Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 50, Number 185, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 17 September 1948 — Page 4
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SCRIPTURE: Acts 19:23-41. DEVOTIONAL HEADING: 18:1-10.
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: For a Better City - Lesson for September 19, 1948
Dr. Foreman
rOR A BETTER CITY" Is a T good slogan. No one would think of objecting to it; If the great city of Ephesus, capital and metrop
olis of the wealthiest and most thickly populated province of the Roman Empire, had had a chamber of commerce, no doubt they would all have been in favor of a Better City. There would be no argument about that
The question is: What makes a city better? Four different ideas on that line two very bad ones Snd two good ones can be seen in the story of Acts 19. You should read the story Itself before looking over these comments. Because we are beginning toward the end of the story, with the very lowest and silliest of the four ideas how to make a city better. It is a very simple idea: Just i'holler," yell, make a demonstration. Make it long, make it loud, and the city will be the better for
il i or two mortal nours mat aDsurd mass-meeting kept the uproar going: . "Great is Diana of the Ephesiansl" A curious thing, the mobmind. If something is true, how . can noise make it truer?- If a ' thing is a lie, how can all the shouting in the world make it respectable? But the mob-mind thinks that if a thing is said loudly enough and by enough people, it is bound to be true. So that theater-full of fools wasted a good afternoon shouting a lie into the deaf blue heavens. It did Diana
no good. She was as dead as Marley's ghost, she had never lived, in fact. It 'was no use drumming up the decibels. Do you know people who think they can make your town better by shotting about it? It won't work. You can make a town or County famous if you shout long enough; but you won't make it bet-
Makinq Money
HP HE SILVERSMITHS thete in
A Ephesus had another theory.
The way they looked at it, the big
CHRISTIAN SCIENCt SERVICES "Matter" is the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, September 19. The Golden Text is: "Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God" (Leviticus 19:4). Among the citations which comprise the Lesson-Sermon, is the following from the Bible: "Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with loud'voices, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. And there was great joy in that city" (Acts 8:5-8). The Lesson-Sermon also includes the following passages from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "Anciently the followers of Christ, or Truth, measured Christianity by its power over sickness, sin, and death; but modern religions generally omit all but one of these powers, the
power over sin" (p. 142). "The an-
TOU'RE INVITED TO ATTEND THE CHURCHES' IN SHELBURN FIRST METHODIST CHURCH Rev. Lester N. Abel, Minister Church School, 9:30 a. m. Morning Worship, 10:30 a. to-
Evening Service, 7:00 p. in. SHELBURN CHURCH OF CHRIST Bible Study, 10:00 a. m. Worship Service. 11:00 a. tn. Bro. Herman Goble will preach every first Lord's day of each month at both morning and evening services. CHURCH OF GOD Rev. Hughes R. Morehead 9:30 Sunday School. 11:00 Morning Worship, 7:30 p. m. Preaching. Wednesday 7:30 p. m., Preaching. Thursday 7:30 p. m.; Y. P. E. Services. Saturday 7:30 p m, Preaching SHELBURN CHURCH OF GOD MOUNTAIN ASSEMBLY Rev. O. L. Bunch, pastor Sunday School at 10:00 a. m. Booster Band Sunday evening, 6:00. Prayer meeting Wednesday
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evening, 7:00.
cient Christians were healers. Why 1 Poaching service Saturday
has this element of Christianity ,CV6U'"6.
been lost?" (p. 146).
ST. MARY CHURCH Mass Schedule Sept 19 Sullivan, 7:30. Shelburn, 9:30. r-
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PENTECOST CHURCH 502 North Court Street. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. Church Services, 10:30 a. m Church Services Sunday, 7:00
P. M. i .
Prayer Meeting Wednesday
7:00 p. m.
Church services Saturday
7:00 p. m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST North State Street Bible Study, 9:30 a. m. Worship service, 10:30 a. m. Evening service, 7:30. Wednesday evening service,
7:30.
Preaching the second and
fourth Sunday of each montri. Speaker, W. W. Adamson,. second Sunday and James A. Thrasher, every fourth Sunday.
Preaching service Sunday evening, 7:00. During July and August these services are one-half hour later excepting the Sunday School service. Everyone welcome.
SHEtSTJR?! FUST CHRISTIAN CHURCH Bible School In Junior O. t A. M. Hall each Lord's Da.. morning at 9:30, followed b. Lord's Supper.
