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EDITOR IN CHIEF Edward Schuppe

Is It Really Irrelevant? (Commencement Oration)

ASSISTANT EDITOR Scott Stone

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Government: God’s Institution (Commencement Oration) 3

ALUMNI EDITOR James Rath

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Introduction

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From the EDitor

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The Balloon Buster

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Mortis Memoria

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CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM

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Friendship ...

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ALUMNI NOTES

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Forum’s Finest Hours

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The Game of Ping Pong

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NEWS

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T F you have ever had the opportunity to visit a school and observe the activity in a classroom, you might have come to the conclusion that you could guess the subject being taught by the attitude of the students. If they were alert and interested, you might guess that they were exploring some new field in science. Or if puzzled looks were in their faces, a math class studying equations would be a good guess, But if you noticed a lot of eyes staring out the windows and an atmosphere of boredom, history was probably the subject.

It seems that the word “history” carries with it the mental picture of big, thick books with dusty pages, the dust being almost as dry as the subject. The general opinion among students is, “Why waste time studying this stuff? It’s worthless. Why study something which does not have any value?” From the very start they suppose it to be irrelevant. With such an impression, it is no wonder that they are turned off.

To their point of view, a subject has to be clearly practical or teach something new in order to be worthwhile. History is old, therefore it does not fit their category. They fail to realize that history's age does not make it irrelevant or useless to them, A science book which is twenty years old is not worth too much as a text book, due because of the technological advances over the year. History, unlike the science book, tells a story which does not change with the passing of time. The past has some­ thing of importance to say to the present and to the future. It is here that history’s value lies.

If we did not have a memory, we would find it difficult, if not impossible, to get through our daily routine. We would have no idea of how to act when faced with even the smallest problem. Although history may not be as immediately necessary to our daily life as our memory, it does acquaint us with the world in which we live.

A knowledge of what has happened in the past can give us an indication as to what might happen in the future. The mistakes of the past should serve as a warning for the future. Take for instance, Rome at the height if its glory,

The corruption which followed the Latin conquest of the Mediterranean world is legendary, This corruption undermined their power, and the empire fell Our own country is riding the waves of a prosperity which no other country has ever had the privilege to experience. And the corruption is keeping pace. If this continues, we could be adding weight to the old cliche, “History always repeats itself.”

A knowledge of the past can cause us to gain a fuller understanding of the good which it has produced. One cannot fully appreciate the faith and dedication which is engrained in the hyms written during the Thirty Years War, unless the understands that these people were fighting and giving their lives for their religious convictions. Nor can anyone really appreciate his civil rights, unless he knows what the conditions were before these rights were available and the struggle which was undergone to secure them.

There is yet another very important benefit of history which is all too often overlooked, History gives us a record of God in action. A record of how He shaped this world and directed its events to fulfill His goals. The power of God in guiding the world is clearly evident when the circumstances surrounding the birth of Christ or the Reformation are studied. These events could never have taken place without the Lord’s intervention in world affairs, History will not enable us to predict with certainty what is going to happen in the future, anymore than our memory of day to day oc­ currences will enable us to tell exactly what will happen tomorrow. But a knowlege of what has happened in the past can give us a clue as to what might happen. It makes us better equipped to assess the probabilities. And it enables us to better understand the world around us by making it possible to see how it came to be what it is. Yet viewing history only in these terms does not show its full value. As one historian put it, “History is also the key to an understanding of past culture, to the appreciation of those works of philosophy, religious inspiration, literature, art, and music which form our most precious legacy from the generations of men who have gone before us.”

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Commencement Oration in the Field of Religion:

(feobzmmmk (Ini* 0 praiitutum by Stephen Hintz oday there is much protest over the actions and policies of our government—the Govern' ment of the United States. People all over the country are constantly dissenting with some­ thing undertaken by our government—whether it is the war in Vietnam or higher taxes or federal aid. As Christians, we need to stop back once in awhile and consider exactly what our system of government—a representative de­ mocracy—actually offers, and in so doing, we will realize what a great blessing we have in our type of government. Our government, like all other governments, was instituted by God for the good of those under it. Consequent­ ly, we are required to obey our government in light of God's Word as recorded in Romans 13:1: “Let every soul be subject unto the high­ er powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.” , On the other hand, our government also is under the direction of God, and it has certain obligations towards us which are to be fulfilled.

These obligations imposed upon the government

by God may be spoken of as our benefits.

What do these benefits include? First, there is the protection from foreign enemies which our government affords us. Then, there is the main­ tenance of internal peace. Although we live in an age of many riots and much civil strife, still the majority of the time we can lead fearfree and peaceful lives on account of the police and similar agencies which enforce laws design­ ed to protect us. Consider next the services which our government renders on our behalf.

We are served by fire protection, health facili­ ties, educational systems, and so on. A final benefit which we possess is that all of our per­ sonal rights and freedoms are guaranteed through the United States Constitution. Such matters as freedom of religions, freedom of speech, and trial by jury are but a few of things guaranteed to us. To be sure, the benefits are vast and numerous which are granted to us Christians under our system of government.

The uniqueness of the governmental system with which God has blessed us is plainly re­ vealed when we consider the priviliges which we possess. In our system, we have means

whereby we can in good conscience change or alter things which do not particualrly please us.

We have the option of influencing or changing our government—the government which God has conmmanded us to obey. One means through which we have a say in our govern­ ment is our privilege to vote. We have the right to vote or not to vote for a political candidate of our choosing. We ourselves can run for a political office and become a part of our gov­ ernmental system. In fact, it would be well if more Christians did run for poltical office and put their Christian love into operation as a counterbalance to the many corrupt, non-be­ lieving politicians and office holders of our day.

Another privilege of change open to us is found in such devices as petitions, public hearings, referendums, and the writing of letters and editorials. A final privilege which can be util­ ised by a Chrisian is his right to demonstrate peaceably. To demonstate peaceably does not mean that a Christian will join in a riot which is throwing bricks through windows and having outright warfare with police, nor does it mean that a Chrisitan will engage in a non-violent, ilegal parade which is obstructing traffic and infringing on the rights of others; but to peace­ ably demonstrate does mean that given a legi­ timate issue such as setting up free abortion centers, a Christian may publicly display his dissent with the issue at hand by taking part in a peaceful, legal protest march or picket.

Having looked at some of the benefits we enjoy and the privileges we possess from our government, we should now consider the duties which we owe. As Christian citizens of the United States, we have an obligation under God to obey the rules and regulations which our government has set up. These include everything from how fast we go on the high­ ways to not possessing certain drugs. Further­ more, when certain rules and laws do not please us and we can not get them changed through the privileges which we have to do so, we still must obey these laws. Our duty to our govern­ ment also includes giving up that share of our time and resources which the government de­ mands. When we are called to serve in the 3

in either its makeup or operation. Our govern­ ment fails in many respects. There are not enough policemen; the amount of control which the voters have in the government is often questionable; and taxes climb higher year by year. Yet, the representative democracy of the United States which God has given us is a wonderful blessing, and inspite of all the weaknesses and shortcomings (which are a re­ sult of man's inherent sinfulness), we would have to go far and wide to find a better system.

armed forces, we should do so willingly. When the government exacts tax monies from us, we should pay what is required of us and not try to cheat on paying our share.

These, then, have been the benefits, priviledges, and duties which are ours under the United States’ governmental system. As Chris­ tians, we can see that our governmental setup is indeeed a unique one with many benefits and privileges, but few duties. Certainly, no one here can say that our government is perfect

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Introduction . . . tion between the institution and its former pup­ ils, to furnish information of what is going on in the college to those living at a distance, and at the same time to keep its readers informed, as far as possible, of what has become of the former students.

This we hope will awaken a friendly and mutual interest not only among all our readers, old and young, teachers and pupils, but will be of advantage to the institution itself. Some improvements or other may be introduced at our institution by means of cooperation which is now wanting, because there have been no ad­ equate means of communication and of ex­ changing views. Now that there is such a one, many an improvement may be proposed and discussed in our columns.

It will be our aim so to interest not only former scholars in the welfare and improve­ ment of their Alma Mater, but, if possible, al­ so a larger circle, and to gain the interest and support of others, friendly to the cause of edu­ cation as represented by our college.

At the same time we shall endeavor to fur­ nish such reading material as will interest the literary and scientific tastes of our readers.

In all this the managing committee looks forward to the kind support of the readers themselves, and would cordially invite every­ one to send correspondences, suited to our pur­ pose, or articles on interesting topics. We shall also be ready to answer questions or give in­ formation our columns to the best of our abil­ ity. Hoping that our paper will find a friendly welcome, we herewith issue this first number

“NTOTWITHSTANDING the common complaint that our time is overstocked with current literature, and especially the younger genera­ tion overfed with newspaper reading, we feel encouraged to publish a new quarterly. The. following introductory remarks are intended to give a brief account of its origin as well as of the object pursued by its publication.

Blac\ and Red, the emblematical colors of the Northwestern University at Watertown, Wisconsin, was chosen as the title of our new paper because it is published by the wearers of these cololrs, the students of the said institu­ tion, and edited by a committee appointed by them. The long-felt want to have a college publication of our own having found its ex­ pression at last year’s meeting of the alumni association at Watertown, it was then and there resolved to have a college paper started in the course of the present year, and accord­ ingly a managing committee was appointed to take the necessary measures leading thereto.

The result is the present first number.

As to the object to be pursued we should point to the fact that so far the communica­ tion between the former students of North­ western University and the institution itself has been rather loose. There is now a goodly number of them, and they are scattered far and wide, filling positions in many vocations of life. It may be taken for granted that none of them have forgotten their Alma Mater, and that every one still preserves a lively interest for it, remembering the old motto: “olim meminisse juvabit.” But many, perhaps most of them, hear and know very little of what is now going on at the old school.

The chief object of our paper, therefore, will be to establish some means of communica-

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The new staff of Volume LXXVI is gifted with some of the best available manpower on campus. The new staff has three experienced members from last year’s staff. There is Scott “Linus” Stone of Costa Mesa, California. The two other “veterans” are Jon Peterson of Weyauwega and Paul Baldauf of Saginaw, Michi' gan, who did a terrific job “behind the scenes” last year as advertising managers.

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The Junior Class has added four more of its illustrious members to the new staff — Dave Kclm of Oshkosh, Jim Rath of Lanark, Illinois, Dandy Dan Schaller of Manitowoc, and Jim “The Pun” Ziesemer of Milwaukee (not the pastor's son). The Sophomore Class has added three more of its members to the staff — Rick Curia of Redwood City, California, Mark Jes' ke of Mequon, and Paul “Ernie” Wendland of Lusaka, Zambia, Africa. The two new fresh' man members are Scott Klein of Two Rivers and Bob Meiselwitz of Kiel.

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The Balloon Buster Such was the young man who on Septemher 25, 1917, went to Tucson and enlisted in the Signal Corps, requesting assignment in the flying branch. His stateside training was, naturally, not without its unusual moments. His adeptness with firearms, which later stood him in good stead when machine guns jammed in the heat of battle, enabled him to assemble, blindfolded, a dismantled machine gun much faster than anyone else. He brought down the wrath of his instructors upon himself by doing stunts on his first solo flight and was grounded for three days.

On January 23, 1918, Luke was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Aviation Section, Signal Officers Reserve Corps. All goodbyes said, he departed for France two weeks later. Until June, Luke received more student training. Then he was ordered up to the acceptancc park at Orly. Here he was a ferry­ man, flying new planes up to combat units at the front, and flying back damaged planes to the repair depot. It was unexciting and very discouraging, to be so near the action, and yet not be allowed to fight. But his duties enabled him to become intimately acquainted with ev­ ery type of Allied plane. His constant grip­ ing about this dull job finally paid off, and on July 26, 1918, Luke was assigned to a combat unit, the Twenty-seventh Squadron of the First Pursuit Group at Saints in the Aisne-Mame salient. His quest for glory had started.

On his first Alight over the lines, he quitted the formation to fly off on his own, disobeying orders. His excuse of engine trouble was ac­ cepted by Major Hartney, his immediate super­ ior. But when Hartney angrily confronted Luke after he had left formation again on his next flight, Luke replied, “I got a Hun.” “Where?”

Since Luke couldn’t locate precisely the site of this combat, it became one of the most con­ troversial air battles of the war. Luke was cal­ led a liar because of that plane he claimed to have shot down over German territory. As Luke’s combat report had that right of truth to it, Major Hartney accepted the report and Luke was officially credited with an enemy plane. But the rest of the squadron didn't be­ lieve his story, embittering Luke.

Ifrank Luke Jr. was a man’s man. From his wild youth spent in rugged Arizona to his dazzling aerial maneuvers over the war-torn battlefields of France, he was always his own boss. Eddie Rickenbacker called him “the great­ est fighter who ever went into the air,” this man who was one of only four aviators to win the Congressional Medal of Honor in World War I. In the space of seventeen blazing days he set a mark for courage and fighting skill which has never been equalled. Yet he was so insubordinate that had he lived, he would have been recommended for a general court-martial.

Luke is fondly remembered by the residents of Arizona. Old-timers will remember him as the most formidable line-plunger of their time, dedicated to athletic excellence. His 5'10" frame, packed with 170 pounds of hard mus­ cle, sent more than one girl’s heart fluttering.

During the summer vacations he worked in the tough copper mines of Ajo. Arrogant and brash as only a man of 18 could be, he backed up his mouth with his fists when he had to, yet he gave dancing lessons to the clumsy-footed min­ ers to supplement his income. After work one night he knocked out a West Coast heavy­ weight in one round, defending the honor of the camp. An outdoorsman in the truest sense of the word, he spent every minute he could hunting and camping, riding far back into the arid Superstition Mountain region near Phoe­ nix.

One year the Seniors won the pennant rush, a Phoenix high-school tradition. They managed to hoist their class pennant to the top of the flagpole following a brawling melee in which “B.V.D.” Luke was in his glory. But that night the calm of the city was shattered by six re­ volver shots. When the police arrived on the scene the pennant was still at the top of the pole, the culprit nowhere to be seen. Later that evening two booming shotgun blasts were heard. Irate peace officers arrived on the scene to find a certain Junior examining the remains of the Senior pennant lying at his feet. His re­ treat had not been out of a reluctance to meet the law, but only to obtain a more efficient weapon.

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Joe Wehner was a fellow officer of Luke’s.

Because his was a German name, he was re' peatedly suspected of being a German spy. A bond formed between Wehner and Luke, the two outcasts, the spy and the liar. This duo was to revolutionize aerial warfare. With Wehner riding shotgun in the sun, Luke did the strafing, demoralizing the German obser' ation balloon corps.

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The war was shaping up in the form of a strong Allied push in the St. Mihiel sector.

This offensive maneuver, which eventually led to the Armistice on November 11, provided the means for Frank to obtain the glory and bronze medals which he sought, and never knew that he had won. Luke’s squadron was shifted to the Verdun sector. Luke continued his desertion of formations and kept “joy rid' ing.’’ His superiors might just as well have talked to a brick wall, for all the good it did to reprimand Luke.

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The evening meal of September 11 was the turning point in Luke’s career. Captain Jerry Vasconcelles, a highly respected ace flier, said, “I think they're the toughest proposition a pilot has to meet. Any man who gets a balloon has my respect, because he’s got to be good or he doesn’t get it.” This remark spurred Luke on to tell Wehner the next day that he was going to get one. The mechanics chuckled at his re' mark, but two hours later Luke was back, hav' ing bagged his first balloon. His combat report read: Saw three E.A. (enemy aircraft) near Lavingneville and gave chase, following them dir­ ectly east towards Pont-a-Mousson where they disappeared towards Metz. Saw enemy bal­ loon at Marieulles. Destroyed it after three passes at it. Each within a few yards of the

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balloon. The third pass was made when the balloon was very near the ground.

Both guns stopped, so pulled off to one side. Fixed left gun and turned about to make one final effort to burn it. The next instant it burst into great flames and dropped on the winch, destroying it.

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Luke was forced to land his shrapnel-riddled plane behind the nearby American lines and return to the airfield by car, obtaining a writ' ten confirmation from a nearby American bah loon crew. This victory was confirmed!

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Two days later Luke was ordered to get a balloon near Buzy. He was allowed to pick one man to cover him. He chose Joe Wehner to fight off the flock of Fokkers sure to be nesting under that sausage The balloon took only a few seconds of Luke’s time, just long enough for a steep dive, followed by a short burst from both guns which set the balloon afire. But the enemy planes were after him, raking his fuse' lage with bullets before he was able to swing away. Then Wehner arrived on the scene at the tail end of a screaming dive, shifting the attention of enemy gunners on himself. Luke got away and single-handedly downed a balloon near Boinville. “Dove at it six times at close range. Had two stoppages with left gun which carried incendiary bullets and, after fix­ ing both, continued the attack . . . the last I saw of the balloon, it was on the ground in a very flabby condition. Confirmations requested.”

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The attitude towards the two outcasts chang­ ed radically, but they didn't need the friend­ liness now. They were aces, heroes. The next day, September 15, Luke and Wehner were ordered to bring down a balloon near Boinville.

Instead of making the dual attack they separ­ ated. Rank insubordination, punishable by a general court-martial! But let the results speak for themselves: Wehner got a balloon and two planes; Luke blasted two more balloons out of the skies. Late that afternoon Luke went off on his own again, and bagged his third balloon of the day. The German balloon line became wary, and on the morning of the 16th the only bal­ loons Luke and Wehner saw were on the ground, securely protected.

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That afternoon Luke devised a revolution­ ary plan of balloon tactics. Just before dusk he and Whner took off, hoping to get three balloons which were making a final visual check on the Allied lines before darkness fell. Spaced ten minutes apart, all three went up in flames.

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Ivan Roverts, was also downed. On the 27th, Luke took off on an unauthorized flight, swoop' ing so low over Bantheville that he burned a partly inflated balloon in its nest. He stayed overnight at a nearby French airbase, returning the next day only to be grounded by his super' ior, Captain Grant. Defiantly, Luke refueled and took off again, flying to the nearby base of his previous commander, Major Hartney.

Orders had been issued for Luke’s arrest, but Hartney overlooked them in deference to Luke’s plea for one more shot at the German balloon line. He took off at 5:22, never to re' turn. Luke banked low over the American bah loon headquarters at Souilly and tossed them a note. “Watch three Hun balloons on the Meuse.’’ LUKE

Score two sausages for Luke and one for Weh* ner. A tricky night landing was effected by the use of flares to mark the landing field.

Then trageev struck. Joe Wehner was shot down fight: off a swarm of Fokkers, while Luke was sy establishing the world’s greatest single ac ...evement in aerial warfare.

Combat Repo: l — September 18, 1918 Lieutenant Frank reports: Lieutenant Wehner and 1 left liie airdrome at sixteen hours to spot enemy balloons. Over St. Mihiel we saw two German balloons near Labeuville. Maneuvered in the clouds and dropped down, burning both. We were then attacked by a number of E.A., the main for­ mation attacking Lieutenant Wehner, who was above and on one side. I started climbing to join the light when two E.A. atteked me from the rear. 1 turned on them, opening both guns on the leader. We came head on until within a few yards of each other when my opponent turned to one side in a nose dive and I saw him crash to the ground.

The citation on the Congressional Medal of Honor which was presented to Frank’s fath' er briefly tells the story of Luke’s last blazing day of glory, which earned for him America’s most coveted military award: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action with the enemy near Muraux, France, Septem­ ber 29, 1918. After having previously destroya number of enemy aircraft within seventeen days, he voluntarily started on a patrol after German observation balloons.

I then turned on the second, shot a short burst, and lie turned and went into a dive. I saw a number of E.A. above but could not find Lieutenant Wehner, so turned and made for our lines. The above fight occurred in die vicinity of St. Hilaire. On reaching our bal­ loon line, flew east. Saw Archie (anti-aircraft) on our side, flew toward it, and found an en­ emy observation machine. I gave chase with some other Spads and got him off from his lines. After a short encounter he crashed within our lines, southeast of Verdun. Lieu­ tenant Wehner is entitled to share in die vic­ tories over both the balloons. Confirmations requested, two balloons and diree planes.

Though pursued by eight Gennan planes, which were protecting die enemy balloon line, he unhesitatingly attacked and shot down in flames diree German planes. Severely wound­ ed, he descended to within fifty meters of the ground and, flying at this low altitude near the town of Murvanx, opened fire upon en­ emy troops, killing six and wounding as many more. Forced to make a landing and sur­ rounded on all sides by the enemy, who called upon him to surrender, he drew liis automatic pistol and defended himself gallantly until he fell dead from a wound in the chest.

The confirmations came in, five of the en' emy bested within ten short minutes. Luke was now the leading ace in the American air service, with five more victories than Rickenbacker, a total of four planes and ten balloons.

The amazing feature of this record is that thirteen of his conquests were within a single week, during which there were two days when he did °ot fly.

Frank Luke Jr. had won the bronze he so much desired. In addition to the Congression' al Medal of Honor, there were the Italian War Cross, the Distinguished Service Cross, and the Aero Club Medal for Bravery. The Distinguished Service Cross with an oak'leaf cluster, actually two citations, was awarded for earlier victories:

But Joe Wehner had gone down in flames over Labeuville, and even a short leave in Paris failed to raise Frank’s morale. On September 26, Luke shot down an enemy combat plane in a vicious dogfight. But his new partner,

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stroyed eight enemy observation balloons in four days. He is also awarded an oak-leaf clus­ ter for die following act of extraordinary heroism near Etain, France, September 18, 1918: Immediately after destroying two enemy observation balloons he was attacked by a large formation of German planes (type Fokker). He turned to attack two which were directly behind him and shot them down.

Sighting an enemy plane, although his gaso­ line was nearly gone, he attacked and destroy­ ed this machine also.

He received other honors, too. The U.S. Gov­ ernment named its 'lying field in the Hawaiian Islands Lu\e Field. There is a memorial arch in Phoenix dedicat J to him. Luke’s fast-paced life has won for him the undying fame he always knew he would someday earn, Daniel Schaller

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MORTIS MEMORIA Tr was one of those days when it was so hot ••■that the dogs walked when they were chasing cats. Main Street looked like a western rerun being played too slowly. Time seemed sus­ pended, as if no one cared enough to finish out the day; far away the drone of cicadas was a slightly irritating backdrop to the desultory dustiness of another day. All three blocks of Main Street would have been deserted if it weren’t for the necessity of acting out another scene in life’s dreary drama.

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two people. The man, cradling a submachine gun, was obviously the leader.

“All right! Everybody down on the floor.

Follow orders and you won’t get hurt.”

It was as if nobody could believe that this was really happening. Jaws dropped and there was a general uneasy shuffling. This wasn’t jn the script, “Down! Now!” Tilting his arm back, the man opened up on the chandelier. The room was filled with a staccato roar as glass splinters and plaster dust showered down. They droppecp unison,

A dusty Model A grumbled along past the Bon Ton Store and pulled up before Farquar s Feed Market, yielding a tired man and a small boy to the sun. In front of the Gillette State Bank two grizzled Civil War veterans morosely chawed tobacco and argued about a forgotten checker game. Inside the dimly lit bank a potato-faced teller with a bow tie and a too-tight vest wearily went through the motions of cashing payroll checks as people in line stared va­ cantly at the framed print of Teddy Roosevelt or the faded curtains or their shoetops. The murmur at the front of the line interested no one, “Will you please sign here . . . yes . . yes . . . thank you.”

“Bonnie, how’d you like to make a little withdrawal?”

“Love to, Clyde.” She pronounced it “Clahd.” Shifting her artillery to the other arm> the woman strolled to the cage and shoved a satchel at the sweating teller.

“Fill it. All. Now. And nothing funny, or believe me, you’ll regret it.” Blowing a cloud of smoke from her cheroot into his face, she sneered at his fumbling. The only sound to be heard was the ticking of the huge clock on the end wall. The teller slid the wad back at her and cringed away,

Maybe it was the utter deadness of the day or the complete lack of concern of anybody about anything. Whatever it was, no one noticed two vaguely sinister-looking gentle­ men quietly take up positions near the two exits of the bank, hands in their pockets. And then it happened. The big double doors burst open and, framed in the flood of sunlight, stood

“You’re so sweet, she smirked, flicked some ash on an elderly lady on the floor, and backed toward the door with the sack in one hand.

“Let’s go, Clyde.”

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the four were gone as quickly as they had appeared. They hv. ried down the steps to the waiting car, whir-: was double-parked at the curb.

But fate had her plans. The rookie de­ puty sheriff had . spotted the double-parked car and was abou to write out a ticket when the Barrows burst out of the bank. He immedi­ ately decided to be a Hero and Save the Day. Whipping out his trusty revolver, he bravely shouted a command to halt and started snap­ ping off shots.

One of the thugs rolled down the steps, clutching one knee and screaming in pain.

Clyde shoved Bonnie toward the car and stood straddle-legged, firing from the hip. Slugs chewed up the dirt street around the deputy.

Diving behind a parked car, he tried for the getaway car's tires. As slugs whanged into its sides, shattering the rear window, Bonnie leaned out the side window and ripped off a deafening volley. Again the deputy twisted, rolling under a protecting car as Clyde sprint­ ed for the now-rolling Ford’s running board.

The deputy jumped up and knelt, aiming squarely for Clyde’s retreating back. As he was pulling the trigger, a hail of bullets slam­ med into him. He crumpled into a shapeless heap. The gangster lying on the bank steps with the oddly-twisted leg and the smoking machine gun grinned through the blood drip­ ping from his mouth as the retreating car shrieked through the gears and careened around a corner.

From the bloody pulp that used to be the deputy one arm rose slowly and shakily fired one last shot. The bloody grin on the crook’s mouth faded forever.

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For fully thirty seconds Main Street was a silent still-life. Nothing moved. A lifeless breeze spun an eddy of dust in the rust as far, far away the cicadas droned a protest to the scorching sun. It was a very hot day.

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In my first official sentence I would like to welcome the faculty, students, alumni, and any other enlightened soul who has the high privilege of reading this publication to the Vol. 76 version of C&C. My name is Jim Ziesemer.

In case you might be interested, my father claims that our name is,a corruption of the German words ‘siiszMeer’, meaning, of course, sweet sea. After the drought of humor caused by my predecessor, all humor-hungry souls can come and drink their fill from the sweet sea.

I mentioned my father in the previous para' graph. In regard to this I would like to make ont| thing perfectly clear, I am not, have not been, nor will I ever be a son or relative of Rev. Richard Ziesemer. By the time I’m done with this article. I doubt if anyone would care to claim me.“'

When breakfast time comes, he 'never is late, He'll eat sixteen eggs, his fork and a plate, And when he talks he'll often put Into his mouth my own clubfoot.

Korth also should think before he speak, Like to Pastor Wood of ole Black Creek. ‘'Your church is quite modern," he said full of glee, "It looks just like one from the ALC.” Since Spring is here, I felt it would be appropriate to give some space to America's num­ ber one passtime. Baseball. The following poem is in memory of the fateful meeting of NWC and Milton College.

ROGIE AT THE BAT It looked a little shaky for the Cookie nine that day, The score stood two to four, with but one inning left to play.

And the Conf’rence title rested there before them on the line.

Coach Pieper said, “This one's a must!” * to the fellas on the nine.

Back in the distant past a few memories still linger from the Easter vacation. Some of our braver students made the break and tra­ velled to the Sunshine State. Bob Krueger had a real learning experience in the famous Busch Gardens. He found out that down South you all can drink' doesn't mean ‘all you can drink’.

Norris Baumann also did some learning. He was told and often reminded afterwards that bricks don’t burn.

A faithless crew got up to go, leaving there the rest With that hope that springs eternal within each Trojan breast, For they thought: "If only Rogie could get a whack at that.”

They'd bet a beer at Boosey's now, with Rogie at the bat.

Also over Easter the Singing Sons of Sir were out doing their thing in three different choruses. The NWC Touring Male Chorus was lucky enough to have the middle son, Barney, in their midst. He was able to brighten up the dull moments with his brilliant witti­ cisms and tidbits of worldly knowledge. On tour John Brenner was named clubfoot laur­ eate and supplied the chorus with a daily poem.

Here is one of his efforts:

But Nort preceded Rogie, and likewise so did Schwa, And the former was a rookie, and the latter’s bat was blah.

So on the stricken multitude a last hour silence sat; For there seemed but little chance of Rogie's getting up to bat.

ODE TO BODE opus IV

by John Brenner III I think that I shall never see A Marcus Bode who looks like me.

"He looks like you,” say fools like thee.

But only I can look-like me.

But Nort let fly a ‘single’ to the wonderment of all.

And the motor-mouthed Swanson tore the cover off the ball.

And when the sand had settled, and they saw what had occurred, There was Swanson safe at second and Bubba huggin’ third...........

He’s never awake except to get fed.

He thinks that a bus is the same as a bed.

Wherever we stay, he’s so full of talk, ‘Cause he got a kiss in Oconomowoc.

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Then from the frenzied college crowd went up a joyous yeil.

It echoed off of chroeder’s house, it rattled in the dell.

It struck upon c brand new gym, and also on the dorm.

For Rogie, Rock lord Rogie, was advancing true to form There was ease in Rogie’s manner as he stepped into his place.

There was pride in Rogie’s bearing, and a smile on Rogie’s face.

And when responding to the cheers, he gently waved his bat, And dreams of headlines danced about beneath his swelling hat.

Two hundred eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt.

One hundred tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt.

Then Rogie moved his wrist bands farther down his arm.

He knew that he could hit the ball way out to Jaeger's farm.

And now the leather-covered pill came hurtling through the air, And Rogie stood and combed his locks in haughty grandeur there.

Close by the sturdy batsman the ball unheeded sped; 'That ain't my pitch,” said Rogie.

"Strike one,” the umpire said.

From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar, Like the beating of the storm waves on Winnebago’s shore.

"The umpire beats his wife;” shouted Hoyer from the stand, And it’s likely they'd have killed him had not Rogie raised his hand.

A smile of Christian charity from Rogie’s face did leap; He stilled the rising tumult like a shepherd calms his sheep.

While looking at Coach Pieper, once more the spheroid flew; Rogie never saw the ball, the umpire said, "Strike two.”

"Fraud!” cried the crowd, and the air was turned quite blue.

One scornful look from Rogie, and they knew what he would do.

They saw his hips begin to sway, they saw ’ his muscles strain.

They knew that Rogie couldn’t let the ball go by again.

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The sneer is gone from Rogie’s lips, his teeth are clenched in hate.

He pounds with cruel vengeance his bat upon the plate; And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go, And now the air is cl attered by the force of Rogie's blow.

Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun still has its glow, The sheep are bleating somewhere, and somewhere cattle low.

The scene is black in Watertown as if the lights were out; All the joy's in Milton — Mighty Rogie has struck out.

Lest we forget, there is a staunch group of Seniors who will be leaving us this year. To say the least there are certain features in some of the members of the Class of ’72 that we will definitely miss.

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Bruce Ahlers and Dan Kolosovsky — their car repair racket.

Tim Bauer — a joke for every occasion, and the model for everyone aspiring to ‘hustle.’

David Beckman — the humor in Vol. 75’s C6?C column and a few knives in a few backs.

Jim Cloute — the current gossip.

Scott Dummann — his splendid personage.

Erv Ekhoff — his rendition on the beauty and superiority of Illinois.

Lloyd Fager — the topic for a million jokes.

Les Fritz — his sweet smile from behind the organ.

Andy Geiersbach — his brilliant orange windbreaker.

Jim Gorsegner — his red Chevy II bearing the inscription “Jim and Debbie Du.” Gary Griep — the voice most quoted at the canteen, “Now what’s the ...”

Steve Hintz — only a little dust.

Paul Johnston and Augie Ristow — Their daily position at the phone.

Ralph Jones — I couldn’t manage anything, he did, and it didn’t help.

Roger Kovaciny — his typing service and his moustache. | Ken Kratz — a certain kosher air around the i canteen.

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Dickie Warner — his ability to exude his suave masculinity, and his lousy editorial

Pete Kruschel — his perfected mean humor.

Steve Lawrenz — it was too hard to pick just one thing.

Barney Lehmann — The world's best sense of humor and glee club arranger (you can believe what you want, but his dad might read this, and I have some Music courses to complete).

John May — one very nice guy.

Tim Meier — one very old guy.

Dave Mueller and Bill Neumann — the last members of the Prep class of '67.

Nathan Pope — his ability to cover garbage artistically in his position as Vol. 75's art editor.

Carl Schomberg — his beautiful voice and sheepish grin.

Marc Schroeder — one taxi.

Annin Schwartz — the hair he misses too.

Norm Seeger — his Rambler Express to Mil­ waukee and Hustisford.

Jim Seelow — one six-foot silo.

Chris Sulzle — NWC's only Christian.

George Swanson — his talented foot, arm and mouth (often the first and_ the,last combine for a real show).

Glen Thompson — 200 pounds of trophies and medals.

James P. Tiefel — a multi-talented, middleaged pig.

Dale Tollefson — his black and blue neck.

Denny Valleau — his accordion and his flat feet.

REITERATIONS

Lynn Wiedmann - not much — there are al­ ways plenty of Wiedmanns around.

Terry Yahr — hi:, intelligent questions and answers in class.

Rick Zahn — a certain musical refrain about a case of mistaken identity.

Tom Zahn — an example of how not to drive.

John Zarling — one head of Albert Einstein’s hair.

Since excellence in any field should be re­ warded I would like to make some rewards to the outgoing class. The first of the two awards is the Teat and Repeat Award.’ This is for the greatest accomplishments in a collective effort. For the beest effort in creating nausea, the award goes to those two sweethearts from Illinois, George Swanson and Erv Ekhoff. Good work, fellas!

The second award is the Steve Lawrenz award for total disorganization despite inher­ ent brilliance. My pick for this was easy. With­ out a doubt it has to go to Steve Lawrenz. Ya, Steve, I know, you're going to get me. Too bad you’ll get it first.

To serve as food for thought to occupy your idle moments this Summer, I have a ques­ tion from our own Prof. Rohda, “Is Faust in love or in heat?”

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so it seemed to me, a boy of only fourteen, whose best friend had just moved away to the West Coast — Fresno, California, I guess they said. It wasn't really so far away, but to a young boy, whose longest trip ever was to northern Minnesota, that distance seemed like from here to the moon.

As I fully swallowed the impact of the situ­ ation, my whole head swarmed, and I guess a tear rolled down my eye, although I hate to admit it. Yet our life-long friendship was prob-

T rushed through the back door, down the porch steps, taking three and four at a time, and across our back yard, ducking under the clothesline, but almost taking my head off as I darted under the pear tree just behind it. I bounded over a small patch of rhubarb, avoid­ ing the lilac bush nearby. But as I momentarily contemplated my exaggerated nimbleness, I suddenly halted, quickly glanced about me, and finally realized that he wasn’t home. He was gone! Gone for good! Gone for ever, or 16

ably worth a thousand such tears. Friendship can be like that ■ ^metimes, although many might call that a bit “corny.” But we were like brothers, so frequently in each other’s home that our parents o." n remarked that they had more son than wa: really the case. But now that extra son was gone, gone, gone ... the words repeating o or and over again in my mind as I dropped down into the shadows of our ancient plum tree, that had quit bearing fruit many years ago. All that energy that moments ago had driven me out our back door vanished now like a balloon poked with a pin.

As I lay there in my melancholy, but contemplative mood, I recalled to myself some of the highlights of our ten-year friendship.

My best friend, my pal, my “bosom buddy,” call him what you will, was named Dave Erick­ son, one of three sons of a prominent and ex­ tremely popular veterinarian in my home town.

The Ericksons had a new ranch type house on a spacious lot, a type of miniature park with abundant apple, cherry, and pear trees. Many a time Dave and I suffered for overindulging in too many unripe apples. As for climbing trees, however, there was nothing better than the towering pines that lined their yard on the south and west. Although they served as effec­ tive windbreaks, Dave and I knew them only as high lookouts from which we could peer across town to the KisKinec River in the dis­ tance.

The most interesting and extraodinary piece of landscape in the Erickson’s backyard was their green. That’s right. They actually had a golf putting green, not nearly as large as those on a regular golf course, but large enough to make an enjoyable chipping game, especially for boys such as Dave and I, who were still too young to play at the local links. We actu­ ally contrived nine different holes, none longer than 75 yards, but with the various trees and shrubs as effective obstacles, these holes could prove as difficult as the real things. On this same mini-course Dave and I went into the golf business one summer, attracting neighbor­ hood friends as customers. Although we only charged a dime a round, we made enough pro­ fits to buy ourselves an expensive racing set.

We quickly tired of the undertaking, though, and Orchard Hills Golf Course, as we appro­ priately named the course, soon faded into non­ existence.

Our favorite summer pastime was baseball, as I imagine it is for most boys at that age. But since we two could hardly play a regular game,

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we devised ingenious substitutes for the real thing. In one such game, we hit tennis balls to each other, calling them base hits when they fell in. We even utilized two old bed springs from a bunk bed the Ericksons had in their basement for our outfield wall. We would then play imaginary games between the old Milwaukee Braves and other National League teams. Although Henry Aaron usually man­ aged to hit a home run, we kept the game un­ usually realistic. In another of our contrived games Dave and I would pitch an old cloth ball to each other in front of my house. If the ball landed on the street on the fly, it was a base hit. If it made it over the street, it was a homerun. Again we drew up imaginary bat­ ting orders, but since Dave consistently beat me, I usually let him be the Braves.

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the end of the runway. Fortunately only the front of the small plane was damaged and no one was hurt, although a gloomy feeling that we had a long delay ahead of us dampened our spirits. Happily v;-;. v v'ere able to get away that same evening, after • .ngthy repair work. After swallowing one o. Dr. Erickson’s air sickness pills, I was confident of a much happier return trip.

An alarming buzz sounded near my right ear and broke my meditative dreaminess. In a split second I had jumped to my feet and bounded off around the corner of my house, not daring a quick glance backwards, until I had reached the other side of the house. It was a bumblebee, but he tired of chasing me and wandered off in the opposite direction. As I lazily sat down on the steps of our front porch, I observed a honey bee’s activity from dandel­ ion to dandelion for a short time, until my mind again wandered off into the past, a lost, but not forgotten friendship in a ear that had just shut its doors on me.

Both of us had two older brothers of ap­ proximately the same age, but none of them were as close as Dave and I. Still we often played together, but had to improvise in cer­ tain games to make up for the difference in ages. For example, in football our brothers would play defense on their knees to give Dave and me half a chance as running backs. This was perhaps our favorite game despite occa­ sional sprained fingers and bruised arms and legs.

As evidence of our closeness, the Ericksons one July invited me on a Canadian fishing trip.

Our small company included Dave, his father, his uncle, a Lutheran Minister, who was a good preacher but an even better naturalist and quite a character, and myself. Since Dave’s dad was a pilot (he had even flown in W.W.I.), we flew up north to a small Minnesota town just twenty miles south of the Canadian border. It was my first plane ride, but air sickness made my stomach do somersaults and kept me from enjoying the ride. Once there we took a fourday canoe trip into southern Ontario. It was an exquisite wilderness, far from the beaten path. In fact, we were so far from the hustle and bustle of daily life that we had a whole lake to ourselves. Rain and the fact that we caught only one fish between us did not dim­ inish our enjoyment of the outing. However, something that happened the following day al­ most abruptly ended our trip in tragedy.

I pondered how our companionship could have terminated so. That same question I asked myself over and over again, as I watched a fluffy cumulus cloud pass overhead. But, well, I knew the answer!

Right after that trip to Canada, Dr. Erick­ son occasinoally complained of slight attacks of pain in his side. But the doctor couldn’t find anything wrong until it was too late. It was cancer that was bothering Dr. Erickson. It was cancer that took him so early in his life. As my father so often remarked, “He was a great neighbor.’’ Dave tried to take it in stride but was deeply affected, so much so that that same year he missed over 30 days of school.

Dave’s mother, who never really could get used to the small-town life, urged the family to move to California. After all, she had three sisters and a brother out there and had grown up there as a child. The family assented and moved within two months of the father’s death.

Naturally, Dave and I planned to write of­ ten, but the close companionship that we had known for almost our whole life time had come to an abrupt end.

The whistle on top of the city hall blew, telling me that dinner would be ready soon. I got up slowly, shuffled off around the corner to the side door, and disappeared inside.

The morning after the thundershowers, we attempted to take off from the soggy grass air­ strip on which we had landed four days earli­ er. Unfortunately we failed to pick up suffi­ cient speed for a proper take-off, tried to stop in time, but rammed into a drainage ditch at

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Lutheran Brotherhood welcomes Dr. Richard M. Heins to its Board of Directors.

Dr. Richard M. Heins brings to Lutheran Brotherhood, Fraternal Insurance Society, his years of experience as Professor of Business at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His work with students in insurance, business policy and insurance law shows his interest and dedica­ tion to the profession.

But more than that, Dr. Heins has been actively involved in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

In addition, he has served on the evangelism, building and long range planning committees of Our Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, Madison. His devoted service in these areas proves him to be a man concerned for the welfare of Lutherans.

Lutheran Brotherhood is privileged to welcome Dr. Heins to its Board of Directors, and we look forward to working with him.

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CALLS Rev. Larry Pautz C-61) of St. John’s, Whitewater, has accepted a call to Good Shepherd of West Bend, Wisconsin

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ANNIVERSARIES The 30th anniersary in the ministry of Herbert Birner (’38) of Flint, Michigan, was celebrated by his congregation on April 16.

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church of Fond du Lac, Wise., celebrated its 25th anniversary on April 30. Gerhard Ehlert (’35) is the pastor.

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DEDICATIONS Zion Lutheran Church, Mt. Pleasant, Mich., was dedicated on Dec. 12, 1971. Edwin Schmelzer (’44) serves as pastor of the church.

The new church of the Friedens congregation in Bonduel, Wise., was dedicated on May 21. The pastor of Friedens is Roland Zimmermann (’52).

St. Peter’s Lutheran Church of Savanna, Illinois, dedicated its recently completed parsonage on May 14. Rev. Wayne Schneider (’62) serves the congregation.

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MISCELLANEOUS John Lawrenz has been awarded a fellowship for the 1972-73 academic year by the Woodrow Wil­ son National Fellowship Foundation. The grants are made to enable Ph.D. candidates in the hu­ manities and social sciences to devote their full attention to dissertation research and writing.

A total of $700,000 was awarded this year to 205 students in the United States and Canada. The Ford Foundation funds the program.

Lawrenz graduated from Northwestern in 1965, and he is currently a student at Brandeis Uniersity in Waltham, Massachusetts. The pro­ posed topic for his dissertation is “Numismatic Evidence for a National Maritime Policy Dur­ ing the Second Jewish Commonwealth.” The research for it will take him to Israel and such European cities as Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Lon­ don, and Paris.

Congratulations, John, for this notable award, and best of luck on your research!

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After graduation from NWC, Mr. Siegler stud­ ied at the Unive-iity of Wisconsin, earning a Master’s degree j.n zoology. He has been the head of the Gar Management and Research Division of the N. . Hampshire Fish and Game Department sine . .944.

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MINUTES OF THE 1970 ALUMNI SOCIETY MEETING June 2, 1971 — 2:30 p.m.

Steak, Chicken, Sea Food, Sandwiches The annual meeting of the Northwestern Col­ lege Alumni Society was called to order in the College Chapel by President G. Baer. The min­ utes of the 1970 meeting were read and adopted.

Roll call showed 74 regular members and 8 honorary members in attendance. Upon Pres.

Toppe’s recommendation, the 48 members of the centennial class of 1971 were accepted into regu­ lar membership. Coach Lloyd Thompson was granted honorary membership.

In view of the death of 2nd Vice President E.A. Wendland and Chronicler Pastor K. Otto s serv­ ing as civilian chaplain in Viet Nam, the nomin­ ating committee suggested the following slate of candidates: President Prof. G. Baer 1st Vice President Pastor A. Stuebs 2nd Vice President Pastor D. Bitter Secretary Prof. A. Panning Treasurer Prof. S. Quam Chronicler Prof. E. Scharf The motion to suspend the rules of order and to cast a unanimous ballot for the slate of candi­ dates suggested by the committee was carried.

The following treasurer’s report was read by Prof. S. Quam:

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The chairman appointed Pastor W. Krueger, Pastor R. Schulz, and Prof. C. Spaude as the auditing committee.

The projects committee, consisting of Pastors W. Schumann, Jr., Pastor F. Dobbratz, and Profs.

W. Zell, P. Eickmann, and C. Spaude, suggested the following projects for the new gymnasium together with the approximate cost of each: $1,600 a) set of overhead spotlights 1,600 b) double unit scoreboard 2,500 c) weight machine 1,200 d) trampoline $4,000.00 Other projects mentioned included whirlpool bath, training table, and parallel bars at the additional cost of about $1,500. The motion to release to the projects committee up to $10,000 of Society funds for expenditure on special projects in the new gymnasium was carried.

In answer to the question whether the two mailings per year to all alumni should be con­ tinued the Society responded affirmatively, re­ solving to continue both the spring Recruitment New Letter (which is to include Alumni announce­ ments) and the fall Alumni Letter.

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Prof. E. Scharf, serving for the Chronicler, Pastor K. Otto, read the names of Society mem­ bers whom the Lord called home during the past year: Dr. George Shield — 1900 Pastor Frederick Zarling — 1901 Prof. E. A. Wendland — 1906 Prof. G. A. Westerhaus — 1908 Pastor Karl Toepel — 1909 Mr. Martin Schumacher — 1910 Pastor William Lindloff — 1915 Pastor Walter Zank — 1916 Mr. William Huth — 1916 Pastor Walter Sprengler — 1916 Pastor Walter Gutzke — 1917 Pastor William Holzhausen — 1921 Pastor Christian Albrecht — 1922 Pastor Gerhard Marquardt — 1923 Pastor Theophil Mahnke — 1926 Pastor Melvin Schwenzen — 1933 Mr. Frank Staffeil — 1942 Mr. James Clark — 1967 The Society rose in memory of the deceased.

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Pres. G. Baer announced that money from the Westerhaus memorial was being used to purchase a stringed bass instrument for the NWC Band.

The auditing committee reported that the trea­ surer’s books were i' good order. The motion to adopt the treasurer report was carried.

Adjournment at 3:J.5 p.m.

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Forum’s Finest Hours T Tnlike most of America, I never really car' w ed much for the comic strip “Peanuts,” and actually I still don’t go bananas over it. But what I did go bananas over, along with virtually everyone that saw it, was the Forum So­ ciety’s production of “You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown.” Although it involved no out­ landish funding and required no outside pro­ fessional theatrical help, the play came off like something that could hold its own in a most professional way up against any off-Broadway presentation of that play. I’m sure that if a decent camera and sound crew would have been able to catch the production on celluloid, Forum could increase its treasury even more. This sounds a bit heavy, but anyone who got to see the thing knows full well that this play was possibly the best theatrical presentation in the history of Forum, and maybe of this school.

Just observing the nominees for the Tony Awards on T.V. is enough to enable one to guage just how excellently the play turned out.

Specifically, there was nothing mediocre about it at all. Pop Jim- Tiefel’s forewording paragraphs on page one had a desirable effect.

The stage set was well done in its top art for­ mat with a very successfully falling leaf. Light­ ing, costuming and all the peripheral aspects of the play measured up to every standard they had to. Then there was the orchestra. Under the direction of Mr. Bitter, the orchestra came off first rate. For as difficult as it is to stay tight when accompanying varied choral dia­ logue, the orchestra was as together as they could have been without distracting from the stage. Bitter was superb. Except for blowing a music cue that subsequently sent Backy Hart23

wig into left field on one occasion, Bitter had absolute control at all times. His ten little dancing maidens raced up and down that Bald­ win grand as if they were getting paid for it, which they weren’t. Barnie Lehmann on the electronic organ turned the Zeb Billings effect into shades of the Hollyridge Strings. “Dyna­ mite” Dick Durow, Chuck Learmann, and Don Wichmann had it all together. For someone who considers that the Milwaukee Symphony is at times less than spectacular, I thought the Bitter Philharmonic was outstanding.

Peter Kruschel’s experience and actual skill combined with the innate talent and enthusiasm of the cast produced a stellar, and I do mean stellar, performance. I can remember Peter crashing his fist down and complaining at the rehearsal that it took too long for the actors to get into character, but when it was show­ time for real, the cast not only got into it, but they got everybody in the audience into it too.

It was clearly evident that the people on stage were having a gas. This fact and the fact that the execution was as near perfect as could be expected added up to the highly articulate yet personable acting achievement. There’s no doubt about the first-rate qualities of the ma­ terial and the music. There’s also no doubt that this particular play was as perfect a play for Forum’s situation this year as there could have been. It didn’t require opera-quality voices. But the thing that made Forum’s production finale what it was in this regard was the inherent talent of the people and their willingness to spend months and months drilling the stuff into their beings.

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even the carefully planned vocal version of Lucy for the animated T.V. versions of Charlie Brown. She soundod a lot more like a Lucy is supposted to sound. She threw in as many facial nuances into the part as Sir Lawrence Olivier would thro' : nto Hamlet. I found this one of the most entertaining aspects of the whole thing. The “Queen" routine was highly indicative of how „Qly talented she is.

The success of the casting was uncanny.

Loren Lucht was a devastating Snoopy. His doggy antics were classics, while his “Supper" routine, with the Rockette leg lifts, simply totaled out the crowd, and justifiably so. Chrissy Paustian took a lesser roll and made it stand out as much as a Peppermint Patty can stand out amongst the more raucous characters.

From what I could determine from reading the comic strip, George Swanson's interpretation of Schroeder was quite effective enough. Dug those bunny hops in “Book Report,” George.

Scott Stone had an impressive performance as Linus and really brought down the house with his far out bit in “Book Report." Randy Rathje worked the down-and-out dead pan effect passionately well, as Charlie Brown. Potential­ ly, that role could have ended as a bummer and become sickeningly canned with overacting, but Randy handed out just enough manic-depres­ siveness to make the part come off sweet. That patently glassy stare of futility and rejection should live in the minds of all those watching for quite some time. Becky Hartwig was fan­ tastic, in any sense of the word. It might have seemed at first to those who know her that the role couldn't have been more perfectly suited for her, as Lucy. This is true. But the whole impact of her performance was more a matter of her throwing a lot more of her basic char­ acter talent into the role. Her vocal interpre­ tation of the part was far more interesting than

Although all the cast was fine in and of themselves without a weak link down the line, the strength of the performance lay in the way they seemed to work together like pros. In fact, the whole production unit down to the lowliest usher was organized and worked together.

Forum did well to make this final production come as great as it did to make up for a slight lack of monthly productions. (According to the standards of say, an A1 Klessig). The fi­ nancial success of the venture will help to make subsidy of student activities even more of a reality in the future. NWC needs things it can be proud of and the pride involved with this effort was not only limited to the people of Forum, but it touched everybody here. Be­ sides, I haven't ever had so much fun watching a school play. It's easy to be a critic when there’s nothing wrong with the thing you’re supposed to be criticizing.

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Along with the changes of style in table tennis and the dominance of the Orientals, there was also a great increase in international competition. Before World War I about six­ teen countries normally competed in the World Championships which were held every year.

Nowadays, fifty-five or more countries send 600 players to the event that lasts ten days and must be held twice a year because of the mag­ nitude and expense. The International Table Tennis Federation, with 91 member nations, is the largest sports federation in the world.o Although most people wouldn’t recognize them, Ping Pong has many benefits. It com­ bines interesting diversion with excellent exer­ cise. After a busy day at work or at school, a few rounds in the evening act like a tonic for the nerves. It also keeps the belt line from ) 25

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This column has existed in past volumes but it fell into disuse for reasons which you can probably figure out for yourself. However, this is an all new volume with a semi-new staff, and one of the innovations this year will be the resurrection of this column.

You may be wondering why a Northwest­ ern typically well-informed student needs a monthly column telling him what has occurred at his own school. Well, this is not intended primarily for the student body, but rather for the many foreign subscribers who would be on­ ly too glad to find out what is going on at their old school ( at least, I hope so). And who knows, some of the things written about here quite probably could even be news to some students.

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week ago was the display put on by the Wis­ consin Ballet Company, under the directorship of Tibor Zana. There may have been some initial scoffers in the crowd, but when the dust finally cleared at the end of the show, I don't think anyone was unimpressed with what they had seen. For about an hour after the ballet, there were myriads of aspiring Nureyevs float­ ing around the hallways of the dorm.

The ballet opened with the traditional forms and proceeded to the more modern. The final number was particularly impressive, having a definite Latin American flavor to it. The com­ pany ran into a little difficulty with their music tapes for a piece on Ecclesiastes and could only perform the last segment of it, but other than that, the entire program was very well co­ ordinated.

The Northwestern College Forum society had its finest hour this month when it put on the musical, “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown," for its final production of the year.

Many people don’.'; realize all the work that goes into putting or. a play, and a musical pro­ duction is even more taxing to present, since it involves getting an orchestra together, working out some kind of choreography and training people to sing solo before a crowd of people.

This is all above and beyond the acting aspect of it, not to mention the amount of time spent getting the stage and lighting effects all in or­ der. Peter Kruschel, Mark Bitter, Marcus Manthey, and Randy Bartelt were the men respon­ sible for this particular aspect of it.

But, of course, no musical, no matter how well produced, will amount to anything with­ out the “raw materials," and this musical had them in abundance. Randy Rathje played Charlie Brown and did his best to achieve a wishy-washy performance. George Swanson played Schroeder, the musical nut. Chris Paustain distinguished herself as Patti. Scott Stone was the intellectual Linus, clinging passionate­ ly to his security blanket. Deserving of special mention, though, are Becky Hartwig and Loren Lucht, who captivated the crowd with their performances of Lucy and Snoopy.

That’s about it for the news this month, unless you count the encroaching decrepitude of West Hall an an item of interest, but that was probably “news" 50 years ago already.

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Wisconsin weather lived up to the repu­ tation that our friends from Michigan and Min­ nesota have given it, and once again when the rhythm and timing were just beginning to come to our athletes, the season was end'ng. Rain and cold weather forced many cancellations and a lack of practice. Despite this there were some bright sports in our spring efforts. The fledg­ ling sport on campus, track, turned up a con­ ference championship, and tennis undoubtedly was the class of the league. Baseball again ran into its perennial roadblock, Milton, and golf had to struggle against stiff competition. Con­ sidering the limitations of our student enroll­ ment and the dra;n four sports put on it, this must be considered a successful season.

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The baseball season was summed up in two games with Milton. Milton came into the game with some impressive wins over bigger colleges around the state. The Wildcats started a fresh­ man named Utzig and hoped for a strong game from him. They jumped off to a 2-0 lead, but when the sticks of Meier,, Baumann, Swanson and Toepel struck for singles, Milton's ace Jay Toubl came in with a 2-2 score. Other than Dave Burgenske's home run that gave Milton a 4-2 lead, Swanson and Toubl dueled till the seventh. Baumann singled and Swanson dou­ bled, but the top of our lineup could not get them in, and the game ended 4-2.

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Credit must be given to senior George Swanson for another season of using his many deliveries and sore arm to the tune of a 4-1 record and a 2.19 ERA. George, however, besides his leadership of the pitching staff, found a talent he claimed was always there.

Not living up to a true pitcher’s reputation, Mr. Chicago hit a cool .483, including many extra base hits. Rog Kuerth won the home-run race with three, and Steve Ehlke again gave his all-around performance with his slick fielding glove and a .378 average. Steve also led the team in base swiping. Sophomore Don Sutton showed fine pitching form with his 2-0 record and a 2.08 ERA. He along with Pete Schu­ macher should give Northwestern good arms for the years to come, although the seniors Swan­ son, May, Zahn (in his three years of catching) and Learman will be missed. (Statistics of final games not included.)

TRACK With the arrival of Coach Thompson, came a new spring sport, track. At the start of the season promises were made to take conferene, and they were fulfilled. Although poor wea­ ther cut the season back, the steadily improv­ ing team did well in the meets it got in. It must be admitted that without the exceptional ath­ lete, Glen Thompson, things would have been much bleaker, but as the sport becomes more familiar on campus, Coach is finding other men who have talents in this field. Glen consistent­ ly won the long jump, triple jump and high jump, while often placing high in the 100, 220, shot put and discus. Senior Steve Hintz played a big role in the 220, 440 and as anchor man on the mile relay. Piet Reid ran the 440 and S80 while Bob Jensen and Jay Gottschalk ad­ ded speed in the relays. Mike Burrow, Mike Eubank, and Jensen led the way in the hurdles while Paul Scharrer specialized in the long dis­ tances Phil Hoyer used his abilities in the pole vault and high jump. Beck Goldbeck played the double role of shot and discus man while also performing as team scribe. Dan Garbow hurled the javelin like the true Greek warrior he loved to read about in good old Xenophon.

It took these people and a lot of others to put together a winning track team. With success like this year’s, Coach Thompson could well be on his way to more of the same with interest in the many facets of this sport augmenting.

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TENNIS Prof. Plitzuweit’s charges went through a season unscathed except for its encounter with Ripon. Juniors Phil Schupmann, Scott Stone and Dan Schaller led the way as the top three players, while Freshman Mark Brunner and Sophomores Mark Jeske and Jon Stern filled out the top six. Stone and Schaller exchanged places for second and third positions, until the end of the season when up and coming Brunner took over the number two spot. In doubles, Schupmann and Schaller, Stone and Brunner, and Jeske and Stern teamed up. Northwestern was easily the superior team in conference and would have won that title except for the rain that ended the conference match with all six of our racketeers in the final round. Brunner got his match in before the rain and took the No. 2 spot championship. There seems to be a grow­ ing interest in the game on campus as can be

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Zell and Kolberg exchanged medalist honors throughout the season except for the Concordia match in which Schwartz took the honors. In the conference tourney, NWC placed third be' hind Milton and Lakeland, and ahead of Dominican. The scores never got as low this year as coach would have liked them, and the competition was hard to match. Maybe a summer of steady playing by some of our aspirant golf' ers will produce better success next year.

OPPONENT Ripon 9 Whitewater JV 3 Concordia 0 Lakeland 2 Milton 4

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Biedenbender’s surprise champions of soft' ball last year come into this year’s season as strong favorites. Getting reliable pitching from Ziesemer and strong defense to go with the long ball hitting of Zahn, the Bear Johnson and Old' field, they look like a good bet to repeat. Their strongest competition will probably come from those pesky frosh, who have a nasty habit of winning shirts.

When you talk of golf at NWC, you think of that little guy from Michigan, Ken Kolberg.

This year's team had lost three seniors, but yet another Michigan ace came to share the spotlight with Ken in the person of Greg Zell.

Three seniors, Armin Schwartz, Gary Griep and Norm Seeger added stability, while the Pearl Noffsinger and the Brillion marvel, Bie' denbender, fought it out for the sixth spot.

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The promises of almighty God — innumer' * able, immutable and infallible! It was just this seriously that our fathers in the faith took the promises of their Lord, both for this life and the next. By God’s grace we still hold the faith of our fathers. Nevertheless, in regard to at least one topic of the times, perhaps we lack the same spiritual “guts” they had. The subject is one which has taken many a class' room captive in endless discussions and has likewise caused more pastors to lose their cool at other pastors than anything else. The sub' ject is birth prevention.

women in childbirth he said: “Even if they bear themselves weary — or ultimately bear them­ selves out — that does not hurt. Let them bear themselves out. This is the purpose for which they exist.”!

World-wide pollution, personal poverty and population explosion does not justify birth con­ trol for the Christian. Understandably, weak­ ness of faith results in many people using it for these reasons, but that does not justify it.

“I have been young, and now I am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, or his descendants begging bread. All day long he is gracious and lends and his decendants are a blessing.” (Ps. 37:25-26).o Even a casual sur­ vey of the Psalms reveal an almost endless num­ ber of exhortations to commit our ways to the Lord, to say nothing of observing how God proved himself faithful time and again in the exemplary lives of the Old Testament patri­ archs. Turning to the New Testament, we hear the unfailing promise of Christ resound­ ing in the ears of the anxious listeners seated upon the mount: “Seek first His kingdom and

If one goes back a few years in the history of the Lutheran church, he will find that our pastors made few or no exceptions in the mat' ter. They were dead set against it. The pastor who wrote the once popular Country Sermons called birth prevention “criminality,” and some may recall a man by the name of Maier, who cut the matter to the dust in no soft terms on The Lutheran Hour years back. As usual, Luther’s statements on the subject tend to be discredited for their seeming callousness. Of 30

His righteousness and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matt. 6:33) To state the plain fact: Anyone who practices or preaches otherwise makes a liar out of the Savior who said these words “'The Lord preserves the faithful,” sang the psalmist. (Ps. 31:23b) “God makes children; he will surely also feed them,” proclaimed Luther.3 God’s mighty arm to save is not shortened by the frightening statistics of the Information Please Almanac,

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Tmagine yourself in a dimly lit underground chamber. You and a number of other blackrobed figures are sitting in a hushed semicircle, waiting in the flickering candlelight. Before you stands a black-draped altar bearing cand­ les, a skull, and the forbidden volumes. On the wall above you hangs the symbol of Satan­ ism — a goat image superimposed on an in­ verted pentagram. A hooded man steps be­ fore the altar and kneels as the high priest, dressed in a flaming scarlet cloak approaches, extends a sword over the initiate’s shoulder and, after a Latin chant, cries, “O Satan, ac­ cept as thy servant this warlock for thy priest­ hood — the deification of the human race.”

