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B jrwVß) uxw** noNU I Sunday School I » Lesson ’ I ”’’,v *“ bU “■ I Leuon for September 27 ■ REVIEW ■l h»v!n« not ■ in Whom, though B«Vf« ■ *•'■' ’* >et behoving >e rejoice I full of ■ ic-xeur. Ur. for I I l ju; * L '" t I AND SENIOR topFewer «ML» QO.P.L The method of review must always e. determined largely by the * tie teacher and the condition of JeclasA For tbl. review, two metbI B( j« are sugfefted; i — The Biographical. This can be aW( | in all the grades excepting, permus, the beginners. When skillfully , Xnud. living, active personalities t , , t - to the heart und imagination J all ages. Among the Interesting | Asrscters appear Paul, Luke. Silas. Ilßotl.v, Barnabas. Mark, Lydia, the ■ Rdilpplan Jailer. James and the slave jir. at Philippi. These characters can be e«slgned to the members of the Claee the preceding week. " The Summary Method. This Involves the presentation of the salient I points, and the central outstanding message of each lesson. The follow-. lag suggestions are offered: July 5. The sending forth of Paul and Baraths marked the beginning of for-! elgn missions as the deliberately planned enterprise of the church. The Holy Spirit selected and sent out these missionaries, showing that the true method of world evangelization Ig to have spirit sent men to preach l the gospel. July 12. The grand theme of Paul’s preach-I 1 tog was justification by faith. Those [ who receive Christ as their Saviour are freely justified from all things j 1 Jesus took the place of the sinner i that the sinner might have His place • (U Cor. 5:21). This Is the missionary mestage for all times. July 19. At Lystra Paul and Barnabas "so" preached the gospel that a great multitude believed. Only that which brings conviction of sin and Induces belief in Christ can be said to be preaching iu the biblical sense. July 26. Receiving the Gentiles on the simple condition of faith In Christ provoked a spirit of controversy in the church. Through Christ the middle wall of partition was broken down so that In. thia dispensation God makes no distinction between Jew and Gentile. August 2. James shows to the Jewish believers scattered abroad, who were passtog through sore trials and persecu-. tlons, that true religion was to re-, ceive with meekness the engrafted Word, and live a self-restrained, unselfish life, 1 rfdllng the tongue, helping those la need, and keeping unspotted from the world. August 9. Because of differences of opinion wer John Mark, Paul and Barnabas separated. God overruled their contention to the wider dissemination of the gospel. August 16. The believer has been born twice, of the flesh and of the Spirit. A mor-1 l tai conflict goes on within him. ’rhe Christian’s victory over the flesh Is hj yielding to the Holy Spirit, who dwells within. August 23. On the second missionary journey ««1 attempted to preach In Asia “toor, hut the Holy Spirit shut the doors against him. At Troas he had ihe explanation in the vision of a man ftom Macedonia calling him to preach e gospel in Europe. Divine guldMce Is as truly through closed doors as through open doors. August 30. Because of the casting out of an , spirit from a slave girl' at Phil-' PP, Paul and Silas were imprisoned, ■•they were singing God’s praises iliwm mlraculousl y delivered September 6. 0 be in Christ is to have gain “we the best things In the world, n, , w ?° are In Christ will have ’’ mind, and therefore will press to-’ ’“rds the goal. September 13. though unselfishly preaching the il of God, Paul was hated and Pwsecuted by the Jews. September 20. Ilf ß e^a^_, Peul had experienced the’ beitov ? h v St ’ and knew whom he had _ le w!th un daunted courage about preaching the gospel. Read the Bible von* Want t 0 liear God B Peak to Th!. , L? read His Word ' the Bible. Itor SH 8 T ° lce t 0 U 3 — South’s Vis-' Starting the Day ba Jw !n e day wlth P ra yer, and It will «AKS pm before night.

