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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1940
Page
8
A community notice lists Baptist and Catholic churches with service times, classes, campaigns led by evangelists, and hours for confession, mass, and worship. It also includes Christian Science services and a Christian congregation's evening programs and campaigns ending dates.
Unified Sunday worship at L Avenue and Eighth Street NW with morning services starting 9 45 and 10 05 sermon by Rev Coolidge, Sunday school at 10 45, evening service 7 30 with a picture program, midweek prayer and Y P activities, and revival meetings led by Evangelist Harold Volk starting Monday at 7 30. Different addresses include 269 Eighteenth Street NW and 829 B Avenue NE with multiple cottage prayers and scripture readings.
The church at Fourth Avenue and Twelfth Street SE schedules its morning worship at 9 45 a m and 10 50 sermon Voices Out of the Past. An evening service at 7 30 features lay speaker J K Miller recently returned from Florida with Opal Ballard's committee. Midweek prayer is set for Wednesday at 7 30 p m.
A church offers a Sunday program starting at 10:30 with a short member talk followed by a 11:20 communion service and an 11:40 evening service. Midweek service is listed for Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday gatherings at 10 and 11 am feature Elder Anderson as speaker on Observance of Law at 107 Second Avenue SE in the Hasek building. A Mutual Improvement meeting is planned for Tuesday at 8 pm.
Listings show multiple churches with service times sermons and activities. The Downtown Church on the Hill led by Rev Vernon L Shattuck Jones offers matins low mass communion 8 am church school 10 am lung? mass and sermon 11 am Weekday services Tue Thu 7 am Fri Sat 9 am. Other churches include Pilgrim Fellowship events 6 30 pm Bethany and Grace avenues with Sunday school 9 45 am and evening services 6 30 7 30 pm.
Church of Christ holds Bible study at 10:30 a.m. communion at 11, morning service at 11:30, and evening service at 7:30 p.m. The Foursquare Gospel Church at 609 First Avenue W led by Pastors Malcolm E. Hall and Isabelle R. Hall offers Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. worship at 11 with Rev. William F. Rugg speaking on baptism’s role in conversion. Prayer meeting at 3, Junior Crusaders and Young People at 6:15, evangelistic service at 7:45 with Life story “From Patrol man to Pulpit.” Special musical program before the message.
The Free Methodist church at 6 Avenue and Eighth Street NW lists Reverend C M Cunningham as pastor. Sunday school starts 9:45 a.m. preaching at 10:45 a.m. class meeting at 11:45 a.m. Young people's meeting follows.
Evening service at 6 45 p m and 7 30 prayer meeting on Wednesday at 7 30 p m Union church located on Third street at Fifth avenue SW Reverend A J Stokes pastor unified service Sunday school and morning worship at 10 00 old fashioned gospel preaching 7 30 p m boys club Wednesday 4 30 choir practice Wednesday 7 30 prayer meeting at church Thursday 7 30 p m
The Rev. P. L. Bornhoeft will lead divine service at 10 45 a m at the Trinity church located on First avenue and Fourteenth street SW Trinity Missouri.
Multiple church listings outline worship times, Sunday schools, and classes across several congregations. Bethany Missouri Synod led by Mark J Steege offers 9:15 Sunday school and 10:30 divine service with other activities. First United Lutheran, Saron-Augustana, St Pauls, and Trinity churches list varied services, catechism, and youth programs.
Reverend sermon reflects on Jesus words in Matthew 16 2 4 and the paradox of finding life by losing it in service to God and others. Notes past sermons on Paul Barton Watts Bridges and healing through faith with church events listed for Olivia B Avenue Sinclair Memorial and August Cramer on Sunday morning worship and Bible school.
A sprawling church schedule lists Bible studies prayers and services across parishes on Westminster Third and Bever Avenues Fourteenth Street SE and other blocks. It covers sermons topics The Task of the Church ordinations midweek prayers and youth meetings led by various ministers including Rev James H Blackstone Jr Rev Daniel E Kerr Rev Robert Little and Rev Milo Filipi.
Kenwood Church at 302 Thirty-third Street NE lists church school at 9 45 morning worship at 11 sermon titled The Peace of God. Junior league meets at 6 p m Epworth league and Francis Asbury club at 7 p m.
Bethel A M E at 512 Sixth Street SE with Rev J W Collins as pastor holds Sunday school at 9 30 a m English Morning service at 11 featuring the sermon What Have I Con tributed to The Cause of Christ Men s club meets after morning worship Children's rehearsal for May day drill at 2 30 p m Allen Christian Endeavor league at 6 30 p m Evening worship scheduled.
A Sunday sermon titled A Faithful Witness will be followed by a prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 pm at the parsonage.
