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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1948
Page
8
A concise sermon argues that goodness pays in happiness and peace. It cites a wealth gain from wrongdoing followed by life-long poverty, and recalls missionaries in China choosing Heaven over fear, concluding that the good life yields true return.
The Very Rev Peter M Deng will lead Holy Mass at 7 and 9 am at St John’s Catholic Church on 300 Hamilton Street Roanoke Rapids. Confession will be heard before each Mass. Rev Peer M Denges, recently returning from town, will officiate.
The Rev. Floyd A. Boger presides as services are held at the Church of God on Goa West Eighth Street Extension. Saturday night worship is at 7 30 p.m. Sunday school starts at 10 a.m. with morning worship at 11 o'clock. Evening worship begins at 7 p.m. on Sunday evening.
The Christian Science Reading Room on the third floor of the Roanoke Bank Building offers services Sunday at 11:00 a.m. and Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. The reading room is open Tuesdays from 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. for visitors.
The Rev John J Langston leads morning worship at 11 a m with Sunday School starting at 9 45 a m at First Christian Church The evening service is scheduled for 7 p m at the Roanoke Avenue location.
The Rev. Gordon L. Price leads Sunday at First Baptist Church Roanoke Ave with services at 9 45 a m including Sunday School Morning Worship at Ilam The Baptist Training Union at 45 pm and evening services starting at o'clock.
The Rev Jerome Hodgs will lead a Pentecostal Holiness service at Shelby with a series on sacred esteem and a Sunday school session expected to begin in the afternoon.
The Sunday service at First Presbyterian Church Roanoke Avenue begins at 9 45 am with Sunday Su su theme. The Rev John M Walker will discuss the topic Claims Make Persons at the 11 am morning worship. No evening services are scheduled for August.
The Rev. James F. Herbert will speak at the 11 oclock Sunday morning service at First Methodist Church on Wings Covered with Silver. The evening sermon will be The Seventh Beatitude. Sunday school led by Edwin Akers begins 9:45 a.m. Youth meeting at 6:30 p.m. Rosemary Baptist also hosts services with Rev. B. M. Whitehurst preaching at 11 a.m. and evening worship.
The Loyal Sea Scout Ship will attend the Episcopal Church Sunday for morning worship and will receive their charter. The Rev Edmund Berkeley will speak at morning worship. Sunday School starts 9 45 am and an early Holy Communion is at 8 am. Junior Brotherhood meets at 7 40 pm tonight. The Feast of the Transfiguration will be observed with four half hour Communion services Friday at 8. The new portion for All Saints is under construction with steel ordered and foundation fill in progress, per building committee chair Gordon Beers.
The Rosemary Methodist Church at 93 Jackson Street will hear Rev. W R Stevens present proposed plans for a church and school building. He will preach morning and evening services, with the Methodist Youth Fellowship meeting at 7 pm. Church School, led by superintendent Ruland Johnson, starts at 9 45 am.
Evening service at 8 p.m. Sunday School begins at 9 49 a.m. The Baptist Training Union meets at 6 45 p.m.
In the August 8 1948 Sunday School lesson the Ethiopian Melech rescues Jeremiah from a Babylonian dungeon. Jeremiah warned king Zedekiah against idolatry and breaking Jehovah’s covenant, while Melech’s brave act shows courage and mercy amid a collapsing kingdom. The rescue marks a key moment of faith and human kindness.
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