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DOINGS in DENTON
April, 1961
DOINGS IN DENTON
The Magazine of Goodwill
Non-Political Non-Denominational
E. J. HEADL.EE, Editor and Publisher
P. O. Box 638
Denton, Texas
Printed by Terrill Wheeler Printing Company
This publication began as a family newsletter twenty-five years ago
and has been published continuously since that time.
TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY YEAR
APRIL, 1961
"UNTOUCHABLES" NO MORE
The Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. has dropped their
sponsorship of the “Untouchables” to which so many
protests were received, especially by people of Italian
descent. We joined in the protest last month.
COSTING MORE
The Doings is costing more, and it’s costing more to
mail it. Two years ago the rate was 11/2 cents, now it
is 2 1/2 cents per copy for postage' alone. If you have
been saving some money to help keep the little paper
coming out, don’t keep it any longer. Send it to us.
NOTHING TO FEAR
FRANCIS B. SAYRE, Trustee. Woodrow Wilson
Foundation, and son-in-law of President Woodrow Wil-
son, has written a religious “Manifesto” for Reader’s
Digest, which we have read several times. It will do
something to you, and what it does to you will be good
for you. It is the most satisfying thing you have read in
many moons. We quote:
Our Western civilization, which a generation ago we
thought secure, is today being subjected to terrific at-
tack. Forces seemingly beyond our control are determin-
ing, as if on the battlements of eternity, whether man-
kind will advance to new unguessed levels or whether
Western institutions will crack up and pass into memory.
Can we of America, who have reached heights never
before scaled in human progress, be content with utter
frustration ? Are we to have no voice in this determina-
tion?
No unvrejudiced thinker can believe that our ordered
world is the product of pure chance. Order does not
emerge out of chaos nor higher forms emerge from lower
by pure chance. Except upon the basis of a controlling,
creative Mind—God-—the ordered law and ascending life
of the universe are utterly inexplicable. Unless God ex-
ists, nothing around us makes sense. But what kind of
God?
Two thousand years ago there lived a Man. In a
small, unimportant country. He lived His simple life,
never in -contact with the world leaders of His day, almost
unnoticed bv the historians of His time.
What can He have to do with us in our driving, 20th-
century, mechanized world—in our high-pressured of-
fices, at our noisy, ostentatious cocktail parties, in the
stress and worry of trying against rising costs to makn
a living or support a family?
That Man — Christ — manifested with convincing
force, as nobody else in history has ever been able to do,
what God—the great God who made the world—is like.
He revealed God, the all-powerful, as a being of supreme
love—all gentleness, as understanding as a human father.
Prophetic souls before Him had coupled God with su-
preme power, but never with supreme tenderness and
love, as Christ did. Profound insight—or audacious fo]^^
This revolutionary conception has upset kingdo^p
and changed the course of empires. It has generated
more irresistible power than any other force in history.
Great armies, incomparable arrays of material strength,
have not been able to withstand it. Today, 20 centuries
after His death, His unforgettable words still ring across
the world with resurgent, revitalizing power.
If we are honest enough to look facts squarely in the
face we cannot ignore such irresistible power. Neither
can we ignore the fact that this Man, while He was on
earth, took twisted, tortured lives and gave them peace
and joy such as they had never known before. Nor that
ever since that day His revolutionary ideas have again
and again shown the power to bring that same inner
peace and fathomless joy to other lives. The fact is
undeniable.
What are these world-shaking ideas?
Underlying everything was Christ’s unswerving
sureness that this world is God’s world. We say i4H
glibly-that its terrific significance Tails.to register u^Bl
our minds. Have you ever stopped to think of its tre-
mendous consequences ? From it flow four fundamentals
which seem to sum up the very heart of Christ’s thought
and teaching.
First: Absolute and serene knowledge that so long
as we follow God the future cannot harm us. God can-
not be frustrated. If this be His world, in it no evil can
ultimately triumph. For putting heart and courage into
us, nothing could equal that fact.
Second: The impregnability of moral law. If this be
God’s world it must be based upon moral law, and God’s
inexorable moral law can no more be evaded or outwitted
than can His physical law. Whatever forces violate moral
law contain the seeds of their own destruction, and gener-
ate counter-forces which in time will overthrow them.
Third: The absolute supremacy of the power of love
and goodness. Christ utterly believed and proved with
His life that love is more potent than any possible array
of mere physical force.
Fourth: The brotherhood of all men. If God «
create the world, all men are His creatures. If God is, W
Christ declared, a supremely loving God, he cares in-
finitely for each one of His creatures. Those causes and
movements which make for human progress and human
emancipation will under God’s hand ultimately succeed ;
those which do not will ultimately fail.
Human brotherhood, sacrificial giving in the ser^B
of others, genuine international cooperation are the omy
possible bases upon which an enduring human society
can be built. The Kingdom of God is reality, and its
building is going forward to a sure conclusion, whatever
men may do.
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