Tulsa Herald All-Church Press from Tulsa, Oklahoma • 1

7 -v v- 5-" -rlr A' -Vi M-4 CENTENARY METHODIST CHURCH EDITION -A' Vr- AS V- fc i-'3i Voi NO Mmtai lie eMtao 1mm eae Mi TULSA OK LA FRIDAY KEITCMKKK 20 1948 HMWtf m90v II HM hM fT IjMlfr fMffe dM MVliltM i THE PAYMENT OF THE CHURCH PLEDGE IS DUE PLEASE PAY MBIT -A CENTENARY DIRECTORY 631 Denver Tulsa Oklahoma Rev CL Meade DI) 621 North Denver Phone 6869 Office Phone Mr Ruby Irwin Church Secretary Martha Blunk Organist Director of Music Glen Harris Chairman of Official Board Well lw Church School Superintendent Mobley Churrh Treasurer Waugh Building Fund Treasurer J- F' Carter Chairman Bd of Trustee Jame Well Chairman Building and Properly Chester Henville Chairman of Evangelism 9:45 AM 10:50 AM PREACHING SERVICES SUNDAY The friend and member of Centenary are nut only cordially invited to attend the preaching nervier of the church next Sunday but they are urged to be there The aermon Sunday morning to be delivered by the pea-tor i not only timely but will aak for action on the part oi! all who hear it The subject in "People of Faith Are People of Power" Appropriate music for the occasion will be AYesented the congregation under the aplendid leadership Alisa Martha Plunk and Choir The Sunday evening sermon at 7:30 o'clock will be the second in the aeries of evening sermons now being deiiveret by the pastor September 22 at night "What Is Man?" September 23 "What Is Redemption?" Octolter 8 "What Is the Unpardonable Sin?" October 13 "What I the Anti-Christ?" Octolier 20 "What Doe the Book of Revelation Reveal?" The Sunday services are time arranged for all Methodist to worship God We cannot hope to please God unless we worship Him- Every service is carefully arranged in every detail by the director of music and by the pastor The motivation of all we try to do is to bring men and women boy and girl nearer to God than they would otherwise hope to be Come out next Sunday to both services DORIS SIOCOMRK CHAIRMAN Mr Doris Ckwombe was chosen chairman Mi ginia Crane Vice-Chairman and Mrs Annie Fowler Secre- tary-Treasurer of the newly formed Young Adult Circle of the WSCS which was organized last Thursday in Centenary The women of the WSCS under leadership of the -president Mrs Mobley gave a luncheon to which Young Adult women were invited Speeches were made by Mrs Lloyd Rayle of the First Methodist Church and by Mrs Clark of Boston Avenue Churrh The local women participating in making speeches were Mrs Gordon' Mr Otis Allen Mr Ruby Irwin Mrs Carter Jr and Mr CL Meade The newest organization informs the pastor that this society for Young Adult Women is open to membership to al the women of this age There is to be another meeting October 17 at 1 o'clock at hich' time a special program wit be arranged and the enlistment for members will be continued rThe Nursery will be open on that day in order to care for children CHURCH SCHOOL ATTENDANCE September 15 Class or Dept Enrollment Attendance Church School Worship Worship Youth Fellowship 1 JL Adult Choir Prayer Meeting People Of Faith Are People Of Power 7:30 PM What Is Man? Youth Choir Refreshments and recreation Youth program 7:00 PM Wednesday 7:30 PM Wednesday A PRIDE Meade Every father likes to brag on his own children Even the grandchildren come in for a great deal of praise And maybe it would be a lot better for everyone of us and would have much better children if we were to take more time to tell our own children how much we appreciate them and what they are doing This as you will soon see is a prelude to justify what will follow in this column I have five sons They are poe sibly no better end no worse than any other Dad's sons Here is one Dad who is proud of his sons everyone of them -They may not plese other people as well as they piee me but I like them Then if someone see somthing wrong In themr that could have come from the wrong in fluenceyou know poor boys they had to nlay with the children 6TOw to manhood That is enough to ruin anybody's i children a But we find ourselves growing too general in this eoU -Sl umn today We want to be particular We wish to inform you what has happened to the oldest son who now has moved up to the big city New York Lots of people go to New lork of course but most of them are lost in the stream of humanity which flows up and down the busy -streets of that metropolis the greatest Our eldest son did not get lost in New York He is on of the lucky ones who has made the grade The Nationally known magazine of the advertising industry INK has featured him in an article by Mike Goldgar special writer for that magazine- 7' THE ART DIRECTOR ENDED THE WAR WITH JAPAN Mike Goldgar it or not ad folks of New York but right In your mubt there scintillates a man of whom it