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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1976
Page
5
The piece compares God’s kingdom to treasure in a field and challenges believers to sacrifice all for heaven. It cites Luke 13 8 and Acts 5 to urge self examination and total dedication, asking which type of person you are and urging to leave everything with God.
Dear Ann: I am hooked on cigarettes and want to quit but can not. Readers share clinics and cold turkey as the best method. hypnosis and counseling have mixed results. Dear Nic: quitting cold turkey is advised, despite withdrawal pain and risk, and many have succeeded. Dear Mom: a 16-year-old father-to-be faces legal questions vary by state. seek a lawyer for guidance. Confidential to Egg on My Face suggests drug education materials.
Tim Hilt and family, missionaries to Japan with Christians in Action, will speak at Faith Evangelical Free Church 302 S Park with 111 a.m. and 7 p.m. services. Everyone is urged to attend. Job 3 25 26 quotation quoted from the Bible.
Mrs. Benito Edwina Vasquez of 1017 S. Pecan was selected Mother of the Year at the Mother's Day dance in Santa Rosa Hall. She was one of ten Society sponsored nominees, received a roses bouquet and a gift from Eva Flores. Felis Abila of Barstow attended as last year’s honoree. the group was honored at a Sunday Mass.
Spokane— Rev. Kenneth Baker conducts an experimental class in remedial Catholicism at Gonzaga University. Baker, former Seattle University president and editor of the Homiletic & Pastoral Review, reports strong demand forcing a move to larger spaces. He notes 41 students, only one shows basic knowledge of the faith. many are Catholic school graduates.
The National Council of Churches reports 132,287,450 members across 223 bodies, up 1,042,311 from 1974. Church membership rate climbs to 62.3 percent of the population, aided by aggressive missionary activity. Growth led among Roman Catholics, Southern Baptists, Mormons, Assemblies of God, and Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Agudath Israel of America has published a Bill of Rights for Jewish hospital patients patterned after the American Hospital Association document. It lists rights including Kosher meals, Sabbath and festival deferment of payment, observance of Jewish rituals when not medically counter indicated, refusal of Sabbath outpatient appointments, and the right to consult spiritual advisers before procedures with religious questions.
George W. Cornell surveys church journals seminars and a Detroit conference examining liberation theology. Defenders call it a Biblican imperative aiding the oppressed while critics warn it risks socialist romanticism and state control. Clergy and scholars from the United States Latin America Europe and Africa weigh its aims and methods.
Dorthy Taylor of the Texas A&M University System offers parents practical ways to fill long summer months. She suggests family camping, day camps, local trips, and outdoor activities to foster togetherness while giving children space for self-entertainment. Options include roadside breakfasts, local sights, collecting projects, and scheduled one on one trips when a parent travels.
Consumer care in fresh fruit and vegetable selection is urged as supplies may be disrupted by heavy rains in some growing areas. Mrs. Gwendolyne Clyatt of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service advises shoppers to compare quality and price.
Lois M. Vasquez and 17 others were elected to the El Paso Diocese Council of Catholic Laity at a recent convention. The passage also outlines consumer tips on produce prices at vegetable and fruit counters, noting carrots, squash, corn, potatoes, and other items, and offers budget advice for beef poultry and egg purchases.
A former Southern Baptist missionary jailed in Cuba by Castro in 1965 says he witnessed more than 200 executions about 100 meters from his cell. David Fite, later a Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary administrator, described seeing firing squads marching to the condemned and hearing cries before volleys.
The verse from Ecclesiastes 12 13 urges reverence for God and obedience as the whole duty of man. It emphasizes concluding reflections on life and moral responsibility with spiritual guidance.
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