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6-B Richmond Timeg-DIspatch Sunday Feb 24 1953 Departing State Salvation Army Leader Off to London Tells of Human Dr Thomas Kepler Offers Netv Lenten Article Series Dr Thomas Kepler noted Ohio clergyman is again author of the series of inspiring religious articles that will appear in The Times-Dispatch during the 40 days of the Lenten season Readers of all denominations found a spiritual companion to their observance of Lent in Dr articles on great religious personalities last year Writing of Spiritual his articles this year are concerned with the application of the timeless and strengthening messages of the Scriptures to great problems of today The series begins Ash Wednesday February 27 Oberlin Professor Dr Kepler is professor of the ffew Testament in the graduate school of theology at Oberlin College in Ohio Besides his newspaper columns and writings for religious journals he is the author of four theological books which have been cited by the American Library Association for their excellence The 54-year-old native of Mount Vernon Iowa was ordanied a Methodist minister in 1927 and first preached at the Pawtucket Congregation Church In Lowell Mass He taught Bible and philosophy in several colleges before joining the staff of Oberlin College in 1946 He is a graduate of Cornell College and the school of theology at Boston University After receiving his doctorate degree from Boston University Dr Kepler did graduate study at Marburg University in Germany and Cambridge University in England Toano Church Pastor to Mark Fiftieth Year WILLIAMSBURG Feb 23 Next Sunday will mark 50 years of active service in the pulpit for the Rev Dr Hunley pastor of Olive Branch Church at Toano Va and former pastor of Hanover Avenue Christian Church in Richmond In addition to special features at both the 11 A and 7:30 M- services the church congregation also plans a reception for the minister from 3 to 5 at the parsonage Dr Hunley began to preach in 1898 when he was 17 and before he attended college' He led service from the pulpits of Mathews County churches then But the minister counts the 50 years of active service from March 1 1902 when he a a fulltime pastor of a church in Lexington Ky where he was attending college Dr Hunley author of half a dozen books and regular contributor to the Christian Standard a Dr Hunley national religious weekly spent 30 years in city churches and 20 in rural charges in Piedmont and Tidewater Virginia He was pastor of Dunns-ville and Smyrna churches Cuckoo Salem and Frederick Hall churches and also has been pastor of a Christian church in Walla Walla Wash He has been with the Toano church for the past three years His wife the former Miss Marion Elvira Jones of Sedalia Mo died last year Lotcn Rules May Be Based By Bishops WASHINGTON Feb A uniform set of relaxed Lenten rules has been suggested to Roman Catholic bishops throughout the United States for use in their own diocoes if they see fit This was disclosed today by high church officials The suggestions are designed to triax Lenten regulations on a uniform pattern and eliminate some of the confusion of the past when the rules varied from diocese to diocese A highlight of the new proposals is to allow Catholics throughout the country to eat meat once on Wednesdays during Lent except on Ash Wednesday This privilege previously applied in some dioceses but not in others The Lenten season this year runs from February 27 to April 13 The church officials pointed out that it is up to each bishop to determine whether to put them into effect Lenten regulations for this year are due to be announced in most dioceses this week end In 1950 the bishops of America at the annual meeting of the National Catholic Welfare Conference here appointed a committee of three to draw up a uniform set of rules to eliminate the confusion About a month ago the committee sent out its suggestions to all the bishops for their consideration and possible use Major proposals are: (1) Meat can be eaten once on Wednesdays during Lent except on Ash Wednesdays (2) On days of fast only on full meal is allowed and meat may he taken at this meal except on Fridays Ash Wednesdays and dur ing the forenoon of Holy Saturday Two other meatless meals sufficient to maintain strength may he taken according to each needs but together they should not equal one full meal Previously for instance only a light breakfast was allowed (3) Because of the relaxation Catholics are urged to practice voluntary acts of penance Stiff Fbata Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs Richard Fitton Want to Be Where We Can Do the Most Good A Lift for Uvings Practice Makes Perfect By Dr Ralph Sockman Our professional league baseball players are beginning Spring practice in preparation for the grueling months ahead However most of them have "kept in since the end of last season and wisely so because their playing days in a highly competitive I port are all too brief I vl practice in London to give his life Eternal effort is the price of 0 Labrador was one of the happi- Lecture Series To Be Started At Seminary New York Minister To Speak at Union Dr Robert McCracken pastor of the Riverside Church in New York will begin the 1952 Sprunt