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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1950
Page
3
Members of the Austin Typographical Union and their families attend morning worship at Hyde Park Christian Church as the union marks 80 years. Rev Archie K Stevenson preaches on My Father's Business. Choir sings Praise Ye the Father. At 7 p m the sound movie God Is My Landlord is shown, detailing wheat to bread production in 45 minutes.
The Rev Lawrence W Bash will discuss Providence and the Miraculous at Sunday services at 8:30 and 10:45 a m at University Christian Church. Soloists Charles Vandervoort and Bob Cantrell will perform, the choir will sing Our Heavenly Father, and DSF seniors will be honored at a 5:30 p m banquet with Neil Guy MC.
All Saints Church hosts University of Texas harp professor Miss Mary Mylecrain to perform three preludes and one offertory number during a 11 a.m. Sunday morning service at All Saints. The Rt. Rev. Clinton S. Quin, bishop of Texas, will confirm about 40, with a 9:30 a.m. family service sermon and a postservice film on St Paul.
The Rev. Arthur E. Graf will speak on Ascension, Comfort, and Joy at Trinity Lutheran at 10 a m Sunday. At 7:30 p m a group of 12 children will be examined for confirmation in the church. Names include Verna Mueller, Emil Mueller, Ramona Neitch, La Verne Urban, Gloria Johnson, Charles Jennings, Billy Linder, Frank Jennings, Marilyn Preece, Barbara Trautmann, Shirley Kretehmar and Jerry Hawk.
A long list of Austin congregations and pastors is given, detailing locations, worship times, and Sunday School schedules for numerous denominations including Assembly of God, Baptist, Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, and others across East, West, North, and South Austin. The compilation highlights multiple churches with their service hours such as Sunday 11 am and 7:30 pm, weekday meetings, and youth programs, reflecting a broad community religious life in the city.
Rev Darrel Gray concludes a four year pastorate at St Luke Church with a Sunday service titled Jesus Man of Action. John Cunningham will sing Come Ye Blessed with the adult choir directed by Mrs Stanley Peterson. The program includes a 7 pm Youth Fellowship presided by Norma Gay Smith and counselors Mr and Mrs L B Cook. The evening worship at 8 pm features Misses Bessie Mae Reeves and Virginia Robbins in Ivory Palaces and an address Love in Action by Rev Frank Walker from Austin Seminary.
Dr Edmund Heinsohn will preach at 11 am on No Bulwark in Atheism. The University Methodist service features choir under Dr Archie N Jones performing Hear My Prayer and Cast Thy Burden Upon the Lord. Eldon Sutton plays What God Does Is Well Done and Mendelssohn pieces. Rev Wood Patrick delivers sermon The Spirit of God at Work in Our House. Vesper choir led by Dr B M Bakkegard performs Son of My Soul with Calvin Arnold solo. Josie Champion sings Sheep May Safely Graze. Sutton also plays Punish Me Not in My Wrath Sarabande and Gagliarda. Fourth Quarterly Conference follows the evening service.
Hyde Park Baptist Church schedules two sermons by Dr. Scott L. Tatum on Sunday. Morning topic is The Stone Which the Builders Rejected and evening subject Leaving Our Waterpots Behind. Guest director Paul Hicksang leads music with Mrs Harry Piland and Gerald Ray on piano. The church training union led by J B Wade plans a Monday 7 30 p m social with a Chautauqua motif and weeklong period sections featuring entertainment planning and devotional segments.
Taylor May 19 The Trinity Lutheran congregation will dedicate its first home on church owned grounds in a 2 30 p m service The Rev G A Zach will be installed as pastor by Dr G J Beto Concordia College Austin Congregations from Thrall Thorndale Noack and nearby areas are invited to attend
The Rev Charls A Sumners will deliver a morning sermon at 11 oclock titled Prayer Refreshes Continuing Prayer Refreshes at St David Episcopal Church. Crucifer Bill Lester servers Morris Treadwell and Bill Rogers flag bearers Jack Coulter and John Ade Huhn erosagy Michael Rockman and Bob Tobin Ushers chaired by S J Harrison W A Kermeir Jack Brady F A Tyler choir directed by Arden Whitaker organist and choirmaster Junior Jack Brady will be acolyte.
