10 THE CAROLINA TIMES, SAT., NOV. 8, 1975
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NOTE - To the many reader of
Mr. Ruts columns: Because of
space limitations last week, we did
not carry "Writers Forum" and
"Potpourri so this week we are
doubling up. We try not to have
this happen. Thanks for your
forebearance. -The Editor
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MELVIN CUTLER
With the cancellation of Mrs.
Pauline Boxley's Youth Day
speaker, the Union Baptist order of
worship service returned to its
general format with Dr. Grady D.
Davis at the pulpit. A change of
pace for a shor Hived period is a
welcomed intruder, however, the
average church-goer will quickly
feel cheated if change of pace looks
as though it has become a fixture.
Folk will complain about length of
sermons, disagree on what happens
to a person after death, criticize the
man of God's ability to deliver the
message, but the Zanthippes of the
congregation looks askance at
change of pace, no matter how
edifying. "What a Fellowship" was
sung with lively gusto as the
congregation entered into the
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JOHN BORENS
October 19, Youth Day Service
because they were sure that the
inimitable pastor would be at the
pulpit. Rev. Mrs. Lottie Kee
presided over the Youth Day
Service. The Tots Choir and (the
Young Adult Choir were in charge
of the music. Spreading of the
Gospel was brilliantly depicted in
Phase III of "Prison Ministry , Acts
12, by Dr. Davis.
The Young Adult Choir
presented Rev. Melvin Cutler and
Rev, John Borens in concert,
Sunday, October 19, at 4:30 p.m.
Both men are seniors at Duke
Divinity School, working toward
their Master of Divinity degrees.
Cutler is associate minister at Union
Baptist and minister-elect of Mount
Olivet Baptist Church, Petersburg. v
Va. Borens is pastor of Stanton
Memorial CME Church at Pittsboro.
He studied music with the Chicago
School of Music and the Roosevelt ;
Conservatory of Music. Borens is
married to the former Emma Pearl
Douglas of Shreveport, Louisiana.
The couple has three children:
Johnnie, Jennifer and John Milton.
By GEORGE B. RUSS : v '
'Music of the Black Church."
briUiantly interpreted by the young
ministers, accompanied by Graver
Wilson, Jr., included such popular
favorites as: "Jericho, "Couldn't
Hear Nobody Pray," "Beams of
Heaven." The Young Adult Choir,
under the direction of Mrs.' Hattie
P. Partin, crowned the
documentary with today's sounds
in their interpretation of ' Precious
! Lord." .
' : The HPP production : was
well-coordinated in other areas. The
decorum of the Young Adult
Ushers and the splendid services
executed by the Hospitality
Commit te, who served a good will
ambassadors for the Duke Divinity
School faculty members and
friends; the Mount Olive Baptist
Church delegation and the Boren
family and friends from Staton
Memorial Church at Pittsboro. ,
POTPOURRI PILL: Watch it,
fellows, if you're still seeing a
parade of leggy beauties clad in
only postage stamp garments,
you're seeing what has gone by and
your eyes are playing tricks with .
your torpid imagination. Those
lovelies who had much to show off
in their miniskirts are still hanging
in there with fitted pant suits and
well-designed dresses with "dust
ruffles." We don't shut out
temptation by crawling into a dark
hole nor is a well-turned ankle an
invitation to the kiss of death.
Reverend N. B. Sanders was
spokesman for the Wednesday
evening, mid-week worship service.
"Christians In The Wrong Place."
was the subject of his prophetic
message based on the text, 1 John,
15:14. The UBC Senior Male
Chorus rendered the musk; the
Grady Davis Choir conducted the
lively praise services during the
month of October. The October 22
praise service was conducted by
Mrs. Mary Taylor, . Mrs. Mary
Pointer, Mrs. Bernadette Cooper.
WRITERS
The only Revival, Spring or Fall,
that has attracted people en masse
in the last decade was the recent,
Oct. 19-26, "Great Youth Jubilee"
held at the Mount Gilead Baptist
Church; Reverend Alexander
Mosely, minister. Theme: "Youth,
in Action for Christ.'
ChairmanCoordinator for this
Spiritual Youth Jubilee was Levi
Mitchell. Committee persons: Mrs.
Georgia Mitchell, Miss Marietta
Jones, Mrs. Wilhemena Upchurch,
Glenn Pettifotd, Bernard Morrison,
Miss Marcha Smith, William Cross,
Jr., and Mrs. Shirley Taylor. This
fellowship and worshipful
.experience is a natural for future
engagements.
The U. B. C. Recreation
Department will release its annual
Gospel Sing, Sunday, November 9,
at 6:30 p.m. Featured on the
program will be the Jordannaires,
The Goldenniares and the Soul
Guiders of Durham. Join the long
list of patrons or just follow the
sounds imminenting from the
Appreciation Program making its
1975 debbt.
Lawrence Harper and Vernon
Clark will conduct the Sunday,
November 16, Devotional Service.
