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FREEPORT JOURNAL STANDARD Sunday School Lesson PAGE 12 SATURDAY, NOV. 26. 1955 Trinity Church Names Officers Of Sunday School At a Friday evening supper meet- Large Amount Of Soil Is Good ing the congregation Evangelical United of Trinity Brethren Church named Sunday school officers and voted to mnke the church's fiscal vear coincide with the calendar year. This decision! is in keeping with recommendations of the Genera! Conference and the Illinois Conference of the denomination. Sunday school officers are: General superintendent.

Robert Fish- By ROY L. SMITH I When Jesus told the story of the various kinds of soil, and their various receptions of the good seed, it is hardly probable that he expected the main attention would be given to the failure of the rocky ground and the crowded ground. He was, himself, an optimist, and probably took much satisfaction in the fact that the good soil did so well. Timm; second. Vernon Bokemeier; secretary.

Vernon Merrier; assistants, Alvin and Ronald Timm; and treasurer. Mrs. Dexter Witt. They will assume their duties 1. services, profit sharing plans and similar devices into business as have the American employers, and it has been done voluntarily in such a large part.

The good soil in American business is very "deep and very rich. Not AH Hypocrites The oldest, the cheapest and the least defensible accusation levelled against churchmen is that (hey are hypocrites. And, again, it is true that there are those individuals who do not measure up even to their own preaching. But year after year the churches go on serving, lifting, inspiring and holding ideals aloft. The fact that some have not been able to achieve the total of their goals is not evidence of hypocrisy, but of man's inability to keep step with his dreams.

Consider, if you will, the kind of with the police (oftentimes! and American purses are open causes that appeal to the churches Majority Of Teen-agers we were being told that American! boys had gone soft, and that they were no longer capable of standing up under the rigors of a sustained military campaign. But that was not the testimony of the Japanese at Iwo Jima or of the Germans at the Normandy beachhead. The stony-ground prophets were proved to be all wrong. Not All Money Grabbers The American people have been called "money grabbers," "com- Just at the moment the Ameri- merciallv minded," "secular" and can people are greatly disturbed over the increase in juvenile delinquency, and the case is serious, of course. But the occasional youngster who gets into the headburn: first assistant.

Emmcrtjj ines should not blind us to he that tens of thousands never even have a brush with the law. The highest estimate of those "materialistic," and it is a fact that there is all too much evidence to support that charge. At the same time, however, the American people arc giving more money to support social service institutions, charitable enterprises and relief agencies than any other people on earth. Let the news come have had some kind of expert- hat lherc is a faminc atl ywhere li(Vl t( cnftpntimps i relatively innocent adventures) is Another congregational moetingi no more than about a million. This is to be held in January for thei is bad enough, of course.

But the purpose of electing two trustees. ens of nijllions who never see the i inside of a police court except when Brethren Secretary Will Speak Sunday At Church In Lanark everywhere. Then there is that vast army of scout leaders, Sunday school teachers, social workers who serve without pay, committeemen and good equal interest. Rev. W.

Clayton Berkshire of Ashland. Ohio, general secretary of the mission board of the Breihren Church, will at a.m. and 7:30 p.m. services Sunday in First Brethren Church. During the evening worship hour he will show pictures taken on hisi recent tour of Brethren missions' in Nigeria.

Africa. He also visited; Church of the Brethren service) camps in Germany. The speaker is the brother of the pastor of the local church, the Rev. H. Francis Berkshire.

i they go slumming is of equal neig lbors (, 0 make other people's jportance and should be of at least or tunes their business. It is doubtful if there is anything even remotely comparable in any other land. American industrial leaders have been represented as cold, steely, grasping and brutal but no similar body of men anywhere on earth has introduced so many welfare The uniform Sunday school lesson for Nov. 27: "Spread of the Good News," Luke For several vears before the war Area Church News Local Churches Trinity EUB Following a basket supper Sunday evening at 6:30 the congregation of Trinity Evangelical United Brethren Church will elect officers. Guild Circles Circles of First Presbyterian Woman's Guild will meet Monday afternoon at 1:30 in following homes: Circle at Mrs.

