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Heinrichs says. But that effort might better be applied to the way folks in the
New Church are taught to view the Old Church.
Rob Earle
Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania
Getting it Backwards?
To The Editors:
When sermons were sent to the isolated, I remember asking the Rev. Karl
R. Alden, why did the typist change the format by putting the sermon first,
followed by the passages from the Word, and then from the Writings? He said
the typist found it easier. This annoyed me as a new member and student of
the Academy.
When preached, the Word is quoted first, then the Writings, and the
sermon last.
For some 60 years this lapse of judgment has prevailed. I wonder how
many other traditions of the Church are followed blindly because someone
“found it easier?”
I understand the sermons no longer are mailed out because they are now
on the Internet. I wonder, is this “lapse of judgment” followed there, too? If a
person who looks to the sermons as a bridge to the Church has to read the end
first and then go back to the sermon, it is counter- productive.
I am one of the few who has no computer so I’m “left out in the cold” by
the decision to stop sending the sermons. I would, however, like to thank those
who sent them all those 50 or so years.
We isolated appreciated the Christmas Crèche sent to isolated families
as well – now stopped also, I understand. This was a central point of our
childhood at Christmas time, and was carefully packed up for use each year.
This program was so special to our isolated children.
Loraine (Lemky) Noakes
Orofino, Idaho
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