New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 24, 1923, Page 11

+—: IMPRESSIVE SERVICES TO MARK. HOLY WEEK OBSERVANCE IN CITY —: class In German for adults at 10: lo‘ a, m, Morning service in English at | 10:30 %a, m, Morning service in Ger- | man at 11:30 o'clock, Prayer meets | | ing of the Y, P, B, at 7 p, m\ A meeting of the Girls' club will be | | held Monday evening. The Ladles' Ald society will meet| ‘odnesday afeternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Religious instruction for boys will | be held Thursday evening at 7 o'clock. The mid-week service in German will be héld at 8 o'clock. Cholr rehearsal will be held Friday SUNDAY SERVICES —_— Congregational Churches, S First, Chureh -school at 10 a, m, Morn-~ ing sérylce at 11 a. m, Sermon, “The Place of Pralse in Life,” by the min-| ister, Rev, Henry W. Maler, Adult Bible classels at 12:16 p, m, ¢ The Young Women's Home Mis- slonary soclety will meet for supper|evening. and work Tuesday at %:30 p, m, | On Easter Sunday a special offering . Wednegday at 2:30 p, m,, English | for missions will be taken up, class for Armenian women. Junior onary uoclety at 4:16 p, m, | Thursday at 2:30 p, m, Armenlan Women's Bible class. The Girl Scouts All services Palm Sunday will be in will meet at 3 p. m, at the home or'Hwodlsh except the Bible class., In thelr captain, Miss’ l~‘nx. at 412 Chest- | the morning there will be communion nut street, service and reception of new mem- The Boy Scouts will bers. Sunday school at noon. Bible evening at 7:30 o'clock. school at 6 p..m. with illustrated lec- ' ture by the pastor, and evening serv- South. ice at 7:30 o'clock. Sunday, March 25—9:30, sItalian| Good Friday service at 10:30 a. m., school, 10:46, morning worship. Ser-| oo mon, “I Belleve in the Holy Catholic Church.” Sgrmon to Juniors,)"A Boy Who Had His Wits About Him.” 10:45, beginners' department of the vhurch school, 12:10, church school. 2:30, Assyrian worship. 6:00, Chris-! tian 'Endeavor meeting. 7:15, even- ing service. $ y Monday—4:15, . - Patrol ' Leaders' | school, New Britain Council, Boy' Palm Sunday. Holy Commuhnion at Scouts of America, 7:80, Second divi-| 7:30 a. m. Sunday school at 9:30 a. sion, Troop 2, Boy Scouts of America. | m Morning prayer and sermon by Tuesday—4:00, Busy Bees Achieve- | the rector at 11 a. m. Kvening prayer ment club. 7:80, ¥irst division, Troop‘ and sermon at 7:45 p. m. 2, Boy Scouts of America. | Special services during Holy Week. Wednesday—4:30, meeting of Girl; Scouts, ‘ Friday—7:00, - meeting ‘of the ‘Ju- nior Rifle club for practice. | Wi Lutheran Chu n'hm(. B First, meet Friday | Reformation. | Morning services | Bunday school at 12.. Lenten services will be held Wed- nesday evening at 8 o'clock. Good Friday morning, services will be held at 10:45 o'clock. St. Mark’s Episcopal. 8t. Mark's Assyrian Congregation. Holy Communion at 7 a. m. Prayer | and sermon at 1:16 p. m. Prayer and sermon ul 7:45 p. m, Second Advent. | " Moring worship at 10:45 a. m., | with sermon by the pastor, the sub- | ject being, “Events Attending the | Lord's Second Advent.” Sunday school |at 12:05 p. m. Ivening service at 7 | p. m. Subject of sermon, “Paradise | Lost; Paradise Regained.” The Ladies' Aid society will mect Thursday afternoon. The Bible class will meet Thursday evening at 8 p. m. Leader, Thomas Emerson. Stanley Memorial. | Sunday—10:45 a, m., morning wor- ship., Sermon by Rev. Dr, Henry K.| Watren, president ‘of Yankton col- lege, Yankton, South Dakota, Special Palm Sunday music. 12:00 m, Sun- day school and pastor's training clus in church membérship. Wednesday—2-6 p. m., Easter sale of food, candy and farcy articles hy) the Ladies' Aid society. Methodist Churches, | Trinity. | Sunday-—9:30 'a. m.,, Bverym#n's| Sunc Bibje class. 9:45 a. m., church Sun- | ject, “Matter.” day school. 