1930 to 1933

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=160 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="1b00a5023.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lombard Gospel Chapel"><U><B><IMG SRC="1aaf78510.jpg" border=0 width="120" height="81" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lombard Gospel Chapel"><U>Lombard Gospel Chapel</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="about_lombard_chapel.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Us"><U>About Us</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="welcome.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Welcome to LGC"><U>Welcome to LGC</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="what_s_new_at_lombard_chapel.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Whats New?"><U>What's New?</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="meetings_of_lombard_chapel.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meetings"><U>Meetings</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="ministries_of_lombard_chapel.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ministries"><U>Ministries</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="statement_of_faith_at_lombard_chapel.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Statement of Faith"><U>Statement of Faith</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="organization_of_lombard_chapel.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Organization"><U>Organization</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="history_of_lombard_chapel.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="History"><U>History</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="site_map.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Site Map"><U>Site Map</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="building.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Building Expansion plans"><U>Building Expansion plans</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="members.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Members"><U>Members</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id142.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Intro to LGC History"><U>Intro to LGC History</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id144.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Birth of the Chapel"><U>Birth of the Chapel</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id145.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ash Street"><U>Ash Street</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id146.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Early Years 19281930"><U>The Early Years 1928-1930</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id147.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tent Meetings"><U>Tent Meetings</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id148.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Rapid Growth"><U>Rapid Growth</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id149.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="First Four Years"><U>First Four Years</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id151.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Adam Ferguson"><U>Adam Ferguson</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id152.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sunday School Picnics"><U>Sunday School Picnics</U></A></div> <div> 1930 to 1933</div> <div> <A HREF="id154.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="1934 The Year of Changes"><U>1934 - The Year of Changes</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id155.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Young Peoples Activities"><U>Young People's Activities</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id156.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="After 1935"><U>After 1935</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id157.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The 1940s"><U>The 1940's</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <IMG SRC="1adce5460.jpg" border=0 width="229" height="70" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >  </FONT></div> <div> <B>1930 to 1933</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="#teaching_on_the_holy_spirit" TITLE="1930 to 1933"><U>Teaching on the Holy Spirit</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#the_lombard_spectator" TITLE="1930 to 1933"><U>The Lombard Spectator</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#what_we_believe_and_teach" TITLE="1930 to 1933"><U>What We Believe and Teach</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>"And the Lord was adding tho their number day by day whose who were being saved." Acts 2:47</B></div> <bR> <div>      From March of 1928 until December of 1934, many people  were added to Lombard Gospel Chapel. We have listed some of those individuals that were present as the work began, but there were others who joined along the way.  Some of them are:</div> <bR> <div>      Frank & Clara Hicks, Sherwood, Gwyn, Delores, & Frank Jr.</div> <div>           (Probably in 1929)</div> <div>      Earl & Leloa Danker,  Richard & Olive (Badger)</div> <div>           Fall of 1929)</div> <div>      Mrs. Leroy Roath Sr., and Leroy Jr.  (1930)</div> <div>      Earl & Eileen Elliot, John & Rob</div> <div>      Mr. & Mrs. McGowen</div> <div>      Miss Dorothy Ferguson</div> <div>      Mrs. Fortune</div> <div>      Mrs. Prinzing</div> <div>      Mr.  