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French Congregation
Chances Meeting Place

The French Congregation OF
Washington, heretofore meeting at
the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church, has transferred its services
back to st. Johns Episcopal Church.
where it was founded in 1927 by the
Rev. DR.. Florian Vurpillot. The
congregation met at st. Johns until
1882, when DR.. Vurpillot yielded the
active pastorate to the Rev. Andre
F. Liotard and the place Of meeting
was changed.
On the outbreak of war in Europe
in September the Rev. Mr.. Liotard
was modified in the French Army,
and he is now on duty with French
military mission to another country.
In his absence the pulpit has been
supplied by DR.. Marcel j. Brun of
Swarthmore College and Andre
Poulain Of France. DR.. Vurpillot
has continued as honorary pastor.
The French congregation holds
unique place among Washington
churches. It is an independent
congregation, conducting its services
in French and drawing its constitu-
ency from no less than eight Prot
estant denominations under sys-
tenn of dual membership. Besides
ministering to persons whose native
language is French, it has con-
siderable following among Ameri-
cans. It is affiliated with the WASH
ington Federation of Churches.
At the service tomorrow at 4:30
pm. DR.. Brun will be the speaker
and the program of Christmas music
will be repeated.
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Takoma lutherans
Plan Campaign
For Members
Writing in the Book
Of Life Is Pastors
Topic Tomorrow

At the Takoma Lutheran Church
the Rev. j. Adrian Pfeif1er, pastor.
will inaugurate an intensive con-
gregational program for next year.
One of the goals that has been set
is that of doubling the congrega-
tional membership, which now num-
bers nearly $50. The pastor will
preach on writing In the Book Of
Life" at II am.
The Luther League will be host
to the Luther Leagues Of the various
American Lutheran Churches Of
Washington and vicinity at New
Year Eve watch night party and
service, beginning at 7:30 o'clock.
Donald Baus will speak on Worthy
Resolutions. Vincent Gingerich,
president, will lead the devotional
program. From $3.50 to II social,
including refreshments, will be held.
From II pm. to 1905 am. candle
light communion service will be held.
The Rev. George j. Grewenow, pas
tor of the Faith Lutheran Church,
Arlington, Va, will of1lciate. The
address will be delivered by the Rev.
Mr.. Pfeiffer.
The Women's Mission Circle will
meet Wednesday evening.
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UniversaIisf Church
To Hear Sermon by
Dr., Van Schaick
Worship Service
To Be Conducted
By Dr.. Brooks

At the Universalist National Me-
mortal Church tomorrow at II am.
DR.. Seth r. Brooks will conduct
the worship service and DR.. John
Van Schaick, jr, pastor emeritus
and editor of the Christian Leader,
will preach on What the Old Year
Has Brought Me-" On December
81, DR.. Van Schaick will have COM
pleted 40 years of service with the
church,
The National Capitol Choir will
sing. There will be no adult forum
and no meeting of the Young Peo-
pies Christian Union. There will
be preparation service for church
school teachers in DR.. Brooks study
at 9:45 am.
The older young people will meet
Tuesday at 8 pm. The committee
is composed of Mr.. and Mrs. War;
ren D. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
L. Himmelreich and Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl Lausch.
The women of Washington will
unite in prayer for peace January
al 1U.oU dIIl Nult CIluIClleS 1IdNC
been selected for these prayer serv-
ices by the Woman's Council of the
Washington Federation of Churches.
Women of the Universalist National
Memorial Church are included in
the Mount Pleasant group meeting
at the Mount Pleasant Congrega-
tional Church. but all women are
free to attend the service in the
church most conveniently located.
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Georgetown Churches
To Hold Joint Service

