Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1939 — Page 5
SATURDAY, JUNE 10,
Dolly Wilkening Will Wed Today; Roesinger-Gallagher Vows Exchanged; Siebert-Pickering Rite Is Tomorrow
Mullen-Obergfell Rite Read in St. Catherine of Sienna Church.
Miss Dolly Wilkening, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Wilkening, 537 E. Maple Road, will become the
bride of Loran Allen Parker, son of Lewis A. Parker, Martinsville, at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon in the Redeemer Lutheran Church. Bouquets of Queen Elizabeth roses and delphinium will stand on the altar which will be banked with palms and ferns. The Rev. William Eifert will read the single ring service. Miss Dorothy Fowler, crganist, will piay a program of bridal music preceding the ceremony and Vergil Hebert will sing “I Love You Truly” and “Because.” The bride will enter the church with her father. She will wear a powder blue afternoon dress with cranberry accessories and her corsage will be of orchids and lilies of the valley. her only attendant, will wear crayon pink with powder blue accessories and a shoulder corsage of Queen Elizabeth roses and delphinium. Edward Schroeder will be best man and ushers will include Robert Meyer and Wallace Tudor. Following the wedding a reception will be held at the Spink-Arms Hotel and the couple will leave on a wedding trip through the East. They will be at home after July 1 at 1402 N. Alabama St.
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Roxie Wood Will Become Bride Tonight
In a setting of greenery and lighted candelabra, Miss Bethel Jane Pickering, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Pickering, 810 N. Tacoma Ave. will become the bride of Harold Siebert, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Siebert, 5820 Beechwood Ave,
in a ceremony at 3:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the Zion Evangelical Church. The Rev. R. F. Daries will perform the single ring service. The bride’s cousin, Mrs. James Montgomery, Kokomo, will sing. Mr. Pickering will give his daughter in marriage. Her bridal gown will be of candlelight slipper satin fashioned on Empire lines with a long train and long sleeves. Her veil will cascade from a fluted coronet trimmed in orange blossoms and she will carry a bouquet of bride's roses and lilies of the valley. Mrs. Lohrmann Wolf, matron of honor, will be gowned in daffodil vellow Alencon lace and net, made with a full skirt, short sleeves and a sweetheart neckline. She will wear matching ribbons in her hair and will carry a bouquet of blue delphinium and yellow roses. Miss Pauline Kottkamp and Mrs.
Out-of-town guests at the wedding and reception will include Mr. | and Mrs. Jacob Koontz, Warsaw; | Mr. and Mrs. Jess Miroff and Miss| Doris Punt, St. Louis. = = 2
Mullen-Obergfell Vows Exchanged
Miss Florence Obergfell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Obergfell, and Austin A. Mullen were married this morning in the St. Catherine of Sienna Church. The Rev. J. M.
Downey officiated at the double ring |
ceremony. The bride's gown was of white lace over satin, fashioned with a square neckline trimmed in seed pearls. Her long veil fell from a tiara of seed pearls and was caught at the sides with orange blossonis. She carried an arm bouquet of bride's roses, lilies of the valley and white larkspur. Mrs. Edward J. Obergfell, matron of honor and sister-in-law of the bride, was her only attendant. She wore pink silk net and carried Happy Day roses and delphinium with a tiara of sweetheart roses in her hair. Edward J. brother of the bride, was best man. Ushers included Harold Barkhau and Richard Davis. A breakfast at Cifaldi’s and a reception at the home of the bride's parents followed the wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Mullen left on a motor trip to New York and will be at home in Indianapolis after July 1. = = 5
Vascoe C. Woodard, ”e . Wilma Davis Are Wed Times Special SCOTTSBURG, Ind. June 10.— Mr. and Mrs. Edward Davis, Scotts- | burg, announce the marriage of their daughter, Wilma Henrietta, to Vascoe Cramer Woodard, Logansport, son of Mrs. Hallie Woodard, New Castle. The ceremony took place Sunday, May 28, at the First Presbyterian Church in Rochester. Mr. and Mrs. Harold IL. Rich, Terre Haute, were attendants. The couple is at home at
3536 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis. | = ”
Hargitt-Padgett Vows Taken at St. Patrick’s
Miss Virginia Padgett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Padgett, 823 Woodlawn Ave, and Fred R. Hargitt, son of Mrs. Rose Hargitt, 518 W. 20th St, were married this morning in St. Patrick’s Catholic Church.
