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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1939
Page
3
Valley Grove Christian Endeavor outlines religious education with theme The Church As a School led by Laura Zook. Plymouth Congregational and other churches present morning services, Sunday schools, and an anniversary program with choirs, sermons, and a basket dinner.
Trinity Episcopal Church on Tenth and Vermont lists Rev. John Bowers as rector with services on the third Sunday after Trinity including Holy Communion at 11:00 and morning prayer with a sermon. First Church of Christ Scientist at 1240 Massachusetts Street offers 11:00 Sunday service with 10:00 Sunday school and midweek meetings. reading room hours are daily 2:00 to 5:00 except Sundays and holidays.
Dr Kardatzke visits for a city wide park joint evening service at 7 45 with sermon. Sunday schedule includes Sunday school at 9 45 morning worship at 10 30 junior and senior young people services at 6 45 and adult prayer at 6 45. Weekday events include teacher training Monday 7 45 and prayer meetings Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday evening.
The column lists services and events at Ninth Street Baptist Church North Lawrence Christian Church and First Evangelical Church. Details include Sunday school times morning and evening worship sermons topics and guest speakers along with midweek luncheons Christian Endeavor meetings and autumn evangelistic plans.
The First Baptist Church at Eighth and Kentucky lists a summer plan with organ meditation from 9:30 to 9:45 and worship time 9:45 to 10:25. Student speaker topics include When Trouble Comes while Mrs Rankin plays Menuetto and trombonist Dean Brooks performs Intermezzo. The 10:30 to 11:00 CER school offers activities for all ages and a Racer Williams room meeting features guest Dean Paul B. Lawson.
Centenary Methodist Church and First Methodist Church reveal weekly worship times topics sermons and choir offerings. Notable items include subject lists for both churches Sundays at Centenary 9 45 am Sunday school 10 50 am worship and 8 pm evening service with a sermon on A Three Fold Statement of Jesus Concerning Himself John 14 6. Epworth League programs and junior intermediate leagues at 7 00 pm. Ladies Aid schedule and Thursday meeting. First Methodist notes Morning worship at 8 30 am with Prelude Sketches of the City by Gordon Balch Nevin followed by sermon Can We Be One and Different Dr Edwin F Price. Church school 9 45 am except senior high 8 15 am with ushers from youth department. Summer class for students led by Dr Price. Union park services at 7 45 pm. Prodigal Son lecture by Miss Stella Langford at 3 pm Monday at 937 Maine street.
Harold G Barr ministers at First Christian Church with Winifred Hill as guest organist. Morning service shortened to 9 30 to 11 00 with worship communion sermon and Sunday school in a 90 minute block. Bible series Ezekiel Four Faces of God continues. Trinity Lutheran and Union services listed. attendance last Sunday 275.
Pastor P. D. Pittman leads services at 9 45 Sunday school Miss Walker oversees lessons The morning worship at 11 features Mrs Pittman The 6 45 Young People service led by Brother Jackson includes a program The children study with Mrs Johnson Evangelistic service at 7 45 high point on What Will Happen Next Weekly midweek forum at 7 43 on Fruits of the Spirit led by Mrs Pittman
Arthur Ward presiding minister at United Brethren Church on Seventeenth Street. Harold Brown acts as Sunday school superintendent of the Children's division with Mrs. Walter Woodcock as superintendent. Morning worship at 10 45 features a sermon on David and the Elders and captains bringing the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord With Joy. Evening service from 6 to 7 includes a sermon Behold I Am Alive Forever more. Midweek prayer service is at 1 45 on Wednesday.
The Ninth and Vermont church led by Theodore H auszman with Mrs C W Stratton as organist presents morning worship at 11 00 with sermon on The Reward Motive in Christian Living. Music includes organ preludes duets and a quartet with listed soloists. Union league of young people meets at 6 30 and union park services in the South at 7 30.
Friends Church at Dilion and Melaware hosts ministers Wooten and Commons with A B Commons as superintendent and Mildred Commons as junior superintendent. Morning worship at 10:00 with the pastor’s message on The First Fruits. Prayer meeting Wednesday and union service at South Park Sunday night at 7:43.
The Lawrence Holiness Association will hold a meeting Sunday afternoon at 2 30 at the Free Methodist church. Rev A H Clark will bring the message.
The First Methodist church will hold 8 80 AM summer morning worship with Dr. Edwin F. Price as preacher on the theme Can We Be One and Differ. Dorothy Enlow Miller will preside at the organ with Irene Oliver as soloist and Mrs. Miller to play the offertory. The church school meets at 9 45 AM with a special 8 15 AM devotional for the senior high. A summer class will be taught by Price in the Wesley Foundation room.
Edward Walker wed in the afternoon during a birthday dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs Claxton Walker in Leavenworth. Lawrence Stoneking and Theodore Stoneking families joined the celebration. Other notes include visits from John Wickey and family, Joan Wickey staying with Anna Wicker, and A E Babcock's return from Minnesota after fishing trips.
Melba Reetz Arlene Vitt and Lela Kindred visited Norma Jean Steinbring Thursday. Howard Quinlan and son Alfred attended Father’s Day exercises at Linwood Baptist Church. Maxine Meinke Bowers visited Charles Davidson’s home. Mildred Gantz visited Lena Torneden. Elsie Kirkman and George Kirkman with son visited John Hughey’s home. Melba Reetz visited Beverly Douglas Sunday afternoon.
Denver reports multiple Colorado bears have killed stock as dry weather reduces honey. Chief Game Warden Hart cites five killer bears this year, more than average, as bears raid flocks and sheep. Separate note mentions volcanic bombs near active volcanoes and their viscous shapes.
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