Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 11 January 1963 — Page 6

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Hold Conference On Religion And Race

By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International Organized religion thus far has played a relatively’ minor role in the struggle for racial justice in America. Religious leaders acknowledge this fact, and find it humiliating. Next week, in Chicago, they will try to make amends. Representatives of 70 Protestant, Catholic and Jewish organizations will meet at the Edgewater Beach Hotel Jan. 14-17 for a “National Conference on Religion and Race”. This conference is significant for two reasons: 1. It is the most ambitious attempt yet to galvanize America’s religious bodies into effective action on racial problems. 2. It is the first national meeting which has ever been called in the United States under the joint sponsorship of all three major faiths. Negro to Chairman Convenors of the conference are the National Council of Churches, the National Catholic Welfare Conference, and the Synagogue Council of America. A distinguished Negro educator, Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., will serve as chairman. It is anticipated that the 800 delegates will adopt a “statement of conscience” detailing the reasons why they regard the elimination of segregation as one of the supreme moral challenges facing Americans in this generation. As a joint expression of conviction by Protestants, Catholics and Jews, such a statement may carry some weight. But the organizWomen's Day Sunday At Christian Church Miss Velva Dreese “God’s power redeems the world” is the proclamation which will be voiced by the theme for the observance of women’s day Sunday at the First Christian church. This is the chosen theme for all the churches of the brotherhood. The morning worship service has been planned by the women, who will have charge of the service. Lay women having part in the service include: Mrs. William Bauman, president of the Christian women's fellowship, organist; and Mrs. John Rosier, Mrs. Paul Daniels, Mrs. Roy Stucky and Mrs. Charles Hill will take If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

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ers of the conference realize that . racial barriers cannot be battered down with moral arguments adj dressed to the general public. To Draft Recommendations The real business of the fourday meting will be drafting a series of recommendations for action by religious organizations, including local churches and synagogues. Mathew Ahmann, executive secretary of the conference, said the recommendations Will be specific and down-to-earth. They will spell out concrete things that Christians and Jews can do, together or separetly, to combat racial discrimination in such areas as housing, employment, education and worship. A “follow-up committee” has been organized to insure that the ideas generated at the national conference are widely disseminated to religious groups at the state and community level. Rising Impatience Hbw much action they will stimulate remains to be seen. In the past, churches and synagogues by their own admission have been long on talk and short on performance in this controversial field. But there is evidence of rising impatience among laymen as well as clergy with this inaction. Across the nation, churches and synagogues have “social relations committees” which are looking for something to do besides listen to speeches. It is just possible that the National Conference on Religion and race may provide them with the kind of blueprint they need to roll up their sleeves and get to work. ' part in the service. The special speaker will be Miss Velva Dreese, of Indianapolis. She is associate executive secretary of the Christian women’s fellowship department of the United Christian missionary society, I with assignments for leadership development. One of her responsibilities in the area of leadership development is to work with state secretaries and their state boards for “training for their tasks. She advises and assists these leaders in local, district, and state programs of leadership for local C. W. F. groups. W Miss Dreese is a former missionary to the Philippines, having served from 1927 to 1932, but she was called home because of the economic depression of the 30s. In 1954, she spent a six months’ leave of absence studying and aiding church women’s work in Japan and the Philippines. All women of the church are urged to be present with their families for this special women’s day observance Sunday. h L ; Rural Churcnes PLEASANT MILLS BAPTIST CHURCH _ 9:30 a.m. Sunday School. Let’s ; improve our record. • Lowell Noll Sunday School - superintendent. i 10:30 a.m. Rev. Joe Carter will i deliver the morning message. 7:00 B. Y. F. 7:30 p.m. Evening worship, ser- • mop bv Hev. Carter. ' Read Ecclesiastes. a RIVARRE U. B. CIRCUIT Stanley Neusenschwander, pastor MT. ZION Chalmer Brodbeck, S. S. Supt

