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e Mrs. Carl Fuellbrandt of Vienna, Germany, the wife of t he director of our Danubian Gospel Miss ion Field in southwestern Europe, passed a way on January 24 after a lingering illness of several years. The cablegram mes­sage was r eceived at missionary head­quarters from Budapest, Hungary. An only son resides iru Toronto, Canada.

e The Rev. Emil Becker, pastor of the German Baptist Church of Her­reid, So. Dak., baptized 9 persons on confession of their faith in Christ on New Year's Eve, December 31. At this Watch Night service 15 persons were welcomed into the fellowship of the church. During the past year there have been 28 additions.

e On New Year's Eve at t he Watch Night service the Rev. W. H elwig of Ellinwood, Kans., baptized two young women -and received these and another girl into t he fellowship of the Ellin­wood Baptis t Church. Mr. Helwig wrote : "The work is progressing very nicely here. We now have a member­ship of 107, which is higher than this church has ·had for years."

e Messrs. Richard Grenz, Peter Pfeif­fer and George Zinz, members of the senior class of the German Baptist Seminary in Rochester, N. Y., brought morning devotional messages in J anu­ary over radio station W· S A Y from 7:15 to 7:30 A. M. under sp onsorship of the Rochester Council of Churches. A quartet composed of the students R. Kern, G. Zinz, A. Schulz and W. Mar­chand assisted a.t t hese services.

• On Sunday evening, December 17, the B. Y. P. U. of the German Baptist Church in Goodrich, No. Dak., held a Bible Day program. Interesting topics on the Bible were g iven by Lula and Eugene Gerlitz, Viola and Ruth Engel, Gladys Haux and Bertha Fleck. Musi­cal numbers wer e rendered by Leona Brodehl and Eileen Martin. The pro­gram was a spirit ual blessing to those present. The Rev. Adolf R eeh is pas­tor of the church.

• The Rev. Christian Dippel of Bam­boo, Wis., is spending the w inter months at Crowley, Louisiama, where he is a regular visitor in t he services of ;bhe Mowata German Baptist Church. He left hls Wisconsin home on Saturday, January 6, sp ending Sunday morning in the St. Louis Park Baptist Church, St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Dippel will a lso spend some time in New Orleans and will visit most of <>Ur Texas churches before ret urning to his home in April.

.. e At the Watch Nigiht service of the Humboldt Park Baptist Church of Chi­cago, Ill., the Rev. W. S. Argow bap­t ized a convert upon confess ion of his faith. That same evening the church held a biruhday surprise for Mr. Ar­gow and presented him with a radio and lovely fern plant. Mr. Argow spent the Christmas week in Erie, Pa., with his family. The services during the Week of Prayer in the Humboldt Park Church were conducted by Mr. Argow. e The Rev. W. P. Rueckheim of Chi­cago, Ill., a member of the Oak Park German Baptist Church, will move to Lilymore, Ill., in March. In Lilymore Mr. Rueckheim has started a Sunday

BIBLE DAY The observance of this day has

been set for February 18th. This is an earlier date than in former years due to the early appearance of Easter .

Please be sure to give this day some observance and don't fail to raise a collection, or make an ap­propriation, for Bible distribution and our colportage department.

Simple programs have been sent to our Sunday Schools suggestive of a brief service but sufficient for a full hour where such observance is preferred.

If desired, more copies of the program material can be supplied as well as offering envelopes.

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School which meets from time to -time in the schoolhouse. H e has also held a preaching service in the People's Church. He hopes that with God's help this work may grow from small beginnimgs to great things in God's Kingdom. Such pioneer missionary work by t his minister of ours witJhout a charge is to be highly commended. e The Minnetrista Baptist Church of St. Bonifacius, Minn., experienced days of spirit ual uplift during the evangelistic services held from No­vember 20 to December 1. The Rev. E manuel Wolff of St. P aul, Minn., brought the messages at the services, as a result of whidh, 8 children and 2 adults came forward professing faith in Christ as Savior. The pastor of the church, the Rev. August Lutz, wrnte that "it is our sincer e desire t hat this may be the beginning of a spiritual 1harvest ~n our vicinity."

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e The Rev. William Kuhn, D. D., of Forest Park, Ill., spoke at the Week of Prayer services held in the German Baptist Churches of Scottsbluff, Neb., and of La Salle, Colo., on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, January 9 and 10, respectively. H e was on his way to California to attend to several business matters in the interest of the denomi­nation. On Sunday, J anuary 14, he ad­dressed the morning service in the Fif­teenth Street Church of Los Angeles and in the evening in t he Bethel Church of Anaheim.

e The B. Y. P. U. officers of the Car­roll Ave. Baptist Ohurch of Dallas, Tex., fo r 1940 are as follows: Chris Behr, president; Emil Boettcher, vice­president; Mary Roth, secretary; and Edward Grinke, treas urer. The so­ciety has a long and memorable his­tory, having celebrated its 48th anni­versary on Saturday evening, Decem­ber 2, during the Southern Young P eople's Assembly held in the Dallas Church. The beautifully presented play "Ba Thane," was the feature of that' program. The Rev. William E . Schweitzer is pastor of t he church.

e The Baptist Church of La Salle, Colo., enjoyed a busy holiday season over Christmas. About 250 persons at­tended the Christmas program and 100 people were present for the Watch Nigiht service which was conducted for the first two hours by the young peo­ple. For a church with a membership of 82, the attendance at its festival programs is notable, indeed! Begin­ning with January 15 r evival meetings

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Volume Eighteen CLEVELAND, OHIO, FEBRUARY 1, 1940 Number Three

EDITORIAL "OME PEOPLE endear themselves to our

h ear ts because they are always on the lookout for the beautiful in life. They

fix their gaze on the silver linings of the dark

Looking for the Beautiful in Life.

clouds. They try to understand, where others judge rashly and harshly. They

speak a kind encouraging word, where others criticize unduly. They single out the merits of another, while all the rest are gloating over some gossip they have heard. Their lives reflect the beauty, which they are always finding in every crevise of life's situations, until we, too, yearn to be like them.

That spirit should be predominantly charac­teristic of the Christian life. It has experienced the transforming power of the love of God in Christ Jesus. That love, as the apostle Paul tells us, is "always gladdened by goodness, always slow to expose, always eager to believe the best." Judgment of another's acts is left to God, for he alone is ominiscient. Such a Christian r efuses to be a party to any kind of revenge in deed or thought, because "vengeance belongs alone t0 the Lord." He is above the sordid, petty, despic­able things, which give life its somber colors of tragedy and heartaches, because his walk is with Jes us Christ.

The Master always saw life, not so much in its present state of reality, as in the possibilities of which it was capable with the help of God. Zacchaeus, in his eyes, was not the hard-fisted publican whom his fellow Jews despised but the heroic disciple who would make restitution for a ll his deeds. The crowd wanted to stone the woman, who had been found in adultery, but Christ saw how the touch of God upon her life would make her radiantly beautiful. Simon, the Pharisee, wanted to throw a woman out into the

str eet, who had brazenly entered his house, but Christ saw her beautiful heart and said of her : "Her sins, which were many, are forgive n ; for she loved much!" Jesus has blazed the trail for his followers by looking for the beautiful in life.

There is an old story about J esus, which can­not be regarded as actual history, but which em­bodies the true spirit of the Master. H e and his disciples, a s they walked along the dusty road, came to a dead dog that lay in the center of the road. Some of the disciples said hastily with dis­gust: "What an ugly sight!" "How the flies swarm over his body!" "He is covered with dust and dirt!" Then Jesus spoke up and said quiet­ly: "My, what pearly white teeth he has!" This is a picturesque glimpse into Jesus' actual minis­try, always looking for the beautiful in life.

How our homes might become like heavens of happiness, if parents and children mutually might make this the ruling practise of their lives 1 Overlooking the irritations and forgetting theU: human differences, such members of the Chris­tian family would emphasize the fine and praise­worthy things in each others' lives. The greatest enemy of many a church is the back-piting gos­sip that slinks like a serpent through its ranks What a well spring of refreshment and encou:r~ agement it is to the minister, if the people t whom he ministers, will say a kind and c~rn~ mendable wor~ a bout ?~s message in~tead of "tearing it to pieces" critically at the dmner ta­ble! How eagerly young people respond to the encouragement of some adult, who has seen th possibilities of the beautiful and good in such young lives! How sweet and calm our own liv become when we make this rule of Christ t~s one by which we live. e

This means looking at life with the Christ. It means to live with his spirit And such a " love never disappears."

eyes of of love.

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Between 1 wo ~uttda~~ By the REV. ERICH E. BONIKOWSKY of Carring ton, North Dakota

·•UR COMMON Sunday · observance re mi n d s

one of the story, "The Lost Horizon." This story de­scribes a very sec luded valley in the almost impassible moun­tains of Northern China, where many centuries ago a monastery was built and surrounded by a beautiful village, called Shen­gri-la. The inhab itants had on ly one rule of life, "Be moderate." Consequently, they lived very happy and long lives. There were no quarrels, but on ly un­disturbed peace. Nature was exquisitely beautiful as a per­fect setting for an idea l life.

trouble in being a Christian on Sunday. The tranquility of the day is conducive to contempla­tion on the spiritual values of life. I notice also that the peo­ple around me are so different on this day. They not only wear Sunday clothes but a lso Sunday faces. Even their v o i c e s are ~ofter, and their vocabulary h as !~proved over night. All seems hke brotherly love. So r do not have to look on t he calendar as to what day of the week it is. The Sunday spirit is in the a ir!

The greatest desire of these people was to preserve this lit­tle paradise, even when a great world catastrophe might wipe out all other cultures. There were the mountains, that pro­

Rev. Erich E. Bonikowsky

On such a day I fee l the urge to_ go to church. There, on the wmgs of song and music and pr~yers , I am carried to higher altitudes. Earthly things grow smaller and smaller as I rise. Then, I realize t hat I am on the mountain top. There seems to be an unearth ly radiance about

tected them from outside invasion. But there was one defect in this little idea l world . It was entire­ly isolated from the rest of the world . The pro­tecting mountains stole away the horizon. They produced people without a horizon, who lived only for themselves . Hence, the story is called "The Lost Horizon."

The Lost Horizon of Sunday

We are in danger of robbing Sunday of its ho­rizon. Our Sunday observance becomes another "Shen-gri-la," beautiful in itself, ideal, but iso­lated from the other days of the week and every­day experience. As for me, I have not much

~e .. I hear voices of a van ished past, and, more d1stm~tly ~han ever, the voice of the Master. My heart 1s stil led by the nearness of heaven. While I listen to the message of a minister, it becomes so rea l to me that I look up and see J esus on ly. But, usually, I myself have the audacity to preach with vigor about the great claims of our Master on our lives and about the rea lity of liv­ing a victorious life every day of the year !

Blue Monday for Christians

There is that common experience, that we ~~ake on Monday morning to face a very real­istic world . We have come down as ministers,

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not only from the pulpit but also from the moun­tain top, not necessarily to meet a man who has become a demoniac because of our preaching· on Sunday, but our every day self in working clothes with a harder look on his face . We look into the mirror and are convinced that this is Monday.

Other people, we notice, have changed, too. Kindness and love ar e not quite so evident. On Sunday night it was a r evival of the unfittest. Today, in our struggle for bread, it may be "sur­vival of the fittest." Yesterday we taught and learned how to live; today we are concerned on­ly about "making a living." We go out into the dust and despair of the streets and see again the needs and neglects of thronging men, and their halTassed hurry begins to possess us. Sunday is "a lost h or izon" on the other days of the week.

Any earnest Christian does realize that living a bundantly throughout six days without a Sun­day among them is the task of a man. I could not do it , unless I had three definite convictions t h at keep me spiritually a live until the n ext Sunday dawns.

"I Have a Father"

First, I have a rich Father. He has the invis­ible resources of a whole universe at my dispos­a l. He has assured me that the more I give, t he more I shall r eceive. I have tried it hesitatingly a few times, and have found it to be true. So I am led to believe that even when I lose life, he will give me more life. When I am in need on any day of the week (I am on every day ) I call on him. W hen he does not seem to hear me, I seek for him. At the last r esor t, I knock, and he opens the door. When I speak to h im, I do not use philosophic terms, such as "Divine Mind." I plainly call him, "Father ," for I know that he cares for me as for a son. He always answers every time. H e gives me exactly-no, not what I ask, but what I need most ! W hen his answer is "No," he gives me even something better than I asked for. Because of this experience, I practice his presence daily. Living on such t erms w ith him, makes this otherwise so confusing and cold universe just like a h ome to me.

"I Have a Friend"

Another secret of mine is t hat I have a dear Friend. We love life, because ther e are people wh om we love and who love us in return. We live for those who love us. The world would be a lonely place for us, if we had a Father but no brothers and sisters. We are so attached to friends, whom God has given us in this world, th at when one dies, a part of our life dies with him. But many people know how bitterly dis­appointing friendship may be. Human friends are changeable because they are human. Some of them love us only so long as they think us worthy of their love. Loss of friendship brings a lonely week, sometimes a lonely life.

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But such loss is not merely to be borne; it is to be used. For one thing, it leads us to r ely more on our divine Friend, who is with us always, throughout t he week, throughout a ll of life . He walks with us when we descend from Sunday's mountain into t h e week's valley. We are to ld th at some day, when our week of life is over, h e will lead us even through the valley of the shad­ows of death. We may be on such int imate terms with t his friend, that we may call him by his first name-Jesus. We hesitate to discuss certain problems with other friends, but we may have our daily appointment with him, when we ta lk over our most intimate problems with him.

How could I wait then until next Sunday! Such daily friendship enriches my life, guides my steps, and sheds glamour on my daily path.

"I Have a Future"

My third secret is t hat I have a great future. When I begin another morning, whether it gi lds the sky or not, I say to myself : "Remember, Yo u do not live for this day only, but for tomorrow " I reali ze that my "today" will decide my "tomo~­row," and so I attempt to live accordingly Though things of today cause friction and fret~ ting, my happiness should not depend on "hap­penings."

