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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1927
Page
10
The article lists Reformation Day observances and revival plans across Immanuel Lutheran Calvary Evangelical Grace and other local churches. Sermons focus on Luther and reform themes, with choral and instrumental specials, baptisms, and Sunday school programs. Ground-squirrel population estimated at 1,000,000 in Yellowstone National Park.
Billy Phelps and I sight an apple tree bathed in autumn sun and discuss its beauty and gifts. We walk closer and find a stick protruding from beneath the branches, suggesting a boy’s destructive act as bludgeons in the tree hint at vandalism in fall.
Bishop Nicholas of Ochrida, head of the Serbian Orthodox church, spoke at Grace Episcopal church. He urged thinking in symbols of the lamb and the she wolf, recounting persecuted Christians who ultimately prevailed in Armenia Russia Serbia and Balkan nations, and predicting a final conflict between good and evil end in triumph of the lamb.
Folger McKinsey notes in the Baltimore Sun a poetic scene where Little Miss Nature packs away summer’s green things to store in a chest. She works through the day, likening Miss Summer to a bride in festal array, while she preserves fruits that will keep and those that will perish.
Brooklyn sermon by Rev. J. Stanley Durkee outlines two church tasks. He argues militarists and powder makers waste effort while swords become plowshares and spears into pruning hooks. He stresses Christian brotherhood with Jesus Christ ruling from sea to sea worldwide.
Brooklyn preacher Dr Parkes Cadman told a Bedford M C A men’s conference that America must lead a world revival of religious faith. He warned of waning devotion, urged principled leadership, and said a revival could reclaim half of those outside churches. He stressed both faith and science, urging fundamentalists to preserve faith and modernists to seek God.
World Temperance Sunday will be observed at Cedar Heights Community Presbyterian Church tomorrow. Members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Loyal Temperance Legion are invited. The sermons will cover Saving America for Christ and The Windows of Heaven, with Rev. A A Armbrust preaching in the pastor's absence.
Rev J Paul Vincent of McCormick Seminary Chicago will preach at 11 a m in Lincoln Community church Lincoln Iowa on The Christian Signature His sermon for children at this hour is What the Postage Stamp Teaches Us He will preach again in the evening on The Jazz Fool
New York Oct 29 Grace Methodist church minister Rev John L Davis preached on Hidden Treasure asking what is most valuable in life. He argued epicurean pleasure wealth fame fail to satisfy while Jesus Christ set the kingdom of God as permanent, requiring a venture of faith and full life investment. The speaker drew parallels between religious virtue and successful business.
A reflective poem fragment asks if flowers possess souls and long to bloom openly, contrasting quiet beauty with humans chasing mortality. It ponders whether a great man seeking immortality without heed to the stars deserves heaven, using daffodils as a moral measure.
Sunday church programs feature the Cotton Blossom Singers from Piney Woods school Mississippi at 7 30 p m First Congregational C Albert Scholin conducts a musikale at First M E with American composers works Rev J Arthur Young preaches soulful messages in American Music The Congo slide lecture by Rev Edwin Boardman Jr at First Brethren church
The New York Herald Tribune notes that Coolidge’s 12 word statement appears ambiguous and explains it as his habit of saying only what is necessary. It argues the lack of a clear answer leaves open the question of whether he would accept a nomination, while detailing factions and motives among Republicans aiming to shape the convention.
Ames Iowa October 29 Cups for the best news story and the best editorial printed in an Iowa weekly newspaper in the past year were awarded to the Toledo Chronicle and the Audubon Advocate respectively at the annual newspaper short course at Iowa State college. The contest was sponsored by the local chapter of Sigma Delta Chi professional journalistic fraternity.
In 49 years Minnesota has paid £1,243,165.53 in timber wolf bounties. The annual expenditure shows a gradual increase since 1903.
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