The Independent-News, Volume 100, Number 36, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 April 1974 — Page 9

ANNUAL mass and BREAKFAST SET Rev. Richard Kennedy, C.S.C., pastor ol St. Patrick's Church, South Bend, will be host to the Annual Mass and Breakfast sponsored by the South Bend Deanery Council of Catholic Women on Thursday, April 4 at 9.00 am. The parish Altar Society with president, Mrs. Stanley Zamiatowski and the DCCW parish representative. Mrs. Oliver Parcher, serving as chairman of the breakfast, w:il welcome all the ladies of the many parishes in the South Bend Deanery. Rt. Rev Msgr. Stanley Manosk,, diocesan director of Lay Activities, will be celebrant and honnliM lor the Liturgy, assisted by Rev. Raymond J. Balzer, deanery mos -ator, and Rev. James K. Trt oanier, CJS.C. as concele. brants. Father 'rrepanier. director of Fatima Retreat House, Notre Dame, wll speak on "The Imjiortance f Family Prayer" at the breikfast to be served in Ken t K> urt of St. Patrick's grade school. Mrs. Thomas Arch, who served as chairm an of the DCCW Annual benefit card party will present a check f”i five hundred dollars to C< rv.lla Home for the Retarded. DCCW president. Mrs. Homer Dick'-i n, will confer awards on ladies v. ho have served the Deanery ba 2’5 years. The over all planning for this Mass and breakfast was done ty Mrs. Elmer Danch. Church Community Affairs chan man Reser. vati< ns SIOO, are requ.red for attendance at the breakfast and should made Monday, April 1 with .Mrs. Parcher (234-9610 1, Mrs. Danch 12^9-4520 1, or the individual representative of each parish ar. 1 then forw irded to Mrs Parcher. Publicity chairman is Mrs. Waiter P. Duggan. YORKTOWN ( LI B MEETS The March meeting of the Yorktown Extension Homemakers Club wa« held in the heme of Mrs Dak Ullery with Mrs. Jack Tie de as co-hcstess. Roll call was answered with what I wanted to lie when I grew' up by seven members. A lesson on ceramics was presented by Mrs Harry Maskrman and a lesson on Ktc -knitting was given by Mrs. J< -eph Lowry. Rein ‘hments were served by the hostesses The hostess prizes wer u n by Mrs. Marvin Bouse Helps Shrink Swelling Os * Hemorrhoidal Tissues caused by inflammation Doctors haw found a medica* turn that in many caws give* prompt, temjKirary relief from pain and burning itch in hemorrhoidal tissues Then it actually helps shrink swelling of those tisKiN-s caused by inflammation. The answer is Preparation H*. No prescription is needed for Preparation 11. Ointment or suppositories. * A W A TRIGGERS 1 ✓ focbiqcuttinq jobs, and httle pruning jobs. IfGHTwtKiHT rowrnnjt ntiGGro MIQ9S ONLY I IV with 12” bar t chain & CARRVCASf Look for your local Homolilt dealer In IM yellow po<et canny case offehexpires otcmvi

and Mrs. James Bolze. The next meeting will lie held on April 29 in the home of Mrs. Jack Tiede. Business Women Members of the Walkerton Business and Professional Women's Club were priveleged to hear first hand, the work.ngs, efforts and advancement of the MarshallStarke Development Center, on Thursday evening, March 28, at their dinner meeting at the Friendship Restaurant, Koontz Lake. The speaker, Mr. Clarence Bauman, Workshop Director, of Plymouth, showed slides and explained how their organization assisted in the training of small children, school age children and the adults who have mental problems. Not only the students, but the parents have received much aid from the Center. A most devoted start member, Mi Bauman .mpressed his audience with his loyalty. Many of hi> listeners were not aware that their efforts were in vain. Most enlightening was the fact that many businesses in the Bremen and Plymouth area sent work to the Center, whereby adults are learn.ng i trade and receive a fee for their work. The families of