Flash powder biases and flames leap up.

You’d probably think that that's pure fan­ tasy, something out of a vintage grade B movie or a Salem witchcraft manual — certainly im­ possible in this skeptical age. Surprise. That ordination rite occurred recently in a suburban Los Angeles home. And the congregation was not made up of hunchbacks, semi-demented crones, and demonic weirdos, but educated, successful, establishment-type business people.

Neither is it a far-out West Coast phenomen­ on, but just one facet of a surging tide of neooccultism in America. Rosemary's Baby is very much alive.

ago, and his Satanic Bible has been outselling King James in bookstores across the nation.

Sales of ouija boards have hit the highest level in 30 years (two million last year). B’.atty’s The Exorcist has been on the bestseller list for over a year. Occult shops, specialising in crystal balls, herbal incense, tarot cards, ritual robes, amulets, and pendants have sprung up in larger cities.

The new occultism has had strange sideeffects on America. A New England boy was convinced that Satan had spoken to him and offered him command of 40 demonic angels if he were to die violently. Consequently, he persuaded two friends to tape his arms and legs together and push him into a pond. A jury found them guilty of murder.

Then there was the woman Satanist who butchered an old man in cold blood, stabbing him 46 times. She pulled an incredibly light seven-year sentence, for which she thanked Satan and commented how much she had en­ joyed the killing.

Since the overall occult trend is quite var­ ied, it can perhaps be considered best by ex­ amining its individual parts. Western witch­ craft is believed to have originated from the mystical cult worship of Hermes Trismegistus in ancient times, which continued to be prac­ ticed secretly for hundreds of years, hence the term “occultus” (hidden).

Over the years, witchcraft and magic grew and diverged into two district factions, black and white. Black magic, or that which derives its power from Satan to use for malicious pur­ poses, was always more or less condemned, but a white witch was regarded in early medi­ eval times as a beneficent sort of medicine man who drew his strength from natural forces and used it for good.

During the Middle Ages with their plagues and stifling economic system, occultism grew more sinister, causing paranoid church officials to overreact with the famed inquisitions. Fol­ lowing the Puritan witch hysteria, persecution became unfashionable, although occultism stay­ ed underground and appeared only occasion­ ally.

Perhaps the most famous white witch to­ day is the widely-published author Sybil Leek,

The current revival of the occult arts prob­ ably got started in the astrology craze of the late '60’s, and fascination for the supernatural broadened into all sorts of things; witchcraft, Satanism, voodoo, necromancy (black magic), and renewed interest in parapsychology. An­ ton LaVey’s First Church of Satan numbers well over 10,000 since its founding six years 34

whose books have ? ■- -ranteed her a comfort' able living for the re. t of her life. Preferring to call her craft by Jie ancient Anglo-Saxon name “Wicca”, she Presses its positive, con­ structive aspects, sue..: as healing and exorcism of evil spirits. “Satanism is the religion of death; Wicca is the iife-force.”

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History has always had more than just a passing interest in the devil. The early Gnost­ ics believed in the intrinsic evil of the universe, and pagan rites for propitiation of this evil force existed for centuries. John Milton’s en­ ergetic imagination gave the devil an almost protagonistic personality in Paradise Lost. Goe­ the's Faust popularized the legend of a man’s selling his soul to Mephistopheles, the devil’s advocate.

Satanism has become widely popular only in the last several years. Anton LaVey has attempted to revive the mysticism of evil and fascination for wickedness in his Church of Satan. His approach is probably more theat­ rical hocus-pocus than sincere worship, but you can't argue with results. The time is just right for his blend of Black Mass and carnival show.

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Occultism also shows up in the popularity of seers and prophets, the most famous of whom are Jeanne Dixon and Edgar Cayce.

Although they have made startling number of correct predictions, their visions, like those of the legendary Delphic Oracle, are always suffi­ ciently vague to allow several interpretations.

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It is interesting to speculate on the causes of the occult revival. Perhaps it is a reaction to today's religious rationalism, which seeks to “demythologize” the Bible, retaining only those sections which are not “allegory”, “in­ consistency,” and “myth”. People are being starved of the transcendent; man has an inner need to acknowledge something greater than himself.

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microcosms. Someone exulting in the new awareness put it this way; “What have science and scholarship given us but Hiroshima and Ausschwitz and herd conformity. The future lies in feeling, intuition, and knowing.”

The Satanism revival is another matter entirely. The personal focus of the Church of Satan is one of sheer self-fulfillment and grati­ fication, an ironic parody of the Christians self-denial. LaVey’s Bible proclaims, “Blessed are the strong, for they shall inherit the earth.

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him on the other.” Satan is not so much an object of worship as the symbol of the ultimate ego trip.

C. S. Lewis, author of The Screwtape Let' ters and a staunch believer in the existence of personal devils, had this to say: “There are two errors which one can make about devils.

The one is to disbelieve them entirely. The other is to have an unhealthy interest in them.

Devils hail a materialist and a magician with equal delight.”

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Nixon made in 1968? Did he throw them out A Christian has only one country given to over the Pacific on his way to a selling-out of ** him by God to do with it in a wise manan ally in Peking? or did he put them in his ner. Would he be fulfilling his duty as a closet to save for this fall while he signed Christian if he failed to do so? away the nation’s honor and self-defense in Should a Catholic or Seventh-day Adven­ Moscow? tist just shrug his shoulders and take for grant­ In light of the fact that only the Senate ed he has the truth, or feel “pretty compla­ can make and ratify treaties, one wonders cent” in the beliefs of his church? Or should whether the beloved President is assuming dic­ he instead search the Scriptures when It and tatorial powers he does not have. the beliefs of his church disagree, and look It would be interesting to know how many diligently for the truth? people remembered his ringing oratory on a Why is it that here on campus we are so fourth rate power capturing a first rate pow­ concerned with Spitual truth ( and rightly so), er’s naval vessel and getting away with it af­ yet when it comes to political truth many are ter the EC-121 airplane was shot down some as ignorant and led around like so many blind months later during his administration. sheep as were the people of the Catholic In September of 1968, candidate Nixon re­ Church before Luther’s time? What is this primanded the Democrats this way: double standard?

“The total deficit run up in the budgets of In the course of observing the political the Johnson-Humphrey years will amount to mess of today, any sane, objective person more than $55 billion. This massive dificit has would have no other choice but to throw up wracked and dislocated the economy . . . . "i his hands in holy horror and move to the North But even before the people had voted, Pole.

Richard Janssen, in the Wall Street Journal How many people know who and what of October 21, 1968 reported: the C.F.R. is? When almost every top mem­ “Progress toward budget balance could be ber of the past umpteen presidential admin­ much faster if Mr. Nixon would rapidly dis­ istrations has been a member of it, a little peek mantle many Great Society spending pro­ into it (with rational and objective discretion) grams, but his advisors vow this won’t hapmight clear up some of the obscure idiocy be­ pen.”2 ing shoved down naive voters’ throats nowa­ Yea many months later on November 17, days as diplomacy and progressive legislation.

1970, Wilbur Mills the House Ways and A good bet besides researching Richard Rovere’s article in Esquire of May 1962, would be Means Committee Chairman stated that un­ the ‘Naked Capitalist’ by W. Cleon Skousen less spending is stopped abruptly, the presi­ and ‘Fabin Freeway’ by Rose Martin, an ex­ dent's $1.3 billion dollar surplus 1971 Budget would run a whopping 24 billion in the red. haustive research essay packed with FACTS, Not only did John Kenneth Galbraith call Mr. footnotes, and more documented facts.

Nixon a socialist but even the President him­ What happened to all the campaign pro­ self described his economics as being Keynes­ mises, conservative in ideology, a certain Mr. ian many moons ago. (The author makes little 36

comment on McGovern here because the can­ didate is at least open about his policies, how­ ever questionable they are.)

Even one of ;ood 'ole Spiro’s whipping boys N[ew Yorl{ Tunes editor James Reston remarks: “A Republican president has . . . come out in the end with a policy of spending more money for relief of more poor people than the wel­ fare state Democrats ever dared to propose in the past. Nixon has taken a great step for­ ward. He has cloaked a remarkably progres­ sive (Leftist) welfare policy in conservative language .... ”3 What is the answer to all this people?

There are two sides to every question; one is right and the other is wrong. But how many moral cowards have even bothered to question these double standards instead of shrugging them olf without a second thought.

Because of the use of mob pyschology by the general media of today, the present voting mood asks the political question, “Who are you going to vote against?” What sort of eth­ ics or principle is that? Are the voters being white-mailed?

But the most important question to be asked and SOUGHT OUT is this: Is there really any difference or choice between the candidates?

The thruth, like the answer to every ques­ tion, is always out there. It just takes a con­ structive effort to find it (shades of Matt. 7:7).

Luther was called a heritic when he found the truth. Should people care what others call them when searching for truth — spiritual, political, or otherwise?

There is an obscure (as far as acknowledg­ ment by the general media goes) candidate running for the Presidency that has run on sound moral beliefs for Congress and practic­ ed such faithfully in Congress. He IS a choice.

This author will recommend anyone to seek this man out and tear his platform apart to study it. Then compare it with the other pre­ sidential pledges.

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word of God is living and active."

(Heb. 4:12)i After so many centuries of agnostic attacks against it, it is still “living and active.” From the first century onward it has endured the storms of skepticism and the satanic ramparts of rationalism which have ever sought to cast down from their celestial seats the God-given guidelines of “Sola Scrip* tura, Sola Fide et Sola Gratia." Only too well did the Spirit-inspired apostles foresee the hellbound havock which was soon to be wrought in the Bride of Christ. Only too clearly could the holy men of God prophecy a Church as­ sailed on every side by the sin-soiled, self* apointed minds of the “higher critics" of Holy Writ. Fortresses of falsehoods reared their ugly countenances in the midst of Zion and by the 4th century A.D., the Church of God rose to arms! Throughout its history the elect would fight its worst enemy, the foe with whom we also now contend, namely rationism!

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The Scriptures make a clear division and distinction between ministerial and magisterial reasoning. Surely, in order to comprehend re* vealed theology, we must be adept in the gram* matical rules of a language and in common logic since the Scriptures accomodate them* selves to human speech and reasoning. With this in mind, Melanchthon once^ stated: The* ologia debet esses grammatica. So also did Luther teach, namely, that whoever errs in grammar is bound to err also in doctrine. This is the proper use of reasoning in the interpre­ tation of the Scriptures. The improper application of reason to the Scriptures is called mag* isterial reasoing, reasoning which stands in judgement upon the sacred and infallible text rather than following the principle that “Scriptura ex Scriptura explicanda est." It is in this connection that the apostle Peter writes: “Know this first of all, that no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God." (II Peter 1:20-21).

trine of atoncnv.: save through the Incarnate Son of God. But Gnosticism rejected the doctrine of Incarnation. It declared that Christ could not possibly have a body: (1) because the absolute cannot enter into a real union with the finite; and (2) because matter is evil, and the spiritual world is ever in conflict with it."2 So we see, that the humanity of Christ was also denied by presumptuous reasoning. Fob lowing . upon the „coattails of this major heresyr c?mc Anomsm, Eutychianism a mingling of the two natures in Christ) and Nestorianism (a separation of the two natures). All of these heresies, founded by rationalism, denied the hypostatic (personal) union of the two natures in Christ. Lifting the weapons of her warfare, the Church gathered her forces together at Bithynia in 325 A.D. for the Council of Nicaea. At this historic place, drawing their doc* trines soley from the Scriptures, the leaders of Christendom refuted the rationalistic errors of Gnosticism with the Nicene Creed which as* serts that Christ is “God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made." Eutychianlsm ancj Nestorianism both found their refuta* tion at the Council of Chalcedon in 451 which stated: “We confess one and the same Jesus Christ, the Son and Lord only-begotten, in two natures without mixture, without change, without division, without separation."

While those first centuries of church hisTory passed by in conflicts concerning the natures of Christ, another force of rationalism was already in the making. A hierarchy was flourishing. Patriarch assumed authority over bishop and bishop over pastor and in the midst of a carnal power struggle came forth an institution which was and until judgement day shall be the greatest rationalistic perversion the church has ever seen. The apostles Paul and John had given sufficient forewarning that this great apostasy would come and now it had arrived: the very Antichrist, the Roman Pap­ acy.

Not many years after the ascension of our Lord, rationalism rallied its first major offen­ sive against the young Church in the form of Gnosticism which denied the Godhead of Christ. Dr. J. L. Neve hits the nail squarely on the head when in his discussion of Gnosticism, he says: “Christianity knows of no doc-

The mystery of this lawlessness was already at work Paul tells us. It came in essence from the supreme rationalistic fallacy of man as regards theology, that of work-righteousness, Work-righteousness is logical. Heathenism 38

abounds in work-rightcousness because it is the only way the unrc- :nerate mind can imagine as the way to salvation. It is perfectly logical that a man must climb the ladder of piety and good deeds to square himself with his Maker.

Paul sums it up rather nicely: “A natural man does not accep-: the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.” (I Cor. 2:14).

This therefore is the Antichrist spoken of

by John who “denies the Father and the Son,” (I John 2:22) inasmuch as he rejects the saving grace of both and “takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.” (II Thess. 2:4). The Papacy was the greatest heretical fortress ever erected and it took the sword of the Spirit to curb its power.

Called by God as a messenger of the ever' lasting gospel, a lone monk stands before the prelates of church and state and his words echo down through the years as the answer of a Christian to those who are wise in their own eyes: “Since then Your Majesty and your lord' ships desire a simple reply, I will answer with' out horns and without teeth. Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason — I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other — my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen!” That messenger of God was Martin Luther and that everlasting gospel is what dealt a severe blow to the Anti' christ.

For a time thereafter, God granted the Church a rest from rationalism, at least within Lutheranism in Germany, allowing the Church to replenish its spirit after the battle. Later however, to the surprise of everyone, Luther’s old companion Melancthon fell into the pitfall of rationalism and taught the heresy known as synergism which proposed that a man could take part in or cooperate in his own convex sion. The complete grace of God being incomprehensible, it is easy to see how Melanchthon, the man of letters, took theology into his own hands and obeyed reason rather than God. Finally, orthodox Lutheranism came to an ah most complete end in Germany when the ra' tionalistic syncretist (unionist) Calixtus gained influence in the Lutheran Church of Ger' many.

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Under the influence of Arminianism, most of England joined in the satanic slogan of the philosopher Locke: “Religion must be reason­ able, at least it cannot contain anything that is against reason.”3 Voltaire’s damnable doc­ trine of Deism was spreading over Europe, along with his own prediction that the Bible would be extinct in 100 years! Too bad for him!! “The word of the Lord abides forever!”

(I Peter 1:25). A century and a half past and Dr. Baur of the Tubungen School in Ger­ WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN many was peddling his rationalistic trash to every theological student who passed through his classroom. At home in America, so-called MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT men of the cloth like Emerson were rousing INSURANCE CORPORATION the righteous wrath of God-Almighty by their blasphemies. How few were the faithful! Nev­ ertheless, God always sends a man with the word to tear down and destroy that fortress of rationalism. This time it was Carl Ferdin­ and Walther, the first president of the Mis­ souri Synod. His most prominent work is The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel.

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stood firm as the Rock of Gibraltar. While countless phases of rationalism have hurled their poison darts at it and then passed away, the word remains to all eternity!

Yet we too mvtake up those same weap­ ons of Christian • trfare against the rational­ ism of our day which has gone deep into the fabric of the Chr -vian Church in America.

Getting even closer to home, the decrepid state of 95% of all so-called Lutheranism is due to the seeds of rationalism, sown first in the seminaries, and finally upon the hearts of the people. In order to discover whether a man today has absolute and unquestioning trust in the word and promise of God or whether he is the lord of his own life, one need only ask him his beliefs on a few of the current theological questions.

How many Lutherans are there anymore who truly belive that dusty old doctrine that the institution of the papacy is the very Anti­ christ? Very few, since calling a spade a spade is not popular in today’s broad-minded society.

Yet not many of these people find it at all difficult living a lie, having sworn themselves to the Lutheran Confessions and then believ­ ing otherwise. If a man does not believe the doctrine of the Antichrist, what is he doing in the Lutheran Church? He might as well quit fooling himself by trying to rationalize away a doctrine that is as plain as the nose on his face!

And Finally, there is the brain-child of ra­ tionalism called “unity without agreement.”

The ecumenical movement is in full swing, watering down the truth of God’s word and ig­ noring the warning of Christ: “He who is of God hears God’s words!” They of course “hear them not because they are not of God, but of their father the devil.” For that, they deserve the social gospel!

Rationalism! It is the enemy of the Holy Scriptures. It is the opponent of the Holy Christian Church. It is the instrument of the old evil foe to sink us in the mire of our own selfish pride. So, learn from history and learn well what the result is of using carnal reason as a ruler of measurement for the Sacred Scrip­ tures! And then commit to memory and live according to the passage that this subject is all about: “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the know­ ledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.” (II Cor. 10: 3-5).

Likewise, how many Lutherans anymore believe the illogical doctrine of infant faith and infant baptism by which, through the grace of God, faith is bestowed and salvation given as a surety to an unintelligent child?

The students at St. Oalf Lutheran College seem to think it is a matter up for discussion.

How often has the rationalism of such fiends as Zwingli denied the grace of God to little infants?

Rationalism destroys not only pure doctrine but also pure living. How many of the Luth­ eran faith still believe that their daily bread comes from the hand of a gracious Father?

Few there be who anymore accept the respon­ sibilities of the marriage bed as well as the pleasures. Excuses stemming from selfishness and unbelief create such a clamor that no one can hear the voice of the one who is the Lord and Giver of life, the giver of children, the heritage of the Lord. Few will consider that only God can grant children in the womb and if He so choses to do, it will be nothing but a blessing, working for good to those who love

SOLI DEO GLORIA Roy W. Hefti ’75 j - All Scripture quotations take from the Neiu American Standard Bible. o - Neve, J. L. A History of Christian Thought Vol. I. Page 35.

3 - Neve, J. L. A History of Christian Thought Vol. II. Page 36.

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Jke lAUl T"*wo'Thirds of the earth is covered with water. Some of this water is extremely dirty; some, crystal clear. Certain areas of it are warm, other areas are almost as cold as the ice caps that float on top of them. The very sight of a body of water is a beautiful picture and has been enjoyed by many people.

But what about the things which lie beneath the surface? What secrets do the lepths of waters hold from man?

An answer to these questions started com' ing forth some 45 years ago when the world of scuba diving began. The word SCUBA comes from the five words: self contained un­ derwater breathing apparatus. These words describe the life system of a diver, which con­ sists simply of an air tank connected to the diver by means of a regulator.

The diver’s tank is filled with filtered, com­ pressed air. Seeking a means of escape, the air flows through the regulator and is slowed down by stages before it enters the diver’s mouth. Since normal exhaling is demanded by man’s respiratory system, the regulator is equipped with an exhaust valve to rid the diver of his consumed air.

lln Act scuba diving ccatmues to hold its own unique aire. Whether a person lives near the ocean, the great lakes, a clear river, or quarry, there is the call to challenge them for their buried secrets.

For some divers this means merely observ­ ing the calm, quiet beauty of the depths as they arc magnified 1 /3 times greater than nor­ mal size by the water. For others it means adventure in uncovering some valuable article or information from the bottom, whether as an underwater archeologist, biologist, photo­ grapher, geologist, or a general enthusiast.

There is a feeling of controlled freedom as a diver hangs neutrally balanced in a closedin atmosphere of green and blue hues. And as his exhaled air bubbles rush to the surface, the diver knows the strange sensation of being completely dependent on his gear. Although this underwater world was once as completely hostile to man as any of the other great front­ iers were, like many of the other so-called quests of men it is slowly becoming tamed.

Our seas have much to offer for those ad­ venturesome and hardy enough to invade them.

And scuba diving is perhaps the most conven­ ient way for the average man to explore be­ neath water.

Therefore with a life system, man was ready to plunge beneath the water's surface.

But it wasn't just that easy. Man by nature is not very adaptable to living in water, so a lot of experiment and invention had to take place before man finally did feel comfortable and safe under water. New masks, fins, tanks, wet suits, and regulators were tested. Higher standards in the quality of equipment were constantly being sought. Medical technology concerning the biological hazards of this new world became necessary.

In most states where there is a demand for diving, there are instructions available.

And because in many places one cannot get his air tanks refilled without having completed a diving course, it is becoming uncommon for anyone to dive seriously, without having cer­ tification from some national diving association.

As a diver gains experience, he learns to plan ahead, and gets to feel for the safety of himself and his companion. With every dive there is a new feeling of excitement and pur­ pose. And as Captain Nemo says in Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, “You are about to take a journey into wonderland. It is possible that your state of mind will be one of astonishment — nay, of stupefaction. You will find it hard to remain indifferent to the spectacle unrolling before your eyes.”

During the early days the number of par­ ticipants in this new adventure was limited.

The main reasons for limitation stemmed from bad locations, to the expense involved, up to personal medical difficulties. Even today, al­ though many more people scuba dive than ever before, the number of serious divers is still considerably small.

Yet regardless of the number who do dive,

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"No, I’m just a student preparing for the min­ istry." There are many people outside our college who are very quick to label us as such.

Shocking, but true. Being called a Jesus freak did bother me, because it was guilt by associ­ ation, but it also bothered me that I did not really know that much about Jesus freaks and the Jesus movement. My curiousity got the best of me, so I did a little research on these Jesus freaks.

Jesus freaks are a religious counterculture group, who trace their beginnings to the 1967 flower child era in San Francisco. What start­ ed out as only a small minority group a few years ago has grown by leaps and bounds, and is still growing. Some say that the Jesus move­ ment is just a fad or another bad trip. It does have various fad aspects — such as, Jesus shirts (Jesus is my Lord), bumper stickers (Smile, God loves you), posters, buttons, and even a Jesus wristwatch — but there are signs that the movement is not "some theological HulaHoop or a religious Woodstock." Many who were involved in the faint beginnings in 1967 are still leading it, and they are expanding in various directions. Some in the movement say that by 1976 the U.S. will be saturated with the gospel of Jesus Christ and the world by 1980, but, of course, ‘if the Lord wants to work a bit slower, that’s O.K. with them."

The Jesus movement is not some unorgan­ ized, blind hero worship of a fellow rebel, who was the first great martyr to the cause of peace and brotherhood, but is rather be­ coming more and more organized all the time.

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cnthusiatst, who “witness"' for Christ by exhorting people to come to the knowledge of Jesus that will give them peace and com tentment. Christian coffeehouses have opened in many cities, and in one city a strip joint was converted to a “Christian nightclub.”

Communal “Christian houses” are being established for young people looking for a home, and a round-the-clock telephone service has been set up to reach out to the troubled. In this way they feel they are living and helping others as Christ did, and they use the Bible to show that this is how they should act. Many Bible passages come into mind at this point, e.g., “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” etc.

worship and not how or where that is impor­ tant to them. Race or age doesn’t matter to them as long as you believe in Christ. The common denominator for everything is Jesus.

Music has become the special medium for the Jesus movement. There are many popular hit songs that are based on Christ, His life on earth, His death, etc., in at least one way.

Just think of the songs “Amazing Grace,” “Put your hand in the Hand,” and “My Sweet Lord,” or the rock opera “Jesus Christ Super­ star,” or the musical “Godspell.” Many musi­ cal stars have been converted to the Jesus movement and now through their music are increasing the growth of the movement. These converts are from various fields of music, so that an even greater number are reached through their music. Just a few of these con­ verts are such people as Johnny Cash, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Paul Stookey, Jere­ my Spencer, and even my mother's favorite, Pat Boone.

When I finished my research, I sat and re­ flected on the Jesus movement. If the Jesus movement keeps on increasing as is predicted, it could be a real concern to us or maybe pre­ sent a real challenge to our preaching as fu­ ture Wisconsin Synod pastors. Their ecumenicalism could be very detrimental to conser­ vative theology. Here is something for each and everyone of us to consider: How would you react or how would your congregation react if some Sunday while you are up in the pulpit delivering your sermon, someone jumps up and yells, “Right on, Jesus does it all!”?

“Turn on with Christ, not drugs.” “Would Jesus carry a draft card?” “We’re all broth­ ers in Christ.” These slogans show us some of what the Jesus movement teaches and profes­ ses. The movement is very flexible in regard to doctrine, but is apart from, rather than against, the established religions. The move­ ment is very ecumenical and sometimes almost independent of any churches whatsoever. Their mass baptisms of any and all who confess Christ clearly show that among them there is no distinction as to whether one is Lutheran, Catholic, Presbyterian, etc. It's whom you

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ALUMNI ;

Rev. Albert Winter (’28) was called from Friedens, Randolph, to Christus, Richmond, Wis. Installation was Sept. 10, 1972.

Rev. Richard Mueller (’51), formerly a mission­ ary to the Luth. Church of Central Africa, was installed at Lakeside Lutheran High School, Lake Mills, Wis., Aug. 28, 1972.

Rev. Donald Kolander (’46) was called from Christ, Pewaukee, Wis., to Gloria Dei, Grand Blanc, Mich., and installed Sept. 17, 1972.

Rev. Philip Huebner (’53) will be installed at New Salem, Sebewaing, Mich., on Sept. 24, 1972. He previously served St. John’s, Flor­ ence Wis. Rev. Samuel Kugler (’36) was installed at Cross, Charles City, Iowa, on July 23, 1972.

Rev. Robert Michel (’58) was installed at St.

CALLS Rev. Julius Wjlle (’65) was installed as pastor of Zion, Clatonia, Nebr., on Aug. 20, 1972.

Rev. Mark Hallemeyer (’65), who has been serv­ ing congregations in Globe, Morenci, and Safford, Ariz., has accepted a call to Grace, Tuc­ son, Ariz.

Rev. Alvin Degner (’26), formerly of Newtonburg, Wis., was installed at St. Peter’s, rural Juneau, Wis., on July 2, 1972.

Rev. Larry Zessin (’62), after serving in Winona, Minn., was installed July 16, 1972, at St. Paul’s Menomonie, Wis. Rev. Norman Kuske (’63) was installed at Goodview Trinity, Winona, Minn., and First, Minne­ sota City, Minn., on Aug. 20, 1972.

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John’s, Burlington, Wis., June 18, 1972.

Rev. Leonard Pauknw (’54) was installed as as­ sociate pastor r.' St. Peter, Weyauwega, Wis., June 11, 1972.

Rev. Kenneth G" (’64) was installed at St. Paul, Tomah, V ., on May 21, 1972.

Rev. John Braur. . ?5) has moved from Redeem­ er, Tomahawk 1.;., to Our Savior’s, Zion, 111., and was instoli' on May 21, 1972.

Rev. Erwin Schee (’34) was installed at St. Pet­ er and Zion in Auenton, Wis., on June 4, 1972.

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The following were ordained and installed this summer at the congregations listed. They were members of the NWC class of 1968, unless indi­ cated otherwise. May the Lord’s blessings be with each one as he begins full-time work in the church.

Robert Hoepner at Centennial, Milwaukee, Wis., July 16.

David Koelpin at Immanuel, Willmar, Minn., July 30.

James Liggett at St. Matthew, Stoddard, and St. John, Genoa, Wis., Aug. 6.

Howard Nehmer at Messiah, Glendive; Trinity, Ekelaka; and Trinity, Terry, Mont., July 30.

Marcus Birkholz at St. Paul, Morris, Minn., July 9.

John Boehringer at Shepherd of the Valley, Fres­ no, Calif., July 16.

Charles Clarey at Shepherd of the Hills, Inver Grove Heights, Minn., July 16.

Orval Cullen at Hope, Belvidere, and Peace, Rockford, 111., July 23.

Douglas Envelbrecht, assistant pastor at St. Paul, North Mankato, Minn., July 16.

Richard Froehlich at Christ, Denmark, and Em­ anuel, Henrysville, Wis., July 23.

Dennis Halvarson at Trinity, El Paso, Texas, July 2.

Robert Krueger at St. Paul, Sioux Falls, S. D., July 16.

Richard Kugler at Zion, Valentine, Nebr. July 2.

James Phillips at Zion, Fort Morgan, and Trin­ ity, Hillrose, Colo., July 16.

Robert Pless at Our Saviour’s, Bismarck, N. D., July 9.

Richard Schliewe at Immanuel, Hadar, Nebr., July 9.

Carl Siegler at Redeemer, Tomahawk, Wis., Ju­ ly 9.

Allen Zahn (’67) at Mt. Zion, Jacksonville, 111., July 23.

Paul Zittlow at Faith, Elizabeth, 111., July 9.

Ronald Gosdeck (’67), assistant pastor at Friedens, Kenosha, Wis., July 2.

Elwin Klumb at Grace, Dakota, and St. Luke, LaMoille, Minn., June 18.

Larry Koester at St. John’s, rural Bloomer, Wis., June 25.

Glenn Moldenhauer at Trinity, Lime Ridge; Faith, Reedsburg; and St. John’s Hillpoint, Wis,, June 18.

Glenn Schneider at St. Paul, North Platte, and Trinity, McCook, Nebr., July 2.

David Tiarks at Zion, Morgan, Minn., July 2.

David Clark at Faith, Sussex, Wis., June 18.

Kurt Grunewald at Hope, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, July 2.

John Guse at Hope, Columbia, S. C., July 16.

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David Voss (’66) at St. Paul, Dale, Wis., June 18.

Mark Wendland at Divine Charity, Pittsburgh, Pa., July 9.

Dale Zwieg at St. Stephen, Kalamazoo. Mich., July 9.

Larry Prahl (’67) at Zion, St. Louis. Mich., July 16.

ANNIVERSARIES First Lutheran, Aurora, Nebr., celebrated the 25th anniversary of their organization on July 9, 1972. Guest preachers were former pastors: Paul Manthey (’52) and Milton Weishahn (’38).

The congregation’s current pastor is William Goehring (’63).

The 25th anniversary of Redeemer, Council Bluffs, Iowa, was observed July 23, 1972, with sermons by Rev. Hugo Fritze (’30) and Rev. Verdell Tassler (’64). Carl Otto (’65) is pastor of Redemer.

Good Shephed, Phoenix, Ariz., will observe its 25th anniversary during October. Rev. Imanuel Frey (’36) is the pastor.

St. James, Marlette, Mich., observed its 25th an­ niversary Sept. 10, 1972. Robert Diener (’67) is the pastor.

Pastor Ernest Kuehl’s (’29) 40th year in the min­ istry was celebrated Aug. 20, 1972. Pastor Kuehl serves Grace Lutheran in Pueblo, Colo.

Rev. R. H. Zimmerman (’28), who serves Grace, Glendale, Ariz., celebrated his 40th year in the ministry on May 21, 1972.

Salem Lutheran of Edmonds, Wash., noted the 25th anniversary of the ordination of Pastor Ralph Baur (’44) on July 16, 1972.

Rev. Carl Mischke’s (’44) 25th anniversary of ordination was observed Aug. 6, 1972. He is pastor of St. John’s in Juneau, Wis. Rev. Norbert Paustian (’29) of St. Matthew, Oconomowoc, Wis., observed the 40th anniver­ sary of his ordination on Sept. 10, 1972.

The 50th anniversary of the ordination of Her­ bert Schumacher (’18), of St. John’s, Milton, Wis., was celebrated on Aug. 20, 1972.

Rev. E. C. Renz (’43) of Mt. Calvary, Tampa, Florida, marked his 25th anniversary in the ministry, July 9, 1972.

The 25th year in the ministry of Rev. Howard Henke (’44) was observed Aug. 20, 1972. He serves St. Bartholomew in Kawkawlin, Mich.

DEDICATIONS Gethsemane Lutheran of Omaha, Nebr., has dedicated several facilities recently. On April 30, the church was dedicated to the Lord’s service, as well as the ne parsonage and newly purchased teacherage. On August 13 the new Christian Day School was dedicated. Ronald Roth (’60) serves Gethsemane.

A new church was dedicated by Immanuel Luth­ er m Salem, Oregon. William Bernhardt (64) is the pastor.

A new parsonage was dedicated by the EmanuelRedeemer parish of Yale, Mich., Sept. 17 1972

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a new church recently. Rev. Ethan Kahrs (’61) serves the congregation.

Jehovah, Alturn, Mich., dedicated a new church on June 4, 1972. Harold Sturm (’63) is the pastor.

A new church fr- Grace, Dakota, Minn., as recently dedicate;!' Elwin Klumb (’68) is the Dastor.

The members of V •'.th, Elizabeth. 111., dedicated their new chuieh i'.'.i June 18, 1972, Leroy Mar­ tin (’65) was vacancy nastor at that time.

Hope, Hartford, M>h., dedicated a new oarsonage on May 28, 1372. David Dolan (’67) serves as pastor.

RESIGNATIONS Pastor Henrv Meyer (’32) resigned July 2, 1972, from the dual parish of Zion, Fort Morgan, and Trinity, Hillrose, Colo., due to failing eye­ sight.

Rev. E. F. Henry Lehmann (’23), Cataract, Wis., plans to retire Oct. 1, 1972.

DEATHS Rev. Wilbert Frank (’25), Stetsonville, Wis., June 11, 1972.

Rev. Edward Kolander (’15), Watertown, Wis. (emeritus), May 15, 1972.

Rev. Walter Reineman (’ll), Oconomowoc, Wis. (emeritus), June 11, 1972.

Rev. William Fuhlbngge (’16), Toledo, Ohio (em­ eritus), Aug. 13, 1972.

Rev. Frederic Stern (’07), Two Rivers, Wis. (em­ eritus), June 18, 1972.

OTHER BRIEFS Another Northwestern alumnus, Dr. Winfred P. Lehmann, has made outstanding achievements in his field. Lehmann, a 1936 graduate, has been chairman of the Linguistics Department of the University of Texas since 1934. Recent­ ly he has received several recognitions. He was elected vice president of the Linguistics Society of America, a job which includes auto­ matic ascendancy to the presidency of that 6,000 member group in January. He succeded Kingman Brewster, president of Yale, on the board of the American Council of Learned So­ cieties. The Federal Republic of Germany chose Dr. Lehmann as one of sven Americans to visit German universities for the study of linguistics and Germanic languages. Further­ more, as a winner of a Guggenheim Fellow­ ship, he is taking a year’s leave, beginning this fall, to make a comprehensive study on Proto-Indo-European syntax. We wish him well in this venture and continued success in his work.

Hilmar C. Krueger (’25), founded his fourth twoyear college in the University of Cincinnati system this fall. It is called Clermont General and Technical College and is located 30 miles southeast of the main campus of the Univer­ sity. Over 300 students are expected to en­ roll in 15 different programs in the first year.

Mr. Krueger is still Vice Provost for Univer­ sity Branches and Community and Technical Programs at the U of C. J.R. 46

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Welcome once again to fun city USA, wherein this pinnacle of higher education is situated. If you care to find out what’s hap' pening, you might as well ask a member of the class of '50 — things haven't changed much. In this world of fast'paced change HsOtown is a steadying force, a fine place in which to study.

things they should have checked her brand.

Of course, I’m more interested in attempts at domestication than just hunting for the fun of it.

The weekend brought rise to a few rumors.

I was told that Beck Goldbeck found his dream girl — over six feet tall, grooves on All-Star Wrestling, and has Verne Gagne’s autograph.

John “Crash" Mattek had quite an experience.

He was told to put his money where his mouth was, and he hasn’t seen his wallet since. If anyone has seen it, John would appreciate its return. Rumor also has it that John Brenner is searching for the local Lutheran Pioneers recruiting office after being shown all the won* ders of the woods. Just to clear the air, any malicious rumors being spread about this August author are totally false.

I would like to welcome this year's fine group of Freshmen to the NWC family. Dean Chworowsky is the father of this family, so if you need the car for Friday night, feel free to ask.

The Frosh class this year once again proves the old adage, “different strokes for different folks’’, to say nothing of “variety is the spice of life." I'll let you in on a little secret —the best way to get through initiation is to make friends with the Sophs before it starts. It may save you from some devious punishment such as being staked out on the athletic field to suffer the ravages of nature and some rambunc­ tious coeds.

This year has brought a new wrinkle to our beloved refectory. We now have to show a card proving that we are members in good standing of the NWC family. Don’t worry, though, last time something like this was at' tempted, it was abandoned after a semester, so the end might not be that far in the future.

This card system is supposed to stop alleged traffic in free meals. Rumor has it that there was a feeding of the five thousand in unpaid' for meals. According to unofficial figures; $90.75 have been paid in wages to the checkers. Even if they did catch Peter and Andy Chworowsky sneaking into supper every day for the first three weeks, at $.75 per boy per meal, (a total of $31.50) they have barely earned one-third of their keep.

Among other things to which the dining hall has moved me, it has moved me to song, sung to the tune of “Where have all the flowers Gone.’’

Where has all the butter gone From our tables?

Where has all the butter gone That dairy treat?

Where has all the butter gone, Are cows on strike on e’ry farm?

REFRAIN: Th’ food budget must increase!

Th’ food budget must increase!

The first big intersynodical social event of the school year is still fresh in many memor­ ies. Although football was the ostensible ex­ cuse for the trip to DMLC, there was some­ thing else on the minds of the boys from Troy.

This was borne out in the report from the offices of the SPCB (Society for the Preven­ tion of Cruelty to Buffalo) where a record number of weekend hunting licenses were sold.

Rumor has it that the hunters were as high spirited as the hunted. A short flurry of phy­ sical argument arose over the possession of a certain piece of game between one of the local squatters and one of the hunters; to simplify 48

Where has all the peanut butter gone, Long time missing?

Where has all the peanut butter gone, that taste delight?

Where has all the peanut butter gone, Gone to pachy ''rms ev’ry jar.

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Where has all the fruit juice gone That rinsed our gums?

Where has all the fruit juice gone, Saved for supper ev’ry quart.

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Not to me.’.'ion lines like, “The chicken is the egg's way ■ producing another chicken," and “Where r'xre is no light, there is a dark area," and net to mention any names, but Prof. Kirst is nee again asserting one of his favorites, “you are what you eat!" Think about it — some of you should be ashamed.

Sorry about that, but the deadline this month caught me by surprise. If things don't get better by next month, I may be the first

Note to a recent alumnus: Good night, Steve Lawrenz, where ever you are!

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The secret Life of a C&W Fan T know that in many circles it is fashionable to be a country-western fan. But not in my circle. For most of my life I was a devoted listener of classical music. My record cabinets are still filled with Beethoven and Bach, which I listen to regularly. Whatever turned me on to country-western music is beyond me, but one night stands out in particular.

for me in the garage entrance to the house heard all of it. I think she heard Johnny Cash singing “I Walk the Line” or something along with my flat vocal harmonization. So, the cat was out of the bag as they say in Nashville.

My wife was kind about the whole thing, though a bit shaken. Later that night she told me in jest, that hearing that sound coming

My job reqires me to drive late at night.

On that particular night I had a long drive staring at me, and I needed some company to keep me on my guard. As I was tuning in my radio, idly scanning the dial, my car was sud­ denly filled with the nasal “Nashville sound.”

Well, nothing else was coming in so I listen­ ed to that. It kept me awake. I remember laughing to myself about the simple beat and “twang” characteristic of the songs. The thing which really caught my attention, though . was the advice of a c6?w star to a budding singer that he should “Sang from the hort to be a stor.” I date my ruin from that moment. Grad­ ually the habit grew and I found myself listen­ ing regularly to those friendly announcers and singers with their familiar hillbilly drawls. At first my listen ;ng was for humor or amusement, but I gradually began to like the stuff.

from that car was like hearing Arthur Burnstein playing the ukulele.

As the weeks went by I became less in­ clined to keep my c&w tastes a secret. To come right down to the fact of the matter, I defended my new status as a hillbilly fan with one self-convincing argument. Most of the time a listener to AM radio has but two choic­ es. He can listen to today's popular-progres­ sive music, in which case he is bound to hear one of those teenage groups that all sound alike, or he’ll hear some soul singer bellering in pain; or he can listen to hillbilly music. Act­ ually not Hillbilly, but that “good ol’ Coun­ try Music!”

All of this was done in secret, of course, on my late-at-night vigils. This secrecy was soon to be uncovered; for one night, in my negligence, I left my car radio loudly blaring as I pulled into the garage. My wife, waiting

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Lutheran Brotherhood welcomes Dr. Richard M. Heins Board of Directors.

Dr. Richard M. Heins brings to Lutheran Brotherhood, Fraternal Insurance Society, his years of experience as Professor of Business at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His work with students in insurance, business policy and insurance law shows his interest and dedica­ tion to the profession.

But more than that, Dr. Heins has been actively involved in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

In addition, he has served on the evangelism, building and long range planning committees of Our Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, Madison. His devoted service in these areas proves him to be a man concerned for the welfare of Lutherans.

Lutheran Brotherhood is privileged to welcome Dr. Heins to its Board of Directors, and we look forward to working with him.

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FOOTBALL After putting a disaster label on last year's efforts, Northwestern football fans can look ahead and imagine things only getting better.

With a team that was still getting used to Coach Thompson's system, and inexperience at key positions, the result was predictable.

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The offense will once again be led by Sen* ior Steve Ehlke. Steve has the experience to make the offense go, and the arm to get the passes there, but the big question is if the offensive line can keep the behemoths from Lakeland and Milton off him. Ehlke’s shoulder

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Sophomore Phil Hoyer and Frosh Lee Neujahr will be the targets for Ehlke to hit. The offen­ sive line will be a big determining factor in our hopes of moving the ball. The middle of the line is anchored by three guys who have 52

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The defense should be a solid unit. Many are back after working together last year, and this advantage should pay off. The big men in the middle of the front line are Beck Gold' beck and Mark Lindner. They can combine size and height to give an opposing quater' back trouble. Big Dan Garbow will hold down one defensive end, while a surprise at the other end will be Rog Kuerth. Rog will try to use his quickness to contain our foes’ out' side plays, while Garbow will again overpowcr people on his way to the quarterback. Another intramural transfer, Marc Bode, will play middleguard. He is nicknamed “animal,” and a few centers might find out why this season. Providing excellent backup for this line will be alhconfercnce linebacker Randy Rathje, who has a knack for being in the same place that the ball is. At the other linebacker is Frosh Dave Russow. He may not be the biggest man on the field, but he has shown his ability to mix it up. At cornerback posi' tions are Ed Zell and Bob Jensen. Jensen will

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The first quarter was a scoreless battle. It looked for a while like it might be a tight ball game. In the second quarter a touchdown pass to Neujahr v : called back, but a beautiful 23 yd. run by Vo:pel opened things up. Ehlke came right ba and hit Hoyer for a touch' down pass of 12 yards and a 13'0 halftime lead. By this time DMLC was falling apart.

They had numerous injuries and were tiring.

The defense allowed the Lancers only 123 yards all afternoon, and they were never real' ly in any kind of scoring position. While coach Thompson put in substitutes, the score mounted. Gottschalk broke free for a 52 yard run in his first varsity game. Heiges and Dob an both cracked over 2 yards out to put on the finishing touches.

The game was played sloppily in view of the fact that our gridders were penalized 115 yards. This was the first game, but better timing will have to be worked on. The number of substitutes may have added to the high number of penalties. It was a good game however, for coach to see how his backup men could perform in competition. Already being a game up on last season's record, the outlook has brightened.

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What goes on behind the practice fields on the tennis courts goes unnoticed to most NWC students, but if somebody has bothered to watch, he has seen a high level of tennis being played. All of Coach Plitzuweit's con' ference champ netters have returned. Phil Schupmann will again play number one. Mark Brunner has moved up to the two position, 54

while Jeske has gone up to number three, Schaller, Stone and Stern fill out fourth, fifth and sixth position Another conference title can be expected. .

Coach Sellnow ..s been hit by the heavy loss of seniors on .. golf squad. Kenny Kolberg will again occ- ::y the honors for us, but

after that it becomes thin. Tom Biedenbender will be the only other golfer with match experience. Dave Hanke, Pete Schumacher, Greg Heiman and Larry Zahn will probably round out the top six. Improvement will have to come fast if there are to be any winning efforts tj^s £ajj

The XX Olympiad showed only too vividly how political and professional the Olympic Games have become. Initially, they were a contest to be staged every four years to deter­ mine the finest amateur athletes in the world, and to promote fellowship among athletes, re­ gardless of race or nationality. But the events of the past year are an irrefutable witness to the breakdown of that ideal. In many areas the Games arc no longer amateur, and in no wise can they be considered non-political.

with money right out of their respective trea­ suries. The Russians and East Germans, though by no means the only offenders, have gone to extremes in supplying a source for nationalis­ tic propaganda. Although the direct subsidi­ zation of the athletic teams is widely known, the IOC has taken no action against them, not even initiating an investigation. The reasons for the IOC's actions are basically the same, political.

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Politics may not have been intended to be part of Olympic competition, but today it plays a dominant role. The Games in Munich will be remembered as much for their political troubles as for their athletic achievements. The seven gold medals of Mark Spitz pale into insignificance when measured with the Israeli slayings. A Senegal basketball player best sum­ med up the unreality of that bloody twentyfour hours when he said, “It is unbelievable.

War at the Olympics!”

The Karl Schranz episode last February was merely a blown-up case against a conven­ ient scapegoat. That dean of Alpine skiing was disqualified for violating the rules of ama­ teurism by accepting money from various sources for doing what he has done all his life, ski. If such a policy had been consistently enforced, there probably would not have been enough racers to hold a single competitive race. Alpine racing today is, of necessity, non­ amateur and docs not belong in the Olympic Games, such as they now profess to be. The hypocritical stand taken by the International

A black coalition effected the disbarring of racist Rhodesia from the games, yet nothing was said about the racial policies of the total­ itarian countries. The USA team suffered in­ sult upon ignominious indignity at the hands of Communist judges and officials, yet all pro­ tests proved vain. The situation approached the heights of absurdity in basketball and boxOlympic Committee leaves some doubt as to “8; Everyone of the hundreds of millions of the collective intelligences of its members, who TffY viewers throughout the wor d saw a few salve their consciences by punishing a martyr. off\cla!s fix a p™ which the USA had won while they do nothing to eradicate the real and 8lve 11 t0 jhalr ^uss£n °PP°"ents;, 7et aU problem, professionalism in amateur athletics. Protef Pr°ved futile Howard Cosells ring _ was the scene of repeated blundering, as time This conflict crops up in other ways. Many and time again the judges picked the winner countries subsidize their Olympic programs through politically-tinted eyes. It seemed to 55

matter more what country one was from than one’s ability to box. "The ref is always right” is little consolation to a disconsolate athlete who has just seen years of hard work wiped out by some biased official's ruling.

Clearly, the Olympics are not what they claim to be. A new set of rules must be adopt' ed if there is any hope for their longevity, for under the present system the Games are rapid' ly disintegrating into a political spectacle, an' other arena for competition among various na' tions and ideologies. Plans for the ’76 Olynv

pics are too firm to allow much alteration, but look for drastic changes in the XXII Olympiad’s format, with possibly different areas of the globe hosting track and field, swimming and diving, etc. Spreading out the venues of the Games would lessen the effectiveness of political protests, for the world's attention would not be focused on a single locality. But the question of amateur vs professional must be answered sooner than '76, for the integrity of the Games is in jeopardy.

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NEWS I guess the big news this month is the fact that school started again. Right on schedule, too. The opening service was held a couple of days earlier than usual (August 29th, for you chronological purists), so that an entire semester could be squeezed in before the Christ' mas vacation. My heart goes out to our pro' fessors who somehow have to fit a semester’s work into a shortened semester. Of course, we students gladly accept the extra burden, since we get the semester tests out of the way before Christmas, and thus spend our vaca' tions free from the shadow of impending doom.

To be perfectly truthful, I can’t recall anyone burning any midnight oil over Christmas in preparation for the onslaught anyway, but at least now we won’t have to even think about it. (I know I split my infinitive there.) I think that’s enough irndepth coverage on that topic.

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FLASH! (probably old and moldy news by the time this is printed) Reports of a great tragedy which occurred on the campus of our sister institution, Dr. Martin Luther College of New Ulm Minne' sota, are filtering back to Wisconsin. From what we can gather from the stunned students of that venerable institution, it appears they received a severe shellacking on the gridiron.

Initial reports indicate a toll of 35 to Nothing.

The perpetrators of this foul act were the Northwestern College Trojans. Flags will be flown at half mast for a week. President Nau' mann is seriously considering calling up the Lutheran Pioneers and declaring New Ulm a synodical disaster area.

The Forum is back on its feet again. There was an opening meeting designed to attract any frosh who might be interested. Scenes from the musical “You’re a Good Man, Char' lie Brown” were re'enacted. Even a scene from one of last year’s two monthlies “The Doctor in Spite of Himself” was put on to show the Frosh the dramatic heights attained

by Northwestern's acting community. It was also revealed at the meeting that this year’s first monthly is well on the way to becoming a reality. Mark Johnston, the director, expects great things of his cast as they enact “Papa, Behave!” (a farce).

A relief fund (Save Our Sisters) is being set up. Any and all donations can be sent to Room 214R, Wartburg. p.w.

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his little expeditions into “God’s Country,” as he frequently liked to call it. This time Gib was planning a three day canoe trip down the Black River in western Wisconsin. The sur­ prising thing in this case was that he invited me to go along. He had other closer, more ex-

\\ fjH, Nature! Wonderful nature! How ^■^marvelously has God adorned our homeland with your refreshing beauty! The rolling woodlands; the rushing, gurgling, sparkling streams; the rumbling, tumbling waterfalls; the majestic mountains and humble valleys; the prairie wilds; the sky-blue lakes; the rainbowcolored desert; and the ruggegd coastlines! Oh, Nature, destitute of the hum-drum of very-day urban life, peaceful and quiet, yet alive with God's precious wildlife. Such is the splendour of nature, there for the insects, for the fish, for the mammals, there for man!”

Although I could easily accede to such sen­ timents, I have to admit that the statements above are not my own, nor could I voice the same with as much enthusiasm and vigor as one of my neighborhood friends could and just as often did. Notice that I called him a friend. In actuality he was forty years my sen­ ior, but was such a talkative and active man, that you just couldn’t help liking him and as­ sociating with him. His name was Gib Kling­ er, but to everyone who knew him (which was, I suppose, everyone in town) he was known as Gibber the Gabber. But his so-called gift of gab was unique. As garrulous as he was, he was seldom boring, for he had an anecdote for every situation. I can't readily imagine where he got them all from, but, while some he just contrived on the spur of the moment, no doubt, most of them he acquired from his numerous travels and experiences. Like the retired, he had a lot of time on his hands. So he needed things to do and places to see. For this reason he frequently traveled, not to the tourist-laden cities, like New York and Wash­ ington, but to America’s own out-doors. He was, plainly speaking, a nature lover. But while he was enthralled with Yellowstone and Yosemite and even Wisconsin's humbler parks, the Gab could find a trek over the rolling fields and meadows of some farmer's forgotten forty just as enjoyable, just as pleasant, and just as rewarding as the mighty view of the Grand Canyon. As any true outdoorsman, he wasn’t confined by the boundaries of some famous park or forest, but was fond of all our won­ derful outdoors.

With this in mind it was not surprising to learn that he was planning another one of

perienced friends that he could have taken along. On the hand, I was only a novice at nature game, which Gibber was so very well used to. It was true that I had done some camping, but this was in the friendly, welldefined spaces of a state park campground.

On the Black River, you camp wherever you please, without the conveniences of running water or flush toilets. To me that is really “roughing it.” But for some reason I was en­ thralled with the idea, despite the fact that I seldom like to try new adventures, and, to be honest, excitedly accepted the Gabber's in­ vitation. Since Gib provided all but my sleep­ ing bag and three days clothes supply, I had only to wait for the trip.

As we headed west, the last Monday in August, we formed a rather unique and con­ trasting pair: Gib carrying on the whole con­ versation, and I a mere listener. That suited me fine though this morning, as I was occupied with thoughts of my maiden canoe voyage.

The fact that the weather forecast the night before was rather ominous also occasionally crossed my mind, but a couple hours of clear, cloudless sky finally convinced me that my anxieties were all in vain. By noon that day we had reached Black River Falls, starting point for the trip. There we had a quick lunch at a small cafe, because, as Gib told me, he didn’t want me to have to eat his cooking too soon. I smiled as I thought to myself that nothing could be as bad as my own cooking.

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w of this summer probably swelled many rivers considerably.

Like the Wisconsin, the Black River has numerous sand bay. jutting out of its darkblue waters. Many ' the sandbars form regular peninsulas and . lands right along and in this beautiful strea: . . It was on one of these sand islands that vstopped for the night. It was fairly early, bo. we were pretty tired and hungry, as you can well imagine. Although the island was fairly well covered with small trees and brush, most of it was just like a beach, but in this case surrounded by water on all four sides.

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After we ate our humble but adequate supper, Gib and I put up our shelter for the night. It was nothing fancy, only a canvas covering staked over our to sleeping bags. Each end we covered with thin netting in order to keep the pesky mosquitoes out of our hair (as well as our backs, arms, legs, and necks, too). After a few interesting stories of the Gab' ber's own experiences on some of his other trips, I was, quite frankly, ready to hit the sack (or bag, as was the case). As I lay there thinking, I remarked to my self how fortunate we were to have such a fine day. However, as I was about to fall off into a peaceful slumber, I thought I heard a faint, distant rumbling. I perked my ears for that second, but immediately all was quiet, and I was soon asleep, with thoughts of another pleasant day on the river soon coming up.

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Crack! I woke up with a start. A sharp, deafening thunderbolt filled the air, as if all the angels in heaven were bowling near by.

At the moment it was only drizzling, but that bolt only portended much moore to come. Just then the wind picked up, vigorously howling at our crude shelter, but Gib, who had also awakened, assured me that this shelter of his had withstood many a fierce storm before. It was virtually indestructible, he insisted. But I was not to be consoled. For me, who had ah ways observed with interest within the safe confines of home an approaching thunderstorm, this thunderstorm was extremely frightening, especially in the middle of a river. As I lis­ tened ever so anxiously to the increasing pat­ ter of rain drops, my thoughts reverted to those terrible floods which had hit our country so hard the first month of summer. Foolishly and without just cause I imagined us being carried down tthe river in an onslaught of gushing water, never to be heard of again, and probably not to be found for many

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But as the rain continued its unceasing pummeling, the rythmic melody lulled me to sleep. As I slept ( . :> more than a few minutes), I dreamt that ihe swollen river was in' deed carrying us dev. nstream. But as I as trying to gasp for br th, the dream seemed so real and alive for me. I woke up with a start, and indeed I was gasping for breath. Nor was that all. My whole body felt soaked and my face felt as if I had put it face down in the river. Then the chilly realization raced through my befogglcd mind: the canvas roof had cob lapsed, bringing with it the pool of water that had collected in its ridges and depressions. I was rather disgusted, to say the least, with Gib’s “indestructable" contraption. Of course, Gib was wide awake by this time, but the brunt of this deluge had missed him. The shelter had collapsed on my side only keeping him relatively dry. As he sat up, with a sympathizing expression on his face, I knew he was trying hard to keep from laughing at my ridiculous state. But the more he attentively watched me sweep off what excess water 1 could, he couldn't hold back any longer, but broke out into a hearty laugh. He apologized for his misplaced outburst, but I was ready to drag him out into the down pour anyway, when a roaring gust of wind blew down his side, too, bringing with it another small mor­ sel of nature’s fury. Though momentarily stunned, he continued to laugh heartily, in the end bringing a broadening smile to my damp face also. But we were soon to sec that it was no laughing matter. The rest of that night was a nightmare. There we were, soaked to the skin, waiting for morning. We were so wet, that I think between the two of us we could have put out the Chicago fire.

ing thunderhead appeared just above the west' ern horizon. My heart sunk as I watched it inch its way toward us.

The nightmare we had just gone through quickly flashed before my eyes. Not wishing to repeat the horrible affair, I was eager to abandon our trip right then and there, but, of course, I wasn’t about to admit that to Gib. But to my surprise Gib was the first to sug' gest we quit. I was all too happy to do just that. As we lifted our canoe out of the water, I reflected that, while nature can be so very beautiful, the cold fact is it can also be very wet, too.

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So with regret and resignation, we travel­ ed back home, but not without tasting a small, but violent bite of the great out-doors.

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There is perhaps not a single more coni' monly accepted view of the origin of Western culture than that Western Civiliza­ tion is a direct descendent of the Hellenic world. Pursuing the matter further, Greek culture most permanently expressed itself in the various dogmas of its philosophers, for today's philosophies are generally nothing more than adaptations of concepts over two millenia old. A brief survey of the important Greek philosophers would be in order, if for no other reason than to trace the early development of the philosophies that are manifested in our modern society. But for the Christian there is also another reason. These pagan ideas of the nature of man and the universe not only corrupted various “Christian” doctrines throughout later history, but they are also present today, diametrically opposed to God's Word and His plan of salvation. One must first know who the enemy is, before he can fight against him.

The beginnings of philosophy belong to the Milesians, or Ionians, who shifted the basis of the thought from a mythological base to one of scientific inquiry. Thales of Miletus, 585 B.C., initiated the inquiry concerning the na­ ture of things. He proposed that there is a basic similarity between everything, despite different appearances. He assumed that there was some single element lying at the founda­ tion of all physical reality, this elemental stuff being Water. Later Milesians, Anaximander and Anaximenes, theorized the primary sub­ stance as being the “indeterminate boundless” and Air. But the Ionians are remembered not for their theories, but for raising the question concerning the nature of the world.

The Philosophers Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Zeno, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Democritus and Leucippus are remembered for proposing various theories concerning the origin and existence of the natural world, but failing to agree on any uniform conception of the cosmos. It was at this point that a very important change took place, as Socrates and the Sophists shifted the concerns of philosophy to the study of man, where the emphasis has remained ever since. Philosophers now addresed themselves to the problem of human know­ ledge, the search for universal truth.

The Sophist Protagoras is credited with saying, “Man is the measure of all things,”

in other words their knowledge is relative to each person, with no way to distinguish be' tween appearance and reality. The Sophists are remembered for teaching the art of rhetor' ic, or persuasive speech. Yet, as a whole, they were sceptics who weren't really too much more on the ball than their predecessors, as evidenced by Gorgias’ three absurd notions: that nothing exists; that if anything exists, it is incomprehensible; and that even if it is com­ prehensible, it cannot be communicated. For­ tunately, Gorgias never hit the big-time, even among his contemporaries.

The Sophists' keen critic was Socrates, who along with his pupil, Plato, and his pupil, Aristotle, form the triumvirate around which Greek philosophy was brought to its highest degree of development. As the subject mater­ ial is so vast, I will point out only major, dis­ tinctive concepts of each. It must be remem­ bered that, for the most part, making distinc­ tions between these three is only a matter of interpretation, for they agree on most basic concepts.

Socrates wrote nothing himself, and we are dependent on Plato’s socratic Dialogues for our knowledge of him. Socrates was com­ mitted to the pursuit of truth and a stable basis of knowledge. His major theme was "knowledge is virtue,” and Aristotle credits Socrates with the conception of inductive rea­ soning, as well as the Greek idea of the human soul or psyche. Sorates was concerned with the "good life” and not mere contemplation.

The “good life” for him consisted in serving one's fellow man. Virtue was the fulfillment of one's function, while knowledge is attained through the dialectic method, the practice of disciplined conversation. If knowledge is vir­ tue, it follows that ignorance is vice, not bliss, as some would have it say.

Plato’s philosophy became the most influen­ tial strand in the history of Western thought, so powerful was his treatment of knowledge.