10:45.a. m., sermon by a. m. Palm Sunday message. \\"xlnvsrlu evening meeting at 8| worth League devotion- | o'clock. Subject, “What Jesus| 7:30 p. m,, sermon The Reading Room—Room 504 Na- Subject, #1s tional Bank Building is open to the | public daily from 12 noon until 4 Gh—]mclnck except Sunday and holidays. Wednesday 12 to 7:30 p. m. ience. ice at 10:45 a. m. Sub- Sunday school at 9:45 al meeting. Expeets of Me.” by'Rev. Ray 0. Wyland. the Church a Producef,” Monday—4:30, Troop 3 of Scouts. Tuesday-—W. H, M. 8. sewing in the church. 6:30, Philathea class supper. 7:45, class meeting. Wednesday—4:30, Scifuts, ) Bhursday-—4:10, week-s day religions sthool. Mrs. E. C. Stotkwell win give a talk on Nazarcth, 7:00, re- hedrsal of girls' choir. 7:45, prayer med‘-tlna. riday—4:00, sewing school. class in church membership. Saturday—Mother's Jewels will | of a Soul.” meet in the church at 3 p. m. | Monday, at T:15 p. | cial board meeting. This church is uniting with union services during. Holy Week. Nondenominational. People’s. Sunday at 10:15 a. m., prayer and :lm’otlonal service, followed by morn- | ing worship at 10:45 o'clock, * Rev. Harry E. Olcott of the Anti-Saloon League will speak. Sunday school at 112:16 p. m, Junior Endeavor at 4:30 p. m. Young People’s meeting at 6 . m. DPreaching at 7 p. m. Sermon y pastor. Subject, “God’s Estimate Troop 5. Gir" 4:10, m. sharp, offi-| the | Sunday ser\:lco: 10:45 a. m., preach- ing by the pastor, Subject, “He That' Acknowledge - the Son.” Sunday school 12:80 a. m. Varick Ohristian {: Sunday—10 a. m., prayer.and: praise Endeavor society at 6:30 p. m. 7:45, [8crvice. 10:45 a. m, preaching, tepic preaching by the pastor. Subjeety "The Last Supper.”” 12:15 p. m,; Bible “Sgek the Father's Will." school. 6 p..m., Young Pepple's ;uvsdu_\' evenidg at 8 o'clock, pray- | meeting. 7 p. m., preaching, . topic| er ‘meeting. “Gethsemane and The Crucifixion.” Monday—7:45 p. m., meeting of of ficial board. First. Tuesday—T7:45 p. m., Bible stur]y‘ 10:45, morning worship, sermon by, ¢lass. 4 p. m,, children's meeting. the Rev. William Ross. Subject,| Thursday—7:45 p m, mid-weck “The Cross Seen from Gethsemane.'" | Prayer meeting. 12:10, Bible school and Brotherhood class. 7:00, the Young People's so- ciety. A short church meoting on Wed- | nesday before the united service at|, 7 o'clock. Emmanuel Gospel: Baptist Churches. Salvation Army. Services by Captain John Edeen as| usuak Everyman's Bible Class. Elim (Swedish). | Ray O. Wyland, assistant national | Sunday school, 9:45 a. m. Morning | €ducational ~director of the Boy service in English at 11 a. m. Byen. | Scouts, will'speak tomorrow morning. ing service in Swedish at 7 p. m. | Services on Easter morning will start | The Misslon Circle will hold its| at 9:15 o'clock. monthly megting Tuesday evening at | 8 o'clock at the home of Rev, and Mrs. J. E. Klingberg on Rackliffe | Heights. Rev. Henry K. Warren, president of | | Yankton college, Yankton, South | Dakota, will speak at the Stanley Me- morial church tomorrow morning. | Special Palm Sunday music will be on | the program. SALVATION ARMY 120 ARCH STREET Capt. John Edeen Will Conduct Services, Snnday School—3 P. M. Hallelujah Meeting 4 P, M. Salvation Mecting—T7:30 P. M. Trinity Methodist Church Sunday, March 25th 10:45 A. M. Sermon by the Pastor, John L. Davis— “PALM SUNDAY MESSAGE” 7:30 P. M. Sermon by Rev. Ray 0. Wyland— “IS THE CHURCH A PRODUCER?” ALL ARE WELCOME * German. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Bible Rev. Harry E. Olcott of the Anti- Saloon League will speak in The Peo- ple's church tomorrow forenoon at 10:45 o'clock. A special offering for missions will be made at the Easter Sunday serv- ice of the German Baptist church. Stanley Memorial Congregational Church “The Community Church,” on East St—Raymond N. Gilman, Pastor . 