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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1919
Page
8
Four churches join for a Thanksgiving service at Grace M E Church corner Clinton and Fairfield avenues Thursday at 10 30 a m. The People's Presbyterian Winat English Evangelical Lutheran West End Congregational and Grace M E Church plan devotions led by their pastors and singers. Rev R H White of West End Congregational will give the address. All are welcome to attend in gratitude.
Wim Warner former chairman of the YMCAs international personnel board speaks at United Church this evening. He will summarize the war work completed at the Detroit conference with delegates from the U S and abroad. A supper precedes for the men’s membership committee. A Thanksgiving service follows tomorrow morning at 10 30.
The United Church will host a special Thanksgiving service at 10 36 on Thanksgiving morning inviting all without a place of worship. Rev William Horacs Day will preach. The large chorus choir directed by Mrs Finsen Beardsley will perform with an organ prelude by Mrs Beardsley titled Hymnua by Truette. The chorus sings The Woods and Every Sweet Smelling Tree by West and Prayer of Thanksgiving a folk song. Mrs Lena Mason Barnsley soprano and Louis D Ginand tenor sing QO Lovely Flowers a duet by Maunder.
Park Street Congregational church holds a church family Thanksgiving party this evening with devotional talks on Living Our Religion at Home, Thanksgiving games, refreshments, and songs led by the Young People's Society. A Thursday morning service from ten to eleven will feature Dr. Gerald H. Beard preaching on Our Nation's Revival with a quartet choir and tenor soloist Robert Brandt.
Park Street Congregational Church on Barnum avenue and Park street hosts a Thanksgiving service. Dr Gerald H. Beard will preach on Our Nation's Reveille from ten to eleven o'clock to accommodate all attendees. The quartet choir will sing from Maunder's Song Of Thanksgiving.
Russell D. Cate, director of the Episcopal nationwide campaign, will address St. George's church members at 8 o'clock this evening in the school room. Twenty four teams work on the council, parish list revision, and campaign literature distribution with a home visit planned for December 7. At 10:50 Sunday service, the church school will present a pageant of the church's work in the world. French exiles return: four fifths of prewar 5,230,000 in devastated France have gone back home per American Red Cross report from Paris.
Miss Frances B Keller will discuss Bolshevist eating the Bolsheviki at the Chamber of Commerce meeting in the High School auditorium December 4. Keller, member of the inter-racial council, studies the Bolshevist and Russian question.
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