The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 49, Milford, Kosciusko County, 3 December 1986 — Page 16
THE MAIL-JOURNAL —Wed., December 3,1986
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Holiday feature — The Wise Men
I From LNDIANA UNIVERSITY News Bureau t “Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, ‘Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east and have come to worship him,” — The Bible, Matthew 2. No creche would be complete without the three figures of the wise men. and yet little is actually known about them. But the
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WHOM CAN YOU TRUST? About that time the prophet Hanani came to King Asa and told him, "Because you have put your trust in the king of Syria instead of in the Lord your God, the army of the king of Syria has escarped from you. Don't you remember what happened to the Ethiopians and Libyans and their vast army, with all of their chariots and cavalry men? But you relied then on the Lord, and he delivered them all into your hand. For the eyes of the Lord search back and forth across the whole earth, looking for people whose hearts are perfect toward him, so that he can show his great power in helping them. What a fool you have been! From now on you shall have wars." Asa was so angry with the prophet for saying this that he threw him into jail. And Asa oppressed all the people at that time. (2 Chronicles 16:7-10) "God save the king"—l know he does! He hears me from highest heaven and sends great victories. Some nations boast of armies and weaponry, but our boast is in the Lord our God. Those nations will collapse and perish; we will arise to stand firm and sure! Give victory to our king, O Lord; oh, hear our prayer. (Psalms 20:6-9) To you, O Lord, I pray. Don't fail me. Lord for I am trusting you. Don't let my enemies succeed. Don't give them victory □ver me. .None who have faith in God will ever be disgraced for trusting him. But all who harm the innocent shall be defeatexL- (Psalms 25:1 -3)
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mystery of their presence in the birth story has inspired poets and writers to speculate about their origin and significance The term “wise men’ had particular meaning to the Jews of the Old Testament period. About the time of the birth of Jesus there were two outstanding rabbinical schools, Hillel and Schamai. Made up of pharisees, the schools were called “Assemblies of the Wise.” “The account of the arrival of the wise men confirms the fact that the expected event (the birth of Jesus) had long been known to the wise individuals. It also was confirmation that people came
APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN * MILFORD Jesse Beer and Walter Stetten, Ministers Morning Worship 10am Afternoon Worship 12 15 p.m. CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH (Armstrong Road) OSWEGO Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. Sunday Evening Worship6p.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7 p.m AWANA Clubs Wednesday 6:15p.m. FAITHWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Formerly Barbee Community Church (Kuhn Drive, Little Barbee Lake) William L. Hutchins, Pastor Sunday School 10a.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 9:30 a m Worship Service 10:30a.m. WAWASEE HEIGHTS BAPTIST CHURCH (Across From High School) Carl Calloway, S.S. Supt. Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30a.m. and 7p.m. Mid-Week Wed. 7 p.m. AWANA Clubs Thurs. 6:30 p. m. WAWASEE COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH Milford Tom Speicher, Pastor Sunday School, All Ages, 9:30a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m. BETHANY CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN (US4) F. Wayne Lawson, Pastor Morning Worship 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Activity Night 7:30 BETHELCHURCH OF THE BRETHREN MILFORD Ernest R. Jehnsen, Pastor Raymond Hoover, Bd. Chm. Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30 a.m. NEW SALEM CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN (9WNK2ME) Sunday Bible Study 9:30 a. m. Worship Service 10:30 a. m. Evening Worship 6:30 p.m. Wednesday AWANAClubsd:3op.m. Bible Study, Prayer 7:30 p.m. CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN NORTHWESSTER Emery Kintner, Pastor Morning Worship 9:30 a. m. Sunday School 10:30a.m.
