THURSDAY. AUGUST 9. 1956
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THE MENNINGER STORY by
Walker Winslow, Doubleday and
Company. 1956
This admirable biography
brings mature insight to bear
upon a great American legend.
The backdrop is the history of
the world famous Menninger
Clinic. This is, in itself, a story
more exciting and inspiring than
any adventure Horatio Alger
ever dreamed of. It starts with a
provincial youth, unpretentious,
zealous, devoted to the Christian
concept of human dignity, and
sustained by a pioneer’s endur
ance for work. It is to be under
scored that the doctor he be
came believed that knowjledge
should be shared and patients
must be treated as whole persons
rather than diseased organs. It is
even more noteworthy that the
clinic he founded was not intend
ed as a psychiatric institution.
The founder was a general prac
titioner — still delivering babies
until late in his career. He in
tended to organize a clinic after
the fashion of the brothers Mayo,
in association with his sons and
other Topeka physicians. A com
bination of accidents and family
interest caused this general medi
cal clinic to evolve into the great
est psychiatric teaching center in
the world. This is the story
against which the lives of the
Menningers are delineated.
These remarkable Menningers,
Dr. C. F., father; Flo, the mother;
Karl and Will, sons and psychia
trists; and Edwin, the son who
chose jouniglism, are portrayed
as reality figures enmeshed by
the same environrclental forces
that Karl and Will so heroically
sought to understand and define.
The portrait of the elder Men
ninger, ‘‘C. F.”, is depicted with
emphatic clarity. Ris humble be
ginnings as a student in a second
rate medical college—the best to
which^ his wife could afford to
send him; as an assistant to a
fashionable Topeka homeopath at
$40 per month; as a struggling in
dependent physician trying to
separate cultism from valid
knowledge; as a lonely and an
gry man resenting the bigotry
and charlatanism of his col
leagues;; as the dreamer inspired
by the sharing of knowledge at
the infant Mayo clinic; as the
lonely, thwarted husband ever
waiting for his wife to become
capable of affectionate intimacy;
as the patient father praying but
not pressing his sons into medi
cine—to the director of the great
est psychiatric foundation in the
world: this, as only a success
story, makes a thrilling yarn. But
author Winslow vivifies this life
portrait with mature insights.
Through his interpretive skill, it
becomes an intimate drama of a
life both magnetically active and
profoundly contemplative. With
no arrest in the story’s move
ment, the author evolves a full
length portrait of this human
giant—a character who demanded
of others only by setting them
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the finest examples; a spirit for
whom ideals were standards of
every day living; a mind that was
at rest only when it was going
forward; a husband whose de
votion and understanding absorb
ed a wife’s alienating neurosis; a
father whose patience and ac
ceptance gave a full world to
each of three sons.
That C. F. was an intuitive psy
chiatrist was well demonstrated
in 1890 when he read his Insanity
of Hamlet to his Saturday Nite
Club. At this early date he im
plicitly turned his back on the
dictum that insanity was inherit
ed—a physical condition of mind
—and developed a more dynamic
concept which undoubtedly had
much to do with the tolerance he
exhibited for his wife’s neurosis
and for his later belief that psy
chiatry was the most all-embrac
ing of the specialties. Even in his
sixties C. F. sought to extend his
comprehension of this special
ty by seeking to be analyzed. Dr.
C. F. requested Dr. Smith Ely
Jeliffe, then one of the foremost
psychoanalysts in America, to
take him on as a patient for a
training analysis. Dr. Jeliffe’s re
ply is a profound if humorous
tribute: “I could not undertake to
analyze you and I doubt if you
can find a good analyst in Amer
ica who will. You are that rare
thing, a truly mature man. I don’t
mean that in. age only. I would
feeil like a fool with you on my
couch. There would be no gain
for you and it might be a shatter
ing experience for me.”