Coats Will Paint
Obergfell, |
Edwin McCaffery will be bridesmaids. Their gowns will be like the matron of honor’s in hyacinth blue and they will carry arm bouquets of vellow roses. A. K. Ries will be best man and ushers will include Lohrmann Woif and Ned Pickering, brother of the bridegroom. Following the wedding, a reception for the families and a few guests will be held at the home of the bride's parents. The couple will be at home June 18 in Indianapolis. 2 = =
Roxie Mary Wood and R. H. Summers to Wed
Miss Roxie Mary Wood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus E. Wood, 634 W. 38th St., and Robert H. Summers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Summers, E. 73d St., will be married at 7:30 o'clock this evening in the Union Chapel Church. The Rev. J. Lemuel Johnson will officiate at the double ring service. Miss Victoria Montani, harpist, will play bridal airs. Mr. Wood will give his daughter in marriage. Her gown will be of white organdy, made with a square neckline, short puffed sleeves and a bouffant skirt and she will carry a bouquet of lilies of the valley and bride's roses. Her fingertip-length veil will be caught into a tiara of flowers. Miss Dorothy Tempest, the maid of honor, will wear aqua organdy fashioned like the bride's gown and she will carry Talisman roses. Wilbur Tyner will act as best man and ushers will be Clarence Wood and Donald Boyle. Both Mrs. Wood and Mrs, Summers will wear powder blue dresses and corsages of pink rosebuds. Following the ceremony, a reception will be held at the home of the bride's parents and the couple
| will leave on a short wedding trip.
They will live on E. 80th St. ” = =
Eileen Chamberlain, John T. Bolan to Wed
Miss Eileen Chamberlain, daughter of Mrs. Maureen Chamberlain, 525 N. Gray St, and John T. Bolan
{Jr., Cincinnati, son of Mr. and Mrs.
John T. Bolan, St. Louis, will be
married at 3 o'clock this afternoon
in the St. Philip Church rectory.
Neri Catholic
Summers-Flack Rite Is Set for 4:30 Today
Miss Edythe Flack, daughter of Mrs. Walter Flack, 524 Rochester Ave, and Philip Summers, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Summers, 3442 W. Michigan St., will be married at
Harrison Portrait Randolph Coats will leave tomorrow for Washington where he has been commissioned to do a portrait of Mrs. Caroline Scott Harrison, first president general of the D. A. R, from the original portrait by Daniel Huntington hanging in the White House. The original full length standing portrait was painted shortly after the inauguration of President Benjamin Harrison. When finshed, the picture will be presented by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution to the Benjamin Harrison Memorial Home in Indianapolis.
Holy Cross Unit to Meet
Members of the Holy Cross Unit of the National Council of Catholic Women will hold a business meeting Monday evening in the auditorium of the school. A social hour will follow.
4:30 o'clock this afternoon in the parsonage of the Memorial Baptist Church.
Hibben School’s Pageant Monday
The Hibben School's annual basket supper and children’s pageant will be held Monday at the school, 5237 Pleasant Run Parkway. Supper will be served at 6 p. m. followed by a program by the children. Games, songs, recitations and examples of study methods will be included on the program. Dances will be presented by Judith Morrow, Ann Ransdell, Jo Ann Meyer, Barbara Baer, Tricia Baker, Billy Johnson, Janet Schrader, Marilyn Hockenberry, Skipper Todd, Barbara Reese and Gloria Rubush. Ralph Lund, a deaf student, will talk on the origin of the Fourth of July.
