Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 5

A5 THE STATE JOURNAL Sat. Nov. 30. 1 974 Leadership, Bible Topics of Workshops Power of Prayer Increased Crop Yield Verified Church Notes day. Central Michigan persons Involved In arranging the conference include: David Price and Derek Pearson, Lansing; James Scott and James Lang, East Lansing; Raymond Lowe, Mulliken, and Harry Vaughn, Perrinton.

The story of Jesus Christ is sung and told by Johnny Cash in the film, "The Gospel Road," to be shown Sunday at three Lansing churches. It will be presented at 6 p.m. at Kendon Drive Church of the Naza-rene, 711 Kendon; at 7 p.m. at Cedarway Free Methodist Church, 4515 S. Cedar; and at 8:30 p.m.

at Central Church of the Naza-rene, 1300 Eureka. The picture, filmed in Israel, was produced by Cash and his wife, June. It is a blend of scripture-based narrative, specially written songs, and a series of in-depth character portrayals. CHARLOTTE A concert will be presented by the touring Allegheny College Chamber Orchestra, Meadville, at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Charlotte Congregational Church.

Among the numbers to be presented will be "Sinfonie in by J. C. Bach, and "Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra" by Mozart About 55 Jewish youths from 1 Mlchi-, gan and Ontario cities will advance their leadership skills in an invitational workshop Dec. 13-15 at Michigan State University. The high school sophomores and juniors from Birmingham, East Flint, Grand Rapids, Huntington Woods, Muskegon, Orchard Lake, Southfield, Wes: Bloom-field and Windsor will study corrmunica-tions and other facets of leadersh under tutelage of university Sponsoring the two-day session in Kellogg Center for Continuing Education will be Michigan State Temple Youth, the Michigan Federation of Temple Sisterhoods and MSUs Continuing Education Eugene anger, local attorney, will discuss "Capital Punishment and the I reservation of at the 1:30 a.m.

Sunday worship service of the Unitarian-Un versalist Church, 855 Grove, East Lansing. A delegate to the convention preparing 1963 Michigan Constitutional Conventior, he was author of the section prohibiting tie death penalty, and is co-chairman of the Michigan Committee Against Capital Punishment. A film strip about the Baha'i Faith and a short talk about some of the basic tenets of faith will be presented by Robert Bonner at the fireside to be held by the Baha'is of Lansing at 8 o'clock tonight at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Thomas, 4061 Woodbridge.

Grace United Methodist Church, 1900 Boston, will be host Tuesday noon for the Grace Luncheon for Greater Lansing clergymen. Reservations are being accepted by the Lansing Area Council of Churches. Jehovah's Witnesses irom Lansing, East Lansing, Grand Ledge and St Johns are attending a Bible Conference this weekend at the Jehovah's Witnesses Assembly Hall, Detroit The program includes Bible talks, discussions and demonstrations dealing with what kind of persons Christians should be. The main discourse will be at 2 p.m. Sun plied with diagrams of the soybean plots, took on the task of "sending love" to the experimental areas each night at 11:30 p.m.

for about 40 days. The Rev. Noel Cornely, founder and minister of the non-denominational church which incorporates ideas of various major religions and which works with extra-sensory perception, says: "THESE EXPERIMENTS deal with the direct communication of energy, as a kind of nourishment." Alexander said the process involves "psycho-kinesis with living things. It's similar to what people do through prayer and to the whole idea of spiritual healing. In this case, it's healing, for the soybeans." Although psychic communication involving human beings has been attested by various researchers, the idea of such communication with vegetation has been generally considered far-fetched.

NEVERTHELESS, A recent book on the subject published by Harper and Row, "The Secret Life of Plants," by Christopher Bird and Peter Tompkins, has been a best-seller in recent months. Alexander, who did his undergraduate work at Harvard and who holds advanced degrees from the University of San Francisco and Michigan State University, said "plants have some degree of consciousness. So do all forms of life, although certainly not to the same degree as human beings." Following the results of the soybean experiment on the farm of Maynard Bigamon, Alexander said he and several others plan to undertake experiments through "sending' love" to several of Bigamon's dairy cows. "HE HAS accurate records on the milk production of all his cows and we'd like to see what we can do about increasing it," Alexander said. As for the bean crop next year, he added, "By carrying on the experiment throughout the entire growing season, the results should be even more spectacular, increasing the yield 10 to 20 per cent." NEW YORK (AP) With county officials measuring the results, experimenters on an Ohio farm say they found that portions of a field that had been the object of loving prayers yielded the biggest crop.

