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carnation is part Of the church s
faith ! but he is not O sure what it
has to say to him and why
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written as in the Ten Co mm and
m ents S o m e Of it could be s p oken
as by the prophets But f or it to be
expressed co m pletely it had t o be
liv ed O that m en could see it and
understand it in term s of th eir own
life That is what happened when
the first disciples looked into the
face Of Jesus When he cam e alon
the shore of the Lake of Galilee one
m orning stopped by the water s
edge where Peter and Andrew and
Jam es and John had brought in
their fishing boats and said to them
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m o m ent they had no clear notion of
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would feel about him later What
th ey felt that day was Si m ply this :
“
When thi s m an invites us to co m e
with him that is the one thing we
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want to do Probably this was not
the first tim e they had seen Jesus
They m ay have se en him down in
Ju d ea at the fords Of the Jordan
where crowds had flocked t o hear
John the B aptist preach r it m ay
be that they had seen him at other
and earlier tim es when he had co m e
over the hills fro m Nazareth to the
towns besi d e the lake S o m ething in
him drew them in a w ay they did
—
not have to stop to explain f or
who can fully explain what every
one of us m ay have experienced : the
quality in so m e great m an that
m ar k s him out in any co m pany an d
m a k es him a m a net for other m en
!
to follow
With that sa m e i m pulse the first
d isciples followe d Jesus As a
hu m an being he got hold Of their
hearts At the outset there was noth
ing con sciously religious in their
response to hi m ! no theories about
who or what he was over and above
what he right then seem ed to be As
m en brought up in Judaism they
knew about God ! but the chances
are that on this particular m orning
t h ey had no m ore been speculating
ab out Go d than any other m en in
fi s hi ng boats would have been li k ely
t o be They certainly were not on the
“
poi nt O f reciting any Apostles
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with Jesus They heard him teach
the people O f the k ingdo m O f G od to
which they could belong T hey
m arked his endless co m passion f or
the S ick an d su ffering an d with
am azem ent they s aw a power in him
that could fl ow out into d istressed
m inds and cripple d bo d ies an d m i
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watche d the fearlessne s s with which
he c onfronted any sort Of evil an d
the terrible white fla m e of his wrath
against the hypocri s y Of Pharisaic
pride and religious pretense They
s aw at the sa m e ti m e his infinit e
tende rness toward all the poor souls
who knew well enough that they
were sinners but in the m idst O f
their Sham e had so m ething in the m
that was reaching up toward God
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preach goo d news to the poor
to
proclaim release to the captives and
recovering Of Sight t o the blind to
set at liberty those who are op
pre s se d (Lu k e
I f they had not always been think
ing O f God in the fishing boats they
did have new thoughts of God now
—not Go d rea d about from the
synagogue scr olls not God Of so me
bo d y s tra d ition but God m ade r eal
through Jesus This then was what
G o d really was : the S pirit of h olin es s
to challenge m en the forgiveness to
get the m out fro m un d er their load
O f guilt the love to encourage the m
an d lea d them on ! nly in the big
gest term s they c ould thin k O f could
they express now what Jesus m eant
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tion You are the C h rist ! There
were m any an d varie d ideas in I s
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siah woul d co m e an d what h e
woul d be li k e but the title itself
e m bo d ie d the highest conception
that coul d be fo rm e d in Peter s
m ind Christ was the hope d for one
who would bring the power of G od
redeem i ngly into the m i d st O f the
actual world an d f or Peter that was
what Jesus was d oing d ay after d ay
“
The W0 rd becam e flesh an d
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dwelt am ong us ! S i m on Peter d i d
not put the truth into those wor d s I t
was the latest O f the Go s pels written
about the en d O f the first century
that d id S O But tha words expresse d
the conviction which would grow
o ut Of the actual early experience
and which le d on to the increasing
e ff orts Of the church to represent the
living fact that it was sure of G o d
had m a d e plain his m eaning for
hu m an life and had brought it near
in Jesus Henceforth m en coul d
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thin k Of God God the invi s ible an d
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server in whose han d s their d esti
—
nies were hel d in term s of Jesus
A S the Apostle Paul would write in
hi s first Letter to the Corinthians :
“
F or us there is one God the F ather
fro m who m are all things and for
whom we exist an d one Lord Jesus
Chri s t thr ough who m are all things
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I t was through Jesus that
great new d esires f or goo d ness were
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k in d le d in the d isciples heart ! an d
as they loo k e d into their Master s
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with which he loo k e d at the m they
“
k new that Go d was in Christ rec
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onc i li ng the W orl d to hi m s elf
But the d ays of hum an c om p an
i ons hip with the Man of Na z areth
along the Shore O f the lake an d in
the towns O f Galilee and then on the
roa d that le d to Jerusalem an d to
the scenes Of Holy Week were m ov
ing on to what woul d appear as
their Shattering cli m ax Th ere cam e
the arrest in G eth s em ane the trial
before Pilate and then t h e cruci fi x
ion The unthinkable ha d happened
The Master who had bec o m e for
his disciples the center of existence
was d ead What was left now of the
Wor d of Go d which they thought
!
had co m e to the m through Jesus
When they loo k e d at Jesus body
bro k en on the cross it seem e d that
in the face of the evil which h a d
brought him there belief in G od
hi m self w as blotte d out
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the en d I t was
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than the d isciples ha d k n own befor e
A fter the Shock of G oo d F ri d ay
there ca m e the ineff able experienc es
that d awne d with E aster d ay
”
“
Christ is risen ! m en an d wo m en
sai d to one another in a trans fi gure
m ent O f j oy I n the Go s p els are the
overlapping d e s cripti on s O f how thi s
or that in d ivi d ual or group becam e
aware that Jesu s as a livi ng P res ence
was in their m i d s t again : t h e w o m en
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co m ing on E aster m orning to the
garden the two disciples on the
E m m aus ro ad the eleven in the
upper roo m Peter and John and the
others on the dear fam iliar Lake of
Galilee The precis e nature of those
appearances is as m uch beyond our
knowledge as it would b e beyond
our power t o shut into one fixed
fram e the Shifting colors Of the sun
rise But throu h all the di ff erent
witnes s ings one tre m endous con
—
the conviction which
v i cti on glows
created the Christian church
that the Master they had loved
w as indestructibly alive and not only
could be but was an indwelling
power by which their live s we re
transform ed They knew in a way
m ore deep than words what Paul
“
would also know hnd say : It is no
longer I who live but Christ who
lives in m e ! and the life I now live
in the flesh I live by faith in the
S on of G od who loved m e and gave
”
hi m self f or m e (Gal
S O the doctrine Of the incarnation
is no unrelated specul ation It is the
truth by which we find God and are
found by God both in the co mm on
ti m es and in the ti m es Of crisis It
says to us that the glory of G od can
be revealed in the little place and in
the everyday event as it was in the
earthly life Of J esus ! and it m akes
us trust that the divine redee m ing
purpose cannot be killed by the evil
which m ay crucify it and that in
the love of Christ the power of Go d
stan d s by us even when the world is
d ark
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celebrated holiday of every year
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all pa rts of the world people whose
