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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1938
Page
9
St Pauls Evangelical Church marks Children’s Day with a combined Sunday School and church service at ten o’clock. Sunday School classes gather at their usual room then proceed to the auditorium for an engaging children’s program and a cordial invitation to all observers.
The church schedules Children’s Day services tomorrow at 10:30 with a 9:30 Bible School session. Themes include Praise and Thanksgiving and Facing the Supreme Test of Service. Evening youth meeting at 6:30 features The Holy Spirit in Acts. Wednesday prayer study at 7:30. Choir practice follows. Summer Bible School opens at 9:00 tomorrow urging parent attendance.
The Second Sunday in June marks Children s Day with a 9 30 Sunday School start and a 10 15 auditorium gathering for the program. Hymns include Living for Jesus and In My Heart with prayers by Dr A E Kemp. The program features recitations and welcomes from Vincents and Shepherd classes as well as a rose in the garden theme.
A church service program lists children and classes from Mrs Elmer Baun to Miss Vincent with songs and a Children's Day message The Junior Choir Patricia Hoke and a baptism presentation of Covenant Bibles for fourteen children are noted plus upcoming baptisms and Sunday School at 10 15 all are welcome
The church marks Trinity Sunday with early communion at 7 30 followed by church school at 9 30 and Morning Prayer with sermon at 10 45 The choir performs Holy Holy Holy and the day centers on Trinity lessons A memorial window for Mr and Mrs Edward Leigh Cook will be dedicated at the 10 45 service Young People meet at 7 30.
Sunday marks Children’s Day with a 10 00 a m service and a 7 30 p m pageant This program features many departments from the church including the Beginner Kindergarten Primary and Junior Choirs with songs poems and a violin solo by Douglas Hines The Ev worth League meets at 6 00 p m new members to be received and the pageant This Youth presents restlessness of Youth and its solution with named roles and cast listed in order
First Baptist holds a 10 45 a m service for recently graduated Elyria High School students. Rev R W Neighbour speaks on The Mother of Wisdom. Evening choir and male quartet perform. Summer Bible School starts Monday at 9 00 ages kindergarten through ninth grade at United Presbyterian Church.
The church holds a Children’s Day service at 10:45 with the Church School directing the entire service. A dramatic program is presented with roles including Reader James Ferriman Eli and Samuel Ward Young.
Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church hosts a Sunday service at 10:45 titled The Revelation of God. The choir will sing Love Divine All Love Excelling by William Baines. Sunday School and adult Bible classes convene at 9:30. special service at 10:30 with Sunday School oversight. Strangers and visitors welcome.
The Church of the Nazarene will hold evening services with a sermon titled The Call to Council asking what God desires to reveal in council with man. Morning Sunday school meets at 9 45 a m followed at 10 45 a m by the morning worship led by the pastor. The Young People gather at 6 45 p m for songs prayer testimony and topic discussion.
The Second Baptist Church outlines a children focused program at 10:00 a.m. titled What Has America to Offer the Negro Youth featuring the youth choir and soloists Mary Ruth Caywood and Lois Hopewell. At 3:00 p.m. the women present M. C. Clark of Dunbar Mutual Insurance speaking alongside Dr. W. M. J. Rucker and J. C. Chandler with a 30 voice male chorus from the CCC Camp.
The North Ridgeville Congregational Church schedules a 11:00 a.m. service with music by vocal and instrumental groups. The Junior school will present a brief program and graduate a class into the Senior department. An address by Harry Salsbury will conclude the event.
A religious appeal stresses the positive effects of church attendance. It claims inviting others builds confidence in spiritual welfare, welcomes friends, supports the preacher, and pleases God. The message urges readers to join and practice what is preached.
The 1938 propaganda budget for the Godless Associations of Russia is announced at 65 million roubles. Much of this sum will fund new godless literature and the production of several newspapers devoted to the work, including one aimed at children aged 11 to 14.
At Birmingham Alabama on April 29 delegates of the Methodist Church South approved uniting with the Methodist Episcopal and Methodist Protestant Churches by 434 to 26 in a projected three cornered union, already endorsed by the other two denominations. A symbol of peace is the Garden of Peace in La Plata Argentina opened a year ago with forty six nations represented by flowers including a United States wild rose.
Early February saw a Peasant Peace Conference in Geneva with 16 nation representatives called by the International Peace Campaign to mobilize peasants for social justice and peace. The Tenth World Christian Endeavor Convention will be in Melbourne as a jubilee for Australia, tracing to 1888 the society’s founding there. A report notes Israelites in far western China preserving ancient customs, while Los Angeles ministers’ inquiry found 20 pagan groups meeting around the city.
The Second Methodist Men's Club will host a wiener roast at James Howe's house on Middle Avenue this evening at six. Old-fashioned stories will be shared by fireside. At 8:00 Sunday a sermon to the Men's Club will be preached by Rev. J. A. Watson at Second Methodist church with music from forty CCC Camp youths and the Junior Choir. The public is invited.
The Vacation Church school is praised as the major advance in religious education over the past twenty five years. It provides two weeks of repeated emphasis across three hours daily for five days each week, offering more Christian training than a typical year of Sunday school. It appeals to and enrolls children who do not attend Sunday school and often leads them to begin attending after vacation sessions.
A young couple relocates to the country with their seven year old son. On his first school day, the boy is asked who made the flowers and trees. He replies I don’t know just moved here.
A traveler finds a fragrant clay piece claiming to be plain. The clay says its scent comes from living near a rose, prompting reflection on how close friends impart love and faithfulness, the true tribute of enduring devotion.
Questions cover biblical references about heaping coals of fire by kindness, Paul’s claim to be all things to all men, Shishak’s identity, a small service with a promised reward, prophets who urged Zerubbabel to finish the temple, and Christ’s description of his yoke and burden.
