Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1957 — Page 6

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Missionary Program At Monroe Methodist A special missionary program will be presented at the Monroe Methodist church Sunday. The, Rev. Ed LeMaster, who has served as a missionary to Angola, Africa. | will apeak at the 9:30 a.m. worship hour and will show colored slides of his mission work at the 7:30 o'clock evening service. He is a graduate of Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore. Ky, and; has an M. A. degree from Butler IRSa Sleeper” gßa “Perfect MATTRESSES recommended by 808 SIEVERS WOWO MAN on the STREET Program Exclusively in Decatur at FURNITURE STORE 239 N. 2nd Decatun Ind.

SALECALENDAR MAY 4—11:00 a. m. James Howard Estate. 1 mile north of Poe on Muldoon Road. Household goods; car; tools and miscellaneous. Waiter Wiegmann. Auctioneer. MAY 6—6:30 p. m. Mr. & Mrs. C. A. Decker, owjners. 2 miles southeast of Decatur, Ind. on U. S. 33, across from Drive-In Theater. Business room, home, drive-in, root beer stand. Gerald Strickler. D. S. Blair, auctioneers. C. W. Kent, sales mgr. MAY 11—1:30 p. m. Mrs. Nettie F. Bergdall, owner. 3 miles west of Hoagland. 80 Acres with improvements. 40 Acres, no buildings. Glenn C. Merita, auctioneer. DISCS SHARPENED ■ Our precision grinding will make your old disc harrow blades cut like new. Complete sharpening performed in your own yard—you do no dismantling or hauling. High-speed sharpener accurately grinds like-new edge that cuts faster, cleaner, deeper. The price is low and all work fully guaranteed. Call today for fast service at low cost. CLIFFORD MANN ■ R. R. 2 Phone 3-9141 SEED CORN Be In Front Os The Production Parade! Plant Green Leaf Hybrid Seed Corn ALL FLAT 0.50 SIZES . O BU. Genetically Bred For Higher Yields! THE LITTLE ELEVATOR CO. Hdq. for Seed Corn Rockford, Ohio

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Kirkland Township S. S. Convention* Afternoon, Evening Programs On Sunday The Kirkland township Sunday school convention will be held Sunday at St. Luke E. and R. church < at 2:30 p.m. The emphasis of this i year's convention is to be on "Youth.’* Rev. Arlo Gump, adult advisor fef youth work of the Church of the Brethren of the central region* will be the speaker. The evening program will be at the Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren at 7:15 p.m. The program will include a panel discussion oh "Youth Fellowship and Its Problems.” Topics and panel members will be: Parent and family relationships —Bob Hildebrand. Magley. Participation of youth in the church program — David Liby, Pleasant Dale. Social problems—dating — marriage—Beulah Birch, St. Luke. Panel advisor—Mary Egley. • Panel moderator — Rev. Arlo Gump. A youth fellowship will be held at the Pleasant Dale parish hall following the evening program. University. The commission on missions of the Monroe church, with their families, will entertain the LeMaster family at a' carry-in dinner at noon.

