The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 1, Milford, Kosciusko County, 1 January 1986 — Page 14

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., January 1,1986

Vatican is world's smallest state

By News Service • National Geographic Society Vatican City, 108.7 acres in the heart of Rome, is the smallest sovereign state in the world, even tiny Liechtenstein, the “postage stamp principality,” is 360 times larger than the Vatican. Vatican City’s permanent resident population is about 300. Its work force numbers slightly fewer than 2,000, more than 90 percent of whom ar# ordinary residents of Rome. Despite its diminutive size, the Vatican has all the trappings of nationhood: its own postage stamps, its own diplomatic corps, its own flag and its own army-the colorful Swiss Guard. Only about 400 people have Vatican citizenship. Two-thirds of them are either Swiss Guards or members of the Holy See’s diplomatic corps serving abroad. .Those Who Sleep There Os the 300 who sleep within the Vatican’s walls, 100 are Swiss Guards. The rest include cardinals, altar boys, members of religious orders, students at two colleges on the grounds, a few families of the “men of St. Peter’s-janitors, craftsmen and other laborers-and the Pope. John Paul 11, the former Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Poland, has been leader of the world’s 800 million Roman Catholics since October 1978. He is the 264th Bishop of Rome, linked in direct succession to the first bishop, St. Peter. / But the Vatican’s aura of United Methodist Church news The Milford United Methodist Church Wesleyan Class will have a New Year’s Eve watch party at the Leisure Living recreation room on Tuesday evening, Dec. 31, beginning at 9 p.m. Marie Stephenson is in charge of arrangements. The pastor’s parish committee for the new year will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 7, at 7:30 p.m. The pastor’s district meeting will be / at the First United Methodist Church in Goshen on Tuesday, Jan. 14, at 9 a.m. Mr. and Mrs George Hoppus were in charge of hospitality time after the 10:30 worship service last Sunday, Dec. 29.

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timelessness is an illusion in many ways. The Vatican City State dates its existence only from 1929, when the Lateran Treaty between Mussolini’s Italian government and the Holy See resolved a long dispute'"by recognizing the Vaticaiys sovereignty and establishing its borders. Beneath the towering altar of St. Peter’s Basilica, the world’s largest church, lie what are believed to be the bones of St. Peter, the first Pope. The architecture that now surmounts the ancient grave is mainly the product of a wave of creative energy in the 16th and 17th centuries. It was initiated by Julius 11, the “warrior Pope,” when the original basilica, built by Constantine in the fourth century, was showing signs of structural decay. Numerous artists had a hand in planning the new basilica, including the elderly and ailing Michelangelo, who designed the magnificent dome. Another artist who left a lasting imprint on the basilica was Gian Lorenzo Bernini. His 17th century statuary adorns the cross-shaped building and his bronze twisted- column baldachin provides a canopy over the altar. “Bernini’s grand colonnade, formed of two semicircles surmounted by heroic statues of the saints, makes St. Peter’s Square one of the most magnificent outdoor spaces in the world,” writes James Fellows in the December National Geographic. Restoring Michelangelo Maintaining the Vatican’s museums, gardens and buildings requires constant attention. Green protective netting temporarily covers the facade of St. Peter’s, which is being cleaned and refurbished. Shielded scaffolding also obstructs part of the Sistine Chapel, where a 12-year project is under way to restore Michelangelo’s ceiling and other priceless paintings to their original splendor. The work is being done under an agreement between the Vatican and a Japanese television network, which paid $3 million for the rights to chronicle the restoration. In May, 1972, a crazed man with a hammer severely damaged Michelangelo’s “Pieta” in the basilica. The white marble statue was painstakingly repaired Ibefore Christmas that year. To-

APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN v; MILFORD Dale Strassheim, Jesse Beer, / ■>-' Walter Steffen, and Tom Speicher, Ministers Morning Worship 10a.m. Afternoon Worship 12:15 p.m. if' CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH (Armstrong Road) * * OSWEGO Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 10:30a.m. Sunday Evening Worship 6 p.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7 p.m. Awana Clubs Wednesday 6:15p.m. ‘ v FAITHWAY BAPTIST CHU RCH Formerly Barbee Community Church r (Kuhn Drive, Little Barbee Lake) William L. Hutchins. Pastor Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Sunday Evening 6 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study And Prayer 7 p.m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF OSWEGO Rev. Roy Mickley, Pastor Sunday School 9:Ma.m. Worship Service 10:30a.m. WAWASEE HEIGHTS BAPTIST CHURCH (Across From High School) Norman E. McVey, Pastor Brice Medlock, S.S. Supt. Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Mid-Week Wed. 7 p.m. AWANA Clute Thurs. 6:30 p.m. BETHANY CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN (US 6) F. Wayne Lawson, Pastor Morning Worship 9:30 a.m Sunday School 10:30a.m. Wednesday Activity Night 7:30 BETHEL CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN MILFORD Roger Eberly, Pastor Raymond Hoover, Bd. Chm. Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30a.m. NEW SALEM CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN (900NB200E). Glenn Byers, Pastor Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Worship 10:30 a.m. Evenfrig Worship 6 p.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30p.m. CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN NORTH WEBSTER Emery Kintner, Pastor Morning Worship 9:» a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m.

day it is behind bulletproof glass. Plainclothes policemen are deployed throughout the display rooms of the Vatican museums. From a central control room supervisors monitor 25 closedcircuit TV screens. “The Vatican,” Fallows writes, “cannot really take credit for the genius of Michelangelo, or for Bernini, or Bramante, or the other artists who have adorned it over the years. But to have inspired so much devotion and creation over so many ages places it on a unique plane as a patron of the arts. When other organizations have survived and inspired over two millennia, let them question and judge.” Most of the day to day work in the Vatican depends on the efforts of ordinary men and women who work from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m., six days a week. Their pay is lower than salaries in Rome, but, as Fallows notes, “The Vatican is never going to Close down like a steel mill, it very rarely lays anyone off and its employees pay no income tax. ” The largest employer is Vatican Radio, with nearly 400 workers. It began broadcasting in 1931 and now beams messages to the world in 35 languages. Swiss Protect Pope Besides the Pope and the cardinals, the most famous people in the Vatican are the Swiss Guard, formed in the early 1500 s and composed of young Swiss Catholic men. The guard is responsible for the personal protection of the Pope, since the attempted assassination of John Paul II in 1981, training has become more rigorous and includes karate, judo and the use of weapons. The youngest segment of the Vatican’s population is the 30 to 40 altar boys, most of them from northern Italy. Contemplating a career in the priesthood, the youths attend the three-year preseminary school on the Vatican grounds, starting at age 11. The Vatican’s tone of agelessness pervades its every aspect, even the complaints about °its indirectness and “Mediterranean inefficiency.” After such a conversation with Fallows, a middle-aged Jesuit concluded with a phrase often heard: “Whatever the church is doing wrong, it’s done ! it for 2,000 years.”

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IN TRAINING FOR SWISS GUARD — Molding pontifical soldiers, Sgt. Martino Uti teaches use of the halberd, the traditional weapon of the Vatican’s Swiss Guard. Charged with protecting the Pope, the 100 member force dates from the early 1500 s, when Pope Julius II hired Swiss nercenaries to battle for the Papal States. Guards are among Vatican City’s permanent population of about 300, which also includes clerics, altar boys, students, workers and the Pope. (Photo by Ja lies L. Stanfield, National Geographic Society)

The seasons of the sou IX

By MARIETTA FULLER Our entire lives might be likened unto trees and the changes they make during the four seasons of the year. The first parents of the world, Adam and Eve, sinned when they disobeyed God and ate of the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Thus sin was brought upon all mankind. Therefore, God drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden and placed a flaming sword at the east end of the Garden of Eden, which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life (Gen. 3:24) or they would have lived in sin for an eternity. Our sinful lives are like the trees of winter — Bleak, dark and unfruitful in not bearing the fruits of the Spirit of Jesus of “love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance.” (Gal. 5:22-23) Jude 12 calls the wicked people still in their sin as “trees who are without fruit, twice dead.” “It is appointed unto man once to die,” (Heb. 9:27) “but the wicked shall die again and that in hell where

k, CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN SYRACUSE 'John McFarland. Pastor Junior Blough, Supt. "Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 10:Xa.m. Sunday Bible Study 7 p.m. TURKEY CREEK CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN GRAVELTON Dorctha and Ivan Fry, j Team Pastors Church School 9 a.m Worship 10 a.m. \ SAINT MARTIN DE PORRES CATHOLIC CHURCH SYRACUSE Father Robert Hammond Sunday Mass 0 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Saturday Mass 5:30p.m. Confession Before Mosses Holy Days 5: X p.m.. 7 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CATHOLIC CHURCH (4th And Mam Streets) MILFORD Bro. James Linscott, Administrator Sunday Mass 10:30a.m. FILADELFIA EVANGELICAL SPANISH ASSEMBLY OF GOO, Milford Bi-Lingual Services Pastor Alberto Jimenez Sunday School 9:30a.m. Sunday Worship 11a.m. & 6:X p.m. Wednesday Bible Study 6 30pm FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTISTS (175 N. Detroit) WARSAW Sunday School 10 a.m. Sunday Service 10a.m. Wednesday 7 p.m. GOSHEN FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST Service 10:30 a.m. Sunday School lO'.Xa.m Wednesday Service 7:45 p.m. Reading Room open Monday, Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 3p.m. NORTHERN LAKES CHRISTIAN CENTER NORTH WEBSTER Karen and Thorpe Mitchell, Pastors Worship Service 10 a.m. Adult Classes. Tuesday 7 p.m. BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH NORTH WEBSTER Dean McFadden. Pastor Sunday School 9:30 sun. Worship lO:Xa.m.-6p.m. Wednesday Services 7 p.m. CHRISTIAN CHURCH MILFORD Fred Walls. Associate Minister Bible School 9a.m. Worship 10 a.m. WWnesday Bible Study 7 p.m

CHURCH OF GOO NORTH WEBSTER Pastor Stephen W. Fouts Men's Prayer Breakfast 7:X a.m. Worship 9:30 aun. Sunday School 10:45a.m. Evening Service or Praise6p.m. CHURCH OF GOD SYRACUSE Rev. Michael Johnson, Pastor Paul Yeager, S.S. Supt. Sunday School 9:30a.m. Morning Worship 10:30a.m Junior Warship N:Ma m _ • * ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH SHORE LAKE WAWASEE Vicar: {lev. David L. Hyndman Holy Eucharist: 9a.m. FIRST BRETHREN CHURCH MILFORD Paul Tinkel, Pastor Church School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 10:30a.m BYC Sunday 6 p.m. Mid Week Worship 7 p.m. GRACE BIBLE CHURCH SYRACUSE Dr. David R. Haifley, Pastor Sunday School 9:45a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m. Evening Service 7 p.m. Wednesday Evening Service 7 p.m. GRACE BRETHREN CHURCH LEESBURG William W. Smith, Pastor Tom Vieth. C.E. Director Marlin Rose, Moderator Sunday School 9:30-10:30a.m. Morning Worship 10:35a.m. Evening Worship 41p.m. Family Night, Wednesday 7 p.m. JEHOVAH'S WITNESS KINGDOM HALL (East Papakeechie Lake Drive) Sunday: Public Lecture 9:30a.m. Watchtower Study 10:30a.m. Tuesday, Study of Prophecy 7:30p.m. Thursday, Ministry School 7 p.m. CALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH (ill W. Orange St.) CROMWELL Sunday School 9:Xa.m. Worship Service 10:45a.m. EMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH Missouri Synod Lakeland Youth Center Syracuse Sundey Worship Service 11 a m. GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH (3M E. Mefri St.) SYRACUSE Richard Dunning, Pastor Worship 9:15 a.m. Sunday School 10: 15 a.m. • > TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOO LIGONIER Don Fischer. Paster Divine Service 9 a.m. Sunday School A Bible Class 10:30a.m.

