Guest Preachers and Revival at Texas Churches
Paul Scott of Lubbock will be guest preacher at Fourth Street Church of Christ next Sunday with morning and evening services in minister J B Hudson's absence. Terry Bell speaks Wednesday night August 19. Christina Corbin hosts revival meetings at United Pentecostal Church Pecos with gospel concerts and missions testimony detailing her work in Colombia and the United States. Lyndon Johnson signs bill designating John F Kennedy birthplace in Brookline Massachusetts as a national historic site.
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Paul Scott
Lubbock
Fourth Street Church of Christ
J. B. Hudson
Terry Bell
Sunset School of Preaching
Abilene
Church of Christ
Pueblo
Colorado
Christina Corbin
Cisco
Texas
United Pentecostal Church
Eleventh
South Willow Streets
Pecos
Miss Corbin
Keene Teachers College
Keene
New Hampshire
Faith School of Theology
Brooklin
Maine
Bible College
Colombia
South America
States
Texas Bible College
Houston
United States
Canada
Mexico
Lyndon Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Brookline
Mass
Present Trends In Religion Surveyed
AP reports on a study by Milton Rokeach finding religious beliefs often clash with behavior toward others. Catholics show religion’s guidance as largely irrelevant to compassion. Protestants exhibit a negative link between devoutness and social action. Clergy remain a primary aid for mental health, with 25,000 trained counselors among 260,000 parish clergymen supporting counseling needs.
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George W. Cornell
New York
Milton Rokeach
Michigan State University
Psychology Today
Dennis J. Geaney
Catholic Messenger
American Foundation For Religion and Psychiatry
Donald E. Smith
American Association For Mental Health
St. Paul
Minn
Polly’s Pointers Dries Sweaters On Rustproof Screen
Dear Polly readers share tips for drying sweaters flat between towels and on a rustproof window screen across a bathtub to speed drying and blocking. Other notes include using a ruler on tool handles for gardening and wax to clean an outdoor clothesline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polly
Anne
Alaska
Food for Thought by Mary Lee
A columnist reflects on rapid tech progress since the 1960s and the coming era’s impact on society. She notes large increases in youth and college demographics, shifts in attitudes toward profit and government, and highlights innovations spurred by American industry and the profit motive.
Kidnaped Girl Rescued After 17 Hours In Florida Swamp
Dale Regina Leach 20 was abducted at gunpoint from Fort Myers Beach and forced to trek barefoot through the Everglades for 17 hours. Detectives from a 95 mile chase freed her near Seminole, apprehending James Wesley Ross 23 of Seminole as the kidnapper. Leach, daughter of Daniel and Mrs Leach, had been visiting Cape Coral relatives and Buffalo University student.
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Ochopee
Fla
Dale Regina Leach
Florida
Everglades
James Weseley Ross
Seminole
St. Petersburg
Ross
Paul Palumbo
Fort Myers
Miss Leach
Steven Ketcham
Fort Myers Beach
Ketcham
Daniel Leach
Women Missionaries Seek Jungle Tribe Contact
Harriet Field and Hattie Kneeland, two American missionaries, reported contact with the Mayoruna tribe in Peru after a 15 year search. They aim to document the language, teach Spanish, and help the tribe read and write their language to enter Peruvian society.
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Lima
Peru
Yarinacocha
Harriet Field
Liberty
Ind
Hattie Kneeland
Kirksville
Bethel
Maine
Harriet
Hattie
Mayorunas
Harriett
Iquitos
Snell
Miss Field
First Presbyterian Welcomes Rev. B. Hampton Bowman
Members of the First Presbyterian Church welcomed Rev. B. Hampton Bowman as guest preacher last Sunday. He leads Valley Congregational Church in El Paso and has served in Texas churches, with nine years of rehabilitation work for the blind. Bowman earned degrees from Austin College and Austin Theological Seminary and a masters from the University of Texas. He was ordained in 1951 and will preach the next three Sundays in August.
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First Presbyterian Church
B. Hampton Bowman
The
Valley Congregational Church
United Church of Christ
el Paso
Bowman
Austin College
Austin Theological Seminary
University of Texas
Presbyterian Church of the
Texas
Local Preacher Takes Vacation and Vacation Bible School Planned
In Hawley and New Mexico trips, Rev. Marshall of the Fourth Street Church of Christ led a gospel meeting and returns to town. Trinity Lutheran Church hosts a Vacation Bible School starting tonight at 7 30 with 43 children ages 3 to 12 and an adult class. The theme My Country Under God and outreach to Latin American children are highlighted amid volunteer staff and refreshments. The U S leads world motor vehicle registrations with 169 6 million passenger cars and 46 7 million trucks and buses as of January 1 1969.
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Bro
J. B. Hudson
New Mexico
Fourth Street
Trinity Lutheran Church
Rev
Marshall
God
James Pearrow
Richard Howell
D, R, Bowman
Roxanne Waltisperger
J. E. Travland
Patricia Reddick
Jesse Gonzales
Lester Eden
Anita Gonzales
John Gill
C, D, Jung
Marshal
J. Meyer
Meyer
United States
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Mary Lee
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Ron Snell
Elkhart
Church News
Lutheran Vbs
Southwest
Carlosd
West
Balmorhea
Collie Electric
A. O. Smith
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