Glorious Bad Morning Idea Inspires Positive Living
A columnist recalls Hattie McDaniel’s optimism and a stark winter morning in St. Louis. The piece stresses starting each day with a positive attitude, echoing Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and shows how one cheerful stranger altered a grim day with a simple refrain. The message: life returns what you give it.
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St. Louis
Union Station
Kansas City
Rockies
Aldling
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Holy Cross Lutheran to Confirm First Class
Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Los Alsmitos will hold its first Confirmation on Pentecost Sunday, June 5, after five years of Lutheran doctrine study. Junior confirmands will be questioned publicly at 11 am, receiving red stoles symbolizing their allegiance to Christ.
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Chnstian Church
Holy Cross Lutheran Church of
Christ
Witnesses Hold Three Day Convention in Costa Mesa
Jehovahs Witnesses opened a three day convention at Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa with the theme Seek Peace and Pursue It. David Edwards of the Long Beach Central congregation said speakers from the Watchtower Society and local ministers would frame applied Christianity. Mass baptism for ministers in training is planned Saturday at 1 30 pm and Sunday at 3 pm Bruce E Griffin will speak on Finding Peace in a Troubled World.
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Jehovah's Witnesses
Orange County Fairgrounds
Costa Mesa
David Edwards
Long Beach Central
Watchtower Society of New York
Bruce E. Griffin
McClains Direct South America Tour and Baptist Congress
Dr Charles L McClain pastor of Truett Memorial Baptist Church and Mrs McClain will lead a South American tour linked to the World Baptist Congress in Rio de Janeiro June 27 to July 2. Sixteen travelers join from Los Angeles June 6, with two continuing on an Africa Asia Orient and Philippines air tour. The church pledges 3000 to support the mission, and McClain will also serve as messenger at the congress. The itinerary spans Guatemala Panama Peru India Chile Argentina Uruguay Brazil and Africa Asia Orient visits include Ghana Nigeria Cameroon Congo Uganda Kenya India Kashmir East Pakistan Thailand Malaya Indonesia Formosa Japan Philippines with interviews of officials. The tour closes with a sightseeing trip in Tokyo on October 1.
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Charles L. McClain
Truett Memorial Southern Baptist Church
San Anselme Ave
McClain
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World’ Baptist Congress
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Det Janeiro
Brazil
Los Angeles International Airport
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Kashmir
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Thailand
Malaya
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Formosa
Japan
Tokyo
Ecumenical Meet May Be in 1961
Pope John XXIII indicated the ecumenical council of Roman Catholic bishops may start within two years. Vatican sources noted a possibility of beginning before May next year, after earlier hints it might be 1962 or 1963. The ceremony occurred at the Vatican Pavilion Chapel amid Marian rites.
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Vatican City
John XXII
Vatican
Paviine
John
Rome
Tennessean to Conduct Evangelistic Series Here
Dr. Harry McCormick Lintz a nationally known evangelist from Tennessee will conduct evangelistic services at Garfield Baptist Church 2280 Caspian Ave June 5 12 starting at 7 30 pm Lintz has held meetings in forty eight states and fourteen foreign countries and comes with high recommendations from Pastor Robert H Coburn.
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Harry McCormick Lintz
Tennessee
Garfield Baptist Church
Caspian Ave
Lintz
Robert H Coburn
Churches Plan Rites for Memorial Day in Long Beach
Long Beach churches plan Memorial Day rites honoring war dead and members who died serving the country. The Arthur L. Peterson Post No. 27 sponsors the city service at Municipal Auditorium with Major Elis Veatch as speaker, while All Souls Cemetery holds a high mass and St. Pius X Girls High School choir within services.
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Long Beach
Arthur L. Peterson
American Legion,n
All Souls Cemetery
Ec Cherry Ave
Frit George If. Salbeck
SDB
Wincipal
St. John Bascoli High School
St. Pius
X Girls High School
Alfred O. Storvick
Riverside Pastor Named Dean of L. B. Seminary
Harold W. Ford of Riverside has accepted the call to become Academic Dean and Professor of Church History and New Testament at Pacific Bible Seminary in Riverside. He will assume the role August 1, succeeding Richard C. Mills who resigns the deanship but remains on the faculty. Ford, a Butler University graduate, earned a B D from the Christian Theological Seminary in 1949 and pursued Doctor of Theology studies in Denver. He previously pastored in Indiana and Illinois and taught at Lincoln Bible Institute between 1946 and 1958.
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Harold W. Ford
Riverside
Pacific Bible Seminary
E. Anaheim St
Kenneth A. Stewart
Ford
Dean Ford
Richard C. Mills
Butler University
Indianapolis
School of Religion
Christian Theological Seminary
School of Theology
Confirmation Class Reunion to Be Held
The Luther League of St Luke's Ev. Lutheran Church will hold a reunion meeting of all former confirmation classes Sunday at 5 45 p m. It is in honor of the 3960 class which will be confirmed on June 5 at St Luke's located on 634 M Wardrow Rd.
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Luther League of
Youth Choir to Sing in Two Cities
The Ciesel Choir of My Timothy Lutheran Church will perform in Ventura Sunday morning and Santa Barbara Sunday evening under Dr Philip Erdehy. George Wills will speak. After leaving St Timothy Saturday morning, the group will attend swimming and sports at California Lutheran College Thousand Oaks and return for Memorial Day. Teen choir members include Sandy Jamieson Virginia Kchlup Lorraine Lippold Val White Gwen McDaniels Gerri Clark Linda Wike Jeanne Vandenberg Sandy Fackrell Pat Finley Annette Short Judy Haag Sharon Anderson Darlene Bradbury Sheryl Yager Rosemary Eshbach Caroline Kathie Wills Sharon Marlys Westerhaug Diane Blake Ruth Ann Durfey Jackie Stevens Wendy Hoffman Sherry Grandt Jo Ann Guttery Mary Ann Ingram Bill Couricy Tim Storvick Dennis Dali Gene Bradbury Larry Meadows Mike Gorham Tony Hasty Fred Bollen Jon Johnson Ray Davis Ken Arnold Gary Franklin. Accompanist Carole Dehl.
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Ciesel Choir
My.imothy Lutheran
Gwen McDaniels
Gerri Clark
Linda Wike
Jeanne Vandenberg
Sandy Fackrell
Pat Finley
Annette Short
Judy Haag
Sharon Anderson
Darlene Bradbury
Sheryl Yager
Rosemary Eshbach
Caroline
Kathie Wills
Sharon
Marlys Westerhaug
Diane Blake
Ruth Ann Durfey
Jackie Stevens
Wendy Hoffman
Sherry Grandt
Jo Ann Guttery
Mary Ann Ingram
Bill Couricy
Tim Storvick
Dennis Dali
Gene Bradbury
Larry Meadows
Mike Gorham
Tony Hasty
Fred Bollen
Jon Johnson
Ray Davis
Ken Arnold
Gary Franklin
Carole Dehl
Commencement Set At Light and Life Day School
Commencement exercises for the Light and Life Day School at 5951 Downey Avenue will be held at 7 pm. Pupils will present memory work and school year achievements. Rev. Royal W. Edwards of Duarte will speak. Rev. F. J. Archer, local pastor, oversees 16 Christian Day and Nursery schools in Southern California and Arizona.
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Downey Avenue
Royal W
Duarée
F. J. Archer
California
Arizona
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