Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 235, Decatur, Adams County, 3 October 1936 — Page 5

, KZ77 1 SUNDAY I SCHOOL Wk-LESSON * 1' e W „t,r.. M"< " ll '" k ' Le»’ on f° r October 11 | ■I I.RBSON text - Act. TEXT-B*’I"’* 1 "’* ’*.» K qff- rhr 7' * n l ,hou " hOlt *" W "humaky ‘ t'hHC-Two n«r>pr r TOrir-HT 1 ’” *" Pf l ’""- ■ iSmITE AND SENIOR ■ Ir<.pic-How W 1 »»•"!>■•« “ 1 hrl ’- "roi'W PEOPLE AND ADULT *■ The conversion of Lydia and her '■Jcious growth into usefulness as ■f Christian is in striking contrast the experience that Patil had ~h -he demon-possessed damsel ’■’vs 16 1«-18’ A pOWPr divfeation had made her profitflKhle to unscrupulous men. Such have not perished from the ■earth and there are still those who merchandise of silly and sinwomen. K I p au ] commands the demon to c -me cut of her and at once the Issue is drawn. Sil. Christianity versus Crooked ■H Business (Acts 16 22 241. BM As long as the missionaries were the place of prayer and in the El home of Lydia they were not dis- ■ turbed. But as soon as they touched ■■the illegitimate gain of these ■ 'business” men who were making ■B-oney '■■■ ■■'■ ”•« misfortune of the ■ poor damsel, bitter opposition HM arose. . , ■ | Cunningly combining the plea of ■ I false patriotism and anti-Semitism eB with the ever-potent argument that Bl business was being hindered, they raised a hue and cry which reI B suited in the beating and imprison- || ir.ent of Paul and Silas (Acts 18:14ig 21). | I We live in another century, but I B men are the same. Let the church I I and its members only go through | I the motions of formal service and I B present a powerful religious phi- | I losophy. and the world will applaud | ■ and possibly support its activities. | B But let the pungent power of the | B gospel go out through its life and I | ministry, and deliver devil - posI B sessed men and women, let its IB God-given grace expose the hypoeI B risy and wickedness of men and I I there will soon be opposition. I U. Down, but not defeated (w. || 25. 26). J The preachers landed in jail, II beaten, bloody, and chained to the I 1 stocks. What a disgrace it would I | have been if they had come there I I because of their misdeeds. How I I ashamed we are when professed | Christian leaders sin and fall into I- the hands of the law. But “Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake” (Matt. 5:10). Little wonder that they forgot their bruises and their chains and began to sing and pray, even at midnight. Note that "the prisoners were listening to them.” The words we speak, the songs we sing, our every action, speak either for God or against Him. As they pray God speaks, chains fall away, prison doors open. Men can lock doors; God shakes them open. The jailer, cruel and bold when he put them into prison, but now in fear, is about to kill himself But God has better thoughts concerning him. Paul cries out, “Do thyself no harm” and he experiences 111. Salvation Instead of Suicide (w. 27-34). Thank God for the earthquakes in our lives which bring us to him. The jailer, being rightly exer-' cised by God's dealings with him, asks the greatest and most important question that can ever come out of the heart of unregenerate man—“ What must I do to be saved?” Reader, have you asked this question? Then you, too, are ready for the answer. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” The closing verses of our lesson present the personal testimony of Paul that he had surrendered IV. All for Christ (Phil. 3:7-14). All was but loss to him compared with what he gained in Christ. We speak of surrendering all for Christ, but as a matter of fact we lose only what fs of no real value and make infinite gain. Paul, as are ail great followers of Jesus Christ, was a “one thing” man. All that he hnd or was or Loped to be, every ounce of energy and love, went into his pressing toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” — ■ An Odious Quality conceit is the moat contemptible and one of the most odious qualities m the world. It is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.— I Hazlitt. Getting Rid of Misery Half the misery of human life , n ;, ight be extinguished, would men alleviate the general curse they lie i under, by mutual- offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanly.—Addison.

(CEitrch Sunday

Ambassadors In Prison Set Free By Their Sovereign Dramtic Episode In Proud City of Philippi—Prisoners Sing At Midnight — Plight Os Baffled Jailer, And His Deliverance. - - - ■ . .

