchiest, crunchiest, tastiest, Peanut Butter filled power; it could even discard the General candy pillows, you've ever eaten. If MONEY is your Rules or repeal the Articles of Religion. problem, DUTCHETTES is your answer! A resolution adopted in 1808 became ry'Check Order For DUTCHETTES Plainly in Square known as the Constitution in 1892. It >•- -»., "~\ Remit D Sh! P PREPAID 1 Gross — defined the duties of the central body $83.76 in 60 days — PROFIT $30.00 *'G *. and set up a system for fair representa- I \ t, ' Ship 72 Tubs - Remit $41.88 tion of all conferences. Kitchen Fresh^ &\'-$> Plus Freight in 60 days - PROFIT $15.00 TUB SEUSl The service was sponsored by the I *frA£ D Mail SAMPLE TUB - We'll bill you for 79* if you T <4 not ace order in 30 days. World Methodist Council and the IFOR f *f p| Send this ad with your name, address, organization & position in it. Philadelphia Area of The Methodist Church. Bishop Fred P. Corson, like l&t&K&ted DEPT. T •104 CRESTMONT ST. • READING, PA. the meeting's chairman, Charles C. Parlin of New York, is a vice-president PULPITS CHOIR GOWNS of the World Council. In his address 82300WEEKLV Hangings wearing lovely dresses Pulpit —Altar Cloths the bishop credited the 1808 resolution for us. Bible Markers Communion Linens FEMALE supplied to you by — to Embroideries Fabrics with preserving the purity of the Show Fashion Frocks — time. No Custom Tailoring for Clergymen friends in spare Articles of Religion as handed down m jn^estment.canvass.ngor ----Marking 122 Years of Service to the Church experience necessary. 1837 1959 by John Wesley and with establishing I Dept. and Clergy Fashion Frocks Cincinnati I. «-»• a representative church government. WANTED B-20181, COX SONS & VINING, Inc. Str«el, New York 10. N.Y. He said: 131 Eon 23rd "It has at the same time prevented CLASSIFIED ADS doctrinal schism, is the source of our Pews, Pulpit % Chancel 75(! per Word—$10.50 Minimur polity, unity, and stability, and is BOOKS WANTED provide modern enough to for modern FURNITURE a RELIGIOUS LIBRARIES PURCHASED. Send organizational and promotional prac- list or request details. Baker Book House, EARLY Dept. TG, Grand Rapids 6, Michigan. tices." DELIVERY CHURCH BONDS MOUNT VERNON METHODIST financing WRITE FOR $285,000 Sanctuary through Broadway Plan FREE CATALOG for Church Bonds. Bonds bear h'V interest. Write Mount Vernon Methodist Church, 805 PHOTO CREDITS Belle View Boulevard, Alexandria, Virginia. J. P. REDINGTON CO. Cover—Ralph Castle • 2d coser & HELP WANTED Robert B. Harry, Jr. • 1 —Monk- DEPT. SCRANTON 2. PA. WANT to employ business administrator for Methodist home for the aging, capacity 100. meyer (2), Alpha (I), Bot. L.— State experience, qualifications, references and Robert C. Neely • 16—Methodist salary expected in first letter. Write Mr. Roy Information • 17—H. Armstrong SELL VINTEX PRODUCTS I. Anderson, Blair, Nebraska. Roberts . 19—James Mulcahy • 28 REGISTERED NURSES: Good Salary, plus maintenance, in comfortable living quarters. Buzz Magnusou • 31-R.—Bachraeh FOR Social Security, Vacation and Holiday pay, • 33— . Black Star . 36- UPI 35— accumulative sick leave, group insurance, 38-39-Top-40-Top-41-42 — Fore, challenging work for Christian nurses. Board of Missions . 37-Top—Three MAYNARD MACDOUGALL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, NOME, ALASKA. Lions; Bot. -Black Star • 40-Bot. WANTED: GRADUATE SOCIAL WORKER; McFarren. Methodist Missions • 41- PROFITS* also House-Parent Couples to work tOKethtr. Bot.—R. L. Caufield . 45—Black Teaching experience preferred. Active church Top quality money back Star • 52—Macmillan Co. • 58 — guarantee — repu- relationship required. Salary and working con- table, established firm — big profits for you. ditions good. 3800 Coolidge Avenue, Oakland A. Devaney . 60 61 Switzer 2, & — California. Studio • 74-Top Courtesy Wash- — Organizations by the thousand are piling up BIG DIRECTOR OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION— ington & Lee University • 75-Bot. PROFITS by selling the VINTEX line of nationally Full-time, well qualified to direct total known household necessities — choice of 10 items. —Courtesy Chicago Historical So- education program of Mount Vernon Methodist Write for full details, send 10c for sample dishcloths ciety . 20-21-22-23-57-63-64-65-74- Church, Alexandria, Virginia. 1,000 member congregation—salary $4,200. Near American Bot.-75-Top-76-77 George P. Miller. VINE ASSOCIATES, BEVERLY 42, N.J. — University and Washington, D. C. Write Box Serving organization! for over 30 years T-36, TOGETHER. Continued on Page 72

