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or,I'ns Hear Him.
11: \` r,•ad mutat ra the pro-
motion material supplied by the
Angleworm Lovers of America
(1 f;ti they call them "earth-
worm.;") l'in still in doubt 1:s
to what kind of noise the worm
maks: when he turns. Ile does
snake a noise, Of that I am sure,
becau=e my robins hear him. 1
can't, but they do. And until
America is ready to accept a
Down - With - Robins crusade,
/ don't see much point in being
is worm around here. Early oe
late,
This year a large and capable
:obits brought his blushing bride
to the maple outside my window
here, and they selected the limb
right by the sill. They financed
a house, the came the eggs and
the patience of incubation, and
one day the little beaks stick-
ing up, each looking like a
Sumner Tunnel, and after that
the insatiable search for worths,
I don't mind telling you it
takes quite a bit to subdue one
of my worms. They are rugged,
developed specially to inhabit
the blue clay terrain. Come
August, you couldn't stick a
crowbar in our lawn - it would
be like shoving a toothpick in-
to cement - but the worm toots
along through it like nothing.
I don't intrude; I leave them
to perform their clandestine af-
fairs. I 'figure if I leave them
alone they'll leave me alone,
and the last thing I want is
worms reciprocating.
But this old ronin is equal to
them I sit here sawing and
splitting the vocabulary, and
this Bull Robin is right at my
shoulder. I have a good chance
to watch him, and I suppose he
can watch me, too. Sometimes I
could use a little help. But he
cocks his head in the other di-
rection (that's why they call him
a cock robin) and now I know
Ile is listening for worms. Bird
and worm fanciers may both
doubt this, but it is so, You
tlnustn't go by birds and worms
YOU have known - these are
lelir birds and MY worms. What
I see from my window is mine.
Anyway, he'll sit there a -cock
with his little ones squawking
in his off -ear, and the other
noises of a rural summer are
}doing on as usual, The drone of
chain saws in yonder copse,
the yammer of tree frogs drtmi-
tming up a shower, the yak of
'ducks front the pond, the exu-
berant cries of children who
have found a dog that barks,
the riot hubbub of roses a -scent,
a'1nd the heavy din of lumber
trucks grinding up the highway
- all mingled and jingled. In
the midst of this some incauti-
ous worm in my lawn will make
whatever noise it Is that worms
in my lawn make. I can't hear
it, but my robin does.
He launches himself off the
limb, flies directly about seventy
:fleet to a precise spot, makes a
lunge with his beak, and brings
tip one end of a worm. There is
no chance about it; it happens
all the time. At :first, 1 thought
the robin was lucky, like a boy
finding a cent in the grass, but
afterwards I knew that the robin
was foreknowledged, and
descended on purpose because
he was well aware of what he
would find.
The possibility that it was
sight instead of sound occurred
to me, but I have evidence to
discredit that. Sometimes the
pussy cat will stroll across the
lawn. If a robin had eyesight
to see a worm, he'd have eye-
sight to see a pussy cat. But he
doesn't always see her. When
he does, he'll set up the touse
robins with nests always set up
when they see a cat. But some-
times the cat will get halfway
across before the robin sees her.
So, 1 conclude it is sound. The
worm makes some kind of noise
which i; either above or below
they normal range ;e of the human
ear. It is pereeptible to i•ohin:i.
I believe it i+ a low, oniiuna.,
iti':cured o •i Heyser!, rather
than a pi/ ie iui shriek. This is
jive suspicion. Hut the robin
heave it and attend.i.
This robin doesn't have any
easy time al it. Just because yon
can hear a worm it doesn't mean
you own it, '!'hese worms of
mine fight back. They are hard
to subdue. When the robin
fetches up one end of them,
the other end is about a foot
inside the State of Maine, and
they hang on, The robin will
stretch one of thein some, and
gain, but they frequently re-
trench. When they do, they snap
the robin ahead so his forehead
plunks the ground with a
thwack, and often the robin
gets punchy and lets go. Then,
I seem to hear a subterranean
ha-ha, but probably I imagine
it, The robin will stagger around
some, and seem to have lost his
bearings, and will twitter.
But I've noticed if my robin
manages to last through the
sixth round, he'll usually take
the fight. He'll have his feet
braced like a heifer in the first
halter, leaning far back with
his head held high, yanking
away, when the worm will lose
his tail -hold, and everything lets
go with a twang. The robin
pitches over backward in a heap,
and the worm lashes like a bull-
whip. Then the robin jumps up
and down on the worm and
refers to hint in terns I can-
not publish here, Then he winds
him up for transport.
