The New York herald., 1921-09-24
TOPICS TOMORROW
IN CITY CHURCHES
Tablet Will Be Unveiled in
McAuley Mission to John
II. Wyburn.
BIBLE SCHOOL CROWDED
Community Church Resumes
Regular Services in the
Lyric Theatre.
BIBLE SCHOOL CROWDED

Lyric Theatre.
An interesting ceremony will take
place tomorrow afternoon at the famous
McAuley Mission. 316 Water street,
, when a memorial tablet will be un-
veiled to John II. Wyburn. late super
intendent of the mission, on the thirty
third anniversary of his conversion.
which took place on September rs, 1888.
F. Murray Oliphant. president of the
board Of trustees. will preside. The
opening prayer will be made by William
Kay. There viii be solo by Mrs. Philip
Roberts and an address by the Rev.
William N. Hubbell. pastor Mariners
Temple, New York city.
The tablet will be unveiled by John
Mergenthaier. one of MT. Wybura's clos
est friends and oldest associates In this
work.
At Calvary Episcopal Church. Fourth
avenue and Twenty-first street, the rec
tor. the Rev. Theodore Sedgwick, will be
the preacher at both the morning and
evening services tomorrow.
| Calvary Sunday school will open it's
ltH diiu WlBlcT WOTk IO-IuOTTOW IuOTIiiIlB
at 8 :45. During the summer the chill
dren have been taught through a chill
dren's church service. The superin-
| tendent, the Rev. Wolcott Cutler. has
plans for a busy winter. Calvary
teaches the Christian Nurture series and
all the teachers have been regular at
tendants at the Church Normal School.
| Special plans are being made in con-
| junction with the centennial of the
-~1- zl.A.. A. -~1~ 4. a,
a banner year along the line of mis-
sions.
On Friday evening the preparation
service for the first Sunday In October
viii be held.
Tho number OF students enrolled at
the National Bible Institutes resident
school. the Union Missionary Training
Institute. at 525 Clinton avenue, Brook
| lyn. has taxed the buildings accommo-
dations. Among the new students is a
| young woman from Armenia and a min
lister who Is a native OF China. AS soon
as these two students complete their
| training they expect to take up work
| in their native lands The institute now
| has more than 200 graduates on the
various foreign mission fields and more
than 100 at work in the homeland. The
| institutes home mission workers are
scattered from Alaska to Porto Rico. and
the foreign missionaries are giving a
good account of their ministry in at
least fifteen countries. Thirteen gradu-
ates have recently started for work
abroad
Conference for Blind.
| On Monday and Tuesday. September
| 26 and 81. Bible conference will be
held at the National Bible Institute, PA
West Thirty-flfth street. New York city.
This marks the opening of the evening
department Of the Schools for the Train
ing of Christian Workers. Among the
speakers are Alwyn Ball. Jr. the Rev.
Joseph Davis. the Rev. Tillman john
son, the Rev. John Mcneil. Hugh r.
Monro joseph A. Richards, Don 0. Shell
ton, John Hunter Stearns the Rev. DR..
John Roach Straton and the Rev. Rob-
ert Watson. The regular sessions Of the
school begin Thursday evening, Septem-
ber 20. The six weekly sessions are
free to Christian men and women.
The Sunday afternoon Bible hour will
be addressed tomorrow by Don o. Shell
ton, president of the National Bible In
stitute. waiting Upon the Lord in Re
thirteen addresses on the general theme :
Strengthening the Spiritual Life
| Members Of the congregation OF st.
| Jerome's Church, 13Sth street and Alex
ander avenue. are making preparations
for the fifteenth centenary Of st. Jerome,
which will begin tomorrow.
! The celebration will continue for nine
days. The Most Rev. Michael ]. Curley.
| d. D., Archbishop of Baltimore will
pontificate, and Archbishop Rev. Patrick
]. Hayes, d. D.. will preside Father j.
Burke. superior OF the Paulist Fathers,
will preach the first sermon Of the novena
OF prayer. At the solemn pontifical
mass Mgr. James II. Mclean will be
the assistant to Archbishop Hayes. and
the deacons of honor will be the Right
Rev. Mgr. George T. Donlin, p. r. Of
st. Jerome's Church, and the Right Rev.
Mgr. George J. Waring. v. c.. and the
Very Rev. Mgr. Joseph p. Dincen will be
| the master of ceremonies.
There will be solemn vespers In the
evening. marking the opening Of the
novena IN honor OF st. Jerome. There
after each evening during the novena
there will be a discourse by a well
known preacher on the life, chars cter
and work OF st. Jerome. The first Of
these discourses Will be delivered on
Sunday evening by the Right Rev
Michael J. Lavelle. pastor of st. Patricks
Cathedral. and his topic will be Pope
st. Damascus"
The Rev. Carl Wallace Petty was
obliged to be away last Sunday on ac-
count of an accident to one Of the men,
bers OF his family but will occupy his
pulpit tomorrow, his morning subject
being when God Gives Up"
In the evening he will hold special
services In connection with the celebra-
tion Of 125th Street Week and his SER
mon will be from the subject. do the
Harlem Business Men Believe in the
Church?"
Mrs. Chaplin Returns.
| Mrs. Mary Z. T. Chaplin. after a lec-
| ture trip from New York to San Fran
cisco, will resume her Sunday services
| or. October 2 at IL o'clock In the BALL
room Of the Hotel Commodore. Mrs.
Chaplin at this meeting also will report
| the Denver congress. From there she
went to Spokane. Wash. and gave a
series of lectures ut Seattle, Portland
Ore. Tacoma, San Francisco, Los An
geles. Denver, Chicago and Evanston.
Power From Temptation" a study
of the advantages derived from being
tempted. will be Dr. s. Edward Young's
subject tomorrow evening at the Bed
ford Presbyterian Church, Nostrand ave-
nue. and Dean street, Brooklyn. His
morning subject will be what Is Christ
to Meg'
Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, the
archaeologist. explorer, traveller and
author of many volumes, will be given a
reception Monday evening under the
auspices of the Young Mems Class. Hor-
ace N. Doughcrty leader the general
public being invited, there being no adj