Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 113, Decatur, Adams County, 12 May 1945 — Page 2

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Improved II SUNDAY International II SCHOOL LESSON By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D D. Os Th* Moody Bible Institute of Ct'icaifo. Released by Weatern Newspaper Unlot. Lesson for May 13 Lesson subjects and Scripture texl» selected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education: used by permission. THE TRAGEDY OF THE NORTHERN KINGDOM LESSON TEXT—I Kings 12:26-30; 19: 1-4. 13b-18; II Kings 17:7. 8 GOLDEN TEXT—O magnify the Lord with me. and let us exalt His name together,—Psalm 34:3. Nations as well as people come to crossroads in their history, and taking the wrong road then means future disaster. Solomon had built up a great national prosperity, but at the expense ot heavy taxes. He had forgotten God, and was succeeded by a son who followed in his footsteps. Offered' an opportunity to ease the burden of the people (I Kings 12-14). Rehoboam in his folly made it greater, and the nation was divided. The ten northern tribes, which were henceforth to be known as Israel, followed Jeroboam, and the two southern tribes under Rehoboam became the kingdom of Judah. Jeroboam started with God's favor, and might have led his people arigjbt, but instead he became the king whose name stood for wickedness (see II Kings 15:18). The story of that downfall is a sad picture of unbelief and failure. I. Religion Meets Polities (I Kings 12:26-30). Jerusalem, now in the rival kingdom of Judah, was the center of Hebrew worship. While the people of Israel were free to go there to worship, Jeroboam saw that it might lead to their being led away from him. It was a shrewd political deduction, but it left God out of the picture. He established new centers of worship, where calves of gold were set up. They were probably intended to be a symbol of God. but they bespeak the folly of mixing worldly things witli the things us God. They become an abomination and a snare. The people responded to the apparent interest of the king in their welfare, and worshiped at the most convenient place. Religion had met politics, and had let politics take the upper hand. Someone has suggested that when we begin to find ways to make our religion easy, we can be certain that it is the enemy of our souls who is at work. When Satan begins to be solicitous about our welfare and suggest that it is too far to go to church, or that the weather is top cold ( qr too warm), etc., etc., we should be on guard. Religious ease was a big step downward for Israel, and it can be for aiiy other nation. Where does America stand in that important matter? 11. Ar Queen Meets a Prophet <1 Kings '19:1-4. 13b-18). Elijah tinder the mighty hand of God had defied the wicked king, Ahab, and his more wicked queen, Jezebel; yes, and all Ihe prophets of Baal, and had been gloriously victorious I Kings 18:17 41). The 'qUeen, who was devilish in her wickedness and determination to destroy the worship of the true God, threatened the prophet. He who had met the challenge of the hundreds of prophets fled in fear before the relentless hatred of this venomous woman. The prophet felt that all was lost, but God revealed to Kim that even in that dark day there were many who weje still true to Him tv. 18'. lit is a precious and encouraging bit of light In an otherwise dark scene. Our main interest in this lesson is not the experience of the prophet, but in seeing the cause of Israel’s downfall. Here we see one great reason—every king of Israel was a wicked man. gome were better and some worse, but all of them furgot God. A nation is on the downward path when its rulers forget God. What about our own nation? What about the elected representatives of the people?'Do we choose men for public office because of their Christian faith and character, or on the basis of political expediency or affiliation? 111. A Nation Meets Ils Doom (II Kings 17:7. 8). The hour had struck when God's heavy hand of judgment had to fall on Israel, the northern kingdom of 10 tribes. Verse G of this chapter relates fhejr carrying away into captivity to Assyria, and veyses 7-9 tell us the reason for that judgment. Ingratitude for God’s blessing (v. 7) led to the worship of other gods tv.'#). 'they knew God’s hatred for the sin of Idolatry, and His judgment upon those who walked in that way, but they went right on. Note in verse 9 that these things were done “secretly." “The same thing is true today of many who profess to be the people of God. Tlie line of demarcation between the church and the world is not clearly drawn. We do well t 6 note carefully the outcome of this course ol procedure on Israel’s part (w. 6. il). The fact that Israpl did these secretly did aat hide there troa 1 gs Jehcr/ah (ft- IS®: 1,2; HeoWiS)” W. graftJjury). '

