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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-
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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