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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-25
SPECIAL SERVICES JAN. |.
Signing of Emancipation Procla-
nation to Be Celebrated.

Special services will be held at the
Mount Moriah Baptist Church, Third
and l. streets, January !. at / PM. in
celebration of the signing of the eman-
cipatiOn proclamation by President
Lincoln.
Rev. DR.. w. w. Matthews, general
secretary of foreign missions of the A.
NJ. E. Zion Church, will deliver the
principal address. He will be intro
duced bye. Smith Wormley, principal
of the Randall Junior High School.
Others appearing upon the program
are Rev. w. l.. Washington, pastor of
the Zion Baptist Church; Rev. j. f.
Tooner, pastor of the Israel c.. NJ. L.
Church: Rev. r. w. S. Thompson, pas
tor of the Ebenezer NJ. +. Church, and
e. n. BroadnaX, pastor of the Mount
Carmel Baptist Church. Rev. J. Har-
vey Randolph, chairman of the execu-
tive committee of the Race Congress,
will preside.
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CAROLS THIS MORNING
CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS
Epworth Church Has Appropriate
Services in Commemoration of
Savior's Birth.

The Christmas tree, erected annu-
ally on the lawn of Epworth Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South, North
Carolina avenue and Thirteenth street
northeast, was lighted Christmas eve
at O'Clock. At 6 am. today singers
of the church met at the tree, from
which point they went throughout the
neighborhood singing Christmas
carols
Rev. DIR. John Paul Tyler, pastor,
will preach at II am. tomorrow, his
subject being Gifts for the King"
At pm. there will be candlelight
carol service, led by the choir, under
the direction of Herbert Aldridge. At
8 o'clock Wednesday evening the
Christmas party of the Sunday school
will be held in the Sunday school
rooms. DIR. +. V. Register, presiding
elder, will hold the fourth quarterly
conference Friday at 9 pm, after
which there will be a watch meeting
and communion service at midnight
The revival services originally an
nounced for January to 81 have
been postponed until January 16 to
%. Bishop L. V. W. Darlington, in
charge of the European mission field
of the Southern Methodist Church,
will conduct the services.
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WEEK OF PRAYER
FOR MEIHOD|STS
Bishops Urge Churches to
Cooperate in Boosting
Religious Drive.

CHICAGO. ILL.,, December 25.-"The
spiritual miracle of the new birth &C.
ours far too seldom whiting the Meth
odist Episcopal Church." declares the
board of bishops in an appeal to the
100000 members and 100000 ad-
herents of the church, made public by
the world service commission, of
which Bishopl Edwin Holt Hughes.
Chicago. is president.
The bishops recommend that the
bishop of each area meet with the dis
trict superintendent before January
l to discuss the spiritual life of the
churches. Every pastor is requested
to observe the first week in January
as week of prayer and to preach
on the necessity of a new birth and
Jesus Christ as the only adequate
savior of men. The pastors are urged
to organize men and women of the
church for effective personal evangel-
ism; every church is exhorted to ar
range for a special period of two
weeks preaching preceding Palm Sun
day, and the pastor is urged to use
Palm Sunday as a day of special in
gathering into the church of such as
shall have been previously won to ac-
cept Jesus Christ as their personal
Savior and Lord.
The bishops appeal also urged all
Methodists everywhere to observe
Passion week as a week of special
self-denial and to bring their sacrifi-
cial thank offering on Easter Sunday,
April II, to the affairs of the church
as an additional redemptive Offering
for the carrying forward of world re-
demption through world service enter
prise.
The appeal is signed for the board
of bishops by Bishops John l.. Nuel-
sen, Zurich, Switzerland; Theodore S.
Henderson. Cincinnati, Ohio: Adna W.
Leonard, Buffalo, N. Y; Lauress j.
Birney, Shanghai, China; Charles Yves
ley Burns, San Francisco, Calf; H.
Lester Smith, Helena, Mont; Charles
l.. Mead. Denver, Colo, committee on
evangelism
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LUTHER LEAGUE

