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Friday afternoon, Victoria Church Women from coast- to _
Street United Church *will echo coast organize and promote the
with the prayers of men and . observance in their own
women of all faiths as Goderich communities, translating the
participates in the a ual World service where required and
bay of raver. arranging for services .. in
Traditi ly a service 'for churches, honies for, the aged,
women only, this year's S'ervi'ce hospitals, schools, private homes
puts the locus on the family—witty and on campuses.
a special invitationto the Men of The council is responsible :for
the community. allocating tithe offering which
Under t 4
e he auspices pf, the' ', totalled $60,000e in ' i971:. Work.
International CoMmittee for the with retarded .children in the,'
World Day,' of Prayer, women' ,Bai^bados; a hew establisl1ed•
.... fru rr1M'''bropn riiit"iTaWb' s lino'
fit_ rcrtriedd ° ill Me co r
Mexico, -•`' man Shall not live bi'� supply and demand will bring •sidesAof the, tion curtain have. 'equipping
a 1 eprosy,'hospital #>r
bread alone, but by every word theca together again. But in spite prepared'a service on the theme' India, providing eeducational
that proceedetn, out of the mouth of of screaming advertisements All Joy Be Yours. ' materials for Junior High School
God," they' fail to shout down the high, In Canada'the the World Day of ,Lin the central Celebes and.
-markup; and to a large degree the
While those of us who hold the .populace' is exposed to the
Bible to be the inspired Word of invisible attacks of nature's
God are still puzzled over the -life enemies.
spafi of Me.thu•selah, and his Because God is the Author of
contemporaries, or even the °one beth Natural and Spiritual world,
hundred and twenty allotted years it aught not be surprising that we
of the antideluvian,'there is much discover a striking,' similarity
evidence that the receding between them, and indeed we do.
mortality rate closely parallels" But not only do we discover •-a
man's departure from Divine parallelism on the part of the
order, Ps, 55:23. Divine, but man seems prone to
Of Hippocrates (father of ° the same reactions in the
medicine) it is not only said, spiritual, as in the -natural world.
"Your, food shall be your
medicine, and your medicine your Not only does he extract vital
food", but t also that "Foods must Portions from the Bread of Life,
be in the condition they are found but trumps up, a theological
in,nature...as close as possible.'' concoction out of the moral pulp,
and puts it on the rharket under the
This is not to infer that all -big happy family trade name of
scientific research_ since 400 Fatherhood of •God, and a .
B:C. "has been blindgroping, but ' Brotherhood`vf Man,'; largely, if °• Church isAsk the average
who can deny that for every not completely skirting all the street what a church is and he
will probably reply: "A church?'
blessing discovered, a curse is reference to the place of Calvary Well, anybody know's that, A church
uncovered`. Are not Alfred Nobel Heb. 9:22, restitution Luke ,19;8, is a building where pebple go to
and Albert Einstein two class or 'repentenance Luke 13:3. worship!'; But this is not correct,
examples of which no generation
The word translated "church'` in
Observin
is without its own?� g with the natural eye,
it would seem_that'the foregoing: our Bibles, simply means assembly,
Prayer is sponsored by the epabling the John Milton Society
°Women's Inter-church.Council pf of Canada to print Christian
Canada. The council will provide literature in large type are some -
bilingual, braille, English, projects receiving support.
French, Chinese and Japanese The World Day of Prayer had
versions of the service free of its beginnings in 1887 when the
charge. Women's Board of Home
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WI ! 1111 BILLE
SY CORNELIUS R. STAM PRES.
IBERIAN 'ISLE SOCIETY
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ' 60631
"WHAT IS A CHURCH"'
Do you know that most people,, again, "the -Body of ,Christ," or.
even:the great majority of religious, "the Church which is' His Brody."
•people; do not even know what a We do not loin this . Church by
Water -13a ti-stit or an -y -other religious
rite, we. join it by faith in the Lord
Jesus Christ. Referring. to be.,lieyers
in Christ, Paul declares; "By one
Spirit are we )ll baptized into one
Body„ (I Cora 12:131., and :I'll Rom.