Cooper</div> <div>      Mrs. Leslie</div> <div>      Mr. & Mrs. Tuck, Miss Tuck</div> <div>      Miss Pearson</div> <div>      Adam Ferguson (Student at Wheaton College)</div> <div>      Miss Erma Molsted</div> <div>      Mr. & Mrs. Klett</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id153_m.htm" TITLE="1930 to 1933"><U><B>top of page</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>__________________________________________________________</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>A True Balance</B></div> <div>  <A NAME="teaching_on_the_holy_spirit"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>Teaching on the Holy Spirit</div> <div> There was a strong emphasis on the preaching of the gospel at the Chapel, but  also a great deal of teaching as well.  We mentioned early on about the study from the book of Revelation. On the completion of the book of Revelation, Mr. Fardon began a series from the book of Genesis. (Fall 1929) "This study is most Interesting and is bring us many new blessings inspired by these first four words,'In the beginning God'".   (Lombard Spectator - November 30,1929)</div> <div> In September of 1930, a new series was begun on the Holy Spirit. The subject titles were:</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="454" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 ><NOBR><div> <B>Introduction to the Holy Spirit</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="167"><div> <B>Sept.21,1930</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="276"><div> <B>Sealing of the Holy Spirit</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="167"><div> <B>Sept.28,1930</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 ><NOBR><div> <B>Personal Work of the Holy Spirit</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="167"><div> <B>Oct.  5,1930</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 ><NOBR><div> <B>Grieving of the Holy Spirit</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="167"><div> <B>Oct. 12,1930</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 ><NOBR><div> <B>Evidences of the Spirit Filled Life</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="167"><div> <B>Oct. 19,1930</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="276"><div> <B>Holy Spirit</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="167"><div> <B>Oct. 26,1930</B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div>      The Sunday evenings, in September and October, Mr. Fardon began a series on "The Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ", from the book of Daniel.  Mr. Fardon used a large chart (made by his wife) to assist him in teaching Daniel.</div> <div>     </div> <div> Lombard Spectator - October 16, 1930</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="385" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 154 WIDTH="373"><div>  "Much interest is being manifested at the 7:30 evening Gospel Service and the subject concerning the Second Coming of Christ.  It is not only helpful. Instructive and interesting but brings those vital teachings about the most important and yet sadly neglected teaching of which the Word of God is filled."</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div>      On Sunday mornings in the month of November and following, Mr. Fardon began teaching from the Gospel of John. Specifically on the Miracles of Christ.</div> <div>           Sunday-- November 2,1930 -- First Miracle of Christ</div> <div>           Sunday-- November 9,1930 -- "The Healing of the Nobleman's Son</div> <div>           Sunday-- November 16,1930 -- "Healing of the Man at the Pool of Bethesda."</div> <bR> <div>      After the above listings, there is no more information found in the paper relating to sermon titles or subject matter being taught at the Chapel.  However, articles continue in the newspaper but with a different strategy in view.  That was to present short articles on interesting subjects with a short verse or gospel message.  Some of the subjects considered were:</div> <bR> <div>      What Great Men Say About The Greatest Book - (Oct. 1931)</div> <div>                (Three articles)</div> <div>      The Testimony of the World's Greatest Scientists on Evolution  -(Nov. Dec. 1931 _ Five articles)</div> <div>      The Economic Depression - (Feb. 25,1932)</div> <div>      What We Believe and Teach - (January and February 1932 -five articles - pages 33-37)</div> <div>      What Think Ye of Christ?  - (March 3,1932)</div> <div>      Does God Answer Prayer?   - (March 17,1932)</div> <div>      The Living God            - (March 31,1932)</div> <div>      Bring Out Your Dead     - (April 7,1932)</div> <div>      Our Weekly Message      - (Six Articles presenting the Gospel during 1934)</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id153_m.htm" TITLE="1930 to 1933"><U><B>top of page</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>__________________________________________________________</B></div> <div>  <A NAME="the_lombard_spectator"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>The Lombard Spectator</div> <bR> <div> The Lombard Spectator was used as a vehicle to share the Gospel as well as general information about the Chapel.  