Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1954 — Page 6

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Rev. George Harper Methodist Speaker Lenten Services v On Sunday Evening The fifth speaker in a series of Sunday evening Lenten services will be the Rev. George Harper, a secretary of the national conference of Methodist youth with offices in Nashville, Tenn., aecording to an announcement by the pastor, the Rev. Samuel Emerick. Harper is editoft of Power, a daily devotional guide for youth, and an editor of Concern, national youth magazine. He works with youth and'student groups all over the country, and recently made a round-the-world tour of Christian youth work and Methodist mission work. He is a graduate of Garrett Bib-

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Heal iMptute, Evanston, 111., and has dqpe graduate work at Duke University and Birmingham Southern University. He spoke recently over the national Methodist radio hour. Rev. Harper will be present for the fellowship supper at 6 p.m. Sunday, and will preach his Lenten sermon in the 7:30 p.m., worship hour. Sunday evening will be known as “Youth night” and the youth choir will sing the anthem, “Holy Redeemer” by Arcadelt. Richard Eichhorn’s usher team will assist in the service and Lowell J. Smith will be the devotional leader. The youth fellowship committee in charge of arrangements for the supper period includes: Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Ray, Mr. and Mrs. ,Donald Everett, and Mrs. Maynard Hetrick, adult guides; Sharon Kreischer and Janet Everhart, cochairmen; Janice Hall, David Uhrick, Ted Schrock, and Peter Dalzell. The public is invited to hear Rev. Harper. z CHURCH HEWS Pleasant Mills Methodist The Rev. H. A. Davis, pastor of the Pleasant Mills Methodist church, announces a revival beginning Sunday evening and continuing until Palm Sunday. Cottage prayer meetings have been held throughout the week, and will continue throughout the revival in the homes of the community. Rev. Davis also announced that Miss Joyce Cross of LaPorte, will assist with the music during the revival. She has had experience working with young people and plays a number of instruments. Among the instruments she will

have with her will be a marimba. There will be special music each night, local groups furnishing part of the numbers. > The revival is for any one who is interested in advancing the Kingdom. Rev. Davis will do the preaching. He has had a number of years as an evangelistic pastor, and is widely known as an evangelist. Rural Churches st. Paul Church William Myers, pastor Morning worship at 9:15 a.m. Sunday school at 10:15 a.m. Prayer meeting and Bible study Wednesday at 7 p.m. Classes for all ages. A warm welcome awaits you. UNION CHAPEL Evangelical United Brethren Lawrence T. Norris, Pastor 9:30 Sunday School. Wendell Miller Supt. Robert Plumley Ass’t. 10:20 Worship ervlce. Evening Services 5:45 Junior C. E. Rowena Merriman President. 5:45 Youth Fellowship. Mary Sheets President. 7:30 Worship Service. (Rev. F. W. Sanderson of Dixon M. E. Church will bring the message.) Wednesday Evening 7:30 Prayer Meeting. Omer Merriman Leader. Trade in a Good Town Decatur. TRY OUR MARKS FILM SERVICE FOR QUALITY PHOTO FINISHING Smith Rexall Drags

