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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1948
Page
7
A sweep of holiday worship across North Ridgeville and nearby towns lists carol services and Christmas observances at Congregational, Universalist, Lutheran, Church of Christ, Assembly of God, and Evangelical churches. Ministries announce choir selections, sermons, Sunday school plans, and youth activities alongside charity drives for wartime relief and postwar rehabilitation.
A Hollywood group of singers writers and actors forms a Smart Set to promote abstinence from alcohol. In India the legislative assembly of Madras Province passes a bill to outlaw bigamy among Hindus, with the law applying if either party to a marriage is Hindu.
Rex Arthur Williams of First Baptist Church announces a Christmas season program with 10:45 a.m. worship on Sunday titled The Gracious Purpose for Wholen Christ Came and 7:30 p.m. sermon The Wonderful Name of Jesus. Special music by the orchestra precedes the evening service. Bible School meets at 9:50 a.m. for an hour of study. Various youth and prayer sessions follow, plus a Good News broadcast rehearsal and a Watch Night Service planned for Friday. St John’s Lutheran hosts Christmas Eve and Day services with choir and chorus performances and messages centered on Luke 2 11 12 16 and singing with grace in your heart.
Mt Nebo Primitive Baptist Church schedules a New Year’s Eve service December 31 at 7 30 pm with Holy Communion. The message will be delivered by Rev William Hale at 3 pm worship at the Church of God in Christ on Woodford Avenue. WW club meets at 7 30 pm Tuesday with choir rehearsal. prayer service Friday at 7 30 pm. Church of God Fuller Road holds a five o clock Saturday morning service.
On December 2 Sunday school classes meet at 7:30 pm under Superintendent Andrew Fortune. A general service at 11:30 am and a Christmas program at 8 pm follow, with a prayer band at 7:30 pm. Tuesday features Anna Mae Williams in charge, and Wednesday the Bible band led by Willie Mae Spencer. An all night service is planned for Friday December 31. Czechoslovakia pledges tractors plows and grain binders for farmers.
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