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PAGE 4—THE BULLETIN, July 25, 1959
JOSEPH BRE1G
THE COURT SLIPS AGAIN
I believe it was George Ber
nard Shaw who once described
the U. S. Constitution as a char
ter of anarchy.
The Constitution is nothing of
the' kind. But I can understand
how it might
give that im
pression to
an observer
in another
country, look
ing at it out
of its historic
al context,
and possess
ing no broad background of in
formation about its real mean
ings.
The First Amendment, for ex
ample, says simply that “Con
gress shall make no law . . .
abridging the freedom of speech
or of the press.”
Taking the words baldly as
they stand, without reference to
the intention of the Founding
Fathers who wrote them, it
would seem that under the Con
stitution “anything goes”—that
anybody may say anything, or
publish anything without hind
rance.
THAT WE KNOW, is em
phatically not true. The laws of
libel, for one thing, abridge
freedom (in the sense of license)
of both speech and press.
Further, there is an enormous
area in which freedom (license)
of expression is sternly circum
scribed, either specifically by
law, or generally by tradition
and precedent.
That area was broadly de
scribed by the late Justice Oli
ver Wendell Holmes (who was
certainly about as liberal as
they come) when he said that
freedom of speech does not in
clude the right to shout “fire” in
a crowded theater when there
is no fire.
There is not a newspaper or
magazine in America that
would publish an article in fa
vor of kidnapping, or murder,
or torturing animals, or arson,
or holding up banks, or blow
ing up buildings, or assassinat
ing public officials, or debauch
ing children.
ADVOCACY of such behavior
does not come-under the consti
tutional guarantee of freedom
of speech and the press — not
unless I am gravely mistaken
about the meaning of the Con
stitution.
Therefore I find myself un
able to follow the thinking of
the U. S. Supreme Court in the
decision upsetting the New
York State ban on the movie,
“Lady Chatterley’s Lover.”
Let us make one thing clear.
I have not seen the movie, and
have no opinion about it. I am
not talking about the movie,
but about the Supreme Court’s
ruling.
Justice Potter Stewart wrote
the majority opinion. He was
joined in it by Chief Justice
Earl Warren and Justices Hugo
L. Black, William O. Douglas
and William J. Brennan, Jr.
THE OPINION ASSERTS
that New York State banned
the movie because it “advocates
an idea •— that adultery under
certain circumstances may be
proper behavior.”
In banning the film for that
reason, wrote Justice Stewart,
New York State “struck at the
very heart of constitutionally
protected liberty.”
The Constitution — so this
opinion argued — “protects ad
vocacy of the opinion that adul
tery may sometimes be proper,
no less than advocacy of social
ism or the single tax.”
The Supreme Court has been
tending in this direction for
some years. The reason, in my
opinion, is that the justices are
making a literalistic interpreta
tion of the Constitution apart
from its historical context, from
the American tradition, from
the Founding Fathers, and from
common sense.
IF I UNDERSTAND the rul
ing correctly, anybody is now
constitutionally free to advocate
such ideas as human sacrifice,
or spitting on the American
Flag, or contempt for law, or
abduction of children for im
moral purposes, or shooting
down of policemen, or massacre
(a la Hitler) of Jews, or any
other conceivable abomination.
In sharp contrast, the Penn
sylvania Senate has passed,
47-3, a bill to ban movies which
“represent as acceptable con
duct . . . the commission of
any crime or the manifestation
of contempt for law.”
The Pennsylvania Senate un
derstands the Constitution bet
ter than the present Supreme
Court does, or than Bernard
Shaw did. The Senate has not
forgotten that a word can be
more lethal than a sword.
Theology
For The
Layman
(By F. J. Sheed)
BETWEEN ADAM
AND ADVENT
There has been an immense
amount of theological thinking
on atonement, at-one-ment, as
a problem; more particularly as
a problem the human race had
set God. The sin of the race
stood, and
must remain
forever an ob
stacle between
men and their
true destiny,
unless either
hu manity
could find
some way of
expiating it, making compensa
tion for it,, or God simply for
gave it. Even with the sin ex
piated or written off, the breach
remained and must remain un
less God chose to remake the
broken contact—not simply be
tween individuals and Himself
but between their race and Him
self.
Fathers and Doctors of the
Church have thought magnifi
cently on what God could and
could not do, on why the way
He chose the best way and
whether it was the only way.
