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THE LAKE SHORE NEWS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1918 UNION FORMED HERE AIDS BILLY SUNDAY Union Will Prepare For the Billy Sunday Meetings to Be Held in Chicago in March. bit HOLLAND TO SPEAK Union Service Will Be Held Sunday at Wilmette M. E. Church. By Rev. J. M. Schneider. (President of Wilmette Church Union.) The Wilmette Church Union, com- posed of the Baptist, Congregational, Methodist and Presbyterian churches, is now a complete organization and ready for all the work within its scope. It was completed last Sunday afternoon when a group of men from the various churches gathered at the Congregational Church and put the finishing touches on it. This organization stands for sev- eral clearly defined purposes, as fol- lows: First.—To create and maintain a popular Sunday evening evangelistic service in Wilmette. This service will open with an inspiring song service, led by an expert director. The book to be use'd is "Joy To the World." There will be special music at every service, furnished by the choirs of the several churches, under the direction of a union music committee. The pastors will be in charge of the pro- gram, together with a representative from the Sunday Evening Club. Large audiences have already encour- aged the new organization. Last Sunday night several took the stand for the Christian life. Second.—To prepare for the Billy Sunday meetings, to be opened in Chicago on March 10. A committee has been appointed on the Sunday meetings. They will have charge of all work in connection with that movement, such as prayer meetings, Bible classes and personal work. They have arranged for a big union prayer meeting tomorrow evening at the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Dale of the Sunday campaign will be the speaker. After this week there will be several cottage prayer meetings every week until March 10. Third.—To prepare the churches to care for the large number of new converts coming from the Sunday meetings. It is said by some people that the results of the Sunday meet- ings are not very permanent. It has been found that the fault usually lies with the churches in that they are not ready to care properly for these new converts. They are like flowers, put in a refrigerator that soon freeze. In Wilmette it is the plan to create such a warm and sympathetic atmos- phere that none of the new converts may be lost. Fourth.—To get behind the work at the Great Lakes Naval Station. This spring and summer Wilmette will be visited by hundreds of jackies. Where will they go? What will they do? The "Wilmette Church Union, realiz- ing the great opportunity for service nere, ?,s well as the unavoidable re- sponsibility, has taken steps to help out in this important work. A com- mittee from the several churches has been appointed to assist in this task. Fifth.—To guard and foster all re- ligious, moral and social interests of our village, so far as it is possible for such an organization to do. Every problem in the village will be an opportunity for service on the part of this new organization. Its motto is—"Service." Next Sunday night the speaker will be Dr. A. J. Holland, of Dixon,'111. Excellent music and seats*will be free. The public is Invited. - Meet- ings are held at the Methodist Church, corner of Lake and Wilmette ave- nues on Sunday evenings at 7:30 o'clock. CHURCHES Annountemtnts of the services held in the carious Wilmette Churches Vs Chrlatiaa Science. First Church of Christ, Scientist, Wilmette. Central avenue and Tenth street. Sunday services at 10:45 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Sunday-school, 9:45 a. m. Testimonial meeting, Wednesday at 8 p. m. Reading room, 9 a. m. to 9 p. m., except Wednesday. Wednesday until 7:45 p. m. 1163 Wilmette avenue. Wilmette Baptist Church. Sunday services held in the Wilmette Woman's Club building. Greenleaf ave- nue and Tenth street. Francis C. Stlfler, pastor. 9:45 a. m.—Bible school. 11:00 a. m.—Morning worship. 6:15 p. m — Senior B. Y. P. U. St. John'* Ev. Lutheran Church. Linden and Prairie avenues. Herman W. Mever, pastor. 9:30 a. m.—Sunday-school and Bible 10:30 a. m.—Service in German. 7:45 p. m.—Service in English. 4:00 p. m.—Monday and Friday, classes for religious Instruction St. Auguatlnc'tt Church. The Rev. Dr. A. Worger-Slade, priest - in-charge, during the absence of the Rev. Frank E. Wilson, who has been assigned to army church work at Camp Grant, Rockford, 111. Church telephone, Wilmette 173. 7:30 a. m.—Holy communion. 9:45 a. m.—Church school. 11:00 a. m.—Morning prayer and ser- mon. (First Sunday in each month Holy communion.) 7:00 p. m.—Evening prayer and ser- mon.