The Silvery Shafts of Light from the

Afternoon Sun Sing of

Abiding Peace and of

God's Glory in the Quiet

Forest Sanctuary of the Gia nt

Redwood Trees of California.

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(jJ The Rev. J . J. Reimer of Gotebo, Okla., recently r es igned as pastor of the Salem Baptist Church of Oklahoma and brought his mini str y there to a close on Sunday, September 21. H is resigna t ion was necessitated by ill health when the doctor s reconunended a higher altitude for him. He and his fami ly have moved to Flagstaff, Ari­zona. fl] T he Rev. Ruben Kern of Edmonton, Alta., Canada, has accepte d t he call of the Baptist Church of Camrose, Alta., and began h is services there on Sun­day, October 26. Mr. Kern is a grad­uate of the Rochester Baptist Seminary in t he class of 1941. He is succeeding the Rev. H. Waltereit, who r esigned several mont hs ago and who has enter ed the bus iness field in Edmonton. Mr. Walter~it's name is to be dropped from our denominational " Directory for 1942,'' according to headquarters. (jf Member s a nd friends oi the Baptist Church in Marion, Kan sas, listened' to a n illus trated address on Soviet Russia by t he Rev. Peter Pleshko on Monday evening-, October 6. Mr. Pleshko is the general director of the Russ ia n Chr is­tian Relief Society in New York City which evangelizes millions of Russim1s in Europe, Asia, Sout h America, Ca­nada an d t he United States. He gave a firs t hand picture on the economic and r eligious conditions in that Janel today, accord ing to the Rev. Phil. Potz­ner , pastor of the church.

(jf The Oa k Street Baptist Chu1·ch of Burling ton, Iowa, held special meet­ings from September 30 to October 12 ·with the Rev. and Mrs. L . J. Kindig si!rving as evangelis ts. On Sunday mor d ng, September 28, the Rev. A. R. Bernadt , pastor, conducted an impress­ive service of dedication for 29 small chi ldren, whose names wer e printed in i he church bulletin. H e was a lso the g·uest speaker over the radio st ation KBUR on t he Thursday mornings of October . Mr . and Mrs. F . C. J ordan of the church celebrated their 61st wed­ding a nn iver sary on September 28th.

(ji The Women's Missionary Society of 1d1e Firs t German Baptist Church of Union City, N. J., held it s 60th anni-Vl•rsary program on Thursday evening, October 23. Mrs. Alber tina Woelfle, prcsid-ent , was in charge of the pro-1\'r am which f eatured musica l number s by "a one ma n ban d," Mr. Richard von Calio. Other officers of t he society a re Mrs. Char les Weber, vice-pres ident; Mrs. D. Bakar ich, secretary ; and Mrs. Emma Ha a ck, treasu r~r. A church at­t1>ndance ca mpaign is now being held for seve:n weeks, beginning with Sun­day, October 19, according to the pas­tor, the Rev. Herman Kuhl.

tJI On Saturday, October 25, t he Rev. F. W. Bartel, the evangelist for t he Dakota Conference, was removed to the T r ini ty Hospital of .Jamestown, No. Dale , in a very critical condition. S i11ce beginning his work as the Dakota Con­fer ence evangelist he had fin ished en­gagement s in t he churches at Beulah . Ashley and Lehr, No. Dak., w it h marked success. From the latest r e­ports Brother Bar tel has passed the crisis bu t will have to be perfectly qu iet in bed under medical observation for a \Vhi le. We t l'ust that his re­covery will be rapid and complete wit h God's attending healing power!

Front Cover Picture This remarkable picture of a

thri ll ing scene among the Califor­nia n~dwoocls was taken by Mr. Howard W. Ziehl, 4495 Field Ave., Detroit, Mich., on U. S. Highway 101 near Benbow, Calif. Mr. Ziehl is a member of the Burns A venue Baptist Church of Detroit , of which the Rev. G. Neumann is pas­tor. Other pictures of his were published in t he October 1s t issue of "The Baptist Herald" in con-11ection with the report about the radio mi nistry of the Burns Ave. Church.

This same picture was recentiy published by "the Detroit News" in the photogravure section of a Sunday edit ion. T he caption used by t he newspaper to describe the photograph was ver y interes ting. It was a s fo llows : "All the world is at war, or talks of war , but here peace r eigns. Centuries of t urbu­lent his tory have been r ecorded s ince t hese giant redwoods began to grow, but the big Ca lifornia trees have known only the storms of Na t ure." - Editor .

fjj On Sunday, October 12. a nu1uber of famili es of the P lum Creek Baptist Church near E mery, So. Dale , celebrat­ed t he 9th wecldi11g a nn iversary of the Rev. a nd Mrs. J . C. Kraenzler with a sumptious turk<y dinner. The Rev. A. Hu sma nn, promotional secreta ry, was also a g uest at the dinner. In the eve­ning of that cla y t he deacons and their wives of the Bapt ist Church of Emery, So. Da le, together with the Rev. a nd Mrs. J. C. Kraenzler and the Rev. A. Husman n celebrated t he birthday of the Rev. A. llterma nn pas tor of the l ~mery Church. He was

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fl! On Suncla.y evening, October 19, t he Rev. Thorwald W. Bender, pastor of Lhe Immanuel Church of Milwaukee, Wi s., baptized 4 young people on con­fession of t heir faith in Christ. Once a month the chur ch is holding a "Fellow­~hip Night" with great success. A church supper is fo llowed by a pro­gr am promoting church and denomina­tiona l objectives. On Wednesday eve­ning, November 12, missionary pictures of the Cameroons were shown by t he llev. M. L. Leuschner. The dedication ser vice for infants, held on Sunday morning, October 26, was V€r y im­pressive. Sunday evening services have been resumed by t he Immanuel Church.

f1I The 17t h a nnua l banqu€t of the Men's Baraca Class of the Forest P ark Baptist Church of Forest Park, Ill. , was held on Tuesday evening, October 28, with the president, Mr. Dan·iel B. Granzow, serving us t he toastmaster . T he dinner was ser ved by the Ladies ' Missionary Societ y of the church. Mu­sical numbers were provided by the ta lented Gras family, Mr. Helmuth Steinke of Chicago, and the West Sub­urba n Male Quartet. Brief r emarks were brought by t he Rev. Wm. K uh,n, D. D., and t he Rev. 0. H. Schr oeder . interim pas tor of t he church, w it h the address delivered by t he Rev. Charles Bellard. The Rev. C. B. Nordla nd is t he teacher of this lar ge Bible class.

' fjj During t he mont h of September t he Rev. and Mrs. R. P. Bronlee,ve, evan­gelis ts, served t he Baptist Church of Avon, So. Dak., and held two weeks of revival meetings. Chimes in the church tower were temporarily installed so that t he music a ncl songs could be

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EDITORJAL Robinson Crusoe is an impossible phe­nomenon in our modern world. For our gigantic g lobe has become a small neigh­

borhood. We are mutually dependent on ea ch other. "No one liv­

A Thanksgiving Challenge. eth u n t o himself and n o n e dieth

unto himself." A vast amount of cooperation by hosts of people is needed even for the most insig­r.ificant affairs of life .

What an army of laborers from a ll over the world has been busy to prepar e my breakfast ! A newspaper cost s only two or three cents in most cities, but it r epresents a t remendous amount of energy by reporters, editor s, advertisers, printers, proofreaders, and photographers in my behalf. This editorial is being written on an "iron horse," galloping across the state of North Dakota. I have been considering t he number of employee~ associated with this railroad company to whom I am indebted for this comfortable and luxurious trip until I h ave lost a ll count in the great array of workers. Every exp erience of life binds us more in timately with oth ers, who like a vast sea, extend to the outer f ringes of t h e world.

Such a meditation must have a twofold r eac­tion upon one. H ow deeply thankful I must f eel toward those who are making such immeasurable contributions to m y life ! A well spring of grati­t ude in my heart must constantly overflow in my expr ession of indebtedness to others. In this r e­gard, we do form a brotherhood in the family of nations for "God hath made of on e blood for a ll peop l e~ to dwell on the face of the earth ." Our dependen ce on each other leads us to profound gratitude for th e overwhelmingly lar ge part that others h ave played in our lives.

This spirit of dependence, which is such a char­a cterist ic tr ait of life, fin ds its gr eat est embodi­ment in our r elat ionship to God. How true it is th at wi th out him, we can do nothing ! In him "we

Jive and move and have our being." He is th e souxce of a ll of life's blessings. With him noth­ing sh all be impossible unto us. His grace is suf­ficient for all of life's extremities. He is the Al­pha and the Omega of life. Such a constant and undeniable dependence upon God must evoke un­ending praise and gratitude to him for the boun­ties of his goodness and love. "Praise God from wh om a ll blessings flow." ·

A second thought impinges itse lf upon one in considering our mutual dependence on one an­other in life. What a staggering r esponsibility falls upon our shoulders! Every man in need is a brother who must be helped. Every Macedonian call must find a r esponse in t h e hearts of Chris­tian p eople. Cooperation r equires faithfulness and .devotion with exact precision by everyone who is needed . It is impossible to wash one's hands of this obligation. Spiritual isolationists h ave no part in th e Kingdom of God.

In this year 1941 we have as many r easons for gratitude as the sands on t h e seashore. The har­vests have g enerally been good. Work is plenti­ful. We h ave b een spared most of the horrors of war. Our b eloved denomination is still showing signs of growth. For a ll of thi we want to be truly gr ateful.

But the times demand a clear -eyed r ecognition of the challenging opportunities that ar e opening to us at home and abroad. This is the hour for men and women of great faith in our r anks. This is the God's open door that leads to advancement. In that spirit we want to observe our annual Th an ksgiving and Sacrifice Week!

Everywhere we shall gath er in our places of worship with thankful hear ts to God. We sha ll bring our gifts for the strengthening of our enter­prise at h ome and abroad. In that fellowship w e sh a ll face the challenge of the present h our with an eager determination to go "forward with Christ."

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These Fruits ~f the Fiel'd, Attractively Displayed in the Kossuth, Church of y.'isconsin, Are a Visible Symbol of Bountiful Harvests and God's P lenteous Blessings

By the REV. GEORGE W. PUST of Fessenden, North Dakota •

... t•raif.w· Goel, f ro1u whom ull hle 1<Mh1g1< g::i.tes with thanksgiving and into his flow·

PrulNe bf;.., u JI crpot.ureH h ere h c lon· ; l'rul !i4e bhn ubOl-'e , y e h Cff"''nl y h oKt ; Prnl!ilt ... J1~uthc r, Sou uud llo l l· Ghost."

Thousands of churches begin t he ir worship ser vice on Sunday mo~·ning with the doxology. What a mighty chorus of voices t hus offer s praise t o Almighty God! We wonder ho~ this outpouring of sounds and melodies the world over must affect him . Surely, we ought to "come before his pr~sence with t hanksgiv ing, and make a Joyful noise unto him with psalms. F or t he Lord is a g reat God, and a great King­above a ll gods." (P s. 95:2-3)

It is especia lly fitti ng t hat we r e­mind ourselves of t his duty on Thanks­giving Day. It is t hen t hat we as a na­t ion are called upon to coun t t he bless­ings of another yeal' of sowing and reaping, of toi l a nd reward. But voca l expressions-be t hey ever so well sounding- do not a lways co nstitut e tn1e praise.

Our Lord fe ll constrained to accus'<! lhe J ews of his day (Matt. 15 :8) a~ fsaiah had done in his (Isaiah 29:13): "Thi s people draweth nigh unt o me with their mouth, and honoreth me with thei r lips; but t heir hear t is far fro111 me." May we, as a people, wh.zt hcr it lie on Sunday, on T hank,;giving- Day, or a11y olhc>r time, tru ly, "c>ntc>r i11to hi s

courts with praise." (Ps. 100:4) .

A Thankful Disposition There is a prerequis ite to genuine

pra ise. It is a thankful disposition. Wi thou t this we may praise God for h is bless ings in church and grunt and grumble at home and in the shop with­out ceasing. Some think tha t t he dispo­~it i on of gratitude is instinctive in man. J t seems to be with many animals. P at a dog on the head, a nd he will wag his ta il ; stroke a cat on the back, and she will pun her thanks. A dog or a cat may possess this ins t inct of gra tit ude, bu t that is hardly true of ma n. The Germa n p rover b says : "Ing rat it ude is t he world 's r eward. "

Let us beware lest we become p erni­mistic, bu t who can forget t he story of the leper s ? Luke tells us (Luke 17 :12 Lo 17) that " they lif ted up t heir vo ices and said , J esus , Master , have mercy 0~ us. And when he saw them, he sa id un-1.o t hem, Go, shew yourselves unto the pr ies ts. And it came to pass, as they went, they were cleansed." But only one "turned back, and with a loud voice g lor ified God, and fe ll down on his face at his feet , giving him tha nks."

Thin k _of it! These men wer e pos­s-essed with the most loathsome of a ll diseases, ~ _m_alady that was looked up­on as a h v1ng death." It separated

t hem from family and fr iends ; it com­pelled them to seek shelter in caves a nd cemeteries ; it made them subs ist on wha~ friends and r ela t ives, out of sheer pity, set out for them. To be cleansed,healed from that most terribh• of plag ues, and ~ine out of t~m neglect to return and give tha nks ! Is it any wonder that J es us inquired (ai~d it must have been wit h deep sorrow) : ''Where are the nine"?"

The Habit of Thankfulness , P?stal officials te ll us that before

Christmas they arc over whelmed with t·? ns of letters addressed to San ta Claus , but that af ter Christma s a clerk can hold in one hand t he letters of thanks addressed to him. The reason fo r the lack of gratitude is, of com·sc, the ab?cnce of a t hankful di sposition . ~ut t his may be acquired. This is done Jus t a~ we acqu ire a ny habi t.

H'.abi ts do not g row wild. T a ke t he h_a bi t of prayer , of reverence, of friend­liness. These a re not g ifts of na ture; they are accomplishments. To acquir e t~em means practice, cultivation , exer­t ~on . '.flow do£s one learn to p lay a m u­sica l i nstnHnent? By repeated practice, of course. T hus the mind , t he a rms, t he finµ;e r s form certain habit s a nd become capab_le of producing encha nting music.

