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PRESBYTERIAN MEN Visiting while J
tcnding the Western area meeting of the Na
tional Council of Presbyterian Men are sever
al of the conference speakers and members tf
the Medford First Presbyterian church. Seat
ed (left to right) are David W. Proffitt, mod
erator of the Presbyterian General Assembly,
who spoke in Medford Feb. 21, and Kenneth
G. McGilvray, president of the National
Church News
Nazarene Church
Announces New
Church Opening
Officials of the First Church of
the Nazarene, Medford, an
nounced this week that the open
ing of the Mt. Pitt Church of
the Nazarene, located at the
corner of Mt. Pitt and Chestnut
In south Medford is scheduled
for Saturday, April 6.
The new pastor, the Rev.
Dwayne Bachelor, has been in
Medford for several months
helping construct the first unit
of the new church. Sponsored
by the First Church of the Naz
arene, the new congregation
will have, a building valued at
more than $40,000 dollars.
In a special meeting this week
the following schedule of events
was planned to precede the open
ing. ' On March 24 a Sunday school
rally has been planned to help
the mother church to reach its
attendance goal of 1,000. Mem
bers of the new church will par
ticipate in visitation of Sunday
school and church member pro
spects. March 31 the final ceremony
of dec'tcating the new members
to the work of the new church
will be held at the altar of First
church. Mr. Bachelor will be pre
sented with the church member
ship book containing names of
the charter members.
April 7 the first service will
be held in the new building.
Easter Sunday April 21 Dis
trict Superintendent Dr. W. D.
McGraw Jr. will preach the ser
mon for the new congregation.
He will make final inspection
of the property and meet with
the congregation in regard to
church business.
Ten Weeks Loyalty
Campaign Starts
Ten weeks loyalty campagin
begins Sunday at the Church of
Christ, Central Point, with the
message for Sunday evening at
7:30 being "What Sin is the
Most Horrible in the World?"
Members have been asked to
turn in the answer to this ques
tion with the person giving the
correct answer receiving a gift.
The question will be answe.red
during the evening service.
Starting with this service the
church orchestra will be pre
sent. Every one is invited to at
tend. ATTENDS PORTLAND MEET
Dr. Raymond E. Balcomb,
minister of the First Methodist
church, Medford, will be in
Portland on Thursday, March 7,
to attend a meeting of the Ore
gon Conference .Board of Min
isterial Training and Qualifica
tions. Dr. Balcomb is chairman
of this conference board.
REVIVAL SERVICES
Evangelist Noble Ballew, who
has been holding revival services
at First Assembly of God
church, 1108 West Main st., for
the past two weeks, will con
tinue for an additional week ac
cording to the pastor, the Rev.
R. E. Cull. The public is invited
to attend these nightly services
at 7:30 p.m.
William C. Pipm
. Ministat
Naturalist, Author
To Speak Monday
Sam Can.pbell, naturalist, u
thor, and national lecturer will
speak at the McLoughlin Junior
High school gymnasium Monday,
March 4 at 7:30 p.m.
Campbell is author o? ten
books on nature. The lr.test one
is Fiddlesticks and Freckles.
Earlier books include How's
Inky, Too Much Salt and Pepper,
A Tippy Canoe and Canada Too,
and The Seven Secrets of Some
where Lake. The stories are of
Campbell's experiences at his
animal sanctuary in Wisconsin.
The program here is part of
a tour throughout western Ore
gon sponsored by the Seventh
day Adventist church youth
department of the Oregon Con
ference, and locally being pre
sented by the associated student
body of Rogue River academy.
Tickets for the evening pro
gram may be purchased at Rob
inson Brothers store in Medford.
Methodists Plan To
Finance Churches
Chicago (U.P.) Methodist
leaders are organizing a lay
men's group to help finance the
building of new churches.
John Van Sickle, lay leader
of the church's Rock River Con
ference announced the Board of
Lay Activities hopes to enlist
1,500 laymen willing to con
tribute a minium of $10 each
time a newly established con
gregation builds a church sanc
tuary. The boaQ said it plans to
build 12 new churches between
1957 and 1960 with the help of
the "Church Builders Club."