I've been watching this so
closely I'm late in my commite
meats, but I'ne sure of my con-
clusions. I never heard anybody
advance the theory that earth-
worms make a noise, and if it is
important I should like to be
the first, - By John Gould in
the Christian Science Monitor.
Abraham Lincoln
Loved Gadgets
Despite the lack of success of
his own venture into the field
of mechanical innovation (a de-
vice for buoying vessels over
shoals), a fair case might be
made out for Lincoln as a frus-
trated inventor•... , Patent liti-
gation invariably excited his
lively interest... .
Lincoln's bent for gargets was
understandable. His father was
a competent carpenter and cab-
inetmaker, and as a boy Lin-
coln helped him in this work.
There are letters and accounts
of lawyers who rode the judicial
circuit with him that tell of
his habit of pausing to inspect
and draw his own shrewd judg-
ment on any new piece of farm
machiniery he happened to come
across. He was known to have
delivered a lecture in 1859, at
the Congregational Church in
Jacksonville, on thesubject of
"Discoveries and Inventions."
His consuming interest in the
subject was later to prove of
great service to the nation.
Countless communications were
received at the White Houle
from inventors, promoters and
cranks with sure-fire devices
for destroying the Confederate
armies. Lincoln studied many of
thein carefully, and in a num-
ber of instances personally
supervised the testing of weap-
ons in back of the White House.
But for Lincoln's insistence,
John Ericcson's Monitor, the
ironclad which defeated the
Merrimac, would never have
been built. On the whole, his
judgment regarding the tech-
nology of warfare was sound,
even though there were occa-
sions when his support was en-
listed on behalf of contrivances
backed by crooked politicians. -
From "A. Lincoln, Prairie Law-
yer,"
aw-yer," by John J. Duff.
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Answer elsewt ere on th s page.
DOESN'T ANYBODY SIT? - If you look closely, you'll see why this crowd of people Is lined
up in fairly precise ranks. They're racing fans standing on the benches at Belmont Park to
watch the finish of a race. Nobody stays sitting down when the race is on,
After all, is there any reason
why a laying hen should sit in
a square nest with a flat bot-
tom, where slie can kick or push
the litter aside and then deposit
her egg on a bare board?
No reason at all, even though
the square nest has been tradi-
tional since the jungle fowl of
India was domesticated to evolve
into the chicken of today, says
Richard Lowe, assistant to Su-
perintendent Burt Heywang at
the United States Department
of Agriculture's Southwest Poul-
try Experiment Station.
• a
*
On the contrary, it is logical
that the hen should sit in a V-
shaped nest where she can't dis-
place any litter except that right •
on top, and her egg always falls
on soft straw.
Since the "trough -nest" idea
first occurred to Mr. Lowe,
experimentation h a s proved
even mor e advantageous than
he foresaw.
Q t *
There is an initial saving of
about a third in lumber. Litter,
instead of having to be replaced
every few days, lasts at least
two months before it is "worn to
tatters."
The big saving, though, is in
virtual elimination of cracked
and soiled eggs, a heavy loss
in' all commercial poultry esta-
blishments.
Q 4, 4.
Another gain is that it is al-
most impossible for two hens
to crowd into one trough nest.
}tens are sociable creatures and
three or four often squeeze into
one square nest, where they start
fighting for room.
To make a battery of nests, Mr.
Lowe takes two pine boards one
inch thick and 12 inches wide,
and nails them together to form
what would be half of a foot -
square tube if it had two more
sides. For ends and separators
he nails in 12x12 squares, a foot
apart. The "trough," of course,
is set on edge. Any simple
framework will support one sec-
tion above another, clear to the
roof of the laying house.
This size is for heavy hybrid
hens weighing seven or eight
pounds. When Mr. Lowe begins
to make nests for light White
Leghorns, he will use eight -inch
lumber,
o 4 Q
Chatting over the farm gate,
Mrs. Lawrence Wehrman, ex-
plained wyh her husband leaves
his 200 -acre farm at three -thirty
in the afternoon five or more
clays a week to work the swing
shift at Ford Motor Company's
plant in a near -by town in Il-
linois.
He does it so he can buy the
labour-saving machinery neves-
sary to make farming pay in this
day of mechanization. An indus-
trial pay envelope is a big help
when it comes to raising the
$3,500 a man needs for a new
tractor plus all the additional
costs of farming today.
