Omaha daily bee., 1917-04-29
TOPICS FOR SABBATH
Omaha as a Dry City to Be
Topic of Sermon at the
First Baptist Church.
HELPING HAND TO MEN

t"Omaha as Dry City will be the
subject of the sermon at the First
Baptist church Sunday night. The
pastor, A. A. De Larme, will speak of
how the church may lend helping
hand to the men who arc thrown out
of employment by the new law. Sub
stitutes for the saloon will also be
considered, with an open forum Of
methods of enforcing the new meas
ure, and whether the brewers and
liquor men should be reimbursed by
the state for losses sustained by the
new prohibition law"
Proceeds of the Swedish Baptist
church choir's annual concert Tues
day evening at the church, 6lS North
Eighteenth street, will go to the
building fund. Soloists will be Thyra
Johanson, soprano; Agnes Nelson,
contralto; A. w. Cederholm, tenor,
and I. ]. Nelson, basso. Miss Anna
Nelson will direct and Miss Esther
Nelson will be the pianist.
The greatest nterdenominational
organization ever formed is the Fed
eral Council of Churches OF Christ of
America. Its executive secretary,
Roy B. Guild, will be in Omaha Sun
day and Monday. Sunday he will
speak at the First Congregational
church in the morning, at the Young
Women's Christian association in the
afternoon and Monday evening to the
Church Federation at the First Pres
byterian church.
Rev. Daniel f. jenkins, chancellor
OF the Omaha university, .will be the
principal speaker at patriotic service
at the Third Presbyterian church,
Sunday evening at 7:45' The choir
will sing appropriate music.
Rev. Charles F. Holler, Trinity
Baptist church, Sunday night will
preach the second of his series of SER
mons on the women of the Bible"
His Sunday night sermon. will on the
Woman General, Judge and Singer"
A special musical service will be
sung at the Kouutze Memorial Luth-
eran church Sunday evening.
% The Ladies' aid society of Trinity
Lutheran church, Twenty-hfth street
and Ames avenue, will observe its sec
ond anniversary Wednesday evening.
The following program will be given:
Vocal Solo-Miss Marie French.
Violin Solo-W. Hitherington
song-Male quartet of Emmanuel church.
Ninteenth and Cass. grf
Vocal Solo-Helen Anderson.
Violin Solo--Miss Freda Paustian.
Song-Male quartet.
At the conclusions of the program
the Ladies' Aid will serve strawberry
short cake with whipped cream and
coffee.
The Nebraska conference of the
Lutheran Augustanna Synod will
convene Wednesday evening for its
thirty-hrst annual meeting, in Saron-
vile, Neb. There are nine pastors
within Omaha belonging to this con-
ference-two of whom are Stationed
at the Emmanuel Deaconess Institute,
'Thirty-fourth street and Meredith
avenue. One lay delegate from each
congregation and the chosen dele
gates of the Woman's Home and
Foreign Missions society will attend
the meeting.
Three sacred concerts will be given
Sunday on the chimes of Trinity
cathedral by Prof. P. II. Brown Of
the Royal Holland Bellringers. The
first will start at 7:30, the second at
1890 and the third at GAS. One of
the numbers at 1890 will be "The
Heavens Are Telling" and at GAS
"Sextet From Lucia"
Reports have, reached Omaha that
the Presbyterian church at Hickman
is prospecting under the pastorate of
Rev Julius F. Schwarz, who went
there from Omaha a year ago. Forty
new members have been received and
building improvements totaling about
10000 have been made.