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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1949
Page
3
Dr Edmund Heinsohn will deliver the 11 am sermon on Christian Maturity at University Methodist Church. Dr Archie N Jones leads the choir for morning anthems. The 7:30 pm service features The Apron of Humanity with vesper choir directed by Dr Betty Stephens.
Rev Joseph Harte will lead a 11 a m holy eucharist sermon titled In the Steps of the Apostles at All Saints Episcopal Church. Attending the Southwest province conference on college work at Norman Oklahoma are Miss Lucy Phillips Dr Marie B Morrow Dr Royal Embree Rev Harte Rev Gray Blandy and Ralph Thompson. Leaders include Dr Embree Bishop John E Hines and Rev Arnold Nash of UNC.
The Mary Hardin Baylor Girl’s Octet will be special guests at the University Baptist Church Sunday morning service. Members named include Esther Minten Vivian Shelton Betty Anderson Bonnie Smith Virginia Trott Betty Hunt Anne Upham and Patty Conn with Billie Hendrix on piano. Dr Blake Smith will speak on What Religion Does For a Man and the pastor’s sermon titled Man’s Disorder Is Satan’s Design. A 7 30 p m service follows and the church plans a monthly supper and business meeting Wednesday at 6 30 p m.
Miss Edna Poole, missionary just back from Africa after sixteen years in the Belgian Congo, will address Hyde Park Christian Church at 10:50 a.m. Sunday. Her work includes jungle travel with native guides and translating textbooks into native languages. She is sister of Mrs Archie K Stevenson, wife of the church minister.
Holy communion will be administered at Ward Memorial Methodist Church Sunday. At the 10 50 a m service the Rev John K Beery will give a brief message on The Worship of the Church The evening message will be The Soul s Deepest Hunger The official board meets Monday at 7 30 p m to elect board personnel W C Blundell is chairman
The Rev. C. L. Bohls will deliver the 10:45 a m sermon at St John’s Lutheran Church on Christ’s Resurrection and Our Life. A filmstrip on The Fourth Commandment will be shown to the school assembly at 10:15. The Rev. Bohls will also conduct a 3:30 p m service at the Lutheran Old Folks Home in Round Rock.
The Tarrytown Methodist Church will hear two sermons. The topic Sunday morning is Privilege Implies Responsibility by the Rev. Ted Richard Persecutor. A 7:30 p.m. service repeats the topic. The board of stewards convenes Monday at 7:30 p.m. for the final conference-year report.
A reader notice lists numerous Austin area churches with addresses and weekly service times. It details assemblies from Assemblies of God to Catholic, Baptist, Episcopal, and Methodist parishes, noting Sunday School hours, morning and evening services, BTU sessions, confessions, and special prayers across multiple neighborhoods.
The Rev John E Hines Bishop Coadjutor of Texas will visit Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd to confirm candidates after instruction with Rev Thomas M W Yerxa He will preach the 11 am service A YPSL overnight retreat at Kinsolving Lodge near Belton preceded vespers at 6 pm Sunday.
The First English Lutheran Church observes the second Sunday after Easter with Dr. Lewis P. Speaker preaching on The Shepherding Instinct. Dr. J W Irons leads the adults discussion at 10 15 a m. A congregational picnic follows at 3 p m at Pease Park and an informal service after supper. The vestry meets Tuesday at 7 30 p m, with the men changing to May 10.
The Rev John Mueller of Hyde Park Presbyterian Church will speak at 11 a.m. on Resolving Our Conflicts Gods Way. The 7:30 p.m. service topic is How Men Find Courage To Face Life. Len Orr will sing a solo at the morning service with Mrs Jack Lenhart on piano.
The official board meets Thursday night as new stewards are announced and the budget for the coming year is ratified. Members of the Quarterly Conference will participate to set the church policy for the year ahead.
The Everlasting Punishment lesson sermon will be read in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, Sunday. The golden text from Romans 7 addresses servitude to obedience and the consequences of sin or righteousness. Galatians 6:8 and a passage from the Christian Science textbook describe reaping life everlasting and making one’s own heaven or hell through conduct.
Holy communion and a 7:30 a.m. service will be held at St. David’s Church with Fred Catterall III serving. An 11 a.m. sermon will be preached by Rev. Charles A. Sumners. Acolytes, servers, cross guards, flag bearers, and ushers are listed. Members plan to attend the Lenten offering presentation at Christ Church, Temple, then return to Austin by 8 p.m. Bishops Quin and Hines will conduct the service.
