The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-02
New Year Serm on S
Will Be Preached at
Services of the Day
by Ministers
SPECIAL MUSIC
BY THE CHOIRS
Evangelstic Meetings Will Be Held at
Christ Lutheran Church During
Wsek-Sunday School Rally at
'r Stevens Memorial

The first Sunday in the new year to.
morrow will be the occasion of the hold.
ing OF communion services and the re.
ceiving of new members in manv local
churches. Converts of the Slough cam.
palgn will be among the new members
admitted at the cooperating churches.
Many of the churches not cooperating
IN the recent campaign are receiving
large numbers of new members.
In several churches the services to-
morrow will start series of evanpel;stic
meetings, when invitations will be ex.
tended In efforts to increase the num-
ber of Slough trail-hitters.
New Year sermons will be given bv
ministers, and choirs will render special
music. In the Sunday schools the
International lessons will revert to stud
les of the Old Testament for the COM
ing year.
Week of Prayer at Christ Church
Christ Lutheran church, Thirteenth
and Thompson streets, will observe the
week OF prayer, beginning tomorrow
morning At the evening service a
chorus of seventy-fve voices will sing.
The men s Bible class and the men of
the church will attend the evening serv-
Ice. hymns from the tabernacle book
viii be sung. There will be services
every evening of the week. The evan
gelistlc note will be sounded and made
TO strengthen those who have already
professed conversion. The subject of
the week will be "The Way of Saliva
tion.' Tomorrow will also be Booster
Sunday in the Sunday school. The
men s Bible class is making ready for a
large attendance. All men are invited
to the class session at p. m.
In pursuing the follow-up work of the
Slough evangelistic campaign the Rev.
b. H. Hart, pastor of the Fifth Street
Methodist church, announces evangelis-
tic services for tomorrow night at 7.30
O'Clock A large chorus choir of 100
voices, with an orchestra of number
of pieces, will furnish music. There
viii be a delightful song service for
10 minutes preceding the regular serv-
ice.
Announcement has also been made
that this coming Sunday will be OBJ
served as Missionary Jay in the Sun
day school. The pastor will also
preach a sermon at 1890 o'clock to
iho PiuudtloHeTS recelNeu week ago.
lightweight persons have been enrolled
as the fruit of the Slough evangelistic
campaign, and there are still others to
join.
The Epworth League will hold its u.s.
ual Sunday evening devotional services
at $50 o clock, WHERE 45-minute serv-
icc of song and praise will be held each
Sunday evening.
Rally in Sunday School
New Year s Sunday will be the be-
ginning of many activities in the Stew
ems Memorial Methodist Episcopal
church, Thirteenth and Vernon streets.
A meeting for prayer and meditation
will be held tomorrow morning at $50
O'Clock in the Sunday school room of
the church. At 1890 O clock DR.. Clay
ton Albert Smucker will have charge
of the Holy Communion service. In
connection with the service he will re-
ceive Slough converts and Others into
church fellowship, In the afternoon at
O'Clock the Sunday school rally prom
ises to be record-breaker. Two meet
ings for young folks will be held at
$50 p. m. The Men s Club will have
charge of the Sunday evening closing