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Newspaper Page TextPage 2A EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Sat., Jan. 13, 1962 Fellowship of the Least Coin Christians in Southeast Asia Send $1,000 to N.Y. Church By JULES I.OII of th Aisoclated rreu NEW YORK vn In a re versal of missionary giving, southeast Asian Christians have sent a gift of $1,000 to a church situated in the heart of this capital of affluence. If the gift itself seems unusu al, the church that received it may appear even more so. "Our activities are related to the culture around us," said its pastor, the Rev. Howard Moody, and that culture is well known. Judson Memorial Church is lo cated in Greenwich Village, ha ven of the unorthodox. The pastor admits, in the par- Li REV. BRYANT MITCHELL Featured Speaker Religious Leader To Speak Sunday The Rev. Bryant Mitchell, general chairman of Open Bible Standard Churches, will be the featured speaker Sunday morn ing at Lighthouse Temple in Eugene. Pastor of the Lighthouse Temple, the Rev. Herbert Brad shaw, said that the Rev. Mitchell is a nationally known conven tion speaker, educator, author and religious leader. He heads an organization with 800 affiliat ed ministers. The Rev. Mitchell has been chairman of his denomination since 1953. As a mission aecre tary, he has visited stations in South America, Central Amer ica and the West Indies, Report Given On Church's Building Fund ' M. S. Christianson of Eugene, member of the Eugene Unitar ian Church's building fund com mittee, reported to the church congregation last Sunday on the drive's progress. ' To dale, he said, some $45,045 113 per cent of the church's 40,000 building fund goal had been pledged. The committee secured pledges from 91 of the 104 church families with 29 families yet to be contacted. An additional 5 per cent of the goal is expected to be added by these families, he said. Wo obviously are In very sound shape to start our build ing immediately, he told the congregation. The Unitarians, who sold their church building on the southwest corner of 11th Ave nue and Kerry Street recently, are temporarily meeting at Frances Willard School. The church owns property at Don ald Street and 411th Avenue, where the new church plant will be built. At present, the church's board of trustees has established the following timetable for the building program. By mid-Kchruary prelim inary drawings from the archi tect. Grant Seder of Eugene. By the end of May com pleted working drawings from the architect, and advertising for bids. In .June groundbreaking ceremonies. In November of this year occupancy of the new build ing. 5:4r SUNDAY SCHOOL 11:00 MORNING WORSHIP SERVICE 6:00 P.M. YOUTH FELLOWSHIP HOUR 7.00 P.M. EVANGEL GOSPEL HOUR M. Max Morgan, Pastor First Evangelical United Brethren Church Sth at Monroe ml 1 1 lance of his congregation, that "some of our critics consider us way out." In addition to a place of wor ship, Judson Memorial Church also has an art gallery where disappointed painters can dis play their unwanted work pool hall; a teen-age center equipped with everything from wood-carving tools to bongo drums; a clinic where former dope addicts congregate to dis cuss, as the Rev. Moody put it, how to keep off the stuff; poet's theater where struggling writers of verse drama receive mutual encouragement; a dor mitory inhabited half by Amer ican college students and half by foreign students, who con duct bull sessions on their con flicting ideologies; plus other similarly unusual features, in cluding the church's own lit erary journal. "Our church is oriented basic ally for those who aren't mem bers of it," explained the Rev. Mr. Moody, a 40-year-old intel lectual who can discuss Chris tianity or poetry with his flock in their own swinging language. As he jokingly explained the makeup of his congregation, we have 85 card-carrying mem bers and about 300 or 400 fel low travelers." (The average age of the 85 regulars, inci dentally, is 28.) "We set our sights on the young, alienated outsider whose basic problem has been his in ability to get along in an adult world; the popular term is juve nile delinquent. "We couldn't care less about that church and this is what makes him important to us." About 75 to 100 teen-agers a week drop by the church where they find, In the pastor's