Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 259, Decatur, Adams County, 2 November 1956 — Page 6

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Rural Churches PLEASANT VALLEY WESLEYAN METHODIST G. R. Shaw, Factor 9:30 Sunday School, Tom Harri- • con, Supt. 10:30 Morning Service. Revival Service. 7:30 Evening Service, Revival ~ service. Revival services now being held each evening at 7:30, will continue through next week until Nov. 11th. Bible messages by the Rev. G. C. Cockerill of Bluffton, Indiana. ST. PAUL MISSIONARY CHURCH L*to Klotabach, Pastor 9:15 Morning Worship. 10:15 Sunday School. Lyle Franz, Sept.

ESI ■■ I / ■. w n Ompl A CLAUDE R. WICKARD OF CAMDEN •An experienced farmer who farms his own land ... cares for his own hogs .. • and runs his own tractor, • Former Secretary of Agriculture who knows farm programs and farm laws. 8 • Former Rural Electrification Administrator who worked aggressively and successfully to bring electricity to America’s farms and rural establishments. WICKARD’S 14 POINT FARM PLAN I. Protect and strengthen small, 8. Insure reliable low-cost rural FAMILY FARMS. BLBCTRIC and TBLBPHONB SBRVICB. 2. Enact effective measures to regain 100% of parity for basic and •• Return administration of farm non-basic commodities including programs to farmbr-blbctbd perishables. committeemen. 8. Establish a more effective pro- M . Extend crop insurance to gram to conserve tub soil, water maximum coverage and protection. AND FORBSTB. 4. Establish supplemental food 11. Expand agricultural rbprograms fob nbbdy persons. search for form products. 8. Expand school lunch and mux _ programs. 12* Encourage farm cooperatives. HH|Mg 8. Increase distribution of food to needy persona through chabttari.x ’ ush adequate FOOD reO agbncS at home and abroach B “ BVas for MIS 9 7 * Rbducb pricb spread between 14. Promote international ex- ■ producers’ prices and consumers’ change of agricultural prodcost. ucts. Sponsored by: The Indiana Democratic State Central Commit*** Charles E. Skillen. Chairman. Indianannlia Indian

Wed. 7:30 Mid-week prayer & Bible Study. ST. LUKE EVANG. AND REF. CHURCH-HONDURAS Leota C. Minsterman, Minister 9:00 Church Service. 10:00 Sunday School. Offering for Current Fund. Monday 7:30 Girls Guild at Janet Beer home. ST. JOHN EVANG. AND REF. CHURCH-VERA CRUZ Leota C. Minsterman, Minister 9:30 Sunday School. 10:30 Church Service. Offering for Repair Fund-Fur-nace. PLEASANT MILLS BAPTIST CHURCH , Chas. O. Masten 9:90 a.m. Sunday School. LoweU Non, S. S. Supt ,

If you are not attending a Sunday School come to Pleasant Mills Baptist. Read Ephesians. SALEM EVANGELICAL AND REFORMED CHURCH H. E. Settlage, Minister R. F. D. 1, Decatur 9:00 Sunday School. Classes for all age groups. 10:00 Thankoffering Service. Speaker: Mr. S. B. Shinde, a native of India studying for the Christian ministry. 7:00 Youth Fellowship Meeting. Tuesday 7:30 Womens Guild Meetistry. Wednesday 7:30 Ladles Chorus Rehearsal. S a t u r day 9:00 Confirmation Class Instruction. 10:00 Childrens Choir Rehearsal.

THE DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, DECATUR, INDIANA

She 2 fansiiM \ Sunday School Lessons Lesson for November 11, 19M *T'HREE questions ar* asked * over and over again by people who take life seriously but are still groping for the answers. First, What is Good? Is it altogether a matter of taste? Is there anything that IS never good and anything

that Is always good, no matter what? Second, What dees God want of as? What does it take to please him? Is there any simple ordinary way of knowing what God wants? Third, Why

