The Washington herald., 1914-12-27

The Presbyterian churches Of Washing
ton. together with some 1900 others
plan to observe January $40 as week
OF self-denial and sacrifice. This Is done
in response to an appeal signed by Rev
Maitland Alexander. moderator OF the
general assembly; Rev. s. ]. Niccolis
st. Louis; Rev. John Timothy Stone
Chicago, and others. The purpose .s &c
secure something more than $4,000 for
the work of the Presbyterian Foreign
Missionary Society.
The Presbyterian self-dental week pro-
moters have reminded churches thai
Canadian Pacific employees recently
gave, within a very short time. dn,noc
with which to pay expenses Of trans
porting Canada's troops to the war.
This incident has been used In many
synods, and through these synods Pres
byterias have been urged to give the
sum the railroad employees gave, namely,
81. A week of prayer series OF topics.
supplsnting those suggested by the
Evangelical Alliance, has been issued.
giving subjects for each day. The min
isters have topics assigned them Cor
both Sundays. Presbyterian boards fell
behind last year, in common with sew
eral others, because they reckoned
wrong on sums their churches would
give. The war coming on made matters
worse, Of course. The forthcoming Janu-
ary week is put forward as a way out
Of debt A number of Washington
churches are, II Is announced, taking
hold OF the project.
In this week a special day Of prayer
will be observed on January by the
Federation Of Women's Boards OF For
eign Missions in the United States. The
prayer viii be for women's foreign mis-
sion work. Special programs have been
prepared for the services on this day,
e.. 1.1gr
ties Of the church women of the city viii
observe the day.
At Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Ca
thedral, the program for today, St Johns
day, includes a festival service, with holy
communion and sermon at IL a. m, while
at p. m, there will be festival even
song and sermon, with special Christ
mas music and organ recital
First Presbyterian Church announces
that OH New Years Eve the prayer meet
ing will be held at II O'Clock, and after
the Bible exposition on the topic, New
ness of Life" the last minutes Of the
old year will be spent in PRAYER and con-
secration- The board of trustees Of this
church have appointed Elmer T. Goode as
financial secretary.
The choir Of First Conversational
Church will render this evening the
Christmas cantata. The Coming Of the
King" The recently appointed committee
on mems work is at work perfecting n
list Of all men who are in any way con-
nected with the church.
Two interesting series of diScourses that
Rev. DR.. Earle Wilfiey has been giving
at the Vermont Avenue Christian Church
will be concluded today. His morning
subject is The Miracle of Jesus" and
that for the evening service at 7:3o o'clock
is THE Jailer at Philippi.''
Forty-fve members of the Sunday
school Of the Vermont Avenue Christian
Church participated in the Christmas en-
tertainment on Tuesday evening. They
gave a Christmas cantata entitled
''Santa's Christmas Bargain In which
the principal parts were taken by W. E.
Braithwaite, Evelyn Jones. Margaret
Whitley Ernestine Spfker. Archie Hughes,
Brandau Hughes, Winona Douglas, Grace
Harris, Oliver Taylor, airline Baker and
D. c. Angevine.
Gifts from the departments Of the
school, TO be distributed among the
needy by the deaconesses Of the
church, included articles of food suit
able for breakfast given by the pri-
mary classes and\l supplies from
the Junior department, while things for
the dinner menu were presented by the
intermediate department; the classes
Of the adult department made contri-
buttons, in cash
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