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II SUNDAY II SCHOOL LESSON -- By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. lie”"otfhe Moody Bible institute f ot Chicago. c Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for July 10 CALEBt LIFE TIME DEVOTION LISSOM TEXT-Joshua 14:5-15. GOLDEN TEXT—Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome H| Numbers IS: 30. PRIMARY TOPlC—Brave Caleb. JUNIOR ;c°IC--Caleb the Brave. ' INTERMEDIATE and senior TOPIC—A Bero's Reward, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— Courage for Difficult Tasks. 11 " ‘‘We need to know more about good men who are occasionally great, and less about great men who are occasionally good,” says the Lesson Commentary, in pointing out the* Caleb is one of the characters about whom the Bible does not say much, but in every case the word is one revealing high and noble character. Consider such passages as iNumbers 13:6, 30; 14:7-9, 24, 30 ; 26; 65. as well as our lesson for today. *1 The background for our study of Ttoday, and in fact an integral part of the lesson itself, is the story of Caleb’s courageous stand with Joshua when the spies returned from their visit to Canaan, which is related in Numbers 13. He was then a comparatively young man, but demonstrated by his every word and deed that he had from his youth learned to know and obey God. Note first of all Caleb’s I. Perfect Obedience (vv. 6 8). "I wholly followed the Lord my God." Such a testimony from a man like Caleb is no idle boast, no effort to parade his faith and piety before others In saying it he was repeating What God and Moses had both said (About him. In his heart he knew it to be true. It is God’s will for each of His children that they should come to such a place of simple trust and complete obedience that in every circumstance of life they need know only one thing—God’s will, and then in faith to go and do it. It is a life beautiful in its transparent simplicity and powerful in the strength of God Himself 11. Promised Inheritance (v. 9). “Surely the land whereon thy feet J have trodden shall be thine inheritance.” Such was the promise of God through Moses. Forty-five long years had elapsed, but down through this period of wilderness wanderings and the conflict in subduing Canaan the promise had lived in Caleb’s heart. He knew it would be ftslfilled. and he waited serenely for God's time. Such also are the promises of God which keep the heart singing in our hours of trial and sorrow, which light up the dark ways, which strengthen the heart of His children. Learn God’s promises, cherish them in your heart, expect God to fulfill them. in. Preserved Strength (vv. 10, ‘ II). V "The Lord hath kept me alive » ... and lam . . . strong.” Here ” was a man kept of God, in full vigor in his eighty-fifth year, “like a rock f in a changeful sea, like a snowcapped peak in a change of cloud and storm and sun” (Meyer), No £ doubt there was what our fore- | fathers liked to call "the longevity " of the antedeluvians,” but even apart from that let us recognize that life and strength come from God, and that those who walk with God in holy living may count on Him for the renewed strength of Psalm 103:5. An incidental, but extremely important, lesson, we should learn is that God has no age deadline. The church has frequently sinned against Him and against His faithful servants by “shelving them” > for younger men, when they would ’ have brought blessing to themselves and to the church by encouraging and using them. The writer of these lines is a young man. but he would speak here a word of loving admonition regarding his honored brethren who have gone on before to bear the brunt of the battle. !Y. Powerful Assurance (vv. 1215). “If ... the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able.” Caleb asked for no easy task. He was ready to Igo up against the giants of Hebron. Read Deuteronomy 3:11, and you will find that there were men in those days who needed thirteen-foot beds. But Caleb was not afraid. I« He counted not on his own strength, but on the bower of God. It is significant that while the other sections of Canaan were only partially conqgfered Caleb brought his formidable adversaries entirely under control, to that “the land had rest from war" (v. 15). | The spiritual application to our " day is evident and appropriate. ; There are giants in the land in this year of our Lord 1938. Corruption * —social and political—raises its - brazen head. Drunkenness and y vice leer at us with the impudent x suggestion that we cannot control > them. There are giants “within us —greed, selfishness, love of ease, .J lust, passion, cruelty" (Blaikie). Are we to do nothing about them? If we are to meet them in the of the (lesh we might almost ,r as well db nothing. But in the powrjiier of God, we are like Caleb—able. In His name we may take up a slogan of today, “Let's do something about it!” and really do it, for His glory.

