Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 291, Decatur, Adams County, 10 December 1948 — Page 2

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? I' EM OLEI U MS ,> M*i Tllwßr IntftmabonAl Uniform ' K. Sunda s^ hool L^* , IR kjLMMllm SCRIPTURE: Phlllpplans; I Timothy; I John DEVOTIONAL READING: Ephesian! 3:13-21. Letters in the Bible Lesson for December 12, 1948 A LETTER in the mail! Those it are exciting words. It was so when the Babylonians chipped open their dried clay envelopes, it

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is so when we rip the end off our paper envelopes, it was so when the marooned and homesick Timothy broke the seal on the papyrus notes that his old friend and teacher Paul sent him. Most letters reach the wastebasket, and

we know that some of Paul’s did. But fortunately his friends thought enough of about a dozen of his letters to save them and copy them and file them with some others and pass them around. And so we got more than a third of our New Testament, and perhaps a good deal more than a third of our theology. • • • Yesterday in Television THESE letters that have come I down to us from so long ago are 1 not only keenly interesting, they | are immensely valuable. An honest informal letter is like an open window. We see into the writer’s mind and life, we see the life of his times. Any historian feels lucky j when he lights on a packet of old i letters. Here is yesterday in tele- ! vision. The letters of the New Testament. especially Paul’s, are not propaganda literature. Paul was not writing for publication or for posterity. He would be bothered by a problem; he would think and pray about it, * and then he would sit down and write about it. However trivial the problem might seem, such as a local church quarrel. Paul never wrote trivially about it. He would pour out his mind on papyrus, usually dictating his letters to a secretary and sometimes so fast that the secretary obviously had a hard time keeping up. If you want to know how an Apostle’s mind worked, here it is. If you want to know how an inspired religious genius, one of the great of all time, planned and grieved and hoped and rejoiced, read these letters Further, these letters televise for us the early Christian church. This is not a view of the church on parade, this is a glimpse of the church as it v!as "on the hoof." struggling, quarreling, ignorant. scarce one step removed from taw heathenism, and yet with the root of Christian faith in its heart, the seed of the great church that has grown up through the centuries • • • Friend to Friend 'THE letters in the New Testa- •* ment are of various kinds. The letter to the Philippians from Paul was written, from prison, to some of his best friends. Recently <hey had sent him not only money but a man named Epaphroditus to stay with Paul and help him. Paul being in constant bad health. But Epaphroditus himself had fallen ill. and when he grew better he was still homesick. Paul, generous as always, decided to send his sick friend home to convalesce, and by his hand sent tlie letter which the Philippian church loved, saved and copied, so tnat it eventually made its way into the New Testament collection There is some high theology in the letter; but there is also some warm human friendship, and some of the best advice Paul ever gave. It is in this letter we discover Paul’s aeeret of happiness. I have learned (he wratei in whatsoever state 4 am. therein to be content. (Sec chapter 4.) •When you read those paragraphs, simply glowing with happiness, remember they weie written by a sick man. in jail, facing A serious charge on his forthcoming trial Pau! had actually discovered a joy which is trouble-proof. • • • Father to Sons PAUL knew he would not live forever on this placet and could not live everywhere. So he spent much effort training helpers and sucres sors Some of these disappointed him sorely: but he was never dis appo nted in Timothy His letters to Timothy are personal. but they are mure than that. They are advice from an otdei minister to a younger one. from a veteran missionary to a fresh recruit. In 1 John we have another kind of letter, from an uid. perhaps retired minister to a congregation he knows aYid loves Again in 1 John the leader gets the impression of read ng a family letter from fa the. to sms and daugnters. t tCrrrnttf if <*• Isawaaaeaet Coutu ft K hfioci Marts-w e. tri!'* < « fMtr ut d»ao«usri«M. ieituH if WJH FriwriJ . I

| © 0 | RURAL CHURCHES | O —0 Pleasant Mills Baptist | 9:30 a.m. Sunday School with | I Donald Burkhart, Supt. This is the monthly Sunday of! 1 Missions. Rivarre Circuit U. B. Church L. A. Middaugh, Pastor Mt. Zion i 9:30 a.m. Sunday school. 10:30 a.m. Class meeting. 7:00 p.m. Christian Endeavor. 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, prayerj meeting. Pleasant Grove 9:30 a.m. Sunday school. i 10:30 a.m. Class meeting. ! | 7:00 ip.m. Christian Endeavor. 1 8;00 p.m. Preaching service. ' 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, prayer meeting. i Mt. Victory 9:00 a.m. Sunday school. 10:00 a.m. Preaching service. 7:00 p.m. Christian Endeavor. 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, prayer meeting. St. Luke Reformed Church Honduras H. H. Meckstroth, minister 9:00 Worship service. 10:00 Sunday School. : 1:00 Catechetical instruction. 3:00 Girls’ Guild will visit Children’s Home at Ft. Wayne. Thursday — An all-day meeting of the 'Women's Guild. Mrs. Earl Harmon will be leader and Mrs. Alton Corson, hostess. Thursday — 6:30 — Girls’ Guild I meeting beginning with a pot-luck | I supper. There will also be a gift ex- i change. St. Paul and Winchester U. B. Circuit Dale Osborn, pastor Winchester Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Preaching 10:30 a.m. * Prayer Meeting Wednesday 7:30 p.m. St. Paul Sunday School 9:15 a.m. Christian-,Endeavor 7:00 pm. Preaching 7:30 p.m. Preaching 7:30 p.m. Prayer Meeting Wednesday 7 p.m. Calvary Church Evangelical United Brethren F. H. Willard, minister Sunday school 9:30 a.m. 1 ' Evening service 7:30 p.m. ! The Mt. Tabor Methodist Circuit Clifford C. Conn Minister Mt. Tabor Church Mr. Donald Colter. Supt. Worship Service at 9:30. Sunday School at 10:30. Mt. Pleasant Church Mr. David Cook, Supt. Church School convenes at 9:30. Church Worship at 10:45. Bible Class Wed. Eve. Dec. 15 at Milton Fuhrman's .home. Beaulah Chapel [ Church School session at 9:30. This is Election Day for Ihe Suni day Shook 1 There will not be preaching this ' Sunday. W. S. C. S. meets Wed Eve. 7:30 ,t Theodore Heller's home. Pleasant Valley Mr. Raymond Teeple. feupt. j Chun h School at 9:”o. , There will not be preaching this

