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Minneapolis spokesman., 1938-02-04

The Mission Circle of St. James
A. NJ. E. of st. Paul, carrying out
its Christian purposes, held meet
ing with Rev. and Mrs. 1. Brown,
500 st. Anthony Ave. Rev. Brown
has been "shut in" for four months.
After a devotional service Bible
explanations were given. Mrs. B.
L. Edwards gave brief review of
the lesson. The Browns were
highly pleased with the visit.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1938-02-04
Indian Flaniacks

Mexican Indians grind corn for
tortillas on the three legged
metates. The corn is soaked, then
ground, and water added to make a
paste. 1t is kneaded, then shaped
like thin pancake on the palms,
and cooked. It seems almost un-
canny the number of tortillas that
are consumed.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1938-02-04
Japanese ~enesis Like Bible

The japanese tradition of creation
recounts that in the dim ages Of
the past ahsfe existed "a. Trinity who
dweIt. in: SPACE; LateT game :other
dieties, and after seven generations
HSgotten!' 'ftoT' thesP:;. the :ersstfo6,
WHICH. WAS: SQnfne1: ID. Japah, was
decided on, and carried through in
six stages, almost similar to the
story in the pible.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1938-02-04
Lesson for February 6,
CHALLENGING THE SOCIAL
ORDER
LESSON TEXT-Mark 3:lS-22.

LESSON TEXT-Mark 3:lS-22.
GOLDEN TEXT came not to can
the righteous. but sinners-Mark Alt.
PRIMARY TOPIC-When Jesus Had
Dinner With Matthew.
JUNIOR TOPIC-when Jesus Passed
By.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC-Helping by Being Friendly.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP
IC-Crusading for q Christian Society.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-30
PROBATION HEAD
 B. Y.P.U. GUEST
Kathleen Crowley to Dis= cuss Juvenile DeIin=
 quency Tomorrow

Miss Kathleen Crowley, probation officer, will address the B. Y. P. U. on Juvenile Delinquency in the City tomorrow evening at the First Baptist church.
 Lyall Hill of the American will talk on Reading as Leisure Time Activity at the meeting of the Bap- tist Young People tomorrow.
 The next service of baptism at the Baptist church will be held Sunday, May IS. at II a. m. There will also be service of dedication for chil- dren at the morning worship that day.
 The Willow street group of the Baptist church met yesterday at the parsonage. The hostesses were Miss Minnie Frost, and Mrs. E. c. Terry. The Overlook Group also met yes- terday at the home of Mrs. Charles Hine on Lexington avenue.
 The Bunker Hill group will hold a rummage sale the second week of May with Mrs. Eugene Beadle and Mrs. Merrills in charge.
 The Baptist committee studying the Unified Program and the special program for Mothers Day held a meeting Thursday evening.
 The Mems League will meet Mon- day, May 16, at 8 o'clock. A sound motion picture entitled, Flying the Lindbergh Trail will be shown by the National AirWays Company which will send a special operator from New York to present it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-30
BAPTIST WOMEN PLAN LUNCHEON
Missionary and Social Union Celebrates 10th
 Birthday Wednesday

The 40th birthday party of the Women's Missionary and Social Union will be held next Wednesday at the First Baptist church. A cov- cred dish luncheon will be served at o'clock followed by a program of "reminiscences of the past forty years.
 Mrs. A. E. Sault and Mrs. w. A. Robbins have prepared the program. The hostesseS will be Miss Elizabeth Kendall, Mrs. A. E. Sault and Mrs. Joseph Telford.
 Several members of the Baptist Workers Conference will attend the lecture of Dr. Robert Seneca Smith next Tuesday evening at 7:15 o'clock at the First Congregational church.
 The Baptist Church School plans an assembly program centered around the theme of Home for Mothers Day, May 8. The depart ments will present different kinds of homes, such as they have been thinking about and the program will be bound together with hymns and elements of worship.
 The annual church and church school picnic will be held at Smiths Pond in Watertown, Saturday, June IS. The Junior department will hold a birthday celebration tomorrow in honor of those who have had birth days in February, March and April
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-30
Christ. Science
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Everlasting Punishment" will be the subject of the Lesson Sermon.
 The Golden Text is from Ezekiel 1923: Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live.?"
 Selections from the Bible include the following: Now no christening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grevious: nevertheless afterward it yieldedth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby" Hebrew 12:1D.
 Correlative readings from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Script ures" by Mary Baker Eddy, include the following from page 32214-15, 22,31: Mans wisdom finds no satis- faction in sin since God has sen- fenced sin to suffer A man who likes to do wrong finding pleasure in it and refraining from it only through fear of consequences - is neither a temperate man nor a reliable religionist. |. It is easier to desire Truth than to rid ones self of error. Mortals may seek the understanding of Christian Science, but they will not be able to glean from Christian Science the facts of being without striving for them. This strife consists in the endeavor to forsake error of every kind and to possess no other consciousness but good"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-30
VISITINC NURSE
 CHURCH SPEAKER
Alice Peak to Describe Work at Second Con-
 gregatiOnal Farley