When it happens, so that in spite of my h onest efforts my daily task remains unfinished, I re­member the story of a young lady whom I knew well as a small boy. Emeline v~as an attract­ive girl with a winsome personallty and a good voice . She had prepared a song to sing in church on Palm Sunday. But_ she ne~er saw the next Sunday dawning nor did she smg the song. On Sunday morning she was fo und dead on the ftoo in her home, where her life bloo? was colorin r t.h e wall crimson. Bandits had lulled h er. Th! event was a great shock to me at the time b t today I believe she will sing that song on '"t~ Beautiful Isle of Somewhere." All broken son e will be continued then, so that all unfinish:~ tasks may be completed.

This life is only a fragmen t of the life to b I expect that the best is yet to be, if I ani Pr:~ ~ared to face the future .. In _a ~ord, I Want to h ve every day under the mspiration of eternit I believe that my Creator meant me to be a so Yi of eternal worth. Hence, ~ must ~ry sincere~ every day to live up to my high destiny. Eternit y thus, illuminates the darkness of the fleet· Y, hour. ing-

To have a heavenl_Y Fathe~· who ?~res, to liv on intimate terms "".1th ~ Fn~n? d1v111e, and t e see the rays of etermty s1lver-hnmg the cloud 0

the common day, this is sufficient inspiration sf of me, to live from one Sunday to another. Thon hot of a Father, a Friend, and a Future k eep g

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a live! My sympathy goes out to the Christille who lives only on Sunday! For between the S an days I am going forth on glorious adventu~n­with my God! es

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A Glowing Report of Colorful Festivities at the St. Joseph Children's Home by Mrs. H. W. Smith

Preparations for the g reat event of Christmas have been in progress for weeks at the Children's Home i.n, St. Joseph, Mich. There is a Jocked store room on the second floor, to which Earl has the key and to which he a lone has access. One sees packages arrive and carried upstairs intact, and committed oo that room of mystery. Expectancy is in the air! Whisp ered cansultations are held here and there. Wishes are expressed, often tlu:ough a "go-be­tween" as to one's desires. L engthy lists are prepared and put in "Mom's" ~ands with great confidence that hopes wiJJ be realized.

Of course, there are preliminary fes­tivities and fun that do help to lessen the tension of the suspense. There are, for instance, Sun.day School clas~ or department parties with good times and gifts. There are the decorations to put up, outside trees to be wired wi th colored lights, a blue star to be put over the front door a'tld a cross on top of the flagpole in r ed lig hts. The beau­tiful trees for ins ide (a large one for the dining room and a smaller one for the living room corner) are set up and decked handsomely with rea listic s:now and ice and with blue lig>hts to make them look cold and mis ty when lighted.

And the good people, fax a~ay ~·n the Dakotas, in K ansas, in Cahforma and in many other places, have b_een sending such good things to eat-chick­ens, sausages, smoked and fresh pork, beef, and ducks , and lots of home­made cookies, nuts and fruit and can­dies-all because it's Christmas and they are full of good will toward the boys and girls of the Children's Home in St. Joseph!

For about a week before Christmas, after the bountiful meals, "Pa" Steiger begins to call for Script ure verses re­ferring to the birth of the Savior. Ver­ses, that have been committed to mem­ory during the year relating to this theme, are now assembled in order, be­ginning with Gen. 3 :15, a'lld all that Moses and the prophets wrote concern­ing the Christ. The words of some familiar carols are t aught to th10se who do not know them. Then they are re­hearsed and practiced , so that every one will be able .to take part in that phase of t he program.

Christmas cards and letters have be­gun to arrive for various members of t he family. Notices of expected visi­tors' arrivals ai·e announced, and call­er s multiply. Mrs . S t e i g e r 's sis ter, Mrs. Smitih, the rnissi<>nary from Bur­ma, well known to a ll but the newest children, arrives with her fami ly from

Smiles Come to the Children's Faces When It Snows at St. Joseph, Michigan

Iowa City to spend the holidays here. Miss Edith Gutzeit, one of the distin­guished a lumnae, now engaged in wel­fare work in Harrisburg, Pa., is also a house guest.

All of these, being former chi ldren of the Home, and still counted mem­bers of the family, fall easily into the routine and lend a helping hand wher­ever needed. The "Smith Brothers," as m edical students, are pressed into service on cuts, scratches, and all s uch minor injuries and disinfecting jobs. Peggy, who loves little folks, is always on hand to help them with Bible ver­ses, and carols , and the numerous ser­vices .they like to require of a willing friend. And so each one is fu lly oc­cupied until the last minute.

Su_nday, December 24, is a day that has its own special s ig nificance for it is " church-going day. " The ~orning worship service is a delight in every way. In the evening there is a Christ­mas program of the r ight sort in which all departments of the Su~day School are r epresented and in which our Lord is honored. It is an enjoyable and fitting prelude to t he REAL Christmas, for which we of the Home have been " simply waiting."

A.it last it is mid-afte r n o o n on Christmas Day, December 25. The or­ders at the di-nner table were explicit that no one of the children was to be a round ups tairs after three o'clock

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and such orders are still obeyed ar ound here. E~rl and a few chosen helpers are making many trips to and from th_e Jocked room to the dining room­w1th loa~ed arms! Visitors are being ushered mto the living room where all the chairs have been arranged.

Promptly at four o'clock the bell rings, and soon the room is full to overflowing. Every chair is taken and still the visitors keep coming. The pro~~-ram,_ with "Pa" Steiger presiding, begins with a carol, led by Mr. Bradley, a~other al~nmus, and with Earl at the piano playmg the accompaniment.

The oh.airman of the board of man­a?'~rs, Mr. C. J. Netting, is an an-nuar v1s1t~r from Detroit. With him is Mrs. Nettmg and a daughter from Benton Harbor. The chairman of the 1 I

"tt M oca comm~ ee, . r. Max Stock, whose ap-propriate gift each year is stockings for a~l the children, is present. The supermtendent of the Sunday Sch 1 M ·Pt . oo, r · e erson, is 1here with his "f He has brought a fine radio as a g;: ~ the Home, from the Sunday S h 1 Th ta c 00.

e secre ~ of the Y. M. C. A. with a part of his family, several minis­ters,. a number of parents and other relatives of the children q "t b f " 1 . , UJ e a num-er o o dt1mers," living near by wh

could not miss this occasi·on o. h , are among

t. ose present. Not to be forgotten is little Patsy Ann, a grandchild, who has won a ll hearts W1"th h te

d h er cu ways an w o feels much at h h ome ere.

The pro~ram proceeds. The Christ-:i:sb:!~7 ~sr read again in a ll its sim-

. Y om the sacred page. Pray-er lS offered by one of th 1 "ts h . f e a umnae, 1

c ie note being th k . . pi·aise. "Pa" S . an sg1vmg and the meanin ~iger speaks on the

d g of this day of great joy an t~en a few "oldtimers" tell of past exper~ ences and fest ivities. A last song is sung with a gay note and then the rus~ across the hall to the dining rzom w ere each child finds his or h er ~~~e at the table piled ·high with gifts

d e fina l consummation of high hopes

an great expectations ' All h .

all ta ave d been admonished to keep

II gtsh an labels and in no wise to a ow em to be I . ed . ost or to get mix up in the opening of gifts. Each pres­ent m ust be acknowledged and thanks must be sent t ' · o the generous and thoughtful don . . . ors. Can you imagme it poss1bl~ that there would be no slip-up, nho accidental loss or misplacement of t ese tag "th s, wi so many children so ma ny pa rcels ' . , so much excitement and turmoil? Surely that Id b • wou e a su -perhuman achievement even for this

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were held with the first week conduct­ed in German to be followed by a week or so of English services. 'Dile Rev. Carsten H. Seecamp, pastor, brought the evangelistic messages.

e On Thursday evening, December 28, the North Donna Baptist Church of Donna, Texas, pleasantly surprised its pastor, the Rev. L . Hoeffner, on tJhe occasion of his birthday. Soon the usually so quiet parsonage was filled with members and friends, who came to greet the pastor with their birth­day song. Mr. D. W. Heidland, the senior deacon took charge and spoke briefly in behalf of the church and friends. He also presented to the pas­tor an envelope in which there were birthday greetings and a gift of mo­ney. The evening was then spent in social fellowship.

e Mr. Harvey Heckman of St. Paul, Minn., a member of the First Germ.am Baptist Church of the ci.ty, has been selected to take over the responsibility of directing the activities of the Ram­sey County Sunday School Associa.tion in the Twin Cities for the first eight or nine montJhs of 1940. Mr. H eckman began his new duties on January 1 , 1940. ·H e will return to the University of Minne-Sota to finis h his architectural course in the Fall. Mr. Heckman is the author of the interesting article nnd report about the World Conference of Christian Youth lheld last summer in Amsterdam, Holla nd, which ap­peared in the J a.nuary 1, 1940, issue of "The Baptist Herald" under the title, "The World's Questioning Youth."

e Mr. Walter S. Scha ible of Forth Worth, Texas, the council member of the Southern Conference for the Na­tional Y. P . and S. S. W. Union, re­cently visited all bhe churches of the conference in the interest of our Ro­chester seminary. In a lmost every church he gave the illustrated semi­nary lecture prepared by Prof. A. A . Schade. From October 15 to December 17 he visited the Waco, Gatesville, Cot­tonwood, Dallas, Hurnvi lle, Kyle. Crawford, and Greenvine ch urches. Everywhere he found a profound in­terest in the seminary mission project, in which the churches provided Sunday dinners for the seminary students over a number of weeks.

e The member s of the World Wide Guild of the Immanuel Baptist Church of Kankakee, 111., i·ecently entertained the Sadie Robbins Chapter of t he First Baptist Church of the city at a "Fel­lowship Get-to-gether." Th~ n~eeting was 0 Pen e d with group smgm~ of the old guild songs and a de~ot1onal period. The guest speakers, Miss Ale­thea Kose and two girls from the Bap-

tist Missionary Training School in Chicago, brought glimpses of the school and the background, work and ambitions of the students. "Later in the evening, refreshments were served and an enjoyable time was spent meet­ing old acquaintances and making new friends," accoirding to the secretary, Miss Lillian Hennings.

e On Sunday, December 3, Mr. Elmer Dingfield of Tacoma, Wash., president of the Pacific Northwest Y. P. and S. S. W. Union, visited the German Baptist Church of American Falls and its mission station at Paul, of which the Rev. A. Stelter is pastor. He went on to Chicago and Forest Park. , Ill., where he visited the missionary head­quarters and to Detroit for a visit with his former pastor, the Rev. George A. Lang. On his return trip he spent a day each at Misso1,1Ja, Mont., ru1d Spo­kane, Wash. He also visited the Col­fax Church in the interest of t he Pa­cific Northwest Union. Elmer Ding­field wrote that his "trip proved to be very interesting, exciting and encour­aging !"

e The B. Y. P. U. of t he Oak Park Baptist Church in Fores t Park, Ill., has been exceedingly busy with religi­ous activities in recent weeks. During the Chris tmas season the young people went carolling, held a program in the Chicago Home for the Aged, presented a play at the Sunday School program, and attended a Christmas party in the home of their president, Mr. Harold Johns. At the Watch Night service of the church , the B. Y. P. U. was in charge of the first hour with the Mes­s r s. John Baumgart, Gerhard Koch, Frederick Dons ain<l Harold Johns speaking. The B. Y. P. U. also had a part in the Fiftieth Jubilee prog ram of the church on Tuesday evening, J anu­ary, 23, when t he Sunday School and young people had charge of the ser vice.

e The Walnut St. Baptis t Church of Newark, N. J., finished 1939 and began 1940 auspiciously with a fine W atch Night service on Sunday evening, De­cember 31. The Rev. Jwm P. Kuehl, pastor, extended the right hand of fel­lowshjp into church membership to 11 new members. Three of the llew mem­bers came by letter and the r emarning eight through confession. of their faith in Christ as Savior. The pastor preached on the subject of "Finishing to Begin," s tressing the possibilities of a life devoted m ore fully to Christ in 1940, a.t t he conclusion of which the Lord's Supper was commemorated. A fine attendance, which doubled previ­ous attendances a t Watch Night ser­vices r eaped spirit ual blessings from this inspirational service.

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e In December the Men's Brotherhood of .the Oak Street Church was organ­ized with the following officers elected : president, Emil Hemmye ; vice-presi­dent, Henry Bohlen; secretary, Victor Siems; treasurer, W·illiam Lohman. At the following meeting of the brother­hood on J anuary 8, the guest speaker was ,tJhe chaplain from the penitentiary at Fort Madison. Forty-two workers of the church made a systematic sur­vey of the North Hill area, calling at nearly 2700 homes in the three weeks of December before Christmas in the interest of the Oak Street Church and Sunday SC'hool. Miss Amanda Kruse of Lorraine, Kans., a missionary in Nigeria, Africa, was the guest speak­er at the service on Wednesday eve­ning, January 3. The R ev. Alfred R. Bernadt is pastor of the church.

e Rev. Hugo Lueck, teacher and lead­er of the Baptist Seminary in Lodz Poland, who was stranded in the Unit~ ed States at the outbreak of the Euro­pean war, is r ecently speaking in man.y of the German Baptist churches. For several Sundays in November ·he wa in Clevela.nd wh_ere he spoke in the Pul~ pits of the White Ave. and Erin Av churches. On Sunday, December 1 ; · he served the Bethany Church of Mil~ waukee, Wis., and repeated his visit on Sunday, J anuary 7. On Sunday morn­ing, December 24, and at the Watch Night service he addressed t he Noi"'th Avenue Church of Milwaukee. On Sunday, Decembe1: 31, a~ both the morning and evenmg ser v ices he w the guest speaker iat the Itninan as Church of Milwauk:e. In Ohicago, I~~l he addressed the First German B a pt· ., Church, of which the Rev. J 0~st Schmidt is pastor, on Sunday Janu n

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e The Rev. H. F . Hoops of Los A geles, Calif., wh~ recen t ly spent ~­days in the Hospital of ~he Good S 8 maritan because of a senous infe t· a­ihas fu lly recovered and is aga. c lon home. In a lengthy epistle t o thin at

e ed · torial offices he \~anted to express ~ -appreciation t o his many friend his sent h.im greetings to the h ospit!i \Vho paragraph from his wa.rm h earted. A ter follows: "How gla d and •hap let­was , when I became able to reaJY I Bible, and pore over the many w . n1y messages friends had written to ritten the house and to the hospitall11e at which I could not read_ du~·ing th~ hut lier weeks of my hosp1tahzation ea1·­I was too weak to even a tte ' \Vhen

D h 111pt t peruse t hem. ue to t e dazed o tion in which pain-alleviat ing ~011dj _ that were adminis tered, kept ru&'s . hardly could comprehend their 111e, I even when they were r ead to 111~~1te11t, daug~te.r on her regular v is its t: 111.y hospital. But weeks afte1., th~

. Nal'd literally lapped up ever y precio • l of those sympathetic commun~s ':"'o"td and feasted, too, on t he· W ord at10115 .

especially during th e night wa~fh G oa, e es."

