Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 2 March 1956 — Page 6

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Historical Bible Film To Show Here Sound Film On Bible At Trinity Church The sound film “Our Bible — How It Came to Us" will be shown at Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. Madison at 9th, Decatur, in a series of three showtags at the Sunday evening services March 4, 11, and 18. The film, produced by the American Bible society, uses a cast of over 250 players. This dramatic documentary tells the fascinating story of the English Bible from the first century A.D. to the present time. It shows the scriptures is use in Palestine in the time of Jesus, how the letters of Paul and the Gospels were written and used in the church; then comes the story of translation into lAtin, the spoken languages of Europe and finally into English. Dramatic issues, conflict and martyrdom are seen as well as the important labors of copyists, printers and a host of humble believers in the word of God. The picture is remarkably authentic not only with respect to the episodes but to innumerable details. Part I, “The Formation of the Bible,” will bo shown March 4; Part 11. "The Bible Spreads Across Europe,” March II; and Part in, "Making of the English Bible” March 18. The pastor, the Rev. John E. Chambers, stated, “We are glad to offer this series of films on the Bible as a feature of our Sunday evening Lenten services. We especially urge all Sunday school teachers to take advantage of this opportunity to learn more about the Bible. These films will be shown at 7:B® on first floor and all friends of the church *re invited.” ‘ .

Grand Secretary Os Indiana K.P. Dies INDIANAPOLIS’ (INS) — Reuben L. Robertson, 61, grand secretary of the Knights of Pythias of Indiana since JUfr. dMd of • A*»rt attack in a Salem hotel, Ute Thursday. He was stricken a short time after he had attended a K of P. dinner at Bloomfield and just before he was to have attended another at Salem, his home town. He had lived in Indianapolis since 1941. ' ”. . Services will be conducted Monday in Salem. Caracas. Venezuela — Termite damage is so severe here that many floors are clay tile. Jerusalem — In its 88 century history, this city has endured more than 20 major sieges.

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To Show New Film At Lutheran Church Zion Lutheran church. West Monroe and Eleventh Streets, has arranged four showings Sunday and Monday of the new featurelength movie. “The Unfinished Task.” latest film production of the Lutheran church-Missouri synod.- _— Hollywood-produced, the new 80minute film portrays the dramatic' conflict between a young engineering graduate who wants to study for the Christian ministry—and his engineering father who violently objects. The film has been hailed as one of the most, ambitious movie productions ever undertaken by a church body. Four showings have been arranged at the local Lutheran church by the pastor, the Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt, to afford all the members of the congregation as well as the people of the community an opportunity to attend. There will be two showings Sunday: at 3 pm. in the pariah hall, and at 8 p.m. in the church nave. The two Monday showings will be at 7 and 7:30 o’clock, both in the parish hall auditorium. The 4 o’clock hour Monday is intended to attract especially the children of the schools. All showings are open to the public.

Ingersoll Discusses Formosa Situation Warns Red Attack Is Always Possible TAIPEI (INS) —Vice Admiral Stuart H. Ingersoll, commander of the U. & seventh fleet, declared today there has been “no significant increase in tension” in the Formosa Strait despite a southward movement of Red Chinese strength on the mainland. The top American commander in the potentially explosive Formosa area warned, however, that the communists have the initiative and therefore “an attack is always possible.” Ingersoll, In an exclusive interview with International News Service, stated flatly his forces are capable of stopping communist aggression if it eomes. ' The admiral, who Is also commander of the Taiwan (Formosa) defense command, said the question o' whether Nationalist China's offshore islands would be defended or not by U. 8 forces depended on the decision of President Eisenhower. ■ . . - ■ ■ Ingersoll said he could abt say what his seventh fleet would do it the NaHonslisu were to retaliate against rad fSrfo* bn the mainland because “you can’t take this question out of context” “There are many problems to- . volvtng in such a possibility,” he said, “and I eaa’t see any ygrd- . stick by which l cgn aay how we . would react”. ' i > The jidmlfpl. atqp said the offshore islands wws , “psychologic I eally of enormous ‘ importance to tbs Nationalists.” He explained! "The farther but k warning line i is the belter ybu afe going to de- ; fend that , which you are going to defend." . \ If you have something to son or F rooms for rent, fry W Democrat Want Ad. It brings results. ' C.* L'■ ■.*' **. * *