There were over 67 articles from August 1927 through December 1934. (This does not include countless times that the paper just listed the services of the Chapel)  The break down of the main articles is as follows:</div> <div>           1927 - 3</div> <div>           1928 - 8</div> <div>           1929 - 13</div> <div>           1930 -  8</div> <div>           1931 - 12</div> <div>           1932 - 12</div> <div>           1933 -  0</div> <div>           1934 - 11</div> <bR> <div> After 1934 there was a marked difference in the number of articles appearing in the newspaper. (The reason for this we will deal with a bit later)  From January 1935 until December 1947, only 20 articles are recorded in the paper.  However, the services for the Chapel are listed just about each week in the Spectator during that same period of time.  Here is a break down of those articles:</div> <bR> <div>           1935 - 1  Special Young Peoples Meeting</div> <div>           1936 - 2  Special Meetings</div> <div>           1937 - 2  Missionary at Chapel</div> <div>           1938 - 1  Announcing a visiting Missionary</div> <div>           1939 - 3  Special Meetings _ All in January!</div> <div>           1940 - 4  Special Gospel Meetings</div> <div>           1941 - 0</div> <div>           1942 - 0</div> <div>           1943 - 3  Missionary/Christmas Program</div> <div>           1944 - 1  Special Meetings</div> <div>           1945 - 2  Special Meetings</div> <div>           1946 - 1  Children Meetings</div> <div>           1947 - 0</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id153_m.htm" TITLE="1930 to 1933"><U><B>top of page</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>__________________________________________________________</B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="what_we_believe_and_teach"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>What We Believe and Teach</B></div> <bR> <div>      Five articles were written on "What we believe and teach". These appeared in the Lombard Spectator during January and February 1932. Since the contents really present to us just what the Lombard Gospel Chapel believed and stood for, they will be given in their entirety.</div> <div> <B>January 14, 1932</B></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="452" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 806 WIDTH="440"><div> <B>What We Believe and Teach</B></div> <div>      Believing that it will be of interest to many of the church news readers to have  further information brought before them regarding the Gospel Chapel, as to    its    objectives    and principles, we shall by the kind courtesy of the Editor of "The Lombard Spectator" which we much appreciate, hope to bring before you some of the features which characterize the above work in Lombard.</div> <div>      We are now almost four years old,  the  Chapel  being  first opened March, 1928.</div> <div>      We wish to attribute all praise and glory to God when we say that these four years have been rich in spiritual blessing. We have not one thirty to boast about.  Any good that has been accomplished has been entirely by the help of God. We face the new year with no debt upon our hands whatsoever. All working expenses have been met, considerable sums of money have been regularly sent out to missionaries in many parts of the world.  Home missionary work in our  own  land  has  not  been forgotten, and local needs have been ministered to.  No public collection has ever been taken up at our services, never have we solicited    individuals    for subscriptions,  or resorted to any of the many methods often used to raise money for church support.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>How These Needs Have Been Met</B></div> <div>      We find that in the Bible full instruction regarding the support of the Lord's work has been given.  We have sought in some measure to follow these instructions. We have found them to be true, and for four years experienced that God honours His Word.   How simple many church problems would become if only people believed God, and obeyed Him.   Christ himself said "Ye will not believe Me, because I tell you the truth."  People are  saying today "You cannot believe  the Bible in a literal way." Well the Gospel Chapel says-- "Thy  Word is true from the beginning."  For four years we have proved it  along  financial  support,  and  found the Bible method works. </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> From the Lombard Spectator, Lombard. Illinois</div> <bR> <div> <B>January 28,1932</B></div> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="452" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 1175 WIDTH="440"><div> <B>What We Believe and Teach</B></div> <bR> <div> At the Gospel  Chapel we believe and teach that next to the gift of Jesus Christ as the sinner's Savior, and the Holy Spirit, that God's greatest gift to man is the Bible.</div> <div>      We   believe   the   Bible contains   from   Genesis   to Revelation a divine revelation of God in relation to mankind. We believe that there is not one single contradiction of doctrine in. the whole book.   There are some apparent contradictions in the book, but when studied in their several connections are not so in reality.      We believe that the records of all things in the Bible are recorded for man's highest good, under direct inspiration from God.  Not that God inspired all the   deeds   that   scripture records,  but rather that God inspired men of old to record these acts that men might learn God's  attitude  to  sin  and righteousness. God did not speak every word in the Bible, nor did He inspire every act, but God did cause these words and acts to be recorded.      </div> <div>      The Bible is credible, that is, it is worthy to be believed. We believe that the Bible is given to us in life, and that where people have a Bible they will be held responsible to God for not knowing it and believing its records.   "The scriptures cannot be broken."         </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Salvation</B></div> <div>      We believe that "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God" and that because of this fact, all are eternally lost apart from the salvation that God  in grace has provided for all who will  believe.   God's way of  salvation is very clear.        </div> <div>      "Ye Must Be Born Again"_the necessity of a new birth is universal.  No  sex,  position, religion, or any other condition exempts   anyone   from   this necessity.  Not to be born again is to be eternally lost.   Our first birth by nature was an entering into life, and with it came our natural life. God says "Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God."   We may educate, cultivate, and morally improve,   and   become   very religious in this natural life of ours, but all that will in no way fit you for heaven.  "Ye must be born again."  This second birth is a miraculous work of God. "Born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."  It is absolutely the work of God.       </div> <div>      The inspired writer Peter tells us how we are born again. He says "Being born again not of corruptible   seed,   but   of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever."  Whosoever will believe what God has recorded about His son Jesus Christ, of how he died for our sins as lost sinners, and is willing by faith to receive Christ as their Lord and Savior that person will be born again. The new birth is a new life, not mere religion.  "Ye must be born again. " </div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div> From the Lombard Spectator, Lombard. Illinois</div> <bR> <div> <B>February 4,1932</B></div> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="452" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 694 WIDTH="440"><div> <B>What We Believe and Teach</B></div> <bR> <div>      We believe that there is no subject that has to do with Christian life and service that is   more   important   than prayer.      In II Chronicles chapter 7, verse 12,13, we read _</div> <div>      "The  Lord appeared unto Solomon by night and said unto him. . . If I shut up heaven that there be no rain,  or  if  I command the locust to devour the  land,  or  if  I  send pestilence among my people, if my people which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways: Then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."      </div> <div>      Here lies the solution for the economic depression which lies upon our beloved land and people.      </div> <div>      But who among us believes in this solution?  Who cares these days for God's message? Where are those who have a real vital faith in the old Bible? And the echo answers--         </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> "Where"?</div> <bR> <div>      Tennyson   wrote-   "More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of."    </div> <div>      Another poet has written:</div> <div>      "Prayer is the breath of God  in Man,  Returning  whence  it  came.  Love the secret fire within,  Prayer  the  siring  flame?"   </div> <div>      Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer, except that which lies  outside  the  will  of God."    </div> <div>      "Lord teach us to pray"</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div> From the Lombard Spectator, Lombard. Illinois</div> <bR> <div> <B>February 11, 1932</B></div> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="452" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 698 WIDTH="440"><div> <B>What We Believe and Teach</B></div> <bR> <div>      Many today deny a personal Devil.  It is just a product of the ignorance and superstition of bygone days, ugly fiction intended  to  frighten  weak minded people,  this is what many would  have you believe.      </div> <div>      The only people who deny the personality of the Devil are those who do not believe the Bible.  From the beginning of Genesis to the last book, the Bible is full of the accounts of the works of the Devil. A more serious charge still lies at the doors of such unbelievers, and it is this; that they would rob the Lord Jesus Christ of all moral integrity, and expose HIM before the world as a false witness.  Over and over again the   Lord   refers   to   the personality of the Devil.  The great work of the Devil is to "blind the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."  All unsaved people are under the power of the Devil.   The Devil hates Christ  and His Word,  hence hatred to Christ and the Bible is seen in all the unsaved people of the world. The Devil is man's most powerful foe, and man is deceived by this being when he denies his personality. Christ Jesus has conquered the Devil at Calvary. Christ Jesus died  as  a  substitute  for sinners, that by faith in that death, sinners might be saved from the Devils eternal place of    torment,    which    is everlasting fire.  Apart from Christ  Jesus  there  is  no salvation.  But HE is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him. We at the Gospel  Chapel  believe  in a personal Devil, and also in a personal living, risen Christ who is a mighty Savior for all who receive HIM by faith.      </div> <div>      Come to our services.