Bronze Reporter [Volume: 7, Issue: 50]

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Seen making plans for the Willow Run Bible Institute: which opened Saturday, May 6, 1961, in Superior Township, Ypsilanti, Michigan, are: Mrs. Marie Bryant, Mrs. I. Martin, Mrs. A. Byars, Rev.
James Whitehead, Mrs. S. Lockett, Mrs. F. Gaudy Rey. H. Byars, and Mr. E. McCoy.:

@ University.ef Michigan socioTovist predicts in a new book,
~The Religious Factor,~ to be
published Friday (May 19). ~

_ Associate Prof. Gerhard Lenski
also predicts, hewever, a rise in
the proportion~ of white Protestants and Catholics regularly attending churehes. The book is
_, based on interviews with a eross
tion of the residents of the

etroit metropolitan area.

The increasing Amerieanization
cf the population, the expansion
of the middle class, the premeation of the. working class by

the mass media, and the rising
level of education, should all
result in decreased churth-going
by Negro Protestants and Jews.

CHURCH NEWS

By JAMES~ ALFRED BUTLER

Publisher Ben Nathanson: was
awarded the ~Blessed St. Martin
de Porres~ award by the Catholic |
Interracial Commission. at its an- |
nual awards breakfast Sunday,
held at St. Agnes Church. The
breakfast followed. the annual
holy mass held for the CIC with: litan - Baptist Church, 13110
archbishop John Dearden as cele- | ~~ -
rant. Nathanson was given. the| 14th Street at Buena Vista. Mrs.

Verda Bell is president. and Rev.
| Charles W. Butler, pastor. Woman~s Day celebration has been

diplomat and John Karefa-Smart,
Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Sierra Leone. Rev. James E.
Warsworth, Jr., pastor of St.
Mark, will attend as an observer.

A Mother~s Day Tea sponsored
by the Missionary - Department
was held Sunday at the Metro
Justice.~ Nathanson, steamy
of the Eastside News, was specifically cited for his efforts petro opp ile Sunday, May 28,

~ea | Helen Butler schedae in behalf of improved | uled as guest speaker. Mrs. Lula

relations and his out-|::
standing coverage of Rule 9. oo ear aires cheirinan.
sé Testimonial honoring Mrs. Ruth
James E. Woodward of Edison! Spraggs by Beulahland Temple
Ave., and an elder of St. Mark~s| No. 569 L.B.P.0.E. of W was held
Community Church, will be a/ last Sunday evening in the Leccommissioner (voting delegate) to| ture Hall of Tabernacle Baptist
the 173rd General Assembly of;Church. Mother-Daughter Banquet

the United Presbyterian Church
in the U.S.A., in Buffalo, N.Y.,
May 17 to 24. As the Assembly,
governing body of the church,
Mr. Woodward will be one of the
988 commissioners who will consider the policies, program and
finances of the over 3,000,000 -member denomination. Prominent
speakers at the Assembly will
Miss M. Juanita Walker is the
Youth Activities Director.
include Charles Malik, Labanese

Promote Program
at Lucy Thorman

Volunteers at Lucy Thurman
Branch YWCA __have been very
busy helping to make the Tuesday program a success, it is called
For Girls Only. Mrs. Mary Agnes

Davis has served as a volunteer |
organizer, working with the staff |

member, Mrs. Ruth Haslip, Assistant Youth Activities Director,
in planning the program. This
program is for girls ages 12-14.
Girls are bussed down to the
Branch from Sherrard, McMichael
and Garfield Junior High Schools,
girls living. in the neighborhood
walk to the building for classes
in Modern Dance, Party Favorites,
Sewing and Roller Skating.
Volunteers have been Mrs.
Doryce.Postles and staff, gave a
demonstration of make up using
Fuller Products, Mr. J. Marlowe
Crawford, Director of the Diggs
House of Flowers, supervized and
demonstrated floral arrangements, Miss Woody LeGon, charm
demonstrator using Vivian Woodward Products, Mrs. Fannie Holley, Director of Detroit School. of

Cosmetology and a student styled:

hair and pointed up the necessity
of having easy to care for styles
for school.

Persons. volunteering ever y.
Tuesday are Mrs. Evelyn Tracey,
Mrs. Kitty Nicholson, charm instructors.

+ chairman; Mrs. Mayme Pickett, |
~delivered the evening message

was held Saturday evening. The
affair was sponsored by members
of the Missionary Society.

Condolences extended to: Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar Harris, Mrs. Harris lost her brother, Mr. Richard
Warren, funeral services for Mr.
Warren was. conducted last
Tuesday; Mrs. Annie Laura McCarrol, who lost her grandmother
in Dayton, Ohio.

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Women~s Day services for the
New Light Herald have been
planned for the fourth Sunday
in. June. Mrs. Emma Lee Shaw is

co-chairman. Dr. J. C. Austin, Jr.
preached Sunday~ morning~s service. The Rey. L. A. Hamblin

immediately after communion service. Rev. Hamblin is pastor of
Golden Leaf Baptist Church in
Memphis, Tennessee. The Willing
Workers.Club celebrated its anniversary in the main auditorium
of the church. The Rev. R. W.
Wright, pastor of.Mt. Zion Baptist Church preached the anniversary sermon. The choirs of Mt.
Zion furnished the music. Mrs.
Annie~ Mitchell is president.

The Matrons invite the public
to attend a Musical Tea at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis H.
Ellis, 3298 Carter Sunday, May
21. Mrs. Emmalee Shaw is president.

