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ELECTRIC ORGAN A new electric organ was recently pur
chased by the board of the Advent Christian church, corner of
Jackson and Welch. Organist for the church is Melody Pierce,
a sophomore student at Medford High school. The Rev. G. E.
Waist on is pastor of the church. Dedication services for the
organ will be announced later.
Dexfer Williams
New Paslor Here
The Rev. Dexter Williams has
assumed duties as pastor of Cen
tral Church of CSirist, 608 North
Central ave., Medford.
Mr. Williams, who came to
M()ford from the Christian
Chuh, Gold Hill, Feb. 3, was
pastor thare for a year and a
half.
A Native of Cottage Grove,
Ore., Mr.AVilliams attended col
lege at' Eastern Christian In
q stitute in East Ortnca, N. J. and
did advance work at Platte
Vjrfiey Bible collage, Scotts
Bluff, Neb. '
Mr, WUJami and his wife,
Evalee,, and thi our ehildran,
are msieg ttiair boma at 523
North Bartlett at.
Cental Point Church
Starts Meeting Series
q Central Point The Rev.
Ejett Wonttomery, W e n a t-
(JheC Wsh., will begin a series
of mtjatings at tn Community
.Pib!H churiyi, (.antral Point
'Sundty, fab. it, at 11 a.m.
CH -iR also speak that even
ing t f 43 p.m. and meetings
'Still haJS aach night at the
Kime ia itcept Saturday dur
inf fK llo'in week. The last
meetint will ta Sunday, March
liantjomary has been ac
tive organizing and promoting
Jurtfc (llosftip groups as well
vttina caloDle and Sunday
School (Ooups. Hi is now pastor
of the Christian and Missionary
Ajiiancf $Uiirch in Wenatchee.
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Wmtt 9k Compassion
O Oj'04 at First
CkrMmm Church
O sirt Christian church, in
(ioopertion with the National
Cncil f Churcnes, is ooserv
Jng Week0of Compassion the
"iftek of Feb. 24. On Wednesday,
Fe 27, at 6:45 p.m. the Brother
hoajl dinner will be held at
wich feme a special Compassion
O offeing will be taken. This will
tee1 used throughout the world to
help those in need.
The topic of the sermon which
the Rev. William C. Piper will
give Sunday morning is "Who Is
hy Seighbor?" Mrs. Ralph Mat
lack and Mrs. Gloria Smith will
sing a duet and the Chancel
choir will present the anthem
"My Jesus As Thou Wilt." A cof
fee" hour will follow the morn
inc sarvice. In the evening Mr.
O Piper will conclude his series of
sermons on "Church History."
This one will give the beginnings
Qid development of the Chris
tian church.
RECORD AIR MAIL
Washington 0J.R Postmast
er General Arthur E. Summer
field said today the Post Office
Department expects to fly a rec
ord 1-5 billion pieces of air mail
during the current fiscal year
ending June 30.
'Noble Ballew Talks at
First Assembly of God
The Rev. Noble Ballew, Port
land, will speak at the First As
sembly of God church, 1108
West Main st., Sunday, at 7:30
I p.m. Mr. Ballew will conduct a
I revival at the church and speak
Tuesday through Friday art 7:30
p.m. each evening. He will also
speak Sunday, March 3.
Mr. Ballew traveled through
Europe and Africa in 1955 and
will speak on the Union of South
Africa while here. He is the
former pastor of the Evangel
Temple in Portland.
The Rev. R. E. Cull Is pastor
of the First Assembly of God
church here.
Sunday Schedule
Announced
Sunday morning at both wor
ship services of the First Pres
byterian church Dr. D. Kirk
land West will preach on "Fath
ers Then and Now," the third
In a series of three. on the Par
able of the Prodigal Son.
James Baker will sing a tenor
solo, "Be Thou Faithful Unto
Death" and the Westminster
and Chancel choirs will be und
er the direction of Lynn Sjolund.