Camp Life to be
Discussed Sunday
A family night preview
of
camp life will be presented Sun
day at 5:30 p.m. at he First
Methodist church. The program
will be divided into three parts j
beginning at 5:30, under the
heading of camper view the par-
ents and youth from the fourth
grade through high school win
take a look at the different
camps and the campers under
the heading of Camper View, at
6J0 p.m. under the heading of
Camper Chew a real camp lunch
will be provided by the Junior
High MYF. Beginning at 7 and
until 7:30 p.m. the Camper Clue,
which will be a clue to the deep
er meaning of camp life, will
be centered around a camp fire
time with camp fire songs and
inspirational stories. The Rev.
George Trobough will be in
charge of the program.
MUSIC ANNOUNCED
The choir anthem at East
wood Baptist church Sunday at
11 a.m. will be "Jesus, the very
thought of Thee." The Rev. Rich
ard Jones will preach on "To
day's Samaritan."
ANTHEM SUNDAY
"Lead Me Savior" will be
snnff bv the choir of the church
of the Brethren 345 North Mary
st. Sunday at the 11 a.m. wor-
ship service.
First Christian Church
"The Friendly Church
Welcomes You
TO ALL SERVICES
Bible School 9:45 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.
Wi 4-i-
Council ttf a'l-eriyleC'i.tM Site. Standing (I'M
to right) r Br. Cut?n C&rjasi KUk, srttU
elerk of th 3"'5b7thrin ehu?ch anfi flviai
rfent of tiwe Katio-ni.1 Council T.t' huic?i3 in
iht U.S.A.; Sa-ftrehce Oari and Pp. Kolinfi
Mayer, members o the f.Iedfordl Ppsobjiiriia
Men'i clufo, nd !Or. t'O. ffiirfeland West, psop
of th Bedford cfiurch. The confttsnc tJO
hld in Si i'rancisco Feb. 23 throush 20.
Pffisbylerraa Em
Lsymrn of ti"i First Presby
terian church will be in charge
c both morning worship se";v
icts Sunday. Last weekend, fif
teen mrn from 'Lhe church at
tended the annual conference of
f'rtfhyterian Mfn held in San
Francisco. These men wil'. con
duct the service.-?.
At th 9:45 vorship service.
Wallace r.rill and Dr. Rolind
Msyfr will speak on the con
ference theme "I am not asham
ed . . .". At the 11 . m. service
Georee Witter and Lawrence
C.Urk will speak. Dr. D. Kirk
laf.d West wiil speak briefly at
both services.
The Westminster choir will
sing the anthem "God So Loved
The World" at the first service,
and the Chancel choir, "Sing
Alleluia Forth" at the second
service. Both choirs are under
the direction of Lynn Sjolund.
Miss Natalie MacDougall will
sing the soprano solo "O Rest In
the Lord".
At the first service ten per
sons will be publicly received
into membership.
At 7 p. m., the evening ser
vice will be held. Dr. West will
lead the adults after the opening
worship period. The Westmin
ster fellowship will continue its
study of Southeast Asia under
the direction of Carol Dyke, out
reach commission chairman.
Fireside will be held at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert
James, 1426 Euclid avenue.
Sermon Writing Contest
Open to Members of
Medford Presbyterian
All membe'j of the First Pres
byterian church, Medford, are
eligible to participate in a ser
mon writing contest that is be
ing sponsored by the church.
The sum of $250 has been don
ated to encourage the writing of
good sermons by the lay mem
bers of the church on the theme
"Simplicity of the Christian
Gospel."
It is not necessary for the ser
mon to be delivered for the writ-
' or tr Vo 1tcnhl fnr a nrize. hut
will be judged by a board.
Sermons should not be more
j than 20 minutes in length,
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i Report fo be Gven
; SundaV Ofl Men's Meef
C. William Abbott will give a
report Sunday at the Central
Point First Presbyterian church
on the Presbyterian Men's meet
ing in San Francisco last week.
At the morning service Dr.
Norman K. Tully, pastor, will
preach on the first word from
the cross, "Forgiveness."
BABY DEDICATION DAY
Baby dedication day will be
held Sunday at the First Churcn
of God, Haven and Holly st., at
the 11 a.m. worship hour. Four
babies and five small children
will be dedicated at this service.
The Rev. Darold Jones will
speak on "Consider the Chil
dren." Discovery of the Dead Sea
Scrolls has caused people of all
religious faiths to take a new
interest in the Old Testament.
I Books explaining the finding of
i th scrolls and interpreting them
j are available at the Medford
Public Library.