The Second Congregational Wo- mems Association meeting next Wednesday afternoon at o'clock in Da ayenport hall will be in charge oI tho Christian Citizenship Commit tee with Mrs. Orton P. Camp in charge.
 Alice Peak, supervisor of the Vis- iting Nurses Association, will be the speaker and will lecture on the work done by the nurses in Water bury. Tea and a social hour Will follow. An executive board meeting wiu be held at 2:30 o'clock in the parlor.
 Monday evening the Second Con- grcgational senior choir will go to Woolsey hall in New Haven to take part in the annual spring choir fes- tival held by the Connecticut State Federation of Choirs. The entire program will be broadcast from 8:3o to 10 o'clock over W1CC.
 The Waterbury Federation of Mems Bible Glasses will meet we'd negday, May II, in the chapel of the Second church instead of the first Wednesday of the month as : usual.
 The following officers were elect cd at the Sunday Noon Club last Sunday for the 1938-39 season: Pres ident, Charles R. Sumpf; vice-pres- ident, Howard L. Holcomb; secretary Walter M. Boyd; treasurer. Robert w. Ker: organist, William E. Mc- Bride; and song leaders, Herbert $. Smith and Charles Doescher.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-30
ST. LOANS DAY
 WILL BE MAY 8

Paris, April 30. (UP)-More than 10000 statues of St. Joan of Arc will be lowered -decked May as France celebrates the national holiday cre- ated in tribute to the Maid of Or leans, who still retains her grip on the French imagination as one of the most striking figures in the na- tion's history.
 The entire month of May is the month of Joan of Arc throughout France, from the tiniest village to the capital. While thousands are passing St. Joan's statues in Paris, many more are paying homage to the heroic maid at Domremy, where she was born 516 years ago; at Or leans, where she revealed her mili- tary proWess! at Rheims, where she saw her king, Charles VII, crowned; and in Rouen, where ancient houses still stand around the town square just as they stood when the faggots were piled and Joan was brought to die on May 30, 1430.
 Ceremonies are being held in all these places which played a role in loans brief but heroic career. At Rheims, where John D. Rockefeller, Jr., helped restore the Gothic cathe- dral, ceremonies will be delayed un- til July, when they will coincide with the dedication of the restored cathedral. At that time group of Englishmen, "who have not forgot ten that cruel, undying sin we shared in Rouen marketplace, will present a replica of Joan's standard to the cathedral for inclusion in its treasures.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-30
MISSIONARY.UNIT
 SECURES SPEAKER
Mrs. Leila Alexander to Lecture at First M. E.
 Church Wednesday

Mrs. Leila T. Alexander, directress of the Pearl Street Neighborhood House, will speak on Increasing Awareness' at the Women's Mis- sionary Society's meeting Wednes- day afternoon at 2:45 o'clock at the First Methodist Episcopal church. Music will be furnished by group from the Neighborhood House.
 The Standard Bearers, Queen Es- ther Society, will hold 8 hot dog roast and business meeting at 25 Adelaide avenue from noon to 3 o'clock next Tuesday. The Mothers Club will convene Tuesday eXening at which time election of officers will take place.
 Thursday of next week a public luncheon will be held under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society. Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock there will be prayer meeting.
 Several members of the First M. E. church will attend the district meeting of the w. F. M. s. in New Britain Friday, May 6, beginning at 10:30 8. m.
 Wednesday, May Ii, the Ladies Aid will hold a hobby tea in charge of Mrs. Charles Toleman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-30
SALVATION ARMY
 PLANS SERVICES
Young Peoples Days to Be Observed
 Here June 4 and 5

The Annual Young Peoples Days for the Salvation Army will be held in Waterbury from June to 5, Saturday and Sunday, inclusive Delegations of Young People from twenty-four cities are expected to meet in Waterbury to conduct class es, religious services, demonstrations and exhibitions of art and wood- work.
 The outstanding event of the weekend will be the finals of a Speakers Contest in the auditorium of Wilby High School. The elimina- ton contests have been in progress for three weeks now, two speakers being chosen to compete in the finals June 4th in the evening. A further announcement will be made.
 Commissioner Alexander M. Damon of New York City will be the principal speaker. Colonel Will liam Barrett, Field Secretary and Brigadier Claude Bates, Territorial Young Peoples Secretary, will also advise the Young People.
 All services will be open to the public and every service except the Speakers Contest will be held in the auditorium at 186 Cherry Street, local Salvation Army Citadel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-30
CHURCH RECEIVES
 MEMBERS SUNDAY

