Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1936 — Page 2

Ave to Deliver

- Sermons Here

LT ours, Voyages, Play, Study to Occupy Clergy This Month.

Indianapolis pastors and their : / families are joining the rank and

. file of enjoyment seekers, putting * aside the church duties conducted during the other 11 months of the year, and whether it be work or play, are taking “time out.” Sight seeing at home and abroad, fishing trips, expositions, conference work, family reunions and exchange pastorates have attracted Indianapolis ministers. “Their playground is to reach from Maine to California and from the Great Smoky Mountains to Canada.

Dr. Frantz Leaves Tuesday

-Dr. George Arthur Frantz, Pirst Presbyterian Church pastor, with Mrs, Frantz and daughters. Sarah and Barbara, and son, John, have begun preparations for a vacation in Maine. They are packing riding " habits, fishing tackle and outdoor clothing for a two-months stay in the open. They expect to leave Tuesday. . Dr. William H. Crophers, Maryville, Tenn, is to fill the pulpit during Dr. Frantz' absence. Conference work in Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio is to occupy the attention of the Rev. R. H. Mueller, . First Evangelical Church pastor, during August.

Newport Calls Fergusons

A family reunion is in progress in ‘Newport, Mich. Dr. and Mrs. John B. Ferguson are visiting with Mrs. Ferguson's sister, Mrs. Mary Hemminway, missionary on furlough from China, and other reiatives. The Fergusons have been going to _ Newport for the last five years. .The pulpit at the Irvington Presbyterian Church is to be filled by guest pastors during Dr. Ferguson's absence from the city. Dr. Ernest Evans is to speak for the next two Sundays and Dr. H. B. Hostetter is to speak later in the month. The Rev. and Mrs. George S. Southworth and son George are at their summer cottage in Deer Isle, Me. Mr. Southworth is Church of the Advent pastor. During July the Rev. Francis McCabe is to conduct Holy Communion at 9 Sunday mornings. The Southworths are to return the second week in Septem-

The Rev. Ogden to Fill Pulpit

‘While the Rev. Ephraim D. Lowe is preaching at the First Church in Worcester, Mass, during August, Mrs. Lowe's brother, the Rev. Urban L. Ogden, is to fill the pulpit at Mr.: Lowe's church, Olive Branch Christian. | Mr. Ogden is a Butler University graduate and formerly was pastor at the University Heights Christian Church here. Mr. and - “Mrs. Ogden with their two children are to arrive the first of August, when Mr. and Mrs. Lowe and sons Francis and Paul are to leave. The Rev. and Mrs. O. H. Folger and daughter Joan are to leave Wednesday for Michigan where Mr. Folger, First Friends’ Church pastor, is to attend a congregational assembly. Church affairs are to be in the hands of the committee headed by Charles Reeve. Dr. and Mrs. J. Ambrose Dunkel are.in New York. They are to sail Wednesday for a six-weeks visit in England and on the continent. Various ministers are to speak at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church in Dr. Dunkel's absence. ~~ A motor trip to Moose Lake, Minn., and Canada, is the vacation ._ plan for the Rev. R. M. Daodrill, Broadway Baptist Church pastor, and Mrs. Dodrill. They intend to leave Monday with the Rev. William E. Houghton, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Sturgeon and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Kean. Dr, J, E. Sharp is in charge of the pastors to speak for the next three weeks.

- Attends Geneva Conference

Dr. Ernest Evans, Indianapolis Church Federation executive secretary, is attending the Association of Executive Secretaries Conference at - Lake Geneva, Wis,-and the Rev. and Mrs. Elmer G. Homrighausen on a tour to California. Mr. ighausen is Carrollton Avenue Reformed Church pastor. On Sept. 6 the Rev. Sidney Blair Harry, Meridian Heights Church pastor, and the Rev. Elmer Freed, Taylorville, Ill, Presbyterian Church pastor, are to exchange pulpits. Mr. Harry formerly preached in Taylorville. Mr. and Mrs. Harry and daughter ‘Ruth and son Billy are to leave Aug. ‘8 for a visit at the Cleveland Exposition and the Great Smoky Mountains. ‘They intend to return after Labor Day, The Rev. Charles G. Mitchell is to take charge of Garden Baptist Church vesper services during the absence of the Rev) Clive McGuire, pastor. Mr, McG Indianapolis . Baptist Association executive secretary, with Mrs. XcGuire, is to take 8 two weeks’ trip the last (wo weeks July. :