12':5 he' says "Ye Ire trig many are
one Body in Christ
Many srta�ere
--1);41-1(";-have had operative work Would affect
their names on the rolls df.rel.igious . churches in the north western
But limiting, ' our thoughts to moral code should leave nothing sO a church is not a 'blinding, buf
realm of food, let us track the to be desired among the h•u'an the asse'mb/y of people who, meet
Analyst, and Chemist from their family but as' multitudes' m
in this• in the building. And a.church is .not
th
ear-lies.,-.-scientific--efforts in the- -hPmispher.enecessarily a gathering of•viiirs'hip
�.. g.0-xo-bed with -a full•
field, to theirpresent . day stomach yet; awaken with a raging • pers. The riotous, in that had garb
fever; just ered a: Ephesus n Paul's day is
accomplishments, and are. we not g voice ,of
modern theologycalled a "church" (Gr. ia)' in
orced to admit that their
praises. 'saying peace, Acts 19:32, and this passage states.
are drowned out by the increasing Peace; , is rentwith fresh tithis assembly, or church, was
charges of diet -deficiency,_ and outbreaks of raging violence,. at ••cahfiirsed, and `most of them did
malnutrition. It's not so much that feVer pitch,. ,-- not 'know wherefore they were come
the western world goes to bed. How do w,e , account; for it? together." So a church is s imply an
s hungry, as in the east, but rather Simple: Too many of the Satan - assembly, not a building.
that so:many of the disease and combating .elements have been The church of which the Bible
— -r rias oncbating-eteurents-o ood--' xt•raet•ed-from•tlre-Br rrottf'7" T;a"s r�iost to—say is "the Church of
are extracted, and very carefully ' T,he_cure, Restore to theology God, which He hath purchad with
Processed into pill and capsule every word that proceedetli out of His owner seblood" (Acts 20:28). St'.
form and shelved in hopes that the mouth ofGod, Paul calls this church, again .agc1
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(iAERt0� S[�1VA;1.�8'!'AR,'�URSDAY,1¢,AR�H 2h �lR7,� 7A
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MRS. PAUL. STIE1»ER (piive)of$trathr-,thy, Mrs. Ernest
wa's originarlty field on the first district will fiegrettelearn of the
ars. John Isa.t't�rsort ���lai a%
f'r Iday in Lent. death'Tui` Mercy Hospital, Port Seaforth.. There -are also seven
. The inter -Church Council Huron, of Mrs. Paul Stieler, of grandchildren, e 1 4 great
became the Canadian spdnsor' of Algonac, Michigan. Mrs. Stieler° grandchildren and a great 'great,
the observance in Canada in 1948. passed away quite suddenly on graflddaughter surviving.
An International Committee for „Monday, Feb 2i. Inter.nent VAS. at Maitland,
the World Day of Prayer,' was "l'he former Miriam Johnston, e e m e t�e r y I n G o d e r;1 c
• constituted a, at • a meeting in she was born in Ashfield township , Pallbearers Were: Fran " 'Clark,.
Stockholm, Sweden, in. 1968 to 66 years ago, daughter of William . , Frank McArthur,- Tom ,, cLea'n,
plan for. the future; and Annie Johnston, and attended Bud' • Oke, Ebb ` Ross And Sill
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observance was ehapged to tl,e resided in .,Detroit, ,end WAS, Tufford', Donald . 1tA>lise,' "John
first 1i i'day ,in March: married there to • Paul Stigler. Patterson and .Alia, . Patter,son ' •
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deceased.
Friends in Goderich • and Rouse (Marie) of Notrw ich ar
Missions of the— Presbyterian
Church in the United States
instituted a Day of Prayer for
Horne Missions.. The Baptist
Wornen's Board joined in for ,a
Women's Interdenominational
Day of Prayer' for Missions in
1920.
The observance became
international in 1922 when
Canadian '
d
ran
women.
e . were in.cludec i
,i
.n
the. United Day of Prajter,
Corn mittee forxtl(e. service ‘w'hich
nited�`6ur
co'many years,... ,., .
c�urtMrs. Stieler is survived by her
opposes Sunday rites
d '
Huron -Perth Presbytery of the
United Church of, Canada at its
meeting on Feb': 22 unanimously
passed a resolution that it "go on
record as opposed to the conduct
of any Funerals, on Sundays"
Some of the reasons for this
resolution were that ' Sunda
Funerals • force the Funeral
Director to work on the Sabbath;
creates a lot of extra work for
clergy who are already very busy
on Sunday leaving no time for
Family life; and makes it
necessary fors UCW's to prepare
refreshments if a reception 1
held. Also cited was the fact that
in many other areas a decline of
Sunday funerals the
husband t two sans arid as daughter,
Robert J.,, Detroit; Richard ,K.,"of
A,lgonac; ,and Mrs. , William.
