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- Overlook On |Life -
By WARREN 8. REEVE
The idea of “Overlook” is taken from the Overlooks proviura tor
viewing panoramas along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Last week I wrote a descrip
tive account of Friends' (Quak
er) Meeting that I attended the
Sunday when I was in Orlando.
Florida. That, and other experi
enced, induce certain reflections
in my mind that I would like to
give expression to in today's
columns.
I am aware of what a variety
there is within the circle of
Christian and religious practices.
On the one extreme, I think .of
the elaborate and ornate ritual
of the Roman Catholic Church.
An opposite extreme is the loose
and informal way things are
done, for example," in a country
chapel where, oftentimes, there
is little previous planning as to
how a meeting should be con
ducted, or where anybody might
interrupt at any time and re
commend his idea as a substitute
for , what the leader is trying to
do. In such gatherings there is
often quite a bit of confusion,
and nobody thinks much of it.
The FriendS’ Sendee I described
last week is still another ex
treme, in which quietness, silen
ce, are the most noteworthy
feature.
Then, when it comes to prea
ching, what a variety there is!
There are preachers who try to
be oratorical; there are some
who strive chiefly to stir peo
ple’s emotions and who feel
that the measure of the success
of their sermon is in the degree
of weeping that they can effect
among the people to whom they
are preaching. At , the' other ex
treme are preachers who ap
peal mostly to the minds of their
fearers, ignoring the emotions.
They hope that -their congrega
tion will do some thinking, and
their sermons are designed to
stimulate thought. Most preach
ers, I suppose, endeavor to make
a good mixture of food for
thought with fermenting extract
for the emotions and something
over and above both these that
might move the will to action.
Again, among the' various chur
ches and denominations there is
a significant diversity of doctrine
and belief. What are we to say
to all this mystifying variety
among the religious groups that
all profess they are sprung from
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the same Jesus Christ? ,
My first observation is that be
cause of the complexity of the
human mind and spirit it is
inevitable that there would be
many different kinds of reactipn
to the same original, message.
(Any great philosophical or ar
tistic representation of truth
lends itself to several diverging
interpretations) ft Human - beings
will not all think alike, neither
can human tastes be compressed
into one mould. We are bound to
think individualistically, and
this brings multiplicity instead
of uniformity. r
It is not such a serious matter
that denominations fail to agree
on one single creed in all de
tails as it is in those cases where
groups fight, one against th]p oth
er, and where they desparage one
another or engage in uncharit
able rivalry and competition.
Disagreements are inevitable,
but where there is humility and
charity, the evil of them is over
come and the disadvantage of
them is transcended. Strong con
victions „ar,e imperative but they
need not be synonymous with
bigotry.
In our attitude toward other
individuals we know that having
a dominantly positive, rather
than a dominantly negative at
titude is wholesome. Similarly,
we do well when we try to see
the good points in other denomi
nations rather than to dwell too
exclusively on what we think is
wrong or mistaken in them.
In this vein I would like to de
clare the sense of indebtedness
I personally feel to various de
nominations. Although I am a
Presbyterian, I feel that enrich
ment has come to me through
more —channels than- just the
Presbyterian tradition alone.
To begin with, all of us Christ
ians should hold on to the glory
the New Testament writers for
ever felt towards the Hebrew
oracles and revelation and to
wards the history and calling of
the Jewish people. I could, if
there were time and space, ela
borate on what I think and feel
on this subject. But let me go on
to speak of the Roman Catholic
Church. I am mindful that for
fifteen hundred years after the
SimmJ
time of Christ there w*» (speak
ing perhaps in a loose sense) no
pfotestant church, and that you
were a' Catholic or you were no
Christian at all. ThtTS, ire pre
teetants would well admit that
in a sense we ate all children of
the Catholic tradition, Many of
us have scarcely any idea <gf how
much of what we now thought
lessly accept as protestant fame
to its the Roman Catholic way.