Dorothea Blue Becomes Bride of Richard Cox at 7:30 Tonight.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Michael W. Lyons officiated at the wedding this morning of Miss Catherine Irma Gallagher, daughter of Mrs. Bernard A. Gallagher, to Carl J. Roesinger, son of William A. Roesinger, Gary, at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Irvington. Tall urns of white gladioli and ferns decorated the altars. Preceding the ceremony, Miss Victoria Montani, harpist, and Mrs. Margaret Fox Sifferlin, organist, played bridal music. The bride, who was given in marriage by her brother, J. Edward Gallagher, wore a white Chantilly lace and tulle gown fashioned with a square neckline and short puffed sleeves. The full skirt, with insets of lace, fell in a short train and her fingertip veil was bound with tiny bands of satin ribbon. She carried a white prayer book on which rested a white orchid with a shower of ribbon and smilax. Miss Virginia Arvin, maid of honor, wore a gown of peach blush made like the bride's. Her headdress was of peach moire ribbon fashioned over a delft blue background and she carried a colonial bouquet of ragged robin and shell pink rose- | buds. James F. Lynch was best man and ushers were George A. Roesinger and Paul B. Gallagher. Mrs. Gallagher wore a black sheer suit with white accessories and a shoulder corsage of white carnations. Following the ceremony, a breakfast was served for the wedding party and 30 guests at Cifaldi’'s. The couple left on an Eastern motor trip and will be at home after July 1 in the Pleasant View Apartments. The bride traveled in a blue sheer dressmaker suit with blue and white accessories. Out-of-town guests included the bridegroom's father, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Roesinger, Gary, and Mr. and Mrs. William A. Roesinger Jr. Muncie. = 2 ”
Cox-Blue Ceremony To Be Read Tonight
The Rev. O. A. Trinkle will officiate at the single ring wedding ceremony for Miss Dorothea Mae Blue, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Blue, and Richard L. Cox, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Cox, at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the Englewood Christian Church. The church will be decorated with palms, ferns and garden flowers. Miss Grace Creighton, organist, will play bridal music and Mrs. Thelma Morris will sing. The bride, who will be given in marriage by her father, will wear a gown of white satin made with a small round collar of lace and a lace yoke. The skirt falls into a semi train and she will wear a fingertiplength veil caught into a coronet of gardenias. Her bouquet will be of white roses. Miss Dorothy Frost, bridesmaid, will wear a dress of blue lace and net over satin with a bouquet of pink roses and blue delphinium. Mrs. Harold Springer, another bridesmaid, will be dressed in pink ‘satin with a iace bodice and jacket. Her bouquet will be like Miss Frost's. Harold Springer will act as best man and Robert and Roscoe Cox, brothers of the bridegroom, will be ushers. Following the ceremony, a reception will be held at the home of the bride's parents. After a short wedding trip, the couple will be at home in Indianapolis. 2 2 ®
Robert Riggins Weds Mary Morrison Today |
The wedding of Miss Mary E. Morrison and Robert Riggins will be held today in the First English! Lutheran Church. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Olin B. Morrison, 6139 Congress Ave. and Mr. Riggins is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Riggins, Odon.
Ruben A. Wilkins and Hazel Corbin to Wed
The marriage of Miss Hazel Corbin to Ruben A. Wilkins, son of Mrs. Gertrude Ulrey of New Palestine, will take place at 2 o'clock this afternoon in Greenfield. The bride is the daughter of Howard F. Corbin, 1133 W. 18th St.
Governor Proclaims Peace Prayer Day
Governor Townsend today has issued a proclamation designating tomorrow as Peace Prayer Sunday in Indiana. The proclamation followed an appeal sent by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The appeal deplored “the tragic conditions in many countries” and expressed the belief that “the people of Indiana and the United States are opposed to any war which is not in actual defense of our soil.”
JANE JORDAN SAYS—
Die JANE JORDAN-—I am 18
time last year I was going with a boy 20 years
old who was married but not living
went with him for about three months and then we split up. Although I was crazy about him I never
tried to win him back. The other night I met him aga
for a divorce and wants to go back with me. That was on Monday. Then on Wednesday I got a letter
from him telling me that he cared
than he ever did. He said he would try to make me love him again, for he had made a big mistake in let-
ting me go.
He says he has been around with girls and knows that he really cares for me. I am going steady with a fellow who is crazy about me but I like him only as a friend. The first man wants me to quit him. . . . My mother doesn’t want me to go with him because he has been married once, but he really didn’t want
to get married. He just married because his boy
to, and he took the crazy idea of living with his wire off and on. Do you think it all right for me to go back with him? I still like him but I don’t intend
for him to know it this time.
