Tárogató, 1948-1949 (11. évfolyam, 1-8. szám)

1948-11-01 / 5. szám

14

TÁROGATÓ

The visiting children have a happy time playing with Swiss boys and girls. They like the fresh mountain air, the lovely flowers, the good food that makes them strong. They like the kind Swiss people.

THAT WE MAY HAVE PEACE By Gertrude Bowen Webster

Now must we take away from war The trappings men have made,

And let its foul and cancerous sores Be nakedly displayed.

We must teach youth to loathe the word, The mad deed to abhor;

Since sane men proved to the whole world

There is no need for war.

But bring new pageantry to Peace, Make glad our eager feet;

Let hearts leap up to follow, when Peace drums go down the street!

Parade with flags of every land,

That good-will may increase,

And lend a glamour to the day That sees the march of Peace.

With colourful sincerity,

And world-wide brotherhood,

We may help God to answer prayers For Universal Good.

A SCIENTIST THANKS GOD

From time to time great scientists and inventors reveal to the world that thoughts of God are with them more constantly than some sceptical people like to think. An instance of this concerns Samuel F. B. Morse, the father of telegraphy. Morse suffered privation and much ridicule while perfecting his invention. Obstacles of every sort stood in his path, and numerous efforts at home and abroad failed to win the money or approval needed to convince a doubting world that his telegraph would work.

Nevertheless, on May 24, 1844, in Washington, apparatus for making a test was finally set up, and Morse stood

by to see his invention judged. Seated at his telegraph instrument the inventor calmly transmitted, in dots and dashes, a message which a bystander named Annie Ellsworth selected from the Bible: “What hath God wrought!” Moments later, the same message came back to him from Baltimore, forty miles away. His invention had proved itself!

The inventor was delighted. To his brother Sidney he wrote the following: “That sentence of Annie Ellsworth’s was divinely indited, for it is in my thoughts day and night. ‘What hath God wrought!’ He alone could have carried me through my trials and enabled me to triumph over the obstacles, physical and moral, which opposed me.”

There is evidence of a gifted man finding it necessary to lean on God... and not hesitating to admit it. How much more necessary is it for ordinary folk to turn to the same Source of comfort and guidance in facing life’s tasks.

LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW

Travellers in Korea before the war could surely not fail to be impressed by Christianity as they saw it in that land. Such a large percentage of the Koreans were Christians, and such earnest Christians.

If you visited there in the spring, you were impressed by the beauty of the flowers—the cherry blossoms, the iris, the wild azalea on every hillside. And if you were there in that beautiful season you were also impressed by something else that was lovely besides Korea’s flowers. For it was also the season when the missionaries were being “farewelled” as they left for their furloughs. And such loving demonstrations of farewell you would perhaps not find equalled anywhere else in the world. Banquets, gifts, trains pulling away from overcrowded platforms of waving handkerchiefs, songs, tears, last glimpses.

They did love their missionaries— those Koreans. They felt they knew us through the missionaries we sent them. We were all like missionaries.

But since the war sometimes one wonders if those dear Korean people have