Lecture Week at Union Theological Seminary tonight The two other religious leaders to speak during the week will be Dr Georges A Barrois of Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey and Dr Roy Smith editor of The Christian Advocate in Chicago The lecture schedule for the five-day series Is: A concert by the combined Assembly Training School and seminary choir at 7:30 tonight will precede Dr address on Place of Theology at 8 Tomorrow Dr Smith will speak on People Produced the Book of Life" at 10 A Dr McCracken "The Doctrine of God" at 11 A and Dr Smith Scriptures are the Work of at 8 M- Tuesday Dr Smith Fresh As This Headlines 10 A Dr Cracken "The Significance of 11 A and Christian Estimate of 8 A reception honoring the lecturers will be held at Neil Ray Memorial House on the campus at 9:15 Wednesday Dr McCracken 'The Concept of Sin" 10 A Dr Barrois in the Early and Medieval Church 11 A and Catholic 8 An alumni luncheon will be held in Schauf-fler Hall and Ginter Park Presbyterian Church at 1 Thursday Dr McCracken Meaning 10 A and Dr Barrois "Protestant Attitude Toward Tradition A 11 A Spring holidays for both schools begin with the end of the lecture series The holidays end the following Tuesday Lynchburg Choir To Appear Here Two concerts to be given today by the Lynchburg College Choir will present a vocal representation of the history of the Christian Church The sacred music to be heard at the Hanover Avenue Christian Church at 11 A and the Seventh Street Christian Church at 3:30 will include works by the master composers and con-temorary composers The Lynchburg College Choir is under the direction of Arthur Wake and is accompanied by Mrs Quarles The choir has presented concerts throughout the State In many sections of the Southland Rev Shattuck To Take Pastorate Here The Rev Edwin Shattuck of Eaton Colo will come to Rich mond March 1 as pastor of Venable Street Baptist Church He has served as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Eaton for the past eight years During that time he also took an active role In civic and youth wrirk Mr Shattuck is a native of Colorado and spent two years in the Home Mission Work of the Colorado Baptist Association Mr and Airs Shattuck and their two daughters Lucille and Sally will make their home here at 3303 North Ave The new minister will preach his first sermon here next Sunday Pilgrimage to Be Led By Cardinal Spellman Francis Cardinal Spellman archbishop of New York will lead large number of his churchmen on the pilgrimage to the International Eucharistic Congress which meets in Barcelona Spain Mav 27 to June 1 More than 500 persons from 31 States have registered for the pilgrimage which will sail from New York on the new SS Constitution May 16 The Itinerary includes a visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal and an audience with the Pope in Rome June 7 est men I ever knew He thought of his service as a privilege not a sacrifice Giving becomes more fun than receiving if we keep practicing it Not only our own pleasure but the very safety of society Is at stake in this matter of keeping in practice Who would feel safe on a ship if the crew did no drilling and waited only for the storm or fire to break? Life-belts under the berth and printed rules on the walls are not enough We trust our lives and our property to Bailors and soldiers and firemen who are trained by long practice to do the right thine in an emergency These are critical times Low morality almost makes us think that our ship of state in nearing the rocks Good intentions fine speeches mass meetings will not save us The times call for citizens who put their ideals into practice and then keep practicing them until they carry their virtues with such easy grace that they make goodness attractive to others Next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday the beginning of Lent By long tradition Lent is the season of intensive practice when he gives attention to his restraints and his resources when he disciplines his body and spirit in the school of the Master Teacher our Lord (Copyright 195S General Features Corp) From a drunk on "Skid to of the in Chicago Is a long hard haul "But he made it" the colonel said "He made it because he gave his life to Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Fitton is commander of the Virginia division of the Salvation Army lie was sitting in his small chapel here talking about men given their lives to God and made good Jailed 11S Times "The man telling you he said "had been in jail 113 times He just quit drinking tried everything all the cures sanatariums everything "He was on Skid Row when the Salvation Army found him He gave his life to God and joined the Salvation Army He worked was 12 years Colonel Fitton said "Let me tell you who the man is Captain Tom Crocker in charge of the Salvation Army on Skid the colonel said pausing year Tom Crocker was of the Colonel Fitton Is a short chunky man 51 years old gith bright blue eyes When he talks of his work his eyes become brighter and he leans forward in his chair I was a he said 1 wanted to be a chemical engineer But I know now I never would have been happy "I felt the call of God and I dedicated my life to His service And never had cause to regret