THE ARLINGTONIAN
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July 2020
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Join us in Worship on Sundays at 10:30 a.m.
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No Elders, Deacons, or Liturgists are scheduled for the near
future.
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NEWSLETTER DEADLINE
The deadline for submission of articles for the August issue of the newsletter is July 19. Please email
articles to the church office or to Brother Lee.
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JULY MEETINGS
Meetings will resume upon notification.
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FROM OUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Since you will be receiving this newsletter around July 4th, I thought you might like to read
the opening paragraphs of "The Declaration of Independence." It started a nation that was designed to give
freedom to its citizens and to limit the control of the government. A unique idea among nations.
In Congress,
July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human
events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to
assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle
them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form
of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute
new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should
not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to
suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But
when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute
Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such
has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former
Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,
all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be
submitted to a candid world.
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RESULTS OF CALLED CONGREGATION MEETING, JUNE 14
The purpose of the meeting was to consider moving our worship to 9:30 Sunday morning to better
accommodate the wish of the church wanting to share our building.
Twenty-two members were present.
A survey requested by Brother Lee indicated that five of those present would have personal difficulty in worshiping at
9:30.
Brother Lee presented a motion to maintain our original offer to move our worship to 10:00 a.m. This
passed 16-4 by paper ballot.
A motion was made by Paula Jackson for our contact group to continue conversations
with the other church. It passed by voice vote.
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FATHER’S DAY "HABITAT FOR HUMANITY" DONATIONS
| In Memory of: | Given
by: | | Bob Darnell |
Peggy Myers | |
Stuart Euster | Irene Euster |
| Aaron Burchell | Jean
Cox | | E. Charles Sharp |
Michele Ross, Eric & Heather Sharp | | | |
| In Honor of: | Given By: | |
David Ross | Ashley & Tanner Ross | | Joe & Bobby Jones |
Bob, Larkin, Sara, & Mila |
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