TROUBLESOME BROWN EYES,
Answer—I cannot see that you have much reason to
_ ely on this man’s word. I do not
years old. This, person who fails
with his wife. I
in. He has sued
more for me now
to; that he lives
his potentialities
friend dared him
about him is not
mean that every iY
failure in the second, for this is not true. mother objects to the man solely because he has been married before, her objection is not valid. Nevertheless, one failure is one mark against him. What you need to know is what traits in the man contributed to the failure. Wil: these same traits follow him into a second marriage and cause it to fail also? Enough people repeat their mistakes over and over again to give any woman cause when a man makes elaborate protestations of love to her before he has settled the problem of divorce from his first wife. I know practically nothing about your suitor. I know is that he married because someone dared him
he makes love to you at intervals, Nothing in the picture you present of him indicates stability or continuity in love. One hardly can be enthusiastic about
In my opinion it would be folly for you to turn down your other friends to devote yourself to this man before he has his divorce and hefore he proves his capacity to love one woman longer than a few months. As I say, I don’t know the man and can't speak with assurance. It is just that what I do know
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in his first marriage is doomed to If your
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with his wife at intervals; and that
as a husband.
very encouraging. JANE JORDAN.
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WEST SF MISSION
READY FOR BAPTIST BEGINNERS' PAGEANT
The worship center with its flowers and picture is the focal point for Beginners’ Department activities in the Firgt Baptist Church School. Seated before it is Mrs. Harry Uphaus, superintendent, who
part are Louette
U. B. Camp Here Launches
mer Parleys
State's Sum
the
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One of Indianapolis.
first of the summer conferences will open Monday in
Others by lakesides and in state parks are expected to draw many from the city during the coming weeks.
The Rev. J. Gordon Howard of Dayton, O. national director of Christian education and leadership training for the United Brethren Church, will be dean of the second annual White River Youth Camp and Ministerial Assembly at Indiana Central College Monday to Saturday. Boys and girls, high school pupils and young people and older, will mingle with pastors under the tall campus trees. They will eat in the college dining hall, sleep in the dormitories and hear lectures in the classrooms. Children under 12 will attend the vacation school in the University Heights United Brethren Church. The Rev. K. K. Merryman of Muncie will be camp director. A daily newspaper called “White River Ripples,” a fellowship dinner, banquets honoring various groups and a literature display are among the camp’s scheduled features. “Walking with Christ in Paths of Service” is the conference theme. Bishop H. H. Fout, senior bishop of the denomination, the Rev. Virgil G. Hunt, district superintendent, Dr. Roy H. Turley, conference education board president, President I. G. Good of the college, and Mrs. Willis H. Holiman, conference Women’s Missionary Society president, are local faculty members. Among guest speakers are the Rev. John Smart of Africa, Miss Bertha Rachel Palmer of Evanston, Ill, W. C. T. U. national alcohol education director, and Dr. Raymond L. Cortner, Wichita, Kas., pastor. ” 8 2
Presbyterian Youth
Have Two Camps
Young Hoosier Presbyterians will gather at Camp Kosciusko on Winona I.ake and on the Hanover College campus beginning June 18. There will be swimming, surfboating, horseback riding, picnics and other outdoor activities for boys 12 years of age and older at Camp Kosciusko, June 18 through July 2. Boy Scouts will work for merit badges under Stephen Baker, scoutmaster and New Castle High School athletic director. . Boys will witness pioneer ceremonies and attend forums on good citizenship and religious living. They will also plan the camp worship services and participate in camp government. Dr. Robert J. McLandress, Synodical secretary of Christian Education, is in charge of Camp Kosciusko. “World Christian Fellowship” will be the theme of the Hanover Young People’s Conference, June 18 to 25. Discussions and chapel services will look toward the meeting of the World Council of Christian Youth at Amsterdam in July. Some of the subjects to be dealt with by the high school and college age youth seminars and classes are “The Meaning of Christian Marriage,” “Our Presbyteriah Church,” “The Use of the Bible in Personal Problems,” “Earning and Using Money,” “Discovering My Vocation” and “Current Missions.’ A laboratory church school will be in session for practice teaching in the Hanover Presbyterian Church. Mrs. R. J. McLandress of Indianapolis will be dean of women and Dr. Alexander E. Sharp, dean. Dr. John B. Ferguson and Miss Eizabeth Taft, also from here, will be leaders. ” ” 2
Broadway Children To See Observatory
Educational excursions to a brick and tile factory and to the Goethe Link Observatory are planned for the Broadway Methodist Youth Camp at Bethany Park, Brooklyn, Ind., June 18 to 25. Primary and junior department children are invited to attend. The Rev. Elmer L. Harvey, Mrs. Harvey, Mrs. Jesse Gammon and Louis Candedo will conduct swimming, religious instruction and undirected play. s = =»
Baptists to Provide July 4 Substitute
A July 4th program which officials hope will be of sufficient interest to replace fireworks is planned for boys attending the Indiana Baptist Pioneer Camp June 25 to July 8. It is expected that about 838 boys ranging in age from about 9 to 18 will roam the surrounding woods of 40 acres, swim and wade in the lake and sleep in the floored tents of the camp. Among the routine activities are flag raising, tent inspection, hikes, moving pictures, song feats and
campfire. » “It is the desire of the staft to
lead each boy and girl into a deeper consciousness of God and the realization that the Christian life is an every-day happy experience,” the camp director says. Among the leaders are the Revs. Reuben Lindstrom, Franklin Crutchlow and William Breedlove, all three from Indianapolis. Others from the state are the Rev. Floyd Smith, registrar, and Revs. Blake Franklin, J. E. Seaholm, John Knight and
Wyman Hull. = ” 2
Northwest Indiana Methodists to Meet
Times Special BATTLE GROUND, Ind. June 10. —Bishop Titus Lowe will preside at the 88th annual session of the Northwest Indiana Conference of the Methodist Church here June 27 to July 2. This will be the first conference at which Bishop Lowe has presided since he was appointed resident bishop of the new Indianapolis area.