Sunday School 9:30. Morning Worship 10:30. Prayer Meeting, Wed. 7:30. MT. VICTORY Roman Sprunger, S. S. Supt. Sunday School 9:30. Class Meeting 10:39. , C. E. 7:00. Evening Worship 7:30. Prayer Meeting, Wed. 7:30. The Circuit Membership Class will meet Saturday, Jan. 12 at 10:00 at the Mt. Zion church. The lesson is on our Church History, Denominational and local. MONROE FRIENDS CHURCH Vernon Riley, pastor Sunday school 9:30 a.m. William Zurcher, superintendent. Morning service 10:30 a.m. Evening service 7 p.m. Youth evengelistic service. Prayer meeting Wednesday 7 p.m. ST. LUKE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST Dr. Meredith Sprunger, interim pastor . Worship service 9 a.m, Sunday school 10 a.m. MT. PLEASANT METHODIST (2 miles west of Decatur) Donald Orr, Minister 9:15 a.m. Sunday School. Classes for all ages. 10:15 a.m. Divine Worship. Sermon: “When Religion Gets Practical.” Music wil linclude a solo by Byron Fox and Special Trio composed by Byron Fox, Ed Fox and Carol King. 7:00 p.m. Youth Fellowship meets at home of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Hakes. Devotions led by Sandra Teeple. Monday, January 14, at 7 p.m. Meeting for all men of the chtirch Mr. Phil Lydy, president of the Hoagland-Poe Methodist Men will be the speaker and will also show a film strip. MT. TABOR METHODIST (2 miles north Pleasant Mills) Donald Orr, Minister , Sermon: “When Religian Gets , Practical.” 10:00 a.m. — Sunday School. 7:30 p.m. each Wednesday — > Prayer Meeting and Bible Study. : SALEM UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST Evangelical and Reformed H. E. Settlage, minister j for all age group*. % 1 10:00 Worship Service. Sermon “Ceaseless Prayer.” Saturday 9:00 Confirmation Class Instruction. 10-10:45 Children’s Choir Re- ;' hearsal. ’ MONROE METHODIST CHURCH J Claude McCallister, Minister 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship. 10:30 a.m. Missionary Band. 11:00 a.m. Youth Choir. 7:00 p.m. M. Y. F. i 7:00 p.m. W SC S. Study r Course s Monday 7:30 p.m. Trustees meeting. Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Mid-week Service. 8:15 p.m. Senior Choir. Thursday 7:30 p.m. Nominating Committee meeting. 8:00 p.m. Boy Scout Committee . meeting. 1 ST. PAUL MISSIONARY CHURCH 1 (2 miles east and 2 miles North of Monroe) R. R. Welch, pastor 9:15 Morning Worship. 10:15 Sunday School. 7:00 Evening Service. 8:00 Choir Practice. Wednesday Bible Hour. —— ’ 7:00 Prayer and Bible Study. 7:00 M. Y. F. and Children’s Bible Hour.

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I SALEM METHODIST Joseph Gibson, pastor Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. M. Y. F. Evening Meeting at 6 p.m. Evening Church Service at 7:30 p.m. Mid-week Prayer Service Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. the 3 IntemaGond Unttorm Bunday School Lessom Bible Material: lialah 8; 8:6-7; Luke 1:8-20; John 1:1-18; Hebrews 1:1-4. Devotional Reading: Luke 2:46-65. God Comes To Us Lesson for December 23, 1962 THE truth about Christmas is not to be seen on the Christmas tree, not in the bargain-base-ment Santa Clauses, not in the holly and the ivy, and not in every Christmas carol. Yet some of the

carols tell the story truly; “Immanuel has come to thee . . .” or “Thou didst leave thy throne . . or “Word of the Father Now in flesh appearing”; and others telling the same story. The deep truth

