Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 181, Decatur, Adams County, 2 August 1963 — Page 6

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Churches Involved In Racial Problems

..By LOUIS CASSELS — United Press International “Organized religion has thus far played a relatively minor role in the struggle for racial justice in America.” Those words were written, by this reporter, a little more th six months ago. They are no longer true. Today, .churches and synagogues are deeply involved in the fight against discrimination. Protestant, Catholic and Jewish organizations are working together to muster public support for passage of civil rights legislation. Ministers, priests and rabbis are marching alongside Negroes in. non-violent demonstrations against segregation. Some have gone to jail. In Washinton, Chicago, Detroit and many other communities, •trifaith councils have been established to promote equality of opportunity in employment and housing. During the past few weeks, at least 30 Catholic bishops have issued pastoral letters attacking

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segregation as an unchristian denial of the dignity which God has conferred on every human creature. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church has appealed to all Episcopalians to walk picket lines, give money to Negro organizations, and otherwise demonstrate the church’s “identification with those who are victims of oppression ’’ The United Presbyterian Church has created a “Commission on Religion and Race” to stir Presbyterian laymen into emulating the example of their chief executive officer, Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, who was arrested July 4 for participating in a protest against segregation. The Synagogue Council of America has set up a “task t force” of rabbis, who are avilable for picketing duty and protest marches. The National Council of Churches is urging white Christians — both clergy and laymen—to join the “March on Washington” which Negro organizations have scheduled for Aug. 28. List is Lengthy The list could run on and on. A similar ferment of activity is under way in many religious organizations besides those named. Not all of their white members are happy about it. In fact, some are quite vocally unhappy to see the church “taking sides” in a social revolution. Religious leaders are well aware that commitment to the Negroes cause may cost churches and synagogues a few members and a great deal of financial support. They say, however, that the time has come for religious institutions to pay whatever price is necessary to demonstrate the sincerity of their conviction that God created all men, regardless of race or color, with equal rights and dignity. This "damn-the-torpedoes” spirit was expressed in a recent statement by the general board of the National Council of churches. It said: “Now is the time for actioneven costly action that may jeopardize the organizational goals and institutional structures of the church.” What is the Cause? What caused church and synagogue leaders to move suddenly from timidity to bold action on racial problems? Three factors seem to have contributed. One was the National Conference on Religion and Race held in Chicago last January. It was the first time in history that Protestants, Catholics and Jews had met together to examine their role in race relations. They went away from the meeting with a deep sense of shame about the past record, and a joint determination to prove that religion is neither indifferent nor irrelevent to what they called “America’s number one moral problem.” Close on the heels of the Chicago meeting came the demonstrations against segregation in Birmingham, Ala. The alreadysore consciences of . many white Christians and Jews were sharply pricked by the spectacle of Negroes being doused by fire hoses, attacked by police dogs, and herded into jails. Negro Patience Exhausted The nationwide wave of demonstrations which followed Birmingham was the clincher. Religious leaders realized that Negro, patience was exhausted, and that it was no longer a question of whether racial barriers should come down rapidly or gradually, but a question of whether they would come down peacefully or violently. "Birmingham and what followed has confronted the nation with a near-revolution by Negro citizens,” said Mathew Ahmann, executive director of the National

Rural Churches MONROE METHODIST CHURCH Charles E. Elam, Pastor • 9:30 a. m. Morning Worship. There will be no Children’s Choirs during month of August. 10:30 a. m. Church School. 12:30 p. m. Youth will leave for Senior Institute at Epworth Forest. 6:30 p. m. Jr. High M. Y. F. No evening services. WEDNESDAY 8:00 p.m. Mid-week services with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Nussbaum as leaders. Topic is "Isiah.” PLEASANT MILLS METHODIST Joseph Gibson, Pastor Sunday school at 9:30’ a.m . Divine Worship service at 10:30. Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren. Dolar Ritchey, pastor Sunday School 9:00. Oscar Geisel, superintendent. Director of Children’s Work, Barbara Barger. Morning Worship 10:00. Sermon subject,” The Tragedy of an Empty Life ” Prayer meeting Wednesday evening 7:30. Pleasant Mills Baptist Chuch Lowell Noll, S. S. Supt. 9:30 a.m. Sunday School. Help keep up the attendance during this vacation period. Read II Chronicles. ST. PAUL MISSIONARY CHURCH (2 Mi. East and 2 Mi. North of Monroe) Robert R. Welch, pastor 9:15 Morning Worship 10:15 Sunday School WEDNESDAY 7:30 Prayer ana Bible Study 7:30 M.Y.F. and Chldrens Bible Hour RIVARRE U.B. CIRCUIT Stanley Neuenschwander, pastor MT. VICTORY Chambler Brodbeck, S. S. Supt. Sunday School 9:30 Class Meeting 10:30 YPMB 7:00 Evening Service 7:30 Prayer Meeting, Wed. 8:00 MT. ZION Roman Sprunger, S. S. Supt. Sunday School 9:30 Morning Worship 10:30 C. E. ‘ 7:00 Prayer Meeting, Wed. 7:30 Pulitzer Winning X Poef Dies Suddenly SEATTLE, Wash. (UPI) —Prof. Theodore Roethke, 55, a Pulitzer Prize winning poet, died of a heart attack Thursday night after collapsing in a neighbor’s private swimming pool on Bainbridge Island. Roethke was stricken on the island across Puget Sound from here where he and his wife Beatrice, were living during the summer while he was writing a book. — Hecollapsed hile standing in shallow water and was immediately pulled from the pool but died about 25 minutes later. Roethke, an English professor at the University of Washington, won the Pulitzer Prize for a book of poetry called “The Waking” which was published in 1953. Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice. “It has also confronted religious men with the necessity of choice. The time for religious fence-sitting is over. "Neither the Kennedy administration, nor massive civil rights legislation, nor the Supreme Court, can forge the necessary national consensus that integration is a good thing. Only organized religion can forge this consensus; and it can do so only if it is willing to go all the way. "We either accept the leadership that is ours, or we forfeit the right to be truted.”

