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12A GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR., THURSDAY, SEPTEIVIRR 30,1971,
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REV. R. McCLENAGHAN
United Church Durtgarutor:1-Nile
Thinking it through
in each of our lives there are
certain stones or foundations
Upon which we -like-to `build.--
Cirie of these main stones is the
relationship or communication
which we have with God. Too
often without too much thought
we • say "Oh, yes our;
communication is through .our
prayer life',
• The very first comment that
comes to our minds when N•I'e„say
thig is too often too 'many
people fail to realize that there is
anything' morel() the life of our
prayers than just saying them.
Indeed, sometime S I fear we do
,�t advance beyond the stage of
memorizing the words-Ze want
to say...just- as ,we did that first
prayer 'that first prayer that, we
had been taught" Now 1 lay ,me
down to'sleep". But surely your'
prayers •and „_Tineneed to ,be
More han this? We need"to
think them through.'
To 'think a prayer is to use
our mind and to 'direct that
thinking toward God. It is to use
our intelligence4on,sciously in
God's preSence:- 'Nis then, is
what' we too often satisfy
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ourselves with calling
meditation...but it is really
rnor*+?tarrethis, -it is truly our real
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prayer life. As vocal prayers is
saying the words...meditation is
thinking our prayers. It is then
you .6are making the* fullest
possible use of our intelligence
to understand some part of the
truth of God. So when we come
together to worship God fully
with our mind the purpose of
Rur thinking and our prayers
need to hayerlhat purpose of
thinking through what we are
really dOing.
, There .does not need to be
anything mysterious or difficult
about our prayers. If -We ,have
eyer thought about God at all,
you have in ,a very realy sense
meditated about Him. W.hat, He
is like? Why slid he begin all this
business of living in this" -World?
How cana loving "God permit all
that is happening today _in :this
day and • age to triumph? If we
have ever had these thoUghts, we
have meditated.
thinking one's prayers
deliberately, is for us to proceed
to wrestle with the problems of
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our personally undergand ing
God, His actions as intelligently
qm,...Let us .not.
lorget that as men and women
think,. so we are, and 10, attempt
to "Think God's thoughts after
Him". 'This very simply means
that we are Willing to
- concentrate on sorne aspect of
what God can mean not just to
the world but to our individual
lives.
So •when we meditate • upon
the truth, it can be that Cod is
Power, 'and think through the
act of creation as a continuing
:and sustain part of God at work
tOday. So, as we think this
through we may want to relate it
to' the problem of atomic
power...where the secret energy'
itself is- locked consider how
God's power can be used bymen
to support creation or to destroy
, it; and we may end by resolving
to use -what power -you are given
for God's ,creative power and
purposes.
Our meditation may be made
on anything from the heavers
above, to fathom their mystery
to the tiny sparrow who falls to
the ground, still within God's
loving care. Therefore when We
• Use . our, mind to consider God,
his; lelationship, to, the World
about iSS. to' the naitfre, of life
among men and nations we are
thinking it through. Whatever
subject,,we may be interested in,
. let us' 'determine to think it
through not alone with jUst the
worldly help, but.'with the
influences of God, .They Will not
by any means be the 'same for
each one. . But; as we give
ourselves time-, to , prayerfully
meditate, He will be our, most
reliable guide when we are
willing to respond in.,the way
that we are being lead in the
truths that apply, to our needs.
:Let us take ,the tiine-to think
',through ,..our needs as we bring
them , to the Source Of All
Strength.
HEAR
DR, BOB
FINLEY
Veteran missionary
at Goderich,area
A new era has begun in the
history of Christian missions
according to a veteran
missionary who is scheduled to
speak at Victoria Street United
Church, Goderfch 'o'n Sunday,
October 3 at 11:00 a.m,; at
Westfield Fellowship Hour on
Sunday, October 3 at 2:00 ii:rn.;
and at Hiro n Men's Chapel,
-Au bartreSunday,'OctObev2-and
3 at 8:00 p.m. '
The speaker, Dr. Robert
Finley of Washington,,,, D.C. is
chairman and chief executive.
officer of the Christian Aid
Mission, a foreign mission board
that sends assistance to
indigenous evangelical groups
that haye more than 4900
missionaries on the field ,in all
parts of the world.
Dr. Finley is also president of
Overseas Students Mission, an
agency that does foreign.
missionary work at home by
reaching foreign visitors in North
America from a headquarters
base -in Toronto. Approximately
ten million foreign nationals visit
the U.S. and Canada each year,
according to Dr. Finley.