A lesser but not less dramatic
portrait is given of the turbulent
Karl—the first son. Flo Mennin
ger gave up security as she un
derstood it to have her first child
and out of the neurotic demands
she made upon him is seen to
develop the basis for psychiatrist
Karl’s great work. Love Against
Hate. The consequences of hi
mother’s illness as reaped by th
innocent boy eager to please are
felt into Karl’s adult years, cul
minating in a divorce and a sec
ond period of psychoanalysis. It is
a near tragedy, and but for the
refuge which father represented
—a single security in a chronic
storm—Karl might have gone
down.
The portrait of Flo—the poor,
insecure, but excessively self
demanding girl who lifted her
own siblings out of poverty and
hardship.—is a penetrating study
of a'severely neurotic personality.
Her compulsive activity, which
found fruition in the buirding of
a Bible study group enrolling
hundreds of students at a time,
is an intriguing if sometimes
frightening picture of a neurotic
defense expending itself in so
cially recognized endeavor. How
the love, faith and patience of
her husband forestalled the trag
edy which her intense insecurity
and inability to relate intimately
to others might have caused be
comes a study of how durable a
marriage can be when leavened
by maturity in even one of the
partners.
This is an unusually fine biog
raphy exhibiting as it does mo
tives as well as acts. It is absorb
ing both for its story and char
acter studies. It is recommended
by this reviewer enthusiastically.
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BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
"Background Scripture: John 13:3>15,
34-35; I John 1-2:17; 2 John; 3 John.
2 21*^^*****^ Reading: Philippians
Fellowship
Lesson for August 12, 1956
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' I 'HE word “fellowship” is bat-
ted around a good deal without
people’s always knowing just all
that the word can mean. When
some men use the word they may
mean no more by it than lunching
in the same place with other men
of about the same age and salary
bracket, once a
week, calling one
another by their
first names and
in general acting
as jolly as possi
ble. This is some
distance off the
meaning of the
same word “fel
lowship” as we
find it in the New Foreman
Testament. There it is a very im
portant word. Indeed it sums up
all that the Christian church is and
ought to be at its best. ^
With God
Fellowship,—the .word, that is—
even among Christians can be mis
understood. It is not just the same
thing as “sharing.” Some forms of
sharing, or what goes *by that
name, are not fellowship at all.
The writer was in a meeting once
where a good deal was said about
sharing with the needy of the city
and in other lands. Toward the
close of the meeting it came out
what was being planned: an old-
clothes drive. Everybody present
was exhorted to go through his or
her attic and closets and find cloth
ing, hats and what-not that
wouldn’t be used again, and to
have these ready on the porch
when the boys came by for it. Of
course that was not real sharing
at all, it was only a scheme to get
rid of some fire hazards, to tidy
up for full housecleaning. Real
sharing always involves giving up
something which one would other
wise have been glad to use. But
even real sharing may not be fel
lowship as the New Testament has
it,—not as our Lord and the be
loved John meant it and practiced
it. A traveler can share a seat
on a bus when he would much
rather sit alone. Fellowship is
sharing-with-love, it is a sharing
love.
Wifh Man
It is a striking fact that although
John is writing to and about the
Christian church, he writes two of
his three letters without ever using
the \yord. Perhaps it was too cold
and formal a word for him, al
though PauLloved the word
“church” and so may we. But John
did not want to be misunderstood.
So he uses simple words like
“God’s children,” “brothers.” The
church is the place for fellowship
among God’s children. In a real
church, there is bound to be a
closer, dearer tie between Chris
tian and Christian than there
can be between persons outside
the church, or between Christians
and outsiders. What brings Chris
tians together in the first place is
not simply themselves as human
beings. It is their fellowship with
God. It is because they are so close
to him that they become close to
one another. Now fellowship with
other Christians in the church '
again more than sharing. Even on
the sharing-level, how much of it
is done in the typical church? What
do “members” of the same church
share? Pews, hymnbooks, the same
sermons, preacher, potato salad at
church suppers? All this may be
the dHorway to Christian fellow
ship, but stiU not quite it. Two peo
ple can sit at opposite ends of the
same pew, and eat out of the same
salad bOwl, for years on end, with
out ever finding out what real fel
lowship means. It is only when
they really share the love of God,
when together they let his love
fiow through them in joyous serv
ice in his name, that they discover
Fellowship.
