The New York herald., 1921-12-31
WATCH SERVICES
TO GREET NEW YEAR
Chimes Will Ring, With Spe-
cial Sermons in Many
Churches.

NatCH HISHt meetings ana services
appropriate to the closing of the old
year and the beginning Of the new will
be held in many churches of the city
! tonight. Chimes will ring out the old
and ring in the new" at midnight.
Probably the most important of the
New Years Eve church meetings will be
those In st. FatriclS's Cathedral and at
the Cathedral OF st. John the Divine.
The former service will begin at
O'Clock with Archbishop Hayes presid-
ing. Mgr. Lavelle will preach the SER
mon and the service will close with the
benedicton. The cathedral chimes will
play from IL AS to 12 :15.
The watch night service in the Ca
thedral of st. John will begin with an
organ recital at 10 rs by DR.. Miles Far
row. organist and master of the Choir
listers. Hymns, prayers and addresses
will begin at II :15.
Sermons in New York churches to-
morrow will be largely taken from
topics appropriate 10 the new years
| advent Dean Robbins will preach to-
morrow morning at the Cathedral of
st. John and in the afternoon the Rev.
Ernest nj. Stires, rector OF st. Thonaas's.
viii be the preacher.
At Calvary Episcopal Church, Fourth
| avenue and Twenty-first street. watch
night service will be held beginning at
IL rs tonight The rector will make an
address and at midnight the service of
Holy Communion will be held
Tomorrow the choir will repeat the
Christmas music and the rector will
preach at IL o'clock. 'In. the evening
Chaplain Brown will preach and have
as his topic "The Challenge Of New
Year"
Carols VIII BE Sung. E
AT the Collegiate Church, West End
avenue and Seventy-seventh street, the
minister, the Rev Henry Evertson
Cobb. d. p. will preach at the morning
service. The Rev. Norman A. McMur-
ray will preach in the afternoon. The
choir will sing Christmas carols and
Ring Out, Wild Bells" by Fletcher.
Services appropriate to the New Year
Will be held tomorrow morning and
evening in The Broadway Presbyterian
Church. the Rev. Walter Duncan Buch-
anan, d. D., pastor. The music will
be under the direction of Mr. Chilion
Roselle. organist and choirmaster. 'f
Joseph Fort Newton d. Lift, d. d.. is
speaking to ever increasing audiences
at the Church of the Divine Paternity,
Central Park West and Seventy-sixth
street His subject tomorrow at II
| A. NJ. will be "The Future" The quar-.
tet, under the direction of j. Warren
Andrews, will give a special musical
program.
At the Fourth Presbyterian Church,
West End avenue and Ninety-first
street. the pastor. DIR. Edgar Whitaker
Work, will preach morning and even
| ing. Cards containing the year text
will be distributed in the morning serv-
| ice. AT the evening service the topic Of
the sermon will be "a New Face at the
! Door,. u
| The Rev. DIR. +. NJ Goodchild will
preach at the Central Baptist Church in
| the morning at IL O'clock on "The
Changing Years and the Exchanging
i Christ" AT SIP. NJ. his subject will be
"The Unknown Future"
DR. Lyman Abbott will speak at the;
New Years meeting of the West Side
! Y. NJ. c. a. tomorrow afternoon at
| O'clock on '"rhe Opening of New
! Day" DIR. Elliott w. Brown will bring
the New Years message to the men at
the Merchant Seamen's Y. NJ. c. A. Sun
day evening, at go o'clock. His sub
ject will be "A Forward Look" Mr..
| Winter Russell will conduct the New
Years meeting at the East Side Y. NJ.
c. A. Sunday. January 1. at z. NJ.
DIR. William e. Kethard. dean of the
| Bronx clergy. will speak on THE Mes
! sage Of the New Year" at the Bronx
Union Y. NJ C. A. tomorrow AFTERNOON
at 80 o'clock.
Mr.. George ]. Russell's subject. at the
Harlem Y. NJ. c. A., will be THE New
| Year" The hour of the meeting is
A o'clock.
Tomorrow afternoon in the Bedford
branch Y NJ. C. A. Bedford avenue and
Monroe street, Brooklyn, DR.. Cadman
will address the Mems Conference on the
topic "Ireland-Freedom." Music will
be furnished by the Gloria Trumpeters.
In Columbia College.
DR.. Charles Francis Potter will preach
| at Earl Hall, Columbia College, to-mor-
row, on the subject Creative Evolution
| in Religion" a New Years sermon.
| This Is an attempt to answer the prob
| lem raised by. A. 5. NJ. Hutchinson's IF
Winter Comes
! On Monday, the mems club of st. Ed
uiund's Church will hold "open house"
from 10: 80 A. NJ. to 80 p. NJ. in the
parish house of the church, 177th street
and Morris avenue, The Bronx. This will
be a revival of the open house. always
held by st. Edmund's Church previous to
the world war,
| AT the Mount Morris Baptist Church.
| Fifth avenue and 126th street special
meetings will be held every evening
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