Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 217, Decatur, Adams County, 12 September 1936 — Page 5

t’T'TsrNOAV 8"*..,, SCHOOL ■•lesson <• I ■••.. for September 20 ■ CHRISTIAN LIVING K. ssO y text - 11:1 '■ TlAT—Chri.'t llveth In K^y"- n '" v J, ' SU " 1 K Tol’l Explain. | ■»''» *£.L,. t v an-d senior 1 ! D- •'* » Christian. K a fitting c> nclusion to a threeK, studv of thc spread of ■S„n,tv w the gentile peoples KwHern Asia, we consider the K h . ng of the great apostle to . tutu; "Christian K"/' early chapters of Paul's K de tu the Romans present the Katest exposition of profound doctrine ever written. K even as it is true that the Kt of Christian living can grow K.. on th' tree of Christian docK it is equally true that thc I Kwledge efC-u ’ ,-n truth should Kilt a Christian living. “Faith ■thout works is dead.” lesson pointedly presents the Ke Christian life as being Hi v Life Yielded to God (Rom. Ha recognition and deep appreciaHe of the mercies of God leads yielding of body- and mind in Hring sacrifice to God. If we are Kristians our bodies arc thc temKof the Holy Spirit. We must K lend our bodies to activities Kdi destroy their usefulness or inder our service for God but idler yield the body with all its Bities to God! But after all "it is the inside | a man that counts.” The presting of the body in living sacri- * is possible only when there IS been the inner transformation I the renewing of the mind. One snot live physically without beg born: it is equally impossible :. ea -tian life without havg been born again. The Christian life is yielded to «: not only for its own peace 1 id satisfaction, but it is to be n. A Life of Service (vv. 9-15). We are not saved by serving but e are saved to serve. in the first place the Christian rves the Lord. He abhors evil, It his life is not merely negative, r he cleaves to that which is ad. He is not lazy, but diligent, is spirit is aglow with zeal for M and his cause. He is full of ly and hope, patient under trials, man of steadfastness in prayer. Such a man will not fail to serve is fellow-man. He will really love e brethren, not merely make a ypocritical show of loving them. ! will seek the honor of others rther than his own glory. He ill be given to the almost lost rt of hospitality. He will be ready • stand by his brother, in the : by of joy or of sorrow. He will ; o even further, for he will bless hose that persecute him. The measure is not yet full for re note next that the Christian ives HL A Life of Humility (v. 16). In these days when we are urged l assert ourselves, to demand our ights, to “succeed” at any cost, nd when men are measured by leir worldly achievements, it •unds rather old-fashioned to talk bout humility, about condescend»g to lowly things, of not being ‘wise in our own conceits.” But humility is still the crowning frsce of a truly Christian life. Those who follow the lowly Jesus, ® fact as well as in profession, we still strongest when they are *eak, and mightiest for God when “T are humble. Note also that we follow a victorious Christ who calls us to IL A Life of Victory (vv. 17-21). “ is possible to talk much about toe victorious life—to discuss it at leogth as a theologicial question—- ™ have little real victory. Paul speaks plainly. The Chrisan is honorable in all things. He toeets every obligation. He is a of He , g Mt 2™ e " with avenging himself upon who has done him wrong. Spite wes boundary disputes, family barrels, are not for him. Evi! not to overcome him. God gives victory. fan esson » and one that we «MO. Stud y djs dop~ . g Christian, how th»v y ° Ur , life aßd rnine appear as God up to mirror of “ant th°t d? u Let US make a cove ’ Power^ dt ? y G ° d ’ S grace and "Chri, t We Slall g 0 forward in real Christian living.” Wi« ° n Bein K Just 'ta ever is unjust is contrary to lot a? WIU; and from it folness cr! h° trUe and abiding ha PP i ’ • r „ be gamed by those who :s unjust.-Stretch. •—■—- - Wa, a Hardships tllr .. ds and hardships provoke ■ 'uiage, and when our fortunes ainu, t!le our wits and 'Charon Comrrkotlly at the best

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Plague Os Mental Fog Is Worse Than Year’s Drought Tracing World’s Troubles To Muddled Minds — Clear, Hijjh. Hard Thi nkinjf Os An Ancient Letter—The Place Os Do ctrine In Real Living.

