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MAIL TRIBUNE, MtdforJ, Orajon, FrMay, OctaW 10, 1938 Church of the Nazarene Celebrates Golden Anniversary This Week End Br LOU CASSELS United Prt International An often - misunderstood f religious denomination is cele- V brating its golden anniversary this week end with special V services in its 5,000 member churches across the 'United States and Canada. r This denomination, which . is growing more like an ado lescent than a 50-year-old, is the Church of the Nazarne. ' Jt is one of the largest of the distinctively - American Prot . estant groups known as "holi- ness" churches. The holiness movement de- veloped in the United States : in the late 19th Century. Most of its adherents came from Methodist or Baptist " backgrounds. Their common 1 bond was John Wesley's doc- trine of "entire sanctification" f -the belief that God achieves, I through the gift of the Holy ) Spirit, such a purifying of the hearts and motives of conse- crated Christians that they are I freed from their natural hu ! man inclination toward sin i and are rendered capable of I perfect holiness in this life. Two Bodies Formed Bv the early part of the r present century, the holiness - movement had divided into two distinct streams. One pro " duced the numerous sects and denominations which are fc known today as the "pente " costal" bodies. They place '" great emphasis on the visible signs such as "speaking in tongues" which the New r Testament records as having - accompanied the gift of the ' 3My Spirit to the original apostles on the Day of Pente cost. v ' The other branch of the holiness movement is typified by the Church of the Naza ;?rene. It does not practice "speaking in tongues" or oth er outward manifestations of religious ecstasy. One visit to J sedate Nazarene service is ; enough to cure an outsider of !any notion that all holiness churches indulge in "holy '"roller" worship. ,. Nazarenes are almost as austere as old-time Quakers in their personal habits. The rules of the church forbid drinking, smoking, attendance J at movies or plays, immodesty t in dress or behavior, and any type of frivolity (even read ying the newspapers) on Sun i day. 5 But for all the strictness of their discipline, they do not ' seem to feel that holiness is burdensome. One is impressed in reading Nazarene literature by its constant emphasis on religions as a joyous experi- ence. ; Minister Gives Insight A Presbyterian minister who has had occasion to know many Nazarenes had I this to say about them: Evangelist Conducts Meetings at Armory Evaneelist Floyd Bresee will discuss the problem of 'How to Have a Happy Home," tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Oregon Nation al Guard Armory. An invita tion is extended to everyone interested. Services are be ing held each Friday, Satur day and Sunday night in the armory building. Saturday night the subject will be, "Jesus, the Man Who Wrote His Own Life Story Before Birth," and will be preceded by a flim entitled, "Water of Life." All addresses are illus trated by "Black light," and dprmons are coordinated by music from the Gospel Quartet, and Monty Jones, soloist. Also featured are or gan and piano music by Mrs. Harold Turner and Mrs. Jones. Audience singing of familiar hymns is led by Harold Turner, singing evangelist. . "Before the Judgment Bar of God" will be the subject of Sunday night's service. :Zion Lutheran Tells Events for Sunday "Faith Exists - Use It!" will be the sermon topic Sunday ; at the 11 a.m. worship service at Zion Lutheran church. The Rev. H- C. Coovert, pastor, '.will speak. . Immediately following the service a coffee hour and fel lowship will be held. Holy I baptism for children will be .held during the service. At 5:30 pan. Sunday the Senior Luther league will Jmeet at the Iverson home for ; a chili supper. Christianity in race relations will be the : topic discussed. Thursday at 6:30 p.m. a congregational dinner will be held at the Jackson hotel. "Most "church members want just enough religion to make them respectable, but never enough to make them uncomfortable. The Nazar enes want all they can get." Nazarenes attach great im portance to personal evangel ism, or "witnessing." They are also great givers. The church teaches the principle of tith ing, and it is evident that a Rogue Valley Nazarenes Plan Worship Services-Rally Sunday The Rogue Valley Churches of the Nazarene will join Nazarenes around the world in simultaneous golden anni versary worship services Sun day. In keeping with the de nominational observ ance, services in