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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1941
Page
3
The sermon highlights the meaning of Jesus death on the Cross as sacrificial love. The church plans Sunday observances including a 2 p.m. World-wide Communion service and 7:30 p.m. evening sermon The Bread of Life. A midweek 7:30 p.m. prayer meeting invites all, with a cordial welcome from Minister E M Shepard.
Pastor E. N. Strother will lead a Sunday morning discussion on the unpardonable sin at South Leon Baptist Church on October 5. Public invitation extended for worship. Katie Ruth Jones visited friends in Comanche Sunday.
A preacher recounts a late evening encounter with two distressed sisters and shares Biblical and personal reflections. He recalls Naboth and Jezebel, Uriah, Joseph, and the prodigal son as moral lessons, then narrates a local tragedy involving the Silvy family and a fatal knife incident that resounded in his childhood.
A 2 minute sermon cites Romans 10 4 and James 2 10 arguing self righteousness cannot save. It urges accepting Christ's righteousness, notes prodigal son and Titus 2 11 14, and states salvation brings heavenliness and holiness in daily life.
The First Methodist Church in town will hold a holy baptism for several infants, followed by Holy Communion. Sunday programs include Sunday School at 9:45 a.m., worship at 10:50 a.m. and 7:45 p.m., Epworth Leagues at 7:00 p.m., and a Wednesday Prayer Meeting at 7:45 p.m.
The Comanche County Baptist Lay Union will meet next Sunday afternoon at the First Baptist Church in Comanche at two thirty for one hour of business. Rev. E. N. Strother urges every union in the county to have members attend this gathering.
A Methodist revival at Ross Chapel concluded Sunday night with Rev. C. A. Calhoun preaching and Rev. J. D. Smoot assisting. The service marked a successful gathering for the congregation.
Mary Elizabeth Lindley born December 23 1851 married D T Palmer in 1878. She had three daughters Laura Ella Mary and two sons George and a brief infant. A Missionary Baptist for seventy five years, she endured losses including husband 1904 daughter Laura 1932 and son-in-law 1938. She moved to Indian Gap eight years after her husband’s death and was buried there. She left two daughters one son five grandchildren six great grandchildren and a brother. She lived to ninety years.
Charlie David Hartman born December 13 1868 died September 20 1941 at 72 years in Soda Springs community after four year illness. Survived by wife Lettie May Hoover two marriages produced six and one daughter Irene Hartman with several grandchildren. Funeral September 22 at Taylor's Chapel with several ministers and pallbearers. Burial in Taylor's Chapel Cemetery. Various siblings and in laws listed. Memorial verses included.
Rev. J. D. Smoot of Comanche will preach for Rev. Sharbutt at Dublin Methodist Church this Sunday. Smoot will deliver both the morning and evening sermons.
The excerpt ponders the consequences of bad counsel and wasted efforts. It questions whether understanding hardship changes outcomes and whether aid should come when it harms. It muses on blame, pity, and the lingering harshness of fate.
Mrs J O Jones spent ap with her daughter Mrs Ted ton. Mrs Deward Burk and Mr and Mrs John Williams of Comanche visited Mr and Mrs Dick Wyatt Sunday. C L Robertson who has been employed in Wichita Falls spent the week end with his mother Mrs Ona Robertson. Mrs Quilla McKeehan of Lovington New Mexico has been visiting her parents Mr and Mrs T D Brown.
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