____________ Method lat Episcopal Char eh. Lake and Wilmette avenues. The Rev. John M. Schneider, minister, 1024 Lake avenue. Telephone, Wilmette 654. Office, 1159 Wilmette avenue. Tele- phone, Wilmette 2224. 9:30 a. m.—Bible school. 10:45 a. m.—Public worship. 6:30 p. m.—Epworth League. 7:30 p. m.—Evening worship. Wednesday, 7:45 p. m.—Mid-week service. Wilmette Preabyteriaa Chareh. Ninth street and Greenleaf avenue. James M. Wilson, minister, resigned to accept church In Nebraska. Church telephone, Wilmette 1575. 9:45 a. m.—Sunday-school. 11:00 a. m.—Public worship. 4:00 p. m.—Finnish Young Women's Club. 7:45 p. m.—Public worship. 6:30 p. m.—Christian Endeavor. Wednesday, 8 p. m.—Mid-week prayer and social meeting.______________. Firat Coagregatloaal Chareh. Wilmette avenue and Eleventh street. Roy Edwin Bowers, minister. The church Is open daily to the passerby for rest, meditation and prayer. The Wilmette Sunday Evening Club meets in the church, Sunday evenings at 7:30. , . 9:45 a. m.—Sunday-school. 11:00 a. m.—Morning service. 6:00 p. m.—Young People's meeting. Wednesdays. 8 p. m.—Bible class. Woman's Guild luncheon on the sec- ond Fridav of each month.______ L. RALPH BINGHAM BILLED TO SPEAK IN WILMETTE Ralph Bingham, a humorist of national prominence, will appear in Wilmette on Saturday evening. March 9, under the auspices of the Crescent Circle of the Woman's Guild of the Congregational Church. Mr. Bingham is a member of the famous Lamb's Club of New York. He has been on the public platform 35 years, first traveling at the age of 12 years as the * "Boy Orator of America." His unusual program of fun will be of great interest to Wil- mette people. • ...... Lenten Rules Read 7n Local Churches Regulation* For the Observance of the Lenten Season Were Read in Catholic Churches. MR. HERBERT J. WRIGHTSON Planlet and Organist Member of Faculties of International College of Music and Expres- sion, and University Extension Conservatory. Leiioni, Bfualcalea. Recitals 03 Auditorium Bldg., Chicago Res.—lt)«6 Linden Ave., Wilmette Phoae Wahaah SMS Phone Wilmette 2083 St. Joeeph'e Church. Ridge and Lake avenues. The Rev. Father William Netstraettr, pastor. Sundav services: 6:30 a. m.—Low Mass celebrated. S:lS n. m.—Low Mass celebrated with sermon in English. 10:30 a. m.—High Mass celebrated with sermon in German. . 2:30 p. m.—Vespers and Benediction. Women Report Work of Guard Division By Mrs. W. D. Laurence. (Chairman of the Publicity Committee.) The report of the Woman's Com- mittee of the Wilmette Home Guard, from Jan. 12 to Feb. 12, reads as follows: Mrs. Walter D. Steele, who has charge of the knitted outfits for the Wilmette boys, makes the following report: 24 pairs of socks to the American Expeditionary Forces, Ho- bok'.-n, N. J.; six helmets, four kits, three sweaters, three pairs of socks and one trench cap were given to the Wilmette boys before they departed for camp. The following articles were sent to the American Fund for French Wounded, and are given in turn to the men actually fighting in the trenches: 58 sweaters, 60 trench caps, 15 pairs of socks, 5 pairs of wristlets and 7 scarfs. Through the kindness of Mrs. H.- J. Burbach, the committee was able to send direct to France to the Qne Hundred and Forty-ninth Regiment of the Rainbow Division'■'the follow- ing, .articles: 14 sweaters, 30 trench caps, 17 pairs of wristlets and 24 pairs of socks. .Mrs. R. E. Ward, chairman of the Naval Auxiliary of the Red Cross, reports the following articles were completed: 31 sweaters, 3 helmets, 4 pairs of wristlets, 10 hospital shirts. 9 convalescing robes, 13 scarfs, 15 pairs of socks and 7 pairs of pajamas. The materials for these garments were furnished by the Navy Auxiliary of the Red Cross. Mrs. E. A. Tucker of Wood court and Mrs. Percy Skillen of Fifteenth street have organized units to sew and knit. A central unit is now be- ing considered. Mrs. Ward, chair- man of the Naval Auxiliary, brings word from headquarters that hos- pital garments are badly needed so at this time we particularly -welcome these sewing units. Regulations and rules for the ob- servance of the Lenten season, issued by Archbishop G. W. Mundelein, were read in the Wilmette Catholic churches Sunday morning. The len- ten season began yesterday and con- tinues until Easter Sunday. Regulations in Force. The rules follow: "All the days of lent from Ash Wednesday. Feb. 13, to Holy Satur- day noon, March 30, Sundays ex- cepted, are fast days of obligation for all the faithful, who have at- tained their twenty-first year and are not otherwise lawfully dispensed. "Those obliged to fast under this general law of the church are re- stricted to one full meal in the day, which may