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Free Methodists Set Quadrennial Parley
Times Special WINONA LAKE, Ind, June 10.— Free Methodist Church ministers and laymen will meet here, in the
church’s national headquarters for y
their quadrennial conference for two weeks beginning Wednesday.
LOCAL BAPTISTS TO MAKE REPORTS
Dr. €. W. Atwater will represent the Baptist Ministers’ Council, a national organization of which he is president, at the Northern Baptist Convention in Los Angeles, June 20 to 25. Dr. T. J. Parsons; Indianapolis Baptist Association executive secretary, who is also chairman of the committee on relations of Northern Baptists with other Baptist groups, will give that committee's report at the conventicn. Others attending from here are Mrs. Parsons, Dr. L. C. Trent and Mrs. Trent and the Rev. George T. King.
EPWORTH SESSION SET
Miss Margaret Mitchell, new president, will preside at the annual officers’ conference of the Indianapolis District Epworth League Monday evening at the Capitol Avenue Methodist Church. About 350 officers representing 1000 Epworth League members are expected to attend.
SPEAKS TO LEAGUE
Robert Knapp of Balboa, Canal Zone, will address the Epworth League at the Central Avenue Methodist Church tomorrow at 6:30 p. m.
talks about tomorrow's pageant. Lucy Lea Barriger, in the little chair, will recite.
Others who will take and Lucille Wilson, seated on the
floor, and Scotty McDermet and John Barriger.
Bishop Ritter Shifts Priests
The assignment of 11 pastors and 26 other priests by the Most Rev. Joseph E. Ritter, bishop of the diocese of Indianapolis, has been announced at the chancery. They are effective June 24. : The Rev. Fr. Timothy Kavanaugh of Connersville was appointed diocesan consultor to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the Rev. Fr.
Francis Schaub.
Assignments of pastors follows: The Rev. Fr. Timothy Kavanaugh, from St. Gabriel, Connersville, to 8t. Mary, Rushv:lle; the Rev. Fr. Cornelius O. Boster, from St. John, Vincennes, to . , Connersville; the Rev. Fr. Francis from St. Bartholomew, Colum- , to St. John, Vincennes: the Rev. Fr. Jerome Pfau, 8. T. D., from Sacred Heart, Terre Haute, to St. Therese, Indianapolis; the Rev. Fr. James Moore, from St. Elizabeth, Cambridge City, to Sacred Heart, Terre Haute; the R Bennett, from St. Mary, Elizabeth, Cambridge City: Joseph Schaefer, from 8t. Brush, to St. Augustine. Leopold; Fr. William Fehlinger. fiom 8t. Therese, Indianapolis, to St. Rupert, Red Brush, Ti» Rev. Fr. Henry Ebnet, from 8t. Augustine of Leopold, to Ft. Branch new parish with residence at Haubstadt. e Rev. Fr. John A. Rodutskey, from St. Mary-of-the-Wood St. Michael, Bradford. The Rev. Fr. August Fichter was transferred from Holy THnity Church, Evansville to St. Mary's, Mitchell. Instructors and chaplains: Rev. Fr, Robert Gorman, Ph. D., irom Catholic University to St. Mary-of-the-Woods College. Rev. Fr. George Saum, from St. Boniface, Evansville, to St. Mary-of-the-Woods College. Rev. Fr. William McLaughlin, from 8t. Joan of Are, Indianapolis, to Catholic High School, Washington, Ind. Rev. Fr. Daniel Nolan, from Our ‘ady of Lourdes, Indianapolis, to St. Mary-of-the-Woods, as assistant chaplain, Rev. Fr. Thomas Finneran, superintendent of Cathedral High School, Indianapolis, residence changed to St. Thomas Aquinas, Indianapolis. Assistant pastors: Rev. Pr. James Hickey, from Catholic University to 8S. Peter and Cathedral; the Rev. Fr. Morand , from St. Vincent de Paul, Bed- , to Bt. Anthony, Indianapolis; Rev. Pr. John Lynch, from 8t. Mary, Rushville, to Assumption, Evansville; the Rev. r., Henry Bilz, from St. Boniface, Evansville, to Holy Trinity, Evansville; the Rev. Fr. Conrad Gohman, from St. Michael, Cannelton, to St. Boniface, Evansville; the Rev. Fr. Maurice DeJean, from 8t. Simon, Washington, to St. Joseph, Shelbyville (8t. Paul, Ind., mission). Newly ordained priests were appointed