State Library Week Slated March 18-24 Joining Forces Is Library Week Theme “’Joining Forces" will be the theme of the seventh annual Indiana library week being celebrated this year during the week of March 18 to 24 in the Hoosier state. Thl» year’s theme will focus attention on public library and school library relationships and the booklet "Joining forces for library service to youth.” This is a recent publication of a joint committee of public and school librarians. Indiana library week actually bad an early existence only to be given up for several years until again made an annual affair in 1950. In 1922 the retiring president Os the Indiana library trustees association, Edmund L. Craig, of Evansville, proposed an Indiana observance and Gov. Warren T- McCray issued a proclamation setting aside April 23-29 for the observance. In 1923. the weea was held from Feb. 11-17 in order to tie in with Lincoln’s birthday and to emphasise the well-known love and need of books as well as his residence in Indiana. No further observance was held, however, until 1950 when the idea was revived In order to focus public attention on the importance of all types of libraries and the need for the best possible service in Indiana. Since then Indiana library week has been observed annually during the early spring. Each year the governor issues a proclamation centering around a theme of an idea presented to him by the library associations. The decision to hold the celebration in the spring was originally based on returns from questionnaire replies from libraries and the unanimous approval of the ILA and the ILTA executive boards. By vote of the two executive boards this year’s date was selected to fill in a "lull” period when more attention could be given the observance and in advance of district meetings. ,

Parly Attacks Are Unleashed On Eisenhower DmocrateLaunch Attacks On Ike As Campaigner 7 WASHINGTON (INS) — Presi- ‘ dent Eisenhower was in the midst qf * drive for Republican primary votes today aa Democrats began to '. unleash their attacks on him as a ' campaigner for reelection. \ The Chief Executlve formally au- ’ thorixdd entries of slates of dele- ‘ fries favorable to his candidacy in the California and Wisconsin Republican primaries. These key primaries will merely ".test the President’s popularity since he will be the only candidate tor top-spot on the Republican ticket there. Sen. William F. Know- , land told his supporters in the two states that he will make “no appearance” as a presidential hopeful. The President has a short meeting scheduled today with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles iminediately preceding the 9 a.m. cabinet meeting. While the President was acting like a man eager to get back into the political maelstrom, several Democrats demonstrated that he was truly in the center of the storm once he announced his candidacy. Democratic presidential hopeful Adlai Stevenson said Mr. Eisenhower proposes to make “permanent” the lightened presidential duties Instituted for him during his illness. And Sen. Hubert Humphrey directed his criticism of the farm bill Thursday directly at the President. He told the senate: “This isn’t Benson’s farm program. This Is Elsenhower’s farm program. Eisenhower is running for reelection. If he’s going to be a candidate, he's got to face up to the issues." Meanwhile, there appeared to be a movement In Repnblican party ranks to push Vice President Richard M. Nixon — Mr. Eisenhower’s personal choice for a 1956 running mate — out of the number two spot on the GOP ballot. The President’s health became a sore spot with both Republicans and Democrats Thursday. GOP national committee chairman Leonard Hall warned that any Democratic attempt to make Mr. Eisenhower’s health a campaign issue would "boomerang.” Democratic national committee chairman Paul Butler immediately reported that “it was President Eisenhower and not the Democrats who first made health a campaign IMUS." i i" 'i* yii" . 11 It you save som*raing io sen or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Wfrt Ad. It brings results.

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I I Sunday SchaM Lossons ynVlT.] aHttd ;i t; ■ f A«1 .< Audi BMksr»aa< l«rt>t»r«l Lute M:lß—ttPrrateaal BeaStefi BevthUon 11:23 —BZIS. Christ and the City Lesson for March 4, 196* pENSUS takers have long been dividing us Americans into “Rural” and “Urban.’’ The fact is, wherever we may live, if we are not in a city we are in many ways affected by cities. The magazines and papers we read are often published in cities. Most of the things a farmer uses—tractors, combines, fertilizer, tools, came from cities.

