Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1912 — UNION EVANGELISTIC SERVICES TO BEGIN. [ARTICLE]

UNION EVANGELISTIC SERVICES TO BEGIN.

Three Leading Protestant Churches of the City PUa Three Weeks’ Active Campaign. The Methodist, Presbyterian and Christian churches have planned a series of union evangelistic services to begin next Sunday evening and to continue for three weeks, holding meetings every night but Saturday. The local pastors of the three churches, Rev. C. L. Harper, of the Methodist; Rev. J. C. Parrett, erf the Presbyterian, and Rev. W. G. Winn, of the Christian, will do the preaching, while Horace J. Kurtz, a singing evangelist of Chicago, will aid during the meetings.

The meetings will be held the first week at the Methodist church, the second week at the Presbyterian and the third week at the Christian- Nj announcement will be made as to which minister will deliver the sermon any night The three preachers will be constantly on the job and one of the aims of the meeting will be to biot out any denominational lines as far as possible. The aim is to bring men and women and young people into one or the other of the churches and to improve the spiritual condition in the city and surrounding country. Persons desiring to unite with any one of the churches can do so. The three ministers are all anxious to make the meeting a big success and to have the co-operation of all the citizens. To this end they have asked tfiat. all business houses in the city be closed after 7 o’clock in the evening and all have compiled and a list is published elsewhere in this paper. It is hoped that social events of all kinds will be dispensed with during the meetings. AH may aid the merchants who have signified their willingness to close at 7 o’clock if they will do their shopping earlier in the day. Make It a point, hot only for the convenience of the merchants but al so as an aid to the ministers wno

hope to have a revival of unprecedented interest. With all the church workers in the three churches and all Christian people united for the same result,- with a choir of all the singers of all the churches and with the energetic direction of the three ministers the meeting should result in much g >od and in an increased membership for all the churches.