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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER . ALTON F. BAKER Publisher ALTON P. BAKER JR. Editor ROBERT B. FRAZIER Associate Editor SERVICES Full Associated Press, United Press, Audit Bureau ol Circulations. Ths Register-Guard's policy is the complete and Impartial publication in its news pages cf aU news and statements on new. On this page the editors of the Register Guard offer their opinions on events of the day and matters of importance to the community, endeavoring to be candid but fair and helpful in the development of con structive community policy. A newspaper is A CITIZEN OF ITS COMMUNITY. Entered at the Post Office at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. EUGENE, OREGON SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1955 It's Been a Great Year By MARGARET BENSTON One of the pleasures of this time of year is the letters which many ministers Bend to the Register-Guard, with New Year's greetings and thanks for the past year's news service. But we think thanks are due, too, to the ministers for their In tel est and support. This really has been a great year for Eugene and Springfield churches. Our Register-Guard scrapbooks are filled with archi tect's drawings, and stories to go with them about the new buildings and church expansions and remodclings. Membership and attendance have been climbing steadi ly for the churches. Looking ahead, we see approaching Eu gene one of the spiritual high points of the year, the University of Oregon's annual Religious Evaluation Week, set for the latter part of January. Local churches profit by the Week, in that some of the visiting distinguished persons are always invited into local pulpits. Even sooner, Jan. 11, comes the general meeting of the Cen tral Lane Council of Churches, which was formed in 1954. That's enough for a good start on 1955 in the way of news. We won't look back at this point, al though the view is attractive. We will save all that for the annual Register-Guard Progress Edition, which will include a trip through 1954 to inspect all the biggest church page news stories. So Happy New Year. To Change Old Patterns Presbyterians Choose Songs Of New Year Special music for the new year will be presented Sunday at the worship services of Central Pres byterian Church. The Senior Choir will sing the anthem "We Pause Beside This Door by Dickinson at 11 o'clock. Mrs. C. R. Hillyer, contralto, will sing Gounod's "Ring Out Wild Bells" at both the 9:30 and 11 o'clock services. The Rev. Paul S. Hell ish will preach at both services. All members of the congrega tion are invited to attend a re ception in honor of the Rev. and Mrs. P. Stanley Barlow from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Westminster House, 1414 Kincald Street. Mr. Barlow is the new University Pas tor and Director of Westminster Foundation on the University of Oregon campus. The outgoing officers of the Mariners' Fleet will entertain the new officers at a meeting in the Parish House at 7:30 p.m. Sun day. Following the retreat at Neis cott which was held the past week, the Junior High Westmin ster Fellowship will resume its regular meeting on Wednesday from 4:00 to 7:30 in Fellowship Hall. Recreation, committee meet ings, choir rehearsal, supper, and program will be included in the scheduled activities. (From the Eugene Unitarian Church Bulletin) ' "WHEREAS, it has been the distinc tive role of Unitarians to lead many of the movements in America looking toward the improvement of living conditions upon men; and WHEREAS, many Unitarians in the Southwest today are active in move ments to change old, Inherited community patterns and prejudices which have fos tered discrimination areas against persons of different races and color; and WHERE AS, the efforts of these Unitarians and others of like spirit are showing heartening signs of progress in social patterns in the Southwest with the result that Unitarian Churches in this area are now including Negroes in their membership; THERE FORE BE IT RESOLVED that Unitarians throughout the Southwest recognize the continuing need for churches to build a better climate of interracial understanding through education and well-directed action, and affirm the obligation to accept Uni tarians without regard to race or color at all meetings, institutes, and gatherings of the Southwestern Unitarian Conference." Southwestern Unitarian Conference, Houston, Texas, April 19, 1952. KERG Tells Radio Plans For 'Church' Trinity Church Adopts Rite From India Trinity Methodist Church, 440 Maxwell Road, will celebrate the sacrament of the Lord's Supper on Sunday. Jan. 2, 1955, at the regular 11 a.m. worship service The distinguishing mark of this service is that it is an adapted