Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 226, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1925 — Page 7

SATURDAY, JAN. 31,1925

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DR. PARSONS 10 BEGIN DOTIES AT BAPTJSTCHURCH Musical Program to Be Given Sunday by Hansen, Rev. T. J. Parsons, newly called pastor of the College Avenue Baptist Church, will enter upon his work Sunday, preaching both morning and evening. His coming to- this important Baptist Church on the north side will open an enlarged program of activities. The College Avenue Church recently passed its golden anniversary and has plans for an aggressive future. The coming of i>r. Parsons to the church brings a man of wide experience in Christian work. Pastorates in Wisconsin and Indiana have shown marked changes under his leadership and one of the most Interesting pastorates was held in Chicago. , Because of his leadership, the Indiana Baptist convention called him some time ago to became the superintendent of the southwest district. Under his administration, church life took on new interest, sma'l churches were revived and a more efficient pastoral leadership made possible. His district with regret gave him up when he was elected editor of the Indiana Baptist Observer. • • PIANO RECITAL TO BE GIVEN AT CHURCH N The piano students of Francis H. Topmiller will give the first of a series of recitals Sunday at 3 p. m. in the Beville Avenue Evangelical Church. The following will take part: Thelma Swigert, Margaret Abel, Clay Hall, Esther Kruge, Jessie Unger, Virginia Hassler, Eileen Johnson, Carl Schubert, Esther Garritson, Violet Nordberg, Jerry Holman, Mildred Morris, Dorothy Dosch, Margaret Zeigler, Harriet Essig, Francis Kennedy, Milbum Jones, Geraldine James, Myrtle Wilson, Arthur Wilsoh, Catherine Quinn, Thomas Cowley, Mary Sluss, Marjorie Holcomb, Virginia Osborn, Kenneth Lime, Elizabeth Broolis, Helenlouise Perkins, Paul Bogart, Margaret Irvin, Neva Stiff, Elizabeth Miller, Catherine Blake, Mary Rohce, Lucille Clark, Louise Holtman.

HENSEN ARRANGES ORGAN PROGRAM A musical praise program will be presented at the vesper Service of the Second Presbyterian Church Sunday afternoon at 4:45 with the following numbers: Organ Meditation Prelude— Triumphal March Lemmen# Anthem—‘“Praise Ye. the Father". Gounod Anthem—Festival Cantata Domino in B Flat Dudley Buck Soo—'‘Halleluiah!" Hummel Miss Mary Moorman. Or*an interlude—Evening Song. Schumann Anthem —“Savior. Again to Thy _ Dear Name We Raise” Chadwick Organ Postlude —Jubilate In F.. , . ,811ver Charles F. Hansen is the organist. • • • DR. FRANK S. C. WICKS of All Souls Unitarian Church announces the following order of service at 11 a. m. Sunday: Prelude —Dach. Responsive Reading—First Selection. Hymn 336. First Service. Covenant. Anthem. Words of Aspiration. Address—“ The Decalogue of Science.” Scripture. Hymn 16. Notices and Offerings. Reverie—Rogers. Address—“ The Theater." Hymn 466. Dudley Buck. Benediction. Postlude. •M REV. H. R. BORNEMAN of New Jersey Street M. E. Church will speak Sunday morning on “In Search of the Acts of and at night, “Mountain Steps.” • * • AT GRACE M. E. CHURCH Dr. M. B. Hyde will preach Sunday morning on “The Reach of Faith,” and at night Judge E. A. Mile3 will speak. • • • REV. CHARLES H. GUNSOLUS will lecture Sunday night at the First American Spiritualist Church. • • • AT ST. MATTHEW LUTHERAN CHURCH, Rev. L. C. E. Fackler will

The Four Churches of Christ, Scientist, • of Indianapolis Announce a Free Lecture on Christian Science George Shaw Cook, C. S. B. of Chicago , 111. MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF LECTURESHIP OF THE MOTHER CHURCH, THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, IN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. TOMLINSON HALL Sunday Afternoon , February First, at Three o’Clock , Nineteen Hundred Twenty-Five The Public Is Cordially Invited to Be Present , ,U:-

