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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Sirs: May I say I was extremely shocked and saddened to see such an article (Segregation: Spiritual Frontier, Nov. K.B.) in a fundamental Christian publication. This is, in my opinion, propaganda of the deadliest sort. I do not say that the author is aware of what he has written, in all probabil ity he is ignorant of what he has written. He gives as authorities on the race question both a modernist and a communist fronter. I refer to Dr. Liston Pope and Professor Ethel Alpenfels. I’m more concerned with Miss Alpenfels. This lady has been cited as a member of a notorious com munist front, “The Scientific and C u lt u r a l C o n f e r e n c e for World Peace.” I shudder to think that young Christians (and maybe not so young!) may be infected with her poisoned thinking. Mr. St. Clair does not seem to see that the powerful hand of the communists lies behind this whole ghastly business of the race issue. Santa Barbara/ Calif. Ann Gilbert SirA: Cancel my subscription. I am a bom again Christian. I love the Lord, love my brothers in Christ, love the Negro and I pray that God’s will may be done whether it pleases you or me. But God made the physical difference, and personally I am going to cooper ate with Him in keeping it that way. Anaheim, Calif. Dexter C. Wilemon Sirs: I do not wish your magazine any more. For sometime I have noticed its-modernistic slant and this month’s copy with articles on segregation just about does it for me. I’ll stay with John Rice and his Sword of the Lord. Aurora/ Colo. Robert L. Smith Sirs: I was bom in Texas and have lived in the South and do not believe in forced integration. I believe the lot of the Negro was improving consider ably on a long-range scale. M y only hope and prayer is that racial and political tension brought on by this issue will not flame into violence and cause America to undergo another great civil war. Let’ s direct our efforts toward helping the Negro finan cially, and let’s permit this thing to work itself out in the providence of Almighty God! YrekO/ Calif. Charles C. Brock
Earnestine Ritter “ You Yankees talk big”
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on the editorial staff for nearly a year. She is Earnestine Ritter who fuis studied journalism at New York University and Los Angeles State College.—ED
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