Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-06-06
IN PULPIT AND PEW.
The News of the Various Churches at Home
and Abroad.

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Divine services will be held in the
Lutheran Church in Shepherdstown
next Sabbath morning at 1870 o clock
The pastor expects to have with him
in the pulpit Rev. D. NJ. Moser or one
of his western friends now in attend
ance at the General Synod at Hagers-
town. At p. IN. the Christian En-
deavor meeting will be addressed by
the visiting clergyman. Every mem
Der of the society and our young peo-
pie generally are urged to be present.
At s p. m. the baccalaureate service,
opening the commencement exercises
ofShepherd College, will be held. The
pastor, Rev. C. H. Hockey, will deliv-
er the address to the graduating class.
Seats will be reserved for the class Of
1895 and all students of the college.
The public is most cordially invited
to this the first baccalaureate service.
The members of Shepherdstown
Camp of Confederate Veterans to the
number of about forty attended a me-
mortal service in the Lutheran Church
last Sunday night. The veterans
marched in a body to the church,
where seats were reserved for them.
The pastor, Rev. c. H. Rockey,
preached an appropriate sermon which
was listened to with close attention
by the soldiers and the large congre-
cation that was present. The music
was fitting to the occasion and the
church was decorated with stacked
arms and flowers in red, white and red.
The service was an enjoyable one.
The thirty-seventh convention of
the General Synod Of the Lutheran
Church met in st. Johns Lutheran
Church at Hagerstown yesterday. The
General Synod is the most important
of the general Lutheran bodies in this
country, representing, as it does,
twenty-five local synods, l,505 congre-
cations and l ,l27 ministers, with $780,
200 communicate members. Of the
$50 delegates to the convention III
are clerical and 112 lay delegates.
The others are secretaries of boards
and other officers and members Of
standing church committees.
The eighteenth annual session of the
Episcopal Council for the Diocese of
West Virginia began in Zion Episcopal
Church in Charlestown yesterday.
The council sermon was delivered by
Rev. DR.. D. F. Forrest Of Clarksburg.
Bishop George W. Peterkin admins
tered the holy communion, assisted by
Rev. Mr.. Gravatt, rector Of the parish.
After the services the bishop called
the council to order. The roll of
clergy and lay delegates was called,
and twenty-five clerical and twenty
four lay delegates answered to their
names.
Services in Southern Methodist
Churches next Sunday Children's day
exercises, consisting of interesting and
instructive programmes, at Uvilla at
10 a. m, Bethesda at go p. M, and
Shepherdstown at 5.30p. m. Preach
ing with special reference to children's
day and its object at s P. m. by Rev,
A. A. P. Neel in Shepherdstown.
Preaching at Bakerton at 8p. m. by
Rev. F. A. Strother
Services at the NJ. f. churches on
next Sunday as follows Children's
day service at Mt. Wesley at 1870 a.
H.; Epworth League meeting at Shep-
herdstown at 6.3Op. m; preaching by
the pastor at $50 P. m. The chill
dren's day service at ShepherdstOwn
is postponed until Sunday, June ODD.
A number of Trinity Parish members
are attending the Episcopal Council in
Charlestown this week. Miss Reed,
Mrs. J. H. Shepherd and Miss Ellen
Bilmyer are appointed to meet the
auxiliary of Zion Church.
The services in the Catholic Church
in Shepherdstown will be as follows
Mass next Sunday morning at IL
o'clock, vespers in the evening at 7.3O,
and mass the following morning at s
o'clock.
There will be no service in the Pres
byterian Church Sunday, as the pastor
will be absent.