Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 7

TTJE STATE JOURNAL Sept. 18, 1965 A-7 Lansing, Michigan National School Guessing Game New Youth Series Set For Season Another series of fortnightlj rallies will be launched by Great Confusion on Religion Continues Catholic Education Classes Set A 13-week adult education program is planned by the Confraternity t' L.ristian Doctrine of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lansing, open to all interested persons. Courses in theology, education, By United Press International There is still a lot of confu er Lansing Youth for Christ at 7:30 p.m. today in Dwight Rich Junior High School auditorium Rev. II Claries Roost, direc sion among school officials and parents about just what the Supreme Court forbade in its famous "prayer cases" of 1962 and 1963.

A survey of 16,000 principals earlier this year showed that about one-fourth of the nation's tor, said the events will be held the first and third Saturdays of them or patriotic hymns such as America which have religious themes. The court not only said the aforementioned things may be done in public schools; it strongly suggested that they should be done. However, one state superintendent of education told UPI, "Frankly, most teachers are scared to death to do anything with religion." The American Association of School Administrators (AASA), which represents most of the nation's public school superintendents, is trying to overcome this fear. It has given its own strong official endorsement to teaching about religion in public schools, and it is now trying to find a public-spirited foundation to underwrite the cost of developing good professional curriculum materials for courses in comparative religion, history of religion and the Bible as literature. each month at the school.

history, sociology and speech Challenge of a New will be offered at Gabriels High high schools were continuing to! Year" will be the theme of tonight's program to be presented School from 8 to 10 p.m. each hold precisely the kind of classroom religious observance the court found unconstitutional. Thursday, beginning next week by the staff. Plans for the com A class in liturgy is scheduled ing months will be outlined. Music for the opening rally On the other hand, many pub- fit St.

John Student Center, East Lansing from to 9 p.m. on will be by the Chantones, teen lie schools have gone far be yond anything the court re A A age choral ensemble directed by Gordon Wright, Roger Perkins, Wednesdays, beginning Oct. 6. Priests in the Lansing Deanery Lifeline director for Youth for quired in banning every reference to religion. Some have even removed Bibles from library shelves.

will teach the courses, most of Christ, and Tim Tow-nsend, ac which may be taken for college cordionist from Spring Arbor credit, according to the Contra mi -4 i ternity of Christian Doctrine of me siari ui a new senuui ierai ic trnH timo lief nnna rrn in College. Youth for Christ is an interde nominational organization seek fice. 4i i. i i Some of the courses will be offered in Catholic schools in ing to encourage today's young people to make Christian living a vital part of their lives, the 1 Owosso, Howell, Mason and St. Johns.

Rev. Mr. Roost said. Registration may be made by A me specuic acuviues wnicn me court ruled out and those which it permitted and even encouraged. In the Engel vs.

Vitale case of 1962, the court held that it is unconstitutional for a public school to require the recitation of an official non-sectarian prayer as part of a classroom religious exercise. The following year, in Abingdon School District Vs. Schempp, Plan Annual Novena at St. Therese I Calling or writing the Contra ternity of Christian Doctrine of fice, Box 716. Church Women Plan Institute On Missions the court said that a public The annual Novena in honor school may not require the reading of a portion of the Bible or of the parish's patron saint will 1 begin at St.

Therese Roman United Church Women of Greater Lansing will hold their annual Mission Institute Thurs Catholic Church Saturday, Sept. the recitation of the Lord's Prayer as part of a classroom religious exercise. That is all that the court has forbidden public schools to do. 25, and end Sunday, Oct. 3.

Rev. Aurele Doucette, a Car melite priest, will conduct the The justices went out of then- Novena. There will be devotions CHURCH SOLD Three Lansing churchmen of Bethlehem Temple Church, which purview a copy of The State Journal published chased the building; Rev. Richard H. Beckett, 48 years ago.

It was one of several items found minister of the Methodist Church, and Ray-in a copper box when the cornerstone of the mond J. Smith, chairman of the church's First Methodist Church was removed Friday, board of trustees. (State Journal Photo) Left to right are: Rev. Sylvester Winston, pas- Yields First Methodist Memorabilia HERE THIS WEEKEND The Crystalaires Quartet of Crystal (above) is one of two vocal groups to be featured in a "gospel sing" at 7:30 o'clock tonight at South Church of the Nazarene, 401 W. Holmes Road.

