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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1963)
Klamath Falls Churches Observe Lent With Traditional Services The opening of the Lenten sea - son was observed by several local churches on Wednesday, and spo- cial services will continue to mark the traditional penitential period until Easter Sunday, April 14. The spring fast of the Christian Church u concerned with the vol untary act of self-denial of act tain foods as a spiritual disci pline, observed in preparation for Easter by members of ths Greek, Roman, and Anglican Churches. In its present form. Lent dates from the 9th century. The original fast of spring which preceded Easter was of 40 hours' duration, denoting the number of.,bv.'r. wrifr-h in tervened between the dtath and the resurrection of Christ. Addi tional days were later added, and the number still varies with dif ferent world religious groups. In the Western church, Uie 40 week days extending from Ash Wednesday to Easter are signi fied by fasting and penitence to commemorate Christ's fasting in the wilderness. The full period Is marked by 46 calendar days in the Western church and 56 calendar days In the Eastern church. The first day of Lent, Ash Wed nesday, was named from the ceremonial use of ashes as symbol of penitence in Hie an cient Roman Catholic service held on that day. The present custom in the church is to burn the palms used in the ceremonial of the previous Palm Sunday. After a prayer, the priest dips his thumb in the ashes and marks the sign of the cross on the forehead of the kneeling parishioners. Of the Reformed churches, the Anglican Church and the Protes tant Episcopal Church in the Unit ed States have established the tradition of observing the begin-! ning of Lent with a service ofl PAGE 8 A Religion No LENTEN LIFELINES By ItALPH W. LOEW, D.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. ' Religion is no asbestos to pro tect a person from the heats and passions of the world. In fact, It's Uie opposite. It thrusts you Into situations you never guessed you d meet. For Instance, Uicre is a group of fishermen who want nothing more than a good haul of fish. A year later they're out on Uie rim of their world talking about Uie meaning of God's love for human beings. There wasn't much protec tion in that. . Or there is a scholar named Saul who becomes so involved that he ven changes his name to Paul and beats a journey into foreign places, until he's murdered in Rome. ;.The list grows long. These and countless others began because they saw come meaning to a cross and it became a lifeline for Uiem. Most of us have thought of a religious faith as a protection from danger. Some of us have thought of It as something we must protect. The peace of Christ is not something we protect, but that which protects us. Religion is not a fallout shelter; the life line of Lent is that tho goals of life are a risk and worth a risk. That's what a great theologian meant when he expressed these thoughts: " If we desire something because of the pleasure we may get out of it, wo may get pleasure but we shall not have joy. If we search for something In order to avoid pain, we may es cape pain but we shall not avoid sorrow. If we try to use someone to pro tect us from pain, he may pro tect us from pain but he cannot save us from agony. It is a lifeline of Lent Uiat we may not be saved from pain, but we are saved for a new mean ing of life. We may avoid the meaningless. We may not be spared difficulty, but we will es cae boredom. After all, every man has to live FRIENDLY HELPFULNESS To Every Creed and Purse WARD'S Klamath Funeral Homo Marguerite Ward and Son 2S Hlh Ph. TU 2-4404 communion and penitential pray ers. Although many Protestant churches do not emphasize a pe riod of fasting or recognize tra ditional customs, increasing num bers in recent times have initiated special services of prayer, medi tation, or instruction to com-1 memorate the Lenten season. CATHOLIC CHURCH The Lenten observances at Sacred Heart Catholic Church and St. Pius X Catholic Church beganjance in "With Christ on the Road Ash Wednesday with the blessing and distribution of the ashes. Early morning masses will continue daily through the Lenten wawn at 6:30 and 9 a.m. at St Pius X. A special mass will also be offered at 5:30 p.m. each Mon day, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sat urday evening. On Wednesday and Friday evenings, Lenten Devo votions will be held at 7:30 p.m. The services will be conducted by Rev. George Murphy, Rev. David Hazen, Rev. Michael Rcil- ly, and Rev. Eugene Van Beve- ren. Sacred Heart will have Lenten devotions each Wednesday and Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. dur ing Lent. Mscr. T. P. Casey, Rev. Austin Cribbin, and Rev. Charles Grant will