Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1956 — Page 2

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flow About 1957? . i Rev. James R. Meadows i 'I9SV can be a great year in the history’of our church but not with-; out you. God has nd other way tt> ißgm. Tr , tttCORSON DURACLEANER We Clean Rugs, Carpets, . and Upholstery in Home. No Shrinkage or Fading. Natl. Advt. Phone 3-2226 No. 6 Homestead, Decatar, Ind. _ IN l'——saw— BOWERS Jewelry Store Wedding Rings BEAVERS (HL SERVICE Dependable Farm Service Phone 3-2705 “Quality FootWtttt* X-Ray Fitting Decatur, Ind. Kelly’s Dry Cleaning Laundry and Furriers 427 N. 9th St. Across from G. E. ,x Habegger Hardware “The Store Where Old-Fashioned Courtesy Prevails” 140 West Monroe Phone 3-3716 REAL ESTATE—INSURANCE The Decatur Insurance Agency Eat 1887 Bob Heller, Agent Metier Bldg. Decatur, Ind. FURNITURE STORE Successors to Zwlck Furniture Store m a GILLIG & DOAN FUNERAL HOME 24-hour Ambulance Service / Phone 3-3314 312 Marshall St Decatur, Ind. Decatur Music House Pianos, Organs, Instruments Sales - Service Sheet Music — Records 254 N. 2nd St Phone 3-3353 JI LJLXL..-L-.l—: Stucky Furniture Co. 30 Years of Continuous Business MONROE, IND. THE> STOP BACK Hobbles and Crafts Material Magazines and Newspapers 240 W. Madison St Phone 3-3217 hub "i 'i TF ~ iT ' 1 STIEFEL GRAIH CO. PURINA CHOWS SEEDS — FERTILIZER Baby Chlx Check-R-Mixing The First State Bank DECATUR, IND. ESTABLISHED 1883 MEMBER F.D.IX. The second best is never • as good as the best Try Our Ready-Mix Dial 3-2561 Decatur Ready - Mix Inc. Decatur Equipment, g Inc. SSH Hiway 27 North Sales and Service Wi phone ■ r '. ' """"" We do all kinds of New and repair carpenter work and masonry. >eC **l729 W. M,dison°7t. a -23 ” I

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build His Kingdom in the church of your choice but to use you and me. We are given the free choice of how and when to use our abilities and blessings but we should never misuse the privilege. There is so much to do that all of us together. giving proportionately of our time and talents, can just barely get the job done. That means if any one of us neglect to do our share, the complete job cannot be done. Can you pray? Can you teach Sunday School? Can you sing? Can you speak to your fellow members

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I about Christian responsibility? Can you tell others about Jesus? Can you swing a hammer, a paint brush, or qse a saw? Can you work with young people? Can you get to church every Sunday? If you can answer ‘ YES to any of ' these thinos, there is a real need for you. * is just as simple as that. And to those who are deprived of health that they are unable to attend services, they can do a great work for their church by praying for their pastor, missionaries. and co-workers, and last but not least, for souls that need Christ. , Most of us acknowledge the ob- . ligation we have to return to God a fair share of the money He has given us. However, on the surface it appears that not all of us have accepted the obligation of contributing toward the budget of your ' church. The Lord asks you again, at the beginning of the New Year, • to use the one, two, three f or five ‘ talents He has given you for work , in His Kingdom. We invite you and urge you, in behalf of your church, to step forward in 1957 and. ask this simple question: “I’m ready, where can you use me?” THIS WEEK'S BIBLE VERSE ■ “Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it; That He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing erf water by the Word, That He might present ft to Himself a glorious church, not having spot dr wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy ; and without blemish.” — Ephesians 5:6, 7, 8. ’ ■ - " 1 ’ 7!'J 1 “■ ■ ■ ■ ll Christmas was ushered in by the star of hope and remains forever consecrated by the sacrifice of the cross.

