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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 31, 1927

Page

5

St Pauls Methodist Church to Mark Anniversary

The church observes its tenth anniversary with morning and evening services featuring pastors Dr Jamson Waterloo and Rev George Shaemarker. A program of testimonies and reminiscences by former members follows the sermons, with invitations extended to all previously connected individuals. Special college night at Grace Methodist Episcopal complete with lectures and musical numbers.

St. Pauls Methodist F Episcopal Church Jamson Waterloo Whine St Pauls Wall Shoemaker George Shae- Marker Iidng Wks Ralleall Mmem Bers George Woodall Grace Methodist Episcopal Church Roger Dooley Upper Town University Paul Whitford Cornell College Pearl McLean Town State Tercle ® College Kenneth Garrison Iown State Callene Roy Leslie Smith John Plank Independence University of Minnesota Wille Jennette Smit G. A. Boatman Mercy Seat Barnes A. Len Dr. Smith

Grace Parish Church Nights To Be Started

Grace Parish plans evening sessions for family study and fellowship at Calvary Evangeal church annual meeting follows at 2 pm Monday with reports and social time to conclude.

Grace Parish Calvary Evanecheal Church

A New Year Blessing in Faded Verse

A reflective verse-laden piece wonders about the old year and welcomes the new with mixed hope and sorrow. It wishes happiness, lasting luck, and strength to endure forthcoming tasks, while noting that a year brings both joy and burden and ends with a hopeful toast to a friend.

James Vandersall to Perform Violin at Evang l Vespers

Violinist James Y Vandersall a scholarship pupil of Professor Butler of the American Conservatory of Music Chicago will present a program of violin solos at a 4 pm Sunday vesper service at First Evangelical Church Vocal solos by M Faye Goodwin and Len Olson The choir under Mabel Bento Brown with Miss Luede Schmidt as organist Additional program details include selections by Kretsler Mendelssohn and Brahms and an offertory by Vandersall The service also features a sermon on The Passion to Be and antiphonal choral pieces by the Hawley era choir cards and a benediction by Rev Oliver AvaRay.

James Y. Vandersall Professor Butler American Conservatory of Music Chicago First Evangelical Church M. Faye Goodwin Len Olson First Evangelical Chor Mabel Bento Brown Wll Miss Luede Schmidt Pete T Hawley Processiaeny Tavernion O. M Yarey Adams J Lea Olaon Wiolin Tartinie Kretsler F Brahme Walse A Majoe James Yo Vandersutt Atthem the Radiant Mocs Watch Cree Woodward

Three Churches at La Porte Join in New Year Service

Three Viotesturt churches in La Porte will unite for a New Year service at the Presbyte lonlorraw evening. A special musical program is being arranged and there will be short talks by each pastor. Business places will be closed Monday for the holiday. Rural Carrier on Vacation. Cleans Simin, a rural carrier on route 3, has been granted a three months leave of absence, traveling with his mother to California.

eCuneie la Porte City eSurel Ibelon Ciean Simin Hattie Smith California Waterlon Onlie Tillingstey Simon Kerstetter Mr. Smith

Fragmented OCR poem fragment with garbled names and phrases

A damaged text fragment presents disjointed lines about fragrance, weather, and distant scenes. It mentions a scent and a distant sounding praise of God, with garbled proper nouns scattered through the verse. The overall sense is poetic and incomplete.

Christmas sermon praises Coolidge and the Christmas spirit

In New York on December 1 a rector lauded President Coolidge in a sermon. Rev Townsend praised the Christmas proclamation, urged active faith over passive blessing, and spoke of Christ as a partner sharing God s love. He noted many young men attended, home for holidays.

New York Coolidge de Lathey Townsend AH Angels Episcopal Church Christ Prometheus

Special New Year Services at Cedar Heights

Special New Year services begin tomorrow at Cedar Heights Christian churches and continue each evening except Saturday. The Womens Missionary Society presents Christ in America with music, and a series of sermons will be delivered by Rev W G Crowder Cedar Falls Rev Briere Giffen Waterloo Rev William P McCormick Westminster Cedar Falls Rev George F Barsalow Cedar Falls and Rev Thomas Niven First Presbyterian Waterloo Dor James A Taurle is minister at Cedar Heights.