may accur-stely be stated--he single handed and without benefit of firearms is greatly responsible for ending officially the war with Japan! Statesman extraordinary? Guess' again The answer is artist "Dallas Meade currently an Art Director of The Art Center is the hero of this one And what a story to pass on to ones grandchildren! £a1V)r" uniform he was an artist for the "iun6ton And late one night in the summer of 1945 one of the generals approached Dallas with for a super lettering job: 1 enthJr documents had to be lettered out completely by hand "Ten copies all hand were to be made Accuracy was essential Neatness no less essential Time i -wanted: Yesterday "What were these documents? Nothing less than the surrender documents tor MacArthur to present to the Japs- WCISC I "Already a plane was waiting on the hangar ready to take off for Tokyo with the documents The only problem confronting the generals on the staff whs the art Custom and tradition in the Army has always had it that such throughout And among all the IT and rortographer present Dallas was the only artist the generals considered capable of turning out the high quality job in tme to let the plane take off the next mominig bIy "Mtted by several of the cartograph- But the team met with a serious snag right off the reh ment found at that iate hour Ordi- besed dld" 4 htve the Quality feel What could nidel- 'Vhy not the fine English made teI PPr home been saving up for a Wouldn't this paper do the trick? th Life Magazine piece saying the docu-i mn-a on parchment was wrong) day on time to the second the ten copies per-fectly rendered were winging their way to Tokyo via the spe-cial plane and special courier Col Bernard Ehieland story's over that was how I ended the Japanese wnfhct ith my lettering pn finale? 5IINUTE DALIjASI You forget the grand Remember that when Genera! MacArthur received the ten documents he only used two of them (one copy for -one copy for Japan) The others? Sent back by plane to Washington and handed back to Dallas And then from Dallas up" by the highest ranking souvenir hunters in the world In fact seven of w-ere star-studded generals The eighth? Well artists you girl lmrn at Ililicrest Lying-in Hospital last Friday The ninth grade class of Intermediate boys and girls and Mr James Wells their teacher gave to the Intermediate Department a picture of The Head of Christ The picture was dedicated Sunday morning with Mia Helen Garver in charge of the dedication service Mr Robert Cogswell and Mis Lillian Case were united in marriage by Rev Meade at the Rose Chapel of Boston Avenue Methodist Church Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock They will make their home in Burrwood La where Bob has been working for some time We wish to extend our congratulations and best wishes to this fine couple Mrs George Brooks is some better now after being quite ill during the summer with neuritis Mr and Mrs Truman Baker are spending a two vacation in Old Mexico 35 34 72 '45 iww 53 36 69 53 Nursery Reginnera -r Primary Juniors Intermediates Senior-Young Feople Young Adults Wedding Ring Winners Men's Rible 13 20 25 21 19 22 34 18 18 3 26 80 8 Jeachera and Officers 26 219 Percentage of enrollment present 4792ri Promotion Day in the Church School September 29 9:45 o'clock Installation of Officers and Teachers September 29 10:50 o'clock Communion Sunday world-wide in observation Meeting" The Youth Division in charge Mrs Bill Hickey son newly elected director of Sodsl and Recreational Activities will be in charge of the garnet for the evening SUNDAY OCTOBER 6: 9:30 A Rally Dav in the Church School 10:50 AM World Wide Communion Sunday at the morning worship service 1 This program can be made a success only by the united cooperation at every person who holds an office in the church or who helps to direct the educational program of the churrh school v' The Christian Education Week will aid in making Centenary end the church-year in a fine manner and give us a great start in the churrh-year to come Annua Conference will lie held October 14-20 at the First Methodist Church Tulsa Thi program will aid ua in getting ready for it DR BASCOM WATTS LETTER 1 Dear Brother Meade: On behalf of the Official Board and the membership of Boston Avenue Church I am giving you and member 0 1 Centenary an invitation to attend a reception in honor 0 the debt-free dedication of our building at the church on Friday evening September 27 7:30 to 10 o'clock On this occasion we are to honor Bishop and Mr Angie Smith and all former ministers of the church It is our cordial desire to have the ministers of bU other churches of our city rejoice with us in the achieving of a debt-free building Please pass this invitation on to your congregation and the courtesy