Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-24
WILL DEDICATE
/. SHERMAN CHURCH
ENTIRE PROPERTY GIVEN BY
VICTOR PONET
Bethlehem institutional Plans Monster
international Fellowship Thanks
giving Dinner at Building
on Vienes Street

giving Dinner at Building
on Vienes Street
Bishop Conaty will dedicate the new
Church of ST. Victor at Sherman next
Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. 1t
is expected that about thirty priests
of the diocese will participate in the
ceremonies. The church, with its en-
tire furnishings, including gold sane
! tuary set and five sets of vestments
and an acre of land, is the gift of Vic
tor Ponet. The building is of rural
style, very picturesque. The main al
tar is OF white and gold, surmounted
by a stained glass window. On either
side are statues of st. Joseph and st.
Victor. The shrines of the Sacred
Heart and the Queen of Heaven are in
natural wood finish The sanctuary
carpet is green velvet. The pipe or
gan is the gift of Nine. Ida Hancock
A special car for the bishop and
priests will leave Los Angeles at 3
o'clock Rt. Rev. Monsignor Harnett
the bishop, Very Rev. DR.. Glass, c..
M, will be celebrant of the mass Rev.
! j. j. Clifford, deacon; Rev. George G..
Frund, sub-deacon; Rev. J. A. Rear
don, master of ceremonies to the
bishop; Rev. F. ]. Conaty. master of
ceremonies.
Bethlehem Institutional church will
be the scene of a monster interna-
tional fellowship Thanksgiving dinner
next Thursday.
Children of the El Hogar Feliz
classes will be given Thanksgiving
dinner this afternoon at o'clock at
the Plaza church.
Women of the Sacred Heart church
will give a Thanksgiving dinner in
the parish hall next Thursday. A
bazar TO continue over Saturday will
also be opened. Thursday evening the
Shakespeare club of the parish Will
: present the farce, "Too Late for Di-
vorce."
Rev. A. S. Phelps, pastor of the
Central Baptist church, will take foi
his topic tomorrow evening, What the
Bible Says About Heaven; Who Will
Go There and What Thev VIII Do"
The annual Christmas sale of the
Altar guild of ST. Pauls Pro-cathedral
will be held December S in the banquet
room of the Alexandria.
Will Organize Church
The Edgewood Park Presbyterian
church will be organized the first Sun
day of December at the corner of
Avenue Twenty eight and Huron
street mission has been conducted
the past three months by Rev. E. A.
Shields, who will be pastor of the new
church.
'0Taxaton," the sermon delivered last
Sunday evening by DIR. j. j. Wilkins
at st. Pauls pro-cathedral, will be re-
peated tomorrow evening by request.
The Foreign Missionary society of
the Memorial Methodist church of
Hollywood, has observed the annual
week of prayer the present week.
"What the Church Ought to Do With
the Saloon will be the topic of Rev.
Alfred Inwood, pastor of the Boyle
Heights Methodist church, tomorrow
| evening.
Sanford B. Kurtz, former general
secretary of the Y. M. C. A., will speak
at the mems meeting tomorrow after
noon at the association. Mr.. Kurtz is
on his way to the Philippines as a
missionary.
1t is understood that Monsignor
Adams, former vicar general of this
diocese, who now resides in Spain, will
visit California again and that he Will
be present for the cornerstone laying
of the new Cathedral of st. Vibiana.
Work will be commenced in about two
months.
Rev. William Horace Day, pastor of
the First Congregational church, and
wife are expected to arrive in san
Francisco next Tuesday on the ST.
beria from the Orient. They will prob
ably arrive in Los Angeles some time
| Wednesday.
A new rescue mission has been
opened at COG East Fifth street near
the Arcade depot, which will have a
free reading room and employment
agency. Edward p. Leary is the super
| intendent.
At the prayer meeting Wednesday
evening resolutions of respect for the
character and memory of the late
| Deacon William Harris Rider and ex-
pressive of sympathy for the afhicted
family were adopted by the Temple
Baptist church and special resolutions
were also adopted by the women's So
The Temple Baptist church has de-
cided to rent sittings in the auditorium
boxes to such persons as desire TO Sc
cure them; all the other seats IN the
house, numbering over 2OOO,' to remain
free although permanent sittings will
i be assigned to members OF the church
and the regular congregation
Infant Is consecrated
AT the wednesday night prayer
meeting of the Temple Baptist church
a beautiful and simple conservation
service was held at the presentation
of the infant child of Major and Mrs.
j. r. Elwell The service consisted OF
appropriate scripture, the promise or
the parents, the giving OF her name TO
little edith Catherine anu tne
prayer OF conservation by fastor
| Robert j. Burdette.
The First New Testament church IS
Conducting gospel meetings in tent
at 24OO Pasadena avenue. James wat
son Is the evangelist.
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
Methodist church VIII give Iscep-
tion i'm honor of Rev. robert Moih-
tyre. the pastor, and the wife and the
new members of the church. next
TUESDAY evening in the social hall.