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11 MOWNE DAILY DISPATCH. SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1918. t-r ti.VK. GRAVE RELIGIOUS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8 BIRTHDAY OF 1 ST CONGREGATIONAL If PROBLEMS FACED Second Congregational Church Corner 12th st and 16th ave. CHARLES A.

PARM1TER, Pastor. has so dramatically vindicated, runs down to tha very roots of religion. Belief in it has Sustained the allied nations throughout their darkest days. It is a battlefield of faith, in which there Is victory. When men may be sure of God, then they are sure of all 'things else.

Muddy-Minded Sentimentality. Already it Is discernible that this basic religious significance of the war is running a clear line of division between the muddy-minded sentimentalists, and the ad Will Be 75 Tears Old Triumph of Allies Over Ger i v. on 5th Day cf Coming Month. many Brings Work for Church. herents of simple righteousness.

It is a person's idea of God that deter-mines-all the rest of his thinking. Because so many men and women had Convinced that a closing of the burch would be fruitless while public places in general are open, we offer religious serviced morning and evening. No Sunday school. Morning worship at 11 :00. Subject Spreading the Gospel of Life.

No Intermediate Christian Endeavor. Evening worship at 7:30. Subject: A Layman's Religion. Good music at each service. Wearing" of masks is requested.

FLU TO HIT OBSERVANCE? By WILLIAM T. ELLIS. Dazed by the suddenness and magni come to entertain, in a fashion of vague sentimentality, the gelatinous notion that God is'a mere atmosphere tude of victory, the nations ae only of good-nature and benign tolerance. slowly getting around to a perception lt Notable Birthday Celebration Twenty five Years Ago Changes Since 1891. of it religions significance.

True, there was the inevitable and instinc who is shocked by the sight of blood, there were twisted-brained pacifists to oppose ourtaking up arms in ber half Scf clear righteousness; and to I r-t 1 tive ejaculation on a myriad lips. "Thank God!" Hourly services were defend or palliate the worst of the i held on the steps of St. Paul's church German atrocities, tnnvnrrow tke First Con- A thoughtful woman, roared In the Boston and in many other places people turned to the house of God to church of Moline will Society of Friends, but, like the most express their worshipful gratitude we been in existence seventy-five or three-quarter-i of a century. long the outer wall of an oface SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8 Fs CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Twenty-second st. and Seventh PERCY CHANDLER LADD, Pastor.

building in Philadelphia flies a vie tory banner, proclaiming, "Glory to ought Itf wjihc uti of her co-religion iats, an out-and-out supporter of America's-war program, wrote recently that she had never known a pacifist who was not a critic of America and a defender of Germany! She might have added the average pacifkt is also an advocate of the bolsheviki, despite their red rec God in the highest, and on earth, Pjpwe and good will toward men." Ju t-ation of uaie' 1 tie flu epidemic lias kept tbem back rm making any definite arrange- bilatiou resounded from all pulpits and in every religious gathering. -1 5 -jits. However, iuc ju.i;i ji tlie bands of a committee whose is Mrs. Harry Ainsworth, Nevertheless, the world is only ord of hatred, ruin and murder. slowly wtfking up to the meaning of this stupendous triumph -of right over Because of the "Flu" epidemic there will be NO SERVICES TOMORROW.

Meeting "Pity Propaganda, Those same faddists are the "only it is not probable that the an-siresary will be allowed to pass un-, TLe scone of the observance might; of justice over iniquity. Sol enfn thoughts concerning "the charac supporters of the "pity propaganda tors, yet served its day and eenera- ter of God are involved in this glorl of the Germans. They favor the "for i3tion nobly. Spreading the Gospel of Life, and at the evening service at 7:00, A Layman's Religion. The wearing, of masks ous termination of hostilities.