Many new members will be re- ceived into the church at worship services tomorrow morning at the Bunker Hill Congregational church.
 They include: MT. and Mrs. Nor- man G. Brownsword, MT. and Mrs. Charles E. Benedict, Eleanor Bene- dict, MT. and Mrs. Cyril Cross. Mrs. Howard w. Freeman, MT. and Mrs. Arthur G. Griess, MT. and Mrs. Herman Krebs, MT. and Mrs. Ralph E. Story, John Dixon, Norman Dun- can. Mary Fairbank, Doris Heebner, Andrew Hill, Geraldine Jones, Will liam Kurtz, Werner Larson, Robert Lowell, Walter Lowell, Donald Rob- bins, Albert Shattuck, Phillip Story and Bertha Webb.
 Celebration of the Lords Supper will be observed at the morning worship. Meditation by Rev. Alan M. Fairbank, pastor, will be entitled, "The Church, the Body of Christi.
 The Young Peoples Society will meet at ' o'clock tomorrow night. Mary Hastings of St. Margarets school will speak on International Relations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-30
JAPANESE GUEST
 OF CHURCH UNIT
Robert ShimOda to Speak at Federated Fellowship
 Meeting Tomorrow

Arthur Tracy, chemist at the American Brass Company, will speak on My Work as Chemist" at the meeting of the Young Peo- ple's Christian Fellowship tomor- row evening at 6:30 o'clock in the South Federated church parish house. It will be the second of series of lectures on vocational guidance courses.
 Rev. R. Norris Wilson, assistant minister. will be in charge of the meditation at 10:45 o'clock tomor- row morning.
 Robert Shimoda of Kumamato. Japan, who holds masters degree from Columbia University and who is at present enrolled in Yale Di- vinity School, will address the Fed erated Fellowship tomorrow evening at 6:15 o'clock on "The Far East ern Situation"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-30
Methodist
FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL

FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL Rev. Theodore c. Bobilin, pastor Miss Dorothy Gates, Director Of Religious Education.
 Choir - Charles w. Platt, direc- tor and bass; soprano, Mrs. Charles R. Toleman; contralto, Mrs. Ronald E. Jones; tenor; William M. Blair; organist, Mrs. Edwin H. Jones.
 (Services Tomorrow Organ Prelude-"Romance" .....
 .............. Svendsen Hymn-"Holy, Holy, Lord God AL
 mighty"
 Call to Worship-by the Choir Responsives and Prayer Choir Authenticated Are They
 Smith Offertory--"Spring Song" ..:.....
 MendelSsohn Communion Meditation-"He Had
 Supper With Them"
 Rev. Theodore c. Bobilin Holy Communion Organ Postlude - Norwegian Dance" .................. crieg The Church Nursery is open each Sunday from 10:3O to 12 o'clock to care for Children six years and under while their parents attend the morning service.
 Church School 12 Noon Epworth League
 Young People will meet at 500 o'clock and attend in a group the meeting at the Salvation Army.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-30

in this country were established in what are now the states Of Florida and New Mexico. Most of these schools were founded for the education of Indians. There was, in addition, a class ical schol at St. Augustine, Fla, in 1906.
 Spanish law obliged settlers in New Mexico. then under Span ish rule, to establish schools in every village. There were also many pre-revolutionary period schools in Texas and California, established by Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries. These were largely industrial and agri- cultural schools.
 c: Is there any rule about rabbis marrying?
 A: A rabbi may or may not get married as he personally sees fit. The rabbi is not a priest and has no obligation to live by a special or distinct rule of life. His life and conduct must not be separate from his people, but rather an example for them to follow.
 Most rabbis, as do most other Jews, marry. Congregations usually expect the rabbi to be married: some congregations will not have a leader who is not
 married.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-30
CAST OF PLAY PARTY GUESTS
Second Congregational Passion Thespians to
 Be Feted Thursday

