The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-24
Sermon Themes
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N. New Jersey Sts., at IL a. m. Sum
day. His subject will be "The
Christmas Spirit Speaks" There
will be special music: Soprano solo,
Mrs. Archie Lahglais; duet, Mrs.
Langlais and Mrs. Chrisman. A
cordial invitation is extended to the
public.
The young people will hold a
Christmas candle light service at
4;3O p. m. George Mitchell will con-
duct this service.
The regular monthly dinner and
meeting of the Mems Fellowship
Club will be held Wednesday, Dec.
%, 6:15 p, m. This will be ladies'
night with the ladies as guests of the
club. The Rev. and Mrs. L. j. Case
of Galesburg, ILL.,, will give short
talks. There will be special music.
The choral groups which furnish
much of the incidental music for
the~ beautiful pageant to be given
at the Tabernacle Presbyterian
Church, Central Ave. and Thirty
Fourth ST., on Christmas night, are
an interesting part of the cast. In
the narthex gallery will be the
Tabernacle chorale. led by Mrs. j.
H. Allies. In the transept galleries
will be the junior choir, led by Miss
Verne Lowman and the junior
chorus, directed by Mrs. A. E. Blu
chanan. Together, these groups will
form the final professional to the
pageant. The accompaniment will
be played by Paul r. Matthews, or
ganist; Mrs. Louis H. Williamson
and Mrs. Frederickw G. Lacey, harp
lists; Miss Helen Dauner, cellist, and
Louise Dauner, Fred and Erwin
Kiemle, and Calvert Craig, violinists.
A candle light carol service will
be held at Christ Church at S
o'clock and will last one hour.
The midnight Christmas commu-
Mon will begin at 11:30 Saturday
night. The choir will sing the full
Christmas music. Come early. Last
year many had to stand.
On Sunday morning there will be
a quiet celebration of the holy COM
munion at IL o'clock. There will
be no other service and no church
school.
The choir will sing carols on
Christmas eve at Riley, Long and
Coleman Hospitals, after the candle
light carol service. At 8 o'clock
they will broadcast over WFBM
from the Columbia Club, whose
guests they will be for supper. On
Monday night at 7:30 they will
broadcast over WFBM from the
Baldwin studio.
'Life's Problems is announced by
the Rev. Homer G. Bobbitt, pastor
of the Linwood Christian Church,
as the morning subject. In the
evening the sermon will be 1.-THE
Advent" The morning service is
announced as the fourth in series
on the Book of Johns Gospel.
First Evangelical Church, Ed
mond Kerlin pastor, at 10 a. m.
combined Sunday School and
Church worship service, with Sun
day School presentation, "Why
the Chimes Rang" At 7:45, 1.-THE
Coming Of the King" Dudley Bucks
Christmas cantata presented by the
choir under direction of Arnold
Spencer. Brief Christmas address
by pastor at both services.
The Rev. Floyd Van Keuren,
rector Of Christ Episcopal Church,
will have two services Christmas
Eve. The usual candle light carol
service will be at 500 o'clock. The
midnight Christmas communion
service will be at 11:30 There will
be a short address by the rector.
The boy choir, under the direction
of CheSton L. Heath, will sing the
full Christmas music. Maurice
Fowler, boy soprano, will be the
soloist. Sunday, Christmas day.
there will be quiet celebration of
the Holy Communion, and Christ
mas hymns, at IL o'clock.
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Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh"
will be the subject of the Christmas
morning address of the Rev. w. r.
Montgomery, pastor of the Uni
versity Heights United Brethren
Church. In the evening the inter-
mediate Sunday school group will
present play entitled, why the
Chimes Rang"
1.-THE Promise of Peace" Christ
mas pageant by Esther Willard
Bates, will be presented by the
Sutherland Players and the Suther-
land Presbyterian Church Choir, on
next Sunday evening at 7:45 in the
auditorium of the Sutherland Pres
byterian Church, of which the Rev.
j. L. Prentice is pastor.
The pageant, which is built
around the theme of world peace
and brotherhood, requires the serv-
ices of a cast of twelve players,
which will include Roberts Hawkins.
Joe Foy. Lloyd Galiher, Fred Fled
derjohn, Bernice Mitchell Young.
Ruth Brown, jeanette Wilds, Mary
Hoover, Francis Gaylord, Edward
Green and Russell Young.
Special lighting and scenic effects
will be used for the production,
which is under the direction of
Green. The costuming is
by Virginia Bracket
Green. A chorus choir, under the
direction Of Mrs. Lora L. Lackey,
will sing the incidental
music of the pageant, which includes
THE Sanctus," Chadwick's Noel"
THE. Gloria, by Bertold Tours,
selections from "The Messiah" by
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