Mr. Wehrman is ane of a
number of farmers in that area
a•1io have found jobs in industry
an answer to the problem of
insufficient capital for modern
farming, The story Mrs. Wehr-
man told me was by no means
unique, but it is still novel.
Her husband, for the last four
years or so, has been working
as materials handler for Ford at
Chicago Heights, about 12 miles
distant. He does his Perm work
in the morning, continuing until
about three in the afternoon,
Mrs. Wehrman, a neat, dainty
woman, often helps. "I'nt the
hired pian," she says, smiling. "1
run the tractor or move machin-
ery or use the disc."
a Q 4,
At three in the afternoon Mr.
Wehrman comes in from the
field, eats his dinner and is off
• in his car in time to punch a
clock at four. He works until
midnight.
"He keeps real busy," Mrs.
Wehrman says. "But usually he
has weekends. Sometimes,
thpugh, it's a seven-day week.
"But you've got to do it if
you want a little bit for your-
sePi. We don't get as much as
we used to get for our corn,
but everything we buy costs
more. Even groceries. If you
sell your eggs for 25 cents a
dozen it would cost you 45 cents
to buy them back."
Mrs. Wehrman's beautiful
white leghorns were clucking in
the barnyard. She says she
doesn't really make money on
her small-scale poultry business,
if she figures cost of feed, la-
bour, and all, but 'she enjoys
it. She sells direct to customers
and likes her contacts, but most
farmers she knows are getting
out of poultry because it doesn't
pay unless it's done on a big
scale.
4, Q A
The story of t h e Irving
Schmeckpepers is similar. The
Schmeckpepers, like the Wehr-
mans, rent their land. Their
farm measures 160 acres, a small
farm in this day of mechaniza-
tion, but one which requires al-
most as much costly machinery
as a larger unit, writes Doro-
thea Kahn Jaffe in the Christian
Science Monitor.
In the mornings you don't
catch this farmer at home. He's
out as a driver on a milk route
from seven until noon, earning
the cash needed for his farm.
Afternoons and evenings he's
working in his fields. Usually
he's on the land until dark, but
in periods of emergency he
stays on the tractor until mid-
night. LaRue, his wife, helps.
She runs the tractor.
4' * 4r
"It's not hard work, it's a
pleasure," she told me, She grew
up on a farm. "1 used to help
my dad like a boy," she said.
"My husband and I both grew
up on Perms. We wouldn't want
to do anything else. But it's
hard to make money now. When
we bought that tractor it cost
$2,400 and corn was bringing
$2.34 a bushel, Now a tractor like
that costs around $3,500 but corn
is selling for only about $1.16
a bushel. The price varies a
little according to quality. Some-
times, if there's too much mois-
ture in the corn, we get less -
You can see how much harder
it is to make a profit than it
used to be,"
Q 0
The biggest farm - industry
operation we have heard of in
that neighbourhood is that of
Bernard Surprenant, Mr. Sur-
prenant raises corn, oats, and
wheat on 600 acres with only
the help of his 13 -year-old soft,
James, and he works the swing
shift at Victor Chemical Com-
pany in Chicago Heights. et you
look at his neatly cultivated
corn fields as you drive along
the Dixie Highway, you find it
hard to believe that all this is
handled by a so-called part-
time farmer and a boy.
Mr, Suprenant's hours in the
plant are from three to eleven
o'clock, 1;Ie has been on this
job for the last four years. IIe
owns 160 acres and until this
year he rented 280 acres. But
to get the best return from his
machinery, he found it advisable
td rent more land. This year he
rented another 160 acres. His
machinery is all designed for
large-scale lamming. It includes a
big diesel tractor and a combine,
both costly pieces of equipment.
a *
Most farmer - industrial work-
ers do not attempt to farm so
many acres as this. More com-
mon is the man who finds his
farm too small a unit for to-
day's agricultural practices and
who therefore feels a need to
supplement the family income
by taking an outside job. Martin
Witte, retired farmer living here,
told me that his son finds his
80 -acre farm too mall, j1g alas
taken a job in town, cofitind-
ing to manage the farm but
leaving most of the work to his
young son, Mr. Witte's grand-
child who carries on with mo-
dern machinery the father is
able to buy.
It is not only in Beecher but
in other Midwest farming sec-
tions within easy reach of in-
dustrial plants that you find
farmers going to factory jobs.