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there will be darkness, weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Mat. 8:12) Just as the spring of the year around Easter time heralds new life when the trees burst forth in their , new foliage, flowers shoot forth from the ground, etc. so sinners, too, can become alive as they believe in Jesus Christ who can resurrect them from death unto eternal life. (John 3:16-17) Summer is a season of growth for the trees and so it is with the Christian life. Blessed is the man who walketh not in sins, but whose delight is in the Bible and who meditates on its words day and night; for “he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, (of the word) that bringeth forth his fruit (being filled with the Holy Spirit) in his season. His leaf also shall not wither (he is a living witness) and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” (Ps. 1:1-3) God’s glory is seen in the trees in the fall for it is their time of greatest beauty and fruit bearing; for as “the trees of the Lord are full of sap,” (Ps. 104:16) so

MILFORD CHAPEL (East Catherine Street) Arthur Hershberger, Pastor Amos.Ramer, Deacon Sunday School 10a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m> Sunday Evening Service 7 p.m. Wednesday Service 7 p.m. WAWASEE COMMUNITY CHURCH OFTHENAZARENE Ron Blake, Pastor Church School 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30a.m. Christian Living Studies 6 p.m. Wednesday Midweek Service 7 p.m. QUAKER HAVEN FRIENDS CHURCH (500Eand900N) DEWART LAKE Sunday School 9:15 a.m. Worship 10a.m. (Quaker Hall) May Starting Lakeside Service, Memorial Day-Labor Day, Every Other Sunday, 1:30a.m. ROCKCHURCH INTERDENOMINATIONAL (D-At 1050 N. E. Lake Wawasee) Rev. Sarah M. Tuttle, and Dr. Gary M. Tuttle, Pastors Morning Worship 10a.m. Evening Worship 7 p.m. Wednesday Bible School 7 p.m. SALEM COMMUNITY CHURCH (IVi Mile Southeast Os Wilmot) Pastor Elmer Miller Sunday School 9:Xa.m. Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. Sunday Evening Service 7 p.m. Prayer-Bible Study Wednesday 7 p.m BURR OAK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Lawrence Byrnes, Pastor Sunday School 0:30a.m. Worship 10:30 a.m. CALVARY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (SR 13 South) SYRACUSE David C. Maish, Pastor Church School 9: X a.m * Worship Service 10:40a.m. Church School Superintendent, Kim Conrad CLUNETTE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Stewart Carter, Pastor Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Worship Service 10:30a.m. HASTINGS ISLAND CHAPEL UHITED METHODIST CHURCH David Wldmoyer, Pastor Mike Zimmerman, Jr„ Supt. Kendall Biller, Asst. Supt. Sunday School 9:Xa.m. Worship 10:30 a.m. Prayer Meeting Thursday 7:30p.m.

are the mature Christians filled with the Holy Spirit which enables them to lite productive unto the glory of Go d. (I Cor. 10:31) In conclusion, John the beloved was shown ‘a pure river of water” (Rev. 22:1) (from which we shall drink) and the tree of life in Heaven, “which bare twelve manner of fruits and yielded her fruit every month,” (Rev. 22:2) Remember that Jesus ate in His glorified body (|Luke 24:43) and so shall we. The curse (vs. 3) of the Garden of Eden will be no more, for we ca n partake of the fruit of the tree of life for an eternity in heaven. He that overcometh will eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the paradise of God. (Rev. 2:7) “Who is he that overcometh the wcrld but he that believeth that J esus is the Son of God?” (I Jn. 5:5j) He who helps in the saving of ethers, Saves hi nself as well. — Har mann Von Aue