By WILLIAM T. ELLIS Spain's civil war has created a number of dramatic incidents in connection with foreign ambassadors and ministers Hut no diplomat hss suffered the fgnomlnty that came to the first foreign ambassador of the Christian Church, the Apostle Paul and his comrades. Occasionally ho flashed forth with an assertion of his rights and dignity, as In the present Lesson upon his imprisonment in proud and historic old Phllllppi. Then the cowering magistrates came to their knees at the feet of the one whom they had punished and Imprisoned ignominiously. When Preaching Rubs The Raw Last week we left Paul comfortably established in the home of Lydia, a successful business woman, and hie first convert on his western campaign. But disturbing events soon followed. On the way to a prayer meeting, a soothsaying maid followed. On the way to a prayer meeting, a soothsaying maid followed him, crying out his idea tlty as a representative of the Most High God. Paul cast the evil spirit out of the girl, thus wrecking her money-making power, and setting her mercenary masters hot upon his trail. It was an old story repeated. Big Business and blind bigotry had crucified Jesus. At Ephesus the apostle was one .day to be mobbed again by a crowd incited by the temple silver-smiths, whose business he had hurt. Tn our day, more than one preacher has lost his pulpit because he affronted business In the pew The recent General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Churwii was threatened -happily. in vain—by a group of laymen who objected to the utterances of the Church upon current social problems. When preaching rubs the raw of the exposed money nerve there is likely to follow the same sort ot consequences that dogged Paul at Phillfppi. The apoatle was concerned to liberate an afflicted girl: her employers were interested only in the money they derived from her pitiable plight, it was tile old, old issue of human rights versus property rights. Rabble-Rousers Get Busy Political campaigns in the United States and Canada have brought forth rabble rousers, demagogues • ***»»»»* *The Sunday School Lesson ior October 11 is Paul and The Philippian Jailer. — Acts 16: 16-40; Phil. 3:7-14. • ••*•***•

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skilled in inflaming the baser passions of the unthinking. They are 1 In succession to similar politicians ; I throughout the ages. Such men in .'Philippi, with the moneyed interests in the background, raised the hue and cry against Paul and Silas. and haled them before the mag- , Ist rates on false charges of a pseus do patriotic character. ,' “Vov populi” always sounds loud I, In the ears of office-holders: so ! the magistrates were quick to strip II the prisoners and beat them with , many stripes :nd thrust them into . an inner dungeon, with their feet !. in the stocks. 1 1 What a pitiable plight for am- . bassadovs of the Most High? Were I they down hearted? Not a bit of it . 'i.iese men were made of real am- . bassadorial stuff. No tears or groans over their hard fate; no ' whimpering or self-pity. They knew _ how to endure hardness, and even ’ to rejoice in tribulation. So with the caked blood not yet ’ dry on their beaten backs, and their I feet painfully locked in cruel stocks, they prayed and sang—< sang at midnight! Even the other In mated throughout the prison , heard their jubilant music, precur- ’ sor of the songs that the martyrs would sing in catacombs and coliseums ot death. I wish we knew the words of their songs. Perhaps ' they were the familiar Psalms; probably they were also the new songs of Christian faith and joy, 1 for the Church has been from the first a body of singing disciples. • Show me the man or woman who sings during trials, and I will show you a stout and victorious spirit. ‘ Souls may ever triumph over bod--1 as, and faith over fate. The Earthquake Messenger One unique support every believer in God may have —the knowledge that his Master is Lord of , the universe, with a diversity of - infinite resources at His command. : Angels and men, storms and calm, flood and drought, earthquakes and . tranquility, all are His messengers. . The particular errand boy that : God sent to deliver His ambassadors from the Phillipian jail was an earthquake, which shook the foundations of the prison, opened every door and broke every stock and shackle. We wonder whether the shocks that are nowadays coming to human society around the world are i not also God's messengers, to set i men s spirits free, and to direct them to the Great Reality. This is bed-rock faith, that, somehow or other, an overruling Providence. an all-wise and all-able God, is working His purposes out. Things may look as black as they looked to an outsider for Paul and

