CAPT. WALTER F. HENRY
Commanding Officer A DAK
CDR. WESLEY E. SKILL SUN
Executive Officer
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H. T, DAVIS YN1 GEORGE MILLS, J03
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CHAPLAINS CORNER.
you nave prcoaDiy read* at some
time or other, Theodore Roosevelt's "9
Reasons for Going to Church*" If you
haven't read it, I know you will want
to; if you have, I’m sure you'll want
to read it again.
"In this actual'world, a churchless
community, where men have abandoned
and scoffed at or ignored their relig
ious needs,.is a community on the rapid
down-grade.
"Church work and church attendance
mean the cultivation of the habit of
feeling some responsibility for others.
"There are enough holidays for most
of us. Sjndays differ from other holi
days in the fact that there are fifty
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two of them every year — therefore,
on Sundays, go to church,
"Yes, I know all the excuses, I
know that one can worship the Creator
in a grove of trees or in a man's own
house just as well as in church. But
I also know, as a matter of cold fact,
the average man does not thus worship.
"He may not hear a good sermon at
; church. He will hear a sermon by a
good man, who, with his good wife, is
, engaged in making hard lives a little
| easier.
"He will listen to and take part in
j reading some beautiful passages from
i the 3ible. And if he is not familiar
with the Bible,he has suffered a loss.
"He will take part in singing some ^
good hymns. He will meet and nod or
speak to .good .quiet neighbors. He
! will come away feeling a little more
charitable toward all the world, even
toward those excessively foolish young
men who regard church-going as a soft
performance.
"I advocate a man’s joining in
church work for the sake of showing
his faith in his work."
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COMSEVENTEEN NOTICE 1730announces that
the Jewish High Holy Bays will be cele
brated in September and October. Rosh
Hashanah (Jewish New Year) will be
celebrated on September 22 & 23, 1960,
Yom Kippur (Jewish Day of Atonement)
will be observed on October 1, 1960.
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WASHINGTON — (Navnews ) — The Nat
ional Naval Medical Center, located
near here celebrated its 18th birthday
August 31. The Bureau of Medicine and
Surgery also celebrated an anniversary
on the same date with a slightly older
118th birthday.
NNMC, a younger member of the Medi
cal Corps, was officially commissioned
| in February 1942, however President
Roosevelt dedicated the building Aug
ust 31, which at that time commemorated
the 100th anniversary of BUMED.
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