Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 292, Decatur, Adams County, 12 December 1958 — Page 6

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Immanuel Lutheran To Mark Centennial Observe Founding Os Church Sunday Immanuel Lutheran church of Union township will celebrate the centennial of its founding Sunday, extctly 100 years after the adoption of its constitution and its organization on Dec. 14, 1858. John Bleeke, who settled in Union township in 1840 was an outstanding leader in bringing about the establishment of a congregation and for this reason the Church is still known as the “Bleeke Church.’’ Among the other early settlers who signed the constitution were such names as Carl Grote, Ferdinand Reinking, Andrew Thieme, Carl Schamerloh, and Louis Koldewey, whose descendants are still living in Union Township or its vicinity. During the 100 years of its existence Immanuel Church has been served by 13 pastors, the present pastor being the Rev. W. C. Vetter. Since 1865 Immanuel Church has maintained a Christian , Day School which at present numbers 57 pupils. Mr. Robert Huebr er is the principal of the school < nd Mrs. W. C. Vetter the teacher

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of the lower grades. The members of Immanuel Church have been preparing for this event by having the interior of their house of worship redecorated and by installing new church pews. In the festival service at 9 a. m. next Sunday, Pastor Harry Behning of Ossian will be the guest speaker, Mrs. Marcene Huebner the organist, Mr. Huebner the choir director, and Pastor Vetter the liturgist. All the friends ■ and former members of Immanuel are coiaially invited to come and join in the celebration. The offering of that day will flow into Immanuel's building fund. In the evening at 7:30 the choir, of Immanuel Church will render a sacred concert, featuring songs of praise in keeping with the centennial celebration. The choir will be under the direction of Mr. Huebner, while Mrs. Huebner will serve as organist. I Red Artillery Hits At Quemoy Islands TAIPEI <UPI> — Communist Chinese artillery pounded the Quemoy islands Thursday with incendiary and high explosive shells in the biggest bombardment in more than a month. The Nationalist Chinese Defense Ministry said Red shore guns hurled 4,358 shells to the offshore islands in the 24-hour period. Half-Million Dollar Fire At Painesville PAINESVILLE, Ohio (UPI) — Some 150 firemen battled for more than three hours today a fire which raged through a four-s Wry brick business building in downtown Painesville, causing damage [which is expected to exceed $500,000. Cause of the multi-alarm blaze 'that broke out in a second - floor office in the state street building, which houses eight business establishments, has not been determined.