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about Christmas is that the day celebrates the coming of God to us. The very name Immanuel means “God with us.” Now it would not at all be true to say that God had never come to this world before; he was here in creation, he has been here in history, in the beauty and the order of all this vast universe. The prophets, one and all, knew him, and the poets sang of him. But what was new about the first Christmas (and what it began) was that now men could not only know that God is, we know what God is like. God is Expression Jesus Christ is the translation of God into the language of human living. He is the Eternal in the pattern of time. There are 1 philosophers who do not see how |the High Gn<i can possibly ex- ' press himself; but the Bible tells us of a God who is not content with expressing himself, he desires to communicate with his cMMron. In John I Christ is called the Word. He lived to be, he lived to tell. He is God’s messenger but also he is God’s message. The Word—the Expression, the Message, the Communication—of God “became flesh” on that first Christmas. Anyone might have thought that if God came to the world he had made, to the people he had made, in a new way.— they might have thought it «■— be a new form of words, a new theology, a new creed to believe. But no—God expressed himself above all in a man who was first a little baby. God’s Word to us is put in the form we can under* stand, in one who was made “in all respect like as we are, yet without tin.” Gad Comes la Light Poets and writers of Christmas carols have often made something of the Christmas-eve picture,— a dark hillside, no light anywhere except for the stars overhead and the one light in the stable. The Apostle John, writing his own Christmas story, says nothing about the inn or the stable or the shepherds. But he does say something about the light. John is thinking beyond Bethlehem to the generations yet to come. He sees what the story of this child, grown a man, this Gift of God to man,— what this Man, this Godman, will mean to the race of man. He is the Light, God’s light, “lighting every man.” John does not fail to see that the picture has a dark side. There were and there are some who do not receive him. He is a Light shining in darkness. The darkness never has understood the Light, the darkness never has quenched the Light; ’ but yet the darkness is still there. To drop the parable a moment, the coming of God to us in Christ, the Light of the World, can mean and does mean nothing at all to those who will not see. Once we understand the meaning of Christmas, the coming of God to men, to all men who will turn and see, then we understand there is something to be done about it No one on whom the Light has shone can be content that it has shone on him alone. Those who have found the Light are bound to spread the Light, indeed to be (as Jesus said) the light of the world themselves. But if we stopped here, it would leave us with a discouraging question. How can we be the light of the world? Again John points to the answer. To those who receive the Light, God gives “power to become children of God.” By our* selves, we cast a pretty feeble light. By ourselves, we are weak. God’s “coming” is not like the coming of man. People come and go away, and we are not greatly - changed. But when God comes, and we open our lives to him, we begin to be changed from the very core of our lives. As wo share in the vision of God, so we share in the power of the God « who comes to us in Jesus.