taste in living an d eating d iffer but
whose feeling about Christm as is the
sa m e
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C hrist mas f eas t in 1858 was br ng ng in t he p udd ng
that we draw on the tra d itions and
sym bols Of Chr istm as with which
our parents brightene d that d ay
T o everybody Christ m as m eans
shining lights and Shining eyes
gaiety l aughter peace and joy as
well as prayerful thanksgiving
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Christm as m eans goo d cheer and
good food Christm as is stuff ed
goose plu m puddin roast bee f a
wassail bowl or m agi cakes or
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what your i n
herited tra d iti ons are Chri s tm as i s
a spicy sm ell filling ho m es fro m one
en d of Christendo m to the other
It was alway s s o with Christm a s
This of all ti m es t o people eve ry
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where is the ti m e O f seasoning the
ti m e when the m agic of cinna m on
powdere d cloves ginger nut m eg
anise allspice and aro m atic bitters
i s brought to bear on the foods
which will grace the festive board
And the Christm as feast is an int e
gral part O f the holiday
In the ti m e Of the S axons the fes
tive boar d was sprea d with its
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bord cloth and the guests waite d
for the two special d ishes that
m ark e d C h ristm a s : the peacoc k and
the boar s h ea d The peacoc k al
ways borne to the table by a lady
perhaps the m ost beautiful of the
fe m ale guest s so m eti m es arrive d in
the form of a pie with the head of
the bir d protru d ing fro m one s i d e
of the crust an d its wi d e sprea d tail
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The E nglish Christm as feast of
that era ende d always with a dish
unknown to m odern ti m es I t was
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called frum enty and consisted Of
wheat boile d till the grains burst
When the m ixture was cool it was
s traine d and boile d again with broth
As the
or m il k an d yolks of eggs
years passed m ore i m aginative
co ok s a dd ed other things : raisins
prunes m ace
By 16 7 0 so m e ente rprising culi
nary artist ha d revised the recipe
further and choppe d in so m e suet
to pro d uce the first plum pu dd ing
To d ay plum pu d ding is as tradi
t i onal in A m erican Christ m as f e ast
ing as it is in E nglish
Mince pie is also a
Briti s h a d dition to the
feast AS early as 15 96
or shre d de d pie was pop
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Wise Men to the Christ chil d rep e
senting a co m poun d O f the choicest
spices of the worl d Today m any
A m erican s still m a k e their own
was then hung over the
doorposts Of the ho m es and it was
thought that only happiness coul d
pass un d er the branch
m ince m eat ,
N S candinavia the festive bord
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cloth beco m es sm orgasbord
which literally translated m eans
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san d wich table This however is
a m ea er description of the untold
varieties O f delicacies which a d orn
the Christm as table of the S wedish
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Norwegian and D anish people and
their descendants in this country
Here are found in wondrous ar
ray , cold roast pork with currant
j elly veal with m ustard sauce j el
lied calf tongues and radish roses
sm oked Whitefish with caper
pickled herrin in dill sauce an
chov i es
sm oked salm on pickled
pi s feet assorted fruit and v ege
table m ol d s t o create color contrast
m ol d ed fish m ousse s endless varie
ties O f cheeses brown beans coo k e d
in m olasses m eat balls an d a half
doz en k in d s O f spic e d Christm a s
brea d s Many O f the latter are baked
only at the holi d ay season and are
as m uch a part O f Christ m as as the
Christm as dawn service J ull ott a
hel d in all churches
Christm a s in all cou ntrie s has al
ways called for special decorations
The earliest were the har d iest
greens fro m the fore s ts S ince the
d eterm ine d that these be
s eason
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evergr ee ns the Christm as tree
that evolved was a pine or fir The
use of trin k ets on the tree dates fro m
the early R o m an days when m asks
Of Bacchu s were hung on trees to
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T O the English too we owe the
origin of the m istletoe fro m the
boughs They blessed the branches
an d gave them to young m en to
carry to the hom es of the people It
was the duty O f the populace to ao
cept the m istletoe and to Show their
appreciation for the blessing by O f
feri ng al m s to the young m en The
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i m part fertility t o those who azed
upon them The United S tates has
a National Christm as Tree s o des ig
nated by the D epart m ent of the In
teri or It is 26 8 feet high and is
located in General Grant National
Park near F r es no Californi a
T o accept a bunch of edelweiss on
Christm as in S witzerland is also t o
accept the m an who proffered it
In D en m ark so m e Of the bread
baked at Christm as is m ixed with
the seed at sowing tim e to insure an
abundant harvest In S pain cows
are honored at Christm as ti m e be
cause it is believed that cattle
breathed upon the Christ child t o
keep him warm
In Czechoslovakia an un m arried
girl who throws apple peels over her
shoulder at Chris tm as ti m e can re ad
the initi als of her future husband
fro m the s hape of the peels It is an
Old tradition that associated Christ
m as with m arr i a e and it blends
with another one that has S t Nicho
l as provide Sin le girls with hus
bands For s o the story oes it was
S t Nicholas Bishop of Myra in
Asia Minor who threw a golden
purse three ti m es into the house of
a poor father and O enabled the
m an t o find husbands f or his thr ee
d aughters and give them a dowry
Weinachten Holy Night
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Christm as to all in Ge rm any These
people have m aintained their tra
diti ons throu h centuries and m any
Of their custo m s have been a d opted
throughout the world I t was the
Germ an princess of Mecklenburg
who introduced the first Christm as
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tree to F rance in 18 40 Before then
this decoration was not a part O f
the F rench celebration To d ay at
Chri s tm as the streets and shop wi n
dows Of large cities throughout
F rance are bright with decorated
trees
E verybody who has Ge rm an an
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k nows
or Germ an friends
the typical Christm as cookies : the
lebkuchen It takes two days to m ake
this wondrous children s deli ht
but the eneral concession Of opinion
am ong those who have sa m pled
lebkuchen is that they are well worth
the ti m e and e ffort
There is an old le end that the
Christ chi ld wanders on the earth at
Christm as ! S O in m any E uropean
countries l n early days people
would place a li hted candle in their
windows t o light his way In E ng
land the candle w as placed in the
windo w t o invite the Christm as
carolers who walked the streets to
stop beneath that window and sing
This beautiful custo m is still f ol
lowed in our country
Christm as candles have co m e into
popular use all over the world
There are the traditional bayberry
candles Of N ew E ngland In Old E n
land m any fam ilies have a Yule
cake wi th a candle on it Candle
m a k ers have capitalized on the use
the m in all shapes
of the m m akin
and sizes There are fat red ones
tall white ones S anta Clauses
angels and snow m en B ut the
Christm as candle Should rem in d
everyone that Christ is the light of
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books pnd m isery
my
study and
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fro m a m a
nila folder
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labeled Possible S ubj ects for the
Preaching Clinic
I f I am to m eet
the S eptem ber 12 d ea dline this ef
fort will have to be written fro m
m e m ory r ecalling what I heard and
s aw an d read overseas I hope it will
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not be m erely a thing Of shreds an d
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patches a collection Of uncons i d
er ed trifles Be that as it m ay let m e
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first salute the chaplains A rm y
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Navy and Air F orc e e specially
those who were m y hosts and m y pu
pils ! so m e Of them O ld D uke stu
d ents ! So m e of them new friends !