Also appearing will be the Gospel Messengers Quartet of Findlay, Ohio. The Crystalaires, left to right, are: Harold Sanders, manager and baritone; Wil-lard Wilson, bass; Dale Signs, first tenor; Fred Williams, pianist; and Tedd Watts, second tenor. The group also will sing Sunday at the church, during the 9:45 a.m. Sunday School, in worship services at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., and at the youth service at 6 p.m.

with benediction at 2:30 p.m. each day, and Novena prayers day at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 549 E. Mt. Hope Ave. The theme: "Mission: The Christian's Calling," will be discussed at the 9:30 a.m.

session by Rev. Hanker Harris, associa-ate director of the Lansing Area Council of Churches, and Robert J. Rentschler, vice president of the council. Dr. Jar McKee, professor of anthropology and sociology at Michigan State University, will with Mass and sermon at 7:30 p.m.

A special blessing with the way to state that there is no constitutional objection to the following school activities: Use of the Bible as a reference work for teaching secular subjects. Study of the Bible for its literary and historic qualities. bjective instruction in relics will be offered after every devotion. These relics are por Cornerstone Removed, Replaced The cornerstone of the large to a few neighbors in the log EAST LANSING UNITY CENTEF 425 W. Grand River Offics ED 2-1932 Home: ED 2-3833 11:00 A.M.

Sunday School 11:00 A.M. "SPIRITUAL GIFTS" Wed. Evs. 7:00 Prayer Service 7:30 Group Study ROXIE G. MILLER, Minister Consultations Welcome Affiliated with Unity School of Christianity, Lee's Summit, Mo.

tions of the bones of St. Therese. Rev. William J. Koenigsknecht, pastor, said the public is invited to attend the services.

"The general intention of the Novena," he explained, "is gratitude for the many blessings God has bestowed on our parish and the success of the Second Vatican Council." i cabin of Jacob Page on Wrall square church at 500 E. Grand comparative religion or the his-i tory of religion and its role in the advancement of civilization. i i historical doc-! uments, such as the Declaration of Independence, which refer to God. I Singing the National An-! Street (now E. Maple Street) iRiver was removed Fri The first Methodist class was address the women at 1:15 p.m..

sharing with them the results of his research and study on race relations. The book, "Struggle for Decency," will be briefly re-Viewed. Reservations for the lunch and nursery care may be made by calling Mrs. Clinton Cobb by Monday. day morning and workers replaced it with another.

organized in 1846, and Rev. E. A Blades became the first regular Keys to the building wnicn naa of trustees, and Rev. Sylvester Winston of Bethlehem Temple Church. In the copper box sealed in the cornerstone dated May 27, 1917, were pictures of the late Bishop Theodore S.

Henderson and staff; the late William H. Phelps, superintendent of the Lansing district at that time, and the late Rev. H. V. Wade, then pastor of the church, and his family.

There were also pastor in 1847. housed the First Methodist Prior to that time, Mr. Page congregation, Lansing's oldest had added a frame addition to Protestant organization, for 48 vpars were turned over to the his cabin and the place was LANSING UNITY CHAPEL 301 W. LENAWEE, Y.M.C.A. Affiliated trith Unity School, Lee's Summit, Mo.

Church School for Children 11:00 a.m. 11:00 Service "GIVE AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE" Tuesday Class 2:00 1014 W. Shiaw.issee Healing Wed. 7:30 Y.M.C.A. -Psycho Cybernetics "YOU ARE SOMEBODY" ELEONORE E.

KRAFFT, Minister Ph. aS2-8374 used as a boarding house, dwell ing for family, hotel and church Rev. Roger C. Preuss Ordained by Church Central Nazarene Eureka Holmn Rrv. Eldon C.

Schram 10:00 Sunday School 11:00 Morning Worship Evening Servico Wod. 7:30 Prayer Service complete lists of members, of new owner. Bethlehem Temple 'Church. Participating in the brief ceremony were Rev. Richard II.