By WILLIAM T. ELLIS Terrible drought visited central States and Provinces last Bunimer; but it is doubtful if the permanent damage done, vast as that was, could equal the harm wrought by thc fog that has been prevailing in the public mind during the post-war years. Like a dense cloud, which gives vagueness to objects dimly seen, and destroys all definiteness of images this nebulous mental mood has settled down upon the thinking of myriads. So-called •’intellectuals” have especially seemed to dwell in the thick of the fog. Sharp, clear, elemental thinking has disappeared from large areas of the world’s reasoning. In world politics, economies, and sociology this misty-mindedness has been 'apparent; but especially has it been manifest in the realm of religion. Vagueness, vacuity, and variableness have been characteristic of the times. Countless new cults have arisen, hut the harm they have done to the intellectual integrity of men ajid women re less than the disintegration of character which has followed the fog of shallowness and “sophistication” in the reaim of plain people who have not followed after fashionable false godn. We have heard much about an indefinite thing called "religion.” which all save a few approve; but we have heard all too little about, the explicit teachings of Christianity, as set forth in the New Testament. “Religion” is a general term, which may mean much or little; Christianity is a definite belief, resulting in practical conduct. One may discuss religion, and think himself profound, whereas he is only being shallow. But to come to grips with Christianity means quick consequences in ordinary personal living «#nd in social relationships. Out Os The Fog I know no better ajrplane to carry one above the fog that envelops men's minds than a careful reading, and rereading, and then detailed study, of Saint Paul’s Letter To The Romans. Here is great, thinking and great writing. No pap for babies is this closely wrought document. The mind that is accustomed to no greater heights than contemporary fiction will find it hard going. This is strong meat. The person who has mastered Romans dan congihtulaje himself that he really has a brain. He has passed out of the fog. Incidentally, such a person will acquire a real reaped for the mental capacity of those earliest Christians. The new converts in the young Church in Rome, who

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were demonstrating the Life amidst all the rottenness of Nero’s city, were able to accept and understand this mighty epistle of I Paul. There was great thinking (done in the first and second I Christian centuries. Underlying ■lt was a beautiful simplicity of 1 fellowship that made the apostle lln Corinth a sharer in the exper- , iences and prayers of the breth- . ren in the imperlaj capital. First, Principles; Then, Practice Rugged, virile languhge marks this great book from the very first chapter Paul was no mollycoddle. .Most preachers would ! shrink from reading in public i some of the blunt patreages that I he wrote to the Roman Christians. (And he did not spare anybody; ’ evidently in the Church in Rome there were some folk of the sort i who plague our day: “Professing i themselves to be wise, they bei come fools.” Before we come to the “there'fore” which opens the portion of ! the Letter which is our Lesson text, with its most practical counsels. we have eleven chapters of soaring theology. The author gives his fipantic mind to the themes of God, and grace and sin ; and holiness. He lays a deep, hroiul foundation of doctrine for his later directioire for Christian living. First he expounds principles; then he outlines practices, i That was Paul’s ordinary usage in his letters to the churches. Back of every noble life there 1 must be real convictions. Silly folk scoff at doctrines: "It doesn’t matter what a person believes, so long as he lives right.” But he will not live right unless he believes right. Every day’s newspaper is a commentary upon the wise old Scripture word, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so i« he.” Show me a life full of thoughts of God and truth and beauty and duty, and I’ll show you *The Sunday School Lesson for September 20 is The Good Life. —Romans 12. a beautiful character which consistently interprets in daily living the daily meditations of its heart. It is because of the lack of real faith that morals and ethics are ailing in such wide areas of our modern life. Getting Down To Earth Out of the gushing spring of Paul’s sublime doctrinal conceptions flowed the sweet waters of day-by-day godly living. No mere theorist he. He would have had scant patience with the preeentday Christian controversy over “social service” and “the simple Gospel”; for he saw the two as onfe. His evangelistic preaching

eventuated In changed liven ajid In changed social conditions. Curiously, and rather startingly, the Revised Version of the opening sentence of onr Lesson reI veals how dose to actualities the | author’s mind dwelt. He begins his summation of all the practical counsels that are to follow his abstract discueeion of truth: "I beseech you. therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, which is your spiritual worship”— “reasonable eervlce” is the Authorized rendering. What a flood of light the change lets in! “Spiritually" is not ecstatic moods, devotional booklets, pious phrases; and worship is not merely a, swelling organ and ! stained glass windows and a dec- ; orated altar and elaborate ritual. No; it Is bodies —flesh and blood I bodies—offered to God in the humdrum round of daily living. With- : out this daily sacrifice there is no true worship. Paul’s plaji for life-changing is put into a sentence, which applies the principle already stated: “Be ! not fashioned according to th|k world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” We must get rid of our foggy woozymindedness before we can achieve the shining practicalities of the ' good life. Then follows a catalogue of i characteristics of the Christian life. This has been many times amplified in books of practical counsel; such as D. Henry H. I Sweets’ “Planning The Good Life” ‘ (Presbyterian Publishing House, Richmond, Va. 50c). No detached mind can read Paul’s citation of these consequences of faith in Christ without exclaiming. "It i this program were followed, all j that is wrong with the world ! might be made right.”

o . SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS Heaven never helps the man who will not act. —Sophoples. * * * Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty. —A. Maclaren. * » » Ambition has but one reward for all; A little power, a little transient fame, A grave to rest in, ajid a fading name. —William Winter. * « * All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies. —Dante. » » » The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. —Deut. 33:27. • * * And let us hope that to our praise Good God not only reckons The moments when we tread His ways But when the spirit beckons, Tha.t some slight good is also wrought Beyond self-satisfaction. When we are simply good in thought. Howe’er we fail in action.-Lowell. No accidents are so unlucky but that the wise may draw some advantage from them; nor are there any so lucky but that the foolish may turn them to their own prejudice. —Rochefoucauld. r O Bears Are Wild Yellowstone Park, Wyo.—(U.P.i Visitors to the park may not believe it, but the bears in this area are NOT pets—they're wild. At least 17 persons this month have suffered hand injurie's because they refused to believe the warnings of rangers not to feed the bears. o— Steel Ship Order London.—(U.R)— Sub-contracts for over 30,000 tons of steel girders, frames, plates, beams and castings for the Queen Mary's sister ship have already been placed by John Brown & Company. Work will be commenced on the new’ CanardWhite 277ar liner in November. Women Miners Buyawayo, S. A.— (U.R; — Women are making good as gold mining prospectors in Rhodesia, which next to the Union of South Africa is the largest gold producer on the African continent. Os nearly 100 private gold mining prospectors in the colony, no less than 36 are women. Houston Leads Galveston, Tex. (U.R; —Houston regained its position ss the leading Texas port in the exporting of generl cargo during the fiscal year ended July 31, according to a report issued by H. S. Ziegler, Inc., Galveston freight brokers. o Cop Uses Head Portland. Ore.—(U.R) —Patrolman John Richardson may possess psychic powers that will aid the law. To a mother's frantic plea for aid to find her lost daughter. Richardson replied that the 3-year-old child was probably iu the back yard. She was found sleeping uhder a swing.

Hana St. Mary’g Church First Maes 7:00 Children’s Mass 8:301 High Mass 9 :45 i Prayer Hour 2:00] Q. First Evangelical Church George S. Lozier, Pastor 1 9 7 15 _ a.m.—S und y ool. Mr. Earl Fuhrman, supt. 10:10 a.tn. — Worship service. The Quarterly Communion service ; will feature this service. 9:15 a. m. —Sunday School. Mr. mediate Christian Endeavor meetings. The Senior society will resume its activities following the summer vacation. The Intermed- : iate group will begin its activities. 7:30 p.m.—Evening Popular service. Sermon theme: “Wake Up.” The public is invited to these »eri vices. | 7:30 p.m. — Monday. Albright | Brotherhood meeting. 7:00 p.m. — Wednesday, Mid-1 week Prayer service. 8:00 p. m. — Wednesday. Choir rehearsal. 2:00 p.m.—Thursday. Ladies Aid Society meeting. 3:00 p. m. — Saturday—Mission Band meeting. o Presbyterian George O. Walton, Minister 9:3(L Sunday School. Mr. W. R. McCoy, superintendent. 10:30 Morning Worship. Sermon “Faith to Believe’ —o First M. E. Church H. R. Carson, minister The pastor has returned from his vacation trip and will be back i in the pulpit Sunday morning. The official board is sponsoring a spec-1 ial “Home Again” service. Special music will be furnished by the girls choir, under the direction ot j Mrs. Dan Tyndall. The pastor will' bring a special message cn the I theme. “Home. Sweet Home.” Everybody is urged to be present at the morning hour. All of the boys and girls of the junior church are urged to be present by 9:20 a. tn. and Mrs. Carson will be there to greet them. The church school session will meet at 10:30 a. ni. under the superintendency of Walter Krick, and adjournment follows at 11:15 a. m. There will be no evening service this week but plans are being laid for evening services later in the