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By WILLIAM T. ELLIS All of our efforts to get to Heron on this sojourn in Palestine i were thwarted, either by the extraordinary rains or by official orders which closed the road to travel. on account of the disorders. One Englishman, and a number ot Jews and Arabs, were killed on the Hebron road this year. The old city, which was Abraham’s home, and is still called after him, "El Khalil,” "the Friend,” main-; tains its aucient reputation for tur-1 bulence. All Jews have been driven out ot the city. Bands from Hebron sally forth to make trouble over the whole southern part of Palestine. Famous fighting men are these Arabs whose home is in the shadow of the mosque which covers the cave wherein are preserved the tombs of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Such was the Hebron that old Caleb chose for his inheritance — a hill country full of giants and warriors, born trouble-makers, hard to subdue and to rule. What la hero was the veteran soldiers! No retiring on pension for him; no easy task for creaking joints, no rest and protection for his dc- ' dining years. He had escaped I age's perilous prudence. Like his I chief, Moses, he had come to old i age with unimpaired powers; all | he asked was a chance to do a I hard job and conduct a fair fight I against fierce foes. Once He Was a Spy Like old Paul, this veteran Caleb had said in his heart, “This one : thing I do.” He was a man ot sini gie and resolute purpose, who par- > took somewhat of God's own qualI ity of patience. Forty-five years I before we find him chafing to un- ' dertake the severest task in all j Cannaan, we saw him, as a man "of forty, resolute to conquer the ' same giants of the hill country. Then he was one of the twelve I spies sent by Moses from Kadesh--1 Barnea, in Sinai, to spy out the Promised Land. Only Caleb and I Joshua brought back favorable reports. They counselled an immediate advance. But the hearts of the other ten spies were as water; and the timid Israelites listened to the counsel of fear. Those ten spies, and all of their generation, had died In the forty years of wandering -which their pussilanimity had caused. Only Joshua and Caleb were left. And here was Caleb, with the undimmed flame of purpose still buring in his stout old breast, claiming the privilege of conquering Hebron and its Anakirn. There Are Calebs A-Plenty While we gaze in admiration at this valiant hero of an early day, -who had never suffefed hardening I of the arteries of his soul, we need to remember that he has had a legion of successors. I am thinking of dozens of young-hearted and efficient old missionaries, veritable companions of Livingstone, whom I have met in many far lands. The sagest and most militant Arab with whom I have talked in Palestine was a shiekh past the Psalmist’s I allotted years. Japan has as superi counsellor an elder statesman as i old as Caleb. The present administration in Washington bega with a trumpeted band of young ‘brain- | trusters.’ Where are they now? ■ But the ripe and ready Secretary iof State has quietly forged ahead I into a unique place as the leading statesma nofth ewo rid. The hardest blows that are stru in the British Parliament today are delivered by the venerable Lloyd George. It was the aged President Masaryk i who welded Czechoslovakia into a nation. The Calebs are still on I the job. thank God. But the point to be held iu mind is that none of these great ones full of years waited until they were old before beginning to lie great. They were all men devoted to a high purpose in youth. As the shaft of a spear gives power to its point, so the weight of accumulated experiences empowers the veteran. “There Is no substitute for experience.” said a distinguished New York editor to me, in commenting j upon the inadequacy of one of his I ataff who had been promoted too soon. Caleb, who thirsted for the *«•*•**«••**•••*• ♦ *The Sunday Schools lesson * I 4 for July 10 is “Messages from * , 4 Israel’s Early Leaders —Caleb: * 4 Life-Time Devotion.”—Number * | 4 13:26-33; Joshua 14:6-15. ‘ ***«•**••*••«****