the local churches will be centered around the 50th anniversary theme. As a climax to the day, a rally will be held at 3 p.m. in the Medford First Church located at 520 North Holly st. Participating churches will be 1957 Award of Merit Winner Valley Presbyterians Announce At both Sunday morning worship services of the First Presbyterian church, Dr. D. Kirkland West, pastor, will speak on "Don't Let Worry Get You Down." . Westminster choir will sing the anthem "The King of Love My Shepherd Is" at the first service and at the sec ond service, the chancel choir will sing "Blessing and Glory." - Mrs Archie Pierce will be soloist at ooth services. At the second worship service, the sacrament of infant bap tism will be administered to the children of several mem bers of the church. " '; The Junior High Fellowship will, meet from 5 to 7 pan. Sunday at the church to con tinue planning for the first Junior High Presbytery meet ing to be held in November. Miss Marillou Garner and Miss Donna Witter are the group's advisors.1 Westmin ster Fellowship will meet at 7 p.ml for a brief worship service which will be followed by a meeting on "Seventh Day Adventism" led by Shar on Carr of the Christian Fel lowship commission. Fireside will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Somers, 36 Glen Oak ct. Ashland "The Tolerance of Jesus" will be the sermon topic Sunday at both the 9:45 and 11 a.m. worship services at First Presbyterian church, Ashland. The Rev. B. J. Hol land, pastor, will speak. Central Point The Rev. Bruce J. Weber, Walnut Creek, Calif., will be guest speaker Sunday at Central Point First Presbyterian church at' 11 a.m. He will speak on "The Seeds of Faith." College President To Speak Sunday Dr. Harold Fasnacht, presi dent of La Verne college, will meet with the Senior Youth Fellowship of the Church of the Brethren Sunday at 7 pjn. At 8 o'clock he will speak to the congregation about the college. , La Verne college is one of five colleges of the Church of the Brethren and is located at La Verne, Calif. It selves the Pacific Coast Region of the Church of the Brethren. Dr. Fasnacht will stop at Medford on his return trip from the Oregon district meet ing of the denomination. Members of the local con gregation attending the dis trict meeting as delegates are Mrs. Ray Pence, Mrs. Alvin Birman, and the pastor, the Rev. Escil Hiser. CONGREGATIONAL CIIUnCH United Church of Christ Groveland Ave. and Oakwood Drive NOTICE - Worship Service and Church School 10 AM. ONLY large proportion of the mem bership practices it. Nazarene contributions last year av eraged $133 per member, more than twice the overall average for Protestant de nominations. In view of these facts, it is hardly surprising that the Church of the Nazarene is one of the fastest-growing Protestant-bodies. Prospect, Grants Pass, Ash land, Phoenix, and the two Medford churches, First and Mt. Pitt Avenue. Members Honored A feature of the rally will be the honoring of those who have been Nazarenes for 30 years or more. There will be a combined choir composed of choir members from the at tending churches. The speaker for the rally will be the Rev. E. E. Craw ford, pastor of the Ashland church. Pastors from the vari- CHURCH NEWS . National Religious Publicity Council Speakers The pastor, Dr. Norman K. Tully, and Mrs. Tully are vis iting in Salem and Davenport, Wash., the majority of the month. He will return to the valley Sunday, Oct. 26, to preach his farewell sermon at the Central Point church. Phoenix A Mariner's club will be organized at First Presbyterian church, Phoenix, Monday, Oct. 13, at 6:30 p.m. The club, 'for couples, will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the church for a potluck dinner. Members of the Presbyterian church in Medford will'assist with the organizing. All young couples are invited to attend. - -. The Rev. William A. Sala din, pastor, will speak' on "The Protestant Priesthood" at the 11 ajn. Sunday service. At 8 p.m. he will speak on "The Four Horsemen of Revelation."