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nThese all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims of the earth"
Heb. 11:13
"STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS"
To an open house in the evening, Home shall men come ,
'l'o th9 place where God was homeless And all men are at home.
According to rules of preachin~ one not supposed to end sermon with ·poe ry. To begin With poetry is unpardonable. But at Bethlehem where God in Christ was homeless, all men find themselves at home. Christmas time for homecoming. How anxiously you await the homecoming of loved ones; and how anxious they are to get home.
Love of home is planted deep in heart. And the theme of homecoming is familiar in literature - familiar because a part of the human experience itself. Part of life.
Exile - Familiar In strange lands hearts Theme turn toward home. Some
where, there is for most peopie, no matter how
far they wander, one place to which in dan-ger and exile their thoughts turn. Home!
Beautiful touch in story of n·aniel - 1
defying the order of Darius the king, Daniel prayed to his ~d as he did aforetime with his windows open toward Jerusalem. ·rhought of home prevailed over threat or death -windows and heart open toward his home.
Tender story of Huth. Going with her mother-in-law from Moab to Bethlehem. Remember those deathless words - "Whi t her t hou go est I will go. • " Homesick of course.
By the rivers of Babylon There we sat down;
Yea, we wept When we remembered Zion.
We hanged our harps upon the willows In the midst thereof -
How shall we sing the Lord's song In a strange land?
Oh~ to be in England · Now that April's here -
· Brom i ng
Be it granted to me to behold you again in dying,
Hills of home: St evenson
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Then, that poignant lyric which is the brief and final expression of a homesickness that wrings tears from heart. In these lines we hear the plaintive moaning of the exile longing for home. Listen! I suspect that most of us at some time or other, have sat by the rivera of Babylon -song has been silenced and laughter stifled with the ache or manory - memory of home.
Indeed a familiar theme. One of oldest poems, the "Odyssey" is the deathless story of a journey home. And Robert Brownin in the Italy he loved can feel the stab of homesickness on a bright spring morning. Sees all the tender things that pull a man homeward. And Robert Louis Stevenson, exiled by sickness in South Sea island cries out for the "Hills of home". And Masefield will take himself "down t o t he sea again".
Yes, a familiar feeling - a familiar sickness this homesickness. Perhaps .Jesus knew its pangs. Said you remember, "Foxes have holes and birds have nests but Son of Man. hath not where to lay His head". Perhaps behind those words was the wistful mem· ory of thirty years in Nazareth.
We Pursue the Impossible
We are all strangers and pilgrims on the earth. We are exiles longing for our home. Text speaks of the
impossibilty of that longing. They sought a country but died with hopes unfulfilled. They did not arrive although they saw the gleaming ba.ttlements on far horizon. This is more than poetry - part of life's prose. We are strangers and pilgrims and do not arrive. We pursue an impossibility.
·rhinking of a fairy tale in connection with this themce. "Sleeping Beaut y". After many adventur1es in enchanted forest, the
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Prince awakens the Sleeping Beauty with a kiss. The vision is reduced to flesh and blood ; the pursuit ends w1 th the wedding bells; and imagination is swallowed up in reality. That's my quarrel with fairy tale. Take away the tinsel and they nothing more than success stories - heroes are gogetters in fancy dress. "Lived happily ever aft er". That's the formula. Gives idea that having wooed and won the princess, he could now go on and do something else. But marital love never grows on sense of possession - still must contain the element of pursuit - the element of the impossible. Unless marriage is a hopeless courtship it will never survive. Pursue t .ba impossible.
True of poetry . Poet pursues the impossible. 'l'he poem he gets down on paper is never the poem he has in his soul. However cunningly he casts his net of words, something always slips th~ough - for art is like love, the quest of the impossible. Let the artist become satisfied, then will he become blind to all beauty but his own.
It is the glory and torment of life that we must forever pursue the impossible. We never arrive - strangers and pilgrims. ln the matter of spiritual and personality growth the same law obtains. The injunction is "Be ye perf ect even as your fat her in· heaven is perfect " . Makes no concessions. It insists on the impossible. Fundamentally nothing less would satisfy. We dare not be satisf.ied with anything less than the unatta.imable. We conceive of a beauty and of a holiness beyond our· grasp - we recognise our spiritual home but we never arrive. We are strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Ever on the march - ·ever en route. Unless we were there could be no spiritual growth.