all of them God s m en and m inisters
am ong m en
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m o m ent of writing is a dead
line ! another c olum n f or T H E C H A P
L AI N
is d ue in the new e d itor s
hand s Here I sit scantily clad b e
cause O f the Virginia sum m er heat
in a B O Q roo m on the Naval Air
S tation at Norfol k I t is a S un d ay
aft ernoon between the two sessions
Of the professional se m inar for chap
lains Thi s perio d O f teaching is the
last Official assign m ent in a leave Of
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ab ence fr m D u k e a sab b atical
which has ta k en m e to S c otlan d
Englan d an d G erm any with Jun e
and July being spent a m ong the
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A rm e d Forces i n E ur ope Right now
I am two hun d re d m iles from m y
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A DI V IN I TY professor in S cot
land Shared with m e an awful Lord s
D ay experience He had been
k nocked out spiritually the previous
S unday with a one two punch fro m
the pulpit The first blow was his
hearing with horror a Presbyte rian
d ivine say after rea d ing the story
of the death Of U z z ah (2 S am
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May God bless unto us the
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rea d ing Of his holy Word The pro
f es s or could not understand how
anyone coul d would or should con
sider s uch a tale as a word fro m
G od I don t shud d er quite as m uch
as he di d but he d oes rai s e for all
of us the question O f the nature and
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what is the norm f or testin a bibli
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cal passa e A second and m ore
s tunning blow followed The ser m on
supposedly derived fro m the pas
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sage was O n
The Need for
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S teadiers of the Ark The three
arks to be held up or upheld were
the local pari s h the Church Of
S cotland and the World Council of
Churches The preacher pled f or
m en who would put out their hands
to hold steady these arks of the
Covenant If he had been honest in
his exe esis he should also in fair
ness have pointed out that any
contemporary U zzah who did seek
t o steady the arks would drop dead
That would have been an honest
interpretation of the S am u el pas
sa e By what rig ht on whose au
thori ty under what
uidance d oes
one s o abuse a passage of S crip
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ture I S this an isolated instance
or an unusually vivid exam ple Of a
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pernicious ho m iletical custo m Is
this a ri ht dividin Of the word Of
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truth
hazard but m ay be actually
the sym bol of a m ind
which
has seem ingly lost all contact with
the hum an situation A serm on by
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a chaplain on The Wise and F 0 0 1
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ish V ir ins closed with this as
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t ounding question :
Would you
rather be in the warm lighted roo m
with the wise virgins
the dark
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TH E Reverend Ted F erris Of B O S
ton was a happy choice f or the re
tr eat m aster at Berchtes aden
interestin
and interested ! s ym
pathetic and encoura in ! wise and
devout He grappled us to him self
He left m e with two sentences which
m ust be m ulled over with two ser
m on pri m ers t o be developed The
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first was : The S in of the prodigal
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son was that he never wrote ho m e
Y ou S ay that he is reading between
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the lines
f course he is But isn t
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The second
b e between the lines
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was : The Cross is the penalty a
Christian has to pay in this kind
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am about the use of the rheto rical
question in the Children s S erm on
Youn listeners m ay not take it
rhetorically Then the result can be
devastating unless the preacher is
m ore a ile on his m ental and vocal
feet than I am But in Germ any I
heard Of its use as the cli mactic ut
terance in an adult serm on which
suggests that the rhetorical q ues
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about prim ers here are so m e others
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T he C H P L I N
They co m e fro m a book which
should appeal to you who hav e Cel
tic bloo d i n your capill aries It is
Alistair Maclean s H e bridean Altars
publishe d in Britain by the Moray
Press away back in 193 7 It is filled
with the precious tender e m bar
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rassin beauty Of holine ss Love
and Power in the service Of Lov e
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S it at the hel m Of the U niverse
There is the reconciliation of om
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Jesus Lord
nip otence and agap e
Of the calm and of the stor m what
ever se as I sail upon be Thou m y
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helm m y co m pass and m y port
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R ound our skiff be God s about
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the Bible on the bedside table
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was etting at in an edi
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tori al co m m ent
S o m eone wrote the
Phila d elphia Bulletin bem o aning the
fact that we are nam ing our roc k ets
and m issiles after pag an gods li k e
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Thor Jupiter and Atlas After all
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went the letter it is we who are the
Christian nation an d the C om
m unis ts who are the atheists
R eferring to the Crusaders use Of
crosses on their battle flags and
arm or and to our bat tle hym n On
war d Christian S ol d iers the writer
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proposed that fro m now on in
or d er to prove to one and all where
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rockets and m issiles
our faith lies
should be na m ed after the heroes
and saints of the Christian religion
S erious or not the idea got som e
razzin especially from a S warth
m ore lady who suggested a chant t o
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WHY do Cunard Captains read
the m orning service on Sunday s o
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well D id such a captain unknow
i ngly sense the difference between
eros and agap e when he was asked
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if he love d the sea and replied : I
never thought of it like that in
term s Of lov e I have a great resp ec t
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for the sea And isn t the youth Of
our chapels be ing led astray on this
m atter of eros and agap e when they
are encouraged to sing wi th adoles
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cent ferver : I m in love with the
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lover Of m y soul
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TH E danger confrontin all the
clergy in the
and particular
ly the chaplains is that we worship
Baal with a Yahweh ritual But you
seem to know the tem ptation and the
danger as so m e in the non m ilitary
parishes d o not I sn t that what the
S aturday Rev i ew (Aug 2 7 196 0
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f om a Ch i ti an nati on
O f mo t Ch i t lik motivati on !
S ancti fi d ach m g a t on
From M a tth w M ark Luk e an d
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are not supposed to go phooey on
the launchin pad
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The m an who d eals in sunshine
Is the m an who gets the crowds !
He does a lot m ore business
Than the m an who peddles cl ouds
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No Ro o m in th e I nn
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V E RY
biographer delights to
discover in the childhood Of his
hero so m e event which m ay be a
sym bol and fo re leam of the sub
sequent career But did ever a Single
i ncident in anyone s infancy suggest
O m uch as is su m m ed up in Luke s
saying about J es us s nativity at Beth
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lehem : There was no roo m f or
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the m in the inn
That was to be the Master s ex
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no roo m f or His teachings in the
m inds Of m en or for His quality of
spirit in their lives no room in the
synagogue for His reform in zeal
or in the n ation for His prophetic
m essage The crucial difficulty of
His life which closed to H im the
hearts he l onged to change and
brought H im at last t o Calvary was
the tragic evil O f inhospitality
To d ay we lead such overcrow d e d
lives that the loveliest things which
would enrich us all are co mm only
excluded Great books are not rea d
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in nature are not enj oye d ! we are
t oo busy We m iss enriching frien d
ships and possibilities of happiness
in our fa m ily life S O too we crowd
out Christ and everything He stands
for
At the inn they crowded Christ
out because they never guessed who
He would be But we have no such
excuse We know Jesus Have we
not co m e fro m ho m es where His
Spirit m ade a ra d iance in the faces
Of those we loved and a fragrance
!
in their lives Are we not sprung
from a civilization where artists li k e
R aphael have glorified H im an d
m usicians like Bach have written
their noblest co m positions in H i s
!
praise Even an agnostic historian
“
Lecky said of Him The simple
record Of three short years Of
active life has done m ore to re
generate m an k ind than all the dis
Of
philosophers
and
all
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B rothers
Fos di ck R ep rinted by p ermis si on of H arp er
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A A
T he C H P L I N
THE LI NK St udy Ar t icles f o r I 96 I
J ANUAR Y
B gi n A g a i n (New Y ar )
D th ron Your M od ern Id ol
L i mit a ti ons N e d N ot Be Fa t al
F ilth i n P r i nt
W orkm n Una h ame d
J UL Y
F E B R U AR Y
B lund eri ng F i s h erm an Who B ecam e a
R oc k
!
S h ould P r ot es t an t s O b s erve Lent
T he A rt G a ller y of th e M i n d
!
I S It R eall y G ood N e w s
A U G U ST
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Free A re W e
T he T h ea t er I s P reac hi ng T oo
!
Wh at I s a Ch ri s ti an S oc i e ty
T he M old W as Br ok en
D eali n g Crea tively with H os tility
H ow
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Your B ody I a T mp l
fo N w T im
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From D oub t to Fa ith
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h a t B ind
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M a T h ologi an
T h I ng di nt of a T h ol ogy
Th C h a ll ng t o W orl d P ace
Wh a t W B li v About G od
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December I 960
15
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that the nam e Of God does not ap
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U nited S tates But why Shoul d it
The Constitution is a political docu
m ent dealing exclusively with the
affairs Of this world and its F irst
A m end m ent expressly repudiates the
power Of the govern m ent to inter
fere in any way with m atter s O f
faith and d octrine The Constitution
e m bodies the Am erican secular
political faith It is an en d eavor to
render unto Caesar the things that
are Caesar s ! it is by other m ean s
that Am ericans Shoul d ren d er u nto
God the things that are G o d s
CCA S I ON AL L Y
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The total phi l os o
Am erican people is
the Constituti o
d ocum ent that created
S tates the D eclaration of Am erican
Independence E ven there you will
find no reference to Christianity