The case offered an unusual instance of recent stepped-up interest In psychic phenomena, viewed by many with keen skepticism. "SOMEHOW GOD'S creative energy of growth can be channeled through us even to plants," says Gus Alexander of Wright State University, who holds a doctorate in communications research and who set up the project. It was carried out on a soybean field near Jamestown, Ohio, east of Dayton, with daily prayerful attention of a church group focused on six designated plots, but not on six adjoining control plots. Alexander says the yield of soybeans receiving the special attention was increased by 4 per cent over the comparable control plot, even though the experiment had extended over only a third of the-growing season. "IF PUT to use, our psychic abilities our abilities of prayer could vastly improve the world's food supply," says Alexander, who.

teaches speech communication and who began studying psychic phenomena about a year ago. "By some means, when a person concentrates on sending his love, God channels that love to others, to a pet or even a plot of soybeans' he said in a telephone interview. In checking results of the experiment late October, the Greene county agent's technical assistant, Donald H. Tate, was on hand to weigh the yields from the six experimental and six control plots. ACCORDING TO the figures, five of the experimental strips had produced heavier yields than had adjacent control strips, while in the sixth case, the control strip had a slightly greater yield.

In the experiment, a group of 10 people at Dayton's Church of the Golden Key, sup Key Mormon Official At Stake Conference Fr. McKeon to Hillsdale Priests Assigned To New Positions Elder Joseph Anderson, Salt Lake City, Utah, assistant to the Council of the Twleve of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will speak Sunday at the fourth quarterly conference of the Lansing Stake. New assignments for two Lansing priests have been announced by the Most Rev. Alexander Zaleski, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Lansing. The William McKeon, Members from 18 church congr jgations in the stake are expected to attend the conference, from 10 a.m.

until noon in thi; Stake Center, 431 E. Sagimw. The stake is a geographical unit encompassing all of South Central and Western Michigan, with a total memtrship of about 5,000. ELOER ANDERSON has been secretary to the First Presidency of the Church since 1923, and has also serve 1 as the official church reporter and clerk of the General Conference of the church. H.

Paul Rassmussen, stake president, will conduct the conference and will also speak. Music will be provided by a choir from all congregations in the Stake. The day's theme will be "Nov Is The Time." chaplain to the Spanish-speaking people of Cristo Rey Community Center since 1969. will begin his duties Monday as associate pastor of St. Anthony Parish, Hillsdale.

ON DEC. 10 the' Rev. De-Paul Bosse, OFM will become associate pastor at St. Thomas the Apostle Parish' in Ann Arbor. He has been serving as associate pastor of Holy Cross Parish since 1971.

Fr. McKeon has been working with Spanish-speaking people of the diocese since his ordination in 1957, with the exception of two years when he was associate director of a Christian peace worker organization for South America. LA ir3 Philip Russell Education Minister On Staff Philip Russell will assume his duties Sunday at East Lansing Trinity Church, 841 Tim-berlane, as minister of education. For the past 2lA years he has been serving as minister of education and youth at Grace Baptist Church in Nan-uet, N.Y. RUSSELL IS a graduate of Philadelphia College of the Bible in Philadelphia and of Glassboro State College, Glassboro, N.J., and received a master of arts degress from Wheaton College Gradaute School, Wheaton, 111., and formerly wasiigh school teacher and wfesrJlng coach.

He is married and has an infant daughter. World Service Appeal Begun By Seventh-day Adventists Elder Joseph Anderson Father McKeon Diocese Names Coordinators For Bicentennial Planning ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 218 W. Ottawa at Seymour A.M. Holy Communion 10 A.M.

Service Sermon Broadcast over WV1C Nursery Church School ST. MATTHEW A.M.E. CHURCH 622 W. Mapl St. Rv.

RosaLee Portr 9:45 A.M. Sunday School 11 A.M. Morning Worship 7 P.M. Evaning Evrmgalic Sarvica Church Confaranca Mon. 7:00 P.M.

Youth Sarvica Thur. 6:30 P.M. Lansing; the Rev. Peter Dougherty, Ypsilanti; the Rev. Harry Wolf, Adrian; the Rev.

Patrick Jackson, Ann Arbor: the Rev. Raymond Ra-demather, Owosso; the Rev. Maria i Lesnaik, Jackson; and the Fev. James Flint Greater Lansing, to open early in the new year; Disaster Relief operations with the American Red Cross, and sponsoring a week of camping for handicapped children from Beekman Center. In 1973 the church's worldwide community services and relief activities include: Nearly 10 million persons aided, and more than 12 million hours donated to community aid, through 1,146 Community Service Centers and 10,425 Community Service Societies.

