Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-15
STEP FROM BUSY MARTS
TO HOUSE OF PRAYER

! continued From First Page.l
in the week. Zion Church has wealth
cred the storms and sunshine of the
years since 1914.
With the formal opening tomorrow
I of the new church house the new plan
of an "all-week' open church will be
! iuaugurated. Wednesday evening, Feb
ruary >, the annex will he open for
| inspection. when an attractive enter
tainment and general reception of the
members will be held.
Open Church House
! The church house. which is a mod
ern brick structure, has been erected
/ on the vacant lot to the north of the
main church. is practically completed
and will he occupied tomorrow.
/ Special services will be held through
out the day. In the morning the Rev.
( DR.. Charles =. Wiles, editor of sun
/ day School Helps, will talk, and in
/ the evening the Rev. DR.. Charles T..
! Hay, secretary of the deaconess board,
will be the speaker. All the Sunday
! school departments will assemble for
| exercises at 1.45 in the afternoon,
when the dedicatory prayer will be
! offered by the pastor. the Rev. :. Win
| field Herman, and brief address will
| be made by DR.. Wiles. Superintend-
| ent Charles \. Kunkel will preside.
| Following the exercises the beginners,
| primary and junior departments will
| march to the new quarters in the
church house. These are modernly
! equipped like a graded school and are
! light and airy.
Superintendents in charge of the
schools will include c. Guiles Flower,
Mrs. G. w. Deiker and Miss Ida o.
Evans assisted by the deacOness, Sister
| Carrie Click, Mrs. &inZer and the
Misses IIoffer, Peiffer, Raysor. Seiber,
Ogelsby. Andersen, Klugh. Keller, Ben
nett, Uhler, Grissinger, FoeSler, Mrs.
Brown, Mrs Garman, Mrs. Gottshall,
| Mrs. Gerhardt and Mrs. Strine. Frank
| Hutter is secretary.
Work on the construction of the
church house was begun in the sum
! mer under the careful eye of Architect
| George c. Baum, Philadelphia; ]. Mil
! ton Wagner. supervising contractor,
and DR.. Charles B. Eager, ]. p. Keller,
/ Christian Gohl and Percy l. Beltz the
| building committee.
All the grades will have their own
| opening and closing exercises. Pianos
have been presented by Mrs. c. Ross
| Boas and Mr.. and Mrs. w. y. Zollinger.
The beautifully designed windows and
all the loaded glass in the building
| have been presented in memory of Dr.
! Christian *. Keller by his nephews
The framed pictures to he placed will
| be memorials, as are practically all of
| the mahogany chairs i'm the mems
room. The lighting fixtures are of the
latest indirect type. The vestibule is
| tiled. The first department will be
separated from the main school by
sliding doors. the grades by accordion
doors so that the entire building can
| be thrown open. The ladies' parlor
will he handsomely furnished with Co
! lonial furniture, mantel and fireplace
on the second floor will be the large
tN,,a &c fs.s 90 =, IysI Il.
class and brotherhood and the young
peoples clubroom for meetings and
social purposes. Telephones will be
installed. The apartments in the
church house for the deaconess consist
of two rooms and bath, and for the
sexton of six rooms and bath, complete
and comfortable in every particular.
Toilet rooms are placed in the base
ment, first and second floors. The en-
tire building is 26X105 feet, two stories
| high in front and three stories high
in rear. Access to the vestibule of
! the upper church is made possible
through the mems room.
The mems class furnished its own
+. room and the Ladies Aid Society
picked the furniture for the parlor and
| the deaconess' apartment.
| Remodeling of the lower floor or
main church will begin at once. I'M
mediately after Easter the main audi
/ III Auilt VI upper lOOI Will DC TtlTtS-
coed and renovated. recarpeted. and
the pews will be reupholstered and an
! indirect system of lighting will be
| il stalled.
Zion Lutheran Church activities
during the next week include the fol-
f, lowing:
Men of Zion Brotherhood meeting
and Cenchrean Circle monthly Bible
study. Monday evening; Literary Circle,
| Tuesday, home of Miss Martha Snave-
| ly, 217 North Second street theme,
| Westminster Abbey" Ladies' Aid So
| ciety, midweek prayer service. Wednes-
day; Mary and Martha Circle. Thurs
day evening; catechetical classes, Fri
day and Saturday afternoons; children's
missionary and work band will meet
\ for sewing and basketry work Satur-
day afternoon; the mems class will
celebrate its birthday with a social, the
first to be held in the new rooms, Fri
day evening; Young Peoples Mission
airy Society will meet at the home of
Mrs. Luther Helman. 227 Emerald
street. .