Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 120, Decatur, Adams County, 20 May 1925 — Page 3

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■ Eiiy goto church? SHi'i |p-li«-v>* In thf» Church" Is n uni. ttipni expression. That being hi:ii- ! -Jg| W | Ul| evidence may bo given that i|. u ,is it. only a half truth it true, but those believing ii Is M,, ( |„ not believe it hanl enough? K, must he true for all over our Hie church is welcomed and non members gladly assist In 'Mating the church possible. Kt Cannot bo half truth for K only do we had the ehureh of one but the churches of denominations in towns and and even in the country. In■,:|l| of it being a half truth, the Beth seems to bo overworked ami communities are ovorchurchod. ’’Briiere is but one alternative. There ta- a great many who believe in the who do not believe Hard SK.mgh. It is inconsistent" for one to in some remedy for physical but refuse to take it. <Kli is inconsistent for one to believe Jti some institution and refuse to H Vf - a part in it. We believe in the l schools and we believe enough M have our children attend. But what Knui the institution of the church? MR ; s not consistent to say “I believe |p the church" if you do not attem) NOT ATTEND UHURCH NEXT fit NDAT? Iff 1). Carl Yo. Rt. S °

Sermonoffams li I Worry retards growth. ♦ ♦ ♦ I “Talk is cheap." especially cheap Sals. ♦ ♦ ♦ ,■ Charm is the grace of personality. I The lucky man is frequency the man. ♦ ♦ ♦ -■ No resolution is carried until it is ont.—Lloyd George. ■“f Wince and the world will strike you ;*| Make war on the devil and he will from you. ♦ ♦ ♦ I The heritic of today is the spiritual 1 Mtero of tomorrow. I♦ ♦ ♦ I The devil never worries about the Hermon in the bottom of the barrel. l' ♦ ♦ ♦ I Test your pleasures by these ques- ‘ Btuuis: Are they worth while? Do I i ■have time for them? gffig A. As A. I S' I There is music in the air. though we 1 ■may not hear it. There is heavenly 1 ■protection, though we may not be eon ' ■scions of it. ♦ ♦ ♦ Now is the time to live up to the i . ■eulogy that may be said in your behalf I. by some one blind to your shortcomings. ♦ ♦ ♦ He who goes to church for a fine sermon may often meet disappointment. He who goes to worship can always find what he seeks. ♦ ♦ ♦ It is a comfortable weariness that follows useful work. The labor that leaves one fretted and irritable may well be questioned as to its nature or its method. ♦ ♦ ♦ The possession of a diploma will not make one a successful man or woman. It is the knowledge and training the document is supposed to represent, and what one does with it, that count in the end. “Underneath you are the everlasting armsi"’—underneath all the sorow, the | difficulties, the burdens that seem weighing us down fathoms deep. We cannot sink too far for the loving tenderness and mighty power of God to uphold us still. A quiet mind can travel more surely than a hurried mind. It is not work that so wearies us as the fume and fret that we put into it. We wear out the human machine needlessly, and accomplish no more. o THE QUESTION BOX (Send problems in question form; answers will appear in later issue). 1. Why is not the absentee church member in his place Why, do you think, has he become an absentee? 1. The manner of reception into

eliun h membership at the hnmbi of many pastors No preparation is made for this great step and the reception ceremony Is often given In a desultory and perfunctory way that makes no impression on the incoming member of tlm importance of the step he is tnk Ing. This reception shouh| bo made so imines ive and thorough going that It will |>o ii day never to be forgotten. 2. Neglect. Too often the new church mem tier is simply presented to the congregation, his name enrolled ami then forgotten. The pastor asigns him to no particular work; he does not feel ho has any real part in an ongoing Christian program. The members of the ehureh do not. find their way to his home and fellowship. Finding himself in an alien atmosphere, with no sympaty in the time of his heart hunger or temptation, he seeks fellowship among those who show a friendly feeling toward him. The world offers its hand of help and he becomes an absent man from the house of God. it , is to be feared that the church of the I pre-ent day may be driving many of I its members away through sheer neglect. 3. The uuattrat tiveness of much of our worship. The hungry heart finds no satisfaction for its hunger; the mourning spirit finds no joy for its grief; and the tempest-tossed soul too seldom finds a peace and culm. Th< Sunday evenings nifty well be made largely of a social nature allowing the I people themselves a large place on tlie program -the pastor closing the service with a fifteen-minute evangelistic appeal? These ate only a few of the reasons why we have absentee member- ■ There may be legitimate reasons also; . sickness; old age, and other hadnclapt ( may prevent some from attending tin sei vices of worship. — () — ■

Religious News Gathered All Around The World s

The Salvation Army made tin greatest gain in per pent of any re | ligious body in the United States last year. The Bible is a compulsory subject for all students working for a B. A. degree in Calcutta University. Sixteen thousand members of the Christian Endeavor Society are expected to attend the thirtieth Inter nat onai Convention July 4-10. in Port land. Oregon. A generation ago there were 225 lynchings in one year in the United States. In 1923 there were fifty-seven, and in 1924, only eight. To commemorate the first church service ever broadcasted, a tablet has been placed in Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, from which the service was put “on tin air." The date was January 2, 1921. and the senders, the Westinghouse company. The tablet was given by