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commercial school. H e was slow of t hought and slow of finger mot ion. One day his teacher told him that he was mer ely was ting t ime, trying to learn stenography. His t ui t ion f ee was r e­t urned to him. "Can I never learn?" he asked his t-eacher . " I do not say, you cannot," she replied, "but you would have to work a hundred t imes harder tha n the a verage studen t." Within a few weeks t he teacher r eceived a bun­dle of manuscripts. Ther e followed other packages from t ime to t ime until t he whole l.Jook had been copied a hun­dr-ed t imes. Then the young man a p­plied for re-enrollment in the school. H e was r eceived. I n due t ime he fin­ished the course a nd became one of t he 1-eading court r epor ter s in New York. He acquir ed a habi t ; he conquer ed a native incapaci ty.

The Gratitude of Jesus I n some such manner, t he ha l.Jit of

praise may be acquired . Thankf ulness cannot be put on like a garment. It is true that I saia h speaks of the garmen t of praise, (Isaiah 61 :3 ), but garments to be worn must fi rst l.Je made. The fabric must be woven a nd spun, and th is is a long process. It m ust begin early a nd .conti nue late, un til p ra ising God and returning t hanks fo r a ll our benefi ts becomes as nat ural as sing inp: to the song bird.

Gralit ude breathes the spi L"it of heaven. No one evc1· possessed t he spi­ri t of g-r atefu lness as did .res us our ::VIaster. H e a lways gave t hanks. E very meal was ha llowEd by p rai se and pray­er. H e took no g ift out of t he Father 's ha nd wit hout acknowledgme nt. Some­t imes he seems to h ave in terrupled his sermons in order to sa y : "Father , 1 t ha nk thee." (Matt. 11 :25 ) And how thought ful he wa s in express ing his a ppreciation to his fo llowers! Not even the pence of a widow escaped his eyes.

Very tenderly he said one day to his d isciples : " Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptat ions." Before the mult itude he pointed loving­ly to his fo llower s and decla1-ed t hat t hey we1·e to him as a mother or broth­ers . And what a g lowing tribute he pa id his foreru nner: "Verily, I say un­to you . among t hem t hat ar e born of women there hath none risen a g r·euler than J ohn the Bapt is t ." (Matt. 11 :11)

Praise and Appreciation As his fo llowers it behooves us to

emula te the Mas ter. Ou i· hea r ts ought to be fi ll ed with prai rn to Goel ; l.Ju t we ough t a lso to appreciale t he good, the her oic, the noble in _men. E ven a s tr on_v; ma n ca n do just a li ttle better when his effor ts a re a pprceiated . The stor y ?f t he firema 11 ha s, iio doubt, r epeated it ­self a thoutund t imes : ,;Up the ladder went the brave men. Just above ,,·as a p1·ecious life, but, l.Jel iYcen ~he h ungi_·y flam-es. The men faltered. ~he> ca ptam calk•d lo t he cro1rd : 'Give t hem a cheer.' T he cheers wpn• g iven, t hree rousing onrs, a nd on t he men went sav-inir ano ther lifr ." .

It has been ~aid that •·nclh1ng so plea~(·;: Cod i 11 connection with our

Our Denominational Thanksgiving

and Sacrifice Week

Will Be Observe d by Our Churches from

Sunday, November 16, to

Sunday, November 23, or from

November 23 to 30.

WHAT WILL BE YOUR SHARE IN THESE

THANKSGIVING JOYS AND BLESSINGS

prayer as our praise." C. H. Spurgeon wrot e : " 'Vhen we bless God for mer cies ,,.e prolong them, and when we bless him for miser ies we usually end t hem. P raise is the honey of life which a de­vout heart sucks f rom every b loom of providence a nd gra ee. As well be dead as be wit hou t praise ; it is the crown of life. "

Ther e is a beau tiful legend of a gol­den organ in an an cien t monastery. Once th-e monas ter y was besieged by robbers who desired to carry off its t reasures. The monks took the or gan to the i' iver which flowed close by and sank it in the deep water in order to keep it from t he hands of t he r obber s. The legend conti nues t hat, a l though buried thus in the river , the organ still gave fo r t h sweet, encha nt ing m us ic which was heard by t hose who cam e near. It is thus t ha t the t ha nkful d is­posit ion will make i tself heard, not even the water s of adver s ity a nd t ribula t ion heing able to silence it.

America the Beautiful When a t hankful d isposi t ion has been

a cquired, it will be nat ural to enume­rate our bless ings. Different on es w ill suggest themselves at different seasons. Thus, the Thanksgiving searnn reminds us of the greatness of onr cou11 try.

How spacious i t is from the Great L akes on the No1·t h to t he Rio Grande on t he Sou th; from r ock-ribbed N ew England on the E ast to t he Golden Gate a nd the setting sun on the West! Ho\1· majestic it s mountains and how fruitfu l its valleys and plains ! H ow numerous its rive r,; a nd bea utiful il.· lakes a nd parks a nd waterfall s ! ·w hat a s torehouse of minera ls . of oil, of power a nd beauty!

Could t he Pilg-rim Fathe r,; who .l a nd­ed on the bleak shores of Massachuset ts on December 21. 1620, only have kn own Lo what a gr eat count ry they a nd their chi ldren had become heirs, t hey would not have been able to contain t hem­selves for joy. even in spi te of t h2i1· trials a nd ha rdships. Surely, every American ought to l.Je deeply grateful fo r t he gTeal count ry that is ours a nd t·arnes lly pray for its ll'ell -being , -:?s pe­c ia\I ~· dm iPg l hese very cr itica l clays when tolera nce may as easi ly be casl lo the winds and when feeli ng-;;; run sn da ngNously high .

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Plenteous Harvests Th e harvest ough t to C'licit our gra te­

f ul response. And it is a bountiful one. Not that all have been able to share in it a like. Alas, t hat ma ny ardent de­sires and hopes, full of much prom ise, should have been dashed to t he ground ! Hail , storms, excessive r a ins so often become agents of destruction. W ith t he disappoin ted and unfortuna te we sym­pathize and express t he hope t hat a ll may end bett er t han t he prospects seem to indicate.

S till , as a whole, the harvest is plen­tec us , and that a f ter so many year s of drought wh·en it had been sugges ted that t he currents t ha t bring moisture had changed t heir course. Aside from the crops, this year's season has in­spired new courage and r ek indled much fai t h. God's promise has not fai led: ' ·While t he earth r emaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and h eat, and summer and winter, and clay and nigh t shall not cease." (Gen. 8 :22)

William Bradford, in writ ing of the li r st Thanksgiving of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, af ter referri;ig to t he h ar­vest they had gathered m, and t he fi sh they had caught, and t he fowl and t he venison t hey ha d taken, says : " Thus it was found th at th e Lord was w ith them in their outgoings and incom ­ings." How t hat also applies to t~is year's harvest. F or tha t a t hankful dis­position wi ll not fai l to show g ratitude.

Countless Blessings W ho can compute the number a nd

Lhe g reatness of the ble~sii_igs tha t ar~ ours because of t he Christian Church . In spi te of her fau lts she is still t he bes t in stitution God ever gave t o man. She shows man the way to God through J es us Christ ; she teaches him how t o live and how to die. She deserves the •:mpport of every true Christia11 to t he end that God's Kingdom may be estab-1 ished throuo-hout t Ji.e ent ire world.

Time and ~pace will not permit u s to expat iate on other blessings, such _as home, fr iends, school, love, fellowship, mus ic, science, life and, a~ove a_ll , God himself. We fe~I like the h ttle g1rl w ho began to coun t the star s and t hen com­plained that there were so many.

The Psalmist's Question " What shall I r ender unto the Lord

[or a ll h is benefi ts toward me?" (Ps. 116 : 12) True prai s·e i~ m?re inclu sive than we are sometimes 1nch ne.d ~o make it. Smely, it is evident t hat it is more than a n act of t he lips. It a ls_o dema nds our substa nce. I s it possible for a Chr istia n to accept God's bounti fu l mercie3 and then to lem l a cle_af ear t o Lhe a ppeals that ar e made. lll beha~f o[ our miss ionary and philanthropic 1•r deavors ?

T r ue pra ise demands that we plae(' a ll t hat we are a nd possess at God's disposa l. (Rom. 12 :1) ' ·Bl?:::s t~·e _Lord, O my son!, and a ll t hat is w1thm nte bless his holy name." (Ps. 103:1) Oh, that we might trnly lear n to praise Cod ! T hen, the doxology will ascend as sweet incense unto his t hrone.

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The nineteenth P sa lm t'eveals a keen insight into the r ealm of nature and revelation on the part of the writer. In the days of his yout h, David was out on the plains watching the sheep. The lonely occupa tion of a ~hepherd must have made him mor e lonesome a t n ight. But his hours wel'e not spent in id le­ness.

H e was deeply interested in the g reat s tructure of the h eavens. At night, gazing into the skies , he saw the myri­ads of s tars and wondered at the trans­cendent glo1·y which th-ey r evealed. I n the day-t ime he closely observed the course of t he sun. Th~rc was n o doubt in his mind tha t God had created and plan ned this g reat univer s-e.

What a marvelous contras t is pre­sented to us in t he t wo sections of th is Psalm. In t he firs t pa r t God's glory in his works is declared; in t he second par t his g lor y is r evea led in his Word. His wol'ks of creation command the adoration a nd a mazement of man. But his Wor d of revelation comma nds t he worshi p ard prn i ~c of man.

God's Wonderful World What mys teries and g lories are seen

in t he vas t volume of t he book of nat­ure ! T her3 we sec t he p1·esence, the power and the majesty of a gr eat De­s igner. Wi th a note of exultant joy David says : " The hea vens declare t he g-lory of God; an d the firma ment show­dh his handiwork." The ear t h, the sky, t he :;ca, the day, t he nig·ht, t he sun a nd ~tars, al l unite t hei r voices to p roclaim t hP g lory of the Lore!.

THE BAPTIST HERALD

1lie qlo't~ ot qod itt His Wo1tks

A Thought Provoking and Inspiring Message on

Psalm 19, Especially Appropriate for the

Thanksgiving Season of the Year ' Prepared for a Series of Articles on the Psalms

by the

REV. F . E. KLEIN '

Pastor of the First Baptist Church

of Wasco, California

Shannon sa id: "The universe is just :i vas t autograph a lbum. Its covers are \nought of matter bound up in myriads of forms ; its pages a re molecules a11d atoms and constella tions, planets and electrons, mountains and motes; and God has written his signat ure upon ~very page, every !>inglc page, whether gigant ically large or microscopically smal l." The re is so much beauty in nature ; it is only that not a ll people see it.

The :;tory is told that the great Eng­lish painter, Turner, was creating one of h is immorta l masterpieces. A wom­an of high rank, who car efully ob­served him, said: "But Mr. Turner, I do not see a ll of that in natur e that you a re painting there." "Yes, that may be so," answered t he famous painter, "but do you not wish t hat you eould see it?"

Most of us have already beheld great nature scenes : the snow-capped moun­tains in their rugged majesty, t he bil­lowy Eea in its beaut iful blue, t he flow­C'r s with a t housand gorgeous hues, the g laciers a nd pines reflected in the mir­rored Jakes, t he crimson of the sunset the. g ian t red woo~ trees, pointing wit!; then· t ass led spires toward the sk y. A ll of. t hem have caused us to say in ador a tion a nd praise : "O God, how irrcat arc t hy works." Truly, al l of nature bea rs the s tamp of its i nfinite f 'reatcr. Our God is a wonderful Goel, beca use he ma de everything in this wor ld so ve ry heautifu l.

God's Wonderful Word . T he .sole intent and purpose of the

Bibi~ is to reveal the holy t 1 omni~otent Being who fi lls ' 1f erna ' and t ime God . a space

1 . · manifes ts his power an d gory m nature, but the powe d ~lo~·y w.hich his Word ascribes t~ ~~m IS mfinite)y g reater. If wa dT ti r ead the Script . - 1 igen Y I · uies, we cannot miss 11111 on every page. Out of th W ·d com~s the breath of Goel. Oute of ~~e V'.701d. we f eel the flowing forth of di· vine hfe and s tr ength.

The remarkable fact about i . man may worship God throu ht is that but he will fi 1 th g 11ature,

nc at such wor ·h· leaves him unchanged in h'

1 ~ ip

h. t G is r e ation-s Ip . o od. Worship of Goel t hrou h n.at u1e does not produce conviction ~f sm, repentencc and co11f . . · t bl css1on nor 1 i a e to impart to ma n that ;n t ..5 ous, Y~t very real life a ne\v ys te11-. Ch · ,- crea ure I~ ~1st J esus ! All of this t he d" vmely mspired Word will 1 . 1-complish ·f . g or1ously a c­to d . ' .I man permits God's Spirit

a m1n1ster t he Word t h. J The Word or G . . 0 IS 1eart.

f od 111 its a u thor ita-1ve message a nd r ev )'

mands man 's f "th . ea mg power com-!. · a i m the only t rue and 1v1ng God Tl . . commit . . . 1e g1cat-es t S ill ma n may

. is to doubt a nd disbelieve the gr ea t message f h 1 him by G 1 . 0

. e P a nd hope given S. ·t· oc in this Wol'd It is very 1g n1 lean t t t ·

his t hou . 0 11? e ~ha t God has put . ghts of 1nfi 111te love a nd tender

mer cy mto h 1 ab! t sue aJ1 guage as man is I e o read. The language of God has J~en t ranslated into over a thousan~I di fferent la nguages a nd dialects and

November 15, 1941

today U1 ere are over sixty mi llion co­pies of t his wonderful Book in exist­ence. In spite of the f ct that the Bible has been ridiculed and scoffed at by atheists and skept ics, it is still t he "best seller."

