Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-11
CHURCHES UNITE
IN CONFERENCE
UNiTARlANs AND UNIvERsALlaTs
TO JOIN SESSIONS
Annual Meeting Of the Two Bodies
VIII Be Held In Pasadena Next
Tuesday Evening and
Wednesday

The annual union conference of the
Unitarian and Universalist churches OF
Southern California will be held at the
First Universalist church at Pasadena
next Tuesday evening. continuing over
Wednesday evening All the churches Of
these denominations in Southern Cali
fornia will be represented and the liberal
religion will be discussed In all its phases
Tuesday evening Judge N. p. Conrey
president of the conference, will make
short opening address, followed by the
conference sermon by Rev. G. w. Wendte
and organization of the conference.
Wednesday morning the reports from
the various churches will be given, and
at II o'clock Rev Maxwell Savage of
Redlands will read a paper on Recent
Developments in Liberal Thought" At 2
O'Clock in the afternoon Rev. II. q. Ben
ton Of Riverside will speak on THE Re-
lation of the Liberal Religion to the
Social Question" At o'clock Mrs. II. r.
Boynton of Los Angeles will speak on
How Shall We Teach Our Children to
BE Fervent in Spirit?'
Wednesday evening a platform meeting
will be held, addressed by Rev Benjamin
A. Goodridge of Santa Barbara on "a
Positive Liberal Gospel and Rev. G. E.
Nash of Los Angeles on liberalism and
Missionary Spirit
Rev. C. w. Wendte, who will take part
in the conference, is we'll known in Los
Angeles and vicinity, having served as
pastor of the Church of the Unity pre-
ceding the pastorate of Rev. c. ]. K
Jones. He is now representing the Bill
ings Lecture Foundation of Boston in
the interest of spreading the work of the
Unitarian church. He will remain on the
Pacific coast a month.
B. F. Pearson and Mr.. Tracy will have
charge of the converts meeting this
evening at the Union Rescue mission
Tomorrow evening w. w Fisher will
speak and music will be furnished by the
Lowe family. Rev. Frank T. Lea, return
ing from four years In the Congo and for
years a missionary In Africa. will speak
Monday night
To Preach on Bible Fools
Rev. ]. @. A. Henry, pastor of the First
Baptist church. has announced the fol-
lowing series of Sunday evening ser
mons on 1.-THE Fools of the Bible"
as follows: "Nabal. the Essential
Fool" "Achan, the Covetous Fool"
"Esau, the Sensual Fool;" "Nebu-
chadnezzar, the Proud Fool;" 'Belshaz-
zar. the Blasphemous FOOL" "Agrippa,
the Undecided Fool;" King Saul, Play
ing the Fool;'' THE Rich Man, Living
Like the Fool" and olives, Fool in
He'll"
Mrs John Bicheno of 2234 Inez street en-
tertained the Foreign Mission society Of
the Boyle Heights Methodist church last
Thursday afternoon.
Unity club of the Church of the Unity
held its monthly dinner and meeting last
night, at which a social time was en-
joyed. This is club Of men and has
large membership.
Rev. j. J. wilkins, dean and rector OF
ST. Paurs pro-cathedral, left for New
York city Wednesday to attend general
meeting of the Episcopal church as the
representative of the Los Angeles do
cese During his absence Rev. L. M.
1dleman, the curate, will have charge or
the services.
Gods True, Revelation" will be the
| topic of Rev "A. B. Prichard, pastor of
the Central Presbyterian church, tomor-
row morning. In the evening he will
speak on Many Versus One" Rev. DR.
Prichard will resume his Young Peoples
Rible class next Wednesday evening
Supper will be served at o'clock, after
which the Gospel according to John will
be studied Beginning in February the
Acts will be taken up.
The anual meeting and supper of the
Church of the Unity will be held Monday
evening. Supper will be served at 6:S0
o'clock, followed by the election OF trus-
tees.
Second Church of Christ, Scientist, will
hold the usual services tomorrow at II a.
M and D. m. at Simpson auditorium. 1874
South Hope street. The lesson sermon
will be from the Christian Science Quar-
terly, the subject being Sacrament"
The reading will be from the Bible, with
correlative passages from the Christian
Science textbook. Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures"
Introduces New Features
DR.. s. Hecht rabbi OF the Temple B'nal
Birth, has introduced a new feature Into
Inc hA or
Sabbath eve of each month to a ritual
and musical service. The usual ritual
will be carried out and the choir will rem
der a special musical program. The first
| service will be held Friday evening, jan
uary 81.
Robert A. Tibbs closed his series Of
stereopticon lectures on America" last
night at the Central baptist church.
''Virgil's Motto" will be the topic OF
Rev. A. S. Phelps. pastor of the Central
Baptist church, tomorrow morning In
the evening he will speak on "A Story /
Like to Read" Next Wednesday evening
Mrs. Anna Murdock, who was graduate
| from the Chicago Training School for
Young Women and a missionary worker
| for the institution, will speak On the
work of the school at this church. This
school prepares women for missionary
work in the large cities.
| Bishop Conaty will go to Redlands to
address the chamber of commerce ban
quet at that place next Tuesday night.
| At the end of the week he will go to the
northern part of the diocese for confrma-
tions, and will lecture at Monterey and
Arroyo Grande. The bishop will be absent
about one week
A new room has been completed and
added to St. Patricks parochial school.
which was opened last week, following
the Christmas vacation.
81 xr,fn .Arn onh a n
o'clock mass tomorrow morning at the
Cathedral of st. Vibiana, and in the
evening Rev. ]. M. w. Beaudry will
speak. Rev Francis Conaty will have
charge of the holy hour service Wednes~
day evening. The Young Ladies' sodality
of the cathedral will hold a meeting in
the new hall tomorrow afternoon at 3
o'clock.
Very Rev. DIR. Joseph S. Glass, presi-
dent of ST. Vincent's college, will preach
at the 10:45 O'Clock mass tomorrow. Rev
James Lilley will be celebrant.
as Socialism Practical?"
DR. Frederic Bell, pastor of the First
Humaiity's church, win deliver his thrill
ing lecture on us Socialism Practicable"
tomorrow night ats o'clock In Symphony
hall 2S2 South Hill street. The doctor
will sing Henry Russells graphic and
descriptive song Man the Lifeboat."
All interested in Socialism are invited to
attend. Doors open at 1880. Silver offer
ing upon entering.
Rev. Arthur sheldrick of the Moody