The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 20, 1956 Page: 8 of 26
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they mere htiaamt t« hide the
small mangir scene
1 railed the children and said.
“I wonder if we see what is hap
jwnmr ' They did see and quick j
1) began to plan and rearrange so j
that the tiny baby again bad his,
proper place of prominence
Py we see what is happening tu!
us when we allow the hectic round
of activities that we have come to
associate with Christians to rcowd I
Christ out of our hearts and
homes' Dreading the shopping,
gift-wrapping, and card-sending,
one mother sighid,, “I'll be glad
when it's over ''
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International Sunday School Lesson
company’s Petty Officer while id
recruit training which » »■
an hono. only given to one man out
cf every seventy Tier.
Chief Bullard would like to en-
courage any young man whets
interested in the Navy to contort
Joe l.ynn Adams while he tskree
on leave and get first hand inf*
nation, all about the Navy Train
mg Program and "Boot Camp
front t sailor uho lu> ju^t coniplH
rd this coui-sr
Chief R. C Bullard, of the local
Navy recruiting office berg was
recently informed that Joe Lynn
Adams, son of Mr and Mrs John
Quincy Adams. 824 t rawford
street. Canhage will be at home
on the 29th of thi» month for a
fourteen-day leave. Joe Lynn has
ju -1 completed Hts basic training
at San ihego. Calif Naval Train-
ing Station and is home for a visit
with his family and friends be-
fore returning to his neat duty
For Sunday. December 23rd
TMf WORD BECAME FLESH
Devotional Reading Isaiah 9 2-7
Scripture Lesson: John 1:1-18 Luke 2:1-20.
Lesson Teat: John 1:1-18.
Memory Verse: The Word was made flesh, and dwelt
ng us --full of grace and truth—John 114.
T Hold IT OF THE DAY
Today I will honor Him whose
coming gives hope and brings joy
to the heart of man
— Mrs Clyde N. Rogers (Ohio)
you ip child with We had set up our creche on
r. and fell dawn, the low bookcase by the picture
him. (Matthew I: window. As packages arrived. we
laid them near the creche One
world came to hi* own world: j
and his own people even hi* own j
kinsmen according to the fle*h
refused to accept him Only a lew
here and there saw him in hi*
true personality and put their
tru*t in him But as many as re
reived him to them gave he power
to become the *on* of God. even
to them that believe on his name"
• John I 12)
Note that the ^on* of God are
horn, not of blood nor of the will
of the flesh nor of the will of man.
but of God." The new birth is a
miracle in man wrought by the
hand of God.
The light that shineth in dark
ness” is the only light for the life
of men And only the wilfully
blind refuse to see that light. The
enlightened eye* seek that light.
of John the Baptist - “that all men
through him might believe " This
lesson gives us the opportunity to
have a different Chn*tma» oh
servartce - with the chief emnhj i* j
on the meaning of the birth of
Jesus.
The birth of any child may have
great significance But the birth
of Jem* was different in that he
was God He rame as the very *x
pression of God * purpose to re
deem men from *in And in hi«
birth the whole world received a
new rau«e for hope The mystery
of his birth brought light to the
live* of men.
The empha«i* in this stud*
should he to see the full sweep of
the meaning to the world of the
coming of the Son of God in the
form of mjrt.
The Weed
John saw Je«u« a* one with God
before the world wa* - the very
essence of hi* power and the ex-
pre<* image of hi* person A* a
man * word reflects the secret of
his being. Jesus was God tome
to earth a* a man
We read. “In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with
Cod. and the Word was God"
(John 1:1). Jesus was equal with
God in existence - from "the be-
ginning " And all that God did.
the Son did - 'All things were
made bv him: and without him wa*
not any thing made that wa* made”
(John 13).