As na.tul'C r eveals t he great ness of its Creator, so the Word r eveals the aut hority and majesty of the Divine Law-giver. T he six t it les that ar e given to the Word of God here take in t he whole canon of divine t ruth. This Word possesses the qualit y of conver ting t he soul; its sure test imony insti·ucts t hose who arc wi lling to leam; it makes the hear t of man glad a nd enlightens his eyes ; the ord inances of God's just ice a rc based upon r igh teousness and t ru th.

Inexhaustible R ich es T here arc great treasures to be

found in t he realm of natu r e, but n one a re so valuable a s those found in t he Word of God. Neither the h igh sta n­dard of t he quality of gold, nor t he vastness of its quanti ty may be com­pared to the inexhaustible riches in the Bible. Gold may lose its value and pass away, but the Lord clec!ar ed iJ1 Ma tt. 24 :35: " H eaven and earth shall pass away, but my words sha\1 not pass away." And Peter, wr it ing through di­vine inspiration (1. P eter 1 :25) says: " T he Word of the Lord endurcth for­ever."

The mc;;:;age of the Bible inspires, purifies, elevates and enriches the life of man. Many of the maste rs have written their great or ato r ios, have placed upon t he canvas their most won­derful creations, have composed the lof tiest poetry a nd have chiseled into marble the gTandest ideas through t he inspiration of divine tr uth. Philipp Schaff well says : "In it t he blind may find light; the thirs ty may find d r ink ; t he hungr y may find food a nd the sor­rowing may find comfort. Like the diamond, it cas ts i ts lustre in every d i­r ection ; like a tor ch, t he more it is shaken, the more it shines ; like a heal­ing herb, the ha r der it is pressed, t he sweeter is its fragr ance."

An unknown a uthor has pa id t his high tribute to the Wor d of God : " Th is Book contains the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salvation, ·~h l' reward of sain ts and the doom of sin­ners I ts his tories are t rne, its doc­trin~s holy, and its precepts b inding. It contains light to chrect you, food t o support you a nd comfor t to ch~er ?'O~ . It. is the t raveler 's map, the p1lgr~m.s s taff the p ilot's compass, the solchcr .s swot:d and the Christian 's. ehar ter . I t rn a river of pl<'asurc, a m m? o~ wealth a nd a paradise of g lon·. It is ~wen you in life will be open a t t he Judg ment a nd wlJI be remember ed .for~vcr. Rend it to be wise, believe it to be safe, and p1·acLice ii lo be holy."

A Threefold Prayer l n the light of divine tru th Dav id

was Jed to pray : "Who can u nderstand h is error s ? Cleanse thou me from secret faults." H e saw in it the power to pen-

The Rugged Rock on Which the Pilgr ims Landed in 1620,

Seeking Religious Freedom in America

etrate the most secret parts of man 's inner life. I n Heb. -1 :12 we arc told that the Wo1·d of God is a discerner of the thoughts a nd inte nts of t he hear t. Secret sins a re of the wo1·st a nd most clangcrous cl.ia ractcr . David knew th at very well .

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·The n · Is a f oun tain lilleu w ith blood. n ra"·n Cro m Eman u t:" l'.s , ·e in s , A n d si nner s plun ;:;-cd ben eath t h a t fl ood. Lose all their ;;uiltr s t a ins."

Then there follows this petit ion : "Keep back t hy servant also from pre­sumptuous sins." Presumptuous s ins a rc willful, deliber ate a cts of t rans­gression. The man who s ins aga ins t the light and the knowledge which he pos­sesses conm1its a very gr eat wr ong . The truth is implied h ere that he wants to be h eld back from presumptuous s ins by the might of t he all-conquer ing gr ace of God. The Lor d !'hould keep him so t hat h e migh t not go t o t he edge of t he precipice.

What a deep sense of helplessness i~ expressed in th is Word and what confi­dence in t he g reat keeping power of God ! It br ings to us comfort to know that God is still t he same. He is a ble to hold us back from t he snares and t he pitfalls. ·'T hy wor d have I hid in my heart tha t I might r ot sin against t hee." (Ps. 119 :11 ) That is the secret of being for earmed and guar ded again!'t t he forces of evil.

A Glorious Climax Th is P~alm comes to a glorious cl i­

max wit h t he prayer : "Let the wor ds of my mout h a nd the meditation of my hem·t , be acceptable in thy s ight , 0 Lord , my strength a nd my Re deemer." God is r ecognized as the only source of st renp:th- he is the Redeemer of the soul. T he meaning of these words should find grea t emphasis in our day. Life i:; so constituted today t hat w e find ver y li ttle or no time for quiet. restful thinki111r upon the great er

The Monument at P lymouth, Mass., Commemorating the Landin g of the Pilgrims in America in Search of a Religious Haven

So iL i$ his plea that he mig-hl he cleansed from them. I n the Lord hl' fou nd t lrn t so111·c:<' o f s tn ng t h wh it-h tou Id r<'move from him t he b11r1lcn of his s in. Toda y we may come to tha t same source a nd have t he g·uill and s ta in of our s in removed. The greatne~:­of the glor y of t he Gospel of ' Christ is rxpre~sed very e ffect ively in t he son1r :

i h ing-~ of li'.'c. To ma 11 y people lhc fin<.> ·•rl of meditation a nd prayer is Yen· fon•ip:n. T hey 1:t:ecl lo cultivatl' tlw ck:-ire lo lw ah$orlwd in lhe cl rep <>t1•rnul

lrut lrn d God"!" l1CJlV ·w ord. A m1111 wa~ co11ft11erl to llw hospital

!'or 15 years. llc met with an aetident wh ich harl J('ft him pa rlly paralyzed.

(ContinuC'd on P age 438)

Page 428 THE BAPTIST HERALD

A Timely Discussion by the REV. WM. J. APPEL of Brooklyn, N. Y.

That the successful issue of any worth whi le end·eavor demands an ade­q~ate p1:ogra~n requires no argument with an intelligent group of yo1rng peo­ple today. That such a program does not happen is a matter of common knowledge, and because of its great im­portance in our work as Christian youth J.et us direct our attention t o some essent ials.

Vitality in Modern Youth Agreed upon these general facts ,

dare we hope to build a program in our young people 's societies which w ill prove vital in the lives of rnod·ern youth? Has not progress in the field of the sciences ushered in a new day in \\"hich spiritual values are largely dis­counted or entirely dismissed from our thinking? ·

The words of a sc ient ist, Dr . Charles P. S teinmetz, may s hed light upon our consideration: " In my judgment t he greatest discoveries in the near future \\'ill be made along spiritual lines. Some day peopl? will learn that things don't bring happiness. Then scientis t s w ill turn their laboratories over to the study of God 's word and prayer and of forces which as yet have scarcely been scratched." It is with this truth ancl these forces that Christian young peo­ple have to deal as they carry out t heir important mi nistry.

I would s uggest four C's to empha­s ize >:ome elements of a vital program.

A Comprehensive Program First, it should be COMPREHEN ­

SIVE- large in scope or content; in­clus ive. It s hould dea l with the whole range of legit imate life interests. A careful study of the life of our Lord

will reveal this mos t clearly. Care musL be exer cised, however, lest we magnify t rifles and minimize fmHlamentals, ther eby confusing a sense of values .. A misch ievous boy got into a s ho,,· wm­dow and shifted the price tags, attach­ing one, taken from a pair of ladies gloves valued at ~1.75 to a fur coat coat which was marked $250 and plac­ing the $250 tag bes ide the gloves.

A prominent Hindu after touri ng; Lhe United States made this rep ly when questioned r egardi ng his observations. " Christianity is the cheapes t of all r~­li gions, for so few profess ing Chris­Lians make sacrifices for it. They ap­parently value go ld more t han Goel and movies mot·c t han their Master. They ~-eem to give 95'/r of t heir time, t hought and money to thl! care of the body, 4 and 9/ 10 '/t to cultivation o[ the mind and 1/ 10 of 1 '/r to soul culture." L 2l the program he wisely balanced.

Concrete and Constructive ln the second place, the program

s hould be CONC RETE-enbodiecl in actual experience. At the close of a young people' s ser vice in answer to an ir.vi tation to come again, a gentleman :;urprised t he questioner with the words, "What for'?" Someoric has said, "The church is God's ins trument to draw humanity to his heart." Does our program reveal t his? The Christia11 Chinese, General Chiang Kai Shek ex­pressed this long ing in t he words , "I need a Goel who can help me carry my load." If it be true that th~re was never a t ime when people had so much to live for and so little to live by, how carefully should we plan to acqua int them with the Lord J esus Chr ist.

Further, our program should be CONSTRUCTIVE -having power or t-e ndency to bui ld up. This quotatioB from Dr. Richard Cabot should be kep t in mind by program builders : "A per­son can assimilate spir itual food only when it feeds his growing edge. A soul, like a muscle, grows from a frontier which register s t he poin t r eached t hu s fa r on its march into the unknown.

Our programs must be bu ilt to feed the growing edge.

A Challenge to Action Jn conclusion, let us bear in mind

that our program must be CHAL­LENGING to dare to a contest or tria l. Judge Millington , a former president of the North·ern Baptist Convention said r ecently, "Wher e there is so much opporLunity for impression and so li t tle fo r expression a serious s ituation r e­i>ults and herein lies a p:ravc danger lo the yo uth of Am-erica."

Upon his return from a visit to Afr i­co Dr. Lerrip;o, i 11 telling of his ex­periences and observations, used a s his !'.ubj ect, "Africa Crashes the Gates." H e presented his material under the fo llowing divis ions : Vivid Pictur es, Vi­tal Exper iences and Vigor ous Actio11. If in our young people's prog ram we fail to challenge to vigorous action, wc will fail in fulfilling our mission.

If through prayerful preparation ou r programs present vivid pictur-es of the Lruth lead ing to vital experiences with planned opportuni t ies for vigorous a c­t: ion, our young people sha ll crash some Qf the gales of enemy strong holds and win spiritual victories with Christ.

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Thanksgiving Day is usually regar d­ed as a typical Amer ican feast day of New England origin. Yet its proge­nitors belong to the far past. It is the scion of a historic and worthy stock.

The most popular gathe1ing among the Hebrews was the feast of taber­nacles an eight-day celebration held just ;fter the graci~us yields of the gardens fields, and vmeyards had been gathered and stored away. W ith pro­cessions and songs a nd the sound of silver trumpets, with of!erings to Jeho­vah and largess of chanty to the needy, the race gave expr ession to its thanks­giving impulses.

Early England had it~ yearly h~1·v­est home, with muc~ eatmg. a!1d drink­ing, the occasion bemg convivial r~ther than reverential. The first national thanksgiving day was held on Septem­ber 8, 1588, to rejoice over t he. defeat of t he Spanish Armada . Durmg the nineteenth century there were only two thanksgivings in which a ll E ngland took part. One was in 1872, when the nation expressed its joy over ~he re­covery from illness of the Prince of Wales · the other on June 21, 1887, was connected with the jubilee of the reign

~y JASPER JACKSON

of Queen Victoria. The American Thanksgiving has been a "fixed feast," nat ional and noteworthy, since 1863.

Such, in brief, is the his tory of 'r hanksgiving Day. What is its signifi­cance? It is communal, social, and in­dividual. It is common to all the p eo­ple. It summons the high and the lowly, the young and the old, to j oin their myriad voices in a song of praise to the eternal God for his manifold m er­cies. Innumerable gr<>ups of people come together in r eligious and patriot ic gatherings to speak of gratitude. a nd hope.

Tha nksgiving has also its social meaning and value. It is the great f east of the home. It crowns and sanc­tifies the domestic r elationships. In s pi te of u nwholesome and un-Amer ican tendencies, we are still, thank God, a nation of homes. So, at Thanksgiving t ime, each happy household becomes a center of genial hospitality. T he scat­tered membe1·s come together. The re­u nion r evives tender memories and strengthens loving fellowships. N 0

other day in a]J the year is so well adapted to the privileges of family life.

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The craving for warm and uncon ven­tional intercour se with our "kith and kin" is here abundantly satisfied. T hese sa cr ed sympat hies, thus beautifully awakened, do not, however, spend them­selves within the limits of the inner circle of affection. Sheltered by the hom e, sharing its provision for comfort and good cheer, all worthy people find their hearts touched with compassion for the less fortunate folk who are poor a nd lonely and desolate. So, a helpful and social m inistry waits on the observ­a nce of the day. This is peculiarly th obligatio.n of T~anksgiving Day il~ such a time as this .

There is a per sonal value involved The right observance of Thanksgivin · fill.s .t he hea~t. of the i:i:tdividual with th~ spint of ab1dmg gratitude. It inspir h im to continue to express his feelin;s of love and praise in deeds of tner s and loving-kindness. For the 'Widcy awake, genuine Christian man or w01~: an, the giving of thanks to God for his goodness is not t he discharge of a duty in formal and perfunctory fashion. It is rather the response of life to life the steady outrush of the joy of ~

(Continued on Page 489)

Page 430 THE BAPTIST HERALD

The Filipino Choir That Rendered the Oratorio, "The Holy City,'' Under the Direction of Dr. Frederick W . Meyer at the R ecent Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches

Oratorio by an Enthusiastic Filipino Choir On Thanksgiving Day i n November,

1941, the Filipino Choir composed of select ed voices from Capiz, Iloilo and Negros Provinces w ill r epeat the ren­dition of "The Holy City" by A. R. Gaul at t he Chris ti an Endeavor Con­vention to be held at Capiz, t he Philipp­ine I slands. The choir is under the di­rection of Dr. Frederick W. Meyer, Baptist medical missionary, w ho is a son of Prof . and Mrs . F. W. C. Meyer of Rochester, N . Y. ,

This oratorio was r ecen tly p resented

by the wonderful choir at t he conven­t ion of Philippine Baptist Churches wh ich was held at the Central Philipp­ine College. "Quo Vadis ?" wa s t he t heme of the convention. Befor e a large and appreciative audience t he oratorio wa s rendered superbly with musical precision and spiritual interp retation.