Silas, deep In a dungeon. But Jehovah still sits on His throne in the heavens, ruling over all the affairs of earth, with watchful eye. And we have Scripture for it that God's chief Interest should be God The honor and well being of Ills ambassadors is as His own. The Frantic Jailer ‘ Individual incideats throw most light on great events. Out of the chaos of the Phillipian earthquakes emerges the figure of the jailer, aroused from sleep by the crash of falling walls. He sees his prisoners tree, bin own honor gone. In the Roman tradition, he draws hie sword, and is about to slay himself, when a loud voice arises •- bove the tumult, "Do thyself no harm!” It was Paul, no longer a prisoner, but, as often, master of the situation. Somehow, the frantic man understood the causative relation of Paul to the drama; and the proud Roman fell at the prisoners’ feet, crying "What must I do to be saved?” Probably that plea meant only a desire to know how he would escape from his present predicament. He was asking only political and official safety. But he got more than he asked. Like Saul, who went in search of asses and found a kingdom, the jailer sought physical safety and found, instead, spiritual salvation. In life’s great dilemnas and crises, human beings need to hear the words spoken by Paul to the Philippean jailor; "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house." That goes for every personal need and (or every social emergency. In finding Jesus Christ, we find the way out from every peril, from every problem, from every predicament. Personal faith is the solution of social perplexities. St. Mary's Church First Mass—6:oo. Low Mass —7:00. Children's Mass—B:3o. High Mass—9:4s. Prayer Hour—2:oo. Church of God Glen E. MarshaiT, pastor. The Sunday School will open with a call to worship, quiet music and a song of worship. Promotion exercises and the installation of officers and teachers for the new Sunday School year will be held. Sunday School open at 9:30 am. The morning worship period opens at 10:30. Message by the pastor on the Holy Spirit. Evening service, 7:30 p. m. Mid week prayer service, Wednesday, 7:30 p. m. Immediately following the prayer service the annual business meeting ot the church will be held. Officers of the business meeting and trustees of the church will then be elected. Cottage prayer meeting, Friday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rollie Donnell. These cottage meetings have been well attended and are held for the purpose of strengthening the spiritual life of the church. All are invited to attend. Sunday, Oct. 11th is rally day in the Sunday School. Bring someone with you to this service. Let us have a record attendance. The district Young Peoples' rally will be held at Fort Wayne at the Church of God, corner of Sherman and Putnam streets, Sunday, October 11. All the young people are especially urged to attend. All are welcome. Vegetable soup sale by the ladies of the church Tuesday, October 13. o-- ... PRESBYTERIAN George O. Walton, Minister There will be a combined service of Sunday School and Church commencing at 10:00 o'clock. At this time the Rally Day program will be given. Au interesting program of recitations has been arranged together with special music by the young people's choir. Next Wednesday comtuenciag at seven o’clock church night will be Next Wednesday commencing at seven o’clock church night will bo observed by the various departments of th« ebureh. A special program has been arranged for the occasion together with a social hour following the meeting. The Ladies Aid will servo a supper at the church next Saturday evening. The Communion of the Lord's Supper will be celebrated at the service next Sunday morning. - - '■ ■■ Zien Lutheran Church Paul W. Schultz, Pastor Divine services in English 10:30. Divine services in German 8:30 Sunday school and Bible class 9:30 a. m. All services in the school bail. ——-————o - — -. Rev. G. O. Walton has boen confined at home with sickness the past few days.

