The Overflow
A Woman's Hair
The problem of how long a woman ought to wear her hair, which has disturbed some of the brethren since the advent of "bobbed" hair, had its counterpart in a problem that distressed the brethren some seventeen hundred years ago. Tertullian wrote, "And besides, ye have set up I know not what monstrosities of artfully woven hair, now after the fashion of a helmet (even as a sheath for your heads and covering or lid for your crowns), and now extending downward toward your necks. If you will not fling away your false locks, as hateful to heaven, cannot I make it hateful to yourselves by reminding you that the false hair you wear may have come not only from a criminal, but from a very dirty head?"
A Day Is A Day
Sometimes preachers have the idea that Sunday is about the only day that is important, and that the rest of the week is of little importance, provided they are well prepared for the Sunday sermons. Some churches, on the other hand, seem to have the idea a preacher ought to punch a time clock, and should account for every hour in the week. Well, it seems a preacher down in the Dallas area was out of town between Sundays for a day or two one week not long ago. While he was out some of the officers of that church, with more zeal than judgment, decided to put into effect the "daily pay" idea. On Saturday, when the preacher returned, he was handed his check for the week, with the treasurer's explanation that the elders had decided to deduct for the day or two he had been gone. Said the preacher, "Well, suppose you just deduct one more day, and I'll not be there tomorrow either. If a day is a day, I might as well be gone on Sunday as on Thursday, so I'll just not be here tomorrow, but will be back Monday, and my week can start then!"
Luther's Last Days
When Martin Luther was an old man, he wrote a friend, "Aged, weary, and almost blind, yet I have as much to do as if I had never preached nor acted. I am weary of the world now, and the world is weary of me. The parting will be easy—like that of a guest leaving the inn. I pray God will be gracious to me in my last hours. I shall quit the world without reluctance."
The Bartlesville School
Plans are well under way for the opening of the new Central Christian College at s Bartlesville, Oklahoma, next September. L. R. Wilson, president of the school, has moved to Bartlesville, and is engaged now in preparing for the first school year. A gathering of friends of the school at Bartlesville last Labor Day brought together several hundred visitors from neighboring states who were enthusiastic in their anticipations for a fine school. Contributions from individual donors are welcome; but, by the by-laws of the articles of incorporation, contributions from churches will not be accepted.
Maybe
"Somebody said that perhaps the reason why James made reference `unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror' might be because the occasions when a woman can behold her natural face in a mirror are rare indeed."
—Homer Hailey
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Psychology
It seems there is a fascination about the study of psychology that often drives both professors and students hog-wild over the subject. They talk the jargon of Freud, Adler, Jung, James, and Watson with a glib assurance that suggests that at long last the poor, inhibited human race has found the answer to all its problems: psychology. Our durable friend, Arizona, but now of Shelbyville, Tennessee, sends us "an all inclusive dissertation on the fact that the most scientific methods of psycho-analysis may be wrong." Here it is:
The psycho: sadly said of Fido,
"Twisted id and warped libido."
(Really it Was a running fit That made Fido cut that dido.)
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From a Catholic reader Sir: "I was surprised and amazed at your articles against the Catholic faith. The quotations taken from the Catholic catechism were all truly given verbatim, all right; but in an honest sense were your interpretations those of a moment or from years of study and research? The Pope can and does make mistakes as well as any other human, except in matters of faith and morals. In those matters he is indeed infallible as he is the direct representative of Christ and is guided by him as was decreed centuries ago... As for the article by Mr. McNutt in the same issue (August 11) it is too stupid to comment on. He talks like a man who is saying the same things that he heard somewhere, but has not bothered to see for himself."
—J. L. Maas, Las Vegas, Nevada
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Truman and the Catholics President Truman, as everybody knows, has been maintaining Myron S. Taylor at the Vatican as his "personal envoy" to the pope. This is a clear violation of our national law, in spirit if not in letter. The most recent indication we have seen of the President's attempts to appease the Catholics comes in a clipping sent us by Bro. L. M. Seid of Stayton, Ore. It seems Truman joined with Pope Pius XII in a message of greeting and good will to 4,000 delegates to the national convention of the Knights of Columbus held not long ago in Portland, Oregon. Truman said, "My heartiest greetings to all and best wishes for a successful convention in keeping with the long tradition of the Knights of Columbus of service to God and country." The Knights of Columbus and the Jesuits are the Catholic orders spear-heading the Catholic onslaught against our traditional idea of separation of church and state; they are the ones pressing the attack against our free public schools.
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Cheering Thought?
"From the day you are born Til you ride in a hearse, Things are never so bad That they couldn't be worse." —Selected
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Advice to young preachers
The late John T. Hinds once told the young preacher, "Do not aspire to be a big preacher. We already have enough big preachers in the brotherhood. Try to be a humble, common man; make your preaching such as will reach the common people. They are the ones who listened to the Lord."