WHY GO TO CHURCH? i i i ”1 went to church twice and not a I i'soul spoke to me” Is sometimes heard from one who wants to excuse himself ! from church attendance. Cordiality is only one of many ex- 1 pressions to be expected In the ehureh 1 laud when this Is lacking it is regrettable, but Is the ehureh to b« condemned because of some of her failures'.' - Who wduld think of having nothing to do with a little child because when trying to walk. It fell down? The church Is made up of men und women who. like children, have their failures due often to humin weaknesses. Then why should anyone deny him- ' self the helpfulness o( the church beI cause there was no special greeting? ' There are some who worship that preII for the quiet of the hour anil think it an advantage if very little attention is given from others that the fine ait of holy meditation may not be interfered with. ' Worship in the church services makes "possible God’s speaking to the I soul and it that takes place why care if "not a soul speaks?’’ WHY NOT j GO TO CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY? Sermunograms I One's real perils come from within. Rough manners make a rough man. • • • A full mind buys more than a full ; parse. • • ♦ Do yon possess these—faith, hope and love? • • • 1 Doors of opportunity often to the fellow who push 's them opt*fi ♦ • » i There is no limit to the good we ■ can do when we do God’s will. • * » Lose your temper and you lose your i game and your friend along with it. ♦ * • Education should not only give us more for a living, but make us live more. • • • It is a poor memory that forgets kindness, whatever it may hold fast • M • Complaining words and gloomy faces are one way of bearing false witness 'j against the Lord. * * * The toleration of our own imperfec--1 tions does not help us to he more I charitable towards others. • « * Whole-hearted interest in the work I we are doing is the only kind of ini terest that makes success. » k « I No man ever did achieve anything I worthwhile who was not willing to i risk something for the sake of it. • • • The march of progress is the con ' quering of impossibilities. The moanI tain that cannot be climbed may he . tunneled. « - ♦ < If you can conquer the little things i you can conquer the big things, for the little things are more powerful | than the big things. * * * i Let all men become atheists today ' and there is not a humane or altru- ■ istie cause but would be dead the day after tomorrow. I Every task is a test. The way in / which the thing that comes to you is ! done is at once a revelation of char,l acter and a builder of character. ' ♦ * * u We are all liable to find in this world what we bring to it. Let sei fishneas get the better hand ami every body will seem selfish to us. THE QUESTION BOX — .1 (Send problems ! n question to Church 1 Editor; answers will appear in later 'i Issue.! 1. —How can we get mon to bring their Bibles to Sunday school? Jl —Use Bibles in the class by reading < out of them; let the teacher and other leaders of the class carry pocket New ' / Testaments all the time; let the teach- t I er write on the blackboard, phrases l 1 and sentences to be copied in the mar- i gin of (he pupil’s Bibles; let the < teacher work out i system of marking ; the Bible and call on each pupil to i mark the Bible as the marking direc- 1 ■| tions are given; don't nag the clans or any member tor not bringing the Bible. 2—What financial plan for the sup- I j port of the Sunday school seems to bo growing in favor? /

DECATUR DAU Y DEMOCRAT, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23,1925

The Church budget plan Including ; Hie Sunday school expenses is considered the best plan. Under this plan, every member of the school is given the opportunity of making weekly to the church budget; if the evorj-member canvass plan is used, each member of the school js solicited for weekly support of thy church budget and is given a package of envelopes. -. 0 Religious News Gathered All Around The World ■ ■ ■ Announcement has just been made tint the Sixth World’s Christian Endeavor convention will be held in London, England, July 10 21, 1920. At -the National Baptist Convention (Negro organizationi at. its annual session in Danville, Ky., It was reported that the ( denontnation has added more than five hundred churches during the past year—making a total number of churches beyond the two thousand mark. Half a million dollars will be given to missionary and educational work and the publication of literature the coming year. The Baptist Foreign Missionary Board received during the last church year |5,159,439- an increase of nearly $2,0u0.000 over the preceding year. The National Council of Y. M. C. A. announces he twenty-first annual