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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1924
Page
16
Meo Moan Baptist Church on Seventh and HK Streets Northwest will hold a platform meeting tomorrow at 3 o clock led by Rev Br Simon P W Drew. The event aims to raise $200 to replace church windows followed by a community dinner and a special musical program.
The ninety eighth annual report of the Congregational Home Missionary Society released through the National Council of Congregational Churches New York outlines vast activities. General secretary Dr E B MacHaliday notes 1291 employed, spending near 1 million, funded by legacies interest and gifts totaling over 1.3 million, a substantial increase from prior year. Workers operate in rural towns mining sections camp outposts and preaching stations nationwide including 273 foreign language workers serving Armenians Czechoslovaks Danes Finns Spaniards Swedes Welsh and others. The mission, though started as interdenominational, remains supported by Congregational churches and offers aid beyond denominational lines to any community lacking Christian workers.
The Rev. George Fr. Wells a Hartford Seminary psychologist and Trinity College professor will occupy Mount Pleasant Congregational Church pulpit tomorrow at 11 o'clock in the morning.
The lesson notes Christ as a universal guest who meets life on all levels. A Cana wedding shows Jesus compassion for social embarrassment, turning water into wine with quiet, practical power. The incident illustrates that small deeds reveal great character and that Christianity is a feast, not a funeral.
The Washington social page notes Attorney General Harlan F. Stone and Mrs Stone visiting Charlottesville for the weekend, Chilean Ambassador and Mme Mathieu in New York after White Mountains motoring, and Capt Axel Wallenberg and Mme Wallenberg returning to Sweden. Buxtons plan a three week auto trip to Niagara Falls, Toronto, and northern points, with residency considerations in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Numerous other diplomats, senators’ wives, and society figures are mentioned at homes, hotels, and summer resorts from Ocean Grove to Newport and Paris, including engagements, hosting duties, and upcoming weddings.
The Y M C A lists tomorrow services at multiple churches. W H Loving speaks at Ho e Street Christian at 1 o’clock, W I Smalley at 8 40 p m, Rev S M Croft leads morning at First Reformed, Dr A R Kuldenl at Congress Street Methodist at 12 o’clock, Page McK Etchison guides Georgetown Presbyterian morning, Karl Gooseman speaks Lincoln Park open air at 4 p m, music by G I Myars.
The Rev. Thornton Whaling, moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, will preach at Central Presbyterian Church tomorrow morning on The Marks of the Great Man and at 2 p.m. on An Undelivered Message From the Next World. He recently returned from a lecture tour of Philadelphia and Ocean City New Jersey where he spoke on The Contribution of the American Negro to American Life and History.
The Rev. Dr. W. L. Darby executive secretary of the Washington Federation of Churches will preach tomorrow morning at St Mark's Lutheran Church Ninth and B streets southwest and tomorrow night to Marines at Quantico Virginia. During the war period Dr Darby was general secretary overseeing all Y M C A work in that post.
The Rev Dr John Mockridge of Philadelphia will preach at the open air service on Wiscon sin avenue tomorrow at 4 o clock in the grounds of the National cathedral Peave Crows personalities and location are noted for a public event description.
A roster lists Sunday services at Fifth Baptist Trinity Episcopal and several Presbyterian venues. The Christian Endeavor Society gathers on the Presbyterian Home lawn at 6 45 p m with Rev William A Fisenberger leading an open air talk titled What I See in Nature Their Lessons.
Special to The Washington Post from New York. An evening reception and late supper were held at an Italian villa in Bar Harbor by Mr and Mrs F B McCormick Goodhart of Washington to honor visiting naval officers. Mrs William H Hamilton and Mrs Vauclain note birth of their sons. Families include Mrs Finley J Shepherd at Roxbury camp and future Irvington-on-Hudson return. Cornelia Williams to wed Charles Worthington Fowler at Woodstock VI St James church, daughter of Dr Edward H Williams. Cornelia served as occupational aid in the U S Medical Corps at Walter Reed during the war.
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