Beckett, minister of First Meth-lodist Church, Raymond J. Smith, 1 chairman of the church's board The congregation was called to worship by a great tin horn, such as that used in frontier days in lumber camps to call the men 1 I to meals. ficial board, building committee, and subscribers; a history of the church written by Jennie McNeal, and a copy of The State Journal, dated May 26, Rev. Roger C. Preuss, formerly of Lansing, has been or A wooden church at Grand INTER-CITY BIBLE CHURCH 2S27 E.

Michigan" Next to Bud Kouts" 9:45 a.m. Sunday Bible School 11:00 a.m. "THE LOST SHEEP" )0 p.m. "SYMBOLICAL ACTS OF THE SAVIOR" Wed. 7:00 P.M.

Visitation, 8 P.M. Prayer Bible Study RICHARD S. BURGESS, Pastor River Avenue and N. Cedar dained by the United Church of Street, dedicated Jan. 14, 1869, 1 was replaced by another in 1905 Christ.

The ceremony took place last Sunday at St. Paul's United With the rapid growth of the city, that church too, proved in Church of Christ. 5 4 rTsaa CaiSSevj adequate, and the present build liller Road Bible Church The ceremony took place last Sunday at St. Paul's United ing was erected on the same site in 1917, under the leadership of Church of Christ, Bowmansvillei Miller Rd. off S.

Cedar Gary Hoskins. Min. of Musie DR. JAMES C. DOTSON, Pastor Rev.

Howard Jenkins, Asst. Pastor TONIGHT 7:30 GOSPEL SING Featuring THE CRYSTALAIRES QUARTET of Crystal, And: THE GOSPEL MESSENGERS QUARTET of Findlay, Ohio Th Crystalairei will also appear in the following serice tomorrow Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Youth Groups 6:15 p.m. Evangelistic Hour 7:00 p.m.

SOUTH CHURCH of ihe NAZARENE 401 W. Holme Hoad (Next to Everett Stadium) 882-4488 882-8111 Rev. Carl R. Allen, Pastor Calvin R. Kring, Dir.

of Music th Rev. Mr. Wade. one of two congregations 1917. ARCHITECTS ENGAGED First Methodist Church has engaged the architectural firm of Freeman and Smith to draw plans for a new church building to be erected on a five-acre plot of land on the southeast corner of Waverly Road and Delta River Drive.

Construction is expected to get under way by early spring, according to Earl W. Miller, chairman of the building committee. The congregation began about 1956 to discuss the possibilities served by the clergyman. He also ministers to St. Paul's Joint Baltic 9:45 A.M.

Bible School for All Ages to 11:00 A.M. Every Sunday 11:00 A.M. "THE DOOR OF MERCY" 6:00 F.M. Young People's Meetings 7:00 P.M. "YOU CANNOT BANKRUPT GOD" 7:30 P.M.

Mid-Week Prayer Sen ice Wednesday Lutheran Church. The congregations, worshipping in the same building, are more than half-way oses Reds Opp through a two-year plan leading to merger. SANTIAGO, Chile (UPI) Missioners of the Pentecostal A graduate of Eastern High Church are giving Catholic School, the Rev. Mr. Preuss, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Frank A. Preuss North Street Church of the Nazarene of 414 Adams received his First Pilgrim Holiness Church II REV. ROGER C. PREUSS 3200 West Willow bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University.

During the next five years he ply pastor of the two churches in July, 1964, the Rev. Mr. Preuss assumed his duties on a full-time basis following his gradu was associated with the E. I. duPont de Nemours and Sunday School 10 a.m.

Worship Hour 11 a.m. Y.P.S. 6:15 p.m. Evening Service 7 p.m. of relocating The construction of tfie U.S.

27 overpass and the decision to make the area an industrial one had caused many members of the congregation to move to other parts of the city. A site was purchased on Lake Lansing Road, east of Wood Street, but the congregation was dissatisfied with the location, and some were reluctant to move from the church on E. Grand River Avenue. In I960, the building committee was reactivated to look for a new site, and in 1962, the Methodist Union offered the land on Waverly Road and Delta Riv in Parkersburg and Mar- ation from the seminary. He will continue as stated supply pastor tinsburg, W.Va., as a mechani missioners in Latin America great help in keeping the people from turning to communism, a Protestant leader told the annual pastoral meeting of Maryknoll in Santiago.

