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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1935
Page
10
A dense church directory lists services, Sunday schools, and prayers for many churches on several streets including Cambridge Prospect, River Street, and East Bridge. It names pastors such as Rev C C Smith, Rev Julius Kish, and Rev Ernst Irion, with service times from morning worship to evening services and midweek prayer meetings.
Reports from the Y M C A World Committee winter meeting and General Congress of Youth movements in India 1936 37 note the twelfth quadrennial Student Volunteer Movement convention in Indianapolis December 28 to January 1 gathering 2000 students from the US and Canada to discuss foreign missions. Also covered are Korean Christian growth, 400000 believers in 4000 congregations. Leicester world convention of the Disciples of Christ with John Wrecliffe Black as president. Old Meeting House at Jaffray New Hampshire. Rev Peter Ainsworth long serving first minister. Dr John R Mott’s 70th birthday and other milestones in Y M C A and missionary work. Concludes with aphorisms about initiative and faith.
The National Committee for Religion and Welfare Recovery survey states the church is stable yet needy. It argues religion sustains the nation and should be supported through recovery, noting about fifty million affiliated and a majority of adults claim avowed religiosity. Pascal is cited on earnestness and prayer.
A Swiss layman states that Europe’s looming battle is spiritual not political or economic, a clash between the material and divine outlooks. He urges belief in something beyond ourselves and invites readers to come to church next Sunday by D. Carl Yoder.
The article argues that children form ethical attitudes less from formal instruction than from observed family talk and reaction at home. It emphasizes that spontaneous approval or disapproval of ideas at the dinner table shapes a child's future views on God, religion, and character more than explicit lessons.
Aquaties of the New York City Court of General Sessions argues for social fixes through spiritual life reform. He contends conformity to religious ideals can align relations between people and with God, reducing social tensions. He cites capital and labor, racial equality, and urges religious education for youth and reeducation for adults as vital today.
A Presbyterian minister visits a dying Methodist woman, a child’s joke about pastors prompts a Bible quiz and answers. Questions cover Paul as less than the least, Timothy as a good soldier, Hebrew lending rules, Jeremiah’s Sabbath prohibition, Revelation 3 20, and Daniel in the lion's den. The closing note: achievement sometimes needs detours, never a shortcut.
Citizens are urged to use telephone orders with local shops to reduce trips. The message highlights how many merchants offer home delivery and suggests calling ahead to arrange items. It emphasizes convenience and time savings through phone services.
The Sunday Lesson-Sermon focuses on the mind of God and the mind of Christ with references from Corinthians James and the Christian Science text. It emphasizes divine Mind granting wisdom liberally and the transmission of immortal ideas through divine Science to produce harmonious results.
Oberlin church news covers Dr W D Ferguson preaching at East Oberlin and union service at Pittsfield. L C W plans a Thursday afternoon entertainment at the church with Mrs J B Ford in charge and committees named. Nearby residents travel to Ashland and Petoskey for annual trips and social visits, with several Ellis and Elyria residents listed among mingled activities.
Edgar W. Allen presents "Christianus Sum" at Church of Christ 10 30 a m with Church School at 9 30 a m Second Congregational hosts Reverend Ernest Partridge missionary from Turkey guest speaker theme What Has Christianity to Give Morning Prayer and Sermon at 10 45 with theme The Power of Christianity plus a 7 30 a m Holy Communion. Choir anthem We Beseech Thee Merciful Lord. Mr Broughton to retire as organist. Rev Dr Edward J Bond to preach Keeping Fit at 10 45. Epworth League Devotional at 6 30 Lakeside meeting. no evening service
At Sunday morning service Emmanuel Lutheran church will host Reverend J S Herold D D Superintendent of Missions of Ohio Synod who will preach. Dr Herold will meet with the church council after the service.
Sunday visitors from Norwalk joined the Hutchinsons at their home. Dorotha and Mary Jean Hobbs led the Dainty Stitchers Four-H Club on a Vermilion-on-the-Lake outing. Dorotha Hobbs spent time at Camp Crag during the Four-H Club week. Helen Kern returned from weeks with friends in Norwalk. John Kern spent the weekend at home. Next week they plan a move to Orvilla where John is employed and Helen will finish high school.
Rev George S Cooper will lead worship at 1045 with Bible School at 930 and Barnabas study. First Baptist hosts Rev R W Neighbour on Sunday 945 sermon Sion Seekers and evening Loving God and Holding Hands With the Devil. First Congregational Church promotes The Lord's Prayer service at 1045 with singers Mrs George Tulk and Miss Elizabeth Rich. First Spiritualist Church announces no Sunday service with mid week meetings Monday 730. Numerous local obituaries, visits, illnesses, and social events fill the week from Elyria and surrounding towns.
In Rochester on Sunday Mr and Mrs Lawrence Snyder and daughter collected five Rochesters from Lakeside after their week at the Epworth League Conference. Arthur Barnes and Lee Barnes hosted the Barnes reunion in Defiance Ohio while W and Crandall attended the Cotton family reunion at Rittman village park. A baby boy was born Friday night to Mrs Anna Wilcox who, after her husband was killed by lightning, remains a widow and is in New London hospital with the newborn.
The funeral for the late Dell Simmons was attended by visitors from away. Ned Pixley of Lorain, Mrs. Ina Holbrook of Elyria, the Cowie families of Akron and Ashland, the Longs of Ashland, the O'Hara and Reely families, and others from New London, Sush'van, and nearby towns joined locals for the service.
At the village caucus last week D C Mann familiarly Dwight Mann was revealed to have served as village clerk for nearly forty five years. His flawless ledger work and orderly records have long supported village history and references. Funeral services for Mrs Etta Merrill were held at the Methodist church on Thursday at 2 pm with Rev Newton Moore delivering the sermon from the text In My Father s House are Many Mansions. Mrs Retta Richards was accompanied by Ruth Eaton on piano as they sang One Sweetly.
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