Census 3igures will doubtless in-
dicate a growing trend toward
this practice. Everywhere in this
area farmers and their small-
town suppliers are saying that
you can't make grain farming
pay unles you have enough land
to carry the overhead of a cer-
tain minimum of machinery.
It is said that a man must
have from 250 to 320 acres to
be on a sound economic basis.
The outlay to equip such a farm
is substantial. The equipment list
may include two tractors (one
Diesel and a smaller one), a
five -bottom plow and a three -
bottom plow, a wheel disc, a
six -row cultivator and a six -
row planter, a drag, and a self-
propelled combine. List price of
the combined list, $19,000 ac-
cording to an estimate by In-
ternational Harvester. Of course,
a fanner gets trade-in allow-
ances and such.
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lsaiah'.s Vision of the Iloly Gond
Isaiah 6: 1-10
In this, the first of lire les-
sons tf•cni the prephocy of Isaiah,
we have an aecoent of his call
to be a prophet.
It was in the year that King
Uzziah died. I'or fifty-two years
llzziah had reigned over Judaic.
in his last years ha was a leper.
In pride he had entered the holy
place reserved for the priests.
In vision, Isaiah saw the Lord,
a greater king, upon his throne,
Tlic angels exclaimed in the
words of our memory selection,
"Holy, holy, holy, is the r "•rd
of hosts: 1hwhole earth is fill
of His glory." (6:3). In this
awe -Inspiring hour when Isaiah
saw God's holiness, he also saw
the uncleanness of his own na-
ture, He confessed it. One of
the angels laid a live coal on
his lips, saying, "Lo, this hath
touched thy lips; and thine in-
iquity is taken away, and thy
sin purged,"
In that hour 01 conscious in-
ner purity, Isaiah heard the
Lord say, "Whom shall I send,
and who will go for us?" He
responded, "Here am I; send
me." One of the fruits of inner
eleansin.g is the desire to serve.
We are no longer self-centered
but Christ -centered. When the
disciples were purified in heart
on the day of Pentecost, (Acts
15:8,9). they also received pow-
er to witness. Paul exemplified
that spirit when he wrote, "For
me to live is Christ." The super-
intendent of a large hospital for
mentally ill people, said that
after senility the next maim
cause of mental illness was sel-
fishness. If more people were
meeting God in a soul -changing
experience as Isaiah did, there
we uld be more witnesses for
Jesus Christ and fewer people
would have bad nerves. We
wouldn't be so foolish as to sug-
gest that everyone with bad
nerves was selfish. But we have
passed on the thought of e
skilled physician.
Isaiah did not receive an easy
assignment, The result of his
preaching is described as though
R were the cause of it. In stub-
bornness they would go in their;
sin until they would be carried
into captivity. However, some
would heed the truth. God never
leaves Himself without a wit-
ness. •
Ohl that more people would
see God, see themselves and re-
ceive forgiveness and cleansing,
and then go out to tell what
great things the Lord has done
for them.
A person with charm is one
who can make another feel that
both of them are pretty won-
derful people.
ISSUE 33 - 1960
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Answer elsewt ere on th s page.
DOESN'T ANYBODY SIT? - If you look closely, you'll see why this crowd of people Is lined
up in fairly precise ranks. They're racing fans standing on the benches at Belmont Park to
watch the finish of a race. Nobody stays sitting down when the race is on,
After all, is there any reason
why a laying hen should sit in
a square nest with a flat bot-
tom, where slie can kick or push
the litter aside and then deposit
her egg on a bare board?
No reason at all, even though
the square nest has been tradi-
tional since the jungle fowl of
India was domesticated to evolve
into the chicken of today, says
Richard Lowe, assistant to Su-
perintendent Burt Heywang at
the United States Department
of Agriculture's Southwest Poul-
try Experiment Station.
• a
*
On the contrary, it is logical
that the hen should sit in a V-
shaped nest where she can't dis-
place any litter except that right •
on top, and her egg always falls
on soft straw.
Since the "trough -nest" idea
first occurred to Mr. Lowe,
experimentation h a s proved
even mor e advantageous than
he foresaw.
Q t *
There is an initial saving of
about a third in lumber. Litter,
instead of having to be replaced
every few days, lasts at least
two months before it is "worn to
tatters."
The big saving, though, is in
virtual elimination of cracked
and soiled eggs, a heavy loss
in' all commercial poultry esta-
blishments.
