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E*' SUNDAY SCHOOL ■SSON-:- > n. FITZWATER. D. D.. of Faculty. Moody Bible Jtituteof Chicaio. NMW* Union. for December 15 the law of “ GOD tMMf* text— Eira 7:10; Nehc1 XT— Thy " i’i.i liu’f I i.cart. that 1 might not thee. j, (..!•!<• •..' 1 ' ■. i it'—t: n . ig >L'T R ANr> SENIOR »ni®3Ll' lh « Bib,c Together. ANO AIR’I.T TOPIC—-vh' Bib'e In National Lite. Tsifg L- n >s a ,ln, “ illustration ■ plnce Os Hod’s Word of I cut* ft* i nt i-n.-il Hl® is » return to I to Ills Word. .icher’s Spiritual Coodi- ■ Jrtflk T:10) I HapHjpni'M llis lieilrt *° sv, ' l< tl " > ■ law Bt'' ■•" id. ,n ll " n "' l the statutes and judgB|j Word of God Read (Nell, j ■ Veie. ,:'T assembly (v I). 'Ute ■ mmils 9r’’-ered together and re- ■ attested Ezra to bring the book of . touched I heart* Breutlng within them a , I vesnaVfor his Word. ■' •g n ■..•tra!tie assembly (\ In. Sod’*' "’" ld should be taught to |all dfl* ' ' " omen, and < bil- ■ ilren.H'' of Cod can speak ■gSKi. >rd to the whole famBlly sitting in the same pew. ■ assembly (v. ■j> So laser were they to know SCtxl’s \®r«l that they did not get ■ iiftOßl -’l' th*' lesson lasted |ftr Sre or sw hours. When people ■ realize till' G'’d is sjietiking through . ■ Ins Word they will give attention, j 9 MBk People’s Attitude Toward ■ God’s We d (vv. 4 G). ■ f. jfl rmerenee shown (vv. I. ■ 5). flb> Bzra opened the law ail ■ stood up out of respect . I for God’h Word. I iuined heartily in pi'a.' -r ■ (r. 6). Is Ezra led them in prayei ■ tbeyfliited in saying, "Amen, ■ jgfflb<>" in ® their faces to the B J 5 w "' d Bein 9 Interpreted ■ tlie iHste". Proper dignity and ■ soleSßi' should be manifested by ■ Ute akiii: ' r alien reading the Hol.' ■ L fls '"I up «heie the peoph ■ c Mflr ‘ liul ('• ®)- B life n-ad distinctly (v. S), The which many read the ■ scrijOes is greatly to their dis- | I credit.well as that ot the reader. ■ jfl|<' :i!l >’ ,| i (he people to underB stand (i s). The supreme business and teacher ■.■MSI" Word of God so plain young can understand. should be ciear. ■ V. Ti e Ef.’ect of Applying God s ■ th<! L ' fe ° f the PeOpie I 1. Co hi. ti.m of sin (v. 0). Ihe I iif convicting men of I itsW® is to have God’s Word upHoly spirit. The Word | tin ued into p.y (vv MIB V •It sins lime been p< ■ .1 . unloved I here is will I ti.r p.isl sins. Further- ■ di'lmimrs a pardoning G<"l BBflHli inilits the one lor present salutary effect ■ ' entire being. "The jo.' ■ ’’ l is your strength.” ■ i ■ " ere v’cir. Pv.:• ii .a li ■ l ' l 1 manifest'. ■ Phi ■ mil to minister to the I . I ms). Gobline-s m | null hannc a I lime E people oheyed. I tom B iSS " ! ovriptitri' I. e,;;,d E least of the tabermu les ■ SBr ; l " t '" l 1 | least in ..ay Ilia! bad | t | H , ( j avs ot j ()s | ) | i . L separated tltemsel’i's triim i (b’i:l-3). As soon as I heard the Word of God | '‘taB 1 '’ 1 '' I ''' 1 themselves from tinhouse ot and order restored (1.”>:4bat. oil or people can be a neglects worship i Sabbath was re tored 1 ~ r ‘ l, ’l had long violalt : To ignore the essen- ( of 11,0 Sabbath is mrtiomii Lnnuiiibered evils followed o f t | ie desecration of ’‘Sfl o '-’ •h*y. I s law of marriage re- ' Some of those intermarried with tin? " I TT brought face to face sin. They setiarated tiom their ungodly comCod’s favor canmil bo enthose who live In di'ubcdi his Word. ~ Patience is bitter, hot. to l-m.l

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From First Os All Pulpits Came News Os Tears And Joy Fashions Os Preaching From High Wooden Pulpit Was Inaugurated In 44, B. C., By Ezra The Scribe — Profound Effect Upon Jerusalem Os The Expounded Law.