Inci give and forget" pojicy, even though Jror a term of years it was the dentally, the belief of many devout doubtless depend on the progress cr abatement of the epidemic. It is wining to be too late now to. invite former members who have moved to distant parts of the country, fhiiprvfinre is likelv to be a the enemy does not ask forgiveness nnd displays no sign of penitence. center from which emanated an in is requested. persons that the war would grow fluence that shaped and molded the worse and worse, and the world stead social character of the whole com Saccharine sentimentality, wlncn would extend to Germany a measure ily deteriorate, until Jesus comes DR.

R. G. CLARKE HERE; i munity. It was brought directly in SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8 UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ngain in person to set things right, of succor that has been denied Ar 'Lne-foIka affair. The church is now in its fourth connection with the heart and sym- NO SERVICES TOMORROW has been put under the necessity of menia and Syria and Serbia and Al Louse of worship the fifth if the ex-11 bania and Rumania and Ocrmanys ia uues 01 tne people, its door was never closed, because it had no door.

lGtb st. and 8th ave. readjustment. Writer upon-religions themes, and preachers, are only now beginning to set in order the signifi other victims, is, happily, not the prevailing note in America today. cance of events.

Entrance to it was as free as God's air, and the feet of the minister, if his head was not, were continually fanned by the cool breezes of the Ministers are lifting their voices in NO SERVICES TOMORROW. Because of the "Flu" epidemic. What of "Gott Mit Vnsr proclamation of stern righteousness, and of a forgiveness which waits upon Even the armies of Mohammed winter niorning, or warmed by the sultry heat of the summer evening. repentance. They seek vain for never made more pious proiession Its walls, were crowded from Sabbath than did those of the Germain kais Rev.

R. G. Clarke, the new pastor at the United" Presbyterian church, arrived in the city this noon ready to preach his initial sermon at the church tomorrow, but because of the flu epidemic the. church board has decided that there will not be any services at all tomorrow, but if the flu situation improves services will be held next Sunday when the new pastor will be in the pulpit. The congregation and friends are asked to watch next Saturday's paper for the Sunday any sign or contrition iiiti.

awakening on the part of the German The new pastor is hre and will preach next Sunday if services are held. Watch the paper for announcement. to Sabbath and from evening to eve-1 er nor were tne- propnet a Monies RSfceologieSl professors and preachers ning. There were discussed, with ever surer of their, divine calling and tensive remodeling or tne iormer structure at Fifth avenue and Seventeenth street in the year 1000 is railed the making of a new edifice. First, in the old brick school house which stood where the Central fire station bow stands; second, in the frame building that until a very few jears ago stood north pJE the railroad tracks en the west side of Sixteenth street, long used as the C.

B. Q. station; third, the trick church at Seventeenth street and Fifth avenue built in 1SG9, and extensively about the year 1CKX; and next, the present edifice at Twenty-second street and Seventh attnue The church's fiftieth anniversary was celebrated in January of 1894 by who were first to acclaim tne coiy war of kultur and crime. mission. Still we ce today the iol diers whose watchword was "Gott mit thrilling interest, the great questions of politics, of temperance, of human freedom, of social reform and of prac Saints are not all "soft." From A.

tins" utterly their un tical religion. Thje good which that the utterances thus far beard, tnrougn the usual vehicles of religious expression, it is clear that the church in holy crimes fixed upon them by i stern-faced public opinion. 01a DricK sen 001 House conferred upon Mohne will never rensp trt ho folf- There is current in France on anec mcrica. regardless of divisions ana 1ia Like the righteous, it should be held DR. S.

YdUNGERT AT dote concerning the German use of SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH names, has nao a new righteousness of God. There is a mow! of stern sensibility of the claims the divine name. A French intelli gence officer was examining a pris FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH "In a historical discourse preached by Mr. Hitchock, June 22, 1S51, por oner, "i ntz said be "you have of justice. Strange sermons, some ui tions of which were afterward printed IX i general homecorving of former mem Cor.

17th st. and 6th ave. R. W. BABCOCK, Pastor 0 Dr.