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hill country to conquer, was great in his old age because he had been great in mid-manhood and youth. He had the hero heart from the first. The Message to Youth Over against today’s youth is frequently laid the charge of being "soft” and purposeless. During the depression a number of young college graduates sought my help in getting a job—any job; none of them had a definite ambition that he was resolute to fulfill. Long ago the sage advice was given to youth to throw its energies into some great, hard and unpopular case, and to grow with it. Fortunate is the young man who sees a Hebron that he wants to conquer. Phillips Brooks wrote wisely: "Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stranger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work will be uo miracle, but you will be the miracle.” Beloved Maltbie D. BLOCOck put the thought into verse: “Be strong! Say not the days are evil—who’s to blame? And fold the hands and acquiesce —Oh shame! Stand up. speak out, and bravely, in God’s Name. “Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong. How hard the battles goes, the day, how long; Faint not. fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.” Calebs For Today Harder tasks than Caleb's darner for the doing today. The world is said to be in the greatest crisis of all history. There is a conspicuous lack of the Caleb spirit in confronting the emergency. Old men are supinely pining for “the good old days.” Multitides of all ages are stupidly giving themselves to futile criticism of the leaders who are trying to meet the challenge of the times. There is an incomprehensible lack of the spiritual fortitude which, with undimmed faith in God, cries, like Caleb, “Give me this hill country.” All of the grave things that are wrong amongst the nations today can, be made right by every man of heroic heart going up against his patricular hill country in a spirit of faith and fortitude. SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS Bad humor is a bad counsellor. —Paris Temps. There as souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and of leaving it behind them wherever they go.—Faber. Saint Augustine, well hast thou said. That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. —Longfellow. When a person gets into the habit of wasting time, he is sure to waste a great deal that does not belong to him. —Youth’s Companion. There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked. —Isaiah 84: 22. God would not send you the darkness, dear, If He felt you could bear the light, But you would not cling to His guiding hand It the way were always bright; And you would not care to walk by faith Could you always walk by sight. —Anon. ' We used to think that education would solve all problems: but reason appears to be given men chiefly to enable them to discover reasons for doing what they like. William James. o Church of the Nazarene 7th and Marshall Streets Paul Brandytierry, Pastor 9:30 A. M. Sunday school. Harley Ward, supt. 10:30, A. M. Morning worship. Ser-

BQ4URCHESH First Methodist Church Corner Monroe and Fifth Ralph W. Graham, minister 99:30 a. m — Morning worship A unified service of worship and study. Holy Communion. Every mem j ber of the church should take advantage of this service. Church I school study classes for all ages immediately following the adminis-1 tration of Holy Communion. 6:00 p. m.—Epworth League. Aj service of young people, by young I people and for young people. 7:30 p. m.—Union evening service. The male octette of Central College, Naperville, 111., will present a sacred concert. The public i is cordially invited. o Christian Church Kenneth Timmons, pastor Bible School, 9:30 a. m. D. L. Drum, superintendent. Worship and Communion, 10:30 a. m. Every one that can, attend union service at the Methodist church Sunday evening. o First Baptist Church Homer J. A spy, Minister 9:30 A. M. Bible School. 10:30 A. M. Junior Church. 10:30 A. M. Morning Worship service. The Ordinance of tin Lord's Supper will be observed at the morning service. 6:00 P. M. The Pastor’ Hour with the Young People. 7:00 P. M. The Evening Service. This is a happy hour of fellowship for young and old alike. Following the sermon the Ordinance of Baptism will be observed. Wednesday evening at 7:30 the Mid-week Prayer service and Bilble study will be held at the church. 0 Zion Reformed Church Charles M. Prugh, Minister Church School 9:00 A. M. Clark Flaugh, supt. Morning Worship 10:00 A. M. Sermon: “God’s New Deal With Men.” Jer. 31:31-34. The Young People’s Choir will sing. No evening services. Union Service at the Methodist Church 7:30 P. M. Tuesday, 4:13Q P. M. Women's Missionary Society. Wednesday, 7:30 P. M. Mid-week prayer and study hour. Eighth Street U. B. Church L. J. Martin, pastor 9:30 a. m. —Sunday School, Lawrence Michel, superintendent; Frank Johnston, assistant superintendent. All assistant officers and teachers are to take charge Sunday. 10:20 a. m—Junior church. 10:35 a. in.—Sermon by pastor. Text, “His blood be on us and on our children.” —Matt. 27, 25. 6:30 p. m. —Junior and Senior mon theme — “The Meaning of Pentecost.” Sermon by Dr. Howard Jerrett of Detroit, Mich. 6:30 P. M. Junior society. 6:30 P. M. NYPS. 7:30 P. M. Evangelistic Service. Sermon theme — "He Prayed Too Late.” Services will continue al) next week. Monday night Dr. Jerrett will speak on the subject, “The Dead Mule.” Plan to hear this great divine. This is the kind of preaching America needs. Don't miss a service.