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Rural Churches ST. PAUL MISSIONARY CHURCH Louis Klotabach, Pastor 9:15 Morning Worship. / 10.15 Sunday School. Eddie McFarland, Asst Sup’t--7:96 M.Y.F. 7:30 Evening Service. Wednesday: 7:30 Mid-week prayer service. Gleaners. - • Sunshine Makers. • ■ ■■ . SALEM METHODIS'i CHURCH Billy J. Springfield, Pastor Worship — 9:30 a.m. Church School — 10:30 a.HL M. Y. F. — 6:30 pjn. ' . Evening Service — 7:30 p.m. Thursday Evening — 7:30 p.m. PLEASANT MILLS METHODIST CHURCH Billy J. Springfield. Pastor Church School — 9;30 a.m. Worship — 10:30 a.m. M. Y. F. — 6:00 p.m. UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST Berne Circuit ;.. t p IWnnie Inhntnn PaftiAF | Apple Grove . 9:30 Sunday School. lo:3{LMorning worship. BJO Wed. «ve. prayer meeting. Wtaclmter 9:90 Sunday School. 10:00 Class Meeting. 7:30 Wed. eve. prayer meeting. MONROE METHODIST CHURCH Willis Gierhart, Minister Sun., Dee. 30 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship. 10:30 a.m. Church School. .. „ No Sunday Evening Activities. Mon., Dee. 31. , 8:00 p.m. midnight — Watchnight Program warship — Film refreshments — singspiration — recreation. Wed., Jan. 2. 6:30 p.m. Junior and Youth Choirs. 7:30 p.m. Midweek Service. 8:15 p.m. Adult Choir. Thurs., Jan. X, 7:36. - - - j Jan. 4-5. M. Y. F. Mid-year In-' stitute at Winona Lake, Ind, ~j St. Lake Evang, and Ref. Church Honduras Louis C. Minsterman, Minister 9:00 Church Service with Holy. Communion. Offering for World Service. r -v?; 10:00 Sunday School. ,; 1:30 Service at the County Home' by the Girls Guild. 7:30 Youth meeting at St. John’s Church, . Tuesday 1:30 Annual congrega, tional meeting. ... ■ i. '■ St John Evang, and Rest Churvii -i, Vera Crus Lottis Minaterman, Ministoh 9:30 Sundey-«fieiKX*<-<«"Hnr' > erf: .. 10:30 Church Service with Holy Communion. ’ Offering for World Service. 7:30 Youth meeting. A sound: motion film “The Guiding Stai<” will be shown. ; . -y Tuesday 9:30 Annual congregational meeting with election and reports. Pleasant Valley Wesleyan * £ ’’ Methodist Church ■ G. R. Shaw, Pastor 9:30 Sunday School-, R. C. Harrison, Supt. 10:30 Morning Service. Message by the pastor. ' . 7:30 Evening Service. by the pastor. ' • Those desiring to register for the Sunday school workers trair|4 ing school which beg’ins .Monday evening, Jan. 7th. Please brinjg your registration card this Sunday. -as7:30 P. M. Wednesday, .Prayer and praise service, include regular attendance in all services of the church in your plans far the year 1957. Salem Evangelical and Reformed Church H. E. SettiSge, Minister 9:00 Sunday School. Classes far all age groups. 10:00 Worship Service. Sermon, “An Aged Saint's Christmas.” Tuesday, Jan. 1, The J annual business meeting of the congregation and election of officers, beginning with a devotional service at rehearsal. ' ' “ Thursday, All day meeting of the Ladies Aid. Saturday 9:00 Confirmation class instruction. 10:00 Childrens choir rehearsal. Rose Hill Dairy, Inc.. BUY THE GALLON AND SAVE 351 N. 10th St. -Decatui Roop’s Home Store Washington St FRESH MEATS & GROCERIES Phone 3-3619 Sherman White & Go. KRAFT BULLRING , Winchester «t Cream — Egg* •— Poultry . •Victor Kneusc, Mgr. ,7 •• T SMITH PURE MILK CO.. Yow Local Milk Merchant r Grade “A” Dairy Froducto--134 S. 13th at Adame