S. G. Toungert of Augustana wilf preach at the First Lutheran tem extreme, upon the sacrea uuu 'Gott mit uns' on your belt-buckles nnd on your equipment; yet you are inthe Moline Workman in June, bers, Including a number of the old-time pastors, and the affair was a of hating evil and of dealing vigorously with evil-doers, are being heard being steanily defeated. How do you 1S55," continued Mr. Willson, Mr, Hitchcock said church tomorrow in the absence of Dr.

G. A. Andreen, acting pastor. explain it? Is 'Gott no longer it' It jest about got so that folks no longer feci at home 'In their own home. What's become th' feller that used be wiUin' try his hand at anything rather'n loaf? great success, much more successful than any celebration of the seventy- you?" "Yes;" replied the German; Services in the forenoon will be at in the land.

A charge ot accountaou-ity is being entered upv against Ger If counted unon the flac anniversary can now possibly be, Gott is mit uns but you've got the will.be no services at tjiis church because of the "Flu" epidemic Watch paper for next Sunday's services. "'What incalculable benefit has this old school house been to this community! For years it was the only place of public worship or religious meetings of any kind. It has from the Yanks!" cid, forgetful disposition of A 50th Anniversary Committee. There has been a remarkable free 10:43 and will be in English and the evening services at 7:43 will be in Swedish. The class will meet at 5 :30 in the afternoon but there will not be any Sunday, school.

America, she has again recsoneu A look backward at the history o( and one inner tube, Robert Bayles this church, tince it was organized dom in America in jesting with the German conception of God based partly on ftie conviction th.it "the beginning been the place, and the on without knowledge. enemies will be fed, as condemned murders fainted in Judge T. X. Taylor's court. Jan.

5, 1844, with eighteen members, 6 "3i ly place, where our lyceums, our public n. .1 This sentence was the only recourse wuld reveal many interesting things good olilUerman God is only Odin of the trial judge, as it was the third eoanocted with the tistory of Moline, school meetings have- been Some MORNING SERVICE are fed; but there be no delicacies or flowers sent to "criminals. That sort of folly was tolerated in pre-war times; but now even a pacif or Thor, and not the Lord God Jehovah. The public sense of nronri- iu: -u- conviction for the prisoner, and the Of the eighteen orignal members, but w.t-r:.:-!. TRINITY LUTHERAN Mrs.

D. C. Dimock survives of the winter seasons its walls have hardly been cool. Every night for months it has been occupied. Small ist may- not indulge in it.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8 FIRST METHODIST CHURCH Most of the others live in the annals I the name of any diety in connectioftJ something stranger and- more digni previous sentences were for three and of the making of Moline. There will be morning services to and unpretending as it is it has con with the kind of warfare the Ger- fied than a spineless pixy that me Not only have seventeen of the ferred lasting benefits upon this morrow at JJK-Jo at tne xrinity f. "pci m.roi- mans have waged. The restilt has whining propaganda of the central original eighteen members passed on Lutheran church, Fourteenth street whole people." been a world-wide sermon upon hypoc last arrested. He is about 40 years Corner 7th ave.

and ICth st. ATTREE SMITH, Pastor. but many of their followers of later and Fourteenth avenue, and the pas "The church continued to hold ser powers is meeting in America. War has quickened our risy. The kaiser has given a com plete illustration of the words of Je of age.

jears, who took op the work of th vices in the old school house for a tor, Walter A. Tillberg, will preach building of the church and of tbz city, little over six years. The Methodists There will be no evening services sus, "Why call ye me "Lord, Missionaries to Germany? Only tood will is thinkabl- as a have gone to join them. SERVICES TOMORROW had bought a lot just across from and no Sunday school tomorrow. and do not the things I command Look at the co -ittees for the ob- the present Swedish Methodist you?" Tions profession without No services here tomorrow.