CENTRAL UKJTED METHODIST CHURCH Eight priests of the Catholic Diocese of Lansing have been appointed to coordinate planning for diocesan wide celebration of the Bicentennial of the Founding of the United States. The Rev. Richard Groshek was selected by Bishop Za-leski as diocesan Bicentennial coordinator. Seven other priests, representing the various geographic areas of the diocese will assist him. They are: The Rev.

Donald Eder, Capitol Ave. at Ottawa St. (Across trom State Capitol) Dr. Howard A. Lyman, Pastor Rev.

Paul L. Hartman. Associate Pastor Sermon At 9:45 1 1 :00 A.M. "Inflation has made it necessary to raise a larger amount this year," Mr. Johnston said.

"Needs increase and the dollar buys less; and caught in this squeeze, the church must increase its giving-" ACCORDING TO the pastor, the 2.2 million-member denomination operates the largest foreign mission program of any Protestant church. In a number of primitive areas it provides the only medical and educational services available. The work requires 528 languages in the 189 countries in which the church has established work. Community-related activities of the Lansing Adventist Church include the construction of a new Community Ser-vice Center building for New Testament Assemblies Rev. John J.

O'Connor. Pastor 1 1 9 Asior The Seventh-Day Adventists annual World Service Appeal begins today, and volunteers will be ringing doorbells in the Lansing area in an effort to raise $13,350. This amount is the local church's share of the 1974 World Service Appeal-goal for North America which is $6,600,000, according to Elder O. L. Johnston, local pastor.

THESE FUNDS, he said, represent only a small part of the church's world budget, but they help support the various ministries of the church around the world. Services sponsored by the church include hospitals, schools, camps for underprivileged children, and similar projects besides relief in time of large-scale disasters. Young people wfll join the adults in the door-to-door contacts during the next two weeks. Listen! The Angels are Singing Sormon by Dr. Howard A.

Lyman Church School tor All Ago Groups (Nuiiory. Chidaon. Youth Adult) Sunday School 10 A.M Worship 11 AM'. Evening 7 P.M., Fellowship Last Sat. of Each Month Thursday 7:30 P.M.

Deliverance Service Young People-Friday 7:00 P.M. For Transportation 393 61 10 or 393-0514 Miller Road Bible Church ah Re'-. O'Connor W. Millar Rd. off S.

Cod.r OR. JAMES C. DOTSON. Paster Mr. Douglas Koasal.

Music Dir. 945 om. Mb) School far Al Apt Radio Broadcast WILS. 1320 10:30 11:00 "fte44t tu (fat 7:00 P.IK. uW Sufifie Dr.

James C. Dotson. Pastor Faith Wesleyan Church N. Magnolia at E. Michigan Lansing Rev.

Yorton Clark. Pastor Oauid Hanry. Assistant Pastor 9:45 A M. CHURCH SCHOOL 1 1 A.M. "WHY AN ADVENT" 7 P.M.

"GOD, PLEASE COME" jrsery At All Services Mid -Week Wednesday 7:30 P.M. PILGRIM C0NCMCATIOHAL CMUKH 125 S. PtanyhraM Ant. Ml 414 7434 REV. DONAID A.

WENSIR0M. Maim Monona Sonrito A Outicli Snol 30 A 11 08 A M. H01MES RD. Balloon AqMrwt Roy. M.

Jewoll. Minnttr 10:30 A.M. WAVIHT CHAPil Rev. Jowoll sooolono 3:30 P.M. tITIf AT CHAP It.

(SunSold Mich.) Rv. Jowoll spooking Chrataa Httiif MT CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH 150! River Terrace 1)2 1425 CHURCH of CHRIST 321 E. Holmes Rd. (Near S. Cedar St.) Allen Killom.

Minister 1 1 AJA. "A FAITH TO IIVI BY" 6 P.M. "THE COST Of DISCIPIESHIP" Sua 10 A.M. Bible School Wed. 7:30 P.M.

Bible Study It ItoCMfoni aaen from Hitod Hrf S)R HaMKOI DM It 01 ftlW Lansing Area UNITED METHODIST CHURCHES Sponsored by United Methodist Union 'IfjT" Worjluj Stfvicas GRAND LEDGE CHURCH OF PROPHECY REVELATION YWCA Sundays at 7:30 P.M. Ray. Maud Fitzgerald Pastor Rev. Harvit. Asm.

Pastor Hilling Sarvica fcy Jamas Van Hora Phone 419-4400 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CENTER FJ 6oagwl Rw. Fodnty Wn( Fiaor CHURCH of CHRIST 124 E. Scott Grand Ledge Phone 627-6418 10 A.M. Bible School 11 and 6 P.M. Worship Wednesday 7:30 P.M.

