Evening star., 1915-01-30
Additional Church News.

Additional Church News.
manuel Baptist Church. has been
preaching Il number of evening SER
| mons on the topic Some Common
Phrases With Uncommon Meanings"
me subject for the discussion at the
evening service tomorrow is Seeing
Things, and is announced as a special
message for young men. a feature is
the song service at T:45 pm, led by
Percy S. Foster.
Dr. T. c. Merrill of the Department
of Agriculture will address the Young
Peoples Society of St. Stephens Epis-
copal Church tomorrow evening at Z
o'clock in the parish hall on Social
Welfare Work" DR.. Merrill has had
considerable experience in this work
and hopes to bring new ideas to the
society on the subject.
This organization has a membership
of more than zoe. having started in
1909 with twenty-three charter MEM
bers 1t has been a great power for
bringing the younger members of the
church in touch with one another and
with strangers in Mount Pleasant.
Every one is welcome to the Sunday
services and the monthly soeials, be-
sides all the other entertainments
parish comment on the number of
young people and the interest they take
in church work under the guidance of
their rector, to whose efforts are due
much of the success of the Young Peo-
pies Society. The officers are: Presi-
dent, Paul r. Daley; vice president,
Ira y. kel1berg; treasurer, Henry S.
Rawdon; secretary, Miss L. B. Flenner.
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Rev. J. Wilbur Balderston, pastor of
the Georgetown Methodist Protestant
Church, announces second series of
of the Bible He will speak tomorrow
evening on "The Crooked Man Made
Straight and other subjects, with
their dates, will be as follows: Febrn-
ruary IA. The Man Who Could Be
Bought: February q, THE Man Who
Played the Fool
Miss Hortense Tinsley, Southern
Methodist missionary at Sondo, Chosen,
writes to friends in Washington that
at the September sessions of the won-
ems Bible classes of that station a
new feature was introduced in the
form of a better babies contest.
Many of the mothers attending the
classes brought their babies with them,
and though affectionate, she says, most
of them are quite ignorant about the
care of infants. The points considered
by the judges of the contest were phys
ical development, freedom from disease,
cleanliness and proper clothing.
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Stereopticon slides are being made a
feature of the Sunday evening sermons
of Rev. Charles f. Fultz. pastor of the
Memorial United Brethren Church,
North Capitol and r streets northwest
Esther and Daniel is the theme of
the sermon to be delivered at 1870 to-
morrow evening, the last of series of
six talks on the Bible With the even
ing of February I the pastor will be-
gin a second series of illustrated SER
mons on the general topic of The Pas
tors Trip to the Holy Land" in which
he will take his hearers by easy stages
trip.
Tomorrow evening marks the close of
the very successful series of revival
services held for some time past in the
Ninth Street Christian Church, 9Th and
d streets northeast. The number of
new members received was announced
Thursday evening as PIP, and that this
total will be swelled to a considerable
extent by the close of the meetings is
confidently expected. The people of the
church are DESTROYS of having the
meetings continued yet longer, but en-
gagements in kendallville, Ind, pre-
vent the further stay in this city of
Evangelist White and Singer Shaul, in
whose charge they have been.
1t is expected that more than a thou
sand persons will attend Sunday school
in the Ninth Street Church tomorrow,
when the preaching services are an
nounced as of special interest. Mr.
Wilhite will preach at IL o'clock on
Jesus. the Light of the World" and
in the evening on Mans Debt to Man,
and How He Shall Pay It." A flash
light photograph of the congregation
will be taken at the evenuig service,
and special music will be a feature of
| both gatherings.
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r. D. Burbank. first vice president of
the District Epworth League, Is to
lead a union meeting of the various
Epworth Leagues of the District of
Columbia at 6:45 o'clock tomorrow
evening at Metropolitan Memorial
Methodist Episcopal Church, John Mar
shall place. The choir Of Foundry
Church is to sing, and the meeting is
to be "get-together" affair, to which
all leaguers are invited.
Wilmer E Moody was toastmaster at
! the sixth annual mems banquet of
. Grace Reformed Church Thursday even
! ing. The menu included cream of to-
mato soup, olives, celery, turkey, cram
berry sauce. dressing. creamed pota-
, toes. sauerkraut. harlequin blocks,
. cake and conee. Rev. J. ID. Burrer pro-
nounced the invocation. The entertain
ment program included a bass solo,
! Theodore T. Apple; address, Church
Work and Politics." Representative A.
X. Brodbeck of Pennsylvania; violin
solo, Claude Gicker; Greetings from
the Hudson River Dutch" Representa-
. tive Edmund Platt, New York; tenor
, solo, NJ. =. Fitzgerald: a talk on church
/ finances. by Marcus Hottenstein, and
an address by the pastor. Rev. Henry
H. Ranck. During the dinner several
sion were sung.
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Brookland Methodist Episcopa Church
Rev. J. Paul Wright. pastor. is to enter
upon a new era Of church work tomor
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