Q 4, 4.
Another gain is that it is al-
most impossible for two hens
to crowd into one trough nest.
}tens are sociable creatures and
three or four often squeeze into
one square nest, where they start
fighting for room.
To make a battery of nests, Mr.
Lowe takes two pine boards one
inch thick and 12 inches wide,
and nails them together to form
what would be half of a foot -
square tube if it had two more
sides. For ends and separators
he nails in 12x12 squares, a foot
apart. The "trough," of course,
is set on edge. Any simple
framework will support one sec-
tion above another, clear to the
roof of the laying house.
This size is for heavy hybrid
hens weighing seven or eight
pounds. When Mr. Lowe begins
to make nests for light White
Leghorns, he will use eight -inch
lumber,
o 4 Q
Chatting over the farm gate,
Mrs. Lawrence Wehrman, ex-
plained wyh her husband leaves
his 200 -acre farm at three -thirty
in the afternoon five or more
clays a week to work the swing
shift at Ford Motor Company's
plant in a near -by town in Il-
linois.
He does it so he can buy the
labour-saving machinery neves-
sary to make farming pay in this
day of mechanization. An indus-
trial pay envelope is a big help
when it comes to raising the
$3,500 a man needs for a new
tractor plus all the additional
costs of farming today.
Mr. Wehrman is ane of a
number of farmers in that area
a•1io have found jobs in industry
an answer to the problem of
insufficient capital for modern
farming, The story Mrs. Wehr-
man told me was by no means
unique, but it is still novel.
Her husband, for the last four
years or so, has been working
as materials handler for Ford at
Chicago Heights, about 12 miles
distant. He does his Perm work
in the morning, continuing until
about three in the afternoon,
Mrs. Wehrman, a neat, dainty
woman, often helps. "I'nt the
hired pian," she says, smiling. "1
run the tractor or move machin-
ery or use the disc."
a Q 4,
At three in the afternoon Mr.
Wehrman comes in from the
field, eats his dinner and is off
• in his car in time to punch a
clock at four. He works until
midnight.
"He keeps real busy," Mrs.
Wehrman says. "But usually he
has weekends. Sometimes,
thpugh, it's a seven-day week.
"But you've got to do it if
you want a little bit for your-
sePi. We don't get as much as
we used to get for our corn,
but everything we buy costs
more. Even groceries. If you
sell your eggs for 25 cents a
dozen it would cost you 45 cents
to buy them back."
Mrs. Wehrman's beautiful
white leghorns were clucking in
the barnyard. She says she
doesn't really make money on
her small-scale poultry business,
if she figures cost of feed, la-
bour, and all, but 'she enjoys
it. She sells direct to customers
and likes her contacts, but most
farmers she knows are getting
out of poultry because it doesn't
pay unless it's done on a big
scale.
4, Q A
The story of t h e Irving
Schmeckpepers is similar. The
Schmeckpepers, like the Wehr-
mans, rent their land. Their
farm measures 160 acres, a small
farm in this day of mechaniza-
tion, but one which requires al-
most as much costly machinery
as a larger unit, writes Doro-
thea Kahn Jaffe in the Christian
Science Monitor.
In the mornings you don't
catch this farmer at home. He's
out as a driver on a milk route
from seven until noon, earning
the cash needed for his farm.
Afternoons and evenings he's
working in his fields. Usually
he's on the land until dark, but
in periods of emergency he
stays on the tractor until mid-
night. LaRue, his wife, helps.
She runs the tractor.
4' * 4r
"It's not hard work, it's a
pleasure," she told me, She grew
up on a farm. "1 used to help
my dad like a boy," she said.
"My husband and I both grew
up on Perms. We wouldn't want
to do anything else. But it's
hard to make money now. When
we bought that tractor it cost
$2,400 and corn was bringing
$2.34 a bushel, Now a tractor like
that costs around $3,500 but corn
is selling for only about $1.16
a bushel. The price varies a
little according to quality. Some-
times, if there's too much mois-
ture in the corn, we get less -
You can see how much harder
it is to make a profit than it
used to be,"
Q 0
The biggest farm - industry
operation we have heard of in
that neighbourhood is that of
Bernard Surprenant, Mr. Sur-
prenant raises corn, oats, and
wheat on 600 acres with only
the help of his 13 -year-old soft,
James, and he works the swing
shift at Victor Chemical Com-
pany in Chicago Heights. et you
look at his neatly cultivated
corn fields as you drive along
the Dixie Highway, you find it
hard to believe that all this is
handled by a so-called part-
time farmer and a boy.
