HARRISBURG CHURCH ACTIVITIES BRIGHTEN WITH END OF SUMMER VACATION SEASON*
Something Doing in Religious Circles
Who's who in religious circles is
often asked? The cnurch and other
religious organizations are proud of
the thousands of men and women
whom they can call their own and
upon them without examining
lives with a microscope from
Ui \ y >i to AVUl'lam T. Ellis, of Swarth
more, is u noted author and journal
ist and is well acquainted to many
readers of this and other great news
papers of the country, if you do not
know him read the comments on the
Sunday School lesson in y es * e ;
Telegraph, and become acquainted
with him through his flowing
Mr. Ellis has twice circumnavigated
the globe, visiting every no°h and
corner of the world. Dr. Ellis de
clares that the world needs a new
church a universal church tne
church of Christ. The church, he
savs. hasn't spoken in compelling
tones as vet. The world doesn t un
derstand the necessity of the world
with the church. You make no
mistake with your life when >ou put
you life anil its best into the cnuicii.
Tho appeal for thirty-nve millions
which brought over fifty millions for
the war work of the 1. M. v.. a-i
was a thrilling episode in the re
ligious and national life
United States says the Record of
Christian Work. Tho details °* the
storv ate now being published. New
England was asked for $3,000,000 and
pleuged $6,300,000. There were over
50 000 subscriptions made in Chicago,
mostly from working people. Tour
thousand miners in Butte. Montana,
subscribed, and 500 in Billings. May
or Addington of Lake T orest. Ill
reported 1700 subscriptions for the
town of 3SOO. Every household was |
represented on the list. The total ;.
was over SISO,OOO. Dr. Mott s birth-,
place, Postville. la., gave more than |
$3 per capita. Montclair. N. J.. his
present home, pledged $257,000. Every
one of 138 employes in a Racine fac
torv is in a payday monthly pledge.
Fred T. Ley, general contractor.
Camp De veil's, Ayer, Mass., gave his
entire commission of SIO,OOO as a
contribution to the fund. A watch. |
an heirloom from Chief Justice John]
Marshall, of Virginia, was given by
a Virginia descendant to be auction- |
ed off. When the appeal was made in ,
a Washington theater, President V\ 11- ;
son passed the hat. It come back
filled.
RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES
The Rev. J. D. Taylor, arrived in
America from South America, brought j
with him for publication the manu
script of a revised Zulu Bible on I
which he has been working with
helpers for the past ten years. j
Dr. Charles R. Erdman. of Prince- i
ton Theological Seminary, a Premil- j
lennialist, d. i lores: 'Only two things |
are essential to the preinillennial ,
theory: First, that there will be a
personal return of Christ: and sec
ond. that an age of peace and right
eousness will follow this return.
A temporary* union of churches in
eighteen Connecticut toyvns has been
accomplished within a year owing to
t lie Connecticut Federation of
Churches. Denominations in this
movement yvere Baptist. Methodist.
Congregational. Free Baptist, Lu
theran. and Independent Methodist.
Thirty-seven organizations now are
c ombining services in eighteen
buildings. In one town Baptists and j
Free Baptists united under a Metho
dist minister. Each church organiza- j
tion has retained its oyvn officers and ;
adheres to its oyvn denominational be- ]
litfs.
James Lewis Howe, Jr.. the son of
the Southern Presbyterian Professor
James Lewis Howe, Ph. D.. of Wash
ington and Lee University. Lexing
tJfe Va.. has been elected assistant
vW.ti'ssor of chemistry in that insti
tution.
At the unification meeting of the
United Evangelical churches of Cen
tral Pennsylvania held at Lancaster)
recently the following officers yvere
elected: President, the Rev. A. E. j
Hagen. Harrisburg; vice-president,
the Rev. I. E. Spangler, Carlisle: sec-|
retarv. the Rev. H. W. Buck. Enola;
treasurer, the Rev. M. L. Burgner, i
Millersburg.
Tyvo denominations, the Evangeli
cal Association and the United Evan- I
gelical Church are again exercising)
the tyvo-in-one faith, after twenty
four years of separation.
The Rev. Jacob Albright was the
founder of the Evangelical Associ
ation in the year 1800. By different!
interpretations of the discipline re-
WILL BRING A
TIMELYMESSAGE
sr. Mudge to Bring Word
From Leaders in Wash
ington About War
The Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour
Mudge, pastor of the Pine Street
Presbyterian Church, will speak at
the evening service on Sunday on
his experiences in Washington on
Thursday, when he. in company with
a selected group of Presbyterian,
clergymen, had personal interviews!
with reference to what the church
could do to help the Government in
the successful prosecution of the
yvar, with President Wilson at the
White House, with Secretary Daniels
at the Navy Department, with First
Assistant Secretary of War Koppel
at the War Department, with Her
bert Hoover at the Food Conserva
tion headquarters, with the heads of
the Fuel Conservation department
and the leaders at the national Red
Cross headquarters.
These Interviews were arranged
by the National Service Commission
of the Presbyterian Church, which is
planning at the request of President
Wilson to hold more than 500 meet
ings in prominent centers through
out our country. The clergymen
present at these most interesting
conferences will later be the speak
ers at these meetings.
So much of immediate and vital
importance yvas considered at these
conferences that Dr. Mudge will take
his first opportunity to convey it to
such as may be interested. He will,
therefore, "speak on "The Latest
Word From Our Leaders in Wash
ington" in the Pine Street Presbyte
rian Church next Sunday evening at ,
7.30.