form of the famous liturgy of the Church of South India which was used at the World Council of Churches meeting in Evanston last summer. The Church of South Indio Is a united church of sev eral denominations and the com munion liturgy is a new venture in the format of the communion, Glenwooders Hosts Again To Convention Jan. 9, 1955, the Glonwood Church of Christ will be host to a second Lano County Convention of Christian Churches. The con gregation, though still small, has made substantial progress in the past year under the leadership of its student Pastor Robort Smythe. Besides carrying a full acad emic load at Northwest Christian College, Smythe has led the group in maintaining an average attendance at Sunday School of 38, and at Morning Worship an average of 32, out of a total en rollment uf 39. The congregation also shares In youth activities, midweek ses sions and evangelistic calling. Be sides the purely spiritual area ot endeavor, volunteers have contin ued to finish the interior of the building with shectrock. The building was completed as a sup erstructure and presented to the group debt free, and they have been finishing plumbing, land scaping and interior since the "Labor Day for Christ" a year ago this September, when mem bers of cooperating churches gathered on the site and erected the first units. The January session of the Lane County Convention will feature reports of the progress at Glen wood and future projects In line with the purpose of the Conven tion, aiding and strengthening new congregations. The main ad dress of the session will be deliv ered by the President, Joe Wag non pastor of the Coburg Church of Christ. The convention program will begin at 2:30 and will be followed THE REV. PAUL G. STEPHAN is the new ra dio speaker starting Sun day, on the very popular Lutheran Hour, enjoyed by Lane County's large Lutheran population espe cially. He will be the pulpit occupant until March 27. New Speaker Starting On Lutheran Hour V REVERENCE Throngs attended many huge religious ceremonials in 1954. Over 50,000 people watched these high school girls form a living rosary. The family pil grimage brought Catholics to honor New York mothers. World's Many Faiths Note Tendency Toward Merging Religious forces of the world moved closer together in 1954. In both this country and elsewhere, there was a tightening of bonds among the long-separated strands of faith, and it seemed likely to continue. Theologians saw the tendency as the result of sharpening lines of conflict in the present era between religious and non- religious ideologies. Churches moved In various ways to meet the challenge. Baptist Will Begin New Series, Theme "God Is Our Strength," a na tionwide program of church loyal ty and regularity of attendance is being promoted locally by the First Baptist Church- and some of its chapels. The crusade urges the people of America to attend church every Sunday and to pray every day. The suggested dates for this national program are from New Year's until Easter, which comes on April 10. The pastor. Dr. Vance H. Web ster, will follow his practice of 14 years of preaching on the first Sunday morning of the new year on A Motto tor the Year Ahead." A copy of the motto will be pre sented to those present. The Lord's Supper will be observed and welcome extended to new members. A new series of Sunday eve ning sermons based on "The Book of Daniel" will begin Sun day at 7:30 p.m. with the theme, "Darnel a Man of Purpose." The male quartet, brass trio, and choir will furnish special music. The senior high young people also will participate. The C.O.S. and senior high young people are planning a ski party Saturday, Jan. 8, at San- tiam. Eugene Youth for Christ NO RALLY TONIGHT Next Bally Saturday, January 9 In Flrit Baptlit Church SEASON'S GREETINGS SANTA CLARA CHURCH OF CHRIST Corner River Road and Irving Road Invites You to Hear Old-Fashioned Revival Hour Reaches 30th Anniversary The Rev. Paul G. Slephan of St. Louis will begin a three-month series of 13 sermons on The Lu theran Hour on Jan. 2. Pastor Stcphan returns as a Lutheran Hour guest speaker after having served in that position in the summers of 1051 and 1952. Topic of his first sermon will be "We Would See Jesus." The wish 'We Would See Jesus' is an appropriate rcsolu Uon on this second day of 1955 as we think of our national interests, personal issues, the welfare of our homes, our spiritual growth and assurance of eternal life," he will say. Pastor of Mt. Calvary Lutheran church in St. Louis, the Rev. 