H’ Ba«k<r«aad ■•rlptara: Revelation JL Devotional Bea4la«i Revelatio* t.-S-H. I All Things New Lessen for December M, 1958 ON THE vorgo of New Year’s Eve, our thoughts go forward to the New Year. But what will M new about it? We shall mostly have to -“make do" with what we have, rather than .find much that is brandmew. We shall be the same people. Sleeping between Dee. 31 and Jan. 1 is not going to change us a great deal. We shall live in the same house, have the same neighbors, -the same prob* lems, temptstiotis, brains, rfsfr *J bodies, bank ao count (if any), tax bills, dis- ■! eases and pros- H pects. What we can have that is Dr. Foreman new, is.a new attitude to some cd these things. But that is another story. What we have to think about here is another of the great chapters of. the Bible, the one in which* come the thrilling words, “Behold, I make all things new." What will life be like in that "new heaven and new earth” which is described here*ln shining pictures in the very last chapter of the Bible? DaaHi Behind U» In that life wherein all things are made new, not by clumsy man but by the pdwer of God, what Will be especially new—if you like, shockingly new, so new we shall not perhaps, easily become used to it? First we can see a complete . Contrast -with this present life, in that death will be always in the past, never in the future. The one thing that is certain ab&ut life on earth is that we shall all die. Death • is the one certain prediction that can be made about every one who reads these lines. (Or, if Christ' should come in your lifetime, you would undergo a radical change, just as radical as death itself, in any case.) But in that world where all is made new, death is behind every one, not in front; a memory, . not a hope or a fear. The one ex- , pgpeßcp,.which men to this world is one which they have ‘else they would flever have kept it.. It should be remembered “that our tour gospels were not the only ones in existence. The early church did .a good job of. sifting, as any one can see who will take-the trouble to read' some of the fantastic or dull productions the church rejected. (-See The Apocryphal New Testament, in any large library.) Portraits ' Not one of the gospels‘is what to • modern times would be called a "definitive biography” of Jesus—a story so complete that no one would ever bother to investigate further. They are not biographies at alt They* are not photographs, they are more like portraits. A commercial photograph is a neutral sort of thing. A portrait is an interpretation. Mark interprets Jesus’as the mighty Son of “God •with power. Very little teaching is reported by Mark—it is all action, and rapid action too. Luke’s portrait is of the broad humanity of Jesus, his sympathy with all men, with women and children too. He gives us Jesus, the ideal human being. John’s portrait interprets Jesus as the divine Son of God, to constant touch and harmony with the ‘ Father on high, doing the works of God and teaching the truth of God. In other gospels Jesus* -teaching is,’so to speak, to his own name. In John die reader is never allowed to forget that it is all the teaching of God. Matthew combines the wonder-worker and the teacher in one portrait*'Jesus appears as the One With Authority. From the very beginning, where Jesus is presented as the scion of kings, to the end where he is given “all au.ttior.ity in heaven and earth,” he moves with majesty and power. Viewpoints Not only jire the portraits different, but the viewpoints of the four gospels are varied. Two features of *Matthew’s point of view will be evident all the way along. One is that he tries to interest Jewish 'readers- He quotes the Old Testament ifiore often than any other’gospel; he traces Jesus’ family tree back’to Abraham through the Hebrew kings (quite a contract to the family tree given by Luke>To this day it remains one of the best» gospels for interesting Jews to the life of Jesus/The other feature to that while Matthew begins, as it were, on the small stage of ; >the Jewish people, he does not remain there. The Christ who comes first only as heir to the throne of David, is at last seen to have the very authority of God himself. Already to the gifts of the wise men Matthew hints bis truth: Christ is T W d of kU ®en everywhere. ; ‘Christmas is the one time in the long calendar of the year when men and women seem by ofie Consent to open their shut-up hearts freely. _' '

