Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 90, Decatur, Adams County, 15 April 1939 — Page 5

I*l NDAY Ms, nooi. -Si ss () n •=• fKpn for April 23 I. ~ t«UC«UM. Has* u» M <■'■■'.-■ Ill'" »■’ ' E -J I ’• ha ■ ■ I j »E e cu! at Jerusalem < Acta a > t " h " uui though the a -j ■ .. the Jew.vh c. non. Bj, .rn. rOl Opinion imi^^a\ n , u , ■l; , and ■ up is •_-, r -of Acts . . ,■ - problem. > religious ‘ ‘ * that p-esents as the way others follow .f- < ; -th of salvation if ::e law be mingled '■ ■ - rivaled’ B< tMethod of Settle ‘■'tl^^Knui <il not untroversy r.AV mes when it be-d-’s of the Christian ■ f Gill and re- " what may ' ’. ■• should be no d.ffcr : s f Scripture on the . earnest ChnsA would .! ■ .: g differences MU intervene, n.cn ■■■•; • .1 wn in the sp.r.t »- •»• j the tables of Ctir.s- --: - Lr. t.hcrhood. pre . -, ,-,.<j by the Holy Acts IS »> e i .<•>:. n was honestly |B*|ic- ■•> a by the see■■t?--' -a vindication I preschers of God s grace 4 a plain disav wal »!h tr übled them and taeu souls iwnat a xrrt t<ach error contrM > W rl.'i the Council *-r.e gave recogni--■P F *' : J B -*rnabas as men •t.,iarjed their lives for of the L< rd Jesus” and *f c~r.flder.ce and sup .S' '■ o mk n!ore hl( , My 1 -h.m he , ug ht Humility grace Which well be saved by grace But ~; u i. n th admen,t ons Uy 7 on* another, to recognise H 1 ‘ r, ' r as bl ing worthy of his g.ve recognition to those over u* in the Lord. The at Jerusalem were arid courteous enough to r ail encourage Paul and W c<>uld well follow «*-rr; recognition of ser-.aiis .d Christ m our or CiWmunity. ’ Mom.-nlocw l*e< ision—Sal by Grace Aral decision ,vs the council not only by Paul on d Barnaalso by a committee from ■J"'" » gracious gesture of |B‘--T Courtesy is not nut of de.,;.ng with even »ucL dif-'-h.iigs as controversies on , o etimo-in fact it *h<aiid in place in such a situation. ■ matter of record <a wise 1 jr e in such a easel, a letter 1 * h ‘ch. after addressing ”':itilcs as 'brethren," re|B'<> <he history of the matter ~i'n. without mentioning cir at all. puts upon the (ien no greater burden than the things " And what were Th '”' things which relate Os life as those who were Christian liberty. The law nev <i not be kept as a * ,alva hon They wore vj C-‘ce. But grace can |B nnr c «n liberty m Christ be ” license to live in sin |B* r ’ Mt ’y* m Christ not that ’in, but that we may "go no more.” Blessed Vay is the day whose morn’ani;ldied! Successful is the first victory is won by ■te 1. lol >' the day whose , ’he* on the top of the BF’-Joseph Pwker .

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Broad Gauge Religion Won Victorypn Days Os Apostles And Today the Christian Church is Experiencing Fresh Sense of Its Own Universality and Power Over Human Life — Three Recent World Conferences.

