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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1938
Page
9
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Valley Grove Christian Endeavor presents a global Christmas theme “Christmas Chimes on Every Continent” citing Isaiah 11 1 5 Luke 2 25 3 with Led Smith leading. Local churches including Church of God at Eleventh and New Hampshire and Plymouth Congregational announce services a Christmas morning pageant evening events and youth programs with sermons on a Christless Christmas and sanctification themes.
Sunday school session led by O. E. Ingle, superintendent, at 9 43. Located at 1000 Connecticut Street, Duncan. Kl minister McGregor presiding.
Worship at 11 00 am and 7 30 pm on the schedule. League at 6 30 pm. A Wednesday prayer meeting at 7 30 pm and a Thursday 7 45 pm Christmas program are listed.
The Assembly of God at fourteenth and Rhode Island led by Pastor Pittman begins with a 9:45 opening songs and prayers led by Miss Walker. Attendance expected to reach 185 by year’s start as pastor preaches The Pre-Eminent Christ in Colossians. Evening worship at 11:00 and 7:30 evangelistic service.
The Christian Institute The Truth class will gather Monday at 3 pm at 937 Maine Street, the home of Mrs C E Adams. Miss Stella Langford of Kansas City, the leader, will wrap up a series of talks with the topic The Christ Birth in You. visitors are welcome.
Wesleyan Methodist at Seventh and Alabama lists 10 45 worship and 7 00 young people's service with a 7 00 prayer meeting and Wednesday 7 30. Nazarene Church at Nineteenth Vermont notes Sunday school contest results and Dayton quartet performing at both services with prayer meetings Tuesday and Wednesday and a 7 30 December 25 Christmas program. First Church of Christ Scientist at 1240 Massachusetts offers 11 00 service on Is the Universe Including Man Evolved by Atomic Force with 10 00 Sunday school and 8 00 Wednesday testimonies. Jackson Building reading room 9271 Massachusetts open daily 2 00 to 5 00. Free Methodist Church at Twelfth Connecticut lists 10 00 Sunday school 11 00 worship service 6 30 junior group 6 45 P M S led by Mrs Marl Nehr bass.
Christmas program planned Thursday December 22 at 7 45 PM with Rev C V Fairbairn preaching again this weekend and through Sunday including 11 AM and 7 50 PM services at North Lawrence First Baptist Church Fourth and Lincoln streets. Morning worship by Rev Alvin L Parker plus a 200 member rally day and men’s chorus led by Archie Anderson with evening sermon by Rev A N Parker. Bazaar and food sale Friday afternoon December 16 followed by an 8 PM spelling bee.
St Luke AME Church on New York streets hosts morning services led by Rev Goddard at 9 30 with Miss Louise Garrett as superintendent of the Baader school. Bishop N W Williams is guest speaker at 11 00 and the ACB League led by Mrs Della Bryant meets at 6 30 with the Chimes on Every Continent program. Evening sermon at 7 45 followed by Mite missionary meeting on December 23 at 2 30 focusing on Gods Gift to the World with scripture from John and Luke.
The First Baptist Church at Eighth and Kentucky lists Howard E. Koelb as minister with Charles W. Thomas assisting students. The 9:45 church school covers all departments, the University class contemplates If He Had Not Come, and 11:00 features a sermon A New World Thru Christian Missions with music including Prelude by Barrett The Shepherds by Salome Hallelujah Chorus Handel and Ave Maria by Kahn sung by Miss Hortense Harris. A vacation choir performs a number. At 6:30 the Union young people meet at First Presbyterian with Prof. E. C. Buehler of the University as guest speaker.
The Unitarian Church at Twelfth and Vermont lists minister H. Lee Jones. Junior church at 8 46 and morning service at 11 00 with musical selections by H W Harris and Waldemar Gelich including solos and violin pieces. The Prometheans meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jones at 7 00.
The First Presbyterian Church at Corner Ninth and Vermont led by Minister Theodore H. Astman holds a 9:45 church school session and 11:00 morning worship with the sermon titled Christmas Realities. Music features organ prelude Meditation by Dubois and selections by Della Ohlhauser and Blanche Yeomans. The Young Peoples Union attends a Plymouth Congregational Christmas pageant and Westminster Forum joins a university union meeting with Prof. E. C. Buehler speaking.