Walnut Creek Baptist Church on the Dallas Highway observes the Lord’s Supper at 11 a.m. with Rev. Louie Sluder in charge and an 8:15 p.m. service. A deacons' group leads the morning ordinance after the 10 a.m. Sunday school. Training Union meets at 7:15 p.m. with the pastor teaching. Booster Band sings at 7:15 p.m. for children under 11. Vacation Bible School leaders meet Tuesday at 10 a.m. The family mission night begins Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Various church organizations meet then, including Brotherhood, Woman’s Missionary Society, Young Woman’s Auxiliary, Intermediate and Junior Girls’ Auxiliaries, Sunbeam Band, and Troop 99 Scouts, all on the second and fourth Wednesdays. A Christian education banquet for high school seniors and freshmen is Saturday at 7 p.m. at the parsonage.
Rev Eugene Wernberg speaks at 11: a m service in Evangelical Free Church with the topic When the Fire of the Lord Fell Junior church is at 11 Dick Oliver in charge FCYF meeting at 6 30 p m main speaker Dick Oliver Evangelistic and prophetic series ends with Changed in the Twinkling of an Eye at 7 30 p m Prayer and praise led by Pastor Rosell Wednesday 8 p m
The lesson-sermon for Soul and Body centers on waiting upon God and placing faith in the divine, citing Psalms 62 5 and II Corinthians 5 8. It includes a Mary Baker Eddy passage urging the destruction of the belief that life and intelligence reside in matter and to plant oneself on purity and perfection.
The Rev. Sidney Hawkins of the South Austin Christian Church chooses the sermon title Is the Picture Straight on the Wall for Sunday at 11 a.m. Special music by the mixed quartet precedes Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. The South Austin Christian Youth Fellowship plans a Bastrop State Park picnic Sunday at 12:30 p.m., with some parents attending. Miss Bebe Davis leads CFY. the Hawkins couple will accompany the group.
Dr Tom Brabham of Central Methodist Church will preach on The Church for the Present Day at 10 55 a m on Sunday with special choir music. A candle lighting installation for the Methodist Men's Club officers will follow. A reception for the official board and families will be in the parish hall. Conference year officers and delegates are named. The local church closes its year June 1 as Brabham and delegates depart for the San Antonio conference opening Wednesday.
Rev. John Mueller preaches When Conscience Seeks Wings at 11 a m Sunday at Hyde Park Presbyterian. Music includes Romberg Prelude and Andante Amore by Von Suppe with Mrs Jack Lenhart at the organ.
First Southern Presbyterian Church marks 1950 high school graduates with a 9 15 a m coffee hosted by the Young People's Fellowship Class. A brief ceremony promotes them to the Senior Department then to the Young People's Fellowship Group at 6 p m. Tommy Witt will speak on distinguishing right from wrong. Regular services follow with Dr Flynn V Long preaching at 11 a m and 7 30 p m at 8th and Brazos.
Bernard Baumbach will lead the senior Bible class while Rev. F G Roesener preaches to the adult class from 10 to 10 30 a m Sunday School meets at 9 30 a m with C E Bock as superintendent A 11 o clock service features the sermon series Is the Church Meeting Its Responsibility in This Modern World A 4 p m service at the Altenheim Hyde Park is sponsored by Mrs Fred Schmidt circle An 8 p m service features Rev Roesener speaking Eyes That See.
Rev C L Bohls delivers Sunday 10 45 a m sermon titled Human Witnesses at St John Lutheran Church Austin Theater 2130 South Congress Avenue The choir sings The Lord Is My Light Adams The adult Bible class and Sunday School illustrated message explore Micah s Pleas For Human Rights
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