Bible Conference to
Open at First Baptist
The forty-first monthly interde
nominational Bible conference opens
its sessions in the First Baptist
Church, Second and Pine streets, to
morrow afternoon, and will continue
until Tuesday.
Tlie Rev. William L. Fettingbill.
dean of the Philadelphia School of
the Bible, will be the teacher. His
subjects are as follows: Sunday af
ternoon. 3.30. "A Norman Christian,
According to God's Ideal;" Sunday
evening, "The Philanthropy of God:"
Monday afternoon. 3.30, "The Truth
About Sanctification. and Its Practi
cal Importance;" Monday evening,
J. 45, "The Family of God In the
Earth;" Tuesday afternoon. 3.30,
"What the Bible Teaches About Fall
ing From Grace;" Tuesday evening,
7.45, "Our Lord's Impending Return.'
TO OBSERVE COMMUNION
The sacrament of the Lord's Sup
per will be administered at West
Fairview M. E. Church at the morn
ing service. The Rev. Mr. Allen, of
Enola M. E. Church, will officiate
and will preach. .
SATURDAY EVENING, TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 21, 1918. '
' Jm
WILLIAM T. ELLIS
suiting in the calling of two general
conferences, on the tirst day of Oc
toher, 1891. the Majority, in In
dianapolis, lnd., under the leader
ship of Bishop J. J. Eslier, and the
inority, in Philadelphia, under the
I leadership of Bishop Rudolph Cubs.
The separation caused no small stir
among ministers and la.vmen by the
different factions. A final settle
ment concerning the disposition of
the property was made in court,
after which the factions began new
church work and were commonly
I known as Esherites" and "Cubsites '
I for a number of years.
The 'Esherites" continued with the
I old church rules and the "Dubsites"
| began a new denomination, known
I as the United Evangelical Church.
I The new work created considerable
interest and many new churches
i were erected throughout the United
i States. Before the- settlement in
court it was amusing to see two min
| isters or two laymen trying to get
; the keys of the church property
j and a number of places two min
| isters tried to occupy the pulpit at
| the same time. After court there
! was a hustling for new church
quarters and in many places, and
' during the same weeks, two church
services, two campmeetings, two an
nual conferences, two general con
ferences. two revival meetings, two
picnics, two church socials, etc., were
held. In many cases, the families
were divided as far as church re
lations were concerned, and a num
ber of followers joined other de
nominations.
After the two churches worship
ped independently for many years
a call has been made in an effort
to unite. A call to prayer address
i ed to the minister and membership
! of the Evangelical Association and
I the United Evangelical Church,
j which in part follows: "Grace to you
and peace be multiplied iti the knowl
edge of God and of Jesus our Lord."
: The negotiations, now pending, for
i organic union of the two churches
i are of so vital and farreaehing an
importance as to constitute a call
of all Evangelicals to enter into
a fellowship of intercession. Bishops
S. C. Breyfogel and U. F. Swengel,
says: "We appeal, therefore, to the
ministry and membership of Evange
lical churches, in the secret place of
prayer, at family altar, in prayer
meeting. and in all public services,
to call upon the God of our fathers
for divine direction in this hour of i
our history, so full of significance. J
For this purpose we have agreed to
set apart the week beginning Sep
tember 23 and ending with Sunday.
September 29. 1918. as a special sea
son of supplication and intercession
of both churches, and suggest that
I public announcements of this be
made in all congregations."
The Evangelical Association has
its headquarters and publishing
house in Cleveland, 0., and the
United Evangelical Church publish
ing house is located in this city.
The large church edifice in North
street, now a lodge hall, was at
[ one time the property of the Evan
gelical Association.
TO DISCUSS THE
SUNNY SOUTH
Dr. Hawcs to Tell of Trip to
Camp Hancock at Mar
ket Square
"Scenes in 'The New South'" is
the subject Dr. G. E. Hawes has
chosen for his morning's discourse at
Market Square Presbyterian Church
| to-morrow. It was known by the
public at the time that Dr. Ilawes
started on his vacation by going to
| Augusta, Ga., to present to the First
Presbyterian Church of that place a
flag. This flag was in recognition of
the many acts of kindness shown to
the men of the old National Guard
of Pennsylvania by the citizens and
churches of Augusta. By the time
Dr. Hawes reached Augusta the men
from Pennsylvania were in battle on I
the Marne. The interest of the Au
gusta people in these boys was most
intense. Dr. Hawes will tell his peo
ple to-morrow about the presenta
tion of the flag and about Augusta
and Camp Hancock, also about other
camps he visited, and other services
he was permitted to hold. "I am
putting this service in the morning,"
he said, "because the people who
gave the money to send this flag are
more likely to be at church in the
morning. I want them to know the
good their gifts did." Corporal
Humphrey Roberts, of the aviation
camp at Middletown, will sing—and
the hymns which will be used are
the ones the soldiers sing.
Dr. Bagnell to Give a
Patriotic Talk at Grace
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church
was the scene of the most stirring
patriotic meeting last Sunday even
ing that was ever held in this his
toric church. Very nearly 2,000 peo
ple filled every inch of seating and
standing space to listen to Dr. Rob
ert Bagnell give a patriotic address
on "The Progress of the Summer."