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B. l..J. P. U. 1opics and P1r,09'r.ams Edited by the REV. WILLIAM L. SCHOEFFEL of Cleveland, Ohio

Sunday, March 3, 1940

WITH CHRIST THROUGH SAMARIA

Scripture Lesson: Luke 9 : 51-62 .

Preparation The next few weeks will bring us

face to face with far reaching events and momentous decisions in the earth­ly ministry of our Lord. A careful perusal of the scripture p~sages is most essential. I n the meeting pre­vious to this one, suggest a careful reading and outline O'~ the ninth, tenth and eleventh chapters of Luke's gospel as well as the fourth in the gospel of John. It would be well, indeed, to write this outline on the blackboard before the service. T.h.en have i t under­stood that instead of a speaker t reat­ing the topic, everyone is expecte~ t o share the thoughts and impress10ns received while studying these passages. Appoint someone to give a short his­torical sketch of the "Samaritans" as a necessary background.

I . The Shadow of the Cross There is a determined purpose of

Christ coming more and more .to t~e surface and profoundly influencing h~s ministry, a seriousness that even his disciples could not explain. I n Luke 9 :45 we are told plainly, that his dis­ciples did not understand his saying about his inevitable suffering. How could they? His face was se.t toward J erusalem and nothing, not even his best friends could change his cour se. Why? Beca~se he had the conviction that it was his Father's wi ll and plan, and though the shadow of the cross a s­sumed more sinister proportions he, nevertheless, per sued his course. One cannot read these passages without the deep impression how fully and com­pletely Jesus was consecrated and sur­rendered to his heavenly father. Any­thing less than that would surely have caused him to change his course or even seek to avoid the confl ict at J eru­salem.

2. Discourses on the Way A deep note o: seriousness character­

izes the journey of J es us from this point on. At an earlier occasion, when he and the disciples were char ged with a spirit of levity by the Pharisees, he points to their happy fellowship, com­paring it to a bridal party. <Luke 5: 14.) Now one is deeply impressed by an atmosphere of ser iousness and ur g­ency, a feeling- that the end is not far off. With this in mind read about the mission of t he seventy. ( Lk. 10: 1-24.) The disciples were to be about their business and "greet no one by the

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THE ORDER OF SERVICE Song Service : "Come We that Love the Lord." "Living F or Jesus." "I Love to Tell t he Story." Hymn Story and Interpreta-

tion : " In the Cross of Christ I Glory."

(Let the piano play this hymn softly during this interpretation.)

Scripture Lesson: Musical Selection. A Season of Prayer.

(Have a number of sentence prayers and appoint someone in advance to close t he season with prayer. ) Hymn: "The Old Rugged Cross."

Sharing our Thoughts and Impressions

Brief Talk by the Leader Closing Hymn: "Beneath the Cross of Jesus."

Helpful Books: Smith, "Lyric Relig ion." Bailie, "The Gospel in Art." Maus, "Christ and the Fine Arts." "ALingdon Bible Commentary." Glover, "With the Twelve." Poteat, "They Shared His Pas-

sion." Rall, "The Life of J es us." Smith, " In t he Days of His F lesh."

Plays and Pageants: Marsh, "The Challenge of the

Cross." Wilson, "The Way of the Cross." Bayly, "The Way of Life." Fiel<l, "Pontius P ilate."

way," because oriental customs took much time and, hence, delay. It is dis­covered in the challenges of J esus to those who would fo llow him. His own urgency is so g reat that he does not stop in towns or vi llages, but, if night overtakes him, he simply rests under the open sky like J acob with a stone for his pil low. (9 :58.) Under such conditions he can not offer any mater i­al promises or blessings. He would not even permit one man to say farewell to his own family. "We haven't time fo r that," he seems to say, "our business is too important and urgent." At the same time there is a real note of joy when the seventy return. Facing t he cross he, nevertheless, believes and is assured of ultimate victory, for when he sees Satan falling from heav h k

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.nows even llS suffering will end in victory.

3. Through Samaria That was, indeed, a challenging act

for him, especially since his face was set toward J erusalem. F or a J ew that was not only an unpleasant experience but he was even il1 danger of being c:rcmoniously defiled. Perhaps J ohn gives us the true interpretation of this act of Christ in the four t h verse, the fourth chapter : "And he must needs go through Samaria." Ther e was a real purpose. T he Samarit ans, regard­less of their enmity, needed the gospel. Jes~s d?es here what he again and agam chd, as he throws all customs over board and carries out ,his Father's plan. Not only the J ews but a lso the ~amaritans must hear the gospel. I t i!; noteworthy that in the mission of the ~\~elve they are charged to go to the c1t1es and villages of the J ews only but her e Christ himself enters Samari~ a·nd charges the seventy to go every­where.

The preaching of the gospel is our dut~ an~ r esponsibility, given to us by Christ ·h.imself, and only Christ himself may re~ieve us of such responsibilities. Paul, fiercely attacked by his enem ies who. dared to ~hallenge his apostlesh ip, agam and agam states his case: "Paul, an apostle of J cs us Christ." Yes, we a:e ambassadors of Christ, and with his help let us preach the gospel in ~eason and out of season, to every one m. a ll the corners of the world. God will take care of ithe harvest.

4. The Good Samaritan "':hat a contr~st this parable is over

agai~st the preJudice of t he J ews and the mtolerance of J ames and John. Everyone w Id . ou expect tha t the priest or dlevhite would practice neighborliness an c ·t S .an y. No one expected of the

amaritan such compassion. Yet only ~c possessed it. The question /s not

who proved h. I " imse f a neighbor?" but to whom ca I h .

b ? " n s ow myself a ne1gh-or Th t · · . · a is, mdeed a worthy ques-

tion to po d ' ' . n er over as we go back to ou r dai ly task and occupation.

Sunday, Mar ch 10, 1940

WITH CHRIST AT BETHANY Seri ptu re Lesson : Luke 10 : 38-42.

Read a lso John 11:1; 12:1; Matt. 21:17; Mark 11: 11. Have someone look up in "The Dictionary of Christ" and the gospels or h 1 liabl "B'bl n· . any ot er gooc T<'-

e i e ict1onar " ti I .· tion of the village of YB LI ic < csc~I;lp word itself · . c 1a11y. 1e

is mterestin It . ·ri cance is "h g. s s1g111 1-

"house of th oeuse of the prairie" or poplar" It ·1 lage not far froi J · was a v1 -n erusalem

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Personal Testimonies of Favorite Books by Young People of the D enomination

The Bible, the History of God's Redemption

U "r Verno n C. Jlcck.1nnn of ·1111unen11oll~, l\llnneMotn

"\Ve search the w orld tor truth. w e cull The good, the pure, the beautltul, From i;rav en stone and writte n scroll, From the old flower-fi elds ot the soul. And, w eary seeker s for the best. We come bacl< laden trom our Quest , To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.

John Greenlea! Whittler.

No matter what your taste is in reading, you are likely to find in the Bible the type that you like best. Prose, poetry, adventur e, nan~tion, history, biography, hymns, philosoph!, and sermons are to be found in this beau­tifully diversified library. Although it is all of the above, I believe that it is principally a book of history. By that I mean, not a history of the world, or the Hebrew people, but a history of. r edemption. Whatever bear s on the redemption of sinful man finds a place in the Bible. All else, although inter­esting and valuable, i~ of lesser im­portance.

God after creating the world and man t~ inhabit it, looked down. in mer­cy upon him whenever he d1s?beyed, s inned, or drifted away from his Cre­ator. Yes, sometimes there was pun­ishment for sin, but ther e was also frequent evidence of a loving Father wh:o redeemed his own from the tlu-oes of evi l. God made his sun to shine on the just and unjust. "God so loved the world that he gave his only b~got~n Son that whosoever believeth m him should not perish but have everlast­ing life." Whe:n Christ ascended .on high to be with the Father and to m ­tercede for man, God sent his Holy Spirit to minister unto man and there­by gave him power to witn~ss f.or Christ in this world fettered with sm.

Briefly, that is the history of r e­demption as I find it in the Bible. But in a certain sense that history does not finish when the scriptures stop. God has proved himself "the Jiving God" who 'has not said his last word on any subject or put his finishing touch on an;y task. Therefore, my friend, if you read his Book, I believe it will start something in your life which will con­stantly progress and unfold until. th~t day when Christ s'hall come again m

glory.

John Bunyan's Immortal "Pilgrim's Progress"

D y F lorence E. Schlipf of Cnnton, Ohio

The Christian life, says St. Paul, is a struggle " against principalities, against powers, against t he rulers of

darkness ... against spiritual wicked­ness in high places. John Bunyan's "Pilgr im's Progress" made this truth strikingly r eal to me. By means of personification and symbolism the op­ponents and difficulties, which a Chris­tian m~ts all thrnugh life, become most vivid.

"The ease that pilgrims have is but little , in t his life," Ohristian discovers. Much of his way lies through such places as the Slough of Despond, the Valley of Humiliation, the Hill of Dif­ficulty. Memor able is the incident where Christian and his good friend, Hopeful, leave the King's H ighway to go through. By-Path Meadow, and find themselves in the ten itory ruled by Giant Despair. After being prisoners in the dark dungeons of Doubting Castle for several days, Christian sud­denly remembers the key, " Promise," hidden in his bosom, which opens the locks in Doubting Castle for them.

In hif> talks with such "persons" as Envy, Ignorance, Mr. Talkative, l\Ir. Worldly-Wise, and othe¥, Chr istian expounds the reasons for his faith and belief. His most d a n g er o u s opponent, Apollyon, he also overcomes with hjs sword of the spirit, the Word of God. Reading this; book thoughtfully, one is compelled to compare his own re.actions to temptations and dangers with those of the Pilgrim. To me it was a sea rching self-revelation.

Is the struggle of •the Christian life really worthwhile? The triumphal entry of Christian into the Celestial City, with which the book closes, defin­itely answers that question in the af­firmative.

To one interes ted in the exposition of great truths, couched in striking symbolisms rand in beautiful language, riesembling the Holy Scriptures in majesty, this grand allegoTy and im­mortal book, "The Pilgrim's Progress," is highly recommended.

Ben-Hur, a Tale of the Christ Dy A n ,,;ellne Socolot"k'' of Sh attu ck, Oklnbomn

"Ben-Hur,'' a tale of the Christ, will long r emain in the corridor s of my memory. To me it is perhaps the most fascinating and most vivid of all the stories of our Savior. After having read <tbis beaut iful, as well as hea.r t­rending story, of the One who gave his life for the world, one cannot help but love him more a nd str ive to live a l ife such as would be precious in his s ight .

The s tory of t he nativity is beauti­fully portrayed. One is given to won­dering alt the explicit faith of t he wise men, who traveled from the ends of

the ear th to worship the Redeemer . l n trust and through pr ayer they sought him-Gaspar, the Greek; Balth.asar, the Egyptian; and Melchior, t he H in­doo.

Very near the beginning of t he story, Ben-Hur comes into the picture. He is an Israelite lad, living wi t h his mother and sister in the quaint hom e t'hat is typical of that land. They arc veey :happy together.

It happened that at the t ime of the royal entry of the new procurator of Judea, Valerius Gratus, Ben-Hur an d his sister, Tirzah, stood on the roof of their home, in order better t o see the procession as it passed.. Ben-Hur, in his excitement, rested his h and upon a cracked tile .. The pressu.re was stron g enough to displace the t ile, and i.t fell upon the procurator. Thinking t hat the act had bee:i intentiona lly don e and giving no time for explanation the enraged Romans rushed to t h ' house-top an~ seized Ben-Hur. l:li: mother and sister, too, were snatc~d from him and wei·e taken to t he T o,,. . ·ver of Antoma.

For three years Ben-Hur wa s a g al ley slave. As he labor ed here h . -

· h I S thoughts were ever Wlt his lov d ones. He mused- "Are th ey amo e the dead or are they still living? ~~ Jiving-where can they be and ho f great is their a.rrguish?" I t w a s b'W the hand of Quint us Arrius, the R Y an tribune, that Ben-Hur w as fin~~~­freed. Y

Lew Wallace, .the aut h or, h a s g· . . IV0!rJ

us so many stirring account s. S orne the outstanding ones ar e "The Ch .0 f Race " "Christ's Healing the Le ai·iot

' Pers '' (a mong t hese were Ben-Hur's 111 th ' and sister), and the "Crucifixion~• e1·

I was much impressed with t he ~ u1g of ithe life of a noble ch ai· eact_ such as Ben-Hur's. H e was ~h~el' among them who sought to prote t lef

. t b c th One who was coming o e the "I<.. e of the Jews." When it was l'ev 11

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A t the crucifixi~n, Ben-Hur was so willing to brmg aid to hi ' 11:vho ter, looked into thC' face of the o~ ••J.a5_ said, "I am t he Resur rection e '"ho Life." I cannot help but wond:i~~ the t ha t face, Ben-Hur did not lf, in dear, loving eyes of the child ~e the fcred him a drink of water " h o of_

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Dale Mars , a popular radio an­nouncer , answered a letter from one of his radio fans and found, much to his surprise, an elder ly invalid who want­ed him to rea d from the Bible, just as he did over the ether waves, and t o help ·h1m to tune in on station L IFE. That same evening Da le made the ac­quaintance of Nova, the daughter, who served a s her mother's nurse. Dale be­came deep ly inter es ted in Nova a nd be­gan to neglect Adalene Waring, a stenographer in the radio office, who was trying hard to be attra ctive to Dale. After a bus y mo111ing of br oad­casting, Dale was overjoyed to find a letter from Nova in the mail. His ex­citement soon s u b s i de d when he learned that it mer ely announced that he had left his fountai n pen at he r home. "Onl·y if he s hould care to call for it-- !"

