Page 2 by Rev. Charles H. Gilbert There is a hill in our Mt. Zion territory, one of whose re- sidents lives along its smooth, well-travelled road. The hill is named by that resident “Happy Hill.”” You'll see the name on his mailbox and discover it in his face and manner as you get to know him. Happy Hill and his friends help make it that way. For they are a happy clan. Sunday afternoon was the kind of day to celebrate gradua- tions, and two of the young people on that road were grad- uating, one from high school the other from college. Last year we were a part of this same chain of families celebrating a graduation of another, who has since moved to Kentucky to fol- low a lead in the realm of life in- terest, and perhaps a life work, or perhaps the road will bend again in another direction. For it is the glory of youth to branch like a tree, to change like a plant, sometimes to wander like a mountain stream. The way they celebrate is to begin at the home of one of the families, and take to the spa- cious yard back of the line. Fine place for tables, chairs, tub of pop bottles, trays of food, and much conversation back and forth. One question is some- times asked: “Well, congratu- do next.” And so it is not sur- prising to find all kinds of aims, trial-and-error decisions. My interest was fascinated by the discovery that parents are learning from. their young folks. Which is as it should be. A mother related to me how eager a student in her family was to devour ideas kept in books. “Mother, you ought to read this book !’’ And so the mother has a list of the student’s books which she hopes to read sometime! Some ideas the mother does not listened to the eagerness of the student-mother relationship, I could see that no matter how long this mother lives, she is not likely to find old age as early as she might have expected. The mind and eye must follow the line of that curiosity as to what life is all about. It is no wonder that this stu- ing, when she exclaimed, ‘Oh, I hope I can live long enough to — learn all these things I read in books!’’ Not only do the books extend a beckoning finger, but the very questions arising in the discovering mind call for indivi- dual quests and pondering. Does the book have a sequel? One must see how that story comes out! Probably many have dis- covered what I did some years ago when following out a line of study. I thought perhaps I was learning a new field of know- ledge, and then I noticed that many of my books had a word in the title: ‘Introduction to the Study of”’. So many of the stu- dies I have taken were merely “introductions”. The study of the Bible, for instance, is almost never completed. One only be- gins one section, or one book, or some subject which is suggest- ed by one book, and then ano- ther and another. You only be- gin the study of psychology, you never finish it. You only learn ‘the abe’s of a language, you never get around to learn all that has been written in that language. When out with a crowd of young people, it is almost im- possible to avoid wondering what this person will be like 10 or 20 years from now. The babies in the gocarts among the crowd of lively people Sunday, you wonder and hope that the future will be a story of great achievement. Teachers are be- ing astounded by what some of their pupils have turned out to become. Why shouldn’t a parent take some study in the field of knowledge being followed by a youth of the family? That Sunday afternoon on Happy Hill, among the comings and goings of people whom I knew as children years ago, I was glorying -in the achieve- ments of their children as the youth of our times. Something of a kindred occas- ion I experienced attending our United Methodist Church An- nual Conference a week or so ago. It used to be, the older men of the ministers sat well toward the front so they could not only hear what was going on, but on occasion make a speech with resounding oratory. They were the bearded men of that day. Many are the beards among sthose in the front seats of the Confereng¢e assemblies even to- day. But now they are not at all an unusual sight all over the Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dolbear and Mr. and Mrs. George MeCutcheon, all of Dallas, are attending the fifty-eighth an- nual convention of Kiwanis International in Montreal, Quebec. Approximately 20,000 people, Kiwanians and their families are on hand for the event. They represent 272,000 Kiwanians in 6.000 clubs in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Central and South America, the Caribbean, the Far East and the Southwest Pacific Area. During these three and one- half days of the convention, Kiwanians are hearing from top personalities: Lorin J. Bad- skey, President of Kiwanis International, North Webster, Indiana, who is presiding; Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Minister of Marble Collegiate Church, New York City; Samuel I. Hyakawa, Ph. D. noted educator and speaker; Jack Ossofsky, Executive Study Tour Students A group of high school stu- Miller, German teacher at Dallas Senior High School, have departed for a study tour in Germany. The group will arrive in Stutt- gart and leave there by bus for Heidelburg, where they will spend four weeks at the Colle- gium Platinum, a school which deals in teaching foreign lan- guages. From Heidelberg, their base, they will go on various excur- sions around the area. They also will spend a weekend in Switz- erland, and the last three days in Paris, before returning home, July 31. Members of the group include Cindy Barakat, Kim Martin, Ann Crispell, Karen Purvin, Phillip Miller, Karen Aicher, Dallas; Melinda Scovell, Wyoming