College Octette To Sing Here Sunday Night Ft \ -Vi rV TL > i ’ HU iI • I .■F V U I / “ I f ’ 1 vJ® i M f J • i ‘ / i ■ f J ■ k Ariif o I Us Ij® I a & th!’ f lii I' 11 * 1 I 1 Si will S 11. al I wl 1 9 ■MOI 11 I 1 r h - ■-B II J | 44 fPJ 91 i The men’s octette from North Central College, Naperville. 111., will present a sacred concert al tl First M. E. church in Decatur Sunday evening at 7 30 o'clock The octette is on a three months’ tour tbrouj the United States and Canada, from the central states to the Pacific coast Suuday night’s service will I the first iu a series of union services to be held by Protestant churches of the city through July and Augtu

Endeavor. 7:30 p. in.—Eangellstic services. 7:30 p. m, Wednesday evening —Mid week prayer meeting. There will be a meeting of the finance board and also board of trustees after prayer meeting. Thursday afternoon at 1 o’clock —The Missionary society will meet at the home of Mrs. Amelia Shrank, North Tenth street. o Zion Lutheran Church Paul W. Schultz, pastor Divine services in English 10:30 ■ a. m. Divine services in German 8:30 : a. m. Sunday school and Bible class j 9:30 a. m. __o First Evangelical Church George S. Lozier, Minister 9:15 a. m. Sunday School. Earl Fuhrman, superintendent. 10:10 a. m. Worship Service. Sermon theme "Pillars in file Church.” 7:30 p. m. Union Service in the Methodist Church. The special feature of this service will be sacred concert rendered 'by the North Central College Men’s Octette. 17:30 p. m., Tuesday— Official board meeting. 7:30 p. m., Wednesday — Devotionais and Study Hour. 2:00 p. m., Thursday — Woman's Missionary Society. 7:30 p. m., Friday — Young people’s Missionary Circle at the home i of Miss Betty Melchi. 3:00 p. m., Saturday — Mission Band. o Presbyterian George O. Walton, Minister 9:30 Sunday School. 10:30 Morning worship. 7:30 Union service at the Methodist church. The North Central College Men’s octette from Naperville, 111., will render a sacred concert. This is the first of the series of union services for the summer. The communion of the Lord's Supper will Ibe celebrated at the morning service next Sunday July 10. o Church of God The unified service begins at i 9:30 with a worship program for | all age groups. The pastor will ■ bring the message of the hour. Sunday School classes take their respective places immediately at the close of the sermon. Boys and girls meeting at 6:30. Evening service, 7:30 p. m. Young Peoples meeting Monday. 7:30 p. m. Ladies’ Missionary meeting Thursday night, 7:30 p. m. The I men, as well as all the ladies, are invited to attend this missionary service. Cottage prayer meeting Friday night. Place to be announced. District Young Peoples rally, Sunday, July 10, Payne, Ohio camp ground. International Young Peoples convention of the Church of God August 27-30, Milwaukee, Wis. 0 First United Brethren Church James A. Weber, pastor 9:15 a. m.—Church School, Roy Mumma in charge. The me, "Joshua: A Choice of Loyalties’’ —Josh. 1:2-6; 24:14-21. 10:30 a. m. — Morning worship. Theme, “Old Time Patriotism.” — Psalm 122. 6:30 p. m. — Christian Endeavor services for all ages. “A Singing Religion” — Senior ad Young People’s topic. “How to Show our Patriotism?”--Intermediate hopic. Juniors and Jewels meet at the same hour. 7:30 p. m.—First in a series of

