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14 WILMETTE LiFE, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1924 and the local pastor chose the daughters of ministers as their wives. · MISS BF:ATIUC£ SEGSWORTH BAPTISTS DEDICATE NEW CHURCH EDIFICE continued from page 13) 1911, he received his M. A. Deg:ee from Yale' university and, in 1913, ht s B. D. Degree from the Divinity school. In 1913, he married Miss jean Luccock, eldest daughter of the Rev. G. N. Luc- The first child to ask for Christian Baptism after the organization Qf the church was Miss Beatrice Segsworth, eldest daughter of Dr. and Mrs .. J<?hn Segsworth. From the very begmm!lg of her Christian life, she has felt t~e .·rresistiblc pull of the call for Chnsttan service in foreign lands, and to t~at end, gained her education at Ne\:' tr~er High >chool, the Packer Collegta~e mstitute in Brooklyn, New York, !\orthwestcrn univer sity and the Y. \V,. C. A. Training school in New York Cuy. For the pa~t two years she has traveled among th e colleges of the country 111 the interests oi the Student yotunteer movement. This summer she ts tn bc:come the hride of \V. ] . Kitchen and ts to accompany him to China. where ~e has been called to fill the chatr of Agnculture at the Canton Christian college. I I L--------------_. Fea~ the Work Cai. LDREN 's fL\l.L A year ago, tt was f0tmd th<~:t .t~e development of the teach ing .acttvtttes ~f the church made it impus;;tble. to wa!t until the building of the educauona l umt two years from now. anrl so .th~re was constructed a temporary bUIIdmg over the boiler room at the rear of t~e present structure. This is called ~htldren 's Ha ll and is completely CQ ';1 1Pped to care for the work of the Begmners If c. E. THO MPSON C. E. Thompson, who serves this year a treasurer of the church, ,ha.s ~erve.d throughout the nine years of hts tdenttficati <m with the church as a deacon, a chairman of the Boa rd of Trustees, as a Sunday School teacher, as a member of the Building committee and as Church trca.;urcr. ::O.! r. Thompson is assistant to the President of the Chicago. orth Shore and Milwaukee Electric Railway company. Girls so that all who l>ass may Ma;ty testimonials have come to :;:a · tor and ~mbers of t he church fr~nfa~arious sources as to the helpfulness of this boa r_d_.__ THE Itr.nnNATED CRoss . of the officia l members of a stster h On~ . th . village recently called up c u~c Ill the · pastor of the Baptist t~ 10~ 0 ~~ t on Friday evening, March c urc .~, coming h ome fr om work 8·I' he '~ ,~ blue and discouraged beee mg fH y tters which had transpired cau~e 0 :n~lt His son had also redurtlg : ~e to take up residence ~ent Yd . elt trt of the country and it m a tstatll ll· . was raining ha rd. As he came up Wllmette avt·11 w . the illuminated cross on the front oi the Bapti st churc.h. s.uddenly flashed put. It was the .mttt~l ~p pearance of the Cross, and tts stgmficance so warmed the heart of the passer-by that . as he stated to th.e pastor, when he reached home, his family found him in the IK ,;t of spirits and completely adjusted tn the d7m ands ?n li~e. The Cross is equtpped wtth stx .60 candle-power lamps and, together wtth the Bulletin board is connected with an automatic clock which illuminates the Cross shortly after sundown and turns it off at 11 o'clock. F' tr~ tc 11 an organ of ordinary church size 11 W. father's residence, wh ich today is 1 Ill\ of a greatly enlarged and i~ instrument in his home in E~ where it has been heard by or.._. from · all over the country. Prc.l the experience gained by this feat 114 continuous study he has acquired a htical and thorough knowledge of the ar gan which .he has given gratuitOUsly ~ many churches when planning their lltlr organs . He studied under the fatnaaa New York organist, Clarence DickiDson; also with the dean of the New England Conservatory, Wallace Goodrich. At the age of seventeen he 1ras organist at the Church of Ascensi<~~, later for the past twelve years at ~ worth M. E. Church, Edgewater. Mr. Barnes is active in the work of various organists' associations. He bas just been made president of the Chi~ A:tists' assoc.i~tion ~nd his coming to thts new posttton wtll mean a distinct advance in the musical life of the yj). lag e. ;\o trUt the pleast , ari-colort iur they iurnishing a11d bits o l'd lntcrio ' ' ' be grt rare in ~ t>~ even 1 Brilliant Police Rid Streets of Annoying Stray Canines Fo u rteen stray and unlicensed dOll were disposed of b,y the Wilmette police in the pa st two weeks followmg the allotted 48 hours impoundinr. In practically every instance the canines were of the common "alley variety" who appeared to have no claims as household pets. , Police give warning t hat all dogs permitted to run at large must be adequately