Letters

"The Chambered Nautilus"

I read with great appreciation the wonderful analogy of the chambered nautilus and our Christian lives by Newton L. Baker in the January issue of United News.

As schoolchildren in a one-room country school in Wisconsin, back in 1936-1944, we were to commit to memory poetry by such greats as Oliver Wendell Holmes. This poem was very difficult for me to learn, as I really did not understand it—but now I do! I had not thought about this poem since graduating from eighth grade.

As I read it through, I realized I had such a shell in my son's shell collection. There it was—the "lustrous coil" shining among the others. As I held it in my hand, feeling the smooth surface, I was taken back to our Feast in St. Petersburg in 1976, where this shell collection first began.

My son, Todd Snyder, "left his outgrown shell" in 1999 at age 33.

—Norma Nelson, Austin, Minnesota

Letter on Modesty

I read with a little concern the letter from the Internet writer on the topic of modesty in the "Letters" section of the December United News. The writer says, apparently about his or her UCG congregation, "We've had a problem for quite some time with the lack of modesty in the clothing of the teen girls, young women and even occasionally other women in our local congregation."

In our attempt to hold on to young people in Church, we may be tempted to compromise with our standards and not be the light that we should be to each other and visitors to our congregations. I would urge the Internet writer to have a good talk with the local pastor and, if he is not willing to do what is necessary, with the regional pastor until what causes offense to brethren is altered or removed. God bless you!

—B.K., Russia
Correction

The Good News circulation in Tonga is 25, not 1 as shown in the chart on page 4 of the January 2007 issue. We regret the error.

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