wrech 1s to Vote

on Call to Pastor

The Washington Street Presbyterian Church congregation is to e, following tomorrow's service, he Pulpit committee's recomtion of the Rev. Henry E. Kansas City, Mo, for church

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LOCAL MINISTER!

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The Rev. W. A. Shullenberger—at work.

Economic Liberty Is Termed Form of Slavery by Pastor

Misunderstdanding of Freedom Has Plunged the Entire

World

into Chaos,

Is His Belief.

BY THE REV. R. A. MGOWAN A recent address. in praise of liberty’ spoke of “our native (that is,

American) predilection to get something for nothing.”

The speaker did

not, identify liberty with liberty to get something for nothing. But that

is what economic liberty has turned

out to be.

I would no admit that the predilection to get something for nothing or the debasement of liberty, either singly or jointly, is distinctively

American. in a fat holding-company. Liberty is noble. But economic liberty has long been the liberty of the brigand and the bandit. It has ruined liberty. It has ruined peaples and a whole world. The millions at liberty to walk the streets without work are workless because of the long distortion of liberty in a country and world which magnify it beyond the general welfare and which declare that to organize and use government for the general good is wrong. As a matter of fact, the theory of the greatness of liberty when joined to the well-known predilection is even one of those cursed alien ideas imported from Europe. A. Scotchman formulated it. Adam Smith, his name was. He had come to the conclusion that God doesn’t pay any attention to the world or men. And so he argued: God made the world with all its wealth and man with all his abilities and passions and everything is good. God created it good and it has remained good. Even greed is good. Leave, then, greed alone, he said, to ‘work its way out. Give it liberty. The free conflict of equally greedy men, if they are not allowed to form combines, works out for the best in this, the, at least ultimately, best of all possible worlds. One man’s greed would balance another man's greed. No organization. No government, except to prevent and punish theft and murder, which must be, I suppose, exceptions. Adam Smith wrote a book called “The Wealth of Nations.” He wrote it just as America was born. It fitted the world current. It soon became everywhere the gospel of world degradation, which has led on to World War and world depression. Adam Smith did not invent greed. He merely told people that their greed was high and noble and God's will and advanced progress, and made the world go round, and increased the wealth of nations. Against the liberty of greed stands today the liberty and duty to organize in our economic life and use govermamental power so as to protect our real liberties and guide ourselves to the general welfare of the country. Against Adam Smith's deism of holy greed and an absen‘tee God stands the gentle gospel of Christ who watches over us and told us to love one another. Against it stands the natural law of our human unity. We are even told now by mest economists that Adam Smith was wrong; liberty for greed, resulting in swollen and useless incomes .on the one hand and wrecked workers and pinched farmers on the other, prevents us, we are told, from using cur wealth and causes the unemployment and the misery. Adam Smith wrecked Adam Smith's very aim, “the wealth of nations.” Greed has swallowed up the nations, which could have been and was prophesied in the first place.

Englewood Church Class to Get Flag

Mrs. Emily Cole is to present an American flag to the Englewood Christian Church Opportunity Bible Class at 9:30 a. m. tomorrow during Sunday School session. The class, with John H. Rader, teacher, is to be in charge of the church evening service.

