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/WjSCNOAY school Jh r s S 0 N ' ebruary 19 01 'H'hGF ALCOHOL \M> >‘S SOCIAL PERI' S ’ rrxrCT^t.< s g. the use ! ' c ' " 1 in age"~ th “ !S ,he ' ,' P ' C r-d * ■'■■'' 1 "•' Cl,r .'" every ■oO!-st'‘" t yl ■■ , Hundred perK,*: <■' "' cen ar.d death :■ '’■dhwaj. say n'Ath ab ut the f<* p to cut dcwn tr.it.'.c acci- * ;v < HH7ir.ar. pays 25 cents f'T a but even ». rse. that he gives L3C. -..; as his life for each inBut '-he 1: • :~try i T3i --g ; Lvr.g H d eye es th.e ~r ;: - ..- Let us face •,j c-. ■ J^H3 i sp'.r -Jai battle, and the it holy living. ) HK Fwfnb Security When Surtu Danger Satan . <-.-ep it; ■ j^Ke-—• Te w rid :; :: • - 1 . is certain lut-rrvel? He w..l user now the w- rid is m if the Wicked One 'I Bin ~ message .v,s it ad the ■ I who were in need The pic- .. a ■ T . • c-...- ■ id C> .st s.ittT.s rub elr .t few who have p’.en-y are con-as--t’:. eyes of most people the purgair.icg p-':5-- ; .-.ns is re frtrt t..e :. c . needs to an t,non to its and we repeat that not the these is the i ; q. ; r question nust either win a victory over it will destroy our people. spiritual Warfare-While at with God (I p e . 2:11, 121. IWfe-iy .jsts, Wh..:. W.,r ag .ir.st <v - Hl are the object of concern on the j art of every Christian. There ; s a battle Kd the enemy of O ur sou l * how to make the übu.-e „f impulses and apiutur'. ■*“• to strong ally The rush „f flt , J ‘ e ' t!,e lr creusing use of ’ Dts ' both catura! and artirna , y JK ,T.. th J ngs lend "> g‘'e the desires undue promi- ’ cause Cn t 0 fall into sin - 2“ . 2bcd 10 a holy warfare, does not mean that we Wns,aßt turmoil. We are. l^Bwor'd Pl *n rr ' S and '' tr ' ,r sers ln Phn ?, n c '" 2cn: ' h! P ls ln h ’ L 3 - 0 ' ,tIOURh we live and * i Ol6 heart we have atenables us to fight a laM- ™ "Ond il. p e t 4-i.iti on there are tW ° °PP° sin g X ne ln the ,ives <5 lh ! r dre con trolled by Self w iIL The perscn ul'ty con®Mithe n n, ?clf wil L H reM* ses 2 ° f u- fe described in ' When a n > a n beB ; ry :h^'.'r. f ! ; q'" uid ,nuve B”»' a^it n a , rria ' V be re g ard ed as Wl j; 8S a matter o» fact K 1 Pet Co 2 g n? his Clines; fcton tVo, . Dr Will H Wa f a soldier who »'CX a b hr,s,ianbe - K-M&LW' K‘ that h h The K that though it d m was ‘ho the y left Th made fun 01 W l ’“session f their money in Igß —— a testimony 9 I' -:z ™ c

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Digging Down Jo Reality InftToday’s Social Crisis Contemporary Wise Men Agree With Fisherman Peter That Needed Change Is a Matter of Personal Character—The Futility of Man-Made Laws and Programs.