Time and again this enthusiastic au
dience broke into applause when the
popular Grace Church pastor relat
ed thrilling incidents about our boys
"Over There," and not only was the
spacious auditorium packed to tho
limit, but between 800 and 1.000
people were unable to gain admit
tance.
This Sunday evening at 7.30
o'clock Dr. Bagnell will again give a
patriotic address on "American
Leadership in the World War."
The chorus choir, uuder the lead
ership of Prof. John W. Phillips, will
sing some especially attractive pa
triotic choruses.
In the morning at 10.30 o'clock
Dr. Bagnell will preach on "The
i Price of Liberty.'
SEVENTH VETS
ANNIVERSARY
Grand Army of Stevens Me
morial Methodist Church to
Celebrate Birthday
The grand army of the Rev. B. F.
Stevens Memorial Methodist Epis
copal Church will hold its seventh
anniversary to-day. While this or
ganization is composed of none but
members and friends of the church
who have reached the age of sev
enty years, it is constantly increas
ing its membership until there are
to-day fifty-six members on the roll
with an additional honorary mem
bership of nine members. Mrs. Eliza
beth Snell is the oldest member and
if she lives until January 10 next,
she will celebrate her 92d birthday
anniversary. Mrs. Harriet Brady is
but eight months younger and there
are seventeen members who are past
the age of four score. Three deaths
occurred among the membership in
the past year, namely, Mrs. Mary
Kerns, aged 76; Charles M. Wash
burn, aged 75, and E. B. Hartman,
aged 75.
To-day's celebration will consist of
an automobile ride followed by a
chicken and waffle dinner served by
some of the young ladies of the
church and an afternoon social meet
ing. A photograph of the army will
be taken and the guests later re
turn to their homes by auto.
At the reunion last year there were
twenty-seven members present whose
combined ages were 2,039 years
or an average age of 78 years.
While the Stevens Memorial
Grand Army is the oldest in exist
ence in this section which has got
ten to be quite a popular idea among
the various churches of Methodism
and similar organizations are now in
existence at Ridge Avenue. Camp
Hill, Duncannon. Newport, Waynes
boro. Altoona and Weatherly. ,
The members comprising the
Stevens Memorial Grand Army are as
follows:
Elizabeth Snell. Main and Cone
stoga streets, Steelton; Harriet
Brady, 15 Linden street, Levi Potter,
1364 Vernon street, Mary J. Weitzel,
317 Crescent street, Margaret Sny
der, 1422 Derry street, Martha J.
Compton, 428 South Thirteenth
street, Eliza J. Kent, 122 Evergreen
street, William M. Leedy, Duncan
non; Elizabeth Coleman, 1414 Mar
ket street, Abbie Smith, 1608 Derry
street, Margaret S. Cooper, 1533 Re
gina street, David O. Ritter, 411
South Thirteenth street, Anna Hoff
man, 704 North Front street, Steel
ton; William H. Carpenter, 321
Crescent street, Matilda Frantz, 1618
Park street; Jacob Houser, Camp
Hill; Rachel Bceler, 317 Crescent
street, Harriet E. Geiger, 347 South
Thirteenth street, William R. Swartz,
1156 Mulberry street, John Slieesley,
47 North Eighteenth street, Mrs. Ja
cob Houser, Camp Hill; Joseph Ur
ban, 43 4 South Sixteenth street.
Elizabeth Brubaker, 1941_ Market
street, George Chandler, New Cum
berland; Letitia Hartman, 437 South
Thirteenth street, Mary Kerns, 1244
Bailev street. Fin. I. Thomas, 5 Riv-
Ington Terrace. Emma J. Carpenter,
321 Crescent street. Nadel D. Gully,
25 South Thirteenth street, Mary A.
Hoffman, 1001 -.orth Second street,
Barbara Urban, 434 South Sixteenth
street, Charles M. Washburn, 1819
Park street. E. B. Hartman, 437
South Thirteenth street, Mrs. C. E.
Denmark, 30 Evergreen street, Isa
belle Warner, 1185 Bailey street,
Susan Bumbaugh, 2 8 North Four
teenth street, Anna M. Moran, 1012
North Nineteenth street, Jesse M.
Yailes and wife, 29 South Fifteenth
street, George N. Shetter, 1504
State street, Mary A. Hendershot, 337
South Fifteenth street, Maria Bacon,
1506 Green street, Lydia Smucker,
1311 Vernon street, Catherine Bell
man, 20 Evergreen street, Jacob P.
Gorgas. 1313 Vernon Street, Sarah
M. Black, 139 North Thirteenth
street, Etta L. Pearce, 14 29 Berry
hill street, Sarah V. Hill, 1308 Mar
ket street, Hannah Crump, 322 South
Sixteenth street, Sarah Dougherty, 21
Linden street, Mary Gorgas, 1313
Vernon street, Maria L. Wilson, 437
South Sixteenth street, A. Wilson
Black. 139 North Thirteenth street,
Mary J. Lyter, 232 North Fourteenth
street, J. Griffith Kennedy and wife,
412 South Sixteenth street, Anna M.
Losch, 1433 Swatara street, John A.
Affleck, 3 2 North Sixteenth street,
Thomas B. Wilson, 437 South Six-'
teenth street, Mary M. Horting, 13
South Fifteenth street, Reuben H.
Oilman, 308 Crescent street, Rebecca
Oilman, 308 Crescent street.
Old Folk's Day will be observed
in the church on Sunday at the
morning service and the Grand Army
will attend in a body. The sermon
will be delivered by the Rev. Dr.