By WILLIAM T. KLLIB Uteie Friday afternoon, in old I Jerusalem. I was mingling with th.I i trons of Jews at the wailing place. A Jew from Chicago, who had re-; tired from buslmss to spend lh<--loalng yearn of hla life in the i Holy Laud, engaged tne in convey* ’ | nation, as he criticised what he ! called the superstitious rites going ion before our eyes. Theu he de- , dared. "If the Christiana had n- | talned the Sabbath, and the diet- | ary laws of Moaea. nothing could * . have kept them from sweeping the . world.That old man. proud of hla "IlliI erallam.' iaterested me becauae of the Important he attached to min,or religious regulations He missed the great sweep of spiritual truth. My thoughts were turned , backward to the Firm Church I Council tn Jerusalem, when hia sort of narrow notions were up for 1 cmuMeration. with tho deeiston going squarely against Jewish rit : ualiam and ae< reuriauiam. and in favor of tolerance and liberty. Not | rites and observances, but the free Spirit of Christ, were the marks |Of true believers fined by the A--1 poatolic Church. The (dispel trail , was to run on broad-gauge tracks. Arant We All? Recollections of that Friday in Jerusalem tempt my pen to run ■ on about the rigidity of religious j rites among the present-day orthodox Jews In Palestine; so that ' they even impose them, to a degree. upon the Zionists But after ■ all. la not thia tendency to exalt i rules and precedents common to all of us? How many of us today 1 j are better Baptisla or Methodista < lor Ppabyterlaus or Catholics than we are Christiana? We are monItoyal to the churches of Christ than I io the Christ of the churches. We 1 want our denominational way so intensely that practically every , church union yet effected has left behind a small group of dissidents.! To thia day there are churches, that will not admit to the fxird s I 'table Chriaiians of other denominational nam«*s. There io a degree of comfort for our narrowness in the* experience* of the Church of the first ceutury.' The ortgtaal dunpies of Jesus were all Jews, and they bitterly | resented the coming of GentUeo In-, |to the Church, unless they should ' first become cin uinciscd. and oth ■' erwfse conform to the usages of Judaism They were so intolerant that when Paul and Barnabas baptised large numbers of Gentiles, the Jewish Christiana sent trouble making emissaries Io these, seeking to discredit the missionaries. Oh. yea. theru were cantanker-| oua Christians even in the days of those who remembered Jesus in ' the flesh. The Church of Apostolic limes was not made up of perfect saiuia Even the most cursory reading of Paul's* letters revealthe existence of just the same sort i of trouble-makers and divisive totJeus that bother imators today. Early Cantankerous Saints Htlll. they were Christ lans struggling upward And they respected the authority of the Church When I the issue of the status of Gentile | < oaverts became acute, Paul took It to the apostles at JeruJub-ni for I decision. James, the brother of Jesus, was ; the recognised leader of the Church We wish w« knew more about him. When was he convert|ed?Tho brothers of our Lord were not at first Ills followera. Hid the ! resurrection or Pentecost open the i eyes of James * The best portrait lof him la presented by his own Letter, in thA New Testament t anon. A Just and rather stern man. hr aeeins to have been especially qualified tn preside over the heat- , ed Oentile-Jewlsh controversy Home sugary spirits deplore coil- | tmvorsy. Yet we should be grateful that thore were sturdy souls I In tho early church, of giant In--1 irllect. wh<> would not coniproinisc their convictions, but argued them through to a declaion. In our excessive modernity, we should not forget the Church fathers who • seem to have been gifted with I mightier brains than any we know today. Thauks to the Aimstolic <»••••••♦ e sass**** •The Sunday School Lesson for April 12 is ‘'Paul Wins Recognition for Gentile Christiana.” — Acts 16:1-35; Galatians 2:1-10. ssssass** osoossoss

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, APRIL 15. 1939.