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('reamed coin men Is on the Sun day Schoo] lesion. “The Tragedy I of the Northern Kingdom 1 Kings 12:26-30, 19:1-4. 13-1 S; Il Kings 17: 7-8. for Sunday. May 13. Strife, division, war, idolatrous worship, sinful indulgences were factors that . load to tile downfall of tile chosen I people of God. ten of the twelve | tribes of Israel having been lost in I captivity. | v. 26. “And Jeroboam said in his I heart. Now shall the kingdom i'<- ' turn to the homse of David." .ler iI beam. the newly selected king ot i the ten northern tribes, knew Ips 1 subjects might become disloyal if they mingled with children of j Judah in the worship in Jerusalem | The first step iu tile tragedy was I to avoid worshiping God in the j temple. Not only did Jeroboam I show a distrust in his people, bn. : he also showed a distrust in God | who promised to keep Israel if they obeyed him. v. 28. "Whereupon the king took | | counsel, and made two calves of i gold, and -said upon them. It is L> j . miiili for you to go lip to Jerusa-i lem: behold thy gods. (). Israel.l which brought thee up out of th-j land of Egypt." Tile golden calves | I were but symbols as he mill remem-i I bored the true God who delivered i j his people; here is an example .u I half ehaited religion. This sori of| | religion is seen in the expression, j ! “It is too much for you to go np| ■to Jerusalem." in modern termsi tour tragedy is in saying, "it iri iu.>| I rnuiJi to go to church." v. 29. “And he set the one in | Bethel, and the other put he n [ ! Dan." MicnaliN images have ben I I set up in these town.-, and great j veneration had been paid them. Another step in Israel's tragedy was the compromise in the proposed j program of worship. One of our, tragedies I. to compromise with; sin in its most respectable forms. For in due time compromise becomes sin. v. 1. "And Ahab told Jezebel al! that Elijah had done and withal] how lie had slain all the prophets with the sword." In the acid test, of proving who was the true God; i by a plan of offerings, the fact of I j th,- true God was revealed. Ahab, j i in stead of saying what Elijah had i done, ought to have said what God ; had done. Not to recognize the tac:.| of God is tragic. I vs. 1-3. “Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, Sc let the gods do to me. and niroe also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them. And lie arose and went tor his life." Jezebel, the wickedest woman of her day. now ruled and would allow no place ''or 1 God's representative. She was th-.- j Home Education A Mother s Love Have you known the tender loving care qf a mother's love? Have there been times when you have been without it. when you wanted ii more than anything else? Washington Irving told this incident: George Somers had known what U was to be iu sickness, and none io soothe —lonely and in prison, and none Jo visit him. He could not indttre bis mother from his eigir; if she moved away, his eyes would follow her. She would sit for hours by his bed. watching him as he slept. Sometimes he would start from a feverish dream, and look anxiously up until be saw her bending oyer him. when he wpjild take, her band, lay jt on his bc.som. and tall asleep with the tranquility ot a child. In this way he died. — o— — * DO YOl KNOW? * ♦- — ♦ 1. Who was Ahab’s wife? 2. For what was she noted? Whom did Elijah anqint as his successor? 4. By what event was Elijah related to a whirlwind? 5. On what occasion were heard these words. “Fear not. for they that are with us ate more than they that are with them?” ■ — o —-—■ God catne to man tfirq a mother in the birth of Christ; man comes to God thru a good mother and a spirtual birth. It is thru mothers that God works. If you would reform the wot Id from its errors qnd vipes begin by enlisting the mothers. — C. Siqrmons. Say to mothers, what a holy charge is theirs, with what a kingly power their lore might rule the fountains of the iiew-boru qiind-7 Mrs. Sijot’rqcy. A 83S'-Ue?2 Jfl.'.P •luinki asst tffesrs mln 'cqyet;-,‘’and ‘trows stronger wliere man faints.—k. HChapin.

