Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 166, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1939 — Page 5

[ SUNDAY fc 1 SCHOOL ■•LESSON-:-I ■—■ **" 1,11111 " T J .... ,■!■ !■«' —'* g| Lesion for July 23 I ■ und Scripture •'«'• •»■ IU * f.d .w; I _____ I fl ASA: A LIFE OF TRUST I Hr<. x Ts XI It ' hr Tirlr. I< 213 K |., ». -e.l .... -11 cf.- n I K* i« BH*'ln God we trust." I ■rv,,r are the words which »p- - many of our United States Do we believe them’ The |K. - f-r today reveals how real in G d operates In the life of The divine principles were m effect 900 B C. arc .i c. ns.deration of them in ■ In b’-c sc’n-'- Is of our land today the application of them to our life may mean more for fare U.ai the del.b- - - r . < stati <men or the operacf governmental agencies. KBThr st -he re gn A Asa 'one the few ( -dly sovereigns of the ■ te-ion f Judah! reveals that trust Ita;. d CJ.’s ■ ar upr ght life, for ■ I ar.l I | If we trust God we shall Bmi Mike the I Ifr Kl<ht 'vv Is' M.bi f ch. ».■« g'-od and in the eyes of the Lord." such such a nation really trust Gxl and count on for guidance and blessing dr>- yed me idols a-d places v -»h p nv 3. 5), but he turned h ; « people to the true tv. 4). (■Mi-’ arc ; : .-> -g that America .< revival which will I fruit in the putting away of sin. ' is bei 'mir.g such a blatant in our land, and a - ' G<d -r Tepe- ’.mt righteous living. ■II Prepare With (are ivv « !0> |9 Am - es •; i but he als ■ made -eparat.cn f r that th h.s nation might face In and r. s army Th.s was intelfaith. ■B Wr . . ; ray G d w .11 conserve :r.e fuel which He ;rtr. i tv- must plant, ’ar|Br ■■ »-d • • ••■'.» gram ts we are •' A pr • - the defense of our God I protection. |H - ir.d mroug.. all it is G-xi Hut u b.t a’ the same time He ex H 14 ■ hat we car. as He us • serve Him. The ‘ -~h f Christ w >ul i I* . • f, , Aird , f H . iO ghire that fa ■ . rt (p lod( for d . have d - best; we ar e not to stt with 1 expect a complete a to be wrought for us. and ' r-r/.n-e as idle special rs God« redemption of manUe are to tax cur resources ’ £f 5 ' gat 1 er our hundreds soldiers; we are to work out gB-- ar. salvat. t. with fear ani f r it is God which .• ’h tn w.n and t An |»fh.s gvxf pleasure'" (W H Pr *’ Mllh A'aarame <v. 111 ■E ‘ * f --■■ pur. host facing Asa's B~' ! feat that humanly IB* ’’" £ s d.-t.r.ctK.n was hopebut ' one i;.an with God at his gß*™ :i a.ways a majority •• Take Christ.an friends, trust IK.t, Or-! -’ *■* , ~rUI" you are B H-I side and that your life Is S.-d then be assured that »:11 give the Victory. secret of Asa s victorious th '*’ hc I’' 4 ’ no tru»t in bu! rt believe in God Alexander Maclaren: 'My IK.^a* 1 ’ J f 'H'** l l * my °l*nK *** God to come tn. X 111,4 a -'s find the lakes in -Cll-iui S - you will always find K? . P *, r ’ r * 1 c m -,g U.to met! a *' ! ' rr? -i ci. them and make K> * AhCn ,here h *’ been f 'Pevs-ion of the lowered ea- ' lr ' b - ‘v'-d otrust. and God fla ’ h ' ng W,,er ’ IV • U,n, h bestowed." ■ T *<l la Faith < v . »>. B«r> U ” E,hl «- Kt-re ?L ' lui? * u ’“ *tnt h,rr ' an< * therefore he saw 'mite them. Bfd'uK'ur? ' r '. ,prr brepuratmn. Sk.lU'. / ,y,r of ,allh thUSt cub Be ~ J'*’ ! » »or US. let U s B»P ?*. {’•‘leved it and ■Fll. cvo. l h ? " C * ” d " of f.’i God hon ° r » Bwne. kt • *. hethM “ bc Kc7," u ‘ k '"«• l*»dtng hit nab: r ui * p ’ r ' «* ■krt,,, believer, seeking to ■" r ‘estimony f(T Hj|n g 10 B*Si seif inW i* IW * *r«PPlng B # ’t« svX W ’ ‘ n "” h '' *»rld and 04 God 7aw” r ?* Uw • owl - cf Hi, I - .,.? *• * h,n be robe B**» lUSUc « »bd might, and ■ *'“ ttiia'thw* h***' l ** but