A Miracle To Hold In Your Hand

77tr Living Ri Me ( oncordance is a muavle that the common man can hold in his hand. This particular miracle weighs approximately five pounds, has more than 1200 pages and more than 734,000 cnoic' to encourage both the most casual and the most concentrated study. Because every word from The / trine Bible is shown in context with corresponding book, chapter and verse references. Every h»otno(e of al ternate* trans'.at ions is included, and there are two special appendixes to complete the work. And it was completed—not by a list of scholars with more degrees than a ther-mometer-but by a small group of dedicated members of Poolesville (Md J Presbyterian Qturch. Poolesville is about 20 miles from Washington, D.C. It begin after a longawaitedbaby was born, three months early, to Jack and Judy Speer, a computer programmer and his wife, ihe couple was visiting relatives in Cincinnati. The docton assured the anguished parents that everything possible would be done to save their son’s life, but realistically gave odds as 300 to 1. They said they had never seen a baby so small survive. “We called our pastor, Rev. Filbert Moore at Poolesville. and asked for prayer.” Jack Speer recalls. “He organized a prayer chain with everyone praying every hour on the hour. Ihe baby’s weight had propped to two pounds, bufhe hung on.” And the church continued io pray. . Jack Speer returned to his job in Washington while his wife stayed in C incinnati where their son was bom and remained in an incubator al Children’s Hospital. “We saw' a lot of other babies die,” Jack Speer told his pastor. Back in Maryland he found it difficult to concentrate on his job. One day he left the office to spend the rest of the day in a book store looking for a Bible that he could read east |. The / icing BibL . the popular paraphrase by Dr. k nneth N. Taylor, was his choice.

these disturbed persons ate also given aid and encouragement. Thus adults are finding a place in cur world whereby that young man or woman can say to their parents, "I can help." Following the d.nner and the program given by Mr. Bauman, the business meeting was taken over by Mrs. Roger Kelly, club president. Guests introduced were Mrs. Mamie Winstead, Walkerton, and Miss Sharon Oliverius, of Knox. The annual Easter ham, sponsored by the ways and means comm.ttee, headed by Mrs. Eugene Baughman, announced that Mrs. Arthur Barden could add to her family Raster dinner party, the ham, which Mrs. Baughman presented to her. Mrs. Robert Cripe received the door prize. Mis. Fran Gindelberger, protem for the secretary, reported new members as Mrs Dorothy Sheaks, Mis. Thomas Pry, Mrs. Douglas Baker and Mrs. Gary Shields. Mrs. Cripe contributed to the b.rthday bank. Mrs Kelly named the hostesses for the April committee and wishall a happy going home. It Is easier to do than to w’orry.

“I still didn’t know win titer the baby w übi live or die, but I decided that it would be an act of faith to name him, and give him a special name,” Speer said. “1 was told at tb.e bookstore that ihe fastest way to find such a name was by using a concordance.” Speer's problem was compounded when he learned that the only complete concordance was for the king James I nglibh Bible, wutten in 1611. w “I dediced that compiling a concordance for The J icing Bible would be a good project for the church. Ihat night, when I had dinner with the pastor, we talked about it,” Speer said. “We felt it would be an opportunity to make a significant contribution to a greater understanding of the Bible, and to enable oui church to to financially continue its mission work for the Lord in the rural Poolesville area.” At first glance, the church seems ill-suited for such an enormous undertaking. A country church, it had grown from 26 members to a mere 58 in six years and still lacked the financial resources to cany on its mission work. Its existence depended on an annua^mtiibuth>n of more than SIO,OOO from other Presbyterian churches. Then Martin Fuller Speer arrived and his birth triggered his dad’s need for a concordance. “We wanted to produce a written tool, as big as the Bible itself, that the ordinary lay man could use as a key to get inside the Bible,” said Speer. Moore telephoned some religious publishers he knew. They told him such a project would cost al least $50,000— a staggering sum. “But the odds against the baby living had been 300 to 1 and he was alive,” said Moore. “We decided this was what the Lord wanted us to do and that it would be an act of faith to attempt it.” Representatives of the church flew to Wheaton, 111., to meet with Dr. lay lor, president of Tyndale House, who had paraphrased Ihe Luing Bible. Dr. Taylor not only endorsed the project, he aBo ■ supplied the potential nura-

APRIL 4, 1971 -> fHE INDEPENDENT-NEWS -

SCHOOL MENU Walkerton Elementary APRIL 8 - 12 MONDAY Fried chicken Sweet potatoes Buttered peas Bread and butter Apple sauce Milk TUESDAY Hamburger and spaghetti Buttered spinach Bread and butter Pudding Milk WEDNESDAY Barbecue sandwich Buttered rice Fruit cocktail Milk THURSDAY Chicken noodle soup Crackers Peanut butter and jelly sandwich Apple pie Milk FRIDAY No lunch, sch "1 dismissed at 11:00. Good Friday One homeowner to mother: "I knew I was n trouble when the plumber drove up in a new Cadillac."

