Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 1 February 1963 — Page 6

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Pastor Relates Joy Os Serving People

By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International A few months ago, the venerable Saturday Evening Post published an anonymous article entitled, “Why I Quit the Ministry.” The author, a young Presbyterian, left the impression that the ordained ministry is an unsatisfying vocation, filled with frustrations and disappointments. How many young people were discouraged from entering the ministry by this widely-read article can only be conjectured. But even one would be too many. For the Post article did not present a fair and accurate picture of the ministry. As many clergymen have pointed out, it was apparently written by a man who did not belong in the ministry in the first place. And a misfit is a poor judge of any profession. This month the Lutheran magazine published an. article entitled, “Why I Stayed in the Ministry.” The author is the Rev. Robert M. Herhold, a former newspaperman who is now a Lutheran pastor in Tucson, Ariz. “It would be foolish to pretend that htere arc not difficulties and frustrations in the ministry, just as there are in any job,” says pastor Herhold. But they are no greater, and in his experience, actually less, than a man would encounter in a secular vocation. The author of the Post article indicated that one of his greatest trials was the wrongheadness and insensitivity of the lay church officers with whom he had to deal. Ex-reporter Herhold comments that he has yet to meet a church councilman who can be as “difficult” as a newspaper editor. He agrees that most ministers, like the Post author, “would like to spend more time being pastors and less time promoting the various organizations and programs of the church.” Often Own Fault “But becoming an administrator , instead of a minister is often our , own fault,” he says. “We some- ; times take on jobs like running , the financial drive or overseeing ; the construction of a church , building, when laymen could do these things much better.” , He also deals with two other as- ‘ pects of die minister’s job that * have come in for much publicity ( lately—the many demands on his , time and the low pay scale. With regard to the first, Pastor Herhold says: “I know of few callings that al- j low for greater freedom than does , the ministry. No one tells a pasPresident May Visit Britain During Spring LONDON (UPI) — President Kennedy may visit Britain this spring for a new look at the Western alliance with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, diplomatic sources reported today. The sources said no firm arrangements had been made yet but the British government is hoping Kennedy will stop here after his visit to Rome and West Germany. Macmillan and Kennedy are believed to have been in close contact since France broke up Britain’s bid to enter the Common Market last Tuesday. The sources said the alliance now needs a full review despite the fact that Macmillan and Kennedy had a conference just last December in Nassau. U. S. Ambassador David K. Bruce left for Washington today for consultations with the President and it was believed he would bring up the subject of another

Ifc I '■■■■ /Ji® b a ■fl ■ ■ A IBbL v I ...J, , B ilß'- * ■ ..Xst b ‘ » GEORGE W. AUER, right, chairman of Zion Luther an church’s planning committee, is shown explaining some of the various types of church architecture to Zane Zwick and Mrs. Virgil Bowers at a recent congregation-wide meeting held at the church. The committee, established by the voters’ assembly in 1957 to study the congregation’s long term . needs, is asking every member to express himself concerning future plans through a preliminary survey questionnaire.

tor just how to spend his day.” As for ministerial salaries, he does not minimize the financial pinch on clergymen, but points out that “generally, teachers and reporters receive less pay than pastors do.” “There is far too much talk about the sacrifices a minister makes, and not enough about the joys he has,” says Pastor Herhold. One of the unique satisfactions of the minister’s vocation is the feeling that he is ministering to man’s greatest need. “Most men enter the ministry believing that man’s greatest need is to find himself in God. To be a pastor is often to be a part of the process by which people find the meaning of their lives. A pastor has a sense cf being related to the ultimate decision upon which all other decisions are based.” . Enjoy Sharing Privilege Pastors also enjoy “the privilege of sharing life’s most significant moments with people.” “To counsel with a young couple about the Christian meaning of marriage is to affect many lives. To help new parents realize the significance of bringing their first child to the baptismal font is to touch family life at its most sensitive nerve. To stand at the grave of someone needed and loved, and to remind a family of Christ’s victory over death, is to say the only thing that really matters then.” Pastor Herhold suspects that many young people who might otherwise be attracted to the ministry are put off by a misunderstanding of what constitutes a “call.” “The ‘call’ to the ministry is often confused by pious talk that doesn’t seem to apply to other occupations,” he says. “Actually, every Christian has the same call and that is to be God’s man or God's woman in whatever place they find themselves. Some men believe God can use their talents best as engineers, or as laborers, or as lawyers, while others believe that God can use them best in the ministry. “The call to any work is a persistent awareness that God wants a man serving in this particular way. Some of us have discovered that the harder we ran from. the ministry, the harder we were pursued, and finally we simply got tired of running.” It is clear from his article that Pastor Herhold has never been sorry that he stopped running. meeting with Macmillan. Shortly before Bruce left, President Kennedy’s special representative on trade, Christian Herter, arrived in London and began conferences with Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling, Foreign Secretary Lord Home and Frederick Erroll, president of the Board of Trade. Bruce talked with Hume and Britain’s lord privy seal, Edward Heath, Thursday. Today Heath and Macmillan flew to Rome for conferences with Italian officials. The series of conferences are designed to devise means for carrying out U.S. hopes for boosting world trade now that Britain has been barred from a Common Market that France obviously intends to dominate. _____ Thursday Herter closed out his trade talks on the continent with a speech in Paris before the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. He said the United States plans to make “the fullest possible use” of the authority given President Kennedy by Congress in the trade expansion act to cut tariffs and spur trade. He made no reference in his speech to the Common Market, but he said the United States is determined to join in a cooperative effort to boost world trade.

