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Oct. 1 1 1975 THE SUN-TELEGRAM A 1 9 Conservative vs. liberal threatens church schisms 4' I 'X Ik 'XJA Church I. 4 AP wlrephoto The cross in the Kremlin By DAVID E. ANDERSON United Press Religious Writer WASHINGTON (UPI) At a time when Christian churches in America are getting along well with each other and with other faiths, several Protestant denominations are wracked by internal dissension that could erupt in open schism.

The troubled churches include more than 15 million members. On the brink of splintering is the million-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. A major split in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., the largely Southern branch of American Pres-byterianism, has seen 50,000 members defect in the past two years to the dissident-formed Presbyterian Church in America. The threat of schism is worrying the 3 million-member Episcopal Church as well as the United Methodist Church, which claims 10 million members. Although the divisions usually are reported in terms of conservative vs.

liberal factions, the issues differ in each denomination. The Presbyterians, for example, broke up over a series of issues stemming generally from "conservative" members' dissatisfaction with doctrinal changes and the national leadership's stance on social and political issues. The battle raging in the Missouri Synod for nearly a decade concerns Biblical interpretation and control of the denomination's administrative machinery, now held by so-called conservatives who prevailed at the church's biennial convention in July. The "moderate" faction recently endorsed the Lutheran Church in Mission as an alternative for those a point at which brethren must go their separate ways." The threat of schism among' United Methodists is more remote, but it nevertheless is real enough that Bishop Earl G. Hunt Jr.

felt it necessary to "speak a word of pastoral concern" at a Good News convocation of evangelical Methodists. The Good Mews movement generally consists of theological conservatives who oppose the United Methodist leadership on a wide variety of issues, including overseas missions, liberal tendencies in seminaries and what they perceive as a shift away from the church's traditional core theological doctrine. Hunt urged Good News adherents to "avoid at all costs attitudes and actions which could lead United Methodism down the road to schism." He said, "There comes a time in the life of a movement when-it is easier to go down the road of schism than to climb painfully and discouragingly those rugged hills which lead to your purposes and to unity of our Lord Jesus Christ." A Good News board member summed up the situation, perhaps also for most of American church life, when he said: "United Methodists aren't schismatics. They just fade away from the church or into another denomination." who feel compelled to leave the Missouri Synod. The alternate body announced it soon will begin accepting applications for membership.

The break probably won't come with a big bang and mass exodus. Some moderates want to remain in the Missouri Synod and carry on their struggle there. In the Episcopal Church, the controversy over ordination of women to the priesthood has gotten most of the headlines. But on the horizon is the matter of proposed revisions in the church's Book of Common Prayer, an even more emotional issue with many Episcopalians. The Living Church, a journal generally associated with opposition to ordination of women and prayer book revision, suggests the two issues might confront Episcopalians with me same divisive situation that is breaking up the Missouri Synod.

"What Episcopalians see in the Lutheran camp this summer that may foreshadow what will happen at their General Convention next fall is a demonstration that when issues on which good Christans differ are by their very nature unnegotiable, when those on either side feel that if they were to compromise or back down or surrender they would betray a trust from God, there is no way that the governing body can resolve such issues. "And if, as all Christians believe, one's first duty is to conscience, there may well come a time and Crosses and golden cupolas of the Annunciation church within the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow stand out against the sky. Czars were christened and married in the church, which was founded in 1397 and rebuilt from 1842 to 1849. Another new religious cult faces trouble over schools By GEORGE W. CORNELL I 9:30 A.M.

Drive-ln Worship 7:30 P.M. Service Under the Stars THE CIRCLE OF THE STAR CHURCH OF THEOLA (Spiritualist) 109 Bryant Street Forum Prophecy, Sunday I P.M. Oeveloptr nl Class. Monday I High Victory, Pastor BftDlf tA IIIIITV rtDlUt IU rUIIDrll 7 rann in ill ill a uni l-iii wiiwnii -m send her 6-year-old daughter to school, and faces a court summons and possible jailing. She insists she will not have her children's minds "corrupted with teachings of the devil's organization of which the school system is a part." Volpe, who conducts study sessions five times weekly for members in a cellar at his residence in McKee City, N.J., near Atlantic City, said many members drop out of college to serve the movement.