Both men have great messages of
faith and trust to edify the service.
At times, we all feel a need for
Christian Counceling. The Rev.
Melvin D. Cutler is available each
Tuesday, at 7:30 p.m., to give
Christian guidance Counceling to
those who are despondent, unsure
of the next turn to make in the
cross roads of life.
Again, thanks to our Sunday
visitors: Mrs. Dorothy Boyd
Thomas, Shady Hill Church,
Roxboro; Kenneth Clark,
Cohodecia, Raleigh; Mrs. Patricia
Steven, St. Paly Holy Church,
Roxboro; Miss Stephanie Steven,
Roxboro,; Mrs. Ella Berrell, Church
of God, Roxboro; Mrs. Willimena
Davis, Mt Vernon Baptist Church,
Durham; RandyTravis Caldwell,
Colquitt Dennis, Durham.
Ms. Edna Fuller (Baby Sister),
Phfladelphia, Pa.; Claude Suitt,
Mahattan, N. Y., som of Mr. and
Mrs. Claude Suitt,; Ms. Eva Day,
Pine Grove Baptist, Creedmoor; Mr.
and Mrs. Willie A. Glenn, Trenton,
N. J.; Visiting grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Willie Glenn; Clinton
Glenn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie
Glenn, Trenton, N. J.
MRS. GENEVA P. McCANN
Church memorials, like the
pictures of loved ones placed on
office desks, work benches, night
tables, or atop chests of drawers
where we can see them often, are
soon forgotten no matter how
well-intentioned we were when
these reminders are established. For
a while we cherish these 'In
Remembrances," but soon their
presences are lost in the maze of
cares that blind our objective eyes
and thoughts to the presence of
these well-intended reminders. This
is a natural tendency and no
offense is intended to the loved
ore, however, it is unforgivable for
us to allow these memorials to be
lost completely. '
In 1970, two flags were placed
on the rostrum in the Union Baptist
Church sanctuary. These beautiful
' flags were placed there in honor
and memory of Deacon and Mrs.
Callie Prince by their daughter, Mrs. '
Geneva Prince McCann.
At least. once a year, salutes are
: made to these beautiful flags by the
children of the Bible Vacation j
School: the American and Christian
flags dedicated to the church in
memory of a family whose
members contributed a great deal
to the development of the early
church. With no disrespect to 'the
donor, or to the venerated family
who loved and sacrificed much for
the church, no thought is given to
why, when, or where these flags
came from. The oversight should
not be continued, therefore, the
Church Historian contacted the
quiet, amiable Mrs. McCann who
resides in the Prince homeplace on
North Elizabeth Street. My findings
are being filed along with other
information pertinent to the
church's salute to our Missionary
Department whose 79th theme is:
"Day By Day, Perform Thy
Mission."
Mrs. Geneva Prince McCann
announced in the very outset that
she would begin at the beginning.
"I am the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Callie Prince. My daddy was a
deacon of Union Baptist Church
until his death - trom 1926 to
1945. He was a wonderful father,
never too busy to give advice to his
children - no matter what the
qauestion was, he listened and gave
us an answer. We did not bother
our mother with our questions, but
she' was a wonderful Christian
mother who explained to us how to
live a clean, Christian life. Russ,
ihere were nine of us children. I
joined Union Baptist at the age of
twelve. I have always loved church
music, so I began taking music
lessions with Mr. Charlie Gattis. He
wouldn't allow me to use any sheet
music, he gave me a hymn book as
soon as I could play with both
hands. I was an apt student and
soon 1 was able to play for the
BYPU. I played for the BYPU every
Sunday evening until 1925. In the
meantime, Mr. Gattis organized a
BYPU band. This band attracted
much growth to our training union.
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MRS. LUCILLE FULLER
In the past the Women's Day
Committee, seemingly, ..left no
stone unturned in its preparations
for a smashing successful
observance, but this year the
gadding about was kept down to an
astonishing minimum and the
results wwere amazingly
momentous.
Women's Day, 1975, was the
best ever. The music was celestial;
Mrs. Doris P. Hollan and her
entourage of beautiful pulpit
aossociates: Ms. Louis Allan, Mrs.
Annie Daniels, Rev. Mrs. Lottie B.
Kee, was the touch of purple-velvet
in today's crown; and, the Women's
Day Messengers, Mrs. Celestia H.
Sanders was par excellence; "Jesus,
The Sweetest Name I Know" was
the subject of the speakers'
discourse. A straight forward,
clearly defined message for persons
of all ages. The Women's Day
Theme: 'The Divine Concern For
the Troubled" was dexteriously
woven into the message, so
completely, that the manifestation
was of beauty, cogency and
lucidity.
The Women's Day Choir's,
repertoire included such popular
favorites as: antheem, "One More
River to Cross: Blessed Assurance,
We've Come This Fax by Faith, May
Li the Work I've Done Speak for Me
and "Where Shall I Go.' Soloist, .
