THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
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NOME, ALASKA
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W. A. Boucher . Owner-Publisher
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943. at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, June 24, 1949
THE ONLY PATH
(By Dr. Norman Vincent Peale)
(Pastor of Marble Collegiate Church, New York City)
The idea for this was suggested by a very good friend
of mine. He is an inspiring person with whom I have
been closely associated for a long while. He is the father
of a little girl nine years of age. He is a wise parent, and
watching her one night he wondered if there was not
some way he could protect her from mistakes that she
might make in life.
My friend asked himself, ‘‘Why must she do the same
foolish things that I have done? I have learned the hard
way. Why can’t I pass along some of the lessons that I
have learned so that she can profit by my mistakes and
my experience?”
He adopted a unique plan. He is writing her a collec
tion of letters. One letter for example, suggests how to
go to a party and have a good time. He writes in part,
‘‘You must not think about yourself, but be alert to any
way you can assist your host or hostess. Look around to
see if anyone in the room looks uncomfortable. If you
see someone who is not having a good time, make it
your business to try to change that unhappy situation,
and you will not only have a better time yourself, but
you will have made a good friend because of your un
selfish thoughtfulness.”
Another letter was to the effect that the greatest
thing we must have in life is courage, and he explained
how to have courage. Again he said, “You are going to
come up against certain temptations. You will have to
know how to be strong and wise to meet temptations.”
This father says he wishes his little girl to live a rich,
full life. He wishes her to have goals and to know how
to reach them. When all these letters have finally been
written he is going to have them bound into a volume
entitled “How to Get Where You Want to Go.”
This father wishes his daughter to have a definite
goal. He knows it is the hazy idea that some people
have about where they want to go that defeats their ef
forts, leading to frustration. He realizes that if an indi
vidual will visualize far heights, and believe, and work,!
that individual will indeed reach the desired goal.
Then, if Jesus Christ is allowed to enter one’s life,!
there comes a realization after a while that one has
within one’s self more than was ever dreamed. This is a
great truth that was taught American youth from the
very beginning of this country up to fifteen or twenty
years ago. Then some people got the idea that it was not
socially enlightened to talk about an individual getting
somewhere. Such a concept is a denial of man’s nature.
It denies the fact of God in man. When a person “walks
with God” and gets to know God, one of the great
things that happens to him is that he gets to know him
self. He realizes his possibilities. He becomes aware of
the divinity within himself. There are astonishing
things in people that can be released.
It is all very simple. In the Book of the Prophet Isaiah,
30:20, we read: “ .. . This is the way, walk ye in it . . . ”
Follow this scriptural injunction and you will be led to
great heights. It is the only path you can follow that
will take you where you want to go.
So, first of all, know where you want to go; have a
definite objective; dream great dreams. Then realize
that with the help of Almighty God you can attain that
objective and make those great dreams come true.
MASTER MINDS STIR UP EMOTIONS
(By Hugo S. Sims)
Not so long ago, a prominent speaker said: “The first
lesson that we must take to heart is that people are
swayed by their emotions, not their intellects.”
This statement is accepted as the truth by astute poli
ticians and by other individuals who consciously set out
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course.
Upon analysis, the statement implies that smart indi
viduals, using their intellects, can stir up popular emo
tions to gain their desired ends. It should be noted that
the people, wrho acl according to emotional stimuli, are?
but tools which are handled by clever brains. The indi
vidual whose conduct or decision is fashioned as a re
sult of his emotional response is like a fish that follows!
the bait without seeing the hook.
Let no one imagine that people, swayed by emotions, j
rule this country. This is a mistake. The nation is ruled'
by the clever few who have the sense to create situa
tions wrhich result in emotional reactions. Back of the I
popular emotion, however expressed, is a master-mind
that take advantage of the nature of human beings to
secure a definite, specific result.
The appeal to the emotions, rather than to the intel
lect, is characteristic of most political campaigns. This j
is true whether the election embraces a small area or 1
the entire nation. The result of the balloting, unfortun
ately, often reflects the emotional state of the citizens j
of the area rather than the intelligent judgment of the!
voters; This is to be regretted, but the remedy is not to
be found in a denunciation of the tactics of smart lead
ers.
In fact, the observation will continue to be true until
the individual voters become thoroughly conscious of
emotional appeals and intelligently guard against pre
cipitous decisions along obviously inspired lines. This
presupposes, on the part of the voter, an intelligence
equal to that of the master-mind behind the emotional
strategy.
This may be too much to expect at the present stage
of civilization in this country but. sooner or later, if de
mocracy is to survive and representative government
flourish, the millions of ballots in the nation must be
cast on the basis of a reasoned judgment rather than as
a result of emotional flare-ups.
TRADE NO ONE-WAY STREET
In 1948, the United States sold $12,600,000,000 worth
of goods to other countries but bought only $7,000,000.
000 worth from other nations.
Commenting on these figures, Secretary of Com
merce Charles Sawyer points out that this cannot go
I on forever because the only way other countries can
pay for our goods or products is to sell us goods and
services, or else borrow money from the Government
of the United States.
It should be obvious to every American that when
CHURCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday—
3:00 a.m.—Mass
9:30 a.m.—Mass
4:30 p.m.—At the Base Chapel
LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION
Pastors—Rev. H. R. Amundsen
and Rev. Theran McGrew
Sunday—
11:00 a.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Evening Service
Wednesday—3:30 p.m.
Children’s Miracle Book Club.
Thursday—7:30 p.m.
Prayer Meeting.
FEDERATED CHURCH
Sunday 10:00 a.m.—Sunday School
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
PENTECOSTAL
Third Avenue West
Miss H. E. Brown
Missionary in Charge
Sunday—
Sunday School 10:00 a.m.
Adult Bible Class 11:00 a.m.
Evening Service 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday—
Young Peoples Meeting 4:00p.m.
Wednesday—
Bible Study 7:30 p.m.
Friday—
Bible Study and
Prayer Meeting .7:00 p.m.
EVERYONE WELCOME
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Third and Division
Pastor—Lee.is I. Hudgins
“Men turn their faces toward
Hell and hope to get to Heaven:
why do they not walk into the
river and expect to keep dry?”
—Spurgeon
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning Message.
7:00 p.m. Young People’s Meeting.
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and special
music.
8:00 p.m. Evening Message.
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody and
Prayer.
Come and bring your Bible.
You are ever welcome to attend
these services.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
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Alaska Evangelization Society
Rev. Vern Rimling. Pastor
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Sunday—
2:00 p.m. Sunday School for
boys and girls.
Preaching service in the Eskimo
language by James Savok.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday—
7:30 p.m. Pfayer and Testimony
Thursday—
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Bible Club for
boys and girls.
Friday—
730 p.m. Bible Study.
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The American Historical Asso
ciation maintains a study room in
the Library of Congress.
the United States send to other
countries twice as much goods and
products as it receives from them,
the natural resources of the
United States are decreased to the
extent of the difference. If, how
ever, we buy some of the things
that other nations produce. we
will not only enable them to pur
chase our commodities but we will
secure additional goods for the
people of this country.