Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 297, Decatur, Adams County, 17 December 1948 — Page 2

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'“T*pmr I if i » Por 1 l/P I IMI International Uniform llgl ,■. .PiS4w*m SmiAt School,Lawn fiM LJiiLy»i»3 SCRIPTURE: Matthew 1:18—3:12: Mark 1:1-11; Luke 3:1-20. . DEVOTIONAL READING: Isaiah »: 3-7. The Best News Lesson for December 19, 1948 WHAT kind of news is good? Christians always have called the heart of their religion "Good News," for that is what "Gospel”

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means. We do not call it "Good Reso- i lutions" or "Good I Ideas” or even j "Good Ideals.” Just I Good News. But I what is good about I it? It is a fair ques- I tion to ask at Christ- I mas time, for the I story that Christ- I mas brings is the beginning of the Gospel.

• • « News of Peace ONE of the best kinds of news there is is to learn that someone we thought vftis an enemy, is actually a friend. The end of misunderstanding, of estrangement—what a rush of warmth to the heart it brings! That is the news of the first Christmas—that God is our friend. Christ did not come to assure men that there is a God. That was well known, indeed few doubted it. He did not even come to announce that there is but one God, for that was already known to the wiser sort of men. Neither did his coming unveil the God of justice. The Greeks and Romans, as well as the Jews, knew such a God only too well. No wonder a Roman poet, looking about on the religious of his time, concluded that fear is the great god-maker. His notion was a mistake; but it was a natural one. For all the religions of the ancient world, even the religion of the Jew, were attempts to ward off the anger of offended gods. The coming of Christ was to put an end to all that. This was more than a friendly gesture, It was an act of love. Those who have discovered God In Christ have found that God is not only our Maker but our heavenly Father and Friend. There is no better news! 0 0* News of a Gift f f IS good news also when we hear * of a legacy or gift of some sort, | especially when it is something we | could not have expected. And the story of Christmas is the news about God personally entering the life of man. It is God giving us himself. True, the world is full of the gifts of God. In the Child of Bethlehem, in the Man he was to become, In the work he was to do, there was a new thing—the self-giv-ing of God. That is one reason why Christmas means infinitely more to a Christian than to any one else. For the non-Chrisfian, the story of Christmas, tor all its charm, Il only another story of a child born to poverty, doomed to pain—another chapter in the long agony of man. For the Christian; the story of Christmas is the Good News of how God gives himself, for our sake. • • • News of Rescue MANY Americans. caugM In the war, starving behind electric fences tor years on end. caught their first news of victory from see ing American planes roaring high overhead. No words were needed. Il was news, good news, the news of rescue, of freedom. So it is with man Caught in the long waj between good and evil, a prisoner in the enemy’s country, behind the high fences of frustration. plodding heavily through the z freezing mire of barren sins, man despain of strength or freedom. To all mankind, to each one who will listen, the Christmas story is good news of resene. A Child is bora, but mere . . . “a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord." \ • ••• , t Front a Far Country If IS good news when from a Mr ’ country, until cow dark and unknown. we learn that it is a land of friends who tend us welcome across the miles. So the meaning at Christmas is good news from a far land, the land beyond what we call death “Our Saviour Jesus Christ hath abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel" <ll Titn l.lOt. As on the first Christmas, so ever ainee. the Gospel of God h not alone the good aews at a God who loves and forgives and wha brings ns the Victory. H is the news of God who stands at the end of ear dart Journey to weeome his children heme. Good news! The world has none I to equal the news of Christmas (C*rF't*< <*• /«•»••>•••' Couocil at gf'iliM CAk-mmo co tt 9 Pio<«.W SMoaiastiou ktituH bs WPO tarn; X I

Q, i*i», j, a4l 'M wr 0 | RURAL CHURCHES | o— 0 attentioiTpastors Announcements of rural church services will be published next Thursday, Dec. 23, instead of the usual Friday. Please have your annouaesments in this office not later than noon Wednesday, Die. 22. Monroe Methodist w. L. Hall, minister 9:30, morning worship; 10:30, Sunday school. Christmas treat for children at close. 6:15, MYF-. 7:00, Children's prbgram add Christmas Pageant.* Wednesday: 7:30, prayer meeting and Bible study. Choir rehearsal at 8:15. Dec. 31, watch night program:— 8:00 to 9.: OtX Devotions and Holy Communion. Dr. Gerald Jones, pastor of the Methodist church in De- , catur, will bring communion medi- ’ tations and assist with the service. 9:00 to 10:00, variety program. 10:00 to 11:00, refreshments and good fellowship. 11:00 to 12:00, 1 recreational hour, to be directed, by Dennis R. Norman, Adams county recreational director. St. Paul and Winchester U. B. Circuit Dale Osborn, pastor St. Paul Worship at 9:15 a.m. Sunday school at 10:15 a.m. Prayer meeting . Wednesday 7 p.m. Christmas program on Friday December 24 at 8 p.m. You are welcome at all services.; Winchester Sunday school 9:30 a.m. Christmas program and pageant at 7 p.m. ’ i Prayer meeting at the home of i George Hirahey Wednesday 7:30 i p.m. St. Luke Reformed Church Honduras H. H. Me?kstroth, pastor , 9 a.m. Christmas program. 1 10 a.m. Sunday school. 1 p.m. Christian Endeavor. Rlvarre Circuit LI. B. Church 1 L. A. Middaugh, pastor Mt Zion 9:30 a.m. Sunday school. i 10:30 a.m. Preaching service. 7:30 p.m. Christian Endeavor. 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, prayer meeting. Pleasant Grove 9:3.0 a.iu, Sunday school. 10;30 a.m. Class meeting. 7:00 p.m? Christian Endeavor, j 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. 8:00 pfli. Preaching service. 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, prayer meeting. The Mount Tabor Methodist Circuit Clifford C. Conn, minister Mt, Tabor Church Donald Colter, supt. Church school 9:30. There will not be preaching this Sunday.