At 5 p.m. the final class will
be held for those who are plan
ning to join the church. Dr. West
will lead this class in a study on
the Sacraments of Baptism and
theh Lord's Supper. The Elders
who comprise the session of the
church will be present to receive
the class into church member
ship. New members will be pub
licly welcomed March 3 at the
second worship service.
The film "This High Calling"
will be shown to the adults at
tending the 7 p.m. service.
This picture was recently pro
duced by the Presbyterian
Church, U.S.A. in order to por
tray the present life, growth and
outreach of the church in Ameri
ca and throughout the world.
The high school young people
wag hear a report from 11
seniors who recently spent two
days at Lewis and Clark college
in Portland. These students ob
served college life, sat in on
classes and made plans for en
rolling there next year. After
hearing these reports, the Out
reach Commission led by carol
Dyke will continue its study of
southeast Asia. The evening will
close with games and refresh
ments originating from that part
of the world.
New Members to be
Received Sunday at
Congregational Church
New members will be received
Sunday at the 9:45 a.m. service
at the Congregational church. In
their honor there will be a cof
fee hour held between the serv
ices in Pilgrim house. Friends
of the church are invited.
This gives an opportunity for
all those attending the- church
to become acquainted and for
those who regularly go to one
service to meet those who go
to the other.
Another fellowship activity of
the church is the Couples club
which meets Sunday at 7:30 p.m.
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
R. A. Schuchard. 101 Geneva St.
New officers of this organization
are: president. Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Norris: vice-president, Mr.
and Mrs. G. G. Smith and sec
retary treasure, Mr. and Mrs.
Rex Stevens.
LOOKS AT BOOKS
"The Dead Sea Scrolls." a re
cent book about the discoveries
of ancient Biblical and other
manuscripts in caves by the
Dead Sea in Palestine will be re
viewed by Dr. Raymond E. Bal
comb at the First Methodist
church Sundav at 7:3ft n m Tho
book is by Professor Millar Bur
rows of iale university.
Friday, February 22. 1957
Lutheran Congregations
Start Evangelism Mission
z.ion jutneran cnurcn, corner
of Fourth and Oakdale, will join
with other Lutheran congrega
tions in the All-Oregon Evange
lism Mission durng thei week of
Feb. 24-28.
The opening service of this
Mission will ba the 11 a.m. wor
ship service when the Rev. John
Zeltin of Redding. Calif., will
begin his theme "The Abundant
Life" with the sermon, "The
Source of the Abundant Life.
Other services of the Mission
will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday
through Thursday
Mr. Zeltin, born in Latvia,
completed his academic training
in the United States, graduating
from the University of Chicago,
the Northern Baptist seminary
and the Chicago Lutheran semi
nary. He was ordained in the
United Lutheran church in 1938.
He has served four former pas
torates in the Midwest, and is
currently pastor of the U.L.C.A.
church in Redding.
Firststeps of the Mission were
taken this past week when mem
bers of the Church were com
missioned to call on the Congre
gation's membership. The sec
ond, and major step, of the Mis
sion will be taken Sunday after
noon when members of the
Church will be commissioned to
call upon non-members.
The All-Oregon Mission, as the
name implies, covers the whole
state, and includes Congrega
tions from all national bodies of
Lutheran faith. Divided into
area groupings, each area will
report in to the Portland head
quarters of the Mission every
Rev. Paul Lehenbauer
Mr. Lehenbauer to
Speak at St. Peter
The Rev. Paul Lehenbauer,
pastor of St. Paul Lutheran
church, Bridger, Mont., will be
the guest missioner at St. Peter
Evangelical Lutheran church,
1020 East Main st. He will speak
at the Sunday morning services,
and each evening, Monday
through Thursday at 8 p.m.
The Evangelism services are
connected with visitation of peo
ple in the community by mem
bers of the congregation. Mr.
Lehenbauer will train the call
ers briefly each evening during
the supper hour, before they go
out to make calls.
