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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1928
Page
10
Waterloo churches mark Children's Day with joint services and school activities. Universalist Miss Mary Slaughter from Boston will tell a story. Baptist Walnut Street pupils sing and recite. pastors at St Pauls Grace and Burton Avenue lead sermons. Various churches schedule baptisms, promotions, pageants, and choral performances through afternoon and evening services.
A meditative verse contrasts born trades and social roles with the universal equalizer of sleep. It muses on labor versus art, poverty and wealth, and the unpredictable shifts of life and death, ending with the idea that true rest and worth come from inner virtue rather than status.
New York June 9 Dr Karl Reiland declared in a Stuyvesant Square sermon that there never was a self made man. He said men are shaped by external influences like winds and their thoughts arise from varied inputs and ongoing spiritual changes or rebirths.
Group and individual numbers will be given. Selections by the orchestra and the girls' choirs will be featured. Rev Ernest B Mounsey will preach on A Good Road at 11 00 am with communion at 7 30 am. Rev Sophie F Smalley will lecture on The Need of Spiritual Progress at 7 45 pm tomorrow.
Dr. J A Laurie of Cedar Heights Presbyterian Community Church will preach at 11 a m tomorrow. The children's talk covers Some Adventures of a Medical Missionary in Siam. Evening subject is The Great American Issue.
Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick preached at Park Avenue Baptist Church contrasting efforts to save religion with the need for a faith that saves individuals. He warned against rescuers clinging to their own religion or merely defending church traditions and urged focusing on a religion that truly saves people.
Daily vacation bible schools begin Monday across Waterloo churches. A union school jointly sponsored by First Evangelical, Plymouth Congregational, Grace Methodist, and First Presbyterian opens at 9 a.m. with Rev. Thomas R. Niven as superintendent and a 30 teacher staff. Programs run 9 to 12 each weekday, with devotional periods, Bible history, stories, crafts, music, supervised play, and recreation. YMCAs offer pool use. films shown on Tue Thu Fri. Other schools include Westminster Presbyterian, Walnut Street Baptist, First Methodist, Burton Avenue Baptist, and Trinity American Lutheran with sessions 9 to 11:30 or 9 to 12, ages 4 to 14, some two to three weeks.
New York June 9 Rev Dr Christian F Reisner preached at Chelsea M E church on fear as religion. He argued mere physical fear fails to deter crime, comparing Baumes laws and harsh punishment to an ossified leg and saying true reverence comes from respect and love rather than dread of punishment.
A short program runs for two weeks with daily sessions from 9 to 11 30 a m. It welcomes children from kindergarten age up to attend the classes.
New York June 9 Cursory reading blamed for missing the Book of Jeremiah's message. Rev Charles E Jefferson told Broadway Tabernacle Congregational Church that modern Christians skim literature and the Bible alike, lacking true hope for lasting character and earthbound heaven. He urged belief that heaven can exist on earth and urged courage to hope for righteous city transformation.
Rev. F. H. Uhlenhopp, York College field representative, will guest speak at Graves Memorial United Brethren tomorrow. The service features an anthem, offertory solos, and a round-table discussion with topics by Ray Kloster and R. W. Schecar. Multiple churches report sermons, baptisms, and Children’s Day plans across the area with choirs and special musical offerings.
Wilmington editor Thurman Dusty Miller spoke at West High commencement last night and will address Rotary Club members Monday at Hotel Hassell Lamson. Kerman C. Miller, president of the Greater Waterloo association, plans to speak to Kiwanis Tuesday on Know Waterloo Week June 18 to 23. William Dibble, Mason City lieutenant governor of the district, will also address the club briefly. Misses Evelyn Stover and War Jean Dilger of East High will entertain with clarinet solos.
A poem asks God to grant a four year old child a simple, earthly paradise rather than mansions and crowns. The speaker desires a nestling head, a brown child’s hair, two arms to hug a parent, and heaven within a child’s reach, echoing Katherine Tynan’s verse.
A long archival note recounts Rev. John Fawcett leaving his Yorkshire parish to join a London appointment. His farewell hymn Blest Be the Tie That Binds, composed for the occasion, moved his flock to tears. He stayed, resuming pastoral duties, earning under $200 yearly. The tale mentions Armenian usage of the hymn in 1880 and Fawcett’s life dates 1739 to 1617, with a published hymn volume in 1782.
Rev Charles Lannholm has begun his pastorate at Union Congregational Church Waterloo Iowa after 19 years in ministry in Iowa plus seven years in evangelistic work He comes from Edgewood and will lead a strong program including Sunday school and Young People's activities His family includes wife and three children with two daughters in college and a son in school His sermon tomorrow at 11 am is Going Thru With Jesus and an 8 pm Children’s Day program service follows.
Miss Mary and Miss Harriett Sedgwick daughters of Mrs J E Sedgwick 324 South street graduate Monday from Iowa State college Ames with bachelor of science degrees in chemistry Both are Sigma Delta members and Tata Sigma Pi They plan to travel June 16 to California where Mary will direct food service at Roble hall Palo Alto and Harriott will be student dietitian at the Scripps Metabolic clinic La Jolla Both begin duties in July after visiting home and travelling with their mother during commencement week
Mrs. Leslie Wolf of Manila will address the Cedar Falls Christian Church next Wednesday at 7:30 PM. A missionary for the church in the Philippines, she is slated to speak on her work and travels.
In the Unitarian church of the Divine Paternity Rev. Charles Francis Potter argues America is becoming world conscious due to World War, Lindbergh flights, and radio. He urges developing this outlook among youth, cites John Quincy Adams as a model, notes America as a world in miniature with a diverse New York directory as proof, and calls for global leadership readiness.
One hundred fifty eight pupils from seven grade schools in the west district were promoted to high school at exercises yesterday. Graduates include Central and Edison, with names of students such as Marland Apfel, Frederick Belthuis, Russell Blood, Vincent Clark, Rita Jepperson, Dorothy Johnston, Dorothy Overton, Donald Paulson, and many others listed from several buildings.
Funeral services are set for Sunday in Boone Iowa for John L Good retired farmer and former state representative who died yesterday at his son Grants home near Ogden. The obituary notes his long service and family ties as part of the local community.
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