be taken at noon or in the evening, and to a collation not to exceed ten ounces or the fourth part of an ordinary meal. Custom allows the use of some warm drink in the morning-, such as tea, coffee or chocolate with a piece of bread. "The use of flesh meat and fijh is no longer forbidden at the same meal. "Lard or the fat rendered from any kind of meat may be used in pre- paring food on all days during lent and on all days of fast and abstinence throughout the year. Persons Exempted. "All those who have not attained their twenty-first year and those who have reached their sixtieth; the sick, the very poor; pregnant women and those nursing children; those obliged to do hard work and in general all those who cannot fast without detri- ment to their health, are exempted from fasting. "Those who have any reasonable doubt as to their ability to fast should seek the advice of their confessor. "Persons exempted from the obli- gation of fasting are permitted the use of meat at all meals on the days on which ks use is permitted by dis- pensation. "Abstinence from flesh meat im- plied in the precept of fasting in this diocese is dispensed with on Sundays without 'restriction and at the prin- cipal meal on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, except the Saturday of Ember week. Rules for Toilers. "Workingmen, together with their entire household- are allowed the use of flesh meat at the principal meal on all fast days and days of abstin- ence throughout the year with the following exceptions: All Fridays of the year, Ash Wednesday, Wednes- day of holy week and the vigil of Christmas, unless the vigil falls on a Sunday. "The workingman and the rest of the members of the household, who for any reason whatsoever are ex- empt from the law of fasting, may use meat at all the meals on the above-mentioned days on which the use of meat is allowed. Those mem- bers of the household, however, who are not exempt from the obligation of fasting can avail themselves of this dispensation only at the principal., meal. "It would be well to inform the faithful that the; period for the per- formance of the Easter duty in this cTioccse extends from the first Sunday in Lent to Trinity •Suiuiay, ;»sid that henceforth by a general !;w fast and abstinence are abolished on holy days of obligation. "We trust, reverend and dear father, that you will exhort your people to enter seriously into the spirit of lent, which is one of .prayer and penance, and that, those who are exempted from the law of fasting will practice.some other ac-t/of mor- tification, such as .abstaining from intoxicating ■ liquors and worldly pleasures, and devote themselves to the performance of pious works."; ~•♦ ____ SEE____ M. E. BARKER & CO. For Real Estate Bargains Splendid List of Bargains in Modern and New Homes Some unusual bargains in lots-Get our rent list Phone 484 415 Linden Ave. Wilmette «~~ SX -.../-. 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The service flag of the Chicago Methodist churches, with 4,000 stars, will be displayed at the Wilmette Methodist Church at the 10:45 o'clock service on Sunday morning. A patriotic service has been ar- ranged for Sunday morning. The service flag was dedicated recently at a union patriotic service at the Me- dina Temple in Chicago. At Home. Dr. and Mrs. M. Bryed Wilson, for- merly Miss Agnes Collyer, have re- turned from their honeymoon .trip and are now at their new^ home in Rogers Park. - .-.'" ■' i \^hlit the Bell System I Is Doing; HE vklue of our navy depends U ciency of the people *fb,ack home Adequate means .of; eora.ri»mU fc&y Upon the effi- tion are a tremen- ijfdSus fac'tbf"in nationaraefetise. In (Jjmonstration of its *!apility to supply almost instant service over the whole ;.t! country, the Bell System,' a-shorttim£ •'before the declar- ■-, ,atipn by the President of a state of wati arranged a forty- '% hour mobilization test of its facilities. - -Communication was f-| eptablished between the Navy Department at Washington « and all naval stations ir. the United States, including such \ widely separated points asPuget SouhiL Wash.; Pensacola, '? Fla.; San Diego, Cal., and Nev Orleans, La. ' Over fifty-three thousand miles of wire and the services T of six hundred employes engaged in making the test. An average of thirty seconds wa$,iaken to make most of the connections. Later, by wireless telephony, Secretary Daniels talked " from his desk in the Navy Department with the com- ; mander of the Battleship New Hampshire, somewhere on the Atlantic. yi These demonstrations were of importance to every cit- izen of the country in that they showed the value of the telephone as a means of National defense. CHICAGO TELEPHONE COMPANY