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me."
Morning Sun and again it is true.
David's sister Mary Ann was also vale
dictorian of her high school class a few
years ago. Rev. Edgar will give the
baccalaureate address.
Jimmie McElroy, Junior Royer, and
the Patterson brothers took part in a
large Boys Scout carnival at Burlington,
Iowa, both Friday and Saturday nights.
Our regular congregational meeting
was held in April. Several bequests have
been received in recent months from
these estates: Lizzie Marshall, Jennie
Armstrong, Jessie Moore, and George
Scheming. New officers elected were:
James Dunn President, and Mrs. M. J.
McElhinney Secretary.
The S. S. officers and teachers met at
the home of the secretary Mrs. M. M.
Todd.
John Honeyman, Master-Pilot on the
Arnold V. Walker Mississippi river tow
boat, visited his mother and both visited
in Mankato, Minnesota, with the Forrest
Talbott family.
Gwendolyn Wilson of Ames attended
the National convention of Tomahawk,
a sophomore honorary activities Sorori
ty, at Monmouth College, 111.
BELLE CENTER
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Harsh of Morn
ing Sun have recently purchased a very
commodious and attractive rural home
in our area and are now at home to
their friends. We welcome them into our
fellowship.
In a pretty home ceremony Mary Eliz
abeth Rutherford and Eugene Berry
were united in marriage on Saturday,
March 26, by Rev. M. K. Carson, pastor
of the bride. After a wedding trip to
Washington, D.C, they are making their
home at Lake Ridge, Indian Lake. To
the satisfaction of her large clientele,
Mrs. Berry continues to operate her
beauty salon in Belle Center. Mr. and
Mrs. Berry were honored with a bridal
shower on May 5 at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. James M. Keys.
The spring communion was held April
3 with Rev. John Tweed as assistant.
His fellowship and searching
gospel mes
sages were a great blessing to us all.
On Sabbath, April 17, Dr. Carson as
sisted the Rev. John McMillan in com
munion services in the Old Bethel and
Sparta congregations. Mrs. Carson and
Mrs. Coleman accompanied him on the
trip and all were happy to renew as
sociations of former days. Mr. and Mrs.
James M. Keys also accompanied the
Carsons and were guests in the home
of their daughter and family, the Ralph
Mathews of the Old Bethel congrega
tion.
Mrs. J. Melville Rutherford and
daughters Melba Grace and Rose Mary
were recent visitors in the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Patterson of
the Old Bethel congregation.
James Templeton has completed his
basic training at Ft. Knox, Kentucky
and is enjoying a two weeks furlough
before beginning specialized training in
"guided
nois.
at Ft. Sheridan, Illi
Robert Templeton, a junior in the
local high school, was recently elected
to the National Honor Society. Robert
is active in 4H work and in sports and is
a member of the High School band,
besides being dependable and willing in
all congregational activities.
ELMA JANE HOLMES
Elma Holmes was born in Baldwin,
m., but had lived in Topeka the greater
part of her life, where she was an effi
cient teacher in the elementary grades
until her retirement. Her extra-curricu
lar courses were quite as important to
her as the prescribed curriculum, for
she believed that the fear of God is the
beginning the foundation for wisdom,
so the children minored or majored in
Bible, according to the tastes of the pu
pil, but she was faithful in it all. For
years she served on the Trustee Board
of the Church. Besides her church mem
bership
she belonged to a number of
patriotic, educational and social clubs.
After she had lived her three score and
ten and a few of those bonus "and if by
reason of strength"
years, she answered
the Master's call on April 20, in a To
peka Hospital. Her sister Mabel survives
her.
The large group
of friends from far
and near that attended her funeral at
tested the esteem in which she was held.
Dr. Taggart, a former pastor, spoke on
I Cor. 3:11-15, "The Cremation of the
Soul."
Burial was at Baldwin, 111.
To Whom Shall We Pray
A little lad in central Africa had
learned to read the New Testament in
the mission school.
Some time later
the Roman Catholic fathers persuaded
him to be baptized into the Roman
Church.
They
gave him a medal to
wear, on which was a representation
of the Virgin. "It will be easier for
you to pray when you look at that,"
they said,
"and the mother of Jesus
will pray to her Son for
Several months passed, and the boy
returned to the evangelical
mission.
Asked the reason why he did not go
to the Catholics he said, "I read in
the Gospels that Mary lost Jesus when
she was on a journey; so I thought,
If she forgot her own little boy, she
will surely forget me, so I am going
to pray
straight to
Jesus."
Christian
Digest
BRDLLIANT SIDESTEiPPER
Robert G. Ingersoll was one of the
most brilliant and eloquent men of
America in the nineteenth century. He
was the son of a minister. Once as a
boy
he lived in a parsonage in Greenville, Il
linois.
Ingersoll was a lawyer and a politi
cian, but chiefly he used his great tal
ents lecturing against the Bible and
Christianity at $50.00 a night when most
ministers were receiving less than so
much per month.
Once he said that his father was a
"devil" while his mother was an "angel,"
which was probably
overstatements.
one of his usual
At the close of one of his lectures he
gave the usual privilege to any who de
sired to answer his arguments. The
many
ministers present in the great
crowd sat silent
not wishing to engage
so able a man or to be in reproach, being
worsted by him. But as told by one of
the auditors, a humble man, a local
preacher, unlearned, arose and told
what the Lord had done for him
just
his testimony. Ingersoll listened intently,
then replied, "I would give all I have
if He would do that for
To his saintly aunt he presented one of
his books against the Bible. On the fly
leaf he wrote, "To my Aunt Sarah. If all
Christians would live as she does, prob
ably this book would never have been
At the grave of his brother he ex
pressed a yearning for a good immortal
ity.
If his father was a "devil" and his
mother an "angel," was this sufficient
excuse for his following his father in
stead of his mother
If many
"Christians"
do not live like
Aunt Sarah, is this ample excuse for the
failure of a man who knew well the
Word and the way
of salvation
Anyone who wants to can somehow
defend his failure to serve God and find
defence for the squandering of his gifts.
But at the Judgment Ingersoll and
each of us answers as a moral and re
sponsible being.
Alone we stand before God!
Free Methodist
Anxiety and worry are the parents
of temper and disease.
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