officiate. Mass will be offered at 11:30, a.m. daily through the Lenten pe riod at the Kingsley Field Chap el, with Rev. George Murphy of ficiating. METHODIST CHURCn Holy Communion and a special service opened uie IXJnlcn ob servance of the First Methodist Church on Ash Wednesday, and 12-hour prayer vigil in recog nition of the season is being con ducted today, March 1. Rev. Ralph Richardson, pas-; tor, said members of the congre gation, in their homes or in the 'church, will read scriptures, med-l HERALD AND Protection for something. He chooses certain goals and finds these taking over his lime, his energy and his re- sources. He can't think rationally about these goals and that cross on a hillside without asking some Important questions. Am I sacrificing too much for security? Is life worth uie candle? What do I discover in these days that lifts Uie values of mankind? The cross of Christ Is not an event of history to be ' remem bered; it is a relationship to the reality of my own days. It has meaning for my own existence. Either we discover this challenge that shoves us Into the reality of our own situation, or our religion is a museum instead of a power house. A few years ago a very distin guished Buddhist monk and I sat across from each other discussing Uie problems confronting the thou sands of men and women who were jamming Uie streets of Ja pan in Uie race for success. In his own wise way he said, "You know, we must ask the right questions." Perhaps Uiat s why many people have not discovered the full meaning of Lent. Jesus died on a cross because his sense of God's presence was not a fallout shelter. It pushed luin into the midst of Uiat situation. For him, there was no way to avoid this cup of an guish. Yet, he could die with the sense of triumph and send mil lions Into Uie world with a now sense of the meaning of life. This Is our first lifeline-. The witness of the New Testament is no insulation from danger. It Uirusts a man into Uie midst of life, certain that the knowledge of God's living presence is the inner peace that protects every time. "A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing. . . ." NKWSPAPF.RMAN DIES PALO ALTO, Calif. (Ul'll -Pri vate funeral services were sched uled today for Benjamin Shannon Allen, 80, veteran newspaperman and longtime adviser to former President Herbert Hoover. 11c died Tuesday night in a conva lescent home. An English commercial firm made the first sale of Chrltmas cards in 183. First Church of Christ, Scientist A Bunch ef Th Molhor Church, The Finr Church of Chrlit, Scitntiit In Boston, Mom. 10th end Woihmjton Sorricois Sunday Strvict 11:00 o.m. Sunday Vhaol 1 1 :00 .m. Wc-dntlday frontal Toitimonv Mootinf 8:00 O'Clock Lesson-Sermon Subject, March 3, 1963 "CHRIST JESUS" Golden Ttiti John 14:6. I am tha way, tha truth, and tha litoi no man contain unto tha Father, bur by ma. Nurtory facllltioi v.tlobl. duHnf church i.rrlc.t itale. and offer prayers for world peace and strengthening! of the churches in Klamath Falls Beginning at 6 a.m. and con cluding at 6 p.m., the prayer vigil is under the direction of Mrs. Ella Dickinson. LLTIIKRAN CHURCH Mid-week family services began Thursday evening at Zion Luther- Church and will continu. Thursday during Lent at 7:30 p.m. The theme of the Lenten observ- of Redemption Each service will feature a hap pening in the history of the suf fering, death, and resurrection, of Christ. The first service was entitled "In the Upper Room" and the others include: "The Agony in the Garden." March 7; "The Betrayal," March 14; Peter's Denial," March 21; "Je sus Before Pontius Pilate," March 28; and "The Crucifixion, April 4. The services will culminate in Holy Week with Uie Palm Sun day, Maundy Thursday, .Good Friday, and Easter services, Singing of hymns, an object talk for children, a question and answer period, and a meditation on the important events on the road of redemption will be in- eluded in each service. An in formal fellowship period follow ing each Lenten service will be arranged by the Zion Waltherl Leaguers. EPISCOPAL CHURCH The Lenten season will be ob served with special services each Thursday morning at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. They will be conducted by Rev. Robert L. Green, rector. Holy Communion will be cele brated at 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. The 10 a.m. service will also In clude the reading of the Liiany and a short meditation. NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore. Calvary Baptist Minister Governs Ranch For Boys Church HTK with cut Ranch Rev. Ferris Winn, minister of the Calvary Baptist Church, was recently selected by the trustees of the Bailie Memorial Boys Ranch to serve as ranch super intendent. Located near Pasco, Wash., tho ranch is a home fori orphaned boys and boys who arel unable