By WILLIAM T. ELLIS So far aa records go, the first pulpit ever built and used was set up in 444, B. C., in a broad place .near the water gate of old Jerusalem. It was made for Ezra to use in a great lestival of Bible-reading and Bible exposition. Before the day was done the occasion had turned into a religious revival, with the people alternately weeping for their sins and shouting with joy over the new light that had come to them. Billy Sunday, and tne oth|er famous revivalists, could point ! to this day in Old Testament history as their warrant for mass emotionalism. I The time was ripe for a revival 'in Jerusalem. Under Nehemiah’s (great leadership the walls had been I rebuilt and foes driven off and civile life restablished. Yet something essential was lacking, and the people knew it. Their inner, spiritual defenses were still weak. The real inheritance of the Jewish national life, which made them a distinctive people, was the Law of Moses. So the people themselves called for this great day of Bible exposition. Out of Seclusion I For twelve years Ezra seems to , have dropped out of the Jerusalem 'story. Whether he had gone back to Babylon, or had remained in seI elusion in Jerusalem, is unknown — (probably the latter. The man who (gives himself to reading and study 4nay be undergoing the most pot (ent experiences ot’ his life. Scripture puts the loud pedal down hard upon the necessity for preparation. Moses, Elijah, Jesus, Paul, all had long years of seclusion as they were being made ready for their great tasks. So it doubtless was also with Ezra. We should like to think that there are called young men today who, in silence and perhaps in suffering, are getting ready to lead the world’s fateful tomorrow. What somebody is now think ing is what mankind will be doing a generation hence. Ezra is a special friend of mine. ( Like him, 1 am a scribe, and no priest. And like him, I give my days and nights to thoughts of the Scripture, and its meaning for the present time. And I also, following his example, seek to make plain the Law of God, and to "give the sense" so that it may be understood by the ordinary person. Back of Recovery Ou the surface of this Lesson »»«»»#** * The International Sunday School Lesson for December 15 is: “Ezra Teaching The Law of God.”—Ezra 7:10; Nehemiah, Chapter 8. *»*»*•** *»#*«*»»

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lies the truth for the Times. Nations have gone to the limit ot' their powers in recovery and reform. Nevertheless, the air is filled with contradictory and jangling voices. Confusion ot counsel characterizes our era. Our real need is identical with that of old Jerusalem, in a period of recovery. We should learn the Law ot God —the Law that made us a nation. A vast vogue ot Bible study—especially appropriate on this four hundreth anniversary ot the translation of the Bible into our mother tongue —would put . mental clarity, moral purpose, social justice and brotherly good will into the present program. No reconstruction measure conceivable would have the effect of a general revival of Bible knowledge, through ( church and Sunday school attendance. Kipling’s word recur to me: “Hold ye the faith, the faith our ts father sealed us, Whoring not with visions, overwise and overstale. Except ye pay the Lord, single heart and single sword. Os your children in their pondage shall He ask them treble-tale." Plain Speaking There is no denying that there is today a widespread tendency among the devout but uneducated, to turn the Bible into a cross-word , puzzle or a cryptogram or a grabbag of freakish interpretation. All sorts of fantastic cuits have arisen . based on isolated passages of Srip- ! ture. "Key-words” and mystic numbers" are emphasized for hidden i meanings, as if the Bibie were a , Delphic oracle or a book of magic. Every sensible Christian should be on his guard against this dan- , gerous mood. The Bible is to be read for its plain meaning and for ’ its whole import. It contains diffi- , cult passages, of course: but it is well to remember Mark Twain’s observation that it was not the , parts of the Bible which he did not understand that bothered him, but I the parts that he did understand. The essential teachings of Scrip- > ture are clear and explicit: there ’ is a full life work for anybody in : trying to obey them. ■ Plain words should be spoken, ; also, in the light of this Lesson, to i the preachers. Here is a menior- ; able description of that great Bible reading scene of old Jerusalem: ("And they read in the book, the law of God. distinctly: and they i gave sense, so that they uudor- ‘ stood the reading.” Men who cannot do this have no place in the pulpit. Clergymen who race (through the Scripture reading unI intelligibly: or intone it in unreal fashion or speaks as if their mouth was full of mush, simply never were called to preaca. Unless a

