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40 10 Be Confirmed
By Bishop Freeman

Bishop James E. Freeman will
make his annual visitation and ad-
minister the rite OF confirmation at
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock
Creek Parish, tomorrow at II m. He
will be assisted by the rector, the
Rev. DR.. F. J. Bohanan. The class
will consist of about 40. Bishop
Freeman will also preach the SER
mon.
The confirmees will take their first
communion on May IA at $3.50 am
The Rock Creek Players tonight
will present "Skidding," a play by
Aurania Rauverol.
The Rock Creek candidates of the
Girls Friendly are working on an
operetta, Spring Glow" which is to
be presented May 10 at pm.
Miss Gloria Sims and Miss Audrey
Quick were recently presented by
DR.. Bohanan with prayer book
and hymnal from the Helen Thayer
endowment fund.
At the last meeting Of the Girls
Friendly Seniors there was sur
prise shower for Virginia Taylor and
Margaret Miller, who are to be June
brides Mrs. McCubbin was pre-
sented with gift by her first-aid
class in appreciation Of her services
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secretary: Miss Emily Flint, class
secretary; Mrs. Eliza MacLane,
treasurer.
The A. B. Pugh Glass OF Mount
Vernon Place M. E. Church an
nounces that the class member en-
rolling the largest number Of men,
bers during the conference year
ending August q will be given a
free trip to the summer confer
ence of the Organized Bible Glass
Association, to be held at Western
Maryland College.
The P. w. Jeffries Bible Glass OF
Francis Asbury M. E. Church will
meet Monday at pm. The class
is sponsoring a Mothers Day" bull
letin for the benefit of the church
building fund. Jean Miller will
give a piano recital of Chopin Sc
lections on Friday at pm, which
will be open to the public. A free
will offering will be received Miss
Mary Redmond, Mrs. Fred Hatcher
and Mrs. Tracy l.. Jeffords are in
charge of the program.
The Florence NJ Brown Glass of
Calvary Baptist Church will hold a
business meeting on Tuesday at
8 pm.
The Rev. DR.. Forrest j. Pretty
man will teach the Box Bible Glass
Of Emory M. E. Church tomorrow
morning.
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Metropolitan Baptist
To Mark Lords Supper

THE Importance of Believing"
will be the theme of DR.. John
Compton Ball, pastor of the Metro
politan Baptist Church, tomorrow
morning. The ordinance of the
Lords supper will be observed, and
number of new members received
into the church. In the evening
song service will be conducted
by the assistant pastor, the Rev.
Robert Carlton Savage. He will
preach on Growing, Glowing, CO.
ing"
On Tuesday at $3.50 pm. the Cru
saders meet with Mrs. Claude Dicks
directing. The Through the Bible
Glass meets at pm. Tuesday, with
Mrs. William Hasker teaching. The
Phi Gamma Kappa meets Tuesday
at pm. for business and a social
William Bailey will direct the meet
ing.
Mrs. William Schooley, 44l5 Dex-
ter road NV, will be hostess to
the primary department officers and
teachers on Friday evening.
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Il Is Enough Topic
OF Dr.. Johnson al
Baptist Memorial
Representative Gore
To Teach Bible
School Class

'It Is Enough" Is the subject Of
DR.. Cove @. Johnson's sermon at
the National Baptist Memorial
Church tomorrow at II. am. The
ordinance of the Lords supper will
be observed, with the reception Of
new members.
playing With Home Fires" is
the theme of the fourth in the
series of sermons on THE Bible and
the Home" which the Rev. A.
Lincoln Smith, assistant pastor will
preach in the evening. Special
music.
Representative Albert Gore of
Tennessee will teach the Roger
Williams class tomorrow morning
in the Bible school hour at $40,
when there will be the installation
of officers, the president being S.
Garland Kent The Young Mems
class will conduct an installation
service with Thurman Kelley, as
the new president and John Wann,
the new teacher.
DR.. Armo C. Gaebelein will be
the speaker at the Prophetic Con-
ference on Tuesday at 2:30 and
8 pm.
The Prayer League meets in the
church parlor at 2 pm. Tuesday.
The Senior B. Y. P. U. will hold
their annual installation banquet
at the church. Tuesday at $50 pm
The theme of the program will be
Deep Sea-; John Ruthven will be
the speaker.
The Church Board Of Christian
Education meets Thursday at 2
pm.
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Identical Services
At United Brethren