from afar bringing gifts because they had heard about this for many decades, if not generations,” said Kenneth R.R. Gros Louis, vice president of Indiana University and editor of two volumes of “Literary Interpretations of Biblical Narratives. ’ ’ He explained that, being wise men, they understood that Herod was very unhappy about the birth and after being warned in a vision they ignored his instructions and returned to their homes by a different route to avoid reporting back to him. “To clarify, Herod felt threatened by wise men looking for a baby who was to be ‘king of the Jews? After all, was he, Herod, not king? The wise men were smart enough to figure out that Herod meant the child some harm, ” Gros Louis said. That medieval writers were intrigued by the wise men is evident in their appearance as characters in two of the mystery plays performed in the English city of Chester. Too, an anonymous medieval author wrote “The Legend of the Three Kings of Cologne, ” which made a connection between the Old Testament oracle, Balaam, and the Jesus birth story. Summoned from the city of Pethor, in Babylonia, by King Balak of Moab, Balaam told the king something he did not want to hear: “I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near” and that “a star shall come forth out of Jacob, a comet arise from Israel.” Balak had wanted Balaam to curse his enemies, the Israelites. There is a tradition which says that the wise men were descendants of Balaam, whose lore was handed down at least 1,000 years before the birth of Jesus. History was recorded that the Babylonians and Assyrians, neighbors of the Israelites, had more than a passing interest in astronomy and astrology. One surviving account of the education of an Assyrian youth says.
CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN SYRACUSE Robert Ebby Interim Pastor Junior Blough, Supt Sunday School 9 30a.m. Morning Worship 10:30 a m Sunday Bible Study 7p.m TURKEY CREEK CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN GRAVELTON Dorotha and I van Fry. Team Pastors Church School 9 a. m Worship IQa.m SAINT MARTIN DE PORRES CATHOLIC CHURCH SYRACUSE Father Robert Hammond Sunday Massß:ooa.m and 10:45a m Saturday Mass 5.30 p m Confession Before Masses Holy Dayss 30p m , 7a.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 GOD, Milford Bi Lingual Services Pastor Alberto Jimenez Sunday School 9:30a.m. Sunday Worship 11 a m. &6:30 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study 6:30p.m. FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTISTS (17SN. Detroit) WARSAW Sunday School 10 a.m. Sunday Service IQa.m. Wednesday 7p.m. GOSHEN FIRST CHURCH OF Service 10:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:30a.m. Wednesday Service 7:45 p. m. Reading Room open Monday. Thursday and Friday, Ita.m. to3p.m. NORTHERN LAKES CHRISTIAN CENTER NORTHWESSTER Karen and Thorpe Mitchell, Pastors Worship Service 10 a.m. Adult Classes, Tuesday 7p.m. BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH NORTHWESSTER Dean McFadden, Pastor Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30 a.m. &6p.m. Wednesday Services 7 p.m. CHRISTIAN CHURCH MILFORD Dale Kuhns, Senior Minister Bible School 9:00a.m. Worship 10:00a.m. and7p.m. Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m.
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“L Assur-bani-pal, understood the wisdom of Nabu. . . I explained the heaven with the learned priests, recited the multiplications and divisions winch are not immediately apparent.” Actually, the origin of the name “wise” in Greek was “magns” whose definitions are “one of the priests or wise men of Persia” or “ ‘an enchanter or wizard. ” Perhaps the most fanciful writer who speculated about the wise men was American Henry Van Dyke, author of the story, “The Other Wise Man. ” Artaban, the fourth wise man, had an appointment to meet the other three, who were Babylonians, within 10 days of the conjunction of two planets. Artaban was delayed on his journey because of his compassion for an ailing Jew he found along the way. Having missed both the other three wise men and the family of Jesus in Bethlehem by three days, the seer’s odyssey took him over the Holy Land during the next 33 years, seeking the phenomenal person whose birth had been heralded by the star. Along the way, Artaban gradually gave away to the helpless and needy the jewels that had been intended as his gift to the baby. Finally, at the site of the crucifixion of Jesus, after giving up his last jewel and despairing over never seeing the one he had sought for so many years, he heard a voice saying Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, Ye have done it unto me. ’’ One tradition says that the city of Cologne, Germany, is the final resting place of the three wise men ; their remains purportedly brought there by Frederick Barbarossa, the German emperor, who sacked Milan, Italy, in 1162. According to the legend, Thomas, the apostle to India, had converted the wise men to Christianity. After they died, perhaps in Constantinople, their remains had been moved to Milan, where Frederick found them.
