Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-30


ming of Lent will receive first COM
dral of ST. Vibiana. Rt. Rev. Mgr.
Harnett will celebrate mass at
o'clock and administer the sacrament.
He will preach the sermon to the chill
dren.
A retreat was opened for the first
communicates last Thursday to close
with the sacrament tomorrow. Fol-
lowing the solemn vesper service in the
evening the children will renew their
baptismal vows and will be received
into the church societies. Father Gal
lagher will preach his first sermon at
the solemn high mass at 1890 o'clock.
Solemn high mass will be celebrated
in honor of the feast of Pentecost Sun
day morning at II o'clock at st. Vim
cents church. Rev p. H. Mcdonald,
c. M, will preach the sermon. In the
evening a vesper service will be held,
followed by benediction Monday even
ing the May services will be solemnly
closed with a sermon by Very Rev. Mr.
Glass and May procession.
The forty hours alteration will begin
Sunday morning at st. Agnes church.
Monday afternoon Monsignor Harnett
will preside at a reception of young
women at the Convent of the Sisters of
Mercy, Washington and Concord
streets. The service will be held at 2:SO
o'clock.
Bishop Conaty to Leave Rome
Bishop Conaty expects to leave Rome
the first of the week for Carlsbad.
At Temple Baptist church the pastor,
Rev. Robert J. Burdette, D. D., has
planned three services for Sunday. In
the morning he will preach at IL o'clock
on 1.-THE People of the Rock" at 3 in
the afternoon there will be a special
Memorial day service to which all the
military organizations and kindred So
cieties have been invited, and the SER
mon by DR.. Burdette will be of espe-
cial interest.
The services will include bugle calls,
patriotic selections by the Temple Bap-
fist Bible school orchestra, pieces by
the Sons of Veterans drum corps, and
songs by the Temple quartet and the
CONGREGATION Many of the societies
form, and the Auditorium stage will be
draped with flags and emblems appro-
pirate to. the occasion.
In the evening DR.. Burdette will
preach on 1.-THE Battle of Mansoul,"
and will administer the ordinance of
baptism by immersion to candidates
who have been received into the church
during the last month.
Will Teach Bible Class
Announcement is made of the selec~
ton of the associate pastor, Rev. Edwin
r. Brown, to succeed Leonard Merrill
as teacher of the young mems Bible
class It was with much regret that
the class accepted Mr.. MerrilPs resig-
nation, which was offered on account
of the necessity of frequent and ex-
tended absences from the city. Rev. Mr.
Brown hopes to continue Mr.. MerrilPs
good work with the young men and
build I'D a class which will make the
Temple Baptist Bible school an attrac-
ton to all young men in Los Angeles.
Rev. Louis A. Gould will have charge
of the morning services at the Temple
Baptist mission near Echo park, and
beginning the first Sunday evening in
June Mr.. Brown will hold eVangeltstlc
services in the mission tent, assisted by
the young people of Temple church.
The Bible class of which Mr.. wager
is teacher will hold it's annual picnic
in Rubio canyon May 81, and all mem
bers and friends are invited to meet at
the Picific Electric station at 8:45
o'clock and go along with the class.
Saturday, June s. the Temple Baptlst
Bible school will hold its annual picnic
at Sycamore grove. The teachers, led
bv Superintendent T. r. Woodruff, are
manning to make this the most enter
tanning picnic yet held. In the morn
ing Rev. E. r. Brown will conduct the
program of sports for the children.
Races and games of all kinds Will be
carried out. At 1890 o'clock the chill
dren will be seated at long tables am
ply provided with picnic luxuries.
Baptist Officers to Visit
Local Baptists are arranging for the
visit of the national officers Of the
Northern Baptist convention, when
will be held at Portland, Ore. The
Woman's American Baptist Home Mis-
sionary society will hold its session at
the same time. officers will be In Los
Angeles June 10 and 16, when receptions
will be rendered them.
Monday about $50 young people of the
First Baptist church will go on a. pic
mic to DEVILS gate. A special car Will
leave the Pacific Electric station at
o'clock
Mr.. Mitchell, manager of the Balloon
route of San Francisco, will speak this
evening at the City Union Rescue mis-
sion. Sunday at p. m. Mrs. Heron
Of the Pacific Garren mission, Chicago,
will speak, and in the evening Leonard
Mordant, a former convict, will be the
speaker.
Pico Heights Congregational church
will observe Memorial day with spe-
cldl services. REV. d. M DNiielCA4C1 NiAC
pastor, will preach at the morning ser
vice and in the evening Rev. j. H.
Mallows will preach on THE New
Patriotism" Patriotic music will be
rendered by the church choir and
band.
I'm Memory and the Reality of
Heaven will be the Sunday morning
topic of Rev. Will A. Knighten, pas
tor of the Union Avenue Methodist
church. The evening subject will be
Christ Classed Wrong
DR.. Burdette to Pitch Ball
At 2:S0 o'clock on the Occidental col
lege baseball diamond, kindly loaned
for the occasion, the Temple Baptist
baseball team will make it's first ap-
pearance in the opening game of the
schedule of games in the Los Angeles
Sunday School Athletic association. The
team has been provided with new suits
by the men of the church, and will have
as their opponents the team of the Be
thesda Congregational church.
The boys have been practicing Tor
some time, and are sure of their ability
to bring home the pennant offered to
the seasons champions. Dr. Burdette
will pitch the first ball. and the Bible
school orchestra will regale the fans
Rev. Robert P. Shepherd will give
the last lecture in his special Bible