The Minister's Corner
On Vacation from God
By G. Wm. Anderson
Has it ever occured to you
that man is pretty largely on a
vacation from God? It seems
to me that by this time man
would be pretty bored with
himself, having been on vaca
tion so long from his religious
responsibilities. If we stayed
away from our jobs 12 months
a year on vacation it would get
pretty monotonous I am afraid,
yet we neglect our God upon
year, day upon day. Funny
God hasn't fired us all and
taken away our paychecks.
Amazing too that he hasn’t
withheld our wages like Uncle
Sam and the State of Oregon
to the tune of his just ten per
cent. Just a minute, you say,
Mr. Anderson, isn’t that pretty
old fasiiioned in the modern
age? No, I am afraid I must
say that is a very modern con
ception. Man tried it alone for
nearly 2,000 years. Man hasn’t
been too successful in his chos
en vacation from God. God
has not promised us a vacation,
he has given us a vocation,
job to do. God is so just, it
puts us to shame. He appointed
one day in 7 for spiritual rest,
man went a step further and
provided a 1 day working week
giving man one day for rest
and one day for worship, and
generally a mid-summer vaca
tion with pay. God chose to
require ten per cent of our
paycheck for his kingdom, and
man proceeded to go a step
further in this case also in pro
viding withholding taxes for
our social security and insur
ance against loss of pay in un
employment. The only differ
ence being God does not force
us to pay our dues to him.
Suppose you didn’t pay your
union dues, lodge dues, insur
ance policy or your withholding
taxes? Well you would either
lose your union or lodge mem
bership benefits, your insur
ance policy and your job or
your freedom in the latter case.
What a wonderful God we
have, he trusts us to do right
by him. Yet only a small per
centage of church members wor
ship God Sunday by Sunday and
only a small portion of the
population of the U.S. is af
filiated with any religious body
Protestant, Catholic or Jew.
How God must wonder at his
“on our honor” system. Well,
it has been said that everyone
has his day in court. God is
going to have his day. I ima
gine that God’s may be ‘out an
vacation to some of us when
we stand before him in the
judgement. God will be a stem,
judicial personality when we
stand before him if we have
neglected him. Christ will be
arrayed in wrathful righteous
ness to his enemies; those that
aie neither hot nor cold. The
only unpardonable sin that we
will be judged upon is how we
tended to our job while our
master was away. If we in
creased our faith, our good
works we will please him, if
we hardened our hearts against
the H.S. and sinned against
him by our sins of commission
and ommission, we will dis
please him. If you are on va
cation from God, come back
in his service or you stand in
jeopardy of security in eternity.
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Quartet to Come
The quartet of the Northwest
Nazarene college of Napa, Idaho
will be here to perform at the
Nazarene church next Tuesday
evening, August 2, at 7:45. The
singers are traveling under the
name of the Victory Four.
Rev. James Hilliard will also
present an inspirational service
that evening.
Bus on New Route
Continuing Sunday morning, the
Assembly of God Sunday sehool
bus will be in the Treharne dis
trict to pick up children who
desire to attend Sunday school
which convenes at 9:45. This an
nouncement was made by the pas
tor of the Assembly church, Rev.
W. A. McBride.
The bus will return the children
to their homes after each Sunday
school session.
However, this
Sunday an invitation is extended
to all to attend the annual Sun
day school picnic. Any unable to
stay for the picnic will be pro
vided transportation home. The
schedule of the bus is to leave
Treharne shortly after 9:30 in
order to be on time for the open
ing exercises of the Sunday school.
School Picnic Planned
Plans are underway for the
Evangelical U. B. Sunday school
picnic to be held early in Aug
ust. Further details as to date,
place, etc., will be announced at
Sunday school next Sunday.
CHURCH OF GOO
IN CHRIST (Colored)
—Elder J. C. Foster, Minister.
Services every Sunday at 1:30
and 7:30.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
Services on Saturday:
10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school.
11:00 a.m.—Preaching, missionary
programs or Bible study.
EVANGELICAL UNITED
BRETHREN
—Rev. Allen II.
Backer, Minister
9:45 — Sunday
school
11:00—Morning Worship
7:30—Bible Study hour.
7:30 Wednesday—Prayer meeting.
FIRST CHRISTIAN
—G. Wm. Anderson, Pastor
“Where Action Is Predominant”
7:30 p.m. Fri.—WMS.
9.45 a.m. — Church school. M. L.
Herrin, Sup’t.
11:00 a.m.—Moring worship. Ser
mon: “Who Is God?”
7:30 p.m. — Evening praise.
