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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1944
Page
2
Regular services will be conducted at Tanner Street Church of God next Sunday beginning at 10 45. Rev H McDonough, the pastor, will preach. Sunday school classes, supervised by Hubert Keasler, will be held at 9 45. Bible study is conducted each Wednesday night at 7 45.
The Presbyterian church will hold a morning sermon next Sunday on What Is Religion with Rev Bartley Schwegler delivering the sermon at 10 45 o clock. Sunday school classes begin at 9 15 o clock.
Letters to the Church at Pergamos will be the morning sermon topic at the Baptist Church next Sunday. Rev E D Owen will preach at 10 45 am and again at 7 45 pm with the theme Who is the Friend of God. Sunday school led by superintendent Bill Hayden at 9 30 am. Baptist Training Union meets at 6 45 pm.
Rev E C Tarvin of Calfornia Ky leads revival at Church of the Nazarene with daily services at 7 30 pm Sunday school at 9 30 am worship at 11 am and junior and youth meetings at 6 30 pm Public invited to attend all services.
Parish calendar and services for St Francis Xavier Church on Front and Stoddard Streets. Mass times daily and Sundays with confessions and holy day observances. Holy Hour and Perpetual Help Devotions schedule. contact rectory at 106 Stoddard Street. Also notice of Russell Bradley Circle No 3 WSC S event at Mrs Gus Martins home tonight.
Rev J T Self, longtime Sikeston resident and former minister in the St Louis Conference, will deliver the morning sermon at the Methodist church next Sunday by invitation of the pastor. Rev EB W Bartley and Mrs Self plan move to Luxora Arkansas to be near their daughter. Bartley will lead Charleston Methodist vesper at 5 p m while Rev J C Montgomery preaches at Wyatt church at the same hour.
Rev Amos John Travers of Springfield Ohio reports a wartime drop in Lutheran Sunday school pupils from 811979 in 1938 to 735935 last year. He cites six causes including armed forces losses, population shifts, lower birth rate, and leadership gaps. A campaign aims to reach 1,000,000 enrollments by 1919 with teacher recruitment and training plans.
Members of the Woman's Society of Christian Service of Methodist churches in Cape Girardeau district will hold an all day meeting in Cape Girardeau on Wednesday October 25 beginning at 9 30 at Centenary Methodist church. Rev John L Taylor pastor and a Burma missionary will speak. Local society members including president Mrs Margaret Harper will attend.
The United Lutheran Church in America adopted a 1.7 million dollar budget for Lutheran World Action at its Minneapolis convention. The plan includes creating an American mission agency, a recruitment and placement bureau, a student and youth education bureau, and a special service group for ecumenical needs and handicapped and prisoners of war. Executive director Dr Ralph H Long said the war shifted the global Lutheran burden to the American church.
The Men’s Bible class at the Methodist church voted to start Sunday morning services at 9 30 o'clock instead of 9 45. Burt Rowe is president of the class and Clint Denman is the teacher.
Oron T Bolding has become pastor at Sikeston Church of Christ on Edmondson Street, arriving from Birmingham Alabama to lead regular services at 11 am and 7 30 pm Sundays, with Wednesday prayer at 7 30 pm. He and his family reside in the former Walter Buchholz home near the airport east of town and invite the public to attend.
The morning sermon at the Christian church will be on Doing Our Best with Rev R M Tal bert. Evening subject Moses and Manna. Christian Endeavor at 6 30 led by Miss Janet Trousdale. Sunday school starts 9 45 with Harley B Propst in charge.
Rev G C Schramm of Concordia Lutheran Church will preach on Sunday morning October 22 on the theme Maketh Wars to Cease. Worship services start at 11 o clock and Sunday school, led by superintendent Mrs Fred Atchison, begins at 10 o'clock.
Services will be held at the home of Rev H H Horner 618 West Daniel Street at 2 30 next Sunday afternoon with the minister in charge. Prayer services will be conducted each Wednesday at 7 30 at the same residence with Rev Harper in charge.
Elder John B Huffman will preach The Two Witnesses from Revelation Eleven tonight at eight o clock and discuss The Anti Christ and Tribulation. Regular services are Tuesday Thursday and Sunday with Friday movie reopening in Paris after electric service resumed. Nazi occupation limited French films to German supervised works.
The author argues that teaching religion in public schools is problematic due to the vast diversity of world religions and Christian sects. He advocates teaching a unified, true religion—the gospel Jesus and the Apostles taught—at home and in churches, while urging unity among Christians before instituting religious instruction in schools.
The excerpt discusses repetition in prayer drawn from Matthew, urging ceaseless prayer and gratitude. It urges seeking blessings from God, emphasizes family prayer, and notes Luke’s principles of righteous living, warning that the blind cannot lead the blind and leaders must walk in the light. It calls the Sermon on the Mount the era’s remarkable discourse.
The rummage sale by the Co-Workers Society of the Methodist church last Saturday in Malone park raised 109 to be used for purchasing government bonds. Mrs Anna Winchester, president, and loyal members conducted the event.
Financial reports of the Scott County Red Cross were audited this week by Edward Cody and L C Harding of the Midwestern Area Red Cross office in St Laws. Everything was found to be in order, the chapter chairman Rev R M Talbert reports. Auditors’ suggestions have been adopted by the finance committee chaired by G H Dover.
The Navy announced no new enrollments in V-12 college training for the term starting March 1 citing updated officer needs. About 69,000 are enrolled overall, and students already in training will continue as scheduled.
The postwar market will showcase featherweight furniture and lawnmowers operable with the little finger due to developments in light metals and alloys. The announcement came at the forty sixth annual Na.
A regional metals congress is scheduled in Cleveland, Ohio, this coming Monday. Industry leaders and attendees are expected to discuss market trends and policy impacts affecting the sector.
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