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0 Come All Ye Faithful It is impossible to trace the author ship of the original poem, “Adeste Fidelis,” from which “ O Come All Ye Faithful” has been translated. It was in widespread use in both France and Germany as early as the 17th century, although even the country of its origination is unknown. There have been more than 40 translations made into English. Catholics gen erally use the version made in 1841 by Frederick Oakeley beginning “Ye faithful, approach ye. . . .” The gen erally accepted Protestant translation, “ 0 come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant,” first appeared in Mur ray’s Hymnal in England in 1852. The melody is of as uncertain origin as the words. It is known as Portuguese Hymn and is the tune often used with “How Firm a Foun dation.” A manuscript containing this melody, dated 1751 and signed by John Wade, was the cause for many generations of Wade receiving credit for having been the composer. But it has been proved that he was an itinerant music copyist who had been engaged to write down times which were already in existence. John Reading, an English organist of the 18th century, is also credited in many hymnals but research has proved that he learned the melody elsewhere, in his childhood. Marcos Antonio de Fonesca, a Portuguese choirmaster sometimes known as “ II Portugallo,” has often been credited, but he was bom in 1762 and the tune was in use long before that time. It was first called Portuguese Hymn by the Duke of Leeds, a prominent 17th-century London musician who had heard it used in the Portuguese Chapel (in London) and imagined it to be of Portuguese origin. “ How Firm a Foundation” was first printed in 1787, authorship cred ited simply to the initial “ K.” Besides the Portuguese Hymn melody, “ How Firm a Foundation” is now often sung with the melody Foundation (often erroneously credited to Anne Steele) which first appeared in 1817 under the name Bellevue and first joined to “ How Firm a Foundation” in 1844.
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Sirs: How would you react to a Negro family of low income and lax moral standards if they bought the house ad joining your home? How would you like to have a small son or daughter attend a school where there were eight Negro children to one white like it is in some parts of Mississippi or Georgia? If you and Billy Graham and other ministers and church peo ple “ love” the Negroes’ souls so much, as you say you do, I can’t see why you are not down among them trying to get their souls saved. Why sit back in your comfortable h om e s and preach to the rest of us to “ love” the Sirs: My childhood in Atlanta was in touch with Negroes. We had nurse maids cooks, etc. and our relationship was most congenial. We didn’t find sharing our parlor or dining room necessary. They loved us and we loved them. If some' of the Yankees could only get it through their dumb skulls that the southern people don’t hate but a p p r e c ia t e the colored southerners. San Diego, Calif. Mrs. Roy Gourley Sirs: You Yankees talk big. Before you set yourselves up as experts on race relations you should get to know Negroes as they are. Try hiring one on your magazine. And until you practice what you preach please don’t give us southerners any more verbal John R. Walsh As a matter of record The King’s Business has had a Negro (see cut) Negroes? Austin, Tex. Mrs. W. L. Vaughan spankings. Atlanta, Go.
IS DEATH THE ANSWER? "Please forgive me,” begins a let ter from a young girl in Greece, "for writing this letter. It is my long illness and desperate condition that force me to do it. I have been sick since 1953 and God only knows when or whether I shall get out of here. I lost my parents when I was still a little girl. They died of hunger during the Second World War. After the war, I went to work as a maid servant, but my mistress was very cruel to me. Because I was too young and weak to do all she expected from me, she beat me hard and treated me badly, until one day I came down with a high fever. After a few days she took me to a doctor and was told that I had tuberculosis. When we came home she locked me in a room until she could prepare papers for my admission to a sanitar ium. Since then she has never come to see me, never sent me a letter. "I feel so very sad and lonely. I feel as if the whole world has for saken me. Many times I sink into despair and feel that death would be the best solution for me — but is that right? My dear Christian friends, if there is anything you can do for a lonely, sick and broken-hearted girl, please answer me soon. Yours respectfully, CORINA KANTARCLI.” Is that right, that death would be the best solution for Corina? Surely we as Christians cannot give her that answer. Out of love of Christ and love of our neighbor, we ought to open our hearts and hands to this poor girl and let her know that in the mercy of God she is not for saken. She needs medicine^ nourish ing food, warm clothing, and a Bible to bring her to the One who is the Friend o f the weak and help less. Whatever you do for Corina .and others like her, you will be do ing as unto Him. You may help her through the American Mission to Greeks, Inc., Rev. Spiros Zodhiates, General Secretary, Dept. K, P.O. Box 423, New York 36, N.Y. (In Canada: 90 Duplex Ave., Toronto 7, Ont.) “MAN OF The only religious color sound fi,m on Gwce (16 mm, 30min.) A professionally produced portrayal of the struggle for survival of evangelical Christianity in Greece — a vital story of faith triumphant amid unbelievable hard* ships. Available on free-will offering basis.
