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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1954
Page
25
Directory of Elyria churches with pastors, service times, and musical staff. Listings include Elyria Gospel Tabernacle, Seventh Street churches, Mount Zion, Free Will, Sacred Heart, First Church, Pilgrim, and others with weekly schedules and organists or choirs.
Young people at 284 Washington Avenue gather for a Wednesday service at 6 45 p m with a 7 30 p m program led by organist Clare Short.
Church notices list mass times confessions and devotions for St Mary St Agnes Holy Cross and St Jude with weekend weekday Holy Day schedules and special observances including Fatima Immaculate Conception and Unity Octave. Services are at multiple times across weekdays Sundays and holy days with additional rites for baptism confirmation and youth activities.
The Disciples of Christ church at 301 Washington Avenue lists activities with Rev. H. K. Shaw as minister. Church school at 9 30 a.m. morning worship at 10 45 a.m. Youth Fellowship at 6 15 p.m. Oliver Shubert leads the choir and Mrs. Frederick H. Meng is organist.
The Episcopal St Andrews on Middle Avenue at Third Street hosts Holy Communion at 8 a.m. Family worship at 9 30 a.m. Morning prayer sermon at 11 a.m. First Sunday Holy Communion at 11 a.m. Preschool at the parish house also at 11. J Martin Beck choir master and Mrs Robert Fountain organist.
The notice lists services and groups at 1611 Middle Avenue and 837 Seventeenth Street. Activities include Sunday school at 9:30 and 9:45, evening worship, ward meetings, and multiple choirs with Josephs and organists named. The Rev. C. A. Talbert and Rev. A. H. Baxter are pastors, with music directed by Douglas Mitchell and Delphima D. Thomas.
The United Presbyterian Church at East Avenue and Second Street invites parishioners to Bible school at 9 30 a.m. Youth meetings are scheduled for 6 15 p.m. Hildreth Hanks leads the choir and John Heckrote is the organist under the ministry of The Rev. T. M. Gulland.
Denominational notices list services across multiple churches. Apostolic Squires Street, Christian and Missionary Alliance Chapel, Church of the Open Door, Foursquare Gospel in Dayton, and other groups provide weekly worship times, Sunday schools, youth programs, and music directors.
A compact listing of church appointments includes Grace Princeton and other downtown congregations with pastors, Sunday school times, Holy Communion schedules, worship periods, and organist directions. Additional entries cover United Lutheran and Church of God in Christ locations with service times, nursery care, and midweek classes.
The notice lists two churches, Evangelical Reformed at MAGYAR 119 West River Street with Rev. Louis G. Novak, Sunday school at 9 a.m., Morning English service at 10, Magyar service at 11, Young people at 5 p.m., and Nelson Miller as organist. St. Paul at 250 Third Street with Dr. Walter F. Reif as pastor, Divine worship at 10:45 a.m., Russell Dunford as music director, Mrs. F. C Ruth as organist.
The benediction urges stepping aside from the noisy world to hear God and find the true path. William Penn’s Fruits of Solitude advocates looking at life from the eternal standpoint before rejoining society. An invitation to attend church next Sunday follows.
An exploration of inspiration in human thought and faith. The piece discusses how insights arrive beyond ordinary cognition, citing Newton and composers, then argues for testing inspiration by its fruits and the Bible’s tested authority. It urges leaders and individuals to listen for divine guidance in a tense world.
Devotional and prayer meetings listed for Salvation Army Kingdon Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses Church of God Pentecostal and Grange Hall services. Timings include Sunday school 10 to 12, weekday services at 7 30 p m, youth nights and Bible study among other activities led by named pastors and officers. Local addresses given for Broad Street venues.
The program lists Dr James H Sivard as pastor and The Rev C D Nitschke as associate. Sunday school at 9 45 am, extended session 10 29, morning worship 10 45, intermediate MYF, 7 pm, senior MYF 7 30 pm. Farley K Hutchins directs music with Mrs Carlton Squires as organist.
Lorain County Pomona Grange will extend Rural Life Sunday to include other rural groups. The June 6 Kipton event will feature a 1 p.m. potluck and 2 30 p.m. service led by Rev Clyde N Rogers, with a recreation program to follow outdoors if possible. The Kipton Grange hosts with Rev Charles Nitschke coordinating and local ministers invited.
The Lorain County Regional Women's Guild of the Evangelical and Reformed Church meets at Elyria Magyar church from 9:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Presiding is Mrs. Claude Wigfield. Morning features a keynote by Rev. Dewees Lingley and the annual reports. A noon literature display precedes an afternoon panel on Unto the Stature of Christ with Miss Sarah Bowman as moderator and participants from Lorain.
Several county churches will send representatives to the Interdenominational Vacation Church School Institute at Twentieth Street Methodist Church in Lorain on April 28 from 7 30 to 9 30 p m. Sponsored by the Northeast Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church and the Ohio Council of Churches, the event is arranged by Miss Georgia Sprinkle of Akron. The program covers graded work with leaders for kindergarten, primary, junior, and junior high, and invites all churches to participate.
A pithy quote highlights how viewing problems from the wrong perspective can distort understanding. The maxim urges caution against biased framing and encourages seeking clearer viewpoints to assess challenges.
The passage contrasts the human ideal as the created image of God with secular thoughts and busy plans. It argues that a mental awakening reveals the spiritual urge, presenting an opportunity for positive thinking and the will to welcome the Great Ideal who stands at the door knocking.
Lutheran World Relief has received and distributed more than $3,000,000 of government surplus food in Germany the Holy Land Yugoslavia and other nations and has requested an additional $2,000,000 worth for further distribution in coming months.
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