Christmas Program At St. Paul Church The Christmas program of the St. Paul Missionary church will be presented at 7:30 o'clock Sunday evening. The Rev. Robert R. Welch is minister of the church, located two miles east and two miles north of Monroe. The program is as follows: Song—" Silent Night.” A Welcome —Bobby Cook. Welcome—Gregg Cole. My Present—Debbie Longenberger. I Get Happy—Cheryll Martin. Jesus, My Friend —Tommie Miller. Song, primary class—O Come Little Children. Oh, Wondrous Day—Eric Cole. Greetings—Donnie Welch. Ring the Bells—Jimmie Franz. Happy Birthday, Jesus—Rickie Hackney. It’s Fun —Donna Smith. Not Too Small—Carol Bays. Piano solo—Dorothy Smith. Our Hearts' Door—Jimmie Welch. It’s Wonderful to Know—Roger Schnepp. I Wish—Dickey Welch. Song, Fairest Lord Jesus—Dorothy Smith, Arlene Parrish, Alice Thornton, Diane Bays. Offering—Dorothy Smith, accompanist. Pantomime by young people — Holy Night. Candlelight service, with congregation singing Joy to -the World. Benediction—Rev. Welch. Polio Vaccination Campaign Launched 40 Million Under 40 Unprotected WASHINGTON (UPD — Public health officials today aimed a new polio vaccination campaign at the 40 million Americans under 40 who i still have not had even one Salk I injection. : Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney underscored the campaign's i importance by declaring that many of thisyear’s victims would have escaped the crippling disease if they had taken Salk shots. Public Health Service officials said a start must be made now to obtain protection for next summer since the inoculation span takes eight months. The first two shots in the Salk series are given two weeks to a month apart and the third shot seven months later. Os the 40 million persons under 40 classified as completely unprotected, some 15 million are under 20 years of age — the category which is particularly susceptible to the disease. The Salk vaccine is considered to be up to 90 per cent effective. "It is a tragic circumstance that hundreds of children and young adults will be spending the balance of their lives in wheelchairs or on crutches because of a failure to be vaccinated,” Burmney said in a statement Thursday night. He urged parents of youngsters who have not been vaccinated, particularly those under five, to i start their children immediately on the three-shot course. The incidence of polio this year was highest among one-year-olds with more than 50 per cent of all paralytic cases occurring in this age group. ♦ “At this Christmas season,” Burney said, "I can think of no better lifetime gift which a parent can make to a child than to give him protection against polio.” Kroger Co. Reports Increase In Sales CINCINNATI, O. — Sales of the Kroger Co. for the 12th four-week period ended November 29, totaled $142,297,538, an increase of five per cent over sales of $135,386,271 for the corresponding four-week period a year ago. Cumulative sales for the first 12 periods of 1958 totaled $1,624,704,723, a six per cent increase over sales of $1,530,690,944 for the same 12 periods in 1957. Average number of Kroger stores in operation during the period was 1,437, compared with 1,419 during the 1957 12th period, an increase of one per cent. [ • ■ | Rural Churches U. B. RIVARRE CIRCUIT Huber Bakner, pastor Mt. Zion 9:30 am., Sunday school. 10:30 a.m.; worship service. 7 p.m., Christian endeavor. 7 p.m., Monday, the class taught by Mrs. Louise Bunner will have a Christmas party and exchange at the Bunner home. 7 p.m., Wednesday, mid-week prayer service. 7 p.m., Thursday, the Kum Join Us class will have a Christmas party and exchange at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burkhart. Mt. Victory 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. 10:30 a.m., class meeting.

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7:30 p.m., mid-week prayer service with an administrative board meeting following prayer service. 7 p.m., Friday, the Friendship class will have a Christmas supper and exchange at the Hobby Ranch House at Fort Wayne. She 72 Ml spoili < tewmbend Uiuform Sunday School Lewom BSHIKDEiSS Bible Material: Mark 4:6b-18. 90-44. Dcvatteaal Beadiac Isaiah 6:1-8. Go! Losson for December 14, 1958 A WEALTHY American woman with time on her hands and unable to become interested in any of the things that need doing around our country wanted above all things to "contemplate.” She achieved her hope, and incidentally some notoriety for which she no

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doubt hadn't hoped; but as any one might guess, she had to go outside the Christian religion to find what she wanted. She joined the Zen sect of Buddhism, a sect that specializes in contemplation.

