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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1943
Page
1
Elder Hunt and Elder J. L. Arends lead a Sunday program with 11 a.m. services. Sunday school follows, a 2 p.m. message, a 3 p.m. evangelistic service and an 7:30 p.m. evening program at 730 H Street SW.
The notices list multiple churches with addresses and pastors. First Second Ave SE hosts Rev Grant F Anderson with youth centers and a full Sunday schedule including morning worship at 10 50 and youth fellowships. Calvary Fifth Ave SW led by Rev Rodney Gould features Bible school morning worship and baptismal service with BTU and six groups. Zion at 824 Eighth Ave SE under Rev D O Bell offers Sunday school at 10 am morning worship at 11 with BTU at 6 30 and evening service at 7 30, plus midweek prayer.
The Rev. Andrew R. Parks presides at 512 Sixth Street SE with junior church at 10 a.m. Morning worship at 11 features the sermon The Enduring Word. A memorial service is led by Fidelity lodge No. 1058 IBP OEW at 3 p.m. Allen CE league meets 6:30 followed by evening worship at 7:30. Official board meets Monday at the parsonage. prayer meeting Wednesday. choir rehearsal Friday.
Listings detail mass times confession hours and clergy for Immaculate Conception St Ludmila St Matthew St Patrick and St Wenceslaus churches. Sundays feature multiple masses from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. Weekday services vary with early morning times and daily confessions before masses.
The Rev Marion H Williams pastor leads church school at 9 45 a m and morning worship with communion at 10 45 with sermon A Practical Religion. Senior and young people Christian Endeavor at 7 p m. At Second Third Ave at Sixth St SW The Rev I E Linkletter pastor holds church school at 9 45 worship and communion at 10 50 sermon The Increasing Christ C E at 6 30 p m and Evening Bible study at 7 30.
Sunday school at 9 45 am and morning service at 11 am with the topic God the Preserver of Man. Testimonial meeting Wednesday at 8 pm. Reading room open daily 9 30 am to 5 30 pm at 318 Paramount theater building except Sunday.
Schedule lists 716 Eighth Avenue SW for Bible study at 10 a.m with a short talk at 11. Communion service at 11:15. Evening service at 7:30 p.m. Midweek service on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. 118 A Avenue NW hosts song service.
The passage lists a Bible study session and a Lord's Supper at 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. respectively, indicating standard weekend worship times for a church group.
The Rev. and Mrs. E. Dooty co-pastors at L avenue and Eighth Street NW announce unified services at 9:45 a.m. Mrs. Dooty is speaker. Christian Crusaders vespe rs at 6:30 p.m. General evening service at 7:30 p.m. Rev. Dooty to speak. Topic Hearing Gods Word with praise and prayer on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
The Rev. H. L. Ruthrauff leads morning worship at 10 50 with topic Giving and Receiving. Evening service at 7 30 titled The Eternal Dayspring. B Y F gathers at 6 45. Bible study Wednesday 7 30. Choir practice Wednesday 8 30.
Worship at Dairydale Mt Vernon road at Thirty fourth street SE led by Rev F O Hillman 10 a m with Standby Timothy topic. Church school at 10 45 Edgewood Sunday school 10 15 Tilson Petro superintendent. Covington and Edgewood residents invited. Long service Bible study 7 p m with Chester G Ainsworth as speaker.
The bulletin lists two churches with pastors Rev Joseph B Clyde and Rev William A Jacobs. Services include Sunday school at 10 a.m. Morning worship at 11 a.m. Sermons titled Look Up and The Measure of True Greatness. Evening worship at 7:30 p.m. Pilgrim fellowship at 6:30 p.m. Hearthside group at 8 p.m. Cub pack 6 Christmas party on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
The Rev. C. F. Chitty conducts Sunday school at 9 45 a m and morning worship at 10 45 a m The Rev R C Nelson evangelist will speak at both morning and evening services An evangelistic service is held each evening at 7 30 p m with the Rev Mr Nelson of Webster City as speaker
St John the Baptist at 501 A Avenue NE lists a matin service at 9 15 a m and divine liturgy at 10 30 a m led by Rev John E Pallas pastor in a parish notice.