muzzled and t hat all dogs in the village must bear license tags. HARVEY A. B l:S H Harvey A. Bush is now chairman of the lloard of Deacons of the church and head of the .Membership depa'rtment. He has also been serving for a period of RE\'. B. FilA X K TABER three vears as trea ~ urer of Benevolences (Ba{'tist Church. Waslzi11gl01~, Pa. ) of the- Church. He is assistant manager of the Firemen's Fund Insurance com- and Primary departments and serves many other purposes 111 connection with thl' activities of the church. CHARLES L. :MAJOR Charles L. Maj or is one of the six Tm: Bcr.t.ETJ~ BoARD · found ers of the church and has served The movable Jetter bu lletin board fr0m the beginning as chairman of the erected on the lawn in the front of the Bui lding committee. H e has also serv- church ami illuminated at night, is used ed as Church clerk and as a trustee. Mr. as a means of promoting the preach ing ~lajnr i~ the manager o f the Chicago mini stry of the church. A verse of j lou. e oi the American Bapti st Pub- scripture or a pithy statement bearing 1cation ~ucicty. upon moral and religious life is placed there each day by one of the Camp \\'u.t tA:\1 .M . BcRx s \\"illiam M . Burns i~ now chairman of the Ded ication Week committee. He REI'. ] . .M. STJFLER, D. D. has been identified with the church for (East Orangr, N. J.) nine years, in which time he has been rhc leader of the Men 's class and has cock, D.O., then pa stor of the First served both as deacon and as trustee. Presbyterian Church of Oak Park. Mr. A ago, he served as chairman of . Open and Mrs. Stifter settled at first in Saginaw, Michigan, where for three years, Mr. Stifler was pastor of the Michigan Avenue Baptist church. Since his pastorate began in Wilmette seven years ago, Mr. Stiflcr has been interested in many denominational and interdenominational movements. He has served as a member of the Board of Managers of the Illinois Baptist State Convention, has twice represented the Education Board of the Northern Baptist Convention at the Student Conference at Lake Geneva; served on the faculty of the Baptist Summer Assembly at Alton, Illinois, in 1922-23 and has also been a member of the faculty of the Y. W. C. A . Conferences at Lake Geneva on various occasions. He has also been for four years chairman of the Lake Geneva Conference of the Mi ssionary Education Movement, and has the distinction of serving for six years as chairman of the Wi lmette Pastor's Union, and for a year and a half as President of the Wilmette Church Council. An interesting fact connected with the life of the local pastor is that his grandfather was a Baptist minister, his fathREv. W. S. ABERNETHY, D .D. er a Baptist minister, and later a teachCalvary Baptist Church er; and all of the six living children Washingto11, D. C. a re engaged in religious work. Four sisters married Baptist ministers, and the the Tenth Anniversary committee of older brother, Rev. ]. M. Stifter, is now the church. Mr. Burns is an officer of pastor of the First Baptist church of the Marsh and Truman Lumber comEvanston. Both Dr. Stifter of Evanston pany. I THE A t:STIN ORGAN Together with the Dedicati?n of the completed building, th.e Baptist chur~h is to dedicate its magmficent new Austm o rgan, ac~o:ding to specifications drawn up by \Vt lham H. ~ar.nes, treasurer of the A. R. Barnes P:mtmg com~any w~o f:om boyhood has mterested htmself m ptpe organs and has shown for many -;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;======:;; yt·ars an a lmost uncanny knowledge of ~he constructi on of the pipe organ. Mr. SPRING SUITS Barnes was sought as organist of the I church and, to the great delight of a li i loca l mu ical people, has accepted the Nothi ng better can be had position. His interest in the new quality, price and style. church is further shown in his generous prc,cntatwn of an additional stop, the Everything for the ladies. We French Horn, which is being installed have everything ready t o wear. with the organ. Mr. Barnes' career has been very i~ tcresting. He began the study of mustc Unique Style Shop at the age o f ten, originally on the piano, liZ& CENTRAL AVE. and shortly afterward he became inter-j Ph. W il. Z403 ested in the organ. At the age of four- I teen he had completed the building of I I I,. PubUc I daily 8 Service Stores a. m. to 5:30 p. m. Now-s . . OO &oown Will deliver immediately your choice of Universal Gas Range -balance in monthly payments. Your old stove taken as part payment or 42 Piece Set Limoges FREE China, American Made SpeclaiAprHOIIer During April only we will deliver any Universal gas .range which you select in our store on a down payment of $1.00, balance monthly with service statement. 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