Our clothes were I made in cities, our I laws were made I there. Your casket I may have already i been made in some | city. There Is a j state in America j which has just one I large city. A for- I mer resident of I that state told the

writer that very few small towns there amounted to anything, because all the young people in the state who had any ambition struck out tor that big city as soon as they could. One way or another, we are all becoming “urban” pretty fast. EltblSlMM Is Ffatils The largest city Jesus ever saw brought tears to his eyes, and no wonder. Some of the things he saw are true of cities and of urban civilization today. They are true of our American way of life, 20th-century style. One was the swiftly rising, and as swiftly falling, enthusiasm of the crowds. There they came with Joyful shouts of welcome on Palm Sunday morning; and by Friday morning some of the same mob would be screaming, “Crucify him!” City people take quickly to new ideas and new heroes — and quickly drop them. They will strew tons of ticker-tape and torn-up telephone books (for lack of palm branches) on some returning hero, but to six months’ time won’t be able to remember his name. Explain it as you like, the fact is that urban enthusiasms are fragile. That goes tor most of us. What we live tor to our urban America is mostly excitement We live from headline to headline, from thrill to thrill. Advertisers do their best to* stir us up. They talk of “exciting” J new colors, exciting new fashions, f even (believe it or not) exciting! new toothpaste.-The advertisers! know that if we can really be per- j suaded that a thing is exciting,' we'll buy it! We would rather Usten to a new idea than a true one. ’! That’s city fever. f Mau Mai In the days of Davy Crockett,’, whose ghost, we trust, will have! been laid to rest before these lines! meet the public eye—to the days of' Davy C. and of Dan’l Boone, nearly ‘ all Americans were living to the’ country, as we would call it today. • Even the cities were small Those» were the days erf rugged individual- • ism. When a neighbor came within! 50 miles of Daniel Boone, he thought I the woods were getting too crowd-• ed, so the legend has it—and moved; on. Nowadays to our more urban; era, we have come to the time of; “Mass Man’’ as philosophers call him. The city is the Land of Fol-1 low-my-Leader. It is the dwelling-' place of the Joiners. Mr. Boone did not belong to many societies; but where is the man today who is happy without belonging to enough clubs and societies to keep him out' every night? Mass Man is a rather sad spectacle. Jesus wept over him there to Jerusalem. The people of that city were like sheep, doing, saying, even thinking what their Scribes and Pharisees told them to. The men of Jerusalem would not look tor themselves, they “knew not the time of their visitation.” They did not know when God was knocking at their door. If Christ came to America today, would Mass Man recognize him? Or would he be under suspicion because he would not fit the universal pattern? Dan of Robbers The city over which Jesus wept was the site of a magnificent Temple, built as a place of worship. But when Jesus visited it, he found a cattle-market going on in the very middle of it What should have been worship had turned to money-making. So it is too often with an urban civilization. Built onjbusiness, on the market-place, it tends to turn everything into a market-place. Art is commercialized; so is education, so are athletics, politics, sometimes religion. If the reader thinks this is exaggerated, let him look around during this month and see some everyday examples of how religion is commercialized to America. We are approaching the joyful Christian festival of Easter. How many thousands .of people to our land are planning to make money out of it? PLEASANT MILLS BAPTIST Oakley Masten, pastor 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. Lowell Noll, S. 8. Supt. March 8, W. M. S. St ths Deca? tur Baptist church.