Ever insurgent let me be, Make me more daring than devout;
From sleek contentment keep me free, And fill me with a buoyant doubt.
Open my ears to music; let
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Me thrill with Spring's first flutes and drums;
.t!ut let me never dare forget 'fhe bitter ballads of the slums •
.!!'rom compromise and things half-done, Keep me, with stern and stubborn pride;
And when, at last, the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied.
Unt ermeyer
Shall We Ever Arrive?
"Strangers and pilgrims on the earth". We agree with you - there is a sense of frustration to life - the
element of impossibility; we never arrive. But thank goodness we shall find stability and security and permanence on the other side. Some day we shall arrive.
Let me ask what you think heaven will be like. Drift aroundawhile then expect to find myself in lovely country. Flowers. Charming houses and charming people. Easy chairs. Eating celestial fooo. Nothing to do all day long. That can never be heaven. That's stagnation. That's the end of all creativity. Bored to death in a week. No adventure. That's not life -mere existence. Not heaven for me - might be hell.
I believe the same element of pilgrimage, of travel will operate in heaven. Must be continuance of struggle; discipline and some suffering. There can be no growth unless these elements be present. Whatever and wherever heaven is, it surely can never be a place of inactivity and stagnation. If it is, then we shall be left eternallY with our imperfection and mediocrity.
You take away so much from us. "In my Fat her's House are many mansions". May be a clue in that v.urd "mansions" - Greek for "Hostels" - mansiones. A hostel is a temporary stopping place for the night. Resting place for pilgrims. On the morrow the pilgrimage will be continued. Symbol of heaven is not a street of gpld but a white road stretching into endless blue of ~emnil distance.
"Strangers and p ilgrims". They never arrived. But then, there's always more joy in traveling than in arriving • . It's fun to live that way. Appropriate to close with lines by Louis untermeyer.
"Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodge~t 1 will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and they god my God"
"in tears amid the alien corn" Wordswort h
The Old, The · 1fleiv At the change of the year I come- to Thee, our Father in Christ.
This, 0 Lord, I do confess and regret .That I spent so little time with Thee in prayer, That I did not meditate day and night on Thy Word, That my obedience frequently was reluctant, That my will was not always ready to yield to Thine, That my service of Thee was not more fully in the spirit of
my Lord and Savior.
In Thy mercy I beseech Thee, Blot out all my transgressions, Remember not, 0 Lord, my sin.
Accept the thanksgiving of my heart, For the goodness and mercy which followed me through
the past year, For the gift of grace which enabled me to serve Thee,
though only feebly, For health, for peace, for every blessing bestowed on me
and those near and dear to me, For Thy fatherly protection and providence from day to
day.
We turn our eyes, 0 Father, to the unknown days of the year that lies ahead and pray Thee Be our sure defense against every evil that may lure or
assail us, Be our source of comfort in days that may be hard, our
source of strength to meet the duties and the problems of the day,
Be our constant guide and give us grace each day and hour to follow only Thee,
Uphold us, sustain us, that whether we live or die we may be always Thine.
To Thee, 0 God, be glory and dominion for ever.
A.P.H. No. 6125
Year's Beginning - Year's £nd
FREMONT STREET METHODIST CHURCH Gloversville, New York Fred Clarke, Minister
1~rjorie Gensemer Minister of Music
Grace L. Gifford Church Secretary
Lewis Cunning, Sexton
ORDER OF WORSHIP - LAST SUNDAY OF Tl-ffi ·oLD YEAR
(With music of Johann Sebastian Bach)
ORGAN PRELUDE - "The Old Year Is Passing" INTROIT - "Grant me true courage, Lord" INVOCATION - By the minister
Bach Bach
HYMN 119 - "Brightest and best of the sons of the morn-ing" Morning Star
SURSUM CORDA: Minister:
People: Minister:
The Lord be with you. And with thy spirit. Lift up your hearts.
People: Minister:
People:
We lift them up unto the Lord. Let us give thanks unto the Lord. It is meet and right so to do.