Valley West; and Mr. Miller. | Director of the U.S. National Council on the Aging; Miss Mercedes McCambridge, famed actress and 1972 honorary National Chairman of the U.S. Council on Alcoholism ; Sig Mickelson, a professor of journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism; Dr. Cleveland Eneas, Nassau, Bahamas, an articulate spokesman for sociological progress; and The Honourable Jack Austin, Q.C., Deputy Minister, Department of Energy, Mines and Resour- ces, Ottawa, Ontario. Also featured will be Miss Canada- Gillian Regehr; James. W. Glassen, president of Key Club International; and Segundo J. Fernandez, president of Circle K International. DOTTER’S APPLIANCE SERVICE Pittston, Pa. = 654-1884 WESTINGHOUSE Modern Maid Ambassador _: room. Young people every- where. Now it seems to have «come to pass that there are young men seeing visions and old men dreaming dreams. I’ve been thinking a lot about Pentecost as it is described in the Bible. Perhaps I have asso- ciated the presence of Spirit as some quiet breath in the silence. But when I read that story in the Book of Acts when 120 people were having a Conference to- gether wondering what their re- cent friend—the Crucified, what he meant by telling them to “wait in Jerusalem.” There they were upstairs, and all of a sudden the wind began to blow, and that was not a quiet breeze but a noisy experience, as a gust of wind can be. Then there was fire, not a combustion but flame upon flame on each one there. They began to talk and then they rushed into the street where people were who also wondered what was going on. The wind! The fire! The sudden ecstatic speech. We don’t know what they said but everybody there knew what was being said to them and in their own lan- guage! These young people all talking and doubtless making signs. Nobody seemed like a stranger. But there were those of the street who sounded off with their opinions—‘ ‘these are drunk’’! But they were not all confus- ed. Peter had known times when he didn’t know what to say, but he could always say it anyway! In my life-time I have heard people wish for another Pente- cost. I have wondered if we would know it if “it” came! I have wondered if perhaps it is something disturbing the young life among us now. How do we know that the living Spirit is not actively stirring up something in these young people of our day. People of our younger set are getting strange ways and ideas and dress. ‘‘When I was a boy’’—yes, years ago, blue denim was for farm laborers, not for Sunday clothes and big meetings! This is a new day! We had better leave our minds open long enough to see what the “Spirit of Life in this new day’’ may be doing or wanting to do. I must not put too many things past the doing of our Pentecost! I wonder if coriosity may be one of the signs of the Spirit ina person. I, too, want years in which to learn more than I seem able now to take in. I do know that the Bible itself is not a clos- ed book. The truth seems to be entirely spoken and then comes silence. The truth is more like a goad nudging the mind on. The Bible has had much more to say than it has yet said. There is more in the language of other days than we have found on the surface. The Spirit still leads on. Let me keep on going. Let me know the voice of Spirit in the silences of 3 o'clock in the morning on a country road. But let me have ears to hear what is going on in the tumult of noise, the clamor of voices, the change in styles and customs. Let me not close the door to Spirit's entry. SATISFACTION Bruce F. Slocum J Insurance Agency “““All Forms of Insurance’’ 48 Main Street Dallas, Pa. 675-1167 Crash Injuries Claim Shavertown Resident Robert J. Jewell, 52 W. Center St., died June 27 of injuries sus- tained in a June 24 accident on Route 415, Harveys Lake. The 43-year old had been tra- velling east on the highway, by Carol A. Lesho, 32, of Box 349, Warden Place, Harveys Lake, according to Harveys Lake police reports. Coroner George Hudock listed cause of death resulted from in- ternal injuries. Mr. Jewell received his high school education in Dallas High School and was a graduate of Bloomsburg State College. He had been employed as a speech therapist for the Luzerne County Intermediate Unit No. 18 and was an instructor in the Dallas School District in special education. [ He had resided in Shavertown for the past 14 years and was a member of the Shavertown United Methodist Church. He was vice president of the So- ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He was a member of Union Lodge 334 F&AM of Bradford; of Caldwell Consistory, Bloomsburg; and Irem Temple of Wilkes-Barre. Surviving are his widow, the former Ann Hall; a son, Ed- ward, at home; his parents, Joseph and Margaret Jewell; mington, Del. The funeral was held Friday from the Disque Funeral Home, Dallas. The Rev. Robert DeWitt Yost officiated. Masonic ser- vices were conducted Thurs- day. Interment was in Forty Fort Cemetery. MARY RYMAN VALENTINE Mary Valentine, 85, of RD 3 Dallas, died in General Hospital June 27. A native of Dallas Township, she returned to the area about five years ago, after several years as a resident of Florida. She is survived by a daughter, Evelyn Bauschman, Seaford, N.Y.; a son, Robert Pickett, with whom she was living; step children, Arthur Valentine, Laceyville; Kenneth Valentine, Wheaton, Md.; Edith Tiffany, Florida; brothers, George Ry- man, Binghamton, N.Y.; Law- rence Ryman, St. Helena, Calif.; five grandchildren and 10 greatgrandchildren. Services were held from the Disque Funeral Home, Dallas. Interment was in Vaughn Cemetery, Mehoopany. The Rev. 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