New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-20
CHURCH NEWS AND NOTES
Palestine Pageant Opens Tonight

Palestine Pageant Opens Tonight.
When the doors of the Grand Central
Palace are opened tonight at o'clock
for the Palestine Pageant and Oriental
Exposition, the public will have an OPP
portunity of viewing one of the most
unique educational exhibitions ever
presented by church workers.
While the main floor of the palace
has been transformed into a reproduc-
ton of Palestine scenes, showing the
streets Of Jerusalem, with its hustle
of trade and the Oriental coloring OF
dress and decoration as IL was in the
days of David, there will also be
unique exhibits by prominent local
MISSIONS.
/ The Seaman's Mission has erected q
mission ship in its section, showing
the quarters in which seamen lived
aboard ship fifty years ago, and the
improved conditions on board vessels
of to-day.
There will be many relics and curios
displayed that are from 1000 to 1000
years old. In one booth will be shown
the Potter's House, where will be seen
his ancient wheel and where will be
produced his earthen lamps, bottles
and oil cruises. The weaver's loom, the
progenitor of the weaving machinery
Of to-day, will also be in operation.
Here also will be seen Bedouin hair
tent, which was brought direct from
the land of Moab and standing on poles
. that grew in the land that witnessed
the exploits Of Joshua.
The musical programme during the
exposition will be rendered by the
D of 4,.AI Ill hn
Hampton Institute, who will give selec-
tions from the main lecture platform
and at thoir booth on the main floor.
Mrs. Chaplin Returns.
Mrs. Mary Etheridge G. Chaplin, presi-
dent of the Boston Metaphysical Club,
and q lecturer and worker, will conduct
her Sunday morning service, beginning
at 40, In the new Theatre Francais,
! West Forty-fourth Street. near Fifth
Avenue. Her subject will be "Our Land
Of Fulfilment" Mrs. Chaplin Is in her
studio, in tho Berkeley Building, Sat-
urdays and Mondays.
Sixteenth Anniversary.
The Eighth Avenue Mission Is cells
brating its sixteenth anniversary by a
weeks special meetings. From q small
beginning it has grown to be one Of
the most useful and helpful institu-
tons of its kind. The mothers of the
neighborhood are taught to sew, while
their babies and small children are
taken care of by the workers, and an
evangelistic meeting for them is held
weekly. There is 4 thriving Sunday
school, services in the hospital, open
air meetings, house to house visiting
and splendid relief work for the poor.
/ There has been a Gospel service every
night for the last sixteen years. The
superintendent, Miss S. Wray, is just
completing her fifteenth year of ser
vice. The mission has well deserved
reputation for good singing.
BAPTIST COURSE OF LECTURES.
Large audiences are attending the
course of lectures held at 10 o'clock on
| Sunday morning at the Mount Morris
Baptist Church. Fifth Avenue, between
| 10th and Firth Streets, on Recon
structon Days Among the Nations"
| The majority of the speakers are in
sympathy with the League to Enforce
| Peace, of which ex-President Taft is
| head.
Next Sunday Theodore Marburg, of
/ Baltimore, speaks on Justice Among
/ the Nations" Mr.. Marburg was for
/ merly Ambassador-to belgium, and IS
row chairman of the Committee on
/ Foreign Organizations and vice -presi-
/ dent of the League to Enforce Peace.
THANKSGIVING AT ST. JAMES'S.
/ Tho Thanksgiving services at St.
/ James's, Fordham, next Thursday will
/ be more elaborate than usual. The
/ first service will be the Holy Com
/ munion al 5 o'clock. At 10:30 there
will be festival service, at which the
regular choir, augmented by the girls
and boys choirs. will sing. The girls
choir will wear long robes Of gray, with
round white collars and white caps, TO
recall the costumes of the Puritan
maidens. The sermon will be delivered
| by the Rev. Dewitt l.. Pilton.
/ VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL con-
FERENCE.
The National Conference of Daily
Vacation Bible School Superintendents