Churches of Georgetown will
unite in watch night service at
Aldersgate Methodist. The services
will start at 10:30 pm. with . So
cial. followed by the service at HOS.
The Episcopal, Presbyterian. Luth-
eran, Baptist and Methodist
churches are uniting in the service
in which the Rev. Lloyd G. Davis
of Dumbarton Avenue Methodist
Church will preach and other min
listers take part. The organ prelude,
played by Louis A. Potter, jr., will
be the pastoral symphony from "The
Messiah" by Handel. The choir will
sing Seek Him That Maketh the
Seven Stars" by Rogers, and Miss
Mary Long, soprano soloist, will sing
Ring Out Wild Bells" by Gounod.
The Rev. F. L. Morrison will
preach at II am. on I'VE Live To-
gether." There will be no service
at 8 pm.
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of national programs and panaceas.
Communism and Nazism have been
revealed as the shoddy cloaks OF
sordid and ambitious dictators.
Utopian social projects in North
America has been rejected as i'm
practical and futile. No great leader
of men has arisen anywhere in the
world. A tragic impotency has af-
flicted the leaders of the churches.
Truly, the outlook would be dark,
were we confined to the factors
mentioned. Yet our very despera-
ton is driving mankind to a fresh
consideration of the place and power
of Christ in this dire emergency. I
shall quote later some sample ex-
pressions of great men. At the mo-
ment, we are concerned with the
truth that the hearts of millions
and not alone those multitudes who
have been studying the present
course of Sunday School Lessons
upon Jesus and His teachings-are
turning wistfully to the Leader, who,
1000 years ago, came bringing fresh
tidings of the good will of God for
mankind.
To these has come the conviction
that our destiny is either Christ or
chaos.
Rejected by His own neighbors ss
merely carpenter, one of the COM
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Methodist
Church 10 Welcome
The New Year
Rev. Orris 6. Robinson
Will Preach First
Sermon Of q Series

Plans for welcoming the New Year
have been made by all departments
Of Calvary Methodist Church. The
Rev. Orris G. Robinson will begin
q series of sermons on "The Will to
Be Christian" tomorrow morning.
The first topic will be who Is Chris
tian?" The choir, under the direc-
ton Of Louis Potter, will provide
special music.
The evening service will be In sew
eral sections. All are invited. The
program begins with an informal
worship service, conducted by the
young people, at $50 pm. This
service displaces their regular meet
ing. At 9:15 an illustrated lecture
on Life in the Antarctic" will be
given by DR.. Alton A. Lindsey, pro-
fessor Of biology at American Uni
versity and q member Of the Byrd
expedition to the South Pole. This
will be followed by fellowship and
refreshments. At II o'clock the
pastor will conduct the service.
Regular Thursday evening devo-
tionals will be resumed.
On Tuesday DR.. Olive Reddick of
Hood College and formerly Of India
will speak at 1880 in connection
with the women's all-day meeting.
Her subject will be Teaching in
India"
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St. Stephens to Conduct
Day of Peace Prayer

A day of prayer for world peace
service will be held in st. Stephens
Lutheran Church January from
1920 to 1870 am. This is spon-
sored by the Women's Council of
Federated Churches. DR.. Anne See
sholtz, former executive secretary of
the Council of Women for Home
Missions, will be the speaker. DR..
Seesholtz recently returned from
China, and has been active in the
Fellowship of Reconciliation.
The churches participating are the
following: lexington Presbyterian,
Lincoln Road Methodist, McKendrie
Methodist, Lutheran Church of the
Atonement, Brookland Baptist,
Brookland Methodist, Church of Our
Saviour and the Sherwood Presby-
terian.
At the II am. service tomorrow
the Rev. Sam H. Kornmann will
have for his subject Fear Not, I
Have Redeemed Thee" The Luther
League will meet at pm.
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Pew 10 Be Dedicated
Al s.. Johns Church

