The Cedarville Herald, Volume 68, Numbers 27-52

CRDARVJLLH HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1946 'IMPROVED' UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL s » 8 U e » iS ffl* ., e*«*. Lessons for July 8 | * lu ion «ubJ«ot* <u>d Scrlatur. t«xt»*«j permission. { - .MAN ’S FAILURES AND ! GOD’S PROMISES < * LISBON TBXT—<5ene«li 8:8-7; 8:1. 4. 18. Rh2>. GOLDEN TEXT—White ths ssrth remain- eth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and beat, and summer and winter, and day and night ahall not cease.—Genesis 8;22, The beginnings of a ll. things in the book of Genesis include, we are sorry to note, the beginning of sin in the fall of Adam. Soon we read o f the first murkier, Cain slaying his godly brother, Abel, because his acceptance with God exposed the wrong heart-attitude of Cain. The godly line was renewed in Seth, but before long sin again lifted its ugly head. Now the wickedness Of man had become so widespread that God was driven to a drastic Judgment. I. Judgment for the Wicked (6:3-7). The Lord sees the wickedness o f men—let us not forget that! At times it seems as though the un­ godly flourish in their sin and that tilers is no judgment .upon them. God knows, what goes on in the world. He is long-suffering and mer­ ciful, but there is a boundary line to His patience, and when that limit is reached, there can , be, nothing ^ut judgment. Ever imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was evil continual­ ly (v. 5). One is reminded of Jere­ miah 17:9, and o f such a contem­ porary estimate of man as that of Dr. Mackay, who said, “ Psycholo­ gy has unveiled the dismal and sin­ ister depths in human nature. Man can no longer flee from reality into the romantic refuge of his own heart; for the human heart has be­ come a house of horrors in whose murky recesses man cannot erect fo r his solace either a shrine or a citadel. Man is bad; he is a sin­ ner.” ; ■ God did not change, His mind (v. 6), but man by his sin moved himself out o f the circle of God’s love, over into the circle of His judgment. God never changes, but w e change our relations to Him by our actions. Such is the evident meaning of this verse. v n . Deliverance for the Upright (8: 1, 4, 18). God remembered, Noah, and, he “ found grace in the eyes o f ' the Lord” (Gen. 6:8) because he was “ a just man” ,(6:9). At the Lord’s com­ mand, he prepared the ark for the. saving o f himself and his house; and after the Lord had “ shut him in " (Gen. 7:16), the great judg­ ment by water came upon the earth. After 150 days (Gen. 7:24), the Lord remembered Noah (8:1) and caused the e a r t h t o d r y u p once again. The same Lord who shut him in to keep him during the flood brought him out after the flood (8: 15, 16), .gave him great power (9: 1-4), assured him. of His, protection (9:5-7), and gave him the great promise (9:8-16) ef which the rain- bow became the token. The God who will in no wise for­ get the sin of the wicked will never leave nor forsake those who walk uprightly before Him. The story of Noah should stimulate our faith, causing us to obey and trust God. His protecting hand is over, His children, and He can bring them through the darkest days of tribulation, III. Mercy in the Midst of Sin ( 6 : 20 - 22 ). “ Noah builded an'altar,” for the first impulse of his heart was to give praise to God for His mighty deliverance. His offering came up to God as “ a sweet savor,” that is, it was pleasing to God. To come before God with accept­ able worship, man must, come, with clean hands. The question is not whether"he is brilliant, learned, or of high position. The, one thing that counts is obedience. When such a man offers the worship of his heart before God, it. goes up to him like a sweet savor. God know man’s heart (v. 21). He had no illusions that even the judgment of the flood would change it. Eagerly His love sought man’s obedient response, but He well knew that the awful pestilence o f sin would continue until the very end of the age. So in spite of that sin, and in the very midst of it, God promised that He would never again wipe out hu­ manity as He did in the flood. There would be individual judgment and collective judgment on certain groups, but. never again the smiting t of every living thing. Thus, He set men free from the terror which must have now been in their hearts. The beautiful rainbow in the cloud became a Apken of God’s promise, and the visible assurance to “ all flesh” that the judgment of the flood would not be repeated. Never again would seed time and harvest, nor. any of the orderly processes .of nature, fail throughout the whole earth- What a gracious; God we have! And what a pity that men presume upon Hi* goodness, • RHEUMATISM? 