[amanan Have New Church Site

Yet certainly they long ago incorporated themselves here

Priests to Mark Anniversaries

Fathers Habig, Schludecker Ordained 25 Years.

and the Rev. Mark Schludecker. O. F. M., two Franciscan priests who offered their first masses on the sam@’ day in Sacred Heart Church in 1911, aré to celebrate ‘the silver jubilee of their ordination tomorrow at that church. They were ordained in St. Louis, Mo., on June 29, 1911, and officiated at high mass on the following Sunday at Sacred Heart Church.’ The Rey. Leo Ohleyer, O. F. M,, is to preach the sermon ‘during Father Schludecker’s mass. Father Ohleyer is to act: as deacon and the Rev. Constantine Bach, O. F. M, is to be sub-deacon.

Servers Are Named

. The jubilee sermon for Father Habig’s mass is to be preached by the Rev. Peter Volz, O. F. M, a classmate of Father Habig in the seminary at Teutopolis, Ill. The Rev. Frank Hulsman, nephew of the jubilarian, is to assist. . Servers of the Holy Mass are to be other nephews of Father Habig, kCharles Habig Jr., and Frank, Leo and John Lauck. Ushers include Frank Habig Jr., Anthony Lauck, also nephews. Tollowing mass & dinner is to be

his assistants and immediate family at Bluff Crest. A reception is to be held in the parish hall in the evening. Father Schludecker was born here. His mother, Mrs. William Schludecker is a parishioner of Sacred heart Parish.

Second Reception Arranged

Father Habig was born in Shelbyville. He completed his philsoph-

cago, Cleveland and St. Louis.. Father Habig, his guests and relatives are to have breakfast at 11

Club following the jubilee n:ass. Mr. and Mrs. ‘William Habig, 3400 S. Meridian-st, are to be hcsts at a reception at 2 p. m. ' Father Habig's nieces are to be hostesses. They include Mrs. Carl Pfleger, Mrs. James Sullivan, Misses Helen, Mildred, Marie and Ruth Habdig and Marie Lauck. Father Ha Emma Habig, Mrs. Anthony Lauck, William Habig, ‘Charles Habig and Frank Habig, all of Indianapolis,

Church Is to Send Institute Delegates

The Fifty-First Street Methodist Church is to be represented by 11 young people at the Riverdale Epworth League Institute, Sunday through July 12, near Mitchell. Moré than 1000 Indiana Conference young people are expected to attend the program, which is to in-

matics, music and nature study. The Rev, Wilbur D. Grose, FiftyFirst Street pastor, is to lead one of the Quest groups. The delegation of 11 includes Vance and Richard Wilkinson, Wil- | 1:4 liam Irwin, William Riker, Rose-

The Rev. Urban Habig, O.F.M,

served for the Father Schludecker, |.

ical and theological studies in Chi- |}

a. m. at the Indianapolis Athletic

is a brother of Miss en

‘Fact of Sin,” 10:

‘I South - | pastor.

The Rev. G. A. Frantz, and son John—at play.

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Weekly Sunday School Lesson

Holy Spire Coming in Power

Acts 1:6-9; 2:1-11, 32-38

BY W. E. GILROY, D. D. Editor of Advance : Infernational Uniform Sunday School Lesson for July 5. N his last work to the disciples following His Resuréction, Jesus assured them of the outpouring of the Spirit’ that would come upon them as they tarried at Jerusalem, and ‘told them that, with this preparation, they would become witnesses of the Gospel in Jerusalem, in Judea, in Samaria, and in the uttermost parts of the earth. The Day of Pentecost, when this assurance was fulfilled, usually is recognized as the beginning of the Christian Church in its world-wide organization anda mission. The day was characterized not only by the

preparation of the disciples, but the.

world-wide mission on this new religious movement had also a fitting beginning in the gathering of devout. men assembled, as our lesson states, “from every ‘nation under heaven.” One of the amazing things in the

New Testament is the record of how-

men traveled relatively long distances, in a day when travel was slow and giieuls.