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A SON IS GIVEN T he Christmas season is upon us and the heart of this mother is heavy because this “holy” day has deterio rated to a “ holiday.” With an attitude of how-much-can-I-get and how-little- can-I-give, feverish preparations and whirlwind activities are the order of the day. “Mother, why don’t we do a lot of fancy decorating for Christmas the w a y m o s t p e o p l e d o ? Aren’t we happy about Christmas?” “Yes, we are, Sharon. There is never a Christmas but what we thank God for the incarnation of His Son. Jesus Christ was God and He came bringing salvation to all who will accept Him. But fancy decorations and expensive gifts for each other and going into debt to make a big splurge do not make for a Christ-hon- oring Christmas. Since Christmas is the time when we celebrate the birth of Christ, it seems to me we should give gifts to Him rather than to each other.” “How can we give gifts to Jesus? He’s not here on earth.” “You are right, dear, in one re spect. We cannot see the Lord with our eyes. But His presence is with us and He is in those of us who love Him. I’m sure you can think of some gifts we can give to Him.” “Would it be a gift to Jesus if we gave money to help a missionary go to Africa to tell boys and girls how to be saved?” “ Indeed it would be, and one with eternal value. Amy gift I might give to you or you to me could be broken or used up within a few months. But a soul saved is for all eternity. Per haps some day, if our Lord should tarry, you can give Him the gift He wants most from us all, that is your self. You’ve told me you want to be a missionary. Don’t ever lose that vision or desire, honey. When the day comes that daddy and I see you children giving yourselves to the Lord in active service we will rejoice because we will have given Him the best gift possible.” This parsonage family greets all our reader-friends across the nation. We pray God’s richest blessing upon you as together we remember: “For unto you is born this day . . . a Sav iour, which is Christ the Lord” (Luke 2 : 11 ).
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A monthly column of names in the news While the South smolders under pressure to integrate, some impor tant people are appealing to Chris tians to cool the issue. Representa tive Brooks Hays of Arkansas said the situation “needs the softening in fluence of religion” and that it “ re quires a tolerant approach to the knowledge that a change is inevit able.” Governor Frank Clement of Tennessee said it is up to Christians to “ tackle [these] hard jobs of the world today.” Methodist Missionary Dr. William Middleton said, “We can not convert the world to Christian ity unless we can demonstrate brotherhood in America.” Mean while the Rev. H. H. Brookins, 32- year-old pastor of the St. Paul AME Church in Witchita, was elected president of the Wichita Ministerial Alliance. He is the first Negro ever to head the group. And in Phoenix, the Rev. W. R. Tucker's 400-member Capitol Christian Church, realizing it must “ either stay and serve the community or move elsewhere,” voted to become interracial. The Rev. Bob Richards, two-time Olympic p o le -vau lting champ, leaped into TV this fall with a pro gram titled “ 76 Sports Club,” bank rolled by the Union Oil Co. of Southern California. Says Richards, “ I want to show my audience how champions live clean, work hard, have faith and never give U p ; how they strive for perfection, how they build great desire, how they take defeat and also how they take God with them in their striving for vic tory.” Katherine Stenholm's directorship of Bob Jones University’s Unusual Films gained the coveted nod from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers recently. The Society ranked the department as one of the top three U.S. schools offering instruction in the field of motion pictures. The other two are USC and UCLA.