METHODIST CHURCH Rev. E. E. Aldrich, minister Church School at 9:30, Monroe Griggs, General Superintendent. Morning worship at 10:35. The Sanctuary Choir by request are singing Sergei's "My God and I". Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hedden will sing a duet. Sermon subject, "God present with us." Methodist Youth Fellowship
at 6:30. Edgar and Ruth Hedden
thing is money. They used to make win direct the program. It will
money seuuig tneir inue silver shrines. Now this fellow Paul had come along, persuading people that hand-made gods are no gods at all, and the trade in "sacred" trinkets had fallen off. It looked like a bad year for the silversmiths. To make things better, they decided, they needed more money. More business! More production! The fact that what they produced was not only worthless but actually harmful, did not seem to bother them. Do you know people like that today? Abiding By the Law THE TOWN CLERK of Ephesus had a simple idea, vastily better than these other two. He saw no sense in the mass meeting, he seems not to have been taken in by the silversmiths' crocodile tears., If anything was wrong in Ephesus, he said, the courts were open, and
trials were open, and trials could be held. We have laws let us live by them; that was the gist of his idea. That is not bad advice. All honor to the honest serants of the public who now as then give their best efforts to seeing that good laws are made ' and well enforced. - Changing Lives SPEAKING OF LAWS, there are three kinds of people in the world. One kind will not obey the laws whatever they are. These are the criminal classes. A second kind say "inside the law" but .they never adyancc a step beyond them. A third xind, too rape, will go far beyond the law's requirements in "personal living and in social helpfulness. Now Paul had been in the city of
Ephesus for some months, and he 1 a il A J .IAU U 1 - -.
nau nouiuig 10 uu wun uie laws ui that city. Yet what he was doing was more effectiv in making that city better than anything the courts could have done. , For what he was doing was - nothing less than changing lives. "The trouble with people is that they're people," and the busi- - ness of Christianity first of all is changing people. It is no nse hanging out the slogan "For a Better City" unless you are working for better people. : ' A tree is no healthier than its roots,, and- k community's roots are the characters of her people. And i from St Paul's day to this, the one ! and only organization' which1 sets out to change people from the inside, is the Christian church.
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be largely a musical hour. The Hour of Inspiration 7:30 on Wednesday evening.
Choir rehearsal evening at 7:30.
District Conference at Vincennes Friday at 2:30-9:00. Bishop Richard C. Raines, Indiana's new bishop will speak in the afternoon and also in the evening.
SHELBURN BAPTIST CHURCH
Jack Watson, pastor Sunday School at 9:30 a. m.,
Thomas Walters, Supt.
B. Y. F. at 5:00 p. m. Preaching services at 10:30 a.
m. and 7:30 p. m. on the 1st, 3rd
and 5th Sundays.
PILGRIM HOLINESS CHURCl" Shelburn Ind. Carl R. Brunton, pastor Sunday School at 9:30 a. m. Morning Worship at 10:30 a. m Evangelistic Service at 8:0i p. m. Wednesday Prayer Service a 7:30 p. ni.
PAXTON METHODIST CHURCH Sunday School at 9:30 a. m., Mrs. Cress Dailey, Supt. Preaching following Sunday School each Sunday. Rev. Eli Yates, pastor.
BETHEL METHODIST V. M. Suddarth, pastor ' Morning services on the second and 'fourth Sundays of' the month at 9:30 a. m. Sunday School at 10:30 a. m., Jesse Bedwell, Supt. Evening services on first and
third Sundays of the month at
Thursday 1 7:00 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday at
7:00 p. m.
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FHtST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Farmersburg, Ind. T. M. Jennings, minister Sunday School at 10:00 a. m. H. A. Baldridge, Supt. Morning Worship 11:00. Fourth Lord's Day preaching both morning and evening by Bro. Paul Neal.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH R. E. Pavy, Pastor Sunday Church School, 9:30. Allen Letterman, Supt. Morning Worship Service, 10:30. Sermon: "A Cheerful Giver." B. Y. F. and C. W. C, 6:30. All youth invited. A service for all age groups. Evenintf Evai-.irplisHn Rnruico
7:30. Sermon: "What Are We Chas' H Davis' Supt
Here For?" Curry's Prairie Associational meeting Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, Sept. 22, 23, 24, , at Pleasant View Baptist Church
SUGAR GROVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Morning worship, 9:30. Sunday School at 10:15 a. m.
PIII3RIM HOLINESS CHURCH 313 North Main Street Rev. Charles L. WUson, pastor Bruce Ccllins, Supt. Sunday School, 9:30 a. m. Mof ning worship, 10:30. Evangelistic service, 7:00 p. m. Children and young peoples service -Wednesday, 7:00-6:00 p. m. Mid-week prayer service, Thursday evening, 7:00. We welcome you to all our services. Pray, plan and come.
MEROM PENTECOST CHURCH
W. H. Day, pastor
Sunday School at 9:30 a. m.,
Bernard Criss, Supt. Evening services, 7:30.
Christ Ambassador service at
7:30 Tuesday. Russell Smith,
president. Thursday evening prayer ser vice, 7:30.
Communion each Sunday
morning. Everyone 'vslome.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. Homer G. Weisbecker Pastor Sundav School at 9:30 a. m., Russell Inbody Supt.
SCOTT CITY PILGRIM HOLINESS CHURCH Sunday School, 9:30 a. m. Preaching Service, 10:30 a. m. Preaching Services, 7:00 p. m. Weekly Prayer Meeting Tues day night at 7:00.
You are invited to worship with
us.
