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Church News
SECOND NOTICE
NOTICE : Synod's Co-ordinating Com
mittee is called to meet in the Geneva
College Library, Beaver Falls, Pa.,
June 8, 10:00 A. M. EDST.
WANTED
M. W. Dougherty, Chairman
SAN DD3GO
V.B|S. Teachers! If you're
going to be in our area this summer and
would like to help in V.B.S., we can
put your talents to good use! Our
school runs for two weeks, June 27
through July 8, followed a week later
by
our Conference at Hume Lake in
the Sequoias. So, here's a chance for
two worth-while events.
We'll probably haye to limit attend
ance at our V.B.S. to 150, both because
of lack of teachers and lack of space.
If you would like to help as one of the
teachers, please write our Director, Mrs.
J. D. Edgar, 10140 Crestview Heights
La Mesa, California, at once. We can
promise board and room for the time
you're here. The Lord will pay the
balance of the remuneration.
FOR SALE
Does your church need a
fine new lighted outdoor bulletin board
This is one of the prizes we won in the
S. S. Attendance Contest last fall. Since
we already had one, we'd like to sell
this one and put the money into our
Building Fund for our much needed ad
ditional S.S. classrooms. Your church
name will be lettered on a lighted glass
panel. We also have a fine new 40"x40"
Screenmaster Projection Screen, tripod
style, for sale. This was another of our
prizes and its sale price will also go
into our Building Fund. If you can use
either of these items
who can
right away!
or know anyone
please get in touch with us
TOPEKA
We are greatful indeed to Dr. John
Coleman who conducted our services on
the 10th of April and also brought help
ful messages in our preparatory services
April 13, 14, 15, climaxed by communion
services on the 17th. It was a week full
of blessings. We were glad to welcome
into our membership by
profession of
faith Harold and Martha McKinney and
Fred Martin. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mc
Kinney and their children Karen Sue
and Rodney received the sacrament of
baptism at the Friday evening prepara
tory services. This Sacrament was per
formed by Dr. Taggart, assisted by Dr.
Coleman.
May 11, 1955
The following were elected to fill
church offices
for the coming year:
Chairman, Wilmer Piper; Vice Chair
man, Lloyd McElroy; Secretary, Rober
ta McElroy; Treasurer, Herbert Davies;
Precentor, Dr. W. O. Martin; Assistant
Precentor, Albert Crane; Witness Cor
respondent, Mrs. Elizabeth Maine; Social
Chairman, Louise Calhoun.
NEW ALEXANDRIA NOTES
Sally Shaw, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. Steele Shaw of New Alexan
dria was capped on March 11, 1955 at
the Allegheny General Hospital School
of Nursing. Sally is taking the five
year course and completed two years
at Pennsylvania College for Women be
fore entering the Allegheny General
Hospital School of Nursing.
STERLING NEWS
Dr. and Mrs. F. L. Stewart of Olathe
were welcome guests in our communi
ty the week end of April 10, while
Dr. Stewart gave us wonderful ser
mons at our spring communion.
William Joseph, four months old son
of Joe and Roberta McFarland, was
baptized April 9 by his grandfather, Dr.
A. J. McFarland.
Others home for communion were
Mr. Ralph Snair, and Mr.
and Mrs.
Howard Mann, Wichita; Mr. and Mrs.
W. Edgar of Burdett; Miss Lulu Tippin,
of Otis, Mrs. Allan Marshall of Sylvia;
Mr. and Mrs. Joe McFarland of Turon;
and Marjorie Humphreys and Jean and
Alice Edgar of Hutchinson.
Mr. Robert McCrory, treasurer of our
congregation, is the current president
of the Rice County Farm Bureau.
John McFarland, senior, and David
Kilpatrick, sophomore, are leading
Sterling High in tennis. Larry Oline,
senior President won a superior rating
at the State this year on his bass horn
solo.
Present teachers in our Sabbath
School are: Mrs. Clara Martin, David
Kilpatrick, Diane Oline,
Mary Hum
phreys, Zetta Wilkey, and Evelyn Mor
ley. Sam Wilkey will relieve David Kil
patrick in June.
Mr. Karl Cunningham of Gypsum has
been elected president of the Saline
County
Teachers Association for next
year, and Mrs. A.
J. McFarland, the
president of Rice County Teachers As
sociation.
Eldo McFarland, conductor of the
Junior Choir, entertained the choir
members and their guests at a skating
party at the Sterling College Recreation
Hall recently. Twenty-five friends en
joyed this fine evening of skating, fel
lowship and refreshments. We appre
ciate their music leadership many even
ings.
Mrs. Mary Moore accompanied Dr.
and Mrs. A. J. McFarland to Wichita
April 17 to visit their cousin Mrs. Clar
ence Milligan of Hebron, who is a pa
tient in the St. Elizabeth Hospital.
The Rev. J. D. Edgar, D.D., of San
Diego, California, spoke twice in our
services April 17.
Miss Esther Dill entertained the Dill
relatives at a dinner in the College
Banquet Hall Tuesday evening, April
26, honoring five of her friends from
the Welfare Board of Oskaloosa where
Esther labored for several years.
Mrs. Margaret Taylor is back at
church after sustaining
jury.
a bad knee in
FROM "TRADITIONS OF THE
COVENANTERS"
By Rev. Robert Simpson D.D.,
Sanquhar, Scotland
James Glendenning "then brought a
Bible from the shelf, and, placing it on
the table, said : "There is one duty which
besides many others we have heretofore
neglected
I mean family worship; it is
my intention, therefore, to perform that
duty this evening.
"This service is a duty which no one
who has any regard for the divine honor,
and regard for personal responsibility, or
any concern for the spiritual welfare of
a family, can possibly omit. The religion
of that household in which God is not
worshiped is either extinct or greatly on
the wane *
* * Who can tell how much
of the disorder, unhappiness, and pover
ty which prevail in many a household
may be owing to the neglect of this
duty While, on the other hand, the har
mony and prosperity with which other
families are blessed may, through the di
vine favor, be mainly attributed to the
conscientious performance of this duty."
Free Methodist
"A MAN CALLED PETER"
NOW A MOVIE
By S. L. Morgan, Sr., Wake Forest, N. C.
For once, I hail with confidence and
joy the coming of a great religious mov
ie, A Man Called Peter, which is to be
released "shortly after Easter." This is
the information just received from Mrs.
Peter Marshall, author of the now fa
mous best-seller, A Man Called Peter-.
Sixteen months ago she wrote to me
as one of the 1,800 who, she said, had
written her their high evaluation of her
book. That letter was an urgent appeal
to her "friends" to send up a "veritable
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