Mrs.Zenobk Harden, "His Eye is on
the Sparrow."
Many fine things materialized
during the Union Baptist Women's
Day salute to Christian women: a
dedication ceremony for a baby
and a little girl, a banquet style
fellowship dinner; the 6:30 p.m.
service was presided over by Mrs.
Willie M. Fields. At this time a
treatise of the Women's Day theme:
"Devine Concern For The
Troubled" was formulated by an all
women panel: Miss Beverly
Holland, Mrs.Maxine Mason, and
Miss Eva D. Best. The prelude to
the panel discussion was alptly
performed by the Women's Day
Choir, Mrs. Addie Mack.
The dosing remarks for this
memorable event were, naturally,
given by Mrs. Lucflla Fuller,
chairman of the Women's Day
observance. In October, 1974, on
Women's Day, Mrs. Fuller was
awarded a handsome plaque for
years of faithful service. A
well-earned momento, by any
standards, but this kind-lady was
reluctant to accept the gift. She
avoids praises the way an ascetic
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by George B. Russ
avoids pomp and splendor. Her
remarks are always short, to the
point with a motherly sweetness in
tier voice. She displays as much
ec stacy for small favors as she
shows for huge, honied
presentations.
The soft spoken, well-composed
Mrs. Lucilla Fuller has always
worked, very closely to the
well-being for Union Baptist
vChiirch.' She has always cared
enough to see that everything has a
place and kept in place when not in
use. Her reprimands never exceed
more than mild, rebuffs, however,
her pursed lips and penetrating
brown eyes drive home the message
fast. fast. She is a martinet without
the fuss and fury of most women
disciplinarian; a lovable person
without the sweet talk.
Apparently, this sainted person
is not a clock-watcher but she never
arrives to a meeting late; always
cool, calm and composed and on
time.
During the early fifties.
Reverend A. S. Croom conferred
upon Mrs. Fuller the title of
"Mother-of-the-church." An
appropriate agnomen for a truly
dedicated Christian woman.
Occasionally a frown will distort
the placidity of her face, but this
negative is short-lived. The lady, in
office, rules with, the velvet glove
touch and this observation covert
many situations from captain of a
group rallying funds to purchase
chairs for the Old Gray Street
Oiurch House: helnms nrrnarit the
Saturday dinners to be sold by
order; raising funds for Lincoln
Hospital . Linen Drive; working
indirectly with all the church,
groups to raise cash to purchase a
facility for the church. "Miss
I iMMlla' ttrvM With d'hAnrfUftfmin
finesse. . She has served at
Chairperson of the Up-To-Date
Galeda dub for a score of years- "
member since the club's inception
in 1928. Mrs. Fuller sings with the
Senior Choir, has served ' as
president; a member pf the Senior
Missionary Circle and sings with the
Missionary Choir. Records show
that she worked with Church's
Missionary Aid since the Depression
Era. Her greatest preponderant is
her motherly concern for other
people's well-being: your health,
happiness and the salubriousness of
your church attitude. Mrs. Lucilla
Fuller is the wife of Dr. William
Fuller, pastor of Mr. Zion Baptist
Church, Fayetteville Street,
Durham- a byproduct of Union
Baptist; one of the church's
benefactors: clerk of the church,
Sunday School and Youth Training
Union.
"When The Gates Swing Open, a
solo often sung by Mrs. Fuller, is an
epitome of her religious life;
"through the years, I'D keep on
toiling; through the storm and rain,
watchfully and patiently waiting til
the Saviour returns-.'
I played the piano,, Deacon Richard
'Rogers, William Fuller,' Louise
Lyons played cornet; violinists were
Mrs. Pauline Fuller, Otha Holloway;
Nilas Thompson played the
trombone; Mr. Gattis played the
cornet, too.- The band was very
successful and played until the
death of our pastor, the Reverend
C. H. Dunn. We played a while after
Reverend A. S. Croom began his
pastorship at Union Baptist Church.
Shortly after Rev. Croom came, I
began playing for the St. John
Baptist church on Third Street -Mr.
John Fuller was the director of
the choir there. When Miss Jessie
Carroway entered college, I became
pianist for the Union Baptist
Sunday School. Rev. Croom was
still pastor. For nearly a decade, I
served the Sunday School and
during this interim, Rev. Croom
died. Dr. Grady D. Davis was
chosen to serve as the official leader
of Union Baptist, January I, 1963.
Shortly after he took over his
pastoral duties, he suggested that a
Tiny Tots Choir be organized. I
played for this choir until sickness
forced me to resign.
After the death of my father and
mother, two roses were placed on
the table beside Reverend Croom'i
Chair on the rostrum every Sunday
morning, in their memory, for 15
years. After prayerful
consideration, I decided to place an .
attractive; useful facility to the
pulpit: two handsome flags. These
were dedicated and placed on the
platform in 1970, in loving memory
of my parents. Deacon and Mrs.
Callie Prince.