to live with their parents. Rev. Winn left Klamath Falls with his family on Feb. 13 to assume the new position. Expe rienced in this type of work, he served in a similar capacity in Utah, prior to his two and a half year ministry at Calvary Baptist. Now In the development stage the ranch will consist of five units, with a total of 600 acres of land. Title to each of the units will be held by the Boys' Ranch; Baptist General Convention of Oregon- Washington; Northwest Baptist Foundation; Evergreen Associa tion; and the Columbia Basin Association. No group is allowed to hold title to more than one unit, and under lease agreements all five will be upended by the Bailie Memorial Ranch. Construction on the first of five cottages, housing 12 boys and the house parents, will begin in Old Steeple Gets Repair LAKEVIF.W - Renovation of1 the Steeple on St. Patrick's CaUiolic Church in Lakeview was recently coincided with the in stallation of new shingles, neces sary painting, and a stainless steel cross, four and a half feet high. Rev. John Phelan, pastor, said Uie parish was fortunate to secure the services of . r.. Stan cliff, one of the nine registered steeplejacks in the I'nited States, to do Uie work. At the time. Stancliff was visiting relatives in the county. The steeple, which is approx imately "5 feet high, had not been repaired or renovated since the church was built in 1912. i. v PARSONAGE PAYMENT Rev. E. J. Aschenbrenner, left, presents a $2,500 check to Dr. Robert Kerwood, center, to pay for the new Chiloquin Methodist Church per sonage. The presentation was made at a recent meeting of the District Church Exten sion Society of the Methodist Church in Klamath Falls. Witnessing the memorable event are, from left, Mrs. Heglund, Rev, Herley Zeller, Mrs. Fogg, end Rev. Albert Place, ell of Chiloquin. . Methodist Organizations Finance New Chiloquin Church A check for $2,500, presented to the Chiloquin Methodist Church by the Oregon Conference of Methodist Churches and the Dis trict Church Extension Society, highlighted a district meeting held in the First Methodist Church of Klamath Falls on Feb. 25. The grant will be used to pay for the new parsonage of the Chiloquin Church and culminates promise of district financial aid made when the structure was proposed. Rev. E. J. Aschenbren ner of Eugene, district superin tendent, presented the check toj Friday, March 1, 1963 the spring. Future development of cottages and other facilities will be financed by contributions from Baptist organizations and inter ested individuals. The ranch, planned as a live- REV. FERRIS WINN stock operation, now owns 10 head of cattle. Additional livestock has licen committed from various sources for delivery early this summer. There are presently more than 300 acres in cultivation, 200 of which are under irrigation. Nine ty acres have been sown in Gains wheat, a high yield strain, to provide ample feed for the cattle :im! a good supply for sale this year. DIRECTOR AI'POINTK.n ANDERSON, Ind. Tom A Smith, Portland, has been appoint ed to direct the third World Work Camp of the Church of God Youth Fellowship near Beirut, Lebanon, in August. Director of student per sonnel at Portland's Warner Pa cific College, Smith will lead a group of volunteer youth workers from several countries in devel oping a camp and conlerence grounds In Uie mountains for Church of God )o.ith in the Near East. The U.S. Post Office Depart- ment expends more than $10 mil - lion annually to design and print, some 26 billion stamps. IF YOU NEED ADVICE IF YOU'RE SICK FOR INCOME TAX ... -SEE Iniurnnce 631 Phon. TU STAN 3 M :.: Dr. Robert Kerwood, a member of the Chiloquin delegation. Mrs. Darlena Wolff of Chilo quin was elected district secretary and Dr. Kerwood was elected chairman at the meeting attend ed by representatives from five Methodist churches in the Klam ath Falls, Chiloquin, Fort Klam ath and Lakeview areas. Lakeview was represented by Rev. Les Boulden and Miss Car roll, delegate; Chiloquin, Rev. Al bert Place, Rev. Harley Zeller, and Dr. Kerwood, delegate; Fort Klamath, Rev. Place; and Klam-i ath Falls, Glenn Johivk. Wilbur Womer, and Rev. Ralph Rich ardson. During Uie business session, the delegation voted to encourage laymen in the Klamath Subdistnct Church Extension Society area to become members of the $10 club. This club, annually on call by the district superintendent and the executive committee of the Eugene District Church Extension Society, may ask each member Talks Slated By Educator DUNSMUIR - Methodist Wom en from churches in Siskiyou and Shasta counties will hear Miss Dorothy Barnette of Washington D. C, a Christian educator, at a district meeting in the Metho dist Church of Dusnmuir Thursday, March 7. The Dunsmuir Women's Society for Christian Service will host the all-day meeting. Miss Barnette is