Fort Wayne State School Open House Open house will be held at the Fort Wayne / state school Sunday, as will the regular meeting of the parents and friends association of the school. This meeting will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, in , the girls gym of the school. ■• • « Rural Churches UNION CHAPEL EVANGEUCIAL BRETHREN CHURCH Lawrence T„ Norris, Pastor "We welcome every one to worship with us always”. , 9:30 Sunday School. Warren Nidlinger Supt, Rolland Gilliom Ass't. 10:20 Worship Service. • Evening Services ' 7:30 Worship Service. “Evangelistic Pastors. What are the marks”? Wednesday Evening 8:00 Prayer Meeting. Omer Merriman leader. 8:00 Youth Fellowship. Mary Speakman President. Bible School The Vacation Bible school will begih May 27th, all of the teachers that are going to be available please report to the Pastor at onee. “Notice” Beginning May 6th, the pastor will be away for two weeks on vacation, WREN CIRCUIT E. U. B. A. N. Bethel 9:15 a.m., morning worship. Sermon: “Siuccesgful Stewardship” 10:15 a.m., Sunday school. Lesson: “God’s Judgment and Grace”. Thursday, 8 p.m., prayer meeting. , Wood Chapel 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. 10:30 am., morning worship. Sermon: “Successful Stewardship”. Thursday, 8 p.m., prayer meeting and Youth Fellowship. SALEM Evangelical and Reformed H. E. Settlage. minister • R. F. D. 1, Decatur 9 a.m., Sunday school. Classes for .all age groups. 10:300 am., worship service. Sermon: “A Strange Courtship.” Friday. 6:30 p.m., MotherDaugher Pot Luck Fellowship Dinner followed by film “Love Thy Neighbor.” Saturday, 10 am, children’s choir rehearsal. PLEASANT VALLEY Wesleyan Methodist G. R. Shaw, pastor 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. Tom Harrison, supt. 10:30 a.m., morning worship, message by the pastor. 7:30 p.m, evening service, mesi sage by the pastor.' 7:30 p.m, Wednesday, prayer & praise service. Leoder.: Mrs. Shaw. PLEASANT MILLS BAPTIST Chas. O. Masten, pastor 9:30 a.m, Sunday school. Lowell B. Noll. S. S. Supt. Monday — D.V.B.S. at Methodist Church. MONROE METHODIST Willis Gierhart, minister 9:30 a.m, morning worship. Rev. Ed LeMaster, missionary to Angola, Africa, will be speaking. 10:30 a.m, church school hour. Nbon — Commission on Missions Dinner with the LeMasters. 2 p.m, M.Y.F. district spring convention at Decatur. 7 p.m, M.Y.F. 7:30 p.m, Sunday evening service with Rev. LeMasters showing slides of his work in Africa. Monday, Finance Commissions meeting at 8 p.m. Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Youth & Junior Choirs. 7 p.m. Cherub Choir. 7:30 p.m, midweek service. 8:15 p m, adult choir, .. Thursday, 8 p.m. Commission on Education meeting. Friday, 8 p.m,' official board meeting.

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She J Mik _ speXws Seriftare: Genesis 1:17Devetisnal Re«4la<: Psalm 90:1-15. .Resourceful God Lesson for May 5, 1957 THE BIBLE has a plot, take it as a whole, as much as any thriller you ever read. In fact the Bible is more thrilling, because it directly concerns each one of the human race. It is the story of agelong conflict between Good and Evil, portrayed as a personal con? filet between God and Satan, a ‘

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struggle for the control of the earth and of man. The story begins In a sunny, hopeful way. God makes a world, an unfinished world but nevertheless beautiful, and he calls into

existence Man Foreman and Woman, to live on this earth, to beautify and complete it further. They are to be God's friends and pillow-workers. But before the reader quite knows how it hap- r pens, the Serpent* appears on the acene and persuades man that God 10 not his friend but his enemy. So the man rebels against his Maker, is faithless to his divine Friend. Philosophers and theologians have other wayajpt telling it; but from the simple picture-stories of Genesis shines the same double truth and tragedy: Man is made for fellowship with God and other human beings, but he has broken the fellowship, he has turned against his truest Friend. < God Planning Mysteries darken our knowledge here. But of some things we can be sure. One is that God does not deal with his world and his creatures haphazard. He is a planning God. Another thing that seems clear is that man has freedom to obey God or to disobey; to fit in with the Plan or to reject it and the Planner. God could, no doubt, have made a face of beings who; could notipossibly do anything but - right, a race of perfect robots; but for some reason God chose to make man free. One suspects that the reason is that God would rather be loved by persons who would love him freely, than to be loved by creatures "wound up,” so to speak—bound to love him whether or no. (Would that be real love?) Another thing that stands out Is that God is resourceful; in one sense his Plan can be broken, when men go contrary to his will. In another sense men do not break his Plan, for God appears in Genesis like a wise general who has more than one plan of strategyall pointing to victory. God Rejected "

Man is not free unless he is free to do wrong as well as to do right. And if he is free to do wrong, which is a short way of saying free to go gainst the will and plan of God, then he is free to destroy himself. For the Plan of God for man,, born as it is infinite Wisdom and infinite Love, is always for man’s best. For man to> resist God, to ignore him, scorn him, live by man-made plans, is to choose the way of death. Genesis shows dramatically how the sin of man grows worse as a snowball grows larger—the farther it goes the more rapidly it grows. Adam's sin seemed a rather slight thing-then his son is a murderer, and his descendants so bad that God could scarcely find one good family among them. The story in Genesis is the story of mankind; men prefer their own way to God's way—the way of hate and conflict rather than the way of fellowship and love; and they suffer the judgment of God; namely that those who take their own way must accept the inevitable disaster.