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National Problems Os Today Pictured|ln]Ancient|Tale Judah's Good King Aaa Established Reforms at the Basis of the People's Life—Religion s Part in Patriotism — Preparedness of Long Ago.

•y WILLIAM T. ELLIS There really la aomethlug uncanny about the way In which theae Sunday School Leaaons. chosen years ago by an international and Interdenominational committee of scholars, fit into the contemporary scene They are as pertinent as the day's news dispatches. While <we are reading the big headlines about international alliances and counter-alliances, we turn back to the old Book, and find good King Asa caught in the same net of power politics. One peculiar quality of the Bible ia that it forever sheds light on current Issues It Is eternally up to date. Not only by precept, but ab so by precedent, it points a plain path. Use reason is the ever-turn-ing wheel of history; what happens once, happens again Today Is but yeaterdsy In a treah dress And old Israel seems to have been a sort of teat-lube nation tor all history to study Whose Blood Will Tell? Our personality tor today s study is Asa, good son of a bad rather and a bad grandfather. The folly of the latter. King Kehoboam. had lost two-thirds of his kingdom, and his son. Abljah. who su<<eedi cd him for a short reign, followed lin -his footstepss So Asa had inherited bad blood from his father and grandfather But he had also the blood of Solomon and David in hia veins, and the tradition of their character and religion. Nobody is doomed by hia ancestry: ihe science which so declares Is false. Bad and good mingle in I the blood of all of us. Our soveri <*lgn wills may incline us to the I best or the worst of our inheritance In this new western world we see on every hand noble and i effective men and -women who have i sprung from the moat unfavorable i beginnings. I know an old preachier whose antecedents were worse than poor; the only effect of this I that I have seen in him to a tend--1 vary toward artatocraclnesa and ; snobbery* It is sheer pagan fatalj ism to assume that anybody comes into the world <t»mpletely doomed by his forebears. After Rehoboam and Abijah. we find good King < Asa. Getting Down to Basis Asa had more sense than many * a ruler and official today. He per- * ceived. as multitudes of moderns |do not. thst the one essential, determinative factor in the life of a . people la its loyalty to the living , God Cn every hand wc are trying reforms, wheieaa it is religion we i need. It ia the springa of character , that must be changed. Christian ! officials do not graft, or wink at I corruption Christian business men ' do not treat their employes unfairI ly. Christian men do not cheat the i merchant or the income tag collec- * tor. Christian citterns are loyal to their flag and country. Christian neighbors help one another I In short, when a person Is in I right relations with God he is al;ao In right relations with everybody I else Asa saw that Judsh'a basic I sin was its depart uro from the I true worship of Jehovah, and its I turning to heathen idols. Then- ' fore hr entered upon a drastlc eampaign to aitirpaie idol worship from the nation. It was a huge task. It even necessitated hunting hia mother's hideoua idol, and depriving her of authority We are left to imagine the opposition hr met from powerful devotees of the pagan culls — the entrenched priesthood, the vested commercial Interests, and alt the forma of fanatical idolatry. Bui Asa's heart did upi fall him. and he mad<* a good job of if. On the surface of the story Iles the stern admonition to us of today to go and do likewise. If we had wisdom adequate for our present crises we would be restoring religion to its rightful place in the nation. Instead of joining new patriotic societies, and attending hysterical rnOe'iugM. mm and women Would l»e giving themselves to the simple task of gathering young people into the Sunday School and Church. They would be sitting down io conferences upon practical ways of making their local churches more effective And they would tag their bruins and devotion and • aoaaaeee •The Sunday School Lesson for July 23 is, "Asa: A Life of Trust"—ll Chronicles 14:2-12. • oaeeeseo