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CLASSIFIED ADS Continued from Page 71 HELP WANTED Shopping MINISTER OF VISITATION. Chicago suburban church, 2600 members. Work with Membership and Evangelism. Do parish calling. Man of maturity needed. $6000 salary and expenses. State education, experience, personal qualifica- tions . Box T-40, TOGETHER. Together HOUSE PARENTS (26-45), without children, to live in cottage with 20 boys in Protestant home near Milwaukee. Man to counsel and assist in program. Experience unnecessary. Wife has no cooking or housework. Similar Twinkle Toes Slipper Sox—Oh, oh position for single man. Write: Norris Mischief's Foundation, Mukwonago, Wisconsin. afoot! But what fun it'll be. PUBLIC RELATIONS POSITION Miss Moppet loves padding about the FOR PHILANTHROPIC PROGRAM house in these charming, warm slipper This is a newly-created opportunity for a high-type individual to join a charity-minded sox. They're made of stretch nylon program. A successful business man and board that hugs the feet, have genuine leather member of an internationally known Agricultural Mission Association has originated soles, red or yellow nylon hair. Small and carried on a Mission Self-help program for (3-5 yrs.), medium (5-7 yrs.), large approximately ten years. Now the program has grown to be more than a one-man endeavor. (7-10 yrs.), $1.98 a pair. Man best suited should be of impressive Mrs. Dorothy Damar, appearance, a public speaker, have writing and typing ability, be able to maintain accounting 786 Damar Bldg., Elizabeth, N.J. records and be free for occasional travel. Knowledge of farm machinery helpful. Headquarters in a pleasant midwest community Plumbing Pal—Homeowners, save with excellent schools and churches. Please send a brief resume of background, education, yourselves a lot of work, costly plumb- personal data such as age, marital status, ing bills when pipes get clogged. This religion, etc. Interview will depend upon application. Write today. Schield "Self-Help" easy-does-it Rod-It-Yourself winds into Program, Waverly, Iowa. every bend in pipes up to 100 feet. TRAINED, EXPERIENCED Director Religious Cleans out leaves, rags, grease, debris. Education. New facilities—2000 members. State Cutters can be added for roots. qualifications and salary desired. Trinity Priced Methodist Church, 6th and North, Lafayette, according to size, as shown in free book- Indiana. let sent on request. HOBBY MATERIALS Miller Sewer Rod. Dept TG-R, LEARN PROFESSIONAL cake decorating at 4642 N. Central Ave., Chicago, III. home. Free color-illustrated literature. Deco- Secrets, Venice 10, Calif. Photo Tray—Your family photo, or OLD GOLD AND JEWELRY your prized candid shot on a lovely PAID HIGHEST CASH FOR OLD GOLD. Tole tray makes a thoughtful gift. Can Broken Jewelry, Gold Teeth, Watches, Diamonds, Silverware, Spectacles. FREE be a remembrance of weddings, bap- Information. ROSE REFINERS, Heyworth tisms. Groups use trays to commemorate Bldg., Chicago 2. church events. Send negative, positive POSITIONS WANTED or slide. Returned. Sepia print, 14x18 YOUNG MAN desires position as full-time church lacquered black and gold tray. $5.50. secretary. Experienced, single, willing to travel. Quantity discount. Excellent references. Box T-39, TOGETHER. Holiday House, 128 Bcllevue Theatre AVAILABLE—Ordained Minister; age 36. Qualified for denominational or community Bldg., Upper Montclair, N.J. church. Pastorate or Associate. Prepared for Religious Education program, organized church promotion and administrative counseling and Frost Chasers—Dad's hands'll stay development. Christian institutional or educa- toast-warm on nippy tional management. Recognized endorsements days and won't slip open to investigation. ADDRESS : Rev. A. A. on the wheel when he wears these Ziarko, Jr., 12367 Ohio, Detroit 4, Michigan. driving gloves. They're wool. fur. and SPECIALIZED SERVICES nylon blend with real deerskin palms, METHODIST HYMNAL REBOUND FREE. Send natural color. Collegiates think they're one convinced. Give old Hymnals —be new look. neat for Engel Bindery, 322 Southwest Boulevard, winter activities. (P.S. Mom. Kansas City, Mo. you mighl try Dad's pair for size.) STAMPS Small, medium, large, $3.98. Helen GIGANTIC COLLECTION FREE. Includes tri- Gallagher, 413-T2 Fulton St., angles, early United States, animals, eommemo- Peoria, III. ratives, British Colonies, high value pictorials, etc. Complete collection plus big illustrated magazine all free. Approvals. Send 5tf for postage. Gray Stamp Co., Dept. TO, Toronto, Canada. UNITED STATES OR WORLDWIDE COM-

