Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 254, Decatur, Adams County, 26 October 1935 — Page 5

SUNDAY 1*",...; SCHOOL [lesson t ,gx»»»w <rW tor I November 3 IBjudah taken captive bBL. ,x- TEXT—H K.ugs 25:1-11. ■ ■ Vl’ ITuMenu-'i.'SMX-nut Sin lt a reproach |K V neoplc.-Proverbs 14.34. TOPIC—A Black Man TOPIC— In Time ot DanI, »U^HffEP.MBD !ATE AIiD SENIOR P- tSulis of Dolnß " rons ’ PEOPLE AND ADULT 'WKc—Nat: n» A. countable to God. , Sag* of J« ru «* lem (v * time (“. 1,2). It began i tenth day of the tenth mouth at ,„, ?■'.? the t int h .' ,, |r of Zedekiah s lasting about eighteen , ZwStU Tlie tenth month, accord fiibxßW to the .I'-’"'* calendar, corre to mir December January, fiit calendar began about the IsJBJElie of March. The reason the time is given Is that this was the : ,.^g re an event of great importance ome JdK' t | lP .Jews in their exile. In their 'atnd^^K r v exile God directed Er.eklel KMl«pnter a rirable unto the captives Krfthat day (Ezek. 24). method (v. 11). NebuchadI tXar came in person with a large and encamped against Jerubuilding forts against it f« id about. It is thought that sev- ’ ‘ i! W «» walls were built around the sh ,i tl i,i C in. On the tops of wn!lg f or t s were built from missiles of destruction could by their engines of war E! the city. With the city thus is.’ in. its fail was only a question -'o..u|B e&ime. llT *The famine (v. 3). Geikie ■ say It was speedily followed, as ■ !r Iways the case, with an out!S of pestilence. Food was well-■H-k-B 2) gone. There bad long been no ti S, B W ail - -Mothers were at last driven i<lß ijmurder and eat their children. ’* richest citizens wandered about -stiß Kt thing for scraps In the dung Even outside the city the "ere starving. -There was bread for the people of the It is estimated that one- ■ flip i of the people of Jerusalem MBtJ of starvation. ■Si. Zedekiah'a Flight and Fate ■> 4-7). -The city was broken up” (v. I 4). The Chaldeans had succeeded making an opening in the wall as that they could make their 4 B *} into the city in spite of all tlle Hebrews could do. ItesistkJßSee was carried on to the bitter jjwdfc. Zedekiah’s flight (v. 4). The «;t!i his men of war fled by ■.iMßWit toward the plain. His object douht was to cross the Jordan v'lH ' lerlc,!o uu(l hide iD tlie uioun- », ’lwi east of the Jordan. ZeJekialj 3 tute (T- 3 '">- He was overtaken in the of Jericho (v. 5). As soon the Chaldean army discovered tiisht tlie - v Pursued and caphim. ( |Bv He was brought to the king | K ■Babylon at Riblah (v, 6). Itiblah a town north of Damascus. It 1 ■ s the king’s headquarters from lie directed bis armies ■' I Afpinst Tyre and Jerusalem. Be--1 I fire Aebiid.adnezzar Zedekiah was 31 ja 1 as a cr| niina!. ■ BjHv- 11 ' ,atc ’ lli,i Slin>i " ere 3 ' Mi " Hl ’ °" G < '- vos were put He was bound with fetters of and they carried him to BabyBE y "here he remained a prie'ner Sai M U>e day | u3 death (Jer. .’<1:111. Hl BP II - Jerusalem Destroyed (vv. KHB'"’ di-m Hilling o f the city w (join Nebuchadnezzar ■|B* U "as at Itiblah. The work of BB’* lll 'ti“ii was executed by the ofnext in rank to tlie king. They burnt the house of the (v. 0). Thjg wug (| le sacred Solomon, witli addiS^B ,ns ar *d alterations. Before burnB ■£ it. they plundered it of all its coutents. Eurnt the king’s house (v. 0). ll ’ " :ls doubtless the palace built Solomon. WRbE* Burnt al) the houses of JeruIs! 6 ” ( v ‘ implication is B common houses were left ■■P 1 ' the people (v. 12). They broke down the walls of ■ •‘’usulem. The aim In this wag to I " er the walls useless as a of defense. ■ i,' lV c The disposition of the Terr. Fur ’’iturs and Priests (vv 13The temple furniture curried IK } !ab >lon 1 on (vv. 13-17). The pillars kMI aras * a »d the brazen seat were iDto pleces b y tlle Babyu* aß d together with the uten- ! ere ca "led to Babylon. tarti *ln officers and priests | » ..er, to Riblah (vv. 18-21). These aD ' J pl ' iPSts antl tbl 'ee score I Ki7 , ll ‘ e lalHl w<>re taken tn Rib. !■’/J?, 11 ' 61 ' ww ‘’ slalu b y t!‘« fHL? 1 * e ' enls recorded in Second I Kod h,T er “ , " sriuU of 308 • vearS - Ik “ u ihou wiit - tt'e* l l 4d iaTlted disafct «r by