HE missionary ° * journeys Saint Paul, that in actuality

or in Paul's aspiration -empraced

practically every part of the civilized world of that time, could not have been so successful had not Paul found almost everywhere he went devout Jews who had already wandered far from their Palestinian homeland in pursuit of their various occupations. Nor was there, in this gathering on Pentecost, a common language that Jews could speak and understand. We are told that there were others from various parts of

of

the world, both Jews and proselytes, who spoke in their own languages; but ~ through some remarkable manifestation there was a common understanding. We can not penetrate to the mystery of this. But the record

is clear that a deep sense of unity, |

common experience, and common purpose pervaded the meeting, : 2 =» =

O such gathering is complete or effective without some great leader who, speaking out of his own heart and the Intensity of his experience, has the power of rallying men and women to a great cause.

Pentecost found its leader in Peter, who preached a sermon that moved to the depths of: his being every man at all responsive to the appeal of the Christ. Peter brought home with plain words the responsibility of those who had sent the Master to His death. In the spirit of repentance and penitence, they consecrated themselves to this crucified Lord and to the perpetuation of the religion that He had witnessed in His words, in His life, and in His death. Thousands "fell under the spell of the occasion and under the power of 'Peter’s message; and ‘the great work that had begun did not end on the Day of Pentecost. “The Lord added to the church daily such as were being .saved.”

Can Pentecostal conditions be re-

The Rev. A. H. Woodard and daughter, Mary Lounise—at rest.

Workers of Christian Church

to Convene at Bethany Park|:

44 Marion County Groups Are Invited to Attend Adult

Conference July 19 to 26.

The 44 Christian churches in Marion County have been invited to send representatives from the church school, teachers, choir, missionary

societies and official board to the first Indiana adult “Learning for Life”

conference.

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It is to be held July 19 to 26 at Bethany Park.

Baptists Want Mission Fund

Drive for $17,000 to Begin in Churches Tomorrow.

A, two-month campaign to raise $17,000 for missions is to be inaugPurated tomorrow by Baptist churches in the Indianapolis area. The Rev. J. S. Clutton, Tuxedo Park Baptist Church pastor, is to direct the drive for increased mission pledges.

A report of the drive is to be made at an Indianapolis Baptist Associa-

produced in the modern world? Yes, tion nieeting to be held Sept. 15

where the spirit of Pentecost is present, where men and women ‘are willing to wait in patient discipline and. expectation, and are equally ready to go forth when they have received the consciousness of their

Baptist Church. Assisting Mr. Clutton with the campaign are to be Mrs. Fred L. Warner, Darrell Laughlin, Dr. Her-

call and mission.

bert F. Thurston, Elmer Fye and George Zimmerman,

IN INDIANAPOLIS CHURCHES TOMORROW

BAPTIST

to) yuliurst—The Rev, C. H. Scheick, pasMi night,

orning, “Throne of God”; Guiding Star,” special numbers by Eastern Star choir.

River Avenue—The Rev. Geor : > Billeisen, pastor. Moning. “Deoctr of Redemption’’; night, “The Double Br

Emerson Avenue—The Re pastor. Morning, ‘The Nivion. “Splendid. No evening service. W. Hartsock,

Tabernacle—The Rev. ‘8. astor. Morning, “In Him All Things old Together’’; night, union service with Fairfax Christian Chdrch.

Emanuel—The Rev. Harry C. Linece, lon, Morning, “The Water of Life”; night, Mrs. Lince, wife of the pastor, speaker.

First—The Rev. Carleton W. Atwater, pastor. Morning. Bible School, 9230, morning worship, 10. 35.

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Memorial-The Rev. George G. Kimsey, pastor. Morning, ‘The Message of the Book of Acts’; night, “The Bible in Our Modern Age.”

~ CHRISTIAN

Englewood—The Rev. O. A. Trinkle, ng, “A Faith That Works Ls a Religion jor Sood Citi. n charge o porty un J. H. Rader, teacher; W. 7, McDonald, president. Centenary—The Rev. Harry T Bridwell stor. orning, 10:30, the Rev. mith, speaker; hignt, 7:45, the Rev. Poe

Johnson, spes aker Hillside—The Rev. Herbert J. Wien. or. Morning, “God's Blessed M:

past night, “Pinding God.”

