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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1937
Page
9
On the Sunday after Easter a 10 45 Holy Communion with sermon is planned. The choir will sing Christ our Passover. The sermon theme is The Stone at the Door of our Hearts. It notes stones of failure and grief weighing on hearts and suggests ways to remove them. Church school meets at 9 30, and young people at 7 30.
The service will begin tomorrow at 10:45 a.m. with a Post-Resurrection message from the pastor. He will also address the crime of the present national traffic in intoxicating drink. Bible School convenes at 9:30 a.m. and for six months the adult department will study Messages from Genesis with the first lesson God the Creator from Genesis chapters 1 and 2.
Sunday services begin at 6 30 p m with a Tabernacle study using a small model for the intermediate group. A 7 30 p m union service at First M E supports prohibition with a dramatic trial Prisoner at the Bar. Prayer and Bible study meet Wednesday at 7 30 p m focusing on I Corinthians 1 6.
Rev Armin Schroeder preaches Strength from the Risen Lord in the English service at 10 tomorrow. Holy Communion in the German service at 11. Sunday school and Adult Bible Class at 9 15. A Columbia Club meeting features a talking motion picture Monday evening.
The First Baptist Church will host a Sunday morning program headlined by Prove Me with the choir performing Ride On Ride On by John Scott Prindle and solo by Mrs. Guy Byars. Sunday evening features an old fashioned temperance sermon Hell Hath Enlarged Herself and plans for Easter music selections including He is Risen, Sanctus, and Benedictus. Sunday school at 9 30 p m B Y P U at 6 15 p m orchestra plays at 7 10 p m regular service 7 30 p m special young people meeting Tuesdays and Wednesday prayer meeting at 7 30 p m theme Twenty Third Psalm.
Rev. William Muir Auld will deliver the Sunday morning sermon at 10 45 at the 1st Congregational Church corner Court and Second streets. Choirs will perform God So Loved the World and So Thou Liftest Thy Divine Petition by Stainer. Sunday School opens at 9 30 in each department. All are invited to attend.
Tomorrow evening a Sunday service will feature a review of The Return of Religion. The book follows a New York University professor who was raised Christian, left church, then returned after years. It discusses religious educational and life issues with practical merit. Morning service 11. Sunday School 10.
The Bible School at The Second Congregational church meets at 9:30 with a study titled New Quarter's Lesons. At 10:45 Pastor Dr. A. E. Kemp preaches on Good Citizenship and Temperance. Choir sings Blessed Be The Lord. organist Nina Rameer gives a solo offertory. Intermediate and senior Christian Endeavor discuss Good Church Membership at 6:00. A union service at 7:30 at The First Methodist features Prisoner at The Bar.
Evangelist Otto M Grace will preach morning and evening services tomorrow at Land Street as a revival runs through April 18. Grace returns to Elyria, with special music planned. Sunday school meets at 9 45 a m and evening services at 7 45 p m.
Leonard Fisk leads Sunday school at 9 30 with classes for all. Morning worship at 10 45 features an E flat organ prelude by Merkel and a choir rendition of O How Amiable by Barnby. Dr Bond’s sermon titled Cleaning Up Jericho Road. Organ postlude by Guilmant. Epworth League meets at 6 30 for a youth program.
Sunday services at Grace Lutheran begin with Sunday school and Adult Bible class at 9 30. Candidate Armin Dre preaches at 10 45. In the evening Rev W W Walker is installed at 8 with Rev H W Bartels of Cleveland officiating and assisted by brother pastors.
Soviet ambassadors in London Paris and Rome join the godless movement. United Press reports a 1936 ceremony in China to cast a 44000 pound Bell of Hell for a sacred mountain of Anhwei to be rung by Buddhist priests. Institute on World Christianity meets at Colgate Rochester May 25 28 with Fosdick Brown McConnell Mackay Gannett Johnson as speakers. World Sunday School Association reports 37000000 enrolled in 361145 schools.
The Second Methods church in Oberlin organized in 1869 with Mrs. Carr as pastor and worship held in homes, including Father Brown's. A wooden frame church built in 1875 stood on the present site, later replaced by the current building in 1515. Pastors listed include Mrs. Carr, King Williams, Camey, Mooten, Hatten, Coleman, Remfro, Singleton, May, Lee, Buchner, Delaney, Sweeney, Gordon, Parker, Mc Morris, Thompson, Wallace, Stenner, Hayes, David Gordon, and current supply pastor Rev. Charles Tatter, a Grad School of Theology student.
