Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 285, Decatur, Adams County, 4 December 1959 — Page 6

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Another Icy Blast Chills Floridians „ United Press International Early-December weather shone fair and warm over most of the nation today—apparently in repentance for one of the nastiest Novembers on record. But Florida—hard-hit by an earlier cold wave—shivered under another icy blast which blustered through the state Thursday, dropping temperatures to below 30 degrees in the north and near 35 in the south. Elsewhere, temperatures rose 10 to 20 degrees Thursday night from Texas in a fan embracing * Colorado and western Illinois. ' Montana,* where last month’s storms struck with full fury, re-. ported a 20-degree rise in the mercury and Council Bluffs. lowa, ! recorded a new Dec. 3 record of 64. The Weather Bureau said the j warming trend would move today | from the lower Mississippi Valley,

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to the Carolinas and the Ohio Vali ley. I The thermometer dropped Thursday night an average 12 degrees from the Central Plateau to the Pacific Coast and the weatherman foresaw cooler temperatures today from the Texas Panhandle to Canada and northeastward to the northern Great Lakes. i The only moisture Thursday night was a little snow—barely I enough to be measured—in the I northwest Plains and northern Rockies. A tew scattered showers were expected today from Texas through the Great Lakes, with light snow over parts of the cen[tral Plains and northern Rockies and light rain from southeast Nebraska through Wisconsin.

Three Bank Robbers Given Prison Terms INDIANAPOLIS lUPD—A fed eral judge sentenced three men who robbed a Hamilton County bank to a total of 41 years in prison Thursday. Robert A. Spencer. 21, Indian apolis, was sent to prison for 19 years by Judge Cale J. Holder in connection with the $7,400 holdup of a branch bank at Fishers, northeast of Indianapolis, last April 30. A 14year term was given Rus sell E. Vogel, 26, Indianapolis, and an Byear term to Kenneth Gene Mahurin, 22, Greenwood. A jury in Holder’s court found Spencer and Vogel guilty on charges of conspiracy and bank robbery Nov. 20. Mahurin pre viously pleaded guilty to charges of aiding Spencer in.the holdup, and he was a chief government witness against the others. Holder told Spencer he was a “marauder and plunderer.” The judge cited Spencer's police rec ord which’ included bookings since he was 14 years “old. and a term at the Indiana Boys School. Spencer was accused of being the holdup man. Vogel the One who furnished the crime gun and getaway vehicle, and Mahurin, the one who hid the lootTwo Drivers Fined On Traffic Counts Two local drivers received $1 fines and costs for charges filed against them Nov. 25. Emma Jane Frank, 51, of route 5, Decatur, was arrested for driving with an expired license at Firat and Monroe at 1:10 p.m. Jack S. Heil, 17, of Syracuse, was arrested ftfr speeding on Mercer avenue at 9:15 p.m. Both pleaded guilty to their respective charges in justice of the peace court. Rural Churches PLEASANT VALLEY WESLEYAN H. D. Rich, Pastor Last Sunday was a red letter day at this church. There was a good attendance in Sunday School where

we had the privilege of having the trio of the crusaders quartet of Berne to sing for us. Our morning worship service was a time of real blessing with seekers at the altar of prayer. This service continued until 1:30 p.m. At 2 o’clock the Adams county holiness assn, had the monthly public worship service. This also was a time of inspiration, God setting his seal of approval upon the service. Our pastor made a tape recording of this service and at 4 p.m. he went to the Adams county home and played this for the chapel service. The evening service was the closing service of our revival. Although we did not see the results in “seekers” we had hoped. In many ways this was the best revival the Valley church ,has had in many years. Our evangelist Rev. Gene Clark of Kingsford Heights, preached without fear or favor the gospel of the Lord Jesus. Our singers wkere the trio of the gospel crusaders of Berne, led by Lester Zimmerman. The Wable sisters were present and sang three nights of these meetings. Friends of our church were present and gave beautiful numbers in song. Our own chorister, Joe Sprunger, rendered valuable service during the meetings. The pastor wishes to thank all who made a contribution in any way to the success of this evangelistic effort. Next Sunday, December 6, at 2:30 p.m. the district youth rally will be held in the Valley church. The speaker for the occasion will be the ReV. Ralph Colson, pastor of the Hartford City Wesleyan college varsity quartet will have charge of the music. You are welcome to attend and enjoy this feast of good things.