DOXOLOGY ~ro-De sung by all
* RESPONSIVE READING- 52nd Sunday .• Page 621 GLORIA P.i'cTRI - To be sung by all APOS]LES 1 CREED - To be said by all SCRIPT~~E LESSON - Epistle to the Hebrews ll:l-14 1'-HTHEM - "Jesu , Joy of Man 's Desiring" PASTORAL PRL.YER :: LORD'S PRJ.YER ORGAN OFFERTORY - "Air" from "Suite in D11
HYMN 538 - "Sing to the great Jehovah's praise"
SERMON - "STRJ.NGERS l.HD PILGRIMS"
Bach
Bach Evan
gelist
HYMN 532 - Hark, hark, my soul" BENEDICTION :: CHORJ-..L AMEN
Pilgrims
ORGLN POSTLUDE - "Prelude in 1'- Minor" * Interval for Ushering
Bach
10:30
10:30 11:00 11:55 6:06
7:30
DECEHBER 29, 1946 - CJ.LENDAR FOR TODAY
Morning Worship; sermon, 11 Strangers and Pilgrims". Anthem by The Fremont Choir. Program of music by Johann Sebastian Bach. Church-time Nursery · for small children. Primary and Junior Church. Church School with classes for all age groups. Youth Fellowship. Carol singing at the hospital followed by fellowship hour at the home of 1~. and 1trs. Fred Fea r and Miss Gensemer. College youth home for the vacation cordially invited. Union Evening Service at Trinity Episcopal Church with the Rev. Fred Clarke preaching.
Altar flowers today are given by the Laurel Band
THROUGH THE WEEK AT FREMONT
MOND..h.Y WEDNESDAY
7:30 The Boy Scouts will meet at the church. NEW YF.AR 'S DAY VVEDNESDA.Y
THURSDJ'-Y
God 1 s bless~ng on you and yours.
8:00 The Winning Six Class will meet at the home of 1trs. Katherine Kalil, 2? Spruce Street.
THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC Fremont Choir - Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
Chapel Choir -Friday, 3:30p.m. Carol. Choir - Sc.turday, 9:30a.m.
NEXT SUNDAY The Sacrament of Holy Commun~on w~ll be observed next Sunday as a spiritual aid in facing the New Year. New members will also be received at this time. Let us be present to make this a memorable occasion.
CANDLES FOR EUROPE The Youth Fellowship will make a Candle Collection next Sunday in behalf of the homes in Europe without light. Bring your Christmas Candle stubs to church next Sunday; receptacles will be placed in the hallways for them.
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Steward OF THE
Good News
"They that were
scattered abroad
w ent about
preachin!ff"
THE greatest gift entrusted to
the Church is the gospel, the
good news of God's love for men and
of the way of life after the spirit
of Christ. It is a matter of life and
death for our world that men shall
know this. Here-.is the way of life
and peace for each troubled soul of
man. Here is the road, and the only
road to pea~e among nations. The
race today is between Christ and
chaos, and there is little time left.
Who shall bear the message? Ministers and missionaries?
Yes, but it can never be done by these alone. The Church of
Christ is a layman's Church and in it all should be priests
and witnesses. Some are called to give their whole time to
this vocation, as was the case with the Twelve; but all of us
should share in this stewardship. Stephen was a layman,
charged with food distribution: but he was a preacher, too,
"full of grace and power."
Early Christianity was a lay movement. Jesus called
twelve laymen, peasants of Galilee, and sent them out, with
others, two by two to proclaim the gospel of the kingdom.
After Stephen's brave witness, persecution came to the Jeru
salem Church. Then " they that were scattered abroad went
about preaching."
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FREMONT STREET 1vffiTHODIST CHURCH Gloversville, New York Fred Clarke, Minister
Marjorie Gensemer Minister of Music
Grace L. Gifford Church Secretary
Lewis Cunning, Sexton
ORDER OF MORNING WORSHIP
·ORGAN PRELUDE - "Chorale in B Minor" Franck INTROIT - "To God on high be thanks and praise" Decius INVOCATION - By the minister HY:r..IJU 37 - "At thy~ feet, our God a.nd father" St. Asaph Su1tSUM CORDA:
Minister: People:
Minister:
The Lord be with you. And with thy spirit. Lift up your hearts.
People: Minister:
People:
We lift them up unto the Lord. Let us give thanks unto the Lord. It is meet a.nd right so to do.
