Peace on Earth Good Will Toward Men Sermon Theme
Churches announce morning services with the theme Peace on Earth Good Will Toward Men. A 10:45 a.m. sermon will focus on world harmony and community outreach.
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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1917
Page
6
Churches announce morning services with the theme Peace on Earth Good Will Toward Men. A 10:45 a.m. sermon will focus on world harmony and community outreach.
Christmas will be observed in nearly every church in Muscatine with programs and cantatas. Sunday schools will hold readings and drills, and Christmas sermons will be delivered by pastors. Some churches will forgo candy gifts to children or reduce them, directing funds to relief for women and children in Armenia Syria and other war zones.
A long church notices page lists morning and evening worships at SAE Ce First Presbyterian First Baptist United Brethren and other churches with Christmas sermons music cantatas and special programs. It invites strangers to attend and details Sunday school times Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services plus midweek prayers and outreach offerings for Syria.
The Musserville Methodist Episcopal church hosts its annual Christmas program Monday at 7:30 PM with Sunday school pupils presenting a lengthy sequence of recitations songs solos and exercises. A candy treat will follow the program and offerings are collected.
The First Baptist Church will hold a Christmas observance with a morning service featuring Rev. J. W. Graves on The Gifts of the Wise Men and a Holy Night cantata The Shepherds Vision by Irene Berge in the evening. Soloists include Amalia Schmidt Gobble Gladys Wahler John Kuiper and C. Schoamaker with choir and organist Lucretia Dano. presiding pastor is J. W. Graves.
The Grace Lutheran Sunday school plans a 7:30 PM Christmas program with readings recitations and vocal numbers by the congregation. The program lists orchestra processional carols scripture lessons invocations plays piano solos recitations and a closing address by the pastor followed by an offering and a present night chorus.
A Christmas program will be presented at the German Methodist Episcopal church Tuesday evening. Rev. A. E. Kettlekamp announced a schedule of readings recitations songs and dialogues featuring students and organists from the church and school.
The Nazarene Church program for Sunday at 7 o'clock, organized by Rev. Maude M. Hume, features organ preludes, prayers, readings, and many school selections and recitations. Notable items include Reading She Lowly King by Bertha Trader, songs such as Songs of Gladness and Holy Night, and recitations by Mildred Davis, Arnold Wicke, and others. Closing remarks by the pastor complete the program, and an ad promotes Christmas dinner at Hotel Muscatine.
A Park Avenue Methodist church program of readings recitations vocal and instrumental numbers and exercises is planned for Monday evening December 24. The sequence features a long list of student performances led by Lois Rittenhouse Clara Moats Genevieve Harland and many others with choir numbers and a range of recitations including A Christmas Legend The First Christmas Present and Like Me.
A Christmas program will be presented at West Hill Baptist chapel by the Sunday school on Wednesday evening. The lineup includes multiple solos, dialogues, recitations, and songs such as Holy Night Cradle Hymn and The Star of the Host with participants Edith Barnard Vera Marguerite Freyermuth Bert Wilson and Marie Van Vasseldyk among others. An official program of readings and musical numbers is listed with several students contributing through solos duets and group performances.
Lutheran Zion to host Christmas observance with a 7 p.m. Dec 24 program by Sunday school pupils in church parlors. A Christmas tree, gifts for all children, and a long program featuring songs, recitations, dialogues, bells, and a mixed choir, under Pastor John Haefner, with an organ postlude.
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