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Page 6-Friday, September 1, 1972-The Express, Lock Haven, Pa. 'Beauty helps us be Fattman OLE BULL CHAPEL DEDICATED Twenty- five guests attended the private dedication of the Ole Bull chapel at Carter Camp, in Potter County, on Sunday. August 20. Miss Inez Bull has built the miniature chapel in memory of 800 Norwegian colonists settled in America by her forebear, the famous violinist. Ole Bull.

(Museum CAKTEH CAMP A former Kenovo pastor, in dedication of the Ole Bull Museum chapel on Sunday. August 20. spoke in appreciation of the beauties of the Pennsylvania hills. The Hev. Nelson G.

Fattman. former pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Kenovo. now minister of Evaline Lutheran Church, in Pittsburgh, returned to familiar Potter County scenes, fresh from a visit to the British Columbia ice fields, and travels on the Alaskian Highway. "It is a real pleasure to drive through this Pennsylvania i area, a land so fresh and filled with truly scenic hills, fields, and streams." he said in the dedication sermon. "Most people with a sense of beauty and Divine Creation will say that the world is a lovely place, unless man's carelessness, thoughtlessness, or maliciousness spoil some of ils God-given beauty.

"The beauty of nature helps us to be grateful to the Almighty Creator and respectful of His Power and Glorv anywhere. Laws of conduct (Editor's note: This column is written by a retired United Methodist minister and former District Superintendent. now living in Woolrich. i WOOLHICII There is the story of the person listening to his minister preaching a sweet sermon He said. "You tell 'em.

Preacher." Bill when the minister began to bear down on the faults of this particular man. he said. "Now he's meddling." This aged story slabs us into asking, just how far shall we apply the teachings of Jesus to every-day living' 1 The question is extremely troublesome when we study the Sermon on the Mount. One of the barbed statements is. "Thou shall not commit adulterv Any man who looks upon a woman to lust has already committed adultery in his heart." I sometimes wonder if the advocates of Women's Lib want this law to include them' 1 It says nothing about women looking at men.

Be that as it may. if inward thoughts are as sinful as wrong behavior, we are increasingly in a dangerous society. I once asked a sales manager about advertising our church activities. He said. "There are three words that sum up good publicity.

They are: New. you and sex." In our modern day we are deluged with pictures, advertisements, true to life magazines, scanty clothes, all aimed at new. vou. and sex. One can't avoid being confronted with these stimuli.

A wise man once said: "I can not prevent the birds from flying over my head but I can stop them from making nests in my hair." Sinful thoughts must be forced out of mind by the substitution and acceptance of good ones. This demands a very constant effort on our part to sat- jirate our minds with the power of discipline, and upright behavior. Another principle of life is summed uo in the injunction of the Sermon that we should do good and pray for those who despitefully use us. Part of our world troubles todav come under this law of life, everything from war to wrangling with our next door neighbor who spreads untruths about us. During the course of a month we may hear many public prayers, yet seldom do we hear anyone asking God's mercy on the North Vietnamese.

In connection with this thought is the teaching that if we have anything against a person we should first go and be reconciled with him. and then lav our gifts'on the altar. Does this reach as high as nations and down as low as that person vou are not talking Our world is very different from that of the First Century. We have no definite teaching about a lot of our modern ways of living. But the Golden Rule covers the areas.

What does the Golden Rule say to the reckless driver, or the alcoholic on our highways'. 1 Is speeding a sin' 1 Is taking one for the road contrary to the principles of the good life? There are hard biblical laws of conduct. Is one meddling when one cites them'" "But pollution or destruction by man. that is all too abundant in our land, never inspires anyone to praise." Mr. Fattman told of a sign placed on a once-beautiful stream.

It said. "God made this place look like heaven, man's carelessness had made it look like hell." "Let's all try to diminish the hell on earth of any kind and try to have more of the environment of heaven here among men." he concluded. Mr. Fattman's address was part of the dedication at the Ole Bull museum of a stave church, built in i i a e. There are three such actual churches in the world, he said.

