The Washington herald., 1917-08-25
MIDSUMMER PICNIC
ARRANGED BY union
Epworth League of Capital to
Journey to Clarendon.

Members of the Washington City
Epworth League Union of the NJ. z.
Church South will assemble at Claren-
don. Va. Tuesday at $3.50 p. m. as
guests of the Clarendon League and
hold their midsummer meeting.
The first session will be a picnic
and outing. including a picnic lunch
served by the Clarendon league, and
at s p. m. Rev. Forrest ]. Prettyman,
chaplain of the Senate, will deliver an
address on Epworth League war ac-
tivities.
All of the Epworth Leagues of the
Southern Methodist Churches in the
Baltimore Conference are perfecting
plans for participation in Red Cross
and other war relief work, as we'll as
work in nearby training camps. Sew
eral members Of the Epworth League
are already in France, while many
others are in the National Guard or
have been called for the national
army and expect to go to the front.
Theodore c. Thomas. of Baltimore,
president of the Conference League,
will make an address outlining the
plan of work.
Rev. ]. Franklin Bryan, pastor Of
Protestant Church. North Carolina
avenue, Eighth and B streets south
east, returned home this week from
his vacation on the Eastern Shore of
Maryland and Delaware, and will
preach both morning and evening to-
morrow. Tomorrow evening will end
the 7 p. m. twilight services. and next
Sunday ne will preach at T:45 p. m.
DR.. Bryan will preach tomorrow on
the following subjects: II a. m. The
Believers Hope" and at p. m,
| Crises of a Christian"
P. Nick. Etchison, religious work
director of the Y. NJ. c. A, will oc-
cupy the pulpit tomorrow at the even
| ing service of the Mt. Vernon NJ. z.
South Church.
The pulpit at the Congress Street
NJ. P. Church will be occupied to-
morrow at the morning service by
c. E. Miner, of the Y. NJ. c. A
Chaplain H. f. Rountree. former
pastor of the Christian Church at
Portsmouth. Va, who has recently
been appointed chaplain at the Wash
ington Navy Yard, will deliver the
| address at the Y. NJ. c. A. open air
community service at 4 p. m. to-
morrow afternoon. The public is in
vited to hear the address at this get
together meeting.
"A Man Made Them Laugh" is the
subject of E. Hez Swem's sermon
story tomorrow night, Centennial
Baptist Church. The morning sub
ject is: Large Allotments."
The special musical program at the
| Church of the Covenant tomorrow
night given by LIE Roy Glider, tenor:
! Herman Rakemann, violinist; Richard
| Lcrleburg. cellist; w. S. Blanchard,
/ precentor, and James Dickenson. or
ganist. The preliminary program will
begin at 7:45 p. m.
The Rev. c. W. Moorman, who is
supplying the pulpit of Foundry Meth
/ odist Episcopal Church during DR..
Burrett's vacation, was called to New
York City during the week for a con-
| ference on the Y. NJ. c. A. work in
France, which he will take up when
his engagement with Foundry Church
| is fulfilled. On tomorrow morning he
| will preach on the theme Mirrors and
| Cameras" and in the evening his sub
| ject will be The Son of Man"
| DR.. Wood breaches in the evening
at the Church of the Covenant, his
| topic being National and Individual
| Hopes that Complete or Destroy
| Themselves" The sermon of last
| Sunday morning, touching on the
! peace message of the Pope, has been
! published for free distribution. 1t will
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| papers OF the East, a request having
! come to that effect.
| Richard Lancaster, field assistant.
| will preach Sunday morning, this be-
| ing his last Sunday on leave from his
| own large church of | nOn rnarnhars IN