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ST. LUKE EVANGELICAL AND REFORMED, HONDURAS H. H. Meckstroth, minister 9 a.m., worship service. 10 a,in„ Sunday school. SALEM Evangelical and Reformed H. E. Settlage, minister 9 a.m., Sunday school. Classes for every age group. |0 a.m., worship service. Sermon “Christian Neighborliness.” 7:30 p.m., Lenten service. Sermon, “The Call to Christlike Love.” Tuesday, 3:30 p.m., children’s choir rehearsal. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., Bible study hour, and adult choir rehearsal. PLEASANT VALLEY Wesleyan Methodist G. R. Shaw, pastor 9:30 a.m., Sunday school and Y. M. W. B. meeting. 10:40 a.m., morning service; In charge of a male quartet from Asbury college, Wilmore, Ky. 7 p.m., W. Y. P. S. meeting, VirgilSprunger, leader 7:30 p.m., evening service. Evangelistic service. Message by the pastor. This is the fourth Sunday of the S.S. attendance contest. Let’s rally and go after the percentage gain award. Then stay and hear the quartet sing in the 10:40 service. 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, prayer meeting and 3rd quarter business meeting. SALEM METHODIST H. A. Davis, pastor 9 a.m., Sunday school. Maurice Miller, supt. 10 a.m., morning worship. The midweek prayer service will not be held at Salem this week, hut the group will be assisting in the revival at Pleasant Mills. PLEASANT MILLS METHODIST H. A. Davis, pastor 9:30,am., Sunday man Rayl, superintendent. 7 p.m., evangelistic service. The place for cottage prayer meetings will be announced Sunday, and each evening during the week. v — — CALVARY-E U. B. Decatur route 5 Carl Finley, pastor 9:30 a.m., Sunday school, Dale Beer, superintendent. 10:30 worship service. 6 p.m., youth fellowship. 7 p.m., worship service. Wednesday, 7 p.m., prayer service, Ermil Shifferly, leader. PLEASANT MILLS BAPTIST James Reffett, Pastor 9:00 a.m. Sunday School. 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship, Sermon by the pastor. 7:30 Evening Worship. Sermon by RIVARRE CIRCUIT United. Brethren in Christ William F. Ensminger, pastor Mt. Zion at Bobo 9:30 a.m,, Sunday school. 10:30 a.m., class meeting. 7 p.m., Christian endeavor. 7:45 p.m., worship service. Wednesday evening at 7, prayer meeting. Mt. Victory on State Line 9 a.m., Sunday school. 10 a.m., worship service. Wednesday evening at 7 prayer meeting. “ Pleasant Grove 9:30 am., Sunday school. 10:30 p.m., worship service. 7 p.m., Christian endeavor. Wednesday evening at 7 prayer meeting. ~v Revival at Pleasant Grove April 4, with Rev. Laurence Dellinger as evangelist and Elizabeth Rumfield as singing evangelist. We will be glad to see you in these services. ». Ct PLEASANT DALE Church of the Brethren John D. Mishler, pastor 9:30 a.m., Sunday school with Robert Nussbaum and Mrs. Frieda Yager as superintendents in charge. Classes for all ages. 10;30 a.tg,, morning worship. The past or wi 11 bring the morn ing message: ’’The Heart of the Christian Fa it li .“’Special mus I e each Sunday. 7 p.m., evening worship for all. The theme of the service will be* another in the series "Enemies of Jesus.” The sermon will be “Judas and Pilate.” The Middle Indiana Youth conference will be held at the Huntington church beginning Saturday at 2 p.m. and closing Sunday evening. . The church board will meet at the parsonage Monday evening at 7 p.m. Visitation teams will meet at the church Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. for planning and preparation doing visitation at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday evening prayer service and Bible .study at 7 p.m. Study is from the book of Revelations. The One Great Hour of Sharing will be observed during the Sunday morning service when we shall share in the call to Christian people for help in the time of suffering and need. The attendance crusade is entering the later part of the FebruaryApril period. The individual emphasis on Christian living is found through prftyer, Bible study, regular worship and sincere service. “Give God a Chance Now.” We welcome..all to these services.’’

