The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 2, 1954, Page 5

Oct. 3 Is World Wide Communion Sunday Fleming Street Methodist Church Was Organized As Sparks Chapel Th 1868, the members of First Methodist’ Church having decided to introduce musical instruments into the church, about thirty mem- bers disagreeing with this proce- dure severed their connection and formed a new congregation. Tt was to be known as Sparks’ Chapel, after its first pastor, Rev. J. 0. A. Sparks. Charter Membership Those enrolled were: Joseph P. Roberts, Mrs. Emma Roberts, T. B. Russell, Mrs. Sarah Russell, Benjamin Russell, Mrs. Mary N. Albury, and Philip Albury. Randall Adams, Mrs. Catherine Adams, George Curry, Mrs. Mary Curry, Joseph Ingraham, Mrs. Elizabeth Ingraham, Samuel Kemp, John Demerritt and Jabez Pinder. Mrs, Drucilla Pinder, Joshua Pinder, William Saunders, Mrs. Elizabeth Saunders, Benjamin Ro- berts, Sarah Thompson, Sarah Cur- ty, Thomas Adams, John Roberts and Mrs. Margaret Roberts. Church Erected A lot on’the corner of Fleming and William Sts. was secured and a small frame building was erect- ed, this to serve as a place of wor- ship until 1887 (19 years) when un- “ the pastorate of Rev. W. H. F. The original deed of gift to the land contained a clause intended to prohibit the use of instrumental’ music in any church erected there. Rev. Mr. Sparks drew the deed but it was not Properly worded and failed in its purpose. Organ Purchased In 1892, over the protest of a few of the older members, an organ was purchased and Mrs. Agnes Pritchard was the first organist. During the pastorate of Rev. S. building was remodeld of the most attrac. in the city. 11, 1909, it was'total- by a hurricane and yesrs the congregation in the Harris School. Charen- records for this~ period speak of the kindness of many eet ~ “mg city who offered r Cc s and especially of the Bowd of Education. 4 Present Building many trials, on the second versary of its destruction and ler the supervision of the Pastor, . W. B. Tresca, work was be- gin on the foundation of the: pre- sint and beautiful and worshipful sructure. _At.a meeting of the Quarterly tonference on Feb. 21, 1912, the fame was changed from Sparks (Chapel to the Fleming St. Metho- ‘dist Church. During the pastorate of the Rev. W. B. Mundy, the Education Build. ing was added because of the Pressing need of additional space to house the evergrowing church school and as a center for many church related activities of Chris- tian fellowship. x AS Growth of Church m a small beginning, the ehurch now has a membership of 436 with a large church school and the years has taken its Place in the religious and cultural life of the city. Many distinguished members of the Florida Conference have serv- ed as its pastor. Among its members are the des- cendants of those early Wesleyan Methodists who brought God with them and a desire to establish His church in a new city in a new world. Ed. Note: Compiled and written by Mrs. James E. Statham. Credit is given to “Key West, the Old and New’ by Jefferson B. Browne for much of this material. An AP Mewsboaeres Posgroph eer A 98 SP a new church was built. - THE FLEMING 8° METHODIST CHURCH—This church located on the corner of Fleming and William Streets was erected in 1911 after the first church was destroyed in the 1909 hurri- cane. The original was named “Sparks Chapel” after its first pastor. The present min- ister is the Reverend James E. Statham.—Citizen Staff Photo, Sybil. H CHRONICLES 7:14—"Ié My people sz. shall | Religious Aid Is Given By Telephone By TOM STONE NUERNBERG, Germany # — humble themselves and Pray, and seck My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I .../ § ove! forgive their sin, and will heal their land. s * s In our Churches we have more absentees than advertisers, and.more moving by fear than by faich. We magnify the’ material more than the spiritual and a religious awakening is necessary to our na- tional survival. The conditions we are to meet are plain. _Humility—“humus”—ground! 1 must not } over-rate myself or my possessions. Humble—See God! See myself] "See my sin! “It’s me, O Lord, 4 standing in the need of Prayer.’” Stop running from God. Seek His face! Tum! If. My people will—then I will give spitiqua} and material property. We only have to meet the conditions, God will take care of the results. This isan experience verse. I may prove. it and find it true, So can America! So can you! Gems Of Thought EDUCATION All education should contribute to moral and physical strength and freedom. —Mary Baker Eddy. To know the laws of God in na- ture and revelation, and then to fashion the affections and will into harmony with those laws — this is education. —Sylvester Scovel. Education is a possession which cannot be taken away from men. NO MILITARY EXPERIENCE 55.5% Figures Refer to Males Age 18 and Over SOURCE: NAT INOUSTRIAL CONFERENCE BOARD Dr. J. Clark Henstey First Baptist Church Pulaski, Tennessee Teachers Boycott New York Town WATERTOWN, N.Y. (#—Eighty- nine school teachers in neighboring Lowville are boycotting this city because one of them got a parking ticket here. The unidentified teacher received the tag while attending a school zone conference