MT. PLEASANT A. M. Christie, Minister Worship Service — 9:30 a.m. S. S. — 10:30 a.m. — Everett Singleton, Supt. ’ M. Y. F. —7 p.m. — Brice Sheets, Adult Sponsor. You are cordially invited to attend our services. -J WHEN CIRCUIT E. IT. B. " A- N. Str ale y, Pastor Bethel: ' 9:30 a.m. Sunday School. Lesson: “All Things Made New.” 10:30 Morning Worship. Sermon: “The Christian Leader Serves.” Wood Chapel: 9:30 a.m. Sunday School. 10:30 a.m. Prayer Meeting. 8:00 p.m. Evening Worship. -Sermon: “A Satisfying Life.” . Pleasant Dale Church Os The Brethren John D. Mishler, Pastor 9:30 a. m. Sunday School with Mr. Robert Nussbaum as superintendent and Mrs. Valera Liby as Children's Director. 10:30 a. m. Morning Worship. .7:30 p. m. Evening services. Wednesday evening prayer service and bible study at . 7:30 p. m. The School of Christian Life .and Faith will meet at the same hour on Wednesday evening. There will be a class for younger children also at this hour. The pre-registrations for the Monroe Leadership Training school, Jan. 7-Feb. 4, should be turned In to the S. S. superintendent by Dec. 30. A welcome is given to all to worship with us. Rivarre Circuit United Brethren in Christ Church Carlyle Seiple, Pastor Mt. Victory—--9:30 Sunday School for all ages. This is the last Sunday of the Sunday School Contest, so let’s give it all we have. 10:30 Worship Service with the message by the pastor. 7:30 Wednesday evening, prayer meeting. Mt. Zion — 9:30 Sunday School and prayer and praise service combined. This is the last Sunday of the Sunday School Contest, so let’s do our very best. 7:00 p. m. Christian Endeavor. 7:30 Sunday? evening, Worship service, with the message by the pastor. 7:00 Wednesday evening, Prayer meeting. Pleasant'Grove — ■ - • 9:30 Sunday School for all This is the last Sunday of the contest, so let’s give it our best. 10:30 Prayer and praise service. .7:30; Wednesday evening with th?, olgss leadei; in charge. .i.The ladies..of toe WriM, lf A»,wilL meet at the home of Mrs. Edna Harden, Thursday afternoon, Jan. 3At 1:00 o’clock. A special invitation i.s extended to all the ladies 6f the chtirch. Missionaries Speak At Baptist Church Bob and Ann Miller, missionar-. iei to Holland,’will conduct special services at the First Baptist church here tonight, Saturday and Sunday at 7:30 o’clock and Sunday morning. Mrs. Miller is the former Ann Brandyberry of Decatur. She and her husband have been engaged in missionary evangelism in Europe for the past four and onehalf years’ * Rev. Miller will also speak to the Baptist youth fellowship at 6:30 p.m. Sunday. The public is invited to attend the services, Girl Escapes From Woman's State Prison INDIANAPOLIS (IP) — Mary Lash, 18, Indianapolis, escaped from Indiana Woman’s prison Thursday, while prison- officials prepared for the return of anothek escape. Miss Lash, sentenced Nov:’ 16 for grand larceny, climbed-over a. fence. * ' The returnee, Mrs. Frances Yokum, 21, Crown Point, was captured in Gary Wednesday. She escaped Dec. 4 while serving a 1020 year sentence for armed robbery. i ■ i — —S' . ... .... J i ■

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refreshments served by the fellowship committee of the Woman’s Society- and this will be followed by a time of singspiration. From 11 p. m. to midnight there will be games and recreation for the whole family under the direction of Mrs. Willis Gierhart. The ' youth will assist in this hour's- - The evening program is designed for the whole family and a large attendance is expected again this year. Jobless Pay Claims Increase In State INDIANAPOLIS (ffl — Hoosiers filed 795 more , unemployment m- . surance claims last week than the week before, an Indiana Employment Security Division report showed today. Persons’ who were laid off last week filed 5,984 claims, an increase of 210 over the previous week. Claims from Hoosiers out of work a week or more brought the total to 35,605, William C. Stalnaker, division director said.