Beginning tomorrow and continu-
ing throughout the summer. there
will be two identical services at $3.50
and II am. at Memorial United
Brethren Church. DR.. Simpson B.
Daugherty will preach on "The
Power of Habit" A number Of the
young people will assist in the serv-
ices.
At 7:3O pm c. E. anniversary will
be observed with pageant, Jesus
Calls Us" written by Dr. j. Gordan
Howard. The reader will be Mrs.
Karl Brandt, the hidden voice; Miss
Bertha Lawson, pianist; Miss Grace
Lowell, assisted by Karl Brandt. Rob-
ert Harbaugh, Robert Jordan, Mary
Shonk, Wilmot Fitzgerald, Edith
Lawson, Brook Reid, Richard Graf,
Harold and Robert Taught, Mar
garet Embrey, Julia Shonk, Betty
Daugherty, Betty Thomas, Hilda
Henderson and a group of singers.
This service will be held in the
chapel.
The midweek service will be
omitted for the summer.
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Voices and the Voice.
To Be Sermon Theme

"Voices and the Voice" will be the
subject of DR.. H. w. Burgan at
Hamline M. E. Church tomorrow at
III am, and at pm. Blaming
Others" Prof Charles H. ONO will
address the Brotherhood Bible Glass
at Gas am. on Paul Works in
Hard Place"
At pm. the Junior High League
will meet in Rock Creek Park. Teddy
Kinsey will be the leader. At the
same time the Epworth League will
sponsor a fellowship tea, which will
be followed at 6:45 by a service.
The Rev. E. Barkley Wilcox, pastor
of Falls Church M. E. Church. will
speak on practical Religion in Our
Social Life"
On Wednesday evening the
Brotherhood Bible class will conduct
the service at the Central Union
Mission. The service will be in
charge of w. H. Ramsey, with w. R.
Schmucker as leader of the music.
On Friday at $50 the third an
nual mother and daughter banquet
will be held in the social hall. Miss
Mary Louise Brown, dean of women
of the American University, will be
the speaker. Mrs. Ernest w. Brown
will be the soloist. Greetings from
the women's organizations will be
given by Mrs c. R. Wilhelm, Mrs
H. B. Linton and Mrs. H. w.
Burgan.
The Brotherhood Bible class will
hold its annual banquet May 49,
with Justice Bolitha J. Laws as the
speaker.
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Church of Epiphany
To Hold Communion

Services at the Church of the
Epiphany tomorrow will be cor
porate communion for the Girls
Friendly Society at o'clock. Holy
communion and sermon by the Rev.
DR.. z. B. Phillips at II o'clock, with
special music by the choir. Young
Peoples Fellowship at $50 pm, and
evening service and sermon by the
Rev. Duncan Fraser at o'clock
On Tuesday evening Bishop James
E. Freeman will deliver his conven-
ton address to all the delegates to
the diocesan convention and men,
bers of the vestries of all the parishes
in the diocese in this church at 8
o'clock. This will be notable occa-
sion, as the bishop has several mat
ters of great Importance which he
wishes to bring before the conven-
ton delegates. Immediately after
the service reception will be held in
the parish house, and light refresh
ments will be served by the ladies of
Epiphany.
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Rev. f. H. Bookmyer
To Be Guest Pastor

