Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25


And pledgers quite a few.
To high endeaTor teachings
Pennsylvania will be true.
Fourth Street Church of God sem
ior endeavorers will hold a union
meeting with the intermediate and
| junior societies on Sunday evening.
The leaders will be Mr.. Cass aud
Miss Anna Hoverter, superintendents
of the intermediate and junior So
Cieties. Special music will be rem
dered by the combined organizations
for the occasion.
Nine inmates of the Jail have
! been led to confess Christ through
the work of the First Christian So
ciety, Evansville, Ind. These young
people have also bought a piano for
a struggling mission church and have
| organized c. Il. society there with
| thirty-tive members.
Endeavorers of the Bethlehem
Lutheran Church will hold an inter-
! esting union meeting tomorrow eve
ming. The service will be in charge
| of Miss Martha Reese, who is an
active worker in intermediate cir
] cleS.
One society of the south entertain
| ed 500 men one evening, and week
by week this society is helping other
| societies to do similar work. One
endeavorer entertained at one time
in his home men of seven nationali-
ties.
The union meeting with the ju-
nior and intermediate societies as
scheduled by the Park Street United
Evangelical Society has been chang
ed. The topic, Education the Door
way to Service" will be studied. The
service will be in charge of Mrs.
Curtis and Mrs. r. Z. Wagner.
Temperance meetings held in Eng
| land by Daniel A. Polling, asso-
cate president of the United
! Society of Christian Endeavor, were
attended by big crowds. Much praise
was given the speaker for his mas
| terly presentation of prohibition.
| Ramsey Black, a prominent En-
deavor worker of the Pine Street
Presbyterian Society. will address
the Endeavorers at Pine Street on
Sunday evening. The subject will be
Doing His Will"
]
"Old Maids are More Benefit to the
Society Than Bachelors was the
Subject for debate by the st. Mat
thew's Lutheran and the Sixth Street
United Brethren Societies in the So
cial hall of the st. Matthew's Luz
theran Church on Thursday evening.
At Christ Lutheran c. E. Society
tomorrow evening the Endeavorers
of the three young peoples organ
izations will hold a joint meeting.
Gilbert Lyons will have charge of the
program.
Amos r. Wells, LII. D., of Boston,
editorial secretary of the United So
ciety of Christian Endeavor, is the
author of thrilling poem entitled
After the War"
John Hendricks, president of the
State Street United Brethren Society,"
is planning for a rousing meeting to
be held in Endeavor room on Sun
day evening.
The Harris Street United Evan
gelical Leaguers will hold a we'll
planned meeting on Sunday evening
Mrs. A. A. Burrell will lead the
service.
Thrilling experiences of travels in
Africa. will be given by Miss Alice D.
Musselman at the Centenary United
Brethren Church, Steelton, during all
of the services on Sunday. Eight
months ago the Centenary Church in
addition to the East Pennsylvania
conference assumed the support OF
Miss Musselman and the local c. E
Society contributed 5000 toward her
ksupport. She will sail for Africa
June Is.
Miss Musselman was born in
Granville, Dauphin county, but spent
most of her childhood and girlhood
on farm near Lebanon, her present
home. She attended a country school
and later the Lebanon High school
after which she took a three years
training course in the Good Samari-
tan Hospital, Lebanon. Since then she
has taken short courses in various
schools. She first went to Africa in
June, 1907. and spent three terms
there, most of the time at Rotifunk
Sierra Leone, West Africa.
One Sunday school in the East has
already sent sixty names to the com.
mittee on registration for the Sun
day school and Keystone League oi
Christian Endeavor Federation con-
vention to be held in the Chestnut
street hall, September 25-29. Why &C
to Harrisburg? There's reason"
The eight bishops of the United
Brethren Church have sent to the
100000 mebers of the denomina-
ton an address urging them to de.
clare themselves in favor of war pro.
hibition.
The Rev. Charles Wagner, author
of the widely known book, THE Sim
pie Life" died in Paris at the age
of 81 years.
A. Nj. L. ZION
Wesley Union-The Rev. S. A
Mcneil, pastor, will preach at 10 a
m. and 7.30 p. m.
Harris-The Rev. r. L. Briscoe
pastor, will preach at 10.45. "Tht
Hope of the Church." and at 745
There is Life in the Word" Sunda,
| school at 40