Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 144, Decatur, Adams County, 18 June 1938 — Page 5

,‘Bp [SUNDAY II SCHOOL Iles son-;-hIST* Union for June 26 B--refi SERVICE WITH THE LIVING CHRIST ~B ...v ttvt— Mark 18:1-8. 14-16, 18. —TEXT- And they went lorth. everywhere, the Lord them. Mark 16:20. TOFIC-At Work With TOPIC- jctnu Our Living and senior R a New World With PEOPLE AND ADULT \ a New World Wfh again’ No, the calendar say «<>• nor hav ® w ® for ’ that we observed Easter ten ago, but quite properly we the resurrection story again Not only does it come in the I ir l p ssons as our final the Gospel of Mark, but the that every Sunday is a ref Easter. The reason why on the first day of the t is that it is the resurrection What life it would put into worship if the glory of en Lord would shine forth (as each Lord's Day in all of j sen-ice and worship. j, difficult to think or write the living Christ without usOur lesson for to«brings before us the most imtruth that the world has heard—"He is risen"; it - B « of the worst thing in the and it presents XrrM's greatest commission—- ... and preach." The Transcendent Truth (w. -B-fc seek Jesus, the Nazarene, _Bfchsth been crucified; He is risHe is not here” (v. 6). world anxiously awaits news, hoping almost against hope, it for good news. This is the news—the Gospel—the all-im-tidings that the Son of God had taken upon Himself not the form of man, but the sins as well, who had tasted i^Kbitter death of Calvary's cross. not be holden of death, but its bands asunder had risthe dead. truth becomes the chief burthe messages of the disciples soon went everywhere prothe Gospel. See the serrecorded in tne Book of Acts at the foundation of the Chrischurch. It may be that we Bknld emphasize it more. HII. The Impassable Barrier (v. “He upbraided them with their and hardness of heart, bothey believed not." Many are sins that men commit, but at root of them all we find the of all sin—unbelief. If a man he does not believe God's abcz. the sanctity of properdoes he believe that God is to care for him. If he kills, sßkdws n t believe God’s W >rd c - - |B«ming the sanctity of human life. does he recognize that man is in the likeness and image of gß&d. And so we might go on and |Bbcw that back of sips there is the ■o of unbelief. HB The tragic consequence of unbe*B«<is that it shuts the door, throws |B- : a barrier to God's blessing that gß* virtually impassable until God jßftwlf gives grace to believe. The fßltaishing thing is that the hard|Bess of heart and lack of faith here [Bwe on the part of those who had i ■■been the disciples of Jesus, to whom ■'Bft ll,l3 made knoum the fact that ■ft was to die and to arise on the Btbird day, and to whom there had ■tow come the word of eye-witnesses Blut they had seen the Lord. ■ While we marvel at their short- ■ titled unbelief, shall we not ask ■tiirselves what hindrances we have ■ ;liced in God's way in our own B Ihtt? ■ IU. Tl>e Supreme Commission ■ K ’’-15, 16, 19, 20). I "Go ye into all the world and ■ Preach the gospel to the whole cre- ■ ition" (v, is). “And they went ■ ' and preached, the Lord work- ■ B I with them and confirming the ■»W (v. 20). '■ P>e great commission of Christ is ■ th ? " marchin ß orders of the ■ ! --srch," but how slowly we have ■ hitched. The writer of these notes ■ “’• recently startled by statistics ■ '"'* lin 8 anew the fact that "Chris- ■ “®" America is rapidly returning S 0 the status of a mission field. It ■ ISSaid that last year 60,000 churches ■ ?* meri ca had no converts, and ■ ™ churches were closed during ■ year. There are 10,000 villages ■ ’’Ported to be without church servB > 000 communities with- ■ W1 • resident pastor. I Jhe command of Christ is that we ■ -’uld go to these pagan communiI w to OUr own 3and wiUl the gos liS"I iS " * n<l ,urel y it is our double I ttlßt ther ® ar ® stiU lands I aS? Christ has never been I ' l * a ched, yes, tribes that do not ■ Wn have a word in their language ■ ’the blessed name—Jesus! ■ “ "’e wiU go He will indeed work ■' rJ ’ US <v ' 20> an d accompany the ■ e ’ sa 8® and ministry with divine ■ “thority and power. Who will go?

Commonest News of the Day Is Oldest Fact About Man Continuous And Universal Is The Tragedy And Mystery Os Death. The One Sure Light On Immortality.

