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atlOn Of Temple SistefhOOds.
necessitated making extensive improve
ments in the basement, which when
completed will be used for classrooms.
The school has two organized Bible
classes, the Baraca for men and the
Philathea for women. to the sessions Of
which every one is invited.
Page NICK. Etchison of the Y NJ. C.
A. will lead the vesper service at the
Young Women's Christian Association
tomorrow at 4:30 o'clock. His subject
will be "A Sacred Word" Miss Glenn
ents is to be the soloist.
Monday night at o'clock. at the
7 w. C. A.. DR.. Thornton B. Penfield
will give his second South American
lecture on Social and Industrial Con-
ditions."
been held during the past week in the
Metropolitan Memorial NJ E. Church
with gratifying results. DR.. Harry d.
Mitchell, the pastor, has been assisted
row night DIR. Mitchell will speak ond
why I Am a Christian This will
conclude the series of services. Begin
ming one week from tomorrow night
DR.. Mitchell will commence series of
sermons on "A Study of the Character
of David From a Modern Viewpoint"
The topic for the first of the series will
be "a King in Sheepcote-"
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At a meeting of pastors of this city
held last week it was decided to invite
DIR. James NJ. Gray, dean of the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago. to hold a
Bible institute in this city beginning
Gray is considered among the best Bible
expositors in the country. and his COM
ing. it is said. ought to be great in
spiration to the city. as also to all
which DR.. Harry D. Mitchell is chair
man and James A. MacElwee is sec
retary. was appointed to perfect the
arrangements The place of the meet
ing has not yet been selected.
Tomorrow night at All Souls Church
the minister. Rev. Ulysses G. 3. Pierce.
course on Fundamental Questions of
Religious Thought" the special sub
1ect being Has There Been Revela-
tion? The course is being unusually
well attended. At this service Miss
BERTHE Thompson will sing Ashfords
my Task and Eternal Father" by
Gounod
The Liberal Religious Union of All
Souls Church will be addressed tomor-
row evening at 7 o'clock by Miss Lydia
Burklin. her subject being THE Work
of Friendship House."
Foundry Methodist Episcopal Epworth
League will have for the speaker at
the devotional service tomorrow even
ing at 6:4b o'clock J. L. McBrien.
States bureau of education. whose sub
ject will be Our Young People" The
special musical numbers will include
selections by the chorus choir of sixty
yotn ~
Galleher, and by the Boleiano Quartet.
Solos will be rendered by Miss Mary
Thompson and Miss Anna S. Lithgow
The public is cordially invited.
at the home of Miss Aida Smith Tues
day evening. Interesting reports of
work done and plans for the coming
months were give = the various vice
presidents. a sr' our was INDUCED
in at the concl. of the business
transactions.
on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock
in st. Paurs Lutheran Church the
Lutheran churches of Washington be-
longing to the general synod will hold
the first of series Of meetings planned
for the year in celebration Of the quad
ri-centennial of the reformation. This
meeting will be addressed by DR.. s. =.
Long of Mansfield. Ohio. pastor of one
Of the largest Lutheran churches in
This meeting and the ones which will
follow 1t are the outcome of move
ment started by the mems clubs of the
several churches of the city several
months ago. w. J. Showalter president
of the Mems Club of Luther Place Me-
mortal Church. was made chairman of
a committee he was authorized to ap-
point for the purpose of organizing a
duadri- centennial celebration. Revs
Charles F. Steck of Epiphany and John
r. Huddle of st. Paurs. together with
r. d. Boyer and r. p. Hickman. consti-
tute this committee.
At Wednesdays meeting Chairman
ShowaIter will announce the personnel
of n permanent committee of general
synod Lutherans, which he was author
ICED to appoint after consultation with
the several pastors. which will lay out
a program for the year. eliminating in
a great Quadri-centennial anniversary
day rally 1t is probable that one OF
the features OF this Jubilee year will
be the rendering OF an oratorio pictur-
ing the great events of forty decades
Of Protesta ntism. 1t is also the inten-
tion Of the general synod Lutherans to
invite other Lutheran bodies represent
ed in washington to participate in the
Jubilee year celebrations.
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BEGINNING tomorrow at Emmanuel
Baptisf Church epecial gospel services
are planned tor Ievery Sunday evening
s~The One at the Door" being the sub
1ect Of DR.. Johnson's first sermon of