The notice lists service times for the Interdenominational church on Fifth Avenue at Third Street SW. Rev. A. J. Stokes is the pastor. Sunday school at 10 a.m. morning worship at 11 a.m. Young people's meeting at 7 p.m. old-fashioned gospel preaching at 7:30 p.m. Prayer and Bible study Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
Harold G. Hunt presides over a Priesthood meeting at 9 30 a m Sunday school at 10 Sacrament service at 11 in the Lincoln Room of the Roosevelt hotel scope unclear due to OCR formatting.
Grace Avenue at Sixth Street NE hosts a low mass for communion at 9 a.m. The service shrine and military service open to all. St John’s Park Avenue at Nineteenth Street SE led by Rev D A Loferski offers Holy communion at 8 p.m. Church school at 9 45 morning prayer and sermon at 11 Kindergarten school at 11.
First street area services led by Rev. Stauffacher with sermon We Move Toward Bethlehem at 10 45. Youth fellowship at 6 30. Second area led by Rev. Olson with Bible school at 9 45 morning worship 10 45 and services at 2 30 7 30. Wednesday junior choir at 4 senior choir at 7 and midweek service at 8.
Bethany Missouri Synod and Trinity Lutheran churches list services Sunday school times at Bethany 9 15 a m and 9 30 a m with divine services at 10 30 a m and 10 45 a m others note daily and weekly programs including the Lighted Lantern broadcast at WMT Sundays 7 p m adult membership classes Monday 8 p m and a Christmas social Saturday 8 p m plus a children's Christmas service December 24 at 7 p m. Trinity Lutheran at First avenue and Fourteenth street SW offers services 10 45 a m Tuesday catechumens 6 30 p m adult class 7 30 p m senior league 7 45 p m. Gamma Kappa meets Friday 7 45 p m. Gifts for Christmas baskets due at church kitchen before December 22. First Lutheran on First Third avenues at Tenth street SE holds church school 9 45 a m with The Three Judges Luther league 8 30 p m. Saron at Second avenue and Third street SW church school 10 a m morning worship 11 a m with a sermon The Voice and the Word.
The Czech-1510 Second Street SW and First-Eighth Avenue at L Street SW churches list morning worship at 10:30 with English Bible school at 9:30 and evening English services. Sermon title The Man Who Never Made a Mistake. foreign missions study. youth fellowship. choir rehearsal. congregational meeting to ratify the pastor's resignation.
The Rev. Cline Halsey and the Rev. Hazel Halsey lead Sunday services at 11 with Evangelist Ruby Warren speaking on The Missing One. Prayer at 3 p.m. Crusaders at 6. Band by Tommy Stastney at 7. Evangelistic service at 7:30 by Rev. Warren Johnson on Where Are the Dead. Meetings nightly except Monday and Saturday at 7:45.
Listings for multiple churches including Methodist, St James, St Pauls, Kenwood Park, and Trinity. Details: pastors F O Hillman, F L Hinshaw, Charles J Bready, Dwight E Webster, John E De Long. service times church schools and youth fellowships. sermon topics include Perils of Being a Christian, His Name Shall Be Called Wonderful, When Prophets Fail, A Prophet's Dream, Life through the Knowledge of God.
In Cedar Rapids a Christmas churchgoing influence is noted with about 12,000 on church rolls in a 62,000 population. The piece urges living the gospel over arguing about points of view and cites Mark 3:28 29, emphasizing personal saving power as the key to reaching outsiders. The text previews sermons and services at multiple church locations with times and speakers listed.
The article lists worship times for Pastor James H Blackstone Jr with services at Olivet Avenue and Tenth Street NW. Morning worship at 11 with the sermon The Truth About Man. Evening services include How to Use the Bible. A Westminster Service roll call invites relatives to provide information about service members.
Readings compile Mark 12 28 34 John 18 34 35 and John 13 34 35 with cross references to Mark 12 29 31 32 33 and John 15 10 14. Emphasizes the first and second commandments and the call to love one another as Jesus loved.
The Rev Mr DeWeese will deliver a guest talk on KXEL station programming. Details on date and venue are not stated in the fragment.
The notice lists pastors Rev. Mr. and Mrs. R. F. DeWeese as pastor and co-pastor with Rev. Gust Block and wife as assistant pastors. Worship at 11 with Rev. De Weese as speaker. Young people overcomer service at 6 15 p m and evening evangelistic service at 7 45 with special vocal and instrumental.
