C. Holy Obedience—For You? For Me? (continued)
Nicholas Merman (Brother lawrence), 1611-1691
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APPLEGARTH, MARGARET T. Right Here, Right Now.
"Those Who Feel the Gale of the Holy Spirit," pp. 229246. New York: Harper & Bros., 1950. $2.75.
CHENEY, SHELDON. Men Who Have Walked with God.
"Brother Lawrence, The Lay Monk Who Attained Unclouded Vision," Chapter IX, pp. 285-308. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. $5.00.
DAY, ALBERT E. An Autobiography of Prayer. Brief references, pp. 74, 76, 165. New York: Harper & Bros., 1952. $2.50.
HARKNESS, GEORGIA. "Practice of the Presence of God."
Christian Century, Vol. 61, No. 13, Jan. 26, 1944. pp. 12-13.
HUXLEY, ALDOUS. The Perennial Philosophy. p. 286. New
York: Harper & Bro. 1945. $4.00.
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LAWRENCE, BROTHER. Brother Lawrence: His Letters and Conversations on the Practice of the Presence of God.*} Cincinnati: The Forward Movement, Commission of the Protestant Episcopal Churth in the U. S. A., 1941. 10 cents.
MILLER, OSBORNE C. The Path of Prayer (An Anthology). pp. 70-71. New York: Harper & Bros., 1954. $2.00. tEdition recommended for class study.
SPERRY, WILLARD L. Strangers and Pilgrims (Studies in the Classics of Christian Devotion). "The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence," Chap. V, pp. 113-136. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1939. (Out of print.)
STUBER, STANLEY I. (comp. and ed.) The Christian Reader (Inspirational and Devotional Classics). "Brother Lawrence." {Biographical note and selections from The Character of Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God, Letters, and Spiritual. Maxims}. Chap. XXV, pp. 285-299. New York: Association Press, 1952. $4.75.
William law, 1686-1761
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CELL, GEORGE CROFT. The Rediscovery of John Wesley. pp) 34tf, 97ff., 178, 211,221, 298ff,, 314,329. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1935. $2.50. (Out of print.)
DAY, ALBERT E. An Autobiography of Prayer. pp. 49, 76, 132, 165. New York: Harper & Bros., 1952. $2.50.
DRAKE, F. W. Masters of the Spiritual Life. "William Law and A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life," Chap. VI, pp134-160. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1916. (Out of print.)
GIBBON, EDWARD. Memoirs of My Life and Writings. Oliver Farrar Emerson, ed. (Athenaeum Press Series.) Boston: Ginn & Co., 1898. (Out of print.)
HOPKINSON, ARTHUR W. The Pocket William Law.
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178, 180-182, 198, 207, 216, 217, 222-223, 225, 243. New York: Harper & Bros., 1945. $4.00.
JONES, RUFUS M. The Luminous Trail. "William Law—An
Eighteenth-Century Saint," Chap, XI, pp. 124-134. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1947. $2.50.
KEPLER, THOMAS S. (comp.) The Fellowship of the Saints (An Anthology of Christian Devotional Literature). "For Inner Peace and Happiness from A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life," pp. 490-498. Nashville: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1948. $7.50.
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LAW, WILLIAM. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ed. and abr. John Meister and others. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1955. $2.50.
LAW, WILLIAM. Dying to Self. London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1898. (Out of print.)
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Thomas R. Kelly, 1893-1941
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KEPLER, THOMAS S. (comp.) The Fellowship of the Saints (An Anthology of Christian Devotional Literature). [Brief biography.} 'The Light Within from A Testament of Devotion," pp. 633-640. Nashville: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1948. $7.50.
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recommended for class study. the authors of this Book
All the writers of AN INTRODUCTION TO FIVE SPIRITUAL CLAssIcs are members of Woman's Societies of Christian Service and in other ways are active in The Methodist Church. They were selected for several reasons as the authors. Enthusiasm for the subject and writing ability were basic assets. Also it was the hope of the persons planning the book that the authors might include one writer from each of the three former communions now merged into The Methodist Church, from several of the former woman's organizations, from as many jurisdictions and different sections of the country as possible, from the group of deaconesses serving in the United States, and from missionaries now serving overseas.
By now the readers have sensed the deep appreciation each writer feels for "her'' devotional classic, and, doubtless, share in her enthusiasm; they know of each author's stylistic skills. The five authors are from two of the former churches, three of the former woman's societies, and three jurisdictions; one is a deaconess and one a foreign missionary. Two are mothers, housewives, and ordained ministers, and one of these is also a professional social worker. Two of the authors have been writing for publication many years.
