Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-08
PLAN SERVICES
FOR MOTHERS
CHURCHES WILL OBSERVE
NATIONAL DAY
MASS MEETING ARRANGED AT
TEMPLE AUDITORIUM
Annual Episcopal Diocesan Convention
Will Open Sunday Afternoon.
Rev. Robert J. 5urdette TO
Occupy His Pulpit

WILL pT6SlQG dl iIle 6GINlSSs
A program of music will be given bl
the Y. M. c. A. orchestra in the Audi
torium beginning at 2:15 o'clock, th'
mass meeting to open at o'clock
Archibald Sessions will preside at th'
organ and the full vested choir o
Christ Episcopal church will furnish
the music.
The national hymn will be the open
inc number of the meeting, followed by
prayer by Rev Hugh X. Walker pas
tor of Emmanuel Presbyterian church
Rev, Charles Edward Locke, pastor OF
the First Methodist church, will give
an address on American Motherhood,
and DR.. w. D. Weatherford, tnterna'
fional secretary of the Y. NJ. c.. A..
viii speak on "A Young Mans Obliga-
tion to His Mother" Madame Gene
vra Johnstone-Bishop will sing The
White Carnation," the national ode oil
the day. Dr. S. Hecht, rabbi of the
Temple B'nai Birth, win speak on
Mothers in Israel John r. Mott
topic will be Mothers Day ana 20
seph Scott will make the closing ad-
dress on "The Mother and the Public
Schools" After the singing of Home
Sweet Home" by the audience, Dr.
Warren f. Day, pastor emeritus OF the
First Congregational church, will give
the benediction.
EeIKEu ill the IAbAIoAeAA4N NAN0
in Los Angeles and vicinity, with spe-
cial sermons and music.
To Open Diocesan Convention
The annual Episcopal diocesan con-
vention will open Sunday afternoon
with a Sunday school mass meeting at
Simpson auditorium at 8 O'Clock. Re
ports from the various schools of the
diocese will be given, and stereopticon
views of the work being done in the
diocese as well as mission work IN
Alaska will be explained by Rev. ROD
ert windsor. Bishop johnson will make
an address and present the blshop $
banner to the school with the largest
average attendance.
Monday will be devoted to sessions
of the Sunday School institute. AT
1920 o'clock a service will be held IN
ST PauPs pro-cathedral, when Rev.
Lester e. Learned, rector of All SAINTS
church, Pasadena, will preach the SER
mon. In the afternoon a business ses-
sion will be held, with an address by
Rev. Alfred A. Butler. In the evening
fve-minute addresses will be made by
we'll known clergymen.
Tuesday will be devoted to the work
Of the women's auxiliary, in charge OF
Mrs. P. G. Herbert, the president.
Wednesday the convention proper
will open with q service at 10 O'CLOCK
in the church, followed by business
session in the parish house, which VIII
continue over Thursday.
Wednesday evening a banquet for the
clergy and laymen of the convention
will be held at the Westminster hotel
at $3.50 o'clock Bishop Johnson to pre-
side. The following will be the pro-
gram: "Civic righteousness" Judge
Hunsal1er; 1.-THE Forward Movement in
Los Angeles" Major H. 7. Lee; Mis-
sion Work in the Diocese" Rev. T. C..
Marshall; missionary address, Rev.
Lewis Sanford; "The Clergy Pension
Fund" Rev. william MacCormack.
Thursday evening the convention VIII
close with the bishops reception, to be
given at Kramer's. Friday the Daugh-
ters of the King will hold their annual
meeting.
At Temple Baptist church, worship
ing in the Auditorium, corner Fifth and
Olive streets, the congregation is
pleased with the return of the pastor,
Rev. Robert j. Burdette, DID. DR..
Burdette has been east attending a
newspaper mems convention and the
Peace congress in Chicago, and has
been absent from his pulpit three sun
days. He expects to preach Sunday
morning and evening. The morning
topic will be Echoes from the Peace
Congress-" in which DR.. Burdette will
tell Of the things he saw and heard at
the meeting of the peace delegates in
Chicago last week. In the evening the
sermon will be on Whats the News?''
and the pastor will also give his usual
prelude on What Happened Last
Week"
During Or. Burdette's absence sew
eral noted men have supplied the pull
pit, among them DR.. John Willis Baer
and DR.. J. N. Field. DIR. Burdette re-
1,at 4Ea nnF Of he ft1s1 Ia
his back received by a fall some weeks
ago. are slowly passing away, and ne
is recovering his normal health and
strength.
The Wednesday evening prayer meet
ing win be conducted by Rev, Mr.. Bur-
dette and the subject will be, "What
Think Ye of Christ ~ Friday, May IA
the all day meeting Of the nome mis-
sionary and work departments Of the
Temple Baptist Women's union will
be held in Berean hall. Luncheon will
be served at noon by Circle No. 9.
At the Echo park tabernacle on West
Temple street, Rev Edwin r. Brown
will preach on Thou Art the Christ
The Sunday school, under the superin-
tendency of Rev. L. A. Gould, is in q
fourishing condition.
Rev. A. M. Petty, western secretary
of the American Baptist Home Mission
airy society, will speak at the Centra
Baptist church Sunday morning or
1.-The Significance of Christ's Resurrec.
tion." Rev. A. S. Phelps the pastor
will preach at the First Baptist church
on Motherhood" In the evening Rev
Mr.. Phelps viii occupy his own pulpit
when he will preach on "The Sistint
Madonna" by Raphael
To Sing of Home and Mother
DR.. Charles Edward Locke will occu
py his pulpit at the First Methods
Episcopal church Sunday morning anC
evening. His subject for the morning
will be From Pit to a Premiership.
In the evening a Mothers day service
will be held. DR.. Locke's subject will
be, what Man owes to His Mother.
The choir will sing songs of home ant
mother. Among the songs that will
be sung will be, my Mothers Hands,
MY Mothers Prayer "The Trundle
Bed Song" Just Before the Battle
Mother" etc.
The Winfield circle of the Westlak,
Presbyterian Church Women's gull,
was entertained last Thursday after
noon at the home of Mrs. M. r. Hunter
1925 Magnolia avenue
A special praise service will be hel,
at the Y. w. G. A. Sunday Afternoon
at 4 o'clock. when the choir of Trinit,
church, under the direction Of J. P
Dupuy, will render a program Mrs
j. Edward Brown will make an ad
dress.
Goods Present Revelation" will b
fba Sunday aVaufnpr tonic Of Pew 2