The pulpit of the Wallace Memo
rial United Presbyterian Church
will be occupied at II o'clock tomor-
row by a guest minister. the Rev.
Edwin H. Bookmyer field secretary
of the American Bible Society.
The service at pm. will be de-
voted to gospel hymn singing from
lantern slides.
Mrs. M. B. Giffen and Mrs. c. S.
Trimble will be hostesses Tuesday at
2 o'clock to the women of the con-
gregation at a silver tea for Miss
Julia Chen, a young Chinese stu
dent.
Miss Mary J. Campbell, veteran
missionary member of Wallace Me-
mortal, having served SIS years in
India and Jerusalem, arrived in
Washington this week and will make
her home with Mrs D. M. Lum,
l435 Shepherd street NV.
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Sunday School Day
To Be Observed

Sunday school day in the church
will be celebrated tomorrow at Met
ropolitan Presbyterian Church.
At the IL am. service all newly
elected Sunday school officers and
teachers will be installed. Teachers
and their classes, and parents are
to be the guests of honor. The SER
mon by the pastor, DR.. j. L. Fem
drich, jr., is Religions Enemy-the
Home" AT 7:45 pm he will speak
on The Fighting Instinct"
On Thursday night is the semi
annual night meeting of the Wom-
ans Missionary Society A program
IS being planned, among which will
be a dramatic sketch, THE Call
From Affair."" to be given by the
young girls. The public is invited.
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Diocesan Convention
10 Open in Church
Of Epiphany
Bishop Freeman Will
Deliver Annual MESSAGE
Tuesday Night

Bishop James E. Freeman will
deliver his annual message to men,
bers of all parishes and missions
at the opening service of the Do
ceSan Convention in the Church
Of the Epiphany on Tuesday at 8
pm. The other services and ses-
sions of the convention will be held
In st. Adams Church and Satter-
lee Hall, adjoining Washington
Cathedral.
On Tuesday evening, officers OF
all diocesan and parochial organi-
cations and institutions, together
with delegates and representatives.
of the vestries of parishes, have been
asked to march in procession. Spe-
cial seats will be assigned to them
At the close of the service, through
the courtesy of the Rev. DR.. Ze
Barney T. Phillips. rector of the
Church of the Epiphany and chap
lain of the United States Senate.
Bishop Freeman will hold an in
formal reception in the parish
house.
Wi DOl dlC lOl tll6
convention members will be held in
st. Adams Church on Wednesday
at 8 am, followed by breakfast
in Satterlee Hall. Brief reports will
be presented by heads of diocesan
institutions on Wednesday after
noon. The annual fellowship din
ner, for clerical and lay delegates,
will also be held in Satterlee Hall
that evening at $50 o'clock. On
Thursday at $50 am. morning
prayer will be read in st, Alban S
Church. with sessions of the con-
vention continuing until adjourn
ment later in the day.
The Very Rev Noble c. Powell,
dean of Washington, will preach at
the peoples evensong tomorrow at
4 pm.
Preceding this service. at $3.50
O'Clock, the sixth of series of short
organ recitals by Robert Barrow.
organist of the Cathedral, will be
played on the great organ.
At the service of holy communion
at IL O'Clock, the preacher will be
Canon Anson Phelps Stokes Holy
communion will be celebrated in the
Bethlehem Chapel of the Holy Ma
tivity at 7;30 am. and $50 am.
Music at the II am. and pm
services will be given by the Cathe-
dral choir of men and boys, under
the direction of Mr.. Barrow. Pill
grimages will follow the morning
and afternoon services, under the
direction of pilgrim aides.
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up in this terse sentence. The long
centuries of Christian achievement
are mirrored in it. The latest and
fullest discoveries of pedagogy and
psychology give hearty support to
it. Our days hope of a world freed
from the might of materialistic to-
talitarianism lies within the COM
pass of these pregnant words of
st. Paul, who himself was an out
standing demonstration of the truth
of his own statement. Earlier, a
handful of Galilean common men,
just the ordinary run-of- f-mine plain
persons, had been changed by this
truth into immortal world leaders,
captains of the long procession of
heroes and saints who have made
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Lewis Memorial IA. P.