speak in the morning on “Christ’s Disciples Show Their Littleness of Faith in the Midst of the Storm.” At night, "Who Shall Wear the Robe of Glory?” The vestry will meet Tuesday night at the parsonage. The Dorcas Society will meet this week at the home of Miss Freda Engle, 808 N. Jefferson Ave. • • • DR. FRANK L. HOVIS of St. Paul M. E. Church will preach in the morning on “A Separated People,” and at night on “Marking Out Our Own Salvation.” * • • DR ARTHUR PHILLIPS, the pastor of the Richardson Memorial Presbyterian Church of , Philadelphia, Will close his work in the Fairview Presbyterian Church as preacher-evangelist on Sunday. At 11, he will speak on “The Attractiveness of Jesus,” and at 7:45 on “The Heart of the Gospel.” Following the church supper, Thursday at 6:30, Dr. Edward Haines Kistler will conduct a preparatory service at 7:15, speaking on “It’s Me, Lord!” The Sunday school council meets Monday at 7:30 p. m. in the church parlors. • • • THE REV. G. L. FARROW of Victory Memorial Methodist Protestant Church will speak on the subject, “Can the World Reproduce Calvary,” in the morning service. Special communion service for all those who came into the ‘church during our evangelistic services. In the evening his theme will be, “The Seven Greatest wonders.” • • • “HOW TO MAKE THE CHRISTIAN LIFE A SUCCESS?” are the words from which the Rev. J. H Rilling of The Second Evangelical Church, will preach his morning sermon. "What Must I Do to Be

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DR. FRANK S. C. WICKS, PASTOR OF ALL SOULS UNITARIAN CHURCH, AT WORK IN HIS CHURCH STUDY.

By THE VISITOR Calling on Dr. Frank g. C. Wicks in his study at All Souls Unitarian Church Is like going Into the library of a home. That Is the real idea behind the architecture and plan of All Souls Church, on N. Alabama St., near Fourteenth St. ( -The general plan of Dr. Wicks and the architect was to get away from the regulation ehurch build* Ing. So a homelike-looking structure was built. And the study is just another idea of an American home. It is here that Dr. Wicks writes his sermons and prepares his work for civic betterment. Dr. Wicks is one pastor who has given up nearly all of the prescribed duties ofa pastor, such as making calls to the homes of members of his church. He has been able to devote tithe for making weekly calls at the city hospital. He is chairman of the social service committee of the city hospital. He Is a member of the Florence Crittenton Home and many other organizations. He probably belongs to more organizations than any other pastor of the city. "And I am not a joiner,” he told me. “I am interested most In the work of civic betterment, anything that will make Indianapolis a better place to live. My work is largely along these lines.” Children Work During the twenty years that Dr. Wicks has been here he has been a worker toward better conditions for children. “I am emphatically in favor of the eugenics bill now before the Legislature to stop the multiplication of feeble minded children,” he said. “I am opposed to Sunday laws of any character, blue, pink or any other color. • Let every one enjoy Sunday In his own way, consistent with'the liberty of others. If a man wants to get

Lesson of Vine and Branches Proves to Be Powerful

The International Uniform Sunday School Lesson for Feb. 1: The Vine and the Branches. —John 1&:1-11. By WM. E. GILROY, Editor of The Congregationallst. HE sermons that Jesus preached when He was here l—l on earth would seem to have been remembered, and to have been Saved?” is the pastor’s subject for the evening sermon, fit this service the reception- of members into church fellowship will take place. At 6:45 the E. L. C. IS. will hold a meeting. • • * CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR DAY Will be observed at the Second Moravian Church on Sunday. Miss Elizabeth Cooper, State intermediate superintendent of the Indiana Christian Endeavor Union will speak at the 10:45 service on “The Challenge of Christian Endeavor.” At the 7:45 service the Christian Endeavor Societies will have charge and each will be represented by a speaker. The pastor, the Rev. Vernon W. Couillard will deliver the address which is a decision day address “FTiends of Christ.” * * * DR. LEWIS BROWN of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church will preach Sunday morning on “Rendering to All Their Dues" and at night “Faith and Healing.” • • • “A RELIGION .THAT INSPIRES” will be the morning theme of Dr. Edwin Cunningham at the Central Universalist Church.

into his automobile and drive to All Souls* Church that is his privilege.” Dr. Wicks is opposed to the bill which proposed the compulsory reading of the Bible in the public schools. “It cannot be freed from sectarian influences,” he said. “My conception of the church 4s a religious center with a civic circumference. It would contain everything pertaining to human welfare and it would contain room for the boy to spin his top.” Charm Here The study of Dr. Wicks doesn’t lodk like the regular church study. It Is a home for the pastor. It generally la In comfortable disorder. Jt has comfortable chairs, many new books and magazines. On the desk is a bust of Emerson. The study Is a man’s room, where a man’s viewpoint is found on every subject. Dr. Wicks, by his civic program, has pushed the pulpit of the church to all corners of the city and the center has not been forgotten either. MOTION PICTUREB

