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Friday, February 27, UN
Ahavath Achim
Sisterhood Meeting
The next A.A. Sisterhood
meeting will take place on Mon
day, March 2, at 1:30 p m. in
Srochi Hall. Mrs. David J. Fried-
land, program chairman of the
day, and her co-chairman, Mrs.
Bernard Ely have planned a
program based on a Shabbos
theme.
An original dramatizat i o n,
“Remember The Sabbath Day,’’
written and narrated by Mrs.
Friedland, will be presented.
The cast includes: Mrs. Ted
Levy and daughter, Marcia, Mrs.
Manuel Levine, Mr. Joseph Mar-
golis, and Melvin Glaser.
A Purim table will be dis
played, filled with things to
make and do with your children
in your own home to make
' Purim a happy and festive oc
casion. Tea and Hamantashen
will be served.
PLAIN TALK—by Alfred Segal
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Dear Mr. Segal: I am Christian
and in the broader way of being
Christian I read your Jewish
column each week. It is all to
the good of my religious educa
tion to know what other people,
not of my own religion, think
about it all. I feel my religious
education is greatly improved by
my knowing something of the
religious.ideals of others; though
I stay faithful in my veneration
of the teachings of tfje great Jew
who was Jesus. Like a great
many other Christians in these
times, I find it difficult to ac
cept the idea of deity in Jesus,
I know him as a great good man.
Nevertheless, I call myself
Christian because I try to live
up to the teachings of Jesus and
have tried to educate my chil
dren to go that way also. I think
of him as one of the noblest of
Jews.
So much for identifying my
self. In several of your recent
columns I have read of doubts
you entertain about the effective
ness of clergymen’s sermons . . .
including rabbi’s sermons. You
have said that though, after the
service, the congregation shakes
the hand of the sermonizer and
thank him, an hour or so later
few of the members could tell
just what he said.
So you wonder just how ef
fective sermons are, and that,
anyway clergymen should make
them much shorter; of course,
you give that idea particularly to
rabbis. But I, too, have had to
take long, long ones in church.
However, there was one long
sermon that I thoroughly en
joyed. I’Ve related this story to
some of my lady-friends among
Academy PTA Slates
Talk by Dr. Climo
Dr. Henry Climo, psychiatrist,
will dicuss “What Makes Your
Child Tick” for the Hebrew
Academy PTA at 8:15 p.m.,
Tuesday, March 3, at 1140 Uni
versity Drive, N.E.
Mrs. David Eisenberg, presi
dent, announced that Dr. Climo,
who has been residing in At
lanta since 1956, took psycho
analytic training at the Wash-
ington-Baltimore Psychoanalytic
Institute and neuropsychiatric
training at Duke University
Hospital. He had previously held
instructorships in psychiatry at
the University of Alabama and
at T u 1 a n e University. The
Climos moved to Atlanta from
Birmingham where he had been
in private practice since 1939.
Dr. Climo is a colonel in the
U. S. Army Reserves and is
deputy commander of the 30th
Hospital Center.
Merlins Family
Circle Anniversary
Banquet
The Merlin Family Circle held
its tenth anniversary banquet at
the Progressive Club on Sunday,
Feb. 15.
Morris and Gertie Merlin were
given a “Members of the Decade”
award for their outstanding
loyalty to the circle. L. A. Mer
lin, honorary president, was
given a scroll of recognition.
The evening was highlighted
with a most enjoyable program
which portrayed a flashback of
the outstanding programs of the
past ten years.
The table decorations depicted
individual family trees.
Out - of - town guests include
Mrs. Ed Merlin of Miami Beach
and Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Mer
lin of Memphis, Tenn.
The anniversary committee in
charge of arrangements were
Mrs. Jake Barkin, Eddie Maziar.
Louis Maziar, Israel Merlin and
Jerome Merlin.
the Jewish people and they told
me they’ve enjoyed the rabbi’s
sermon in exactly the same way
as I delighted in our own minis
ter’s sermon that Sunday.
You see, it was a very long
sermon, I followed it on the
watch on my wrist .... ten
minutes, 15, 20 minutes. Then I
couldn’t take it any longer, I
began to doze on it and in a
few seconds escaped that sermon
altogether. What a gorgeous
dream I had away from that
tiresome sermon: I dreamt I had
won in a bridge game. Before
that I had always lost at bridge.
Oh, I was so happy sitting there
dreaming of bridge victory in
the pew while our minister was
preaching!
I dreamt also, most joyously,
that my husband had been ele
vated to vice president from sec
retary of the company in which
he is employed. He had just en
tered our door shouting the great
news when I awoke.
Our minister still was preach
ing. I looked at my watch. It
told me that he had already
spoken 35 minutes and still was
going strong. At 41 minutes he
was finally through.
Then, after the service, when
everyone was coming up to the
minister to tell him what a
great sermon he had given, I said
to him: “Yes, I certainly enjoyed
that sermon because I slept
through half of it. I had two
lovely dreams.”
He laughed with me . . . “I’m
so happy to hear it,” he said.
You see, he’s a clergyman with
a sharp sense of humor, and he
added, “Maybe I shouldn’t make
my sermons any shorter since
the long ones put you and other
people so happily to sleep.”
I’ve been telling the story to
some of my Jewish friends and
only the other day one of them
said: “Our rabbi also has put
me to sleep by long sermons.
You say you won at bridge while
vour minister was preaching too
long. Well, after our rabbi had
F reached 25 minutes, I fell asleep.
dreamt I made a wild canasta.
It was such a pleasure.
Yes, Mr. Segal, a lot of people
fall asleep over sermons ... in
churches and in synagogues . . '.
because sermons are far too long.
My husband and I agree that in
15 minutes a clergyman, of what
ever faith, can tell all he has to
say.
Don’t preachers realize that a
sermon that’s too long soon is
forgotten by the tired minds that
have to listen to them, to say
nothing of the minds that fall
asleep on the long sermonf
I’m writing this to you, Mr.
Segal, toward the purpose of
having the length of all sermons
reduced to 15 minutes — a period
of time in which a lot of words
and ideas can be crowded. The
Ten Commandments can be read
off in far less time than that.
Sincerely, Mrs. Happy Dreams.
Yes, thanks to you Mrs.
Dreamer, I mayself remember a
sermon that was only 18 minutes
long. The one who gave it was
no minister of religion .... a
newspaper writer, rather. The
ordained minister of a Presby
terian church had gone hunting
for pheasants that week and
this newsman was invited to
preach in his place that Sunday.
This fill-in preacher started
writing his sermon with high
resolve; He said, “I’ll make it no
longer than 18 minutes; then no
body will fall asleep on it.”
After service, he was congrat
ulated by all; as humble man he
could understand that it wasn’t
the sermon’s quality but rather
its brevity that was so appre
ciated . . . only 18 minutes or it!
I myself . . . this Segal, that
is . . . was that 18-minutes-long-
preacher. I thank the Lady
Dreamer for helping me on this
column; I hand it on to all who
should be concerned.
JEWISH CALENDAR
♦PURIM
Tuesday, March 24
♦PASSOVER
Thursday, April 23
♦SHAVOUS
Friday, June 12
♦ROSII HASHONAH
Saturday, Oct. 3
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