You and Your Family Are Invited 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
Adventist - Higher iducation
Dispute To Be Aired Saturday
The current dispute of the Ssv-
enth-iay Adventist church with
ths tt board of higher educa
tion over Saturday classes will
b aired in Medford publicly
Saturday t 3 p.m. in the Adven
tist church, corner of Edward
and Batty t.
Elder George S. Belleau. Ore
gon conference religious liberty
director from Portland, will pre
sent the denomination's position.
The church maintains that seven
1955-5S freshmen dental stu
dents were "expelled" when they
frefused to attend Saturday class
es. The school now requires
signed statement of students that
they will attend classes 5V2 days.
The church calls this "discrimin
ation asainst religious minor
ity." "The attendance at Satur
day classes- is an immoral,
wrone, id sinful act to a Seven-the-day
Adventist," the elder
stated.
The relieigus liberty leader
will produce letters from the
school statins, "It will be neces
sary that you submit, in writ
ing, a brief statement to indicate
that you will be able to attend
school on Saturdays.". He will
point out thjt this policy will
mean that Jews, Seventh Day
Baptists, Seventh Dav Church of j
God members, as well as Adven- :
tists, will not be able to attend
Oregon State colleges.
Elder BelleajJ, n.oy Oreflon
conference religious liberty dir
ector, was formerly pgstor of the
Medford congregation.
Controversial Subject
This has been a controversial
subject in state newspapers for
the past few days with Dr. John
Richards, chancellor of the Ore
gon state board of Kigher educa
tion stating that the seven stu
dents in question were not ex
pelled, but voluntarily chose to
transfer to a California school.
Adventist leaders maintain that
the students were told that if
they were to continue their work
at the Oregon school they must
agree to attend classes on Satur
day, their Sabbath.
"It is a dangerous thingi when
a state-operated institution or
organization embSrra sspsi its
Historian Ciies
Pilgrim 'Myths'
Los Angeles (U.R) The Pil
grims, who set the example for
Thanksgiving Day, did not come
to America for religious free
dom, did not land at Plymouth
Rock and did not live in log
cabins, according to Dr. C. Page
Smith, assistant professor of
history at the University of Cali
fornia. "Nevertheless," he said, "the
Pilgrims are a proper and ap
propriate symbol of the early
settlers whose dramatic struggle
against hardship and peril built
America."
Dr. Smith said the first men
tion of Plymouth Rock was made
100 years after the Pilgrims' ar
rival. As for religious freedom, the
Pilgrims had found it in Holland,
according to ur. smun, wno aa
ded that they came west for
economic and cultural reasons.
They feared their children would
become more Dutch than Eng
lish if the group stayed in Hol
land too long.
As for the log cabin "myth,"
according to the h.storian the
Pilgrims built English-type
houses of frame and stone, and
log cabins were introduced later
by Swedes.
Film to be Shown
Sunday Evening at
Eastwood Baptist
"This is Your Work" is the
title of a filmstrip to be shown
during the School of Missions
at the Eastwood Baptist church.
North Keene Way dr. at Ridge
way. The film is a resume of a
trip around the world by Dr.
Ralph Johnson, executive sec
retary of the Council on Miss
ionary Cooperation of the Amer
ican Baptist convention. Mission
fields in Japan, the Philipines,
Burma, India, Thailand, and the
Belgian Congo will be featured.
The film will be shown at 7:30
Preceding this, at 6 p.m. there
will be a snack supper and at
6:30 p.m. calsses on Southeast
Asia for children, young people
and adults.
Communion Sunday will be
observed in the morning wor
ship service.
Eastwood Baptist Church is
affiliated with the American
Baptist convention and is located
north of the Hedrick Junior High
school.
JACKSONVILLE CHURCH
The Rev. John O. Reynolds,
assistant pastor of the First Pres
byterian, church, Medford, will
speak Sunday at 11 a.m. at the
First Presbyterian church, Jacksonville.
youth for a minority religious
bslicf," Elder John Trade of the
locs.1 AdventUt church, stated.
The ctioa by the church lead
ers ells for support of state sen
ate bill "12, whereby "no pr-
' -4. ttKiZS
son ,11 be expellefitfrom r
hi admission e tu-
dinf to school, imtitulfioa or
d$iPtment. . . for tiie eola pea-
son thrt he is unable, because of
his yIijious beliefs, to attend
cUsscs on a particular flay or;
u3vS."