What she was looking for was a spectator religion, and Christianity is not a spectator religion. A spectator sport is one you look at but don’t play. A spectator religion is one where you just think. Buddha, the founder of the religion this lady chose, is nearly always pictured sitting down (and very fat he gets, too). The object of life for the Buddhist is to escape life. (Buddha himself started out by deserting his family.) The object of life for the Christian is to take his part in it, and by the way he takes part In it to change it “To Bo With Hirnl A religion which would be all action and no thought, would be as one-sided as a religion all thought and no action. A Christian who never drew aside from the crowd, who never tried to get a perspective on life, who never once asked himself, What am I doing here? What does life mean ? Would be an unbalanced Christian, just as unbalanced as one who took out all his religion in meditation. There are two significant statements by Mark—mere phrase, but illuminating—which illustrate the twosidedness of Christianity from the very first. When Jesus chose the Twelve, Mark says he appointed them "to be with him” (Mark i 3-14), and “to be sent out.” First of all they had to be with him. There would have been no use in sending them out before they were well acquainted with him, learning his xpind and his purpose. It was important then and no less so today that a Christian, to -be of service in the world, must live intimately enough with Jesus so that when he does active service he will serve in the spirit of Christ and not only his own. “To Ba Sant Out” Dreaming is easier than doing. Plans can be made with less effort than production. If Jesus had appointed his apostles simply to be with him, and nothing further, he would have founded what Buddha did, an order of monks. Now there have been monks in Christendom, even "contemplative” monasteries from which no monk ever emerges into the world again. But the leaders of Christianity, from Jesus on, have never supposed that contemplation is the first and last word for Christians in this world. One i of the last things Jesus said in the Upper Room, was, “X appointed [ you that you should go and bear fruit.. ? r The very last thing that Matthew records Jesus as saying was a sentence beginning with the word “Go!" Now if a Christian has really been with Jesus, if he has absorbed his spirit and accepted his truth, he will in a real way take Jesus with him wherever he goes. (More correctly, Christ takes him.) Our Lord multiplier himself through these dedicated lives. Th* Call May AU that has been said Is true for all Christians. But just as, in those days, some men, the apostles, were chosen as set-apart men with their whole energies given to the Christian witness, so in these days, God calls some Christians to some form of special fuU-time, set-apart service. Some are called to be evangelists, some pastors and teachers as j Paul said. But young people do not always realise that ministers are not the only kind of full-timers there are. Most churches have a variety of places open for Christians of many different kinds of talents. If you will write to your denominations headquarters and ask what openings there are now, ; here and abroad, for fuU-time Christian service, you will be surprised—and very likely challenged —by the human needs which are i crying, right how, for the help which the church is prepared to . give ... if they cm find the dedicated people.

Pleasant Grove 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. 10:30 a.m., class meeting. 7:30 p.m., worship service. 7 30 p.m., Wednesday, mid-week prayer service. 7:30 p.m., Saturday, the class No. 2, taught by Mrs. Wendall Abbott and Mrs. Clyde Harden, will have a class party at the home of the Abbotts—gifts will be exchange. Our Christmas programs will be: Dec. 21 — 10:30 a.m., Pleasant Grove. Dec. 21 — 7:30 p.fn. Mt. Victory. Dec. 23 — 7:30 p.m., Mt. Zion. At this Christmas season may we take tb's opportunity to invite you to take time out to worship in the place of your choice. Evangelical and Reformed H. E. Settlage, minister R. F. D. 1, Decatur 9 a.m., Sunday school. Classes for all age groups. 10 a.m.. worship service. Sermon, "The Christian and his Bible.” 1:15 p.m., children’s Christmas program rehearsal. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.“, Bible study and prayer meeting. Saturday, 9 am., confirmation class instruction. 10 a.m., children’s choir rehearsal. WREN CIRCUIT E. U. B. A. N. Straley, pastor Bethel 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. Lesson: “Jesus Works Through Disciples.” 10:30 a.m., prayer service. 8 p.m., evening worship. Reading by the pastor: “The Other Wise Man.” Thursday, 8 p.m., prayer meeting. Wood Chapel 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. 10:30 a.m., morning worship. Reading by the pastor: "The Other Wise Man.” Thursday, 8 p.m., prayer meeting and youth fellowship. MONROE METHODIST Willis Gierhart, minister 9:30 a.m., morning service. Theme, “The Word Became Flesh.” 10:30 a.m., Sunday school. 2 p m., rehearsal for Christmas pageant. 7:30 p.m., the Adams Central high school concert choir will present sacred music. Tuesday evening, Kum-Join-tls class party. Wednesday, 7 p.m., choir practice. 7:45 p.m., mid-week service study of Rev. 3. Thursday, 7 p.m., church basketball plays Berne E&R at Adams Central. 8:15 p.m., official board.; Saturday, 7 p.m., dress rehearsal. Next Sunday, 9>30 a.m., Christ!mas program. 7:30 p.m., Christmas pageant. ST. JOHN Evangelical and Reformed Vera Cruz Louis C. Minsterman, minister [ 9:30 am., Sunday school. 10:30 a.m., church service. Sermon: “Ready for Christmas?” 7:30 p.m., youth meeting at St. 'Luke’s with Christmas film. PLEASANT DALE Church of the Brethren John D. Mishler, pastor 9:30 am., Sunday school with Loren Liechty as superintendent and Mrs. Valera Liby as children’s director. 10:30 a.m., morning worship. The message will be “Christ, the Everlasting Father.” , •2 p.m., practice for the Christmas program "Once to Every Man” to be given December 21 at 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m., evening worship. The theme will be "The Book That Lives.” This is universal Bible Sunday. "Wednesday, 7 p.m., prayer service and Bible study. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., Christmas party at the parish hall for women and girls of the church and friends. | Thursday, seniors visit Manchester college, 10 am. Basketball game with Pleasant Valley at 7:45 p.m. at Pleasant Mills gym. We invite you to come and worship Christ the King. A welcome aWaits you at the house of God. WINCHESTER United Brethren in Christ ~ C. N. Van Gundy, pastor Morning worship, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school 10:15 a.m. C.E. 7:30 p.m. Evening worship, 8 p.m. Prayer meeting, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. PLEASANT MILLS BAPTIST r Oakley Masten, pastor 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. Lowell Noll, S. S. Supt. 1 This is “Bible Sunday,” bring 'your Bible. 1:30 p.m., Saturday, practice for the Christmas program. 10:30 a.m., business meeting. B ' Read Luke. ST. PAUL MISSIONARY Robert R. Welch, minister 2 mile east, 2 miles north Monroe 9:15 a.m., morning worship. 10:15 a.m., Sunday school. 7:30 p.m., Christmas program & Candle Light service. Wednesday. 7:15 p.m., choir practice; 7:30 p.m., prayer and Bible study. Everyone is welcome.

