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Lutheran Churches Plan Confirmation Six Churches Plan Confirmation Rites Fifty-two children Will be confirmed on Palm Sunday and Pentecost by the six rural Lutheran churches north of Decatur. The largest class will be confirmed at 10 a. tn. Sunday at Zion Lutheran church, (Friedhelm). The children's choir will sing the processional hymn. "Ride On, Ride On in Majesty.” The Rev. A. A. Fenner will preach on the topic, ••What Shall I Do With Jesus?” The confirmation class will sing “Let Ug Ever Walk With Jesus". The male choir also will beautify the festive service. The 11 members of Zion church confirmation class are Larry Bultemeier, Caro) Buuck, Lonnie Buuck, Mareille Buuck, Bonnie

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Conrad, James Fuhrmann, Henry Gallmeyer, Jaueen Linker, Dennis Schuller, LaVera Witte, and Ken neth Fuhrman. The Rev. Otto C. Busse of St. Paul’s Lutheran church, Preble, will confirm five children in his 10 a. m. Palm Sunday service. The five, examined publicly in Christian doctrines the previous Sunday service, are Eugene Buimahn, Waldo Bultemeier, Daniel Hieberich. Ronald Selking, and Shirley Bieberich. Rev. Busse will speak on the topic, “You Are Bought With a Price.” St. Peter’s Lutheran church (Fuelling), will confirm a class of eight in the 9 a. m. service. The Rev. Fred W. Droegemueller, pastor, will speak on the words from St. Luke 10, “Rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.” The confirmation class will aing a special confirmation hymn during the service. The members of the class are Richard Hockemeyer. Doris Hockemeyer, Janice Linker, Loks Gerlpe, Margaret Boer ger, Amita Frans, Jeanett Fuelling, and Joyce Busick. In the 10 a. m. confirmation service at St. John’s Lutheran church (Bingen) on Route 27, the Rev. Edwin A. H. Jacob will speak on "Glorify God in Your Daily Life.” The mixed choir under the direction of W. E. Uffelmann will sing Bach’s arrangement of ’'Jtesns, Lead Thou On.” A special number will be sung by the 10 members of the confirmation class, who are the following: Lloyd' Bradtmueller, Carol Witte, Ronald Bulmahn, Karl Scheumann,

Phyllis Scherer, Lorine Bultemeier. Terry Schearer, Rosyln Bultemeyer, Eugqne Linnemeier, and LeeRoy Lepper. Antioch Lutheran church. Hoagland, will conduct its Palm Sunday service at 10:30 a. m. in tthe newly-decorated church. The pastor, the Rev. Paul L. Schmiedel, will have as his sermon topic “Welcoming the Victor." Special music will be furnished ty the choir. A class of six children will be confirmed on Pentecost. The Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt of Zion Lutheran church, West Monroe & 11th street, will also confirm his class.-of 12 on Pentecost. Regular Palm Sunday services will be conducted at 8 and 10:30 a. m. France Calls For Big Three Meeting Ask Discussion Os Middle East Crisis WASHINGTON (INS) —Secretary of state John Foster Dulles was expected to accept the French call for a big three foreign ministers meeting to discuss the Middle Eastern crisis. Diplomatic sources predicting this today made it plain, however, that the U. S. is still placing its main reliance on the united nations in keeping peace between Israel and the Arabs. The UN security council meets Monday to take up an Amercian proposal to take up an American proposal that secretary general Dag Hammarskjold be sent to the troubled area on a peace mission. . The state department disclosed yesterday that French foreign minister Christian Pineau has informally asked Dulles and British foreign secretary Sehryn Lloyd to meet with him in early May to seek a solution to the Arab-Israeli dispute. The Invitation was greeted without enthisiasm by American diplomats. But they said it would be difficult for Dulles to turn it down. Some officials were frankly puttied at Pineau’s invitation which they were inclined to label a “grandstand play.” They noted that diplomats of the U. S., Britain and France have been meeting on the Middle Eastern question since the February conference between President Eisenhower and British .prime minister Sir Anthony Eden. ** ■ PLEASANT VALLEY Wesleyan Methodist G. R. Shaw, pastor 9:39 a.m., Sunday school. Remember the attendance contest. 10:30 a.m., morning service. Message by the pastor. 7:30 p.m., evening service. Monroe Friends church. Message by Rev. Susie Spfoull. 7:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday — Community Holy Week Services. Monday, Pleasant Valley church; Tuesday, Monroe Methodist church; Wednesday, Winchester U. B. church; Thursday, St. Paul Missionary church; Friday, 2-3 p.m., Monroe Methodist •with the Rev. John Mishler, guest speaker. UNION CHAPEL Evangelical United Brethren Lawrence T. Norrie, pastor 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. Wendell Miller, supt. tßolland Gilliom, assistant. 10:20 a.m., worship service. “The King Comes to His Capital.” 7:30 p.m., worship service. (King For A Day). 7:30 p.m., youth fellowship. Mary Speakman, president. Thursday, 7:30 p.m., Maundy Thursday services. With Holy Communion. April Sth, in the evening service,

