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WWAnOHM ; ftuidaySchool f Lesson ’ üßußt u B uBt 30 THE PHILIPPIAN JAILER I*’ 50 ’!: 1 TEXT— C tb * &3FwrK-r» hot •' “ ||&» OPIC " ConT *”‘ on of the ’itRMEMAT® AND SENIOR TOPADULT TOPL PMI | and Silas In Jail <*»• lfr fl *’ me Oe™>^ n < vv - 10 ’ 24) ' 9 t. L inlwlvouries went out from ■ Ada? to the place of prayer they 9 .«osted by a young woman posof donation. She | 7owoed by a syndicate of men 9 U derived large gain, from her 9 -hiring. This a t of the woman 9 uw a f«»t annoyance to Paul, fl wbo in the name of Jesus Christ com--9 Zled the evil spirit to come out. 9 Tta evil «P lrlt Immediately obeyed. 9 «« the demon was cast out of the I nil ter supernatural power was 9 Me therefore, the source of revenue ■ 'dried up. This was so exasper--9 idw t 0 ller °" ners tll9t t,iey ,iao 9 h«l and sUai :irrulgl “‘' l bt ' fore tlie j 9 nigistrates on the false charge us 9 hanging their customs. This was 9 pitying the hypocrite for It was nut 9 Um. but Illicit gains that had been 9 Sterfered with. There Is always 9 trouble ahead "b. n you Interfere with fl row business. Without any chance fl to defend themselves Paul and Silas ■ nre stripped ami beaten by the angry fl job and then remanded to jail, nnd I nre nude fust by stocks In the Infl ur prison. fl 1 Their Behavior In Jail (v. 25). I They were praying and singing fl hymns to God. It seems quite natural fl that they should pruy under such confl fitlons, but to slag hymns Is astonfl ishlng to al! who have not come Into fl possession of the peace of God through I Christ. Even with their backs lacerfl ltd and smarting, their feet fast In fl stocks, compelling a most painful pofl dtlon in the dungeon darkness'of that 9 Inner prison, and with the • morrow I tiled with extreme uncertainty, their I hearts went up to God in gratitude. ■ J. Their Deliverance (v. 28). ■ The Lord wrought deliverance by fl irailug a great earthquake which fl opened the prNun doors and removed ■ the chains from all hands. The earttifl quake was not a mere coincidence, but ■ i miracle. Earthquakes do not throw I ill bolted doors open, and unclasp the ■ fetters from men's hands. I 11. Ths Conversion of the Jailer ■ (r. 27-34). I The Jailer's sympathy did not go I rat very far fur the prisoners, for fl liter they were made secure he went is sleep. The earthquake suddenly troused him. He was about to kill ! himself, whereupon Paul assured him ibat the prisoners were all safe. This vas too much fur him. What he had heard of their preaching, and now shat he experienced, caused him to tome as a humble Inquirer after salration. He was convicted of aln and Wt the need of a Saviour. Paul dearly pointed out the way to be laved. "Believe on the Lord Jesus -talat." The proof that the jailer was laved is threefold: 1 Transformation From Brutality • Tenderness (v. 33). He who a little while ago eonld with Impunity lay on the cruel lashes is now disposed to wash and mollify the wounds of the prisoners. i Confession of Christ In Baptism (v. 33). Those who have really been convicthl of sin and have experienced the saving grace of God delight to confess luelr faith In Him under whatever tlreunistances. I He Set Meat Before Them (▼, (t I S3^ U Who,e Household Baptized The Magistrates Humbled (A. A „? rdt ‘ rs t 0 Release the Prisoners (w. 35-36). The earthquake brought fear upon , e magistrates which moved them to. leave for the prisoners to go. ~ Paul’s Refusal to Go (v. 87). The ground of hfs refusal was that “ er rights as Homan citizens had! ■ten violated. They demanded pubic v ndicatlon. The magistrates were , ™ ty ot serloaa offense. Paul was mg to suffer for Christ's sake, but ie used the occasion to show them persecuting men who preached, i»l E A S^ el Was an °® ens e against the W of God and man Grace and Glory iw'jr ana giory dicfer but aa bu <i fectert v 8,0,7 but < race P er ‘ ’acted?— John Mason.

| WHY GO TO CHURCH? nr. Ralph Sockman tills <.J two communities, one having, a chrtn h and the other having no church. Prom the community having no church there were none that attended college, there was no community spirit and tin re was n luxnoHH In moral . In the comunity having a church there was found u preacher, a simple, kindly man, untier whose inspiration boys and girls caught a desire for a higher education and the homes cd the community were enriched with good literature; the neighborhood developed a spirit of uplift and culture. The people of the churched convnnnity were alert on questions of reform and were ready to back up philanthro. I»ic and benvolent enterprises and In turn they became richer in the elements that go to make refined character. As parents were seeking to better their conditions by moving into a desirable community, the community with the church was chosen often without any special attention being called to the fact that the community life had Iwen made so desirable by the agency of the church. Are you living in acotnmunity having a church or in a community without a church and if the former be true what are you doing to maintain the church To be consistent you' will GO TO CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY.