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A for-men-only feature dealing with basic Christianity/by Lloyd Hamill
How Not to
Escape Fear
vital part of religion nowadays seems to fall in the ^^peace-of-mind category. There’s nothing wrong with this up to a certain point. I’ve never known a man who doesn’t want solid peace of mind. But it seems to me we have to be mighty certain just what role religion is to play in getting this peace. If we get headed cockeyed here we can become deeply disillusioned. Fear is no stranger to the man who gets out and faces life squarely. And he knows for certain that fear isn’t going to disappear by starting each day mumbling some hocus-pocus like, "Every day in every way I’m getting better and better.” The minister or writer who dishes out these kind of positive-thinking cliches hardly merits a hearing. Pretending is for children, not men. Far better to face up to the reality of fear. I recall a part of our basic training in the Signal Corps during the early part of World War II was the infiltration course. It was a cold, gray December day when our com pany’s turn came to go through the course. We had to crawl several hundred yards under simulated battle conditions. There was from two to six inches of gooey, bone-chilling mud covering the entire course. As we crawled in and out of trenches and around barbed wire entanglements, planted explosives erupted on all sides. A fighter plane roared barely 30 feet above us spraying a thick layer o f smoke. And from the side, machine gunners were pouring a steady cover of fire just three feet above the ground. It was a nightmare of mud and smoke and explosions and machine gun fire. The going was slow and there was not a second’s let up. I doubt if there was a fellow going through the course that afternoon who wasn’t afraid. And there was nothing you could do about it. You couldn’t back out. You couldn’t ignore your fear. You couldn’t repress it. You had to either go through the ordeal or crack up. And each time a few would crack up. They’d become either paralyzed with fear and hug the mud until the firing was over or they’d stampede. And to stampede was fatal. The pressure on these fellows would get so great they could stand it no longer and they would leap to their feet in an effort to
run for it. The live machine gun fire would instantly tear them apart. Fear is that way. Let it paralyze you and you’re immobi lized — useless. Let it stampede you and it tears you apart emotionally. What we actually need is not an escape from fear but an adequate way to handle it. Fear confronts us solidly and boldly. We can’t escape it. Maybe our health is cracking up. Maybe our marriage isn’t what we know it could be. Maybe our job has us in a vise-tight grip of despair. You know your particular fear. It’s real. And you know something’s got to be done about it. Is the answer to be found in turning to religion ? I don’t know. It depends on several factors. If it’s a desperation grasp aimed solely at finding a solution to a particular fear I doubt if you’ll find much genuine help. It would seem from the Bible record that God looks at the whole man. When you get around to thinking through your personal relation ship to God you’re apt to find the particular fear or cir cumstance that got you thinking is not necessarily central to your problem. Your problem is your total self. Read the Gospel of St. John in the Bible to find out how to have your total self absolutely transformed through faith in Jesus Christ. Christ said, "I will never refuse anyone who comes to Me.” Millions of men — the great, the near great, the ordinary — have come to God through Jesus Christ. They came to have their total life transformed — literally reborn by the power of God. And when this has taken place we have an answer for each fear as it arises. And this answer is in the words God spoke to Isaiah, "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea I will uphold thee with the right hand o f my righteousness.” God created you and me. And when we are in a right relationship to Him it is the most natural thing in the world to face fear squarely; head on. It gives a man a solid feeling to know the One who made him is personally guid ing him through the immediate need.
(Those desiring additional help or spiritual counsel may write to Mr. Hamill in care of The King’s Business, 558 So. Hope St., Los Angeles 17. A free copy of the Gospel of John [ with simplified explanations ] will also he sent upon request.)