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WHENEVER we ask. Why? about anything that happens, we can mean the question in either bne of two ways. Sometimes we mean both. Perhaps we mean to ask, “What were the events that led up to this one? What were

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the causes or I forces back of this I event, pushing it, I so to speak, out I of the Not-Yet into the Now-and- I Here?” Or perhaps we mean to I ask, “For what I purpose did this I event take place? I If it was a means

to an end, what was the end? Did any man, or did God, have a purpose in bringing this event to pass?*’ If we ask. Why did Christ suffer? We can mean it in the first way mentioned just now. In that case, the answer is very easy to see, or the answers rather, for there was no one reason why he was crucified. Jesus suffered because Pilate was a coward; if the governor had stood up for what he knew was right, Jesus might have been saved from an unjust sentence. Jesus suffered because the Pharisees were jealous and had found no'other way of getting rid of their most troublesome critic. He suffered because he was courageous; if Christ himself had been timid, he could have avoided Calvary simply by keeping quiet and leaving the countryHe Died for Oar Sias AU such reasons it is the business of history to ferret out, and it is of some importance to know them. But the other question is not so easy. No historian, as a historian, can see it Only the eye of faith, (which may indeed belong to historians too) can see the great pattern into which this dreadful event fits, this dreadful event of the death by torture of the best person who ever walked this earth. We eould not have guessed it. We need God’s Word to tell us what it means. What purpose did God have tn mind? WhM was Jesusown tatenSSff” "WT know what Jesus said the night before, to his disciples as he gave them the cup: This, he said, was the cup of the New Covenant, “in my Hood,” poured out “for you.” We know what he had said months before (Mark 10:45), that he came to “give his life a ransom for many.” Now the Bible tells of a Christ who was totally, from his soul’s core, at one with God the Father. What Christ intended, God intended. Christ’s death was for a purpose which God had had (as the Bible expresses it) from before the foundation of the world. It was not for his own sake, it was for the sake of his friends. Even more, it was for many who were not his friends. "While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,” Paul says (Rom. 5:8). “He is the expiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world,” John says (I John 2:2). Haw Can This Ba? Many people fight shy of this great truth. Sometimes they are slow to believe it just because it seems too much to believe. Here I am, a single human being on a small planet Would the Creator of the Universe actually go—-not to trouble only, but to agony and defeat, for my sake? Well, if a person thinks that way, we must admit to him that it is indeed a miracle, the greatest conceivable. But there is another reason why people are shy about believing that Christ could have died for our sins, for anybody’s sin. How can one man’s suffering atone for another man’s sins? There are two answers to that, which are part of one answer. One is that Christ was not just a man, he was the Godman, “God-made-man.” The other is that he identified himself with sinners, with the worst and weakest, the race of man. Hls Death Was in Character Jesus’ death at Calvary was not out of line with his life. If there he “took the rap for sinners” as... Dr. Hordern puts it, this was not a new and sudden shift in his lifepurpose. From the beginning of his service in this world he had been so closely identified with sinning men that he was called in scorn “friend of sinners” and indeed at last executed as a criminal No wonder Paul can say, “He Who knew no sin was made to be sin for us.” Yet this remains all over our heads unless we too Identify our own selves with him. To say “He is the Savior of the world” is not enough. The final step is to discover, “He is my Savior. For He took my place.” the Rev. B. F. Smith, D.D. our conference supt., will be with us to bring the evening message and dedicate our new organ. Local conference business will follow the dedication services.