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Security is everyone’s byword in
this era of tension, anxiety, and brist
ling competition. It’s the goal of gov
ernment, industry, business, family,
and nations.
Security generally means being sure
of something, or even someone. But,
no one gets security without giving. It
is not self-accomplished. Oth'er people
and factors contribute in providing
our security.
Above all, God alone is the source of
security and serenity. Society cancels
out our security with finality when we
run/ afoul of its standards, whereas
God endows us with the privilege of
obtaining forgiveness and mending
our ways.
How secure are we against the dis
asters and perils of life and against
oiir own imperfections? To find the
answer, turn to God’s Church where
we will find the fountain of security.
TRE CHURCH FOR AU, . . .
AU FOR THE CHURCH
The Church is the greatest fac-
tOT on earth lor the building of
character and good citizenship It
IS a storehouse of spiritual values
Without a strong Church, neither
democracy nor civilization can
survive. There are four sound
reasons why every person should
attend services regularly and sup
port tns Church. They are: (1)
For his owji sake. (2) For his
children s sake. (3) For the sake
ol his community and nation. (4)
For the sake of the Church itself,
which needs his moral and ma
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Book Chapter Verses
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Psalms 116 1.19
■Isaiah 26 1-8
Mark 4 1.29
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BROWNSON MEMORIAL
CHURCH (Presbyterian)
Cheves K, Ligon, Minister
Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Wor
ship service, 11 a.m. Women of
the Church meeting, 8 p.m. Mon
day following third Sunday.
The Youth Fellowships meet at
7 o’clock each Sunday evening.
Mid-week service, Wednesday,
7:15 p.m.
Learning How
Christian churches would wither
without Christian homes. Little
children learn lessons in living first
at home before they learn in Sun
day school or church. Father,
mother and children can learn to
gether what Christian fellowship
is, and if they do, they will know
what the preacher is talking about.
If they do not learn at home, the
minister, and the Bible, will seem
to be talking in a strange lan
guage. Actually, there is not a
great deal of time to practice fel
lowship in the church. Maybe one
spends five hours a week there; it’s
more than most do. But there are
168 hours in a week; what about
the other 163? If the church is the
lecture-room for fellowship, the
home is the laboratory. The Bible
tells us that it will work. Home is
where we can find out how right it
is.
(Based on outlines copyrighted by the
Division of Christian Education, Na
tional Council of the Churches of Christ
hi the U. 8. A. Released by Community
Press Service.)
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
New Hampshire Ave.
Sunday Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday School, 11 a.m.
Wednesday Service, 8 p.m.
Reading Room in Church Build
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THE CHURCH OF WIDE
FELLOWSHIP (Congregational)
I Cor. Bennett and New Hampshire
Wofford C. Timmons, Minister
Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday, 6:30 p.m.. Pilgrim Fel-
I lowship (Young people).
Sunday, 8:00 p.m.. The Forum.
EMMANUEL CHURCH
(Episcopal)
Martin Caldwell, Rector
Holy Communion, 8 a. m. (First
Sundays, 8 a. m. and 10 a. m.)
Sunday School, 9 a. m.
Morning Prayer and Sermon, 10
Holy Communion—each Wed
nesday and Holy Days, 10 a. m.
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Grover C. Currie, Minister
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Worship Service, 2nd and 3rd
Sunday evenings, 7:30. Fourth
Sunday morning, 11 a.m.
Women of the Church meeting,
8 p.m., second Tuesday.
Mid-week service Thursday at
8 p.m.
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New York Ave. at South Ashe
David Hoke Coon. Minister
Bible School, 9:45 a.m. Worship
1 a.m. Training Union, 7 p.m.
Ivening Worship, 8 p.m.
Scout Troop 224, Monday, 7:30
p.m.; mid-week worship, Wednes
day 7:30 p.m.; choir practice
Wednesday 8:15 p.m.
Missionary meeting, first and
third Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Church
and family suppers, second Thurs
days, 7 p.m.
ST. ANTHONY'S (Catholic)
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Father Peter M. Denges
Sunday masses 8 and 10:30 n m.;
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Church School, 9:49 aun.
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