By WILLIAM T. ELLIS A strange new note was sounded by the recent holiday sessions of American scientists. They turned, for parts of their programs, from a discussion of dry scientific topics to the theme of social responsibility. How may science implement its discoveries for the well-being of the people? Beneath all modem inventions lies the character of individual men and women. After science and government bave done their utmost, the essential problem still persists, of lifting human nature to a higher level of character. Organizations of business men have arrived at the same conclusion as the scientists; as witness Mr. H. W. Prentis' address at the dinner of the National Manufacturers' Association, where Anthony Eden delivered a far less important speech. Even the politicians and statesmen have come round to echoing the words of Fisherman Peter, which are our Lesson text. The worfd is afresh confronting the basic and pre-emi-nent power of religion. "The People, Lord, Thy People” Good people alone can make a good state and a good world. Religion has done more for the betterment of mankind than all the inventions and discoveries and organizations of history. While science has made an indescrible borrow of modern war, it is religion which still labors for peace and good will. Look at the world about us. Is this strenuous modem time, with its made search for sensations of percentage of suicides and divorcesfi the homes that have lost pleasure, really happy? The high their tranquility, the pettiness of the interests of the multitudes, all make clear answer. Watch the faces of pedestrians on the city street: how few of them wear the signature of peace and joy. Listen to the physicians telling of the increase of nervous diseases. Something is wrong with the mainspring of life. The happiest companies I see are at religious gatherings, especially of the plain people. They have learned the secret of good living which is found in loyalty to the will of God, and in a personal j experience of Jesus Christ. That their number is legion, and that i ther stabilizing influence is the greatest factor for safety in the' nation, is the surest ground of hope for the world's welfare. Real Social Service The high and mighty are nowadays discovering anew that our hope is in religion, and in the kind of lives it shapes.' Friends of God do not do the things that hurt themselves or their neighbors. They are not the partisans of the “isms” that imperil the world. So strong is theh influence in the direction of sound conduct, of persona! character, of free individu aiity, that the Stalins, Hitlers, Mussoliuis and Japanese are openly oppressing them. Japan’s pagan efforts to destroy Christianity in Korea are a current case in point. The Gospel of Christ makes men free and friendly, and so is opposed by the dictators. Does not this indicate a clear line of strategy for the statesmanship of democracy? How better serve freedom and justice and peace in this danger-fraught age than by strengthening the forces of religion? More important than any law that will be passed in Washington or Ottawa is the gath ering into the Sunday Schools of all faiths the seventeen million young people who are without any religions instruction. If by example and precept, all our leading citizens were to promote church attendance, they would be strengthening the nation at tis foundations. “Social service” has become a modern shibboleth; and not all of its connotations are, good. Wei we do not think of applying it to have so mechanized the term that the hundred thousand preachers and to the two million Sunday teachers who, week after week, in : tireless self-spending, shape the lives of boys and girls, men and women, into godliness. There is *»»»»»»»»*♦*»»♦♦» * The Sunday School Lesson * | * for Febiuary 19 is, ‘‘Social ♦ Perils" —Amos 6:1-6; I Peter ‘ • J.ll, 12. 4:1-6. • *«•**««*****»*•*

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no other form of social service abroad in the land that is so fundamentally effective as the work of the unsalaried Sunday Scdtool teachers. The Great Change Just as Pentecost was followed by a social revolution among the believers, so, In the history of the early church, conversion led to a complete change of character. The and fertilized new ones. It is to dynamite of God exploded old lives be borne in mind that those first Gentile Christians came out of raw paganism. Even the decadent days which we have been witnessing were no such flesh-serving, pleasure-loving, chai acter-destroy-ing times as ultimately caused the tall of Greece and Rome. The theme song of the early church might well have been, “Oh, what a change!” Many passages in the New Testament exhort disciples not to conform to their environment, but to be transformed. The Gospel even made a Christian city out of rotten old Antioch. Peter gives a glimpse of the conditions from which friends of Jesus should escape in one of the lesson passages: "Ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revelilngs, carousings, and abominable idolatries; wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you.” Enemies of All That Hurts “Utherism” might be a good label for the Christian program. In the face of powerful unsocial practices, Christians stand out against all that hurts a neighbor. In Old Testament and New, the Bible cries out against whatever practices hinder the common well-be-ing. Especially do Christians oppose the liquor traffic, which has an immeasurable record of woe to its discredit. This present lesson is meant to be used in its temperance applications. After many years as a working newspaper man, and as a foreign correspondent, I cannot recall a single instance wherein my being a total abstainer has been of disadvantage to me. On the other hand, I have sometimes been able to "scoop” the other reporters because my brain was clear. Why should not a young man give himself the benefit of unimpaired and unfettered powers by refraining entirely from liquor? The old saying, “where there's drink there's danger” is still profoundly true. The good life, which is the Christian's goal, is a sober one. SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS A bad padlock invites a picklock. —Proverb. If you want to serve your race, go where no one else will go, and do what no one else will do. —Mary Lyon. To follow truth as blind men long for light, To do my best from dawn of day till light. To keep my heart tit tor .Hit holy sight, And answer when He calls,— This is my task Maude Louise Ray. I will place no value on anything I have or possess, except in its relation to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.—David Livingstone. And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail.—l Kings 17:16 —oOo — Four things a man must learn to do, If he would make his record true: j To think without confusion clearly. To act from honest motives pure!y. . To love his fellowman sincerely, To trust in God and heaven securely. —Henry Van Dyke. 1 expect to pass through Chis life but once; if therefore there is, any kindness I can show, or any | good 1 can do to any fellow-being. , let me do it now. let me not de-, fer or neglect it; for ! shall not j pass this way again. — William Penn.