At a recent meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the Luther League
of the District of Columbia, plans were
made for the annual banquet to be
held January %. Mrs. John w. Mar
tin is chairman of the COMMITTEES on
arrangements.
The December news letter of the
Luther League of the District of Co
lumbia was issued by Miss Selma A.
Trede, first vice president. The jan
uary news letter will be edited by
Robert G.. Blocker, treasurer
Epiphany Luther League will pre-
sent an entertainment in the hall at
Epiphany Episcopal Church, 1917 G.
street. January IA at pm. The pro-
gram will include a minstrel act and
short plays.
st. Marks League will hold it's
annual watch service December 81.
beginning at $50 pm. when a de-
votional Luther League Service will
be followed by a social and the last
minutes of the old year and the first
minutes of the new year will be spent
in prayer.
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tlonalists, the Jews who saw no good
beyond their borders, hated Him be-
cause of His sympathy and affection
for foreigners.
The great men and women of the
world are marked by a spiritual de.
tachment, an independence of what
others may say or think They are
not standardized. They do not wish
10 dress, and to eat, and to think
alike.
The agents of conformity are nu.
merous. The constant tendency is to
produce nation in which all differ
ences shall be erased. There are or
thodoxfes in dress, food, thinking, re-
ligion, politics, which are constantly
being pressed down upon us. The
goat of some people would seem to be
nation made up of people who use
the same vocabulary. eat the same
breakfast foods say the same prayers,
drink the same drinks, repeat the
same political creeds.
Education tends to produce a race
of conformers. 1t tends to discourage
the boy and girl of inquisitive mood
and rebellious spirit. This is tragic.
Education should encourage individu-
alism, for genius is not born of con-
formity. and the world needs genius.
The Aristotles and ST. Franchises and
Darwins of history have not been cast
in any standardized mold We must
make the world safe for genius.
Supremacy is this true in religion.
There should be room in America for
every new cult, no matter how fan
tastic it may seem. Let people be-
lieve as they will about God and man
and truth. Let them test their belief,
or their misbelief. America will be
the richer for it.
GOD and l are a majority" 1t
may be true, but l am skeptical about
the people who know what the AL
mighty thinks and wishes with all
eXactness. When men in the name of
God dare to stifie the free mind and
conscience of their fellows, it is time
to cry, Hold. Enough!
We are called to have minds of our
own, and to do our own thinking,
and to resist the pressure of all mobs.
political mobs, religious mobs.
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LUTHERANS REDUCE
DELEGATION TO FOUR
DR.. w. H. Greever Named, Complet-
ing Group to Attend Lausanne
Conference.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. NJ Y, December 20
Reducing its representation from six
to four delegates to the World Con-
ference on Faith and Order to meet at
Lausanne, Switzerland, next Summer,
the executive board of the United
Lutheran Church in America has
elected DIR. w. II. Greever. editor of
the American Lutheran Survey, Co
lumbia, S. c., as the fourth member
of the delegation. The other three
are DIR. John A. w. Haas, president
of Muhlenberg College. Allentown, Pa;
DR.. Holmes Dysinger, dean of the
Western Theological Seminary, Ere
mont, Nebr.. and DR.. NJ. G. G. Scherer,
secretary of the United Lutheran
Church in America, New York City.
Dr. Charles d. Trexler, Brooklyn
". Y, has been elected to member
ship on the board to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of DR.. +. +.
Fry of Rochester, NY. who becomes
executive secretary at the first of the
year of the new Board of American
Missions.
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B. Y. p. u. NEWS

A meeting of the b. Y. =. U. FEEDER
alton was held at Bethany Baptist
Church December q, with $50 pres
ent. The Bethany Union furnished
the entertainment, which consisted of
a play, adapted from "Everyman,'
called Every B. Y. P. U.'er."
The application for membership in
the federation by the Berwyn, Md,
b. Y. p. L. was granted. This brings
the total number of B. Y. p. US now
in the federation to %.
The first round of the 7-round cham
pionship fight was won on points by
Temple b. Y. p. L. Temple made 80
points out of a possible 100. The
Temple trainer announces that Temple
will win the December round by a
knockout 400 points, and win repeat
enough to win the championship belt
for 1926-27 and a trip to the national
convention at Philadelphia for one of
it's members.
All B. Y. P. u. members are urged
to attend the Sunday school superin-
tendents' banquet. to be held January
"a at the City Club.
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DR.. MONTGOMERY BACK.
Will Preach at Metropolitan
Church at Both Services.

Rev. DIR. James Shera Montgomery
has returned from Scranton, Pa,
where he delivered the annual address
to the New England Society, and will
occupy his pulpit tomorrow at Metro
politan NJ. +. Church. At the MORN
ing service he will give a sermon APP
propriate to the last Sunday of the old
year, on the subject. THE Tale of Our
Years" In the evening he will speak
on the article published as a part Of
his latest volume of Dollars Only"
subject, You"
An old fashioned watch night serv-
ice will be held Friday. beginning at
o'clock. with the young people in
charge; from 10 to II o'clock, a social;
from II to IL o'clock, DIR. Montgomery
will conduct devotional service.
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HARDING MEMORIAL
WILL GET OFFERING
Contribution to Be Presented
in Cathedral at Special
St. PauI'S Service.