man can make the Book seem more real and vital than the daily newspaper, he is out ot place In the pulpit. The Book That Finds Us When a people find the Bible they discover that ft finds them. No other book has this quality of searching out the human heart. ' Its faithful reading probes in the ! depths of our nature. No wonder ' those old Jews bowed in penitent prayer as they listened to the Law. This is the first effect of the Bible it shows a man himself in his true . solor. Then, inevitably, it lifts the repentant person up on his feet in . exultation, for he sees himself an object of Divine care. “I know the Bible is inspired, because it inspires me," said Moody. The multitude at the Jerusalem water-gate, .in the long-ago year of 444 B. C. turned to jubilation as the reading continued. They learned that “The joy of Jehovah is your strength.” , Nehemiah hade them indulge in hilarity—eat, drink and share and make merry. Curiously and disastrously, many I persons look upon the religious life as a negation anil a deprivation—! subtraction of life’s joys. The shn- ( pie truth Is that religion is an audition. It makes a believer more of a man and more of a woman, with fuller capacity to enjoy all of life’s really good things, which are ( accepted as the bounty of a loving and loved Father in heaven. Knowledge of God’s word and ,obedlence of His wilt are the abidi ing sources of peace and happii ness for an individual and for a nation. : SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS Sincerity is the way of God. — i (Confucious. . [ * « ♦ A man never sees all that his I mother has been to him till it's too tate to Tat her know that he sees I it. —W. D. Howells. ;* * * He, who would valiant be 'Gainst all disaster Let him in constancy Follow the Master.—John Bunyon. * • • ■ | it is a kind of encumbrance to be overmuch praised.—Old Proverb. > * * * i What shall it profit a man, if he ■ I shall gain the whole world, and ((lose his own soul? —Mark 8:3(1. . « » » Give me a calm and thankful heart, From every murmur tree: The blessings of Thy grace impart, 1 And let me live to Thee.—Anon. ’I * * ♦ If this life be not a real fight in 'which something is eterna<y gain , ied for the universe by success, it i: is no better than a game of private (theatricals from which one may (withdraw at will; but it feels like (a real fight —as if there were : something really wild in the uni- ’ verse which we are needed to re- • deem.—William James. o First U. B. Church H. W. Franklin — Pastor Rev. Lerry Huddleson —field a--1 gent antisaloon Leagr - ! Indianapol 1 is, Ind. will speak Sunday evening 7 o'clock. 1 Tuesday evening the W. M. A. have their regular meeting in the I church basement. 7 o’clock sharp. A good missionary program is prepared, the public invited. The Work and Win Sunday school class will meet at the home of Mrs. Charles Hitchcock Thursday evening 7 o’clock. Bible study Monday evening 7 o'clock. Wo are invited others to join. We are striding the Book of the Beginnings. Christmas program by the primary departments. Mrs. Ruth Williams and Mrs. Anna Myers are sponsoring this splendid play. Sunday evening Dec. 15. Public invltI ed. I The Christmas offering will be given to the church Tor back payi meats. And it is hoped that large I offering will come in to help in this worthy cause. A per cent of this offering will go to the Otterbein Home. Sunday School at 9:15 Roy MumIma Superintendent. Morning worship 10:30. Sermon Pastor. Christian Endeavors f> o’clock. Evening worship 7 o’clock Song service. Sermon -Rev. Huddleson. Prayer Meeting Wed. evening—--7 o’clock. This church will close at 8 o’clock so the members can attend the pageant “Women of Che Bible ’ This is a union service of the the churches of the city. — Salmon Landed Rock Island. Wash. —(UP) —The largest fish ever cagbt east of the Cascade Mountains in Washington wa-, taken here by R. \V. Vous. Using a 3U-pouud tect line, ho hooked a uv-imuud isuimoii. and iauued it after an hour and a half battle.

