Evening star., 1942-03-04
Midweek Lenten
Services Planned
InManyChurches
Out Of Town Ministers
To Be Among Speakers
Tonight and Tomorrow

here to participate in the cere'
monies.
The Rev. DR.. William Rober
Moody, rector of Christ Church
Baltimore, will conduct the evening
service today at the Church of st
Stephen and the Incarnation. HI
formerly was rector of st. Marks
Church here.
Services at the Church of the
Epiphany will again be conducted
by the Very Rev. Chester B. Emer-
SOIL, dean of Trinity Cathedral
Cleveland.
DR.. Albert Hughes of Toronto
Canada, will again speak at the
Metropolitan Baptist Church al
7:30 pm.
The Rev. DR.. Edgar Sexsmith
pastor of the Rhode Island Avenue
Methodist Church. was to speak at
the Penn Theater at noon.
SPIN. at St. Matthews Lutheran.
The Rev. Theodore P. Fricke, pas
tor of st. Matthews Lutheran, will
continue services at 8 pm.
Guest speaker at st. Paul's
Church, Rock Creek parish, at 8
pm. will be the Rev. Howard Syl-
vester Arnold. rector of ST. Andrews
parish. Holy Comforter Church.
DR.. Clarence S. Wise, pastor of the
Wesley Methodist Church. will con-
duct services at Ryland Methodist
Church.
Futile Human Plans" will be the
topic of the Rev. ]. Adrian Pfeiffer,
pastor of the Takoma Lutheran
Church. at 8 pm.
The Rev. George K. Bowers, pas
tor of st. Stephens Lutheran, will
hold evening services.
The third midweek service at the
Grace Reformed Church will be
conducted at pm. by the Rev.
Samuel r. Troxel. His subject will
be The Challenge of the Crisis to
the Church as Seen BY Former
Home Missionary Pastor" :"
At Grace Lutheran Church DR..
Gerhard E. Lenski, pastor, will
preach the second in his sermon
series at 8 pm.
The Rev. Ralph w. Lowe, asso-
ciate pastor of the Lutheran Church
of the Reformation. will lecture at
7:45 pm. on The Worth of a Man"
DR.. Emerson breaches.
Walk Humbly With God were
the words of the Very Rev. DR..
Chester B. Emerson, dean of Trinity
Cathedral, Cleveland, yesterday in
his second sermon of a weekly series
at the Church of the Epiphany.
I'VE should ask God what we can
do for Him and not always think
of what He can do for us" Dean
Emerson said.
Man is not all powerful, as he
would like to think, but very small
and humble-and that is what he
must realize to live the way of
God" he said
DR.. A. L. Wills. rector of the
Church of Our Savior, spoke at
noon yesterday at the Penn Theater
on Seeking God" DR.. Wills made
three points: First, that sin never
estranges God from man, that God
hates sin but not man; seconds that
God is no respecter Of persons,
loving both the good and bad, and
third, that loving God draws men
to Him
Sees Spiritual Blackout."
Those interested in the problem
Of creating a better world. he said,
should study the teachings of Christ
to be found in the Sermon on the
Mount and the parallels.
DR.. Hughes, who spoke at 7:30
pm. at the Metropolitan Baptist
Church. pictured the spiritual
blackout" when man refuses to see
the revelations that God has for
h''n. We are where we are today.
he declared, because We have not
followed the teachings of Christ.
Lenten services tomorrow include:
The Rev. Dr.. Charles B. Foelsch,
pastor of Luther Place Memorial
Church. will preach on Dark Geth-
semane" at pm
The lenten meditation on Christ
Foreshadowed in Old Testament
Offerings will be given at pm.
by the Rev Samuel E. Rose, minis
ter of Waugh Methodist.
DR.. Hughes will continue his mes
sage at the Metropolitan Baptist
Church at 7:30 pm.
Services in Chevy Chase.
Chevy Chase services will continue
at pm. in Chevy Chase Methodist
Church. DR.. Walter P. Binns, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church,
Roanoke, Va, will speak.
The union community service will
be held at 8 pm. at st. Pauls Meth
odist Church. The Rev. Newton NJ
Simmonds, pastor of Highlands
Baptist Church, will speak on Our
Abiding Hope in God"
The Rev. Eldridge Taylor, pastor
of the Keene Memorial Methodist
Church, Baltimore, will conduct the
evening service at the Douglas Me-
mortal Church.
Guest speaker at the Foundry
Methodist Church will be the Rev.
DR.. Fred S. Buschmeyer, minister
OF the Mount Pleasant Congrega-
tional Church, at pm.
The First Baptist Church will
celebrate its 140th anniversary with
a dinner at the church. Represent
ative Satterheld, Democrat, of Vir-
ginla, will speak.
Special emphasis is being placed
on the midweek prayer service at
the Epworth Methodist Church,
when DR.. Harry Evaul, pastor, will
speak on Jesus Faces Jerusalem
Lenten Institute Supper.
The third session of the Lenten
Institute will be held beginning with
g. supper at 6:l5 pm. DR.. Warren
D. Bowman will discuss Guiding
the Growth of Children; the pas
tor, DR.. S. Paul Schilling. will lead
another group discussing What
Shall We Believe-About Christi"
and Miss Ruth Edwards will discuss
in youth group Choosing What
to Read" The guest speaker at s
pm will be DR.. Paul F. Douglass,
president of American University.
The Rev. Philip C. Edwards, pas
tor of Govaps MathodiSt Church