The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-10-31
Church Work for the Week

The Missionary circle of the Baptist
church met with Mrs. Charles Rem
necker on Wednesday afternoon. The
study for the afternoon was very in
teresting.
The regular services at the Baptist |
church next Sunday, Nov. 2, at 10 a.
NJ, Sunday school following. Evening
services at 7:90. Prayer service every
Thursday evening at 1880 p. m.
Communion service and reception
of members at the Methodist church
on Sunday morning, Nov. End, at 10
o'clock, Sunday school at IL o'clock.
Epworth League at o'clock Sunday
evening, topic "Our Relation Towards
Others, Neighbors and Friends" Lead
er, Mrs. R. w. Gardiner. Preaching
service at 7 o'clock
Rev.. S. F. Ross, of Wadsworth, took
dinner at the home of Rev. Gardiner
Monday.
Rev. R. w. Gardiner is attending
District Conference at Wooster, there
being two services on Monday and
two on Tuesday, Oct. II and %.
The regular meeting of the Wo-
mans Foreign Missionary society will
be held on Wednesday, Nov. 5, at 2
o'clock. Place to be announced Sun
day.
Presbyterian church services for
next Sunday-Rev. E. L. Buchanan,
of Wooster, will preach in this church
at both morning and evening services,
10 a. m. and p. m. Note change in
hour of evening service. In the Sum
day school at lilo there will be a
special temperance program in recog-
milton Of "World's Temperance Sun
day." Christian Endeavor at p. m.
topic, "Standing for God and Right"
Kings 1S:17-24. Conservation meet
ing. Leader, Miss Mary Dix. Church
prayer service Thursday at 1880. All
invited to all services if not elsewhere
worshiping.
Mr.. Donald A. Lowrie, recently Gen
; eral Secretary of the Y. M. G. A. at
Archangel. Russia, gave most inter-
esting address before q very large
audience in the Presbyterian church,
Z Sunday night, all the village churches
uniting in this service. The pastor
I of the church introducing Mr., Lowrie
spoke Of the meeting as "welcome
home" to one of our boys who hac
: been exceedingly useful abroad. Mr.
Lowrie's old home is in Seville. Ir
his address Mr.. Lowrie spoke of the
long and hard time the "Y" had Sc
curing permission to do work for me1
in prison camps. The speaker con
fined his address mainly to the prisol
i camp work, which had occupied {
year Of his three years in Russia ant
! Siberia. He said the "Y" is usual!
the only go-between for the men il
: the camp and the outside world.
!, was very hard TO get supplies and We
q in spite Of great difficulties he wa
Il able to do a great amount of wor
~ in the camps. He secured denta
outfits, testaments, books, establishe
/ tailor shops and in very many othe
ways ministered as best he could t
the needs of the men in the camps
He described the camps, surrounde
by barbed wire, with sentry boxes a
frequent intervals; low shacks With
the enclosure, machine gun tower
the center. In these crowded place
with no privacy, men stay year in an
year out, with the result in som
cases of insanity and other evil
Seven hundred men eat, sleep an
"pick bugs" in one room and in wiz
ter are never warm enough In Of
ganizing various activities Mr.. Lowrl
spoke of the committees of the me
and the necessity to guard again'
petty jealousies which easily spran
up between the prisoners of variol
nationalities. The prisoners wei
largely German men and the CAM
were in Russia. When in camp
Siberia he secured four library bool
for eight Thousand men, this being 6
the city library would allow him.
this camp was noted Hungari'
Socialist. Mr.. Lowrie succeeded
organizing large number Of educ
tional classes in twelve language
He spoke of the appreciation Of mus
in the camps, a 65-piece symphol
orchestra which they organized a
remarkably fine string quartet.