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University Park—The Rev. Genel |, her, pastor. ice, 16%. Bible sc Central—The ‘Rev. - astor. Morning worihiy, so srthwood—The Rev. R. Melvyn Thomppastor. ad imrumg, “Bigness Never

9:30; morning See 10: Cr ots, po oH ters in a Show Wi i, » 10:

Downey Avenue—The Rev. B. R. Joh 10:4

son, pastor. Morning, ‘‘An Uniolding Purpose or Why Nations Are Born,” 8:30; Riekt, union service on lawn, the i

n, paster, 7 Eighth The Rev, Glen W. Mell, Morning,

r Patriotism’’ union THE the Rev. George speaker. -

Seventh—The Rev. Aulirey H. Moore,

pastor. Morning. “The Love Filled Life”; ight, 0 po TRE at St. Paul MM. E

ure Third—The Rev. William »r Rothenburger, pastor. Morning. “The : le Fountain Sguare—The Rev. E. L. Day. Morning. ‘*‘Christian Citizenship.” CHRISTIAN SCIENCE All Churches—Lesson. sermon, “God.” "CHURCH OF GOD

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Berry, itt SpeRRer Bath Mor Be a deren, Sraon Suess ; pat ie Te Ra

Sunday Eo EW, 10:45;

9:30,

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Eimtey, | Moin re. ied

Moroing. Sunday H. A. Sherwood:

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EPISCOPAL

St. Paul’'s—The Rev. William Burrows, rector. Morning, Holy Communion, 8:30; Holy Communion and sermon, 10:48,

St. Matthew’s—The Rev. Harold O. Boon, vicar. Morning, Holy Communion, 7:30: Holy Bor and sermon, “our Future,” 9:30.

EVANGELICAL

First—The Rev. R. H. Juetler, pastor. Morning, Zndangered 14 berty.”” 10:30; night, “Love at First Sight,” 7: 30.

Zion—The Rev. Frederick x. Dares. pastor. Morning, German “A Ti Admonition’’; English, * "That Which Lites Us.”

Beville Avenue—The Rev. F. C. Kuebler, pastor. Morning, Holy Communion; night, “A Gallant Gleaner. :

- FRIENDS

First—The Rev. O. Herschel Folesr. jai tor. Morning, combined service

Mrs. Florence kwood, nt Wi Szcond Friends Church, speaker. LUTHERAN 5 TSreh of Our Redeemer—The Rev. H. Eifert, pastor. Morning, ‘‘Free -Christians in a did Country,” Holy Communion, 10:45 St. Mattnow- The He L. C. E. Fackler, pastor. Morning, Christian Liberty.” Bethany—The Rev. J. Luther dite Das tor. Morning worship, 8:30 and e Wages of Mercy’: Bible sehool, thsemane— The Rev. J. S. Abert, pasMorning, “The Mercy of God.” METHODIST 2FSseRvad-—The Re v. M. O. Robbins, pasMorning, ‘Rainbows in the Mak10 ee night, ‘One Man's a Meridian Street—The Woodard, pastor. Maing: Vrne. Victor: ous Christ.” ‘North—The Rev. C. McPheeters, = tor. Morning, ohureh | School, 9:30; Reo ing Jrership, ‘My Pather and I Are One,” Roberts Park—The T. Alexander, pastor. Morting rs One. Thing Neearul, 10:45; night, "Remembering Broa day The Rev. Richa

rd M Seeth’”; night,

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E. Arnold Ck tor. “The Higher Preps ess.” THe, al Avenue—The Rev. Charles Skinner, pastor. Morning, com-~ bination service and church school, 10; pO avn for the World Task.” East Park—The Rev. Its tor. Morning, 3 li by ay w New Jersey Street—The Bdwin J. Weiss, Morning, 22 Solid Foundation Puen”

Capitol Avenye_The Rev. ——

Honor to Vetarans - “The Price of Independence” |

W. | Carnes,

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METHODIST

Merritt Place—The Rev. C. C. Bonnell, astor, Morning, “The Child in the idst’’; JR01S ot Communion; night, ‘The Cast of the Net.

