CR = Lis a by Rev. Charles H. Gilbert It is always good to welcome any and all signs of spring. Yes- terday I was telling people at Valley Crest that I heard that very mori the song of the e—and I imitated its song which always reminds me of the signals I have heard being sent over the public ad- dress system in a store when the office is calling for some offi- cial. One patient remarked knowingly that it sounded something like an owl, which it does. Then I said I heard a cock pheasant, but it sounded to me more like a croak than a song! But who is best judge of a song? Probably Mrs. Pheasant thinks that is a beautiful sound just as he is a beautiful bird. At a store a lady clerk was saying, “O§K love the spring! With the birds singing and the flowers beginning to grow!” And I agreed with her. Then she added, “And yet some people say there is no God!”’ And I am sure she thought that would please me—a clergyman! “They don’t know,” I replied. But I was sure that it did not take a spring day to justify my belief in God. I have had ter- rible pains that did as much to make me bglieve in God as a spring day ie. I have often said that if one starts out by be- lieving that there is no God, or a hard time explaining how come there is so much good in the world, winter or summer, fall or spring! Let nobody think that when I say I have kept a rather lengthy prayer list going for a number of years I am proclaiming any- thing of goodness in myself. What Iam proclaiming is a vast amount of helplessness and need in me, and a dependence on who ever is ‘‘out there’ or “in here’ listening to me! What I seem to have been about to say at the beginning of this column was some effusions about spring. When spring begins to gome there seem at once. The. pussywillows! rd like torask a chickadee a ques- tion, but he is always too busy to seldom see a chickadee sitting down to niPlitate! But tell, me somebody Who knows, what is the chickadee finding or trying to find when he leaves a good pile of sunflower seeds and goes up and” down a branch of pussywillow fuzzy-wuzzies picking industriously at every bud? Can’t be there is nectar in them is there? Or bugs: or pussy-fleas? As a friend of ours remarked last week when as guest preacher at the Lenten service at Carverton he saw Charlie Gilbert sitting down there in front—and he and I both ‘joined the Wyoming Conference on trial 50 years ago and we had been a trial to the conference ever since,”” and he further re- marked that Charlie writes for the Dallas Post and you never can tell what he may be putting into his ®Fypewriter Talks column. ‘Well that is about right, for I began with ‘spring is here,” and now I am about to switch to the study of Italian! before how my long un-used copy of the Italian New Testa-. ment and Psalms had been pressed into service to bring a little brightness into the life of an Italian patient-friend at Valley Crest. For I had man- aged to pronounce the words of Psalms 23 and also the Lord’s Prayer for this friend. Soon and died. (No connection be- Ashley’s Italian Testament was being used, one of them wrote, “I am sure Uncle Ashley would be pleased to know that his book was being used to good pur- pose.” And the other cousin wrote about Uncle Ashley’s tragic death. He was a physician and had gone to Italy as a private physican to some prominent traveller. When_he got home he was working in a New York hospital and caught typhoid from a derelict brought in from the gutter and died of the disease after saving the old man brought in. It was truly sa- crificial service he rendered, as all doctors do to more or less de- gree in their practice. In the medical world the worthiness of the sick person is not the cri- terion for the treatment given him. And it maybe added by way of theological comment that none of us are worthy of the mercy of God (else it would not be mercy!). the retired nurse-supervisor who is now recovering from brain surgery, a difficult disci- pline for a nurse who herself has had to watch the painfully slow progress of rehabilitation. It is natural for her to want more ob- servable benefits from the sur- gery. I am sure I would be im- patient in such a process. It pleased me the other day to hear one of our younger graduate nurses speak appreci- ately of this former supervisor, with these older patients. One takes such an attitude for granted, but I can see how a caretaker of such patients could be tempted to lose her cool, get snappy and cross. We older people canily get on the nerves of our younger friends and rela- tives! Browning wrote: ‘Grow old along with me—" and with or without Robert Browning we do grow old, but how much we look forward with delight to “the best is yet to be’ that he writes about is anybody’s guess! Cub Scouts Plan April Hoagie Sale Cub Pack 233 of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Shavertown, are planning a trip to Philadel- phia in May. In order to secure funds for the trip, they will hold a hoagie sale at the church April 21 and 22. Pack members request that hoagies be ordered by April 14. The hoagies can be picked up at the church on the dates of April 21-22. Where necessary, deliveries will be arranged. Dallas R.D. 3 333-4500 Sha vertown 674-7156 Photo by J. Kozemchak Sr. Jane Domnick Ping-Pong tournament The senior class sponsored a ping-pong tournament this week. Applications were available to all interested students and a small entry fee was required. ‘Actual playing commenced at the beginning of the week. Window paintings To welcome ‘the spring season, art students combined their talents to produce an array of brightly colored paintings .on the school win- 2-Door Hardtop. aes or Po Fo LTT SREY RE -NVE LR. 0 .P, Disc ET 3 i i [SI XTTIT Headlamps: Viny CONDITIONING, Tinted Glass. CID. Waban hil) ‘Outside | ‘Backup Lights, Stock #21157. Coupe, [ Sid ve Te TH LCL LECT E rer Nel EE The Dal-Hi Chorus sponsored Seana aly M0 “ phi he I i Pl igi VEUTH . Grinding k ; pont PT a NIRA CE PTH ( LELTN Bearings : ri LT LUTE Ste: cle being Bob Chelak : Tom. CR LILLY 8:18 BELTS i Tom Kenney Joe Rizzi a roller skating party Wed- nesday night. All members of the student body were invited to attend. Special Notes Debbie Philo, a senior at Dallas High, attended the Presidential Classroom in Washington D.C. last week: A fond farewell is wished to Mrs. Faerber, who will not be returning after the Easter vacation. Naney Buss will. be taking over Mrs. Faerber’s gym and health classes for the remaining school term. Easter vacation The long awaited and much needed vacation has finally arrived. The Dallas students completed a three day school week and closed the doors of the school until April 4, Teeners’ Registration At Dallas High, Apri, 11 Westmoreland and Shaver- town Teeners League registra- tion and first practice will be held April 1 at 11 a.m. at Dallas Senior ‘High School baseball field. . All former members and other teenage boys interested in playing should report at that time. Those wishing to register but unable to attend April 1, may contact Robert C. Monk, 154 N. Lehigh St., Shavertown, or David Zimmerman, 38 Meadowcrest, Trucksville.
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