flk SPEAKS International Under* Sunday School L—<cnr Serlptsrei John 18— It. DeveUoMl Reading: Acta 11 1-4. 33. 37-31. Guiding Spirit Lesion tor March 28. UM “\X7 HAT kind of evidence could * V convince you that God exists?'* The question was put to a famous agnostic who answered it in a popular magazine last fall. He writes: "I think that if I heard a voice from the jky predicting all that was going to happen to me during the next 24 hours, including events that would have seemed highly improbable, and if all these events then proceeded to happen. jgfiPP’'' I might perhaps | « be convinced at Bl? '-iSM least of the existence of some ' su- W 3 1 perhuman intelligence." This ag- - nostic. who has a fl brilliant mind and fl knows a great deal about many things. Dr. Foreman has managed to lay bare a considerable ignorance about religion on his part. If this is what he insists on before he will believe in God, he will never get it. If we all waited for the kind of thing he wants to hear, no one would be able to believe in God. • • • The Spirit, Does Guide, But... To begin with, it is most unlikely that God will reveal his plans in detail to this gentleman. He has never done it yet. not to prophets and not to apostles, saints or martyrs. It one of the greatest of these who said we walk by faith and not by sight. So it is not likely that God will give an elaborate set of predictions to a man who does not want to believe in the first place. In the second place, the demand made by the agnostic assumes that the future is just as fixed as the past that there is no such thing as freedom. Not even God can predict one day’s events in advance if there is any real freedom in the person to whom he makes the prediction. (This is a different thing from saying God cannot know in advance —that is another proposition. And yet, and yet—the same Christian church, which would with one voice deni mat God promises to any man infallible knowledge in advance of even one day’s happenings, has affirmed from the very beginning that God does guide his people by His Holy Spirit. We believe that Jesus* promise that the Spirit would guide his people into “all truth,” has been fulfilled. It may be a mistake (though this writer thinks not) to suppose that the Holy Spirit has more than we think to do with men’s discoveries in science, in geography and invention; it is certainly no mistake to suppose that the Spirit guides men and women in their daily lives and problems. The Spirit does guideus . . . but not as a voice from between the clouds and the moon. How long is it since anybody in your church heard, with his ears, a voice out of the sky? Yet God’s voice is heard every day by Christians, the "still small voice,” the voice that makes no sound, the "sound of gentle stillness” which is the literal translation of "still small voice.” • • • Spirit of Truth The most serious practical problem connected with the guidance of the Spirit of God in our dally lives is this, first of all: How can we tell the Spirit’s “leading” from notions of our own? When we have an impulse to do or to say something. to go or to wait, is this God that gives us the Impulse, or is it only ourselves, or (chilling thought) could it even be an evil spirit? Now we must remember that God can and does speak to us in quite "ordinary” ways. When we are really hungry, we look for food. We don’t need any voice from the sky. But in the “natural” instinct of hunger, God who made us is saying to us, “Eat if you want to live.” Admitting all this, is there any good way of telling when the voice is God’s and when it is not? Yes. One test is this: Is it the voice of truth? Does it push you toward reality or away from it? . . . What would you say to a man who told you that God had commanded him to marry five wives? • • • The Spirit of Jesus The Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Jesus , are not two Spirits but one. This gives us further insight into how we may identify the true divine Spirit, as different from our own. If ever we are tempted to justify something we want to do, by saying it is God’s will, let us stop and think first: Is this what Jesus would do? We know enough about Jesus to know what sort of person he was. We know how he lived. We can be quite certain that the Holy Spirit will never lead a man to do an un-Christlike'thing. u yuu ua«e > ouiething to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.

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BERNE CIRCUIT United Brethren In Christ Stanley Peters, ■ pastor Apple Grove 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. 10:30 a.in., class meeting. 7:30 p.m., evangelistic meeting. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., hour of power. Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; special zone self-denial service o( Bluffton U.B. church with Rev. E. I). Sundstrom/ missionary* to Africa, as speaker.. Friday. 7:30 p.m., W. M. A. and Y. P. M. B. at the parsonage in Berne. Winchester 9 a.m.. Sunday school. Young peoples Sunday. 10' a.m., morning worship. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., hour of power. Administrative board meeting following. Thursday, 7:30 p.m. special zone self denial service at Bluffton U. B. church with 'Rev. E. D. Sundstrom, missionary to Africa, as speaker. MOUNT PLEASANT MethodistHarley T. Shady, pastor Morning worship at 9:30 o'clock. Sunday school at 10:15 a.m. Holy Week services, April 11 to 18. PLEASANT VALLEY Methodist Harley T. Shady, pastor Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. Morning worship at 10:40 a.m. Dedication services on April 4, morning and afternoon. Week of special services, April 5 through 9. The preachers will be: the Rev. Samuel Emerick of Decatur; the Rev. Ralph Johnson of Monroe; the Rev. Ewart Talley, of Portland, y the Rev. William Meddock, of Monroeville; the Rev. Ernest Kauffman, of Bluffton. DECATUR HATCHERY CHICKS and Kelvinator Appliances SMITH PURE MILK 00. Grade “A” Dairy Products '134 S. 13th at Adams Frozen Food — Fresh Meats Fresh Fruits & Vegetables Groceries HELM’S MARKET 518 St. Marys St. Phone 3-4317 Sherman While & Co. Cream — Eggs — Poultry Victor Kneuss, Manager RIEHLE TRACTOR & IMP. CO. West Nuttman Ave. Decatur, Ind. ZWICK Robert J. Zwlck Elmer Winteregg DECATUR READY-MIX Heated Concrete A Specialty Phone .3-2561 BOWERS Jewelry Store X- 1 ul l(MIM imu — BLACK FUNERAL HOME —Phone 3-2503 REAL ESTATE—INSURANCE The Decatur Insurance Agencies » Established 188? Heller Bldg. Decatur; Ind. ✓ 1315 W. Adams Phone 3-2971 MORRISON FARM STORE Aills-Chalmers Sales and Service