Fifty First Street—The Rev. Wilbur D. rose, past or. Morning, “The Larger Freedom’, 10:30,

East Tenth i, Rev. J. N. Greene, pastor. Morning, ‘Life's Su reme Lesson”, 10:45; night, Epworth ague, 7:30 Woodside—The Rev. M. Reynolds, pastor, Morning, eli-sacrificing Patriot: m”,; night, Evangelistic service.

Madison Avenue—The Rev, Charles A. McCullought, itor. Morning, “The Ideal an Life”; nigh{, union services on Tra Central campus.

Barth Place—The Rev. H. R. Cross, Pastor. Morn ning, ‘““The Supreme Sacrifice’; “Good Cheer Through Christ.” a Rev. E. Earl Jones, pastor. Morning, ‘These “Three”; night, union service in Forty-ninth Street Christian Church, the Rev. R. M. Best, speaker. Blaine .Avenue—The Rev. Lemuel G. astor. © Morning, “The Ministry of Christ”; night, “The Rich Man ang Lazarus.” . Brightwood—The Rev. P. T. Ta astor. Morning, - “Qur Spiritual oards’’; night, “Worship and League. Old Bethel and Henninger—The ‘Rev. James. A. Alley, pastor. Morning, ‘“Spiritual Example”; night, Epworth League.

NAZARENE

First—The Rev. W. BE. Albes, astor. Morning, “Good Soldiers of Jesus’ Christ; night, ristian Freedom.”

NONDENOMINATIONAL Unity Truth Center—The Rev. Murrel G. Powell. ,, pastor. Morning, ‘‘Infallible SalMrs. Gertrude Shaner, speaker, West New York Gospel Mission—The Rev.. Maud unser *. pastor. The er, afternoon a

Rev. Simien Sm Self Realization Fellow:

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evening. umar Das, Ton pleari M, Eckutras, speaker, “Divine Lov’, 11. gd ae Rev. Otto H. Oo “God’s Radio fn the ang A 5 Th Deri of the Wea 23h Te PRESBYTERIAN George Arthur Prants, ny worship, 10. © Freaiies "The Fu BL D. McNeal, pastor. urch at Wo A. Mears, y.” 10:45.

and 16 ‘at the Thirty-first Street

The Indiana Woman's Christian Missionary Society and the Indiana Department of Religious Education, functioning for the Indiana Christian Missionary Association and the National Department of Religious Education are conference sponsors. Conference graduates and young married people are eligible. Features are to include teas, daily vesper services, musical festivals, daily morning watch conferences and recreation.

Leaders Are Named

John Harms, state religious education director, has announced the following leaders: Dr. H. Augustine Smith, Boston University School of Music; Prof. George V. Moore, College of Religion. Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky.; Emory Ross, New York, secretary of interdenominational Congo Protestant Council of Africa; Willard E. Shelton, St. Louis, Christian Evangelist editor; G. I. Hoover, Indianapolis, Indiana Christian Missionary Association secretary and Bethany As--sembly president. Wilbur C. Parry, St. Louis, national director of adult work; Mrs. C. E. Shields, Danville, Ind., church

‘worker; Mrs. June Stanley, Lexing-

ton, Ky., Kentucky Woman's Missionary Society president; Mrs.* O. H. Greist, Indianapolis, Indiana Woman’s Christian Missionary Society secretary.

Camp Meeting to Open July 9

Missionary Bands Are to Sponsor Sessions.

A 10-day camp meeting, July 9 to 19, at Salem Park, 3400 W. Wash-ington-st, is to be sponsored by Missionary Bands, with the Rev. O. H. Nater, president. Prayer, 6:30 a. m., special services, 9:30 a. m.; school of prophets, 10:30 a. m. preaching, 2:30 p. m., and evangelistic meeting, 7:30 p. m,, is to be the daily schedule. Special

T, | services are to be held at 9:30 a. m.

and 4 p. m. daily for children, and at 6:30 p. m. daily for yoyng people. July 19 is to be Missionary Day when the following are to be guests: Rev. and Mrs. Fred Abel and Dorothy Abel -of Japan, Mrs. Edith Willobee of India, Rev. Ray L. Kimbrough and Miss Maude Kahl of Jamaica, and Rev. A. L. Luttrell, Island of Guam.