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Mt. PlekMht Divid Cook, supt. There will not be preaching this Sunday. Church school convenes at 9:30. Beulah Chapel Mrs. D. C. Shady, supt. Worship service begins at 9:30. The Sunday school convenes at 10:30. PfeMant Valley Raymend Teeple, supt. Church school convenes at 9:30. The worship service at 10:45. A Christmas program will be given at this time. Calvary Church Evangelical United Brethren F. H. Willard Sunday School 9:30. Preaching Service 7:30. The Pleasant Mills Baptist 9:30 a.m. Sunday School with Donald Burkhart, Supt. 10:30 a.m. Worship service will he conducted 'by Ed Pnifter of the Training School in Fort Wayne. This is otir Christmas service. Pleasant Mills 4 Salem Methodist R. R. Johnson, Pastor Salem — Unified Worship 9:0011:00. Prayer Service Wed. 7:00. Pleasant Mills — S-S 9:30. No M. Y. F. tonight. Christmas Program 7:00, Prayef Service Thurs. 7:30. Antioch Church 3 miles west Decatur, and 1 mile south of 224 Sunday school 9:30 a.m. Morning worship, 10:30 a.m. Evening worship, 7 p.m. Tuesday evening Bible study, 7:30 p.m. The Bontrags organ will be presented at the Sunday morning service. All are welcome to all of these services. Now 24 hour service on developing and printing your Kodak films. — Kohne Drug Store. 285-T Thank You I wish to express my sincere appreciation to all my kind friends and neighbors who sent me the j beautiful flowers and cards with | words of kindness during my illness at the hospital. Mrs. Nina Light 297 Its DEMOCRATIC (Cent. From Pave One) I ’ dark end" of the central zone. I , But one of the legislators inject-] ed a word in behalf of the state's' S" ' a—" QUICK RELIEF with WOOLLEY'S OINTMENT from ! CHEST • THROAT COLDS MUSCULAR * LEG CRAMPS ! A warning, nothing ointment i tor the relief of congestion and colds by a counter irritant ' 35c at your drug store 60c

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I fartn?r». Cows, he said, ’are the 1 best time-tellers known to farmers. And he said that if cows are accustomed to being milked on central' standard t’me, they might refuse to recognize a change toeastern or daylight saving time. Clifford appeared at a night session of the three-day legislative hearing that opened in the Claypool hotel here yesterday. The morning s.eslon yesterday was devoted to '•‘ea .ng proposals concerning a stat; veterans’ bonus. In the afternoon, Claude Bechtol, secretary of the CIO industrial union council, told the general assembly members that his organization had reversed its stand on the working hours for women find

* • ' I I ' . AI A/ _ IIBg j I W' ft. \ Jr /> > i II 4 t "-iw ! - ■--j d I 111 * ■ /divL. ; I >Jr I I 111 I V IFIvwWI i\ s f In it L k JA. . 5 „ '■ ■ I ‘ JF • Ji , I : Jr I■r ■ 1 \ The Decatur Ministerial Association wishes a Merry ''■ . • <<. v ? Christmas to every person who sees this page. Yet as we it to all, we ministers are aware that the deepest : < ■’ ... k ; > >’ blessings and highest joys of this holy season may be I - received only by those who worship the Father and rell | ceive the Son in spirit and truth. Our churches have A on ty one prime purpose at this or any season: to acquaint your souls with those blessings and joys, which « jfiSfrO f accompany the Christchild when His spirit enters your ’ hearts. "V Poll II UNITED PROTESTANT CHURCHES ■JmNaiA OF DECATUR Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church Church of God WL Church of the Nazarene ■bSßv ail yS Decatur Missionary church Hfiß- Ml First Baptist church Bm ; B First Christian church First Methodist church I First Presbyterian church Nuttman Avenue United Brethren Hlttl church JR*" Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church x* Union Chapel Evangelical United Bi < t ren church Zion Evangelical and Reformed chuich * ’ ■ e ...... /.. i t •. . . jl , ..-x.. ~- ... I Tr w T |ra^^w f | fIWMTIT towmg T r, , ~« , l,* l ,^r«wa,m imra| w r |r| | ar "

would support their h'd f° r ef i ua i working hours with men. Two years ago the council worked for the ending of a wartime emergency act allowing women to work HA P P Y~ B^H^** 1 * TKjyCjf hopphwu. Tbe lot. ’J \ jt'tuonilrudton M»A---od” can cowed crow eye. Sometime. In leu than one day/ Over 9,000 uKceufel coiex ell ogee. UiHsis&mii *** m *•*»»• Hon c« IN. Hon-hoflt toxHuHoo. Write— CROSS SYS FOUNDATION ; 70S Community took BM|, Itomfoc, MM.

. -J - - ■ - - — 1 around tne elock. ' S. H. Fitislmmons, Evansville, representing th? Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers, said the railroadmen were displeased with the "whistle law,” which he said was

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'conflicting. Fittsimm i said that trainmen said that uuder state law, trainmen were required to blow the train whistle at all crossings, but some city ordinances prohibited whittling.

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