Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
TOPICS FOR SABBATH
Memorial Day Services, With
Appropriate Sermons, in
Most Of the Churches
Of the City.

day will be observed as Memorial day,
and either morning or evening, pas
tors will preach sermons that are ap-
propriate for the occasion. On &C.
count Of the United States having
been plunged into war with Germany
it is expected that churches where
Memorial day services are held will
be taxed to their seating capacity.
Grant, Crook and Custer posts of
the Grand Army of the Republic, to-
Rether with the Woman's Relief corps
auxiliary to each post, are to attend
services in a body at the Walnut Hill
Methodist church at Forty-hrst and
Charles streets at 1890 o'clock Sum
day morning.
Rev. John F. Poucher will deliver
the Memorial day address at the r.
L. Wheeler Memorial Presbyterian
church, Twenty!third and ] streets,
Sunday at u Grand Army men have
been given special invitation to ate
tend.
The General Henry w. Lawton
auxiliary will meet with Lee Forby
Camp at Twenty-fourth and Ames at
1880 o'clock Sunday morning and go
to Pearl Memorial church. Troops
No. 8 of the Boy Scouts will escort
the veterans. T.
A patriotic service will be held
Sunday June ), in All Saints church
at II. The Boy Scouts will be pres
ent and G, w. Wattles will make, an
address.
There is probability that in the
near future. Omaha churches will try
the experiment of advertising in the
newspapers. There are a large num-
Der Of the laymen and many pastors
who are of the opinion that religious
services should be advertised. They
take the position that i the churches
entered upon an advertising campaign
and II the preachers and choirs de-
livered the goods, so to speak, the
Sunday attendance would be greatly
increased. In addition, they assert
that the extra contribution to the
baskets would more than pay the ex-
penses OF the advertising. -,
R. B. Wallace of the Omaha Ad
club is a firm believer In church ad-
v rising. He is one of the Omaha
delegates to the Associated Advertis-
ing club convention at st. Louis next
week and at that meeting, he proposes
to bring up the matter of church adj
vertising and ascertain how success
full it has been throughout the coun-
try.
The program of the St, Louis con-
vcntion makes provision for the dis
cussion of church advertising and a
number of leading church laymen
from different sections OF the country
are billed to speak on this subject,
When he returns from st. Louis
it is expected that Mr.. Wallace will
be equipped with data and that at
some time in the not far distant future.
he will appear before the Ministerial
union and give his views on church
Advertising.
The president OF Anatoiia college,
Marsovan, Turkey, DR., George E.
White, will deliver an address at the
First Congregational church Sunday
morning at 1880 o'clock.
At the First Baptist church, the
pastor, A. A. DeLarme, Sunday night
closes the seriess of sermons on
Mother, Home and Heaven" The
sermon is on Heaven and Its In
habitants, or Where Do the Dead go,
To Heaven, Paradise, Purgatory or
Hades." ~
The Ladies' Aid society OF the First
United Presbyterian church, Twenty
first and Emmet streets, has put its
services at the disposal OF the or
ganization for war relief. The So
ciety will meet the first and third
Fridays Of each month at 10 o'clock
at the church parlors. Next Friday,
June |, the society will sew for the
Visiting Nurses association. The So
ciety will endeavor to interest the
women Of the community III war re-
lief work.
The True Situation In Turkey
will be told at Plymouth Congrega.
tional church Sunday evening by
President George E. White Of Marso-
van, Armenia.
The Central Park Congregational
church has been demolished. The
material to be utilized in the new
building, which is going up rapidly.
The official directory OF the Catho-
lie church gives the following data
relative to the diocese OF Omaha and
the strength of the church at the
end of last year:
One bishop, l6l priests, l52
churches, ITO parishes, one university.
l,222 students, three academies for
girls, seventy-two parish schools,
with 9,9H pupils; one orphan asylum,
with l28 inmates. The Catholic popu.
lation of the diocese is placed at 6S,-~
6S2. During the year there were 254
conversions, 3,242 baptisms and 1914
deaths.
A sacred concert will be given at
the First Lutheran church, Twentieth
and Mason streets, Sunday evening at
8 o'clock, with special numbers.
Organ solo by Prof. Phil Lange Of
Lutheran seminary, Seward, and
vocal solo by Prof Theodore Auf-
denberg.
Baptist.
Grace, Tenth and Arbor. e. B. Taft, Pass
tor-At II, The Red Cross Of Christys
at s. THE Battle with Our Temper"
Trinity, Twenty-fifth and II, Rev. Charles
F. Holler Pastor-Sunday school at 9:lS.
at II, Memorial day sermon; the Grand
Army and the Woman's Relief corps viii
attend and have a part in the service;
Junior union at $3.50; young peoples meet
Ing at s. "The Women Whose Tears Showed
huf hn WaS Eo,,n n.