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Varied Programs
Are Planned for
New Years Eve


Some programs have been ar
ranged to begin early in the evening,
with entertainment and refresh
ments, followed by the religious
services. In others musical programs
have been arranged as part of the
services.
The exercises at the Mount Ver-
non Place Methodist Church will
start at 8 pm. with the presenta-
ton Of movie, followed by refresh-
ments. At II pm. a candlelight
communion service will be conducts
ed by DR.. John w. Rustin.
The Vital Man for World Crisis"
will be the subject of T. James
Lyttle of Huguenot N. Y. at 8 pm.
in the gospel chapel.
Christian Science Services.
Services will be held in all the
Christian Science Churches at 8
pm.
The Rev. Robert E. Sheriff. will
conduct services at 7:45 pm. in the
Heights Presbyterian
Church.
A communion service will be held
by the Rev. c. Stewart Mckenzie in
the Western Presbyterian Church at
II pm.
DR.. Estel E. Perry will have a pro-
gram from 10 pm. to midnight in
the National Memorial Church Of
God.
Beginning at 9 pm. in the Pente-
costal Holiness Church, there win
be film, Beyond Our own"
A social will be held in Calvary
Baptist Church at 9 pm, followed
by an ordination services for Klein
Parkes at 10:45 pm, with DR.. w. S.
Abernethy preaching. Communion
services will close the program.
Dr.. Edward B. Willingham will
conduct the services from $3.50 pm.
to midnight in the National Baptist
Memorial Church.
st. Paul Methodist Program.
In st. Paul Methodist Church, the
program will start at II pm, with
he Rev. William E. First officiating.
DR.. Horace E. Cromer will preside
1t the services beginning at 10 pm.
n the McKendree Methodist
Church.
A fellowship will be held by the
Mems Glass at Trinity Methodist
Church at 7::3O pm, with enter
;ainment and refreshments. fol-
owed by services conducted by DR..
Daniel w. Justice.
The Maryland Avenue Baptist
Church will hold services at 8 pm.
The program at the Petworth
Baptist Church will begin at 9 pm.
and continue until midnight, with
the Rev. James P. Rodgers preach
ing.
DR.. William MILAN will speak on
my Life in 1948" at II pm. in the
Petworth Methodist Church.
DR.. E. Stanley Jones, evangelist
and missionary, will be the speaker
at Calvary Methodist Church at
1890 pm.
Open House to Be Held.
The program at the Congress
Heights Baptist Church will begin
at 8 pm. The Rev. and Mrs. A.
Lincoln Smith will hold open house
on New Years Day from 3 to 6 pm.
at their home, 3633 Horner place
Sc.
DR.. Frederick Brown Harris will
conduct the services at Foundry
Methodist Church beginning at II
pm.
From 8 pm. until midnight there
will be open house in the Peoples
Congregational Church, closing with
4 devotional services, when the Rev.
A. F. Elmes will speak on 'Life-a
Tale That Is Soon Told
At the Lincoln Congregational
the meditation will be given
oy Claude Young at 1890 pm. DR..
Robert w. Brooks, the pastor, then
will speak on "The Fateful Year OF
t948, and How Shall We Face It?"
Beginning at pm. in the West
Washington Baptist Church, the
Rev. Charles B. Austin will hold
The Roberts Memorial Free Meth
odist Church services will be con-
ducted from pm. until midnight
oy the Rev. Mark Shockey.
Social at Eldbrooke Methodist.
In the Eldbrooke Methodist
social wrfl begin at 8 pm.
At II pm, the Rev. F. Paul Harris
will conduct the devotions.
be shown in the Lewis Memorial
Church at 10 pm. The
Rev. Clarence E. Wise will conduct
the program at II pm.
The services in the Takoma Park
Baptist Church will begin at 9 pm.
The Wisconsin Avenue Baptist
Church services will begin at 9 pm.
and will continue until midnight
with the Rev. Clarence Ferguson
Centennial Baptist Services.
The Rev. Wilson Holder will pre-
side at the services in the Centen.
NAL Baptist Church starting at
l0:15 pm.
At the Metropolitan Baptist
Church services will be held from
pm. to midnight.
A party will be held in the Chevy
Chase Baptist Church from 9 pm.
10 midnight. 1t will end with a
service conducted by DR.. Edward
D. Clark, pastor.
Services of the churches of the
North Capitol street-Rhode Island
avenue area will be held in Ecking-
;on Presbyterian Church, with the
Rev. w. Arnam Roberts, pastor VI
he Rhode Island Avenue Meth
'dist Church, bringing the mes
sage.
The cooperating churches are
Bethany Baptist, Atonement Luth-
,ran, Rhode Island Avenue Meth.
odist, Lincoln Road Methodist,
lexington Presbyterian and Me-
norial Evangelical United Brethren.
DR.. Blackwelder to Preach.
DR.. Oscar F. Blackwelder, pastor
If the Lutheran Church of the
Reformation, will preach at a 1o:45
I'm. service. Holy communion will
ollow. A combined choir, directed
~ julie Zabawa, will sing.
The Rev. Carl H. Kopf, pastor Of
FIRST Congregational Church, will