The Hattiesburg news., 1916-08-28
Church BUILDING
EVENING" IS GIVEN
LARGE CROWD ATTENDS ExER.
clsEs AT FIRST PREsBYTERl.
AN; MUCH MONEY RAISED.

Last evening at the First Presby
Iterian Church the Westminster League
of that church gave Church Build
ling Evening" this being the first
public affair 20 be given in the cam
lpaign recently started by that congre
Igation to build new church, and the
results were most gratifying, both
from an artistic and financial stand
point. Quite substantial sum was
turned oven to the Chairman of the
| building committee this morning by
the League secretary, as the proceeds
of the free will offering taken up last
might and besides the young people
taking part are being congratulated
on the well-rendered performance and
the reverence and simple beauty of the
numbers.
The pulpit and choir were prettily
arranged with trailing olematis in
bloom, and growing ferns, both spaces
being required to seat the twenty-one
singers, composd mostly of the Inter
mediate and Junior choirs of the
League.
Tho service was mostly choral, and
Rev. E. J. Currie, pastor of the church
gave the opening prayer, Rev. ]. N
McCord, of Sardinia. S. Carolina, Civ
ing the closing prayer with the choir
singing the benediction.
The speaker of the evening was
Mr. George W. Currie, who, in his
address on "How the Standing of
Womanhood, and so of the Community,
has Been Universally Raised by the
Advent of The Church and the Open
Bible, as a Lawyer Sees It," showed
a keen legal mind and knowledge OF
current events. His address was re-
plete with information briefly and con-
showing the legal standing
of women in the various countries and
in the United States and
The speaker pointed out
how the church and the open Bible
play their part in not only making
women more looked up to, but in max,
ing the surroundings better, wherever
the church is planted.
Little Mildred Farley impressed the
with her graceful rendi-
tion of memories of "a Country
Church"
The concert was under the t1irec-
tion of the League president, Miss
Mary Anna Allen, and the League or
ganist, miss Edna Herren, was ac-
A much appreciated number was the
quartette, Ira D. Sankey's beautiful
hymn, "Whn the Mists Have Rolled
Away" which was sung by four young
men, Messrs. Dan Warren, ]. N. Nc |
Cannon, Harry Hickman and Roscoe
Hearon, and the opening number,
Danks' Jubilate, was we'll rendered |
by both choirs. The Junior Choir was
good in its rendition of Fill
nore's 81 Will Sing of the Mercies of
The Lord"
The intermediate Choir's special
Gounods Praise Ye the Faith
ar" was very pretty, while the closing
number sung by the entire member
ship of the two choirs, with Miss Cas-
lie Hearon, Mr.. Hearon and Mr.. Nc
Cannon in the solo parts, was very
Little Frank McInnis was the League
peaker for the occasion, explaining in
few well chosen and delivered
words his idea of the Church Beau
iful," the purpose of the sacred con-
ert, and the desire for a generous
rec will offering.
Messrs. Rainsford Cotton and EN-
lett McInnis, Jr., took up the collec-
ion, during which Miss Katherine DON
Id played violin solo, Beethoven's
Iinuet.
The house on the church property
ext door is now being moved away IN
S the congregation hopes to start
le building soon.
Members of intermediate Choir
iisses Bobbie Haney, Mary Lou and
nth McInnis, Edna and Cassie Hear
J, Grace Eaton, Myra Lee Farley.
atherine Donald and Mary Anna Al.
n.
Junior Choir Members-Emily Mas il
ngale, Rachel McInnis, Mildred Fair i,
y, Jennie Blakely. Kathleen King, a
'ut Farley, Myra Lee Farley, Ethel !,