9he bill has been intr&3uced
by Stat Senator Lsander Quir
ing, Umatilla county Republican,
who is listed as a Methodist.
Mr. Trude pointed out that
srmefi services have fnade spec
ial provision for Adventists and
other religious groups. .
Action fey the Aflventist con
ference committee is "being sent
to state legislators.
ion
Three icst speakers will ap
pear Wednesday, Marco 6, t
7:30 p.m. in thr. Pythian build
ing. Fifth and Grape sts., Med
ford, to explain the. activities of
the Home Missions department
of the Evangelical Lutheran
church.
Sppal.frs1 will be Dr. H. L.
Foss, president of the tPacific
district from Seattle, and the
Rev. Clarence Solberg, regional
director, and Mervill S. Moline,
head of loan refinancing and
sponsorship, both from Minn
eapolis, Minn.
The men will particularly ex
plain that part of the work which
aided in the starting of the As
cension Lutheran church in
Medford. Following the talks a
discussion period will be held.
The Rev. Elvin S. Tollefson,
is pastor of the Ascension Luth
eran church which was founded
under the general supervision of
the Home Missions board of the
ELC which also provided finan
cial assistance as a part of its
service to the new congregation.
School of Missions
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jjIgflS g IhriStldn
A School of Missions will be
conducted each Sunday evening
during March at the First Christ
ian church. The theme for this
year's study will be "Mission
U.S.A.." There are seven mis
sions institutions in the United
States maintained by the Christ
ian churches.
There will be a study group
for each age level kindergarten
through adult, beginning at
6:30 p.m. At 7:15 groups will
meet together for a film. There
will be refreshments and a soc
ial hour at 8 p.m. Nursery care
will be provided for small child
ren. At the morning service the
Rev. William C. Piper will
preach on the subject "The In
evitable Answer." The chancel
choir will present two anthems,
"When We Lift Our Eyes to
Pray" and "Listen to the
Lambs.' A coffee hour will fol
low the morning service.
SERMON ANNOUNCED
"The Most Valuable Hour"
will" be the sermon of the Rev.
George A. Trobough, at the First
Methodist church at 9:30 and
11 a.m. worship services Sunday.
This will begin the week of de
dication in the Methodist
Churches throughout the World.
The sermon will deal with some
of the misleading charges made
against the Sunday schools. The
soloist will be Mrs. Jack Harris,
who will sing "Prayer." The
chorus will sing the anthems
"Sanctus" and "Miserere Mei."
The rosebud on the alter honors
Diana Lynn Smith.
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MODERIi NURSERY
Under Supervision of
Registered Nurse at Every Service
9:45 Sunday School, classes for all
11:00 a.m. "New Life's Center and Circumference"
(Broadcast over KBOY)
7:45 p.m. "New Life's Responsibilities and Privileges"
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
(Conservative)
N. Central at 5th Jamet W. Neely, Pastor
Series Started by
Unitarian Group
The Unitarian 'Fellow ship
started a series of- programs ora
"Religious Liberals Look at the
Bible" Feb. 17. The group plans
to po through the books of tiie
Bibte and the Apocrypha; to
study their origin, value a-s
history, literature and religiaa
and their significance for peo
ple today. The .group will at
tempt to approach the Bible in
the light o3 modern Eibilical
scholarship.
Member 'e? th e"ellowhip
srill lead the study and discus
sion. The group -yill decide how
mueh time will be sgnt on the
various book's.
I ID?. ArthuF Kreisman prcfes-
of oi literature at Southern
Oregon college, started the study
of the Bible at the last meeting
with a talis on its general back
ground and characteristics and
then dipcussed the first five
boobs of the Old Testament, the
Pentateuch.
He will lead the Sunday meet
ing at 8 p.m. at the 4reisman
home, 111 Bush St., Ashland.
The group will continue the
stutiy sf the first five books of
the Bible, emphasizing- the books
of law.
teal Men Participate
ar
The Public Relations seminar
will be conducted for the Port
land area of the Methodist
church in Portland March. 4 and
3 under the direction of thjp Rev.
Dr. Ralph Stody general Sec
retary aijd director of tne com
mission on public relations and
f.'I e t h o d ist information, K;w
York.
Dr. Raymond S. Balcomb,
minister o'r the First Methodist
church, Medford, is scheduled
to participate on a panCl Mon
day discussing the subject "The
Local Church Needs Its; Pv:blics
in Other Ways."
