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AGNEW AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH EDITION Entered os second class mail matter at the postoffiee at Oklahoma City Oklo under the oct of March 3 1879 (Published wuekty) Turn to Inside Pages for World-Wide Religious News and Features OKLAHOMA CITY STAR III ALL -CHURCH PRESET! 501 Broniff Building Third end Robinson Streuts Phone 20455 HAROLD HAZEN Oklahoma City Manager MRS GLADYS WHITE Advertising Manager MRS LUCILLE WRIGHT Church Hews All-Church Press Douglas Tomlinson President Lambuth Tomlinson Associate Publisher Clifton Ferguson Southwestern Manager Trade Mark Registered Patent Office VOL NO 5 (Jndf diHtn pton tiity ctitft minimum Publishers Individual lubMripHM price SI 20 ytor In advciKt OKLAHOMA CITY OKLA FRIDAY MARCH 23 1951 All subgcnptten whether made through church or direct tw publish arc diccon ifittad promptly at expiration af timo paid tor Specify which edttien dtoni ATTEND EASTEi SUNDAY AGNEW AVE CHRISTIAN CHURCH 2308 South Agntw Church Directory Van Upton Minister 62-8367 Louis Halbig Chairman of Board 6-5860 Wilbur Cox SS Supt 62-2050 Gardner Minister of Music 62-1786 Mrs A Plumlee Church Treasure 62-7115 READERS GEMS Dodd Tenth Street Evangelical United Brethren Into Thy Hands I Commend My This is a community observance and is open to everyone The Spiritual Life Commission is also sponsoring prayer vigils in various churches throughout the city on Good Friday A central prayer vigil is being held in the Prayer Chapel at First Methodist Church to which anyone in the community is invited at any time 5 PASTORAL LETTER Dear Christian Friends: In spite of much illness the attend-- ance last Sunday was fairly good This coming Sunday being Easter will no doubt see an increase in attendance Some of you will attend Sunday that are not in the habit of coming to hurch and Sunday School May I take just a few lines to urge I that you seriously consider making your attendance in the future more regular We all know that when a Sunday or two is missed it is very easy to keep on missing Easter Sunday will be a wonderful time to begin regular attendance again How about it? Agnew Avenue is one of the fastest growing churches in the Oklahoma City area It is located in a section of the city that is also rapidly growing We must continue to grow in fnembership and spiritually For some time many people have seen the challenge that is before us At the last board meeting the official board recognized the needs for a planned future and appointed a committee to investigate and make a report to the board about future plans for the expansion of Christ's Kingdom in this particular part of Oklahoma City I will be looking forward to seeing you this Easter Sunday God bless you Van Upton FLASHES THE THREE MARYS ON EASTER MORNING Why it meant much I almoit whitpar at I tty it I faal Hit unttan fingart touch my hand In answer tt I pray it Mty ill mttnt to all mankind In til itt wondroutntst pottttt you Through tun and cloud Through calm and storm "GOD BLESS YOU!" Unknown in Tht Btptitt Mtttengar CONCORDIA SEMINARY St Louis theological school of The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod will build a second classroom building at a cost of $230000 to care for expected larger enrollments in the near future it has been announced by President Louis Sieck Concordia Seminary has an enrollment of 568 students making it the largest Lutheran sem inary in America Contracts have been awarded for the new structure which is expected to be ready for occupancy by next September CHURCH CALENDAR Wkly Activities Sunday School Sunday 9:45 A Morning Worship Sunday 11:00 A Junior Church Sunday 11:00 AM Youth Group Sunday 6:30 PM Evening Worship Sunday 7:30 PM Midweek Service Wednesday 7:30 PM Choir Practice Thursday 7:00 PM Youth Program Monday 7:00 PM MONTHLY ACTIVITIES Board Meeting 1st Wednesday 8:15 PM Guild 2nd Monday 7:30 PM Laymen's League 2nd Tuesday 7:00 PM Council 3rd Tuesday 10:30 AM OUT OF SIGHT An adaptation of a figure of tpeeeh which Sir Wilfrid Grenfell once used in immortality may help us One can imagine a boy flying a kite so high that it is out of sight And a companion may say to him: have no kite for you cannot see it" But the owner of the kite holding the string will say: yes I have for 1 feel the The United Church Observer DARK Many of tho darkest days in history hav borne the choicest fruit to the glory of God and the good of man It was a dark day when Israel groaned in the bitterness of the Egyptian bondage But if the bondage had been less bitter Israel would have rested content in Egypt Out of the bondage came the Exodus and out otthe Exodus the Messiah It was a dark day when the ardent brave eloquent Stephen hope of the early church was stoned but out of that day came Paul It was a dark day when the persecution that arose about Stephen ravaged the disciples but out of it came the worldwide preaching of the gospel Darkest of all