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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1941
Page
5
Sunday morning sermons and services fill the day at multiple churches including Methodist Main Street and others. Topics include The Man Who Wrote the Earth Gospel and The Sin of Mediocrity with union worship at St Mary's Episcopal Church. Board meetings and choir practices are listed along with guest soloist Nannabeth Null from Maryland.
Christian Science Soul will be the lesson sermon in all Christ Science churches Sunday at 11 o'clock at 3191 North Main Street. Reading rooms open Wednesday and Friday 10 to 1. Sunday school 9:30. Hickory Chapel Rev J Paul Lill pastor Sunday school 9:45 superintendent C T Steele 11 am service HF Schram preaching Evangelistic quartet sings 7 pm Y PLS program led by Mrs Dorothy Wilther with sermon by the pastor.
The notice lists August 17 1941 church programs in Archdale and Springfield with ministers Clifton C. Pearson and Tom A. Sykes. Sunday school 10 11 worship messages include Christian Separation from the World Things Left Undone and Peace Institute topics. Choir practice midweek and Christian Endeavor meetings are noted with times and supervisors Oscar McCampbell and Leslie Gurley.
The Tabernacle group on English Street Extension lists Sunday School at 9 45 a m Morning worship at 11 00 a m and an evangelistic service at 7 45 p m Pastor in charge is G M Allison with Rev Somers away Evangeline speaker H P Rankin of Durham preaches at Oakhurst Bible Conference Center Sunday afternoon Also Cottage prayer 7 45 p m Tuesday at Mrs J A Green 1212 Thissell Street Jim Crabtree conducts Senior Youth meetings and Friday Fishers of Men meet at the church Union 603 Prospect St Bishop R E Taylor presiding church school 9 45 a m worship 11 00 a m evangelistic service 7 45 p m singing evangelist Bill Barker preaches both services in pastor’s absence Prayer meeting Thursday 7 45 p m
The Rev Howard S Hartzell conducts St Marys service on the tenth Sunday after Trinity with Holy Communion at 9 30 am Union prayer at 11 o clock Rev J Clay Madison of First Methodist will preach on When Virtue Becomes Vice promising a sermon on moral theme at night at 8 o clock
Pastor F. L. Conrad will preach The Mindfulness of God at 11 o clock with the text What is man that Thou art mindful of him Psalm 84 4 at Lutheran Emmanuel. Grace Missouri Synod Roswell features 10 am Sunday worship Bible class 11 am Divine Worship sermon A Record of Faithful Service with G W Mascher as superintendent Walther League meets at 6 30 pm
Bible school at 9 15 A M Lord's Supper at 13 00 A M sermon The Clothes That Make The Christian Christian Endeavor at 7 00 P M.
British bombing planes wrecked the Corinth Canal, a key waterway between the Peloponnese and mainland Greece, with photographs showing landslides preventing passage for some time. The RAF announced also attacks on the Axis submarine base at Augusta Sicily and raids on Syracuse.
Rev James E Swinson preaches morning and Monday night at the Thomasville road tent through next week. Green Street and North Main churches list sermons by Rev Woodrow W Hill, Rev A Lindon Fulk, and Rev J Eller with Sunday schools at 9 30 9 45 and services at 11 1 and 7 30. Other notices include BTA meetings B T U and midweek prayer plans with various pastors and superintendents.
Buffalo Aug 16 Walter P Reuther an executive board member of UAW CIO said he agreed to be a guinea pig to test whether key labor figures could receive deferments from selective service like key industrial leaders He disclosed he faced accusations of draft dodging and sought to clear up the situation He noted CIO President Philip Murray and UAW CIO President R J Thomas asked him to participate A fellow leader said he secured a deferment on dependency grounds and hoped the explanation would satisfy all Then the union voted 1968 for 1026 against on a resolution barring Communist Nazi and Fascist members or sympathizers from holding office in the union
In Chungking China on August 16 a mist over the area prevented a second straight week of bombing. No bombs fell and the city endured an air raid alert for 33 minutes while Japanese forces carried explosives to targets in Szechwan Province where weather allowed operations.
Sunday School lesson reflects on First Peter four and six teen urging Christians to endure persecution with joy. It contrasts enduring for Christ with sham trials and foresees a coming day of reward when Christ is revealed. It frames Nero as a type of anti christ and calls believers to steadfast hope, self judgment, and reliance on God through trials.
The Barringer family reunion returns Sunday at Mirror Lake three miles from Salisbury on Faith road. Activities start at 1 30 pm with a picnic on the grounds followed by music from the Graham String Band of Cleveland, speeches and informal events. Officers include President Orlando L Barringer and Secretary Treasurer C P Barringer among others. The historian will report, and the public is urged to attend with a picnic basket.
In German occupied Paris a Nazi commander warned the French people that the occupied territories would be held responsible for communist outbreaks. He said demonstrators would be punished by death. In Scotland Neck a National Youth Administration training center will be established, announced NYA administrator John Langs.
Los Angeles players dominated Bridge Week junior events with Frances Perkins and Rick Little claiming the junior pairs title, W Green winning the junior individual, and Mr and Mrs J D Farmer taking the inter president's cup. An illustrative hand from the junior events features declarer playing Jow from dummy and handling the king in a tricky position.
The article recounts a bridge maneuver where South leads spades and West defends boldly, letting tricks ride and forcing a sequence that prevents declarer from a ninth trick. It contrasts with a Catch-as-catch-can style where defense would seize control to deny nine tricks.
Guilford County transfers list multiple property deeds across High Point Township and Gilmer and Jamestown areas. Transfers include D. Brame to Mamie Ail ted. R. C. Boyce to Vernon B. Bailey. M. Williams to J. Vv. Gurer. H. E. Scout to R. W. Gere ringer. Mary Marcopoulos to Margaret Z Babcock. Sedgefield Inn incorporated to Sederfield Inn Company. Morenead Townsend Wilkins to Theodore Lamet. Also note about 13,000 man hours needed for a modern pursuit plane construction.
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