THE C O M M U N I T Y CHURCH NEWS Vol.1 • Friday, December 1, 1934 STOW, OHIO No 48

M I N I S T E R ' S C O L U M N Were you ever annoyed by a

bore? The dictionary defines a bore as one who wearies by tire-some repetition, to inflict oneself upon or to annoy unduly. The judge in the Bible story quickly decided to render a verdict in the case of the widow, lest, said he, by her continual coming she weary me. The woman may have had a just grievance, nevertheless, she classifies as a bore. A bore is one who talks much and says little. A bore in the pulpit is one who fans the air, is long-winded and delivers no message. A bore can be an inquisitive sort of ani-mal, wants to know all about your business, pries into your personal affairs, makes himself very unde-sirable. A bore is one who takes up the time of busy folk and hasn't, enough sense to k n o w when to break off and depart . Now these animals infest cities and towns, lodges, churches, homes and places of business. Their prey is patient long-suffering and kindly disposed humanity. They know everything in general and ilO'tlhing in particular. A bore is

- i iuch like a sponge, if you are afflicted often you discover your strength and vitality has been ab-sorbed and you just wilt, you need a tonic, f resh air, smelling salts or

a vacation to set you on foot again. A bore is relentless, he is hard to evade, he is to be pitied, yet you want to dodge him if pos-sible. He is like one going about with a coffin under his arm. You feel like selling out and moving out, anywhere, any direction, just to escape the bore. Now, dear-reader, don't misunderstand my good intentions, don't brand me as profane or inconsiderate. My ob-ject is to teach a difficult lesson. My subject is "The Bore." I have in mind an old man, long and strong in prayer, 20-30-40 minutes by the tick of t he clock. People would tip toe out when the old saint began to pray, he wearied and withered the meeting. A bore is one who has an annoying hob-by. Some salesmen and saleswo-men could sell an article in three minutes, but a f t e r twenty minutes of WORDS, WORDS, WORDS, the prospective buyer is talked out of t.he notion and the door is shut . A church can be a city set on a hill, a refuge, a comfort, a joy to the entire community, a place where the whole country-side are eager to go. And a church may be tolerated, endured and sparsely supported. A church may come dangerously near being a bore. Now the church we try for is one lit up, a house of faith and

C H U R C H C A L E N D A R BIBLE SCHOOL - • MORNING W O R S H I P ORCHESTRA PRACTICE PRAYER MEETING - . - - - -CHOIR PRACTICE CHURCH NIGHT, BUSINESS MEETING - -MENS CLSS PARTY

- Sunday, 9:30 A. M. Sunday, 10:45 A. M.

Wednesday 7:t>0 P. M. Wednesday 7:30 P. M.

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hope, God Almighty sparkling in. the faces cf her communicants. The church must command the respect and serious consideration of the brightest minds in the neighborhood.

GEO. M. HULME, Minister I M P O R T A N T

Have YOU writ ten that essay 1 ot en "How To Make Our Bible School Larger and Bet ter?" Only one more week. There must be at least tea essays in this time in or-der for winner to receive the cash prize. Put on your thinking cap and get busy. Hand your copy to Mr. Monteith or the Editor.

FOR O N C E BE W E L L F E D The Ladies Guild will serve din-

ner next Friday evening in the church parlors. Everybody in-vited. Price cf tickets, adults 35c, children 20c. Bring the family and for once be well fed.

P E R S O N A L N O T E S

Thou, wilt keep him in perfect: peace whose mind is stayed OK thee. Isaiah 26:3.

Mrs. Frank G. Ham,. Liberty road, has been ill.

Mrs. Arbie L. Thomas, Hudson road, has been ill.

Mrs. Harry E. Osman has re-turned from the hospital and is convalescing at her home on Lib-erty road.

Paul Monteith. Adaline Drive, while visiting in West Virginia last Friday fell and broke his arm.

Mrs. Foster Young. West Arn-dale road, who has been ill is s o m e w hat i m proved.

Where was Jane Hc-nderson last Sunday?

Let Cross's Bakery supply yon with baked goods. (Adv.)