Play is life in miniature. Energy is not words but work. The best rebuke for sin is a goodly life. The highest ability is based on nobility. First things second means secant! things first. Speed is not every thing; direction also counts. ♦ ♦ ♦ Three things to govern — temper, tongue and conduct. ♦ ♦ ♦ Not happiness but service is the true object of life ♦ ♦ ♦ Hindrances may be God’s guideboards to a detour. ♦ ♦ ♦ Worry gets one nowhere; it travels around in a circle. Truth will vindicate itself; only er ror fears free speech—Bryan. ♦ ♦ ♦ If your feelings are kind, train your tongue to utter them. ♦ ♦ ♦ Our work for God should not be confined to the Hay of Rest. ♦ ♦ ♦ Service is the proof of our loyalty to Christ and His church. ♦ ♦ ♦ We grow to be what our daily thought; feeling and conduit determine. ♦ ♦ ♦ A Christian should never let resentment prompt his course of action. ♦ ♦ ♦ The Christian does not have to advertise his principles ho lives them. ♦ ♦ ♦ No tomb was ever made so strong that it could imprison a righteous cause.—Bryan. ♦ ♦ ♦ The one who looks far into the fit ture is the one who succeers in the present. ♦ ♦ ♦ The most difficult kind of honesty is that of being honestwith oneself. ♦ ♦ ♦ Because man was made of the dust is no reason why he should grovel in the dust. —t 0 1 Weekly Story Os Early Education In The Homes A French-Post Reputation “Who is the best man that you ever ktew?” inquired Frank Crane of a friend. “My father," he replied. “Why” was the next question. "Because he never used profane language, he never "broke the Sabbath, he never drank liquor nor used tobacco in any formjhe never had any affairs with a woman, afid to the best of my

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knowledge, he nevn cheated nor told a He,” “That” answered Mr. t'rane “mean Ing no disrespec t to your father. Is a very good description of a fence pont. What I would like to know, is what Did he do’’ It Is a positive life, not a negative one that counts for goodness. Hight oousru'SH Is the needed program which calls for action of good men To be a pood man requires courage l , lull la tlve and great power of endurance. • THE QUESTION BOX (Send problems in question form to church Editor; answers will appear in later Issue). 1. Have you any suggestions that may |>e he lpful in our Rai y Day es forts A mid-week social event may help. A social for the entire membership of the school, a father a and son, or a mother and daughter evening, the men men and the boys of the school entertained by the women and the girls one evening, and the women an dgirls entertained by the men and the boys another evening; a member of each class appointed as a c-ommitttee to provide an entertainment for the officers and teachers, are only a few suggestions. A single Rally Day service on Sun day does not seem Io be sufficient to achieve the desired results. Many churches arc l giving over an entire week, with eminent success, to this task of ra.lying the scattered forces of the School. Rally Week should cover two Sundays, the first observed as Promotion Day. (where l hepromotion of cuisses is not provided in the spring) and the Second as Rally Day. Where such a week is carefully plan tied in advance l and the entire program aranged in an attractive way the plan is giving most encouraging results. The Department of Church Schoo*. 58 East Washington street, Chicago, will ufrnish a special Rally Week manual 2. Is it possible to departmentalize a noe room school? The folowing steps are merely sui; gestions:

1. Sot a definitae time and place for the worker’s conference, tor the pur pose of studying the school and its needs. 2. organize a teacher training class among the present and prospective teachers to meet outside the Sunday ichool session. Canvas the neighborhood for material from which to deve’.ope work ers, adding this material as far as possible to the training class 4. Choose a superintendent of chil dren’s work, to be responsible for all classes below twelve years of age. 5. Organize a Cradle Roll 6. Classify the beginners, primaries and juniors, and make the teacher of each group responsible for her department, co-operating with the Children's Division superintendent. 7. Organize a young people's depart inent forming two classes, one for pupils under, and one for those over sixteen. Organize the c asses and foster week-day activities as much as possible. 8. Choose an Adult superintendent, and organize the adult classes as cir cumstances will determine. 9. Arrange these departments tn some logical order. It is usually best to locate adults in the rear of the room, young people in the middle •hildren in front, with protection from the gaze of the members of other cluses during the lesson period. — —— ■ ■— Religious News Gathered All Around The World The Daily Vacation Bible Schools have come to stay in South America. ♦ ♦ ♦ The Men's Club of Westminstei Church, Dayton. Ohio, has installed radio sets in the homes of shut-ins. ♦ ♦ ♦ During the last twenty-five years the number of Christians in Asia, Africa, and China has doubled. Max Mason, head of the department of physical mathematics at the Uni versity of Wisconsin, who was elected president of the University of Chicago to fill the vacancy caused by the death of President Ernest DeWitt Burton last May, will take office Oct.l. Dr- John Reach Straton. pastor of Calvary Baptist Churcn, New York, and fundamentalist leader has challenged Clarence Darow, professed agnostic, to debate with him publicly on evoution. Dr. Straton taking the negative side of the question: "Resolved, that

the earth and man come by evolution" The debate will possibly be early in the fall and preferably In Chicago , Jewish women in Xw York State,' belonging to the New York Federa-1 tion of Temple Sisterhoods, are toe work for the advancement of good' will between Jews and Christians dur , Ing the next year of activities of the federal ion. ♦ ♦ ♦ Two Governors of States have recently oposed measures which would tend to secularize Sunday, and weaker Its character as a day of rest. Gov. Terra.l, of Arkansas, vetoed a bill providing for Sunday baseball in that state, and Gov. Peay, of Tennessee, vetoed a bill authorizing open theaters on Sudnay Prof. James u. Breasted will under take next year an excavation of the ruins of Armageddon, the ancient fortified town on the ridge of Mount t’armcl in Palestine, where many fierce battles have been fought. The work will be financed by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. ♦ ♦ ♦ The work of the original China Inland Mission, Ningo, China, has been taken over by the Presbyterian Mission in that city. All the mission property was handed over without charge including the chapel where Hudson Tayler, founder of the China Inland Mission, began work in 1858. ♦ ♦ ♦ Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, contemplates the purchase of a radio broadcasting station, to use in sending out gospel testimony from its halls. Thus various speakers on the institute platform, who represent at different times every part of the earth, will be able to address thousands where they now reach hundreds, and fire them with a new zeal for Christian work.

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION Paul, the Phillipian Jailer—(Acts 16 :19 :14) Sunday, August 20. 1. What were the likenesses and tlie differences bet wen the Convention of Lydia and that of the jailer.? 2 What are some of the modern forms of "divination” by" which people ire led astray 3. Would it h eeasier to bear the pro--.ecution that Paul and Silas endured than the little trials of every day life Why? 4. What would be your persona! answer to u question like that of tin 1 jailer? 5. What methods would Paul use in our town today? CLERKTS SAYS—Worldly interests may lake little notice of rel'gion till it ventures on their ground and then they wake tip and warn it off. The world is not afraid of Christianity at worship' btli stands-."rad;. Is.- fight Christianity at work. LESSON PRAYER

O Thou who deiiverest thy people from their difficulties •und rarest for them in the midst of anxieties, teach us the joy of being in thy keeping. Amen. » BOOK REVIEW ' THE HAUNTED HOUSE by H. E. Luccock, Abingdon Press, N- Y„ is decidedly one of the best volume of sermons that' has appeared in recent years. Here one. finds rare ethical and religious insight coupled with unusual power of literary expression. THE EPIC OF EARTH by William L. Stidgers, Abingdon Press. N. Y., is a series of unique and original interpretations, dealing with the phenomena of nature as recorded •in the Bible, and is full of helpful spiritual applications — —-—o COMMENTS ON THIS WEEK’S SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON Comments on this week’s Sunday school lesson— Paul and the PhUlipian Jailer —(Acts, 16:19-34) for Sunday August 30. Introduction—Vs, 16-21. As the missionaries went out from day to day to the place of prayer they were acebsted by a young woman possessed by a spirit of divination. She was owned by a syndicate of men who derived large gains from her soothsaying, and Paul commands the evil spirit to come out of her. Men always oppose that which has caused loss of revenue. The saloon keeper is a modern instance. An extremely sensitive nerve runs from a man's brain to his purse. 20 —“These men do exceedingly trouble our city’'. It is a common complaint of the world that the gospel makes trouble. Profit seekers often camouflage their motives in the guise