. •(Betty) Warber, of Grand Rapids;
talk of Tent -Making Ministries. a sister,' Miss Effie Johnston, of
This refers to a situation were a Windsor; and four grandchildren.
Minister oma •work part of full The funeral took place from
time in some secular occupation, Gilbert Funeral Home, Algonac,
and also be minister of a Cht,r•ch to Algonac Cemetery , on
:. at a reduced salary. Were it is Thursday, Feb. 24.
workable, it is a happy MRS. "FRANCES -BELL
compromise to prevent a smaller
charge from having to close down
churches.
An Important item on -the
agenda in the 'afternoon was a
study of the present call system.
The -methods by which Churches
hire - ministers and ministers
seek congregations, have not
changed very much since Union in
192b. The Bele tes broke up into and isrsurvived y one son, John,
un ay unary s is trend.
gjoups _ -• d each mad.e._..
At the same meeting1.-he - -- t_ a resident of Goderichfiownship of Goderich, He is also survived
recommendations on four and the community of Goderich all by a sister Mrs, James (Agnes)
members heard an invitation
fir o m the Bruce-Mai problem areas relating to. this t 1 a n d subject. These suggestions will her life until movingto Norwich in Cameron of Bayfield, '
Presbytery of the Presbyterian be summarized and sent Ao a -1954, following the death of her Interment was in. Maitland
. Church, , "to examine possible, central con minae that will be . husband, 'John Bell, that year. Cemetery at GoderichC---
areas of co-operative" considering similar. Mrs. Bell was a member of Pallbearers were,George: how'
planning...where such co- 'recommendations from all Knox Presbyterian Church in John Videan, William Moore, R.
Operation is feasible". Such co- ' Goderich and ofthe W: M.S. of that MacDonald, Ken McLean and H,
c-hurch.. _ . _ __ .- —.— _, _--- aa__- iTuc rth. -A—Legion Memorial
A funeral ser•vine was
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conducted on Saturday, February
'26 by .Rev,_ G. L. Royal from the
McCallum Funeral Home for the
late Mrs.. Frances Bell of
Norwich whodied there following
a short illness on February 23 at
,the age of 92. .
Born to Robert and,. Elizabeth
•'tI5onnelty')'Johnston in Goderich
Township on April,l, 1879 she was
• JOHN DONALD MacDONALD
,Rev. G, L. Royal conducted the
funeral service on "Thursday,
February 24 from McCallum
Funeral home at 2:00 p.m. for the
late John Donald MacDonald who
died Monday, February 21 at the
age of 71 in Alexandra Marine and
General F1/pspit'al 'following a
short illness.
Born on Deceni,ber 16, 1900 to'
John and Emma MacDonald he had
been a life-long ° resident of-
Goderich., He served overseas
during World War II but returned
to Goderich following his tour of.
duty. He married the ' former
Gladys Allen who predeceased
him in 1948. Mr. MacDonald was n
member of the Royal Canadian
Legion Branch 10-9. in Goderich
organizations for years before learn -
e ing this great truth ;that the true
chrf
� ch, the Church of God, The'
Body of _Christ is not ti huil'dirrg,
Abut the -company of those who .have
come to trust in Christ as their
Savior..
We sincerely hope the 'reader
belongs to, this one trlre Bible
Church ,.and aIs'o attends a local
church, an assembly of believers in
Christ who IcYve i c i, 1: ,
- Of God so as to "grow nl'grace and
rn ti i' knowledge of our Lord'.anrtt
•Savior -Jesus' CMI,it" ill Pet. 3:18L
part of Huron County. "
The new Division of Mission in
Canada, had a very lengthy report
with a number of vital issues that
created considerable excitem.etit
at times. Although there were
,sdme negative votes: • a motion
was passed to petition the New
Hymn Book Committee to publish
0 words only edition of the new
Hymn Book. r.
The Divisional os err ported that
at a Conference held at Five O.aks
on 'The Church in. Rural,
Society", there was considerable
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WILLIAMS
CEMETERY
MEMORIALS
And Inscriptions
Stratford -.Ontario
RONALD Mcf ALLUM
• Representative
21 Cambria Rd., North, Goderich
Phone 524-6272 or 5247345
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She is survived by three Service was held at the funeral
children," Mrs. Reg Tufford home on Wednesday evening.
MEMORIALS --MARKERS 8; CEMETERY LETTERING
'Goderich District Representative
Frank Willman':
T: PRYDE
Clinton-Exeter-SP,aforfh
L.
