Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-24
GREAT WEEK AT
MARKET SQUARE
DR.. Russell, DR.. Halves and J. r.
Henry Conducting Splendid
Series of Services

DUTIES VI OSTNlCcS
The activities at Market Square Pres
byterian Church during the past week
have been directed to the one great end
of converting men and women.
The work has been carried on under
the leadership of the pastor, the Rev.
DR.. George Edward Hawes, with the
Rev. Robert McWatty Russell, D. D..
LII D., of the Moody Bible Institute.
as the preacher, and ]. r. Henry as
the leader of the singing. g.
The work has had two phases. the
Bible teaching for Christians at the
4 o'clock service each afternoon and
the gospel preaching, especially adapt
ed for those who are not Christians or
have not made a confession of their
faith, at the evening service at 7.3O.
DR.. Russell has made an exceedingly
favorable impression in both kinds of
work. Studies in THE Acts" and in
John" have not been academic; they
have been a direct application of the
great facts and truths to the daily eX-
periences of men and women living in
the twentieth century. Simplicity. in
terest and conclusiveness are marked
The after-meetings which have been
held at the close of the regular evening
services have been marked by a deep
spirit of prayer. The same simplicity
and directness which mark the meet
ings as whole are evident in the man
ner of extending the invitation to any
who desire to make a confession of
faith. The session of the church meets
Immediately at the close of the after
meeting and those who will are invited
to come to the church parlor to meet
the session for the declaration of their
faith and their purpose to lead Chris
tian life. During the week a number
have met the session.
Plan Series of Suppers
The meetings have been growing in
interest and in attendance and all the
indications are for a second week even
more successful than the first has
been. DR.. Russell will preach to-mor-
row, both morning and evening. The
men of the church, through the Mems
Missionary Society, are preparing for
a series of Latin American suppers for
men. These suppers will be held in
the church parlors on April 10, 16 and
"a. After supper each evening there
will be an address on Latin America
by a man who can speak at first hand.
DR.. Thornton b. Pentield, who lectured
recently on Latin America for the
Y. w. c. A, will be the first speaker.
He was one of the managers of the
great Panama Conference on Religious
Work in Latin America and after the
conference toured South America with
a number of the leading men of the
conference. gorge l.. Sollenberger,
an engineer with the State High
way Department, who spent three
years in Brazil on engineering projects.
will be the second speaker. Charles
d. Hurrey, secretary of the Committee
Trio
Students, who for four years was Y.
NJ c. A secretary for all of South
America will be the third speaker.
Tickets will be sold for the suppers at
S1.00 for the three.
The regular service next Friday
evening will be in the nature of pre-
paratory service, preliminary to the
Communion service which will be held
on Sunday, April l.
At the Bible reading in Market
Square Church yesterday afternoon
there was a good attendance despite
the weather, and very deep interest. |
The speaker DR.. Russell, dwelt prin-
prayer for believers: 81 pray not that
thou wouldst take them out of the
world, but that thou wouldst keep
them from the evil" The points made |
by the speaker were: (1) Christ pro-
tects by implanting in the believer the |
sense of peril; or endowing him with |
spiritual sensitiveness to danger. (2) |
BY furnishing a robust spiritual health |
which gives him unity to contagion. |
CD By furnishing new environment J
through faith so that we live in the |
larger things of the future. ca
Through the personal fellowship of |
Christ by the Holy Spirit.
In the evening the Ethiopian /
Eunuch was considered under the two |
aspects of "A Model Seeker and q |
Model Christian" AS a seeker he was |
earnest, persistent, teachable, and |
obedient. AS a model Christian he |
went on his way rejoicing over new |
truth, over new relation to God and |
over new opportunity for service.
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