Hitler of her day. Elijah, a great prophet of God. weakened and ran ' for hi« life. v. j. “But he himslf went a i day's journey into the wilderness. | ' and came and sat down under al juniper tree; and he requested foi'J himself that he might die; and i said. It is enough: now. () Lord. I take away my life; for I am not j better than my fathers." A discouraged man is all but defeated and thinks be has nothing more to live for. He forgot the power of] God as was demonstrated in the acceptance of his offering. I v. 13. “And. behold, there came a voice unto him. and said. What dost thou here?" No one can run away from God. We need to be, ableto give a reason for where we are and what we are doing. v. 14. "And he said- I have been j very jealous for the Lord God of I hosts: because the children of i Israel have forsaken thy covenant. I thrown down thine altars^and slam ! thy prophets with tite sword; and ; I only, am left; and they seek my j | life to take it away." Here is i| i situation religiously, as bad ori i worse than that in Germany or Jap-J I an. But there is away out. vs. 15-17. “And the Lord said I j unto him, God. return on thy way j to wilderness of Damascus; and [ I when thou contest, anojttt Haza?l| ! to be King over Syria; and Jenti lhe son of Nimshi shalt thou anqint : to be king over Israel; and Elisha I shalt thou anoint to be prophet m I thy place and it shall come to pass, j that him that escapeth the sword j of ilazael shall Jehu slay: and hint l that escapeth from the sword of i Jehu, shall Elisha slay." Elijah j mum show himself as a man of God I no matter what happens. In time I the forces of evil will be succumbI ed, for God is mightier than all evil I forces. . I v. IS. “Yet have 1 left me seven ' thousand in Israel."’ If vve only I knew it. there are more gqofl peq-! I pie than we know. Faith in God is living in men. |_— Q — i j, Ngtusj j i Dr. H. Paul Douglas is director of surveys tor the Home Missions Council; last-week he reported to the repr ’sentatives of tweiity thrn-: Protest n, denominations on a SUr--1 vey he hits been taking ot the city | church, it wqs not a very eucourI agin report. Dr. Douglas told hks I aging report. Dr. Douglas told bls . ' third to two-fifths of the churches I in some great metropolitan areas | are either stationary or declining; in numbers and The main trouble seems to be in shifts us populations. The furore which in Greece has held a prominept place in the headlines for mouthri. and the sympathy of the civilized world has gone out j I to the people of that desperate land. Tite furore mounted high in the two assaults on Mr. Churchill during * his visit to Athens. Mr. Churchill, i I championing the restoration of the •{equally unpopular King George to : I his Greek throne, was forced to : j give way and champion another -(Greek — one who is perhaps the [ most popular man in all Greece, i I { We have seen hie picture in the: i 1 papers: he is the calm, black-beard-j led metropolitan Damaskinos. areii-l i bishop of Athens, now appointed .'O-{ I gent of Greece. II A report of the United ship Council, published in the Pret-; estant Voice, indicates that the to-i tai giving of 23 denominations is 133,693,882 higher than last year. s The latest total, including all benevolences. is J 423.695.471. .The av- ■ erage per capita giving is $16.75, { an increase of 88 cents over the 1 1 preceeding year. Os the conferences L l listed, the Navarenes led. with a I per capita average of |q5.59. ONE DIVORCE QPT OF France 21 marriage? Denmark 22 marriages . I Germany . 24 marriages ‘ { Norway 30 marriages i > Sweden 33 marriages Great Britain W marriages Canada . 161 marriage - 8 marriages { - Unitetj States 7 marriages .! From 1906 to 1936 we had three! i million diyoices in the United { States. We might say that in qn«. goucratiou there w’ere three milliO't | brqksß houiK MUlioffe qf chii'jren i| have thus been deprived ql pareu, , ;l • j al supet vision. I