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Directive to destroy Christmas /in the public schools
T o : All Principals The purpose of this bulletin is advisory. W e are told, by the State de partment in charge of enforcing the anti-discrimination statutes, that there is a growing feeling in various parts of the state with respect to the celebration of Christmas by special observances and exercises in public schools. While this is not yet a situation which could be characterized as a problem, it is one that is growing and which will require our atten tion in the near future. It might, therefore, be wise to be somewhat beforehand in this respect with the end in view of lessening the impact in this community if, when and as the situation becomes critical. At this time, no specific action is ind i cated but it may be wise to consider, beginning at once, how the Christmas program to be offered in your school could be replanned so as to de-emphasize the sectarian reli gious aspect thereof and to emphasize instead the folklore values. As an illustration, it may be possible to substitute such folksongs as “Deck the Halls with Holly” for one of the more religious type songs which are generally used. It is the opinion of your Superintendent that within the forseeable future, say the next three to ten years, it will be required by the courts that the specifically religious aspect of the celebration be de leted from public school programs and that it will become illegal to use some of the hymns and anthems that are now quite common and that it will become necessary to avoid pageants involving the nativity, angels and s imi lar props. It is suggested that it might be well to begin to replan this program in this direction so that the change-over is so gradual as to be unnoticeable to the general public over a period of years. Signed: R. S. Pollack, Superintendent H ow this directive was stopped
The above directive was issued on December 6, 1955 by the superintendent o f th e Sayreville Public Schools, Sayreville, N. J. The scheme backfired only because aroused citizens and the Board o f Education o f Sayreville demanded the letter’s withdrawal. This is a graphic ob ject lesson for every Christian. There are many in America today who want to strip Christmas by any means available o f its Christian meaning. It is squarely up to individual Christians to see that this never happens.
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T H E B L O C K B U S T E R S /The neighborhood seemed ready to explode/fiction by Eva Evans
w wM wm hat’s for dinner?” Tom Mitchell called as he flung open the front door of his home. He kissed his wife, Mollie, then sank into a chair and picked up the paper. “ I noticed lights on in the old Gordon place,” he said. “ Our new neighbors must have arrived. Get a glimpse of ’em?” Mollie looked back from the kitchen door. “Yes,” she said indig nantly, “ and, Tom, they’re colored. A colored family in our block! Why did the Gordons do a thing like that to us?” Tom laid down his paper. “ Can’t say the Gordons did anything to us,” he protested. “ They wanted to sell and they found a buyer. Give the family a chance. They may be pleasant people.” Choking hack the words she wanted to speak, Mollie pinned back a brown curl and went on setting the table for dinner. “ You c a n ’ t a r gue w i t h Tom,” she thought. “He just gets more stub born and more silent. And there’s no satisfaction in that. I’m not going to say another word about the neighbors.” But just then Tommy Jr. burst into the room. He slammed the door and shouted, “Hey, you know what? They’re here, the new peo ple, I mean. Their name’s Parker. Joe — that’s their boy — Joe and I helped carry chairs in. Joe’s sev en, like me. And you know what else? They’re going to get a new baby pretty soon. Oh, and Joe’s dad couldn’t help them move be cause he’s a truck driver and he goes all over and he’s away on a trip right now.” Having placed all of his conver sational eggs in that one basket, Tommy leaped into a chair at the
