The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-11-25
CHURCHES WERE
FILLED SUNDAY
MANY INTERESTING TOPICS DIS,
cussEp BY FARGO MINISTER'S,
THANKSGIVING DAY WAS
MENTIoNED-FIRsT m. E. IN
NEW ADDITION. ...-..

For the first time yesterday morning
the First Methodists occupied the new
addition. 1t was not finished, but it
was comfortable and the great build
ing was filled. The church will now
seat about 1000 people. Rev. DR..
Walters delivered a telling sermon and
talked at some length on the subject
of why girls leave home. and he said
it was undoubtedly caused by dis
content and not because If the high
living, and he asked what the church
people were doing to prevent them
from running away. The sermon was
| n that every one in the city should
have heard. In the evening the church
was again filed.
There were large audiences at the
Zion Evangelical church on Tenth
street south yesterday to observe Mis-
sion Sunday, The morning service
included discussions by the men on
matters referring to missions, and
short talks were given by Carl Pitsch,
G. SchwarZ, r. B. Teichman, and they
were most interesting. The Women'S
Missionary society gave an interesting
presentation of what they had been
doing the past year and a number of
papers were read. At this church Rev.
H. c.. Lehner has been named to sue
SSSu Inc ldl6 REV. NIL LlSSAlhlhuh as
pastor of the church.
Two excellent sermons were deliver
ed by Rev. DR.. r. A. Beard in the First
Congregational church yesterday 10
large audiences. He said at the morn
ing service that the preaching Of the
simple doctrine of Christ was the great
need of the dark places of the world
to make them light and he talked Of
China, India and Africa as places that
.wv- - 4I-.r I-I RA~f bad
the gospel and he took the position
that wherever christianity was taught
there was progress and betterment of
conditions, and that there was prog
reSs only in Christ m his teachings.
At the Glad Tidings Mission yester-
day the three services were all well
attended and very interesting. Rev. Mr..
McCracken mentioned the coming Of
Thanksgiving day and said that all
should take part in h observance, for
all had been pleased in some way and
had something to be thankful for.
AT the Y. M. C. A. yesterday after
noon there was a Thanksgiving day
service held, and the Broadway
Congregational choir rendered several
beautiful selections. The meeting was
presided over by Secretary Wolf and
short talks were given by six or eight
of the young men of the institution.
The melting was one OF the best that
has been held under the Personal
Workers league.
The Swedish Lutheran Film church
is making active preparations for a big
jubilee at a date to be announced, the
object being the celebration of the
paying Of the debts of the church. At
this time the old indebtedness evil
dence will be burned with appropriate
ceremonies, and a basket dinner will
follow.
Rev. MI. Hutchinson had for his text
So Run hat Ye May Obtain, and he
pointed out the fact that there was
| seldom anything obtained in this
world without effort and the mar who
would attain the highest salvation
must run or in other words, show some
effort to get it, and he said it was
necessary to run we'll, or to make a
good fight. He said that the christian
was observed of all men and that he
should always be at his best. His
sermon was most edifying.
Thanksgiving Sermon.
Rev. Mr.. Behner in the First Presby-
terrain church yesterday morning de-
livered his Thanksgiving sermon.
Prior to the sermon six people were
baptized and sixteen in all were ad-
mitted to the church either by letter
or confession of faith. There was a
large attendance, the Sunday school
room being used as well as the audi
forum.
Mr.. Behner took the position that
the monuments that were raised from
time to time in Bible times, were simp-
ly membranes to the people to be
thankful. He said Thanksgiving day
really antedated the day set apart by
the Pilgrim fathers and at first was
not day of religious observance. Then
he talked of the Pilgrim fathers
Thanksgiving, then of evacuation days,
which were simply Thanksgiving days;
then of George Washington who set
apart one day for national praise and
worship, and he came on Town 10
Lincoln's time n said that from then
on Thanksgiving was regularly order
ed by each president each year.. He re-
called the many blessings enjoyed by
the people the past year. in business,
harvests, in the home life, in the
religious world and said that they all
came from God, and he said that the
history of the United States was as
great as that of the Jewish nation, and
he compared Abraham Lincoln to Saul,
Gideon and the warrior men OF old
In closing he said that we need a
thanksgiving gymnasium to make us
active in acknowledging the blessing
we have received from on high.
The church double quartet render
ed some very pleasing music under the
direction of Mrs. II. H. Wheelock.
At the First Baptist church Rev. Mr.,
Jackson of the First Baptist church at
Bismarck preached WE very inter
esting sermons. In the morning his
subject was the thrilling drama OF
Queen Esther and he drew nan val
liable lessons from this Old Tesla
ment story.
Rev. A. E. Peterson of the Fargo
First Baptist church is at Bismarck
conducting a series of evangelical
services and Rev. Mr.. jackson came
down to fill the pulpit in his absence
Committed to State Hospital.
jamestown, n. D.. Nov. 25.-The in
sanity board committed to the state
hospital Mrs. Frank Suchla, who with
her husband, has been residing or
Sixth avenue south in a small house
near the jamestown Motor Co. gar
age. Mrs. Suchla was found acting
strangely yesterday and appeared tC