145 a. m. on by Rev, H. K. Warren, L.I.D., President of the Yanktown, 8. D, College. Sunday School at 12 M. 10:45 ,o'clock. | SPECIAL SERVICES DURING HOLY WEEI({ Various Denominatmns Plan| Sacred Ceremonies Easter Week Special strvices during Holy Week will be held by the majority of | churches in this city. Many of the leading Protestant churches will co- operate with the Goodell club and will hold, special union services in dif- ferent churches each day. On Monday the services will.be held in the Swedish Bethany church and will be in charge of Rev. R. N, Gil- man, On Tuesday services will bhe in the Trinity M. E, church and will be in charge of Rey. Dr. J. E. Kling- berg: Wednesflay the services will be in the First Baptist church. Rev, Henry W." Maiet will preach the ser- mon. Holy Thursday = will be ob- served with a communion service at the South Q@ongregational church in charge of Rev. John L. Davis, | Good Friday will mark the last unfon service of the week and will be |in the Iirst Congregatibnal church. | Rev. G, H. Schneck will preach. Those .churches .which are co-op-, | erating with the Goodell club are as follows: - South, Iirst, ‘Stanley Me- morial and Swedish Bethany Congre- | gational churches; Trinity Methodist, | First, German and Swedish Baptist and the People’s church. [ At the First Lutheran church a! | Good Friday service will be held at| 10:30 a, m, Palm Sunday will be observed in all | | the Catholic churches of the city with | | thémasses at the usual time and spe- | clal musical programs at each mass. | | Palm will be distributed at the close | of the various masses. On Holy Thurs- | day the mass at St. Mary's will be af 8 o'clock followed by the procession of the blessed sacrament. On Friday the mass will be at 8 o'clock follow- ed by a procession. The ceremony of | kissing the cross will also take place Good Friday in all the Catholic churches. Special Holy Week services for New Britain's colored residents will be held at the A, M. E. Zion church Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings at 7:30 o’clock, | | | Special Holy Week services will be | | held at st. Mark’s Episcopal church tduring the weck as follows: | Holy Communion will be celebrated Monday morning at 9:30 o’clock. On Tuesday, communion will be held at 7 a. m. and again at 9:30 a. m. Holy Communion will be held Wed- nesday morning at 9:30 o’clock. The \vpf\ak(‘r at the special Lenten service | at T: 45 o'clock in the evening will be | | Rev.'F. 8. Lippitt, rector of All Shints' Shilieoh, Srennsn, [ | + On Maundy Thursday the commun- | fon service will be held at 7 a. m. and 9:30 a. m. Morning prayer and ante-commun- ion will be held at 10 a. m. Good ¥'ris| day. JFrom 12 o'clock until 3 p. m. the “Three Hours” will be conducted ! by the rector. At 7:30 p. m., Ftauwrs “Crucifixion” will be sung by the| choir of men and buys. ! On Saturday at 4:30 p. m. the sac- rament of Holy Baptism wil lbe ad- ministered. The Reformation Lutheran church | will hold special Lenten services Wed- nesday evening at 8 o'clock and Good | Friday services Iriday morning at 10:45 o'clock. f There will be a short meeting of the membhers of the First Baptist church Wednesday evening at o'clock. i Robt. G. Hi Sermon: “Events Attendi Sunday School at 12:05. 7:00 P, M.—Evening Service, Sermon: “Paradise Lost; Bible Class Thursday Eve. at — AT Sunday at 10:45 A. M. Rev, sSunday 7 P. M. Pastor A. B. Sub]ect : “God’s Esti 4th in | Citizenship Training.” All Boy Scouts | vited to attend the service. | attend some other church service, | families in other services. | Man Who Mapped Interior of Central 7| tette. Second Advent Church Church Street, 10:45 A. M.—Morning Service. People’s Church of Christ Court St. Saloon League will speak FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Lenten Meditation Glimpses of The Cross On the Way To Calvary “THE CROSS SEEN FROM GETHSEMANE” Rev. William Ross Morning Service—10:45 il 3 S S Sl et | $COUT OFFIGIAL 10 SPEAK Assistant ‘hmm wr t Address Everyman's Class—Early Service Easter, Ray O. Wyland, assistant director | of education of the Boy Scouts of | America, will address the men of | Kveryman's Bible class tomorrow morning. Mr. Wyland will take Educational Direc- Bible | RAY O. WYLAND. | his topie, “Building