Bible Studv CHURCH of CHRIST UNIVERSITY MSU "SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF 600" Martiw 6:33 Sunday Worship 11 A.M. 7 P.M. Sunday School, 10:00 A.M. Woman's Bible Study 9:30 A.M. Tuesday Man's Bible Study 7:30 P.M.

Tutsday Midweek Wednesday 7:00 P.M. (Adjacent to Abbott Hall) 131 Bogue St. 11 AJ. Warship P.M. DcvotioMils Classes Sunday 16 A.M.

Thurs. 7:30 P.M. For More Information Call 351-4950 St. Andrew ITR0MX CATHOLIC CMtWCR 1216 Grerncrent E.L. Hnpndorn Rd.) VESPERS C0FESS10S Saturday 6:30 p.m.

"WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?" Second Psalm and Acts 4:25 "Man. when left to himself, IS HALF FIEND AND HALF BRUTE." Bishop Hall. "Man, when left to himself. IS A MOTLEY MIXTURE OF THE BEAST AND THE DEVIL." William Law. 74 Comment: Do not soma look the part? The dread foes of man are not belligerent circumstances, but the riotous passions-the leopard of incontinence, the lion of violence, the wolf of avarice.

Incontinence means 'lack of restraint, especially undue indulgence of sexual passions: licentiousness, etc." Great nations and empires of history as a result of this sin have rotted from within, decayed, perished. Is not our great land in danger of the same curse, "Chastity is driven away as'an enemy by all men, like a snake." Is not the "lion of violence" and the "wolf of avarice" back of and the cause of riots, strikes, It is said that a wolf is hungrier after food than before. "A man may foretell as plainly as can be what will become of us, if we grow indifferent and lukewarn in repressing evil. Make it a shame to see men bold in profane-ness, and God will bless you. Be confident that our liberty and prosperity depend upon reformation-if not what difference is there between a man and a beast? "Beware of making laws in the face of God-telling The Almighty you will meet all His Dispensations, and stay things, whether He will, or no.

"God will curse me, if I put personal interests above duty." Oliver Cromwell. (Consider this last statement, remembering Pontius Pilate: "Suffered under Pontius Pilate" because of conflict of interest.) "Devoutly thankful ought we to be for the gift of great and good men. They are God's noblest wbrk-For nothing should the people of God more devoutly pray than that their great men may be good men. (If we had been doing that during the past few decades do you reckon we would today have a Supreme Court such as is, one that has taken away from our schools and children God's Book, The Bible, and The Lord's Prayer, I think not Or, we would have such men in authority over us that let them get by with it, I think not) One honest statesman-one great, sanctified, devout Christian man in the Senate or Cabinet of a nation, or at its head-is worth-more to a nation than all the riches of El Dorado and is a surer defense than all her armies and navies." "Every young man should strive by the best possible improvement of his talents and opportunities, to make himself a great and a good man. This is a true and noble ambition.

A great and a good man is the noblest work of God strive then, my young friend, to fit yourself for the times in which you live." God give us preachers, teachers and students, that put "THE STUDY OF THEIR OWN HEARTS" above the study of their books. "Search the Scriptures" for it is the mirror by which God reveals to us our hearts: "For The Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord liketh on the heart." 1st Samuel 16:7. "FOR ALL FLESH IS AS GRASS, AND ALL THE GLORY OF MAN AS THE FLOWER OF THE GRASS. THE GRASS WITHERETH, AND THE FLOWER THEREOF FALLETH AWAY: BUT THE WORD OF THE LORD ENDURETH FOREVER. AND THIS IS THE WORD WHICH BY THE GOSPEL IS PREACHED UNTO YOU." 1st Peter 1:24, 25.

"FOR ALL THAT IS IN THE WORLD, THE LUST OF THE FLESH, AND THE LUST OF THE EYES. AND THE PRIDE OF LIFE, IS NOT OF THE FATHER, BUT IS OF THE WORLD, AND THE WORLD PASSETH AWAY, AND THE LUST THEREOF: BUT HER THAT DOETH THE WILL OF GOD ABIDETH FOR EVER." 1st John 2:16, 17. P.O. Box 405, Decatur, Ga. 30031 PERRY MICH.

CHURCH of CHRIST (3 Blocks E. of Water Tower) 117 E. First Street 10 A.M. Kbit Schaol 11 A.M. and 6 P.M.

Warship Wednesday 7:30 P.M. Bible Study For More information Call 625-3757 LITLRCY Sunday 9:30 a.m. rhont 349-3275 SO N. Michigan Rd. Eaton Rapida 883-3535 M-99 at Columbia Rd.