PLEASANT MILLS METHODIST Joseph Gibson, pastor Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. Divine Worship Service at 10:30 a.m. . PLEASANT DALE CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN Dolar Ritchey, pastor Church School 9:30. Oscar Geisel, superintendent. Director of Children’s Work Barbara Barger. Morning Worship 10:31. Sermon subject, “The Lav; of the Harvest.” Evening services 7:30. Sermon subject. “Which Way Are You Going?” The CBYF will meet in the Parish Hall following evening services. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening 7:30. UNION CHAPEL EVANGELICAL UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH Kenneth P. Angle, pastor Tom Gaunt, S. S. Supt. Church School 9:30 a.m. Theme — “Jesus Begins His Week.” (A class for every age). Mission Classes 10:25 a.m. Divine Worship 10:25 a.m. Sermon — “God Has a Message for this Hour.” Duet — By Mrs. Wilbur Foor and Mr. Earl Chase, “Others,” by Meigs. Evening Worship Houi - — 7:30 p.m. Sermon — “Giants in the World.” Special question for this evening: Are the powers of Satan confined to this planet or does his power extend to the rest of the universe? There was a good attendance at the service last Sunday evening. The panel based on the theme — “Pleas from the Pews” was well received. Tuesday Cottage Prayer Time 7:30 p.m. This will be at the home of Mr.-- and Mrs'. T. I. Drew, and Mrs. Florence Bauman. Mrs. Tom Gaunt is the leader. Wednesday “Hour of Power Service,” 7:30 p.m. Sing time, story hour for the children, prayer time, and a timely Bible study. Bring the family and share with us. Thursday Union Chapel EUB men meet at the church. Time of meeting “I was glad when they said onto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.” Psalms 122:1REYNOLDS ELECTRIC “FOR THE BEST AT - CLAIM TIME” BURKE INSURANCE SERVICE 239 N. 11th St. Phone 3-3050 FEDERAL LAND BANK FARM LOANS Thomas E. Williams, Mgr. Rose M. Gase, Field Office Clerk 216 S. 2nd St. Phone 3-1784 G. M. C. Sales & Service 4 NEW and USED TRUCKS Enns Sales & Service 121 S. First St. TEEPLE Moving & Trucking Local & Long Distance Phone 3-2607 Hi-Way Service Station 24 HOUR WRECKER SERVICE Body Shop—Complete Garage Night Phones Decatur 3-2024 or 3-9368 1613 N. 2nd Decatar 3-2928 Frits Ellsworth Gillig & Doan FUNERAL HOME Thomas N. Sefton, Mgr. ... STIEFEL GRAIN CO. PURINA CHOWS SEEDS — FERTILIZER 4 BgbT Ch,t Check-R-Mixing ha■’r■■ ■ ■ ■ o n » DICK’S TV SERVICE D. C. “Dick” AMSBAUGH 710 Dierkes Street - ■ r-- --: — - •-< /■ Phone 3-2096 | ADAMS COUNTY TRAILER SALES, Inc. NEW and USED TRAILERS Decatar, Ind. 803 N. 13th St. Phone 3-3138 SMITH PURE MILK 00. Year Local Milk I/erohant Grade “A” Dairy Froducta 134 S. 13th at Adams

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7:30 p.m. The Commission cm Christian Service is in charge. Donald Smith is the chairman. All members are asked to attend. Bring a friend. Thought for the week: “The most trying person is the person not trying.” WREN CIRCUIT E.U.B. A. N. Staley, pastor BETHEL 9:30 a.m. Sunday school. 10:30 a m. Prayer Service. 7:30 p.m. Evening Worship dismissed in favor of the Greenbrier Revival. - WOOD CHAPEL 9:30 a.m. Sunday School. 10:30 a.m. Morning Worship. The Sacrament of Holy Communion. Thursday BETHEL — 7:30 p.m. Prayer meeting. WOOD CHAPEL — 8:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting and Youth Fellowship. ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH (Friedheim) A. A. Fenner, pastor 9 and 10:30 am. Divine Services. 10:15 a.m. Sunday school and Bible Class. 1:30 p.m. Annual Voters’ meeting. Tuesday 8:00 p.m. Walther League meet in Church parlor. 8:00 p.m. Y.M.W.L. Meeting in School Hall. Wednesday 8:00 p.m. Choirs meet. Thursday 8:00 p.m. Bible Class will meet. The second best is never as good as the best. Try Our Ready-Mfca pfal Hfti Decatur Ready-Mix Corp. STUCKY FURNITURE CO. MONROE, IND. Sheet A furniture 150-152 S. 2nd St. Phone 3-2602 Decatur Miller’s Grocery Groceries, Fresh Fruit, Vegetables, Meat, Ice Cream 937 N. 2nd St. Phene 3-3307 JOHNSON’S STUDIO Candid Weddings Portraits, Commercial, Baby & Confirmation. RoD Film Developing-All Kinds. 110 S. 10th St. Decatur Decatur Equipment Inc. W Sales and Service ■ Hiway 27 North MBH Phone 3-2904 PRICE MEH’S WEAR QUALITY CLOTHING for MEN and BOYS Ml N. 2nd St. Phone 3-41J5 CLARK W. SMITH BUILDER ~ “A Complete Home Building Service” HAMMOHD FRUIT MKTS., INC. Fresh Fruits A Vegetables In Season 1 240 N. 13th ». Phono 3-3703 SMITH DRUG CO. 149 N. 2nd St. Phone 3-3614 Your Rexall Drug Store Phone 3-3181 Decatar, Ind. HARMAH’S MKT. GROCERIES - MEATS PRODUCE 618 Adams St. Decatur

