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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1939
Page
3
The article notes a Valley Grove Christian Endeavor meeting at St James A M E Church North Seventh and Maple streets North Lawrence with leader Veoa Mae Gisdahl. It covers Bible themes from Matthew 23 23 38 and Daniel 8 16 plus songs and self examination about personal living and service.
Rev J N Goddard delivers sermon on Peter Interprets Christ's Sufferings and Death at 11 09 in Sunday school with Louise Garrett as superintendent. Evening study titled The Unchangeable Christ follows at 6 30 with A C FE League led by Mrs Della Bryant and a special Mu chapter program by Kappa Alpha Psi at 8 04.
Centenary Methodist Church at Fourth and Elm North Lawrence with J J Knox pastor lists Sunday school 9 30 worship 10 50. Sermon The Rent Rocks as part of Cavalry Miracles series. Evening service 7 20 led by Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. Epworth League Junior League Intermediate League Alumni League meet at 6 30. Bible study and prayer Thursday 7 30. Choir rehearses after Bible study and again Tuesday night.
Wesleyan Methodist Church at Seventh and Alabama hosts revival meetings led by evangelist Ed Kramer with Miss Oleatha Hazen as song leader. Evening services and Sunday worship are announced along with Sunday school and outreach at nearby First Church of Christ Scientist and a Christian Science reading room in the Jackson Building on Massachusetts Street.
Ninth Street Baptist Church at Ninth and Ohio hosts a pastors anniversary program. Rev Stinnis presents three talks on pastor's worth to ministry council and community, with solos by Rudolph Rhodes and Elgin Woody. An anniversary sermon by Rev. Washington of Kansas City Kan closes evening services.
The Free Methodist Church at Twelfth and Connecticut streets lists services: Sunday School at 10:00 led by J. E. Wade. Morning Worship at 11:00 with a sermon by Pastor D. L. Turnbough. Junior Missionary at 6:30 led by Mrs. Cora James. Young People at 6:45 led by Mrs. Allene Turnbough. Evangelistic Message at 7:30.
Plymouth Congregational Church prepares a 3:45 service with morning worship at 11:00 and a sermon on A Modern View of Prayer. Organ pieces by Merkel Iinsky Boellmann and Anerio, plus se peEeHIB ener Helen Mae Peters. Doane College choir and Madrigal club under Prof. Charles I. Sager perform at 7:30 Fireside forum follows high school social hour.
Harold G Barr oversees worship and communion at 10 45 with Meta Clarkson organist Joe Williams choir director J W Morgan orchestra Russell Wiley directs. Music includes God Is a Spirit There Is a Green Hill Far Away and In My Fathers House Are Many Mansions A Cappella choir. Union High School Endeavor program at 5 30 with student fellowship hour at 5 30 and forum at 6 30 featuring Capt Edward L Wallace state highway patrol. Union service at 7 30 at First Methodist Church with sermon Both Lord and Christ by Mr Barr.
Sunday schedule for the Assembly of God at Fourteenth and Rhode Island includes 9:45 Sunday school with a David plan lesson and 11:00 morning devotion with a revival prelude. Evangelist Hildreth Ethridge begins in one week as the revival plan unfolds.
Duncan E H McGregor ministers at Ninth and Connecticut. Sunday school at 9 45 led by O E Ingle. Worship at 11 00 with Rev I W Gray of Topeka delivering the sermon. League service at 6 30. Evangelistic service at 7 30 with Rev Gray in charge. Services nightly until Easter except Saturday at 7 45.
The Nazarene Church at Nineteenth and Vermont streets under Pastor WW Lawson Brown plans a visit by Rev. S T Ludwig of Kansas City, a former pastor and general secretary. The event aims to discuss church work and future programs.
The Rev. Mr. Ludwig, longtime pastor here, will headline both 11 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. services Sunday. Mrs. Lillian White directs the N Y P B program at 6:45. Sunday Bible school starts at the usual time with expected strong attendance.
Capt and Mrs Olin Brigman in charge host Young People's Legion at 6 43 Salvation meeting at 8 00 Tuesday and Wednesday nights this week offer first aid classes for the Girl Guards James M Johnson to instruct Ladies Home League meets Wednesday at 2 00 Thursday night young people's activities at 7 00
The Church of God at Eleventh and New Hampshire hosts a revival led by Evangelist Rev. Myrle V. Cross starting Palm Sunday. Daily 7:00 evangelism lectures for all ages, choir numbers nightly, free church rides, Sunday school at 9:45, worship 11:00, jail service 2:30, Christian Crusaders and workers meetings at 6:30, and special program by Sunday school children after sessions. Cars offer townwide pickup, Sunday school bus to North Lawrence.
A schedule of services across First Baptist First Christian Trinity Lutheran First Methodist First Presbyterian and Westminster churches. Activities include Sunday school sessions, youth programs, musical offerings, and an Easter play by Westminster students. Leaders named include ministers Koelb Thomas Bailey Rankin Puls Reuter Simpson Hunt Price Astman Swarthout and Mary Robertone Scott.
The United Brethren Church at Seventeenth and Vermont lists Arthur Ward as minister. 9:45 Sunday school overseen by Dr Wray Enders, children’s division with Mrs Walter Woodcock as superintendent at 10:43 Morning worship featuring sermons Opportunity in 1939 and the Light Shineth in Darkness John 1 5 and Futility of Doubt versus The Potency of Faith 7:45 Evening worship. Midweek prayer service at Immanuel Lutheran Church Park and Kentucky streets led by W W Stoeppelwerth pastor.
Sunday schedule includes Sunday school Bible class and divine service on the cross topic The Glory Which Shines Forth from the Cross of Jesus. A quarterly business meeting fellowship lunch open forum and radio sermons at KMBC and WHB are listed with Holy communion church school morning prayer and clergy and choir details at Trinity Episcopal Church and other church events.
At Unitarian Church on Twelfth and Vermont streets minister H Lee Jones leads at 10:00 with junior church at 11:00 and morning service including preludes duets and postlude. The sermon is The Silences of the Heart with a 7:00 youth discussion on The Meaning of Life led by Miss Anne Laughlin.
A three sermon series on the Inner Life of the Spirit will be preached at the Unitarian church over three Sundays. March 26 features The Silences of the Heart, April 2 presents The Certainties of the Soul, and April 9 offers The Murmur of Wings. The society invites all interested attendees.
The First Presbyterian Church will hold an 11 o'clock morning service with a Lenten theme. Rev. Theodore H. Aszman will preach on whether in a materialistic age the needs of the cross have been outgrown. The Westminster a cappella choir, directed by Dean Donald, will perform.
Mr Swarthout will sing Were You There effective number on the crucifixion. Donna Hughes offers offertory with violin obbligato by Paul Stoner performing O Saviour Hear Me by Gluck.
In Waco Texas on March 24 the twins convention gathers from 20 colleges with Pi-Two quadruplets three triplets and 85 twin sets. The Keys sisters of Oklahoma City Leota Mary Mona and Roberta aged 23 join the Perricone brothers Anthony Bernard Carl and Donald of Beaumont aged 9. Badgett quadruplets aged seven weeks will host the visitors in Galveston Sunday.
In San Pedro California Rev Silas A Thweatt preached at Terminal Island prison and reported Al Capone was the first of sixteen inmates to rise and seek a savior with about seventy five others signaling they desired prayers However prison rules limited direct contact.
Col E Agnew of Chicago Salvation Army official second in command of eleven central states and Maj P L DeBevoise will conduct a special morning service at the Salvation Army hall Sunday at 11 o clock. Agnew will then travel to Kansas City to audit Kansas and western Missouri.
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