The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-10-28
AMONG THE CHURCHES
Items of Interest Cleaned From
Pulpit and Sactuary.

The Bible School at the Christian
church was above the average be-
cause of the pleasant day. Homer
White gave clarinet solo at the close
of the recitations, which was received
with applause, The pastor gave
shork talk on the Bible School feture
of the great Pittsbufg convention. Mon
day VASE Bible school day. Six to
eight thousand ;men were In the
street parade. None but men counted.
They marched in sections. Each state
was presided over by lieutenant,
having separate banners, yells, etc.
The Iowa yell was Iowa, who are
we-Iowa. @ a-
The address of the morning was on
the physical and external phases of
the Pittsburg meeting. We give some
facts and observations as started The
and 10000. Almost all of the sessions
were held in from three to five sec
tons, at the same hour, even ii they
were on the same topics. This was
necessary to even moderately accom-
modate the. crowds. It was a great
undertaking for the. city'to house and
feed so large an army, but is it an
age of great movements and under
takings God is teaching the. world
to think, and plan in states and con
tinents to prepare them for, carrying
out the commission Of Christ for the
worldwide conquest for His gospel.
Perhaps the greatest marvel of the
meeting was the communion service
Oh Lordsday, According to records of
the turnstiles OF. the great park. IN
which it was held there were present
not less than $4,000 persons. Acres
o. people, This vast magnitude was
waited ..pn by 100 elders and 300 dea-
Gems in just IL minutes. This small
army of walters silently obeyed the
signals, from a single individual, who
was so situated that he ranged the
multitude through strong field glass.
This service was the climax of the
vast gathering. This communion ser
.Euu III peUpnbs useq lsAsu ssu ooIh
bers in all recorded history. The
service was Sranged to- 'ay emphasis
OF the week.. rmmunion, the univer-
sal custom of the church to which
service no believer In Christ as the
son of God is excluded, The sermon
was listened to with interest unabat-
eG to the close, iwe young persons
united with. the church by letter.
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Central Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Sunday school session gave an
attendance of 3S7 which was quite an
advance over one year ago, At the
service the choir rendered an
The Trumpet Shall Sound"
in an acceptable manner. DR., Allen
preached from the subject, who
Cares" taking his text from Judges
1916. The sermon was a very forci-
BILE delineatiOn of the responsibility OF
the Christian toward the life which
he processes. The Christian service
is an active service and is full of OPP
portunities for honest and sincere and
definite Christian work The work
OF preparation is now on for the reVt
val season and the discourse WASH
searching one along these lines. Dur
ing the service, one was lbaptised. two
were received as members from pro
baton and two were received by let
ter. The Social Club will meet with
Mrs. Anna Cowan, 40S North Fourth
street, on Friday evening, October 20.
1t will partake of the nature OF a Hal.
lowe'en party. At the Epworth League
service in the evening Miss Turner led
the service, the subject being The
Prodigal Son." A large number were
present and a profitable service result.
ed The evening service was unus-
ually well attended and DR.. Allen
preached the second of his series on
The Great Sinners of the Bible, The
text was taken from Acts Sill, the
subject being "Ananias, The Sins Of
Lying and Greed" After a brief re.
cital of, the facts of the Bible story,
the speaker referred to the, same class
OF, person in the present day, who
were in various ways keeping back
part OF the price, The sermon was
a strong presentation of perhaps I'M
comfortable facts, and yet they were
true and were an absolute reproduc-
ton of the ways of the world today.
During the evening, a fine vocal duet
was rendered by Miss Ethel Hunt and