Evening star., 1903-11-25
ceries to Supply needy families for some
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n4on Of Churches

The seveTkeen BAPTIST churches in the
| District will unite at the Calvary Baptist
Church. as is tirc-custom annually, for a
union service at II o'clock tomorrow morn
ing. The Baptist Nhirches Of the District
represent membership of over 5000 per-
sons. and the service is invariably well at
| tended. This fsteht sthe sermon will be
preached by Rev. J. C. Ball. pastor of the
1 Metropolitan BaptiSt-ghurch.
| union service of Il much broader char
,naen,n ae.er will T at Wesley Chapel pc in in the
sembly's Presbyterian. Central Presbyter-
| ian. North Capitoi- Methodist Episcopal and
| Wesley Methodist Episcopal will unite for a
Thanksgiving celebration. Rev. George F.
Wilson. d. y. will preach the sermon, and
| special program of music will be offered.
| Both the Sunday school and church of
! the Washington Heights Presbyterian
| Church will take part in the service to be
held at that church tomorrow morning.
This is one of the churches where the MEM
bers OF the congregation will bring pound
| onerlnss for the, poor. Mr.. Oliver Austin
! service. and it is promised that an especial
| ly good program will be presented. Rev. E.
Lawrance Hunt will preach the sermon and
conduct the service
Services will be held at the temple of the
Washington Hebrew Congregation tomOr-
| row afternoon al ) O'Clock in commemora-
| tion of Thanksgiving day. Rabbi Stern will
conduct the service and preach the sermon,
gogue Will have charge of the music A
| special program has been prepared
Donation Day.
| Tomorrow will be donation day at sew
eral of the hospitals and dispensaries.
where clothing and other articles of COM
fort for the needy poor will be received.
At the Homeopathic Hospital. I'd and N
streets northwest a committee has been
aDDointed reseiyp. and take of the
money and supplies received as donations
from the friends of the institution and
charity workers in general This commit
tee includes Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lyman.
DR.. Ralph Jenkins, Mrs. Harrison Ding
man, Mrs. A. A Birney Miss Kate Bradley
and Mr.. Charles B. Bailey.
Staff Captain and Mrs. Johnson, from the
Baltimore Shelter Home, will conduct a
special service. at the Homeward Bound
Mission. 119 Pennsylvania avenue, tonight.
Tomorrow the Homeward Bound Mission
will give free dinners to 400 needy persons,
the menu to include turkey, cranberry
, hot coffee. The dinner will be served at 4
o'clock in the afternoon. Captain and Mrs.
Haslam will be In charge.
In Other Churches.
Rev. W. L. Deyries will conduct the
services to be held at ST. Marks Church
| tomorrow morning. Holy communion Will
be administered at 7:3O o'clock in the
morning and festival service with COM
munion and sermon will be held at II
o'clock. At o'clock in the afternoon a
Thanksgiving and presentation service
for the children will be held.
The Western Presbyterian Church will
unite with the Union Methodist Church
ir. a service at the edifice of the latter on
goth street near Pennsylvania avenue
northwest at II o'clock in the morning
Rev. Gerhart A. Wilson, ID, will preach
the sermon.
The Thanksgiving service at the Doug
las Memorial ME-. Church, corner of 18th
and H streets northeast, will be conduct
ed by Rev. G.st.I Bacon in the morning.
The service fWill finclude a sermon by the
pastor and q special musical program.
National Deliyerances and Dangers"
day sermon Of Rev. Joseph Edmund
Smith. LID, at the Grace M. E. Church.
| corner of 9th and S streets northwest
The service fKilftbe held in the morning
and Will contain several special features.
Rev. Teupis s., Hamlin, DID. pastor of
the Church of the Covenant, will ofticiate
| at the Thanksgiving exercises to be held
| at that church tomorrow morning. The
service will. .include q sermon by DR.. Ham
lin on a subject appropriate to the day and
several musical features.
| An Offering for, the Protestant Orphan
| Asylum will be collected at the, Thanksgiv-
| ing service tha that viii, be held at the New
York Avenue, Presbyterian Church tomor-
row morning ,ReF,. Wallaae Radcliffe, d.;
| D., will preach the seFmon; and m.sic will
| be furnished by the quartet choir
There will be Thanksgiving services at
| the Fourth, Presbyterian Church. corner OF
| 18th and Yale Streets northwest, tomorrow
morning. This church is celebrating its
| seventy-fifth anniversary and the service
Is to be made of especial interest on that
| account Rev. ]. I. Kelley, d. D., pastor
of the church, will preach the sermon. The
| service will begin at am.
A Thanksgiving choral service. under the
direction of DR.. J. W. Bischoff, will be held
at the First Congregat tional Church The
program will contain number of interest
ing features. among which will be an ad-
dress by the pastor, Rev. s. M. Newman
d. D. The service will begin at II o'clock.
The president of Howard University Rev
John Gordon, D. D.. will preach the SER
mon at the Lincoln Temple corner of 11th
and r streets northwest, tomorrow morn
ing. The musical program is in the hands
of the Lincoln Temple choir
The pastor of st. Marks Lutheran
Church, Rev. j. Luther Franz will occupy
the pulpit and preach the sermon at ST.
Pauls English Lutheran Church tomorrow
morning. A special Thanksgiving service
the occasion is said to be exceptionally
fine -a.
In the Institutions.
The inmates of the workhouse and aims
house, we'll the Washington Asylum
cials in charge of the institutions and their
friends tomorrow. The gangs will not be
sent out to work from the workhouse and
bountiful and elaborate dinner will be
served. .-. :,....s
At st. Elizabeth Hospital for the In
sane Thanksgiving will be remembered in
the festival style that has been the Gus
tom at that institution for a number of
years past. 1t is probable that religious
services will be held in the morning, an
ella borate dinner served In the afternoon
and an entertainment will be given at
night. Z e:
At Soldiers Home the dinner served will
be of a very elaborate character The old
soldiers will gather in their mess hall and
partake of the. good things in the after
noon. 1t is understood that religious serv-
ices will be held in the chapel in the
morning. -e4yzs
At both the two reform schools in the
District religious services appropriate to
the day will be held tomorrow morning.
There will be a cessation from all work ex-
cept the ordinary duties of the households,
and bountiful feast will be served during
the afternoon. r52s--
The orphan asylums throughout the Dis
trict will celebrate the day in their usual
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