CAPT S. M. SHELTON, USN
Commanding Officer
CDR G. T. STOUT, USN
Executive Officer
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‘ WE ARE MISSIONARIES .
All men are missionaries' because all
men are believers.
A man may be an atheist but no man
can be an unbeliever. He may avoid Christ
but he cannot evade faith.
What a man believes he shares. Because
every man has a faith—in himself, in
something, in someone—he speaks that
faith. No man can live among men with
out communicating hrs faith to men. Those
that have a strong faith are strong miss
ionaries.
: The missionary movement in our day is ‘
pot dgad. Never .were missionary movements
stronger or more numerous* Communism is
a mission movement. So is pacifism. So
is neutralism,.and a hundred more in the
world‘of politics.
All growing religions are mission
movements. In Paul’s day so vigorous was
the bounding faith of the eaTly Christ -
ians that they seized the initiative from
the pagan world." Before Paul died, he
saw Christians be^jin as a young church
with hundreds of members grow into one
with hundreds of thousands. And in one
generation.
(Continued next column)
The zeal of that generation was not
duplicated in the next, though fires
Of persecution kept the Christian faith
f.rdm becoming a popular or easy testim
ony during the next 250 years.
Fires burn low and sometimes die out*
Christians may fail to maintain larger
fires than they need to meet their own
need* In this case the penetration of
society with the Gospel will cease* At
this point, a worldly society begins to
penetrate and convert the church*
We are missionaries, what kind?
CHAPLAIN PERRY
••A mail-deposit. box has been, install
ed in the Reeves Air Terminal for the
convenience of personnel who could
not.deposit their urgent mail at the
Post Offioe by 0200#
Only U. S. Airmail should be deposit
* ed in this box. • . .
Mail will be collected from this box
approximately 45 minutes, prior to
plane arrival only on. scheduled out
going mail flight days. .Only Airmail
letters will be placed on the plane.
Any -other mail and a 1,1 mail with in
sufficient postage will he returned
to the Post Office and processing for
dispatch on the next scheduledmail
flight. -
The cooperation! of all personnel is
requested in restricting, their mailinc
at'this box to ■■mail, of an urgent., nat
ure. Should the volume of mail depos
ited in this box become, too great to
process prior ,to arrival of the plane,
this service will ,;be curtailed immed
iately. V •, ,
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR VETS NOV) NTiyiPER
28,000 (AFPS)—The Veterans. Administ
ration reports that its rolls o f XHir
veterans of the Spanish-rAmerican War
have dropped to 28.000. The war,whic}
began 64 years ago, involved a total
of 392,000 Americans.