New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
Crisis Country Now Faces
To Be Discussed in Pulplts
Speca Patriotic Services Of Protest and Prayer VIII BE
Held To-morow-Dr Guthrie Arranges
Order of Worship for ST. Marks

Oratorio Society will lead the singing
Special interdonominational Lenleh
services will be held in the Washlhg,
ton Heights Baptist Church on Coco
Friday from noon till o'clock ne
Rev. Henry f. Cobb, pastor Of the West
End Collegiate Church; the Rev. VIII
ism Fress, OF Holy Trinity Lutheran
Church; the Rev. Reese F. Alsop, rector
emeritus Of st. AIMS Episcopal Churcn;
DR. Lyman Abbott, the Rev. Cornelius
Church, and the Rev. John Haynes
Holmes, of the Church Of the Messiah
will speak. III
The Rev. William r. Manning will
close his Lenten addresses at TRINITY
Wednesday night with a sermon on
what Do We Believe as to the Last
Judgment" The Rev. j. y. ). hunt
ington, of the Order Of the Holy Cross
will be the special MONDAY preacher at
Trinity throughout the week. ..
The Rev. Henry NJ. Brown. pastor OF
Christ Congregational Church. has been
appointed chaplain Of New York INT
versity for the month OF April.
The eighth annual convocation OF
ministers of New York and Connecticut
will be held at New Haven at the Yale
School Of Religion from April 16 to 10.
Bishop William +. Mcdowell will de-
liver the Lyman Beecher lectures on
ministers Of Jesus Christ; the Ma
thsniel w. Taylor lectures will be
given by Professor Walter Rauschen-
busch on "A Theology for the Social
Gospel; the lectures on missions" by
the Rev. Arthur j. Brown, and the
alumni lecture by President Harry
Otis Pritchsrd.
The Brooklyn Brotherhood of Min
listers will hold its monthly confer
ence and luncheon next Monday at the
University Club.
The Bible Teachers Training School
will hold a conference at Aeolian Hall
on Saturday afternoon, April IA. DR..
Wilbcrt ". White will speak.
The Federal Council OF the Churches
OF Christ in America has issued an
appeal TO all churches TO make next
week a week of intercession. The sub
jects for prayers and sermons are as
follows: Palm Sunday. "The lncarna-
ton; Monday, Forgiveness: Tues
day, "Thy viii Be Done; Wednesday,
"Thy Kingdom Come; Thursday,
Temptation; Friday, "Hallowed Be
Thy Name; Easter, "The Resurrec-
ton"
The Xavier Alumni Sodslity is con-
Quoting an annual retreat at the
Church Of st. Francis Xavier, West
Sixteenth Street. under the direction OF
the Rev. John J. Wynne, S. j.
The Rev. John Henry Troy, director
Of the National Bible Institutes extern
sion Bible Class department, will de-
liver series of addresses at PA West
Thirty-ffth Street. Sunday afternoons
at O'clock, on "How Much Can Christ
Do for Man"
A patriotic service will be held to-
morrow afternoon in st. Mark's-in-the-
Bouwerie, at which DR.. Alexander G..
Cummins, editor of "Thc Chronicle;
DR.. John Armstrong, Augustus Thomas
and the Rev. DR.. Percy Stickney Grant
will speak.
John Mssefeld's poetic drama Good
Friday" will be given in the Church of
the Messiah on Good Friday and Easter
nights. with the Rev. John Haynes
Holmes and the Rev. Harvey Dee
Brown in the cast. This play by the
Messiah players, under the direction of
Mrs. Frank A. Parker, is the first pres
entation Of this drama in New York
City.
The Camp Memorial Congregational
Church, at Delaney and Chrystle
streets. founded sixty years ago, has
called the Rev. David B. Minor 10 take
up its historic work.
An American passion play, "Neron-
ica's Veil" will be given Saturday, Sun
day and Monday evenings at the Pas
sionist Preparatory College. Monsignor
Lavelle, Vicar General of the Archdio-
cese of New York. characteriZes IT as
better than any sermon"
The South Second Street Methodist
Church congregation is holding ser
vices celebrating the complete payment
for their edifice. This is the second
oldest Methodist Episcopal Church in
the city, and begins a new era with
the clearing of its title under the pas
torate of the Rev. Alfred A. Hodgetts.
The English clergy have been mobil-
lied under n new order. Two classes OF
service are now open to them, one as
a chaplain in the army or navy, and the
other as munition worker, a farmer
or office worker.
DR.. Russell II. Conwell will deliver
Lenten address Wednesday night in the
Tompkins Avenue Church. Brooklyn, on
Personal Glimpses of Celebrated Men
and Women"
CONGREGATIONAL
Broadway Tabernacle-The Rev. DR..
Charles T.. Jefferson. Morning, THE
Trinity; evening. THE Ideal OF Re-
ligion."
Flatbush- Rev. Lewis T. Reed.
Morning, "The Cumulative Appeal OF
the Centuries in Behalf of the Worth
of Goodness; evening. "The Darkest
Hour" A musical service.
Clinton Avenue-The Rev. DR.. Nc
hemiah Boynton. Morning. THE Over
coming Victory; evening, watch
Tompkins Avenue Morning. the Rev.
DR.. Calvin T. McClelland. Evening,