CHAPTER FIVE

He thought for a moment of Ada­lene Waring, remembering that t he fountain pen had been a gift from her last Christmas. It was that gift t hat had awakened him to the realization that s he was beginning to th ink too much of h im and t hat s he had no dJubt cons idered his attent ions a s meaning much more than they did.

And here he was, still keep ing com­pany with her, perhaps gett ing in deep­er and deepe1· ! Why, Adalene, li ttle fool, might be madly in Jove with him. Strange he hadn't t hought of that be­fore!

He stored t he letter away in the car dash, whence he drew his bathing suit. The ai r was heavy and v~ ry hot, a l­most oppressive. It might perhaps rain this afternoon, or tonight . B ut his thoughts were not of rain or of the sultry a tmosphere , but of the girl he should see tonig ht at eight o'clock. Not once in his thinking did he remember that he was scheduled to call at t he Brownstone Waring residence at half past seven and that he a nd Adalene were to spend t he evening somewhere together.

It was eleven-thirty o'dock in the Orriston. Nova , sta nding beside t he radio in her mother 's room, was facing the window when t he big g ra y car drew up a t the curb. S he had found the pen and dispatched the let ter t o its owner earlier in t he mor ning . There was a bra nd new voice a t t he micro-

phone at K EL now. Perhaps Da le would come t his morning, she had thought, and s.h.e was a litt le disap­pointed at t he prospect, for it seemed more roma ntic for a young ma n t o call in the evening.

But here he was ! S he turned quick­ly and hurried from the room. When the buzzer sounded and his voice came through the speaking tube, she won~ dered at its quality. It did not sound at a ll as it had last night nor as it did over the radio, yet there was a strange familiarity. She was puzzled. She could hear t he lower door open and his steps coming hurriedly up t he stairs . She opened the hall door , smiled a friendly greeting, stepped back for him to enter, the'!1 went suddenly pale a s she excla imed : "Ken !"

Her thoughts flew back to the hos­pital where she had first known Ken­neth Remsen-he a n inteTne and she a student nurse.

Debona ir, auburn-haired, dainti ly­mus tached, young Dr. Remsen flashed her a brilliant smile that revealed a row of gleaming white teet h and carved deep dimples in eith€:r cheek. Copying her tone, he exclaimed, "Nova Anita Louverne !"

He stepped across t he threshold hat in hand, his laughing brown ey~ ap­pra1sm g her in undisguised approval. "You're more beautiful than ever" he said, and s he blushed fu r wus ly at the compliment . She was too surprised t o s peak, too ut terly overwhelmed.

"My interneship is ove1· at last" ]1 1 . d " I ' e exp ame , anc I am a free man, Ken-neth Remsen, Bachelor of Arts Do _ tor of Medicine, twenty-seven ~ ingl~ eligible ! I 've come to carry y~u aw ' My prancing steed is jus t outside." ay.

He was the sa me as s he had 1 . · mown him at t he hospita l-dashing, com-p lac.ent, co.urteous . He had a way of overwhelming her, of making her feel tha~ she was the mos t g lamorous most desirable woman in the world. ' Also he had a way of making her ' ha Al very un-

. PPY· . ways when she had been with h11n, she had f e't a . · .

'th · '' rising up w1 m her of a feeling of b I · If f b one age to sc ' o a andonment of that worldly purs uits a dim . self to · ' mmg of her · s1on of things spiritual vi-At t his moment whe.n 1 . .

were of Dale M . . ie r though ts a rs, when onl

momeruts before she h d b Y a few t rating upolli her les a . een concen­ning, seeing Ken wa:o~sd.1 ~. soul win­Two Bible passages h ' hi s 1nct shock.

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morized only this mor ning had been especially precious. Both wer e under the heading, "Conditions of Success in Soul Winning."

The first ha d been under the sub­heading, "A Fully Surrenden:ed Life." How rich and satisfiying, t hat verse : " I beseech you therefore, bret hren, by the mercies of God, that ye pr esent your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, a c­ceptable unto God, which is your r ea­sonable ser vice."

Ur:-der the second sub-heading: " A Lif e Clean Wi thin and Without," the v~rse was : "If a man therefore purge himself from !Jhese, he shall be a ves­sel unto honor, sanct ified and meet for the Master's use and prepared u n to every ?0 0.d work." The corntex t of that vers~ m?1cated t hat the truly separat­ed life mvolved a separation of one 's se lf from \:orld ly companions as well as wor ldly indu lgences.

She had been a way from Ken long enough now to a ppreciate the freedom won. by se?a ra ti on. The closer s he had walked with Christ t h . e more cert am s he had been ·bhat s he must never al­low herself to fa ll in love w ith Ken­neth Remsen. F or to ma1·1--.r I . I I

J 11m wou ( mean, eventually wealth . 1 . t · 1 ' , soc1a pos r-1011 anc. the temptation t o a life of

ease entirely apart from t i ·11 f God. Not th t . I 1e w1 o

a wea th or social influ-ence could not b f . . re I e o service 111 t he

~ngc om, for lhey could b t tl wife of f , u a s 1c

a amous su rgeon- for he would s ure ly b b ecome• s uch-she would e expecLed t o drift out .

lhe soc· I t' 1 . and ou t with . ia ic e--danc1ng ca rd ·k tails wast f 1 1 . , s , coc -, e u uxun es .. . F rom all t h· ' em p'Llness.

is her s I h I . scorn wh . f 11 . ou s r a n' 111

1 ' en e ows h1p with Chris t was iers . But all thi s t 1'1 I h I like gold and s il . 1se . ad s 10ne •h h . ve1 and precious stones

\~ · enb ued with t he colors o ~ ea r t h's ia111 ow- when s h h self to fa ll und .e ad allowed her ­Remscn. er t he sway of Kenneth

But was Da l ~1 Chri sLian t h· he 1 a r s a ny 11101·e a

. a n e? W· D I n.r Gh ristia n a t . 11 ? · a s a e mars a ha d read · <hi . · P erhaps not, bu t s he

in is face I . I f . his talk with M ast n1g 1t, a tc1 li s tened t 1

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gold band on the outside. F or a mo­ment, her eyes left those of Kenneth Remsen a nd fe ll t o her t r embling hands. She could feel his power over her and was afraid.

His eyes followed hers and h is face fell as if hel had been stru ck. Had he read the name ? Diel he know Dale Mars? H ad he read her th oughts?

" Come," she said. " I want you to meet Mother ."

"Of course," he said. " How is she?" "As bright a s ever, only a little more

so, pei·haps." "Mot'her," s he announced, leading

t!he way into the r oom, "this is Dr. Remsen, whom I knew at t he hospita l. Dr. Remsen, my mother ."

He bowed, flashed h is usual b1;1I iant smile, s ta1·ted visibly when he saw her hands.

"And how are you today, Mrs. Lou­verne?" H is voice was too professiona l, Nova thought.

Mar ia Louverne's answer was cheer ­fu l her face lighting up in its usual rna~ner. "I am hav i11g the time of m y life" she sa id. "Th is morning, j ust bef~re sum;se t here wa s the most beautiful musi~ j ust outs ide my win­dow. When I first awakened it was barely light enough to see, and ther e was a vacuum-l ike stillness. Then a ll of a sudden- I hadn't heard a wood thrus h in yea.r s- a ll of a sudden, .as clear a s an aeol ian har p, I heard hm~ st rumming, 'Uoli ... acolee .. . uoh ... aeolee,' wi t h a li ttle pause between each tone. I don't think I was ever so thrilled in hea ring him before. Such rare quality, such r ich , rolling vib­rance--I think t he Heavenly F ather sent him to sing just fo r me, don't you?"

There was a quick convulsing of her face muscles as pa in caught her u n­awares , as it always d id , and made her wince.

But to Maria Louverne it was as . if nothing had happened, fo r she said, "Af ter he had played for me a few minutes, a r obin joined h im, t hen a song sparrow m1d a house wren ; and soon I was lis tening .to a whole sym-

1 ny T here is only one thing more p 10 . & . beautiful, Dr. Rem sen, and t uat . is when Nova plays t he h~1111.s . . ~1rd voices are heaven's music m 11mtat1on , but Nova's pla ying -0f t he old hymns is like heaven itself."

"You r mother is adorable," Ken told her a half hour later when they were s itting in a qu iet l! ttle nook in a down­town cafe. "I ca n t blame you for lov­ing her as you do and for wanting to take ca re of her ."

N ova fou-nd herself looking raLher helplessly into t hose blue eyes, so clear and a ppea ling . He had never ~eemed more hands 0 me than. today. Sno~v white shirt ; r ed-brown tie to mate!~ 111s wavy hair; s ing l.e-breasted, ni.echum­blue coat a nd \\·hrte t l'ousers ; h rs al ­most too perfect teet h g leaming below

his daring lit tle mustache ; t he dimples in his cheeks p la ying wi th ever y spok­en word, every la ugh, every smi le. But his ta lk was wor ldly t alk : of Kenneth Remsen mostly a nd of his success in the operut ing r oom; of t he lovely new hom.e he expected Ito h ave som e da y, t he a ccla im that would com e to him a nd to the woman who would share his li fe with h im . It was all very won­der fu l. It a ppealed to her love of beau ­t y and s uccess and attention. It was complimentary to have a man like Ke1rneth Remsen propose to her , plead \\'ith her, a lmost.

Last week-this mor ning even-she had t hought s he was dead to a ll this. Last night when s he had walked under t he star s, her Cha:ist ha d seemed so r eal , her fu ture in His service a ssured! " Blaze Star." Ablaze at all t imes with t he r a diance of true womanhood, fla r ­ing up \\·ith fresh new glow in ever y emergency whenever light was needed most--that had been her resolve la st night. And with what j oy she had re­solved it ! H ow she had loved Him , her Savior!

And toda y, only a f ew hours later , when t he em erg·ency had arisen , in­stead of sh in ing for Hirn, it seemed her lig ht was g rowing dim. S he looked helplessly into his eyes and fe lt her self enshrouded in total da rkness.

She must not let th is ha p pen to her! T his was playing w ith n it roglycer in ! Ha ving Ken so nea r , so attractive so earnest in h is appeal, was like lighting the fuse attached to a h igh explosive. Rather , it wa s the burning of t hat f use, the sputter ing fire creep ing n ear­er a nd near er with ev:ery fleeting sec­ond . S he m ust be rid of him, send him away. This feeling for him was not love but inf a t uat ion, for t rue love would not take awa y the Light of Life, fo r God was both love and light, and these two did not confl ict.

Like a fl ash of sh,eet l ightn ing in a sky smothered with black clouds, the verse of t he morning flashed into her n~emory : "If a m an therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanct ified and meet for the Master 's use, and pr epared u n to every g~od work. " But i t was only a l ight-11111g flash and a ll \Yas dark again.

What was he saying now? Something about Mother being u nusually ch,eer ful for one who was so old and so full of pa in a nd so very near the end ? She caught t he last phrase a nd said "D1-. Rogers says it will be on ly' four months !"

"And then ?" She wished he hadn't said it like

that. She fe lt son-y for him \\'h,e11 he added, "You will be free then and you will have n o excuse fo r keep ing mr waiting."

But he had said it and t he ugly flaw in h i~ charactel' lay exposed like an old \\'OUJ1d u nhea led. S he saw it a nd shud­dered, pitying him, yet somehow glad

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that she had discovered it : it would make it easie r for her .to refuse him. E ven if he were in love with her hie s hould not be so unsympathetic tJoward her- motJher !

He must have i n t erp r e t e d her thoughts for he inm1ediat e ly a polo-giz;ed . " I'm sorry, Nova . T ha t was unfair, unsympat:hetic." A nd she wished he hadn't apologized for when she looked again the old wound was healed, a nd she fou nd herself likin..,. him o·nce more, and w1der h is spell. "'

"For old t ime's sake," he v en tured " let's take a spin ar ound the city anti out into the count1-y. I'm staying over tonight ; I am to assist Dr . Rogers in a major ope.ration tomorrow m orning at the hospital. I've engaged a r -00111 a t the Stanton."

" I go on duty at three," s he in ­formed him. " From three u n;ti l m id ­night tonight."

He frowned. " Ca n 't you get a substi­tute? I'd like to have you a ll to myself today. You aren't under hosp ital r u les now, you know."

" Oh, I cou ldn't possibly. B esides Mother has a visitor a t three and j have to be tihere to help. I t 's ver y im ­por tan t."

"Bu t you'll let me drive you around a bit ."

There was r eally no reason why she shouldn't. Besides she wanted a litt l mor e t ime to th ink, and some othe~ place to talk where she did not hav.e to wonder if someone might overhear 0 .

some passing waitress see and read he~, facial expression.

And while they dr ove and talked , a nd she pointed out to him vario places of inter est , she planned her eus cape. If it were true, as Dr Ro"' S -

. · oers ~ad s~1d-and she would have to be-lieve it- that MotheT could live

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for e, " I could not thmk of marr . e­any man whi le Motiher needs me 5Y

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B ut was t iere not anoth,e<r r eas . t ? on a thousand tnnes grea er . Why sh

she shr ink from telling h im? Wh o~Jct deed, unless because wh en she was Y ~n-

. . h f N \V1th bun, the Jig t o ova Louverne 1 its g low and faded away in to noth · os t ness! tng_

Th,e,y were ou t in the coun t ry "T hat's our new tr ansmitting s t ·u 11 0

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at the left wi~h a network of ant cling stretched high across the top 0~11nal! towers. ta11

" I know. You've recent ly been .. a new wave le:ngth, I believe. and ~1;e11 doubled your power. 1 sometinie,

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no recital by Mrs. Kennebh Remsen, wife of the famous .. .' By the way, who is the man with the ora nge blos­soms in his voice--what's his name?"

