The San Francisco call., 1906-11-25
Mefhodisfs

Following is the order Of services
that will be followed at the union OBJ
servance of Thanksgiving by Methodist
Episcopal churches in the California
M. E. Church, Rev. H E. Milne pastor,
at Broderick and California streets, on
Thursday morning next
Voluntary; hymn; prayer, Rev.
George w. White of Wesley Church;
anthem proclamation of thanksg giving,
read by Rev A. c. Bane of the Howard
street Church. selections by the quar-
tet; Scriptures. by Rev. Karl Warner
of Trinity Church.; offertory; hymn;
sermon, by Rev. G. A. Hough of Grace
Church; anthem, hymn; benediction.
Rev. E. G. Keith.
The offertory at the union Thanks
giving service will be divided between
the Mckinley Orphanage of this city
and the Deaconess Home.
The meeting of the Methodist
Preachers Association in Wesley
Church last Monday was presided over
by E. r. Willis, D. D.. the president,
who a few days previously returned
from the East.
Rev. Mr. Alexander of Japan was In
troduced..
Rev. Mr.. Angwin of Vallejo addressed
the meeting and told Of the Municipal
Leagues efforts to regulate the liquor
traffic in that city. He said that 1t
had been discovered that IL the liquor
business there was not regulated the
navy yard would shut down and the
city would go down. He. said that 1t
was slow work for the league to COM
bat the influence of the combined 125
saloon-keepers. but that one citizen,
named Brown, without consulting any
one as to his intentions, placed him
self in communication with Secretary
d., he
conditions before him. The answer
was a letter to the Mayor Of the city
to the effect that the number of sa
looms should be reduced one-half, that
those that were tolerated should close
at midnight and on Sundays and holi-
days, and that other reforms should
be instituted This, he said, caused
the Mayor to write a letter to the
Secretary, setting forth that one-half
of what had been written was exag-
geration and the other half lies. This
was. received by Secretary Bonaparte
at time Mr. Brown was visiting him.
and he showed him the letter. which
resulted in the Secretary sending
letter strong and stiff, to the Mayor,
giving him to understand that the
liquor traffic in that city was up
against it, The action of Mr.. Brown
had strengthened the Municipal League.
and it would now insist on carrying
out, in addition to demand for a $500
license, the suggestions of the Secre-.
tary of the Navy, Pastor Angwin saidl
The preacher then spoke of visits to
the war vessels and of having had a
reunion of more than thirty Metho-
dist boys of Uncle Sans navy in the
church, which proved a glorious meet
ing.
Rev. Mr. squires announced that
there would be Thanksgiving service
in the churches of the extreme West
Side.
The paper for the day was by Rev.
Mr.. Vale of the Japanese mission OF
this city. who for nearly twenty years
was teacher and evangelist in Japan.
He gave an interesting, detailed ac-
count of the manner In which educa-
tion is conducted In that country. The
system there includes the primary
grade the middle grade. the intermedi-
ate, the grammar, the high school. the
college and the university. There is
no co-education of the boys and girls.
The children that are eligible to the
grade above the primary must go to
school, as education is compulsory In
the higher grades the pupils are in
structed in Japanese, English and Ger
man. The pupils are guided by code
of morals; there is but little said about
God. For want of accommodation not
more than 40 per cent of those who
graduate from the grammar grade can
be accepted in the college course, but
there is no lack of room for those who
desire to enter the universities Those
who are admitted to the college course
are taken in only after a competitive
examination.
The speaker was given a vote of
thanks for his instructive and interest
ing talk and he promised, at another
time, to talk of evangelization in the
Orient.