THE COMMUNITY CHURCH NEWS Vol. X I I S T O W , O H I O , D E C E M B E R 28, 1945 No . 52

A WORD TO T H E L O N E L Y

Here ' s an excerpt f r o m "The Asia t ics" by Freder ick Profeasch:

Mian is a lonely c rea tu re . lit's t a k e n me a long t ime to make su re of i t and i t ' s been a sad process . . . I 've a lways inst inct ively reached out toward people. I 'd Want to see into them and let them see into me. I'd wian't to become pa r t of them and let them be p a r t of me. But something a lways happened. It would never work out proper ly . They'd resent it if I detected a weakness in them . . . and they 'd grow bored and contemptuous if I showed them my weaknesses . Al-ways. In t imacy scared fheim . . . We ' re all lonely l i t t le souls; we've all got to work out our own salva-tion.

The word " lonely" does not oc-cur in the Bible; but i ts equivalent , "a lone" appear s the re f r equen t ly .

I ts f i r s t use is in connection with God'is provision aga ins t man ' s lone-liness.

"And the Lord God said, I t is not good t h a t the m!an should be alone; I will make him an help meet f o r him."

When God presented t h a t which He had made to Adam, he said: "This is now bone of my bones, and f lash of my fleish: she shal l be called Woman, because she was t aken out of Man."

"There fo re shall a man leave his f a t h e r and his mother , and shall cleave into his wi fe ; and f h e v shall be one f l e s h " (Genesis 2:18-24.)

It wlas not the intent ion of God tha t a "da rk cell of lonel iness" should wall His c rea tu re in.

"True , " says one. "Bu t a l though m a r r i a g e is the closest bond of all —.and a l though one is sui tably mar r i ed and the dlayis a re fi l led with love and happy association-— a consciousness of lonelineisis g r ips one."

Tha t condition can only exist be-cause sin h a s come into the world and permeated all phases of man ' s ear th ly existence. lit was not so or-iginally.

Freder ick Prokosdh implies t h a t a per fec t plarltner mus t be found before loneliness will cease. O'ne

tha t you can see into and t h a t can see inlto you—one t h a t you will be-come p a r t of, and t h a t will become p a r t of you—one in whom there is no weakness—yet one t h a t can un-ders tand the confessions of weak-ness in you—and one t h a t will not be scared a t in t imacy.

iSiuich a p e r f e c t one can only be found in the Lord J e sus Chr is t !

If ever anyone knew loneliness in its sitark rea l i ty i t was the Lord Jesus . He knew wha t it was to be li 'f t alone by man ; and on the cross He cried: "My God, My God, why has t Thou f o r s a k e n M e ? " (Mark 15:154)

He cer ta in ly can see into us! But w h a t about s eeing in to Him ? We know essent ia l deity is His— He is inf ini te in be ing— yet His charac te r and conduct are so per-fectly t r a n s p a r e n t t h a t one desir-ous of looking into Him experienc-es no d i f f icu l ty in perceiving Him to be "a l toge the r lovely."

And as f o r becoming p a r t of Him and B e of us, ponder His disciples: "Ye in Me, and I in you!" (John 14:20).

There is no w.eaknesis in' Him, and He never g rows bored and con-t emptuous when we acknowledge our weakness to Him.

There is no posisibility of inti-macy scar ing Him, fo r He a l ready knows us inf ini te ly be t t e r than we know ourselves.

He has made it possible fo r us to enjoy Him as our pe r fec t pa r t -ner , because He shed His precious blood fior the remission of our sin's.

And in resur rec t ion , a f t e r a s su r -ing us t h a t all power in heaven, and ea r th h a s been giiven t o Him, He savs : "Lo, I am with you a lways" (Mat thew 28:20).

Again He said: "I will never leave thee, nor f o r s ake thee" (He-brews 13:5)

"I 've a lways inst inct ively reach-ed out toward people" savs the au thor of "The Asia t ics ." This is well enough in its place, but has there been t h a t super ior t h i n g of reaching out by f a i t h toward the adorable Lord J e sus Chr i s t ?

"Chr i s t l iveth in m e " is the only real prevent ive of loneliness.

Tom M. Oilison in the Doors tep Evangel .

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WATCH NIGHT SERVICES A Watch Night Service will be-

held at Community Church f rom !> to 12 P. M. New Year 's Eve. Ar-rangements are b:dng made by the C:h ri siti a n Endeavor.