words, a nonthreatening atmosphere." "Ws don't have the usual set tlement-house type of operation based on a preconceived pro gram in which a youth has to fit," he said. "Here, he just fits City Religious Census Under Consideration A proposal for a city-wide religious census will be consid ered this week by the executive hoard of the Eugene Ministerial Assn. The proposal was presented Tuesday morning at the associ ation's monthly meeting by the Rev. Clarence Forsbcrg and the Rev. Kenneth Simonds of First Methodist Church, Eugene. As outlined by the two min isters, the census would be de signed to provide a "religious profile" of the Eugene city area providing information on the number and preferences of church-goers, the number of persons not affiliated with a church and the number of resi dents and age groupings in var ious Eugene neighborhoods. The information gatherers, the Rev. Simonds said, would aid any participating church in finding "unchurched" residents of the church's immediate area, aid the church in program plan ning, and measure the numeri cal strength of Eugene's churches. He estimated that it would cost an individual church about $15 to $25 for its share in the survey. It has been many years, the Rev. Forsbcrg said, since a re ligious survey was made in Eugene. The Rev. Simonds, associate pastor at First Methodist, has conducted a number of such surveys in recent years. While pastor of Wesley Methodist Church, Eugene, he directed a survey in (he Willakeniie area, with Willakenzie area churches participating. Recently, he completed a sur The CHURCHES Salute You I0th and WASHINGTON DI 5-b6u2 Rosse V. Long, Minister SUNDAY Rlhle Classes 10:00 A.M. Worship .II:no A M. Young People Meet J 30 P.M. RIVr.R ROAM AMI Mcminn AVKNI K DI 10857 l.lojd Hrldgrs, Mlnlstrr Sunday Rlhle Classes 10 00 AM. Worship ... 11:00 AM. Evening Worship . 7.00 P M. Wednesday Ladles Class 10 00 AM. Evening Servlre 7:00 P.M. PRiNoriKi n 6th and "I." HI S-JRI0 Dennis L. Moss, Minister Sunday Rlhle Classes 10.00 A.M. Worship l 00 A M. Kvenlng Worship . 7:30 P.M. W ednesday Rlhle Clssses 7 30 P.M. No BooJc But The BMeNo Cieed But Christ SI NDAVa HKRMD Or TR1 Til Radio nrnadrasl (KASH) g:3 P.M Kprv Channel II Portland 1 J A M. where he happens to fit, if he fits at all." A typical Sunday activity, for example, is carried on in Jud son Memorial's "hall of issues." Here young people who would like to protest against what they feel is a social or political evil bring their protests expressed in some art form painting, poem, sculpture and display them in a room for others to see. "On Wednesday night they all come back and have a free-for-all," the pastor said. "Each one gets up and explains his protest and the others com ment on it. It's very stimulat ing." Judson Memorial Church is affiliated with both the Ameri can Baptist Convention and the United Church of Christ, and the Rev. Mr. Moody is an or dained minister of both denom inations. All church activities, however, are strictly nonsec tarian. The pastor is at a loss to ex plain how the East Asia Chris tian Conference, donor of the $1,000, heard of his church. He suggests "perhaps one of my friends in the World Council of Churches told them about us." The money was collected by women in India, Pakistan, Iran, Thailand, Korea and other coun tries. They belong to the Fellow ship of the Least Coin, an or ganization inspired by the gos pel parable of the widow's mite. Each member donates the least valuable coin of her na tion once a year to a fund which is administered by the East Asia Christian Conference a group similar in makeup to America's National Council of Churches. The conference turn, contributes yearly to some church project in every conti nent of the world. "They gave me no instruc tions about how the money should be used," the Rev. Mr. Moody said. "I can assure you it will be well spent." vey in the Coos Bay area. The Springfield Ministerial Assn. recently completed a simi lar survey of Springfield's city area residents. Further information on the proposed Eugene survey is avail able by calling First Methodist Church. Women Set Study Series "New Churches of New Times," a special study series on the home mission theme, has been scheduled for February by the Eugene Council, United Church Women. Meetings are scheduled for Fridays