The Washington herald., 1911-02-18
BAPTIST CHURCHES.

On Wednesday evening, February 90,
the Baraca and Philathea classes of the
Fifth Baptist Church will give an enter
tafnment. which promises to be most in
teresting. These classes for young ladies
and young men are having a friendly
, rivalry now. So far as attendance and
new pupils are concerned they are run
ming neck and neck, and it is yet to be
determined which comes out ahead.
On Friday evening, February a. Mrs.
c. A. Simpson, assisted by Prof. Potter
and Miss Pearl Grigsby, will give a
musical and organ recital at Fifth Bap-
tist Church. This for the past two years
has been quite an event in the church
life and promises this year to surpass
all past records. AS usual, silver Of
fering will be received at the door. which
will be turned into the choir fund.
Pastor John f.. Briggs will continue
during next week to assist Or. B. D.
Cav. OF the West Washington Church,
in q series of revival meetings. He will
speak at the Sunday school hour and
also in the afternoon. in addition TO
preaching at II and 80 o'clock. DR..
Cav will preach at the Fifth Baptist
Church in the evening.
The prayer services at the Fifth Bap
tist Church are interesting and well at
tended this year On last Thursday even
ing the deaCOns of the church conducted
the meeting and were held responsible
for its success. Next Thursday ii will
be in charge of the young people of
the r. Y. p. L. and the Farther Lights.
Last Sunday there was inauEurated in
the Fifth Baptist Sunday school a
friendly contest, A trip to Palestine"
The rival ships are the Mauretania and
Lusitania. This is limited to the junior
and intermediate departments.
The Pinkham Bible class OF the I'm
manuel Baptist Church, which has had
over sixty men present each OF the last
four Sundays. holds a social next Tues
day evening. debate on should the
Panama Canal be fortified" will take
place Men not affiliated with other
classes are cordially invited This
class, in conjunction with the Mizpah
class for young women. holds a rum
mage sale this coming week. The pro-
ceeds will be used to dcfray the ex-
penses Of the classes.
The Bible School has entered the con-
test with the Grace BAPTIST School. de-
termIned to do its best. Next Sunday il
hopes for 400 to be in attendance.
The friendly contest between the Sun
day schools of Emmanuel and Grace
churches is becoming more exciting each
week. Sunday last the attendance at
Grace was 372. and at Emmanuel 81. The
contest is being watched with interest by
the other schools in the city.
During the past week Grace Baptist
paid off 81 600 of its mortgage indebted
ness on the new Sunday school room.
This they have been doing semi-annually
for the past three years. They now
have 5000 to be paid. and after this is
paid of they will start their auditorium
room above
There were two Valentine socials given
this week, one by the Hazard class, and
the other by the B. Y. P. L. Society,
both of which proved to be a great sue
cess
An oyster supper will be given on the
24th of this month by the Philathea class.
Metropolitan Baptist Church, John
Compton Rall. pastor. Monday, Febru-
ary q, will be the thirty-thiri anniver-
sary of the organization of this church,
and it is planned to have a third-of-a-
century jubilee day on Sunday, the 26th,
with appropriate sermons by the pastor.
Splendid musical programmes are now
a feature of the evening services. A male
octet under the leadership of Chorister
Gilbert a. Clark, will sing next Sunday
evening The members of the octet are
Arthur P. Empie. DIR. Bruce Hoofnagle,
r. E. Fleharty, and Albert Cummins,
tenors; William T. Ellis, Gait w. Bowen,
Herbert F. Smith, and Gilbert A. Clark,
basSos