The San Francisco call., 1908-05-10
ADMIRAL THOMAS
TOADDR[SSY INCA.
Many Oakland Churches Will
Have Special Services
for Sailors
Lessons Drawn From Voyage Of
Great Armada Will Be
Sermon Topics

OAKLAND, May 9.-Temorrow will
be the sailors day in the Oakland
churches. In one OF the largest con-
gregations, that of the First Presby-
terian church, the afternoon will see a
special program by the Young Mems
Christian association. with Admiral
Thomas, now commander of the At
lantic feet. as the chief speaker.
The sermon at the First Methodist
church in the evening will be by Rev.
G.. w. White, .. D.. on THE Flag of
the Free. AT. the First Christian
Rev. Thomas A. Boyer will speak on
the great cruise Of Paul when the
apostle of faith journeyed from the
eastern Adriatlc to Rome. In the First
Baptist church. Hobart street and Tele-
graph avenue, another man OF the fleet,
+, Chaplain George T. Stevenson of the
! lbattleship Virginia, will be the speaker.
These are but few of the sermons
which will be preached for the sailors.
In all churches the welcome to the fleet
men has been universally extended.
CHURCHES OPEN ALL DAY
! The churches and the chapels will be
| open from early morning until night
for the visitors in uniform to rest, to
write, or to call as they choose. 1t
will be an open day in the religious
life of the city. and the sailor is the
man around whom the hospitality GEN.
ters.
| At ST. Paul,s Trinity church. the home
church of Secretary OF the Navy Met
calf, the rector, Rev. Alexander Allen,
will preach the morning sermon In
| the evening the full vested choir Will
igive Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praise
The soloists will be Mrs. Arthur
Trescher. soprano; Miss Irene Howland.
contralto; Vail P. Bakewell. tenor, and
| Arthur Reed. bass.
st. Andrews Episcopal church at
Twelfth and Magnolia streets, of
which Rev. E. r. Dodds is the rector.
will have at the evening service pro-
grom of special music by vested
choir The program includes an an
them Nov the Day Is Over (Marks( +;
lT Will Give Thanks (sdwards); f;
| ofrertory; violin solo, Meditation
| (Dffetzke). Miss Alice Davies; organist,
Miss Josephine Gil; choirmaster. Clar-
ence Oliver.
Music and sermons given for the sail
| ors will be heard at two other Epis-
copal churches the Holy Innocents'
mission Fifty-second street and Shat
tuck avenue and st. Johns. Rev. Ed
ward Gee, rector, Eighth street at JEFF
| ferson.
Commissioners WILL SPEAK
/ In the First Presbyterian church the
EtE utdI IuUiuili6 oC41HOA Will 10 W lhS
pastor, Rev. E. e. Baker. DR.. George
| Spinning of New York, who is a mem
tber of President Roosevelts commission
on the Indians and of the Northern
California Indian association. will
speak in the Fourth Congregational
church at Thirty-sixth and Grove
streets.
The full service of the day at the
| First Christian church will be SER
| m n the ffnnrninU I)r Rover on
1.-THE Exhortation of Barnabas.'' and in
1.-The evening his sermon on The Long
Cruise" or From Tarsus to Rome.
On a different line the pastor of the
First Unitarian church. Rev. William
Day Simonds. will follow the sailors
mission in life, his subject being World
Forces Making for Peace and Pro-
gress."
Rev Walter A. Tanner OF the Mel
rose Baptist church is to preach In the
! forenoon on The Triumphal Entry
Through the Golden Gate" and in the
evening resume his series on Mat
| Ing" which has to do with the forces
Ecworking for and against the unity of
the home and the destruction OF the
human race.
| Rev Marion r. Drury, D. D., pastor
| of the United Brethren. Thirty-fourth
and Adeline streets. will preach at II
o'clock on Lessons From the Coming
OF the Fleet" On this same trend will
be the evening sermon of Rev. H X.
Sanborne, pastor OF the Brooklyn Pres
byterian church, who. on the subject.
"A Successful Voyage" will draw moral
counseIs from the great cruise OF the
Atlantic fleet.
| Albert w. Palmer. pastor of the
| Plymouth Congregational church, will
make his morning text Ships On the
Sea of Life
Rev. G. M. Richmond of the Cen
tennial Methodist church, Ninth and
Chester streets. will preach on "The
Mastery OF the Sea-" In the evening
his pulpit Will be occupied by Rev.
George A. Miller. formerly OF Manila.