slated to speak at the morning session. Her topic will be concerned with leader ship training and WSCS work in the Hawaiian Islands, Korea, and Japan. Luncheon will be served by the local WSCS membership, and child care will be provided. Hie work of church women in the Pacific countries will also be discussed by Miss Barnette at an evening meeting at the Mount Shasta Methodist Church on Wed nesday, March 6. Church Station Sets Operation CHATHAM, N. J. (CNB) - Trans World Radio will place the world s most powerful Protestant radio station in full broadcast operation Oct. 1 on the island of Curacao, according to an an nouncenient made here, by Dr. Paul E. Freed, TWR founder and president. The island lies approx imately 20 miles off the coast of Venezuela. Trans World Radio was found ed in 1952 by Dr. Freed as a non profit Protestant evangelical or ganizaUon with international head quarters in Chatham, N.J. Dr Freed said that in addition to the short-wave and standard-wave broadcast facilities to be installed on Curacao at a cost of $1,000,000. plans call for construcUon and operation of FM and TV stations. Television channel 2 in Curacao has been assigned to Trans World Radio. The Mai-.Mitlan arctic expedi tion of 1923 marked the first ex tensive use of aircraft in polar exploratin. ... See Your Lawyer See Your Doctor See Your Accountant If You Need ETft Insurance iV"' US! J G0EN-BR00KS FT Agency ! Jr.- So. 6th 4-3261 f BILL Parsonage for $10 to be used to purchase sites, establish churches, or ex tend Uie ministry of established churches in a missionary way, The Subdistricts of Umpqua, Rogue River, Lane and Coos Bay had previously taken similar! action, and the decision of Uie Klamath Falls Subdistrict made the proposal to promote the $10 year memberships unanimous. The delegation also voted to support the purchase of a par sonage for Asbary Methodist Church in Eugene as a project for the 1963-64 church year. Rev. Aschenbrenner reported to Uie group on the District Church Extension Activities5 for 1963. The projects included improvements and emergency repairs to the parsonage at Yoncalla, parsonage improvement in Gardner, acquisi tion of 314 acres in downtown Reedsport, and the payment of the $2,500 to the Chiloquin church. Following Uie meeting, refresh ments were served by the host church, First Methodist. 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Douelas and Em erald streets, on March 3. Directed by CapL Waddell P. Williams, the choir's selecUons will feature anthems of adora tion and praise, including "Search Me O'Lord." "Thy Word Is Light Unto My Feet," "God So Loved the World." "The Lord Is My Light," "Open the Gates of the Temple," and "Sacred Head Now Wounded." Membership Shows Gain NEW YORK (AP)-Total mem bership in American churches and synagogues increased 1.6 million last year, but the gain of 1.4 per cent did not keep pace with the nation's population growth of an estimated 1.6 per cent. As reported by the 1963 Year book of American Churches, Uie percentage of church-synagogue members among the nation's pop ulation dropped in a year's time from 63.6 per cent to 63.4 per cent. This was the first propor tionatge decline in nearly 100 years, the yearbook said. The new count showed total membership at 116,109,929, com pared to 114,449,217 the year be fore. Protestants numbered 64,434,- 966 of the total, Roman Catholics 42,676,665, and Jews, 5,365,000. For Uie two largest groups, Prot estants showed a gain of 766.131 or 1.2 per cent, and Roman Catho lics a gain of 771,765, or 1.9 per cent, compared with 1961 church memberships. However, each body registered a .2 per cent decline in relation to the increased popula tion. Its population of about 55,000 was one-fourth slaves when Ark ansas was admitted to the Union in 1836. INCOME TAXES See Your Reliable Income TAX CONSULTANT CHAS. HATHAWAY Auditing - Bookkeeping 120 N. 10th TU 4-5473 rou oto WATIK HEATEI OF INY TTfi FAIRWAY 52-GAL ELECTRIC HEATER Reg. 99.95 ONLY 88 With Col-Ore League Trade-In NO MONEY DOWN End "water - waiting blues" forever with this Fairway electric! Your choice of regular or extra-fast recovery model. 15 YEAR GUARANTEE iLiA The program will mark the first guest appearance of Uie Por testant Chapel hoir which is com posed of 18 members. The evening service, beginning THE x mm nf kmt tvurj in .miov.-. d taJai&ji PASTEURIZED AND BOTTLED FOR YOU right HERE in KLAMATH FALLS Si om,.o.-.tv You know you're serving your family the best milk possible to buy when you serve Crater Lake FRESH, LOCAL milk . . . setting the standard of quality in the Klamath Basin for more than half a century. Program at 7:30 will be followed by coffee sponsored by the Adult Training Union of Stewart-Lenox. Rev. K. G. West, pastor, extends an invitation ts Iht public to attend. 9th & Pint Phone TU 4-3188