George E. Reed and there will be an
appropriate program. Owing to the
fact that Sunday is a gasless day,
the Grand Army veterans have re
quested that no automobiles be fur
nished to convey them to the service,
they rather feeling proud of the fact
that they can make this sacrflice In
their country's behalf.
Big Program Scheduled
For Zion Lutheran
The pastor, the. Rev. Dr. S. Win
field Herman, will preach at both
services in Zion Lutheran Church
to-morrow. The morning theme will
be "The Enemies of God." The Sun
day school will be at 9.45 dur
ing this month. The afternoon ses
sions will begin October 6. Rally
Day will be observed October 13. On
Monday evening the men's class will
hold the annual meeting for the elec
tion of officers and social purposes.
The Lutheran Red Cross unit works
at Bethlehem Church from 10 in the
morning until 10 at night each Tues
day. Tho teachers' training class
meets on Wednesday evening at 7.
The mid-week service will be held
on Wednesday evening at 8. The
National Patriotic Rally, toward
which the men have been looking,
will be held on Friday evening. Tho
men of the church have extended a
general invitation to their men
friends to be present to enjoy the
program, which will be patriotic in
character.
Dr. Grosman. of the Bureau of
Public Speakers in Washington, has
been secured to deliver the principal
address through the personal efforts
of W. F. Witman, chairman of the
rally committee, and Vance Mc-
Cormick.
The Young People's Missionary
Society will meet at the residence of
Mrs. A. C. Logan, 210 Reily street,
on Saturday evening. Next Sunday
the congregation will celebrate Har
vest Homo Day. The decorations
will be gathered from field and gar
den.
REV. POTTIEGKR TO PREACH
At Penbrook United Evangelical
Church the pastor, the Rev. W. E.
Pottieger, will sneak on "The Out
living of the Inliving Christ" in the
morning and in the evening "The
Vision Beaut'ful," and the Lord's
Supper.
"Y" Worker to Talk at
Mechanicsburg Church
What promises to be a big day for
the Mechanicsburg Church of God is
scheduled for to-morrow, when the
annual Rally Day exercises will bo
held. One special feature on the
program will be a talk by the Rev.
B. L. C. Baer, a Y. M. C. A. worker
at Camp Dix. The Rev. Mr. Baer
was formerly pastor at the Mechan
icsburg church and recently resign
ed his position to enter the Y. M.
C. A. service. While ho was pastor
there he taught the Bible class,
which h'as an cnrollmenut of more
than 100 members. The Rev. J.
Russell Bucher, of Camp Ilill, who
was elected this week to succeed the
Rev. Mr. Baer, will also talk.
CELEBRATION OF IiOUD'S
SUPPER AT MISSION
The Rev. W. F. Heil, presiding:
elder, will preach and conduct tho
celebration of the Lord's Supper at
the llarrisburg Mission of the United
Evangelical Church, located in the
Steel school building, to-ruorrow at
2.15 o'clock.
CHANGE S. S. SCHEDULE
The hour for Sunday school at
Riverside M. E. Church, Third and
Lewis streets, has been changed to
conform with the regular winter
schedule, to he held now at 2 p. m.;
Epworth League at 6.30. At 7.30
this Sunday the Rev. William Moses,
of St. Paul's M. E. Church, will
preach and officiate at the Holy
Communion service.
METHODIST
Camp Hill.—The Rev. Joseph L.
Brenneman, pastor, will preach at 11,
"Misconceptions of Christ." 7.30,
"Stewardship and the World Emerg
ency." Sunday school at 9.45.
Camp Curtin Memorial —The Rev.
John H. Mortimer, pastor. 10.30,
"An Heroic Decision." 7.30, tine
Better Than the Law." 2, Sunday
school.
Marysville—The Rev. S. P. Bid
lack, pastor, will preach at 10.30
"Beginnings of the Gospel," and at
7.30, the Rev. Samuel Fox, D. D., of
Dtincannon, will preach.
Riverside—The Rev. Charles F.
Berkheimer, pastor. The Rev. Wil
liam Moses, of St. Paul's M. E.
Church, will preach and administer
communion at 7.30. Sunday school
at 2 p. m.
West Fairview—The Rev. Charles
F. Berkheimer, pastor. The Rev Mr.
Allen, of Enola. will preach and con
duct communion service at 10.30.
Sunday school at 9.30.
Coxestown —The Rev. John G.
Davis, pastor, will preach at 10.30,
"The Christian Refuge." 7.30 "Bene
fits Which Christ Bestows." Sunday
school at 9.30.
Baughman Memorial, New Cum
berland—The Rev. V. T. Rue, pastor.
10.30 and 7.30. Morning subject,
"The Two Baptisms." Evening. "Non-
Churchgoing -Critics or Why Men
Do Not Go to Church." Sunday
school at 9.15.
Ridge Avenue Morning, "The
Source of Power." Evening. "The
Marks of Christian Association,"
both sermons by the pastor, the Rev.
H. R. Bender. Sunday school at 10.
Fifth Street—The Rev. Edwin A.
Pvles, pastor. "Crying From the
Depths," 10.30. "Are We Forgetting
God?" 7.30.
LUTHERAN
Zion—The Rev. S. W. Herman,
pastor, will preach at 11, "The As
surance of Victory." 7.30, "The
Enemies of God." Sunday school at
9.45 o'clock.