"If they go on going to college, and don't get this information, they'd all be dead at the beginning of the new government," he said. He added about a third of the earth's population will see the truth as the end nears and flee to the mountains while the other two-thirds are destroyed in a final war. Afterward, he said: "There will be no more death. All the righteous will make up the most efficient system ever seen on earth. All will be producers.

Everything will go into storehouses and will be free. There will be no more money, no more armies, banks or courts. All physical ailments gradually will be RIALT0 BAPTIST CHURCH 224 W. Eliwanda 875-3933 MORNING WORSHIP NOW 11:00 A.M. SUNDAY SCHOOL (or S.S.I 10:00 A.M.

EVE. WORSHIP (or Service) 6:30 P.M. HONORING CHRIST our ear before the final crisis. "But the Lord's people will be redeemed." In about 2Vi years, he said, his movement suddenly will swell to about 200 million followers, and seven other returned Scriptural prophets will join him to lead toward the new world. Volpe, who uses both the Old Testament and New Testament in his teachings, said his group is "not Christian although we believe in Christ." He noted that "Christian" was an ancient pagan term of contempt.

A former mason, Volpe said his revelations began coming to him in 1940 and he spent 33 years alone studying the Bible before his group began forming in 1973 when "people began to understand." "I am God's spokesman," he said. "If these were my own ideas, I would not utter a word. But being inspired, having this fabulous knowledge revealed to me, I must speak. I was told to lead His people." This week, New Jersey's Galloway Township school superintendent, Roland Rogers said he has notified a member of the group, Mrs. Donna Manning, that she is breaking state law by refusing to Hal Hooker, Minister Come as you are Sit in IIAAt (Nit Sa Mws.

Pi I. Sa. 14m. AP Religious Writer NEW YORK (AP) Another of the new religious cults is in trouble with public officials, but its leader says "Yahweh" God will deal with the problem, protect the group's followers and that the rest of humanity will destroy itself in about 10 years. "1 have only a message of gloom for the world, of its utter destruc- tion," says Leo J.

Volpe, the group's bearded leader who regards himself as the prophet Jeremiah returned to earth. "There's no hope for it at all." Volpe, 59, heads a group called the "Restored Israel of Yahweh," which claims about 150 members, mostly young people in New Jersey. It uses the term, Israel, not in a geographical or Jewish sense but as meaning all those striving for salvation by Yahweh. The group is one of many individually controlled groups that tiave sprung up recently across the country, some of them anticipating an early end to present societies. "We will go through tremendous trials until the nations destroy themselves," said Volpe, who has worked out a 10-year chronology Pahllc 7 14UU j.

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Paul's United Methodist Church 8th and Arrowhead Church School 9-1 1 a.m. Worship 1 0 a.m. "SHAPING OUR NATIONAL LIFE" Roger Mann Betty Skidmore Christian Center 25000 E. 5th Si. 884-8515 MS IDUCATlOe NOUI KATHY BOONE PROPHECY COLTON CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE 10th A Sts.

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Sunday School 10 A.M. Worship CHILD NURSERT CARE tKru 6 WEEKDAY SCHOOL FOUR SQUARE GOSPEL Corner Riallo kit and Si Sunday School I 30 I IB Worth II 45 I I i Wed Praver Srve 7 Fred Creswall, Pastor SOSO N. Sierra Way, San Bernardino 882-501 3 WORSHIP SERVICES 8:30 A.M. and 1 1:00 A.M. SUNDAY SCHOOL 9:45 A.M.