The Offering of the diocese of Wash
ington for me memorial to Bishop
Harding -d be presented in Wash
ington C;sthedral at a special service
on st. $aul's day, January 20. rms
annou Tsment was made yesterday IN
a pastoral letter sent by Right Rev.
James E., Freeman, Bishop of Wash
ington, throughout the diocese.
The memorial to the late Right
Rev. Alfred Harding, second Bishop
of Washington, win be in the form
of the Chapel of the Resurrection in
the crypt of the South TranSept of
Washington Cathedral. In his letter
Bishop Freeman calls this chapel "a
beautifully appropriate monument to
Bishop Harding's devotional life"
Chapel Is Completed.
The memorial chapel, a Norman
6tucture believed to be the first of
ifs type erected since the eleventh
GHsntruy, is completed, but the furnish
ings and mural paintings soon to set
ifs walls ablaZe with color are, for
the most part, yet to be given by
friends of the late Churchman. OPP
portunity is now available to Bishop
Harding's admirers and friends to of
fer gifts for this purpose.
Bishop Freeman says, in part, in
his letter: I'm the faith that all of
Bishop Harding's friends here in his
Cwn diocese will value the privilege
Of giving for the building and furnish
Ing of this chapel, the offering which
we shall make on St. Paul's day will
he devoted to that purpose. 1t is an
offering which. like the gifts of the
children of Isreal to the temple, will
be given joyouSly-'then the people
rejoiced, for that they offered willing
ly, because with perfect heart they
offered willingly to the Lord Only
in this spirit could we really share
in a memorial to one who with an
amazing literalness gave all that he
had to the poor, and who spent his
strength and his love for all of US.
Life Cannot Die.
''I life like Bishop Hardings can
n ut die; his faith, his Steadfastness
and his gentleness still spread their
influence in widening circles of en-
couragement to those whose faith
may falter or whose purposes may
Waver. Each of us, then, must wish
TO have a part in the building and
furnishing of this chapel which shall
tell future generations that we were
grateful to God for setting before us
the inspiration of sanity life"
The Norman Chapel of the Resur-
rection is structurally complete and
is open to pilgrims visiting Mount
Saint Alban. AT the southwest cor
ner of the chancel arch of this chapel
a vault has been prepared for the
reception of the body of Bishop Hard
Ing, which now rests temporarily in
the Bethlehem Chapel, and that of
Justine Prindle, his wife. Here will
be placed a beautiful sarcophagus,.
designs for which are now being pre-.
pared by w. d. Caroe, resident
architect of Canterbury Cathedral,
England. who designed and executed
the tomb of the late Rt. Rev. Henry
Yates Satterlee, first Bishop of Wash
fngton. which stands in the ambula-
tory of the Bethlehem Chapel
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ALL SOULS CHURCH.
Christmas Program Tomorrow to
Open at GAS Am.

The Christmas Sunday proEam
at All Souls Church Unitarian). Six
teenth and Harvard streets, will begin
with the session of the church school
at 9:45 o'clock. The Christmas serv-
ice of the church will be held at IL
O'Clock. The minister, Rev. Ulysses
G.. B. Pierce, will preach on the sub
ject, 1.-The Life That Was the Light"
The speaker at the book chat at
$50 o'clock will be DIR. William L.
Corbin, librarian of the Smithsonian
Institution. His subject is What
Shall We Read?" George Arliss in
THE Man Who Played Cod is the
feature to be presented at the motion
picture hour in Pierce Hall at 1880
pm.
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Bible Is DR.. Calls Topic.

us the Bible One of the Worlds
Great Masterpieces? If SO, Why? If
Not, Why Not?' This topic will be
discussed before the mems Bible class
of the Mount Plea SAINT Congregational
Church. Fourteenth street and Column
bia road, tomorrow at 10 am. by DR..
Arthur Deerin Call, secretary of the
American Peace Society, editor of the
Advocate of Peace and executive sec.
rotary of the American section of the
1nterparliamentary Union.
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CLASS SEEKS MEMBERS.
A. B. Pugh Organization Has 525
as Minimum Members.