H(HUR(HESa Eighth Street United Brethren Rev. Luke Martin, pastor Sunday School at 9:30 a. mJ ■ Thomas Dague, superintendent. Gospel message ut 10:30 a. m., ( by the pastor. Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. in. • Mr. Wynn, leader. Followed by ! evangelistic service. Prayer meeting Thursday eve- ■ niug at 7:30 o'clock. Frank Johni sou, class leader. Come. o— Methodist Episcopal Church Herman R. Carson, minister The service of worship and study opens at 9:20 a. m. and closes at 11:15 a. m. The Rev. C. L. Griffith will be the guest speaker for the day, representing the Indiana Anti-Saloon League. Special music will be furnished by the Girls chor- ( us. The Nursery, under the direction of Miss Joyce Riker and the ! Children’s Church, under the direction of Mrs. H. 11. Carson, open at 9:20 a. m. and parents are invited to bring the younger children to them. Church School classes meet for lesson study, under the direction (of W. Guy Brown and a cordial inI vitation is extended to all to be present. The Senior Epworth League and the Intermediate Epworth League meet at 6:00 p. ni. Our church joins in the Union I service at the Reformed church at 8 p. in. in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the printing of the Bible in English. Mid-week service on Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. and Fred Busche will be the leader. The church school board meeting follows at 9:15 p.m. o | Calvary Evangelical Church Sunday school at 9:30 James Darr Supt. Prayer and fellowship meeting at 10:30. Holy Comniuni n service on Thursday night conducted by Rev. M. W. Sundermann. — St. Mary's Church First Mas; 6:00 Low Mass 7: CO "ildren's Mass - 8:30 High Mass 9:45 Pruyer Hour and Benediction 2:00 o Baptist Church Homer Aspy, pastor Sunday School 9:30. C. E. Bell Superintendent. Every body welcome. Morning Worship 10:30. B. Y. P. U. at 6:00. Evening service 7:00. Th:- is Rev. Aspy’s first Sunday anrl every member is urged to he present. First Evangelical Church M. W. Sundermann, Minister Church school at 9:15 with classes in Bibl > Study for all ages. Fallowing the lesson study, the Holy Ccr.munion will be observed. E. L. C. E. at 6:15 with the newly elected president, Edd Martz as : leader. Evening service at seven o'clock. ■ This -service will adjourn at 7:45 in

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Photography, already a formidable competitor of painting, promises to take a definite place among . the modern fine arts. The technique of the camera , I has been so perfected in recent years that authori- . I ties on interior design are making increasing use I of photographs in decoration. The general mi [ viiiviit lit tiih. la’yiilaii 5 tliiikiil iipprccilliion oi painting has also turned him away from the

O— — ° LEGALLY SPEAKING —* RECENTLY- A COURT IN HUNGARY DENIED DAMAGES TO A BEGGAR. -WHO LOST MIS LEG IN A R-R. ACCIDENT--BECAUSE SUCH LOSS INCREASED MIS ABILITY TO BEG. ill' R<md 6HMbeaU ClcwluU O - S’* • ——xWT- •* ' £' 1 -?***'■ '■ 'V " 'F ’ J , \ * R^* W This was in November. 1932. The beggar. Josef Ballo, sued for personal injuries. The evidence showed that the mendicant had lost one leg in an earlier accident. The District Court of Debrcczin, however, refused to award damages for the reason that the accident placed him iu a bettef position to follow his calling ol being a beggar.

order to give all a chance to attend tne ’geant: ■ Women of the Bible" at the Reformed Church. Election of Sunday School Officer ■- on Wednesday night at seven o’clock. The Ladies Aid will have an all day meeting on Thursday, beginning at ten o’clock, with a potluck I übiner, Christmas exchange and , election of officers. o Zion Lutheran Church Paul W. Schultz, pastor Divine service in English, 10:30 a. m. Divine services iu German. 8:30 la. in. Sunday School and Bible class. I 9:30 a. m. Lutheran radio “our Sunday., 12:30 noon. Walther League .Christmas party Wednesday evening. Adult class Thursday evening. 71 o'clock. Saturday religious school every Saturday morning. Presbyterian "Church George O. Walton, minister 9:30 a. m. —Sunday School. Roy Andress, superintendent. 10:30 a. m. — Morning worship. "The Eternal Word." This service will be in commemoration of national Bible Sunday. 1:30 p. m. Christmas pageant

I mediocre paintings prized by previous generations and directed his attention to the quality work of the camera artist. By use of varied textures of print paper mid arrangement of lights, the photographer can now achieve such dilTerent efTcew as ’he candid camera ihot or landscape scenes which have the soltncis of an etching. In future years photography is expected to improve greatly.

