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8 BINGHAMTON PRESS April 16, 1960 Easter- Mew Testament ole Source (Of Easter -Story's IDetails (Contlnurd from Pl 1) Pierce, Mack Troth Announced Cramer-Romich Vows Said Confident Living I on Calvary, walked in stockinged feet and knelt to kiss a cross. The Pontiff bowed his head while a preacher described the suffering of Roman Catholics in Communist lands as "an immense and solemn Good Friday Passion that has been intensified and prolonged." Pope John was spending Holy Saturday in prayer and meditation, marking the final day of Lent and preparing for thejoy-ous services of Easter tomorrow. The Pope canceled all audiences with his aides to prepare spiritually for Easter, but sched The Easter Message By LOUIS CASSELS UP-fnternational, Some 800,000,000 people around the globe are commemorating this weekend a series of events which took place 19 centuries ago in an obscure corner of the Roman Empire. The only detailed record of these events, which gave birth to the Christian faith, is found in certain books now known as the New Testament. These books can hardly be called objective histories.

They are obviously biased documents, written by Visions Support Belief uled one brief audience today with 3,000 French pilgrims. CHURCHES DRAPED men who had been seized by a great conviction and who were trying to communicate it By NORMAN VINCENT PEALE ONE day last June in a suburb'of Washington, D. a woman received word that her mother had just died of a heart attack. The news came as a great shock since it was unexpected. The mother had reached the age of 72 in seemingly undiminished vigor and had been lead Churches in the Vatican City and Rome remained draped in to all who would listen.

Modern scholars have subject their purple mourning, their altars stripped bare in commemoration of the Crucifixion. But the churches come back to life tonight with the midnight serv ed these books to the most rigorous inquiry imaginable. Every possible question about their authenticity has been explored were designed with fitted bodices, puffed sleeves and pleated cummerbunds topping the bouffant skirts. Each attendant carried a white Bible centered with an Easter lily blossom. Thomas Bartholomay of Church Falls was best man for his nephew.

Guests at the ceremony were ushered by Michael Walsh of Binghamton and John Tuttle of Chenango Forks, cousin of the bridegroom. Thomas M. Bartholomay, cousin of the bridegroom, was ring bearer. The newly weds received some 150 guests at a reception in the church parlors of Primitive Methodist Church, Johnson City. Following a wedding trip to Washington, D.

the couple will live at 144 North Hudson Street, Johnson City. The former Miss Cramer was graduated from Northville Central School and State University College of tion at Plattsburgh. Mr. Romich was graduated from -Forest City High School and attended Scranton University, Scranton, and Capitol Radio Engineering Institute, Washington, D. C.

ANNIVERSARY PARTY Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rought of 1907 Riverview Drive, will be honored at a party April 24 celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs.

Phillip Buffton of South Abington Road, Clarks Summit, will be hosts at the open house party beginning at 3 p. m. in their home. MISS RUTH P. CRAMER be-came the bride of Richard J.

Romich at noon today in First Church of the Nazarcne. Easter lilies, palms and candelabra formed the background fc the double-ring ceremony. The Rev. F. O.

Flemming. pastor of the church, officiated. He was assisted by the Rev. Arthur Fallon of Reading, and the Rev. G.

L. Adams of Johnson City, uncle of the bride. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Cramer of Northville.

Before her marriage, the former Miss Cramer lived at 144 North Hudson Street, Johnson City. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Romich of Forest City, Pa. Mr.

Romich is a former resident of 6 Bid-well Street, Johnson City. Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a floor-length gown of silk organza fashioned with a Chantilly lace bodice and long, tapered sleeves. The bride's fingertip veil of silk illusion was edged in lace and caught to a tiara of sequins and seed pearls. She carried a white Bible centered with an Easter lily blossom. Mrs.