"You mean-? What is his name?­Oh," she interrupted he:rself, "that's the famous Brownstone Waring nurs­eries over there. W e've Jived in Dres­den 011.Jy a litt le over a year, but al­ready we've come to consider it our own city. One day last spring I brought Mother here -and wheeled her all over t he g rounds. If there'~ a~~­thing she loves more than music, its ftowe'rs and birds and every gr een and living thillg."

They were on Brown Avenu~ now, nearing the city park. He copied her tone impatiently a s he said, "An~ yon­der in t he center of that lawn is Mr. Brownstone Wa ring's special strain of Colorado blue spruce, I suppose !

"Haven't you a pa rk a r ound here somewhere, where we can park a nd really talk?"

She knew now that she might as well face it. She hoped he would take his me'dicine like a man. She gather.ed tlui scattered fragments of her '"'.111, molded them quickly into something resembling poise, breathed .one falter­ing, wordless prayer, consc10us .of t he fact that it was almost impossible to pray when in the company of Kenneth Remsen, hoping that her very helples~­ness and her feeble desire to do . God s will might be int.erpreted by Him as prayer-knowing that it would.

They parked in the shade of a maple near the tennis cou rts. H e shut off the motor and led h er to a secluded bench far enough away from t he courts. not to be noticed. H e seated her gracious­ly in his old debona ir manner and sat down beside her. . .

For a long time he sat f ea st1.ng. his eyes upon her , smoking and . t hmkmg, clearing the track of his m1~d for ~ quick streamlined dash s traight fo1 the heart of Nova Anita Louverne.

Smash! Crash! Thud!

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Wham! ... Thud! . · · Smash! · · · The white clad bare armed, bare head­ed, sun-tanned' opponents _on . the ten­nis court were playing as if it were a championshjp game. The score for the set stood at 5-4 in favor of J~ry _Flag­ler. If he should win this particula r game, the set would be his. If Dale Mars should win, tihe scor e would stand at five all making it a deuce set, in which case it' might take t he r est of the afternoon to finish it, for these two Were evenly matched.

For fifteen minutes now the score for the game had been first forty all , then advantage in, tihen deuce. game, advantage in--or out. A lways it came back to deuce. J erry was serving, us­ing a vicious driving ball that curved unexpectedly just beyond the net and dropped unbelievably short of t he an-

ticipated place, and rolled after s trik­ing the ground.

"We're deuce, again;" he called across the net.

" The deuce we are!" Dale cried cheerily. Whew, it was hot ! He ran a forefinger across his brow a nd tossed off tlhe per spiration. He knew in the way a player knows such things, with­out f eeling too proud of himself, that he was playing better than usual today. For in h is imagination he had placed Nova Louverne in her gay little nurse's uniform-minus her cap--on the green bench over by t he drinking fountain. She was watching t he game, which, also in h is imagination, was one in wh ich rival player s dueled for her hand in marriage. A silly t hing to imagine per haps, but then ther e was no harm in it, and it did ma ke a differ­ence in his playillg. The only difficulty was that once having sea ted her there, he must concentrate on the game, ra ther than upon her.

Tihe planet of Mars, astr onomers had discovered, had no satellites, no secondary planets r evolving around it. But the man Mar s-Da le Mars-wit h tennis balls flying back and forth over the net with terrific speed and skill .. .

Yonder on the bench shone Nova, Blaze S tar, aglow with beauty and ex­citement, and with an appeal that he ha d never f elt in any other woman.

Once more J erry was ready to serve. He stood poised, the ball in his lef t hand, the racket in his right. The first ball had gone wild. Da le knew, from that particular pose, that the serve would be a long slow curve. He stood far back from t he net, racket in readi­ness, crouch in g, waiting, nerves aquiver . J erTy's long, lef t arm tossed the ball high, his racket cut t hrough t he air in a wide arch and struck t he ba ll with a terrific smash. It s izzled across the net like a bullet straigh t to­ward Dale's feet. It would go outside Da le decided. H e jumped, spread hi~ legs apart to let it pass, heard it s trike the woven-wire backstop behind him and turned to look for it.

"It went through!" Jerry cried. " Yonder i t goes out across the park. I f t his were baseball that would have been a home run !"

Dale's eyes caught it just a s it struck the s ide of a tree, g lanced off a nd went bouncing over the grass and down the h ill. "I'll get it!" he shouted and dashed a fter it , a satell ite fly i n~ off on_ a ta~gent, and Mars breaking from its orbit and hu rtling after ib!

Da le Mars ... Nova Louverne Nova Louverne Mar s ... Mrs. D~I~ Mars . . . Tonight he would call for h is fountain pen, and he would l isten once more to her playing. P erhaps h

Id . "t h. s e wou . mv1. e ~m to sing with her . The yearning rn his heart made rum h t hat her selection would be a h ope Also, he desired greatly to sit ymn.

·1 t th f as a pu-p1 a e eet of t he wizened little old lady whose fingers had once run with

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fairy lightness over the pia no keys. but were now coiled into hopeless knots of bone a nd withered flesh. Ah! but she understood the knotty problems of life and she knew the One Who could untangle t hem all.

And then he saw Nova, and she him. Luminous violet eyes, and serious brown ones. The brown ones went sud­denly g reen with envy, for t hey had seen also a smooth-shaven, dimpled, daintily mustached man whose attention was riveted with t he eyes of a lover upon Nova Louverne. I nstantly Dale dis liked him. He was too handsome, he thought. He hated the glaring mus­tache, plastered like a p lucked eyebrow under his too perfect nose. He hated ~he deep dimples, the perfect complex-10n, the suave manner. He had seen it all in one quick glance.

Nova saw him standing Apollo-like, the startled expression on his face his b1:own arms and shoulders gliste~ing wit h sweat, rippling muscles playing on those anns and shoulders; saw also the pain in his eyes. And in that brief second s o m e t h i n g passed between them, a secret which nei ther of them under stood but which must be guarded as sacred and belonging to themselves alon~.

He mumbled an incoherent apology a nd stum?Ied awkwardly after the ball. I ntroduct10ns were not in order, of course, but Nova did not t hink of that. She arose abruptly and called to h . "Mr M '" N im. · ar s : or did she consider the ~ules of etiquette as to who should be mtroduced to whom; nor yet the fact thrut she did not know Da le Mars well enough to call him to her like this. It was a des~erate effort on her part to carry her h ttle candle to th S f light. e ource o

Kenneth_ Remsen, B. A., M D per to I . ., rose

emp ri Y and studied the brown yout h before him.

" Mr. Mars, this is Dr R D Remsen D 1 M · emsen. r .

'. a .e ar s of KEL. You've heard his voice, of course "

D~. Re~sen bowed s tiffly, extended a p1 ofess1onal hand "I . t k · b · was JUS as -mg a out you,'' he said coldly Their eyes locked in combat ·

a l ',',We knew .each other at the hospit ­h~nd~o~~ saihd ~alf apologetically. "l

" . im t e mstruments and he-" . I _did .the mutilating" Dr Remsen interJected. ' ·

"Ad "th n the_ ~ndertaker-?" Da le a sked w1 out sm1hn U stanc h g. nder other circum-provo~sedwl at ~e had said would h ave into th .aug ter. H e tossed t he ball Th e air , caught it, tossed i t again-str: . ~t m 0 5 Ph ere was painfullY

. t I~e · H e frowned at his wrist-~;~1 ck saw that it was after t wo

oc h He would barely have tiJne ~~~ug t~ finish t he set with J erry,

St de. a co d shower and get back to the

u 10 a t thxee H d t. fu l " · e muttered a u 1-, Glad to have met you Dr Rem-

sen" and • · · ' ran back to J erry. (To Be Continued)

February 1, 1940

Southwestern Conference Impressive Watch Night

Service Held by the La Salle Bap tist Church

On Sunday evening, December 31, a Watch Night service was h.eld by t he members of t he First Ba ptist Chu~ch of La Salle, Colo. After a. r ousmg period of s inging, a. candle h~~t ser ­vice was presented with ~he ch~n furn­ishing background music'. which was followed by several musical numbers and r eadings. .

A miss ionary play, " A Soldier of I.he Cross" was presen ted by the B. Y . P. U . Tl;ose t aking leading parts. w:r e Lloyd Gies, Charlotte Meyer, Mildred Moser, Wesley Moser , Albert Renke and Fred Meyer. . .

After a shor t intenn1ss10n and _the . f i·efreshments a heart st11"r-serv111g o • .

. . . 1 ~ •i d prayer service was mg test1monia ..... h R C conducted by our pastor , t e ev. · H. Seecamp.

Mr a nd Mn. W . H . Witt of Bison, Kansas, Cel~brate

Their Silve r W eddmg Anniversary

D b . 16 about On Saturday ecem er ' d

' I t. of Mr an 100 friends a nd re a ives . t l\K W 1cr Witt of Bison, Ka ns. , me

c1r s. . CL. Cl 1 of the at the Gennan Baptist iurct~ ir s il-t own to help them celebrate e ver wedding anniver sary. h h

A . d quartet from the c urc

m1x.e G B " sang "Sweeter as t he Year s o h y,·t

R R Vase) gave a s 01 and the ev. t. s basket dinner, t alk A boun eou . d

. d t noon, was inunensely enJo~e ~ervell a The lovely t hree tier '~eddmg

y a · I by a miniatu re bride and cake, toppcc

tered t he table . g room, cen. H Jen Arthur Ruth

Their children, e t' fo r th~ occa-l ·er e presen

and Eth~ ' w 1 W" t t served for two . Miss He en I s1on. .d t of the Kansas years as p~e~i e;nd Sunday School Young P eep.e s In the afternoon Mr. Workers' Union. d f S tafford Kans., Ernest H ildebran o of the '"bride," youngest brot her showed slide pictures.

Wh•t Christmas Progra m J°f th1 eBethany Sunday Schoo

e in Kansas School of the Bethany

The Sunday er Kans., pr esented Church near Vesp ' in the nature .t Chr. tmas program I s is whi te Christmas project. of a n unustial Af .· a was cut out of A la rge map of

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congr egation several weeks before Christmas. It was announced tha.t on Christmas Eve we would bring g ifts to the Chris t Child a s well as t o each other. So the people were prepar ed to cover the ma p with dollar bills. Young people and children had part in the ex­ercises. Boys a nd girls firs t ma rched to t he platform, bringing toys which they wanted t o give to children less fo1tunate than they were.

Af ter proper cer emonies the boys and g irls gather ed the envelopes wit h the money, taking only one at a t ime to the platform where teller s counted the money a nd pinned the bills on "Af­rica.'' Coins wer e counted, and as soon a s a dollar's worth of coins was stacked up, it was changed into a bill a nd pinned on. The r esult was what you sec in the accompanying snapshot. "Africa" covered wi,t h dollar bills.

Appropriate addresses made it very real to the people that our money was going to serve God in the "Da rk Con­tinent.'' Over thirty-five dollars wer e contributed. It more than covered the map. Our B. Y. P. U . is studying " Pil­grim's P rogress" under the direction of Mr. Carl Woody. It is also com­peting with other unions in the six point r ecord system of the conference.

The Northwestern Sunday School Convention of Lincoln County, Kans., is sponsoring a teacher training class which meets at the Bethany Church each Friday evening. The subject is "Old Testament Law and History." Five churches comprise t he convention. The Rev. J. H . Korn e I s en is t he teacher.

At our W atch Night service we bap­tized two men and r eceived three oth­ers into our fellowship by letter. Other

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candidates were ill, a nd we anticipate another baptismal service soon.

Our Ladies' Mission Circle r ecently staited a " First Aid Chest" t o loan out to needy families strick~n by s ickness. It is sponsoring the Scripture Mem ory work at Bethany this year. They work through the public schools, which are visited by two of our women one Fri­day afternoon of each month.

The Rev. Roy Seibel, pastor of the Strassburg Baptist Church n ear Mari­on, Kans., preached each evening dur­ing t he Prayer Week at our church. His Spirit filled messages touched our hearts deeply.

J . H. KORNELSEN, Pas tor .

Unique Observance of Publica tion Sunday by the

Mount Zion Church of Kansas On the second Sunday of December

the Mount Zion Baptist Church of K ansas had for its morning p r ogram objective the work of the Publication Society. The pastor , t he R ev. Thomas Lutz, spoke of its b_egin.ning, co;itinua­tion and its expansion m the different publications, of i~s blcsse~ ~nd far­r eaching influence m our m1ss1on activ­ities at home and abr oad, a nd of the information it co n v e Y s to the local churches.

The local representative of the p ub­lication society, Mr. Charles A. Zosch ­ke, pointed out how th e var"ious p ubli­cations of the society serve to expound the Scriptures, give scr iptur a l infor­mation on Baptist teaching a n d how they endeavor to bu~ld .a~ promote t h e spiritual Jives of md1v1duals a s a lso collectively of t he adherents of our constituency. H e also spoke of t h e various papers, . pamphlet s and book:,; published to dispel _and . counteract f alse doctrines and d istortion of t h e Scriptures.

It was further emphasized that t h e compelling_ ~o,~er, the _ende~voring and leading spirit m the expansion and d.

. d h lS-tribution of its paper s, an t e soc· ty's world encircling influence ...,.. ie-

"b t I .,,Ust primar ily be attn u ec to t h e fert .1 minds and adept qual_i~cations for t~: Pa r ticular work of d1vmely sent

1 • . h nen who have carnedtht eh r~sp~nsibility of its work from e egmning . T h have always been men of v is ion , _ey fait h in God and his Word, Withvith understanding of the mag nitude of an constituenc~ in gener~I ~s. w ell as ~~r minor details of the md1v1dual. e

Considering this, t he Mount z. Church ado p t e d a r esolut ion t 10n knowledge t he fa ithful and sacr i~ ~c­work of the men in our pub licatio ciaJ ciety, who now carry on t h is wor~ St)-

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Dakota Conference Six New Membe rs R eceived Into the Fellowship of the

Beulah Church During the two firs t weeks in No­

vember r evival meetings wer e held in the German Baptist Church of Beulah No. Dak., in which t he Rev. Fred Trautner of E ureka, So. Dak., a ssist­ed us. Five per sons accepted Christ as their per sonal Savior and decided to follow him in baptism.