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> Camp TUCKED AWAY in the Appalachian foothills 01 Union'Own southwestern Pennsylvania is a huddle of buildings LBroddockS Gr. where each year hundreds of young Methodists study, worship, sing, and enjoy fellowship. Yet the same over- Lt. Col. George Washington fCRT NECESSITY looking hills which now echo song and laughter once as portrayed in uniform by noted pulsed to marching feet and musket volleys. Here, a artist Charles Willson Peale. band of Virginia militiamen under Lt. Col. George Washington—then just 22—ignited the French and Indian War in America and the Seven Years' War in Europe. European rivalry for American real estate had reached a peak in 1754 when the English sent Wash- ington to protect claims in the Ohio River Valley. From Fort Cumberland, Britain's westernmost strong- hold, he pushed northwest toward French-held Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburgh) some 110 miles distant. About midway, his scouts found a French force camped in a rocky glen. Washington's men quickly surrounded

it and routed the enemy. Their commander, Ensign Coulon de Jumonville, was one of 10 Frenchmen killed in the skirmish, giving Jumonville Glen its name. When this news reached Fort Duquesne, French reinforcements hurried south and, a few weeks later, pinned down Washington's troops in a log palisade he

aptly named Fort Necessity. (This site now is restored as a national battlefield site south of Jumonville Glen.) The nine-hour battle, Washington wrote, was fought ". . . with an Enemy sheltered behind the Trees, ourselves without Shelter, in Trenches full of Water, in a settled Rain, and the Enemy galling us on all ." Sides incessantly. . . Later he negotiated a cease-fire agreement by which the chivalrous French permitted him to withdraw over the mountains. The next morn- ing, July 4—a date later to gain luster in American history—he and his men began the long trek back to Fort Cumberland. A scant year later, Washington marched back with famed British General Edward Braddock on an expedi- tion to capture Fort Duquesne. Braddock's 2,000 men cleared a 12-foot road from Fort Cumberland north- ward past Jumonville Glen. But catastrophe lay in store for the Redcoats, fresh from England and accustomed to open-field maneuvers. As they crossed the Monon- gahela River, French troops and Indians waited in am-

bush behind rocks and trees. Braddock fell mortally

The Training Center's old chapel

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Commemorative plaque (above) is nearby.

General Braddoc\, wounded in ambush, died near Jumonville during retreat. This romantic painting by Alonzo Chappel now hangs in the Chicago Historical Society.

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.1 wounded in their crossfire. His demoralized troops, fleeing south, paused only briefly to destroy supplies and arms at Dunbar's Camp, near Jumonville Glen. Braddock was buried in the roadway over which his shattered army passed. America's history makers then shifted to other arenas on the continent, and Jumonville Glen lay undis- turbed until 1875. Then a school for orphans of Civil War veterans was established in a neighboring valley.

Abandoned years later, it passed through many hands until acquired by the late Harry Whyel, prominent Uniontown businessman and Methodist layman. He donated the buildings and surrounding property to Methodism's Pittsburgh Conference for the Christian training of youth. Since its dedication in 1941 as the Jumonville Methodist Training Center, this 300-acre retreat has served thousands each year. The present dormitory, dining, classroom, and recreation facilities accommodate up to 400 persons.

So it is that today the Christian flag flies over historic Jumonville—and where once was hatred and blood- shed, there now is peace, love, and brotherhood. —Richard C. Underwood

Q_ri French, British, American, Christian—

these flags signify eras in Jumonville 's history.

In the distance, above all: a 68-foot cross.

Now a national par\, Fort Necessity and its entrenchments were restored in 1954.

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Near Dunbar's Camp, where Braddoc^'s retreating army destroyed armaments and supplies, Jumonville music campers Don Scandrol and Joan Whitlatch dig up a cannonball.

Magnificent memento: a scale-covered ^y-pound

howitzer shell, one of many relics occasionally found near Jumonville.

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