Navy Contract For Magnavox Corporation J WASHINGTON (UPI) — Award ( of a $1,924,824 Navy contract to 1 Magnavox Corp., Fort Wayne, to produce sonobuoys was announ- > ced today by Sens. Vance Hartke 1 and Birch E. Bayh Jr., D-Ind. Hearing On Lowering Taxes Is Postponed INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—A hearing on a proposal to reduce property taxes was postponed Thursday until Feb. 6 by members of the Indiana Tax and Financing Policy Commission. The plan calls for the present local property tax expenditures per pupil for operation of schools to be “frozen” as a sort of legal maximum. J. Ralph Fenstermaker, vice chairman of the commissiion, objected to the plan on grounds that it would be too difficult for local school bcaid to meet future budgets. Rural Churches WREN CIRCUIT E. U. B. A. N. Straley, Pastor BETHEL 9:30 a. m. Sunday School. 10:20 a. m. Gideon Speaker. 10:40 a.m. Morning Worship. Sermon: “The Source of Faith.” Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. W.S.W.S. Thursday: 7:30 p.m. Prayer meeting. WOOD CHAPEL 9:30 a.m. Sunday School. 10:30 a.m. Prayer service. 7:30 p.m. Evening Worship. Youth Fellowship in charge. Thursday: 8:00 p.m. Prayer meeting and Youth Fellowship. PLEASANT MILLS METHODIST Joseph Gibson, Pastor Sunday School at 9:30 a. m. Divine Worship at 10:30 a.m. W. S. C. S.: Mrs. Lowell Smith vzill conduct a class on Prayer Thursday evening, Feb. 7 at 7:30, at the home of Mrs. Wm. Workinger. This is the first of four weekly classes and everyone interested in improving her own prayer life is invited to attend. SALEM METHODIST Joseph Gibson, Pastor Divine Worship service at 9:30 a.m. Sunday School at 10:20 a.m. Prayer meeting and Bible study Wed. at 7:30 p. m. Everyone is cordially invited and encouraged to attend, all services.

UNION CHAPEL EVANGELICAL UNITED BRETHREN "A Church where Country and City folk worship.” Kenneth P. Angle, Pastor Tom Gaunt, S. S. Supt. Youth and Adult Devotions j 1 9:30 a. m. Children’s Devotional 9:30 a. m. Church School 9:45 a.m. Theme: “The Mighty Power of the Christ.” Divine Worship 10:25 a.m. Pastor’s subject: “A Youth who learned to say No!" Instrumental trio, “As a Volunteer.” Evening Worship Hour 7:30 p.m. Pastor’s subject: “In the Kingdom with the Patriarch.” Some laymen will be assigned to read prophetical scriptures; other laymen will read the scriptures of fulfillment. Be sure to bring your Bibles with you. Some of the youth will assist the pastor in the morning worship and also at the evening service. Some of the youth will serve as officers and teachers Sunday morning. We do thank God for our youth. Decatur Youth Sing 8:45 p.m. This will be at Trinity Church. Adillts are invited also. Monday-Wednesday: The State Pastor’s Conference will convene at . Depauw University. Tuesday: The Local Conference will not convene this evening. Wednesday: The Christian Fellowship Hour: 7:30 p.m. This is for all children, from Beginners through the Intermediates. Concern is increasing. We have had an increase in at-

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tendance each Wednesday P.M. “Hour of Sing Time, Prayer Time, and a time of Bible study. (Adults and Youth.) Thursday; Faith Circle meets—. 1:30 p.m. At the home of Mrs. Homer Tschannen, oi at Mrs. Myron Sir ■lk _ Bible Material: Mark 4:35 through 5:43. Devotional Reading: John 14:12-20.