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A chartered bus will take AME
missionaries, youth supervisors
and others to a retreat at Kittrell
College, Henderson, N.C. July
24 to July 29. Theresa Ann Dye,
recent debutante of the April
in Paris Ball sponsored by the
Gamma Phi Delta Sorority is the

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according to Lenski.:

However, he warns that white
Protestantism is in some dan~ger of becoming merely a ~cultural religion.~ He bases this
conclusion~on the fact that these
same social forces which. are associated with low rates of doctrinal orthodxy and personal devotion and piety.

Negro Protestantism in Detroit and other northern cities
seems to be passing through a
difficult period as it attempts
to adjust to it~s new environment, Mr. Lenski found. Most
| churches seem still~ to have a
strong appeal for the southern
Michigan State President of the

Young People~s department... Shirley Wilcos is director of children
and youth work ~for the State
AME Church and Mamie L. Aiker
is Fourth Episcopal Director of
the young people~s department.

They will be in charge of the
trip which will include boys and
girls. The Michigan Girl and Boy

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middle class values thanks _ to:

asserts.

The book, priced at $5.95, will
be published by Doubleday and

| ~e., Inc., Garden Cify, New York.

Service and Workshop
NEW YORK ~ ovr. Horatio
| Seymour Hill, Dean, announces; that a-new (4) year program of
the National Sunday School and
B.T.U. Congress will be introduced at the annual session at
St. Louis, June 19-25, 1961:
Dean Hill.and. a special program committee will use the late
Christian Education Bulletin as
a guile to the work being done
in this new forward looking Congress program.
The Congress Board visualizes
a new challenge both from the
angle of specific needs for service to the great denomination of
Baptist in the world: To the
peculiar, social, civic and economie status and affliction of the
total race group of which the
Baptist is the largest religious
constituents and to all people
at. large who may be reached
and inspired to adopt more largely the emphasis of the teaching

processes as a needy strategy in
Christian Education.

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they are bound~ to decline. Lenski

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MRS. RUTH SPRAGGS (centér) who ~has receive
honor in Elkdom, Past Grand Daughter Ruler, was honored at a~
Testimonial -Recéption recently at Tabernaele Baptist Church
where Mrs. Helen Carney, made the presentation of the jeweled

_ collar. With them is the honoree~s husband, Mr. Will Spraggs.

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Peoples Observe Mother Day

Annual Mother~s Day was observed Sunday at People~s Community Chureh, Woodward and
Pingree.

The highest tributes were paid
to motherhood in gifts, words: of
praise, songs and music.

The Golden-Age Club of the
church -presented gifts to the
youngest mother, the oldest mother, and the mother with the mast
children present. The winners
were Mrs. Jacqueline Helton, 19,
Mrs. Hattie Lewis, 76, and Mrs.
Helen Clabourne, respectively.
Mrs. Clabourne had five children
at the worship services. iy
~Prayer during the broadcast
over WCHB, was offered by the

reading by the Rev. Ernestine
Matthews; the visitors were intro- ~
duced. by Mrs. June Sears.

The Rev. Darneau V. Stewart,
the assistant pastor preached a
dynamic sermon on ~The Ideal:
Mother,~ to an overflowing congregation of more than 1,500
worshippers.

In his closing remarks the
young minister declared: ~We
should make our mothers fegl
like somebody, and not push them
around.~ ~

Mrs. Corrine. Gaines was the
seloist during the invitational
hymn for new members.

The pastor the Rev. Carlyle F.
Stewart preached at the 7:30 a.m.

Rev. James Harrington; Scripture! services.

WE ARE CHALLENGED: EARN SURVIVAL OR LOSE IT

The challenge is as old as time and as. urgent as tomorrow~s headlines. Peace or

War? What can | do about it?
Beneath the shadow of super-bombs, caught in the clash of

individual most often feels frustrated, insignificant. He is a grain of sarid in history~s
_ hour-glass. The sand moves, time runs out, he is left helpless, impotent.

Or is he? Are any of us.so imprisoned. by our fate?

Only if we default. Only if we leave our fate to others: governments, statesmen}
Scientists, committees, institutions. Only if-we do not care enough, or know enough,
to realize that these are valuable only as instruments of the public will. Only if we

fail to see that freedom is not/a

large as a mushroom cloud but they are smaller than an individual idea. The right

_ idea triggers the mightier explosion.

super-powers, the

Support for such ideas must come from you. You as a working member of a working
Democracy are not insignificant but all-powerful. What you think, what you do, how
much you care~ these decide. Not only between peace and war. But also the
problems of this twilight world of neither peace nor war. The problems of our free _
- society that demand exceptional attention today.
Give them your attention today. Begin by reading the new Report of the President~s ~
Commission on National Goals. It draws guidelines for the nation during the critical
decade ahead. It maps the ways in which you can exert your personal power and

gift, or peace the absence of war, and that neither, influence: at home, at-work with your family, neighbors, friends.

Both President Eisenhower and President Kennedy urge you to think about an@
act upon this new. Report. Make our national goals your personal
goals. Get a copy of the Report, entitled ~Goals for Americans~ at
your bookstore in either hardcover or $1 paperback. Or send for the
free digest version below. Know the challenges. Know. how to meet }
~ them. The knowledge gives you power to shape your own future.
and. the nation~s fate. They are one and the: same,

is the responsibility of the few.

Freedom and peace are'each a task, hard and demanding of all. They are especially
demanding of a democracy because it is the, exceptional society. It is ever under
exceptional attack from those who would deny man~s freedom by war or any means. |
To survive, a democracy must prove that it deserves to survive. Individuals must
Prove it, as they have in the past. Individuals have changed history and altered
whole societies. Individual ideas havé'inspired the greatest sagas in the story of
man. The problems of peace-and war, of disarmament and survival, may loom as

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