Soloist s included Mrs . Ruth Schacht Me!er, the . wife of the missionary, Anita Aurelio Gonzaga, Dioscoro Vi l­lalua and Clemente E spejo. The ac­companist s were Milton Walter Meyer,

a son of the missionaries, E lora Garzia Jordan, and L aura Patrick Munger at the p ianos and Rebecca Rio a t the or­gan. Milton Meyer a lso p layed a n in­troductory number entitled, "Contem­plation." Dr. Meyer added wi th j usti­fiable pride : "I am ver y fond of mY chorus."

"The Baptist Hera ld" is delig hted t o publish t he superb picture of the choir, showing Dr. Meyer standing with his son to t he r ight of the piano on the left hand side of the picture and w ith Mrs . Meyer seated on t he front row ( left) in the r ight hand section of the choir.

Back G9ain to tlie Gt1z.ican .f:epe'z.s A Letter by MRS. ALMA MC ELHERAN f N" · Af ·

Sudan Interior Mission , gers, but none of them did o 1ger1a, r1ca

Ka t s ina Lepe r Sett lement, harm. Someone called our sh~s atnhy · N " . Af · " · J 1P e Katsm a , 1geria, nca, m1rac e ship" when he heard where

July 13, 1941. we had come through. Dear Brother Leu schner :- W e wer·e ov 70 · · er m1ss1onaries on

You and " The Bapt ist Herald" ~oard and abo~t 25 children. We r ep-friends a r e no doubt wondering a s t o l esented _ 10. d1fi'.erent Mission Boards our whereabouts now. We ar e happy all funct1onmg . m Africa. Every day to inform you t hat we ar e back in dear an hour wa~ g iven t o Bible study a nd old Africa again. This is our th ir d praye~. Daily we committed our wel-Sunday her e. far~. mto the hands of him who was

We embarked on t he " E l N il," an .. ea mg . us for th, a nd t ruly he did the Egyptian liner, at New Yor k on t he exceeding a bundant" for us . 14th of May, set sail on t he 16th , and Lit t le Marilyn, who seemed too small after 42 days on t he water, di sem- to a t tempt ~uch a Jong journey came barked at Lagos on J une 25. Much through 1t m cely. S he gained 2 pound could be written about the trip but a~d 14 ounces while on t he boat . Mar~ since letters are censored s uffice it to v t

in, oo, was quite well during th say that we came through many da n- whole t r ip. He ha d t o be watched care:

fu lly lest he would climb the rail a nd fa ll overboard. You may be sure i t was a great r elief to get on to solid ground once again.

W e are back in leper work a gain bu t as you notice by the a ddress we have been transferred to another colony t~a t is abou t 100 miles from t he Kano Leper Settlement . We have been here a week now and are bus y g etti ng our ho~e arranged a s well a s g etting ac­quainted with the lepers and work her e. We are sure we are going to l ike i t here and are trus t ing the Lord to give us souls from amongst these lepers . W e are counting on your prayer support. Should a ny care to correspond we should be very g lad to r eceive letters a nd answer t hem.

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Extracts from a Le tter by MISS LEONA ROSS of the South China Boat Mission

Hongkong, China. One of t he students from the Bible

school and I are spending our summer vacation going on evangelistic trips. Today we took a bus and went quite a way into the country, and when we came to 11 large town, we got off and sat down by t he roads ide. I began playing my ukelele, and the youngstei·s stood off a little way and looked, but did not know whether to come close or nol .

Finall y, a country woman carrying a load, stopped. I sa id: "Eldest Broth­er's W ife " ( a t erm of great r espect among th~ lower classes), " would you like to hear about J esus ?" "Yes," was the answer. No sooner had we started talking to her before a crowd surround-

"d w at there for ed us on every s1 e. e s . . two hours or more ta lking and smgmg,

' · harts and showing Bible picture c which we explained. .

Before we left for the next ~toppmg­place we had taught the cluldren / 0

s ing two choruses and " If I come to c-

sus, He will make me glad," the latter having four verses and a chorus. At first they were bashful and would not s ing, but once they got started they did very wel l.

I have had t hree letter s from Canton that I must answer-two f r om mission­a ries and one from the Chinese Com­mittee on the Go.spel Boats. They seem to think t hat they need me in Canton , and they are definitely planning on m e a s their speaker for the opening week of meetings , just before they re-open their schools .

For seven days I am to deliver a message every day. So, what I have a lways t hought would be my last choice for a field of service, seems to be t he very place into which I am being thrust. I will try and patiently s ubmi t, and who knows, but as on two previous occas ions when I did t his so r eluctantly, it turned into a blessing .

But now it is hard , for I have s uch a comfortable little room where I can have Chan Oi, my little adopted <laugh-

tcr , with me , and an unlimited field for evangelistic work and a Bible school to teach in. T he two Bible schools in Can­ton together are not as large as the one here. Besides, in t he evangelistic field there is essentially a handicap as you would unders tand in enemy invaded territor y.

What I w ill do with Chan Oi I do not know as yet, bu t there is a chil­dren's home here where I think they will accept her as a student.

I have confidence in t his home a s be­ing just the place where I would like he r to go to school, as the ones in charge are very sound in doctrine and s incer e a s Christia ns. Chan Oi has had a good start and t hough she will not be five until September 7, she is getting so she can r ead the Chinese Bible quite well. She can r ead the firs t t went y­four chapters of Genesis without a mis­take and a number of P salms and quite a bit in the New T esta men t, some parts of which she has read so much that she knows t hem by heart, word for word.

among Cliinu f s 1eemin9 ?nillions A Missionary Le tter from MISS BERTHA LANG of China

China Inland Mission, . Pingyanghsien, Chcntung, C~lll~·

Vv c ret urned from a month's tnJ? m d go and s ince the country a few a ys a · 1

then I 've been comparing in my mmct . t h me a nd ou women's m eetmgs a o .

here Wha t a contrast ! Imagbi n~. a war~ afternoon with 20 to 30 adic;

f 5 months an between t he ages o h 80 years in an audience of per aps

women. essages At this particular place. 1:1 . reter

n eed to be interpreted. The in erp f . young woman o

for t he afternoon is a 1

of four 30 years who is the mot rnr who is children. T he youngest soh1~s' mother

1. 1 · ists upon 1 very ive y , ms . She draws a giving him her attention. . . ·t

1 cl sits him on J • chair to the tab. e anh. . he want s to T hat doesn 't satisfy im d be nursed and so to be fe · cl ,, ,vith

· so "fe up Another woman JS kes the wooden

her little boy that. she hta ring the bell, hammer with which t ey 'th It

' h' to play w1 . a nd g ives it to im . nd while she ~muses h in~ for. a tnneh: message, the is eag erly hstenrng to t f . and then child s lips to t~e pla,; ?.~~ng ! " ther e is a loud ban~, ther e are from

What a nnoyed loo hs e no children 1 anxious hea r er s who av

What rebukes of " Why don't you take car e of your youngs ters?" The moth­ers would do anything jus t to list en. Peanuts, cakes, s ugar cane and who knows not what a ll are broug h t to meetings only to s ilence the little ones.

But, alas, it seems at t imes useless. At firs t thought one is almost incl ined to tell t hese mot hers not to come, but dare we? Poor souls-they, too, arc anxious to hear , and so amid distrac­tions and the need of patience, t he meetings are carried on.

At t he above men tioned place I ha d anot her t rying experience. Our place of abode was in a small , dark att ic and it was rat ridden. One morning, to my dismay, I found the collar of my winter coat gi1awed in a number of places. I said to my fe llow-workers : "So long a !i they haven't touched my serge dress, I won't compla in." But they had chewed a big hole on the shou lder , and 011e s leeve ha d about a dozen holes. I can assure you I felt more like weeping tha n "t aking with rejoicing the s poil­ing of m y goods !" F ortunately for me, my fe llow-worker is an excellent seams­tress a nd she is going to see wh at new style she ca n think of to cover t he holes.

P rices of ever ything are abnor mal. Fort wiately fo r us, home exchange is still good. Our journey of a bout 9 to 10 miles las t week used · to cost us 40 cents about 2 years ago. Last week the boatman wanted $5.00. Our pastor was wi th us and arg ued prices for u s. What a lot of t ime is wa sted in a rg uing prices ! W e fina lly got it fo r $2.80. Had we been a lone, th ey would never have done it fo r t hat .

How we need pa tience t hese cla ys! ! Pray that it ma y be g iven to us i n a n ever increas ing mea sure. We need i t at our meetings when babies and ch il­dren a r e noisy ; we need it when ou r belong ings are spoiled; we need it in dealing w it h boatmen, cool ies, servant$ -ever yone !!

With kindest greet ings to a ll rea der s of "The Baptist Hera ld." I m iss t h e "Her a lds" when they don't come, for t hey keep me in touch with t he ch ur ch­es where I 've had t he privilege of m eet­ing friends.

A few days ago a check came by air mail from the Iowa You ng People's a nd S unday School W orkers· Union for our work . I want to thank t hem niost heartily for their gener ous g ift which has come safely to han d.

Page 432 THE BAPTIST HERALD

Edited by MRS. ALFRED WEISSER of Carrington, North Dakota

Always Giving Giving, giving, always giving,

Is my Lord to me; Giving of H is grace and blessing,

Sinful though I be. And shall I withhold from giving

While He gives to me? Cling to earth and earthly treasures,

Though the need I see?

No, I'll give to spread the message, -Give to Him I love,

Give to herald wide t he coming Of my bkssed Lord;

Give as I have been forgiven, Give to send His Word

To poor souls who s it in darkness, Knowing not the Lord.

NEXT ISSUE! 'J'bc Fm'lcluntlng Dook,

THE PRODI GAL R ETUilXS by Hnrold Gnrnet D I n e k will h e 1mhl h•bed serln lly lu "The Ucrnld" hcgl nnlu g w ith t be Deeemher 1st Issue n n d continu ing for npproxlm­nte ly Hix monthK.

T h e f nmlllnr 11nrn hle of Jesu l4 nbou t '•tha Procllgnl Son" h o 11 been grnphlenlly reen nct e d In t hlM m n r ­vclo u s Htory w ith u Htlrrlng 1>lot n n d w ith nil the c o lo r o f t h e Pnle11-t i n ln u h nckgr o u nd.

'J1 hhJ hJ nn entl re 1y d iffe rent k i n d o f n 8 t ory to h e JtnblJHhctl In "Th e Her old" whic h w ill merit th e In­tense In t erest of n li rencle r M.

" The Prodigal Returns" on December I st

A Frisky Colt and the Rev. H. Lueck of Manitow.oc, W isconsin, Are Trying to Get Acqainted With Each Other

FAIR EXCHANGE

Amy polished and polished until her fingers were stiff. Then· she p olished still more !

Finally t he la st shining spoon was laid on the table. Amy's mother smiled and said, "That's fin e work, Amy. Here's your dime. It's t he last one you need, isn't it?"

Amy nodded, a lmos t too happy to speak. From her bank she got out the rest of the dimes t hat had taken so long to accumulate. All together they added up to jus t the price of the big doll in the downtown s tore.

It was a beautiful doll, wit h big blue eyes and rea l eyela shes, a nd long, gol­den curls as soft as s ilk. Amy ha d long ago named it "Cuddles."

"I'm going right down and get Cud­dles now," she told her mother.

" I'll walk along with you," her moth­er said. "They phoned me from t he church to come help them get a box of things ready for a poor little girl in the hospital."

" Who is she?" Amy asked as they s tarted down the walk.

"Her name is Ruth. Her family is very, very poor. The nurse taking care of her told us she did not even have a nightgown to wear that was not a ll raggedy."

Amy became very t houghtful "I don't suppose she has any doll as ~rand as. Cuddles to p lay with her then," she said.

"Oh " h h . , no, er mot er sighed, "I'm afraid she does not have any doll t a ll!" a

"M bi! " h ay ' s e suggested slowly "maybe I could put in . . . Well Ara ' bell a ... in your box for her!,, ' -

Arabella was Amy's oldest doll, t he one t hat h ad lost her hair.

"I think Ruth would be very happy to have her," Amy's mother agreed. " Bring her down to the church after you have been to the s tore."

Cuddles was even more beautiful than _Amy had remembered. Amy held her tight all the way back home. What ~un she would have dressing Cuddles m the lovely little dresses she had been sewing for her ! . Home again, Amy unpacked a ll t he

little clothes and spent a blissfu l hour tr~ing them on her new doll. Each th ing looked dearer than the one be­fore.

But suddenly t he s ight of good old ~ra~ella reminded Amy of t he little girl m the hospital who had no doll at a ll.

Now what could Arabella wear to make her look a little better? She did not even have a cap to cover her ha ir­less h~ad, and her clothes were not very nice-looking a ny more. h "Oh, d.ear," s ighed Amy looking over B~~ family. "Maybe I sh~u ld give her h 1 Y Boy." But Billy Boy had had a

a2d chewed off by the puppy. Then maybe Susan " though t AmY

wor · di B ' rie Y- ut Susan owned only the dr:1s~ she was _wearing, and a little sick gla m _a hospital, with nothing else to P Y \~ 1 th, would surely love dressing a ~oll m all sor ts of outfits. .1

ne by one, Amy went over her fam­~ Y. of dolls, _and not one quite satisfied er as the r igh t g ift for Ruth. Not one

-except Cuddles! Ev t" e_ry ime that upsetting thought

fame mto Amy's head, she put it quick­Y 0 1:1t . But back it came again.

F inally Am · h · · d t· ht t y, Wlt her hps buttone b'l~ ogether to keep them from t r em-

mg, packed Cuddles with a ll her new clothes put i 1. dies' ' n a 1ttle note tell ing Cud-to t h nahme ahnd her own, and took them

e c urc . Two days 1 t . d Jette . a er, a carefully printe "Dr arrived from the hospital.

ear Amy" •t . had . . • I said, "I have n ever as c~~~hmg so lovely in my whole life with h es. I love her dearly, and plaY let m er every minute t he nurse w ill

e. "Th

twice :s n~rse ~ays I am getting well " Thank ast smce Cuddles came!