PLEASANT DALE CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN John D. Mishler, Pastor 9:30 a.m.—Sunday School for you and your family. Come and make these sessions for children and adults, a time for learning for the Christian life. 10:30 a.m.—Morning Worship. Place your life in the hands of God as you worship and serve Him. 7:30 p.m.—Evening Worship. The pastor will bying the message. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.—B ib 1 e study from Luke 12. Thursday, 7:30 p.m —The Board of Christian Education will meet with Mrs. Dale Liby. Your interest in the church and the work of Christ can bring a deep abiding faith in Christ, who is the light of the world. We welcome you to these services. ST. PAUL MISSIONARY CHURCH 2 mi East & 2 mi North of Monroe Robert R. Welch, Pastor Sunday' 9:ls—Morning Worship. 10:15—Sunday School. Wednesday 6:3o—Choir Practice 7:oo—Practice for Christian program. 7:oo—Prayer Service in basement room. Thursday Ladies Aid will meet all day in the home of Mrs. Wm. Thorton in Decatur. MT. TABOR METHODIST Geo. D. Christian, pastor Morning worship, 9 a m. Church school, 10 a.m. Thursday, 7:30 p.m., midweek services. MT. PLEASANT METHODIST Geo. D. Christian, pastor Church school, 9:15 a.m. Morning worship, 10:15 a.m. Evening service. 7:30 p.m., Rev. i Phillip Harley of the Neighborhood Church will speak. U. B. RIVARRE CIRCUIT Huber Bakner, pastor* Mt. Zion 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. 10:30 a.m., class meeting. 7 p.m., Christian endeavor. 7 p.m., Monday, the W.M.A. will meet in the home of Mrs. Samantha Mauller. 7 p.m., Wednesday, mid-week prayer service. 6 p.m., TTiursday, pot-luck supper at the Bobo school house. Come and bring your family. Mt. Victory 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. 10:30 a.m., evangelistic services. 7:30 p.m., evangelistic services with Jim Gaehlin bringing the message and the Wilson family furnishing the music. 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, mid-week prayer service. Thursday, the Ladies Aid will have their Christmas dinner and exchange of gifts at the home of Mrs. Elsie Weaver. All are welcome. Pleasant Grove 9:30 a.m., worship service. 10:30 a.m., Sunday school. 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, mid-week prayer services. A warm welcome awaits you to any of our services. Come bring your family and friends. WREN CIRCUIT E. U. B. A. N. Straley, pastor Bethel 9:30 a.m., Sunday school.* Lesson: “How to Help New Converts”. 10:30 a.m., morning worship. Sermon: “I am . . . the Life.” 7 p.m., youth fellowship. Thursday, 7:30 p.m., prayer meeting. Wood Chapel 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. 7:30 p.m., evening worship. Ser--10:30 a.m., prayer service. mon: “I am . . . the Bread of Life.” Thursday, 8 p.m., prayer meeting and youth fellowship.

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ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN On U.S. 27, north Edwin A. H. Jacob, pastor Morning worship, 9 a.m. Sermon text, St. Luke 19, 11-26. Sermon topic, “If Jesus Came Today.” Annual election officers of the congregation Monday. December 7, as erroneously reported.

■lk._ IrMSbSIm _ Inlomattonal Uniform Sunday School I —am Bible Material: Acts 9:10-31. Devotional Beadins: CoiossianS 3:13-17. New Convert Lesson for December 6, 1959 FIFTEEN thousand, nine hundred eigthy-two persons decided for Christ when Billy Graham was down in New Zealand last “spring." (It was fall down there.) What will happen to those 15,000 new converts? What has happened to converts in other Billy Graham meetings? The answer to that question

depends on the converts themselves; but it depends also a great deal on what other Christians do about it. Billy himself has said, “After the obstetrician comes the-pedia-trician.” The