W E!) 01N G A N N OIT N C E M E X1T Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kinlein an-

nounce the marr iage of their daughter Magdalena Dorothea to Russell WnlMam Harper , J r . Chief Pe t ty Officer, U.S.N, on Monday. December the third at Baltimore, Md.

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Fourteen new members were taken into Stow D. of A. at their School of Instruction, Monday De-cember 17, in the Town Hall. The next regular meeting will1 be Mon-dmv J a n u a r y 7th at 7:30 n. m. There will be draping of the Char-ter in memory of Mrs. Joanne Hen-

derson who passed away Dec. 10'tih. There will also be installation of officers. Members please wear white.

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H A P P Y N E W YEAR This is the time of the year when

one should consider Old Fa the r Time and pass on a few wise re-marks about ge t t ing older, tu rn ing over a new leaf etc., but, it is also the morning a f t e r Chris tmas when this is being wri t ten, too late to make much of a paper for this week so we will just wish, you a Happy New Year and hope tha t on (he way to work we can pick up an article at Joe Mitten's. H. J . S. <g>

RANK For some time I have wanted to

write an article about the rank of the boys who are coming back f rom the service. I know it is a mat te r of family pride to have a boy come back as a Captain, but what abo-ut the neighbor 's boy who served just as long and shows a single stripe on his sleeve when he is discharg-ed. One can get a very wrong im-pression of the relative worth of these two men to society if he takes their army rank's as the only yardstick. I admit tha t the private has net received his jus t share of publicity. One has only to look in the magazir.ias; the pictures and stories have entirely too many lieu-tenants and captains and not near-

T H E H I G H W A Y to p u b l i c r e g a r d is p a v e d w i t h t h e p e r f o r m -a n c e of a S e r v i c e of S i n c e r i t y w h e r e a d i s c r e e t h a n d l i n g of t h e a r r a n g e m e n t s r i ngs a p p r o v a l .

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ISALYS In Stow ly as m a n y p r i v a t e s f i r s t c lass and corpora te as t he i r a c t u a l n u m b e r wo'ijjd seem to w a r r a n t . You s'ee th is d i s p a r i t y in n u m b e r s w h e n you count t he men in u n i f o r m down-town. Can it be t h a t t h e p r i v a t e s f i r s t clasis fee l t h a t t h e y Want to ge t ou t of u n i f o r m as quickly as possible whi le the commiss ioned o f f i ce r w a n t s to hold on to his dis-t inc t ion a whi le l o n g e r ?

W h e n t h a t boy cornels home w i t h -out a commiss ion , he and his p a r -en ts should no t fee l h u r t ; ne i t he r should t h e y be exa l ted because he wea r s b a r s on his shou lde r . The c r i t e r ion , a n d the only one, to be used in j u d g i n g the boy 's serv ice should be Whether his record is clean ar.d honorab le . If you r hoy didn ' t ge t a commiss ion , r e m e m b e r t h a t j u s t wlasn't h is i n n i n g to get a base hi t . The bes t b a t t e r s don ' t a lways gelt home r u n s . I t ' s t he a v e r a g e t h a t c o u n t s — t h e a v e r a g e fo r the whole g a m e of l i f e — t h a t d e t e r m i n e s your va lue to t h e t e a m .

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Mills was home over the Chris tmas holiday.

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Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Peters suent the last week end in New York City.

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According to his Dad, La r ry Thieis lef t the Philippines on De-cember eleventh headed for home.

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CHRISTMAS GIFT: A baby girl wias born to Mr. and Mrs. Ed-win Ruggles of Sltow on Christmas Day.

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Either at home Bob and Paul youngest brother service.

Home in Stow from Otterb-ein C> vilie, Ohio are P Roslyn Dialeher.

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The at tendance i by Mrs. Gilliam's t One birthday eel-Billy Zimmerman-

Richard Kempei! informing us of he the Army. His pr pears to be 852 0. ron 10, Ohio.

Mrs. Hazel Gilk sick with the flu We hope tha t she, ter and able to fi excellent articles:! Bible School lessc

N E W ARRIVE ward, weight eigii ounces, arrived Is to live with his :t Mrs. Howard S.;> Kent (Sltiow). Mia former ly Anna L<C

Some few diayiif call f rom Clyde h-Washington to lif Whether he couilcie Christmas reinna | Clyde had recentei and other points is

This past ClhrkS! Postoffice sent ij i)1 ere mail than a si in its history. Aj:! masters W'eitiror;; able assistance ocy was largely re>n s-ucceissful hiandlii; (] volume of busine

Mrs. Joseph 1| madge lef t the ckt, by plane for Gal:j, will visit with h : Pic bard, and his. j, a ry f i f teenth , a^j doctor will rece^ f rom tlhe Army ^ tomobiil-e to stow;^; Silver Lake.

