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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1916
Page
8
Harrisburg churches arrange Christmas music with cantatas and anthems for tomorrow and next Sunday. Pine Street Presbyterian, Market Square, Zion Yatheran, Christ Tatheran and others list morning and evening preludes, anthems, solos, and postludes, plus a Cantata The Adoration by Nevin and various sermons.
Evangelist Dr Billy LaMance begins final campaign week with special services at Stevens Memorial Methodist Church. Tomorrow’s 10:30 a.m. service features his sermon and new members join. A 3:15 p.m. mass meeting for men follows, with women’s session at Derry Street United Brethren Church. Evening 7:30 p.m. message titled Heart Hardening closes the day, amid planned music and a Christmas gift drive expected to bring 1500 gifts to the Sunday school for distribution to City needy.
The Right Rev James N Darlington bishop of Harrisburg joins a campaign to commute death sentences of Henry Ward Mottern and Ernest Haines, Jefferson county boys. He telegrams Philadelphia Public Ledger urging sparing youths with life imprisonment instead of execution.
Jewish synagogues in the city will begin an eight day Feast of Dedication or Chanukah next Tuesday with special services. The festival, recalling Judas Maccabeus’s rededication of the Temple, lasts eight days and features prayers and the lighting of Chanukah lights, with one to eight candles lit each day.
Sunday schools across the city plan their annual Christmas offering titled White Gifts for the King. White crosses will be erected at some schools with gifts wrapped in white placed around them, to be distributed to city poor early next week. Participating schools include Derry Street United Brethren Christ Lutheran and Stevens Memorial Methodist. Thousands of gifts are donated yearly and a record total is anticipated.
The Colored Interdenomination Conference of Harrisburg and Vicinity plans evangelistic campaigns in city and Steelton churches from January 7 to February 4, with services at Harris A. M. E. Zion and St. Paul’s Baptist Church and a large chorus drawn from participating churches. Special meetings for men women and children will be held, and the schedule for other churches is being prepared.
Market Square Presbyterian Church hosts a busy Christmas week with morning and evening sermons by Rev. Dr. George Edward Hawes on Choosing a Mountain Rejecting a Throne and Revealing the Christ Within. Activities include a Christmas meeting by the Young Women’s Missionary Society and a Friday program by the Lochiel Mothers, plus carol services on December 24 and cantata and special numbers on December 31.
Services mark the church’s first anniversary after remodeling. Rev H Whitaker preaches at 10 30 AM after Sunday school. Rev Dr W S Houck of Maclay Street Church of God preaches at 2 90 PM. The Lord’s Supper observance closes the celebration.
Pennsylvania public schools grew notably in the last school year ended July 3 1916. The system includes Philadelphia and 2 582 districts with 1 504 794 pupils and total expenditures of about 61.67 million dollars. Teachers total 42 727, average salaries rise for both male and female teachers, and per student attendance remains high. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh figures are detailed with school counts, staff, and costs.
The Rev. Dr. Lewis S. Mudge of Pine Street Presbyterian Church will speak tomorrow morning on The Threefold Religion and in the evening on The Youth of Jesus, the second sermon in the current series. Midweek service on Wednesday features Good Tidings of Great Joy. An ambulance corps talk by Jackson Hert Boyd, in Memorial building gym, Thursday evening. Friday afternoon the church Sunday school elementary grades host a Christmas entertainment with gifts for deacons’ distributions. The Messiah performed by the special chorus and double quartet directed by Frank A. McCarrell is slated for Sunday evening December 24.
Ministers and choir directors must submit notices of musical programs to the Telegraph office by 4 o clock Wednesday afternoon after December 20. The deadline applies to the Saturday December 23 church page notices.
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