Je«ti« wa* the source of life !le
held the power to create and the
authority to direct and administer
all created thing* Hi* hand and
hll word distributed life to all
nature. It wa* he with the Father
of whom Moses wrote ih Genesis
He was the active agent when
God proposed. “Let u* make man
in our own image, after our like-
ness' (Gen 128)
Rev. J. C. Howell
First Baptist Church
Rev. Charles L Hall
6TILL ATTRACT iNS TH? WISE MEN
St. John's Episcopal Church
Edward C. Rutland
Shady Grove Baptist
Rev. Eugene Gaunt!
and the open mind wants to be
guided by it
In Human Flesh
John told this story «o that man
can undiv'tnnd it He put it into
the language that we speak —
And the Word wa* made flesh,
and dwelt among us” 'John 1:14).
John added here hi* own testimony
in parentheses. "And we beheld
his glorv. the glorv a* of Ihe only
begotten of the Father." And it
w'as plain for all men to vee lie
Antioch Baptist
Rev. Johnnie Shearer
J. 1L Gibson. Pastor
Midyott Baptist Church
Rev. W. D. Saunders
Cantor Point Froowill Baptist Church
1st Tuesday Nite Each Month
J. M. Goode. Pastor
James Wyatt Griffith
wa* “full of grace and truth "
Moses gave u' the law as God
dictated, “but grace and truth
came by Je*u* Christ.” In this he
revealed the Father, even to men
who have not seen God They ran
know
in Badgley. Pastor
Rev. Greer Oril
Father
him in the Son
wonder
Union Arhor Froowill Baptist Church
Rev. Floyd Ferguson. Pastor
can see
Why should
God could come in the form of a
little child-* When we see Jesus as
the Creator of at! things as the
source of all light and life, we
should cease to try to measure him
with our own little, minds History
and experience join in assuring
us that the Babe of Bethlehem was
truly God. Jesus was not' merely
a picture of God He was God in
the fle*h
When Jesus came, he provided
for the needs of all men in all
the world John said of him, "And
of his fulness (all that God is)
have all we received, and grace
for grace” (John 1:18). And no one
who trusts in Jesus can ever come
to real want
Maw Hup* (Wood*) Baptist Church
Rev. C- E. Rp*rk. Pastor
Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church
Rev. George Brittain, pastor
Calvary Baptist Church
Rev. Lendol Jackson. Beckvilte -
Gary Baptist Church
Rev. Sieve Castloo_\
Now Prospect Missionary Baptist
Rev. W. C. Noal
Bethel Methodist Church
Elysian Fields — Rev. Jim Crawford
Buncamba Freewill Baptist Church
Rev. Allen Moore
Longbranch Missionary Baptist
Hev. Ray Brooks
DeBerry Baptist Church
W. D. Leggett. Pastor
Macedonia Baptist Church
Rev. T. A. Crow. Pastor
Clayton First Baptist Church
The man whom God made in hi*
own image wa* a “living soul"
and hi* life was the very breath
of God He was like God in that
he was a moral being He could
know- right from wrong a* God see*
them He rould understand God
and could think God's thoughts at
ter him And the Word came in the
flesh to helo the man he created
to know fully the God who loves
him - to know the Father through
the Son
The Li*M of Men
John kent st.ictlv to his theme
He wanted all men to believe that
Jesus was the Son of God So. af
ter saying that Jesus is the source
of life, he declared. “And the life
wa* the light of men” (John 14)
Without the light that comes from
Christ, man would he like the
brute and the beast, the other ani
mal* that live by instinct alone
John Ihe Bptist bore telling
witness to the reality of Jesus
that he “wa'- the true Light, which
lighteth ever* man that cometh in
to the wOi Id".
And here is the record ed human
tragedv Jesus, who created the
Rev. Joe Dixon
In the sight of the
just God. he became the perfect
Saint Williams Catholic Church
Father Eugene Lynch, M. 8.
*-.WE HAVE $EEN H6 STAR. ...AND
ARE COME TO WORSHIP HIM:LM7T12
Daadwood-Galloway Churches
W. II. Wietiqg, Pastor
substitute tor the sinner, and the
perfect revelation of God and his
love.
