A Man With a Measuring Line 1 Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 I asked, “Where are you going?” He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.” 3 While the angel who was speaking to me was leaving, another angel came to meet him 4 and said to him: “Run, tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the great number of people and animals in it.

Polly Gowen, of Soper, Okla., went to be with her Lord peacefully on April 15, 2024, in Hugo, Okla., at the age of 85. She was born on Sept. 14, 1938 in Soper, Okla. Polly was preceded in Heaven by her parents, Euell and Grace Self; brother, Bob Self; son, David Colwell and a granddaughter.

Funeral services for Frances Janette (Lawless) Persinger, of Sobol, Okla., will be held at 10 a.m. April 26, 2024 at Rattan High School gymnasium.

The Soper Lady Red Bears defeated the Lady Scorpions by scores of 11-1 and 11-0 in Soper. SOPER — Freshman Kobi Rice led Soper’s Lady Bears in the first District title game against Boswell last week, going 3 for 3 at the plate with three RBIs and three runs scored.

Approximately 6 million children in the United States have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, better known as ADHD. As many as 5% of adults also live with the condition.

Love and Obey the Lord 1 Love the Lord your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always. 2 Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the Lord your God: his majesty, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm; 3 the signs he performed and the things he did in the heart of Egypt, both to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his whole country; 4 what he did to the Egyptian army, to its horses and chariots, how he overwhelmed them with the waters of the Red Sea a as they were pursuing you, and how the Lord brought lasting ruin on them. 5 It was not your children who saw what he did for you in the wilderness until you arrived at this place, 6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth right in the middle of all Israel and swallowed them up with their households, their tents and every living thing that belonged to them. 7 But it was your own eyes that saw all these great things the Lord has done.

• The new Internal Medicine Residency Program will welcome its first class in July In a significant move to help address the growing primary care physician shortage in Texas, The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine and Paris Regional Health are now approved for a new Internal Medicine Residency Program. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education approved the program in Paris, Texas, and will begin recruiting residents to start in July.

Funeral services for Shirley Faye (Musgrove) Early, of Holdenville, Okla., were held at 2 p.m. April 24, 2024 at Miller & Miller Funeral Home of Hugo. Shirley passed away April 19, 2024, at the age of 79.

Memorial services for Michael Don George were held at 11 a.m. April 24, 2024 at First Missionary Baptist Church of Haworth.

Funeral services for Ellis Craig, of Killeen, Texas, will be held at 11 a.m. April 27, 2024 at the South Central District Building.