524-9465
200 Gibbons Sc. '
. r ' Belt ,
45 Cambria Rd. S.
524-7464
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ARE_ YOU GOING. TO CHURCH THIS stint?AY?
IF NOT. YOU ARE-,ti3.V1, 3 TQ. WQ,RSHIP WITH• US.
Bethel Pentecostal Tabernacle
Affiliated, 'With the Pentecostal Assembfrgs of Ca nada
CORNER OF ELGIN AND WATERLOO STS.
SUNDAY, MARCH 5
10:00 a.m. — SUNDAY SCHOOL.
"11:615 a.m. '— WORSHIP SERVICE.
7:00 p.m. — EVANGELISTIC SERVICE. -
Tuesday, 8:00 p.m. — Bible Study and Prayef
'Friday, 8:00 p.m- YOUTH NITE. -
For further information about church services Call. 524-8506.
"THE REMEDY FOR, WRONGS IS TO FORGET THEM."
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ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH
LENT III—MARCH 5, 1972
Hcily Communion at 8:30 a.m.
.,.w.,.- e � w;;`R rrera'1 'ati0 a. m . _ .
Holy Communion and Sermon by Rector at 11 a.m.
Church School at 11 a.m.
.Wednesday, March 8, 7:30 a.m.—Holy Comn3union
with breakfast following.
. P 9:30 a.m.—Holy Communion
$rganilst-Choirmaster: Mr. Paul C. Baker,
F.R.C.O.. L.R.A.M..A.R.C.M.
Rector: THE REV. G. G. RUSSELL, B.A:, B.D.
FIRST ?BAPTIST HURCH
Park St. at Victoria
H. ROSS NICHOLLS; Pastor
10: W a.m. — Sunday 'School
11:00 a.m. — Worship
7:00 p.m. - Evening Service.
WELCOME .
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH
BAYFIELD ROAD AT BLAKE STREET
REG. $2.00
EVANGELISTIC 4- 'FUNDAMENTAL -
REV. R:. BRUBACHER, Pastor
• 11:00 a.m.—sermon: "JESUS HIMSELF"
Communion Service
6:30 p.m.—Youth Time: "Word of Life Club':
- 7:30 -p.m. --Evangelistic Service
Wednesday, 8 p.m.—Prayer & Bible Study -
COMING -MARCH 20426th
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Evangelistic Services with Rev. Bob Eaton
Pontiac, Michigan,
A WARM WELCOME AWAITS YOU
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(Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec).
MOt'1TR'EAL STREET near The Square .
„.,,.,,w,rd,,,„,,..REV.. W. H. McWHINNIE,
10:00 a.m. — Sunday School.
11:15 a.m. — Morning Worship. -
Guest Speaker: Mr. Wayne McLean of Toronto
Special Music ,
Deveraux Sisters
8:00 p.m. -•- Wednesday, Prayer' and Bible Study,
COME AND WORSHIP IN K. -CHURCH
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Victoria Street United Church
HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP' ' REV. LEONARD WARR
10:00 a_tn. — j3ible' School for all Grades.
11:00 a.m. — Worship Service
Sermon: "WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WORLD?”
7:30 p.m. -THE 'SINGING HOIDENS -
BENMILLER UNITED CHURCH
1:30 p.rrl- — Worship Service and Bible School.
W=E -L -C -O -M -E
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North Street United, Church
THE REV. G. LOCKHART ROYAL, B.A., Minister
WILLIAM CAMERON, Director.of Praise
SUNDAY, MARCH 5
10:00 A.M. —SUNDAY SCHOOL
11:OGA.Mis— DIVINE WORSHIP.
Sermon: •
SERMONS FROM THE APOSTLES' CREED:
(5) "The Holy Catholic Church" •.
(Nurs`ry and Junior Congregation)
7:30 p,m.-Young people's Society ,
He SCIUARE
REV. ROBERT L..RAYMONT '
Miss Clare' McGowan
SUNDAY, MARCH 5
9:45 'a.m. 9 -year-olds and over.
10:50•a.m.--Babies to 8 -year-olds.
10:50.a.m.—IVlorning,Wors Tip -.
(Service will begin with a`flymn Sing., ,
Sermon: *CRiATIVE. EAILURE"
Cubs, Scouts, Brownies and Guides will worship with us this
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morning. •
Mrs. Eleanor 'Hetherington, A.tlit
O ant and Choir 'Director
Pho e,Chur ch Otfits'and Study — 5244631
Church Building 524'6951' .
Depart to Serve