in February from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at St. Mary's Episco pal Church, 166 E. 13th Ave., Eugene. Leaders will be Mrs. Ross Criffeth of Eugene and the Hcv. Ernestine Hitchcock, Ebbcrt Memorial Methodist Church, Springfield. Themes for the four sessions will be "How Sharp Is Your Edge," Feb. 2; "Mission Pioneer ing in the Inner City," Feb. 9; Churching America Respons- imy," rob. lfl, and "What Should Our Own Role Be?" Feb 23. Nursery service will be pro vided for each of the pro grams. Othpr events upcoming on the Eugene Council's calendar in clude a program on the migrant ministry at the Feb. 12 regular Council meeting, and the World Day of Prayer observance on March 9. of CHRIST Evening Worship Wednesday Evening Thursday ladles Class ..... S .10 P M. 7 .10 r.M. 10 00 A M. SPRINtiMKI D 12th and "t:' HI H52H Stuart l.ove. Minister Sunday Radio RrnaiKast iKOHKl 4S A M Rlhle Classes 10:00 A M. Worship 10 SO A M. Young People Meet S 30 P M. K.venlng Worship a jo P M. Wednesday Kvenlng 7. .10 P.M. VKNETAV Territorial Hnad (Near Fisher's MM.) W'K 5-J4H1 miss Dean. Minister Sunday Rlhle ( lasses 10 00 A M, Worship 10 .VI A M. Young People 7 110 P M. Kvenlng Worship . . 7 SO P.M. W ednesday Evening Servke .. ..' 7 30 P.M. Ax; f- , .jL. REV. H. L. FOSS To Lead Dedication Church Plans Dedication The new building of Emmaus Lutheran Church, 1250 W. 18th Ave., Eugene, will be dedicated Jan. 21 at 3:30 p.m. ceremonies. Officiating at the service will be the Rt. Rev. H. L. Foss, president of the Pacific District of the American Lutheran Church. The dedication service will be followed by a fellowship hour in the church's parish hall. Emmaus Lutheran's congrega tion began services in 1913, when members of the congrega tion found it difficult to attend Bethesda Lutheran, then con sidered an outlying church. The Emmaus congregation formally organized in 1915, taking the name, The Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church. This was changed to Emmaus Lutheran in 1959, when the church moved from its long-time location at 1492 W. Second Ave. to the W. 18th Avenue site. Folk Singers To Perform For Baha'is A musical program, featuring John Berre Toelken and his wife, Miiko, will be held by the Baha'i Fellowship of the Uni versity of Oregon Sunday at 4 p.m. The program will be held at Friendly House, 2445 Kincaid St., Eugene, and is open to the public. Toelken, an Instructor in English at the University of Oregon, is a former profession al performer of folk music. He has recorded two record albums under the title, "Garland of American Folk Songs," and a third album to be released this year is now in production. At one time, Toelken had a weekly radio program on a number of college and university radio stations. Sunday's program will be based nn the theme, "Oneness of Mankind," with the Toel- kens presenting folk songs from many'parts of the world on this theme. Following the musical section of the program, Toel ken will discuss folk music and answer questions from the audi ence. Pancake Supper At Church Saturday The annual Western Pancake Supper will be held at Wesley Methodist Church, corner of t'al Young and Oakway Rd. Sat urday. Sponsored by the men's group of the church, the event has proven popular in the past years. For the price of $1 adults, and 50 cents for chil dren, a supper of pancakes, sau sage, eggs and drink is offered. Serving will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. i f V da i a SPRINGFIELD LUTHERAN T A L. C. Mohawk Blvd. ft I Street Springfield OTTO L. r'HANKK Pastor 11:00 Worship Service 8 30 Worship Service 9'45 Sunday School CHRIST LUTHERAN Mo. Synod W 1Mb & IrrrttorUI Rd. Vnrt H. J. SCIIALKtiKR Pitnr 13 A.M. Simriav School 10 30 A M. Kinship Servln TRINITY LUTHERAN Wis Svnort Merlin in ILtrrt School 11J0 K.ct 2ath. Kiiccne G JLHOMK ALBK1XHT Pa .tor 10 00 Sunilav School 11:00 orhtp Srrvlr UNITED LUTHERAN U L. C. A Wh A Knrt Avt Kugtn wkston i,muny6n. Ptitor 810 Chtirrh Service B 45 Siimlav School 11:00 Church Strvtc GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN r A. i.. c H ml. nil Lor an Hw? 9c M.HpIh Koad Thomas Wllkrns, Intern 9 S Sunday Scluud 11 rtt Worihlp Servtc CENTRAL LUTHERAN 1 A I- C 18th and Potter Fugene 01. AS" A ANHKRSON Pastor 45 Sunday school and ' Adult Hlhle Class 11:00 