The A. B. Pugh Mems Bible Glass
of Mount Vernon Place Church South
has launched a six months class en-
tension campaign to increase it's mem
bership to a minimum of 525
The class has been divided into the
Army" and the Navy" The Gen
eraP of the Army" is Clarence r.
Ahalt, and the Admiral" of the
Navy" is Chester S. Sheppard. The
first engagement brought victory to
the Navy" having brought in 10
new members to the "Army's" four
last Sunday. The campaign is under
the direction of S. L. Thomas, former
Y. NJ. c. A. secretary. who is now en-
ployed by this class as all-time
worker.
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"HIS STAR" Is TOPIC.
Memorial United Brethren Church
Plans Special Services.

Special Christmas services will be
held tomorrow in the Memorial United
Brethren Church, North Capitol and
r streets. The minister, Rev. DR.. s.
B. Daugherty, will preach in the
morning at IL on His Star" In the
evening at 1880 o'clock the annual
old fashioned Christmas entertain
ment will be held. The title of the
service is 1.-The Star-lit Path"
The Sunday school will have a spe-
cial program at $40 am. The offer
ing for the United Brethren Orphan
age and Home, at Quincy, Pa. will
be received at all the services of the
day.
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CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL
SEASON TO CONTINUE
Special Services Tomorrow and
During Week at New York Ave-
nue. Presbyterian Church.

The New York Avenue PRESBYTERIAN
Church will continue the observance
of the Christmas festival season with
special services tomorrow and during
the week. Rev. DIR. Joseph Sizoo will
preach tomorrow morning on Chang
ing and Unchanged" At O'Clock he
will have for his special theme THE
Religious Significance of the Events
of 1926"
A young peoples service will be held
at 6:45 O'Clock. 1t is the candle
service. A special address will be de.
livered upon 1.-The Meaning of the
Lights
Friday evening at IL o'clock the an
nual watch night service will be OBJ.
served. DIR. Sizoo will have charge
and deliver the address.
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Third Baptist Services.

Rev. DIR. George o. Bullock will
preach Christmas sermon at the
Third Baptist Church, Fifth and @
streets, tomorrow. He will preach a
special sermon to the Pastors Aid
Club at pm. Bible school will meet
at 3 am. The Y. p. c. +. Society
will gather at pm; leader, Mrs. Nj.
Earle. There will be watch meeting
services Friday night.
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RELIGIOUS CENSUS SERIES
Gunton Temple Pastor to Preach on
Questions Asked.

Rev. Bernard Braskamp. pastor of
the Gunton-Temple Memorial Presby-
terrain Church, will begin a series of
sermons tomorrow on the questions
that were asked in.the recent religious
census.
Tomorrow morning his subject will
be why / Believe in God and in
Prayer" His subject at the 430
o'clock twilight service will be "rhe
Christmas Afterglow."
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YULE STORY TO BE TOLD.
will Take Place of Sermon at Sec
ond Baptist.

A special Christmas service will be
held tomorrow night at the Second
Baptist Church, Fourth street and Vir-
ginia avenue southeast. Instead of a
sermon the pastor, Rev. Ellis c.
Primm will tell Christmas story.
At the morning service the sermon
subject will be "A Little Child Shall
Lead Them" The annual Christmas
entertainment of the Sunday school
will be held Thursday night.
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$4,000 CHURCH DRIVE
OF LUTHERANS ACTIVE
Church of Atonement Campaign to
Close January 2-Teams
Continue Work.

The campaign to raise $4,000 for
the new church edifice of the Lutheran
Church of the Atonement, North Cap
itol street and Rhode Island avenue, is
reported to be progressing. Half of
the money was subscribed the first
week of the campaign.
The campaign. which will close
January 2, is being conducted by
teams composed of members of the
church and their friends.
1t is planned to start erection of the
new church next year.
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PLANS FOR NEW YEAR.
Hamline Methodist Episcopal
Church Arranges Program.

Rev. DR.. Joseph r. Herson will
preach tomorrow morning at the Ham,
line Methodist Episcopal Church. Six
teenth and Allison streets, his subject
being 1.-The Invisible and Revealed
God"
A program has been arranged for
New Year eve, beginning at $50 and
continuing until midnight, with spe-
cial address by the pastor at IL
o'clock.
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FAREWELL AS RECTOR,
Rev. E. S. Dunlap Soon to Assume
Duties at Cathedral.