But both the space at our dis
posal and our status as begin
ners in Theology means that
this discussion is for us—not
here, not yet. We shall concern
ourselves with Atonement not
as a problem but as a reality,
not what God might have done
but what He did.
We know that He meant to
redeem mandkind and heal the
breach, and make heaven once
more open to men: because that
was God’s intention, He went on
giving sanctifying grace to those
who loved Him, a gift carrying
with it the power to live in
heaven and meaningless if
heaven were never to be open
to them.
We know that He meant to
redeem. We may hope that our
first parents knew it too. But
the first statement of what He
would do was strange; it did
not carry its meaning on the
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Question
Box
* By David Q. Liptak
Q. A recent discussion led to
this question: just what special
powers, if any, do pastors pos
sess as distinct from priests who
are not pastors? Or, is it correct
io say that pastors occupy posi
tions of seniority rather than
poorer?
A. A pastor (the word is
taken directly from the Latin
for “shepherd”) is a priest to
whom has been entrusted the
care of souls in a parish (i. e., a
particular ecclesiastical neigh
borhood). The office of the care
of souls, which embraces those
rights and powers necessary for
the spiritual welfare of a parish,
must be exercised in accordance
with Church law and under the
authority and direction of the
bishop, who is really the pastor
of his entire diocese.
WHEREAS ALL PASTORS
must be priests, not all priests
£tre pastors. No one can become
a pastor except by appointment
or investiture by the bishop (or,
as in the case of parishes re
served to the Holy See, by high
er ecclesiastical prelates). Once
one becomes a pastor, however,
he possesses the office of the
care of souls in his own right,
and not merely as a delegate.
This is precisely wherein pastors
differ from other priests as re
guards parochial powers.
WHAT FUNCTIONS belong
exclusively to pastors? There are
several. Among them, for in
stance, is the right to baptize
solemnly. Although any person
can baptize privately in the case
of necessity, the administration
of solemn baptism (i. e., with
the accompanying ceremonies
and the anointings) is reserved
to the proper pastor of the per
son to be baptized.
BESIDES HAVING special
powers, pastors are charged with
certain serious duties that usual
ly are not binding upon other
priests. Thus, pastors are bound
to offer Mass over eighty times
a year (including all Sundays
and Holy days) for their people.
Too, they are responsible for
the management of parish tem
poralities,' and for the keeping
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Jottings
• m
(By BARBARA C. JENCK3)
• BEFORE the world was
made with its oceans and skies
and mountains, it entered the
mind of man that you and I
would be born on a certain day
in history in a powerful new
young nation. God blessed us
when we were born Americans
and he blessed us even further
when he gave us a greater
brightlight as Catholics. Some
how Almighty God wanted you
and me to be living at this
time working out our salvation
as Catholic Americans. We find
ourselves in a world wading
into the expanse of space. This
is even more adventuresome
than the days of Columbus. We
find ourselves in a great nation
which has not yet been forced
to its knees to beg for mercy.
May it ever be thus! Would,
however, America go to its
knees to give thanksgiving
to the God who created
this nation and upon whom
the Founding Fathers of the
nation trusted. There are
some Americans today who
have confused their great tal
ents in creating things with that
of the power of the Creator.
They see no reason to implore
the help of Almighty God and
would not have His holy name
mentioned in public hearings. In
the past two years, America has
been badly criticized. Her for
eign critics have called her ma
terialistic. She is symbolized by
the pink bathtub, the filthy
film, the obscene best seller, the
manipulating advertiser, the
martini, the modern ranch
house and the politician with
cigar. Our educational system
which was once our great boast
has been shown lagging as com
pared with Russia in its scien
tific and mathematical training.
One the cultural side, speakers
at a recent symposium on
American culture gave us a low
rating. The American artist,
musician and writer are not
given the same status as the
doctor, lawyer, banker or bus
inessman. Their talents are too
often consumed by advertisers
and - contributions to American
culture are lost. During this
month of the birthday of our
nation, we should think se
riously of what we who were
marked apart as both Catholics
and Americans-can do. America
is not yet 200 years old. God is
eternal and so are His laws.
What can you and I do to bring
America to its knees to beg di
rection as it asks thanksgiving?
