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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1946
Page
7
A dense directory lists Northside Eastside Southside and Southwest churches with names pastors and weekly services. Entries include Government Tabernacle Hightower pastor morning worship 1130 am and various Baptist and Church of Christ congregations with Sunday schools prayer meetings and midweek services across districts.
A ten day evangelistic series led by Reverend W. A. Faubion of Raton New Mexico will be held at the First Free Methodist Church corner West Travis and North Spring starting Wednesday October 23 through November 3. Services every night at 7 95 with no services on Sundays 10 45 a m and 7 45 p m. Walter J Hayt a Gideon and gospel singer will assist. Mrs B M Gibson blind evangelist will aid in the meetings. Topics include The Salvation Value of the Soul Draw Nigh to God Nature of the New Birth and The Great Quest.
Local churches across Eisenpat WNTOWN and surrounding neighborhoods report Sunday services including adult confirmations at St Marh'e Episcopal and Holy Communion in multiple venues. Programs list morning prayers, sermons by bishops, and youth meetings, with offerings from Anila Cinch to Alam Heights.
The Rt Rev Harry S Kennedy bishop of Hawaii will be guest preacher at 11 am Sunday service at St Luke's Episcopal Church 104 Cloverleaf Alamo Heights Elsiab Kennedy will address the church school at 940 am and show missionary films. An evening service and social planned for young people.
A religious class meet at 9:30 a m in the Minuet room Menger hotel will be led by the Order of Spurs and other groups. Speakers include Dr J T Cochran J H Robinson Ostarr Miller Frank Paniman clad Carter Raymond Gerhardt D Harlan W D Turbevilla and Joseph H Tiler. Juigton Reed will give the scripture voiding, prayer by James Tafolla Sr, greetings by Fell 1H Ullrich and Bob Crockett to provide special music and song.
Promotion Day Sunday features Salvation Army Sunday schools at Fifth and Elm streets. Pupils will move to higher classes and a special program marks the event. Major R McNeill will speak at 1 a.m. on A Model Construction. Sunday evening Major McNeill and Wl will deliver the message Ye Muse Be Born Again.
The Rev. Baw J Urseh, pastor of St Luke's Lutheran Church at 2424 West Houston Street, returns to the pulpit Sunday after a two week absence. He selects "The Church Looks to the Future" as his sermon subject. Tuesday at 7 p.m. the Brotherhood of the church presents a program titled "The Challenge to Improve Our Community" in the parish house.
Dr. Francis M. Davis, pastor, selects a Sunday evening sermon titled Christ or Communism at Crestholme Presbyterian Church 325 Hermitage Court. Special music will feature in both worship hours as the morning sermon precedes the evening address.
Community schedule listing daily hours from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and extended hours until 6 p.m. on Wednesdays. Sundays and holidays observed with shorter or varied hours. public access through the Reading room with unspecified closing times.
Congregational church at 105 Carolina Street near Labor and Sa intersection. Reverend 4. G. Strartz listed as pastor with church school 10 B and meeting times. Obscure notes mention Pilgrim Fellowship and a timetable, with unclear dates and names due to damaged OCR.
The Woman's Alliance of the Unitarian church and the Friends Service Committee in Texas will jointly sponsor a lecture by Wilfred Wellock, former British Labour member. The talk titled The Crisis In Western Civilization will be at 8 p.m. in the West wing of the Muhletoal Auditorium. A luncheon honoring Wellock is planned for Wednesday noon at the Plaza hotel.
The Reverend Eric N Hawkins accepts the pastorate of Ascension By Lutheran Church at 63 Quentin Drive and will retain duties as Deputy Mission Director for the Hoard of Hobié Mlasson ot the Lutheran Augustana Synod. Chapel plans proceed at 1000 Donaldson Avenue and the site will be dedicated October 27 by Dr Hugo Baierius and other clergy. Sermon subject is A Bible Lesson Full of Questions with services at 10:20 and 7, and Sunday school for children at the game hour.
The Southwest Texas Conference of the Methodist Church opens its eighty eighth annual session Wednesday at Travis Park Methodist Church with Bishop Brace R Baxter of Portland Ore as special preacher. Bishop A Frank Smith of Houston will preside. Arrangements include devotions, a session for older boys, laymen service, a youth rally with Trinity University and Sam Houston College choirs, and sermons by Bishop Baxter on Evangelize or Die and Gods Requirements. Out of conference visitors include Dr William K Artier son and Dr Charles Schofield. Expected record attendance.
