Evening star., 1915-10-30
Additional Church News.

An interesting program has been ar
ranged for the vesper services at the
Y. w. C. A. tomorrow. at 4:3o pm.
Rev. Dr. John T. Huddle will speak
on the Spiritual Basis of James Whit
comb Riley" Mrs. Bertha Hanson
Gottsman will sing two songs. the
words of which are by Riley. 20 Heart
of Mine" and There Is Song Every
where"
The Sunday afternoon Bible class will
meet at $50 o'clock, and the leader,
Mrs. Mary Stevens, will teach the Sun
day school lesson for the following
o'clock will be the first of series of
six lectures on Paul. the Apostle of
Jesus Christ" by Rev. John Brittan
Clark. These lectures will continue
from November 2 to December Z. and
will be held in the parlors of the
streets northwest.
All women are cordially invited to
share this opportunity with the MEM
bers of the Y. W. c. A.
Westminster Memorial Church. Rev.
T. E. Davis. pastor. will observe the
Rosh ha-Shana of the ancient Hebrew
Church by appropriate services both
morning and evening tomorrow. This
festival commemorating the Feast of
Ingathering will have a unique dis
play Of fruits. flowers and vegetables.
Depue, Mrs. 3. F. Anderson and Miss
Rachel Mothershead.
Special music will be rendered by
large chorus choir, under the direction
of Mrs. Frank Byram. At the close
of the evening service a distribution of
fruits and vegetables will be made.
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Bishop Charles Warren Currier will
preach tomorrow night at s o'clock,
the eve OF All Saints day. at the Church
of the Nativity, Georgia avenue.
Brightwood, of which Rev. Frank X.
Bischoff is the pastor.
The subject of the sermon will be
'fPurgatory."
Tomorrow evening in New York Ave-
nue. Church the usual monthly musical
interpretations will be resumed for the
season, under the direction of the or
ganist, j. Willis Conant, and will be
given on the last Sunday evening Of
each month Tomorrow evening will
be study of Mendelssohn's oratorio
of "Elijah," with the following num-
bers: IF With All Your Hearts"
Lord God Of Abraham, Cast Thy
rael," 20 Rest in the Lord" and HE
Watcheth Over Israel
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The women of the Northminster Pres
byterian Church gave a reception last
eN
and congregation, at which about sew
enty-five members and their friends
were present.
Miss Elena Hall played several pleas
Mrs. /. r. F. Smith sang two solos.
30 Dry Those Tears" and Sing, Smile,
Slumber." accompanied by Mr.: Albert
son of Falls Church on the violin and
Miss Albertson at the piano.
Mr.. H. p Wilkins rendered two solos.
Somewhere a Voice Is Calling" and
Perfect Day"
Miss Ruth Bell PLAYED piano num-
ber and Quincy Weirlein gave a read
ing of THE Jabberwock" and respond
ed to an encore.
An informal social time followed. with
refreshments served by the young
women of the church.
The Woman's Home and Foreign Mis-
sjonary Society of the Eastern Presby-
terrain Church held an open meeting IN
conjunction with the Westminster So
ciety of the church recently Both
societies are energetically at WORK.
each sang a solo and Mrs. Carl o.
Spamer was the speaker OF the even
ing. Mrs. Spamer. who is now study
ing at George washington uniysrity' verify
Her subject was "a Chinese Romance"
she telling the love story of one of
the girls in her school in such a man
ner as to show the Chinese idea of
and marriage. and then the |
unIift that has come through Chris |
tian teaching. The remarkable in
fuence which has gone out from this |
Chinese Christian home she said has |
hasn the means of converting to Chris |
tinitv some who had been made agnos- |
tics by university life in European
countries.
The first week of the cooperative
campaign going on in the
churches of the city has been