I practice at the church. I 5:30 p. m.—Young Peoples meet • ing. I 8:00 p. m. Union service at the ■ Reformed church with drama pre i seated by the Woman's Club, entitled "Women of the Bible." I Next Tuesday the Progressive . class will meet for an exchange ot ; Christmas gifts, Mrs. Bain assist 1 ant hostess. ' Prayer meeting Wednesday eve I ning at 7 o'clock. Workers conference Friday eventing commencing at 7 o’clock. I The Fort Wayne Presbytery will i i meet this Monday. December 9, at I the First Church of Fort Wayne. o Church Og God Glen Marshall, pastor I Sunday school 9:30 i Morning worship 10:30 ■ Evening service . 7:30 I The evening service will be sp ’iisI ored by the yomrg people. Mid-week prayer service, Wednesday at 7:30. The public fe cordially invited to all services. o Zion Reformed Church Charles M. Prugh. Minister Church School 9:15 a. in. Chas. Brodbeck, supt. Morning worship 10:30 a. m. • Rev. R. C. Zartinan, 1). I), will preach on "The Return Os Our I Lord". Music liy the Senior Choir. I Young people will meet at 6:15

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p. in. to go to Berne. Union Service for preseutation of pageant, “Women of the Bible”, ut 8 p. m. The public Is invited. Official Board meeting Monday 7 p. m. Ladies' Aid Society meets Wednesday for an all-day meeting. Potluck dinner at 11:30 a. m. Program at 2:00 p. m. followed by business and Christmas exchange. o BOOK NOTES By Ruth Winnes “While Rome Burns" is the first book in six years by America’s favorite raconteur. Six years ago Al- | exander Woollcott forsook his calling as our leading dramatic critic, 1 and resigned from the old New York World. Since then he has become ever more widely known for his freelance writings—nis "Shouts and Murmurs" in tne New Yorker, his portraits and gossipy articles in Cosmopolitan, CoiiTer’s and other magazines—his lecturing and his many activities, including his widely followed broadcasts as The Town Crier. Alexander Woolcott is today unique; he collects anecdotes and murder stories, he does portrait sketches of the people who interest him, and his audience applauds even if the subjects sometimes do not. | This book contains a generous selection of his best work—a rich and varied collection, not only to read, but to own and keep and reread and chuckle over. Here are his famous murder stories —"It May Be Human Gore”; his memorable profiles of Some Neighbors, weil known, glamorous men and women; the exciting accounts of his adventures in far places; anecdotes of his War days; notes on books and plays that are worth remembering; and some legendary talcs that have been related for years but never so well as he retells them. His writings, now in permanent form, have been carefully arranged, annotated, and enlarged with original captions by the author. “SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM" by T. E. Lawrence Out of the chaos and confusion of humanity’s greatest single experience, the mechanized world 1 war, there arose one vivid individual leader, whose story, recorded in a book, achieves the crystal atmosphere of the classics. The lead er was T. E. Lawrence — "Lawrence of Arabia" — and his book, “Seven Pillars of Wisdom " 1 In its noble pages is the odyssey of one man's coul, a record of high endeavor, filled with the martial Homeric music, the adventure and the philosophy of a soldier who was a master English stylist. ! This is the complete, unabridged, ! definitive edition of SEVEN PILL- , ARS OF WISDOM. It is frank, beautiful, great; touched with legend and mystery; an experience in reading which in its many rich rewards is without parallel in the , literature of our generation — o TINY SALEBOAT SPANS PACIFIC IN EIGHTY DAYS VICTORIA, B. C. (U.P) — After [ being tossed about the Pacific. r Ocean in a 45-foot sailboat for more Ilian 80 days, amt at one ( time almost given up as lost by friends and relatives, two Victoria men and a boy arrived safely here after a voyage from Hong Kong io Vancouver Island. It was the culmination of a lifelong dream for Capt. E. P. Green, of Victoria, when he brought his • turdy little boat Romance to dock here. Accompanied by his son. Philip, and John Hunter, he left Yokohama after a voyage from Hong Kong. The entire trip covered 6,250 miles. Green related a series of stirring adventures which befell himself. his crew of two and his small craft on the Pacific. They rau into typhoons, mousoons, waterspouts and terrific seas. At the time they were sighted just off Vancouver Island by the United States warship U.S.S. Oklahoma. cruising in this area, they were two weeks overdue. The Romance is u two-masted ship. 45 feel long, .square-rigged on the foremast, fore-and-aft on the mainmast, ft lias au auxiliary engine capable of about three knots. Pacific waves eau climb higher than the masts. —— Trade in a Good Town — Decatur N-O-T-I-C-E Notice is hereby given to the shareholders of the First -State Bank, Decatur, Indiana, that there will be a meeting at the office of said bank, January 7, 1936 between 2:30 p. m. and 3:30 p. m. for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors for said Bank for the coming year of 1936. H. E. Gkiitleiiing | Cashier.