The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-02
PEOPLES CHURCH
 PLANS SERIES OF
 WINTER LECTURES
Noted Speakers Have Been Engaged By Mems Club
 of Church.

The winter series of Sunday evening services will commence next Sunday evening at the Peoples Presbyterian church, Laurel and Park avenues, and will continue throughout the winter and spring.
 1 A different speaker and subject have been engaged for each night. Leading men and women of the coun- try have been booked. Such subjects as missions, child welfare, peace and civic reforms will be presented by we'll known authorities. i Prof. Joseph w. Roe of Yale Uni- versity will be the first speaker of -he series, nxt Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock Mrs. Jerome May, the well known singer, will be, the soloist of the evening. This series of services has been planned by the mems club of the church A cordial invitation is given to all, and a special invitation is given to strangers and newcomers to the city,
 The following is, partial list of speakers and dates:
 l Nov. ', Prof. Joseph w. Roe of Yale University.
 secretary Y. M. c. A. of, Nav Haven
 Now *21, Prof William B Bailey. of the chair of Psychology in Yale ;1ri- l Nov. 2s, Prof. Henry Hallam Tweedy of the chair of Applied The ology,4 Divinity School. Yale Univer- sity, a former minister of this city. Dec 5, Spencer R. Gordon, super intendent of Charities, on the "Chil- dren and the Courts.,' Dec. 12, John S. Sumner, secretary of the New York. Society for Suppress Rston of vice, successor to the late Anthony Comstock, who was to speak Ion this date.
 Dec. 1s, Miss Margaret sangster, Junior Associate Editor of the Chris speak on the great Children's Home at Mount Lawn. i Dec. 26, Charles F. Johnson, war ] den of the Cheshire ReforInatory end deputy warden of Sing Sing prison un- der Hon. Thomas Mott Osborne.
 Jan. 2, D1. Hastings H Hart of Go l1unbia University and of the Russell Sage Foundation Dr. Hart is also a
 member of the National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor. ,s.+
 Jan. g, pr. Charles $. MacFarland' l. general secretary of the Federal Council of Churches in America, pr. MacFarIand will speak Ton the Euro ] pean@ Situation.
 1 Jan. 16, William R. Moody of Northfield, Mass, son of the great i evangelist, D. L. Moody. He will speak on the work of Northf1eId Sem iuary and the Mt. Hermon School Jan. 2s, Prof. M. B. HilIegas of the Teachers College. Columbia Upiver- tsity. Professor Hi1legan instituted
 the evening school system in in s Sins l Sing prison. .- ...--...x a5 ;
 dean of the Columhias- Law. School.
 editor of the Law Jourial, He will speak on the European Situation
 Feb. 6, Dr. Sidney l.. Gulick. con- sidered today the greatest living author and authority on Japan. He is
 also. member of the Commission on l Relations with Japan. I Feb. 3, Dr. Fred c. Howe, Com
 missioner of Immigration. Ellis Is- i land New York, will speak on the Immigration Problem. 1 The following are the names o1 I other speakers who have been secur-
 ed, whose subjects and dates will be
 announced later:
 I Rev Josiah Strong. D. D., of the I American Institute of Social Service. l pr. Strong will speak on the Church I and Social Service"
 1 Prof. Smaller Matthews, dean of the Divinity School of the University of I Chicago.
 l William E. Holloway, a New York I ] recent Men and Religion Forward i Movement.
 1 Hon. Amos P. Wilder of the Yale l Miss ons in China and former consul
 general at Hong Kong. l pr. A. W. HaIsey, general secretary of. the Foreign Mission Board of the I Presbyterian church 1 Hon. Clifford Pinchot, Chief Pores ter under Ex-President Roosevelt. MT.
 Pinchott will probably use as shis sub 1 ject, tThe Church and Country Life. '
 Hon. Franklin Chase Hoyt, justice
 of the Children's Court, New York .l city, and writer and author, will prob .l ably use as his subject. '"rhe Greatest l Life Saving Station in the World" Dr. Katherine B. Davis, Commts- l sioner of Correction at BIackwelI's 1 Island, New York. pr. Davis has been asked to speak of her great work on the Island.
 I Each service will be featured by I good music. This church bears the name of the. PeoDIe'sr Church and ar urgent invitation is given to all mer Il and women who are not members o1 any other church to make this church their church horne.-