- . . . The session will meet Sun day at 3 p.m. at the church. A new fellowship and study class is being organized for the women of the church tp be held each Friday at 10 a.m. at the manse. Women are in vited to attend and may take their children with them. A communicants class for children between the ages of 12 and 16 is being formed. Information may be obtained by contacting the pastor. Ministers to Hear Doctor at Meeting Dr. Earl Lawson, repre sentative of the American Cancer society, will speak on "The Layman Looks at Cancer" at the Tuesday, Oct. 14, meeting of the Medford Ministerial atio ciation. The meeting will be held in the fireplace room ' of the First Presbyterian church with the program starting at 11 a.m. A business meeting will be held at 10 a.m. . The, association is open to ministers of all denomina tions and churches in the area. Witnesses Tell Topics for Week "What's This World Com ing to?" will be the. topic of the public address scheduled Sunday at 6 p.m. at the King dom Hall - of Jehovah's Wit nesses, 2402 J a c k s o nville highway. The subject of the weekly Watchtower study at 7:15 p jn. Sunday will be "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize." The Bible study air "Your Will Be Done on Earth" is now being stud ied at the midweek meetings 1 Tuesday and Wednesday. When it was founded on Oct. 13, 1908, at Pilot Point, Tex., by the merger of two small regional holiness asso ciations, the church had only 10,414 members. Today it has nearly 300,000 members in North America, and an additional 45,000 in the 40 foreign areas where Nazarene missionaries are at work. ous churches will take part in the program. The Rev. Henry I. Brown, pastor of the Mt. Pitt Avenue Nazarene church is chairman of the rally with the Rev. Raymond W. Hurn, host pas tor. An international climax of the anniversary year will be reached on Monday, Oct. 13, at Pilot Point, Tex., where a monument will be unveiled at the place where the denomi nation started in 1908. The Nazarene ' radio pro gram, "Showers of Blessing," is heard over 400 stations, in Medford over station KDOV, at 9:30 a.m. each Sunday. In ternational headquarters are in Kansas City. Nazarene work began in the Rogue Valley first in Ash land more than 50 years ago. The Ashland church has had a part in organizing other valley churches, in several cases purchasing land for the new congregations. Most re cent home mission enterprise has been the sponsoring of Mt. Pitt Avenue by Medford First Church. Among those to be honored Sunday at the rally for haw ing been members for 30 years or more will be 26 from First Church of the Nazarene; 11, Mt; Pitt Avenue Church Of the Nazarene; six from Phoe nix and 12 in the Grants Pass church. MISS LAURA HEIST Methodist Speaker , Missionary Holds Study Series Here - Miss Laura Heist, Methodist missionary to India, will con duct a Middle East Pilgrimage study series at First Methodist church starting Monday, Oct. 13 and continuing daily through Saturday. The sessions will be held twice daily at 9:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Miss Heist will speak on the problems and cultures of the people of In dia. The public is invited to at tend. No advance registration is required. Central Point Group Hear Guest Speaker Central Point -Robert Remington, missionary to In dia serving under the Evan gelical Alliance Mission fcoard, will be the guest speaker at the Community Bible church, Central Point, Sunday, at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Remington was com missioned as a missionary from the Community Bible Church in 1950. He is now home on his ' first furlough from his mission field in northern India. Mr. Reming ton is making his home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Remington, Medford. "Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?" will be the sub ject of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, sermon at 11 a.m. Sunday, at the church, 100 Windsor ave. Everyone is welcome to attend. William C. Pipci Minister V - 1 -ft V MISSIONARIES-The Rev. and Mrs. Harold Burger, mission ary evangelists to Mexico and Haiti, . Dominican Republic, will speak and show films of their work in Mexico Sunday at Faith Tabernacle,. Ashland. Monday, Oct. 13, they will again speak at the Full Gospel Tabernacle, 608 Western ave., Medford. The couple started their ministry in the valley and also later built a church in the Illinois valley. Tonight they will speak at the Kerby church and Saturday they will hold services at O'Brien Community church. Headquarters for their missionary work is Chula Vista, Calif. During their two day valley visit they may on radio station KWIN. I mmanuel Methodist Is Prize Winner in State-Wide Contest Cave Junction - For the second year, Immanuel Metho dist church has won a prize in the state-wide Church Im provement Contest sponsored by- the Oregon Council of Churches. The amount of this year's prize will be announced Oct. 16 at the Awards Ban quet which climaxes the Town and Country Church Leaders conference at OSC in Corval lis. Last year the church took first place in its division win ning a prize of $200. Property Improvements - Improvements to property, in program and in service to the community, all are record ed and illustrated in a scrap- book which is submitted for judging by a committee from the Council. This year's scrap book was prepared by Mrs. Robert Smith and Mrs. L. W. Archer, assisted by the pastor. Trends and opportunities of town and country churches in the state will be studied at this year's Oregon Town and Country Church conference to be held on the Oregon State college campus Oct. 14 to 16. Anyone who attends, works in, or is interested in a church that serves rural people is in vited to the conference.