but you will find an explicit asser
tion that this country is foun d ed on
“
a fi rm reliance on the protection Of
”
D ivine Providence because its po
“
l iti c al theory is base d upon the law s
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of N ature an d Of Nature s God
This is the sound an d sufficient rea
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I n God We Trust
We are am ong those who worship
God according to Christian beliefs
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F urtherm ore we worship
him
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faith nce again we belong to d if
f erent deno m inations O f the Protes
tant form of the Christian faith
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AM a sectarian I ac knowledge
it without hesitation and without
apology The faith and dogm a ex
poun d ed by the E piscopal Church
constitute for m e the avenue that
leads into truth But I believe that
the F oun d er of the church m eant it
“
when he said
ther sheep l have
”
which are not O f this fold It i s not
f or m e to set li m its to the power of
the Most High and to deny that he
has children who worshi p him by
rites that are strange t o us
The govern m ent of the U nited
S tates m ay be in no sense founded
on the Christian religion but it is
foun d ed on the belief that G O d is a
spirit and that the spiritual is m ore
powerful than the m aterial that the
spiritual alone is eternal I t follows
that d enial Of this truth is denial of
the very foun d ation stone of Am eri
c ani s m Yet it is d enie d not perhaps
in words but in acts ! and nine
ten ths Of the troubles Of this worl d
arise fro m thi s denial
We all kn ow that the greatest
threat that m enaces us to d ay is O f
f ered by a philosophy one of whose
“
tenets is that religion is the opiate
”
Of the people Y et there is a greater
d anger than co m m unism I do not
believe that go d le s s co m m unism will
ever bring this country to ruin ! but
I am very m uch afrai d Of what god
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less A m ericanism m ay do to it ne
O f the m ost d rea d ful factors in the
situation is that it will not appear
under that nam e
n the contrary
it is m uch m ore li k ely to operate in
the guise O f religion ! but it will be
the kind Of religion that pays tithes
O f anise an d cu m mi n and neglects
the weightier m atters of the law I t
wi ll be the k ind of religion that
m akes long prayers in the churches
and devours wi d ows houses in the
streets It will be the kin d that hurls
anathe m a at atheistic Russia an d
at the sam e ti m e relies for its own
protection on fire an d steel without
appealing as our fath ers d i d to
“
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T is utterly useless to sta m p I n
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G od We Trust upon our coins
unless it is als o s tam ped upon our
hearts It is utterly useless to cry out
against the m aterialism of C om
m uni s t R ussia an d at the sam e ti m e
repose m ore confidence in the power
O f the hydrogen bo m b than we re
pose in the power of Go d
F aced by the threat of physical
force W e are co m pelled to look to
our physical defenses ! and in such
a situation there is always d anger
of being carrie d away O f beco m ing
obsesse d with the problem O f physi
cal defense to the neglect O f the
spiritual
ften the president can
easily Obtain great sum s O f m oney
for m ore weapons but he finds it
d i fficult to Obtain a tithe Of that
a m ount t o be spent not in creating
weapons to overawe our enem ies
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but in acts of generosity us tice
m ercy and helpfulness t o encourage
and inspire our friends
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Neverth eless not by m ight and
not by power but by m y spirit saith
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the Lord We know beyond per
adventure that there are spiritual
elem ents in Protestantism of the ut
m ost value to civilization and t o the
establishm ent of the reign Of j us
tice and truth in this wo rld It is in
cum bent upon us to preserve and
stren then those elem ents and to
apply them to the benefit of all m an
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thin s known of Old that can de
stroy a nation m ore effectively than
hydro en bo m bs or any other hor
ror that engineers can ever devise
Inj ustice tyranny falsehood the
hatred Of brethren the lack of com
passion the cult of cruelty each
of these launched upon our country
fro m within can brin ruin and woe
m ore terrible than anythin
that
nuclear scientists have invented
And if these terrors co m e upon
us it will not be the doing Of god
less co m m unis m O r any other foreign
f oe it will be the failure Of our
own faith the m isplace m ent Of our
own trust
B ut surely this will not co m e to
pass ur worries are reat and i n
num erable but they are like those
of the Prophet in the de s ert who
lam ented that he alone rem ained
true and t o whom the Lord an
“
s wered sternly
I have yet seven
thousand that have not bowed the
knee to Baal
The foolish and the
faint hearted are m any but there
are m any m ore who have never
wav ered fro m true faith in God !
and they interpo s e between us and
every m enace the stron shield that
has protected us in the p ast and is
able to keep us forever safe the
m otto inscribed not on coins but on
the hearts and m inds Of m illions of
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In God We
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are worshipers of one God who
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is a S pirit and we have neither
heard his voice at any ti m e nor
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seen his Shap e Ye t he alone is om
and al l other powers in
nip otent
the univer s e are in his hand ! there
fore in him m ust be our final trust
and not elsewhere
This we shall forget at our ut m ost
—
peril peril of the imm ortal soul
but also I am ri mly c ertain p eril
of the physical body I neither deny
nor decry the necessity of arm ing
a ainst our foes in the nations that
have turned away fro m the Lord
and put their trust in the sword
We are am azed so m etim es we
seem to be bem used by the m odern
science that has unleashed such p ow
ers of physical destruction as were
not drea m ed of by any earlier gen
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The Sin o f I n gra t it ude
ITH the first thought ingrati
tu d e or unthan kfulness m ay
seem but a sm all thing a lesser S i n
—m erely a neglect of polite return
“
for so m e service rendered
h I
am thankful enough f or the favor
even though I d i d forget to m en
tion it and I am sure m y friend
k nows m e O well that I do not ne ed
”
to say it Have you ever he ard an
!
excuse given in this light m anner
Unthan k fulness m ay be but a
sm all sin but yet it can grow to
be a V ery great one I n the Apostle
Paul s second letter to Ti m othy
we find it catalogued am on the
worst sins Here it is classed al ong
“
with the covetous boasters proud
blasphem ers disobedient to parents
”
unthankful unholy
also with the
“
truce breakers false accusers i n
continent fierce d espisers Of those
”
that are good traitors and others
equally un d esirable
Just how thoughtless people so m e
ti m es beco m e in this way is well
illustrated by a couple of true
stories A certain steam er was dis
abled an d went d own in the lake
near Chicago All on boar d both Of
crew an d passengers perished ex
cept thirty two wo m en and these
would have lost their lives had it
not been for the e fforts of an athletic
young m an who was a great swi m
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Back and forth fro m shore to
ship and fro m Ship to shore he m ade
his way through the waters each
ti m e bringing safely bac k a passen
ger until thirty two were saved
The exhaustion an d exposure oc
c as i oned as a consequence of his
heroic e fforts brought an illness
and he was taken to a hospital
where he died six wee k s later It is
sai d that between the ti m e when he
was taken to the hospital and the
day Of his death not one O f the per
sons who m he had save d Sent a word
Of thanks a flower or even inquired
as to his condition
It see m s alm ost unbelievable yet
the story is vouched for as being
true It is strange that thirty two
people whose lives were given back
to them through such heroic m eas
ures could be S O thoug h tless or
neglectful O lacking even in c om
m on courtesy as to pas s along on
their selfish way without even an
inquiry concerning the welfare of
the one who risked an d finally gave
his life that they m ight live
There is another story m uch
older than this but j ust as true
You have rea d it m any ti m es per
haps It is the story O f ten m en who
cam e to Jesus They ha d been
stricken with a terrible di s ease that
plague of the F ar E ast leprosy He
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December I 96O
I9
co m forts us and bids us go on our
way with a renewe d life and hope
D aily we are depen d ent upon the
heavenly F ather f or all that flows
fro m his bounteous store and he is
anxious to bestow the m upon his
children
!
In return what are we doing D O
we
o away and forget to thank
him as did the thirty two wo m en
who had been saved fro m the
!
waters D O we ne lect as did the
nine lep ers to Show our appreci a
!
tion
r do we turn back a s did
the one and with ratitude in our
hearts pr aise him for his cleansing
power for the hope O f renewed life
which has co m e to us for the power
to m ove out once m ore and give
glory t o him f or his abundant
!
m ercy
Let us then today and every day
give than k s for the life Of his b e
loved S on which was given f or us
for the wonderful Opportunity O f
eternal life m ade possible through
him Let us give thanks f or the
cleansing which co m es to our souls
in the tim e Of great stress and need
for the power t o live again in him
Let us forever b anish ingratitude
Let uS this d ay give than k s out Of
hearts that overflow in love to him
“
for all his m ercies and blessings It
is a good thing to give than k s unto
the Lord an d to sing praises unto
”
thy na m e 0 m ost High
nswered their pleadings and
cleansed their bodies fro m the loath
You know the rest Of
s o m e disease
—
the story how only one Of the ten
cam e back to thank the kind Master
for the wonderful blessing he had
given them Was it not so m ething
m ore than m ere neglect or forgetful
ness that caused the m t o leave this
!
act undone S urely it had p assed
far beyond that with them and well
deserved to be classed j ust where
Paul placed unthankfulness alon
with those other great sins
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blessings f or which we should feel
the low of thankfulness within our
hearts These bl es si ngs co m e to us
fro m our loved ones and friends
D aily we are dependent upon others
for the little pleasures the j oys and
happy helpful things which m a k e
up our lives
But m ore than this is Christ who
courageously laid down his life that
—
we m ight be saved that we m ight
have life an d have it m ore abun
d a utly When we beco m e engulfed
in the whirling waters Of S in and
those elem ents d estructive to our
souls he reaches out to save us
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s oul though it m ay not be in body
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was affli c t ed with a l ong li s t of a il
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B y R U D O L F B U L T M NN
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and
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Eternal Lig h t o f Ch r is t ma s
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I S I T that we li ht candles
oy in
at Christ m as and take
!
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thei r splendor
t ori c al causes fo r this custo m they
are no lon er effective f or us But
does this m ean then that the splen
d or Of the Christm as lights has be
co m e m erely a festal ornam ent th at
so m ehow belon s to the j oyous
!
m ood Of the holiday Are the lights
d ear to us because as we look at
them m em ories are aw akened
m e m ories that reach all the way
back to our childhood and are at
!
once sad and happy Certainly this
is S O But is this the only reason
!