NORTH EAST ASBURY 2200 Lake Lansing Rd. Pastor: John Myette tO. 00 A W. CHAPEL HILL Haslett Area, just off M-78 at Marsh Coleman Rds. Pastor: Paul Scheibner TC'uJUa: t.OO A W.

CUNNISONVILLE Wood Clark Rds. Pastor: Paul Scheibner 7dvuU: 9:30 A.m. SOUTH EAST CALVARY 1919 S. Pennsylvania Pastor: H. James Birdsall I t.OO A-tK- CHRIST 517 W.

Jolly Rd. Pastor: D. L. Crawford Si. 7Vvutifi 9:30 A'ffC.

filmti SUl dt 11:0 MT. HOPE S01 E. Mt. Hope Pastor: D. H.

Merrill 70vuAit: 10.00 A.m. Simiuu, t.TK. POTTER PARK Dakin Gray Sts. Pastor: Peter Kunnen tt. oo A.m.

UNIVERSITY 1120 S. Harrison. E.L. Pastor: Donn Doten KvuAifi: 10:30 A.m. NORTH WEST DELTA MILLS Delta River Drive Pastor: David Morton FIRST Waverly Delta River Dr.

Pastor: John Sorenson TVwiifi: 10:00 AW. REDEEMER Bridge St DeWitt Pastor: Richard L. Clark IVvuAifi: 9:30 t.W. SOUTH WEST GRACE 1 900 Boston Blvd. Pastor: C.W.

Hutchens TVfuJkj: 9:30 A.7K. THIMITY Datta Cantor St. Joseph Pastor: Gerald Bates Sunday Worship 1 1 :00 A.M. Church SchoolS fAlT' Youth Fellowship 6:00 P.M. FAITH 4301 S.

Waverly Rd. Pastor: Richard Johns TOvuAifi: iO. OO A TK. DIM0NDALE Creyts Rd. at 1-96 Pastor: Thomas Weber Worship: 10:00 A.M.

DOWNTOWN CENTRAL 215 N. Capitol Ave. Pastor: Howard Lvman Mt 9 AS A It. OO AW. UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES of the Greater Lansing Area WELCOME YOU! rate COLONIAL VILLAGE BAPTIST CHURCH 201 0 Boston Blvd.

Ph. 489-6771 10 AM. Suadar School 11 AM. Momma Warship 1:30 P.M. Evanifl! Servict 1 Youth.

Gimps Wad. Mid-Waak Sarvica 7 P.M. P.sv. Arthur W. Boymoek.

Paster Nursery at All Services Everyone Welcome EASTMINSTER Abbatt Ra Naar M-7S Mioatar Rw. Paul W. W. Graa 9:30 am Church Schaol Sunday Worship 104S a at Phonos 337-0193. 337-0103 FIRST Ottawa at Ckastnut (Oowntawn) Bov.

Inriaf Philips, Mnmtor Asst. Miasm. Rtv. John JoHray Dr. af Ca.

Efoabatk Wills Choir Oir. Or. Rabtrt Sidntl OifiMt. Rakart Asattaia Marainj Warship and Soaatr School 130 11:00 A M. "WHAT IS HIS NAME" WESTMINSTER 143 N.

Logan Street Cornor of Logan and W. Oakland Tha Rav. David P. McCltan, Pastar Tha Rav. David N.

Handarsoa Aii'L Pastor WORSHIP CHURCH SCHOOL Son. 9:15 i 11:00 A Jul. Phono 414-1433 UMITy ss "Church of tha Inner Christ' SUNDAY SERVICE 11:00 A.M. Spacial Communion Sarvke 240 Marshal Ave. 371-3010 Diat-A-Tbeojht 417 5003 ArHJinai Kit Unity Schari OmatMy, Italy Vmm, Mtmari NORTH 100 W.

Grand Rivar. comor H. Washiaf an Ava Pntar. Ra. Pool Lwmgstsa ft 30 Chorea Schaol Worship Sarvica 0:00 Youth Films) -ADVENT: ON YOUR MARK" 7 Isaiah 4ft 15 Narsory Cara Pravidod loth Sonricos HOLT Caraar af Halt a Aarsfus Pxtar Ray.

Omni M. Milbssra Cajrca Schaol 1.30-10:30 Warakp Strvica 11-12 CM! Cara PrariM 0KEM0S Ola ain Rd (Across ham Hajh SdtaoO Pajtor: Rov. Ranald P. lyars 10 AM. Mariano Wadiip 11 AM.

Chirch Sdwol and Adalt Hour 1900 Boston Blvd. toe itttmt -tet tft.