wednesday evening Lenten Servic es)
lir. John ii, Buchanan, Pastor urs. Dorothy Gettler, Organist

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Prayer before Worship:

O Almighty God, from whom evary good prayer cometh, who pourest out on

all who desire it the spirit of grace am of sunplication: Deliver us, then
we draw nigh to Thee, frou coldness of heart and ware s of mind, that
with steadfast thoughts and kindled affections we or ship Thee in spirit
and in truth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen,

PRELUDE
CALL TO WORSHIP
*HYMN: "I Love to Tell the Story" #¢ 37
*INVOCATION AND LORD'S PRAYSR
MUSICAL INTERLUDE
RESPONSIVE READING - Page 646 of Hymnal
*THE APOS'L.3 CREED
I believe in God the Father Almighty, i.aker of Hsdaven and earth;

And in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord; iho was conceived by the Holy
Ghost; Born of the Virgin iiary; Suffered wmder Pontius |Pilate 3; Was cur-
cified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell; The d day He rose
again from the dead; He ascaided into heaven; And sitteth on the right
hand of God the Father Alnighty; From thaice He shall core to judge the
quick and the dead, |

I believe in the Holy Ghost; The Holy Catholic Churd ; The Communion
of Saints; The Forgiveness of sins; The Resurrection sd the body; And
the Life everlasting. Amen,
*GLORLA PATRI
HYIN (seated) - "We've a Story to Tell to the liations" 101
MUSICAL INTJIRLUDE
SCRIPTURE - I Corinthians 2:1-16
EVENING PRAYER
WSICaL INT RLUDE

SERMON - eileen Of Gor!
*HYMN - "How Firm a Foundsati

on" = #2
ANNOUNC ELEN TS
THE aCT OF DEDICATION
*PRAYER OF DiDICATLON
*HYMN: "Savior Again to Thy Dear Name We Raise" 66
POS TLUDE,

ANNOUNCELENTS
tonight's sermon title will be the subject of open discussion next
wednesday night at 7:30. <A hymn sing will be held before the discussion

aid coffee will be served afterward.

Thursday: Choir Rehearsal 6:30 p.m,
tion's Fellovship 7:30 p.m.

Friday : Ladies Aid Bake Sale, 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. Church Basement

BEFORE I BAGIN TALKING ABOU THE BIBLE LET MS SAY THAT

CUSSION PERIOD ARE BARELY ENOUGH TO CRACK OPEN THE PROBLEM

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STRUCTIVE. BEFORE ONE EMBARKS ON A CONSTRUCTIVE APPROACH |}

BE CLEARED, A LOT OF THICK UNDERBRUSH TO BE CHAOPPED AwAY-j

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CAN ACCOMPLISH IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS. THEN I HOPE YOU wIL

WILL POINT OUT LATER THE LACK OF KNOWLEDGE WITH WHICH THE

BIBLE IS PHENOMENAL AND HERSIN LIES ONE OF THE CHURCH'S MO
a vile Se ceca

BT PRESSING PROBLEMS,

QNE SERMON AND ONE DIS-

LET ALONE DO ANYTHING CON

PHERE 1S A LOT OF GROUND TO

PTHIS IS WHAT 1 HOPE WE

L TAKE IT FROM THERE. ASTI

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AVERAGE CHRISTIAN APPROACHSS THE

AGAIN

LET ME WICE MY HOPE THAT MY CONSTANT HAMMERING AT THIS PONT WILL PROMPT YOU TO TAKE
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STEPS TO CORRECT THIS SITUATION.

