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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 16, 1929

Page

10

Anniversary Observances for Allen Memorial Hospital

Fourth anniversary observances at Allen Memorial Hospital include a 5 o clock vesper service at First Evangelical church with Rev W C Lang delivering the main address. Morning and evening services across Cedar Falls churches feature sermons, choirs, solos, and Holy Communion, led by pastors from First Lutheran First Presbyterian St Pauls M E Walnut Street Baptist Ammanuel Lutheran and others with special music and local mission activities.

Allen Memorial Hospital First Evangelical W. C. Lang Western Old Peppie Cedar Falls Clinton South Nuries Clinton FL Smith J. A. Haehlen Cedar Fails St. Paul's M. E Thomas P. Shaffer von Berg Negin Walnut Street Baptist Calvary Evangelical E. R. McClerland

Two Roses Under Shared Sun and Rain

A poem by Edger A. Guest compares two roses grown identically yet diverging in growth and beauty. one strong and tall, one frail, raising a question about why humans similarly vary despite equal care. The piece ponders hidden causes behind good and bad in life.

Bishop Shipman Urges Personal Religious Duty at Confirmation

In New York on February 16 the suffragan bishop of New York urged greater individual responsibility in the St Matthew and St Timothy church service. He condemned passive parishioners and warned that treaties and leagues fail without personal effort to spread love and goodwill, calling for a cult of optimism despite hard Christian duties.

New York Herter Shipman Protestant Episcopal Church of St. Matthew and St. Timothy West Eighty-fourth Street Shipman

Presbyterians of Black Hawk County Banquet

Presbyterians of Black Hawk county will hold their annual fellowship dinner on Friday March 1 at Black's Tearoom. Dr Selden Haynes from the national board of Christian education will be the speaker. W P McCormick and Thomas R Niven will arrange the program and L E Larsen leads the coordinating committee. Representatives span five congregations including Cedar Falls United Presbyterian Barclay township La Porte City Cedar Heights Community Presbyterian First Westminster Northminster East Park and United Presbyterian in Waterloo.

Black Hawk County Black Follo First Cedar Falls United Presbyterian Barclay Township la Porte Cid Cedar Heights First Westminster Northminster East Park Waterloo

Broadening life through charity and self reflection

In a sermon at Church of St Paul the Apostle Father William Finn urged New Yorkers to escape egocentric living. He warned that narrow personal horizons breed smugness and hinder lasting achievement. He urged embracing faith hope and charity as liberators to widen horizons and enrich life.

Finn

Doubt as Test for True Belief Lecture in Princeton NM

Dr. George A. Butterick of Madison Avenue Presbyterian preached at Princeton University Chapel that faith rests on conquering doubts. He urged honest acknowledgment and testing of doubts, arguing faith goes deeper than theology and that doubt strengthens belief. He warned against certainties devoid of challenge.

Princeton George A. Butterick Madison Avenue Presbyterian New York Princeton University Butterick

Hymns of the Sea Pioneer Dr Hopper and Pilot Me

The article recalls Dr Hopper, New York City pastor to sailors, author of sea themed hymns. It notes his hymn Jesus Saviour Pilot Me as his finest work, written after 1870, and mentions his New York church service, Union Theological education, and sudden death at his desk while writing about Heaven.

Dr. Hopper New York City Jesus New York Altho Union Theological Seminary Presbyterian Church Nils Ariting Heaven Jash

Fireside Church Services Across Several Congregations

A series of fireside sermons and programs Sunday at First Baptist Westminster Presbyterian and other churches features novelties such as an electric fireplace pulpit shift. The day includes sermons on The Covered Wagon and The Deadening Influence of False Pride, choir selections, and a mock Anti-Saloon League event.

First Baptist Church Westminster i Presbyterian Westminster W. BP. McCormick Harold F. Miller Athurst Holy City Gaul Rogers Church of Christ Scientist Saul Jesson Churches of Christ Earth Heaven Matthew C. J. Kenagy Nevin First United Presbyters Anti-Saloon League W. O. Chisholm TWU Union Congregational Alice J. Boyer Anti-Saloon League of Iowa C. ¥. Lannholm Trinity American Lutheran Heddin Arline Peters MM. E. Dr. S&s. P. McNaught Lawrence Hutson Waller Graves Waring- Meredith Central Christian Alice Boyer McBlain First Brethren C. Dana Reed Des Moines

Special Series of Lenten Sermons at First Cong'l

Dr J Richmond Morgan, pastor, announces a Lent series on Persistent Religious Questions. Opening sermon asks What is Right with the Churches? Mari dates outline a schedule covering March themes on biblical criticism, conduct principles, spirit religion, life choices, atonement, and immortality. Vesper bate tentative. midweek theme Great Hours in the Life of the Master. Choir and soloists contribute, with a sturgical vesper at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning.

J. Richmond Morgan Morgan Buck Fred McClain Burton Gotshall Stainer

Grant Me This K and the Three Words of Fate

The fragment presents a poetic prayer by John Edward Allen seeking bliss and bold life beyond heartache and envy. It imagines daily ventures, intense ecstasies, and time’s loom extracting the sinews before declaring the life’s culmination through three words of farewell.

Pate John Edward Allen

New York Skyscraper Church Uses Setback Light Plan

The parish house of the Church of the Heavenly Rest on Fifth Avenue near Central Park uses stepped setbacks to admit daylight between towering walls. The $3,500,000 church group aims to keep the east window free from shadow, with light diffused through cloistered passages and a carved doorway leading to the Beloved Disciple chapel.