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t ST. LUKE Evangelical and Reformed Honduras Louis C. Minsterman, minister 9 a.m., church service. Sermon: “Ready for Christmas?" 10 a.m., Sunday school. 2 p.m., consistory meets. 7:30 p.m<, youth meeting. A special Christmas film will be shown. Thursday, all-day women’s guild meeting. Leader: Mrs. Minsterman. Hostess: Mrs. Floyd Engle. UNION CHAPEL Evangelical United Brethren Emmett L. Anderson, pastor Warren Nidlinger, supt. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m. Morning worship, 10:20 a.m. Evening worship, 7:30 p.m. The morning sermon is entitled

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“‘The Bible Speaks.” The evening sermon title is “Jesus Interprets Christmas." The W.S.W.S. will Sponsor a church family night Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. There will be a fellowship hour following the service. Children’s mission clashes will be , held during the morning worship service. ST. PAUL’S LUTHERAN 1 mUe north, ’4 mile west of Preble L. W. Schulenburg, pastor Worship service, 8:45 a.m. Sunday school and Bible classes, 9:45 a m. FRIENDS OF GOD Rev. J. R. Meadows How beautiful it is to be called a friend! There is nothing too good for our friends. No sacrifice too

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great in their behalf. And it is well we do cultivate and keep in good repair the friendships we’ve made in life, for they like the houses we live in will soon go to rack and ruin under constant neglect. We would be lonely without friends. But it is even more beautiful to be called a "friend of God.” God, too, would be lonely without friends and so He has lovingly sought us by sending His Son Jesus into the world to be our Saviour. No sacrifice did God consider too great for His children. No sacrifice on our part should be considered too great in behalf of Him who has by His life and death made us friends of God. Don’t fail to be in your church services next Sunday and every Sunday. Let us show to God that we arg His friends. THIS WEEK’S BIBLE VERSE "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service."—Romans 12:1.

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