Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 16 February 1951 — Page 2

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Rural Churches | sh Paul and Winchester U.B. Circuit Dale Osborn, pastor x V . St; Paul y -Worship and sermoh 9:15. . Supjiay school 10:15. Prater meeting. Wed. 7 p.m. . | - Winchester Sunday school 9:30. Womhip and sermon 7: So. Prayer l meeting, Thur. 7:30. Feeble Circuit Methodist I *"*’ Kl«e. pastor ; Mt. .Pleasant Sun lay school 9:30 am. Evening services 7:30 Leo King. Sr,, :eiipt. f Beuiah Chapel Sunday ichool 9:30 a.m. Eugene .Summers, supt. | Pleasant Valley Sunday school 9:80 a.m. Wdiptiip service 10:30 a.m. Raymond ITeeple, supt. x . s u Kingsland , WoAhlp service 9:30 a m. I Sunday school 10:30 a.m. Clarence Htooker. supt. . 4 ~ * . v Pleasant Mills Methodist Church iR. W: Parsley, pastor ' | Pleasant Mills i Suufa/y school '9.•'30. WortUiip service 10:30. This d#y ii tlo ibcgiuniiig of a week of dedication; and special helpful material will accompany the bulletin Sunday morning, be sure and be present! to receive your copy. i / Salem 'J . Sunday school 9.:00 a.m. WoAhip service'7:oo and we will have ,i|he samp opportunity to recei;ve>|pecial literature as above. . Mt;! Tabor/ Methodist Church ij Bobo - Sdrnuel Cottrell, S. S. Supt. > ;sarold Basehore, pastor IS February' !•::><□ a.m. Sunday school, lesson “Jj/sus The Christ” Scrip*

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; I | • •.... \ . ■ loon NOW// I'oo LAYS x \ A |klc man at the end of a misspent life, asked a Christiah hpntMer, “Do you think thajt a deathbed .repentance does away with; a whole life of sin?” “No," answered the pastor, "but ,( ahiary does:' , •■ * ; ■ . ■|. The death of Christ,<»n Calvary doer. away with every bin—the .skis of <>ur childhood, our youth, and our old age. "The blobd of Jesus Christ, tlis Son, ekauseth us from all sin,’ says f St.i,' John. "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be aS whitle as snow ’’ Ml of them. . It is not a question of being late or being early; ol being mitre guilt) or li- guilty, of being old or young; it is merely a ques- ■ tk>n oi accepting NO\\ tin- abundant pardon which is outs ■ tht’ou'gli tin- limitless luyt of tht Son of God , j The thief on tlic ciom was late—wry late—but not fbo'lale. ‘ .if yt"i have not yet njkdr yoitr peace with God thrfvygh faith in f |e«u» Clirht, "now the accepted time; now is the day of I aalvatiou" j ATTEND CHURCH SERVICES Sunday: 8 and 10:30 A. M. And al 7:30 i*. M. ZiON LUTHERAN CHURCH ' West Monroe and Eleventh Streets \

' Dr. John Versteeg Speaks Here Sunday Lenten Service At A Methodist Church The guest Lenten preacher at the First Methodist church this week will lie Dr. Johp M. yerstceg. Methodist district superintendent. Lima, Ohio. Dr. Versteeg was formerly pastor for twelvq > ears at the large 'Wallnut Hills A > .'J ■ \ i ’ I■' W ■ Ms V* ■■ 1 k* ■ ; Avondale cbuitch in Cincinnati. Other pastorates were in Newark. N.J., and Pittsburgh. Pa. Dr. Versteeg is a of Hol-, land and the son of a clergyman lie is a graduate of New York and Drew Universities, and holds honorary degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University. Ohio Northern University,Kand Allegheny College. During his pastorate in Cinneinnati. he was lecturer in Biblical literature at the University us Cincinnati. i ' As ap. author. Dr. Versieefc has many books to his c|redit. Included among them a ref /.“Christ and the Problems of Youth.” “The Deeper Meaning of Stewardship,” and '‘The Modern Meaning of Church Membership.” He is a frequent contributor to religious periodicals and l birch school literature Dr. Versteeg has served his denomination as general conference delegate and as a j member of the Methodist commission on < hurch union, lie wan 'u member of the planning committee for the , uniting conference ini. 1939. At present he is chairing’ l ! °f th< II matt Arhnnei) whiot directs Ohio Methodism. The public is in vited to hear Dr. Versteeg when he sjibaks here Bunday evening. : tuiV: -Mark 7:21 -9:1. 10:30 a.m. Morning Worship., \ 7:o<) p.mi Evening sprvlce. Monday February 19 to March I Revival services with Rev. Lawrence T. Norris as vangelist Special music on weekends from b/ort > Wayne Bible College. The public is invited‘to allMheat |ervices. j ■ J Thought for this week! ‘The rea--1 son that rain khep-s people away - from the church is the reason vyhy i the church, is necessary Aged Mcjn Is Found Dead On Country Road English, Ind.. Feb H..— (UP) Henry lEsary. 79. was found on a country road near hete yesterday. Coroner Clyde 'Roberts raid Eaary apparently collapsed while walking home and died of) exposure. If you have something to sell or rooms for rent try ] a Democrat Want Adv. I It brings results. ' Dr. R. E. Allison, Veterinarian, announces the new location of Ms office at 712 N. ) i 2nd St. Phone i.. ■ »»»^- 1, - ■ - —- —

