Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-12
PASTOR OF ONE
CHURCH 18 YEARS
REV. A. C. SMlTHER TO OBJ
SERVE ANNIVERSARY
HAS PREACHED FOURTEEN HUN
DRIED SERMONS
Special Decorations and Elaborate
Musical Program Will Mark the
occasion-Reiiglous News
of Week


Tomorrow Rev. A. c. Smither, tht
oldest pastor in Los Angeles In point
of service, will celebrate the eighteenth
anniversary of his pastorate at tbs
, First Christian church. Special decora'
lions and an elaborate musical program
will mark the day. In the morning Rev
Mr.. Smither will speak on Fighter
Years Passionate" and In the evening
will give q stereopticon sermon OF
Paul the Missionary" which will be
his fourteen hundredth sermon in TINS
church.
i Rev Mr.. Smither was called to the
First church the week that he grad
uated from Butler university, and this
has been his only pastorate.- Az tha'
time the church was on Temple street
| and numbered 300 members. There were
only about $4,000 people in Los Angeles
at that time. During the eighteen
years Rev. Mr.. Smither has received
$500 people into the church, and all the
other Christian churches have grown,
directly or indirectly, from the mother
church. There are now nineteen Chris
! tan churches in the city, with a men,
| bership of 1000. The present First
church, corner Eleventh and Hope
streets, is valued at 100000.
DR.. E. c. Locke, the new pastor oil
| the First Methodist church, will con-
duct the services tomorrow, the second
! Sunday of his active passionate. In the
morning he will preach on What Is
! Christianity and in the evening DR..
| Locke will conduct a service in memory
of Ira D. Sankey, the gospel singer OF
Moodey and Sankey fame. A picture
of Mr. Sankey will adorn the church
bulletin, and his famous hymns will be
tl,N n1nir 0r
personal friend of the famous evan
geJist singer, and at his special request
| conducted the funeral service in Brook
! lyn August 16 DR.. Locke will make a
short address at the service tomorrow
evening suggested by the life and work
of Mr.. Sankey and also of music as ,
factor in salvation.
"Words of Auble's Murderer"
1.-THE Last Words of Auble's MUIR
derer" will be the subject of Rev. A. s.
Phelps, pastor of the Central Baptist
church, tomorrow evening. The annual
business meeting of the church will be
held next Wednesday evening, when the
annual election of officers will be held.
Col George French and Col. Charles
Miles held a united Salvation Army
service at the Monarch rink last night.
Giles Kellogg, president of the Union
Rescue mission, will speak at that mis-
sion tomorrow evening.
W. H. Thompson, a convert, will
speak tomorrow afternoon at O'Clock,
and in the evening A. c. Dodds, proba-
ton officer, will make an address. w.
H. Frost will speak at this mission
Monday evening.
The Missionary society of the West
lake Presbyterian church gave recep-
ton to Mrs. j. c. Morley, wife of the
Japanese Presbyterian missionary, yes
| terday afternoon at the home of Rev.
and Mrs. w. D. Lands, 979 Ell Molino
street. DIR. Worley lectured at the
| Westlake church last evening.
Gods Messenger" will be the topic
of Rev. L. NJ. Idleman tomorrow MORN
ling at st. PauPs pro-cathedral. The
evening sermon will be on 1.-The Name
Jesus" Ernest Douglas, organist and
choir master, returned during the week
from his trip abroad.
Mrs. Arthur S. Phelps entertained the
Berean class of the Central. Baptist
church last evening at her home, 1853
Westlake avenue.
The Christian Endeavor services at
the Westlake Presbyterian church will
| be resumed tomorrow evening at $50
o'clock, after the summer vacation.
The evening services will be resumed
at 1880 o'clock.
| Rev. Dwight E. Potter of the foreign
mission board will preach tomorrow
evening at the Bethesda Presbyterian
church. Rev. N. w. Newell will preach
at the morning service.
To Resume Temperance Meetings
William J. Murphy will resume his
| Sunday evening gospel temperance
meetings on the first Sunday in Oc-
tober. The last week in September he
will conduct a temperance campaign
| in different sections east of Main street.
Rev. Fred Harding Stevens will
preach tomorrow morning at ST. John S
Episcopal church. A week from to-
morrow Rev. L. G. Morris the rector,
will resume the evening services. Rev.
Mr. Morris will return from the east
next Thursday.
At Temple Baptist church, worship
ing in the Auditorium, the pastor, Rev
Robert J. Burdette, D. D., will occupy
the pulpit morning and evening. The
morning service, beginning at IL, viii
be devoted to a discussion of the sub
ject, Sign Language" the discourse
being based on Matthew 1873. In the
evening the sermon will be the second
in the September series on "A Great
Journey" and will deal with THE
Guide" The regular meetings of the
Bible school will be held at $3.50 II
Berean hall, the morning prayer circle
in parlor A at 1920, the intermediate
B. Y. P. U. in Children's hall at 6:15
and the senior B. Y. P. u. at $50 IL
Berean hall. DR.. Burdette will be pres
ent at the senior B. Y. P. U. meeting
and will bring special message to tn,
young people of the church.
AT the Echo Park branch, 1910 Temple
street, the associate pastor, Edwin r
Brown, will preach at 1880 on "Th'
Running of Gods Word"
over twenty new members have beer
IL. GNzR I0r1v
dette's return and the membership hal
almost reached the 1000 mark, which
the church hopes to reach by its mex
annual meeting.
Mrs. Benjamin Fay Mills will speal
at Blanchard hall, 235 South Broadway
at II o'clock, on Hand, Head anC
Heart" Miss Helen Tape. soprano
.nril Gil Ac, 10 oil