Won't You ever and ever so much! play wi~~u Ccome some afternoon and would uddles, too? And me ? I friend . s~u~v~ to have you for m Y

Amy sang g. 1 1 mornin ,, ay Y around the house al dies w:· . 1 guess giving away Cud­she saids !,ust a fair trade after all ," I got a · I g8:ve away a new doll, but

new friend in exchange!"

Nov ember 15, 1941 Page 433

11-ie 11tinit~ Cliu1tcli ot Po1ttland Celebttales 1ts qolden pubilee

taining to the youn.g-er generat icn was the accoun t of the ear ly "hor se-an<l­buggy days," when members had tn cross the W illamette River on a ferry t0 come to church.

Trios a nd quarlcts of other yea rs as well a s the present gave variety to t he program which ended in a "Liebes­ma hl" with a generous plate of l"efresh­ments including a dain ty chocolate cookie decorated wi th a yellow "50." These cookies, a s well a s an elaborately wrought birthday cake were made by Mr. William Pfaff, fo r many year s the fa ithful t reasurer of our Sunday School.

Reported by EMMA B. MEIER, (;hurch Clerk

"T h2 celebration of the fi ftieth a nn i­versar y of a church is, in itself, l10

n-r eat achievement. E very church, if i t does not die out in t he meantime, will sooner or later reach its fift ieth birth­clay. But fe r a church to arrive at it s golden a nn iversary full of vigor a nd sti-ength, facing the future with a de­t ermination to conti nue it s divine task of Kingdom building, t hat is a rare t hing ai;d a r eal occasion for a joyous celebration." This, in subs ta nce, was the statement made by our distin­guished guest speaker, Di·. "William Kuhn of Fores t P a rk , Ill., who very ,.,.racious ly pa!d our church, t he Trinity Baptis t Church of Port land, _Or-e ., a very high tribute, indeed, dun ng our recent f est ivit ies .

Our double motto: TO THE GLORY OF GOD and F ORWARD WITH CHRIST ·gleamed in golden letters above the platform. For we are aware t hat only by t he grace o.f God have we been able to carry on his work thus fa r , and only if we s trive to go for­war d with Christ is our future secure.

Honoring the Pa st The church auditorium was beauti­

fully decorated for t he occasion. Gor­geous gladioli seemed to g row f r.om behind a vine-covered laltice fenc~ng the platform. Then our neig.hb?,rmg churches vied wit h one another in s~~­i ng it with flowers ," bringing magnifi­cent floral pieces, some of which co~1-lained golden chrysanthemums as big

t ·1 th ei1t1'r··~ IJlatform as cabbages, un 1 e ~ looked like an enchanted ganlen.

The opening sess ion on Thursc~1 evening October 9, featured a n a -d ress b~ Dr. Kuhn in which. h~ enum­erated some of the characteristics of ~ •rood church member and encoura~e ~s to "hold such in honor," referrmg

liarticuhrly to those who had had _a • ·1 r of tl11s large share in the bu• c mg .

church. After t he address a g raphic history of t he church was .presen ~ed 1?f means of s ter·eopticon s lides '.v1t h l -

. . ·I· by our genial dcn-lum ma t 111g renrn 1 ,s con, Mr. David Billeter.

0 F ··d evening, FELLOWSH fP n 11 ay · our NI GHT an oppor tuni t y was given ..

' l to bring t hen neig hboring churc 1es . . . ,.,. . t ' . d t his they did with many .,1 ee 111gs an ·ft i·al bouquets. o-racious verbal and 0 . . 1' h·e '"mother" church, Bethany, R\\as

h a s tor t he ev. repr esented by er P ' b .T. C. Schweitzer, t he Salem ch1,1rclk ; Dr J Ollhoff Salt Creek by t 1C e\.

· · ' · ·<l b t he Rev. Otto Nallinger , Sta ffoi . Y.,, . . 1 B J F "'° the "claughte1 , Laur e -

· · i i ~sen, , W Mueller , and burst , by the Rev. F. · Otto R oth Emanuel Chu rch by t he Rev: , .'

·l . .· t d " 'I' liis t ime it s a hoy · \\ 10 111;:;1;:; e '

EMANUEL." Di-. F. W. Starring, ex­ecutive secretary of t he Oregon Bap . tis t Convention, brought us the f.~ lie i ­tations of that body a nd gave an a d­dress on "Our Church a nd Our Deno-111 ir:aticn."

Living Charter Mem bers On Sat urday evening. CHURCH

NIGHT, a more informal program was carried out under the leadership of the

Dr. Kratt's Blessed Memory The Su nday School had its own an­

niversary program on Sunday morning , in which six former superintendents par ticipated. The Young People 's So-

The Auditorium of the Trinity Baptist Church of Portland, Oregon, Decorated With Flowers and Streamers for the Fiftieth Anniversary

P rogram of the Church

chairman oi the an niver sary committee, Mr. Edw. Ne ubauer. Our two charter members, Mrs. Margaretha Boehi and Mr. Conrad W yss, were honored on this occas ion , as was a lso our esteemed treasurer, Mr. J ames Bi lleter , who h ad a lso l.Jeen tiecretary for a long term oi year s. Our dea con , Mr. Harry J oh nson, addressed them in t he na me of the church, present ing t hem \\' ith appro­priate ca rds and adorning Mrs. Boeh i \\' ith a corsa ge of yellow r osebuds and 1 he gentlemen with boutoniers.

\,Vhile we were conferring l10nors, we <"Ould not miss the opportun ity of r e­rogn.izing Dr. K uhn 's s ilver ann ivers­ary. So ou1· pastor , Dr. J ohn Leypold t, ca lled Dr. Kuhn to the platform and eonferred upon him the honorar y de­gree of G. F . S .. , (Good and Faithful Ser va.nt). Five members gave five­minute talks on the five decades : Con ­rad Wyss, 1891-1901; J ames B illeter, 1901-1911 ; Henry Neuber t , 1911-1921 ; J ennie Boehi , 1921-1931; and .Tas. D . Billete r. 1931-1941. P a r t icula r ly enter-

ciety and t he \.Vomen's Mi tisionar y So­ciety shared in t he program of t he afternoon, at which Dr. J. F. Olt hoff of Salem brought a st irring address on " The Ir:s piration of an Id.:.a l."

Dr. Kuhn , in h is own imitable way gave us th rec timely sermons on Sm;~ day. "Bu ilding God's Temple" a nd "The Continua nce of the Chur ch of Chr ist " were his themes in the morn­ing, a1:tl in the closing service our mot­lo : "Fonvar cl with Chris t !"

\Ve closed with a memoria l s2rvice ho11or irg our departed member s, in par ticular , ?uL· be loved Dr . J acob Kratt. who;:e pass111g t he church s t ill mourns H ow we w:shed he mig ht have lived tc. enjoy t his celebration ! How oft.en hi~ name was mcnl ioned in t he course of U:cse . . da~:s a nd how inex tricably was hrn life mter woven wit h tha t of t h d1urch ! Ile res ts from hi i; la bors a ~ his works fo llow h im. c

11

Throug-hou t a ll the !'1essio tL th~ b cau­t i fu l musical selections pla yed by our

(Conth1ued on P a ge 438)

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Northern Conference Activities of the Edenwold

Ladies' Aid in Saskatchewan It is a long t ime si nce we h ave sent

a r eport to " The Baptist H erald" from the Ladies' Aid Society of t he Baptist Church of Edenwold, Sask., Canada, but we are still busy at work. A t pres­ent we have 20 m ember s, and we come together on every first Tuesday after­noon of each month. Our pres ident is Mi·s. H. Paul of Balgonie.

Sometimes we are favored with a talk from our beloved pas tor, t he Rev. A. R. Weisser.

On the firs t of July we had a picnic and a bazaar. With the money that is raised \Ye t r y to help in differe nt p la­ces, s uch a s missions, R ed Cress, etc.

Also we h ave remember ed our B ible School in Edmonton. Wit h t he money out of our birthday trea s ury we secure flowers or fruit for t he s ick. MRS. MARTHA HOLLERBAU~r. Secr etary.

The Freudenthal Church a nd Zion Station of Alberta Hold a

Farewell Service for the Rev. and Mrs. F. Alf

A fa r ewell s ervice was he ld for the Rev. a nd Mrs. F. Alf and the ir son. Vernon, by the F reudent ha l Baptist Church at our mission s ta t ion. Zion, near Ca rbon, Alta., Cana da, on Sunday evening, October 5.

The s uperintendent, i\Ir. Art Forsch, of the Zion Sunday School was in char ge of the progra m. All the va rious branches of the church were r epresent­ed by thei r leader s who s poke words of appreciation.

Some time hefor2 thi s da te t he Women's Missionary Societ y ha d pre­sented Mrs. A If with a beaut iful quilt to show t heir t ha nks and a ppr eciation for lhe splendid work which she had clo11e. Thl' women of our Zion station prc•scn k d Mrs . Alf wi t h an envelope of money. Mr. J. J. Ohlhauser, fin t dea­~on of the church , presented M1·. Alf, •n behalf or t he church, with a Parkzr pen and penc il >et, a nd Vernon was pr escntc>d wi th a Bible from the Zion B. Y. P. U. Th e Alfs th en res ponclccl Lo the tributes and good wishes, and expr£s~Pd t heir gTaii ludc>. M1-. Al f rspocially iha1·kc•d the chur«h fo r g iv­ing him the last two wc•eks as h olida ys.

On Ocl<>h: r J 2 lhc Rl'v. i" . A 1 f brought his <·los in g- strmon aL t lw F reudl'nlhal Chun·h. Al both placP~ mus ic wa-; rcnden·d by the mixed choir. qua r tets ard ol hers . A ft.e r t he evening service ev-eryonr had ihc opportunity at t ht' door to hid Uwm farewell. Our si1wer<• prayer h; that Goel may con­ti nue to lil1·ss Lhc>m r i<"hlv in lhl' ir new fidcl al Missoula , Munta.na.

(' 111ns. JI AllSC 11 . R t· porlcr.

Northwestern Conference Annual Birthday Service of the Women's Missionary Society

of Milwaukee's Immanuel Church

The Women's Missionary Socie ty of the Immanuel Baptist Church of Mil­waukee, Wis ., conducted its annual birthday service on Sunday evenin" October 12. This birthday service is",; recognition of a ll the birthdays of all members of the society. Aft~r the prelude by our organis t ,

the women, led by the pres ident, 1\Irs. E. L oehr, and the pastor's wife, l\Irs. Thorwald W. Bender, marched into t he auditorium, two by two. It was a strik­ing di splay of the numerical strength of this splendid group of workers.

Co_ngregational s inging, scripture rca dmg and prayer compcsod t he firs t !Jart of the service. T wo playlcts, one Ill Germa n and t he other in E cglish, took up the g reatest part of the p ro­gram. Both of t hese playlet s had been well _rehear sed and wer e given w ith effectiveness. Special mus ic was pre­sented by a tt·umpcl solo r endered by F1:ed Mueller and by duets s ung by Miss Edna W engel a nd D r. Cad Rohr­bach.

A talk by "Ta11te Anna," Mrs. P aul Scholz, brought to our attention the names of women who had been active irc t he Women's Miss ionary Society in the years gone by. These women arc now enjoying the res t of t he blessed. Candles were lighted for each of these women as her name wculd he woven into the talk. The large candelabrum with burning candles was a s ilent wit­ness of t hese fru it ful lives d uring t he i·es t of the even ing. A ln1·ge, heautif ul birthday calw, l.iakccl by Mrs . Sandrock, ruJ I of burning birthday eandlcs, a lso added to the arrang-cmc>nt of the plat­form for the service.

It had been previous ly a n nounced that a missionar y offering would be re­c·eivccl in connect icn with t h is program. The offering amounted lo $92.00 a nd "·as sent lo miss ional'y headquarters to he ~qually divided for general mission­a ry purposes and the Centc1:ary Fund.

:'.TRS . W M. S PECllT. Ass't Secl'ctar y.

P acific Confe rence Glimpses into the Work of the

Wilcox Baptis t Church of Colfax, W ashing ton

_ Th<; B. Y. P . U. of lhc> Wi lcox Bap­f 1s t Churc·h r.f Colfax, Wash., recently ;·,nmplPlP<i a s tudy cour' e entiilc>d,

What DoPs I t Mean lo Jfo a Chris­f ian." Gr.ea t blcssirg- and im;piralion were denved from the spri cs of dis­<·ussions <"0 nrl uc·lecl hy th<• youn.Q' JWO·· pie.

THE BAPTIST HERALD

W e have begun t he publication of a s mall month ly lrnllctin containing bits of news and ins pirational t houghts . These are sen t to our absen tee mem­ber s , t ha t is, to those who arc away at school or working, in an effort to keep them m ore closely unified and in touch with us.

At our a nnual B. Y. P. U. p rogr am, we presented a sound film entitled, " The Prodigal Son."

We had the g re at privilege of hav­ing Dr. William Kuhn with us a s church on Sunday, October 5. May God cont inue to bless him in th e wonderful work he is doing.

Trnly, the Lor d is bountifully bless­ing us . l\Iay we s trive to be dese rving; t) f h is )!.'r acious goodness !

Cele bration of the 15th Wedding Anniversary

o f the Rev. & Mrs. B. W. K rentz by the Los Angeles Church

On . Sunday evening , October 12, at the Fifteenth Street Baptis t Chu rch of Los Angeles, Calif., our pas tor and his ": i!:e, the Rev. and Mrs . B. Vv. Krentz, we1·c plea san t ly s urprised on their 15th , ,·cdding a n1.1ivcrsary. ,

The wcddmg march was played while t hey were ushered down to t he altar by severa l of the deacons. The Rev. H. Dymmcl of Anaheim officiated. . The l~!atform was beautifully deco­iated " .th palms, white chrysanth e­mu ms,_ a nd fern. After a s hort pro­gran.1 m the auditorium, cons is ting of a brief add1·css by the Rev. H. Dymmel and songs by the male quartet mem­bers of the chu rch and friend~ were asked .to r esort to t he basement fo r the 1·eception.