ICH U RCH ES g Hill I Presbyterian Church I George O. Walton, minister — 9:00 a. m.—JJunior Bible school, ] Mrs. Homer Lower, superintendent. 9:30 a. m. —Sunday School. W. P. Schrock, superintendent. 10:30 a. m.—Morning; worship. 2:30 p. m. —Meeting of Sunday School officers and teachers. Mid-week devotional service at 7:15 p. m. Wednesday evening. The Ladies Aid Society will meet Thursday afternoon at 2:30 at the I home of Mrs. C. D. Kunkel and i Mrs. Sherman Kunkel at MonI mouth, the February section will 1 be in charge. Teacher training school Tuesday evening. 7:15 to 9:15 at the Central high school. o First Evangelical Church George S. Lozier, Minister 9:15 a m—Sunday School. Mr. Earl Fuhrman, superintendent. 10:10 a. m. — Divine Worship. Sermon theme: “Adequate Resources.” The rite of baptism will be administered to infants. The Young Peoples' Choir will sing. 6:00 p. m.—Christian Endeavor. 7:00 p. m. —Sunday evening fellowship. Study theme: “Why are Men Afraid?" 7:15 p. m Tuesday—Leadership education classes in the Grade school building. 7:00 p. tn , Wednesday — Midweek devotional and study hour. 7:00 p. m., Wednesday—Young Peoples' Choir rehearsal. 8:00 p. tn.. Wednesday—Christian Endeavor business and social hour. 2:00 p. tn , Thursday — Ladies Aid Society. 7:00 p. m.. Friday — Quarterly conference in the Calvary church. — o Zion Reformed Church Charles M. Prugh. Th.D., minister Church School, 9 a. m. T. L. Becker, superintendent. Morning worship, 10 a. tn. Foreign Mission Day service. Sermon "China Marching Toward The Cross.” The Senior choir will sing. Young People's Society, 6 p. m. Topic, "Was Lincoln A Christian?” Mildred Worthman, leader. Evening worship, 7 p. ui. Sermon. Ruth- Adventurous Faith.” Monday, 6:30 p. m.—Annual banquet of Phoebe Bible class. Wednesday, 2:30 p. m. —Ladies' Aid Society. Wednesday, 7 p. tn. — Mid-week prayer and study hour. Church of the Nazarene 7th and Marshall Sts. Paul Brandyberry, pastor. 9:30 a. in.—Sunday School. Doyle Lytle, superintendent. 10:30 a. tn. — Worship service. Rev. George Gardner will bring the message. 6:30 p. m.—Junior Society. Rex Custer, supervisor. 7p. m.—N. Y P'. S. Mrs. Paul Brandyberry, president. 7:30 p. m.— Rev. George Gardner will bring the message. The revival meetings continue every night next week. Be sure to hear this splendid evangelist. You are always welcome at the “friendly church." O First Methodist Church Monroe at Fifth Sts. Ralph W. Graham, minister 9:30 a. m. —Morning worship. A unified service of worship and Bible study. Worshipful music by the Young People’s choir. Junior church and special message for the children. Sermon bj the pastor. Theme, "Revived Life" Study classes for all age groups. Membership day will be observed and those desiring to unite with the church will present themselves at this service. 4:30 p. nt.—Lincoln Day vesper service. The Mount. Olive Gospel Four. Negro quartet of Ft. Wayuu, assisted by Miss Myrtle Jaggers, soprano, will present a program of songs, both spiritual and classical. Mr. Thomas L. Skeleton of the Lincoln National Life Foundation s speakers bureau will deliver an address on “The Life of Lincoln. The general public is invited. 5:30 — Epworth League. All young people of the church and | those not attending elsewhere are invited. The E. L. cabinet will meet immediately following. Wednesday, 7:3o—Fourth quarterly conference. Dr. F. E. kribley, district superintendent, will be in charge.