- Keynote speaker at the 1958 conference will be Dr. Fred erick A. Schilling, rector of St. Jude's Episcopal Church, Burbank, Calif. Awards Dinner The annual Church Awards dinner, sponsored by the Sears Roebuck foundation, will be held the night of Oct. 16. Dr. Frank B. Bennett, president of Eastern Oregon college, La Grande, will be speaker. The Town and Country Church conference is spon sored each year by the Oregon Council of Churches, Arch diocese of Portland in Oregon, Oregon State college' and its extension service, Oregon Farm Bureau, Oregon State Grange, Oregon State Farm ers Union, and the Oregon Home Economics Extension council. - At the monthly meeting last Sunday evening . of the Cave Junction church, one item of business for the offi cial board was the decision to enter the contest which is be ginning now and will termin ate next September. Oliver Wilson was designated as photograpner for the scrap- book, and a committee will be appointed to arrange for the systematic collection of clip pings and other materials dur ing the year. In other business before the board, the building committee was authorized to proceed with two projects as it feels able to do so: the installation Ashland Church Tells Sunday Sermon Topics Ashland The Rev. Herschel W. Hall, First ( Methodist church, Ashland, will speak on "The. Salt of the Earth,'' Sunday at the 11 a.m. wor ship service. This is the sec ond in a series on "The Ser mon on the Mount." " During the worship service Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Petitt will conduct a story hour for first, second and third grad ers in the primary room. Mrs. Gregg Monroe will conduct a story hour on "North Amer ican Neighbors" for fourth through sixth graders at the same hour. First Christian Church The Friendly Church" Welcomes You TO ALl SERVICES - Bible' School 9:45 a,m. Morning Service' J 0:50 a.m. Youth Meeting . 6:30 p.m. Evening Service 7:30 p.m. Vth and Oakdale Medford, vOre. be heard Sunday at 7:15 a.m. ' . of an underground sprinkling system and the seeding of the area immediately south of the building; and the closing in of the porch of the building for use as a study and Sunday school room. The church will participate in the nation-wide Laymen's Sunday movement Oct. 19. Lay speaking teams from Im manuel Methodist church and T. L. Jones Memorial Metho dist ehureh in Wilderville will exchange for the morning. KING K. JONES JR. Jacksonville Church Pastor Minister Arrives In Jacksonville Jacksonville King Ken neth Jones Jr. will assume duties as pastor of First Pres byterian church, Jackson, Sunday. He is expected to ar rive in the valley this week end following his attendance at the Southwest Presbytery at Roseburg. Mr. Jones, who be accompa nied by his wife, Constance, recently received his master of theology degree from Princeton university. Born in Phoenix, Ariz., he attended the University of Oregon, the University of California where he received his bache lor of arts degree, and Fuller Theological seminary, Calif., where he received his bache lor of divinity degree. While in southern California he assisted for two years at the North Hollywood Presby terian church. Mr. Jones spoke in the valley earlier this year. Mrs. Jones is an elementary school teacher. The church has been with out a pastor since February following the resignation of the Rev. Robert T." Bridge, who was minister of the church approximately one year. Ashland Dr. Clark Lam beth will speak tonight at the Faith Tabernacle, Ashland, at 7:30 o'clock. Sunday at 7:30 p.m. the Rev. Charles Cox, will begin a two week revival at the Ashland church nightly except Mondays and Satur days. r US! Sunday School .. 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 1 1 :00 a.m. Young People's Meeting. 