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Saturday, June 3, 19S0 Akron teaeon Journal Quartet Heard At Church Of God ft John Melin Visits His Parents MEET YOIR PASTOR News Of Cold War Vital To Rev. Pruett By JOE BIVEXBROD Bums jMraU Ckarrfc Writ AN AKRON MINISTER is taking more than ordinary Interest in the news from the cold war front of Indo-Cbins. The Kev. W. Alfred Pruett was a missionary there for 18 years, ministering among the Annamese people, now called the Vietnamese.

The war forced Rev. Mr. Pruett and bis family to come home BAPTISM. MISIC PICNIC Churches Observe Children's Day Rites SPECIAL CHILDREN'S DAY programs will be held la many Akron district churches Sunday. Other churches will observe th day on Juna 11.

Recognition of the boys and girls will be made at both the Sunday school sessions and the church worship services. In the West Congregational Church, children will be bapfoed, Bibles will be presented to the third grade graduates and at- being released from Japanese- v-v hi i The Echoes of Peace Quartet of Anderson College, Anderson, will sing at the 10:30 a. m. service Sunday in the McKinley Av. Church of God.

From left to right are Paul Clausen, baritone; Paul Jenkins, first tenor; Charles Wood, second tenor, and Ernie Gross, bass. The group sings regularly over a national radio network. The Sunday morning worship service will be in charge of the Rev. Elmer Rich, pastor. Trinity Sunday Plans Are Set By Lutherans THE OBSERVANCE OF Trinity Sunday, the first Sunday after Pentecost, will be held during the worship services tomorrow morning in Lutheran Churches here.

It was introduced into the church calendar in 1305, and concludes the festival part of the church year. Trinity Sunday was not universally celebrated until 1334, Trinity presents a resume of the work of the Triune God. REvfw! ALFRED PRUETT Choir Director Percy T. Kirby, 339 Pioneer has been the choir director of the S. Arlington Methodist Church for six years and is well known in musical groups here.

He formerly held similar posts at the Firestone Park Church of Christ and the Goodyear Heights Methodist Church, of which he is a member. In his present position, he directs a choir of 30 mixed voices. He has worked and sang many years with the Akron Civic Chorus and the Goodyear Chorus. Kirby is employed at the Goodyear Tire Rubber Co. Bach Music To Be Sung Francis M.

Johnson, minister of music, will direct the chancel choir of the First Congregational Church at the Sunday morning eervice. The choir will sing "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," by J. S. Bach, and "Jerusalem," by C. H.

H. Berry. Dr. Paul S. Kershner will preach the sermon.

Edward Bullock will sing the offertory solo in the Trinity Evangelical and Reformed Church at the a. m. service, and the chancel choir, directed by George Yakim, will sing "The Love of God." by Mozart. The minister Is the Rev. William Nelson.

viVi 1 to the United States in 1941 after dominated Indo-China. They returned aboard the famous Gripsholm and the Asaina Maru at the time of the diplomatic exchange of nationals between the united States and Japan. He was born in Atlanta, Ga but his many years in foreign coun tries and the knowledge of several different languages have enriched his speech so that you'd never guess he was a Southerner. Converted at the age of 17, Pruett soon felt the call to the ministry, and two years later began his studies at the Missionary Training Institute of Nyack, N. V.

Following his graduation from that school in 1922, he entered the pastorate of Ensley, and then received an appointment to go to French Indo-China as a missionary under the Christian and Missionary Alliance. The appointment required him first to go to France -to study the French language. He later studied at the University of Grenoble and at the Alliance Francaise, obtaining his superior diploma. PRUETT then went to Indo-China where his ministry extended to many towns and villages throughout the country. As he became more proficient in the language, he baptized hundreds of converts, established and built churches, edited a Bible magazine in Annamese, conducted Bible schools and worked with the Committee on the Revision of the Annamese Bible.

Ordained to the ministry In Tourane, Annam, Indo-China, Rev. Mr. Pruett was joined by his fiance, Faith Richards, and they were married In the French Protestant Church In Saigon. Four sons were born to the Pruetts during their stay in Indo-China. They are.

William, Edward, Harold and Richard. William and Edward have been graduated from Wheaton College, Wheaton, 111. Harold Is a student at the University of Akron, and Richard has just completed his junior year at Garfield High School. LESS THAN two years after returning to the United States, Rev. Mr.

Pruett entered the service, and was sent overseas, serving in ceyion, inaia and China. For a time, he was an acting chaplain. At the end of the war, the Pruetts decided it was impossible to resume their missionary work. The Annamese had been under French control for more than a century, and missionary work there has been seriously hampered and cur tailed since the war. So the Pruetts came to Akron in March, 1947.

