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Show The Dreams of My Heart 213 By May the Silvers reached the Middle East. Their visit to the Holy Land was particularly significant. Madelyn had begun the Gospel Doctrine lessons in 1945 with a series on the New Testament, and she had the opportunity of teaching similar les sons in succeeding years, so this trip was the fulfillment of one of her dreams. She brought back mementoes of the trip for her family-one of them was a Kaffiyeh or Arab headdress. They used it each Christmas as part of their family portrayal of the manger scene. So there was a yearly reminder of the trip. Because of its importance to Madelyn, Chapter Ten recounts her profound and heartfelt experience in the Holy Land. Their next stop was Turkey and Greece. At the end of June they were in Le Havre, France, to welcome the ocean liner United States bringing to Europe three of their children, Elizabeth, Judith, and Brian. With the three children, the Silvers began a three-month automobile tour that included Paris, Berne, Interlaken, St. Gallin, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Munich, Heidelberg (where the children sang the "drinking song" from the Student Prince), Cologne, Hamburg, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Edinburgh, Windermere, Southhampton, Stratford-on-Avon, and London. There are recorded conversations with people in Madelyn's of them diary-some heart-breaking, some of them inspiring, all of them responses to Madelyn's penetrating questions about their lives. The Silvers returned to Denver in late September. Madelyn was particularly pleased with their" tour of Scotland. As they drove along she read to the children parts of H.V. Morton, In Search of Scotland; and a Short History of Scotland. They had with them a copy of Walter Scott's works and the poems of Robert Burns. They bought Scottish songs and sang them. Reading and study, she concluded, greatly enriched trav el. Madelyn and the children were delighted by some Scottish signs. The following was found on one gate: Be ye man or be ye wummin, Shut this gate both going and cummin. Another: |