Power Lesson for February 3, 1963 POWER is always fascinating. A champion boxer or swimmer, a Palmer or Niklaus driving down a long fairway, Niagara Falls seen from below, a severe electrical storm, a hurricane,—or the H power of influence, of ambition, of fear ... No kind of power is dull. Those who have it, or control it, seem awed by it themselves; and those of us who have little power are afraid lest Dr. Foreman power of storm or brute force of brutal men be turned against us. But whenever that word Power strikes the ear or eye, one of three words—or all of them—come to the mind at once, as a kind of question. Power —we think; power for—7 power over—7 power by— 7 Power over... The four pictures of Jesus in the four Gospels are each one different from the others. Mark’s picture is one of the Divine Man of Power. Christ’s ideas interested Mark less than His mighty deeds. For Mark, Jesus spoke by action quite as much as by words. Mark’s Gospel gives an amazing answer to the question: What did Jesus have power over? Everything, Mark says in effect. Even Storms; even death. Things out of this world, like demons, or things in this world, like fever,— Jesus controlled them all This is ! so astounding that there have always ben persons who boggle at it. There must be some exaggeration here, they think, or some j imagination running wild. How- 1 ever, let us take it for grantee! that Mark was telling the truth, wild as it seemed to be then and now. What he affirms is miracle, no less. Men today have some power over fever, storms, mad- I ness and death; but they do not claim miracles. The miraculous feature of Jesus’ miracles was that He didn’t do anything, He didn’t use anything, He just willed

(with or without words) that somethinghappen, or cease to happen, —and on the instant, so it was. The whole point of a miracle is not that it is unique or astonishing. The point is, it is not what would happen if nature were left to itself. The doctor giving antibiotics for infection may be using “miracle drugs” but the drugs are not really miraculous, they are as much a part of nature as the germs are. Jesus’ will is superior to nature. Jesus commands nature to be un-natural; and it is done. Power for ■■ • There is more to be said. The power of nature seems at times to have no purpose. We talk about an "angry sea,” a “bitter wind,” but the sea is not angry, and the bitterness of the wind is nothing compared to bitterness in the heart. The sea just smashes and passes on, the wind would as soon freeze a baby as an escaped convict. Nature has no purposes, or if she does she is not aware of them. But all Jesus did—whether we call it miracle or not—was purposeful. Now the purposes of ordinary men may be strong, but they are not always good and they are never completely wise. The purpose of Jesus in nearly every act of power He performed was clear. Power by... During Jesus’ lifetime, we are told, people asked one another: Who then is this? Mark has already introduced Jesus to bis readers: this is the good hews about Jesus Christ, the Son of God; This is power exerted by one who is so Godlike that He can be called the Son of God. And this is why (as Christians believe) only a few persons in the long history of the world, and then only for a few moments in all their lifetime, have been permitted to share the divine power that Jesus had. H G. Wells wrote a story called “The Man Who Could Work Miracles,” and any one who reads that charming and funnytragic story will see why it is that it is a very good thing for the world that miracles (mostly) don’t happen. Miracles are safe only when the power that wills them is wielded by one who shares the knowledge and the wisdom and the love of the infinite God. It may become terribly clear to a few survivors, if any, of a nuclear war, that ultimate power, used by angry or ambitious men or nations, may turn miracle into murder.

Frank's. Hope Circle meets at 7:30 p.m. Charity Circle meets 7:30 p.m. This will be at the home of Miss Betty Walters. Friday: Christian Crusaders meet at 7:30 p. m? Salem United Church of Christ Evangelical and Reformed H.E. Stettlage, Minister 9:00 Sunday School. Classes for all age groups. 10:00 Worship Service. Sermon “The One thing Needful.” 7:30 Junior Youth Fellowship. Tuesday 7:30 Women’s Guild Meeting. Thursday — AU day Meeting of the Ladies’ Aid. Saturday 9:00 Confirmation Class Instruction. 10:00 Children’s Choir Rehearsal. Rivarre U. B. Circuit Stanley Neuenschwander pastor MT. VICTORY Sunday School Supt. Chalmer Brodbeck Sunday School 9:30 Class Meeting 10:30 Evening Service “God’s Salary” 7:30 Prayer Meeting, Wed. 7:30 MT. ZION Sunday School Supt. Roman Sprunger Sunday School 9:30 Morning Worship “God’s Salary 10:30 C. E. 7:00 Prayer Meeting Wed. 7:30 All Quarterly reports are now due. ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH (Friedheim) A. A. Fenner, Pastor 9 and 10:30 a.m. Divine Services Holy Communion in 9 o’clock service. 10:15 a.m. Sunday School and Bible Class. 8:00 p.m. Walther League Play at St. John Gym. TUESDAY 8:00 p.m. Walther Leaguers meet.

