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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1952
Page
5
A 9127-foot Sentinel Dome Jeffrey pine stands in Yosemite with a plaque urging readers to anchor life in Christ the Rock of Ages. The devotional essay compares the tree’s roots in rock to faith enduring storms, citing Isaiah and Psalm verses about peaceful steadfastness amid adversity.
A historic reflection argues that voters demand honesty from public officials and that officials must act with high principle. It warns against dishonesty as undermining God’s law, voters’ trust, and the public welfare, urging conscientious service and rejection of unjust profit. It echoes biblical wisdom from Paul, urging steadfast faith over fear of adversaries.
The Christian World Service plans 10,897,500 pounds of emergency relief for 1953 to Asia and the Near East with major disbursements to Korea India and Palestine. Food and medicines totaling millions will aid famine and disaster victims funded by church appeals and relief programs.
The Press-Telegram selects a minister each Saturday to share a significant Bible verse as guidance today. This week it presents Rev. Louis Fred’s choice as the featured verse and interpretation.
Coventry Cathedral Reconstruction Committee orders the largest ecclesiastical stained glass project to date. The Royal College of Art will design 100 windows, 70 feet high, showing man’s life journey from childhood to wisdom, in staged color palettes. Five years to complete by British engineers.
A tide of services unfolds across Long Beach churches led by Dr Milton C Carstensen of Calvary Baptist and Rev Edward E Baird at Emmanuel Parish. Concerts and youth missions follow a day of prayers with a parade of speakers including Rev F C Benson Belliss and Rev John W Hanna, while First Methodist hosts Dr William L Collin and a 7:30 pm Sanctuary Choir concert to fund an organ.
Prominent figures credit the Bible as foundational to American nationhood blending faith with liberty. Weigle Burrows Acheson Scherer discuss Bible influence on governance, morality, and culture, urging a scripture-based return to moral health and unity in diversity under God.
Mies El sie Farris the first woman elected moderator of the Los Angeles Association of Congregational Churches will headline First Congregational Church services at 9 30 and 11 o clock. She will describe her West and South Africa tour and deliver African Thanks Giving.
Thousands of British clergymen face near starvation due to fixed incomes failing to keep pace with rising living costs. In Oxford Diocese, Bishop Kenneth E Kirk outlined a plan to enlarge salaries through a rise in pluralities, reduce incumbents to sustain an average £600 yearly salary rent free, and end clerical poverty quickly.
A devotional prayer praising gratitude for harvest, sun and rain, asking divine blessing on one’s own land and for people in need beyond the sea. It pleads for mercy for those in distress, hopeful for an end to war and continued national prosperity through divine favor.
A reflection on how lingering hurt feelings harm individuals and their communities. Life advances despite wounded emotions, and recovery comes from staying active, not sulking. The piece urges letting go of grudges, embracing action, and healing by facing pain openly. From the Improvement Era.
A preacher argues that Christ unites humanity through a broad church not an elite, praising the democracy within the church and the mixed crowd of sinners and saints. He notes some dislike the worldly mix, but emphasizes God gifts and accepts all who respond. The history of 19 centuries shows “anything. Everything, Sinners, Saints.”
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