At the II am. service in st. Johns
Church, Sixteenth and H streets
NV, DR.. Oliver j. Hart will dedi-
cate a pew in memory of Annie de
Camp Hegeman Porter. DR.. Hart
will preach at both the $50 and II
am. services on THE Passing of the
Years" The choir under the di-
rection of Arthur Howes, organist
and choirmaster, will sing.
There will be celebration OF the
holy communion at 8 am.
At 8 pm. there will be watch
service with sermon by the Rev.
Nathaniel c. Acton, curate.
Services next week are: Wednes-
day, 7:30 am, holy communion;
Thursday noon, holy communion;
Friday, 7:3O am, holy communion.
Daily prayer service, 1905 to 1910
pm, throughout the week.
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Metropolitan Memorial
To Honor Deceased

A service of commemoration for
members of Metropolitan Memorial
who died during the last year Will
be conducted at II am. by the Rev.
William Andrew Reese, who Will
preach on where Saints Immortal
Reign" The choir will repeat some
of the Christmas music.
At $50 pm. congregational So
cial will be held in the vestry, pre-
ceding the watch night service.
Original features Of the social will
be a Metropolitan whats My
Name" contest and a Methodist I'm
formation Please"
At II pm. a traditional Methodist
watch night service will be held, with
q portion of ritual used by John
Wesley in 1755. The minister will
preach on "A Covenant With God,
and at midnight the congregation
will await the New Year IN silent
prayer.
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men and women. Only a deep
understanding of the plain folk Of
the world can qualify the days De-
liverer for whom we all await.
Our world has tried everything
else-material progress, pleasure
seeking, luxurious living, lawlessness,
wide assortment Of strange philos-
ophies, and every possible expression
Of selflshness. Now suppose we hon.
estly try Christ, and His Way.
Consider what that would mean
to contemporary affairs. If all of
us, you and I and the whole body
of common people like us, were to
set out to do what Jesus Christ
would have us do, what would be
the consequences2
Law, Leadership, Love.
Well, first of all, we should have
God on His throne. We desperately
need a new sense of God. It was
to reveal God as Father that Jesus
came. All of life would be yielded
to that Law which Jesus interpreted.
We would no longer be self -pleasers,
but God-pleasers. The Divine Will
would be accepted in all depart
ments Of life. All such problems as
crime and class strife. and indi-
vidual discomfort would disappear.
For Gods viii would become mans
way. The old Christian Endeavor
pledge gave a complete e-formula:
Trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ
for strength, I promise Him that
will strive to do whatever He would
like to have me do"
We should have a Leader who
would not fail us. The Gospels give
us not only sovereign God, but also
a human-divine Leader who prom
Evening star., 1939-12-30

ISOLATION will hold a meeting at
Metropolitan Baptist Church, jan
uary IS, as a closing event in the
annual week of prayer. The Rev.
Robert Savage, assistant pastor Of
the church, will be the speaker.
The Susanna Wesley class of
Metropolitan Methodist Church will
be taught tomorrow morning by
Miss Mae Camalier. DR.. Arthur C..
Christie is teacher of the Arthur
c. Christie Mems class.
Miss Thurston's class of the Cow
enant-First Presbyterian Church
will be taught tomorrow by the
teacher, Miss Mabel Nelson Thurs
ton. Arrangements have been made
for Miss Thurston to give a weekly
exposition of the International Sum-
day school lesson every Monday at
1880 pm, beginning January 8, at
the Central Y. M. C. A.
Prof. c. H. ONO will deliver an
address before the Mems Brother
hood Bible class of Hamline Meth
odist Church, tomorrow morning.
The Good Will class of the Wash
ington City Church Of the Brethren,
will be taught tomorrow morning
by Mrs. Warren D. Bowman.
Mrs. Lille Moore will speak to
the Friendship class of the Memorial
United Brethren Church, tomorrow
morning, and Mrs. H. Lee Smith
will teach the Booster class.
The Ladies Bible class Of the First
Reformed Church will hear a mes
sage from the teacher, Mrs. A. M.
Roberts, tomorrow.
Norman ingalls,, ST., will preside
at the session of the Potomac
Chapel Mems Bible class, Potomac
Methodist Church, tomorrow morn
ing. The address will be given by
Norman Jacobs. jr., associate mem
bership secretary of the Y. M. c. A.
George E. Harris, executive sec
retary, Organized Bible Glass As
sociation, will visit the Barbara
Murray class of Calvary Baptist
Church, and the o. H. Ingram class
OF Ingram Memorial Congrega-
tional Church, Sunday morning.
Henry +. Richards will teach the
latter class and Mrs. LaRue w.
Kaiser will preside.
The Mizpah class of Grace Re-
formed Church will be taught to-
morrow morning by Miss Edna M.
Heffner. The Zwingh class will hear
]. Homer Decker.
Mrs. Elizabeth Page will teach the
lesson for the Golden Page class of
Anacostia Methodist Church tomor-
row. and the class president, Mrs.
Daisy Bell, will preside.
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Pastor to Repeat
His First Sermon