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Venture of Faith Lesson for August 4,1963 Bible Material: Genesis 13 through 14.

Devotional Reading: Romans 8:1-8. CURELY it would be a very extraordinary mortal who would be remembered with pride nearly four thousand years after his lifetime. Such a man was Abraham, honored as a saint in three religions, Jewish, Mohammedan and

Christian. There is a Mohammedan mosque over the cave where it is said Abraham was buried; and pious Jews used to write out prayers and drop them in, presumably over his tomb. But Abraham is much

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more than a historical curiosity and a post-mortem saint. The point is, Why is he so long and so respectfully remembered? He was a rich man for his times; he was a stout desert fighter; he was a great family man; he was on equal terms with kings. But he is not best remembered for these things. The word that should pop into any one’s mind if asked what Abraham was noted for, is Faith. The faith that says, “I believe" Faith has various meanings. We can select three of these and find that Abraham had all three. Now Abraham’s faith, of whatever sort, was centered in God. This man had some faith in his family, a little in people outside his family, and no doubt some self-con-fidence. But these are slight matters, and he is not remembered for his faith in man. He put his faith in God. How he came to know about God when his ancestors were worshippers of “other Gods” as Joshua said (Joshua 24:2), we do not know. What experiences led him to the God forgotten or never known by his fathers before him, the Bible does not say. But he believed in God, and God counted it to his credit. He believed in God in three ways which are closely related. First he believed that what God said was true. God gave him a threepart promise: first that he should have a son and many descendants; second that these descendants would “inherit” a place in the sun, to grow to a nation; and third (stranger than all) that in some way he, Abraham, would be one who would bring a blessing to the whole world. Ths faith that says, “I will” ~ The reader can think for himself why all these promises were hard to believe. But Abraham believed them because he believed that it was God, and not some trick of his own imagination, who had put the thought, the conviction, into his mind. How did God speak to Abraham? Did Abraham hear God just as you hear voices on the radio? Did God speak in the Sumerian language? (Abraham lived where Sumerian was spoken, and the Hebrew language had not then been bom.) We don’t know about this. What is really important is that what God wanted Abraham to believe, he believed. It was not only a matter of believing that God’s promises were true. He could have believed that with his eyes shut, dozing over his supper, without the least danger in the world. But God called him into uncertainty and danger. GO! God said; and Abraham went. He had flaith that said “You are right” in the face bf improbabilities; he also had the faith that said “I will” when faced with hardship and risk. He had a sitstill consenting faith but he also had a going faith. The faith that says, “I believe what you art” Abraham believed what God said, and he was willing to do as God commanded him, because ht believed in God. Again we do not know how he came to this faith. Perhaps gradually, perhaps all of a sudden. At any rate we all know what it is to believe in a person. You know this person will not lie , to you, you know this person will not try to use you for selfish advantage. You know that this kind of person is just not capable of doing a mean thing. If some one told you a scandalous story about him you would know at once it couldn’t be true. Abraham had that kind of faith. The number one thing with him was after all, believing in God’s promises and God’s commands. He believed in God. period. Believing that God exists is thought by some people to be the essence of religion, but it is not. I believe that pipe organs exist but that does not put one in my house and it does not make me a musician. Religion begins to be religion when we no longer merely believe something about God, but personally believe in Him. If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG reaulta.

