The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-23
DAY OF THANKS.
There Will Be Service in Nearly
All Churches.
The Central Meeting Has Been
Abandoned.
PREACH SERMONS
Nearly All Pastors to Make
Short Talks.
Newsboys' Dinner and Reads
Lecture at Auditorium.

| There will be no union Thanksgiving
Day services in the Topeka churches or
Thursday as has been the custom il
years past. This step was decided upor
| by the Ministerial Union some weeks
ago, it being deemed better to let each
church celebrate Thanks Day in a man
ner peculiar to it's mind.
At no place in the city have elabor-
ate plans been made. In about hall
the houses of worship the service will
take place at the regular Thursday ev-
ening prayer meeting. While all of the
churches will have extra music on the
programme, it will be of no more ex-
tensive character, however, than is CIV
en- regularly every Sabbath morning.
Two Topeka churches will unite in
their services-the First Presbyterian
and the Westminster Presbyterian.
Rev. Frank Ward of the latter church
will deliver the sermon. The regular
quartette will sing. The collection will
be equally divided between the Crit
tenden Home and the Provident Asso-
citation.
The Episcopal chuYch will have two
services. At 1880 the services of the
Holy Communion will be celebrated. At
1880 a. m. the regular full service will
take place, Bishop MillSpaugh in charge.
The First and Third Christian church
lar prayer meetings which come every
Thursday night. Special music and ad-
dresses will be on the programme.
The First Methodist church will hold
its services at IL o'clock Rev. w. c..
Evans will preach the sermon. Special
music has been arranged.
No services will be held at the Eng
lish Lutheran church. The building is
undergoing repairs and cannot be used
on Thursday.
At the First congregational church
the services will be held at 1880 o'clock
in the evening at the regular prayer
meeting hour. Rev. F. L. Hayes will
make an address. Special music will
be offered.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist.
will hold services at IL o'clock a. m.
The subject: Thanksgiving"
There will be no services at the Uni
tartan church.
DR.. c. NJ. Sheldon will preach at the
Central congregational church at IL
o'clock. The collection will be given
to the Industrial Institute.
There will be no services at the
Church of the Assumption except the
usual morning devotion.
The church services have seldom been
so light as they promise to be this year.
The preparations are not nearly SO ex-
tensive for Thursday as they usually
are. Probably one-third of the churches
have no exercises at all beside the reg
ular Thursday evening hour usually
termed prayer meeting"
About rs newsboys will get their an
nual Thanksgiving dinner as of yore in
the Newsboys Home at the corner of
Fourth and Jackson streets. Turkey,
cranberries, pies and cakes will be
served to them to their hearts content.
About the same number will blossom
out in new suits at that dinner, which
they earned by selling 20 tickets each
to the lecture to be given by Opie Read
in the Auditorium on Thanksgiving
morning The boys took a great inter
est in earning their tickets and good
crowd is assured the noted writer.
The Salvation Army will not give
Thanksgiving dinner but will devote all
of its attention to Christmas at which
time the organization is planning to
feed at least 1000 poor in their hall on
lower Kansas avenue. Work will be
commenced at once to canvass the en-
tire city for donations and Captain
Stinett who is in charge of the Topeka
Army urges that people who plan to
give prepare their contributions now so
that every thing will be in readiness
by the Christmas tide.