Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-08
CHURCHES OF WASHINGTON
TO OBSERVE "MOTHER'S DAY.
Special Sermons Elaborate Musical Programs and Wearing
of White Carnations to Mark Commemoration of Day
Set Aside by Nation in Honor of Mothers

special music by large chorus choir.
There Will he baptism al night.
At the Union Methodist Episcopal
Church Mothers day will be fittingly
observed by the members of the Sun
day school al the session at $50 o'clock
tomorrow morning. and the pastor.
Rev. John MacMurray, will deliver two
appropriate sermons. The one in the
morning at II o'clock will have the
topic Jones and His Family" and, with
other things will tell what Jones owes
to his mother and also what Jones chill
dren owe to their mother for care and
aiming. This is the first of a series
of Sunday morning sermons on Jones:
| What He Thinks and What He Likes"
Other sermons In the series have as
titles: The Kind of a Church Jones
Likes" The Kind of Preacher Jones
Likes The Kind of a Sermon Jones
Likes" and What the Church Has
Done and Is Doing for Jones and His
Family"
In the evening DR.. MacMurray will
give a sermon under the title "A Mes
ans Rights" as these rights deal with
motherhood. He will discuss st. Pauls
in jun tion to the women to keep silent
in the churches. rule 40 of the board of
education, woman's functions in the
household and the market place and
at the ballot box. This is one Of Sc
ries of Sunday night sermons under
the caption "a Pulpit's Message tol
Daily Importance. With Suggestions to
Mrs. Grundy." other sermons will deal
with the sex problem. the race problem
in the District of Columbia. the drink
problem. amusement problem, the Sab
bath question and n free and frank dis
cussion of various social, industrial
and economic problems which ought tot
be carefully and thoughtfully consider
ed by the pulpit and have to do with
the material moral and spiritual we'll
being of people.
Mothers day will be observed at st
Paul NJ. f. Church South, I'd and 81
streets northwest. tomorrow. both in
the Sunday school and at the regular
morning service. The entire Sunday
school session will be devoted to the
celebration. A committee. of which
Mrs. G. Ernest Waescha is chairman,
has prepared a program. in which
large number of the scholars of the
school will participate. Clarence p.
Fowler is superintendent of the school.
At the IL o'clock service the pastor,
Rev. D. L. Blakemore, will preach
thy mother" The choir Will
render music appropriate to the occa- |
sion. All members of the congregation |
will wear white flower in Rnor OF
motherhood. At night the subject OF ,
the sermon by the pastor VIII be "A
Friend of Jesus
Rabbi Abram Simon, preaching last
night before the Washington Hebrew
Congregation, on Mothers Day. the
Feast of Domestic Affection" said in
part:
There is an added inspiration in as
sociating Mothers day with this Fri
day evening service Whoever knows
the old Jewish family life will recall
that Friday evening the Jewish mother
was especially the queen In her house
hold, and her presence dominated the
entire home as in her pious way she
welcomed the Sabbath, listened to her
hv,o hop 1{rt 1p he WIT 70
from the thirty-first chapter of the Book
of Proverbs, and converted the evening
into a service of spiritual and uplift- |
ing domestic worship. We in Israel |
domestic purity. are more than happy
to Join our brethren in this celebration |
Our Bible. our history and our home
are classic commentaries on the neces
stty and beauty of Mothers day.
Mothers day implies the worlds
problem. Woman as woman is in the
worlds eye: she isfin the worlds affec-
tion. Time Is not far when she may be
economic point of view her interests
are Transforming our legislation. The
child labor law. minimum wage, eight
hour law. mothers pension, equal
rights Of Inheritance. are significant
expressions of our growing apprecia-
ton of her economic rights. Woman
suffrage indicates her advance in the
line of civics. The domestic side of 1t,
however, is the more fnsfstent As de-
sirable as IT Is that she shall be mans
industrial and political equal, 1t is all
the more imperative that this progress
shall not be an emancipation out of
the home, but into 1t, in a larger, in a
saner, In a healthier, In a more respon-
sible and in a more rational way. Home
must never cease being her kingdom.
May Mothers day come to us with a
new branch of hope. May 1t shame us
for any personal ingratitude or lack
of aDnrecfdtlOn
and daughters. May it sound the dan
gers of our social life. bringing home
to us forcibly the possible shipwreck
of national integrity. May II raise to
an even higher level the profession |
which we believe is the most beautiful
and the most necessary. and while the |
most sacrificing, also the most divine"