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Show Third Presbyterian Church 17th South and 11th East C. K. Naffziger, Pastor Res. 9S3 Lincoln St. 4-3770 "Work camps are an unusual feature of religious work for young people but are being promoted pro-moted in various parts of the United States by the Presbyterian Church. First pioneered by the Quakers these camps are located in a district where the young peo- pie at intervals in a strenuous J work schedule in the outdoors are , taken on surveys of the economic I and social sore spots in our national life, this followed by service ser-vice projects in which actual ministry to the needy are given. The nearest ' "Camp" sponsored by Presbyterans is at Monte Vista, Vis-ta, Colorado. Cost of attendance is exceedingly low. There is room for more youth now. Address inquiries in-quiries to the department of Social Soc-ial Education and Action, 917 Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, Pa. The Women's organizations o" the church have been planning some unusual progrdms of late. Set for next Tuesday at 12:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Emil Nyman, 946 East 17th South stret is the annual picnic of the Ladies Aid Society. Members will bring articles for the lunch which will be in the out-doors. Mrs. Hazel Speers is in charge of the event. This is the last meeting of the Ladie's Aid before Fall. The last meeting of the Woman's Missionary Mis-sionary Society was at the Student Stud-ent Fellowship Center at the University Un-iversity where the cooperating denominations of the are carrying car-rying forward a religious program for the students. An impressive program and well located facilities facili-ties are provided, and headed by the Rev. Charles Ramsey. At the close of the morning service ser-vice at the Church copies of "Today" "To-day" the daily devotional m-ga-( Continued on Page 5) I PRESBYTERIAN' I (Contiued from Page 1) ' zine tor the home can be secured, i The June issue has been prepared I by Dr. Toyohike Kagawa, the I world famous Japanese Christian leader who has often been de-j de-j scribed as the world's greatest i Christian. He attended he Presbyterian Pres-byterian General Assembly recently rec-ently held at St. Louis where he challenged Americans to live their gospel. He cited the sufferings endured by Christians in the Orient Or-ient in the face of national and family oppostion, who have remained re-mained faithful to Christ and deplored de-plored the casualness with which Christians in a free land take their religion. The spirit of the entire General Assembly echoed the words of one young speaker, Dr. Harold Kerschner, of Poughkeepie, N. Y., who said "There is only one hope for the World, and that is that man, facing the realistic facts of life, will dare to venture the impossible." Jesus is the world's hope and his method was Third Church and hosts of personal friends deplore the leaving leav-ing of Dr. Lincoln Barker and his family for Tennessee where he is taking an important post in Marysville College. He has been a tower of strength to the educational edu-cational and religious work while here. Mrs. Barker has bee equal ly active and influencial. She has a new book recently written ana soon off the press which will mark her debut in book circles. She is however an old hand at writing, as her name has appeared appear-ed at the head of articles in various vari-ous magazines. May success be theirs in their every venture. |