First Evangelical Church George S. Loiter, Pastor 9:15 a. m., Sunday School. Mr. Earl Fuhrman, Supt. This will be RALLY DAY in the Sunday School I Special Program. You are hivlted if you are not a member of anothI er school. 10:30 a. m., Worship Service, —! sermon theme: "My Church”. This will be membership day iu the pro-. gram of the church. The roll will be called. 6:45 p. m. Intermediate and Senior Christian Endeavor. 7:30 p. m., Evening Service. This I will be Family Night. All families of the church are to be present and are to sit in family groups. Two parents and two children are to deliver brief messages. The pastor will also speak. 7:30 p. m.. Monday— Albrecht Brotherhood meeting. 7:30 p. m., Tuesday— Official Board Meeting. 7:00 p. tn., Wednesday— .Midweek Service. 8:00 p. m. Wednesday— Choir Rehearsal. 3:00 p. m., Saturday— Mission Band Meeting. - -o — -—.... First Baptist Church Homer J. Aspy, Minister Sunday is Home Coming and Rally Day in our church. The vacation season has ended and we are looking forward to a full program of activity with every member taking his or her share of the responsibility for its success. The program for the day is as follows: 9:30 a. m. Bible School. C. E. Bell, Superintendent. Read Acts 6 6-15 and Roman 15:18-21. 10:30 a. m. Junior Church. Mrs. Frank Young, Superintendent. 10:30 a. m. Morning Worship. The minister will bring the third in a series of sermons on some of the divine impulsions of Holy living The theme of the morning service will be "The Power of the Blessed Hope." Read I John 3: 1-4. 7:00 p. m. Evening Evangelistic Service. Please note the change in time from 7:30 to 7:00 p. nt. The minister will speak on "Security". Read John 10:28.At three o'clock Sunday afternoon the First Baptist Church at Bluffton will have a Dedication Service of their newly remodeled redecorated church building. A cor-. dial invitation has been extended I to all churches to attend. Wednesday evening at 7:30 our! regular mid-week Prayer and I Praise service will be held in the Prayer Room. — —o - First Methodist Episcopal Church Herman R. Carson, Minister The Covenant Campaign services continue. Evening services are resumed Sunday night, the Epworth leaguers meeting at 6 p in. and the Covenant service beginning at 7 p. nt. All fourteen Adams county Methodist Episcopal churches will unite in a group second quarterly conference at our church on Wednesday evening at 6:30 p. m. Next Sunday will be Rally day in the Church School and 95th Anniversary Day in the church. Dr. Chas. Tinkham,, pastor at Decatur 1919-1921 inclusive is expected to be present and to preside at the program held .during the noonday Carry-In dinner. The program for tomorrow is: 9:30 a.m. — Nursery, Childrens Church and Senior Worship services open. 9:30 a.m.—Divine Worship. Ser■mou by the pastor. "CovenantKeeping Men.” Special music by the Girls chorus under the leadership of Mrs. Dan Tyndall. 10:35 a m. —Church Schoo! classes convene, with dismissal at 11:15 am. of the unified service of worship and study. 6:00 p.m. — Senior Epworth League devotional meeting. All young people above grade school age are invited. 7:00 p.m.—Evening service oi worship. The pastor’s theme will be “The Testimony of The Dust,” a word portrait of Abel the first martyr for his faith. The entire membership of the church is urgently requested to bring friends to the special services now- in progress. Church of the Nazarene Paul Brandyherrys. Pastor 9:30 Sunday School. Harley Ward Supt. 10:30 Morning service. 6:30 Nazarene Young Peoples Society. 7:30 Evening service. 7:30 Wednesday evening prayer meeting. To have a well-rounded personality you must attend church some where. A friendly welcome awaits you at the friendly church. Listen iu on the Nazarene broadcast from W. O. W. O. 3:30 central standard time.

Christian Church Rev. K. Timmons, pastor Bible School, 9:15 a in. Communion, 10:30 a. in. Sermon, 10:45 a. m. Subject. "The Endurance of the Church.” Thia Sunday is quarterly meeting and basket dinner in the basement of the church. Every one welcome. Bible school officers and teachers will meet at the church Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. Thursday, church board will meet at the church. The Ladies Aid will hold there rummage sale this Saturday, Oct. 10, at the Hensley building. o First U. B. Church 11. W. Franklin, paator The next big event to happen is the Christian Education Tri-Angu-lar rally, Fort Wayne group at Fort Wayne, South Wayne U. B. church, Tuesday, October 6. 7:30 p. m. prompt. The pastor is the gener--1 al education director. A complete I proram is prepared for adults. ■ youth, and children with plenty of splendid music. Mrs. Violet Rush Geiger is the special guest speaker. Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the South Wayne church will be a special conference for teachers ants children workers. Mrs. 'G. R. Champlin and Mrs. Geiger will

INDIANA’S FIRST STATE CAPITOL BUILDING AT CORYDON A HOOSIER MEMORIAL r “ ' -- « K - -- • BhfeY yIMB •: < J Ste T 1 ™ "? A *T>.*<s ■ ioik . ....-A- i

i The atmosphere of stirring pionI eer days when Indiana was entering into statehood and Hoosier legislators where debating constitutional issues under the trees, attracts thousands of Hoosiers to Corydon where the first capitol building is maintained as a state memorial. This substantial building, pictured above, was intended as a court house for Harrison county but upon completion in 1816 became the seat of the territorial government. The forty four delegates to the constitutional convention assembled here in June of that year and during the hot days frequently held their deliberations under neighboring trees. When Indiana was admitted to the Union on Dec. 11. 1816. officials of the lie wstate took their oaths of office here. The building housed the state govern-