DR.. Bernard Braskamp, pastor Of
the Gunton- Temple Memorial Pres
byterian Church, will take for his
text tomorrow at II am. Acts Ike:
Lord, what wilt Thou have me to
do?" This is the same text which
he used for the first sermon he ever
preached, while a student in Hart
ford Theological Seminary, where he
took his first year of theological
training after graduating from the
University of Michigan in 1908. The
pastor will make a special announce
ment as to the amount Of the
Thanksgiving offering.
DR.. Braskamp will lead the meet
ing in the chapel on Thursday at
8 pm
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Francis AsbuT
Church Pageant

DR.. Robin Gould. pastor Of Francis
Asbury Methodist Church, will
preach tomorrow at II am. on En-
tering Into Life" and at 8 pm. on
"The Realism Of Faith" Following
the evening service there will be .
social. From 10 to II O'Clock .
pageant, '"The Methodist Advance"
will be presented, and from II to
midnight the pastor will administer
the Lords Supper. The young peo-
pie and young adults will not hold
their regular Sunday evening meet
ings.
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Epworth Methodist

DR.. Clifton K. Ray will preach
on "A New Year Resolution" at II
am. The usual service at 8 pm.
will be omitted. There will be a
watch night service beginning at
II o'clock. DR.. Ray will preach on
"The Methodist Advance" There
will be no services Of the Wesley
Fellowship or Of the young peoples
department.
A business meeting and social Of
the Hummer Memorial Glass will
be held at 8 pm.
Dr. Ray will conduct the meeting
Thursday evening.
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First Baptist Church
Activities Are Listed

"The Abiding Presence and Power
of the Invisible" will be the SUBJ
ject of the year-end message Of
DR.. Edward Hughes Pruden at tho
First Baptist Church tomorrow
morning. The senior choir will sing
q traditional melody, II Heard the
Bells on Christmas Day."
Student night will be observed in
the evening hour. Three students
will make brief talks. This program
is being given in cooperation with
the department Of student activities
of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Swedish service at $3.50 pm.
At the Thursday evening service
DR.. Pruden will take as his topic
IT Am Resolved"
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teacher Of the class.
Justice Bolitha ]. Laws will speak
to the A. B. Pugh Bible Glass of
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Church tomorrow morning on
Friends and Foes Of the Kingdom. /"
The Rev. DR.. John w. Rustin will
address the adult department at
$50 am. on my Share in the Edu-
cational Task Of My Church"
The Vaughn Glass Of Calvary Bap-
tist Church will be in charge Of the
Junior Classmen" tomorrow morn
ing. Norman Gill will preside. The
Rev. Edward H. Tuller, assistant
pastor, will be the teacher, speaking
on THE Old and the New" Lynn
Elmore will be the soloist, and
Charles Beck and Stephen Beck will
assist in the program. Chester c.
Hutchinson and Richard A. Sauer
are arranging for a fellowship jan
uary 7 at S pm.
The Rev. j. Harold Mumper will
teach the Wiles Bible Glass at Keller
Memorial Lutheran Church tomor-
row morning. The annual class
banquet will be held January II.
The P. w. Je1ries Glass of Fran
els Asbury Methodist Church will
have the Rev. E. E. Overholt as
01Yost foarhAp tov,,orrav, ~.@--;--
w. Harold Shape, director of the
Goodwill Industries, will deliver an
address to the members of the
Comparative Religion class, of All
Souls Church, tomorrow at 10 am.
His theme will be "A Phase Of Prac-
tical Religion" illustrated by mo-
ton pictures, showing the work of
the organization.
The mems class of Calvary Me.
thodist Church will have charge of
the service at the Central Union
Mission on Monday evening. Edwin
Dice, the teacher, will speak at 10
am. tomorrow.
The George H. Winslow Mems
Bible class of Eastern Presbyterian
Church will conduct services at the
Northeast Mission on Monday eve
ming.
8. p. Beery will speak to the Box
Bible class of Emory Methodist
Church, tomorrow morning. The
Executive Committee will meet We'd
nesday evening, with President
Howard M. Stackhouse in charge.
The Organized Bible Glass As
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Christian
Columbia Heixhts.

