Wise, Choice Sermon at Union Service Across Town
Multiple churches announce sermon topics for the coming union services and Sunday worship. Rev. William Hardcastle plans The Goodness of God at Plymouth Congregational, with choir, solos, and violin numbers by local musicians. Other churches schedule sermons on The Way To The Father, How To Prosper, and Overcoming Evil, with varied choirs, solos, and instrumental pieces.
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William Hardcastle
Plymouth’ Congregational Church
First “Presbyterian Church
Jack Patterson
Cortege
Miller
Norma Gaiser
Mendelssohn
Margaret Miller
Ettabelle Storer
Will Siag
Schubert-Smith
Miss Margaret
First Presbyterian
Thomas R. Niven
H. Laynton- Powers
Norma E. Gaiser
Elizabeth Green
Christ. Episcopal
Don M. Gary
Waterloo
Gary
B. Mounsey
Bethel Prayer Heague
Ninth Street
Hawthorne Avenue
East Park
Carmel Baptist
Trymouth Congregational
Calvary Evangelical
Quarterly meeting of Washington Twp chapel scheduled
Washington Township news notes a quarterly conference and business meeting at the chapel on Tuesday evening July 16 led by Dr W L Duncan of Des Moines. Sunday evening services will be suspended due to the O E convention at Cedar Falls. Ladies Aid society to meet at Mrs Harvey Chaney’s home Wednesday afternoon July 17.
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Courier
Washington Township
W. Ll. Duncan
Des Moines
Chapel Hare
O. E
Cedar Falls
Ladies’ Aid Society
Harvey Chaney
A golfer I am yet a violin I refuse to play
The speaker writes of avoiding music and golf yet longing to master both. He admits a lack of ear for melody and awkward golf lessons, insisting the day will come when skill appears, even as he fumbles through attempts and finds odd pride in his folly. The piece blends humor and self deprecation with a vow to persevere.
Church Suffering From Confusion of Action and Thought
New York, July 13. Bishop McCormick condemned the church for incalculable loss of moral influence due to clashing trumpets and tongues. He warned individual bewilderment from uncertain thinking and loyalty, urging unity and intelligible leadership to advance Christian cooperation and reduce sectarian conflict. He praised moves toward church unity and tolerance.
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New York
John Newton McCormick
Western
Michigan
Cathedral of
St. John the Divine
God
McCormick
Many Christians Now on Spiritual Hunger Strike
Perth Amboy New Jersey July 13 Reverend Frederick D Niedermeyer pastor of First Presbyterian church urged Christians to resume daily prayer for bread and daily sustenance saying many neglect spiritual matters due to worldly learning and temptations. He warned neglect of God’s word leads to spiritual anemia and gradual deterioration.
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Perth Amboy
N. J
Frederick D. Niedermeyer
First ‘Presbyterian Church
From Imperialism to Individualism in Christian Thought
A fragment argues for balancing collective Christian revelation with individual interpretation. It contends that those claiming to speak for God must subordinate personal views to strong, clear Christian messages and proclamations.
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God
No Condemnation topic at Cedar Heights church service
Dr. J A Laurie pastor of Cedar Heights Community Presbyterian will speak at the 11 o'clock service tomorrow on No Condemnation. The service will include communion and acceptance of members. The pastor will give a children's talk on Some Lessons From a Counterfeited Coin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Heights Church
J. A. Laurie
Gedeat Heights Community Presbyterian Church
Abandoned Houses Remembered Through Love and Spirit
A reflective verse about old houses and the love that built them enduring beyond time. The poem suggests memories persist as a living spirit linked to places once cherished, even as structures decay or burn. The author Raymond Kresensky credits Household Magazine for the thoughts on how what is old returns to dust while love remains.
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Raymond Kresensky
Household Magazine
Awake My Soul and With the Sun Hymn by Ken
The article surveys Bishop Thomas Ken 1637 1711 author of Awake My Soul and With the Sun, praising its rank in Anglican Hymnology and noting its popularity, authorship during sleepless nights, and Ken’s rise to bishop after refusing Nell Gwyn lodging.