'Mr. Stephan bgan his ministry in 1934 In Rudd, Iowa, after his graduation from Concordia Sem inary in St. Louis. From 1935 to 1910 he served at Newell, Iowa, and from 1940 to 19-19 he was pas tor in Pueblo, Colo. The St. Louis clergyman has served as vice-president of the Colorado District of The Luth eran Church Missouri Synod; is member of the Mass Communi cations Commission of the church body; an associate editor of the church s official publication, the Lutheran Witness; and a member of the editorial board of This Day, a Christian family magazine. Pastor and Mrs. Stephan, the FOR Dinner At Milestone; Began in 1914 This year many communities across the nation and the world are observing the 40th anniver sary of the forming of The Fel lowship of Reconciliation, inter national church peace society. It was New Years Day In 1914, in the midst of World War I, that a group of English churchmen met to form the Fellowship. In suc ceeding years it has become world wide in its membership. Sunday, Jan. 2, in the dining room of the First Congregational Church, the Lane County chap ter is to observe the anniversary in a peace program to which the public is invited. At 3 p.m. there will be a dis cussion of the status of conscien tious objectors under the draft law and under the proposed Uni versal Service Act to be presented soon to the Congress. Orval Et- ter, Far West secretary of the Fellowship, an authority on mili tary service law, will be a leader for the open discussion. At 6 p.m. there will be an an niversary dinner, with an account being given of the Fellowship's 40 years of service to peace. Res ervations for the dinner can be made with Roy Andrews at tele phone 5-2744. At 7:30 there will be a rane! discussion to consider the topic, "Alternatives to War." This will be introduced by a showing of the fifteen minute sound-film by A. J. Mustc. titled, "Not by Might." Dr. Robert dark of the University of Oregon will be the moderator of the panel. Mem bers of the panel will include leading laymen and ministers and be intcrfaith in composition. The Rev. Joseph M. O'Toole, pastor of the Catholic Mary Queen of Peace Church in Webster Groves, Mo., will be the 7 a.m. speaker In a new five-week "How to Love . . ." series on KERG- CBS Radio's "Church of the Air" Jan. 2. Father O'Toole's sermon is titled "How to Love Our Neigh bors." Music will be provided by the St. Engelbert's Men and Boys Choir, under the direction of Pro fessor Jules ter Veen. The Rev. Dr. A. Warren Huyck, pastor of the First (Southern) Baptist Church in West Palm Beach, Fla., will be the 7:30 speaker. The Choir of the First Baptist Church of West Palm Beach, i:uder the direction of Earl Holloway, with Mrs. Blanche Webb at the organ, will provide uie music for the service. Each Sunday during the month of January, speakers on KERG CBS "Church of the Air" will de vote their sermons to the differ ent aspects of "How to Love . ." The first speaker in the series of five broadcasts will be the Rev. Joseph M. O'Toole, pastor of Mary Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Webster Groves, Mo. who will speak on "How to Love Our Neighbors," Sunday, Jan. 2. The rest of this schedule follows: Sunday, Jan. 9 "The Rev. Dr. E. Fay Campbell, Secretary of the Council on Theological Edu cation of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Sunday, Jan. 16 The Rev. Ger- rit T. Vander Lugt (The Reform ed Church in America), President of Central College in Pella, Iowa. Sunday, Jan. 23 The Rev. Jos eph Cleveland of the Second Con gregational Church of Rockford, 111. Sunday, Jan. 30 The Rev. Dr. Amos A. Thornburg, one of the three ministers of the First Meth odist Church in Hollywood, Calif. from Hollywood. Dr. Charles E. Fuller, pioneer radio pulpiteer, will in January enter his 30th year of continuous broadcasting. The "Old Fashioned Revival Hour." which Fuller directs, is the oldest network religious pro gram on the air today. From a modest beginning over a single California station, this program is now heard on hundreds of sta tions around the world each week. The audience is estimated at ten million persons. One of the first to enter the field of religious radio, Dr. Fuller realized in 1925. while the min ister of a small church in South ern California, tnat mere were millions who never attend church. ThrouEli the medium of radio he saw the tremendous possibilities of reaching them. In 1949 the "Old Fashioned Re vival Hour" began broadcasting over the ABC Network, in addi tion to the hundreds of other Sta tions already carrying the pro gram by transcription. The growth of coverage has been phenomenal, until now there is scarcely an area in America and in many foreign countries where this Sunday hour cannot be heard. The many letters received each week from his listeners have been proof to mild-mannered Fuller and his associates that the program is meeting a great spirit ual need in the world. From a homesick serviceman, a would-be suicide, a hospital ward with its suffering, a murderer