The Rev. A. P. Wilson will preach
Sunday on the Prophet Micah in
the series on Unused Books of the
Bible" The theme will be 1.-The
Messianic Kingdom" James Waldo
will sing Love Never Faileth," by
Root.
The evening forums will be re-
sumed. The adults will study 1.-THE
Way of the Cross" The Bagby So
ciety, under Ray Mcconnell, will
take 'The Year in Retrospect" and
the High School Society, under the
leadership of Virginia Walters, will
take Goods Gift of q New Year."
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'GentIeness of God
Is Pastors Topic

DR.. Andrew Reid Bird will preach
q New Year sermon tomorrow in
the Church of the Pilgrims on "Gen-
tleness of God," and at 7:45 pm. on
Refreshing Repetitions, or History
Becomes Prophetic"
On Thursday evening DR.. Bird
will speak on "Anticipations" at
7:45 pm.
The Young Peoples Society will
have its vesper service tomorrow at
6:15 pm. A light supper will be
served. All young people are in
vited. The Fellowship Group will
meet at 6:15 pm. and the Christian
Pioneers at $50 p.m.
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Fifteenth Street.

At II o'clock, sermon by the Rev.
Leslie L. Bowers on 'The Everlast-
ing Gospel" Youth c. E. groups
meet at 6:45 pm. Special New Year
eve meditation and candlelight
service at 8 pm. On Thursday from
1890 to 11:30 am. the churches of
Capitol Hill will meet at this church
for prayer for peace. Mrs. E. M.
Reese will preside. At 9 pm. the
official board will meet and elect
officers.
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OCAtS ~ oAOC
Plains SO m e
years ago and
gave tn e m q
Christmas party.
This idea h q s
grown each year,
and last week so
members Of the
SIS ave q
party for all the
white men and
" o m e n there,
which included
refres s h ments
and q gift for
each person. Ar
thur a Rishon
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mon crowd OF
work i n 6 m e n,
Jesus is today
seen in new
light, because of
this very hum
bleness of His
life. The social
consciousness of
today wants as
leader no pride
ful aritstocrat,
no vaunting dr.
tator, no strut
ting ilnperialist.
but one close to
the hearts and
1iI1oc AZ arIinax1r
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Tokomu Park Baptist

The Rev. William E. La Rue will
speak at the morning service on
"The Year Is Dying" Student night
will be observed at the evening serv-
ice when three college students will
speak on "The Message of the
Master for Such q Time as This"
The topics are: "As Personal Exper-
ience," For Planning My Life" and
FOR Changing Q World"
The Ladies' Aid Society viii meet
Wednesday, serving luncheon at I
pm. Mrs. Homer H. Hare, president.
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Rev. R. Paul Scheorrer
Announces Theme