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activity to give God the right of way over every department ul our * common life. An Earlier Cromwell ‘ Like Cromwell iu later ages, ' Aaa'a motto seems to have been ‘ the equivalent of "Trual in God. and keep your powder dry.' He ' < leaned up and built up Judah. Uur Lesson test lutrtalua a long ' recital of the measures of public, defense that he put through. He ’ fortified the cities and establish- ' ed measures of preparedness against the day when be should have to resist oppression. "So they 1 built and prospered.*' runs the rec--1 ord ’ Preparedness is always the way of wisdom, although it may easily 1 be turned Into unwise militarism ' ( The sort of pacifism that will not J • defend Its moat precious heritage gets scant support from Scripture [ There must be a physical rearmament tn every nation that would * survive today, but there must aL Iso be a moral rearmament Old Names Come Back There was no Suez Canal in Asa a day, so the tend bridge to ' Africa was open. Over this came an I invading horde of Ethiopians We know that ancient oriental figures ■ must always be accepted with rueI ervations; but the army of Zerah. | the Ethiopian, was vastly superior ' • to that of Asa. In deep devotion ', and faith, Asa cried unto Jehovah ' for help, and he waa succored. Evi en so. the prayers of Christendom , averted a world war at the time I of the Munich crisis teat Septem i' ber. Statesmen blundered, but God i * heard mankind's prayer for peace. ■ I Clear down to Gerar, below Gailia. Asa chased the fleeing Uhlop I lans That seems remote and un--1 [ real territory to us: yet it to all' most the focus of Great Britain's . present problem. For the new Imi pertel plans project a aecond can- ■| al from the Mediterranean region about Gerar to the Gulf of Akaba. lon the Red Sea, almost following the route Os the Children of Israel 1 under Moses. The Folly of Alliances Later. Asa fell into the great blunder which Is plagnlng the statecraft of today. When threaten- : ed by the Northern Kingdom, h* bribed Rcuhadad. king of Syria, to break hia alliance with Israel and to come to Judah's defense. Thia I treaty with Syria brought teinpor- ' I ary victory, but also at least a J partial loss of liberty, and a train of woes. ;| Gods prophet warned Asa that ; he should trust only In Jehovah, and not lean on Syria How hard |ia simple faith! "High politics" I and "power politica'* may mean I lowness of life and weakness. God ; ia the only defense Who docs uot tail. SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS 11 Patience is the most necessary thing in thia world — Confucius. • • • The fearless man who loves , truth and obeys duty la the man who prevails, and whose work vu- , dure* — Bryce sea To blind old Milton's raylcss orbs j A light divnte is given. , And deaf Beethoven hears the hymns And harmonies of heaven. —Anoa> nious. Happy It wore for us all if«we bore prosperity a» well and wise, ly as wn endure adverse fortune. . -Houthcy Look there fore whether tba light that Is In thee be not darkness—Luke i|:3s. . My crown la in my heart, not on my head; Not decked with diamonds and Indian atones; Not to be seen, my crown Is called content. A crown it Is that seldom kings enjoy. -Shakespeare. Small kindnesses, small courtesies. small consldernllona. habitually in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments. — M A. Kelley. l-'hc Kolb Adding Mac hintpaper with rip-cord opener and end-of-roll signal 50c. Every roll b vacuum cleaned .to teniwe al! Inn and dust. I The Decatur Democrat Cu.