table, paused for the blessing and then ate ravenously. Tom glanced across the table at his wife. “ And we waste millions of dollars maintaining an FBI when he’s around,” he said. Mollie smiled, but she couldn’t brush aside the matter so easily. The block as a whole showed no in clination toward brushing the mat ter aside either. At seven the Tinners from across the street stopped in. “ I don’t like it,” said Phil Turner. “ Spoils the neighborhood. . . .” His iron-gray mustache bristled with indignation. The next day Elizabeth Cranston Becker met Mollie in the super market. “ This has always been con sidered a nice neighborhood — a nice old respectable neighborhood,” she said in a low voice. “ But now H e r husband , R. D. Becker, sidled up with the grocery cart and interrupted. “ You’ll see distressing changes,” he predicted. “ Property values will decline. It’s inevitable!” Toward the end of the week when Tom and Mollie were having tea with thé Turners, Tom opened his door to a very welcome visitor. “ Stew Maher!” he exclaimed as he g r e e t ed his brother-in-law warmly. “ Long time no see!” “ Been busy,” said the ruddy faced Irishman. “ Just stopped in to say hello.” He hugged his sister and demanded to see his f a v o r i t e nephew. Noticing the Turners, Stew greeted them with a smile and said, “Oh, I see you’re having a little neighborhood visit here.” “ Rather,” grumped Phil Turner. “ But you caught us on a grim sub ject. I still say,” he cried, his mind still glued to the subject, “why did Gordon have to do this to us? Did
he have to sell his house to the first buyer who came along?” Stew l o o k e d puzzled. “Who moved in, a bass drummer or a trombone player?” “Neither,” growled T u r n e r . “ Gordon sold his house to a . . . a blockbuster. That is what they’re called, isn’t it?” “ A blockbuster?” asked Stew. He got no further. A pajama-clad form rocketed out of a bedroom and leaped on his back. “Uncle Stew!” shrieked Tommy who was supposed to be asleep in bed. “ You haven’t been here for a long time. Hey, what’s a blockbuster?” “ A blockbuster,” said his uncle, “ is a king-sized bomb. It can bust up a whole block, see? Why, when I was in England back in ’43 I saw dozens of them explode. Did I ever tell you about the one that fell into a vacant lot between two apart ment buildings in London?” Nobody had heard about it. “Well,” Stew went on, “ it didn’t explode. Imagine how folks felt, expecting it to go boom any min ute.” “Why didn’t you smash it so it couldn’t go boom?” asked Tommy. “Davy Crockett wouldn’t have been scared.” At that point Connie Turner rose to leave. “We’ve got to get along downtown,” she said, “ or we’ll be late. Mind if I call a cab from here?” “ No need,” said Stew. “ I’ll take you where you want to go. Really just stopped for a minute.” Turning to his nephew he said, “ Young man, I think you’re supposed to be in bed.” “ But,” complained Tommy “ the blockbuster! When are you going to finish the story?”
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" I f we’d known,” said Ann softly, tugging at his trouser leg.
cheeks and then dashed through the back gate to the back alley and ran to the end of the block. “ Yoo-hoo, anybody home?” she called. “ It’s me, Mollie Mitchell.” A young woman opened the door and clung to it. Her chin quivered. “ I knew you’d come,” she whis pered. “ Somebody had to come and I knew Tommy’s mother would “ Bless your heart,” said Mollie. “Come now, lie down a bit, won’t you? Why didn’t you tell Joe and Tommy to get me?” “ I don’t know,” said Ann Parker. “ I just knew you’d come.” She bit her lip. “The doctor is due any horn-. He is bringing a nurse along. My . . . my mother was to come but she’s snowbound in the coun try. And Ernie, he had to swing up through Minnesota and upper Wis consin before coming home. The snow is heaviest there.” Her voice quivered. “Well, I’m here — for what that’s worth,” said Mollie briskly. “Now, let me help you freshen up. Do you know it’s almost three o’clock in the afternoon of Christ mas eve? Let me make you a cup of tea to help you relax.” While Ann Parker rested on the sofa Mollie called the doctor to confirm his appointment. Then she washed dishes, straightened the kitchen and put together a meat loaf. “Now we’d better get the baby things out,” said Mollie as she closed the oven door. “ They aren’t here yet,” Ann said huskily. “My mother was to bring them. But I have a few of Joe’s things. They’re in the bottom drawer of the dresser in my bed room.” “ That’s fine, Ann,” said Mollie cheerfully. “ It is Ann, isn’t it?” she asked. “ You know, I sometimes think an only child is a terrible extravagance. There isn’t anyone to wear out the leftovers.” When the doctor and his nurse arrived at 4:30 Mollie patted her neighbor’s shoulder. “ I must run home now but I’ll be back in about