Cedar Eoeriaa W. G. Crowder Cedar Falls Briere Giffen

Epworth League Talk on Heavens Open to Outsiders

Astronomy hobbyist Wyant will lecture tomorrow at 6 36 pm to the Epworth League at Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. Interested attendees are invited as the Wyants plan a California visit for study near Pasadena and continued telescope work.

Epworth League

Steeves Unveils Sermon Series At Walnut Street Church

Dr. Warren L. Steeves, pastor of Walnut Street Baptists, will start a sermon series on Our Earthly Home and Heavenly Home with a New Year topic Can I Make a Heaven on Earth in My Home. Series dates include Jan 8 15 22 and a session on Spiritualism and home life as the church reorganizes. An enrolment day and annual business meeting follow with elections and a social hour.

Warren L. Steeves Walnut Street Baptists Church Steevis Steevis Will Preach Tomorrow Morning On “the Supreme Mission of the Church J. S. Tuthili Board of Steeves

Immanuel Church To Hold Watch Night Services

Immanuel Tauberen church will conduct two communion services on New Year's Eve. Rev. AL H Semmann will preach in German at 7:30 p.m. and in English at 9 p.m. with Joshua 1:1-5 as text. The Walther league plans a gathering after the final service in the school auditorium before midnight.

Immanuel Tauberen AL. H. Semmann Walther League

Purses Held Up in Tate Harris Heavyweight Bout

Chicago reports promoter Jins-Pa Preba, acting boxing commissioner, ordered the purses of Bill Tate and rival Star Harris held up after a four round stalling dispute at the Coliseum last night. The action follows concerns over fair play and ring conduct in the scheduled title clash.

Bill Tate Chicago JINS Pai Preba Mimols Boxing Commission Fill ‘Tate Star Harris

Westminster Candle Service and New Year Sermons Begin

Westminster Presbyterian hosts a candle service at 7 30 pm with antiphonal singing and an all star program marking the start of St Mark's Episcopal ministry with Rev James G Creede at Waterloo events plus Rev Carl Lee Kenagy and Rev W O Chisholm leading sermons at various churches in town. The day features include hymns prayers and offertory duets as well as observed feast days and new year messages around town.

Westminster Presbyterian Church St. Mark’s Episcopal Church James G. Creede Carl Lee Kenagy W. O. Chisholm Westminster Church QC. Zion E. Snider-Turner Harold Miller W. P. McCormick Schnecker Br. McCormick Coombs Waterloo Charles City Creede First Baptist Sermion G. L. Kenaty Mr. Kenaty Buck van Dorcen Graves Memorial U. B E. W. Main Artis Elizabeth Anderson Munekres A. C. Kessler Hamblen P. m L. L Guyer Mawine Kessler

New Sources of Machine Power Given to Nation

A fragmented historical article fragment contemplates the emergence of new power sources shaping national progress. It argues that economic and political trends, rather than campaign calendars, determine the course of history, and notes that moments of apparent importance do not always retain their status over time. The piece reflects on how leaders and prophecy adapt to shifting contexts beyond neat yearly cycles.

Missionary hymn on Samoan island 1864 service

A century and a half after Watts wrote it, his hymn was used on Whit Sunday 1864 in Samoa where 5000 natives abandoned heathen chiefdoms to form a Christian government led by King George the Sabic amid a large gathering of islanders. The account recalls Watts as frail yet influential and notes the broader context of religious and political changes shaping the era.

Watts Samoan George the Sabic Pacific Island Ira Isaac Watts England Independent Church Queen Elizaeth Dr. Watts

Symagogue Service Bridges Christian and Jewish Understanding

In New York at Carnegie Hall Free Synagogue a joint service featured Rabbi Stephen S Wise and Rev. Joseph Wilson Cochran. Wise urged that Christmas offerings aid the American church in Paris while Cochran urged Christians to view Judaism with penitence and to atone for Christian misrule in history.

New York Stephen S. Wise Joseph Wilson Cochran Paris Carnegie Hall Wise Cochran Jesus Dr. Wise Christ Rome Dreyfus

Old Fiddle Maker Sings Over Dead Wood

A poem by Roming Fuller in the Lyric west celebrates an aging craftsman turning inert wood into a fiddle. He places Oregon maple and Canadian spruce into sun and stain, breathing life through burnish and varnish as the instrument gains tone and spirit. The verse evokes resurrection as dead timber awakens to music and craft.

Roming Fuller

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