Grace Gonzales of Binghamton was matron of honor. Bridesmaids were Mrs. Clifford Baker of Maple Crest, cousin of the bride, and Miss Mary Lou Cramer of Northville, sister of the bride. Jane Bartholomay of Falls Church, cousin of the bridegroom, was flower girl. The attendants wore ballerina-length gowns of silk sheer over taffeta.

The gowns with thoroughness and detach ment. NOW CERTAIN Some nervous Christians feared that this relentless criti I cal scrutiny might discredit the New Testament narrative. But just the opposite has been true. "As a result of all this sift ing a very active life. No one in the family had been aware of any heart condition.

Four days later the bereaved daughter had a strange experience. She wrote to me describing it as follows: "I was sitting quietly on our screened porch alone with my thoughts of Mom, going beck along memory trails to childhood and back again to the present time. Then I saw Mom strolling along as though she had just arrived in some strange, but wonderful and enchanting place. She was turning her head from one side to the other as if she did not wish to miss a single thing. She seemed to almost burst with ing," says Prof.

Ernest F. Scott of Union Theological Seminary, 'many of our old conceptions of MKS. J. ROM1CH the New Testament have been changed, but its claim has been established more surely than ever. We can now feel certain that the facts are set before us BARBARA PIERCE ANNOUNCEMENT is made of the engagement of Miss Barbara Jeanne Pierce to Walter John Mack, Jr.

Miss Pierce is the daughter of Mrs. Beverlee J. Ford of 25 Franklin Street, and the late Harley D. Pierce. Her fiance is the son of Mrs.

Leila Mack of 39 Bigelow Street, and Walter John Mack of 100 Washington Street. Miss Pierce is a student at Central High School. No date has been set for the wedding. with essential fidelity. There is no longer any serious EASTER PARTY The BWB Club met recently for an Easter party in the home of Mrs.

Charles Ryan, 3 Hotchklss Street. A buffet supper was served and gifts were exchanged. Tulips and daffodils decorated the tables. The club will meet at 8 p.m. April 25 in the home of Mrs.

Al Lieber, 13 Mason Avenue. argument among reputable schol PEALE DR. ars about the fact that Jesus of Nazareth was a real, historical person; that he "went about do ing good" as the Gospels re cord; that he came Into conflict with the ruling authorities be cause of his radical teachings Kathryn Palenik, H. A. Murphey, Jr.

anout man relationship to God and to his fellow man; that he was tried before a Roman func tionary named Pontius Pilate; and that he was crucified on a hill outside the City of Jerusa Couple Completes May 7 Wedding Plans lem in the early spring of the year A. D. 30. ices that announce that Christ has risen from the dead. In a Good Friday message for America, the Pope wished for peace and prosperity and expressed hope for "a Just and lasting concord between all people." Radio and television will carry the Pope's Easter message tomorrow to millions throughout the world.

The Pope will begin speaking at 6:30 a. m. EST from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica. About a quarter million people are expected to be in the big square below to hear him.

Eurovislon, the European television network, will carry the Pope's image and words to the countries of Western Europe. Radio will broadcast his message and blessing to all parts of the world. FIRST IN COLOR The Vatican radio station will be hooked up with the Italian, Swiss, Spsiish, German, Australian, Irish, Belgian, Dutch, Portuguese and Canadian networks for the program. Later, the Vatican radio will broadcast translations of the Pope's message on short wave frequencies. An Easter church service will be televised in color tomorrow for the first time in history.

The broadcast, from 11 a.m. to noon on the NBC-TV network, will originate from St. Peter in Chains Roman Catholic Cathedral in Cincinnati. A 615-voice choir will participate in the Solemn Pontifical Mass. IKE, MAMIE HOSTS President and Mrs.

Eisenhower played host today to their son, his wife and their four children at the Augusta National Golf Club. Maj. John S. Eisenhower and his family arrived yesterday by plane from Washington. An army helicopter whisked them from the Augusta Airport to an improvised landing pad near the Eisenhower cottage at the club.