Church Is to Begin

Summer Programs |: Central Avenue Methodist Church

Al- | is to inaugurate its combination

summer program for church and church school tomorrow. The church school is to be divided

into the first section for classes

through the intermediate department and the second section for church school classes. Departments ‘n the first section are to work

| tndividual programs.

fu the second section, with the con-

"| gregation, are to have worship and

study programing commencing: at

© |10:15.

E. W. Stockdale Js church. sohool superintendent.

i Youth Leader to Aid

City Church Pastor|

Christian Unity Declared Need of Civilization Creed Competition Seen as Weakness of Old, Modern Church. BY THE REV. WILLIAM F. ROTH-

ENBURGER Pastor Third Christian Church

According “to the unprejudiced historian, ~ Christianity has to its

£ | credit an amazing mass of influence

shed upon the progress of civilization. Religion is the greatest power in the world, but it was both foolish and cowardly for the proponents of Christianity to close their eyes to one of the greatest weaknesses of its adherents, namely, its divisions. It was a scandal when in the

| ninth century the condition of -

Christianity divided it into the

3 Eastern and Western churches. It

was. likewise a scandal when, in the sixteenth century, conditions of the Western Church resulted in division. Since that time Protestantism has continued the scandal by dividing into more than 200 separate bodies, Divisions are entirely out of hare mony with the prayer of our Lord for the oneness of His followers.

A Victimized Church

The church has been victimized by the worldly atfitude of competi= ‘tion which has all but wrecked our civilization. The religion of Christ seeks to lift the human family out of the turmoil of competition and place it upon the high plain of good ‘will and co-operation. This was the passion of Jesus and the vision for which He gave His life. In spite of this heritage, it has not been too easy to forget Paul's injunction, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” We descend to the low plane of the

world when we stoop to the secular ism of competition rather than rise io the Christian plane of co-opeérae= on. This lack of co-operation has caused certain places in our cities and countrysides to be visibly over= churched while others are suffering from inadequate spiritual direction. Many a deserted church is not so much a sign of religious degenera= tion as it is a symbol of sectariane ism and a victim of shifting populations. Christian statesmanship has been too frequently crucified on th cross of sectarian intolerance while the forces of evil make merry as on a holiday.

Civilization in Danger

1 Certainly it must be plain to: the close observer that our civilization is in danger; that if it is to be saved from being wrecked upon. the rocks of hate, war and greed, it must be by the combined and every= day efforts of spiritually minded people. "Without compromising in the least. the essential elements of either. personal or collective faith, there are many things. which all Protestants can do together better than separately. They sing many of the same great hymns, read the same sacred Scriptures, confess the same Christ, pray to the same God and are face to face with: the same human nature. Many of them live together in beautiful marriage relationships. Why then, under. such circumstances, should we duplicate effort, confuse the masses and thus waste man power and money? It is because supreme emphasis is too frequently placed upon change ing creeds rather than upon the une changing Christ; upon the defense of a certgin brand of Christianity rather than upon bringing in the Kingdom of God in our day. It is because our minds seem not to have grasped the eternal fact that to save civilization from reverting to paganism is far more important than to save any one denomination. as such.

All Religions in Unity

It is because we have not yet made real the significance of the Magter's words, “He that saveth his life shall lose it and he that loseth his life for My sake and the gos« pel’s, the same shall save it.” It is because we have not awakened to a

emphasis from a bloodless battlefield of cloistered dogma to blood-stained battleground of os man suffering and sin. Furthermore, there are many things which not only Protestants can _do together but in which all the spiritual forces—Protestants, Roman Catholics, Greek Orthodox, and Jews —can combine.

attitude that courageously toward world brotherhood even

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kind of strategy which shifts the . °