</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div> From the Lombard Spectator, Lombard. Illinois</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id153_m.htm" TITLE="1930 to 1933"><U><B>top of page</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="452" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 828 WIDTH="440"><div> <B>What We Believe and Teach</B></div> <div> <B>February 18,1932</B></div> <bR> <div>      The  Second  Coming  of Christ.  We believe that Jesus is coming again to earth.  Not to suffer at the hands of men, but to reign as King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.  He himself said,  "I  will  come  again." Angels  said  he  would  come again.  "This same Jesus, which is  taken  up  from you  into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven."  Could anything be plainer? This does not mean that when death comes to a person that it is the coming of Jesus. The coming of death does not fulfill the words spoken by the angels.</div> <div>      Some  fourteen  hundred times in the Old Testament His coming to reign as a King is spoken of. About three hundred times in the New Testament His second coming is referred to.</div> <div>      The  second  coming  of Christ to reign as King is often ridiculed by teachers, but that does not surprise us in the least, for the scriptures say  "Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days  scoffers,...saying,  where is the promise of His coming?" </div> <div>      Scripture also tells us very  plainly  what  sort  of conditions will prevail on the earth at the time of His coming. Listen to Christ's own words on this point.  "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." What were the days of Noah? Scripture tells us that the earth was corrupt, the earth also was filled with violence. All flesh had corrupted his way.    Mankind had  forsaken God's laws, and the wickedness of man was great in the earth. This then will be the exact state  of  things  prior  to Christ' s coming again to earth. Who in Noah's day believed in a flood of judgment? But it came. Who  today,   believes   that judgment is soon to fall upon a Christ rejecting world? But it is coming.  The last days will be marked by much religion. But religion is not Christianity. The Christ life is the test of Christianity,  not  religion. Where is Christ in your life? </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> From the Lombard Spectator, Lombard. Illinois</div> <bR> <div>      Following these five articles on "What we believe and teach," there were six short gospel articles in March and April, 1932. After May 19, 1932 there are no listings in the paper of the <U>services</U> at the Chapel until January 25, 1934! From December 8, 1932 until January 25, 1934, there is <U>no material in the Spectator regarding Lombard Gospel Chapel.</U></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id153_m.htm" TITLE="1930 to 1933"><U><B>top of page</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>_________________________________________________________________________________________________</B></div> <div> <B>     </B><A HREF="id142.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Intro to LGC History"><U>Intro to LGC History</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id144.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Birth of the Chapel"><U>Birth of the Chapel</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id145.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ash Street"><U>Ash Street</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id146.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Early Years 19281930"><U>The Early Years 1928-1930</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id147.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tent Meetings"><U>Tent Meetings</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id148.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Rapid Growth"><U>Rapid Growth</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id149.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="First Four Years"><U>First Four Years</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id151.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Adam Ferguson"><U>Adam Ferguson</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id152.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sunday School Picnics"><U>Sunday School Picnics</U></A>   |   <B>1930 to 1933</B>   |   <A HREF="id154.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="1934 The Year of Changes"><U>1934 - The Year of Changes</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id155.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Young Peoples Activities"><U>Young People's Activities</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id156.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="After 1935"><U>After 1935</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id157.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The 1940s"><U>The 1940's</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#3366FF" FACE="Arial" >     </FONT> <A HREF="id152.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sunday School Picnics"><U><IMG SRC="1ac61f1e0.jpg" border=0 width="31" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A><A HREF="history_of_lombard_chapel.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="History"><U><IMG SRC="1ac521200.jpg" border=0 width="33" height="32" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A><A HREF="id154.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="1934 The Year of Changes"><U><IMG SRC="1ac423200.jpg" border=0 width="35" height="32" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>