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t rnal L ight th r enters th
world
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night
all Of u child r n of light
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H EVE R is asked why we
li ht can d les at Christm as will
surely say if he reflects on the m at
ter that the answer is not far to
seek ! the lights that we kindle are
—
a sym bol of the light Light that
is spoken Of in these lines :
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In that case however the splen
dor Of the light not only m akes
us happy in an aesthetic and senti
m ental sense ! it is a sym bol which
had so m ething to say to us which
is O to speak a word ad d ressed
to us But what is it that this word
“
!
would tell us Just this that the
”
eternal Li ht wants to shine into
our dark world
!
Into our dark world S om ething
then m ust be presupposed if we
want t o understand the m eaning of
“
the eternal Light that shines bright
”
l y in the m iddle of the night
nam ely that we actually live in a
dark world But is this so di ffi cult
!
to understand today It would see m
not F or even f or those whose se
c uri ty has not b een Shaken to the
sam e degree as it has in the coun
tries that have been directly touched
by the world wars and their c ons e
u
ences the threatening d anger that
q
hangs over us all is not hidden I
refer Of course to the danger that
grows out Of political an d econo m ic
confusions and to the acco mpanying
d anger arising out Of the develop
m ent of technology an d its applica
tion to the weapons Of warfare
.
.
R udolf B ul tmann C op yrig ht
and rep rinted wi th p ermi ss i on
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However perhaps our situation is
not without prospect ! perhaps the
earnest e ff orts of responsible m en
are not totally ineffective Perhap s
we are not really in the m iddle Of
the night after all and our world is
not c omp l etely dark but rather is
li hted by a f ew r ays Of hope that
break through the clouds Of dark
So m e fear Yet who can deny that
the world in which we live is na
And is not an uncanny
canny !
world finally a dark world a world
in which we really do not know
!
which way to turn
It m ay well be that we of today
are especially receptive to the m ean
in Of the s ym bol Of light But we
would deceive ourselves if we were
t o underst and the darkness and un
canniness Of the world as m erely
characteristics Of an epoch that is
accidentally our epoch I s it not
rather the case that what has be
co m e especially clear and obtrusive
in our tim e is si m ply the true nature
—
Of the world in all ti m es nam ely its
!
uncanniness Was this not known
“
in that Old hym n with the words in
”!
the m idst of life we are in death
And is not what is said in the Christ
m as hym n abou t the eternal Light
that shines in the m iddle Of the
night valid for all ti m es even for
!
ti m es Of security
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HAT is it then that m akes our
present d ay worl d S O especially
!
uncanny The m yth ological i m ages
O f the devil and Of other de m onic
powers in which m an s conscious
ness O f the worl d s uncanniness was
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once em bodied have for us faded
into m ere sym bols And yet it is
s trikin
that we readily m ake use Of
such sym bols that we not i nfre
“
”
quently speak of dem onic powers
that dom inate m en and involve them
against their wills in entan lem ents
and wars and lead them to acts that
they do not foresee and do not wi ll
N ot infrequently do W e speak Of the
de m onic power of technolo y
which with all its acco m plish m ents
also leads to consequences that ter
ri f y its m aster The followin
words
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by the things that they think that
they are able to dispose Of the
things that they them selves cause
!
and create Why is it that m en he
co m e possessed by the m atter Of
work S O necessary in order t o m ain
tain their own life as well as that O f
!
the comm unity Why is it that the
forces which are release d in carry
ing on work can beco m e powers
that keep the m an who is possesse d
by the m fro m doing What he really
—
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—
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A A
T he C H P L I N
If we l ook at the total picture O f
an epoch even our own an d look
only at the m en aroun d us we are at
a loss for an answer and we are al s o
at a loss to k now how the d estructive
tendencies O f an age that is pos
sesse d can be brought to a halt But
we should first O f all l oo k not
but i n us We get no
around us
place when we say that the world
in which we live is uncanny an d
dark but we do get so m ewhere
when we confess that in us our
selves it is also uncanny and d ark
“
The eternal Light
shines
brightly in the m i dd le Of the night
and
m ak es all of as children of
”
light
We achieve a right under
stand ing O f the eternal Light only
when we beco m e aware that we our
selves have to be com e ch il d ren of
light
S houl d we say insofar as we
reckon ourselves to belong to the
comm unity Of the Christian faith
that we alrea d y are chil d ren Of light
—by reason Of our faith ! I f we d o
then we have only very ba dly un d er
stoo d the m eaning O f the eternal
Light F or the eternal Light never
beco m es a light t h at belongs to thi s
world ! it can never beco m e our
p os session a quality Of our nature
a property O f our character Always
—
it can only be received and re
—
ceiv ed again an d again
as a gift
I ts rays can an d m ust fall upon us
again and again out of eternity out
O f that which lies beyon d our worl d
Yes it is true : we are chil d ren Of
light an d we are such because the
Light Of d ivine love an d grace that
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December I 96O
has shone forth for the world in the
birth O f Jesus Chri s t always shines
for us all We are chil d ren O f light
—
an d we are such beca use i n our
—
real selves we s tan d before the
eyes O f God in the light O f his grace
We ought not to i m agine that we
actually are what we appear to be
in the eyes Of others or even indeed
in our own eyes We ought not to
rely on self i m ages either in the
arrogance O f self satisfaction or in
the d espon d ence O f self con d am na
tion R ather we shoul d believe that
our true life is hid d en fro m us E ven
“
now we are already
c h il d ren of
”
“
but it d oes not yet appear
G od
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what we Shall be (I John
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H IS is what the lights of Christ
m as want to tell us We cannot
tell it to ourselves but m u s t rather
let it be tol d to us This is the m es
sage of Christm as t h e wor d that
Jesus Christ spea k s the word that he
him s elf is We are not what we see m
to be or what we i m agine that we
are R ather we are what we never
are here an d now ! but what we
—
never are here an d now preci s ely
that is our true being This is the
Christm as m essage this is the
Christm as faith
The eternal Light m akes us c hi l
d ren O f light by k in d ling in us the
light O f faith Because O f such faith
our present uncan ny an d dar k so m e
s elf nee d not an d ca nn ot any longer
frighten us an d cau s e us pain But it
also nee d not an d Should not any
longer d eterm ine how we lea d our
life Free d o m fro m it can and Shoul d
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itself in freedo m over
against everything in our life within
the world that tem pts and entices
us that m akes us anxious and in
in Short everythin
tim i dates us
that bears within itself the threat of
takin possession of us Thus faith
also ives the world a new appear
—
ance not only in the fact that the
world loses its power over him who
knows that his true self lies hidden
beyond it but also in the fact that
such faith is active in love And it is
precisely love that transform s the
—
world not to be sure in the sense
that it contains within itself the pro
gram f or a better world order but
in the sense that wherever the light
of love Shines fo rth
a brightness
and cheerfulness is diff used a new
atm osphere co m es into being Nat
urally this never happens without
m anifest
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struggle but it is also
its victory
Have we not also
answer to the ques ti o
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Of our labor
The reason f or
out
indiv idual man
.