DOXOLOGY - To be sung by all
* RESPONSIVE READING- 4th Sunday ::Page 567 GLORIA PATRI - To be sung by all APOSTLES' CREED - To be said by a ll
* SCRIPTURE LESSON - 2 Peter 1:16-21, Vatthew 17:1-9 ANTHEM - "Lo, a voice to heaven sounding" Bortnia.nsky
The Fremont and Youth Choirs PASTORAL P~~YER :: LORP'S PRAYER ORGAN OFFERTORY - "Antiphon" ANTHEM - "Sa vi our, like a. shepherd, lead us"
The Carol Choir HYMN 180 - "Breathe on me, Breath of God"
Dupres Sicilian
Melody Trentham
SERMON - ."TRANSFIGURING LIFE" Rev. Rollin J. Shaffer
HYMN 122 - "Stay, master stay BENEDICTION :: CHORAL AMEN ORGAN POSTLUDE - "Allegro" * Interval for Ushering
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upon this heavenly hill" Finla.ndia - No. 73
Mendelssohn
10:30
10:30 Il:OO 11:55 5:30
7:30
JANUARY 26, 1947 - CALENDAR FOR TODAY
Morning Worship; guest preacher, Rev. Rollin J. Shaffer, Shamokin, Pa.. We welcome him heartily. Church-time Nursery for small children. Primary and Junior Church. Church School with classes for a.ll age groups. Youth Fellowship at the home of Joyce a.nd John Fonda, 10 Orchard Street. Leader, John Fonda; "Beyond High School, What?" Youth Council meets. Union Evening Service a.t St. James Lutheran Church. Preacher, the Rev. Arthur v. Allen.
The Altar Flowers today a.re the gift of :rv'lr. a.nd Mrs. Clyde Oberist, married in this church yesterday a.nd to whom we extend our very best wishes.
THROUGH THE V'lEEK AT FREMONT
MON. 6:00 Council of Churches dinner and meeting. ~ Boy Scouts meet in the church.
TUES. 7:45 Board of Trustees meet in the church. 'W'Efi':" 7:35" ;lVeekday School for grades 4, 5 and 6.
7:30 MID-WEF.K SERVICE. Devotional service led "!JY""the m2n2ster. Sound film BARABBAS". Everyone cordially invited. This will be worthwhile
THURS. 6:30 Cordial Class covered dish supper a.t the home of Lincoln Richardson., 11 E. 8th Avenue. Speaker will be John Se lmser. 8:00 Couples Club meets a.t the church. Program of sound movies; refreshments. All young adults a.re invited. Come a.nd bring a friend.
FRI. 11:00 and 1:00 Weekday School; grades 7 to 9.
THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC Fremont a.nd Youth Choirs - Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.
Chapel Choir -Friday, 3:30p.m. Carol Choir -Saturday, 9:30 a.m.
CHRISTll~N ADVOCATE SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE NOW DUE
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TOTAL STEWARDSHIP ((Sell whatsoever thou hast) and come) follow me))
JEsus did not ask all his disciples to sell all they had.
Evidently He wanted this young man for that smaller
group which went with Him in his journeyings. And there
seems to have been more: He was testing his devotion.
The Christian life is a total life. Christ's call is to a su
preme devotion: ''the utmost for the highest.'' The Christian
is to love with all his heart and mind and soul and strength.
In that total devotion he finds the meaning of his life. With
it goes a complete trust which brings courage, peace, and
strength. Men 'are afraid of this, afraid of "too much religion." They
think it means giving up, when it is really getting. They
think it is losi11g life, when it is really finding. They want to
hold something back, some enmity or grudge, some evil
thought or imagining, some wrong practice.
Such total devotion is often described as "putting our all
on the altar," as men of old placed their sacrifices. A better
word is that of Jesus: "Come, follow me." It is not a single
act of consecration but a continuing life, not one holy day
but seven, not one tenth of our income but all our making
and spending. And it takes in our inmost thoughts and con
trolling desires. This is total stewardship and this means
completeness and satisfaction of life: "that my joy may be in
you, and that your joy may be made full."