The Rev. Robert Little presides at First Third avenue and Fifth street SE with Bible school at 9 45 a.m. Morning worship at 11 a.m. Sermon titled The Impotence of Moral Darkness. Young People meet in the chapel at 5 p.m. Special music led by Miss Maurine Hambilin and Mr Anthony. The Sinclair Memorial at 825 Twelfth avenue SE led by Rev W C Porter with Bible school at 9 30 a.m. Worship at 10 45 a.m. Lord s Supper observance postponed. Sermon for Bible Sunday The Entrance of Thy Word Giv Eth Light. No evening service. Merrymakers Bible class Wednesday. Central Park at 5B avenue and Seventeenth Street NE with Rev John M Vander Meulen. Sunday school at 9 45 a.m. Morning worship findings continue.
The Rev. George W. Marshfield will lead adult forum at 10 a.m. on Unitarianism After the Dark Ages. Morning service at 11 a.m. features a sermon on Discipline for Democracy with Rosemary Mann as guest soloist. American Unitarian Youth meet at 6:30 p.m. led by Charles Von dracek with topic Problems of American Labor.
The Rev. Everett O. Pearson conducts worship at Fourth Avenue and Seventh Street SE in observance of Universal Bible Sunday. Sermon title is The Bible Today and all are welcome to attend the service.
The Rev. George W. Bryant and the Rev. H. K. Galloway lead services at First Third Avenue and Grande Avenue. Bible school at 9:45 a.m. Public worship at 10:55 and 11:00 respectively. Sermons titled How Long Hall Ye Be between Two Opinions and Preparation for the Prince of Peace. Senior young people meet at the parsonage at 7 p.m.
Unity Center at 10615 Second Avenue SE lists Mabel Swanson as leader. Sunday programs include radio broadcast at 8 a.m., Sunday school at 9:35, morning worship at 11 with the topic The Wisdom of Love, and an evening lecture at 8 on Deligh Thy self in the Law. Wednesday offers What Are You class at 2:30 p.m. and Lessons in Truth at 8. Friday features Prosperity class at 8 p.m.
An unidentified radio station calling itself Radio Austria urged Austrians to strike and demonstrate for peace by Christmas. The broadcast aired Friday from London via the Allied line.
The Agriculture Department reports dry conditions in central and southern Great Plains limit winter wheat plantings and reduce livestock pasturage. Official acreage unknown, but forecasts suggest below War Food administration goals for a 24 percent grain increase. Milk production for January-November totals 109.958 billion pounds, down from last year, while November output hits a record for the month.
The War Department notified Mrs. Russell Hinkle that her husband Pvt. Russell Hinkle was killed in action in Italy on November 29.
The Church of Youth of St. Paul’s Methodist plans a 9 40 a m Christmas consecration service led by Miss Bertha Pownall. The service features choirs under Mrs. L J Twogood with Lucille Ham lin as organist, a proessional song There’s a Star in the Sky and charts Angel of Peace. Mrs C J Bready will tell The Church of the Lighted Lamps. Superintendents and teachers will conduct the candlelight rite with Catherine Eckstein Hamilton Morse and others listed.
The Cedar Rapids Ministerial Association meets Monday at 10 a.m. in the First Presbyterian chapel. Mrs. Lloyd Davis speaks on Children in War Time in Cedar Rapids. Rev. R. F. DeWeese, pastor of the Church of the Open Bible, has returned from Dayton and serves as conference representative for Open Bible Standard Churches in the central and eastern states. Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Johnson, evangelists, conduct services at the Foursquare Gospel tabernacle throughout the coming week except Monday and Saturday at 7:45 p.m. Topics include If Men Go To Hell Who Cares? A Sinner in hid ing The Finish Seeing the Future.
Mrs. Lloyd Davis will be guest speaker at the Hearthside group meeting of the First Congregational church in the Parish house activities room at 8 p.m. Sunday. Her topic is Children in War Time. Hosts are Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Gaines and Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Atkinson.
Robert M. Gaylord of Ingersoll Milling Machine Co Rockford Illinois was elected president of the National Association of Manufacturers at the NAM annual convention He will take office January 1 succeeding Frederick C Crawford of Thompson Products Cleveland who becomes NAM board chairman Gaylord 55 is married with three sons in the armed services and a daughter.
October 1943 witnesses declare the undersigned owners and shareholders of the Sanitary Rendering Company surrendering its franchise and corporate name. The officers are empowered to proceed with dissolution, distribute assets in kind, and finalize the corporate end as of the date written, in the presence of Jd. Berry.
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