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so effective, because of their brevity and pointedness. The Master put His great thoughts in simple form, and He enforced them with illustrations drawn from the every day life of the people. He took the things that came nearest to hand, and around them He wove the teachings which so indelibly impressed the minds of the disciples that years afterward these saying of Jesus were recorded, and they have become as indelibly written Into the world's literature, and into the life of the Christian church. The teaching of this lesson Is so simple that there seems little to do but tell the story. Whaf can one add that would make it greater, Or that would make It clearer? But it is the simple and commonplace things that people neglect. So it is necessary to read and re-read even the simplest teachings of the New Testament, tg emphasize them and comment upon them, until they come to have the reality for modern men and women that they had for those who knew Jesus in the days of His flesh. Life Must Have Roots Herein the simple figure of the vine and the branch, Jesus reminds us that life must have roots and nourishment. Branches do not grow Just of themselves. It is through the vine, itself deeply rooted in the soil, and reaching out for water and air that the branch has life. And just as Jesus taught that the peace and comfort of God come to men through the incarnation of God in human life—in Himself—so Jesus here teaches that It is in oneness with Him that men may find life and continue to live. The words of Jesus are mystical. Perhaps with our prosaic minds we cannot fully appreciate their real significance Insofar as they have metaphysical and theological meaning. But lest we should miss their practical meaning Jesus has put it all very plainly. are real and definite tests whether we are “in the vine" or not. Merely claiming to be good Christians, and to be abiding in Christ is no proof of actual oneness with Him. If we are actually in the vine our lives will display the characteristics of the vine. What are these? The lesson plainly indicates them First of all is fruitfulness. “He that abideth In me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.” But fruitfulness Itself is conditioned by continuance of life. The branch that abides not in the vine Is "withered.” May we take the other side of the figure and emphasize the juiciness of the branch that abides in the vine? Somehow "Juicy” is not just the MOTION PICTURES

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term that anybody uses to describe the average •Christian. Possibly the term as used today has not an altogether pleasant significance. Abounding in Life But, if we can dissociate the term from Its usual reference, does not “juiciness” express just what the Christian ought to have? He ought to be active, lively, overwhelmingly abounding in life, and exuding the evidences of life at every pore. Jesus said tha,t He had come to give men life and to give It more abundantly. A further condition of fruitfulness Is obedience—having the word of Jesus abiding m our hearts, and keeping His Commandments. This is the test of our oneness with Christ as it is the test of His oneness with the Father. Notice that Jesus, in verse 10, places the relationship in love between the Christian and Himself upon exactly the same plane as He places His own relationship to the Father. So there grows out of this another condition, or accompaniment, of the fruitful life. It is prevailing prayer. And the secret of prevailing prayer is In living so close.to Christ that we know His will In such a way that prayer becomes, not a bending of God to our purposes, but a bending of our lives and our purposes to the outworking of God’s purposes for the world. If we believe that Is supremely good, that He did actually so love the world that He gave His only begotted Son, What could be higher than this—to dwell with Him, through Jesus Christ, to have the rullness of His life pulsing through our veins, and to manifest the vigor and vitality of our own being in the bringing forth of the fruits that glorify the God of grace and truth? "Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.”

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Federal Council of Churches Asks Pastors for Views Concerning Broadcasting of Sunday Sermons —Ministers Favor Plan as Submitted. A special committee of the Federal Council of the Churches has been formed to consider the general use of the radio by the churches with special reference to an interdenominational approach to the question. Walter Irving Clarke of Philadelphia, editor of Presbyterian Publicity, has called upon Presbyterian pastors to present their views on the subject.

Dr. Edward Haines Kistler, pastor est the Fourth Presbyterian Church of this city, states that he has broadcasted, but the general trouble is that It is too expensive for the smaller churches. He states that there is no local pastor here regularly broadcasting sermons, although some pastors df wealthy churches in other cities are doing this. Questions Asked At a recent meeting of the special committee appointed by the Federal Council of the Churches In New York, according to the Presbyterian Publicity, three questions were considered. They are stated as follows: 1. Is It wise for church organizations to undertake to erect and maintain broadcasting stations of their own? The tentative conclusion was that the cost of maintenance, as well as the cost of erection, is so great that it is probably preferable, at least for the present, to work out a policy of cooperation with the existing stations. 2. Should an Interdenominational approach be made to the broadcasting stations In order to prevent the competition of the various denominations with each other in securing the use of the radio? There was unanimous opinion that some method of cooperation among the Protestant groups is Imperatively

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called for, else in time the stations will find it impossible to deal with the many separate religious agencies seeking to use broadcasting facilities. The experience of the'New York City Federation of Churches, which has been requested by WEAF to serve as

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its clearing house for all radio programs offered by the Protestant churches of that city, is a notable illustration of progress. 3. Should the programs of the churches include not only services of worship but also addresses on the churches’ interest in some of the great social and international issues of the day, such as Christian missions, world peace, prohibition and respect for law? There was a general judgment that such an extension of broadcasting by the church is desirable and that it should be guided by a wise committee representing not simply a single denomination, but, so far as possible, Protestantism as a whole. A fourth question under consideration was the advisability of recommending that religious broadcasting should take place at all other hours than the 11 o’clock service Sunday.

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