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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1927
Page
17
Readings and choirs fill morning services as churches plan Christmas programs. Revivals, cantatas, and processions highlight Advent themes with offerings to hospitals and charities. Services feature hymns, solos, and nativity pages across First Presbyterian St Pauls Methodist East Park Sunrise and other congregations.
The poem recalls Caesar Augustus issuing a census that brings Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem. The inn is crowded and a stable becomes the birthplace of Jesus. Angels proclaim the birth as God’s decree and shepherds arrive to witness the infant Prince of Peace.
Special Christmas music will be featured by Free Methodist and Spiritual Church of Christ Truth while Rev J W Whiteside preaches Good Tidings in the morning and The Way of Salvation in the evening with singing at both services The Spiritual Church of Christ Truth presents The Supreme Gift by Rev Sophie F Smakey tomorrow evening with the annual candlelight service at 745 pm
Combined choirs present a cantata The Christ Child under Mabel Benton Brown at 4 p m Sunday with organist Alene Raecker. Soloists include Luelle Gruener Ruth Gruener Ben Waterfield and Victor Zellhoefer. Rev O M Yaggy preaches The World's Pilgrimage to Bethlehem.
The Universalist church schedules a Christmas service at 11 A M with an organ prelude and choir selections. Readings include arrangements of carols and hymns such as Ring Out We Bells and The Coming of the Angels, led by John Cutler and Roy Wourden with choir.
Sermon at Park Avenue Baptist argues science cleanses the mind and challenges belief in an unscientific charity God. Fosdick calls for a new faith in God and humanity, contrasting science with traditional religion and urging personal commitment beyond mere prayer.
Members of Chaves Memorial United Brethren church and Sunday school schedule a full day of events. Morning carol singing for shut ins at 6 30, Sunday school at 10, a morning worship pageant at 8, and an evening pageant of peace The Way arranged by Ethel Gesner Rockwell to be presented by all Sunday school groups under Truman DeRonane with assistants.
A story cantata titled An Open Heart will be featured at Linden Methodist Episcopal Church Christmas evening. Music by the choir with Miss Ethel Montgomery on piano. Special numbers by Mrs Will Montgomery W M Perry and boys as shepherds. Pastor Rev Joseph Yates preaches No Room for Jesus. Cast includes Mirinin Eva Teapinuys Nathaniel Orval Brooks Deborot Mtre Oo MW Perry and others with shepherds and Bethlehem children.
Central Christian church hosts a cantata The Incarnation featuring The Birthday of No King and various excerpts. Soloists and choirs including Mrs. W. Miller Mrs. Dicker and others perform with mixed chorus sections and instrumental accompaniment in a morning service.
Cedar Heights Community Presbyterian will hold morning worship at 1 o clock led by Rev A Laurie D D with theme Keeping Christ in Christmas. Children will discuss Christmas abroad. Evening service at 730 features The Prince of Peace.
Waterloo churches prepare varied Christmas programs including sermons on The Disturbing News Messiah and The Star of Bethlehem. Westminster, First Methodist, First Baptist, Northminster, First Congregational, and others host cantatas, solos, and choir selections with multiple soloists and instrumentalists.
The First Baptist Church schedules a Christmas program at 7 30 p m with Prof G W Samson Jr and the choir. The program features Processional Hark the Herald Angels Sing Silent Night and The Shepherd interludes and concludes with The Glory Organ postlude and the Glory.
New York December 24 Dr Charles F Wishart president of the College of Wooster defines optimism as the key to life rooted in Christ. He argues Christianity moves from darkness toward uplift while pessimism drains vitality and progress has survival value.
The article recounts how the Christmas hymn born from a Bethlehem journey in 1885 gained life. Dr. Brooks recollects the moment as he pondered the nativity while traveling in the Holy Land. Organist Redner jotted the tune that Saturday night and the carol became a staple in Sunday services.
In Chelsea and at Trinity Lutheran Church addresses, Rev Dr Christian P F Reisner and Dr Ernest Brennecke extol Charles Lindbergh and Jesus Christ as guiding forces. Reisner links Lindbergh’s skill to faith and obedient living, while Brennecke argues Christ’s gospel remains the universal truth guiding civilization beyond ridicule.
Rev Dr Waller Buchanan of Broadway Presbyterian preached on Christian unity versus individual humility stressing that Presbyterian differences are secondary to following Christ. He urged believers to end shibboleths and pursue humility, warning against forcing uniformity and urging prayer for the unity of Christ’s spirit.
A reflective verse note on life and love contrasts danger and delight with wit and gentle moral tone. It celebrates escape from debt and restraint and finds wisdom through experience, advising cautious, self controlled living while cherishing lightness and laughter.
Bethel Prayer league has completed a free standing prayer room adjoining Wiliare hal. No fundraising or collections were conducted yet the dedication marks decades of quiet, global outreach. The league operates without denomination or formal leadership and sends letters of comfort to those in trouble. Rev. Kellard leads this nonsectarian effort, with services on Sundays and weekday gatherings, funded by voluntary gifts. Lectures on the Holy Land by Tom M Olson will be hosted at Gospel hall 126 Western Ave on Dec 27 29 and 4 with free admission.
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