The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 28, 1951, Page 6

Paye 6 Chit anderen History Of Grace Church From 194] To 1950 fHE KEY WES? CITIZEN bt Saturdey duly 2 195, | GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH . First Service Held In Eschen Home — Lutheran | LUTHERAN DIGNITARY “The Ultima Authority” Is ‘Sermon Sunday | At the First Presbyterian ‘Church, at White and Washing- !ton Streets, the Women’s Class fing vested in a poor peasant of | some are unable to meet the re the despised Jewish nation. Yet | quirements or too indolent to us Rome with all her power never ithe key produced an Isaiah; Greece with | Some time ago Dr. | att her culture never gave up a | Ferris Parker wrote a book en- | Moses. it was trom tne Jewish | titled, ‘This Created World.’ In who Theodore | authority jrace that we found a David, a/it he tells of a little | Solomon, an Amos or a Hosea. It was the heart of the Carpenter jfrom Nazareth that we find the declaration—‘All authority hath j world girl wrote a letter to the Washington Post asking several questions. She wanted to know, how the} started, how thé world} |with Mrs. Walter Bell, teacher, | been siven Me. in heaven and on |changed, how the world actually | will have charge of the opening jexercises of the Church Bible | School Sunday morning. The {school opens at 9:50 a.m. with jelasses for all age groups, While jsome of the teachers away ©n vacations, lendid array of able substitute e taking over [like veterans, The public is cor- jdially invited to attend or send jearth” (Mt. 28:18). fis now, our relationship to the | “Only a small part of the world | World, and how we can _ best will ever know the name of the |!€ave the world for those wt |‘noted’ Indian lecturer jBreater part of the | world has known of Jesus Christ for som but the {authority which he claimed civilizea | With this answer, “We can an two thousand years. In} |his brief sojourn on this earth he | avored to outline the type of; i pie vores . He {when he said, ‘All the answers follow us. The editor came bac |swer just one of your questions: |how the world is now. The an-j swer is—Terrible.’ Later the edi-! aw fit to change his answer | their childre: » to ae iscipies. _ cal tare in the Bibie, particularly in . boxe pee + ere pi his, SABAB ies, 8 ting ‘the story of Jesus.’ His authority The morning worship service them, ‘not servants, but friends. 3 : jwill begin at 11 am. and the (Jn 5). He would not expect ;Seems to be the ultimate answer. | | Nursery will be open to care for {friends to be obedient through! “A budding young enthusiast | some strict system of theology or/declared that he could talk for jthe children while parents migh' |enjoy the services. Mr | Price will play for her prelude- |“Impromptu Religioso,” by Arm- strong. and the “Ave Maris Stel | la,” by Grieg for her offertory.|the h |his friends that they might see |the & y of his life and by exa > seek to walk close to | tures, t of God. He hoped that | Ho) Walter |in an ethical code. He lived with |hours about hell and tell us all jabout it. He said he got the in- jformation from a series of lec- | that he was told by the / Spirit to destroy the lec- | y Mrs. Ruth Boyd will sing a solo|by such an example nothing else! tures and tell the world. Even| for the special selection. | would satisfy. ie Fawcett ee pa Sa : 4 Sage scribes the oriole in one of his/| Membership More Than Doubled In | sate ter. Me Rogers wilt ure Tae chee aes tas ee HRISTIAN SCIENCE | 1 for his morning topic, “The U eS es i Shee | One Year; Zucker Pastor 8 Years | timate Authority.” He says of ; Moment chose to, ‘dower a scrap j C | this subject lof sunset with a voice. The | SOCIETY One week-day in April 1942, Db ———__—_—— “The privilege of free-will ppeeuty ot Leen ie | | the urging and expense of they USE ae a j granted man places him in a|thoritative rson of Jesus. j gael ae ie io + i So cent Se ee dilemma quite often. When there} “It was_ the same voice which j $7 ELIZAREESSTBEET | tractor of Rock Island, IL, ane 3 is a confusion of voices each of ,said, ‘I am the door. (Jn. 7:19). | oe ihe Boat of