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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1959
Page
2
A directory lists numerous churches with addresses and schedules. Each entry notes pastor names, worship times, Sunday school, evening services, and midweek prayers, covering numerous streets and neighborhoods in the area.
Central Alliance Church invites worshippers to a Watch Night service on New Year’s Eve starting at 11 p m with singing prayers and meditations. The program includes confession prayers for guidance nation unsaved church missions and a candlelight vigil followed by officer installation for 1960.
Lebanon Methodist Church outlines Christmastide events with a morning sermon "Christmas Abides" broadcast service and an evening talk by Harold Reeder of Asheboro studying for the ministry at High Point College. Watch Night Service New Year’s Eve follows a youth-led pre recreation and film. Holy Communion closes.
Brentwood Baptist Church will hold Student Night at the evening service in honor of members away at school. The program will be led by church youths with Rev. Newell McMahan and Billy Lanier in charge.
The congregation will join hands in a circle around the church auditorium to sing Bless Be the Tie as the service begins. The public event marks the night and start of the new year.
In Baltimore at the Lovely Lane Church American Methodists mark 175 years since organizing in 1784 with about 3,000 young ministers under 35 gathered. The circuit rider tradition and Francis Asbury helped the growth from 15,000 to nearly 10 million members, despite hard journeys and danger.
W. Cameron Forbes, 89, Boston banker-turned-diplomat, served across four presidencies. Roosevelt appointed him to the Philippine Commission, Taft elevated him to governor general, Harding named him special investigator, and Hoover sent him as ambassador to Japan, where he remained until 1932. Forbes, a Harvard alumnus and descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, died after years of poor health.
The Acts account recounts Herod arresting Peter and James the brother of John. Peter is guarded by soldiers in a sealed prison but is rescued by an angel, then vanishes, leaving guards perplexed as the church prays.
A devotional passage recalls Peter’s miraculous release by an angel from Herod’s guard, leading to Peter’s escape through an iron gate and the subsequent imprisonment crisis in Jerusalem. The text cites Acts chapters 12, urging prayer for guidance. It ends with a note on faith and divine help.
A collage of light bits and quips on fashion paints and daily life. Short notes include polkadot paints and metallic finishes, sleep tips, wind speeds in cities, jokes about marriage and city pride, and anecdotes from radio era culture.
Joseph Mignella, 53, of Manville New Jersey, attends New York City night classes while working the U.S. Information Service. He aims to graduate in seven years with a political science degree from Rutgers University, after enduring a demanding schedule that began at 5:30 a.m. and included late nights.
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