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End Os The Jewish Nation A Tragedy Os Disobedience Flouting The Law, Given Over To Sensuality And Corruption, The People Os The Covenant Carried Captive Into Babylonia —The Penalty Os Disobedience To Jehovah.

By WILLIAM T. ELLIS Wu hear much of the woes of the JewH today; but this lesson carries us back to the greatest woe of al), and a source of subsequent tribulations, the final breakup of the Hebrew kingdom, and its captivity and exile. The year 587 B. C. is a black date in the calendars of Judaism, for then it was that Jerusalem fell to the army of Nebuchandrezzar. Since then, the Jew has been a man without a nation. For a brief period there was a successful revolt in Palestine under the Maccabees, but even then most Jews were dispersed among the nations. To Egypt, Arabia. China, India and later to Europe they went, a homeless. haunted folk, ever nursing in their hearts a homesickness for Zion, and memories of the great days when they were a nation. ’ Anybody who is inclined to disbelieve in a Divine Providence, has but to consider the history of the Jews. Disobedience And Disaster Written large upon the surface of the story is a stern admonition to the nations of our day; Disobedience to the clear commands, of the Eternal leads to ultimate; disaster. Since His nature is the embodiment of purity and justice and love —for so man has come to know God —He cannot remain indifferent to a flouting of His exi pliclt laws. The long history of I the nations that have riseu and i fallen is a tale of high ideals de- ; teriorating into moral laxity, political corruption, social injustice —and then ruin. It may sound Suuday-schoolish to say that a nation’s destiny is determined by its moral character; but that truth looms from the pages of history, like Fujiyama on a clear day from Japan’s Inland Sea. Nations, no more than individuals, can flout God and survive. Current literature and the stage and screen are crying aloud i today the obvious truth that | “Crime does not pay." In the presence of this record of Judah’s fall, and of current international conditions, we need to amplify and intensity that eternal law. Any peoI pie indifferent to the moral law of I God is doomed. That is one reason why religion is a more pressing and vital interest today than business or politics. “Worse Than A Crime” Certainly Jehovah had been a * * The International Sunday * » School Lesson for November * * 3 is: “Judah Taken Captive.” * * —II Kings 25:1-12. * «***•*•***«*•**•*