No.5 February 2 The RICH YOUNG RULER
FREMONT STREET 1~THODIST CHURCH Gloversvill e , New York
Fred Clarke, Minister Marjorie Gensemer Minister of Music
Grace L. Gifford Church Secretary
Lewis Cunning, Sexton
ORDER OF MORNING WORSHIP
ORGAN PRELUDE - "Medi ta. tion" INTROI T - "To God on high be INVOCATION - By the minister HYMN 18 - "For the beauty of S URS IDII CORDA :
Stebbins thanks and praise" Dec ius
the earth" Dix
Minister: (omit stanzas 3 and 4)
The Lord be with you. People :
Mini s t er: Peop l e :
Minister: People :
DOXOLOGY - To be
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And with t hy spirit. Lift up your hearts. We lift t hem up unto the Lord. Let us give thanks unto the Lord. It is meet and right so to do.
sung by all
RESPONSIVE READING- 5th Sunday ·• Page 568 GLORIA PATRI - To be sung by a ll APOSTLES' CREED -To be sa id by a ll
* SCRIPTURE LESSON - Mark 14:32-42 CALL TO PRAYER - "Prayer Perfect" Stenson
N orma.n Pugh PASTORAL PRAYER :: LORD'S PRAYER ORGAN OFFERTORY - "Aberys twyth 11 Wh i t ney OFFERTORY ANTHEM - " But t he Lord i s mindf ul" Mende l ssohn
The Fremont. and Youth Choirs HYrv'lN 33 8 - "Jesus, Lover of my soul"
SERMON - "HIGH TIME TO AWAKEN"
HYMN 268 - "Ar e ye a ble ?" BENED ICTION : : CHORAL AMEN ORGAN POS TLUDE - "Pre lude in G Minor" * Inter va l for Ushering
Aberystwyth
Bea con Hill
Ba ch
10:30
10:30 11:00 11:55 6:00 "7:30
FE3RUARY 2, 1947 - CALENDAR FOR TODAY
Morning Worship. Today is Youth Sunday . The minister will be a ssist ed in the service by Donald Richardson and Donald Wilsey. Marilyn Olson will play the organ pos t lude . Fremont and Youth Choirs will s ing . Soloi st, Norman Pugh. Church-time Nurs ery for small children. Primary and Junior Church- · Church School with cla s ses for all a ge groups. Youth Fe llowship . Leader, N~ . Cla r ke . Union Evening Service - First Congregational Church; preacher, Rev. Paul Hydon.
The alta r flowers a r e in loving memory of Charle s Nichols and given by the f amily.
THROUGH THE WEEK AT FREiV~ONT
MON. 7:30 Boy Scouts a t the church. TUES. 8:00 February meeting of the w.s.c.s. Theme :
"Race ·Relations". Speaker, Mrs. · H. E . Blount. Music, r efr eshments . All women invited.
YffiD. 2:30 Weekday School for gr a des 4 , 5 and 6. 7:30 MID-WEEK SERVICE. Devotiona l se!'vi ce led by Mr . Cla rke . Sound film "THE PRODIGAL SON". 8:30 Boa rd of Trustee s meeting .
THURS. 4:00 Church Membership Cla ss. 8:00 Winning Six Cla ss meets a t the home of Mrs. Dona ld Marvin, 145 East Boulevard.
FRI. 11:00 and 1:00 Weekday School; gr ades 7 to 9. 6:30 Annual Winter Eanquet of the Dougla ss Cla ss atthe church. Sound film- "Wings to Ire land".
SAT. 7:30 Youth Fe llowship Sle igh Ride .
THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC Fremont Choir - Tuesday, 7: 30p.m.
Youth Choir - We dne sday, 7:00 p.m. Cha pe l Choir -Friday, 3:30p.m. Carol Choir - Saturday, 9:30 a.m.
Life Is A Stewardship
. EVERY MAN'S WORK
A CALLING FROM GOD
rtJf He shall call thee"
WHEN we think of God calling men there come before us
such figures as Moses and Elijah, Amos and Isaiah, the
Twelve and Paul. Samuel belongs in that class, and it was
a great day for Israel when the boy in the temple heard and answered
God 's call.
But it is a great mistake to think that only the leaders are called of
God, or that the only sacred callings are those of prophet or minister
of the gospel. "Every man's life is a plan of God," said Horace Bush
nell. Jeremy Taylor declared that ploughman, artisan, and merchant
were "in their calling the ministers of the divine providence, and the
stewards of creation, and servants of a great family of God."
To give of our time and means belongs to Christian stewardship,
but Jeremy Taylor was right: every farmer and merchant, every car
penter arid teacher should say, I am a minister of God, a "steward of
creation.'' All honest work done in the sight of God and for the good
of men is a calling from God.
