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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1941
Page
5
First Baptist Church invites all to Sunday School at 9 45 morning worship at 11 with the topic The ape. Vespers at 515 followed by Learning How To be In Spite Of. Supper and Open Forum for Young People 6 to 8 pm with special Easter music in both services.
Easter program at Highland Avenue Chapel features a morning service with hymns such as Come Ye Faithful and Christ The Lord is Risen Today and Salvation by Ellsworth and Dickinson selections. The Rev Jonathan Edwards leads worship with choir soloists and a midweek prayer hour scheduled.
The church announces cantatas and sunrise services with Reverend R B Nelson as pastor. Activities include 8 a m Holy Communion 9 45 a m Sunday School 11 a m Holy Communion and sermon on The King followed by 5 p m Easter celebration. The weekly prayer ends with a benediction invoking God through Jesus Christ.
Special Easter services will be held at 7 15 tomorrow morning in Mount Hebron Cemetery by the Covenanters Society of Highland Avenue Presbyterian Church. Members of that group of young people will take part in the exercises. Everyone is cordially invited to attend.
Poem praising resurrection and Easter life from Pentecostal Mission with service times and pastor Rev J B Shade announced at Braddock Street location. Includes Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. worship times, youth meeting, prayer and midweek services.
The Centenary Evangelical and Reformed Church led by Rev. S L Flickinger announces a bright Easter Dawn service at 6 a.m. followed by church school at 9.45 a.m. The Easter Holy Communion occurs at 11 a.m. with a Young People's Service at 6.30 p.m. The Holy Communion continues for those unable to attend morning consecration.
Sunday School and Bible Classes at 9 45. Easter sermon and reception of members at 11. Offering for Rev. Tinsman. Sunrise service events at Rosemont home of Senator Byrd and 7 00 a m Easter Breakfast. Easter Play The Bearer of the Cross at 7 30 p m by Mattie Shannon.
Morning worship at John Mann Methodist Church features a sermon Believing Where We Cannot See at 11 a.m. A social and supper is planned Thursday April 17. Race Lutheran on Boscawen Street lists Sunrise Service at 6:30 p.m. and Holy Communion at 11 a.m. with baptismal and church school activities throughout the day.
The 7 am and 11 am EasterMorning worship at the A M E church are led by Pastor S F Parks with Presiding Elder J A Young delivering both sermons. A C E League meets at 7 pm and a weekly prayer service is set for 8 30 pm at 528 N Kent Street. The 4th quarterly conference with Rev Young follows on Monday at 8 30 pm.
FiL ROOF. Pastor at St Pauls Sunday School 10 a m Luther League 6 p m Trinity Early Easter Service 6 a m Sermon Jesus Gives Eternal Life Holy Communion 11 a m Sermon Jesus Meets Despairing Disciples Program by Sunday School Public invited to attend all services We welcome you.
The narrative details the first day of the week when women find the empty tomb and two angels declare Jesus is risen. Jesus joins two travelers, explains scripture, and later reveals himself to the disciples in Jerusalem before ascending to heaven.
The church led by Rev. Robert A. Whitten invites all to an Early Dawn Service at 6 a.m titled The First Easter and a 9:45 a.m. Sunday School with a special program. A Divine Worship at 11 a.m. features special Easter music and a sermon Did Christ Rise.
Sunday School 9 45 a m Morning worship 11 a m C As meet 7 p m Young People service 8 p m prayer meeting Tuesday 8 o'clock Capon Springs trip 3 p m
North Mountain Virginia residents report weekend visitors including Hollis Snapp from Hagerstown visiting H A Snapp, and extended calls at Katy Allamong's. Attendees include N C Williams and family, Harvey Allamong and children, Martin Wise and son Lester from Strasburg at Ivan Miller's. Cordelia White called on Ruth Feeley. Hurl Himelright visited Jes Peer in Kernstown.
Mrs. Howard White was moved to Winchester Memorial Hospital on Monday. Visitors included James Cooke and family of Warrenton and Daisy Grubbs at her home, with several local residents sharing meals and greetings at days around Greenway.
During experiments Thomas Edison made many phonograph records of his voice and several talks. Only one recording of his own voice was published, a speech from about 1922 titled Let Us Not Forget.
Sunday services across Christ Scientist churches will study Are Sin Disease and Death Real. The Golden Text proclaims The Lord is my light and salvation The Lord is the strength of my life with fear removed. Phrases from Psalm 119 and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures frame the discourse on divine Mind and unity.
Morning Worship at 9 30 with The Resurrection Message Bible School at 10 30 led by A C Frye Christian Endeavor at 6 30 Evening Worship at 5 30 with Implications of the Empty Winchester School of the Bible Monday at 7 30 The Doctrine of Satan Wednesday 7 30 Women's Missionary Council meets all day Thursday Cottage Prayer Meeting Saturday You are invited to worship with us
Braddock Street Metro Dist Church led by Pastor M Swann holds 9 45 a m Sunday school with Walter M Shade as general superintendent a 11 a m sermon A Glorious Proclamation by the pastor 6 45 p m Young People led by Miss Mary Glenn Lupton with a solo by Miss Jane Henshall and message by Mrs R Bowen Moore 7 30 p m Easter Cantata by the church choir and a joint women’s assembly meeting Tuesday 7 30 p m in the Woman’s Assembly Room Prayer Service Wednesday 7 30 p m in charge of the pastor.
Rev Garland Evans Hopkins preaches at Easter morning service at 11.00 with a sermon Man the Immortal and a reception for new members. Weekday activities include Boys Choir Girls Chorus and Market Street Choir performances. The Winchester District Conference gathers in Woodstock VA through Wednesday. Congregational meeting to decide site for a new parsonage follows Sunday worship.
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