New Britain herald., 1916-10-26

#<SJlIIC1dIS O1 the f1rSI bapI1SU cnuIC1l IO
 al of the parishioners advising them
 that this coming Sunday is to be
 observed as Home Visitation Day and
 that between the hours of ? and in
 the afternoon a committee Of two will
 visit each family with personal word
 of greeting from the church and to
 explain plans that are under way for
 1ncreasing the scope of the church
 rnember.
 "a Special Sermon Sunday. @ A committee of fifty men, travelling "a ln pairs, has been appointed and
 during the aforementioned hours will
 call for a few minutes on every mem- + Der of the church to explain plans for
 the fall and winter work. The gen. & eral plan is to increase the number of M people who are taking advantage of
 the opportunities for worship, study & and fellowship which this church H provides The committee will also < ask for the names of any persons or
 Families who, having no particular
 church affiliations, might be interested
 
 y Attention of tthe Baptist church ! members Is also called to the fact that
 this coming Sunday is to be observed
 Rs the Five Year Program Day.
 when the pastor, Rev. pr. Earle B.
 Cross, will preach a special sermon
 betting forth the great forward move
 ment in all church activities. In his ' sermon Dr. Cross will impress upon
 his congregation the keener sense of
 a spiritual worth of all things In all M phases of life, in contrast to the old M time idea that God was more domi- Y nant Tn the churches alone. His topic 8will be "The Voice of Yesterday and
 4he Hope of Tomorrow and among
 other things he will touch upon the
 general need of cooperation of all
 churches and this gradual develop K rrent, as well as the spirit of demo- "a cracy which is being spread among
 the several congregations.
 Will Begin Evening Services.
 Another feature of particular inn "a portance to the Baptist church mem- - bors is the announcement that after & year or more of inactivity, Sunday M evening services are to again be held,
 beginning on the evening of OctobeE
 29 These services on Sunday eVen- M ngs at the Baptist church are in no - sense in opposition to the Sunday & evening services at the Methodist @ church. Both pr. Cross and the Rev. Z w r. Cook, the latter pastor at the "a Methodist church. have discussed this # matter thoroughly and 1t is their 8 opinion that the city is large enough I'd to support two evening church ser &M vices Services at these two churches N WI be of a cooperative nature and sM dr~ing the winter there will be ex- @ efaree of courtesies between the two M Churches, that is, there will be times M when there will be union services at Z each church with the two pastors ex- M changing pulpits.
 @ pr. Cross is preparing his fall and M winter program of winter Sunday "a evening services and expects to an # rounce a number of features that will 5 ed6 to the interest. Sometime in # December, Albert L. Blair, a Redpath & Chautauqua lecturer, will speak at the
 Sunday evening service. MT. Blair's M Cfautauqua subject is "Citizen @ Kings" but it is probable that his &M topic when he comes here will be M f'The Whirr of the Newspaper Press Z said to be a live, up-to-the-minute # address on conditions of today. MT "a Blair is himself an old newspaper
  8 the Boston Journal
 # William H. Flake, who spen M twenty-seven years of his life 1T M prison and who, when past the age O. A@ fifty was released and began 1ift sN anew, will speak on the evening O. ga Novemb Der 5. MT. Flake spoke befor, # n large congregation at the Methods x church last Sunday evening. He is al 1@ ex-convict who has reformed and i # devoting the remainder of his life t. "a the social uplift of others. Anothe
 feature evening promised is a musfca M sermon, by Arthur Brooks of Nev @ York.
 These Sunday evening services vii s# be self-supporting. The evening col "a lections will govern the nature of tn
 services and the larger the donation 8 the more elaborate will be the ser a vices.
 To Organize Brotherhood. @ pr. Cross is also endeavoring t M form a strong Brotherhood among tn "a men of his church. His idea is nc @ to have this Brotherhood founded CT "a tirely on the social side of life bU M to have the members take an activ @ interest in the welfare of their churc M and their city. Another plan whic M this thoroughly energetic pastor ha 8 ir mind, and which may eventually r l worked out, is to have the baseme1 I o. the church finished off so that M@ nay be used as a social service Ger zM ter. A reading room, possibly bow IM ing alleys and other things 1nstalle @ there would lend much to the soci; M uplift of the city, he feels.
 W COWBOY ESCORT FOR 1T. R. 8 Chicago, Oct 26.-A squadron