The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-25

UNION AND SPECIAL SERVICES Az
WE'LL, PLANNED BY CHURCHES
Downtown Congregations Will Unite
at Wesley Church Thursday Morning;
When DR.. Thompson Will Preach
thanksgiving Plans of Other
Churches Announced.

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Churches Announced.
Minneapolis churches with hardly an
1 exception, will hold special services
commemorative of the Thanksgiving
season. ON Thanksgiving day, there
Will be interesting union services, To.
cay there will be Thanksgiving SER
mons at many individual churches.
Ihanksglvlng services for the down
Town dlstr1ct, comprising Westminster.
First Baptist, Plymouth, Friends Hens
nepin Avenue Methodist and Wesley.
churches, will be held at Wesley church
thursday morning at 1890 O'Clock.
The sermon will be preached by DR.. Fss
l., Thompson Of Hennepin Avenue
church. The pastors Of the churches
named will participate in the service,
Wesley choir led by. Professor Willard
Patten and the offering will be divided
between the Union City Mission; the
MATERNITY Hospital and the Florence
Crittenton Home. The hour will be
1920, the regular church hour. This is
a departure from the custom of former
years, when, the hour. has been II
CLOCK, but the idea prevails that the
regular hour for church service will be
most satisfactory. DR.. L. T. Guild "a
Wesley church will preside.
Thanksgiving service will be held III
Calvary Baptist on Thursday at IL am,
DR.. Fowler will speak upon "The Prob.
lem of American Progress.' Precede
Ing the service at 10 O'Clock special
held. - -
There will be union Thanksgiving
service at the Tabernacle Baptist
church, Twenty-third avenue S and
Eighth street, Thanksgiving day at 8
Riverside chapel, will preach the ser
mon, and the choir of Tabernacle Baps
fist church will furnish special music.
Pastor Gamble and his people will wei
come not only the churches uniting, but
all people Of the neighborhood to the
service. = $50 * -
A special Thanksgiving program will
be given this evening at the Linden
Hills Congregational church. AS the
national Thanksgiving in this country
is not church institution, but civil
call to business men to give thanks for
temporal benefits and commercial pros
perity, the meeting will be addressed,
by several of the business men of the
congregation. Among those on the pro-
gram will be R. NJ. Hays, Leroy.
Goodspeed, E. M. Brooks, w. H. ste
phenson and James Gray. ~
"A large. chorus choir will render q
thanksgiving song service at the I'm
manuel Baptist church this morning. In
the evening Pastor w. Edgar Wood
ruff will give his third talk in series
| ct sermons entitled HPlain Talks to In
dividuals. !" These talks are Just what
the name implies--plain but forceful.
Last Sunday evening he spoke to a
lgoodly number Of railroad men and
travelling statesmen on >"To the Man Of
talk will be s'The Young Woman Who.
Earns a Livelihood" Unique features
will be a taking charge of the usher
ing, singing, ETC., by the young, women
of the church. They will be the hos
tesses of the evening, and extend e
cordial invitation to all especially ia
the young women Of the city who ara
earning their own living.
Rev. Leavitt 81. Hallock will preach
at Plymouth church this morning on
the text, "Law-abiding. In the even
ing the choir assisted BY large chorus
will give Thanksgiving praise serv-
ice. On Monday at 4 'c1ock the coHa-
mittee. on benevolence for 1907 VIII
meet in the PASTORS study and will
grant a hearing to any who wish the
schedule modified: The regular weekly
| evening this week, also the Bible Study
club which meets at 7 clock. "A very
interesting program of dramatic read
ings are in preparation by the pastor
for the Sunday evenings of December.
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| At Westminster church this morning
at 1880 O'Clock DR.. Bushnell will
preach a sermon Of special value to all
who Sa are in IN .sHs in c the child; T
Friends. -" In the evening at 7:45
o o'clock the sermon subject is Rational
| Temperance. The fourth Sunday Of
| November is widely observed both in
! this country and in Great Britain as
the world Is temperance Sunday.
| On Tuesday evening a general church
reception for all members Of tho church
and congregation will be held in the.
parlors from to 10 clock.
"Frosted Men, is Dr.. Fayette ID
Thompson s. concluding sermon in the
auturnnal series at Hennepin Avenus3
church tonight. DR.. Thompson has al
Sunday night message to the frosted. =
Liz regular. u1OuGH1y meeting OF Tue
Minnesota Pentecostal association VIII
be held at Asbury Methodist church,
| St. Paul, Tuesday, Nov. 81. Take East
| Seventh street car to Frank street.
At, Calvary Baptist church this MORN
ing DR.. Fowler will speak on ssThel
Tent and the City" In the evening the
Sunday school will give sacred con
cert with recitations and special music. ]
| An address will be given by harrington
Beard. Mrs. Eleanor Nesbit will siHgl
and Miss Ruth Whistler will give a
reading.
DR.. w. II. Jordan will preach this
morning at the First NJ. 3. church, theF
third in the series on ttQuestions OF
Christian Conduct. - The topic will be-
stThe Tongue Unbridled.'' In the eveh,b
ing he will deliver the third in the
DER Topic, g My Ambition These
series have created a great deal Of
interest and people have been attending
from distant parts Of the city. The.
union Thanksgiving service will be held
in the First M. E. church on Thursday,
morning at 1880. Sermon by Rev. Mr..
McCrossan. i
This morning at the Fowler Methodist
Ichurch, Franklin and Dupont avenues
DR.. Samuel P.Long, presiding elder 6f
the Minneapolis district, will preach;
also in the evening at s7;:45 Dr. Long