as follows: Rev. Fr. Harry Hoover, to St. Joan of indianapolis; the Rev. Fr. Ronald Hostetter, to Our Lady of Lourdes, Indianapolis; the Rev. Fr. Edward MeLaughlin, to St. Therese, Indianapolis; ev. Fr. James Rogers, to Holy Name, Beech Grove; the Rev. Fr. Donald Coakley. to St. Patrick, Terre Haute (Seely= ville mission); Rev. Fr. Anthony Conway, to St. Anne, Terre Haute; the Rev. Fr. Ambrose Schneider, to St. Boniface, Evansville; the Rev. Fr. Edward Finnerty, to St. Mary, Rushville; the Rev. Pr. William Engbers. to St. Michael, Canneiton; the Rev. Fr. William Dorraugh. to Sacred Heart, Clinton; the Rev. Fr. Louis Marchino, to St. Celestine, Celestine; the Rev. Fr. Malo Topmiller, to St. Simon, Washington; the Rev. Fr. Paul Utz, to St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEAD KNOWN HERE
Indianapolis Christian Scientists who attended the annual meeting of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ Scientist, in Boston this week, recalled today that the new head of the church, George Shaw Cook, C. S. B, has lectured here. Reports at the conference showed that 83 nurses and 688 practitioners were officially recognized during the year just ending; and that in many cases “church edifices and public auditoriums, heretofore adequate in size, have been unable to meet the demands for seats the last year.”
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Text: | Corinthians 1:1:3, 10, 11;
By WILLIAM E.
Editor of
4:14.21; | Thessalonians 5:12-15
GILROY, D. D.
Advance
E are accustomed to think of the early church as a church of pure
and undefiled religion,
and we are apt to think that if we could
only get back to the days of primitive Christianity, all the defects and
abuses in the church of today
would disappear.
The fact is that the more carefully we look into the records of the
New Testament, the more conscious
we are of the fact that even in the
church of the generation immediately succeeding the Master, things were
by no means ideal. We have seen how, even in the days of the Master Himself and in His very presence, dissension arose among the disciples and disputes as to who among them should be the greater and concerning other matters, which in their very nature belied the teaching and example of’ the Christ whom they had left all to follow. The troubles that arose in the early church were somewhat of the same kind and from the same causes. Self-seeking and jealous striving create discord and difficulty wherever they appear—in home life, in public life, and even in the religious life of the church. 8 ” 8 NE should remember that the chureh, if it be divine in its origin, is human in its membership and its composition. We should not judge the church by its human frailty, but rather by the high purvose that brought it into being, God’s will concerning it, and the character and attainments of those who have most truly fulfilled its purpose and attained in their lives harmony with God's will, We must remember that if Paul's epistles indicate dissensions and
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troubles in the early church, and the letters to the churches in the Book of Revelation show lamentable aspects of moral lapse, there were within the church those who so conspicuously exemplified its high teachings and whose lives so far outshone the sordidness and failure of others that men were wont to remark in that day, “See how these Christians love one another!” ” 8 =
IF is interesting to see the way in which Paul met these situations of moral slackness and trouble in the churches that he had founded. He did not in any respect lower the ideal. He held these early Christians up to the full will and purpose of God as manifest in the church; but he was no rigorous disciplinarian, utterly lacking in any consciousness of human frailty or in sympathy for the erring and fallen. There is a note of tenderness and compassion even in his severe est reproofs, and better than all this, in their selfish bickerings, he called upon these early Christians to witness the unselfishness of his own life,
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TO BE ENLAR
45 Churches
in Marion County.