A covered dish supper will be held in Davenport hall next Thurs day evening at 6:15 o'clock for all those who took part in the Passion Play, presented recently at the Sec ond Congregational church. Mrs Winslow H. Russell, president of the Passion Players, will be in charge of the event, assisted by commit tee of church women. Following the supper business meeting will be held with reports from the secretary and treasurer and social half hour.
 The Pilgrim Fellowship of the Second Congregational church will hold a food sale at Grieve, Bisset & Hollands next Thursday. The Even ing Department will sponsor a card party next Tuesday evening at g o'clock. Mrs. Howard L. Holcomb and Miss Anna Mackie will be in charge of reservations.
 The calendar of events at the Second Church next week follows: Sunday, May l.
 10:30 a. m. May Communion
 Service, Kindergarten Depart
 ment.
 12:0O m.-Church school, Daven-
 port Bible Class. Monday, May D.
 400 D. m.-Girl Scouts, Troop 3. Tuesday, May 8
 800 p. m.-Evening Department
 Card Party. Wednesday, May A.
 9:3O a. m.-Surgical Dressings. 2:30 D. m.-Board Meeting.
 800 D. m.-Women's Association
 Meeting
 800 D.. m.-Alpha Nu Sorority. Thursday, May 5- 6.15 D. Uncovered Dish Supper
 for Passion Players and work
 CTS.
 800 p. m.--Alpha Omega Frater-
 nity. Friday, May G.
 400 D. m. Junior Choir Re-
 hearsal.
 7:30 D. m. Senior Choir Re-
 hearsal.
 7:3O D. m.-Boy Scouts, Troop '.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-30
Episcopal
ST. JOHNS EPISCOPAL

Services Tomorrow .... 800 A. M.-Holy Communion. 1O:3O A. M.-Morning Prayer and
 Sermon. 12:0O Noon-Sunday School. 7:30 P. M.-Evening Prayer and
 Sermon. Second Sunday After Easter-May l Morning Prayer and Sermon at 10:30 A. M. Offertory Anthem Smart
 The Lord is my shepherd
 Evening Prayer and Sermon at 7:3O P. M. Offertory Anthem Barnby
 Break forth into joy
 The Flowers on the Altar tomor- row will be in loving memory of Laura L. White. Howard s. White, Helen w. White, Anna s. White, Mary w. White.
 Girls Friendly Play
 Friday, May 9th, at 7:30 p. m, the Girls Friendly Candidates will present two plays: Why the Garden Quarrelled and Blue Scarf. Mothers Guild There will be card party under the auspices of the Mothers Guild next Wednesday, May 4th at 2:30 p. m. Junior Guild
 There will be card party given by the Junior Guild Thursday, May 5th at 800 p. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-30
Weekly Sunday School Lesson-- WILLINGNESS TO HELP
Text: Mark 7:14-29

it, and there is always plenty to do for those who have the vision of tasks that they are willing to per- form.
 Jesus communed with His disci- ples, taught them, and discussed various matters with them, but al ways they came back to the multi tude, and always He enforced by His words and His example the fact that His religion was one of service. Here in our lesson we have a story of Jesus miraculously helping young man who had been dumb from child. In addition to his dumbness, he was afflicted with some form of insanity, and his sufferings were in- tense and pitiful.
 The father of the young man, hearing of the fame of Jesus and His disciples, had brought the young man to the disciples in the hope that they would heal the boy, but they were not able. Jesus rebuked their lack of faith, but there was a mildpess in His rebuke at the end of the story where He says that the miracle could have been accom- plished by nothing save by prayer.
 It is difficult to derive from les son lil.2 this teachings that are more than Gneeral in nature, that is, un- less we take literalistic view of Christian healing. The whole sub- ject of Christian healing is one that is deep and intricate and that can- not be discussed within the limits of brief comment on lesson.
 The view that Christians can per- form miracles of healing is not with out much to support it in fact, but it is equally true that there is little evidence that Christian faith and good will can accomplish everywhere and in every case forms of healing that seem possible only by medical and surgical aid.
 Medical and surgical aid, we must recognize, are just as much Gods through any other laws and ways of way of working as are workings nature. The fact is that modern medical science is performing on vast scale today wonders of healing that are quite as remarkable as thosee attributed to miraculous in- tervention, with the additional fact that these modern wonders are workable in every instance where the facts and conditions are the same.
 We are living in a world of law, though faith and devotion lead us often to a higher law. The great teaching of a lesson like this, as of all the wonder working miracles of Jesus. is regarding what can be oc- complished if we are willing to use the means at our disposal. If, in our modern world with all who profess the name of Christ, there were the same willingness to help and heal which Jesus displayed in His earthly life, what remarkable things might be accomplished in bringing health and restoration to millions in a suf- fering world!
 All speculation and all controversy regarding such matters of faith heal ing-ancient and modern-become insignificant in the light of this great solid fact. If we could turn the minds and interests of all Christians towards this positive possibility of accomplishment if Christian peoples and churches were consecrated to do all in their power to strengthen and apply the healing agencies of a modern world, we should attain the highest practical result from study ing lesson like this.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-30
ST. MICHAEL'S