Disece in Boutetahen vthe services us must choose the authority !The door is kicked but to each «is Sunday School, 9:30 A.M { tors of sh ape , els haitto be switched beck to /sune most acceptable. ‘No man can ‘given a key. We may have a key bar | y Synod, « i a 1e) 7 7 + ars: for er q of ve i soe i a at : ae erdate| day evenings to enable the Mia- serve two masters: for either he jto a door and the fact that we do |] Sunday Morning Service drove to Key West for a mission work day of mi Beach pastor to conduct them, But from this summer on, servi- ces were conducted every week will hate the one and love the other: or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye|have been some who failed not use it is no reason that the key will not unlock it. There to at 11:00 o’Clock In addition to Mr. Horst there | ayo e wtimes 1 a cannot serve God and Mammon.’ | follow him because such disciple- xcept for a fe wtimes when the} ; were Pastors C. F. Kellermann of] pastor missed his plane at the (Mt 6:24). The conscientious man |ship costs too much. None have Wednesday Evening | Miami, Dallas son of Fort|Miami airport, or when a hurri- fants to know the ultimate au-jrenounce? him because his prin- Meetings at 80'Clock || Lauderda artusch of | cane made all travel between the, thority. ciples were unsound or his life — { Miami Beach, acher Char- les L. Ruff of Fort Lauderdale. They spent a few hours canvas- sing parts of the city, then held an afternoon service in the home of Mr, and Mrs. Larry Eschen on White street, Pastor Kellermann preaching the sermon, nd re- turned to their homes. the nearest Lutheran pastor was sta- tioned in Miami, 170 miles away over the old highway, reading }two cities impossible. One night the service, usually held at 7:30 |p. m., did not begin until 9:00 o’- {clock because the plane was de- jlayed by bad weather; but not lone of the waiting worshipers |went home till the service had! | ben held. During these months of even- |ing serviges, Mrs. Joseph War- |nock conducted Sunday school in |her home on Duval street for the DR. CARL SCHLERF will in- stall the new minister of Grace Lutheran Church. cant members: in November, when Grace Lutheran Church was perce. organized, it had a membership of 66 baptized souls, | 41 communicants, and 10 voters. More than half of the new com- services and Sunday school were! few children who could be per- conducted for the first few) suaded to come. In 1947 the sum- months in the Eschen home by) Mer field worker was Walter M. Mr. George W. Haug, an active|Gauger of Poplar Grove, Ilinoi: Lutheran layman stationed in| Who again held morning services Key West at the time j and Sunday school. Pastor Bartusch of Miami) A noteworthy incident in the municant members were gained by Baptism, confirma ion, or pro- The Sunday in November of faith. enrollment sion choo] | was 30. In November 1950 Pastor Zuce- | Beach was the pastor in charge and came down about once a ker accepted a call to Pascagoula, Miss., and thus terminated a pas- torate of eight years and three |congregation’s history was thel | presentation on March 1, 1948, of month to hold «a mid-week|@ Lutheran Hour rally with the; preaching service, | internationally famous Dr. Walt- ° = | A. Maier personally present.| In August 1942 the Rev. Fred-|& y erick H, Zucker succeeded Pastor | H® ge sae ep cathe gathered Bartusch in Miami Beach and|i? St. Paul's E| iscopal parish also took charge of the Key West| Mall that Monday evening. At the mission; — introducing regular| equest of a high school teacher twice-monthly Wednesday even-|Pesent that evening, Dr. Maier ing services in September of that] SPOKe the next morning to an en- year jthusiastic student assembly at} ! ss | Key West High school Beginning in October _ 1942," a eae these services were held in the} 6 next :sesident. worker was months, mon in Grace Church on Thanks- giving Day Pastors of Grace Church Beach, April* preaching his last ser- Rev. Theodore Bartusch, Miami » July, 1942. Rev. Frederick H. Zuker, Miami Beach, August 1942 to November | Church Organization ei : ath 950. Assist's and Temporary Workers Delwin