Advent Services At St Andrew's Church
The first service at 7 30 A M includes Holy Communion followed by church school at 9 30 and morning prayer with sermon at 10 45 The day marks the first Sunday of Advent with reflections on Christ coming in past present and future The choir will perform the anthem The Night Before Christmas Young Peoples Fellowship meets at 7 30 with the younger group led by Ahe Leland Minch in the Guild room and the older group in the Choir room
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Malachi
Choi
Harker
Young Peoples Fellowship
Mmeets
Ti3u
Ahe Leland Minch
The
The Supreme Sacrifice Theme At Local Presbyterian Church
The pastor’s message theme The supreme sacrifice at First United Presbyterian Church promises a Bible school at 9 a.m with graded classes for all ages except adults. The adult class covers Christian fruitfulness June 1 1 16. Youth groups meet Wednesday at 7 30 p.m. A prayer service precedes the Bible School Cabinet monthly meeting. On Sunday December 4 at 1 45 a.m. the annual Thank Offering Service for missionary auxiliaries features Miss Lenora Scarlett, a long-serving missionary in China.
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Bile School Cabinet
Badelies
Hed
Lenora Scarlett
Chora
Sunday Services and Sermon Topics at Local Church
A Sunday schedule invites worshippers with sermons on Soldiers under Fire and Your Birthday, exploring Christian belief, plus evening discussion. Various church groups meet this week, including Junior Mission Study on Dec 6, Men’s Prayer in the pastor’s study, and youth meetings. Special services feature Rev Carl Hoover in place of the pastor and a midweek Psalm study with prayer and thanksgiving.
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Shanghai
Jetutia
Carl Hoover
Penfield Junction Baptist Church
Row
East Avenue
F. O Walford
Church of the Nazarene Sunday services announced
Sunday School will meet at 9 45 in the morning with the study Christian Fruitfulness. Morning worship follows with special music and an evangelist message. Evening service starts at 7 45 with hymn singing testimony and prayer before the evangelist preaches. Public invited.
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Tomeron
Church of the Nazarene
Fortieth Anniversary Service At Second Congregational Church
The Second Congregational church marks its fortieth founding anniversary with a Sunday worship at 10 45 led by Pastor Dr. A E Kemp with The Birthday of the Church as the message. Music includes The Lord of All and a solo God Shall Wipe Away All Tears. The Sunday school convenes at 9 50, youth fellowship at 6 30, and Miss Eleanor McKenzie will speak. A fellowship supper at 6 p m Tuesday precedes the program with Rev Herbert L Loomis and Dr Fred Hall as guest speakers.
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Second Congregational Church
A. E. Kemp
Fred Peace
God
Peery
Eleanor McKenzie
Herbert L. Loomis
Lorain
Fred Hall
Cleveland
Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday services scheduled
Regular schedule with Sunday School at 9 30 led by Leonard Fisk. Morning worship at 10 45 features Dr Bond resuming the Apostles Creed series with And In Jesus Christ His Only Begotten Son Our Lord. Choir to sing Soldiers of Christ Arise. Junior Church meets at 10 45 after address by the minister. Epworth League devotional at 6 30 with Judge Wilcox as speaker. Evening worship to follow.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
Leonard Fisk
Bond
Jesus Christ
Lord
Epworth League
Judge Wilcox
Services at First Congregational Church on Sunday Morning
Sunday School at 9 30 with worship for each department in its room. Nursery children 2 1/2 to 4 in Nursery room off Second Street Alley. Kindergarten 4 to 6 in Beginner's room end of hall. Primary grades meet in parlor. Junior 4th to 7th in Gates 100m. 8th grade and high school meet near the auditorium. Upper Room Bible Class in parlor. Good Will Bible Class in the Pastor's Study. Morning service at 10 45 led by Rev. William Murr Auld on Helps Toward Divine Gentility. Choir sings Stewart's O All Ye Works of the Lord with Mrs. Marjorie Kaley solo. Members and friends, especially those without a church home, welcome.
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First Congregational Church
Court
Second Streets
Second Street
William Murr Auld
Stewart
Lord
Marjory Kaley
First Church
Memorial service at St Pauls Evangelical Church
Sunday morning the church observes its annual memorial service with prominence for all called during the past year. Those bereaved are welcomed. The Sunday School meets at the usual hour and the Young Peoples League holds a devotional service at 6 45 PM led by Lars Pallas for the discussion.
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St. Paul's Evangelical Church
Young Peoples League
Lars Pallas
Minister Will J Foster to Speak on The Divisive Christ
Will J Foster of the Church of Christ is set to speak Sunday at 10 35 in the morning on the theme The Divisive Christ. The choir led by Russell Dunford will perform musical selections and Ralph Cole will oversee the Adult Bible school assembly program.
