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Show "Except the Lord Build The House" By RUTH TAYLOR I wonder how many of you listened list-ened to Lord Halifax on the air as he described in such a humble, moving way the new appearance of St. Paul's in London. How enemy en-emy bombs aimed at it have leveled level-ed the shops and commercial buildings, leaving it standing "clear and majestic, its great cross of gold above the city, sharp cut against the 6ky." I know that many of you who listened remembered as I did the towns in which we were brought up. They were little towns all over this country North, South, East and West, on mountain or in valley, by sea or river or on the great plains. They had one thing in common they were built around a church. It does not matter what ritual was followed in the church we remember, re-member, It does matter that religion re-ligion a belief in the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man was the focal point of both the settling of this country and the founding of its cities from coast to coast. We have not yet had bombs to clear the rubble of material things away from the symbols of our religion. re-ligion. War, however, is the great refiner. Only those things which are enduring can stand up under its withering blasts. Now above all we need to have fiath in the Eternal Goodness in the Father of all Mankind. Now we must prove that religious freedom |