The ministry keeps the pastor too busy to follow any of his favorite sports, or to hunt and fish. He says, however, he is prin cipally interested in being a "fish' er of men" for his Lord and Mas ter. Among his extra-curricula work is teaching at the Akron Bible Institute. The Rev. George C.

Wagner, pastor, will conduct the special Trinity service in the St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church at 10:15 a. m. THE CHOIR will sing "Sanc-tus." by Gounod, and the Rev. Ralph Hershberger, acting assistant pastor, will preach the sermon on "Seeking Nicodemus Experiences the Trinity." The service also includes the serving of Holy Communion.

The monthly meeting of the Young Married Lutherans Club will be held at 7:45 p. m. in the church. Charles Saylor is chairman, and Mrs. Henry Schmelzer, secretary.

A special service also will be held at five services which have tendance awards will be made. The classes will have their work on exhibit, and the special music will be sung by the youth choir, directed by Darrel Witters. The church school ia at 9:30, and the worship at 10:45. The Kev. Harry Nicholson, pastor, will conduct the sen-ice.

THK ALL CiTRCH picnic will be held from 3 to 9 p. m. Sunday at Happy Days Camp In Metropolitan Tark. The program Includes games, contests and a family basket picnic. Members of the social committee are Mr.

and Mrs. E. P. Long, co-chairmen: John Berg, R. Earl Ellis, Mrs.

Thomas Stevens, Mrs. Harry Werner William Seid- ler and John Kleffman. The Children's Day programs In the High St Church of Christ will be at 9:30 and 10:45 also, with special music by the three children's choirs, directed by David E. KemppeL The youngest choir, the angelus choir, will sing "Gifts of God," by Gardner and Jewltt; the carol choir, "Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me," by Bainbridge and Cobern, and the chapel choir, "Teach Me, Lord," by Attwood. The soloist will be Shelby Davis, and Dr.

Franklin Minck, the pastor, will conduct the service and preach the sermon. THE S. ARLINGTON ST. Evangelical United Brethren Church will hold a combined service, beginning at 9:30. The children will then reassemble at 10 in the main auditorium to present a program of recitations, exercises and music.

There also will be baptism of children by the pastor, the Rev. M. A. Wagner. The Sunday eve ning services are being changed from 7:30 to 8 for the Summer.

Dr. O. W. Ilaulman, pastor of the flrace Evangelical and Reformed Church, will conduct Ihe baptism rite for children during the 10:30 service Sunday morning. Both the junior and senior choirs will aing under the direction of Beatrice Sprague for the Children Day service in the First Uni-versalist Church at 10:45 a.

m. There also will be a service of Christening and dedication of children by the minister, Dr. Lawrence Wesley Abbott. The North Hill Church of Christ will hold a combination Children's TJay and church service, conducted by the pastor, the Rev. A.

W. Van Dervort. There will be a Bible srhool assembly at 9:15, children's p-ogram at 9:45 and worship, meditation and communion at 10:30. In the Cathedral of the Blessed ther Theodore received his A. B.

degree, will preach the sermon. A reception will be held in the St. Bernard Parish Hall at 4 p. m. Sunday, followed by solemn benediction at 7.

Father Theodore was graduated from South High School in 1940, and started his study for the priesthood In St. Francis Seminary. He will go to Rome soon to continue his studies toward a doctorate in philosophy, and during the summers will continue hia work in fine arts in Florence, Italy. Rev. Brazil Speaker At Bethel Baptist The Rev.

Kacem L. Brazil, formerly of Akron, will be the guest speaker at a series of special serv-Ives and meetings in the Bethel Baptist Church, 371 Robert starting Sunday. The Sunday service will be at 3 p. and meetings will be held each night next week at 7:30 p. m.

Mrs. Bernire Klrkland Is captain of Club 16 of the congregation, which is sponsoring Rev. Mr. Brazil's visit here. The son of Mr.

and Mrs. Mathew Brazil. 509 Crouse he has held pastorates in Alliance and Elyria, and now is stationed in Richmond, Va. He is a graduate of the Virginia Union University of Richmond, and the Union Theological Seminary of New York, and a past president of the Northern Ohio Baptist Young People's Convention. Rev.

Mr. Brazil also is the author of four books on religion and is frequently on the radio. St. PauVs There will be two services of Holy Communion in St. Paul's Episcopal Church Sunday morn-ing, at 8 and 11.

