CAPT WALTER F. HENRY
Commanding Officer
CDR WESLEY E. SKILL
Executive Officer
THE
A D A K
SUN
Published each Monday for all personnel
on Adak by Special Services, Provisions
for NavExos P-35 (Rev. July 58) complied
with. Mimeographed at NavSta Adak. Funds
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at no cost to the government. Articles
contained herein are not to be construed
as representing the official opinion of
the Commanding Officer or the Navy Dep
artment, inasmuch as the Adak Sun is not
an official publication.
EDITING STAFF
H.T. DAVIS, YN1 GEORGE MILLS,J03
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IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL SUMMER EVENING,
still early enough for us to skim a
long without the lights of the car*
We were in too much of a hurry to re
move the splatter from the windshield,
an inelegant blotch left by a large
bug.
But, as we drove along, it seemed
we just couldn*t keep our eyes off
that messy splatter. Again and again
we found ourselves focusing our eyes
to the short-range vision which ended
on the pane of glass immediately before
us. And each time we fixed our eyes
on that ugly spot only inches away,
we missed the beautiful scenery about
‘ us.
How much like life, we thought. A
hug. bigger than the evening star I A'
bug big enough to blot out the rolling
landscape of velvet green which stret
ched ahead for ..many miles. All be
cause we fixed our eyes on the ugly
thing before us, while we missed the
vision of the beautiful and the abiding
which surrounded us on every handj
If only we could keep our eyes off
the bugs on the windshield - the wor
ries and cares which beset our path
(Continued next colum)
from day to day, the petty piques, the
irritations and vexations that threat
en to blot out the eternal stars of
hope and love and faithj If only we
could keep our eyes on HIM Who is rtthe
Way” and on the immovable assurances
which He has given us in His eternal
Gospell If only we would ”lift up our
eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh
our Help,” For, in truth, our Help
”cometh from the Lord!”
From ”Crossroads,” Published by Re -
deemer Lutheran Church and Service
Center, Balboa, Canal Zone,
MEANING OF PRAYER - IT CALLS FCR THOUGHT
”1 have been driven many times to ^
my knees by the overwhelming convictioj
that I had nowhere else to go.”
The words of Abraham Lincoln^, and
they are well worth thinking about. He
was not a man to pay glib lip service
to religious faith. His simple state -
ment was heartfelt.
President Eisenhower may have had
that statement in mind when, in desig
nating October 5th as a National Day
of Prayer, he said that, in prayer "we
will see clearly the vision of the
world that is meant to be and set our
hearts resolutely toward the achieve
ment of it.”
Prayer is an intensely private thing
It canft be perfunctory and be genuine^
The greatest men in history have been
devout, realizing that there is an area
beyond material achievements and poss
essions which man, for all his scient
ific genius, cannot explore. He can
only be humble in knowing it exists.
For members of the Armed Forces
faith is a source of strength in dis
charging whatever duties they are
given, in war or in peace. Man who
survived terrible ordeals in combat
have testified to the power of prayer
in their darkest hours. In the words
of a wartime chaplain, ”there are no
atheists in foxholes.”
So a National Day of Prayer is only
a reminder that the spiritual element
in each of us can be a course of couw
fort if we keep it alive and vital tiru
contemplation-not one day but every cby
and every hour. (AFPS) —