CAPT. S. M. SHELTON, USN
Commanding Officer
CDR. E. L. CRANCE, USN
Executive Officer
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EDITOR*. H. T. DAVIS, YN1 055-J or 365)
By Chaplain V. Stenberg
One of my friends has written an
article called, "People of the Lonely
Crowd”, which is worth . reproducing
here. I believe the thought it carries
applies to all of us at one time or
another.
"The hero of the popular radio and
TV thriller, "Gunsmoke," is Matt Dil
lon, United States Marshall.- It's not
only the kids whose attention is drawn
close each week as this defender of
prairie justice opens with this bit of
lingo about his work: ’It’s a chancey
job;’ makes a man watchful and a little
lonely.1”
"in tne drama or ii^e eacn or us
has a line similar to that of Mat Dil
lon, United States Marshall. The
shame that grows inside us when we've
been selfish; the sorrow over losing
a loved one;the lonesome ache of want
ing friends who care about us; the
feeling that .God has abandoned us to
our troubles; all these are cues for
us to move to the front of the stage
and speak our lines. Life? 'It's a
chancey job; makes a man watchful, and
a little lonely. '"
"The teen-ager cries, 'Seventeen
isn't an age, it's an ’eternity. No
body knows you; you hardly know your
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self*. The business person knows that
by being bound up in economic struggle
and selfishness he is being separated
from his friends and competitors.
Many are the voices of the bereaved,
distrubed, friendless, which cry out
in a dischordant symphone."
"We are all people of the lonely
crowd, craving to know the security
of belonging. But selfishness alie
nates and sorrow isolates. And a man
begins to talk to himself—* I’m no
good. Noliody loves me. Life isn’t
worth living.’"
"God understands that you and I have
our moments of loneliness. He knows
hew we need to ’belong', that we yearn
to be related to, not separated from
people. He who gave His own Son to
suffer the deep sorrow and loneliness
of the Cross knows our needs. Rejoice
in that truth that in Christ, the
King of Creation, there is oneness
which Godand men unto the fulness of
life."
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