Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-29

"A district rally. will be held tonight
in Steelton in the First Presbyterian
Church. Newin S. Gilbert. presiding.
Speakers will be the Rev. c. b. Segel-
ken, pastor of the First Church, the
Rev. A. E. Hangen. pastor of Park
Street United Evangelical Church, and
c. 5. Urich, president of the Harris
burg Christian Endeavor Union. A
feature of the program will be vocal
solo by the Rev. George N. I.auffer,
pastor of st. johns Lutheran Church.
The Hill district rally will be held
Tomorrow evening in the Market
street Baptist Church, with L. w.
Lingle in charge. The Rev. II. Ev-
erett Hallman, pastor of Emmanuel
Presbyterian Church, will make the
principal address of the evening.
Music will be furnished by the Harris
burg Choral Union, directed by j.
Frank Palmer. and the Christ Lu-
theran Male Quartet
On Thursday evening the West End
district rally will be held in st. Mat
thew's Lutheran Church, J. G. Howard
presiding. The Rev. II. f. Holsopple
will speak on THE Victory of Tenn
perance."
The Rev. E./E. Curtis. pastor of
Westminster Presbyterian Church, and
the Rev. p. r. KoontZ, pastor of the
WormleysburgU United Brethren Church,
Will be the speakers at the West Shore
rally on Friday evening. J. A. Pryor
VIII preside. A vocal duet by Clark
Bair and Frank Updegraff and a read
ing by Blythe Ruby will be included
in the program.
The last service of the week will be
held next Saturday afternoon at 2
o'clock in the Fourth Street Church of
God with Miss Emily Edwards in
charge. The Rev. w. n. Yates will
conduct the devotional exercises.
Sneakers will be II. B. Macrory, sec
retary of the State Christian Endeavor
Society; c. c. Culp. of the State junior
department, and the Rev. Il. j. Pace,
returned missionary from the Philip
pine Islands
To Organize Chorus of 500. - A
reformation festival chorus of 500
voices Will be organized this evening
in the Zion Lutheran church to take
part in the services commemorative
the 4OOth anniversary of the Refor-
nation in Zion Church February IS.
Prof. f.. j. Decevee, will direct the or
ganization.
Tells of Pension Fund. - c. Larue
Munson, of Williamport. chancellor of
the Episcopal diocese of Harrisburg
addressed meetings in the various
Episcopal churches of this city Sester-
day and in the Trinity Lutheran Steel
ton, Saturday evening, on the pen
sion fund movement" At the meeting
in the st. Augustine's church yester-
day 500 was subscribed by the con-
gregation toward THE Five Million
Dollar Fund"
Fifth Musical. - Fifth Sunday af-
ternoon musical given by Prof. L. C.
Martin at his home in Riverside, was
held yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Gideon
Kreider, Jr., of Annville, was the SOLO
list.
. Bishop at Philadelphia; : The Rt.
man Catholic Bishop of Harrisburg,
delivered the sermon at the service
celebrating the three hundredth ami
versary of the founding of St Vim
cents Seminary, in Philadelphia, yes
terday.
Troop at Service. - About 25 men,
bers of the Governors Troop attended
services last night in the Market
Square Presbyterian Church, at the in
vitation of the pastor, the Rev. DIR.
George E. Hawes.
First Dedication Service.-The first
of series of services commemorating
the fiftieth anniversary of the found
ing of Covenant Presbyterian Church
were held yesterday at the morning
and evening services. Services will be
continued during the week.
Pine Street School SO Years Old
The Sunday school of the Pine Street
Presbyterian Church Celebrated its
fifty-ninth anniversary at a service
held yesterday afternoon in the Tech
nical High School Auditorium. The.
exercises were in charge of Henry B.
Mccormick, and an interesting pro-
gram was rendered. Addresses were
made by the Rev. DIR. Lewis S. Nudge,
pastor. the Rev. DR.. Charles r. Erd-
man, DR.. Alfred p. Isenberg and John
b. Corl. An interesting feature of the
program were numbers rendered by
the junior, primary and kindergarten
departments.
The annual report of the total offer
ings for the past year in the several
departments of the Sunday school was
as follows: Senior, s2,093.5S junior,
s194.06; primary, s49.2S; kindergar-
ten, $42.S4: Bethany chapel, s41O.45;
Division Street chapel. S1SS.92. To-
tai $2,979.13.
The total enrolment of the Sunday
school has reached 1858. with the fol-
lowing enrolment in the various de-
partments: Senior. 1,121: home, 326;
junior, ~141; primary, 63; kindergar-
ten, 6; cradle roll, 65 Bethany cha
pei 396; Division Street chapel, 169.