Whitehead said, “the safest general character­ ization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” Our knowledgge of Plato comes main­ ly from His Dialogues. Plato’s theory of know­ ledge was described in the allegory of the Cave, the metaphor of the Divided Line, and his doctrine of the Forms. According to Plato, knowledge is infallible as it is based on what 66

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is most real. Knowledge of the senses is rela­ tive, but knowledge of the Truth is true know­ ledge, the real object behind the shadows of the visible world. Plato’s theory of the Forms or Ideas represents his most significant philoso­ phic contribution. Forms are eternal patterns of which the objects we see are only copies, ex­ isting apart from the concrete things we see.

A form is the cause of the essence of a thing, while a thing may copy a form. There is a hierarchy of Forms, representing the structure of reality, of which the visible world is only a reflection. Forms are made known through re­ collection, dialectic, and the power of desire.

Plato's concept of the “good life” is true hap­ piness, to which Aristotle agreed.

Aristotle is remembered for the invention of logic. Logic is a study of words or language, while Aristotelian logic is the study of the thought for which words are signs. For Aris­ totle, logic was the instrument of analysis of human thought as it thinks about reality.

Aristotle is also credited with the concept of syllogism, the principle of implication. “True wisdom, first philosophy, or metaphysics is the most abstract and also the most exact of all the sciences because it tries to discover the truly first principles from which even the first principles of the various sciences are derived.”

He rejected Plato’s explanation of the univer­ sal Forms, rejecting especially the notion that the Forms existed separately from individual things. Aristotle’s Unmoved Mover became, at the hands of Thomas Aquinas in the thir­ teenth century, the philosophical description of the God of Christianity. His Unmoved Mover could be said to be pure understanding, or pure nous. Aristotle’s theory of morality centers around his belief that man has a func­ tion to fulfill. His concept of virtue is as the golden mean between two extremes, and as the fulfillment of man's distinctive function.

Post-Aristotelian philosophy, as represent­ ed by the Stoics and Epicureans, shifted the mood and the emphasis of philosophy. The subject matter remained the same, but the em­ phasis became practical and the mood was selfcentered. Instead of working out blueprints for the ideal society and fitting individuals in­ to large social and political organizations, as Plato and Aristotle had done, these new phil­ osophers led people to think primarily of them­ selves and how they as individuals in a scheme of nature could achieve the most satisfactory personal life.

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"TnE degeneration of ceremony in the Lutlv eran Church is fairly common knowledge.

Our church has been influenced by many “isms" in its liturgy and ceremony: Zwingliism, Calvinism, Pietism and Rationalism. Even today our church is suffering from the consequences of these movements.

But in our school, yes, throughout our synod, a minority has dabbled in the tradition­ al areas of liturgy and worship of our church.

For the most part we respect the views of Lutherans when it comes to ceremony. Un­ fortunately many of our pastors and profes­ sors do not reciprocate. It is realized that ceremony is an adiaphoron, but this also means that no one man can try to voice his opinions as though they were fact.

Many are disgusted when they hear voiced such sentiments as: “‘Beribboned dandies' with their 'turned-around collars' are the beginning of the downfall of doctrinal purity in the church and come very close to being ‘heretics.

The purpose of this article is to show the symbolism behind ceremony and vestments in our church and also to show that those who are liturgically conscious need not be heretical at the same time.

To start out, let us define the word cere­ mony. Ceremony is everything concerned with the performance of a rite. It refers to speak­ ing, singing, kneeling, bowing, making the sign of the cross (Luther states when explaining the Evening Prayer, “In the evening, when you go to bed, make the sign of the holy cross ..." It is unfortunate that the Gauscwitz edition of the Catechism which our synod uses does not include this and many other such statements), outward observance of the church year, ornaments, symbols, the church building, the altar, crucifixes, candles, and vestments.

Ceremonies are a necessary part of our church. Luther himself maintained, “We can­ not live on earth without them.” A Christ­ ian’s faith can be propagated, preserved and stimulated when ceremony is employed for the glory of God and the salvation of man. The old Latin proverb states this superbly: Lex orandi lex credendi (As we worship, so we believe, or, as we believe, so we worship) Ex­ ternals in worship are things which people can understand, by which they are often affected

deeply. A crucifix may move the heart of a layman to whom the word has brought the message it proclaims, or bowing the head when Jesus' holy name is said in the liturgy may be a powerful testimony of faith in Christ as Savior and Lord. Ceremony is an exemplifi­ cation and confessional vitalization of the faith.

Yes, even the Lutheran Confessions will support these previous statements. Article XV of the Augsburg Confession states that usages which are not contrary to Holy Scripture arc to be observed. Article XXI states that old ceremonies are not to be abolished. Article XXIV says that ceremonies of the past are to be retained. The Conclusion of the Augs­ burg Confession says that only universal cere­ monies are to be admitted, and Article XV of the Apology states, “From this condition of the churches it may be judged that we diligent­ ly maintain church discipline and goodly cere­ monies and good church customs." Finally, Article XXIV of the Apology states that cere­ monies are vital and have a purpose.

These are official statemens, and they are binding on all Lutherans. Moreover, we are bound to the traditional rites and ceremonies of the Church in the sense that, whether we shut our eyes to the fact or not, we are con­ nected with the ancient church by our history, liturgy, and message.

We do not have the time or the space to speak about all the ceremony in the church, such as for the altar and its ornaments, sacred vessels, and liturgical music. Let it be suffi­ cient to note that all ceremony has symbolism behind it. Candles represent our prayer and worship ascending to God in heaven. Thus candles ought not to be electric, but a real flame. We have time for only a cursory ex­ amination of vestments.

There are three basic parts to a clergyman's garb. The first is a cassoc\, his most basic garment. It is a black garment with narrow sleeves, and it covers the entire body from the neck to the feet. The surplice is a loose-fitting, free-flowing, white garment worn over the cas­ sock for general services. The stole is a narrow strip of material passed over the neck.

The black cassock represents sin, the white surplice symbolizes the righteousness of Christ covering our sin, and the stole, in the specific color of that part of the church calendar, re­ presents the yoke of Christ.

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Even the choir has traditionally worn the cassock and a small surplice called a cotta. In general, the Church has been run according to a law of order, in accordance with the Lord's command in I Corinthians 14:40, and a con­ cern for subduing individuality, which, for ex­ ample, in a choir, draws attention to some­ one's own clothes, if cassock and cotta are not used.

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Most of us notice the various colors on the altar and pulpit. White is for perfection, vic­ tory, beauty, holiness, and joy. Red is for fire, blood, and fervour. Green symbolizes abiding life, peace, nourishment, rest and constancy.

Violet symbolizes mourning, preparation, and penitence. Black represents woe, sorrow, dark­ ness, and humiliation.

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other side of the picture, let it be known that the altar paraments or to merely brighten their the Church has never adopted or even approv' own appearance. cd its use formally The black robe goes against The churches of our synod believe and con* our history, tradition, and heritage. It is an fess that God is the creator of all things on academic gown transported into another at' this earth, and that He constantly reveals mosphere, from the university to the church, Himself through the materials in His creation. for the Lutheran Church was born in a uni' The Church enriches its worship by the use of versity. The black of a robe represents gloom many of God's earthly gifts, e.g., splendid, and sin where joy and purity should be typi' ornate church buildings and the beautiful musfled. It is clumsy, has no symbolism, and is ic of the liturgy, and a wide array of material out of place. The black robe is not Lutheran symbols and vestments, which have tradition' or Genevan, but has evolved from the Roman ally been worn by the clergy and choir and cappa clausa. have a worthy place in our church's historical Having in previous paragraphs become forms of worship.

Luther and his fellow reformers did not briefly acquainted with the preaching and eucharistic vestments of the ancient church, regard retention of vestments as a sin, for and having seen the constant unity they have they saw the worth in ceremony. Let us also provided for the church, the logical conclusion see this and remember to test everything and to reach would be that the real ‘beribboned to retain what is good in accordance with dandies' are those who, consciously or not, end I Thessalonians 5:21. up flaunting their own individuality during David last '73 worship services by donning brightly-colored AND ties (sometimes even socks!) either to match Timothy Ziebell '73

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Our class was not unique in anticipating the Homecoming Program with a certain amount of apathy. Although while in college we may have realized to a lesser degree that this affair possessed some merit, we now look back remembering the real feelings that pas­ sed through our minds. Every hour spent with crepe paper in the Auditorium brought more complaints, but this activity solidified a class that until that time had been made up of rath­ er “unrugged" individualists. We may have complained about the squeaky clarinets in the As Faculty members, many of you may band, but something about those brilliant red have observed that a real love for Northwest­ uniforms and the opening measures of "The ern does not fully mature in a student until March of the Olympians” lifted us a few inch­ he has graduated. The complaining then stops, es off our chairs. The speakers were often dry the bad experiences are forgotten, and the and long and the toastmasters' humor left good and happy ones remain. Our class, es­ something to be desired, but there was joy in pecially active during its stay at N.W.C., the faces of those graduates who had traveled has, to a great degree, felt this sentiment. far to relive the “best days of their lives.” If Many of us anticipated Homecoming '72 with the Glee Clubs seemed “mickey mouse” to us, a keen sense of school spirit and a longing to they were fantastic to our mothers and our return. Having received the latest news of dates (at least to our mothers). We may have your “overtures” to the student body and snickered when our classmates rose to give their subsequent agreement with your position, some serious speech about the merits of North­ Homecoming has for us lost its appeal as well western, but inwardly we were proud because our friends had gained enough respect from us as its meaning.

Tt was with great disappointment that the Junior Class of Wisconsin Lutheran Sem­ inary learned of the cancellation of some of the important 1972 Homecoming festivities at Northwestern College. Because Homecoming has been something of a unique occasion to us during our years at N.W.C. and, in some cases, even before our student days, we who have signed this letter felt obligated to make known our feelings to you in this formal man­ ner.

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to be chosen for such honors. Our sarcasm needled every aspect of Homecoming Eve, but any disparaging reference to “Alma Mater and School Song" would have brought fire to our eyes. This was what we especially looked for* ward to every Homecoming — 150 young men gathered around a sentimental assembly of hundreds, singing a song which meant more to them than they could possibly realize at that time. There was a certain electricity in the air on those evenings — our dates were impressed, our parents were proud, and our fathers, those that were graduates, felt just a few years younger — and we were exhilerated!

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We do admit that some changes must be made for a modern and growing Northwest' ern. The unfortunate double Homecoming (may it never happen again) diminished the crowds at these affairs. The fire regulations have become stiffer and the decoration of the Auditorium may fast become impractical. The speakers have occasionally lacked color and time keepers. However, it would seem to us that the Northwestern mind is keen enough to make constructive changes without destroy* ing fine traditions. As Alumni we are no longer in a position to produce changes, although as students our suggestions were num* erous and unanimous, (cf. “Report of the Dormitory Council to the Faculty Activities Committee", 1972). However, as former students and now recent Alumni, we would wish that this letter serve not as an obituary for Homecoming festivities, but as an inducement to carry on a tradition that has much merit!

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The Black and Red is the official magazine of NWC, which is not put out by the stu­ dents, but rather is put down by the students.

The writing, for the most part, is done by the thirteen-man editorial staff. Why don’t more students contribute? Most students say that they are too “busy” to contribute, but the real reason is that they are too apathetic. It is much easier to criticize than to write, much easier to belittle and ridicule than to put your­ self in a position where you may be belittled or ridiculed.

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I was very reluctant to accept the position of editor-in-chief and now I am almost sorry that I did, because I have lost much respect for many of the students here for their sup­ posed “corrective criticism.” They do not want to contribute to their publication; that’s right, their publication. Yet when others do con­ tribute, they are the first to maliciously criti­ cize, belittle, and ridicule the contributors for putting forth some original, conscious effort.

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right there to complain and criticize, but does the class as a whole pitch in and help? How about the support given to not only school activities — such as athletics — but also to the activities that include such things as Forum and now this year Forensics? What has and is happening to the student body of NWC? The students are contented to just sit back on their posteriors and complain and criticize constantly, while doing nothing to better campus life here at NWC.

ligning, in fact I would encourage good corrective criticism. The usual reply I give to these back-biters is “If you’re uptight about some­ thing in the B:s?R, why don’t you write an open letter to the editor or just write up your critique and submit it for publication?” The intelligent reply that I usually receive from these astute critics is “Well, uh, . . . you know!” That’s right, I do know, probably too well.

I'm not saying the B5s?R is the Harper’s or New Tor\er of college publications, but it is the publication of the students of NWC. The BfcPR could definitely use improvements — such as articles from students instead of always having to rely on staff members for articles.

The B6s?R would greatly improve if the staff members didn't always have to worry about writing articles every month, because there are

The campus here at NWC is far from typical in the eyes of most colleges today, but it is not just because of the traditions and re' strictions that are put on the students that make NWC a typical college. Campus life is still what every individual student makes it.

So many are willing to just sit back and let things happen as they may. These then should be content with campus life as it is and not constantly complain and criticize. If you don’t like certain things on campus or you think some things should be changed, don’t just sit there and complain about them. Complaining accomplishes nothing! Get off your posterior and take some constructive action, or if you just want to sit there, then don’t complain about the way things are! Voice your opin­ ions! Submit an article or write an open letter to the editor.

not enough student contributions, and could go about their other staff duties. The Bcs?R can and is only as good as the students of NWC want it to be through conscious efforts to improve it.

The student apathy here at NWC can be seen in other areas of student activity besides the B&R. At this time of the year Homecoming provides a very glaring example of this apathy. Students are right there to criticize everything about Homecoming, but what do they do about it? Except for a few consscientious individuals, Toothing! It is much easier to criticize something you don’t like than to do something about it. This can be seen in class participation in making displays. The displays are usually the last-minute conglomer­ ation of a few individuals. As you read this, Homecoming '72 will already be in the past, so reflect for a minute if what I have just said wasn't, for the most part, true. This will probably also be true of Winter Carnival if the whole student body doesn’t take a long look at itself and see how apathetic it has real­ ly become.

This apathy is prevalent throughout the whole school as can be seen in various class activities or student body activities. In class activities it usually comes down to just a few individuals who must not only do all the work but also assume all responsibility. The class is 73

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Joshua set the scene for some sober reflection upon the blessings bestowed by God on His The waters of Marah the Lord turned from bitter to sweet. In fulfillment of His promise holy nation. that He would never forsake His children, the The recorded remembrances of this people gracious God of the harvest poured manna went much further back than their own time. and quail in quantity uncountable from the Upon the knees of their fathers they had learn­ heights of heaven. ed how with a mighty arm the Lord their God And what about us? We self-sufficient, had brought them out of bondage from Egypt.

Neither were they ignorant of how Israel had self-supporting people can barely find a grate­ time and again spit in the face of that Sover­ ful sigh in our hearts for the abundant food eign Master who had blessed them above and with which the Lord has sustained us up until beyond their deepest yearnings. With penitent this moment. sighs could their fathers recount the roar of The whole picture presented by Joshua to the Red Sea in their ears as the seed of Abra­ ham found itself trapped between certain Israel and to us is that which John Bunyan death on both sides crying out, “Why have called “grace abounding to the chief of sin­ you dealt with us in this way, bringing us ners.” It is an unforgettable portrait of our out of Egypt?” And even more clearly re­ unworthy whimpering against God contrasted tained were the words of that faithful man with His undying love for us. To follow the Moses: “Do not fear! Stand by and see the account of Israel is to follow the account of salvation of the Lord which He will accomp­ our own lives. Unfaithfulness to the Mighty lish for you today; for the Egyptians whom One on Sinai has been and always will be the you have seen today, you will never see them same, whether we worship a golden calf or again forever. The Lord will fight for you our own selfish ambitions. Murmuring against the servants of God has lost none of its origin­ while you keep silent.” al guilt from the time when Aaron and Miri­ The situation sounds familiar too. How am brought railing accusations against their often do we find ourselves in the midst of un­ brother Moses up until now when we so often beatable odds headed for certain misfortune abuse and malign the servants of the Word and instead of believing that “all things work on the basis of their personality rather than together for good to those who love God,” we on the basis of their preaching. Cowardice to sit down with pencil and paper and mathemat­ carry out the commands of God was sin then ically determine what our chances of success and it is sin now. Israel spent forty years of 74

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Even as regenerate children of God, we still are subject to that fleshly temptation to complain in the face of God’s innumerable blessings. Israel thanked not God for Moses and dare say we that we have sufficiently praised the Lord for the servants He has given us? Israel often took lightly the promise that the Lord gave Moses concerning that “Pro­ phet” like unto him that would lead them out of great darkness. How often do we take light­ ly that salvation worked out for us on Cal­ vary's cross?

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And Joshua spoke from the heart here.

Joshua had seen the mighty and manifold works of God throughout those years. Joshua had seen those great stones hurled down from heaven upon the Amorite enemies of the Is­ raelites below. He had seen the sun stand still at midday in Gibeon and the enemies of the Lord beaten back under its blazing glory. In rapid succession had Joshua seen Makkedah, Libnah, Lachish, Eglon, Hebron and Debir fall. Joshua had seen it all and through his eyes we now see it as we listen to his parting words with his beloved brethen, taking them to heart for our own thanksgiving which we owe to God everyday of our lives. “You arc to cling to the Lord your God, as you have done to this day. For the Lord has driven out great and strong nations before you; and as for you, no man has stood before you to this day. One of your men puts to flight a thous­ and, for the Lord your God is He who fights for you, just as He promised you. So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the Lord your God. Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you \now in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one word of all the good words which the Lord your God spo\e concerning you has failed; all have been fulfilled for you, not one of them has failed” Roy W. Hefti '75

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Tn response to the rousing way in which last month's story, “The Secret Life of a C&W Fan’’ was received by the student body, I have taken it upon myself to further enlighten this culture-minded campus to the wonderful world of country music. How many of you faithful B&R readers knew that the month of October was International Country Music Month?

Quite a shock, huh? Well, it shouldn’t be.

Country music has long been termed the music of the people, because it tells life as it is more than any other type of music.

Country music is no longer restricted to those simple hill folk who are often pictured sitting on the front porch strumming banjos and guitars and blowing on jugs (between guzzles). Country music has mushroomed in­ to a multi-million dollar industry, not just in the U.S., but the world over. Some of Johnny Cash's and Buck Owen’s most loyal fans live in Japan. The late Jim Reeves has untold thousands of ardent fans in Africa who still eagerly snatch up his recordings because of his deep, smooth flowing style of country music.

The city of Munich, Germany, is the home of the Bavarian Grand 01’ Opry.

It is only fitting that country music is filtering throughout the whole world, for this brand of music actually has its beginnings from people the world over. Present-day country music is the offspring of a mixture of old world folk music. We can see its beginings already during the colonization of North America.

America’s frontiers were settled by hearty, tradition centered people like the Germans, Scotch-Irish, Scots Highlanders and others.

The descendants of these people eventually settled down in the Appalachian Mountains and Southern hill country. Here these people were allowed to melt their cultures together in relative seclusion. It was in this melting period that country music and its companion, blue-grass music, nurtured and grew. It wasn’t until 1927, that Ralph S. Peer, an RCA re­ cording scout, discovered and recorded the voices of the Carter Family and Jimmie Rod­ gers and thus brought about the eventual world-wide acclaim of country music.

Country music eventually wound it way back into the world during and after WW II. Many a lonesome hill boy or Southern farm boy kept his spirits up by picking and sing­ ing on rugged old guitars which they carried along with their rifles. WSM radio in Nash­ ville, Tennessess, recorded and then rebroadcasted the famous Saturday Night Grand Ol' Opry in many European war fronts. Later in the war, men like Roy Acuff and his Smokey Mountain Boys gave road shows for the troops and helped stimulate interest in country music.

Country music may not be the most popular music in the world today, but it is certainJy 0ne of the fastest growing. Because it has a simple, straightforward way of relating its message to the people, a message which can be understood by people of all walks of life the world over, it is not dying. It is just now coming into being. It is here to stay.

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Now to the news at hand. For you thes-

pians out there, here's a hot flash from your local Forum society. After much discussion (and a lot of drivel, I might add) that august body decided to attempt a play by Will Shake­ speare for their final production. Don’t bother to mark your calendars yet though, the pro­ duction date is at least six months off.

Just this past week, work started on the Northwestern Christmas service. Mark Bitter, a student with musical inclinations, has as76

sembled a choir of forty voices, which he will direct. Mark, I'm sure you will remember, is the same man who directed the Charlie Brown musical last year. Mark Jeske, a junior, is handling all the written parts of the program.

In its third year and still going strong is the NWC Bible Institute. This course attracts seventy-mine people from the surrounding area every Wednesday night to our campus. The course is divided into two parts; one part is handled by Prof. Plitzuweit, who teaches a layman’s approach to the Bible. Prof. Scharf takes over during the second half of the even* ing with his presentation of Oriental Religions.

The Bible Institute is held each year in the prc-Advent portion of the Church year. Pro­ fessor Sullivan, a faculty member on the Bible Institute committee said that there had been some talk of establishing similar centers else­ where. One danger he saw in this, however, was that the classes might be too small. As yet, nothing definite on the subject has been decided.

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ANNIVERSARIES CALLS Rev. Russell Schmidt (’65), who formerly served Trinity Lutheran of Saline, Mich., observed the congregations in Hurley and Merrcer, Wis., 100th anniversary of the dedication of their was installed at Zion, Stetsonville, Wis., on church on Sept. 17, 1972. Rev. John WestenOct. 1, 1972. dorf (’45) is the pastor at Trinity.

Philip Koelpin (’68) was ordained and installed St. Paul, Arlington, Minn., celebrated the 100th as pastor of Mount Calvary,Flagstaff, Ariz., anniversary of their organization on June 18, on Aug. 6, 1972.

1972. Guest speakers were Pastor Waldemar Thomas Liesener (’67) was ordained and installZarling (’35) and Professor Joel Gerlach (’50). ed at Peace, Mishawaka (South Bend), IndiThe congregation’s current pastor is Rev. John ana, on July 16, 1972.

Bradtke (’36).

Dennis Meier (’68) was ordained into the minis- Rev. James Schaefer (’44), Stewardship Coun­ try and installed at the ApacheMission, Periselor of the Wisconsin Synod, observed the dot, Ariz., on July 30, 1972. completion of 25 years in the ministry, Oct. Richard Stevens (’68) was ordained and installed 22, 1972. as pastor of St. Paul, Cannon Falls, Minn., on St. Paul, Tacoma, Wash., celebrated two anniJuly 16, 1972. versaries of Pastor George Frey (’37) on Sept.

Gary Pieper (’68) was ordained and installed at 24, 1972. July 12 had marked the 30th anniverImmanuel, Johnson Creek (Farmington), Wis., sary of his ordination and the 25th wedding an­ on July 23, 1972. niversary of Pastor and Mrs. Frey was Aug. 3.

Adolph Harstad (’67) was ordained and installed Faith Lutheran, Melstone, Mont., celebrated the at Grace, Alma, Mich., on Sept. 10, 1972.

10th anniversary of the dedication of their Rev. Mark Lenz (’65) was called to St. Croix church building, June 11, 1972. The pastor of Lutheran High School, West St. Paul, Minn. the Faith congregation is Joel Frank (’64).

Installation was on Aug. 27, 1972. He previ- Zion of Hokah, Minn., and Immanuel, South ously served Trinity, Morenci, Mich.

Ridge, Minn., observed their centennial anniPastor Wernor Wagner C48) has accepted a call versaries on June 18 and 25, 1972. At that time to Shepherd of the Hills, La Mesa, Calif. He they also noted the 56 years service in the currently serves St. Matthew, Janesville, Wis. ministry by their pastor E. G. Hertler (’ll).

Rev. James Babler (’64), formerly of Good Shep- The 50th anniversary of the ordination of Pastor herd and St. Paul, Sioux Falls, S.D., was inLouis Meyer, Sr. (’19), was noted on June 25, stalled at Salem, Lowell, Wis., on Oct. 8, 1972.

1972. Pastor Meyer is retired from the active Pastor Paul Schliesser (’30) was installed as pasministry and now attends Redeemer, St. Croix tor of St. John, Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada, Falls, Wis. on May 14, 1972. His previous charge was at The 25th anniversary of the ordination of Rev. Withrow, Wash.

Edmund Schulz (’44) of St. John, Redwood Rev. Wayne Borgwardt (’57) was installed as an Falls, Minn., was celebrated on June 25, 1972, instructor at Fox Valley Lutheran High School, as well as Pastor and Mrs. Schulz’s 25th \vedAppleton, Wis., on Sept. 6, 1972. ding anniversary.

Rev. Richard Weeks (’60), who formerly served Several special services this past summer markZion, Osceola, Wis., was installed at Good ed the centennial of the founding of St. John, Shepherd, Burnsville, Minn., Sent. 10, 1972.

Stanton, Nebr. P.ev. James Humann (’61) is Rev. Alvin Werre (’55) of Zion, Clatonia, Nebr., the pastor, was called as an instructor to Luther High Rev. Luther Voss (’18) of Milwaukee, Wis., was School, Onalaska, Wis., and installed on Aug. honored on Sept. 24, 1972, for the 50th anmver24, 1972. sary of his ordination. Pastor Voss is now Richard Lehmann (’72) is serving this year as retired after serving in several parishes and an instructor at Lakeside Lutheran High School as civilian chaplain in Viet Nam. in Lake Mills, Wis. Prof. Irwin Habeck (’24) of Wisconsin Lutheran Rev. Daniel Sabrowsky (’59) was called to WisSeminary observed the 45th anniversary of his consin Lutheran High School, Milwaukee, Wis., ordination on Oct. 1, 1972. from Our Savior, Pomona, Calif. Installation Rev. Frederic Gilbert (’28) of Jordan, West AiUs, was held on Sept. 24, 1972.

Wis., was honored on Sept. 17, 1972, for the Prof. Martin Westerhaus (’51) of Wisconsin Luth40th anniversary of his ordination, eran High School was installed at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary on Sept. 12, 1972.

Prof. Walter Hoepner (’34) of Winnebago Luth­ DEDICATIONS eran Academy, Fond du Lac, was called to St. A new church building was dedicated recently

by Faith, Dexter, Mich., and their pastor, Rev. Paul, Hurley, and Zion, Mercer, Wis. He will be installed sometime in November.

John Huebner (’66).

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John May can’t wait to get married.

Our Savior, Brookings, S.D., dedicated a new Quote from Bulldog: “A girl’s assets are in­ church on June 4, 1972. Rev. Ronald Heins dicative of her liability.” (’61) is the pastor.

George Swanson is continuing his love affair A new church was dedicated Oct. 22, 1972, by with Mick Jagger.

Trinity Flasher, N.D. Marvin Putz (’51) is the Kovo has been censured from speech in the pastor of the church. dining hall.

The parish of Trinity, Buffalo, and St. Paul, Tim Bauer is going steady (!!??) with Audrey Montrose, Minn., dedicated a new parsonage Semerau. on July 30, 1972. Pastor Martin Schwartz (’67) Terry Yahr is still in school!

Scott Dummann says that he finds himself serves the parish.

The new church of Beautiful Savior, Fort Wayne, working for peanuts these days.

Ind., was dedicated on Oct. 15, 1972. Rev. Alan Arnold Ziffle has Sem Panic.

Siggelkow (’65) is the pastor.

Kovo has been banished to 40 years of wild­ Hope, Twin Lakes, Wis., dedicated its new erness wandering. church building on July 16, 1972. Rev. Arthur GPS has been visiting Madison as a substitute Valerio (’63) serves the congregation. for football practice.

A new addition to the church of St. Peter, MishiTZ is receivinig special therapy for the loss of cot, Wis., was dedicated on Oct. 22, 1972, Pas­ feeling in his jaw. tor H. Resting (’33) is pastor at St. Peter.

Tom Westendorf has finally caught up to the Class of 72.

BIRTHS For Sale: TZ’s road maps.

Pastor and Mrs. Dennis Hayes (’65) of Morris­ Skinny Rick has gone on a diet! town, S.D., became parents of a son, Mark Armin Schwartz is still looking.

Lee, on Oct. 2, 1972.

Carl Schomberg is driving a school bus.

Jessica JoLeen Neumann was born to Pastor and Attention all females: One of the highly sought Mrs. David Neumann (’67) of Livingston, Mont, after "eligibles” among the Sem student body on April 21, 1972. may soon be Bau-ing out of the picture. Steve Lawrenz goes rummaging with “friend” Lori OTHER NEWS Betts.

Rev. R. C. Horlamus (’24), Institutional Pastor for Madison, Wis., will be on limited service Middlers after Jan. 1, Several members of the Middler class were before the altar this summer, and it wasn’t al­ SEM NEWS ways to give the liturgy for a Sunday service.

Juniors The following marriages have been reported: It seems that the Junior Class as a whole has Jim Aderman and Sharon Wangerin, July 9 gone into the jewelry business. Cupid has cer­ Doug Hartley and Kathy Auger, June 17 tainly been busy, as is evidenced by the follow­ Robert Gurgel and Judith Burns, June 25 ing list of engagements.

Mike Crawford and Joan Neitzel, June 3 Dave Beckman and Sally Feld George Ferch and Nannette Gunicel, July 1 Dan Kolosovsky and Diane Uhlenbrauck Mike Dietz and Karla Steinhaus, June 24 Jim Gorsegner and Debbie Heiman Fred Adrian and Karen LePla, June 10 Chuck Werth and Ruth Liermann James Werner and Stephanie Braatz, June 10 Doug Semenske and Ann Rohde James Ruppel and Karen Schneider, June 10 Gary Stawicki and Candace Tresemer Paul Lemke and Christiane Deiss, June 10 Chris Sulzle and Debbie Borchardt These have become engaged recently: Jim Tauscher and Pat Bauman Mark Falck and Marais Zeitler of Green Bay, Dick Schleicher and Dorothy Werner Wis. Bill Neumann and Kris Fredrick Paul Fetzer and Diana Timm (DMLC ’72) Tim Lowry and Mary Dendrino, a sophomore James Kuehl and Carol Romenesko of Appleton, at DMLC Wis. And we must not forget this special item: Fred Zimmerman and Kathryn Pleuss of Mani­ Arnold and Barbie have set tentative wedding towoc, Wis. plans for the early part of 1984.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles lies, Sr., became par­ Bob Bushaw was married on June 17 to Karen ents of a son on Sept. 7, 1972. The new arrival Krahn. was named Charles Lynn lies, Jr. Marc Schroeder and Sharon Sachs were married A few weeks ago the Seminary community on August 26. literally “kuehled” over in amazement when one Tom Westendorf was married to Sharon Ursing of their jim-dandies abstained from going north on June 10. for the weekend, but rather chose to remain a In general, the Class of 72 seems to be con­ rock.

Disengaged: Kogler remains a rock. tinuing in its familiar ways. Reports have it that Fager still procrastinates and Valleau still sleeps Seniors in class.

Family life occupies most of the time for the “Hershey” is once again performing regularly according to his nickname. seniors.

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Births: Carl and Cheryl Ziemer became parents of a son, Timothy, on April 4, 1972.

On July 20, 1972, Dan and Priscilla Luetke be­ came the parents of Steven Philip.

A son, Jeffrey, was born to John and Rhoda Zeitler on Sept. 5, 1972.

Joel Nathanael Hahm was born to Ron and Anne Hahm on May 23, 1972.

Mark and Bonnie Hannemann became the parents of Elizabeth Marie on Oct. 27, 1971.

Marriages: Ken Wenzel and Jane Feller, Aug 26, 1972 Phil Koeninger and Mary Pjeske, June 24, 1972.

Greg Lenz and Chris Thoren, Aug. 12, 1972 Duane Erstad and Jo Ellen Mussfeldt, Oct. 14, 1972.

Jerry Hintz and Nancy Ballsieper, July 8, 1972 Engagement: Paul Hartman and Carol Mundt plan to be mar­ ried on Nov. 25, 1972.

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The five o'clock whistle shrieked to the world that the factory was shutting down for the day, Harvey Schwartzstein slowly replaced h-s tools in the same cabinets he’d been putting them in for 29 years and turned off the lights.

Picking up his lunch pail, he punched out his time card and walked toward the side gate , through an aisle stacked high with machine parts. Nodding to the night watchman, he stepped onto the loading dock. The sky was gray; clouds scudded in a gathering breeze.

Far away there was a dull, throbbing sound.

He looked up and paused, closing his eyes and letting his mind wander.

On the desk in a small office high above the Thames the phone jangled. The man with the steel-gray eyes snatched it up. “Thirty here." He listened in silence, his body tensing.

When? . . . Are you sure? ... Yes, sir .. .

Immediately, sir.” He catapulted from his chair. In the hallway he passed the Chief of Staff. “That was Number One. They’ve got the girl."

He sprinted down the steps, burst through the door, and vaulted into the seat of his Austin-Healey two-seater. He stomped the little car into life and careened out of the alley into traffic. “If they break her,” he thought, “it will jeopardize the whole bloody operation.”

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Harv, staring at the greasy hamburgers on the griddle, didn't even hear him.

Sir Harvey Blackstone, known only in the Service as Agent 30, knew that this could be his last meal, and he decided on the spur of the moment to make it a memorable one. This was by far his most dangerous assignment, a high-risk caper involving .certain Middle East interests. He^winked at his beautiful evening companion. Garcon!

An omnipresent waiter materialized. “Oui, Monsieur?"

“I shall have the Foie Gras au Porte, Truffles sous la Cendre, Sanglier a la Madere, and to drink, a Montrachet, 1934. Madame will have the same."

“Bien, Monsieur." He vanished.

The girl blushed. “Sir Harvey! You really shouldn't have. Why, we’ve hardly met."

A roguish grin played on his face as he suavely lit a cigarette. “Ah, Cherie, life is short. One never knows what the future may bring, does one?" til., i The counterman slapped his change down, You want anything else, Harv? Harv belch­ ed an articulate tribute to the baked beans and shook his head. Sliding off the stool, he walked thougfufully through the door «tod 2°^ into the car.

him. Tension had built up; the bank now stood at 70,000 francs. As he waited for his turn, he studied the flo of the game. The dealer had had a good run of luck and had run the bank up high, perhaps too high, and was now starting to waver. Agent 30 sensed his chance, The croupier flicked the old cards off the table and announced the new total. “Pour les 80,000 francs, mesdames et monsieurs."

There wasn't a sound. Apparently no one could risk that kind of money. Just as the dealer was about to start the bank at a much lower sum, Blackstone looked up. “Banco."

The crowd gasped. He would match the bank! As he scooped chips onto the table, a careiess smile flitted over his face at the uneasiness of the dealer. The small mountain of chips now in the center was a mute witness to the tension as Blackstone looked at the first card dealt to him — a miserable queen. Next, a four. He tapped the table, signaling for the optional third card. It slithered to him, a pink blob on the green ocean. He turned up the corner.

Feeling a little stale from the cigars and beer, but flushed with that sense of triumph that comes only when you've won a cool 83 Harvey Schwartzstein said his farewells and casually left the house. “So long, Harv.” “See you later, Buddy.” The click of his footsteps was a metronome to his floating mind. He drove home and stepped into the darkened home, pausing for a moment.

Sir Harvey Blackstone was suddenly very tired. The strain had been terrific. As he cUmbed the iral staircase to his hotel room,

bellion welled up in him, however, and instead of heading for home, he unaccountably let himself be drawn to Ralph Schadermann's house. He parked the car and approached the front door somewhat indecisively Ralph himself met him, silhouetted in the smoky yellow light which illuminated the clutter of a poker game - the cards, the chips, the beer bottles; faces looked up. “Hey, it’s Harv." “Come on in, Harv.” “Yeah, play a few hands."

Blackstone knew the danger of his assign­ ment. There would be no second chance.

Everything depended on his luck at the baccarat table. Taking one last sip of his brandy, he strode calmly into the gaming room. A murmur escaped the crowd - the rich Englishman would play tonight. He took his reserved seat at the green baize table as a waiter unob­ trusively slipped a thick glass ashtray before

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Lutheran Brotherhood welcomes Dr. Richard M. Heins to its Board of Directors.

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But more than that, Dr. Heins has been actively involved in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

In addition, he has served on the evangelism, building and long range planning committees of Our Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, Madison. His devoted service in these areas proves him to be a man concerned for the welfare of Lutherans.

Lutheran Brotherhood is privileged to welcome Dr. Heins to its Board of Directors, and we look forward to working with him.

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SPCETS Football After last year's 0-8 season, who would have predicted a 2-2-2 record at the three-quarter's mark of this year? With a little luck here and there the record could even look better. Who could have forseen that our final game with Lakeland will decide conference championship?

A win by Lakeland would give them another first in their long line of football dominance, but a repeated solid performance by our gridders against the Muskies could surprise a few more people, not to mention the fact that we would own a share of first with Northland.

The success so far hasn't come without its difficulties. Two key men, John Mattek and Phil Hoyer, were lost to the team early by in­ juries. Coach Thompson has had to do a great deal of shuffling to get the most experienced men on the field. With Hoyer gone, Rog Kuerth has filled in well at end. Rog has shown the ability to beat men with his speed; his four touchdowns attest to that fact. Fresh­ man Stu Zak has taken over the defensive and position for Rog, while "Tiger" Varnum has also moved into the middle of the line, thus putting Bode and his crunching tackles at linebacker. Don Thompson and Dave Krichn also tried the linebacker position during the Northland game. Despite these many changes, the replacements have done their job to keep the team a unit.

Constant among these changes is the adept play of Mark Toepel. "Al" leads the confer­ ence in scoring despite his playing with injur­ ies. Bill Heiges continues to improve and finds it a little easier with so much attention paid to Toepel. Ehlke amazingly has escaped in­ jury and connected with his open men when the line gives him time. After six games the Trojans are far ahead of their opponents in passing yardage; 715-498. We are somewhat behind in rushing yardage but overall hold a slight advantage. The fourth quarter has been by far our best one for scoring points, thus testifying to the condition the Trojans are in.

The poorest category this year has been penal­ ties. We have been penalised 327 yds., while the opponents have suffered only 185 yds. in penalties. If we can straighten these mistakes out and keep our passing game going, we may achieve that long-awaited homecoming victory 84

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NWC 7 CONCORDIA 14 After an easy game at New Ulm, the Trojans might not have respected our next oppoiv ent the way they should have. Concordia of St. Paul came here with a defense that wc* could do nothing against in the first half.

Meanwhile their quarterback excelled in fakes and handoffs and kept our defense guessing.

On A1 Simmons’ 55 yd. run, many Trojans had shots at him but couldn't quite get to him.

The half ended 7-0. In the second half Ehlkc's passing opened up our attack. Steve hit Kuerth in the corner of the end zone for a 24 yr. scor­ ing pass. Then came the deciding moment with 4th down on our 4 yard line for Concordia.

Simmons swept end and beat our pursuit to the corner. Our last attempt fell short when from Concordia's 18, Ehlkc’s pass to Ncujahr was intercepted.

7 0 0 7 - 14 Concordia NWC 0 0 7 0 -7 NWC 19 MILTON 19 The Trojans renewed their intense rivalry with the Wildcats of Milton, with Milton talk­ ing of championship hopes. The game featur­ ed Milton's star running back Rodney Drew aga;nst our own Mark Toepel. The first half looked as if Milton was really going to run over us. Bad snaps and stalled drives killed us as Drew scored once on a run and once on a pass. Hylok caught a 9 yard pass for another score and a 19-0 halftime lead. It became a completely different game at that point. Af­ ter we fumbled to start the half, our defense stopped Milton and Bode blocked the punt.

The Trojans then took it in on passes to Toepel and from Toepel to Kuerth. Al finally ran it over from the one. Immediately following this, Mark Lindner’s charge on Grafenauer caused him to make a poor pitch out to Drew.

Toepel picked it up and went 35 yards for the score. The defense continued to hold until Lindner fell on a fumble on our own 25. Ehlke then lead a last-minute drive that ended in a 45 yard pass to Toepel that was tipped on the 15 and ended in Al’s hands. The only thing that kept this comeback from being com­ plete was Ehlke’s missed-extra point.

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team with national rankings and hopes of go­ ing higher. Benedictine did not use many sub­ stitutes and went for the two-point conversion each time. It clearly was a case of trying to run up a score. Ed Zell picked up a fumble for us and went 51 yards for a score. John Berg went 95 yards with an interception to score, but a penalty called it back. We finally drove one in on offense with Ehlke going over from one yard out.

22 - 60 Benedictine 7-14 NWC

MARANATHA 14 NWC 48 The roles changed for the Trojans as they coasted to an easy victory even when using substitutes. You knew the day would go well as Goldbeck scored his first touchdown ever on a blocked punt. Kuerth then found Maranatha’s secondary easy prey on a 25 yard pass to score. Heiges plunged another one over and Toepel hit Kuerth for a 27-0 halftime score. Maranatha stuck to their patterns and scored by moving down the field on short pas­ ses. Toepel made things worse for them again with a 75 yard punt return, but they came back again on a short pass for another score.

With a multitute of subs in for the Trojans, little Jay Gottschalk burst away on two end sweeps of 47 and 49 yards to make the final, 48-14.

12 15 7 14 - 48 NWC 0 0 6 8 - 14 Maranatha NORTHLAND 14 NWC 14 The lumberjacks from Ashland came down to Watertown with high hopes of assuring themselves at least a tie for conference cham­ pionship. They went away frustrated and mad as the Trojans again rallied for a tie. We had our opportunities in the first half but didn't capitalize on them. Northland ground out a score with Cole going over from two yards out. The half ended that away. The constant rain had made Uranus' well-groomed field a sea of mud by now, but the Trojans kept fight­ ing. Ehlke found Northland susceptible. to short passes, and made good use of throwing to Bill Heiges while Toepel was covered by most of their backfield. Steve ended the drive with a six-yard pass to Toepel. Northland then ate up almost two-thirds of the fourth quarter with a sustained running attack. Rcd86

ney Warren finished the drive running over from the two. With time running out, Ehlkc kept his cool and threw the long bomb to Toe' pci to get us into scoring position. He ib.cn found Kuerth on the corner line of the end zone for a touchdown and got a two'point conversion on a pass to Heiges. In the clos' ing minute Goldbeck missed a chance for hero' ics as he batted down and almost caught an intended pass, but the game ended a tie.

NWC 0 0 6 8 - 14 7 0 0 7 - 14 Northland

Golf Coach Sellnow got a pleasant surprise from Pete Schumacher this fall. After most of the golf team of last year was lost, Pete came in and filled the number two spot behind Kohl' berg. Biedenbender finished third in total srtokes, and Dave Hanke and Greg Heiman rounded out the top five by strokes. Kohlberg was third among all conference golfers and Schumacher fifth. The season will be contiii' ued next spring to decide final standings.

Tennis — Conference Champs

Cross Country

Who ever heard or saw- any activity on the tennis courts while football was in the autum air and on the minds of most? Coach Plitzuwcit and his team broke tradition this fall and in the process added an infrequent and totally welcome trophy to our sparsely filled shelves of glory at the entrance of the gym. The Trojans completely dominated the play and can only look for more competition to come from non-conference foes next spring.

The results of matches before the tourna­ ment hosted by Northwestern pretty well in­ dicated how the tourney would develop. In a triple-duo meet with Milton and Lakeland, we won 5-1 over both teams with doubles not in because of rain. In separate matches with Lake­ land and Milton, both scores ended 7-2. To fill out the schedule, NWC won two from UW Janesville, 9-0 and 8-1.

Tournament Results Were:

There probably is no more lonely sport on campus than those who are out pushing their bodies to run over long distances in wooded areas and fields. Ten men went out for our cross'country team, which is a high number.

Considering our enrollment and involvement in football, golf and tennis, it is phenomenal.

Most schools only get five or so to go out. Our runners did five miles in practice plus wind sprints. We played many different schools in nine meets. We usually finished somewhere in the middle of those participating. We had a victory over Waukesha Tech. All members of the team cut their times drastically as the season went on. Bill Hermann and Paul Schar' rer were our top runners. Bill did five miles in his first meet in 33:50 and by the end he was doing five miles in 29:47. Gary Wegner, Glen Wales, Jim Schwab and Bob Noldan were others who also usually finished well. It isn’t easy running in all types of weather, but if anyone wants to get in shape, give it a try.

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1 — Phil Schupmann (NWC) over Bruce Lindsey (M) 6-2, 6-7, 6-3 2 — Mark Brunner (NWC) over Kurt Aufderhaar (M) 6-1, 6-4 3 — Sam Skaggs (M) over Russ Sprunger (L) 6-1, 6-2 4-Mark Jeskc (NWC) over Jim Kretschmar (M) 6-2, 6-1 5 - John Stern (NWC) over Dale Milier (L) 7-5, 6-1 6 — Mike Brunmeier (L) over AI Lemke (M) 6-4, 6-1 (doubles) Schupmann-Brunner (NWC) over Lindsey-Aufderhaar (M) 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 Schaller-Jeske (NWC) over Backus-Brunmeier (L) 6-3, 6-3 Stern-Stone (NWC) over Arnouitz-Lemke (M) 7-6, 6-4 Total: NWC 7 Lakeland 1 Milton 1

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It took a punt return by John Sterrn to make it 6-0 for the Juniors.

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CAMPUS & Although this profound publication will not be published until after Homecoming, its spirit can already be felt on campus. The tradition of the Frosh and his beanie can still be seen all across the campus. The question always comes to mind, “Who really looks more foolish, the Frosh or the Soph who is trying to make the Frosh look foolish?" Some of the things the Sophs make the Frosh do are very revealing. A psychologist would have a real field day trying to figure out their motives.

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I’m really sorry, but I just can’t get away.

Maybe we’ll see each other again sometime.

Yours,

Homecoming usually manages to draw the class together, although somewhat reluctantly, ) ( in an attempt to put together some sort of a Why can’t they just say what they really respectable display. The whole affair usually brings gray hair to the class president and think, instead of leaving a poor guy hanging vehement vows to never be a class officer again.

Probably the most enigmatic thing about Homecoming is tears. One usually considers this a time of fun and frolic, but watch the tears in the eyes of the old alumni or the Cob lege Senior during the Alma Mater and the School Song. In the weeks before Homecom­ ing watch for the tears on the pillow of the like that? They could call you a creep right off the bat; that way you won't waste another Senior who got turned down by four girls, the last of which was a sixteen-year-old third letter at Winter Carnival. See you at the stag cousin of his roommate. Some of the guys you line, guys! see crying on Friday night, just before the How are all the Star Trek fans out there? big day. They are the ones who just saw their blind dates, and now they wish they could con­ Judging from the afternoon TV crowds, the tract a fatal disease overnight. Of course, there old favorite must not be on the air anymore. are also tears after Homecoming in the eyes It’s about time for a revival, my style. of the steady couples who might not see each other for another month. More of us, though DRAMATIS PERSONAE should be like that old confirmed misogynist, Steven L. Korth, whose only tears in seven Captain Turk — the ship’s commander Homecomings have been tears of shame over Sonny Turk — the captain’s son forgetting to buy his mother a corsage for Mr. Spook — the ship’s soul brother Homecoming '71. Bless your little heart, Rabbi Ben Wisco — the ship's chaplain Steve!

Heavenly Body — the ship’s sex symbol — the ship’s surgeon There’s one thing that has always puzzled Evening Star and Kramer School grad. me at this time of year: The shut-down letter.

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SCENE: The ships bridge Capt.

Spook! Where is Crash Mattress!

Where is he?

Spook. He’s in the ship’s hospital, Captain.

He’s been there for over a day, sir.

Capt. Well, give his uniform to someone else, if that’s the way he’s going to be.

Spook. You sho’ are mean, Cap’n. Were you ever an intergalactic slave trader?

Capt. Shaddup! If I ever take up the job, you’ll be the first to go.

Spook. By the way, Cap’n, where’s your son?

He's been AWOL from officer training school for three tests in a row.

Capt. He’s been at the dentist, and he’s my son, he can do what he wants. (Enter Rabbi, chewing gum) Rabbi. Shalom everyone! You too, captain!

Spook. Right on, Ben! Capt. Say, Ben, how come your arm is in a sling?

Rabbi. Well, it's a long story. I kind of for­ got myself. First I said, “Root, hog, or die!”, which offended some of the men.

They didn’t expect to hear anything from a rabbi about hogs. I get a little longwindcd, and when I said I’d give my right arm to be able to fight against those Missourians, one of the men took me up on it. (Enter Sonny) Son. Hi, Dad! Can I have the shuttle craft tonight? I’m in the finals of the popu­ larity contest.

Capt. Sure, your brother doesn’t need it, he can do it all himself.

Rabbi. Captain, Captain! Trousseau the rookie just collapsed! Should I perform last rites?

Son. Are you all right?

Capt. Leave him alone! What do you think you arc a doctor? Of course, he's all right, he had his left side amputated yesterday. I told him, “Ya gotta wanna stay at your post!” The most we can do for him is to locate Evening Star.

Son. It's right out there on the horizon, Dad! Capt. Not the evening star! I mean the ship’s doctor.

Son. He’ll be shooting right in. Get it Dad, shooting star! (Sonny proceeds to roll in fits of backward laughter, enter Star) Capt. Evening Star.

Eve. Evening Captain. What’s your prob­ lem?

Capt. This evening's problem, Star, is yours.

Trousseau just passed out with pain.

Quit staring, Star, and get to work!

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Oh well, when in doubt put him in the whirlpool. Evening, Captain.

Capt. Evening Star. (Exit Star and Spook) While the ship sails on under the captain's hand, little does he know xohat’s going on out of hand on another deck.

Spook. But, heavenly you must love me!

Heave. It gets very tiresome clean;ng all those spots of burned cork off my mini-uniform.

Spook. The spots are even more embarrass' ing for me. When Evening Star saw all those white spots, after we were to' gether last, he thought I came down with something.

Heave. I could care less!

Spook. But look! This interracial love affair is just great for this show's ratings.

You've got to love me!

Heave. This is it. I can't love you. It’s just not right. Besides, I don’t think you love me, as much as I love me!

- THE END Tune in again sometime and get the answers to these questions: Will Spook break the racial barrier and get his Body?

Will Star ever take enough yeast and shoe polish to rise and shine?

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be rolling over in her grave. This is my sonnet to this grand old institution, Northwestern College.

How do I love thee? Am I in a daze?

I love thee for the Hebrew, Greek, and Phil.

That fills my head like so much slop and swill, And now it goads my tongue to sing thy praise.

I love thee for the Latin which now lays Fallow in my mind, quiet calm and still.

I love thee truly! I think I’m getting illl I love thee purelyl (My mind is out of phase!)

I love thee with an urge which ebbs and crests To cram for ev’ry quiz that meets my eyes.

I love thee for thy cver-constant tests Which hover ’round my nodding head like flies.

Smiles, tears, of all my life!

My pen soon rests!

I shall but love thee better after graduation.

There's also one late-breaking announce­ ment, Hot off the presses is a book by Gentle Ben Johnson entitled Hard Times, or The Life of a Part-time Fort At\inson Farmer.

Every month at this time I like to turn to some humor straight from the classroom. Al­ though things have been more tragic than fun­ ny lately, I did manage to come up with one gem. I thought a certain Philosophy prof was really hilarious when he said, “I’m voting for McGovern,’’ What more can I say?

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“Mrs. Murray, I assure you that it was in your own best interests, and in the interests of your husband that we never told you about it.’’

“Well, tell me now. Doctor, if my husband as hurt or injured in any way by some operation, our lawyer - ” “Your husband has not been injured, Mrs. Murray. He is at present a healthy young man, about to carry on a normal, profitable life.”

‘Then why do you have him locked up here?

“You sound as if we’ve straight-jacketed him and thrown him into a padded cell. We merely placed him in a private room, intern sive care, for purposes of more thorough relaxation, and so he can be observed more easily.

Now, if you’ll calm down and let me explain, Mrs, Murray, I’m sure we can work this out.

Are you all right?’’

“Yes, just please explain this to me, I don’t know what to think.”

“You have been married to Mr. Murray for over eight years now, correct?”

“Yes. You know that, Doctor, you’re his psychiatrist.”

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“Well, he’s been coming to me for five years now, and Philip and I have become the best of friends. I say this so you'll realize that I’d never do anything to harm him. He trusts me completely, and I also him, if need be.

“Now I’m sure you realize why he’s been coming to me. His epilepsy is of rare severity.

You have seen over the past few years how the attacks increased in both occurrence and severity, haven’t you?”

“Yes.” “Well, I and my colleagues couldn’t cure him. We found neither the immediate cause for the disease, nor any medication to help him which wouldn’t also be severly detrimen' tal to his health. I've had some top clinical psychologists flown in, but they also found no solution to his condition. The epileptic seizures would soon have become fatal. So, after dis­ cussing the situation with my colleagues and also with your husband, Mrs. Murray, we all came to the conclusion that our only recourse was to perform the operation.”

“What kind of operation?”

“It involves brain surgery. Now relax, it's not a particularly dangerous operation; it’s re­ latively simple and has never been known to have any ill effects. You see, the main part of the brain, the cerebrum, is composed of two parts, or hemispheres. These hemispheres are connected by a heavy bundle of nerve fibers called the corpus callosum. The surgery in­ volves simply severing these nerve fibres so the two hemispheres are split. I know it sounds incredible, but the brain is actually split in half. I will admit to you that it isn’t a common treatment. But as I said before, it was a last resort when other medication failed. Philip was completely in favor of it, and he signed all the waivers.”

“But why wasn't I told? I’m his wife!”

“Well . . . Mrs. Murray, for one reason I wanted you to act normally toward Philip when he left the hospital. I wanted you to treat him exactly as you did before the oper­ ation. You see, in split brain cases, generally there is no apparent change in the patient’s ordinary behavior. But certain tests show that the surgery does affect a patient’s behavior in some respects. When the brain is split in half, in a way its functions are doubled. It's al­ most as if there are two independent streams of conscious awareness, one in each half of the brain, each half mentally out of contact with the other. In other words, two brains in one body. After a few months of normal life at

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“I assure you your husband is not my gumea pig, Mrs. Murray. Can I get you a sedative? You could use something to calm your nerves."

“No.” “How about a drink?”

“No, thank you, I'll be all right.”

“Let me finish explaining. The experi­ ments to which I refer are simple, innocuous coordination tests. Philip had no objections — we even pay the patient for his time. Through this kind of experimentation we’ve come to realize that when the two hemisphere of the brain are deconnected, one half becomes domin­ ant and the other half becomes less prominent.

The minor hemisphere sort of fades from the scene, but still has its own conscious entity.

This dominance by one half or the other is in relation to the dominance of right handedness or left, because each hemisphere controls one half of the body. If a person is right handed, his left hemisphere predominates; if he is left handed, his right hemisphere is predominant.

“The operation was a complete success, and I might add it was performed by a good friend of mine and an excellent neurosurgeon. Ther­ apeutically, I’m sure you yourself have seen Philip's excellent recovery over the last few weeks. He’s had no major attacks and only one minor attack.”

“His epilepsy is cured, but why is he acting so strangely? Don't tell me he's in intern sive care for experiments!”

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“It's mostly just like I told you. The first few days after the operation he just rested. I brought him breakfast in bed, then he would read the rest of the morning. In the afternoon he would go out to his workshop and build something — he was working on a rocking horse for our smallest one. He was never in good spirits until the children got home, and then he'd play with them, or we’d all go for a walk. The only strange thing I can remem­ ber during the first few days was once when I brought him breakfast. I came in while he as sleeping ..."

“So what’s strange about that?”

“Oh, nothing. But one of his eyes was open. He was slepping, but one eye was open.

And not just staring out into space. It, I mean, he, was looking right at me. Really weird feeling. When I called to him he awoke right away.”

“How did you know he was sleeping?”

“He was snoring, with his mouth open."

“Go on.”

“Well, when he went back to work he would usually always come home in a bad mood. He just kept saying he was tired. When he'd work out in the shop, soon he would come back in grumbling to himself, saying something about not being able to work with himself anymore. This is the way it went on for awhile. Then he started changing his mind a lot. Not exactly changing his mind, but he’d do things like reach for something, then say, ‘I don't want that.

“Can you remember with which hand he did the reaching?”

“Well, yes. It was with the left hand,^ I guess. Phil always preferred his left hand.

“Why do you say ‘preferred’? Doesn't he always use his left hand?”

“Oh no, Phil can use cither hand. He’s . . what's the word?”

“Ambidextrous.”

“That’s it. It’s just that he uses the left hand more often.”

"Interesting. On his records he put down left-handed. Go on.”

“He kept doing this more and more often, Then I noticed he started talking to himself.

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“Why not?”

“I don’t know, it’s just the coincidence that his behavior is this way directly after the operation.”

“You don't think the operation is the cause?”

“I don’t want to think that. Did you hear the tapes we recorded of him when he was alone in his room?”

“Uh-huh. The funny thing is that he never answers himself, either when he asks him' self a question or when he gripes at himself.”

“I know. He — Wait! That’s it, Henri you’ve given me the clue I needed! Look, isn’t it true that speech control in the brain is in the frontal lobe of the left cerebral hemishere?

Well, when Philip speaks and criticizes himself, actually his left hemisphere is criticizing his right hemisphere, and his right side can’t talk back because it has no ability for speech!

It’s absolutely clear now, each half of his brain is in contention with the other for power, both physically and in thought!

“And the fact that Philip is ambidextrous tends to coroborate my hypothesis because it shows that each side is of equal predominance.

Neither side wants to be the minor hemis­ phere!”

“Are you saying that two minds are fight­ ing it out in one body?”

“Right, and the body is the battlefield! It seems that the left half was becoming more dominant than the right half because of its

attention!' and, ‘what are you doing?’ This all just kept getting worse until I found him on his bed, unconscious. Then I called you.”

“Can you remember in what positions his hands were?”

“Why yes, now that you mention it, it was sort of strange. His left hand was around his neck, and his right hand was clenched around his left wrist.”

“I see.”

“What does it mean, Doctor?”

“To be perfectly honest with you, I myself don't know. But please take my word for it, Mrs. Murray, Philip will be all right. I real' ize how trying this conversation has been for you, and I think you yourself could use a little relaxation. You’re sure you don’t want a mild sedative, to take home with you?”

“Yes, I'm sure. I'll be okay.”

“If I have any more questions, I'll call you, all right? Can I walk you to your car?”

“No thank you, I can manage — ” “Excuse me, Doctor. Doctor Lambeau is here to sec you.”

“Oh, send him in, would you please, Marlene?

“Mrs. Murray, I want you to meet Dr. Lambeau. He’s the one who operated on Phil­ ip; one of the finest neurosurgeons in the state.”

“How do you do?”

“Hello. Don’t believe him, Mrs. Murray.

I'm the only neurosurgeon in the state. And don't worry about your husband, he's in good hands.”

'That's comforting to hear. Well, if you’ll excuse me, I really must go. It was nice meet­ ing you, Doctor.”

“Goodbye.”

“Goodbye.”

“Well, Henri, this epileptic case is starting to wear me down.”

“I can tell, you look beat. Did your dis­ cussion with Phil's wife reveal anything?”

“Not much I didn't already know. I did find out a couple more interesting details, though.”

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The right hand tried to stop the left but couldn't! Of course, when he passed out, na­ tural bodily processes took over and he start­ ed breathing again. That’s when Mrs. Murray came in and found him!”

“Do you know what you’re saying? If that's all true, then we’ve got to get to Philip before his left hand tries it again!”

“Let's get going!!”

“Hurry, we’ve no time to lose!”

“Why didn't I see this all before?!”

“These elevators — they're so slow!"

“Here's his room!”

“Oh no! It’s too late!”

While Philip’s left mind slept, his left arm (controled by his right mind) had reached over to the dinner tray, taken the serrated butter-knife, and slit the right hand wrist.

Then the left hand (controlled by the right mind) had quickly covered the mouth so the left mind couldn't scream for help.

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DECEMBER - 1972

No. 4

EDITOR IN CHIEF Edward Schuppe

ASSISTANT EDITOR Scott Stone

A Winter'Summer’s Day

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The Ring on Her Finger

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Christmas Incidentals ....

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Rebuttal to “Beribboned Dandies"

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Gymnastics ..........................

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The Sophistication of Rock

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The Magic of Christmas

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NEWS EDITOR Paul Wendland

Yuk or Yech? .................

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ALUMNI

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SPORTS

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A Second Chance

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From the EDitor

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All the Angels of God

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The haunting cry of a loon pierces the predawn darkness, waking me from a sound sleep, I lie in my sleeping bag, eyes closed, listening to the orchestration of the wild's myriad sounds, recognizing a few of the individual vocalizers as particular birds or animals, but the total effect is wonderfully foreign to the sounds of city life. There is no wind rustling through the trees yet, and the vacuum of sound its absence has created magnifies the soft breathing of my dad and brothers, still asleep.

