Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-09

Byrne and Mrs. William buckingham,
Gospel Mission. prison and hospital
! missionaries, will speak at the tent.
/ and at o'clock in the evening Mrs. H.
e. Monroe will conduct the tent service.
| Meetings also are being held every
| night at the -1ission Hall, 216 John
Marshall place
9 s. s
DIR. Francis NJ. Mccoy, pastor of
Waugh Methodist Episcopal Church.
will deliver an address at the Y. NJ c.
A. open-air service in Lincoln Park to-
morrow afternoon.
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The morning service at Sixth Pres
byterian Church will be conducted by
Page Mex. Etchison, religious work
director of the Y. M. c. A, who will
deliver an address on THE Democ-
racy of Christianity
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Services will be held in the Y NJ. c.
A. tent at Radio, Va, tomorrow even
ing. under the leadership of Page Mex
Etchison An address will be deliv-
cred by Homer J. Councillor on The
Man Who Dares." Special music will
be rendered by Guy C. Hendry, c. E.
Guy Z. Hendry. assistant religious
work director of the Y. NJ. G. A., will
speak at the morning service of the
North Carolina Avenue NJ. 7. Church.
In the evening an address will be de-
livered by Ashby Jump.
Rev. Howard l. Stewart. pastor Of
Second Baptist Church, has returned
from his vacation, spent at resorts in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey. and to-
first anniversary. the subject at the IL
O'Clock service being "A Shameless
Preacher" The popular Sunday even
ing services" will be resumed at night,
when Pastor Stewart will preach on
The Worlds Eighth Wonder" For the
remaining Sundays in September the
special subjects will be as follows: Sep
TENDER II, morning, Wireless Messages
Outclassed"; evening, "A Very Startling
Question" and September "a, morning.
THE Fighting Chance; evening, "A Re-
jected Wage Scale"
Under the organized leadership of the
National Reform Association and with
the cooperation of the clergy every
where a national prayer for the public
schools will be uttered tomorrow.
This national prayer for the greatest
of all national educational institutions
1t is declared. has special significance at
this time in communities where the
plague of infantiie paralysis may pre-
vent the opening of some of the public
schools.
In Washington the organized effort
for national prayer for the public
schools is under the leadership of Rev
Henry Fl. Kanck of Grace Reformed
Church. who Will preach special ser
mon at II O'Clock on the general sub
lect of patriotic and religious education
In the public schools.
From small beginning, original
with the National Reform Association,
with headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pa,
this ceremony of national prayer for
the public schools, 1t is said, has grown
into every hamlet, town and city in
America and into every denomination
there represented.
The leading clergymen Of the United
states. 1t is declared. set aside the sec
ond Sunday in September for this an
nual event, and in some places most
elaborate ceremonies attend the affair
which has for it's basis the retention of
the Bible in the public schools as a
means of education.
The regular Sunday services have
been resumed at the Calvary Methodist
church and the minister, DR.. James
ices Sunday morning and preach on the
theme, The Burden of a Drafted Man
IN the evening at s o'clock Dr. Mont
gomery VIII continue his sermons On
at'oh ooseTNdtlOnS ana relate his
contact and associations with places
and people Of this vacation season. The
special subject for Sunday evening Will
be The Evolution of Helen Kellar."
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In Foundry Methodist Episcopal
church tomorrow morning Rev. Earle
NJ. Ellsworth of Lancaster. Ohio, will
preach on the theme "Life's Best Law"
and at the bright hour" service the
subject will be "Beforehanded Lives"
Rev w. X. Wedderspoon, b. D., pastor
OF Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church.
Will return next week from his vaca-
ton. and will occupy the pulpit Sun
day. September II.
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Rev. DR.. C. Everest Granger, pastor
Of Gunton-Tempie Memorial Presby-
cation this week and occupy his pulpit
tomorrow at the IL o'clock service.
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After a vacation Of seven weeks,
spent in the Pocono mountains Of PENN
John Compton Ball and Mrs. Ball have
returned to begin their fourteenth year
of service with the Metropolitan Baptist
Church.
Pastor Ball will deliver the anniver-
sary sermon tom sn,r IN. morning on the
ing" At the evening service Cardinal
Newman's famous hymn. Lead. Kindly
Light" will be the subject Of song and
sermon.
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Rev. Clarence A. Vincent, pastor of
Mount Pleasant Conversational Church,
has rstuTnN4 from the summers yace-