The Rev. Georg A. Tisobough,
Hssociate minister of the, Med
ford church and Everett Iaber,
vice-president of KBES-TV, 5Ied-
ford, will participate, on '3 panel
Monday discussing) "Radio and
TV in the Service of the
Church." This pa"hel will be
moderated by the Rev. William
A. Meadows, director of service
and training, television, radio,
and film commission, Nashville,
Tenn.
Albert W. Peterson, church
news editor of the Oregon Jour
nal, will speak on the subject
"What Is News and How To Pre
sent It." Peterson is associate
lay leader of the Portland dis
trict of the Methodist church.
Oldest Carillon
Is At Notre Dame
South Bend, Ind. (U.R) The
23 bells of North America's old
est carillon have rung out daily
for 101 years across the Notre
Dame campus.
The bells, housed in the spire
of the university's Sacred Heart
church, were imported from
France in 1856, just 14 years
after the school was opened.
The Rev. Edward F. Sorin,
Notre Dame's founder and first
president, ordered the bells,
which range in weight from 15
to nearly 1,100 pounds, from a
French foundry. Each bell is
named for a different title ac
corded the Virgin Mary.
The bells originally were con
trolled manually, then were me
chanically synchronized with
the church spire's clock. In 1953,
the bells were re-hung with a
new keyboard, permitting either
manual or mechanical control.
The Rev. William McAuliffe,
Notre Dame's current carilloneur
and director of the Moreau Sem
inary choir, often plays sacred
or classical melodies on the car
illon. It has become a tradition
for him to play Christmas carols
as students leave for holidays in
mid-December.
An additional bell, larger than
any in the carillon also is housed
in the Sacred Heart church
spire. This bell, named for St.
Anthony of Padua and weighing
15,400 pounds, required six per
sons to operate manually, but
now it can be rung electrically.
It is used only to herald a solemn
or memorable occasion.
ST. PETER MISSION
St. Peter Preaching Mission
Eagle Point, will have services !
with sermon and holy comm
union Sunday at 2 p.m. at the
Antelope school. Sunday school
and Bible study will be held
at 3 p.m.
SOLOIST Wayne Piersall will
be the soloist at all of the serv
ices Sunday at the Friends
church for the closing day of the
series of revival meetings that
have been held there by Evan
gelist Oscar Brown. Services will
be held Sunday at 9:45 and
11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Six States Served
By 'Flying Parson'
Omaha U.R) When the Rev.
Charles . V. Lee, Yankton, S.D.,
was a Marine pilot in World War
II, he "fired a lot bullets" at
Japanese aircraft but rarely
knew if his shots scored hits.
. Today, the 31-year-old min
ister still pilots a plane in a
different cause and he still is
uncertain how many "direct
hits" he, is making.
Lee's present task is "revital
izing religion." in a six-state
Great Plains area embracing
Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming,
Montana and the Dakotas. A
"sort of domestic missionary,"
he often flies more than 400
miles between sermons delivered
in tiny, isolated towns where
organized religion has to battle
for existence.
For some six months, Lee has
been flying from town to town,
visiting areas- in which there
has been no real church service
for years, often because of de
clining population. J
Getting a Perspective
He sets a schedule to visit
seven different towns one night
each week. Then, he flies back
to the same towns on the same
day each week for a time "to
keep the ball rolling."
Lee is pioneering in an ex
periment for the Board of Home
Missions of the Congregational
Christian church to determine
what can be done for churches
in the face of declining rural
and small town populations in
many areas.
Lee decided to become a min
ister "gradually," after being
shot down twice over Okinawa.
He was awarded the Purple
Heart and the Bronze Star for
his work in piloting planes as
an artillery spotter.
Trail Community Church
Youth Plan Service
Young people' of the Trail
Community church are planning
the service to be held Sunday at
7:30 p.m. at the church. Rodney
Collins is president of the group
and Barbara Wagler will be in
charge of the mufic for the
evening.
John H. , Carlton will bring
the evening message. The public
is invited to attend.
Services and Meetings
At St. Peter Lutheran
Ash Wednesday services with
sermon and holy communion
will be held Wednesday at 8 p.m.
at St. Peter Evangelical Luth
eran church, Missouri Synod,
1020 East Main st., Medford.
Monday at 8 p.m. a voters
meeting will be held at the
church with adult class sched
uled for Thursday at 8 p.m.
