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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1950
Page
7
John B Kenyon urges clergy and congregations to value rest and retreat from constant crowds. He compares Jesus retreat to the desert with the church needing periods of vacation with pay to refresh prayer and preaching. He warns against overloading ministers and calls church leaders to allow true rest and spiritual refreshment.
The Rev. Charles C. Meginniss Jr. is installed as rector at Church of the Nativity with a morning service. Bishop Carpenter will officiate and dedicate the new parish house, presenting the rector with religious symbols. A 7:30 p.m. Holy Communion follows. The bishop will speak Monday at the Men’s Club outing in Porter's Fairyland. Meginniss, a Tallahassee native, previously served as Navy chaplain for six years.
Captain Frank Scofield of Camp Rucker will preach today at the First Christian Church where he has served for the last year. The 7 p.m. service features a youth choir and a mission theme by June Conner while a prayer service follows for new CYF officers. Bible School classes start at 10 a.m. under Lloyd Peacock with CYF meetings at 6 15 p.m.
The Inter-Denominational Religious Council of Troy College elected new officers last week. John McGinty of Frisco City was named president, Homer Meeks of Dothan and Marjorie Childs of Troy vice presidents, with Frank Lott of Brewton program chair. Darrell Hall Haleburg Evenell Carmichael Glenwood Ann Payne Elba among appointed assistants. Myra Sue Sanders of Troy and Homer Meeks co chair the program committee. The council sponsors vesper services in Shackelford Hall Monday and Thursday evenings.
In Dothan multiple denominations list sermons and themes for today. The Assembly of God features Max McNab with messages The Blueprint for a Christian Life and Righteousness Exalts a Nation but Sin Is a Reproach To Any People at morning and evening services. Baptist churches present Dr. Henry A. Parker on Stepping Downward and Upward with evening topics The Deacon and Christian Leaders, while Southside Church delegates Sermon by Reverend Qland Witton and Bobby Mare prepares the Ascending Headland Avenue service. Episcopal Bishop Charles C. J. Cary will lead the 11 a m service at Church of the Nativity with rector Rev. Hen Meginsiss. Methodist plans Making Faces as the morning topic and God Is Painful for the evening, and Rev. L. C. Brannon will preach at Lafayette Street Morning, with Rev. Charles Hildresh delivering the evening Tragedy of Neglect. Salvation Army Captain W J Vangyckle selects Are You and The Fragrant for today, and Presbyterian First Presbyterian Church sets A Christian's Place In Today's World for morning and Lights for evening.
SLOCOMB The Rev A D Halstead seventy six died yesterday afternoon at his home on Slocomb route one He had lived in the community 31 years and served churches in Dele Geneva and Houston Counties and in Florida He was a member of Newtema Baptist Church Last rites set for 3 30 p m at Newtema Church with interment in the church cemetery Burial by Ward Wilson Funeral Home Surviving are his widow two sons two daughters a brother and two sisters plus church deacons as pallbearers and deacons serving as honorary pallbearers.
Troy State students will hear Rev. Lyman Brannon speak in an assembly Wednesday morning. Brannon, a missionary to Korea for three years and a refugee from the North Korean invasion, formerly served as pastor of the Ashtora Methodist Church.
In this excerpt from Abundant Living by E Stanley Jones, the author urges faith anchored in God's ultimate goodness rather than in immediate outcomes. He cites Daniel 3 and a Negro proverb to illustrate trusting God's will amid detours, storms, and surface turmoil, advocating rooted faith that endures beyond present relief. The piece connects personal serenity to eternal reality and ends with a devotional reflection.
A club manager said a young man took a palm tree from the second floor patio of the Cosmopolitan Club. Two days later the man summoned a taxi to a service station and had the driver deliver the tree back to the club.
In Marianna special coverage Circle D Ranch earned 38 ribbons at Ocala Hog Show. Nine Circle D hogs won top titles including Grand Champion, Junior Champion boar and Reserve Champion sow. The ranch plans to display at the Southeastern Fair in Atlanta from September 27 to October 1.
EYES RIGHT AGAIN LAS CRUCES New Mexico UP For two weeks the public works commissioner Welter M Swistlik and deputy John W Tanghe suffered headaches dizziness and spots before their eyes An user reports that the cause was wearing one pair in glasses (text readable shows misprints)
In a disrupted report, investigators link the blaze to a switch at Deme n Marienwere in the area near Hinson aeia the dam. Remaining details are unreadable in the damaged text.
Fragmentary note records a person named Boge at Binal Faedushe involving a study of Michigan history. The text mentions a Sher arm book study and references old people saying they were sent to a place named Skane to access materials, with unclear context about a library or archive.
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