The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-22
ANNOUNCE PROGRAM
FOR union SERVICE
BY LOCAL CHURCHES
To Join in Thanksgiving Exer.
cises; Four Will Have
Separate Programs

Program for the Union Tranksgiv-
ing service to be held at 10 o'clock
Thursday morning at the Presbyterian
church by members of the McCabe
Methodist Episcopal, First Baptist,
German Baptist, First Lutheran, First
Evangelical, German Evangelical, st.
Georges Episcopal and Presbyterian
churches and the Salvation Army was
announced Tuesday.
Rev. w. e. Water, pastor Of McCabe
Methodist Episcopal church and presi-
dent of the Bismarck Ministerial As
ISOLATION, will preside. The musical
prelude will be a piano and organ
duet with Mrs. Genevieve Menard
Hughes at the piano and Mrs. Grace
Duryee Morris at the organ.
This will be followed by the Dox-
ology and by the invocation, to be
given by Rev. A. w. Heidinger, dis
trict superintendent of the Evangeli-
cal church.
Rev. w. A. Baker Of the Congre-
gational church, will read President
Hoover's Thanksgiving proclamation
and this will be followed by the hymn,
Come Ye Thankful People"
Rev. A. H. Ermel, pastor of the
German Evangelical church, will read
the scripture lesson and Rev. E. l..
Jackson, pastor of the First Baptist
church, will read the Thanksgiving
paper.
For Free Bed Fund
During the organ offertory, PAS
toral," by Rogers, an offering will be
taken for the free bed fund of the
Bismarck hospital. Rev. Water will
give the offertory prayer.
Following a song, Praise the Lord,
o My Soul" by Diggle, sung by a
quartet composed of Mrs. G. E. VIM
greene, Mrs. F. j. Bavendick, Henry
Halvorson and George Humphreys,
Rev. Floyd E. Logee, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church, will preach
the Thanksgiving sermon.
This will be followed by a hymn,
Faith of Our Fathers" the benedic-
ton by Rev. John Richardson, rec
tor Of st. Georges Episcopal church,
and the organ postlude, "A Song Of
Thanksgiving" by Diggle.
While the churches named join in
the union service, four others will
have separate observances.
Masses will be celebrated at st.
Mary's Roman Catholic church at z
and 9 a. m, the latter being high
mass. Thanksgiving programs will be
given in the various grades OF st.
Mary's school Wednesday afternoon.
Zion Evangelical Lutheran church
will have services at 10:45 a. M, but
there will be little in the way Of spe-
cial observance, Pastor ]. v. Richert
said.
The Christian Science church will
have special Thanksgiving services at
II a. M, In the church building.
Plan Elaborate Program
Most elaborate of the separate serv-
ice will be that at Trinity Lutheran,
where the congregation will observe
the second Thanksgiving In its new
building. The services will open at
1890 a. M. with appropriate scrip
ture lessons, congregational anthems
and singing by the choir. Choir num-
beers will be Prayer Of Thanksgiving, /"
Kremer: Praise Ye the Father
Gounod; I'VE Plow the Fields"
Maunder: and Nov Thank We AL
Our God" Maunder. The congrega-
ton will join with the choir in the
last named. A women's chorus will
sing Sowing Time and Harvest" by
Maunder.
President Washington's first
Thanksgiving Proclamation viii be
read as a part Of the observance Of
the bicentennial Of his birth.
The Thanksgiving offering will be
used for charity, the church organi-
cation having 1876 children in eight
childrens homes, 40 old persons in
nine Sunset" homes. In addition, &C.
cording to Rev. Opie 8. Rindahl, pas
tor of Trinity Lutheran, this work
brought cheer to 40 mothers and ba-
bies and comfort and cheer to homes,
hospitals, jails and other institutions
through the work Of its "a city and
institutional missionaries.