The first streaks of dawn show faintly •through the roof of our tent, so I decide to take the big step and roll out of a warm sleeping bag to see what the day will hold.

Ever so quietly I slip on my chilly pants, insulated jacket, and boots, and sneak out of the tent, taking care in the almost non-existent light not to trip over one of my siblings. Oops!

But he s sound asleep and only stirs a bit.

As I stand in front of the tent stretching my muscles and waking up, I take in the familiar sights of a campsite at a glance: the charcoal blackened fireplace, the tripod grill and the Coleman stove, the fishing tackle and water-skis lying where they had been dropped the night before. Its too early for breakfast, so I stuff a couple of cookies into the pocket of my jacket, grab my fishing tackle, and start walking down through the woods to the water, A chipmunk angrily scolds me for intruding on his domain, I load the boat and shove off. Not wish­ ing to disturb any other campers, I row quietly out of the inlet. Fog lies heavy over the water, softening the outlines of the shoreline and adding an element of unreality to this early hour. A fallen tree lying partially in the water looms out of the misty air, having the appearance of a ghostly tree growing out of

a swirling patch of fog. The for’ested shoreline loloks impenetrable, menacing, and forboding when viewed from the water, yet nothing could be further from the truth. Two deer, drinking in the shallows, suddenly stiffen, ears erect. I can feel their alarm in the air and sit still, trading stares with them. Judgment is passed, I am reckoned as an enemy, and they quickly splash to shore and are immediately swallowed up by the trees, It looks like a good morning for some bass fishing, so I snap a favorite surface plug onto my ijnCj and, alternately rowing and casting, make my way along a promising-looking weedbed. Many fishless casts later I change tactics and snap on my old reliable, a battered Rebel, one that more than one limit of northern bass has fallen for in the past. I continue to switch lures during the next few hours, with a limited degree of success, boating two chunky smallmouth bass and a good-sized northern before the wind picks up, making rowing difficult, It's time for breakfast anyway, so I crank up 45 horses of outboard motor and roar back to camp.

My brothers, Mouse and Franz, are already at the beach swimming, and I passed Dad in the other boat on the way in, casting for muskies, so I’ll have to fend for myself, food-wise, A batch of scrambled eggs and a couple of pieces of toast later, (my culinary expertise limited) I contemplate how to spend the rest of the day. Some water sports followed by a long nap in the sun seem to be in order, so I round up a couple of willing swimmers and head for the rock ledges on a nearby bluff. A few dives off the rocks, from anywhere from 0 to 5 meters off the water, just to loosen up, and all arc ready for a game of tag, or something, out in the bay. Swimming madly after girls being the strenuous sport it is, I soon tire and head for shore for a relaxing nap in the sun, interrupted occasionally by the ole' throwing-cold-water-on-the-hot-skin trick, which, of course, calls for suitable acts of re­ taliation.

Halfway through the afternoon hunger pangs drive me back to the tent, where Dad and I collaborate on a well-rounded meal of sorts: fish, peas, and more fish. Dad and Mouse go off in on boat, while Franz and I bomb out in the speedboat to wage that daily struggle: which boat will come in with the 98

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bigger catch. After a hard evening of fishing at our own “hot spots,” we head in to swap stones with Dad and Mouse. There is a par' ticularly beautiful sunset this evening, so I stop the boat near some islands, which provide an idyllic foreground, and take a couple of pictures. At this moment nothing on Gods earth could possibly be more gorgeous than a flaming sunset viewed over quiet, Northern waters!

A few chores are quickly gotten out of the way. Dad lights the lantern and stove and helps me clean the fish, while Frans and Martin (his nickname is due to his relative stature, not his resemblance to any Greek professor) get the fire going and wash the day’s dishes.

As I fillet the catch, I am forced to admit that although my boat caught more fish, Dad’s five'pound walleye is easily the prize catch of the day.

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A grill is slung over the fire, and we cook some hamburgerrs, brats, or sweet corn for a late meal. Sitting there before the hot fire, contributing something to the conversation occasionally, but mostly just day-dreaming, watching the flames flicker, is perhaps the best part of the day. I fight down a reflex action to haul out a Hebrew grammar book, and decide to call it a day. I’m asleep almost before I zip up my sleeping bag, the end of a winter-summer’s day . . .

Back to the reality of a cold winter day, very beautiful in its own way, yet too sterile and uncompromising for me, as I prefer the lushness of summer. But, while Nature’s course is slow, it is also inevitable. So, reader, wheth­ er you prefer the Phoenix autumn-gold, the first breath of newly-born spring, the crisp, chilliness of an infinitely clear winter’s night, or a hot summer sun, take heart! Every day your favorite time of the year draws a little closer, its anticipation whetting your appetite a little more.

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In fact, the discussion got around to how seldom we really do get to see them. Each of us had a story more interesting than the last about his latest failure on the domestic front. Judg­ ing by the details, I'd have to say the much heralded sexual revolution hasn’t hit NWC just yet. Sextaners, out of sheer ignorance, or alumni, thinking that things have changed since their day (or maybe out of ignorance as well), may see us as some sort of college Ro­ meos. A girl in every port, and all that. Well, the truth is, it’s just not so.

I've often wondered why. Where do we fail? When something like Homecoming (a very prestigious social event) rolls around, maybe we try too hard. That marvel of com­ munication, the telephone, probably does too good a job of conveying our anxieties. If I were a girl, living in some lonely dormitory in the middle of Minnesota, I’d be scared too.

An entire weekend with someone I’d never met before would be too much for me. Es­ pecially after Prince Charming had just called collect.

But then the more curious among you are sure to say, "Why do you ask a strange girl here for the weekend, anyway? Of course, no girl will accept, if she hardly knows you. Why don’t you ask an old friend?” Because the people we knew in high school or worked with last summer may not even remember us, that’s why. Worse yet, we may still look the same, but since our paths parted, we’ve gone in our own directions. And things change.

I first realized this inevitable fact about three years ago. It was Christmas vacation, and I was out shopping for a gift for my Dad. I wanted to buy him a distinguished-looking gray wastebasket for his office. (He'd always throw old papers on the floor, to the irritation of my mother.) I was driving along the sloppy streets of Milwaukee, through the neighbor­ hood where we lived in grade school. I passed a familiar shop. Dan-Dee’s Office Supply.

"That's where Deniece used to work,” I said to myself. My heart fluttered. She was pretty dandee herself. "Maybe I can find a waste­ basket there! Maybe she'll be there, too!”

My car parked itself down the street. Mil­ ling through the crowd of last-minute shop-

pers, I rehearsed The Approach to myself. The Approach is very important. When I see a girl, I can usually tell by the inflection of her voice, or the look in her eye, that she wishes to make conversation. I go up to her, very politely, and say, "Excuse me please. Would you care to make conversation with me?” It's called the Boyish Charm Approach. I heard about it at the canteen one night.

I walked in, and there she was behind the counter. Her back was turned, so she hadn't seen me. I asked about the wastebasket. She started to answer, turned toward me, and stopped. "Hey! I haven’t seen you for years!”

She started asking me all sorts of silly questions without waiting for answers, and then hurried to get the wastebasket, talking all the way. She was eager to make conversation, all right. I wasn't doing much listening, though.

I was still planning The Approach. She set the wastebasket on the counter and started wrapping it. Then I noticed the ring on her finger.

"Are you engaged?” said I. "Married,” said she.

Driving home, I talked it over with my re­ cently acquired gray friend. (Wastebaskets don't say much, but they're great listeners.)

We came to the conclusion that it was a good thing I hadn't had the chance to lay The Ap­ proach on her. It would have been embarrass­ ing. Then and there I vowed I'd never be too chummy with a girl until I'd checked out her ring finger. I've spared myself social dis­ grace several times (not to mention black eyes).

But it makes me feel silly. Here I am, a college student, trying hard to preserve my artificially prolonged state of adolescence, only to find myself avoiding girls my age because they’re married. Of course, staying away from the attached ones means I can concentrate on the single ones And the more I see the avail­ able ones, the better my chances are.

It might be working. I’ll admit I celebrat­ ed Homecoming without a date, but I've got something lined up for New Year's Eve. My parents are going out, and I’ve got a quiet evening at home planned with a very special girl. Of course, she is my little sister, and she is only nine years old, but that’s OK. It'll give me a chance to brush up on The Ap­ proach.

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That time of the year is upon us in wh;ch many strange things happen in a very na' tural way. Trees are brought into homes.

Wreaths are placed on doors. Holly and misteltoe are used as decorations. A certain type of music is heard through the streets. Scenes of a crib and stable are represented almost everywhere, and fat men in red suits and white beards are bumped into at almost every store.

As we again prepare to celebrate the birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ, let's take a look at the history of a few of these customs.

The date itself, December 25th, can at best be called an accepted tradition. No one knows exactly on what day Jesus Christ was born, and the indications pointing to December 25 are weak ones. Early Christmas celebrated their Lord’s birth on various dates. A few of these were April 20, May 20, March 29, September 29, January 6, and December 25.

January 6th grew to be the most popular among the Eastern churches, while December 25th did the same in the Western churches.

It was Pope Julius in about 354 A.D. who fixed the date of the festival on December 25 in accordance with the majority. This was readily accepted by most of the other churches because that date had always been a holiday of some sort, such as the winter solstice, the Jewish Hanukkah, the Roman Saturnalia, or the Scandinavian Yule.

Many of our Christmas customs have their roots in the pagan celebrations which the Christian holiday replaced. The Christmas tree is thought to be the Christian counterpart of the Roman customs of hanging little masks of Bacchus on trees and vines. This was thought to impart fertility to every side of the tree to which the wind turned the masks. The use of evergreens was so strongly identified with pagan religions that not only was it not accepted, but for centuries its use was strongly discouraged by the church. When Christmas trees were finally accepted by the church is hard to say, but there is a tradition that Mar* tin Luther, after walking in the forest one night, brought home for his family's Christ' mas enjoyment a small tree and put candles on it to represent stars. At the most this is probably only a characteristic story based on Luther’s love for family joys and for children.

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Holly and mistcltoc were both held sacred by the ancient Druids. During one of the chief Druid festivals men, women, and children would go into the forest and worship the big­ gest oak tree that had the mistcltoc growing on it. However, the custom of kissing under the misteltoe did not come from the Druids but rather from the pagan religions of Scandi­ navia. Since its origins are purely heathen, misteltoe has never been sactioned for decor­ ating in the church. Holly is held in a little different regard. It also had Druid begin­ nings, but legends arose which relate that Christ’s crown of thorns was made of holly.

The legends also say that before the Cruci­ fixion the berries of the holly were white but turned crimson like the drops of Christ's blood.

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Although we may think of him only as a commercial gimmick, we must admit that Santa Claus is firmly entrenched in the American Christmas. He was brought in his present form to the United States by the Dutch settlers, who had changed him very much from the pale and reserved St. Nicholas. The original died as Archbishop of Myra in 343 A D. He had led a life of giving, and after he died his fame so greatly increased that he was made the patron saint of Russia. Throughout the countries of Europe he was made the giver of gifts except in Germany, where that role was

reserved for the Christ Child. It is the Dutch version of Santa Nikalaus, shortened to Santa Claus, the fat, jolly old fellow with reindeer and sleigh, which has captured America.

Today the Christmas Crib is as important in southern Europe as the Christmas tree is in northern Europe and America. St. Francis of Assisi is credited with the first Nativity Scene in 1223. In order to create a greater religious fervor, he enacted the birth of Christ, using even live animals. During the service he sang the Gospel, and thereby he also ori­ ginated Christmas carols.

Today we cannot imagine a Christmas passing without some sort of celebration, but in New England during colonial days things were quite different. The Puritans frowned upon Christmas as a season of frivolous ex­ citement. If you were caught celebrating Christmas by not going to work or by feast­ ing, you were fined. It wasn't until the middle of the 19th Century that Christmas became a legal holiday in New England. Unlike so many things America’s customs concerning Christmas were not shaped by the Puritans.

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You list our links with the ancient church m the following order: history, liturgy, and message. One hopes that this is not a listing in order of importance.

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While attending a Missouri Synod wed­ ding. I was shocked by the appearance of the pastor. He was dressed in white from head to toe! Many in attendance thought he was either a Good Humor man or the man from Glad. I was worried that I had stumbled into a hospital or bakery!

Extreme reactions? True! Extreme cere­ mony bordering on cheap show which might have blotted out any Christian message offered by the pastor that afternoon? You be the judge!

If I am in error, light a candle for me.

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|^ne day while hacking his way through the trackless wastes of Central Africa, Willi Posselt, an early European explorer, stumbled on to a pile of ruins, sitting in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by tall trees and lush grass. Since the ruins were quite impressive, enclosed by walls of up to thirtytwo feet high, he naturally assumed that it was the remnant of some ancient European or Middle Eastern civilization, somehow trans­ planted to that God-forsaken spot. (You see, at this time, in the eye of the average Euro­ pean, all Africa was the middle of nowhere.)

Posselt’s porters all sat down and began clapping their hands in ritual salute. Posselt probably figured they were worshipping the god of the ruins, and made a mental note to convert the heathen simpletons some day. The thought that his porters might have been desendants of the builders never occurred to him. He preferred to explain it as an outpost of King Solomon's mining empire.

Yet I suppose it was an easy mistake for him to make. He was a product of an intense­ ly competitive society, which placed its trust in things material. Looking at Africa and its people, he couldn't observe much in a material way, just a motley collection of smoke-filled mud huts and creaking cattle. It's a mistake to judge Africa in this way, however. The African is more concerned about his social structure, and his ideal is a stable community composed of the living and the dead. He had to attain this ideal in a land of endless plains, swamps and jungles, merely to survive. You can even observe this feeling of social obliga­ tion in the African of today, even though it has been thrown out of kilter by the advent of western culture. If a village boy goes to the big city and is lucky enough to get a job, he is expected to run an open house for any relative who chooses to live with him. So it is not all unusual to find huge families living in one house, composed of the man with the job, his immediate family, plus an assortment of aunts and uncles with a liberal sprinkling of distant cousins. The man with the job doesn't feel put upon in having to support all these people either.

Time to get back to the ruins. They are called Zimbabwe (Zim baa bwey) by the Af­ ricans round about. Later investigation re-

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In fact, it probably grew out of just such a village. The skill of the builders was truly fantastic. The walls are huge and thick and, amazingly, constructed entirely without mortar. The individual stones lie so flush to one another that it would be difficult to dislodge them with a battering ram. Dominating the enclosure formed by the walls is a mighty con­ ical tower, composed of solid stone. Nobody has figured out what this tower was for, al­ though one guess is that it's a version of a Muslim minaret.

From what historians have been able to piece together from the oral history of the surrounding people, a picture of Zimbabwe emerges as being the seat of an African empire ruling over the central area of the continent.

It grew to power through the gold trade, de­ clining in strength only a century before Willi Posselt came upon the scene.

Zimbabwe was hardly an isolated freak of culture. West Africa also had a series of em­ pires engendered in its bosom, each springing from the roots of the one preceding it. Names like Songhai and Mali probably mean little to you, but these empires in their heyday were extremely prosperous and through Arab trad­ ers provided much of the salt found on Euro­ pean tables during the Middle Ages. Salt was no cheap commodity then as it is now, but it was one of the ultimates in luxury for the Middle-aged palate.

I’m sure you've heard of Timbucktu. It's a name often (jokingly, of course) referred to when Call day rolls around at the Semin­ ary. Yet Timbucktu in its period of glory was to the West African Empires what Milwau­ kee is to the Wisconsin Synod. Probably even, dare 1 say it, mere important. It was a flour­ ishing university town and a great center of culture.

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And what a thrill and a feeling of self­ accomplishment we had when after weeks of a coach yelling in our ears we made a fourthdown tackle, executed a fake and a difficult lay-up, got our first takedown, broke a school record, and won the IM championship. It's a feeling knowing that we and we only by our own strength and ability performed better than anyone else.

The unfortunate fact in all these sports, football, basketball, wrestling, track, and in­ tramural competition, is that it takes hours and years of sweat, drudgery, and hard work to get even our first feeling of accomplishment and personal pride. Yet think back to when we were pre-schoolers romping around the neighborhood. Without any previous practice we would show off to our playmates by bal­ ancing and walking on a wooden fence, exe­ cuting a flip into a pile of leaves, and climbing the biggest tree in the yard. Even at that early age we had this same thrill of accomp­ lishment and personal pride.

These simple feats of skill and the thrill of doing them are the fundamental characteristics of the world’s oldest sport, gymnastics.

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perfection of the physical body. A good share of their day was spent in physical exercises such as boxing, wrestling, running and throw­ ing. Since they performed in the nude, they called their place of exercise after the Greek word for nude, gymnasium, hence today’s word gymnastics.

The striving for the perfection and beauty of the human body is still the underlying pur­ pose of modern gymnastics. The body is the only tool the gymnast needs to perform his feats, whether it is a simple forward roll or a difficult double back somersault off the mat.

The gymnast need not adapt himself to the use of some external inanimate object as in other sports, but uses his own body and mind which he has adapted to since his birth.

Unlike basketball or football, where one usually needs natural ability and years of practice before he can feel a sense of achieve­ ment, anyone, whether he is a ninety-pound wimp or a two hundred-pound hunk of meat can accomplish a simple feat using only his body. Such a simple stunt as a forward roll or balancing on one foot can give that thrill of achievement and personal pride. This spark of pride can encourage one to try more diffi­ cult stunts involving greater daring, strength, and balance, all at his own speed.

As well as developing pride and confidence, gymnastics also develops courage, co-ordin­ ation, balance and a well-conditioned body — all traits needed for other sports. Many stunts demand split-second timing, which increases alertness and precision. Self-confidence and self-discipline increase with each new stunt learned, for each new stunt must be repeated again and agin until perfection is attained.

Nor is gymnastics limited to set standards and rules; the performer has the opportunity to use his creative ability to work out his own routines.

Modern competitive gymnastics makes use of a variety of apparatus and events. An American event is tumbling where the per­ former makes four trips down a mat with a routine of flips, springs, and tumbling moves.

International competition uses free exercise.

This is a combination of tumbling skills with strength and agility moves. The parallel bars consist of two wooden bars side by side where a performer executes high swings and basic tumbling skills while supporting himself be-

tween the two bars. Related to the parallel bars is the horizontal bar, a single cross bar that can be adjusted to various heights. This piece involves strength in the arms and cour­ age, since the performer does various types of swings around the bar. Another strength ap­ paratus is the still rings. This is the best piece for developing strength in the shoulders, chest, and arms. The side horse stresses strength as well as co-ordination and timing. The gym­ nast moves his legs in circles and arcs while supporting his body above the leather cylin­ drical horse. Probably the most enjoyable ap­ paratus, especially for the beginner, is the trampoline. The trampoline is excellent for developing co-ordination, timing, balance, and daring. It is the non-swimmer’s version of the diving board, where the gymnast executes con­ trolled moves with his body in free fall.

Unfortunately gymnastics has been branded a sissy and non-spectacular sport. Granted it lacks the mob appeal of baseball and football, yet it is as entertaining for spectators and even more so for the performers for whom the sport is mainly meant. Since competitive gym-

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nasties isn't as popular in this country as basketball and baseball, most kids have not come into contact with it and condemn it without trying it. They have to be instructed first to generate interest. I guarantee that anyone who executes his first forward roll will catch the bug, and the personal satisfaction of gymnas­ tics will become a part of him. The opportun­ ity is excellent to come into contact with it, especially here at Northwestern, where the new modern gymnasium equipment is there for the using. It can be an excellent diversion for those who have little ability in basketball or for those who wish to improve their strength and agility for basketball or any other sport for that matter.

If anyone is interested in learning some of the fundamental stunts in gymnastics and im­ proving his co-ordination, balance, daring, and strength, come to room 204 East Hall and sign up on the sheet posted. If enough would be interested, we could have three or four in­ structed practices a week, mostly during the evening.

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THE SOPHISTICATION OF ROCK Teen Angel, Teen Angel, Teen Angel, Teen Angel, can you hear me, Teen Angel, can you see me, Are you somewhere up above, Are you still my one true love?

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That is no longer true; rock has come of age.

It began with Elvis, of course, singing “Hound Dog” with a sensuality that drove the little girls wild. His appeal was essentially no different from Frank Sinatra’s “ooby dooby doo” crooning, however. The lyrics were dreamy drivel and the tunes were nondescript.

Then came Chuck Berry and “Blue Suede Shoes,” and rock and roll was here to stay.

The electric guitar was the symbol of the new consciousness, and the new scene was “at the hop.” Berry's greatest impact, though, came through his influence on an emerging British group playing the Liverpool cellars in the early 69's, the Beatles. Rock and roll was king, and the Beatles' early music unashamedly imitated Elvis and Chuck Berry.

Meanwhile, something was happening in New York. The bars and coffeehouses had preserved the legacy of folk legend Woody Guthrie, and Greenwich Village was the cen­ ter of consciousness for folk thought. From this environment arose one of the most domin­ ating musical figures of the 60’s, Bob Dylan.

His nasal voice caused a few snickers, but the simple grace of his songs and the power of the lyrics made him the demigod of the protest ___ As Dylan's influence spread, movement people began to write songs with lyrics that meant something.

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style, characterized by rather good vocal har­ mony and excellent melodies backed by George Harrison’s lead guitar. John Lennon’s lyrics became sensitive and introspective: "Was she told when she was young That pain would lead to pleasure, Did she understand it when they said That a man must break his back To earn his day of leisure, Will she still believe it when lie's dead?"-

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Rock and roll had become more than back­ ground noise with a heavy beat for dancing the twist. By this time, musicians were begin­ ning to use rock and roll as a serious output for artistic self-expression and as a means of contributing to a rapidly burgeoning counter­ culture. Roughly in the mid-60’s, rock and roll began to expand and mature, until today it has fused with other forms. One direction goes off toward the blues (e.g. Savoy Brown).

Groups like Crosby, Stills, and Nash have created a folk-rock idiom, the Beach Boys and Bread play sort of “easy-listening” rock, Alice Cooper has blended carny-type theatrics with his sinister show, and the textured, multi-lay­ ered sound of the Moody Blues is almost sym­ phonic.

It has become increasingly apparent that rock music as a whole has become sophisticated enough to be considered a serious art form.

There are many reasons for this. For one, it is not self-bounded. Rock has borrowed freely from classical themes and incorporated them directly into songs. To people whose idea of rock music is nothing but a cacaphony of elec­ tronic thunder, Procol Harum’s “Whiter Shade of Pale” would come as somewhat of a sur­ prise because of its striking similarity to Bach’s “Air for the G String.” Emerson, Lake, and Palmer have done a number of interpretations of classical pieces, among them Moussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” and Aaron Cop­ land’s “Hoedown.” Emerson has also created a unique fusion of Bach’s Brandenburg Con­ certo #6 and Dylan’s “Country Pie.” Even Chicago has borrowed from contemporary composers, notably Edgard Varese.

In connection with this, rock has also tran­ scended the traditional verse/refrain type of form and assimilated classical techniques. Jeth­ ro Tull’s “Thick as a Brick” is the closest thing yet to a rock symphony, perhaps the most complex rock composition ever written.

It is a series of discrete themes and variations of extraordinary brillance, utilizing the classi­ cal concept of contrast. The Who made his107

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Some of the imagery became introverted and philosophical as lyrics grew more poetic.

Greg Lake sadly mused, "Confusion will be My Epitaph,” George Harrison wondered "What is Life,” and Keith Reid of Procol Harum felt this agony: "In the darkness of the night, when I’m occasionally relieved by glimpses of Nirvana to see through other people’s windows, wallow­ ing in a morass of self-despair made only more painful by the knowledge that all I am is of my own making, when everything around me, even the kitchen ceiling, has collapsed and crumbled without warning, and I am left standing, wondering why and wherefore ...”

John Lennon’s pain and depression were intense: “I read the news today, oh boy, About a lucky man who made the grade.

He blew his mind out in a car, He hadn’t noticed that the lights had changed.

A crowd of people stood and stared; They’d seen liis face before.

Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords ...”

In conclusion, George Harrison realizes this concept of the universe: “And you realize that you’re just very small And life goes on within you and without you."

tory with the first rock opera, "Tommy”. Ah though not an opera in the technical sense, but an extended song cycle, it was a consider' able departure from "Johnny Angel.”

Rock has moved past the guitar/bass/drums stereotype as well. One of the earliest departures was George Harrison’s introduction of the sitar, a 19'Stringed Indian instrument.

Songs like "Within You Without You” and "Love You To” are strongly suggestive of Indian raga. The dazzling pipe organ introduc' tion in the opening bars of Emerson’s “The Three Fates” is reminiscent of Paul Manz’s "Open Now Thy Gates of Beauty.” Pink Floyd’s “Atom Heart Mother Suite” has a number of superb French horn passages. And Ian Anderson’s flute improvisation of Bach's "Bourree” is almost a rock classic.

So much for rock's instrumental merits.

Rock lyrics have also come a long way from the "I love you, baby” syndrome. First, of course, came Dylan's social criticism. Consi­ der his "Masters of War”, written against the military establishment: “You iliat never done nothin’ but build to destroy You play with my world like some little toy, Like Judas of old you lie and deceive, A world war can be won you want me to believe ...”

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The holiday season is almost upon us. Along with it, the weather is trying to tell us that Winter is here to stay. There are a lot of out of state boys who like to bad mouth Wiscon­ sin weather. The best that I’ve heard is this one: “If you don’t like the weather in Wis­ consin, wait a minute.” That sounds pretty original. I came across it in the '40 Bfc?R. Over thirty years of complaining haven’t made a bit of difference.

Once again the faculty deserves our acco­ lades. They have decided to give each student

a Christmas present: our semester grades. Just think, after eating our parents out of house and home for a few days, that fateful envel­ ope with the NWC letterhead will arrive at our door. Won't that be nice?! They better open the dorms a few days earlier this year.

Hopefully they'll hold the grades up, and let us see them first. At least we could break the news gently from a distance.

Things have been pretty tough in the class­ room lately, and it looks like Thanksgiving can be spent dreading the wrath to come. The

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It’s getting tough for the Senior class these days. In a recent class meeting we have chosen St. Jude for our patron saint. He’s the saint in charge of the impossible and lost causes.

(From the EDitor in chief: Take note, Prof.

Lehman.) Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a fine old NWC tradition called the Senior Slide. In Sexta I was naive enough to think it must be a special place on the play' ground. I came to discover that it was a facuh ty'Student relationship in which the students were glad they could ease out of NWC, after years of toil and tribulation, and the faculty was glad to see just so many headaches go.

Luckily, the faculty was good enough to save the class of ’73 from this fate. Evidently they must like us, since some of us might be here next year.

It's gotten so bad though, that a veritable genius of a student and grandson of a former president of our Synod, Johannes Brenner is actually considering discontinuing his studies.

He wants to join the Merchant Marine, sail around the world, and write a novel about his experiences. Instead of urging John to keep on truckin', certain Profs have ridiculed poor John. One said, And who would read your book?” While another taunted John by saying that he'd have to pass a physical before he could join.

Little Tom Biedcnbender (Bev's beau), is another example. His despair was raised to the point that he confessed that he was no longer worthy to be his father's son. He even quit his job. I heard a prof tell Tommy to go to sleep in class, just so he could trip him up on an upcoming test. Whatever happened to justice and fair play? Things are getting tough all over.

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When someone stands out in a crowd for any reason, he deserves recognition. There is one member of the class of ”73, who is head and shoulders above everyone else, the pride and joy of Fox Valley Lutheran, a fellow who was outstanding on the field during football, the one and only, Beck Goldbeck. In his horn or I have composed a poem.

NORTHWESTERN’S GOLDBECK orAn Ode To Goldie Under a spreading glass backboard Northwestern’s Goldbeck stands.

The Beak, a mighty hunk is he With large and grabby hands, And the muscles of his lanky legs Are strong as rubber bands.

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His face is like a sheet.

His brow is wet with honest sweat.

And naught is like his feet.

He takes them on, both big and small He never will retreat.

Week in, Week out; from morn, till night He’s at his favorite sport.

You can hear him move his heavy feet Out on the buckets court.

He’s got two indies on ev’ry man He never is caught short.

And students coming back from class Peek in the open door.

They love to watch the Beaker type, And hear his mournful roar.

He beats his head against the wall And stomps upon the floor.

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A holy Roller caught his eye — She gave him no respect.

And then diere was the Flying Nurse With medals amply decked.

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He loves to watch Verne Gagne fight, And do the bad guys in.

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Just in case you happen to be invited over to one of the professors’ houses over the holi' days, watch out! Some of them serve a real mean cocktail. It you should go to the Eickmann’s house, watch out for his "‘Shalom Cock' tail.” After one, you rest in peace. This one is easy to recognise, because it's always garnished with a green aleph. One that isn’t so easy to recognize is Prof. Sellnow’s “Neurot' ic”, until you drink it — then you’re in a clash by yourself. Dr. Lehmann serves a highball he named after himself. The trouble is that after a couple you begin to talk in circles. A really potent one is Prof. Schroeder’s “Roman

Satire Cocktail”. After one you beg;n to act like a Juvenal. A drink that'll really sneak up on you is one that Prof. Spaude calls the “Rabbi”. If you drink more than a couple, even if you don’t want to, you cant. The real topper is Prof. Quam’s favorite, the “Victor' ian Lit Cocktail". Don’t drink too many, or you’ll be a Dickens all night.

As some of you know, I have been known to like things short and sweet, so I guess I'll wind things up for another issue. Once again one of our profound professors propounded a piece of profundity. He made the announce' ■ ment for all the world to hear. The faculty consists of uncommon men! According to Webster, "uncommon’ means not usual. In the ' synonym study after the word usual, the dietionary states that " Usual applies to that which past experience has shown to be normal.” It s ' good to see that the faculty is finally coming around to the students’ point of view.

I hope all of you get your Christmas goose!

Football, buskets, track and field, He’s Old Gray’s pride and joy.

He does his best in ev’ry sport, His spirit you can’t destroy.

He hasn’t done too bad, despite That lie’s a Jewish boy.

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For us — yes, He was born for us! This truly is the magic of Christmas which will impart to unbounded joy. A joy which we should continually keep before us and live in.

A joy which will not prompt but will drive us to gladly live for Christ as He obediently died for us. The magic of Christmas? Most assuredly! A lifetime magic!

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Before our heavenly Father could establish the strong foundation of His house of salva­ tion through the birth of His dear Son, He performed the meticulous task of surveying the terrain. The instrument the Almighty used to effect this was a decree of census issued by Caesar Augustus for taxing. Instantaneously the entire Roman world was thrown into seem­ ingly unending motion. People of both the noble and the common rung of the social lad­ der had to make a journey to their ancestral abodes. Among these great bustling compan­ ies, Mary and Joseph were to be found on their way to the city of David. The tiring

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Crack open the local jokes to see what makes them funny, and the humor is gone. It dis­ appears, like your lap when you stand up.

As E. B. White said, “Humor can be dissect­ ed, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process, and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." Humor “has a certain fragility, an evasiveness, which one had best respect. Essentially, it is a com­ plete mystery.”

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With no qualificataions except a serious mind, the experience of an eight-year stint on campus about three wars ago, and an interest in mysteries, I nevertheless feel that I must post my theses. What impels me is an occa­ sional feeling of discomfort, sometimes almost verging on pain, near the seat of affection for our alma mater.

At one time or another almost everyone attempts a funny story. Among our thanksgivings should be gratitude for those who do it well. November would be darker without them. But how many of us hold membership in that elect company? On the stage, at the

head table, at the center of attention in a conversation, most of us are elephants on the dance floor.

Elephants that want to be gazelles. “Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?” (Frank Colby) Ad' vising Wormwood, a junior tempter eager to win souls, his uncle Screwtape suggests that the English (substitute Americans) “take their ‘sense of humor’ so seriously that a deficiency in this sense is almost the only deficiency at which they feel shame. Humor is for them the all'consoling and (mark this) the alhexcusing grace of life. Hence it is invaluable as a means of destroying shame.” At this point, when the man on stage or at the speakers’ table smothers shame for “humor’s” sake, my pain — and, if I read it right, some discomfort in the student audience as well — sets in.

I accuse no speaker I have ever heard on campus of following the example of the Ox' ford English Dictionary, one of whose editors said, “We did not hold back. Various ex' pressions and circumlocutions for sexual, ex' cretory, and menstrual functions are all treat' cd at appropriate length.” Our speakers generally hold back. I have never heard what I would call a filthy story from the Northwes' tern stage. What bothers me is that so many seem just a little soiled at the edges.

Some “humorous” speakers seem inclined to tiptoe around the borders of subjects that raise a knowing snicker but really are no fun.

Humorists that respect — even love — their audience open their mouths not to be admired for their daring and not just to raise a laugh, but to give their hearers some fun. C. S. Lewis again, and remember that Screwtape’s Enemy is God: “Fun is closely related to Joy — a sort of emotional froth arising from the play instinct. It is very little use to us (devils).

It can sometimes be used, of course, to divert humans from something else which the Enemy would like them to be feeling or doing: but in itself it has wholly undesirable tendencies; it promotes charity, courage, contentment, and many other evils.”

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into the collection more than once! And if But the speaker had better be very sure of there was a “blue” line in the whole play, l his taste (see next paragraph if unsure) and missed it. Perhaps Jowett was not speaking of his balance, too. A steady barrage of sex, of musical comedies, but I think the Forum's bathroom scenes, or those minister-priest-rabbi actors and musicians give the lie to his pro­ and St.-Peter-at-the-pearly-gatcs tales makes nouncement that “every amusing story must, me cringe. I have the same feeling when a of necessity, be unkind, untrue, or immoral.” program smells consistently boozy. Someone Certainly not all humor tickles all audi­ is hung up somewhere.

On the topic of taste, one of my classmates ences. “A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears.” A. Heim described in the tossed out a bit of wise advice. If it will ma\e British Journal of Psychology an experiment you or your audience uncomfortable — while he performed with thirty-two jokes on fifty you're telling the story, or after — don't say it. persons. “No joke invariably produced a laugh; He and I agreed that when we have disre­ every one was received in silence at least once, garded this precept, it was only at the cost and the average number of silences per joke of regret and ex-post-facto shame. was 2.4” (reported by M. Wrght). Of “Here is a last piece of advice. If you be­ course, many MC’s would be well satisfied lieve in goodness and if you value the ap­ with no more than four-tenths of a silence. proval of God, fix your minds on the things Though audiences differ, finally no subject which are holy and right and pure and beauti­ lacks its incongruities. There are funny as­ ful and good” (Philippians 4:8 — Phillips). pects about sex, anatomy, alcohol, and religion. You can still laugh hearty.

P. Eickmann '50

ANNIVERSARIES Mount Calvary, Kimberly, Wis., observed the 35th anniversary of its organization on Sept.

10, 1972. Rev. John Schroeder (’64) is the pas­ tor of the congregation.

CALLS Rev. Richard Werner (’44) observed the comple­ tion of 25 years in the ministry on Sent. 10, Rev. Walter Goers, Jr., (’63) was installed at 1972. Pastor Werner serves St. John, Valmy Friedens, Randolph, Wis., on Nov. 12, 1972. His (Sturgeon Bay), Wis. former charge was at St. John, Pelican Lake, Sept. 10. 1972, also marked the observance by the Wis. members of Mt. Calvary, Flagstaff, Ariz., of Rev. Philip Janke (’47), after serving Bethlehem, their 25th year. Rev. Philip Koelpin (’68) is Menomonee Falls, Wis., has become a profes­ the pastor. sor of religion and history at Manitowoc Luth­ eran High School. The installation date was The 20lh anniversary of the church building of English Lutheran, Viroqua, Wis., was observed Oct. 29, 1972. on Sept, 10, 1972. Rev. E. A. Breiling (’38) is Rev. Fred Fedke (’64) has accented a call to the pastor.

Luther High School, Onalaska, Wis. There he will be teaching religion and doing counseling. St. Jacob, Norwaik, Wis., marked its 90tli anni­ versary with special services on May 21, 1972.

His new duties will begin after January 14, Guest preachers were former pastors, Rev. J. 1973. Currently he serves congregations in Het­ R. Petrie (’42) and Rev. R. C. HiUemann (’25). tinger and Reeder, N.D., and Bison, S.D. The current pastor of St. Jacob’s is Rev. Mar­ Pastor Keith Haberkorn (’65) of Trinity, Elkton, tin Lemke (’34). and Immanuel, Ward, S.D., has accepted a call to St. John, rural Manitowoc, Wis. He plans Rev. Frederick Brandt (’19) observed his 50th anniversary of ordination on Aug. 6, 1972. All to move on Dec. 4, 1972. of Pastor Brandt’s years in the ministry have Rev. Roger Woller (’65) was installed at Zion, been served at St. Paul, Appleton, Wis. Osceola, Wis., on Nov. 19, 1972, after serving a parish in Woodville and Hersey, Wis. Pastor Julius Wille (’65), who was recently in­ DEDICATIONS stalled at Zion, Clatonia, Nebr., has also ac­ A new gymnasium and classroom addition to the school of Trinity, Neenah, Wis., was dedicated cepted a call to St. John, Firth, Nebr., and will on June 4, 1972, The pastor of Trinity is Rev. serve both congregations. He was installed at Gerhard Schaefer (’29).

St. John on Sept. 24, 1972.

Theodore Lambert (’68) was ordained and in­ \ MARRIAGES stalled at Christ the King, Bremerton, Wash., on July 23, 1972, by his father, Pastor Lloyd •Rev. Paul Otto (’61) and Gloria Steffenhagen were united in marriage at St. John’s, FronLambert (’38). tenac, Minn., on Nov. 5, 1972.

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DEATHS Pastor Walter Voight (’22), emeritus, Sept. 9, 1972, at Lake City, Minn.

BIRTHS A son was born to Pastor and Mrs. Joel Frank (’64) of Winnett, Mont., on Oct. 22, 1972. The new arrival was named Jeffrey Joel.

Rev. and Mrs. Theodore Lambert (’68) of Bre­ merton, Wash., became the parents of a son on Oct. 1, 1972.

OTHER NEWS Pastor James Humann (’61) of St. John, Stanton, Nebr., conducted a tour this past summer to the Bible lands of Greece, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Israel. The group of eighteen, which included three pastors and six teachers, tra­ veled from July 31 to August 14. Worship ser­ vices were held in their hotel rooms in Jeru­ salem and Cairo. Pastor Humann is also con­ sidering leading a tour to Europe this summer.

Details will appear in the future if the tour is held.

SEM NOTES This item was inadvertently omitted last month.

Dennis (“Good Eye”) Smith (’69) is eyeing the current champion of an intellectual game show — a 19 year old beauty from Arizona State University. Could Den finally be out of Double Jeopardy?

The brothers at the Seminary pass on their sym­ pathetic regards to this year’s senior class con­ cerning the recent music test on liturgy.

A hearty thank you is returned to George Swan­ son for his legacy to Luther Reed.

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SPCS2TS HOW SWEET IT IS l Conference Champs Lakeland's public address man may have been a bit sarcastic when he announced before the Muskies homecoming game against the Trojans that they hadn’t lost a conference game since 1966. (Which they lost to North' western) As the game progressed, however, his sarcasm turned out to be prophetic. Yes, believe it or not, the Sheboygan powerhouse has crumbled, and it took a forgotten North' western team to do it.

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ment. And who was suffering the worst through all this? It had to be Coach Thompson. He came here with impressive credentials, but after last season all people could talk of was the way football used to be at Northwestern. This kind of feeling had to hurt the coach, but all he could do was work harder at building a team. And build a team he did! Even a couple victories would have been a good start at re­ building, but a championship was an unthought of dream. Credit must be given to coach and especially to those players who stuck it out through the thin years. What better way for a Senior to close out his football efforts at NWC. If you look for key factors in this dramatic change, you would have to start with the offen­ sive line. With each game they matured and became more of a cohesive unit. Freshman Tim Johnston came in later in the season at tackle and did a great job. Charlie Degner at center and Mike Hintz at guard earned allconference berths. But you can’t forget Mark Neitzel and Tom Lindloff, who together with the other three gave the Trojans one of our better lines in recent years.

This line led to the next key part of Northwestern's success: the passing game. Only very seldom was Steve Ehlke dumped trying to pass, and thus Steve finally got his chance to show what he could really do when given the time.

Our passing attack went over 1000 yards for eight games, and Steve was given all-confer­ ence honors. 369 of these yards and five touchdowns went to Rog Kuerth. While at the same time, by a freak of statistics, Mark Toepel also hauled in passes for 369 yards and five touchdowns. The airway route thus be­ came our most improved department and the most damaging to our opponents.

When you start looking to individuals, Toepel’s name always seems to be the first one mentioned. It is for good reason too. No one can match Al's talents in the conference. He was easy MVP and all-conference on offense and defense. Besides the .369 yards in passing yardage, A1 had 561 yards rushing for a 4.6 average per carry. He threw passes for 279 yards and scored 54 points. Add to those figures six interceptions plus 441 yards on punt and kickoff returns, and you can see where the Trojans would have been without Mr. Toepel. His ability to find the holes in the defense and catch any ball thrown near him was demonstrated game after game. Coach Thompson will be glad to see him again next year.

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Another individual who should he mention­ ed is Marc Bode. Marc led our defense in tackles. Anyone could see from watching our games that Bode just loved to hit people. Marc also was named to the all-conference team as was Neil Varnum. “Tiger” didn't play regu­ larly at the start of the year, but when he got his chance, he showed quickness at the line and often penetrated into the opposition’s backfield.

There are many others who could be mention­ ed, but it was a team effort. Everybody pulled together. It was the kind of season that the eight seniors can savor and remember for a long time.

CONCORDIA (Milw.) 6 NWC 21 After many years of Homecoming failures, NWC came up with a triple sweep of victor­ ies for '72. The Trojans took on Concordia, which handed us an unexpected loss last year.

Revenge was on our mind, and this year our gridders were equal to the task. Scor;ng 21 points in the first half, the Trojans had given themselves enough to overcome the Falcons.

With our line opening up holes for 253 yards on the ground, the pass became more effective, Ehlke kept our first drive going with key third down plays. One came on a pass to Kuerth, and then from nine yards out Steve found Toepel at the very end line of the end rone for our first score.

The Ehlke-Toepel combination then went in reverse as A1 threw a perfect option pass back to Ehlke good for 43 yards and a touch­ down. The scoring combo then went back to normal order as Steve hit Al on the run for 36 yards and our final touchdown.

Concordia scored once on our defense and seemed to be able to move the ball, but when it came to critical spots, the Trojans held and fought the Falcons to a scoreless second half.

Sixteen penalties for 135 yards made the vic­ tory come harder, but we weren’t to be denied this homecoming.

14 7 0 0 - 21 NWC 0 6 0 0 -6 Concordia LAKELAND 7 NWC 20 It was Lakeland’s homecoming, but that wasn’t enough for the Muskies to overcome the fired-up Trojans. Lakeland started the game in its usual brutal way. They were giv­ ing us nothing on the ground while pounding out yards themselves by coming straight at our defense. It took Ehlke’s passing to change this pattern. The big play in our first touchdown drive was a screen pass to Don Thompson.

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Beautiful downfield blocking allowed Don to get us in scoring position for Ehlke to hit Toe' pel on a four'yard TD pass. The big play also got our second touchdown. Al swept end on a third and short yardage play. Lakeland's de' fense pulled in to stop the run, and Toepel flicked a pass to a waiting Rog Kuerth, who took it in for a 60-yard touchdown pass and a 14'7 halftime lead.

In the second half Lakeland fumbled a punt, and the Trojans drove it in for what appeared to be a touchdown. But twice the refs said we didn’t get it over. When the Muskies took over on downs, they fumbled on the first play, and now Ehlke ran it over from one yard out to break Lakeland’s morale. From that point on it was the Trojans doing all the hitting as NWC’s happy fans sang, “Good' bye Lakeland.’’

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This year’s team will have to be geared to running and beat teams with the fast break.

With no real individual one-on'one threats, Toepel’s speed is our best weapon. Goldbeck and Schumacher will be relied on to get the rebounds out to start the break. Rog Kuerth will probably see a lot of action at forward.

Kuerth also adds speed for the fast break.

Competing for the other job at guard next to Toepel will be Don Sutton, Dave Kriehn and Don Thompson. Sutton and Kriehn probably are the best shooters on the team along with Schumacher. Sophomores Jon Guenther and John Schroeder figure to fill in at forward spots. Sophomore Jim Huebner and Frosh Dan Kelm fill out the squad at the guard spots.

Coach Thompson is also hoping Freshman Stu Zak will come out after healing from a foot' ball injury to give some more depth at either forward or center. Keys to success will be re' bounding strength and a lack of fouls, as team depth will not be as strong as last year. If the Trojans can get help from some of the in' experienced players to go along with the likes of Toepel and Schumacher, it could be another interesting season.

Basketball In view of last year’s surprising winning season, Coach Thompson will be looking to continue his success. It isn’t going to be easy, though, with the loss of Glen Thompson and a lean year as far as Freshman prospects are concerned. Dominican and Lakeland will again

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A SECOND CHANCE T AST Friday, I sat in the park watching and listening to all the sights and sounds around me. I watched the squirrel as he scurried up the tree, I heard the birds singing from the willow tree, and I heard the wind whistling through the trees. The most dominant of all the sounds, which could even be heard above the hustling city traffic, was the sound of the jets taking olf from the distant airport.

I always dreamed of flying a plane. I knew then, I could be in control. I wouldn’t have to take orders from anyone. I’d just love to be looked up to for once in my life. Just think of it, I could see half the world if I could fly.

I wouldn’t have to be confined like I am now.

This is stupid, I thought. I’ll never be able to fly a plane, let alone hold a job without ten people watching over me as if I were still an inmate. I guess servicing planes is all right if I’ll never be able to fly ’em.

It was almost 2:30. I knew if I didn’t get up soon, I’d be late for my appointment. This is sickening, every Friday having to keep an appointment that I’ll probably be keeping for the rest of my life. The thing that bothers me the most is that I always have to interrupt my day off for the meeting. How I wish some' time I could get out of work instead of going on my day off. It seems to ruin the entire day.

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I finally got up and walked through the park to 6th street; it would be about a seven block walk to the Federal Building. It seemed as though I walked for an hour, but it was really only 20 minutes before I arrived at the massive building. Looking in front of me I saw 24 steps which led up to the entrance. I said to myself, I can't remember how many times I counted those steps. I hate every one of them. Finally, walking up the steps and into the lobby I got into the elevator. I went up to the 17th floor, got off, turned to my left, and walked to the end of the hall. The sign on the door read: David R. Friedrichs, Probation Officer.

I opened the door and walked in. “Good afternoon,” the receptionist said pleasantly. It was a new secretary he had hired since the last time I was here.

“Hello,” I said, “Is he ready to see me?” as I motioned toward his door.

“Yes, walk right in,” the secretary re­ sponded.

The office overlooked half of the city. As I sat in the brown leather chair I thought of the last five years I've been coming here. Just then, Mr. Friedrichs walked in.

“Hi, Rich,” he said as he sat down.

“Good afternoon, sir,” I responded.

“I've got an important meeting in about a half an hour, so I’ll get to the point,” he said.

He fumbled through some of the items on his desk and finally fished out a manila envelope, “The court has reviewed your case, Rich.

They’ve seen your outstanding record working for the airlines and the many letters of commendation of your character, work habits, and adjustments. On this basis, the court has decided to suspend your probation.”

I couldn’t believe what I had heard!

Yes, they have finally approved what you ve dreamed about for all these years.”

“Man, seven years in the pen for both breaking and entering, and armed robbery and then five more years on probation and now this. I can't believe it!”

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“Who was that?” hp !^rphy’ the Payfo11 clerk. I could never stand him ever since I began working

there. He always gives me trouble when I go to pick up my check. I guess he has it in for me, since I had done time in the pen.” '‘Well, you’ll just have to bear with it and hope for the best. You've got the promotion, that’s all that really counts.”

“Yea, I guess so,” I returned, “I’ve got to get going, now,” Friedrichs returned.

“I’d like to thank you for everything you've done for me; I know I’ll be glad not to see y0U every week.”

“Well, goodbye, Rich.”

“Goodbye, Mr. Friedrichs,” I replied, I just couldn’t believe it, no every week escapade up to his office. I could finally be rid of all my nightmares because my dreams have finally come true. At last, even my days off won’t be disturbed for that purpose.

The next day, I was working in the shop when Mike, another mechanic, stopped me.

“Hey, I hear you're off probation?”

“I sure am, how did you find out?” I replied.

“Oh, I heard from old man Murphy,” he said, “Yea, that big loud-mouth, he always has his nose in other people's business, especially mine. I hate his guts.” We went on talking about Murphy for almost an hour, Later that evening I thought I had some ideas, but I just had to choose the best, no matter what the consequences.

The next day I went to work as usual. ^vlikc came to work late, all full of excitement, j pafd no attention to him. He began talking and chattering about almost everything. I tried to ignore him.

“Hey, what's with you? I asked you a question,” he Gaid looking rather annoyed.

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That's the price of war, though, but what is the price of peace? Can the United States afford peace?

According to l^ewswee\ magazine there is a bit of economic folklore that decrees: “With­ out war or the threat of war, the United States simply cannot achieve a really healthy economy and full employment.” There are many proofs of this — just think of the pains of reconver­ sion after World War II and the post Korean War recession of the 1950's. These slowdowns lingered on until Vietnam provided new econ­ omic stimulus. The unemployment rate has not been decreasing and now there wall be a great influx of jobless veterans. Will the Land of the Free have jobs for the Brave? These veterans returning from Vietnam are not wast­ ed men, even though some may be handicapped by wounds received while fighting for Uncle Sam. The solution that is often proposed is job training. Why can't these veterans be trained for peacetime jobs? First of all, there aren't enough peacetime jobs available, and secondly, job training has not been too effec­ tive in the past.

War is a necessary evil if the United States is to survive. I’m not condoning war.

I’m just using the logic of History. There are experts that say the end of the Vietnam War will bring us prosperity and they use History as proof of this citing the examples of how

the economy boomed right after the previous wars we have been involved in — such as World War II and the Korean War. The Dow Jones averages do bear witness that the Stock Market did indeed rise when these wars ended, but it must be born in mind that the Market did not stay up for a very long period of time. Peace always brings an increase at the outset due to the lift given to the spirits of consumers and businessmen, but this does not last for long once the veterans return job­ less and wartime production is cut. War is a money-making enterprise, whereas peace breeds poverty.

Inflation is said to be the most destructive of all the consequences of war, but inflation does not come about until there is peace. Men have always talked about the evils of war, but few have talked about the evils of peace. Peace itself is not evil, but perfect peace in the world is unattainable. The partial peace that is pro­ pounded by the politicians of our day does contain many evils. Inflation, recession, un­ employment! We all know what these even­ tually breed, too. Just look around at the in­ ternal affairs of our country. It is not a plea­ sant sight!

The world cannot live with peace. Man is not built that way. Philosophers and psy­ chologists both agree that men have to be at strife with one another in order to survive.

War could be called one of the great human pastimes. What is the cause of all this? Why can’t men live beside each other in harmony instead of discord? The reason is a very simple and elemental one. One that every little Sun­ day School child knows. Sin. Sin breeds all the evils that cause men to declare war on each other, for nation to declare war on na­ tion — hatred, malice, greed, desire for power.

Man cannot put down the sword, nation can­ not withdraw her troops and cease fire — s*n won’t allow chat. War is the punishment God has placed upon the world due to sin. Men and nations can strive all they want to achieve world peace, but it will be to no avail.

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For the Christian, though, there is a dif­ ferent type of peace. This peace is not a par­ tial peace or world peace, but an inner, spir­ itual peace — a peace of mind and soul. The Christian has this peace as a free gift of God through Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, when Fie came down from heaven and died upon the cross for all our sins. Christ came and brought peace to the believers as the Prince of Peace, but to the unbelievers He brought the Sword of discord so that, as the Bible says, brother would rise up against broth­ er and there would always be wars and rumors of wars.

The real joy of Christmas then is not that there should be world peace and the promotion of brotherhood among all men, but rather the peace of mind and soul that comes through the hope of salvation in that Christ-child who was born in Bethlehem and later died on the cross of Calvary for the sins of all mankind.

The world peace that politicians and diplomats promise will never come about no matter how many international organizations are formed, no matter how many peace treaties are drawn up. Man's peace is only a "phony" peace, but the peace that God gives to all true believers is a real and true everlasting peace.

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Trembling with terror, Zacharias shrinks back and witnesses before his own aged eyes the very thing which prophet and patriarch had longed to behold, that great day of which they had been told: “The Lord whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; and the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming.”

With this message Gabriel swings wide the doors of the New Testament of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Upon Gabriel and other angels like him had God bestowed the privilege of announcing the advent of the King of kings. It was only six months after this announcement of the coming of John the Baptist that Gabriel was once more sent from heaven's high throne to announce to a virg'n in Bethlehem that she would be the mother of the Savior. Astounding in her ears were the words of that heavenly herald: “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy offspring shall be called the Son of God.” Well do we know how these words were fulfilled, and just as well should we recall how fitting it was that the fulfillment, like the prophecy, was announced by the angels of God: “Today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.”

What sort of incomprehensible creatures are these who hail from holy light to earth's darkest night? What legions innumerable are harbored in these heavenly hosts who praise God and say: “Glory to God in the highest!”?

What unchanging truths do we know concern­ ing the angels of God? The doctrine of angels is hardly one of the burning issues of our times. People really don’t discuss the subject too much, probably because they don’t know too much about it. It is, as a matter of fact, very probable that our grand­ mothers know more about the doctrine of angels than their educated college grandsons.

Many an “enlightened” person nowadays smiles smugly when grandma tells him to thank God for the guardian angels who saved him from a car accident. But that’s okay.

Grandma has Biblical backing; the “enlightened” young man doesn’t. The promise of the ninety-first Psalm still holds: “He will give H’’s angels charge concerning you to guard you in all your ways.” Those self-willed individ­ uals who deny what Scripture clearly teaches concerning this doctrine along with the other doctrines of Scripture will find themselves be­ ing gathered for judgement by the very spirits to whom they denied existence.

This existence of angels is unmistakably revealed in Holy Writ. A few examples will suffice. In Genesis 3:24 is the first Biblical reference to an angel: “He (God) stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction, to guard the way to the tree of life.” Concerning the temptation of our Savior, Matthew 4:11 says: “Then the devil left Him; and behold, angels came and began to minister to Him.” And finally we see an angel on a mission of mercy to the im­ prisoned apostles in Acts 5:19-20: “An angel of the Lord during the night opened the gates of the prison, and taking them out he said, 'Go your way, stand and speak to the people in the temple the whole message of this Life.”

For the Christian, this is proof enough that angels are not the products of medieval men's superstitious minds, but rather the living ser­ vants of God who exist wholly to do His will.

When God brought these servants of His into existence we cannot pinpoint exactly ex­ cept to say that they were definitely created sometime within the six days of creation, for God tells us: “Thus the heavens and earth were completed, and all their hosts. And by the seventh day God completed His work which He had done.” (Gen, 2:1-2). Like­ wise we are told: “In six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them.” (Ex. 20:11).

It might be well now to consider the ques­ tion: “For what purpose did God create the angels? The name “angel” itself does not designate the nature or essence of a being, but its function. The Greek word “angelos” desig­ nates “a messenger” or “one sent.” The title “angel” is given in Scripture to humans (John the Baptist), spiritual beings (Gabriel), and even to the second Person of the Godhead, Jesus Christ, in the Old Testament. So, from the very word itself, we see that the duty of the angels is that of being God’s messengers.

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When applying this term to Christ in the Old Testament, we of course think of the “Sent One” of God in the highest sense of the term, God Himself.

As to the nature of the angels, they are referred to in the Bible as “spirits” (pneumata). They are pictured to us as very power­ ful and yet always under the controlling hand of God, whether they be the good angels or the fallen ones. That God is the controlling Agent here is the greatest comfort which the writer to the Hebrews states in a rhetorical question: “Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render services for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?”

All the more comforting is the fact that these “ministering spirits” are not few in num­ ber, but rather, innumerable. In the book of Daniel, it is said of that aweful vision of the Ancient of Days that “Thousands upon thou­ sands were attending Him, and myriads upon myriads were standing before Him.” (Dan. 7:10). Likewise does that “multitude of the heavenly hosts” over the fields of Bethlehem come to mind in this season. The forces of the Almighty are not small nor His mighty arm short to save.

Concerning these “myriads” we also learn from Scripture that “God is not a God of con­ fusion but of peace.” (I Cor. 14:33). There is a certain order and rank which God has established amidst His countless heavenly ser­ vants. Exactly what this order is we are not told in Scripture, but, nevertheless, we are giv­ en a list of titles and ranks among the angels, consisting of cherubim (Gen. 3:24), seraphim (Is. 6:2), thrones, dominions, principalities and powers (Cor. 1:16), and archangel (I Thess.

4:16). There is even a certain order, if you will, among the evil angels, Beelzebub being the ruler of the demons. (Luke 11:15f.)

Good and evil angels there are too. Let it never be surmised, however, that God created anything evil. Any Sunday School child can relate how God pronounced the verdict “very good” on everything that He had created. Or­ iginally, all the angels were created holy, with­ out spot or stain, but a great number of these angels, of their own volition and without any temptation, rebelled against their maker and received the just judgment of eternal damna­ tion. This is the import of Jude 6: “Angels who did not keep their own domain, but aban­ doned their proper abode, He has kept in eter­ nal bonds under darkness for the judgement of the great day.” So we see that these evil angels fell from their former state of grace

(status gratiae) into the state of eternal misery and sin (status miserae). The good angels, on the other hand, who persevered in their holi­ ness were finally confirmed in their holiness so that they may no longer sin (non posse peccare). Thus in Luke 20:36, Christ tells us that we shall be “like angels” as regards our state of glory (status gloriae) in the eternal ages.

By now, the thought may be incessantly pressing to the forefront of the reader’s mind, “This is all fine and interesting but what is God’s purpose in revealing this to mankind?”

Scripture is anything but silent on that score.

As we have learned above from such passages as Ps. 91:11 and Heb. 1:14, the angels are ministering spirits sent out by God for the pro­ tection of His believers. This is especially com­ forting to Christian parents when they so often fear for the physical and spiritual welfare of their “little ones” whose “angels in heaven continually behold the face of My (Christ’s) Father who is in heaven.” (Matt. 18:10).

Therefore Christ also assures with this pro­ mise that “It is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish.” (Matt. 18:14) We also learn from Scripture that the angels are concerned over and make petitions to God for all believers.

Our Lutheran Confessions state: “We also grant that the angels pray for us. For there is a testimony in Zech. 1:12, where an angel prays: kO Lord of hosts, how long wilt Thou not have mercy on Jerusalem?’” (Apology of

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(Luke 16:22). How easy it is to see in all of this the abundant mercy of God toward His beloved children in Christ!

And we indeed need this protection of the angels. Our “adversary, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.” (I Pet. 5:8) “The old, evil foe” concerning whom Luther wrote dare not be pooh-poohed by our generation as irrelevant and old-fashioned. The evil angels with Satan at the helm are still working our overthrow.

And yet Peter in that same chapter reminds us of our ultimate victory in Christ: “After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.”

For the most part it could be said that we have thoroughly treated the doctrine of angels.

We have mentioned briefly how men like John the Baptist have been called “angels” in the sense of being the “sent ones” or “messengers” of God. We have also covered in detail the words of Scripture which relate to those “min­ istering spirits” sent out from God for the benefit of all believers. But especially in this Christmas

vine actions or divine attributes are ascribed to “the Angel of the Lord” in the Old Testament, this is definitely Jesus Christ, the “un­ created Angel” (Angelus increatus), God Himself, the second person of the Holy Trin­ ity prior to His incarnation. This is just one more divine attestation against those idiots who say they find no Trinity and no Christ in the Old Testament. Let us consider some examples in the Old Testament when this “An­ gel of the Lord” is a reference to Christ.

The setting of our first reference is that time when Jacob had just crossed the ford of the Jabbok river the night before his reunion with his brother Esau. Jacob's heart was fear­ ful and troubled. This is why, perhaps, on this night of all nights, God should appear to him to strengthen his weak faith. “Then Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him, he touched the socket of his thigh; so the socket of Jacob’s thigh was dislocated while he wrestled with him. Then he said, ‘Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.' But he said, ‘I will not let you go unless you bless me.’ So he said to him, ‘What is your name?' And he said, ‘Jacob.’ And he said, ‘Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and men and have pre­ vailed.’ ... So Jacob named the place Peniel, for he said, ‘I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been preserved.’ “Finally, upon his deathbed, Jacob makes reference to this incident while blessing the sons of Joseph and says: “The Angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads.” Jacob knew who the “Angel of the Lord” was and what that “An­ gel” was to do for him.