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Thomas Ken
Christian Sermons Across Churches Tonight
J Arthur Young preaches at Westminster Pres byterian Church in a shared evening service on The Christian View of Jesus Christ with several congregations taking part including First M E, First Baptist and Central Christian. Anthems and solos accompany the program in a busy interchurch venture.
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Jesus Christ
J. Arthur Young
Westminster Presbyterian Church
First M. E
First Baptist
First Congregational
Central Christian
Graves Memorist United Brethren
Westminster
Buck
E. Enderlein
God
O'Hara
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Churches of Christ, Scientist
Nazarene Church
Torner South
Fifth Streets
Ray Willlams
Cedar Falls
Northminster
W. P. McCormick
Galbraith
Enderlein
Mr. Miller
Trinity American Lutheran
Lord
Adams
Alta
Garney
Briggs
First Methodist Episcopal
Dene May
Pierson
Marion Gates
Jesus Viewed as Greatest Thinker in World History
New York July 12 Rev John R Mackay Westminster College Salt Lake City professor of psychology and former North Presbyterian Manhattan preached at Rutgers Presbyterian church Jesus Christ as the greatest constructive thinker. He said every thought is creative shaping progress and cited the Magna Carta French Revolution and Cromwell as examples of constructive thought fueled by ideal love.
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New York
John R. Mackay
Westminster College
Salt Lake City
North Presbyterian Church
Manhattan
Rutgers
Presbyterian Church
Mackay
Jesus Christ
Jesus Son
God
Invocation of a Song Through the Night Poem
A verse prayer by Father Wylie Falmer from the New Work Times calling God of aspiring races to grant a singing heart. The speaker pleads for wings, wind, and ocean depths to inspire music beyond gloom, urging the harp to join the evening wind and echo through distant dreams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wylie Falmer
Tha
New Work Times
Vacationers urged to bless trips with Bible in bag
Rev Walter C Subke told Greenwich Presbyterian parishioners to pack a Bible with golf clubs for summer travels. He argued 100000 in state and federal prisons are there from lacking character, not economic failure, urging character development through nature and scripture during vacations.
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United States
Walter C. Subke
Greenwich Presbyterian Church
Fossilized Future. Religion as Loophole, Coffin Declares
New York July 13 Rev Henry Sloane Coffin president of Union Theological Seminary preached at James Memorial chapel in a six service series. He warned that a static universe would spell oblivion and argued religion provides the only escape by giving meaning to the human story and defying a fossilized future. He cited Puritan conscience and noted God has written himself into the national constitution.
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New York
Henry Sloane Coffin
James Memorial Chapel
Union Theological Seminary
Coffin
S. Cemetery
Cooler Weather Is Predicted for State
Des Moines reports cooler air expected to sweep the state tonight with continued cool conditions in the extreme east on Sunday. U S weather observer Charles D Reed said skies would be overcast tomorrow though no rain was forecast. Estherville recorded 96 degrees, the state’s high, while Decorah cooled to 63.
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Des Moines
Towa
Charles D. Reed
United States
Reed
Estherville
Decorah
Births Reported With Several Newborns across Towns
Birth notices list numerous families and newborns with full names and dates ranging June to July. Families include Reaves, Redman, Wood, Fosse, Saylor, Hartman, Cherry, Lampert, Heideman, Carter, Martin, Chase, Glaon, Berkhardt, Kough, Gents, Pannhuk, Wentworth, Rotvich among others. Addresses and hospital notes appear, each entry naming parents and child names such as Donne Gene, Fauline Beulah, Paul Myla, Britnney Joan, Alvin Allen, Adeline Cara, Marya, Genevieve Louise, Catherine Ann, Walter Lewis, Dole LeRoy, Opal Bata, Gnar latte Ide, Barbara, Clerance, Jeanette Joanna.