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Will J. Foster
Church of Christ
Russell Dunford
Ralph Cole
Bible School
Mr. Foster
Sunday Services at Second Baptist Church
Sunday at Second Baptist features a 9:30 Bible school with teachers at posts and a 10:45 morning worship led by deacons and young ministers. Special numbers include Have You Got Good Religion and The Old Rugged Cross, with Rev. Stewart preaching Sow ing and Reaping on themes of law, seed time, sowing to flesh or spirit, and reaping. At 3:30 p m Lorain Church of Lorain will join for worship led by Rev. W G McKenzie.
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Second Baptist Church
Second Baptist Sunday School
Old Rugged Cross
Stewart
Second Baptist Church of
Lorain
W. G. McKenzie
The Better Way Against Fear and Self Limitation
This passage argues that poverty and failure stem from self doubt and anxiety. It warns that fear of failure limits the mind and destroys creative potential, causing capable people to settle for mediocrity instead of aiming higher.
Let Your Religion Be Seen Lamps Shine On Mariners
A compact reflection by T. I. Cuyler on visible faith guiding ships at sea. The lamps of belief cast a steady, welcoming glow across waters, answering without words and guiding sailors toward safe harbors.
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T. I. Cuyler
Lorain County Church Histories Preserve South Ridge Roots
Lorain County churches show a long history for South Ridge, founded in 1560 and later reorganized. Services were German until 1907, then English as new generations formed, with a 1925 remodeling adding a large Sunday School basement. The church joined Brownhelm South Ridge in 1924 and remains a self supporting congregation with about seventy members and eighty in Sunday School.
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South Ridge
Onure
JS&3
Old Lake Circuit
Amherst
Lorain
Brownhelm
Lake Circuit
Oregon City churches run Sunday bus line for rural parishioners
The independent Sunday bus service operated by churches in Oregon City Oregon brings rural parishioners to worship. Each cooperating church pays forty eight cents per passenger carried. The winter months highlight the service as a great boon to city churches.
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Oregon City
Oregon
Gideons Present 9000 Bibles to Toronto Schools
Canadian law requires Bible reading in schools. The Toronto Board of Education obtained 9000 Bibles funded by the Gideons to supply every school. Jack Miner of Kingsville Ontario, a famed bird sanctuary owner and authority on birds, places a Scripture verse on a 1a¢ tag attached to geese that stop at his sanctuary twice yearly, spreading the Gospel among northern Indians and Eskimos. The Committee on World Friendship Among Children seeks to revive gifts from American children to Spain’s children, urging Sunday Schools to buy a suitcase for one dollar filled with sweaters and scarves. The American Friends Service Committee will distribute these suitcases to Spanish children regardless of parents’ politics.
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Toronto Board of Education
Gideons
Jack Miner
Kingsville
Ontario
Miner's Sanctuary
Committee On World Friendship Among Children
Spain
American Friends Service Committee
Religion courses gain popularity at University of Iowa
Dr. M W Lampe director says first semester enrollment reaches 875 25 up from 307 last year and nearly 200 higher than two years ago. Thirty courses offered this fall with Religion and Ethics most popular as the School of Religion marks its tenth year.
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University of Iowa
M. W. Lampe
School of Religion
Presbyterian Church News Launches Pageant Magazine
The Board of Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America announced a new monthly illustrated news magazine. The first issue of Pageant will be published in January 1938 and targets the entire church membership. It will cover world news with religious significance and church news with news value.
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Board of Christian Education
The
Presbyterian Church
United States of America
Oklahoma City's Halloween Frolic Aims For Safe Fun
Oklahoma City plans supervised celebrations in parks and playgrounds to replace fearsome pranks with organized games, parades, masks, costumes, and lanterns. Children eagerly join in, with prizes for best costumes and stunts, hoping for the most enjoyable Halloween in city history.
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Oklahoma
Test of True Christlikeness by Dr Stanley Jones
Church Forum records Dr Stanley Jones describing a friend who tests his faith by five core questions about truthfulness honesty purity love restraint and selflessness. He asks whether one can always tell the truth be trusted with money and reputation act with love under provocation guard against vanity and choose service over self.
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Stanley Jones
The peril of American democracy and youth religious illiteracy
A brief opinion underscores a concern about democracy in the United States tied to the religious illiteracy of its younger generation. It argues for increased civic and religious education to strengthen national civic life and moral framing.
Come To Church Next Sun Invitation Editorial
The piece argues religion as a social force rooted in life and community. It frames church as the organized expression of humanity’s religious life and urges readers to accept the invitation to attend worship next Sunday.
Wit and Wisdom Prophet It happened in Sunday school
A Sunday school teacher asked what a prophet is. A young pupil eagerly answered that a prophet is what her brother sells pencils for. The quip highlights a child's humorous misunderstanding of a religious term.
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Elijah
Christ Said Tam the Way the Truth and the Life Occasion
The user asks five biblical questions about sayings and events. The requested summary format requires concise, factual answers drawn from the provided source, but no source text is attached.