N. E. Dexter's, 1523 W. Lincoln 1, with Mrs. H.

H. Stahl, 1567 W. Lincoln 3, Mrs. Frank Wilsey, 1240 W. Lincoln and 4, Mrs.

Arthur Haas, 1230 W. Stephenson St. Methodist Open house will be held Sunday afternoon from 2 to 5 o'clock in Warren Methodist parsonage, and Sunday evening from 7:30 to 9. Brookville Club Helping Hand Sewing Club of Grace Evangelical United Brethren Church, Brookville, has planned to have a basket dinner Harry Bowers rugs, toys, jewelry, plants, homemade candy and baked goods. Buffet luncheon will be served from 12 to 1 o'clock.

From 1 to 4:30 coffee will be served with homemade rolls and doughnuts. Buffet supper is announced for 5 to 7 p.m. for help. They would not do it if the church were altogether made up of stony ground, or land over grown with weeds. There must be a lot of good soil inside the limits of the church or there would not be so many who want to plow in that field.

Let's offer a prayer of thanksgiving for the large amount ol good soil there is in even a bad world. (Copyright, 1955, by the Division ol Christian Education. National Council of the Churches of Christ In the United States of America.) Baptist Church. Committees of the Women's Missionary Society will serve. WMS of First Lutheran Church will have a meeting Dec.

1 at 2 p.m. in the church parlors. Mrs. Howard Palmer and Mrs. J.

H. Fetterolf will be the leaders. On the hostess committee are Mrs. Elver Eisfeller, Miss Ada Hartman Mrs. Kenneth Traum.

as hostess. First Presbyterian J. P. Lockwood will speak Sunday evening at 8 o'clock in the social rooms of First Presbyterian Church on "Dead Sea Scrolls." Color slides will be shown. Westminster Fellowship will meet Sunday at 5 p.m.

in the Hope EUB, Chadwick Couples Club of Hope Evangelical United Brethren Church, Chadwick, will meet Wednesday. "Making Christmas Christian" is the theme of the 8 p. m. meeting Thursday, Dec. 1.

Forreston Grove Mission Sunday will be observed Nov. 27 by Forreston Grove Presbyterian Church, with 10:30 a.m., 2 and 7:30 p.m. meetings in For- High School. Speakers will be: 10:30 a.m. Miss Burness Kampen, missionary on furlough from Africa; 2 p.m.

E. M. Brown and Lester Reemtsma; and 7:30, Mr. Reemtsma. Forreston EUB The motion picture "Wheels Across Africa" will be shown Sunday evening at 7:30 in Forreston Evangelical United Brethren Church.

Two film shorts also will be included on the program: "Do's and Dont's for Dating" and "Going Steady." Meetings At Polo "J'nere will be a youth variety social rooms. Loyal Gassman will! nour at 7 P- Sunday in First present the topic. St. John's A meeting to complete organization of a brotherhood at St. John's Christian Church at Polo, with worship and social periods.

Evangelistic hour is 8 to 9 o'clock. The meeting of the Official Board of First Methodist Church, announced for Nov. 28, has been post- Evangelical and Reformed Church poned to Dec. 5. will be held Sunday afternoon at 3J o'clock in the church parlors.

Offi- WSCS cers will be elected. William Fechter, Harold Meads and Ernest Women's Society of Christian Kracht comprise the committee i Service Winslow Methodist Church, Talk By Chaplain The Rev. Dr. George Laird, chaplain at Dixon State Hospital, will speak Tuesday evening at 7:30 in the Fellowship Room of St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Oregon The meeting, open to the public, has been planned by Unity Club and the Brotherhood.

Dr. Laird's subject is "How the Church Seeks to Care for People in State Institutions." Pecatonica The Rev. Ralph Fry of German Valley will be guest minister Sunday in First Methodist Church, Pecatonica. The pastor, the Rev. William G.