B. Schneider, Concordia third-floor Knight of — Pythias| the Rev. M. K. C. Vetter of Addi-j Seminary, June to September hall on Fleming street, Sunday|0% Illinois, a retired pastor who} 1946. ‘ j school was vonducted each Sun-|Setved Grace Church from No-| , Walter M. Gauger, Concordia vember 1948 through April 1949. it the hen home Seminary, June to August 1947. Rev. M. K. C. Vetter, Addison, Blazek. Beginning Sunday in 1945 the services were held ¢ unday evenings, but still only twice a month. | After VJ Day in 1945 there was such an exodus from Key West, | both of military people and civ jans, that the mission barely sur-| with East vived; ‘at several servi that fall there were only three, four] or five worshipers present. For- tunately, the post-war boom in| tourist travel began in that win- ter, and a surprisingly large num- ber of service men came back to} Key West to live after their dis- ‘1946 the place of wor- warehanyed to the ground-|, Nal ik "We Golden Bagie building.on Petronia Street, which Gre congregation shared with Seventh Day Adventists for more-than four years. An interesting incident brought this move. Prof. Paul G. Andres of Chicago had been sent to Key West for the winter because of heart tiguble, under strict orders from his doctor not to climb any steps, One Bunday, evening in Febru- ary he came an hour early and took thirty minutes to negotiate the two flights of stairs to the place of.worship so as to be able to partake of the Lord's Supper. Though he suffered no ill effects from this forbiddef, exertion, the very next service was held in the new ground-floor quarters to en- able hint to come regularly to church without risking his life. Delkin B. Schneider of Milwau- kee, 4 student at Concordia Se. minary in St, Louis, was the summer field worker Grace Church. He conducted weekly morning services from June 16 to September 1, 1946, and re- opened the Sunday school after the polio epidemic of that sum- mer, The* growth of Grace con- gregation to-its present size real- to. serve} Sunday hen, her daughter,| 1" the fall of 1949 Pastor Zucker} Carl Msley 4 toast] tok charge of an additional mis-|!!1, Nov. 1948 to April 1949. an's wife, Mrs. Miles/S0" in the Miami area; hence Rev. F. R. Zucker, Miami, Jafiu-{ reaching in Key West. They|. Rey. Martin L. Guebert, St were Pastors WA, Kimberlee | Petersburg, April to June. 1950 | Lawson F. Knight, Robert H. Wuerdemann, Con- ary to April 1950. ive Miami pastors alternated in orge Schus: tee BOR: cad Fo Hs Zucker cordia Seminary, June to August “Not so many years ago a not4 ed Indian lecturer at Oxford de- clared that it was absurd to re- gard either Buddha or Jesus as} central in religion as to consider our globe central in the universe and man central in the scheme of things. It appe be immod- estly ridiculous to some thinkers to conceive of all authority be- rs to ary, October 1948. Richard Koenig, Concordia Seminary, July and August 1 Richagd Me; Concordia inary, July 194: Rey. on F, Knight, Hia-| leah, Repeatedly in 1949 and 1950. } Rev. George Schuster, Miami, October 1949. Rev. F. R. Zuiker, Miami, Re- em- | {mands but we’ have corrupt. He has marked out the way and described “the door which leads to the City of God as no other prophet. We may refuse his authority and reject his de- cause to alter his fitness to lead found no! the way. His supremacy should | mot be questioned simply becayse | Reading Room in the Church Building is open on Wednesday evenings only during the sum- mer months from 7 to 8 P.M. El SALVADOR METHODIST CHURCH 1022 Virginia Street } MANUEL FIGUEROA, Pastor | Youth for Christ Rally Poinciana Baptist Church Sunday School, 9:45 A.M. PREACHING, 11 A.M. » Dr. Ivey SUNDAY— Sunday School Supt. | WALLACE VINSON j | Church School, 9:45 A.M. (Sermon In Spanish) Subject: “GREAT REVIVAL” peatedly in 1949 and 1950. Thomas Buchheimer, Concordia Seminary, October 1950. Ladies Aid Officers Mrs. Larry Eschen, President; Mrs. Vincent De Mecurrio V. Pres; s. W. F. O'Netto, Secreta Mrs. Nathan Thompson, Tr | | | | | R. M. Strieter, President; an Thompson, Vice Pri Joseph Warnock, Secretary; a