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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1968
Page
5
Moulton Baptist Church begins revival Sunday with Dr Gray Allison of New Orleans Seminary leading daily 7 am and 7 pm services. Lindsay Terry of First Baptist Hammond directs music. nursery is provided and the public is invited.
A sermon explains Hebrews 11 and Chapter 12 to frame faith as the proof of things unseen. It invokes Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph as examples and urges believers to run the race of life with faith and patience by staying close to Christ and rejecting unbelief.
Dr. and Mrs. Christian Engels of Willemstad Curacao built a roadside chapel at Daniel for religious paintings. Mrs Engels painted religious scenes while the doctor added a Pieta statue from Brazil. Open day and night for 16 years, the chapel is a community sacred trust and is linked to a belief that childless women seek blessings there.
The article notes a charter meeting for the new Women’s Society of Christian Service with instructions to attend to become charter members and promises lunch. World Communion Day is set for the first Friday in November at 10 a.m. at Westminister Presbyterian Church.
Delegates to the National Conference of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union warned that alcoholism threatens the country and that church members and leaders are fueling the problem. Miss Clio Levin reported on Mrs. Fred Tooze's remarks citing church concessions to alcohol, declining abstinence covenants, and calls for a stronger missionary witness against a permissive culture. The report included moral exhortations and a Bible verse emphasizing faith and discipline.
Terrell D. Suggs 22, son of Mr and Mrs Archie L Suggs of 1509 Somerville Rd, was ordained into the Christian ministry at Southside Baptist Church Sunday night. A Mobile College senior he will study at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary next fall and has accepted the Rockville Baptist Church pastorate in Jackson. Dr W J Johnson delivered the ordination sermon after Suggs and was examined by Baptist ministers. Suggs is a Decatur High School graduate.
Miss Patricia Pickens, senior at Samford University and Hartselle native, will speak at the Morgan County Girls Auxiliary meeting Sunday at 2 p.m. at Bethel Baptist Church. She will discuss her experiences as a student summer missionary in Ohio with the southern Baptist Home Mission Board.
Mrs Tooze cites the Christian Science Monitor on 75 million drinkers with churchgoers a sizable portion. She urges Christians to renew moral leadership and oppose sinful drift. Miss Levin notes WCTU focus covers church related alcohol issues within broader national concerns.
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