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...Like God." Although the manual warns that "the Bible, the Prayer Book and the Hymnal will be essential tools in your teaching," the chief aim of the series is to express religion in everyday, sometimes even in comic-book terms. For six-year-olds, there are three gaily illustrated booklets of stories about Tish and Mike, whose adventures make good beginnings for classroom discussions of religious truths. The booklets may well guide as many parents as children, showing Daddy and Mother coping wisely with such family crises as Mike's TV-induced nightmares and Tish's embezzlement...
...since become important in contemporary music. But overtones of Brahms and Wagner, in much diluted form, pervade the work. In the melodic writing there is a curious ungainliness and ungraciousness, and yet it serves well to further the dominantly religious tone of the Symphony, best exemplified by the superb hymnal passages at the beginning...
Halves of a Ticket. The selections reflect Layman Bristol's wish to make the hymnal, intended primarily for children, a "happy book." To appeal to children, they have stressed hymns about Christ's boyhood and everyday life, e.g.,O Master of the Callous Hand, Bristol's own My Master Was a Worker...
Says Commuter Bristol (who did much of the work on the hymnal on the train between his Princeton, N.Y. home and his Manhattan office) : "A man's Sunday self and his weekday self are like two halves of a round-trip ticket : not good if detached...
...three weeks ago hired J. B. Matthews as its executive director. Few Americans have held a Red hunting license longer or beat the bushes harder than J. B. Matthews. After getting an A.B. degree from Asbury College, Wilmore, Ky., he was a Methodist lay missionary in Java, translated a hymnal into Malay, later studied at Union Theological Seminary, taught Oriental languages and current events at Fisk and Howard Universities for Negroes. He became a Socialist, and, unlike most U.S. Socialists, an active fellow traveler of the Communists, belonging to 28 Commie fronts. In 1934 he broke with the party. Subsequently...