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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1924
Page
9
A full day of church services features visiting speakers including Harry Kremers and L A Meyers with programs at First Baptist Westminster Presbyterian Christ Episcopal and Grace M E Churches. The morning offers organ renditions and special anthems while evening services include sermons on faith crosses and naturalization in church and multiple musical numbers by choirs orchestras and guest organists.
William Jennings Bryan argues the ten commandments form a universal legal and moral foundation. He warns against modern idol worship such as greed and ease, urges Sabbath observance, and emphasizes duties to God, family, and neighbor. He cites biblical history and moral consequences of disobedience, urging society to uphold virtue and protect life, home, and reputation.
The article lists morning and evening sermons and musical offerings at churches including First Presbyterian, First Congregational, St Pauls M B, First Evangelical, Central Christian, United Presbyterian, Universalis, Union Congregational, Trinity American Lutheran, Christian Science, East Park Presbyterian, and Plymouth Congregational. Highlights mention sermons on The Tragedy of Uzzah, What Men Live By, The Master Interpreted, and The Unearthly Christ, plus choirs, solos, and an Enid Rasmussen polar dash film during services.
The article describes instruction for school telephone operators in a local exchange in Sycamore and Phiri streets. It notes methods to pronounce numbers clearly, emphasizing training to produce cheery distinct voices, emergency handling, and the standard question and reply formulas used to assist callers and route lines.
Edwin Stanley Seder, director of the organ department at Worth Western University, will play the dedicatory program on the Childs Memorial organ at First Baptist Church on Tuesday evening. Seder, organist at First Congregational Church, presides over the largest pipe organ in the Midwest and is a noted American Guild of Organists fellow. The organ, donated by Mrs Eleator Childs in memory of her parents and husband, will see its first public worship tomorrow with simple hymns before the formal dedication.
Rev J B Phelps is the new pastor at Mt Carmel Baptist Church 202 Sumner succeeding Rev El Handy who left Waterloo weeks ago. Phelps, a former state evangelist, led the colored Baptist church at Fort Dodge. Services include Sunday school 9 45 am preaching 11 00 am B Y P LU 6 20 pm and evening worship 7 45 pm at 13 Mobile Street.
A late Cy. Warman poem fragment describes a night journey by engine with signals flashing white and red. The speaker wonders what lies beyond, invoking death and fate as the run nears its end while rail lamps burn.
A 1931 report notes a Ontario murder case where a man aged 22 confessed after years of denial, despite a religious background. The article reflects on fear, conscience, and fearlessness as factors shaping moral judgment, citing dated perspectives on guilt and repentance.
Brand Whitlock portrays a small Ohio town in the eighties in J. Hardin and Son, a realist novel mixing letters and politics. The narrative centers on John Hardin and his son Paul amid Puritan standards, prohibition conflicts, and a lovelorn arc ending in tragedy.
The Times reviews a fiction comparing it to Silas Lapham and Theron Ware while noting its challenge to recent "Man Sleets" and likening the author to Willa Cather in vision and execution. The piece lauds its genuine value, independence from earlier leisured styles, and vivid craftsmanship.
E details show First Brethren church hosting a school of religious education February 4 3. The event targets readers teachers and parents with three evening sessions at 545 735 and 815. Supper served 630. Faculty includes Walt Hutton O G Herbrecht Leo Smith from Des Moines Mrs Louis Aten Chicago and Miss Elizabeth Dean Newton Ia. Organizations aiding the school include the Superintendent's association Mint kevin association and Black Hawk County Sunday School association.
Trinity Lutheran church in Marshalltown Iowa has ended the use of Swedish in worships, shifting to exclusive English services. The change follows a 1933 yearend vote by the congregation, aligning with the long duration of English use since the church’s founding over six decades ago.
Sigourney Iowa Jan 26 Ed Needham editor of the Keckut County News is being urged for the state commandership of the Grand Army of the Republic which will convene next summer at Marshalltown Needham is 84 years old.
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