Ornus Kemp, Treasurer. Dedication THE CHURCH of GOD 909 ANGELA STREET Telephone 2194 Simday School, 10 A.M. Morning Worship, 11:00 o’Clock : 1950 On Monday after Christmas in) gubstitute and Guest Preachers | 6 P.d., Women's 1949 Grace butheran Mission So-i” Rev. C. F. Kellermann, Miami, Missionary Band ciety was organized to bind the; apri} 1942 (first ne). :, group more closely together, to! Rey. W. A. Bissfeldt, Miami{| EV@ngelistic Message, take over the management of the! congregation's affairs, and to! provide more fellowship for the! members. The first officers of the Beach Service Center, September 1943, August 1944. Rev. Harold F. Krach, Miami r Sh August 1945 ociety were Mr Theodore Schulze, Concordia president; Lt. Seminary, April 1947 vice-president, Mrs. C.\R. Blah-| Rev, W. A. Kimberley, Miami 7:30 P.M. Young People’s V.L.B., Wednesday, 7:30 P.M. Bible Study and Band Meeting, Friday, 7:30 i EVERYBODY WELCOME Pastor, Phenia Qdom *Guebert; a retired pastor Iv- ing in St. Petersburg, Florida, moved to Key West to serve Church Of God Grace congregation for two 1008 OLIVIA STREET months. He was followed in June! by the third summer field work- er from Concordia Seminary, Robert H. Wuerdemann of Inde- pendence, Kansas. E. M. BEARD PASTOR SUNDAY SCHOOL, Mr. Wuerdemann’s outstanding se ae service to the congregation was . Morning Worship highlighted by a vacation Bible! 11 A.M. school conducted in the Poinciana community building for two Evangelistic Service. weeks in August 1950. 7:30 P.M. His industrious canvasing of the entire Poinciana housing area; was divinely rewarded with an enrollment of 198 children for the school and an attendance of 256 people at the closing exercises, Assisting Mr. Wuerdemann with the teaching were Mesdames Pet- Praye: Meeting, Tues., 7:30 p.m. Young People’s Endeavor. Thursday, 7:30 p.m. | - Everyone Welcome -:- |} 9 i: ey nd if sres, Repeatedly from 1947-50. 4. neasurepe Mh pesean Figg Concordia Semin. |! 1950 the Rev. Ma : an ; GLAD TIDINGS TABERNACLE “Assembly Of God” Cor, Georgia and Petronia Sts. Tune in “Assembly Time,” WKWPF, 9:00 A.M., Sunday Sunday Services Sunday School, 10:00 A.M. Morning Worship, 11:00 o’ Clock Evening Worship, 7:30 o’Clock MIDWEEK SERVICES, TUES. and FRI., 7:30 P.M. Db. Ty NEWMAN, Pastor All Are Welcome er Bacle, Carl Isley, Orvis Kemp, Philip Koehler, Ottis Morgan, Al- bert Schnedler, Arthur Soholt,! Nathan Thompson, Joseph War- nock, Orville Ziegelmann, and| Miss Lorraine Warnock. This va-! eation Bible school g: a big im- petus to the Sunday school, which had been reactivated with an en- ‘rollment of 7 in September 1949 under the very capable leadership | of Lt. Philip Koehler of Milwau-| kee, who had switched to the Na-|} vy 08 a career after several years} of study for the Lutheran minis. | Cuban Baptist Mission 1122 WATSON STREET Dr. Ismael Negrin. Pastor ©. Esquinaldo, Sunday School Superintendent CHURCH of CHRIST Ashby and Von Phister Streets SUNDAY Bible Study, 10:00 A.M. Morning Worship, 11:00 A.M. Evening Worship. 7:30 P.M. WEDNESDAY Bible Study, 8:00 P.M. A Key To Salvation “He became the suthor of Jail 2:00 P.M. Colored Home, 3 P.M. PREACHING, 8:00 P.M. 7 p.m., meeting at the White Home, Stock Island. Wed., 8 ¢.m., regular old-time Prayer Service. 1 } { i Worship Service, 7:30 P.M. || Guest Speakers: Rev. Alsaro and Rev. Sepuliveva MONDAY— { W.S.C.S., Ladies Society, | 7:30 P.M. TUESDAY— Boy Scouts, Troop 53, 6:3@ P.M. WEDKESDAY— | Prayer Circle, 7:30 P.M. FRIDAY— Young People Recreation. MOTTO: CHRIST ALWAYS “For we preach not ourselves but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for | | Jesus,” II Cor. IV; GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH FLAGLER AVENUE AND 10TH STREET SUNDAY SCHOOL 9:45 A.M. WORSHIP SERVICE 11:00 A.M. Ordination and Installation OF CANDIDATE CARL SAMMETINGER BY THE REV. C. F. KELLERMANN OF MIAMI, FLA. Karl G.Schlert—Pastor FLEMING. STREE METHODIST CHURCH Corner FLEMING and WILLIAM Streete REV. W. J, ASHWORTH, Pastor | CHURCH SCHOOL, 9:45 A.M. | UuAUDE E. SALIS, Sunday School Superintendent Morning Service ests _... 