In the human flesh. Jesus ex-
perienced all that any man can ex-
perience, except sin. Thu* he In-
came the perfect representative of
men before the throne As the
Son of God. he is always heard
when he pleads lor man.
Backvilla Methodist Church
Rev. L. C. Orrick
Brooks Missionary Baptist Church
Vannie Odom, Pastor
Panola County Rural Work of
Methodist Churches
Woods — Murvaul — Gary
Rev. Jesse A. Advms, Jr.
Carthago Missionary Baptist
Rev. C. H. McBryde, Pastor
Rahobath-Rockhill Methodist Circuit
Rev. Conrad Winborn
Central Baptist Church
Dr. V L. McKee
Now Prospect Presbyterian Church
Services 2nd Saturday Night aad
4th Sunday Morning
South Side Baptist Church
Rev. R. M. Buchanan
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
A. D. Justice
Fairplay Baptist Church
A. B. Fletcher
New Fire System For
Tenaha Community
Tenaha. Texas A new fire a
latm system has h<>rn installed at
Tenaha. Fire Chief J. B .Alford
announced last week
Any person who needs to turn
in a fire alarm mu*t dial (’ll B JfiCfi
and (he five siren will blow auto-
matically. Chief Alford explained
The caller must remain on the
phone until a member of the fire
department answers, then he mud
state his name and give location
of the fire.
Primitive Baptist Church
Harris Chapel — Rev. John Hawfclna
Mt. Calvary Baptist Church
Rev. Rill llefflin. pastor
First Baptist Church, Backviilo
Rev. James Weber, pastor
Church of th* Naiaran*
Mrs. Jewel Stewart, pastor
United Pentecostal Church
Rev. Fred E. Portman
Logan Assembly of God Church
Rev. W. C. Taylor
Liberty Chapel Baptist Church
Bill Robinson, pastor
Carthage Methodist Circuit
Rev. Walter Klingle — Allison Chapel
Pisgali — Kbonezcr — Longbranch
Backvilla Assembly of
Rev. C. W. Tucker
Jo Barry Assembly of God Church
Mrs. Almccta Lunsford, pastor
Mt. Bethel Missionary Baptist Church
Rev. Gene Smith, pastor
CARTHAGE
FURNITURE CO.
Tray Gholstan, Owner
N. E. Corner of Square
CARTHAGE
AUCTION SALES
Mr. A Mrs. Troy Bell
and
Mr. A Mrs. Joa Phillips
Proscriptions*4
Carthago, Texas
Chevrolet Sales A Service
First Class Paint A
Body Work"
L. W. Bramblett
A & M PLUMBING
A ELECTRIC CO.
Contracting A Repairing
Heating &
Air Conditioning
Sales-Sarvice And
Engineering
& LBR. CO.
The Builders Friend"
CECIL'S
CARTHAGE
FLOWER SHOP
Flowers Soften Sorrow
Phono 50
B. IC. OIL CO.
SKELLY PRODUCTS
R. A. Fyke—Mgr.
L. 0. BOWEN
GROCERY & MARKET
503 E. Sabine—Phone 135
When In Need of Lumber
Call This Number 482
Lovell Kelley-Mgr.
Prescription Specialists
BOYD'S
WELDING WKS
Electric A Acetylene
Welding
HAWTHORN
DRY GOODS CO.
Quality and Economy
Automotive Supplies A
Equipment
Neil Williems
Flowers For All Occasions
Ella V. Smith
International Harvester
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FIRST STATE
BANK
Serving Panola County
Since 1902
FIRST NATIONAL
BANK
Member F.D.I.C.
BROWN'S
SINCE 1889
Butane System
Fuel — Appliances
Dignified Sympathetic
Service
J. E. INSURANCE
Heavy Equipment
IKE none S MOST WlDClT USED DifOTIONU CUiti
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Applegate, Clabe. The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 20, 1956, newspaper, December 20, 1956; Carthage, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1159628/m1/8/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sammy Brown Library.