lU-*. Jesus is Christ Lesson for February 18, 1951 ' i ■ '■ ! rr BOUNDS odd to modern ears (or. to any ear for the past 18 centuries) to say that Jesus “is” Christ. It sounds like saying Abraham is Lincoln, or Winston is

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Churchill. “Jesds Christ" has become long since a proper name like any other combination •f name and surname. But in the early days of Christianity it took sermons to persuade people that Jesus was indeed the

Christ; and if people knew what “Christ” means, they would see that most sermons today are really aimed at convincing people of the same thing: Jesus Is Christ When Peter said to Jesus ”You are the Christ,” Jesus* reply 'shows that Peter had not only said something important, but something which up to that time had not dawned on any one else. ' I • • • Only One Christ , tirE shall have tp think what the . word “Christ* ! meant as Peter used the word and| as Jesus understood it. The Jews of that time were looking with eager excitement for an -anointed one” (the literal meaning of Christ, or Messiah) who would put an end to all the evil of the world and- usher in God’s New Age. They were not quite clear bow this would be done, but they were sure that only the Christ could do It. Consider three petals. First, when Peter said “You are Christ” he meant “You are utaqne.” No Jew looked for two Christs. There is po one else In Jesiis* class, there is only one of him- Every |[ human being, to be cure, io different from all others; but Simon Peter did not mean that. What he did mean was that Jesus could not be classed as “a” teacher or “a” prophet or “a” man of God. He was the Teacher and Prophet. He was God’s Man as no other man was* We make a mistake, we get away from the original Christian faith, the faith which Jesus praised, when U>e put Jesus on the same level with other men. any other men. There is. only one Christ. God Was in Christ TN the second place, when Peter • called Jesus “Christ" he meant that Go<Phad anointed him. He was not a man who took a notion to do what he did; he was one whom God hpd appointed to be and to do as Gjod willed, tye cannot understand jesus apart from God, for his source i!s God. f Any one whs reads the gospel of ‘John will find this very prominent In Jesus* thinking always “f was sent... My meat Is to de the will of him that stnt me.” Christians later than this saw that the relation between God and Jesus wap even closer, than that between .sender and sent. Jesus is called the Son of God. he is called , the. Word that was with God and was God. Paul says God was in Christ. Lpter generations would develop the doctrine of the Trinity as it is expressed' (for instance) in thej Nicene Creed. Every centuYy has its own formulas. PUter in the first century does not use the language of th- fourth century, sitill less of the 20th: but all the fornriulas express in various ways thee conviction Peter had: that when Christ confronts us. God confronts • • • Christ Is Lord of All Jt THIRD thing Peter meant when he called Jesus “Christ” and that the church means now—is that he has complete authority. All other authority, in the church or out |of it. is less than his. A word ofteu used to express this truth to “Lord.” But the word alone Is uot enough. It really makes less difference what words We use about Jesus than 'wdiat our attitude to him Is, Jesus himself once spoke sternly of people who cafl him "I,ord. Lord." but do not do the things he says to do. It Is one thing, to say, In the Creed, that we bflleve In “Jesus Christ, his only pon, our Lord;" It Is another thing to carry that part of the creed into life. Jesus Is our Lord; not the church, pot Moses, not Paul, not any hero or saint of the church, but Jesua. Christians tske orders fipm him first of all, tor we believe that his. mind was the mind of God. A Christian profession of faith, therefore, is more than a statement of belief; it Is an oath of allegiance. U'onyrltkl by th« Interii H tl«hal Cr.until nt K«llf<«u« k'duoatinn on behalf of t'» I'roteaUht don<,*ninatl«n«. Iteleannd by WNU Feature..>