Holy communion will be cele-
brated at II am. The Rev. John
A. Trader will preach on "The Aris-
tocracy OF he Attentive" A junior
story sermon, 'Keeping the Light"
will be told. There will be q 15-
minute song service at 8 pm. Ser
mon, Christ or Barabbas."
The Spencer J. Soper Mems Bi.
BILE Glass and Brotherhood will
give an entertainment in the 70.
cial hail on Friday.
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motto. They have led me through
out my life to attempt tasks even
larger than my powers. They have
been my substitute for formal edu-
cation. Because of them I have
dared and done much that is be-
You'd my natural capacity. Under
their inspiration I have Jared forth
over most of the earth's surface,
seeking to serve my generation. My
poor words are read every week by
millions of persons; and my highest
hope is that I may have led many
to share my deepest conviction that
in Christ is empowered for life on
highest levels.
Last winter had letter from
an unemployed New York newspa-
perman who had made for himself
the vocation of Finder of Unusual
Articles He undertakes to get
anything that anybody wants in
New York. incidentally, he sends
sheets of their old writings to au-
thors. He offered me copies of so
articles that I had written for the
great magazines and engaged to
find more. At least half of these
articles / had utterly forgotten Yet
the list heartened me, in the con-
sciousness that I had borne a part
in shaping the thought of my gen.
Grafton upon living issues. I was
driven back to contemplation of my
life motto: Il can do all things
through Christ which strengtheneth
me" Otherwise I would not have
dared to write facts and opinions
upon the greatest themes engaging
the worlds attention.
So 1 testify that this truth is a
working principle. The power of
the living Christ really is impaired
to the man who would drive a
straighter furrow or improve a mod
ern machine; and to the woman
who would create better home and
express a nobler personality. In
spiration is not something which
ended with the writing of the New
Testament; it is present force for
everyday living, and it is the secret
of the power of the Christian re-
ligion. To the Great Power we pray,
and upon it we rely. Ambition has
no safer ground than this: Il can
do all things through Christ which
Strengtheneth me-"
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Vernon Place Methodist Church
will hold business meeting We'd
nesday at 8 pm. Colored motion
pictures of Norway and Sweden will
be shown.
Mrs. William S. Abernethy,
teacher of the Burial Glass of CAL
vary Baptist Church, will begin a
series of lessons tomorrow morning
on the Social Teachings of Jesus. -
The subject will be The Gospel
What Is It?"
The Comparative Religion Glass
Of All Souls Church has arranged
the following program for the
month: Tomorrow, DR.. Paul Kauff-
man, psychologist, speaks on Sym
bolism of the Zodiac in the Cos
pels" May IA, chorus Of IS voices
from Howard University will render
spirituals and other selections of
sacred music, as a feature In the
course on THE Bible in Art" May
81, Winslow H. Herschel, National
Bureau of Standards, speaks on
The Origin of Religion" May %,
DR.. Paul A. GoettIeman, Catholic
University School of Architecture,
will give an illustrated lecture on
Religions Influence on Architec-
ture."
The Harrison Bible Glass, Con-
gress Street M. P. Church, will hear
the following speakers during the
month: Tomorrow, Representative
George Joseph Bates of Massachu-
sets; May IA, DR.. Elmer Louis
Kayser, dean of George Washington
University; May 81. Representative
Jed johnson of Oklahoma; May 28
Representative William P. Lambert
son of Kansas. The annual me-
mortal service will be held this
Sunday.
The T. E. L. Bible Glass of West
Washington Baptist installed the
following officers at the annual fel-
lowship banquet last night: Mrs
F. l. Greene, president; Mrs. Estelle
Funk, Mrs. Fannie Meeks, Miss
Mary Henry, vice presidents: Mrs
j. w. Bean, recording secretary;
Mrs. A. Sanders, corresponding Sec
retary, and Mrs. Eva Shaw, teacher
Mrs. B. D. Hill has been elected
president of the Wilbur Glass of
Calvary Baptist Church.
The Philathea Glass of Petworth
Baptist Church will meet Monday
at 8 pm. to install officers, as fol-
lows: Mrs. Henry J. Smith, teacher;
Miss Thelma Fryer, assistant teach
er; Mrs. Mary Moore, president;
Mrs. Sarah Fones, Mrs. Meta
O'Flaherty, vice presidents; Mrs
Ella Louder, corresponding secre.
tary; Mrs. Nora Pearson, recording
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This little schoolman Jew, bitter

