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Show PunT CHAPEL WILL HAVE NO ALTAR ... 'Divers Are the Ways to Approach Go ... IT CAN BE A MANGER OR A Rv H. I. PHILLIPS " 'DIVERS ARE THE WAYS.. "The chapel of prayer in the new United Nations headquarters will have no altar or windows. A shaft 1 of sunlight will come through the roof. A huge marble slab, memorializing me-morializing the war dead, will be the only object in the simple, cy ; lindrical structure." News Item. No altar. . . . No stained-glass windows. . . . No man of Sorrows with His ex-ample ex-ample of love, sacrifice, sorrow and ultimate victo-y that has stirred millions through the cen- turics Just a shaft of sunlight beating In from above to symbolize hope, truth and an omnipotent power . . . Yet here can be the Universal Temple, the Cathedral of the Earth, the Prayer Room of All Races, Creeds and Sects, all communing with a Supreme Being in the reali-zation reali-zation that without It they are as video puppets! Shaft of sunlight! Nothing more! Yet In it the Christian, jew, Confuclanist, Buddhist, Mohammedlst and Zoroastrlan-Ist Zoroastrlan-Ist may know the mysteries of faith, see the holy of holies and seek the inspiration and guidance guid-ance desired by all men. 0 In it, the Christian will see the manger at Bethlehem, hear "Holy Night," perceive the shepherds watching their flocks by night . . . know the cleansing beauty of the Sermon on the Mount . . . feel the horror of Golgotha . . . thrill to the Resurrection morn! Here may the Jew commune with Moses and his ancient prophets, the Turk turn to Mohammed and the Indian seek guidance from his separate gods. In this simple chamber may all hear the timeless voice! , 0 May this be a "room at the Inn," a manger, a temple and a mosque, breathing the true essence of divinity, 0 Here may troubled men, charged with a great duty in an hour of frightful peril, subscribe to the words of Sri Ramakrishna: "As one can ascend to the top of a house by means of a ladder, a bamboo, a staircase or a rope, so divers are the ways to approach God, and every religion in the world shows these ways. Different are the ways that lead to the Temple Tem-ple of Kalighat; similarly varied are those that lead to the House of the Lord." "There will be no windows shadow, "ere- denied tf m,ay th hear and mark, "Thon n a dozen tonro "A marble slab obct in the room I? jt may the e,. vot.on of the gallamj fenngs of the widow I May i,s rugged the kid in the sar.dlou fending a bloody echo the schoolgirl','! denly changed to tort in a field hospiUL This is the indL ture, the all.impor;.. This is the simple, ur;-without ur;-without which ail tt'. council chambers it field without sun or ra This is the cornerfe CUFF STUFF "The President fcjy gress has flagrantly" November mandate ot News item . . . Tha; ten Mandate, ag'in. P.L.T. says he ha, i so smart he knowi t sets by name. Ye Gotham Bugle One of the most pi skits we've seen wu i by Boris Karloff t: with a three-quarten him in his most tern: He was wielding t hj.; claiming, "Remembti strike straight and hard strike often! And you; a single stroke." . . . prise finish, he was rr scoutmaster instrac r a |