The stewardship of home-making deserves a special word. Think
of what it meant for Samuel to have had Hannah as his mother. Think
of Zacharias and Elizabeth, of Joseph and Mary in Nazareth, of
Monica, mother of Augustine, of Susannah Wesley of Epworth. We
value highly Church and school, but they can never do the work
which falls to the home. There 1s no higher calling of God than that
of home-making.
Cf'HE ~OY SAMUEL
FREMONT STREET METHODIST CHURCH Gloversville, New York Fred Clarke, Minister
Marjorie Gensemer Grace L. Gifford Minister of Music Church Secretary
Lewis Cunning, Sexton
ORDER OF MORNING WORSHIP
ORGAN PRELUDE - "Grave, Adagio" from Second Sana ta Mendelssohn
INTROIT - "Grant me true courage, Lord" INVOCATION - By the minister
Bach
HYMN 382 - "Glorious things of thee are SURSUM CORDA:
spoken" Austria
Minister: People:
Min1ster: People:
Minister: People:
DOXOLOGY - To be
*
The Lord be with you. And with thy spirit. Lift up your hearts. We lift them up unto the Lord. Let us give thanks unto the Lord. It is meet and right so to do.
sung by all
RESPONSIVE READING- 3rd Sunday ::Page 565 . GLORIA PATRI - To be sung by all
APOSTLES 1 CREED - To be said by all
* SCRIPTURE LESSON SOLO - "Great Peace Have They" Rogers
Jean M. Wemple PASTORAL PRAYER :: LORD'S PRAYER ORG...l\N OFFERTORY - "Chorale Improvisation" Karg-Elert OFFERTORY ANTHEM - "Immortal, invisible, God only Wise"
The Fremont Choir Thiman . HYMN 179 - "Spirit of God, descend upon m:y heart" More-
cambe SERMON Dr. Cassius J. Miller, Alban~, New York HYMN 287 - · "A charge to keep I have" Boylston BENEDICTION :: CHORAL AMEN ORGAN POSTLUDE - "Joanna" Penick
10:30
10:30 11:00 11:55 6:00
7:30
MON. WED.
THURS.
FRI.
JANUARY 19, 1947 - CALENDAR FOR TODAY
Morning Worship; guest preacher, Rev. Cassius J Miller, D.D., superintendent of the Albany District. We give him a hearty welcome. Church-time Nursery for small children. Primary and Junior Church. Church School with classes for all age groups. Youth Fellowship. Leader, Ruth Weymouth. Topi "The Christian Ministry as a Vocation". Union Evening Service at North Wain Street ~eth odist Church. Preacher, Rev. A P. Manwell.
Altar flowers are given in loving memory of Dorothy Quackenbush by her family
THROUGH THE WEEK AT FREMONT
7:30 Boy Scouts meet in the church. ~ Weekday School for grades 4, 5 and 6. 6:30 ANNUAL CHURCH SCHOOL MEETING. Covered dis supper will be served by the Muddle Class. All organized classes will make annual reports. Th election of departmental superintendents and ge: era l officers will take place. Religious sound film will be shown. Everyone invited, particul: ly class presidents, offic-ers and teachers • 8:00 Werner Workers will meet with Mrs. Carrie Ho'I'i:len, 58 Union Street. Letter is "W". 11:00 and 1:00 Weekday School; grades 7 to 9.
THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC Fremont and Youtfi Choirs - T·uesday,. 7:30 p.m.
Chapel Choir -Friday, 3:30p.m. Carol Choir - Saturday, 9:30 a.m.
CHRISTIAN aDVOCATE SUBSCRIPTIONS JiliE NOW DUE.
Coming: January 19th to February 12th - four Wednesda; evenings - Special Mid-week Services with Sound Films depicting some of the Parables of Jesus.
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FOR HIS PEOPLE "Go, lead the people"
~Es loved his people. God called him to serve them, and Moses led them out of Egypt into free
dom. Then they sinned and "made them gods of gold ." Moses confesses their sins and asks God's forgiveness: "if not," he adds, "blot me out of thy book." But God said, I do not
want you to die for this people; I want you to live for them. "Go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken
unto thee." There is a stewardship of patriotism. The nation has a part in
God's plan. God works with men in fellowship, or association.