This little schoolman Jew, a bitter
bigot, Saul of Tarsus, intense upon
hate-filled theological persecution of
Christians, came under the sway
of a Transforming vision of Jesus
Christ. Without this, he would have
remained one of the nameless quar-
relSome sectarianS of his time. But,
blinded for three days, his eyes. were
opened to the power of Christ. His
heart, brain, spirit and body became
infused with this new ability.
So he Jared forth on a mission
that became mightier than that OF
any of history's world conquerors.
The very fact that score of mil
lions of persons in this Western
World alone will this week be sitting
at PaulS feet is dramatic evi-
dence of his continuing service.
Mastered by Christ, he still masters
men. His letters rank next to the
Gospels as the worlds literature OF
power.
Driven by his new conviction and
confidence, the convert Paul became
Chrlstianity's pioneer adventurer
No journey was too long for him,
no opposition too hostile. no hard
ship too great. Prisons. beatings and
stonings could not deter him. More
than once left for dead after at
tempts to lynch him. he returned to
those very scenes to proclaim the
story Of his Lord. He drudged as
workingman, he argued as a phi
losopher, all to the same end Amidst
shipwrecks and riots and conspira-
cles he could look death calmly in
the eye and proclaim that the power
which sustained him was above all
these.
While this doughty hero. Christ
empowered. was starting things in
Eastern Europe more potent than
anything Hitler has undertaken. he
came to Corinth. Paul delighted in
pivotal places, the more difficult the
better. And Corinth was one such
a rotten spot on the face of the
earth. Even the name had been
converted into VERIFY 'Corinthian-
ize," to express all that was alb
normally evil. For a year and a
half he dwelt there, approaching
first the Jews, and, when spurned,
the gentiles.
No situation is irredeemably bad.
In heartening vision, Paul was
assured by the Lord, Il have much
people in this city" That same
message comes to every servant of
God in the worst of our modern
municipalities. The bad may seem
shamelessly rampant and trium-
phant; but still the voice sounds,
Il have much people in this city"
If God had His legions in Corinth,
why despair of New York or Chi
cago or San Francisco or Montreal?
Long ago the people of old Corinth
were driven to new site by the
plague of malaria. But the archie
ologists have been busy in the old
city, and I have seen the pagan
temples that revolted Paul, and have
walked the very pavements once
pressed by his tireless feet. The
Christian visitor to the signs of
ancient glory in Corinth is likely
to find himself repeating the lines
of the old hymn:
"Oh, where are kings and empires
now,
OF old that went and came?
But Lord, Thy Church is praying
yet,
A thousand years the same"
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Garden Party and Tea
Planned by Aid

The Rector's Aid Society of ST.
Thomas Episcopal Church will hold
garden party and tea at the
rectory, 1920 New Hampshire ave-
nue. NV, next Thursday at pm.
Mrs. Roosevelt will be an honor
guest. A silver offering will be taken
at the door. All members of the
parish have been invited.
The early celebration of the holy
communion on Wednesdays at 8
am. will be discontinued for the
summer not later than the end of
the present month.
The final meeting of the vestry
for the spring will be held in the
rector's Office at 4:3O on May %.
The Rev. J. G. Armstrong Of
Georgetown is expected to conduct
a Quiet Day for the Woman's
Auxiliary on May Is at II o'clock.
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Dr.. Bird to Preach
At Pilgrim Church

DR.. Andrew Reid Bird will preach
tomorrow at II am. in the Church
of the Pilgrims on Some One to
Depend On" and at 7:45 pm. on
1.-THE Glory Of Growth"
On Thursday at 7:45 pm. DR..
Bird will speak on Education"
The Young Peoples Society will
have its vesper service tomorrow at
6:15 pm. A light supper will be
served to which all young people
are invited. The Fellowship Group
will meet at 6:15 pm. and the Chris
tian Pioneers at $50 pm.
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Fifteenth Street.