BIBLE STUDY LESSONS
Tuesday evening another in a
series of Bible study lessons will
be held at the First Presbyterian
church, Phoenix, at 8 p.m. The
lessons, for married couples with
children stilLin school, are held
at the church in the fireside
room. The lesson Tuesday will
be "Why did people want to
kill Jesus What is the Cross
all about?"
YOU
will be helped by
attending these
services and hearing
these messages.
11:00 A.M.
"DIVINE EQUIPMENT"
7:00 P.M.
"A MIDNIGHT LOAN"
Carl Goodwin
Edna Goodwin
WEEK-DAY SERVICES Tuesday thru Friday - 7:30 P.M.
Everybody ought to go to
SUNDAY SCHOOL 9:45 A.M.
6:00 P.M. MISSIONARY FILM IN SOUND
1729 North Riverside
(Just North of Jorgcnsen's Dairy) L. D. KRAUSE, Pastor
Spain's Civil.War
Church Shrine
Nears Completion
BY PETER KNOX
United Press Correspondent
Madrid (U.R) Engineers are
seeking to complete by spring
Spain's controversial $6,000,000
monument to its Civil War dead
a cross as high as the Eiffel
Tower built atop a church hewn
from a massive rock.
The cross and cavernous
church, which Spaniards hope
the Vatican will name a cath
edral, dominate a wooded glen
christened "the Valley of the
Fallen." There more than a
quarter of a million persons will
be able to gather to hear open
air mass. Work on the project
is now in its final stages.
Chief of State Gen. Francisco
Franco conceived the idea of
this monument to the "heroes
and martyrs" of the 1936-39 civil
strife and visits the site at the
foot of the Sierra 30 miles from
Madrid five to six times a year.
But Diego Mendez sole arch
itect and author of the project
and director of works since 1949,
denies that the shrine is to be
Franco's tomb, as has been free
ly and frequently reported
abroad.
"This is a monument to the
men and women who died fight?
ing at the front, or fell executed
in our Civil War," he said dur
ing a visit to the valley. "Gen
eral Franco has never mentioned
the possibility of his burial
here."
But thousands of war victims
will be laid to final rest in the
vaults built on either side of the
church deep in the mountain.
There will be no political dis
crimination of friend or foe,
Republican or Nationalist, ac
cording to Mendez.
"The only qualifications need
ed for a victim of our Civil War
to be buried within the moun
ment is that he or she was a .
Spaniard and that rule elimin
ates Communists, members of the
intprnatinnal VirionHps w h 1 i- h
t fought against Franco and many
of the anti-clerical factions of
the Left. But Catholics who
fought for the Republicans will
be eligible.
"This is to be consecrated
ground; we could not accept non
believers or atheists," Mendez
pointed out.
It seems unlikely that families
of men who died fighting Franco
would ask such victims be re
buried in the monument. Many
of them have opposed the idea
of the "Valley of the Fallen"
on the grounds that it is awaken
ing old arguments best forgotten.
Franco and his followers on
the other hand visualize the
glade, with its peaceful but au
stere setting against a back
ground of the rocky rugged
Sierra, as a place where the
spiritual will predominate and
the material aspirations of men
be forgotten.
The whole valley forms a "na
tural church" with the cross's
rock foundation serving as the
high altar. Fourteen little chap
els, linked by a rough path, are
dotted around the valley's five
mile circumfence.
A giant square at the foot of
the cross will accommodate at
least 250,000 persons. It is here
that the open-air masses will be
celebrated.
The crowds will stand and
kneel under the shadow of the
great cross built with 140,000
tons of concrete, towering 300
meters above them. The rock
stands 150 meters high, and the
centerpiece of the cross another
150 Sneters. That makes it as
high the Eiffel Tower.
A lift, or 1,700 steps, will take
the visitor to the cross-piece 270
meters up for a bird's eye view
of the valley. Madrid is clearly
visible on a good day. But the
cross is not designed as a tourist
attraction.
UNITY
TRUTH CENTER
Sunday Devotional Service and
Sunday School for Children 1 1 .m
Regular Center Activities:
Thursday Midweek Service 7:30
p.m., Friday morning Study Class
1 1 a.m.
All Classes, Activities and Sunday
Services now held at the
HOLLY BUILDING
Katherine Bosworth, Leader
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