he loses the knowledge of his true
self that lies beyond all Of his pains
and eff orts and waits f or him as a
ift to which he should open him
self Thus while Christian love also
takes responsibility for the order Of
the world its first conce rn is f or
“
the neighbor f or the ones who
are concretely bound to us and who
actually encounter us here and now
—
a concern t o help the m
O that
their eyes are opened for the gift
that also waits f or them
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,
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on C h ri s t m a s Da y
T hi s i s a f a m ily
p r oj ec t with a m em b er Of the f a m ily
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aroun d the w orld an d of the work am ong I ndi ans m ig rant s and l ow
i ncome farm fam ili es i n the S t at es two s p ec i a l p roj ect s h ave been
a dd e d for thi s s p eci al ob s ervance nam ely :
A fr i ca : A m a s s ive lit era t ure p r og ra m i n A fr i ca with a t ra i ni ng c ent er
for A fr i can wr it er s the p r od uc ti on of
Ch r i s ti a n b ook s wr itt en by
A fr i cans for A fr i cans and the fi r s t s t a g e of a co or di na t e d p r og ram O f
t rai ni ng A fri can writers i n the s p ec i al t ech n iques Of ra dl o s cri p t writi ng
A l a s k a : A cr ea tive m i s s i on i n whi c h S p ec i a li s t s i n c h urc h p l anni ng
an d s oc i al welfa re will a s s i s t Al a s k a s g rowi ng ch urc h es to d evelop a s ens e
of c omm un ity and a b a s i c s t ra t e gy of m i ni s t r y and wit nes s i n the 4 9th
s t at e
P ray er Fellow s hi p s are S ig nifi cant d ev el op ment s of the 75th Ob s ervanc e
A p p r ox i m a t ely fifty s el ec t ed w om en ch urch l ea d ers i n eac h Of th e fiv e
area s : A fri ca Europ e Lati n A m eri ca the M iddl e E a s t and the Far
Ea s t and i n thi r ty c iti es i n the Un it ed S t a t es and C a na d a will m eet p r i or
t o W or ld Day of P ra y er 196 1 t o h el p w om en of t he c h urc h es ! s p ea k t o
g eth er c onc erni ng the r el evanc e and p ower Of p ray er for the work of
G od s p eop l e in the w orld t od ay ! S h are s om e b i bli cal s tudy Of G od s
acti on within hi s t ory ! s eek t o di s c over G od a t w ork in th e m id s t of th es e
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will brin g the conc ern of eac h one to the N i nth A s s embly of Unit ed Church
W omen i n M i am i B each F lorid a O c t ober 9 12 196 1
C er t a i n b a s i c m a t eri a l s are ava il a ble for us e b y w om en i n thi s 7 5 th O h
S ervanc e O rd er fr eely di s tr i but e wid ely p ray give ! Ba s i c p ack et of
m a t er i al s eac h fi fty c ent s th ree or m or e t o one a dd r es s each f orty c ent s
O rd er from :
P D D ep artm en t
N a ti onal C ou nc il of Ch urch es
B ox 3 20 M a di s on S q uar e S t a ti on
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A A
T he C H P L I N
which having a certain a m ount Of
religion blin d ly takes f or granted
that there is nothing m ore to find ,
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as though Christ s were the touch
Of a vanished hand and the soun d
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of a voice that is still ! but the glor
ious hu m blin certainty that al
ways there are new insights to
achieve new wonders to apprehend
Of the unsearchable
new depths
riches to fatho m This is the con
te m poraneousness O f Christ
Perhaps so m eone will say that all
this sounds very i m practical ! that
here are hu m an beings i m m ersed in
problem s all the week living (as
S am uel Johnson once expressed it )
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in a world that is bursting with sin
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an d sorrow
grappling with the
elem ental facts Of suffering an d grief
and guilt an d de ath desperately
needing help with these things ! and
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that all this about m eeting G od
will not do for it i s not nearly prac
tical enough and does not speak to
the concrete Situation and the urgent
realities Of experience
The fact is it is the one thin
that is entirely practical A m an
with so m e specific proble m on his
m ind goes to church on S unday
m orning ! in the service he m ay
never hear that problem O f his even
m entioned ! but if there he m eets
Go d (as he can Since God is pres
ent ) will not that encounter help
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hi m m ore than anything else
Nineteen hun d red years ago in
Galil ee m en m et Go d in the fact O f
Je s us An d t h at in s everal ways
S o m e m et G o d in the m ighty
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works of J es us What m anner Of
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m an is this who can m uzzle the
de m ons and still the waves an d
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s m ite d eath with resurrection S ure
ly the Lord is in this place , and we
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thers m et Go d in the words Of
Jesus They knew lis tenl ng to him
that this teaching was real this was
d ecisive truth this was the
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rabbis here none of their glib and
facile platitudes
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away
Above all they m et God in the
person Of Jesus All four evangelists
m ake it clear that the e ffect Of en
countering Jesus was twofold There
was a d ouble reaction F irst ca m e a
terrible sense Of sham e F or there
was so m ething about hi m that
struck the m down hu m bled the m
to the dust They knew that the
j ungle O f their secret sins was being
reconnoitred and explored by the
piercing light of heaven Those
clear steady eyes s aw everything
all the Shabby m eannesses and de
feats They su dd enly k new that that
was the kin d O i m en they were If
anyone cam e to Jesus with his eyes
up in conscious righteousness he
ha d not been there long before his
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eyes began to droop D epart fro m
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m e for I am a sinful m an
He began to know the sinfulness Of
m an hi m self in particular An d he
learned the m eaning of hu m ility
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them ! but this Man they realized
was greater than their hearts and
potentialities of victory of
s aw
which they ha d never drea m ed
I n his presence they were aware
Of an understanding a reinforcing
good will a forgiving creative love
that broke through the d ull m onoto
nous tyranny O f d efeat and m ade all
things exhilaratingly new Here
they knew was ne who really
cared and was personally con
cerned an ally who woul d be their
a d vocate against the fierce accuser
a helper ready to identify him self
with the m without qualification or
r eserve
All this in the days Of His flesh
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But m ark this well not t hen only
For through the apostolic preachin
the sa m e thing w as happening Men
were still encountering G od in
Christ The m issionary proclam ation
of the m ighty acts of rede m ption
was in fact a continuation Of the
d ivine re d eem ing activity
When the m en an d wo m en Of
Thessalonica
Corinth
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hear d the preaching of repentance
toward G od and faith toward the
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thing m ore than a religious lecture
that was going on : it was God in
action to j u d ge and save them by
confrontation with the living Christ
S O all d own the centuries Preach
ing as P T F ors yth u s e d t o s ay is
m ore than a d eclaration Of the G O S
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referring to our Gospel records
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Behin d these early attem pts to set
d own what was reliably re m em bere d
about this Man there stands the
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Man hi m self
Therefore to those who are m inis
ters Of the Word I woul d s ay this
Your co mm ission is O to expound
the Word that through the exp os i
tion m en and wo m en will be forget
ting all about the preacher an d
actually encountering him who i s
the Word incarnate losing Sight Of
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December I 96O
S U S P E CT we have all listened to
a serm on in which the hom ileti
cal structure was excellent the the
ology i m peccable the thought acute
and well expresse d : yet which left
us at the end with a s trange uns ati s
fi ed sense that the God t o who m the
serm on witnessed was an abstract
principle rather than an instant
presence the d i ff use d S pirit of the
pantheist rather than the living i n
t rudi ng Go d O f the prophet
and
that the Christ O f who m the preacher
spoke to his hearers was so m ewhere
out O f sight both for him an d f or
them a third party who was so m e
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where els e perhaps away yonder in
G alilee perhaps separated by the
gulf Of centuries perhaps above the
clouds at the right hand of so m e dis
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be spo k en of like any other ab s ent
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figure in the third person ( He said
this he did that he would have
given you this advice if he had been
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here today ) not so m eone there in
the m idst standing in the heart of
the congregation listenin t o every
W ord aware Of every thought ! not
so m eone to who m in the second per
s on the preacher s heart and every
heart in the congregation m ight s ud
denl y cry aloud interrupting the
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serm on but not the worship
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Jesus Y ou have kept your word
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Y ou are here !
And on the other hand we have
all listened to serm ons ho m iletically
defective structurally execrable
with elem ents in their theology with
which we could not agree ! yet we
could no m ore doubt that Christ
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was there than wb could doubt that
we were there ourselves ! and we
knew that we were there ourselves !
and we knew that out O f the eterni
ties the livin G od had drawn near
to us and spo k en and called us by
our na m e
If so m ething like this latter ex
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and wo m en as we preach we are
failing them and failing our Master
ur m inistry m ay have its other suc
cesses it m ay resound with notable
achieve m ents ! but if it fails at this
point it fails all along the line
Are we helping m en and wo m en
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to believe their own faith I s their
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cree d co m ing alive for th em They
accept
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i m agine it
n ation the
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rection but are they seeing these
He has borne our sins in his own
body on the tree He is risen He has
abolished death He has opened the
K ingdo m Of heaven to all believers
He is present He is always present
He is here and now
H ow is the preacher to retain the
awareness of the living presence Of
!
the Lord When Paul cla im ed that
he was not disobedient to the
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hea venly vision he at least sug
gested the sole m nizing thought that
d isobedience of any kind m ay have
alm ost auto m atically disqualifying
effects where heavenly visions are
concerned It is not that the visions
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cease to co m e for God is the
F ather of lights and Christ the S un
of righteousness never fades or sets
But the soul m ay beco m e p rogres
s i v ely
d isabled fro m seeing the
vision The window m ay beco m e
di m m ed because of prayerlessness
and co m pro m ise and lac k Of a dis
c iplined devotional life
Let us then as we turn
to the light each day see
we keep that window
which the vision has
surely the final word in any
such as we have atte mpted
m ust be the word of Jesus our Lord :
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Blessed are the pure in heart f or
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they Shall see God
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traveled a lone but his h eart and his
h and and hi s trea s ur e were l ovi ngly
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A S the wi s e s t of the Wi se M en s a id
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It i s be tter to foll ow even the s h a d ow
Of the bes t th an to rem ai n cont ent
wi th th e wor s t A nd th os e who w ould
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W o r ld by HER B ER H W ER N E C K E
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Dr W erneck e i s P rofes s or O f B ibl i
ca l Int er p ret a ti on and li brari an a t
Ed en T h eol ogi ca l S e m i na ry W eb s t er
G roves M i s s ouri T he fir s t book i s ful l
of t he t ra diti ons and cu s t om s Of C h r i s t
m as th rou gh ou t th e world wr itt en i n
an ea s y s tyle with whi m s i cal ill u s t ra
ti on s whi ch h el p m ake thi s an ex c el
l ent vol um e f or ch ur ch an d c h a p el
li brari es DO you know why we h ang
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n
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ti l
our C h r i s t m a s t r ees
Why
“
”
!
