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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1927
Page
15
Churches across Waterloo honor mothers with services sermons and special music on Mother's Day. Clergy from Walnut Street Baptist First Presbyterian East Park Presbyterian and other churches focus on motherhood love and loyalty with varied topics and choirs.
One hundred ninety-nine men will sing The Ninety and Nine tomorrow evening as part of an annual Grace Church observance. Dr Earl A Roadman will preach on Motherhood and the New Business World and a living Bible picture of motherhood will be presented. A three question "Forest Inquiry" period will address a newspaper picture of youths charged with automobile theft and church future topics. A women’s chorus will sing Weary and My Mother while Dr Roadman speaks on God’s Likeness Revealed in Afobh er Love with morning solos by Mother of wee Ball.
Cradleroll and mothers day program set for 10 a m at the Church of the Brethren includes congregational song, prayers, a grand march for Cradleroll mothers and babies, and a sequence of songs readings solos and a sermon by Rev A 2 R Blough with various participants and a benediction.
Poem reflects on child sorrow and loss as innocence fades amid life’s harsh scenes. It contrasts a child’s grief with aging sorrow, recounting a dead doll and a pet goldfish to show that hurt touches all ages. The verses urge empathy for young sufferers.
Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick argues the present age loses sight of life’s sacredness and that personality is the most sacred thing in the universe. He cites New York’s crime and praises the YMCA fundraising drive to build new facilities, urging support to safeguard human dignity and character.
The Reverend J Stanley Durkee preached at Plymouth Congregational Church on the power of music and song to enrich human life. He urged starting each day in tune, recalling love songs, and sharing beauty, noting music lifts souls and strengthens home ties.
Central Christian church choir and orchestra present a Mother's Day program led by J. H. Ray with Miss Neva W. Ellsworth at the piano. The service features a processional hymns, solo and duet numbers, mixed quartet, offertory, and postlude, concluding with a sermon by Dr. W. D. Endres.
New York May 7 Rev Henry Sloane Coffin head of Union Theological Seminary urged that religion must carry people rather than people carry their gods. He warned against viewing church duties as burdens and said living faith shines when believers feel carried by religion through prayer, church attendance, and Bible reading.
Dr. J Arthur Young opens a morning sermon on Mothers and Vanishing Firesides while the choir performs Our Mothers and a solo by Mrs Alice Eason Wise is Mother O Mine The organ recital precedes the evening service with two pieces Reverie and Devotion dedicated to their mothers followed by First Sonata in G Dr Young continues his series Great Characters of the Bible with a focus on Celebrated Mothers of the Bible The anthem Gently Lord Oh Gently Lead Us closes the program
Rev W G Crowder will preach morning and evening with a special invitation to friends of the community to visit the Sunday school at 9 30 am An attendance goal of 150 has been set to encourage participation in the Cedar Heights church activities.
A reflective poem about aging friendship in a city as days and years slip by. The speaker recalls ringing bells with a friend once lively, now busy, and the distance grows until a telegram arrives announcing Jim’s death. The poem laments aging and the vanished face of a beloved friend.
Waterloo churches plan Mother's Day observances with sermons and musical offerings. Ministers will highlight motherhood as a universal ideal while congregations in First Baptist Westminster Presbyterian Northminster Presbyterian Graves Memorial First United Presbyterian First Brethren St Mark's Episcopal and other churches host services, solos, choirs, and brief dramatic or musical pieces celebrating mothers.
The First Evangelical church will honor elderly mothers with special pews and flowers during morning services. The Golden Hour group and women past seventy five will be featured. Rev. O. M. Yaggy will preach on The Beautiful Ministry of Motherhood.
Mrs. D. Foster Updike of New York represents Congregational women on the interdenominational Council of Women for Home Missions and will speak at the annual meeting of the Congregational conference in First Congregational church from May 10 to 12. She serves on committees for farm and cannery migrant workers and has spoken in churches of all denominations across 15 states on behalf of alien migrant workers.
Edna Ferber's Waiting Your Acquaintance features eight miniature novels by Doubleday. Henry Lane Wilson recounts his ambassadorship in Diplomatic Episodes in Mexico Belgium and Chile. Chesterton's The Return of Don Quixote debuts with a critique of modern standardization. Critics note Emil Ludwig's warning against historical novels and De Wolf Hopper's memoir of childhood theater.
West High senior Miss Bertha Ferris of 219 Allen Street won the Courier's weekly book review contest this time, earning the 1 award, her second. Readers are invited to submit original opinions on recently published books, with reviews limited to 200 words.
A postwar critique of youth in Philip Gibbs's Young Anarchy and The Glad Young Things. The review analyzes the clash between tolerance and self inspection versus intolerance and self satisfaction, highlighting July Let tice Mervyn Jocelyn Nancy and David Swayne as emblematic figures of a new age and contrasting them with wary older relatives and authority figures.
A lyrical romantic poem invites a May Day journey through green fields and quiet countryside. The voice anticipates youth, discovery, and a shared sense of new beginnings as the speaker imagines paths, sea to sea, and the scent of country air guiding two lovers.
In New York on May 7 at Calvary Episcopal church Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker Jr urged a new evangelicalism. He accused old evangelicalism of lagging behind science and new knowledge and said liberalism has failed to meet the current hunger for spiritual realty.
Bible study groups meet on Tuesday at 10 A.M. led by XY and Mrs. W E Smith at 129 Block, and at 2:30 P.M. with Mrs. Eugenia Van Duyn at 911 Washpeton. Additional sessions absorb Mrs. Chas H Walden at 1529 Hawthorne, and Mrs. E Kline at 504 Rieker. Wednesday sessions begin at 7:30 P.M. with Mrs. S G Welcher at 1623 Lafayette.
Mr and Mrs Ray Brown report a daughter born May 6 in Histon. Mr and Mrs John A Rourke welcome a son John junior born May 1 in Quincy. Keane couple in Dunckerton announce son Joseph born April 29. Popsternoff pair in Oneida announce daughter Luba J born April 27. Raymond Woftman in R I D No 4 reports son Raymond R junior born April 25. Ralph O Brant of 212 Fourteenth Street West reports son Oren Ralph born April 28. Henry Lessor of 047 Dawson reports son Edward John born March 27. Frank P Schaefer of Cedar township reports daughter Mildred Anna born April 15. Bennie Moore of 514 Mobile reports son born April 28.
In Virginia history the Byrds appear across eras. Governor Harry Flood Byrd, one of the youngest leaders in state history, steers a broad legislative program after serving in the general assembly and leading the Democratic state executive committee. Richard Evelyn Byrd pursues flight while the governor expands media and apple interests.
The Wolverine, Reo’s new five passenger two door brougham and companion to the Flying Cloud, is on the sales floor at Reo West Motor Sales, 417 Fifth Street. It uses a six cylinder L head motor with 3.25 inch bore and 4 inch stroke rated 26.2 horsepower, seven bearing crankshaft, automatic spark control with manual override, thermostatic water circulation, a dry single plate clutch, and an 11 1/2 inch wheelbase.
Miss Edith Korinke, longtime Hawthorne school teacher (1903 1925), was named by the San Diego superintendent of schools to assist in preparing a state wide manual on character education. She chairs the California Educational Committee and serves on the San Diego Teachers Association board.
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