CHURCHOF GOD NORTHWESSTER Stephen W Foots, Pastor Jim Davey, Associate Men's Prayer Breakfast 7 00a.m. Worship 8:30 and 10:45 a m Sunday School 9 45 a m Evening Service of Praise 7pm CHURCHOFGOD SYRACUSE Rev Michael Johnson. Pastor Paul Yeager S.S. Supt Sunday School 9 30 a. m Morning Worship IQ 30a.m Junior Worship3o:3oa.m ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH SHORE LAKE WAWASE E Vicar: Rev DavidL Hyndman Holy Eucharist: 9a.m. FIRST BRETHREN CHURCH MILFORD Paul Tinkel. Pastor Church School 9-15 a. m Morning Worship IQ: 30 a m BYC Sunday 4p.m. Midweek Worship 7pm 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 7p.m. GRACE BRETHREN CHURCH LEESBURG William W Smith. Pastor Tom Vieth. C.E Director Marlin Rose, Moderator Sunday School 9:30 10:30 a m Morning Worship 10:35a.m. Evening Worship 6p.m. Family Night, Wednesday 7p.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 7p.m. CALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH (HT W. Orange St.) CROMWELL Sunday School 9:30a.m Worship Service 10:45 a. m. EMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH Missouri Synod Lakeland Youth Center Syracuse Sunday Worship Service 11 a.m. GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH (200 E. Main St.) SYRACUSE Richard Dunning, Pastor Worship?: 15 a.m. Sunday School TO: 15a.m. TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD LIGONIER Don Fischer, Pastor Divine Service9a.m Sunday School & Bible Class 10:30 a.m.
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CHRISTMAS AT CALVARY CHURCH — A living nativity scene will be part of the Christmas program to be presented by the children of Calvary United Methodist Church in Syracuse on Sunday, Dec. 14. Children in the nursery and kindergarten classes, which make up the cherub choir under the direction of Dorothy Keim, will act and sing in
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“The Rainbow and the Manger” will be presented by the children’s department of Calvary United Methodist Church in Syracuse during the 10:40 morning worship on Sunday, Dec. 14. This series of vignettes is under the direction of Beckie Thomas, who adapted it from a play called ‘“A Rainbow of Promises” by Carol van Klompenburg. Colors of the rainbow will blend into the story of Christmas. The red of our sinful hearts and the
MILFORD CHAPEL Mennomte (East Catherine Street) Arthur Hershberger. Pastor Amos Ramer Deacon Sunday School 10 a m Worship Service 11 a.m. Sunday Evening Service 7p.m Wednesday Service7p.m WAWASEE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE Ron Blake, Pastor Church School 9:30 a. m Worship IQ;3oa.m Christian Living Studies6p.m. Wednesday Midweek Service 7p.m QUAKER HAVEN FRIENDS CHURCH (500E and WON) ' DEWART LAKE Sunday School 9:15a.m. Worship IQa.m. (Quaker Hall) May Starting Lakeside Service, Memorial Day Labor Day, Every Other Sunday. 8 ' ROCK CHURCH INTERDENOMINATIONAL (13-A&1050N, 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 (1' 2 Miles Southeast Os Wilmot) Pastor Elmer Miller Sunday School 9:30a.m. Morning Worship 10:30a.m. ' Sunday EveningService7p.m. Prayer Bible Study Wednesday 7 p.m. BURR OAK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Lawrence Byrnes. Pastor Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30 a.m. CALVARY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (SR 13 Soufft) SYRACUSE DavidC Maish, Pastor Ruth Lovejoy, Youth Minister Kim Conrad, Church School Supt. Church School 9:30a.m. Worship Service 10:40a.m. Youth Sunday Night Live3p.m CLUNETTE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Stewart Carter, Pastor Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship Service 10:30a.m HASTINGS ISLAND CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH David Widmoyer, Pastor Mike Zimmerman, Jr., Supt. Kendall Biller, Asst. Supt. Sunday School 9:30a.m. Worship 10:30 a.m. Prayer Meeting Thursday 7:30 p.m. UNITED METHODIST CHUF 1 LEESBURG Dale Mendenhall. Pastor Morning Worship 9:30 a. m. Church School TO: 30 a. m.