Rural Churches RIVARRE CIRCUIT United Brethren In Christ Carlyle Selple, pastor Mt Zion at Bobo 9:30 a.m., Sunday school with classes for all ages. 10:30 a.m., class meeting with Mrs. Louise Bunner, class leader, in charfe. 7 p.m., Christian endeavor for both young and old. 7:80 p,m.. evangelistic service. This will be the first in a series of evangelistic services which will conclude on Sunday evening April 1. We are to have a chalk drawing presented by Mrs. Seiple on Tuesday and Friday evening. We are to have special jnusic from different places in the community each night of the meetings. We will have special music from Berne on Thursday night. Monday will be Ladies’ night. Tuesday, old folks night. , Wednesday, family night. Thursday, young married people’s night. , ■'/* Friday, youth and children’s night. Saturday, man's night. Sunday, everybody’s night. There will be a worthwhile prize given to the person who brings the most people each night, who have not attended before during the week. ML Victory Located 2% miles north of route 224 on the state line. " 9:30 am., worship service. The pastor will bring the message at this hour due to the special meetings at Mt. Zion. 10:30 a.m., Sunday school with classes for all ages. 7:30 p.m., Wednesday evening is prayer time at Mt. Victory. v Pleasant Grove Located about 6% miles northeast of Decatur, 9:30 a.m., Sunday school with classes for all ages. 10:30 a.m., worship service with the message by the pastor. 7 p.m., Christian endeavor. 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, prayer time at Pleasant Grove. WREN CIRCUIT E. U. B. A. N. Straley, pastor Bethel 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. Hershel White, supt. Lesson: “The Meaning of Christ's Suffering.” 10:30 a.m., morning worship. Baptism of infants. Sermon: “Beautiful Brotherhood.” Friday, 8 p.m.. Candlelight Communion service. Wood Chapel 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. Paul Henrey, supt. 10:30 a.m., prayer service, class leader, C. R. Abbott. *• 8 fi.nr.? stoftfhig Worship; '■ ?ermon: “Blessed Assurance.” hursday 8 p.m., Candlelight Communion Service. SALEM • — 7 - Evangelical and Reformed — H. E. Settlage, minister R. F. D. 1, Decatur, Indiana 9 am , Sunday school. Classes for all age groups. 10 a.m.. Palm Sunday. Worship and Confirmation service. Sermon, ,’X Follow After.” _ 7:30 p.m., Lenten service. Sermon : “The Conquest of Worry and Anxiety.” Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., ladies chorus rehearsal. Friday, 7:30 p.m., Good Friday worship service. Saturday, 'IO I a.m., children’s choir rehearsal. ANTIOCH United Missionary Charles Collier, pastor Ellis Skiles, S. S. Supt. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m. Morning worship 10:30 a.m. Young people’s meeting 7 p.m. Evening evangleistic service, 7:30 p.m. If you do not have a church home, come worship with us. - MT. TABOR METHODIST Sunday school, 9:30 a.m. * Worship service with communion of Lord’s Supper, 10:30 a.m. Youth fellowship, 7 P-m. Prayer meeting Thursday, 7 p.m. . 77:..77. 77: '.7 '' 7. PLEASANT MILLS BAPTIST Oakley Masten, pastor 9 a.m. Sunday School. Lowell Noll, S. S. Supt. 10:15 a.m., morning worship. Sermon by the pastor. Subject: “Christ enters Jerusalem as King." 7 p.m., fellowship hour. 7:30 p.m., evening services. Subject: “Partial Discipleship." Read Jeremiah. ST. LUKE EVANGELICAL AND REFORMED, HONDURAS Louis C. Minsterman, minister 9 a.m., church service. Sermon: “The King of Glory”. Offering for student fund. 10 a.m. Sunday school. 7:30 p.m., youth meeting at St. John. ' • ST. JOHN EVANGELICAL AND REFORMED, VERA CRUZ Louis C. Minsterman, minister 9:30 a.m,., Sunday school. 10:30 a.m.. church service. Sermon: “The King of Glory." Offering for Reusser Fund. 2 p.m., consistory meeting. 7:80 p.m., youth meeting with sound film. Friday, 7:80 p.m„ Lenten service.

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