At the dedication and organiza-tion services of the Communiiy

THE MATTER OF DISTANCE

Do not consider the matter of distance, for when we are called, it is not necessary to worry about the

miles. Our service covers a very wide area, and covers it efficiently and economic-

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Our many friends, live many miles from our establish-ment, know from experience that they may have

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Church, Lakemore, Sunday, De-cember 16th at 3:00 p. m. Rev. Hulme will speak on "What a Church Means to the Community." Mrs. Dague is pastor of this church. It would be very nice if a number of our people could at-tend these services.

C. H. Monteith and family visit-ed with the Mitchells in West Vir-ginia over the Thanksgiving holi-days. Among other events of this visit Mr. Monteith can give you a sat isfactory explanation of how it was possible for him to shoot a rabbit through the head which he did not see until a f te r lie had shot it—ask him.

According to a circular let ter received today from the Stow Fire Department they will require ap-proximately $1500 more "to clear" their "program for the present year." This means tha t it will be

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like a plutocrat except as,—if,— or, when we passed one of our creditors—then we f e l t quite otherwise. C. M. Woodring. Ed-ward Sanner, C. H. Monteith, Fos-ter Young, Purcell Lawhorn, C. W. Stahl, C. V. Cross, A. S. Phelps and Albert M. Clifford were others who boosted us along on our way to the printer, to church, to work, to the grocery store, or perchance home. Only once were we de-liberately passed up, that was early one dark morning when one of our neighbor ladies (with whom we are not acquainted) probably thought we were a bold, bad, hold up man and so stepped on the gas instead of stopping.

The Minister, in his three minutes a.t the close of the Bible School asked the question, "What is it to be a Christian?" It was at Antioch, a city of Syria, the place of Pauls first labors in the Gos-pel that the followers of Christ

were first called Christians. Once a recently converted cowboy when asked the question said. "It is a-follerin after Jesus, and laming how to live."—That is it. Jesus says I am with you to help you do the things that I have command-ed you to do. No other—be it Buddha. Brahma, Confucius, Soc-rates—has ever promised to be with their followers. Christ said "Lo I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." (Matt 28:20). If Christ is in you—you will grow Christ like and the greatest thing in all the world is to grew up to be a Christian man or woman. More on this later.

Having more time at home this week we write the following:

There are a number of new church members. To keep these n e w people vitally interested, each one should have something to do, some position of responsibility in our orgnaization. The Book

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F.:r.:es that Faith without works is tend prayer meeting regularly for dsad. Let us keep our fai th alive. t he next six weeks—this, regard-T.et us have a "great church" he- less of other conflicting meetings; cause we have a loyal band of that msv come up? workers. May we have a plan—a Socond:- And this is something program of church activities tha t the older members should do) the will increase cur Faith and Chris- famines represented by the re-tian Love. — - cent additions to the church

Fi rs t : Rev. Hulme has request- should be visited—tell them how cd a weekly prayer meeting. For g l a d y c u a r ( J t h a t t h e y a f e Q n e o f

us. Too often the only church two weeks—when you read this-our Wednesday night meetings have taller, by the wayside. How visitations conducted a r e f o r many ami ng our new—or old money raising purposes. This is membeiy, are there who will a t - a good job for the Deacons and

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tlveir wives. The Deacons a re : Howe, Faggert , Zink, Stockman, Smith, Monteith, Woodring, Stahl —new one s to be elected soon however.

Third: Rev. Hulme has suggest-ed a Teachers Training class for Bible School workers. In our own case the reason is obvious—we need it. This class should be open to teachers and prospective teachers. First however, Mr. Mon-

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tei th 's desire—a meeting soon of the teachers and officers of the Bible School would not be out of place. Plans for Bible School ac-tivities could then be better ma-tured.

Four th : Lest we BORE you the next eight specific items of church work which we had in mind will be reserved for publication later— if at all.

The following items were phon-ed in just a little too late for last weeks paper. The editor assumes no responsibility for context. They are old but: —

1. Betty Cross spent the week-end with friends at Springfield, Ohio.

2. Y. J. Henderson entertained

Wal ter Brand of Akron last week. Hunting rabbits occupied a good share of the time. Also Mr. and Mrs. Luther Johnson and three daughters were Sunday visitors at the Henderson home.

3. The Stow Band Concert Fri-day evening brought $42.50 into coffers of the organization. While the music was very good many of those attending the concert were much impressed with the vigorous exhibition of mastication of Wrig-leys Masticatory product by a number of the players. They won-dered just what the musical signi-ficance of this might be.

Election of church officers Fri-day night. The following have been nominated:

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