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patient, tolerant, nursing Father !to the Jews. By many and peculiar providences He had led them into nation-hood. He had made them objects of His special care. With their continual blackslldings He had been forbearing and forgiving. He sent to them prophet after prophet to call their wandering feet back into the plain path of obedience. Their offense was “worse than a crime: it was a blunder.” Like most sinning, it was stupid. God asked only loyalty to Himself, their protector and provider, and obedience to laws which were inherently for their own good. Yet with the perversity which marks human nature, the Jews continually wandered after the heathen idols of the neighboring nations, whose worship gave free play to sensuality. They chose little gods instead of the Great God. Like a fever-patient's chart, their course was an erratic graph of ups and downs; of flagrant disobedience and occasional reforms, j The prophets likened the nation’s conduct to adultery. Constantly in religion seemed impossible for these heirs of the great deliverance from Egypt. A Spring With Many Streams The root of the Hebrews’ misdoing and undoing was religious unbelief, or indifferentism. Now indifferentism is the prevailing religion heresy of our own land and time, far graver than modernism or any of the fantastic cults that have arisen of late years. Not many persons avow themselves atheists. They do not actively disbelieve in God; they simply ignore Him. They see no relation between religious faith and social or national welfare. None the less, the two are as root and fruit. Out of the religious shortcomings of the Jewish nation sprang all the evils of open sin: of social oppression; of greed and injustice. When they turned their backs upon God and began to caper orgiastically in the grdves and high places of idolatry, they at the same time turned their backs upon the pure, stern morality of the Mosiac law. Irrcligion is a spring that, flows out into many streams. One scarcely needs the impassioned and lofty phrases of the Hebrew prophets to preceive how heinous is sin. Sin is the mother of crime, the breeder of every evil that affects man in relation to man. In the presence of the tragedy of Judah’s fall, we recall that “Sin. when it is finished, bringeth forth death." Those dilettante "intellectuals" of our time who discard the teaching and fact of sin as the old 1 fogytsm of an unenlightened generation. and advocate free express-

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ion of man’s baser nature, are either heedless or iguorant of the obvious teachings of history. How Prosperity Comes Any sincere, long look at the annals of man makes clear that righteousness is the permanent condition of prosperity. Is it without significance that today, despite their defects, the most powerful and prosperous nations of earth are Christian nations? Cynical authors today repudiate “happy endings” for their fiction; but life disagrees with them. Anyhow, nobody would expect happy endings for the sort of characters portrayed in the day's literature. But the great writings, which have stood the test of time, are at one with the Hebrew Scriptures in recording the rewards of righteousness. “Be good and you’ll be happy” is an oft-criticised but still true saying. “Happy is the nation whose god is Jehovah.” Judah went on the rocks as a nation because she turned aside from the clear course of good faith and loyalty and justice. In retrospect, it is apparent that the biti terness of her fate lay in having sold her birthright for a mess of pottage which she did not get. i She had been disloyal to the Great , God in order to serve little gods whose promised rewards turned to ashes of bitterness in the mouths that tasted them. But the exile I taught the Jews a lesson which they learned for always. It cured them of idolatry. Never again have they gone after the false gods of other nations. When Jerusalem Fell Every Bible-studying visitor to modern Jerusalem is moved by the spectacle of the Holy City, and the memories it calls forth. He visualizes the tragedy when the hosts of Babylon encircled it. He hears the whirr of the siege missies, the thud of the battering rams, the clash of swords, the i shrieks of the besieged, the shouts of the trumphant attackers. If he knows anything about oriental large-scale disasters, he pictures the emaciated forms of the copp-ed-up women, children and men; the awful inroads of famine; the horrible resort to cannibalism; and then the slaughter and captivity that followed the final victory by Nebuchadrezzar's army. There is nothing in the experience of present-day Christendom to afford any parallel for comparison. I saw the fleeing fugitives of France during the war; but they appeared -as comfortable excursionists, when contrasted with like hegiras that I have witnessed in the Orient. Nearly a dozen times the old city of Jerusalem has fallen before invaders, as when destroyed by Titus and in the wars of the crusades. Memories of misery piled upon misery, woe upon woe, march across the mind of one who muses today upon Jerusalem from Olivet's height. But the supreme tragedy iof all was when the fall of JeruI saletn to the Babylonians marked I the end of the Crosen People as a nation. SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS Be good, and leave the rest to Heaven.—Walter Colton. S?lf help is the moet dependable, and is always ready at hand.— Anon. Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Os Paradise that has survived the Fall!—Cowper. We must look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.— zEsop. Follow Me, and I will make you Ushers of men. —Matt. 4:11). If on our daily course of mind Be set to hallow all we lind, New treasures still, of countless price, God will provide tor sacrifice. —John Keble. The churches are the greatest, influence in this world of ours to overcome the present tendency toward greed. — President. Franklin D. Roosevelt. — o — In Memoriam In sad a,nd loving memory of our daughter, Mary Evelyn Archer, who passed away one year ago today, October 26. 1934. The moon and stars are shining, Upon a lonely grave. Where sleepeth our dear darling. We loved but could uot save. We always sit and think of her, And speak of bow she died To think she couldn't say goodbye, Before she closed her eyes. She is gone but not forgotten. Never will her memory fade: Sweet thoughts will always linger. Around the spot where Mary Evelyn is laidbadly missed by her mother, father, brother and sister.