Trinity—The Rev. R. L. Misen
helder. pastor, will preach at 11,
"The True Guests." 7.30, "The Prize
of the High Calling." Sunday school
at 9.30.
Christ —The Rev. Thomas Reisch,
pastor, will preach at 11, "Let Us Go
Hence." and at 7.30, "Even as I
Am." Sunday school at 9.45.
Bethlehem—The Rev. J. Bradley
Markward, pastor. 9.45, Sunday
school. 11, "The Imperious Call of
Jesus." 7.30, "Why We Do Not Want
Peace Now."
Augsburg—The Rev. A. M. Stam
ets, pastor, will preach at 10.30,
"Christ's Words to the Impatient
Man as Meant For Us." 7.30 patriot
ic service. Sunday school at 2.
St. Matthew's —The Rev. E. E.
Snyder, pastor, will preach at 11,
"The Devil and the Church." 7.30,
"The Promise." Sunday school at
9.4 5.
Trinity. Camp Hill —The Rev. E.
D. Weigle, pastor, will preach at
10.30, "A United Church." 7.30
"Helping Others,.' Sunday school at
9.30.
Memorial —The Rev. L. C. Manges,
pastor, will preach at 11. "Convinced
But Not Convicted." 7.45, "An Im
portant Reminder." Sunday school
at 10. Men's prayer meeting at 9.15.
EVANGELICAL
Park Street —The Rev. A. E.
Hangen. Sunday school, 9.30; Holy
Communion ,10.45; sermon by the
presiding elder and Holy Communion
continued at 7.30.
Grace. Enola —The Rev. H. M.
Buck. 9.30, Sunday school; 10.45,
"Helpful Lessons From a Study of
Christ's Sufferings:" 7.30, preaching
by the Rev. H. T. Searle. of Le
moyne, followed by the Lord's Sup
per. . _
Harris Street —The Rev. A. G.
Flexer. Sunday school, 9.30; com
munion service, 10.30, the Rev. W.
F. Heil will preach; 7.30, "The
Cross." _ _
Westminster—The Rev. E. E. Cur
tis. Sunday school, p t - 45 l 11 l
"Christ's Supreme Task;" 7.30, "A
Coveted Touch."
Capital Street —The Rev. B. M.
Ward. 10.45, "Clinging to God by
Prayer;" 7.30, "Divine Discipline and
Its Blessings;" Sunday school, 12.15.
PRESBYTERIAN
Paxton —The Rev. Harry B. King
will preach at 11 and 7.30; Sunday
school. 10,
Covenant —The Rev. Harvey Klaer.
11, "Preaching Christ in Wartime;"
730 "The Ancient Firm of Sanbal
lat Tobiah & Co." Sunday school, 2.
Pine Street Presbyterian Tho
Lewis S. Mudge. 10.30, "The Face
of Jesus Christ;" 7.30, "The Latest
Word From Washington."
Bethany —The Rev. John M. War
den. 7.30, "The Loss or Salvation of
the Soul;" Sunday school, 9.
Market. Square —The Rev. Dr.
George Edward Hawes, pastor, and
the Rev. Howard Rodgers, assistant
pastor. 11. "Scenes in 'The New
South;'" 7.30, "What One Life May
Mean." •
BAPTIST
St John's —The Rev. E. J. Man
ning. 11. "I Am the Wa y. the
Truth and the Life;" 7.30, "After the
Ball Is Over;" Sunday school, 1.
St Paul's —The Rev. E. Luther
Cunningham. 10.30, "The New
Birth —its Necessity; 7.30, No Bur
dens Yonder;" Sunday school, 12.30.
Tabernacle —The Rev. Millard Os
more Peirce. 11. "The Perpetual
Clerfnsing and Upbuilding of the
Soul;" 7.30. "The Failure of a Life;
Sunday school. 9.45.
CONFERENCE AT
PARK ST. U. E.
Presiding Elder to Be Chair
man at Third Quarterly
Gathering Tonight
The third quarterly conference of
the Park Street United Evangelical
Church will be held this evening at
8.30, with Presiding Elder W. F.
Hell Presiding.
On Sunday the quarterly com
munion service will be held at the
10.45 and 7.30 services. Tho Pur
veyor, the weekly bulletin of this
church, in its issue of last Sunday
contained the following Communion
challenge to the constituency of this
church:
"Kcregistratioii Day"
"Last Thursday 10,000,000 men of
the United States between 18 and
45, both inclusive, at the call of tho
Government, 'registered' for military
service against our yet unbeaten foe,
Germany.
"Sunday, September 22, at 10.45
and 7.30, is Park Street's quarterly
Communion service. Practically all
who will attend and commune are
already 'registered' as soldiers of
King Jesus. In this Communion
service those will have an opportun
ity to reregister. And each one that
then comes worthily to the Lord's
table will he in the 'Roll Book' of the
Army of Jehovah be 'checkmarked,'
not as 'missing,' but as being pres
ent and still 'stunding by the colors.'
Will you and your family bo among
these next Sunday?
"Says Theodore Roosevelt, 'Our
young men ha.ve gone to the other
side (and many more will likely go),
very many to give up in their joyous
prime all the glory and all the beau
ty of life to pay the greatest price
of death in battle for a lofty ideal.
Now, when they are doing that, can
not we men and women at home
make up our minds to try to Insist
upon a loftier idealism here at
home?'
