The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-07-22
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK,

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Mrs. John B. Crane, of Fairmont,
is at the summer home of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. NJ. Crane in Loeb Lynn for a
visit.
More than a thousand persons at.
tended last Wednesday nights session
of the great Pittsburgh Conference
Epworth League Institute in the Au-
ditorium here. Lynn Rohrbaugh made
his inaugural address. He is the new
ly elected Pittsburgh area Epworth
League secretary, whose territory ex-
tends from Lake Erie to and includ-
ing Mountain Lake Park. The Pitts
burgh area includes Erie, Pittsburgh
and West Virginia conferences of the
Methodist Episcopal church. Mr..
Rohrbaugh made most favorable i'm
preston upon the vast audience of
young people who had come to this
place on the Saturday preceding ina
special train to hold their annual con-
vention or institute.
The leaders of the Methodist Epis-
copal church present from New York.
Washington and Pittsburgh declared
this to be the greatest gathering of
young people ever held in this section
OF the country, far SURPRISING insti-
tutes of other years.
At various services the latter part
of last week that great and brainy
man, Bishop Berry, the father of the
EpWorth League movement in the I'm
tied States, delivered sermons to the
assembled Leaguers. The service on
Saturday night was most remarkable,
hundreds of the young people in at
tendance consecrated themselves to
some branch of service within the
church, either as ministers, home or
foreign missionaries or as workers in
other lines of Christian citizenship.
Sunday evening the final meeting of
the institute was held at which Bishor
Berry again preached with fervor and
understanding. The service was at.
tended by hundreds from all parts of
the country.
Monday morning the Pittsburgh
contingent left the Park in their own
special train, but before going it was
unanimously decided that the next an.
nual institute shall be held at the
Park when a crowd in excess of 2
thousand Leaguers will be present
~. Inc death on Friday evening OF
MISS Mary Clauson, of McKee's
Rocks, Pa, following an attack OF
pneumonia which was brought about
after Miss Clauson had been rescued
from the lake in which she was one
OF large number of bathers, cast a
gloom upon the assembly. She was
one OF the delegates to the Institute
her age was 81 years and few
months. On Saturday morning he,
BODY was sent to her late home he.
ing accompanied thence by about fiftv
OF her fellow delegates. At the meet.
ing OF the institute following a mem.
orial fund was started which will be
perpetually maintained in her memory
Monday the Epworth League of the
Baltimore Washington Conference,
embracing largely the churches of
Baltimore and Washington, began a
weeks institute. The delegates. five
hundred or more in number, arrived
on special train at four O'Clock in the
afternoon and the arrangements at
the Park being so perfected that ali
the new arrivals had been housed and
fed and wonderfully interesting
meeting was held the same evening in
the Amphitheatre.
The speakers for this week include
Bishop William F. MCDOWELL of Wash,
lngton; DR.. Clarence True Wilson and
others. gnu
The program for the week begin.
hi1g tomorrow night, is as follows:
Bishop William F. Mcdowell. of
washington, who is we'll known by
many readers of The Republican. will
lecture Friday evening.
sunday morning at 1920 ChanIain
Mccoy, will have charge of the SER
wee and deliver the sermon.
Sunday afternoon at 2:3O a plat
form meeting, in which a number of
well known people will take part. will
be held in the Auditorium.
On Sunday evening, DR.. Clarence
True Wilson, of Washington, D. c.,
secretary of temperance and public
morals, will preach upon a popular
subject.
Monday, July 26, 8 o'clock, DR.. An
drew H: Krug, in "Sidney Lanier."
1hls Will be followed by Prizma pic
lures.
On Tuesday DR.. James NJ. TAYLOR
will appear twice. At 2:3O he will lee
ture on Mexico in Transition" and at
800 o'clock in the evening he will
again lecture, his subject being kid
mapped by the Mexicans," to be fol-
lowed by Prizma pictures.
Mrs. Marian Fell Hart will rood Of
2 ~: in the afternoon of Wednesday
The Melting Pot" and on Wednes-
gay evening the great motion picture
"Freckles" will be presented.
On Thursday Homer Rodeheaver,
the musical director of Billy Sundays
evangelistic meetings, will appear in
two entertainments with his own COM
pany of artists.
The attendance at the Pittsburgh
institute of the Epworth League num-
bered 666 with an enrolment of TO.
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