Show ideas from other editors From The Barnesboro Star Barnesboro Pennsylvania One aspect aspect aspect as as- of prayer that gets scant attention at Mention from the teachers of re reo re-ligion re may be summed up as the serious risks to which prayer exposes exposes exposes ex ex- poses us states Frank Halliday Ferris in the November Readers Reader's Digest Dr Ferris is Pastor Emeritus Emeritus Emeri Emerl- of at the Fairmount Presbyterian Church Cleveland Heights Ohio His article is condensed from tram his bis book Standing Up to Life Lite In prayer we risk first seeing ourselves as we are In our dealIngs deal deal- t Ings tugs with God we must come comeI I clean Dr Ferris writes All AU our subterfuges the flimsy excuses we contrive to hide our inner poverty from ourselves must come down We face the truth about ourselves when we ask God to take us as we weare weare weare I are and make us as we ought to toi i 1 be This Is the prerequisite to moral progress progress but but it is hard on OIl our pride The second risk Is the danger of becoming more like Uke Christ in m a world which worships the deity sue suc- cess ess Conceding that there is nothing nothing noth noth- ing ing reprehensible about success Dr Ferris points out that there are times in the life of at every man when he must choose between doing the advantageous thing or the right thing Christ was faced by this choice at the outset of Ills His career fIfis temptation was to use His I unique personal persona power to win worldly success A prayer for moral betterment Is no undertaking the author author au au- thor insists One has to take hold bold of it with the rough hand of at aman a 8 aman man who is in m earnest who is undeterred undeterred undeterred un un- deterred by the prospect of at blood sweat and tears for tor only so is la moral mora victory won From The Derington Advertiser Advertiser- Times Kansas A good many people probably still believe that typical retail merchants operate operate op op- erate on the all the traffic will bear philosophy and are always trying to jack up prices That simply isn't true true not not because be be- because cause merchants are any more charitable than the rest of at us but because success in merchandising demands a very different attitude An official of at a national retailing retail ing big association recently put the case this way As the purchasing ing ing agents for the consumer the objective of Americas America's retailers Is the satisfaction and comfort of ot the nations nation's retail customers through the he greatest possible distribution of the country's productive capa capa- city The successful accomplishment accomplish ment meat of at that objective depends on our ability to w offer value for every every dollar donar spent in m our stores When values are lowered sales fall tall production drops purchasing power pow pow power er Is retarded and often otten brought to w a complete halt bait |