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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1966
Page
3
A 17 year old boy with pneumonia neared death as doctors urged a transfusion. Houston J Smith and the family prayed, reading from St Paul, and spoke of spiritual energy flowing to sustain the patient. The boy awoke briefly, then slept, as faith and blood donation formed a joint hope.
Delegates at the Evangelical United Brethren Church general conference urged the United Nations to convene a peace conference to end the war in Viet Nam. The move reflects church leaders backing diplomatic efforts and seeking international dialogue to halt hostilities.
Tibetan born Phillip Ho, a former missionary guide who helped escapees from Red China, will be principal speaker at Pacific Christian College Neighborhood Thanksgiving Convocation at 11 10 am on Wednesday. Ho, 31, will travel to Assam after the stop in Long Beach where he will establish a traveling dispensary. He studied at Pacific Christian College and Platte Valley Bible College and is married to an American. Local neighbors are invited to a house to house canvassing of East Long Beach.
A schedule of guest speakers and revival meetings across Paramount Lakewood Long Beach and Orange County areas. Dr John Calvin Pearce of Our Lady of the Rosary and affiliated USC Occidental Loyola faculty is slated for Paramount Methodist Men breakfast. Faith & Freedom Foundation founder Dr Charles A Berry speaks Sunday. Thanksgiving services planned at Bible Presbyterian and Mount Olivet Lutheran churches. Long Beach Temple Youth hosts Rabbi Hank Schbal with a seminar and dance. Reorganized Church of Latter-day Saints hosts open house with Lamplighters concert. Central Baptist of Orange County features Heritage Quartet and Dr Samuel Young. Cypress Church of the Nazarene hosts services. Full Gospel Business Men showcase Paul Wortzman featuring Andy Williams singers at Cape Cod House Garden Grove.
The review covers The St Peter's Story by Thea and Rich Bargere, praising its art history of St. Peter's Basilica from ancient tomb to Julius II rebuild, with illustrations and plans. It also notes Weisberger's They Gathered at the River on American revivalists and Merlin's Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander as a social history blend, highlighting the author’s engaging scholarship.
Beginning between Thanksgiving and Christmas, about 20 million people worldwide will read the same Bible passages daily in the 23rd annual Thanksgiving to Christmas Bible reading program. The American Bible Society sponsors the effort and provides bookmarks at its New York address.
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