"In your patience possess ye your FREE EVANGELICAL lorrance of the fiftieth anniversary. righteous deeds was never so repug permanent basis of peace. Some persons who recognize this, suggest that missionaries should be sent to Ger church and built there, hence retiring DnCTDflMC QCPUIPCQ AT frnm tha efhl Tha nrnv n-aa IlUOlrUllC OLrilllLO Ml only twenty-five years ago. Here the I nant to mankind as now. This war has dealt a blow to merely prefunc- wori of the hour-glass of time will thus opened for holding services ev There will be services at the Swed FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH many" to call the apostate nation to 7 dcttu.

a. use just one commit ery Kunday. Accordingly a regular 1 tory and professional religion. Will it ever become a term of approbrium tee for this e-bservance as a samnl lsn ree ivangeucal cnurch, corner Eleventh street and Thirteenth ave a senseof its sins, and oacK to nguv-cmisnesa. Obviously, the minds of appointment for the afternoon was made and continued as long as the the reception and social committet.

Because of the flu epidemic, there and insincerity to call a godly-speak mnv men will have to-be changed it eonsisted of M. Y. Csdv. S. II congregation met in the school house, nue tomorrow at the usual hours except the Sunday school which will not be held because of orders from will not be any services at the First Baptist church tomorrow.

Members Velie, Mrs. a II. Deere, Mr. and Mrs. which for the last four years it com ing, evil-looking man "kaiser? Haw War Has Revealed God.

i There is tremendous ethical and re i. JSntrikin, Mr. and Mrs. W. II, before ever there can be universal comity.

It is the expectation of some, that out of the ashes of her humiliation and bitterness. Germany will pletely filled. the health authorities. The morning and friends of this church are' asked to watch next Saturday's paper for miiuouse, Mr. and Mrs.

J. S. Gill- services win De at iu :4.j young peo SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8 First Lutheran Church Cor. 13th tt. and 5th ave.

DR. ANDREEN, Vice Pastor, Jiore, Mr. and Mrs. II. S.

Fristoe. announcement regarding services at ligious significance in the fact that ples meeting at fa the after Cost of New Church, $500. "In the meantime useful men and airs. E. Poole.

Mrs. fL T. Hill this church next Sunday. see prophets arise to call her back to God. God has given victory in thiswar to the side that stood for fundamental t4'' T.

B. Willson (wife of the then noon and the evening services at 7:30 in the evening. The pastor, A. F. women like William II.

Edwards. S. Whether missionaries go to Ger VWot), c. S. Kerns.

Clarence Ad righteousness, as against the fide that II. White, Daniel Gordon, Mr. and SERVICES AT THE UN Will Nye. made the most elaborate and con many or not, they surely wUL go, in numbers. into the non- Nelson will preach at all services.

NO CHURCH SERVICES IN FIRST CONGREGATIONAL tnese Messrs. Cady and Velie christian world. They are needed to stant profession of piety. That, too, despite Napoleon's famous sneer. In Mrs.

Hubbard, Mr. and Mrs. Jienham and the two Huntoons had been received. The church now bad over fifty members. The need for more suit Jftoead, as are Mrs.

Deere, Mr. end J. iCiitrikin, Mr. J. S.

Gill EAST MOLINE TOMORROW t-h? of thefact that the There will not be any services at Second Sunday in Advent. Dr. S. G. Youngert will preach at both services.

Morning service jt 10:45 in Engflsh. Bible class at 5 :30 p. m. Evening service at 7:45 in Swedish. nrini.ry was ior years on tne side years on create that background of christian consciousness and conviction which makes thinkable a world-wide standard of righteousness and brotherhood.

Civilization is confronted by the task able quarters had for some time been felt, and. accordingly the church vot the First Congregational church tomorrow, this action having been tak Mrs. U. S. Fristoe, nnd the 1 Mrs.

J. E. Toole. The Rev. T.

Mdlson, pastor in 1894, and bus- cf the Germans. It is humanly inexplicable that the central pwers did Pastors J. M. Osborne, George ed to become incorporated in order to en bv the church board a few nights not win early in the war. The great Wilber and J.

V. Kennedy of the Baptist and Methodist churches in East purcnase property and duiiu. was fl-a. because of the seriousness of the of changing the heathen mind of the ao ox tne member of this commit-w, i dead Mr. and MrITillhouse "Ve moved tn Tr 1 decided to erect a Dunning to cost not i gu situation world.

