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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1961
Page
4
Sunday and midweek church notices include multiple congregations with listed addresses and schedules. Brookhaven at Memorial Drive and Faith on South Ave provide Sunday School at 9:45 and worship times 11 and 7:30, plus Training Union. Fairview and Northside churches show similar prayer and choir times and midweek meetings.
Presbyterian Westminster holds church school at 9 40 a m and morning worship at 11 a m. Seraph and carol choir rehearsal at 4 15 p m. Rev Ralph Jones is minister. Willoughby corner 6th Ave and 9th St lists Sunday school 9 45 a m morning worship 11 a m evening 7 p m and prayer 7 30 p m midweek. First Church at 4th Ave and E Moulton St with minister Rob ert E Shaw at 9 45 a m. Westside 7th Ave SW shows Sunday school 11 a m worship 4 15 p m and youth 5 30 p m followed by communion.
Kenneth Ishii describes Shinto as the way of the gods, not a formal religion, with kami deities and Amaterasu linked to imperial myth. He notes widespread practice and offerings, including many paying shrine dues, despite questions about modern belief and militarist propaganda.
Church notices list worship times for Sherman Street Church with Sunday school at 10 and services at 11 and 7 p.m. A Wednesday prayer meeting and Friday youth service are noted. Austinville church shows Sunday school at 9:45 and morning worship at 10:45 with a sermon titled Gods Power in Man and a 6:30 p.m. general service. Midweek prayer is at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
The rector Rev. James C. Bodley leads at St. John's Corner Gordon Dr and Jackson St with 7:30 a.m. Holy Communion 9:15 a.m. family service and classes 11 a.m. morning prayer and classes and an afternoon service of healing by laying on of hands.
John Barton minister directs Lord's Day schedule with Bible study at 9 50 a m worship at 10 50 a m evening service 6 00 p m and Wigdhesley evening Bible study at 7 00 p m at Beech Street Cor 16th Ave.
Catholic St Ann's lists Rt Rev J M Horgan pastor Rev W V Higgins assistant pastor with Mass times Sundays 8 9 30 and 11 am and daily 615 and 8 am Novena Wednesdays 7 pm first Friday masses 615 8 am and 530 pm corner Oak and Lafayette NE Rev W K Stephenson pastor Sunday worship 945 am training union 6 pm 730
Newman Campbell links self-control to rising crime, citing Genesis 26:12-32 and Proverbs on anger envy tongue restraint and alcohol. The piece notes Isaac’s patient wells, dangers of liquor, and cites police and governor data on alcohol’s role in traffic fatalities and crime.
Southern ladies in 1863 laid flowers on Union and Confederate graves easing Civil War bitterness. Northern voices softened as grief bridged divides with unseen blooms. Gettysburg ceremonies grew into a unity theme cited by Hoover and Roosevelt about spiritual bonds and shared ideals.
A compact notice listing multiple church locations and weekly schedules. Central A. B. VanArsdale at Grant St and Fourth Ave SE offers Sunday school 9:30 worship 10:50 and evening services including a midweek prayer. Other churches at Sixteenth Ave Wadsworth St Calvary Nerv's Corner Sth Ave and 6th St Westside Memorial Dr NW share similar timings with Sunday school and morning worship.
Sunday worship at 11 00 AM with broadcast on WAJF and 9 40 AM Sunday School. Youth groups meet at 5 00 PM and Wednesday service at 7 00 PM. Baby fold and nursery provided at Jackson Street church on Eighth Avenue SE.
Evening worship at 7 p.m. and adult study at 5 45 p.m. The fragment also mentions a "2" and an ampersand sign.
The bulletin lists services at Methodist 805 Canal St NE with Associate Minister Frank Dawson. Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. and morning worship at 10:55 a.m. sermon titled The Purpose Of The Church. An 8 p.m. Baccalaureate service is scheduled at Decatur High School. Also at Ninth Street location 1227 Sixth Ave SE, Reverend M H Harper presides with church school at 9:45, morning worship H topic Self Sufficiency in Life, evening worship at 5:30 with guest Rev James D Wilson. Youth Fellowship 6:40 p.m. Midweek Bible study on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
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