the new mission until June 19. P. A. Wood is building committee chairman. H. B. Holloway is to be in charge of finances; George Katzenberger, construction, and E. A. Dosch, who is also committee secretary, publicity. Mr. Wood was first association president and first mission superintendent. The mission was opened in 1910 in a storeroom. The attendance was 26. It soon outgrew these first quarters, moved to its present roomier, shingle structure, weathered the flood of 1913 and continued to grow until the present average attendance of 300 makes a new building necessary. = 2 »
First Baptist School Holds Promotion Day
A play and a pageant both new and written by Miss Grace McGavran of Indianapolis will be among many programs celebrating Children’s Day tomorrow. “That Joy May Be,” the play, will be presented by the First Baptist Church school and “Brothers All,” the pageant, by the school of the Downey Avenue Christian Church, of which Miss McGavran is a memsber. Morning worship and the school period will be merged in one service from 9:30 to 11:30 a. m. in the First
t.| Baptist Church tomorrow.
In addition to the play directed by Mrs. Esther Arnold, school dramatics supervisor, there will be vromotions, dedication of Cradle Roll babies, a talk on “The Responsibility
‘lof the Church to Its Children,” by i| Dr. Carleton W. Atwater, pastor, Imusic by the
orchestra, Dr. Herbert
school hymns and devotions.
a | F. Thurston, general superintendent,
will preside.
Tomorrow's program marks the culmination of four years’ use of the Westminster (Presbyterian) Graded Lesson materials in the Baptist school. This has been cited as an example of interdenominational co-operation by school officials.
Activities in the beginners’ department, which enrolls children 4 to 5 years of age, serve as an illustration of the Westminster procedure. As children enter they are greeted cordially by name, not assighed an immediate task but permitted within reason to select one. Some draw with crayons, others look at pictures or build with blocks. A homelike atmosphere prevails with everybody occupied and at ease. At the sound of a familiar tune played on the piano or the hint that a story is about to be told or a dramatization to go forward, almost without exception the children voluntarily drop their separate occupations and join the group on the rug to sing, listen or “act.”
Other Children’s Day Services Scheduled
“The play ‘That Joy May Be’) said Miss McGavran, “is designed to show that Christian teaching has had a part to play in the training of children since the earliest times and that little children love the stories of Jesus and find in them a beginning of their desire to be like Him.” Miss Mary Brown will direct the pageant, “Brothers All,” at the combined church and school service in the Downey Avenue Christian Church tomorrow morning. It provides a part for every department in the school and is based on the World Missions Interest Course. Another pageant, “The Candles of Youth,” by Verna Whitney, will be given at the First Evangelical Church at 9:45 tomorrow morning. The Girls’ Chorus and newly formed Juior Choir will furnish the music for the Children's Day program in the Bethany Lutheran Church tomorrow at 10 a. m. There is to be a specially prepared worship service of songs and responses for the Children’s Day observance in the Grace Methodist Church at 9:30 a. m. tomorrow.
All departments of the Immanuel Evangelical and Reformed Church School will march in procession into the main avditorium for the Children’s Day program tomorrow. There is to be a varied program of recitations, songs, talks and the play, “By the Shores of Galilee.”
“The Man, Two Men and a Youth” is the title of Dr. John B. Ferguson's Children’s Day sermon at the Irvington Presbyterian Church tomorrow at 10:30 a. m. Children and pastor will share honors in the service in the University Park Christian Church tomorrow from 9:30 to 11:30 a. m. with the children in charge during the first hour and Dr. S. Grundy Fisher, the second. Children of the First Friends congregation will start a junior church tomorrow at 9:30 a. m. At the same time, the unified service for adults and young people will be held in the church auditorium.
