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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1927
Page
4
An archaic verse fragment laments fallen soldiers and recalls their sacrifice. The speaker urges guns to heed the call and promises to persevere for the cause the dead fought for, through dawn and quiet, patient resolve.
An inexact verse laments a day squandered and unpaid for hours. The narrator recalls twelve hours and sixty minutes each, but eight hours vanished to idle talk and gossip. Two hours remain unexplained as if charged away like loot.
Catholic Near East Welfare association aims to recruit a larger national membership this winter across 31 dioceses. Prominent church leaders including Cardinals OConnell Dougherty and Hayes back the drive to fund relief and educational programs for refugees and starving populations in Europe. Prof Edmund A Walsh leads the organization with Pope Pius XI backing a permanent American Catholic fundraising effort.
The Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick told Park Avenue Baptist church that few find thrill in religion as a mere heirloom. He argued true religion awakens the personality and prevents spiritual desolation, urging believers to feel and engage rather than respect only.
New York Nov 12 Rev Clarence H Horner of Grace Episcopal church says change defines the era. He notes youth push toward meaning and truth in face of authority, yet remain restless unhappy and longing. He警erages their revolt while warning of an underlying poverty of soul.
Dr Fosdick says modern cults grow when older Christians neglect duties and misuse prayer. He warns God is not a cosmic bell-boy and that true devotion comes from loving God with all one's might and pursuing meaningful spiritual aims.
Tomorrow the First Lutheran Church hosts its annual mission festival with a German sermon at 9 am and an English service at 10:30 am led by Rev. A Hugo Lutz of West Ualon Ta Rey. The English service features a choir piece Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord and a solo by Evelyn Schrader. An offering supports foreign and home missions. At 7:30 pm Rev. Henry Mueller speaks on home missions with a duet by Mrs. Frieda Buenneke Welch and Louis Stolte.
The United Presbyterian congregation marks its 25th anniversary with a homecoming banquet on November 18 and special services on November 20 led by Rev. W. C. Chisholm. The first gathering occurred November 16, 1902, when Rev. Frederick Elliott preached. A church building followed, establishing a sound base for the church’s work.
Public reading of the Rudyard Kintinz poem is noted with lines about God of Hosts and national memory. A parish gathering is announced as “church Will meet for supper at B23” with Leo Darling and others involved. The fragmentary OCR includes religious and patriotic phrases and a parish supper notice.
Rev. Clarence H Skinner of Boston Community Church argues that human life retains value despite increased machine dominance. He cites astronomical biological and psychological pessimism as causes of lowered worth, but urges judging people by goals and progress and embracing a faith in life as the religious answer.
Sunday worship will highlight father and son programs across churches. First Baptist choir and a quartet will perform two selections, with sermons titled We Have an Idea and Knocking Until the Door Opens. Other churches outline family themed sermons and accompanying anthems and solos across morning and evening services.
The Rev Dr Nathan A Seagle told the New York City Daughters of the American Revolution chapter at St Stephen s Church that patriotism is vital and warned against indifference to the ballot citing threats to liberty from interior and exterior forces. He urged citizens to vote and defend foundational principles of liberty amid rising internationalism. Also announced are sermons by Rev J Paul Vincent at Lincoln Community Church Ta with children s sermon titled Crows and an evening sermon on Jesus The Good Shepherd.
Rev Robert Norwood told St Bartholomew s Episcopal Church that America is full of starving geniuses who fear hardness and loneliness. He called for an aristocracy of workers who do things well and approach daily tasks as victories.
A. B. Pitkin, longtime public utility executive, left the ministry to devote himself to philanthropy. After his son Raleigh’s death, he funded Cape Town hospital with £100,000 and planned the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Institute for crippled orphans in New Jersey, pledging $1,000,000. He sold Inland Power & Light to Insull interests for $30,000,000 and shared his thanks to loyal employees. Pitkin, born in New York, aged about 50, recalls walking across the Brooklyn Bridge for travel and rising from mail clerk to major utility figure, describing decades of crisis response and a wish to lessen his family’s worry by stepping back from fieldwork.
Rev. Ralph W. Lockman warns Armistice Day crowd in Madison Avenue Methodist Church that America First is misused by demagogues to promote isolation and prejudice. He urges true leadership in world peace through Samaritan service, moral growth, and unity among diverse peoples.
Dr. Howard E. Pugh of Chicago district secretary of the general council of the Presbyterian church will preach both morning and evening at First Presbyterian Church tomorrow. The morning sermon marks the national missions anniversary with Mrs. B. W. Schuneman singing. The evening features anthems and a solo interlude.
The Westminster Drama League will present The Rich Young Man by Bary Kingsbury in a church tomorrow evening with other showings on Nov 27 and Dec 4. Truman DeRoame directs rehearsals and will perform the feeding part. a large cast includes Raed Azo, nese Mite, Magee, Richard Crane, Mrs A M Wratislaw, Rabbi Evans, Philip, Dante Jensen, Willem Dewees, and John May. The play unfolds in a Jerusalem setting across three acts and times, with the worship hour featuring Dr. W P McCormack delivering John of Philadelphia and the anthem There Shall Be No Night There.
The First Methodist Episcopal Church choir will present a November musicale Sunday evening. The program includes organ recitals, anthems by Mrs. Distance Wise and Carl Zellhoefer, string quartets featuring Mildred Luce and others, and a finale with Dr. C. E. Moodie and Mr. Scholin. The article notes a heat wave in Pekin with about 11,000 affected.
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