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Pint Baptist Church Homer J. Aspy, minister 9:30 a. m.—Bible school. Classes for all ages. 10:30 a. m.—Junior Church. A period of worship and instruction for those of junior age and younger. 10:30 a. m. — Morning worship service. Special music will precede the sermon by the pastor. 6:00 p. m.—Pioneer B. Y. P. U. 6:00 p. m. — The pastor’s hour with the young people. Mrs. Ralph Kenworthy will be the leader. The topic will be "The Messianic Lineage." 7:00 p. m. —The evening service. Attendance at this service will be rewarded by the joy of fellowship with others in song and the study of the Word of God. Tuesday evening at 7:15 the Leadership Training school will meet for the second session at the | Central school. Wednesday evening at 7:30 the I mid-week prayer service and Bible ' study at the church. o Eighth St. U. B. Church L. J. Martin, pastor 9:30 a. m.—Sunday School. 10:20 a. m. —Junior Church. 10:35 a. tn. —Devotions. 11:00 a. m.—Sermon. 6:30 a. m.—Christian Endeavor. 7:30 p. tn. —Revival. Service every night next week at 7:30 p. m. Mrs. Ruth Foltz of Van Wert,’ Ohio, will he in charge beginning Monday night. Come, and enjoy these services. There will be singing, testimonies and preaching. Help pray fbr this revival. All are welcme. o Zion Lutheran Church Paul W. Schultz. Pastor Divine services in English 10:30 J Sunday school and Bible class 9:30 a. tn. Divine services in German 8:30. Teacher’s training course, Monday, 7:00 p. m. Adult class, Tuesday, 7:00 p. m l Catechism school Saturday, 8:30i

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a. in. Lutheran Radio Hour, Sunday, 3:30 p. m. The concert to be given by Mr. Otto Baganz at this church Sunday, featuring harp, vibraharp and the cathedral marimba, will begin at 7:30 p. in The public is invited . to the concert. o MONROE NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Glen Rupert and family were 6 o’clock dinner guests >cf Mr. and Mrs. Gene Hike and family of Decatur, Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. William Bovine and son Rex spent Thursday afternoon in Fort Wayne. Olin Lehman and Miss Melva Bingaman, students at Taylor Univesrlty, I'pland, spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Manas Lehman. Otho Andrews a student at Taylor University, spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wils Andrews. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Krit.ke and family of Indianapolis, visited with friends in Monroe Sunday. Harold Andrews of Fort Wayne, visited his grandparents, Mr. and Mis. M. F. Andrews, over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Longenberger entertained their son, Rolla Longenberger and his wife, Rena Longenberger at Sunday dinner. W. S. Smith. Mrs. Mary Lewellen ' and Marguerite Lewellen visited v, itli Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Smith and daughter Ruth of Preble, Sunday afternoon. i Louise Busche, school teacher in Elkhart, spent the week-end with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. i Busche. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Stucky of Kokomo, Mrs. Daniel Stucky and Mary Ann Sprunger of Berne, were callers at the Irvin Stucky home Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. John Crist were supi per guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert i Meyers and family of Fort Wayne,

Sunday. In the evening they attended services at the Gospel Temple, where they heard the noted evangelist Gipsy Smith. John Oliver, student at Albion College, Albion, Michigan, visited with relatives and friends in Monroe, Saturday. Mrs. Helmuth Carlson and son, Arvid, left Thursday afternoon to make their home with Mr. Carlson in Flint, Michigan, where he is emem ployed. Mrs. Carlson and son had 'been making their home witn her father, Geo. A. Hendricks. Silva and Frank Rayl enjoyed Sunday dinner with the Corydon Rayl family. Mr. and Mrs. Jim A. Hendricks entertained Mr. and Mrs. Clyde

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! Hendricks and family and Mr. and Mrs. Pat Hendricks, all of Fort ' Wayne with tea on Sunday. Alva Johnson of Dunkirk spent Wednesday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. G- A. Halinert. Glen Neuenschwander, trustee ot .Monroe township, was a business : caller in Monroe on Thursday. o — — Ferry Ends Long Service Newport, R. I. — (U.R) — For 42 years the steamer Beavertail fer- , ried passengers, automobiles and I merchandise between Jamestown and Newport. Then came the September, 1938, hurricane. The company had to sell the vessel for junk. Mushroom Out of Bounds St. Thomas, Ont. —(UP)—Apple* and mushrooms grew big in Elgin County this year. Frank Silcox proI duced a mushroom more than two •eet in circumference on his farm, and Frank Graham picked a Wolf River apple from his orchard that was 14 inches in circumference aud weighed 15 ounces.