The organizations which
rwey heads havepioneered a
new • gy. in foreign.
missionary 'outreach. ,Rather
than send Americans abroad to
SWFbrailches of their respective
denominations •t) and mission
societies in foreign. lan0,s (the,
traditional pattern of missionary
work), Finley •gets behind the
indigenous groups that have
come. into being al) 'over Alie
world in the past generation.
"If the thousands of dollars
we spend sending out one
American missionary could be
made available to an indigenous
,group," Finley agserts, "they
would, send out 2"0 missionaries
for,the same amount, all citizens
of -the land who would .not incur
the added expense ,of travel and
language'study."
'Nev leaders for indigenous
groups overseas •• are being
recruited by, Dr. Finley and his
associates 'froni among 'foreign.
visitors in . North America,'
especially those who come as
"students. "More than-lialf.of..the
top leaders of indigenous
evangelical movements overseas
of Washington, DC
Chairman,
CHRISTIAN AID MISSION
* Preacher
* Teacher
* Evangelist
* Student Leader
* Missionary Statesman
DR. FINLEY WAS EVANGELIST FOR:
YOUTH FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL. (He and
Dr. Billy Graham were the first two men to hold this
position.)
INTER VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
PERSONAL MISSIONARY of Dr. Billy Graham to
the Orient
Dr. Finley conducted crusades in Korea where 75,000
gathered night after night. It was the largest
iittenclance ever recorded to hear the gospel preached.
HEAR HIM AT
HURON MENS CHAPEL, Auburn
SATURPAY, OCTOBER 2 -8 p.m.
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AND
SUNDAY OCTOBER 3
VICTPRIA ST. UNITED GODERICH
2 'p.m. -Wk4TFIELD FELLOWSHIP HOUR
8 Pane - HURON MENS CHAPEL -AUBURN
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THE SINGING HOLDENS
WILL SING AND THEIR ELEVEN -EAR -OLD DAUGHTER -ACCOMPANIES
THEM ON THEIR ORGAN'.
rel 00,
A L L 111/..ELCOME
EVIL
iiiigvAtts WHEN doom MEN DO' NOTHING
have studied over here," Dr.
Finley declares.
"Likewise," he adds, "many
of the top Communist leaders in
Asia, Africa and Latin America
entered the Marxist camp during
student days in America. The
goal cif OSM is' to win foreigp
student S to Christ before they*.
are converted to Communism by
Bob Finley began his career
as a foreign missionary by going
to China in 1948. When the
Communist take-over ended his,
efforts there in 1949 he went to
Korea where with pr,,Bob Pierce
he was the principal evangelist of
a great evangelical revival that
swept that nation in 1950.
But once d ain the
Communists ea e, and
following the out of the
Korean war Dr. Finley traveled
as an itinerant missionary:
evangelist through Japan,
Taiwan, Hong. Kong, the
Philipines, India and the Middle
East. His experiences with
missionaries and.native Christian
leaders convinced him of .the.
need for a new approach to
foreig-n missions; so he returned.
to theUSA and in 1953 founded
Interriational, tudents,- Inc. (ISI) •
as a mission o foreign visitors.
He served as ,President of 151
until 1968 when he became
Chairman and Director or the
Overseas A p4 (Assisting
Indigenous Developments)
operation:
to :speak..
pOrints
personal ',missionary
representative to the Orient.
While a student at 'the
University of Virginia, Finley
was known as "Battling Bob," a
title he earned as captain of the
boxing team. He was undefeated,
"in his boxing -career and won the
intercollegiate boxing
championship in the
middleweighti-clivision-irr
He also was President, of the
University of Virginia student
body and a member of the
Omicron Delta Kappa honor
society.
fie .did his graduate work at
the University of Chicage.
Sitnulfaneously, 'fle served as
president of Oorseas Students
Mission, a sister organization
which he founded in Canada in
1961. He still serves as President
of. OSM, but the overseas A.I.D.
division of ISI was spun off in
1970 and is now • a .separate
chrporation with Dr. Finley as
chairman and president.
Before going ov,erseas, Finley
toured the United States and'
Canada as a campus evangelist
for the ,Inter -Varsity Christian
FelloW'ship and a field eVangelist
fd'r Y...Outh for? Christ
International.. He and Billy.
Graham were the first two men
. to hold the latter position, and
when Finley went overseas Billy
Graham supported him as his
Thankoffering
to hear
Napat missionary
Rev. • Mattricp Francis,
Putnam., a missionary from
Napal, witL.bp the g:iest speaker
at the Thankoffering service
Sunday_octOber
Hall in North Street United
Church.
A special invitation is
extended to all people.
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THE
RED
CROSS
SERVES
FOR YOU
WILLIAMS
CEMETERY
MEMORIALS
And InsCriptions
Stratford - Ontario
:RONALD McCALLUM
Representative
21 Cambria Rd., North, Goderich
Phone 524-6272 or. 524-7345
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e` (Obituary
Funeral services were held.