Family, community, nation, each has its divinely given role. There is a stewardship of nations. Israel had a great calling,
but every nation has its distinctive service to render for God. Patriotism may require a man to die for his people; more
often it asks that he live for them. Moses served his nation better because he put God first. His patriotism was not blind
or narrow. He held up great ideals. He criticized andjudged
when necessary. But always he was the people's servant. We need a patriotism that fears God, that reads and thinks,
that goes to the polls, that supports right leaders and calls others to account, that cooperates in joint action, that calls
on the nation to play its true part in world affairs. This is a
part of Christian stewardship
No. 2 Ja nua ry 12
M 0 S E S ~ !!Jfa6UJ/
FREMONT STREET ME THODIST CHURCH Glowersville, New York Fred Clarke, Minister
Marjorie Gensemer Minister of Music
Grace L. Gifford Church Secretary
Lewis Cunning , Sexton
ORDER OF MORNING WORSHIP
ORGAN PRELUDE - "O God, Thou Faithful God" INTROIT - "Grant me true courage , Lord" INVOCATION - By the minister HYMN 381 - "The church's one foundation" SURSUM CORDA:
Minister: People:
Minister:
The Lord be with you. And with thy spirit. Lift up your hearts.
Karg-El ert Bach
Aure lia
People: Minister:
People :
We lift them up unto the Lord. Let us give thanks unto the Lord. 'It is meet and right so to do.
DOXOLOGY - To be sung by all ·
* RESPONSIVE READING- 2nd Sunday ::Page 564 GLORIA PATRI - To be sung by a ll APOS TLES ' CREED -To be said by a ll
* SCRIPTURE LESSON - Reve lation 21:1-6, 10-14, 22-27 ANTHEM - "Love ly Appear" Gounod
The Fremont Choir PASTORAL PRAYER ::LORD'S PRAYER ORGAN OFFERTORY -"Ada gio" Mendelssohn HYMN 175 -"Come, Holy Ghost, our hearts inspire" Win-
chester SERMON - "A WORLD IN CRISIS"
HYiviN 488 - "Hail to the brightnes s of Zion's gla d morn-' BENED ICTION :: CHORAL A11EN ing11 Wesley
ORGAN POSTLUDE - 11 Pr e lude and Fugue in C M:O.jor" Bach * Interval for Ushering
ALL VIS I TORS CORDIJ.,_ LLY WELCOMED
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JANUARY 12, 194 7 - CALENDAR F·C;~ '1'01~ ~:X
Morning Worship; sermon, "A World In Crisis 11• An
them by the Fremont Choir. Church-time Nursery for small children. Church School. All men invited to the Everyman's Class under the leadership of the minister. The Youth Fellowship meets at the church and then leaves for Speculator to meet with the Sacandaga Sub-District Methodist Youth Fellowship. Union Evening Service. This service will be held in the First Presbyterian Church. Preacher will be Dr. Frederick M. Pyke, Me thodist missionary to China and r ecently r eturned to America after 30 months imprisonment in a Japanese prison camp.
Altar flowers are given today by the Berean Class
THROUGH THE WEEK AT FREMONT
MONDAY 7:30 Boy Scouts meet in the church. TUESDAY 6:30 Anna Mosher Group meets at the church for
a-cover ed dish supper. 7:30 Muddle Class meets with Mrs . J ess i e NichOJS: 7 Getman Street. 8:00 E.F.W. Class meets with Miss Sarah Stevens, 15 Littauer Pla ce.
VffiDNESDAY 7:30 Mid-week Servic e . Everyone invited. '~ Weekday School for grades 4, 5 and 6.
THURSDAY 8750 Laure l Band meets at the church with Mrs. Frank Hemenway, Mrs. Florenc e Clancy, btrs. Clarence Slade a nd Mrs. Edith Morley hostesses.
FRIDAY 11:00 and 1:00 Weekday School; grade s 7 to 9.
THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC All choir r ehearsals as usual.
Christian Advocate subscriptions a r e now due.
January 22nd -Annual Meeting of Church School. Cover ed Dish supper. Reports for the year. EJ ::; c t~_cn of offic ers.
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In Elton Trueblood's thoughtful diagnosis of the state of our civilization three points emerge:
( 1) The poison of secularism has entered deeply into modern life.