At the Sunday morning service the
Rev. Leslie L. Bowers will begin his
eighth year of second pastorate
with this church. He will preach as
an anniversary sermon "The Church
Goes Marching On" Evening serv-
ice at 8 o'clock. Song service, Bible
quiz and message by the minister
on "The Way of Faith"
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RehObOth (COlOred) .

"The Wells of Salvation" is the
topic of the Rev. Mr.. Johnson's
morning sermon. At night he will
deliver a message to the Order of
Chaldeans At 3 pm, the pastor
and congregation are invited to wor-
ship with the Mount Horeb Baptist
Church. There will be preaching
on Monday night and baptizing and
preaching on Thursday night.
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Friendship (ColOredj .

"The Power of the Holy Ghost"
will be the subject of the Rev. B. H.
Whiting tomorrow at II am. The
Rev. T. A. Cooke will preach a spe-
cial sermon at 8 pm The Rev. r.
L. Rollins, pastor of Florida Avenue
Baptist Church, will preach May 10
at 8 pm.
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Union,

DR.. G. Ellis Williams, district SUI
perintendent, will preach and ad-
minister the sacrament of the Lord s
supper at II am. S. H. Breidenback
will deliver an illustrated sacred
lecture, From Jerusalem to Jer-
lco," at 8 pm. This service will
be sponsored by the Sunday School.
On Thursday at 8 pm. the w. F.
M. S. will hold a retreat, conducted
by Mrs. Pearle Smith. On May II
the American University Glee Club
will give concert for the benefit of
the organ fund.
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Transformation.

Holy communion is to be cele-
brated at 7:30 and II am. The
corporate holy communion for all
boys of the parish is to be at 7::30
am. Confirmation instructions will
be held at 7:30 pm. The Rev. j..
]. Queally will preach and of1ciate
at all services.
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Methodist Episcopal
McKendree,

At II o'clock holy communion will
be observed. The Rev. Samuel E.
Rose gives q communion meditation
on Daily Renewing" Service will
be held in the Masonic Hall at
Rhode Island and Mills avenues N E.
Informal song service at 8 pm. The
Rev. Mr.. Rose speaks on '"The Am
biguous Beginning"
Young Peoples League will meet
at pm.
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Chevy Chase M. E.

Christianity in Earnest" Is the
theme of the Rev. Edward Gardiner
Latch tomorrow morning. In the
evening, the several groups Of young
people will meet in the homes of
members for tea, followed by q dis
cussion meeting. The seniors will
be guests Of Bill Crews and the
young adults at the home OF Tuppy
Shafer, 66O5 Brookeville road.
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Bethany.

Communion will be observed to-
morrow morning. New members
will be welcomed. The Rev. M. P.
German will give a communion med
itation on Remembering Jesus" In
the evening the ordinance of bap-
tlsm will be administered.
The Stevenson Bible Glass will be
taught by Senator M. M. Logan
OF Kentucky. The subject for dis
cussion is Paul Works a Hard
Field" The junior church, under
the leadership of Mrs. Jaeger, will
meet at II o'clock. The young peo-
pies societies will meet at 6:45.
The eAnoma Glass will hold a bus
mess meeting Tuesday evening. The
mems class has charge Of the sery-
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Services Announced
For Emory Church

At Emory M. E. Church South
tomorrow the Rev. Horace E
Cromer will preach at IL am. or
the subject my Fathers House,
and at pm. on Imitation" The
three league groups will meet at Z
pm.
The Board Of Christian Education
will meet at the parish house Mon
day at pm.
The minister will conduct the
service Thursday evening at 8
O'Clock. 4
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over human civil
Ii z a ton t h e
world around.
And for centur-
les past Paul
himself, so en-
dued. has rank
ed as a nightier
influence than
a ny of the
Caesars.
1t h a p pc n S
that these 10
words took hold
of me as a boy,
a toiler in Phila-
delphia mills and
hapap1n nv life