* * *
• WE CAN PRAY as never
before that our nation be spar
ed and that we be given men
with vision to lead us. We can
wish for younger men with ded
ication and purpose like Presi
dent Eisenhower and the late
Secretary of State Dulles who
both have been examples of
Christian gentlemen. We can
take part ourselves in com
munity, civic programs instead
of shrugging off or abdicating
influence to others. One can
never discount the far-reaching
effects of secularism for the lit
tle thing is sometimes the big
thing. Two American college
students spending their junior
year abroad in Vienna wrote to
their history professor that they
■ were appointing themselves a
two-member-committee to pro
mote the study of American his
tory in American colleges. How
little our students know of our
heritage, traditions compared to
those abroad! The students
were impressed with the Vienna
schoolboys abilities to list with
pride their nation’s historical
highlights and give long dis
courses on their nation’s he
roes. A lecturer on Russian edu
cation cited that same lack in
America as contrasted to the
concentrated study on Russian
culture and history given in So
viet schools. Most of all, we as
Catholic Americans can live as
those who are living a story
that is glorious and true. We are
citizens of the best nation un
der the sun and we are heirs
to the kingdom of God. We
should live as one nobly proud
of both birthrights. Our ex
ample in our lives shout a na
tional anthem to those whom
we are in daily. ', contact.
The Catholic record in Ameri-
How Do You Rate
on Facts of Faith
1. To whom was the body of Jesus given for burial?: (a) Nico-
demus? (b) St. John the Beloved? (c) Joseph of Arima-
thea? (d) St. James the Greater?
2. A Holy Year is customarily held every: (a) 50 years? (b) 25
years? (c) 100 years?
3. The Last Gospel said at the end of Mass is that of: (a) St.
Luke? (b) St. Matthew? (c) St. Mark? (d) St. John?
4. Who was the eminent Dominican known as the Angelic
Doctor?: (a) St. Thomas Aquinas? (b) St. Dominic? (c) The
Venerable Bede? (d) St. Luke?
5. What is a canticle?: (a) A sacred candle? (b) A hymn?
(c) A church building? (d) A choir?
6. Ou November 2nd the church ordinarily commemorates:
(a) All Souls? (b) All Saints? (c) Holy Innocents?
7. Who were the early missioners to California?: (a) The
Jesuits? (b) The Christian Brothers (c) The Franciscans?
(d) The Dominicans?
8. Who was struck dumb for disbelieving the Angel Gabriel’s
message?: (a) St. Peter? (b) St. Joseph? (c) Zachery? (d) St.
Thomas?
Give yourself 10 marks for each correct answer below.
Rating: 80-Excellent; 70-Very Good; 60-Good; 50-Fair.
Answers: 1 (c); 2 (b); 3 (d); 4 (a); 5 (b);
■ 6 (a); 7 (c); 8 (c)
SHARING OUR TREASURE
Man Embraces Faith At 86
By REV. JOHN A. O'BRIEN. Ph. D.
~— (University of Notre Dame) ---------
A person is never too old to
embrace the Catholic Faith.
God’s grace is all powerful, and
it is given to the aged as well
as to the young. While there is
life, there is hope. This is illus
trated by the
conversion of
August F.
Wolff of Cum
berland, Wis
consin, after
he had long
passed the
t r a d) i t i onal
three score r . _
years and ten. His son, Julius
F. Wolff, a member of the Ad
visory Board of the College of
Engineering at Notre Dame, tells
the story.
“When but nine years old, Fa
ther came with his parents to
this country, settling near
Watertown, Wisconsin in 1866.
The family were strict Luth
erans and father attended re
ligious classes and was con
firmed. For many years the
framed certificate of his con
firmation hung In our home.
Life for the pioneering family
was hard; food and money
were alike scarce.
“At 14, he was apprenticed
to a harness maker for three
years, receiving merely his
board and $100. He later oper
ated three harness shops and
prospered. He married Lucy
Arntz, one of a family of 13
children whose parents had
migrated from Germany in 1847.
Lucy had been a country school
teacher and was a vigorous and
devout Catholic.
“She prayed constantly for
her husband’s conversion and
set him an edifying example.
Father became a warm friend
of the numerous priests who
visited our home, supported the
Church and was glad to see us
three children learn our re
ligion and practice it. My sister,
Mary Evaline, attended St.