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH LEESBURG Dale Mendenhall, Pastor Morning Worship 9:30 a.m. Church School 10:30am UNITED METHODIST CHURCH MILFORD Robert Ellison, Pastor Ruth Ann Stoek, Lay Leader Church School 9:15a.m. Worship 10:30a.m. UMYF Sunday 5:30p.m., Bible Study Wed. 7:00p.m. MORRIS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST ( . R. 1, Pierceton Charles Taylor, Pastor Ron Cambell, Supt. Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30 a.m. UNITED METHODIST CHURCH NORTH WEBSTER Rex Lindemood, Pastor Worshipß:3oa.m. and 10:45a.m. Church School 9:30 a. m. Senior High Youth Group, Sun. 7:oopym. » \ SAINT ANDREW'S UN I Ye D METHODIST CHURCH 1 ( SYRACUSE Rev. Phillip Frew, Pastor Church School 9:15 a.m. Worship Hour 10:30a.m. UMYF6:Xp.m. SOLOMON'S CREEK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Brian Clear. Pastor Worship 9a.m. Sunday School 10a.m. WORD OF GRACE FELLOWSHIP Robert Lewis Drive West Side Irish Lake Allen & Peggy Giant, Pastors Sunday Worship 10 a m & 7 p.m. Wednesday 7 p.m. prayer meeting' ZION CHAPEL U.B. CHURCH (Corner Syr.-Web. Rife and 1000 N) Rev. Don Ross, Pastor Marlene Andrews, S.S. Supt. Sunday School 9 a.m. Worship 10 a.m. Evening Worship 7 p.m. SYRACUSE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH (Corner Harrison B Pearl St.) Ronald G. Looney, Pastor Sunday School 10 a.m. Praise and Worship Sunday 6:30 p.m. Bible Study, Thursday 7:30 p.m. WAWASEE LAKESIDE CHAPEL Harlan Steffen, Pastor MarfcPteistor, Supt. Sue Ganshorn, Primary Supervisor Worship Service 10 a.m. Sunday School 11 a.m.

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Seeds from the sower

By MICHAEL A. GUIDO It takes the darkness of the night to bring out the beauty of the stars. And in the glen of gloom we see the glory of God. It is written in Psalm 23:4, “Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no -eyiL-for.Thou art with me.” There are valleys of deep darknest that each of us passes through. But there is an exit as well as an entrance. He who leads us in will always lead us out. “The valley” may take the forin of s uffering. Os the one hundred sincl fifty Psalms in the Bible, reference is made to suffering in ninety. A Christian will never be without suffering in this world, but he will never be without the Saviour in his suffering.

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IF IT OFFENDS YOU I WON’T DO IT! Next is your question about eating food that has been sacrificed to idols. On this, question everyone feels that only his answer is the right one! But although being a “know-it-all” makes us feel important, what is really needed to build the church is love. If anyone thinks he knows ail the answers, he is just showing his ignorance. But the person who truly loves God is the one who is open to God’s knowledge. So now, what about it? Should we eat meat that has been sacrificed to idols? Well, we all know that an idol is not really a god, and that there is only one God and no other. According to some people, there are a great many gods, both in heaven and on earth. But we know that there is only one God, the Father, who created all things and made us to be His own; and one Lord Jesus Christ, who made everything and gives us life. However, some Christians don’t realize this. All their lives they have been used to thinking of idols as alive, and have believed that food offered to the idols is really being offered to actual gods. So when they eat such food it bothers them and hurts their Render consciences. Just remember that God doesn’t care whether we eat it or not. We are no worse off if we don’t eat it, and no better off if we do. But be careful not to use your freedom to eat it, lest you cause some Christian brother to sin whose conscience is weaker than yours. You see, this is what may happen: Someone who thinks it is wrong to eat this food will see you eating at a temple restaurant, for you know there is no harm in it. Then he will become bold enough to do it too, although all the time he still feels it is wrong. ■■ So because you “know it is all right to do it,” you will be responsible for causing great spiritual damage to a brother with a tender conscience for whom Christ died. And it is a sin against Christ to sin against your brother by encouraging him to do something he thinks is wrong. So if eating meat offered to idols is going to make my brother sin, I’ll not eat any of it as long as I live, because I don’t want to do this to him. „ I Corinthians 8:1-13

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“The valley” may take the form of solitude. There are many who have no one to stay with them except the One who said, “I will never leave thee nor forsake thee." They have no one to pray for them except the One who said, “I pray for them.” They have no one to care for them except the One of whom it is written, “He careth for you.” A boy left home for his first job in the city. All week he worried about the deep ravine he had to go through. He came to the edge and was so frightened he cried. But he heard a voice saying, “Son, I came to meet you.” With his father he walked through the valley for home. The Lord will not in any way fail you or forsake you. Trust Him!