7 7 Conte to Browns* Drags Cedarville, 0 , REINER’ S MMOL The Medicine yonr friend* are all talking *b**t-rfor Rfcetutu*!**, Arthritis, Neuritis, Lumbago. With Ernie Pyle in the Pacific! Mighty Fleet Paved Way For Invasion of Okinawa 1 B ig Guns Pulverized Island in ! Covering Landings o f Troops By Ernie Pyle Editor’* Note: Emit Pyle was several dispatches ahead when he met death from a . Jap machine gun on fe island. This newspaper will continue to print these for a few 'weeks. OKINAWA.—-Now that we are ashore in full force upon the Japanese island of Okinawa I would like to go back and tell you in detail how the invasion went off. As our regimental commander said the night before the land­ ing: “ All I’m worried about is getting past the first two day’s when ■we are on our own and will have to improvise to meet every situ­ ation. But after that we will be established and from then on we can just go by the book,” ^ ... — ■—— ......... ............ . - The first two days are over—ac­ complished with an ease that had eyerybody flabbergasted. By eve­ ning of tiie first day we had done; much more than the most optimistic planner figured we could in the first. three days. So from now on it’ s “ by the book.” • * * For some reason which I haven’t fathomed yet the' conventional name o f D-Day was changed for this in­ vasion to “ Love Day.” Possibly it was because we were landing on Easter Sunday and somebody felt, the spirit of brotherly love; At any rate when dawn came on Love Day and the pink, rising sun lifted the shroud of Oriental dark­ ness around us, we were absolutely appalled. For all. our main convoys had converged and there they lay around us in one gigantic fleet, stretching for miles. There were around 1,500 ships and thousands of small land­ ing craft which the ships had car­ ried with them. There weren’t as many small ships as at Normandy, but in-naval power and actual force of men and fighting strength it was equally as big as the invasion of Europe. We certainly didn’t go at Okinawa, ib any half-hearted manner. Ham and Egg*-— . Than ft*i Business We had ham and eggs for break­ fast at 4:30 a. m. We strapped our unwieldy packs on our backs. Our heavier gear was left aboard to be' taken ashore several days later, i It was only half light when we went on.deck. You could see flame flashes; on the horizon toward shore. The men on the deck were dark and indistinguishable forms. Our assault transport carried many landing craft (LCVPs) on deck. They were lifted by a derrick and swung oyer the side. We piled into them as they hung even with the rail. Then the winch lowered them into the water. I went on the first boat to leave our ship. It was just, breaking dawn when we left. It was still more than two hours before H-Hour. Our long ocean trip was over. The days we haij reluctantly counted off were all' gone. Our time had run out. This was it. All around us hundreds of other , bpats were putting off and churning 'the water, but there was no or­ ganization to it. They weren't yet < forming into waves. These early boats carried mainly the control crews who would manage -the colos­ sal traffic of shore-bound invasihn- . 1st* in the next .few hours. • - • « ‘i An assault on an enemy shore is ’ a highly organized thing, it is so . intricately organized, so abundant in fine detail that it would be impos­ sible to clarify it all in ydur mind. No single man in our armed forces know*,: everything about an in­ vasion, < But just to simplify one point— Suppose we were invaditfg an enemy beach .on a four-mile front, It is not as you .would think, one over-all invasion, Instead it is a *dozen or more little invasions, simultaneously and side by side. Each team runs its own invasion. A combat team is a regiment. Our regimental commander and his staff were on the little control ship. Thus our control ship directed only the troops of our regiment. “ We had beaches “ Yellow One” and. “ Yellow Two." Troops o f our regiment formed waves directly off those beaches, miles at sea, and we went straight in. Other- control ships on either side, having nothing to do with us, directed other waves having noth­ ing to do with us. Each was its own private little show. As I’ve written before, war to an individual is hardly ever bigger :than a hundred yards on each side of him. And that’s the way it was with us in Okinawa. An hour and a half before H. Hour at Okinawa, our vast naval fleet began its final, mighty bom­ bardment of the shore with its big guns, They had been at it for a week, but this was a concentra­ tion whose fury hadn’t been ap­ proached before. • ■» Bombardment of Shore Deafening The power of the thing was ghastly. Great sheets of flame would flash out from a battery of guns, gray brownish smoke would puff up in a huge cloud, then