Gilkey Sees in World Today
'New Grain from Old Seed'
By GRETCHEN GRONDAHL
Even after centuries of neglect
or displacement, the seed of crea
tive ideas and Christian faith hear
fruit in human history when they
find good soil in which to grow,
Dr. Charles W. Gilkey said Wed
nesday.
In his fourth in the series of five
Religious Evaluation Week lec
tures on “First-Hand Religion,”
Dr. Gilkey told of a barley kernel,
embedded in a Yugoslavian mon
astery fresco since the 12th cen
tury, which grew and bore fruit
after 700 years.
This process is borne out in
human experience, Dr. Gilkey as
serted. The philosophy of Plato,
formulated 2300 years ago, is bear
ing fresh fruit in the best thought
of our own generation.
Democracy Dates Far Back
Although Americans think of
democracy as an American plant,
its seeds began in England and
Switzerland seven and eight hun
dred years ago, he continued. And
the compositions of Bach, buried
in oblivion for over a hundred
years, are now among the works
most often heard in college chapels
from coast to coast.
This cycle of "new grain out of
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old” finds its most striKing illus
tration in the field of religion, the
speaker stated.
More than 2500 years ago the
Hebrew prophets planted the
great prophetic concept of a moral
order in the universe, created and
sustained by one Lord to whom all
are responsible not only as individ
uals but as groups, Dr. Gilkey ex
plained.
Walls to Be Broken
These convictions were walled
up, like the barley kernet, within
a hardening cement of legalism,
ritualism, racial superiority and
pride of later Hebraism; it was
against this that Jesus preached.
Now these seeds are bringing
forth a fresh creative harvest
which we call the social gospel,
concerned with the relevance of
the Christian religion to the prob
lems which men face collectively,
the speaker pointed out.
One of the striking differences
between today’s college generation
and that of Dr. Gilkey is the mod
ern .student’s concern about read
ing the Bible, he said.
Bible Beading Noted
At the Conference of Christian
Student Leaders at Lawrence,
Kansas, 1200 students requested
nightly instruction on the meaning
of Paul’s letter to the Ephasians.
“These students had come across
the passage which talks about ‘the
middle wall of partition,’ ” Dr. Gil
key explained.
“They realized just what that
‘middle wall of partition’ means
today,” he continued; “the wall
between white and black, between
Jew and Gentile, prosperous and
impoverished, East and West. In
the study lay an awakened soeial
conscience about race prejudices
and tension.”
Dr. Gilkey told the story of a
University of Chicago coed, at
tractive and able, who had a strong
religious background but became
so swamped with campus activities
that she had no time for religious
interests.
Return to Church
After her graduation, she began
to write to the Gilkeys from her
new home in a small Vermont
town. Her responsibilities and
perlexities as the mother of two
children had brought her back to
the church, the center of faith and
social life in the community.
“The seeds from her own home
heritage and training had been
resowed in the soil of her respons
ability and perplexity, and are
now bearing fruit,” Dr. Gilkey
pointed out.
If Religious Evaluation Week is
to have reality and vitality, we
must break up the concrete of our
own hardened and traditional
thinking and let new points of view
drop into the opened soil of our
hearts and minds.
ILooks to Future
“At first we may hardly
know that they are there; it may
take years, but our greatest hope
is that someday a fresh, green
shoot of a religion of our own may
spring up,” the speaker said.
This religion will not be a copy
of the last generation’s religion,
just as the neighbor’s children re
semble their parents but are not
exactly like them, Dr. Gilkey ex
plained.
The breaking up and resowing
process does not stop with life on
earth, the speaker continued.
When St. Paul was asked how
the dead could be raised, he re
plied that that which is sowed
does not quicken until it first dies;
that it will not grow up in the
same form in which it was sowed,
but God will give it a body as it
shall please Him.
One-half of the truth of human
life is carved upon the inscription
over the gate of the graveyard
where Longfellow lies buried, Dr.
Gilkey said. The quotation reads
“Then shall the dust return to the
earth as it was.”
But too often the other half of
the inscription is neglected or ig
nored, at our own peril, he stated.
“If the faith that underlies that
seed of immortality and hope does
not concern you, the day will come
when it will affect someone close
to you, and you will be glad that
the sentence continues: “But the
spirit shall return unto God who
gave it.’ ”
Dr. Gilkey’s speech was recorded
for a later broadcast.
ISA to Meet Tonight
Mixer dance arrangements, con
stitutional revisions, and the ap
pointment of two chairmanships
will be discussed at tonight’s meet
ing of the Independent Student As
sociation at 7 p. m. in 105 Com
merce.
Mr. Peanut Banished From" Diet
Of San Francisco Baseball Fans
SA5J FRANCISCO—(UP)—This
was a dark day for the lowly pea
nut. And a darker day for San
Francisco baseball. The two have
been divorced so far as Seals Sta
dium is concerned.
It isn’t the fault of the little
inoffensive goober, the traditional
diet of baseball lovers since the
first bat struck the first ball. It’s
a labor problem that will have
many a fan drying a tear when the
band strikes up “. . . buy me some
peanuts and cracker jacks. . .”
Paul Fagan, president of the
San Francisco Seals in the Pacific
Coast League, has decided that
Mr. Peanut must be banished be
cause he costs $20,000 worth of
janitors a year to clean him up.
Fagan, who admitted' v enjoys
munching peanuts himself, never
theless got out his slide rule and
stop watch and figured out that
“It costs us four and one-quarter
cents for giving every man, wo
man and child who buys a bag the
privilege of throwing them on our
clean floors.”
Fagan’s arithmetic goes like
this: The peanuts sell at the sta
dium for 10 cents a bag, out of
which the Seals get two and one
half cents from the concessionaries.
Janitors are paid $1.35 an hour,
or two and one-quarter cents a
minute. The broom jockeys have
been clocked, and it takes them
three minutes to sweep up the
shells from each sack, or a cost
of six and three-quarter cents.
Grand Total: Siberia.
Piano Quartet to Appear
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Curtis Institute and the Juillard
School of Music, first appeared
publicly at the age of 14 as soloist
with the National Orchestral As
sociation in Carnegie Hall.
Hans Heidemann is another pro
duct of Juilliard and gave his first
recital in Rochester which resulted
in a guest appearance with the
Symphony.
The fourth member of the en
semble, Audrey Kooper, won a
Juilliard graduate fellowship and
later appeared with the Boston
“Pops” under Arthur Fiedler.
Next concert of the Civic Music
Association will be spring term
when two operas are presented
by the Wagner Opera Company.
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