Mr, Suprenant's hours in the
plant are from three to eleven
o'clock, 1;Ie has been on this
job for the last four years. IIe
owns 160 acres and until this
year he rented 280 acres. But
to get the best return from his
machinery, he found it advisable
td rent more land. This year he
rented another 160 acres. His
machinery is all designed for
large-scale lamming. It includes a
big diesel tractor and a combine,
both costly pieces of equipment.
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Most farmer - industrial work-
ers do not attempt to farm so
many acres as this. More com-
mon is the man who finds his
farm too small a unit for to-
day's agricultural practices and
who therefore feels a need to
supplement the family income
by taking an outside job. Martin
Witte, retired farmer living here,
told me that his son finds his
80 -acre farm too mall, j1g alas
taken a job in town, cofitind-
ing to manage the farm but
leaving most of the work to his
young son, Mr. Witte's grand-
child who carries on with mo-
dern machinery the father is
able to buy.
It is not only in Beecher but
in other Midwest farming sec-
tions within easy reach of in-
dustrial plants that you find
farmers going to factory jobs.
Census 3igures will doubtless in-
dicate a growing trend toward
this practice. Everywhere in this
area farmers and their small-
town suppliers are saying that
you can't make grain farming
pay unles you have enough land
to carry the overhead of a cer-
tain minimum of machinery.
It is said that a man must
have from 250 to 320 acres to
be on a sound economic basis.
The outlay to equip such a farm
is substantial. The equipment list
may include two tractors (one
Diesel and a smaller one), a
five -bottom plow and a three -
bottom plow, a wheel disc, a
six -row cultivator and a six -
row planter, a drag, and a self-
propelled combine. List price of
the combined list, $19,000 ac-
cording to an estimate by In-
ternational Harvester. Of course,
a fanner gets trade-in allow-
ances and such.
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lsaiah'.s Vision of the Iloly Gond
Isaiah 6: 1-10
In this, the first of lire les-
sons tf•cni the prephocy of Isaiah,
we have an aecoent of his call
to be a prophet.
It was in the year that King
Uzziah died. I'or fifty-two years
llzziah had reigned over Judaic.
in his last years ha was a leper.
In pride he had entered the holy
place reserved for the priests.
In vision, Isaiah saw the Lord,
a greater king, upon his throne,
Tlic angels exclaimed in the
words of our memory selection,
"Holy, holy, holy, is the r "•rd
of hosts: 1hwhole earth is fill
of His glory." (6:3). In this
awe -Inspiring hour when Isaiah
saw God's holiness, he also saw
the uncleanness of his own na-
ture, He confessed it. One of
the angels laid a live coal on
his lips, saying, "Lo, this hath
touched thy lips; and thine in-
iquity is taken away, and thy
sin purged,"
In that hour 01 conscious in-
ner purity, Isaiah heard the
Lord say, "Whom shall I send,
and who will go for us?" He
responded, "Here am I; send
me." One of the fruits of inner
eleansin.g is the desire to serve.
We are no longer self-centered
but Christ -centered. When the
disciples were purified in heart
on the day of Pentecost, (Acts
15:8,9). they also received pow-
er to witness. Paul exemplified
that spirit when he wrote, "For
me to live is Christ." The super-
intendent of a large hospital for
mentally ill people, said that
after senility the next maim
cause of mental illness was sel-
fishness. If more people were
meeting God in a soul -changing
experience as Isaiah did, there
we uld be more witnesses for
Jesus Christ and fewer people
would have bad nerves. We
wouldn't be so foolish as to sug-
gest that everyone with bad
nerves was selfish. But we have
passed on the thought of e
skilled physician.
Isaiah did not receive an easy
assignment, The result of his
preaching is described as though
R were the cause of it. In stub-
bornness they would go in their;
sin until they would be carried
into captivity. However, some
would heed the truth. God never
leaves Himself without a wit-
ness. •
Ohl that more people would
see God, see themselves and re-
ceive forgiveness and cleansing,
and then go out to tell what
great things the Lord has done
for them.
A person with charm is one
who can make another feel that
both of them are pretty won-
derful people.
ISSUE 33 - 1960
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BARREL OF FUN? •- it's ,no fun being a fall guy as this
policeman learns In Nuernberg, Germany, He is competing in
a barrel race at the International Police Spoil Show.