Worship Service 13 Years After Death of Moses Samaritans Preserve Scroll Dating Back to 1700 B.C. By GEORGE W. CORNELL or the Associated Press Three times, the Samaritan priest repeated the words, "the oldest book in the world." His eyes shone and pride was in his voice. Unveiled beside him was a bronze-bound scroll of parch ment containing the first five books of the Old Testament, called the Torah of Pentateuch. The scroll is the treasured possession of a tiny remnart of an odd and ancient people, the Samaritans. Only 350 of them still sur vive, most of them in the little town of Nablus situated on a mountainside in Jordan about 40 miles north of Jerusalem. On a visit there last month this reporter found their men folk busily engaged in cutting the stone to build a new school. They sat on the ground at their work, using hand chisels and mallets, the dust and chips fly ing. "We have no money," the black-gowned priest said, "but plenty of stone." School Site A camel trudged up the path, dragging another block of it for the cutters. The priest pointed out the site where the school would be erected, adja cent to the synagogue. "We priests do not work," he explained, his smile exposing decayed teeth. "We are of the House of Levi. The others are of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, sons of Joseph. There are about 70 priests among the handful of Samari tans. A quaint and friendly peo ple, they have lived for cen turies in strict separation from the rest of humanity, forbid ding intermarriage and religi ous or social mingling. Their main problem, aside from their low economic state, is to perpetuate their kind with out violating the rules against inbreeding. Our continued existence is the present-day miracle," said the priest, Atef Nagi. In ancient times, they numbered in the hundreds of thousands, scat tered from Damascus to Egypt. Roman and Moslem persecu tions decimated them. Shrank to 10 At one point in the middle ages, their numbers shrank to 10. Throughout their tenuous his tory, they have preserved the old scroll, which they claim is 3,627 years old, dating back to 1700 B.C., 13 years after the death of Moses. The British Museum has of fered them a million pounds ($28 million) for it, the Priest said, and although this would turn their poverty into riches, they have refused to sell it. It is the only thing we have," the priest said. It is handwritten in Old He Southern Baptist Churches Welcome You EUGENE FIRST SOUTHERN 2520 Harris St. Rev. Robert W. Smith FAIRFIELD CHURCH 3091 Elmira Rd. Charlet E. Bush, Pastor SPRINGFIELD TRINITY 12th & B Streets Buren Higdon, Pastor Lutheran Churches cordially invite you to attend their BETHESDA LUTHERAN r. a. u c. 4445 Royal Street. Cugena Daneho District H. MILTON PETERSON Pastor 9:30 ramtlv Worship and Sunday School 11:00 Divine Worship GRACE LUTHERAN Mo. Synod 17th & Hilvard rii,tme WILLIAM tl MA IKK Pastor 810 Worship Stn'1c 9:45 Sundav School 11:00 Worahlp Service EMMAUS LUTHERAN r A L.C 11S0 West 18th Eugena EDWARD R. ANDERSEN Pastor 1:30 Tamllv Worship and Sunday School 11:00 Worship Servlc HOPE LUTHERAN Mo. Ivnod Hth B Street Sprlnffltld E. K. HKLLWKt.K Paator 9 10 Sunday School 11:00 rtorthlp Strvlc MESSIAH LUTHERAN Mo Svnod 3?0 River Road Cuxen LAWKKNOF W ROHLF1NQ Pastor M OH WoMhtp Servif 9 15 Sundav School H 30 Worahlp Servlc brew, a language that has nev er been printed, the letters re sembling Phoenician characters, quite different from the letters of regular Hebrew. The engraved bronze cover was described as made in Persia 950 years ago. The Samitarians maintain that they alone uphold the true, unalloyed teachings of Moses They accept only the so-called mosaic books the first five books of the Old Testament and reject the rest of it. They were spurned in early times by the main body of Israelites as being of impure stock. Mount Gerizim The conflict apparently came to a head around 332 B.C. when the Samaritans built a temple on Mount Gerizim to rival the temple in Jerusalem. The veneration of Mount Gerizim in contrast to Mount Zion has been the distinctive thesis of the Samaritans down through the years. They face Mount Gerizim not Jerusalem when they pray, They make their seasonal pil grimages to it, and bring their tithes to it. Each spring, they celebrate the passover with the ancient blood