Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-02

Who will celebrate his twelfth anni-
versary Sunday
morning Rev. William Spurgeon of
London will preach, and in the evening
William Murphy, the great temperance
evangelist, will speak on Salvation
from the Drink"
Elect Church Officers
The following officers have been
elected for the Church of the Epiphany:
Rev. E. II. Howe, rector; w. III. Fill
more, George Street, Henry 70. Brett,
John Cook, A. X. Smith, Robert Dob
son, John G.. Greer, J. s. Appelford, A.
H. Hand and william Fort, yestrymen.
The Mems club of this church has
elected officers as follows for the en-
suing year Alfred Moore, president;
Henry E. Brett, vice president; Alfred
H. Hand, secretary and treasurer;
Robert Dobson and William Port,
directors.
A reception was rendered Rev. e. II.
Howe, rector of the Church of the
Epiphany last Monday night at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Dobson.
1927 North Griffin avenue. Bishop
Johnson, Rev. Henderson Judd, DR..
Trew and DR.. Dyer were present and
made addresses.
"Consummation" will be the subject
of Rev. Burt Estes Howard tomorrow
morning at the First Unitarian church.
E. A. X. Hackett, editor of the Fort
Wayne Sentinel, will speak tomorrow
morning at the Westlake Presbyterian
church. Rev. j. H. Laughlin of Oak
land will speak at the evening service.
Rev. Mr. Laughlin is well posted on
the Chinese and Japanese problems on
the Pacific coast and will speak tomor-
row evening on O missionary topic.
The usual Saturday evening converts
meeting will be held tonight at the
Union Rescue mission. Tomorrow even
will speak. Monday night the young
people of the Emmanuel Presbyterian
church will have charge of the service.
Rev. Mr.. Taylor will make an address.
Rev. Mr.. spurgeon to Speak
The Young Mems Christian associa-
tion will hold it's mems meeting Sunday
| at the Areodrome theater, 642-646 South
| Broadway. Rev. William Spurgeon of
London will be the speaker. Rev. VIM.
! Spurgeon is a cousin of the late Rev.
| Charles Spurgeon whose name is known
throughout the Christian world. Prof.
p. p. Bilhorn, who has so delighted the
people of Los Angeles with his singing,
will be on the program for several
numbers.
The home hour will be held at Asso-
! citation building, 621h South Broadway,
at 2:3O and the mems meeting at $3.50,
| The following Sunday the association
will have for its speaker Rev. David
Russell, one of the most prominent
ministers of South Africa.
Men everywhere are cordially invited
to the association meetings.
A special evangelistic service will be
held in the Bible Institute hall, 260-264
| South Main street, Sunday at 7:45 p. m.
! Revs. Messrs. Horton, Hadden and
Todd will have charge of the service.
| A business mems prayer service will
be held at 1915 p. m. daily during next
week in the Bible Institute. Popular
| Bible classes taught by Revs. T. G.
Horton and r. A. Hadden will be held
| Tuesday and Friday nights. All Bible
and music classes, both. day and even
ing, are free and open to the public.
The Bible Institute has lately insti-
| tuted class for those who desire to
study the Spanish language in order
that they may be fitted to do Christian
work among Spanish speaking people,
| The new class meets Fridays at p. m.
| and will be taught by L. HI. Jamison.
To Speak on Race Track Evils
Many of the city pastors will preach
| tomorrow against the race track evils.
| The day has been set apart as gen.
eral protest and in many cases short
preludes will be given on the subject
preceding the regular sermons.
| Dr. William Horace Day, pastor Of
the First Congregational church, will
preach an anti-race track sermon at
| tie monrning service on Horses or
Men?" In the evening Or. Day will
preach on "Our Indians" He was a
member of the Indian conference at
Riverside and will give an interesting
ltalk on the results of that unique gath
| ering.
The anniversary of the birthday Of
Ralph Waldo Emerson VIII be cele-
brated at the Los Angeles Fellowship
Mrs. Benjamin Fay Mills address will
be "Emerison, the Greatest Modern
| Prophet" Mrs. Mills has been most
profound student and teacher of Mr..
Emerson for great many years, and
| there is probably no person that Is
more competent of delivering g. bio
graphical lecture upon this subject and
throw into it more true interpreta-
ton of the mans life and teaching,
| Alfred Walper the violinist, will play
"Larghetto," by Cartini
Preceding this main service the
Young Mems lyceum will meet in room
100, 1872 South Hill street, at $3.50 a. m.
to be addressed by F. c. Fuller on "a
Practical Method for Promoting Peace"
Rev. A. S. Phelps, pastor of the Cen
tral Baptist church, will speak tomor-
row morning on Jehovah Titles" which
will be a blackboard talk to the chill
dren. The evening topic will be "A
Story of Olden Times"
The Baptist Social union will meet
next Tuesday evening at supper at
the Westminster. A social hour will be
held from until o'clock, when the
supper will be served. j. Levering of
Baltimore, at one time a presidential
candidate on the Prohibition ticket, will
be the guest of honor.
viii Hold Public Debate
A public debate will be held next
Tuesday evening under the auspices of
the Los Angeles Fellowship. The sub
jecU will be: Resolved, That Imme-
diate Disarmament by America would
better promote international peace
than a great navy" Reynold r. Blight
will take the affirmative and Rev. G. G.
Pierce the negative. Thomas X. Kase.
chairman of the Fellowship public SER
vice committee, will preside and gem
eral discussion will follow.
At the Figueroa Street Baptist
church, corner Figueroa and Forty
ninth streets, the pastor, Edward III.
Brooks, will preach in the morning on
4 the subject "A Striking Phenomenon in
Religion" which will be followed with
the communion service. The evening
topic will be "The Old and the New
Patriotism"
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