( 2) Scientific education is no adequate physician. It puts vast power into man's hands but is morally neutral as to the ends for which that power is to be used.
( 3) Ethics affords no adequate remedy. We have magnificent moral ideals like democracy and brotherhood, but they are impotent. Their impotence is due to our trying to maintain them apart from the Christian faith that produced them. Ours is "a cut-flower civilization." Cut flowers may be very beautiful but they do not last long when separated from their sustaining roots.
If this diagnosis is correct, the dynamic center of all our efforts must be to produce men and women of sturdy Christian faith.
ARE there m;1nv homes to-day country wher·e parents cou
cought praying by their cbildren'i these utterances from boys at a n school : .. I don't see \\·hat d.ifl' religion makes. I enjoy life. J sec lhat I am mi~sing anything again: _,I don't see any use fc God icl.ea." Or again: "I don't. what you are talking ::1bout. My ~t!cm Lo have got on very well'\ God. So shall I."
I suppose such replies coul, paraliC'ls in the exp'Crience of youlh-leadPr and minister i1 cou1dry. Lord Bryce \\·as once ·'What clo you think would be the of th_e disappc<Jra.nce of re Nlucation J:rom the schools'?" " answer tha!." he replied. "till general ions have passed." The Generation has now arri\'ed. Re education has not clisapp_eared t lm schools. but a religious upbr has vanished from countless J Moral leaching'.' Or course th gers . But religious teaching? No c.an it he there if the parents ' pray, do not worship. never church. l\Ioralitv is fruit and 1 faith is the root. .. The Oow-er is f some time after it has been s from the root, but it will ce· wither. Tlw roots have now be in many a home. i\Iy fri'end, C Skinner, wrolc si x years ago:-
" Speal(ing genera !ly, the pnre of 'Lhis a-cneration is betravi trust. . _ .The youth of England i. ste:1clily p;~!!nni>ccl by indifferen neglect . Such a cGlamity, I ar vincccl. w~1o nev·cr en,·isaged l parent;; in the clays when thc.v in some awe by the cot of thei born, before spi ritual inertia ~ them. and introduced the disinte: of the forgetfu years." This practicnl ai,bcism i!
supreme enemy to-day. It is r< speculalivc or rca~oned athei~ never answers the Christian c; takes account o( such a book ~ o£ A. E. Taylor, Does God Exist?
}nvoHred tile poliCJJ1tllliCI1 ttas n• become law. tiH?re is nppa-rent express determ ination to make 1 new 1·egime 1t'ork to the comm r.;ood .
The coal-mir inrt industru is vital. concern of eperu home in 1 land. We recognise iwu: sorely has been tried. hOlr di . .l]icult is 1 work . how deep have been 1 divisions in the prrst. and on beh of the 1\llet.hodist Clnn-ch we ass1 ow· bTOtl1ers en(laged. in 1 industry thnt. we 1J1'rl!l confiden t1wt iltis chcmge HW !I be the do o.f a new e?'lt o.f comradeship. operotion ond sen·ice.
R. NE\\'TO:\ FLEW. President EoWIK FJNCH, Secretary.
Memorand~ THE President, who is resting d
Christmas week . begins Lhc Year with a \'isitalion oi the Noliin District, beginning at Long E<~lo Thursday, January 2.
The Vice-Pre::ident of the Confe wiil preach on Stmcla:<, December New Mills (Stockporll.
The following mis,;ionarics hav• ccntly left this country by ~lir-M1 E. Hickman John~on <1nd Dr. Eliz Tohnson. for Sier-ra Leone. and M L. Mead, for Eastern Nigeria.
Tl1c Re\·. A . and Mr.<. Knot.tcnbe' hoping to sail for South Africa o· s.s. CrLnlfl rvon Ca-'t le fl'Om Soutb;u on o·r about Janunn· :l. Their :1c thereafter will be Suillly Co\·c. Fish Cape.
The Re\·. G. Hudson Simpson, c ·Halifax Ebenezer !Vfcthodist Circuit, Presidl'nt-deoirmate of the l-l:a l ifa~ District Christi8n End<';wour UnioJ will be inducted on s~turday, J:wua
Evangeli.o;t H. S ih·crwoocl is now from hospital, and wbhcs all inq1 'riends io lmo-w that he hopes to n
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