The San Francisco call., 1904-11-21
OFFER THANKS
At THE ALTAR
Congregations Worship at
Special Services in OBJ
servance of the Holiday
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
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Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
1915 Broadway Nov. 20
Thanksgiving services marked the
worship to-day in several churches.
Union services of the downtown evan
gelical churches will be held Thursday
morning at 1890 o'clock at the First
Methodist Church. The Presbyterian,
Methodist, Congregational, Baptist,
Christian. United Presbyterian and
Lutheran congregations Will take part.
The Rev. Thomas n. Boyer, pastor of
the First Christian Church, will preach
the sermon.
During the services a special pro-
gramme of music will be rendered by
the First Methodist Church choir, COM.
posed of Miss Carolyn Crew, Miss Car
lotta Stockdill, Miss Mabel Gray, Her
bert Smith and j. M. Robinson. Organ
numbers will be given by William b.
King. A Thanksgiving Offering will be
taken up for the benefit of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union
of Alameda County.
The Volunteers of America will fur
nish dinners and supplies of clothing
to poor families on Thanksgiving day.
Donations will be received at the Vol
unteers' headquarters, northeast cor
ner of Eighth street and Broadway.
Thanksgiving cantata and choral
service was given this evening at the
First Methodist Church.
Weber'S Jubilee harvest cantata
was sung this evening at the First
Congregational Church by the. chorus
choir of sixty voices, directed by Alex
ander Stewart. The soloists were Mrs.
Grace Davis NOrthrup, soprano; Mrs.
CarrOll-NicholSOn, cOntraltO; Arthur A.
Macurda tenor; Henry l.. Perry, bass;
Miss Virginie de Fremery, organist.
This was in observance of the annual
Thanksgiving praise service of the
church.
The Rev. NJ. B. Fisher, pastor of Oak
Congregational Chapel. conducted a
Thanksgiving praise service this even
ing.
The Rev c. r. Brown, pastor of the
First Congregational Church, preached
this evening at Pilgrim Congregational
Church.
Thanksgiving was the subject of
the Rev. Griffith Griffiths sermon this
morning at Market street C0ngrega-
tional Church.
At the Fourth Congregational Church
the Rev Frederic St. Maar led in a
Thanksgiving praise service this even
ing.
The Rev. David James preached to-
DAY at brooklyn RreSDyte1lan Cnurcn.
The Rev. c. l.. Hansen, presiding ell
der of the Pacific Coast district of the
Norwegian Methodist Confer
ence, preached to-day at the NorWe-
gian- Danish Methodist Church.
The First Baptist Church has in
preparation an elaborate celebration
December 4 of it's fiftieth anniversary.
Stainer's "CrucifiXion" will be sung
and an address viii be made by Benja-
min Ide Wheeler, president of the Uni
versity of California. David Starr JCr-
dan, president of Stanford University,
will speak at the mems meeting De-
cember 5.
The Rev. J. p. Calhoun, d. D., of
Pittsburg has arrived to prepare for
a great religious revival to be held
in the spring. During his stay DR..
Calhoun will confer with pastors as to
the arrangements. He preached this
morning at the First Methodist Church.
conducted a union meeting at the First
congregational Church this afternoon,
and occupied the pulpit of the First
Presbyterian Church this evening.
The Right Rev. Sidney G. Partridge,
D. D., Bishop of Kyoto. Japan. preach
ed this morning at the Church of the
Advent East Oakland. Bishop Par
fridge attended the conference of the
Episcopal Church at Boston and is on
his way back to Japan. where he has
spent twenty years in church work.