KHURCHESI RXCnuJi * First United Brethren Church Corner of Ninth and Madison James A. Weber. Pastor Church School at 9 15 A. M. Roy Mumrna. superintendent. Theme - "Rehoboam: A Mau Who Made a Foolish Choice." 1 Kings 12:1-5, 14I IT, 20. Morning Worship 10.30 A. M. | R»v. C. J. Miner will bring the message iu the absence of the pastor. Your hearts will be warmed aa you hear the mesaage of this man of God. •:M P. M. Christian Endeavb.-. Adult and youth topic: "Building A Church Program of Recrea'«on." In't< rmediate topic Adventures witfc | Good Books." Juniors and Jewefj i meet at the same hour. ' 7:30 Evening Worship. Message ( by Rev. C. J. Miner. You have been attending these evening services xplendldb- Keep up the good record. Monday 7:30 Bible Study. Rev. C. J Miner iu charge. Wednesday 7 P. M. prayer meeting for each of three age groups Adults in charge of Re.-. Miner. Young People In charge of Eart Crider. Children in charge of Mrs WHltema and Mrs. Light. S P. M Choir Practice Harold Mumma in charge. Church of the Naasreno 7th and Marehalt Sts. Paul Brandyberry, Paator ».3u A. M. Sunday School. Doyie Lytle. Supt 10:30 A. M. Morning worship. Sermon by the Rev. M. L. Garret of Macon Ga. 4;00 P. M. The "Singing I*reacnets Quartet" WVWO. 7:00 P. M N. Y. p. 8. 7:00 P M Junior Society. 7:3u P. M Evangelistic service. Sermon by the Rev. M. L. Garrett of Macon, Ga. Our revival meetings will continue all of neat week. Plan now to her.r this Tennessee mountaineer preach. We wefcoue you tn every service. First Evangelical Church George 8. Loaier, M«.,ur 9:15 A. M. undav School. Earl Fuhrman, superintendent lu:lu A. M Worship Service. Sermon theme; "Are You Happy?" 7:30 p. M. Union Service at the .Methodist Church. Rev. C. M. Prugti will deliver the message. 7:30 I*. M . Wednesday. Midweek D-vottonal and Study Hour 2:00 P. M.. Thursday. Laoies Aid Society. o - First Presbyterian George O. Walton, Min<ster ?:oo a. m. Junior worsnip and bible hour. Mrs. W. A. Lo*er su> t rlatendent assisted ivy Mrt. Robet; Gttye slid Miss lux Noack. 9:30 a. m. Sunday Schoo l W. P. bchrock superintendent >0:30 a tn. Morning wagoHp. Sermon “Incentives For Chr’Otfan Liv,ng" 7:3« p. tn Union ervicc at thy Methodist church. Re". V. M. Prugh preaching. First Methodist Church Monroe St Fifth Street Ralph Waldo Graham, Minister Morning Worship 9:30 A. M. A U.iifiod Service of wora.ilp an I bii le study. Sermon by the* pastor; I htme: “The Sour Heart and God * r weetening Power." Junior Church and special mesaauu for the Child- ■ er. Vlasovs for al! age groups. A cordial and friendl, welcou.e to all. Epworth League < 30 P. M. All young p<-vpie of the church are urgvd to be present. A report of the Epworth League Institute will b*given. Vuion Evening Worship Borvtee

