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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1943
Page
3
A reader notices a consolidated church listings page detailing service times, sessions, and church activities for Wesleyan Methodist, North Lawrence Baptist, St. Luke A M E, Church of Christ, Fleet Baptist, Free Methodist, and Trinity Lutheran. It includes minister names, Sunday school times, morning and evening worship, midweek prayer, and youth programs.
The notice lists Centenary Methodist Church at Fourth and Elm with family services and Sunday schedule: morning worship at 10:50, sermon by the minister, church school at 9:45, junior league and youth activities, evening worship at 7:00, and Lenten service Wednesday at 8:10. Also details for First Methodist and Meribah Moore music and programs.
The First Christian Church at Tenth and Kentucky with Harold S Barr minister and Joe M Williams choir director held Sunday school 9 80 and worship at 19 48 with superintendents L F Eby and M N Penny. The program featured choir songs and organist Meta M Clarkson. Sermon topics included God Is It Hand and Privilege and Duty. An open discussion on Christian Marriage closed the forum series after the evening service.
Duncan F. McGregor leads Sunday services at 11:00 with John Kliewer as music director. Evening speaker Rev George W Landis from Kansas City. Foursquare Church listing includes Virgil Schroder pastor with 9:15 Sunday school, 11:90 morning worship, and evening programs. Midweek prayer and Bible study sessions noted with devotional titles and children's events listed.
Sunday services at Fourteenth and Rhode Island with Pastor Pittman leading morning worship and Mrs. Pittman preaching on Jesus the Rose of Sharon. Afternoon study of Genesis 42-4 and Q&A follow, homecoming dinner at noon, 2:30 service, 6:15 sermon. Ottawa delegate C E Andrews joins for Bible study and preaching.
Unitarian Church Vermont and Twelfth Street hosts services with Mrs L Van Valkenburg organist Jean Bartz and others. Guest organist Saint-Saens piece Prelude to the Deluge and Raff duet Cavatina with Helen Pierson Yolande Meek. Open house supper program at St John the Evangelist Catholic church with Mass times and Confession hours. Requiem for Penny family members and weekly sermon topics listed for March 12 to March 17 led by Father O'Donnell.
Ninth Street Baptist Church at Ninth and Ohio lists services led by Rev S W Davenport with morning and evening worships at 11 and 7 30 and midweek prayer and Bible study on Wednesday. Sunday school at 9 50 with Mrs G N Jackson as superintendent. B T U at 6 30 directed by Miss Amy Ewiney. choir rehearsal Thursday nights. NAACP meeting Friday at 7 00. Founders day feature on Dr BE D W Isaac at B T W hour. spring rally canvass planned for March 21. World Day of Prayer on March 12 from 2 30 pm.
West Side Presbyterian Church at Sixth and Maine holds Sunday school at 10:00 led by Marian Bar low, superintendent, and morning worship at 11:00. First Church of Christ, Scientist, 1340 Massachusetts, is a Boston Branch with Sunday school at 9:45 and service at 11:00. Wednesday service on Substance with testimonies of Christian Science healing.
Mary Baker Eddy writings and related Christian Science literature are available in the Jackson building at 927 Massachusetts Street. The Plymouth Congregational Church offers daily hours 2 to 6 except Sundays holidays, with Saturday evenings 7 to 9. Morning worship 11 with church school and nursery. sermon begins a Lenten series on the Lord's Prayer. The service features anthems and organ works by Mendelssohn and others, plus a high school society gathering in the parish house.
The Church of the Nazarene at Nineteenth and Vermont schedules Sunday Bible school at 10:00 with C B Tmel as superintendent, morning worship at 11:00, junior service at 6:45 led by Mrs C W Wwore, NYPS Ira Coz Jr at 7:45, and an evening message by the pastor. A special Thursday service with Rev Jarrett Aycock and Rev London of the Arkansas district features Rev London, a nationally known Nazarene evangelist and former district superintendent, to deliver the message and lead the annual spiritual recall. No midweek service Wednesday due to the special meeting.
The Sunday programs list Stull Evangelical Church led by Minister Teland Young with evening sermons, Vermont Seventh Street churches with morning worship and guest speakers, and First Presbyterian and Church of God services. Revivals and Westminster forum announce Easter timing and guest speakers while Immanuel Lutheran and North Lawrence Christian hold Sunday schools, worships, and missionary events.
The Miss Tremaine guest speaker will address all women in the community at 7:00 p m with a question box on China followed by an evening message at 8:00 p m hosted by Christian Endeavor.
Church school at 10 30 with Elder Ronald Sherman delivering teaching at 11 30. Zlon a League gathers at 6 30 in the Holloway Hall lot.
A Lenten meditation frames Bethlehem as the true source of light and guidance, urging world leaders to convene peace talks there and to let Jesus influence statesmanship. It recalls journeys to Rome and Athens and asks if the world should return to Bethlehem to complete what began there.
Trinity Lutheran Church launches a Lent series with an 8 pm lecture on Baptism and weekly topics the Apostles Creed The Ten Commandments and the Lord's Supper Open to the public a 6 pm fellowship lunch follows the lectures with the Trinity Service class first to serve.
The Rev. Theodore H. Astman of First Presbyterian lists six Sunday morning sermon topics for the Lenten period. Lent begins this coming Sunday, marking the start of a series of weekly addresses.
The topics centered on social virtue and personal accountability include Where Intolerance Is a Virtue Spiritual Priorities Deeds vs Words Safety or Sacrifice Clean-handed Guilt Not the Shadow But the Substance Palm Sunday is referenced as a time marker ending on April 20.
The School of Fine Arts vesper moves to Sunday afternoon March 21 in Hoch auditorium. Despite staff strains on the University band symphony orchestra and choir they will perform with the Women's Glee Club and the String Quartet in the week from Sunday program.
John Leger of Perry announces the engagement of his daughter Mary Frances to William Robertson son of Mr and Mrs R Robertson of Topeka The notice mentions Mr and Mrs Carl Fivans and their little daughters and notes the engagement occurred Saturday night.
Lyle Green of Topeka visited his parents Sunday at the Virgil Green home in a light family gathering marking a routine weekend call.
The Knickerbocker Boat Club, recognized as the first American yacht club, was organized in New York City in 1811 marking the start of organized recreational sailing in the United States. The group established early standards for yacht crews, racing, and social events in the New York maritime scene.
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