New-York tribune., 1918-11-28
Victory Services
In Churches Hold
Deep Significance
All Creeds Unite in Graft
tude for End of Strife
Among Nations

Thanksgiving Day in New York
churches will hold a deeper significance
to-day than any similar services in the
nations history All creeds will utter
their gratitude to the Almighty for the
glorious peace that has come after
more than four years of warfare.
One of the most coorful services
will be held in the Cathedral of st.
John the Divine, where thanks will be
offered at II o'clock for the victory of
the United States and the Allied ma
tions Diplomatic and military repre-
against Germany have signitied an in
tention to be present. Many of these
are officers Of Continental armies. The
Rev. DR.. Alexander G. Cummins, rector
of Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, and
editor of "The Chronicle" will preach
the sermon.
In the afternoon at 4 o'clock an
other service will be held to offer
thanks for the liberation of the op-
Addresses will be delivered by Dean
Robbins and DR.. Nicholas Murray
Rutler, of Columbia University. Young
women in the costumes Of the liber-
ated nations will participate. A solemn
Te Deur1 will be sung at the close of
this service. A detachment OF United
States sailors will march in bearing
the national standard.
Solemn high mass will be celebrated
in St. Patrick's Cathedral at 10 a. M,
and special sermon will be preached.
The TIE Deum will be chanted at the
end.
Christians and Jews Join
Christian and Jewish congregations
%ho;~ p1,co
vices in at least two instances. The
Free Synagogue will unite with the
Church of the Divine Paternity and
addresses will be made by the Rev.
Frank Oliver Hall and Rabbi Stephen
S. Wise. There will be a special pro
gramme of patriotic music. The con-
gregation of the New Synagogue will
attend services in the Manhattan Con-
gregatonal Church at II o'clock. DR..
McElveen and Rabbi Frisch will speak.
The Jewish holiday of Light begins
tonight, SO the day will have an added
significance in all synagogues.
There will be a memorial service
under the auspices of St. Joseph Coun
Gil 443, Knights of Columbus, at the
Church of St. Aloysius, 132d Street,
near Seventh Avenue, at 10 o'clock.
The service flag Of the council will
be blessed during mass.
At the First Presbyterian Church,
Fifth Avenue and Twelfth Street, there
will be service of thanksgiving, at
which the Rev. DR.. Harry E. Fosdick
will preach the sermon. A special
musical programme has been arranged
At Trinity the service will be one of
Thanksgiving for victory. Men in uni
form, with an armed escort, will carry
into the church the flags of the Allied
nations. Major General j. Franklin
Bell and the Rev. DR.. William T. Man
ming will speak.
Twenty soldiers will sit in the choir
at the Church of the Holy Communion
They with the forty other members of
the choir, will chant TIE Deum and
sing the hallelujah chorus. Instead of
a sermon, there will be an address by
former Attorney General George ".
Wickersham.
Bedford Presbyterian Church, Nos
trand Avenue and Dean Street, Brook
lyn. will be decorated with battlefield
relics and flags. The subject of the ad
dress by the Rev S. Edward Young
will be "Providential America"
"The Past and the Future" will be
the theme of the Rev. William Schoen-
fields sermon in Emmanuel Lutheran
Church, Lexington Avenue and Eighty
eighth Street.
In the Collegiate Church, West End
TfcHuc anu Oc'CHty "ocVeHtu otrect,
union services will be held with the
congregation of the Knox Memorial
Chapel. The Rev. L. G. w. Muery will
preach the sermon.
Flushing. which has about 1900
names on it's service flag, has arranged
union services in the high school. An
addr@s will be made by the Rev. H. D.
Waller, rector Of St. Georges Episco-
pal Church.
In the Fort George Presbyterian
Church, 186th Street and st. Nicholas
Avenue, union services will be held by
. all the congregations on Washington
Heights. These churches will partic-
pate: Fort Washington Collegiate,
Fort Washington Presbyterian, United
Presbyterian, Chelsea Methodist and
Wadsworth Avenue Baptist. The Rev.
Il. 3: Aoliaway, pastor of the Wads-
worth Avenue Baptist Church, will