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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Dec 19, 1915

Page

5

Christmas Services Ahead Across Mobile Churches

The Item lists Christmas week religious events across Mobile churches with schedules for Sunday Schools, sermons, and prayer meetings. It notes All Saints Episcopal carols in city venues and reports Rev. S. W. Roberts’ move to Eutaw, plus multiple pastor and service details for Crichton Daphne Fairhope Government Street Oakdale Prichard Plateau St Francis and Dauphin areas. Baptist services at Earst Church are also described with morning and evening sermons.

Item All Saints’ Episcopal Church Thomas H. Johnston W. Roberts Broad Street Methodist Church Eutaw Brewton Mobile Broad Street L. H. S. Chappelle H. E. Palmer E. A. Donnelly Epworth League J. N. Cammack Daphne J. L. White Fairhope G. C. Simpson Government Street J. E. Northcut R. A. Tunnell J. W. Frazer S. W. Roberts Oakdale D. Y. Register A. L. Rush Dumas Chapel G. W. Carpenter Nora Hoover St. Francis Street St. Francis and Joachim O. C. McGehee D. D R. P. Roach St. Stephen’s Road Dauphin Street W. H. Venters O. D. Dilling B. C. Glenn, Jr Dauphin Way B. Brown Cato

Christmas Services At North Side Baptist and Tabernacle

North Side Baptist Church at 309 North Conception hosts morning and evening worship led by Rev. D W Bosdell with a Christmas Cantata Santa Claus and Company on Wednesday at 7 30. Bible school at 9 30. Baptist Tabernacle at Church and Claiborne streets offers 9 30 teaching service led by J T Dulaney, morning sermon on Judah's Greatest Prophet, 6 pm White Christmas exercises benefiting the Baptist Orphanage, no evening service.

Christman W. D. Edwards Guy R. Hurlbutt Santa Claus and Company North Side Baptist Church North Conception Street D. W. Bosdell D. D G. J. Abney Christ BY. P. U Baptist Tabernacle Claiborne Streets J. E. Barnes Church Street J. T. Dulaney Baptist Evergreen

Episcopal Church Services and Christmas Schedule

Trinity Church on Trinity, St Anthony and Jackson streets lists 9:30 Sunday School 11 morning prayer and sermon 7:30 evening prayer and sermon with Chauncey C. Williams and James T. McCaa officiating. St Pauls Whistler St Mark Toulminville All Saints Government avenue list multiple services including Holy Communion midnight Christmas Eve and Christmas morning and Grace Church with 11 o'clock morning service.

Trinity St. Anthony and Jackson Streets A. G. Richards Chauncey C. Williams James T. McCaa St. Paul's Church Whistler St. Mark's Church Toulminville All Saints’ Episcopal Church Government Ann Streets Thomas H. Johnston Grace Church J. T. McCan Unday J. P. Ross

Christmas Gifts and Peace Sermons at Government Street Church

Presbyterians at Government Street Church North west corner Government and Jackson announce Sunday School at 9 30 a m with R O Harris as superintendent. Morning service at 11 on Christmas Gifts and evening service at 7 30 on The Things That Make For Peace. Christian Endeavor at 6 45. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 30. All welcome. Seats free.

Presbyterian

Lutheran church services in Dearborn and St Francis streets

Rev. H. M. Hennig is pastor. Services include German at 8:00 a.m. and English at 10:30 a.m. Sunday school begins at 9:15 a.m. at Lutheran Church on Dearborn and St Francis streets.

Dearborn St. Francis Streets H. M. Hennig

Catholic Church Schedule Delphi City

Listing of church services across multiple parishes with masses from 6 to 10:30 a.m. and afternoon devotions, rosaries, baptisms, confessions, and holy hours. Includes Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception St Joseph St Vincent St Mary St Matthew St Catherine St Peter and St Margaret churches with weekly and Sunday observances and seasonal variations.

Ildren St. Joseph’s Church St. Vincent’s Lawrence and Palmetto Streets D. A. Brady T. M. Cassady St. Mary's Church E. J. Eaton St. Matthew's Church John W. Dunne St. Peter’s Fulton Road St. Margaret's Church Cedar Point Road

World Conquering Mission of Christmas by William T. Ellis

In a Sunday message Ellis portrays Christmas as a universal mission not limited to Palestine. Angels heralded the event, and the duty now falls to believers to proclaim the gospel daily. The nativity enlarges hearts beyond borders, stressing Christ came to serve all mankind.

William T. Ellis Jesus Christ Old Judea Bethlehem Palestine Christ Holy Land Antwerp Earth Heaven Carnegie Jesus St. Peter Bethlshem Fellowship of Reconciliation Christendom Gang of the Angels Dan Crawford Africa Aries Hig Chila Armenia Serbia Poland Belgium Chris Bethlem Mary

Christmas spirit drives mercy and faith across the world

The article extols a broad Christmas philanthropic spirit, citing Red Cross generosity, charity dinners, and missionary work as expressions of Christlike love. It highlights stories from Africa, Persia, Armenia, and Palestine of missionaries and believers sustaining faith amid war, famine, and disease, urging practical acts of kindness and devotion.

Jesus Red Cross Christ Persia Holy Land Uramiah Lucknow Cawnpore Armenia Raynolds Van _ Station Van

Billy Sunday Joke About a Farmer and a Scarecrow

Billy Sunday travels through Nebraska and asks a farmer for directions. He points to a figure in the field and jokes that it is a scarecrow, but the farmer reveals it is a man kept by the day.

Billy Nebraska

Bellringer humor from Ella Flagg Young on Bible history

Ella Flagg Young recalls a Bible lesson about Noah and fishing on the ark. A student asks why Noah didn’t spend time fishing and the teacher explains there were only two fishworms aboard.

Ella Flagg Young Chicago Noah Walter

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