Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-20
CHURCHES TO LIFT
VOICE IN THANKS.
Charitable Organizations Plan to
Give Thanksgiving Dinners
to City's Poor
PRAISE SERVICES ARRANGED
Salvation Army and Volunteers of
America Will Distribute
Well Filled Baskets
PRAISE SERVICES ARRANGED

Preparations are being made for a
royal celebration of Thanksgiving day
next Thursday in the various churches,
and while many special services VIII
mark the day philanthropy III various
forms will also be marked feature.
THE various Protestant evangelical
churches will hold union services in the
various parts OF the city while the
Episcopal and Catholic churches Will
hold services in each parish.
The giving of baskets of food TO the
needy families Is always one OF tne
principal works of the year for the Sal
walton Army and the Volunteers or
America and this year many needy
families have been found who would
otherwise go without cheer on Thanks-
giving day.
The Volunteers of America are plan
ming to distribute 400 baskets with rood
for five persons each. These baskets
will contain If possible a chicken, but
ter. coffee, tea celery, potatoes, can OF
vegetables small sack of flour, bread
and pie.
The Salvation Army will distribute
about $50 baskets with much the same
provisions Funds for these baskets are
being collected by the two organiza-
tions through donations and street
boxes.
In all probability the largest of the
union Thanksgiving services will be
that of the downtown churches, which
will be held at the Emmanuel Presby-
terian church, the Rev. J. Whitcomp
BrouEf1er, pastor Of the Temple Bdp-
tist church, to preach the sermon. This
will include all the principal eVangel-
icaI churches north of Pico street up
to the Westlake section, extending
north to Temple and east to the river.
The churches of the Westlake section
will unite in the Westlake Presbyterian
church, the Rev. ". c. Brown, pastor
of the Wiltshire Boulevard Christian
church, to preach the sermon.
WILL HOLD PRAYER MEEIING
In addition to the union services the
Central Presbyterian church will hold
Thanksgiving prayer meeting
Wednesday evening in the church.
The forty hours alteration will open
at the historic Plaza church Sunday
at which the Rev. Eugene Sugranes,
C.MF., will be celebrant and preach
the sermon in English. In the even
ing special exercises will be held, fol-
lowed by benediction. Monday morn
ing mass pro passe will be celebrated
at o'clock, with sermon in Spanish.
In the evening Spanish exercises will
be held Tuesday morning solemn
mass will be celebrated at o'clock,
the alteration to close Tuesday even
ing with a procession and benedic-
tion.
Wednesday a solemn requiem mass
will be celebrated at this church for
the late Mrs. Anna Gertrude Walters,
mother of F. .E. Walters, secretary of
the mission and head usher.
A reception of fifty new members in
to the Young Women's sodality of the
Church of Our Lady of Loretto will be
held on the feast of the Immaculate
Conception, December 8.
The Rev. Edward Kirk will preach
at the 10:30 o'clock mass Sunday morn
ing and in the evening the Rev. Father
Haggerty will give the instruction.
WILL ORDAIN MINISTER
Frederick Paul Beach, a prominent
young man of Los Angeles,' will be
ordained to the ministry of the Con-
gregational church with a special or
dination service Sunday evening in the
First Congregational church, of which
he is a member and by which he Is
to be sent to foreign missionary fields.
The Rev. II. Melville Tenney of San
Francisco Pacific coast secretary of
the American, board, will give the COM
mission to the new missionary. The
LAYING on of hands will be performed
by DR.. Warren F. Day, pastor emer-
titus of the church, and DR.. William
Horace Day, the\pastor, will give the
principal address. Others to take part
in the service will be the Revs. j. NJ.
Campbell L. p. Hitchcock, A. E. john
son, r. B. Larkin and T. G. Horton.
Mr. Beach will go to the Congrega-
tional college at Foo Chow. China.