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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1939
Page
5
Multiple churches in the area list revival campaigns and a full slate of services. Calvary Fifth Ave SW hosts morning worship at 9 40 with Evangelist Stucky, evening sermons, and youth meetings. First Second Ave SE and Mount Zion and other churches schedule Sunday schools, morning and evening worship, youth programs, and midweek Bible studies.
Local churches list service hours for Immaculate Conception St Marys St Ludmila St Matthews St Patricks St Wenceslaus First Church of the Brethren and others with mass times confessions and worship details including sermon topics and church activities on Sundays and weekdays. Several pastors and assistants are named with addresses and schedule notes for liturgical and educational events.
A consolidated notice lists multiple churches with locations, clergy, and weekly services. Entries include morning worship, Sunday school, catechism, and lent services at Grace, Pilgrim, Bethany, First, and other parishes led by Rev. Dreier, Rev. Bashore, Rev. Jones, Rev. Loferski, Rev. Bornhoeft, and others.
Services begin 10 a.m. with preaching at 11:15 a.m. Evangelist William Hensley conducts the day’s program with a communion at 11:45 a.m. The evening service at 7:30 features Mr. Hensley speaking on "Standards."
Sunday services held at 1242 Second Avenue at 11 a.m. with subject Matter. Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. Wednesday testimonial meeting at 8 p.m. Reading room at 318 Paramount Theater building open daily 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. except Sunday.
The Rev A L McQuay pastor, Sunday school at 9 30 a m, morning worship at 10 45 a m Evangelist Sam Jones will preach Does the Bible Teach Sanctification N Y P S meets at 6 30 p m on Gods Method of Calling Men to Salvation Cottage prayer meeting Tuesday 2 30 p m with Mrs Childers 923 Seventeenth Avenue SE Regular prayer meeting Wednesday 7 30 p m
Interdenominational church on Fifth avenue at Third street SW announces unified Sunday school and morning worship at 10 a.m. Old-fashioned gospel at 7:30 p.m. Prayer meeting Thursday at 7:30 p.m. St Pauls on Fourth avenue at Fourteenth street SE lists departments and services with morning worship at 11 and sermons on kingship and wisdom. St James on Ellis Boulevard NW holds Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. Junior church at 11 with a 11 a.m. service.
A sermon urging Christians to plan for eternity and actively promote Christianity. It likens believers to salespeople for Christ, notes their role in lifting up Jesus daily, and stresses living as epistles known and read by all men. Includes church notices and services of Epworth League and local pastors.
A long list of church services, classes, and meetings is detailed for several congregations. Times range from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., with topics including Lent sermons and Easter preparation. Activities include Bible study, youth groups, and prayer meetings led by various pastors.
The Wesley Players of the University of Iowa present The Martyr's Return by Marion Wefer at Czech Second Street and Sixteenth Avenue SW. Rev. Frank Helmich leads services with Sunday school at 9 a.m. Morning service at 10 a.m. Sermon titled A Living Faith. Union services also scheduled.
Captain and Mrs. W. E. Thompson lead events with Sunday school at 10 a.m. Holiness meeting at 11 a.m. Young People’s Legion at 6:15 p.m. Salvation meeting at 7:30 p.m. Soldiers’ meeting Tuesday 8 p.m. Corps Cadet class Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Public meeting Thursday 8 p.m. Praise service Saturday 8 p.m.
The Rev. James T. Stewart leads services at First Fourth Avenue at Seventh Street SE with Sunday school at 9:45 am and morning worship at 11 am on the subject Lenten Meditation. There is a 6:30 pm Senior Christian Endeavor and a midweek prayer meeting at 7:30 pm Wednesday at the pastor’s home.
The United Presbyterian Church at First-Third Avenue and Second Street SW lists Rev. W. Greer McCrory as pastor with Bible school and sermons including Some Laws of the Kingdom. Evening worship at 7:30, Y P C U at 6:30, study on The Life of Jesus Year of Obscurity, and a Wednesday cottage prayer meeting at the parsonage 606 Second Street SW. Grande Avenue at Sixteenth Street SE lists Rev. Samuel M. Morrow as pastor with Bible school at 9:45 a.m. Public worship at 11, sermon A God Like Man, and Wednesday Prayer and Bible study at 7:30 p.m.
The Unity Center at 1015 Second Avenue SE lists activities led by Rev. Goldie C Richardson. Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. Morning worship at 11 a.m. Y O U. 6:30 p.m. Playlet Uncle John s Religion by Mrs Richardson at 8 p.m. Wednesday 2:30 p.m Lessons in Truth and 8 p.m. Prosperity Lenten service Friday 8 p.m. The Master s Way of Love and Happiness.
The Sunshine Mission at 121 123 Second Street NE lists leaders Rev F K Ward founder Rev Frank H Ward superintendent Rev T J Hinkin assistant superintendent and Mrs F M Smith missionary and Bible teacher. Services and classes run daily and weekly with dates. Sunday services 7:30 pm. Sunday school 3 pm. multiple Bible classes and prayer meetings through Thursday. Mothers sewing Friday. Chester Ainsworth to address youth at 4:15 pm Sunday. Also notices for St George Twelfth Avenue Ninth Street SE and St Johns Sixth Avenue Seventh Street SE with pastor Rev John Koury and service times.
The Rev Samuel Ramaker leads the reformer church at First Eighth Avenue and L Street SW. Church school begins at 9 45 a.m. Worship follows at 11 00 a.m with a sermon by the Rev Frank Helmich of the Czech Reformed church.
Evangelist O. W. Stucky of Detroit leads the two week revival at Calvary Baptist Church with a Sunday closing service. The boys and girls Bible reading contest concludes with a top reader awarded, the evangelist to play the musical saw, and a sermon titled Substitution at 7 30. A total of Bible readings expected to reach 15000 by Sunday night.
The schedule shows Thomas N Abodeely as pastor with Sunday school at 9 30 a m morning service at 10 a m and Divine Mass at 11 a m. Services offered in Syrian Greek and English for parishioners.
Reverend Melvin L Welke leads services at the School of Religion at 9 45 a m with The Thought of God The 11 a m sermon is Situations That Develop Our Best The Young Peoples Religious Union gathers at 5 3 p m for The Poetry of Paul Engle at Peoples Third Avenue and Sixth Street SE.
A reader laments social struggles at dances and laments lack of dates. The adviser suggests cultivating social circles, double dates, and boosting the suitor's independence to improve popularity. A separate query about a mama's boy partner prompts advice to seek a more independent partner while encouraging his self sufficiency.
Leonard Sieber Jones of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Chicago will speak from the Hus Memorial church pulpit tomorrow morning on The Great Divide. Jones is a senior and the sole Greek Fellowship candidate, with a strong debater and orator background from Occidental college in Los Angeles. The service will be in English with a brief Czech message from the pastor.
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