Cooper, will be conducting spiritual life mission services in Chicago. The clothing drive conducted by St. John's Lutheran Church been extended to Dec. 1. has Mount Morris Philathea Class of Mount Mor charge of setting up the organiza-j have its annual Christmasjris Methodist Church will mee.

party in the church parlors Dec.JTuesday at 6 p.m. Executive board 1 at 8 p.m. Sunshine sisters will jot Woman's Society of Christian tion. be revealed igifts. by Embury Methodist "Laymen at Work in the is the subject of the talk to bej Luncheon Bazaar given Sunday morning at Embury! Methodist Church bv Harrv Me- 1 Lanark Methodist Church Phail, superintendent of "public.

nave a baza ar Thursday, Dec. an exchange meets Wednesday at 6:45 p.m Glad Hand Club of Trinity Luth eran Church has scheduled a meet ing for Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m. Circles of Women's Work Coun- Rock City EUB Ladies Loyal Class of Rock City United Brethren Zhurch will have a Christmas party Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.

m. in the church parlors. There will not be an exchange of gifts. Instead, money which would have been spent on the gift will be used to provide a )ARE package. Builders Class has elected the following: President, Arthur Clay vice president, Don Ter Hark; secretary, Mrs.

Francis Tielkemeier; and treasurer, Leo Tielkemeier. The class will have its Christmas party Dec. 13, when share-a-dish supper will be served. chairman of the denomination's board of Christian education. At Milledgeville Women of Milledgeville Church of the Brethren will have a Christmas program Monday at 1:30 p.

m. The theme will be "Keeping Christ in Christmas." Each one who attends is asked to bring something used in the home, or tell about some custom, which will bear out the program theme. Ray Polhill will conduct the sec-! ond session of the Jurisdiction Study Class conducted by Woman's Society of Christian Service of Milledgeville Methodist Church. This session is set for Monday afternoon at 1:30. He also will conduct the third session, announced for Tuesday at 1:30.

Officers of all organizations of Trinity Lutheran Church and its Church Council will have a meeting Dec. 1 at 7:30 p. m. Four Winslow Students Named To Honor Roll For Second Six-Weeks WINSLOW Four students in Winslow High School obtained straight averages during the second six-week period of the fall semester. They are Kay Clikeman, senior; and Gary Boeke, Mark Miller and Jeffrey Smith, freshmen.

Others listed on the honor roll according to classes are: Holmes, Shirley Retzlaff, Lewis Arnold, Corrinne Rabe, and Lee Retzlaff. Juniors Nancy Ferguson, Karen Price, Jean Wahler, Alvin Wire, Ruth Ann Drye, Gary Kahl, Donavon Lee and Karen Wyssbrod. Sophomores Jane Bitz, Marene Keller, Emilie Niemeier, anice Lolling, Carol Schliem, Larry Ocker and Betty Zueger. Wild and Eileen iVii-e. The Girl's Athletic Assn.

of the high school entertained members of he Future Farmers of America at a turkey dinner at the school on Oregon Businessman To Speak Monday For Forreston Group S. Wood, president of Wood Brothers Mfg. of Oregon, will be guest speaker Monday at a 6:30 p.m. dinner in North Grove Evangelical nd Reformed Church for mem- ers of the Forreston Community Club. He sm." The PTA will meet Tuesday at :30 p.m.

at the high school. The Rev. Clayborn Salter, pastor of he St. Paul Baptist Church of 'reeport, will show color slides he took on his recent trip to Egypt and The Holy Land. He will also a commentary on his trip.

A girl's chorus from the church will entertain. Refreshments will be served. Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey N.

Pof- 'enberger will hold open house Sunday at their home in Adeline in celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary. Visitors may cal 'rom 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. C. N. Poffenberger and Minnie At Pearl City H.

W. Richman of Freeport will conduct the 9:30 a. m. service Sunday in First Methodist Church at Pearl City. He is soil conservation- st in Stephenson County.

Miss Mary Lou Bowman, director of children's work for Church of he Brethren in northern Illinois and Wisconsin, will speak Sunday afternoon at a meeting of teachers the Children's Department of Yellow Creek Church of the Brethren, northeast of Pearl City. Each teacher is asked to bring a lunch. The film "The Nursery Child and the Church" will be shown Monday at 7:30 p. m. in Yellow Creek Church.

The Rev. Dr. C. Ernes Davis of Elgin gave a talk Friday evening at the family night gather ing and showed the film "Plain view's Awakening." Dr. Davis is schools.

Fred Jephson anu Martin will assist C. S. Farr in sale of aprons, fancy work.i ha cil, Church of the Brethren, will an a meetjnR jn the church parlors Dec 1, with share- conducting this Laymen's Sunday Rosecrance Home at Rockford on; a djsh nner at noon service. Chancel Choir and Men's un day. The bus will leave the! Chorus will sing under the direc-i cr at 2 p.m.