Marshal Crowell, Song leader,
Joyre Jones, Pianist. Sermon:
“Christian Witness".
Wed. Eve. — Church night dinner.
FIRST BAPTIST
969 Bridge St.
The Church with a Bible Message
—Thomas J. Kilcoyne, Pastor
10:00 a.m.—Sunday School.
11:00 a.m.—Morning worship.
6:45 p.m. — B.T.U.
7:45 p.m. — Evening worship.
7:30 p.m. Wed.—Prayer service
ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC
—Rev. Anthony V. Gerace
—Rev. J. H. Goodrich
There’ll be only one Mass at 8:30
at St. Mary's Catholic church
until further notice.
LATTER DAY SAINTS
Sunday school convenes at 10 a.m.
at 925 Rose Ave. under the
direction ef Charles
Long,
Branch President. Polly H.
Hudson, Superintendent.
A cordial invitation is extended to
visitors.
1 :30 p.m.—Evening services.
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
“THE FRIENDLY CHURCH”
Where You’re a Stranger
Only Once.
Rev. W. A. McBride, Pastor
9:45 a.m. — Sunday school.
11:00 a.m. — Worship.
7:30 p.m. — Evangelistic service.
7:45 p.m. Wednesday—Bible study
and praise service.
NAZARENE CHAPEL
The church that cares.
—H. L. Russell, Pastor
Residence — 1208 — Bridge
9:45 a.m.—Sunday school.
11:00 a.m.—Morning worship.
6:30 p.m.—Young People’s service.
7:30 p.m.—Evening service with
young people in charge.
Wednesday 7:30 p.m. — Prayer
meeting.
Her Nose Said No
PORTLAND, ORE—Even after
that short hour with the woman,
Jane vowed a vow. Never again
would she let herself be present
where that woman was. Did the
woman never take a bath? Did she
never put on clean clothes? Small
wonder Jane’s nose said NO. Then
Jane took a look at herself. If
that woman carried about such a
stench, then what about she her
self?
What an odor her sins
must ■ have been sending up to
God all the 30 years of her life.
Jane was correct, for—We are all
as an unclean thing and our
righteousness—our garment—is as
filthy rags. See Isa. 64:6. Right
then and there, Jane laid hold
on Christ as the Son of God who
died for her every last sin.
What moved her? Fear? It is
a fearful thing to fall into the
hands of the living God—Hebrews
10:31. Or was it love? God prov
ed his love toward us in that
while we were yet sinners, Christ
died for us—Romans 5:8. Which
ever it was, Jane has had the
blessed assurance all these years
since that eternal life is hers.
And do you rest on your own
goodness, which is but a filthy
rag to God—See Isa 64th—BIBLE.
Or have you been born again
into eternal life ?
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LOGGERS BACK TO WORK
SEASIDE — Conditions in the
logging industry took a more op
timistic turn last week when se
veral outfits went back to work
following a three week layoff.
Others, including the Crwn-Zel-
lerbach and contractors working
for that company were due to
resume operations this Monday.
It is likely that many outfits
would have been at work a week
ago were it not for the fire sit
uation. Dry weather and low hu
midity had forced some outfits
to postpone the end of their
vacation.
CITY TO SPEND $400 000
FOREST GROVE — Field trip
to the sewage disposal plant on
the Fern Hill road near the Tual
atin river brought members of
the chamber of commerce up to
date on the progress of the city
of Forest Grove towards the goal
of conformity with standards of
the state sanitary authority for
sewage treatment.
CAMPAIGN SLATED
McMINNVILLE — A determi
nation to push the battle for re
tention of McMinnville as a stop
on the West Coast Airlines sys
tem was crystallized here last
week at a meeting of civic leaders.
The meeting grew out of a Civil
Aeronautics Board opinion handed
down recently in which the CAB
tentatively concluded that the Mc
Minnville stop be eliminated from
West Coast schedules in the in
terest of economy.
WCA was one of some 13
“feeder” airlines throughout the
United States which was given
temporary certification three years
ago.
McMinnville is not the only city
on the West Coast scedales which
THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1949 T
would be affected. The CAB ata»
said it would recommend drop
ping West Coast service to Rose
burg, Grants Pass, Kelso, and
Port Townsend.
Annual Kansas Picnic
Scheduled for August 7
The Kansas State Society of
Oregon will hold its annual picnic
at Jantzen Beach park, Portland.
Sunday August 7. Those who plan
to attend are asked to come early
and bring their lunch. All Kan
sans and friends are invited. A.
good program has-been arranged.
Subways are partially venti
lated by the piston action of
trains driving the air through the
tubes.
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