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SURROUNDING THE BIBLE ARE LAYSRS OF SUPERSITTUTION, L
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NECESSITY I WILL HAVE TO CIZAR THESE AWAY. I HOPE YOU WIL

AND BIASPHEMOUS, SECAUSE IT IS ANYTHING THAN THAT, WH ARB

BEENOS AND MYTHS, AND OF

L NOT THINK IT IRREVERENT

ASSIGNED THE TASK OF

RESTO RING TH. WORD OF GOD ] ITS PROPER STATUS AND D DO THIS REQUIRES THE REMVAL

BTITUTLON THAT 1 HAVE H&ARD

OF ALL HUMAN SUPERSTITUTION AND TR DITION. [os SUCH SUPER

IS OF A MARINE WHOSE LIFE WAS SAVED B SCAUSE THE NEW TEST.

laeS IN HLS POCKET SWPP A B

BULLET. THE MARINE INTERPRETED THIS AS THE MYSTSRLOUS POWBR OF THE WORD OF GOD

pW oD

AND ON THE SPOT DECIDED TO BECOME A GOSPEL MINISTER. OPIN

[ONS LIKE THESE ARE NOT ONLY

FOOLISH BU ALSO DO MUCH TO DEGRADE AND PERVEXT THE MANING OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.

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THE BEST STARTING POINT IN ANY DISCUSSION OF THE BIBLE

THAT IT IS A BOOK THAT SIMPLY IS NOT READ.

WOULD BE THE RZALIZATLON

COL NEL SPENCE CHAPMAN RECORDS IN HIS

BOOK THE JUNGLE IS NEUTRAL HOW ON ONE OCCASION IN MALAYA Di

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CONCEALED FROM TH! JAPANESE FOR SOh

TAKS IN HAND A TASK WHICH HE HAD PROMISED HIMSELF MANY TIM
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READ THES NiW TESTAMENT.

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COMPANIONS FOUND THAT THEY COULD MAKE NOTHING OF IT.

DICTIONARY, THELR ONLY OTHER READING MATERIAL, FROM COVER 9

IT IS V’RY COMFORTING TO HZAR THE CLAIM THAT THE BIBLE

RING THE LAST WAR, WHILE

if MONTHS WITH NOTHING WHATEVER TO DO, HE ATTEMPTED TO

IS TO FULFILL, NAMELY TO

BUT WHEN IT CAME ]D THE POINT OF MAKING A START, HE AND HIS

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INSTEAD THEY R AD THE OXFORD

© COVER, BUT _NOT THE BIBLE.

IS A BEST SELLER YHAR

AFTER YAR. BUT A HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR INDEED IS TH FACT THAT OF ALL

“THE BEST SELLING BOOKS THE BIBLE IS THE LEAST READ. A RAC]

INT NATION WIDE SURVEY IN

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ENGLAND TURNED UP THE DISCONCERTLNG FACT THAT THE VAST MAJg

LESS THAN ONE HOUR A YEAR READING THE BIBLE.
SS eres,

I COULD GO ON FOR THE RiST OF THE TIM® WITH A BARRAGE

BAD THE SITUATION IS BUT THAT WOULD BE SINSELESS. YOU_ARS

RE TY OF CHURCH MEN SPENT

I? FACTS POINTING OUT HOW

AWARE OF THE PROBLEM, IT

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EXBTS EV RYWERE, WE DO BETTER 10 AK WHY DOSS IT EXIS4 AND WaT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT.

EOR

ONS OF THE PER TINANT REASONS Gir THE LACK OF BIBLE REAUING 15 THE NgtU OF THs TEXT

ITSELF, ITS CONSTRUCT. ON AND IT LANGUAGE. AS THE O1D TES!

fe SAGA OF A PEOPLE AND

THER GOD WAS WRITTEN DOWN IT WAS DONS SO IN THE LANGUAGE q
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THE NEW TESTAMENT WAS WRITEN LIKEWISE IN THE ROUGH ARAMAT(

¥ THE PARTICULAR ERA.
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VERNACULAR SPOKEN BY THE

PALENTINIAN PEASANTS, OR IN HS CRUDE FORM OF GREEK HAT Wi
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NO
THE THEN KNOWN WORLD. THER! WARE SEX CHAPTIRS AND VERSES,

NO ARBLVRARY STOPPING

PLACES: IT WAS A LIVID AND DYNAMIC MESSAGE WHITTEN IN THE GOMMON LANGUAGE AND STYLE

OF THE PEOPLE. A FEW HUNDRED YARS LATER IT WAS TRANSLATSI

INTO LATIN BY A MAN NaMED

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BROKEN DOWN INTO CHAPTERS AND VERSES: AND FOR 1,00¢

APPEARED. THEN AS THE DARK AGES BEGAN TO WAIN AND THE SPIH

YEARS NO OTHER TRANSLA TLON

TT OF RENNALSANCE AND

REFORMATION SWEPT OVER THE EUROPE MEN R&ALIZED THAT IF E

} THM THEY MUST BE APLE TO RAD If IN THELR OW TONGUE.