WEDNESDAY All day quilting of Ladies Aid, BOWER Jewelry Store Wedding "g TEEPLE r 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 Decatur 3-2928 Frits Ellsworth STUCKY FURNITURE CO. MONROE, IND. i r-— SMITE DREG 00. 149 N. 2nd St. Phone 3-3614 Your Rexall Drug Store Phone 3-3181 Decatur, Ind. HARMAN'S MKT. GROCERIES - MEATS PRODUCE 618 Adams St. Decatur - - “I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.'’ Psalms 122:1. REYNOLDS ELECTRIC “FOR THE BEST AT CLAIM TIME” BURKE INSURANCE SERVICE 239 N. Uth 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 4 Service NEW and USED TRUCKS Evass Sates & Service 126 8. First St.

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with sack lunch. , 8:00 p.m. Choirs meet. THURSDAY 8:00 p.m. Bible Class will meet. FRIDAY 8:00 p.m. Adult Club meeting. MONROE METHODIST CHURCH Claude McCallister, Minister 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship. 19:00 a.m. Children’s Choirs. 10:30 a.m. Church School. 11:00 a.m. Youth Choir. 7:00 p.m. M. Y. F. 7:00 p.m. W.S.C.S. Adult Study Course. TUESDAY 7:30 p.m. W.S.C.S. Executive will meet at the home of Mrs. Paul Nussbaum. WEDNESDAY 7:30 p.m. Mid-week Prayer Service. 8:15 p.m. Senior Choir Practice. THURSDAY 7:00 p.m. Boy Scout Meeting. 7:30 p.m. W.S.C.S. Meeting. FRIDAY 7:30 p.m. Evangelistic Services with Rev. Maurice Stevens. Reception in annex following services. PLEASANT MILLS BAPTIST CHURCH 9:30 a.m. Sunday School. Lowell Noll, S.S. Supt. Read Ecclesiastes. St. Paul Missionary Church 2 mi East & 2 mi North of Monroe Robert R. Welch, pastor 9:15 Morning Worship 10:15 Sunday School WEDNESDAY 7:00 Prayer Meeting & Bible Study 7:00 M. Y. F. Meeting & Children Bible Hour Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren Dolary Ritchey, pastor Sunday Church School 9:30 Oscar Geisel, superintendent. Director of Children’s Work Barbara Barger. Morning Worship 10:30 Sermon -subject, “Jesus Deals With Evil Spirits.” / Evening services 7:30 Sermon subject. “More Than Self.” Prayer meeting Wednesday evening 7:30. Troon’s Poultry Market Fresh Dressed Poultry Fresh Eggs — Free Delivery Phone 3-3717

The second best is never as good as the best. Try Our Ready-Mix Dial 3-2561 Decatur Ready-Mix Corp. ■ KELLY’S Fabric-Care Center ... Dry Cleaning — Laundry Fur Storage Coin Operated Laundry & Dry Cleaning 427 N. 9th St. Decatur 1315 W. Adams Phone 3-2971 The First Stale Rook DECATUR, IND. Established 1883 Member F. D. I. 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 FREE ESTIMATES Phone 6-5161 Monroe, Ind. GALLOGLY BULLDOZING Land Clearing — Earth Moving Excavating LAWRENCE GALLOGLY Decatur, Ind. aarwa————————— —a .Sheete furniture 150-152 S. 2nd St. Phone 3-2602 Decatur Miller’s Grocery Groceries, Fresh Fruit, Vegetables, Meat, Ice Cream 937 N. 2nd St. Phone 3-3307 JOHNSON’S STUDIO Candid Weddings Portraits, Commercial, Baby A Confirmation. Roll Film Developing-All Kinds. 119 S. 10th St Decatur

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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. Evangelistic service in charge of youth. Prayer meeting Wednesday 7 p.m. St. Paul Lutheran church PREBLE Norman H. Kuck, pastor Early service 8:15 a.m. Late service 10 a.m. St. Luke United Church of Christ Dr. Meredith Sprunger, interim pastor Worship service 9 a.m. Sunday school 10 a.m. COMPULSION OF CHRIST'S LOVE Rev. James R. Meadows Christ’s love for the world compelled Him to bring the light and life of His salvation to answer the call of the deep needs in the darkness and death of sin. It is the glory of our Saviour that He made Himself subject to the imperative commands of His mission. Even when a young child He said, “I must be about my Father s business.” Continually before Him was the obligation expressed in His words,

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1963

“I must work the works of Him that sent Me.” He must go through Samaria because a woman at a well needed the Water of Life. He must go to Jerusalam and to the Cross, for there the Love of God had an appointment with the need of a world, a sacrifice was to be made for the sins of all people, that you and I could be saved from our sins, through the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. To have turned aside from the compulsion of His task would have been a denial His own divinity — an impossibility. How thankful we are that Christ paid for our redemption upon the Cross of Calvary that we through Him can have eternal life —• that wonderful gift we receive when we are born into His kingdom — the “new birth.” THIS WEEK’S BIBLE VERSE “And He began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.” — Mirk 8:31. DAVIDSON BR°S. Call T U 3-3772 ■■ ■■

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