Lawrence Friends Church and Trinity Lutheran Church hold Christmas pageants and services with full choirs and special preludes. First Methodist Episcopal Church offers a Christmas service with a morning worship, organ solos, and a 4 pm vesper, plus a Christmas story by Tom Sayres. Local high school Epworth League meets at 6 pm.
The Lawrence Holiness Association will hold its monthly meeting Sunday December 18 at 2 30 p m. The venue is changed to the Nazarene church with Rev C V Fairbairn speaker. He is a district superintendent in Kansas and a well traveled evangelist noted for his forceful talks. Mrs Orlena Hansen will conduct the music and arrange for special numbers.
Mrs Dolly Emick has been elected pianist for the association. The church was well filled last month and it is expected that a splendid spirit of cooperation will continue to manifest itself. The public is cordially invited to attend.
The Pageant of Beth will be enacted Sunday night at Trinity Lutheran Church with a 7 45 PM start. Young church members directed by Mrs Eleanor Dauberman perform biblical Christmas scenes as the junior choir under A C Reuter provides the music with Barbara Puls as pianist.
Plymouth Congregational church observes Christmas with a 9 45 morning program for the primary department and invites parents. An afternoon 5 pageant features carols tableaux and music by the Junior choir directed by Mrs George Bradshaw with Mrs H C Bigelow leading. Mrs Joyce Wiesselman solo sings The Holy Mother Sings and the sermon theme is Fictions Truer Than Facts.
Free Methodist Church invites Rev C V Fairbairn conference superintendent to speak Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday for both services. He has preached in Lawrence several times and is regarded as a forceful speaker and capable leader.
Reno reports the Aid meeting moved one week due to a Farm Bureau date and scheduled for Thursday December 22 at the church. A farewell shower will honor Mrs. Wartzack.
The text notes a December 23 Christmas tree at the DeHoff residence with a family dinner for Mrs Bott's birthday. It mentions Mrs George White serving on a Leavenworth jury, and a woodpile fire near Poney Creek school house found by neighbors Friday evening. Fire crews dampened it with well water. cause unknown, possibly warm ashes from a furnace.
Mrs Laura Anderson and daughter Arlein and Edna Jones visited in Lawrence on Saturday. Mrs Elsie Hubbard of Kansas City spent the weekend with Frank Hubbard. Mrs Laura Fox hosted the Ladies Pleasant Valley club with two guests and refreshed guests. Officers were reelected except secretary. Roy Siscoe and family of Lawrence dined with Frank Hubbard Sunday. The Pinochle club met with four tables. Robert Elder family moved from Linwood to William Elder residence. Several local residents attended dinners and visits in Lawrence DeSoto and Tonganoxie. L D Pierce of Lawrence dined with Mrs Laura Anderson Monday.
Sunday school drew fifty three attendees at the Presbyterian church with a strong worship service and a wood cutting event for the church last Wednesday. Mrs. Lucy Heines hosted a missionary meeting with music, prayers, and a Mormons lesson, nine members attended, and a Christmas program is planned for December 22 at the church. Roy Harrell and Elwin Herschell visited Topeka, Mrs. Glenn Steele’s family welcomed an infant, and Miss Maria Riley hosted a bridal shower for Ralph Kampschroeder with gifts, games, and a bride’s cake prepared by Mrs. Leslie Demeritt.
A long list of residents and relatives, including the Kampschroeders, Kennisons, Krands, and Harrells, gathers for Christmas notes. Mrs. George Jensen visits Tulsa relatives while Mrs. Hattie Dotson recovers from surgery in Wichita. Local clubs meet as electric work advances and the Clinton quilting group holds a Christmas session with gift exchanges and refreshments.
Mr. and Mrs. James Dyer hosted a dinner last Sunday for guests including Frank Banks of Lawrence and Hibbard Taul. Howard Purvis spent Sunday at home with Fred Purvis. Christmas vesper attendance at Baldwin M E church featured Philo Beck June and others. Earl Lederer and John Rockhold visited Rantoul to see Damon Jones. Claude Jardon of Kansas City dined with M J Jardon. Mrs. Ray Reynolds and Mrs. Frank White visited Lawrence last Friday.
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