an hour. Ann, you’re going to have a merry, merry Christmas indeed!” Stepping inside her own kitchen, Mollie dabbed her eyes with tissue. “You sentimental sissy,” she mur mured. “But why shouldn’t I be moved? Didn’t Ann Parker say ‘I knew you’d come’ ?” Mollie shiv ered. “ That girl—alone and fright ened, and with n e i gh b o r s al l around.” She flew to her cedar chest and opened the lid. “ The old timers aren’t going to like this,” she thought. “ But since when did a Maher-Mitchell let that stop her?” She selected an armful of baby clothes that had been Tommy’s, gathered them up in her arms and went across the street. “ I’m c o l l e c t i n g baby items,” called Mollie to Connie Turner who was fastening a wreath to her front door. “ Ann Parker needs everything a baby needs. Her moth er got snowed in with the equip ment out in the country.” “ That’s too bad, I’m sure,” Con nie said, shaking her head. “ I mean, people oughtn’t to let them selves get into such predicaments, ought they? I wouldn’t have the least idea where to find equipment for a baby in my house ■—■and I don’t know that I ought to.” The door of the adjoining house opened. Mollie turned, “Oh, Mrs. Becker! I’m collecting for a big event at the Parker house,” she said. “Will you. . . .” “Dear me!” said Elizabeth Cran ston Becker. “Distressing, of course. But Mollie, my dear, I thought that, well, that there wasn’t going to be any neighboring. I’m sur prised that you forgot. How does it happen?” Anger flushed Mollie’s cheeks. “ It happens,” she said, “ because they’re people just like the rest of us and it’s Christmas Eve and I think that we ought to, well, make room at the inn.” “Make room at the inn?” Mrs. Becker repeated quizzically. “Make room . . . .” The Christmas story began changing her. “Mollie, my dear,” she said. “ Practically every
“ At our next meeting,” Stew promised. “ And may it be soon. Night.” For a month the block had been uncomfortable and stubbornly in tent upon ignoring the source of the discomfort. No one had called on the Parker family. No one had spoken to Ann Parker over the back fence or passed the time with Ernie, her husband. The big semi trailer truck that he drove couldn’t possibly be overlooked, but the other residents of the block acted as though it were a mirage that might vanish at any moment. It snowed on the morning of the day before Christmas. Shortly after lunch Mollie fastened the last dish towel to the clothesline and stood staring across the back yards to the one at the end of the block. Scuff ing aimlessly in the soft snow she watched that empty yard with a growing uneasiness. “What’s the matter with me?” she asked herself. “ In the month that they’ve lived there I haven’t seen Mrs. Parker out in that yard three times. I’ve never met her. I don’t know where she’s from or anything about her.” She was suddenly conscious that her fingers were cold. Mollie thrust them into her coat pockets without taking her gaze off that back yard at the end of the block. “ Of course I couldn’t go down there during lunch time,” she rea soned. “ There’s Tommy’s sandwich to make plus the sandwich he’s al ways taking to Joe. But that’s like kids — they’ll embarrass you to death sometimes, acting as though they never had enough to eat. And Tommy is aways down there with Joe. You’d think it would drive Mrs. Parker crazy.” The word “ drive” reminded her that she hadn’t seen the big truck in front of the Parker house for several days. This snow, she con cluded, was probably falling heavily in the Mid-west wh e r e Parker drove his truck. “ It’s tough,” she thought, “with the baby due and all. . . . Oh my goodness, the baby!” Mollie clapped her hands to her
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