They date back to the llth and 12th century. Miss Inez Bull, great grandniece of Ole Bull, violinist, and founder of a Norwegian colony in Pottery County, has built the Ole Bull chapel as a memorial to those early colonists. The Ole Bull Museum, on Koute 44 at Carter Camps, will be closing on Sunday. Sept. 3 at 8 p.m.

for the winter. Miss Bull savs. Milo wanted flowers at his funeral ESSEX JUNCTION. VT. Milo C.

Reynolds has a mind of his own. about funeral flowers. Says his son, "It made my lather madder than hell every time there was an obit in the paper mentioning 'in lieu of flowers" So. after Mr. Reynolds died at the age of 100.

the family ran this ad in the Burlington. Vt. Free Press: 16. 1871 February 23.1972. MiloC.

Reynolds 30 In lieu of charity it is suggested that friends and enemies send flowers." AGNES MOVED IN ON THEM Scarcely had this class of St. John Lutheran Church in Lock Haven been confirmed, on Pentecost, in early June, than the Agnes flood moved in to wash out records, and news coverages. The 1972 confirmation class at St. John's is belatedly pictured above: Left to right, first row. Joann Marie Simcox.

Mary Diane Klepper. Linda Kay Simcox. Garv L. Fenstamaker, Amy G. Kauf- man: second row, Candace R.

Lee. Tina E. Doriguzzi. Darla C. Yost.

Roblyn D. Gardner. Tamara Ann Deivert, Dana R. Suter: third row. David T.

Derr. John J. Hemsky, Pastor Gibbs Morton, a team teacher: Charles John Harvey. Sheryl L. Smith: Rebecca Ann Hawkins: Barry Folmar.

a team teacher; and Dennis W. Smith. The third team teacher, not pictured, is Mrs. Alice Williams. (Photo by Wolfe) Lutherans lower age for communion instruction St.

Luke's to have congregational meeting, Sept. 10 LOCK HAVEN St. Luke's congregation will have a very important meeting Sunday, September 10. immediately following the worship service at Great Island Presbyterian Church. All members of St.

Luke's United Church of Christ are asked to try to attend this meeting. The Rev. E. Snook is minister. The flood has badly damaged the old church, and decisions are being made about razing it.

Flemington church looks to fall events FLEMINGTON First Church of Christ looks forward to a program on Sunday. Sept. 24. by a group of young people from Eastern Christian College in Bel Air.Md. During the week of October 1622 Flemington congregation will be having a fall revival, with B.

Hall of Watauga, Tenn. as the evangelist. With other churches of the West Branch Valley, Flemington is focusing its mission efforts this month on behalf of the flood- damaged Wilkes-Barre Churches of Christ. LOCK HAVEN The Gospel for Whitsunday or Pentecost in St. John Lutheran Church.

Lock Haven, was John 14, beginning. "Jesus answered him. If a man loves me. he will keep my word, and my Father will love him. and we will come to him and make our home with him." The Scripture was particularly significant to the confirmation class of St.

John church whose members were confirmed, and received first communion that pre-flood day. Pictured on this page is the group that had studied three years with the pastor, the Rev Gibbs Morton. Barry Folmar. and Mrs. Alice Williams, who make up a teacher team at St.

John's, to prepared prospective members for confirmation. As a basis of instruction this large group had studied the small catechism, and the Bible, and from three books entitled "I Believe in God the Father." "I Believe in God the Son." and "I Believe in the Holy Spirit and the Church." Seventh, eighth, and ninth graders in public school, the 1972 class members represent the last in a 50-year procession of such confirmands to be prepared by the program of study they followed. For the first time since about 1913 the traditional church instruction is being changed. Pastor Gibbs Morton of St. John's says the new program that starts in September is a real departure.

"It's going to be difficult for some of the older members to accept." he says. "Lutherans have always had to be confirmed before receiving communion. Starting in September, fifth graders may begin to take communion instruction, before confirmation." Three Lutheran denominations have approved the new program. Mr. Morton says the Lutheran Church in America, the American Lutheran Church, and the Lutheran Church of the Missouri Synod.

