The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-09
UNION SERVICES ARE ATTRACTING SPLENDID CROWDS Churches In All Sections of the City Are Forming
 Groups for Service OPEN AIR MEETINGS ARE WELL ATTENDED Congregational Singing Is Feature of the Meetings and Many Time
 ly Sermons Are Being
 Preached

let dnOtneT group Ol ildo initiated community Sunday night services. this addition bringing these joint services to all points of the com pass. central, southern. western, north ern and eastern, the last named being a Sunday school union of five churches, Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal, Presby- terian and Christian.
 The latest cluster of churches to join forces for these common Sunday eve ming exercises is at North Birming- ham, where the Methodist Baptist and Presbyterian churches held the first joint meeting Sunday night, July 1. The Christian church there is expected to join forces with these three shortly. The first union ceremonies were held at the Baptist church and last night the second of the series was held at the Methodist church, where Rev. E. M. Glenn, pastor of the Methodist church, preached the sermon, from the text first John. second verse: We shall see Him as He is." Next Sunday night the three congregations will meet at the Presbyterian church.
 The following are the churches with
 their pastors, each having a part of the rights and benefits of these union functions: North Birmingham Metho- dist church, Dr. E. M. Glenn, pastor. Baptist church, Rev. w. J. Ray, pastor; Presbyterian church, Rev C. w Col lett pastor; Christian church, Dr. AL fred E! Seddon, pastor, who is expected to join in as soon as he completes the set programme at his church.
 MAGNOLIA PARK Everything having been set in order, the five churches about Five Points held the second of the series of sum-
 mer services at Magnolia park last evening, Dr. Albert Sidney Johnson, pastor of the South Highland Presby- terian church, preaching the sermon. The five churches holding these cere- monies in common are: South Highland Presbyterian church, Dr. Albert Sidney Johnson, pastor; St. John Methodist church. Rev. Carl c. Gregory, pastor; Eleventh Avenue Methodist church, pr. l.. Fletcher Parrish, pastor; Southside tor; Highland Methodist church, Dr. Preston B. Wells, pastor
 WEST END TABERNACLE A large outpouring of members of
 the five churches holding joint serv- ices at the West End tabernacle are attending each service and the second Of these union exercises was held last night, at which Dr. R. T. Tyler, pastor of the West End Methodist church, preached the sermon.
 C>v ! leadership of the largely increased choir. is one of the distinctive features of these meetings.
 This group of churches is composed of the following: West End Methodist church. Dr. R. 1T. Tyler, pastor; Walker Memorial Methodist church, Rev. A. M. Freeman, pastor; Methodist Protestant church. pr. T. c. Cassady, pastor; West End Baptist church, pr. w M Black welder, pastor; Vine Street Presbyte- rian chuch. Rev. J. w. Hickman, pas tor CAPITOL PARK
 The original group of churches hold ing these open-air services met, as
 usual, last night at Capitol park, where pr. A. J. Dickinson, pastor of the First Baptist church, preached an excellent sermon from Second Isaiah: '"rhe pride
 of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of man shall be brought
 low, and l, Jehovah, shall reign in the earth"
 Congregational singing, led by HI. McAfee of the Young Mems Christian association, was a decidely fetching feature. MT. McAfee's deep bass voice carried easily to the furthermost edges of the vast throng present, and the two solos sung by him were most pleasing salients of the occasion
 The five downtown institutions meet ing here for popular worship are: First Baptist church, Dr. A. J. Dickinson, pastor; First Christian church. pr. R. H. Lampkin. pastor; First Presbyterian church. pr. John S. Foster, pastor; J. M. Broadly, pastor, and the Young leadership of J. H. McAfee.
 FIRST METHODIST At the First Methodist chuE yes- terday forenoon Dr. George R. Stuart, the poplar pastor. preached to the large congregation from the subject, Han dicaps," and, as always, the audience was we'll pleased with the pastors treatment of the topic. At the evening service the speaker preached from the text of Smelling the Trenches of Sin" and the packed edifice was entertained and instructed.
 Choir and congregational singing is
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