St. Peter congregation is one
of the more than 160 Lutheran
churches in Oregon conducting
such Evangelism services dur
ing this week.
Mr. Lehenbauer was born in
Brazil S. A., where his father
was a missionary for 17 years.
After 28 months in the U. S.
Air Force, pastor Lehenbauer
entered Concordia seminary in
Springfield, 111. For a brief
period he served a parish in
Brazil, but had to return to the
United States fpr reasons of
health. Since 1954 he has served
as a pastor in Bridger.
The public is invited to attend.
Speaker to Show
Pictures of Holy
Land Visit Wednesday
Pictures from the Suez Canal
region will be shown Wednes
day, Feb. 27, at 7:3 p.m. at the
First Church of Nazarene, 520
North Holly st by the Rev. Ira
Paul Dumas, minister of the
First Church of the Nazarene,
San Francisco. . "
Mr. Dumas has recently from
a trip to the Holy Land and will
speak and show pictures in the
local Nazarene church.
The pictures will also show
scenes along the route of the
Ancient Exodus to Mt. Sinai,
strange customs for the burial
of the dead and trouble spots
in the Near East in the light of
the present crisis.
While in Medford, the Dumas'
will be guests of his sister, Mrs.
Ella Herman, 320 Hillhouse, and
Mr. and Mrs. Al Dumas, 2011
East Main St.
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You and Your Family Are Jnvited to Sunday School
and Church at the ...
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Thomas McCamant, Minister
Groveland Ave. and Oakwood Drive
Church Worship at 9:45 and 11 A.M.
Church School at 9:45
night so that control and en
couragement may be given at
every level and in each step of
the program.
The public is invited to attend.
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Episcopal Bishop's
Old Will Discovered
By LEO SOROKA
United Press Correspondent
Memphis (U.Ri A stroke of
fate has uncovered a yellowed,
almost tattered document writ
ten almost a century ago by the
first bishop of the Episcopal
diocese of Tennessee.
The five-page document was
found in a dilapidated building
on the Mississippi waterfront
here. There is no certain ex
planation how Bishop James
Henry Otey's "last will and
testament" got to the place
where it was found.
Nor can it be certain that all
the wishes of Bishop Otey were
carried out to the letter.
Bishop Otey, on March 22,
1862, had taken pen in hand to
write "being of sound mind and
aware of the uncertainty of life,
do ordain, make and declare this
to be my last will' and testa
ment." Almost 100 years later the
will was discovered by a de
molition crew wrecking old
buildings. The will was among
sundry papers of business firms
found in a well-preserved wood
en box virtually sealed off be
tween ceiling and roof.
Oldtimers here said the build
ing used to be higher, that in
years gone by, several of the
floors had been knocked down,
a new roof placed over the re
maining floors. Thus, the wood
en box had rested for years, in
a space not more than 18 inches
high between ceiling and roof.
Six Slave.
The will showed that Bishop
Otey had little cash, but there
was some property in Memphis
and Chattanooga, Tenn., Arkan
sas and North Carolina and
many church books "which he
left to his six children with the
words:
"I exhort and earnestly be
seech my children to read, mark,
learn and inwardly digest what
is contained in these books, and
to give good heed to their teach
ings as able to make them wise
unto salvation, useful in life and
happy in death."
In making specific bequests of
Bibles, prayer books and other
church literature,, he wrote:
"If I could impart to them the
wisdom they (books) contain I
should give them that which
would be worth to them more
than thousands of gold and sil
ver or all else that this world
contains."
In his will he disposed of six
slaves to remain in the family.
"I especially enjoin that these
servants shall not be sold out of
the family and that they all be
allowed the blessings of Chris
tian worship and instruction."
ATTENDS CONFERENCE
Dr. Raymond E. Balcomb,
Oregon Conference Chairman of
the Board of Ministerial Train
ing and Qualifications of the
Methodist church, will attend a
national meeting of Conference
Chairmen at Salt Lake City,
Feb. 28 through March 1. He
also plans to attend the Earl
Lectures at the Pacific School
of Religion in Berkeley, Calif.,
Feb. 26 through 28.