St. John's is an LCA church, as are most of the Lutherans in this vicinity. The new program of preparation for communion starting at fifth grade level, the instruction toward confirmation, beginning at 9th grade will require special permission from church council, parents, and pastor, as it concerns the Heifer Project booms; started small in '52 St. John's church council had prepared for them a written examination which the 1972 class members had passed, as a climax of their meetings once a week on Sundavs. for an hour and a half.

September through Mav. LITTLE ROCK. Ark. Heifer Project International, an agency specializing in livestock development, has announced that 1971 was "its best year ever." It made 108 major animal shipments to 21 countries around the world, and to Appalachia. Mississippi and four Indian reservations in the U.S.

The agency, based here, said shipments included 1.148 cattle. CHURCH HUMOR 350 goats. 50 sheep. 274 pigs. 211 rabbits.

12.708 chickens, ducks and turkeys, five horses and 11 queen bees. The program has grown from $50,000 in 1952 to more than $1,000,000 annually. (Churches of Clinton County, and the Rev. LeRoy M. Kutz.

then pastor of St. Luke's in Lock Haven, were among the early supporters of the Heifer Project. Some of the first animals sent abroad went from Clinton Countv farms.) younger group. Mr. Morton says.

The chief difference will be that a young Lutheran will now be able to receive communion at a younger age. although still not able to vote as a church member until after confirmation. Methodists give Mexico's women rights MEXICO CITY Methodists of Mecico have set out on a new course. A recent General Conference of the autonomous Methodist Church took these and other actions: were given equal ministerial rights with men. A single order for the ministry, that of elder, was voted.

The office of deacon was created for lay persons in special church tasks. Lay persons were authorized to conduct all church ceremonies except sacraments (baptism and communion i. including weddings. The church in Mexico has added folk values and customs to the liturgy for example, such celebrations as dedication of a home or car. Nitty-gritty September study for seminarians "Hide the cigarets! He unmarked may be a priest in an collar!" LANCASTER Lancaster Theological Seminary will begin its 148th year next week.

The year will open with the September Programs, three different month-long seminars for each of the three classes in the Master of Divinity degree program. This is an unusual educational feature at Lancaster. Twenty-seven members of the senior class and 14 wives of senior students will participate in a September Seminar Abroad, leaving Sept. 1 to study the religious situation in England and Scotland. In a new phase of the Church and Culture program, the first- year class will spend one week.

Sept. 24-30. studying "The Social Realities of Lancaster." Seminarians will live in the homes of residents of Lancaster's Seventh Ward. The objectives of their experience, according to its coordinator. Dr.

Loyde H. Hartley, are "to 'live in' with black, white, and Spanish families and experience what they think, feel, and do about city government, ghetto community life, government programs, and each other." Lancaster Theological Seminary is a graduate professional school founded in 1825 by the German Reformed Church of the United States. It is now affiliated with the United Church of Christ, a two- million member Protestant denomination. Dr. D.

Glasse is president. Teacher training workshop set for Sept. AGNES CANCELLED THEM The Schield Sisters of Milligan College, an attractive singing group, had planned to give a repeat concert in June at the Mill Hall Church of Christ. The trio had appeared at Mill Hall two years previously, and had been invited to return. Their concert was a summer flood casualty of Hurricane Agnes.

LOCK HAVEN Larry M. Allen, church growth consultant from the Christian Standard, Cincinnati, Ohio, will conduct workshops and teacher training sessions at a Christian Education clinic slated for Sept. 12 and 13. The clinic will be held two evenings. Monday and Tuesday at in the Newberry Church of Christ.

West Branch church members are invited to attend. Illustrated BIBL6 L6SSOn The Bible in a Changing World Scripture Isaiah John 8:12, By Alfrtd J. Bucichtr Pick Up WHEN MOSES died, Joshua was called by God to lead His rebellious people into the land of Canaan. Joshua IN A DREAM God promised Joshua His presence and support so long as he was obedient to Him. Joshua MAN IS LIKE grass and flowers that wither and die, but God's powerful, vital, relevant Word remains.

Isaiah JESUS, the Word Incarnate, brings light and life to those in spiritual darkness. John 8:12. GOLDEN TEXT: Isaiah 40:8. I The Gallon Pak 89' i.