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BQ! UKU Bl First United Brethren K. R. Wilßon. minister Sunday School. 9:15 a. m. Curtis Hill, superintendent. Mother's Day worship, 10:30 a.m. Sermon. “The Wages of a Godly i Mother.” | Chiislian Endeavor at 6:30 p. rn. | Evening worship. 7:30 p. m. Serj mon. “What do we get out of Prayer?" Prayer meeting, choir practice Wednesday night at 7 and 8. — 0 Nuttman Ave. U- B. Church C. N. VanGundy, pastor — Sunday School, 9:30 a. in. Morning prayer. 10:30 a. in. C. E.. 7:00 p. m. Evening service, 8:00 p. m. Sunday will be observed as a day of prayer and thanksgiving. I To these services we extend an ! invitation to whosoever will may | come. 0 First Evangelical Church F. H- Willard, minister Sunday School, 9:15 a. m. Gregg i McFarland, superintendent, j Morning worship, 10:10 a. m. Youth Fellowship, liiteidnediate j and Senior, 6:45 p. m. | Evening service. 7:30 p. in. Youth choir, Sunday. 1:30 p. m. Adult choir, Wedensday. 8 p. m. I Midweek service Wedensday, 7. ; Ladies Aid Thursday. 2p.m. at the churcn. Kum Joiq Us class Tuesday, 7:30 p. tn. with Mr. and Mrs. Glen Manlier. o First Baptist Church Carey K. Moser, pastor 9:25 a. m. —Sunday School. C- E. Bell, superintendent. 11:15 a. m.—'Morning worship. Special music by the choir. Rev. ! Albert Swenson, is our guest speaker for the day. Morning Sermon; • theme, "The Paramount Need of I Christian Mothers." i Due to guest speakers thi'd month, the Lord's Supper will he j postponed until the first Sunday in | June. 7:30 p. m.—The evening service. Rev. Swenson will be our speaker i this evening. His sermon theme I will be “Building on the True Foun-, dation." Let everyone come fori ! this hour of bleseing in God's i House. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday—Let eveiyI one remember our mid week hour I of power, the prayer service. Everyone welcome to all services at this House of God. Zion Evangelical and Reformed William C. Feller, pastor Church School at 9 a. m. Luther ■ Clase, superintendent Worship service at 10 a. m. The . Festival of the Christian Home wi'l Ibe observed. All families of tite i church are invited to be present. Families are asked to sit together. Sermon. "Christian Family Life." Junior choir rehearsal on Wednesday at 6:3(i p. m. Phoebe Bible class meeting in the church social room on Thursj day at 7:45 p. m. Senior choir rehearsal on Friday qt 7 ,p. m. A cordial invitation is extended 1 to al) persons without a church home in the city to attend the services of this church. Come and worship with us. Decatur Missionary Church * J 64 South Second street Charles V. Glenn, pastor Sunday. 9:30 a. in. — Sunday ! school for children and adults, i 10:30 a. m. — Morning worship ’ service. Message delivered by the I pastor. i 7p. in. —Young People’s service. Young people, bring your friends and enjoy this service with us. 7:30 p. m.—Evening worship service. Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. —Mid-week prayer and praise service. This week we begin Hebrews, chapter 10. • o— No language can express the power and beauty and heroism and tjiajesiy of a mother’s love. I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears o' his mother.—l,acretelle. o ANSWERS TO S ) i “DO YOU KNOW?” I f ♦ I 1. Jezebel. 2. WUkedness. { 3. Elisha. 4 He was taken to hsareu by a whirlwind. I 5. On the occasion of the invas i ion of the Assyrians.

St. Mary's Catholic Church t.ow mass ... 6:00 High Maee. CbHdreu's First •Communion T;3O Low Ma sc Low Mass 10:15 Rev. J. J. Seimetz, Pastor ———— 0 First Presbyterian Church Five Points Joljn W. iJcPheeters, Jr., pastor 9:00 a. m. —Bible class. Mrs. W. A. Lower. IQ a. m.—Church School. Mrs. W. P. Schrock, general superintendent. 11 ti. m. —Morning; worship. Sermon. “To Own is to Owe.” 7 p. m. —'Evening worship. Installation service for the Rev. McPheeters. Rev. John N. J|orrison of Anthony Boulevard church, Fort Wayne, moderator of Fort Wayne presbytery, will preside. Rev. George W. Allison of the First J’resbyterian church of Fort Wayne will give the sermon, hie subject being “Courage for Life.” Rev. Arthur K. Kortelling of Bluffton will give the charge to the minister. Rev. David It. Hutchinson of Huntington will give the charge to 'he congregation. Rev. John D. Yundt of Westfield church, Fort Wayne, will pronounce the benediction. Paul Saucer will sing during the service “By lhe Waters of Babylon.” After the evening worship a reception tor the new pastor and his wife will be held in the church pat-; lors. Thursday. May 17. 2.30 p. m.—| The Ladies' Aid will meet at the! home of Mrs. H. L. Confer. 433) North Second street. Friday. May--7 p. m. The Jun-) ior choir will practice. Friday, 7:30 p. m.—There will be I a called meeting of the session to! consider the regular business of; tire church. o First Christian Church R onald Cochran, minister Bible School. 