Show Something For Everyone By BERT BOYACK RELIGION Story Behind the Word taken from This week Hr THERE'S A legend that a certain soldier of the Fourth century named Martin of Tours was met on a bitter cold winter's at one or the gates to the French city of bv a piteous beggar crying for Martin reached into his purse and found it Touched with he took off his heavy cloak with slashed it in two giving half to the beggar keeping the other half for so the legend Martin dreamed he saw Christ wearing the half-cloak and was so moved by the Boston that he sought and later abandoned his career to devote to the TIME Martin became the patron saint of France his considered a sacred was often tarried into battle by the French The officer appointed to watch over the sacred cloak appa was in as the which according to the Encyclopedia Britannica and the official history of the Navy's chaplain corps the English word History lesson for Class RARE An old bishop in the nation's capital was sick to death of the endless Embassy parties he was expected to At one of them he glanced sourly at the familiar cast of characters and sank into a comfortable The asked spot of An understanding she whispered in his and Said the I 7 I OR MONOGAMY A Chicago high teacher doesn't know whether or not a student was deliberately pulling his leg when he wrote in an examination Christian religion dictates that a man may have only one wife at a This system is called f PIOUS QUOTES Poverty grinds you prosperity puffs you We work too hard but we also goof off too much at Me same we gel up too go to bed too have more leisure and know less what to do with it than ever Parents mates children drift The air the water the food is stuffed with preservatives only the aspirins we incessantly take are guaranteed Failure makes you success makes you i WHAT A I A Texas minister was interviewed by a reporter as to his sermon subject for The I whose handwriting was none too nevertheless obligingly wrote out the topic Is Living Your together with a few points he meant 5 to He was both surprised and gratified to see the church packed to the doors the following His lasted only until he was shown his text as announced by the There it was in black and white Is Loving Your 12 That in the by Charles F. is packed of incredible oddities and to quote only a Did and Eve have any Yes perhaps a great Genesis states that after Adam begat and he lived years and begat sons and Who lived practically as long as Noah years to Methuselah's Who were the first people to complain about f The Israelites complained about k TRICKERY my sermon is over I'm to ask Sail who wish to give money to pay off the mortgage to Meanwhile the organ will play appropriate music is Star-Spangled MODERN VISION J Sunday School teacher told the class how Lot's wife the mistake of looking back and was turned into a of salt so special about demanded little mother looked back when we were driving our new and turned into a THE FIRST t The first Sunday School in America was started by Industrialist Samuel Slater after he overheard several i small boys discussing plans to rob a farmer's r The story is told of a man who achieved fame by saving la number of lives during the Johnstown and toured the country telling and retelling of his courageous When he died and went to heaven he continued his Whenever a group gathered he would launch forth with the story of his great He that an old man with a long white beard would follow him giving him a every time he Finally he asked Saint Peter who the old so-and-so Saint Peter pay no attention to He's only you he's I MALE GOSSIP 1 Four churchmen from a small town were at a tion in a large One evening they were sitting in a hotel ignoring the nocturnal pleasures One of them for and off the let's confess what we'd like to do if we were free to do They seemed to agree and the first man like to go put and get The second like to find a good crap jf The third d like to find a beautiful The fourth sat silent until the others finally urged him let his hair down and tell what he'd like to the didn't agree to With P more he you won't like but I just love to gossip man I can hardly wait to I get SYDNEY HARRIS jL-The church makes us but not the makes us literate but not the makes us but not the media of communication tells us everything but what we need to to lead a better m LAST WORD F Too many of us are like the old deacon who prayed 0 in Thy work especially in an advisory Rapacity |