Rod Undefeated Many religions know of just and righteous gods who have been rejected by wicked or careless or ignorant men. But the God revealed in the Bible does not act as the “gods of the gentiles” are said to act. For man’s sin, «other gods may have resentment, vengeance, punishment. But these things leave man as he was, an enemy—a conquered enemy perhaps, but with, rebellion still smoldering in his soul. Other' religions provide elaborate methods by which men may pay for their sins—going long pilgrimages, undergoing self-im-posed tortures. But the true God is quite different from the gods whom men imagine—a god undefeated, infinitely resourceful. He never gives up his Plan for a people in fellowship with him. Men are changed, saved, made fit 'to be God’s friends, only by steadfast undiscouraged toy*. (Based on eetllnes eeayrifhted by the ’ Dtvisten es Christian Edaeatlen, Nk tlenal Ceencll et the Chorehes el Christ In the V. S. A. Released by Community Press Servlee.)

Rural Churches ! rivarre Circuit UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST Carlyle Selple. Pastor Pleasant Grove — Located 6*4 miles Northeast of Decatur. 9:30 Worship service with the message by the pastor. 10:30 Sunday school with classes for all ages. 2:30 Sunday afternoon there is to be a special meeting of Decatur zone of the conference at the ,Mt. Victory Church. This meeting is to be a singspiration with the Gospel Volunteers of Huntington College in charge of the program. There will be special music by the group from the college as well as several numbers from the cooperating churches. 7:30 Wednesday evening is prayer time at Pleasant Grove. The W. M. A, of the Pleasant Grove church wil meet at the parsonage for their regular monthly meeting, Thursday afternoon at 1:30. Mt. Victory — Located 2*4 miles North of route 224 on the state line. 9:30 Sunday school with classes tor all ages. 10:30 Worship service with the message by the pastor. The public is invited to attend the singspiration at the Mt. Victory church at 2:30 Sunday afternoon. 7:30 Wednesday evening is prayer time at Mt. Victory. Mt. Zion at Boboe — . 9:30 Sunday school with classes for all ages. 10:30 Prayer and praise service with the class leader in charge. 7:00 Christian Endeavor. 7:30 Worship service with the message by the pastor. 7:00 Wednesday evening is prayer time at Mt. Zion. The people of the Mt. Zion community are invited ot the singspiration at the Mt. Victory church at 2:36 Sunday afternoon. PLEASANT DALE CHURCH Os The BRETHREN John D. Mishler—Pastor 9:30 a. m. S. S. with Mr. Robert Nusbaum as superintendent and Mrs. Valera Liby as Children's Director. This is the beginning of Christian Family Week. Come with each member of your family. Classes for you. The adult lessons will be from Luke 15:1-20; Matthew 18:19-20; Acts 1:8. During the month of May a series of lessons on evangelism will be taught. 10:30 a. m. Morning Worship with the pastor speaking on the theme “Builders of Fine Homes." 1 2:30 p. m. Township S. S. convention at St. Luke's E. & R. Church with Rev. Arlo Gump as the speaker. His message will be “Growing Up Together.” 7:15 p. m. Township S. S. convention at this church. A panel of youth will discuss “The Youth Fellowship and the Church.” Beulah Bertsch, Bob Hildebrand and David Liby will serve on the panel and Mrs. Mary Egley and Rev. Arlo Gump will serve as resource leader and chairman. 8:30 p. m. All youth will meet in the Pleasant Dale parish hall for a period of fellowship and a closing challenge. Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. is the study for “The Story of Our Church.” ST. PAUL MISSION ARY CHUHCH Louis Klotsbach, Pastor 9:15 Morning worship. 10:15 Sunday School, liyle Franz, Superintendent. 7:00 M.Y.F. 7:30 Evening service. Wednesday , 7:30 Mid-week prayer service. Gleaners. Sunshine Makers. UNITED BRETHREN Berne Circuit Dennis Johnson, Pastor 1 Apple Grove 9:30 Sunday school. 7:30 Evening Worship. —- ; -~ 8:00 Wed. Eve. Prayer Meeting followed with monthly business meeting. ‘ Winchester 9:00 Sunday school.