ST. MICHAEL'S
 For week commencing May
 The services in St. Michael's church tomorrow, St. Philip and St. James also second Sunday after Easter, will beas follows: Celebra- ton of the holy communion at 7:30 a. m. Sunday school in the parish house at 9:30 a. m. Holy commun- ion and sermon at II a. m. Sermon subject "Wavering Christianity"
 Monday: 700 p. m.-Men's Glee club in choir room. 7:45 p. m.- Girls Friendly society in parish house. This will be a neighborhood meeting with members of the G. F. s. from Christ church, as guests.
 Tuesday: 6:45 p. m.-Altos and so- pranos. 800 p. m.-St. Michaels Service club in parish house.
 Wednesday: TOO p. m.-Rehearsal for members of Girls Friendly so- ciety in choir room. 800 p. m.- Dramatic club in parish house.
 Thursday: FOO p. m.-Troop 2 B. s. A. in parish house. 800 p. m.- Officers and teachers of Sunday school in parish house. 800 D. m.- Dress rehearsal for cast of Musical Album" in choir room adjourning later to the parish house.
 Friday: 3:30 p. m.-Brownie Pack in parish house. 700 p. m.-Girl Scouts in parish house. 700 D. m.- Altos and sopranos; entire choir at 8 p. m.
 Tickets have been distributed for sale among the members of the Girls Friendly society and St. Mi- chael's Glee club for the musical Album" which is to be presented by the join organization on the evening of Friday, May 6 in St. Michael's parish house. The two organiza- tions have been rehearsing for a number of weeks and are prepared to present an interesting program which should be very attractive.
 On Friday. May there will be a meeting of the Woman,s Auxiliary to the National Council at St. Johns church, Waterbury beginning at 10 o'clock. In the afternoon at 2:15 p. m. there will be mission ary service with the Rev. John V. Butler, Jr., of Springfield, Mass, as the speaker.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-30
Hillside Congregational

Church school in the Hillside Con- gregational church will be held to- morrow at 9:45 a. IT.. There will be worship and Bible study for boys and girls, as well as, young people and adults.
 The morning worship will be in Swedish at Il o'clock, when there will be a sermon on the topic "The Shepherd Christ" Music will be by the male sextet.
 There will also be an evening service at 7:30 o'clock. The church choir will sing and there will be a sermon on T Don't Know What I Believe. The union service which was to have been held on the Con- gregational church on the Green, will not be held.
 In the calendar for the ensuing week there are the following mo- tices:
 On Monday evening at 8 o'clock the church meeting for May will be held with Fridolph Anderson preSid- ing.
 The Community Leadership Train ing school meets in the Hillside church for it's second session on Tuesday at 7:30 p. m.
 The Ladies' Auxiliary meets on Wednesday at 8 o'clock in the churchs parish rooms. Mrs. Don- atus Anderson and Mrs. Arnold An- derson will be hostesses in the re- freshment period.
 Another special mid-week worship service will be held on Thursday at p. m. There will be sermon on "Christ's Request"
 There will be choir rehearsal on Friday evening at 8 o'clock with Roy M. Johnson directing. A Mothers Day program will be given by the Junior league on Sat-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-30
CONGREGATIONAL

The church school will meet at 9:45 in the parish house. Morning worship will be held at II o'clock. The minister, Rev. Edward R. Hance will preach on "The Symbol of Our Faith" Children's subject, Tired of Being a Little Girl"
 Music: Introductory Voluntary, "Adagio," Franck; Anthem, Holy, Holy, Holy" Stewart; offertory, 70 Taste and See", Goss; Concluding Voluntary, 'Andante Marstoso', |, Franck.
 The church kindergarten, where parents may leave their younger childen while they attend the church service, will be in charge of Mrs. Anna Soyia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-30
THOMASTON-BETHLEHEM
 EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN North Main street at Electric

Rev. E. Einar Kron, pastor
 Sunday, May l Second Sunday after Easter 300 a. m.-Services will be con- ducted in the Swedish language, when the Sermon will be deliv- cred by Rev. Carl B. Sandberg of Cranston, R. l. l0:l5 a. m. - Sunday school Will meet.
 Tn the afternoon and evening, members of Bethlehem will attend the services in Naugatuck, which bring to 6 close the annual conven- tion of the New England Conference being held this week in Salem Luth- eran church.