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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1927
Page
12
Editor G S Schaller will speak at the concluding union service in Lincoln Park with Plymouth Congregational providing music. Morning sermons cover unity in Christ, leadership, and prosperity across Grace Methodist Episcopal Walnut Street and other churches. A children’s story and pageant are planned.
Rev. Robert R. Wicks urged at the Collegiate Reformed Church of St Nicholas Fifth Avenue and Forty eighth street that American life suffers from secularism and materialism. He contrasted a student’s pursuit of fun with a founder’s sense of worthwhile life, noting modern ease erodes purpose and the will to strive.
In St Patrick's Cathedral Rev Robert Woods urges the faithful to seek solitude and contemplation away from crowds. He says ten minutes of real thought can make a saint of any person, warning that crowded clamor dulls the conscience and distracts from God's truth.
The poem contrasts urban clamor wealth and clockwork with nature’s calm. It laments crowded streets, rising steel, and the narrowing of beauty and thought as cities grow. Yet in green fields the mind finds tenderness and life’s enduring messages. Readers glimpse a plea for balance between progress and nature.
Aug 27 New York The Rev Dr Jason Noble Pierce pastor of First Congregational Church Washington DC speaks as guest preacher at West End Presbyterian Church Amsterdam Ave 105th St Aug 21 on why the president may not run for re election He rejects claims social duties or safety concerns keep Mrs Coolidge from seeking another term He lauds her influence at home notes Sacco Vanzetti case and warns about leadership danger urging leaders to lead by example not merely direct others
New York Aug 27 Bishop Irving P Johnson of Colorado delivers a sermon at St John the Divine asserting that moral law underpins life and that philosophy cannot replace religion. He cites Balfor and argues God’s kingdom is not a mechanistic creation but alive with the spark of life.
In a New York sermon Dr. Harry Lathrop Reed, president of Auburn Theological Seminary, urged a fuller understanding of long temper. He stated many temper adjectives are uncomplimentary, but long temper embodies faith courage and cheerfulness, guiding one through life with steadiness.
Mr and Mrs Sylvester Howell at Allen Memorial hospital Aug 23 have a daughter Patricia Anne. Mr and Mrs Paul Hathaway at 319 Seventh street west Aug 25 have a daughter. Mr and Mrs Clarence H Gragy at 220 Kingsley Aug 24 have a son Robert Harvey. Mr and Mrs Alex Morkel at 118 Wilby Aug 21 have a son Edwin Alex. Mr and Mrs Everett Smith at 842 Lime have a daughter Anna Mae. Mr and Mrs Nels Rasmussen at 156 Harrison Aug 9 have a daughter. Mr and Mrs Harry Kelley at 1318 Conger Aug 17 have a daughter Gloria Inez. Mr and Mrs Roy D Klepper at 217 Williston Aug 18 have a son William Keith. Mr and Mrs John L McKenna at Buckingham Ia Aug 14 have a daughter Mable Kathryn. Mr and Mrs Gorman W Roberts at 210 South May 30 have a daughter Shirley Arlene. Mr and Mrs James B Margritz Seek township July 31 have a son John William.
Rev. J. A. Laurie will preach at 11 a.m. on The Source and Secret of Rest, from Psalm 23. His children’s talk is Off to School Again. Mrs. C. A. Fedderson will sing. Evening services resume next week.
Charter Oak Iowa August 27 Rev H Farms Davenport was elected president of the Town district of the Lutheran Missouri Synod for a three year term at yesterday's conference. C H Dabker Hastings and A G Illen Marcus were named vice presidents.
Rev A P Blough preaches at a 7 45 p m union service at First Methodist with Karl Zell Hoefer singing Grateful Am I O Lord and a mixed quartet performing Comes a Stillness The series of union sermons continues Northminster Presbyterian features Russell A McCormac on The Ever Open Door with a duet Raise Me Jesus to Thy Bosom and a women's chorus future topic The Christian Worker Rev Dutton Jacobs guest speaker at First Presbyterian on What Every Person Should Demand of His Religion Mrs A M Donnan sings a hymn solo First Methodist holds regular services with Dr W G Crowder delivering the morning sermon at 11 C Albert Scholin on organ and Mrs George Shoemaker singing First Church of Christ Scientist topics Christ Jesus First United Presbyterian morning sermon The Palms The Multitude The Throne Central Christian Elder Son and Trinity American Lutheran Invisible Foes First Baptist notes no preaching Sunday school as usual
Poem excerpt from the Chicago Evening Post by a Newcomer contemplates summer’s passing and its subtler offerings. It contrasts graceful natural imagery with impatience for deeper feeling and mentions thistle dance shadows poplars rose dawns and crickets in a romantic mood.
John Moore, a New York businessman, travels to Tucson on a deal, swaps identity with his associate Morton, and ends up in Mexico with Ruth Henshaw and her uncle. In a tense scene at a ranch, Moore risks exposure as several men arrive while he urges Ruth to introduce him as Mr. Moore of New York, then confronts the mounting danger and moral compromises.
A poem by Tda M. Thomas in the Household Magazine describes a tree offering shelter and benediction. It speaks of gathering courage, bearing daily burdens, and finding peace in nature during life’s storms and starry nights.
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