America Through in the city and suburbs have been in-|g Because of the drive for a record attendance on Easter morning and the movement to have all members it | has' been decided to have the Easter session of Everyman's Bible class open at 9:15 o'clock that morning and stop promptly at 10:15 o'clock. This is to give the men time to join their FAMOUS EXPLORER COMING Asia to Speak at First Lutheran Church April 2. Dr. Sven Hedin, explorer of inter- national fame, who has traveled and mapped hitherto unexplored sections of Asia, and who is in America to speak before the large universities of the country, including Harvard and Yale, will speak in this city Easter Monday, at 8§ p. m. Dr. Hedin has been honored , by two Swedish kings and by geographic and scientic societies in most of the large countries of the world, He has been awarded 35 gold medals. The lecture will be given in the First Lutheran church. The Wen- nerberg male chorus, led by Rev. Dr. Abel Ahlquist, will make its first appearance on this occasion with 35 voices. MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT. Members of Welcome Baptist Mission to Have Literary Program. | A musical and literary entertain- ! ment will be held in the vestry of the | German Baptist church Monday even-, ing by the Welcome Baptist (colored) mission, An elaborate program has been pre- pared, special features being the ad- dress by Rev. W. B. Reed, pastor of the Shiloh Baptist church, Hartford, and jubilee singing by the Shiloh §ex- The McLean orchestra will furnish musie. near Stanley gins, Pastor ng the Lord’s Second Advent” ] Pafidiw Regained.” 8. Leader, Thomas Emerson THE — Harry E. Olcott of the Anti- Taylor. mate of a Soul.” Series Holy Week—See Program of United Services Wednesdny. First Baptist Church—7:30 Church Meeting—7:00 (UAINT GEREMONIES MARK PALM SUNDAY {Palm Has Been Token of Victory| Among Chnstlans for Genturies | endar of those who confess to no religious be- lefs, dom as Palm Sunday? {world | wih a man whose brief life to a great- | [ e gan, profoundly influenced the course Jerusalem on this fateful day 18 cen- | turies since, Jof all the |cal of the meekness and simplicity of |the doctrine which Jesus of throngs which | him, | branches crying: Son cometh in the |And thus stamped | Sunday—which marked |ning of the end mission on earth; and was to five | Golgotha. thus established, Christian customs which have taken|on each recurring Palm Sunday “aft- Sunday ages a fixed and recognized event, ob- served by Christian helievers accord- ing to their doctrinal forms. monials have arisen with | throughout history has been to all emblem of joy and of [triumph over foes, Its specific use |by Christians in this connection is 'in token of vietory over the flesh and the world; so it was that when the I"ounder of Christianity rode into Jerusalem on the first Palm sSunday it was the emblem of triumph, the |palm, tha he was joyfully greeted, | Mistorians trace the observance of Palm Sunday back to the sixth cen- |tury, The Greeks and others churches of [the ecast observed it with great ®solemnity., With the spread of Chris- |tianity to the west, particularly the Latin countries, some of the rigid |forms of the observance gave way to a more joyous celebration, and the took on the nature of a floral festival second only to that of Kaster itself, Among the Spanish it was known as Pasqua Florida; and Span- ish explorers having on Palm Sun- day, 1512, discovered what is now the State of Florida, that name was given [to the land in honor of the festival The mediaeval chronicles abound in quaint references to the observance of e 3 the day among the Armenians, Lith- :‘““")‘"‘l s ,"l":‘ By ":"; uanians, Serbs and Croats, as well as e ety ecept|in England and in Germany, In Eng- “Hosannah to the land the day was called Olive or Staascd e ks ¢ Branch Sunday; and the celebration , A took the form of'a long procession name h"f ‘:‘,‘,"‘;f,l symbolical of the entry into Jerusa- the t;;‘»)—;e;:"""" in