The next recorded appearance of “the An­ gel of the Lord” is in Exodus 3:2. Who was it that appeared to Moses in the flaming bush on Horeb, the mountain of God? Well, it was God, of course. We see, moreover, that God is first referred to in verse 2 of that chapter as “the Angel of the Lord.” And for those who care to check it out, this same almighty Figure appears later to Joshua (Josh. 5:13-15) just after the children of Isreal enter the pro­ mised land. There He calls Himself the “Cap­ tain of the host of the Lord” and repeats that same sentence from Sinai: “Remove your san­ dals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” This is just one more of the many theophanies or physical manifes­ tations of God in the Old Testament. whom Godl serit." (John 3:34). It should As a final example let us turn to the book be recogn.ted. therefore, by all who study the Scriptures that whenever the divine name, di- of Judges (13:17-22). This is the well-known story of how “the Angel of the Lord” an126

nounced the birth of Samson to Manoah and his wife. Here we read: ‘'And Manoah said to the Angel of the Lord, ‘What is your name, so that when your words come to pass, we may honor you?' But the Angel of the Lord said to him, ‘Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?’ So Manoah took the kid with the grain offering and offered it on the rock to the Lord, and He performed wonders while Manoah and his wife looked on. For it came about when the flame went up from the altar toward heaven, that the Angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell on their faces to the ground. Now the angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoah or his wife. Then Manoah \new that He was the Angel of the Lord. So Manoah said to his wife, ‘We shall surely die, for we have seen God. In such great ways did Christ stand forth in all His glory in the Old Testament. This Christmas season we once more celebrate the incarnation of that “Angel of the Lord who has redeemed us from all evil.” This Lion of Judah, great David’s greater Son, the Messenger of the covenant and Angel of the Lord is He whose birth was heralded by all the hosts of heaven that lonely night in the ears of lowly shepherds. This year again we hear the angels of God praising that greater “An­ gel” who ever was, ever is and ever shall be God Almighty, Christ the Lord. And this year again we await that second Advent of our Lord and Savior when he shall come again with all his holy angels in the clouds of great glory. St. John describes the praise given to Him on that day and always: “And I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands; say­ ing with a loud voice, ‘Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and i wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing.’ And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them I heard saying, ‘To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb,, be blessing and hon­ or and glory and dominion forever and ever.’”

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A major article in Time a few months ago might have generated enough interest for you to pick it up in the store while Christmas shopping this vacation and breeze through it.

It's short — only ninety-three pages, and half of that's photographs. Sooner or later you’ll read Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

The ascent of Jonathan Livingston Seagull in the eyes of the American public has been rather phenomenal, surpassing even that "great classic” Love Story. Already last summer the book broke all hardback book records, selling over a million copies, comparable only to Cone With the Wind. By the time this is in print, the book undoubtedly will have found its way into thousands more homes and hearts, being the inexpensive Christmas gift that it is (or an expensive gift with a new celestial blue and silver slipcase). The movie is well into pro­ duction, and will be released sometime this year; paperback rights were sold for another record amount. Says Richard Bach, the auth­ or, "The way I figure, just by April 1975, the whole earth will be covered about two feet deep in copies of JLS.” It appears that Bach has found the gull that lays the golden eggs, and isn't about to cut its head off.

And it appears that society has found a new intellectual plaything in the book. It is not the plot which makes the book the rage it is today, but the philosophies within. The plot itself is simple. Jonathan Livingston Sea­ gull is your normal run-of-the-mill seagull, ex­ cept that he li\es to fly. All the other gulls of his flock take this ability for granted, look­ ing at flight as only a means of transportation and obtaining food. But Jonathan's one goal in life is to keep improving his flying ability and become the fastest and best flying gull.

He spends all his time practicing, while the other gulls are out struggling for food near the fishing boats. All the flock look down their beaks at him. Even his father declares: "See here, Jonathan, this flying business is all very well, but you can't eat a glide, you know.

Don’t forget that the reason you fly is to eat.”

But for all his practicing, Jonathan fails to perfect his high speed dive because his wings are too long for a successful pullout. For awhile, he despairs, realizing he might have to lead a normal gull's life. But then he gets

a brainstorm and by just folding his wings in close to his body, he breaks all seagull air­ speed records. The joy of his innovation is short-lived, however, when he is banished from the flock for "his reckless irresponsibility, and violating the dignity and tradition of the flock.” So Jonathan leaves, sad not because of his solitude, but because the other gulls re­ fused to open their eyes and see.

Each day Jonathan learns more and more, trying to perfect his flight. Here is where the book takes on a supernatural tone. One even­ ing, Jonathan bumps into a couple supergulls (with equal and even greater flying skills) who take him "home” to an apparent seagull heaven. But it turns out to be only a seagull never-never land where he is taught the deeper philosophies of a seagull's life plus a few other far-out tricks, such an instantly moving from one place to another by thought, immortality, 130

telepathy, etc., etc. He remains there for some time, being taught personally by the head bird himself named Chiang. But soon our hero realizes that he himself was cut out to teach other gulls. So he commits that no-no of returing to his flock, breaking a law "not broken once in ten thousand years.”

Jonathan picks out a promising young bird, Fletcher Lynd Seagull, and begins his teach­ ing career. Soon he has six other curious birds, and his philosophical/aeronautical school blos­ soms. Finally, once the school is established, Jonathan leaves Fletcher as head of the school and vanishes dramatically, off to help other flocks which need an instructor to teach them the light.

Bach’s book is, in all its attributes, truly the spawn of a present-day romantic age. It preaches individualism, humanitarianism, ideal­ ism, all with a supernatural setting. If the author had meant the book and all its philoso­ phies to remain seagull orientated, to our Christian point of view it might not be that detrimental. But it’s obvious that the whole thing pertains to human life — the book is one big social sermon. Bach explains the mes­ sage of JLS in this way: "Find out what you love to do, and do your darndest to make it happen.” Now this idea isn't really wrong in itself (for Solomon writes "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.”), but it is wrong in its Godless setting. And here is where the book takes its worst turn.

Individualism is not wrong — Luther is a prime example of that. But it does become wrong when one is individualistic to the point of rejecting Christ or becoming uncaring for his fellow man. Jonathan teaches his students, "we're free to go where we wish and to be what we are.” Even if it entails going against the law of the flock — "The only law is that which leads to freedom. There is no other.”

Could Bach possibly here be alluding to the “superstitious limitations” of God’s Word?

Jonathan continues, "whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form.”

Scripture is not cited as an exception to that rule.

Certainly nothing is wrong with high ideals — unless one's highest ideals aren’t Christcentered and expectant of salvation. That wise old teacher Chiang spoke to his student about heaven: "No, Jonathan, there is no such place.

Heaven is not a place . . . Heaven is being perfect.” And more wise advice for all the birds (rather people) in the world today: 131

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“Forget about faith! You don't need faith to fly . . . keep working on love." This is remini' scent of an oft'quoted statement of a few years back: “All you need is love.” Such a shallow, Godless love!

Humanitarianism is also fine, if it doesn't become a religion in itself. This kind of humanitarianism is reproachable because it leaves no room for Christ’s work of redemption. One Sunday morning I heard a sermon over the radio, the text taken entirely from the book in question. The point of the sermon was taken from a situation where Jonathan is ex­ plaining to another gull how friendship and brotherhood can overcome space and time. No wonder the book is as celebrated as it is, with such timely and popular messages as this!

Throughout the book is woven threads of heathen religious philosophies. One doctrine of Hinduism is that the goal of life is absolute perfection, definitely one ambition in Jonathan's life. Christian Scientist philosophies abound through the book’s pages.

Author Bach himself was a reader in that church before he finished his masterpiece, and the influence is evident (although he claims his book was inspired by a mysterious voice which came to him long ago). Christian Sci­ ence teaches that the soul has always existed and this makes up the “real” person, there­ fore man is a timeless being. Jonathan learns immortality through his teacher, Chiang: “The trick was ... to stop seeing himself as trapped inside a limited body ... to know that his true nature lived . . . everywhere and at once across space and time.”

Once Jonathan learned the powers of his mind, he wasn't restricted to his bodily forms, but could travel anywhere instantly. Another Christian Science teaching that evil, sickness, and death are only illusory is demonstrated with the miraculous healing of a gull with a broken wing. Jonathan tells the heartbroken bird, “You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.”

“Are you saying I can fly?” squawks the seagull.

“I say you are free.” The bird flies.

Earlier Jonathan had taught his students, “Your whole body from wingtip to wingtip is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see.” This sounds like some­ thing out of the Christian Science Monitor.

It isn’t hard to see why the book is so much garbage, if one just looks at the author

and his life. Up until now, Bach has spent his life as an aviator and a relatively unsuc' cessful aviation writer. He wrote a couple other worthless books which only now are starting to sell. Bach claims he is not Jonathan Livingston Seagull, but his life indicates other' wise. The very individualistic freedom which he espouses in his book caused him to leave his wife and six children well before JLS v/as published. It also caused him to come to hate all religious labels (but not his own religion).

Recently, since his encounter with the “alien force” which caused him to write his hook, he has been getting into Occultism. Bach is truly a child of the present, and his book caters to the popular philosophies of that present.

If by now you've assumed that I found little aesthetic value in the book, that assuinp tion is correct. However, there are a few good points to it, although by no means redeeming.

The aerobatic descriptions were interesting and done fairly well. Also, the photography was excellent and seemed to follow the story clear' ly. Another interesting point about the book (and not indicative of a modern best sellci) is that it contains not a trace of sexual ini' morality.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull is here, and, with all the popular philosophies it entails, will be (and to some extent already is) proclaimed as a great work. Bach says of his creation, “It’s not for everybody.” He's right, it's not for me. Now that he’s shown the world how a seagull gains perfection, he should spell out more clearly how a human can do the same, which might be a little harder to do. s $.

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A PLEA FOR THANKSGIVING /jh give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy endureth for­ ever.’’ This or some similar prayer is uttered silently by virtually every single Northwestern student after each meal in our cafeteria. And this is great, because Romans 14:6 says, “He that cateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks ...” and I Timothy 4:4 reads, “For every creature of God is good ... if it be received with thanksgiving.” And yet, the comments of a tremendous number of students lead me to wonder about the sincerity of this prayer. It seems that table prayers, like all rituals, lose their meaning after a time. For these same people who thank God after each meal take great pride in denouncing the food

at Northwestern: I've been especially amused to hear so many complaints even during the series of Thanksgiving week devotions and during the Advent season. It seems that we make a mockery of our religious holidays when Funeral Service / Furniture we use such fine language in our prayers and Quality and Set-vice at Reasonable Prices religious services, and then take off our masks when we think God isn’t watching.

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I'm not saying that it’s a sin not to like every single thing that’s served here. For ex­ ample, I have never liked sea food. But then I have to admit that it's not the cooks' fault, but the fault of my own taste; I wouldn't like fish or shrimp no matter who cooked them, but I don't expect the cooks to quit serving them just to make me happy.

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Consider Ephesians 5,20: “(Give) thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;” or I Thessalonians 5,IS: “In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Jesus Christ concerning you.” Now no one can 1 “FLOWER FRESH CLEANING” force an ungrateful person to be grateful, but j of Fine Furniture and Carpets what it really boils down to is this: 1 Commercial, Industrial and Institutional If the food were bad, we would still be Building Maintenance obligated to be thankful for it; this is hard, but I personally know Christians who can do this; WAYNE STAUDE, OWNER If the food were good, we should be ex­ R. R. 4, 140 Riverview Lane pected to offer thanks as a natural response; Dial 261-3350 But since the food is, on the whole, excel-

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if we examine the reasons behind our reac­ tions to the food here, we might even find that its more fun to sit down and enjoy good things than to complain about them. Surely Christians, of all people, should be aware of what a blessing they have in the cafeteria food, Mark Porinsky '74

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Modern medical science and surgical methods have reduced or corrected abnormalities and have tried to help such a person to lead as normal a life as possible.

The illustrious circus magnate, P. T. Barnum, was the first showman to enjoy notable success in exhibiting his own collection of socalled “Marvelous Living Human Curiosities.”

He first began to show his collection in his own American Museum, which opened in 1842, and later in his renowned traveling circuses. Throughout his circus career Barnum found the midget to be the most popular.

Charles Stratton, more commonly known as Tom Thumb, was the most famous, but not the smallest. That distinction went to a vivacious and intelligent Mexican import, Lucia Zarate.

She was a mere 20 inches tall, 5 shorter than Tom, and in her midteens weighed only 4^ pounds compared to Tom’s much heftier 15.

Brought to this country in 1876 at the age of 12 by some scheming and greedy American entertainers, Lucia toured for 15 years before she died from exposure on a stranded train.

It didn't matter. A successor was quickly found and dubbed Princess Weenie Wee. It did not take the sideshow managers long to discover that there was big money in little people.

Other curiosities were also highly sought after. Probably the most common were the

fat people. One premier fat woman, though 590 pounds was light compared to the bulky 907 pounds of Hanson Craig, one of the heavi­ est humans ever. However, one insignificant and small fat man (only 600 pounds), David Navarro, has proved the most important to us today, because he had carefully collected the publicity photos of his friends and fellow “freaks" in an album, that is still intact today.

The list of his co-workers is surprisingly lengthy: Isaac Sprague, an excessively thin man tabbed the “Living Skeleton”; Eugene Faralto, who could lift 500 pounds with his teeth; Myrtle Corbin, who had two legs too many, and Eli Bower, who had no legs at all; an albino named Charles Prince, who used beer as a soak to make his hair stand on end; the Lucasies, who were highly rare specimens — negro albinos; the Sutherland sisters, who had hair down to their feet; a bearded lady; and finally Edwin Smith, whose beard grew six inches every year despite touching the floorFortunately, most of these people were married and could lead as normal a life as their de­ manding professions allowed.

While many freaks had actual deformities, just as many were the ingenious contrivances of some money-hungry publicity men or pro­ moters (some were not even very ingenious but could easily lure the curious sucker). For example, the original Wild Men of Borneo, “Waino" and “Plutano," were actually very mild-mannered and slow-witted brothers, who could easily simulate wild growls and gibber­ ish for the local yokels. But some con-jobs turned out rather tragically for the people in­ volved. “Fiji Jim," a Fiji Islander who was enticed to come to America by some fast-talk­ ing circus promoter, was almost immediately abandoned, once here. In order to try to re­ turn home, Jim had to spend the rest of his life as a rather insignfiicant freak to get enough money. But he never made it. After he had saved a drowning swimmer off a New York beach in 1896, he caught pneumonia. Six 134

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The second such sojourn was under the expert direction of P. T. Barnum. It was during this exhibition that Chang suffered a stroke. Hence' forth Eng had to bear an extra burden wher­ ever he went.

Four years later, in the winter of 1874, Chang developed a bad cough. Though he grew increasingly worse, his brother Eng showed no effects whatsoever. Then five days after the cough began, Chang Bunker died. Mo­ ments later Eng also sighed his last breath.

What was the reason? The autopsy reported that Eng had died of fright. After all, as one of the doctors noted, “If you doubt this, try being joined to a dead twin!” Indeed it would be enough to kill the stoutest of men.

By necessity, these two faced life together by a bond stronger than brotherly love. I doubt whether any would envy their situa­ tion. Yet the two surmounted their obstacles by such admirable courage that would be a worthwhile lesson for us all.

While the age of “freak" exploitation is no longer as common today as it was a cen­ tury ago, sideshow attractions are not yet total­ ly defunct. But with people like Agostino Colli they soon will be. Colli's praiseworthy story is almost as amazing as that of the Bun­ ker twins. Yet Colli has humbly kept himself obscure.

Although only a small man, Agostino Colli is perhaps the strongest man in the world, due to his most unusual anatomy — he has two hearts. With one of them acting somewhat of a supplementary role, reliable reporters say that he can lift a truck without a huff or a puff. Even as a youngster, Colli could chin himself a dozen times using only his index finger and a pal hanging on each leg.

Wealth and fame wouldn't be far away, but Agostino has shunned all this to just lead a normal life. Today he goes about his daily duties totally unnoticed, except for his un­ usual six-fingered catcher's mitt sized hands.

The only other unusual thing about him is that, according to medical authorities, he’ll probably go well above the century mark in his lifetime. So our own modern day Hercules has given another noble example to this “getahead" world.

The list of unusual medical curiosities could go on and on. But with more modern medical techniques and different attitudes the “freak" is encouraged to seek a more normal life. Hope­ fully this will continue.

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THE DEGENERATION OF ROCK You say you advocate anarchy, well, don't IjNE could say with considerable justification that Mr. Jeske’s last article on the we all? In this same song there are also mimsophistification of rock was not the most sub- erous references to “Chairman Mao” and lime he ever wrote. In fact, though I wouldn’t “hate”. I feel I need say no more, go so far as to say his motivation was of Not only does rock music corrupt correct satanic origin, yet there can be no doubt that thinking in the youth of today, but it also deit was extremely misguided. It is truly a shame stroys the old grey matter itself. I’m sure you that the mind-numbing effects of rock music must have complained at some time about the had to penetrate even to this citadel of the volume control on stereos. It seems that it’s Synod, our own beloved N.W.C. always stuck on full. Many eminent doctors When rock music first came on to the have stated that noise played at this level scene, polluting our pure western music with approaches the threshold of pain and that it primitive African rhythms, it was at least undoubtedly destroys brain cells at an appalharmless. Who could object to the kids pre- ling rate. The sad result is that many kids tending they were aborigines as long as they are walking around with half a brain. This grew out of it? Yet that is the clincher: they explains many of their actions, hitherto mysnever did grow out of it. That is why we teries to parents. The reason why they sit have millions of adults today acting like teen- at the supper table saying little if anything agers, growing their hair long and doing who at all is not that they are angry or sullen, but knows what all. How can this trend be allow- rather that they have mashed potatoes for ed to continue? They already have lowered brains and honestly don’t know what to say. the voting age and it’s easy (and terrible) to Their vocabulary degenerates to monosyllables see where it will end up: with a teenage pre­ that no self-respecting two year old would use, sident! Just think what that will do to our such as “cool”, “far out”, “out of sight” and foreign policy. the like. Besides this, they lose motor control The question now is, why didn't they ever of their limbs. That is why their dances apgrow out of it? The answer is simple: a few pear to be nothing more than an aimless flopMarxist song writers got a throttlehold on the ping around. The last sane instinct to remain whole genre. I won’t even lower myself to is that of self-preservation: they dance far speak of that country hick, Robert Zimmer- apart to avoid getting knocked senseless by an man (better known to the world as Bob Dy- arm or leg out of control.

Ian). However, I would like to expose the Rock music also brings out the most amBeatels for the true Red Menace that they malistic expressions of violence you can imare. The self-confessed leader of the gang, agine. Scientific tests on 25 monkeys bear John Lennon, is the worst of them all. Even this point out. The monkeys were placed in his name is suspicious, in fact, it was his name a soundproof chamber which was filled with that tipped me olf to the whole conspiracy in speakers playing nothing but noise by the the first place. He sings songs of revolution Rolling Stones. Before the noise was turned such as: on, they were content to sit in their cages You say you wanna revolution, well, you doing the simple, beautiful things that simiknow. Besides the appalling grammar, which ans are wont to do. As soon as the speakers of itself is bound to have a detrimental effect began blaring their call to insanity, the apes on youth, the line has a definitely evil slant went beserk, hitting each other over the heads It is all incorporated in the words “revolution” with bananas and using the skins as whips, and “you know”. By “revolution” he advo- In much the same way the Hell’s Angels went cates the overthrow of civilization as we know on the rampage at the Rolling Stone’s Alteit today. Just think what that means: no more mont Rock Festival. What about the DemoSanta Claus at Christmas time, no more new cratic convention in 1968? I feel I don’t even models coming from Detroit every year, and have to explain the fact that all the “peace” precious little apple pie. “You know” is plain demonstrations were little more than violent and simple hippie talk for “don’t we all”. So rebellions against vested authority. The youth an intelligible version of that same line runs: of today is so exhausted by these outbreaks of 137

unconstructive mayhem that they have no en­ ergy left for the constructive mayhem of war (the worth of which our editor so ably de­ fended in our last issue.)

Obviously something has to be done and what better solution than to fight fire with fire. What I suggest is putting all the air­ raid sirens to a useful purpose. It’s clear they're no good to anybody now, I mean really what good is a warning of nuclear attack go­

ing to do anybody? It's like putting a gun to somebody's head and saying, “In two seconds I’m going to blow your brains out.’’ Instead we should broadcast from them 24 hours a day nothing but Beethoven and Wagner. This in no time would instill in youth renewed re­ spect for the rightness of our present day society and may even do some small service in repairing their shattered brains.

If I am wrong, light me a candle.

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Its subject and content are of such relevance to the ecclesiastical and ecumenical situation of today's Lutheran bodies, especially the con­ servative stand of WELS, that a look at its major points is warranted.

The article referred to is directed, in the main, against President Preus' “orthodox” movement. It is not the purpose of this article to evaluate exactly how “orthodox” the Preus movement actually is, for certainly our “super­ conservative” (as some outsiders would have it) synod can be assumed to be even more “guilty” of this heresy than Preus’ branch of the LCMS. Rather, I would use this space to show how such an attack on “orthodoxy” actu­ ally evidences how far off-center they them­ selves have drifted.

Spire’s first point of attack: "... Preus' orthodox movement has come close to, if not actually arriving at what Lawrence Barmann has called the ‘Heresy of Orthodox,’ namely, the implicit equation of a single finite system of human thought with the infinite reality it attempts to explain.” The above definition of the “Heresy of Orthodoxy” is, upon examin­ ation, quite ludicrous and unacceptable. The tenet which this definition implicitly implies, namely, that our dogmas are derived from hu­ man reasoning, runs contrary to fundamental Christian thinking. No human determines doc­ trine. Scripture interprets itself. When a Christian says or writes something referring to doctrine, if he is “orthodox,” what he says is drawn from Scripture alone. Therefore it is absurd to accuse someone who speaks in the

light of Scripture alone as speaking heresy.

The “finite system of human thought’’ refer­ red to would in such a case be a correct inter­ pretation of God’s inspired Word, not “finite’’ but infinite, not “attempting to explain’’ but explaining. I quote Prof. Armin Schuetze’s art­ icle, Polemics in an Ecumenical Age (Wiscon* sin Lutheran Quarterly, Jan., 1970): “Scrip­ ture must remain the norma normans not only in theory, but in practice. That means begin­ ning with Scripture, letting it speak first, lis­ tening to it without presuppositions, dogmatic or rational.”

2. “Preus' orthodox movement is based on a conception of the Word which is static, not dynamic — sterile, not potent. The word of God is something which has been handed down to us to guard and protect. To be sure, we possess the Word of God as Preus claims; but he seems to neglect the much more important fact that the Word of God possesses us. It purifies the filth of our hearts, and at the same time makes us get our hands dirty in the proclamation of the Gospel to other filthy men. The Word of God is dynamic, not static.

If the Word of God has the power which we claim it has, it has the power to protect itself.

The Word of God demands to be proclaimed, more than it demands to be defended.”

This second point makes the assumption that a strict adherence to doctrine sterilizes and makes impotent the Word. “The Word of God demands to be proclaimed more than it demands to be defended.” Certainly the Word of God is dynamic, the means of grace through which we receive God’s grace. But to make arbitrary distinctions between parts of the Word, to divide it and to assign attri­ butes to different parts is a human mode of 138

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The various attributes of the Word cannot and should not be separated. The Word is a unity; you can’t have one part without the others; to emphasize certain parts of the Word over others would naturally lead to a misun­ derstanding concerning the value and impor­ tance of those others, as it has done in many church bodies, past and present.

3. "The sterile view of the Word leads to a sterile view of faith. Faith is defined as in­ tellectual assent in accepting facts, instead of a spontaneous response to God’s life-giving act. The contact point for revelation is rea­ son and the intellect, not the whole person.

Thus the dynamic of the personal communi­ cation between God and man is obscured and thus God is depersonalized.”

4. "Preus' orthodox movement is based on a neat package of systematic dogma, but it has cut itself off from the exegesis in which this dogma is rooted.”

We cannot accept the third point on any basis whatsoever, for our orthodox view of the Word is not sterile, but fertile, leading not to a "sterile view of faith” but a fruitful and productive one. The fourth statement is of such a profound nature that I hesitate even to guess at the point that is being made. Per­ haps a few definitions would have been in or­ der, to avoid semantical confusion; for how can a dogma be "rooted" in something it is cut off from? It is, nevertheless, an intelligentlooking statement, upon first glance, for it transcends comprehension, an admirable qual­ ity in some circles.

5. "Preus’ orthodox movement has become overly esoteric. It has pushed exclusiveness and intolerance to the point of incompatibility with the freedom of the Gospel.”

How can something be "overly” esoteric?

Either some few understand, in this case, those members of the invisible church, or they don’t.

The term itself limits membership. Perhaps the writer was looking for a term that could mean "limiting membership to only those few who religiously defend purity of doctrine.” To yield and compromise on any point of Scrip­ ture, no matter how insignificant it may seem, is to throw doubt on the rest of one’s "firm” beliefs. The "freedom of the Gospel” is here naively or purposely applied out of context.

How can a Christian have a choice in matters of doctrine? Doctrine is either black or white, with no gray area. The Christian freedom re­ ferred to by Paul applies only to matters of adiaphora.

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6. “The proclamation of the Gospel has been preempted by theological debate. Con­ sequently, the mission of the Church to itself and the world has suffered. The Church needs to get its hands dirty with its work more than it needs to get every speck of dirt out from underneath it fingernails."

Agreed, the proclamation of the Gospel may be preempted by theological debate, but only if that debate does not concern matters of doctrine, but only adiaphora. But I'm afraid that “debate” here refers to matters of doc­ trine, upon which, as Luther said in his con­ clusion to the Smalcald Articles, “These are the articles on which I must stand, and, God willing, shall stand even to my death; and I do not know how to change or to yield any­ thing in them. If anyone wishes to yield any­ thing, let him do it at the peril of his con­ science.” The analogy of dirty hands is noth­ ing more than flimsy backing for the Ecumen­ ical movement of today, as evidenced by the theologically-faulty words which conclude the article, “Perhaps what our synod needs now is acceptance of the sobering words of the

great German theologian, Helmut Thielicke: 'How far can the theologian go without in­ curring the penalty of excommunication for unorthodoxy? The criterion is never, or very rarely, whether we are travelling on the same road, but whether, as we travel along our dif­ ferent roads, we all look towards the same goal. It is not the road which determines our communion with the Church, but our direc­ tion, not the steps we tread, but the end on which our eyes are fixed.

The Ecumenical movement of today is noth­ ing more than an “agreement to disagree.” A unity based on anything other than doctrine can only be superficial. Prof. Schuetze briefly states a true orthodox view, "... in pursuit of unity and fellowship, conservative Luther­ ans first must sit down and listen to Scripture.

That is where we must begin. We will let Scripture alone be our norma normans. We will also listen to our Confessions, but in the sense of T^orma normata. And we will appre­ ciate what our fathers have to say to us, as sound teachers of the past.”

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ANNIVERSARIES St. Peter, Weyauwega, Wis., marked its centen­ nial anniversary with several services this past August. Pastors of St. Peter’s are Rev. John Dahlke (’31) and Rev. Leonard Pankow (’54).

On Oct. 22, 1972, St. John, Ridgeville Township (Tomah), Wis., observed the 110th anniversary of its founding. Rev. Martin Lemke (’34) serves the congregation.

Salem, Milaukee, Wis., has been observing its 125th anniversary this fall. The pastor is Rev Winfred Nommensen (’45).

Bethel of Milwaukee, Wis., observed the 50th an­ niversary of the dedication of its church build­ ing on Sept. 17, 1972. Pastor Henry Lange (’45) serves Bethel.

The centennial of St. John’s, Rock Springs, Wis was noted on Sept. 3. 1972. Presently the pas-” tor is Rev. Marcus Schwartz (’36).

DEDICATIONS The school addition for the Trinity, Marinette W!S congregation was dedicated to the service of the Lord on Dec. 10, 1972. Rev Arthur Gentz (’22) serves Trinity ’ t lur A new parsonage was dedicated on Oct 22 1Q7>

SEM NOTES Seniors Benjamin James Naumann, son of James and Jalaine (nee Schultz) Naumann, was born Nov. 26, 1972.

Richard and Peg Raabe became parents of a daughter, Rachel Ann, on Nov. 3, 1972.

Paul Werner and Barbara Tierson (DMLC 68) congregation’s were married June 25, 1972, at Rhinelander, Wis. Paul Hartman and Carol Mundt (DMLC 72) 140

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dedicated four additional classrooms on Oct, 1, 1972, Rev. Marlyn Schroeder (’51) is the pas­ tor at Mt. Olive.

MARRIAGES Steve Staude (70) and Ruth Ann Dobberfuhl were married this past month in Mequon, Wis. Steve is currently vicaring at Salem, Still­ water, Minn.

BIRTHS Pastor and Mrs. Larry Cooper (’62) of Good Shepherd, Beaver Dam, Wis., became parents of a son on Nov. 25, 1972.

DEATHS Pastor Carl Kuske (’19), emer., at Wausau, Wis., on Nov. 12, 1972.

were united in edlock on Nov. 25, 1972.

Paul Schmiege is engaged to Karen Schroeter.

Don Heise and Chris Fredrich (DMLC ’72) are engaged.

E. Fredrich and Mara Thompson (DMLC ’73) have become engaged.

Peter Naumann has just had a dyna-tune up on his car in preparation for his “rocket run” to New Ulm. Middlers Randy Siegel is engaged to Karen Hessenthaler.

Bob Balza and Susan Remias are engaged.

Kogler makes “evangelism” call in Tennessee, Thanksgiving ’72, assisted by Tom Trapp and Bob Meister.

Mike Crawford is smiling! Why? Werner publishes first treatise on Platonic stud­ ies.

Don Stuppy is engaged to be engaged to be en­ gaged to be . . .

Lloyd Lemke continues to write his commentary on Luther Reed . . . “This beautiful, leatherbound, red letter edition presents the most ex­ tensive research on the BefTchen in the Ameri­ can language.”

Wayne Rouse has become a master plumber.

Let it be a warning to all concerned: Bonow and Fetzer are again wreaking havoc on the highways — bystanders beware.

Bob Meister is averaging 10 points per game in intramural basketball.

Wonder of wonders! Marv is averaging 4 points per game. Can anyone stop his midcourt shot?

Koester is alive — his transmission is not so fortunate.

New movie in production: Will South Bend Bob find true happiness with Eau Claire Karen?

A typical John Moldenhauer bedtime story: Rikki-Ticky-Tawy.

Anyone for “Tennis — see” Rich Kogler; it’s quite a racquet but I’m sure you’d have a ball.

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Jim Kuehl has taken over Paul Johnston’s place 904 East Main Street Phone 261-1922 on the phone.

Scott Dummann is engaged to Gretchen Gawrisch.

Jim Cloute receives the “Mother of the Year” award.

Swanson is getting more mail this year (post­ mark: Madison).

Terry Yahr’s “Model T” is in running condition • Paperback Classics again.

• Monarch Notes John May won the “rock of the week” award four weeks in a row.

• College Outline Series Sem’s basketball team brought home the bacon in its season opener. Unfortunately, All World Open Daily: 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. was outscored by Hahm, who came out of re­ Fridays til 9:00 — Sundays til noon tirement. Fear not, things should be back to normal in a week or two.

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We hope the Spartans’ exegesis is "panning” out.

Pete Kruschel, after years of nibbling, finally swallowed the bait and was landed.

It’s cold here!

James Tiefel has made an exegetical study of Christian Courtship, with a special emphasis on the chapter entitled "What about that Good­ night Kiss?”

The Farmers’ Almanac and Carl Schomberg said it was time: Jim Korthals is now engaged.

Arnold Ziffel is no more; his new name is “Win­ nie the Pooh.”

Tim Bauer is STILL going steady.

Despite contrary predictions, it is still felt that NWC’s music course was worthless.

Lloyd Fager has a new motto, translated from the Greek as "The beginning is half of every­

thing,” but he still got three papers in late.

(However, he did start on them earlier.)

A "pleasant gift” is being prepared for Jim Ziesemer. It should be ready for delivery by next September. — Said person is to pick it up at Sem. J.R. "GRAND TOUR OF EUROPE” DATE; Leaving July 10, 1973 from Kansas City — lasts 16 days TOUR HOST: Pastor James Humann COST: $746 — includes all meals (3 per day), round trip air fare, 1st class hotels, all sightseeing guides and tours FOR FURTHER INFORMATION WRITE: Pastor James Humann, Box 395, Stanton, Nebraska 68779

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LI E walks slowly down the road. As he ^ hears the humming of automobile tires on pavement approaching behind him, he quickly glances down to determine the quality of the road’s shoulder before him. The gravel strip is relatively even, so he pivots and continues his easy gait, now in reverse. His right arm is extended outward, his fingers closed tightly about the limestone-white cast that covers his entire hand; his swollen thumb juts awkward­ ly outward.

Several cars in a string pass him by. No more are in sight. A simple about-face re­ turns him to a normal walk. A wry smile creeps across his face; he snorts, then chuckles.

He finds it almost enjoyable to pass the time by analyzing his unusual inability to flag down a ride. Humorously, half sarcastically, he de­ cides that: (1) only rednecked, ultra-blind conservatives drive on Thursday afternoons and, consequently, (2) he ought to have shav­ ed off at least one-half inch of his sideburns, that he might look more "respectable” to the passersby. These and other ludicrous ideas have carried him lightly, almost happily, through long periods of boredom or frustra­ tion.

Over thirty minutes have passed since he started. Thirty minutes without success is no record, but to start like this is certainly no good omen of things to come (or not to come!).

Cold, yet smiling, he turns again at the ap­ proach of more cars. As he extends his arm once more, sighing deeply, (all is in vain! he

thinks) his mind, constantly joking with him, plays with an idea given him by some friends: "That big, mean cast of yours is going to put you up to the suspicion of a lot of people; some folks may see it only as a potential wea­ pon!" It almost seems the sideburns, the cast, and who-knows-what-else all suggest that he is a bad risk. Ah, ridiculous ... or is it?

Screehing brakes, flying gravel jolt him to reality. A ride!

"I can take you only about two miles. I bowl in the next town at eight o'clock tonight.

I know it’s only three now, but, well, today is my day off and, well, I just can't bear to spend the whole day with my wife, so ... .

Well, I'll drop you off at this gas station, OK? Good luck!"

Good luck it was ... to a degree! The very first car by stopped ... a goose hunter . . . "only about three miles." Not long after, a traveling salesman offered his assistance, and then another. A young family, then a farmer brought him to the major highway; six rides had yielded only 33 miles, but they were 33 most comfortable and reassuring miles!

This extraodinary pattern cont:nued most faithfully. Different cars, very different sorts of people avail themselves to the anxious young man, usually only for short distances. Appar­ ently one more lengthy delay has been "sche­ duled” for this traveler, for even the "shuttles cease. His spry humor belying the true condi­ tion of his tired body, he forces himself from one town to the next, second-guessing himself 142

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“I'm only going about twenty miles, but I've got time to take you as much as fifteen more, if you like.” Unreal! The warmth, the friend' ly conversation, and especially, thirty-five miles covered greatly hearten the helpful driver's anonymous passenger.

Forty minutes later a very appreciative young man stands before a phone booth in an encouragingly familiar city; he wears a smile of satisfaction, he is breathing deeply.

Turning, he slips into the booth, deposits a dime, dials. There is an answer, a slightly husky, but unmistakably feminine “Hello!?!”

"Hey, is that you, Sis? Do you tlvnk some­ body would like to come to town if they’re not in bed already? I’ve made it home!”

about the sensibility of this forced march. A very sober gentleman emerges from a tavern in the second town . . . “Where you headed?”

The march suddenly made sense!

Deposited for the 11th time on the should­ er of the road, the benumbed vagabound re­ commences the plodding, incessant trek that seems by nature to lie between rides. Three more vehicles pass him, slowly. Second thoughts of a positive nature must have struck the driv­ er of the last car; he suddenly stopped, well past the forlorn figure. The auto's back-up lights flashed on, and its driver executed a move not unlike that which the hitchhiker had been using all day: he backed the car down the road!

The usual query, “Where you headed?” having been answered, the driver volunteers.

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I've decided to make some up this month.

One of the all time big events on our campus this past month was the Forum Christmas Ser­ vice. When I first came on to N.W.C.'s cam­ pus some years back, it was little more than a song service accompanied by the reading of the Christmas story. It is still basically a song service, but to the singing of the congregation has been added the blend voices of a choir under a student director. The readings have been expanded to a semi-sermonette. The ser­ vice reminds the student that he still has great cause for rejoicing even in a time of year which for him means multitudinous term pap­ ers and tests. This of course does not imply that tests and term papers aren't a great cause for rejoicing as well. The basic theme of this year's service was “Oh come, let us adore him: with a prayer in our hearts, with a song on our lips and with peace in our souls.”

What more can I say about it, other than it’s one of the best ways I know to begin the Christmas season with the proper attitude to­ wards it.

The whole aspect of the campus changes this time of year. Christmas lights flash on and off from every diection, except of course from that of the classroom buildings, which look the same all year round. The snow also falls pretty heavy around now. It snowed so heavy one night, that the next morning no­ body could get into the chapel-arts building.

It must have been a freak storm because the

snow only fell in front of its doors. Student meteorologists measured a wall of snow six feet high and three feet thick, which required the removal services of a steam shovel.

As the new school schedule would have it, we are now in the midst of semester tests and I'm not all that sure that I like the new system. After two weeks of trying to com­ plete term papers on time, the student is now faced with a week of reeling from test to test to test to test to test .... I know you scholas­ tic purists will say, “Why didn't you get those term papers in earlier?” Well face it, the human race is still human and it hasn't lost any of its procrastinating proclivities (eat your heart out, Spiro T. Agncw). So students still end up doing everything at the last minute. I guess a little bit of superhumanity is required of all of us sometimes.

This last paragraph is dedicated to my be­ loved editor He always tells me that my news articles are too short. So I am now leaving myself open to the criticism of the world. Do you think my articles are a) too short b) too long c) not worth the price of printing. If you have any opinion, write a. b. or c. on the back of a postcard and mail it with check or money order for 50tf (to defer the cost of unemployment) to Northwestern College, Wartburg Hall R. 214. If you haven’t got 50£, send what you got, but I warn you, your opinion will be devalued in like manner.

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SPCCTS Basketball The Trojans have gotten off to a slow start in the ,72',73 buckets season. Going into semester break, Northwestern owns a 2*4 record.

With two tournaments over Christmas vaca­ tion, Coach Thompson will have it easier keep­ ing his team in shape, but after the break the tough conference schedule will set in. At times there has been signs of putting it all together, but they haven't been able to sustain the type of play that is needed if we are to come up with conference victories.

Excuses don't make up for what has hap­ pened, but in those first six games injuries have had a telling role. Mark Tocpel has sat out at different times with a rib injury. Both Beck Goldbeck and Pete Schumacher have been hobbled with bad ankles. Losing three top starters has made it hard to get one unit of five guys who work best together. Injuries, however, arc not the whole story. The play has been inconsistent and sloppy. The Trojans need a fast break to get their offense going, and trying extra hard to get the ball downcourt has resulted in many bad passes and turnovers. To add to the problems, the shoot­ ing at times has been very poor.

Despite this poor start, a feeling is still there that this team has a potential for better things. For a few minutes at a time the play has been excellent when everyone is healthy and a fast break is working to perfection. The shooters are there, and it will only take time for them to get their confidence back. Put to­ gether this talent consistently, and the score­ board might lock different.

There is one other poor aspect of the sea­ son so far, and it doesn't involve the players.

No, it is the people sitting on their posteriors in the dorm who won't even bother to give a little vocal support to those who have been working all week to put out their best perfor­ mance. The play might not be as good as we would like, but it is still no reason for having just as many preps at our games as there are college students. Who knows, maybe a little more noise at the games, and the playing might improve also.

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men from Sem tried yet again to find the en­ ergy of their college days to dump their alma mater. At the start of the game it looked as if the Trojans would run away with things.

Toepcl was injured early, however, and the Sem, instead of tiring, seemed to get stronger.

Ron Hahm, the oldest man on the court, ran hard all night long and came up with 18 points. Glen Thompson had 21, but after that their scoring fell off. The Trojans were more balanced with double-figure scoring com­ ing from Schumacher, Goldbeck, Sutton, and Kriehn. In the end the extra conditioning and better shooting were too much for the alumni.

CONCORDIA (Milw.) 86 NWC 74 With a rivalry that is growing as each sea­ son passes, Concordia of Milwaukee came down here to avenge a football loss. It looked like it might be one of those games that goes down to the wire, but with about nine min­ utes left, the Falcons started to pull away. Toepel had been hurt the night before and had slowed down by this time. While it was still close, the Trojans forced the fast break too much. Turnovers combined with A1 Koepke's long bombs and Ron Suminski’s shoofng made the difference. Sutton and Schumacher were hitting from the outside for us, and Toepel hit 17, mostly on the fast breaks.

DMLC 76 NWC 61 On December Sth, the Trojans traveled to New Ulm for a return engagement. The Lan­ cers were determined to make up for losses they suffered last year. The game started out evenly, but with about twelve minutes left in the first half Luther put on a spurt and went into the locker room with an 18 point lead.

The Trojans could only manage to shave that lead to 15 as the Lancers totally shut down Northwestern's fast break while exhibiting good hustle and shooting. The Black and Red, on the other hand, were sluggish and shot poorly. Jim Huebner pleased his home town fans by leading Northwestern with 14 points.

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Northwestern started with a half court press, which they employed the whole game. The press had its desired effect, causing North Central to commit numerous turnovers. The Trojans also revived their fast break and pene­ trated North Central’s zone defense. Beck

Goldbeck and Pete Schumacher led the Trojan cause with 19 and 17 points respectively.

NWC 67 LAWRENCE 88 Nothing seemed to go right on the night of this game against Lawrence. Goldbeck did not suit up for the game, and we lacked height in our front line. To make things worse, the shooting was ice cold. No matter whom Coach Thompson put on the floor, he couldn't put the ball in. Pete Schumacher was also slowed down with a bad ankle. As the shooting con­ tinued bad, the mistakes also appeared else­ where on the court. Reuben Plantico put in 23 for Lawrence; 10 points by Schumacher and Kuerth were tops for us. The Trojans get another shot at Lawrence over Christmas, and Lawrence is in no way as much better than we as the score would seem to indicate.

NWC 53 U. OF CHICAGO 63 Northwestern migrated South for a day to take on the U. of Chicago in their nostalgic field house. The Trojans effectively used their half court press and zone defense to hold the Maroons to 26 points and held a 2 point lead at the half time. Northwestern's shooting turned as cold as the weather in the second half while Chicago cracked the zone press and pulled to a 16 point lead with a few minutes left in the game. A full court press pulled the Trojans to within 10, but their comeback was stopped short by the buzzer. Gerry "the Shark" Clark, scoring 30 points, proved to be the downfall of the Trojans. Rog Kuerth was the only consistent shooter for Northwestern, sinking S buckets for 16 points.

NOTE: Thanks goes to Coach Piepcr, who will cover the <wrestling season, and to Dave Kriehn, who will report on away basket­ ball games.

Wrestling The group that answered Coach Ed Pieper’s call for wrestling candidates is not only light in numbers but light in experience as well. Nine wrestlers, five of them first-year men, are flexing their muscles and getting ready to do battle. The group is led by junior ace Paul Scharrer, who has compiled a 37 and seven record over his first two years. Sopho­ mores Glen Schmiege, 9 and 8 last year, and John Wille, 9 and 12, are the other letterman back. Missing for the first semester is heavy­ weight senior, Marc Bode, who is concentrat146

,utheran Brotherhood welcomes Dr. Richard M. Heins to its Board of Directors.

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But more than that, Dr. Heins has been actively involved in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

In addition, he has served on the evangelism, building and long range planning committees of Our Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, Madison. His devoted service in these areas proves him to be a man concerned for the welfare of Lutherans.

Lutheran Brotherhood is privileged to welcome Dr. Heins to its Board of Directors, and we look forward to working with him.

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The remainder of the squad consists of junior Wayne Hilgendorf, sophomore Bill Pet­ ri, freshman Dan Gawrisch and Bob Sempert, all former Preps. Also out are Dave Russow, who excelled at M.L.A. last year, and “Dollar Bill” Heiges, an M.L.S. product with experi­ ence. Both should do well for the Black and Red. As this is being written, the team has lost a triple dual match to Ripon College, 34-10; MATC, 27-18; and U-W-Richland Center, 29-21. They defeated arch rival Maranatha, 27-18, and Kenosha Tech, 38-14, at home a week later.

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X-Tere we are, a couple of weeks into 1973, * and already most of our New Year's resolutions have probably fallen by the way­ side. If your noble resolves were the common type (i.e., to diet and lose twenty pounds, to be early to bed and early to rise, or to have a date every weekend), it was easily observed that such goals were impossible, especially giv­ en the conditions of life here at NWC. Thus every resolution was broken without much effort.

Perhaps we should do things differently this year. Many students and professors have expressed dissatisfaction with the general mor­ ale and course of events during the semester recently completed. In order to avoid a re­ peat, let us make our resolutions seriously and keep them foremost in our minds throughout the year. The following are some suggestions.

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2. I resolve to be dedicated to my work.

Am I always faithful in preparing for classes, or do I just try to get by? We often forget /what we are preparing for, and fail to make full use of our abilities. It may mean passing up a game of cards, a TV program, or an hour of sociability, just to read another chapter or go through the translation one more time, but that should be our first priority. The same is true of a professor as he strives to make his lessons more meaningful and stimulating for us to learn. In addition, each of us can show more support for the various organ' izations on campus.

3. I resolve to treat others with respect and kindness.

Frequently we are inconsiderate of our fellow students — creating disturbances in the dorm, ignoring those in need of help. Or we mock another for his shortcomings and pecu­ liarities. It is time that we show consideration and respect for an individual. This is also applicable to student-faculty relationships. We, the students, need to give the professors the honor and obedience which their position com­ mands. Likewise, faculty members can im­ prove in their relations to students. Christian love should be apparent in all our dealings with one another.

4. I resolve to be conscious of my calling as a Christian.

In our conduct there is much room for im­ provement. Both on and off campus it is our duty to act in a manner becoming to our faith.

As we are enjoined in Ephesians 4:1, “I there­ fore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation where­ with ye are called.”

5. I resolve to witness to others.

Each of us has numerous opportunities to present our personal testimony of faith through our actions in the world, our conversation, and personal discussions with unbelievers. Yet we frequently neglect or even avoid them, hiding or denying the fact that we are Christians who love the Savior. Let us pray that we let no such opportunity pass from us this year.

6. I resolve to put Christ foremost in my life.

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The man in blue who walks the street night and day. How often don’t we take this man for granted? How many of us would want his thankless job, though? What are your feelings towards policemen?

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“My dad is a policeman. He wears a blue uniform and carries a gun. Sometimes he walks down Main street, and other times he drives a police car with a red light on top and a siren.

Once in awhile he picks me up or takes me to school in the police car. Most of the kids at school think it’s neat that my dad is a cop and I get rides in a cop car.

“My dad’s job is to arrest crooks and help people in trouble. He has to give people tic­ kets who park too long in one spot and to people who drive too fast. My dad hasn’t ar­ rested as many crooks as the policemen on TV do, but he is still one of the best policemen in the world. Sometimes he walks those pretty girls to the bank to make sure nobody robs them. He also directs traffic for funerals. He leads the way for the firetruck and the ambu­ lance. When my dad works late at night, he makes sure all the stores are locked up, so no­ body can break in and steal stuff.

“My dad has been a policeman for as long as I can remember. Before that he was an Army-man, I guess, because I seen pictures of him in an Army uniform, and he carried a gun then, too. My mom says he was a real brave soldier and fought overseas in Viet Nam. I'm really lucky to have a dad who is a police­ man, and when 1 grow up, I want to be a policeman too. My dad says sometimes people give him a bad time and call him names like 'pig' and ‘fuzz.’ He says sometimes it is really hard not to get mad, but he's not supposed to get mad, so he just has to take it. When I be­ come a policeman and somebody calls me a name, I’ll have to take it and not get mad, be­ cause that's what I’m supposed to do, but it ain't going to be easy, because I can’t stand it now if somebody calls me a name. I sure hope I make as good a policeman as my dad.’’

Much can be learned from what this little boy had to say about his father and his work as a policeman. Arresting “crooks” is not all that a policeman does; it is just a very small part of his job. There are many things that a policeman does that go unnoticed by the pub­ lic, but yet they mean very much to the in­ dividual or individuals involved. Our country could not exist without these men in blue — not just because they enforce the laws but also 151

because of the many other ways in which they serrve the public.

Before he was a policeman, this boy’s father was a sergeant in the U. S. Army and spent sixteen months in Viet Nam. In Viet Nam he carried a gun to defend his country; in the U. S. he carries a gun to defend the citizens — that’s you and I. How often do we think of that? Every time he walks down the street with his blue uniform on or rides in his police car, he is really putting his life on the line for us. When he returned from Viet Nam, he did not receive much thanks for putting his life on the line to defend this country, and now as he puts his life on the line for us, he receives just as little praise if not less; in fact, he usually receives abuse and ridicule instead of thanks.

Sure, there are some corrupt policemen, but I’m not speaking about that minority now.

I'm speaking about the majority of the police' men in the U. S., who are honest and con­ scientious about their work and about the ser­ vices they perform to make the streets of our cities and towns safer and about the help they render to whomever is in need. It is very tragic to see all the abuse and ridicule that is being heaped upon these public servants. Calling a policeman a “pig" seems to be the “in thing’’ nowadays, and, what is even worse, there are so many who are totally indifferent towards the police.

This little boy considers it an honor that he has a father who is a policeman, and even wants to be one himself someday. He is quite naive, though. There are older boys whose fathers are policemen too, but they don’t con­ sider this an honor, because among their peers cops aren't the “in thing.’’ Imagine that — as­ hamed because their dad is a policeman, be­ cause in their peers’ eyes they’re “pigs." There is a slogan going around that I think is very fitting here — if you don’t like policemen, the next time you’re in trouble call a hippie.

It is really irritating to see the abuse and ridicule that is being thrown at policemen, and yet nothing is being done. Few voices are heard defending policemen, but there are many voices raised against them, and these are loud voices too. When anyone else goes on strike for higher pay, that’s all right, but when the police went on strike for higher pay, that was a different story. How much money would you want for putting your life on the line every time you went to work and also for putting your family in danger because of your job?

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Greetings and salutations to one and all.

Happy New Year. It's too bad the new year couldn’t have brought a new C£s?C Editor, but you don't always get what you want. I’m go­ ing to be here just as long as Schuppe, so this won't be the only column to improve when Volume 76 bites the dust.

This year, fellow students, we not only have a clean slate on the calendar but in the gradebook too. I personally would like it dir­ tied with a few A’s. (Attn. Faculty: that was a hint.) Just think, we have the short half of the year done, with only the longer miserable half left. Sort of the non-festival half of the school year. It is kind of nice to have semesters out of the way. With nothing to worry about over Christmas vacation, it's kind of a shame that the faculty couldn’t have assigned us a few term papers, just to keep us from getting bored.

All of the holiday glitter is gone. The tie from your aunt that was “so beautiful” in your thank you note doesn’t really look so hot. The socks your gramma knit are big enough to wear over your shoes. The scarf from your girl itches. At Christmas the decor­ ations were lit up, by New Year’s everyone else was lit up, and now everything and every­ one is burned out.

The burning out was one of my dad’s big complaints. He claims we have union lights on our tree — when one goes out, they all go out. He also claims that our artificial tree looks much fuller this year.

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The one thing we can carry with us into the new year are our New Year's resolutions.

These are some of the resolutions that I over­ heard. It will be very interesting to see how many of them are kept.

First and foremost, Steve Korth has resolved to remain celibate, unless Karla or Omi will have him.

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Prof. Dahlberg decided not to keep his bowling ability under a bushel. He’s offering free advice Tuesday afternoons to whoever wants it.

Jim Huebner has resolved to continue to be ‘super’ in whatever he does.

Phil Hoyer plans to remain his sweet, pure, innocent self, if Eddy Zell stays humble.

Prof. Lehmann has promised to grade fairly in Senior directing on a purely subjective basis.

Kolberg and Oldfield resolved to smile at least once a week, even if they don’t bend that way.

Norris Baumann has resolved to take speech lessons in the new year.

Maloney wants no credit for looking like Steve Lawrenz in 1973.

Tom Biedenbender and Greg Heimann have resolved to soar to new academic heights in the coming semester.

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The surprise of 1972 was suffered by the NWC Trojan bounce ball players in New Ulm. The perpetrators of the foul deed were some hyped-up pros impersonating the DMLC team. There have been others who have gotten burned by our synodical sisters, and here’s a little song for them.

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can be more valuable than a whole semester of preparation.

Jim ‘#2’ Oldfield has been trying harder lately to catch up to 4.00 Rath. Rumor has it that he found a tin cup, took out his contact lenses, and wandered around with a white cane. By the time he got home he found an A and numerous brownie points. All he needs now is to find an organ grinder to hire him for summer help.

His C level counterpart, Tom 69.5 Biedenbender is once again worthy to be his father’s

If any of you think making a fool out of yourself in print is easy, I’ll be glad to receive your contributions. The one requirement is that they have to be funnier than the attempts at humor Wendland puts in his articles. If your contribution fails to reach the presses, it is because I felt yours wasn't as funny as my work, because I would like to make one thing perfectly clear; I am the Editor!

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should be a very frightening thing, namely that men no longer take seriously the words of the Savior who said: “Let your statement be ‘Yes, yes' or ‘No, no'." Certainly there can be no greater statement on Christian fidelity and trustworthiness than the thought expressed in these words, namely that the simple Words! In the Satan-supported scales of yes or no of a Christian is entirely sufficient this world’s sunken morality they no longer to establish the truthfulness of his promise. weigh a great deal. Along with every other These are not just flowery words. These immutable utterance of Sinai, the second and eighth commandments are receiving their fair words have more than some pie in the sky in­ share of abrogation at the blood-stained hands terpretation. They have a genuine application of those false prophets who cover their crimes to many and varied situations in our own with the white gloves of situation ethics. The lives. One such situation is one discussed quite communion of saints on earth has not been frequently among ourselves, the subject of the unaffected, to say the least, by the flippant at­ Christian engagement.

The. Lutheran Church has long held the titude which the world takes over against the validity of the words which proceed out of belief that engagement is “tantamount to mar­ our own mouths. Common in our own circles riage so far as the insolubility of the marriage are words such as: “Well, there are promises tie is concerned” and “with respect to its ob­ and then there are promises” or “A little white ligation."! Speaking of marriage, our catelie never hurt anybody" or “A man has a chism says, “This union is established by mutu­ right to change his mind whenever he feels al consent. ”o A few lengthier quotes from like it, doesn’t he?" To the Christian, this evangelical Lutheran sources will firmly estabUT say to you, that every careless word that men shall speak, they shall render account for it in the day of judgment. For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned." (Matt. 12: 36-37).

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lish the position we have taken in recent years: According to the Scriptures it is the mutual consent and agreement which creates the bond of wedlock and the marriage cere­ mony is the public confirmation of the bond which existed before already. While it is true that some things will annul an engagement for which a divorce could not be granted by the church, yet as a rule a formal and valid engagement must be counted as binding as marriage itself. This might seem a hard saying to some, but a little thinking must make it evident to every mind. Can any person be counted of a trustworthy character who, like a but­ terfly, will flit from one flower to another?

If plural marriages arc wrong can plural engagements be right? Could you cheer­ fully invite Jesus to your wedding after breaking your promise given to another, or even to two or three others? Surely, Jesus will not be the companion of promise breakers, unless they rcpent.3 And likewise the following statement: Now, when no law human or divine stands between you and the object of your affec­ tions, beware lest you engage yourself hashly. The heathen said, “Jove laughs at die vows of lovers." but no matter how they tried to laugh ofT the guilt of their lewd­ ness of their gods, the Lord our God is the God of purity and chastity and fidelity. A lawful engagement is brought about when two competent persons of their own free will, with the consent of the parents of both, promise matrimony to each other.

And such engaged people are to be regard­ ed as married people, for the promise and consent really jnakes matrimony — nothing else, neither priest nor the onsummation of marriage. This is the doctrine of the Lutheran Church, and it accords xoith Scrip­ ture.A Along with this statement from a popular Lutheran doctrine book: The status of matrimony before God does not begin with die public wedding cere­ mony, and is not effected by the official pronouncement that the two are now hus­ band and wife. It is not die minister, priest, or judge diat actually unites a man and woman in marriage; but before die public wedding die parties themselves unite and bind themselves in wedlock by their free and mutual consent and agreement to be husband and wife; it is by their own

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consent and agreement that God joins than together. (Matt. 19:6). Since the very essence of marriage lies in this mutual consent, it follows that before God the status of matrimony exists as soon as the parties agree to be husband and wife; in other words, marriage begins with die bethrothal, or engagement.-

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The above statements should be entirely sufficient to establish the position which the Lutheran church has taken on engagement down through the years. The question this article intends to answer is this: “Is this strong position we have taken on the matter com­ pletely correct and tenable in the light of Holy Scripture?"

There are in the Scriptures many passages which our dogmaticians refer to in order to es­ tablish the teaching that engagement is tanta­ mount to marriage. Predominant among these passages are the following: If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her, then you shall bring them both out to the gate of tha-t city and you shall stone them to death; the girl because she did not cry out in the city, and die man, because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. (Deut. 22:23-21).

(At the time when Jacob was yet only be­ trothed to Rachel): Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my time is completed, that I may go into her.” (Gen. 29:21).

Mar)' had been betrothed to Joseph . . . and Joseph her husband . . . an angel appeared saying . . . "Do not be afraid to take Mary your wife.” . . . and Joseph arose and . . . took his wife. (Matt. 1:1824).

It is obvious that in all these situations, the people who were engaged or betrothed were considered to be married. The chief ob­ jection which many hold against the use of these instances as proof passages is that these titles of husband and wife given to the betroth­ ed applied only during that time in history under the Jewish civil laws which made be­ trothal tantamount to marriage. Nowadays, it is maintained, engagement is only a period of preparation for marriage and should not be counted as binding as marriage since we have no matrimonial laws or customs comparable to those of the ancient Jews.

First, of all, if the modern day engagement,

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(a genuine and serious engagement which we will define more accurately in the paragraphs following) is to be proven or disproven as tan* tamount to marriage in the eyes of God, this must be done from Holy Scripture alone and not from Jewish civil laws or tradition. It should nevertheless be noted that the situation in our times is not entirely incomparable to that at the time of the Jews as regards formal engagements and the final marriage ceremony.

Alfred Edersheim, the Christian scholar who was at an early age converted from his Jewish faith, gives his expert account of the formalities and ceremonies involved in the Jewish betrothal and marriage customs: A special formality, that of "betrothal” (Erusin Qiddushin), preceded the actual marriage by a period varying in length, but not exceeding a twelvemonth in the case of a maiden. At the betrothal, the bride­ groom, personally or by deputy, handed to the bride a piece of money or a letter, it being expressly stated in each case that the man thereby espoused the woman. From the monment of betrothal both parties were regarded and treated in law (as to inheri­ tance, adultly, need of formal divorce) , as if they had been actually married, except as regarded their living together. A legal document (the Shitre’ Erusin) fixed the dowry which each brought, the mutual ob­ ligations, and all other legal points. Gen­ erally a festive meal closed the ceremony of betrothal — but not in Galilee, where, habits being more simple and purre, that which sometimes ended in sin was avoided.,.

Although there arc many differences ap­ parent here between an engagement then and an engagement now, there are also many com­ parable points. The bride was espoused by a token of promise, namely a piece of money or a letter just as we today have the token of the engagement ring. The engagement was a pub­ lic affair then and today is likewise as regards the public announcement in the newspaper and many times an engagement party and the like.