The bride's l · bl · ,1 c was al so bca u t1-fu lly decorate I ·t . "' c w1 h a large cente r 11',1

1°cc,

1fo candles , a nd ihc wedding cake.

ic arge ccnte1· . f , . . piece, composed o ~ lb11tc chrysa nthemums and shaped a s

a oat was a •y111b I .f d I· . ~r • o o our pastor an i is w1.c lrav~li ng toget her on life 's

f'Ca for 15 year s . The s peeches · b

I.ff . · given y deacons and < 1 e1 ent ones l'C'l' l" . . . . . , escntmg the var10ui; o1 ga111zat1ons of th l . I . e c iurch were t 1me-y and appropria te Th . 1. I

a nd the n · e v10 in so o • 1. umber by the male qua r tet .1 • o added much to t i . A v 1 1c occa s ion.

. a uablc cnvc>lope from the church ''as ha nded • ' I .· 1 •0 nlr. and Mrs. Krr11tz. >eSJ( c~ a c l°I' . t f

• a 1 or11 1a go lden hftii scus l"ee r o th · ("h h 111 e A 11a hci111 Bethel Bapti!'t m·c and I . lhc E l ' a aige cr ystal p la t e from

Je ner.er Church of r A 1 Tha El •OS nge cs. I° ' • 'J~nezcr church wa s well rep­n~scntcd, rncluding the R ev . K. F cld­A1Ctl~ ~ormcr pastor of I he church. The tj

11? enn church wa s r r prcsented by

(..,lcn· 1>as~o 1· , the Rev. 11. Dymme l. May •Od <:0 11 t111 t bl

I ·. f . ur o ess 0 111" pastor and 11s aimly.

HELEN WI N KET.MAN, Rc·porter

November 15, 1941

T h e Oregon Association Meets a t Sale m and Conside r s the

Theme, "The Church." "To foster t he s pirit of ~h ristian fe l­

lowship, and to deepen and enrich the s piritual life": thus reads our consti­tution on t he purpose of our Oregon Association. Like in the past, so a lso this year that purpose was achieved t hroug hout all of our sessions in t he neat and wor shipfu l chapel of our church in Salem from October 16 to 19.

The attendance at the evening ser­vice and that dur ing the Lord's Day were most g ratifying, and t he day ses­s ions were also attended by a goodly number of delegates and v is itor s from th-e seven churches of our a ssocia tion. Our congenial host-pastor , Dr. J. F. Ol thoff, ser ved a lso as chairman of the sessions. The Rev. F . W. l\Iucller has been r-e-elected as as sistant chairman, and the R ev. Otto Nallinger as secr e­tary-treasurer.

The genera l theme of the association was "The Church." The program com­mi ttee should l>e commended on the fine choice of topics, and to the par t icipat­ing pastor s we owe ou_r gratitu~c f_or their diligen t p1·eparabon and 111sp1r­ing delivery of t heir messages, t hrough which we wer e Jed into gr·ecn pastures a nd bes ide t he s t ill wa ter s of God 's word. The brethren T. A. L~gcr a nd J . J . Lucas Jed us in our devot10ns . ~he Rev. Otto Roth delivered t he opci:imj!.' ser mon on " The Lost and Rcg:,rned Christ." Dr. J . Leypold t spoke on Th e E arly Church ," the Rev. F . W.· i\~~eller on "The Church a nd t he B ible , a nd the Rev. J . C. Sch~veitzer ~n ""The Church a nd H er Pubhc Worshiy. .

Dr. W m. Kuhn led a di scussion }Jer1-od on the last two topics. We w:r~ esp~­cially grateful to have our _i\hssio~aiy Secretary with us, who _hke a l\\ ays with his win ni ng personali ty and cond vincing messages won the hearts an the u ndivided attention of the pcoplef In severa l of his messages he s poke 0

" T he Church a nd t he Minis try of t he Holy Spirit." Dr. Kuhn was also th~ speaker during the "Sch westernbu ~d Program on Friday afternoon, spc.ik-

1\[ . · try of ing on "The Frag rant · 1111s God 's Saints ."

T he Young P eople's and Sunday School Workers' R ally was held · 011

R" I the Sunday afternoon. i\Ir. Sam ic 1• state presiden t was in cha rge.. 1:he Rev F W l\Iu ~ller brought a st11Tmg

· · · · God's Favor-messa ge on " Is America • itc Na tion?" The Oregon _yo_ung pco~lc have adopted a definite missionary l~r o­j cct in gatheri ng mon~y for the ~~c.c­tion of a "Kratt i\lemoria I School m

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,.., h R I a 111-ning was broug ht by t e ev. · f ger on "Th e B li nd and Opened Eyes ~d Gehazi. " T hese were, indeed, bless days and a ll the servic£s were ehn -

' h · · of t e h a nccd the songs of the c 0 11

church a nd other s pecial numbers, a s Well a s by t he bea utiful flora l decor~: tion s . Goel willing, we s hall meet nex. Year in Sta fford.

J. c. SCHWEITZER. Reporier.

Dakota Confe rence Mission Festival is Held by the

German Baptist Church of Sawyer, North Dakota

With praises and thanksgiving we of the German Baptist Church of Sawyer, No. Dak. , came again before the Lord on Sunday, October 12, to thank him for all of his goodness at our annua l mission. festival.

The Rev. Fred Tra u tner, our ·pastor , brought the message in the forenoon on 2. Corinthians 11 in the German la n­guage. Lunch was served at t he church ,

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Fall Mission Festival Held at McClusky, North Dakota

God g ran ted a beautiful, sunny day in McClusky, No. Dak. , on Sunday, September 28, for the fir st mission fes­t ival in North Dakota attended by th e Rev. A. Husmann, t he promotional sec­reta ry. The church had been eagerly looking forward to meeting Mr. Hus ­mann and deemed it quite a privilege to g ive him his init iation into Dakota mission fest ivals. The enthusiasm of t he church found expression in the colorfu l autumn stage setting an d in the fine attendance by the loca l people

Members and Friends of the McClusky Baptist Church in North Dakota a t Their Recent Mission Festival

a nd then we began ou1· afternoon ser­vice with s inging. The message was then given in the English lang uage on Romans 9 a nd 10. The ser vices were very well attended and th e mission of­fering amounted to $127.83 for which we are very thankful to the Lord.

W e arc very happy to repor t t hat the Rev. a nd Mrs. Fred Trautner and fam ily, who came to us las t s ummer here in the two churches of Sawyer and Benedict, arc work ing v-ery h ard and wi th much blessing ! M rs. Traut­ner is taking a g reat deal of interest in the young 11eople a nd in s inging . May t he Lord r ichly blrss them and 1·e­ward t hem!

We arc also glad lo report l ha t. afte r hard wo1·k a nd much strain, we were able to have electric lig hts insta lled in the church which will be a gr eat con­venience in the evenings.

i\!Rs . G. i\100RE, Rcportc1·.

and friends from neighboring churches _

Although Mr. Husmann, our .Q'Ues l s peaker, had arrived a s early a s 2 :30 A. l\L on Sunday morning . he spoke t o u s at three sen · ices, in the m orning· and afternoon services in the Gern1an lang uage and in the eveni1;g service in Englis h for the you ng people. In \.he afternoon m~ssage, Mr. Husmann i~re­sented a word picture of our g reat mis­s ion fields a s German Baptis ts and a lso s howed us t he extent of the m eans and matc1·ial which a re needed in order to promote t his gr eat commiss ion of s preading the gospel. After thi s m es­sage we r eali :i:ccl more than ev er how much our small contributions help in this g reat work. We thank our heaven ­ly Father that he touched hearts a nd for the res ulting g ifts which broug;h t. our offering v~ ry close to t wo hundrccl dollars.

_ Our pa stor , t he R ev. R. Ka ise r, wa~ assis ted in t he services by the you ng­ladies of the church who rendered mu­~ ica l number s in various arrangemenb lhrnug hout t he e nt ire day. The laclieo: of the church arc a lso to be highly «Om ­n~en ded in th<'i r s plend id k it«he 11 ser ­ncc.

Ou~· ~nission festiva l wal< tru ly a d av of spmiual fe llows hip and i n spirati oi~ vVc exper ienced a g;r ea t measure of jo : in g ivirg- toward thl' King:rlom '''Ori~ Cod g rant that we may con t inue to h~ upon the alta r a nd willingly g ive hlin our a ll.

ESTHER KAISER , Rl'))Orter.

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Central Conference Fall Activities at the Beaver Baptist Church of Michigan The Ladies' Missionary Society of

t he Beaver Baptist Church of Michigan ar ranges annually a birt hday par ty. On a recent Sunday evening the whol~ church was invited by the women to participate again in t his year's birth­day celebr ation. At t his occas ion every­body is given a chance to bring his coins , becaus-e he is still thankful for God's blessings. A suitable program was r endered by the women. The birth­day children were grouped and seated around tables in accordance with t h·!! mont h in which t hey were born. In due time each g roup was called upon to sing a song· and report about their llUmber, about the age of the oldest one as w-ell as t he age of the youngest one, and also about the amount of birthday money. Thus, t he church family had a happy t ime together.

Fall having arrived, the young peo­ple of t he chur ch fe lt that it would help the cause of the B. Y. P. U. if t he n-eeded arrangements \\'Ould be made for a good ra lly. Sunday even ing, Oc-

tober 12, was the date set for t his occa­sion. A special invitation was sent to the Gladwin B. Y. P . U. to participate in this rally. A number of speakers wer e procured who were ass igned cer­tain topics. Now we are able to r eport that t he rally was really a success. On that evening t he chapel was crowded with young people . Gladwin was rep­r esented by a lar ge delegation headed by their pastor, t he Rev. L. F. Gassner. The president of the Gladwin group, William Bickholz, addressed t he rally on the topic of " Loyalty." The presi­dent of t he Beaver group, Edwin Schulz, spoke on the v ita l relation of the youth and the future church, while Mr. Gassner stressed t he importance of Christian fe llowship for youth. The pastor of the church, the Rev. H. P. Kayser, was asked to show our respon­s ibility toward the youth l iving in the community.

On Sunday, October 19, the Sunday School of the Beav·er church observed its annual Rally Day. Although the weather was not favorable, still our people t urned out in large numbers. All the classes were well represented, and many friends responded to the in-

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vitation. Our beloved superintendent, Mr. Her man Majeske , was happy when he faced the well attended school tha t morning. When he called the r oll of the classes, t hey responded with a song and a r eport about class enrollment as well as class attendance and t he amount of the offering. The record indicated that 111 were present at the rally. In con-11ection with t he program, a number of pr omotion certificates were awar ded to scholars and recognition was g iven of t he teachers of our school. Finally, the pastor was called upon to take charge> of the second pa r t of t he rally ser vice.

In t he evening of the same Sunday our Sunday School observed t he Har­vest Day Fest iva l. The meeting was opened by the superintenden t Herman Majeske. The decorating com~1ittee for this occasion did a beautifu l job, for it \\'as a r eal delight to see the many colors of the autumn and the many rruits displayed in the house of God. The scholars a ppeared w ith joyful faces on the platform to bring us t heir short messages about the bounteous harvest of t he season, about g ratitud!! t hat should fi ll our hear ts.

H. P. K AYSER, Pasto1· .

Southwestern Conference Harvest and Mission Festival and Anniversary Program

at Durham, Kansas On Sunday, October 19 the First

Baptist Church of Durha~n, K ansas, celebrated its annual H arvest and Mis­s ion F estival a nd also t he 45t h anni­versary as a church. Our four neigh­boring churches and their pastor s were invited. Dr. P ic.ter Smit of Lorra ine was our guest speaker for the occasion. Due to the heavy ra in early in the morning, many cf our invited fr iends were not able to come. Enough came, however, so that we did have well at­tended services throughout the day. The Rev. R. Seibel from Str a ssburg brought the firs t message and Dr. Smit hrought t he second message.

I n the afternoon we had a specia l $ervice in honor of our 45t h annjver ­.•ary. The Rev. J. Broeder brought t he ann iversary addr ess. Our ladies h ad baked a special ann iversary cake. In the center of the cake was a lighted cross s ignifying the lig ht of Jes us Chr is t. Round about the cake were 45 lighted candles , signi fying the light that has sho\\'n forth from th is church throughout the period of 45 y2ars.

At the close cf the s·e rvice the cake \\'as sold at t.cn cents a s lice and the proceeds designated for the Centenary Fund of our denomination. The his­tory of the church was then g iven and congr atulatory 1-etters from former pas tors wer e r ead. A special offering­\\'US taken a nd this a lso was designated ror our Centenary Fund. . D r., Smit brought the closing mes­sage 111 the eve ning service. In spi re of LI.1e heavy rains a ll day Jong, our spi-1·1ts .were not dampened a nd we fel t the m?vmg of the Spirit of God in our midst. God did bless us !

EDWARD KARY, P astor.

November 15, 1941

Marvelous Things Are Being Done in the Bethany Church of

Kansas by "The Lord's Acre Project"

It all started las t Spring when "Me­phibosheth," a little black and w hi te calf, claimed a place among the stock of the pas tor of the Betha ny Baptist Church near Vesper, Kansas. The Rev. a nd Mrs. J. H. Kornelsen decided that all "first-born" of t heir s tock should be dedicated to the Lord, a nd "Phibbie" was one such. So it is to be sold in clue season and the proceeds will be g iven to our Centenary Offering.

S ince many of our church members expressed interest in similar proj ects, the church decided to create a "Lord's Acr e Board" which was to promote a nd handle funds of such projects. The five men who served on t his board have since handled over $700 which have .come in from var ious sources. More than thi r ty different gifts have been recorded to dat e.

The Ladies' Mission Circle took up the project as an organization a nd bought 200 baby chicks which they dis­tributed to eight Juniors. These young people, Margaret Will , Celia H anne­man, Violet Stussy, Laverna Will, Leoti F ern Nitsch, Marilou Felsburg, Vivian Gabelman and Donald Wirth, raised t hese chicks and sold them, bringing t he proceeds to t he Lord. The initial investment of $13.00 brought a gross income of $55.20 which was a ll g iven into the treasury of the Lord's Acre Board.