When leaving the editor's office recently, one writer affirmed, "This study and writing have brought me into a deeper spiritual experience, and I intend to become fully dedicated."
LouIsE KILLINGSWORTH
Author of the Chapter, "The Confessions of St. Augustine'
Miss Louise Killingsworth was born in Fayette, Mississippi, where she spent a happy childhood with her parents, an older brother, and a younger sister. Having received her B.A. degree from Mississippi State College for Women, she taught English in Mississippi for twelve years. During her summers, she studied at the University of Chicago, George Peabody College for Teachers, in Nashville, Tennessee, and Tulane University, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
In 1936, following the departure of her sister to China as a missionary, Miss Killingsworth entered Scarritt and Peabody Colleges to prepare herself for teaching on the mission field.
In the spring of 1937 she was commissioned under the Woman's Missionary Council of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for work in China. Because of the Sino-Japanese War, her first appointment was to Colegio Buenavista, in Havana, Cuba. The following year conditions were such that she could go to Peking, China, for her year of language study. She then werit to McTyeire School, in Shanghai, where she remained until she was interned along with over a thousand other aliens by the Japanese military authorities. She was among those who were repatriated on the S. S. "Gripsholm." She returned to McTyeire School in 1946, where she worked until she left China in 1950, after eleven months under the Communist regime.
She sailed for Malaya in 1954 to teach at Lady Treacher Girls' School in Taiping. During the intervening three years, she taught at Paine College, Augusta, Georgia.
When she is not teaching, Miss Killingsworth spends most of her time in local church activities. She is particularly interested in using religious drama as a way of creating meaningful worship for youth in the belief that it will lead to constructive action. Her strong desire to make worship meaningful has also led her to become interested in church architecture. Miss Killingsworth says, "When I am in a church that is new to me and that I do not find worshipful, I catch myself figuring out ways of remodeling it."
FLORENCE HOOPER
Author of the Chapter, 'The Imitation of Christ"
Florence Hooper has spent all her life in or near Baltimore, Maryland, where her family for four generations has been a part of the city's life—in Methodist circles, in politics, and in trade and manufacturing.
Miss Hooper has an A. B. degree from Goucher College and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa; also she is a Certified Public Accountant of Maryland. For twenty-eight years she served as national treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionaty Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Her present business activities consist in acting as a field agent for a large life insurance company and in taking care of investments and income tax returns for relatives and friends, both individually and as trustee of her grandfather's estate.
Since 1950 she has taught each year in the summer schools and institutes of both the Woman's Society of Christian Service and United Church Women. Winters are spent in teaching, and in speaking and writing on missionary subjects—freelance, "without portfolio'! This, she declares, is fun, and she loves it. She is a contributor to World Outlook and The Methodist Woman.
In 1949 Miss Hooper visited Methodist work in South America and wrote a series of articles for World Outlook, which were later published as a pamphlet, Portrait of a Mission. In 1951 she flew to Africa and observed the missions of The Methodist Church south of the Sahara. Her trips combine her most compelling 'hobbies': missions and travel.
"Collecting churches" is another hobby. "This collection, gathered world-wide, is fascinating and easy to take care of, for it's all in my memory and requires no storage space!'' Miss Hooper exclaims. When she has free time, which is "precious seldom," she does hemstitching, needlepoint, or knitting. She is an unorthodox, but interested, cook.
A happy woman, Miss Hooper attributes her deep content to Christ's presence in her life, gradually but surely transforming her attitudes toward everything and everybody. 'There's a lot of transforming still to do, but I'm on my way!"
LILLIAN WARRICK POPE
Author of the chapter, 'The Practice of the Presence of God"
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mrs. Lillian Warrick Pope from her earliest childhood dreamed of a full-time Christian vocation. A graduate of the Bible Institute of Pennsylvania, she received her B. S. degree from Temple University. Graduate study included work at Temple School of Theology and at the - Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania with a major in religious education. She also has an M. A. degree in group work and a professional diploma as a 'Specialist in Early Childhood Education," from Columbia University.
Mrs. Pope was ordained in 1939 in the Delaware Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by Bishop Ernest G. Richardson. She has served as acting pastor of Trinity Methodist Church, East Germantown, Pennsylvania, and as church social worker of the Zoar Methodist Church, in Philadelphia. In 1941, Mrs. Pope became a field secretary of the Woman's Division of Christian Service of the Board of Missions and Church Extension of The Methodist Church and in this service traveled extensively throughout the Central Jurisdiction. Following her marriage in 1944, she accepted the position of director of Christian Education of the Brooks Methodist Church, in Jamaica, New York.