the crash of sound and concussion would carry across the water and hit you. Multi­ ply that by hundreds and you have bedlam. Now and then the smoke from a battlewagon- would com e , out in a smoke ring, an enormous W e, 20 or 30 feet across, and float upward with perfect symmetry. Then came our carrier planes, div­ ing on the^beaches. And torpedo planes, carrying heavy bombs and incendiaries that spread deep red flame. - ' Smoke and dust rose up from the shore, thousands of feet high, until finally the land was completely veiled. Bombs and strafing machine guns and roaring engines mingled with the blended crash of naval bombard­ ment and seemed to drown out all existence. The water -was a turmoil of move­ ment. Dispatch and control boats were running about. LSMs and LSTs were moving slowly forward to their unloading areas. .- Mptor torpedo boats dashed around as guides. Even the destroyers moved majestically across the fleet as they closed -up for the. bom­ bardment of the shore. . . From our little control ship and the scores like it, waves of assault craft were directed, advised, hur­ ried up, or slowed down. H-Hour was set for 8:30. By 8 a, m. directions were being radioed and a voice boomed out to sea to form waves 1 and 2, to hurry up, to get things moving. Our first wave consisted solely of heavy guns on amphibious tank$ which were to wade ashore and blast ou t ' the pillboxes on the beaches, One minute behind them came the second wave—the first of our foot troops. After, that, waves came at about 10-minute intervals. Wave 6 was oni its way before wave 1 ever hit the beach. Wave 15 was" moving up before wave 6 got to the beach. That’s the way, it went.. * • * We were on the control boat about an hour. I felt miserable and that awful weight was still on my heart. There’s nothing romantic whatever in'knowing that an hour from now you may be dead. Some officers I knew came aboard. They weren’t going ashore until afternoon. They wanted to talk. I simply couldn’t ‘ carry on a con­ versation; I just couldn’ t talk. Word came by radio that waves 1 and 2' were ashore without much opposition and there were no mines on the beaches. So far, so good. We looked at the shore through binoculars. We could see tanks moving across the fields and the men of thd? second wave walking in­ land, standing upright. There were a few splashes in the water at the beach, but we couldn’t ma k e .out any real fire coming from the shore, .It was all very indefinite and yet it was indicative.The weight began to lift. I wasn’ t really conscious of it. But I found myself talking more easily with the sailors, and somehow the feeling gradually took hold of me that we were to be spared. The 7th wave was to-pick us up as it came by. I didn’t even see it approaching. Suddenly they called my name and said the boats were alongside. I grabbed my pack and ran to the rail. I ’m glad they came suddenly like that. The sailors shouted, “ Good luck,” over and over and waved us off. We were on our way. Marines Find Perfect Defense Position After a couple of days with the headquarters, of the marine regi­ ment I moved to a company and lived and marched with them for several days. The company is a part o f the First marine division, a very hard-bitten outfit. The company was on a hill about 3,000 yards long and about a hun­ dred yards wide. The men were *4(lg,in down the sides of the hill. There was a mortar platoon at the foot of the hill, all set up to throw mortars any direction. “ This is the most perfect defen­ sive position we’ve ever had in our lives,” the company commander said. “ One company could hold nil a whole battalion for days. If the Japs had defended # iese hills they could have kept us fighting for a week.” B*B f a r I f fM r and la tte r Valuat W e lsh e s , D iam ond !, Jewelry, Suits, Redie*, S um , Musical Instruments. MONEY TO LOAN Off Anything e l Value - - Just Bring It Ini SUITS $9.75 I * B ’Leeit O fflee , *5>Wt M ein St. SgtinglfeM , O . CHURCH NOTES i«MMni«,imin.Ht.iiiiiiiinnmmnMi.m»miMniiMmn n FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. Paul Elliott, Minister 10 A. M. Sabbath School, John Pow­ ers, Supt. . • - 11 A, M. Morning Worship. Sermon — “ He Also Is Wise Prayer meeting Wednesday even­ ing at this chureh. Choir Rehearsal, Friday at 8 P.*M. METHODIST CHURCH Rev. H* H, Abels, D. D., Minister Sunday School IQ A, M, Supt, Miss Bette Nelson. Church Service 11 A. Ml “ The Same Boat.” The collection stewards this week are Fred Chase, William Marshall, kVilbur Lemons,' and C liff Brewer, immie Wisecup is the usher. / The Men’s Bible class, is grow ing)’ J and fine interest is being manifested. • j John Mills is the new full time teach- r er. 7:4$ R 1A RvsagelMis Service. Midweek Service Wednesday even­ ing 7:45 P, M. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT For Sale~2 Screen door fra****, one wit?) screen, Si*# 6 ft, l l In by Estate o f Anna Ellen Goippton, H 'toui 4he other Oft, 1 1 1«- by HE la# Deceased. I Robert Nelson j Notice is hereby given that Marl-j --------------------------- WALLACE-MARTIN anna Bogan has been duly appointed For Sale—Two-piece ^bolstered as Administratrix o f the estate o f Living Room Suite, Condition fair, STUDIOS OF j ^ nna EHen Compton, deceased, late Phone, 6-1982. p J J O T O G R A P H Y ' Spring Valley Township, Greene Dated this 18th day of May, 1943, WILLIAM B, McCALLISTER, Jud geo f the Probate Court, Greene ESTABLISHED 1914 ADsma 9432 44 S. Ludlow, Dayton, O, j County, Ohio. For Sale—8Q feet o f galvanized, lawn fence in good condition. Phone 6-2101, Cedarville. M. C, Charles. -BUY WAR BONDS TODAY UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Ralph A. Jamieson, Minister, ounday School 10 A. M, Supt. Arthur X Evans. Preaching 11, A. M. Lessons-from Mark.” Y, P. C. U. 7 P. M. Subject, “ Li-, quor Runs Amuck”. - ! Choir rehearsal Saturday, 8 P. M.in the Church ■ Prayer Service Wed. 8 P, M, in the Presbyterian (Jhurch. The Synodical Y. P. C. U.. Confer­ ence will be held next week, July 9-14 at Hanover College, Hanover, Ind. * Seven are expecting ta attend from* our. church. CLIFTON UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Dr. John W. Bickett, Minister. Sabbath School, 10 A. M. Supt. Wm. Ferguson. . Miss Jean Ferguson, Pianist. Lesson Topic: “ Man’s Failure ,and *• God’s Promises.” 1 - - Preaching service 11 A. M. Gall to worship, “ Show Me Thy || Paths O, Lord,- .0 Guide Me in Thy •* Truth Divine.” Dr. Bickott will speak •' on the teaching of the Third Epistle"! ’ of John. The young people will meet at sev­ en-thirty and discuss the liquor prob­ lem. i’HE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE Pastor, Raymond Strickland. • Sunday Services { Sunday School 10:00 to 11:00 A , M. Preaching 11:00 A. M. to 12:00 M. Evangelistic Service 7:30 P. M. Wednesday Service Prayer Meeting 7:30 P. M. Sunday School Superintendent, Ra- fus Nance. CHURCH OF GOD R. C. FREDERICK. Pastor Sunday Services— 10 A. M, Devotional. 10:30 A. M. Jr. Church School and message. 11 A. M. Question and Discussion. 11:30 A. M. Denediction. 6:45 P. M. Y. P. Service. G 00 DPRINTING... and Full Value for Your Dollar! There’ s a commonly used ex­ pression: “You get just what you pay for.” This applies to PRINTING just the same as » most anything else you buy. Good PRINTING can’t be produced at a poor price. . •4 Poor Printing even at a low price is expensive, because it gives the prospective custo­ mer the impression that your services or products are not. up to standard. W e give full value for every dollar you spend with us fo r PRINTING — and our prices are always FAIR . ■\ OUR PRINT SHOP IS YOUR SERVICE . . . Ilv We Solicit Your Next Printing Order The Cedarville Herald PHONE 6— 1711 PRINTING and PUBLISHING SINCE 1877 t , ’ .4 ~ , -« - * ,4 m »• ppp • * ♦ o „ . 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THE SPRINGFIELD COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY \ '■J: * P s S s W* sincerely regret thi rteen* dtscournging pews on sugarwhichhas further restricted our production o f CtseaCetsu ' m i / [IIIVII , tovernme & ‘asual on ' .-dining mo . fifty thousa » ered on the! Grounds to celebration to watch an ' play. It wa • tebration for the beginnin Hearings Qharter for gan Monday lations Com will continue It is believed ter will be c taken, by not Present indie ter—or Treat than the two for ratificati ( Adjpurnme summer tec for last Satu a result of a oped between ate over an Fair Employ tee in the tions Bill. T parliamentar ern Memhe FEPC item ate reinstate ensued. The House the Senate th relief measu approved by week, deals and will raa postwar ere tax exemptio. - ten thousand thousand, be^ as a' means o and business version probl gressional i Means Coma pected to co pare legislati ductions on porate inconi m■ The Sped tary Policy ( report, signei ty-two mem! a “ broad p o r training in endorsement training pr House Com ed. HoWeve legislatives make a reco the subject ally establis tary trainin proved by t •mittees of t enacted into fore becomi hot likely t if at all The Kilg Senate has high War D ffcials in co shortage shells in ing to the ages which cause o f th officials to able suppli any failure then charg War Patte partment Were endea bility for t industry a report was etal Some ,of Supply, ’ Hopkins, At the p lation of t lowest poi century- years, Si nation ha through m farm oper military s duction of leans livi 190,000, sued by t tore. Yet, M nearly population year prod more food great pat farmers