Rev Lawrence Bash will lead two services at the pone Christian Church with the sermon Has God a Plan for My Life. Janice Ray and Hugh V Jones will sing solos. Bash will be installed as minister at a 5 30 p m vespers where his father Dr Floyd Allen Bash will give the address. Choir directed by Nelson Keyes with Mrs Keyes as accompanist.
Go valle Methodist Church will observe communion at morning services Sunday. The sermon by Rev W E Anderson will be on Atonement. Evening services will be conducted by Vernon F Perry of San Antonio.
The church service at Central Christian Church features a sermon by Rev. John Barclay on "Jesus Christ, and Him Crucified" at 10 55 a m. A special musical quartet consisting of George R Moody Deane Watson Morris Johnson and Dr James R McRill will perform during the service.
The Govalle Methodist Church board of stewards will hold its regular monthly meeting Friday at 7 30 p m. All stewards are urged to attend to discuss the preparation of the budget for the coming year.
Rev Archie K Stevenson of Hyde Park Christian Church will discuss the Eight Mistakes of a Sick Man at the 10 50 a m service Sunday. Youth groups meet at 6 30 p m and Gospel Hour at 7 30 p m with Stevenson speaking on Coined Life.
The Rev. O. E. Grimes of the First Street Christian Church will discuss Guideposts to God at the 10 55 a m service Sunday. He will present The Kingdom Comes at the 730 p m service.
At Grace Methodist Church morning service the Lord's Supper will be observed. The Rev. Patrick W. Armstrong will use as his communion meditation the theme Christ's Desire for Fellowship. The evening hour features a sermon titled The Power of God.
Mrs. Evelyn Archer, secretary of the Austin committee for education on alcoholism, will lead Sunday School at First Presbyterian Church at 10 a.m. as the second of four sessions presenting recent scientific and therapeutic results.
Mrs. Homer Garrison will review Lloyd Douglas' Big Fisherman at 7 30 p m Sunday service. Rev. Walter K Kerr will speak on Obstacle s at 11 a m. Choir directed by Mrs. Edna T Anderson with organist Miss Mary Helen Jackson. Official board meets Monday 8 p m in the Parish Hall.
Montgomery Ward announces mid-summer catalog price cuts the largest since before the war. Reductions range from 10 to 40 percent with textiles bearing the biggest markdowns. Rayon prints and calico prints hit new lows in years. Fully equipped bicycles for boys and girls mark eight year low prices.
Calvin H. Treadway of Harlingen Texas private detective charged with bank robbery was ordered to the US medical center at Springfield Missouri for a mental examination. The court action followed his April 7 robbery of the South Side Bank here and his subsequent arrest and federal indictment.
Kiwanis International and the Kiwanis Club of Washington honored sixty Kiwanian members for service to the nation. The event featured the appearance and introduction of Representative Homer Thornberry of Austin.
The Rev. Albert F. Jesse will deliver a sermon titled A Godless World at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. A special anthem will be performed by the mixed choir under John J. Socha. At 7:30 p.m. another sermon The Soul's Eternal Home will be given with the girls' choir singing.
Miss Sarah Ruth Holloway is welcomed as the new director of religious education at First Southern Presbyterian Church during Sunday services. She arrives from the American Bible Society and previously directed religious education at the First Presbyterian Church in Corpus Christi.
First Methodist Church observes National Family Week with Rev. Leroy Russell speaking on Christian Authorities at 10:55 a m. Holy communion will be observed. Childhood Sunday activities spread through church school. Families urged to sit together for the morning service. Rev. Charlies Sumners of St will speak, followed by his talk from 7:30 to 8 p m.
The Rev. J. E. Chester will use The Shepherd and the Sheep as his sermon theme at Gethsemane Lutheran Church Sunday. Gethsemane Luther Leaguers attend the Central District Lutheran League Rally at Palm Valley Lutheran Church Round Rock Sunday.
Govalle Methodist Church announces a spring seminar on The General Organization of the Church School. Sessions begin 7 30 p m Sunday and run through Monday and Tuesday led by the Rev. Vernon with evening meetings at 7 30 p m.
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