a week ago. Principal Leon A. Davis of Low- ville wrote Watertown Mayor John H. Newman that “we will make every effort” to see that no Water- town concerns get any part of the two million ‘dollars to be put into a new Lowville school. ONE MORE VOTE CHICAGO (®—Sen. Paul H. Doug- | las (D-Ill), seeking reelection for | his second term, was assured of an-| other vote Thursday. His daughter, Jean, 21, appeared in the election | commission office in the city hall and registered to cast her vote in the Nov. 2 election. Germans whose troubles stack up too high can now reach for a tele- phone and get religious comfort. The Rev. Franz Georg Wart- burg, a gray-haired Jesuit priest, started the service here. It will be offered soon in other German communities by members of his Roman Catholic order, he said. The 5i-year-old priest gets an average of 20 telephone calls a night from persons who are des- Pondent or confused and who want spiritual advice. “Some of them are in real trou- ble,” he said, “and I do all I can to give them comfort. There are others whose burdens are not quite so heavy, but who need someone to talk to.” A young German telephoned that he was unable to get work and was contemplating suicide. “I talked to him a long time and pleadetl with him not to give up hope,” the priest said. “Two days later the young man ealled back and said that he had got a job and was happy. “Sometimes the.callers give their names, and sometimes they do not. Their names are not important. It's their souls that count, “Once in a while, when a per- son is in really serious trouble, I invite him to come to see me Personally. But most cases....are handled by phone. “Of course I can’t hear confes- sions over the telephone, nor do other things that only a church can do. But we try to help others as much as possible.” Read The Citizen BAHAT WORLD FAITH For Information Regarding DISCUSSION GROUP and FREE LITERATURE Please Call Mrs. Ethel Crane Secretary ~ TELEPHONE 2-276 ; TONIGHT, 7:45 P.M. CHAPLAIN WM. A. LANE 729 Fleming Street Saturday, October 2, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON Job’s struggle te understand life. Job 1:2, 19-23 By RALPH ROGERS We are switching back into the Old Testament with this lesson be- ginning the fourth Quarter. The first two lessons of the quarter are found in Job, five in Proverbs, five in Psalms and the last one in Ec- clesiastes. x The lesson today is true to life. We find a man visited with all sorts of trials and reverses and he finds it hard to understand life. He is perplexed and crushed by calami- ties, injustices, undeserved punish- ments, sorrows, troubles and ap- parent ruin. His neighbors see all this and ridicule a man who would cling to a God who allows such punishment. Often men are visited by such trials and tribulations and they fall. Not Job — he “was per- fect and upright, and one that fear- ed God.” dob’s Character The first verse in today’s lesson tells us what kind of a man Job is. As the lesson develops we find that one of the most common pro-. blems of life is here discussed — the problem of evil, and God’s re- lation to evil. God and Satan strug- gle for the soul of a man and we know that such a struggle has been waged since the beginning of time. The struggle as we see it to- day deals with a good and perfect man. Job has prospered in a material way. He owned camels and much cattle, property, had a large and loving family with whom he pray- ed, and he remained true to his God. It isn’t every one who would endure all the suffering, afflictions and reverses without blaming it on someone else — preferably God. A friend of mine living in Bel- mont, Massachusetts wrote to me during the war. She knew Harold Russell quite well since he was a meat cutter in the store where she brought groceries. Harold went into the army and a T. N. T. block blew off his hands. Naturally he was discouraged but he mastered the use of hooks and took the part of Homer Parrish in “The Best Years of our Life.” He has en- couraged countless others to carry on in spite of their handicaps. He was nicknamed “Hooks” by his buddies and while he went through all the tortures of a dis- figured person, he was determined to overcome this disaster with faith. He said, “There is some- thing in most people that won’t let them take defeat lying down. Call it anything you like, but to me it ip faith — faith in God and in my- self, faith that I can always rise from any setback.” There are still good and upright men in the world. Satan At Work The conditions of life offered Job have never been withdrawn or re- scinded. God has made man a free moral agent and he has ex- posed this child of his to the wiles of the devil. God believes that through his love and concern for mankind, that he can keep him loyal and faithful to him despite all Satan can do.