good will flights to challenging summer evenings. First class passage reserved for you. First stop—" The Land of inner Defense.” —Ephesias 3:14-19. Wednesday evening — Prayer meetings for three age groups, children, youth, and adults —7 p.m. You need this time of spiritual refreshment. Wedesday, 6 p. in. — Orchestra practice. Wednesday, 8 p. m. —Choir practice. 0 ~BOOK NOTES *| NEW BOOKS Fiction Murder on Safari by Huxley. The crowning of a king by Zweig. These bars ot flesh by Stribling. The naiked Iblade by Challis. Lilies for Madame by Austin. Like water flowing by Mackay. The handsome road by Bristow. Lisa Vale'by Prouty, Young man with a horn by Baker. My son, my son by Spring The lenient God by Jacob. Old man Tutt by Train. Towers in the mis’, by Goudge. Great American novel by Davis. Kindling by Shute. What people said by White. High bridge by Hueeton. Gilt edged guilt Iby Wells. The piper’s tune by McCord. Heartbroken melody by Norris. Colossus of Arcadia 'by Oppenheim. Rich girl, poor girl by Baldwin. Parts unknown by Keyes. Honeymoons arranged by Greig. Homing by Lutz. Prelude for war by Chart eris. Death takes a dive by Heath. Non-Fiction Trending into Maine by Roberts. My Austria by Schuschnigg. These foreigners by Seabrook. A mirror to Geneva by Slocombe. The Mayo Clinic by Wilder. Dry Guillotine by Belbeneit. My America by Adamic. The twilight of the the kings by Scott. Looking behind the censorships by Young. Travels ot Marco Polo by Komroff, ed. America goes to war by Transili. Middle age is what you make it I by Sokoloff. The hidden Lincoln by Herndon, j Fifty years a country doctor by j Macartney. The most powerful man in the I world by Roberta. Journey to Manaos by Hanson. Modern Ibook of canning by Kains. | All in a lifetime by Guest. Wild flowers by House. Juvenile The safe-way club by Bryce. Sailing for gold by Johnson. Strong hearts and bold by Crownfield. Silver princess in Oz by Baum. Uncle Dan by Clemens. Tiger Roan by tßalch. Peta the Pelican by Kissin Highacres by Abbott. Block that kick by Sherman. Earthuakes and volcanoes by Johnson. Nicodemus and his new shoes by Hogan. Tiger bridge by Miller. Under the Japanese moon by Sowers. Star maiden by Cory. Cotton-tails in toyland by Smith. PLEASANT MILLS Harold Dolch and Christina Fortney were guests Sunday at the i home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer i Riley. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Yost of Fort

Wayne spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. James Everett and family. Glenn Mann and Mr. Burkholder spent a few days in Michigan on a vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Orville Dellinger and family called on the Fred Bauman family Saturday afternoon. Miss Willowdeane Ellenberger of Berne was a Sunday visitor in the James Halberstadt home. Mr. and Mrs. Winston Rawley and daughter Arlene of Berne spent Monday evening with Mr. and Mrs. William Noll and family. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Martz left Friday for a few days' visit with friends in Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sherbun and daughter Helen visited Saturday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bauman and family. George Mann left last Tuesday for a month's visit with his daughter, Mrs. Frank Giltner at Parsons, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Suman and daughter Dortha ot Chicago, visited Tuesday at the Glenn Mann home, and a few days at the O. J.

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Suman home. Lowell Noll and Jerry Ray joined a party of friends at Fort Wayne and spent the week end at Big Long lake. Mr. and Mrs. Merle Foor and daughter Myrna Rita were among the guests present at a birthday dinner in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Byer at the home of Beryl Byers in Fort Wayne. Other guests present were Mr. and Mrs. Verle Byer and son of Rockford, Mr. and Mrs. Elvfn Byer of Maples, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Kohn and family of ()|»io City. Doris and Ethel Byers. o Rattlesnakes Disrupt Art Oroville, Cal. —<U.RI Bryce Phillips, who with his wife and son is on a 3,000-mile trip in the Mojave desert to do landscape painting, reports that the greatest obstacle to concentrated work is the necessity of chasing away rattlesnakes.

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