New York Church of the Heavenly Rest of the Beloved Disciple Fifth Avenue Central Park New York City

All the World's a Stage By Emr Bet

A quirky fiction piece set in a school entertainment scene. Observations shift between couples families and orderly adults highlighting everyday life, social norms, and minor comic exchanges. The narrative follows mothers pupils and a minister in a small community.

Emr

Minister Declares Women Gain Respect Entering Business World

New York February 16 Rev Thomas H Whelpiey of Chelsea Presbyterian praised working women in a sermon noting they reflect credit upon themselves and their sex. He urged that women entering modern business and industry earn respect without losing honor and Boaz love. He hailed the working girls brigade and their rightful place in the economy.

New York Thomas H. Whelpiey Chelsea Knayline Working Girls’ Brigade

Camels for a girl and disapproving onlookers

An 18 year old girl asked for cigarettes in a store. The proprietor confirms stock and the group buys a small box of matches to light their Camels. Two men nearby comment aloud about their views on seeing young women in the store.

Donnell and Beers Will Attend State Legion Conference

A. D. Donnell commander of Beck er-Chapman post and Glenn Beers adjutant will attend the annual conference of post commanders and adjutants of the Tews department next Friday at Des Moines. Paul V. McNutt national commander will speak. he is noted as a rapid rise figure in American public life and a former dean of Indiana University Law School.

A. D. Donnell Becker-Chapman Post American Legion Glenn Beers Tews Des Moines Paul V. McNutt Law College San Antonio

Fragmented verse from unknown author seeks resolve

A fragmented, archaic sounding poem speaks of perseverance, open minds, fresh ideas, and forgiveness. It mentions thoughts on work, belief, and heavenly joys, with oblique references to forgotten names and a possibly garbled signoff.

Christianity in the modern world reshapes global leadership

New York on February 16 Rev. C. L. Goodell of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America preached that Christianity has progressed to a point where choosing Christ over any other belief is essential, noting many east leaders were trained in Christian institutions. He warned that some academics overstate sin’s obsolescence, urging unity through conferences to promote universal peace.

New York Christ Confucius Gautama Mohammed East Chins Sre America Geordell Dr. Goodell Goodell

St Mark's Opens Lent with Men's Service Sunday

St Mark's begins Lent with a morning service themed Life and Passion of Our Divine Lord led by J G Creede. The first service focuses on Jesus Christ True Man with further talks on The Last Supper and St Johns Queens, Pilate, and the church's history through to the Reformation and the Church of England.

J. G. Creede Jesus Christ St. Johns Pilate Jesus Christ the

Lent as fasting for Easter feast explored by clergyman

New York Feb 18 Rev Richard Townsend Henshaw rector of Christ Church Ry a N Y told a Cathedral of St John the Divine sermon that Lent is a fasting season for Easter. He said Lent is misunderstood as melancholy and urged preparation to heighten the Feast and joy. He warned that Lent would be dull without a fast and proper preparation.

New York Richard Townsend Henshaw Christ Church Rya N. Y Cathedral of St. John

St. Mark's Lent Policy Riles Episcopal Members

The rector of St. Mark's declares no outside clergy will be invited to preach during Lent and will not accept extra parochial invitations. All Episcopal members observe Lent as fast days, with Fridays and Wednesdays as abstinence days.

America Amertcan

Giant Business Trusts to Form Basis of Address

A universalist service at the Universalist church Sunday morning features Rev. Conald B. Rheiner delivering “The Giant Without a Soul” drawn from the federal trade commission power corporate inquiry. The service includes poems and readings from Zangwill Words and Wakefield Slaten Percival Chubb with a choir and solo pieces. no evening service.

Universalist Church Conald B. Rhelner Israel Zangwill Wakefield Slaten Percival Chubb Rheiner

Boy With One Leg Regrets Summer Swim

Improvement notable in 13-year-old Glenn Franks of Manchester after a freight train accident left his right leg crushed, necessitating amputation. He lies in St Francis hospital with his family visiting on Valentine’s Day, and remains cheerful despite the loss to his upcoming swimming season.

Glenn Franks George Franks Manchester St Francis Hospital Siwimmin

Pharaohs Daughter to Be Repeated at Westminster Church

The second presentation of Pharaohs Daughter, a biblical play, will be Sunday evening at 1 30 in Westminster Presbyterian church. The production, sponsored by the Westminster Drama league, opened last Sabbath and was well received. Mrs Maxine Potters played Princess Amartu-Ra, priestess of Isis, a part omitted from the Courier review.

Westminster Drama League Westminster Presbytectert Church Thiru Maxine Potters Amartu-Ra Isis Courier

Ben Hur matinee plan ends in broken promise

In a weekly Evening Courier column on home education, Martha and Kathie plan to see Ben Hur for Lincoln's birthday. Kathie’s mother, Mrs Miller, overrides a prior arrangement, saying Kathie will go with another girl. Martha confronts the breach, realizing a cherished promise has been broken and trust damaged.

Martha Racine Neve Lfe Picture House Lincoln Katherine Kathie Littl Martha Enters, Mrs. Miler Mother Ben Hur Kathle Miller Daddy Mr. Miller Papa Mrs. Miller

Early training urged by Missouri Wesleyan leader

D L Dalke head of education stresses that the preschool child is our greatest undeveloped resource. He argues theory must become practice and that children should be trained early to develop their potential.

D. L. Dalke Department of Education Missouri Wesleyan College

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