The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-24
PRE-EASTER
ACTIVITIES
I. ANNOUNCED
Reformed Church Conducts
Intensive Membership
Campaign.

tensive program Of activities and
meetings eliminating in the Easter
services.
During the past week a home
visitation campaign has been con-
Quoted in the community by twenty
teams Of workers from the church,
calling on more than } hundred
families. A most graft. lg number
of new members has resulted from
this campaign and these will be re-
Ceived into the church on Palm Sun
day and Easter.
Tomorrow morning the Rev. Geb-
hardt will preach on Come and
See, and in the evening he will de-
liver the final message of a series
on MARKS of a Christian"
Tuesday evening, March 81, at
7:45, DR.. Paul S. Leinbach, editor
of The Reformed Church MesSen-
ger, Philadelphia, Pa, will open a
series of three mcknight services,
speaking on THE Treasure Hunt"
This meeting will be preceded at
$50 by a dinner, attended by men,
berS Of the Reformed Church Coun-
Gil of Indianapolis and their wives,
and will be followed by a brief
business session.
Leinbach will talk on 'Alone" and
for Friday evening, March 30, his
subject is Driving Out Fear"
DR.. Leinbach is the MONDAY Len
ten speaker for the week at the
Keith Theater meetings, arranged
by the church federation. Palm
Sunday morning new members will
be received, and the pastor will
speak on THE Vicarious Way" At
p. m. the choir of the church and
SoloiStS will render a sacred can
tata, "CrucifiXion,' by Stainer, un-
der the direction of Mrs Olga S.
Porter.
On Wednesday evening of holy
week, a preparatory service will be
addressed by the pastor, speaking
on 1.-THE Fellowship of Commu-
Mon" The Lords supper will be
celebrated on Thursday evening,
April 5, at 7:45. and the pastors
meditation subject is I'm Remem-
brance of Me"
Good Friday, from to p. M.
the congregation will join eight
other churches of the community
in a union service at the Meridian
Heights Presbyterian Church,
Forty Seventh st. and Central Ave
The Easter program will open
with a sunrise service in charge of
the young peoples division, followed
y ct $50 a. N. by special exercises in
each department Of the Sunday
school. At 1890 a. m. the pastor
Till speak on Tokens of Triumph"
md will receive a class of new
pembers. Holy communion will be
part Of this service.
At p. m. an organ recital will
be given by Mrs. Olga S. Porter. a
delegation or Knights Templar and
DeMoiey Comnandery will be guests
at he evening service at 7:30, when
the Rev. Gebhardt will preach on
Simon of Cyrene."
"Clrist the Foundation" and Be
settirg Sins are the sermon sub
JectS of Homer Dale, pastor of the
Hillside Christian Church for Sun
day morning and evening.
1.-THE Loneliness of Jesus" will be
the Ser1aon subject of J. Floyd
Seelig at the F7ifty-FirSt Street M.
E. Church on Sunday morning at
lG:45. Mrs, J. r. Freeman will sing
Great Peace Have They by Rog-
ers. The evening sermon subject
will be THE Seven Woes" Special
services will be held in this church
each evening during the coming
week at 7:30.
A Bible school for all ages will be
conducted in the new Broadway
Evangelical Church on Broadway
at Fifty-SiXth st. The school started
last Sunday prepritory to dedication
and will be conducted each Sunday
morning at $50 until the dedication
day April Is.
The Rev Fred A. Line will preach
the fourth Of a series of special
Lenten sermons at Central Uni
versalist Church, Fifteenth and N.
New Jersey ST., at the II o'clock
morning service. His subject will be
Saving Souls" There will be
special music. Sunday school con-
veneS at $50. Glasses for all, Mems
Fellowship class in charge of the
pastor and the ladies Bible class
taught by Mrs. H. P. Clarke.
At the Second Moravian Episco-
pal Church, corner Of Thirty Fourth
and Hovey SITS, the pastor, the Rev.
Vernon w. Couillard, will preach at
the morning service on THE Blood"
while his theme at the evening
service will be 1.-THE Sins That Cru
Gifted Jesus" At the Senior Chris
tan Endeavor meeting at Gas Mrs.
Grace Michaels will lead.
Allen K. Trout, pastor of the
Bethlehem Lutheran Church, an
nounceS as sermon subjects Sunday,
People Trying to Stone Jesus" and
Daily Deliverance."
Mrs. Frank Oldt, missionary to
China, will be the principal speaker
at the Sunday school session Sun
clay morning at $50 o'clock. Mrs.
Oldt was sent to China as a mis-
sionary in 1906 and labored there
all her life. She is home on fur
Tough and is visiting her sister,
Mrs. F. P. Barr, $3.50 Central Ave.
Pre-E Easter revival services begin
at the First Eva ngelical Church
with a sermon by Edmond Kerlin
at 10:4O a. m. on 1.-THE Arrow of
the Lords Deliverance" At 7:45 p.
m. the keynote message, Make 1t
Plain" for the following week.
FVangeliStic music leaders are the