which the participants car- his remarieble Ted palm and olive branches, and at lead t_hfl head of which was borne the o}‘"“""‘ of a child seated on an ass, (quaintly carved in the wood. In Ancient Jerusalem. According to an ancient chronicle the faithful in Jerusalem were wont | peopie the RELIGIOUS ITEMS The official hoard of The People’s church will meet at 7:15 o'clock Mon- day evening for the transaction of im« portant business, The Mission Cirele of the Elim Swedish Baptist church will meet Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock at the home of Rev, and Mrs. J. E. Kling- berg on Rackliffe Heights, The Girls' club of the German Bap- tist church will hold a meeting Mon- day evening. The lLadies' Aid society of the Gers man Baptist church will meet Wed- nesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The Young Women's Home Mis- slonary society of the First Congrega- tional church will meet Tuesday at 6:30 p. m, for supper and work. What is this day which in the cal- civilization, even among is known throughout Christen- To all the it has an intimate association degree than other since time be- whole of history. Riding down into mounted on the humblest beasts of burden—symboli- used to teach; and for two hours, hymns, anthems and lessons were re- cited. A'bout the hour of None, (3 p. m.) all went singing hymns, to the Imbomon whence our Lord ascended into Heaven. Here two hours were spent in devotional exercises, until about five o'clock when the passage from the gospel relating to how the children carrying branches and palms met the Lord, saying, “Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the |Lord,” was read, following which the procession dispersed amid shouts of ‘Hosannah to the Son of David.” Palms blest on Palm Sunday and carried in the processions were later taken home by the faithful and used for devotional purposes. In the Chris- tian churches where Ash Wednesday is observed at the beginning of the Lenten season, the ashes with which the sign of the cross is made upon he preached— of David! of days to the tragedy later, Fixed Through th Ages. With the day and its significance like many other Palm |er the customary exercises from cock | the crow to noon had taken place in| the Anastasia and at the Cross, to go| to the greater Church behind the |Cross on Golgotha called the Martyr- Many quaint and interesting cere- |ium, Here the ordinary services were | the foreheads of the devout by the of= in cnnn(ctlon\hnld At the seventh hour (1 p. m.),| clating priests is secured from the The palmlal' proceeded to the Mount of Olives| burning of palm branches which were [.md to the cave in which the Lord| blest on the preceding Palm Sunday. place in the secular calendar, has remained through Palm Sunday. .FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST—Services at 11 A. M. “The Place of Praise In Life” Sermon By Rev. Henry W. Maier School—10 A. M. All Are Welcome UNION SERVICES FOR HOLY WEEK Each Evening at 7:30 o’élqck Monday—At Swedish Bethany Church—Rev. R. N. Gilman Tuesday—At Trinity M. E. Dr. J. E. Klingberg Wednesday—First Baptist—Rev. Henry W. Maier Thursday—South Congregational, Communion—Rev. John L. Davis Friday—First Congregatlonal——Rev. G. H. Schneck Auspices of Local Churches and Goodell Club A Dramatic Palm Sunday Picture GOD AND THE MAN BASED ON THE LIFE EXPERIENCE OF JOHN WESLEY Sunday Evening, 7:15—South Church Doors Open at 6:45 P. M. Morning Worship At 10:45 Sermon By the Minister “I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY CATHOLI(‘ CHURCH.” CORDIAL WELCOME TO AL L AT ALL SERVICES. Palm Sunday Music — A Man’s Message to Men — ‘Building America Through Citizenship Training” -y — BY — % RAY O. WYLAND Assistant Director Department of Education Boy Scouts of America — AT — T —EVERYMAN’S BIBLE CLASS— 9:30 A. M. ALL BOY SCOUTS INVITED EASTER SUNDAY SERVICE Starts at 9:15 a. m.—Over at 10:15. Come to Bible Class first then go to church with your flr:rlily. ot