The Hus Memorial Presbyterian Church on Ninth Avenue at Seventh Street SE, led by Rev. Benjamin J. Paroulek, offers English morning worship at 10:30 a.m and Czech service at 10:30 a.m. Sermon titled The Continuing Task. Church activities include Junior Young People's Society 6:30 p.m. Young People's Christian Endeavor 7 p.m. under Edward Kaspar, social at 8:15 p.m., and Wednesday Bible Study with Choral Society rehearsal. Kenwood Park 3224 First Ave.
Capt and Mrs W E Thompson officers in charge. Sunday school at 10 a.m. Holiness meeting at 11 a.m. Easter pageant The Way of the Cross Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Home Church services announced for Salvation Army location.
The notice lists events: a Band of Love session on Thursday at 2:30 PM, a Band of Love event Friday at 7:30 PM, and a Preparation class on Tuesday at 4:00 PM.
The Rev Frank K Ward founder and the Rev Frank H Ward superintendent lead Gospel services each evening at 7 30. Sunday school is at 3 pm. A full week of Bible classes and societies is listed including Mothers sewing class junior and intermediate, young people, women and children's classes, and Friday Helping Hand society. The Rev Frank If Ward will speak tomorrow at 7 30 pm and Rev T J Hinkin will lead the musical service.
A community listing details religious services across multiple churches in SE area streets including Syrian Orthodox St Johns on Sixth Avenue and Seventh Street SE, St George on Ninth Street and Twelfth Avenue SE with morning matins and divines in Syrian Greek and English, Unitarian on Third Avenue Sixth Street SE, United Brethren on Fourth Avenue Seventh Street SE, United Presbyterian on First to Third Avenues Second Street SW, Grande Avenue on Sixteenth Street SE, Unity Center on 1015 Second Avenue SE, and Unity Center activities with sermons classes and evening lectures.
The Rev Charles J Breads of St Pauls Methodist church will discuss the new war crisis this Sunday at 11 am. His sermon topic is The March of the Dictators and will use Revelation as scripture, noting the horseman who takes peace and brings a great sword.
Westminster Presbyterian Church will conduct the ordination and installation of elders and trustees elected at last Wednesday's congregational meeting. The Rev Mr Blackstone will deliver a message titled The Task of the Church at 7 30 PM. All church officers and Sunday school teachers are invited.
The First Reformed Church will host an a cappella male quartet at the 10 30 morning worship service this Sunday singing old favorites and newer songs as part of the occasion.
The quartet members are Dev ds Basse 1 oct tenor Dereldster seco d tere om Vern Reede one tone and ard Charles Andeion bass, outlining the vocal range and lineup for the group.
A fragmentary notice mentions George Wilbeck and Betty in relation to a colored lion picture display and a trip to Mexico on a coastal ship service. Myra Wire is listed as in charge of a related event at a religious school, with unclear roles and dates.
Evangelist Harold L. Volk has been engaged as a special worker for the church. Services are held Mondays at 7 30 p m through April 28 with a focus on outreach and prayer. Volunteers and attendees are invited to participate in weekly sessions at the church building.
Dairy Dale Union holds Sunday morning services from 9:30 to 10:30. The Mill venue hosts the worship session as announced in the community notice.
Motion pictures titled The Pason Plas and a sacred convert by the five members of the Mart'n farms will be shown at St Pauls auditorium Sunday evening at 7 45 The scenes were shot in the Holy Land and Egypt Reverend C Martin and his family, once residents of Michigan and Illinois, have traveled in 39 states There is no admission charge but an offering will be taken.
Items include Harold Allison of Wooloyee ton high school placing third in a news writing contest judged by Qual and Stresman. Joh Al Drabelle of Cedar Rapids elected president of the Midwest GIS association at Waterloo. Prof JFF Yothers of Coe College attended the American Association of Collegiate Registrars meeting in Memphis. Miss Anna Jarmila Fiala to perform music at Augustana College Rock Island. Mr and Mrs Fox Wiles spent winter in California. Fenton M Jolson monger of Hotel Montrose to spend time in Colorado mountains and then California. C QC Ryan named Cedar Rapids Armour branch manager. F. Jay Morrisey resigns Welch-Cook to study higher accounting in Chicago.
C H Chandler elected president and E E Richards vice president of the West Side Improvement League at a meeting in the Enterprise office. F D Lilly named secretary and A S Reed treasurer. The city council posted a repeal of the Cedar Rapids theater district ordinance to permit remodeling of the Clement building for a theater. The Martin Dry Goods Co leased Second avenue and Third street from John S Ely for 99 years, now occupied by several firms. E J C Beater left for Pass Christian, Miss., to join John M Grimm who is seriously ill there.
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