Out of the more than a 'thousand
years of history before Protest
antism got on to the scene-there
can be culled a wealth of Christ
ifn thought and practice that we
still would do well to study and
make Our own. For undoubtedly
a great fraction of Catholic faith
and life is genuine and valid for
any of us any timk ■
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Perhaps the Episcopalians and
Lutherans have held on to a lar
ger amount of the good that is
in the Catholic tradition than
the rest of us. I have been pro
foundly movfed at times by the
messages I have heard and by
the atmosphere in which they
were given in churches of 'these
two persuasions. Both of these
communions have ~~a heightened
sense of worship that should, be
a rebuke to the shoddiness C-with
which .protestant services are
Sometimes conducted.
If, on the one - hand, their
greater formality in worship has
a power within it to carry the
soul to the gates of heaven, so,
on the other hand, those who are
more mystically inclined .also
show us away that is most re
vealing. The Friends are one such
group. The Pietistie and Anabap
tist groups are another. All my
life long I shall be thankful for
having been taught that God, i.
to be found in the way of silence,
and that in silence the fabric of
the soui is to be built.
The Methodist Movement has
brought blessings to me in one
way and another from time to
time. The warm evangelic tone,
the down-to-earth practicality,
the brotherliness of Methodist
l .
fellowship have been mediated to
me through various individuals
and groups and literature. The
idea of opening hearts mutually
in trustful frankness to one ano
ther and of praying for one ano
ther ; the genuius of the old
class meetings this is some
thing perennially essential, I
feel, for the maintenance of vital,
personal faith. ' * ,
I once heard an eminent Ro
man Catholic professor declare
that any heresy that lasted for
any length of time couldn’t be
all wrong. It must have some
kernel of truth concealed in it,
or iJL_4¥»u!d have perished after
short duration. I tv lieve he was
right in saying that.
While I consider that there it
a philosphy underlying Christian
Science which I cannot sub
scribe to, yet the' Christian
Scientists have possessed them
selves of a kernel of truth, I
would say, and in that respect,
we may learn from them. Grate
fully, I testify that I have
learned from them.
Thus, the fult-ronnded glory of
Christ is greater than that pos-
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2nd iff. ELIZABETH JW4N
YELTON AT WALTER REED
ieoond Lieutenant Elteabetb
Jean Yelton, a member of the
1957-58 dietetic lnteijn class at
Walter Reed Army ~ Hospital,
D. C., b the daughter of Mr and
Mrs Rex Yelton, Rt. 3, Burns
ville, N. C.
"A 1958 graduate of Bald Cretek
High School, Lt. Yelton received
her bachelor of science degree in
home economics from the Wom
ans College of the University of
North Carolina in ,1957, During
the summer of ,1956 she was a
student dietitian at tlte State
Hospital, Morganton, N. C. , „
- After entering the Army Medi
cal Specialist Corps in August
3957, she attended a one-month
orientation course at Ft. Sam
Houston, Tex., and was then as
rigned as a dietetic intern at
Walter Reed.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our heart
felt thanks tp our many friends
for the many acts of kindness,
expressions of sympathy and for
the beautiful flowers during the
illness and death of our loved one
Mr. and* Mrs. Buster Fender
"tnd„Family
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sessed by any single one of, our
ecclesiastical bodies, and in the
day when the consummation of
God’s Kingdom comes, each de
nomination will have poured in
its own unique contribution.
In the meantime, we have to
go along in our denominational
grooves, for neither tastes nor
convictions can be pressed into
one monolithic form, but if, ad
hering to our divergences, we'
may do so in -magnanimity- -of
spirit and-with'. Christian hunrll
ity, tiro diversity may yet speak
with some eloquence of unity,
and beneath the many-faced figy*
ure of total Christendom discerTA
ing eyes may yet descry a sur
passing singularity which
would be, shall we say, the fea
tures of “One like the Son of
Man".
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