A collection of biblical phrases and references including Romans 12 20 about heaping burning coals, a note on saving some through effort, a description of an Egyptian king defeating Rehoboam and looting the temple and palace, a teaching on giving water to the little ones, mentions of Haggai and Zechariah, and the verse my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
A Congressional Record letter from the American Businessmen's Research Foundation estimates 1933 to 1937 liquor-related losses totaling about 19.69 billion dollars. It breaks down drink bills, liquor caused highway and industrial accidents, crime costs, and reduced labor efficiency over 56 months ending December 1937, with a per-fatality loss of 350 thousand dollars and alcohol's role in organized vice. D Carl Yoder.
At East Oberlin Church Sunday morning Prof Ward and children led a Children's Day service. Each child received a block representing part of the East Oberlin community and donors, forming a miniature church while Mr Ward narrated the church’s building story. The service included songs and the annual community picnic at Campbell Park.
Mr and Mrs G I Hobbs were guests at the home of Mr and Mrs Herman Portman in Brownhelm on Tuesday evening. The gathering included neighbors and friends.
Members of the Farm Bureau advisory council from Henrietta Brownhelm and Black River were listed. The Little Big Seven Four-H Club met at Glen Hobbs Jr home. A birthday party for Ruth Johnston was held in LaGrange with Wilbur Tackas and Betty and Hilda Tackas as guests.
The Birmingham group met Wednesday at the church parlors with good attendance. They decided to replace the regular July meeting with a wiener roast at the lake and will announce the date and exact place later. A luncheon was served by Mrs. Frank Fisher and Mrs. Edwin Prince.
A list of social calls and travels appears from Lorain and nearby towns. Couples like Mr. and Mrs. Loyal Warren, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Layman, and Miss Betty Shumaker are noted visiting relatives in Vermilion Cleveland and beyond with trips to Washington, San Francisco, Portland, and other stops.
List of visitors from Utica New York Tully Elyria Milan Ashland Akron Spencer Mt. Vernon Cleveland and Elyria for Sullivan Christian Church 100th anniversary includes Rev C C Smith Rev R Eaton D P Schafer Judge Guy Findley and Stanley Rice among others.
Mrs Lyle Farnsworth and Mrs Dorothy Freyman visited the home of Mr and Mrs Ernest Robinson of Willoughby last Thursday. A group traveled to Mr and Mrs Viral Morris near New London on Saturday including the Woodburns Sifreads Roy Whitcomb families Paul Morris Mell Earley and sons Victor Velda Swope of Sullivan and Roscoe Bair and family of Nankin. Music and
The article notes Mrs. Dave Barringer visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs Henry Holbrook. Mrs. Margaret Austin of Ashland stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Taylor last week. Mr. and Mrs. John Ringler dined with Mr. and Mrs. Donald Dudley in Elyria. Mrs. Harry Freyman and daughter Berniece of Parma visited Sullivan and attended the Christian Church anniversary. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Schultz of Cleveland, formerly Nora Ringler of Sullivan. Lyle Graham and son Nickie of Seville joined Sunday visits with the Ringlers.
Wakeman and Guthrie families from Lima stayed in town last week for the death of Mr John Mockler, the elder Mr Mockler’s passing prompting the visit. Dr C J Cranston, ill in Norwalk Memorial Hospital, returned home Monday. Congregational Ladies Aid met on June 1 with division chairs leading sessions. Children’s Day exercises set for June 12 with 10 am joint services. Eileen Barnes hosted a farewell bridge party for Mrs Mary Chappell, bound for New York and then South America.
South Ridge families join relatives for Sunday meals in Amherst. Evelyn Dayton visits her grandfather Frank Bechtel in Pittsfield. Rev R G Pferrer and Lois spend a week at a Linwood Park cottage. Milton Schlechter family dine with Harland Schlechter group in Sandusky. E F Snyder hosts birthday dinner for Mrs Virginia Christman in Elyria. Henry Kolbe family visits Middle Ridge. Ladies Aid and Woman's Missionary Societies meet with Helen Peters present to discuss Red Bird Mission trip. Walter Fowell hosts D C Club meeting in Brownhelm. Mrs Snyder attends Uneeke Club in Elyria.
Miss Margaret Mason of West Ridge entertained the Sunshine Sunday School Class on Friday evening after the regular business session. Mrs. Corwin Burrer, Mrs. Harvey Curtis and Mrs. Earl Burrer won honors. Refreshments were served to eight members and one guest. Next meeting June 24 at Mrs. Corwin Burrer’s Elyria home.
Relatives gathered to honor Mrs. Conrad Ernst on her birthday with fourteen guests at a noon luncheon. The long table showcased a birthday cake and rosé bouquets while gifts were exchanged. attendees included Christena Gow, Earl Gow, Ruth Blough of Huron, Rebecca Ember, W. F. Kuhl, Earl Delefield, Harry Peters of Parma, Henriet ta Roth, Earl Mason of Lorain, Charles Shoenfelt of Elyria, Carl Ernst of Amherst, and Arthur Ernst with daughter Madge of South Amherst.
The Church of Christ Scientist schedule a Sunday Lesson Sermon titled God the Preserver of Man. It cites Isaiah 31 5 and 11 Samuel 22 1 2 with emphasis on the Lord as rock fortress and deliverer. It quotes Science and Health urging refuge in Truth to avoid blind belief.
Charles Stelzle argues great peaceful revolutions begin with a single man and a clear supreme purpose. He cites Wilberforce Voltaire and Jesus as examples and compares influence to a ripple spreading through friends and communities. The message urges individuals to start movements in their own circles.
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