Persons making tion of Mrs. Ford Zartman, in the'" 16 lri ar to bring absence of Mrs. Harry Andersen, jfresh fruit to share with guests! Charles Smith of Alton, 111., will Youth Fellowship groups will, at both homes. There will be nojbe guest speaker Monday at a din- Mount Carroll groups visit Peek Home at Polo and'regular MYF meetings. 'ner for men in Mount Carroll RENT A FREEPORT SOFTENER Save Your Rent Money In 3 Years You Own It! As Low As $3 10 A Month We Use Dowex Mineral Shepiey-Hayner CORP.

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Faculty members were pecial guests. Several changes in personnel anc ownership of businesses here have seen made this month. Mr. and Mrs. Larry Beck have moved to Freeport.

Beck is now with Crandall Sales Co. in Free sort. They sold their house to Frederick Hastings. New tenants in the former Beck lome are Mr. and Mrs.

Duane Lot; and son, formerly of Lanark. Lotz now an assistant at Gerry's Radio and TV Shop. Gene Pinnow, formerly with local radio shop, is now a co-owne of a new business in Orangeville. Mr. and Mrs.

Milford Gruenberg now are managing Vic's Soda Bar Circuit Court Room At Mount Carroll Completely Remodeled MOUNT CARROLL Complete remodeling of the Circuit Court room in the Carroll County Court louse has been completed. Available records show no major mprovements have been made in the court room since 1870 excep or periodic painting and electric wiring and new fixtures completed a year ago. will speak on "American- Apple River Women Will Meet Tonight APPLE American Legion Auxiliary will meet in Community Hall tonight. Mrs. Harold Dittmar and Mrs.

Frank Calwalke will be co-hostesses. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hoppenjan, farmers north of here, celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary on Thanksgiving Day. They have 11 children.

All were home for the event. Lanark Eastern Star To Install Officers At Monday Meetig LANARK Beltista Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star will hold public installation ceremonies Monday at 8 p.m. in Masonic Temple. Mrs. Carl Klome will be install ing officer.

Mrs. J. L. Hoak will be installing marshal, Mrs. George Hammond, installing chaplain and Mrs.

Glenn Wise, installing organ- st. Escorts will be Carl Klome, dinner and social. There will be a Tack Hoak and George Hammond. CC Circle will meet Friday at 2 p.m. with Mrs.

Cloyd Sturtz for the annual Christmas share-a-dish SO-cent gift exchange. Mrs. William Myrtle Baum hostess. Kniss and Mrs. will assist tha Gef Sef for fhe HOLIDAYS WITH A NEW PERMANENT Machine Permanents $5.00 up jjj Machineless Permanents $6.50 up COLD WAVES: Baroness 7.50 Duchess 10.00 Empress 15.00 Victor 20.00 Victoria Grand Prize 25.00 1905 in Leaf River.

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Douglas Stewart of Sterling, and a son, Emerson of Polo. Mothers Club will meet Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. C. W.

Johnson. Mrs. Don Bartelt will assist the hostess. Gift suggestions will be the answer to roll call. Bridal Shower A bridal shower was held Monday evening for Miss Doris Mae Vietmeier at the home of her aunt, Mrs.

Fred Vietmeier. Co-hostesses were Mrs. Irvin Viemeier and Mrs. Clarence Rademaker, also aunts of the bride-elect. The bride was enthroned in a coronation ceremony, with a pink throne, crown and a rolling-pin scepter.

After bridal games, she had to find her gifts from clues on small pink hearts hanging on a "heart tree." The refreshment table had arrangement of heather and mums. Lena PTA Plans Fun Night Carnival For Saturday, Dec. 3 Fun Night will be held Saturday, Dec. 3, at the high school. There will be a pancake and sausage supper, complete with dessert and beverage.

There will also be a bake sale and gift shop. Other features include comedy movies, travel slides, fish pond, dart games, photographic gallery and a display of hobbies. There will be a program of local talent. Donations for the various booths are being sought. Day Nite Grocery Open 7 Days Till 11 P.

M. Saturday and Sunday Only Ready-To-Eat Picnic Hams Ib 29c 5 P. M. Saturday to 11 P. M.

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