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memhen of the ‘'unseen congrega lion." ’lite college of agriculture of Ohio St ile I'nlversity, in cooperation with the Ohio Council Church, holds a slimmer school for rural pastora. This year the school is In session .June lf> to .Inly 2. <■ Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, president of the Federal Council of Churches, and many other religious and political leaders are to have part in the celebration of the centenary of the American Unitarian Association, to be held n Boston, this week. Dr. Chari™ W. Elliott, president emeritus or Harvard, Senator William E. Borah und others are on the program. — —" Enrollment in American colleges will total more than 300,000 this year. Die largest enrollment is at Columbia which has 36,000 stmljtmts. The Ifty-four colleges of the .Methodist Episcopal church report an increase this year of ninety-six per cent since 1920. The Civil Liberties Union announces hat reports from its representatives dtow a distinct loss in power and trestige on the part of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, Oklahoma. Arkansas, Geotgia. Texas. West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New .Jersey and New fork. Factional disputes within the ■rganization, failure of members to ay dues, and a general lack of furthr merest tire said to be reducing the body to a place of minor moment. When the Methodist Church of Hanot k. N. Y . was burned a few months .go the Roman Catholic priest of the village announced that his people would conduct no fairs, bazaars or other money-raising enterprises until the .Methodists had a free field for ix months in rebuilding. The priest further exhorted his people to cooperate with their fellow-Christians in repairing the loss. Mr. Babson says that 40% of the millionaires of this country and Canada are sons of preachers. We have t population of 112,000.000 in the ailed States. There are 200,000 treaehers. According to Mr. Babson's figures, 5,000 preachers produce 1% >f the millionaires, while it takes ',366.333 of the general population to iroduce 1% of the millionaires. That s, preachers’ sons produce, in protortion to their numbers, 375 times is many millinoaireg as do all the rest of the population of the country, including business men, financiers, professional and laboring men What is the explanation? o

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

Saul Begins His Greatest Career— Acts 9:20-31 for Sunday. May 24 1. What was the real power of ’mil's preaching? 2. What will happen to the Chris-

tian church if It abandons faith in lh<> divine Sonship of God? How can w<» best know and prove to others that Jesus is the Son'of God? 3. What js the relation between a consistent Christian life, and the testitnony we are to give 4. Does the cause of Chri -I lu-r-d witnesses as it once did? 6. Why did Saul go to Arabia? What is the leson of that for us today? Charles E. Jefferson says of Paul; ]' "On incidentals he was yielding as wax; on fundamentals ho was dint. Christ had died to sot men free, and for the maintenance of that freedom Paul was ready to fight to the last ditch", Bold preaching against any , force that cheapens life is what the world needs most today. LESSON PRAYER Dear Father, send us more Pauls and Luthers and Wesleys and Spurgeons and Moodys! We rejoife in the thought of thy power, which has no limit, and of the love back of thy power, because there is no limit to this. Inspire us in our study this morning, with desire to learn and to know thy will, and to use for thy glory the life 1 transformed by Jesus Christ our I/ird. BOOK REVIEW “Psychology for Bible Teachers", by Edward Aldridge Annett. Charlps Scribner's Sons, 597 Fifth Ave.. New ' York, presents the psychological laws which govern the unfolding of human personality. Every one who at-' ' tempts the tasks of teaching others will find in this book a trustworthy . introduction to the laws which govern the working of the mind, making cor-1 tain that the methods of instruction which they are using are sound anil efficient. “How to Teach” by Strayer and Norsworthy, The MacMillan Company. New York, makes dear the principles 1 of psychology which are involved in teaching, showing definitely their tip--1 plication in the work of the classroom. The book Is as free from technical terms as possible. — 0 _ -

I Weekly Story Os Early I Education In The Homes

Self-Control in Education “See that lion tamer cracking his whip anil commanding that fierce king 1 of beasts so that he will obey the man. his inferior physically*, whom he might kill with a stroke of his paw and yet ! he obeys,” said a son to his father. “There is a long story connected The Key to Success Success depends primarily on a healthy liver ami stomach. You can not think straight if these organs are not working properly. Mayr's Wonderful Remedy is usually successful in such cases. Our advice to everyone troubled in this way. especially when accompanied with bloating in the stomach, is to try this remedy. It is a simple, harmless preparation that removes the catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract ami allays the inflammation which causes practically all stomach, liver and intestinal ailments, including appendicitis.. At Holthouse Drug Co., and Druggists everywhere.

--L. ' ' 1,1 1 with that." said the father; "wheu I 11 he Hon was young, this man tamed ] , it and secured its control by constant il ly exercising hi", power and command | ing the little beast which l.ni-w noth I Ing but obedi< nee to lie will of th-" I man with tin whip " < "Here 1., tin anlliin) educated a fat I jus It is capable of learning. but it in I largely physical education which i: I the introduction of >■ If control In the I • terms of the phy tieal life," <.,ntlnu-d I the father. . I | "A few year', ago thorn was i na I lion that cracked the whip over tin I (other nation and called for it to get I I down on its knees a denionstruiton I of that physical education in which I self-control is introduced in the terms || of physical life." i "Religious education i the introduc (I l.ion of self- control in the terms of I religious ideals,” declared the father," I and when the nations of the world I arc thus controlled, the cracking of I the war whip will cease." j That, young man caught a world I vision and will attend a Christian col-|l lege getting ready to make his con 'I trilmtion in Introducing self-control I in the terms of religions ideals Into I the life of his country and as far as I possible into the life of the world. I Dr. Carl Yoder. « Gift Os $1,000,000 Made To U. Os Chicago I Chicago. May 20. —(United Press.) I A gift of $1,000.00(1 to the University I of Chicago foundation for medical re- I search was announced today by Har- I 'old Swift, president of university I 1 board of trustees. The gift was made I by Douglas Smith, president of the I Pepsodent Tooth Paste company. [ I | LINO L E U M The Certain-teed Label is your assurance of highest quality. Your house work will be I made easier with this smooth I easily-cleaned linoleum on < your kitchen floor, halls, etc. I Our patterns are attractive. I See us before you buy. ! VOI7 |

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