"The Purveyor wonders how many
of our people, when our precious
boys are by the thousands going into
the bloody trenches, will after Cora
i munion Sunday explain their ab-
I sence with some such condemning
j excuse as 'I went to at ;, 'I
] got up too late;' 'We had company
in the home;' 'I just didn't feel like
i it;' 'Something occurred between me
and my neighbor.'
"This should be the biggest Com
munion in the history of our church
—in numbers, in appreciation of the
meaning of Christ's death in our be
half, in 'Rating and Drinking
Worthily' in blessing for future
days.
The Rev. Mr. Heil will preach the
evening sermon at 7.30, and during
the day Bishop Swengel and the
Rev. I. W. Swengel, brothers, and
! both living in this city, will partici
pate in the distribution of the Com
munion elements.
KIM SCO PA L
St. Stephen's—The Rev. Rollin A.
Sawyer, rector. 8, Holy Communion.
10, Sunday school. 11, morning
prayer and sermon. 7.30, evening
prayer and address.
St. Augustine's—The Rev. Wil
loughby M. Parchment, rector. Ante
communion service, sermon and Holy
Communion at 11. Church school
after morning service. Evening serv
ice at 6.30 instead of 8. Service of
intcrcesdon for victory on Wednes
day at 6.30 instead of 8.
St. Paul's—7.3o, Holy Communion;
11, Holy Baptism and sermon. The
j Rev. Dr. Appleton will pay personal
j tribute to the late Cardinal Farley
I and preach on "St. Matthew's Leav
i ing the Receipt of Custom;" 2.30,
I Sunday school; an adult class will be
I started; 7.30, litany and address,
"Brotherhood of St. Andrew," fol
lowed by a men's meeting.
Dr. Appleton will conduct service
and preach at 4.30 at the Enola Y.
M. C. A.
CHURCH OF GOD
Nagle Street—The Rev. Elmer E.
Kauffman. 11, "Why Death Has No
Terrors For the Christian;" 7.30,
"The Fifth Commandment;" Sun
day school, 10.
Pleasant View —The Rev. George
W. Harper, pastor. Sunday school,
9.45; 10.45, "The Endless Duration
of the Church;" 7.30, "Victory Over
' the World and the Devil."
! Green Street —The Rev. H. 3.
' Hershey. 10.45, "Law and Grace;"
[7.30, "A New Start in Jacob's
Life;" 9.45, Sunday school.
Penbrook The Rev. Jay C.
Forncrook will preach at 10.30 and
7.30; Sunday school, 9.30.
Fourth Street—The Rev. Dr. Wil
liam N. Yates will preach on "Lib
erty Bonds" in the morning and on
"Bonds of Slavery" at 7.30; Sunday
school at 10.
UNITED BRETHREN
Sixth Street—The Rev. Joseph
Daugherty. 10.30, "The Greatness
of Christian Love;" 7.30, "Sources of
True Enjoyment;" 1.45, Sunday
school.
State Street—The Rev. H. F.
Rhoad. 10.45, "God's Will Su
preme;" 7.30. John E. Hill, of Olean,
N. Y„ will speak; Sunday school,
9.30.
Derry Street—The Rev. J. A. Lyter,
pastor, will preach at 110 and 7.30.
Sunday school at 9.50. .
Fi rs t—The Rev. W. E. Daugherty,
pastor, will preach at 11. "Christ's
Estimate of Life." 7.30, "The Blessed
King." Sunday school at 10.
Otterbei'u —The Rev. J. Edwin
Rupp, pastor, will preach at 11",
"Good Cheer," and 7.30, "The Sav
ing Call. Sunday-school at 10.
A. M. E.
Wesley Union —The Rev. Stephen
A McNeill. 10.30, praise service;
3 30 and 7.45, program by women
from different churches; Sunday
school, 1.30. All day the services
will be conducted by the women of
Wesley Union and sister churches.
Harris —The Rev. R. L. Briscoe.
10 45. "The Sleeper Aroused;" 7.45,
"Finding of the Golden Wedge;"
Sunday school, 1.30.
REFORMED
Salem —The Rev. Dr. Ellis N.
Kremer. Services at 11 and 7.30;
Sunday school, 9.
Fourth —The Rev. Homer Skyles
May. 10.4 5, "I Press On—A Great
Resolve;" 7.30, "God's Voice Sound
ing in Our Ears"; Sunday school,
9.30.
CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN
Hummel Street —The Rev. William
K. Conner. 11. "Phariseeism, or
Teaching For Doctrines the Com
mandments of Men;" 7.30, "Doing,
Not Believing Only;" Sunday school.
9.45.
MISCELLANEOUS
Christian and Missionary Alliance,
1309 Walnut Street —The Rev. W. H.
Worrall, pastor. Sunday school at
9 30. Preaching at 10.30. "Gideon's
Band." Preaching at 7.30,
C. E. NOTES
A touching gift of $5 toward tho
Christian Endeavor International
Headquarters Building fund was
given by the mother of Charles Stew
art Currie Jewett, as a memorial to
her son who was the first president
of the first Christian Endeavor so
ciety established In northern Cali
fornia, in Eureka. Mr. Jewett passed
away some years ago, but when he
lived he was un active and earnest
Endeavorer
An interesting program has been
arranged by tile Endeavorers of tho
Centenary United Brethren society,
Steelton, for Sunday evening. A class
of Juniors will he transferred to the
Senior society. There will be songs
and recitations by the Juniors. The
regular topic of the evening will be
dispensed with and the entire ses
sion will be of a special nature.
