SOU lj U RN ORI ÇON MIN1R, 1 HURSDAY, MAY at. 1946
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Earl Downing. Pastor
erican Negro”. At 8 P. M the .
buccalaureatc service for' the
Bible School, 9:45 A M. Classes High School graduates will he
for
all ages; nursery for the given in this church bv the Rev
e n bhil^e v cve,',y Thyrsda> by the SISKIYOU PUBLISHING
Wilkinson, pastor of the Baptist
babies and tiny tots.
CO. lb, Last Main Street, Ashland, Oregon.
Church.
The midweek Bible
Morning Service, 11:00 A. M.
WENDELL LAWRENCE, Editor
Sermon, “We Here Highly Re study and prayer service is each
Thursday evening at 7:30. Dr G
solve”.
• W. Bruce, Minister.
Entered as second-class mall matter In the peat office at Ash-
The Christian Endeavor meet
Uuid Oregon, February 15. 1935, under the act ol Congress
ings and the evening service will
of March 3, 1879.
be dismissed to unite in the High
School Baccaluureute Servfce at
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8:00. P. M. in the Methodist
'X HAT CAN I DO FOR MY COUNTRY?
Church.
Fire - Auto - Theft
As America s youth graduates from the schools and colleges of the
Midweek Service, Wednesday
STANDARD COMPANIES
nation this spring it is gratifying to realize that these young people are 8: .00 P. M.
Gospel Meditations, KMED.
thinking seriously about their world, the world into which they wi
&r
4:00 P. M. Tuesday and Thurs-
now take their places as adults. The following essay was written by day.
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Bud Hagen, a graduating senior of the Saginaw, Michigan high school.
Hagen is a nephew of Mr. and M n| Owen Gragg of Ashland. As long as FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,
SCIENTIST
America’s youth continues to consider national ideals in as strong a
Sunday, May 26, 1946
fashion as indicated by this essay we have no fears for America’s future.
Sunday Morning Service at 11
This essay placed first in the city of Saginaw in an annual contest con o’clock. Subject; SOUL AND
BODY
ducted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
An American soldier stops in his headlong rush toward a Nazi pill
box, shudders, and falls — a German gunner grins. A young sailor,
fresh out of an Albuquerque high school, shuffles into an Iwo dressing
Sunday School at 9:30 A. M.
Wednesday evening meeting,
which includes testimonies of
Christian Science healing, is held
at 8 o’clock.
Reading Room open daily from
2 to 5 P. M. except Sundays and
holidays.
The public is cordially invited
to attend these services, and to
use the Reading Room.
station, staring dully, incredulously, at the shattered stub of his arm.
A veteran marine screams above the shellburst in a Leyte night ant
reaches for his face, but he no longer has a face!
Alarmist, you say, "pessimist, sensationalist.” Well, maybe. "We
should foget all th at,” you m utter . . ."The war’s over; push those
Neighborhood Church
memories aside.”
Congregational
Yes, sure, forget the sordid details of war; the human mind quickly
Comer of Blvd. und Morton
rejects what it doesn’t want to remember. You can forget, but some
Evart P. Borden, Minister
9:45 Sunday School. Classes ofr
cannot. Can the hollow-eyed battle fatigue veteran forget? Can a tight-
lipped mother forget the unutterable anguish of that moment when she all ages.
Morning service 11:00 A. M.
trembling, opened the tdegram, "The War Department regrets to in Dr. Borden will speak on “Gate
way To Happiness.
form - - - your - - son killed in action.”
Pilgrim
Fellowship meets
These men fought because they were called upon to fight, and yet
within them was a certain feeling that what they were doing was right.
When they liberated a long-oppressed village or city there was a sensa
tion of real joy in seeing the people freed. For freedom is the fundamen
tal principle of the American way of life and government.
'X ell, let s see. Freedom of speech. There are no strutting dictators
or brutal secret police to silence an American. We may say what we wish
when we wish. We may denounce and be denounced. We may praise,
we may criticize. We may be wrong in what we say, but it is our un
deniable right to say it.
Through our brief history we have sent reverberations of our free
speech throughout the world. We spoke for just taxation, for freedom
of the seas, for freedom of religion. for"liberty or death.” To the men
who made these statements freedom and liberty were great gifts; gifts
to be won whatever the cost, and guarded jealously. To us, perhaps
freedom is a right. The country owes us liberty, we say; but that is not
true.
Freedom of speech and of the press and of religion and all the rest
are priceless possessions — they are not abstract ideals or out-dated
ideas written on a scrap of paper in the Library of Congress; they are
vital, live, throbbing things — things to be respected to be kept alive
to be practiced!
We must take these freedoms now as in the bleak days of World
War II and use them, for only through use will they be kept free from
the rust of degradation, abuse, and misuse. We must hold up the princi
ples of that scrap of paper in Washington before the world, and loud
ly proclaim that we in a free America intend to make this great de
mocracy function and work through them, and that we intend to ex
pand these ideals from our shores to all the people of the world who
want to receive them and live in a free society.
Our American ancestors fought for their freedoms — fought in the
streets of Boston, off the shores of Tripoli, in the dust of San Juan Hill;
fought on the bitter fields of Gettysburg, in the much of the Argonne,
yes, and through the horrible, screaming nights of El Alamein, Sicily,
Normandy, Aachen, Leyte, Okinawa, and Iwo. The men of these wars
who fought and returned or fought and died where they fought left
us a wonderful heritage.
What can I do ior my country? No, what MUST I do for my coun
try? I must remember the kid on Iwo, the marine on Leyte, the white-
lipped mother, and all the rst who bled, died and suffered for my coun
try.
I must take up a great document called the Bill of Rights and read it
and then reread it, and then I must take the ideas and ideals of that
document out and I must practice them. I must preserve them and de
fend them. I must keep them alive and by keeping them alive, keep
this mighty country alive, healthy and strong.
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The Sunday School meets at
9:45 each Sunday morning. There
is to be a Daily Vacation Bible
School for Beginners, Primaries
and Juniors, June 3 to 10. The
morning sermon is at 11 o’clock.
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This is a Memorial Service, and
the patriotic organizations of lully 1000 cubic feet or a room
Ashland are to be the guests of 10x10x10 feet.
honor. The pastor will speak on
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the subject "We Remember”. I
The choir under direction of Mrs.;
Bill Weber with Mrs. Frank Dav- j
is at the organ, will offer special
music. The Junior Church? meets
for worship during the morning
sermon with Mrs. Lucille Mackay
and Mrs. Ida Burns as sponsors. Ashland
Oregon
The Senior and Intermediate Me
thodist Youth Fellowship groups
will have a joint worship service
at 6:45, with Miss Neva West
bringing a message on “The Am
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done, — but don’t forget what these men — loudly welcomed heroes, to attend.
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and men for whom there will be no homecoming — ever — did.
It sounds nice to say that they carried the hope of humanity on
their shoulders, that they were fighting in a just and holy cause, that
they were out to save the world from slavery — you’ve read it all on
the bond drive posters and in the magazine ads. Sounds great, but how
about it? Those fellows didn t leave school and jobs to go forth with
the light of a mighty and inspiring ideal shining in their eyes. They got
out and did it because there was a foul, nasty, reeking, mess to clean
up and they were called upon to clean it up. They were there because
they had to be, and the K-rations and the blackouts and the fox-holes
and the shellbursts and the stench of death were part of the job.
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