"The Pentecostal missioners are definitely filling voids which otherwise would be filled by Marxism," said John P. Nichols of World Church Service. He said the Pentecostal Church is one of Latin America's largest branches of the Protestant Church with more than 10 million members from Mexico to Chile. In Chile, he said, the Pentecostals account for nearly half of the country's 1.2 million nn cal engineer. He was listed in imii iV i i.

ft I i i Jh JUlammiL a Corner North St. High St. 10:00 Sunday School 11:00 "A PARISHING WORLD" 6th in a Series of Sermons John 3:16 6:00 NYPS 7:00 "ETERNAL LIFE" 7th in a Series of Sermons John 3:16 WED. 7:00 Fellowship of the congregations until the completion of their two-year trial period of experimental ministry. "American Men of Science," the Who's Who of that field.

The Rev. Mr. Preuss began CARL E. MESSER, Pastor An Evangelical Christ-Centered Church The churches plan to merge into one congregation of the denomi nation of their choice next year. The Rev.

Mr. Preuss is married to the former Lennah Jean Robinson of Lansing, and the his studies for the ministry in 1962 at the Lutheran Theological Seminary of Gettysburg, Pa. He transferred the following year to Lancaster Theological Seminary of the United Church of Christ, Lancaster, where he re Ezra W. Hendley Pastor couple has three children, Penny Protestant population. ceived his bachelor of divinity Robby, and Richard, a.

Mrs. Preuss also was graduated from Eastern High School and attended MSU. er Drive. The Union in turn, purchased from the church the land on Lake Lansing Road, and this later became the site of the new Asbury Methodist Church, formerly Michigan Avenue Methodist Church. OUTPOST SITE An outpost church and Sunday Srhnnl were started in the North degree last June 1.

Appointed stated student sup Lutheran Action Eliminates IS ante METRO CHAPEL COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPI) The national men's organization UN DAY 200 FOREST AVE. J. R. SPEAS, Minister of The American Lutheran CHOOL 9:45 A.M. Church at its recent convention decided to eliminate the word GOD 11:00 A.M.

MORNING WORSHIP Message by Pastor Music by Adult Choir (Kdg. Jr. Church Service) 10 A.M. SUNDAY SCHOOL 11 A.M. MORNING WORSHIP 7 P.M.

EVENING SERVICE KENNETH REICH, Sunday School Supb ELLERY DOERR, Song Leader western School on Andrew and Lafayette Streets in the fall of 1962, and in the summer of 1963, the congregation began to meet there Recular worship services Classes for All Ages at the building on E. Grand Riv chance" New Testament Assemblies "Brotherhood" from its name. The organization's new name is American Lutheran Church Men." The convention elected Oris J. Grande, of Tacoma, president, succeeding Dale Burning, of Bruning, and 360 Clement Rd. Ph.

393-0514, 372-1450 er Avenue were discontinued. The office however remained at the church, and some meetings were conducted there until the present time. The building was purchased by Bethlehem Temple 7:09 P.M. EVANGELISTIC SERVICE Instrumental-Vocal Music Supervised Nursery Available REV. JOHN J.

O'CONNOR, Pastor Associates Rev. Clarence Shaver, Rev. Dale Cross Sunday School 10 a.m. Youth Meet 6:00 p.m. Worship Serv ices 11 a.m.

7 p.m. 6:00 P.M. TEEN Challenge Choir Adult Bible Study chose Sioux Falls, S.D., as the site for its 1968 convention. Thursday 7:30 p.m. Deliverance Service Fellowship Last Saturday of Each Month Full Gospel Pentecostal congregation Aug.

n. Bus Service The rjarsonase on Clark Street was sold in the fall of 1961, and David K. Ehrlin, Minister Christ's Face NEW YORK (UPI) -Archeologists writing in the a new parsonage was built at in TVlta River Drive in 1962. The church office is now located in the parsonage. It will mark the fourth new Catholic Digest say the one positive opinion about the face of Christ is that He was CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LANSING FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST Corner Seymour and Genesee Reading Room and Lending Library, 118 W.

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