The Rev. George H. Jones, associate rector, will give the sermon at the second service. Presbyterian Mrs. Gertrude MacGregor will sing a contralto solo, "The Living God," by O'Hara, at the Sunday morning service in the First Presbyterian Church.

The minister, Dr. Paul L. McKay, will preach the sermon. Dr. And Mrs.

Hennessey Are Married 25 Years A SPECIAL RECOGNITION service marking the 25th wedding anniversary of the minister of the Miller Av. Evangelical and Reformed Church and his wife will be held Sunday. All the couples who have been married during the ministry here of Dr. Joseph B. Hennessey have been invited to attend the 10:30 service and will be given recognition.

Missionaries Return To W. Africa The Rev. and Mrs. Harry M. Wright will sail Wednesday from New Orleans, to return to French West Africa, where they have been missionaries since 1915.

During their furlough here, they have lived at 2025 Fifth Cuyahoga Falls. The home will be occupied for the next year by the Rev. and Mrs. Francis McKinney, who arrived recently. Mrs.

Wright and Rev. Mr. Mc Kinney are sister and brother and their father was the late Rev. C. A.

McKinney, also a missionary to Africa. Rev. Mr. and Mrs. McKinney have been missionaries since 1928.

They belong to the Locust St. Church of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. McKinney UB Honors Graduates Young people of Calvary Evangelical United Brethren Church who are graduating from high school will be honored at the 10:30 worship service Sunday morning. Each of them will be given a gift from the church by Orville B. Spencer, superintendent of the Sunday school.

Dr. C. L. Allen, the pastor, will speak on "Getting Acquainted With Jesus." There will be no Sunday evening worship because of the baccalaureate service of South High School, at which Dr. Allen will give the sermon.

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It is called the Festival of Holy Trinity, the name day of the local congregation. The meditation at each service will be on "The Presence." Members of the 1950 confirmation class will receive their first communion at the 10:30 service, with Dr. Fred C. Wiegman, senior pastor, in charge. The Rev.

Clarence Melin, pastor of Bethany Evangelical Lutheran Church, will preach on "The Living Relationship" at the Trinity Sunday service there. There also will be an appeal for the Lutheran Service Society of Northeastern Ohio. the former Times-Press, Dr. Hennessey has been pastor of the church since 1933, the longest pas torate in tne congregation's his tory. He Is an active Mason, a major In the Ohio Slate Guard Reserve and belongs to other military units.

The Hennesaeys have three chil dren. In addition to Joseph they are Mrs. Harold Guthrie and Albert Luther. The residence is at 77 W. Miller av.

On Sunday evening, Dr. Hennessey and the Rev. Herbert Wolfe, pastor of the Trinity Evangelical and Ketormed Church of Manches' ter, will exchange pulpits. Dr. Cox Talks Dr.

Alva I. Cox, executive sec retary of the board of education or the North-East Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church, will be the guest speaker in Grace Methodist Church Sunday morning at 10:30. The Rev. J. A.

Mclnturff is the pastor. rfs i l-COAT HAT lr Mfsl John Melin. who has Just completed his first year at the Au-gustana Theological Seminary. kock island. 111., is spending a brief visit with his parents, the Rev.

and Mrs. Clarence Melin, S37 Carroll st. For the summer, he has been assigned to the temporary pastorship of the First Lutheran John Melin Church of Mayville, N. on Lake Chautauqua. Born in Galeshurg, 111., Melin was graduated from East High School and received his A.B.

degree from the University of Akron in 1949. He expects to finish his seminary work in 1953. His father. Rev. Mr.

Melin, Is pastor of Bethany Evangelical Lutheran Church, and leaves Sunday for Washington, D. to attend the 91st annual convention of the August ana Lutheran Church, of which the local church Is a member. He will be accompanied by John Carlson of Stow, lay delegate to the convention, which will continue through June 11. The Rev. Caleb E.

Shaleen, who was pastor of Bethany Church from 1906 to 1911, is one of six ministers who will be honored in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of their ordination. He now lives in Center City, Minn. The Augustana Lutheran Church is the fifth largest Lutheran body in the United States and Canada, and one of eight church organizations comprising the United Lutheran Council. It has a baptized membership of 444,633, and maintains headquarters in Minneapolis, Minn. Banquet Pays Rev.

Suivalski Honor Sunday FATHER SUWALSKI A celebration in honor of the golden jubilee of the Rev. Anthony J. Suwalskl, veteran pastor of St. Hedwig Catholic Farish, will be held Sunday. Father Suwalskl will offer a solemn high mass of thanksgiving in St.