conference on colored work In Washington, D. C., October 21-23. The Y. M. C. A. now has 140 associations serving college students, 70 associations ministering to the needs of men and boys in the cit.es, and twenty organizations among the students of Africa. St. Paul’s Episcopal chapel of Trinity parish. New York City, is to be restored to the condition in which it stood at the time George Washington worshipped in it. The church, the oldest in the city, was erected in 176 G. Years of research have discovered practically all the original fittings of the chapel and these will be put back in the place which they formerly held. —The Christian Century. Ohio Wesleyan University has been selected as the place of meeting of the Board of Foreign Missions of the M 'thodist Episcopal church, to be acid November 14-18. Delaware will oe the first small riy to be honored by entertaining an annual meeting of the board, prev (ui- (galheif.ngs of the Kind having been held in the large cities. The most serious siuation in Russia religiously is the prohibition of the .eaching of religion to children or youths below eighteen years of age in classes. No hindrance is interposed egainst the spread of materialistic and atheistic propoganda in the "Pioneer” (Boy and Girl .Scout) and other similar movements. In Vatican circles it is now consid ered certain that the pope will invoke a world conference of the Catholic hutch, during 1928, which is expected to be the largest in history. The last ecumenical council was held in ISG9. under Pope Plus IX. There have only been nineteen such counc.ls in the History of the Catholic church, the first being at Nicaea, in Asia Minor, in 325. New York University has organized a trip for students around the world, participating students coming from all parts of the country. On their trip they will take the regular university course of study, and in addition will have the advantages that travel brings The idea is to cultivate international contacts. — o Comments On The Sunday School Lesson Review of Quarter’s lessons —the cent ral message of each lesson. Lesson I.—THE BEGINNING OF FOREIGN MISSIONS—Two men go forth to win the great Roman Empire to Jesus. A stupendous task! But two men plus the Holy Spirit can accomplish anything. Lesson II—THE GOSPEL IN ANTI OCH —As always the gospel is both accepted and rejected, but the church at Antioch became the center of the early church because it had a wider outlook than the church at Jerusalem, and it became aggressively mission ary. The church that is not a missionary church is doomed to disappear. Lesson lll—The Gospel in Lystra— A cripple’s faith is rewarded by healing. Adoration followed by stoning. The victory of evil is short lived and. crushed to earth, truth ’will arls« «

again. Lesson IV THE CHURCH AT .IE RUSALEM— Here were gnnerouH and. broadminded leaders. The most c ritical hour in the history of the chdreh. ] The right decision in this Council made Christianity a world religion, lesson V THE EPISTLE OF JAMES -James sown that true* relig lon was to receive with meekness the engrafted Word, and live a self-re strulued, unselfish life, bridling the tongue, helping those in need and keep ing unspotted from the world. Lesson VI—BEGINNING THE SECOND MISSIONARY TOUR- lb < .ois<of differences of opinion over John Mark, Paul and Barnabas separated. God over ruled their contention to the wider dissemination of the gospel. I God turns the opposition of Satan and contentions of men of the furtherance of his work. - lesson VH—TEMPERANCE LESSON -The Christian’s victory over the files and fruit bearing is by yielding to the Holy Spirit who dwells within. A catalogue of the works of the flesh is given, and drunkenness is the worst in the list because it breeds all others. x” 1.-sson VIII—THE MACEDONIAN CALL —The first European convert under the ministry of the Apostle Paul was Lydia, a woman of influence .end position. Frdm the time of Lydia to our time the church has owed much to the service of a consecrated woman. Lesson IX—THE PHILI.IPIAN JAlLEß—Because of casting out an evil spirit from a slave girl in Philippi, Paul and Silas were imprisoned. As they were singing God's praises n the jail God miraculously deliverevi them. This resulted in the jailer's salvation as he was told to "believe in the Lord Jesuse Christ.’’ —The only salvation is faith in Christ. Lesson X—PAUL WRITES TO THE PHII .LIPIANS—A loving message to a devoted church. Christ counts—nothing else. Those who have Christ will have his mind and "press toward h- 1 goal.” Lessor. XI—PAUL IN THESSALON(CA AN BEREA —Though unselfishly preaching the Word, Paul was hated tnd persecuted by the Jews, but persecution could not stay the gospel—only drove it towards Rome. The aerean t received the Word gladly and searched the Scriptures daily to test its truthfulness. Think of a town where the Bible toppesl all books! lesson XII—PAUL WRITES TO rilE THESSALONIANS—A letter of rebuke and warning tempered with praise. What friends Paul made durng these years! What success! Yet chat obstacles! During the quarter we have studied five years of an endless story—the story of the triumphs of Jesus Christ — lust as loving and powerful it is a story of men, women and children who are walking "worthily” of God. 0 Weekly Story Os Early Education In The Homes The Diary of a Bible Jan. 15. —Been resting quietly for a week; the first few nights of the new year my owner read me regularly, but he has forgotten me, I guess, Feb. 3 —This was Saturuday cleaning day. I was thoroughly dusted and put back in my place on the table. Feb. 4 —Went to Sunday school and was used for a few references. March B—Received8 —Received my weekly dusting and put back in my old haunt. April 3 —This has been a busy day. My owner led the Christian Endeavor Society and looked up many references. He-had a hard time finding what he wanted to read. May 6 —ln grandma’s lap; she is here on a visit. She let a tear drop on Collossians 2:5-7. May 7 —ln grandma's lap again this afternoon, it’s a comfortable spot. Sometimes she reads me—sometimes she talks to me. May B—Grandma gone. She kissed me goodbye. Back in the old place on the table. June 3—The owner's daughter used me to press a few of her botany specimens. June 29—Was packed in the trunk with other things for a vacation trip. July s—Still in the trunk. I do not see why I should have come. July 14—Home again in the same old place on th etable with other books on top of me. I am getting so lonesome. No one seems to care for me. — o QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION Review of Lessons for Third Quarter. 1. What is the Holy Spirit in the church today? 2. What effect did the introduction of Christianity have on the civiliza-

tion of Europe? S. Did opposition and persecution retard or hasten the spread of Christianity? 4. What spletidhl name are we to r<memb. r from this period of bi. lory ' Ci. What lifsaons for today from the conversion of the Phllllpi.in jailer.’ 1(1. In what environment can a preacher do the most good that of Thes ■ salonieu or Berea? Why? | 7. What have mlsimlons done for the world? Wh.it has your own church done for the spread of Christianity? How much of the world Ims <'lllllo under Christianity ’’ Lesson Prayer "Teach me, my God and King, In ull things to thee to see. And what I do in anything To do as for thee.” Book Review THE WORK OF THE PASTOR, hy ‘Charles R. Erdman. The Westminster 1 Press, Philadelphia, $1.75, has been written to serve as a handbook to pastors and as a textbook for students of theology. It should be helpful to all concerned with the organization and activities of the Chrlstin Church. ’ A CHRISTIAN IN THE COUNTRYSIDE, by Ralph A. Felton, M<'th<»li: t i Book Concern, New York and Cinein- , nati, 50 cents, Is one of a series of ’ brief, elective study courses for adult | classes in rural Sunday schools. , Week-day Religion, neighborhood gatherings, sick neighbors, homes. < hi! dren, fatm business, civic duties, churches working together- all are given careful consider ition, 1 I ! Council Os Religious Education Meets Oct. 16 i Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 23 (Unit- . ed Press.)—Moje than 900 delegates , ate expected from Indiana Sunday 4 Schools, high schools and college nI ligious organizations at the annual s young people’s conference of the In- > diana Council of Religious Education f which opens Oct 16. at South Bend. ) Ind., for three days, it was announced today by Harry G. Rowe, superinten- > dent. A program in conducting, religious education programs in Sunuay t schools and churches will oe present--1 ed. .among the leaders will be P. R. ‘ Nobody Loves Y’ou 1 It is impossible to get anywhere ’’ if you are a crab. Nobody loves you. , - To be successful you must have a e, kindly, lovable disposition. You can ,1 not have this with an unhealthy liver and stomach. They don't go together 1 Mayr's Wonderful Remedy has given 11 complete ami permanent results in thousands of cases. Our advice to everyone troubled in this way, t-s-C pecially when accompanied with bloating in the stomach, is to try this reni1 edy. It is a simple, harmless prepa- ’■ ration that removes the catarrabal t neucus from the intestinal tract and i allays the iuflamation which causer. . practically all stomach, liver and intestinal ailments, including append!e citis. For sale by Holthouse Drug - Co., Decatur Ind., and druggists t everywhere

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