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conduct this cmifereuce. There were 377 at the Sunday School rally last Sunday. Rain hindered some from coming There were 22 people motored to the Otterbein Home last Wednesday. This is the United Brethren home for orphan children and aged people. A number of other people were there from other parts of the state. The St. Joseph conference Evangelistic retreat at Peru, Ind., Oct. 13-15. Dr. Ironsides of Moody Institute church. Chicago, and Bis--1 hop Ira D. Warner from the Pacific coast will be the special speakers. October 11 is the whole tithe Sunday iu the church. October 18 Indiana Central mix ed quartette will give a sacred concert at this church. Sunday School, 9:15 a. in. Glenn Hill, superintendent. Morning worship, 19:30 a. m. Seynon by pastor. Christian Endeavorers. 6 p. m. Evening worship. 7 p. m. Sermon by pastor. Bible study Monday, 7 o clock. Prayer meeting Wednesday, 7:30 1 p. m. Orchestra practice Wednesday, ; 6 p. m. 1 Choir practice Friday evening, ' 6:0 p. m. o Zion Reformed Church Charles M. Prugh Minister 1 Church Schoo! 9:15 A. M. Ciias.

ment until late in 1824 when the ■ offices were moved to the new cap!j tai at Indianapolis. Following the moving of the ■ state government from Corydon, >,the building served its original 1' purpose as a court house, being : restored as a state memorial in 1917, In the restoration much of • the original woodwork and many : of the original furnishings were •J included. The doorway, shown i, above, is the one which served officials, legislators and visitors to • the capitol building more than a I century ago. ■| Members of the House of Representatives held their deliber-| atioiis on the lower floor, seated: on a raised platform in a room: . which was heated by two fireplaces.; On the second floor, reached by al winding stairway, were rooms in which members of the senate con-1

i desolation such as thi*. fallen treat and other I wreckage virtually paraJyang traffic in Denver for * an extended period.

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Brodbeek. Supt. Morning Worship 10:30 A. M. Sermon: 'Echoes of the Preaching M melon” Music by tho Girls' Choir. Monday, 7 p. m. Mooting of the Official Board. Tusoday, 7:20 F. M. Girls' Missionary Guild, Masquerade party at home of Mrs. Myron Frank. Sunday. Oct. 11th, Mlenion Festival. Services at 10:31) A. M., 2:30 and 7:30 ip. m 0 Eighth Street U. B. Church L. J. Martin Pastor 9:30 Sunday School. Gerald Brodbeck, SupL 10:30 Sermon, Pastor. 6:30 C. S., L. Michel president. A Junior C. R. society la also being organizzed under the direction of Mise Gladys Bell. We would like to have all the parents bring their boys and girls and attend the C. E. Ixtt us take a rear interest in the spiritual welfare of our children, they are a valuable ascot to the home, church, and to the nation. 7:30 Evangelistic Services. Prayer meeting Thursday ulglit 7:30 Roe Wynn, claso leader. Saturday Oct. 10 at 1:30 and 7:30 A school of Christian training will , be held under direction ot Dr. J. E. Hawood of Huntington Ind., We in1 vlte all who can to attend these services. “Come Let us worship the Lord : together.” < WHY SUFFER? Rheumatism, Neuritis, Arthritis, Periodic Pains, Lumbago, and all other Aches and Pains are quickly relieved with Alt’s Compound Wintergreen Tablets. Positively guaranteed. Price sl. Sold at all Drug Stores.

) vened and in which members of ’ i the supreme court met to decide 1 1 legal questions. The building is open to the pub--11 lie throughout the year with an : attendant in charge to answer i! questions and give information re- ! j garding the building and the early ’ history of the state. One of the > I interesting maps displayed, shows i 1 Indiana in 1813 with the counties ' grouped along the Ohio river and i the Ohio state line below the socalled “Ten o'clock Line” which separated the settled and the Indian territory under the treaty of J 1805. Corydon is located at the intersection of roads 135 and 62 and is accessible from all parts of the | state over improved highways : which lead through some of Indi- | ana's best scenery.