PARTY TONIGHT
An All-church Washington's
birthday social for the First
Church of God will be held in
the youth room of the church
today at 7:30 p.m. All birthdays
and anniversaries for the month
of February will be recognized
at the party.
New Senior High
Department
Opens Sunday
A new Senior High school de
partment of the Sunday school
will be opened Sunday at the
First Church of the Nazarene,
520 North Holly st.
The Youth department, form
erly made up of Junior and Sen
ior high students, has outgrown
its quarters.
Mrs. Lulu Larson, 822 Minn
esota ave., is the new depart
mental supervisor.
Hot chocolate and doughunts
will be served the High School
students that arrive at 9:30 a.m.
for fellowship before the official
starting time of Sunday school
at 9:45.
The Rev. W. Lee Mansveld.
administrative pastor, will be on
hand to help the Youth depart
ment workers inaugurate the
new department.
The Nazarene Church in Med
ford has experienced a rapid
growth in Sunday School mem
bers the past years. In addition
to new Departments and classes,
the local church has bought land
on Mt Pitt ave. and sponsored
the construction of a new
church. The second church,
known as the Mt. Pitt ave.
church of the Nazarene, is sched
uled to open April 7.
Members of the First Church
of the Nazarene have set aside
the next five weeks for an in
tensive Sunday School Crusade,
with a goal of 1000 people in
Sunday school on March 24.
As an aid in accomplishing
this goal a visitation band of 50
to 100 church members, under
the direction of Milton Kornstad,
visitation chairman, meet each
Wednesday evening for a brief
meal served by the ladies of the
church. They then go out in
teams to make personal calls on
friends who have indicated an
interest in the church.
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GENERAL OVERSEER The Rev. Robert Crawford, (right) in
ternational leader and general overseer of the Apostolic Faith
church, checks reports with the Rev. Loyce Carver, pastor of
the local church, while Mr. Crawford was in Medford this week.
Mr. Crawford stopped here no his return trip to the church
headquarters in Portland after attending meetings in San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles.
Church Leader Calls Prosperity
A Pressing Religious Problem
By LOUIS CASSELS
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) One of
America's most pressing relig
ious problems, a church leader
said today, is finding a Christian
path through the pitfalls of pros
perity. Our unprecedented abundance
said the Rev. Cameron P. Hall
of the National Council of
Churches, carries with it an un
precedented danger. For the
first time in history, a whole
nation is subject to the tempta
tions that Christ had in mind
when he warned that it is "eas
ier for a camel to pass through
the eye of a needle than for a
rich man to enter the kingdom
of Heaven."
Hall is director of the Nation
al Council's Economic Life di
vision which asked 400,000
country to devote a week to
conscience - searching examina
tion of the question:- "Can we
stand abundance?"
In an interview. Hall listed
several ways in which our grow
ing economic wealth can pro
duce spiritual poverty.
One Danger
One danger, he said, Is that
we may become so obsessed with
our material possessions that we
crowd other values out of life.
"The Christian faith does not
go all out against materialism,"
he said. "It affirms that mater
ial things are not to be denied
but, in their place, enjoyed. But
life is so made that material
values cannot have first place
without hurting and ultimately
destroying individual and social
well-being."
William C. Pipu
Minister
Dr. Elmer Adams to
Speak Sunday at
Eastwood Baptist
Dr. Elmer Adams, executive
secretary of the Oregon Baptist
convention, will speak at the
Adventure in Missions at the
Eastwood Baptist church, North
Keene Way dr. at Ridgeway, at
7:30 p.m. Sunday. Dr. Adams
made a trip around the world
two summers ago, visiting the
various mission fields of the
American Baptist convention. He
will show slides and speak on the
work in Burma and the Belgian
Congo.
The public is invited.