Likewise it is notable that there yet remained, before the marriage was consummated, a great ceremony (the Wedding of Cana) to be per­ formed just as we today perform such a rite so that the binding promise of the two people may be made public and that all things are done decently and in order without giving offense. A few selections from longer descrip­ tion of the marriage feast given by Edersheim will demonstrate the magnitude of this great feast: 156

On the evening of the actual marriage (Nissuin, Chathnuth), the bride was led from her paternal home to that of her hus­ band. First came the merry sounds of mus­ ic .. . all around were in festive array . . . everyone rose to salute the procession or join it . . . Arrived at her new home, she was led to her husband. Some such form­ ula as ‘‘Take her according to the Law of Moses and of Israel” would be spoken, and the bride and bridegroom crowned with garlands. Then a formal legal instrument, called the Kethubah, was signed, which set forth that the bridegroom undertook to work for her, to honor, keep, and care for her, as in the manner of the men of Is­ rael. Then after the prescribed washing of hands and benediction, the marriage-sup­ per began . . . and so the feast lasted — it might be more than one day . . . till at last the "friends of the bridegroom" led the bridal pair to the Chcdcr and the Chuppah, or the bridal chamber and bed.The many resemblances of this feast to a modern-day wedding ceremony are obvious.

There is an important concept to remember in all of this though. Although the passages in Genesis, Deuteronomy, and Matthew along with the Jewish civil and ceremonial laws do not prove that all engagements are tantamount to marriage, they certainly and beyond the shadow of a doubt show that engagement can be tantamount to marriage in the cys of God, since it is undeniable that God considers them such in the texts under study. It is equally obvious here that God has not set down a law stating that engagement is tantamount to mar­ riage only in the case of the Jewish civil law or similar customs. With these facts in mind, no one may make an unbending statement saying that since our twentieth century society lacks the old betrothal customs, engagement cannot be tantamount to marriage. It seems our fathers had more than just old Jewish custims to back them up when they took their strong stand on the unbreakable validity of en§agement among Christians. They had Bib­ lical backing. It is called the sanctity of the Christian promise.

Before we enter on a discussion of a valid Christian promise, perhaps it would be wise to specify what are not valid promises. Koeh­ ler says on this subject that “clandestine en­ gagements, engagements made in fun, or when people are intoxicated, or made for a limited time only, or where for some reason or other the consent of either party is wanting, or was

secured by duress or fraud, or where there is an error of person, or where the consent is given conditionally, or where there is merely a promise to marry at some future time . . . marriage does not exist under such condi­ tions.’^ Dr. Lenski also makes this point when he says: “To promise what one does not yet know is to forswear oneself, Lev. 5:4-5, ‘If a person swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do evil or to do good, in whatever matter a man may speak thoughtlessly with an oath, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will be guilty in one of these.

So it shall be when he becomes guilty in one of these, that he shall confess that in which he has sinned.’ Every oath of this kind has no binding power, should be repudiated and confessed as sin so that God’s pardon may ne secured.”o These words of Lenski along with the quote which he referred to bring up our most im­ portant point, namely the passage which he was exegcting when he wrote these words. It is a passage which more than any other shows us, as sanctified Christians, how much God ex­ pects from us in regard to the trustworthiness of our tongues.

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head, for you cannot make one hair while or black. But let your statement be, "Yes, yes” or "No, no;” and anything beyond this is of evil. (Matt. 5:33-37).

It is not necessary to sermonize on these words. They are as clear and perspicuous as they can be. No oaths are needed. Christians are people of their word. Christians, out of love for Christ, obey the second and eighth commandments. Concerning this second commandment, the Lutheran Confessions state: To tell it in a few words, all misuse of the divine name occurs, first in wordly busi­ ness and in matters which concern money, possessions, honor, whether it be publicly in court, in die market, or wherever else men make false oaths in God’s name, or pledge their souls in any matter. And this is especially prevalent in marriage affairs, where two go and secretly betroth them­ selves to one another, and aftcncard abjure their plighted troth.1Q And likewise concerning the eighth command' ment Dallman says: You have not yet forgotten how your heart ached when your darling child belied and deceived you. You will not live to see die wound healed that was made when you lost confidence in your trusted friend. Then be careful, O be careful of your words. And remember, there are no “white lies"; if diey do not harm your neighbor, they stain your own soul.n

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Dallman has rightly spoken here, too. Staying within the context of the engagement pro­ mise, let it be reiterated that the consequences of breaking a promise, to a fellow human being can be vastly destructive to that person. Solo­ mon said it: "There is one who spea\s rashly U\e the thrusts of a sword.” (Prov. 12:18).

That is the effect of the broken promise — pain so hard-hitting to the human heart that the inspired writer compares the flippant promisemaker to the thrusts of a sword. In contrast to this, says Solomon: "Truthful lips will be established forever.” (Prov 12:19).

Now, with all these Scriptural truths con­ cerning the importance and great responsibil­ ity of the Christian promise, there is still the propounded argument that since society and government do not view engagement as tanta­ mount to marriage, then God does not view it as such either. While it is true that in respect to all legislations of government the Christian willingly submits himself to the "powers that

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be,” it is also true that the government cares nothing whatsoever for the second and eighth commandments. God cares a great deal. This is why it is in matters such as this, entirely correct to make a distinction between the eyes of the government and the eyes of God. We may indeed use the word "tantamount” to marriage when we are speaking in this context, since before God, two people who have pro­ mised themselves to one another are man and wife in so far as they have no right to breal{ the promise which they have made. Although Christian couples will refrain from any pre­ marital relations even during engagement be­ cause of governmental and social regulations along with the definite duty on their part to refrain from all offense which might be given by such an act, this does not in any respect change the fact that before the Almighty they are inseparably yoked together for life through the promise they have made.

In other words, the promise makes marriage before God. Luther said: “Precisely speaking, matrimony is based on mutual consent of man and woman.”12 If any object that the word "consent” finds no support in the Bible, fine.

All that is necessary is to substitute a word which has limitless Scriptural support; the word "promise.” If there are no legal or di­ vine impediments, then a promise may be given and once it is given, let it stand as a Christian promise — irrevocable!

And why shouldn't it be irrevocable? It was certainly that with the Lord's promise to his betrothed Israel which so often He was moved by His reghteous justice to denounce as unfaithful and adulterous! The entire pic­ ture of Christ the Bridegroom and the bride His church is built upon the covenant or pro­ mise of God. Suppose Christ should break His pledge of redemption to us? Consider this Scriptural example set for us by the Head of the church.

Whether anyone prefers to call the break­ ing of such a genuine promise desertion, un­ faithfulness or even adultery makes little dif­ ference. It is still irresponsible and accountable-to-no-one SIN! Reckless actions such as the breaking of promise still reap the stern words of the sovereign Savior: “Every careless word that men shall speak, they shall render account for it in the day of judgment.”

There remains but one serious question in regard to this matter. If the promise makes marriage in the eyes of God and thaat promise has been broken, how is the church to disci­ pline? The first thing to remember is that the 158

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church should disregard as “■engagements" any conditional, clandestine, or unauthorized pro­ mises. Likewise, to avoid the sin of promise­ breaking, those people who seriously contem­ plate matrimony should be absolutely sure what their promise entails so that neither party is confused as to some supposed promise of a loved one. Finally, we are here dealing with Christian people, who if they fall into this sin will certainly find it not so difficult to pro­ duce fruits meet for repentance. The exact nature of these fruits of repentance will vary with the people, much depending upon the desires of the offended party in the engage­ ment.

So let's look at the position the Lutheran fathers took once more. Were they right? Is engagement tantamount to marriage in the eyes of God? Provided that the term engage­ ment is used to refer to a genuine promise be­ tween a man and a woman, we must answer in the affirmative; engagement is marriage in the scales of Scripture's countless exhorations to fidelity. As the commentator said: "By what we say from day to day, including every idle utterance as well as every sentiment, we are writing our own verdict for deliverance to us ‘on judgment day.’ For our mouths re­ veal what our hearts are and contain; they do it even in the case of hypocrites and liars.”i3 Broken promises are "like the thrusts of a sword,” but "truthful lips will be established forever.” Let not faithfulness fall from the sanctified soul!

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RIPOSTE ^.Jeorge Grimesby was quite pleased with ^ himself. Whistling softly, he closed the garage door and walked slowly up the front walk, beaming with obvious pleasure at the neat lawn and modern house. George Grimesby believed strongly in progress, and nothing delighted him more than some new gadget to make life easier. The neatly manicured hedge accompanied him to the front door, and he swept into the house like Rudolf Valentino entering the sheik’s tent. “I’m home, dear.”

Receiving no response, he strode through his castle to the kitchen, where he could see sup­ per under construction. “Margaret, I’m home," he asserted a little less enthusiastically and with some irritation, since she was taking the fun out of his big surprise. “Margaret, are you listening?” Without waiting for an ans' wer, he continued. “Guess what I heard at the office? The local supervisor is being pro­ moted and guess who is being considered for his job? Isn’t that . . . hey . . . you weren’t listening.”

“Yes I was, dear. George, I’m worried.”

“Worried? About what?”

“About the children.”

“What’s the matter with them?”

“Well, you know. Ever since we moved here, neither of them has seemed the same.

They're always playing down in their room in the basement, and they’re so quiet all the time. The games they play are so weird. And they hardly ever have any friends over.”

“Well, who’s that little girl they always talk about? What's her name, Hecuba or something?”

“Hecate. And that's another thing. What kind of name is that for a little girl? George, I think you ought to have a talk with them, especially William. He's been acting so aloof and secretive lately.”

“I don’t really think there's anything to worry about, but I suppose it wouldn't hurt.

Where are they now, down in the basement?”

She nodded. On the way past the stove he swiped a piece of chicken and mumbled, You could at least have been a little mor> interested about the job ..." His voice trailed off as he descended. Before going into the playroom George decided what to say He wou‘d be firm but kind, smiling, but in cuntrol. He cleared his throat, opened the door and started to say something, but the wS

died in his throat. William and Sally looked up at him, obviously annoyed at being inter' rupted in the middle of something. Dressed in long capes, they were huddled around a grapefruit-sized glass ball resting on a flaming scarlet cushion.

“Uh, what, uh, are you kids doing?” asked George a little shakily.

William, his eyes limpid pools of inno' cence, looked ages older than his nine years.

“We’re just playing, Daddy."

George could not tear his eyes away from the candles and the skull (was that thing real or just plaster) and the books. “Where did you get all these things?”

Sally languidly turned around. “Hecate gave them to us.”

“Well, I want you to get rid of it all. Give it back to her or throw it away, but I want this stuff out of here. This is nothing for child' ren to play with. I don’t want you playing with these things anymore. Do you under' stand?”

A mysterious smile flickered over William’s cherubic face. He nodded slowly.

George knew he should have been relieved, but he couldn’t avoid a certain feeling of un­ easiness. “That’s better. Upstairs now. It’s time for supper.” Turning abruptly, he almost ran out of the room.

Sally gazed thoughtfully at her father's re­ treating back. “I do think he was quite un­ reasonable, don’t you?”

“Most unreasonable,” William agreed. “As a matter of fact, I think he deserves to be chas­ tised for the crude way in which he referred to us. Get the doll.”

From a curiously inlaid chest Sally lifted a doll dressed in a man’s clothes and handed it to her brother, who had withdrawn a long, silver needle from the silken cushion. Laying the doll face up on the table, he lightly prick­ ed its forehead and temples several times.

“I should think that that will be sufficient, wouldn’t you say?”

“Yes, that will do.” Carefully replacing the doll and the needle, they removed their robes in silence.

In the kitchen, a sobered George was ner­ vously describing the encounter in somewhat forced terms. “Of course it’ll be all right. I told them to get rid of all that paraphernalia or whatever, and that’s the end of it. There s nothing to worry about.”

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“George, you weren’t too hard on them were you? They’re only children, but they have feelings too. Remember, Dr. Cranston said that children are individuals and that they should be treated with dignity as equals.” Mar' garet believed in the New Philosophy of rais' ing children.

“Nonsense. I was merely . . . uh , . . firm, uh . . . ” He broke off in mid'sentence as beads of sweat broke out on his forehead. He gasped.

“What’s the matter, George? You’re white as a sheet. Are you feeling all right?”

“I . . . I . . . don’t know. All of a sudden I have this headache.” He sat down.

“You’ve probably been working too hard.

You know the doctor told you not to overdo it. Why don’t you lie down a while?”

“Yeah, yeah.” He walked away very slow' ly, holding his forehead with one hand.

The children came up from the basement a moment later and sat down at the table.

“Where’s Daddy?”

“Your father isn’t feeling well. He’s lying down,” she answered, without glancing up from her soup. The children just looked at each other.

Supper passed without further incident.

After several hours, George emerged from the bedroom, hair tousled, with an irritable look on his face. He padded into the living room, where his wife was absorbed in the evening paper, and sank into a chair.

“Feel any better, dear?” Margaret's con' cern was purely mechanical.

“No!” she jumped. “Couldn’t sleep at all.”

He fell silent. “Where are the children?”

“They’re downstairs again. You don’t think they're playing with those horrid things again, do you? George, I wish you’d see what they’re doing.”

“I suppose.” He was obviously not burst' i ing with enthusiasm. “You know, I’m begin' j ning to wonder if moving here has worked out ( as well as I’d hoped. Since you mentioned it, I guess I have noticed that the children seem to have changed somehow. Have you seen that look in their eyes? It’s as if they're laughing at us all the time. It's all that Hecate's fault.

Where does she live, anyway?”

“I don't know. I don't even know what her last name is.”

“Well, I'm going to find out.” With that, j he got up and clumped down the stairs. There was a pungent, sweetish smell in the air; as he had expected, they were at it again, this time kneeling and mumbling something in front of their black'draped play table. Two )

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candles were burning and incense was smolder' ing in a curiously wrought brass holder.

George felt his scalp prickling and his temper lx>iling. "All right! I thought I told you to get rid of these things. He glared at them, but their utter calm further infuriated him. He felt himself losing control as the barest indication of a smile flitted over WilHam's face. "Are you listening to me?" he almost screamed. Grabbing the crystal ball, he raised it over his head and hurled it to the cement floor. It shattered into a thousand pieces. In triumph he gaped at them, wild-

eyed, but their placid expressions never wav' ered. In confusion he backed towards the door and stumbled out, his footsteps punctual ed by the crackling of glass slivers.

William looked somberly at Sally, his eyes infinitely old, “I believe this time he has gone too far, don’t you think?"

“I quite agree." Sally was already getting the little box and the cushion. Together they laid the doll on the table, clasped their hands over the silver needle, and plunged it into the doll’s chest.

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The Lutheran Church is part of Christ's Church. It traces its message, traditions and history to the founding of the Church by Christ and even incorporates certain aspects of the Jewish religion. It is one of the great branches of the One, Holy, catholic, Apostolic Church.

One of the basic principles of Lutheran worship is that the congregations are made up of participants, not spectators. We attend services to worship God and to be edified by His Word, (whether it be in the form of Old Testament Reading, Epistle, Gospel, Sermon or Liturgy) not to be lectured to and/or to be entertained.

There are many customs such as genuflect' ing (bowing the knee), bowing one’s head at the name of Jesus, making the sign of the cross, or bowing the head as one passes the font of the altar which are practiced by a number of Lutherans as expressions of reverence. Outward actions such as these are signs of "inward devotion."

In Ecclesiastes 5:1, Solomon tells us how to behave ourselves when we visit the Lord's Temple: "Go carefully when you visit the house of God. Better draw near in obedience than offer the sacrifice of fools, who sin with­ out a thought." (NEB) Our thoughts should dwell on our Savior and our God, and the at' mosphere in His temple should be charged with the reverence and awe which the Lord deserves. Vain babblings, gossip, whispering and laughing have no place in His house. It would be well for us at NWC to keep this in mind; we sometimes get quite rowdy before the invocation.

The individual congregations of this synod and the chapel at NWC serve the same pur' pose: people gather there for public worship.

"Public Worship and Private Devotions are both essential to the Spiritual life, as a duty and as a privilege. While Private Devotions are determined by the individual, Public Wor' ship is regulated by the Church; catholic Usage and Tradition and not private judgment being the Authority for the Rites, Ceremonies, and Character of the Service. The Offering of Public Worship is for the formal recogni­ tion of God and for His Honour and Glory.

Consequently the Rites and Ceremonies used should be such as make God’s Service beauti­ ful, symbolize doctrine, and show forth rever­ ence, for well Saint Paul says: ‘Let all things be done decently and in order.’ This has been the custom from the beginning, Lights, In­ cense, Vestments, and all the accompaniment of an ornate service having their origin in re­ mote antiqizy, and still continuing to be the universal use oi the Church." (The Practice of Religion, Dr. Archibald Knowles).

Both body and soul should have their part for full and proper worship of God. Bodily worship has always been symbolic of soul wor­ ship. The senses have their share, seeing that everything is done for the glory of God; speak­ ing and singing the praise of God; hearing the Word of God; smelling the fragrance of in­ cense (which symbolizes the rising of the pray­ ers of the people of God to the throne of the Almighty as it is written in Revelation) and flowers; and tasting the joy of union with God in Holy Communion where we receive Christ s true body and blood.

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The ceremonies of the Church come to us, hallowed by the use of hundreds of years, and serve to illustrate the meaning of various services, adding dignity and solemnity to our worship of the Almighty. We should, of course, realize that we are engaged in the offering of prayer, praise and worship to our sovereign King of Kings. Art, architecture, music and ceremony help make God's House and worship beautiful. The revently minded person needs no argument to convince him of the propriety of ceremony in his worship. It glorifies God, beautifies the Church, and elevates the soul, for the Christian shows his belief by his worship.

Symbolism is the use of signs and emblems to teach and present religious truths, and adds a certain beauty to our worship. Knowledge of symbolism is necessary for an understanding of Christian art and architecture. Some of the symbols used in the Lutheran Church follow: Alpha and Omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, signifying the eternity of God. Three Circles symbolize the three persons of the Trinity.

The Dove represents the Holy Spirit, which descended upon Christ at His baptism.

Flames signify the Holy Spirit as He descendcd upon the Apostles at Pentecost.

Of Flowers and Plants, the lily is for purity, the pomegranate for immortality, and the rose for love.

The Fish represents our Lord. The first letters of the Greek words for Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior spell ichthys the Greek word for fish.

I.H.S. are initials of the Holy Name in Latin, Jesus hominum Salvator.

The Lamb typifies Christ as the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world.

The Pelican, a bird that nourishes its young with its own blood, symbolizes our Lord feeding the faithful with the Sacrament of the Altar.

The Altar symbolizes Mount Calvary, gener­ ally of marble or stone to typify the Hebrew place of sacrifice.

Bells signify a call to devotion.

Banners symbolize the Church moving as a vic­ torious army.

The Crucifix is the cross with the carved figure of the Savior hanging on it. It is a very ancient symbol in worship.

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One will find some of these symbols in every Lutheran Church, because our church is part of the Christian Church here on earth and these symbols are typically Christian. Let’s hope that they don't ever disappear in WELS. David Last

SHAKA ZULU T F you’d meet Shaka Zulu on the street today, ■■■ you probably wouldn't like him. Aside from the fact that he would be dressed in a straw skirt and a spear, you'd probably take offence at his whole authoritarian attitude. Shaka had a bad childhood, of course, to blame for his less than appealing personality. He was born the son of a petty chief in South Africa, not even the first son at that. From early youth he was cursed with a superiority complex which made him the laughingstock of his com­ panions. They used to devise tests for him to prove his superior qualities, but they soon stopped laughing when he passed every one.

Since he was not first in line for the chieftain­ ship, he had to dispose of his brother before he could become chief. This he did with dis­ patch.

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Two tribes would line up opposite one another, scream obscenities for a while, and then throw their heavy, long handled spears at the oppos­ ing line. The team with the most left stand­ ing after this won. Shaka didn't like these little skirmishes much; he wanted to expand them into a longer, more technicolor affair (the color being red, of course). First he dis­ posed of the longhandled spears, which were about as wieldy as rakes, and substituted a short but deadly sharp stabbing spear. These could be plunged into an enemy, pulled out, wiped off (time permitting), and used again.

Equipped with this weapon, his armies would be invincible; all he needed now was an army.

He took all his men and divided them into regi­ ments. These male regiments each had a cornpanion female regiment, and they only got to­ gether at dances before and after battles. These companion regimentts later supplied the male regiments with wives, but only when Shaka thought the men had been in enough battles to qualify them for such an honor. In practice

it worked out that no warrior got married be' fore thirty, and anyone caught breaking the morality laws before this would quickly be put to death.

Then Shaka demonstrated his ability as a strategist by devising a new army formation which was called “cow's horns.’’ It consisted of a massive center line with two curving projections. The projections would surround the enemy while the front line wreaked havoc upon everything in its path.

Armed with these techniques, he quickly conquered all the surrounding tribes. All his life he kept this up; he had to in order to support his large standing army, which had grown accustomed to fresh meat at regular intervals.

Without the steady booty that a conquered tribe offered, his entire army would have mutinied.

As he grew older, Shaka turned strange, being constantly obsessed with his own mortal­ ity. He hoped that British traders, who even now were finding their way into the center of the continent, might be able to supply him with the eternal elixir he was looking for. It seems that a couple of them told him of a Rowland’s Macassar Oil which was rumored to have the amazing property of turning grey hair back into ics original (black) color. He wasted many of his final years trying to obtain this, but never succeeded. Meanwhile he was astounding and alienating his tribe with other weird actions brought on by his mother’s death.

It had disturbed him so much that he ordered his whole tribe to mourn with him. Anyone found with dry eyes was immediately put to death. Besides this, his hapless people had to abstain from planting crops that year. Any woman found pregnant during the period of mourning also lost her life, together with her husband.

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to tell a lie in court. Rumors, gossip, and little white lies are also included in the command­ ment, A person's good reputation is very im­ portant, and when someone either maliciously or just thoughtlessly initiates or passes on a story concerning someone, he often is doing irreparable damage. We must be careful of what we say, for God says in Matthew 12:36, “I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account there­ of in the day of judgment.” Secrets are al­ ways big news when they are let out by some­ one, but by telling the secrets which have eith­ er been entrusted to him or which he happens to know he is betraying his neighbor. Proverbs 11:13 says concerning this: “A talebearer re­ vealed secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.”

Now we come to the other side of the com­ mandment, what we should do in a positive way for our neighbor. The first one stated in the explanation to this commandment is to “defend” him. This means that when others are speaking unkindly of our ne'ghbor we should speak up for him — especially if he is not there. Jonathan, Saul's son, is a good ex­ ample for us. When David wasn't there, he wasn't afraid to speak up and defend his friend to his father, the king. Speaking well of our neighbor is another good practice. When others are only speaking of a person's faults, we should bring attention to the person's good qualities. Another principle which our campus falls very short on is putting the best construc­ tion on everything. This is hard to do, because if we do follow the principle, we find that we are throwing the damper on the sensational.

How often haven't we heard a “true” story directly from second-hand sources and become so incensed by it that we passed it on and ad­ ded perhaps our condemnation and then found out that there was very little or perhaps no truth in the story. If we would only apply the principle of putting the best construction on everything, we wouldn't do the harm which is undoubtedly done. According to secular law a man is innocent until proven guilty.

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Tn a nation such as the United States that boasts that it’s built on a foundation of middle-class society, the millionaire often ap­ pears to be an unusual and unique grade of man. But of all the colorful millionaires of the past 100 years, few could match the eccen­ tricity of Henrietta Robinson Green. At the same time as the early twentieth century Van­ derbilts, Belmonts, and Astors were living in opulent mansions, lavish showcases for their wealth, Hetty Green, the so-called “Witch of Wall Street,” was living in a variety of inex­ pensive boarding houses and apartments, dili­ gently devising new ways to hoard money and escape the odious tax assessors. A biography of this woman's life would probably be the ultimate guide for all misers. Indeed, while she might not have been the king of misers, she certainly was the queen.

Although Hetty didn't start completely from scratch (here father left her more than a million dollars outright), her “tightwad” practices and skillful management increased her wealth by fantastic leaps and bounds. Two years after her father’s death in 1865, Miss Robinson married Edward Green, whose capital interests dwarfed even her own. However, IS years later Edward lost his entire fortune in some unwise and questionable speculation, Such a move was enough to convince Hetty that her husband was a bad risk. That same year she left him and embarked on a life style as colorful as her own apparel was colorless.

Almost daily a strange, unkempt figure, draped in a black, drab dress and well-worn hat could be seen walking toward New York City’s Chemical National Bank, entering the bank, and sitting cross-legged on the floor of the valt, peering over a disorderly mass of records and documents. The beggar-like figure was none other than Hetty Green. Little would one guess that this decrepit old lady, who sat industriously clipping coupons from bonds, was worth over $50,000,000. No work was as important to her as saving another buck. In fact, she often bypassed meals, sustaining herself on some old unwrapped sandwiches, which she kept in her pockets. But that's not all she carried in her pockets. One day she pulled out a safety-deposit box that contained almost $200,000 in negotiable bonds.

Although her notoriously cheap apparel is of some interest (the fact that she wrapped

newspapers around her for underclothes to keep her warm in winter is an interesting example), her numerous places of abode are much more so. For instance, one fall she lived in an apartment in Far Rockaway, which was a couple hours from New York by ferry and train, but it was out-of-season there and, as a result, the rent was only $5. In Hoboken, New Jersey, name, her . , . she lived ... under an , assumed , . , do§ ?• but ,<?uickly m°yed when town officials tried to collect a small fee for her unlicensed dog. No place was too cheap for her. She even lived in a walk-up in Harlem, the site of a loss that troubled her for years — some meat spoiled, because she had no ice-box.

Other anecdotes prove equally amusing.

Once she was caught by a street-car conductor for trying to pass a counterfeit half-dollar, Fortunately a postman vouched for her credit.

When she appeared at the street-car company office a few days afterwards, she demanded a receipt for the payment of her delinquent ^ fare. All this took place at the same time she was loaning New York City over $4,500,000.

While Hetty Green’s bizarre life style appears rather comical, it had its tragic side, too.

Although she apparently loved her two children, her money always came first. How unfortunate this turned out to be for her son, Ned. At the age of fourteen, Ned dislocated his kneecap in a sledding mishap, but instead of getting immediate medical help, she insisted on looking after her son herself. Since the pain refused to subside, even after two years, Hetty reluctantly took the boy to a physician, but the two disguised themselves as beggars to get free aid. However, the doctor soon learned her real identity and asked to be paid for his rendered services. Hetty refused to return. As a result, three years later Ned had his leg amputated, Yet there was a slim indication that Hetty Green’s heart was not all stone. She actually did set Ned up in business in Chicago to oversee her real-estate. After he sent her the collected rent money each month, Hetty generously paid him an allowance of $6 per day.

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Although Hetty Green died in 1916, her reputation lived on, especially on Wall Street, which had always been highly critical of the lady who believed “in getting in at the bottom and out at the top."

On the surface, Hetty Green’s life story is one filled with humor, but a deeper look underneath reveals a rather tragic story. Sel­ dom has avarice and greed sunk to such depths.

Her lack of feeling for her fellow man was also unfortunate. Hopefully the woman who loved a panic and put earthly wealth on such a pedestal will be no one’s idol.

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He formerly served congregations in Courtland and Brighton Township, Minn.

Rev. Frederick Kogler (’63) has accepted a call from St. Mark, Eau Claire, Wis., to Peace, Owensville, and the new mission at Columbia, Mo. Rev. Paul Stuebs (’65) was installed at Prince of Peace, Yankton, S.D., on Jan. 1, 1973. His for­ mer charges were Good Shepherd, Wolf Point, and Salem, Circle, Mont.

Rev. Marvin Putz (’51) has accepted a call to Mountain View, Great Falls, Mont. Installa­ tion was Feb. 4, 1973. He was formerly pastor at Redeemer, Mandan, and Trinity, Flasher, N.D. Rev. Edward Renz (’43) of Mt. Calvary, Tampa, Fla., has accepted the call to be civilian chap­ lain in Europe.

Rev. David Sievert (’60) was installed at St. Matthew, Janesville, Wis., on Jan. 21, 1973.

Previously he was pastor at Grace, Muskegon, Mich.

Rev. Daniel Westendorf (’59), from Pilgrim, Minneapolis, Minn., was installed at St. Peter, Dorr, and St. Paul, Hopkins, Mich., on Dec. 10, 1972.

Rev. Warren Widmann (’59), formerly the dis­ trict missionary for the Pacific Northwest Dis­ trict, was installed as pastor of Grace, Port­ land, Oregon, on Jan, 28, 1973.

Rev. Roland Zimmermann (’52) was installed at Bethlehem, Menomonee Falls, Wis., on Jan. 7, 1973. He formerly served Friedens, Bonduel and St. Paul, Zachow, Wis. Rev. Harmon Krause (’55) of St. John, rural Waterloo, and Immanuel, Marshall, Wis has accepted a call to Our Savior, Two Rivers Wis Installation will be on Feb. 25, 1973.

ANNIVERSARIES 0ctJn^* 1972> First. Woodruff, Wis., observed the 50th anniversary of its founding Rev. Eugene Kock (’63) is pastor of the congreganon.

Grace, Oshkosh, Wis., observed the 90th anniversary of its founding this past fall. The pastor is Rev. Clarence Koepsell (’40).

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DEDICATIONS Prince of Peace, Howell, Mich., dedicated a new church on Jan. 14, 1973. Rev. R. E. Warnke (’65) is the pastor at Prince of Peace.

The members of Resurrection, Virginia Beach, Va., dedicated their new church building on Jan. 14, 1973. Resurrection is served by Pas­ tor Paul Ziemer (’66).

BIRTHS Rev. and Mrs. Frederick Toppe (’67) of Kala­ mazoo, Mich., became parents of a son on Dec. 22, 1972.

Rev. and Mrs. Gerhold Lemke (’66), Raymond, S.D., recently adopted a son, Jonathan Andrew.

He was born Oct. 26 and arrived at their home on Dec. 13, 1972.

SEM NOTES Middlers Charles Bonow is engaged to Melanie Schupp of Rochester, Minn.

John Moldenhauer is engaged to Rikki Scharf of Milwaukee.

Don Stuppy is engaged to Marge Klein of Mil­ waukee.

Need a map to Manitowoc? See FPZ, Jr. Charlie lies’ wife said Charlie watched football so much over the holidays that his end zone is worn out.

Tom Haar and Deb sent joint Christmas cards.

Still nothing serious? Ask Tom. Weeping and gnashing of teeth were heard in Thiensville and Mequon — Charlie Bonow is engaged and the women just can’t take it.

Charles has been observed recently lugging crates of records into his room —the records: Candles in the Rain.

Bob Koester knows where he’s going — nowhere.

Mike Crawford continues to smile!

Dame Rumor has it that Huska Enterprises is returning.

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Dick Durow is engaged to Cindy Freis.

Ken Kappel is engaged to Sue Brandt.

Augie Ristow is engaged to Deborah Resting.

Reports are that Ralph Jones is “ringing” around New Ulm. Cloute finally fell for a hometown gal.

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S. Lawrenz is trying for a hairy lip.

Bauer got a ring from his girl for Christmas — only trouble is, now he has a little problem blowing his nose.

The “rock collection” is growing larger!

We’re looking forward to seeing you next year, Jim Ziesemer, (The above is a note from Steve Lawrenz.)

We, the junior class of the Seminary, now have our first full-fledged resident heretic.

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Basketball NWC's buckets team did not take a break while the rest of us were enjoying our vacations. Instead, they were involved with two tournaments. The Trojans came out with a 2-2 record and had their most impressive win of the season when they defeated Carroll Col­ lege. The play wasn’t bad, considering that they weren't practising together but just com­ ing for the games. After returning to school, Ripon came down here, and we gave them a good game till we ran out of gas at the end.

The first two conference games followed, and our team ran into its first over-powering team, College of Racine. Some more performances like the one against Carroll will be needed in the coming games.

Consistency has been a big problem this year. Mark Toepel is coming around to form, and his shots are again dropping, but his spot is the only stable one on the team. Beck Goldbeck had a couple of good games against Carroll and Ripon. When he made his presence felt, the team played better. Beck, however, has also had some very mediocre games, where he didn't shoot enough or get enough rebounds.

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These three men have been starting regularly, but after that Coach Thompson has tried ah most everyone on the team to fill out the first five. Don Sutton has not yet gotten confidence back in his shooting, which we desperately need. Rog Kuerth has hustled and played well at times but is constantly in foul trouble. Dave Kriehn has played steady when in there, and Jon Schroeder showed a great shooting eye against Racine. No one yet has shown consistent play, and Coach Thompson will have to keep changing lineups till he finds the right people.

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The consolation against Carroll College saw the Trojans really put things together. A1 Toepel was running around and causing the kind of havoc for our opponents that NWC fans are used to seeing. His efforts netted him 34 points. Pete Schumacher had his usual sweet touch and hit for 26. Goldbeck was very menacing to Carroll underneath as he patrolled his post well. The defense was play' ing so well that Carroll came down three or four times and didn’t even get a shot off as our pressure either stole the ball or forced a turnover. It is too bad this couldn't have been a game at home for the student body to see also.

U. W. WAUKESHA 65 NWC 77 The next day Northwestern met U. W. Waukesha for the consolataion game. The Tro­ jans recovered from their beating the night before and administered one of their own.

NWC moved much better and effectively em­ ployed a half court press, stealing the ball and getting easy shots. The Trojans also established their fast break with board control. The scor­ ing was well balanced with four men in double figures. This win gave our team consolation honors and left them at a 3-5 mark for the year.

NWC 71 RIPON 83 The first good turnout for a college game occurred on this night against Ripon College.

Ripon had many high school stars from around the state. They weren’t an overpowering team but shot well. Goldbeck again rebounded well, and Toepel continued his form from the Carroll game and had 25 points. Kuerth hit for 16, but Schumacher was off and couldn’t get his shot to go in. Missing free throws at the end especially hurt us and Ripon finally pulled away.

WAUKESHA TECH 92 NWC 72 Northwestern, along with a growing num­ ber of teams, entered tournaments over the Christmas holidays. The first tournament was at the U. W. of Waukesha, where the Tro­ jans met Waukesha Tech. The Trojans had not practiced for a week; it was evident in their play. Everyone was sluggish and there were far too many turnovers, while Waukesha Tech moved quite well. Neither zone nor man to man was of much avail as Tech shot well and pounded the boards. Although no one shot well, Toepel, as usual, was the team's high scorer with 16 points.

- LAWRENCE TOUmET NWC 68 LAWRENCE 84 NWC 93 CARROLL COLLEGE 76 To start the new year, the Trojans travelled northward to Appleton for a rematch with Lawrence University. The Black and Red had played very poorly against them in our gym, but this time the performance was better; Lawrence, however, also had improved. The game stayed close for a half, but the early second half jinx hit us again. For a few min-

NWC 63 MILTON 76 Milton hadn't won a game at NWC’s gym for some time and Coach Dick Deasy had his team well coached so that they could reverse that trend. Milton was prepared for all the Trojan’s defenses and easily broke our fullcourt and half-court presses. They spread our defense out and would get Chuck Didier and John Hayek open, both of whom hurt us with their precision shooting. The only thing that kept the game from becoming a rout was Mark Toepel. A1 scored from every angle and ran hard all game long, but he got no help. His 30 points was the only bright side in the game.

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vantage of that. The first half looked promising as NWC trailed by 6 at times and went into the locker room at half 13 points down.

The ability to get the ball and fast break helped Northwestern stay in the game. The Trojans played a 2'3 zone and worked their man to man offense effectively.

The second half saw the Trojans get trounced. Racine shot a sizzling 55% from the floor and shut off Northwestern’s offense. The zone proved to be ineffective both as a defense and for the boards, as Racine dominated them both offensively and defensively. Racine defensed Toepel well, allowing him only 6 in the second half and 16 for the game. Jon Schroeder play­ ed his best game of the year, hitting the boards and scoring 18 points. The loss left the Tro­ jans with an 0-2 conference record.

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Then to further complicate their woes, a bunch of “jolly old men’’ came down from the wind­ swept hills of Mequon and challenged the Tro­ jans to do battle. Our valiant men of Troy, always eager for the fray, accepted. Before the evening was over, our heroes discovered that they had been “horsed’’ again, for the “jolly old men” had a hidden weapon in the person of Carl Leyrer, the younger. The “jolly old men,” who sometimes answer to the name of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, remain si­ lent on the subject, but it is rumored that Carl practiced secretly for many moons preparing for this event. For he not only lasted the whole match, but he won it and thus provided his group with the margin of victory. ‘Tis said that on a clear night the hills around Mequon once again ring with laughter as the “jolly old men” avenged the annihilation of their coun­ terparts when they had tried to do battle with the Trojans in buckets.

The return of senior Mark Bode and the addition of four newcomers, Glen Wales, Phil Bader, and Dave Eckert to replace ineligibil­ ities, injuries, and dropouts helped the team to a double dual victory over Gateway Tech of Kenosha, 36-18, and U. of W. - Richland Cen­ ter, 36-24. The Trojans are 4 and 4 in dual competition at the halfway point in their schedule.

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Just before Christmas he donated $1500 to the school to use for the purchase of teaching facil­ ities such as overhead projectors and other audio-visual aids. In this day of restricted budgets, it's not easy to find the money for teaching helps such as these, since they are not absolute necessities. A gift like this helps a great deal. This is by no means the first gift that Pastor Lorenz has given. Among other gifts he donated $2000 when Wartburg Hall was being built to buy furnishings for it. Pastor Lorenz also has a rather interesting hobby; he keeps bees. This isn't really as strange as it sounds, for pastors in Europe have been doing this for some time; in fact, for a while it was almost a standard practice.

Another gift was received from the daughter of Rev. Arthur Sydow, who graduated from N.W.C. in 1903. She donated $4000 for a scholarship fund in his name. I'm sure many

future students will have good reason to thank her for this.

Work on the remodeling of the old gym has finally begun. It began on January 2nd and when it is completed, the old gym won't be the old gym anymore but the Music Audi­ torium. The face lift is confined to the base­ ment as building codes prevent making a theatre of the upstairs. The new basement will have two choir rehearsal rooms which can double as classrooms. There will also be piano practice rooms, studios, offices, and the usual rooms for storage. With any luck, the Condura Construction Company will have the work completed by the end of April. This, of course, means that no real use will be got out of it until next fall, which gives us some­ thing to look forward to. The total cost of the project is $125,000, of which $100,000 comes from the Synod's Missio Dei Fund.

Another project in progress, which I be­ lieve I have mentioned before, is the Forum's production of the Tempest. The cast has al­ ready been picked, and by the time this is printed, rehearsals will have been in their third week. This project, too, is scheduled for completion some time in April and it's going to take a lot of hard work to have it done by then.

Well, that's about it for this month, I'll let you know if anything new happens.

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I haven’t been able to shake the wave of melancholy that has come over me since I made that translation. Over Christmas vacation I decided to give up my lifelong ambition of someday becoming editor of the “Gemeindeblatt.” In short, my whole German world has come tumbling down around my proverbial “Ohren.” Besides all that, when I confided this translation disaster to my father, he laugh­ ed at me. It's just depressing to have been taken in by that rascal Gottfried. Who ever heard of a beggarly tailor wearing a gray cape with a black felt lining anyway?

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In today's society there is an unfortunate attitude afoot which truly aids in the propa­ gation of this sin. This thought has aptly been dubbed “the infatuation of the bottle.” Alco­ hol is used for everything from celebrating scholastic achievement to just passing the time of day. It is not at all unusual to observe an individual reaching for that one drink or may­ be that second or third until finally he has thoroughly drowned his sorrows. Equally fre­ quent is the free use of alcohol to put a per­ son in the true spirit of a celebration.

The results of this type of social drinking which leads to the destructive sin of drunken­ ness are disastrous. An excess of alcohol in your bloodstream is not healthy for your body.

It tends to fog your mind increase your pulse rate, and slow your actions and reactions con­ trolled by the motor nerve system. The repe­ tition of heavy drinking can produce a depen­ dency on alcohol, but far more destructive than any harm you may do to yourself is the crush­ ing injury you may bring upon others. Far too many innocent children and grown-ups are blindly murdered by a fuzzy-eyed drunk be­ hind the wheel. Far too many happy homes

are choked and finally smothered to death by the problem parent. Far too many unsuspect­ ing parents are cut deeply by the manifesta­ tion of such a sin by their son or daughter.

One of the worse of these horrid situations is the fact that far too many close friends, acquaintances, and especially unwary strangers are offended by your drunkenness. For such who offend God says, “It would be better for you to have a rock tied to your neck and be thrown into the sea.” Furthermore you are not only seriously harming the faith of others, but through this sin you are systematically de­ stroying your own precious faith. Continu­ ance in such a sin can result only in the in­ evitable as St. Paul sternly warns, “Let me tell you again as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will ?iot inherit the kingdom of God.” In summation, God certainly does not con­ demn the proper use of alcohol. This was clearly illustrated by Jesus at Cana, where he changed the water into wine for the enjoy­ ment of the wedding guests. However, the next time someone invites you “to hang one on,” ponder not only the temporal but also the eternal repercussions of such an act. “And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit” so that “whethertherefore you eat, or drin\, or whatsoever you do, you do all to the glory of God!” S.K. 176

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He stomped into Joyce’s living room and said, “Hello, Aunt Joyce. I told them I was six and old enough to carry my own suitcase.

Good grief, my mother would’ve come in and told you to remember my vitamins and said not to let me talk your arm off. She would’ve kissed me good-bye about fifty times. She’s always saying I’ll talk her arm off, and it hasn’t fallen off yet. Did Uncle John go on his trip to Chicago? I bet Karen’s in the bathroom teasing her hair.’’

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“So you don't have to cook any Sunday dinner. Can we go out in those woods and fields back of your house tomorrow? I bet you’re glad your house is right at the edge of the country. If you ever get in trouble, Super' man can sail right down in your back yard without hitting any TV antennas.

“I promise we’ll go out," she said. “In fact, let's go at six in the morning."

“While it's still dark?" he shouted. “Oh, boy! But how will I see to put on my Superman cape? I better lay out my cape and gun tonight."

“Let’s not take the cape and gun this time, You're old enough to use my binoculars now.

Let’s do some birdwatching."

“Do we have to?" he demanded. “Are you going to mess around with those old binoculars all day tomorrow?”

“Not all day." She patted the couch cush­ ion. “Sit down and tell me a story."

Joyce listened to a long story about a “Superbird” who pecked out the eyes of some mean robbers. “I was going to tell you about King Claude and Superwolf too," he said, “but I'm so sleepy.” She let him go to the bedroom alone to undress, and stayed in the living room while he shouted his prayers and yelled good night.

When she woke him up the next morning and reminded him they were going walking, Jim couldn’t understand how they could see to walk anywhere. He started at the thick wall of fog at the window.

“It looks like the whole world is full of smoke," he said. “Do you suppose someone tried to bomb Superman in the middle of night with a silent, secret bomb?"

She pulled a T-shirt over his arms and head. He was so sleepy he had forgotten he was now six years old. “If they did try, he got away safely," she told him. “But it’s more likely ground fog. We’ve had a warm fall, When the ground is warm and the night air gets cold, the air turns into something like steam down near the ground."

“This is my ‘I’m a little tiger’ T-shirt — the one you sent me.”

“Blue jeans and sweater now," she said.

He wiggled into these and they walked to the kitchen.

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Joyce?" he asked, “No. And you shouldn't be either — not with that tiger shirt."

She opened the kitchen door. The pink light behind the far line of trees had faded. It was full day now, and the tops of trees and fences were becoming visible, rising out of the soft gray mist.

He tugged at her jacket. “Aunt Joyce, why do you carry your binoculars in that little old plastic bag? On TV the spies all have fancy leather cases for their binoculars."

It was the ninety-eight-cent shoulder bag that used to hold Karen’s baby bottles when they went out, the sterilized, every-four-hourinterval bottles. She had never taken Karen for a walk at six in the morning. They hadn't lived at the edge of the country then. But she would have the dirty breakfast dishes too in­ sistent, wherever they had lived. She hadn’t given Karen the quality of wonder or a sense of when to pause. She hadn t given Karen the gift of knowing what is worthless. These things hadn’t been hers to give then.

“I use to have a fancy case too, Jim, but it was too stiff. It was hard to get the glasses out in time to see a bird. You don’t really need a baf at a11 after tbe s,un com,es outu.T just something to keep the lenses dry while damp out.

She opened the back gate . “It’s rough going down the ravine, Jim. Take my hand.

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“Oh, Jim!" She laughed. “Do you have words for everything?”

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ies of mist still lay in the ravine, giving the flowers the look of a muted Japanese water color. In the big oak at the edge of the ravine a mockingbird bickered and mewed like a cat' bird, its liquid song finished until next spring's love affair.

This was her world, and it was the first time she had permitted him to enter it in this particular way. She knew her heart would break if he did not have eyes to see it. And she knew she might never know if he saw it or not. So many fears and angers, so much hungering after things and words and people, had kept her from seeing and smelling until she was nearly forty years old. She often cried inside for the lost years she had walked past the smell of honeysuckle, with nostrils stuffed and deadened with hurry, or driven along the Gulf Coast with eyes blind to the high, lazy flapping of a heron. She wanted to tell this loved child to hurry and look, because the years went and the earth and its creatures sometimes vanished too.

But she only adjusted the binoculars, stop' ped beside him and held the glasses to his eyes.

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“Look at the flowers down there, Jim, to get used to the glasses. They take a lot of getting used to.”

He looked a long time, and then looked up into her face. “They’re as yellow and purple as crayons!” he cried. “And you can see little hunks of the fog moving. Aunt Joyce, the fog is moving!”

It was enough for now. They scrambled down into the ravine and out again, and start' ed across the field.

“Tell me about King Claude, Jim, before we get to the woods.”

He started skipping and jumping back and forth, but always moving forward, in the erratic, circular fashion of small boys when *hey are very excited. “Well, King Claude and Queen Julia went out to inspect their oil wells one morning and Julia got scared to death, be' cause who should they see but Superwolf! Jub ia yelled, ‘Help! Help! I’m so scared!’ So Claude sent her back to safety and said, ‘I’ll take care of this, my dear.’”

The story continued until King Claude had killed the wolf. “But how could he kill Superwolf?” Joyce asked.

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“Because the wolf really wasn’t Superwolf!” Jim cried, running in circles and flail­ ing his arms. “And Julia knew it because Superman had told her secretly. She just pre­ tended to King Claude she was scared!”

“Queen Julia was the smartest woman I’ve ever heard of, and that’s the best story I ever heard. Now we’d better be kind of quiet.”

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“They do,” she said, “and I never knew how to say it before.”

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Occasionally she glimpsed him holding his arms out stiffly and circling around. He hadn’t left his Superman cape at the house after all, only the old towel. While she wa;ted, she watched a red-tailed hawk drift overhead in slow circles in the clear yellow light.

“Zoom! Zoom!” his shout came through the thickets. “That will teach you, you wick­ ed man!” Sometimes she saw him pause in his battle against evil to break off a leaf and smell it.

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“Those leaves are like lime popsicles!”

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Then she saw that he had spotted a male cardinal through the binoculars. “I see a bird," he whispered. “He's so red, like Mom’s lip­ stick. I've seen this kind in my yard, I think, but this one's different. He feels so close to me. It's like he’s mine and all shut up in my eyes and free from me at the same time.” His stubby fingers trembled, from the heaviness of the binoculars and from something else.

A myrtle warbler flashed by, its yellow rump catching a beam of sunlight cutting into the point and counterpoint of greens, but Joyce let the boy alone. Sweat ran down his face and an unseasonably late mosquito bit his ear.

He remained still, locked in his strange new intimacy, until the cardinal flew away.

“Let’s go back for breakfast now, Jim,” she said. “I’ll try to show you some meadow­ larks on the way back.”

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“Keep an eye out for movement in the grass,” she told him. “The meadowlarks are all over this field.”

The sun was high and warm on the brown field now, and the meadowlarks fluttered up out of the grass, their white tail feathers flash­ ing in the clear light, as the woman and child walked. Again and again Joyce pointed cut a bird on the ground, but Jim, still not used to spotting with the glasses, could not catch sight of one. “I can't see one sit still,” fie whined ir. desperation. “I’m hungry. We've been cut here a hundred years.”

She threw the flowers down. They were beginning to wilt anyway.

“I used to do it this way when I was first bird-watching,” she said. She squatted beside him, held her hands over his and aimed the glasses at the ground in front of his feet. “Sup­ pose I wanted to see that log over there. I'd sweep my glasses up from the ground on a line with the log. Hurry — look in front of your feet and sweep up your glasses toward that movement out there, like this!”

This time Jim saw the bird, clear and sharp, walking slowly, its head peering around it neck stretched high. He saw the bright yellow breast with the startling black V, the clear 182

brown and white stripes on the delicate, narrow head.

The bird was beautiful. It was funny. It was a magic bird, because it had been all dull brown just a minute before and now it was all colors. He wanted to keep the bird forever in his sight, and felt a great sadness at knowing that he could not.

Joyce watched the yearning on the boy's face, and remembered when John had given her the field glasses — remembered how disappointed she had been because the gift had not been the new suit she needed. Seeing Jim now, she remembered the time, two years later, that she had spotted what looked like a house sparrow. She remembered she had cried at the wonder of it when she saw instead the brilliant raspberry strippings of a purple finch. “What a funny, silly girl,” John had exclaimed when she burst into tears.

Finally Jim said, “I guess you have to live in the country to sec birds with so many cob ors.”

“No, Jim. A lot of warblers and finches that come to your back yard turn out to be different colors from what you think.”

He was silent when they walked back, and he watched his aunt carefully when she scan-

ned the sky or ground. Perhaps she was God in some kind of disguise. God could make you see things that weren’t there.

“Are you really my Aunt Joyce?” he asked her at last.

“Jim, you funny little boy! Yes, I'm really your Aunt Joyce. You ask me that often and you never tell me why.”

He believed her. They reached the ravine.

“You can hold my hand going down if you want to,” he said. “You aren’t so young, you know. You might need help.”

“I appreciate that, Jim.” As they walked across her back yard he continued to clutch her hand so tightly her fingers ached.

He wondered what to say when his mother and father asked him how he had spent the weekend. He might say he hadn’t done anything special. He wasn't sure he could explain how the myrtle leaves smelled or how the flowers looked with the fog moving around them. He was almost sure he could never say how it felt to see a plain brown bird turn out to be so many colors. And he knew he would feel sad if he couldn’t make them see exactly how it was.

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What makes things more depressing is the fact that even the profs aren’t fired up any­ more. Prof. Plitzuweit used to be a real spark plug in Greek class, but lately he hasn’t been sparking. Just the other day he told us that the Greek we were translating was indifferent.

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She looked like a woman though she was a child.

She filled students’ hearts with glee.

Old hearts would flutter and turn to butter At the sight of Beverly B. And ev’ryone thought that their day was complete If a smile from her they could see.

Judging from the Sem notes, Tiefel is still alive and squealing. I also have noticed that Mr. Wonderful, Steve Lawrenz, is still around.

I hear that he’s planning a party for me. I imagine that I’ll end up disappointed though, ’cause poor Steve is usually rather disorganized, and no doubt the party will be a failure.

Steve is trying to make inroads in the field of literature. His new novel is about to be pub' lished under the title: Lawrenz of Arabia, with

In fall old Bicds from his window would lean That a glimpse of her he might see.

It would raise his spirits if only he got A wave from Beverly B. It was always his wish that he could get more, But his stayed a silent plea.

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Each had a short, fleeting spree.

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By the time this is in print Winter Carnival ”73 will only be memories — pleasant or otherwise. The Thundering Herd from the West will have descended and departed in a cloud of dust. This year it looks like the snow sculptures will be done in a new medium — mud! Somehow Winter Carnival just hasn’t caught on real well. Once upon a time in the stone age days of Saturday classes, we at least got a Saturday off. Maybe our Winter social event could use a shot in the arm. A few years ago they raffled off a date with one of Mr. Hefner’s rabbits at Whitewater. Granted such a thing might not have appeal at an all male college; there must be something that would arouse interest. A possibility would be a fash' ion show put on by the faculty, showing the latest in pastoral gowns. I’m sure we could enlist Dave Last to help with the color com' mcntary. There must be other events of the same vein which could be held to fire up the interest of the student body. Maybe the facul-

ty wives could run a kissing booth. There are plenty of possibilities.

Winter Carnival can be something of a frightening event for many Seniors. It brings them one step closer to “Sem panic.” One night poor Norris was almost in tears when all the phones were in operation. He wasn't in any mood to be hindered in his last minute efforts. Szep cook a big step again and accepted a blind date. He has a very optimistic attitude in regard to blind dates: “You can only get burned every time!”

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I overheard him say that all he'd be getting is meatballs for the rest of his life.

Once again I'd like to turn to the class­ room for a little humor. Now that I'm no longer basking in the glow of Dr. Sullivan’s genius, I have to go to other sources. Prof.

"To the church of God which is at Corinth”! is how Paul headed up those two hallowed epistles from the Highest. Every great ground of faith, “forever settled in heaven”, he would now settle with them once and for all upon the earth. For their generation and each succeeding one he clearly set forth what believers are to believe and how preachers are to preach, since these two things are insepar­ ably yoked together, either gathering or scat­ tering the sheep of the pasture.

Of this the church may be certain, how­ ever; the sheep of the pasture will be scattered if her people and pastors apathetically allow the corrosion of her crowning glory, “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” It is with the revealing radiance of the Word that we are to “test the spirits to see whether they are from God; because many false pro­ phets have gone out into the world.” (I John 4:1). The two epistles of Paul to the Corin­ thians prove themselves to be especially effec­ tive in illuminating that movement which has caught the eye and ear of many a man this year: Campus Crusade and KEY 73.

We need no suspense-filled sentences to lead up to some climactic statement that KEY 73 and the organizations which innovated it have certain doctrinal deviations. Let’s be truthful about this thing. They have all kinds

Quam’s is proving to be an oasis in a desert of dull. The other day he made a rather pro­ found statement, “You're just about old enough to take a tramp abroad.” I’m still trying to decide what he meant. I don’t know if he means on a tramp steamer, or if he means to walk.

Bieds Moldehaucr just drove all the way to Hartland to nail a guy with an illegal car.

He was lucky no one was dedicated enough to walk to the hospital parking lot when he was in Soph.

In closing I would like to pass on a civicminded thought I heard from Phyllis Diller: “Keep your city clean and beautiful, eat a pigeon a day!”

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of doctrinal deviations! Please pardon the un­ couth offensiveness of the author if he should melt somebody’s candy-coated ears with the presumptuous word, HERESY! This is no mystery magazine, and he will not wait until the second to the last paragraph to tell you not to get your fingers burnt on a hot stove. The judgments above are Scriptural and this article will prove it from Scripture. But let it never be said that the reader was tricked by cleverly arranged arguments or Dale Carnegie finesse into believing what is said here. You know where this discussion is leading, and you are not being gradually seduced into accepting a conclusion you normally wouldn’t have.

Using the epistles to the Corinthians as our bright beacon of truth, let us examine both the doctrines and the methods of KEY 73, keeping in mind Paul's own epitome of the Christian church and ministry: “We can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth.” (II Cor. 13:8).

KEY 73 gets no further than the second verse of the first epistle before taking a nose dive into the scum of work-righteousness. Paul addresses the letter “to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, saints by calling.

Strange, isn’t it, how the church is always fighting the same battles over and over again?

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doesn’t vary his method is because man has never changed. He is still the same pompous DON ass he always was. He still thinks he can claim some fabulous foothold on his own ladder of meritorious good works upon which he deludes himself into thinking he is heading heaven* ward. Paul takes it that these people already OLDSMOBILE know how they came to believe in Christ, how they became saints, true believers: “by call* The Pace Setter/The Price Setter mg!" The Holy Spirit does the calling. He converts. He sanctifies. “No one can say, ‘Jes- 311 Third St. WATERTOWN 261-5120 us is Lord,’ except by the Holy Spirit." (I Cor. 12:3). Campus Crusade and its special pro* gram, KEY 73, twist this entirely around, stealing the power which belongs only to the living God and attributing it blasphemously to SHOE REPAIR THEMSELVES! The theological name for this is synergism, Fast Service — Reasonable Prices and it is smeared over every pamphlet and sermon this organization puts out. Predominant 119 N. Second Street Watertown in the Campus Crusade literature is the book­ let entitled, Have Ton Heard Of The Four Spiritual Laws? This little booklet summarizes in four parts God's plan of salvation for man­ COMPLIMENTS OF — kind. We contest “Law Four," under whose heading we find statements such as: “We re­ "Your Building Supply Mart” ceive Christ by personal invitation" and “You can receive Christ right now through prayer."

Building Supply Mart Since when?! God isn’t running some sort of Lawn & Garden Center sign-on-thc-dotted-line, volunteer army! But look at all the people proudly marching down 740 N. Church Street the aisle of Anaheim Stadium “making deci­ sions" for Christ. “Oh boy! Isn’t the Lord 261-2102 Watertown lucky that we signed up on His side!" And now they are going to pray to receive Christ. j There’s nothing like putting the cart before i the horse! If the Holy Spirit hasn’t already ' PAINT AND converted a man, his prayers are not heard.

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•strewn the garlands and flowers of conquestial celebration. To those who have won the vietory it is a wonderful aroma indeed. But to the prisoners of war at the rear of the pro­ cession, it is an odor of slavery and death, an aroma of disheartening defeat. So is the Gos­ pel of Christ. To those saved it is as sweet­ smelling incense. To those who perish it is as dust and ashes in their mouths.

Paul sums up this brilliant picture of the Gospel with a rhetorical question of vast doc­ trinal depth: “And who is adequate for these things?" Paul realizes, of course, that no one is “adequate" or “sufficient" (KJV) for the preaching of the gospel. Every true preacher is continually aware of his own inadequacy to preach the Word and thereby to save souls.

Nevertheless, how clear Paul makes it that the source of sufficiency is God and His Word!

He joyfully states: “Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God." (II Cor. 3:5) Likewise, it is with no regret at all that he recognizes the Gospel message has in and of itself the very power of God to save souls: “We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassing great­ ness of the power may be of God and not from ourselves.” (II Cor. 4:7).

This power of the gospel is a great and comforting doctrine, namely that etheral elo­ quence is not prerequisite to the saving of souls through the Word. As a matter of fact, we are not supposed to make the Word of God convincing; it already is! Paul said it in another epistle: “I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes." (Rom. 1:16). Old Quenstcdt was right: “It is the innate power and tendency of God's word always to con­ vince men of its truth.” This is the doctrine of the Divine Efficacy of Holy Scripture.

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Paul was just the opposite of Billy Graham : And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. And my message and my preaching was not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demon­ stration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God. (I Cor. 2:1-5)

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The real point made is that faith that rests on the wisdom of men is not faith at all, but rather an emotional high that pulls up stakes and moves out of town as soon as that peddl­ ing, huckstering preacher does. Faith founded on the Word does not need a William Jen­ nings Bryan to keep the home fires burning.

That’s why it srikes us or at least should strike us as being somewhat blasphemous when Cam­ pus Crusade bill boards tell us to read the Bible because a certain celebrity does or to pray for the same reason. The same kind of shoddy dealings is seen in the big religious rallies when we are subtly told in not so many words to “make a decision for Christ" because Ethel Waters, George Beverly Shea, and Bart Starr did. Without standing in judgment on the personal faith of these people, it is still

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to be stated that this is a stench in the nostrils of God who does not give such motives for Christianity. The doctrine of the Divine Effi­ cacy of Holy Scripture assures us, however, that none of these tricks will work, since only God's Word has the real convincing power. It makes one wonder how many of those decision makers are along for the ride because of some celebrity’s avowed faith in this new thing which gets him “high”. If we have our eyes open and focused on the pages of Holy Writ, we can clearly see that Paul was correct all the way when he said: Consider your call, brethen, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God ■has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak tilings of the world to shame the tilings which are strong. (I Cor. 1:26-27).

So all the mighty people this world can muster will never convert a single soul because all “adequacy is from God.” Looking back on those two parts of II Corinthians under study here, we see that Paul follows up his statement on “adequacy” with one of the most sundering sentences of the entire epistle: For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God. (II Cor. 2:17).

A look into the Greek here is of inestimable value. The word for “peddling” in this text is kapeleuontes (from the verb kapeleuo).

The KJV translates “corrupt” which is certainly a part of this “peddling”. The word itself “has an evil ring about it” as one lexicographal source said.3 In general Greek us­ age, the word means to “misrepresent a thing.”

