Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-21

PULPIT
Rev. H. S. France, D. D.. pastor of
Iowa Avenue NJ. E. Church. will
preach a special sermon tomorrow
morning for the Sunday school on
"Maeterlinck's Blue Bird. or the Quest
For Happiness" The prayer service
on Thursday evening will consist of
one-half hour of devotional and one
half hour social service.
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Rev. DR.. Charles Wood will preach
tomorrow at the Church of the Cove
nant at II, $3.50 and o'clock. For
who have come to Washington, spe-
cial attention is called to the second
afternoon inspirational service to-
morrow afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock. AT
this time the Christmas cantata. The
Holy Night" by Brewer will be rem
dered by the triple quartet. At s
o'clock the forty-third special mu-
steal service will take place. The
evening choir of $50 voices. augmei Mt
ed by a chorus of thirty male voices.
will render selections from Hanoel S
1.-The Messiah
Tonight the members of the All
States Club will be the guests of the
church at the regular Saturday night
reception. Next Saturday the All
States will be the hosts, and all
strangers in the city. soldiers. sailors
and civilian workers. will be well
come.
Admiral Samuel MCGOWAN will be
the speaker at the 7:15 o'clock meet
ing tomorrow evening at the church.
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"Will Jesus Take Christmas Away
from the Earth Publicly or Private
ly?" is Rev. E. Hez Swem's subject
tomorrow night at o'clock at Cen
tennial Baptist Church, 7th and l
streets northeast. The men of the
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Dr. John Franklin Crowell OF the
bureau of internal revenue Will ad-
dress the mems Bible class of Mount
Pleasant NJ. E. Church, South. 10th
tomorrow morning at 9:30 o'clock.
At the annual class banquet and cleo
ton recently held the following Of
ficers were elected for the present
year: President, G. B. White: vice
president. f. ]. Febrey: secretary.
D. Ferguson.
Foundry Epworth League will rem
der an elaborate musical program
tomorrow evening at 6:45 o'clock.
featuring choir of seventy five
paniment. The choruses will be in
terspersed with special numbers by
talented soloistS. A professional and
! occasional by the entire choir will
be one of the attractions. On New
Year day the league will hold an in
For al tho church
lors from ) to 10 O'Clock.
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new teachers training class has
been organized at Douglas Memorial
| NJ. F.. Church. The social meeting
was held December IL. at the home of
Miss Thelma Goula, at which it was
, decided that the class help in the re-
vival services to be held at the
church the first of the new year.
Games were played and refreshments
| were served.
Rev. DR.. Herbert F. Randolph. re-
Gently appointed pastor OF Foundry
Methodist Episcopal Church. will ar
rive in WASHINGTON December 81. and
participate in the watch night serv-
| ice. Bishop William Fraser Mellow
ell will preach the sermon at that
| service.
Wednesday evening. at Calvary
Baptist Church, more than 200 Chris
tian Endeavorers of the city gathered
at a dinner and ORGANIZED a Dlstrlct
of Columbia Christian Endeavor
Alumni Association, under the direc-
| ton of DR.. Daniel A. Polling of the
| United Society of Christian Endeavor.
The following. officers were. elected
President. Percy S. Foster; vice presi-
dent. Rev. z. B. Bagby; secretary,
| Rexford L. Holmes; treasurer. Mrs.
| James NJ. Piclens. After the dinner
| DR.. Polling addressed large mass
meeting in the auditorium of the
church, telling of his trip to France.
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! The Presbytery OF Washington city
will meet in an adjourned session
Monday morning at 10 o'clock to hear
a report of the evangelistic commit
| tee on scheme for cooperative
work of the Presbyterian churches
| during the next few months. After
ton will assemble and hear Rev. DR.
-, H. H. Ranck's paper on "Christianiz'
| ing International Relations"
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The Cleaners class of the Columbia
Heights Christian Sunday School
Ruth FUR. president, has donated
double curtains for a sun parlor OF
| the Walter Reed Hospital. The young
| ladies of the class went to the hos
pltal Wednesday and hunS the cur
/ tains and treated the boys of one Of
the wards to candy. The new chapel
of the Columbia Heights Church, tt
be dedicated January S. is to be oc.
cupied tomorrow, when the pastor
| will preach on Paving Life's Las
Mile" and Manager Messages"
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! At a recent meeting of the RED
| Cross unit of the Temple Baptist
Church it was duly recognized as ar
auxiliary of the American Red Cross
Society. Mrs. E. B. Forbes was ap.
| pointed captain. Miss Ruth Metzger
! first lieutenant, and Miss Alice Banks
dale, second lieutenant.
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! Rev. DR.. Charles Z. Guthrie. genera
secretary of the Epworth League OF
p. the Methodist Episcopal Church will
| preach in Hamline Methodist Episco-
| pal Church, 9Th and 2 streets north
! west. tomorrow at IL o'clock and ir
! the evening at o'clock. Dr. Guthrie
was formerly pastor of Hamline
! Church.
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The mems Bible class of Calvary
Methodist Episcopal Church will have a.
| teacher tomorrow morning Rev. DR.
James Shera Montgomery, while the ex-
ercises will be conducted by James w
Crooks of the Library of Congress, the
class president. This class, which is one
of the largest and most successful mems
organizations in Methodism. numbering
over 500 men, is nearing the end of its
most prosperous year and will make a
special effort during 1919 to reach a