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: e on the way are iuntihimer. The

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the holidays Olege a t Wesfcer-Pyilli's Davis and

INGER 1pair Work KIAT., Stow e3V 8879 ilUp of the U. S.

Afiter spe.nd-isn i west coast o\ discharged, e inner was won ms last Sunday,

eltaated, t h a t of n. nine years old. ei sends us a note hi discharge f rom rssent address ap-Oikland Ave., Ak-

kiihas been quite nljhis pas t week, e 111 soon be beft-!§ us with her sin the weekly

At Ronald Ed-;l| pounds, twelve l&mber 22, 1945 arenits, Mr. and

i.fcrcester, R. 3 r. Worcester wlas .o|ise Cox of Stow, •sago a telephone ([iter in Seattle, hi wife in Sitow. :! nafce it home by tijfld to be seen, tlf been in J a p a n i the Pacific.

•I as season Stow (; and rec saved tny similar t ime it Hiding to Post-i4n"d Snore the (Mis. W. P. Mills sfmsibile for the

of this great H, P cliiaaid of Tall-rafteir Chris tmas liraia where she i son, Dr. E. C. i ife until Jami-t which t ime the i' i 'his discharge a i re turn by au-'' id their home in

Sgt. Robert K. Lewis, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. N. Lewis of 260 Liber-ty Rd., Sitow, Ohio., and husband of Mrs. Robert Lewis of 1617 Garden St., Austin, Texas, has been r"leas-ed f rom the service at this separa-tion base, Lawrencevil'le, 111. St. Lewis entered the service May 1, 1942, at For t Hayes, Columbus, Ohio, and was assigned to the Air C'orps. Pr ior to his separat ion f rom the service, Sgt. Lewis was a t tach-ed' to the famed Troop Carr ier Coimimiand, stationed at George Field, 111., Where he was a crew chief. Previous to his entrance into the service, Sgt . Lewis was an in-spector, for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.

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Last Sa turday as we drove past the main corner in S'tow with sons Oidwin and Marc crawded in the f r o n t seat of our old Plymouth it

looked a little like old times.. On one corna* soldier J ames Weildon with bar racks bag (back f r o m Yale) apparen t ly wai t ing fo r a bus to take him the res t of the way home, called to us: across the s t ree t on the opposite corner the re was Sailer John Thomas Adams S l / c , also apparent ly home for the holidays, and the two Durs t boys, one home o.n fu r lough , the other in civies, discharged and now at tend-ing Kent S ta te Univers i ty . Pre-viously we had jus t seen Charles Miller. La ter at church we met Lloyd Swanson. Then ther - was TTeroiV! Hamilton, Clara Gill.am and a good rv>».ny others. One th ing about tho boys, those who have been j^one two, three and four vears. we .have to look a second time to recognize them. In our memory they are just youngsters , now, thev are men and awoear mnch older, which reminds us tha t we are all ge t t ing older and some da", like George Washington ' s gen-eration, it will be only in the his-

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L E T T E R December 12, 1945

D e a r Mr. S t o c k m a n : I 've had a c h a n g e of add re s s flor

somet ime bu t i t ' s j u s t dawned on me tha t I h a v e n ' t not i f ied you of the change . I t ' s i n t e r e s t i n g to see who's g e t t i n g d i scharged . I have h igh hopes of be ing t u rned loose in the next f e w mon ths .

1 was qui te f o r t u n a t e in landing-s t a t e side du ty . This is the bes t l iber ty coun t ry a guy could a s k fox-, so I 'm j u s t hop ing I can swea t ou t the r e m a i n d e r of my t ime in the navy r i g h t he re .

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Ed. No te : T h a n k s fo r the c h a n g e of addres s notice and we hope you a r e " t u r n e d loose" soon.—H. J . S.

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LETTER A p r a H a r b o r , Guam 16 December 1945

Dea r Mr. S t o c k m a n : I a m one of t hose de l inquent

w r i t e r s who is a l w a y s in tend ing to ge t a l e t t e r w r i t t e n to you every now and then t h a n k i n g you and all t h e g'ood people of Sltow f o r m a k -ing possible the sending of the C. C. N e w s to all the ones of us in the a rmed forces .

