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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1952
Page
6
The editorial calls for local citizens to stop buck passing to the federal government and to strengthen local law enforcement to combat gambling and organized crime. It links crime to breakdowns in the home and moral decline, urging a national revival of traditions, religious training, and unity to restore law and order.
United Church Women launch seven regional conferences under the theme Good Church Women Are Good Citizens. Leaders will meet state representatives nationwide to mobilize church women for nonpartisan political participation and community engagement, led by national president Mrs. James D. Wyker. Also noted are Lutheran pastors from Long Beach and Lakewood traveling to Santa Barbara for the Southern California Conference meeting with Pastor Mosling delivering the homily. Pacific Theological Seminary class start noted. and a color motion picture event by Y Romey Ke Black highlighting seven Southern Baptist missions including Temple and Island Avenue churches with self-sustaining progress.
In the first seven months of 1952 emergency relief shipments coordinated by the National Council of Churches delivered 8,010,195 pounds of food clothing medicines and other goods valued at 3 721 050 to India Korea Germany Greece and Lebanon. Executive director Wynn C Fairfield described the program as a widening response to homeless orphaned and destitute people overseas reflecting Christian American compassion.
Rev Emma Taylor of First Assembly of God shares her favored verse Psalm 90 14 15 Offer unto God thanksgiving and pay thy vows unto the Most High Call upon me in the day of trouble I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorify me
First Brethren Church on Fifth Street joins an October International Revival called Christ for Everyone spanning Canada and the United States. Leaders include Ernest Manning, Charles E Fuller, Harold J Ockenga, and Theodore Epp. Campaign HQ in Chicago with Horace F Dean. Co operating groups include Child Evangelism Fellowship and 60 colleges. Billy Graham wrote Get Right With God Today.
Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church will observe Rally Day in all departments with pupils meeting teachers and receiving new books and pins. A new award system and Sunday School papers debut. A parish picnic follows the 11 o'clock service at Houghton Park. Dr. Gaylord Falde will preach at 8:30 and 11, and attend meetings with staff, council, and parish Monday evening.
Roger Allen Pfaff, a municipal judge of Los Angeles, is appointed chair man of the Presiding Bishop's Committee on Laymen's Work by Bishop Francis Evie Bloy of the Episcopal diocese of Los Angeles. Pfaff will oversee church activities for laymen in Southern California’s eight counties, reporting to Bishop Bloy and the National Executive Committee in New York City. He succeeds William H. Siegmund, now head of Episcopal Lawmen's Work in the Eighth Province, encompassing California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii and the Philippines. Siegmund joins the national executive committee chaired by Harvey Firestone.
In Long Beach, Rev Hiram Bedford Crosby Jr reports strong support for the new building campaign at St. Thomas of Canterbury Episcopal Mission Lakewood Village with 210 attendees at the kickoff dinner and 80 percent of the first 100 contacted contributing. The Visitation campaign runs through Sept 19. Faculty change: Mrs Shirley Sulack joins First Lutheran elementary school teaching grades 3-4 and directing a Primary Chorus. She hails from Winona Minnesota and studied at Dr Martin Luther College New Ulm and Long Beach City College. Roy Sulack her husband recently returned from Korea. Rev J Irving Rhoades will lead services and speak on The Light of Life. Other sermons and events span First Church in the Brethren, Lakewood Church of Christ, and various area congregations with themes The Mastery of Self, The End Is the Beginning, Fountain of All Faith, Salt of the Earth, Divine Horticulture, and The Story of Joseph. Rally Day at Unitarian Church resumes worship and Sunday school with Dr Robert Murray Pratt preaching The Church Nobody Knows. new religious education program to be inaugurated. Dr Fralt returns from Los Altos vacation. Rev Wilbur A Schurr returns from Mexico and resumes pulpit duties. East Long Beach Methodist Church shows The Story of Joseph. Rev Quentin Paul Royer announces morning sermon Where Are the Nine.
California Heights Methodist Church plans a roundbreaking Sunday at 10 40 AM for a 126000 educational building to house the children’s division of the Sunday School. Construction begins September 15 with move-in expected early 1953 and includes a 350 seat social hall and 500 for lectures. Mayor Burton W Chace and church leaders attend. The building will sit on Orange Ave near the jets south of the service station and join the existing church structures on Bixby Road and Cerritos Ave.
Churches statewide held thanksgiving prayer services to mark a record wheat crop. Gov Johnston Murray proclaimed Wheat Harvest Day and radio stations donated time to ministers and lay leaders who led thanks to God for the bumper harvest in Oklahoma this year.
The article extols charity as the bond uniting humanity and urges cultivate sympathy for others. It defines sympathy as sharing in others’ burdens and urges both heart and mind to imagine unseen suffering, homeless orphans, and youths driven to crime, to deepen Christian love and service.
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