IGIURCHESI Zion Lutheran Church Paul W. Schultz, Pastor Divine services in English 10:30 Divine services in German, 8:30 Sunday school and Bible class, 1 9:30 a. m. The negro Jubilee Singers will give several vocal selections after ’ the English services. Lutheran Radio Hour Sunday nt ' 12:30 noon. ■'■ ■ o Presbyterian Church J George O. Walton, minister 9:30 a. tn.—Sunday School. Roy ! Andress, superintendent. ! 10:30 a. m. — Morning worship. Sermon by the pastor. 6:00 p. in.—Young Peoples service. Next Wednesday afternoon the Womans Missionary Society will be the guests of the ladies of the Portland Presbyterian church. Our local society will have charge of the program. Those desiring to attend are asked to please call | Mrs. J. L. Kocher or Mrs. G. O. , Walton. I The worker's council of the Sun-; ' day School will meet next Friday ; night promptly at 7 o'clock. — o First U. B. Church H. W. Franklin, Pastor Christian Education Tri Angular Rally at Zanesville Monday morning Octtfosr 28. Cars for every one, will be at the church at 6:30. A fine j program with Rev. P. L. Mast of I Churubusco will be the guest spsaker. Otterbein Brotherhood at the church Thursday October 31, —Fish fry at 6 o'clock sharp. WHI be out in time for the Masquerade Parade. Rev. Lorine Stine a young minister from Rochester will ‘be the speaker. I The W. M. A. Day will be observ- 1 ed Sunday evening Mrs. Franklin will speak. Subject, “Come Let us ( Build." Otterbein Guild and C. E. Party : Tuesday evening October 29 in Roy , Mamma's garage. Rally Day in the Sunday School | was successful. Sunday School at-1 tendance was 404. There were 10b i in the Young Men and Young Wo-i mens class. Prof. Everhart deliver- 1 ed a fine address. Subject “The , Church and Social Life.” The Aceordian Band of 16 pieces 1 gave the evening program. Mr. Shindler of Berne is the director. Sunday School—9:ls. Roy Mum-j ma Sept. Morning Worship—lo:3o Sermon t by pastor. Christian Endeavorers — 6:00. Evening Worship — 7:00. Services in charge of W. M. A. Prayer Meeting Wednesday evening 7:00. o First Baptist Church Sunday school, 9:30, C E. Beil. | superintendent. Morning worship, 10:30, Rev. J. Thomas Morse of Chicago. B. Y. P. P., 6:00. Evening service, 7:00, Rev. Morse. o First Evangelical Church M. W. Sundermann, Minister The Sunday morning service will open at 9:15, with a worship I service in every department of j the church school, under the di-. rection of the Sunday school ; board. In the absence of the j pastor, the Rev. J. O. Mosier of Van Wert. Ohio, will preach the morning sermon following the j class study. This service as usual will close at eleven o’clock. E. L. C. E. at 6:15 with Byron Tricker, leader. The evening service a.t seven o’clock will be in charge of the Church Brotherhood. Dr. Buyer of Geneva will give the address. Special music will feature the program. Prayer meeting on Wednesday night at 7 o'clock. Choir practice at eight. Ladies Aid meeting on Thursday at two o’clock. Mrs. Earl Butler, director of the October section will huve charge of tlie program. St. Marys Church First Mass, 6:00 a. m. ISecond Mass, 7:00 a. in. Childrens Mass, 8:30 a. in. High Mass. 9:45 a. m. Close of Forty Hours Devotion, 7:30 p. m. -o Moscow Subway Fare Cut Moscow.— (U.R? —Fares on Moscow's new subway have been reduced from 50 to 10 copeks. Further reductions arc planned as soon as new rolling stock enables the underground administration to operate on a faster schedule and so care for tffT l additional truffle which will result. —- —o Cafeteria supper Sat. night Reformed church, 5 to 7 p.m.