At present, Mrs. Pope is working with Puerto Ricans, as the educational director at the Child Care Center of Union Settlement House (New York City) to which her young son, Roderick, accompanies her and where he enjoys the benefits of the center.
In addition to her professional work, Mrs. Pope is actively engaged in serving through the Woman's Society of Christian Service in her conference, district, and local church—teaching study courses, conducting workshops, serving at summer schools, and lecturing. She is also active on the Jamaica Council of United Church Women and is chairman of its Commission on Education in her local church.
Mrs. Pope looks toward a future of continued religious vocation, believing that through broadened knowledge and enriched experience she will be able to develop an even more effective ministry of Christian service.
PEARLE TIBBETTS
Author of the chapter, "A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life'
Pearle Tibbetts and a twin sister were born at Glasgow, Missouri. Miss Tibbetts' first definite interest in life was music, particularly piano. A favorite pastime of pre-school days was to prop a hymnbook against the back of a straight chair, place a small footstool in front of the chair, and then proceed to "play the piano," occasionally using thimbles to increase the volume of the '"'music."
From early childhood, too, paper and pencils were a fascination, and every new ,five-cent tablet possessed a special charm. The pictures on them are still remembered as the reason for buying them.
"Going places," or traveling, might be listed as a third major interest. Fifteen years of serving as a field secretary for the Kansas City National Training School immediately following graduation as a deaconess in June, 1915, afforded ample opportunity for that. Then followed more years of parish work, largely in connection with Grand Avenue Temple in Kansas
City, Missouri, and the First Methodist Church in Fairmont, West Virginia.
The decision to leave the city was culminated by the acceptance in October, 1952, of the position of office manager in our Methodist Home for the Aged in Marionville.
Throughout Miss Tibbetts' life the church has been such a predominant factor that in reality it created the atmosphere and set the stage for all other activities.
As to formal education—high school, training school, a correspondence course in short story writing from the University of Kansas, a sabbatical year in Denver University and Iliff School of Theology, additional study of piano while in West Virginia, and a summer course at Garrett Biblical Seminary in 1945—these activities tell the story. In it has been written something of a sense of achievement.
Concerning her present work, Miss Tibbetts says: "Now as I 'play' a typewriter instead of a piano, and write figures and addresses instead of lines in pretty tablets and pages in Latin notebooks, it is good to look between times out over the 'campus' of the former Marionville Collegiate Institute (now the Methodist Home for the Aged) and then go at evening time to my own little house located at Wesley Court, Marionville, Missouri."
HELEN PATTEN HANSON
Author of the chapter, "A Testament of Devotion"
The daughter of a Methodist minister, Helen Patten Hanson was born in Aurora, Illinois. Her early life was spent in Evanston, Illinois, after her father became chaplain of Northwestern University and head of its Department of Biblical Literature and History. The father's versatility in languages and passion for archeological study resulted in the family's traveling extensively in Europe; and travel, both at home and abroad, has continued to be one of Mrs. Hanson's interests. Her mother's deep missionary interest and wide leadership in woman's work of Methodism left an indelible impression on her life.
Following her graduation from Northwestern University, and reflecting the spirituality of her home, Mrs. Hanson specialized in religious education. After studying at Garrett Biblical Institute and at the University of Chicago, for five years she served as superintendent of the missionary department of the Board of Sunday Schools of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with headquarters in Chicago.
In 1917 Helen Patten married the Rev. William C. Hanson, a Methodist minister from Kansas. Their experience of religious education in the family became broadened by two daughters in the home, who now have homes of their own. In recent years Mrs. Hanson has been associated with her husband as co-pastor in his ministry in Greater Kansas City. He is Pastor Emeritus of Old Mission Church with 1,700 members, which they organized in 1942.
For twenty-five years Mrs. Hanson has given leadership in the woman's work of the Church, holding national, jurisdiction, and conference offices. For twelve years she was a member of the Federal Council of Churches and is now associated with the Commission on Worship of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. One of her vital interests at present is the Disciplined Order of Christ, of which she is a director. Locally she has served as Executive Board member and president of the Young Women's Christian Association of Kansas City, Missouri; also as president of the United Church Women of her area. She has written three books and numerous programs, pageants, and articles.
In Mrs. Hanson's words, her life is "rich with adventure and discovery."
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