- Job continued faithful through the most depres- sing and discouraging experiences of both body and soul. Satan is as much a “person” as the “Comforter” whom Jesus promised to send following his as- cension, Satan works in people POINCIANA BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL, 9:45 A.M. PREACHING, 11 A.M. BY PASTOR 6:30 P.M., Training Union PREACHING, 7:30 P.M. Tuesday, 7 P.M., at Old Home, Stock Island WEDNESDAY, 7:30° P.M., PRAYER MEETING AT CHURCH All Members Urged To Come INDEPENDENT RALPH ROGERS, Minister MORNING 11:00 A.M Subjects and when you see some at work — communist fashion using decep- tion, intrigue, infiltration — pre- tending to be a friend in order to steal and rob, then even murder that Satan is in Key West. One does not need to visit the many places of iniquity to find the devil, he operates quite openly in more \fertile fields such as the church. Any pastor is fully aware of this situation and yet is fearful of pull- ing up the weeds, “lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat.’’ (Mat. 13:29.) We told still struggling to understand fe Job faced disaster. His oxen were driven off by the Sabaeans, | his sheep died in a fire, the Chal- daeans took his camels and his children died in a hurricane. Satan pretended it was the act of God and perhaps it was simply to test Job’s faith. Many good men have fallen into doubt under less adver- sities. When such treatment is in- stigated by people pretending to be Christian, it becomes a struggle to understand life. We can better understand Jesus scathing remarks and woes to the Pharisees as we learn Satan is really a personal devil. There are People who claim to be good and upright, and all their ilk and kind will so testify, yet they operate in is most fiendish manner. That’s le. An excellent example is to be found in the individual who is en- trusted with funds, but like Judas suspects everyone else of being crooked. He might resort to in- tercepting the mails and illegally check for fear someone is getting more pelf than he. He accuses inno- cent persons of mis-appropriation of funds and through gossip hind- ers and cripples the work of God. Such a person working boastfully under the guise of “good and up- right” is an outstanding example of the illegitimate offspring of Satan himself often more properly called by another name. Job should have been living in the 20th century and Serie a The Salvation Army Temporary Location GOLDEN EAGLE HALL 1215 PETRONIA STREET Lt. and Mrs. Henry Russell, Officers in Charge Sunday School, 10 A.M. HOLINESS MEETING, 11:00 A.M. EVENING SERVICE, 7:30 P.M. Bible Study, Wednesday, 7:30 P.M. OUR MOTTO: Heart to God and Hand to Man Church Of God Of Prophecy #09 ANGELA STREET J. L. Tracey, Pastor Old Time Preaching and Singing SUNDAY SCHOOL, 10 A.M. Morning Worship 11:00 A.M. Evangelistic Service 7:45 P.M. Wednesday, 7:45 P.M., Prayer Meeting Friday, 7:45 P.M., Young Peo- ple’s Service Come and Bring Your Friends PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE ROCK “On This ROCK I Will Build My Church” TEMPORARY QUARTERS: 535 FRANCIS STREET (Corner Southard and Francis Streets) Mrs. Martha Robinson, Pianist SUNDAY SCHOOL, 10:00 A.M. Ralph D. Noble, Superintendent WORSHIP R25 EPI Ncre orerrp ‘ais DOW Youth Fellowship, 6:30 P.M. VISITORS WILL FIND A CORDIAL WELCOME life, Job Stands Fast Job did learn something which we can all learn and that is, “when | he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.” Like a tall sky- seraper, re-inforced with beams of | steel, he might have swayed slight- ly in the stiff storms of life, but | he came through with flying colors. (character) you become convinced | He had been tried in the fire of | | adversity but came out pure gold. |God does not tempt any man but jhe does allow man to be tempted. | Even his Son Jesus Christ was led by God’s Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted. The temptation of Job die not come directly from Satan, but through Job’s friends. With trium- phant faith Job suffers his succes- sive losses of dear ones, wealth and his own health. “In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God with foolishness.” There was a sting to the friends who sarcastical- ly taunted, “curse God and die.” Job thought he had. good and loyal friends, but like far too many in this day of deception, they turn on their best friends and seek to crucify them. Like the imps of hell they seem to rejoice in the misery something. about life, that is you can’t trust’ seemingly your’ best friends. The Salvation Army’s little paper carried the story of a farmer who had broken many of his farm im- plements on a big rock that lay in the middle of one of his fields. “A GROWING CHURCH IN they can create. Job, did learn | Page 5|he could have learned more about | Finally one day he decided to move Proached the rock to learn that it ; Was not so large after all and was simply laying on top of the ground. It was easily removed. Despite the work of Satan who causes us so much trouble and misery, just a | little determination and faith could easily remove what seems to be an immovable obstacle to peace and security. The lesson of life is {easy and simple if we only follow the instructions found in God's word, io stone. With a crow bar he ap- | CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY $87 ELIZABETH STREET School Age Sunday Morning Service at 11:00 o’Clock Wednesday Evening Meetings at 8 o’Clock Reading Room in the Church Building is open on Tuesday and Friday from 3 - 5 P.M. 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