Tomorrow the eight Eisenhowers plan to attend Easter chuch services together. Meanwhile Radio Moscow, in a broadcast today, said that Easter was bad for communism. "The Easter sermons about being meek and humble cause great harm," the broadcast said, ideas preached during Easter hinder the education of the believers in a genuinely human, communist morality." If the story had ended the world probably would never have heard of Jesus of Nazareth. His followers, who had expected him to establish an earthly kingdom, were both disillusioned and terrified by his ignominious death on a cross. They scattered in all directions to hide.

EXPLAIN AWAY A short time later, these same frightened men and women returned to Jerusalem and began to proclaim, with unflinching courage and assurance, that H'rRi XL 1 ft W1 if Jesus had risen from the dead. Several attempts have been made over the centuries to ex plain away the disciples' contagious faith in the Resurrection. "Then off to my right I saw the figure of a man stooping down as though he were working in a vegetable or flower garden. This man I knew was my father; he had passed away almost 25 years ago. Mom had not seen him yet, but she was coming toward him straight as an arrow.

"THEN MY WONDERFUL VISION was gone as suddenly as it had appeared. I sat there startled for a moment. Suddenly 1 felt as though my burden of grief had been lifted and I had such a happy, buoyant feeling that I shed tears of joy. "I have now, of course, the memory only of this mental vision, or whatever one would call such an experience. I have tried to describe it to all the members of my family, but I am sure I can never bring it to them as realistically as it appeared to me.

I wish with all my heart that I could." Easter seems a fitting time to recount such an experience. On Easter we commemorate the glorious day when the risen Christ appeared to His disciples, demonstrating for all time that nothing can destroy Him, not even death. In His earthly lifetime He had said, "Because I live, ye shall live also" and "Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." By the wonders of His resurrection He confirmed to us these blessed promises. Simply stated, the message of Easter is that death is not the end of you, or of me, or of our relationships with our loved ones. There are always people who claim that this cannot be proved.

But it cannot be disproved either. And some instinct deep within the human being prompts us to believe it. The Gospel tells us it is true and that is enough for me. IN ADDITION THERE ARE MANY thought-provoking intimations of an extra-sensory nature than can deepen our belief that death is not the end. A Christian woman has a fleeting extra-sensory glimpse of her recently departed mother.

Taken as an isolated incident, this would not have much significance except for that woman. But the frequency of such occurrences, the collective testimony of so many witnesses, offers food for everyone's thought. Let me give you a personal experience. A year or so ago my wife Ruth and I were faced with a big, tough, heavy problem. We prayed about it daily, trying to find a right solution.

Then my wife received a letter from my stepmother. "I have been praying earnestly about the problem you are trying to solve. Last night, suddenly, a thought burst upon me in this form: 'Ruthie will do all right. Don't worry about the letter said. "Now I never think of you as 'Ruthie' you know that.

Neither does any living person call you But remember that Clifford (my father who had died two years before) often referred to you as "WHY DID THAT ENTER my thinking last evening? 'Ruthie will do all right. Don't worry about it' Can it be that we have someone over there working with us in our difficulties?" How can such happenings be explained? Isn't it that such phenomena may be intimations of a world of spirit touching our world? Apparently the only way we ever really know these things is through deep personal experiences of a spiritual nature. I hope some day we may all have the incomparable joy of knowing these are true. One theory, which still nas a good many adherents, is that the disciples were victims of mass hallucination. Expecting to see their beloved teacher again, they were led by self-hypnosis to experience a vision of him.

The difficulty with this theory is that it ignores the abundant evidence that the disciples were totally surprised by the Resur rection. The women who found the tomb empty had gone there with the intention of embalming Jesus' body. And their report was received with skepticism by the other disciples until they had personally seen and talked to the risen' Christ. Another theory, which gained India is studying the feasibility of establishing a steel plant in South India, Minister for Steel Sardar Swaran Singh said in Madras. wide currency in the 19th Century, holds that Jesus did not actually die on the cross, but only fainted, and was resusci tated by the coolness of the tomb.

