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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1937
Page
2
Elyria churches plan sunrise and festival services for Easter. St Andrews features Holy Communion at 7:30 with Boys and Girls choirs, 10:45 festival service with offertory solos and sermons on immortality. Second Congregational hosts sunrise at six and morning cantata, with Easter breakfast and cantata “Christ the Victor” at 10:45.
First Baptist Clare plans six Easter services including an Easter sunrise baptism at 6:30 AM with a testimonial and singing led by Lauren Palmer. Evangelist Colegrove speaks at 10:45 AM on Resurrection and again at 2:30 PM on Signs of the Times. Evening program features a baptism and varied music.
Sunrise service at First Church at six o clock led mainly by High School youth. Mrs. Morse of Oberlin will speak. a youth choir sings. Breakfast served at seven by Women's Association. reservations by Saturday noon. nominal breakfast fee for adults. Regular Easter service at 10 45 features sermons and several choral works. infant baptism and commemorative flowers. Church School at 9 30. programs for departments. invitation to all.
The church observes the Lord s Supper tomorrow at 10 45 a m with new members publicly received. Parents may bring children to present. The pastor s sermon asks Who Crucified Jesus of Nazareth Did Jesus Rise Bodily from the Dead. The choir sings King of Kings and Mrs Robert Roberts solo. Bible School 9 30 a m adult study John 20 21 youth devotional 6 30 p m. Congregational dinner and business meeting set for Wednesday March 31 at 6 30 p m with all members urged to attend.
Easter services at St Pauls Church begin with a 6 30 Sunrise Service featuring organ preludes hymns anthems and scripture readings with soloists duets and a communion observance. The 10 45 service continues with processional hymn doxology prayers and announcements followed by offertory hymns and a sermon with a solo and the sacrament of Holy Communion for newly confirmed congregants.
Leonard Fisk leads Sunday School at 9 30 for all ages. Morning Worship at 10 45 with Resurrection Morn organ prelude. Choir sings Unfold Ye Portals and Henri Gilbert performs Air. Easter Morn offertory and Sanc tus postlude. Dr Bond preaches The Immort ity of the Soul and An Easter Evening Walk. Epworth League meets 6 30 and sunrise service 6 30. Special music by quartet Christ Arose and Leaguers urged to attend.
Easter observances planned at St. John’s Lutheran Church with an English service at 9 45 and a German service at 11 led by Rev A Schroeder in a message stressing Jesus lives the Church lives and we shall live. The school remains closed for Holy Week and reopens next Tuesday. Rev Schroeder will fill in at Mr P 43 Schroeter’s hospital discharge through the term. Schroeder’s teaching record includes eleven years in public and parochial schools across North Dakota Wisconsin and Cleveland.
Church of Christ minister Will J Foster will preach Easter Sunday morning on The Great Adventure. Choir directed by Herman Gannett performs Calvary. Vocal trio items Victory and As It Began To Dawn. At 8 pm a drama St Claudia will be presented by a large cast including Claudia Jean Fridenstein Pi late Gannett Sergius Lazarus Wayne Burdue Marcus Bartimaeus Roger Williams Petronia Virginia Brunger Beulah DeEtte Burdue Simon Kenneth Young Shimeah Bob Chapman Eliezer Jack Ryan Miriam Leora Alexander Mary Magdalene Lucille Day Judas Iscariot Ray Brunger.
The Hungarian Reformed Church schedules a Sunday School treat by the Ladies Aid at 9:00 followed by an Easter church service at 10:00 with the pastor’s message I Know That My Redeemer Liveth. The choir will perform Beethoven and Holy Communion will be offered with newly confirmed receiving New Testaments. Additional services are set for 2:30 and 7:30 pm with a preparatory service at 7:00 pm and a closing Easter service Monday at 10:00 am.
Grace Lutheran church choir will sing two anthems at the Easter morning service. Sibelius composed O Morn of Beauty and R M Stults wrote As it Began to Dawn. Organ prelude by Mrs Wilford Block features Easter Morning by Baumgartner.
The church hosts a special Easter service Sunday morning led by Rev. E C Young with the organist Mrs A E Knapp and the choir under Miss Eleanor Gerstenberger providing music. In New York Hosanna Little Bernard McNeill joins St Vincent of Ferrer's choir in greeting Easter dawn.
Mr. Lewis L. McKibben delivers Easter message titled Saviorhood's Imperative at 10 13 a m with special music. Baptism and communion observed as church school meets at 930. The Junior choir aided by Mrs Elsie Scrivens and Mrs Emily Scrivens. anthem Hail the Morn of Mystic Beauty by R Huntington Woodman. Mrs W L Bodine is pianist and directs with Mrs Byam.
