Church Leaders Urge Business Men to Expand Faith Work
Rev. Dr. Russell H. Conwell distributes cards to Business Men's Union members urging personal invitations to join the church, welcoming migrants, aiding hotel travelers, and applying honest business methods to church work. A series of tents and meetings across Philadelphia follow with evangelists, music, and childcare programs during the summer campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell H. Conwell
The
Baptist Temple
Business Men's Union
Philadelphia Churches Expose City’s Morning to Night
A Times correspondent tours Philadelphia churches detailing early worship crowds at St. John the Evangelist and Old Second Baptist. He notes warm welcomes, a baptismal rite, a 150-voice choir, and Sunday school temperance programs at Nineteenth Street Methodist Episcopal. He also covers a Presbyterian tent service at Broad and Cayuga amid varied civic worship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
House of Worship
St. John the Evangelist
Thirteenth Street
Market
Old Second Baptist Church
Seventh Street
Girard Avenue
Samuel Graham Neil
Cathcart
Ife
Mr. Nell
Nell
Fiftieth Baptist Church
Susquehanna Avenue
Chas. H. Thomas
Broad Street
Nineteenth Street Methodist Episcopal Church
C. Hewitt
Broad and
Cayuga Streets
Presbyterian Church of
Market Street
Second Baptist Church
Samuel G. Nell
Keneseth Israel
Columbia Avenue
Zion's Reformed Church
Sixth Street
Joseph Taylor
Mariners’ Bethel M. B
Washington Avenue
Third Street
Glase Gerhard
St. John's Reformed Church
Frankford Avenue
Ontario Street
St. Matthews’ Reformed Church
Fifth Street
Venango Street
U. ©. Silvius
Wesley Hall
Arch Street
Christ's Church
Ridley Park
Pitman
Twenty-third
Lombard Streets
Episcopal Church Club
Somerset and
Howard Streets
Best Route to Willow Grove Connection
Ayny and Reading rapid trains run between Willow Grove and Reading stations. Details describe a fast rail link with Milo Grove service and connections at Reading Ter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willow Grove
Ayny
Reading
Res Rugelaga Milo
Grove Peorrane
Messages to the People Department Aims to Serve
This department intends weekly service to Sunday school teachers and scholars and Young Peoples Societies members to cheer the sick and aged and reach non church goers.
Soul of Tarsus Converted and Early Christian Lessons
Summary of Sunday School lessons covering Pauls conversion Acts 9 1 12 Peters actions Dorcas Cornelius Gentiles Church at Antioch and Pauls missions Acts 13 1 12 14 15 16 Die. Includes themes of conversion invitation inclusion and missionary expansion with emphasis on spiritual renewal and practical church leadership
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tarsus
Shakespeare
Paul
Peter
Eneas
Doreas
Cornelius
Church
Antioch
Christ
Church At
Missionary Society
Pisidia
Syria
Barnabas
Lystra
Jerusalem
Europe
America
United States
National Prosperity and the Moral Foundation of Politics
The article argues that national prosperity requires both material wealth and moral character. It cites Roosevelt and Phillips Brooks to stress Decalogue values, warns against money worship, and urges public duty including voting. It also includes a sermon on praying with sincerity and obedience, emphasizing heartfelt dialogue with God.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Wendell Phillips
Rocky Mountains
Phillips Brooks
Spiritual Fellowship of Great Hymns for Shut-Ins
This study highlights John Henry Newman and Sarah Flower Adams and their hymns Lead Kindly Light and Nearer My God to Thee. It traces Newman’s conversion to Catholicism during a Mediterranean voyage and Adams’s Unitarian background, noting the hymns’ enduring appeal beyond sectarian lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Henry Newman
Sarah Flower Adams
London
Hawkins
Richard Hurrell Froude
Froude
Cardinal Newman
Sicily
Corsica
Sardinia
Great Harlow
Essex
England
W. J. Fox
William Bridge Adams
God
South Place
Jesus
Lowell Mason
McKinley
In the Streets Non-Church Goers Advised to Attend
A call to nonchurchgoers urging fair trial of church life. It lists items to take and how to behave at services, emphasizing reverence, personal blessing, and welcoming strangers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church
Community services and church notices sweep the city
Down the Aisles reports patriotic services in city churches with orations by prominent men. Church choirs receive gifts and recognitions, while many congregations schedule twilight services and summer union meetings. Remodeling and construction projects unfold at several parishes as plans for memorials and new buildings advance.
Protestant Episcopal services at Drexel Institute
Services held at Drexel Institute at 32d and Chestnut Streets led by Rev. William B Bodine D D Rector and Rev. Cassius M Roberts MA Associate Rector. Morning Prayer and Sermon scheduled for 11 00 A M by the Associate Rector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church OF the Saviour
Drexel Institute
Chestnut Streets
William B. Bodine
D. D
Cassius M. Roberts
Religious notices and tent meetings fill Washington Square area
The Presbyterian church schedules sermons at 10:30 and 8 with topics on Spiritualism and fate. Numerous evangelistic tents across streets announce daily speakers, Sunday services, noonday rallies, and children activities. Local churches list Sabbath schooling, youth meetings, and special sermons by Rev. Kellogg and Rev. Bronson as part of a broad outreach.
