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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1918
Page
3
Churches across High Point prepare for Easter Sunday with cantatas carols and special sermons. Choirs rehearse Victorious King Christ Arose Hallelujah Christ is risen and other selections as ministers deliver messages on the Resurrection. Public invited to morning and evening services with children’s programs baptisms and musical offerings.
The notice lists Easter and Sunday services across churches in a town. Lutheran Rev P D Brown and West End Baptist Rev Jas W Rose provide services with Sunday schools and special preaching. First Presbyterian Rev Charles P Coble. South Main Street Methodist Rev H H Robbins. East End Methodist Rev W A Bar ber. Welch Memorial Methodist Protestant Rev A L Himter. Wesley Memorial Methodist Rev G T Rowe. Epworth League events and prayers mark the week.
Evangelist Billy Sunday warns readers against debt and quick schemes using boxing and gambling imagery. He argues that taking on loans traps a person, likening it to being stuck in quicksand and haunted by creditors, urging self discipline and avoiding temptations.
The programs feature cantatas including The Conquering King by Alfred Judson and Lip Foreverlasting, with choirs and soloists. morning and evening services urged for attendance. Parish events include Children’s Home Orchestra, a Star Spangled Banner reading, and a war themed poem praising soldiers and youth.
A morning program features organ preludes and anthems including In the Morning Poor Anthem Oh Death Where is Thy CURR ea pee ke Ira Bishop Witsin Solo Thelma Wineskie Hollins College Organ Offertory Madriglae Pa ees Dawetes Simeornetti Solo Mrs W B Milner Reidsville Potsinde War March of the Priests Mendelssohn Hag Night Program Prelude In Summer Chas Stebbins Anthem Rejoice and Sing Praises Bishop Wilson Organ Offertory Andantine Lemare RAPMAUD eG Ae Oehws T. H. Stern.
Doxology and Religio-Patrio introduce Westminister chimes. Perf ect Day features a violin duet followed by Christ Arose vocal solo.
A local store proclaims an Easter shoe sale and urges every man woman and child to buy shoes today and tonight as the shop closes all day Monday.
A devotional meditation on Easter, linking joyful peace from the Resurrection to faith in Christ. It extols the living Lord, cites scripture from John and First Corinthians, and portrays Easter as hope that conquers death and grants eternal life.
The article reflects on the Allied capture of Jerusalem and its spiritual meaning for Christians. It urges study of Bible lands amid modern events, notes relief work in Palestine led by British and American Red Cross missionaries, and argues for peace terms that deliver Christian nations from tyranny. It calls Christians to unity beyond denominational walls and apply Jesus teachings to wartime social change.
Bethel Reformed Church announces Sunday events with Sunday school at 9 45 a m led by Zeno Clodfelter superintendent and preaching service with Holy Communion at 230 p m. The public is invited.
First Reformed and First Methodist Protestant plan special Easter services with morning worship and Holy Communion. Rev. Leinbach preaches on belief in the resurrection. Rev. Newlin leads Bible school and revival meetings led by Rev. McFarland. Baptisms and infant dedications scheduled. evening Easter programs and meetings announced. citywide invitation extended.
The First Baptist Church invites the public to attend Sunday school tomorrow and its annual missionary day. Programs include Sunday preaching at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. B Y P U at 6:30 p.m. and midweek events Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
Death of J Ed Crowell 48 of Lexington announced by friends. He formerly resided in High Point and was superintendent at the High Point furniture company before moving to Lexington and later brought to the local sanitorium.
Funeral services for Mr. Crowell Wie of Guilford Council No 1y O U A M High Point will be held Sunday afternoon in Lexington. The obituary notes his membership in the fraternal order.
Telegram summons relatives to Corporal W. L. Underwood at Camp Jackson. His father travels from High Point after an operation at the base hospital is reported. Underwood joined Camp Jackson with the first drafted squad in September and led the company.
The Tesh orchestra will present a special Easter program at Wesley Memorial church Sunday morning. One piece will be a religious patriotic selection by Dr. Tesh. Superintendent Idol announced the group will receive at least a half hour for its performance tomorrow. Audience members who heard last Sunday's concert can expect a memorable afternoon.
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