A service of prayer and meditation at 5 45 a m tomorrow opens Easter Sunday at Second Baptist Church. Rev Stewart will speak on The Lilies and Their Easter Message before Holy Communion. A 10 45 service titled The Resurrection and a 6 30 p m youth program Pastor Dawn are planned with a choir musical by F R Davis, director.
The Church of the Nazarene announces Sunday morning sermons on A Death Conquering Christ and in the evening on The Three Crosses. An Easter program will be given in connection with the Sunday School session. Sunday School convenes at 9 45 a m. The public is invited to attend.
The piece explains Easter falls on the Sunday after the first Paschal full moon after March 21, causing a possible 35 day spread from March 22 to April 25. It notes Lent’s length, Good Friday observances across faiths, and old heathen and regional customs including figs on Palm Sunday and spring lambs in Germany.
The Church of Christ Scientist presents Reality as the lesson subject to be read in all churches on Sunday March 28 1937. Golden Text from Psalms 99 1 proclaims God as our dwelling place through generations. Samuel 22 3 calls God strength and power making the way perfect. Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health cites divesting thought of false trusts to reveal spiritual fact.
A short devotional line speaks of the empty grave of Christ causing all who oppose the cross to turn away in undeniable distress and wonder.
Forty thousand people ascend Mount Davidson in San Francisco for Easter sunrise service. The image shows a large crowd around the base of a towering cross atop the hill.
The piece traces Easter customs linking the bunny to the moon and the hare’s symbolism of opening new life. It notes Egyptian meanings, German origins, and how foreign traditions compare hare legends to Santa Claus. It also recalls egg colors, spring symbolism, and White House egg rolling begun after the Civil War.
A compact note asserts that Christ is not among the dead but among the Hyvying, signaling a belief or phrasing tied to a religious or symbolic framework.
Vatican reports Pope Pius will make his first public appearance tomorrow since falling gravely ill in December. The Pontiff released a third encyclical urging clergy and laity in Mexico to intensify Christian practice and aid the needier, calling for church reform and collaboration to renew Catholic life.
The Easter story is staged daily at the Fels Planetarium Philadelphia with Golgotha depicted by elaborate lighting and Matthew read to music. The Dutch Bible Society plans the 300th anniversary of the Authorized Dutch Version with a cheap edition and a Dutch Speaking Bible for the blind. Gandhi dedicates a temple in Benares symbolizing religious unity. Oslo notes cross symbols on Scandinavian flags and US progress in religious instruction with 400 communities teaching in churches. Wisconsin bills school board exemptions.
A reflective piece extols Jesus as far surpassing worldly praise. It notes his words and deeds were often ignored in life, while his global influence and message endure. The few who valued him spread his name as he requested.
The fragment asserts that immortality grants eternal meaning to every action and experience, presenting a philosophical meditation on lasting significance beyond mortal life.
About three Knights Templar from Elyria Commandery under Commander Walter Kohn will attend the Easter Sunrise Service of the Knights Templar Seven District of Ohio at Cleveland Public Auditorium Sunday morning. Local group meets at Masonic Temple to ride by bus, service runs 6:30 to 6:55 AM and will be broadcast on WTAM. delegations from ten commanderies in the Seventh district participate. event open to the public.
Avon Lake students presented Elsie in Bookland a fairy tale revue in two acts for the lower grades and parents. Cast includes Elsie June Spachtholz and many named performers with roles from Cinderella Jack and Jill Hans Brinker and others. A chorus was sung by Marjorie Heider Jack Carroll Ann Brown Adaline Thomas Donald Biltz and Jack Zellers.
Mrs. Carl Pedersen attended a niece funeral at Bellevue on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. William Somerville spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Al Nuffer in East Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. John Jameson and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hubbard of Avon were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Foster Schenck.
Carlisle area families plan Easter Sunday visits with relatives in Elyria Oberlin Lorain Cleveland and Cleveland area. Guests include Gott Krebs Tusko Moran Saussler Anton Krebs Goodspeed Bailey Reisinger Wolf Arick Willen Grossman and MacDonald families with multiple generations attending any given gathering. The piece ends with a quote about immortality and the kind of life worth preserving.
A short Easter reflection notes Christ opening the other side of the grave and rising as life triumphs over death in the final fight, declaring victory on Easter Day.
A brief quotation attributed to Abbott declares immortality as a present possession and advocates living in the immortal life here and now.
A short religious remark asserts immortality as the glorious discovery of Christianity and describes the tomb as a gateway to endless opportunity. The quote frames eternal life as a prime spiritual prospect.
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