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Soon his flock must learn to trust a new shepherd. Church authorities have just assigned young Pastor Bernhard Stoeve-sand to be Bartel's assistant and successor. Stoevesand faces the same long training Bartel began three decades ago, has started by giving religious instruction to children. In the sentence, "Suffer the little children to come unto me," he shows "suffer" by a natural soothing gesture, "the" with the little finger of the right hand as expressed in the deaf-mute alphabet, "little children" by a baby-rocking gesture and "come unto me" by pointing to himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Gospel, with Gestures | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

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