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MONROB METHODIB+ CHURCH W. L. Hall, paktbr Theta will be no Services at the church Sunday since our Members are urged to attend, services elsewhere. Rivarre Circuit U. B. Church L. A., Middaugh, pastor Mt. Zion 9:30 a.m. Sunday school. « 10:30 a.m. Preaching service with communion, in charge of Rev p a ui Parker, Conference Supt. 7 pun. Christian Endeaver. 7 p.m. Wednesday, priayer meeting. The Quarterly meeting will 4>e st Mt. Zion Saturday ‘ evening a*. 7 p.m. Pleasant Grove 9:30 am, Sunday school. * 1 10:30 a.m. Class meeting. 7 p.m. Wednesday, prayer l meeting. . ; . I | \ / Mt. Victory 9 a.m. Sunday school.

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iff a.m. Class meeting. | 7 p.m. Attending Nuttman Avenue Revival. 7 p.m. Wednesday, prayer meeting. Pleasant Mills Baptist Church Lowell Noll. Supt. “Coihe let us sing a new song.” 9;30 a.m. Sunday school. St. Luke Evangelical and Reformed, Honduras H. H. Mecksroth pastor' 9 a.m. Worship service. 10 a.m. Sunday school. Calvary E.U.B. Albert N. Straley, pastor Jlegular Sunday services will he held at the Calvary Evangelical United Brethren church Sunday. February 18, 1951, beginning with Sunday school at I 9 a na. (CST). Dale Beer is the superintendent and the lesson will be. “Jesus the Great Teacher." The Prayer service will begin at 1,0 o'clock under the direction of the class leader, James Darr.

At 2 p.m. the Quarterly confer ence will be held, with Rev. C. P. Maas preaching and conducting thfe business session. All . members of the church and friends are invited to attend. The Youth Fellowship will meet at s: 15 p.m. Miss Marjorie Miller Is the leader for the evening, and the topic is “Christian Attitudes toward our Christian Neighbors.” The Evening service will, meet at 7 p.m. with the pastor,. Rev. Albert N. Straley In charge Ths -sermon theme is, “Keep Thy Lips From Speaking Gnile.” No Contract Signed For Kraft Building No lease or contract for the former Kraft building has been closed, it was learned from an official source this morning. >. Inspection of the building was made by a prospective leassee, but as yet no papers have been signed, this newspaper was informed.

TRADE IN A GOOD CITY—DECATUR SALE CALENDAR FEB. 17 —Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Doehrman, 8 fniles south of Fort Wayne on U- S. 27, H mile east. Improved 160 acre farm. Midwest Realty Auction Co., J. F. Sarimann, Auct. . FEB. 19 —1:30 P. M. /Heirs of C. D. Balsiger, Owners, miles South of Berne, lid., 80 acre farm. Jeff Liechty, Auct. < FEB. 19—10:30 a. m.jJohn P. Huser, 3’A miles East of Berne on state road 118. general closing out sale. Roy, Ned Johnsoh and Melvin Lie<ibty, Aucts. FEB. 20 —Eldon NealJ 1 mile South and 1 West of Laotta. Ind. 108 head Os Hogs, Cattle, 1000' Bales Hay and Complete line of Farm Machinery. Midwest Realty Auction Co. ,Lee McDuffee, J. F. Sanina no, Aucts. 1 FEB; 23—1:00 P. M. j Guy McAfee. 5 mi. W. of Bluffton on road 124, then 2% N. on road 303. Registered Chester White Bred Gilts sale. ißoy & Ned Johnson, aucts. FEB. 24 —Jay-Ayr Farm, 10 miles southeast of Portland, 50 history making Aytshires. Noon. V. Lite and Vauglin Lipp, Auctioneers). , ’ FEB. 24 —Mary Steiner, east edge of Berne on 118. % acre tract with 6 room hotjse; also 3 acre tract/ Household goods. 12:30 PA m- JeffjLlechty, auct. FEB. 24—Carl W. Rekeweg. 3 mi. N. of Bluffton on No. 1, then 1 mi. W. on black top roadl 160 acre farm. 7, rexnn house. 1:30 p. m. Kent Realtk A Auction Co., Decatur, Ind. D. 8. Blair, Dell Sltgw," auctf. \ FEB. 24—12:30 P. M. Ora K. Ratcliff. 4 mi. S. E. of Decatpr or S. and % nji. E. of Adams County Farm House. 75 pure bred Hampshire-hogs. Roy, Ned Johison & Melvin Liechty, aucts.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1951