Church, the Qoupel was saved from being aide-tracked onto narrow re- ' clal rails. Il became the religion for all men. of every race and country and condition. The Greatest World Force Something of the spirit of that first General Council seems to be pervading Christendom today.' Within the past twelve mouths there have been held three great , eoumenh-al gbtheringa of qhrtstians. the Roman Church being the ( only gbsentee. These were world wide gatherings at Oxford. Edinburgh and Madras. They dealt with our faith In comprehetiaive world terms, and their messages are everywhere percolating down into the local churches. These significant modern gatherings reaffirmed the central hiatorlte doctrines of God. the one Father of us ail. and of Jesus Christ, the one Saviour from sin. They stressed the unity of the world-wide Church, with its more than half a billton members. A definite trend toward church unity has set in everywhere. Nonh Amertca shows the greatest number of denominational divisions; nevertheless. a former president of the Federal Council of Churches recently ventured the prophety that in twenty-five years there will be only one Church lu all America. From these recent ecumenical meetings has come a new understanding of the vitality and universality <>f Christianity. It is the most potent force on earth today As one instance of its power, we recall that In Germany only the ‘ Church has been able to withstand i Hitler and the Naxi program. Wo have learned too, of the recent larg^scale acceptance of the Gospel tn India and China and Africa. Beep-flowing in the world's demta--racles Is a new understanding of the place of Christianity In practical affairs. Statesmen are foremost ' in recognising th-- religious factor in the mood of inauHnd. News r sport a affected the Church at Jerusalem, even as they affect the Church today. It was the story of the Gospel's triumphs amongst the Gentiles that caused ( the Apostles to make their mom eutous decision of a compreheu- | sive. universal Church, instead of i a Jewish sect. And it Is the tid ! Ings, sweeping in troin ail parts 'of the earth concerning a re-em-ergence of Christianity In power, that Is arresting and arousing Christiana everywhere. A new Heuse of the primacy of God In human life: a larger concepthm of the character and mission of tho Church: a fresh conviction of the 1 utter adequacy of Jesus Christ as i the only ieailer tor these limes. I are taking fresh hold of people everywhere. Even the greatest heresy of all. which is inditfereulism. la breaking down before the sobering on-march of the truth that the Gohjh-I Im for all meu aud for all of life. , BEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS It is not doing the thing we like to do. but liking the thing we have to do that makes life blessed. — Anon. ass Nothing endures hut personal qualities.—Walt Whitman. ess He who knows not. and knows not that he knows not. he la a tool—shun him: He whea knows not. and knows that he knows not. he is ignorant - isuch him; He who knows, and knows not that he knows, he Is asleep—a* wake him: He who knows, and knows that he knows, hu Is wise follow hitn —Eastern Haying, sea The conversion of the world Is bound up with the national char actnr of professedly Christian land. —Herbert Anderson. sss And thou shall call His name Jesus; for it Is He that shall save His people from their siu*.—Matthew 1:21. • • « Progress, man's distinctive mark alone. Not God's aud not the beasts: God Is. they were: Mau partly Im, and wholly hopes to be. — Robert Browniug. «•« Uttlo self-denials. IIHUi houesfles. little passing words vl sympathy, littlu uauieless acts of kinduess, little silent victories over

First United Brethren Church Corner of Ninth and Madison James A. Wsbfr. Pastor Church School at 9:16 A. M Roy Mumma, superintendent. Theme: "Planting the Gospel In New Fields.'' Arts 16. Morning Worship id So A. M. Hpoclal Choir Music. Playlet by the Senior C. E. called. “First Things First.” Christian Endeavor at 4 SO P. M. — Adult and Senior topic — ! "What Should a Church Member Believe?” Intermediate topic — "questions aud answers about the , Bible.” Junior and Junior Jewels meet at the same time. 7 SO P M Evening Worship. — Special number by Joan Bodie. Lenten Drama. "Release" presented by the Progressive Workers Class. Don't miss this splendid Play. Munday —7 S« P. M. Bible Study. Rev Miner in charge. Wednesday — d P. M. Orchestra Practice. 7 P. M. — Prayer twetings for each of the following age groups. Adults, Youth. Children 8 P M Choir Practice. Harold Mumma in charge. —- -O First Evangelical Church George 8. Loner. Minister 9:15 A. M — Sunday School Earl Fuhrman, superintendent. 10:19 A. M. — INvine Worship Sermon theme: “Our Highest Joy.” 6 00 P M — Christian Endeavor. 7:00 P. M. — Sunday Evening Fellowship. Sermon theme: "What Thomas Missed " 7 00 P. M — Wednesday—Choir Rehearsal. 7 3o P. M — Wednesday — Midweek Devotional and Study Hour. 2.00 P. M. — Thursday — Ladies Aid Society. —o ■ - — ■ Presbyterian George o. Walton, .Minister 9:00 a m Junior half hour service— Mrs. W A. Lower. 9:30 Sunday School W P Schrock, auperintendeiit. 10:30 Morning Worship Sermon "The Easter Afterglow ' The annual congregational meeting will be held Wednesday evening at 7:15. All organisations are asked to have reports ready. There will be the election of one trnstee, two elders and two deacons. The luvdies Aid will meet Thurs day afternoon at the home of Mrs Leo Saylors with the April section in charge This is the first meeting of the new year and a large attendance is desired. »" — B Church of God Glen E. Marshall. Pastor The unified sirvice liegius promptly at 9:30. doses at 11:88. Text for sermon: "Keep thy heart with al! diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.” Classes for all ages arc provided In the Sunday School study hour. No boys and girls meeting this Sunday evening Evening service. 7 30. The evening gagtrice marks the beginning of a two- weeks special meet lug. The first week of aervice* will be conducted hy the pastor and the last week Rev. O. L Yeriy of Belding Michigan will be the evangelist. The public is must cordially invited to attend this series of special mwtings Come you are always welcome to the services of thia congregation. , — ft - First M. E. Church Rev. Ralph Waldo Graham. Minister Morning W’orship 9:30 A. M, Thu Ykmng Pegpies Choir will sing. There will bo no sermon as lhe pastor is attending the annual conferrnce at Mtirion. Thu Church School classes wilt meet during the time regularly used for the sermon. There will bo uu evening worship sorvK-o. Epworth League al 9:50 A. M. la'uder. Anns June Tyndall. Lesson subject — ‘The Meauitig of Our Religious Hymbols.” Eighth St U B Caere* L. J. Martin, Pastor 9:30 Hinidny BckooL 10:20 Chalk Talk and singlug of chorusek. 10:35 Devotions and congregational singing. 10:15 "The Ambassadors for Christ." A group of young people from the Ft. Wayne Gospel Tctnplo will have charge of the services. Rev. Roger Malsbary *lll preach and Walt Pagelcr will conduct the singing. They also will have ihtslr pianist and soloist. At 2:30 Sunday P. M this sumo favourite lemptalkm — these are tho threads of gold which, when woven together, gleam out so brightly In the pattern of life that God approves.—Farrar.