DUGGER METHODIST V. M. Suddarth, pastor Sunday School at 9:30 a. m.,
Morning worship, 10:45. Theme Zw i in"T ifo'o r"niWo Sunday morning service, 10:30. c 1! ' , , Prayer services Thursday, 7:00 Senicr choir practice Wednes- m day. 7:30 p. m. . p
The Women's Association will
meet at the church Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. Robert Springer is chairman. Mrs. James Durham will have ths devctkns. Rev. Weisbecker has returned from his vacation and will be in the pulpit as usual.
FULL' GOSPEL MISSION Emery Dilley, pastor Sunday School. 9:30. Preaching service, 10:30.
Night services, 7:00. - (Copyright by the la.etrnetoiioi Cotmea Tuesday night the young peoroteslant denoauaotions. Beleasei by pie Will have their meeting. iniS ym fatnre.; ... is also Bible Study night, 7:00. Friday night services, 7:00.
NEW LEBANON METHODIST Sunday School at 9:45 a. m., D' rothy Monrce Supt. . wvn-tita Ffrvire., 10:35 a. m Baptizing in the Wabash river ai ,u p. m. Sunday. You'h meeting (Rose Chapel) 6:00 p. m. Official Board meeting Monday at 7:00 p. m.
ROSE CHAPEL METHODIST
sunaay tcnooi at s:au a. m.,.
Everett Brcckei, Supt. Youth meeting, 6:00 p. m. Baptizing in the Wabash river at 2:00 p. m. Sunday. Worship service, 7:00 p. m.
This lad has "money in the bank" and is proud of his financial independence. He delivers newspapers and does other odd jobs to turn a few extra pennies. ' . He acquired two useful habits in his early childhood worlc and thrift. Through these he is able to pay his own way, have his own spending money, and put something aside each week as savings. Boys like him are not very apt to be found in trouble. They do not spend their spare time in idleness and among the wrong kind of associates, but 'divide it between recreation and useful work. ; Three elements are essential in any logical solution of our juvenile delinquency problem religious training, healthy recreation, and useful employment. Give a child these and he will steer a safe course. The most important of these is religion faith in God and humble obedience to the teachings of His Holy "Word.
THE CHURCH FOR ALL
LtURTHE CHURCH own sake (2) For hi. . . (1' For his ot I- children's sake. (3) For the
larly and readyour'Bibi?? " Tue.daV JJalthew 20:1-16 Wednesday ft'lK6'1 Thursday y l 9:35-38 Friday y ?Tfc4: 3VM siay .'::.-::iIctT!S3ns,an5j:6-u 450 Pork Ave., N. Y 22, N. ?! 'y' DepL U'
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Recognizing The Importance Of The Churches Of This Community The Under.
, signed Firms Have Graciously Donated 1 his apace.
DAVIDSON CLEANERS Phone 371 Glessie Lewellyn, . Prop.
ROOT'S SULLIVAN STORE Quality Costs Less At Root's
MY BEAUTY SHOP LYRIC & SHERMAN Phone 600 THEATRES Sherman Building R. H. Tricker. Mgr. SPRINGER- THE FASHION SHOP GOUCKENOUR, COMPANY Pnone 380 Ladies Apparel j. c. Greenbergr I & DUDLEY SMITH DRUG STORE CHEVROLET SALES Phone 375 109 South Main 103 SouthMain . JOHNSON FEED & SUPPLY COUNTY HARDWARE COMPANY Vaughn Jones Sullivan-Linton North Side Square W. G. RIGGS & SON Mtt,BURN PHARMACY HARDWARE Phone 181 85 North Main The Rexall Store COX & WILLIAMS GARAGE 7 UP BOTTLING CO. Phone 619 Fresh Up with 7 Up 207 North Section Phone 501 - ' RADER SALES, INC. CITIZENS GARAGE : Phone 210 Phone 98 Your I-H Dealer, Richard Loyd. Prop.
WBLDIN'S GREENHOUSE Phone 9214 Beautiful Floral Designs
SULLIVAN DECORATING COMPANY Wallpaper & Paint Store
SPRINGER MOTOR SALES Phone 178 Your Packard Dealer
PETROLEUM SERVICE CO. Distributor GENERAL TDJES
SULLIVAN TELEPHONE CO. Phone. 196 Sullivan, Indiana
WABASH OIL COMPANY Phone 314 H. M. Stewart
THE COFFEE SHOP Florence Dawson Across From The Index
SULLIVAN COUNTY R.E.M.C. Phone 145 Sullivan, Indiana
CARL HILGEDIEK HEATING & PLUMBING Phone 317
FLYNN'S BURIAL VAULTS Phone 352 Sullivan, Indiana DOMESTIC SEAYMACHINE SHOP Phone 197
O. MARTIN GROCERY North Court Street Phone 259
P 4 ECUS & SIMS STANDARD SERVICE Phone 535
SULLIVAN MONUMENT CO. .Phone 191 R. H. Clarkson & Son