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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1927
Page
8
Church page lists supporters from Hocking Valley including Beastey Milling Co Virgile Davis Moler Auto Sales Co and others in Athens Nelsonville Logan area. Readers are invited to worship and view service times while community businesses appear as sponsors.
Sunday service at 10 45 and Sunday School at 9 30 at two churches. First M E Church led by Charles M Coulter lists morning worship at 10 30 with sermon The Aim of Education and a Christmas program by Wesley Players. Central Ave M E Church led by Ira P Day offers Sunday school 9 15 worship 10 30 and 7 with Epworth League at 6 and prayer service Wednesday.
The program lists Bible school at 9 15 with Dr Gard guiding men and others teaching college and high school groups. Morning worship at 10 30 features Dr Wilcox on Obstacles Along the Road to Christian Living. Evening events include home hour with Dr and Mrs Cooper and a 7 00 annual Christmas music program with organ, choir, and faculty quartet.
Sunday school at 9:30. Preaching at 16:45 on Surmounting Obstacles. Young people's meeting at 5:86. Children's meeting at 6:25. Evening service at an unspecified time with The Peril of a Wasted Life. Teachers' meeting tonight at 7. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7.
Rev L Pielow rector leads Morning Prayer and sermon at 10:30 AM on the third Sunday in Advent at State and Carpenter streets church.
Mrs Nellie Pettiford organist Miss Ella Cooley superintendent Worship and sermon at 10 45 oclock What Christianity Will Do B Y P U 630 oclock Mrs Blanch Russell president Mary Louise Tettiford pianist Topic Money and Religion Mark 12 41 44 Worship and sermon 745 oclock Purity of Living Mid week worship Wednesday evening at 730 oclock
Prof. W H Maurer is named chorister and T KR Bennett superintendent Bible school. Services begin with Bible school at 9 15, sermon at 10 15, Christian Endeavor at 6, and evening service at 7 led by the women's missionary society with Mrs 8 E Pedigo delivering the main address and assisting by several women. A mixed quartet will provide music.
Sunday school starts at 1 30 with Mrs Nellie Phillips as superintendent Preaching by the pastor at 2 30 o'clock at Clark's Chapel M E Church on Sunday.
The Wesley Players of First Methodist Church present Fiat Lux or Let There Be Light a one act Christmas mystery during Evening Worship Sunday at 7 oclock Cast includes Azariah the unbelievers Frederick Cranch Virginia Larimer Father Ambrose Kenneth Coulter John Undercoffer The Soldier and the Wesley Quartette The Wesley choir will sing at Evening Worship with Christmas season music.
Nelsonville First Presbyterian and Methodist churches list service times and leaders. Sunday School sessions run in morning with various class and devotion leaders. Morning and evening worships noted with choir and sermon themes, plus Friday Brotherhood speaker event at the Presbyterian church and Methodist service details.
The article argues prophets were primarily preachers shaping national life through daily service. Amos Hosea and Isaiah are examined, stressing forth telling over foretelling, social justice, and faithfulness to God as core to true religion, even amid prosperity and danger.
Adams Street church announces 9 30 Sunday school led by J A Lewis superintendent morning worship and 7 30 evening service. Rev Wayne Bunch of Chillicothe to conduct week long meeting starting Monday. Carbon Lodge 62 F and A M marks 29th anniversary Sunday at 2 90 at lodge room. members urged to attend.
Logan churches schedule lists T C Harper pastor Sunday school 9 a m worship and sermon 10 15 junior church Christian Endeavor 6 39 p m evening service 7.
Sunday school at 10 30 worship at 10 30 subject Man's Quest for God Epworth League and class at 6 pm Thank Offering service of W H M at 8 and related activities listed
The notice lists Presbyterian Church activities with Sunday school at 9 a.m. and 10 30 a.m. public worship, Christian Endeavor at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. worship, and Wednesday prayer. The Church of the Nazarene at 1 O O Hall First Floor, Anna Aurand as pastor offers Sunday school at 9 30 a.m. Morning worship at 10 39 a.m. Evening worship at 7 p.m. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 7.
St Pauls Episcopal Church announces services with Rector Rev E L Pielow Holy Communion at 9 am Sunday and Evening Prayer and sermon at 7 pm Sunday officiated by the rector.
Trinity Lutheran Church announces Sunday school and Bible class at 10 am in Fairfield county with Holy Communion at 7 pm. A divine service will be held in Logan.
Miss Sarah Britton of Kenosha Wisconsin, a 16 year old Girl Scout, received the Golden Eagle for valor after rescuing two children from drowning in Lake Michigan last summer. She becomes the first Wisconsin recipient of the top award.
Forum debates keeping home department within the Sunday school or as a separate unit. When separated, enrollment rose from 60 to 300 and annual contributions jumped from 60 to 550, turning a neglected unit into a major church effort. Poor leadership and slipshod methods historically hampered results.
The guidance urges necessary criticism be selective and constructive. Do not correct in public or in anger, but with praise first. Assume the child aims to do right and work together. Emphasize self correcting by teaching them to find and fix their faults.
John D. Rockefeller Jr. has contributed over 1.75 million dollars to the University of California for a 590 room dormitory in Berkeley to serve as residence and social center for American and foreign students. The International House will house 300 foreign and 260 American students. A conference is being called jointly by the Home Missions Council the Council of Women for Home Missions and the Federal Council of Churches of Christ of America.
A 19th century item notes a Hungarian hunting party that removed the second wing from a Park swan near Belvoir SL DAPEST, leaving seven members of the party responsible for the bird’s injury.
The church frames its outreach as a guardian presence guiding people through life. It pledges to uplift the fallen aid the distressed and show mercy while offering kindness and a friendly hand. It positions itself as comforter and best friend inviting immediate contact.
A compendium of adages on character, duty, and personal growth urges steady effort, honest conduct, and purposeful living. It stresses home as a mirror of character and warns against complacency, urging action over idle thought to shape a meaningful life.
The text details a January 20 22 1928 Cleveland gathering to discuss ecumenical issues and reducing competition among churches. It notes a Y M C A building project in Jerusalem funded by an American gift of 400 000 dollars and a planned pilgrims center outside the Jaffa Gate. It also describes a Washington National Cathedral honor for twenty women with stained glass windows in a chapel adjoining a bishop's house near Woodrow Wilson's burial site. The list includes Pocahontas Susan Wesley Lady Jane Grey Joan of Arc and other historical and religious figures across centuries, noting their respective eras and significance to church history.
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