The word occurs in the New Testament only once, and its noun form kapelos is found once in the canonical section of the Septuagint in Isaiah 1:22 where God tells His people: “Thy silver has become dross, fhy drink mutilated with water.”4 The general New Testament usage of the word renders the meaning of kap­ eleuo as “huckster, peddler, one who sells for sordid gain, one who plays tricks.” “Peddling the word of God” is “a striking phrase for a terrible abuse of the sacred word.’Y, Thayer makes the noteworthy statement that “peddl­ ers were in the habit of adulterating their commodities for the sake of gain.” The word itself was used in the secular Greek world to

denote also one who diluted good wine with water and tried to pass it off as the real thing.

The picture is a striking one.

“For we are not like the many”, Paul says. “‘The many' is significant. So many Christians are still impressed by numbers. ‘All these other preachers say so, teach so, do so, etc.!' That convinces the superficial; they look no farther. The true preachers are so often rejected because they are few in number. In this world of sin truth is often in the minority.”o So says Paul. We are not to be as the many who sell the Word of God as though it were cheap merchandise. We do not connivingly “peddle” it. We do just the opposite. We preach “as from sincerity, as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.” Every­ one who preaches the Word does so in the very presence of God Himself. If only those who corrupt the pure Word would stop to think about this for a moment!

Following this up in chapter four of II Corinthians, we see the very same thing em­ phasized : We have renounced the things hidden be­ cause of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending our­ selves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. Preachers who walk “in craftiness” (en panourgia). Without peer on this section is Prof. John Meyer’s commentary: The type of minister to which we referred above as using entertainment in order to lure the people is employing panourgia and is therefore guilty of committing secret things of disgrace. The Gospel is the word of Truth. To resort to ruses in proclaim­ ing it, even though with the best of inten­ tions, is heaping shame on the Truth. Not only arc Truth and lures incompatible in their nature, but to use lures in connection with tiie Gospel ministry treats the Truth, die eternal Truth of God, as though it were inefficient, not attractive enough in itself.

Dr. Lenski gives us an equally edifying inter­ pretation of “adulterating the Word of God.”: Crafty conduct is paired with "adulterat­ ing die Word of God.” These two ever go together. He who is not honest widi him­ self will not be overhonest widi the Word.

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The Reverse is also true — and the writer may be permitted to say that he has wit­ nessed it too often — he who is not really honest with the Word cannot be trusted very far with his conduct. Doloo = to catch with bait, to fix up something so as •to deceive and catch somebody. It is used with regard to adulterating wine. So here: “adulterating the Word of God,” not leav­ ing it pare lest people reject it bat falsi­ fying it to catch the crowd. Of all die das­ tardly deeds done in the world this is the most dastardly. None is more criminal nor more challenging to God himself.

Now it is plain how clearly, vigorously and repeatedly Paul urges “sincerity in the sight of God” in these two very special epistles on the church and its ministry. It brings home to us so clearly why we should be so thankful that God has crushed Satan under our feet that he has not torn our souls asunder with the attractive ways which the world offers. So often we in the church which holds yet to the Book wish to employ the methods of canned religion that the world just loves, i.c. Kennedy’s Evangelism Explosion, wherein if you mess up one of your cute and clever Aristotelian, syllogistic arguments in presenting the wrong thing first, you can’t win souls. The church, however, prospers only when it departs neither to the right nor the left but preaches only the Truth “in Christ in the presence of God." These two great epistles scru­ tinize more than just the unhealthy tactics and teachings of KEY 73. They tell us over and over again that the gospel shall run its course and shall prosper wherever God sends it and comforts us with the secure knowledge that from God and from God alone we shall behold this SURPASSING GREATNESS! Roy W. Hefti ’75 i-All Scriptural quotations taken from the New American Standard Bible. o- The Unheard Billy Graham. W. David Lockhard, Words Books, 1971. P. 33.

3- Theological Dictionary of the New Testa­ ment. ed. by Kittel. P. 603-605.

4-As translated by Delitz$ch — Isaiah, Vol. 1.

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The Cultural Evolution - One of Greatest Gifts ROM the beginnings of time man has sought to express thoughts of beauty, history, imagination, and countless meaning in whatever medium available — a medium in accord with his given abilities. These mediums of expres­ sion are varied. Among them the most notable are language, music, painting, sculpture, and architecture. These and others are aspects of the human society, generally known as the field of cultural arts.

Early Indians sought a pictorial medium to leave behind a history of their tribes. The Mediterranean offers a rich supply of early forms of cultural arts. Certainly one of the most notable of these was the beautiful Hang­ ing Gardens of Babylon, wrought during the reign of the greatest of the Chaldean emporors, Nebuchadnezzar. In the following quote from The Conquest of Civilization, by James Henry Breasted, one is able to gather some of the splendor that must have graced the famed city and caused it to become known as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. “ ... he laid out a festival avenue which passed through an imposing gateway called the Ishtar Gate . . . Behind it lay the vast imper­ ial palace . . . Masses of rich tropical vendure, rising in terrace upon terrace and forming a lofty garden, crowned the roof of the imperial palace. Here in the cool shade of palms and ferns, inviting to luxurious ease, the great king might enjoy an idle hour with the ladies of his court and look down upon the splendors of his city.”

With this early expression of art we have already added to the list of mediums previous­ ly mentioned.

One might continue on and on now with descriptions of like wonders and beauty of art through the ages. The pyramids of Eygpt, the splendor of beauty in the simple, graceful lines of Greek architecture, the art of the Greek sculptor left in marble for all to enjoy, both Latin and Greek prose and poetry, the marvels in many forms of art from the Renaissance_ the list could stretch on into infinity. All have left their mark in the cultural arts for gener­ ations to come.

through various mediums of art, yes, that cul-

ture was indeed neither in great abundance nor was it sought by the average person of those days. Culture was something reserved mainly for those who were sufficiently affluent to devote time and money to such an item of luxury. It was to take several decades before that culture would begin to emerge, slowly at first, gradually working its way through different “classes” of society.

As this country grew and the people settled in all of its regions, there also grew that desire to express, and the desire to study various expressions in the cultural field. So with the turn of the 19th century to the 20th, culture, as well as many items of invention that served to make life more civilized, began its upsurge in American history.

The evolution of culture in the United States has been a slow process throughout most of its history. Only in recent years, perhaps the last two decades, has its pace been quicken­ ed in all aspects which one would encounter.

The various fields which we would tend to con­ sider as cultural arts have also been enlarged due to modern technology and various invent tions. Both the television and the screen arc new mediums through which an artist may convey his particular thoughts and feelings to others, although the true cultural benefits de­ rived from these arc limited, of course. If one allows his mind to wander, for which reason I will not include an extensive list, he is able on his own to classify these various new med­ iums.

When thought is given to the traditionally recognized cultural arts, it is apparent that there is indeed a rich .abundance of culture in the U.S. today, available to all. Many a col­ lege and university today is devoted solely to the broadening and increased awareness of the cultural arts. Throughout the land one is al­ most always only a short distance away from concerts, recitals, plays, art exhibitions, etc., given both on an amateur and professional level. It is the opinion of this writer that the orchestral symphony today is at a higher degree of notability than ever before in the country’s history.

Certainly, the cultural arts in the lives of all peoples are among God’s greatest earthly gifts to mankind for the alleviation of the daily routine in life.

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by Ace Wrap Dic\y 11 "he topic under discussion today is that «!■ anatomical phenomenon, the ankle. Much could be said and indeed has been said about the function, the whys, and the wherefores of this troublesome joint. However, our purpose here is not to delve into the theory of the ankle but rather to study its practical aspects and what to do when you hurt the thing.

Before we go any farther, we should establish the fact that the ankle is not a frivolous luxury but is an absolute necessity to many of the body's activities, such as standing, walking, and mountain climbing. Therefore we have to live with it and try to make the best of it whenever it acts up. This is one time when the surgeon's scalpel isn't going to help us out much.

The most common ankle injury is the sprain, as evidenced by extensive research at Northwestern College. No less than eight of their Varsity basketball team members must have one or more ankles taped daily to prevent further injury. Taping is done to help support weakened ligaments and tendons which keep the ankle all together, so to speak.

This brings us up to the point of today’s column, "What Do I Do When I Sprain My Ankle?” or "I Think It's Broken!” So many times when a patient first comes to me, it’s already too late. Immediate care is of the utmost importance if a swift recovery is to be made. That's why I can't do a whole lot for those of you, and you know who you are, who hobble down to the old training room and say, "Well, you see, yesterday in phy. ed., I ...” or "Last night I was playing buckets in the gym and ...” or "I was being chased by this coed yesterday and . . . ”. If you’re in the gym, ask the supervisor for some ice when you suffer a sprain. Don't wait around! Time is of importance. If you're not in the gym, anything cold will do, such as snow or cold tap water. Leave the cold application in place for at least half an hour. The longer the better, but of course don't damage the skin. Pres­ sure is the next step and can be afforded best by an elastic bandage. Start the wrap as close to the toes as possible and wind up the leg to the calf muscle. Then stay off the ankle and keep it elevated. All of the above procedures have one aim: to restrict the flow of blood to the ruptured capillaries and thus prevent swelling.

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it feels good, heat must never be applied be' fore 36 to 48 hours have elapsed after the injury, depending on the severity of the sprain, That about covers the treatment of the ankle sprain. Next time we’ll take a look at the rehabilitation process and have a few more helpful hints (try saying that one out-loud Heat has just the opposite effect, causing fast). So until next time remember: The Lord more blood to pulsate through the vessels. This gave us two ends, one for thinking, one for is necessary for speedy healing after the blood sitting. Heads you win; tails you lose.

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I finally realized where I was, what was happening. The voices were railroad personnel relaying messages from one end of the train to the other. An occasional passing light would throw a swath of light on the sleeping Aus' tralian. The two English fellows were up on the top two berths. We had all been on the train three days, and we had four more to go before we reached Moscow. The train ride had started in Nahodtka. We had had to go almost straight north for one day in order to catch the main double tracked Siberian railroad at Khabarousk. Since that time we had been on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, steaming for Moscow.

The ride itself had been better that we had anticipated, especially in regard to food.

To the Englishmen’s delight, all we had to do was ask, and the lady in charge of keeping our car clean would bring us big cups of free hot tea. (We only had to pay for the sugar.)

When tea failed to do the trick anymore, we lurched down through four cars to the dining car to nourish ourselves with something al^the wa\Tfrcmi borsch?’ t^e ®dection went beefi By theffie1we-tVuS? and all we had left ?am and V8 juice. Every several hour, T* g ^ Stop for a few minutes at some blSTl 'T‘ d bleak looking

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A person certainly couldn’t claim to have §otten to know very much about the Russian Pe°P'e fr°m SUCh a sh°rt tnp’ bUt some contacts that left impressions. On the ^ fr0m T°ky0 to Nahodtka" after e?d of a most miserable day of hanging over the 196

rail of a pitching boat, I went below for the night. My condition was obviously evident be­ cause a tall, elderly steward took me aside and gave me some sea sick pills. He said with a twinkle in his eye, “I give you five. You are a big man.” A Russian musician on his way home from a concert tour in Japan shared the cabin with me. He practised for hours on his violin. I enjoyed lying there and listening to him. I remembered just a snatch of Beetho­ ven’s Sixth Symphony and hummed it. All of a sudden the melody was carried on by his violin. He looked at me and smiled. We had communicated. At Moscow a cocky, young Russian met us at the train. I told him that he had a beautiful country. “Yes,” he said, “I have been everywhere, but I prefer to take the big jets.” The Russian girl who was lead­ ing our tour of Moscow began her dialogue by telling us that there were so and so many Rus­ sian states, each free to secede at any time it wished. One day as our train was traveling through the heart of Siberia, I saw a little boy sitting alone in the tall grass by the tracks with his arms around his dog. My imperial­ istic imagination interpreted the look on his face as a longing to know where that train with the strange faces pressed to the windows was going.

One striking difference between a Russian train and a train in Japan or in Europe is that the only activity on a Russian train, other than drinking vodka, is an occasional game of chess.

No one is reading anything. The book shops at each stop had only books and magazines with pictures of Lenin or the hammer and sickle splashed all over their front covers in red and white ink. “Die Neue Zeit,” a party newspaper written in German, was available on the train. The few issues available on the train had stories of Brezhnev's trip to France, projected economic policies, stories of stalwart pillars of the system who were held up to all Russians as good communists. (One such per­ son that I remember was a woman who had soared to the lofty heights of operating a crane in Kiel.) Without fail in every edition avail­ able on the train one could read the dramatic story of some Russian man or woman who had been heroic in the fight which had stopped Hitler’s fascism during the Second World War. The kilometer posts that we had been read­ ing for 5000 miles finally came to an end. We had two and a half days in Moscow. Part of one day had a tour in it, the rest of the time was ours to come and go as we pleased. I took 197

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After much to do and questioning, they simp' ly handed it over. I still don’t really know what the hassle was about.

The two English fellows had been saving their meal tickets all the way across Siberia so they could have one last fling in Moscow before they made the final leg of their journey home. They both were disappointed. One ended up with a haircut and some razor blades.

The other settled for a huge bottle of vodka.

The reason was that there simply was nothing appealing to purchase. All the clocks, for instance, were made by one company. All were one color, basically one style, nondescript, just clocks. Foster Grant would be shocked to know that there was even only one type of sunglasses for women. Each table of merchandise in the stores had a long line of people with tickets waiting to get at it. Not only couldn’t we find anything to buy; people asked us if we had American clothing for sale. Some even cornered us on the sly and asked if we would sell American dollars. They offered us twice the government given rate.

On the trip from Moscow to Berlin, a Jew­ ish family shared the compartment with me.

They were on their way to Israel with all their earthly belongings. The father's name was Abraham, the only name I can remember. It was pleasant riding with them. I was glad to be leaving Russia; they seemed to be too. They shared their supper with me, and then after we had eaten, the father wanted the little boy to recite something. The little preschooler threw back his shoulders, looked me prouldy in the eye, and then recited quite a long pas' sage from something. I don’t know what he said. I don’t even know the language in which he spoke. The family couldn’t ride on through but had to get out the next morning at Brest, at the border control. After a layover of several hours the train pulled on. The mother and two children sat alone among their possessions at the end of the platform. I had seen the men talking earlier with some officials, and they had gone off with them. I hope they are in Israel now.

It’s a wonderful thing to be an American.

A trip abroad certainly brings that into sharper focus. It s not only because of the doors t^at are opened to the travel with an American passport. It s being able to see that no other people have the freedom and possessions that we Americans have. This was particularly evident in Russia. A group of Russian soldiers at Nahodtka almost devoured a photography magazine that a Japanese traveler had with him. On the ship an inexpensive looking little cassette recorder drew a crowd of wondering admirers. I’m sure a person from one of those little camps in Siberia just wouldn’t believe it if a person were to describe the life of an average American.

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THE SPRINGTIME OF OUR CONTENT 111 he fresh breezes wafted their odoriferous message to my eager nostrils while birdsong melodically laid siege to my inner ear.

The bus was late, but it didn’t matter; its crashing rumble could only serve to invade and disrupt the union and communion which I had achieved with Mother Nature (whom we all know it’s not nice to fool). But come it did, and go did I. After placating the little god in the front with the silver tokens it required for sustenance, I walked down the aisle, and my bottom found the berth of rest it craved, though not without some difficulty as all the 198

other seats were bulging with women who had obviously eaten to excess and whose girths bore weighty evidence of this lack of temperance.

It was rather laughable to gaze at their corpulent arms clutching bags wtih the Piggly'Wiggly banner emblazoned on the front. Yet I smiled beneficently at them as I took my seat, my only reward for this being looks of sullen hatred. I turned to my seat-companion, and when I noticed what a fair picture of Venusian loveliness she was, I felt I just had to give her the benefit of my pearly smile. She, shy maiden, looked away and shot a glance heaven-

ward, probably praying for the strength to resist the irresistible: my devastating charm.

Feeling a need to communicate I asked her, “Do you, perchance, have the time?” “For what?” she replied. I gave a gay little laugh, for I knew what a turmoil of emotions must have occurred underneath her delectable cram ium to produce such a remark. I pressed on, “Why, for anything you like, How about supper with me?” Visibly moved, she lapsed into silence. I decided to leave it at that. I knew full well that she felt far too unworthy for such an honor, and I had no desire to embarrass her beyond her humble capacity. Besides, my place of debarkation had come. With a cheery adieu, I stepped out into the fresh sunlight.

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small boy was in the basement of his quaint home, playing around his father’s workbench. Upstairs the rest of his family were sleeping late, for it was Saturday and still quite early.

The boy found some matches and began to strike them. Curiously, he lit small pieces of paper, cloth and then a can full of gas. Flames shot out as fast as he put the match in. In fright and with singed hair, he kicked the can over and ran outside, too frightened to even scream.

He wandered away from his house in a daze. Hours later neighbors found him. The result of the fire was the loss of his home and family.

The boy became a man. He had overcome his traumatic experience, and as an adult knew the destroying power of a bad fire and many uses of a good, or controlled fire.

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Or have we? Thank God he has bestowed this peace on the nations and ended the con­ flict. And thank Him also for the leaders who saw it through, and for bringing our men home. But is this a lasting peace?

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But it is for those only that fear Him. That is where war comes in again.

We’ve seen how war as a fire can burn us and how losses can be staggering. Viet Nam burned America. But it was the wrong kind of war.

Instead of disarmament, let us speak of es­ calation, the right escalation. We must set out in a war not to destroy lives, but a war fired for the consummation of the power of Satan.

There is a wrong fire and a right fire, a wrong war and a right. We must arm our­ selves for the right, putting “on the armour of God, that wc may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.’’

With God's armour we can remain one of them “that fear Him,” and we will have peace.

With the armour of Christ, our victorious Leader, we can advance on the lines and win others to the fear of God and a share in His peace.

This is a prayer of thanks and a call to arms. May we be thankful for the peace in the world, and even more thankful for the peace which is ours in eternity. We must put to use the good fire and “fight the good fight,” battling in the war of true love for peace eter­ nal.

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WRESTLING REPORTS TAjhat is the most popular sport across the ■ * United States, the Dominion of Canada, and Wartburg basement? Millions of people are answering All-Star Wrestling. Professional wrestling is seen on television programs and arenas across the country. Lately there have been many charges by some uninformed people that wrestling is fake or just a show. Grap' piers in Australia have joined an actors’ guild.

We, the fans of the sport, can reply in the words of Roger Kent. He is the ringside com' mentator for television wrestling and has view' ed more bouts than anyone, except perhaps the Big K. Kent said, “I’ve seen broken limbs, dislocations, cut arteries, collapsed lungs, and cauliflower ears. Why, I’ve even seen men ex' pire before my very eyes in the squared circle.”

In matches promoted by the A. W. A. (American Wrestling Alliance) there are three types of contestants: good guys, bad guys, and losers. The champ is Verne Gagne, a man who represents everything good in America — mother, apple pie, patriotism. One of his cur' rent challengers is that infamous man from Moscow, Ivan Koloff. He wants to take the championship belt to his native Soviet Union, and Gagne is not about to allow that. So don’t fear, Americans, the Commies can’t get us.

Verne is on our side.

Wrestlers come from all walks of life and nationalities. Billy Robinson hails from ManChester, England, where he was the amateur champ. Wahoo McDaniel is an ex'linebacker and proud of his Choctaw'Chickasaw Indian heritage. Truck driver was Bull Bullinski’s occupation before wrestling. He obtained his great strength by carrying refrigerators on his shoulders. Kenny Jay of Cleveland is a man who has had a lot of tough matches and bad luck. He once broke a collarbone which Roger Kent has heard snap several times since then.

Now at NWC we have our own wrestling, which takes place in the Wartburg basement.

So far participation has been limited. Dirty Dusty Goober and his tag team partner, Nick Garbowinkel (son of the former champ, War' ren Garbowinkel), hold the tag team belts.

They will be tough to unseat, since they are both young and experienced in alhout may' hem. They seem to throw the rule book out the window. Dusty’s flying elbow smashes are extremely potent holds. And Nick claims

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The recently dethroned champions are Scrap Iron Gawadaski and Luscious Lars Feg' er. Scrap Iron came by his name rightfully, working in the mines of Mequon. Lars uses a version of the “Crusher Claw”, a hold in which one grappler grabs another’s stomach with his hand. Lars’ fingers have been known to swell, and policemen have been called in to break the hold. Gawadaski and Feger claim foul play in their loss to the dastardly duo and may want a rematch.

Other aspiring wrestlers include the American Bear (Benny Johnson), the Professor (Mickey Brenner), and Bo Bo Baumann. The Bear is recognized for his foul play, ability to withstand forearms, and managing of other wrestlers. The Professor has had much suc­ cess with his “Mickey Death Lock”, but was too worn out to compete recently after taking on two men in one evening. Baumann uses a “CoCo Butt” with his coconut'like head. An' other contender, Chris Taylor Bock, has re' portedly been working out at the canteen and might appear soon.

The competition for Northwestern’s indi' vidual belt should be interesting. Garbowinkel has the confidence and physical abilities, but his mental capacities are still in question.

Gawadaski looked like our answer to Gagne with his many virtues until he glorified him' self recently. The appearance of a masked mystery man has also been rumored in the dorm. But Goober seems to be the best con' tender for the belt. His opponents complain of foreign objects in his elbow and knee pads, but none have ever been found by a referee.

Goober's running cacophony ^ in the ring at' tracts crowd interests, and his tough style has won a few fans.

So, follow the wrestling scene as millions are doing. The answers to many questions will come forth in a few weeks. Cap anyone break the “Mickey Death Lock” after it is properly applied and collect the $1,000 in Mickey money being kept in the Wartburg safe? Will the mystery man appear? Be sure to watch for these and other developments in the future.

Wartburg basement is the place, 10 o’clock the time. Be there.

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ALUMNI CALLS Rev. Eugene Ahlswede (’59) of St. Paul, Moline, 111., has accepted a call to the mission in Col­ orado Springs, Colo.

Rev. Robert Wendland (’54) is now serving Beth­ any, a mission in North Fort Myers, Fla. Pre­ viously he was at Gloria Dei-Bethesda, Milwau­ kee, Wis. Rev. Frederick Kogler (’63) was installed at Emanuel, St. Paul, Minn., on Feb. 11, 1973. He will serve as Jr. Associate Pastor. He former­ ly served St. Mark, Eau Claire, Wis. Please note the updating from the previous issue.

All’s quiet on Holy Hill #2.

The Lone Ranger and Tonto ride once again in section III. Notice to all eligible females: Steve Lawrenz is conducting free tours of the Seminary, any time, any place.

Armin Schwartz started golf practice on Feb. 4.

Yahr and Valleau have not as yet ceased talk­ ing in tongues.

Allen Beyersdorf can no longer tell whether the redness of his hands is due to the dishpan or diaper rash.

James Haag (’69) is engaged to Kathy Key. ENGAGEMENTS April 14, 1973, is the planned wedding date.

Martin Stuebs (’67) and Janice Dobberfuhl of The Lord has blessed Mr. and Mrs. Gene GottFreistadt, Wis., plan to be married on June 9, schalk (’66) with the gift of a healthy baby boy named Benjamin.

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James Groth (’69) is engaged to Linda Gislof.

BIRTHS They plan to be married on June. 9, 1973.

A son was born recently to Pastor and Mrs. Myrl N.B. May 23 is hereby declared the Festival of Wagenknecht (’62) of Fort Worth, Tex. He has St. Gene. He is well-known for his numerous been named Nathan Erwin. epistles to DMLC, NWC, and the FRC. He is Rev. and Mrs. Robert C. Hartman (’57) of Lake also the founding father of the Holy Order of Mills, Wis., became parents of a son, John, on Married Celibates.

Feb. 1, 1973.

A hand has been viewed pushing through a hole in the ice on the lagoon. Could this possibly be SEM NOTES Terry Yahr, who “appears” to be here physi­ Unfortunately there is less news this month. This cally but actually isn’t? is due to compliance with a request by Jim Tiefel that we leave his love life out of the As farewell, here is some astute seminarian’s B&R. feeble attempt to rival Zeus’s humor in Cam­ pus and Classroom: Rumor has it that in honor of the new Old Time Q. How do you put 20 elephants in a Volks­ Barber Shoppe the barbers will be offering a wagen? shave and a haircut for two bits.

A. You run them around and around until Wanted: Someone to teach Ralph Jones the bas­ they’re all in. ics of farming. For some unexplained reason Ralph has decided to become an agricultural J.R. engineer this summer in the hinterlands of Minnesota.

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SPURTS Basketball The basketball months of January and Feb' ruary have turned into a long cold season for the Trojans. Victories have come about as of' ten as snow has during this first part of the year. In fact, the most impressive outing might have to be seen in what was done in defeat.

Our effort against the powerful College of Racine was the most consistent throughout an entire game, to the delight of a big Winter

Carnival crowd. Most often, however, it has been a case of one aspect or another of our game breaking down. For a few games a full court press was working, but then it also gaveup many easy points. At times Toepel is play' ing exceptional ball, but the rest of the team drags. Against Milton, Schumacher was hot but Toepel could not come up with anything.

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and Kuerth has added more scoring punch lately. The team as a whole, though, is like a machine out of tune. The timing is bad, as individuals perform well only at times and don't pull together. Coach Thompson may only be able to dream what it would be like having five guys play at top notch for an entire game.

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Northwestern headed down to Trinity for a non-conference game after three straight losses. In contrast with other games, the Trojans opened up with a man-to-man defense. Ah though they switched at times to a zone, the man-to-man was the more frequently used and the more effective. NWC got its fast break rolling and ran a newly acquired offense to take a 37-32 half time lead.

In the second half Trinity took advantage of lapses in the Trojan defense to take the lead several times. Northwestern recovered and with about a minute left to play had a one point lead and the ball. The ball changed hands twice and Toepel sank a shot to make the score 63-60. NWC had a chance to ice the game when they stole the ball and were fouled, but missed the foul shot. Trinity got the rebound and promptly scored. The Tro­ jans got fouled in the act of shooting and re­ ceived two more foul shots but missed both.

Trinity recovered, was fouled, and got the chance to go ahead on a bonus free throw situ­ ation. Fortunately, Trinity missed and al­ though Northwestern got four more consecu­ tive chances at the charity stripe, they missed all four. Trinity got the ball with four seconds left but was unable to score and the Trojans came away with a shaky 63-62 win, shooting 29% at the free throw line.

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The Trojans travelled next to Muskie coun­ try for the first of two meetings between the teams. The first half the Black and Red played well enough to stay in the game. Whenever their fast break was working, the Trojans pul­ led to within five or six points of Lakeland.

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as it offered the Muskies little resistance. The Trojans on the other hand were able to do little against Lakeland’s zone and were boxed out from the boards. As a result NWC scored only 26 points in the second half. Mark Toepel led the Trojans with 20 points.

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The Trojans had already lost to Concor­ dia once this year, and the Black and Red moved into Milwaukee to see if they could even things up. The first half looked promis­ ing with the Trojans using their recently suc­ cessful full court zone press. They intercept­ ed the ball occasionally and prevented Con­ MARANATHA 72 cordia from running their offense smoothly.

NWC 95 This game saw the Trojans take on their NWC scored mainly on the fast break to take crosstown rivals, Maranatha, in a non-confer- a 45-39 half time lead. ence game. Again the game could be divided The scond half, as it has in so many other into two halves of different play. In the first s> oved to be the downfall of the Trohalf Northwestern got its offense, and especial- jans The Falcons broke our press and started ly its fast break, moving again and scored 42 a fast break Qf jts own while slowing down points. But Maranatha spread out the Tro- the fast break of NWC. Since the Trojans jans zone defense by shooting from long range could nQt generate an effective offense, Conand then picked up some easy offensive re- cordja took over the lead and increased it until bounds to score 41 points in the first half. tbe end of the game. Toepel, as usual, was NWC came out breathing fire in the second high man for Northwestern in the point colhalf and shut off the Crusaders offense while umn with 27. still maintaining its own. The Trojans hit the defensive boards and tightened up their de­ NWC 65 fense, using a half court trap. Maranatha MILTON 99 could do little to stop our surge as the Black VT , , , £ and Red scored 53 points. Mark Toepel sparkNorthwestern became the v.ctun of a re­ ed the team with 23 points and an extraordin- cord-settmg performance by Milton s Chuck our ary amount of assists. He got help from Pete tidier as Milton went on to rip apart Trojans.

Didier needing 44 points to have Schumacher, who scored 19 points and pound­ 2,000 points for his college career came up ed the boards. with 45. He hit shots from every angle, often using the glass from as far out as 20 feet. It COLLEGE OF RACINE 100 NWC 90 was a great performance as he also passed off and rebounded well. The trouble was not only For a change the presence of girls at our was Didier hot, but the whole Milton team Winter Carnival didn’t quiet down our fans, couldn’t miss. They broke our press with case as this was a game well-worth cheering about, and got easy buckets. Toepel wasn't himself Most came to the game with idea of watching this night and except for Schumacher's 28 our Trojans try to keep within 20 points of points, it was a night to forget.

Herrin Baskin and company. Even with our team tied at 42 at half, one still expected the game to blow open. It never really did.

NWC 74 NORTHLAND 87 Baskin and Gene Sims are two of the better front court men in the state. The job Goldbeck and Schumacher did in getting rebounds was exceptional. Often Racine's big men positioned too far outside and shot from there, and our front line boxed them out well. Toepel was causing problems for Racine with our full court press, and he was hitting his shots to the tune of 33 points. It was the press, however, that hurt us in the end as they got it downcourt, and the big guys penetrated for impressive baskets with their grace and great jumping ability. Schumacher added 20 points for our cause.

The Trojans headed to the north woods to play Northland in double-header conference games. NWC scored the first six points of the first game and looked as if they might run over the Lumberjacks. But Northland turned the tide and soon dominated the game. The Trojans used full court press and zone defense but Northland penetrated both rather easily, The Lumberjacks also used a press which caused the Trojans to make turnovers and prevented them from setting up their offense properly, NWC failed to hit the boards as Northland ruled them at a ratio of two to one. Mark Toepel was the only bright spot with 24 points.

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The second game started out well again as we got another early lead. We kept it for about the first ten minutes of the game and then lost it to an overpowering Northland team. A full court man-to-man press produced good results for a while, but Northland adjusted to it and it lost its effectiveness. The Trojans were again out-boarded and offered too little resistance on defense. Pete Schumacher was the team’s high scorer with 20 points.

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The Trojan wrestling team ended a frustrating season with a ninth place finish in the Lawrence Invitational. Only Dave Russow was able to gain some points for Northwestern with a fourth place at 142 pound class.

After the semester break, the Trojans man­ aged to even their dual meet record at 4 wins and 4 losses with a double victory over Gate­ way Tech of Kenosha and U.W. Richland Center. The Carthage Invitational resulted in a sixth place finish on the strength of Paul Scharrer’s second at 134 pound class and Marc Bode’s third in the unlimited class. Scharrer dislocated a shoulder in the finals and was lost for the season. He was 10-0 at the time of his injury.

The luckless Trojans now more inexper­ ienced than ever dropped matches to Maranatha 40-9, to Lakeland 33-12, to Lawrence 44-8, and to Beloit 30-18. For all their weak­ nesses, the team had a couple of strong points.

They never “threw in the sponge,” and they never lest their morale. It paid off in that the Trojans split their last two double dual meets, losing once again to Larwence 44-5, but de­ feating Beloit 27-24 when Marc Bode pinned his man in last match to score the winning points. A 21-15 loss to Concordia, and a 24-12 victory over Milwaukee Tech gave the Trojans a 6 and 10 dual meet season.

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Anfechtung and the Anchor of the Soul '["he Passion season is upon us, and with * sacred solemnity we once more walk the way to Golgotha, pondering the path of the One who has trodden the wine trough alone in His great and unspeakable work of redemption. Once more we trace the footsteps of the Christ whose High Priestly prayer of Maundy Thursday was soon forgotten on that follow' ing Friday by His faithless followers. Elevated in our thoughts are the evangelists’ account of Gethsemane’s gloom with the proserating of the mighty Christ upon the filthy floor of the garden into which the feet of sinful men could be heard approaching to lay hands on the God who made them. Through the darkness we see and hear the mocking and maligning of the sinless Son of God until finally we behold Him hanging from the accursed tree in the midst of hell crying, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” All of this because of sin! Man’s sin!

Man’s iniquity! Man’s abominable appearance in the presence of the most holy God! And yet, all of this is what made man holy, right' eous and acceptable in the sight of Him called thrice holy. Each year we are truly told that “the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him.” Each year we acknowledge with contrite hearts the free grace of God in Christ to be the sole source .of heaven's blessings.

Each year.

It is, of course, wonderful that we express such confidence in the fact that we have been justified through the vicarious atonement of Christ. There is, nevertheless, a tendency in all of us to think lightly of the riches of His mercy who has “called us out of darkness into His marvellous light.” It is under such circumstances that we should learn of another side to the coin, namely the anguish of a soul who thinks himself unforgiven, unpardoned, and unjustified. Luther had a word for it, and it has been taken over into the English language as that untranslatable word for Sat' an’s greatest wars against the soul; he called it Anfechtung. Throughout his life, Luther was continually plagued by the railing accusa­ tions of the devil that his sins were unforgiven. The summer of 1527 is noted by his­ torians as the period of life during which Luther, more than at any other time, strug­ gled hard and long to maintain inward assur­ ance of forgiveness. Introspection, however,

is the very thing that failed him. Despair is bred in people who look within themselves for the peace of mind which only God can give.

Assurance of salvation is found only when we look outward and upward to Christ, who re­ deemed us and sealed us in a sure covenant of salvation.

Luther’s Anfechtung depression of 1527 would not pass until he had finally regained his former senses and had begun to lash out at Satan’s attack. Luther now began to fight back. Satan said: “You are a terrible sinner.”

Luther said: “Yes, old fellow, I know all about it. And I know some more you have over­ looked. Here are a few extra. Put them down.

Christ has taken them away. Now grind your teeth, Satan!” This was Luther’s only way out of the depths of despair into which Satan and his own accusing conscience would drag him.

His continual victories over Satan with the Word never assured him, however, of an end to the battle. Nor were his emotional feelings a very good guage of his spiritual strength and stamina.

This is something for us to be constantly reminded of. We are not to take our spiritual temperature on an emotional scale. What per­ son would base his assurance of forgiveness and salvation on the fleeting fancies of his own fickle emotions which change daily with the ebb and flow of God’s guiding and disci­ plining hand in his life? Dr. Walther told his seminary students this very thing: “Do not forget that the blessedness of Christians does not consist in pleasant feelings, but in their assurance that in spite of the bitterest feelings imaginable they arc accepted with God and in their dying hour will be received into heaven.

That is indeed a great blessedness.” “It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?” (Heb. 12:7).

The deeper into despair a man has been, the closer he clings to the hand that guides him.

A life of ecstatic and frolicking fun never pro­ duced an enduring runner of spiritual races.

God knows it. He tells us this, and He then expects no more faithless questions on the mat­ ter of why our brief sojourn is not a picnic.

This is not to say there is no joy or that Christians are unhappy people. Far from it!

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the very anchor of our souls. How can the winds of Anfcchtung blast us from the ship when we are so firmly anchored? “Thy sins be forgiven thee.” Plot to believe it is the frightening thing! God grant us grace to trust the same.

This is the beauty of the Passion season.

In it we behold ourselves as utterly corrupt in the mirror of Gods law, all the more to appreciate the sufferings, death and resurrec­ tion of Him who gave Himself for us to be

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A Class Profile •"Phe Senior Staff writer wishes in this issue X to depart a little from the norm and write about the Seniors. It's that time of year again, and another group of young men is counting the days until their unconditional release from NWC. Despite all of the griping that one hears coming from our class, for there will always be profs, classes, and meals to com­ plain about, it is as one certain, short, whitehaired prof once told us, “The days you’ve spent here will be remembered by you in later years as the happiest days of your lives." Sure.

That is perhaps too broad a generalization to be applied in every individual case, but I think that most of us would have to admit that al­ though there have been many difficult times in our college days, most of our memories are pleasant ones. Now that our ultimate goal is in sight, I would like to look back and see how each of us may possibly be remembered in later years. So, here they are, the current NWC crop bidding for posterity.

Don Swartz: Reuchlin; Martin Luther; onehalf of Tom-Don. Piet Reid: “good enough"; a star kitchie; al­ ways at New Ulm. Tom Fischer: the other half of Tom-Don; weekends never find him in Watertown.

Dale Schliewe: when all jam's fail, he’ll keep the school running.

Mike Traudt: Johnny U.; he loves Nebraska (somebody has to).

Steve Ehlke: NWC’s answer to Joe Namath, fragile body and all; Goober's better half.

Bob Krueger: a legendary party figure; plants a lot of grass, and keeps Club-foot from beating on himself.

Herb Huhnerkoch: a diligent scholar with one glaring weakness: he thinks the God’s coun­ try of the Old Style commercials refers to his beloved Minnesota.

Tom Kutz: Kutzes are . . . the faithful print­ er of NWC. A.B. Dick will miss his ten­ der touch.

Ed ochuppe: has memorized the bookstore s price list; sometimes found greasing, Tom Biedenbender: good ol' Bieds, a legend in his own time; “How close can one get to a 2.0 cummulative without going over?”

Tom was never too shy to help a prof keep a class going. Bowling baron and conscient­ ious member of the Car Committee.

Beck Goldbeck: an authority on Elmo; his various romantic episodes will some day be studied as classics of sorts. His answer to Jabbar's sky-hook, the Himmel-hook, has brought tears to the eyes of many a basket­ ball purist.

Marc Bode: never one to pass up seconds at Bilse’s; he and Schupmann combined for the all-time practical joke. The most exciting wrestler on campus, and with an 8 to 1 lead in the third period it's a fifty-fifty chance he'll end up on his back.

Dan Nitz: Garbow’s quiet roommate; always seen with good-locking dates.

Bob Gerke: Duradean; has a brother who as­ sassinates teachers.

Gordon Peters: head and shoulders above the rest of the class; Sky-King.

Dave Aderman: Duraclean Boss; too colorful to mention anything specific.

Terry Nuckolls: will tell a prof “like it is"; he loves our Midwestern weather.

Phil Schupmann: What are the odds on mis­ sing all 25 questions in a true-false test? the next Ken Rosewall who beats Schaller in everything; owns THE KEY. Matt Majovski: member of the popcorn brig­ ade, possessor of a mellow, pulpit voice.

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Scott Stone: Space-Ace Linus; his humble ad' vice had best be followed in administrative matters.

Don Thompson: Sonny Don; see him for any excuse cards you might need.

Jim Oldfield: Auf dem Ragen. 4.0. Looks forward to Bouzha-Bouzha.

Ken Kolberg: The Hr feller Norris is always picking on. Gary Players successor. Shy with members of the opposite sex.

Norris Baumann: Rock Baumann; weird hair; everything he does is done with a certain amount of class. All-around I-M athlete.

Dan Schaller: The Duke, ’nuf said.

Larry Zahn: Norris’ idol; has a five-month period.

Tom Wilsmann: Willy; from Manty-land.

Dave Kelm: Hilgy; our sports authority and the Candy Man. Tim Ziebell: A good bet for an associate pas­ torship with Last.

Ed Meier: Goober; big-time wrestler. Feels a lot for others.

Dave Kriehn: Wienie; made the Gateway Conference All-Academic team.

Jim Rath: A genuine 4.0 right off the farm, with a talented pair of lips.

Ron Szep: A1 Hirt has but little over him; keeps Scott down to earth.

Loren Lucht: Our premier actor; Johnny W:’s protege.

Randy Rathjc: A sophisticated country boy; an all-around athlete who has his hands in just about everything.

Phil Krieger: Fippy; our class’s coolest head.

Rich DeRuiter: Chippie jokes; strolls around the halls singing to himself; closely guards the nurses at WMH. John Brenner: Part-time faculty member, full­ time walking accident.

John Johnson: A figure to be reckoned with on Second Floor South; Gentle Ben; always getting things straightened out at Whitewater.

Dan Garbow: Garbow; cuts a Beach-Party figure; puts studies in their proper perspec­ tive.

Roger Kuerth: Wears an apricot scarf. Where does he put all that food?

Mike Mulinix: Muzzy; needs his own private phone.

Jeff Suhr: Entirely too serious; never hurting for a date.

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Mark Schlenner: Possessor of a unique sense of humor; overweight.

Steve Korth: Loves that Second Floor life; and hangs around the canteen.

Mark Cares: Enjoys shopping in Milwaukee; gives speech lessons to Baumann.

Gary Johnson: Goofy; a sure bet for Semfever and lots of kids.

Jim Ziesemer: Certain to make a splash at Sem. Dave Last: Loves the traditional WELSblack.

And there are also those members of the Class of '73 that will be graduating with us in spirit, as our numbers have been sliced in half since the fall of ’69. Some are still here at NWC, but most dropped out for good. But who of us could ever forget Frosty? the Paul Boldt stories? Dodo and Grieper? Brent and Raymond? . . . Contact with these and others has certainly helped us round out our education.

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NEWS A week that brings thrills and excitement to our campus is that of Winter Carnival.

This year’s Winter Carnival had all the mak­ ings of a colossal flop, as there was no snow.

No snow means no snow sculptures. Yet, in spite of this it turned out rather well. The unseasonably warm weather we experienced also made broom hockey impossible; in place of this activity, indoor soccer was substituted.

The traditional tug-of-war between classes took place as usual, accompanied by crowd roars which would have put a Roman mob to shame.

The biggest activity was undoubtedly the selection and election of this years U.M.O.C. What is a U.M.O.C.? Its hard to say pre­ cisely. First he has to be ugly, as the title would suggest (Ugliest Man On Campus).

Besides this, he has to convince the student body as a whole that he is not only ugly, but most sincere in his ugliness. To this end he conducts a saturation campaign with posters, songs and gimmicks. This year's winner, John Brenner III, relied upon his ancestry, poor looks and lackadaisical brain to capture the coveted title. During the week of his cam­ paign, one could often see him trudging around the campus, pathetically clutching the robes of a would-be scholar about his lackluster body.

A campaign such as this, staged as an appeal not only to the eye but also to the heart, could not help but win. Saturday evening, to a hush­ ed but inwardly jeering crowd, John Brenner took his place in the sun and in the annals of history as the 1973 U.M.O.C. Sic semper deformibus!

Speaking of Saturday evening, we were

also entertained by a show of hocus pocus by George Johnstone, a comedian-magician, who kept us in stitches with his act, consisting most' ly of hocus and very little pocus. The Carol' leers, from Carroll College, also regaled us with their very sophisticated presentation of pop tunes of today. And, of course, who could forget the crowning event of the weekend?

What I"m talking about is N.W.C’s Pop Con­ cert put on by the massed musical organiza­ tions of Northwestern under the direction of Dr. A. O. Lehmann. It was a weekend which lightened up these dreary months consider­ ably; we had fun.

Now to the more serious news. North­ western has just been the lucky recipient of a legacy left by Dr. George W. Shield, who was an educator in Southern California and a graduate of NAV.C. (1900). Some years back, Dr. Shield set up a fund of 10,000 dol­ lars which provided the money for two or three annual awards of 250 dollars to upper­ classmen for meritorious achievement in Eng­ lish and history. These awards are known as the J. Henry Ott Memorial awards. In Dr. Shield's will an additional $10,000 was left to this fund, so that more annual awards can be made. Besides this, he left $120,000 to the College. $100,000 of this is unrestricted, while the rest goes to the music and library depart­ ments. The music department receives an en­ dowment of $10,000, the interest of which is to go towards the purchase of instruments and other necessities. The library receives an en­ dowment of $10,000 to use for its needs. p.w.

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It’s a good way to tap in on what’s going on — if just for a little while.” This was the description that one attractive college coed gave for a very common mode of reaching one’s destiny, especially among college students, namely hitchhiking. To some, though, hitchhiking has not turned out so glamorous.

Until recent years the hitchhiker was univer­ sally feared as a potential mugger, rapist, or murderer; but now the pendulum seems to have swung the other way — the hitchhiker now runs the greater risk of being robbed, assualted, molested, abducted, or murdered.

From the Depression days, when millions of jobless men drifted from town to town look­ ing for work, until 1945, when homewardbound GI's thumbed cross-country, many mot­ orists considered the hitchhiker a welcome tra­ veling companion. But after the war, as high­ way crime rate increased, many states banned the practice. Recently, however, hitchhiking has increased greatly as a whole new gener­ ation hits the read on somebody else's wheels.

Hitchhiking has long been part of the col­ lege tradition of reaching mom, home, and apple pie; and NWC is no exception. The main reasons for this are economic and adven­ turous; it is inexpensive and a great way to get away from it all by providing an escape from the ordinary, boring routine and pres­ sures of life, especially student life. Many ev­ en consider it a great way to strike up new friendships.

These optimistic travelers often take to the road “armed mostly with trust and innocence and a desire to get somewhere else,” but not all of them have this desire fulfilled. What has started out as an inexpensive and adven­ turous way of reaching one's destiny, has end­ ed for some as a terrible nightmare. Some212

times it turns out to be as costly as one’s life.

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One of these young men had been hitchhiking home from college on weekends for a couple years and was never too concerned about the risks because he didn't think anyone would attack someone of his stature — six foot five, two hundred and fifty pounds. One weekend three attractive girls picked him up along a state highway, and he thought this was going to be the best ride he ever had, but it turned out to be his worst, because these three attract tive girls sexually assaulted him at gunpoint and he was almost physically impaired for life.

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The Anonymous Fire {\f America's worst disasters, few have re* ceived the publicity of the Chicago Fire of 1871. But on that same autumn night, on which Mrs. O’Leary’s cow allegedly kicked over the lantern that started that famous con­ flagration, a different fire took place in Wis­ consin’s northwoods, which claimed almost five times as many people. Yet this greater human tragedy went entirely unsung. So instead of taking its place among such classic U.S. dis­ asters as the Johnstown Flood, the San Fran­ cisco earthquake, and the Galveston hurricane, it instead was buried in the ashes of the 1200 people who lost their lives and the two billion trees or 1,200,000 acres which were distroyed.

Until that ill-fated night of October 8, 1871, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, which was so mer­ cilessly leveled by the ravenous flames of that insatiable fire, had been just a typical 19th century lumber town, 50 miles north of Green Bay. Although fairly new, the town's per­ petual saw-dust blanket gave evidence of a booming business concern. Indeed, the saw­ mill and factory of the Peshtigo Company, ironically headed by Chicago's first mayor, was the town’s lifeline. In fact, the company em­ ployed almost 800 men, no small total for a 19th century northwoods town. But with a daily output of 1000 pails, 170 tubs, 250 fish kits, 5000 broom handles, 45,000 shingles, and an assortment of other items, such a labor force was imperative.

No town could have remained prosperous for long if it had no link to the rest of the country. Peshtigo was no exception; they knew a railroad was essential. So you can imagine, when the Chicago and North Western Rail­ road extended its line northward from Green Bay through Peshtigo and up to the twin cities of Marinette, Wisconsin, and Menomonie, Michigan, that the townspeople hoped to rejoice in a promising future. But it wasn’t to be, for as the railroad crews cut their way through the virgin forests, they set on fire all the trees they cut. So it was the railroad that was the real culprit in igniting Peshtigo’s doom.

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four saloons. There were also a lodge of Good Templars, a Congregational Church, a Cath­ olic Church, and a small Lutheran Church.

As a result of a dry winter and abnormally low streams, there were a number of fires in the summer of ’71. Fortunately they were small. By September the entire Green Bay area was so parched and cracked that there was considerable uneasiness in the air. Even as late as October 7, the local newspaper made a foreboding observation of the ultra-dry con­ ditions. A fire was certainly imminent.

The day of the fire, October 8, began like any other Sunday. The people attended church services and sat down afterwards to a leisurely afternoon. By mid-afternoon the sky took on an eery red-like glow, and the air thickened considerably with hazy smoke, but apparently the villagers took no notice. But later on that evening what seemed like a distant moaning soon grew into an almost deafening roar. A foreboding silence covered the unsuspecting townspeople. But then, without a moment’s notice, slabs of fire whirled out of nowhere, quickly kindling the thirsty timbers. Vain cries of “fire” were just as quickly answered by flaming sheets. The townspeople, who were used to a leisurely and idyllic pace in this back country, were startled into action. However, things happened so fast that panic and con­ sternation soon took their toll (so much so that 40 people who ran out of the boarding house immediately turned around and went back in, only to be consumed by the voracious flames).

As the people fled to the Peshtigo River, the frenzy-filled humans, horses, and cows swarmed together. The bridge, which many tried to cross in vain, burned immediately and toppled into the river. Some were trampled to death in the panic; others who barely avoid­ ed the fire’s impartial flames drowned in the river instead. The whole scene was one to forget, but few who lived forgot it. The eyewitnesses who survived saw some ghastly sights. One of the local beauties was last seen with her long blond hair leaping into flames.

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At the same time as Peshtigo turned to Of all the buildings destroyed that night, ashes, another fire coincidently laid waste to none attracted quite as much attention from a large tract of land on the east side of the us as does the burning of the little Wisconsin Green Bay. Although the death toll here was Synod church. Many of its members perished only 75, there was doubtless considerable dev­ in the fire, but its minister, a Pastor Huebner astation of the countryside.

At any rate, on the following morning, who had come over from Germany only the year before, fortunately escaped death by tak- what could be seen through the smoldering ing refuge in a swamp. Soon after the disas­ gloom was not a pleasant sight. All that was ter the Synod diverted funds usually sent to left of the one-time verdant forest was a deso­ Northwestern College for the relief of those late assortment of charred wood. All that day members who survived. So even Northwestern a melancholy overcast hung over the ruins, as if the sun itself were mourning for the dead.

College felt the harsh results of that fire.

As the raging flames ruthlessly engulfed Then that night it happened: it rained! So all forms of life that blocked their way, the what could have prevented the catastrophe 26 would-be victims tried to avoid being burned hours before, now only cooled off the glowing alive in any way they could. For example, a ashes. family of five in one of Peshtigo's outlying Now all that could be done was to wait rural districts perished, but not from the fire; for the sympathy and help of the national they were found instead with their throats public; but fate overruled this. Not Peshtigo, cut. Another homesteader was found dead in but Chicago was to get the national publicity a well, with the bucket chain wrapped tightly and attention. After all, Chicago's fire was a around his neck. much more “satisfying” disaster — expensive, As the fiery destruction raced eastward, dramatic, horrifying, and better publicized. It the more important sawmill cities of Marinette didn’t matter that almost 1200 people died in and Menomonie stood precariously in the way. Peshtigo compared to Chicago's 250. Harper's Futilely their townspeople dug trenches, haul­ Weekly, the “Time” of that day, did print a ed water, and wet roofs down. Despite such belated story, but the injustice would never desperate preparations, the cities seemed doom­ completely be removed. So it was that Peshed. Fortunately a long range of sand hills tigo's mishap departed into oblivion almost as south of Marinette deflected the fire just fast as it appeared. enough to save the cities. Although two mills B.M.

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(Rom. 14:17) The proper use of liturgies within a church service is very beneficial, for it fulfills God’s

command to “let all things be done properly and in an orderly manner.” (I Cor. 14:40) Much deep significance is added to the ser­ vice through the meaningful symbolism implied both by the fashion in which the pastor stands and by the various details in relation to the architecture of the church. Diverse types of music aid an individual in preparing himself to hear the spoken Word. If liturgies is em­ ployed in this manner, it certainly is of great value.

However, here at our own school it appears that there is a growing movement in the oppo216

site direction, namely, that liturgies is of great' er importance. One begins to wonder wherein the essence of a chapel service consists when comments such as this are made: “What a terrible service that was. The candles weren’t lit, and the lights were on dim.’’ Do we at' tend the worship service merely to go through a check list as an airplane pilot does, or to hear and learn of God in His Word? Or when the playing of a hymn or a simple harmonic melody as a prelude is frowned upon as un' couth and certainly not at all acceptable, one begins to wonder which is more important: God’s Word or some comparatively insignifi' cant adiaphoron. These are things which men have erected, not God. They are opinions; that's all. But when one enforces his own particular view on others by saying that this is the only right way to perform the liturgy or the music, then, in effect, he is making his opinion God’s law. Isn’t it too bad that there is fighting and bickering right here on our own campus over this matter of “indifferent things’’? Rather, we should keep our sights on that most important concern, God’s Word, which is showered upon us by his abundant grace. This is the dynamite which we should not overshadow with our mere opinions on adiaphora. This is the dynamite over which we should be concerned and become excited.

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I smash it down, bent and bloody Silent in its squashy doom.

I wait in patience, tension mounting, For the first one to appear.

Axe in hand, the seconds counting, I want to end that rat’s career.

But that’s just one, they're in my brain And nothing now can get them out.

I think it’s fun to be insane, It makes me want to scream and shout.

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Stumbling up the worn and granite steps, Guided by the mournful notes, Impell’d by combinations of morbid curiosity and death's magnetic pull, I heav’d apart the massive doors, scarred and rough from time's abuse, And slipp'd into the shadows.

Cool were the walls, sweet the air, hollow my foot-clicks on the flagstone floor, I wandered through aisles, speechless in the presence of the Almighty, Absorbd in gray arches vaulting infinitely high, Bath'd first red-warm, then blue-cool by archaic leaded-glass panes.

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White is left, the trail which kills the luster of life And fades the glow which comes with warmth.

Brown remains only to show thy chilled feelings, Never again to return to its former state of beauty.

How can you rob the living so? Is it hate?

Surely there is no understanding of love and life, beauty and eternity.

Are you the abortionist of youth?

Once, coming unaware of your brutality, Eager to extend its beauty into its new surroundings, A blossom opened pink and lovely, spreading a warmth with only its color.

The sun reached out to it with loving arms And held it with tender grip, Prospering, it loved life.

Cold, Cold, why do you return?

You cheat the time of this fair being.

Darkness creeps over the horizon Stalking behind, yet following the path of the sun.

Have mercy! But no, not you, You drain the very life from one who came early, You kiss its pink petals with your white cold lips,

Thoughtlessly you caress its soft, delicate members.

How can you love with such a wicked force, Bearing such sorrow for us who know warmth?

A bitter reminder of your extended presence will on the morrow bring a tear As your lingering kiss of white death falls prey to the revenge of the sun.

Just as a tear, the moisture drips from the brown remains, The dead and lifeless form of the blossom.

Yet its death has significance.

It promises that others will soon follow, striving to find the warmer sun, The living sun whose warmth will do battle with you.

No longer will the sun hold with tender grip, For fear of again losing that which he loves, His grip has tightened and you feel his warmth lingering into your darkness Unable to overcome his strength, Yet now you arc permitted to move among the living, And powerless to touch with that bitter sting That perpetrates evil among those striving.

No longer can you make life uncertain For a new time has come.

The sun has joined forces with time As your time has deserted you You will come again to bring beauty But that only with your stinging kiss You aid in rotation of time and season As with light and darkness, warmth and cold, There is life and death.

Roger. Crawford '74

CAMPUS & CLASSKCCM With a fanfare of fifes and drums, Voh ume 76 is slowly but surely limping toward its demise. It seems like years ago when we celebrated the annual Bg?R party in Lebanon, If spirits weren't high before the party, they soon gained momentum. My first article went

on and on for pages, but things are starting to shorten up. What happened to the spirit of '76, I don't know'. Even Schuppe has begun to lose his ardor. You'll notice that he got sick of writing editorials, and last month he threw a short story at us. If you ask me, I 220

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think that it shows some degree of irresponsibility, and also it’s a little second rate.

Of course, then there’s our foreign ex-

change student, Ernie Wendland (whatever we exchanged, we lost in the deal). He was our so-called News Editor. This issue he wrote a poem of biographical nature about insanity. Schuppe has been warned by the surgeon general that staff membership on the B&R should be labeled as harmful to your health.

We can't forget our circulation manager, Jon Peterson. Some of you on our mailing list may recall that Jon forgot to circulate in De' cember. Well, from what I can gather, Jon was “engaged” in some other activities. ActU' ally Jon confided in me that the job didn’t really send him anyhow.

To top it all off, you’ll notice that even Mr. Prolific himself, Roy Hefti, came up short winded. The spirit of 76 is a mere apparition of its former self.

Now for the newsy section of the column.

On the society page Steven Korth somewhat regretfully announces that the Big Gief will someday become his brother-in-law. Yes, that old charmer, Mark Lindner got Barbi Doll to accept his advance. I heard that Mrs. Korth didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Mark failed to accept his future relative’s sound ad­ vice which he has been sharing with us for quite a while, “You’ve got five years left.”

One thing about Steve is that he practices what he preaches.

for us. According to one breakdown of the Stanford-Binet IQ scale, a person with an IQ of 75 is able to play in an orchestra. It is in* teresting to note that an IQ of that level lies in the classification “dull normal”. That should pretty well take the wind out of the sails of those of you who pride yourselves on your band talent.

Although it seems like a long time ago, this next little tidbit happened after the last issue was written. January 31, 1973, was a very important date for our class president, Dave Kriehn. No, he didn’t get a date, nor did he receive a letter from his mother. On that date Dave was no longer a retread. He finally caught up to the class of ’73. Dave labored under an overload for three and one half years, which severely hampered him scholastically — he was unable to hit the 4.00 mark consistent' ly. Our congratulations and sympathies to Mr. Kriehn.

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The twentieth of February proved to be quite an event for another member of the class of '73. Tom Biedenbender became the proud owner of his first passing test grade in Psychology. Tom now figures that he can coast the rest of the way on the merits of his fine effort.

Tony Schultz, NWC's favorite meatball, had a run-in with Dr. Lehmann the other day.

The Italian Wonder showed up for the Tour­ ing Chorus picture with a newly contracted fungus about his face. Tony was told by the good Doctor that if he wanted to save face, he better shave it. Doctor Lehmann went so far as to take away Tony's job as official podi­ um mover. I don’t know how anyone could be so mean to the little boy whom all the ladies think is so cute.

Winter Carnival is well behind us. Due to a quirk in the weather we could have com­ bined our Winter frolics with the rite of Spring. The College class of '73 showed its long-latent superiority, which just proves we could have done it all the time. We were just giving the other classes a chance. John Bren­ ner was voted the ugliest man on campus. His mother agreed. She told me that she's been calling him dumb and clumsy for years before we even knew him. The whole affair was rath­ er shaking for Marc Bode. How would you like it if the guy everyone claims looks like you was voted ugliest man on campus?

At the party a good time was had by all.

To top off the evening, Fred Zimmerman show­ ed that he hadn't lost any of his conducting skill as he directed us through a few of the ditties near and dear to all our hearts. Steve Korth astutely noted the fashions worn by some of the young ladies. The girls were seemingly short-changed on the material in their outfits.

I've been wandering among the hallowed halls of NWC for eight years now, and I’m starting to worry. There is an illness that is slowly but surely infecting the entire campus.

I have detected the creeping infection of LI­ BERALISM. That starts with 'L' and rhymes with you know where it's going to get you.

I first noticed it when I was in Sexta. It is frightening to be confronted with something as evil as liberalism at the tender age of four­ teen. I thought there was a new movement afoot when guys began to save their white socks for gym class (back then we never knew any high-sounding terms like physical edu­

cation). It also shocked me to see half-used tubes of Brylcreem lying forsaken out by the old incinerator. Some guys back then even dared to let their hair fall over their fore­ heads. Being a conservative and a 'greaser,' these things began to bother me. I’ll have to admit I was swept along with the tide.

Things continued at a rapid pace. Things just kept getting worse. Then one day I real­ ized it had infected the faculty: Prof. Plitzuweit abandoned his crew cut. If that wasn't bad enough, I was shattered when I came back to school this year to find my former basket­ ball coach, who used to hate to see our hair flopping over our eyes, with his hair combed down on his forehead. I'll admit that hair at NWC has gotten longer, but this year's Frosh class takes the cake. They look like an uncut, fuzzy-faced version of a Flo Ziegfeld chorus line. If you profs think they won't listen to you, it's because a good number don’t have ears, to my knowledge.

The same thing happened as far as the clothes worn to class is concerned. Where are the good old days of white shirts and ties as classroom attire? Since I've been here, blue jeans have gone from verboten, to overlooked, and now finally common dress. Then there is the matter of the coed's dress. At one time there was to be no knee showing. It wasn’t long and they were not only being shown, but even flaunted. Now, low and behold, they're even wearing slacks.

Not only has Ms. Coed's fashions changed, but so has her status. In '65 it was an abomin­ ation unto any Prep to be seen with a coed.

