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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1975
Page
15
Joyce Landers spoke to 500 women and 12 men at the Pacesetters spring branch in Long Beach about forgiveness and recovery from a near suicide. She shared personal hardships, a near slit wrist moment, and how forgiveness restored her marriage and love of life.
Multiple churches list Sunday and weekday programs including concerts by Arnie Hartman at Community Grace Brethren Church and the Bellflower Baptist Church choir. A mission at St Pancratius Lakewood runs today through Friday with daily masses and a major sermon. Other events feature organ recitals, choral programs, lectures, and church breakfasts across Los Angeles and surrounding communities.
Campus Crusade for Christ evangelist Josh McDowell speaks at Long Beach State University on Monday and Tuesday. He will address topics including sex revolution and the Bible on the free speech platform, in the student union, and in the men's gym. An official projects 6,000 attendees.
Reappointed Rabbi Martin B. Ry of Temple Ner Tamid in Downey has been named again to the County Commission on Human Relations, extending his service on the panel addressing civic equality and community relations.
A reflective aphorism lists forgiveness for enemies, tolerance for opponents, listening for friends, and reverence for parents, urging self respect and universal charity as guiding virtues. The piece frames virtues as gifts across relationships, ending with a call to conduct that makes a parent proud.
Norman Vincent Peale argues driver behavior, not only car design, determines safety. He recounts a near collision on the Saw Mill River Parkway and warns that sober judgment, self-control, and following traffic rules are essential. He questions sales pitches and stresses personal responsibility in preventing accidents.
The text reflects on how Puritan reading shaped belief, contrasts 1920s rigidity with postwar pluralism, and notes the rise of television as a cultural force. It discusses the abundance of choices in California including Zen, Hinduism, strict churches, private mysticism, liberal disciplines, and charismatic movements, arguing freedom is both a burden and a driver of spiritual search.
St. John’s Episcopal Church in Wilmington plans a special Mass for founder Gen. Phineas Banning timed at 1 p.m. in the Banning Mansion Ballroom. Rev. James Corbett leads, with assistants Archdeacon Donald Behm and Rev. Donald Gaines, preceded by Oliver Vickery’s 12:30 lecture. Mass marked the mansion’s completion in March 1864.
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