doesn’t God speak to us as he used to do to the prophets of old? Why doesn't God, who knows all the answers, share his knowledge with us? Country Pruchar Long ago a country preacher had these questions thrown up at him. His name was Micah. He was not a preacher in the regular sense, for he had no church, and in fact he had no connection with the regular official religion of his country. But he did speak and preach,—so far as wo know, only to his fellowvillagers; but what he said was remembered. We have extracts from his sermons in what we call the Book of Micah, among the minor (that is, shorter) prophets of the Old Testament. Maybe he never preached a full-length formal sermon. Maybe he just stood or sat around in the market-place, and talked to any who would listen. At any rate it is plain that he was asked much tee same questions as those three just now mentioned. The country of Judah, in which Micah’s small town of Moreshah was located, was either in a very prosperous condition or was running down,—depending on where you lived. In the capital city of Jerusalem everything seemed to be booming. But in tee farmlands and in tee little villages it was a different story. Even in tee cities there were some who suspected the boom would not last. There was a kind of revival of interest in religion going on, but it wa< confused. People had ahjdeajthey ought to be belter, hut wfiavwas “good”? They felt sure they ought to obey God more carefully; but what did God want, really? Why didn’t God come right out and tell people what they would have to do to “get right” with him?. This Is it If the answers to such questions as these were written on gold plates in a strange language and kept on top of a seven-mile mountain guarded by seven wise archangels, the roads to that mountain would be jamm*4> end people would pay the archangels big money totranslatethe mystic words of wisdom. But a country preacher talking in tee simple words anybody ten years old can understand—? Yes; tee people of that village already had tee answers only they didn't realize it. Why doesn’t God speak? He has already spoken. Why don’t we have prophets? We do have prophets, right there in your Bible, Yes, but they are hard to tinderstand! WeQ, Micah says, it’s not so hard to understand. What does tee Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Oh, somebody in the crowd might say,— old stuff! Yes, exactly. Amos the prophet spoke of Justice, and JHosea spoke of Love and Kindness, and Isaiah spoke of humility before God Most High. This is it, you don’t need to write away to find out, this is it right here. What is Good, what God wants of us, God'has already spoken. He does not change his mind. Simple arid Final Looked at in one way, these three great requirements of God are not simple. Justice—how easy to say, how hard to make sure what is really tee just and fair thing in every action! Kindnessyes, but who knows what is tee kind thing to do every time? Isn’t what is just in one case perhaps unjust in another? Yes, to be sure: No commandment of God is going to save us • from having to think. This is not so simple as to be automatic. Nevertheless this is simple in the main. We can see the lines along which tee good life must be built. We always know: if it is not just, if it is not kind, then it is out of line with God’s will. And all this is final, too; again not in tee sense of saving us any further thought. But final in the sense teat this is God’s word. We can’t now or ever get beyond or above,—we can’t graduate from, —justice and kindness and humble reverence before God. PLEASANT DALE CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN John D. Mishler, Pastor 9:30 a.m. Sunday School with Mr. Loyd Byerly as superintendent and Mrs. Anoli Mam as children’s director. Bring the. children

rather than send them. 10:20 a.m. Morning worship. The Rev. Oliver Roger will be the visiting minister. He will bring the message “The Preeminent Christ.” 7:30 p.m. Evening services. Rev. ' Roger will bring the sermon ‘“Hie Questions of Jesus.” Mr. Paul Arnold will be worship leader in the absence of the pastor who is conducting evangelistic service at Camden, Indiana. 8:30 p.m. Youth Meeting at the parish hall with Fred Mann as discussion leader. Wednesday prayer service and bible study at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Robert Nussbaum will be the leader. A welcome is given to others to come and worship God and to give your life to Christ in self committment and service. John D. Mishler, Pastor. UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST Dennis oJhnson, pastor Apple Grove 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. 10:30 a.m., morning worship. 8 p.m., Wednesday, prayer meeting, Ray Teeple, leader. Winchester 9 a.m., Sunday school. 10 a.m., class meeting. Harry Bollinger, leader. 7 p.m., Harvester’s meeting. 7:30 p.m., evening worship. 8 p.m., Wednesday, prayer meeting. Nov. 11—-Home Coming and Rally Day. Basket dinner at noon. We invite each of you to attend our services. PLEASANT MILLS METHODIST Billy Springfield, pastor Sunday school, 9:30 a.m. Worship service, 10:30 a.m. Recognition Sunday — everyone invited. SALEM METHODIST Billy Springfield, pastor Worship service, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. Evening service, 7:30 p.m. Prayer meeting, Thursday, 7:30. WREN CIRCUIT E. U. B. A. N. Straley, pastor Bethel 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. Lesson: “The Suffering Servant.” 10:30 a.m., Prince of Peace Declamation Contest. Thursday, 8 p.m., prayer meeting. Wood Chapel 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. 10:30 a.m., prayer meeting. 8 p.m., evening worship. Sermon “Who is Jesus? Lord?" Thursday, 8 p.m., prayer meeting and youth fellowship. MONROE FRIENDS Vernon Riley, pastor Sunday school, 9:30 a.m. William Zurcher, superintendent. Morning worship, 10:30 a.m, Rev. Susie Sproul will speak in this service on her trip to« Kentucky Mountains of Bethany orphanage, telling of the work with young people and children. No evening service. Wednesday night prayer meeting at home of Frank Martz. ’ RIVARRE CIRCUIT United Brethren in Christ Carlyle Seiple, pastor Mt. Victory Located 2% miles North of route 224 on the state line. 9:30 a.m., Sunday school with classes for all ages. 10:30 a.m., worship service with ■ the message by Bishop Lloyd Edy of Huntington. This will be the first in a series of six messages Bishop Edy will deliver at the Mt. Victory church this week. 7:00 p.m., Christian Endeavor with the president in charge. 7:30 p.m., worship service with Bishop Edy bringing the message. 7:30 p.m., each evening through Thursday, Bishop Edy will be bringing his messages to the church. This is not an evangelistic campaign but is for the inspiration of the members of the church. The public is invited to attend these meetings. Pleasant Grove Located 6% miles Northeast of Decatur. 9:30 a.m., Sunday school with classes for adages. 10:30 a.m., worship service with the message by Mr. Norlan Henderson of Huntington College. Mr. Henderson is professor of Biology and has a message for everyone. This service is sponsored by the W.M.A. 7 p.m., Christian Endeavor. 7:30 p.m., Wednesday evening is prayer time at Pleasant Grove. Mt. Zion Located at Bobo. 9:30 a.m., Sunday school with classes for all ages. 10:30 a.m-, prayer and praise service with the class leader in charge. 7:00 p.m., Christian Endeavor. 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, prayer time at Mt. Zion. All three churches of the circuit are to meet at the Pleasant Grove church on Saturday evening, November 10 for the first quarterly fneeting of the conference year. Mr. Jacob J. Boesel an attorney of Wapakoneta, Ohio will be the speaker. We invite anyone who is interested in the very important work of personal evangelism to come and meet with us at the Pleasant Grove Church for this meeting. The second best Is never as good as the best <■ Try Our Ready-Mix Dial 3-2561 Decatur Ready - Mix Inc.

