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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1958
Page
12
Religion writer notes Christmas starts sooner each year with Gaudy displays and busy commercialism. The Keeps Christ in Christmas movement urges eight steps to emphasize the religious meaning, including church services, Nativity displays, carols, nativity tableaux, a creche, religious cards, and focusing Luke 2 at home.
A poem titled Christmas was recited by Elmira VanFossen. Robert Nisodemus presented a small ilm Making Christmas. A Few Commandments for Christmas was read by the lecturer, with Mrs. Garnet Wisner represented by a candle. Silent Night closed the program. Guests enjoyed a odors guessing game and refreshments. The next meeting on December 30 features a covered dish supper at 6 PM. Florals by Mrs. Ray Martin and others, an accordion duet, group carols, and Scripture by Rev. E Koontz Helwig marked the event.
Rev C Stanley Lowell, associate director of Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, will speak at the December meeting of the Baptist Brotherhood at First Baptist Church of Frederick on Tuesday December 16 at 6 pm. Lowell, a prominent Methodist clergyman and editor from Washington, is author of A Summons to Americans and The Rising Tempo of Rome's Demands. He has served as managing editor of Church-State Review and lectured widely in schools and churches. He left the Virginia pulpit in 1956 to join POAU.
The Red Cross Clothes Closet reports many requests for warm clothing before Christmas. Men and women seek winter coats underwear blankets and comforters. Mrs. Emily C. Bittle urged donations to the Red Cross Office at 22 South Market Street.
A candle light service will be presented Sunday at 7 30 p m at St Pauls Lutheran Walkersville with Cherub Junior and Senior Choirs joining in the program Organ and piano preludes will be played by Senior Choir organists Mrs Paul Dinterman and Miss Edna Culler The choirs perform a mix of carols and offerings led by Rev E Koontz Hebvig with visitors from Creagerstown noted Local church activity and community notices follow including Sunday School elections and monthly council updates
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