will be deeply appreciated 1 am cordially yours BASCOM WATTS NEWS AND VIEWS Mrs Ella McGilrray was ill in bed last week but is better now Sir Andrew left couple of weeks ago with hi son and daughter-in-law for a trip into Wyoming Washington California and home by the southern route They expect to be gone about ix weeks Manr Grace Carter left this week for Dallas Texas where she will attend the Southern Methodist University Classes start there Thursday WMt? also left this week to attend college at and 31 in Stillwater this winter Miss Mary Jean Hamilton celebrated a birthday last Sunday CHRISTIAN EDUCATION WEEK Sunday September 29 9:50 Promotion Day in the Church School: 10:50 Installation Ceremonies for Centenary's Official Board Members who will serve the congregation in 1946-1947 church-year and for the Church School Officers and Teacher who wil erve the church school over the sme period Monday September SO at 7:30 in the evening "Par-ent and Teachers' Night" Each department will demonstrate to the parents the character of teaching to be found in the three departments and a general acouaintance of the church school program will lie demonstrated Tuesday 7:30 in the evening "A Planning Conference by Board of Education member and church school for the enlistment of new memliers in the church school At thi meeting an outside speaker will give an address on to Do the Job" Wednesday 7 30 in the evening "Roy Scout Thi Program will be in charge of Brad Fleming Scoutmaa-ter and Paul Slocombe assistant Scoutmaster Thursday 7:30 in the evening "Fun and Fellowship Flashes Keeping Up At A Glance With Religious Events Everywhe 3 0 THE KENTUCKY Methodist Conference in WUmore Kentucky unanimously endorsed plans fur the erection by the University of Kentucky of an interfaith building on its campus The conference also agreed to share the coat 0 the structure with other denomination o-- A PROPOSED PLAN for union with the Canada Conference of the Evangelical Church will be discussed by the General Council of the United Church of Canada when it meets in Montreal 0 DR Et ERETT CL HERRICK has resigned as President of Andover-Xewtun Theological Seminary New Centre Ms and is supplying a church in Maine He has served at the Newton Centre institution since he was elected to succeed the late Dr George Ilorr in 1926 0 THE CONFERENCE of the Texas Lutheran Synod will meet in St Luke' Church San Antonio the Rev Hirsch pastor Nov 11-14 O' CHAPLAIN ALFORD BRADLEY has been appointed to the chaplaincy of the regular army Moore Gen eral Hospital Swannanoa CL He held pastorates at Rock-wood Bronte Euless and other points in Texa before entering the service and ha been alerted for duty in the Pacific This featured article in INK is interesting in light of recent development The reason given that Mac Arthur did not permit all ten documents to be signed was 1 that he was unwilling to permit Russia to receive one of them because that nation declared war on Japan only a few hours before the Japs surrendered Inasmuch as MacArthur could not refuse Russia a copy without doing the same to the other allied nations only two of them were signed one for the United States archives the other for Japan Last Sunday September 15 1946 Russia had a big cele- '-i iration in Moscow commemorating the Russian victory over lapan in this war But they did not have a document signed i Japan to prove it MacArthur attended to that Maybe he had a premonition that Russia might need it for the casion so he stopped itl BECAUSE OF THE announced dieeoatinuence of the UXRRA at the end of thie year the American Friends Service Committee is increasing its budget for Austria by 50 per cent FLASHES THREE MAJOR PROTESTANT InterienoaiiiatiofcjV agencies are planning to establish a joint Southern off ice-? Atlanta Ga next February it was learned in New Yorlt The three organizations are the Federal Council of ChureheaA the Home Missions Council and the United Council Church Women AN OVERSEAS RELIEF budget of wen adopted by the executive board of the Church Cc Service representing 26 denominations APPROXIMATELY 125 large boxes of try clothing and medicine weighing more then thirteen tone' had shipped from Missions Building Indianapolis Ind to the Philippine Islands through June 80 by the Philippine Committee of Disciples of Christ ISi'P USA tdf HENRY RL LUCE of the Madinoo Are Presbyterian Church (UiLA) will address the' mass meeting in the San Francisco Opera House to celebrate the sailing of the unprecedented number of mTfiwriiii returned to the Philippines and China THE PRESBTYER1AN synods US sad oint inspirational meetings at Centre CoUega Cr eptember 17-20 Buunees sessions will be -Angus Gordon paste at the Eardstown Louiavill ia chairman of tha US A 7 tf i- -4 v-X.