The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-14

Tuesday evening, Oct. %, for the benefit
of the Womans Association of the
church.
The quartet will be assisted by Miss
/ Marie Nichols, violinist, of Boston.
Miss Nichols is very highly recon-
mended as an artist Emil Mollenhau-
er says that she is without doubt the
best pupil he has ever mad.
| A musical service consisting Of Sc
Creation" was attraction enough last
night to fill Piedmont Church to the
| doors. The parts selected were such
as to give the complete account Of the
| creation as described in Genesis. At
the appropriate intervals during the
singing the Scripture narrative was
read by Rev. Frank H. Allen. who sup
piled the pulpit yesterday owing to the
absence of Rev. DR.. Willard Scott, who
is attending the Congregational Coun-
Gil at Portland. Mr. Allen also read
the soprano recitative And God said,
let the earth bring forth grass" as
Mrs. Caroline T. Shepard, the soprano
of the choir, had severe cold and was
unable to sing the solo parts.
The work of Clarence B. Shirley, ten
or and director, was especially good in
the aria I'm native worth and beauty
clad"
After the offering Mrs Dorathy Nc
Taggart Miller sang the alto solo"Fear
not, o Israel" by Buck.
Then Rev. Mr.. Allen gave a short
address giving a brief sketch of
Haydn's life and his purpose in writ
ing the Creation"
Yesterday was rally Sunday at the
Church of Christ. Rev. DR.. ]. M. Van
Horn spoke on Sunday school work, at
the 1890 "a. m. service, using as sort
of text the motto of one of the largest
Sunday schools in the Country" In
gathering, Upbuilding, CHARACTERIZATION"
There was a special selection by the
choir-"Send out Thy Light" Bible
school was at 1910 with an attendance
of 160 The usual number is 1875. A
rally song was sung, Charles Bruning-
haus offered prayer, Albert Bellingham
sang, Miss Maragret Keyes read and
John F. Reyes gave a chalk talk on
1.-The Sunday School Pupil"
Dark Days and Their Lessons" was
the topic of the Senior Christian En-
deavor meeting at 5.45 p. m. Mrs. H
L. McClusky led
At Z p. M, the usual service was hello
Solos were sung by Mrs. C. E. Burn
ham and Albert Bellingham, with Fred
Bailey at the organ. The pastors adj
dress was on death and judgment
Three persons were baptized at tht
close of the service.
The annual harvest concert at
Webster Square Church was held last
might. The exercises began at 6
Io'clock and were in charge of William
Anderson Barrows. Miss Nash was at
the organ. The church was decorated
with autumn flowers and foliage Fol
lowing the concert a gospel service
was conducted by Rev. b. F. Kingsley
THE concert program was
Organ voluntary, selection oy the
choir reading of the Gath psalm, prayer,
selection by the choir, recitation,
Flora Wilbur reading, Hattie fainter,
selection by the choir, Rotations, Jen-
ME Wray, Charles Stearns, William
Wylie. selections by the choir, recita-
lions, Thomas Wylie, Harold Johnston,
selection by the choir, selection by a
group Of children, exercise by Mrs.
jerks class, recitation Fred Johnston,
exercise by Miss Hattie Tainter'S class,
exercise by Mrs. Thomas class, selec-
ton by the choir, exercise by five
girls, exercise by group of young peo-
pie, selection by the choir, reading,
Miss Bacon, song by congregations
with solo by Mrs. Smith.
Rev. Frank o. Hall, D. D., of North
Cambridge delivered a stereopticon
lecture on How the Bible Came Down
to U.s." in the First Universalist
Church last night. The church was
| filled with an interested audience and
many expressions of satisfaction were
heard at the close of the lecture, when
many of those present remained to
meet DR.. Hall. He was classmate
of Rev, Vincent E. Tomlinson's at
Tufts Divinity School and delivered the
address at Mr. Tcmlinson's installa-
ton as minister of the First Universe
| list Church about a year and a half
ago. DR.. Hall was the guest of Archi-
bald McDermid, 81 Shatuck Street,
last night.
The lecturer took his hearers back to
the days of early Bedouin tradition
and by verbal account and stereopticon
views traced the history of the Bible
through the memorizing of tradition by
Jewish rabbis, the picture writing OF
the Egyptians, the use of alphabetical
characters by the Phoenicians, who
first put into form the Old Testament.
ZINE hebrews IOlOW6u the IhOSAlSidiio
in this. The Greeks took their alpha
bet from the Phoenicians and the New
Testament appeared in Greek. Then
came the Latin, from the Greek. The
Latin foundation is beneath the Bible
of today
The earliest books are temples,
obelisks, etc, with their hieroglyph-
lical stories The monuments Of
Asyria and Babylonia contain the an
cient records of the Bible history
When the Jews were captives in
IBabylonia they became familiar with
lBabylonian tradition.
From stone to trees the records ran
land birch bark bore the next accounts
of thought and action.
Following this came the writing OF
manuscripts by monks. The first
printed page dates back 300 years.
There are today no original manu-
lscripts or parts of manuscripts of the
Bible The Hebrew Bible is not more
than 1000 years old.
The Samaritan book is Of ancient
date.
DIR. Hall continued his account from
the earliest records through the period
lof the reformation when Luther made
the Bible a familiar book to the COM
lmon people, down to the present day.
Now a. complete Bible comes into ex-
listence every four seconds Of the day
and night.
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