Tells Why Then he told some of the reasons why: give you a simple he said spent the biggest of my career-directing youth programs in the Southern States in one of those cities we found a boy who had fallen into a crowd of roughnecks He was a smart boy had lots of talent But that talent was headed the wrong way he was getting set to make a big gangster or racketeer Got Interest we got that boy interested In some of our the colonel continued he joined our Sunday school and finally he became an officer in the Salvation Army the war he was a chaplain in the Army and today he's doing fine work in the Salvation Army in Cleveland you see what you can do for a boy like Colonel Fit-ton said makes you realize what a wonderful opportunity you Sitting beside Colonel Fitton while he talked of his work was his wife a dark-haired woman with a smile that breaks quickly She's an officer in the Salvation Army too "We've been married 28 years" she said got married right after we both got out of Officers Training Colonel and Mrs Fitton have three children two of them in the Salvation Army: Lieutenant Richard Fitton commander of the Salvation Army at Suffolk Mrs Willard Evans a lieutenant in the organization at Goldsboro and Marjorie Jean Fitton 19 lived Here Three Years The Fittons have lived in for the past three years Next week they'll leave the city and sail on the Queen Mary for England There at international headquarters in London Colonel Fit-ton will serve as under-secretary for the Salvation work in both Americas Canada Australia and New Zealand In many ways Colonel and Mrs Fitton said they hate to leave Richmond said the colonel lives are dedicated to God and wherever the Salvation Army feels we can serve best the place we want to be" Lutherans to Dedicate Parish House Today Members of the Redeemer Lutheran Church will hold dedication services for a new parish building at 4 today The Rev Paul Littmann pastor of the church on Roanoke Street and Midlothian Turnpike will officiate The Rev Edwin Pieplow pastor of Trinity Luther- an Church in Hyattsville Md will deliver the sermon of dedi-j cation 2 A Wcdnestlay 6 Sunday School 5 Held in Florida How would you like to go to Sunday at two in the morning on Wednesday? being done every week in Jacksonville Fla The Rev Dr Walter Towner of Nashville Tenn told a group of Protestant church education leaders about the early-morning church school recently He is chairman of the committee on church school administration of the division of Christian education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA He said the unusual hours were set up to accommodate people who work nights When regular church or Sunday school hours roil around these people usually are still in bed resting from their night work a similar setup in Portland Oreg for shipyard workers he said have in America 13000000 people who just stay he said move to other cities to take other jobs Many of them have to work nights many cases the work week Is such that families get a three-day week end What happens? The father takes the family away on a away from regular church Dr Towner calls these people "a as far as the church is concerned And the problem is to evangelize a Dr Towner who also is director of the Methodist Church's department of general church work said he believes church schools because of their more flexible programs can reach many persons not reached by churches Fiji Token Given Methodist Board The Board of Missions- and Church Extension of the Methodist Church has been presented whale's tooth by Fiji Islanders as a token of their appreciation of the board's work in their islands The tooth of a whale is said to be the highest badge of honor a man can receive in the islands About 95 per cent of the islanders are Christians of whom most are Methodists Como see tho First 6 Tube Hearing Aid SONOTONE caam 9th Floor Phoao Control National Bash skill and co-ordination of eye and hand "Practice makes is the old axim which I had to copy over and over in school My own handwriting is proof that practice does not always produce perfection Nevertheless without practice we cannot hope more than mediocrity A once-a-month golfer is stymied when he attempts to compete with the twice-a-week player He sees his friend swinging with rhythmic grace and envies him But worse than his own discomfort is the fact that he wastes the time of the better players who have to cool their heels and probably heat their heads while he flounders in the sandtraps The small boy who totes his violin case for his weekly lesson is pitying himself He seems so out of things especially when his friends are playing baseball over there in the lot No Glamor In Practice And the little girl taking her piano lessons when her companions are consuming ice cream and cake around the corner turns against the dull monotonous voice calling "One-two-three-four let's try it She would like to toss the music sheet out of the window and the instructor along with it There is no glamor in practice But without practice we would have no master musicians or great symphonies One of the world's greatest pianists once said if he neglected his practice for one day he could detect the difference in his playing: or for two days his critics noticed it: if