sacrifice of seven lambs on its peak, singing their an cient chants, their priests and young men clothed in white. It is a majestic mountain, just to the northeast of Nablus. Rockrimmed and clad with cypress trees, it overlooks the vast meadow of Moreh. To the Samaritans, it is the "House of the Almighty," the Gate of Heaven, the "Mount of Blessing," the "Chosen Place," the "House of Angels." The Angels Remain "The holy angels never aban don it," said the Samaritan high priest, Amram Isaac. He sat Ml EMERALD BAPTIST J CHURCH m American Baptist Convention 19th Ave. Si Patterson Stfl. "A church with a warm heart and a world vision" 9:4S A.M. Sunday School 11:00 A.M. Morning Worship and Junior Church 7:00 P.M. Worship Service Alono Theodora Goodwin Interim Pastor Evangel Temple invites you to attend SALVATION HEALING REVIVAL Beginnlnc with 3 srrTicn Sunday Dec. 14th REV. MILLER of Lake Port, Catlf. SPEAKING 11:00 a.m., 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Meetings Continue Every Night 7:30 p.m. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. lib Si Willamette upstairs G. O. BAKER, Pastor RI 6.1994 Register-Guard Want Ads Bring Fast Results "OPERATION UNDERSTANDING" Open House ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH 1062 Charnelton St. Ion am against a rock wall in the sun, his smile merry through his gray beard. "The angels con tinually remain in it, praising God." Across the valley on another eminence, Mount Ebal, is the ancient village of Sicar, home of the Samaritan woman that talked with Jesus at the well and became the first woman evangelist for him. Among the Samaritans, the women still wear veils. They speak Arabic, although using Hebrew in their ritual. They use the old lunar calendar. They observe Jewish laws of circumcision and diet, avoiding pork or meat of animals with paws or claws. They look for the coming of a Messiah. While their numbers are small, and their place in the world humble and precarious, their name has been immortal ized in the story of the "Good Samaritan," whose heart was bigger than racial or religious conflict 1 CHRISTIAN 1 I SCIENCE J Station Sundays XORE 10:15 1450 kc A.M. Hear Dr. WobstOP His First Message of The Year 11 A.M. 'A Motto for 1962" KASH Broadcast 7 P.M. "The Stroit Gate Why Few Eater" ' 9:45 A Great Sunday School WELCOME "THE GOSPEL CENTER IN THE CENTER OP THE CITY" FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH DR. WEBSTER, PASTOR BROADWAY HIGH First Church of Christ, Scientist 14th & Pearl Street Eugene A Branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts Lesson Sermon: "SACRAMENT"' Sunday Services 9:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m. Sunday School 11 a.m. Wednesday testimonial meeting 8 p.m. Nursery Facilities During All Services Reading Room 84 10th Ave. E. All Are Welcome The mm ASBURY METHODIST CHURCH FAIRHEU) SCHOOL, 3455 ROYAL AVE. 11:00 Morning Worship, 9:45 Church School FIRST METHODIST CHURCH 1185 WILLAMETTE STREET Services' 8:30 A.M., 9:30 A.M., 11:00 A.M. TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH 440 MAXWELL ROAD Services 9:30 A.M.. 11:00 A.M. WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH OAKWAY at CAL YOUNG ROAD 9:45 Sunday School 11:00 Worship SPRINGFIELD EBBERT MEMORIAL METHODIST CHURCH 6th AND C STS. llorrmis Worship 9:45 and 11:00 A.M. EUGENE DISTRICT OFFICE 910 26th Ave. East DI 3-3418 v ... . -n . , ; v. .. . ... ....... . , . , , , . .. . . X ' ' ... V All rorlions of this beautiful and Inspiring building will be open for your inspection . . with full explanations and answers to your questions. Refreshments will be served. NEXT SUNDAY . . . JANUARY 21 2 to 4 p.m. 'diauu invited . . i con a YOU ARE WELCOME TO THE EUGENE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH 1111 WEST 8th SUNDAY SCHOOL 10 a.m. NIGHT SERVICE 7:30 p.m. Church of Christ 288 W. 6th 'Come Thou With Us and We Will Do Thee Good" Wed, 7:30 P.M. Sun., 10-12 A.M. Sun., 6:30 P.M. Choice L. Bryant Evangelist Congregational Church 1050 E. 23rd Services: 9:30 & 11:00 a.m. Church School 8:30 & 11:00 a.m. Ministers: Wesley G. Nicholson Lloyd R. Stamp We Believe... "You'll lighten your load at 815 Irving Road Horn 0 tht Santa Clara Assembly of God in North Eugene E. Judson Cornwall, pastor DI 5-2985 Methodist Church Welcomes You EUGENE "i