Bcrgdoll to Return \ - ■ Grover Cleveland Bcrgdoll Grover Cleveland Berg doll. America's most publicised draft dodger , during the World war, will return to the United States to complete a five-year sentence imposed in 1919 before his escape to Germany. Mrs. Bergdoll and five children no w reside in the United Statea group will have a great inter denominational service. They havo held a number of these services in different localities and have had fine crowds and good success as soul winners. The only purpose of these services is for the salvation of the lost aud to promote fellowship among the churches of the community. A special invitation is extended to pastors aud people of our churches of this city, and also the country churches. « 39 C. E. for all groups. 7 39 Regular evening services 7:30 Wednesday night prayer meeting. 7:30 Friday night. Bible study. You are welcome to our sftrvtoes. 2ion Reformed Church Charles M. Prugh. Th. D.. Minister Church School 9 A. M. — T. L. ' Becer, Supt. Morning Worship 10 A. M. Sermon “A Mocker of Men.” Prov. 1 30:1. The Senior Choil will sing Young People's Society d P. M Evening Worship 7 P. M. Sermon "The Reaaonahleness of God." Monday. 10 A. M Fort Wayne | Classis convenes In St. Peter's Church. Huiitlugtou Wednesday, 7 P. M. Mid-week 1 prayer and Bible study. Thursday. 7:30 P. M. Phoebe ! Bible CIaML * ' a i , Christian Church Kenneth Timmons, pastor Bible School. 9:30 a. m. D. L. I Drum. superintftpdenL Let us try i to make this another big day in

New Colossus for Old Rhodes? B III'( £ < 1 * K ~ ‘ m — Mrge'concentrations of men and material by Italians on the 12 Dodecanese islands off the roast of Asia Minor alarm the British and bring a warning from the Chamberlain government to Premier Mussolini that a move against Corfu by Italian forces would be a cause for war. Photo shows armored cars before the administration building of Rhodes, largest of the Dodecanese islands. It was on Rhodes that the ancient mammoth metal statue, known as the Colossus of Rhode* xtood. Th' shadow of a modem Colossua— Fascist myttary ought—now Uu over Rhodes.

