Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 268, Decatur, Adams County, 12 November 1948 — Page 2

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j' the. I entiK J-; | |!flßfl International Un dorm ■gl .• % Su:'riay Sch < Lessons HM, B t ~W. ttlltTl l. fHtllij SCRIPTURE. Amos 5:21—6:6; 7;1M7; Micah 4:1-5; 5:2-4; 6:6-8. DEVOTIONAL READING: Isaiah 55. Voices of God Lesson for November 14, 1948 “W/HAT became of our lost VV mules?" That is the kind of question which prophets once upok a time were expected to answer (I Samuel 9:1-10). . Some people still have this notion ? about prophets m Is the Bible, as if they ft,**. had been gypsy for-tune-tellers, tea-leaf ■ ® readers or astrologers. They were nothing of the sort. | It is not possible to open the Bible to Dr . foreman the books of the prophets and read history-in-ad-vance, finding out when the next war is coming and when the end of the world is scheduled. If we could really use the prophets of the Bible in this way, then any reader of these books could write history accurately in advance but no one has done this yet. • • » Hired Man and Aristocrat THE genuine prophets, whose writings make up so much of the Bible, are something far loftier than mere fortune-tellers. They are authentic voices of God. Because of the way they spoke, the timeless truth of what they said, they are God's spokesmen to our own times as well as to their own, and to all times. The Bible prophets were not "professionals." They had no churches to support them. No regular meetings were arranged for them. You never would have read in the Jerusalem Journal, if there had been such a newspaper, that the Rev. Dr. Isaiah would preach at the temple at 11 a. m, and there would be special music. Few ever knew when or where a prophet might speak. No one knew beforehand where a prophet might come from. Amos, for example, was a hired man from a sheep-ranch. Micah was a smalltown preacher. Isaiah was a highly cultured citizen of the capital, intimate with all the important people Ezekiel was a trained priest, loving ritual and pageantry. Jeremiah was a lonely, hunted man, living often in jails. Daniel was a member of a king's council, wealthy and famous. They were all kinds of men, these prophets, but one and all, they were God's voices, pleading, warning, teaching all who would hear. • • • Their Times and Ours HUMAN nature is always much the same. One man alone, or one man with another man, or a man with a woman, or a man in a crowd—in the E ghth century before Christ when Amos preached, or now in the 20th century after Christ, the same sort of situation brings out the same temptations, the same sins. The prophets often sound quite modern, but that is only because the human race is so old-fashioned. The prophets looked about them and saw a world much like our own. They saw people spending more than they could afford; they saw wealthy women dressing in competition with one another while poorer women starved; they saw crowds of bnsiness men attending religious services on Sabbath mornings and spending the rest of the Sabbath figuring out how to cheat their customers on Monday The prophets lived in evil times and they brought the judgment of God to such times—then, now and always. • • • Sins of Society IN AN American town there was a lynching One Saturday night. The next morning there Were four sermons in the four little churches of the town; but not one of the preachers had a word to say about that lynching or any lynching or about the causes that produce such crimes. • The prophets never would have missed an opportunity like that. They were not afraid to speak out, even when they had the whole community against them. • • • Whrl Does God Require? IT IS taster to say '•Don't" than "Do" It is easier to criticize than to construct But the prophets did not stop with warnings They have given us a pattern for living, whicn Micah summed up in those matchless, inspired words; "What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do j istly. and to love mercy, and to wlk humbly with thy God?" Everything that >■ good, ia pabHc l>fe ar to private, w to ' ■ <*• e tt words. rc»"> !.*< •»•**» l»»era»tre»«/ Ceooci/| A- hti»» CaucMiee oa bthall el < I -••••« ttlturi h ft. .

