New Britain herald., 1915-02-22
DR. J. |. BARTON TALKS
 ON BALKAN REGION"

Lsntcn Matters to Occupy Attention 1 Of Churches for Few Weeks. Dr. J. l.. Barton, for many years a
 resident of Turkey and of Asia. Minor
 and now secretary of the American
 Board, preached at both morning and evening services at the South Con- gregational church yesterday In the morning he spoke on The Great War in Relation to Religion and Missions,
 with particular reference to the pres- ent situation in it's relation to Mo hammedanism, the Holy war, the out look for Constantinople and Turkey, and the probable future, of Christian ity. In the evening he spoke on 'The Balkan Religion dwelling on the so- cial, political and religious conditions in that section. Dr. Barton's famll1ar- 1 ity with conditions in the Balkans make his deductions very interesting, Lenten matters will hold the atten- tion of the church world for the
 next few weeks and the following program of services was announced yesterday for the South church: Sunday Mornings, 1O:45 A. M. The sermons on Sunday mornings will not follow any specified line, there being certain departures from the Lenten thought for, matters relat- ed to our larger work. There will, however, be four sermons dealing with 'Virile Faith For Masterful Age"
 February 2s--"Function of the Faith .+> March 7--Celebration of the Com
 munion. March 14-''Giving and Gifts March 21-"Manhood For the Day" March 2S--'The Judgment or
 Life"
 April 4-"The Building of Cod Sunday Evenings, 7:3o P. NJ. The addresses on Sunday evenings
 will for the most part review some
 of the fundamental elements of re- ligious faith in the light of present
 thought ard movements under the general subject, Straight Thinking on Religion
 March 7-"God, the Father AL
 mighty
  and the Devil" March 21-"The Great Life Change"
 March 2S-"Salvation Unto the Ut- termost." April 4-4:so P. M.-Musical ser vice. Thursday. Evenings, 7:45 P. NI The services on church night will be in the nature of illustrative read ings from various authors Special
 music will add inspiration to the hour. The readings will illumine the All Inspiring Christ @'j s'@ February 25-"Christ. the Realiza- tion of Humanity.
 March 4-"Christ, the Friend and
 Inspirer.'
 March 11-"Christ, the Consoler.' March 1S-"Christ, the Savior.' ' March 25-"Christ, the Pilot of the Soul April Holy Week Service.
 Holy Week. During holy week there will be two services. On Thursday evening the First and South churches will unite
 in union service at which there will
 De CeleDrdL1On OI Ile COlIlIAuHlOI
 This will take the place of the com-
 munion formerly held on Easter
 morning.
 On Friday a union service of the
 English Protestant churches of the city will be held in celebration of Good Friday.
 On Thursday the Little Tourists club will meet at o'clock and the Woodruff club will meet at the home of Clifford Dickinson, 61 Roberts stret, at 8 F. M.
 Center Church Notes. The opening period of the Boys'A Friday club, a social work for the younger boys of New Britain, will be. 1 held at o'clock Friday afternoon in ] the Center church chapel. Rev. E. l T. sThienes will be in the chapel early | Tuesday and Wednesday aftrnoons to 1 receive any and all kinds of games 1 for use by the club. Magazines and subscriptiones to magazines will also 1 be acceptable It is expected that the attendance at the first meeting will ] be large enough to warrant consid- erable attention to this feature of the work of the Y oung Peoples society | The Boy Scouts of the church left with other New Britain groups on the l :22 train for the State Scout assem- l bly at Hartford. The Armenian chill