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i Sunday. The W. S. C. S. meets Thursday I I with Mrs. Clint Byerly. Don't gorget the Revival. It clos- ; I es this Sunday night. Edgar Bergen Quits Radio December 26 Another Top Show Is Quitting NBC Hollywood. Dec. 10.—(UP) — j NBC's “sock sequence" of Sunday 1 night shows lost more punch today I I with Edgar Bergen's announcement that he and Charlie McCarthy are quitting radio until 4t i and television figure out which ! way they're going. The country’s top ventriloquist said he's retiring those irrepresi (Able hunks of wood—the pinkcheeked Charlie and the .bug-eyed Mortimer Snerd—after their December 26th show. "Everything’s in.chaos," he said. “This is a good time to step back and get a perspective.” With Bergen folding up things are getting lonesomer and lonesomer around the National Broad- 1 casting Company's huge green • building. The "great exodus" started two \ months ago when the rival CBS ’ dangled $2,000,000 under the noses. 1 of “Amos and Andy" and lured: * them away. Two weeks ago they added Jack I Benny to their list of prize catches, 1 The ink hadn't dried on that con- ; tract before Fred Allen told the 1 world he was quitting NBC next year. too. "To look over television and ■ rest," he said. It looks now like Al Jolson's next; on the list. The rejuvenated ■ 5 "Mammy" singer says he's about ( ready to retire again and spend his leisure hours counting his millions. This may not be the end. The < Dennis Day show and the Phil . Harris-Alice Faye program are j | handled by Amusement Enterprises Inc., which is controlled by Benny. The word along “radio row" is they'll be switching to CBS before long. The network war is out in the. open now—and going strong. "Eveiything's all mixed up." Bergen said, "with the networks switching stars like this and everybody wondering about television. • "There aren't any newcomers to radio. All the shows — Benny. Hope, mine—they all sound the same." . . , The advertising agency that, handles the Bergen program said’ his sponsor had planned so cancel ■ i in June anyway "for economy rea- • sons." They were having trouble getting together on details, the agency said, so Bergen said to kill it off quick and asked for an early re-, lease from his contract. "For 12 years I've been trying to turn out a funny show every week." he said. "It's a terrific pressure—and if the show isn't funny I'm depressed. "I'd rather make fewer appear- , antes." ’' But it's even betting which way his energies will swing after he gets his "perspective." Bergen's been in on the ground floor of television practically since they perfected the cathode tube. Trade in a Go?c sown — Decatur

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Methodist Church I Will Present Play Play Presentation Here Sunday Night “Why The Chimes Rang,"’! play by Elizabeth Althorp McFadden, ! will be presented Sunday qjght at 17 o'clock at the evening services of the First Methodist church. The play, a dramatizatiofi of a story by Raymond McDonald Allen, is to be presented with permisI sion of the copyright holders and the cast includes members of the | church. Included in the cast: Holger— Burdette Custer, Jr.; Steen—Lowell Smith, Jr.; Bertell—Watson Maddox: Old Woman—Mrs. William Porter; The Priest—Dr. Gerald H. Junes; Angel—Mrs. Harry Dailey. Others — Russell Owens, Dan Mills, Mrs. Sylvester Everhart. (Leonard Soliday. A. D. Suttles. Music will be furnished by Mrs. Walter Krick and the church choir. Committees in charge: general, Mrs. Elmer Chase. Mrs. C. D. Collier, W. F. Beery; wardrobe, Mrs. Orville Baughman. Mrs. E. W. Johnson. Mrs. Adrian Baker; staging and properties. Noah Schrock. Watson Maddox. Mrs. Erman Johnson; lighting. Vic Porter, G. L. Brayton; fellowship. Mr. and Mrs. Giles Porter, Mr. and Mrs. Fred ( Hancher. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Suttles. Mr. and Mrs. Orval Baugh- I man, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Doan. Mr. ' and Mrs. Robert Mills. Mrs. J. T. ] Myers. Junior Police Hold • ' Theater Party Here Junior police activities for 1948 wound up Thursday night when 24 club members held a theater party at the Cort Theater. The next meeting is scheduled for the first Thurs- j day in January. j •

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