Rural Churches ANTIOCH United Missionary Charlee Collier, paator Ellis Skiles, S. S. Supt. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m. Morning worship 10:30 a.m. Evening young people, 7 p.m. Evening evangelistic, 7:30 p.m. ■ The Lehmans’ 1 gospel singers of Huntington will be with us in our evening service. Come hear the gospel in song. (Remember next week our Missionary convention,* March *7-11. Missionaries and an African convert will be our guests. ST. LUKE EVANGELICAL AND REFORMED. HONDURAS Louis C. Minsterman, minister 9 a.m., church service. Sermon: ■‘Meaning of Salvation." Offering for the current fund. 10 a.m., Sunday school. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., United Lenten service. ST. JOHN EVANGELICAL AND REFORMED, VERA CRUZ Louis C. Minsterman, minister 9:30 a-m-, Sunday school. 10:30 a.m„ church service. Sermon: “Meaning of Salvation". Offering for current fund. 2 p.m., consistory meeting. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.. Lenten service at St. Luke’s. PLEASANT MILLS METHODIST H. A. Davis, pastor 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. Mrs. Harlen Jones, anpL 10:30 a.m., morning worship. 7:45 p.m., Wednesday, Bishop’s meeting at Simpson Methodist church, Fort Wayne, corner Suttenfield and Harrison. 7:30 p.m., prayer meeting at the church. Special music. Be ready to welcome the visitors. They will be there. WREN CIRCUIT E. U. 8. A. N. Straley, pastor Bethel 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. Hershel White, supt. Lesson: "Christ Confronts the Modern World.” 10:30 a.m., morning worship. W. S. W. S., world service day program. Thursday, 8 p.m., prayer meeting. Wood Chapel 9:30 a.m., Sunday school, Paul Henrey, supt. 10:30 a.m., prayer service. Clarence Abbott, class leader. • 7:45 p.m., evangelistic service, Rev. Byron Chapman, evangelist. These meetings continue each night including Saturday, at 7:45 p.m. ST. PAUL MISSIONARY — Louis Klotzbach, pastor 9:15 a.m., Sunday morning ‘worship. •■*!•*§ 10 :15 a.m., '’ Sunday' tthobt Lyle Franz, supt. Sunday is Fort Wayne Bible college day. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., mid-week prayer service. PLEASANT DALE Churoh of the Brethren John D. Mishler, pastor 9:30 a.m., morning worship at the Parish Hall with the pastor bringing the message. There will be no Sunday school hour this Sunday due to the redecorating program at the church. Bring your family to the worship period and let us honor God and receive strength for our spirits in this hour. 7:30 p.m., evening worship at the parish hall. There will be no departmental meetings this Sunday. The mid-week prayer service will be Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. with Mrs. Lucinda Yager. Study from II Corinthians 13. Let us serve the Lord with joy and thanksgiving. Visitors are always welcome to these services of worship. PLEASANT VALLEY Wesleyan Methodist G. R. Shaw, pastor 9:30 a.m., Sunday school, R. C. Tom Harrison, supt. 10:30 a.m., morning service. Message by the pastor. 7:30 p.m., evening service. Message by the pastor. 2:30 and 7 ,m. Tuesday March 8, district Missionary convention. Speakers will be Miss Mary Bennett, -T. M. W. 8., supt. of the Wesleyan Methodist church of America, and Mrs. Arthur J. Calhoun, returned missionary to Haiti. The public is Invited to hear them. 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, prayer meeting in charge of Virgil Sprunger. The annual.S. S. attendance contsst begins, Sunday March 11. UNION CHAPEL Evangelical United Brethren Lawrence T. Norris, pastor 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. Wendell Miller, supt, (Rolland Gilliom, assistant. 10:20 a.m., worship service. 7:30 p.m., worship service. 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, prayer meeting. Omer Merriman, leader. 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, youth fellowship. Mary Speakman, president. Cash Day — Come repared for a good cash day Sunday. We hope to raise 4,000 dollars to repair the church, and pay for our new organ. If yon cannot be there, please send it.

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SALEM METHODIST H. A. Davis, pastor 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. Maurice Miller, supt. 7:30 p.m., evangelistic services. 7:45 p.m., Wednesday, Bishop’s meeting at Simpson Methodist church, Fort Wayne. No prayer meeting at Salem church. Visit Pleasant Mills Thur a, day, 7:30 p.m.

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Keep Close To _ Your Bible _____■ Rev. J. R. Meadow* Blessed is the man who keeps close to his Bible. 4 We are living in perilous days. We have long been forewarned of them by the prophetic pages of the great Book. Some have been ready to think the forewarning yain. But can any thoughtful man help feeling serious now? Can he shut his eyes to the signs of the coming storm? The opinions and systems of men will be shaken and shattered. Little that is human will abide the terrible ordeal. But there ie one thing that will stand, whatever may fall — one thing that will remain, whatever may pass away—and that is the Word of the living God. The wise men will consult it often and treasure its guiding counsel. If we do as God directs, we shall get through the storm safely, and arrive home at last with glad and thankful hearts. Read your Bible dally and attend church regularly. THIS WEEK’S BIBLE VERSE “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not pass away.’’—Matthew 24:35. SALEM Evangelical and Reformed H. E. Settlage, minister R. F. D. 1, Decatur

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9 a.m.. Sunday school. Classes for all age groups. 10 a.m., worship service. Sermon Know Him Not." 7:30 p.m.. Lenten service. Sermon: “The Conquest of Anger." Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., Women’s Guild Meeting. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., ladies chorus rehearsal. Saturday, 9 a.m., confirmation class instruction. 10 a.m., children’s choir rehearsal.

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