cle workers with the computer tape from which Ihe 1 nine Bible pages were composed, paring countless hours of the computer work needed to prepare the new book. That was the beginning of the miiades. Some may call them coincidences, bul not in Poolesville. Md. The computer tapes which analyzed and indexed every word and footnote in The I h ing Bible were turned over to a computer center - managed by one of the nevz church members. He had made arrangements with his employers lor donated computer time. Computer programs written especially tor this job were needed. Jack Speer and other new members of the congregation were experienced programmers. But special expertise was necessary for additional programming and paying for it posed a real problem-until the programmer who accepted the task elected not to cash his paycheck until the finished concordance paid for itself. Another sophisticated machine, seemingly unavailable, was needed for additional work. One day a new member ot the congregation called his pastor to report, “Our company’s been waiting for one us these machines •for six months. It arrived tliis week.” Ihe concordance was to be readied for the pi inter by a process called photocomposition. .A member of the congregation had a photocomposition business. Punting costs loomed large. Then the printer, like the programmer, decided he wouldn't collect his money until the concordance’s sales reached the break-even point. Die small congregation hoped to get the project on its financial feet with an initial, deluxe edition aimed at libraries. This required special paper with a life of 200 years. The printer didn’t know where to get such paper. Moore stumbled across a souice. “When the first edition came off the ptesses, members had contributed more than S6,(XX) of their personal funds, hoping only to get then money back from the sales,” uid Moore. “Il was

4-H NEWS The Oregon-Annies 4-H club held their regular meeting at the Oregon-Davis High School. OL Leer.-, for this year are: President. Susie Pulliam Vice-president, Cindy Matusiak Secretary, Vicki Allen Treasurer. Stacy Mosley He ilth and Safety, Cliru Kling, er Reporters, Deanna Anderson & Denise Borrelli Devotions, Shelly Kimterlin Song leaders, Diane Jacobs & Michelle Brown Recreation Leaders, Julia Fin. ley & Carla Shores The 4-K Dress Revue Workshop was held at the high school on March 9 with Miss Bobb.e Schultz in charge. Dues were set for the year. Sandy Fximundson gave tin demonstration. Vicki Allen. De. anna Anderson, Cindy Matusiak, Stacey Mosley, Susie Pulham anl Carla Shores will be on the .mt:, ation committee. Refreshments were served. The next meeting will be on Api 11 16. If you look forward tn Monday more than you do Friday, you're in danger of becoming successful.

agreed that any profit would go to church nusdons.” “liieir fai’h was phenomenal,” said Speer. “One woman, a divor ee with five children, put in SSOO her life savings. We told her, 'We accept it with gratitude, but well spend your SBOO last.’ ’’ Bat it seems that the congregation will get ns money back, plus a profit that will keep its mission endeavors alive. Because the 2,000 numbered first edition I icing Bible Concordances are well on their way to being Sold and the church has selected Tyndale House to print other, abridged editions. Ihe Living Bible Concordance was a natural tlm g for Tyndale House to be interested in, according to a spokesman for the publishing company, and the church will be paid royalties for each of the Concordances published and sold by lyndale House. “To begin, the concordance is as different from other concordances as Ihe 1 iving Bible is different from other versions ot the Scripture. The / iving Bible has translated difficult-to-under-stand terms in today’s language. The I iving Bible Concordance does the same tiling.” He explained. “The widow’s mite in most translations is defined in Lhc I iving Bible as two [Kniues. Ihe living Bible ( one rdance lists the illustration that Jesus used under pennies, wid w, and mile and x for starters. “If someone can remember only one word of a scripture he can lock in this concordance and find that scripture.” The King James Concordance that Speer first encountered lists Biblical cities by their ancient names. Ihe Living Bible and Ihe Living Bible Concordance lists the names of cities presently on those sites. For instance, the ancient city of Smyrna is now Izmir, in Turkey. Ihe 1 iving Bible Cordan c listing isasuiuqic as lhc I ^.ne Bible. And it all started with 1 premature babv. answered prayer and Luth. Hut’s a miiacle any way you pronounce it.

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