On Sunday, December 3, a goodl y number of our people migr ated to Bis­marck ,to witness the baptism of these converts. Another per son, who was outside t he fold for a while, ca me back again, and so we ha d the j oy and privi­lege to give t he hand of f ellowshop to six new members.

The Lord is working a mong us and we believe that he will give us a la rg e harvest of dear souls.

P . F. SCHILLING, P a s tor .

Parkston and T ripp congregations, a nd, part t ime, h e teaches sever al sub­jects a t Sioux Falls College, where he a lso takes post gradua te work.

A . J . FISCHER, Repor ter .

Annual Report of the Linton B. Y. P. U.

The B. Y. P. U. of the German Bap­tist Church of Linton, No. Dak., has closed another successful year , filled with many r ich blessings. The officer s who will guide t he league tihrough the year, 1940, a re : Mrs. Gottlieb Kremer, president ; Mrs. Fre d Kremer, vice­president; Elsie Wagner , secretary ; Viola Graf, trea sur er ; Arlene Graf, pia nis t; and llean Dobler and P hyll is Zoller, ushers.

The depar tmental p lan, which has worked successfully for the pa st two years, will a ga in be followed this year. During the past year we lost two mem­bers , but have ga ined nine new ones, making the total membership 32.

Men's Chorus of the Baptist Church in Emery, South Dakota, That Sang E very E vening During Recent Revival Services

Ordination Servic e of the Rev. Osca r Bonikowsky of Sioux

F alls, South Dakota On December 28 t he various r epre­

sentatives of .the Sout h Da kota A sso­ciat ion met at P ai·kston, So. Dak., for the purpose of ordain ing Mr . Osca r Bonikowsky. The delegates organized themselv.es and ap pointed as their moderator, Rev. F . W. Bartel; and a s clerk, Rev. A. J . Fischer. The candi­date related his Christian experiences and his call to the ministry. H e ex­press.ect extensively his doctrinal v iews and, after a careful examination, t he counci l agreed to notify the church to Proceed with the or dination.

The Rev. F. w. Bartel Jed t he or di­nation meeting a n d t he Rev. Wm. Sturhahn brought the message. Mr . Bonikowsky gradu ated from t he Ger­n_ian Baptist Seminary in 1938, a nd since then has served for a summer the Baptist Church at Herreid, So. D_ak. Last spring he graduated from Sioux Falls College with a B. A. de-8'l'ee. At present he is serving the

Four programs wer e given dur ing the past year, including the play, "The Ten Virgins." Our B. Y. P. U. ser ved a s host to the Centra l Dakota Confer ­ence Rally on October 8th, with t he Rev. M. Leuschner of F orest P a rk, I ll., a s g uest of honor. " Laura Reddig Sunday" was a lso observed.

As recr eation during the past year, we played volley ball in t he summer a nd had our a nnual Christmas pa r ty with about 55 persons present.

ELSIE WAGNER, Secretary.

B. Y. P . U. of Plevna, Montana Begins the New Year Hopefull;

The B. Y. P . U. of the German Bap­t ist Chur ch in P levna, Mont., held its a nnual business meeting on J anuary 1st. T heodore K usler, who has been our president for t he last four years was again elected for 1940. He i ~ highly respected by all ou r members a?d deserves t he honor we bestow upon him. Henry Lang, who is now at tend­ing our seminary at Rochester, N. Y., was succe€ded by J ohn Karch, as vice.

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president. E rvin Huber was again elected as secretar y, and Theodor e A l­dinger was elected treasur er .

Ten new members were admitted in­to t~e union during t he past year , in­cluding : J ohnny Oberla nder Bertha F~lmer, Mar tha Opp, Ma rt ha Lang, Vio~a Kar ch, Cla r a Burkhart, Alber t Lo_smg , E mma Buerkle, Mar ion and Wilmer Huber.

. A program for the year was set up m ~anuary, 1939, and wit h the ca pable· a ssi.stance of our pastor and gener a l advisor of the B. Y. P . U th R J J R ., e ev. .

· enz, we fo llowed it through a s neal"!y as possible. Tr t · · G d f "d u s mg m o or gui ance, we again hope to carry

on successfully in 1940.

ERVIN HUBER, Secretary.

Twen~y-seven Conve rts Baptized 10 the Emery Church

a t the Watch Night Service The closing da y f 1 h f s o 939 were ver y a~p~ or our German Baptist Church

aOn hunday School in Emer y So Dak n t e last d ' · · , .. ay of the year i t was t he

pastor s pr1v1lege a nd joy to t . t the ba ptistry . h s ep m o

h wi t 27 per sons among w om was a fath . h ' daughter f 11 . er wit his son and ma nd "B 1·0 owmg t he Lord's com-

' e ieve 'a nd be b f d " Most of t h ap ize · result of ese co~verts came as t he

our reviva l ti h Id durin g the last mee ngs e Rev. R. p Br par t of November. T he Buff I C . onleewe, a " son" of our

a o enter Church . I d as our evang r m owa, serve studied for a eti1.st. . Brother Bronleewe

me m our se · t Rochester a d 1 mma ry a the Nor th'ern nB a~er gra_duated from cago H b aptist Semina ry in Chi-

. e rought h" along so that is loud speaker

' we could se d f the songs and n some o chur ch tower tmessages from our but ou t into 'thno only over the town

, e count ry T he 1 men s chorus th . · arge companies t h'. e picture of which ac-

. IS repor t sang mng during th '. every eve-

e meetmgs. We ha d a fu ll h

Periods of pr ay ouse every night. each service ti er were held before adults meeti~g i~e Young people a nd the same t ime . seperate rooms. At church, chi ldre~~ anot~er pa r t of the under the leaders: eetmgs took place leewe, who is ab! 1P ?f. Mrs. Bron­band in his wo k Y ass1st111g her hus­our prayers an~ bl T he Lord a nswer ed for th, so t hat essed the efforts put on t he first Su~~I: w~re a ble to r eceive members into t h Y m the new year 28 church. e fellowship of our

All our meetin Often we ha ve gs are well attended. meetings and B~~~r 10(} at our pr a yer go to Sunday S h e study.-Nearly a ll her r uns many ~- 001 so tha t our num­Christ mas progr~:es over. 300. A fine offering for ou '~as g iven, and a n St. J oseph Mi hr Childr en's Home in $60. We ' as ~ ., was r eceived of over responsibili ty . church feel a greater us new rnembe~~~ce the Lord has given

AUGUST G. LANG, Pastor.

Febr uary 1, 1940

Eastern Conf ere nee Activities of Our Semina r y

Students Ove r the Christmas Holidays

T he call of t he Christmas holiday season always finds a welcome aud i­ence at the German Baptist Seminary of Rochester, N. Y. We rejoice because this holiday season affords us the op­por t unit y of vis it ing our homes, or the homes of our friends.

Approximately twenty young Ro­chester theologia ns travelled to various parts of our country and Canada. The boundaries reached were Kansas in the South, North Dakota in the West, and Manitoba in the Nor th. Inter ­mediary poin ts covered were Minne­sota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsyl­vania and New York.

Apparently both churches and pas­tor s welcome such an emigr ation from Rochester , fo r they speedily put a ll the young men to work in the glorious task of preaching and teaching the Word of God. The men all r eturned saiely to us in spite of the inclement weather, wi th inspired r eports about the hospit a lity of the many friends of the seminary, and because of the many oppor t unities a fforded them to testify to .t he saving power of Chr ist. All told, mor e than thirty ser mons were preached, and ma ny classes taug-ht by t hese breth1-en.

We wish to express our sincer est gratitude to the churches and homes for the wa rm reception extended u s. We re.member you a ll in our pr ayers, and we wish for you a happy year in the service of Him, at whose throne we may daily meet in pr ayer.

PETER P FEIFFER, Repor ter .

Seminary Student, George Zinz, Jr., Attends Recent Student

Volur;iteer Conference at Toronto

Missiona r ies from many distan t countries mingled with Chinese, J a­panese, Indian, American and Cana­dian students of the Student Volunt~er Movement of North Amer ica, meet mg for a Consultat ive Conference on t he Wor ld Mission of Clu·istianity at the Univer sity of Tor onto from December 27 to J a nuary 1.

The 500 delegates came from ~ol­leges, univers ities a nd theolog_1cal seminaries throughout the U mted States a nd Canada. These dele~ates knew either by first-hand experience or th'r ough study, ,the significant facts about the wor ld-wide outreach ?f th_e church a nd thereby discussed mtel_h­gently the possibilities of the Clm s­t ia n Chur ch in this world of unrest. The confer ence g roup was divided in to t wenty seminar s in which such prob­lems as racial prejudice, war, church or ganization and ChTistian movements were discussed.

The evening meet ings seemed to be t he most profitable. One-half hour was

EDITOR'S NOTICE! The great number of reports,

covering the Christmas and New Year's season in our churches, has necessitated the omission of sev­eral features and a few annual B. Y. P. U. reports from this is­sue of "The Baptist H erald." Be­cause of the limited space avail ­able for this material, all reporters are urged to make their cont ribu­tions brief and factual.

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r esponsibility. The main problem now facing E ur ope, a ccor ding to P rofessor Hromadka, is who shall r econstruct the countries of E urope after this war ? Will the economic and moral situa­tions be guided by Christian or pagan ideals?

College students do not want war. Christian ideas will prevail. The spir­it of Christ is not a poet's dream and will conquer !

GEORGE ZINZ, JR., Reporter .

T he Junior Choir of the Greenvine Church of T exas, Which Renders an Appreciated Service

spent in getting acquainted with some of the old hymns we have for gotten. T he song service was led by Dr. Rus­sel Ames Cook. Speaker s, like Dr . Hen­ry P. Van Dusen, Dr. P. W. Wang, Dr . J oseph L. H r omadka, Dr. John Ben­nett, Dr. Hu&'h Vernon White and Dr. T . Z. Koo brought instr uctive mes­sages.

Dr. Van Dusen described the Chris­t ian Church as t he g r eatest power for t he uplifting of t he life of humanity and <the building of a better world.

Much str ess was laid on missionary work a nd its need throughout t he wor ld. One outstanding example was cit ed namely that in t he city of New York there was one doctor for every 400 people, while in a certain Chinese province there was only one doctor for every million people. Missionar y wor k is important in national and inter­na.t ional affairs.

Dr. Bennett of the P acific School of Religion stressed the oppor tunities our churches have that are denied church­es in other countries. We have more contact with a large majority of our people and we have a Glu·istian base. There is, however, one danger creep­ing into our churches-the almighty dollar.

T he state of confusion in which Europe now finds itself has come about because those nations have lost fa.itJh in something absolute. The nations have ceased to understand each other and have lost all moral and spiritual

Southern Conference T he Junior Choir in the

Greenvine Church o f T eltas Our children in the Greenvine G

man Baptist Church near Bui-t er­Texas, are r eceiving special atten.ti on, Not only do they have their Sundon. School. hour but ~hey a lso have a Paa y of their own durmg the morning ,,. rt h . . J t b c ""or s 1p service. us eLore the morn . -

message a childr en's sermon in ~ng form of a story is given or an ob . he lesson or a chalk talk. As their Ject in this service they occupy the f Part pews. When finished, they retui-:ont t heir parents for the rest of the to. vice. sei-_

Fifteen minutes before the ev . meeting the childr en gather to beni~g structed in singing choruses and e 1n­and memorizing Bible verses. W songs them our "Ju~ior Choir" or choi-j: ca11 That they enJOY these services i t ei-s . denced by their remarks: " Ds ev1_ hurry up or we will be late fo ~ddy, church." {T hey call this period l: oui­the service their church.) "We

8.hefoi-e

the morning service just like t1bg for choir." etc., etc. e big

It is a j oy to the parents a ers to hear them sing for the nct lead_

. . rno1·n· or cvenmg se1·v1ces, whenever ing upon. The work among them i Calleq cia~ed by _the pare1~ts and oldei~ apP1·e­Th1s special attention is g iven t People because the children of today 0 _the~ the church of tomorrow. ''"111 be

MRS. J. J. LIPPERT Re . Porter

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Northern Conference Bible School for Southern

Alberta Young People at the Bethel Church

For some time the young people of Southern A lberta, Canada, have been eager to come together and to become better acquainted with God's Word. So a Bible School was held at the Bethel Baptist Church near Carbon, Alberta, from November 27 to D ecember 8 which proved t o be a great s uccess. '

On Friday, December 8, our Bible School came to a conclusion with a short program rendered by the stu­dents, which consisted of special music and brief addresses.

was contributed freely by our own peo­p le. 1:~ gift of $200 from our Gen­eral Misswn Society has also been very gratefully accepted by our church.

BETTY BEUTLER, Repo r ter. IDA NEHER, Reporter.

D e dication of the New Parson age at Olds, Alberta,

Canada

Ch~istmas Program for the Cree Indians of W etaskiwin, Alberta

Our young people of Wetaskiwin,

An average of 30 to 35 students at­tended, who represented the German Baptist Churches of Bethel Freuden-tal, Zion and Olds. '

Sunda.y, November 19, proved to be a day of victory for the members of the German Baptist Church of Olds, Alberta, Canada, as we gathered at our church in order to dedicate our parsonage to the ser vice of Christ and his Kingdom.