our llllile School Set mon and Commuuluu, liljo a. m Tuesday night, ?:3o p. tn. — Siaiera of Ruth class will mart at the home of Mrs. J. E Anderson. Wednesday night — Bible study. 7:30 p nt. conducted by Rsv. Kenneth Timmons. Come and visit with us on Wednesday evenings We are studyings Acts. Having some very in- ’ terouting meetings. Thursday night from 5.00 to 7:00 ' o'clock there will be a Father and Son banquet m the Christian cteun h liasemeui The Ladles Aid will meet ou Friday at 2 p. m. Instead of Thursday i this next week only on account of the banquet on Thursday night. Q — Zion Lutheran Church Paul W. Schults, itastor Main longreaational worship. 1 19:39 a. m. Sunday School and Bible class. ,9:30 a. m. Early service or mat ins (German*. 8:39 a. m. 8. S. Teat her e Training course. , Monday. 7:00 p. m. Saturday catechetii al school. 8:50 e. tn. -.- First Baptist Church Homer J. Aspy a Minister 9:30 am Bible School 10.39 am. Junior Church. 19:30 a. tn Morning Worship service. Special music will he presented by the choir and the quartet. Also a solo will be sung «:<*♦ P M. Pioneer B. Y. P. V. 6:0» p m Pastor's Hour with ■ the Young P«-ople. 7:00 p.m. The evening service of song and praise. Thursday evening at S p. m. th * Brotherhood will meet at the church The meeting will lie in charge of Roy Johnson, the president. The speaker of the evening will be Rev. Stacy Shaw, pastor of the Vniou Chattel U. B. church Wednesttay evening at 7:30 the utid-week prayer service will be held at the church. | Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE Q. What ia the le-»t ptocedure when a woman would like to be- < onm a member of a certain bridge I club? A. Give a small bridge party and invite two or three members of this dub. Q. When a woman is standing talking with a man and drops some article, should she say. “I'll get I it”? A. No. She should let the malt : pick it up for her. <J. Should an invitation to a meal be answered, even it the invitation does not request it? A. Yes. Quints' Survival Explained Eugene. Ore (U.PJ Women are stronger than meu. according to Dr. Umter F. Beck, professor of | psychology at the I'ulveniity of i Oregon. He said, "Had the Dionne 1 quintuplets beeu born males In- | stead of females, they would not have lived.”

I ’’tuC W •** UM > 1 Last week I gave a one-question quU on safe driving, and tbts week I'll give another. Hero is the question: What is the proper thing to do when the roar wheels of your car start to skid? (a) Turn front wheels In same direction rear wheels are sliding fb* Turn wheels in opposite direction from skid. (cl Throw out clutch snd apply brakes. • What is the correct thing to do. and what Is the safe thing to do? Point your front wheels In the direction the car Is skidding: this will help you to get out of The skid. Tv*» is a <-»«« Tuw — n«aa(w»

As Marian Anderson Sang \ 11 F w Id -f wj ** " r . La V j« ' tt® Jah* i I** * ' ' i £ rdKtje • yflf AN ' ■" A* y " y • Ji ' ** A.® f f — _ , 1,,,J; 1 11, 1 SrcTrfury Harold Iclcm and Marian .%ndrrM>a Refused pcroiisaion to sing in two capital adultoriums. Marian An* STZ: ‘WtraHo. Anally gives her Easter concert on the » t *P» Abraham Lincoln memorial In Washington c _Uj* n , ' 5 0 °? P« r ’ on * heard her sing. Included among them was Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who at ranged for her appearance at the memorial

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I 8080 NEWS Mrs. Carl Fisher and son Jimmie of Decatur, spent Thursday with Mrs. Jennie Hupp. Mr. aud Mrs. Chsrley Brothers. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Hllpert of Deentur. spent Sunday with Mr. anJ Mrs. Milton Chronister. Mrs. Mattle Jones and Mrs. Henry Miller called on Mrs. Ollie Hhatter and Mrs. Ahua Gaunt Munday lilterßOds. Mrs. Arthur Loomis and sous or Hammond. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hough and Mias AUce Muxtae Judge of e|ient Saturday night and Bunday with Mr. and Mrs. Noble Judge and family. L. F Bapp and sons Edgar and Barnett made a bUsiftCM trip Ift Fort Wayne Wednesday. »■ a i Trout Curious Fish Plumas National Forest, Cai. — tl'PiTrout are mu< li more interest- < d In human beings than the aver- . age fisherman could ever b: iuducI< d to believe, according •• O. J. EHcksou Cow Hollow minor. Erick* -on, In a dep sea diving outfit, has been mining extensively at the hotom of Feather river. He states that Itrftot constantly swim around hi.v I outfit and peer at him through '.be glass openings.