birth of a baby is important good ■ news; but suppose from that mo-j ment everybody forgets the babyj and nobody does a single thing for him? In that case the baby-might as well never have been born. Getting Acquainted Saint Paul was a new convert once. The church of the ages owes much to him, but we also owe a great debt to some people without whose help Paul would hardly have become the great apostle and Missionary that he was. He was very eager to get back to Jerusalem where he had built up his career as an anti-Christian. He risked his life, in fact, to get back there. He knew that the most effective place to give a good witness is just where you have made a bad witness in times past. It Is’ much easier to go to a Strang* place for a complete new start, than to make the new start in the old surroundings. But Paul seldom, took the easiest way, and so we find him back in Jerusalem ... a lonely man. For not a Christian there would speak to him. He was known as a bloodthirsty and implacable enemy of all Christians. When he began speaking for Christ instead of against him, the Christians were shocked and afraid. All but one man, Barnabas. He took this new convert and introduced him to the church leaders as a fellow-Christian. And when they got acquainted with the man Paul, things began to be different. That’s the first thing a Christian can do with new converts: just get acquainted. Do you have evangelistic services in your church or community? And if so, what are the new Christians to you? Mere statistics, just a list of names ? Or are they really people? If all the new converts mean to the older Christians is statistics, then that’s all they’ll ever be, statistics. And in the end, statistics of missing persons. New converts are often more scared than they like to admit. Can I hold out? they ask themselves over and over. They have not yet discovered that it is not a question of their holding on, but of God’s. Now put a man who half-distrusts himself in the midst of people who have no faith in him, just waiting like buzzards for him to fall so they can pick his reputation to the bone, and you start him off against terrific odds. New converts need all the encouragement they can get. It is nothing short of cruel for people who profess to be Christians, to act and talk as if they were betting on failure for any new Christian. Furthermore, we may note that good practical Barnabas did not keep his confidence in young Paul to himself. He took him personally .to the leading Christians of; the city. A Job Paul was a tentmaker, not as a hobby but as a job for pay. Perhaps he worked at that trade in Jerusalem. But whether he did or* not, the job that really interested him was an opportunity to witness for Christ. He preached and he debated around Jerusalem, and we< may be sure he would not have been given an opportunity to do this if the Apostles had not approved. In short, to put it into modern terms, they gave him a job in the church. Not that he was paid for it; but the point is, the church encouraged him to speak for Christ, to use his talents as thinker and speaker and debater, on behalf J of Jesus. The most weakening thing older Christians can do for a new one to to throttle him down, to choke off his enthusiasm. The best thing older Christians can do for a new convert is to encourage him to win

Wednesday, 8 pm., business meeting of Men's club. Friday, 6 p.m., Christmas party of the Ladies Aid beginning with a pot-luck meal. Thursday afternoon and evening, announcements for Holy Communion. Secretaries and treasurers of societies are urged to get their re;port for the annual report of 1959 ready as soon as possible. MONROE METHODIST Willis Gierhart, minister < 9:30 a.m., morning worshp. 10:05 am., children’s choirs. 10:30 am., church school. 11 a.m., youth choirs. 7 p.m., M.Y.F. Monday. 7:30 p.m., evangelism commission meeting. 7:30 p.m., fellowship commission meeting. Wednesday, 7:45 a.m., teen hour of prayer and power. 7 p.m. adult choir. 7:45 p.m., midweek service. Thursday. 7 p.m., church ball 'game with Geneva E.U.B. PLEASANT MILLS METHODIST Leon Lacoax, pastor Worship service, 9:30 a.m. Rev. A. E. Burk, Monroe, guest speaker. Church school, 10:15 a.m. No evening service. Commission on education Monday, 7:30 p.m. SALEM METHODIST Leon Lacoax, pastor Evangelistic service, 9:30 a.m. Church school, 10:30 a.m. Evening evangelistic service, 7:30 p.m. Bible study Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, WSCS annual ChrisV mas dinner at church. District superintendent Rev. Byron Stroh arid wife will attend. Revival services at this church, ..four miles east and two miles south of Monroe, will conclude Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Rev. Lacoax is j the evangelist, with Harold Mc--1 Collum of Marion, HL, as song evangelist. Pianists are Miss Carolyn Luginbill and Larry Merriman. UNION CHAPEL CHURCH EVANGELICAL UNITED BRETHREN Emmett L. Anderson, Pastor Warren Nfdlinger, S. S. Snpt. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 10:20 a.m. Evening Worship 7:30 p.m. Monday evening the Youth FelIwship will meet at the home of Mrs. Leroy Walters. AU the young people are urged to come. Wednesday evening there will be a prayer meeting for the chUdren and adults at 7:30. The Sunday School Council wiU meet foUowing i the prayer meeting. t „• I Remember, Put Christ Into Christmas! SALEM EVANGELICAL AND REFORMED CHURCH H. E. Settlage, Minister 9 a.m.—Sunday School. Classes for all age groups. 10 a.m.—Thankoffering Service. Miss Bertha Scheldt, Missionary to Honduras, is the guest speaker. 7 p.m.—Youth Fellowship meeting. Wednesday, 7:3o—Bible Study and Prayer Meeting. Saturday, 9 and 10—Confirmation Classes. 10 to 10:45—Childrens Choir Rehearsal. f WINCHESTER UNITED BRETHREN C. N. VanGundy, 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 and Bible study, Wednesday 7:30 p.m.