T he F ea s t of L ight s i s c el ebra t ed
Wh en did the c us t om of s endi ng
!
C h ri s tm a s ca rd s b egi n
T h es e and
h undred s of oth er q u es ti ons are an
.
,
.
.
d i n thi s b ook I n C hri s tm as
S ongs and Thei r S t or ies we can l ear n
t he b ac kg r ou nd Of our m uch l oved
C h ri s t m a s s ong s and carol s T hi s b ook
will b e p arti c ul a rly h el p ful to c h a p
l ai ns and S und ay s ch ool workers in
p rep ar i ng C h ri s t m a s p r ogra m s It i s
an i m p ort ant a dditi on t o our b ook s
a b ou t C h ri s t m a s
s were
pp
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S t o r i e s by HER B ER H W ER N E C K E
W es tmi n s t er 195 7 128 p p
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C h r is t m a s
C h r is t m a s
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T h e E m p ty C up by O P
J ohn Kn ox P res s 1
cent s
T h e s e are t a l es of
C h ri s tm a s has b r ought
s om e Of t he p e op l e who w er e
i nn or who s aw t he s t a r and
d own th rough the a g es
.
,
.
C o m e t o C h r is t m a s by A NN A L A U R A
G E B A R D A bi n g
and ED WA R D W
don 196 0 42 p p 7 5 c ent s
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ma l l b ook would b e h el p ful
in p r ep ar i ng f a mili es f or a w or s hi p f ul
a ttitu d e be tween T h ank s givi ng and
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C h r i s tm a s
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R O G ER S F l em i ng H R eve ll 195 8
6 2 pp
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99
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a s tat e O f h ea rt And i t was in
G od s h ea rt th a t he g av e us the g reat
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Dr M arti n i s vi s iti ng p r ofes s or Of
homil eti c s P erki ns S ch ool of T h eol
ogy a t S ou th ern M eth odi s t U niver s ity
and c ont ri b ut or t o T H E C H A P L A I N
H e begi ns hi s very h el p ful b ook Of
origi na l wor s hi p
m a t er i a l with the
“
s t a t em en t
I beli eve th at el even
O c l oc k
on S u nd ay m or ni ng i s
or
could be t he m os t im p ort ant h our of
the w eek I n thi s s p i r it I Off er thi s
c oll ecti on Of wors hi p m at eri a l i n
m i ngl ed g ra tit u d e and exa s p era ti on
t o t he C h urc h th a t has p r ov id ed m e
with s ome Of th e mos t exc iti ng and
s om e Of th e d ull es t h our s of my life
Ind eed it i s a s in for the m i ni s t er
t o b e S li p s h od ca rel es s l azy and f a il
t o l ea d hi s p eop l e t o t he th r one of
G od wh en th ey g a th er f or w or s hi p
T h ere are m an y w or s hi p c oll ec ti ons
but s om e of th e di s ti nc tive f ea t ures
“
Of thi s one are : The Call s t o Wor
”
s hi p
are c h os en not m er ely b ecau s e
th ey are r eligi ou s but becau s e th ey
are Chr i s ti an T he affirm ati ons of
faith and creed al s t at em ent s are re
s p ons i v e d ec l a ra ti ons Of f a ith a
nd give
t he c ong r eg a ti on a c h a nc e t o a rti cu l a t e
i t s c onv i cti ons T h ey ca ll the p eop l e t o
a d ecl arati on of d uti es S i ns a s p i ra
ti ons and attitud e s M edit ati on s on
b i bli ca l th em es e na bl e the c ong r eg a
ti on t o ba s e its p rayers u p on the
“
P rayer
S cr i p t ur es Dr M ar ti n s ay s
th a t i s ba s ed on the B i bl e will h ave
the a dva nt a g e of d eli v er i ng m en fr om
”
th ei r m ood s and s ubj ectivi s ms T he
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s t a rti ng p oi nt not fr om t he p reac h er s
O b s erv ati ons on the s t at e Of the world
b ut from the m i s s i on and m es s a g e Of
.
T h e I nt e r na t i o n a l L e s s o n A n n ua l
e
e
by C A R ES M L A Y M O N
dit d
with l
A c t s of W o r s hip
A bi ngd on 196 0
RO Y L
44 8 p p
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C o m m e n ts b y H I
HE S ER and J W N S O N P E A R C E
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Eac h Of th es e a nnua l s p r es en t s i n
c omp ac t form c omm ent s on th e Un i
form le s s ons f or 196 1 and i s quit e
g ood T h ere are s evera l s uch l es s on
a nnual s , but thes e are two Of the b e s t
C h a p l a i ns who are s earchi ng f or
s u p p l em ent a ry m a t eri a l t o t he U nifi ed
P rot es t ant S und ay S ch ool Curri cul um
will get g ood h el p from th em T he
I nt ernati onal L es s on A nnua
l has the
p r i nt ed p a s s a g e b oth i n th e K i n g
J am es V er s i on and the R ev i s ed
S t a nd ar d V ers i on whil e B roadm an has
only the K J V
I nt ernati onal has a
.
.
.
.
r ec urri ng three p oi nt s on each les s on :
Ex p l ori ng the B i bl e T ex t ! L ooki ng a t
the L es s on T od ay ! and T eac hi ng t he
L es s on i n Cl a s s On the oth er h and
B roadm an u s es thi s outli ne : T he L es
s on i n t he W or d ! T he L es s on i n L if e !
and V i s ual A i d S u gg es ti ons I n I nt er
nat i onal
eac h
s p ec i al
d ay of the
c hurch year i s lift ed up and a s h ort
s erm on i s gi v en t o m a g nify th a t d a y s
s i gnifi ca nc e
S om e h el p i s given i n
eac h a nnua l on the n ew er t ec h niq u es
of t eachi ng s uc h as f orum s y m p os i um
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but one c ould wi s h f or m or e Of thi s
If h el p i s not given along th es e li nes
the t end enc y i s f or the t each er t o
lecture
.
,
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’
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,
,
,
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,
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,
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December 1960
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99
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r ep r oduct ion in we ekly bu lletins or
F i nally the off ert ory
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th ou gh t c onc erni n g the s cop e and ex
t en t of th e ch urc h t o whi ch h e bel on g s
Dr M arti n c h oos es word s th a t are
ch a s t e and w arm i n d evoti ona l con
t ent I beli eve ch ap l ai ns who us e th e
m a t er i a l wi l l find th ei r p eop l e re
s p ondi ng i n a t rue s p i r it Of wor s hi p
.
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a nd
R U S S E LL
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God Then the doc
of
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i n ity wa f a hi on d to
b a a l a m p th a t would h old and
t an m it th livi ng fl am (p
To b
ur Dr B owi e d o s not
olv
difficulty th hum an m in d
th
fac p hilo op hi cally in thi d oc trin
I nd d h p oint out th p robl m
Of xp r i n g i n lang ua g e th full
‘
n
Of th e meani n g of Chri t nev r
ha
a d e q uat ly
ven
b n
olv d
withi n th l i m it Of human p o i bili
ti
Bu t a t N i cea an d C h a l c d on
‘
both th
C h r i t c h arac t er an d th e
J u ch aract r of th e v nt Of J us
a th e C h r i t w re p r serv d
T o s ay
thi i to rem mb r wh a t wa alway
th
u p r m eff ort Of th cr d : not
t o d vi e d e fi niti on
fo th i r own
ak but in p it Of th i m p r f c ti on
all d fi niti on t o pr ocl a im th
of
dynam i c faith th a t th rou gh J su
in G od
C h r i t m n find n w lif
e of
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The i n q u i r i ng m i nd a s k s , H ow can
!
