Commanding Officer
CAPT S. M. SHELTON, USN
THE
Executive■Officer A D A K
GDR R. L. 'STRAUB, USN SUN ■
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EDITING STAFF
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CHAPLAINS CORNER
WE HAVE THIS TRUST TOGETHER
If I play on a football team, one of
eleven men, I share ca trust with ten other
fellows. We play together and we win to
gether. My congregation and my church -
body are like great teams, and I am one
player. I share a trust with every other
member. We do things together as people
in a congregation and we do things to
gether as congregations in a church group.
For me to shirk is to let down all others
in my congregation, and for my congregat
ion to shirk is to let down all other
congregations in my church group. Either
I should get off the team, or I should
play the game loyally with the others.
This is, in part, the bearing of one
another*s burdens in what the Bible calls
the "body of Christ" or the Church.
I would be a poor football player,how
ever, if I gave only my fair share, no
more and no lass. If I told the coach
that I would give l/llth toward winning
the game, but not one bit more, he would
n*t put me on the field.
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I*m really not fit for the team at
all unless I*m ready to give it all I*ve
got* Eleven players-'each cautiously and
calculatingly giving but l/ilth would
never win a game. It takes eleven play
ers each giving his utmost to make a
great team*
Each of us, quite apart from the
team, .has a lonely and prior trust to
ourselves and to our Lord* If other
members of the congregation shirk, no
matter! We cannot!' If other congregat
ions drag their heels in the great prog
ram -of our choirch-group-, this is no ex
cuse for us to let up. We are under ord
ers from our Lord, who' gave it every -
thing He had, even to the Cross, to
open the doors of the Kingdom to us.
J. L. PERRY
EDITORIAL
If you’re getting to be a "shortimer'
and are counting the days - maybe the
time has slowed down considerably for
you, but even so, NOW is the 'time to
consider that less than a month remain
before its exam time and you take your
examination for that next higher rate.
You might say it*s too late to start
studying right now - and you may be
right, if you haven't studied at ail
and you aren’t really interested in
advancing in the Navy in the first
place - perhaps it is too late and^P
perhaps not.
If you’ll take every spare moment
from now to exam time - every chance
that you get - to study, to ask the
questions and find the answers to the
things you have a good idea will be on
your examination, then you may very well
be one of the men who sew on a new crow
this coming November.
To study, and study well, it may
mean missing-some movies or trips to
the Wi11iwaw or the Club Bayview or
even fishing or swimming in.the Bering
pool, but think how much mere enjoyable
doing these things would be with that
new crow on your arm and the extra pay
coming in every payday. Good luck!