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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1936
Page
2
Sunday church schedules cover multiple congregations with morning services, Sunday schools, and rehearsals. The Church of Christ reports Bible school, youth groups, morning worship, and Communion. First Baptist lists sermons and choir music. Nazarene and other churches advertise evangelistic series beginning next week with Rev. George Galloway, plus prayer meetings and special events.
A compact moral note cites Chaucer on idleness as the gateway to vice. It warns that an idle person is defenseless like a wallless house, inviting mischief on all sides.
The German United Evangelical Church of Elyria formed on October 16 1872 with 24 members. It built a new church and underwent several pastorates before Rev Ernst Irion began in 1929. The congregation now numbers about 450 with multiple active groups including Ladies Aid Union Men’s Brotherhood Evangelical League Sunday School and choir.
Reverend William Francis Clay, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene in Elyria for three years, previously spent 18 months in evangelistic work. He cites Christ like living as life’s greatest gift and the Apostle Paul as a model of faith. Influences include Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. He lives at 419 Cleveland Street, married January 31, 1934 to Miss Ferme Yerver. they have one daughter.
The congregation invites members of associated organizations to join. Regular prayer and Bible study are set for Wednesday at 7 30 pm. New officers and committee chairs for the Men's Missionary League will be installed Monday evening. The pastor will preach a Pentecostal message The Open Road to God. The choir will sing an anthem and Mrs Nine Ramser, church organist, will play an offertory solo. Sunday School at 9. Adult classes study Luke 19. Intermediate and Senior Christian Endeavor meet at 6 pm. Junior topic How We May Worship God. Senior Group will dramatize a Linwood Conference program with Alex Eschke in charge. Sunday Night Club at 7 15 Burton Boynton will arrange the evening service. All are invited.
At a church prep moment a deacon answered a knock to find a tramp seeking food. He cut two loaves and spoke sternly, turning the encounter into a lesson on brotherliness during the Home Education conference tale.
The article argues that worship needs a definite place beyond nature and home. It emphasizes that Jesus worshipped in the temple and urges readers to follow his example by attending church next Sunday for organized, communal worship and education.
The May 17 1936 Church of Christ Scientist weekly lesson sermon centers on Mortals and Immortals with the Golden Text from First Corinthians and Ecclesiastes interpreted in Christian Science terms. A public quiz asks six Do You Know questions with answers covering biblical figures Elkanah Amos the prophet the way of the ungodly and the Hexateuch.
Elyria's First United Presbyterian Church will host the Men’s Missionary League meeting at 7:30 p m on Monday with Dr Robert Wilson Thompson of the Synod of Winds United Presbyterian Church as speaker His talk titled The Climate of Missions will address church work promotion and mission contacts Thompson a Monmouth Ilinois native graduate of Monmouth College and Menlo Theological Seminary has served on church committees and written Sunday School lessons for a syndicate and farm magazine Guests from the Women’s and Young Women’s Societies will attend as invited observers
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