G od b e th re e i n one Dr W al t er R us
s e ll B owi e , we ll k n own au th or , cl er gy
m an, t eac h er , l ec t ur er , has p r es ent ed
t o us one Of hi s m os t a m b iti ou s b ook s
one th a t d eal s with the d oc t r i n e of
’
the T r i nity Dr B owi e s b ook has i t s
g reat e s t s ig nifi cance in th at he s h ows
how the d oc t r i ne O f the Tri n ity in
evi t abl y ar os e out of t he ex p er i ence
of the earl y C h r i s ti a ns
P oi nti ng out
th a t we s t art f rom exp eri ence (it i s
J es us an d the T r i nity ) , Dr B owi e
“
s ay s ,
Wh at d evelop e d in to the
’
C h urc h s cr eed of a t r i u ne G od did
not b egi n with u nr el a t ed s p ecul a ti on s
It beg an , as we h ave re membered ,
with th e livi ng i m p re s s i ons m en got
”
from J es us (p
T he b ac kg rou nd f or t he T ri nit ar i an
d octri ne i s trac ed in the ld T es t a
m ent , a m ong t he di s c i p l e s of J es u s ,
i n the l ett er s of P a ul , in t he G os p el
of J oh n and as t he C ounc il of N i c ea
“
S ay s D r B owi e, I n the d oc t ri ne of
the T ri nity , ev en wh en th u s s t a t ed i n
formid abl e l ang ua g e, the c entral fac t
was and i s th a t i n it a p r ofou nd
religi ou s c onv i c ti on has b een s ee ki ng
ar
f the full nes s
s
T r i n i ty by W A L ER
B O W E Abi n gd on 1960
the
O
e
s
”
e
92,
.
Dr B owi e s u gg es t s th a t t o s ay the
—
N i cene C reed i s t o affirm a f a ith a
faith th at enabl es one to t ru s t life t o
i t s c ons e qu enc es T he T ri nity i s not
an
ab s trac t d oct ri ne th a t can be
d em onstrat ed s itti ng d own but the
ri s k Of ac ti on (p
.
.
,
.
R e v e l a t io n
T he
B ook
of
by
Ab i ngd on
C A R L E S M L AY M O N
196 0 17 6 p p
H
.
.
.
.
Lay r ea d er s Oft en h ave diffi culty in
und ers t andi ng the B i bl e es p ec i ally
t he B ook Of R ev el a ti on Dr La y m on
F lorid a S outh ern C oll eg e feel s
of
th ere is no need for anyone to be
m y s tifi ed a bout t he B ook of R evel a
ti on T ru e it has a s up er abund ance
vi s i ons s ym bol s an d the
of a ng el s
like ! but its m es s a ge c an b e u nd er
,
.
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.
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,
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and
ti m
A A
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T he C H P L I N
C HAP LAI NS
C h a p el
C h ap lain
R o b e r t P T ay lo r D ep u ty C hi e f of
Ai r F orc e Ch a p la i n s d e li vere d th e
k eynot e a dd ress
U S AFE S em i nar co
h eld in L i by a M oroc
land and G erm any
t he
P rog ram s
.
Duri ng the s umm er m onths com
bined s erv i c es f or b oth S un d ay morn
i ng and v es p er s were c ond uc t ed f or
a
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s t a di um a t t he R oan ok e VA Ho s p it al
S a l em V a r ep or t s C h a p l a i n Al v i n
J L e e Avera g e a tt e nd ance was more
th an a th ous and T he p rog rams were
furn i s h ed by g ues t p a s t or s vi s itin g
c h oi rs and the p a ti ent s ch oi r S t a ff
c h a p l ai n s al s o c onduc ted d evoti ons
i n S i x diff erent w ard s on Sund ay
m orn i n g s
,
,
,
.
,
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’
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,
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,
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,
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C ong ratul a ti ons t o th e
th e U S Air F orce Ch a p el
t es t for 1960 who were :
1 W r ight P a tt er s on Ai r
C h a p el Ch oi r , hi o
2 Ch a p e l C h oi r of Ma th er
F orc e Ba s e , C aliforn i a
3 C h a p el C h oi r Of Fa i rc hi l d Air
.
-
.
O
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”
.
.
.
S ep t em b er 17 196 0 , was th e d a t e
th at the Army l aunch ed its mos t em
biti ous p r og ra m f or the t ra i ni ng of
l ay religi ou s l ea d er s Duri ng the p ro
g ram eight t eam s c ond uct ed s ix d ay
trai ni ng s ch ool s a t thi rty one Arm y
f
s
e
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s
v
ra
ll
di
r
c
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r
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e
o
p
p
was Dr J
G o r do n C h a m b e r l i n ,
P rofes s or of R eligi ou s Ed ucati on at
Pitt s bur gh T h eologi cal S em i nary
C h a p l a i n M a u r y H u n dl e y , J r , was
ac ti on Offi c er for the Chi e f Of Ch a p
l a i ns Chi e f of Army Ch a p la i ns
“
Fr a n k A T ob e y ur g e d every p er
s on i nt er e s t ed
in his own p er s ona l
S p i rit ual d evel op ment t o u tili ze the
”
work s h op s es s i ons t o the full es t
,
Forc e Bas e W a s hi n gton
Each ch o i r will r ece ive a comm em
orati ve p l a q u e t o p l ac e i n th e i r c h a p
.
,
el s
a
.
.
-
-
O
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.
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.
.
C ong ra t ul a ti ons t o C h a p l a i n J o s ep h
F D r e i t h rec ently p r om ot ed by P re s i
d ent Ei s enhower t o R ear Admi ral ,
now s erv i n g as S eni or C h a p l a i n of
t he N ava l S c h ool s C om m a nd and O f
fi cer i n C h ar g e of the C h a p l a i n S c h ool
i n N ewp ort , R h od e I s l a nd
.
.
S ix
.
.
.
n eedy
g
H on
g child ren
K on
are
b ei ng s upp ort ed f rom t he S ec on d
B a tt a li on P rot es t a nt C h a p el F un d ,
P arri s I s l and , S outh C aroli na , und er
’
C h a p l a i n R ay m o n d M o r gan s l ea d
ers hi p
Wi bad n G m any wa th et
ti ng fo th fi r t o
a U S AF Ch a p
C ong ra t u l a ti on to C h a p l a i n A s a
l ai n P ot tant R ligi ou Ed ucati on J on e who ha b n l c t d a on
S m i nar p
nti ng L a d r hi p T ra i n 5
Of ight N avy Ch a p la in fo p ost
i ng S und ay S ch ool A d m i ni t a ti on
grad uat tudy H i now rvi ng as
C h i ti an H om and Fa m ily A c tiviti
c h a p l a i n t o th N R O T C U nit a t Har
and P ot
tant M n and Wom n of
ard U ni
ity C a mb idg M a
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A A
T he C H P L I N
A
lai n (Maj G n ) F ank T ob y C hi f of C haplai n ( ight)
nt to
K nn t h M Sow a tifi at f om
p
th
m i an So i ty of Mi lit a y Compt oll
Wa hi ngton C hap
nd
in app
d
t
iation fo l ad hi p hown and fo
i
ion of mi lita y ompt oll hi p a i p i d nt of
to t h p of
in t h P ntagon
t h Wa hi ngton C hapt
mony t ak
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b y the P rot es t ant ch urch es on the
ba d li ving a nd wor king c onditi on s
f or th e n a ti on s m ig ra nt w or k ers T hi s
s igni fi e s th e 40 th a nni v ersar y of t he
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4 7 5 R i vers id e D r i ve N w Y or k 27
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Int er n a ti on a l C onf er
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T h e R evere nd M al c ol m B o d P rot
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dus t ry h av e t o d ec id e j us t wh a t c on
a re ligi ous m oti on p i c t ure
s ti t ut es
“
bv i ous ly s elf l abe l e d r eligi ous m a t
t er d oes not m ea n th a t a m ov i e i s a
”
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n
th e Beac h R oom a t th e T op a nd
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C h urch es D r M c C an n a w as form erly
pr ofess or of S oc i a l Ethi cs a nd T own
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44
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