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7:30 P. M. at the Methodist Church Special muaie will be provided end Rev. c. M. Piugh will driver the sermon. Members ot the church are eipected to be present to welcome our guests of the sister churcnes. Wednesday 7:80. Prayer and Bible Hour. This Is an important service. You will be a blessing to others and find a blessing for yourself. •th St. U. B. Church L. J. Martin, Pastor P;SQ Sunday School. 10:30 Reorganisation. < 30 Christian Endeavor. 7:30 Evangelistic Services. Ser-m-<n siteject: “Forgetting God." 7 30 Wed night Prayer meeting. Sunday will be the reorganisation of the Sunday School. Christian Endeavor. election of delegate to annual conference, erd also election of the class leader for the coming year. Baptielmal services will be held Sunday afternoon August g. Sunday is "Bill Sunday" don't forget to bring your bill for the Lord's W ork. We will be looking for you in i Lurch tomorrow. ■o■ - — Zion Lutheran Church Paul W 8< halts. Paator Sunday school and Bibl-- class, 9 30 a. m Divine worship service 10:30 am. Early matins (German) 3:30. — 1 1 -O’ ■ ■ Christian Church Kenneth Tlmuxma. Pastor Bible school 9.30. D L. Drum, superintendent. Moi nlng worship and communion. 10:99 Monday night the Christian Missionary society will meet at the home of Mrs A D Artman Mrs. liorfua Drum, leader Wednesday night Bible study at the ehnreh. Rev Timmons conducts these interesting Bible studies each Wednesday evening Anyone without a church home is cordially Invited to attend our Bible study Zion Reformed Church Charles M Prugh. Th D.. Minister Church school. 9a. m T L. Becker, supt. Morning worship. 19 a. m Sermon “The Meek " Matt. 5:5 The senior choir will sing. Union evening worship 7:30 at .the Methodist church W'edtieaday. annual church actant pbnic at Hanna-Nuttman Park. 4 p. tn Thursday. Phoqjp- Bible Class, S p. m. ■———tepmiiiw ain Qi i in ■ I The Church of God Glen E. Marshall, pastor Untiled service. 9:Sf'-ll:3O a. m. Young People'a district rally. Payne. Ohio, camp ground. Flrat service begins at 2:30 p. m. EST Rev. p R Turner, pastor of the Church of God. Indianapolis, will speak at both the afternixtn and night services. The public la invited to attend this rally meeting. No young peoples meeting, and no boys and girls meeting on account of the Young People* rally. Evening service. 7:30 p. m. Ha-v W E Monk, field secretary

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of the board of church extension I will be prsent and speak in a < special service Tuesday night. July I 11. Rev Monk In past years wus < a politician and mayor of a Texas ( city. After he became a Christian i he aooa began to preach the goa- ( pel and now for many years he i has been telling the old. old story, i He is an excellent speaker, has a i dynamic personality and has a I message that Inspires. Mid-week prsyer service Wed- I nesday. 7:30 p. tn. The public ia most cordially in- I vlted to attend al) the aervlcea ot i this congregation. < . 1 —0—... | CHURCH REVIVALS 11 Church of Nszarene The Rev. M I. Garret, the Ten-1 ( nessec mountaineer, spoke on the subject. "The Character of Bln." His text was found in the Gospel , of St. Matt 1:21, “And he shall ! bring forth a son. and thou shall call hia name Jesus for he shall ■' save his people from their sins' j The evangelist brought out very | forcibly the fact of ain. He said i 1 in part. "Sin destroys everything 1 1 it touches. Millions of men are ' 1 unemployed, their families suffer-

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ing. their children lacking proper educaton; other no more deserving. amassing fortunes- the result of the sin of greed. Millions ot dollars every year are levied by racketeers- the result of sin. We see. then, that sin blights, damns, robe, kills!" In closing he told of the remedy for sin and how Jesus shed His blood for remission of sin. "Thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins '* Services will continue alt of next week Be sure and hear thia southern orator evangelist. Specdal singing each night. We cordially Invite you to these services. — o PLEASANT MILLS w. F. Beery aud the D. Burdette t.'uster families of Decatur wire eni tallied In the C. L. Custer home. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Everett and family entertained on Biciday the Rev. John Stewart of Fort Wayne, supply pastor of the Pleasant Mills Methodist church. Mrs. Ikirold Childers just recently s resident here has gone to her home in Lafayette for a few day's visit over the week end. Mr. and Mrs. George F uor ami

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sou Harbert, .Mrs. tjlsn F or and ton Roger Mr. and Mrs. Ctrl Ehrsam and family attended the ennuai F<>or reunion July 4th. Saturday evening, guests al the home of Mr. and Mta. Thouiaa Halberstadt were Mr. Ctelr Carver of r-ulem and Miss Marjory Graham of Rockford. Ohio. Al Roebuck and Mrs. Lydia McBurnes called Bunday evening at tn<- home of Mrs. Meßarnes daughter and family Mr. cud Mrs. Saufui d Carter of ua«r Willshire.

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