Mary’s College, Notre Dame,
and joined the Holy Cross com
munity, taking the name of Sis
ter Madeleva.
“She later became President
of St. Mary’s, in which office
she is still serving. Father was
proud of her. All the family had
long been praying for Father’s
conversion, and finally in their
mid-eighties Mother got him to
join her in saying the rosary
each night.
“That summer Sister Madele
va and a companion visited
them and the first evening
found mother, after the rosary,
adding some ‘trimmins,’ in
which was a vigorous plea to
enlighten this ‘hardened and
obstinate sinner.’ ‘Now, Mother,’
asked Sister Madeleva, ‘do you
really think Father is such a
hardened and obstinate old sin
ner?’ ‘No, I guess not,’ replied
Mother, ‘but this is the way the
prayer reads.’
“One evening a year later,
when Father was 86, he said to
Mother after they had just fin
ished the rosary, ‘Lucy, to be
sure that we’ll all be together
in the next world, I’m going to
become a Catholic.’ Those were
the words for which Mother had
been praying for 60 years, and
can history is a proud one
which should be carefully pre
served in dignity. Again the
words of Commander Shea
come back: “Be a good Catholic
and you cannot help _but be a
good American.”
for which we three children had
been praying all our lives.
“Mother’s eyes were dimmed
with tears of joy, and her heart
was throbbing with rapture.
‘Thank God!’ she said, falling
on her knees. ‘Our prayers are
answered.’ No greater gift could
God have given us. It took a lot
of praying and of living, but it
was worth it—and more.
“After receiving instructions
from Father Gordon Shaney, Fa
ther went to St. Mary’s, the lit
tle frame church in Cumberland,
where his children had been
baptized. Here he received con
ditional baptism and made his
First Holy Communion. Kneel
ing by him at the rail were his
wife and three children—Sister
Madeleva, Werner and I. It was
the happiest day in our lives.
Our prayer had been heard, our
dream had come true.”
Weekly Calendar
Of Feast Days
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
SUNDAY, July 26—St. Anne,
the mother of the Blessed Vir
gin Mary. She was far advanc
ed in age when Mary was bom.
She was the spouse of St.
Joachim.
MONDAY, July 27—St. Pan-
taleon, Martyr. He was a phy
sician and with St. Luke is pa
tron of medical men. It is said
that early in his life he was
led into apostasy, but later re
embraced the Faith. It is cer
tain that he suffered martyrdom
at the imperial residence of
Nicodemia between 303 and
305.
TUESDAY, July 28 — SS.
Nazarius, Celsus and Victor,
Martyrs. St. Nazarius, who lived
in the first century, was the son
of a pagan Roman army offi
cer and embraced the Christian
faith of his mother, Perpetua.
With St. Celsus, his youthful
companion, he was beheaded
under Nero at Milan, St. Vic
tor, an African, succeeded St.
Eleutherius as Pope in 189 and
ruled until 199.
WEDNESDAY, July 29 — St.
Martha of Bethany, Virgin. She
was the sister of St. Mary Mag
dalene and St. Lazarus. They
entertained Our Lord in their
home. She is said to have at
tended Christ in His Passion
and rejoiced with Him after the
Resurrection. It is said that
with her brother and sister, she
went to Marseilles and aided in
the introduction of Christianity
in France.
THURSDAY, July 30 — SS.
Abdon and Sennen, Martyrs.
They were Persian nobles who
lived in the third century, and
were brought to Rome as cap
tives of Decius. They devoted
themselves to the service of
Christians and to reverent bu
rial of martyrs. When Decius
became emperor, they were
scourged with lead-tipped
whips, subjected to other tor
tures, and finally thrown to
wild beasts in the amphitheater.
FRIDAY, July 31 — St. Ig
natius of Loyola, Confessor. He
was a native of Spain and serv
ed as courtier and soldier until
his 30th year, when he renounc
ed the world and founded the
Society of Jesus. He won many
others to the service of God.
He died in 1556.
SATURDAY, August 1 — St.
Peter in Chains. This feast com
memorates the miraculous de-
Why Dq Senators Bum The Midnight Oil?
THE BACKDROP
The slight stroke suffered by
Senator Joseph C. O’Mahoney,
of Wyoming, at the end of a re
cent grueling, after-midnight
session of the Senate served to
call attention to a practice
which tends to jeopardize the
health of a
s u b s t a ntial
percentage of
the Senate’s
membership.