I believe in the las t l e t t e r t h a t I wro te you I said t h a t I would h a v e

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to tell you l a t e r w h e r e all I have been since l eav ing t h e S t a t e s . A t the t ime I w r o t e t he l a s t l e t t e r cen-sorsh ip w a s st i l l in e f f e c t .

T h e U.S.S. Trefo i l , t he supp ly b a r g e on which I h a v e served f o r the las t 211-i m o n t h s , l e f t t h e ha rbo r a t San F ranc i sco , Caliif. on the lsjt day of l a s t Apr i l 1944 and slailed or r a t h e r I should say w a s towed to P e a r l H a r b o r . T h e b a r g e is of concre te and slte-el and is ap -p r o x i m a t e l y 360 f e e t long and 54 f e e t wide. W e s t ayed in P e a r l Har-bor only abou t one week and were then ordered to be t a k e n to Ma-j u r o in t h e C e n t r a l M a r s h a l l Is-lands . Our s t a y t h e r e w a s shor t and in J u n e we sai led f o r E i n e w o t k in -the N o r t h e r n M a r s h a l s . The N a v y T a s k f o r c e t h a t r a ided T r u k in ea r ly J u n e w a s t h e r e a t t h e t ime we sai led. Our work r ea l ly s t a r t e d in e a r n e s t -and we i ssued s to res to all sh ips of t he amph ib ious and b a t t l e f o r ce s d u r i n g t h e s t r i ke a t Guam which re su l t ed in our r e t a k -ing of t h e is land. In October we were moved once agiain to one of the mos t secre t of n a v a l advanced bases in the Pac i f i c . The blase w a s Ulitlhi, a l a r g e lagoon s u r r o u n d e d bv a f e w cora l s t r i p s t h a t had a l i t t l e vege ta t ion or t h e m . Our biarige worked t w e n t y - f o u r h o u r s a dlay, seven days f o r a l i t t l e over seven m o n t h s s e rv ing every t a s k f o r c e t h a t ope ra t ed out of t h a t base . W e f u r n i s h e d all of t he s to re s a n d suppl ies needed f o r t he Iwo J im a and the Ok inawa c a m p a i g n s . In the liaslt of M a y of th i s y e a r we were mo-v:d t-o San P e d r o B a y in the Phi l l ip ines . San Pedro Bav is located in t h e s'o-uthern p a r t of the Phill ipines be tween the i s lands of Slamar and Leyite. The end of the w a r f o u n d us i ssuing our s to res to all of the sh ips c a r r y i n g occupa-

t ion t r oops to J a p a n . In t h e e a r l y plant of N o v e m b e r , we received or-ders to go to G u a m . Upon a r r i v a l we were to ld t h a t we w e r e to s t a y in the Pac i f i c on- advance ba se d u t y i s su ing s to re s to t he sh ips t h a t s topped in a t Guam. T h e r e is lo ts more t h a t I could tell you a b o u t bu t it would go on f o r p a g e s so I will save i t un t i l I g e t home and tell you then .

I have received the copy of t h e C. C. N e w s in which you asked •that all of us who k n e w t h a t w e were r e t u r n i n g to the S t a t e s f o r d i s c h a r g e would let you kno-w so t ha t copies would not be mai led . Well, I can h a p p i l y say t h a t I am now one of t he lucky fe l lows . I am -on a d r a f t l eav ing soon f o r t h e S t a t e s . So Mi'. S t o c k m a n I would a p p r e c i a t e it v e r y much if you will have my . n a m e removed f r o m t h e m a i l i n g list f o r the p r e s e n t and I am hop ing t h a t 1 see you ve ry soon.

I w a n t to a g a i n t h a n k everybody t h a t h a s h e l p : d m a k e the send ing of t he C. C. N e w s to all of us who a r e in t he a r m e d fo rces . I not iced in one of t h e l a s t copies t h a t I h a v e received t h a t y'ou s t a t e d t h a t you did not know w h e t h e r the C. C. N e w s would cont inue a f t e r every-body is home once agiain. I s incere-ly hope t h a t it c o n t i n u e s and I know t h a t all of t hose t h a t have received it f o r so long d u r i n g the t i m e t hey have been in t he service a r e hop ing the s ame t h i n g .

I t h ink t h a t I have abou t r u n down f o r the p re sen t and since it is n e a r l y chow t ime I will close. Hope to see you soon.

Sincere ly , Rober t H a m i l t o n

Ed. N o t e : T h a n k s f o r t he i n t e r -e s t ing l e t t e r . We hope to see you soon.—<H. J . S.

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