3:00 p.m. Evangelistic Service 7:50 p.m. Short Concert Opens Sunday Evening Services 30-Pc. Orchestra 30-Voice Choir Bill Walden Director Everyone Welcome Every Service a Gospel Feast No Collections Phone for Free Transportation SP 2-2757 Phone in your prayer requests. APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH 3rd and Central Medford Loyce C. Carver, Pastor Phone SP 2-2757 President to Lay Cornerstone of Church Center New York - President Eis enhower will lay the corner stone of the new Interchurch Center here in a two-and-a-helf hour ceremony to be held Sunday, Oct. 12. The White House has announced the President's acceptance of an invitation', t The 19 - story Interchurch Center, now rising on Morn- ingside Heights overlooking the Hudson River, will serve as national headquarters for the cooperative program work of 37 Protestant and Eastern Orthodox church bodies em bracing 40,000,000 members in the U.S.A. Many denomina tions will also have offices in the $20,000,000 edifice. It will be completed late in 1959. Grandstand seats will be erected on Riverside dr. along a five-block stretch to accomo date 7,500 invited guests to the ceremony. Traffic from 116th st. to Grant's Tomb, on the Drive, will be closed by police until conclusion of the program. Greeters The President, according to present plans, will be greeted upon arrival from Washing ton at the airport by Dr. Grayr son Kirk who succeeded Mr. Eisenhower as president of Columbia university; Dr. Ed mund F. Wagner, president of The Interchurch Center, and president of the Seamen's Bank for Savings; Dr. Edwin T. Dahlberg, St. Louis, Mo., president of the National Council of Churches, and his predecessor, Dr. Eugene Car son Blake, the stated clerk of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. The President and his party will be received by a commit tee of more than 35 promi nent religious and civic lead ers upon arrival at The River side church. He is scheduled to review a procession of 300, as it moves up Riverside be hind the Cross, Holy Bible, and American and Christian flags, and the massed banners of the 37 Protestant and Or thodox communions. The President will share the ceremonial platform with 100 leaders of church, state and cultural institutions, in eluding . David Rockefeller, chairman of Morningside Heights, Inc., and the Rev. Ralph Sockman, minister of Christ Church, Methodist, of New York who are-among the speakers. Stone from Corinth President Eisenhower will deliver a personal message and then will use a silver trowel to mortice the corner stone, in the presence of rep resentatives of the 37 com munions. He will mortice a stone from the marketplace in Corinth where Paul preached, into a 2V2 ton Alabama lime stone block. ' ; Hymn tunes from the caril lon of the Riverside church will signalize the opening of the two - hour program, fol lowed by' choral and instru mental numbers by a massed choir of 500, and 100 hand bell ringers. "It has national and world wide significance with the participation of Protestant and Orthodox churches whose work extends into every cor ner of' the world." Dr. M. Forest Ashbrook, chairman of the committee on arrange" ments, said. Dr. Ashbrook, executive di rector of the Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board of the American Baptist Con vention, will preside at the ceremony. Grace Lutheran Sets Sunday Ashland Events Ashland The Rev. E. Paul Riedel, pastor, will speak on "A Rebellious Son and a For giving Father" at the 11 a.m. worship service Sunday at Ashland Grace L u t h e r n church. The WaltherLeague zone rally will be held in Grants Pass Saturday starting at 2 pjn. and will continue Sun day. At 3:30 pjn. Sunday a Sunday School Teachers in stitute . will be held at St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran church, Medford. Radio Broadcast KMED, Sunday, 9:05 am Medford Friends Observe 16th Anniversary Sunday Medford Friends church will celebrate its 16th anniver sary Sunday with a fellowship dinner for the entire congre gation at 1 pjn. and a pro gram following the meal. Guest speaker for the day will be Charles Beals, pastor of Newberg Friends church, who will bring the messages for the morning worship serv ices at 9:45 and 11 ajn., and the praise and worship hour, 7:30 pjn. At the anniversary pro gram, 2 pjn., highlights of the past year will be review ed, the junior choir will sing Capacity Group Attends Christian Living School The six weeks School' of Christian Living started last Sunday at F i r s t Methodist church with 36 registered in the Teacher training class. There were over a 100 attend ing the other two adults clas ses of churchmanship and a course of "Understanding Other Cultures" and the classes