Now you actually see couples flagrantly hold­ ing hands on campus, and they're even enjoy­ ing it.

There is no doubt in my mind that liber­ alism has got to be checked here and now.

These things could be portents of things to come. Such extravagances as vestments could become common in our circles. The next thing you know some liberal-minded radical might write a Dr. Ott paper on "The Search for the Perfect Heresy." Putting the brakes on that scandalous runaway, liberalism is going to take a concentrated effort on the part of all of us.

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Due to the great demand, I am in the pro­ cess of making an anthology of my poetry and other works. It will come out in a book en­ titled Father Zeus and Other Fairy Tales. The following is an excerpt that was recently com­ posed :

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Writing tills is not as simple As flattening an acne pimple.

Walking on a tightrope, cautious Lest my humor get too raucous.

My humor is soon rated X If ever I should mention sex.

It’s to the depths that I am sinking If ever I should mention drinking.

If I should stray, and get too sloppy.

My hands are slapped by Carleton Toppe.

My writing better make some sense, or He becomes my able censor.

He gets a chance to be a surgeon When he trims up the uncut version.

If my humor gets too impious, Or might make the alumni furious, If Toppe’s eyes should start to squint The line will never get in print.

Some people fail to see I'm funning When its their name with which I'm punning.

Rogie Kuerth and Stevie Lawrenz For my humor have no tolerance.

May my career be quickly ended If ever slander was intended.

No matter what I’ve always tried To keep the customer satisfied.

I never knew it could be so tough To write good humor off the cuff.

Remember this, you simple sages, Who think it easy to fill these pages.

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POETRY

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A Return to Shakespeare

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Just Another Casualty

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SPORTS

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NEWS

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ALUMNI

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Blue Jeaned Dandies

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Index to Volume LXXVI

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lotiiy AS THE POETS MIGHT HAVE SAID THEME: How beautiful she was, standing there in the sunshine of evening, with a rose in her fiist.

The evening sunshine found her there, A maiden, wonderfully fair, So beautiful beyond compare That everyone would have to stare On seeing her and the rose.

She held it in her fist so tight, What a sorry looking sight, She can grip a thing with might, The Lady with the Rose.

— TENNYSON

I’ve never seen a fairer sight, I know.

There in the evening sunshine’s golden glow The eye beholds it, but alas, what then?

The mind conceives no words with which to pen Such beauty, even poets must desist.

But oh, she clutched a primrose in her fist.

— GOLDSMITH

She was fairer than the flower which she held that evening hour, As she stood outside her bower, where the sun shone auburn gold.

But the rose which she possesses, all too firmly now she presses, In the fiercest of caresses, in her fist with strangling hold, So that now the flower never will be able to unfold.

For we find it lifeless; cold.

— E. A. POE

There was a maiden, passing fair, A beauty of renown.

The sun of evening lit her up As it was going down.

There in the fading light of day I saw the maiden stand.

She had a rose, not in her hair, But rather well in hand.

The flower, throttled in her fist, Had little life, if any.

It probably once had ascent: Now it’s not worth a penny.

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Now that was many years ago, But he’s a douglvboy still.

He's well to do, I’m here to say, And I believe I know.

I’ve often come into his shop And found him in the dough.

On Fridays, in his little shop, The bread is stacked so high That you can’t see him, but his voice Is coming through the rye.

He tried to make some pretzels once, But unsuccessfully.

“I had a fortune all tied up In crooked dough,” said he.

I asked him, “what about your faith?”

And then he simply said, “Now you have yours, and I’ll have mine.

I’m merry baker Ed.” Lines upon reading Barry Storm's, “Thunder Cods’ Cold”.

In the Arizona desert, there the Superstitions lie.

It’s a range of ragged mountains, jutting upward to the sky.

In those Superstition Mountains, that’s the place to look for gold!

Oh the roseate outcroppings, what a pleasure to behold!

Once you reach Apache Junction, you can hit the ancient trail.

There are secret treasure symbols that support the treasure tale.

Come and bring your pick and shovel, clamber up the steep incline.

That’s the place to start your digging, where the Dutchman had his mine.

If you’re at the Weaver's Needle, then the Dutchman can't be far; It’s just down that steep arroyo, where the Spanish markings are.

There must be the Lost Peralta, all those legendary mines, That the Spanish miner opened, as his treasure map defines.

We can camp in Needle Canyon, with the La Sombrera near, ’Neath the pungent paloverde, with the fire light to cheer.

Or we’ll sleep out in the open, close as peas within their pods; If we only have the favor of Apache Thunder Gods!

There’s a thread of dark disaster woven in the golden skein, For the Superstition Mountains are the Thunder Gods' domain.

The Apaches know of treasure which the white man never found, But the Superstition Mountains are the red man’s holy ground.

There they hid the Spanish workings halfway up a black-topped hill, And the Thunder Gods, with vengeance, keep an eye upon them still.

So they guard the fatal treasure, guard it with sardonic mirth; Oh the tantalizing secret — what's beneath the rocks and earth?

They say gold is where you find it, but I wouldn’t give you odds: You will hear the raucous laughter of Apache Thunder Gods.

L. E. Pingle CLASS of 1939 Pastor of Trinity and St. John in Lincoln and Mio, Michigan 228

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The first occasion was on March 17, 1917, when, in tribute to the Tricentennial of Shake­ speare’s death, the two literary societies of NWC combined to present the first tree acts of Julius Caesar. This was the first major dra­ matic production in Northwestern's history.

Appearing in the play, in the role of Marcus Brutus, was a talented college junior by the name of Elmer “Rex” Kiessling.

Shakespeare returned to Northwestern in 1929, when the dramatic societies chose as their final production The Taming of the Shrew. The director of this play was a young professor in his second year of teaching at Northwestern. His name — E. E. Kiessling.

One begins to sense a pattern. Mere coinci­ dence? Not hardly. If one, in the process of giving a “word association” test to a typical student, were to suggest the name “Shake­ speare,” one could expect any of an immense variety of answers. But if the same suggestion were made to a person who has been a student at Northwestern within the last 40 years, there could be but one logical response — “Kiessling.”

Throughout nearly half a century of teach- , ing in NWC classrooms, Professor Kiessling’s i name has become virtually synonymous with Shakespeare literature. Hundreds of young men have walked into his classroom expecting just another dry English lit. course and have walked out with a new and very special appre­ ciation for the magic that is Shakespeare.

And “Doc's” unique teaching style has not failed to permeate his other classes and his electives, which consistently have remained among the most popular on campus.

In addition to his work in the classroom, Dr. Kiessling has made innumerable contribu­ tions to the development of dramatic societies at Northwestern. From the fledgling days of the Philomathean and Lyceum Societies during

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This year will be Dr. Kiessling’s last as faculty advisor to Forum, just as it is his last year on the NWC faculty, for he has an­ nounced his retirement as of the end of this term.

It is, therefore, very fitting that Forum, for this year’s Final Production, has chosen to re­ turn for a third time to the works of William Shakespeare. On May 4th, 5th and 6th, For­ um will present The Tempest. This was the

last play to be written by Shakespeare.

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In gratitude for his continual help and en­ couragement throughout the years, and on the occasion of his retirement after 46 years of service to Northwestern College and particu­ larly to its dramatic societies, Forum has un­ animously elected to respectfully dedicate its 1973 Final Production to Dr. E. E. Kicssling.

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1-J E is alone. That is the first thought which ^ penetrates his cloudy brain, brutally jarring him into a semblance of awareness of his surroundings. He finds himself staggering to his feet and surveying the nearby smoking re­ mains of the helicopter and his companions.

How anyone could have possibly survived a crash resulting in that twisted heap of steel and flesh is beyond him. Uttering a voiceless prayer to God, he flees to cover in the nearby jungle.

Lush greenery envelops him; he is in an­ other world. Noise! Noise! Such a contrast to the bleak desolation in the open field. The noise of unseen birds and animals. The noise of running water off to his left somewhere.

In the opposite direction the noise of human voices jars him to a halt. After a moment of indecision, he heads toward the water. He is now the hunted. A five-minute spurt of en­ ergy has brought him far into the jungle. The noise of the water has grown much louder, blanketing most other sounds. He stops to reconnoitre and catch his breath. There are no signs of pursuit, so he proceeds more cau­ tiously, moving from one patch of cover to another only after first carefully checking out the ground ahead of him. The heavier foliage impedes his progress and restricts his vision.

He is almost to the river before the glint of sunlight on water catches his eye.

A half mile away, in the open field, another helicopter touches down briefly near the bat­ tered carcass of man and machine. Several men jump out and sprint over to the charred mass and stop, unable to bring themselves

closer to that horrible mess. Their leader shakes his head sadly and waves his men back to the helicopter. The jury's unanimous verdict: no survivors. The helicopter takes off.

The soldier nears the river, unaware of either the helicopter’s arrival or departure. A sniper, from high up in a tree, has been ob­ serving his progress. He does not know whe­ ther the one approaching the river is friend or foe. Certainly the enemy, even the Ameri­ cans, would not attack with one man. But if he is not the enemy, why is he using a catand-mouse approach to his own lines? The sniper scopes the area, looking for some posi­ tive identification. There it is! He catches sight of a pair of legs flitting through the un­ dergrowth, but no more. All is motionless for a long period of time.

At camp headquarters the loss of the air­ ship with everyone on board is duly reported, recorded, and mourned. But death and killing are what it's all about in this business, aren't they? So the pace hardly slackens on account of one day's losses.

Four days later, Mrs. James Bentley of Youngstown, West Virginia, receives a letter from the Department of the Army informing her of her son's death in action while on man­ euvers against the enemy near the Wang Lo River. An urn containing his cremated re­ mains will be sent later, along with his person­ al possessions.

An opening in the foliage frames red hair, a freckled face. The sniper squeezes off a shot.

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The Trojans finished the season winning three out of the last four games. Despite the strong finish, the Trojans wound up with a winning percentage below .500. After Coach Thompson's winning season last year, it was 802 N. Church Street Dial 261-3185 a setback in his basketball program. A few more Mark Toepels on our team would have Richard Wiedenfeld made a difference. Time after time Mark was the only one who could get our offense going.

If the team quit running its patterns, A1 was the only one to create situations for us with his hustle. Relying on Toepel so heavily prob' ably caused some of the standing around. The team seemed to have more potential than it showed, but that now is only speculation.

Coach Thompson will lose four seniors this Open Daily year. They arc Beck Goldbeck, Dave Kriehn, Rog Kuerth and Don Thompson. Beck was rebounding and playing good defense by the SANDWICHES BREAKFASTS end of this season and his absence will be felt next year. Kuerth added speed, rebounding PLATE LUNCHES - HAMBURGERS and occasional scoring spurts to this year’s team. Kriehn didn't get to play a lot until BROASTED CHICKEN & CONES the last few games, and then Dave tried to MALTS & SHAKES make up for lost time by playing some sound games and scoring like coach never expected.

Don Thompson added speed and defense for the Trojans, especially on the full court press.

904 East Main Street Phone 261-1922 These four men will be missed, but there are plenty left. Of course, Toepel still has another year, and that is good news for NWC. Pete Schumacher should be just about ready to assert himself with the kind of basketball that coaches look for. He is a strong rebounder • Paperback Classics and excellent shooter. Frosh Stu Zak finally • Monarch Notes started to get some playing time after his many • College Outline Series injuries, and he is counted on to help in the baseline next year. Soph Jon Schroeder also Open Daily: 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. likes to mix it up under the boards and shoots Fridays til 9:00 — Sundays til noon well. Another Sophomore, Jim Huebner, is Dial 261-6027 406 Main St. very quick for the good defense and showed accurate shooting in the game against the Sem231

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NWC 92 MBBC 70 The Trojans took on Maranatha a second time this year, and once again our team was too much for the undersized Baptists to handle.

Goldbeck very early in the game decided Maranatha's fate when he blocked some of their attempts at shots in close to the basket. After that our cross-town foes had no choice but to shoot the long outside shots. For a while good shooting and extra hustle kept them in the game, but a team can stay in a game only so long on all outside shooting. Pete Schumacher played one of the best games of his college career thus far. Pete poured in 38 points and was a terror in the rebounding department.

LAKELAND 104 NWC 74 Lakeland must have been priming for the state playoff's when they came down here to play us. The home court advantage did noth­ ing to help make the score closer as the Musk) ies were way too quick for us. Ray Heck didn't score on us as much as he usually does, but his passing ability was something to watch.

1 Heck just seemed to wait till our defense was pulled out of position, and then he would get the ball to his open teammate with passes that 1 left the Trojans flat-footed. Tocpcl got into foul trouble early and couldn't be as effective as normal. Our whole team committed a large amount of fouls while the Trojans themselves never got into a bonus free throw situation.

The extra quickness of Lakeland again was probably the cause of this big difference in fouls.

NWC MIL. AREA TECH. COLLEGE 100 (Double Overtime) 98 One could not have asked for a better way to end the season at home. It took the Troians two overtimes to do it, but the Black and Red ended the last game at home for the four sen­ iors with a win.

Coach Thompson started the four seniors and Toepel for this game, and the combination worked well as we came hitting all our shots.

It looked like a run-away game, but Milwau­ kee just kept coming back at us. Our rebound­ ing was weak in this game, and their big man in the middle hurt us. Our full-court press was effective at times, and then we switched to other defenses. Both teams went into tight

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maivtO'man defenses at the end of the game and for the two overtimes. The liberal scor' ing of the start was gone, and then they were scratching for every bucket. Missed free throws in crucial situations by both teams prevented the game from ending sooner. The thing that really pulled us through in the end was the play of Toepel. When the Trojans fell 4 points behind, it was A1 who came up with the key steals and took them in by himself to get us back in the game. Dave Kriehn also scored well for us in this game. In the only real' ly close game of the season our team came through under pressure.

SEM 78 NWC 123 The old men of the Sem had played our Trojans a close game at the start of the sea' son, but now after a season of competition for our team this game was no contest. Nothing was to slow down our team at the Bone-Crum cher, not even a bent rim coming from a stuff

attempt that wasn't done too cleanly. Every' body was hitting for the Black and Red as the Sem never had a chance. Coach Thomp' son put in his subs early, but that didn’t slow the Trojans down either. Jim Huebner, es' pecially, came off the bench and hit his shots with consistency.

Intramurals Dolan’s Junior team returned to intramural supremacy after being dethroned the previous year. The Juniors added Mark Lindner, who decided not to play varsity ball. This plus in the rebounding made their speed and fastbreak even more effective. This same team played city league ball, and there was no real com' petition for them. Oldfield’s senior team and Dornfeld’s sophomore team were the only con' sistent winners, but still were a long ways from being able to take on the Juniors.

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NEWS I suppose when you come to the end of a year, it’s impossible not to reminisce. This is the last news article I shall ever write (sniffle).

Probably it will be the last news article to be found in the Bfc?R for quite some time as there will be no news editor next year. Oh well, so geht’s.

Anyway, since there was no pressing news to report, I figured it might be a nice change of pace to describe the typical school year at N.W.C. If the subject bores you, please flip the page; I won’t cry.

First of all, there’s the Fall. Now the Fall is a good time of year for just about everyone, I say “just about” because there are some, of course, who are never happy. The thrill of a summer job palls very quickly; some of the bad memories of N.W.C. (like studying) are forgotten and replaced by a desire to see all the “butts” again. So the first few weeks in the new school year are like a honeymoon (ask any football player), since the professorial steamroller hasn’t had a chance to turn the pressure on full yet. The frosh can’t always look forward to seeing all their old friends again, yet they can get excited by the fact that they're big tough collegiates now. The frosh generally have it rough. They’ve got to worry

about making the grade, and initiation isn’t a prospect that fills them with too much delight either. By homecoming, though, both questions have been pretty well resolved. Initiation is over and done with, and they know now that it’s more annoyingly mickey mouse than anything really to be feared. Studies usually don’t prove to be as hard as originally antici' pated; at least, by homecoming they have most of their systems worked out on how to present an intelligent front to the world. Home' coming is the high festival day at N.W.C. After Homecoming, it’s all downhill into win' ter. It’s worthless to try and describe it, for either you’re the emotional type who needs no glowing description of the nostalgic wonder of it all, or you’re cynic who feels, “Home' coming is bunk” (apologies to Henry Ford).

Then winter descends, but it’s not quite so bad yet because there are always Thanksgiv' ing and Christmas vacations to look forward to. Nevertheless, intimations of the GRIND begin to raise their ugly heads. Then . . .

Christmas, ah, a lovely time (time out) (End time out) January is a cold and heartless month, grasping the student's jugular with icy fingers. I think that’s about as far as I’ll go in attempting creative writing. Met'

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aphors like that are kind of laughable when you think about it. Suffice it to say that Janu­ ary and February are dull dull months com­ posed of seemingly endless study. Winter Car­ nival breaks the monotony for a spell, but it’s like one of Roosevelt’s New Deal measures: it doesn't really solve anything, but you’re glad an attempt was made at least.

I can’t begin to praise the Spring months too highly. Things can’t be bad in spring, and if they are, you don't care anyway. The feel­ ing you have is one of just having been liber­ ated from a jail cell. Just the knowledge that you can walk outside without having to cover every square inch with a ton of cloth is pre­ cious.

The senior in Spring is a creature unto himself. He knows he’s on the home stretch, and there’s nothing (well, almost nothing) that can stop him now. Each day crossed off the calendar is a major victory, and there are few,

if any, seniors who do not know how many days separate them from their sheepskin.

Well, I know this wasn’t much of a news article, and I also know that my viewpoint of NW.C.'s schoolyear may not jibe with yours.

So take it with a grain of salt (this applies to anything else I write too) Thank-you and good night.

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Tau Delta Theta Award The faculty has approved the Awards Committee selection of David Kriehn as the recipient of the Tau Delta Theta award for the 1972-73 school year. According to the terms of the Endowment Fund, the recipient will apply the amount of the award to the purchase of books of his selection for presen­ tation to the college library.

ALUMNI CALLS Rev. Thomas Spiegelberg (’62) was installed at the Salem mission, Milwaukee, Wis., on March 25, 1973. He was formerly the pastor at Divine Savior in Indianapolis, Ind. Rev. Herbert Hackbarth (’27) was installed on Feb. 4, 1973, as pastor at St. Mark, Richwood, Wis. (R. 5, Watertown), and Immanuel, Hubbleton, Wis. (R. 6, Watertown). Previously, Pastor Hackbarth served Peace, Echo, Minn.

ANNIVERSARIES Holy Trinity, Wyoming, Mich., observed its tenth anniversary on Feb. 18, 1973. Rev. Ronald Semro (’64) is the pastor.

St. John, Baraboo, Wis., observed its centennial on March 11, 1973. Rev. Emil Toepel (’39) is the pastor at St. John.

DEDICATIONS A new Christian education unit was dedicated by Si. Paul, Onalaska, Wis., on March 4, 1973.

The pastor at St. Paul is Rev. James Mumm (’S2).

MARRIAGES Rev. Daniel Koelpin (’67) and Carol Paap were united in marriage on Feb. 2, 1973. Rev. Keelpin serves Beautiful Savior, Cincinnati, Ohio.

DEATHS Rev. Roy Vollmers (’16), emer., Denver, Colo on Feb. 1, 1973.

BIRTHS Pastor and Mrs. Paul Stuebs (’65) of Yankton,

S.D., became parents of a son, Nathan Paul, on Feb. 16, 1973.

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Frederich, Jr., (’70) be­ came parents of a daughter on March 2, 1973.

Edwin is serving as a vicar at St. John, Fox Lake, Wis. OTHER NEWS Waldemar Heidtke (’20) is teaching history to American university students in Heidelberg, West Germany, through a branch of the Uni­ versity of Maryland. He teaches the history of Germany from 800 to 1815.

SERI NOTES Tim Meier is engaged to Mary Miller (DMLC, :70) of Brownsville, Wis. Lloyd Fager in ‘in heaven” Ccf. Campus & Class­ room of last year) as of Feb. 14. He is engaged to Jacquelyn Lemke of Fore Atkinson, Wis. Three Professors so tar have agreed to put the clamp on Kcvo. A quorum is expected by the end of May. Tom Trapp continues to work on his Bojangles routine for the buffalo run during Easter break.

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THANK YOU A sincere thank you is in order for all those who supplied news for this column through234

out Volume 76. Without your cooperation it could not exist. Your help has been appreci' ated very much.

J.R.

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The circulation department realizes that there are some late renewal notices being sent out, and asks your pardon for their delin' quency.

Jon M. Peterson MINUTES OF THE 1972 ALUMNI SOCIETY MEETING May 31, 1972 — 3:00 p.m.

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The annual meeting of the Northwestern College NORTH AMERICAN AGENT Alumni Society was called to order in the College Chapel by President G. Baer.

Watertown 719 W. Cady Street The minutes of the 1971 meeting were approved as read. 78 regular members and 10 honorary Phone 261-6103 members responded to the roll call. Upon the recommendation of Pres. C. Toppe the 70 mem­ bers of the Class of 1972 were accepted into mem­ bership.

The Nominating Committee read a slate of can­ didates proposed for office, but moved that the rules of order be suspended and that a unani­ mous ballot be cast for all incumbent officers.

The motion carried and the following were re­ — Food You'll Enjoy — elected: - SERVING President Prof. G. Baer 1st Vice President Pastor A. Stuebs 5:00 p.m. — 10 p.m.

2nd Vice President Pastor D. Bitter Closed Tuesdays Secretary Prof. A. Panning 1413 Oconomowoc Ave. Dial 261-6661 Treasurer Prof. S. Quam Prof E. Scharf Chronicler In view of the trend that has developed in re­ cent years, speakers from the Class of 1947 re­ quested that in future years the proposed slate of candidates be accepted and that regular elec­ tions be held.

The following treasurer’s report was presented

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Pastor H. Juroff, Pastor H. Lichtenberg, and Prof. J. Plitzuweit were appointed to the Audit­ ing Committee.

Prof. W. Zell, reporting for the Projects Com­ mittee, elaborated on the furnishings for the new gymnasium that were provided with Society funds. These included stage lighting equipment, trampoline, weight machine and furnishings, scoreboard and controls, and carpet runner, at the cost of approximately $8,000 as indicated in the treasurer’s report.

The Society accepted the Projects Committee’s recommendation that a decision on the next special project be deferred in view of the pro­ posed remodeling of the old gymnasium into a music auditorium. The Society did resolve, how­ ever, to designate up to $2,500 for the remodel­ ing project, indicating that this sum is to be used at the Committee’s discretion for providing furnishings and equipment for the new music auditorium.

President Baer read a letter for the Northwestern College Board of Control thanking the Society for its gifts to the College gymnasium.

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The motion carried that the Alumni Society un­ derwrite the cost of including a listing of the names of all NWC graduates in the next College Catalog. It was also resolved that the matter of producting such a list from time to time be re­ viewed at the next Alumni meeting.

The Auditing Committee reported that it found the treasurer’s books to be correct and in good order. The motion to accept the treasurer’s re­ port was carried.

In view of anticipated projects for the school, the Society resolved to raise annual membership dues to $5.00.

The treasurer was urged to consider placing funds that might accrue into the CEF Loan Fund.

A letter from Frederick T. Wurl (Class of 1912), addressed particularly to his classmates of the 60th anniversary class, was read to the Society.

The Chronicler, Prof. E. Scharf, read the names of Society members whom the Lord called home during the past year: 1902 Pastor Theophil Schroedel Pastor Martin Raasch 1903 Pastor Edward Kolander 1915 Pastor Erich Falck 1919 1923 Pastor Egbert Schaller Pastor Lee Sabrowsky 1928 Margaret Schmeling Fischer 1929 1942 Pastor Franklin Dobratz 1942 Pastor Erwin Ploetz Professor Martin Lutz 1949 1938 Mr. Richard Raabe The Society rose in memory of the deceased.

Adjournment at 4:25 p.m.

Armin J. Panning Secretary

ALUMNI SOCIETY MEETING WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1973 COLLEGE CHAPEL — 3:00 p.m.

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What about outside the church? And, more importantly, what about us who are studying for the ministry? Just exactly how should we dress? A wise man once said (al­ beit a little pompously) “Clothes make the man. This is most certainly true. Who can

XpJ e ail have read each installment in the * ® teapot tempest which has been taking piace in the past issues of the Bcs?R. I am re­ ferring, of course, to the concern shown by some members of our little family for the wearing of vestments in church (cf. Beribboned Dandies? Rebuttal to Beribboned Dandies.

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Yet this is not meant to be merely a criti' cism of N.W.C. restaurant employees. Oh no, much more rather is this meant to be a blanket condemnation of the whole race of, well, downright slobs who inhabit this campus.

Think of your image, men! How do you think the professors feel when they see students stag' ger into their classrooms in the morning urn showered, unshaved, unkempt and sometimes even unsocked! I feel I need not mention the erring few who even leave their shoes untied (Don?).

Some space must be given to that perversion of the pant'world, blue jeans. It seems a shame that the once workaday clothes of the slovenly cowboy have become the sine qua non of modern dress, both male and female (and therein lies another tirade). Something must be done to stem the tide of these horrid gar' ments before we are engulfed in demonic Blue Cheer (a pun contrived enough to rival even some of your efforts, eh, Zeus?).

What I propose is this: a dress code. I know the idea is not a new one at Northwes' tern, but I feel the reason why it has failed to catch on heretofore is due to a lack of regi' mentation. If a 6:00 reveille were instituted, with showers and shaves made compulsory, we would at least see a marked improvement in the hygiene of many. If we would add to this basic student a plain white shirt and black pants, the picture would be complete. Imagine hundreds of shiny faced students march' ingg two by two to class at 7:55 precisely. A new dawn, to say the least.

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INDEX TO VOLUME LXXVI - MAY 1972 through APRIL 1973 ALUMNI Feature column by Jim Rath 20, 44, 114, 140, 170, 202, 234 Society Minutes 21 Prof. A. J. Panning CAMPUS & CLASSROOM Feature column by James Ziesemer 12, 48, 88, 108, 152, 183, 220, 240 FICTION Country Roads, Take Me Home 142 Russ Schmidt Friendship 16 Robert Meiselwitz From the EDitor 177 Ed Schuppe Minds’ Eye, The 90 Scott Stone Mortis memoria 10 Mark Jeske Other Life, The 81 Mark Jeske Riposte 162 Mark Jeske Second Chance, A 119 Warren Viehl Taste of Nature, A 58 Robert Meiselwitz

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POETRY As the Poets Might Have Said 226 L. E. Pingle 0 Cold Winter’s Night 220 Roger Crawford Rats 218 Paul Wendland The Bells at Brimsgate Belfry Toll’d 218 Mark Jeske RELIGION All Depends on Our Possessing 30 Roy Hefti All the Angels of Gcd 124 Roy Hefti All the Good Works 74 Roy Hefti Anfechtung and the Anchor of the Soul 206 Roy Hefti Answer to . . . “The Heresy of Orthodoxy,” An 138 Dan Schaller Beribboned Dandies? 68 D^ve Last and Timothy Ziebell Destruction of Fortresses, The 38 Roy Hefti Government: Gcd’s Institution 3 (commencement oration) Stephen Hintz Like the Thrusts of a Sword 154 Roy Hefti Magic of Christmas, The 112 Scott Klein Refutation of the Rebuttal to the Beribboned Dandies 164 David Last Satan at Thy Gates, O Zion — Forever, O Lord, Thy Word 247 Roy Hefti Surpassing of Greatness, The 186 Roy Hefti War is Over? 199 David Russow REVIEW C & W Corner Degeneration of Forum’s Finest Secret Life of a

76 John Warmuth Rock, The 137 Paul Wendland Hours 23 R. E. Warner C & W Fan, The 50 John Warmuth Sophistication of Rock, The 106 Mark Jeske Wet Bird 130 Scott Stone

SCHOOL AND STUDENT Blue Jeaned Dandies 235 Paul Wendland Helpful Health Hints 193, 242 Richard Starr I Resolve ... 148 James Rath Introduction ... 4 Editing Committee, 1892 Matter of Priority. A 216 Scott Klein Open Letter tc NWC, An 7G several alumni Plea for Thanksgiving, A 132 Mark Porinsky Rebuttal to “Beribboned Dandies” 102 David Bock Return to Shakespeare, A 229 Ring on Her Finger, The 100 Mark Braun Yuk or Yech? 112 Prof. P. Eickmann SPORTS Feature column by David Kelm 28, 52, 84, 116, 145, 171, 202, 231 Game of Ping Pong, The 24 Phil Strackbein Gymnastics 105 Bob Jensen Ideal Violated, An 55 Dan Schaller Wrestling Reports 201 Beck Goldbeck

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Since we are speaking of the faculty, I’d like to bring up a fairly recent faculty meet' ing. There were more Synod big-wigs than you could shake a stick at. There were our faculty members, the NWC board of control.

Seminary faculty members, and even a Synod executive secretary. (We almost have as many now as NBC has vice-presidents.) Guess what they were all here for! They were to discuss a nonexistent topic called student marriages.

I can just imagine how things went. No doubt they were resplendent in their thorough-going conservative phlegmatic style. I heard that they agree that not everyone has the stamina and gift that can be found so obviously in the characteristics of Paul and of Steve Korth.

They also agree that it is better to marry than to burn. The other day Larry Zahn found a pile of ashes in his roomie’s bed and thought that Oldfield had expired.

The august body that met that day felt that they should attack the problem from its roots. Granted, marrying will quench the fire, but there must be other ways too. What is the best way to put out a fire? That’s right, throw cold water on it. This would mean that all the incorrigible burners would be forced to take a daily ice cold shower.

Here it is, folks, something you've been waiting for for a long time, my swan song.

I’m on my way out. This is the last taste you're going to get of my genius. No doubt there are many of you who are nigh unto going into mourning at the demise of Vol. 76 of C&C. I know that my fan club (my moth­ er, sister, and girl friend) was even thinking about throwing a testimonial for me.

Actually I reached the end of my career with mixed emotions. I am glad that there won’t be any more deadlines to meet; of course, they never bothered me much anyhow. I hap­ pen to be typing this three weeks late! The frightening part about relinquishing my office is that I have no future. A good editor has the possibly brilliant future of writing for any one of our synod’s publications. That sort of leaves Schuppe and his sarcasm out in the cold as soon as you throw in the adjective “good.” There’s always the possibility that Rational Lampoon might need a religious ed­ itor.

Look at the literary future that lies before Mr. Hefti, who to spite me wrote a long arti­ cle again this issue. But where can I go? The Northwestern Lutheran lacks a humor column.

The Wisconsin Synod Quarterly has no use for my humorous little ditties. Where can a funny man go in Synod? I would have to guess that I’m doomed to be a tutor at NWC or DMLC, which can hardly be seen as much of a future. From the way it looks, my liter­ ary endeavors will be restricted to writing love letters.

Well, I suppose that you are all wondering who my able successor will be. It is none other than Zambia's favorite son, Paul Ernie Wcndland. Some others were considered for the position. David Bock was a possibility, but he was rejected when we were informed that we couldn't increase the page size of the Bc-rR. Stevie Otto was suggested because of his ability to keep people in stitches, but he too was rejected. In my estimation Ernie is the man for the job. I guarantee that he will never be caught short.

We do have a quotable quote from the faculty again this month. Our witty Dean John Chworowsky quipped on Arbor day after a poor throw from the outfield, “The spirit is

Once again and once and for all, we make a last stop at Father Zeus’ Poetry Corner.

Once again we’re out there destroying one of the classics. I wrote a pair of companion poems which could be entitled: CLASS STRUGGLE I think that I shall never see A class as good as ’73 A class whose nose will ever press To the grind without duress A class that studies all the day And never takes the time to play A class that doesn’t care to wear A freaky crop of shaggy hair.

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Some of you might pass over these unkind remarks about the class of 74 as bitterness or personal animosity, but one has to doubt the ability of a class that schedules Arbor day, only to have it closely followed by one of the state's worst spring snow storms. It’s a good thing they don't have any important things to decide.

Speaking of the snow storm, Beck Gold' beck can tell you the story of the Pig who came in from the Snow. It's all about one Arnold Ziffel who thought he must have been in heaven when he was almost stranded in a Watertown Cocktail lounge. His visions of grandeur were shattered when he made it back to Wartburg. Don Sutton was heard telling him that fish and visitors stink in three days.

Since the subject of Sem students has been brought up — on behalf of the B6?R staff I would like to offer my heartiest congratula­ tions to Lloyd Fager, who is engaged and in heaven at the moment.

If you look back at the last few paragraphs of this article, you will begin to notice one of the things that make me such a literary genius.

You’ll notice how each thought flows into the next very gracefully. You may think this is the result of a carefully planned outline, but it originates from a calm cool panic that seizes me when I'm scraping for material. This year I have given an example of just how funny forced humor can be. I even considered writ­ ing a love poem about a certain little girl I know, which no doubt many of you would have considered funnier than some of the funny stuff I've written, but I am a firm be­ liever in keeping peace on the domestic front.

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we return. We were warned by the good Doctor not to get too familiar with anyone on the trip. That's easy for him to say; Mrs. Lehman isn't going along this year.

Many great artists have died without recog­ nition, only to be proclaimed geniuses post­ humously. I guess that’s my only hope now.

If I have offended anyone in the course of my career, I’m sorry, but in all probability I meant it.

Poor Mark Bitter is bemoaning the fact that he is supposed to get a hair cut. What's frustrating for him is that the old adage, “it'll grow back" doesn't apply to him.

I would like to leave you with a few tid­ bits of Father Zeus' wisdom. He who laughs last, probably didn't catch the joke, and re­ member, if at first you don’t succed, relax, you're human!

Now I must bid you fond adieu. I con­ sider it an honor to have written for the B&R, but fame is a fleeting thing. In a short time you will forget that I was the wit of Vol. 76.

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toward each other, do a few toe raises (be careful not to fall on your head), and then reverse the sides outward. This should be attempted only after the ankle is almost 100% healed. For loosening up, stand on the edge of the bleachers (not more than one step up) with only your toes on the bleachers them­ selves. Now very carefully do 10 toe raises, going farther down than the extended plane of the board on which you are standing. This exercise is very good for the Achilles tendon too, which is being strained more and more what with today's fashionable high-heeled shoes for men. The higher heels do not allow the tendon to stretch out fully, and then when it is forced to do so in a physical activity, it becomes strained or even ruptures.

The best treatment for blisters is not to get them in the first place. This is achieved by wearing properly fitting shoes — not five year old tennis shoes, and keeping the feet dry but lubricated with powder. An extra pair of socks may be helpful, but the best preventive measure is to get the feet in good condition before a strenuous physical regimen such as football or basketball begins. However, if you do suffer a blister, the best course to follow is to treat it as a new open wound unless of course it is only a one skin layer water blister, where no chance of infection can take place.

But even these small, seemingly unimportant blisters deserve the respect of the injured, since they can develop into something serious.

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But more than that, Dr. Heins has been actively involved in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

In addition, he has served on the evangelism, building and long range planning committees of Our Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, Madison. His devoted service in these areas proves him to be a man concerned for the welfare of Lutherans.

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This is very painful and feels like a burning knife plunged into your leg with each step.

I don't know how many of you have ever had a burning knife plunged into your leg, but it definitely does not sound pleasant. Rest is the best treatment for shin splints but is also the hardest to do. Nota Bene (that’s Latin for wake up and pay attention): shin splints can' not be run out! Running only makes them worse. All of the ankle exercises will prove helpful as well as picking up marbles with your toes and also scrunching a towel under the arch with the toes and then stretching it out the same way. Heat is also beneficial in increasing the blood flow to the injured area.

That’s about it for this time. If you have a particular problem that you would like to see handled in this column or a cute sister, write Ace Wrap Dicky in care of this publi' cation. So until we meet again, remember: Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

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We, the staff of Vol. 76, have a certain feeling of accomplishment in our labors and endeavours to make the Bfe?R a fine literary publication. We take pride in having been part of a tradition, of the official chronicle of NWC, of the voice of NWC students. Stu-

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I would like to take this opportunity and this space to express my appreciation to those persons “behind the scenes” who have given the staff and myself valuable assistance in mak­ ing Vol. 76 what it is. There arc our printers, A1 and Rog, who have done much to make the B6?R into a quality magazine with their fine printing abilities. A special word of thanks to our reviewer, President Toppe, who has helped us maintain a literary quality for the B6?R. There is also one staff member of whom I owe a special debt of gratitude, James Ziesemer. Jim provided aspects of each issue, besides furnishing us with his splendid humor as C6?C editor.

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Said the Psalmist: “How can a young man “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have keep his way pure? By keeping it according the Words of eternal life” to Thy Word.” This Word of God can be The above words of Christ have prompted found in only one place. In contrast to all 247

"TA/hen Cyprian received his sentence of * * death, representing him as an enemy of the Roman gods and laws, he calmly ans' wered: ‘Deo gratias!’ Then, attended by a vast multitude to the scaffold, he prayed once more, undressed himself, covered his eyes, requested a presbyter to bind his hands, and to pay the executioner, who tremblingly drew the sword, twenty-five pieces of gold, and won the incorruptible crown (Sept. 14, 258).”

This is how the 19th century historian, Philip Schaff, describes just one of the innum' enable martyrdoms of the early Christian Church. Cyprian was the Bishop of Cathage, an influential Christian of the times. It would not have required much on his part to squeak out of this terrible mess. One simple admis' sion to the lordship of Caesar would have saved him. One simple denial of the Galilean called Christ would have stayed the execution' er's sword.

It was not the executioner’s sword that worried this man, however. What did concorn him was that frightening prospect of denying the power of another sword, the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God! Even high-minded and heathen historians have marveiled at the unbending bravery of those children of Gca who have given their lives under the ax without a single second thought of heaven's certainty. This bothers the ungodly!

How could people like Cyprian be so sure, so certain that “to live is Christ, to die is gain?”

Upon what unrendablc rock were these men so firmly founded? What infallible proof of thpir filth WK thrrp?

“Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of Thy words. I re­ joice at Thy word, as one who finds great spoil.” (Ps. 119:161-162).i This is the apt and inerrant answer to the basis of Christian assurance. Belief in God and His plan of salvation must necessarily be based upon the Word of God.

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other writings upon earth, we find that col­ lection of books known as The Holy Scriptures to be the very Words of God Himself.

“All Scripture is inspired by God.” “We did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty . . . and so we have the prophetic Word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts. But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.” (2 Peter 1:16, 19-21) The longest paragraph in the world could never prove the prophetic and apostolic in­ spiration well enough to satisfy human rea­ son. It is as one conservative Missourian said while watching the demise of his own synod: “All the arguments in the world are not enough to convince those who won’t be convinced.”

How true that is! The pestilence of ten plagues had no effect upon Pharaoh’s hardened heart.

Fire from the Highest converted not a single priest of Bala upon Mt. Carmel. Those un­ born of the Spirit can in no way recognize the revelation of that Spirit. This is why, ever sounding a solemn sentence against inborn ar­ rogance, we hear the breath of God say from Abraham’s bosom: “If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone rises from the dead.”

(Luke 16:31) To the elect of God only could Christ say: “These are My Words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Ivloses and the Phophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

(Luke 24:44) Christ Himself along with the apostles referred a countless number of times to the Old Testament as the inspired Word of God unable to err in any point or letter: “The Scripture cannot be broken.” (John 10:35) Incidently, it was in a reference to one specific inflection of a Word that Christ here spoke (Theoi). This is how accurate and infallible Christ Jesus maintained the Old Testament to be.

Now certainly in regard to the inerrancy and infallibility of the New Testament we are left with no doubt in our minds. In the first verse of the Epistle to the Hebrews, we read: “God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers

in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spo\en to us in His Son." The Savior promised this revelation of divine Truth to his disciples on various occasions. That Maundy Thursday evening in the upper room was marked by unalterable promises such as: “The Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send you in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.'" (John 14:26) Within the realm of that same discourse, Jesus said: “When He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all the Truth . . . and He will disclose to you what is to come.” (John 16:13) Thus, upon the authority of Christ Himself, were all 27 books of the New Testament set down in writing to be the God-breathed basis of our faith. In this light Paul writes: “Now wc have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might \now the things freely given to us by Cod, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combin' ing spiritual thoughts with spiritual Words.”

(I Cor. 2:12-13) The most loved and comprehensive state­ ment of all time on this subject is found in the second epistle of Paul to Timothy. It begins: “From childhood (An interesting point here for those who deny faith to infants — the Greek reads: apo ta brephous — “from in­ fancy, from babyhood.” This very word, to brephous, is used in reference to the unborn John the Baptist, Luke 1:41. See also ArndtGingrich Lexicon.) you have known the sac­ red Writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Ail Scripture is inspired (Or. Theopneustos — "God'breathed ”)

by Cod and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; that the man of God may be adequate, equip­ ped for every good work.” (II Tim. 3:15-17) In summation: The 66 books of Holy Scrip­ ture are the very Words of God. The Scrip­ tures are in ail points, whether spiritual, geo­ graphical, historical, mathematical or other­ wise, God'breathed, inspired by God the Holy Ghost. THEY ARE INFALLIBLE AND CANNOT ERR IN ANY POINT, WORD OR LETTER, WITHOUT ANY QUALI­ FICATION WHATSOEVER!!

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“because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the Law of God, for it is not even able to do so.” (Rom. 8:7) It is not enough for unbe* lievers to stand in apathy over against the Scriptures; that is not a characteristic of urn belief. Christianity is a religion of “either-or”.

Either a man sows with the Savior or wages war against Him. There is no middle ground.

The men of Missouri who are giving them' selves a rash straddling the fence are not neut' ral, noodles for backbones though they may have. They are warring against the Lord who bought them with His own blood. They are casting out the very authority upon which the free grace of God in Christ is established. They deride us, calling us “slaves of the letter,” when they themselves are throwing into the gutter the one source of salvation which frees them from the slavery of sin. Under the pomp' ous and sclf'proclaimed appellation of “higher criticism,” the servants of Satan exalt their own scholarship over the mighty Word. To them, Christ and His divine revelation are an offense, a rock of offense. Let them fall upon this Rock, and they shall be shattered. Let them fall just one too many times upon it, and the Rock shall fall upon them and they shall be pulverized.

The attacks which men have leveled against the Scriptures down through the years have not changed a great deal. They are varied in their approaches, but all of them bear the same marks of all unbelief: an absence of faith and an abundance of carnal reason.

One of the major attacks centers around the different styles which the writers of the Scriptures used. The opponents of Scripture say that the Scriptures cannot be the very Words of God, since each of the writers has a different way of writing in respect to diction, style, etc. Sarcastically they set before us the question: “Why are not all the books of Scrip' ture written in the same style, namely that of God?” In reply, we are happy to answer: “The Scriptures do have one style of the Almighty, namely majestic and efficacious simplicity.

This, however, does not rule out the styles of God’s penmen. The Holy Spirit did not give a mechanical dictation which avoided the use of the penman’s talents in writing. Rather, He made good use of those writing talents and styles to communicate the infallible Word. God displayed once more His infinite love by con' descending to our understanding.” This is something to thank God for. As one dogmati' dan has said: “Had God spoken to us in the 249

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We are scarcely finished with their attacks, however. Those scholars who claim to be such experts on the Scriptures try to inform, every­ one else of their pseudo-knowledge by calling into question the accuracy of our present Scriptural text on the basis of variant read­ ings. Paul warned Timothy of this very thing when he said: “O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called ‘knowledge’ — which some have professed and thus gone astray from the faith,” (I Tim. 6:20-21) First of all, variant readings in the various Hebrew and Greek texts in no way can un­ dermine the fact that the original manuscripts were without flaw. Variants owe their exis­ tence to oversights in transcription, none of which are of any doctrinal or genuine exegetical importance. One example of this would be the two different “possibilities” for Luke 2:14 — the Greek word “eudokias,” a genitive, is accepted by most textual expets while some manuscripts have the very same word, only in the nominative — “eudokia”. To begin with, the textual evidence for the genitive form is overwhelming. We are seldom in doubt as to which reading to accept, since we base our judgement on the oldest manuscripts available.

Incidently, these oldest manuscripts are Papyril 66 and 75, both dated in the vicinity of A.D. 200. They are completely reliable. Like­ wise, with Old Testament manuscripts. The relatively recent find of the Dead Sea Scrolls merely proves the perfect accuracy of the Masoretic text we have always had. The Masoretes were so accurate and meticulous in their copying that they kept a record of the number of letters and points in each line of the text and later counted them to put beyond all doubt the possibility of an inaccurate copy. The “variae lectiones” of the manuscripts do not affect or cast doubt upon a single doctrine of Scripture. This is the “a posteriori” side of the argument.

Even more important, rather all-important, to the born again Christian is the “a priori” side of the argument. Christ Himself promised the accuracy of manuscript copies when He said: “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My Words will not pass away.” (Luke 21:33)

Again, when referring to that minute inflection of an Old Testament word, Christ said: “The Scriptures cannot be broken.” (John 10:35) Christ was here referring to no other Scriptures than those of the Old Testament copies, whose autographs were no longer extent. Yes, these copies of Scripture He labeled infallible and inerrant down to the last inflection of a word. This Christ emphasized in another statement similar to the ones above: “It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stro\e of a letter of the Law to fail,” (Luke 16:17) Likewise, Paul affirmed his faith in the Old Testament Scriptures: “I do serve the God of our fathers, believing everything that is in accordance with the Law, and that is written in the Prophets.” (Acts 24:14) As far as the New Testament reliability is concerned, we are once more assured by the apostle: “If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that the things which I write to you are the Lord’s command­ ment”, with the apostles appended remark, “But if anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.” (I Cor. 14:37-38) Those braggarts who attempt to mutilate the Word and refuse to recognize the infalli­ bility of Scripture are not even worthy of re­ cognition, to say anything of salvation. We need not think that Almighty God shudders when “the heathen rage, and the peoples im­ agine a vain thing.” God is in complete con­ trol and doesn’t even recognize the higher critics of His Holy Word. Resound’ng in the believers’ cars are the words of Christ to His heavenly Father: “I praise Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou didst hide these things from the wise and intelligent and didst reveal them to babes.” (Matt. 11:35) God, who authored the Bible, also has power to preserve it free from error. He has and is continuing to do so.

Many of the critical attacks against an in­ errant B'ble are the product of a very ancient philosophy: stupidity. The claim is made that since the penmen of the Spirit did outside re­ search before they wrote the books of the Bible (not all, but some of them did this), then it must naturally follow that the Scriptures are a cumulative product of human research. If the apostle John witnessed many of the things in the life of Christ (and he did), does that mean that the book of Scripture which he pen­ ned is the product of his own feeble memory or that he was not prompted by God the Holy Ghost to write down the exact words which God desired? The fact that Luke and other writers of Scripture were acquainted with out250.

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The most interesting of all attacks, how* PRO SHOP ever, as far as the man who never looked at the Bible is concerned, is the accusation that the Bible is full of contradictions. Quite a few BILLIARDS years back, there was an article in a nation' wide magazine with a title somewhat to the effect of “1000 Mistakes in the Bible.” It would probably be rather humorous to look into the author’s credentials for such a rabid bit of writing. Scripture cannot and docs not DEALING IN condradict itself. Those who claim it does MEATS and SAUSAGES have never done a deep enough study of Holy Writ to find the obvious solutions to these of All Kinds “seeming contradictions,” nor have they fob 202 Third Street lowed the only true basis for proper interpre­ tation and exegesis: Scriptura ex Scriptura ex­ watertown Dial 261-7066 watertown plicate est. The scope of this article forbids a detailed look at all the alleged contradictions.

If anyone wishes to dive into this subject, he should try to get hold of a copy of Does the Bible Contradict Itself?. Like most conserva­ PORT tive books put out by Concordia, this book HOP also has gone out of print. The author, Wil­ liam Arndt, has written a companion volume still in print: Bible Difficulties. In conclusion 301 N. Third Street “ Phone 261-5402 to this point, even if our reason cannot recon­ LETTER JACKETS ATHLETIC SUPPLIES cile two seemingly contradictory parts of Scrip­ HUNTING AND FISHING EQUIPMENT ture, we humbly bow before the Scripture which “cannot be broken” and admit our own insufficiency in the matter, realizing that until we reach the heavenly mansions, “We know in part,” but that which we need to know is j fully revealed.

One of the less discussed but still preva­ lent ramparts raised against divine revelation in the Holy Scriptures is the slander that there are “inaccurate” quotations of the Old Testa­ ment in the New. When quoting the Old Testament, the inspired writers of the New Testament did not always quote the Hebrew

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Still, the apostles and evangelists did, at times, quote neither the Hebrew nor Septuagint.

Rather, they gave the general idea of a given text in their own words. J^one of this dictates or militates against the doctrine of inspiration.

It rather supports the doctrine of infallibility.

As one scholar says: “Had the New Testa­ ment writers been impostors, they would have been in their interest to prove to their readers their extensive acquaintance and perfect agree­ ment with the Old Testament. As it was, the Holy Spirit, who spoke through them, directed them to cite and apply the Word of God as the occasion required and as His holy purposes were best served, Gal. 4:21-31. It is always the privilege of an author to quote his writings as he sees fit, and this prerogative must not be denied to the Holy Spirit."

Last of the Johnny-come-lately arrivals is the attack against God's beloved children who hold to the doctrine of inspiration. It is the libelous label of “Biblicism’’ which the liberals lay upon us. They call us slaves of “the letter” with no idea of Christian freedom or liberty.

The thing is, freedom from the Law of God can only mean slavery to sin. “No man can serve two masters.” (Matt. 6:24) Take away the inerrancy of Scripture and you have no means of grace, no resurrection of Christ and hence NO SALVATION! If the first chapter of Genesis can contain error or mytth, so also can the last chapter of Matthew. It is eitheror! Either Scripture is without qualification the unstained Message of the Almighty, per­ fect in all points, or Scripture is a book of frauds and deceits and hence so is Christianity itself.

If anything is absolutely nauseating to God, it is the “lukewarm” type of people who try to play both sides of the field at once. If a man doesn't believe it, he should at least have the guts to take his stand with the ungodly in Satan’s camp instead of passing himself off for an orthodox person and then backing down and drooling all over like a cream puff when the show-down comes. Heed the warning of the Lord: “Because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.” (Rev. 3:16) Faith in the risen Christ is what convinces us of Scripture’s inerrancy. The attacks of

men come and go. “THE WORD OF OUR GOD SHALL STAND FOREVER!”

“The Power of God for salvation" Since the Holy Scriptures are given by in­ spiration, they inherently, in and of themselves, possess attributes or powers. Wc list these attributes as: divine authority, divine efficacy, divine sufficiency and divine perspicuity.

To state the basic meaning of divine auth' ority simply, we say that the Scriptures stand alone. They need no other authority to rest on. They are their own authority. Neither scholarship nor human testimony can make Holy Writ any more powerful, certain, and sure than it already is. The authority of the Holy Bible is absolute! That, by the way, is the manner in which this article has treated Holy Scripture. The author gives no personal defense of the Word. The Word defends itself! “Whoever therefore rejects Scripture or subjects it to human censorship and criti­ cism becomes guilty of high treason against God.” (Chr. Dogm., P. 121, Mueller) Because of its divine authority over the lives of men, the Word of God also has the innate power to save souls. It has the power to recreate the spiritually dead man, to impart the blessed promise and assurance of forgive­ ness and to sanctify the elect of God. We re­ call the words of the Christ: “Sanctify them in the Truth; Thy Word is Truth.” (John 17:17) The complete efficacy of the Scrip­ tures is constantly referred to throughout the Holy Book. Prominent among the sede doctrinae of this doctrine is Romans 1:16: “I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to every one who be­ lieves.” Any attempt to corrupt, merchandise, or dress up that Word and Gospel denies to God’s Book the very power which God has established in it. Any attempt to win souls by something other than the Word is an in­ sult to the majesty of the “blessed and only Potentate” Almighty God will not tolerate in any way, shape or manner this type of blas­ phemous glory-grabbing, honor-stealing substitut-on for His holy Word! People who play with fire will get burned! People who play games with the all-powerful Word will find that Sword of the Spirit carving out a few places in their own carcasses.

Linked to this attribute in a flawless chain of power, the divine sufficiency of Holy Writ shows itself as that attribute of Scripture by which it teaches all things necessary for salvation. This is why Scripture alone is the only source and norm for faith and life. The 252

order to the apostles was appended by the timeless remark: “Teaching them to observe all that I commanded you.” And they didf Once more we repeat what Paul told Timothy, namely that the Scriptures “are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.” This is why the Lord commanded Israel to neither add nor detract from the Book of the Law. What God has written is sufficient. To add to that Word by means of canons, decretals, councils or rationalistic derivations is sin, presumptuous sin.

All of the attributes so far discussed would be of little use were it not for the property of Holy Scripture known as divine perspicuity.

A simpler term would be divine clarity or clearness. Luther makes much of this in his writings, saying at one point: “There is no clearer book upon earth than is Holy Writ, which in comparison with all other books is like the sun in its relation to all other lights.”

The message of salvation as presented in the Holy Scriptures is completely understandable, even to little children, yes, even to infants (i.e., ta brephous: II Tim. 3:16) The author calls to mind his stay in one Christian home some years ago where he witnessed a child, not yet turned three years of age, recite the names of the twelve apostles and say grace, a result of early training, not genius. Said the Psalmist: “The unfolding of Thy Words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.” (Ps. 119: 130) The lambs and sheep of the Good Shep­ herd hear and fully understand the voice of Him who leads. Those who follow not His gentie voice reap the maxim by Cowper: “Blind unbelief is sure to err and scan His work in vain.”

“The Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of Cod." The above passage is our arsenal against the hellish holdouts of heresy. With the in­ vincible “IT IS WRITTEN,” the mighty Christ vanquished all the venomous invaders into the invisible vestibule of the invisible church. The Word of God is the only Sword we have been given by God and we are to use it. Those who deign that sword too dull a defense have never swung it! “The Word of , God is living and active and sharper than any • two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the | division of soul and spirit, of both joints and i marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” (Heb. 4:12) What but the Sword of the Spirit could have placed in honor an obscure monk before J the prelates of church and state in a city called | 253

Worms? What but a warring wielding of that Weapon could have turned peoples, nations and kingdoms about face in the course of re­ corded history? Only after the visible looming of Lucifer’s legions do most people finally take note of the monster’s magnitude. Usually, by that time, they have dulled their swords by misuse and abuse. The multitudes no longer have a shiny, sharp sword to swing, since they turned it down upon the first offer. Let us heed the battle cry given to the Ephesians: “Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, that you may be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. For our strug­ gle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world-forces of this darkness, against the spir­ itual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.” (Eph. 6:10-12) As the hymn writer said: “The arm of flesh will fail you, ye dare not trust your own!” Let us then resolve to raise in gleaming glory our God-given gladitorial gear in adamant opposition to the inqui­ res and invasions of the adversary! If we be soldiers of the Savior, then let us fearlessly fight the Savior’s foes!

“Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light."

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When we say, "Peace, peace,” there is no peace. The visible church on earth is torn From Discussion Four: The Promise and the asunder by the divisive heresies of huckstering Scriptures. — Any approach to the Scriptures deviants. Men posing as saviors of the human which focuses on the need for historical factrace are selling the people of God up the river uality rather than on the primary need for for thirty pieces of silver. The World Council Christ leads us away from Christ rather than of Churches spits upon the infallible Word of to Him. God and holds high its own sick standards From Discussion Five: The Promise and before the misguided multitudes. They deny Jesus Christ. — Some insist on a public ac­ the vicarioous atonement of the Lord Jesus ceptance of the historicity of every detail of Christ as it is explicitly set forth in the inthe life of Jesus as recorded by the evangel­ errant Word. ists, as if that were a test of our faith. The This enemy is not so distant. Take one claim is made that if doubt is cast upon the good, hard, long look at the Lutheran Churchhistorical accuracy of one of the gospel nar­ Missouri Synod. Satan sifted it like wheat! ratives, then doubt is cast on the historicity For more than 100 years the Missouri Synod of Jesus’ resurrection. That assertion is based was the church of the Word. Names like on a misunderstanding of the nature of the Ferdinand Walther and Walter Maier conjure gospel. up for us the smell of the battle's smoke. They also have been known to conjure up tears in This poor excuse for verbal trash is what remembrance of what Missouri once was.

Concordia Seminary is pumping out. The What Missouri once was, it no longer is. statements presented above from the "affirma­ Everyone, including those outside Christen­ tion” are blasphemous treasons and assaults dom, is quite aware of the doctrinal deviations against God and His holy Word! Heresy is and the irreparable damage done to the doc­ flowing over Missouri like creamed beef over trinal purity of the Missouri Synod. Scarcely toast. The judgment of Revelation is without a Saturday issue of the Milwaukee Journal any doubt whatsoever applicable to the circumcan pass without some article on some new stances: “I testify to everyone who hears the "controversy” raging within the synod. words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone Noteworthy in the news now is the "Affir­ adds to them, God shall add to him the plagues mation in Two Parts” by the faculty of Con­ which are written in this book; and if anyone cordia Seminary in St. Louis. The affirmation takes away from the words of the book of this is entitled "Faithful to Our Calling — Faithful prophecy, God shall take away his part from to Our Lord.” The title is a misnomer. Here the tree of life and from the holy city, which are a few, and only a few, of the "interesting” are written in this book.” (Rev. 22:18' 19) quotations from the theologians of a synod There are, of course, those within the Miswell on its way to ruin. souri Synod who are with much effort trying From Discussion One: God’s Creation and the Beginnings. — Precisely how did the to restore the former doctrinal purity of Missouri. They nevertheless fail to heed the warnworld take shape when He first created it? ing of the Scriptures on this matter: "Now Did He create dien the way He does now?

I urge you, brethen, keep your eye on those Was His creation of the universe instantan­ who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary eous or was it a lengthy process? Those are to the teaching which you have learned, and mysteries that have engaged the minds of turn away from them.” This Scriptural warn' scientists, die imagination of poets, and the faith of worshipers for centuries. Each group ing was given for a definite purpose. Those strains with human words to describe God well-meaning people who remain in a consiscreating trough His Word. Similarly biblical tently erring church body cannot but be drag' ged down into the whirlpool of error them' men of faith, operating with the same limita­ selves after a time. We humans are not as tions of human language in a given culture, staunch as we think. That is why God warns were moved by the Spirit to portray die crea­ us to "turn away” from those who might prove tive work of God in diverse ways. a trap and temptation to our own souls, lest From Discussion Three: God’s Creation and we be caught up in like sin or condone that His Wonders. — To edify die Church, we sin by eventual apathy. ought to focus on this central meaning of The fall of Missouri was due to one thing: the miracle accounts for us instead of dwell- infidelity to the Word of God. They accepted 254

as valid theology something other than that contained in the infallible Word and then arrogantly called into question the inerrancy of the Bible.

The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Syn­ od is not immune. “Let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.” Satan is fully aware of our synod’s present prosperity in re­ lation to former yearrs. He can very well use this prosperity to turn our hearts away from the eager study, searching and adhering to the Word of God at all costs. Our hearts are so often impressed by numbers that we forget that it is the Lord who tolerates no unscriptural methods of gaining big bands of followers.

Our biggest task right now is to stay faithful to the Word. We must be faithful, not elo­ quent, not clever, not schemers nor dreamers, but faithful!

Satan is at thy gates, O Zion. He sees your prosperity, your promotions profuse, your countless books about the Bible, your eager and goodly motivated programs. He sees all of these good things. He is accustomed to use the good things to destroy you, O Zion. Cling, O Zion, to the Word! The Word! The Word!

The Word! Pray God that Satan has not al­ ready entered your gates and shut the gate behind him without your knowledge. Take up arms, O Zion, for a time of tumult and test­ ing has come. Do you not hear? Do you not see? Your enemy lies in the silence of the shadows, waiting to pounce upon you! Sound forth the clarion of God’s Word! Don’t sleep!

Fight!

“FOREVER, O LORD, THT WORD!" How richly God has blessed us that we should be the recipients of His infallible, inerrant Word! The foundations of our faith have been written with the finger of God! Pity those who treasure not this gift; they shall lose it. Though men fail, however, God’s Word shall never fail. “The sum of Thy Word is Truth, and every one of Thy righteous ordin­ ances are everlasting.” (Ps. 119:160) In the eighty-ninth verse of that same psalm is written: “Forever, O Lord, Thy Word is settled in heaven.” So it is. So it is. Christ is at the helm. We fear not. We once more raise the joyous victor’s cry: “FOREVER, O LORD, THT WORD!" Roy W. Hefti ’75 1-All Scripture quotations taken from NASB. 2-Rosten, Leo, ed.

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