Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1912 — YELL OPENS CHURCH SERVICE [ARTICLE]

YELL OPENS CHURCH SERVICE

Choir Boys Whistle Hymns and Innovation ta Pronounced a Success in New Jersey. \ Hillsdale, N. J.-—Church services, opened with an excellent imitation of a college yell and Interspersed by music from a choir of whistling boys, is the novel winter program at the Methodist church here, of which the Rev. William Bird is pastor. The experiment was tried for the first time last night, and is pronounced a complete success by the minister. The choir of boys lined up on the platform at the opening of the services and gave their “club yell,” which is as follows: _— Say, my friend Have you seen Second Timothy / Two fifteen? First Thessalonians Five twenty-two Tells you exactly What to do. Then they whistled “Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus,” “Wonderful Words of Life” and -other popular hymns. >