promised Savior will be represented by fourth and fifth graders placing red hearts and red roses on a Christmas tree. Orange flames symbolizing the flame of hope will be placed on the tree by the second and third graders. For yellow, nursery and kindergarten children will hang straw wreaths to symbolize God’s Son as “the Light of the world.' ’ Green decorations will be hung on the tree by the first graders, to remind us of the new life and
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH MILFORD Robert,Ellison. Pastor Dan Brown, Lay Leader Church School 9:15a.m. Worship )0:30 am UMYF Sunday 5 30p m Bible Study Wed. 7 OOp.m. MORRIS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST R. T, Pierceton Char les Taylor. Pastor Ron Cambell, Supt. , Sunday School 9 30 a m Worship 10:30 am UNITED METHODIST CHURCH NORTH WEBSTER Rex. Lmdemood, Pastor Worshipß:3oa.m. and 10:45a.m Church School 9:30a.m Senior High Youth droop, Sun. . 7: Q 0 p. m. SAINT ANDREW'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH SYRACUSE Rev. Lewis Hathaway. Pastor Church School 9:15a.m. Worship Hour 10:30a.m. UMYF 6.30p.m. SOLOMON'S CREEK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Brian Clear. Pastor Worship 9 a.m. Sunday School 10 a m WORD OF GRACE FELLOWSHIP Robert Lewis Drive West Side Irish Lake Allen & Peggy Giant, Pastors Sunday Worship 10 a.m. 8> 7p.m. Wednesday 7 p.m. prayer meeting ZION CHAPEL U.B. CHURCH (Corner Syr. Web. Rd. and 10OTN) Rev. William Wheeler. Pastor Marlene Andrews, S.S. Supt. Sunday School 9a.m. Worship 10a.m. Evening Worship 7 p. m. SYRACUSE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH (Corner Harrison & Pearl ST.) RonaldG. 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 Mark Pfeister, Supt. Sue Ganshorn, Primary Supervisor Worship Service 10 a.m. Sunday School 11 a.m.
the drama during the 10:30 morning worship service. Shown are Alicia Kitson, Chris and Curt Longenbaugh, Kyle Fisher, Tabitha Shoopman, Adam Gay, John Pearson, Carrie Grothaus, Wendee Morris, April Stevens, Jenny Marty. Paul Fisher and Cliff Schwartz. (Photo by Kip Schumm)
growth in Christ and the green of the shepherd's fields Sixth graders will place blue stars on the tree to remember the night sky and the star which guided the wise men. With the rainbow symbols and manger scene will be scripture and new and traditional songs and readings. Narrators will be Ron Thomas and Alicia Schaekel. The purple of royal gifts will be the treasure symbol of the Junior High class, with members also
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serving as ushers. Closing the program will be the presentation of a huge candlelit cake and the congregation's singing happy birthday to Jesus. Assisting in the production will be teachers Shirley Bobeck, Millie Shively, Carol Elder, Dorothy Keim, Bobbie Laughlin, Steve Davis, and Sherry Leedy Also helping will be Kay Neff and Beckie Thomas, coordinators of the children's department. The public is invited to attend.