awaiting execution, a lonely ranch in Colo rado, to a successful Wall Street broker, from a cross-section tiff . Sale From Weather Foursquare Church has the first unit of their new church enclosed from the weather and they hope to have the interior sufficiently completed to occupy by early spring. The temporary quarters in the parsonage chapel are extremely crowded. Willie White Evangelist Present New Thoughts for a : New Year JAN. 2-9 . , EVERY NIGHT 7:30 Sunday Services - 8:45 A. M. & 11 A. M. Sermons by Seminarian Arthur Wright Sunday School: 9:45 a. m. Bible Classes: 10 a. m. WELCOME! ' GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH East Eleventh Avenue at Ferry Street VI. B. Maier, Pastor Kenneth Streufert, Assistant DR. CHARLES E. FULL ER in January, enters his 30th year of broadcasting. His voice has been heard around the world on the ever popular "Old Fash ioned Revival Hour." the choir under the direction of Leland Green, with George Broadbcnt at the organ. Dr. Fuller occasionally speaks in person at great religious gath erings in other parts of the coun try, and it is estimated that he has traveled close to 400,000 miles to fulfil these engagements. On one occasion he addressed a crowd of 75,000 persons at Sol diers Field in Chicago. Special 30th Anniverasry plans nf are being made which will in- YFC Rally Youth for Christ has no rally this week, but moves to First; Baptist Church for its first rally m 1955. next Saturday, Jan. The rallies will bo in the Baptist Church through January. In De cember Lighthouse Temple was host church. Board Prepares For General Meet; All Pastors Come Central Lane Council of Churches' board of directors is having its January meeting Monday, Jan. 3, at First Christian Church annex; 7:30 p.m., with ministers of all churches in Lane County welcome to attend. Dr. Mark A. Talney, execu tive director of the Oregon Council of Churches, of Portland, is the speaker. Plans for the general meet ing Jan. 11 will be discussed. The public is invited to the Jan. 11 meeting, which will be in Springfield at the First Presbyterian Church. humanity, and all races and faiths, have come thrilling mir acle stories of changed lives as a result of the "Hour." Choice let ters are read on the air y Dr. Fuller's wife, whose voice is so familiar to thousands. The broadcioi originates each Sunday afternoon from the 5,000 seat long Beach Municipal Audi torium, where there is repre sented in the audience each week visitors from most every state across the nation. The finest array of musical ag ists is asseTiblcd for the early portion of the program. Included is the well-known Quartet, with Rudy Atwood at the piano; and elude nation-wide recognition by key civic and religious leaders to Dr. Fuller and his colleagues in appreciation of the many years of successful broadcasting. An anni versary rally will be held follow ing the broadcasts at the Long Beach Auditorium en Sunday, January 9. Purchase Parsonage Jerusalem Church of God in Christ, a negro congregation, pur- chasec", a parsonage this year at 1760 West Eleventh Avenue and are using a double garage for the church services. It will be modeled at a future date. Hear the Christian Brotherhood Hour KUGN y ffi Church School For All Ages 9:45 A.M. You Are Invited to Attend FRIENDLY STREET CHURCH OF GOD And Meet Our New Pastor Rev. Isham E. .Crane HIS SERMON TOPIC: "How To Be Useful for God" 11:00 A. M. (Evening Service 7:45 p.m.) EVERYONE WELCOME The Friendly Street Church of God, 23rd & Friendly py an lniormal hour at whlcn time former t.lvlra J. Peter, were the Glenwood Church of Christ married in 1934. They have four will serve refreshm t. children. FairmountersGive Reception AU members Falrmount Presbyterian Church will have the Reverend R. E. Clark as guest speaker at the 11 i.m. service Sunday. HisUopic will be "The Middle of the Road Christian." The morning serVice will be followed by a coffee hiur in the tun room. of Fairmount Church are invited to a reception in honor of the Rev. and Mrs. Barlow, the new director of West minster Foundation on the Uni versity of Oregon campus this coming Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. Church or the OPEN BIBLE Now Meeting In the New River Road Schcol llllliard Lane REV. AND MRS. W. C. COLE, PASTORS SUNDAY SERVICES 9:45 A.M. -1 1 A.M. - 6: 15 P.M. - 7:30 P.M. Rev. and Mrs. Phil Hoisington - Youth Directors Will Be In Charge of the Services Sunday You Will Find a Sincere Welcome at . , . "THE CHURCH OF FAITH AND FRIENDLINESS" Building Location: 3195 Hilyard Street Start the Yjeiv tjear liLt . , , ATTEND THE HOUR OF PROPHECY SUNDAY JANUARY 2-7:30 P.M. and Discover How to Have PERSONAL PEACE In a PEACELESS WORLD! "THE JEALOUS HEART" On the Screen 615 RIVER ROAD EUGENE, OREGON 1