~!ta.,_ Can., again had a very interest­ing _time with the Cree Indians at the Christmas program held in the old chur_ch_ of the Bull Reserve, near We-task1wm, Alta on Frida . D c b 92 ., y evening, e-em er - · The weather was f avorable

Students and Faculty of the Southern Alberta Bible School H eld at the Bethel Church

Many interesting s tudies wer e pur­s ued, which wer e of a s pir itual bene­fit to all attending. The courses con­sisted of "Sunday School Work" and "Ancient His tory" taught by t he Rev. R. Milbrandt; the latter subject and "Baptist His tory" taught during the second week by Rev. C. B. Thole of Olds ; "Introduction to t he New T esta­ment" and "Baptis t Principles" taught by the Rev. G. Beutler o:f Olds ; "Ser­mon on the Mount" and "Personal Work" t aught by the Rev. 0. Fiesel of Trochu, who was with us only for the first week; the latter subject then continued by the Rev. R. Milbrandt. During the second week we were privi­leged to have the Rev. H. Schatz of Leduc with us, who taught "First Epistle of John" and "Music."

The devotional periods were led by students, which added much to our spiritual growth. During t he two weeks r evival m eetings were held, t he messages being brought by t he minis­ters. All who attended the meetings left with the desi r e to follow Christ mor~ closely, and 10 persons confessed Christ as t heir personal Savior.

The pas tor of the church, the Rev. G. Beutler, opened the service with song and Scrip ture reading. The Rev. J. H. Ashdown, pastor of the English Baptist Church of Olds, offered the dedication prayer, which was fo llowed by a choir se lection . Mr. Ashdown also served a s gues t speaker for the occa­s ion.

After the close of the service in church, everybody assembled before the parsonage. A song was fo llowed by a short dedica tion prayer by the pastor. Then the deacon, Mr. R. c Link, spoke a few words and afte~ unlocking the door, gave to the Rev. G. Beutler _the key to the house, which was. ded icated as a medium of loving service for Christ's King dom.

In spi te of the fact that the pas t ye::i-rs have meant new begini1ings, crop fa ilures, and hardships for the mem­be~·s of our church, our ,hearts are ra1s~d 111 g rateful praise to God for the mani fold blessings which have been s howered upon us. Great sacrifices on the pa.rt of the members have made poss1~le the erection of the parsonage 111 t hi s year. Practically all t he labor

as on snow-bedecked r oads \ d our way t th h ve ma e 0 e uts of the red men and gat~ered with them to celebrate the comdmg _of Jesus as Savior of a ll races an nationalities.

Our Indian fr iends old d gather ed earl f '. . an young,

· Y or tl11s important oc-caswn. The yo taskiwin First un.g people o_f the W e-h ad collected Gder man Baptist Church

an arranged treats f the Indian child or th ren. They presented

ese to the eager Some of th h. group of children. of the I d" e w it: children a nd some

· n ians recited their Christmas pieces and sang songs f . sus our Kin ° . p7a1se to J e­Rev. Fred W g.B The n11ss1onary, the of the first Ch. . etnke, i·eJated the stor y

r1s mas and d . plication for our <la ma e its ap-

The treats of 0 y.h. handed out ur w ite people were I r as well as li ttle gifts of the nc ian parents were put on h .

mas t r ee for ti . h" t e Chnst -1e1r c ildren Th h" f

spoke and thank d f . . e c ie . e 01 such good will

statmg that such was the real . . ' Christ who said. "Wh t sp1r1t of

t h · a You have don un o t e least of thes 1 e unto me." e, you 1ave done

The loss of loved . touching and h ones is a lways

, umanly spe k" can hardly underst a mg , we in the blossom of t~1d . when someone A fine young I d" 1 e is ta.ken away. Bull s~n the M n ian brave, William and 'grandson rf. and Mrs . George Bull

o t he lat h" f L . Bull, was not ab! e c 1e ew1s with us as in f e t o s pend Christmas

I ormer year H ca led home to !or . s. e was before H g Y Just a few days

. e was only 21 and unfolded a b . years of age hope and pr

01n. eautiful life full of

· ISe for h · t th missionary and f . is paren s, e . r 1ends.

Hav111g given h. . Christ we enJ· is hfe to Jesus

' OYed to h h · k an active part . ave 1m ta e Shortly before h.1n the Lord's work. "I am not afra. di s departure he said: ing to his pa: tto die." Then turn­him in all h.:n s, who had nursed "Soon I will b;s suffering, he said: the place of the ~ve]~ off when I go to where there will ~t er of a ll mankind, and sorrow. There t ~o more sickness father (the late Ch· will see my grand­all loved ones . Te!ief Lewis Bull) and to God." A meinor! Mr. B_enke I pray for him in t he O!diaJ se_rv1ce was held Sunday Deceinb Indian Church on all who' were b er 31, as well as for

ereaved FRED w. BE~KE, Reporter.

February 1, 1940

Pacific Conference Chris tmas Banquet o f the

Loyal Workers' Class at Portland's Immanue l Church On Friday evening, December 8, the

girls of the " L oyal Workers ' Class" of the I mmanuel Baptist Church of Port­land, Ore., held a Christmas banquet in h onor of their parents.

Tables were set up in the basement of the church and were beautifully decorated with r ed and green candles and holly. Each mother was presented with a cor sage by her daughter.

After t he delicious meal was served, the g irls gave a program led by the president of the class, Ruth Sauer. The program consisted of Scripture read­ing, Christmas carols, musical num­bers, readings, and a skit.

At Christmas our class made tea towels for a Children's Home here in Oregon, and also gave scrap books to children in the hospita l.

There a re about 18 gil"!s in the " Loy-al Workers Class." Our teache1· is Mrs. J ennie Hoelzer.

RUTH REUTTER, Reporter.

Impressive Watch Night Service Held by the Salt Creek Church

of Oregon To spend the last few hours of the

old year and to begin the new year in God's house has been traditionally ob­served by the members of the Salt Cr eek Baptist Church of Oregon. We received spiritua l blessings as a churcJ1 again at the close of 1939.

The Watch Night service began with a short message delivered by our pas­tor, the Rev. Otto Nallinger, immediat­ely after which a young lady was bap­tized upon her confession of fa ith in Christ J es us as her personal Savior.

Following t his, the B. Y. P. U ., with our pres iden t Dr. Norman Classen in charge, presented the. stor y, "Saved at Sea" inter spersed with songs by our mixed

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choir and special groups of sin­Gilbert Schneider was the nar -gers.

r ator. The last hour of 1939 found us again

in the main auditorium. This was a communion service, a nd our three dea­cons cooperated with the pas to r . The Scripture and opening pr ayer were g iven by Mr. Emil Aebi. A brief talk about the past of our church was brought by Mr. Henry Voth, Sr. Mr. Dick Bartel spoke on the present work of our church. Mr . Nallinger then gave a brief message on the future of our church, and, a s the new ye~r began, led us to t he throne of grace 111 prayer. The ser vice ended with the church gathering around the Lo~·d's table a nd partaking of the commun10n.

EVAN SKERSIES, Repor ter.

Bright and Happy Holiday Season for the Trinity Baptist

Church of Portland

The •holiday season for the Trini ty Baptist Church of Portland, Ore., from

the Tha nksgiving service, November 23, at which a missionary offering was received that amounted to $512.88, th.rough the New Year's Eve service, was an active and blessed one.

On Sunday, December 10, Mr. Ed­ward Tober followed in the steps of obedience to the Lord's teaching and was baptized by our pastor, t he Rev. John Leypoldt.

On Saturday, December 16, twen ty­three B. Y. P. U. members met at the home of Miss Laura Meier to repair and paint broken toys, which were collected from the membership; and distributed by the Sunday School.

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the communion table. This made us realize the solemnity of passing mo­ments . On the first Sunday of the new year our pastor, the Rev. J ohru Ley­poldt, extended the hand of fellowship to 7 persons.

I n reviewing the reports at the anr nual business meeting of t he church, we find t hat a total of $E077.40 were contributed to foreign and home m is­sions. Indeed, as we g lance over the pas t and into the future we are grate­ful for t he many outlets of service both in a spiritual and monetary way'.

GERTRUDE M. BELTZ, Reporter.

Manger Scene in the Pageant, "From the Manger to the Cross." Presented at the Laurelhurst Church, Portland, Oregon

A very impressive White Christmas Lovely Christmas Pageant at service was sponsored by the Sunday the Laurelhurst Church of School at its morning sess ion on De- P o rtland, Oregon cember 17, at which the following ar- An orig inal Christmas pageant en -ticles and foodstuffs were collected: titled, "From t he Mang-er to th 240 articles of miscellaneous food- ~ross," \\Ti tten and directed by Wit~ stuffs , 50 pounds of mixed nu ts, 200 liam Schunkc, was presented at the pounds of potatoes , 8 dozen apples, L aurclhurst Church of Portland, Ore oranges and grapefruit; 2-1 r ebu ilt under t he auspices of t he Sunct ·: toys, clothing for an orphaned boy, School, with Mr. Emil Henkel man a~ bedding for a family of seven persons, supe1·inte"dent. Mr. a nd Mrs. Schun~~ and one pair of boy's s hoes. An offer- have r ecently returned to live in tl t

ing and additional moneta r y gifts "City o: Roses" and have chosei 1 e amounted to $ 44.70, with which t he make Laurelhurst their church h

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following,• supplies were purchased: Over 50 young people took pat·t in °~~e. picnis ham s, spam, three cases of biblical presentation. I:,;

canned goods, one case each of celery The interest ran so high that it ' '" and oranges, twenty pounds of coffee. necessary to r epeat the pageant f a s From all t hese supplies twenty-two times. Hundreds of v is itor s cai 0 Ut· baskets were filled. The committee in sec it. Our own people were urgn~ to charge of this project were Mr. a nd r~n.1~in ho_me to make room fore to Mrs. Gus Bachofner, Elsa Bertule it, v1s1trng fnends. It was firs t pre 0 ur Jennie Boehi, and Harry J olmson. on Ch1·istmas night. On th1·., ocsen t0c1

, c ·:i.~· An annual mus ic fcatu i-c was the our Junior chorus of over 30 b c -

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Ch · t t cl I b I · I b oys ·11 ct n s mas concer ren er ec y tic g ir s sang two eautiful Chris < 1

choir on Sunday, December 24, under songs under Mr. Sehunke "s le., 1

t n1a:;: c.cersh· the leadership of Mrs. Emma B. Meier, The final p resentation was . 111.

director. Following t he Sunday School connection with our Watch Ngiren in Christmas program on December 25. vice. ig it se1·_

thirty B. Y. P. U. members gathered Leadi1:g parts were taken by F . at t he ,home of Mr. and Mrs . Otto Bo- and Edwin Fauth, who Port ~· 1eda ehi for a "Fireside Sing ." Mary a nd Joseph. " Bill" Frcit · Iayed

Our Watch Night service was a me-· t he leading s hepherd. The part <\g \Va ~ morable one. As t he old year was pass- three kings were ably taken ~ of the ing, the congregati~n gathered around liam Glaske, Rudolph Recll11any. Wi1_

a nd

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Victor Dyck. Preceding the pageant Miss Velma Bienert gave the Christ­mas story a s recorded in Luke with or­gan accompaniment, and Miss Eileen Riemer presented the dramatic musical reading, "The Inn." Miss Marion Roach had the greatest memorization task, taking the roll of the reader.

Large canvas murals, painted by our director, furnished fitting biblical backgrounds for all of the scenes. The shepherd scene as well as the others, namely, those of the wise men on the desert, and the manger scene with Ma­ry and · Joseph brought a hush over each audience. There was great rever­ence throughout all the presentations. Mr. Eric Pohl was in charge of the special lighting, and he did a fine job of it with a specially buil t rheostat equipment with. which he produced the many beautiful lighting effects. Mrs. Schunke, a ssis ted by other women, made all the colorful biblical costumes. Miss Gertrude Hensel, presiding at the piano, furnished the accompaniment.

All of our many friends agreed that this pageant was the greatest presen­tation of its k ind they have ever wit­nessed. Our pastor, the Bev. Fred W. Mueller, closed each meeting with suit­able words of commendation and pray-er. ANNA WARDIN, Reporter.

Northwestern Conf ere nee A Unique Candle Light Service at the First Church of St. Paul,

Minnesota On Christmas Eve the congregation

of the First German Baptis t Church of St. Paul, Minn., met for the usual Sun­day evening meeting, which had been announced to be a candle light service by the pastor, the Rev. Emanuel Wolff.

The church auditorium, decorated for the Ch.ristmas season, and aug­mented with candles placed at approp­riate places for this service, seemed to cooperate to usher in the happy season. The service was opened in the usual manner with the s inging of Ch.ris tmas hymns, two of which were solos by Mr. Rudolph Benert.

Golden Wedding Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. A. Stockman of

Mauston, Wisconsin Mr. and Mrs. August Stockman. of

Mauston, Wis., celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Wednesday, November 22. An unusual featur e of the event was the fact that the attend­ants at their w~dding 50 years ago, Mrs. Frank Fosdick of Oak Park, Ill. , and Mr. Albert Falk of Racine, Wis., were both present at the golden wed­di lljg ann iversary.

. Mr. and Mrs. Stockman were mar­ried in 1889 in the Geiman Ba ptist parsonage at North Freedom, Wis., by t he Rev. Henry Griep. They estab­lished their home on a farm near Ableman wher e they lived for about 25 year s. They were active member s of the North Freedom church. Later, they moved to Mauston, Wis., where they have been faithful members of the Baptist church ever since. Mr. Stockman, after serving as deacon of the church for many years is now our deacon emeritus. '

The ann iversary day was spent at the _fann home of their son and daugh­ter-in-Jaw, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey F. Stockma.n, where a bountiful dinner was se~·ved in their honor. Relatives and friends from far and n ear gath­ered to extend their best wishes. The Stockman children sang the song, "Sil­v~r Threads Among the Gold." After dinner our pastor. the Rev. Ro L Schlader, invited Mr. and Mrs. S~ck~ man to the church's prayer meet·

h . mg

~v ere . an impressive program was held m thc;1 r honor. Mr. Schlader read the beautiful goldelb wedding cerem I . .h on~

c osmg wit the benediction prayer. May the heaven ly Father continue

to bless and help this honored coup] . his care! em

MRS. FRANK c. BROKOPP, Reporter.