Southern State Beauty Queens .-a ....... r _.jp sb m i - kfT —ai«K bJK a * .. Mi. JEI IJH A ‘ * ■ ' 7 fl 1 % . 11l • > "Mi«» Alabama” Sanator Harrison — “Mii» Miatiaaippi” At an interstate beauty contest at Tupelo, Miss., Miss Tommie Peck of Muscle Shoals, left, was chosen “Miss Alabama”, and Miss Rachel Smith, right, of Booneville, Miss., was crowned queen of her native State by Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi.

PUPILS GRADED ON CITIZENSHIP Detroit. —(U.R) — When Detroit's ' 175.000 elementary school pupils ! receive their first reports cards this 1 year there won't be any A's ami i B’s on them. But. hastened to explain Sutter- [ intendent Frank Cody, that doesn’t {mean the children aren't capable lot earning good marks. Under the J new plan being started this year , pupils will be marked S for satis ; factory work, and U for unsatisI factory work in academic subjects. In addition and this is the imj portant feature of tlie new system, i Cody said—pupils will be rated on I citizenship. Six headings are projvided on the new type report card, I listing the following attributes: I adaptability, self-control, initiative, cooperatioifl reliability and court-

Hallo we cd Ancient Holy Day Bl ' I 1 ( oft a olfn ' jjt^ l7 .^--X’’ «& . 4jMi SK ?> t fc* rryin « •" tradition,] Hallowe'en traces its origins back through the centuries to tha holiday observed by pagan Rome and the Druids. Superstitions and ' traditions which sprang up around the mystic occasion are reflected in modern customs of masquerades, jack o’ lanterns and Hallowe’en parties. In New England during colonial days the fear of witches reached such proportions that scores were persecuted and some pub to death because they were suspected of "evil powers” , Ancient Rome marked the day as an autumn festival celebrating the harvest season. The Druids observed it the occasion when the spirits cf evil perrons who had died during the previous twelvemonth look on the shape of animals. *>

esy. < if the spaces beside these qualifications are left vacant, then the . parent knows the child is not defiI cient in any one of them. But, if one or more is checked the pupil has been found to need improve- , nient in that particular essential. The new type report card is fav- ’ ored because it eliminates the fine > distinctions necessary in nutnerI icnl and other methods of marking. Then too, Cody pointed on*, It provides the item of citizenship, because the record of promotion is included on the new card, and because it closely approximates the personal letter from teacher to parent regarding the child's work. o ‘ n| ‘ ” Caterpillar Carries Tail Light Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. — (UP) — A t large caterpillar, found here had . tlie ability of switching on and off a "tail light’. Local nature students concluded its "tail light” was a “reflector’’ ever which the caterpillar could pull a oheath or release it.

