Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-06
TOPICS OF THE DAY OF REST
Meetings to Boost Work Of Laymen's
Missionary Movement,
MEETINGS ALL OVER DISTRICT
Deputations to visit Many Points I'm
Nebraska and IOwa-CeIebrate
Payment of Church Debt at
CASTELAR, Presbyterian.

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out Omaha will be held Sunday for the
purpose Of furtherlng the Laymen's Mis-
sionary movement and the interests Of the
convention to be held here March 17-2l.
Meetings are also to be held at many Iowa
and Nebraska points within the Omaha
convention district. Twenty Iowa towns
will be covered by a deputation of laymen
from Council Bluffs in the week com
mencing Sunday Next Sunday will be the
last before the convention.
The assignment to churches made by the
d~eputation committee headed by Henry l..
Kieser, are: Clifton Hill Presbyterian, ].
II. Franklin; Covenant Presbyterian, DR..
]. McPatton; Hirst Memorial. ]. w.
Miller; Grace Lutheran, II. O.. Chapman;
Letter Memorial, c. e. Holyoke; Calvary
Baptist, G. G. Wallace; Seward Street
Methodist, @. w. Noble; BEDFORD ohurch
and First Baptist DR.. ]. Dickinson; st.
Mary's Avenue, Or. e. H. jerks; First
Presbyterian, Rev. L. o. Baird; Walnut
Hill Methodist, Rev. J. q. Shick; Hillside
Congregational, Rev. Mr.. Attack; First
Congregational and McCabe Methodist, w.
H. Russell; Benson Methodist, Rev. Mr..
Hampton; Benson Presbyterian, Rev. Mr..
Ray; Second Presbyterian, Council Bluffs,
Rev. q. e. Hosman; North Presbyterian,
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w. Foster.
Other assignments Tor Sunday in out
lying portions Of the OmaG@ district are:
Ames and Boone, Ia, T. c. Prall; Fremont,
Henry f. Kieser; Des Moines, Clement
Chase and DR.. William X. Davidson;
Columbus, Neb., Dr.. Cloyd; Norfolk, L. 4.
Crossman; Central City, Charles Hopper;
Clsrlnda, Ia, J. e. Dodds: Vallisca, Prof.
E. U. Graft; Waterloo, Rev. Mr.. Miller,
The CASTELAR, Street Presbyterian church
has recently raised funds sufficient to
provide for the last Indebtedness upon the
church property.
This successful effort will be ffttlngly
celebrated at its Sunday evening service.
Short addresses will be made by several
laymen and by the pastor. The occasion
will be featured by special music and the
burning of the mortgage in the presence
Of the congregation. Member and friends
Of the church will be specially interested
In this thanksgiving service. No sub
scriptions will be asked.
Miss Theodate Wilson. religious work d.
rector OF the Young Women's Christian as
ISOLATION will nave charge of the Epworth
league meeting at the Hanscom Park
Methodist Espicopal church Sunday even
ing, at $50 p. m. The meeting is to be a
union meeting of the leagues Of First
Methodist Espicopal and Hanscom Park
churches, there being no evening meetings
at First Methodist E~spicopal, and the sub
ject will be the study of missions in South
America. Miss Wilson will be an able
leader on this subject, since she has spe-
cialized on the study of missions in this
particular country.
There has been great interest In the
Lenten Wednesday evening service at the
Kountze Memorial Lutheran church, during
the season of Lent. The attendance is I'M
usually large and the service most insplr-
ing.
Wednesday evening at the Calvary Bap-
list church, Twenty-fifth and Hamilton
streets, Rev. ]. c.. Armstrong, D. D., Of
st. Louis, Mo-, will give an address pre-
p%aratory to the Laymen's Missionary con-
vention. DR.. Armstrong was deputized to
make a tour Of the world, visiting mis-
sionary stations. He speaks with great
authority on the worlds missionary move
ments. The public is invited.
At the Walnut Hill Methodist, the morn
ing service will be in line with the Lay
mems Missionary movement. The Rev. J..
Kronemeyer Of the Second Presbyterian
church of Council Bluffs will preach.
At the evening service the pastor will
consider the kind of testimony that leads
men to believe in Jesus Christ and do
His works.
The Sunday school is adding new scholars
with each session, the attendance last
Sunday being 202. Tomorrow they make
their annual offering to the Board Of Sun
day Schools of the Methodist church,
which last year put twenty-three Sum
day school missionaries in the home field
aided LOCO needy Sunday schools, and
gave $4,000 TO the sunday school work
in foreign lands.
The Woman's Home and the Woman's
Foreign Missionary societies put on a fine
entertainment by students Of the Ne
braska Wesleyan university Tuesday even
ing at which time they hope to secure
funds enough to fully pay their apportion-
ments for this year.
L. T. Crossman, religious director Of the
Young Mems Christian association. will
speak at Pearl Memorial Methodist Epis-
copal church Sunday a. M, at 10:45, on
the Laymen's Missionary movement. The
pastor, Thomas C. Hinkle, will speak in
the evening on The City and the Church"
Judge A.. L. Sutton will speak in the in
terest Of the Laymen's Missionary move
ment Sunday at 8 p. m, at the First Re-
formed church, South Twenty-third street
and Central boulevard, Omaha.
The music at the North Side Christian
Sunday evening will be:
Opening Hymn-Day Is Dying in the
west.
Invocation.
Response, Lords prayer. chanted and I'M
accompanied.
A~nthem-Jesus, My Savior. Look On
Closing Hymn-Now the Day is over.
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The Dubois Lenten cantata, THE Seven
Last Words,' viii be sung by the North
Side Churistian church choir Friday night,
March Is, at Plymouth Congregational
church, Twentieth and Spencer streets.
This solemn Lenten musical festival has
been presented three times by this choir