The Republican journal., 1922-10-19

this service.
THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev.
George c. Sauer, pastor; residence, Is
Cedar. Telephone i23-il.
The appointed services of this church
.siIl be held at TO- IS and 7.30 on Sunday
with Bible school at IL o'clock, and Chris
tan Endeavor Society at 6.30. The mid
week service Thursday evening at 7.30.
The pastors Sunday morning sermon
will have for its theme: THE Preachers
Best Sermon" This is the first Of short
series on sThe Preacher at his Best." !"
Other themes are as follows: The
Preachers Best Congregation" The
Preachers Best Example" 1.-The Preach
er's Best Helper" THE Preachers Best
Reward"
A large chorus choir and orchestra as
sists at the evening services Of this
church. The public is cordially invited.
"The Measuring of Stewardship is the
theme of the mid-week services during
October. The churches of our faith and
order are reviewing their obligation in
stewardship, which is based on deep
spiritual principles, takes into account
the strongest instincts in human nature,
and has the Bible for its authority. When
we gave ourselves to Christ and the
church we made a complete surrender.
Stew ardship aims to make this surrender
practical and carry it into every sphere
of life.
The appointments for the present week
are numerous indicating the many sid
edness Of the work of the church: Mon
day evening, Social and indoor circus by
the younger boys and girls of the church
under the direction of Mr. Sauer and
helpers; Tuesday evening, committee
meeting, IS Cedar St; wednesday even
ing, Choir Rehearsal at the yestry; or
chestra rehearsal with Robert Holt Main
street; Thursday evening, Camp FIre
Girls; at 730 mid-week service IN the
vestry; Friday evening, Older Boys
meeting with their parents and fEaends
in the vestry, George II. Robertson,
leader; Saturday, Hike and Second Class
tests for Boy Scouts, Troop ~.
/ A date the boys will remember, Dec. /,
2 and 5. the State Boys Conference at
1000 boys expected
THE FEDERATED CHURCH, Rev. W.
F. Skerrye, minister; residence 20 High
street; telephone, 86-4. Please do not
fail to telephone the minister Of any case
of illness or distress where his service
may be helpful. Sunday morning service
at 10. As; sermon topic, knowing and Do
ing: A Difficult Reconciliation A cor
dial invitation is extended to all here
let no man be stranger. "Whosoever thou
art that enterest this church, leave it not
without a prayer for thyself, for him who
ministers, and for those who worship
here" Sunday school Immediately after
the morning service. GAS the twig is
bent. so is the tree inclined. Ali the
philosophy of child training is contained
/ in that terse statement The purpose OF
/ the Sunday school is to train the child in
those thoughts and feelings that make
upright and seryiceable manhood and
I womanhood. OF this training no child
should be deprived.
This is the football season in our coll
leees. Thousands of young men have
set their hearts on winning the right to
wear their college letter. To do this they
must endure much. 1t is required of them
that they turn their backs on the pleas
ant enticemeuts of friendship; against
the aiIurements of social life they are re-
Quired to set their faces sternly. They
are to give over their wonted freedom
and follow a regimen fixed and unrelent-
ing. They must dole out their hours as
miser his gold. On the field they must
endure bruises. pains, wounds and dIsio-
oations. For days at time many an in
dividual will be under the anxious care OF
physicians and nurses. Some will be
crippled for weeks. But all this sacrifice
of pleasure, this endurance of hardship,
appear to them of little moment in view
Of the end for which they strive. The
prize they have set before them makes
all their hurts seem, by comparison, triv-
ial They are part of the game, to be ac-
cepted with a smile or dismissed with
shrug; and when a man ha won his COW
eted letter, he accounts the severity OF
his training as but fair price to pay for
that which he has gained.
1t is much SO with life Every life has
its burdens and disabilities. How they
shall be seen and interpreted depends on
the end one has in view. II there waits
before him no shining goal the light from
which illuminates his path, if all has fad
ed into the light of common day, his life
may well seem to him a hopeless and
helpless mystery. But re who sees life
to be a beautiful process of growth to-
ward divine and eternal end, will ac-
cept it's disappointments and sorrows not
as griefs, but as heavenly reminders of
the coming day of fulfilment. 1t was SO
that the Apostle Paul saw life. 1t was in
this view that be explained the sacrifice
and suffering of Jesus. "Who for the Joy
that was set before him endured the
Cross, despising the shame"
"If | stoop
Into dark, tremendous sea OF cloud,
1t is but for time; press Gods lamp
Close to my breast its splendor, soon or
Wsn 1t-~o. 1ioor1f ehan arnerue