Rev. f. S. Dunlap who has been
for quarter of century assistant
rector of st. Johns Church, will
preach his farewell sermon, prior to
his taking over his new work as canon
of Washington Cathedral, tomorrow at
II am.
Mr.. Dunlap. during his service at
ST. Johns Church, has become one of
the best known of the ministers in the
city.
In the evening at 7:45 O'Clock
the service will consist of the singing
of carols.
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agree with the
majority.
The greatness of
a man is attested
by the friends he
makes, also by the
variety and quail
ity of his enemies.
Jesus had great
friends and sig
ni1cant enemies.
The professional
religionists hated
Him for His hon
esty. The exploit
ers of the widow
and orphan hated
him for his out
spoken condemna-
ton of their ways.
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CHRISTMAS SERMONS.
Yuletide Topics Selected TO
Covenant Church Tomorrow.

Christmas sermons will be preached
tomorrow, at II am. and pm, by
Rev. DR.. Charles Wood, at the Church
of the Covenant. The morning sub
ject is 1.-THE Christ of Christmas His
tory and Personal Experience" and
in the evening. can Unappropriated
Christmas Gift"
The midweek service will be Thurs
day at 8 pm, when DR.. Wood will
speak on The Joy Men Give God"
The New Year prayer meeting will
be held Saturday at 9I5 am. Sunday
school. with classes of all ages, con-
yN6eeA a $40 am.
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WILL HONOR ST. STEPHEN.
st. Margaret's Episcopal Church to
Observe Feast.

The feast of st. Stephen, martyr,
will be observed tomorrow with a
celebration of holy communion at 1880
am; Sunday school at $50 am, morn
ing prayer and sermon at II am. and
evensong and sermon at 80 pm, at
st. Margaret's Episcopal Church. The
rector, Rev. DR.. Herbert Scott Smith,
will preach.
Monday, st. John the Evangelist's
day; Tuesday, Holly Innocents' day,
and Thursday there will be a celebra-
ton of the holy communion at IL a m
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Will Give Pageant.

The members of Columbia Heights
Christian Church and the Sunday
school, 1435 Park road, will give a
pageant under the direction of Miss
Mida Tucker tomorrow at 8 pm.
in the church.
The pastor. Rev. Harry Baker
Smith, invites the Nublc t. attend.
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1000 See Church Tree.

More than 1000 persons attended
the Metropolitan Baptist Church last
Sunday evening to view the electri-
cally lighted tree that occupies the
pulpit platform. The tree will remain
over tomorrow, and the pastor, Rev
John Compton Ball, will preach on
christmas Gifts and "Sixes and
Seye0S."
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WRIGHT WILL SPEAK.
Assistant Secretary to Address
Mems Club.

J. Butler Wright, Assistant Score.
tary of State, will be the principal
speaker at the monthly meeting of
the Mems Club of St Margaret's Par
ish, which will be held in the parish
hall of st. Margarets Church, Con.
necticut avenue and Bancroft place
Tuesday at s pm. The subject will
be What the Consular Service Does
for Our Citizens"
There will be a short business meet.
ing and a program of music. All the
men of the parish and their friends
are invited to be present.
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SCROLL is DEDICATED.
Large Gathering Sees Ceremony
a. Hebrew Edifice.

A large gathering was present Sun
DAY evening at the dedication of a
Sofor Torah (Scroll of Comma ndments)
donated to the Congregation Talmud
Torah B'nai Israel by Mrs. l.. J. Co.
hen of 1900 Ninth street in memory
of her husband. Rabbi Levine OF the
teaching staff and Rabbi Schwefel of
vas sixth Street Synagogue made
speeches, which were followed by the
ancient custom of selling parts and
parcels of the Jewish alphabet, by
which sum was realized for the up-
keep of the congregation.
Gusic and refreshments completed
The entertainment
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PARTY FOR PUPILS.
Cottage City Presbyterian Sunday
School Plans Event.

The Cottage City Presbyterian Sun.
day School will give a Christmas
party to the pupils Monday at 1890
pm. at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
r. c. Reinoehl, II Spa street.
Services tomorrow are: Sunday
school at 10 am. and preaching by
DR.. j. r. Duffield at IL am. These
services will also be held at the above
residence.
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Gift Service" Tomorrow.

1.-THE white gift service" will be
held at the Western Presbyterian
Church, II street between Nineteenth
and Twentieth streets, tomorrow
morning at IL o'clock. The Sunday
school meets at $50 am, Junior
Christian Endeavor at pm. and
Senior society at Z I'm.
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Glass Will Play Host.

The Vaughn class of Calvary Bap-
fist Church will be host to a delega-
ton Of men from Judd & Detweiler's
tomorrow morning at $3.50 O'Clock.
The service will be held in the church
auditorium, and George II. Judd, who
is a class member, will preside. Rev.
Homer j. Councillor will make an adj
dress =