of civil zeal and patriotism Does your city need some trouhlers. V. 21 —"And teach customs not law. ful for us to receive”.spEducation is; the only adequate answer to superstition V. 22—" The multitude rose up to gether, and the magistrates rent off i their clothes"—The magistrate Is | sometimes not far above the level of , the mob. "Together”—the' forces of evil areusually organized. | V. 23 25—Paul and Silas are east in to prison, and at mid night the prison 'ers bear them singing praises to God Believers may witness for their !x>rd in any situation. The Christian's good cheer depends not on changeable surroundings but on his unchanging Lord. Yet persecuted, do you sing? A man has only as much religion as he can command In time of trouble. We often speak of our carrying burdens and bearing crosses, but for our faith we wore never beaten with rods nor cast into prison. The cost of discipline ship in those days was spiritual and mental cross bearing, plus physical. V. 26-God heard them, He always hears and answers. Paul and Silas prayed and the rumble of the earth quakt*»was the answer of God to their petition. The strangest prayer meet--1 ngon record. No prison can stop prayer or circumstances shut us off from God. V? 27-The keeper of the prison is aroused by the earthquake and is about to kill himself. (According to the Roman law, all prisoners escaping would automatically bequeath to him ( their sentences) Folks find God in I many ways. There were two earthquakes that night-physical and spiritual. God breaks the soil if men sow the seed.

V. 28-“ But Paul cries "Do thyself no harm. We are all here." Then 1 is some, thing better than getting even with the other fellow-il’s getting the upper hand of yourself. V. 29-31-" Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”-the question that, being answered will answer all other questions One formula for every sinner-"Bclieve in the Ix>rd Jesus Christ". V. 31-34-" He rejoiced, believing in God with all his house. When a man's family are willing to follow him you mya be sure that the case is genuine. SOUTH BEND—Joseph Brown, traffic officer at South Bend, who vas shot by his wife, has had more bad luck He was forced to resign as the board of safely prepared to investigate charges of drunkeness against him

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DEPRECIATION FUND Bus Owners Are Ordered To Set Aside Amount For Replacement Os Equ.pment. Indianapolis, Aug. 26. — (United Press)—The wear and tear of con stant travel and hauling heavy loads will send tnn average motor bus to the Junk heap In three years’ lime or a little more This is the opinion held by mem hers of the state public rervice commission In ordering establishment of depreciation funds by all bus contpan les operating In the sate for replacement. of equipment when It Is worn out. The commission directed the bus companies to put aside each month from their gross earnings two and one half per cent of the original cost of their equipment. In three years' time this fund will amount to ninety per cent of the or Iginal cost, nearly enough to replace every bus in operation in the state While the average life of a bus operating on Indiana highways can not be determined until continued operation furnishes the necessary data, a study of information available led members of the commission to believe tha»t the average life is about three years. If the buses all wear out in three years time, the companies will be in position to replace them then. If

BUILD YOUR OWN BUSINESS ' Do something worth while liecaitse its best. Give whatever talent you have to a job that will make life worth living for other people as well as yourself this will lead Io the goal of achievement. You will enjoy a good local reputation and be recognized as fitted. But if you have not shown by industry and accumulation that you have the rudiments of business sense, you cannot expect a banker to risk any money on you. But show him a hank l>ook with regular deposits, however small, and he will welcome you as a fellow business man. THE PEOPLES LOAN & TRUST CO. Bank of Service

they last longer, the depreciation fund will be that much larger when the time for replacement cornea A motor bus, it is pointed out, it put to much harder usage than most private owned cars. It carries heavier loads through, all kinds of weaiher on a schedule that. Is near the maxi mum limit of speed set by state law There are few private owned auto rnoblh i that average ■tbo distance traveled by a bus day in and day out In ordering the depreciation fund' established Hie commi-' ion wat de tcrmlned to protect the public inter esiH and place bit" finances on a sound iMlsis. The funds will Insure the travelling public suitable vehicles whfcß~ will give them adequate service, both ill comfort and promptness. Through the oredcr the bus com panics will be required to lay aside for the future. Every effort Is being hade by the commission to prevent "fly by night” financing in the new industry. President To Return To His Desk Sept. 8 Swamscptt, Mass., Aug. 26 I resident Coolidge plans to return to his deck in Washington the day after laibor Day, Sept 7. The trip from the summer white house here to Washington, which will be made by train, may be started sth or 6th of September, it was announced today.