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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1945
Page
2
The sermon delivered near Capernaum shows the Christian's role in national life. It declares blessedness for the virtuous and urges believers to be salt and light, surpassing old laws and practicing love, forgiveness, and perfect conduct as Jesus taught.
Greenwich report says Georgina Campbell, British-born eighth Manville wife, will wear red slacks for her wedding to Tommy Manville, breaking precedent among his brides. The ceremony is set for Sunday at 4 p.m. with Justice of the Peace Joseph O'Brien officiating after she and Manville attended blood tests at Greenwich Hospital.
Lt Col John T Carlton former Atlanta journalist returns after 37 months in the Asiatic Pacific is named manager of the new PCA News Bureau to broaden aviation coverage. He is a University of Georgia graduate with 15 years in newspapers advertising and publicity and served under Gen Buckner in the Pacific.
Spokane residents report increased cat distress after police shot two wildcats in local residential districts within a week. Neighbors blame the noise on the yowling and fear further incidents.
Rankin Memorial Methodist church plans services with the sermon What Makes Christmas and an evening topic Gods Unspeakable Gift. Church school starts 9 45 A M. Thomasville Main Street Methodist will host Dr I G Humphreys of High Point college at 11 00 A M with a youth fellowship choir directed by Dorothy Sloan. At 5 00 P M Rev A J Clemmer will speak and the Junior choir will sing Praise Ye the Father.
Rev. Paul Tudor Jones will preside at the 1 PM Sunday worship for God’s Advents. A vesper service follows at 5 PM in the church sanctuary. Youth groups meet after the afternoon service. Midweek prayer is Wednesday at 7:30 PM in the sanctuary.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL will hold services Sunday at 11 and 7 at the First Congregational Christian church on West Green Street Tryon Pastor Rev G C Crutchfield. Sunday school at 9 45 led by superintendent B P Moffitt. Prayer services every Wednesday at 7. CENTRAL CHRISTIAN presents The Message of Jesus and This is Essential with Joseph David Boyd at 11 am and 7 30 pm in the Masonic Temple on North Main Street.
The Christian Science Society at 319 North Main Street invites the public to Sunday services at 11:00 a.m. with the theme God the Only Cause and Creator. First Wednesday evenings at 8:00 p.m. and reading room hours Wednesdays and Fridays 3 to 5 p.m.
The First Methodist Sunday school meets at 9 45 a m led by superintendent L Ferree. At 11 a m minister Wilson O Weldon preaches Limiting the Holy One. Choir presents Christmas music at 5 p m. Youth Fellowship supper at 6 p m. Dickens Christmas Carol dramatization. Circle 4 luncheon at 12 30. Woman's Society meets 3 p m for officer installations and tea. Wesleyan Service Guild at 7 30 p m. Men's Fellowship 6 30 p m. Rev Wilbur Hutchins speaker. Philathea Class at 7 45 p m.
Rev E M Jones will deliver sermons at 11am and 5pm on Sunday with topics Wh Be Religious and First Place To First Things. Midweek gospel study continues Wednesday, 7 30 pm. Women’s Society circles meet December 10 at 7 30 pm. Christmas party events hosted by Wesleyan Service Guild December 11 and Wesley Fellowship January 13.
Central Friends announces Bible school for all ages at 9 45 morning worship where Cecil E Haworth will discuss The Book Our Mothers Read In appreciation and support of The Messiah by the high school all meetings are dismissed Sunday evening Elizabeth Fry Class Banquet Tuesday at 6 30 in the annex Junior Monthly Meeting Thursday at 7 30 in Delores Becks home on Ragan street discipline study Tuesday at 7 30 led by Mrs Henry White
First Evangelical hosts a community worship service with welcoming remarks and hymn singing. Local church members invite residents to join, emphasizing fellowship, prayer, and shared faith in a brief morning gathering.
The Rev. Mr. Virgil Gaither of Durant Oklahoma national president of the Pentecostal Holiness youth societies will speak at a regional meeting with youth from several surrounding churches at the local Pentecostal Holiness church on Highland Avenue. The public is invited to attend.
Sunday service at 11 o'clock features a sermon by Reverend Hoy L. Fesperman on A Warning To The Church. The choir directed by Don Gibbardt will sing Bethlehem. An every-member canvass launches at this service with seventeen teams of men. Men's Brotherhood to hold annual ladies night Wednesday at 7 at the church. no evening service.
Universal Bible Sunday observance at First Baptist with Rev W Wilbur Hutchins delivering the morning sermon at 11 o clock on One Light Which Has Never Gone Out. Evening union service and school musical program to present The Messiah at the high school auditorium. Sunday classes meet 645 for Dr W F Clayton in charge. Midweek prayer service Wednesday at 7 30 with youth training unions led by Hamer Miller.