Central Conference Christmas F e stivities in the

Immanuel Church of Chica

THE BAPTIST HERALD

the Home Folks." The leading players were Betty Kleindienst, William Reich­ert, Jackie Voigt and Vernon Mar tens. T_he drama clearly depicted the vital difference between a shallow Christ­mas and a hallowed Christmas.

Thus, in some way, the various mem­bers and departments of the church, com~iemoratecl the birth of Christ in service for him.

MARION KLEINDIENST, Reporter.

Th~ Ogden Park Church of Chicago W e lcomes its New Pastor, the Rev. S. F . Geis

th On

0 Tdhursday evening, January 4,

e. g en Park Baptist Church of Chicago, Ill., welcomed its new pastor , t~e Rev. Stanley F . Geis with a fes-tive program d h ' loya l cooperat~n a earty pledge of

ion. The church was well filled with man b d friends wh . . y mem ers an

Th 0 part1c1pated in the service ~ Rev. J. A. Pankratz who had

~upphed the pulpit for the I~st 7 Sun­t::s 0~d~g39 and who had officiated at . 'hve mg of Mr. Geis's parents was m c argc of the ' from th . program. Greetings

b e sis ter churches in Chicago ~ereh rought briefly by the Rev's. H .

oc , J . Schmidt J K w Dons J M 11 • · nechtel, T . .

' . ue er and W S A well as by the Rev M .L . L rgo~v as young pe 1 , · • . eusc ner,

op e s secretary The welcome f h ·

tended b 0 t e church was ex-organizal r epresentatives of var ious for th

1hons as follows: Mr J Frisch

e c urch Mr 0 H . . h Sunday School ' · · om for t e the Ladies' A .'d Mrs. E . Lengefeld for the B. Y. p

1 ' M~·· E. Kassner for

the World W~~ M1~s H. Srigley for Thomson for th Gu1~d, and Mr. W. propriate sel ~ choir. Several ap­choir , the ir~ctions by the church quartet werg s chorus and the male

e sung Th . mas decorat· · e lovely Ghnst-color to th ions ~dded their touch of origina l P; evenmg's festivities. An Ruth Koffin~~ _was recited by Miss tor jus t befor in Welcoming the pas­er s was pres e ta large bouquet of flow-

en ed to him

At this point the p::istor announced his theme for the evening, "Christmas Eve at the Parsonage." The lights having been extinguished and the candles lit, the pastor seated himself beside a small table on the platform soon to be joined by his wife. ~rs. Wolff, with a true-to-life question, " May I come in, dear?'' received the cheery r esponse "Yes," and t ook her Place across th~ table from "hubby." Putting to use a little imagination, the ~udience had the privilege of observ­ing some of the private moments and thoughts of a minister's life ably por­trayed by Mr. an d Mrs . Wolff.

Ill. . go, 1no1s

On ~ur~day evening, December 17 the c_ho1r of the Gross P ark Immanuei Baptist Church of Chicago Ill d"r t d b h , ., I ec -e Y ~ e Rev. J ohn Mueller, presented a Christmas cantata entitled "Hark the . Herald. Angels" by Pet;ie. Th~ leading soloists of the choir wer M" Lucille Martens soprano . He b lSS . ' · , er ert Hecht, baritone; Mr. and Mrs. P aul Martens, alto and tenor. and E Billington, tenor. ' vans

The Rev. and M . arrived in Ch· rs . S. F. Geis had day. The f icago on the pr eceding parsonage ~ve!~Und the pantry in the their arrival stocked with food upon day Mrs G · . But on the following could not at~is became quite ill and Geis was for end t he r eception. Mr. inson Countmerly pastor of the Dick­Kansas. FI./ b Church near Dillon, at the close f rought a brief address fervently de

0 .bthe service in which he

. . scr 1 ed th h . m1111stry and th e purpose of 1s

The informal conversation, r evol­ving around the t hought of " sacrificial giving," contained a very fine message, and interspersed with a touch of hum­or it was enjoyed by all present.

PAUL H. STANKE, Reporter.

On the following Sunday, December 24, t he Sunday School presented its nual Christmas prograin Th p . a.Tir h" · e nmary

c il.d~·en, under the able direction d trammg of Miss Florence F · d ~chn . r1e en _ s_en and Miss Ida Adam, gave their httle messages and Christmas w~ich delighted the parents so:~~ f1:1ends. Then the ·you ng people's class p1 esented a drama, "Christmas with

its warm weJ anked the chur ch for fe llowship fo!~~:)e· _A period of socia l hers of the au _ed, in which the mem­sonal acquainta dience . made their per-

M nee Wit h Mr· Ge1"s ay thi · ·

Chicago's ~n Pt,stor~te in the heart of has begun s: ~opoJ_1 ~n district, which fectiveness u d Uspiciously, grow in ef­Christ ! n er the banner of J es us

M. L. LEUSCRNER, Reporter.

F ebruary 1, 1940

Activities of the Men's Baraca Bible Class of the Oak Park

Church, Whose Picture Appears on the Front Cover

On October 18, 1924, a group of seven men met in t he Oak Park Ger­man Baptis t Church of Forest Park, Ill ., to consider t he possibility of or­ganizing a men's Bible class. Our Sun­<lay School superintendent and secret­a ry had discussed the need for a men's class and had arranged this confer­ence. This was the birth of a class that today has a membership of more than one hundred men with a aver­age attendance very close to the num­ber present for t he photograph, shown <>n the front cover of this issue of "The Baptist Herald."

God has richly blessed our class with outstanding teachers, such as the late Otto C. Braese ; Mr. R. D. O'B rien, secr etary of the Oak Park Y. M. C. A.; and now the Rev. C. B. Nordland, an executive of the Moody Bible Institute and a member of our church. Many fine reserve teachers have been ver y helpful at times, includ ing our " Bap­t ist Herald" editors, the late Rev. A. P. Mihm and the Rev. M. L. Leuschner , and our pastor, t he Rev. Theo. W. Dons. We owe much to all these men for the growth of our class. We must a lso recognize the untiring labors spen,t by the class officers thr ough these years.

The name, "Baraca," was recently chosen for the class. This means "blessing," derived from the thought expressed in 2. Chronicles 20 :26. The Baraca-Philathea Union is an inter­national organization which in July will celebrate its Golden Jubilee. The class did not apply for a charter in this organization until last year. Ob­taining membership h as proven to be of practical assistance. We can recom­mend a ffiliat ion to other classes.

Our devotional a nd Bible study peri­od is at 9 o'clock each Sunday morn­ing throughout the year. Our class has its own program with singing, spe­cial number s, notices, scrip ture, pray­ers and teaching. F or a few year s we disbanded during t he summer months, but we found that it was essential to keep the class active the year around. Our average attendance during the past summer months was better than thirty men per SUJ!.lday.

A monthly meeting on the second Tuesday of each month is a part of the class program. Generally these meet­ing have been solely for t he benefit of members. At fi rst, we met in the homes of members, but the group became too large for the average home. Some meetings were then held in our ch~rch, and later for two year s we enJoyed the ' facilities available at the Oak Park Y. M. C. A. The monthly meet-

ing program is of variable JJature. Our annual banquet takes place in October, and the annual outing in J une or late September. Speakers of prominence and other educational or entertaining features have been arranged for the othet· n ights.

A routine that is not varied soon loses the interest and attendance that arc essential to class activities. There­fore, the class made a change during the past year and arranged several meetings that were open to r elatives and friends of class members, our church members and the public. These meetings were followed by a socia l time, with cake and coffee served. T he moving pictures, which were taken in the Danubian lands by Mr. Leuschner, our young pe?ple's secretar y, were s~own one evemng. On other evenings, p1ct~res of Getmany, Swit zerland, the P acific I slands, the South China Boat I\•Iission, a nd the nature studies of Sam Campbell wer e shown. The peak at­tend_ance _was 375. We anticipate a movmg picture lecture about th H 1 Land in t he near future. e

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. The men have supported our finan-cial program . very loyally . Month! dues are r eceived on the fi t S Y f h th r s wi.day

o eac mon exce t" J and August, af'ter th~ :~g une, J~ly, has been r eceived D e~ular offcrmg year more than $aoo uring the past A portion of each S;ere contri!:mte?. given to the Sund day offering 1s

ay School h" h · the las t year exceed d $ , w 1c m socials and outil\gs e 120. Banquets, self-supporting 1 a 7e planned to be

, eav1ng our funds

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available for worth while assis tance. In addition to contributions toward our church debt, Christmas fund, needy families, mission work and institution s flowers are sent to s ick members, 0 ;

members of their immediate family who may be in a hospital.

Occas ionally, a contest is arranged to increase membership and deepen in­terest. While contests are a stimulan;t we must concede that the durable bene~ fits a r e negligible. S till, we intend to have cont ests in the future, b ecau se we recognize the temporar y advantages and appreciate that even a very small gain is better than the loss that might result if we had no contest to stimu­la te the interest.

To those men and classes who have not enjoyed the progress, development and activities outlined h er ewith , we give t his brief summary as a possible encouragement. We do, however, i·ec ­ognize that the surface of t h e possibili­t ies has bar ely been ~cratched. Our attendance should. easily b e doubled. We wish to acquire a more suitable class r oom (we now u se the church auditorium)' wher e our program a nd appointments can be bette~ arran ged. We should have a gro~p w~ich, at least once each month, will brmg a littl cheer to those confined to 01? People•: or Children's homes, h ospitals and ja ils. A devoted and self-sac1ificing group of men is needed to carry on th work we are doing and should be d e ing. By the grace of G~d. we_ hope ~~ grow in knowledge, sp1nt, inftuell<!e and numbers.

ROLAND ROSS, President.

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B. Y. P. U. TOPICS (Continued from Page 48)

1. A Restful Place Again and a gain we hear someone

say, " I wish I could go to some quiet place where I would not be disturbed by a ll this hectic rush, din and st rain." We can only imagine what such a rest­ful , quiet place meant to Chris t, away from t he busy capita l, away from the hatred a nd bitter ness of his enemies , a lone with his friends. Chris t did not have m uch of comfort a nd ease. Usu­a lly, he was so busy min is tering to others t hat h e ba r ely found time to eat and s leep. In order to gain the necessa ry si lence, so essential for med­itation, he had to seek some quiet mounta in t op or cove a long the Gali­lean lake. Many a night, after a busy day, he only found a stone for his pi l­low, and now in the mos t t rying days of his ministry his Father provided him with kind and loving friends and a sheltering home, where he could with­draw after the most t rying situations.

Take ruch experiences a s the cleans­ing of the t emple and t he Day of Ques­tioning . (Ma r k 12.) Such experiences drain every r eser ve power one possess­es. How grateful a nd ha ppy he mus t have fe lt to Mary and Martha for t heir invit ing a nd comfo rta ble home. In­deed, !Jhis place had become so dear to him, so that it is no wonder that we read in Luke 24: 50 that the ascens ion took place in the neighborhood of Bethany. (If you can g-e t a copy of Siemiradski's picture, "Chris t With Mary and Martha," you will contribute greatly towa rd <the meeting.)

2. Heart to Heart Talks Surely, mos t of his disciples met

with Mary and Martha here in this quiet nook and listened to the many things J cs us had to tell Lhem. Many of t he things recorded in the several chapters in J ohn 13 to 17 might have been referred to during the quiet eve-

nings here. It is natural that J es us would take this oppor tunity to clarify and ins truct his friends after some of the t rying and vexing days in the capi­tal. T hat Mary was more inclined to t he spiritual things t han Martha is qui te obvious. She was devoted to her Master and, perhaps, even accompa­nied him on his daily journeys to J eru­salem.

3. Sacredness of Service Let us not make the common mis­

take in t his connection in discounting service. No one less than the Master dignified labor and he himself was the bus iest man in that g roup. There is a defini te dignity and sacr edness to labor that we mus t rig htly recognize. That Chris t needed such service after his busy days in the city is withou t doubt. Marlha was one of those sweet woman­ly characters who was deeply interest­ed in t he material needs and comfort of her precious g uest and fri end. There was a defi nite pla ce for that, but Mar­tha did not discern rig htly, for she did not know when to s top. Not ice your own home and p reoccupation when you have dear friend s or d istinguished guests vis iting. Natur a lly, you want to make them com:ortable and to feel at home, but notice how often the host or hos tess is so fatigued before t he guest comes 01· is so preoccupied with t he material thing-s that one gets li ltlc bC?ncfit, out of a vis it.

4. Choosing the Best A fri end once made it h is bus iness

to ask all good Chris tians to defin e t he term, "spiri tuality." To his amaze­ment very few could answer. Good­speed in his trans la tion of 1. Cor. 2: 15 gives a very excellen t definition: "The spiritua l man is a live to all true val­ues." ls not this the problem that Martha and l\Iary faced, to evalua te t,hings according to their wort h? That is also your problem and mine. A South African f arme1· used to t hrow

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stones , lying near his door, at the chickens in the vegetable garden only to have someone come a long and dis­cover that they were d iamonds in the roug h. In this world, wher e so ma ny values are only temporary, is it not our responsibility to evaluate things correctly? 1\Iary had this deeper in­sight, and that is what Jesus meant when he said, "Mary hath chosen the good part." In t h is da y, when the mater ial bless ings often crowd out t he spiritual values, blessed is the man who seeks the fe llowship of God's chil­dren a nd the sanctuary to Jiit his eyes un to t he spiritual values, and will take ti me out to s it at the feet of t he Mas­ter to learn more of him and his King­dom!

THE CHILDREN'S HOME (Continued from Page 46)

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For a time decorum a nd quiet are thrown to the winds in the jubilation over the many useful, interes ting and novel gifts. The dining room is in a sta te of good, healthy "Kuddel-Mud­dcl," a s t he children run from one t o the other to "s how you what I got" and

to try on this a nd that a nd findin.g out how a n ew toy works. There is shouting a nd squea ling and dancing about'. hugging a~d k!ss ing and even shcddmg tears of JOY, 1n an ccstacy of overflowing spiri ts. It has to be seen to be appreciated. Sur~ly, those '~ho help to bring about th is happy tm1e would feel high ly repaid fo r their trou­ble and expense could they see with their own eyes what transpires at t his place.

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