Another religious development or Moline and their people have decided that because of the seriousness of the flu situation in that city there will Mrs. Gillmorc wst; II. s. Frh'oe and 1ST METHODIST CHURCH allied generals themselves admit, in private intercourse, that it was only the good providence of God that kept them from being overpowered by the long-prepared and perfectly, equipped armies of Germany- less than $oUU: A tie zirst plan was to have it 20x38 feet, afterwards it was enlarged so as to be S6x50. S.

II. White, Thomas Merryman and Wil not be any services at either of these WILL NOT MEET SUNDAY churches in East Moline and Water- the weeks since the signing ot tne armistice is a new solidarity of all the faiths of America, Protestant. Catholic and Jewish. The recent united war work campaign, for the raising of onV hundred and seventy liam Bcnham were the first building vraic iiuams a whose "''Me is unkiovu to the town until further notice. Evidently there is no trade-mark committee.

The ppot selected and pur There were no services held at the chased is the one on which the Chi that can command God no "open br. seventeen mem-u tins tne committee of 104, 01:1 fin First Methodist church last Sunday SWEDISH LECTURE FOR cago, Jiurlington and iuincy ireignt and because the church Doard feels in have IQOn TnAaaA fliOi No Services in Eact Moline Baptist and Methodist Churches Owing to the seriousness of the flu epidemic In East Moline the pastors and people have decided there will be no services In the Baptist and eMthodist churches in East Moline and Watertown until further notice. PASTORS J. M. OSBORNE, GEORGE B.

WILBER AND J. V. KENNEDY. iruiai) "'l and seven SUNDAY EVENING 7:45 sesame that can secure his support no form of words that insures divine approval. God ia not to be included in the reserves of any nation or i that the flu situation has not improved ile.old church I ave rem i.eo ta other depot itself is merely million dollars for the seven welfare agencies, has been a revelation of the possibilities of cooperation and fraternity of bodies that formally walked spnnrate wavs.

sufficiently, there will not be any meet remodeled, The ings tomorrow. Will There Be at Least One Thou The place where the "Chicago, worsiup or church, regardless of the justice of Its cause. Neither Luther's Germany, 1 1 I (r 1 i fToiWlt 7 "a lt a lot ot money, sand Tears of Peace in All the Deeply cigmficant, also, especially now stands," as the writer put it, has NO SERVICES SUNDAY World, will be the subject of the nor Austria, the favorite daughter of .11,11 vnc leuiaiiis a as echoed in soldier man, is tne con heretofore been referred to in this gospel lecture by Rev. August Ander the Catholic church, could enlist the Lord in its legions when its aims were AT SECOND METHODIST viction that the triumph of our arms (im1(-w "-nw hut large Tt hi h8Ve buiIt soveraI churchM th. ugrcgation rticlp.

the northwest corner of son, at tnewedisn tJlive halt Sunday not godly. has been in answer to prayer. Not in vain have the sirens and church bells ourth avenue and Sixteenth street. evening, at This lecture is open to all Scandinavians for it is delivered it thl olu brick school hou ise All this is revelatory of the char The old structure lias been razed. and, factory whistles sounded at noon.

7 iMoent Mte of tho The statement that "the Methodists acter of the Supreme Being. Dispatches from, the battlefront have been Rev. B. F. Eckley," paltor of the Second Methodist church, is ill and also because of the flu epidemic, there will be no services, at this church God has given the victory and there business had bought a lot just across from the ucnier to the of town of that diiv- in the Swedish language.

EAST MQLINE CHURCHES is none so irreverent as to deny the more convincing than countless theo present Swedish Methodist and built -that is, railroad potency of prayer in this providence. Xe- north eiJe of the- logical tomes, upon the proposition Peace has come and all the new ana there," means at one of the corners of Fifth avenue and Sixteenth street, me west CALL ALL SERVICES 0FF hhat the Lord God Omnipotent reign- SUNDAY, DECEMBERS Swedish Free Evangelical Church Corner llth st. and 13th ave. A. F.