David Friedrich Strauss, To buy a German rationalist philoso pher who tirelessly sought for natural explanations of Biblical SEWING SCHOOL Miss Susan Fairchild, fight, a student in the Endicott Kiwaniqueen-sponsored sewing school, cuts the binding on a garment she is making. Watching her, during a class in Enjoie Clubhouse, Endicott, are Mrs. Raymond A. Whitney, left, chairman of the project, and Mrs. Harold E.

Pitkin, president of the club. MISS KATHRYN ANN PALENIK and her fiance, Harley A. Murphey, have completed plans for their wedding. The couple -will be married at 10 a.m. May 7 in Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, Johnson City.

The Rev. John Toomey will officiate at the ceremony and celebrate Nuptial Mass. The bride-elect is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A.

Palenik of Bunn Hill Road, Vestal. The bridegroom-elect is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harley A. Murphey, of 1133 Main Street, Vestal.

Miss Mary Tulfer of Binghamton will be maid of honor. Bridesmaids will be Miss Elizabeth Novak of Binghamton, cousin of the bride-elect, and Miss Jennelle Angeline of 316 June Street, Union, cousin of the bridegroom-to-be. Harold Angelo of Vestal will be best man. Ushers will be Charles Pennell of Vestal and Edward McMullen of Vestal. Wedding breakfast will be served in the Johnson City Moose Clubhouse after the Mass.

The couple will receive guests at a reception in the clubhouse from 2 p. m. to 6 p. m. Miss Palenik and her fiance are graduates of Vestal Central High School.

Miss Palenik attended Broome Technical Community College. Pittarelli, Kocak Nuptial 0n May 21 A MAID of honor and two bridesmaids will attend Miss Mary Pittarelli May 21, when she becomes the bride of Ronald Eugene Kocak. The couple will exchange vows in a double-ring ceremony at 9 a. m. in St.

Anthony of Padua Church, Endicott. Nuptial Mass will be celebrated. The bride-elect is the daughter of Mrs. Louis Pittarelli of 222 Oak Hill Avenue, and the late Mr. Pittarelli.

Mr. Kocak is the son of John Kocak of 3 Parsons Avenue, Endicott, and the late Mrs. Kocak. Miss Marie Rotondi of 215 Oak Hill Avenue, Endicott, will be maid of honor for Miss Pittarelli. Bridesmaids will be Miss Gina Fiacco and Miss Palma Longo, both of Endicott.

Joseph Pirrl of Endicott will be best man. Vincent Dutcher of Binghamton and Henry Shearer of Endicott will usher guests. Some 350 guests are expected to attend an evening wedding reception in Endicott American Legion Clubhouse. Miss Pittarelli will be hon-orel at a prenuptial shower May 1 in the American Legion hall. Her maid of honor and bridesmaids will be hostesses to some 125 guests.

Both the bride-elect and her fiance are graduates of Union-Endicott High School. miracles, explained why he was unable to accept this theory: 'It is impossible that a being who had stolen half-dead out oi the sepulcher who crept about weak and ill, wanting! medical treatment, who required bandaging, strengthening and indulgence, and who still at last yielded to his sufferings, could have given to the disciples the impression mat ne was a con queror over death and the or sell ANYTHING use the I PRESS WANT ADS RA 3-9421 grave. Press Drivers 3d in IVnlionnl Snfetv Contest The Binghamton Press has EASTER BUNNY DECORATED NUT ROLLS 8 INDIVIDUAL SERVINGS Fresh Fruit Punch TALBOTT'S ICE CREAM STORES Family Badge Is Safety Pin Salt Lake City A king-sized safety pin Is worn as the unofficial badge whenever descendants of Mormon pioneer Charles C. Rich Tiold their family reunions. Rich was born in Campbell County, in 1809 and Benjamin L.

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