All services at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church will be held Sunday at regular hours. Church school begins 9 45 a m for all ages starting with nursery. Morning worship at 11 a m with Rev Paul Hardin Jr preaching The Forgiveness of Sins. Youth leader Miss Joanne Sechrest at 5 p m vesper. message I Saw The Lord. Music by church choir directed by J Gurney. Annual Christmas service Monday evening as officers are installed. Wednesday 6 p m Workers conference supper and quarterly reports. 7 30 p m fellowship hour with Mr Hardin continuing The Will of God. Christian education meeting after fellowship. All members invited.
Rev Elmer Powell from South Side Church of Anderson Indiana will deliver messages in tonight and Sunday services at 1012 Asheboro Street. Rev William C Livingston extends a warm invitation to the public for both services.
Saint Mary's Episcopal Church observes Holy Communion Sunday at 8 o'clock with church school at 9 45 and morning prayer and sermon at 11 led by the rector. St Dunstan choristers and men sing Titcomb Te Deum and Schubert Jubilate Deo with Oldroyd prayer as offertory. Young People's Service League meets at 6 with Ernest Guthrie directing.
Archdale Methodist Church led by Rev. William B. Penny offers church school at 9 45 a m morning worship at 11 with a sermon Where I Am a 2 00 p m community survey at 2 local respect service at 5 with Peter the Man talk and a Youth Fellowship at 5 50 p m Also notes there are over 6000 public libraries in the United States.
General Tu Yuing and Vice Admiral Barbey inspect Manchuria's rail hub as bitter wind bites troops. A collapsed Japanese depot and looted mills mark the unrest while factory work resumes with a Japanese manager kept in place.
Reverend Harvey A. Fesperman is installed as pastor of the First Evangelical and Reformed Church in Burlington with sermon by his brother Reverend Harvey Fesperman. Other ministers include J. Peeler and Sterling Whitener. Harvey A. previously served Christ's Evangelical and Reformed Church in Hagerstown Maryland for over fifteen years.
Eve line Morris Kearns 92 widow of John Kearns died at her son John P. Kearns home in Denton after four weeks illness. Surviving: one son and one daughter Mrs John Beam of Denton. Funeral at Summerville Baptist Church at 3 pm with interment in church cemetery.
Public libraries exceed 100 million volumes in total collections, reflecting vast access to books and resources across communities and regions. The milestone underscores growing public reading, education, and information services.
Approximately 150 members and their wives of the Farris Andrews Bible class at First Baptist met for their annual turkey supper in the Your Peoples department. Guests included Dr. and Mrs. A B Jonrad Rev and Mrs Wilbur ne and Miss Thelma P. The secretary reported an average Sunday attendance of 129 for 1944 with a two-member gain. About $2,500 was contributed for charitable causes this year. Christmas gifts were awarded to Irene Brooks pianist R W Seward song leader J F Wood president and Lloyd Thayer teacher. R L Freeman announced 1946 officers and urged support for continued progress.
Tokyo officials announce first war crime trials set for December 17 in Yokohama. An American military tribunal will hear cases against roughly 300 Japanese military and civilian personnel accused of atrocities against American POWs.
Mrs Julia Elizabeth Wolfe of New York, 85, mother of the late author Thomas Wolfe, died last night. A native of Asheville, North Carolina, she passed away at age 85 in New York City. In 1945, India exported over 1,792,000 pounds of black pepper to the world.
The Central Conference of American Rabbis, in New York, denounced U S backing for colonial subjugation and called for self determination. They urged international trusteeship under the UN for remaining colonies and praised American soldiers' friendship with the Japanese people.
Dr. Walter Van Kirk reports on his return from Japan that Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa says Japan’s morality and culture would have caused catastrophe if Japan had won the war. Kagawa has lost weight but remains active with evangelistic meetings, relief work, and cooperative efforts. MacArthur tells Bishop Baker that American troops are the best ambassadors of democracy and expresses pride in Americans.
The Commission on World Peace of the Methodist Church says objectors in civilian public service camps lack pay and face high costs, harming many wives and children. It calls for relief funds and donations, and asks President Truman to grant pre Christmas pardons and faster demobilization from camps.
Two veteran missioners under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions return to wartorn North China. Rev Robbins Strong, formerly interned at Weishien, and Rev Alfred Dixon Heininger, who served a decade in China and later led a Rochester Wisconsin church, plan to reunite scattered Christian groups and begin relief and rehabilitation work.
Calvary Episcopal Church in Philadelphia with a long standing white congregation merges with St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church with a Negro congregation. The Rev. Thomas W. S. Logan, rector of the Negro church, is called to be rector of the new bi racial congregation. This marks the first time in 169 years of the Pennsylvania Diocese that a Negro priest serves as rector of a white congregation.
A boy slips into a city zoo seeking a rabbitry but discovers a warning from an evil gigmy about his sister turning into a white hippopotamus in three weeks. He flees through doors as closing time nears, hiding among barrels of carrots.
A boy named David searches a large room full of identical white rabbits hoping one is his sister Mary. He releases many bunnies to create confusion, then uses an opening door trick and saves a single white bunny that matches Mary.
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