Nursery Care Provided CHURCH OF CHRIST (UPTOWN) bibipb 3630 NORTH STREET, S. BDH0. BIBLE CLASS 9:30 A.M. WORSHIP 10:30 A.M. 1 6 P.M.

WED. BIBLE CLASS 7 P.M. 883-3022 CLAUDE I. PARKER, Minister 882-2262 "HERALD OF TRUTH" (JMNNEl 9, SUNDAY 10:30 A.M. Mow tu use the power oi positive thinking through religious science.

First SOUTHERN BAPTIST Church 1094 I. BASELINE Sunday Sxk 9:30 A.M. Morning Worship 1 0:50 A.M. Itfii Service P.M. Wtd.

Proy.r Service 7:15 P.M. 885-1287 Rev. S.C. Fogle, Pastor 885-3500 Rev. Kenneth H.

Thompson, Minister ffi-rtmjriri THE SALVATION ARMY 746 W. 5th Si. Sunday Services Sunday School 9:4 Worship 11:00 Evening Service 6:00 rnzni REV. KENNETH THOMPSON TOPIC: "REAL HAPPINESS CAN BE YOURS" SERVICES 11 A.M. fiiincnu radtkt! FIRST UNITED METHODIST 862-0926 27555 Base Line, Highland 862-4207 9:00 Church School, all ages Worship Service 10:1 5 Worship Service Children's Church Study on the Book of Romans 7:00 Evening Service in the Chapel Dr.

David Clark, Americon Indian Missionary FOR THI FINEST OF BsBLI TEACHING GKACEIIIBLEClllRCIl 249 lost Randall, Rialta Phone: 875-4891 (1 ml Na. at Fraaway HvartM 9:45 A.M. Sunday School for all ages 1 1 KX) A.M. Morning Sermon "THE ONLY WAY TO BE RICH" Evening Vesper Service 6:30 P.M. 'A NEW REVELATION, BUT NOT FOR THIS AGE' Wednesday Prayer and Bible Study 7.O0 P.M.

Peiior Nov. Letter F. Wend! I CHURCH New Pre-School and Kindergarten open enrollment now PH. 883-7171 Dial A Thought 886-2004 CHURCH OF CHRIST Del Rosa Ave. at Date St.

SERVICES SAN BERNARDINO VALLEY CHURCH 140 E. PACIFIC 88M91S 9:30 Sunday School 8:13 and "WHAT PLEASES GOD?" 2404 N. Golden Avenue Anl.r.C.A.Crtorih Paitor Arrouoi Speaking ATTENTION SPIRITUALISTS TEMPLE OF SPIRITUAL TRUTH-NSAC Lyceum 9-1 1A.M. FOR YOUNG PEOPLE SERVICES 10:30 A.M. REV.

JOSEPH JUDO MESSAGE CIRCLE-REV. FRANZ AUnlttort-ftav. lilllan Cavrtnay-ftav. Anna rani AMIAICAN HOtON CMM Car Available 732 SIIMA WAY. SAN BERNARDINO'S FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD I 7:00 P.M.

Preaching and Communion Bible Study Evening Service Tues Service 9 30 A 10 45 A 5 00 7 0OPM CHARISMATIC CONFERENCE WED. 7:15 P.M. INLAND CHRISTIAN CENTER CHURCH MACY 8 KERN SAN BERNARDINO Arthur W. Atkinson Jr Evangelist Ihr Ikur.k 'lk i R.l.lr al Hr 31st Anniversary Convention OCTOBER 19-2 3rd SPECIAL SPEAKERS Charles Green, from New Orleans. Louisiana; David Shock from long Beach, Mel Kauna from Tustin, Ca.

HIGHLAND ASSEMBLY OF GOD 26597 Base Line Highland, CA Rev. Davt 4 Jan Wallace Ministering in Music Message Sunday School a.m. 4 Morning HEALING WATERS ASSEMBLY 620 LARCH A IVY COLTON for Triesportatieii Coll 825-2258 SUNDAY SERVICE Sunday School 9:4) A.M. Morning Worship 1 1 :00 A.M. Evangelistic 7:30 P.M.