An Ohio society has taken a Sab
bath-observance pledge.
Christian Endeavorers will study
the topic, "Lessons from Bible Char
acters," at the services to-morrow
evening.
At the St. Matthew's Lutheran so
city the meeting on Sunday evening
will be conducted by Miss Marian
Martz.
At a C. E. convention in Dacca,
Indiq, sixteen different languages
were represented. Many delegates
traveled two days to reach the con
vention city, and one at least trav
eled five days. The favorite hymn
used in the meetings was "Take my
life and let it be Consecrated, Lord,
to Thee."
Mrs. John W. Conrad, the livewlre
president of the St. John's Lutheran
society, Steelton, has always been an
active and interested member of the
church, holding o'.kces in both the
Missionary and Christian Endeavor
societies. She was superintendent of
the Junior C. E. society and has stir
red the Juniors to greater activity.
She has been president of the Senior
society several times and is at pres
ent performing the duties of that of
fice very efficiently.
President E. P. Conley of the First
Church of God society. New Cumber
land. announces the following com
mittees: Membership, F_ B. Bair, Mrs.
E. E. Updegraph, Harold Beckley,
Mrs. C. H. Heiges, Harry LeFever;
music, Mrs. N. B. Bair, Miss Laura
Kitzmiller, Miss Laura Straub, Miss
Blanche Sipe, E. B. Epley; social,
Mrs. Harry Kilmore, Miss Mabel Kitz
miller, Mrs. Williaan Kohler, Miss
Carry Sweeney, Harry Kilmore.
Mrs. Earl Fawber will tell the En
deavorei's of the State Street United
Brethren society about Bible char
acters at the meeting to-morrow
evening.
Market Square Presbyterian En
deavorers will hold a live, fall gath
ering meeting to-moriow evening.
Miss Mary B. Wills a popular En
deavor worker, will have charge of
the service and all Kndeavorers and
friends interested are invited to at
tend.
Miss Susan Reigle will make the
program interesting at the St. John's
Lutheran society Steelton, to-morrow
evening. The service will begin
promptly at 6.30 o'clock.
A fall rally spirit will stir the
Edeavorers to greater activity at the
Covenant Presbyterian society. Miss
Mary Shirk urges all Endeavorers to
attend the meeting on Sunday even
ing and take part in the program.
Miss Katherlne Matchett, treas
urer of the Bethlehem Lutheran so
ciety, will speak at the Endeavor
I meeting to-morrow evening. Every
Endeavorer is urged to attend and
bring a friend along. A number of
special features are promised.
Park Street United Evangelical
Keystone Leaguers invite all En
deavorers who have not attended a
meeting during the past month to the
service on Sunday evening. Regular
attendants will also enjoy the worth
while service. Misses Nelle Liddick
and Mildred Erdley will have charge
of the meeting.
Miss Mary Hammelbaugh, the pian
oist of the Westminster Presbyterian
society, will speak and lead the En
deavorers at the Sunday evening ser
vice.
At the Harris Street United Evan
gelical K. L. C. E. service to-morrow
the leaguers will study the topic,
"Lessons from Bible Characters." Miss
Evelyn Garber, secretary of the so
ciety, will lead the meeting.
DO YOU KNOW THAT—
A Colorado society is paying for a
piano by giving monthly entertain
ments?
The Rev. Carey Bonner, the great
choir leader in'the Alexander Palace
at the World's Convention in London
in 1900 and general secretary of the
World's Sunday School Association,
also composer of the music for many
beautiful hymns, has four sons In the
army?
A campaign fo.r new members has
been arranged for September and
October and many societies will en
deavor to enlist new members?
Edward T, Lindsay, former state
president and treasurer of the Michi
gan Endeavor Union, and leader in
the work at Saginaw, has recently
been honored with the appointment
on the department staff of the Y. M.
C. A. for the southwestern division,
and is in charge of the Stores' Con
trol Department, which supplies mo
tion picture machines, talking ma
chines, and many essentials of equip
ment to the six hundred secretaries
in the two hundred Y. M. C. A. build
ings along the 1,200-mile border of
our country?
Endeavorers can have a jolly good
time by using the program mapped
out by Amos R. Wells' popular book,
entitled "Social Evenings?"
The next meeting of the State C. E.
Union Executive committee will be
held in Reading, Oct 10 and 11?
A two-day conference for Lancaster
county and four neighboring counties,
Dauphin, York, Lebanon and Chester,
will be held in Lancaster, October 8
and 9?
FIVE POINTS ON THE TOPIC
Topic: "Lessons from Bible Char
acters."— Heb. 11:32, 40; 12:1, 2. It is
impossible to be a hero in anything
unless one is first a hero in faith.
Jacob.
Hur, Exod. 17:10. He helped Moses
to pray. De we help?
Herod, Matt. 2, selfish cruelty—
self first at all costs.
"The last of Bible characters was
buried almost two thousand years
ago, yet are they "alive" and speak
to us of this century and generation."
"The Bible teaches by precept, but
also by the example of the men and
women who, in the history of redemp
tion there recorded occupied the
"center of the stage."
(Other Church News on Page 14.)
Prayer Is Essential to
Improved si
I
:>|Sk
X W. L. BAILEY
A music-talented Christian Endeav.
orer who has attained a place of high
and well-deserved honor is William L.
Bailey, member of tho Harris Street
Keystone League of Christian En
deavor. He was led to take up music
by his father, tho late Rev. E. B.