By WILLIAM T. ELLIS — Everyday's newspaper contains a special mention of those who have solved the problem of immortality; and of those who are deep--1 ly, immediately and supremely concerned in it. They will be found in the death notice column, and the first group are those who have died, and the second group are the families and near friends of the dead. No questiogi is more more insistent, or more profounded and important than this one, "ft a man die, shall he live again?" To some degree it is certain at some time or other to engage the thought of every mature mind. Every poet, every philosopher, has speculated upon the theme. The human mind has always experienced “intimations of immortality.” The conviction that this supreme flower and fruit of the universe, the human soul, was not born to fall and perish utterly, and that this earthly life is, by many signs, only the preparation for some higher form of existence, lies deep down In the thinking of every normal person. Addison put the thought into a few lines: “It must be so,—Plato, thou reasoneth well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Os falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an her *fter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity: thou pleasing, dreadful thought!” Creed’s Affect Upon Character The chrism of earth’s friendships is the hope of the resurrection, which sacredly annoints them for two w’orlds. All our highest conceptions of love are bound up with the expectation of a life beyond the grave. Grounded in the resurrection teaching is the Christian s hope of Christly character and of future glory. “If ye then lie risen together with Christ, seek those things which are above.” “If Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain; your faith also is vain. Every day. in every section of the world, there rage arguments about religion. Often men debate as if there was no authority above their own reason to which appeal might be made. They talk as though historical facts were to be decided by “horse sense", and as if one man's opinion were as good as another's. In other words, they leave the Bible entirely out of their discussion and airily put forth their own immature opinions as if they were the last word on the subject. The Real Evidence To reject the teaching of the resurrection is to reject the New Testament; for it is full of the fact and of the implications of the resurrection of Christ. And apart from this Book we have absolutely no other historical evidence of the raising of the dead to life, ters a circle of love, it is not to When the sorrow of death enthe barren philosophy of the ancients that we turn for comfort but to this Book of the immortal hope whose words of sweet assurance ar e repeated daily over thousands of biers, imparting the light of eternal sunrise to the dark night Of The e ultimate proof of the loTe of God for man is His complete identification of Himself with humanity in the person of His only Son From cradle to grave, and beL lesus went for love's sake. He “went the limit," to demonSate how great is the Fathers 'Ta Jesus shared our earthly life ♦The Sunday School Lesson for June 26 >•

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the disciple is "raised together with Christ," and that they share a common heavenly experience. Not only are we delivered from I humanity's oldest fear and com- , monest experience, but we are ush- ■ ered !nto a triumphant resurrec- , tion glory of life here and now. Facing The Facts | As a bit of reporting or hlstori- ■ cal writing, the four evangelists I did first-ciass work. They were i mindful of the facts, first of all. We see this clearly in the resurrection story. First, they present evidence that He died—the Jewish usage that the condemned criminal must not remain on the cross over a high sabbath; the spearthrnst of the soldier which brought 1 both water and blood gushing from I the Victim's side is sure proof of death; the report of the veteran centurion; the tomb sealed with the seal of Rome and guarded by her legionnaires. Then, in all their naturalness, the historians relate the appearances of the Lord to the various disciples, the first of whom had come to the tomb expecting to find a dead body, and not a risen Christ. Os the ten appearances of the risen Christ —eleven, counting His appearance to Saul on the Damascus road—the first two were to women. Mrs. Browning wrote, in a compact quatrain: "Not she with traitorous kiss her Master stung; Not she denied Him with unfaithful tongue; She when apostles fled could danger brave. Last at His cross and earliest at His grave.” The first appearances were in or near Jerusalem, in this order: To Mary Magdalene, at the sepulchre; To the women on the way from tne sepulchre; To the women on the way from the sepulchre; To Simon Peter alone, near Jerusalem; To two disciples on the way to Emaus, near Jerusalem; To the apostles, except Thomas, at Jerusalem; To the apostles, with Thomas, a week later, at Jerusalem. The next three appearances were in Galilee, first to seven fishermen; then to the eleven on a mountain; then to about five hundred brethren at once. The final appearance was at the Ascension, on Mt. Olivet. The Final Proof Assuming the historical validity of the Bible, we find that the resurrection is established by many witnesses, and that it is as completely buttressed a fact as any event in ancient history. There remains one final proof of the resurrection of Jesus Christ which, in the case of millions of persons, makes all other evidence unnecessary. That is the fact of personal, present relationship with the living Christ, to whom a long line of martyrs and saints bear testimony, saying with St. Paul, "I know whom I have believed. That relationship is, for multitudes. more real than any transaction with merchant or friend. "Closer is He than Breathing Nearer than hands or feet. SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in busi-ness.-P. T. Barnum. • * ♦ The whole duty of a man is embraced in the two principles of temperance and patience; temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.-Seneca. • ♦ ♦ Get leave to work. In this world, Tis the best you can get at all. —E. B. Browning. There is nothing so hygienic as friendship. —David Gregg. ♦ ♦ * Henceforth I call you not servants- for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth; but I have called you friends—St. John 15.15. When God shall leave unfinished incomplete, . A single flake within the whirl of snow, A single feather in the airy wing Ou which the butterfly floats to