COMMISSIONED BY KING JAMZS COMPLETSD AND PUBLISHED A TRANS]

WOR) OF GOD WAS TO SPEAK
IN 1611 A GROUP OF SCHOLARS

Rh TION OF THE BIBLE HAT

FOR B50 YEARS WAS ACCEPTED AS THE AUTHORIZED V'RSLON: IT WAS DONE IN THE HEIGHT OF THE
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VICTORIAN AGE AND ITS STYLE AND LINGJISTICS ARE AB EXAMPLE

DF THEENGLISH LANGUAGE AT ITS

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FINEST HOUR. ONE DRAW BACK REMAINS, HOWEVER,/ THE LANGUAGE

DF 17TH CENT. ENGLAND IS NOT

OUR OW: AND THE BEAUTY OF ITS LOFTY oTYLE IS DUBIOUS MBRI'Y IN LIGHT OF THE LNsVITABLE

AWN OUT oF DATE
OBSCURITY INVOLVE) IN Al@eWC LANGUAGE.

THE REVISED STANDARD VERSION WHICH AGAIN HAS TRANSLATED TH

THE CONTEMPORARY AGE. BUT STILL THE SERIOUS STUDENT OF THE

AND CHAPTERS, THAT OFT TIMESSTOP AND BHGIN SMACK IN THE MD
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AS YOU WELL KNOw WE ARE FORTUNATE IN HAVLNG
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BIBLE INTO THE LANGUAGE OF

BIBLE IS PLAGUED BY VIRSES

DLE OF A CONTINUOUS NARRATIVE.
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THE BEST WE CAN DO IN OUR READING IS TRY TO IGNORE CHAPT ERY AND VERSES BUT AGAIN THIS

IS A DIFFICULTTASK.,

THE E ARS TAANSIATIONS OF THE BIBLE THAT FOREGO ALL CHAPTER AND VERSE HEAULNGS, ARE W

WRITTEN _ON A FULL PAGE SPREAD, AND ARE EVEN MORE ASSIMILATED WITH OUR LANGUAGE THAN THE

REVISED STANDARD VERDION. THE MOST POPULAR OF THESE IS J.#. PHILIP'S TRANSLATION OF

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THE NEW TESTAMENT: SRGbReaseeeorsseer: I WOULD HOPE THAT|THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE

SERIOUSLY CONCERNED ABOUT GOD'S WORD SPSAKING DIRSCTLY TO YOU WOULD OWN 4A copy OF THIS

EXCEL LENT RANSLATION.
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THE THRSE INSTITUTIONS IN WHICH BIELE STUDY COULD_ Occult SCHOOLS, CHURCH AND HOMES, HAVE

PROVED HOPELESSLY I7A DEQUATE TO THEIR TASK. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN SO ADAMANT

IN THEIR SEPARATION FROM THE CHURCH THAT DAILY BIBLE RWAULNG 1S BECOMING A THING

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OF THE PAST AND BIBLICAL STUDY UNHEARD OF. IN THE BEST INPARESTS OF CHURCH AND STATE

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I SUPPOSE THIS IS THE ONLY THING TO DO, BUT UNKNOWINGLY PUBLIC EDWATION HAS LOST

MIND. WITH TH FURTHER DIVORCE OF CLIGION AND MKMOCKNRMGRN TX OKC IRCA RARNENGK
CUMREHXERXKSXSAIXEL FOR MORAL INTEGRITY QR WTHICAL LEARNING.| LEAVE

THAT TO THE CHURCH IT IS MD!