10:50 o’Clock Subject: “THINGS SEEN AND UNSEEN“ Youth Fellowship, 6:30 P.M. | Song Service, 7:10 P.M. Evening Worship —__ _--.-------- 7330 o’Clock | Subject: “ON MAKING ALLOWANCES” Service Men and Visitors Welcome | THE OLD STONE CHURCH | The First Methodist Church + Presching Christ in Key West for a Century and More | J. PAUL TOUCHTON, MINISTER Sunday School, With Classes for All Ages, at 9:45 | ALLEN CAREY, SUPT. Morning Worship—10:50 A.M. Subject: “WHAT IS GOD'S BEST?" \ Evening Worship—7:30 P.M. Subject: "AN OLD TREASURE CHEST” | | | wee l The Fir iv began, under Gc with Mra try. In Spanish on Schneider's term of service; fof], In spi ; ‘ Thursday . ‘ spite of the frequent changes bebe he me help from the mem-'in workers (seven different men} Sunday end 4 ers he canvassed almost the en{ preached from one to ten times ' “Clock tire city of y West during Vast at Grace Church during the first} Nights at 7:00 0 summer, f q ens of Luth-| eight months of 1950) the ntem- SUNDAY SCHOOL erans who hing of our! bership of the cong ation more AT 10:00 A.M. chureh’s presence in the city, and| than doubled in this one year. | many unchurched prospects, seme} On January | there had been 29} @f whom in the course of the baptized souls and 20 communi- TIPRNRLLas ea 2 Uy meta emer, «pga Annmmmmancnmnn natn EVERYONE WELCOME so nammetntnnne nantes eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him.” 5:3. WEWE 9115 AM, SUNDAY Young People’s Worship—6:30 P.M. EARL DARBY, LEADER “AN OLD CHURCH WITH A FRIENDLY WELCOME . ine Got therity, his concee ? “ h ae g sion of hell might b v » which moves istic than that of Dante’s Divine | us to seek the door which leads Inferno, we would question his|to eternal life.” It is not the fear of — right-| OTHER RELIGIOUS NEWS ON PAGE SEVEN hell which moves us to eousness. but it is the beauty First Congregational Church 527 WILLIAM STREET PASTOR. REV. CARL A. MARICH Mr. Gerald Saunders Paul Archer Joseph Boza Chorister: W. R. Dean and Mrs Mr Organists: M Sunday School Superintendent 9.45 A.M., Chureh School With Cl tor All Ages 11:00 A.M.—Morning Worship Subject: “DENYING THE POWER OF GOD” 7:30 P-M.—Evening Worship Subject: “APPLYING THE POWER OF GOD” Visttors to Key West, Service Men and Their Families Will Find A Cordial Welcome At All Services FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH White and Washingten Streets RALPH ROGERS, Pastor SUNDAY SCHOOL, 9:50 A.M. WALTER CLAWSON—SUPERINTENDENT Morning Worship, 11:00 o’Clack SUBJECT: “THE ULTIMATE AUTHORITY” Director of Music—Mrs. Walter Price Nursery Open During Morning Service Youth Fellowship, 7:00 P.M. TONIGHT AT 8:00 O'CLOCK Knights Of Pythias Hall 726 FLEMING STREET (3rd Floor) GUEST SPEAKER: REV. W. J. ASHWORTH Pastor, Fleming Street Methodist Church BLESSINGS . INSPIRATIONS Come... Bring A Friend Ley Memorial Methodist Church | “The Church with a Welcome” CGRNER of TRUMAN AVENUE and GEORGIA STHEET ELDON SIMMONS. Pastor CHURCH SCHOOL, 9:45 A.M. Miss Miriam Carey, Supt. {0:50 A.M., Morning Worship (Nursery Provided During Morning Service) SUBJECT: “CHRISTIANITY AS A WAY" 6:45 P.M., Methodist Youth Fellowship 7:30 P.M., Evening Worship SUBJECT: “AN ALL-OUT CHRISTIAN” Wednesday, 7:30 P.M., Mid-Week Prayer Service “DON'T WASTE WASTEPAPER™ enn ane ee ee St. Paul's Episcopal Church SRE RATTOHN SRAM Rector 7:30 A.M.—Holy Eucharist 9:30 A.M.—Church School 10:15 A.M.—Rector’s Adult Class I 11:00 A.M.—Choral Eucharist and Sermon (To Be Broadcast Over Station WKWF) Nursery Conducted During Service 6:30 P.M—Young People’s Service League 7:3C P.M.—Evening Prayer and Sermon st Baptist Chureh Eaton and Bahama Streets ALLEN ROBINSON, MINISTER Welcome To All Sermons: A.M., 10:50. and P.M., 7:30 Sunday School, 9:30 A.M. Mr, Lee Skaggs, Superintendent Baptist Training Union, 6:15 P.M. Mr. Benjamin Skelton, Director OUR CHURCH NURSERY-—AGES: 0-4 ACCEPTED NURSERY MAINTAINED ALL SUNDAY doin FELLOWSHIP HOUR: 8:30 P.M. lowing Sunday's P.M. Service (Get fuain' Note: Morning Worship Hours arranged especially so that all Servicemen may return to the base for Sunday Chow. OUR WELCOME TO YOU COMES FROM THE HEART “A Friendly Church”