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Herbert n r> O u o 2 X ^ As I I M _ . -C • E C °° • Q O a c o i, Z a s2 £ . x£ I« Kites . ,. E M Z Bishop? < 3 E . ^1 | Hands Cheer ° the c 1 J Si list Ihic r 1 3 3 ° S-S~ • ± A O _a "t >• ° o o -s r u. o x s o | 41 © O 5£ o ^ ^ R .- = 2 o E 5^2 1 I "5 ° £ % J" • z u < Z S 5 E = O : J oc — 3 < ^ -s £ J six K < 3 O Last Chance for your church to help select The Methodist Family of the Year A TYPICAL Methodist family you see here, outfitting the lovely teen-age daughter for Easter. But there's more here than meets the eye—how this family in its home and church and community ex- emplifies the best in Christian living. You know such families in your church. And this is your last opportunity to nominate one for the 1958 Methodist Family of the Year. Each Methodist church has been asked to propose one family from its congregation for this honor. Every reader of Together— any individual o group of persons in the local church— may sugge: a family. The official board of each church wil decide the local nomination. (No nominations may be made directly to Together.) Candidates will be screened by official family-life judges at district, conference, and national levels. The 1958 Methodist Family of the Year will be guests of Together at the Third National Conference on Family Life in Chicago, Illinois, October 17 to 19. Here are the special qualifications for the Family of the Year 1 Parents age 50 or under. Now think of the families in your 2 Two or more children, at least church who fit these qualifications. one teen-ager, baptized and church members, or in Sunday Then get the ball rolling to see that school. their names come before your official 3 Family exemplifies inspiring board. Remember, April 18 is the Christian family living. deadline. Your pastor should have 4 Family applies Christian ethics in everyday life. complete details and entry blanks. in 5 Family active church and com- You'll be proud to have your church munity life. represented in this selection of the 6 Family members are known as warm, good neighbors. Methodist Family of the Year. — — and other d Bits from Your philanthropies, colleges, de- serving institutions which desperately need money for training younn people tters for tomorrow's leadership. Norfolk Likes Its Sailors! VICTOR E. RAMSEY, Pastor Boswell, hid. jht to the Heart' that Together "gives almost no hint of how to find Christ as Savior," may I rANLEY NEUENSCHWANDER, I especially appreciated Fleet's in—at express the opinion of one who has istor, Harlan, hid. Church! [January, page 23]. It meant never before subscribed to a Christian something special to me. In World War mr Prayers for the Seasons [Janu- publication? II I was stationed for a while at Nor- page 35] were wonderful. Since Together is less direct and more folk, Va., and I attended the local churches are rural, we feel close subtle than the usual church magazine. churches regularly—usually Epworth series od through nature. This went It uses the picture-story technique of Methodist in downtown Norfolk. In fact, t to the heart of many members, expressing the principles of Christian at 19, I received my first local preacher's mse the pictures are so typical, we living and thus appeals more to those license from the Norfolk District at a able to place ourselves in the who most need religious guidance. Per- conference . granted upon joint rec- e and dedicate our life anew. Mr. Pigueron finds Together a bit haps ommendation of my home church, First "watered down" merely because he has Methodist in Robinson, 111., with the jesome and Disappointing' outgrown it. But let him remember endorsement of the Olney district su- that there are of must RS. JOHN DAHLBY many us who perintendent and the pastor of Epworth start out on the Together level. To- . Paul, Minn. Methodist, Norfolk. gether's great is it service that starts The article brought back have enjoyed Together and its happy mem- so previously indifferent people many ories of similar experiences in Norfolk, itiful pictures until I saw Scenes on the road toward the good life. where, contrary to popular Navy n the Life of Christ [by artists of rumors, a sailor is welcome among de- a, December, page 351. I was horri- Apologies to Mrs. Williams people. at the pictures of our Christ on the cent - 3. The one with those artificial GENEVIEVE TETER WILLIAMS ing eyebrows is not my idea of my Redlands, Calif. 'Disciples' No Work of Art? st, either. In fact, the whole collec- When Together came, I was annoyed CHARLES R. SIMMONS, Pastor is gruesome and disappointing. to see myself called a Methodist Grand- Ridgecrest, Calif. ma Moses. [January, page 16]. Why rt . Toward Cood Life' What a shock to see the collection of was the spotlight on her? I began my photographs of the 12 men labeled ARY ANN PARKER art career when I was 21, so I had been "disciples" [October, page 34] called a rrysburg, NY. an artist many years before Grandma work of art! Why can't we have the Moses began to paint. Professionally, I ;garding the Rev. George H. works of the great artists of the past had made my record long ago. My leron's comment [January, page 3] with their creative interpretations of life has been "art for art's sake." the disciples? Or would it be too much to ask for some evidence in your mag- Our apologies! Grandma Moses is azine that there are contemporary self-taught, too\ up art late in life. Not TO 4 OUT OF 5 SUBSCRIBERS artists who lift us above the level of so Mrs. Williams, aged 90—who long photographic reproduction whether it ou receive your TOGETHER through ago went from expert training to a dis- le ALL FAMILY PLAN—adopted by comes by way of the brush or the tinguished career as an artist. We salute ,400 Methodist churches. Here's how camera? . works: this remarkable woman!—Eds. The appearance of Together is little more challenging than The Saturday 1 Your church includes in 'Eccentric Bequests' its yearly budget $2 per family Evening Post with a Methodist baptism. for you and other contributing BRADSHAW MINTENER, Attorney Ministers have the responsibility of families on its rolls. TOGETHER Washington, D.C. preaching the prophetic words con- is then mailed to your home.