Show KATHLEEN KA NORRIS Return to Religion Bell Dell Syndicate Features By KATHLEEN NORRIS NORRISS S LONG as we can let us l. l make our little corner of the world a serene and happy place As long as we can lets let's give all we can to the suffering suffering suffer suITer- ing overseas to the community community community chest to the various members of the family who are not as fortunate as we are As long as we can lets let's hold home together keep up the customs of Christmas and birthdays the family family family ly group about the supper table the good winter fires the first picnics picnics picnics pic pic- among the crocuses and green grasses of spring We dont don't know what's ahead what changes what shocks But we can steel ourselves to meet them by building close and tight the dear familiar pattern of ot our American ways by clinging to the law v. The law of each individual heart heart to to forgive forgive forgive for for- give to share to serve That is our creed It Is upon that creed that our childhood lives were formed Blessed are the merciful Forgive your enemies Inasmuch as ye have done it for the least of these ye have lave done it for tor me Under today's doubts and distresses distresses distresses dis dis- dis- dis tresses we must try to return to these laws la Internationally no nation nation na- na tion Jon is doing this It Is too late to hope lope for that But each one of at us may create his own tiny corner of ot heaven leaven by a simple return to the law aw Fear Will Disappear r. r Do this and you never again will know enow fear No matter what is ahead of ot us no matter what is going to happen lappen happen you will be safe So for your family's sake try to discover er the peace and beauty of the lives that hat follow the law of Jesus Christ before the inevitable agitations and scares ahead sty t 4 ht the good winter fires Not that America and the American AmerIcan Amer- Amer Ican can way are doomed They are not We will survive adjusting ourselves ourselves ourselves our our- selves to the necessities of strange and anxious times with all the courage cour cour- age yes age yes and the laughter laughter for for which we are famous Our children and grandchildren will grow Into a stronger America even than the theone theone theone one we know an America that appreciates appreciates ap ap- pred ates the miracle of ot its exIstence existence existence exist exIst- ence and its power We can sail straight through all rough weather if it we lift our hearts now to the power above all earthly earthy earthly earth- earth ly y powers and put our hands confidently confidently con- con into the hand that will not let ct us go It was in the name of ot God that we began our story Ride Out the Storm We cant can't influence great international international international groups to come back to God We cant can't stem the terrible force Coree of at events already In motion But you and I safe in the obscurity of our own own simple town small-town lives can begin to regulate and strengthen strength strength- en our own souls and minds to ride rideout rideout rideout out the storm Right In your home and mind the greatest philosophy ever voiced can live avs as s it did 2000 years ago In a carpenters carpenter's shop in Nazareth It is the only law You can find it by simply simply simply sim sim- ply thinking of it it wondering about it and finally accepting it Not all the thousands of at magazine and newspaper articles that flood us today today today to to- to- to day boiled down into one say more than does any line of at that law It says that hate and fear only beget more hate and fear tear That swords and guns are but puny things destined to fall into rust rustand rustand rustand and decay That the overwhelming the Irresistible weapon is trust is goodness is brotherhood That to meet the onrushing foe with this armament is to disarm and conquer conquer conquer con con- quer him by a law higher than he dreams Had those who call themselves themselves themselves them them- selves His followers kept this law through all the hot ages of ot bitter warfare we would not be where we are arc today The word war would have been long forgotten We cant can't go back But every one of us who v clings to this law is safe And some of us may live to see the miracle hidden in the old rule Overcome not evil with evil but overcome evil with good |