At the morning worship hour
the Rev. Richard M. Jones will
speak on "The Possibility of
Faith." The choir will sing the
Crusader's hymn. Nursery care
is provided.
Eastwood Baptist church is
located north of the Hedrick
Junior High school.
Nazarene Youths to
Celebrate Birthday
Boys and girls of the Week
day youth program of the First
Church of the Nazarene, 520
North Holly st., will receive spe
cial recognition in the anniver
sary Pow-Wow to be held to
night, in the Educational build
ing of the church. A unit of the
National Caravan organization,
the local club has been in opera
tion four years.
Chairman of the local Cara
van committee. Mrs. Esther
Tompkins, will direct the activi
ties of the evening. The activities
will include: awards, a program
showing the four phases of the
Caravan work, mental, spiritual,
physical and social, new mem
bers inducted, and refreshments
will be served.
There are three active units
of the Caravan program in the
local church: Indian Braves
boys, 8-10 years, Indian Maidens
girls, 8-10 years and Pathfinders,
girls, 11-15 years.
Closely related to the threat
of materialism, he said, is the
tendency to be selfish with our
abundance in a world where
"for millions of others, unre
lieved hunger is a way of life."
No Escap
"The sharp thrust of Jesus'
saying cannot be escaped by any
thoughtful Christian in the Un
ited States: "Every one to whom
much is given, of him shall
much be required."
Anyone who is inclined to
think that Americans are being
generous with their wealth, Hall
said, should note that total pri
vate donations to all church
and welfare organizations to
day amount to about one per
cent of the national income aft
er taxes. That is the same per
centage that prevailed about 30
years ago before there was any
talk about a religious revival.
"Our standard of living has
soared above that of yesterday;
our standard of giving has stay
ed where it was."
ATTEND MEETING
The Rev. and Mrs. G. A. Tro
bough, and daughter, Gloria,
and Mrs. Jennie Lawless, will
attend a meeting of Junior Camp
workers in Eugene Feb. 23. Mr.
Trobough will be director for
the Junior camp at Dead Indian
Soda Springs camp from July
14-20. Mrs. Lawless will be unit
leader at the same camp. Mrs.
Grace Sayre, conference chil
dren's worker, will be in charge
of the training session in Eugene.
First Christian Church
"The Friendly Church
Welcomes You
TO ALL SERVICES
Bible School t- 45 a.m.
Morning Service 10:50 a.m.
Youth Meeting - 6:30 p.m.
Evening Service 7:30 p.m. .
9th and Oakdale Medford, Ore.
Oscar Brown
Friends Start
Revival Wednesday
Revival meetings began Wed
nesday at the Frineds church
and will continue throughout
next week with services' each
evening at 7:30 p.m. except Sat
urday. Evangelist is Oscar
Brown, pastor of Greenleaf
Friends church, a large rural
congregation near Caldwel, Ida
ho, who will leave here for a
two-months tour of the Friends
mission field in Bolivia, S. A.
While there he will be evange
list for the Bolivian Friends
Yearly meeting with an expect
ed attendance of 1000 Aymara
Indian representatives from the
70 Friends churches in the Bo
livian highlands and Yungas
area.
.Song leader for the local re
vival series is Wayne Plersall,
baritone soloist, pastor of the
new Friends church at Ontario.
Ore. He will be assisted each
evening by a choir and ensemble
groups. The meetings are open
to the public.
The evangelist and song leader
will participate in the regular
worship services Sunday at 9:45
and 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Other
meetings of the day will be Sun
day school at 9:45 and 11 a.m.
and Christian Endeavor at 6:30
p.m.
Religion Brought
Into Coffee Break
Chicago U.R) A Chicago
trading stamp firm has launched
a coffee-hour religious program
to put "brotherhood in business.
Once each week, employes sit
down with clergymen of three
different faiths to learn more
about the various denominations
and find avenues for putting re
ligion to work in daily affairs.
The program is voluntary.