Thirty - six
S e nators,
more than
one third of
the member
ship, are 60 years of age or
over. Eleven of these are in the
65 to 70 age bracket, seven are
over 70. Senator Theodore F.
Green, of Rhode Island, is 92
and Senator Carl Hayden, of
Arizona, is 82.
Yet, time after time, these
men of advanced age are forced
to remain in the Senate until
long after midnight, occasional
ly until three or four o’clock in
the morning, because the Sen
ate leadership insists upon a
vote in a piece of pending leg
islation.
WARNING FROM PHYSICIAN
It was such a session that put
Senator O’Mahoney in the hos
pital. The Senate leadership had
decreed that there must be a
vote on the question of con
firming the appointment of Ad
miral Lewis L. Strauss to the
post of Secretary of Commerce,
even if it took all night to get
one.
Two days before, O’Mahoney,
By JOHN C. O’BRIEN
who is 74 years old, had tired
himself by making a long
speech in opposition to confir
mation of the appointment.
Three days later, after mid
night, he cast his vote. A few
hours later he was on his way
to a hospital on a stretcher, his
left side paralized.
Long sittings lasting from ten
to 14 hours are not infrequent in
the latter weeks of a session
of the Congress. In the first
few months both the Senate and
the House move at a snail’s
pace most of the time being de
voted to committee considera
tion of bills. Then in the last
weeks pressure is applied to
rush through legislation before
the adjournment date.
Many of the votes on contro
versial legislation are taken in
the wee hours of the morning
when nerves are frayed, temp
ers short and aging bodies
drained of energy.
The late President Roosevelt’s
so-called “court-packing” bill
was defeated around 4 o’clock
in the morning at the end of a
sitting that had lasted 16 hours.
Many of the older Senators be
came so weary waiting for the
roll call that they had to retire
for a nap on a cloakroom sofa.
Time after time, Dr. George
W. Calver, the physician who
looks after the health of the
Senate, himself 72 years old, has
warned that such prolonged
sessions are hazardous for Sen
ators in the upper age brackets.
Aging bodies and tired hearts,
he has pointed out, cannot take
such grueling punishment with
out the risk of a physical set
back of one sort or another.
NO GOOD ANSWER
An outsider has difficulty un
derstanding why so much of the
business of the Senate, where
the average age is high, must
be conducted at night. Seldom
does the House hold sessions
that run past 6 o’clock in the
evening.
When the Senate leadership
insisted on prolonging the sit
ting past midnight in order to
get a vote on the confirmation
if the appointment of Admiral
Strauss, many of the Senators
objected. Why, they asked,
could not the vote be put off
until the next day? To this
question the Senate leadership
was unable to offer a reasonable
answer.
Traditionally both houses
convene at noon and normally
conclude their sittings between
5 and 6 o’clock. For the noon
convening, there is a plausible
explanation. A major part of
the time of a Senator or Repre
sentative is spent at meetings
of committees and these meet
ings usually are held in the
morning hours.
But, except in a time of emer
gency, there seems to be no
good reason for putting the
health of elderly men in jeop
ardy by forcing them to stay
up long past their normal bed
time hour to conduct business
that could just as effectively be
transacted the next day.
Father Whartaa’a
^ View
from the Rectory
QUEEN PRUDENCE
Exasperated by an argument
with a woman passenger as to
whether she should pay five or
ten cents fare, the conductor
picked up her shopping bag as
the bus crossed a bridge, and
threw it in the river.
“You monster,” cried the
woman. “First you try to rob
me, and now you drown my
boy.”
Here’s a good example of a
man lacking in prudence. The
bus driver should have looked
in the bag before he threw it
into the river. There might have
been something valuable in it.
Prudence is one of the four
cardinal virtues—the others be
ing justice, temperance and for
titude. We call them cardinal
not because they’re red-hot, but
because they are the hinges
upon which the other natural
virtues hang (cardinal comes
from the Latin word for hinge).
What’s more, prudence is
quite important. We can say it’s
the queen of the moral virtues
because it’s the director or ad
ministrator of the others. So,
if you get a chance to choose one
virtue for Christmas, take Queen
Prudence. (We’re not talking
about the theological virtues—
faith, hope and charity—which
are more important.)