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UNION CHAPEL EVANGELICAL UNITED BRETHREN 11 “Serving this Community for over a Century” Kenneth P. Angle, Pastor Tom Gaunt, S. S. Supt. Devotions for all ages 9:00 a. m. Bible Stucky 9:10 a. m. Lesson theme: “The Venture of Faith.” Scripture Gen. 12:1-9. Divine Worshiplo:oo a. m. Duet — “Jacob’s Ladder” Kathy and Brenda Roughia. Sermon—“ God’s Mercy.” Scripture—Psalm 51. Take note of the early time for the church school and the morning worship. This will continue at this early hour through the month of August and including the first Sunday in September, the Ist. On September the Bth we will be on the regular, schedule. There will be no evenihg services this Sunday. Newt Sunday, August 11, is visitation Sunday. There will be no services all day. Plan to visit another church. SUNDAY Senior Youth Conference at Oakwood Park. This will continue until Saturday. WEDNESDAY No "Good News Club” for the next two weeks. Hour of devotions and Bible Study—7:3o p. m. THURSDAY The “Charity Circle” will meet at 7:30 p. m. Thought for the week: Today, we desire rest. But rest can be rest only in God, and rest in God is believing in Jesus Christ. SALEM METHODIST Joseph Gibson, Pastor Divine Worship at 9:30 a. m. Sunday School at 10:20 a. m. MYF Seniors leave for Camp today. Prayer meeting and Bible study Wed. .at B,p. m. The requests that all youth going 5 to Senior Institute Sunday be at Church to hear the announcement concerning rules at camp. ST. PAUL LUTHERAN Preble Norman H. Kuck, Pastor Early service, 8:15 a. tn. Sunday school, Bible class 9:15 a. m. Late service 10 a. m. SALEM UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST H. E. Settlage, Minister 9:00 Sunday School. Classes for all age groups. 10:00 Worship service. Sermon, “Followers of God?’ Tuesday 7:30 meeting of the Women’s Guild. Wednesday 8:00 meeting erf the Church Board. Saturday 10 to 10:45 Children’s choir rehearsal. WREN CIRCUIT E. U. B. A. N. Straley, Pastor BETHEL a. m. ’Sunday School. 10:30 a. m. Prayer service. 8:00 p. m. Evening Worship. Sermon: “Divine Persistence.” Wednesday 8:00 p. m. W.S.W.S. Thursday, 8:00 p. m. Prayer meeting. WOOD CHAPEL 9:30 a. m. Sunday school. 10:30 a. m. Morning Worship. Sermon: "Divine Strategy.” Thursday, 8:30 p. m. Prayer meeting and Youth Fellowship. ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH ' Friedheim A. A. Fenner, Pastor Divine services at 9 and 10.30 a. m. with holy communion in 9 o’clock service. TUESDAY Walther Leaguers will meet in School Hall at 8:00 p. m. WEDNESDAY All day quilting by Ladies Aid, In church parlor with sack lunch. THURSDAY School cleaning day, all day, all ladies urged to take part, men also needed. ST. JOHN UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST Vera Crui Robert R. (Meson, Pastor 9:30 a. m. Sunday School. 10:30 a. m. Worship service. Installation of pastor. . Rev. Henry G. Kroehler, president of the Michigan-Indiana Synod, preaching. ST. LUKE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST r Honduras Robert R. Oleson, Pastor 9:00 a. m. Worship service. Installation of pastor. Rev. Henry G. Kroehler, president of the Michi-gan-Indiana Synod, 10:00 a. m. Sunday School. Wk WEDNESDAY 4* Junior Choir Practice at 6:30 p.m. Adult Choir Practice at 7:00 p. m. THIS WEEK’S BIBLE VERSE "Hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He hath promised to them that love Him’’—James 2:5A

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GOD'S PROMISES TO THE POOR The world is full of poor people today, and right here in the good old U. S. A. we have millions of citizens who are poor as far as the world’s goods are concerned. Some are seemingly destitute, even in this tme of high wages. But remember, God’s promises are not just for the well-to-do, or the rich, but as we search the Scriptures we find that the choice promises are to the poor, lor it says, “Hath not God chosen the poor of this world?” Some will ask, “Why does God choose the poor of this world?” We will answer by asking you a question: “How many humble people do you find among the rich?” Note the words of Paul found in I Cor. 1:26, “For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called.” How many great men of the world today are humble followers of Christ and putting their complete trust in God? Look at .the great scientists, inventors, fianciers, rulers, kings, presidents. How many go down on their knees before God to worship Him in spirit and in truth? We know there are exceptions. For instance, that great General Douglas MacArthur, who comes out boldly and gives God the glory for the -victories in the South Pacific, and just recently that wonderful prayer that Astronaut Gordon Cooper taped while passing over the Indian Ocean on

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his 17th orbit. Yes, and there are others, but the great majority are telling what THEY are doing or what THEIR money is doing to bring success. Therefore, today as well as in the days gone by the real spirit-filled Christians are mostly to be found among the poor. But we realize our just being poor is not the only reason God chooses us. The Scripture says, because they “are rich in faith.” Yes, there is where we made contact with God. Had faith that God could save us from our sins through the blood of Jesus Christ. Had faith that the Holy Spirit could keep us out of the sin business. A person does not have to have an abundance of this world’s goods to be rich in faith. Poor people trust God more. The rich are inclined to trust in their gold and silver. The rich man or woman, as a rule, do not have much time for God and His work.

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