Tuesday A Friday 7:30 P.M. PASTOR WOLFE MINISTERING lllttrt to Kilt Dally Mondoy thru Friday A.M. FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH (Disciples if Christ) 1001 Arrewhead Ave. (hatch's SholJ0A.M. DfVllOfMtNIAUT OlSAIIfDfOOIAM- 10 30 WORSHIP 8:20, 10:40 YOUTH CROUPS 7:00 "THE HOLY SPIRIT" liH Jelly, Prtechim MINISTIM tum ANN MOftAN Mil JOllT Nonary Car PravldW 10:45 e.m.

4:45 p.m. I Pastor Leonard Fox SERVICES, SUNDAY, OCT. 1 9th 10:45 a.m. 6 p.m. Speaker, Charles Green MONDAY, 7 p.m.

Charles Green TUESDAY, 10 a.m. David Shock 7 p.m. Charles Green 10 a.m. David Shock 7 p.m. Charles Green 10 a.m.

Mel Kauna 7 p.m. David Shock Worship CA Service Evening Worship oK0 p.m. John A Mary WIU Pttri WED. EVENING 7:004:30 P.M. Attend Youth Minded Assembly You Are Cordially Invited to Attend CHRISTIAN SCONCE ciiuncn SERVICES The Subject of the lesson-Sermon for This Sunday It Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real? THE BIBLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 2212 1.

Pumalo 162-3239 Between Sterling 4 Arden I blk. North of Highland DR. JOHN I. JANBAZ, PASTOR SUNDAY SERVICES 9:45, 1 1:00 A.M. 7:00 P.M.

A BIBLE Preaching Independent Presbyterian Church standing for the proclamation ond defense of thi Historic Christian Folth. The Westminster Confession of Faith ond Catechisms our Standards. ALL WELCOME! San Bernardino FIRST CHURCH SECOND CHURCH W. AUSTIN WILKERS0N, HOUSTON, TEXAS Pastor of Houston's largest charismatic Church, with 1500 in attendance each week. Rev.

Wilkerson has led Charismatic Seminars in 36 foreign countries, amongst people of all faiths and denominations. He will speak nightly Sun. through Wed. MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN Join our new class. Bible lessons, stories, songs, arts and crafts, games.

Sundays SINGLES CLASS ages 30-60 9:45 Sunday ALLELUIA MUSICAL Nov. 2, Choir Orch. of 75. 5:00 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov.

2 SAN BERNARDINO'S FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD 863 Mt. View 884-6489 883-1426 Allen Clauder, Pastor Allen Antons, Assoc. Jerry Mitchell, Youth 736 Street Sunday Strticcs 10 00 AM Sunday fckotl A.M. Wednesday Meelin I P.M. 3933 Mt, View Sunday School 1)1 A Sunday tertiee A.M.

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Kuthiord. Pastor 9:30 a.ni. Church School 10:50 A.M. WORSHIP 6:00 P.M. EVENING SERVICE fm Cora PravMH aatnt 0mm ASf Alt! Sitm) Am.

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1 P.M. IXCIPt i CHURCH OF CHRIST 1354 Mt. View Avenue "Hold last the form ol sound words (2 Tim. 1: 13) "But speak thou the thinfs which become sound doctrine" (Titus 2:1) SCHEDULE OF SERVICES SUNDAY Bible Clitses lot All Ages 145 im. Worship (Lord's Supper, Sintint Priyinj, Gospel Preaching.

Giin) i Morninj 16:45 im. Evening I m. WEDNESDAY: libit Studies, Singing and Prayer 7: JO p.m. EVANGELIST: Bill Moselev SUN. A NO HOU0ATS RIALTO FIRST CHURCH 290 N.

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