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The Voice Os The Vacant Pew Rev. James R. Meadows Can the inaimate speak We sometimes say that vacant seats never talk, but they do. They do not whisper, but they talk out loud. Sometimes they almost drown out the preacher’s voice. And what they say inevitably cools ardor, dampens enthusiasm for the church. The more vacant seats there are to talk, the less do DECATUR HATCHERY Decatur Chicks & DeKalb Chicks and Kelvlnator Appliances —mm HEATING - SERVICES Shellane Gas Service Apex and Whirlpool Automatic Washers Admiral Appliances and T.V. Phone 3-3808 633 N. 13th Street CORSON DURACLEANER We Clean Rugs, Carpets, and Upholstery In Home. No Shrinkage or Fading. Nat’l. Advt Phone 6-6241 R. R. 1, Monroe, Ind. BOWERS Jewelry Store BEAVERS OIL SERVICE Dependable Farm Service Phone 3-2705 She Stone “Quality Footwear” X-Ray Fitting Decatur, Ind. Kelly’s Dry Cleaning Laundry and Furriers 427 N. 9th > St. Across from G. E. Habogger Hardware “The Store Where Old-Fashioned Courtesy Prevails” 140 West Monroe , Phone 3-3716 REAL ESTATE—INSURANCE The Decatur Insurance Agency Eet. 1887 Bob Heller, Agent Heller Bldg. Decatur, Ind. Hnlftogse FURNITURE STORE Successors to Zwlck, Furniture Store GILLIG & DOAN FUNERAL HOME 24-hour Ambulance Service Phone 3-3314 312 Marahall St Decatur, Ind. Decatur Music House Pianos, Organs, Instruments Sales • Service Sheet Music — Records 254 N. 2nd 8L Phone 3-3353 Stucky Furniture Co. 30 Years of Continuous Business MONROE, IND. THE STOP BACK Hobbles and Crafts Material Magazines and Newspapers 240 W. Madison 8t Phone 3-3217 -- ■ \ STIEFEL GRAIN CO. viilill unMin Wi PURINA CHOWS SEEDS — FERTILIZER ' Baby Chlx Check-R-Mlxlng The First Stale Bank DECATUR. IND ESTABLISHED 1883 MEMBER F.D.I.C.

strangers and visitors think of the church. Vacant seats belittle the cause of Christ, they actually misrepresent Christ. They represent Him as unreal to men and women of the world who have never tested His reality. What do vacant seats that should be occupied by church members say? Well, these are some of the words — indifference, neglect, preoccupation, worldly-mindedness, selfness. Os course, there are always some vacant seats that speak in other terms. They say sickness. They say misfortune. They say unavoidable absence from the city. And the great God looks upon these vacant seats with tenderness and compassion. But what of the others Do your best to occupy one of those vacant seats in the church of your choice next Sunday.

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