The. Rev. r. Paul Schearrer will
preach at II am. tomorrow In the
Takoma Park Presbyterian Church
on TRY Again, Old Heart" At 8
pm. in the church hall the Christ
mas drama, Dorothy Allan's "The
Midnight Clear" will be repeated.
The Woman's Society will enter
tain at tea the young people tomor-
row from to 7 pm.
The groups of the Woman's So
ciety will meet in the homes of
members on Wednesday at 1880
pm.
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ised to be with His friends all the
days" In His life and words is q
solution for every daily problem,
that we may follow in His steps.
Our brains should be adequate to
place Him in every one Of ufe's
situations.
That intense, incarnate love is the
third quality which Jesus offers to
our bewildered era. The hate-law,
the fear-law, the greed-law have
all failed in bringing peace to man
kind. Christ came to teach us, by
His words, His life, His death, how
essential Is the law Of love.
In one Of her sonnets, Elizabeth
Barrett Browning cried:
20 heart Of mine. art thou great
enough for love?"
Only the love way, wherein men
would find a new standard, a new
spirit and new strength, can be
the way out for our world.
Words OF the Wise.
From all around the horizon come
voices which stress these topmost
truths which the Sunday school
lessons are now studying, and which
every one of us needs to learn In
1910.
Recently I heard the British Am
bassador say, in an address which
stressed at length the point which
he made in q sentence:
THE root disease of modern So
ciety is its dethornement of religion
as the governing motive in society.
"It is still the true function of
the church." he continued, Ito turn
the citizens into men and women
of character and principle, who are
unselfishly willing to put the pub
lie interest before their own private
interests.
And unless there are enough such
people in any democratic COM
munity, people who are capable Of
resisting appeals to envy, and
hatred, internal and external, and
of distinguishing between wisdom
and folly, right and wrong, democ-
racy itself. as we have seen many
times since 1920, collapses into an
archy or surrenders to some form
of totaitarian violence"
One of the great liberal" preach
ers of an earlier day, DR.. William
Ellery Charming, declared:
War will never yield but to the
principles of universal justice and
love, and these have no sure root
but in the religion of Jesus Christ" !"
Similar words from statesmen, au-
thors, philosophers and men of az
fairs could be multiplied to fill COL
ums and pages of newspaper space.
The notable fact is that multitudes
who are not ordinarily considered
religious persons are today blending
their voices with this chorus Of ap-
peal for return to Christianity.
Let us hope that in the New Year
of 1940 opening before us, this
worldwide mood of spiritual quest
ing will find new and concerted ex-
preston and response.
More than a generation ago Will
liam Stead stirred the literary world
with his book. If Christ Came to
Chicago" This was followed by
many articles and sermons and lec-
lures, attuned to the same note, IF
Christ Came to -" This old
challenge arises anew in a world
which has been bankrupt in its
trusted human leadership"
The Sunday school lesson for
December 81 is Friends and Foes
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morrow morning BY the teacher,
Mrs. william s. Abernethy, on
Christmas In the New Year" The
Burial Ensemble will sing DAY by
Day" and Mrs. w. w. Everett, jr.,
will sing Ring Out, Wild Bells"
The Lydia Class of Ninth Street
Christian Church adopted is resi-
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PIon Bridge and Tea

The Rector's Aid Society Of st.
Thomas Episcopal Church is plan
ming to hold a bridge party and tea
IN the ballroom Of the Shoreham
Hotel on January 16 at 2 O'Clock.
Tickets may be secured at the
Church ONCE.
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Colored Rantist Minister'S.

DR.. David N. Licorish Of New York
City, director of publicity of the
National Negro Achievement Com
mission, will address the Baptist
Ministers Conference of Washing
ton and vicinity Monday at 1890 at
the Vermont Avenue Baptist
Church.
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ALesson for the Week
A New World for the New Year
The Oldest, Newest Way Out
BY WILLIAM r. ELLIS.

to the end ragedy-ned year.
uncertainty destiny
period disusionmnt disap
breakdown
has brought wide wahatng world collapse