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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1937
Page
9
Multiple churches list schedules for Sunday school morning worship and evening services. Denominations include Assembly of God Calvary Christ Evangelical Catholic and Christian groups with details on pastors, addresses, and weekly midweek meetings plus special events and youth programs.
Services held at 1242 Second Avenue Sundays 11 am with subject Mortals and Immortals. Sunday school at 9 45 am. Wednesday testimonial meeting at Reading Room 518 Paramount Theater Building. Open daily 9 30 am to 5 30 pm except Sundays.
Bible study at 1030 worship at 11 communion service at 1130 evening service at 730 p.m midweek Old Testament study Wednesday 730 p.m church location and weekly timetable.
The Church of God on L Avenue at Eighth Street NW announces services led by Rev R N Coolidge, pastor, inviting community participation.
Listings for Church of the Brethren, Church of the Nazarenes, Latter Day Saints, Congregational Bethany, First Church, Episcopal St Johns, Grace Church of Our Lady of Grace. Services include sermons, Sunday school times, evening worship, youth meetings, midweek prayer, and feast days. Notable speakers include Rev. Galen Lehman and Rev. E E Russell. May 19 special service for the city deaf.
Evangelical churches on First Avenue at Third Street W and Second-Eighteenth Avenue at Ninth Street SW list morning worship at 10:45 and Sunday school at 9:45. Rev Geo A Stauffacher and Rev O C Gatrelle lead. Dr A L Murray of Minneapolis to speak. music directed by Luther Fuhrmeister and gospel quartet. Christian Endeavor services noted.
The Rev. M. Q. Neubert leads West First Avenue church activities with prayers at 6 45 p m and an evangelistic service at 7 45 p m on Sunday. Sunday school at 9 45 a m. Other events include Crusader meeting at 6 15 p m Bible study on Tuesday and Divine service Friday. Mantel men gathering Saturday at 8 p m.
A. J. Stokes pastor leads Sunday morning at 10 with Sunday school following. Location on Fifth Avenue at Third Street SW.
The listing notes old fashioned gospel preaching at 7 30 p m in the evenings The Women s Bible class meets on Wednesdays at 2 p m The Old fashioned Methodist prayer and testimony meeting is held Thursdays at 7 30 p m
Psalm 139 prompts self examination and divine search for faults. Epworth league service at 4 PM and worship at 8 PM Wednesday. Bible study on The Kingdom of God in Jesus teaching. St Pauls on Third Avenue at Fourteenth Street. Dr A W Henke leads morning service and youth activities.
A church sermon urges self examination before God to reveal and cleanse inner sin. It outlines spiritual results such as life in Christ, service, and closer communion with God through study and prayer. The schedule lists Wednesday Bible study, worship services, consistory, and a large church youth choir with its members.
Multiple Lutheran congregations outline May events at Trinity Missouri Synod Bethany English Lutheran First United Lutheran and Saron with sermons, Luther day coliseum services and confirmations. May 23 30 schedules include processions, worship, education classes, and a mother and daughter banquet.
Methodist churches on Fourteenth avenue at First street SW and Trinity Third avenue at Fifth street SW list their pastors Rev. W. C. Grant and Rev. Elton D. Wells. Sunday school at 9:45 to 10 a.m. and worship at 11 a.m. and 10:50 a.m. Pentecost Sunday services feature sermons titled Riches and Wonder Working Power. Epworth league anniversary at 6:30 p.m. and addresses by Marguerite Stein and Irma Geesaman.
Evening services at Union First Evangelical and Kenwood Park churches with worship at 11 and 9:45 church school. Official board dinner at 6:30 p.m. church meeting 8 p.m. Rev R S Phillips and Rev Foster M Beck preach and lead Bible study. Youth fellowship 6:30 to 9 p.m. Mens forum at parsonage.
Listings show multiple congregations with morning Bible schools and worship services. Notable topics include Revelation and letters in sermons at Peoples Church, and themes like The Spirit of Christ Upon the Disciples at Sinclair Memorial. Evening CE activities and midweek prayer meetings are planned at several locales.
Public services Thursday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Sunday school at 10 a.m. Morning service at 11 a.m. Young people at 6 30 p.m. Salvation meeting follows. Officers in charge are Adjutant and Mrs P H Stevens at 1030 Seventh Street SE.
The Rev. F. K. Ward and team lead Bible classes at 121 123 Second Street NE with sessions forJunior, Young People, Children, Women and Teachers. Sunday school at 3 pm and sermons by Rev Hilmore Cedarholm at 3:45 and 7:30 pm. Also Unitarian Peoples on Third Avenue at Sixth Street SE with Rev Melvin L. Welke guiding religion classes and services at 11 am.
The Rev James T Stewart leads worship at First Fourth Avenue SE including Sunday school 945 am and service at 11 am with topics Refusing the Power of Salvation and Safeguarding the Homes of Tomorrow. Unity Center events follow at 1015 Second Avenue SE with similar programs led by Rev Goldie C Richardson including prayer, lessons, and tithing classes.
Two congregations list pastors and service times. First Presbyterian on First Third avenue and Second street SW led by Rev W G McCrory hosts Bible school at 9 45 a m and morning worship at 11 00 a m with a sermon Pentecost evening service at 7 30 p m and Wednesday prayer at 8 p m. Grande Avenue location led by Rev Samuel M Morrow offers Bible school 9 45 a m public worship 11 00 a m sermon The Temple of the Holy Spirit and Wednesday prayer and Bible study at 7 30 p m.
Youth groups from the First Congregational church will sponsor a vesper service Sunday evening at 7:30 in the church auditorium. Walter H. Staves, church assistant in charge of youth activities, will conduct.
Dr. A L Murray of Minneapolis former rector of St Johns Cedar Rapids and ex editorial writer for The Gazette will address First Christian church at 10 45 a m Sunday and speak at a west side union service at First Evangelical church at 7 30 p m He will be a guest in the home of Mr and Mrs A J Barth
Dr and Mrs W Rumi departed yesterday for eastern points. Mr and Mrs M J Donnelly returned from New York City. They also attended the Kentucky Derby in Louisville. Wesley Hronik, a North Western switchman, was severely injured after falling from a car in the east yards. Mrs Walter L Mott broke her right leg in a stairs fall at home.
Miss Elizabeth Pease and Miss Beulah Noyes of Cedar Rapids star in a praised southern states quartet. The Epworth League at St. Paul’s church presents the farce Excuse Me with cast members Irene Fish Ruth Wilson Myrielle Tapper May Williams Eunice Murdock Ruth Shrader Laurence Howe Merritt Richards Clifford Jones Philip Crisman J N Travers 82 applied for enlistment as a blacksmith but was refused. Ernest R Brownell died from injuries after colliding with an automobile while riding a motorcycle.
Miss Christine Happel travels to Belgrade Montana to establish residence. Gollmar Brothers circus performed in Cedar Rapids with tents set near Fillmore School. The Sunshine mission at 116 First Avenue opened last evening led by Tom Mackey of Chicago. F J Hindelang of Cedar Rapids elected warden of the Knights of Columbus of Iowa at the state convention in Waterloo.
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