Dr. E. G. Homrighausen, former pastor of the Carrollton Avenue Evangelical and Reformed Church, now a Princeton Theological Seminary professor, will be a guest at the church’s 34th anniversary service and luncheon tomorrow. Dr. and Mrs. Homrighausen are en route to Madison where he is to lecture before the Indiana Council of
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Grace McGavran’s Plays Highlight Children’s Day
Ladywood School to Be Scene of Laywomen's Retreat Next Week-End; Two Monsignori To .Be Consecrated Tomorrow.
By EMMA RIVERS MILNER
A new building is to be erected to supplement the West Side Mission, religious social service project of the 45 Disciples of Christ church schools
The 45 schools are organized as the Marion County Christian Church School Association. The association will receive construction bids for
Temple Youth Leader To Present Paper
Meyer Efroymson, former Young People’s League president of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, is in New York attending the annual executive meeting of the Natioral Federation of Temple Youth.
Mr. Efroymson will read a paper on “Social Justice.” Dr. Morris M. Feuerlicht and Rabbi Maurice Goldblatt, Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation rabbi and assistant rabbi, will go to the annual six-day meeting of the Central Conference of American Rabbis in Washington, D. C., Tuesday. Rabbi Goldblatt will take part in roundtable discussion on “Ways of Forti= fying Religious Life Through Ceremonial Practice.”
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Dr. C. B. Blakeslee, retiring president of the board of All Souls Unitarian Church, will announce the new president for 1939-1940 at the meeting Tuesday at 7 p. m. Final reports will be given, a church budget voted on, three new trustees installed and recognition given retiring ones. Dr. Blakeslee and Miss Charlotte Lieber are in charge of meeting arrangements,
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Oxford Group Motto Is Sermon Subject
“Moral Rearmament,” the theme of Oxford Group meetings all over the world, is to be the subject of the Rev. George S. Southworth's sermon at the Advent Episcopal Church tomorrow at 11 a. m.,
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Joseph Lautner, the Butler University Choral Ensemble director, will sing a solo and direct the ensemble in a program of vocal and instrumental numbers at the Lyndhurst Baptist Church tomorrow at 7:45 p. m. The Rev. C. H. Scheick will be in charge of the service.
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Catholic Retreat To Open Friday
Forty Catholic laywomen will meet for a retreat at Ladywood School Friday through Sunday. The Very Rev. Thomas J. Donnelly, S. J., spiritual director of the University of West Baden, will be retreat master and Miss Bettie Wolfe is chairman. The retreat is sponsored by the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae under the direction of Dr. John J. Doyle, Marian College chaplain, as moderator. The school chapel, once the ballroom of the mansion it occupies, will be the setting of religious services. Retreatants will see “Our Lady's Garden” where the statue of the Virgin Mary is crowned in May, eat their meals in the student dining room and walk in meditation over the wooded grounds and along
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Five Will Get Papal Honors Tomorrow
Papal honors will be bestowed on three priests and two laymen of the Indianapolis Catholic Diocese tomorrow. The ceremonies will be in SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral preceding
the 11 o'clock mass at which the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Raymond R. Noll, diocesan vicar general and cathedral rector, will pontificate. Msgr. Noll will be entitled to pontificate for the first time because at the ceremonies preceding mass he will be elevated to the rank of prothonotary apostolic. The other two honored priests are the Very Rev. Henry FPF. Dugan, diocesan chancellor, and the Rev. Fr. Peter Killian, Holy Name Church pastor. Each will be vested with the purple of monsignor. Elmer Steffen, diocesan director of church music, will at the same time be made a Knight of St. Gregory and Miss Teresa O'Connor, fore mer resident of the cathedral parish, will be presented with the Medal pro Ecclesia et Pontifice. All five persons, together with the Very Rev. John Becher of Vine cennes, who was also named a monsignor, received their honors from His Holiness Pope Pius XII several weeks ago when the Most Rev. Joseph E. Ritter, bishop of the Diocese of Indianapolis, was accorded an audience with the Holy Father. Bishop Ritter will preside at the investitures and presentation tomorrow when the Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus will form his honor guard. He also will deliver the sermon at the pontifical mass. The musical program for the mass will include singing by the Clergy Choir, the Schola Cantorum and the cathedral choristers. The Rev. Fr. Edwin Sahm will direct the chant parts and Humbert Pagani, the polyphony. The Rev. Fr. Stephen Tuis, O. S. B, of St. Meinrad Abbey, and Miss Helen Shepherd will be organists.
“Write Your Own Ten Commandments”
Sunday at 11 by E. Burdette Backus, Minister
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