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10:00 Morning Worship. 7:30 Wednesday evening Prayer Meeting. We hope to see you in Church next Sunday. ST. LUKE EVANG. AND REF. CHURCH HONDURAS Louis C. Minsterman, minister 9:00 Church Service. SemiOn " Church Behind Closed Doors” 1 10:00 Sunday School. • 2:30 S. S. Convention. 7:15 at Pleasant Dale Church. Monday 7:30 Girls Guild meets at church. Arvella Smith, leader. ‘ ST. JOHN EVANG. AND REF. CHURCH VERA CRUZ .. . Louis C. Minsterman, minister 9:30 Sunday School. 10:30 Church Service. Sermon "Church Behind Closed Doors”. Wednesday afternoon — Quilting. < Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday pastor and delegates will attend Michigan-Indiana Synod meeting at Huntington. Stucky Furniture * Co. 30 Years of Continuous Business t MONROE, IND. . Ths First Slate Bank DECATUR, IND. ESTABLISHED 1883 MEMBER F.D.I.C. The second best Is nevsr as good as the best Try Our Ready-Mix Dial 8-2561 Decatur Ready - Mix Inc. ■■■'' Decatur Equipment, ■ * nc * JB ,• HI way 27 North ■ Sales and Service WB p hone 3-2904 Daniel R. Everett, Distributor MARATHON GAS Fuel OU, V.E.P. Motor OU, Lubricants Farm Service, P. O. Box 311, Decatur Phone 3-2682. CORSON DURACLEANER We Cleon Rugs, Carpets, and Upholstery in Home. No Shrinkage or Fading. Nat’l. Advt. Phone 3-2226 No. 6 Homestead, Decatur, Ind. -iiWT-jp- I.:-. u, rfToi, BOWERS Jewelry Store BEAVERS OIL SERVICE Dependable Farm Service ..,y. PMH.. WZM Kelly’s Bry Cleaning Laundry and Furriers Agency for Slick’s Laundry Phone 3-3202 427 N. Sth St. Acrosa from G. E. THE STOP BACK Hobbles end Crafts Material Magazines and Newspapers 240 W. Madison 8L Phone 8-8217 “Quality Footwear” 154 No. 2nd Decatur, Ind. FURNITURE STORK 329 N. 2nd St. Habegger Hardware “Ths Store Where Old-Fashioned Courtesy Prevails" 140 West Monroe Phone 3-3716 STIEFEL BRAIN 00. PURINA CHOWS ' SEEDS — FERTILIZER Baby Chlx Check-R-Mlxlng

Prayer Rev. J. R. Meadows Prayer is the medium through which the Christian brings the desires of his heart to his. Father in heaven. Prayer is the key which the Father has graciously given His children to open the door to the treasurer house of His mercies. When? — Just as a faith in Christ is a continual force in, Christian life, so prayer is the Christian's constant companion. The apostle emphasizes this when he writes, “Pray without ceasing.” God's Command and PromiseCertainly the prayer life has the sanction and command of God. He has told us: “Call upon Me in the day of trouble and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me.” He has assured us that He

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is more ready to hear our petitions than we are to ask. The more intense our faith, the more fervently will we pray that the Father's will be done, and the more earnestly will we try to bring our lives into conformity with God’s will. What a dynamic power the prayers of true Christians are! WiU You Pray? — Do you love to pray? If your petitions do not flow from your heart at all times as water from a spring, then it is time to inquire whether yours is a living faith in Christ. Ask the spirit of God to come to you through the gospel and fill your heart with faith in the Saviour. THIS WEEK’S BIBLE VERSE “For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.” — Romans 8:13. JAMEs BfIWSST"" PHOTOGRAPHER Candid Weddings. Portraits, Commercial, » Baby and Confirmation 116 So. 18th St. Decatur Mater Nida A Far Co. Dealer In 'All Scrap Metals Telephone 34419 710 Monroe SL MORRISON FARM STORE fIUISOMLHERS • Meta am» Mavras 1818 . © homes- - j m-aa,—_ J, ADAMS COUNTY TRAILER SALES, Inc. New and Uaed Trailers Decatur, Ind. GERBER’S MARKET 622 N. 13th St Phone 3-2712 Meata & Grocerlea Rose Hill .Dairy» Inc. BUY iHE GALLON AND SAVE 351 N. 10th St. Decalin Roop's Homo Store Washington St. FRESH MEATS & GROCERIES Phone 3-3619 Sherman While & Co. KRAFT BUILDING Winchester St. Cream -r Eggs — Poultry Victor Kneura, Mgr. Phone 3-3600 | SMITH PURE MILK CO. Your Local Milk Merchant Grade “A” Dairy Products 134 8. 13th at Adams