September 24 for Ralpt sin
Gillis who cried SeptembirU-as
the result of an acciden't in his
24 t h year. Services were
conducted from St. Peter's
Roman CahtOlic Church 4with
interment at St. Peter's Roman
Catholic Cemetery in Colborne
Tow nship
Mr. Gillis was the son of
Joseph and Augustina (Tina)
CiIlis. She was the former
Augustina Bruce. He resided at
160 St. David Street in
Goderich.
_Giktis.;,..whom.2eaerAPI0310,
with a 'road corLstructiOn firm,
attended St. Peter's Separate
School and the Goderich
Collegiate Institute. He was a
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Member Of St. Peter's Church
Add was unmarried.
He is -survived by one sister,
Catherine Ann (Mrs. Richard
Stepp) of Enderby', British
Columbia, and his mother.
Rev. Father R. Moynahan
conducted the funeral services
and arrangements were made
through the Stiles. Funeral
Home.
Pallbearers were Gerry
Vanstone, Gerard Bedard, Bob
LaMarsh, Blake Morley, Brian
'Miller and Charlie MacDonald.
EloWerbearers
Davis, Doug .Blacker, Brad Eidt,
Ray Bentley; John Johnstone,
Dale Burkholder and Bob
Stoddart.
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MEMORIALS --MARKERS & CEMETERY ,LETTERINO
Goderich District Representilive
T. PRIDE
AND.,
SON-
Clirrton-Exeter-Se,aforth
Frank McIlwain.
524-946§
200 Gibbons St. ,
Reg.J Bell
45 Cambria Rd. S.
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REV.. PETER G. ST. DON, Pastor •
SUNDAY, 'OCTOBER ,3rd
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11:00 a.m. - oomMuNior\i' SERVICE. •
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700 p.m. -- EVANGELISTIC SERVICE
8:00' p.m. - Tuesday, Prayer and Bible Study
8:9,0 ri.m. • - Friday, Young People's Service
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QUOTE: "WHEN YOU ARE RIGHT ,YOU CAN AFFORD
TO K,EEP YOUR 'TEMPER: WHEN YOU ARE WRONG
YOU CANT AFFORD TO LOSE IT"
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER.. 3rd
• 10:30 a.m. - Sunday School
11:00 a.m. - Worship
7:00 p.m. - Evening' Service.
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BAYFIELD ROAD AT BLAKE STREET
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REV. R. BRUBACHER, Pastor
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11:00 a.m. --COMMUNION SERVICE.
7:30 p.ni. - Sermon:
"THE COURAGE' TO SAY NO"
- 8:00 p.m..- Midweek Service.
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_THEaV, G. LOCKHART ROYAL, B.A., Minister
WILLIAM CAMERON, Director of Praise
WORLD COMMUNION *SUNDAY
,SUNDAY, OCT -OBER 3rd
10:00 _a.m. - SUNDAY. SCHOOL.,
11:00 a.m. - MORNING WORSHIP.
Sermon:
"THIS, MATTER OF COMMUNICATION"
(Nursery- bhdbunior Congregation)
- THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY COMMUNION -
7:00 p.m. - Communion in the
- Young People's Society.
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
-(Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec)
1VIONTREAL STREET near The Square •
REV. W. H. ^McWHIN.NIE
10:00 a.m. - Sunday School.
11:15.a.m. - Morning Worship.
Sermon: "What Is The Christian Church?"
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HARVEST THANKSGIVING
Hply Communion at 8:30 a.m.. '
Holy Communion and Sermon at, 11:00 a.m.
SUNDAY SCHOOL
Rector's Class at 10. a.m. .for grades '7 and 8
Other Classes and Nursery at 11 a.m.
Organist -Choirmaster: Mr. Paul C. Baker,
F.R .0 .
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Victoria Street United Church
HOUSE •-•OF FRIENDSHIP • REV. LEONARD WARR
30:00 a.m. - Bible School for All Grades.
11:10 a.m.- Worship Service.
Guest Speaker: DR. ROBERT FINLEY
(Missionpry_
Plus music by THE,-M'NGUNG 'HOLDEN FAMILY
BENMILLE7R UNITED CHURCH
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10:00 a.m. - Worship Service and Bible School.
W -E -L -C -O -M -E
North Street United Church
REV;ROBERT L. RAYMONT
'SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3rd
9:45 a.m. - ar-ol d s and over.
10:55 a.m. - Babies'to 8 -year-olds.
11:00 - Morning Worship. - 0;-
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Sermon:, "CHRIST ABOVE CULTURE"
Mrs. Eleanor Hetherington, A.T.C.M.
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