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Presbyterian Evangelistic Committee
Christian Workers of
City
Wither- Spoon
John H. Converse
Broad and
Catherine Streets
Thomas Houston
Elizabeth
N. J
C. M. Alford
D.D
Westminster Presbyterian Church
William E. Needham
W. W. Crow
University
W. &. Marple
Thomas Needtfim
Front Street
Washington Avenue
Messrs
Dorty and
Malseed
Brown
Toy
Fortieth Street
Wyalusing Avenue
J. H. Elliot
West Thirty-fourth Street Reformed Church
New York City
Fifty-sixth
Woodland Avenue
Joseph Wilson Cochran
Nineteenth and
Norris Streets
J. Balcom Shaw
New York
J. W. VanDeVenter
Mr. VanDeVenter
W. J. Boehm
Chambers Wylie Memorial Church
VanDeVenter
W. Scott Nevin
William Patterson
Seventh
Clearfield Streets
Ferdinand Schieveren
J. J. Lowe
Sixtieth
Thompson Streets
D. 8. Toy
Baltimore
Messrs. Dorty
Independence Hall
Walnut Street Presbyterian Church
Fitzwater Street
M. E
William H. Pickup
Jericho
Frank Embich
Grant Post
Sons of Veterans
Ladies’ Aid Society
Herbert E. Foss
Arch Street M. FE
Broad
Arch Streets
Presbyterian
Walnut Street
Forrest E. Dager
Dr. Dager
Professor Lowe
Irvin J. Myers
Third Baptist Church
Germantown
Roxborough Baptist Church
T. Steward
Rufus C. Zartman
Heidelburg Reformed Church
Sixteenth
Oxford Streets
Oxford Streets. To-morrow Evening the Rev. Mr. Zartman
Pitman M. E
Edward W. Burk
F. H. Reynolds
Reformed Episcopal Church of the Reconciliation
Thirteenth
Tasker Streets
Methodist Episcopal Church of the Covenant
Eighteenth
Spruce Streets
A. G. Kynett
W. Thomas
Philadelphia Methodist
Kensington District
Bethesda Presbyterian Church
Frankford Avenue
Vienna Street
Kensington Avenue
Somerset Street
Mr. Converse
Robert Hunter
James B. Ely
First Presbyterian Church
Washington Square
Seventh and Locust Streets
Alfred H. Kellogg
D. C
Thomas Needham
Thomas Horaton
19Th
Norris
Portinuea Scbreveres
40Th Et
Wyalesing Avenue
Sunda
John H. Elliot
Ofew York
60Th and
Hall
Indeo
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Presbyterian Tent Services
Italy
W. W. McNair
Chew Street
Waldensian Church of
Mr. McNair
Falerno
Calabrian Mountains
Atlantic City
Board of Managers
Kenneth M. Blakiston
Pres
Walnut St
See
S. E. Cor
Chestnut
Edward A. Sibley
Treas
Fourth St. James
Whitney
Betz Building
William H. Bennett
Chestnut St
Francis H. Williams
Greene St
Fred Hemsley
Eighteenth St
A. Ogden Dayton
Cooper St
Camden
Clayton
Trinity United Evangelical Church
Duval
Baynton Streets
James Heald
Philadelphia County Sabbath School Association
Wesley
Methodist Episcopal
John Wesley
Methodist Episcopal Church
Charles Wesley
Siloam
East Susquehanna Avenue
Thompson Street
G. J. Burns
Twenty-ninth Street
Twenty-ninth
York Streets
C. Lee Gaul
Twenty-fifth Streets
J. G. Wilson
Kensington
Marlborough and
Richmond Streets
E. C. Griffiths
Sunshine Society
Pennsylvania
International Sunshine Society
Fifth Avenue
J. H. Hergesheimer
Baynton Street
New Railroad
Terminal Division
Philadelphia and Reading Railway
W. A. Garrett
Garrett
Charles A. Beach
Y.mc.a. Terminal
M. H. Seller
Charles Townsend
Pennsylvania Railroad
J. B. Warrington
P. and R. Railway
Anders
Ford
W. Dougherty
E. F. Smith
Church Notes
Central Congregational Church
Green Streets
Charlies H. Richards
William H. Medlar
Alexandria
Minn
Minnesota Christian Endeavor Union
Willl
Spring Garden Methodist Church
Fifth Baptist Church
Epiphany Baptist Church
Chestnut Street
Christian Endeavor Notes
Thehiladelphia Christian Endeavor Union
Holmesburg
Harry Heebner
South
Holland Memorial Presbyterian Church
Federal Streets
H. P. Albin
H. P. Ford
George Wharton
Walter H. Richman
J. M. Firth
A. J. Rubie
Elizabeth Bennett
Albin
James Jones
Edward Hastings
Sara Eddie
William Burs
W. W. Crowe
W. H. Richman
Davis
the Brook
South Branch Union
Richmond
West Philadelphia
Siloam Methodist Episcopal Church
Paschall
Pittsburg
Cavite
Philippine Islands
Olongapo
Ontario
the Times
Young Peoples
Psa
Protestant Episcopal
Ss. Hope
Cor. Preston
Aspen Sts
Key
Charles E. Bronson
Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip
William Main Schall
Wyamsing Avenue
40Th Street
Spring Garden
Richards Boyle
Chas
M. Boswell
Ear School
Youngle
M. E. Church
Cor
W. A. Hunsberger
Christian Catholic Church
Zion
Ino
Alex Dowie
Gideon Hammond
Christian Science
First Church OF Christ
Scienst
Odd Fellows’ Bread and Cherry Sts
Keing
That Street
Church OF Or Cherist
Scientitist
Sul Sackeece
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