0 0 I RURAL CHURCHES | o i o——- 0 Pleasant Mills Baptist Sunday school 9:30 a.m. Donald Burkhart, superintendent. This will be regular missionary Sunday. The pulpit will be supplied by Rev. Fencel of' the Fort Wayne Bible Institute, who will be accompanied by hfs wife. I Monroe Methodist W. L. Hall, minister 9:30 Morning worship. 10:30. Sunday School. 6:15 M. Y. F. 7:30, The evening service. Wednesday: 7:30 Prayer meetng. 8:15, Choir practice. Nov. 16, Called session of the Annual Conferences at Roberts Park 'hurch in Indianapolis. Antioch United Missionary 4 Miles Southwest of Decatur L. W. NiiTf, pastor* • Sunday school 9;’30 a.ni. Morning worship 10:30 am. Evening service 7 p.m. We will start our revival Nov. 14. See the ad in this issue. Come and worship with us. Rivarre Circuit U. B. Church L. A. Middaugh, pastor ; Mt, Zion 9:30 a.m. Sunday school. 10:30 a.m. Class meeting. 7:00 p.m. Christian Endeavor. 8:00 p.m. Preaching service. 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, prayer meeting. Pleasant Grove 9:30 a.m. Sunday school. 10:30 a.m. Preaching service. 7:00 p m. Christian Endeavor. 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, prayer meeting. Mt. Victory 9:00 a.m. Sunday school. 10:00 a.m.,Class meeting. 7:00 p.m. Christian Endeavor. 7:00 pm. Wednesday .prayer meeting. St. Paul and Winchester U. B. Circuit Dale Osborn, Pastor Winchester Sunday School 9:30 a m. Preaching at 10:30 a.m. Prkyer meeting Wednesday 7:30 p.m. St. Paul I Sunday School 9:15 a.m. Christian Endeavor 7 pun. Preaching 7:30 p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday 7 p.m. You are always welcome to worship with us. St. Luke Reformed Church Honduras H. H. Meckstroth, minister 9:00 Annual Thankoffering service for the Giris’ Guild and Women's Guild. A Thankoffering play .vill be presented by the girls and vomen. 10:00 Sunday school. 1:00 Catechetical instruction. 2:30 & 6:30 Regional Youth Felowship at the Cross Reformed Church. Berne. Ind. Roy McCorkle will be speaker. Thursday—An all day meeting of he Women's Guild at the church. The Dorcas Society of the Cross 1 Reformed Church at Berne will be 1 ruest at the meeting. Mrs. H. H. ! Meckstroth will be lesson leader. ' Mrs. Arthur Moeschberger and ' Mrs. Earl Harmoff will be host- ’ esses. ’ Friday 6:30 — A Thanksgiving ' 'ellowship meeting with pot-luck supper. A picture on World Servce "The Road We* Walk” will be shown. Mt. Tabor Methodist Circuit Clifford, C. Conn, minister Mt. Tabor Church Mr. Donald Colter, supt. Church worship service 9:30. Church school, 10:30. Prayer meeting Thursday evening 7:30. Mt. Pleasant Mr. David Cook, supt. Church school, 9’: 30. 5 Church worship service, 10:45. f Bible class meeting at Francis j Fuhrman’s home Tues., eve. Beulah Chapel Mrs. D. C. Shady, supt. ChurMi school, 93h ' i There will not be preaching this > Sunday. ’ WSCS meets Wednesday with f Mrs. Milton Hoffman. Pleasant Valley t Mr. Raymond Teeple, supt. t Church school at 9:30 i There will not be breaching this Sunday. e WSCS meets Thursday with Mrs. • Ray Byerly. CHURCH NEWS East Liberty E. U. B. f Rally day will be observH at the 1 East Liberty Evangelical Ignited ' Brrthren church Sunday, with Bis • hop Fred L. Dennis as the speak I er An ali-day serried is planned. with a basket dinner at the noon I hour. The public Is invited to attend aTTzelt The Rawleifh Dealer 230 South 4th St. Phono 1081 IMcatur ladiaaa

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Jeffersonville Poll Opposes Gambling State Police Poll Is Taken In Town . . . I ’ Indianapolis. Nov. 12 —(UP) A public opinion poll taken by the Indiana state police showed today ‘hat the citizens of Jeffersonville, Ind., don't really like gambling. But the mayor of the lusty Ohio River town was indignant. He said he survey was as "cockeyed’ as the polls which predicted a Republican victory in the recent election. "That poll was as wrong as Dr. Gallup,” said mayor Samuel Shannon. who makes no secret of the fact that he favors gambling. The state troopers assumed the role of public opinion pollsters because of reports that residents of Jeffersonville, a wide open haven for roulette and horse platers, took a dim view of anti-gambling raids. The sampling of public opinion was ordered by Col. Robert Rossow. superintendent of the state police. State troopers questioned 682 Jeffersonville citizens, and the ballots were counted yesterday on Rossow’s desk in the presence of mayor Shannon, circuit court judge James Bottorff, and newsmen. Os 496 replies. 322 opposed gambing and 174 favored it. “The poll doesn't prove a thing,” snapped Shannon when the tally aas complete. "If the police think hey have a fair picture of the sentiment down there, they are as wrong as the political opinion polls on who would be elected president.” Judge Bottorff disagreed. An an-ti-gambling crusader, he said the poll proves that “the citizens don’t want gambling.” Col. Rossow said it made no difference who was right. Gambling is against the Jaw, he said, and the state police will enforce the law. Mayor Shannon tried to get in the last word. He said the state police had no business sticking their noses into his city's affairs. Furthermore, he said, many of the ballots bore penciled remarks to the effect that gambling ought to be legal, anyway. But there were other remarks. Ore citizen wrote on his ballot, "This is one helluva question for state police to ask." Chest G Colds To help relieve eonges- a—- — muscular 1/jCKS soreness, rub on warming V Vavoßub

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Auditor Off LaGrange County Dies Thursday Lagrange, Ind.. Nov. 12 (UP) Services will be held here Sunday for Frank Arthur Barr, 63. Lagrange county auditor, who died of a heart attack at his home yesterday. Fear Recession In Trailer Business t ,r ■ I Elkhart, Ind., Nov. 12 —(UP)—]' Bankruptcy petitions filed by two Elkhart trailer manufacturing companies today led business leaders here to fear that a recession in the business had begun. Drexler Coach, Inc., and Adams Coach Manufacturing Co., two of the eight trailer manufacturing companies here, filed petitions of bankruptcy this week. Other companies have laid off production vorkers recently, also. • COMMUNISTS (bont. From Pase sane) le, and to‘protest the anti French policy which is imperilling France and preparing a new war. The call for a 24-hour general strike in Paris tomorrow came from the Communist • controlled union of Paris syndicates as a protest against ‘police violence” yesterday. SPECIAL SESSION (Cent. Fr6m Page One) legisla’ors seek a special session for China aid there is no indication their program has been cleared by the GOP leadership. Lutheran Hour Rally, Sunday, 2:30 P. M., Decatur High School. 265t4

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Bridges criticized what he called the state department’s “do nothing policy abdiit China.” He said department spokesmen 'now admit that the situation “is deteriorating very fast and there is a grave problem.” Bridges, speaking for himself, urged that the nation “face the tragic facts" and seek to avert the sending of American assistance which would be “too little and too late.”

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