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PLEASANT MILLS BAPTIST Allison Van Wormer, pastor 9:45 a.m., Sunday school. Noll, S. S. Supt. Wednesday, 7 p.m., W. M. S, meets with Miss Sally McCullough. Christmas Exchange. Read Collosians. ST. LUKE Evangelical and Reformed Honduras Louis C. Minsterman. minister 9- a.m., church service. Sermon: “The Quest for Christ.” 10 a.m., Sunday school. Monday, 7:30 p.m., girls guild at the parsonage. Saturday, 11 a.m., confirmation Bible class. ST. JOHN Evangelical and Reformed Vera Crus r Louis C. Minsterman, minister 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. 10:30 church service. Sermon, “The Quest for Christ.” 7:30 p.m., dedication service of new piano with special program of music. Wednesday, all - day Women’s "Guild. Leaders, Miss Klopfenstein, Mrs. Yoder; Hostesses, Mrs. Brandyberry, Mrs. Charles Meyer, Mrs.“ McAlhaney. , Thursday, 7 p.m., junior chorus practice. 7:45 p.m., senior chorus practice. Decatar Mesic Hoese Wurlitzer Pianos, Organs Sales - Instruments - Service Sheet Music - Records 13« N. 2nd St Phone 3-3353 TELEVISION SERVICE RADIO AND TV REPAIR Call 3-3772. If no answer Call 3-4037 DAVIDSON BROS. 919 W. Monroe DECATUR

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"Fine Photography” Complete Framing Service Cor. 2nd & Adams: at Five Points Phone 3-3362 ADAMS COUNTY Farm Bureau Co-op Everything in Farm Supplies Berne - Williams - Monroe Pleasant Mills - Geneva GAY’S MOBIL SERVICE , 13th and Monroe St. Phone 3-3609 Briede Studio formerly EDWARDS STUDIO 202 S. Second St. PHONE 3-2511 V. F. Hurst and Son ORNAMENTAL IRON WE FINANCE Phone 3-4489 104 N. 15th St. Decatur, Ind. ADAMS COUNTY TRAILER SALES, Inc. New and Used Trailers Decatur, Ind. GERBER’S SUPER MARKET Quality Perk A Beef Groceries and Produce 622 N. 13th Street ROOFS MARKET "For Quality and Economy” Choice Meats, Groceries, Produce Frozen Foods Stop & Shop with Brice & Edna! Ph. 3-3619 1109 Washington St. SMITH PURE MILK GO. Your Local Milk Merchant Grade “A” Dairy Products 134 8. 13th at Adams 24 Hour Wrecker Service We Pay Cash for Wrecked Cars and Tracks USED PARTS Henry Swygart Wrecking Yard U. S. 224 Phone 3-8224 “Quality Footwear” 154 No. 2nd Decatur, Ind. Habegger Hardware “The Store Where Old-Fashioned Courtesy Prevails” 140 West. Monroe , Phone 3-3716

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Christ. Let thy Christmas list have Christ at the top and the heart as the gift. In so doing hou art as the Wise Men of Old and verily thou shalt find thyself born again on Christmas Day. THIS WEEK’S BIBLE VERSE ‘ “Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto Me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.”—lsaiah 55:2.

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