for three days the public knew it When we keep practicing there comes a point where we pass from the drudgery of it to the joy of it The beginner in music would like to forego those finger exercises but if she perserveres in trying to get the hang of those lessons the day will come when the music "gets" her Scent Is Thrilling The "cub" reporter after a while develops a nose for news which is as thrilling to him as the scent of the fox is to the hound in the pack Cheap little tunes we can pick up without much practice if we have any ear for music but great symphonies require much living with to be enjoyed Is it not true that our liking for the best things is usually an acquired taste? And acquired mind you by much practice When a minister takes up a collection in church he often repeats the scriptural truth is more blessed to give than to But yonder is a fellow in the third pew who believe that He does so little giving that it hurts-him to part with a dime On the other hand Doctor Wilfred Gren fell who loft a lucrative medical Methodist Bishop to Dedicate Rebuilt Sanctuary CHARLOTTESVILLE Feb 23 Bishop Paul Garber of Richmond will preach at the 11 A service at the First Methodist Church tomorrow and dedicate the restored sanctuary including a number of new objects which have been placed in the sanctuary since the' fire of April 29 1950 causing damage amounting to $75000 Dr Haddaway who was minister at the church when the fire occurred will speak at the night service The new organ to be dedicated Is a three-manual Moller organ The organ destroyed by the fire wag given in memory of Dr Chancellor by his sons in Decern' ber 1925 Dr Chancellor was a member of the faculty of the medical school at the University of Virginia The carillonic bells now in the church replace those given in 1944 by the Misses Mary and Sallie Willie Sterling in memory of the Sterling family The earphones given in 1945 by an anony mous donor have been replaced by an improved type of instrument The cross on the altar was given by a friend in memory of Mac Wade who gave his life in Korea The candlesticks and vases on the altar were given by the Society of Christian Service in memory of James Douglass Hamm Melvin Lupoid Eugene Bellomy Bledsoe Harlow Payne Carroll Jr Harry Brown and Richard Brown who gave their lives in World War Asbury Descendant Given Post in Japan A descendant of Bishop Francis Asbury the horse-riding minister who preached Methodism to early pioneers has been named public relations director of the National Christian Council of Japan He is William Asbury a young newspaperman from Yucaipa Calif who will make his headquarters in Tokyo to edit the Japan Christian Yearbook and publish Japanese literature A Religious Paper Ends 125th Year Of Publication The Christian Observer a Louisville Ky weekly religious newspaper that was printed in Richmond during the Civil War last week ended its 125th year of publication under the ownership and editorship of the same family It was on Feb 17 1827 that the Rev Amasa Converse a Presbyterian minister left his evangelical work in Virginia to become editor of the Richmond Visitor and Telegraph later known as the Southern Religious Telegraph In 1938 he took over the Philadelphia Observer and moved to Philadelphia as editor of the merged publication the Christian Observer Though New Hampshire born Dr Converse was a Southern sympathizer and when the War Between the States broke out he and the Observer moved to Richmond Publication was suspended just before the fall of the city on March 23 but was resumed on June 1 of that year In 1869 the main office was moved to Louisville but the paper continued to be dated and until 1875 Dr Amasa Converse died in 1872 and his Richmond-horn son the Rev Bartlett Converse became editor His son Harry Converse started working for the Observer in 1899 and haa been managing editor since 1907 Any Sin Called Worse For High Caliber Man sin is worse for a man with qualities of leadership than for a man on Skid Dr Kenneth Foreman of Louisville Presbyterian Seminary writes in the current issue of The Presbyterian Outlook Dr Foreman a former Davidson College professor writes a religious column that appears each week in some 1700 newspapers throughout the country His article In the Outlook which discusses the degrees of good and evil notes that the degree of a sin depends upon the person who commits it "It is wrong to tell a he writes it is worse for a Christian than for a heathen for the Christian knows better and aims The seriousness of sin depends upon the "parties and the circumstances of the sinful act he says Sin is not of just one degree for offense in itself may be worse than Jewish Service to Be Music Contemporary Jewish liturgical music will compose the entire regular worship service at Temple Beth Ahabah at 11 A today The work of such composers as Darius Milhaud Julius Chajes Lazare Saminsky and Max Helf-man will be presented The music of some of these composers will be heard for the first time here at the service to which the public is invited at to 9 nit Professor Asks Payment Of Pastors' Car Costs Should a church pay its car expenses when the automobile' Is used for congregetional work? 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