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Vernon L. Reaves
Oak Lawn
Donne Gene
Mylo Redman
Fauline Beulah
Paul Myla
Ernest Lavell Wood
Vinton
Britnney Joan
Ogden Honore Fosse
Allen Memorial Hospital
Alvin Allen
Vernon Township
Gnarlatte
Merl Kough
Waller
Constantine G. Gents
Jefferson
B. G. Pannhuk
Hammond
Duty & Daughter
Barbara
Ktrs
Acey Wentworth
Adams
June
Clerance
Verne Rotvich
Marsh
Lyons
Jeanette
Joanna
Cryptic Knights Colored Knights Templar Tonight
Cryptic degrees of Knight Templar Masonry will be conferred on a class of Royal Arch Masons at 8 p.m. today to close Hawkeye grand commandery colored Knights Templar conclave at St. John's lodge Mobile Street. The colored Masons conclude a week of state convention activities. Officers elected include F. D. Bland grand high priest and others from Des Moines Cedar Rapids St. Paul and Burlington. Capitular degrees were conferred on a class of master Masons.
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Hawkeye Grand Commandery
Keokuk
Hawkeye
Royal Arch Masons
St. John's Lodge
L. D. Lowery
Cedar Rapids
J. W. Taylor
St. Paul
Minn
J. W. Rhodes
Des Moines
A. H. Hyland
Waterloo
Grand Scribe
B. N. Hyde
J. L. Nelson
Burlington
E. M. Taylor
Adb
Green
Ottumwa
Royal Arch
William Bell
Willem Smith
I. J. Johnson
Washington
A. R. Joyce
T. R. Ringo
Sentinel
Lash
Mark Fenton Named General Industrial Agent for I. C. R.
Mark Fenton, a nationally known figure in industry and chambers of commerce, is named general industrial agent for the Illinois Central system, effective July 15. The new post aims to expand industrial development, work with civic groups, and advise industries seeking sites within the system’s territory. Schwietert remains general agricultural agent, overseeing agricultural development and colonization.
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Mark Fenton
Clinois Central
D. W. Longstreet
Tlinois Central
Fenton
Till- Inais
Chamber’ of Commerce
Illinois Central Organization
Chambers of Commerce
North
BH. J. Schwietert
Gentral
Schwiletert
Agricultural Development and Colonization Actiities
State Tests Scales with Larger Devices
Des Moines reports Iowa agriculture department will test scales with larger devices as trucking drives bigger loads. Three one and one half ton trucks join test fleet, carrying 2500 pounds of weights each. Gross truck weight exceeds 7500 pounds to enable bore testing of all scale sizes under new highway rules.
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Courier Special Service
Des Moines
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Department
My Bark and I Test the Storms on the Sea
A poem by Fred Clare Baldwin in the Western Carlatian Advocate celebrates steadfast companionship with a ship and crew. It speaks of enduring haze, deep seas, and stormy resistance as they sail onward, facing taunts and omens with resolve and hopeful splendor.
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Fred Clare Baldwin
Yesterday in Pleasant Days Before Youths Turned Adults
A retrospective feature recalls 40 years past in Salem Oregon and Amherest College era. Notable figures like Herbert Hoover and Red Coolidge appear among memories of the machine age, politics, culture, and daily life. The piece paints a slower tempo of travel, entertainment, and social life with mentions of Edison phonograph, Delmonico’s, and prominent actors and writers of the time.
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Red’ Coolidge
Amheret College
Oregon
Herbert Hoover
Alexander, R. George
Associated Press
Oregon Land Company
Salem
Sheffler Ordered to Serve Jail Term for Barrel of Wine
Clayton Sheffler, a farmer near La Porte City, must serve a 90 day jail term after a jury convicted him of illegal possession of intoxicating liquor and a 50 gallon barrel of home made wine. He was fined $300 and costs. appeal to the supreme court followed. Road Patrolman Mason and his assistant Miller presented evidence for the state.
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Sheffler
Clayton Sheffler
la Porte City
Supreme Court
J. W. ‘Thompson
E. J. Wenner
H. P. Mason
BE. & Miller
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