The fifth annual interracial service at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church New York drew nineteen choirs from nine churches and several denominations. Three hundred youths participated including five Negro choirs and the Jan Hus Presbyterian choir singing Bohemian and the Church of All Nations in Italian.
A collection of maxims on starting, choosing wisely between evils, listening before speaking, and the value of sincerity and humility. It includes reflections on kindness, covetousness, self love, and integrity, attributed to Lorimer and Henry David Thoreau.
The Church of Christ Scientist schedules a Lesson Sermon for Sunday April 4 1937 with the Golden Text from Job 35 13 and a cited Isaiah 41 10 passage. It also quotes Mary Baker Eddy from Science and Health page 392 on casting out evil fear and opposing all that is contrary to health holiness and harmony of man God s image.
Questions explore key figures: the most discouraged prophet and the Weeping Prophet, the first great Bible singer and the Sweet Singer of Israel, the disciple Jesus said would live on after him, and the first king.
A partial OCR reads a list of biblical figures including Elisha Jeremiah Miriam David and John the Beloved Disciple with stray punctuation and missing context. The fragment mentions Saul among the names but provides no narrative or date.
The Women’s Glee club of Wheaton College performs at the First Baptist Church this evening at 7 30. Selections include Bach arias Beethoven and Chopin pieces, with a bonus ensemble plus a violin obligato and a choral benediction by Lutkin Mackenzie.
The church invites readers to value spiritual over material goods and to join in worship next Sunday. Quoting Dean Inge the message emphasizes sharing and eternal, non diminishing spirit values.
An old legend tells of two knights disputing a shield's color at a crossroads. Each insists gold or silver, they fight, pause, and discover the shield is silver on one side and gold on the other. The tale ends with a moral about considering both sides and seeking pardon. The piece frames this as the Christ spirit of reconciliation.
Dr Halford E Luccok of Yale analyzes church sit-down strikes as a paralyzing form of inaction in congregations. He warns that even with hymn singing congregations may fail to perform their Christian duties and address urgent community issues.
Forum Church sermon argues true victory comes when Christ reigns over every part of the individual life and all interactions with others and institutions. Partial surrender leads to defeats, while full submission enables a consistently victorious life amid social duties and reform movements.
The report notes a 33 percent gain over 1935 with 835 total years sentenced and fines of 3123360. June convictions led three-year totals, and the Mann Act cases involving transport of women across state lines show G Men achieving the highest difficulty in catching violators.
Lake Avenue Community Church schedules Mission services on Sunday April 4 with Bible school at 9 30 and preaching at 10 45 by Earl R Peck pastor Rev F C Imhof of the Cleveland Hebrew Mission will bring the message and bring two workers. a fellowship dinner follows. Mothersingers rehearse Monday at the schoolhouse.
C J Strickland, president of the Automobile Safety League of America, argues that even one teaspoon of alcohol dulls thinking and slows reactions, making safe driving impossible for those who choose to drink. He says people who drink lack the sense to drive safely.
J Edgar Hoover urges nationwide tip line to crush white slavery now a major American industry. He notes crime overall fell in 1935 but white slavery rose 15 percent with 289 convictions logged in fiscal 1936.
The saying notes that observing others' virtues can cultivate similar qualities in oneself while noticing their faults may lead one to adopt those flaws. It frames mindful imitation as a source of personal character—positive or negative—through deliberate reflection.
A sermon framed character as the true goal of faith, deeming comfort secondary to moral growth. The speaker urged congregants to pursue righteousness and steadfastness amid trials.
Emil G. Iwen learned the doorstep stone he used for years is claimed as Indian property. Simon Kahquados, former Potawatomi chief, says markings on the stone indicate it is a property deed.
Morning Worship at 10 45 with subject labor. Special music by the young people's choir. Church School meets at 9. No young people's meeting in the evening.
A humorous and pithy collection of lines on religion courage and behavior with quips about boys growing up to golf and the link between bravery and cruelty. An old style exchange blends Sunday School satire with aphorisms from Jones Syrus and others.
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