9:30 a. m. . • Morning worship, 10:30 a. m. Special services for Mother’s day { and for nationwide day of prayer. —o— First Methodist Church M. O Bester, minister L. J. Sniitr Supt"Mother and The Child" will be the subject of tlje Ylotljer’s Day sermon. Qqr prograip will include praise and thanksgiving for the cessation of war jn Europe and a petition to bring the I’afiftc war to an eqrly close. There will be evening service at 7:30 o’clock. You are cordjqlly invited to attend. Zion Lutheran Church Monroe and Eleventh Sts. Paul W. Schultz, pastor Sunday School apd Bible class. 9 a- m. Divine worship. 10 a. m. LuiTierap hour, 11:30 a. m. Church choir, 1 p.. pi. Luther Day, Concordia college. { 2:30 p. in. Saturday catechism school, 8:30) a. m. Holy communion, Pentecost. —q— To love mother is a liberal education. Pumphrey Jewelry Store GIFTS FOR AGL OCfASJpNS. SHIFTS Bcaptifully LauqdL‘re4 Isp earl) ■ Decatur Laundry Dry Clegqers

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Church of the Nazarene i North Seventh al Mai shall Sic. J. T- Trueax, pastor i Sunday School. 9:30 a. ni. "Sun- , day is Mother’s Day." Let us pay tribute to them by attending church and Sunday school- Honor them ) and pray for them." Doyle Lytle, I superintendent. “All mothers prefl- | ent will receive special favors front | the school.” • j Morning service, 10:30 a. m. Mother's day message by the past- ■ { or. Music by the orchestra. Junior church, «:45 p m. The ■ I Juniors are studying the life of . Christ. Plan for your child to be •; present. •| Young service, 6:45 p. m. { A special Mother’s Day program is 1 aranged and will be of interest to ’ you. A special invitaioii to mothers of t service men. ‘ Evangelistic service. 7:30 p. Hi- • Good singing and music by the or- • chestra. Special song by men’s 1 group of the church. Message, I'Af- • ter the Banquet.” Prayer meeting Wednesday, 7:30 ! p. m. We invite you to be one of the crowfl- • A warm welcome to you to at- ■ tend our friendly church. ——'— ') The imporetauce of ball and rolI ler bearings in eliminating friction • in moving parts in aircraft of the ; Aimiy Air iForces is indicated by I the numbers used in typical planes. ‘ Two well-known types, the Flying ' Fortress and the P-38 Lightning. ) use 3,141 and 2,138 bearings, respec- ; tively. 'During 1940, the last prewar year. , the weight of traffic moved by air ' express in the 'United states was ’ 7.700.000 pounds, while in 1944 it totaled over 31.000.000 pounds, illus- ) (rating the increasing importance ' ot ahiborne traffic Io the war es- ) font and the industrial life of the I iiatiou. ) One Army general hospital in the '• Mediterranean theater, which lias handled more than 26,000 patients. ■ reduced hospitalization time 30 per- ' cent, by improvising physiothprapy apparatus for arm and leg exer- ; cise. THE IDEAL LUNCH Open 24 hoprs a day. Meals, Short Orders, Steaks and Chops Chicken Dinners every Wednesday and Sunday, 413 Winchester St. Phone 294. I * Swearingen Dairy PASTEURIZED AND HOMOGENIZED MJLK Phone 208 |2()2 W. Mpnrpe S|. I Time to Brighten Up! ' Use Long-Wearing PITTSBURGH PAINTS WATERSPAR ENAMEL Ask for Color Card. Lee Hardware Co. > Miller’s Grocery Fresh Meats. Staplp Gropprjes, Fresh Vegptablps. Phone 261 IVKK «u j» Millers North End Grocery. TIUE WAITING SERVICE • VULCANIZING AND RECAPPING Phone 939 704 W. Monroe St.

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On I that surpasses human ° r “'ought, it is a inothe Longfellow said. "Ev en m W <l>ed for us upon the cr oss , ilt 1 last in the unotiJ agony of war , lllll(1(u] J J mother, as if to teach us tlllt S j holy love should be our i ast fl I ly thought, the last point 0{ .‘3 from which the soul should t J its flight for heaven." fl —__— _____ ■ I I Wisdom V- 1 H C tvs.anw I A Child's Honesty j “Mother. I've found an old ilnj thing high on the shelf-just! book-” I “Why, that's a Bible. TomJ dear: be careful — that’s Godfl book.” I ' "God's book!" the child I ed, "Then, mother, before we lofl it we’d better send it back to Goll for you know we never use it” I BURK ELEVATOnI Grain, Hay, Field Seeds, I Coal, Wool and Mill Feeds, I Work with Hurk. ] Phone 886 or 25. | The First State Bank Decatur, Indiana | Established 1883. Member Federal Deposit Ins. CorpSR WE SELL MIR AHI WALLifiNISH Holthouse Drug Co. For Better Health See Dr. H. Frohnapfel Chiropractor & Naturopalb X-Ray of Spine where indicatci.l Therapy applied as needed. In Decatur Since 1921. PHONE 314. I .. auction safes Experienced Salesmanship at Your Service reserve yolk sale ' l>. Livestock, harm, and Real Estate SalesMidwest Realty Auction U J F. Sanniauu C. W. Kent , Graham Bldg- Decalu ’ phone I<4.