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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
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