HOW GOD LEADS U S By B. C h a r l e s H o s t e t t e r
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Portrays the way that God leads those who seek His guidance. Gives seven helpful steps for finding God’s will. Warns that there is no royal road or easy way but points out potential stumbling blocks to those seeking the will of God. The Rev. B. Charles Hostetter, Pastor of The Mennonite Hour, declares,
by James O. H en ry Chairman, History Department, Biola College
Bishop Extols Role of Wives of Clergy
School Never Out In East Germany
“ One of the very practical aspects of Chris tianity is that it provides divine guidance for its adherents. It is the Christian’s privi lege to place his life under God’s protec tion and be guided by Him.” Just issued, 46 pages, paper covers, 50c Order from your bookstore or Dept. KB HERALD PRESS Scottdale, Pa. GLENDALE READERS will find, all of their supply needs at THE BIOLA BOOK ROOM 121 West Wilson, Glendale, California CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY
Its just about all work and no play for East German children, both in and out of school. Children must work at school and help out with the house work at home, under orders of a new Communist education program. Called “Program for the Political and Mor al Education of School Children,” the East German regime’s plan might have Western children up in arms. Published by the Government’s Cen tral Teaching Institute as an order to all teachers, the program is based on one main principle: “Love of work, work as a necessity, work as the bas is of existence and development of the human society.” This is what children must learn. The program tells teachers how to go about drill ing it into them. In school, the pro gram says, children must know “ the most important moral duty of a school child of our republic is good learn ing.” When school is over for the day, there should be no thought of play, it instructs. This is the list of “moral duties” out of school: “At home: Help clean the house, dusting, polishing floors, laying and clearing the table. Shine shoes, sew buttons, darn socks. Help prepare meals by washing vegetables and peeling pota toes . . . cook some things. Wash and dry dishes. Chop wood, fetch coal, run errands, light the fire and clean the oven. Look after pets. Work in the yard and garden.” School recesses must also be used “ constructively,” the program says. Children must mend damaged books, repair furniture and other school equipment, organize school meals, help cleaning personnel, plant flow ers and trees, decorate classrooms, help in the manufacture of teaching equipment, make toys and education al aids, help in the renovation of classrooms and lecture halls. This may appear to Americans as an im position on children. Certainly there must be time for play and sports. But on the other hand, it might be worth examination to see if our chil dren are not playing away much of their lives and wasting them in non productivity.
Anglican Bishop Godfrey P. Gower, of British Columbia has criticized congregations who are inclined to re gard the wife of their pastor as a ser vant. She is “ the backbone of the ministry,” he says. Writing in The Anglican News recently, Bishop Gow er said the wives of clergy take a deeper plunge than many realize when they marry a minister. “ They bake pies, play the church organ and are expected to keep open house for everyone in the parish,” he said. “ Mothers, peacemakers, expert cooks and Sunday school teachers, voluntary organists, tea-pourers, the wives of the clergy are helpmates and teamwork- ers in the fullest sense of the men they married,” he declared. Compulsory courses in Marxism are being dropped from Polish secondary schools. The education Ministry’s de cision arises not from any change of ideological heart. Apparently the at tempt to impart formal political in doctrination to teen-agers has been judged not worth the time and extra effort. Compulsory classes in Marx ism-Leninism, officially labeled “ Ru diments of Philosophy,” were intro duced at the beginning of the 1960-61 school year after a four-year hiatus. They turned out to be far from popu lar among secondary-school and uni versity students. Young Poles are no toriously apathetic about politics. In the last term at Warsaw University, it was said, there were more failures in the Marxism course than in any other. Treating the course as a nui sance, many of the students skipped lectures and tried to get by at exam ination time by parroting propaganda about the superiority of “ socialism.” The unpopularity of Rudiments of Philosophy seems to have stemmed as much from the quality of teaching as from the subject matter. Educators and teacher groups complained from ■the start that the instructors were un prepared and that teaching outlines were inadequate. Marxism Courses Dropped by Poles
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