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THE CHURCH, ON THE OTHER HAND, CANNOT DO IT ALONE. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, A PLACE

WHERE BISLICAL STUDY BELONGS, IS PLAGUED BY THE LACK OF TIM, MONEY AND PRACTICALLY

NO INTERSST WHATSOEVER. I AM NOT HERE REFERRING TO OUR OW} PROBLEM ALONE BECAUSE

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ITIS UNIVIRSAL. SUMAY SCHOOL BEG.NS AT 9:45 and ends 3/4 of an hour later. of

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THAT 1/2 AN HOUR, OPTIMIS!ICALLY, CAN BY DEVOTED TO ACTUAL|STWY. I DON'T NEED TO

PUSH THIS ANY FURTHER SITHER, THE TIME SISMENT ITSELF IS S® PATHETIC IT NEEDS NO FURTHER

EXPLANATION. THE THIRD INSTITUTION, AND THE MOST CRUCIAL OF ALL, IS THE ONE HOSE

LACKING AND THAT IS THE HOME. ‘HIS IS A VERY DESP PROBL

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AND I CANNOT TREAT IT

‘FULLY ACCEPT TO ss SHOULD PARENTS COOPELATE WITH THEER ORG / SHOULD THEY

SHOW JUST A LITTLE INTERESTED CONCERN, THE SITUATLON COULD

|}BE REMEDIED. FAMILY

DEVOTIONS ARE ALSO A THING OF THE st] WHO EVER HEARD OF 4 FAMILY REAULNG THE BIBLE

AND PRAYING TOGETHER? IT IS A BEAUTIFUL THING, BUT SO VERE RARE.

GOING BACK FOR A MINUTE TO CHRISTIAN SJUCATION, THIS CHURCH IS BLESS) WH A

GROUP OF STUNMDAY SCHOOL EEACHERS WHO ARE EFFLCIANT, HARD WPA ING , CAPABLE AND ABOVE

ALL OONCERNED. ALL TOO FREQUEN'LY, HOWEVIR, THEY ARE FACEPWITH Tw OR THRSE PUPILS.

he I THINK I CAN SPSAK FOR MOST eoaseas| WOULD B.

TO OPELATS A FULL TIME CHURCH SCHOOL, MEETING ONE HOUR A D

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KY. THIS SUGGESTION, IN THE

PAST, HAS ONLY DRAWN SARCASTIC SNSERS AND A SYMPATHETIC SMELE OR TWO.

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HOW CAN JOHNNIE DO THAT? HE DOESN'T GET HOME FROM FOO'
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AND THEN HE HAS TO GO TO THIS M ETLNG OR THAT BPG>-AD-ENPIETT

UM. UNDERLYING THE WHOLE

PATHETIC CONVERSATION 1S THE IMPLICATION THAT IS OBVIOUS, "WHY PASTOR, DO YOU MEAN THAT

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BIBLE STUDY IS AS IMPORTAN FOOTBALL AND THE BOY SCOUTS4

DO YOU MAN TO THLL ME THAT

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RAINING? WHY DON'T BE SILLY!"

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IMPOSSIBLE. SCIENCE AND RELIGION WERE DRIVEN APART AND

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PLIT OWCURSD IN CHRIS TIANITY

ITSELF THAT HAS NEVER BEEN REQONCI LED. SCIENCE AND RSLIGIQN WERE FORCED TO CHOOSE UP

SIOES. TWO AREAS THAT ARE N TURAL ALLIES WERE MADE ENEMIES

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MANY, ONE CANNOT BE SCIENTIFIC AND RELIGIOUS. ALL THIS TOU

STANDING

AND TO THIS DAY, IN THE MINDS OF
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fa. PTURES.

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HIS BIOLOGY STUDENTS.

MENTIONED NOTHING OF EVOLUTION AND THE BATTLE WAS ON.

} THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION TO

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OF ALL THINGS A LAW SUIT APPEARED

JENNINGS BRIAN WHO SALD THAT

FEATURING A VERBAL BATTLE BETWEEN THE FAMED ORATOR WILLIAM
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