Bailey, a former pastor of tho United
Evangelical Church at Berwick. He
also has several uncles who are prom
inent ministers and well-known sing
ers.
Mr. Bailey is also a Boy Scout mas
ter and a leader of big choruses. He
will lead the music by the combined
choirs of Harrisburg and vicinity
United Evangelical Churches at the
dedicatory exercises of the new U. E.
publishing house, October 1,
Heroic and patriotic prayer by the
Christian church, the Sunday School
workers, the Young Men's Christian
Associations, the Young Women's
Christian Associations, Christian En
deavorers, Epworth Leaguers and all
kindred organizations, which are
branches of the church, is very es
sential for a better country, better
homes and better lives. The super
intendent of the Quiet Hour and
Evangelism, tho Rev. J. Sala Leland,
of Waynesburg, says: "A true Quiet
Hour comrade cannot be passive, in
active soul, but must be the soul and
embodiment of all that is fruitful,
active and vital in Christian living.
"Our appeal at this time to our
comrades, is an appeal to tho real
heroic heart and life. It takes tho
real Christian hero to pray for the
great and hard things, for the things
that seem so difficult to gain, for the
things that mean perserving and con
tinual prayer.
"George Muller, the founder of the
Orphans' Home, near Bristol, Eng
land, is an example of heroic prayer.
With a deep conviction of the great
need of a multitude of orphans be
accepted tho task and took it to his
God in prayer, and pressed on with
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V 'm/ PRESRYTERIAN CHURCH \s®r
%ysff Third and Pine Streets \is!^
111' Sunday, September 22, 1918 ij I\ |
p\ | Preacher, Rev. L. S. Mudge, D. D., Pastor |[ |
| I 10.30 A.M. III!
"THE FACE OF JESUS CHRIST"
7.30 P. M.
"THE LATEST WORD FROM
WASHINGTON"
Si '?!:■ On Thursday Inst Or. Murtgo had. with a few hthers,
six conferences; with President Wilson, with Secretary !
!: -V Daniels, with Mr, Herbert lloover and with the rank- j,)'i
$ ing officers of The War Department, The It'uel Admin- ;.v $
& ; lstration and The National lted Cross. . , '-j
COME AXD HEAR THEIR MESSAGES TO 17S '' i Ijl
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"The Church * "Old Zion
With the Welcomes
wjfZion's \|\ W
pi Open Doors
Zlon Lutheran
t ff~' Church doors are open j
I ;i seven days of the week. i_l
Weekdays and Sunday . m■p feg
you are invited to step
( m -- / rzflsr, ! In for meditation and 52npJ3
fir" j prayer. r/s - V^|
I / 4 This church belongs I V B Nrd
MB " 't ; to God. As children of I 1 li'
''Jl! ' • Go<l, you are weic ° me I ■MffT
H jjL. Zion Lutheran .J| K' j
i Ij Fourth St., near Market J
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heroic faith. i
"Dr Judson, the great missionary*
who was able to impress an empire
for Christ, was constant and heroic
in prayer. Ho says, 'Arrange thy
affairs, if possible, so that thou can
leisurely devote two or three hours
every day or so not merely to devo
tional exercises, but to the very act
of secret prayer and communion with
God. Endeavor seven times a day ta
withdraw from business and company
ana lift up thy soul to God in pri
vate retirement. Begin the day by
rising after midnight and devoting
some time amid the silence and dark
ness of the night to this sacred work.
Hot tiie hour of opening dawn find
thee at this same work. Bet tho hours
of nine, twelve, three, six and nine
at night witness the same. Bo res
olute in llis cause. Make all practical
sacrifices to maintain it. Consider
that thy time is short, and that busi-i
ness and company must not bo ali
lowed to rob thee of thy God/
"But to many such a program
seems at once impossible, and they
are not heroic enough to try. To
Judson it impossible not to be,
for his first alleginnce was to his
God. His was a great life built upon
a groat foundation, and tho building
erected will ever endure
"It is said that Judson long en
tertained a desire to work for the
Jews, but was hindered. In his last
illness lie learned that a little book
he had written had gained some con
verts and a work followed. Tears
tilled his eyes as he said. '1 have never
prayed earnestly for anything, but
at some time no matter how distant,
and somehow probably in the last
shape I should have .devised it came."
There is need of a great multitude of
heroic prayers such as this man's
were."
"Then to-day there is a patriotic
reason why men should pray. There
is a call that our democracy shall in
the fullest be Christian. On our last'
Thanksgiving day and on our last
Memorial Day we have been called by
our president, as a nation, to pray.
There has been a great response, and
the prayers of a nation have united
as one, and wo are now waiting at
His altar.
"May the spirit of patriotism bring
every Kndeavorer and comrade to an
importune prayer that God shall rula
and reign."
To Hold Bond Day at
Fourth Street Church
Sunday will ho "Bond Day" at the
Fourth Street Church of God. At 11
a. m. Dr. William N. Yates will
preach on "Liberty Bonds" and in
the evening at 7.30 the subject will
be "Bonds of Slavery." Those sub
jects have been chosen because of
the nearness of the Liberty Loan
campaign that the people may be
stirred to do their best and that our
eyes may be open to a great field of
spiritual truth.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
First Church —"Matter," morning
at 11 ,and evening at 7.30. Sunday
; school at 11. Testimonial meeting
i Wednesday at 8. Free reading room,
1 Kunkel building, 11.30 to 5, dally.