Hedwig Church at 11 a. and will he the guest of honor at a testimonial banquet In the Mayflower Hotel at 5 p. m. He is a native of Poland, was ordained a priest in 1900, and has been pastor of the local parish 21 years. Many dignitaries of the Cleveland Diocese are expected to attend the Sunday program.

Heading the committee on arrangements are Anthony E. Leone, chairman; and Eugene Wysocki and Mrs. Steve Czarnecki, co-chairmen. West Baptist Members of the new West Hill Baptist Church will conduct a religious census in the Schumacher School district following a meeting in the school at 2 p. m.

John Taylor, a licensed preacher and member of the Millheim Baptist Church, will be the guest speaker at the Sunday worship services. Conducting Business la Out Office Rev. T. E. Bradoiver Celebrates First Mass THE REV.

THEODORE E. BRADOWER will celebrate his first solemn mass at 12 o'clock noon Sunday in the St. Bernard Catholic Church, his home parish. A priest of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Pen 1 Sl iWr I UJr Dr.

Dallas F. Billington I Pastor and Founder SHOULD CATHOLICS and I I PROTESTANTS MARRY? 1 1 'j I The special music will be by the youth choir, directed by Joseph Hennessey son of Dr. and Mrs. Hennessey, who ia studying for the ministry. The choir will sing "Bless This House." THE SOLOIST will be Joseph Smith, minister of music of the Miller Av.

Church. Dr. Hennessey's sermon will be on "Christian Conduct in Marriage." A former rubberworker and circulation department employe of Series Opened By Dr. Lowe Dr. Marmion L.

Lowe of Bing-hampton, N. will open a series of special meetings Sunday in connection with a Summer Bible con ference of the Grace Baptist Church. The Sunday service will be at 11 a. m. Well known as a Bible teacher and conference speaker, Dr.

Lowe will conduct meetings each night at 7:30, through June 11. A youth rally, sponsored by the Youth Fellowship of the Grace Church, will be held June 10. The musical program will be In charge of Michael Tell The Rev. George Abdallah is pastor of church, 1304 Atwood av. AM To 3 PM BROADWAY.

WW ance, he was ordained on May 20 Sacrament, Altoona, Pa. Formerly known as Jack Brad-ower, he will be known simply as Father Theodore, T. O. R. He is the son of John A.

and the late Mrs. Bradower, and the nephew of Margaret Frey, 653 Sumner with whom he has been making his home. FOR THE Sunday mass, the Rev. Joseph A. Lembach, formerly assistant at St.

Bernard Church and now pastor of the St. Peter Parish, Loudonville, will be the assistant priest. The Rev. Edward A. Wolf, administrator of St.

Bernard Church, will be deacon; the Rev. Wilfred J. SIsk, T. O. of St.

Francis Monastery, Altoona, subdea-con; Paul Koerber, master of ceremonies, and Ralph Vollmer, thurl-fer. The Very Rev. Adrian J. M. Veigle, T.

O. president of St. Francis College, from which Fa- nasiome Plans Dinner A celebration dinner observing the breaking of ground for the new Beth El Synagogue has been set for June 2S in the Mayflower Hotel. The speaker will be Raboi Irving Lehrman of Miami Beach, and there will be a formal installation of Rabbi Solomon I Mose-son, new rabbi of the Beth El Congregation, and the new officers. Louis Marks is president of the congregation, and Leo Jacobson is chairman of the celebration committee.

The building is under construction at S. Hawkins av. and the extension of Sunset View dr. The congregation is now worshiping In the Akron Jewish Center. 4-HOUR i SERVICE DR.

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BILLINGTON YOUR FAMILY TO SECURITY Steering trie destiny of a family is much like driving a car. Careful steering along the right road can bring you quickly and comfortably to any desired destina-tion. Carelessness, on the other hand, can put the family fortunes in a ditch. First stop on the road to security is the opening of a savings account at the Citizens Savings and Loan Company. Mark 10:9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

The recent ruling that has been passed by the Catholic church concerning marriage causes me to answer in my Sunday night message at 7:30 P. M. I assure you this will be a friendly message toward the Catholic people and a message that every Catholic should hear from the Holy Bible. Every Protestant should hear this message also. I will answer the question pertaining to childrenwho should raise them? what teaching they should have what age they ought to be placed In the church or to place themselves In the church? If you miss Sunday night's message at 7:30 P.

M. you will always wonder what God has to aay about Catholics and Protestants marrying. This may be the answer to many a couple already married and many who are planning to get married. Dr. Billlngton promises this will be a daring, yet tender, message to both parties.

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