Grace Church of the Nazarene in Denver and St Anthony launches a six week Sunday school contest to boost attendance. Rev J P Ingle leads both morning and evening services with sermons themed Gods Challenge to the Heroic and What Wilt Thou Say When He Shall Punish Thee. Special numbers mark each service as Youth Groups meet at 6 45 pm under new president J D Burrow.
Minister Paul Stevens of Har Jandale Church of Christ continues his sermon series on Christian Unity at the Sunday evening worship hour. Service starts at 7 pm. Morning sermon titled Prepare to Meet Thy God will be delivered by Mr Stevens.
The Women’s Missionary Society invites attendance at the In-gathering or Thank Offering during the Sunday morning worship hour at Government Hill Lithean Church at North Pine and Maton streets. Pastor Reverend Paul Wilson will deliver the sermon.
Lesson sermon at First Free Methodist Church reads “Building a Lite Building a Life” with the theme Doctrine of Atonement. Rev Reinhold of Christ Scientist delivers Sunday message at 3331 West Travis Street. Bible citations include Ephesians 2 4 and 1 Corinthians 4 21 8. Reverend N W Lovely of the Unitarian Church announces his Sunday sermon The Burden of Religion at 11 00 a m in the East Wing Municipal Auditorium.
Cecil B. Hill, new minister since 1999, leads an eight day revival at Beacon Hill Church of Christ. Services begin Sunday at 7 45 p m with plain Bible preaching and singing directed by Richard Caye. Attendance has risen since his arrival under the message The Ferently Church With the Vital Message.
A mosaic of sponsors listed including Busi Blanco Paint and Hardware L B Palmer Sons Engraving Co Chicken Shack City Rendering Co Cable Feed Store Growley Feed Co J C Dialmann Co H Ditlingar Roller Mill Economy Shoe Repair Farm Wema Savings Loan Assn The Fox Sea Hotel Supply George Prior Drug B F Goodrich Goodyear Service Stores Graham Collins Electric Grand Lodge Hermann Grandma Cookie Grayson Shops Great Western Mutual Ins Green Pastures Winters Gunter Hotel Hohenberger E Holmgreen Hops Ambulance Hunter Lauper Interstate Theaters. The long vendor roll appears in connection with a community activity or sale.
A garbled OCR line lists diverse merchant names and shops including drug stores, a department store, a hardware firm, a vulcanizing company, a bakery, a shoe shop and a hospital supplier. Readable items reference Douglass W. King Knowlton's, LaFeria, Liberty Mills and Nash Drug Store among others.
A fragmented OCR list of business names and establishments including drug stores, hotels, laundries, a trunk company, a park, clothing and beauty shops, restaurants, a cab company and various diminutive enterprises. The text preserves names like San Antonio Drug Co. and Woodlawn Furniture Co. and mentions Park Kelane and Santa Rosa Hospital in passing.
Faith Lutheran Church will hold a Sunday morning worship service featuring the church council and elected officers from various organizations. Pastor C J Diethioft will preach on Rebuilding for Christ. Sunday evening at 8, a service at 1001 West Thee to mark the 28th anniversary of the Brotherhood of the United Lutheran Church led by the men of the church.
St Johns Lutardian church at Nuova and South Presa streets WA hosts a 7:30 p m hymn service featuring missionary hymns with speakers Carl Semiewer Georgi Woellél and Harry Lodesberg. A 10:30 a m service will observe National Brotherhood Sunday with Dr L Wolff. Monday at 7:43 p m the St Johns men meet for a fellowship banquet with Rev George Schardt as speaker.
The Sunday morning worship at First Congregational Church 105 Cavallis Street will feature a sermon titled All One Body by Rev. Arthur G. Swartz. The Pilgrim Fellowship youth group meets Sunday at 4:30 p.m.
The notice lists multiple churches including Emmanuel Pentecostal on South Street Marys with Rev. Leon and Rev. Gerald Maygan, International Bible College in West Middeioby, Grace Church of the Nazarene in Denver, and Northwest Church of the Nazarene. It notes revival services, Sunday school fees, morning and evening worship times, and various prayer and study meetings among several congregations and pastors including Dr. Millon and Rev. Lovety.
A long OCR of church listings shows Foursquare Gospel Trinity and other denominations with pastors, service times, Sunday schools, prayer meetings, and monthly programs. Includes Southern Methodist, Lutheran, Catholic, Evangelical and Baptist groups with locations across San Antonio and environs.
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