NELSON, Pastor. etn in righteousness and that what old problems it brings in its train are interwrought with the obligations and probably the northwest corner, on fj SERVICES TOMORROW ever cause battles for truth and jus which tiie avneLn.TK vuuuiuk Owing to seriousness of the flu epi opportunities of religion. FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH tice is sure of his support. It is written in the very nature of the Almighty demic in East Moline the pastors and people have decided that there will be stands. Most Moliuers of today will remember that the old site of the Swedish Methodist church was at the Rev.

Newton Ben JKnapp, pastor of IMck School House. 0 niore ,.1 wrote airerir, S0D' Jn fiftieth of th chinch. leEi' te ite of the no services in the Baptist' and Meth southwest corner of Fifth avenue and that He can not permit pride and arrogance and selfishness and oppression and injustice to have permanent success. This truth, which the war odist churches in East Moline and Wa- the First Unitarian church.announced thi3 morning that there would be no tertown until further notice. (Signed) Sixteenth street, where the Leedy building stands.

If the people of the There will be no Sunday school, 10 :45 a. m. -Treachlng service. 6:30 p.m. Young people's meeting.

7 :45 p. m. Preaching service. All people understanding Swedish cordially invited. services at bis churcU.

tomorrow evf- f3. M. OSBORNE. G. B.

W'lLBER. J. V. KENNEDY. nu ttie city hall (in then Swedish Methodist, it was prob- because of the flu epidemic.

4-1kl 11 hZr'' of the old SUNDAY, DEC. 8, 1918 SECOND METHODIST CHURCH 24th ave. and 18th st. B. F.

ECKLET, Pastor, bousp tiT. to the en north, and only half, a block awayJ SUBJECT FOR CHRISTIAN us this early symbol of from the old brick school house. Ik SCIENTISTS SUNDAY" A. M. tLe danSe lneorrtcd into iaso I.

Protection from the can SUNDAY SERVICES AT at the Swedith Olive Hall God. the Only Cauae and Creator, LECTURE 2D CONGREGATIONAL Fifth Ayenu and Thirteenth Street is the subject for the Sunday service of the First Church of Christ, nteneeV i here a i of MoIi. an "dniirable 1 Uie ttr ntten about 1SCS. Sunday, December 8 First Cfcireh Ckrirt Scieitk Unitarian church, Sixteenth street. and Sixth avenue.

Services at 10 :45, subject I God, the Only Cause and 'v Creator. Sunday school at 12; meeting Wednesday evening at 6. Reading rooms, 502 Reliance bunding, open to public at 11 0 to 5 daily, also Saturday ere nings from 7 to 9. Siy day, Dec. 8 Trinity Lutheran Church WALTER A.

TILLBERG, I Pastor. Morning service tomorrow at 10 :45. There will be no evening service and no Sunday school. Scientist, at the Unitarian church tomorrow morning at 10:45. STEALS AUTO TIRE GETS -LIFE SENTENCE IN PEN No services iomor-row on acc6unt of the and sickness of the pastor.

"Vfill There Be at Least One Thousand Years of Peace in the World?" Is the subject of a lecture to be fciven by Pastor August Anderson at -the Swedish Olive hall SUNDA YEVENING, DECEMBER 8, AT 7:45 The lecture will be given in the Swedish language and the Seaaf dinavians are cordially invited. 'I. Convinced that closing of the church would be fruitless tomorrow when public places in general are open, the board the Second Congregational church has decided that there will be services at this church tomorrow morning and evening but there will be np Sunday school in the morning nor Intermediate Christian Endeavor. At the morning service at 11, the Rev. C.

A. Par miter will -hare-for" his Subject St connted with 10 nhT Use "houM be. dear i totbSr latitude of i BJiit5ougb now (1808) i like aad 8uffed to 190 maay public By Associate Prat Leased Wire. Huntington, W. Dec 7.

When he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the theft of one 'automobile tir.