St. Thomas (Aquinas, not the
doubting one) says that pru
dence is “right reason applied
to human conduct.’ ’In plain old
language, it tells you what’s the
best thing to do to get to heaven.
We can be bubbling over with
justice, temperance and forti
tude—but unless they are direc
ted by a holy common-sense,
Reds Campaign
Against 'Religious
Superstition'
BERLIN, (NC) — Reports
reaching here from Moscow’s
recent Union Conference on
Questions of Scientific Atheism
state that a campaign against
“religious superstition” was de
manded.
Speakers were reported to
have said that the majority of
people in the Soviet Union had
freed themselves from what was
described as “religious preju
dices.” However, the speakers
admitted that a number of be
lievers in God still exist in the
country.
It was stated that during 1958
there were 335,000 lecturers in
the Soviet Union on “atheist
and scientific” subjects, in con
trast to the previous year, when
there were 206,000 such lec
tures.
However, it was reported that
during the first quarter of 1959
Soviet citizens listened to 90,000
lectures dealing with atheism
and science.
livery of St. Peter from a pris
on in which he had been placed
by the order of Herod.
they get out of control.
Take zeal, for instance. A per
son might be so zealous he’s
known as Herman the Zealot.
Great. But suppose he gets so
fired up with the desire to save
souls that he buttonholes every
passerby and shouts, “Are you
saved?” Instead of saving souls,
he‘d be nursing bruises.
And poor old Teresa Tem
perate “Everything in modera
tion—except that confounded
liquor.” is her motto. She boasts
that no firewater touches her
ruby lips. Splendid. We can use
more teetotalers in our high
(and low) society. But if Terry
goes to parties and pours all the
firewater down the drain—her
imprudence will not help the
cause of total abstinence.
Piety towards our Creator is
something everyone should cul
tivate. Yet even this must be
guided by prudence. Mama is a
devout daily mass-goer. Fine.
But what price piety if her
spouse is missing breakfast while
his better half is praying? And
if the kids are home playing
“Lynch the Horse-thief” (Fido
being the horse-thief in this
game)? Prudence says first
things first.
St. Thomas (known as the
Doctoral Angel or Angelic Doc
tor or something like that) again
helps with an explanation of
the elements of prudence. If we
have the eight things he men
tions, we’ve got it. We’re pretty
prudent.
Memory of the past is one tool
which should be used in build
ing prudence. If you fell off the
top of the Washington Monu
ment last year, it’s silly to stand
on your head up there again.
Remember the Monument. In
the spiritual realm, the remem
brance of past sins and the
things that led us to commit
them is a big step in avoiding
the sins.
We should have an under
standing of the present to be
prudent. Docility, too, is essen
tial. That means willingness to
learn from others. A person is
imprudent, as well as dangerous,
if he thinks there are only two
classes of people: those who
agree with him—and a lot of
ignorant, projudiced fools.
An ability to reason well helps
us to be prudent. Reasoning is,
after all, almost a lost art. We
do things and buy things be
cause of our feelings, not be
cause of hard, cold reason. It a
brick conks you on the head,
you should be able to judge that
it fell or someone threw it. Pru
dence tells you to avoid that
locale in the future—or carry a
brick to heave back.
Sagacity, says the great philo
sopher, is one fine part of pru
dence. He means a keen practic
al sense. Some people, like the
movie stars, never carry more
than $3,000 in cash on their per
son; they use credit cards. That’s
practical prudence.
The other elements of the
queenly virtue are foresight of
future contingencies (like real
izing you will die some day and
therefore taking out life insur
ance, and balancing the spirit
ual ledgers as well); circumspec
tion (literally, looking around—
shopping around before you
buy); and caution as not using a
match to see if your gas tank
is full, and well as being care
ful of the world, the flesh and
the devil).
All these things are what
you’ll have if you’re prudent.
It’s not easy, of course, to attain
the perfection of this virtue. But
you must admit that one who
has all these elements in some
measure would be voted the
most likely to secede from sin.
The old ditty claims “you
can’t get to heaven on roller
skates, ‘cause you’ll roll right
past them pearly gates.” Pru
dence keeps us from wearing
roller skates in our old age. And
from doing lots of other things
that could make us roll right
pass “them pearly gates.”
t Sttlklitt
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Vol. 40 Saturday, July 25, 1959 No. 4
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1958-1959
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