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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1940
Page
9
Rev D. D MacAdams of Sikeston Presbyterian Church will preach Sunday morning on Why Go To Church and evening on Arrested Development. Sunday school and Christian Endeavor meet as usual. Wednesday prayer service continues The Psychology of the Christian Personality.
Mrs J W Hoffert, wife of the Nazarenes church pastor, will lead a revival starting tomorrow night September 27. Sermon topics include The Power of the Holy Ghost, The Church Discharging her Duty, The New Testament Church, Apostasy, The Definite Works of Grace, Practice Holiness, The Call of God, Immortality, The Second Coming, The Two Builders, Heaven, and The Accounting Day. Special music by the Bohannon Trio.
Rev B E Olsen of the Seventh Day Adventist Church will preach a sermon titled A Message Some Will Reject on Saturday morning September 28. Sabbath school starts at 8 45 o clock and the regular weekly prayer service at 7 45 o clock that evening. Members are urged to attend.
Sunday September 29 marks Rally Day and Promotion Day for the Methodist Sunday school. Rev. John L Taylor will preach at morning worship on The Power of Religious Education and again at 7:30 pm on The Heart of the Gospel.
Rev Jos P Read pastor of Sikeston Christian church will observe his first anniversary with the church on Sunday morning September 29. The evening sermon is titled Casting Shadows Through Life with the pastor delivering the message.
Sunday will be promotion day at the Baptist Sunday school with more than a hundred children aged four to sixteen promoted to higher departments. Promotions occur without ceremony with Wm D Hayden presiding and Mrs M S Tomerlin, Mrs E F Weidemann, Mrs Anna Jones, Mrs Alfred Stovall, and Mrs Philip Sadler leading each department. Rev W Milner will deliver a sermon titled The Ways of Sin during the evening service.
The Pulham Church of God lists Sunday services with Sunday School at 9 30 A M preaching at 11 A M and 7 30 P M. Prayer service at 7 30 P M. Tuesday. V L B 7 30 Friday night.
Rev J J O Neal, pastor, announces Sunday masses at 7 and 9, daily at 7 o clock, communion at 7 on first Fridays. Confessions on Saturdays, eves of holidays and first Fridays 3 30 to 5 30 and 7 to 8 30, and any time on request. Baptisms after last mass on Sunday.
Lutheran church notices announce Parma congregation will celebrate its annual Mission Festival next Sunday with two services at 10 00 in the morning and 2 00 o clock in the afternoon. Rev John Deye of Fried heim Missouri will be speaker in both services. Sikeston Lutheran congregation suspends services so members may attend Parma celebration.
Regular services will be held at the Methodist mission in Smith Addition with Rev. H. H Harper in charge. Prayer meeting at 7 30 tonight. Preaching Saturday night Sunday morning and night. Epworth League meets at 7 o'clock Sunday.
Special services outline a Ten Weeks Loyalty Campaign at Sikeston Christian church starting Oct. 20. Events include elders supper Sept 30, deacons pot luck Oct 1, choir practice Oct 2, Bible school officers meeting Oct 3, and Every Member Present day Oct 13 with family mememto.
Mrs. Frank Schulte heads Sikeston Methodist Church Women’s Society for Christian Service in its inaugural all day gathering on Wednesday October 2 at 11 with a covered dish luncheon at noon. Mrs Harry Dover, the vice president, leads the day’s program. The new group unites former Ebert Kready Russell Bradley and Ben Jon Missionary society members.
On Tuesday October 1 the Co-Workers Society of the Methodist church will meet at Mrs E J Keiths home on North Ranney street. The meeting will be in charge of Mrs Roy V Ellise the president.
Rev. A. C. Rudloff, formerly pastor of the Sikeston Baptist church, has been called to the Malden church as pastor and occupied the pulpit there last Sunday. He has since left Sikeston, continuing his education and serving churches in Arkansas.
The article discusses divine instruction on wealth, poverty, and social ethics drawn from Proverbs 11 24 31 and Luke 16 1 18. It contrasts liberal giving with greedy hoarding, notes monopolies and trusts as modern forms of misused wealth, and emphasizes that true prosperity comes from righteousness and trust in God. It closes with a note on biblical imagery of the tree of life and the enduring value of the upright life.
The St. Louis Annual Conference of the Methodist Church will convene in Jefferson City Missouri starting October 9 at 8 30 a m and continue daily through October 13. Bishop John C Broomfield will preside and preach daily morning services while Bishop Charles L Mead will preach each afternoon. The gathering will include morning business sessions and evening devotional services with ordination slated for October 13 after year appointments are made. Reverend John L Taylor of Sikeston will attend along with a lay delegate chosen at the quarterly session.
The 103d anniversary of the First Protestant Sunday school in Kentucky was celebrated on September 22 in Frankfort. Margaret Brown founded the school, which met in Liberty Hall gardens now a public museum. Exercises were held on a platform in front of Liberty Hall.
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