for youth. The in structors for the adult sessions are Vern F. Wolthoff, Dr. and Mrs Milton Snow and Dr. George G. Roseberry. Two meetings of the week wiu De me commission on missions Monday night with Mrs Jessie Minear presiding; ana the commission on fi nance with Chairman Phil Humphrey in charge Wednes day evening. These commis sion will prepare their report to the quarterly conference under the direction of Dis trict Superintendent Meredith A. Groves on Oct. 21. Dr. Roseberry will preach on "Let Us Worship" -at the 9:30 and 11 ajn. services Sun day. The youth choir under the direction of Ray Lewis will sing "Dear 'Lord and Father of Mankind." The chancel choir will sing "God be in my Head" and Dr. Mil ton Snow will sing "He Smiled on Me" at each of the worship services. Literature Sunday At 1st Baptist World Missionary-' Litera ture Sunday will be observed at the First Baptist church. North Central ave. at Fifth st., Sunday. For several weeks mem bers have been receiving in formation on the translation, publication, and distribution of Christian literature by mis sionaries of the Home and Foreign Missionary Societies of Conservative Baptists. An offering to aid this missionary work will be taken, and at the 7:45 p.m. service a film- strip entitled, "Meet Mr. Page-Missionary to Hungry Minds," will be shown. The regular business meet ing of the church will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 7:45 p.m. Saturday Oct. 18, at 7:30 p.m. a prayer and planning meeting for Sunday school teachers, workers, and those interested in the Sunday school will be held at the church. On Sunday, Oct. 19, a six-week Sunday school contest between area Con servative Baptist churches will begin. f ' YOUTH RALLY : The Rev. and Mrs. Frank La Font, missionaries to Ken ya Colony, South Africa, will be guest speakers at a Rogue Valley Youth rally Saturday at 2:30 pjn. at First Church of God, Haven and'Holly sts. The evening service will be gin at 7, o'clock. HEM Charles C RETURNING TO . . . faith Tabernacle Highway 99 South -Ashland SERVICES EVERY HUE 7:45 (Except Monday) Bus running from Medford Every Service PHONE SP 2-5392 Leo C. Wine, Pastor . "We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder," there will be a ladies trio number by Mrs. Claude Lewis, Mrs. C. F. Finley and Mrs. Clynton Crisman, and a solo by Bill Houston. Charles Beals will close the program with a short inspirational mes sage. A separate program will be held at the same time for children. Music for the 9:45 and 11 a.m. services will be furnished by the youth and adult choirs. School in Hall Sunday school opening as semblies usually held in Har mony hall will be omitted be cause tables will be set there for the dinner. Instead of a group assembly, classes will go directly to their rooms at the beginning of the Sunday school hour. Primary and be ginner departments will meet as usual in their assembly rooms. Prizes were awarded last week to those who brought the most visitors to Sunday school. Classes showing the highest percentage of increase were third grade girls of the primary department, sixth grade boys of the junior-adult department, and seventh grade girls of the young peo ple's department. At 6 p.m. Sunday the junior choir will meet for practice, followed by junior, intermedi-. ate and senior Christian En deavor meetings at 6:30 pjn. "Quaker Hour" is broadcast over KMED at 9:30 pjn. SPEAKER - Mrs. Donald O'Connor, Unity minister and lecturer, will speak Sunday at 11 a.m. at the Unity Center of Medford, Pythian hall. Fifth and Grape sts. Mr. and Mrs. O'Connor are . ministers of the Unity Church of Truth, Seattle, Wash. In recent years they were educational direc tors of the Unity School of Christianity, Lee's Summit, Mo. Mrs. O'Connor will speak on "Jesus, Son of Man." The public is invited to attend. Series of Sermons Continues Sunday The series of sermons on the Psalms will continue at the First Christian church Sunday. The Rev. William C. Piper will preach on the sub ject "Keeping Our Footing" at the morning service. This sermon will be. based on the Seventy-third Psalm. John R. Schwab will sing the solo "How Lovely Are Thy Dwell ings." The Grandmothers' club will attend the morning serv ices in a group. At the evening service the sermon title will be 'The Most Beautiful Woman in the World." The Christian Youth Fel lowship will meet at 6:30 p.m. in Fellowship hall with the leaders Carl Washburn and Boyd Henry. The Youth Fire side will be held at the Rob ert Reaves home following the evening church services. i H 1 :.& ' P A- Lfwiril. J.