BgIUKHESI "‘WlHinnHin minffT Christian Church Kenneth Timmons, Pastor Bible school 9:30, D. L. Drum superintendent. Instead of our Bible school lesson we will have Children’s Day services. 10:30 communion and worship. Monday evening at 7:30 the United 'Christian missionary society will meet at the home of Mrs. A. D. Artman with Mrs. H. Moffett as leader. o First United Brethren Corner of 9th and Madison James A. Weber, Pastor Church School at 9:15 A. M. Roy Mumma, superintendent. Theme “The Suffering Servant" Mark 15: 32-39. Morning Worship 10:3i0 A. M. Father’s Day. Bring your fatner, or grandfather. Flowers will be given to the oldest father present. Message—" The Good Father”. Chistian Endeavor Services 6:30 P. M. Adult and Youth topic — "How Propagandists ‘Put it Over On Us’ ” Intermediate topic—“(Dependability’’ Juniors meet at the same hour. Evening Worship 7:30 P. M. "Courage to do Commonplace Things" Monday evening 7:30 Bible Study. First Chapter of First Samuel. Rev. Miner in charge. •Wednesday 6 P. M. Orchestra Practice. 7 P. M. Prayer meetings by age groups. 8 p. m. Choir Practice. —o — Zion 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. Church Os God Glen E. Marshall, Pastor Unified service 9:30 —11:15. Boys and girls meeting 6:30. Evening Evangelistic service 7:30. Young People’s Meeting, Monday 7:30. Mid week Prayer Service 7:30. Friday Night Prayer Service 7:30 at the home of the pastor. — o — Church Os The Nazarene 7th and Marshall Sts. Paul Brandyberry, Pastor 9:30 A. M. Sunday School, Harley Ward, stipt. 10:30 A. M. Morning worship. Sermon theme: “Low Visibility.' 6:15 P. M. Junior Society. 6:45 P. M. Young people’s society. 7:30 P. M. Evangelistic service. 7:30 P. M. Wednesday, the regular mid week prayer meeting. 7:30 P. M. Friday, Cottage Prayer meeting. Place to be announced Ift ter. The Dr. Howard W. Jerrett of Detroit, Mich., will begin a series of meetings on Wed. evening June 29th and will continue to the night of July 10th. We urge you to hear this great man of God preach. If you are interested in prophetic truth you will enjoy his enlightening messages on “The Signs of the Times” as fore-told by the inspirer prophets centuries ago. His series of prophetic messages follow: Wed. “World of Events and ProThurs. “Labor and Capital in Prophecy.” Fri. “The Jew and Palestine m Prophecy.” Sat. “Great Healing Service. "Battles are won the day before.” _ . Generalissimo J octi We ask the praying Christians of this community to join us in prayer for a spiritual awakening. “God is the same yesterday, today and forever.” o — EIGHTH ST. U. B. CHURCH L. J. Martin, pastor 9:30, Sunday School, Lawrence Michel, superintendent. 10:20 Junior Church. This is June Rally Day service and a good attendance is expected 10:35. Argo Sudduth will bring the gospel message. Rev. G. M. Sill, presiding elder, of Rockford, Ohio, will also be with us in the morning service and will administer Holy Communion. This is the and fro. A single vein within the summer leaf, A single drop of water in the sea, Then _not before—doubt that His perfect plan Within the humblest life fulfilled can be. The real man is the one who always finds excuses for others but never excuses himself. Henry Ward Beecher.

Newlywed Diva Tries Cooking 4 Iff W " t j| i I ‘ j ?: ■fcKz. . ■»■ ♦*,. Lily Pons and Andrea Kostelanetz Proving that she can do more than just warble, Lily Pons, diminutive star of screen, radio and opera, whips up a salad at the New York apartment where she and her newly acquired husband, Andrea Kostelanetz. radio orchestra conductor, are living. ’