Then t he Mission Circle decided to give each Saturday's eggs for two months. These were brought. to church aJid marketed by one of then· number t he following week. This brought $91.-00. To t his sum was added enough to make an even $100 and presented to the Board t oward t he church debt.

School teachers, bus iness men .a_nd heads of nearly a ll our farm fam ilies adopted one of several other plans.

THE BUSH EL PLAN was adopted by Lewis Felsburg, Carl Wirth, Ha.rold Jaeger Harry Gabelman, C. E. Wll"th, A. D. \.virth, Mrs. W. S. J aeger , J~c-~~ Stussy, Rolland J aeger, a nd Wm. Wn and H enry Wilth.

THE 5 cts. A DAY PLAN was used by John C. Schulz a nd Norman Schulz.

THE CASH PLAN was followed by Frank Will, Mrs. C. H. Schulz, Mo1:na Stussy, Mrs. Lewis Will, Mr~. Dehah Pounds, Mrs. George Hornmg, Ida Wick , Mr. and Mrs. Charl~s Munson , Rev. Clark Benson, Reny Miller , H. M. Stussy, Mrs. C. Vf. Schu lz, Mrs. Wm. Wir th , G. A. Gabelmann, Verona and Mabel Liss and A. L. Va namburg.

THE STOCK PLAN \\·as ad?pted by Rev. J. H. Kornelsen, Frank Will , Wen­d!'!! Grein-e r a nd Glor ia Stus'Y·

A project of s imilar na ture, though not ha ndled t hroug h the Lord's C~c\e Board was t hat of t he Mission irc e in gathering farm produce to start a fund for new song books for the <:hurch. The produce netted over $lS.OO

and cash donations togeth-er with an offering received on the evening of the B. Y. P. U. play completed the $62.50 which bought one hundred new "Ser­vice Hymnals."

The encl is not yet. Several projects a re st ill in the "growing." This is a perennial project t hat goes on the year 'round. November is Missions Month. Some of us will bring our "Acres" to the Lord during this month.

The church debt has been re duced from $1860 to $1160. With God's bless­ings upon our fields another year we might be able to celebr ate next Octobe1· by burning the mortgage.

Reports on mission income will be given soon. We have clone well at home. Let us make this light shine into the Camer oon Mission field, t he Danubian field, and to our fe llow Americans who look to us for The Way of Life. Our past efforts have been to the praise of the Name of our Lor d J esus Christ and ir. that spirit we will continue. '

J. H. KORNELSEN, P astor. 1 Suc h unusual slol'ies a.bout churches

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Harvest and Mission Festival Sunday in Shattuck, Oklahoma

The German Baptist Church of Shat­tuck, Oklahoma, c-elebrated a Mission F estival on Sunday, October 12. The morning service was devoted to a spe­cial mission sermon. At t his service a mission offering was taken.

After the morning ser vice, t he mem­bers of the congregation went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Melzer. Everyone heartily enjoyed t he good food and the fel lowship of this noon­tide gathering.

The evening service was devoted to the presentation of a Harvest and Mis­s ion program by the chi ldren of the Sunday School. The combined offering of the morning and evening service amounted to $45.88.

The church was appropriately deco­ra~ed with plants, flower s, maize, pum­pkins, squashes, watermelons and other fruits of t he field and garden.

We praise God for the man.y spiritual and temporal blessings which he has granted us. Under the leadership of our pas tor,. the Rev. F. W. Socolofsl-y, we are gomg forward and God is bounti-fully blessing our efforts. Reporter.

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The Kansas State Association Was Held at Durham in Spite of

Flood Waters T he Kansas S tate Association met

this year from October 20 to 22 with the Dur ham Baptist Church. We had looked for ward to enter ta ining t he a s­sociat ion and had anticipated one of the fi nest ga therings. But we were greatly disappointed.

On Sunday night torrential r a ins i n the surrounding communit ies sent such a volume of water into our town that Monday morn ing found us with about four feet of water in the downtown business sect ion. Ra in throughout t he state flooded other communities a nd blocked many highways, making it impossible for visitor s and delegates to get t hr oug·h to Durham.

We had to cancel the opening meet­ing on. Monday. Only a f ew delegates ventured out for t he Tuesday morn ing service. It was after eleven o'clock be­for e we got start ed. Our chairman , Dr. Pieter Smit, opened t he service with a few timely remarks and t hen t he Rev. .R. Vase! br ought a Germa n message, speaking on t he subject, " Pr esent ing Our Bodies a s a Living Sa crifice."

It was impossible to carry out the progr am a ccor d ing to schedule. Severa l of t he brethren, who were to have been on t he program, wer e not able t o get t o the sess ions, so that our chair man had to conduct the meeting in a mos t in­for mal way.

T he R ev. T . Lutz brought a paper on t he subject, " Pra ctical Religion of Wor ks According to J a mes." The Rev. J. H. Kornelson spoke on t he subject, " Practical Relig ion of F a ith According t o Romans 4." The Rev. E. Kar y brought a book r eview on Dr. Ha lles­hy's book, " Prayer ." T he Rev. R. Vase! led us in t he "Quiet Half Hour." Dr. Pieter Smit brought t he evening mes­sage. Due t he t hrea tening weather t he meetings wer e dismissed on W ednes­day af ter noon at four o'clock.

The officer s for the coming y ear are : cha irman, P iet er Smi t ; vice-cha ir man , .J. H. Kol·nelsen ; clerk, B. F a denrecht ; and treasur er , T. Lutz. T he pla ce of our nex t a ssociation meetin g will be in Bison. The Re v. E . Ka1·y has bee11 chosen as t he "Vorbote," and the Rev. R. Seibel as the opening speaker.

E . K ARY, Repor ter .

OBITUARY M R . U F.N ATTL S W E U f: of lU a:111lto\\·o c , \Vh H.:o u t-t i n

'.\Ir. Ben A hlswed e was bo rn on N o­vemlier !!· 1884. i n K oss u th, \.V is., a FJd ~led " .n. Septem ber 27. 10 "1. after a Jo n g ~~d p.unfu l ill ness. 1\ ll h is life h e h ad 1

·<!n. con n eelt·d wit.h t he church H e was >n!>~1.:r.ed on .f u iy 2, 1911, and f o r m a n y

yea1s h<Ld bC'Pn a n ::i.clive mem be r O('CU ­l!Ying- diffr·rent offices Jn church an<l ~rn<lay School u n ti l his last Il l ness. J n 1 m our c hu1·ch lost one of her impor l­

••nl su 11porte1·s and worlrnrs. Ir,.. rnar1·l<·d Hose Ho hi·hach on Sc-p ­

l•·mbr·1· 25, 1~12. T h e widow, two sons. H e rbert and William and sevcr;.1 1 olhe1· i·r·lativ«a mou1·n his Joss.

'.\1anitowor. Wis. Hugo L uc-cit. Pasto r .

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:\l rs. E mma B e r tola e t. n ee R o h rlmch , was bo rn i n to ,vn s hip ) [n.nito"·oc, Wis ., o n Oc t ober 12, 1 873. and d ied un e xpect­ed ly o n S e p t e m be r 20, 1 0-11 , e v e n thou g h s h e h ad not been in g ood h ealt h f o r ~on1 e ti1ne .

F o r m os t of he 1· Ii re s h e h a d b een assoc i a t ed wi t h t he c hu rch a nd w as ba p tized qu ite y oung o n .Tu!;· 28, 1889, as o n e of t h e fi rs t t e n conve r t s to b e haptized in t h e n e w churc h. S h e a l w a ys lo ved h e r c h u r c h a nd i n h e r qu ie t w a y se r ved h e r L o rd fait h f ully . Ca l m ly a nd q u ie tl y. ns w a s tru e a l s o o f h e r li fe, s h e pas ><e rl fro m this li fe to h e r etern a l home .

S h e was m a r r ied l o \\"m . G. B e rlolaet d n Nove m be r 20. 1898. F r om 1899 t o L!l07 s h e li ved w ith h e r husbnn cl i n 1'Iil ­waukee w h e 1·e t h e y w e r e m e m b el'S a t th e Im m a nu e l Ch urc h . H e r hus ban d ; o n P tla u g-h t e r . ~[rs . Ramo na S pecht ; o n e> s o n . J) r. E l m e r B e r l o lact ; 3 g r andchi l ­d r e n a nd sev e r a l s is t e r s a n d broth e r s m o urn h e r d e p a rtu re. :\[a n ito w oc , '\V is .

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)IRS. E DW.\ .RD .JO H;\' GRU II E R of G lnidnuhur) ·, Co nnec tic ut

:\ f rn. Eti w anl .John ( Anna) Grube r of G J a slon bur~' · Co n n .. w h o wa s a fa i thfu l m e m be r o f th e T, ib c r ty Str ee t C hurc h o f ~le ri de n. Conn .. se1·ve <l t h e c h u1·ch a s o f ­ten a s s h e coul d, ": a s a t ea c h e r o f r:hu r c h 8 r hoo l r lnssf>s for n1an y y ears . :i n d ~ing-t\ I' in C'h o i 1·s " · h e r e p ossibl e , n n rl w h o w i th h e r own h a nd R mad e a g r ea t ho m <' fo r he r fa m ily. S h e die d on 0 <'­t o h r·r 2:.. J 9·11. :i t th e lfa1·trord H os p ital f1 ·o n1 complicatlo11 R fo llo w in g a n opera · t ion.

Slw l l'a vc>s h e: 1· hu s ba n d. M r. l!: . .1 . Grnbe1·; he r d a u g hte r. ~[ 1·s . L illia n H e r-1·ing-e r : and h e r g r a nd da u g h t e r. M iss L il ­lian H e n inge r of Gl aR t on bury: a n d two s is t e i·s . )[rs Ruth R oss and MrR. Al e x · a nd ri a '\Vo l (, of R och es t e r. N. Y.

Tn t e r men t too k p lace at Ced a r H ill f'r· m c t c ry. Hnr lfor cl. o n Tu esd a y . Octo be r 2S. f o llowin g- the fu n e r a l ser v ices. w hich l\"f' r f' h r l d n t th e L o w es Funer a l H o m e 'l f Gln s ton hury, Con n . !\fay God h e with h P r f :unily !

) fprl cle n, Co nn. P n u l Sc h ade. Pas t o i-.

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lossons, and I hove b een richly blossod .

Toda y there is a g reater need tha n ever for t rained Sunda y Schoo l teachers and work e rs. Can you q ualify? Prepa re yourself fo r th is no ble work by studying al ho m e in your spare time a t Ji llie expense. An inter esti ng course !hat br ings lo hand every elem enl required to bui ld up knowledge. acquaint with m e thods . an d supply ins piration for dealing wi th chi ld life and adolescent pr ob lems . Wr ite fo r comple te d eta i l s!

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THE GLORY OF GOD (Cont inued from P a ge 427)

One day a minist er vis it ed him and uoticed t hat the man was r ad ian t and joyfu l in spite of his suffering. The minis ter commented upon his cheerful­ness a nd t hen the man a nswered: "Oh, I a m alwa ys looking fo1· t he s ilver lin­ing. E very cloud has one. H ow kind God has been to g ive me so many good friends, t hese beautiful flower s , a nd a bove all, his blessed Wor d."

In his hand he held a well-thumbed Bible. Ever y pag·e was pr ofusely marked with red and blue. When he was asked t he meaning of t he color s, he a nswer ed : " That is a simple plan of my own t hat I have kept for year s. You see, I was a r a il roa d man and was accustomed to s ignals. The verses you fin d marked in r ed ar e wa r nings, a nd must not be ignor ed. T hose marked with blue a r e flag s igna ls to stop t h e blessed old t ra in of rnlvation a nd let us a board. They are ver y pr ecious pro­mises to me ; t hey ha ve something of cheer and comfor t for a ll of God 's chil­dren. I am read ing my Bible through now for the 22nd time, a nd it g rows more precious wit h ever y r eading."

TRINITY CHURCH ANNIVERSARY

(Continued from P age 433) ta lented young organist, Miss Mru:garet Passargc, a nd the appropria te a nt hems rendered by our young women's octet a nd our 35 voice church choir contrib­uted much to make t his celebr at ion a memorable one.

A n umber of messages of congra tu­la t ions were sen t in by ma il from for ­mer ministers, member s and other churches. May we take th is oppor tun­ily to express our tha nks to a ll who thus remember ed us.

Photos and Souvenir Booklet A photo gallery arranged in our an-

11ex by Mrs. Rober t Kimmel and h er family attr act ed much a tt ent ion. Over 2QO photogr aphs, most of which wer e 25 t o 50 year s old, wer e on d ispl~y, showing baby pictures, w edding pic­t ures, family groups a nd church gr oups of long ago.

We published a s ixteen page h istori­cal sotivenir conta ining a br ief h istory of t he church and pictur es of i ts minjs­ters. Many enlight ening excerpts could be cited, but space forbids a ll but a few stat ist ics. Dur ing t he fifty year s up to Ma y, 1941, t he church r eceived a tota l of. 1!)76 members in to i ts fellow­ship, 986 by letter a nd confession and 990 through baptism. We los t by letter , 7(;8 ; by dea t h, 211 ; a nd otherw ise, 468; a tota l of 1447, leaving t he present member sh ip, G29.

Y.l e are gra teful to our pastor , Dr. .Joh n Leypold t, for l}is untir ing work i 11 connection wit h this a nniversary pro· gram. We want to pledge him ou r loyal­ly a nd we trust t hat under his leader ­ship our church may truly go "For ­ward with Chri st."