In his discourse at the last Supper
In his discourse at the Last Supper four fourteen years in his discourse at the Last the benediction is Gen. 31 9 and a was originally a witness between Laban and Jacob in Antioch in Pisidia
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Laban
Jacob
Antioch
Pisidia
Temperance Viewpoint on Drinking and Society
A collage of statements links moderate drinking to shortened life expectancy and higher defect rates in offspring, while abstainers show more normal children. It claims many social diseases stem from alcohol, notes unemployment for drinkers, and criticizes beer as promoting violence and sloth. It ends with a religious warning about liquor in Christian homes.
P T A Adopts Playground Equipment Fund Drive
At the Camden P T A meeting the group voted to fund a project purchasing playground and Home Economic equipment. Committees were appointed for monthly activities to raise the necessary funds, listing members for December through May.
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Harry Ludlam
Jennie Prosser
Albert Hinderer
Thanksgiving News Clapp Hosts Dinner Guests
Mr and Mrs D J Clapp entertained at Thanksgiving dinner with A J Starchbill and children, Mrs Hannah Edwards, Clyde Capp and family, and other relatives.
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D. J. Clapp
Mra
A. J. Starchbill
Hannah Edwards
Clyde Capp
Thanksgiving Day Guests From Elyria and Surrounding Areas
A long list of Thanksgiving visitors gathered at Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Brumby and at other local homes. Elyria residents Harold Starkey and family. Floyd Draper. Gust Mathes of South Amherst. Dorig Brehm and sons. Claude Clapp. Carl and Roland Smith and families from Welington and Berea. Harold Smith of Detroit. Victor Myers family. Rose Mae Worthington. Kenneth Beam and Dale. Richard Miller and Maxine. Forest Hill. Guy Morgan and Homer Edwards. Esther Calkins of Canton. Fred Losey of Akron. Nelle Obitts. William Brumby. Perkins and Frances. L. F. Whitney. Arthur Hiard. Robert Elbert and daughter. Charles Lucas of Fremont.
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Harold Starkey
Floyd Draper
Elyria
Gust Mathes
South Amherst
Dorig Brehm
Claude Clapp
Dean Morgan
Carl Smith
Welington
Roland Smith
Berea
Harold Smith
Detroit
Victor Myers
Arthur Booth
Rosemae Worthington
Kenneth Beam
Dale
Henrietta
Richard Miller
Maxine
Forest Hill
Guy Morgan
Homer Edwards
Esther Calkins
Canton
Fred Losey
Akron
Nelle Obitts
William Brumby
Mr. Perkins
Frances
Thanksgiving visits and home improvements noted in local notices
Mr and Mrs Theodore May drill a gas well on their farm. Akron guests George Murphy and sons visit Mr and Mrs H B Cook for Thanksgiving. Charles Bayless and son Charles Jr visit daughter and husband W K Howard in Cleveland for Thanksgiving. Nat Ladd updates home with furnace and bath. Chalmer Betts visits Eldon Radcliffe in New London for Thanksgiving. Wilson Vietzen and son visit D J Clapp in Elyria. Wilson Waterhouse guests Elmer Garber for Thanksgiving. Wakeman couple L A Burk and Charles Bayless with son dine with Wendell Bayless in Cleveland for Barbara Lou Bayless second birthday. Wendell Bayless and Barbara Lou visit parents Charles Bayless in Cleveland.
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Theodore May
George Murphy
Akron
Jack Cook
Lorain
H. B. Cook
Charles Bayless
Charles Jr
W. K. Howard
Cleveland
Nat Ladd
W. F. Betts
Chalmer
Eldon Radcliffe
New London
Wilson Vietzen
Elyria
D. J. Clapp
Wilson Waterhouse
Elmer Garber
L. A. Burk
Quotes on character and virtue from notable thinkers
A compilation of aphorisms stressing duty, energy, integrity, and measured living. It links ideas from Ly man Abbott Goethe Emerson and others, urging personal responsibility, moral conduct, and the power of ideals over mere wealth or status.
Ancient and Modern New Cromancy Denounced Sermon at CME Churches
The Leusen Sermon to be read in all Churches of Christ, Scientist on Sunday November 28, 1937 centers on denouncing ancient and modern witchcraft and mesmerism. It cites biblical verses from Proverbs Isaiah and emphasizes mercy, truth, pardon, and the divine energy of Spirit bringing new life.
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Churches of Christ
Scientist
Mary Baker Eddy
Dr Wager to Speak at LaPorte Church
Carlisle report that Dr Vernon W Wager District Superintendent will preach at LaPorte M E Church Sunday 11 15 A M. High school Young People’s Choir will sing and Sunday School directed by C F Whitney meets at 10 15 A M. Ruskin quote ends the note.
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Carlisle
Thomas Hughes
LaPorte M. E
Vernon W. Wager
Young People’s Choir
C. F. Whitney
Hope as a winged prayer to heaven
A reflective line extols hope as a wing lifting prayers to divine grace, signaling enduring faith and spiritual ascent through celestial imagery attributed to Jeremy Taylor.
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Jeremy Taylor
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