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WILLSHIRE NEWS MLmm Mary Bancroft, Evelyn Dick. Esma Riley and Mildred Wolfe were Fort Wayne visitors Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Odus Byer were dinnsr gueets Sunday, of Mr. and Mns. W. E. Spitler. Mr. and iUw. John Myere were guests Sunday at dinner of Mr. and Miw. Herman Myers and son Gene. Mr. and Mm. Frank Strickler were Sunday evening gueste of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Detter. Doyt, Dickie. Barbara, Janet and Rounel Bryan of Salem Ind., were week-end guests of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Byer. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Myers and children Betty and Norbert of Decatur were Sunday evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Myers. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Price and daughter Betty Rose of Fort Wayne were Sunday guests of Mrs. Rosa Prive. Mrs. Frank Cox returned homo Sunday after a two months’ visit with relatives in Arizona and California. Mr. and Mrs. Dennison Tinkham of Pleasant Mills moved in the F. A. Detter house on State street. Mr. and Mm. Wilbur Herle will occupy the house vacated by Mr. aim Mrs. David Eicher. Mrs. Walter Avery. Mm. Byron Avery and Mrs. Dale Clouse and ed, s „;er Beverly spent the day with Mrs. Roman Hoffman at Chatcauooga. The following ladies motored to the country home of Mrs. Frank Strickler Wednesday and spent the day. At noon a bountiful dinner was served and the afternoon was spent socially. Those present were Mesdames Hattie Koontz, Clara Winkler, Agnes Hill, Harriet Colter, Herman Myers, F. A. Detter and daughter Mary, J. A. Cox, Judson I’asswater, Rosa Price, Russel Price and son Eugene. G. D. Mercer, J. G. Bilderback, Charity Brown M. E. Beam and Sally Detter of Ohio City. *’••••••• o—r Misses Irene and Erma Kirchner. Mrs. June Shickley and son Darrell spent Friday at Huntington. Misses Louise and Margaret Bultemeier entertained a number of their friends Saturday evening with a bunco party at their home. The room was decorated with branches of colored autumn leaves, black cats, punupkins and other motifs in keeping with the season. Tables weer arranged tor bunco and prizes were awarded for high scores t oHenry Schuler and Esther Ehierding, and low score to Herbert Buuek and Leota Bittner. Delicious refreshments were served and after refreshments square and round dancing was enjoyed. Those present were: Marvin Redding; Wilbert Kirchner; Ernicc Hitzeman; Wilbert Reinking. Adelbert Conrad; Robert Buchner; Norman Stoppenhagen; Edgar Ehierding; Herbert Buucks, Henry Schuler; Oscar Koenemau; Victor Bierberieh, Herman Thiele; Leota Bittnei’Miiared Bieberich, Arnita Droese; Hildegard Buuek; Dorothy Ehierding; Lorine Fuelling; Olga Koenman. Esther and Velma Ehierding; Eleanor V&oua Manner; Louise, Margaret. Aldine and Helen Bultemeier; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Koenemau and Mr. and Mrs. George Bultemeier. Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Worthman received word Monday of the deatli of Mrs. Worthman's aunt, Mm. Marv Shady. Mrs. Lena Sherlock of Corunna is visiting. Mr. and Mrs. Milton noftman and family. Members of the Phythien Sisters of Decatur met recently at the home of Mrs. Ernst Worthman for an all day meeting. Two quilts were quilted, entertainment of music and games were enjoyed 'by those who could not quilt. At the noon hour a delicious pot-luck dinner was served. Halloween candy was served tnrougli out the afternoon. There were twenty-five members present, at the meeting. Mrs. John Kirchner and daughter Lorine returned home from Michigan Sunday spending several days visiting relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Attorney and son of Fort Wayne visited Mr. and Mi Douglas Elzey Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Bultemeier and daughtens had as their guests for supper Sunday Mr. and Mr:.. Otto Bultemeier and sou Earhart of Fort Wayne. Evening guests Mr. and Mrs. Oscur Bultemeier and family. Mr. and Mrs. Ern«i Worthman and family visited Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fruchte Sunday evening. Mr. aud Mrs. Gerald Graffdataff and family of Decatur visited Dr s and Mrs. J. C. Grandstaff Snnday. Mr. aud Mns. Albert Shady and daughter Ethel and Mrs. Edga 1 ’ Zimmerman and daughter Onalcc attended the funeral of Mrs. Mary Shady al Muncie Tuesday. — 0 New Island Discovered MOSCOW (U.R)—A scientific expetition ou board the icebreaker Sadko lias discovered a new islaaid in the Kara Sea.