November 15, 1941

THA~l(SGIVING DAY (Continu" J f

gr ateful hea1t.-c rom Page 429 )

Thanksgivin a larg·e anc1 g Da y becomes thus but h · · enthu · · · f t at spmt '"h. s1ast1c expression o

swering attituc11ch is the habitual an-The sun ii

1 e of the entir e being.

t he Eeed-so,vll the sky shines down o!1 ear t h . r csp0 11cl Soi] , a nd t he gratef ul It smiles 0 11 tJ. s With . ests. make r eply 'le or h golden ha1v again wit!) '"ith ~ ar~ t r ees,_ a nd the~ dower the 4 . l"iti n ass1ve fohagc, a n enchant t hell· \\ri ~lled fruitage. 'fhC~ It is theii- eye ~hei r frag rance a!1 s ilent an the !Son~ ' "1th t heir Joveli n es~· is t he dee 111 Of '"ithout words, the~r ThanksgiVitillest t hanksgiving. 'fh1~ Sun of Ri~~ se lesson of t he g l!l l ight , joy, ' " t eotason. Christ is ollr rourte><~· ot <l.lQ\ ls11ess H ·ves tJS

" . t h · e g1 'l:>1, ~ \ Dower, glory. ,,

\ ' ••tch 1un11-E x nn1ll1c ' '

WHAT'S HAPPENING (Continued from P age 422)

11eurd in outlying distr icts. Mr . Arthur p,.. Voig t, chur ch clerk, r epor ted that "the messages by Br other BronleeW<' were clear and s tra ight to the point . g e is a powerful and dynamic speaker , a man of deep convictions a nd con­~erned for the lost. T he Lord grea tly !J les~ecl us during t hese meetings a nd c 11r1st became more real." Sixteen per-50ri ~ expr~ssecl their . fai t h i n J esus QJJf!St durmg the ser vices which came tO 9 close on September 28th.

(fl On Thursday ev·en ing, October 16,

1,e \~omen's _Missionar y Society of t he

~ j)grnn Bapt ist Church of J ersey City, ~f. J. , held its 54th ~nnivers~ry pr ?­r• ., m befor e a good-sized audience m ~ e church. Recitations a nd dialogues t .

1efe r·endered beside~ number s by t he ,,

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ladies' choi r . The Rev. H . P alfenier of P hiladelphia, P a., was the guest speak­er. T he p astor of the local chur ch, the Rev. V. Prendinger , a lso took par t . T he offi~rs of t he society are as follows : Mrs. V. P rendinger, pr esident ; Mrs. E. Lceb, vice-pres ident ; Mr s. R. P usch , secretar y ; Mrs. Charles Kl ing, treas­urer . During the past year , the society o.f 24 member s has raised a tota l of $440, which is a r emarkable record for such a sma ll g roup.

(]! Dr. Harry Rimmer , world renow11ed scientist and C h r is t i an lecturer brought a series of lectur es on "Moder1~ Science a nd the Week of Creation" to a close on Monday evening, November 17, in t he E vangel Baptist Chur ch of Newark, N. J. F or seven successive Monday evenings he held large a ud i­ences spellbound by his informative and inspirational lectures which r a nged

Organizing and Conducting Our Sunday Schools

as a Most Efficient Agency to W in Every

Scholar for Christ and Our Churches.

Vogel's P icture of " Christ Blessing L ittle Children."

41 F'o r h ~· i.::rnl'<" U rt"' ~·e Ntn ·,-. 41 t h rO UJ;::h fni t h: n n tl 1.hnt n o t o C ~·ou r­

l"!c h ·••s : It I :i.i tlu.• g i f t of God: n o t of " ·ork .!ol J .,..~t un ~· nu111 s h o u lcl J,o n s t . F' o r " ·e nre l als " ·ork uu1 nsh11,, c N•uh•tl In C'h rl~t .h ·su s u u'to i.:.:uotl \\o r k s. " "hi t:l• Gotl bnOt ht•fnrt• o r tln l n t•d fh n t ''C s h o uld " "nlk lit t h t•n1 ." - l '! tth. ~ :S-10 .

Every S1;1nda y School is li~e a gard e n of. G od . Delicate plants a nd fra il seedlings are t o be found the rem. Careful attention must b e g ive n to the n u rture a nd cultivation b oth of the plants in the garden a nd the boys and g irls in th e Sunday School. The greater' t h e care which is exer cised in this work, the lovelier will b e the blossom s and the mor e luscious the fru it in the days to come!

The Sunda y Schools of our Prote stan t c~urches a r e ofte n fallin g beh ind in compar ison w ith the public schools of our da y . W e are som etim es con tent with slipshod m eth ods and poor equipmen t a nd m a terial. W e a re ca r e less a bou t the train in g of teachers. "Inefficie n cy" fre ­quently ch aracte r izes the w ork of some o f t h e se schools .

T his is a d enominat ional goal w hich w ill r eq u :r e much t hought and p rayer a nd pos. s ib ly d r a stic changes in our Sund~y Sch~ols. T heY. oug h t to be ~rganized and then con ducted in such a w a y th a t e~ery lesson will fascm a te ~nd impres~ t h e ch!ld and e~ery effo~ will count successfully in t he w mnmg of these boys a n d gir ls for Christ and m nurturmg the m m the Chris.

t i an life. . b . · ·1 bl S Helpful mater ial on th is su J.ect is ~v.a 1 a e on request. tart n o w in t r ansfor m ing your Sunday School into such an efficient sp iritual a gency !

THE EIGHTH OF TEN DENOMINATIONAL GOALS TO BE ACHIEVED IN OUR CHURCHES' PREPARATION FOR THE CENTENARY J UBILEE IN 1 9 4 3

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from " l\Ioses a nd Meteorology" to "Ge­ology a nd the Rock of Ages." On Sa tur­day evening, October 25. t he Chr istian Young P eople's Pellowship of t he church held its an nual banquet a nd rally in t he church. T he ReY. Roy Brill , a miss ionary who was on the ill fa ted " S. S . Zamzam," was the guest speak­er . The Rev. Vincent Brushwyler is t he pastor of the church.

(j] On Wed nesday, October 15, Mr. a nd Mrs. G. Schmid t of Phi ladelphia , Pa., celebrated t heir golden wedd ing a nni­ve rsa ry with delight~u l f estivities a t "an open house" held for their friends and rela tives . T hey wer e married on October 15, 1891, in P assa ic, N. J ., by t he Rev. G. A. Schulte. On t he pre­ceding Saturda y evening a group of 21 members of the family a nd intimate friends su rpr ised them with a d inner at the Doylestown I nn. i\Ir. Schmidt, who is a member of the Fleisch mann l\1emor ial Church of P h iladelphia, was a deacon of t he church fo r ma ny year s a nd sci·ved on boards of t he church and Phila delphia Home for t he Aged. T he ir son-in-law and daugh ter , l\I r . and Mrs. G. St ra ub a rc a lso active in the church, t he former ser vin g- a s Sunrlay School su pcri n tcnden l.

CJ! On Sunday, November !l, two bea u­t iful fl ags, the Christia n flag a nd "the Stars a nd Stripes," were dedicated at a n im pressive service held in the Liber­ty Street Church of Me r iden, Conn., wit h the Rev. P aul Schade in char ge. The new flags were purcha sed by t he Men's Club wit h some fina ncia l a id by other fr iends. A 25-page booklet, en­tit led, "The Church P rogr a m from September, 1941, to J une, 1942," has been prepa red by the pastor for the church members . It cont ains a car e­fully pla nned program for a ll the church societies, t he Sunday School, the church calenda r, the pastor's r e­po1·t, the directory a nd list of church officer s. It is d istinctive a nd unique. Other m inistet·s who might be i nterest­ed in t his program should wr ite to t he Rev. P a ul Schade for a copy.

fJ The Rev. Assaf Husmann, promo­t ional secretar y, ha s continued "flyi nir trips" a nd many activities in the Da ­kota Conference from October 19 to the close of the month. On Sunday, October 19, he was the g uest speaker at t he miss ion festiva ls in t he Ba ptist Church of Her reid, So. Oak. H e a lso t ook part in the programs of t he Nor thern Da­kota Sunday School Association at Washburn, No. Dak. , and of t he Wes­tern Dakota and Montana S. S . Asso­ciation held at Hettinger , So. Dak. At the latte1· p la ce he also preached the ded ica tion ser mon in the new church bui lding. The chur ch debt of $750 wai; reduced by $285 on that day bes ides a mission offering of $148. Mr. Husmam1 a lso vis ited the Ba ptist Churches in Ashley, Wishek, a nd Beula h, No. Dak.. Isabel, McLa ughlin a nd Cor ona, So. Da le., and Crest.on, Neb. At t he close of t.he trip he ha d a conference with a nd addressed a group of about 25 Ger111a 11

We Are Proud to Announce the Publication of a

New and Different Type of Story,

Begininig With the December 1st Issue of " The Baptist Herald"

THE PRODIGAL RETURNS

By HAROLD G. BLACK

T his book, published only a f ew months ago by · t he F leming H . Revell Company, has been a cclaimed by critics as one of the most outstanding r elig ious books of the year. It is a st irring tale for a II ages which \\"ill not easily be forgotten.

Roy L. Smit h, editor of "The Clu:is­t ian Advoca te," describes the book in these words of commcll(la t ion:

" The auth o1· h as caug h t. with On e sp i ­r i Luai d Iser i m I nntion. Lh e pro f ound Lrn Lh s or Lhis La le of t h e- P r od ig1nl Son . The d !'Jicac ,· wilh w h ic h h e Lelis Lh e t a l <' or ti" ' rio t .Ju ,. life. a llll th !' pa thos with 1\"h lch h e d esc1·l bes t h!' suffer i n g of fa · Lher a nd son, m arlc h i m as a s toryteller n ( ra n lc In h i !! o wn r i g h t. lt m ay be safe· I~· p re1ll r l ed th1tt th e ><(' 11>11ll v e sou l. r ead­in g- tl lC' s t o r y o r t h e h eads t r o n g b oy. wi ll be b r o u g h t up In to the presen ce o r th i n gs dlvln!'. T o read t h e b ook will be a spirilun l ex11crl en ce o r d eep n nd r a r e ~ l i;nlOcnncc."

Everybody Will Be Talking About

"THE PRODIGAL RETURNS" A modern story-wTiter here clothes

the f amilia r Parable of the Prodigal Son in present-da y imagery, and the resul t is a fa scina ting story t hat r eads like fict ion.

It is a ski ll fu lly written talc in which Lhc a u t hor, while g iving t he Parable the fa it hfu l setting in t he times in which it was laid, draws on a fruitfu l imag ination to supply t he in tima te de­tails which the incomparable Story­teller le ft his hear ers to fi ll in.

The prodigal here depict ed is such as one might well conceive today, a nd over above its s tory inter est t he lesson of s in, r epenta nce, and forgiveness will rema in a s a vivid impression on the minds of r eaders young- and old.

T he au t hor is a well-known and suc­cessfu l writer a nd a cont ri butor to many per iodica ls. H e is also a ut ho1· of c;ever a l works. including "The Upward l.ook." " Th<' Way," " Paths to SuC'C'ess.""

Look for "THE PRODIGAL RETURNS"

in the Next Issue of "The Baptist Herald"

THE BAPTIST HERALD

Baptist s tudents of NorUHvcstern Bi­llie School in l\Iinneapolis, Minn.

fH The first Bible School ever held by the Ba ptis t Church of H ebron, No. Dak., was conducted from Monday, Oc­tober 27, to F r iday, October 31, w it h t hree morning classes for the Antelope country church a nd with a n evening prog ram for t he town church. The p as­tor, the R ev. E . Mi ttelstedt, a nd t he young people 's secret ar y, the Rev. M . L . Leusch ncr , taught the classes. An aver age a ttenda nce of 22 pupils was registered for the mor n ing classes wit h 53 person s attending some or a ll of the courses. T he evening services , which included illus tra ted lectures on our denomination, were attended by crowds of member s and fr iends which taxed the seating capacity of t he church. l\Ir . L euschner also addr essed the services of the A ntelope country and Hebron town churches on Sunday, October 26, and on Sunday morning, November 2. On Sunda y, September 28, and on Su nday, October 5, t he mis­s ion fes tivals were held in the Hebron a nd Al1telopc churches respectively. with the Rev. E. Mitt els tedt bring ing the messages. The amazing sum of $750 was r a ised by the church a t t hese ser ­vices. On Sunday, Novc1nbcr 2, one hundred a ddit ional dollars wer e raised for the Centenary Offer ing of the deno­mination. Reports and pictures of these activit ies will appear in the nc.xt issue of "The H er a ld."

g In October, J\lr. l\I. L. L euschner. young people's secretary, t ra veled ex­tens ively in t.he Atlantic Conference in the inter est of promotion. On Friday evening, October 3, he sho\\"ed mission­ary pictures and spoke in the Bapt is t Church of Wilmington, Del., of which t he Rev. Christ ia n Peters is pastor. On Sunday afternoon, October 5, he wa s the g uest speaker in t he P hila delphia Ho~c for the Aged ai~d in t he evening service, he preached 111 the Imma nuel Church of New York City, of which the Rev. ~ohn Gryga is pas tor . Duriii1r ~h e fo llow111g week l~c vis it ed a nd spok-<' 111 the German Baptis t Church of Beth­lehem, P a ., a nd at the F irst Ger Bapti~t Church of Union City, N~~~. of which t he Revs. R. E . Reschke and Herman Kuhl ar c pas tor s, respectivel ;rrom October 11 to 12 he par tici at yj 111 the p rog ram of t he Nc\v E pl er, A · t" h ng anri

sso.c1a ion eld in the Rock H ill Chu1 ch of Boston, 1\lass., of which the Rev. E. S_. Ka lland is pas tor. Durin the fo llowrng week he show I . . g a ry a nd General C f . cc m 1ss1on­our Baptist chu. ~n crcnce p ictu res in Bri t-i in and B "dt c es of Meriden , Ne\\"

' r 1 geport Con d . ited with t he . • n., _an v 1s-lics t.I R past01 s and t hen· f a mi-

' ie cvs. Pau l S I d . clcnberg a nd Alb I c la c, G. Frie­l b . ert lahn. Friday Oc­o., el r 17, \~a s SI.len t in Rochester N y

W IL 1 a bnef I • • •

studc1~t.s . '1hncssage to t he sem inary 111

L c cha pel serv ice Wi t h engagements in the Erin Ave Ch h of Clevelan I Oh" . . u r c Ch c • io, and 111 the Ebeneze1-0c~·ch. of Detroit, Mich ., on SW1day.

I bet 19, the t r ip wai:; b roug ht to a

c ose.