year. The annual convention of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary society of the Fort Wayne district will be held in the First M E. church of Fort Wayne' Tuesday forenoon, afternoon and evening. Mid week service will be held on Wednesday evening. This is Sunday school night and an important session of the church school board will be held. Every officer and teacher is urged to be present. Nazarene Tabernacle 7th and Marshall 9:30 Sunday School. 10:30 Morning service. Theme: The Ethical Side of Holiness. 7:30, Evening service. Theme: Christ’s Yoke. Rev. Paul Brandyberry, Pastor o Baptist Church Homer Aspy, pastor Sunday School 9:30. Junior church 10:30. Morning worship 10:30. Solo, Harold Strickler. Sermon by pastor. Evening service, the first following the Union services, 7:30. Wednesday evening, 7:30, midweek prayer eervice. The Salamonia Baptist association will meet at Warren. Indiana. Wednesday. A good delegation from the local church is expected to attend. o First U. B. Church H. W. Franklin, Pastor Greetings to all members of the church and the public. We are glad to start the third year of our pastorate here and hope for a good beginning service Sunday. Installation of all church officers Sunday morning at the 10:30. hour. This will be a nice service, : be sure and be present. A call quarterly meeting Sunday night after church. A busi-, ness session, this meeting is ord-' ered by the conference superintendent. Rev. B. H. Cain. We urge : all members to be present. Sunday school 9:15, Glen Hill, superintendent. Morning devotion 10:30. Sermon by the pastor. Christian Endeavor. 6:00. Evening service, taJk by the pastor and a music recital. Bible Study Monday 7:30 p. in. Prayer meeting Wed. 7:30 p in. j Orchestra practice Wed. 6 p.m. Choir practice Friday 6:30 p.m. Zion Lutheran Church Paul W. Schultz. Pastor

Home Address: Garden of Eden EVE brought Adam out of Eden, but what a pleasant place she has made the earth to live in since! We’re thinking particularly of her modern incarnation — the twentieth-century Eve who is so skilled in the new art of living ... She knows how to make a home delightful, how to cook, how to bring up a family, and how to entertain. All these things she does well, and with such ease and poise that her husband marvels. Iler method is no secret. She will tell you herself that she reads the advertisements. From them she learns how to brighten her living-room with sunfast draperies, and how to buy good, wholesome foods for her family. Advertisements of a magnificent piano prompted her to give her children a musical education. Her guests enjoy her taste in ginger ales. And, she has time to think of herself and to choose fine toiletries that accent her charm. Read the advertisements in this newspaper, regularly! Their guidance will help to make you another Eve, and your home a new Eden!

Divine services in English, 10:30. > Divine services In German, 8:30. ■ Sunday school and Bible clans 9:30 All services are held in the . school hall. Q - ! ‘ Zion Reformed Church ——-~ . j Charles M. Prugh, Minister 11 Church School 9:15 am. Char- ' : les Brodbeck. Supt. . Morning Worship 10:30 a. m. i Sermon: “Signs of These Times”. I St. Luke 12:54-56. 1 Music by the girls’ choir. Annual Mission Festival at ! Cross Reformed church, Berne. Services at 10 a.m., 2 p.m., and ' 7:30 p.m. Speaker, Rev. R. S. ; Mathes. Goshen, Ind. Ladies’ Aid Society, Wednesday, 2:30 p. m. Phoebe Bible Class, Wednesday 7:30 p. m. Beginners’ class in Catechetical instruction Saturday, Sept. 19tli. 8:15 a. m. — o Christian Church Rev. Kenneth Timmons, pastor Bible School. 9:15 a. m. Communion, 10:30. Church Brotherhood will meet this Thursday night, 7:30 p. m. at

WILL FOREIGN RULERS MEET >IN U.S.A.? © < AH 8 O LCW4 S INCJAI In high circles it's said the President will invite King. France’s President, Russia’s, Germany's, Italy's Dictators, and Japan's and China’s envoys to discuss peace plans at Washington. In professional circles as well as among the general public it is known that every service we conduct is truly representative of every improvement in the mortuary field. We counsel against extravagance and co-operate with clients to keep the cost within their means. black 71 • FUNGRAI DI RECTOR V Z_L PHONE 500 • —9

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the home Os G. T. Burk. ‘The Ladies Aid will meet Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Henry Lichtenatelger. Oak afreet, at 2 o'clock. Bible School election of officers this coming Sunday, Sept. 2<l. o — Freight Volume on Rise Toledo. (U.R> — Freight tonnage in Toledo, considered a measure of general business and industrial activity, has been running 40 per cent ahead of a similar period last year. Dollar volume of business has been about 25 per cent above last year, as seen in bank debits. o Rabbits Cow Coyote i Bend. Ore. — (U.R) Fire Warden I L. A. W. Nixon son a coyote run I out of the brush followed by two rabbits. He waited, expecting another coyote to be trailing for the kill. None appeared and the animal disappeared in the distance, the bunnies still in hot pursuit. o — Slipper Thrower Toledo (U.R) — Most accurate longdistance slipper thrower is Marguerite Blank, who also won u 75-yard dash at the annuaj picnic of the Slhmidlin Brothers Heating Co. Samaritan Robbed Toledo (U.R) — Dr. J. Lester Kobacker. lending a helping hand to a youth, gave him a job an hajidy man. The following day, Dr. Kobacker was minus SSO, i suit of clothes and a handy man. o Trade in a Good Town—Decatur.