days was that on which the sun hid his face from the Divine Man expiring on Calvary yet all our hopes and all our happiness come from that day The Elim Evangel CHURCH HUMOR Selected from 250 Periodicele By All-Church Prose Staff A NATURAL Betty the farmer' daughter we milking a cow when the bull suddenly charged toward her across the meadow Betty did not move Summer boarders who had dashed to safety saw to their astonishment that the bull stopped within a few yards of Betty then turned and walked meekly away you someone asked the girl I but bet he Betty laughed see this cow is his Thomas Drier in Nashua Cavalier Gummed k- 3 LITTLE An embarrassed and blushing girl handed the clerk at the Western Union office a telegram containing the word: Trying to be helpful the clerk said: course you know you can send nine more words for the same price" know I answered the girl you think look too anxious if I said it ten Baptist Observer FARM A Texan wee digging an oil well He had sunk a hole 3000 feet deep in a sand hill when a windstorm came along and all the sand away leaving him with 3000 feet of hole sticking straight up in the air But this bother him He cut the hole in to four feet lengths and sold them to farmers as ready made post holes Made a fortune on the Robert Becker Argosy HELPING HAND A-man returning home in the early hours read the notice on the apartment house door ring the bell for the He gave the bell a terrific pull nearly dragging it from Us socket Shortly a sleepy face appeared you the asked the man was the reply do you want to know why you ring the bell Lion WELL CONDUCTED A co-ed on a trolley car wet discussing opera with her friend just love she said The conductor passing by at the moment blushed a deep red and said: the motorman Miss The Watchman-Examiner it FELLOWSHIP DINNER Our next Fellowship Dinner is March 28 1951 Our last one yras definitely a success However due to the overwhelming crowd the seating arrangements were a little crowded Other arrangements are being made though this time and I feel sure that each one of you will find a place You will be contacted if you are to bring a special dinner if not bring something of your choosing This is being done in order that we may have a balanced meal I would like to take this means to thank each and every 6ne of you for your flowers cards visits and words of condolence during my recent illness Ruth Stuller JUNIOR CHURCH We enjoyed another service in our junior church last Sunday with 21 present However we were saddened by the absence of Mrs Stuller We hope that she will be able to bring us the lesson next Sunday all try and be there to help her on Easter Sunday Morn Mrs Flynn WHAT OTHERS SAY THE BIBLE IS A BOOK in comparison with which all others in my eyes are of minor importance and which in all my perplexities and distress has never failed to give me light and strength Robert Lee THE DIAMOND cannot bo polished without friction nor the man perfected without trials Chinese Proverb MANY MEN owe tho grandeur of thoir lives to their tremendous difficulties Spurgeon WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness Thomas Jefferson THE GREAT STONE THAT had sealed tho tomb gave way before him and he strode out into the dawn of a new day And it was indeed a new day for it was alight with the divinely-affirmed truth that one who is linked to God can never be holden by death The Christian Union Herald SEEK JESUS AMONG the living never among tho dead Meet Him greet Him serve Him Jesus liveth and is alive for evermore Prayer is not conquering reluctance to give us life abundant It is taking hold of willingness to give us life eternal The American Friend IT DOES NOT take great men to do great things it only takes consecrated men Phillips Brooks THE RESURRECTION then is the Father's 'Amen' to the exclamation is Wm Evans THE POWER OF CHRIST'S resurrection not only reinforces faith but also revives courage We do not really win a victory over death unless we conquer the fear of it When men catch Christ's spirit through long companionship with! Him they too share in His courage Ralph Sockman HAPPINESS AND GOODWILL are incidental they can never come by direct seeking they come by setting our faces toward that from which they flow Church Management it EACH DAY WE are to be raised anew by God's grace to the Christ-life of faith and devotion of patience and love of peace within and courage for tasks But let us not forget that we can have this risen life only as we live it The kingdom of God is both gift and task We can have this life from God only as we live it live it with God in faith with men in love and service Associated Church Press ft THE CRUCIFIXION IS not final but leads up to Easter Jesus is not a mere man condemned by Pilate but the Son of God risen to eternal life life here on earth ts not our only goal but through the Risen Lord we have our hope in the life beyond The United Church Observer it ft WORLDLY ARMIES CANNOT establish the Kingdom of