last communion service of this conference year. Let every member be present. There will be no Christian Endeavor Sunday night on account of the Children’s Day program which will be given at 7:30. Every one is invited. 7:30 Wednesday night will be the regular mid week prayer service. o Presbyterian George O. Walton, Minister 9:B0 Sunday School. Mr. W. P. Schrock, superintendent. 10:30 Morning worship. Sermon “Abiding Traditions" Shoir rehearsal Tuesday evening 6:45. The Communion of the Lord's Supper will eb celebrated the second Day in July. o — Sergeant “Silences” Frogs San Jose, Cal. (U.R) — Sergt. Elliott F. Mans of the police department possesses one of the secrets of the ages but he won't reveal it. He knows how to silence croaking frogs. His notation on the police blotter reads: "Answered call to the'C. N. Munger home, 306 Fifteenth street. Neighbors com plaining about noisy frogs. All quiet when 1 left." — o ZION REFORMED CHURCH Charles M. Prugh. Minister Church School, 9:00 a. m. Clark Flaugh. Supt Morning Worship, 10:00 a. m. Sermon, “Christian Trustfulness." Mark 4:26-29. The Young Women's Choir will sing. No evening services. Twenty-two young people will accompany the minister to Camp Alexander Mack on Lake Wawbee. to spend the week, returning on Saturday afternoon General Synod of the Evangel!

OMY AFFAIRS ARE IN ORDER My pride has always been in my family and my business. Too, I pride myself in my ability to recognize things as they are . . in a factual, business-like way. That is why I have taken the burden of my funeral from my family. I’re-arrangements eliminate unnecessary expenditures and trying detail. PC. black 1 FUNCRAL DIRECTOR K C/ Z " PHON6 500 —-— 3

oal and Reformed church meets Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio. Annual church school picnic Monday. June 27, at Hanna-Nutt- ' man Park. o FIRST EVANGELICAL CHURCH j George S. Lozier, Minister 9:15 a. m.—Sunday School. Mr. ■ Earl Fuhrman, superintendent. 10:10 a. m. — Worship Sermon. Sermon theme: "Entertaining Evil" | 6:30 p. m. — Intermediate and Senior Christian Endeavor. I 7:30 p. m.—Sunday Evening Fol-1 I lowship. Sermon theme “God Stu ( i isfies.” I 7:30 p. m.. Wednesday — Midweek Devotional and Study Hour. I : First Baptist Church Homer J. Aspy. minister 9:30 a. m. —Bible School. 10.30 a. m.—Junior Church. 10:30 a. in. — Morning worship service. 6:00 p. m. —Young People. ’ 7:00 p.m.—Evening service. An 1 hour of happy fellowship where all are welcome. Wednesday evening at 7:30 the 1 mid-week prayer service. > 0 WILLSHIRE NEWS Mr. and Mrs. James Hileman and daughters of Fort Wayne, Ind, were ‘ Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Hileman. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Fields and son Charles of Lynn. Indiana, were Sun5 day guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Buechner. ! Rev. Lawrence Deinnger graduat- , ed Monday from the Huntington college. , Mr. and Mis. Taylor Gluth and sons Philip and David Gluth left Tuesday evening for Gentry, Mis-

Boarl, where they will be guests of Mrs. Gluth’s mother, Mrs. Mary< Norman. Mrs. F. A. Detter is the guest | this week of her sister, Mrs. Frank < Strickler in Roanoke, Indiana. Mrs. Charles Sample was a guest Monday of her brother, Charles Swank and family in Huntington, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. James Kelfcr and son of Concord, Mich., were weekend guests of relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Jewell of Rockford were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jewell. Mr. and Mrs. John Byer were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mro. Chester Bryan and family of Salem, Indiana, and attended the Children Day services. Bliss Ayres of Northwestern University and Wayne Ayres of Ada are spending a few days with their grandmother, Mrs. Agnes Hill. Miss Kosella Dull delightfully entertained her music students Monday afternoon at a lawn party. Games were played and later the hostess, assisted by her sister, Barbara, served a delicious lunch of fruited Jello and cup cakes to the following: Gene Myers, Lois and Richard Bruner, Winifred, Phyllis Hoblet, Maxine Smith and Donald Eicher. Miss Dull leaves Saturday for California where she will spend the summer with relatives. Mrs. Esther Strickler was a De-

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actur visitor Saturday. Children’s meeting was Well attended at tile M E, rhuroh Sunday evening and a good program was given. Mrs. Odus Byer entertained the W. H. M. S. Thursday afternoon at her country home. o ■. Youth Enters New Life Amsterdam, N. Y. — (VP) — Since birth, 20-year-old Ralph TrautI ner had teen fed liquid or soft 1 foods. Now, after an operation to | remove a stricture In his esophagus i he can eat solid foods. 0 Scalding Coffee Coete Case Rochester, N. Y. -(UP)-Scald-ed when tiwo cups of coffee were spilled down her back in a restaurant. Mrs. Emily B. Albright, 32, has been awarded $560 damages <by , a Supreme Court July. Th-i verdict was against the owners of the restaurant.

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