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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1952
Page
6
An editorial argues that Christ the Carpenter serves as a model for employers and workers. It calls for just wages, collective bargaining, and living conditions that allow workers to support families with dignity. It urges workers to follow Biblical principles in faith and daily life while upholding natural rights and duties.
A devotional urging readers to abandon self effort against sin and entrust life to the Master Roadbuilder. It compares failed human schemes to building with weak stones and urges immediate repentance and conversion based on Acts 3 19, calling for surrender to God, faith, and obedience to achieve lasting peace.
A visiting evangelist’s meetings are contrasted with a hotel maid’s critique of a doctor’s disordered habits. The maid says his slovenly clutter and wasteful paper disposal undermine his message, illustrating how daily conduct shapes others’ faith. The piece urges Christians to align life with words and to guard one’s mind for a pleasant voice.
The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U S A launches a Labor Sunday push to relieve global poverty. The message, read in hundreds of churches on Sept 7, urges collaboration with labor unions and other groups to help the impoverished gain education, leisure, and self-sufficiency.
Grace Methodist Church presents August program with four organ numbers debuting in Long Beach. Ann Bertsch, a Wilson High School graduate and former concert mistress, performs Rondo from Mozart Violin Concerto in D Major and other solos with Elizabeth Loomis. Ned Bertsch, cellist and vocalist, sings It Is Enough from Mendelssohn Hijjah. Marian Hardy accompanies pianist.
Long Beach Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints will hold a two day quarterly conference at Jordan High School auditorium. Elder Harold B. Lee of the Council of Twelve Apostles will speak Sunday at 10 am and 6 pm. Stake President Virgil H. Spangberg presides with counselors Francis M. Zimmerman and Lee A. Stokes. A stake mission conference is set for 7:30 pm tonight. The Long Beach Stake includes San Pedro Wilmington Long Beach Compton and Lynwood and plans a new stake tabernacle near Sith St and Ban Ave.
The National Council of Churches published a list of 17 religious bodies with one million or more members. Roman Catholic leads with 29,241,580. The Methodist Church 9,065,727. Southern Baptist Convention 7,373,498. Jewish Congregations 5,000. National Baptist Convention USA Inc. 4,467,779. National Baptist Convention America 2,645,789. Protestant Episcopal Church 2,417,464. Presbyterian Church U.S.A. 2,364,112. United Lutheran Church in America 1,925,506. International Convention of the Disciples of Christ 1,792,985. Lutheran Church Missouri Synod 1,674,901. African Methodist Episcopal Church 1,166,301. American Baptist Convention 1,654,304. Congregational Christian Churches 1,241,477. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1,111,314. Churches of Christ 1,000,000. Greek Orthodox Church 1,000,000.
The Press Telegram asks ministers of all faiths which verse guides today. Rev Virgil Harris Fisher of White Temple Southern Baptist Church selects Philippians 4 8 urging thoughts on things true honest just pure lovely virtuous and praiseworthy as a modern beacon.
A minister in a crowded church argues that the cost of maintaining the house of worship must be funded by voluntary offerings. He compares church expenses to a restaurant and urges worshipers to give as an act of praise, warning that withholding gifts harms spiritual life. The piece emphasizes sharing as essential to salvation and the holy balance between receipt and repayment to God.
A devotional pledge vows lifelong service to others beyond caste or color. It commits to aiding the fallen and the unfortunate, offering trust and prayer, and speaking without harming others. It links personal duty to democracy and spiritual ideal, urging humility and shared culture for all humankind.
Vere V. Lopez argues that self-interest fails in personal and global life. He says home life requires unselfish resolve and society needs an approximation of the cross. Suffering for the common good is needed to heal individuals and the world.
The passage reflects on eight foot square rooms in Edinburgh giving Broad Outlook OHN KNOX access to the Royal Mile from Holyrood Castle to St. Giles Cathedral and compares it to Calvin's Geneva. It argues that outlook defines life, noting schools churches and leaders should give men broad views beyond their restricted spaces.
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