God Neither can they defeat it No matter how vast an assembly of power is dedicated to the enslavement of mankind the Christian need not fear that it can succeed Just as Easter followed Good Friday so the power of God and His purpose are irresistible The Living Church WIT OF THECHURCHES Success is malting hay with tht grass that grows under other people's feet War Cry DISCIPLES OF CHRIST churches from March 25 until May 13 will observe Pentecost Emphasis on Stewardship I REV FRANKLIN MACK Secretary of the Audio-Visual Education and Evangelism of our Board of Foreign Missions served as adviser in the making of the featiire film Wonderful by the Protestant Film Commission The story of the film is of a big monument of accumulated good deeds left by a little man at his death James Dunn and Allene Roberts are stars in the film A $250000 sanitarium and bathhouse was formally open ed by the National Baptist Convention USA during its annual sessions at Hot Springs Ark A denominational official said that the opening the culmination of the greatest undertaking by any Negro religious group and will render a needed service in the name of our religious forces to our racial The bathhouse containing 14 tubs will begin operating at once the sanitariaum in a few months PASTOR VERNON SHAW San Angelo has been elected field secretary of the Texas Baptist home Round Rock Mr Shaw now pastor of Park Heights church San Angelo will have his headquarters in Lubbock Dr Herbert Dollahite superintendent of the home said the new secretary moved to Lubbock February 15 KANSAS CHRISTIAN CHURCHES number 322 white churches plus 9 Negro churches with a total membership of 89439 There are 329 Bible schools With enrollment of 62-287 and 228 youth groups with a membership of 4835 if A' PRESIDENT TRUMAN will speak to delegates of the Associated Church Press which will hold its annual meeting in Washington March 28-30 Among other speakers will be Dr Luther A Wigle who will explain plans for publication of the completed Revised Standard Version next year LAWSON COOKE executive secretary of the Baptist Brotherhood of the South states that at the end of last year there were 5076 churches with functioning Brotherhoods and the enrollment in these was 167744 men This represents an increase over 1949 of 25 in organizations and 18 in enrollments THE EIGHTH ECUMENICAL Methodist Conference will be held in Oxford England August 28-September 7 1951 The Conference theme is Methodist Tradition in the Universal Church and in the Bishop Ivan Lee Holt of St Louis is Chairman of the Western section of the worldwide gathering ENROLLMENT FOR THE spring semester at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Fort Worth Tex now totals 1455 This is an increase of 20 over the last semester SIX WOMEN HAVE been chosen by the Methodist Division of Christian Service to serve as missionaries in the new program a project in which missionaries will serve for two years in the United States or for three years in possessions DURHAM Dr James Cannon professor of history of religion and missions at the Duke University School here has been named dean of the school it was announced by Dr Hollis Edens president of Duke Dr Cannon has served as acting dean since Sept 1950 when Dean Harold Bosley resigned to become pastor of First Methodist church Evanston 111 The new dean has been a member of the Duke faculty for 32 years HOMEBUILDERS CLASS Our class was still far below what it ought to be work and see just what can be done Looks like we will be moving out for the Bible Class after the they made last Sunday Our hats are off to them We can do it too if we only try CHECKER CONTEST Come one come all young people Enter the checker contest today It will be held at 7:15 on Monday April 2 1951 See Jimmie Flynn or Vernon Shannon to get in on the fun Regular checker rules will apply with no help allowed for any one Enter now and may the best one win NEW MEMBER Mrs Oswald 2516 SW 38 came forward Sunday Tnorning to transfer her membership from Central Christian Church To many of the members here at Agnew Avenue Mrs Oswald is an old acquaintance We are very happy to have her POST SCRIPT He is risen Matthew 28:6 COME TO CHURCH ANNUAL GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE The Spiritual Life Commission of the Oklahoma City Council of Churches is sponsoring its annual Good Friday Service from noon to 3 pm on March 23rd at First Methodist ffturch This observance commemorates the three hours spent by Jesus on the Cross and is centered around the seven savings that He made at that time The speakers and their subjects are: Rev Nuell Crain Wesley Methodist Church Forgive Rev Fred Bloch First Lutheran Church Thou Shalt Be With Me in Rev Norman Whitehouse Pilgrim Congregational Church Behold Thy Rev Harvey HI Calvary Baptist Church God My God Why Hast Thou Forsaken Rev Martin Single-ton Central Presbyterian Church Rev Dyre Campbell Northwest Christian Church Is Rev Kermitj EASTER SUNDAY.