Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-21
Churches Arrange
Union Services
for Thanksgiving
Every Section Of the City In
cIuded and Special Char
table Offering.

Union Thanksgiving services are to
be held by the churches Of the city,
as has been the custom for some
years. In the North End union
service will be held in the Forest Hill
Presbyterian Church Thanksgiving
morning. The preacher of the sermon
will be Rev. Percival H. Barker, pas
I tor of Christ Reformed Church. Be-
sides this church and Forest Hill
Presbyterian Church, the other
churches participating will be Eman-
/ uel Baptist, st. Johns Episcopal,
SummerfieId Methodist Episcopal and
st, Marks Episcopal. The offering
will be for the Bureau of Associated
| Charities.
The following North End churches
| will also unite in the Thanksgiving
services to be held Thursday morn
ing in the First United Presbyterian
Church: Park Presbyterian, Emanuel
Reformed Episcopal, Belleville Ave-
nue. Congregational, Centenary Meth
odist Episcopal, Mt. Pleasant Bap-
tist and the First United Presbyte-
rian. The Rev. Ralph B. Urmy, OF
the Centenary Methodist Episcopal
Church, will deliver the sermon. The
offering will be donated to the Assoc
ciated Charities.
In the south end Of the city over a
dozen churches along lower Broad
street and Clinton avenue. from the
Clinton Reformed Church to Seven
teenth street, on Clinton avenue. Will
unite in Thanksgiving services in the
Clinton Avenue Reformed Church.
The preacher Will be Rev. DR.. George
Walton King, pastor of Central Pres
byterian Church.
Another group in the centre of the
city that will hold union Thanksgiv-
Ing services will consist of the Gen.
trail M. E. Church, First Presbyte-
rian. Franlin Street NJ. E., st. Paul. 8
M. E., South Park Presbyterian and
South Baptist churches. The service
will be held In the South Baptist
Church and the preacher will be Rev.
Lewis B. Hills, of the First Presby-
terrain Church.
The Second Presbyterian, North
Reformed Church and the Peddie Me-
mortal Baptist Church will join in
union service in the Second Presby-
terrain Church. Rev. NJ. joseph
TWOney, OF the FeuulS moLioAtai
Church. will preach the sermon.
In the Roseville section the two
Presbyterian churches, the Baptist
and Methodist Episcopal, will form
another group to hold THANKSGIVING
service in the Fifth Avenue Presby-
terrain Church, where the pastor, Rev.
Joseph Hunter, will preach.
All the Protestant churches of the
"Ironbound District will gather in
the Sixth Presbyterian Church, where
the preacher of the Thanksgiving
Day sermon win be Rev. Warren
Patten Coon, pastor of the Union
Street Methodist Episcopal Church.
The offering for this service will be
tor the East Side Day Nursery.
Churches not in any union service
project will conduct separate services
as each church may direct. The Cath.
Ollie churches will follow their calen-
dar of services. At st. Johns Church
Thanksgiving Day will include me-
mortal service for the knights of Co.
lumbus. The Protestant Episcopal
churches generally will hold separate
services. At Trinity Church the Of
fering of Thanksgiving morning will
be for St Barnabas's Hospital. In
practically all the churches the
Thanksgiving Day observance is to
include consideration of the needs of
the poor and sick by means of special
offerings