Peter Volid, president of the
firm (King Korn Stamp Com
pany), said the plan aims at "put
ting religious principles to
work" in the business world.
He said the firm contributes
half the time for the weekly
half-hour sessions, with its 50
employees participating equally
by spending their coffee break
in the round-table talks.
"We think there is sufficient
interest to make it a continuing
part of our operation," he said.
At the initial meeting a Metho
dist minister, Roman Catholic
priest and Jewish" rabbi gave j
short introductory talks and
then presided at a general dis-
cussion. The churchmen rotated .
their visits thereafter and invited j
other clerics to participate. ;
A spokesman for the Church ;
Federation of Greater Chicago j
called the program "a very inter- I
esting idea and one more evi
dence of the increased interest in j
religion." i
AS A
YOU ARE
AN EVANGELIST
Of rhe Good News
A MISSIONARY
Of the Lord Jesus
AN AMBASSADOR
Of God to Present the
Gospel to a Lost World.
1st BAPTIST
CHURCH
Phone 2-9197
YOUR LAST OPPORTUN
ITY to hear Dr. Hyman
Appelman at the First
Baptist Church
No. Central at Fifth
Sunday 9:45 Sunday School
11:00 Morning Wonhip
"Will The Circle
Be Unbroken?"
2:30 Man Mooting
"From Jewish Lawyer
To Gospel Preacher"
7:30 Evening Service
"When The Saints
Go Marching In"
JOHNNY BISAGNO, former danco
band leader will play his trumpet
and lead the choir and congrega
tional singing.
JAMES W. NEELY, Pastor
Community Work
Topic Tonight at
Teens for Christ
What teenagers in partnership
with God may do to benefit their
communities will be the basis
of a discussion by the Medford
"Teens for Christ" group tonight
at 7:30 at the George Beltz home,
1119 Niantic.
The group is composed of
young people ages 13 to 20 and
has recently been organized as
an auxiliary to the Young Peo
ple's socieities of the Medford
and Valley View Seventh-day
Adventist churches.
Projects already in operation
by the group include singing for
shut-ins at local hospitals and
rest homes and "L-Bombs,"
christian literature wrapped and
distributed by the youth.
Ihe place young people may
take in their communities civil
defense work is being demon
strated by several of their group
who are active in the Ground
Observor Corps. Oral Tucker Jr.
and Lee Blank have received
their wings as members of the
corps, and Sande Beddoe and
Ronnie Archer are working to
wards theirs.
As a part of the denomina
tion's defense preparendness pr6-
gram, many of the teen-agers
hold Red Cross First Aid certif
icates, and others of the group
are taking the course at the pre
sent time.
Tonight's discussion will in
clude plans for visiting individ
ual shut-ins as well as those in
hospitals and ursing home, and
how to furthur a personal in
terest in those visited. How
young people may help others in
terested in studying and under
standing the Bible will also be
discussed.
Mrs. Allen McCoy, Medford
Missionary Volunteer leader
meets with Teens -for Christ
group each Friday evening when
the teeners sing gospel melodies,
share inspirational thoughts and
lay plans for youth evangelism
in the Rogue Valley.
PARTY TONIGHT
The Builders class of young
adults of Eastwood Baptist
church, North Keene Way dr.
at Ridgeway ave., will give a
party tonight at 8 p.m. in the
church.
TONIGHT!
HEAR
Hyman
Appelman
Tonight
"The Question to ,
Answer All Questions"
t
Saturday .
10:00 a.m.-"Thrill of
a Youth Time"
7:30 p.m.-'The 2nd
Coming of Christ"
Jew and Gentile
Sunday
Morn-"Will the Circle
Be Unbroken?"
Afternoon "From
Jewish Lawyer to
Gospel Preacher"
Evening "When the
Saints Go Marching
in
Featuring:
JOHNNY
BISAGNO
And his Golden
Trumpet
Crusade Choir
Special Musical
package
First Baptist
Church
North Central at 5th
7:30 PJVl.