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Jesus Paid It All By Mrs. James R. Meadows At this season we ponder upon the suffering and death of Jesus Christ, which makes certain our salvation. He has redeemed us at a tremendous price and through the giving of His life on Calvary has obtained for us eternal peace with God and the blessed assurance of life everlasting. To every nothing should be of greater importance than pondering upon the Passion of our Lord. Pontius Pilate asked the significant question. “What shall I do, then, with Jesus, which is called the Christ?” Each and every one of us is confronted with the same question. We are either rejecting Him as our Saviour or by the grace of God, making Him our all in all. Certainly, if we profess to love the Lord Jesus with all our heart and with all our soul, then we shall ponder and meditate uponthe great lessons from which we learn that Christ has redeemed us lost and condemned creatures that we might be His own. Attend the church of your choice next Sunday, and every Sunday. THIS WEEK’S BIBLE VERSE ‘‘And He (Jesus) said unto them, Verily I say unto you. There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God’s sake, who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and Tn the world to coma life everlastting.’’ — Luke 18:29, 3(j. MONROE METHODIST Ralph R. Johnson, minister Worship, 9:30 a.m. The King’s Messengers Male Quartet will be in charge of this service. Sunday school. 10:30 a.m., Martin Steiner, supt. The Kum-Join-Us class will have, a carry-in dinner and Tellowship hour in the annex at noon. Youth fellowship. 6:30 p.m. Larfay Schwartz, president. Mary Jane Rice and Mrs. Esther Ray will be the leaders. Evening service, 7:30 p.m. Quarterly conference. Devotional service and business session conducted by Dr A. Wesley Pugh, dist. superintendent. WSCS executive Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. with Mrs. Homer Winteregg. The hour of power Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Paul Nussbaum will lead the srevice and the pastor’s them# will be: “The Man of Sorrows Condemned to Death.” WSCS meeting Thursday at 7:30 in the annex. Election of officers. ANTIOCH United Missionary John Detwiler, pastor 9:30 a.m., Sunday school, Ellis Skiles, superintendent. 10:30 a.m.. morning worship service. 7 p.m., Trail Blazers. 7;30,p.in., evening service. 7:30 p.m., Wednesday evening prayer service and Bible study. * This Sunday will be foreign missionary convention day at our church. Rev. Edward Benedict, missionary to India, for the past 17 years, will speak in the morning service. Miss Elizabeth Wise, who has been serving as a missionary. in Columbia. South America, will be speaking and showing pictures of the work there in the evening service. We invite you to come and enjoy these services with us. j . L WOOD CHAPEL E. U. B. Albert N, Straley, pastor 9:30 a.m., Sunday school, Paul Henrey, superintendent. Lesson: “The Guidance of the Spirit.” 10:30 a.m.; morning worship. Sermon: "Don you Believe?" Thursday, 8 p.m. midweek service and local conference with Dr. V. 11. Allman, conference superintendent.

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