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REJOICE IN THE LORD Rev. James R. Meadows We may say, “How can we_rejoice in suffering and sorrow?” The Apostle Paul knew what it meant to suffer for when you read his epistles you readily see that after the scales fell from his eyes and he became obedient to the heavenly vision that his suffering was great. Yes, he was stoned, beaten with many strips and one time left for dead; also thrown into prison and placed in stocks, but he continued to rejoice and to praise God. He even had a revival meeting in the Phillippian jail after an earthquake had wrecked the place. We often wonder if it is not going to take an earthquake or an H-Bomb or possibly a nuclear attack to jar America loose from her luke-warm and wicked condition. In the 36th verse of the 21st chapter of Luke Jesus said, “Watch ye therefore, and pray always that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of man.” We as Christians, are not looking for the undertaker but are patiently watching for the uptaker — the Lord Jesus Christ — Who will soon gather up His jewels. Yes, we are looking for that meeting in the air, when we will take our trip through space without a rocket, but a trip that will take us past the moon and sun and on to the Light of the world. Praise God for that hope. Our anchor holds, and we can rejoice that our names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life (Luke 10:20). In these last days in which ■ are now living, we as Christians, do not know what we may have to ' go through, but this we do know ! that cJrpat TMILJUPr hfILISP Os CtOCI 1 lit Hl tllV gitdt is an our disposal and if we have the Holy Ghost within ws can go ’through to Victory. I know every real born again Christian rejoices V. F. Hurst and Son ORNAMENTAL IRON WE FINANCE Phone 34481 IM N. lAh St. Decatar, Ind. FOR- - - Bonds - Mutual Funds See-George C. Thomas Reppert Bldg. Phono 3-2116 Decatur, Ind, GAY’ S MOBIL SERVICE 13th and Monroe St. Phone 3-3609 J GERBER’S memhoff HIWAY 27-33 N. DECATUR, IND. • RHONE 3-2060 GUARANTEE - BOND Fleet-Wing Products BEAVERS OIL SERVICE, IHC. Dependable Farm Service Phone 3-2705 Treon’s Poultry Market Fresh Dressed Poultry Fresh Eggs — Free Delivery Phone 3-3717

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that they are in the Ark of Safety, while the billions are rolling on all sides. Dear Lord, bless this little simple message as it goes out that it may bear fruit for Your glory. In Jesus’ name we ask it. Amen! <lll ■ ■'* a THIS WEEK’S'BIBLE VERSE “The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead of Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” — I Thessalonians 4:16, 17. BOWER Jewelry Store DAVIPSW BROS. ' ~ r L CaH TV 847X2 Pure “5” Point Service Clyde Conrad Service l> Our Measure : Adams A Winchester Sts. Phone 3-2578 K E L L Y ’ S Fabric-Care Center Dry Cleaning — Laundry Fur Storage Ceta Operated Laundry & Dry Cleaning 427 N. 9th St. Decanii 1315 W. Adams Phone 3-2971 The First Stale Bata MCATUR, IND. Established 1883 Member F. D. I. C. c LAWSON ~ Heating — Plumbing Appliances Sales and Service Phone 3-3626 1835 W. Monroe St. If No Answer Call 3-4539 ROTH ELECTRIC Home Komfort Insulation Electric Heat A Wiring I FREE ESTIMATES Phone 6-5161 Monroe, Ind. GALLOGLY BULLDOZING Land Clearing — Earth Moving Excavating LAWRENCE GALLOGLY Decatar, Ind. The 81-Way Tndler Owt on* of Indiana’s loading trailer courts, is located on highway U. 8. 17 near the south city limits of Decatur, Ind. A modern laundry, outdoor playground, new indirect lighting, picnic area, a recreation bunding and a tennis court, are provided foi the convenience e: the residents. Phone 8-0816 ADAMS COUNTY Farm Bureau Co-op Berne - Williams - Monroe Pleasant Mills - Geneva Everything in Farm Supplies